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Time and Money.
Te netive was at the ticket window
of a railway down south and the clerk
was cluinsoing his bit inside because
I or not until you ask her? said Elihw Letty had built up ler own small airs
ttl 0 ni q 0 ni11 .k. U1 E ow,
Now, Perth, don't be a foci. ;tastiest on the alter of heart ; and alas
1 have asked her. I wrote her a and alack-a-day! it was already slowly
letter, only a few days ago, in which 1 drifting in pieces.
FItIllAYs JUNE -4, 1892told her all, And she hasn't seen fit I did think he liked me a little, said the native woe so exasperatingly do-
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to take any uotice whatever of it. Letty to herself. But he had 0014' liherate,
Elitiu whistled a low whistle.How far is to Walla° 1 he drawled;
chances to speak, all through Aunt
Perhaps, said he, she never got it. A bliy's illness and burial, and he never Forty eight mites, snapped the
She did, for it was placed on her uttered a word. And—good gracious clerk
bureau. And it was taken away, and me 1 here's his writing on this velvet
What is the price of a ticket
Our folks aitst literar1 s'pose,said ' it must have been read I octagon, end as I live, it's dearest 7
One fifty,
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Aunt Abby's Patchwork.
EY AMY RAN.DOLPR.
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e Letty.
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iss Abby, an' that's the reason I hey sure Perth, said Minh the The native began to go through hie
much tro bl Inuit be souse mistake. Her eyds sparkled, a vivid crimsopocketbook slowly.
e.
tis There is! said peel), moodily. rose to her cheeks, as dlr.: hurriedly
A.bby was right. The Hors
There was a great mistake when I. sup- examined the rest of the papers which
posed your sister could ever care for a had peeved as a background to poor
struggling young doctor like me ! Aunt. Abby's patchwork. Parts of the
Will yoa let me sneak to you about all important team, were gone, but
ss were not a literary family.
here was .quarto edition of Shakes -
are, a family Bible, e Complete Phy•
.Ieian, and a carefully .preserved tile of it 7 there was still enough left to make
e weekly worsintper, kept on the
Not for the wore), cried Perth. out Dr. Perth's case as that of hopeless
eble in the hest roonhbut, as a gener-
Promise me, Mille, that my unlucky disease of the hat.
thing the Hopkinses neither, read
eecret shall be buried in your own Just at that monied, as good luck
Wrote. They had not been brought
heart Promise me upon your is cad of
p to it. There was the squire, a
honor 1
And then the voieejreceded further
%drid, rubicund personage, who- was
witch given to going about in his shirt
down the gravelled patio while Aunt
teeves, and to smoking comfortable
Ise is on his back porch ; there was
Mrs..Hopkins, who was. reat on pick-
ling and preserviug, and had ou her
tongue'e end a cert tin cure for
ail the neighborhood ills; there was
Come, come, burry up, urged the
clerk ; time is money on this road.
It is drawled the native,laying down
the price very carefully.
Yes it is,
Well, he said,hauling out the ticket,
if it doesn't make an'y better.. money
esarching in the depths of his monsoey,
for facts, when he rides a welkin' horse
he walks, when he rides a triattire horst
he trots, when he rides a gallopin"
horse he gallops, when --
The lawyer, irately: I want to
know what gait the defendent usually
takes, fast or slow I
Wall, said the witness, still medit-
ating, when his company rides fast he
rides fast, and when his company rides
slow he rides slow,
I want to know, sir, the lawyer
said, very much exasperated and very
stern now, how Mr. So•and•so rides
when he is alone,
Wall, said the witness, more slowly
and more meditatively than over,when
he was alone 1 wa'n't along, and I
don't know.
than it does time, Ireckon some of • In All Cases.
you is going to get arrested for count- - DEAR Onts,—I have used Dr. Fowler's
S re one of these days, and be
Extract of Wild Strawberry for suininer
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would have It, the oting doctor's gig ede• •
tmr, complaints, and after a fair triel have
wheels rattled over the gravel of the mooed away, dragging his heels on the , proved it a sure cure both in my own case
- and others of the family.
garden drive, He was commis to con- floor at every step,' • LAIIRATTA WINO, New 1)LILlaQ0i that,
sult with the squire about a free dis
Abl, sat aghast. • pulsars- iu the village, and before he
Ob, -law 1 groaned Miunhappy spin. could reach the door Letty had run
t
out had intercepted him in the shade
ster. What be goin': to do What
!
will 'Jetty say 3 Aucl live cut it all up of a monster !dee hedge.
