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4 is not likely that I shall com.

and it is not likely that I shall COM
mence now!"
do you deny your own handwrit.
ing?" flashed out Mr.. Forester, who
was of choleric disposition, and did
not relish his word being doubted.
81 deny everything!" shouted the
major. stop a minute, Forester;
here is the respectable female who has
just called to see me on business. I'll
just see what she wants before we go
on with this discussion. Now, then,
Mrs. Pry."
But Mrs. Pry was making amazonian
efforts to get letter out of her pocket,
and turned very red in the face at thus
being directly addressed.
'I'm sixty-odd, major, if you please"
said Mrs. Pry, "and widow woman,
with small pension, as never thought
of marrying again. And I never sup
posed as you could demean your dig
nifty by making jokes at my expense!"
"Jokes, woman!" Numbered the
major. what on earth do you meant
Is all the world gone mad?"
81 call valentines jokes!" said Mrs.
Pry. "And, please, sir, here it is, with
your own initials on the outside!
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papers, and a shabby cashmere wrap

papers, and a shabby cashmere wrap
per, trimmed with imitation lace.
sits just like him. said Master
Julius. mo fox so sly as an old fox.
Oh, here it is! I say, mother, can you
lend me postage stamp?'
And, amounting with his tongue the
gummy flap of Maj. Midgefeld's brief
letter to Mrs. Pry, he addressed \ it
with many fourishes to ''Miss Adela
Forester, No. street."
Won't she be pleased" said julius.
81 picked out the very prettiest little
valentine in the store-Cupid hiding
under a wreath of roses, and I love
you,' in golden letters, coming out of
his CULVER. I chose it because it was
small enough to go into an ordinary
envelope, and she'll never suspect un-
til she opens it,"
Julius" said his mother, "what a
goose you are. Miss Forester is old
enough to be your mother"
"Miss Forester is just 90" said
julius, "and I'm nearly Is, and I've
been dead in love with her these three
years!"
And he scampered off with his letter,
and the goodly, untidy matron heaved a
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| Cupids and loves and wings, and NOS
| much of anything else, sir, saving your
presence!" with a contemptuous sniff.
ST never saw the thing before in all
my life" said Maj. Midgefeld, eying
it through his spectacle glasses as one
might survey some noNious insect.
"Ain't this in your writng?" demand
ed Mrs. Pry, holding up the envelope.
"Of course it is" answered the major.
"And is not this your writingT
sternly joined in Mr.. Forester, hold
ing up the letter.
Certainly it is, admitted the major.
"And that letter and that envelope be-
long together, comprising a note writ
ten by me to Mrs. Pry to engage board
at her house once more. If you will
observe, Mr.. Forester, you will per-
ceive that the letter and the envelope
in your possession are in different
hanowritings."
"Then," gasped the bewildered Mr..
Forester, chow on earth came this
letter directed to my daughter?"
"All I know" said the major stoutly,
sis that never sent it,"
And to the day of their death no.
body solved the mystery. The only
person who could have done so was
Master julius Carey, who had listened
at the door during the whole colloquy,
and who took particularly good care
that no one should suspect his share
in the confusion of letters and envel-
opes!
But Mrs. Pry got back her boarder,
and, to the end of time, Miss Adela For
roster always insisted that she had re-
ceived an offer of marriage from Maj.
dgefeld.-Amy Randolph, in N. Y.
Ledger.
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soft sigh and went back to the basket
of unmended stockings which was the
Nemesis of her life, and Maj. Midge-
field came down stairs to the once
more deserted study, quite uncon-
scious of the raid which had been made
upon it.
'Parthenia-that was the name"
said Maj. dgefeld-"what could
have induced me to think it was Pa
thence or Pauline? Now where the
very dickens is that letter? Surely, l
didn't-oh, here it is, poked away I'M
der the inkstand. That housemaid has
been in here busting. S sure as live,
and it's mercy she hasn't thrown 1t
into the CRATE. Mrs. Parthenia Pry,
No. 16 Green court. Foxsley street.
that's it, and I'll just put my initials
in the corner, to insure speedy per-
usal. NJ. NJ, with a flourish to the tail
of the last NJ. suppose my sister will
be very plaintive and injured about
this decision of mine, but she has only
herself and her noisy lout of boy to
thank for it,
And Mai. Midgefield himself went
out to drop his letter into the nearest
post box.
St. Valentines day came, bright and
sunshiny, with hard frozen snow crust
ing all the streets, and silver fringe
of icicles on all the caves and tree
boughs, and old Mrs. Pry stared hard
at the letter which the morning mail
brought her.
"It's from Maj. Midgefield. I know
it is" said she, fumbling in her dress
pocket for her spectacles. Il know
them little curlytailed Ms of his'n as
well as 1 know my catechism. I'll bet
a cookey he wants to come back, and
a good thing for me, too, with my best
room standing empty for three weeks.
Eth! What? A gilt Cupid with no
clothes on to signify, and lot of green
leaves, and 4 love you'll It amt pos
sible, unless the major has gone crazy!"
ga letter from Maj. Midgefeld,' said
Miss Adela Forester, who was tall,
black-browed beauty. with cherry lips
and good high spirit of her own.
"And he wants to know if I will take
him."
"Nonsense!" said Mamma Forester,
who was buttering a Vienna roll with
the serenest calm.
''Read it for yourself, then. and see"
said Miss Forester, with toss of her
head. "He calls me dear madam the
horrid old bachelor, and dictates as to
his room, his dinner and his shirt but
tons. My goodness with a lifting of
the jetty brows, ''does he think the
girls are ready to drop, like overripe
plums. into his mouth?"
''Of course, you'll say no." said Nam
ma Forester.
''Of course" said AGela.
"Then papa must see the major at
once" said the elder lady. Though if
he were only few years younger, the
estate is"
81 wouldn't marry that horrid old
creature if he were the only man in
the world" cried Adela, with en-
phasis. as she remembered the young
passed midshipman now pacing the
deck of the Silvestra in the Caribbean
seas, to whom her young affections
were pledged.
So it happened that Mr.. Forester
and old Mrs. Pry both met in Maj.
Midgefeld's room at the parsonage of
ST. Adolphine, on the afternoon of that
radiant 14th of February.
Il am sorry, major" said the former,
shat my daughter declines to enter
tain your very complimentary pro-
posal."
!! "What proposal?" said the major.
II never proposed to anyone in my life,
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rrv Grained, Try Gratn-o.

