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The Wingham Times, 1894-05-11, Page 2CP, • THE "HOOSIER 9 that, a well•thumbed copy of "Ca SRR OO L _ ASTER. Main Riley Narrintlr e, had la silted lost nil freshl.es . TJ.1E WING AJ. MAY 11,- 1894. p- vineible. He would take hold in ng l>tich a way that nothiug should make flim let go. And then lie went to lt- sleep, tar Ie tl'e morning Ralpli got out of tis bed slowly. He put bis clothes on I slowly. Ho pulled on his boots in a et• bulldog mood. He tried to move as he thought Bull would if he were a plan.deliberation, c He ate rvi h t and o looked everybody in the eyes with a u manner that made Bub watelt him t- curiously. He found Himself email - of ually comparing himself with Bull. o I fe walked to school alone, the rest r' having gone on be het the school -room pry 's dogged manner. t of the boys that By EDWARD •. CHAPTER 11 I. A i'RI '.1.TT: LESSON FROM. .t IULLD0:1. "Want to be a sellool-piaster, clo . v. - Well, -u youwould o what I Xuu. d.l y Y • di:(? ill 1' gat. Crick clecstrielc, I'd like to r know? Why, the boys have driv off V. the last two, and licked the one afore thorn like blazes. You plight teach tt summer school, when nothin' but Children come. rpt I 'low it takes at right smart malt be school -master in Flat Crick in t ie winter. They'd neck Pitch you of Dors sonny h c to out , p, and heels, afore hristmas." youngwalked t who had n 1 The ma ten miles to get •the school in this distriet, and whol1hnd been mentally reviewing his Willing at every step he took, tremblidtr lest the committee :should find thi, t the did not know .enough, was not little taken aback at this greetin from "old Jack .gleans," who watt the first trustee -that he lighted Op. The impression made by these ominous remarks was emphasized by ?the glances which he received from Jack Means's two sons. .The older ne eyed ]line from the. top of This br vny shoulders with that amiable 1 ok which a big dog turns on a lits one before steak- . ing him. Rid h Hartsook had never thought o -being measured by the standard of huscle. This notion of beating ed cation into young • savages in spite f themselves dashed his ardor. , I right where had •aI d t 1 ht to i He tdrr 5 Jaek Means w s at work shaving shingles in hi own front yard. ' l>,ul M the wasIna Mr.'a While tic s speech which wc1 have set down above, and punetu atin4 it with expector- • ations, a Iarg. bulldog had been Sniffing at Ralp's heels, and a girl in a new Linsey-j ooling dress, stand- ing by the door/111a' nearly giggled her head oft' at elle delightful pros- pects of seeing ti new school -teacher eaten up by the ferocious brute. • The disheartening words of the old Ulan, - the unnl(nse muscles of the young man who iwas to be his rebel- lious pupil, the j ws of the ugly bull- dog, and the heatless giggle of the girl, gave Ra,iplila delightful sense of having precipitated himself into a den of wild beasts. Faint with 'weariness and discouragement, and shivering with fear, he sat down on a wheelbarrow. "s • "You, Bull !" slid the old man to the dog, which Was showing more and more a disposition to make a meal of the incipient pedagogue, "y ou, Bull 1 git aoit, you pup!" The dog walked sullel.ly off, but not until he had given Ralph a look full of promise of ri hatlh`e meant to do when he got a good chance. Ralph wish- ed himself: back in the village of Lewisburg, from whence lie had come. •• •, "You see," continued Mr. Means, spitting in a meditative sort of a way, • "you see, we ain't none of your saft sort in these diggiin's. It takes a man -,to boss this deestribk. Howsumdever, • ef you think you can trust your hide in Flat Crick school -house 1 ha'n't got no 'bjection. But ef you get - :licked, don't come on us. Flat Crick C don't pay no 'nsurance, you bet ! Alii other trustees? Wal, yes. But i as I pay the most taxes, *Alters jist e let pre run the thing. You can be- c gin right off on Monday. They ain't been no other applications. You see, it takes grit to apply for this school. r The Iast plaster had a black eye for R *month. But, as I wuz sayin', you h n just roll up and wade in. 1 'low 've got spunk, maybe, and that h Cres for a heap sight more'n slime th the boys. Walk in, and stay