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GLIMPSES OF MANY LANDS.

In Europe 5,540 murders are COM
mitted every year.
Less than 900 white people reside in
English West African colonies.
The Russian mercantile marine con-
sists of 745 steamers and 2,293 sailing
vessels.
Valletta. Malta. being midway in the
Mediterranean, between Gibraltar and
Port Said, imports more than half
million tons Of coal for the use of pass
ing vessels.
Owing to the great number of crimes
committed by wandering gypsies. the
Rouma MIA n minister of the interior has
drafted bill providing that every tribe
must settle in the locality in which,
it may happen to be on the day the
new law comes into force.
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FARMER FINDS A FRIEND.

Nadeau, Mich, Feb. 3rd.-Mr. Nelson
De Roster of this place, prosperous
farmer sixty-one years of age, has suf-
fered for years with Kidney Trouble.
He has tried many medicines, but
found nothing to relieve him until he
began to use Dodd's Kidney Pills, and
he has found this remedy to be friend
indeed. He says:
81 thank God that there is one medi-
cine in the world that does help weak
and sick humanity. would earnestly
advise every one who has Kidney
Trouble to use Dodd's Kidney Pills.
They have given great satisfaction in
our family
Wherever Dodd's Kidney Pills have
been used according to directions, they
have not failed to cure all Kidney
Troubles, Bright's Disease, Dropsy,
Rheumatism, Lumbago and Backache.
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thought it was a gingerbread man.
You said you would make me ginger
bread man. I don't want a college
bred man."
''This is gingerbread man." re-
piled Barbara, hastily, as she tsrned
to the oven and, opened the door.
"Then who is the other man?" per-
sisted Carl.
80. never mind; was thinking out
loud"
"It isn't nice to do" remarked Carl,
refiectively.
81 don't think it is, either" Barbara
admitted.
"Then what makes you do it?" in
sisted-Carl.
81 won't any more when you are
around" promised Barbara with much
positiyeness. The child seemed salts
fed with this, statement; but, when
Barbara at last took the gingerbread
man out of the oven, Carl suddenly
said: Lets name him, Barbara"
"All right" said Barbara; pleas
antly.
"You give a name," Carl suggested.
well, how about Carl?"
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other year. If they don't, come down
to the Marble Square church. There
is possibility of DIR. Laws leaving
before Christmas. He is growing old
and his health has failed rapidly of
late"
Mr.. Morton said nothing in answer
to this and when Barbara came in
next time they were all talking of the
college days when Alfred and Morton
were together.
Barbara had eaten her own dinner
and was at work again, clearing off
the dinner dishes, so that, when Mr..
Morton rose in the other room to go.
she heard him exchanging farewells
with the Wards and promising to come
down again before long. He went out
into the hail. and after pause Bar
bara heard him say: 81 don't find my
hat. Possibly Miss Clark hung it up
somewhere"
There appeared to be search going
on for the missing hat, and Barbara's
face turned very red as she took some
dishes out into the kitchen and on
turning to come back saw the missing
hat on a chair at the end of the table,
where she had absent-mindedly car
ried it on Mr.. Morton's arrival.
She recovered herself in moment,
and, taking up the hat, brought it into
the hall, saying as she confronted the
minister: II plead guilty to absent
mindedness, Mr.. Morton. I carried
your hat out into the kitchen"
They all had a good laugh at Bar
bara's expense, in which she joined,
and Mr.. Morton removed the last of
Barbara's confusion by speaking of
his own absent-minded moments.
"The last time had lesson that
ought to cure me-" he said, >smiling at
Barbara frankly. 81 left my sermon
ali neatly written on my desk in my
room at the hotel, and brought with
me into the pulpit several pages of
blank foolscap paper that had been
lying on the desk close by my sermon.
I hadn't time to go or send back for
the sermon, and was obliged to preach
without notes except the few I could
make at the time"
80, well, Observation-Disclosures is one
of the marks of genius" Mr.. Ward re-
marked, laughing.
eve will comfort ourselves with
that hope, then, won't we, Miss Clark?
Good-by. Have enjoyed my visit very
much"
Barbara went back to her work,
blushing again over the little incident
as she entered the kitchen, but CRATE
full to the young man for the kindly,
off-hand, but thoroughly gentlemanly
manner in which he had treated it. 1t
was very little event, so little that it
hardly seems worthy of mention, yet
| Barbara found her mind recurring to
it several times during the day. Dug
ing some baking in the afternoon, Carl
was an interested spectator and final
| ly prevailed on Barbara to make him a
gingerbread man. When she had cut
it out and put some white dough on it
| for eyes, nose and mouth, and coat
buttons, she suddenly remarked aloud.
after Carl and she had both been silent
some time: "He is q perfect gentle
man, and that is more than can be
said of some college-bred men,"
"Is this college-bred man, Bar
| bara?" asked Carl, the terrible. 81
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sARDsHIPs OF LITTLE WALDO.
KANSAS