Ask your grocer to-day to show you pack
age of GRAIN-O, the new food drink that
takes this place Of coffee. The children may
drink it without Injury as well as the adult.
Ali who try it. like it. GRAINO has that
rich seal brown of Mocha or Java, but it is
made from pure grains and the most delicate
stomach receives it without distress. 1 the
prize of coffee. 15c. and 25cts. per package.
Sod by all grocers.
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The Power of the Press

Is common expression, but few realize its
actual power. Great as is the influence of
the press, it cannot begin to equal the pow
ct of Hostetter's Stomach Bitters over dis
ease. The Bitters strengthens the stomach,
purifies the blood, and cures dyspepsia, in
the nerves, stimulate inactive kidneys, and
as an appetizer, it is unequalled. If you
want to get we'll and keep well, use Hostel
ter's Stomach Bitters.
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indeed! breakfast irregular, dinner
at no particular hour, and everything
at skies and sevens! I'm not used to
it. and it upsets my digestion. Be
sides-there' that nephew Of mine!
1 suppose boys must exist, but they're
a prodigious nuisance. I told my Sis
ter I'd try six months with her, and
I've tried 'em. Now I'll go back to old
Mrs. Pry's boarding house, and my
second-story front room, with the
CRATE fire and the weather strips in
every window. My six months are up
on the 14th of February, and on the
14th of February I'll go!"
The major was stout, short old gen.
tleman, with shining bald head, a
bumpy forehead, light blue eyes, which
always seemed as if they would touch
his spectacle glasses, and frost-white
mustache. He was an inveterate old
bachelor, with all the subtle ways and
habits of old bachelorhood, and had
money to leave-at least so said the
tongue of popular rumor-and he had
also a furtive suspicion that all the
ladies were in league against his sim
gle blessedness.
''I'll write to Mrs. Pry," said the
major; and accordingly he sat down
and wrote, succinctly:
"My Dear Madam: I am heartily sick
of this sort of life. Will you take me?
If it isn't convenient don't mind saying
So 1 prefer the second-story front room.
No piano practice no cold dinners, no
neglect about my shirt buttons-you un-
derstand my idiosyncrasies, and will
doubtless accede to them. Please let me
hear from you at once. Yours, very re-
specially,
milo MIDGEFIELD."
81 think that expresses my ideas
pretty fairly" said Maj. Midgefeld, as
he read the letter over, not without
complacency. eyes, yes, pretty fairly.
Now, what is that woman Pry's first
name? I've got it signed to some of
my receipts upstairs, and 1 do like
things to be shipshape and precise
And, leaving his letter neatly fold
ed on the table, in a shining, smooth
envelope, the major trotted upstairs
to find out whether old Mrs. Pry's name
was Paulina, Patience or Parthenia.
all three of which names buzzed, like
familiar bees, in his brain.
81 know it's one of the three" he said
to himself. "But suppose it wouldn't
do to write 'em all down and letthe old
woman take her choice!"
No sooner had the major vacated the
study than in rushed Master Julius
Carey. only son and heir of the Rev
Joseph Carey, and the aforesaid
nephew whose boyish peculiarities
were so trying to the major.
"'Where is it?" bawled Master julius
a promising youth of IA. where's my
valentine? Mother wouldn't let US
come in while Uncle Midgefeld was
here, and now I'll have to step lively
to catch the post. Where is it., 1 say
1 do hope Uncle Midgefeld hasn't beer
sending it off to any pretty girl on the
sly"
"My dear julius" demonstrated Mrs
Carey, pretty, faded little woman
with colorless eyes, hair in crimpins
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Immune from KIDNAPPING,

