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The Grit-advocate., 1906-04-06
lmnortanf fa Mofhaea.
Laughter Aids Digestion.

Nothing else will take the place of
good cheer and laughter at meals or
any other time in the home. There IS
a vital connection between amiability
and digestion-between good cheer and
assimilation. Laughter is the best
friend the liver has, and depression, or
melancholia, its worst enemy. Numer-
GUS experiments have shown that
mirth and cheerfulness stimulate the
secretion of the gastric juices, and are
powerful aids to digestion. Yet, know
ing this. many of us sit as gloomy and
absorbed at the table as at funeral
In many homes, scarcely a word is
spoken at meals, outside of requests
for an article of food.
The meal hour ought to mean some
thing besides supplying mere animal
function. The bell which calls tha
family to the table ought to be the sig
nal for good time generally, when all
cares should be thrown off and every
body appear at his best. 1t ought to
signalize the time for mirth and laugh
ter. 1t ought to be looked forward to
by the members of the family as the
recess or incoming is looked forward to
by pupils in school, as a let-up from
the strenuous life.-Success Magazine
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DISCOVERY MADE BY SENATOR,
Statesman Put Colleagues on to I'M
pcrtant Bit of News,

Senator Ankeney OF Washington,
who made himself famous by predict
ing a bright future for young man
he observed at work at the Panama
canal hearings, said young man being
Senator Knox of Pennsylvania, has
made another important discovery. II
attended the Panama canal hearings"
he said, for we're interested in the
canal out in my country. watch
the work pretty closely and see and
hear a good many things. Now, ]
told Senator Millard, the chairman,
a fine piece of information yesterday.
| told him that from something |
heard Senator Morgan say was quite
sure that Morgan is in favor of a
Nicaragua canal. Just heard it drop
accidentally. you know, but | think it
Is straight enough" The senate is
agog over this discovery and well it
may be. for Senator Morgan has only
been talking and working for a Mica
ragua canal for twenty-five years.
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Last of War Governors,

Frederick Holbrook of Vermont. who
recently passed his ninety-third birth
cay. is the only one Of the famous
war governors" now surviving. He
stood with Cows. Curtin of Pennsyl-
vania and Andrew of Massachusetts
as one of the stanchest supporters of
the Lincoln administration when it
most needed such support as they
could give. Among the beneficent in
stitutions for which the nation is in
Gebted to Mr. Holbrook's initiative
were the military hospital established
at Brattleboro during the civil war,
where from 1900 to 1000 soldiers
were cared for at once. and the ma
tional bureau of agriculture. The ex-
governor was choirmaster in the Brat
tleboro Congregational church for
forty years.
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SAILORS FAITH IN oMENs.
Sea Suoerstitons Are Picturesque
and Many Of Ancient Date.

