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@He took O letter from his pocket.

@He took q letter from his pocket.
It was in my mothers handwriting.
Someone had told her that under the
name Of Johnson I was seer at the
reading room. She would not believe
it, but to satisfy the girl to whom L
was engaged she had the letter writ
ten. / succeeded in convincing the
missionary that I was not the person
asked for in the letter. But when I
left the reading room I made up NY
mind that it was best for all at home
to believe me dead"
D
M heart was made sick and sore as
he told me his story, and 1 found no
relief until I knelt beside my unhap-
Ply friend and wept with him and
poured out my soul in prayer for him
to our heavenly Father.
There was some Of the Rudolf Of
old" when 1 saw him the next day.
There was will and determination in
his eyes. He had been on board a
German steamer that was taking car
go for Australia and seer the captain.
How much Of his story he told him I
don't know, but he should be per-
mitted to work his passage to Aus
tralia. "Give me your promise" he
said, shat you will not communicate
with anyone at home about nae before
you hear from me, and I will, by the
help of God, make a new effort"
Last summer I was in my home
town. The house where Rudolf's
mother lived had been torn down. I
tried to get some information, but
only learned that she had taken sud-
denly i'll and died at the hospital, and
that Rudolf's sweetheart had gone to-
friends in Australia. - Seamen's
Friend.
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Large sailor hats are abundant.

Large sailor hats are abundant.
Shirrings are on their way back.
Lace shoes seem going out OF
style.
China silk waists are too pre&ty
snd seryiceable to fall into disuse.
Pansies, wisterias, lilac, clusters
Of rosebuds and laburnum appear on
Powered crowns.
Russet leather and bronze calfskin
sandals for little tots suggest cool
ness and comfort.
The two piece linen suit has a
great vogue, especially for travelling
and automobiling.
Ribbon runners Of mother-ot-
pearl are among the novelties. They
may be had in all sizes.
Hat brims seem to get lower and
lower. Unless they cover almost the
entire head, they are not modish.
The Juror for shoulder scarfs is
still on, and they are worn with in
expressible art by graceful women.
One of the newest things this sea-
son is the net or gauze princess
tunic, braided or spangled all over.
There is an inclination to desert
the Nine. Recamier couture styles
and a continued movement toward
greater simplicity.
Net Is not used so much now as
! sheer batiste, finest tucked organdie
and thin lawn, combined with fine
Cluny or Irish lace.
For coat and tailored suits white
serge has no rival in wooden goods,
for it may be worn at any hour, from
breakfast to midnight.
There is a vogue for Or less
plain skirts worn with bodices of
all-oyer embroidery, or trimmed with
lace or braid, or both.
The new sleeves are sufficiently full
to take away the stick-like look Of
the arms in the very tight ones that
made them look ike 1olnted WoOQ.
The modified kimono, which is the
old wrapper with a Japanese touch
in the sleeve and banded edge around
tho neck and downward, remains a
favorite for bedroom wear.
The soft Persian coloring and the
colorings seen in the old East Indian
shawls, when produced in their nat
ural designs, are especially effective
on the neutral ground of the heavier
pongees.
Some of the outing hats are made
of the sort of canvas that looks like
mating. They are edged with COL
ored straw braid and trimmed with
a band and bow Of ribbon of the
same color.
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How to Inclose a Stamp.

aThere's only one decent way to
inclose a stamp for a reply" said the
head of a large business, and that is
to use one of the stamps from the
outside rows of a sheet with a blank
margin that can be stuck upon the
letter and leaves the stamp ready for
use. Any other way either loses the
stamp or else spoils it for use. But /
found to-day a trick that is pretty
good. Most people inclose the stamp
by sticking it down at one corner.
and then you have to paste that cor
ner down when you use the stamp.
The new trick Is to wet the stamp in
a little space in the centre and stick
1t there. It pulls off easily: yet when
YOU use the stamp all the edges have
gum enough to sticl,"-Farm Ma
chiuery.
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Can't Bear Arms.