I wish at could go to work
Away in town somewhere.
Like my pa does, and have chance
To stay all day down there.
And have some fun like other folks,
Instead of bein' here,
And lisserin' to ma yell out:
81 want you, Waldo, dear!"
never go across the street
Or round the block to play
Without 1 hear her hollerin':
Come in here, right away"
And when the Hudson boys come up.
AS soon as / begin
To have chance to bat she says:
Now, Waldo, dear, come in!
can't pile up things in the yard
Because she comes and takes
One look and then holds up her hands
And hollers: Mercy -sakes.
Clean all that rubbish out of here:
Ny gracious, goodness mel!
! wisht I'd be an orphan boy,
And then I guess she'd see.
She just goes round all day ard tries
70 think up every way
There ever was to never let
boy get out to play;
Whatever I would rather Go
She always tells me: MOP
] wish I'd die. and then guess
That she'd be sorry. though.
wish at I was big enough
To work down at the store
Cause then, you know, a PERSONS ma
Can't make him mind no more;
I'd like to go downtown with pa
Almost before daylight
And get chance, some times, to stay
Till ten o'clock at night.
I wonder why persons ma
Won't ever let you co
Or see or hear or say the things
You're always wantin' tor
She's always hoilerin': Come In
AS quickly as you cam
wish as soon as / was horned
That I'd "a been a man!
S. E. Klser, in Chicago Record-Her
aid.
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ITO Be Continued
His Aim in Life.

People bother little boys so! AL
the tourists to his island home uset
to ask this one: What are you go
ing to be, boy? what are you going t.
be?" and the boy impatiently repliei
ut every interruption of his impor
tant undertakings: I'm going to b.
sailor and climb the masts."
Last summer he took an oceaI
voyage and was very seasick, and thu
third day his father askt- 'Wha'
are you going to be, boy? what arr
you going to be?"
81 am not going to be a sailor ant
climb the masts," he replied. 81 an
going to be soldier ano shoot can
nom"
A big uncle took the be- to see {
famous cyclerama, where the smoke
and carnage and realistic dead bodie:
in the foreground shattered anothel
of his ambitions. To the teasing
question: "What are you going t.
be, boy? what are you going to be?'
came the answer, in a burst OF con
| fidence:
81 am not going to be sailor ant
climb the masts. I am not going t.
be soldier and shoot cannon. I an
going to be a bachelor and MARI.
mamma!"-Youth's Companion.
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CHAPTER III.-CoNTINUED.

