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NY BABY TONIGHT.

AZ I SIT BY his cot. holding fast the sot'
And the bright eyes are closed till the
dawn.
I am thinking how sweetly from sweet
"Babyland"
NY darling is Fastening on
But whatever the future. whether gloomy
or bright,
He is all mine just now; he's my baby TO-
night.
Some day he will go out into the world
q And mix in its toll ard its strife,
And mother" viii be. though stu Ioveo
anddear,
But one of the parts Of his life.
But now, all the day, I'm his joy and his
light;
Yes. sovereign am I! He's my baby to-
night.
And some time, ali! some time another VIII
come,
OF all the most fair and most dear,
And as she fills up hds heart and his home,
Poor mother will seem far less near.
! wish him that day, Of all days the most
bright:
But that sweetheart's not here-he's my
baby Tonight!
And then the grave man. battling bravefy
the wrong,
And staunch for his home and his land.
I pray that his soul may be kept pure and
strong.
AS l sit by his cot, holding fast the wee
hand.
But that brave noble man is not this tiny
wight,
I'm his guardian now-he's my baby to-
night!
And then, when the years bring their griefs
and their woes,
And he comes to my knee once again,
And, forgetting his years and his trials and
foes,
Sobs away in sweet tears all his pain.
May I say as I look in his dear eyes soft
light:
God has kept him from sin! He's my baby
tonight" ~
Margaret Beahm Denning, In Western
Christian Advocate. g..
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To Find the North Pole.

An expedition is being planned in
Norway for the discovery of the
north magnetic pole, if indeed such a
spot exists, for it has been suggest
ed that what is called the magnetic
pole may not be definite point, but
a considerable area over which the
needle would stand vertically. There
is also question as to the absolute
fixity in position of the magnetic
pole. Capt. r. Amundsen is to COM
mand the expedition, and the ship
Gjoa has been purchased for its use.
The start is to be made in the spring
of 1903.-Youth's Companion.
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Lydia e. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound cured me and made
me we'll, and that is why gladly
write you this, and gladly thank you;
six bottles was all took, together
with your Pills. My headache and
backache and kidney trouble went,
never to return the burning sensation
/ had left altogether; my general
health was so improved felt as young
and light and happy as at twenty"
-MRs. LOUISE GIBSON, 4s13 Langley
Ave-, Chicago, 1ll.-s5oo0 forfeit If atous
testimonial is not genuine.
If you feel that there is anything at
all unusual or puzzling about your
case, or if you wish confidential advice
of the most experienced, write to Mrs.
Pinkham, Lynn, Mass, and you will
be advised free of charge. Lydia f.
Pinxhan's Vegetable Compound
has cured and is curing thousands Of
cases of female trouble. .
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startling distinctness. Number Forty

starting distinctness. Number Forty.
nine leaned forward in breathless in.
terest to follow it, the blood leaped to
his pale cheeks, and he ceased to re-
member the unmoved figure beside
him, for he saw himself free, FREQ
again, on the wide highway, riding with
his dogs at his heels. The picture
changed and he shuddered, but he pur.
sued his wrath with burning gaze.
Now be was in q ballroom. There
were lights and flowers. He heard
the voluptuous waltzes in chords Of
passionate yearning, and at his side
was the smiling face of q woman, a
face only too human in its sensuous
loneliness. The pictures changed
again and again, but thereafter she
was always with him, and finally she
wore his ring. Then poverty, biting
poverty, came on them both, and she
was at his elbow urging, always urg'
ing, that he must provide luxury for
her, no matter what the cost. He
yielded. He gave her all she asked.
And the price was his honesty, a
stain on name unblemished for cen.
turtles. She had spoiled the castle of
his will and destroyed all its de-
lenses, and so, when another tempter
said Drink and forget!' he drank.
Drank until Number Forty-nine no
longer recognized himself in the
broken beggar of the streets, in the
maudlin coward crouching under the
lash of her bitter tongue.
The picture faded. The walls rose
straight and unbroken. He was in
his cell once more.
He looked, aghast, into the face Of
his angel.
"Is Fate so strong?"
"Ask, rather" she said pitifully.
''are men so weak? You have trained
splendid young body, the network
of your muscles is respondent with
elastic vigor. But whaS of your dor
mant, shrunken will? What exercises
have hardened and perfected it? You
pass for a scholar, and rightly. You
have a fair share of the learning of
your day. But I say again-your
will! Were there colleges for that?
Did they teach you to be strong in
the God-given power that makes
every man a law unto himself? Are
you armed and courageous in the
fatal recesses of the soul?"
The mans head dropped.
II could have saved your body"
went on the voice, ''but am your
good angel, and led you into the
arms, of death. Shall ask to be for
given?"
"Forgive me instead" said the man
quietly, land let me hold your hand
while I sleep again." 49,
She sat beside him, with the warm,
young fingers in hers, and Number
Forty-nine slept peacefully.
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FUTURE OF FLYING MACHINE.
Il 10 Not Likely That the Oh erished
Dreams of EnthusiostS VIII
Ever BE Realixed.

