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Show Act of Street Waif ' Senerous , Gained Him a Friend in Great Novelist. vertisements asked for the sending of half a dollar, with a list of the varieties of read: “T want fish preferred. two salmon, One letter dozen. whit- Charles any a ing, a dozen fresh herring, some fioun- | ders, and if you have them you can add a lobster.” The next day the lady received a letter, which ran: raan.’’—Dallas Be on Road. to Plan? Each Away back in 1769 the government isueda decree Bavarian requiring News. Strictly Side Up to Date. anes oddly some men prepose. Kate—I ous say so. A gentle man asked me last week if I felt favorably disposed to a unification of in-' | terests. of the all land owners to plant fruit trees along the public highways bordering: their estates, and the work was systematically under way about the middle of the last century. - And now it is said that Bavaria has a wealth of fruit trees, amounting to: keep artificial teeth and bridge‘antiseptically clean and free: something like $170,000,000.. work from odors and disease germs, Paxtine | Such a requirement might impose At drug: something of a hardship upon small Antiseptic is unequaled. gists, 25c a box or sent postpaid on reestates and farm lands in America, ceipt yf price by The Paxton Toilet but one wishes that public sentiment Cso., Boston, Mass. might have influenced the establishment of so gracious a custom a -bunThe way. some women talk is dred years ago, apportioning the. ‘bur: enough to make a bachelor feel bald To den. wherever . headed. pleasure British South African Empire. The South African possessions of England require 100,000,000 postage stamps per annum. Why be constipated when you sancnet Gare field Tea at any drug store? It will quickly ree lieve and its benefits will be realized. And would ye partake of harvest’s foys, the corn must be sown in spring. —Carlyle. A girl expects a man to think hair is naturally curly even when knows that he knows it isn’t. her she Important it is that the blood be kept pure. Garfield Tea is big eee for the job. He who when hesitates is lost—especially he is found out. Mrs. Bethune was patente walk or in a drive. along grandfathers beautiful and the is never too late for a ‘beginning. And without any consideration of the practical end of it, its feasibility or otherwise, why could not such a move ment be started in America, just a movement, based upon pride rather than compulsion? ' We have our dreams try beautiful and we of the expect cour: that: sometime we shall have reason. ta grow glad and proud of the wonderful stretches of land that can hold their own throughout the world. And in those dreams nut trees are. just as abundant as the more but not more tempting, fruit The or Canna, as an Ornament, May Truly Be Considered as Absolutely Indispensable. PAINTERS, FARMERS AND CONTRACTORS It must foregoing Linseed Oil Substitute. A periect working paint oil, possessing practically t me working | and drying ¢cue Aen the Genuine Linseed Oil. both inside and outside work and costs much ee than ena Genuine Oil. With this forma you can produce a Dee which will give entire satisfaction in use and pay you a high margin of profit as Wilaceennianey te rtheuser. Requires eial ean ipment of any kind a proaee: terials easily obtainable. you a ooking fora proposition with big poscipiiiiics in it this formula willsurely meet yourrequirement. 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U., Salt Lake be not that be the gained in City, No. 28-1912. MELISSA FREES THE DEAR in an this way or ideal park is its Don’t Expect Too Now jut down Much, that on paper, his work should we have it must all appear of it that be done only by,one Angeles Herald. the way I managed the during lifetime with his pen, but often and spent his hard-earned money; but he meant to be kind. All he wanted to do was to show me what a silly, careless, vain, criminally extravagant creature I was, so that I could reform. And I could always get money- from him ets by going when Really he and through was asleep, truly, manage and I ~oor Henry!” he his pockbless wasn’t certainly him! hard miss to him. “He snored a great deal, and I miss that,” sighed Mrs. Merriwid. “He was thetic rush and tackle. said, extricating awfully glad to don’t cry on me. lly. ‘Auntie,’ what you rhythmic she herself gently, “I’m see you, but please I catch cold so eas- regular and was, and it had a lulling effect after I got used to it. Now I’ve got to get accustomed to the quiet and lying a-bed as long as [ want to. There’s so much in habit, auntie, and that’s one of the blessed compensations of married life. You Take off your things, dearie, and have some breakfast and then tell me where it hurts. Here, I'll help you.” With a few competent