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The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-04-17
GENTLEMANLY DOGS.

Mr.. Fred. L. Rowe, Managing Editor
Of one Of the Cincinnati religious papers,
wrote letter to "Our Dumb Animals"
about dog who was kind enough to
help a kitten which was in danger.
though dogs and cats are not supposed
to be generally on friendly terms:
CINCINNATI o., Dec. IL. 1896.
"DEAR SIR: While taking a iage trip
between Monticello and Burnside, KY,
rode with the driver. At midway
point on our trip l noticed ahead of US
a young kitten. and was also surprised
that it did not move as we approached
it. The cat was too young to realize it's
danger. and when we we're almost upon
it, large dog which had been standing
watching some men at work, saw the
kitten and leaped into the middle of
the road. He hesitated a moment. ap-
parently realizing that his sharp teeth
might hurt it. Then jumping behind
the kitten. he literally boosted it out ct
the road with his nose, and when it was
out of danger. returned to watch the
men,"
The New York Tribune tells of an.
other intelligent and very polite dog,
which must be kept busy with his duties:
"a st. Bernard dog which lives near
Boston proves great comfort to
widow to whom he does not belong.
Dogs usually confine their care to their
own households. but this one, recognize
ing the unprotected state of the widow,
who lives alone, extends his services to
her house. She is always afraid Of
tramps who pass her house on the way
to Boston. The farmer who owns the
dog. therefore, when he sees suspicious
character coming up the road says to
his dog:
"'Jack, go over to Mrs. HIS and sit
on her piazza till the tramp gets by
"Whereupon the dog runs over to
Mrs. H Is posts himself at the door. and
il the tramp comes up the walk steps
forward and growls at him. As the dog
is big one and rather forbidding,
though he has never been known to bite
anyone. the tramp. in ninety-nine cases
out of hundred. remembers that it is
getting late and that he hasn't any time
to fool along the road. When he is we'll
olt of sight the dog returns home.
"The dog carries his gallantry to the
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until he had finally prevailed upon the
sufferer to send for a box, which he re-
luctantly did, and after receiving them
decided to give them a fair trial. The first
box relieved him in surprising manner !;
yet he was not convinced that it was
the medicine that helped him, but the
weather which had turned pleasant, and
did not send for a further supply until he
was again about as bad as before taking
the pills. Then he concluded he would
make another trial, and took three boxes,
and today is nearly if not quite as we'll
as before the attack of la grippe 1t is
needless to state he cannot say too much
for DIR. Williams Pink Pills for Pale Peo-
pie, for people who have been left in poor
health from la grippe or any other cause
Anyone wishing to test the validity of
this letter can write Mr.. Nye, No. $500
Olive Street, Cedar Falls, Iowa, and he
will cheerfully recommend the medicine
and state his condition before and after
using.
DR. Williams Pink Pills contain, in a
condensed form, all the elements Eeces-
saIy to give new life and richness to the
blood and restore shattered nerves. They
are an unfailing specific for such diseases
as locomotor ataxia, partial paralysis, st.
Vitus' dance, sciatica, neuralgia, rheu-
matism, nervous headache, and after
effect of la grippe, palpitation of the
heart, pale and sallow compilations, all
forms of weakness either in male or fe-
male. Pink Pills are sold by all dealers,
or will be sent postpaid on receipt of
price, so cents a box, or six boxes for
81. so (they are never sold in bulk or by
the 1907, by addressing DIR. Williams
Medicine Company, Schenectady, NY.
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A Money Maker in Hard Times.

