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Our standIsg Army.

The proposition TO retain q standing
army of 100, 600 is wholly unnecessary
and unjustihable," in the opinion OF
the Philadelphia Public Ledger. THE
country cannot afford such a piece Of
extravaganza. A glance at the Ger
man army budget and a comparison
with the way we do things here in the
infancy Of the growth Of Imperialism
and militarism seems TO show that We
spend millions and get ridiculous re-
suits. The appropriation for our army
department for the fiscal year ending
June 80. 1900. is Successes. and the
estimates of the treasury department
for the next fiscal year place the war
departments expenditure at ;1so,l12.-
ISL. In times Of peace. as we are as
sured repeatedly that the Fillpinos are
crushed, such Is the most Of maintain
ing a force of 100000 men,"
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Thought IL Was Poker.

A stranger who looked as though he
hailed from the wild and woolly west,
drifted into an east side saloon the
other day and called for three fingers
OF whisky. Just behind was a group
of Germans deeply engrossed in a game
Of pinochle. Suddenly the westerner
placed his hands on the bar. cleared
II at a single bound and crouched down
behind 1t. Here. you shtop dot" ex-
claimed the astonished bartender.
''was list los NIT you anyway? Haf you
der chim-chams got, yes?" Nav. /
amt got no jim-jams," answered the
stranger. II Just heard one Of them
Dutchmen say he had a hundred aces,
an I thort I'd better lay low till the
shootin' wus over. But. say, amt
they kinder slow? Ef this hered been
Arizona, they'd be sendin' fer the cor
oner by this time."-New York Jour
nal.
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,NorA.s PECULIAR PEOPLE.
The Bicycle Hss Nearly EmAnciPstsd
The Parst Women.

The Bicycle Has Nearly EmAncipatsd
The ParsI Women.
The most peculiar. people Of India
are the Parsis Cor "Parsees," meaning
"Persians"), who feed their dead to
the YuItures upon the Towers Of 81
lence, says Harper's Magazine. They
fed to India from Persia when that
land fell into the hands Of the Arabs
twelve centuries ago. Their men are
the first very singular persons the
traveller sees on board the ship which
takes him to India, their singularity
consisting in their long, sallow faces
and large eyes. their shiny. patent
leather4ooking, tubular hats and their
long and ugly coats. They are most
numerous in Bombay, but one meets
them in other cities on Bombay side,
and in Madras and Calcutta on the
other shore. They are the richest ma
tives of India. and have made and sun
make their money in trade. They are
the only Indians who. as q body, ao-
mire and cultivate western progressive
ideas, who treat their women fairy
well according to our ideas), and VINO
permit their widows to marry again
Their first rule of life is to practice
beneVolence, and no people do THIS
more literally. They maintain nearly
iwo-score charitable institutions ID
Bombay alone. They are the only peo-
pie in the world who do not smoke.
and this is because they will not trtne
with IRE. which Is sacred In their be-
lief They never expectorate and they
will not IN any way eontaminate the
earth or water or deflle the trees ana
flowers. Thatsis why they destroy
their dead without burning the bodies.
They have no beggars among them;
they are nonogamists; they are NOT
caste-ridden Cor rooted. like the HIN
docs, for they acknowledge but two
classes-the priests and the people.
They keep new year day. not only As
a religious fete day, but. much as we
do. as . day for general visiting. Their
women are not imprisoned with their
servants or otherwise degraded, bat
may be met anywhere and eyeryWhere
to the same extent as English women
in India, So often are these women
comely. and so beautifully are they
clad--in such soft and exquisitely col
ored sfIks-thaf. as one writer says.
They appear as hours Heating about
the earth in siIk balloons. with bal
lasting az anklets. necklaces, earrsnss
and jeueIry. It Is no more than falF
Of the Parsi men TO LET this be IS Il
Is. for they are the ugliest men that
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Net expense on homestead. $1,000
We moved on our homestead July
10, 1899, have thirty-two acres in good
shape for crops In 1900. My wife joins
with me In sending best wishes to you
and yours.
You can truly say to any poor man
who pays a big rent to get 4 farm
(somebody else's land) or works for
wages to support family. that have
personally tried both in Minnesota
and tried hard to make a success Of Il,
but found to my sorrow that after
working hard poor living was all
could get out of 1t, and after nearly
two years Of western Canadian life |
will say that / am very thankful to
you for helping me to decide to try Il
In Canada. Yours respectfully.
W. H. KINkADE.
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COMPASS AS A LIEE-sAvER.
Two Mss Ous Their Lives to Tn. L,t.,.
Needle.