jerks, “*he young woman divested her guest of her hat and wraps, which she tossed onto a davenport. “Now for the eats,” she said, pressing might call a snorer, Henry never saw Henry, and that picture I sent you didn’t show the wen on his nose. The photographer retouched it out along with the wrinkles, but it was an awiully big wen and I couldn’t the buzzer beneath “we'll go hunks walk- was shiv- the little a generous discrdered, too, passages scanty or or under trying circumstances struck so forcibly that he took the with him, and clothed, and better life, there he x4 ‘Use good staried on the until road nearly seemed to all a Helpmates to be of any it with Cuticura W. J. Cleland, Jan. | “AUNTIE, WHY THE PEARLY DROPS?” he table. “You've had your break-: look at it without shuddering at first. |) fast, of course, which means a wing But I got used to that, too, just as I of the chicken left over from yester- did to the way he ate his soup. This day’s shoe-box with a sliver of dill morning when I let the water run out pickle and a slice of stale bread and of the bathtub it almost brought tears butter. Perhaps fee at the bet high on live with you station, it. me If had a cup of cof- to my but I mental person, aS you know.” “Tt wondered if you really loved him you and wouldn’t are going to take care of me when tell feel bad on his account. mustn’t let it overcome what the minister said, be any can’t doubt that he now. whether you Aunt | sa,” Jane she I didn’t wanted tell the tea looked or “I is I the sharp edge dear, they ferences may and have be their little conscious of difsome him while he read the produce market reports in the cosy winter evenings -—not wasn’t rapture, as I understand nor the yet ecstacy terms, and didn’t about the you.” chaperone pose there and we'll resting. Auntie. will be “Melissa!” 4 in tones let poor You’ll There have are to tell me horror, ows that you are don’t on “We'll af see condition.” “What's that” asked Aunt 1912, by W. G. Spirit Still Two all she and Well Defended. study is among lights of nature the has the old way, water what has of children, and see Use For “J don’t know. Maybe it’s a constellation now, along with the Great Bear and the Dipper.” 7: >> Over 30 Years. Modern Miracle. “Do you believe in miracles?” askeG’ Dobkins. “You bet. I do,” said Snobkins. “Why, only the other day my wite bexght me a box of cigais, and by George, Dobky, I could smoke ‘em. = Harper’s Weekly. Her Special James Fullerton Advantages. Muirhead in his- book, “The Land of Contrasts,” telis of an American girl who was patrontizingly praised by an Hnglishman for the purity of her English and who replied: “Well, I had special advantages, inasmuch as an English .missionary was stationed near our tribe.” Cheerful Outlook. “Rather, dear,’ sai@ Amaranth: “Willie Smithers is going to call at your office this morning to ask you for my hand. Isn’t there ‘some little hint I can give him before he goess so as to make it easier for him?” “Yes,” said AYr. Blinks, “tell him tee ether before save © him Weekly. take much he comes. ~ | It will pain.’—Harper’= Where He Drew the Line. An English earl, lately deceased, who-.had no family, was notorious fox his hatred of children, and on one: occasion he engaged as lodge keeper an army pensioner named McMicker.. Some few months later McMicken’s wife presented him with a son anc heir. On learning of the occurrence his lordship rede dows to the lodge im a terrible rage. “T hear,” said he to Ma eM “that your wife has a son.’ “Yes, my lord,” said the man proud: ly. “Well, now, look here, McMicken: spring to political presperity, re said Yes, Cordelia, a onamtte man may be all to the good as a lovematker, but he isn't in it with the matter-of-fact man as a family supporter. ‘ If there ever But there is a time the isn't your when you appetite need with to risk brain” spring off of his brain. Hes eet any wonder Americans act queerly when 'have springs on their brains.” ze picture zat ze they are justified appetite your and Toasiies soul and j go e was one in cussing, set s your summer | weather any of my The other Frenchman was greatiy interested and asked his friend what that American had said. “I can hardly explain,” whispered the first Frenchman excitedly; “he- by of wagon?” that Children Crv for Fletcher’s Castoria. Written become un- for and to fussing; : shock * singing One of the 50 Jingles for Battle Creek, Mich., paid which the $1600.00 in Postum May. : to your YW. Jd. MUSGROYVE, Vempe;, Ca., e Ah the neighbors—~. 