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The Grit-advocate., 1903-01-02
YOUR MISSION.
abraham Lincoln's Favorite Song

II YOU cannot on the ocean
sail among the swiftest fleet.
ROCKING on the highest pillows.
Laughing at the storms you meet:
You can stand among the sailors.
.tnchored yet within the bay,
you can lend a hand to help them
AS they dash their boats away
~ you are too weak to journey
Upon the mountain steep and high,
tou can stand within the valley
While the multitudes go by:
you can chant in happy measures.
As they slowly pass along.
though they may forget the singer
Ihey Will not forget the song.
n you have not gold or silver
Ever ready to command.
II you cannot toward the needy
Reach an ever-open hand:
You can visit the afflicted.
ger the erring you can Weep.
1ou can be a true disciple.
sitting at the SaviOrs feet.
II you cannot in the conflict
Prove yourself soldier true
u where fire and smoke are thickest.
There's no work for you to do
When the battlefield is silent
You can go with careful tread.
You can bear away the wounded.
You can cover up the dead.
Do not then stand idly waiting
For some greater work to do.
Fortune is lazy goddess.
She Will never come to you:
Go and toll in any vineyard
Do not fear to do and dare
II you want a field of labor.
on can find it anywhere
The Grit-advocate., 1903-01-02
WHAT A MAN DOES.
Tragedy Invariably Follows UpsettIne
of lnkstand

of Inkstand.
A man may be cool as an icicle un-
der extraordinary circumstances Of
danger or excitement; he may pre-
serve an even mind when a ghost
comes into his room at midnight: he
may assume command and act nobly
and well when the ship is sinking;
but let that man, let any man, upset
his inkstand, and he springs to his
feet, makes a desperate grasp for the
inkstand. and knocks it halfway
across the table, claws after his pa
pers, and swoops them through the
sable puddle to save them, tears his
white silk handkerchief from his
pocket and mops up the ink with it,
and after he has smeared the table,
his hands, and his trousers with ink,
as far as it could be made to go, dis
covers that early in the engagement
he knocked the inkstand clear off the
table, and it has beer draining its
lifc-ink aSay all that time in the
center of the only light figure in the
pattern of the carpet. Then he Won
ders why man always makes a fool
Of himself when he upsets bottle of
ink. He doesn't know why. Nobody
knows why. But every time it is SO
If you don't believe it, try it.
The Grit-advocate., 1903-01-02
cameIs Trained to Race.

The ordinary camel, which will new,
er hurry under any circumstances, has
been transformed in southern Algeria
into an animal SO different in size,
temper and appearance that it may al
most be looked upon as different
race. This is the racing camel, priced
for its speed. The result of many gen
erations of careful breeding, which
has been encouraged by valuable
prizes, it can be depended upon for
nine or ten miles an hour. which it
can keep up for sixteen or seventeen
hours, almost without stop.
The Grit-advocate., 1903-01-02
NDER date of January 10, 1897, DIR
~ Hartman received the blowing

hartman received the oLo"lng
letter:
My wife had been suffering from a
complication of diseases for the past 25
years.
Her case had baffled the skill Of some
of the most noted physicians. one of her
worst troubles was chronic constipation of
several years standing
She also was passing through that most
critical period in the life Of woman
change of life. In June, 1895, | wrote to
you about her case. You advised course
of Peruna and Manalin, which we at once
commenced. and have to say it completely
cured her. She firmly believes that she
would have been dead only for these
wonderful remedies.
About the same time wrote YOU about
my own case of catarrh, which had been OF
IS years standing. At times was almost
past going. | commenced to use Peruna
according to your instructions and continued
its use for about a year. and it has COM
pletely cured me.
"Your remedies do all that you claim
for them, and even more. Cafarrh
cannot exist where Peruna Is taken
according to directions. Success to
you and your remedies.
John 0. Atkinson.
The Grit-advocate., 1903-01-02