Sailors superstitions are usually
picturesque. Many of them are very
old and many of their beliefs are COM
mon the world over. To break look
ing glass on shipboard means shat
tered compass. sneeZe invites mis-
fortune unless you sneeZe to the right.
The man at the wheel under any flag
will tell you that he can not steer
straight if there Is cross-eyed pas.
senger aboard.
Women are considered extremely
unlucky on warship or merchant
man and are supposed to bring squally
weather and dangerous gales. Away
back in the early sos, it was custom
ary for captain in the navy to take
his wife and family with him on long
voyages, but to-day the women are
left at home.
St. Elmo's light are another source
of uneasiness to the sailor. They are
usually seen in the tropics and are
probably due to electricity, but they
certainly present spectral sight on
dark night at sea, when the little
globular, greenish-blue flames are
seen floating and Pickering above the
yardarms, jumping at bound from
topsail yard to topgallant yard or dis.
appearing there, only to reappear on
the truck of the mainmast These
phenomena precede storm and be.
come visible during calm that is
generally followed by deluge of rain
and an electrical display OF unusual
brilliancy.
Originally known as Corpus Cristi
lights. the sailors have corrupted the
name to "corposants" and believe them
to be the souls Of departed seameu
appearing to presage misfortune, usu-
ally the loss Of the ship. 1t was for
merly hard task to get a sailor into
the rigging while a ''corposant" was
Pickering alOft
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weeks, or perhaps l should say my
past was blank, for | somehow man
aged to support myself, through man
ual labor. perhaps, for when l regain
ed my consciousness ! was at work
with gang Of men in Seattle, Wash
ingtOn."
When" she asked. did this loss of
memory come to you?"
Il think about the time reached
Portland. for l recollect some Incl
dents OF the journey there in vague
way, but nothing clearly"
do you recollect woman's speak
ing to you on the street before you
took the cars at Grovedale? She
came out of the Essex House"
.'Yes, l recollect that perfectly. She
was a stranger. a very pretty woman
with curiously tinted hair. almost
green. or am l mistaken" he asked,
with puzzled look.
mo; they said she had green hair"
said Mr. Carter. She ought to have
Travelled with Barnum. Well, what
did she want of you?"
she thought she knew me, at first:
but | assured her of her mistake"
But did she not go on the train
with you to Portland, or part of the
way?" asked Constance
Not that remember, and yet
stay! That is ore of the vague recol-
lections | alluded to. 1t seems some
times as if did see and talk with
her on the train
you certainly did. Vane; the con-
ductor says SO; but she did not go as
far as Portland
Did II"
Yes"
81 thought so. That is about the
only thing recollect distinctly
'Vane," said his uncle, suddenly,
do you suppose any Of your actions
were question able-I mean unlawful?"
Il hope not" said Vane, looking
startled; still | don't know. know
l was doing good honest work in Sc
attic when I came to myself. Any
one can be assured of that by writing
to Barnacle & Co., Seattle. Washing
ton. There is something back of your
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questioning, uncle What Is it."
'Nane. you are looked upon as de-
faulter here in Grovedale."
"A defaulter! Why, did not take
one penny Of the bank funds when I
went away. | remember that per.
fectly."
"Yes, but Tony Osborn declares YOU
came to the bank on the twenty-sec-
ond, at about seven O'Clock in the
evening""
He must have been mistaken"
mo, he is positive; and besides,
there is proof of it."
What proof"
You spoke to him. 'Hullo,' says
Tony: you said the same, and that he
probably didn't expect to see you SO
soon. He said he didn't, and passed
on. You opened the door with your
own key and went in
Strange! What does 1t mean? Did
I come here?"
NO, you evidently came as far as
the river bank. and there all trace
seemed swallowed up. We thought
you might have been drowned. A
man was found in the river-his re-
mains. l mean-and Constance had
them buried at her expense"
But how do you know I came to
the river?"
Your travelling cap and one of your
shirt-studs were found there, the last
by ar Italian employed on the rail-
road, the first by Tony Osborn. An
other shirt-stud was found on the
desk at the bank the morning after
You entered 1t"
Who says so?"
Tony
Does Tony think me a defaulter?"
NO, he does not. He and Con-
d-and-myself were the
only ones who believed you innocent.
Henderson, too, thought as did; but,
of course, we were obliged to settle
the bords.'
Bonds? Did it 60 so far as that? :?
Then something was taken from the
bank. 1t must have been burglar
who entered and deceived Tony some
how"
mo, not that. Nothing was actual
ly missing. and the pass-books were
all right. But it was the notes. one
of Bowles & Estes. the other of C. B.
Cotton"
What of them?"
Simon Low declares you presented
those very notes, | mean Bowles Il
Estes, which he deposited in the Ma
tlonal Bank, and he says that he paid
YOU five thousand dollars for it on the
SPOT as collateral. Tie note was but
five hundred dollars originally, until
the amount was altered"
He got up and walked the room in
great agitation.
WHAT about the other rote?"
That was presented in the same
way, the face altered to read four
thousand dollars Instead of four bun
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Woman Notary Makes Precedent.

Miss Mamie Offutt. official notary
and public stenosrapher to the COVER
ncr of Alabama. is the only woman
whc ever had the honor of swearing
il! the chief justice of state. Samuel
d. Weakley of Birmingham was ap-
pointed chief justice of the Supreme
court to succeed Thomas N. McCle!-
Ian. deceased. Mr. Weakley went to
Montgomery to be sworn in. but the
clerk of the Supreme court and other
officers were absent. Casting about
for some one with authority to ad
minister the obligation, it was found
that the governors stenographer was
the only notary present. After some
persuasion she administered the oath,
signing her name to the necessary
papers.
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RYAN A BORN LEADER OF MEN.
Characteristics of One Of the Giants
Of Wall Street

In a character sketch of Thomas
F. Ryan, the insurance and railroad
magnate. a magazine writer has this
to say Of his subject: Big. gaunt.
square jawed, grim, toiler from
youth. a maker of his own way, a
fighter Of his own battles, grizzled by
years of fierce combat with the most
merciless set of foes on earth, clear
and cold-visaged, niggard of speech, a
compeller of men. His eyes, level
and cold, and an almost phenomenal
power Of mental concentration upon
the matter in hand, are all that could
give ground for any notion Of a
hypnotic suggestion in the man. In
manner he is smooth and dignified, in
speech he is deliberate and straight
forward. positive and, above all,
economical"
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Dr.. Pierce's Fav0rite Prescription

