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Don't see why you should affect to re-
gard the proposal ae preposterous M.
leerry I" retorted the young advertis-
ing manager, tuggiag at his fair moue'
tache irritably, but still speaking calm-
ly, "Miss Limy loves me almost as much
as I love her, and—"
"You presume to talk of marrying
My daughtee on a beggarly salary
SA4h AS you aro receiving?" stormed
the famous pill proprietor, bauging
his office desk with a, fab, red fist.
"Ian delighted to hear you adrait my
salary is beggarly, air. The last time
I applied for a rig° you guild it was
munificent."
"Tut -tut! It's beggarly from the
present point of view, young fellow—
beggarly to talk of marrying ixiy
daughter on Stick to the point, will
you—stick to the point !"
"Certainly I" agreed Cuthbert Gar-
rettereadily. ”And the point is that
Miss Lucy and I love each other, and
are quite prepared to marry on an
assured income even though 'email,
with. every prospect of it being ine
creased."
"Assured? But it isn't assured.!
llow is it assured?" erred James Perry
defiantly.
"I think we may regard it as as-
sured, Mr. Perry — 1 really think we
may," seid Garrett urbanely. "You
have the reputation of being a sing-
ularly shrewd business man, and I
don't think a shrewd bueinesaeman
would dismiss leis advertising man-
ager, who has worked the sale of the
pills up froire sixty to a hundred gross
of boxes a month within a trifle' over
two years."
"But you've spent a confounded lot
of money doing it. I am not at all
sure that soraeone else , might not
have done it much cheaper!"
"Try the experiment. I have had
an offer at a considerable advance
and commission besides, from Harvey,
Brooks & Co., the carpet people, end
I'm willing to give you an appor-
tunity."
"I don't want to argue it further,
and I won't. You've no business to
make your proposal to marry ray
daughter a peg on which to hang a
demand for a rise, and a threat to
leave my employment 1"
"I've done nothing of the sort, Mr.
Perry!" returned the young man
sharply. "On the contrary, I was wish-
ing to imply that my present Income
being an assured income, is not insuf•
ficient to start married life on. I om
quite sure too, that when I have we. k-
ed the sides up to a hundred Dee
twenty-five groes a month you ever cm
me the justice of raising my salary.
"I wish you wouldn't come and dis-
turb me this way, young fellow!"
exclaimed the pillmaker, with an edd
mixture of pathos and irritation.
The fact of the matter was, he
found himself in an exceedingly em-
barrassing pesition, and did not know
how to extricate himself. He could not
afford to lose the services of Garrett,
who was little short of an advertising
genius and had worked up the sales of
the "Patent Peerless Pills" to a mar-
velous degree in spite Of the fact that,
in order to increase the profits from 40
to 60 per cent, Mr. Perry had lately
been leaving out the most important
and expensive ingredient. He was too
good to be lost, was Garrett.
On the other hand, an underpaid
advertising manager was an impos-
sible son-in-law for a man of the pill-
makees social pretensions.
How the dello° to, retain tho serv-
ices .of the one and dispel the preten-
sions of the other was a problem, in-
deed.
"Look here, young feller," exclaim-
ed Perry, rising suddenly and begin-
ning to pace about his handsome of-
fice, "I don't want any painful Ilia,
agreement! Let there be harmony in
the business—perfect harmony I"
- "With all my heart !" cried Cuth-
bert. "And nothing could 'strike so
strongl and harmonious a chord be-
tween us as for your daughter—"
"Now, look here," interrupted Perry
quickly, "if you hark back so I shall
lose my temper, and I don't want to!
Be quiet while I say my say. Look-
ing at it as a stranger—a mere spec-
tator—I can't agree that your salary
is assured, or that you really do earn
it! Now —what did I say? Be quiet
and let me speak! The pills are good
—really good—and when any one has
once tried them nobody would ever
give them up. Any day I might dis-
cover that the sales were not influ-
enced by your advertising, but by
recommendation."
"Oh,enonsense! I can prove—"
"Shut • up and listen!"
"Go on, then," said Cuthbert, wear-
ily.
"Well, when I made that discovery
should want to sack you; and if you
were nty son-in-law I don't see how T,
could,"
"Oh!" exclaimed Cuthbert, grasp-
ing the point instantly. "Then by be-
coming your soli -in-law my salitey
would become assured, and. therefore
it would be an assured income to mar-.
ry Lucy on."
Perry turned away distractedly,
took a step toward the window, and
turned back.
"Are you talking, or am I?" he bel-
lowed.
"At the inch:levee-of speaking,
talking," replied the Young Man.
abashed.
"Then shut up, will you? You prove
to rne that you have assured yout in-
come by beirig well worth your sal.
ary to the businese, and I'll think
over the matter. If you work the
sales up to 150 guise a month*"
"Fifty per cent?"
