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THE TEACHERS WIFE.

Clarissa Mimi, Oct. 2sth.-Mrs. Clara
Keys, wife of Chas. Keys, school teach
err of this place, tells wonderful story.
For years her life was one of misery.
Her back ached all the time, her head
ached all the time; neuralgia pains
drove her to desperation. She used
much medicine, but failed to get any
relief till she tried Dodd S Kidney Pills.
She says:
every soon after I began using
Dodd's Kidney Pills all my aches and
pains vanished like the morning dew.
1 consider this remedy God-send to
suffering womanhood."
Encouraged by their success in her
own case, Mrs. Keys induced her
mother, an old lady of "a years, to
use Dodd's Kidney Pills for her many
aches and pains. Now both mother
and daughterrejoice in perfect freedom
from illness or suffering which is some
thing neither had enjoyed for years
before,
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Printers' Blunders.

Printers are responsible for
many charming mistakes, and some
of them admit the fact. Witness the
volume of sermons recently pub
lished which contained the startling
admission: printers have perse-
cuted me without q cause" OF
course, it should have been princes;
but no doubt the compositor was
satisfied, but don't complain. Par
sons are the especial butts for the
jokes of the merry typesetters. A
Methodist minister is reported to
have said: 'Methodism is elastic, ex-
pensive and progressive" Was it
sheer wickedness that made the
printer substitute for a, altering
Expansive" to the more shocking
term? The bishop of St. Asaph, ad-
dressing his old parishioners some
time ago at Carmarthen, referred to
his younger and rasher days." He
was naturally reported as having
spoken of his younger and masher
days." No wonder John McNeill said
that when he took up the daily pa
pers and read his reported utter
ances he always sighed: "Verily, we
die daily!"-Chambers' Journal.
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of Queen Alexandra. She is said to be
the most popular woman of the court
Of Copenhagen, and is remarka BILE
character. Shortly after her marriage
she had an anchor tattooed on her
shapely arm, saying: II am Danish
sailors wife, and I want to do just as
the others do"
Beside her penchant for sculpture
and sailing, the princess has another
hobby. She is an enthusiastic fire
fighter, and has just been adopted by
the Copenhagen fire department as an
august mascot. Some have gone so far
as to call her the "fire laddie princess"
and report has it that she does not OBJ
ject to the title.
American society is doubly inter-
ested in Princess Marie just now, be-
cause she and her husband will visit
the United States next January, a COM
pliment paid to this country in return
for the visit of the United States ship
Hartford, which cruised in Danish
waters last summer.
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SOMETHING ABOUT CARROTS.

A sirup is prepared from carrots.
Carrot is easy of digestion, and
gently laxative.
Boiled carrot is used as poultice for
foul sores, and as a vermifuge.
Carrots, when cut into small pieces
and roasted, are occasionally used as
a substitute for coffee in Germany.
In the reign of Charles I. ladies wore
carrot leaves as an ornament instead
of feathers; and the beauty of the
leaves is still acknowledged by placing
a root, or the upper portion of one, in
water, that it may throw out young
leaves to adorn apartments in winter.
AS an article of food carrots con-
tain large amount of what are called
heat-producing compounds, with .
small proportion Of flesh-forming mat
ter. 1t consists essentially of starch,
sugar and albumen, with volatile oil
which communicates favor unpleas.
ant to many dyspeptics.
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THE HUMMING.BIRD.
where to Find the Nest of This Curi.
Gus Little Thing, and How 1t
Feeds Its Young.

In St. Nicholas, Henry Hales writes
of the ruby-throated humming bird.
The humming bird builds on the up
per side of branch, branch gener-
ally about the size of the nest. The
nest. is beautifully felted with fine
white vegetable down and studded on
the outside with fine lichens and min
ute specks of bark like the branch it.
self.
They do not seem to retire to Sc
cluded places to build; they are as &C.
centric in their choice of nesting
place as in their nature and habits.
Some suppose their nests are near the
gardens or vines they visit; but that
is not often the case. A few magic
vibrations of the wings, and they are
far away in few seconds.
The last nest I found was on the
outer end of a branch of silver poplar
that hung over public road; every
carriage top that passed under it was
within few feet of the nest-the last
place in the world where should have
expected to find such a nest. l should
not hsve seen it except that was ac-
cidentally looking up into the tree,
and I saw, protruding over the side OF
the nest, the long, fine bill that hap
pened just then to stir. The nest
might have been passed hundreds of
times and been taken for small knot
unless thus betrayed.
These birds lay but two eggs-tiny
white morsels. The young birds when
first Matched are curious little things,
and feed by inserting their bills in the
mouths and threats of their parents.
AS the food Of the parents is composed
of nectar and fine insects, it is easily
made ready for the little ones tiny
stomachs.
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Beinx I'm Earnest.