"Oh, N.Y." giggled the Lady of Uncertain
Age, Il am SO afraid to go on the streets
alone, now that the kidnapers are so bold"
"You needn't worry. They only steal PEG.
pie in their first childhood" was the reas-
Surfing statement of the Bald Party with the
Ingrowing Sheer on his face.-Baltimore
American
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To NV Husband.

I used to send in days gone by
Some verses sweet, q curl of hair,
A necktie-that you wouldn't wear.
1 send you now, oh, husband mine,
What best you like for valentine,
With frosting kisses heaped up high
A custard pie.
Brainerd Barber, in Boston
Budget
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The Year After.

Last year, false girl, I, fool so rash.
Upon lace paper gauds spent cash:
This year, that folly I regret
A two-cent COMICS all you get
Chicago Daily Record
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Just Enough to Hurt.

The meanest part of comic valen-
tine is that it usually has little
truth under all the absurd exaggera-
tion.-Chicago Daily Record.
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To be well-balanced man, with ability to
resist petty annoyances, is greater accom-
plishment than to be governor of your state.
-Atchison Globe.
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Piso's Cure is the best medicine we ever
lsed for all affections of the throat and
!ungs.-Wm. O. Endsley, Vanburen, Ind,
Feb. 10, 1900
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The woman who is in the habit of telling
her troubles makes more calls than she re-
ceives.-Town Topics.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1901-02-08

Farsightedness is largely matter of care
full planning .-Chicago Daily News.
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~ ~ want to m a k e
MIN you mine.
Presuming YOU are sensible and fattery
despise
shall attempt to win you without telling
any lies.
Although 1 may offend you, in the sweet
conceit of youth,
mean to try and win you with the plaln'
unvarniShed truth.
You have no gold or auburn crown of
sunshine on your head
You have the normal quantity of hair,
and it is red.
You do not gaze with orbs of night i'm
mersed in heavens blue
You simply see with common eyes and
squint a little, too.
Your form is not Venus with a fairy's
airy grace
ITS rather short and dumpy, and it
couldn't win race.
You are not yet an angel to be worshiped
You only are a mortal and to mortal
ways incline.
Your face is not an artists dream of
beauty wondrouS rare
It's plain and has some freckles as you,
doubtless, are aware.
You are not always gentle and affection
ate and kind
You have a woman's temper and you
often speak your mind.
You are not helping mother" when that
duty you can shirk-
You'd rather ride a cycle, which is pleas
anter than work.
Your head is not a storehouse filled with
knowledge we adore
Yet while there's something in 1t, there
is lots of room for more
Not all the fine accomplishments that
charm do you possess
You drum on the piano and you sing-to
my distress
And now, because I see your faults and
still would make you mine,
I've proven that 1 love you. Will you be
my valentine?
MORAL:
A Love that is Blind
Doesn't last, you will find,
Long after the honeymoon's over,
But Love that can see
Never dies and will be
A union forever in clover.
III C. Dodge, in Chicago Daily Sun.
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All goods are alike to PUTNAM FADELEss
DYES, as they color all fbers at one boiling.
Sold by all druggists.
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Some young men seem to be surprised
that everybody doesn't stop dancing when
they enter the ballroom.-Somerville Jour
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Uncle Sam uses the best of everything
Uncle Sam uses Carter's Ink. He knows.
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To Cure a Cold in One Day
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. A
druggists refund money if it fails to cure. 25(
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Indigestion is bad companion. Get rid
of it by chewing bar of Adams Pepsin
Tutti Fruit after each meal.
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It doesn't pay to be obstinate. Neither
is it wise to attempt to take all the advice
offered. Washington Post.
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The perfection of art is to conceal art
Quintillian.
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The Grip of Pneumonia may be warded off
with Hale's Honey of Horehound and Tar.
Pixies Toothache Drops Cure in one minute.
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Mr.. Wise-"What are you going to
do with your penny your teacher gave
you, johnny"
Johnny Coin to buy a comic val
entine an send it to him" baltimore
American.
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It spoils favor if you are asked to return
it.-Chicago Daily News.
The Topeka state journal., 1901-06-08
WAS AMERICA's DAY.
Whitney, Keene and Croker Ahead at
ENGLISH Derby.