"Fifty per cent—in three months, atid
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un -
keep 'mai at that for three months, so
as to prove the increase is steady, I'll
consider Mir Proposal again."
"lisn't good enough, Mr, Perry.
Add $1,500 a year to your icome,
and then have you say 'No,' perheps?
Not mule sir!, With all due respect to
TaleY's father, I repeat, not much I
Give me 4 definite promise that if the
sales increase 50 per cent, within three
months and show no falling off for at
least three months, you'll censent to
Lucy marrying me, and you'll assure
me an incoine befitting your son-in-
law by making MO a partner."
"What? Why—well—"
Otherwise I must seek employment
where my services will be appreciated
and suitably renumerated,"
"Yoe dare! What! Oh! 'well— well,
I don't event to seem hard, Let there
be harmony. I agree to that, but you
must consider yourself a stranger to
ray daughter until—"
'All right," said Outliiiert, willing to
make this sacrifice as a price of a wife
and a partnership. "I'll go and write
out an agreement form for you to
sign."
"My word's good enough."
"It's a business compact, Mr. Perry."
"Very well, then, if you don't trust
me," ,snapped the pillmaker. "Now I
think," he muttered, when Garrett had
disappeared, "that I handled him very
well Indeed. I don't suppose he can do
it— and I'll take jolly good care he does
not,"
Well, of all the jibbering old jug-
ginses," exclaimed Cuthbert with re-
lish, as he re-entered his own room and
dropped into his chair. "By Save, it
strikes rue that Lucy and the partner-
ship are on the bargain counter this
time. I• must get him to sign the agree-
ment beforeahe finds out what an in.
vestment he's offered me for my capi-
tal.
Cuthbert squeezed the girl's hand
and laughed softly. The girl was jus-
tification for the former and his self-
satisfaction reason for the latter.
"My darling Lucy," he said, repeat-
ing the squeeze, "with luck you are
as good as mine."
"And without luck?" she inquired
gently, glancing over her shoulder at
the laurel bushea which' baoked their
seat in the park, and wondering if any-
one resting on the other side of the
shrubs could overhear thole conversa-
tion.
"And without luok, too," he exclaim-
ed, confidently. "It's e certainty, dear-
est. I've worked up the sales to the
hundred and fifty geese per month, and
he doesn't suspect' a thing—not a thing.
And even if he did, -what could he do?
All that is necessary now is to con-
tinue buying for the remainder of the
three months to keep the sales up and
the game is won. But de you know how
many boxes of Perry's Patent Peerless
Pills I've got stored away at my dig-
gings? Roughly speaking, about 30,000.
You see, the sales have not actually
increased very much, for your father re-
fused me more money ,for advertising,
so I've had to buy the quantity neces-
sary to raise the sales up to and over
the stipulated one hundred and fifty
gross. Of course I've got them at
wholesale price4hrough the chemical
friend I mentioned, but it's eating up
ray capital. However, I still have funds
enough to keep things going the neces-
sary period, provided nothing occurs
to cause a sudden slackness in the legi-
timate demand for the pills. That weuld
spell—would be awkward." -
"Am I worth it—all the expense,
trouble and diplomacy?" she inquired,
sadly.
"Worth it, dearest of angels! Rather'
But you are scarcely worth the trouble
it has been to keep away from you so
long. Still, 1 have those pills coming in
almost daily to console me and. make
me feel nearer to you."
"Do you think if father knew we had
met here like this he 'would beak out?
He might, you know."
"He couldn't, Lucy— simply couldn't.
It was not a condition of the written
agreement tbat we shouldn't meet, and
that's what I hold him by. Only by
the sales falling below the stipulated
hundred and fifty gross a month can he
back out!"
"Pea afraid that is so?" muttered the
pillmaker, sitting on the seat behind
the laurels, whither he had taken him-
self in the course of shadowing his
daughter, whose sudden determination
to "go shopping," at an hour in the
evening when most shops are closed had
evoked his suspicions.
"Pm afraid- it is so," he rePeated, as
he rose and stole noiselsesly away
across the grass. "And. so he's got
something like thirty thousand boxes of
Perry's Patent Peerless Pills at his
lodgings, has he? A pretty sort of vil-
lain he is! And, of course, he would sue
me ou the agreement, knowing I would
never doze contest it for fear of be-
coming the laughing stock of the
world! Brute—. I wonder he hadn't
cheek enough to advertise the terms of
the agreement as an extra inducement
why people should. cure their stoma&
troubles by taking Perry's Patent Peer-
less Pills! I do, indeed!. And meeting.
Lucy like that! And her laughing at
his villainy! 11 58 enough to —"
He raised his stick, and, flourished it
threateningly at the crescent moon,
Which was diseemertring behind the
trees in the west,ered devised into
language whieh for fame and fervency
Might heve led: dwellers in the neigh-
borhood of the park to imagine that e
volcano had buret within the' city.