Two Ass Owe Their Lives to the Litt,.
Needle.
Two men were saved from death ON
the Lake Erie ice during the recent
blizzard by one of those chances which
are seemingly inspired by Providence.
Matt Carrig and Dennis Foley, who
had gone out from Buffalo to fish
through the ice, were suddenly caught
by the binding snowstorm when a
mile from shore They packed their
kit and started their dog, trusting the
animals sixth sense to find the shore.
The dog wandered about for a time,
smiling the air, and lay down, COM
pletely lost Carrig then started out
alone TO find where they were, IL pos
sible, keeping up a continued shout
ing. that he might not lose Foley. He
came upon a stretch OF ice from which
the wind had blown the snow, and
found several holes cut where fisher
men had bsen. A box imbedded in the
ice attracted his attention and he dug
ii out. II contained a pocket compass.
Carrig is an old sailor, and the find
saved him and Foley. BY the compass
they determined the direction OF Buff
falo. When they landed at Michigan
street they were nearly exhausted by
the cold. They had been nearly eigh:
hours lost upon the ice.-New York
Mail and Express.
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COPPER KING DAILY.
THE MAN WHO OPPOSES SEM
AToR CLARK.
Attr.stsd Att.ntioa ~ Hh Fight Ax.lAs.
tn. MostaaA CONTESTANT for . seat IN
Upper Hose Of csAsress - How m.
made HIs MIIlions.

Marcus A. DAILY, the Montana copper
king. has attracted attention by hts
fight against Senator William A.
clark. both in the Montana legislature,
and since Clark's arrival at Washing
ton. He is worth SO. 900. OO0-ail &C
CURED within twenty years. Born In
New York, of Irish parentage, he
drifted west at an early age and
worked in the mines. One of his en-
ployers in the latter '7o's was George
r. Hearst, who recognized DAILY Is
shrewdness and his magnetic influence
over other men and sent him to Mon
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cHURoHEs AND scaooE-HoUsEs

The interior walls % churches. school
houses and an public kziss should never
and pure Alabastina. 50 evident has this
fact become, that hundreds OF tons are
used annually for this work. The genu-
u 4 clearly during fhs iong period OF is
1fsefulueea Every oEuef Of building
sho1l1 Ise f<,><AtA xoAr paint oeelsr 81
free copy OF cur interesting booklet -
Aiabzsiins Co. orand RAndA. Mica
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daughter has received from the use Of
Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound. After beginning the use OF
your medicine she began to mend
rapidly and Is now able to be 1t Ger
work. Her menses are regular and
almost painless feel very thankful
to you and expect to always keep your
Vegetable Compound in my house. 1t
Is the best medicine ever knew. You
have my permission to publish this
letter IL you wish, il may be the means
of doing others good. "-MRs. MATILDA
A. CAMP, Manchester Mill, Macon, Ga,
September Is, 1899.
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4 pretty custom Of the Michigan
Central railroad Is the distribution OF
hououets to women passengers ON the
trains at the station at Niles a man
ip the employ OF the railroad company
.,,,,IvafSs the aowers near the rah-
~osa station. on which there are Tires
,s-~e hofhouses. where several men are
ssn. a. work The distribution % tne
-,ssseprers is made every day. winter
ana summer. one train eaen aAs' -.
-. more. being served
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WHAT -kALsonrxEs- ARE.

