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Show With la Fulfilled. Tramp I might as well be dead as alive. Tor I have nothing to live for, said an unknown tramp to another tramp whom be had met a few minutes before on the road near Leigh, England. "Dont say that, mate, replied the other. At that moment a bolt of lightning killed the first speaker. Vays for the e "Let's see your tongue. the doctor said. "You feel run down, I see; Just sleep eight hours of every day THE CHANGE OF LIFE Ten dollars is my fee." You may be right, the lawyer said, "But juries disagree; TTou better settle out of court A Hundred Is my fee." INTELLIGENTWOKEN PREPARE "Just Would you be good, the preacher said. With pious zeal elate. loe your neighbor as yourself And then he passed the plate. ' Dangers and Pain of This Critical Period Avoided by the Use of Lydia S. s And thus Is human nature made. For In these cases three Jones gladly paid for good advice He would have scorned If free. New York Life. Pink-hem- Vegetable Compound. 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If I could shew you the difference between the shoes made In mv factory and those of other makes, you would understand why Douglas $3.50 shoes cost more to make, why they hold their shape, fit better, wear longer, and are of greater intrinsic value than any other $3.50 shoe on the market W. L. Dougina Strong Made Skoea for s But Im more methodical, so I shall try To join In true union the hook and the He well-halte- (Copyright 1905 by Daily Story Pub. Co.) He had poured forth his soul in sentences which left him weak ind trembling as he waited for her Short, he answered with something like enthuslasnf. Nellie was tall and willowy. Short, and, soft and clinging. Her voice was full of sympathy and The color faded from Nellies face. tindness as she answered him, but it She felt unreasonably hurt and angry vas Arm and there was no trace of at the man and the northern girl. lassion. Was she light or dark? she asked No, Arthur, she said, it is impos- as though possessed to drink the very sible. I like you very much as a dregs. 'riend and I respect you and admire Light, he replied with fine enthusfou, but I do not love you and I can-lo- t iasm, gazing into the coals as though he saw her. Fair and dainty as Dresmarry you. The color left his face and the lines den china, with hair like liquid gold irew tight about his mouth. and eyes like a summer sky. Her You must, Nellie, he exclaimed cheeks wore a perpetual flush like a I love you so much you lercely. vere made for me I I cannot give mu up." But I do not love you," she said And you surely would not jently. want a wife whose heart you did not lave. Yes I would, he rejoined, I warn I will make you you on any terms. love me. I will find a way. Only narry me, thats all. she Now be reasonable, Arthur, You have so much sense genurged. erally that it is most distressing to see you go on in such a ridiculous manner. You will get over this notion of yours in a little while and will find some other girl just suited for you and I will be a good friend, a sister to you always. Oh, Lordy, not that, he broke In making a comical grimace In spite of his distress. Its too horribly trite and commonplace. Be a niece or an aunt or a grandmother anything but a sister. It makes me feel like the hero of a short story. The girls to whom they propose always become I suppose a woman has a right tc sisters to them. change her name. She blushed a bit and then smiled. See, she said, you are joking about rose and her lips were like the rarest Nellie was dark with flashing it already. Youll forget all about It coral. black eyes and an olive skin. In a fortnight. She she must have been very he replied No, not in a fortnight, Nor in a lifetime. bqgutiful, whispered Nellie, her lips gravely. Yes, you will, she replied smiling) quivering. She was, he answered, and a You are no judge, yet. Men always think their first love affair very trag- good and true and sweet as she wai ic. This is your first affair, is it not? beautiful. You must have loved her very You you never were in love that is, thought yourself in love with any much, faltered Nellie, fascinated bj the light, which shone in his eyes a other girl, did you?" He shot a quick, sharp glance at he contemplated the vision in the fire her and the sadness in his face was place. I did love her very, very tenderly, replaced for an instant by an expreshe replied. sion of mixed shrewdness and deterDid she love you? asked Nelli mination well known to his business associates. But this was only a flash after a long pause. he replied Most