Nothing great is ever accomplished
without enthusiasm, energetic persist
ence and a determination to do the
right thing regardless of obstacles A
weak, vacillating person, half-heIrt-
ed man, excites no admiration or en-
thusiasm. Nobody believes in him.
It is the energetic, dead-in-earnest
man who creates confidence; and with
out the confidence of others, it is diff
cult to succeed.-Success.
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MUCH MARRIED PEOPLE.
Women Who Had Many
Husban ds.

A Spanish journal has unearthed
remarka BILE case of woman who aas
six times been widow in six years
and is on the eve of taking a seventh
husband. This calls to mind other
notable cases of the sort. Lady Eliz-
abeth Percy, in the seventeenth CEN
fury, was twice widow and three
times q wife before she was out OF
her sixteenth year. The third man
who married this much-married girl
was the duke of Somerset, Charles
Seymour, who stood by the coffin OF
Charles II. after his death and by
the throne of George II. at his
browning. He was a notable figure
in six reigns. He was well married
into the family which has become
known in history as the proud Per
cys." When his young wife, Lady
Elizabeth Percy, died, the duke be-
came the husband of Lady Charlotte
Finch, and it is recorded that when
his lady once tapped him on the
shoulder the duke turned round and
said: MADAM, my first wife was
Percy, and she would never have
taken such liberty"
John Evelyn in his diary tells
story before which the record OF the
Spanish lady pales. Toward the end
of August" he writes, Il returned to
Haarleon. They showed us cottage
where they told us dwelt woman
who had been married to her twenty
fifth husband, and, being now wild
ow, was prohibited to marry in tho
future; yet it could not be proved
that she had ever made away with
any of her husbands, though the sus'
picion had brought her divers times
into trouble.
An American lady, DR.. Mary Spen'
Ger, not many years ago took unto
herself an eleventh husband in
town in North Wales. She was A at
the time, so that she had had new
husband every three years.
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GRACES LONDON PULPIT.
Mrs.. James Brown Potter IL Asked
to Assist ut Sunday Evening
Services.

Mrs. Potter, the American actress,
has been offered salary by London
church to assist in the Sunday even
ing services. The plan is that she
recite for the congregation at a
given time in the course of the ex-
ercises. She will dress in her own
conventional garments and in no way
Introduce sensational features.
London is still talking of the tre-
mendous sensation produced by Mrs.
James Brown Potter the first Sunday
she electrified fashionable London
church audience by her Rotations.
The rector, with whose family Mrs.
Potter was visiting, proposed to her
that she recite certain hymns as an
addition to the evening service. Mrs.
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PAIR OF SHREWD FOXES.
They Led . Dog Away from Theil
Young Which Were Too Small
to Protect ThemselveS.