"Mrs. Vane has a convert. Did yo',
see Mrs. Wards girl in the pew with
her?" Mrs. Wilson asked, eagerly.
Eyes. Rather neat, pretty girl,
and seemed to know her place. Mrs.
Ward told me the other day thai she
Is well educated and"
cit is no sort of use trying to do
that sort of thing!" Mrs. Rice inter
rupted, with energy. II tried that
plan once in Whiteville, and it did no
good at all. Servants as class can
not be treated that way. They al
ways take advantage of it."
That's what 1 have always said,"
added Mrs. Burns. Look at Mrs.
Vane's girls. She changes as often
as any of us, and has as mucn trouble.
The girls don't want to be treated
like that"
"And, if they do, it makes no diff
ference with their real position. No
one will really ask hem into society;
and, if they did, they would not kno 7
how to behave" Mrs. Wilson eX-
claimed.
cit does seem a pity, though" Mrs.
Rice went on, that girls like this one
shouldn't be allowed to have a chance
like other people. What is she with
Mrs. Ward for if she is educated and
all that?"
20, she has som, idea of helping
solve the servant-girl problem" Mrs.
Burns replied. AT least, Mrs. Ward
told me something of that sort. She
does not know all about the girl her
self"
"It's a queer way to solve the qucs-
tion-to go out as a servant herself"
said Mrs. Wilson, and the otner two
women said: THAT'S SOL" Yet all
three of these women had been
brought up en- the theology of the
orthodox teaching of the atonement.
"Did you s-e Mr.. Morton spea ,ng
to the Wards? He was just as polite
to the girl as he was to anyone in
che church"
''Of course; why not?" Mrs. Rice
asked with C superior air. "But now
imagine Mr.. Morton or any other
gentleman in Crawford really consid-
ering a servant they conside- her
people, even the factory girls or the
clerks at Bondman's."
80 well, of course, there is diff
ference"
'Of course" the other two women
assented. But, after all, what con
stitutes The exact difference between
honest labor of the hands in a fac
tory or a store and in a home? II
they are both service that humanity
I. needs for it's comfort or its progress
ought they not both to be judged by
the standard of service, not by tn
standard of place where the service
In rendered?
"I think ..-s. Ward will find out he1
mistake, and be ready to say so Il
little while. If she is going tC
bring her girl to church with her.
don't see where she car stop shor'
of taking her with her everywhere
else; and of course society will mo-
tolerate that" Mrs. Rice said after {
pause.
'ot course not. The whole thing i.
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Told Mamma Fairy Tales.

Father-Young man, when tell yo'
a thing I want you to understand tina
mean it.
Georgie-Fergiv me. paw; I wu
thinkin' about sum things you tell N
sumtimes.-Ohio State Journal
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MISS BONNIE DELAA0
A Chicago Society Lady, in .
Letter to Mrs. Pinkham says:

"DEAR Mrs. PINKHAM :-Of all the
grateful daughters to whom you have
given health and life, none are more
glad than l.
my home and my life was happy
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BORN TO SERVE
By Charles NJ. Sheldon,
Author of 'sIN HIS STEPS, "JoHN KINGS
QUESTION GLASS; edward
BLAKE, % Etc.

Copyright, 1000, by Charles Il. sheldon.1
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1902-05-15
Messages to a Druggist.

A Philadelphia druggist has made the
following collection of amusing mis-
sives that have been sent to him from
time to time:
Il have cute pain In my baby's
stummick. Please give bearer some
thing to cure it"
MY little girl has eat up lot Of but.
tons. Please send a nemetic by the
enclosed boy"
Deer doctor dog bit my child on
the leg please send some cork plaster
and cutter eyes"
please send by bearer one postal
card. Also kindly give bearer. my SON
some licorice root
Deer doctor wot Is good for tirefoy
fever send some quick got it,"
Let my Johnny have glass Of sody
water. wul come myself but | am
washing. =. S. the five cents Is for the
sody water"
IF you can I'LL the enclosed prescrip-
ton for twenty-five cents. do SO. If
not, return by bearer"
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1902-05-15
a Mahogany RestOrer,

a la y write ".Sarding the way in
which she dealt with furniture that
was old and had become sad in color
kerosene was not successful and
turpentine required too much rubbing,
and even then was not satisfactory for
the carved parts. So we tried little
piece with solution of two heaping
tablespOOnfuls Of sal soda to a quart OF
warm water, put on with toothbrush
we'll soaped. the place being immedi-
ately rlnsel with cold water and dried
with soft cloth. Since then we have
used it on several woods. natural and
stained, and. homely as the recipe may
sound, it has never failed to give good
results. Afterward the wood should
he rubbed with mixture OF raw Oil
and turpentine. One mahogany an.
tiuuea hundred years or more old
that was so discOlored as to hide the
natural grain of the wood came out as
bright as new under this treatment"
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1902-05-15
Peril of Summing.

Coroner yucca Is strongly opposed to
stunning" Asked why he was so
opposed to the fad, the coroner said:
Not many days ago the police raid
ed an opium joint, and one of these ar
rested was a young woman who was a
member of an excellent family. She
occupied bunk and was stupid from
the fumes of the pipe she had been
smoking. That girl but few years
ago had visited Chinatown for the first
time with Summing party.
Just for fun, she hit the pipe "
continued the coroner. according to the
New York Times. Her friends thought
it good joke and watched her She
did not particularly like the smoke,
but the drug exercised strange fas-
cination over her. 1t fingered in her
mind for days. and, finally, one night.
she slipped away from home and in
dulged again. Again and again this
was done, until, at last, she became a
confirmed victim to the opium habit.
Her family discovered her secret, and
made repeated efforts to cure her, but
failed, and finally gave her up.
And the girl said: 1T was that
Summing party that ruined my life.
Why do not the authorities prevent
such practices Summing should not
be allowed, for it will cause others to
fall as it has me- That is why am
opposed to Summing"
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1902-05-15
TIP FROM VETERAN DOCTOR.
Simple Rule that Helped Him to Ac-
Quire Lucrative Position.