Many people hold that the inabll-
fly Of women to- "bear arms Is a
conclusive argument against female
suffrage. A certain individual VINO
has a fondness for information asks
if it has been proved that women
cannot defend their country as SOL
diers. He has observed that in fiction
the girl who m%asquerades as a fight
ing man, however bold she may be IN
words, proves to be an arrant little
coward when she feels a sword or
pistol in her hand and sees another
threatening her. But he has READ
history as we'll as fiction, and asserts
that some of the women who, Dis
guising their sex, have actuali
served for years in the army, have
been distinguished for bravery and
martial qualities.-New York Trib-
une
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CONFESSIONS OF A CLOWN.
At Last, There is on Sale n Book
Brimful Of American Humor.


Brimful Of American Humor.
Any bookseller will tell you that
the constant quest of his customers
is for "a book which will make me
laugh" The bookman is compelled
t. reply that the ace Of American
humorists has run out and comic lit
erature is scarcer than funny plays.
A wide sale Is therefore predicted for
the Memoirs or Dan Rice" the
Clrwn Of Gu. Daddies, written by
Maria Ward Brown, a book guar.
anteed to make you roar with laugh
ter. The author presents to the pub
lilo a volume of the great testers
most pungent jokes, comic harangues.
caustic hits upon men and manners,
lectures, anecdotes. sketches of ad-
venture, original songs and poetical
illusions; wise and witty, serious,
satirical, and sentimental sayings Of
the sawdust arena Of other days.
Old Dan Rice, as proprietor Of tie
famous "One Horse Show" was more
Of a national character than Artemus
Ward, and this volume contains the
humor which made the nation laugh
even while the great Civil War ragged.
This fascinating book of 500 pages,
beautifully illustrated, will be sent
postpaid to you for $3.50. Address
Book Publishing House, 1874 Leonard
street, New York City.
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Curly Hair and Obstinacy.

The curly-headed man uttered an
exclamation of amaze.
STRANGE" he said. II have been
drawn for juries time and again, but
I have never served. They always
challenge me. 1 wonder why?"
1T is your curly hair" said a law
yer. "A curly-headed man kills a
Jury. He always causes it to disa-
gree"
That is not true. You must be
crazy" said the other.
at is the gospel truth" the lawyer
persisted. "Curly-heads are as obsti-
nate as mules. They think they know
it all. They disagree with everybody.
1T Is because" he fastened to add,
their curly-hair makes them so good
looking. In childhood they are
spoiled by their parents, and in ma
.urity women spoil them, falling In
love with them on every side. So
they become conceited. They disa-
gree with everybody. Lawyers the
world over recognize that as jurymen
they would never do."-Philadelphia
bulletin.
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Marvellous.

More than 5000 elephants a year
go to make our piano keys" re-
marked the student boarder, who
had been reading the scientific notes
In a patent medicine almanac.
For the lands sake!" exclaimed
the l%andlady. "Ain't it wonderful
what some animals can be trained to
do?"-Chicago News.
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BE

When your companion Is Que OF
sort, either be quiet or say something
that will call his attention to the
brighter side of the circumstances.
Be more loving, more tender and
more sympathetic, and mean 1t. Be
calm and bright yourself, and go
about your work as if all was right.
Choose your words wisely and aim to
suggest only that which is full OF
promise. The atmosphere will soon
warm up" but if it doesn't, Just be
patient; you can afford to wait
awhile If necessary; the victory is
for you. And as for you, never per-
nit yourself to feel out of sort; II
YOU are on the verge Of feeling that
way, begin at once to think and
speak of those things that suggest
sunshine, and the clouds will shortly
pass away.-New Haven Register.
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Opened New Avenues to Women.

The women are moving in the rails
Ing of a fund to erect a monument to
Francis E. Spinner, former Treasurer
Of the United States. He was the first
man in an official position to recog-
nize women in Government employ.
This was in 1862, and the move was
such a daring n that 1t caused dis
turbance and heated discussion, Mr..
Spinner was denounced and the char
acter of the women employed a 8
persed. But Mr.. Spinner stuck to it
and kept adding to his force until
several hundred were employed.
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Guilds Dart With Cigars.