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and stitched it underkhe velvet bits, .Miss Hopkins 1 lie exclahned.
because it was such good stiff paper. Dr. Perth! Howard! ithe said broght-
Letts', whose pink cheeks aucl bronze I mny call you so nows rnay't I ?
Well, there ain't but one thing to do, 13%
heir awoke the admiration ef every For have just reotiVed your letter.
.cin breast on't.
young man in a circuit for ten miles an' that is to make a cle
L t 1 • first thing And see—holding up the fragments—
it is all in little pieces ! But how glad,
how very glad I am to -get it !
Then, of course, a series of explana-
tions ensued—and; rnournfutto relitte,
the free dispensary was quite forgot-
ten 1 For ;Vere there. not more impor-
tant things to think 'about ? •
As for his comment was
characteristic •
Didn't I tell you so along?
But when September came, and the
County Fair opeued Aunt Abby's
Patchwork Qnilt took the first prize,
For, id all het happiness, the young
doctor's ivife had not forgotten that !
arouni; and there was EMI% a sturdy goY.
black-browed oung man, i oi.10 was she come o back from Lizzie White's
'y
, tea .party, and tell het -the hull Story
• o.lready beginning to disturb his
father's cousertati.ve mind by Wats as from A to Z.
to steam plows, patent reapers, and With this laudable resolve, Aunt
progressi ve farming machinery of every Ablest started up the rnieute she heard
sort. , Letty's light footstepou the stone door
• What's good ;enough for your grave. , atep below, but, hastenine down, she
father's good.eisough for me, said the I caught her foot in a word place on
squire. . 1 the carpeted landing,ancl fell headlong
But the world moves. father, said ' down the stairs. "
Elihu. I Aunt Abby was neither young nor
That tun't no reason that I should light At her age and avordupois a
move, too, Said Squire Hopkius, sett- fall signified no light matter. She
ling back on the hind legs of his chair was taken up senseless and carried to
and looking around' for a fight for his the best room bed, froinswhieli she
pipe. . . ' . never rose. Only once during the
.And- Miss Abby Hopkies,the maiden twenty four hours, duirng which the
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spark of lifts linged in her bosono did
aunt of thesfartily, had devoted all her
she evince erg signs ffintelligence,and
life's enerpjea t� the manufacture of a
silk bed•quilt in pieces of velvet, satin that was when Letty; was bathing her
forehead in sceeted 'i waters. ' Letty,
brocade, rich stuffs of every imaginable
hue and pattein,cut into tiny ootagous she said, faintly ; Iitty, is that you
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t mean to o o . .y
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each one strettihed over a piece of stiff il. it has been fomented with warm water.
Hush, dear Aunt Abby, gently The Pills taken occasionally in the
writing paper,, and fasteeed with al- '
soothed the girl, sv14 had love's mag- dose prescribedoy the instructions
Most invisible stitches to its neighbor.
netisrn at•the end of every one of her keep the digestiou in order, excite a
And it wee of theextreme diliiculty of
slim yortreg fingers. '? free flow of healthy bile, and regener-
finding foundations for the same that , ate the impoverished blood with licher .
The silk quilt,falterpd Aunt Abby—
Miss Abby pleined her little plant. materials, resulting, from thoroughly
it is there 1 it's in the silk quilt. You assimilated food, wantine which, the
33etsy Am . Meacham made hem . 9
must take it, and—and— strongest must inevitably soon sink
entirely outen the parson's old sermon
Then she stopped. A filni came over into feebleness, and the delicate find it
papers, said she. I've often thought ' difficnit to maintain existence. net-
her eyes—the lids dropped.
what a sight of theology there must loway's 0.ihtinent and nits are infalo
Hush! said Dr Perth, authoritively' lible rerdedies.
hest been back o' that there quilt. And ' Don't let her t o ,
a c eny more now. If
Mrs. Dr. Patsons, she out up all her ' she can sleep—
Where to get it.
,daughter Alasira's school compositions, I
Lcsthy looked up at him, ttith large, ' An old resident of Buflattf, Sick in
• ;and it's all loan do to find an old eta- I .
