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A Critics Evasion.

1t IL risky to give ones honest opin
ion about Il mans horse or dog, Il
house designed by himself or Il picture
which he values highly He who gives
the opinion stands on n slippery place,
and should the Judgment be unfavor
able he Will slide far from the mans
esteem.
Fuseli the eccentric artist ana pro
fessor Of the Royal academy, was IN
yited by noblenan to see Il painting
of which he was the proud owner. Flu
sell went. taking pupil with him. The
painting was shown by the n0blemun
himself The artist examined IL and
exclaimed, Extraordinary" The no
bleman. greatly pleased at the ejacnla.
ton. lauded the picture TO the skies,
pointed out its beauties. and Fuseli
cried: EXTRAORDINARY. Extraordinary
On their way home the pupil said
Mr. Fuseli, don't think much of that
picture. What did you mean by 'eX-
traordinary?
Extraordinarily bad" was the reply
Of the artist who had not cared to
offend lord who might become N pa
iron.
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THAT GIRL OF YOURS.

"In seven tenths OF the 5000 cases
Of insanity among women which have
come under my notice the cause wss
directly traced to the malign iEdu-
ences Of childhood"
So says an insanity expert.
What he means Is that our modern
system Of rearing girls does not per-
NIT them to properly develop their
girlh0od.
Rather startling:
If you will look about you, you Will
note evidences of the false system.
How seldom do you see developed,
vigorous, physically forceful girl. lf
you look into the schoorooms you VIII
discover many pretty faces aglow with
intellect. but you will also see droop-
ing shoulders, evidences OF weak
spines. sunken chests, blanched faces,
lack of Initiative life forces.
Is II not true?
Where are the girls who are to be
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THE WELCOME.

@oME in the evening or come In the
morning.
Come when you're looked for or
come without warning.
Kisses and welcome you'll find here
before you.
And the ortener you come here the more
~ ADORE you.
Light Is my heart since the day we were
plighted,
Red ~ my cheek that they told me was
blighted.
The green OF the trees looks far greener
than ever
And the linnets are singing. True lovers.
don't severi'
I'll pull you sweet flowers to wear II you
choose them.
or after you've kissed them they'll lie on
III fetch from the mountain Its breeze to
Inspire you:
III fetch from my fancy tale that won't
tire you.
Oh. your stops like the rain to the sum
mer vexed farmer
Or saber and shield to knight without
armor.
III sing you sweet songs til the stars
rise above me-
Then. wandering, I'll wish you In silence
to love me.
Wen look through the trees at the elf
and the eyric.
Well tread round the rath on the track
OF the fairy.
Well look on the stars. and we'll list to
the river
TIL you'll ask of your darling what gift
you can give her.
Oh she'll whisper you. Love as I'M
changeaby beaming,
And trust when In secret most tunefully
streaming
TIL the starlight of heaven,above US shall
CULVER
Az our souls How In one down eternitys
river"
SO come In the evening or come In tho
morning,
Come when you're looked for or cofse
without warning.
Thomas Osborn Davis.
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DYING IN HARNESS.

ONLY fallen horse stretched out there
- on the road.
Stretched In the broken shafts and crush
ed by the heavy load;
Only fallen horse and a circle of won
dering eyes
Watching the frighted teamster goading
the beast to rise.
HOLD. for his toll is over-no more la
- Dor for him!
See the poor neck outstretched and the
patient eyes grow dim.
See on the friendly stones how peacefully
rests the head.
Thinking. II dumb beasts think, how good
II Is to be dead
After the weary journey how restful It is
to lie
With the broken shafts and the cruel
load-waiting only to die.
WATCHERS he died In harness-died
In the shafts and straps
Fell. and the burden killed him. one of
the days mishaps
One of the passing wonders marking tho
city road
A toiler dying In harness. needless of cali
or goad.
DASSERS. crowding the pathway. stay
ing your steps awhile,
What ~ the symbol? Only death. Why
should we cease to smile
At death for beast of burden? On
through the busy street
That Is ever and ever echoing the tread
of hurrying feet.
WHAT was the sign? A symbol 10
touch the tireless will?
Does he who taught In parallels speak In
parallels still?
The seed on the rock II wasted on heed
less hearts of men
That gather and SOW and grasp and lose.
labor and sleep and them
Then for the prize! A crowd In the street
OF ever echoing tread
The toiler. crushed by the heavy load
Hes there In his harness--dead
John Boyle O'Reilly,
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Why He Called.

