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The need for such a list Is shown by quoting a few examples. exam-ples. For instance, people speak oi herrings, but never of whitinga Every one writes soles, sprats, lam-phreys, lam-phreys, anchovies, the singular form rarely, if ever, doing for the plural but no one would write mackerels, cods, salmons or trouts. On the othei hand considerable uncertainty existi concerning the form of the plural oi otner Kinds. Who snail decide whicl is correct, turbot or turbots, sturgeoi or sturgeons, carp or carps? Do Your Feet Ache and Burn? Shake into your shoes, Allen's Foot-Ease, Foot-Ease, a powder for the feet. It makes tight or New Shoes feel Easy. Cures Swollen, Hot, Sweating Feet, Corns and Bunions. At all Druggists and Shoe Stores, 25c. Sample sent FREE, Address Allen S. Olmsted, LeRoy, N. Y, Woman Animal Executioner. Mrs. Caroline Scott, of Frankford, Penn., has the reputation of being the greatest lover of animals in that town, yet she kills from 800 to 1,000 animals every year. Mrs. Scott began be-gan her grewsome occupation thirty-five thirty-five years ago, when hen interest in dumb animals brought paany cases to her attention in which nothing could be done but to put' the animal as painlessly as possible to death. The work gradually extended, until now Mrs. Scott is called upon whenever when-ever any animal in Frankford is ill with an incurable disease or wound ed beyond hope of recovery. She kills them by putting them in a boa and filling it with gas. SONG BROUGHT THE CASH. Constant Reminder Too Much for Impecunious Im-pecunious Yojng Man. The clever feminine manager of a laundry on Greenwich avenue is telling tell-ing with great glee of the methods she pursued in order to induce an im-pecuck im-pecuck us customer to "pay up" a long-standing account. She trained her employes to chant in unison, every time the young man hove in sight, a little ditty, commencing "We are washing and waiting for thee!" Tha third time they raised their voices in tae song he planked down $3 and said, fsverishly, "For heaven's sake, tell 'em to shut up!" New York Times. French Plan Costly Tunnel. A work to cost some $8,000,000 will probably in the near future be begun on the Seine. It is to be a tunnel ui der the river, either at Tancarville oi Quillebeuf. Between Rouen and thi sea there is no crossing of the sein except by boat, a condition that for many years has caused great inconvenience incon-venience and retarded commercial growth. Moreover. Havre is connected connect-ed with the rest of France by only one railroad line. The projected tunnel will connect it with Pont-Audemer and hence with the rest oi France, giving two diverging lines from Havreone to the right and one to the left of the Seine. Consular report. mm mm 3 mum international press association. BY PERMISSION OF RAND. MSNALLY A CO. . (CHAPTER VI. Continued). At the Tower wharf he landed, paid his passage and something over, and walked away from the river, taking several., turns without hesitation or inquiry, in-quiry, and finally making due east f-r some, distance. Another turn to the right brought him, as he had calculated, calcu-lated, straight down upon the river again at Warping. In the not very probable case of any one having attempted at-tempted to follow him from the neighborhood neigh-borhood of his own house, his rapid voyage down the river and his devious course through these thickly populated streets must have completely battled the pursuit. He stepped down to the water-side and looked at the half-dozen boats lyin there. In a moment he was surrounded by their owners, each vociferously claiming the passenger for his own craft, warranter! to be at once le safest and speediest on the rtver. He smiled, and chose the one who made the most noise. This was a bright, open-looking young fellow who gave everv oromise of ,being as com municative as could be wished. Before they had gone half a mile he had justi fied the colonel's choice of him by re plying at great length to four or five tentative remarks; but though his com panion was keeping a sharp lookout, nothing seemed to give him the oppor tunity or information he desired. As the corner at the lower end of the pool came in sight the colonel made another attempt. "You must have some interesting characters," he said, "down here among the shipping and the sailors." "You may say that, sir," was the re ply; "there's all sorts in Llme'us, from a spanking lass like Susie oayiora down to old Nan with her black teeth and her fathom o' foul tongue behind "em." The nnlonel Bmiled. This might be amusing, but it was not business, and he put it by. "Ah, women," he said; "no doubt they are always interesting, but I was thinking of men, and stories of adven ture at sea." "Ay, ay, sir," said the young man, "there may be a tale or two about. but there's not much in men, to my mind: they're everv one as like the other as a row of bottles; but the girls, now, young and old, glib arid glum, stupid and smart uns why, they're all different, and ye can't but like to hear about 'em all." The colonel smiled again, but he was Inwardly