Ksisom,nss are cheap ana temporary
preparntioas. mannfacturgt from whit
the walls With decaying animal glue. Ala
bastfns II not q kaisomine. II II . rock
base cement, which seta. and Il hardens
With ages-Tf can Be re-coateooand re
decoTafed without having 20 wash and
grape %, 81 cd coats Alabastina ~
u<flIxed to great extent IN noepltAlA ne
g prevents the accumuiation % oirt ene
disinfccianf n Is nature
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WHAT ALAsAsrrxE IA

alssastine h the ORIGINAL ana only dur
.6ie Wan coating on the MARKET IL h
sofirelv diferenf from ell kalsomins
1rSnsra fions AlabastinB A. mdD ready
for ne In white or foorieeh oeautifui
ffnts b. the addition q cold E1tsz ~ y
-, properly labeled: With mn direc-
tio1s On ever packRee. tAke4 the
49, 81 scaling kalsomi1es. val -p&per
~ rSinf for WaIln Aiabastino can -
a-sa on plaster, bFIck wood e canvas.
snd chile can h-ush q e.
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nEgpcr rHE -sUsr As eooD.-

The dealer who tells you that he eAn
sell yog Tie same thing ~ Alabastine
OF -sometk.zx Jost As good" either 4
not posted or Il trying 70 deceive you In
Offering something he has bought cheaD
and - trying TO sell on Alabastines a.
himself as well As 20 you. Beware e
all new substituted Deaierg rt1k
suit for damages By selling and eonsuu-
CO. 04n the right 70 make end sell vail
eoatings ADAPTED = mix With cold wAtsr.
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Mean. Jas, what n. said.

Smith-"Is your new clerk a good
manf" Jones-"Neyer saw his equal;
he works Just like q charm" smith
But I was under the impression that
charms seldom work" Jones--Wen.
You heard what I said"
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IppIcATED LANDS

For full information for individuals and col
onies regard M the greatest rri- nted diStrci IN
America especially adapted TO the growth ot
live stock alfalfa sugar beetS and cantaloupes-
address A T.. Bent, Lamar, Colo
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SOLD for sl2, 900 at any time. Halsey 10
nov hack in San Francisco on trip.
He Is dressed in the height OF fashion.
sports diamonds Of immense size ana
puts up al the SWEETEST hotels
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lido not believe Pisos Cure for Consumption
has an eSoal for coughs and colds--JoHS
BoYKR, Trinity Springs, Ind, Feb -. 1900
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Feeling Of ErnltatIon-

Tom-So you have fallen in love?
Dick-Not a bit of it. have risen ff-
ty per cent in my own estimation.
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You will find poetry nowhere unless
YOU bring some with you.-Joubert.
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.fHE rLAs. 20. : ,coR nan.



a Hs@sstssd Clear ana Monsy AAsaa
In I've Ysars. f,
Alameda, n. w. T, Canada,
Dec. p, 1883.
Mr.. b Davies, Canadian Govern
ment Agent, St Paul. Minn.-Dear Sir:
A ] promised you about two years
ago that at some future time / would
let you knowSwhat thought Of west
ern Canada and the chances OF q poor
man making a start and supporting q
family at the same time. so will write
. few facts concerning my own ex-
perience the past twenty-one months;
and what have done, any able-bodied
man can do. provided he will work.
/ left Traverse country March 20,
1885; landed in Alameda at noon the
21st with S3.55 in my, pocket, a strang-
er and among strangers, and when my
family came in October. 1898, my
wife had nearly $40, or barely enough
to pay freight on her stove. sewing
machine and clothes and beds. / COM
menced work March Is: also made en-
try for homestead same day 1.-THE man
! started work for loaning me SIS to
pay entrance feel. and I have earned
or at least received $47S.l0 in wages
since then and have been idle at least
two months OF the twenty-one since !
came. The homestead / took had
twelve acres broke by a former occu-
pant / paid $50 to have 1t replowed
in July, SO, and the seed wheat for 1t
cost me $S.25. let 1t to a neighbor
for one-half in elevator, clear OF all
expense except the seed. and this fall
received SOTO for my part of the
crops on the twelve acres. so my total
receipts the past twenty-one months
have been S54S.l0. and my expenses,
besides living for self and family, have
been as follows:
Entrance fee Cs5 being paid for
cancellation) ...............S 1900
Summer following IL acres. .... 1000
Seed Tor same. ......... S.Zs
Cost OF house, besides my own
labor on same. 1855
| 20 acres Of breaking and double
discing same. 60.0C
;l7slC
Ny half OF wheat. 70.lC
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Coc,s COACH Balsarn