passionately, and the sadness returned to his face. The parting nearly killed both of us. he reYes, there was another, Why did you part? asked the girl plied softly, gazing reminiscently .Into the fire. leaning forward eagerly. Her father resolutely opposed th She started imperceptibly and lookHe was ed at him searchingly. His eyes were union, he replied slowly. still on the fire and she bit her lip in an invalid and she thought it her duty vexation at the involuntary feeling to defer to his wishes and remair with him and care for him. Sht she had displayed. Was was it long ago? she asked would not listen to any waiting or my You never part, but renounced .n a disinterested tone. our happiness once and for all. 3poke of her to me. Nellie had risen and now stooo Yes, it was some years ago before I came here, he replied, I never close to Arthur with pale face and frightened eyes. Is her father still alive? she ask pas-liona- re-ol- ed. Men. $2.60, $2. OO. Boy a School A Dream Shoea,$2.50, $2, $1.15,(1.60 W.L.Doug-la- s CAUTION. Insist upon bavin?one shoe. Take no substitute. genuiud without his name and price stamped on bottom. WANTED. A hoe dealer inevry tovro where W. L. Dou?lw Shoes are not sold. 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Hides, Pelta, etc. Ball P.one 119 a Independent l&JL Hoa. no to J40 South Pint Wait Straat, Paid up sapltal SALT LAKE CITY, CTAH. ee. this orderly fish went his orderly was. kept his ees open, with wide. thoughtful gaze. And w lionet er he saw a d hook, He rolled up his ee with contemplative look, And then swam away with a satisfied wink. Saying " i hats not the hook to lit my Well, she must have been very beautiful," whispered Nellie. spoke of it because it is a closed chapter a sacred chapter, and I never cared to resurrect it. His eyes were still soft and dreamy. Where was it. she asked as indifferently as possible after some moments of rather awkward silence. In Michigan, he replied. Before i came south. Still the dreamy eyes fixed on the fire. The girl moved uncomfortably In her chair. She resolved to end the conversation, perceiving her danger, but curiosity or whatnot was too strong. Was she tall or short? she asked. She No, he replied, I read of his death only the other day. Why do you not go back to her? she faltered. You ought to know, he replied, rising and looking down at her ten The old love is dead and a derly. new one lives in its place." The color swept back to her face as she ashed hysterically: Are you sure you love me as much as you did her? "More, he exclaimed passionately, as he held out his arms appealingly. She nestled herself within them and sobbed, hysterically, as she flung her I suppose a arms about his neck: woman has a right to change her mind. Once, but no more, he answered. And the girl did not dream that the perfidious wretch was saying to him self: First prize to me as a scientlfir romancer. And she never knew that the girl In Michigan was a myth born of the ne cessities of Arthurs courtship. Repaired Wrong Covering. went into a chemists shop and bought a bottle of some patent stuff, which was advertised thus: NO MORE COUGHS. NO MORE COLDS. IS. 1D. THE BOTTLE. Three days later he went to the chemist, complaining that his throat was stopped up and that he could scarcely breathe. Ive drunk all that patent cough mixture, he said. Drunk it? yelled the chemist. Why, thats an India rubber solution to put on the soles of your boots! Iiondon A man Tit-Bit- s. eye. I think'" So he kept his eyts open ought) Its leaves grow to be like big fans with deeply scalloped edges, and its fruit resembles a long ear of corn This wrapped in a single sheath. Beg Your Pardon." a railroad station a Japanese young man was noticed The other day at to have taken their place. Here Is such a nice game for a slate that every one of you will want t$ buy one right off, though, for that matter, you can also play It on paper. Divide a slate into three equal parts by drawing lines up and down It with a pencil. Then across the lower end draw another line. In each lower corner place a cannon, filling the space above it with os for the soldiers of the army. This picture will show you how to do it. Now the Mexican Bread Fruit. In the public gardens at New York there is u Mexican bread fruit an epiphyte that clings to a dead tree. I Youths Companion. Game of Rival Armies. Boys and girls do not use slates in school nowadays; writing pads seem battle begins. Each player has a pencil. No. 1, placing the point of his pencil on the mouth of his cannon, draws it very quickly across the slate toward No. 2s army. If the mark made