dissatisfied;, he felt that he was far from caring to hear about all the fair ones In Limehouse. The boat, under the combined force of two strong arm3 and ebbing tide, was swiftly near-ing near-ing its destination, and his opportunity would soon have passed unused. It waa clear that some means must be found of prolonging the conversation, conversa-tion, for It would be difficult to open another with so willing and so expansive expan-sive a talker. "It's a sharp morning," he said, "and it seems a long time since breakfast; is there a house near where we could find anything fit for a thirsty man to drink?" The boatman laughed knowingly, and with an air of pride in the locality. "There's the Outward Bound," he said, "where ye'll get better rum than ever passed the customs up yonder;" and he drew the boat into the landing steps. That will do," said the colonel ;"we'H take a glass, then, for good luck, for I don't mind telling you that I'm in that line just now mypelf." "Are ye, though?" asked his com panion, looking at him with more sym pathetic interest; "why, I took ye for a Frenchy." The colonel swallowed his national pride and grinned sweetly. 'I am a Frenchman," he said, "but I'm running a free cargo for all that; I'm down here now to look for a smart man who knows the trade." They had left the boat and were now- walking In the direction of a tavern facing the river. On the sign-board appeared ap-peared a ship with all sails set, and at the mast-head a large triangular patch of brilliant ultramarine, intended, no doubt, to represent the blue-peter, the signal of outward-bound vessels. The Interior of the house proved un savory, so the famous rum was ordered out of doors into a rude veranda, which they had entirely to themselves at this early hour of the morning. 'Yes," said the colonel, smacking his lips critically over the liquor, "I want a man to help me with a heavy cargo. and I'm told that I shall find down in these parts a certain Herman Johnstone, John-stone, who'll do it as well as another." Black Johnny, eh?" said his com panion; "well, ye may find him and ye may not; but I'll tell ye this there's no man like him if ye do." Why should I not find him? Is he In hiding?" 'The revenue coppers have had an eye on mm since that Esmeralda busi ness, ye know, and they say the Admiralty Ad-miralty beaks 'd like to asU him some questions, too, about the Jamaica trade. Mind ye, I say nothing beyond what I'm told myself, but I've heard that the Jolly Roger and him have been fairly well acquainted time and again." "Ah," said the colonel, "that's an old tale; but what's this about the Esmeralda? Esmer-alda? I've not heard that." And he called for a fresh supply of rum for his companion, who indeed required nc such persuasion to start him spinning his yarn. "Well, sir," he began. "It was" this way. The Esmeralda was off the south coast at a convenient place none so far from "Portsmouth, and there she was for a week dodging about, and couldn't run In, seeing that the revenue men had word of her, and were out and about very night. So this Johnstone o' yours hits upon a plan, and Just like himself ' It was too. He goes to the coast-guard and gives Information that the Esmer alda's to be run on such a night, and volunteers to take the officers to the place himself. So they go, near a dozen of them, and watch round a corner till all the cargo's ashore, and then -they jump out of a sudden and collar the men, they not being more than six or seven, and taken by surprise as they seemed. So the coppers made them fast and began to load up the cargo on a couple o' carts. Only, while they were full-handed, down camevialf a score more on the other side, and the prisoners prison-ers they got loose somehow wonderful quick, and there was a bit of a fight, bat no firing, ye see, the officers not expecting anything, no more than the others had made believe to; and the long and short of it was that the cargo went up the north road post-haste, as they say, and the coast-guard with it in their own carts, to keep "em quiet for a bit." Bravo!" said the colonel: "that's the man for me! And all I've got to do now is to find him; do you know where he Urea?" The young man hesitated. "No," he said; "leastways, not exact- i 14 is i -r r.Tk ja jca : vl Y ffENRY WBOLJ? i ly; but Mrs. Briggs within there'll tell ye." This, however, Mrs Briggs in her turn was equally unwilling to do, though the colonel stated frankly the nature of his assumed errand. She offered, however, to send for Johnstone if the gentleman would be good enough to wait and see him at the Outward Bound. To this the colonel agreed, and Mrs. Briggs disappeared In search of a trusty messenger. The waterman, who had by this time finished Ms second glass and had been liberally paid both in coin and thanks, showed no disposition to hurry his departure; de-parture; he was evidently hanging about In hope of being a party to the interview in-terview between two such interesting personages. The colonel saw this, and recognized that the open veranda in which they had be. . sitting was too public a place for a discussion of the kind he