/ have for the past five years had a
pretty hard struggle to make living, but
about three months ago ! began selling
Sef-Heating Flat-irons and have made
from 81 to IS every day, which l think is
pretty good for an inexperienced woman.
My brother is now selling irons and makes
more money than l do, but he has sold
other things and is more experienced. The
iron is self-heating, so it is the proper heat
all the time: and you can iron in half the
time you commonly do and have the clothes
m UGH nicer. You can iron out under
tree or in any cool place, and one cents
worth of benzine will do an ordinary iron
ing, so you save the price of the iron in
fuel in few weeks. BY addressing w.
H. Baird & Co., Dept IL, Station A. Pitts
burg, Pa, you can get full particulars,
and l know any one can do splendidly any
where. We sell at nearly every house,
and every woman that irons once with
Self Heating Iron will have one, as it
saves so much labor and does so much
better work Mrs. M. B.
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There she paused, stood up again
upon her hind legs and thrust her
paw-which must have been strongly
favored with squash pie-into her
mouth and sucked it vigorously.
Then dropping both paws in com
ical attitude she looked squarely in
the face OF Mr.. Parmenter, as if to
say: "Here l am, caught in the act
of stealing pies for nay cubs. You
are witness, Judge and jury. ! plead
guilty, with extenuating circum-
stances"
Mr.. Parmeter raised his gun, aim
ing at the bear. Then he lowered it..
"Jack," said he, II have a great
mind to let her go. You say she fed
those pies to her cubs. l guess mo-
ther would feel pretty sorry if she
hadn't piece of pie to give the twins
tomorrow. And it don't seem hardly
right, when we are just about to
thank Providence for mercies re-
ceived, to kill creature for taking a
bit of what has been provided. |
guess when the Governor appointed
Thanksgiving Day for folks, there
was nothing said in the proclamation
about it being fast day for bears.
Jacky, Pm going to spare the old
creature"
Jack took a pie-tin plate and all
and threw it out of the window to-
ward the bear, who fell upon it joy
fully.
slack, my son, are you crazy?"
mo, father; but that pie was a
little burnt on one side, and-and the
old bear hadn't any. That makes
three pies for the bears, and leaves
three pies for the Parmenters. "-E.
Cauazzd, IN Harper's Young People.
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WHEN MOTHER GETS THE TEA,

When on Sunday afternoon
The children are away,
And wife and l at home alone,
She'll look at me and say:
ssWe'll let the servants all go out.
When only you and me
Are left-just as l used to do,
I'll get your Sunday tea.''
And so we watch them as they go,
The maids in ribbons gay,
Butler and cook and all the rest
Depart in brave array.
And when the last has disappeared
rub my hands in glee-
And say: s'Now Mary for old timesh'
And Mother gets the tea!
Stand back, each Jane and Bridget,
And hide your blushing face!
If you could only cook like this
You'd never close place.!
Such oysters and such omelets,
Chicken and toast-ah me!
How happy twas when, long ago,
She always got the tea
Those good old days when we were poor
And boys and girls were small;
Since then the Lord has prospered us,
While they've grown strong and tall,
And think they ought to have more
style''-
Perhaps such things must be-
But still I'm longing for the days
When "Mother'' got the tea.
LOUIS EDGAR, in the Independent.
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THE PINAFORES.

HEN l was a little girl,
and went to the district
school, l had one great
trial. In fact, l was sure
that no one else in the
whole world was as i'll
used as 1. Every morn
ING. as sure as the hands
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TT appeared large, round and
J. golden in the Novem Der twi-
light. = x =
What the moon?
Dear young people, who was talk
ing about the moon? l referred to a
squash pie. Can't one tell story in
ones own way?
1t was in one sense a pie of a
thousand-that is, for excellence.
Numerically, it was one of six baked
during the afternoon of the day be-
fore Thanksgiving, by Mrs. Samuel
Parmenter, who lived in a township
in northern Maine, surrounded by
pine woods and by the society of
Mr.. Parmenter and the children.
These were Jack, who was twelve
years old; Benny and Bobby, the
twins, who were six years of age; and
dear little two year-old Luella AIDE
line Amelia.
Jack and Benny and Bobby and
Luly had watched their mother make
that noble squash pie and its fell
lows. They had hindered her-they
called it helping her--while she
made the pastry. She had pared and
sliced and boiled the squash, and
Jack helped her sift it, and Bobby
stirred in the milk while she beat the
eggs, and Benny suggested an extra
spoonful of sugar to each pie, and
LulY, in her high chair by the table,
looked on, laughing with pleasure
which was perhaps the best help of
all. BY twilight the pies were baked,
and set away in the little pantry to
cool. When Mr.. Parmenter came
home from the woods, with his axe
over his shoulder, everybody told
him, from Luly up to mother" that
the pies looked remarkably good.
= +
The kitchen was small and the fire
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-04-17
"Do you live near here9" ] asked