The cigar box now comes to the
front as an auxiliary to Cupid. Mrs.
Corinne Raleigh, a Richmond, Va,
widow, in order to support herself
went to work as a packer in a cigar
factory. II am lonely" she wrote
one day on a slip Of paper and In
closed 1t in a box of cigars. In the
course Of time the box reached Nome,
Alaska. 1t was purchased by Cyril
J. Worthington, formerly Of Newport
News, and now a wealthy mining
man in Alaska. Worthington Is now
on his way to Richmond to make the
widow his bride.-New York Press.
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Warns Girls Against Chinese.

Mrs. Radford, eighty-seven years
DID,. has been superintendent Of a
Chinese mission in New Orleans for
twenty-five years. The mission has a
Sunday school and evening classes
for secular study. Mrs. Radford has
had the opportunity to observe many
hundreds Of Chinese, and she is rig
idly opposed to their being instructed
in any way by white women or girls.
She has no patience with the woman
or girl who seeks to teach the ORR
entails out of q desire to "uplift the
heather. New York Press.
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BURIED TREASURE.

For me is buried treasure
By many a misty coast:
But ali! its tale and measure
Long, long ago I lost.
Or if Phoenician mintage,
Or crusted bowls divine
That held Alcinous' vintage
Or late Falernian wlne!'
If Egypt's jewelled scarab;.
Or moonlight CLEAN of jade;
Or magic dirk of Arab,
Or Scythian idol-blade!
Or painted scroll or culver,
Or Inca's gold-in-cave;
Or pelf from diamond river;
Grisamber from sea wave;
Or. from Varangian barrow
Some amulet uncouth;
Or but this finthead arrow
From hlltops roamed in youth;
I count my treasure buried
By many a misty coast
The vanished lives, as varied,
That long ago I lost!
Whereof a cloudy token
Across my memory drives;
But no spell lifts unbroken
Ny many sunken lives.
Edith NJ. Thomas, in New York Sun.
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Trials of Atchison Youths.

The average Atchison young man
gets possibly $50 a month. If he
dances, is fairly good-looking and
pleasant. the girls lay siege to him,
and he has to join a ~half-dozen So
c~ieties, go to parties, etc., or be
hated. He tries to reciprocate oc-
casionally, but it is beyond his means
to take every girl to the theatre who
invites him to her house. He is
stuffed like a turkey before Thanks
giving, and because there isn't
enough of him to go around is called
stingy. A young man must either
be a little stingy or get his name on
the dead-beat list.-Atchison Globe.
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Out Of Doors.

Live out of doors as much as pos.
sible. For the woman who is in the
country this advice is not difficult tc
follow and the time she gives to her
garden is not wasted. The stay-in-
town woman will find it profitable to
take little trips out of the city, if 1t
be only for the day, or use trolley
lines which stretch for miles through
the country. It is SO much better
than sitting at home complaining OF
the weather.-Green's Fruit Grower.
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Girls Graduated as Boys.

Girl students in the University OF
Minnesota are taught in the construc-
ton and general direction of play
grounds for city children. The coed
graduating class in the university this
year had 200 members, and all the
young women were nettled by a
strange error in their diplomas. The
Bheepskin awarded to each young
woman is written in the masculine
gender, and it was not until gradu-
alton day that the error was discov-
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VOx Populi.