anticipated; antici-pated; for even If he could succeed in dismissing his present companion it was free to any passer-by to step in, or Indeed to overhear a conversation from the street. So he rose and looked idly about him for a fc - moments, and ended by drifting drift-ing round into the bar. Mrs. Briggs was tr-re, and understood what he wanted before he spoke. "You'll like to be alone, sir," she said there s an empty room upstairs, two pair back; I'll send him up to you as soon as he comes; 't won't be long now." The colonel stumbled up a narrow. rickety staircase, filled with dusty twilight twi-light and the smell of stale tobacco- smoke. At the top he found the room, a low-roofed den, evidently used by the more Intimate customers of the house for secret potations after lawful hours. A heavy step outside, and turning round he saw a man in sailor's dress enter the room. There was not a moment's doubt as to his identity. There he stood, stout, swarthy, fierce, and resolute, as Est-court Est-court had described him. His face was in all probability more weather-beaten and furrowed with deeper lines than when Dick saw him twenty years ago at Copenhagen, but the" force and choleric expression was there, and his hair was jet-black still. "You've sent for me," he said. "What is It? Let's be short." His herculean strength, the violence of his speech and manner, the strange and disreputable atmosphere of the place, and the impossibility of escape from it, might well have alarmed even a brave man; but the colonel seemed to be serenely unaware of being in any way at a disadvantage, and took his own time and method of answering. "My name," he said, in slow, precise tones, "is Vllleroy, and I live for the present at No. 12 Canterbury Square, Southwark. I am from time to time engaged in importing goods without the assistance of the custom-house officials. I have just now an unusually difficult venture on hand, and I have come to London to engage a first-rate skipper." Johnstone's face relaxed a little. He was pleased with the compliment implied, im-plied, to say nothing of the prospect of active employment of the kind he loved. "Where you do want her landed?" he asked. "The landing," replied the colonel, "Is net the chief difficulty; it is in taking the cargo on board that the dangei lies." "And where would that be done?" asked the other. "That," said the colonel, "I shall not tell you yet; but It's a good long voyage from here, and I shall want to engage you for three months, certain." Johnstone reflected a moment, going over in his mind the various ports from which smugglers came to Europe. "Well," he said at last, "never mind. What's the work?" "It is work of an unusual kind," replied re-plied his companion, "needing skill, strength, and courage; but I'm told you don't shirk danger when it comes in the way of business." "Danger!" said the other, with rude contempt. "Go on!" The colonel continued, In the same measured voice. "The coast," he said, "Is so well kept by guard-boats that It will be necessary neces-sary for us in loading the ship to make use of a boat of entirely new design, propelled under water, and rising and sinking at the will of the occupant that Is to say, of yourself." Johnstone looked Incredulous. "You shall see the plans and judge for yourself," said the colonel; "it is in reality simple enough." "If it can be worked," said the other. with an oath, "then I'll do it. But what a queer start of the coast-guard to keep the sea and not patrol the shore at all." "Oh, as to that, they do; but the watch on shore can be squared." Johnstone nodded. "What's your cargo?" he asked, abruptly. The colonel smiled, and took a gold napoleon from his pocket. "It's got that head upon it," he said. holding up the coin between his finger and thumb. "Something strongish, eh?" said his companion. "Very strong," said the colonel, with dry humor. "And plenty of it?" asked the other. "Enough." replied the colonel, "to liven up every friend I've got for some time to come." Johnstone brought his fist down on the table. , "I'm your man,"' he said, "if you're-! my money!" "I.am prepared to give you 10,000 say. f400, for the francs, that is to three months." "Double It!" "Certainly not," said the colonel, with quiet decision. "By God! you shall though," growled the other, with a hardly suppressed threat In his gesture. "Four hundred is my offer," said the colonel, indifferently. "You may take it or leave it, as you please." "No!" roared Johnstone; "I've got you! I know your name, and where you live, and what you're up to, and you'll give me a thousand, or I'll blow the game for you!" The colonel put his hands in his pockets and leaned his head back against the wall. "I gave you a false name and ad dress," he said, "and I did not tell you my real business. I do not trust a man until I know him." "I don't care!" shouted the other; I've sot you for all that. Here you are and here you stay until you sign for a thousand!" "Alas!" said the colonel, shaking his head, "the bold are so apt to be shortsighted! short-sighted! Friend Johnstone." he con tinued, "I came here by way of the custom house; I left a