: wistiul eyes. In her estimation,flow• bed and likely to dieseent for a,lawyer
svelope or a Piece o' paper with Elihu's*
ard Perth was like a strong young to make his will that iie tnieht dispose
scalkilationston the back on it.
HOLLOWAY'S OINTMENT AND PILLS.—
Sure Itelief.—The weak and enervated
suffer severely from nervous affections
when storms or electric disturbances
agitate the atmosphere. Neuralgia,
gouty pangs, and flying paies, very
distressing to a delicate ' system, may
be readly removed by rubbing this
Ointment upon the affected part after
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And Mie# Abby, Whose sight was, things, even to the raising of poor He told his attorney that he littcl$0,s
'failing fast,. peered here and there like! Aunt Abby from this seeming bed of 000, and Proceeded to sdicta,te his die.
a jackal iu iearch of food ; for it was death. •
positions To his' wife he gave
•thellighest,ambition of her heart to But at the turn of the night the old
.finish the silk bed -quilt in time to ex • woman died, us peacefully as a child
ilibit it at the county fair in Septem- falling asleep.
archangel who might accomplish all of his life-long earni gstf and savings
,ber. The day after the funeral,Letty took
ponseque)stly when she came across' Aunt Abby's work -basket, and set love and affection that I bear to my
au unoealod letter on the bureau in herself down under the curly tendrils 'beloved nephew, John, I give and be-
Letty'e rooks she pounced upon it with of the grapevine in the south piazza. queath to him $5,000s Considering
delight. ;• Child, alive, what ore yon doing the love and affection that I bear to my
It's beeril read or it would be sealed said Mrs. Hopkins, who was bustling two wows, Sally and Polly, I give to
up, she said to herself, and it ain't hither and yon on housekeeping cares each of them $5,000," And he was
synth while for me to wait till Letty intent. • going on when the lawyer laid down
comes home fronts the picnic to ask I am going•to finish this silk quilt his pen and remarked: • gatherings as may be witnessed to -day
about it. U I don't get this 'ere quilt in time for the County fair, said Letty. 7his seems to me a ;work of super. in Oklobitliaa or other newly settled
portions of the West.
In one case a liverYsstable horse had
died soon after being returned, and
the person who had hired it was sued
for damages. The case finally requir-
ed some proof that the defendent was
a hard rider. A witness was called—
a long, lanky Westerner. The lawyer
said, How does Kr: So—and—so us -
'window, iihen the vcice of Howard and rapidly as Aunt Abby did, but going to get anything.•wally ride
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000. and $5,000 to each of his three
Suffering OW dreu.—Nothing
ia more piteons thalt the writhings of The pay
train stopped at Willow,
a child who is sick and unable to lo -
Bend to Day the railroad hand and to
Jo-
cate its pain. ' In niost oases children
suffer from disorderqd stomachs—or at: liquidate claims for cattle that had
least troubles of t kind are most been killed on the track in that sec,
Taught Him Politeness.
common—and if nitt treated in time
often result in death. Twenty drops
of PERRY DAVI5' PIN Moult will ale
leviate the most painful and obstinate
case of chronic 47iiithea or summer
Complaint in the World, mid no nurse
can Leel safe withdut having a bottle
of the inedicine." at her elbow. All
respectable drugeists sell the PAIN
KILLER at 25c. f`of the Big New size.
•To Cure liosquito Bites.
A German chemist, after a some-
what learned dissertation 011 the var-
ious kinds of mosquitoes and their
respective characteristics and virulence
condescends to give, a useful'piece of
practical informaticin. . He Says that
of the various remedies remonimencled
for mosquito° bites!, none are better
than ordinary soap;' He is. an ardent
naturalist, and °riling frequent excur-
sions in the country he invariably
carries a small pie4e of soap, of which,
in case of a bite, he snakes a lather all
over the affected list and allows it to
dry on. He :tiniest • invariably finds
that the relief is 'instantaneous, and
all the pain soon/ ceases. Should it
continue, however, as sometimes hap-
pens, it is only nreceseary to repeat the
application.
It wits Mr. 'Eitierson who said "the
first wealth is h4altlo." and it was a
wiser than the ru4dern philosopher who
said that "the bleod is the life." The
system, like thectock,. runs dome. It
needs winding tip. The blood gets
poor and scores- of diseases result. It
steeds a tonic to enrich it.