"Do you live near here!" ] asked
her.
"Yes, we have just moved here
from Boston. Ny mamma is sick,
and the doctor says she must be kept
perfectly quiet"
This was spoken very impassively.
"And are you coming here to
school all the time7"
YES"
Then came the question which l
had been screwing up my courage to
ask ever since l began to talk with
her.
do you wear those pretty aprons
all the timer"
She opened her big brown eyes
wide in surprise at the question.
"Yes, excepting when l dress for
dinner; then don't wear any,"
The next day Gladys and l ate our
lunches together. Then l started to
cross the street, to pick the bunch of
flowers which took in every day to
our pretty teacher. The wild rose
bushes which grew there now yielded
only red berries, but in among the
bushes grew golden-rod and asters.
/ called to Gladys to come to help
L..k IL % 10 r. kha
road, holding back her skirts dainti-
ly.
mamma won't let me go in the
bushes" she answered. "They tear
my aprons dreadfully."
"They don't tear mine," l said.
"But, then, mine are pinafores." AS
if that word would account for all
differences!
Gladys and l walked home from
school by the some road for short
distance; then she turned off on a
road that wound up the hill. Just
at the corner of these two streets
house had been burned down; and
there, by the old cellar, was beauti-
full red apple-tree, which was favo-
rite resort of mine when the after
noon session was over. l took Gladys
there on this second afternoon. 1
swung myself up into the low
branches.
"Come on!" l called down. "Do
you want me to pull you?"
Mamma won't let me climb trees"
she said, looking up at me regretful-
ly. "She says it wears out my sleeves
and tears my dress"
"Can't you ever climb trees?' l
asked pityingly.
She shook her head.
"Well, I'll throw you down some
apples, then; and | won't stay up
long"
After l had left Gladys, l walked
home very quietly and very thought
fully There was a revolution of
ideas going on in my little brain.
That night, when my mother was
t king off the once -despised pinafore,
said timidly:
II think these pinafores are real
nice"
"Do you9" said my mother, with
little smile, remembering many re-
bellions against them in the past.
"Yes, l do" l replied stoutly.
Then the whole story had to be
told. After l went to sleep that
night, dreamed that l had tied one
of my pinafores on Gladys, and we
were sitting on one of the topmost
branches of the old apple-tree, eat
ing red apples. = Frances Eaton
Jones, IN Sunday School Times.
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HOW THE BEARS ATE THE
SQUASH PIES.

TT appeared large, round and
i golden in the Novem Der twi-
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of the big clock in the dining-room
pointed to eight o'clock, and it was
time to start for school, l heard my
mothers voice calling:
MARY, Mary Come hereF
How we'll l knew what that meant!
No matter where | ran to escape it,
that voice always reached my ears.
Then l would drag my feet reluctant
ly after me to my mothers room. She
was always waiting for me there, with
a pinafore in her hand, ready to put
on me. Those pinafores were my
trial, the indignity offered to my
pride. Theywere made of figured or
white cambria, and reached from my
neck to the bottom of my dress. They
were tied behind with broad strings"
and they had long sleeves; SO every
bit of my pretty dress was covered
up,-and | loved pretty things. l
often heard my mother say what
blessing those pinafores were, how
they saved my dresses, how dirty
children always got at school if they
did not wear pinafores; but would
not be reconciled, and for long time
l secretly rebelled against them.
One morning my mothers call was
particularly distasteful to me. l was
lying on bench beneath the trees,
watching the leaves, which were be-
ginning to fall. waited full min
ute before answering the summons,
envying the maple-trees around me
the power to faunt their brilliant
red-and- yellow dresses without re-
buke. Why must l alone cover up
my pretty clothes9
l went upstairs more slowly than
usual, and thrust my arms into the
Objectionable sleeves without word.
Then | turned round sharply to have
the pinafore buttoned; and, when
my mother had given the strings
final pat, l gave her the usual good
by kiss mechanically, walked thought
fully out of the room, got my hat,
slate, and lunch basket, and started
for school. l was meditating how
much longer l should have to suffer
this indignity. Cousin Annie was
eleven. She was big girl, and would
look very funny in pinatores. was
seven. Perhaps it would be only
three years. But three years was
such long time Why, l could
hardly remember three years ago!
When | got to school that morning.
l found new scholar sitting at the
desk next to mine. She was won
derful creature, with curly hair and
pink and white skin, so different from
the sunburnt faces around her. But
what attracted my attention, and
kept my eyes fastened upon her, was
her apron. 1t was the daintiest thing
/ had ever seen. 1t was made of
white muslin. 1t was low in the
neck, and did not reach to within two
or three inches of the bottom of her
dress. 1t had little puffs on the
shoulders, instead of sleeves; and it
was all trimmed with embroidery.
My own pinafore seemed palmer and
homelier than ever beside it.
As soon as recess began l sidled
up to the stranger, and eyed her with
open admiration. What's your
name7" l ventured at last.
"Gladys Hamilton"
Il think that is a pretty name.
never heard it before. Mine is only
Mary Allen" l answered. wishing
for the first time that l had had some
other.
my mother says Mary is beauti-
full name" Gladys replied, graciously.
Twas so encouraged at this that l
felt emboldened to ask another ques-
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4 Story For Girls.
WAITING ON DESTINY
....BY....
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same lady to such an extent that when
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home to the door of her house."
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Willis
Peyton's
Inheritance
THE STORY OF A CLAIM.
bly,.
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by.
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III. House-Huntlng in the City.
~. New Scenes.
V. A Wedding
VI. A Discovery
VII. Complexities.
VIII. Mother and Son.
TX. Willis and His Triumph
X. A Claim on its Travels,
XII. Claude and jessie
XII. Claude an Explorer
Nil. me Old Professor turns Matchmaker
MY. An Excursi IN and what Came of Ii.
Nv. Claude in Peril.
XVI. Claudes Mother and Jessie.
XVII. A Little Res pie.
XVIII. Surprise.
XIX. Deep Waters.
Xxx. Wedding Bells.
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ply, contended that Mr.. Kinney was
wrong. and that the defendants should
be called upon TO rebut the mass of teS-
timony he had, at such great cost of
labor and time, placed before the
Court
The learned Judge said that, owing
to the amount of evidence he had
taken, he desired time to compare it
before giving a decision. He therefore
reserved judgment till 8 o'clock this
morning. At that hour His Honor
called the case, and naming the. de-
PENDANTS, said:
Il find the defendants not guilty and
discharge them
He made no comments upon the
case whatever, and the Star, TO the con-
trary Notwithstanding, found nothing
beyond the plain, simple truth that
1.-The defendants were not guilty.
When it is remembered that repre-
sentatives of the Star and Bulletin
were present at the hearing on Tues
day, especially at the close of the case
for the prosecution. and also. during
the arguments for dismissal, it seems
incredible that they would write and
publish such palpable falsehoods, as
shown above
Mr.. Editor, as you are well aware,
there is considerable feeling upon this
subject in Honolulu. and although
would not say my confreres of the press
would wilfully misrepresent my case to
injure my business with the public,
others, prejudiced by misleading news
paper reports. have attempted TO do
so. For this reason, chiefly, I most re-
specially ask you to publish this let
ter. Most respectfully.
w. J. GALLAGHER.
Honolulu, April z 1897.
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If You
Were
About
To Go By