letter there, to be opened if I did not return for it in two hours. The time Is nearly up now. What do you suppose they will find when they open It?" The man looked daggers at him, but shifted uneasily and said nothing. "They will find." said the colonel, "your address and that of this bouse, with a request to look for us at once In both those places." "Well," growled Johnstone, "what then?" "You are in request Just now," continued con-tinued the colonel, politely. "First. I want you; secondly, the revenue officers offi-cers wish to hear more of jfct little Joke about the Esmeralda; and thirdly, the Admiralty desire your opinion on the dangers of the West Indian trad routes." The man looked thunderstruck. "Naturally," the colonel went on, "1 wish to secure the preference myself; and. Indeed, if you refuse my terms I don't suppose you will get such easy ones from either of the other two parties." There was a short pause. "I'll go," said Johnstone, with a kind of sullen admiration in his look. "I'll go for four hundred." "It shall be five," said the colonel. "And now unlock the door." They went downstairs and out of the house. At the rlver-slde the colonel made an appointment with his companion compan-ion to meet at Southampton on a certain cer-tain day. and stepped into a boat "Westminster steps," he said to the waterman as they pushed off. "You'll not forget to call at the cus tom house, sir," Johnstone called anxiously after him. "Oh, there's no need for that." re plied the colonel. ' "I left nothing there." And the boat shot swiftly up-stream Qh the incoming tide. (TO BB CONTINUKD.) STEADY FARMING. Mistake of the Farmers In Not Sticking to Any One Thins Steady farming, with a eood rotation of crops persistently followed, is the surest way to success for farmers. Abrupt changes In order to meet high prices for some farm product are dangerous dan-gerous practices, says the Germantown Telegraph. It is within the remembrance remem-brance of every farmer when hay was so low that it hardly paid to raise, it for market, but since then farmers have been making more profit off hay than almost any other crop. To suit the change a great many dropped hay from trPiir list of farm crons anrl trier! tr eet afecg without it. The steady farmers Lc4ntinued to give grass a place in thell crop rotation, turning It under' when it would not pay to cut and sell it as hay, and when prices went up again for hay they were the only ones who had good crops to sell. Besides enriching the soil with the grass they found them selves prepared to reap a good harvest when prices came round again to their normal condition. Just now sheep have been at a discount and thousands have been selling them off to raise something else more profitable. But sheep, both for wool and mutton, will be profitable in the future. Several times in the past the sheep industry has been at its lowest low-est ebb, but It revived In time. Steam and electricity are said to be driving horses out of the market and that it will no longer pay to raise fine colts. There never was a time and probably never will be when It did not pay to raise good horses. Underbred stock is too plentiful and will be at a greater discount In the future than now, but fine driving road horses or heavy draught horses will never lose their value permanently. It Is within the remembrance re-membrance of the writer when many farmers paid $5 and $6 per head for ordinary sheep because a boom In that line was sending everything upward. There are too many farmers engaged in this industry who wait for high prices and then they rush into that particular line of work. If sheep are high-priced they pay exorbitant prices for stock in order to raise others to sell. If corn is the leading farm product that pays well they turn their farms into enormous enor-mous corn-fields, unmindful of the fact often that they do not understand its culture nor the expenses attached to it. Frequently they have to make an Initial outlay to adapt themselves to the abrupt change, which alone will take away all profits. WAS NOT HIS GIRL. How the Minister of a Connecticut Congregation Con-gregation Startled His Hearers. The minister of the congregation in an agricultural district was greatly an-nyed an-nyed Sunday after Sunday by the unruly un-ruly conduct of the junior members of his flock. When any one of the younger representatives of the gentler sex got weary of the evening service she would Invariably rise and go out, says the Hartford Times. A moment later her admirer would seize his hat and sheepishly sheep-ishly follow her. To such an extent would this course of action prevail that by the time the discourse was finished only the- old people remained for, the conclusion of the service. Mr. Jones concealed his chagrin for several weeks, but at last he firmly resolved to act. A youth grew drowsy one Sunday evening even-ing and, picking up his hat, stepped into the aisle. But the minister's .keen eye was upon him and, to the culprit's dismay, dis-may, he stopped short in his sermon. "Young man," said he, "the girl who went out last is not the one you wish to walk home With. When she