"But I'll do hini yet," he panted,
when his breath was spent. VoinehoW
do him yet."
In execution of tide resolution and the
plan he had devised during a. restless
night, he sent for the advertising men
-
eget the moment he arrived at business
next day.
oe
"Mr. Garrett," he began, tryiog to
speak or-dine:61y, "I've 'been looking at
the stile -book again, and I think that
now the demand is se great as to corn!
the retailers to stock the pills, /
rah afford to raise the whoksole price.
It isift your business, of C011111C, but
like you to know such things. The rise
will •take plate immediately,"
Cuthbert started, and fingered his
tuiderlip nervously. The, odes two-
pence oft every box would fruattate
him, for his fund were insuffieietit to
meet it, in view of the feet that the
legitimate sales would fall heavily in
regoonst to the himosition.
"I wouldn't do that, Mr. Perry," he
Staid, rather weakly. nit would b<4
dangerous move. At all evettg,
!shouldn't do it until you've felt the
pule Of the retailer" he added, Mee
roalidently, "The probable effect will be
that al!'erY eatea yea Make on.
%eh box you. sell will 14 OffSet by OW
cleavage ht the denmed and ineratee4,
advertising to, sell that box."
"You think so?" impaired Perry, turn-
ing round and. facing him,
4'len afraid
"Very well, then; I will,"
• There was a pause.
"lleekles,'I don't think you're entitled
to take such a Step until tlie rex months
on which Lucy and my partnership, de -
wide ltave expired," urged. Cuthbert.
"1 don't ask. you what you think,
young feller! But,sinee you. volunteer
to tell me, I'll Acquaint, you, with what
1 think—which is that you're a Seamp,
if you know whal that is! Pve found
out! 1 know all about it! I've geen
through your plan—a"
"Pardon me, the plan was Tome, sir;
I have merely adopted it," retorted
Cuthbert instantly. "1 regret that it
was indeed you we heard. nnitteringin
the park halt night, for it Ives my wish
on being admitted to your - family and
busine,,es to make you a present of the
thirty odd thousand boxes of Perry's
Patent Peerless Pills I own, at some
email compensation for my trickinees.
But, as it is, 1 suppose 1 shall have to
save whet I can of my expended capital
by flooding the market with the same
thirty odd thousand boxes of Perry's
Patent Peerless Pills, which would
rather upset your move of raising the
wholesale price of them,"
"You—you wouldn't do that, Cuth-
bert?"' gasped the pillmaker, horrified.
"What else could I do?" exclahned the
young man, with a fine air of hum-
cenoe. "Sugar-coated though they are,
elmY by swallowing the whole thirty
odd thousand boxes, and it would be
sinful to destroy them,"
He paused and waited tentatively
while Perry frourished his handkerchief
and blew his nose loudly, which seemed
to irurpire him with fresh nor; ege.
"Well," said the pillmaker, quite con-
fidently, even condescendingly, "1 don'e
want to be hard on you, young feller,
seeing you've been worsted, too; I'll
buy the pills beck from you,"
"Very well," agreed Cuthbert, pleas-
antly. "And that being the satisfac-
tory conclusion to the incident, I may
say I believe that the sales might
actually be worked. up to a hundred
and fifty a month in time."
"What do you want for the thirty
thousand?" inuqired Perry, picking up
a pencil and jotting down some figures,
"Lucy and the partnership," answered
the young man, with a, business -like
promptness.
Perry leaped to his feet with a vol-
canic utterance, and subsided again,
"It's a fancy price, 1 know," Fined
Cuthbert deprecatingly, "but• I happen
to command the market,
"Never!" cried the pillmaker, fiercely.
"Never! You shall ruin -me first!"
"All right," returned Cuthbert agree-
ably, making for the door. "I will see
what I can do."
Perry called after him, but in vain;
went to the door, and shouted his name
down the passage, but in vain, went
to his room wrathfully, but in vain,
Cuthbert had vanished.
Some two hours later, when Perry
had esdurusted his mental energy and
drawn heavily on his fund of unparlia-
mentary expressions a,nd his spirit flask,
in an heroic attempt to plan something
feasible, a knock fell upon the door.
"Come in!" he shouted, hoping it was
Cuthbert in a more reasonable fraane
of mind.
"You, Mr. Garrett?" demanded a
smutty faced boy, who smelt of print-
ing ink, entering and holding out a big
envelope.
"What is this?. Who is it from?"
inquired the pillmaker'nOn-committally,
'Proof of the bills you ordered of
Hardy & Wills; an' the gornor sez 'e
can't let you 'ave 'ern before 12 to -mor.
row, if :that'll do," answered the boy;
crisply.
