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standing slimy to attention along wim his troop, answering the call of bis name at tattoo, with the suow gather ing thickly als>ut them, that Fin Strait was comfortably seated In the neat lit tle unprotected bouse, protecting from ail comers the neat little widow. “But I must be going.” be said for the tenth time. “It's getting late, and the snow gets deeper every minute. If I want to get home at all tonight, I should lie going non'. Mrs. Bell." “Yes, Mr. Htrait.” “I was thinking you must be very lonely here aluce—you know”— Tlie widow's eyes ceased to twinkle and winked away a tear or two. “It la lonely, Mr. Htrait," she answer ed him. Fin shuttled his feet nervously ami looked out beneath the ueui red win dow shades. “It's still snowing." said he, “Mrs. Bell.” "Yes, Mr. Strait." “It's not lonely up at the post," said Fin. rubbing the crossed brass sailers on his hat with sudden fury. The widow sighed. “But 1 can't live at the post. Mr. 8tralt.” she answered and stood in the middle of the floor, thoughtfully play ing with her marriage ring. The far rier looked at her timidly, tenderly. “Sit down. Mrs. Bell!” he cried des perately. “If you can't find a chair, sit down here.” And he pulled the widow on his knee. “Oh. Mr. Htrait!” said Mrs. Bell, but resisted very gently. "Will you come and live a* the post as my wife?” the farrier whispered, but the wicked widow, conscious of an offer from the cor|toral now iu her pocket, played with the farrier. "Ob, Mr. Htrait.” site said, “you sol diers at the (lost all say the same thing, and none of you mean it, not one!" At that there came a modest rap at the door, and the widow jumped to open it. It is probable that she knew who It was. for the twinkle of her eyes betrayed a love of mischief, but she evinced great surprise at seeing Cor poral Healy standing in the snow. She threw the door wide and hospitably open. “Why, Mr. Healy." said she, "to think you'd come through all that snow—for the second time today too! You must like the town. Come right in!” “If it bad snowed taynlts an' sa bers, me darllnt.” cried Healy, enter ing, “I’d have come fur the” — He did not finish the sentence. He saw his old friend. Fin. and the cor quent Indian risings, and together they ORFORAL HEALY walked round the win- fence at the vaguely sup|to«ed, though only iu their cups did they talk of it. they would lie corner where the little school ______ house stissl with the elul>oriite pensioned off and look after the wel fare of the old troop from a distance. uff of one who 1» «trolling about for “How. Healy!” want of Homething better to <lo. Yet he “How. Fin!” turned his bead now and again and Healy twirled his stick like a drum eyed the long verandas of the burrncks major and chirruped "Garry Owen." and the men kicking about a football If be bad looked straight at old Fin. be on the frozen parade ground In a way might have liven struck with the fact which was almost guilty. They were that the farrier’s air was as guilty as not thinking of him at all, but the sol his own. Strait, usually ready with a di« r twirled bis stick and whistled rude Jocosity of greeting, now stood with unuHtial loudness. an apparent at still and gazed with great thoughtful tempt to convince observers that he ness across the slope of the snowy was merely enjoying the fresh, cold plains, beyond the thread of cotton- wind that whistled over the brown wooda which fringed the creek, to the plains and reddened his thin and leath scattered houses of the little town be ery cheeks. One eye, however, he kept yond. The evening sunlight falllug sharply on the schoolhouse door, aud upon the low roofs, Islands In a sea of twice in five minutes he looked secret snow, softened the sordldness of the ly nt ids watch. The door <>|>ened. and rude, wooden shacks, touched them the children of tlie post came charging with the artist's wand and made them, out, a tumbling group of boys aud from a group of unseemly Intruders, al girls, little folks of the plains, soldiers most an acceptable part In the lonely ba lies, clear eyed and self reliant. Hea grandeur of the wilderness. Healy's ly walked more quickly round the cos- eyes unconsciously sought the same ner and presented himself nt the side scene. His whistle died away, and his door of tlie school, out of sight of bar whirling stick dropped to the ground. racks and parade ground. Graves, the The two hardened old campaigners soldier schoolmaster, was clearing Ills were usually as remote from sentiment desk and preparing to follow the : as gun barrels, yet now they slmul- youngsters. I taneously sighed—the abrupt, gruff “Hello!” lie cried, looking up at the i gasp of storm weathered veteranliood, tall, straight, redheaded figure in the ! yet, unmistakably as the soft breath doorway. “Coming to school, corporal? of a girl, the sigh of happiness and What reader shall I put you in?” content and love. Healy grinned benignantly. At that unexpected and startling “Fur many's the year. Graves." be eruption from the breast of either each said, “the school of the battalion has turned as one caught in a deed of dark been the only wan I've found nicis- ness and faced the other, reddeulng. siiry. an' tactics bus bln me r'ader. | “I’ll not be kapin’ yez. Fin, If It’s Sliure I wuz passin' an' looked in upon afther walkin' yez are," Baid the cor yes. It's a wearin' job yez have, poral, almost angrily, and took a step Graves, Cachin’ them kids, near as bad forward. ns drillin' rookies. I'm nfther* think “Only to the sutler’s for a beer,” said in’.” Fin, more conciliatory. “Will you