r Sunday with me. You'll have to board roun', and I guess you lead better begin here," Ralph did not go in, but sat out on :e wheelbarrow' watching the old eiian shaving shingles,. while the boys lit tlrc blocks and chopped wood. split smelt of the new -comer again in r, • 'I'll be clog-on'cl," said 1'1,11, (!l EGGLESTON• phatically, "Cf I hadn't rather )le the plaster tell deem whelipin' yar "Tlesson in the art of Managing people, than go to the circus the best day 'for he who can manage the untamed ever seed !" Bill could pay no high and strapping youths of a winter compliment. school in Iioopele County has gone What Ralph wanted was to mak M rn f•t • towardlearning one of far i t i thehard- It's ba friend of hull. a nice thing t est lessons. And in Ralph's time, have the seventy -foul -gull ship o things were worse than they are now, your own side, and the more liar The older sore of lir, gleans was called soot: admired the knotted muscles Bub Means. What his real name . Bub kraals the more he desired t was, Ralph coilld, not find out, for in attach him to himself. So, whenevc many of these gunnies the n:cknanle he struck out a opceuliar brillia of "Bub" givel1l to the oldest boy,and passage, he anxious y watched Bub. that of "Sis,"which is the birthright eve. But the •our Philistine kep p of the oldest girl, completely bury his own counsel, -le listened, b the proper Cli iistlan name. Ralph said i:othing, and tl e eyes under hi saw his first' strategic point, which shaggy brows gave to sign. ll all ,, Means. , was to Cd till L i3 1) 1 n couldtellr ether- those not r e e l 1 host cr I ,(. .y rn t the boys began After , t t c r i to were do and Irl • Tutt blc or onl E C L 1 pp4 , „p get ready for s' malting. Bull stuck stolid. Perhaps a little of both up his ears in t' dignified way, and When Monday morning came, Ralp the three or ur yellow Cuts who was nervous. He walked t.) Scudo were I:ull's sate lites yelped delight- edly and discos aptly. "Bili," said .Iiub Means to his "Faller, "ask tett, master ef he'd like to hunt coons. 'T'd like to take 'the starch out uv tic stuck-up feller." 'N Unger sa 1," was Bill's reply." "You Burn' do it," said Bub. "I dont tit no sech a dare," re- turned Bill, a 1 walked down to the gate, by rr hi Ralph stood watching the stars coal out, and Half wishing he had never een Flat Creek. "I say, ilii er," began Bill,"mister, they's a coo what's been a eating our chickens ately, and we're going to try to 1 tch .the varmint. You, ,+ wouldn't Ilk to take a coon hunt nor nothin', won d you ?" power coiled up in his great muscles „ "Why, Ralph, r,• haveany said "there's e s rI shan't• trouble t , ry t nothing I should like better,if I;could you." only be sur Bull wouldn't mistake "Why, I'm the wust chappf all. nee for tlie'roon." thrashed the last plaster, myself." And so, a matter ofpoliey,Ralph Ancl again the eyes of Bub Mean dragged hi, tired legs eight or ten looked out sharplylfrom hie shadow miles on h Il and in hollow, after Bub ing brows to sec t]jic effect of this and Bill and Ball, and the coon. speech on the slen er young mmn. But the racoon climbed a tree. The "You won't thr• set me, though," boys got ' to a quarrel about whose said Ralph. business i was to have brought the "Pshaw ! I '10 v I could'wltip you axe, and ho was to blame that the 'in en inch of yon r life with my left tree cote d not be felled. Now, if hand, and never alf try," said young therewa 1 anything ' < ny tl ing Ralph's muscles Means, with a threatening sneer. were goo for, it was climbing. So, "I know that s well as you do." asking N. b to give him a start, he '"Well, ain't you afraid of nee soon read ted the limb above the one then ?" and ag€ n he looked sidewise on which': the raccoonwas.I .Ralph alptn at Ralph, did not k.ow how ugly a customer a "Not a bit," aid Ralph, wonder - raccoon can be, and so got credit for lug at his own ,ourage. more co"urage than he had. With They walked on in silence a min - much pe •il to his legs from the rat- ute. Bub was turning the matter coon's to tih, he succeeded in shaking over. • the poor creature off' among the yelp- , "Why ain't lou afraid of me ?" he ing brute and yelling boys. Ralph skid presently. 