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HELD ON TO A CHAIR.

Palmer, Mo-, May 19th.-Mrs. Lucy
Compton has for the past eight or ten
years suffered great deal of pain
and sickness. She had Kidney Trou-
BILE, with an awful pain in her back,
which was so bad at many times that
she could scarcely get about at all.
81 have been down with my back
for the past eight or ten years." she
says, land sometimes so bad that 1
could not get around only by holding
on to a chair or some other object.
"Dodd's Kidney Pills have given me
more relief than anything I have ever
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"After I had used the first box 1
was almost entirely cured of this
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ST can truthfully recommend Dodd's
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as I have suffered for so long.
Mrs. Compton's cure was certainly
a remarkable one.
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the Grand Army veterans sang in their
broken voices:
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the
coming of the Lord
A chorus of trained singers had start
ed the battle hymn, as the colonel
asked; but when the veterans took
it up every other voice was hushed-
nobody else could sing-and the vet
Grams finished the hymn alone.
Then the beating, breaking heart of
the military music throbbed in and
claimed its own.
Nobody's Tim was buried as if he
had been the general. Blotted out in
flowers, he seemed to have no grave.
The chaplain read the service as if the
Christian faith wished she could have
owned the hero. The flag folded him
as ii it were proud of him. But the
colonel with barred head, stood little
apart. Lifting his eyes, as
if he perceived what no 9TH
er did, the commanding Off
GER of the old regiment saluted the
| unseen spirit of the dead private, as a
soldier salutes his superior. Then the
drum of the veterans sounded taps for
Tim, and three volleys rang across
his grave.
Now, after taps, an unexpected thing
occurred. Some one led up the little
girl, all in white, and her arms were
heaped with pink roses. These she put
delicately, one by one, upon the pyre
of blossoms under which Every body's
Tim was laid away. Rosamond kissed
the roses before she put them down
it was her own idea. No one spoke or
stirred while she did this, and after
ward no one added a flower.
Then the child (this, too, was her
own idea) quite naturally knelt down
upon the flowers and shut her eyes and
said aloud and distinctly, so that all
the people heard her:
Now 1 lay me down to sleep.
/ pway We Lord my soul to keep.
If 1 should die before wake up-Amen."
WELL" said one of the Grand Army
men, with the back of his hand at his
eyes, 81 guess she's with it,
But the colonel, her father, caught
her to his heart and hid his face upon
her soft hair. He did not speak. The
veterans saluted and turned away
Youths Companion.
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mine eyes have seen the glory of the CON-
ing of the Lord
Nobody's Tim was still singing in his
wasted tenor, muffied and interrupted
by the pipe, which had not left his lips,
except for moment when the colonel
passed.
But fully 60 seconds before any other
man saw anything, Tim had seen every
thing. 1t was then that the pipe came
out of his mouth. 1t covered the side
walk with splinters.
God A'mighty!" groaned Tim. "The
colonies baby!"
While the gateman, the gro
Ger, the customers, the cab
driver, the grocer's boy and the
nurse stared and shrieked and started,
Nobody's Tim had charged like a regi-
ment upon the oncoming train.
The long, lean arms of the gates had
dropped, and stretched themselves
nightly across the street. A grown
person could not pass their strong
barricade unless by deliberately stoop-
ing under, and so evading it; but to
at all. The arms of the gate escaped
the topmost rosebud on her rose-white,
rose-pink hat by several inches. And
the child-something scornful of the
nurse, something disdainful of the
grocer's boy-had continued her walk
in pretty, solitary dignity which
comes attimes on little maids like her.
When Tins pipe came out of his
mouth the colonePs Rose had stepped
under the arms of the railway gate.
And the train
Afterward, the gate tender swore
that the train was 40 feet away. But
what are 40 feet? And the baby girl,
suddenly seeing the monster, bewild-
cred by the roar and smoke and steam,
confused by the horror that she could
not understand, put up her lips and
began to cry, and stood still upon the
track
1t was then that a man leaped the
gate and dashed into the throat of
death with a cry whose joyousness
rings to this day in the ears of every
soul who heard it. AS he hurled him
self upon the child, his old, faded felt
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wife's lace sunshade, saluted the
drunkard gravely in return. After
ward he was glad to remember that
he had done this.