Anyway, the wicked who believed not
In Noah escaped being seasick.
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Between thirty and forty feet is the
estimated average depth of sand in the
deserts OF Africa.
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when All Else Fails. ny Ti-KL
Cures Cons and Bunions SithOut pain Never fails.
Dug slores or mail Sc YLKi Co. fordsN lie Ind
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Fsded hair RECEIVERS its youthful color and sofl
ness b The use VI PAkKER's Has BALsAH.
HMpHnookNs. he oest cure for oornA Iactl-
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All the street railroads in Washing
ton, d. c., sell six tickets for 25 cents.
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WaniA6

Men and women % sell our spool supporting bracelets
Makes cruchc ding &C., easier. Gl.15 y gr, -, sel
for pc send I5c far sample and agents terms
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Mrs.. WInsloW's Soothing syrup
For chfldren teefning softens the EWms reduces IN
esnnarion A,lsys pasa cures wind collie &c bott1s
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Tokyo. Japan. has twenty-five Gre
matory factories
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A Book OF Choice Recipes
eens fres By waiter Baker 4 Co Id. Dorchostl
Ma AenfIoa tkis paper
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Kansas has S07 newspapers. of which
ifty-one are dailies.
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Dandelions are cultivated by Paris
market gardeners.
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Toronto's population is estimated at
$50. 900.
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slor free Msaiove Gate Co. hiiton. Indiana.
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The total paid for college education
in this country Is about 500. 000.0
annually.
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Russia has ]. 24s generals in its army
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"DEAR Mrs. PINK
HAN-It affords me
great pleasure TO tell
You of the benefit NV
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n. o,d.~tsnd be-t 10 vin bresk NJ . cold quick,
GA anything else. u b always rsliAbie- Try It.
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A MOTHERS STORY.
Tells About Her Daughters Illness
and How She was Relieved
Two Letters to Mrs. Pinkham-

"MRs. PTSKHAM:-I write to tell You
about my daughter. She Is nineteen
years old and Is flowing all the time.
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flowing all the time,
I'd has been for about
Tree months. The doc
~ does her but very
tile good, II any. l
thought / would
. try Lydia &. Pink
hams Vegetable
Compound, but i
want your advice
before beginning its
use / have become
very much alarmed
about her, as she il
getting 50 weak "
MRs. MATILDA A.
CAMP, Manchester
Mill, Macon, Ga.
May 81, 1899.
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hkN AuGeri . {
frea isroass~y. uesk-
s.s. Eight Lsssss -
sfecta u ne erFSr1 q
yoath, sss1 - = -
stAApe. - pay PuseAgss
asd ] in ssaA, ABsG
LrTuT fRn 80
scriptisa gAiah ! I'll
anaFAn1ss - sara asT
sa-a AA1rsss Viii
liam 3 adoroon
X 3 81 ~. CLARK
80. Chtrag0.
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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-08-14
Our Social Chat.
Jed BY AUNT JENNIE, RALEIaH, n. G. :