"You advertised thai you had found
pocketbook, | believef' lie asked the
man who had come 10 the door III
answer 10 his ring
Il did"
you say 1t contained a sum of
money!"
YES"
a very large sum OF money, In
facti'
Yes"
"And that the owner could have the
same by naming the sum found and
describing the pocketbookf
yes Go ON.
THAT Is all | wished 10 ask"
but you viii have to give descrip-
ton of the purse you lost before you
can put In II claim"
Il lost no purse"
you didn't
NO. sir"
"Then why have you calledT"
Merely 10 see what man looks like
who viii lind II very large sum of
money and then advertise the fact IN
the papers instead Of hiding II down
cellar Good day. slr." Judges Ii
brary
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Not yet" Elizabeth was glad that
the dark concealed her flaming cheeks.
II think | shall have position In
here just at present"
They're dull everywhere was the
listless comment. Il was looking
around Il bit today. Don't you think.
Bess. that you ought to leave the jobs
to the girls who really need them when
there are SO few"
Elizabeth was startled. Here seemed
to be u chance 10 get back home with
out appearing to surrender
What do you mean" she asked
tensely
.There are lots more girls than there
are jobs" he explained. Now, some
of them will have to get left II the
girls who are clever. but who don't
really need to work, get their places.
You'll be tickled to death TO land
this position you have In mind, but
maybe some girl who might have had
II II you had not come will be crying
her eyes out because she was not as
clever as you and Is still hunting u
place. You have a father To support
you. Maybe the girl who might have
had the job has others to support.
Eli2abeth's hands elasped so tightly
together that her rings bit into the
soft flesh, For the last two weeks she
had been nerving herself to admit fall
ure, to 20 back home and confess that
h., al ~ IN hnr Of
fering her retreat With honor. II
seemed almost too good to be true.
Don't you See" argued Trenton,
that you really owe 1t To others to de.
lay your campaign until the demand
exceeds the supply? It's only fair to
those who need the work.
Perhaps you are right" assented
Elizabeth. with show of hesitation.
"Of course II is hard to give up ones
ambition. but | guess you are right,
Joe"
Il know of job that you could get
that would not put any one else out.
suggested Joe. AZ though suddenly In
spired.
what IL II" she asked eagerly.
"Housekeeper for me, he explained
with chuekle.
Elizabeth drew back for moment
She did not want 10 seem To surrender
too quickly and yet had shown
her the way out. She put her hand in
his.
I'll take the place" she said quietly
She had gone up the stairs 10 her
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Heart to Heart
Talks.
By EDWIN a. NYE.
HIS MOTHERS HAND.
BY EDWIN a. NYE.