Perry, perplexed and uneasy, took a
folded sheet of paper from the un-
closed envelope, and shook it out. It
was a large poster, printed in red type,
and ran:
"PERRY'S PATENT PEERLESS PILLS,
GUARANTEED GENUINE,
HALF PRICE.
WHY PAY MORE?
The pillmaker gasped, and Cuthbert,
having been waiting in the passage
for this right moment, bustled into the
room.
"Oh," he exclaimed, "that's come, has
it? Sorry you should have been trou-
bled. with it, Mr. Perry...=private nea-
ter of my own." And he took the
paper front the pillmaker's nerveless
fingers, and hastily folded it up. "Tell
Mr. Wills I'll be around about it in a
few minutes,"
"Ri'ch'arel" returned the boy, slouch-
ing out.
"Pretty auick week, that," muttered
Cuthbert, audibly, evidently pleased.
"Cuthbert," said Perry, faintly.
"Sir," said the young man, alertly,
"You really do think the sales could
be worked up to a huielred and. fifty
,gross?"
ni'm—yes, I think so."
"Well, see what you can do; and
paaaps we should work more hernson-
ious together, Cuthbert, if we, were
partners."
"And connections by marriage?"
Perry grasped the arms of his chair,
and, pushing himself on to his feet
weakly, held out his hand silently.
"You shalt never regret it, Mr. Per-
ry!" cried Oirthbert, eagerly. "Nor shall
she! And I sha'ret come empty handed
into the business; / shall bring those
pills!"
• .•••
SUBSTITUTION.
"Good morning, madam!'" voiced the
chatty salesnaan,
"Good morning!" echoed the quiet -
looking matron, "have you soneething
very choice in Irish lace?"
"Well—er—no; bet here's sdniethhig
just as Rod as seventy-five cents a
yard."
"Jaist as good?" doulithigly.
"Yes, yes; in fact, eonfidentially,
superior to the real article, How watch
do you wish, please?"
"Jut a yard," sweetly. "Here's your
money."
"But, madaml"—in confusien, "'you've
made a mistake—this isn't money."
"No?" agreeably,
"Why, no; it's /*matinee ticket,"
"Solt isl" sweetly. "But It repre-
Bents seventy-five cents, and, while it
isn't actual money, it's just as good.
Adios,"
The clerk fainted.—Erom the July
Bohemian.
!, • ee 0
Greater Freedom for Press in aolexido.
The Chamber of beraties will discus
the proposed new prose Jew, et the
Batelle, bill, ea it is known, during its
Present period of seesions, actordirig to
Cengreseinen Diedore Batelle.
For some time several rnembere of the
cluteiber have been eotitidering the ltd.
viettbility of hitrodtteing redical reforms
itt the present Jaw on publieations with
the view of eideeging the libertieg et
jertnialists and publishere iti expressieg
thoughts and opinions, the present la*
being dorisidered as. too Arid, Con-
gressmen Patella feels eetifiderit that it
will he Pallaga.--Itexieen Herald.
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Coustipationifilliousness, hays -
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A Dying Women. Rescued Through
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"My doctor told me I had only six
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saved my
Continuing her deelaration, Mr. jam-
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feeling ill ,afterwerde. Sometimes 1WAs
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the pain. The wind settled le iuy stom-
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The benefit I received front the firs t
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me awl. I coetinued their use, three to
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SEED HAD FALLEN ON- ARABLE
GROUND.
A well-known prelate of the Cleveland
diocese recently preached a series of ser-
mons, his general. theme being "Humil.
ity." In the course of his sermons lie
necessarily dwelt upon the nothingness
of man without the help of grace. His
auditors were the gentle nuns ot the
Villa Convent, and the convent school
pupils made up of many young ladies,
girls and small boys.
At the conclusion of the sermons, says
the Leader, the prelaie, while divesting
himself of the garments of the altar ser-
vice, turned to the sanctuary boys, lads
of 10 or 11 years. "What are you?" in-
quired the venerable priest of one of the
two boys. Quick as a flash crane back
the answer, "Pin an Irishman, and I'm
proud of it." "And whet are you?" he
asked the other lad. Crossing his little
hands upon his breast, he quietly re-
joined, "Father, I have been listening.
I am nothing."
The aged aderinistrator of the Cleve-
land diocese chuckles as heetinfolds the
tale. The seed had evidently fallen on
arable ground.
WHY HE CAME.
"I dined with Somerset Maugham at
Ritz in London," said a poet. "Maugh-
am, who now grinds out a million -dol-
lar comedy every month or two, began
by writing tragedies in German.
"From tragedies in German to Mrs.
Dot !" I cried. 'How did you come to it,
Somerset?'
"He peeled the silver wrapping from
a greate black, cigar.