"Where do you get your papers,
little boy?"
81 buy EN- from Jimmy Wilson,"
"And who is Jimmy Wilson,"
"He's a newsboy-he buys EN- at
the newspaper Office
"How much do you pay him for
them?"
1.-TWO cents"
"How much do you sell them for?"
1.-TWO cents"
"But you don't make anything at
that"
Nope"
''Then why do you sell them?"
ooh, just to get to boiler. '-Har-
per's Weekly.
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Deviled Eggs-Boil six eggs ten minutes, put them IN
cold water; when cold, chop them fine; melt one tablespoon
full butter, add one tablespoonful -four. stir a rev minutes;
add one and a half cupfuls milk, one-quarter bay leaf, eight
whole peppers, half teaspoonful salt; cook six minutes, re-
move bay leaf and peppers, add the eggs, seasoned with half
teaspoonful English mustard, one-quarter teaspoonful Whte
pepper and one tablespoonful fine chopped parsley. Fill this
in six table shells, sprinkle over each one tablespoonful
grated bread crumbs and a little melted butter; oaKe ngn1
brown in hot oven. Another way Is to sprinkle one table
spoonful grated cheese over the eggs, then the crumbs and
butter. and bake-Mrs. Gesine Lemcke.
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ITCHED FOR TWELVE YEARS..
Eczema Made Hands and Feet Swell,
Peel and Get Raw-Arms Affected,
Too-Gave Up All Hope Of Cure
Quickly Cured by Cuticura.

II suffered from eczema on my hands,
arms and feet for about twelve years; my
hands and feet would swell, sweat and itch.
then would become ~callous and get very
dry, then peel off and get raw. I tried
most every kind of salve and ointment
without success. I tried several doctors,
but at last gave up thinking there was o
cure for eczema. A friend of mine in
sisted on my trying the Cuticura Remedies.
but I did not give them a trial until I got
so bad I had to do something. I secured a
set and by the time they were used l could
see a vast improvement and my hands and
feet were healed up in no time. Ihave had
no trouble since. Charles T. Bauer, R. +,
D. IS, Volant, Pa, Mar. II, 1905"
Potter Drug & Chem. Corp, Sole Props
of Cuticura Remedies, Boston, Mass.
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The Burning Question.

A Baltimore teacher was trying to.
explain the meaning Of the word "re-
c~uperate."
Charley" she said, when night
comes on your father returns home
tired and worn out, doesn't he?"
Eyes, ma'am," assented Charley.
'Then," continued the teacher,
ut being night, and he being tired,
what does he do?"
"That's what ma wants to know"
said Charley.-Success Magazine.
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irregularities and an.
%noyances, remove
backache and side
pains and restore
the kidneys to
health. Robert G.
Miller, 315 Ferry St.,
Danville, Pa, says:
Kidney complaint
made me a cripple.
I was stiff, lame and
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In three years San Diego, Cal, has
erected three large school buildings
at a cost of $4,000 one of them, a
building of twenty rooms, being the
finest grammar school building in
California. There is also a high
school building costing 100000, be-
sides additions to two other build
ings, doubling their capacity.
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Half q Mile of Roses.

Half a mile Of roses! There Is such
a sight at the Payne Whitney estate,
Manhasset, L. I. 1t is composed most
ly of single wild roses like the Caro-
lima and prairie rose, and Is therefore
attractive in winter as well as sum-
mer by reason of the red stems and
hips.-Garden Magazine.
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sore ana had to endure terrible suf-
ferings. I was threatened with
Bright's disease and was refused in.
surance by the examining physicians.
l was nervous, weak and run down.
Doan's Kidney Pills helped nae, and
In a short time 1 was entirely cured"
Remember the name-Doan's. For
sale by all dealers. SO cents a box.
Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
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The Union Spirit,

At a public school not long ago
the children were training for the
annual Flag Day celebration. One
boy, in order to show good reason
why he should take a prominent part
In the ceremonies. said that he had
a real gun; another had a pistol; a
small girl had a flag, and so on.
Finally n tow-haired lad Of si1
came up to the teacher and stood
waiting for her to see him.
well what Is it," she asked.
II has a union suit" he said
Youths Companion.
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Hollow Log a Fish Trap.

Last week Mr.. Castleman, Of the
Sixth District, caught from a hollow
log in the river near his mill a thirty
pound catfish. About a year ago from
the same log an eighty pound catfish
was trapped and several months later
one that weighed thirty pounds was
taken. - Trenton Correspondence
Nashville American.
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On Wedding Invitations.