Edison agrees with Hiram Maxim
and Prof. Langley, of the Smithsonian
Institution, that the really successful
navigation of the air will come with
the building of flying machines which
depend on their power for buoyancy,
not on gas reservoirs of any kind. San
tos-Dumont is so far in accord with
these eminent students of the problem
he has tried so well to solve, that he
has been reducing the size of his gas
balloons as his airships have succeed.
ed one another and placed more and
more reliance on the motors he uses
for speed and steering. ...
1t says little against the possibilities
Of aerial navigation, observes the Cleve.
land Leader, that one very promising
experimenter in the same field where
Santos-Dumont has won renown has
just been dashed to pieces by the BURST
ing of his airship while several hun
dred feet above the streets of Paris.
Such deadly accidents are likely in the
early stages of any successful device
for locomotion on land or sea, as well
as in the air. It is to be expected that
a great discovery will always be paid
for in blood. That seems to be the
law of life.
But the point in regard to flying ma
chimes which appears to constitute an
insurmountab BILE barrier to their lasting
success is that they differ totally from
any other machine or appliance which
man has used in practical travel, as to
their destruction if forced to stop while
in the element they are designed for.
The ideal flying machine would resem-
BILE ship, of great speed and power,
which could not be kept off the bottom
Of the sea when it stopped moving.
But how many persons would ever
ride on a boat which must sink if it
ceased to make Roadway? If it meant
destruction for the engines of steam
ship to stop, would steam have made
the least impression, in peaceful travel
and in the transportation of freight,
upon the sailing vessels with which
steamers compete? In war or for sport
ventures might have been made with
steam craft, but in the course of nor
NAL traffic nothing would have been
done with any type of vessel sure to
sink if its machinery stopped.
That is very good reason for be-
lieving that the dreams of wholesale
navigation of the air by flying ma
chimes, which have been cherished in
many lands for more than a century,
will always remain fancies rather than
solid facts.
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STEP IN ANYWHERE.
or Girl Who Is Willing to Take
Part i'm Life's Work.

During one of the great battles of
the civil war, a recruit who had lost his
company in the tumult of strife, APP
preached Gen. Sheridan and timidly
asked where he would "step in.''
"'Step in?' Numbered Sheridan, in a
voice that frightened the already ter
rified recruit almost as much as the
roar of cannonading and musketry.
Step in anywhere; there's fighting all
along the line.''
An accident occurred recently that
very forcibly brought Sheridan's
words to mind. A heavy piece of ma
chinery was being moved into build
ing by means of block and tackle.
Suddenly one of the ropes parted and
the machine began to slide backward.
The two men who had charge of the
work sprang to stay its progress, but
it was more than they were capable
of doing.
"Give us lift!" one of them shouted,
to bystander.
"Where shall take hold?" asked the
man thus addressed, unmindful of the
fact that both men were exerting every
muscle to control the machine and that
there was not second to lose.
"Grab hold anywhere!" yelled the
mover.
But another had already seen the
necessity for instant action, and rem
dered the necessary assistance.
It may be- that we are in a field where
we are unaccustomed to work, and are
timidly asking where we shall "step
in" We may find our answer in the
words of Sheridan: "step in any
where; there's fighting all along the
line."-Wellspring.
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Morgan BUYS n Clock.