7 . labor}. memccane the shad- an Moth every epaitte Strong. Transiated, “By wants: CASTORIA, a safe and sure remedy In Indispensable Surrorts. the dispositions and habits lead Tempt Chapman.) because when I put you here, it was to open: Mrs. J. L. Story, who has just published a volume of reminiscences, tells and shut.a gate, but by the Lord Hae of a lady relative who had all her life ry, not to propagate.” been afraid: cf darap sheets. When Springs in Their Brains. | she was dying Mrs. Story entered the Two Frenchmen, in visiting an art room, to find ihe fireplace barricaded. gallery, stopped to admire a painting with a iarge assortment of bed linen. by an American. The artist happened She was having her winding sheet to be in the gallery and in broker: warmed. English one of the Frenchmen askeG: “EF never have lain in damp _ bed“How did monsieur ever catch such 2: clothes while I wes alive,” said the wonderful picture ?’’ old lady in a feeble whisper, “and I’m “QO,” replied the artist, with a far not going to do it when I’m dead.” away look, “that painting was an off It is when Jane, (“That I take a fancy to him,” replied Mrs. Merriwid. (Copyright, Ruling is Bears the Signature of dinner that prosperous and clever, with no habits, I may change my mind, one than: the whose infants dress she wore at Mrs. Hughes-Hallet’s. ball last night. “Oh, well,” said the fice “she had her diamonds on then.’—Rochester Evening Telegram. ligion and morality are indispensabic supports. eee Washington. what they are like, dearie,” she said. “T don’t expect to marry again, but if I can find a man who’s young and good looking and kind and generous and bad any worse a girl won’t let a young her “-fimpeortant to Examine carefully ° Jane, thinking marrying again already!” Mrs. Merriwid laughed. it’s nov suspected coat of mail defending hirm among all the turmoil.—Mrs. Oliphant. Soap mean Aunt “you lieve reason kiss to. He Helped a - Little. At Dinard one summer there was a beautiful young countess, the wife of a millionaire, whose bathing dress was —well— A couple of men about town were talking in shocked tones about the countess’ bathing dress on the casino terrace, ‘It’s shocking; it’s most improper,” said the first. “But,” said .the second, “I can’t be- Of more.” exclaimed of slight shortcomings and weaknesses in one another. I won’t say that I wasn’t happy with poor Henry, but being with announce- except three of them already and as soon as I emerge from my seclusion, I sup- is beginning to get worn off a litt “Weren't you happy with him?” asked Aunt Jane, sharply. “It depends on what you call happy, dearie,” Mrs.. Merriwid explained. “When you talk about a happy marriage, it generally means that the high contracting parties wait until the hired girl is back in the kitchen before they begin to throw the queensware, and that they don’t call each other anything more venomous than ‘my love’ in public. At that, Auntie than Henry keep on your troubles, N\ “Auntie dear,” said Mrs. Merriwid, “when poor Henry died, I assure you was the sorriest lady you ever saw, put I can’t keep on being sorry <forever. It’s nearly three weeks ago and older sweet believe you are a bit sorry!” wedding dear, do and what I mustn’t, and being at liberty to enjoy myself as much as I please, I expect I’d feel perfectly wretched. But now I’ve got a nice, girl “Melis- don’t much, svati- better looking than others and don’t have intermittent dyspepsia and a chronic grouch. But poor Henry had his good points, and it‘s very sad to be left a widow. If it wasn’t for being in comfortable circumstances and having nobody to tell ine what I must coffee.” shocked. exclaimed, a very told me that it was better to be an eld man’s darling than a young man’s slave. Of course some old men are in a better land, and he certainly had a great deal of trouble in this. He’s at rest your not “Fe was only thirty years older,” Mrs. Merriwid said, “and everybody Still, there me much. Well, dearie, you you. From got I’m bridesmaids and your dress; but I hoped you did, even if he was so “Oh yes, I see,” said Mrs. Merriwid. it was a shame he had to go. I and ments,” Aunt Jane mused. “You you’ve got to gradually accustom yourself to food. Sit down, Auntie, and lean back. Don’t be afraid of breaking the chair. “Elsie,’—this to the maid—‘“‘hustle on some breakfast for aunt Jane. Something good. We'll lunch downtown. Now Auntie, please tell me why the pearly drops?” “Poor. Mr. Merriwid!” said Aunt Jane, With a sigh. “You eyes, © are When in need of a good laxative give Garfield Tea a trial and be canyvinced of its merits. It is made entirely from pure herbs, and rub we two the but Her Unfortunate Error. A literary lady at a society dinner was given a seat. next to »a noted scientist whose views were Very materialistic, and at some remark he -|made on the origin of mankind, the ‘lady found her temper tried beyond all bearing, so that she retorted: “I really don’t care what you say. I believe in the Bible, and there we are told that -Adam was the father of all living.” ‘J