"'My German . tragedies,' he said,
'had few hearers, and these hearers were
sympathetic, I, hi those days, was like
the escienc,e professor who found one
night that his audience consisted of but
a single person.
'The amphitheatre was very large.
The audience, a little man sat high
up and far back on the last french.
'My friend,' said the professor, gen-
ially, "why don't you COMO nearer? You
would hear much better on the front
row."
" `Ah, rats!' said the audience, "I
didn't come in to listen to you. I came
to get warm." '
ONLY ONE CURE
FOR A BAD STOMACH
Indigestion and Similar Troubles
Must be Treated Through the
Blood.
Indigestion can be treated in many
ways, but it can be cured in only one
way—through the blood. Purgatives
cannot cure indigestion. By main. foece
they move the food en still undigested.
That weakens the whole system, uses
up the natural juices of the body and
leaves the 'stomach and bowels parched
and sore. It is a cause of indigestion—
not a cure. Others try predigested
foods and peptonized drugs, But drugs
which digeet the food for the stomaeh
really weaken its power. The digestive
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until they are strong enough to doit
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alone can digest the food. lf the blood
is loaded with impurities it cannot ab-
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glands, and nothing can absorb the,
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nothing can give that pure, red blood
but Dr. Williams' Pink J?ills. Mrs, Al-
fred Gallant, Mill River, P. B. I., says:
"Par several y•MYS, previous and up to
two Tett.1% tigo, 7 suffered eontinuelly
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to keep my strength, and what little I
did eat, no matter what kind of food,
eaused greet pains, so that 7 became
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took medicine from them, but without
any herrefit whatever:, On the advice of
a friend 7 began to take Dr. Williams'
Pink Pills, and 600.11 good mantle were
noticed. I could slightly increase the
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food, end in Short time got back to
wly normal state of health, and. feel that
Dr. Williams' Pink Pillhave surely eur-
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gestion."
You an get these PIM from any
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for $2.50 by eddroming the IP, Wilhelm'
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Tillif• FARM
Pennsylvauie, fernier gives thie eit•
perionce with wooecheeke (greUnd-hogs).
tile had set several hundred early cab-
bages, and in going through his patch
early one morurng he found eeveeal
plants missitig, JJe fonad the wood-
chucks' hole under the wall—in feet,
several hole—neat hie cabbage field,
LIE armed himself wieli several 0..01
tram: and twee all his ounning in setting
them in the burrows of the woodchtiaks,
but After several mornings of patiaat
waiting, eapture by trap proved 4081),..
cessful. But, having heeled that Gen
Were very foga. (if salt, lie IlliXe4 A
eral quantity of Paris green in ebe.tt
a quart oreatl and plaired a handfe!
neer each burrow. Ile was not trouoled
again that season, and this has been
hrs remedy OVer
If it was not for butter whir, not a
pound of oleomargarine or poor haler
could ever have been sold as the gene-
ine, clean product of the cow.
There is ono thing the farmer cannot
afford to overlook In sheep raising, and
that is thrift, Thrift means health, gain
in cordite, quantity and productivenees,
the elements out of which the profits are
derived, It must be the first object of
the owner to keep his pheep itt thrivieg
condition. The quality of the wool, as
well as the quantity, and the general
productiveness of the flock make this
requirement imperative.
An odor will be observed in the nailk if
silage is fed to cows a short time be-
fore milking, but if given shortly after
milking the silage smell cannot be de-
tected.
, There aro several points in feeding
sheep that must not be overlooked. The
feed lot must be dry, with plenty of
clean, dry bedding; the animals must
have plenty of clean, purci water, aed
the feed troughs should be kept clean.
These should be arranged so that the
sheep cannot foul them with their feet.
Another point is to keep them from be-
coming excited or frightened. To this
end it is better that one person feed
there all the time.
It is said that Greater New York con-
sumes 7,704,930 gallons of milk, 361,.
600 gallons of cream, and 83,160 gallons
of condensed milk in one month. The
daily average is 242,490 gallons of milk,
10,340 gallons of cream, and 1,480 gal-
lons of condensed milk.
It will mean a loss to the farmer to
have the oow afraid of him. It is a _loss
every time she is frightened. To rifir a
coy to pasture is like throwing money
away, A cow in any way worried will
not do her best. The cow that is made a
pet of will make money for its owner.
The milk of a frightened or abused cow'
is poisonous.
If orchard grass is not sown thickly
It will not be a. success. Three bushels
to the acre should be used. Orchard
grass ia more vigorous than timothy,
with a stornger root system; but if a
permanent is expected it must
l'eetop-dremeadow le
After making a most careful
study of the matter, U. S. Govern-
ment scientists state definitely
that the common house fly is the
principal means of distributing
typhoid fever, diphtheria and
smallpox. Wilson's Fly Pads kill
the flies and the disease germs,
too.