goes I will let you know at once. Please sit down. After this, when a young woman goes out I will call on the proper young man to take care of her." The minister resumed his discourse. There was much tittering and considerable consider-able anger, but his sermons were not interrupted again. The Mamlalay ltazaar, The great bazaar in Mandalay Is one of the sights of the city. The building in which it Is held Is the property of the municipality, but is leased out. It is a series of enormous sheds with Iron roof3 and beaten earth floor. Eash trade has a shed or sheds to Itself. There is a place for rice sellers, for butchers, for vegeta ble sellers, for the venders of silks, of cottons, of sugar and spices, of firewood, of jars and of-fish. The butchers are all natives of India. No Burman would trade In flesh because he is forbidden to take life, and if he were not forbidden he would not like to do so. The only exception to this is with regard to fish. Burmans catch fish, but it is not considered a very reputa ble profession. The firewood sellers will mostly be men, as will also be the large rice merchants,' but nearly all the rest ane .women. I You will find the sellers of spices, ruit, vegetables and other such matters seated In long rows on mats placed upon the ground. Each will have a square of space allotted, perhaps six feet square, and there she will sit with her merchandise merchan-dise In a basket or baskets before her. For each square they will pay the lessee a half-penny for the day, which is only three hours or so. The time to go is in the morning from 6 to 8 o'clock, for that is the busy time. Later on all the stalls but the cloth and a few other stalls will be closed, but in the early morning the market is thronged. Every householder is then buying his or her provisions for the day, and the people crowd in thousands thou-sands around the sellers. Every one Is bargaining and chaffing and laughing, both buyers, and sellers, but both are Tery keen, too, on business. Big Mackerel Catch. " A fishing schooner arrived at Gloucester Glouces-ter Saturday whose crtw certainly experienced ex-perienced fishermen's luck. They went down the coast mackerel fishing, and after cruising about for two weeks had just fifteen barrels to show for their labor. The skipper, evidently feeling that there was a Jonah on board, gol disgusted and pointed his schooner foi home, and all the way to Gloucester "he didn't do a thing" but catch mackerel, and the crew shared the proceeds ol over 300 barrels. Their New Fad. Mr. Tenderfoot Do you have many lynchings here now? Quick Drop Dan Wal, no. Since 'his Trilby craze the boys hev taken ter makin' hoss thieves pose for the altogether alto-gether 'nd then makin' realistic symphonies sym-phonies in tar nd feathers. 'Tis heaven alone that is given away; 'Tis only God may be had for the asking. ask-ing. Lowell. Mm cupola fT SKETCHED If) BYRON WILLIAMS A country newspaper acquaintance of ours is in a bad way! He is in disfavor with his wife! Time was when he longed for her coming, and: "He knew whose gentle hand was at the latch. Before the door had given her to his eyes!" But now! How different! It all came about in this wise: Happy as two young kids chewing the leg off a pair of red-flannel under-breeches, under-breeches, they went to the theater together. to-gether. It was a good play. The devil was devilish, the hero was brave, the heroine sweet unto madness! The music, too, was entrancing, and they buried beneath a sweet concord of sounds their passing sorrows! And then Mephisto butted in! It was after the theater. The editor remembered something at the office undone. She sweetly offered to accompany ac-company him, although the hour was late. They walked along the quiet streets of the small city, accosting, here and there, friends who, like themselves, them-selves, were homeward bound after an evening of pleasure. It was a pretty night, and as they left the office, their spirits rose to meet the twinkling stars, and they were happy! Passing a place of business, an unexpected un-expected friend called the newspaper scribe. "Go in a moment," graciously suggested sug-gested the wife. "I will walk on to the Hotel H and wait a moment for you!" The friend was pleased to see a friend. They chatted until the publisher pub-lisher feared his wife might grow impatient! im-patient! Stepping to the telephone he called the hotel and asked the clerk to apprise the madame he would be with her immediately. "Ting-a-ling," rang the telephone bell in a moment. "She isn't here," came back over the wire! "Well, she is a trump to walk home alone at midnight, but I might as well stay a while. She won't be any angrier a half hour from now," and thus joking, the married man talked on! After a time he sauntered home leisurely, quickening his steps as an unexpected cloud shed rain. Once at home he turned on the light and read the evening paper a half hour, then mounted the stairway to his couch. "Click," went the electric button, and then Heavens, no wife! Where had she gone? Rushing madly about the house, he found her not! Outside the rain fell faster, faster! Grasping