Nobody's Tim flushed with Joy at
the recognition, but he did not speak.
If any one had noticed, there was a
culver in the mans lips. AS he stood
smoking he began to hum below his
breath:
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the COM
ing of the Lordi'
Tim had had fine tenor voice once.
AS the great battle hymn rose from
the lips of the loafer on the sidewalk
the gate tender came out of the gate
house. The electric heart of the rail
road throbbed. The trill of the an
nouncing call ran through the soft
May afternoon.
A little girl tried to stand still while
the nurse was getting her white arms
into pink sleeves. This was a diff
cult procedure-no one could under
stand how difficult, unless one were
baby girl of three, and in a hurry
to go out to walk. She was all pink
and white, this dainty little lady
white dress, rose ribbons, little pink
broadcloth coat, and hat of silk null
with rosebuds. Her long stockings
were of dark, dull green, with tiny
boots to match. Her father said she
looked like a rose with two stems. Her
name was Rosamond as a matter of
course. Everybody knew how her ia
Their felt about that baby-the child
of his middle life and early age-his
only one. He came to bid her good-by
that day before he went out on the
automobile with her mother. He fold
ed the little girls arms about his neck
and laid his dark cheek to hers, and
kissed her more softly than her mother
did, and not so many times but each
kiss seemed to count for more, for
some reason.
''Rose shall ride with papa next
time" he said, to comfort her. "And
Jane will be careful-very careful,
Jane added the colonel, with his mil
itary manner. Remember all that we
have told you about the lake, and the
cars, and the crossings"
"And big dogs" interrupted the
child's mother.
'And the electric cars" added the
father.
"And cows" suggested the mother.
"And if you should meet fire en-
CINE" finished the father.
And Jane said yes, sir, she would re-
member them all. And>wasn't she al
ways careful of the child? with an air
not military in her manner.
They did not meet fire engine. Jane
held the child's hand tight as they
passed the lake. They made the cross
ings without any trouble. There were
no cows. And the only big dog they met
was a particular friend and neighbor
of Roses, who offered to escort her
and take care of her. But Jane told
him it was against her orders; so he
turned away and stayed at home.
Quite safe, happy, laughing, lovely,
pink and white, the little girl walked
sedately by the nurses side-as little
girls sometimes do, as little boys never
do-and so came out into the square.
In the square-so fate had willed it
they met the only danger against
which the nurse had not been warned.
This was the grocer's boy. He was
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Mrs. Anna Martin, AZ Hovt street
Brooklyn, N. Y, writes:
"ferIna did SO much for me fhat 7
reel IL my duty to recommend If fo
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Miss Marie Johnson, II Columbia.
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She writes:
Il want to do what I can to let the
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l am perfectly well now, and have not
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Marie Johnson.
Miss Ruth Emerson, 70 Sycamore ST.,
Buffalo, N. Y, writes: ST suffered
for two years with irregular and pain
full menstruation, and Peruna cured
me within six weeks. 1 cannot tell
you how grateful feel. Any agency
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SEA LESSONS.

On the surface heave ard roll the waves,
Deep, the waters lie untroubled, still;
Blow the wild winds here, the tempest
raves,
There secure reigns Oceans mighty will.
Father-God, so be it with Thy child
On the surface play life's forces free;
Come the storms of sorrow. north-blast1
wild,
Doubt and care and grave anxiety.
Yet within be calm, unruff1ed peace;
Strength-the rule of Thine aIl-perfect
will;
Joy, born of Thy love, dull cares release;
Faith that good e'er turks within the i'll.
Bearing on thy bosom broad and kind
Burdens of the toiling worlds bequest,
Servest there, o sea, thy master, mind,
knowing not fatigue nor moments raest.
Patiently to fill thy appointed place,
Welcome to thy bosom human care,
Serve, not be served, self efface-
May l in thy faithful spirit share.