MATCITMSS MISERY.
I'm disappointed, pained and sad;
My heart down at my feet,
My case is bad, and very bad,
My misery complete!
I seem to have no comfort left
The 'world is black and blue;
I feel so hopelessly bereft
I know not what to do. '
Indeed, were I a coward -fool,
With nothing in my sconce,
I'd take a halter and a stool,
And end the thing at once!
It isn't that the bank is broke,
And all 1 had lot in it;
I have more cash than many folk,
And able still to win it.
Nor is it that the looks are cold,
That were so warm and tender;
She's true as steel; she' e good as gold;
And may all good attend her!
0 no! I haven't lost a friend,
A. sister or a brother;
Or seen a good position end e
• Before I got another.
I haven't traded off my horse,
And got a spavined cripple;
Nor am I eaten' with remorse
After a heavy tipple,
It isn't grippe; it isn't gout;
Nor any pain or ache;
My sight is good, my limbs are stout;
My hearing wide awake.
And yet, I never felt so bad,
So downeast and forlorn;
So helpless, miserable, sad—
No, not eitice I was born!
Toothaehe or headache; grippe or gout,
,Is noght, compared with this!
The miseries men talk about—
Well—[ should call them blies!
Not one is mine of all the batch;
And yet my woe is ripe;
I find I haven't got a match,
And cannot light nry pipe!
DIFFERENCE IN THEM.
The head of a big firth of contractors
Was walking around the premises and
stopped to eonverse With old George, a
stableinan. • se
"Well, George, how goes it?" he said.
"Pair to m41(11111', sir," George an-
seveted. "Pair to middlina" And he
continued to rub demi a bay. hoss, while
the other looked on ill silettee. "Me
and this 'ere hoss," George mid, sudden-
l"has worked foi" you sixteert year."
"Well, well," said the boss, thinkinga
little guiltily of George's very low
wage. "And suppose , you are pretty
highly valued, George, eh?"
"Wm!" saki George,. "Both of es Was
took ill last week, and they got a. doctor
for the hogs, but they just deeked my
poi"
4 11 411.- "
CHRONIC,
"Away down in her heart," said the
boarding house philostopher, "every wo-
n pessimist. "When any lamity
hansom she itheeys wants te know ilte
worst, and isn't happy until she hears.
'Five Largest °Wet.
The area of aeres of the five largegt
eities of the Milted States are as fol.
lewet New York, 202;21111 New Orleens,
I2.5.0001 Chicago, 114.022; Philadelphia,
81,822; Duluth. 4o,5511,
When shown positive and reliable proof that a certain
remedy had cured numerous cases of female ills, wouldn't
any sensible woman conclude that the same remedy would
also benefit her if suffering with the same trouble?
Jiere are two letters which prove the efficiency of Lydia
E, Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.
Glanford Station, Ont.— "1 have taken Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound for years and never found any medicine to
compare with it. I had ulcers and failing of the uterus, and doc-
tors did me no good. I suffered drdfully until I began taking
your medicine. It has also helped other women to whom I have
recouitnen.ded. RenryOlark, Glanford Station, Ontario.
' Another woman. says. Lydia E. Pinkharn's Vegetable
Compound is the best remedy in the world for women.
'rex Creek, N. B. —641 have always bad pains in the loins and
a weakness there, and often after my meals my food would dis-
tress me and cause soreness. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound has done me much good. I am stronger, digestion
is better, and I can walk with ambition. 1 have encouraged
many mothers of families to take it, as it is the best remedy in
the world for women. You can publish this in the papers."
— Mrs. William Bourque, Fox Creek, N. B., Canada..
We will pay a handsome reward to any person who will
prove to us that these letters are not genuine and truthful
—or that either of these women were paid in any way for
their testimonials, or that the letters are published without
their permission:, or that the original letter from each did
not come to us entirely unsolicited.
What more proof can any one ask?
For 30 years Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound has been the standard remedy for
female ills. No sick woman does justice to
herself who Will not try this famous medicine.
Made exclusively from roots and herbs, and
has thous
ands of cures to its credit.
Mrs. F:inicham invites all siek women
to write her for advice. She has
guided thousands to health free of charge.
Address Mrs. Pinkham, Lynn, Mass.
1N
E NEW,
MOTION PICTURES. •
Harrowing Scenes That Seem to
Please the Audiences.
If the proprietors of the moving pic-
ture shows rightly judge their audience
the latter come not to be amused so
much as to be instrueted, and most of all
to be horrified, Tragedy takes a laglfbr
place than comedy in some of the bills,
and seemingly the audience enjoys it,
especially those of the afternoon, lour -
fifths of whom are women.