To go buy Bicycle, don't do so un-
til you first know it were wise to give
OURS the 'go by" Why we sell so
many Bicycles is no mystery, for the
names Rambler" Columbia and
"Stearns" are known TO every one who
knows what the word Bicycle means,
and about everybody in the Islands
knows that we are the agents for these
three leading makes.
We will not say much about the
"Stearns" this time, as the lot of 81
wheels which left New York on Febru-
airy 10th, did not catch the Australia,
and you do not want to hear about a
wheel you cannot see, so we will tell
you about them when they get here.
But if you want a pretty mount, some
thing up to date, come in and see orr
'97 "Columbias and "Ramblers;" but
come quick, as we have sold over half
of the lot just received, and we are sure
to be out of both makes before we can
get a good look at them ourselves.
We will have just forty-four C4D BIZ
cycles on the Australia" when she gets
here on March Both, and from that on
we don't think anybody will go by TO
buy a wheel because we have not got
the stock 20 show them.
Our Columbus" this year, as well
as our "Ramblers," are fitted with the
well-known G.. & ]. tires. This tire has
proved to be the best one ever used in
these Islands, and if you get the gen
uine G.. & J. tire you get what you need
for this climate and our roads. The
genuine G.. & ]. tire is sold by the
Rambler" Agency here, and is fitted
TO wheels we order. You can get tires
that are said to be G.. & J. and look
just the same. but you won't want more
than one pair; looks don't wear. you
know.
Points of interest to you will be the
way the spokes are fastened on the
"Columbias," the new special seat and
the handles and grips on the Ladies'
'Ramblers;" in fact, you will find lots
TO interest you. and you are welcome TO
examine any wheel 10 your hearts con-
tent, even If you have no idea of buy
ing. We have just added largely to
our stock of sundries-such as Lamps
Bells, Luggage Carriers. Bike Stands.
Enamels, etc.-and we can fit you out
with about anything you need.
FOR THE BEST of everything in the
wheeling line, go TO
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SEALED TENDERS

Will be received at the Office of the
Minister of the Interior till IL o'clock
noon of WEDNESDAY, April 81, 1897,
for the construction of the Road over
Nuuanu Pail.
Plans and Specifications at the Of
flee of the Superintendent of Public
Works.
The tenders are to be based upon
the condition that at least so per cent
of the unskilled laborers employed on
this work are to consist of Hawaiians,
Americans or Europeans.
The Minister of the Interior does not
bind himself to accept the lowest or
any bid. J. A. KING,
Minister of the Interior.
Interior Office, April 6, 1897.
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