Yet what time thou raiseth up thy might,
Flingest fury, mounting heaven-high,
Who but fears thee, Ocean infinite?
Who can brook thy wrath, thy will defy?
Symbol thou of thy Creator-Lord,
God of boundless might and majesty.
Terrible the judgments of His sword;
Brooking no resistance His decree.
Yet, like thee, His majesty He bows.
Servant of His servants to become;
Bears within His heart their sins and woes
Brings them on lifes voyage safely home.
Luther Davis, in n. Y. Observer.
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MRS. ANNA MARTIN.

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A Proud Mother,

A clergyman was recently called
upon to baptize nine children. From
number one to eight nothing went
amiss. The ninth, however, proved to
be lusty boy, who soon succeeded in
almost wriggling out of his somewhat
scanty clothes. The clergyman, grasp
ing the infant by the nape of the neck
and by such garments is still remained
secure, was proceeding with the serv-
ice, when the mother, overcome with
admiration for her child, and scarcely
realizing the solemnity of the occa sion,
remarked in a loud voice: Hes nice
little lump, sir; isn't he?"-London
Post
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hat fell off, and the May sunlight
brought out the gold in the brown of
his curly hair.
He flung the baby girl high into the
air. A dozen arms were outstretched
to catch her. She came down against
somebody's neck without a bruise.
Nobody's Tim-how, will never be
known-whether he caught his foot,
or whether there was anything in that
story about his heart and the wound at
Gettysburg it happened, No
body's Tim fell. He did not rise.
They gathered his poor body tender
ly, remembering, when they did So,
how he had himself performed this
pitiful service for so many other poor
bodies on the railroad which waited
for the commissioners to vote about
grade crossings-and somebody picked
up the old brown felt hat, and some
body else asked:
"What shall we do with him?" For
Nobody's Tim, you remember, had
neither wife nor child, neither town
folks" nor home.
Then, out of the silent crowd which
had thickened in the square, sudden
voices rose:
"I'Il take him to my house"
"And /"
81 will" ~
"No! We will" ! F
"No, let us"
And the voices strove with one an
other, till it seemed as if all Sunshine
were competing to be Gown folks" to
Tim.
For, in the flashing of a noble deed,
Nobody's Tim had become Everybody's
Tim, and the whole town pressed to do
him honor.
Now, at this moment, the silver trail
of a distant steam carriage could be
seen melting along the smooth road.
Hold on!" said the cab driver.
Chats the colonel. He's got some
thing to say about this"
A woman-a stranger-who had the
little girl clasped to her heart and had
refused cit seemed out of sheer
elemental motherliness) to let
her go to any one else-began
at this to sob. And when the
father and the mother of the child
rode up and stopped-and when they
caught sight of the little rose-and-
white figure in the woman's arms
many persons in the crowd wept, and
were not ashamed of it.
Memorial day dawned clear, hot and
shining, as it almost always is. No
one in Sunshine went to the baseball
games or cared for the bicycle races
on the sacred national festival of that
year; but all Sunshine followed the
pathetic remnant of the Grand Army
when the gray-haired group formed
to escort their homeless, dead comrade
from the colonel's home.
No one remembered on that morning
that Tim used to drink; that he did
not work; that he had neither place
nor name, nor character among his
nefghbors. Everyone remembered
rather how kind he was, and how gen.
erous of impulse, what good company
he was, and what pleasant smile he
had-this hero who had lived among
them in disguise, unregarded and neg
lected for so long.
AS they bore him down the colonel's
granite steps and out into the street,
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AS coronets to crown the dead
These clay-cold comrades brave of ours.
Here meath these mounds of sacred dust,
Here meath this wilderness of bloom;
Here lies a nations sacred trust
Within a soldiers honored tomb.
A nation bows with tearwet eyes
In benedictions Ger their graves,
Who gave themselves a sacrifice
Their country and her flag to save.
Breathe blessings on the martyred throng
Of those who did so nobly dare
To sing noble patriots song,
And breathe a dying Soldiers prayer.