No; the subject matter is quite hope
| less, believe me. Please consider the
subject closed"
There was no getting around that.
| The Professor in an unusual burst of
confidence told Graham about it. The
lawyer chuckled and said: You
ought to have come to me first, old
man; | could have told you better"
He was next. 1t happened down
by the edge of the lake, where a great
hemloclI had fallen and made CON
venient seat. He went through glibly
enough, then, not waiting for an ac-
Quiescence of which he had no doubt.
slipped an arm about her waist. She
wrenched herself free, leaped to her
feet and turned on him face of hot
Indignation. Not trusting herself to
speak, she walked toward the house.
He ran after her and asked shame
facedly: Am l not to have an an
swcr?" She glanced at him icily and
replied: You are not worth an an
| swer!" Graham did not tell the Pro
lessor about this, but paid his bill
and went back to the city that even.
ing.
1t is not believed that George Ire.
t>yanion would have asked her to marry
him il his misery had not forced him
to speak. He told her that he was not
good enough for her; that it was not
meant for such as he to win and wear
SO bright a jewel; that he would not
have spoken at all but that he wanted
her to know that he loved her very
dearly and would always love her,
no matter whether she became an
| others wife or.not.
Il am only plain man." said poor
George, "and | have never expected
that you could care for me, but such
as l am, love you with my whole
heart and soul"
| She was tender and compassionate
with him. She gave him her hand
and told him that she esteemed him
truly and any woman ought to be
| proud to be his wife. you will find
some one better suited to you and
VINO will care for you," she added
Il know that you will; shall pray
that you will" There were tears in
| her gray eyes.
Claude Mayne Delay debated long
within himself He had little doubt
| OF the result, but wanted to do the
| thing properly and in keeping with
his character as poet and rising man
| of letters. Should he WOO her finally
| By moonlight, when the softenins
rays of Cynthia fell about her-she
had praised his "Moon-S5ng," 20,
coldly calm dead sister of the night"
Or should he pop in that shady
cloister of baisam pines and maple
wherein he had read to her nearly all
of his book of society verse, Satan
and Satin"-she had rather farcied
his 'Lilith" lines: Her hair of SER
pent gold that writhed, and the swart
diamonds of her eyes"
AS it happened he did not do either.
He proposed in verse and left the
pink paper in its envelope under her
napkin at breakfast. He never got
an answer and he understood why be-
fore he was a day older
He wandered by moonlight that
night-wandered and wondered what
form her acceptance would take An
hour later, his face pale and the
clammy dew Of agony on MS brow,
he hunted up the Professor and Ire.
van:on and told them wha. he had
seen. This was it in brief:
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A Prayer.

Teach me. Father. how TO go
Snftly as the grasses grow:
Hush my soul to meet the shock
OF the wild world as rock:
Hut my spirit, prompt with power,
Make ms simple as flower.
Let the dry heart ill its cup,
Like Il poppy looking up:
Let life lightly wear her crown,
Like a poppy looking down,
When its heart is filed with dew.
And its HE begins anew.
Teach ne, Father how to be
Kind and patient as tree.
Joyfully the crickcts Groom
Under shady oak at noon;
Beetle on his mission bent
Tarri,s in that cooling tent;
Let me-, also. cheer n spot.
Hidden field or garden grot-
Place where passing soul can rest
On the way and he their best
Edwin Markham
The Grit-advocate., 1903-01-02

to many women old enough to know
better.
1t was during the last week of Miss
Penrhyn's stay that the professor pro-
posed in form. He had invited her
into the small, stuffy parlor In which
no one ever sat and there he went
down upon his thin knees. She did
not ask him to rise, or offer to assist
him. He went galantly through a
lengthy statement of affection and
smiled and said:
Il shall never marry, Professor. l
admire your gifts and think you are
a good man, but can so no further.
The Grit-advocate., 1903-01-02