Simple Rule that Helped Him to Ac.
quire a Lucrative Position.
A physician of long standing in this
,ity, who has a practice that many of
mis- colleagues might envy-and many
in all probability do-recently gave
this advice to young doctor who was
just starting out in his profession. The
older man is type of the kind of doc
tor that is said to be going out Of style
the family physician. Whether lie
is destined to disappear or not. this
kind of physician followed highly
profitable kind of career while it last
ed. Many young men used to regard
this sort Of practice as that to which
they all aspired
II have always made it rule" said
this experienced man OF medicine, ito
close every visit to patient with
question or comment on his or her
physical condition. 1t Is all very well
to discuss various questions with ones
patients talk about all kinds of sub
jects and interest them in any way
possible But the final remark must
be connected with the patients criti-
cal condition. Tell him not to forget
to take a certain medicine regularly.
or tell her that you have never had n
case that was just like hers-but in all
cases talk last about the Illness of the
person you have come to see learn
ed that when was a young man from
the most popular physician of his time.
l always felt indebted to him. for II
was not long before realized the
truth Of the theory that nothing leaves
such n favorable impression on pa
tent as to emphasize the Importance
Of his malady. New York Sun.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1902-05-15

naming With him longer. stating that
IL I would write out the will that after
noon and bring it to him he would sign
it. AS | was leaving he asked me to
put in 5000 for Providence Hospital
and 81 600 as a personal gift to each of
three of the Sisters there who had been
very kind to him during his illness and
$500 to two fellow patients who were
in the ward with him.
Il got away in time to keep my GENE
terry engagement, but as soon as | got
back went to work on the will, getting
it in shape about 1 o'clock in the after
noon. On taking the will up to him to
sign that evening found he had failed
very rapidly as far as physical strength
was concerned, though mentally he
was perfectly able to understand the
paper which l read him. and was also
able to sit up and sign it. The witness
es l got in the hospital. was in
structed to keep the will and to file 1t in
the Probate Court when necessary. |
have never found it to be necessary
since though the old gentleman died
the next day.
ut turned out that all his wealth was
imaginary, and he had not a cent in the
world" said the lawyer. according to
the Washington Star. HE had been
wealthy man. and at one time owned
all the property he willed. or supposed
he willed, but they had long before
passed out Of his control and owner
ship. Providence Hospital was not a
cent richer by his munificence. and the
Sisters named never got a penny. The
children did not have enough to bury
him. l had a hard days work Of it,
and. besides my time, lost 81 which l
paid a hnckmnn to hurry me out to the
Soldiers Home Cemetery and back to
write the will. He was of a disposing
mind all right. but he had nothing to
dispose"
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1902-05-15
SURGICAL TRIUMPH.
New Eyelids Given to "a Man Who Was
Manned in a Fire.

A new surgical triumph has been
achieved by ii Philadelphia physician.
For probably the first time in the his
tory of ophthalmological surgery new
set OF eyelids have been successfully
supplied by skin grating.
DR.. Charles Monroe Thomas. home
opathic eye specialist. performed the
operation. The patient lost both the up
per and lower eyelids in burst Of
flame The accident left both eyeballs
entirely unprotected, and there was
grave danger of the patient losing his
sight.
The case was brought to the atten-
ton of DR.. Thomas several months ago,
and he at once began the attempt to
graft four new eyelids. The skin used
for the grating was taken from the
hip of the patient.
1t was necessary to proceed slowly.
but the experiment was successful from
new eyelids. which perform the normal
functions naturally.
The case has attracted widespread
interest among medical men. A lead
ing ophthamolOgist said that while eye
lid grating was not new operation,
this was the first time, so far as his
knowledge went, that an entire set had
been replaced successfully.
The chief danger in the loss of the
eyelids, he said lay in the fact that it
left the eyes unprotected. The lips act
as brooms and keep the surface of the
eye clear. Without them it would be
impossible to remove spccks of dust or
any other foreign body that found It's
way into the eye. This in time would
cause the loss of the organ.-Pbiladel-
phia Press.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1902-05-15
LIVING IN THE COUNTRY.
One Gains Advantages and Escapes q
Multitude of Obligations