Come North and South with clasping hands,
A tribute to your martyrs pay,
And Flowers shall be the lovely bands,
To bind in Love the Blue and Gray.
So let our starry banner wave,
Our nations feuds have passed away,
And on the bosom of the brave
Heap Flowers DER the Blue and Gray.
George N. MacLean, in Chicago Record
Herald.
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comfort. This is the condition of the farmer in
Western Canada-Province of Manitobs and dis
tricts of Assiniboia, Saskatchewan and Alberta,
Thousands of Americans are now settled there
Reduced rates all railways for homeseekers an6
settlers. New districts being opened up tIis
year. The new forty-page atlas OF WEST.
ERN CANADA and all other information sent
free to all applicants. F. PEDLEY, Superintendent
of immigration, Ottawa, Canada, or to c. ).
NJ " MCINNES. No. 2 Avenue Theatre Block
Detroit, Mich; JAMES GRIEVE, Sault Ste. Marie
CURRIE. Callahan ot Bldg L., Mflwaukee Wis; n
Ia; E. L. HOLMES. Room Big Four Bldg
indianapolis. Ind; Canadian Government Agents
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A Mutual Friend

Once upon time a diplomat was
walking with his close friend Deceit,
who was dressed in his usual attractive
manner, when he met lady acquaint-
ance.
''Allow ms to introduce to you my
friend Diplomacy" he said.
SIT is not necessary" she answered.
"He is close friend of mine, whom 1
know by the name of Tact
Moral.-A nettle by any other name
would sting the same.-N. Y. Herald.
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piled, slowly. "1t put me to lot of
inconvenience, and came just at the
time when I was most anxious to
leave. Besides, it might have meant
trouble" He paused for moment.
GAS a matter of fact, they brought it
in suicide during temporary insanity,
brought on by excessive drinking
and that got me out of the difficulty.
1t must have been insanity, l think,
for he had no reason for doing away
with himself. 1t was proved that he
had plenty of money left. What was
more, Coddy gave evidence that, only
the day before, he had told him he
was tired of life"
Hayle looked at both with evident
admiration.
"Well, you two, taken together,
beat cock-fghting," he said, enthusi-
astically. Then he added: But
what about the secret? What did you
get out of him?"
Here it isl said Kitwater, taking
an old leather case from his pocket,
and producing from it a small piece
of parchment. There's no writing
upon it, but we have compared it with
another plan that we happen to have,
and find that it squares exactly"
He leaned over Hayle's shoulder
and pointed to a certain portion Of
the sketch.
'That's the great temple" he said;
'and what the red dot means we are
going to find out"
"Well, suppose it is, what makes
you send for me?" Hayle inquired,
suspiciously.
Because we must have another
good man with u.s." Kitwater replied.
I'm very well, but you're better.
Codd's head piece is all right, but if
it comes to fighting, he might just as
well be in Kensal Green. Isn't that
so, little MANI"
| Mr.. Codd nodded his head.
81 said, send for Hayle," he re-
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sent, and now you're here, and it's
all right"
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water. Nov, what we have to do is
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matter, and then to get away as
quickly as possible"
The business portion of the matter
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thereupon admitted member Of the
syndicate for the exploration of the
ancient town of Sengkor-Wat in the
| hinterland of Burmah.
For the remainder of the day Hayle
was somewhat more silent than usual.
eff there's anything in their yarn
it might be managed" he said to him
self that night, when he was alone in
his bedroom. "Kitwater is clever, I'll
admit that, and Coddy is by no man
ner of means the fool he pretends to
be. But I'm Gideon Hayle, and that
counts for something. Yes, l think
it might be managed"
What it was he supposed might be
effected he did not say, but from the
smile upon his face, it was evident
that the thought caused him consid-
cradle satisfaction.
Next day they set sail for Rangoon.
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Mouth Gofnx Alter.

Take things as they come-but re-
member there are lots of things that
it will pay you to go atter.-Chicago
Daily News.
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James very particular grocer boy, and
she stopped to speak to him.