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Show A MOTHER'S HEART-STRINGS. "I can't be second!" The mother In Pittsburg who wrote thla pathetic farewell to her married ion to explain ber suicide asked hltn to forget her, as aha "waa only a crnni-.." "Only a crank?" Nji only a woman, wom-an, ot ly a mother. "You have been very good to mn!" What mother who has had auch a aon and aeea him marry and replace her aa the dearest object of his affection! with another woman but whose heart aches at the breaking of old ttosT Nevermore Is ahe to know In the old, endearing way the hope! and aaplra- tlona of her boy, to share 10 Intimate ly hla Joy and lorrowi. Her place tiai been taken by another, and to that other alio la only a roother-ln-law, an Incumbrance She la no longer long-er flrat. There la another to be eon-ultcd eon-ultcd before her advice Is asked. There Is another whose claims are atrongcr, whose w.shea, whose feeling! feel-ing! have precedence. "I can't be second I" It la an old atory as old as the pnthoa of woo.-an'a woo.-an'a heart, as old as the tragedy of life. New Vork World, |