The purchase of the birthplace of
Abraham Lincoln by an association
and its forthcoming dedication raise
the old question as to the forces that
shaped Lincolns life.
What made him great?
Henry Watterson, the Louisville edi-
tor. says In his lecture on Lincoln that
the man was Inspired, just as Moses
was inspired, which sounds well. but Is
Indefinite
Which was 1t heredity. environment
or will power--that shaped the crude
Lincoln into greatness?
Plainly enough, it was all these
forces and something more.
He had something from heredity
that Kentucky mother.
He had something from his environ
ment hardshlps. obstacles. opposition.
He had much from his own strong
will power, and his will power WAS
shaped by his Ideals Where did Lin
coin get his ideals?
Now we are getting down to the core
of the matter.
When that wilderness mother, Nancy
Hanks Lincoln. died In the log cabin In
Spencer county, Ind, whittier the fam
lily moved from Kentucky, she put her
hand on the head of her wilderness
boy, eight years Of age, and said;
I'm going away, my boy, but | want
you to remember that your mother
wants you 10 be good and useful
man"
There was the beginning OF Abraham
Lincoln's ideals.
How many times In his after life
that boy felt upon his head the hand
of his dying mother and heard her
words we may not know, but we do
know that In the boyish heart was the
high resolve to make his mother
dream of him come true.
Pluck. spirit of endurance, applioa-
tion-PLUS A MOTHERS HAND, A
MOTHERS WORDS made Lincoln
great
Remember how Thomas Lincoln cut
down poplar tree and sawed out by
hand the lumber with which he nailed
together the rude coffin for Nancy
Hanks Lincoln?
And by the side of the grave stood
little Abraham, holding his little sister
by the hand hatless, ragged, frcekled
ungainly a sorry beginning for great
life But
The touch of vanished hand and
the sound OF voice that was still
helped TO fashion the boy into what he
afterward became.
A p,other's hand, mothers voice
don't forget to look for these In every
| life
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Pin Oak Valley, r. F. D.. No. /, July go 'os

Mr. Huffman--Dear Sir
Since wrote you last winter about saving
wood and such like with the Woodpecker engine.
have been looking around somewhat little at
some other makes of engines and | find they have
heaps of failin qualities. When got that Wood
pecker Engine thought it the greatest piece
on earth then. and now think il is most greater
than ever. | am mechanic, but the
literary Turn. My Henry is we'll read in
mechanics and he says that jumpin spark business
is rather real down good thing to touch up things
for going, as it is there about all the time
stantly. Now see you selling Hopper En-
gines without no water much This dear is
g convenient one and Henry says the principle is
all right hotter the better as long as there is moist
How will YOU trader The place cup that
holds oil on top of the cylinder which is made OF
glass and has little hole in its top, is made differ
ent on the new engine. | see it is made of IRON
wont break: that also the top comes off and you
pour thick oil in it without any trouble Henry
used To get swarm mad last winter when it
cold and he trying to pour thick oil in the little
hole and couldn't. Say you wont haveto run to the
house TO warm the oil with this kind will your
Other engines amt this way are thew The longer
| have this engine the more | think il is the most
greatest thing earth When you come up.
Yours verify.
Sammy Brown.
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PENANCE.

lie kissed me. and | knew twas wrong.
IL For lie was neither kith nor kin.
Need one do penance very long
For such tiny little sln2
LIE pressed my hand. That wasn't right!
IL Why viii mon have such wicked
ways?
IL wasn't for u minute quite.
But In II there were days and days
HlNIERE"5 mischief In the moon. know.
L I'm positive | saw her wink
When | requested him TO go
| meant 1t. too. | almost think.
DUT, after all, I'm not to blame.
- He took the kiss! / do think men
Are quite without the sense OF shame!
l wonder when he'll come again.
Author Unknown.
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Scared BY Frous.

It is said to be owed to the frogs Of
western Australia that that part Of the
empire Is English and not French
About 1900 n party of prospective
French colonlsts landed on the west
coast Of Australia, but on the first
morning they were alarmed by the
loud croaking of the frogs, which they
took for demons. and retired with all
speed to their ships. Western Austria
lin might have preferred the frog to
the swan as her emblem. just as Rome
might have preferred. instead OF the
eagle. the goose that saved the capital
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STRAIGHT AND CROOKED THINKING