1 could notihelp sympathizing with the `Because yo. t and I are going to hunted animal, which sold its life as be friends." - dearly ass possible, giving the dogs "And what tfl)out t'otilcrs ?" many a s retch and bite. It seemed "I am not afraid of all the other to him telt he was like the raccoon, boys put toget ter." reci ate , intothe i mischief ! - p p i midst of a art • "You ain't!! . The ihliselmc,f . How's party of clogs wll p would rejoice in worrying that ?" • t, as Ball and his crowd "Well, I mill not afraid of them be - ore. Ie entered serving a cool and He saw in the eyes ne•e v i was mischief tit browing. He did -not dare to kit s down hi his cbairfor fear of a pin. Everybody r It e od o h 1 'DAM. solemn. eml Ralph ). Y Y es lifted the lid of s desk. \"Bow -wore! was tate voice of an y, and the school hon roared, Then luiet. +xpeeted an outburst le teacher. ler they and the whole world wo classes, the teach- er on one side - representing lawful authority, and he pupils on the other in a state of cSronie rebellion. To play a trick oil the master was an evidence of spiJit; to "lick" the mas- ter was to be I the crowned hero of Rat ,Creek district. Such a hero.was Bub Means; and Bill, who lead less muscle, saw a chance • to distinguish himself on a to leer of 'slender frame. Hence the pup* in the desk. Ralph IIartso'bk grew red in the • r - fat when r hen h ' tr t e a r the puppy.But t e the cool, rcpre y wow -wow !" Il . imprisoned pup h 'giggled and t 1 everything was The scholars y of wrath from had conk to re n as divided into t r. cl c1, h with Bub. "I guess you're f little skewed b what the old man cake, ain't yon ?" Ralph was about! to deny it, but o reflection concluded that it Was beS to speak the truth. 'ttic said that M Means's description of the school ha made him feel a little down-lheartc "What will you de with the tong boys ? You ain't noliaach for 'em.' And Ralph felt Bull's eyes not only measuring his muscl is, but scrutiniz- ing his countenance. He only an- swered : • "I don't know." ' "What would you do with nue, for 4 instance 1 ?"steel Bub stretched him c hie self up as if to shake out the resew• sed, bulldog mood in . which he had 1tept himself saved him. h He lifted the d g into his arms and • stroked him u til the laughter sub - I sided. Then, tl a solemn and set 1 way, he began : s • "I ail sorry," and he looked roinid the room with a steady, hard eye—' everybody felt that there was a con- flict coming—"I ai i sorry that any scholar in this school could be so mean" ---the words wereuttered with a sharp emphasis, a4id all the big boys felt sure that there ;would be a fight with Bill Means, and perhaps with Bub—"could bo sq mean—as to— . shut up his brotherlin such a place - , as that I" 1 • • There was a long derisive laugh: The wit was indifFeilent, but by one stroke Ralph had carried the whole school to his side. lay the -magnifi- cent glances of the a boys, Hartsook detected the perpetrator of the joke, and with the hard and dogged look in hos eyes, with juste such a look as Bull would give a appy, but with the utmost suavity lin his voice, he said : 1 "William Means, "vill you be so good as to put this cog out of doors?" his life o were des 'eying, the poor raccoon. cause you azul I are going to be When Bull at last seized the raccoon friends, and y u can whip alt of therm and put au end to it, Ralph could not together. Yoh4'll do the fighting and but admir4 the decided way in which I'll clo the teaching." he did it, culling to mind Bub's coni- The cliplomt tic Bub only chuckled ment, "Ef Bull once takes a holt, a little at this; vhethcr he assented to Heaven arc yarth can't make him let i the alliance or .not Ralpli could not go" But as they walked home, Bub , 'When Rttlplh (loolcecl round on the airy ing the raccoon by tete tail, faces of the scholars—tilt little faces Ralph felt;that his hunt had. not been full of mischief' and curiosity, the n vain. He fancied that even red-? big faces full: of 'alt expression. yed Bull, walking uncomfortably i wliiclh was not farther moved ' than lose to his heels, respected hills more second -cousin from contempt—when sine he had climbed that tree: S ,"Putty peart kind of a master,"younj faccsghis heart soalc looked into their emarked the