II q powerful, invigorating tonic, impart-
Ing health and strength in particular
TO the organs distinctly feminine. Th1
local. womanly health is SO Intimately
related to the general health that when
diseases OF the delicate womauly organs
are cured the whole body gains in health
and strength. For weak and sicklv
women who are "worn-out," ..run-dorn'
or debilitated, especially for women who
work in store, Office or schoOlroOm, who
sit at the typewriter or sewing machine,
or bear heavy household burdens, and for
nursing mothers, DIR. Piercc'S Favorita
Prescription has proven a priceless
benefit because OF its health-restorinS
and strengthening powers.
As soothing aud Strengthening ner-
vine. "Favorite Prescription" is un-
equaled and is invaluable in allaying and
subduing nervous excitability, irritabil-
ity, nervous exhaustion, nervous prostra-
tiOn, neuralgia hysteria, spasms. chorea,
or st. Vitus's dance, and other distressing
nervous symptoms commonly attendant
upon functional and organic disease OF
the womanly organs. 1t induces refresh
ing sleep and relieves mental anxiety and
dependency.
Cures obstinate cases. "Favorite Pre-
scription" is n positive cure for the most
complicated and obstinate cases of ''fe-
male weakness" painful periods, irresu-
larities, prolapsus or falling of the pelvic
organs, weak back bearing-down scnsa-
tions, chronic congestion, inflammation
and liberation.
Dr. Pierce's medicines are made from
harmless but efficient medical roots
found growing in our American forests.
The Indians knew of the marvellous cura-
tive value Of some of these roots and i'm
parted that knowledge to some of the
friendlier whites, and gradually some of
the more progressive physicians came to
test and use them, and ever since they
have grown in favor by reason of their
superior curative virtues and their safe
and harmless qualities.
Your druggists sell the "FAvoR1rE PRE-
scRIPTIoN' and also that famous altera-
tive blood purifier and stomach tonic. the
golden MEDICAL DISCOVERY" Writo
to DIR. Pierce about your case. He is an
experienced physician and will treat your
case as confidential and without charge
for correspondence Address him at the
Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute,
Buffalo, N. Y, Of which he is chief con-
sulting physician.
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Small Wages in Germany.

Most Americans will be astonisaed d
10 learn what pitifully small wages
are earned by the large German ca;s
known as heimarbeiter, or home work
ers. 1t includes men, women, and not
less than $4,000 children, some Of
them only three years old. Nearly ell
the German toys are made by then.
For sixty wooden soldiers, on which
an adult and three children work
thirty hours, about twenty-nine cents
is paid. Colored masks bring half a
cent an hour for an adult and two
cents an hour for an entire family.
The wages paid the makers of musical
instruments are but little better. Two
men and one woman can earn only
$4.5G for 1872 hours work at making
harmonicas. Violin makers receive
$500 for seventy hours work.-Cleve-
land Leader
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CHAPTER x-contjnued,