"As man thinketh In his heart
Is he"
The foregoing Scripture has two
sides-a simple and n mysterious side.
Che simple side-a man makes or
mars himself by thinking; the mys
FERROUS side-how does he do IL?
Leaving to the learned the mysteri-
tons:
/. Straight thinking IL conducive 10
health, success and happiness.
= Crooked thinking will produce dis
ease, failure and misery.
The proof of these statements Is In
the demonstration Of them. They are
workable propositions. They make
good on trial And TINT Is why they
are In the book They are true not be-
cause they are In the book, they are in
the book because they aI~ true
"Thoughts are things.
A conviction OF mental mastery IL u
real force The influence of the mind
is II real power. Men succeed because
they get mental mastery. Men rule
their bodies for health by the muster
full influence OF mind. Men make hap
piness by mentally deereeing the con-
ditions that make happiness.
ON the other hand
A man can think himself into fall
ure, misery, disease. Men are doing
that every day. One can fix the image
of Illness In his mind and bring 1t
about Thousands do They lessen
their natural resistance to disease er
fearful thoughts and literally make
their bodies susceptible to the very
things they fear. They do not under
stand THAI In most cases they can drive
away their indlsposilion by holding
firmly In mind the opposite thought
or course there are limitations 10
this power One Scripture declares
that II man cannot by thinking add II
single eublt to his height Some fanat
Teal things may be done and some fads
practiced IN the name Of mind cure.
But
The world ut large Is just beginning
to find out the tremendous potency OF
mind properly applied II is just be
ginning to realize that strong thinking
makes strong men, or, as we hive put
II, straight thinking makes straight
men
Sin itself Is simply weak thinking.
He who thinks In Il weak, slouchy
sllpshod way will lead weak, slouchy
slipshod sort Of life. Crooked thinking
Will produce crooked men.
Nothing Is better established than
that you can think yourself into vital
successful living or Into moral, menIni
or physical invalidism.
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KISSING NO SIN.

COME say that kissing's n sin.
~ But l think that It's name ava,
For kissing has wonnd In this warld
Since ever there was twa.
AH, II II wasna Lawful
~ Lawyers wadna allow It;
IL II wasna holy,
Ministers wadna do II.
II II wasna modest,
Maidens wadna TAX It;
III IL wasna plenty,
Puir folks wadna get It,
Author Unknown.
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A Feat For BIondin.

Speaking of the straight and mar
row path" said congressman. re
minds me OF II story about man |
knew In Chicago who stayed very late
at dinner ut the club. When he
came out he started to walk In the
middle of the street.
"'Hey, John said friend who met
him as he was making the best OF his
way along the ear tracks, why don't
you walk on the sidewalksY
"'Walk ON the sidewalks? snorted
John. DO you think I'm Blondtn? -
Saturday Evening Post.
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A Buddino Philoloo,st

Bobbie. aged five, saw a COW grazing
In his mothers flower garden and
shouted: Scat. Scat!'
The COW didn't seem TO be much In
Inundated and calmly ate on. Three
year-old Mary. dancing with excite
ment, exclaimed: Tell him to .scow
Wobbie; tell him to .scow'"-Deline
ator.
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Had Its Limitations.

A Scottish farmer was proudly show
Ing visitor an antique clock which
had recently come into his possession
Isn't that a gran clock?" he said
Il bocht 1t at an auction sale In the
toon the ither day an got rale bar
gain
Yes, but does 1t keep good time%
the visitor asked.
"Ah, weel, It's no good enough to
catch train or that sort O thing, but
good enough to get up to yer breakfast
W.T."
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Sens In Verse
OLD FAvORITES.
WATERS OF SONG.


"VlME was when Avon unrenowned
stream,
Save for Its beauty unregarded
II flowed
Once Arno even as other rivers
glowed.
For then II had not mirrored Dante's
dream.
How vague the gray Levantine sea did
seem
Ere Homer charted all the stormy road
And what lone grief by Babylon abode
TIL David made those willow banks his
theme,
Think you there are no other waters fit
To be reehristened with a poets name :?
Is nature bankrupt, mans last beacon
lit?
Believe II never. Unborn bards such
fame
On undiscovered rivers may bestow
As shall to fable Danish Nile and Pc.
Robert Underwood johnson.
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~ feIgn n virtue is to have its oppo-
~ -lce.--Hawthorne.
Pat and the Lawn.

An Irishman. having returned from
Italy. where he had been with his
master, was asked In the kitchen.
Nov, then. Pat. what Is the lava
hear the master talking about?"
"Only drop Of the crater" was
Pats reply.
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An ldsa Of Business.