really think you are mistaken,” he said with a smile, and so the subject. dropped. A few days later the lady, writing to a bosom friend, told her of the occurrence and added: “I am too mortified, for I have looked the matter up and it only says that Eve was the mother of all living, and so I dont know whether to write to the professor or not.” e soulmates One always thinks there is a lot of money to be made in any kind of busi-ness that he isn’t in. use. 5, 1912. | and Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for Children teething, softens the gums, reduces inflamma tion, allays-pain, cures wind colic, 25¢ a bottle, Cuticura Soap and Ointment sold throughout the world. Sample of each free, with 32-p. Skin Book. Address post-card: “Cuticura, Dept. L, Boston.” nna e pea Vee sae nein” working power depends upon yous: Garfield Tea helps toward keeping it.. The man him and then put on the Cuticura Ointment they seemed to soothe her and she did not try to rub them off. It was only a few days before her face was all healed up, and there has been no return of the trouble since. We thought that baby’s face would surely be scarred, but it is not.” iSigned) Mrs. the -stones dissolved I am now free from synonymous. Your health. one “Then I got some Cuticura Soap Cuticura Ointment. She tried to off everything we put on so that would sit and hold her hands for hours at a time, trying to give medicine a chance to help her, after I washed This kidneys. CASE— Doan’s cheek and up her nostrils were one sclid sore. She was very fretful. She certainly was a terrible looking chi:d, and nothing Pills. bad and always sores Kidney cures Get Doan’s at’ any Drug Store, 50c. a Box Kingsley, Mich—‘“Last May my thirteen-months-old baby had a sore come on her cheek. It started in four or five small pimples and in two or three hours’ time spread to the size of a silver doliar.. It spread to her eye. Then water would run from the pimples and wherever that touched it caus- more Doan’s remedy After taking this remedy ‘and passed without pain. kidney trouble. SKIN ERUPTION ON CHEEK ed gravel, stone or Bright's disease. A TYPICAL such fed dropsy, B.C: Warner 1205 N. Garfield Ave., Pocatello, Idaho, says: “Kidne y complaint often confined me to bed for weeks. I passed kidney stones e pain was terrible. Dickens lad home was too frequent off-color. Do not neglect any little kidney illfor the slight troubles run into yea 4 together!” spirit sign. of kidueys, es- pecially if the kidney action is Dickens stood back in the shzaow of the street to see what the outcome would be. The lad contintied to beg, and finally gained two pennies. He came dancing to Dickens with a jolly ring in his voice. | '“Now,”’ he said, “we'll have two hot buns apiece!” Such It’sa sick his house ly stockinged ankles from the elevation of a supplementary chair axd arose in time to meet her relative’s sympa- now »xperienced in the work. The work n too many gardens is. absolutely neaningless; there is no good reason why the plants are placed where they ire. Such places have no character. —Los about “T should think. you ‘would miss him!” said Aunt Jane, rather severely. natural Though this is the land of big ‘things, of Marvelous growth and development, even in plant life, we must 10t expect to have a finished garden na day. An attractive picture of a park or-home grounds cannot be built im a day, week, month or year. Proparly to plant—ihe proper stuff, in proper place and at proper distance apart—requires much knowledge, experience and study, with not a little ‘ingenuity or genius; also an artistic a talent for sar- Mrs. Merriwid removed her very neat- that landscape beauty, the undulations of surface; canyons,’ hills, long level stretches, or water, etc. All these, in proper combinations and modifications work the ceaseless change and give a fresh charm to every part. After this comes the vegetation, and last of alt those most distinctly man-made things, as; walks, drives, bridges, buildings, etc. caste. used to think he had casm, poor man! and I suppose he imagined that he was stabbing me in all kinds of tender spots when he talked which, with an empty chocolate pot and milk pitcher, seemed to indicate that grief for the departed Mr. Merriwid had not destroyed the appetite of his sorrowing relict. ; “My poor darling!” exclaimed Aunt Jane, fervidly. the fundamental elements of a fairsized park are its roads, paths, and other accessories, for these are really its necessary evils. The essential ele- ment not knocking anybody, you know, Auntie.” “IT always understood that he was very kind to you, Melissa,” remarked Aunt Jane. “He was,” een a Mrs. “Merriwid. “He never even offered to beat me. He HER MIND ABOUT DEPARTED. — Mrs. Merriwid’s maternal maiden aunt Jane found her bereaved niece still in’ her morning negligee, although it was nearly ten o’clock. It was a handsome, cobwebby negligee, with 4 big cherry-colored bow at the throat to relieve” its more or less funereal black, and Mrs. Merriwid looked well in’ a having a fair skin and a figure that was plump, but not too plump. There was a tray on a tabouret by thought from the very best effects RL, Possess these qualities, and speedily restore ‘ to the bowets their natural peristaltic motion, $0 essential to regularity.