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friendship's sake, gave Hozia a solemn and binding
promise, along with the pills and liquids and instruc
tions, not to reveal the secret and not to take the
credit to himself if Betsy got well
The doctor said: " I do hate to give up the ground
to that scientific upstart, bat for your sake I will.
Bat it will be pesky hard if he goes to knowin' of it"
Day after day the Christian science doctor came,
satisfied that the panoply of drugs had been removed,
and day after day Hozia' s doBes in tea and broth and
fruits went down Mrs. Tibbita throat She did got
well, and, after a prolonged and severe attack, arose
from her first real experience of sickness, a " sadder
and a wiser " woman. Afterwards, no one ever heard
Betsy Cornelia Tibbita ever again boasting of her nn-
morons ailments and hunting up the doctors. And,
when any slight indisposition came upon her, she was
wont to say: "Only my chemicalization, Hozia dear,
only my chemicalization."
And Hozia, he came out of the affair happy in a
well wife; his pockets oonsidorably lightened of spare
cash, however. And ho would say to himself at
times: "Them Christian (oilers was mighty scientific
about gittin' of thoir cash, warn't they ? "
OkMK Cl.AKK POMEHOY.
A GRA.VB.
Whose narrow home is tliii neglected grave,
With myrtle rank and flowering aoeda o'eryrown,
Unmarked save by a llchened, nameleM atone?
What race? What faith? A master or a slave?
What is the heritage to man lie nave?
Somewhere is fruit from seed Ida hands have sown ;
What good, what evil is to ua unknown,
And vainly secrets of the tomb we crave.
Small matter now what waa the rank or need
Of him who slee in this forgotten Uce.
The dust lies underneath the bloom beed
Of form that once had fonaeluimneiia divine ;
One lived and died ; our eyes Miuld the sign ;
Yet what be wrought liod'i band alone can trace.
I.IWIS IUVTiX Ul MUCK,