A. certain wise doctor, after years of
patient study, disOovered a medicine
which purified thefblood, gave tone to
the system and made men—tired,
nervous. brain•wasting men—feel like
new. He called it his "Golden Medi -
eel Discovery." ib e has been sold for
years, sold by the million of bottles,
and people found uchksatisfaction in
it that Dr. Pierce, !who discovered it,
now feels vearranted in selling it under
a positive guarantee nif its doing good in
children, These bequests were to be •
• all cases.
Perhaps it's the Inecheine for you.
first paid, and then he 'went on to dis- Your's wouldn't 1St the. first ease of
pose of his residue : "Considering the scrofula or salt -rheum, skin disease,
or lung disease, it has cured when
nothing else would. The trial's worth
making, and costs nothing. Money
refunded if it don't do you good..
In the early day ki the chaacter of
the courtem the wist was very prim-
itive, rind they were probably just such
done ittll be fair time befoie I know I am sure it was what poor Aunt Abby
if
it. meant by those disconnected words of
And sttightwey Aunt Abby's big hers, She has been working for itdhll
eregation," I
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"What do you meanie enquired the
testator, surprised at the, remark :
sheers sealed the doom of the letter the year, and 1 am determined that
"Why," said the lawyer, you say
and witheiht loss of time it formed a her work shall not be in vain.
yourself that, you hav4: brit 00,000,
given till that to your
background for velvet and silken oc- It'll be a job 1 said, Mrs. Hopkins, . itud you havE,
‘tagons. :, viewing the work critically. wife and children, and I was thinking
Scarce* a week afterwards,however 1 can finish it if 1 sew steadily, said that if you have nothini more i don't
she was stitching diligently at her Letty. Of course lean t work as well see how your nephew 'and newt aro
Perth, th young doctor fell upon her can do my best 1 The old man was netriled , his eyes Without a gleam ofnte ligence tree
ear, as hditalked to Elihu Hopkins, But, as she sorted over the neat allowed fire notvithstraiding his weak witness replied, A.straddlo, sir.
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It's no ilSO, said he. 1 told you to, piles of brocade satin tend velvet, a state, as he answered ; • lio, no, said the lawyer I mean,
flepkint. She don't etre for me. She stray tear plashed down, ever and
ever will
ou tag whole she deco roksbovr among the brilliant guts for it, 9.1 1 boa to do. -111 Y. Tribune. , Wall, *aid the witness, apparently Elutal ""1"wrift. larrot zAos., Lumen
itiaOhy creating its own separate little itt Why, dorg on 'em, 14 'em work for ' IOP ?
Git it t How are they goin' to git does he usually walk, or trot, •or gal-
ithAn allurtaltiokb Volcano
Cog. A gaunt, hungry looking strang-
er stepped up to the smart young man
who was,dispensing the oash in the
rear end of the car.
Granger—Got my . name
books, mister. -
Olerk—How should I know unless
yott tell me your name?
Kerrect you are.. You have got the
edge on inc there. Well, my mune is
Rufus McConkey.
Yes, said the young man, referring
to his books, Mr, McConkey I've got
you down for a hog.
Have me down for a hog, have you?
Well, I'll have yon down and be on
top of you, makin' it sorter oxcitin" to
you,if you don't revise that expression.
Now, say after me, Col. McConkey,
school trustee fourth district your
name, sir,is on this here list as a bony
Wet- creditor of the 1. its G. N. Rail-
road, which this amount are ten dol-
lars, the vally of one spotted Berk-
shire hog ; said amount of ten dollars
it do me proud to hand yon. Won't
you have a cigar, (Jolene' ?
The smart young assistant paymas-
ter repeated after Mr:, McConkey word
for word, handed Mr4 McConkey the
ten dollars, and gave him a cigar.
Col. 1110ooliey put the hammer of his
six-shooter bank to half cock, then
-strode out, muttering Some city
clrnps think they're smart, but they'lt
• find they have come out on the peraries
• to learn perliteness and graminer.
on your
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IT RESTS
THE
Niost women know all
about the misery of wash-
day. To many it means
Bacicche, Sore Hands,
`Harcll Rubbing over a
BACKstearrting tub, and long
houri. This falls to the
kt of those who use •or, cheap, and iri.ittrions soaps.
This Soap does away with Hard Rub.
bing, Tired Backs, Het Steam, and Sore
Heeds. It briegs comfort to millions of
homes, and will do so to yours if you will
tse it,
Remember te Name
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