by this pencil passes through any of the men of opposing army, they are killed and out of action. Then No. 2 takes his turn at pencil-killinand so the game goeson until all the men on one side are dead. This diagram shows the plan of battle, No. 1 having won. The pencil track must be straight or curved; any shot in which there is an angle does not count. If either gunner is unlucky enough to hit his own men, it counts for the other ide. among several Americans, who were eating, that is. bolting food by jerks. He knew but few words of English, but managed to call for some oysters or coffee. He ate and drank with most exquisite manners and attracted much attention by his frequent use of I beg your pardon." When he wanted the pepper, upon reaching for it, he said in a sweet voice to the man before whom he had to pass his arm: I One coarse fellow beg your pardon. who sat with his hat tilted over one eye surprised even himself by pushing the plate of crackers toward the polite Japanese without being asked. He did not look up, as if ashamed of being caught in the act. with the Conversing afterward young man from Japan he admitted that he knew less than 100 words of our language. I beg your pardon, thank you, if you please and "you are very kind" were phrases he could speak very distinctly and by means of them made his way wherever he went. Politeness costs nothing and Is the passport to every good in life. It never falls to bring returns. This Jap was unlike a little American girl, aged 5. Recently her father brought home a humorous book teaching politeness by showing the shockingly bad manners of a family of children. Edna, he said, I hope these funny pictures and stories will help you to be more polite. Its of no use, papa. It will take more than a book to teach me manners. You cant teach an old dog new fruit when ripe has the taste and odor of pineapple, and we can just Imagine that the little Mexican children feast upon It as the boys and girls of our country feast upon peaches and cream. Single Rope Swings. Sometimes a rope will be found lying about the barn or back of the house which could be used to make a swing, but it is not quite long enough for the purpose. That is the time a single rope swing may be made which will furnish enough fun to last all summer. The end of a soap box makes a good tricks. seat, explains the Rochester Bore a hole in the middle of a The Carrier Bee. board, pass the rope through and tie t You often have heard of carrier pig- a knot in the bottom. Tie the othei eons and the part they play in war, end around the branch of a tree, as but how many boys and girls ever far away from the trunk as possible Let the board be not more than six heard of a carrier bee? These little honey gatherers have or seven inches wide. such a sense of direction that they A good athletic boy can have great can always fly straight to their hives, fun with such a swing. There is a even from places they have never knack in handling it, but when one visited before. mastered he can swing back or forth We are told that a few years ago perfectly straight in any direction a beekeeper trained some of his in- Grasp the rope as high as you can sects as message carriers. Knowing reach, stand far back and with a they w Ml always fly home from any quick jerk lift yourself off the ground point In a range of four of five miles, and straddle the swing. The board he tied tiny notes for his little daugh- should he far enough from the ground ters on the bees and set them loose in to let the toes touch, then, by toucha totally unfamiliar place, in a very ing the ground occasionally it is posThe faster the pencil shoots the more short time they were back at their sible to keep going straight and not exciting the game. As many dot3 as own hives, messages and all. revolve. If some one is near by to the players wish may be drawn for Some people think bees might be push you can be pushed in a circle the armies. made very useful in war times, and like a . There is even now experiments are being made enough variety in this style of swing Home Tackljs-Makinto see just how far and how directly to make it worth while to make one. There is no more interesting and they will fly. absorbing occupation during the spare When Koreans Go Calling. hours, for the young angler, than the Magic Second Sight. Korean visiting cards sometimes home manufacture of his tackle, says To do the trick of "second measure a foot square. The savages J. Harrington Keene in Recreation. all that is necessary In the sightof of Dahomey announce an intended way beOf course, few boys can hope to is a large slate a