EQ241Su LEROY.
London, June S=-London is still talk
ing of Derby and the Oaks The dis
cussion of the relative merits of Amer
lean and British methods of training
and riding has broken out anew. 1t
must be confessed that the British COM
ments are generally very fair. They
sorrowfully admit the superiority of
America on every point. The Sporting
Times says:
THE Derby has been won by
French horse and an American horse.
but never until Wednesday was it woE
by a horse that had other than an Eng
ish jockey in the saddle. Whatever our
horses might be. the supremacy of our
jockeys was deemed complete. But that
faliacy is now exploded Thus two rec
ords were broken, viz: A victory for
jockey who was not a subject Of the
king and the running of the race in the
fastest time on record
THE Derby was an Anglo-America
triumph. but not so the Oaks. which
was American pure and simple. It is
fact that rivalry ran high in America
last year between Mr.. Whitney and Mr..
Keene, almost amounting to bad blood.
when a colt Of Mr. Whitney's beat Olym-
plan for the futurity. Under the cir
cumstances, it is not little singular
that Mr.. Whitney should have won the
Derby and Mr.. Keene the Oaks The
Derby running of Olympian told Darl-
ling he had the Oaks in his pocket with
Cap and Bells II To add to the Amer
lean triumph the Tammany chieftain,
Croker, ran third in the Oaks, while an
American jockey rode the winner of the
Derby and the first three in the Oaks
were ridden by jockeys of that nation
ality. Henry. who was imported by
Mr.. Keene, who brought Sloan to this
country has made rare beginning"
The papers have printed New York
dispatches saying that Mr. Whitney
would take Volodyovski to America, but
he cannot do that. He has simply leased
the horse for $4,000 cash and half of
what the horse might win at three and
four years Of age. after which he was to
be returned Had Lady Meux cared to
sell the colt outright on an offer that
was made, ne would now stand at 825.
000 the offer being E15.000 down and
R10.000 more If he won the Derby In
these matters she has not hooked on
money at all. Her great desire was
that as Higgins had borne the heat of
the day he should reap the reward. For
that reason she accepted an offer that
would admit of Volodyovskd's remain
ing in his stable The only thing that
might have altered all this was If King
Edward had continued TO be Prince of
The Topeka state journal., 1901-06-08
GRAVES DEsECRATED.
Resting Place of Chinese Dead at
Washington Disturbed.

New York. June S.-Chinamen IL
Washington are stirred up over the dis
covery that graves in the Chinese plot
in the Congressional cemetery have
been desecrated- Nelson H. Adams has
written to the district commissioners,
calling their attention to the affair. ac-
cording to Washington special. Mr..
Adams in his letter says:
My attention has been called by Chi
nese friends to the desecration of the
graves and tonbstones of their de-
ceased countrymen in their purchased
lot in the Congressional cemetery, which
a recent visit by my wife to the ceme-
terry proved TO be more than fully veri-
fed It was found that the tombstOneS
had been daubed with axle grease or
sira-4ar substance. and that the graves
were desecrated in a most indecent
manner The Chinese people have
fervent veneration for their dead. and
are unable to account for such bastard
ly and sacrileEious acts in land OF
boasted Christianity. civilization and
enlightenment. ask that the matter
be investigated. p"
The Topeka state journal., 1901-06-08