It is doubtful if there is any other
animal in the world so cunning as the
fox. 1t certainly exercises reason,
since it provides against new contin-
gencies as fast as they arise. Here is
a story which exhibits almost human
calcula ton:
A pair of red foxes took up their
home on Dakota farm, on knoll in a
wheat field, where they began to rear
four little foxes.
Every day, while narrowing and
sowing wheat in the field,' says the
farmer, II saw the two old foxes lying
on the little mound in front of their
home. The kits rolled about in the
sun, played with the bushy tails of
their parents, and enjoyed themselves
apparently as much as group of kit
tens. ...
zone morning neighbor came to
work in field adjoining, bringing with
him dog, and the dog soon began an
investigation of both farms. He was
still long distance from the fox den
when 1 heard sharp, warning bark
and saw the kits disappear. AS ]
looked the mother fox lay on the
mound, her ears erect, her nose on the
ground, all attention. The father of
the family, with his big tail swinging
in the wind, trotted toward the dog.
"Can he intend to attack the dog,
I wondered. had never heard of such
thing, and the dog, though not large
one, was still larger than the fox. But
Reynard knew his business better than
I. He approached the intruder until
the dog saw him, when both stopped
for an instant, and then the dog gave
chase. The fox, with bark of de-
fiance, turned and ran in direction
away from his home.
AT first the dog seemed to gain rap
idly upon the fox, but watched them
for nearly mile before they disap-
peared in the prairie grass, and con-
cluded that the fox was able to keep
out of the dogs way.
I'm about an hour the dog returned
from a fruitless chase, and for time
he contentedly followed his master.
Then he began proving around again.
''All this time the mother fox had re-
manned on the mound, picture of
quiet vigilance; but now, as the dog
again ventured near, she rose and trot-
ted toward him, and the dog was soon
chasing her over the prairie. Hardly
had they disappeared when the male
trotted back from some hiding place
and took the position vacated by his
mate. The dog returned after time,
unsuccessful as before.
During the day he was again I'D
again tempted to chase, first by the
male and then by the female, and while
the one kept him busy, the other
watched over the young, who did not
show themselves after the first sight
of the dog.
ut is hard to say which we admired
most: the bravery of the pair in chal-
longing the dog to race that would
have proved fatal had he caught them;
their ingenuity in taking turns, so that
each might be fresh when chased;
their skill in leading him away from
their young, or their cleverness in
throwing him off their track when far
enough away"
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WISH AND WORK.

The boy who's always wishing
That this or that might be,
But never tries his mettle,
Is the boy that's bound to SEQ
His plans all come to failure.
His hopes end In defeat,
For that's what comes when wishing
And working fail to meet.
The boy who wishes this thing
Or that thing, with will
That spurs him on to action,
And keeps him trying still
When effort meets with failure,
Will some day surely win,
For he works out what he wishes,
And that's where "luck" comes In.
The "luck" that believe in
Is that which comes with work,
And no one ever finds 1t
Who's content to wish and shirk;
The men the world call "lucky"
Will tell you, every one,
That success comes, not by wishing.
But by hard work, bravely done.
-Eben E. Rexford. in Union Signal.
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pretty one it is. Any deft-ingered
boy can make it with ease and skill.
You will need a common wine bot
tie, straight cork, fiat top and bot
tom, two straws and glass tumbler
or goblet. Make two holes in the
cork with q red-hot wire of about
the same diameter as the straws, and
carefully work a straw through each
hole. One of them must extend above
the top of the cork as far as the
tumbler is deep; in other words, if
the tumbler is four inches deep, one
of the straws must extend four in
ches above the top of the cork; the
other straw must I've about twice as
long.
Now, fill the bottle and the tum-
bier with water, to the very brim,
and, having closed the end of the
short straw with little bit of wax
or dough, force the cork into the bot
tie until the water spurts out of the
top of the long straw. You have now
all the conditions necessary to the
performance of your feat, which is
to empty the tumbler by means of
the bottle without reducing the
quantity of water in the bottle.
Turn. the bottle upside down;
quickly slip off the end of the short
straw with its dough stopper, and in
sert the short straw in the tumbler
so that it reaches to the bottom. The
water will then begin to run out of
the long straw Unto bowl provid-
ed to receive it); but if you notice
the tumbler you will see that it is
from it the water is coming, for it's
supply is gradually decreasing, while
the bottle all the time remains full.
You can thus completely empty the
glass, leaving the original quantity
of water in the bottle.
The explanation is that the two
straws make siphon, which begins
to act Immediately because the two
branches are full of water at the
start. AS the water runs out OF the
bottle through the long straw, the
water from the tumbler rises
through the short straw to take its
place; and this continues until the
glass Is emptied.-Cincinnati Com
uercial Tribune.
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PRINCESS WALDEMAR,
Who Has Achieved Distinction
~ Q Sculptor.