piece of visit by sending in advance a wooden equipment come expert rod, reel or fly makers, chalk and a sheet of paper. First, board or the branch of a tree artistic- nor with the beautiful and compar- ask some one in the to write ally carved. When the visit is paid company atively cheap products of skilled labor any number or words on the paper and the card is returned to the possesin the tackle stores is it necesi.iry tell him that you, without the sion of its owner, who will doubtless that they should. But the mending paper, will then write uponseeing use It for many ears. With the nathe slate of a broken or weakened rod joint, the tho'-tives of Sumatra the visiting card is very words. of a missirg guide ring, replacement will smile and at once composed of a piece of wood about a Everyone the whipping of a hook on the snoll, call upon you to make good your foot long, decorated with a bunch of and the joining of the gut by the Maim. When the is ready di straw and a knife. paper right knots in a leader, ought to be an accomplishment within the reach of euiy joung fisherman. MERRY-GO-ROUN- D in In course of his apprenticeship these simple processes the aspirant for high hookship should proceed to the making of a passably good artificial fly which properly considered is an imitation as close as possible of the fly or insect on which the trout and other fish feed with readiness during the spring and summer months especially, and even to the middle ot autumn In some localities. sharp-pointe- d g, Post-Expres- "merry-go-round- . THE Two Pencils a Year for All. The number of pencils used In the United States annually, if divided would be a small allowance for those requiring them every day. Yet, at this rate, when the total of about 160,000,000 for the whole country Is calculated, ODe cannot help wondering how It Is possible to consume such a vast number of pencils. Some of the pencils we buy are made A like the one picIn Germany, but of the entire nums tured is easy of construction, and no ber that Americans use A considare of home manufacture. explanations further than a few hints erable quantity of this article is also need be given to the prospective The builder. exported as well as imported. pencil factories of the United States The center post stands ten feet employ upward of 2,000 people, paying and rests in a shallow auger-holhigh, in wages every them about $700,000 bored in the top of an old stump year. Americas annual output of penor post set for the purpose. The top cils Is worth $2,000,000. evenly, merry-go-roun- d nine-tenth- e, i I (as evety one And somehow, the w Ise old fish never was caught! rect It to be hidden while you turn your back. Place the slate so that the audience cannot see the front of it and then assume an attitude of deep thought. Then say, Now, If some one will kindly read aloud what Is on the paper, I will prove that I have written those very words. The paper Is then read, and the time has arrived to turn the slate When the spectators see around. what is on it the laugh will be on them, for jou have done what you boasted you would do that Is to say. you have written "Those very words. The wood most commonly sought for making pencils Is Virginia or red cedar, which grows abundantly in the South, especially in Alabama and Florida Europe, having nothing as good among its own trees for pencil covering as Virginia cedar, obtains its supply of this material from the United States. But the American manufacturer is compelled to go abroad for the graphite contained in pencils. Mexico, Bohemia, Ceylon and Siberia yield the best qualities of graphite. The preparation of graphite, of which, with clay, pencil lead consists, Is an Important Industry in Itself, and It has its home In Germany. Ms gill y. PATENTS1MFIT The Methodical Flth. The sunniest fish that eer could be Lived down in the depths of a ery deep sea. He knitted his brows and he scratched his o'd head. And after reflection he soberly said. I've given the subject much serious l.tougnt And ten chances to one, I shall some day be caught! Now. If that comes to pass, 1 trust that I may Be caught In an orderly, luslnesslike way. No one In his senses can ever denv W hook Is Intended to go In an eye Yet many a flsh Is so can-loshe will Take a hook in his mouth, or perhaps In works as an axle in an old wheel of any kind, which is anchored out by three or four guy wires. The other parts of the apparatus are too simple to need description. The seat arms may be of any length desired. With a motorman in the middle, the swing takes on quite a country fair aspect Oscar P. Roberts In Montreal |