]. Pierpont Morgan bought beau
tiful antique German clock while re-
Gently in Berlin. The price paid for
this clock is not generally known,
but the dealer who sold it had pre-
viously declined a number of high
offers from Germans for the article,
and this circumstance is taken as proof
of-what the Vossiche Zeitung again as
serts, namely, that German art collect
ors have no chance against American
milionaireA
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FOR AM YOUR GOOD ANGEL"
cied smile fingered round the boy
ish mouth. ..-
"Who let her imp" demanded tho
prisoner eagerly.
''Let who IMP" demanded the war.
der, staring.
The prisoner laughed. II forgot
you could not know"
A little while, and then, through
the bright. August sunshine, no
passed on toward the scaffold so con-
fidently that the warder rubbed his
eyes and muttered his surprise to an
assistant.
At last Number Forty-nine looked
down on the crowding faces and then
turned to those waiting.
II am ready" he said dreamily.
But the moose had not touched him
when the crowd shouted loudly:
"A reprieve! A pardon!"
Dusty, foam-spattered, a rider
rushed his horse through the glad
crowd. In an instant he was off and
up the scaffold steps, his message
outstretched to the sheriff, who
took it eagerly. No one marveled
that the prisoner looked over the
officers shoulder as he read. Tho
message ran briefly:
"Lose no time with the execution.
There is a dangerous rescue afoot,
but I have deceived them as to the
time" ".
Suddenly aware that the prisoner
was following every word, the sher-
if stuffed the paper in his pocket.
''My Cod" he said, I'm sorry you
saw that"
But Number Forty-nine met him
with smiling eyes.
"Let us make haste!" he said.-.
Lippincott's Magazine.
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Women in the French Army.

The cantinieres form a rank which
is peculiar to the French army. Each
regiment has a woman attendant who
is a sort of nurse and consider, to the
young soldiers especially. She is not
young or handsome, as a rule, and is
often married to soldier of the reg
Observation-Disclosures Press.
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A PLANTING SONG.


Grandpa in the garden,
Working with will;
Bonnie close beside him.
Standing straight and still.
Grandpa stopped a moment
"Just to BREATHE" he said.
'Hoe it.! hoe it," sang voice
Right up overhead.
Grandpa smiled, and Bennie's
Eyes grew big and bright
AS he stared about him
No one was in sight. ..
"Strike it out! strike it OUT"
Sang the voice again.
Still poor puzzled Bonnie
Looked about in vain.
Then the voice sang: plant i'll
Plant it," Bennie's eyes
Gazed up into grandpa's,
Wide in their surprise.
"Mr Thrush Is early
Grandpa said, "but, my!
He knows when it's planting time
Well as you or IT,
Helen M. Richardson, in s. S. Time.
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Paraguay Bank Notes.

Bank notes for about half cent
each circulate freely in Paraguay. It
takes two notes to get ones boots
BACKED and eight to pay the postage
of letter to England. Yet one of
them will buy in season Is oranges,
three bananas or q watermelon.-N.
v S,1u
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His Best Gift
By CLINTON DANGERFlELD.
biA1UMBER FORTY-NINE takes his


warder, refiectively.
"Seems as if he'd ought to be ust to
it by this time," returned the assist
ant. "But yit he's done nothin' but
rage ever since he was condemned, an
that's considera BILE weeks ago. Well"-
he paused and shrugged his shoulders,
adding, signi6cantly-"he won't have
much more time fer gittin' reconciled.
Tomorrow" The blank was as ex-
pressive of death as words.
The warder pursued his own train of
thought. HE keeps on swearin' he's
innocent"
GAS if they didn't all say that, " NUT
tered the assistant.
can says he wouldn't mind it so
much if he was old, but that he was
just gettin' a taste of life"
The assistant tipped viciously at q
fly crawling down the dirty white
washed walls. "Then why couldn't he
mind his p's and q's?" he demanded.
"Warn't the evidence all dead agin'
him?" ..,.-
Alone in his cell, Number Forty
nine heard nothing of the passing col
loquy outside his door. He was asleep.
On his boyish face were traces of re-
cent and agonized tears, wrung from
him by the thought of shameful death
on the scaffold in the morning.
Through the great building, stored
with so much misery, the usual prison
sounds grew fainter and fainter, then
the hush of midnight succeeded. Even
the drunken rawlings in the cell oppo-
site, Forty-ninc-sank to indistinct MUIR
murs,
A light touch on Forty-nine's fore
head woke him, and he saw strange
presence in the room. 1t troubled him
little at first that such perfect and
gracious beauty as this of the woman
before him should be in so evil a place,
but on looking in the dark eyes bent
on him he forgot to be either startled
or afraid, even though the newcomers
face bore no radiant tidings of pardon
or escape. -.
Number Forty-nine raised himself
questioningly on his elbow. The
movement flung the covering from his
shoulders and barred the broad chest
and round throat of an athlete. His
muscular hands were still brown with
the kisses of the sun. The eyes turned
on his visitor were frankly youthful
and shaded by such silken lashes that
the effect was pathetically softening.
The stranger smiled. "You are right
to take me calmly" she said, in low,
melodious voice, 'for I am your good
angel, and have walked by your side
for many years"
Number Forty-nine still looked his
inquiries, and she resumed: II could
not be with you visibly were it not fol
tomorrow"
Number Forty-nine sat up ant
clenched hands convulsively together
'tDon't speak Of tomorrow" he said
fiercely. ''For a bare instant 1 hat
forgotten it,"
''But since it comes irrevoca bly.'
said the stranger, why should we no
see what bearing it really has OF
1ife?''
"You mock mel" said Forty-nine
savagely. 'Any fool knows what i
means to me! Oh my God, my God!
had so much to live for. much 1 want
ed to dol"
She drew closer to him. "Suppos,
the years had yielded life and no,
death?" she said, very softly. "Let u.
watch the results"
At the gesture Of her hand the wall.
grew dim. Now they wavered into
cloudy lines, now to curtain of mist
and then picture shaped itself will
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1902-08-14
PRETTY EXPERIMENT.
It II Called the Water Wbe.l and Can
BE Performed by Any Bright
Boy or Girl.