The man looking at him wondered;
but he did not know Mr.. Hamilton,' SO
he wondered less. Presently, how
ever. as a quiver went through her
eyelids. her husband dropped on his
knees beside her and clasped her
hand in one of his, but timidly. the
watcher thought, and said in low,
hesitating voice:
Constance my wife!"
And she opened her eyes and looked
at him, vaguely at first. then with a
questioning, half-frightened manner.
The man gazed into her face as II
he would drink his fill Of its sweet
lineaments. The eager gaze did not
seem to please her, and she drew
away her hand.
There is much to explain" she
said gravely, for she was now quite
recovered.
You are right, Constance. and this
is not the place for you now" and he
glanced at the monument
Casual as was the look, it brought
the color to her face, and she arose
and drew down her veil.
Mr.. Hamilton and his wife passed
out together and up the street to their
house. both silent, both evidently con-
strained by deep emotions of which
they did not speak the one to the
other till they reached the Hamilton
grounds.
Mr. Hamilton held open the gate for
his wife to enter and it reacted with
bang that made her start nervously
you are not WELL" said her hus-
band, "and no wonder
mo, l am not well, and, as you
say, 1t is no wonder"
They were soon at the door, and
they entered the house together, but
Constance with hesitating step.
Finally as they stood side by side in
the sitting room, she whirled sudden
ly about and cried Historically:
why did you leave me? Why did
you leave me?"
Constance. can you believe would
leave you willingly. By heavens! you
are the. most beautiful woman l ever
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saw" walking away from her in great
agitation. But you are tired. Your
uncle will be here tonight. will
explain all then. Meanwhile, you
must rest. Go to your room and
will sit here"
She looked at him gratefully. Then
las if sudden recollection seized her
she murmured something about the
chiIGten.
Yes, they will be home from school
soon, suppose. l must wait. They
will find l have not forgotten their
commissions" he said, smiling.
Constance stood watching him while
he talked, and then, with a dazed
questioning look in her eyes, walked
toward the door, 81 will do as you
say" she said. "for am very tired"
His look followed hery from the
room. Then, as the swish Of her long,
silken gown died away and the door
closed behind her, he turned his face
away and struck his breast with his
'clenched hand, but no word broke the
stiffness.
Perfectly immovabe and rigid, he
stood in the middle of the room for
several minutes. Then he walked
about examining the pictures, books,
and the view from the window, as is
the way with one who has been long
absent. And upstairs in her room,
with her door locked, Constance lay
on her bed with wide-open eyes gaz-
ing at the ceiling and thinking, study
ing.
At tea-time Mr.. Carter arrived.
Strangely enough no tidings of Mr..
Hamilton's return had reached him.
and it was, therefore, a positive shock
to see him sitting there with Perley
in his arms and Clare beside him.
while Constance, with grave, preoccu-
pied gaze, was busy about some
triHing household matter.
Bless my soul, Vane." he cried,
and stopped, gasping
Vane grasped him heartily by his
hand and said:
You hadn't heard of my arrival,
then?"
Not word. not one word. Well,
l am glad, more than glad, to see you
back, hey, Constance?" vaguely un-
easy at his niece's stiffness.
Yes, uncle: but he has not ex-
planned yet why he was gone so long"
Yes, I will tell you why I stayed
SO long when l meant to have re-
turned in two weeks. You will Won
der greatly when | tell you that
lost all knowledge of my own identity,
my very name, even, soon after left
Grovedale. My memory was gone to-
tally. absolutely. What | did. or saw.
or where ! went then. | know no more
than you do. 1t was as If had sunk
into dreamless sleep after left you.
That. Constance, is the reason did
not return"
Constance did not speak. anc he
continued
My mind was blank for many
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dred dollars. The cashier could not
swear it was you. but he supposed ev-
erything TO be all right. Low declares
he could not have been mistaken, for
he knows you as we'll as do"
Yes. Low knows me, but be-
lieve he has been deceived. will
see him and talk with him. Nine
thousand dollars. Is that the sum-"
Yes
"And my bondsmen had to pay it,"
Yes"
We'll, it shall be paid back. every
cent of it. If it can be really proved
that II was l who took it. But as the
matter now stands, 1t looks to me like
foul conspiracy to rob me of my
good name. Though why any one
should want to do it l can't conceive.
Tony must have been mistaken. 1t
must have been burglar"
so We thought until we heard from
Low"
Have you had detectives at work."
asked Mr.. Hamilton, after a period OF
deep thought.
Yes, two Of them: private detective
Bruce. and Swan. Of the police head.
quarters in Boston"
Swan followed the river affair.
You were thought to have been
drowned or murdered And Bruce
looked up the defaulting matter. He
fancied at one time that he got on
the trail of you, or some one that
looked like you, in the West, man
named Ashley"
What sort of a man was Ashley"
Bad sort; bank swindler. Bruce
saw his photograph; looked like you.
Bless my soul! who knows but he was
the man Low saw"
81 thought of that: but it seems too
unlikely for belief"
Ashley had a wife named Lenora,"
said Mrs. Hamilton. Is the name new
to you?" she asked, keenly.
1T is. never remember to have
heard it,"
And yet you said in your dreams
the night before you went away, 'Le-
nora-Nora-a pretty name"
He looked at her in amazement.
Are you sure?"
YES; and the green-haired woman
who spoke to you was named Lenora,
and she was Ashley's wife"
81 have no recollection of any such
name. Dreams are hard to explain.
But how do you know all this about
Ashley and wife named Lenora?"
at was brought out by Bruce's in
vestigations,' said Mr.. Carter You
see there was reason for suspicious"
so it seems. This Ashley may be
my double. Well, shall look into the
matter, talk with Low, and If find,
beyond doubt. that have been guilty
Of altering notes and other question
able acts, will set them right"
ITO be continuedD
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DREAM TIP WAS GOOD.
But the Dreamer Did Not Interpret It
Correctly.