__ eee DalsY Fwn may characters, dollars feliow, As an ornament in the lawn or park: way the canna has become indispensable. It is noted for its endurance Its leathery foliage of the hot sun. always looks fresh and green; the hotter the sun the more abundantly the cannas flower. Cannas also do well in the shade. although they ‘flower far less freely. undér such conditions. Cannas should be planted in very rich garden soil. which should be, mixed if possible in equal proportions with well rotted manure. When the plants are growing freely they should be watered freely. Set the plants 18 inches apart each way and if more than one kind is used be careful to plant the taller varieties in the center of the bed—if it be cir. cular—with the dwarf varieties outside yey have anyone move in 4A the room. The docif, tors gave me medith cine. to ease me at those times, and said that I ought to or infront. Varieties may be obtained have anoperation. I would not listen to which will reach the height desired. that, and when a friend of my husband’s Canna beds as a rule should be plant told him about Lydia E. Pinkham’s Veged to a single color. An excellent bor etable Compound and what it had done der for a canna bed is salvia. for his wife, I was willing to take it. There are hundreds of named varie Now I look the picture of health and feel | ties of cannas, with large flowers and like it, too. I can do all my own house- with small, tall and dwarf growing. A work, work in the garden and entertain large variety in color both of blossoms company and enjoy them, and can walk and foliage may be obtained. as far as any ordinary woman, any day Should plants which have been _ in the week. I wish I could talk to every started in a greenhouse be set out, they suffering woman and girl, and tell them should not be transplanted until al! what Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable danger of frost is passed. Compound has done for me.’’—Mrs. DEMA BETHUNE, Sikeston, Mo. Artistic Park Building. Remember, the remedy which did this In small cities and towns we find was Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable but one park, as a rule, and this oi Compound. very limited extent. Scientific planIt has helped thousands of women who ning and planting will make this area have been troubled with displacements, appear several times as great and pos. inflammation, ulceration, tumors, irregsess at the same time the highest ar-| ularities, periodic pains, backache, that tistic value. Gracefully winding roads bearing down feeling, indigestion, and and paths, with changing views and nervous prostration,after all other means vegetation at each new turn will make have failed. Why don’t you try it? a very small park or garden seem oi unusual interest and extent. child a and so he told the boy, who ering in the cold. “Poor man!” exclaimed with failed to leave us’ the valuable heritage, but it delightful earned’ million Picture Tells Story.” . of Back/ Does a Sharp Pain Hit You? “Every creator Youl Your asked him for a penny. Dickens searched his pockets, but they were empty, gala spring. trees just |: Mrs. Merriwid’s chair, and on the tray were the mangled remains of two blossoming. glory! Our and our. great-great: lamb chops and some crusts of toast, year, bursting into grandfathers Re- anyone a the FOR THE LAWN OR PARKWAY Sikeston, Mo. — ‘‘For seven years I suffered everything. I was in bed for four or five days ata ytime every inonth, ‘}and so weak i could |} hardly walk. I had 4 cramps, backache yand headache, and 4 was SO hervous and 4 weak that I dreaded see of highways of Fancy. the trees, stored to Health by Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegeta- _ ble Compound. 4to time ‘riotously luscious, SEVEN YEARS OF MISERY How public it belonged. the uae ed the streets of London in search of material for his books without a penny in his pocket. One evening while doing this he was accosted by a small boy who ALONG THE PUBLIC HIGHWAY “Dear Madam: Please send another : ‘Magnificent idea Would dime and we will forward the fisher-| Fruit or Nut Trees Dickens, Whenever That \t. A story comes from a town where firms advertise to sell fish direct to small purchasers. The glowing ad- Nate: WILLING TO SHARE PENNIES| to Oblige. Ke, he te Willing Ariz. e 4 |