For the performance Of this expert
ment we need straw, walnut and
two hazlenuts. Part of the broad end
of the walnut is cut off and the con-
tents removed. Near the pointed end,
two holes are bored of the diameter Of
the straw. In each of the two halle
nuts two holes are bored as shown in
illustration, and the contents of tho
nuts are carefully removed with tho
help of nut-picker. Both hazleputs
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1902-08-14
kidney TROUBLES.
Hrs. Louise II. Gibson Says
That This Fatal Disease Is
Easily Cured by Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Com

"DEAR Mrs. PNKHAM 81 felt very
discouraged two years ago, had sut-
fered SO long with kidney troubles and
other complications, and had taken SO
much medicine without relief that I
began to think there was no hope for
me. Life looked SO good to me, but
what is life without health? wanted
20 be well.
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And q safe one

ut is good rule" says the Alfalfa
Sage, "never to be rude te anyone who
isn't paid to stand t."-Denvsr Post
The Jennings daily record., 1902-12-09
Judicial Advice,

Curious advice is sometimes given
by magistrates in England. A gentle
man recently appeared before a mag
istrate named Kennedy and com
planned that one OF his neighbors had
covered his windows with placards
about local election.
Il want you to issue an order. your
worship" he added, compelling him
to remove the placards and to clean
the windows"
That's what he ought to do" re.
piled MIR. Kennedy, but, if he refuses,
you'll have to do it yourself"
But suppose he does it again?" ask.
ed the plaintiff.
"In that case" said Mr.. Kennedy
softly, the best thing for you to dc
is to have large pitcher of water
ready and to empty it over him as
soon as you see him approach any
of the windows"
The Jennings daily record., 1902-12-09
Thorouch AnaiysiS,

A short time since Cub" one of
the negro characters of Columbus,
Miss, was standing at the artesian
well in the middle of Main street,
catching a bucket of water, when
big, black. pompouslooking negro
preacher walked up and, being a
stranger in the town, asked: "Brud-
der, kin yo' tell me eff dis am good
water?"
Cub" answered very proudly
standing straight with his head
thrown back. Good water? Well, |
reckon, Niger, dis am good water!
Doan you know dat? Fur amt hit
bin scandalized by all the freenoligist
Nv de State NV Mississippi an foun' to
persist Nv three parts: two parts NV
oX-hide-ungas, an de udder part NV
hidefoby; en- want dis here well
bo'ed befo' de war; Say, niger,
whar's yo' frum, anyhow
The Jennings daily record., 1902-12-09

nome. But Americans who live IN
Yucatan are generally speaking, max.
ing money, particularly if they are in.
terested in hemp, and they find con,
ISOLATION in this fact
Since the outbreak of the Spanish
war the manufacture of hemp from
sisal has become a principal business
of Yucatan and hacindados who de-
vote themselves to the growing of the
plant and turning it into hemp are
making ropes of money. Merida, the
capital of Yucatan, is, it is said, the
richest city in Mexico in proportion to
it's population, which is placed any.
where from $4,000 TO 10000.
1t is also the dirtiest city in Mexico
which is saying something very un
pleasant, for there are few clean
cities in the sister republic. Merida
has neither a water nor a sewerage
system, and that it is not depopulated
every year speaks well for the con.
stitutions of the irhabit ants, and may
also say something for the beer
which is drunk there and is made
on the spot by Americaus--New York
Sun.
The Jennings daily record., 1902-12-09
Am NV Brothers Keeper?