old man to "Bub, after j fright. There is no audienctated e to face apple had gone to bed. Guess you I as one of school -children, as many. a ad be a little easy on him. Hcy man has found to his cost. reshape But Bub deigned no reply. Per- it is that no conventional restraint aps be • cause he knew that Ralphea.n keep donne their Iaughter when heard the conversation through the' you do or say anything ridiculous. thin partition. Hartsook's first day was hurried Ralph woke delighted to find it ' and unsatisfactory. He was not raining. He did not want to hunt or' plaster of himself, and consequently fish on Sunday, and this steady rain l not master of anybody else. When would enable him to make friends' evening cane, there were symptoms with Bub. I do not know how he of insubordination through the whole of started, but after breakfast he school. Poor Ralph was sick at heart. egall to tell•stories. Out of all the He felt that if there had ever been a ooks he had ever read he told story shadow of an itiliance between hinl- fter story. And old man Means," , self and Bub, ltq was all "off" now. It R nd "old iii '1 S3 meal t, . Aryans," and Bub t olIat:ok ,Hartsook o that even I3tti1 'Beans, and Bill Mans, and Sis Means had lost his I;kispect for the teacher stencil .with great eyes while leo Half that nigh the young Ivan lay old of Sinbad's adventures, of the awake. At Ia. t comfort calve to him. Old Man of the Sea, of ltobinson • A reminisce) a of the death rusoe, of Captain (. ulliver's e gwri- ' of the recce n flashed on hint noes ill Liliput, and' of Baron Mute- like a vision. ''IIe remembered that hausefi's exploits. quiet and anniilating bite white Bull Ralph had caught his fish. The gave. tic rem metered Bub's ccrti ungry minds of these backwoods' i' • thaty ' Yteats, I,f 3u11 avec, takes a holt. • 1 tell. b b "ugly way, and got a good. kick a older Igo on for hes ts pains. But of one of his red eyes the dog i the 'young school -master that li 'Iganild yet suffer for all the kicks t on his account. • Ol Bull once takes a holt, heaven 0 yarth can't make hips let go," e the older son to Ralph, by way e t. vase well f ; Ralph that he be- h :bean! :eon"' by stopping at p liar's. Ralpli felt that FIat li was what he needed. He had it s booklah life; but here was Ilia eople were refreshed with the new' heaven and yarth Can't make him let fc that came to their imaginations go." Ile thought that what Flat 1 these stories. For there was but Creek needed was a bulldog. He ane book in the Means's library, and l would be a bulldog, quiet, but in- • CHAPTI+ R II. A SPELL 1011II1iG There was a lnollent of titter still- etism of Ralph's for Bill Means. lite, the master's . look was so innocen$ and yet so de- termined. Bill often wondered after- ward that he had not "fit" rather than obeyed the request. But some) ness; but the mag: eye was too much The request was so p sound, Nevertheless, Ralph was master from this time until the spell- ing -school carie. If only it lead not been for that spelling -school! Many and *many a time after the night of the fatal spelling -school Ralph used to say, "If only it lead not been for that spelliing-school !" There had to be tt spelling -school. Not onlyh •) tfor the sake of my story, y, which r ch would ro 1 i h t have been worth telling if the spelling -school bad not taken place, but because Flat Creek had to have a spelling -school, It is the only public literary exercise known in Hoopore County. It takes the place of lyse iu lecture and de- bating club. Si Means, or, as she wished * d now to c called,II ira Mirandy I 1 dY Means, expressed herself ost posh tively ill favor of it. She said tl she 'lowed that he folks that di of s fli 1 at s trict couldn't in to wise do with= it. But it waslratlner to its socia than to its intellectual benefits tha she referred. For all the spelling schools ever seen could not enabl her to stance anywhere but at tlh foot of the class.., There is ono branch diligently taught in a backwood school. The public mind seems int pressed with the Vacuities of Euglisl and there is a sole= conviction that the chief encs of man is to learn to spell. " `Know Web ster's Elementary' came clown frog Heaven,", would be the backwoods version of