AS CONTRIBUTORS to this department of
THE Progressive Farmer, we have some of the
lost wide-awake and progressive young ladies
and young men and some of the most entertain
Inc writer's among the older people of this and
n4Rer States. the ages of the members ranging
som sixteen to more thOn sixty.
YOU REQUESTED to join by sending
nc a letter on some subject of general interest,
ond writing thereafter as often as possible.
WHEN WRITING, give full name and post
oAice address for Aunt Jennie's fOrmati
II YOU do not wish your real name to appear
in print, give name by which you wish to be
Known as q Chatterer.
TWO WEEKS OR MORE must, as a rule,
alapse between the time a letter is written and
the date of it's publication.
all letters to Aunt Jennie, care of
The Progressive Farmer, Raleigh, N. @.
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WARP AND wOOF-LITTLE TOT"

DEAR AUNT JENNIE On this glori-
Gus summer morning, when the birds
sing, the flowers bloom and the air
is redolent with sweetest perfumes,
there comes wildly to my mind a
poor little waif of humanity known
as Little "Tot."
She was an orphan, ha1f-fed and
half-clothed, pale and sensitive, with
thin blue veined hands and cold
naked feet. Her parents were dead
and she had drifted into a family of
gross natures and coarse brutal in
stincts. Little "Tot'' ran at every
call, performing many of the rough
tasks in the hum-drum of everyday
life. She had no mother with tender
love to kiss away each night the
trials of the preceding day, to
smooth the pillow as only the mother
can and place the little tired form
away snugly in bed with bright
dreams of the future made the
brighter with a mothers good night
kiss and prayer.
All, no, Little "Tot'' was mother
less. Alone, in the darkness, into
the wretched apartment each night
she found her way and trembling
with fright, drew up over her face
n scanty covering, and, waking
and sleeping at intervals waited for
the morning light. She dared not
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K OVER JELLY.

DEAR AUNT JENNIE Please Let
tell the Circle that [ have alive
heard that ''there is NOTHING No.
under the sum-" but if | have ~.
found it then I have come wondor
fully near it. I cooked some ioI1u
over and it is jelly. This is how i
happened. The pot was so full that
I could not pour it out and 1 diDnad
it up and put it in the glasses and
found syrup instead of jelly when if
cooled. Icould not believe that tbo
dipping had any thing to do with il
as I did not think that it had cooked
enough. I waited a week and finally
decided that as there were twenty.
one glasses I would try cooking il
again. So I did and now I have
eighteen beautiful full glasses.
am glad I tried it and hope that
my success will help some one else
out of trouble. 1 did not mean to
write again so soon, but to try to
help other people is never prosumpt.
uous, is it, Aunt Jennie?
JENNIE ACTON.
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HER DIARY

Met him.
Met him again-in love with hin
Met him again-nO longer IN lo'0
with him-but he is in love Wish ln0
because I am so beautiful.
Met him again-he is still more i,
love with me, not only because l an
beautiful, but because l am al'o
good. Sorry for him.
Again I met him-he is colder tnan
he was. Think he has forgotten my
beauty and my goodness. l, 4om ",
ever, am inclined to think that @w
in love with him after all. NJ"
lucky he is, and how angry maln""
will be -o1v
Mamma proved to be stranger
pleased. Makes me angry, Iol
know she is not a good judge .
young girls heart. H. n
Flirted with him ou~trageously
make mamma mad-didn't succ00'
Engaged to him-glad. ocous
Married to him-sorry.-Mc0
Magazine.
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CAUSE OF AMERICAN 1LLs-woRRy