an umbrella, he hurried hur-ried through the flood to find the sweet companion of his bosom! He found her three blocks away coming, coming through the rain, wet, angry, hurt, frightened! When he spoke she listened not, but scorned him with outrageous mien. Words failed to reach her ears, her eyes were filled with tears and sadly the man followed in her wake, wondering, won-dering, sorrowing, mute and helpless! She did not speak to him that night except, for one brief word, and that was: "WRETCH ! " She is a good wife and he loves her dearly, but how under this blue canopy will he ever induce her to believe be-lieve that the clerk mad? a mistake and he did not really and truly forget her? Those who have been married a long time, please write. No eooner has President Elit succeeded in increasing the sale of Mother Hubbard dresses in our domestic domes-tic circles, than Dr. Hillis arises in his white cravat and tells us "we all go to the devil on $50,000 a year." This is an error on the face of it, as the bull dog said when he looked at the jackass photograph. "We all," as they say in the land where moonshine moon-shine whisky grows, may have the inclination in-clination to go to Mephisto, but mighty few of "we-uns" have .the $50,000. Chauncey Depew, brave man that he is, comes to the rescue with a resounding re-sounding denial. He says a man who has the disposition will go to the devil anyhow, whether he has an income of $10,000 or $50,000. This is more like it, but what about us common people who only have an income of $8,000? Is there no possible chance for us to distinguish ourselves? Time was when a man could go to the devil at any price, but one by one the perquisites of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness seem to be obliterated oblit-erated by the truly rich. We once knew a young fellow who combed his hair low over his forehead, wore a red necktie, and went to the devil without a cent In his pocket. If he had waited until possessed of Dr. Hillis' $50,000. or Senator Depew's $10,000, he would never have stolen six pair of left-handed cowhides and been sent to a dun-colored dun-colored jail to recuperate! We have known for some time that the young man of to-day must have at least $50,-000 $50,-000 to marry a society bud, but this is the first intimation that it takes $50,000 to go to Dr. Hillis' devil's house or $10,000 to the abode of the devil over whom Mr. Depew has jurisdiction. juris-diction. The possibilities for young unmarried men seem to be narrowing. Some men go through life with a big stick, but they do not follow President Roosevelt's advice to speak softly. They are remembered after death, not for their virtues, but by the scars and iconoclasm of their ungentle un-gentle natures. Herbert speaking of the bee, says: Bees work for man, and yet they never bruise , Their Master's flower, but leave It having hav-ing done. As fair aa ever and as fit to use; So both the flower doth stay and honey run." What a lesson of gentleness and purity is here for men. The world is his flower garden and he may pas3 through it like the bee, sipping its sweets, leaving it chaste behind him as he travels, or he may carry a big stick and devastate the blossom as he passes to eternity. Will you "work for man" and yet "never bruise the Master's flower," or will you live a life of selfishness and injury to your fllowman? All persons contemplating murder are requested to have their photographs photo-graphs taken at once so they will be ready for the big write-ups. y Miss Gannon, Secy Detroit Amateur Art Association, tells young women what to do to avoid pain and suffering caused by female troubles. "Dear Mrs. Pinkham: I can conscientiously recommend Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound to those of my sisters suffering with female weakness and the troubles which so often befall women. I suffered suf-fered for months with general weakness, and felt so weary that I had hard work to keep up. I had shooting pains, and was utterly miserable. 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In fact, the mothers and grandmothers manifest this trait in an even more marked degree than tire younger women and the girls do; while the country Is becoming depopulated de-populated because farmers' sons and daughters refuse to remain where plays, concerts and dances are not of frequent occurrence. In colleges and girls' schools the games are of far greater consequence than the studies in the eyes of many of the students. It is questionable," continues this woman, "whether these hard toilers after enjoyment really attain their end in most cases. There is a good deal of truth in the cynic's aphorism. "Life would be very pleasant if it were not for Its pleasures." Philadelphia Times. This Will Interest Mothers. Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children, Child-ren, nsed by Mother Gray, a nurse in Children's Home, New York, Cure Fever-ishness, Fever-ishness, Bad Stomach, Teething Disorders, move and regulate the bowels and destroy Worms. Sold by all Drnggists,25c. Sample FREE. 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