The object which attracted the great
est attention at the recent charity ba'
Ear held in Copenhagen was the sculp-
tured hippopotamus, modelled by
Princess Waldemar of Denmark. The
princess, who has long since preferred
the study of art to social festivities,
and who has won NO little success as q
painter, has now determined to devote
her time almost exclusively to sculp-
ture, step that has won universal ap-
probation from the leading art critics
of Denmark.
Princess Marie Of Orleans is the wife
of Prince Waldemar, youngest brother
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IT HAD been three years since Rob-
ert Bramleigh had flung away
from Vonda Riebhardt il pet be-
cause she had danced schot-
tische with Harry Prior that he
had thought belonged to him.
They were both young and both
proud, SO that somehow the ex-
pected reconciliation had never taken
place. The Spanish war had broken
out and Bramleigh had enlisted at
once. He had called on Vonda just
before he had left for the Philippines,
but his time of coming had been I'M
fortunate in that he CHANGED upon a
roomful of visitors and found HIM
self unable to make his adieux in pri-
vate.
For three years Vonda had waited
to hear from him, but the expected
letter had never come, and now she
must make up her mind whether she
would marry Harry Prior or not. She
had never cared for him in the way
she had cared for Robert Bramleigh,
but then she liked and respected him
thoroughly. He was good fellow,
well to do, and she knew her family
were eager for the match. It was
unlikely that she would ever find a
man more worthy, and there were
financial reasons why she ought not
to burden her father any longer than
she could help.
Besides, Rob Bramleigh had never
told her in so many words that he
loved her.. She had known it, to be
sure, but that belonged to her dead
past, the romance of her life that
had faded to wistful memory. Why
had he never written? Why had he
delayed to speak SO long? Oh, if he
cared for her, why had he been cruel!
She remembered the words of poem
she had once read and liked:
20, words Of love that are unspoken.
You DO us grievous wrong,
For hearts grow weary, yea, and broken,
II silence lasts too long"
Her heart had been weary with three
years of waiting, and-must waiting
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have no end? Or ought she not
rather to pick up the broken threads
of her life and weave them into q
new strand? She sat hesitating be-
twixt will and will not, her maiden
heart making a last stand for her
first love.
The girl made charming picture
in her white summer dress, with the
dashes of color about her waist and
neck. She was fair, with fine oval
outline of cheek and chin, the tint
of the wild rose blooming in her face.
1.-the activity and grace spoke in every
movement of the free body, and the
young man coming triskly up the
walk was not slow to appreciate it.
His eyes fed eagerly and hungrily on
her, and chill foreboding of i'm
pending failure clutched at his heart.
His manner might be blithe, but his
heart whispered that the girl was
not for him; a reckless young sol
der in the Philippines held it in the
hollow of his hand to crush or make
glad.
The girl came forward rather shy
ly to offer him hand of welcome
He took the little hand in his large
brown one, and held it for moment
while he looked up from lower ster
into the sweet face with the gray.
brown eyes that met his for an in.
slant. The dye mounted to her cheek
rs she disengaged her hand and lee
Harry Prior to seat in the porch
behind the clematis vines that riotec
over it.
"And what is my answer to be
Vonda?"
Unconsciously he squared his shout
1ers and braced himself for the blow
he feared. She looked at him ano
liked him better than she ever ha6
before in her life. He was SO manly
and so honest, SO quietly brave tina,
her heart went out to him. She want.
ed SO very much to make him happy
but--the vision of blue-coated sol.
iier with gay, boy ish smile rose
aR TO bar the way. Suppose h
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HAS TRAINED ROOSTER.
He Crows When You Ask Him Ts. 10
Broken to Harness and Doe0
Other Tricks.