the Greek saying but that unfortunately for the Greeks, thef fame has not retie ed so far. It often happens that the upil does not know the meaning of a ingle word in the lesson. This is of no consequence. What do roti. antrto know the meaning of a rvorc ) for? Words were made to be spellec and men were probably created tbtit they might spell them. IIon the necessity of sending a pupil tln,ough the spelling- book pelling book five times bef re you allow him to begin to read, 011 indeed to do any- thing else: hence he necessity for those long spelling -classes at the close of each forenoon and afternoon session of the School, to stand at the head of which is the cherished ambition of every scholar. Hence, too, the neces- sity of devoting the whole of Friday afternoon to a spelling -match. In fact, spelling is the 'natural game" in Hoopole County. Baseball and croquet matches are s unknown as Oly mpllfan chariot aces. Spelling and shaking are tlk •only public cont- petitions. So the fatal spell' g -school had to be appointed for the Wednesday of the second week of the session, just when Ralph found himself master of the situation. Not that he was,,rvitli- out his annoyances. • One of Ralph's troubles in the week before the spell- ing -school was that! he was loved. The other that he that!, hated. And while the time betrr!cen the appoint- ing of the spelling 'tournament and the actual occurrence of that remark- able event is engag 41 in elapsing, let ire narrate to =id is that made it for Ralph a trying elle. coarsest, and the most with( con- temptible girl in Flat Creek district. Ralph sat by the fire the next morning trying to read a few minutes before school -tulle, while the boys. were doing the choles and the bound girl was milking the cows, with no one in the room hitt the old woman. She was generally as silent *as Bub, , seemedso h. unac- countable ° she se e h forsome i t but now h u i countable reason disposed' to talk. She had sat down on the broad. ,hearth to have her usual morning smoke; the popular table, adorned by no cloth, stood in the middle of the floor; the tinwusheci bine teacups sat in the unwashed blue saucers; the un- washed blue plates kept eoknpany with the begrimed blue pitcher. The h- dirty skillets by the fire wore kept at in countenance by the dirtier pots, were - and the ashes drifted and strewn. ei r'zl. t over the hearth -stones in a most pic- 1 turesque way. t "You see," said the old woman, - knocking the residuum from her cob e pipe, and chafing some dry leaf be- e tween her withered hangs prepar- atory 1 to filling it again, "you see, s Mr. Hartsook, my ole man's party. ' - well along in the world. He's got 11 right smart lot of this world's ' plun- n 'cher, one way and another." And while she stuffed the tobacco into her - pipe Ralph wondered wily she should n mention it to him. "You see, we moved in here nigh upon twenty-five , years ago. 'Twas when my Jack,' r him as died afore Bub was born, was a baby. Bub'lI be twenty-one the fir of next June." ('ro BE CONTINUED.) A Boon — to Iiorsoln en Une bottle of English Spavin' Liniment completely removed a curb from my horse. 1 take ' Wing pleasure in reoomme tdmy, aha. remedy, • as it acts with mysterious promptness in the removal from horses of hard, soft or calloused lumps, bluod spavin, splints, curbs, sweeny, stales and sprains. (xso. • Rona, Farmer, ilarltburn, Ont. bold at Cbisholm's Drugstore, Wingn,m, San Francisco has the greatest proportion of divorces' to marriages of any city in the world. For every . 10,000 marriages there are 2,223 1 divorces. CHAPTER III. =RANDY, HANK,:, AND stioex'i . Mirandy had noting but contempt for tho•new master until he develop- ed the bulldog Into his character. Mirandy fell in 1ov with the bull- og. Like many her girls of the class, she was grea Iv enamored with the "subjection of l'omcn," and she stood ready to fall 111 love with any lnan strong enough to be her master. Much has been s d of the strong- nindedlwoman. I ffer this psycho- oglcal remark as a ontribution to the aturalhistory of he weak-minded rvolnan. It was at the close of that very econd day on which Ralpli had chievecl his first victory over the drool, and in which Mirandy hacl cell seized with he