Among the other women in the
woodland hotel, far in that massive
forest which parallels the southern
shore of Lake Superior. Constance
l'enrhyn stood alone by reason Of her
beauty and her wealth. She was 2S
years old. of large graceful figure,
dark gray eyes. black eyebrows,
raven lair and complexion of pure
white and red. Her splendid face
wore a sweetly serious look and she
seemed self-contained woman of
mind and heart. In her ten seasons
of society she had seen no man whom
she could love. She had been wooed
ardently. but had remained ice. 1t
had been her fate to arouse the desire
of possession in many men. Wherever
she went there were lovers signing
in her train. They could not say
Aat she treated them unfairly, or
that one was more esteemed than an
other. One and all they were cour-
,teously received and, when their times
Game. as courteously though firmly
dismissed. She often told herself that
she could not understand love; that
she had no inherent incapacity to love
and that she would die an old maid
She believed this.
1t must be unslerstoo that she had
no irremovable prejudice against
matrimony or insensate desire to pre-
serve her freedom at any cost. She
was convinced that woman is incom
plete without marriage and she would
have assumed gladly the duties Of
wifehood ii she could have found a
man to win her heart. This man had
never come. and now. although she
did not look to be older than %. she
viewed the near approach of the thir-
ties with disquietude and the prospect
bf a ioveless, childless age had no
charms for her.
These were the men at this hotel
who loved her and wanted her:
Erasmus Moody, professor of politl-
cal economy in state university;
a slight, nervous man with eyeglasses
and tendency to dyspepsia, who re-
joiced in flow of language and had
belief that wisdom must appeal to
woman of Miss Penryhn's intellect
ual brow. She discussed coinage with
him. consurnrtion production and
kindred topics and seemed to enjoy
him nightly. He was afraid OF the
water and as she spent much of her
time on, or in, the lake he was handi-
capped.
Herbert Graham, So years old; law
yer in excellent practice; good look
ing, but not so good-looking as he
thought himself; rather a cocksure
man and bold wooer. He valued the
other lightly and had felt certain Of
success since she had told him that
to put jury in tears or sway the
multitude from the hustlngs seemed
to her the greatest and most desir-
able achievement possible to man.
George Trevanion, physician. clean
and modest fellow enough, somewhat
bashful, who never had thought of
gaining the prize and effaced himself
greatly, worshiping from afar and
gloomiiy.
Claude Mayne Delay, poet and writ
.Si ioi 'he iha6aHiiies' III ioIS nail,
EanGyke beard and bob-tailed coat
with a velvet collar, who spoiled much
good paper inditing verses and made
Constance" rhyme with chance"
glance" lance" and pants" A yell
low visage had Claude Mayne Delay,
and calf-eyes which rolled in ecstasy
on slight provocation. strong aver
sion to bodily exercise. but pen
chant for moonlight strolls and quiet
z~g BffTN S,H, l.;
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Doctors Scarce in Russia.

The shortage Of doctors in Russia
is the subject of an article in a st.
Petersburg journal, which publishes
in other European countries per 100
600 inhabitants. Great Britain heads
the list with $50, Switzerland has SO.
Germany 80. and Russia s. In order
to bring the percentage to the same
level as Great Britain. Russia will
have to have 100000 doctors. At
present there are only about 1900.
The Grit-advocate., 1903-01-02

In letter dated January /, 1900
Atkinson says, after five years expert
with Peruna
"I will ever continue to speak az
word for Peruna. In my rounds .
travelling man am a walking ad
fiSemenf for Peruna and have ind.
many people during the past yea
use Peruna with the most saiskac
results. lam still cured of ca tar,
John o. Atkinson,
Box 272, Independence, M
When old age comes on. catarrhal
eases come also. Systemic catarrh is ali
universal in old people.
This explains why Peruna has bee
SO Indispensable to old people Perm
their safeguard. Peruna is the Z,
remedy yet devised that meets these
exactly.
Such cases cannot be treated locs
nothing but an effective systemic ren
could cure them This is exactly Y
Peruna is.
IL you do not receive prompt and
isfactory results from the use OF Per,
write at once to DR.. Hartman, gwir
full statement of your case and he wi;
pleased to give you his valuable ad
gratis
Address DIR Hartman, President of
Hartman Sanitarium. Columbus. Ohio.
The Grit-advocate., 1903-01-02

'Tis a little thing TO say. you arc kind
i love you. my dear" each night:
But it sends thril through the heart
| find
For love is tender. as love is blind,
As We climb lifes rugged height
We starve each other for loves caress
We take but do not give:
1t seems so easy some soul to bless,
But We dole love grudgingly. less and
less,
Till lis bitter and hard to live.
The Grit-advocate., 1903-01-02

Don't you know that Defiance Starch
besides being absolutely superior to
any other is put up l6 ounces in pack
age and sells ut same prices as l2-ounce
pack2 gcs of other kinds?
The Grit-advocate., 1903-01-02

How did you like the sermon this
morning." "Oh. it was a beautiful dis
course. | don't believe Satan himself
could have taken offense at anything in
The Grit-advocate., 1903-01-02
LITTLE THINGS.