Ten-year-old Fred Perry, of SYRIA
cuse, N. Y, is the proud possessor of
a trained rooster, which has been
broken to harness. Fred has been
spending the summer with his parents
at Turin, Lewis county. While there
he saw the rooster. It had been
trained by Lucille Seaver, little girl
who lives in Turin.
FreG's father bought the fowl for
him, and Fred took it with him when
he went home, last week. He had a
little cart and harness made for the
rooster, and he now spends most of
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| y
married?
II do not know, Harry" she told
him.
He smiled a little wistfully. "Who
does know, Vonda? For two years
YOU have not known. Not that want
to hurry you, dear, but some day
there must be an end of uncertainty.
81 know-I know, but"
s'Is it still Bramliegh that stands in
the way?" he asked, after a pause.
She nodded.
"And is he never to be forgotten?
Has he deserved SO much consldera-
ton at your hands?" cried the young
man, impatiently.
II do not know what he has de-
served, but cannot marry you sure
ly until know that"
THAT you do not love another
man. Yes, but when are you going
to know?"
A step sounded on the gravel walk,
slow, hesitating tread, accompanied
by the tap-tapping of walking stick.
Then somebody laboriously climbed
the steps and appeared in sight from
behind the purple blossoms OF the
clematis. ~
The girl rose to her feet with . lit
tie cry, went white against the green
and purple background, and stood
rigid with her hand pressed against
the heart that pulsed so wildly and
irregularly. He was a shadow OF
himself, emaciated and yellow and
wan, a victim of the devastating ma
larial swamps of the Pacific, but un'
mistakably he was the Robert Bran
leigh she had not seen for three
years. A flicker Of his old, audacious
smile glimmered on his face.
"Well, here I am. What's left OF
me! Hope you're half as glad to see
me back as am to get here, Vonda."
Prior caught sight of her face
as she went forward with both hands
outstretched to greet him. 1t was ra-
diant, luminous. He knew she would
never look like that for him if he
stayed away q thousand years. A
woman wears a look like that for
just one man in the world, and for
Vonda Reibhardt Harry Prior was
not the man. He had found his an
swer, and he picked up his hat and
quietly slipped away.
"Oh, Rob! Why did you never
write?"
II did write-twice; but you never
answered"
She laughed happily, the tears in
her eyes. .,.
"They must have been lost in the
mails. I did not get them. How i'll
you look, you poor boy!"
II? I'm better a thousand times
for seeing your sweet face" he
laughed.
A surge of joy famed through him.
His blood ran quick. Already it
seemed to him that the sap of life
and youth had renewed itself in his
wasted body.
There were no hesitations, no ques-
tionings, no doubts. She had found
her love and he his. What were
verbal explanations but tardy formal
tiles their eyes outstripped q hundred
times? Why wait to falter out STAN.
meringly the things their lips said
eloquently without words? In their
arms each held what they had longed
for thousand times. To her mind
there flashed the last stanza of Col.
lier's poem:
'Speak, love! The oft-repeated stery
Can never grow too old.
But wins to higher heights Of glory
Each time that it Is told.
And lips are ready for replying.
With words Of tender cheer:
Speak, Love! For swift the years are dy-
ing,
And, 10! the time is near"
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RETRO

oh. those were jolly days. 8
When you and ! were boys,
And sought in devious ways I.
A lads mischievous joys;
When down the rain-pipe sheer
With many rips We slid
But hold! No lad should hear
What Dad in boyhood did.
And yet, I can't forget
The tricks that we once played,
The pranks we should forget,
The times we disobeyed;
How to the swimming-pool
In secret we would fly
But hush! No boy in school
Should think his Daddy sly.
] can't remember half
The things We used to do,
But ] recall the calf
We painted red and blue,
The gun we stole in fear
And ruined with our fun
But stay! The boy may hear
The things that Dad has done
.:or memory give thanks.
And can most frankly say
That those were merry pranks
To laugh about to-day;
1t really rather cheers
To talk Of sport we've had
So long as Tommy hears
No facts about his Dad.
Elliott Flower, in Lippincott's.
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Honesty Necessary.

Brains and great executive ability
are potent factors in a mans success,
but without the firmest and most thor
oughly grounded principles of cardinal
honesty they are factors which can
not make for success. 1t is the COM
bination of great ability and sterling
integrity that places men in control of
large interests and keeps them there.
Ladies' Home Journal.
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FOR BOYS TO TRY.
A Neat Experiment with a Bottle and
Tumbler That Will Surprise
Your Friends.

This is not a trick, although it has
the appearance of one to a person
not familiar with the principle on
which it is done; we call, it, there
fore, an experiment, and very
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sure Sign Of Enlixhtenment

Spain has a steel trust with a cap
ital of 75,ooO,ooo pesetas, and this
leads the Chicago Record-Herald to
say that she is emerging from the
dark ages at last.