Multitude of Obligations.
| If you get ever so rich. what do you
do? Buy a farm somewhere. If you
have the root of a good matter in YOU
you will want to poultice worn spirit
from time to time with healing airs
and the restful scenes of the country
If you get ever so poor, what do you
dof Work harder, probably. if you are
tit to do anything and can find any.
thing to do. But if you have Il spirit
of the requisite fiber, and have come TO
just the requisite degree of impecuni
osity, and circumstances and your eX
perience of life favor it. you go and
live in the country. You can live very
cheaply in the country if you choose
and possess your soul in complete i'll
dependence, and wear your old clothes
with cheerful spirit
You will be quit of host of oblga-
tons to fashion. to society, which may
vex and Cypress you in town, for the
price of superhuities Is by far the big
gest item in the cost of ordinary living
You will miss opportunities, too. but
not all opportunity. You will live face
to face with nature. You will be able
to say your prayers in peace, and de-
yelop the spiritual side of you. if you
have any, with only the smallest con
Germ about landlords, grocers. or raj
ment. There are no taxes of any con
sequence in the country; think of that!
The greatest luxury you get there is
time. and the next greatest are sights
and sounds and smells. If you have
thoughts to think. the country gives
you great chance to think them. If
you have books to read, you can read
lot Of them in the country, even with
kerosene at II cents a gallon.
On the other hand. if you have
money to spend. what chance to
spend it the country offers you. Gar
roads. milk at a dollar a gallon if you
like, sheep, and dogs. and. most of all.
children. 1t Is no trouble at all to
spend $4,000 year on roads alone. If
only you start with a fairly sharp land
hunger and push out your borders
Will uuc eHtISy. LOU tuu get tllOIt
for your money In roads than in dia.
monds or pictures, and roads are a
permanent Investment. They don't
burn down; you don't have to keep
them insured; You don't have even to
keep them clean, for if you build them
well, let the weeds grow never 50
thick on them. the roads will be there
still. And once you put your money
into them. it stays. You can never get
it out. nor can any one else. You can
not even be taxed adequately on them.
for no assessor presumes to see much
value in a road. Indeed. a very large
sum of money can be hid in country
place where the assessors won't find
it-in water pipes, drains. and such
things. -Harper's Magazine.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1902-05-15
WAS OF DISPOSING MIND.
Dying Man Had Will Ora wn with
Great Care, but Hadn't Cent,

Dying Man Had Will Drawn with
Great Care, but Hadn't Cent.
There is a great deal In dra wing a
the other day but there is great deal
more in having something to will. Some
years ago | was sent for hurriedly to
visit a man In Providence Hospital for
the purpose Of preparing will for him
It was on a Decoration Day and | was
very anxious to hurry it up. as was
on the program TO deliver Decoration
Day address that afternoon.
Il found the man in a sound and dis
posing mind, perfectly competent to
make will, and was told that he had
considerable money which he had
amassed in hotel and In grocery bust
ness in this city. Personally did not
know him. but he told me that my part
ner in former years had done a great
deal Of law business for him and [ af-
forward found that this was n fact.
"The first thing he divided up was an
County, Texas. the place where since
coal oil has been found in such great
quantities. He gave 800 acres OF land
to each of his four children. He next
dictated very carefully how some Sc
curities, bonds and other papers of com
nercial value should be divided IN
among his children and his sister, each
getting about $4,000 In the will. Then
ne divided up some Washington prop
erty, giving house to each Of his chill
dren and house to Saylcs ]. Bowen. Il
former Mayor of this city on account
of intimate political and personal
friendship. His personal property.
funds in bank and the like he said.
should be divided up among those he
had mentioned share and share alike.
as fas as value was concerned.
by this time I had about concluded
to send word out to the Soldiers Home
Cemetery, where | was to deliver the
address, regretting my inability to be
there, when he. noticing that l was
anxious about it, excused me from re-