Correctly.
"As rule I place little faith in
dreams" said Bob" Stone of Weber's
Music Hall, but one l had the other
night impressed me SO strongly that l
and followed it up.
Il thought l was at country fair,
or some other outdoor gathering
There was race course in the dis
tance, and all about me were people
dccked out in holiday attire. What
most impressed me was couple COM
ing along the path | was walking.
They were negroes and the woman
was gorgeously dressed. She did not
seem to be the ordinary type of neg
ress. but appeared to be more like a
queen of some African tribe. The man
hardly noticed, but kept looking at
the woman as she approached with her
escort So intent was my gaze that,
without intending to, I separated the
couple, they passing on either side
of me.
The face and appearance OF the
woman so impressed me that ! felt
sure there was some Significance to
it. At breakfast l looked over the
Sheepshead entries. and almost shout
ed as l saw Maid of Timbuctoo on the
list There was my dream for sure.
sent a few dollars down to the track
and got comfortable odds against the
mare. l even let a few friends into
the good thing
We'll, my dream was all right, but
| hadn't interpreted it correctly. Go
Between won in romp."-Eew York
Press.
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The sympathy of Emperor Nicholas,
Premier Witte and other members of
the Russian ministry, as well as of
powerful influences in court. has been
enlisted by Baron Leicq de Lobel in
the project of the American-TTans-
Aaskan-Siberian Company for the
construction of tunnel under Bering
straight from East Cape to kansk and
5000 miles Of railway to connect 1t
with the Siberian railway.
1t Is believed that by interesting
Americans materially in Siberia the
tries will be strengthened.
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"COFFEE JAGS."

Tho Doctor Named Them Correctly.
Some one said Coffee never hurts
any one" Enquire OF your friends
and note their experiences.
A Phila. woman says
During the last or years I be
came subject to what the doctor call,
ed coffee jags' and felt like | hava
heard men say they feel who hava
drank too much rum. 1t nauseated
me. and I felt as though there wa.
nothing but coffee flowing through
my veins.
Coffee agreed well enough for
time, but for number of years have
known that it was doing me great
harm, but, like the rum topper. ]
thought I could not get along without
1t. 1t made me nervous, disordered
my digestion, destroyed my sleep and
brought on frequent and very distress,
ing headaches.
When | got what the doctor called
a coffee jag on, l would give ur
drinking it for few days till my
stomach regained little strength,
Dut was always fretful and worried
and nervous till was able to resume
the use of the drug
About year ago was persuaded
to try Postum, but as | got it in req.
taurants 1t was nothing but sloppy
mess sometimes cold. and always
weak. and of course | didn't like it.
Finally I prepared some myself. a.
home, following the directions care.
fully. and found it delicious. | perse.
vered in Its use, quitting the old cof.
fee entirely. and feeling better and
better each day, till found at last,
to my great Joy, that my ailments had
all disappeared and my longing for
coffee had come to an end
II have heretofore suffered intense
ly from utter exhaustion. besides tho
other ailments and troubles, but this
using Postum, have felt
fine Name given by Postum Co..
Battle Creek, Mich.
There's a reason.
Restaurant cooks rarely prepare
Postum Coffee properly. They do NOT
let 1t boil long enough.
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Finally Nat His Fate,

Out of the $50 women who sought
his hand but one met the fancy of
lonely John Halloran of Jersey City.
who owns $4,000 worth of real estate
for the last year. Lonely John is So
years of age. He has spent most of
his life before the mast He received
hundreds of letters and dozens of
applicants called. The women were
too old. too young, too gay or too
quiet. At a bail given by lodge of
the Shepherds Of Bethlehem, however.
John Halloran met the girl who suited
him-Miss Adele Peters of West Ho-
boken-and became engaged to her
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Corrected By the Boss.

A prominent School street liquor
dealer had a coachman whose North
of Ireland brogue greatly displeased
him, as he came from another sec
ton of the Emerald Isle. and was
ever ready to correct the deficiencies
in the speech of his servant.
One morning the coachman. addr. S.
ing his employer, said: 81 wan. a
new whop (whip)."
Disdainfully gazing at the coachman
the boss retorted: For hvin's sake,
mon. don't say 'whop'; can't you say
'fp. Boston Herald.