Wales But for his accession to the
throne, we now would see him credited
with what no living man has been cred
tied with, viz: three Derby winners
Lady Meux is a very public spirited wo-
man. She paid fully for a battery OF
guns and the public is little aware of
the tons of stores and comforts she has
caused to be sent to the troops IN South
Africa She has a splendid collection
of Nelson relics, including Lady Hamil-
tons jeWelry. When Temple Bar was
removed Lady Meux saved the mater
ials from being broken up for side
walks, had every stone numbered, and
now old Temple Bar. exactly as it was
in the Strand. forms the principal ap-
proach OF her estate at Theobald's
Park
Fabulous sums were won on Cap an5
Bells IFS victory in the Oaks. The COM
nissioners had literally unlimited or
ders to back the flley as long as a de-
cent price was obtainable and every
American, man and woman, that saw
FoxhaIl Keene for week was advised
to back the horse.
The Topeka state journal., 1901-06-08
ENGINEER DOUBTS IT.
Can't Believe That American Loco
motives are Inferior to English.


New York. June s.-The Times quotes
Alba B. Johnson, of the Baldwin loco
motive works, Philadelphia, as saying
in reply to the recent charges of Sam
uel w. johnson, locomotive SuperIn-
tendent of the Midland railway of Eng
land. that the extra working cost Of
American locomotives over the British
under the same conditions az from 20
to 25 per cent. in fuel. so per cent in
oil, and 50 per cent in repairs:
1T is impossible for me to supply any
data, either in confederation or denial
OF Mr. Johnson's statement.
Efforts have repeatedly been made to
obtain from the Midland railway fnfor-
nation respecting the relative perform =
ance of English and American loco
motives working under similar condi-
tions, but Up to this time all such in
formation has been withheld Had
such information been furnished and
American locomotives, measures would
Immediately have been taken to ascer-
tain the reason and provide the proper
remedy.
1T is obvious that in locomotives of
the same weight, general dimensions.
heating surface and power and con-
structed from similar materials
throughout. there can not be SO wide
variation in operating economy as Mr..
JohnsOn's figures indicate. unless one of
the locomotives under consideration is
therefore it is true that the American
locomotives are showing the unfavor-
able results indicated. 1t is abundant
reason for the locomotive department
of the Midland railway to investigate
and correct the trouble -
The Topeka state journal., 1901-06-08
MEXICO FOR PEACE.
People Under President Diaz Opposed
to q Revolution.

to q Revolution.
New York, June s.-That successful
revolution in Mexico is an impossibiiity
Is the opinion of A. ]. Peyton. resi-
dent OF the City Of Mexico. who is in
the city. Mr.. Peyton IS vice president
of a large copper mine. He said:
The people OF Mexico are intelligent
They have tasted the fruits of seven
teen years Of peace. and thank Presi-
dent Diaz for it. They are too we'll
satisfied with existing conditions to
want a revolution. There is no induce
Inent for one. AS a matter Of fact Ia
Dor is a scarce article in the mines and
on the plantations in Mexico.
THE money men want no revolution
and would not allow one There is so
much foreign capital invested that they
can not permit it to be destroyed. Mex
leans as a rule can not do too much
business, but they have no liking Cor
promoters who can not deliver the
goods they profess to sell.
THE majority of the old-tine revo-
lutionists are dead. Those who sur
vive are in SO much better circum-
stances that they will not foment
trouble. Then, too. Mexico now has r.
OO0 miles Of railTo and nearly 10000
miles OF telegraph, and under its mill
tary system state or national troops
can be quickly mobilized to crush out
any attempt at revolution.
"Au Mexicans, even the poems, lote
Diaz. While his death would be a great
blow to Mexico, IL would not mean rev.
olution. All is peace and prosperity
there and 95 per cent of the so. 600
Americans there will tell you so"
The Topeka state journal., 1901-06-08
PAINTED AT THE BAR.
Attorney in Unger Case Collapses at
End of His Plea

Chicago. June S.-John J Mcdonald.
chief counsel for DR.. August Nj. Unger,
the principal defendant in the Defen-
bach insurance swindling case, while
addressing the jury in Judge Tuley's
court, without q word of warning, sud-
denly fell forward on the bar and
1apsed into a state of Inconsistencies
It was feared for a time the attack
might prove fatal to the we'll known
lawyer and former judge and congress-
man, but DR. Unger. the prisoner, after
an hours work, finally succeeded in re-
ViYing Mcdonald
The stroke that laid low the counsellor
followed a passionate declaration charg-
ing Francis Brown and Frank Fl. Smiley
with being equally guilty with his client.
DR.. Unger. if the latter was not ab-
solved from all blame