desperate pas- sion for him, that sl • told him about Not in,words. We do not allow hat itt most civiliz 1 countries, and till less would i be tolerated in I Iloopole County. ut Mirandy told le master the file that she was in ovo with hint, all gel no word pas - al her lips, SIl walked by him school. t"i , l 0111 RC1 001 11 cast at him what r e, commonly k ren as sheep's -eyes. alph 'thought tl grit more like calf's - yes. She Chan ed the whole tone It her Voi.CO. Sl e whined ordinarily. ow she whin r ered. And so; by ogling him, by •ittering at him, by iggling at hien,• py snickering itt hint how he put the clog I out. He was partly surprised, partly inveigled, .d partly awed into doing just what he had not intended to do. ' In the week that followed, Bill had to fight half a dozen boys for calling him "Puppy Watts." Bill said ho wished he'd whipped the master on the spot. 'Twould a saved five fights out of the 1 •six. n And all that day and the next, the bulldog fi -the plaster's eye was a terror to evil -doers. At the close of s the school on the second day Bub was a heard to give it as his opinion that • s . "the master - would' be much int a b tussle, but he had a head of thunder and lightning in Bite." it Did he inflict eorp'ralpunishment? t inquires same plhilitthropic friend. .8 Would you inflict corporal punish - merit if you were tiger -trainer tl in Van Atnburgh's happy family Y 1 But poor Ralph eoulgi never satisfy s his constituency int his regard. f "Don't believe Ile' 1 do," was Mr. f a Pete I cue .Jou s commet t 1l. • 1< es eo ne to l . Means. "Don't thrash enough. Boys won't c learn 'less you . thrash 'Ckh1, says I. i. Leastways, mine w n't. Lay it on N good,is what 1 says ;a as blaster. Lay it on good. Don't t o no harm. Lick- i," ing and learning g s together. No licking,r 1 ar l0 C< 11111 6<t 8 Licking T. k n and learning, lickin g and learning, n theway.' is good ole to And Mr. J0110:, . ike 'some wiser • y people, was the 111Un ' iplc isrcl with his g formula that lin I l `Ilitd t` by simpering at hien, by making her., , If tenfold. more a fool even than Mitre had made her, she managed. • convey to the dismayed soul of the ming teacher the friglutful intelli- i encs that he was loved 1 •the chest, the ugliest, re silliest, the Quite Satisfied. , The Prince of Wales not long ago was one I of a large Louse party at a place in the 1 English Midlands, his host being a well- ! known peer. After dinner the Royal guest, the host and the other male vistors repaired to rho billiard room. Ona table at the nidi were two or throe I boxes of cigars. and tlii Prince vas help- ing himself to one, vhcn au ambitious millionaire appr.:aahe him, and taking from his pocket a Dig- • case, held it out to the Prince, saying, I lime, si:, you will find these better. Mr. —, if a man's dinner is good enough for me, his ciars are good enough for me, replied the P ince. Tho millionaire w s unexpactedly called la away y to town next t oruinq ou buSihlOsa ! Like Miracle Consumption=; -Low Condition Wonderful Resut*s From Taking Hood's Sarsaparilla. Miss Hannah Wyatt • Toro 'to, Ont. "Tour years ago while in the old country :,England), my daughter Hannah was sent away from the hospital, itil a very low condition with consumption of the lungs and bowels, and peak action of the heart. The trip across the water to this country seemed to make her feel better for a while. Then she began to. get worse, and for 14 weeks she was unable to get off the bed. She grew worse for five months and, lost thea use of her limbs and lower r b rt of body. and p < 1f she y sat up h led had to be propped up with pillows. I'hyslciana Said She Wail Past. All Help , and wanted Inc to sent her to the 'Home for Incurables.' But 1 sal as long as I could Bold my hand up she should not go. Wo then began . t►isr 11$ Hood'sCures to give her hood's Sarsaparilla. she is getting strong, g, walks around, 9a' out doors every day; has no trouble with her throat and na south, and leer heart seem to be all right Roth. She hag a first class appetite, We rr ahIard her cure as nothin sham efla phrases," 1p. WYATT, SG Marton Street, Partcdaie, Toronto, Ontario. Hatid'8 Illllft ar'e linrely rregetnble and" perfaetly llitrmT(isa. Sold Uy