An hour in one of the better grade of
these places of amusement left a first
visitor in a depressed state. The show
was' in a theatre onee the home of high -
plass plays, the attendants were neatly
uniformed, the place was well kept and
the seats were filled. with. prosperous ap-
pearing women.
The first shock was when the screen
announced "Saved by a Waif," and the
whirring of the picture machine intro-
duced us to a happy- home, obviously
French, with a chidl, a doll, and the pro-
per number of parents. The next seen
called out the handkerchiefs. The child
is in bed. sick, the doctor is summoned,
He examines her, shakes his head. sol-
emnly, and then with a horrible struggle
the little girl dies end the mether faints.
As if that were not enough we are
next introduced to a mother turned man-
iac with grief and laughing idiotically
over the doll of her dead ehidl. The
doctor is equally hopeless over this ease,
The rest of the plot is brief.
The plryeician finds in, the street a
stray child wire betas a remarkable re-
semblance to the dead. girl, brings her
to the house, dresses her in the clothes
last worn by the other, and presents her
to the erazy mother, who ill some way
not quite clear is at once cured, while
the waif is returned. to her poverty-
stricken parents with a large bunch of
paper neweneirire
Thc dof the piece is cheerful
enough, but its early progress was punc-
tuated by sobs, while the death struggle
of the child made most of th-e women
Val).
A.s if this were not enough the audi•
enee a few minutes later was treated to
another domestic tragedy beginning with
a happy home' also of father, mother
and little girl. This time the home is
humble but still French,
From this abode of poverty but good
cheer the child, falls from the window
and is brought in- lifeless and inspected
by a doctor, apparently the same- who
turned up in the other pictures ana
whose sa,d fate it is to be perpetually
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shaking his head to indicate that there
is no hope.
In this series the father takes to drink,
heats his wife and is about to leave her.
In packing up they find their dead
daughter's belongings and can't agree
as to their division. Ire weeps, begs his
wife's forgiveness, throws tlw bottle out
of the vindow and presumably never
takes another drink. No one can find
fault with the moral, but it hardly seems
as light hearted an amusenient as the
weary shopper would. wish.
Not content with being mournful and
moral, the moving picture of to -day is
also instructive. Whole series are de-
voted to reproducing methods of manu-
factum or famous seenes of history.
Sprinkle in a reasona,ble amount ofiriv-
olous matter and what more could be ex-
pected for five cents or even ten?—New
York Sun. •
VC:f t. I Never Knew.
I never knew how much she v- to me,
I never knew how patient she,* culd be;
I never realized until she went away,
How much a woman helps a man each
(bay.
And, 0, I never knew how thoughtless I
Had been at Muses, until I saw her die.
I never knew the creases that she bore
With smiling patience, or the griefs that
Wore
Upon her heart strings, as she toiled
away.
I only saw ner smiles and thought her
gay;
I took for granted joys that were not
80.
I might have helped her then, but didn't
know.
I thought -she worried needlessly, and
yet
I see her life was bounded by regret;
I might have done much more for her,
Bet knhoa‘aveIher sorrows, or had thought
t
Butnowtat Pm alone at last, I see
How much of pain her sinning hid from
me.
I never knew how much I leaned upon
That little woman, till I found her pee,
ROW much her patience, gentleness and
cheers
Had meant to me through all these
early years.
How many little things she used to do
To smooth my path. Alas, I nevel
knew!
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SHOE POLISH
is different from any other — the
best—the brightest and blackest,
Quickest to shine — longest to stay
shined.
It is real Insist on "2
Shoe Insur. i n x." N o
luxe. \ other is even
Peeds and half a.sgood,
preserves
the leather.
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ihc. and
HEART DALM.
Selected.
rell me about the Master;
I am weary And worn to -night,.
The day lies behind me in shadow,
4114i only the evening is light!
fight with his radiant .glory
That lingers about the West.
MY poor heart i aweary,. aweary,
And longs like a child for rod.
Tell me about the Magic'',
Of the 111118 he Jai/men/40m trek
When the tears and blood of itie an,-
guiell
Dropped down on •Judett's sod..
For to Inc We's seventy milestones
But a sorrowful journey mark;
Hough Hee the hill eountry before me,
The mountains behind me are dark,
Yet I know that, whatever of sorrow
Or pain, or temptation. befall,
The infinite Master has suffered,
And knoweth and pitieth 411.
So tell me the sweet,. old story,
That falls on each wound like a balm,
And my heart Ontwas bruised 'and
broken
Shall grown patient, and strong, and
calm, ,
A. DEGENURATE RACE.
(By A Banker.)