A goodbye kIss Is lituc thing.
With your hand the door TO go
But II takes the venom out of the sting
OF a thoughtless word "a cruel fling
That you made an hour ago
A kiss OF greeting is sweet and rare
After the toll Of the day.
But II smooths the furrows out Of the
care.
And lines on the forehead you once
called fair
In the years that have flown away
The Grit-advocate., 1903-01-02

ers.
i John Hammond, unanimously
dubbed the Cub and mortally offensive
TO three of the older rivals. This was
big loosely built youth of %. fresh
| from college, with the football hair
of the past season cut close, a tan
on his clear checks. merry, healthy
laugh and an alteration in his blue
eyes which he did not try to hide.
These eyes had in them the light of
tsvonescence, light that proves fatal
The Grit-advocate., 1903-01-02

Fulback (aftcr the last tackle)-Wher.
am |? Where am ]? Quarterback-Mos
of you is here on the ten-yard line. but
think your nose and right ear are in tbs
ccnter of tho field
The Grit-advocate., 1903-01-02

Jm--What did Tom mean when he said
that his matrimonial hopes all depended
upon the widows mite? Dick-He merely
meant that she might marry him o. she
might not.
The Grit-advocate., 1903-01-02

II women were logical there would
be no use having them around to OK
plain to little children the things tkat
men can't explain because Of tAses
logic.
The Grit-advocate., 1903-01-02

First Official-I wonder why Simkins is
always at his desk on holidays? Second
ohlcial-The loating habit has such a
else.
The Grit-advocate., 1903-01-02

Tcacher-Years ago the kingdom o
Spain ran clear around the world. Tom
my-Who chased it?
The Grit-advocate., 1903-01-02

Bullhead 5-cent cigar. II YOU have
smoked one you know how good they
are. If you have not. try one.
The Grit-advocate., 1903-01-02

Mild" Well ! should say so-Bax-
ter's Bullhead &c cipar. Smoke as many
as you like: they won't hurt you.
The Grit-advocate., 1903-01-02

Every Jack is said to have his Jill. but
some would doubtless prefer to have a
The Grit-advocate., 1903-01-02

Piso's Cure is the best medicine we ever used
for all affections of the throat and lungs.-Wh.
Q. ENpsLEY, Vanhuren. Ind. Feb. 10. 1901
The Grit-advocate., 1903-01-02

rs he a wcll-informed man?' | should
say so. Why. his wife tells him every
thing"
The Grit-advocate., 1903-01-02

Mrs. WinsIow's Soothing Syrup.
For children teething sOftens the gums, reduces in.
asumaton, allays pain cures wind collie. 25C bottle
The Grit-advocate., 1903-01-02
DEFIANCE STARCH

should he In eve-v household, none so
good, besides OF. more fol 10 cent, than
any other brand of cold water starch.
The Grit-advocate., 1903-01-02
THE CASE OF TIE CUB.
BY II. S. CANFlELD.

Copyright. 1902 by Daily Story Pub. Coz
The Grit-advocate., 1903-01-02

To Cure II Cold in One day.
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All
druggists refund money ii it fails to cure. PC.
The Grit-advocate., 1903-01-02

hooks wherein there was light enough
for reading his manuscript to suffer
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-08-14
WOMEN'S CLUBS IN SESSION
NORTHWESTERN FEDERATION
 MET FOR SECOND TIME.