DEAR AUNT JENNIE Il am SIRE
that there comes a time to every
dear mothers and housewife heart
that, do the best she can, and plan
the wisest, her work accumulates 50
and one days labor laps over on
the next until she cannot sleep at
night and there is a small voice
whispers, "Stop! you have now to
make your choice between death and
life"
She needs to get right in bed and
lie there. No need to sacrifice your
self. Save your loving counsel and
self for your family if you don't,
there will soon be a Mrs. BIN
your place.
You cannot do yourself any good,
you are not doing Gods service, by
using up your strength. You have
but one life to live. The moral is
that if nobody else will take care of
you, you must take care of yourself.
have been On the verge Of ner-
vous breakdown several times, and
therefore know of what 1 speak. l
found salt bathing a great help and
it strengthened me wonderfully.
When I bathed to purify the morn
ing bath I put boraxin the water as
it softens it, and disinfects, and
pure water is a great health-lift.
I bathed my eyes in it, washed my
face, ears and throat we'll, and rubbed
briskly. Then at night [ took d
warm salt bath, used sea-salt. 1t
invigorates, gives one an appetite
then next comes the deep breathingS
Of the pure outdoor ozone, 1t heals
the lungs and cures all pulmonary
and throat troubles.
T believe in the practice Of physl-
sal culture and I studied it at the
New York Chatauqua last summer,
and I gained twenty pounds. My
dear sister house-keeper, don't
worry ;" it is our bane and kills more
women than work. If it does take
time to practise physical culture II
also takes time to take medicine
and make poultices, etc, BUTT takes
a great deal of money to pay drug
ILL - 1zzAo-- LII
Take life easier, in five months
time you will not only look like d
new woman but you will feel Ike
one-=be better looking, happier
healthier and will be in a fix to MAKE
other people happy. MRS S. h H.
Scott Co., KY,
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the day through the ethereal snao..
is borne to my heart in siivaH~
cadences, "Come in the mornino -
The, memory of this little D,o;.
comes to me with tender gent1a
ministrations. She bringst to me- bos
plain simple flowers gathered. bv ~.
wayside of Life. I understand tbo;s
gracious meaning and accept tbon,
in Love because they are the offerina
OF the heart. JOE OFT.
Erie Co., Pa.
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AUNT N LETTER.

Worry kills more people than
work. Happy the woman who can
take things as they come and not
censure herself, feeling conscious
that she has done the best she could.
There is nothing so conducive to
happiness as a clear conscience.
"Self preservation is the first law Of
nature" but I am forced to think
that some mothers forget the ''frst
law''in trying to keep so many others.
There are mothers-we all have seen
them-who think of self first, but
they are few and we are thankful
that they are exceptions rather than
the rule. Mrs. S. H. FL. rightly says,
you need not sacrifice yourself"
There is a limit to all human en-
durance, and there should be a limit
to what is expected of you. There
is no person living who can accomp-
lish more than the all-wise One
who made him intended that he
should. Why worry because the
days are not longer and you r not
strong enough to do the work Of
several women? I have so often.
wished that it were possible for
some kind fairy to make of me six
women just like myself for half a
day and then turn me to my real
self again. Those six women could
have accomplished so much more
than I could alone and there would
have been time to rest. Did you
ever think how few people there are
in the world who do things just as
you would have done them? I know
a dear old lady who consoles herself
herself by saying, "Well, their way
is not my way but theirs satisfies
them and I ought not to worry about
it," How true it is that BLESSINGS
brighten as they take their flight"
l have never seen aperson so wretch
eddy situated but that there was
visible in their dark cloud of despair
some tiny rift of hope through which
rays of thankfulness for present
blessings might reach the throne of
Him who made them. None of US
can do all we wish to do but each of
US can do the best our circumstances
will allow.
The pathetic story of Little Lot"
is interesting. How cOnsoling to
hear it said of those who have gone
that ''She hath done what she
could" but how much more satisfy
ing to those who love US is the
knowledge that we are doing what
we can, not forgetting to are for
our owp personal good as we'll as
that of others. I am sure that many
readers will be touched and made to
feel the orphans sorrow by Joe Otis
pathetic sketch.
Jennie Acton, having made a dis
covery since her last letter, writes to
tell US of it. A Commendable ex-
ample. Write just as often as 1.-the
spirit moves you"
I hope to receive more letters next
week. Shall l get one from you?
AUNT JENNIE.