For a large church wedding invi-
tations are usually sent to all whose
names are on the visiting lists of the
two families. Only when these inVi-
tations are accompanied by cards for
the reception or wedding breakfast
to follow are acceptances or regrets
uecessary.-New York Tribune.
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MUNYON'S EMINENT DOCTORS AT
YOUR SERVICE FREE.
Not a Penny to Pay For the Fullest
Medical Examination.

Medical Examination.
If you are in doubt as to the cause
Of your disease mail us a postal re-
questing a medical examinationblank
which you will fill out and return to
US. Our doctors will carefully dag
nose your case, and if you can be
cured Eu will be told so; If you can
not De cured you will be told SO. You
h:e not obligated to US in any way, for
this advice is absolutely free; you are
at liberty to take u advice or not as
YOU See fit. Send to-day for a medi-
cal examination blank, fill out and
return to US a. promptly as possible,
and our eminent doctors will diagnose
your case thoroughly absolutely free.
Munyon's, SD and Jefferson Sts.,
Philadelphia, Pa.
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Golden Threads.

do you intend to have q transfer.
nation made, that you preserve al
your golden threads SO carefully"
"No, I'm not going to have any
thing made" answered the woman
addressed, who had been brushing
her hair and was now removing every
hair from her brush and putting 1t
into an envelope, "and it's very like
" these golden threads, as you are
bleased to call them, will before long
be consigned to the flames. But
was once so foolish as to let about
half of my hair fall out. After l be-
ran a course of treatment with q
scalp specialist I kept the combings
IF each week in a separate envelope,
ind compared them from time to
ime to see what effect the treatment
was having. My hair is as thick as
ever now, but I still keep up my
gatchfulness to be sure It's not fall
ng abnormally without my knowing
t. It takes so lorS for hair to grow
Il you once lose it that it's much
| wiser not to lose it," New York
Tribune.
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ton in outdoor sports has had a So
boring effect, and when they do talk
their remarks are almost sensible
enough to be made by a an."-New
York Times.
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Cascarets-1oc. box - weeks treat
ment. AL druggists. Biggest seller
In the world-million boxes q month.
Meaning Of q Famine In China.

Meaning OF q Famine In China.
On account of heavy export of nice
during the winter and now for
months a severe drought, rice can
hardly be had at all, and other kinds
of eatables r very expensive. The
Magistrate has raised the price of
rice several times, but the higher It
becomes the less is forthcoming, az
those who have any to sell are keep
ing it in the hope Of still higher
prices. Great focks of women and
children are daily to be seen search
ing the fields and hillsides for herbs
and roots to eat.
Two whole families in the city have
taken their lives for want Of food.
They killed and ate their last
chicken, then, beginning with the lit
tie ones, each swallowed opium and
died. But for a few wheelbarrow
loads no attempt worth mentioning
is made to import rice. The people:
are very active in praying for rain,
and a general fast has been ordered.
No meat, chickens or fish are to be
had on the street.
There is a hill having an excellent
perennial spring sixty to seventy II,
south of here which Is supposed to
be the home Of a dragon. The poor
distressed people are focking there
to seek his' help by incense burning
and prostrations at the foot Of the
hill. The Provincial Treasurer Chu,
who for many years was Taotai at,
this place, has sent a deputy to help
the people pray for rain. This he is
doing in the City Temple.-Sinyang-
chow Correspondence North China
Herald.
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cred. The young men in the uni
versity had great fun over the slip,
but the girls were not a bit pleased
New York Press. .
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The prizes now being contested
for by aviators number thirty-eight
and are valued at 100000. ;
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New York street cars killed 444
persons in 1908 and injured $1,000
others,
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A SURE SIGN.

When 1t Appears Act at Once.
Trouble with the kidney secretions
Is a certain sign that your kidneys
are deranged-that you should use
Doan's Kidney Pills. They cure all
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Slow death and awful suffering
follows neglect of bowels. Con-
stipation kills more people than
consumption. 1t needs a cure
and there is one medicine In
all the world that cures it
a.
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Husbands Own Wives Clothes.

A married woman in Louisiana
aoea not own her own clothes. Judge