"Does your titled son-in-law know
anything about buslness?"
We'll" answered Mr.. Cumroa
doubtfully, ''he has had lot Of ex.
perience with promissory notes, and
he knows how to get check raised ~
Washington Star.
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Hiram Coming to the point Sally.
I've been a'payin' my respects to you
fer I'VE years come next August, amt
/? Sally blushinglyj Yes. Indeed.
Hiram. Hiram-Well. all Pm a-goin'
to say Is that I'm durn sick Nv the IN
stailnent plan! Sally On his arms,-
PAS agreeable. Hiram.-S.. Louis Re.
public
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The Liahtweiaht Champion.

Simpkins You say that little mar
was formerly the lightweight chaM
pion? Timkins-Yes. Simkins How
did he lose the title? Timliins-Oh, be
didn't lose It, He merely sold his gro
%sry and retired. Chicago News.
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How Hammer of Death Struck James.

How Hammer Of Death Struck James.
The old parish church Of Plumstead
Is probably at least 1000 years old.
The picturesque churchyard. cher
ished haunt of the poet Bloomfield
during his visits to Shooters Hill, con-
tains delightfully."- choice "derange-
ment of epitaphs." One of these on
Master James Darling. aged TO-"
teaches lesson Of moderation during
the cherry season to the youth OF other
places besides Plumstead. Speaking
from his tombstone. Master Darling
exclaims:
The hammer of death was give to me
For eating the cherries off the tree.
Westminster Gazette.
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Missionary Work.

$50 you once lived In Africa, Sam
yes, sab.
Ever do any missionary work out
there, Sam
ooh, yes. sab. | was cook for can
nibaI chief. sahw-PIck- Me Up.
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"Im surprised that you should be
so interested IN watching those silly
dudes
Force OF habit, | guess I'm presi.
dent Of II real estate Improvement
company"
"WcllT
well they're n vacant lot."-Phila-
delphia Press.
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No Advance copi.. Given on

Gwendolen What did Archie say
when he proposed to you? Esmeral-
da-He won't say 1t until next Thurs
day night, and 1t won't be released be-
fore 1890 q. m.-Chicago Tribune
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Who Wouldn't Want to Go Canoeing
Where the Water Witch Holds Her Szvav?
there's No INSTALLING the Type of the Neyak MaMy Evr Langaooas, Epr FAonahna.
tn Her Cwn Best Way.

But as for us, we boys n girls Of
today. give us a good, light canoe or
nothing, What can equal the thrill of
feeling that nothing lies between you
and the water but a frail sheet of bark
or bamboo, and the knowing that a
sudden move will precipitate you in the
water as quick as a wink.
And where can you get such satisfac-
ton as comes from being swept forward
through the water like a long, slim.
swift fish, just from one steady, sure
sweep of the light paddle. Three
strokes and a rest. and you are half
across the lake. where, if you were in a
rowboat. you would be wav behind,
Juggling at heavy oars, encased in pat
ent oarlocks. which prevent feathering
and other accomplishments of the ex-
pert. n c%ultivating a beautiful crop
of blisters, which give promise of being
full grown within a half hour.
It's funny. but you seldom see a
Branch Brook lake being padded
at both ends. Generally there is a neck
turned-in- sleeves-rolled-u masculine
lazily or industriously padding
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law, he made rather a failure of it
financially.
James Madison was pretty well off at
the time of his death. but the money he
left to Dolly Madison was dissipated
by a worthless relative. Congress paid
her 100000 for her husbands papers,
and this amount. which was all she had
to bequeath, she willed to her son and
daughter.
Thomas jefferson, after leaving the
White House, lived for seventeen years
at Monticello, where he tried to be a
farmer. The business was not profit
able, and, partly by reason of the
money drain caused by an exuberant
and never-failing hospitality, the au-
thor of the Declaration of ~Independ-
ence was reduced in his old age to
straits. He was relieved to some ex-
tent by the purchase of his library, for
which Congress paid him.
When he died, George Washington
was one of the richest men in America,
being worth at least $500, 600. -BroolSlyn
Eagle.