Recent Attack on Booker T. washing- ton Strongly Denounced--nIinutes oi the First Days sess,on-Reports oi Many Club cha.rmen- Election oi Officers Wiii be Held This Morning.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-08-14
STRENGTH IN FOOD. A woman's Work Made Easy by Strenetl
 and Health. '

A widow writes: "When I began to use Grape-Nuts I had so much trouble with my stomach and was very nervous and as I make my living by really hard work I needed all the strength possible for have two boys to support.
 1T began eating Grape-Nuts simply to try the food, but soon noticed that nsytrouble was going, and my nervous ness was much less, so I continued to use Grape-Nuts food with the result that am now entirely cured. Grape Nuts always agreed with me, and when I work the hardestit seems to me en- joy them and need them the most. They satisfy me better and seem to do me more good than meat.
 My younger boy, who inherits a weak constitution from his father who died of consumption, has been greatly benefited by Grape-Nuts. He makes his breakfast of Grape-Nuts and milk, and the result of this diet has been that his stomach is much stronger, and his appetite increased and altogether he is like another boy.
 T notice this about Grape-Nuts, that when eat them and go away to work they seem to stay by me and sustain me better during the day than anything else I eat. Name given by Postum Co.,, Battle Creek, Mich.
 Send to the Go. for particulars by mail of extension of time on the s7,5OO.o0 cooks contest for 7S5 money prizes.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-08-14

Organization of one. The new clubs are | in Cambridge, Springfield, New Bed- ford, Providence, Brooklyn, New York,
 New Haven, Portland, Me, and Jersey City. ~..--s
 l A letter from the secretary of the
 National Association of Colored Women
 granting the application of the North leastern Federation wor admittance was
 read by Miss Jackson. On a very cordial invitation from the club in that city it was voted to hold
 next years convention in Worcester,
 Mass.
 A letter of greeting was sent to Miss
 Lucy Stone. whose birthday was cele-
 brated in Massachusetts yesterday. It
 was voted to appoint Mrs. D. c. Flaw
 kins, of Boston, in charge of the memo rial service next year.
 It was voted that Mrs. Dickerson be | the first honorary president of the fed- leration.
 Mrs. John Ross, president of the Wo-
 mans Twentieth Century club of New
 Haven, gave an address of welcome. In lthe name of the club she bade the dele- gates welcome to the city, churches, the
 Goffe street branch of the Y. M. e. A. 1 and to Yale university.
 Mrs. M. Cravatt Simpson, president l of the Woman's Era club of Boston, in responding, gave strong, impressive | address. She pictured wildly the seem lingly gloomy outlook for the negro race and said that in their unity of purpose and effort alone could they hope for any real gain.
 The afternoon session of the conven- ton was opened with piano solo by
 Miss Minnie Felton, of the Woman's Loyal union of New Bedford. Mass.
 This was followed by the reading of the minutes of the morning session and the transaction of some matters of business of minor interest.
 A memorial service was conducted | by Mrs. Julia 0. Henson, of the Harriet names of each of the deceased members of the federation were read and short sketches of their history given. This was followed by general report from | each of the Massachusetts clubs. A solo was given by Mrs. Robert Jackson, lof the Woman's Twentieth Century l club of New Haven.
 Reports of the committees on Travel ting Library, Civil Government and Vil- Haze Improvement were read by the chairnen of the respective committees.
 They all presented a hopeful picture for I the future in their several departments or fields of labor. The Maine and New
 Jersey clubs also read their annual re- ports.
 Last nights session was one of the Largest yet held and the church was ! filled to overfiowing. The president,
 Miss Roberta J. Dunbar, of Providence. read her annual report of the work done and outlined the prospective plans of the coming year. ].
 A paper was read by Rev. Florence
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-08-14

Randolph, of Jersey City. on "Hered- ity," and Miss Ida Gross, of the Ladies' auxiliary of Boston, gave an interesting address on ''Africa'' A number of vo- cal selections interspersed the evening $ programme.
 This mornings session will be secret, and the principal matters to come up are the election of officers for the ensu- ing year, the reports of the treasurer and the committees on education ana badges.
 The afternoon will be devoted to the announcement of the list of new officers and the reports Of all the committees in charge of the work of the juveniles. There will also be an evening session.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-08-14
NEW HOTEL AT MILFORD.

Stock Company Buys wisteria Lodge
 for the Purpose.
 Since two years ago last Christmas Milford has been without a hotel, but this condition will soon be remedied, and the town will have one of the best hotels in this section. Yesterday Wis teria Lodge. owned by Mrs. J. Watson King, widow of pr. King of Bridgeport, was purchased by an incorporated stock company of which Harry Rich ards, of New Haven. is treasurer
 The property was formerly known as the John w. Fowler place and its value is placed at about s10,000.