That ancient and once powerful se-
mitie race, the Moors, when in: their
prime were in many respects far in ad-
vance of any 'Western nation then ex-
isting, excelling them not only in
asahi-
ttcttir and in literature, but also in
scieuce. The florid and richly ornate
style of their architecture has .perhape
never been surpased, the eurichmeets
and many hued embellishments of the
wonderful Alhambra at Granada, as an
example, being probably more brilliant
and gorgeous than those of any °thee
building ever erected upon this faith,
while many other of the sumptuous pal.
aces erected by them—the splendid lei-
-gal castle for instance at Chitin near
Lisbon, now a summer palace of royalty
--compare with almost any even mod-
ern structure.
But the Moors are now a degenerate,
a retrograde, and a. declining race. The
population of the City of alcieeeco has
declined from 700,000 to about 60,060;
while Tangiers, one of their most iei
portant towns, is, with the exception of
the European quarter, filthy, undraeacd,
and insanitary to the last degree. The
streets, after rain, are ankle deep in s
quagmire of offensive, pestiferous :mid,
and the place reeks with foul and mu -
some metlodours. The. little shops ere
raised during the day and lowered at
night, the contents of many of them be-
ing but offensive garbage; while almost
the whole place has an aspect of squal-
or, neglect, and noxious impurity.,
And yet these same people were once
a powerful nation, their Empire ex-
tendingfrom Bagdad to the Atlantic,
and their army equal, and perhaps sup-
erior in bravery and equipment, to the
troops of any of the Western nations,
who, in vain, for centuries strained. ev-
erynerve to oust them froin the terri-
tories in Europe, -which they had usurp-
ed. But eventually they were, happily
for civilization and religion, driven out,
and the decadence which had already
cceoineirmaenddee. became intensified and ace
te
But their fall has been an untold boon
'to mankind. Foe what a terrible conte.n-
plation if their career of conquest had
advanced unchecked, and Europe had
been laid 'under Moslem rule. But 1. ap.
pity for the human race the Christian
nations are now paramount almost ev-
erywhere through the world, and the
• Saviour of the world, He who, though
Son of God, deigned for a time to .drell
on earth to suffer obloquy and set rn,
and to give his life as a ransom for
those who come to Him for life eteenal,
Is worshipped and adored. But, alas,
with some, Christianity is but a form,
devoid altogether of life-giving reality!
PRAYER
Mest glorious God, Thou Who are
light and in Whom there is no darkness
at all, we bless Thee for the true Light
whom Thou hest sent into the world. 0
Thou who art the Light of men we
thank Thee that Thou hest shined into
our hearts. Enable us faithfully to re-
flect the light which Thou hest given.
Make Thy Church a beacon for the
whole earth, and let the nations come to
her light and kings to the brightness of
her rising. Send forth Thy servants ev-
erywhere bearing the torch which can
dispel the darkness of ignorance and
cruelty and sin, and let the earth he
filled with Thy glory. Amen.
FAITH'S VICTORIES
(T. It. Miller, in Presbyterian.)
A great deal is • said in the Bible
about faith. We live by faith when we
believe in things we cannot see and then
act as if the things were true. That is
what the first verse teaches us. "Faith
is assurance of things lloped for." We
hope that God loves us. If we become so
assured of this that we take the hope in-
to our hearts as a fact, that is faith.
If we really believe that God loves us,
the truth means a great deal to us. We
are not then afraid of God—He is our
frieird. We 'may helm hard things to en-
dute,—losses, sorrows, sufferings, disap-
pointments,—but if we really believe
that God loves us we will not be greatly
disturbed by such experiences. If we
actually believe that Christ rose from
the clead, We know that We have a liv-
ing Saeiour who is our friend, our com-
panion, our helper, our guide.
Faith is "aconvictiou of things uot
seen." That is, it makes us ari sure of
the unseen things in which we believe
as if they were visible to our natural
eyes. Columbus believed tlere was a
land, a continent, another country, he.
pied the sea, and the belief became such
a strong conviction that he pushed out
upon the SOA to tied the land he be-
lieved in rind sailed on till ho found it.
The thns us of A world beyond
the earth, our Father's house, home, et-
ernal life. We cannot me it. But if we
have faith, this heavenly country be-
comes as real to us es EngItind is to the
tourist who puts out upon the sea this
month to cross the ocean to Liverpool.
Electric Propulsion foe Ships.
Tthe Institute of Marine Engineers in
T.ondon reeently di.Acussed this enbjeet,
end TT. A. Mayor, of Illasgosv, said that
the prospeet for eleetrie propulsion for
Millie is very hopeful, Lettaing AMP -
builders lutve teen eorisiderleg the sub.
leienifor eothe thee. W. P. Durtnall said
that in the all-eleetrie Paragon method
t°1ePe rivhtg vtlehgv./51%et. itlehet'It'oetpreiellelrialt), ta°111:11
run at venally high offieioney in either
direetion. Sinee the etettin turbine am
run ht. only one direetion, the new meth-
AAV("4 the expense of a toversiblo tut..