While ignorance and vice exist
And there are hungry mouths to fill,
And when misfortune's cruel twist
Has strangled energy and will,
The truth | set myself to guess:
Am l my brothers keeper? Yes.
I would not be myself Lad not
My predecessors helped me out
NV food, my clothes. my all I've got
Are others gifts without a doubt.
Ny obligations on me press.
Am l my brothers keeper? Yes.
A million minds have worked for good.
Have plucked, with sorrow, from the
skies
The things | take for understood.
They Wrestled. | accept the prize
The truth all natures tongues express.
Am l my brothers keeper? Yes.
l have q million dollars-say.
| have the mind to make them-p'r'aps
For wealth or brain what mortal may
Accept the credit? Silly chaps!
The gifts I have are nothingness.
Am l my brothers keeper? es
The Jennings daily record., 1902-12-09
Living in Yucatan
Has Strange Effect

residence of FIVE years in 1uca-
tan will make an American look like
a Mexican and dress like one. That
is the impression one gets in looking
at many OF the passengers who troop
down the gangway from the steamers
arriving from Mexico.
This is true to a greater extent in
the case of women than of men. The
climate of Yucatan seems to take the
color from their cheeks and to replace
it with a very light shade OF copper
They chatter Spanish as if it We're
their mother tongue, but it is their
dress, or rather the manner in which
they wear it, that has the real look
of the middle class Mexican.
A Mexican woman, if young. has
an attractive air from the top OF her
head to her waist Below tne waist
she looks sloppy. The skirt is too
wide and too long and is so shape
less as to be utterly lacking in style.
1t is of the street cleaning variety,
and the wearer does not seem to know
how to pick it up in way to show
herself to advantage.
The American woman who lives
long in the country falls into this
habit with a facility that is painful
to an American man who lives at
The Jennings daily record., 1902-12-09

The woman who Is not afraid came
home before the other members OF
the family, opened the big house, and
installed herself in it without even
servant. Why should there be any
more danger of burglars with one wo'
man alone than with two or three and
a man? Some people are SO timid.
But the other night the woman had
an experience. She had gone out to
make call upon a friend and it was
10 o'clock before she reached home.
There was nothing to be afraid of, of
course but certainly it is lonely to
come back into dark and empty
house In going to her own room sna
passed the guest chamber and noticed
that the door was closed. She could
not help feeling surprised. She was
positively certain that she had left
that door open. Anyway, she would
20 in and see il the window had been
raised and the draught had blown it
to- She put her hand on the knob,
turned it, and made movement to
enter, but the door did not open. She
tried again with ever her brave heart
beginning to beat. for the door was
certainly locked Down the stairs she
fled like deer, out OF the front door
and around the corner to the nearest
police station, where big policeman
was detailed to investigate.
Reaching the door they rang the
The Jennings daily record., 1902-12-09

I'VE reached that point when nOuS
was q luxury. remember . dinne@
given by prominent man who had
come to our town. There were no
olives, no blue points, no relishes. nor
soups. But the meat was baked pea
cock, and the dessert consisted Of -four
biscuit and sorghum molasses
"1t was the talk of the community
that enough -four had been found to-
make biscuit Every day bread was
made out Of pumpkin. Ever eat any
pumpkin bread?
"Of course. you know all about the
Southern women who had been accus-
toned to their imported silk gowns
before the war and who. when old
Tecumseh Sherman was splurging
around in the South and Grant was
hammering his way through the VIII
derness, went to their looms and wove
linseys, out of which they made their
gowns. I went to wedding IN Ten
nessee where the brides dress was
homespun linsey, and one of the pres
ents was q bolt of calico, for Whlcn
the donor paid slips yard.
"Oh, yes, those were dark days. but
they contained lesson, and the last
chapter of the lesson was that no mat
ter what an American went up against
at the last he went over the obstacle
in some way. and if he didn't go over
it he burrowed beneath it-he got
past it.
"And when this coal strike got to
it's worst. and some people thought we
were on the ragged edge OF famine.
never despaired. l knew we could
find some way out of it"