all drugeltts. u( au., irnt ivc ri tl tl 11' 250. itJf Tnaoit i Irlo. now to ilea Money. • It 14just been my peasuro to cut tertaiti < )living proof that yaiing girls} 1 can be eatiya taught to'spend money a to rho 1)(+st dvantage• 1 C My guest was twelve years of age, ' s the daughter of refined parents ; the c father, it judge. of great reputation in, his OW11 state; .the mother, thoroughly, s dolucstie, but a wise ruler hi her own 1 home, as I learned before seeing the £ li .. . J daughter. I' g + On the clay of her arrival, my 1 young friend showed neo a long list , 1 of purchases her mamma, had given' her to make,' I sighed inwardly as I r glanced over it, thinking; "That 1 imams a day's shopping for me ---and•' smell a4 responsibility'!" The neat I morning as eared. were pressing, .11 1 handed "timothy Quest" to my • womanly guest, saying: "the paper- l? hangers need so Winch looking after 1 . must c you circ m e.„ • She looked keel thoughtful an instant, then said ; "1 1 think I will do my shopping this morning and got it off pry mind.” .1 ' •"I thought she had more sense," I 1 mentally ejaculated, but said aloud ; i Really, dear, you see how I am situat• ed; I cannot accompany you; waitpa- tiently until to -morrow." • As I pro- meeded, the honest brown eyes opened k 'wide and with womanly grace the a child, in a tone of surprise, said : "There is not the slightest need of • your going ; indeed, I do not want t you to; you are so busy!' "But your mother surely expected me to select what she sent for ? "Why, no, she never thought of imposing such a task upon yon. I do nearly all the buying. at home ; tli.o babies keep mamma so closely confined.. Then she says I can never learn any younger." aDuni e2 Still hesitated, saying • "What • does a girl of your age know . of `corduroy' ? I notice that on your hats" Very modestly, she replied : "Why I know the price and quality mamma uses for brother's clothes. She thought I knight do better here." ' Slow to yield the• point, I said : "Where are your samples of the silks you want to buy ?" "I haven't any. I know what mamma wants to pay, and the colors she wants, and I must do the best I can, just as she would." o• Half convinced, I „are her the name of a raliable firm and awaited the result with bated breath. In an amazingly short thne•luy young guest reappeared, and I •was forced to, admit that the purchases were really more judiciously made than they would have been had I aided her. Site laughed heartily saying : "It seemed so strange to be treated like a little ' girl ; at first they would hardly show nee anything thinking' I only wanted samples. At home they treat me just like mamma, show,me what they have and Wait for me to deeidc." • "No wonder," I replied, looking into the face of the speaker. "Truly there are girls and girls, and mothers and mothers." 'i'een r. questioned her as to her accomplishment. She said: "I commenced to buy when I was just a little girl, and now I buy all my own clothes. Papa gives int au allowance, and I ant -tryin ;' to save all I cath out of it to put in the sav- ings 1)aitk." • Such a daughter is indeed a treas- ure. Is not the example worthy of imitation ?—New York Observer. Grand Trunk . atlway. J. G. Gibson, Conductor on G. T. It., Hamilton, Ont., writes : "It gives me pleasure to inform you. of the excellent results I have received from the use of your great remedy K. 1). C. For a considerable time I had been a great sufferer from acute indigos. tion ; my body was wasting away for want of proper - nourishment, which my stomach refused to accept, nor was I able to find any remedy that atlhrd.ed any relief, until ono of my sons -brought home a few packages of IC. I). C., and requested me to tr them. It is now about six or sever months since I commenced takin: the K. D. C., my h;altli has unproved my weight has greatly increased, and I feel Iik) myself again." A toil of pure gold is worth $603, 709.21 and a ton of pure silver $37,; 704.8.1. A million dollars in gold coin weighs about a ton and three. quarters, Toothache. ---:Do you. suitor wit/1 it ? Go buy a bottle of Plili-Dille and find relief in the twi cls of et1 eye -•--for Toothache it is a, spccifle. Wry K. D. 0. the qutok.rehover 0 Indiigestt0n.