have “Alioiit!” said Graves, taking up the one?” floor key, “I am off the booze.” said Healy “Ye’ve a great head. Graves," the shortly and disappeared round the cor corporal said sweetly, with a flattering ral. “Whut the dlvil wuz he hangtn* cock of Ills blue eye. “I’ve bln bearin' armin’ for so mysterious?” he added, the major towld the chaplain to lave with most unfriendly irritation. yez lie, us yez knew more than be did.” “Where’s the old son of a gun off to Graves laughed and silt down. all alone anyway, and what the dickens “When you flatter me like that, Hea was he sighing about, like a blessed ly." he said, “I know you’re after | cook stuck on a dog roblier?" the far something. Wbat Is It?” rier soliloquized frownlngly as be “Not at all. at all!” cried Healy, sud strode to the isist trader's for his liver. denly becoming nervous. "I wuz Jlst And over his glass he |>ondered long passin'. But. seeln’ yez ain’t busy, until, as he drank a second one. his wild yez do nte a fuvor. Mr. Graves?” frown was heavy and black. “Mister!” cried Graves, laughing “By.jiggers!” he cried suddenly to again. the startled bartender. “I’ll take no “I'll be lieggln’ yez. though, to kape chances anyway. I'll do It tonight or It to yerself.” said Healy earnestly bust! Give me a beer, John, my boy. and plunging headlong into the matter and good luck to both of us!” on his mind. “It's no mntther nv Once Healy was safely away, his shame, but the boys will I h > betther long legs quickened their action until not to hear It, seeln’ as 1 might have lie almost ran down the sloping, slip- to take their foolin' sarious. Wud yez pery trail to the creek, across the un give me yer opinion on that. Graves?” railed, dangerous bridge over the Graves took a big sheet of fisilseap creek and. with almost the hopeful “Tomorrow I'll teek an umtuvr to my question." from the corporal and read aloud: spring of youth, across the plain to “Sweet girl, accept n lowly heart. the outskirts of the mushroom town. poral's face turned rod and white and Which now thy lover (with the major's It neared shnset when he reached the darkly purple In quick succession. The permission) lays at thy feet, For from thee. oh. darling. I cannot dwell first outlying houses and branched off furrier had risen to his feet at the apart: across lots to one little two storied sound of the soldier's voice, and tlie Be mine I respectfully (and. according cottage which stood quite by itself, two faced eaih other in the cozy little to the rides and regulations of the very small, very neat and very unpro parlor with, for the first time since service) do entreat.” tected. Healy paused fifty yards from they were both recruits, fierce anger “It's poethry, ye’ll be aftber notic it. drew a long breath, blew ft out in their eyes. The widow closed tlie in',” said Healy, beaming with such again with explosive determination door and began to laugh and chatter. pride that he failed to observe the nnd charged the little front door as If “How funny.now!”she cried. "Here's schoolmaster's red face and burst of It were an Indian outpost, yet when you two, whom the folks at the post chuckling coughs. “But I wanted yez. he reached it his knock was most mod call the brethren, you're so thick and seein’s ye're well known fur a scholar, est, and the martial red of his face such old friends, and you’ve never met to tueli It up a bit. Graves. Ye'll ob feebled to a flickering pink. A little at my house before. How funny!” snrve it don't sing Itself, fur It's me woman, as neat and unprotected look Ho she chattered, while her lips were furst attlmpt since a boy. Tlirue po ing as her house, opened the door. yet red with honest Fin's kiss and ethry shod kin' av go to a chune whin Perhaps ft were more explanatory of Healy’s appeal crumpled in her pocket. yez rude It. I belave." her appearance to say that she looked Old hearts are more slow to flame to “Well.” said Graves, “my boys usu as If Inviting protection, such a slip of either love or anger than those that ally read the very best poetry sing a woman, yet not devoid of plumpness are young, but once afire they burn song! corporal. Is this a—a declara In the cheek, such a blushing woman, with the snap and glare of fury. Healy tion?” yet not without a twinkle in her eye. heard nothing of Mrs. Bell's chatter. Healy blushed; nt least his neck “Oh, Mr. Healy!" said she. “I hardly His ears were full of a savage hum grew even redder than was customary. expected—I am glad to see you! Won't ming. like the buzz of a Kaffir impl. But he drew himself up very straight you come tn? What has brought you The farrier did not look at her. His Indeed and answered boldly: into the town again today?” eyes were fixed on the corporal's. In “In confidence. It's nfther bein' that “Ab. Mrs. Bell. Mrs. Bell.” said Hea the breasts of both there blazed the same. Graves. Is It all right?" ly gallantly, “what wud be afther same primitive pussion of jealousy “Why spoil the sentiment by these brlngin’ me but jlst a solght av thlm which maddens at times the stags of bracketed assurances of the major giv the mountains, the tigers of the Jun swate oyes?” ing his permission?” “Mr. Healy, I'm surprised.” said the gle. For the sake of a woman's lip “Aw, Graves,” said the corporal, little widow, with a quicker twinkle of the comradeship of a score of years winking shrewdly, "whin I wuz youn those dangerous eyes. “But I don’t was forgotten. ger nn' runnin' nfther the gtirrls 'twas Delieve you. »on people at the post meallf wuz nil sintlment, so It wuz. The corporal found his voice first. all say the same thing, and none of But Igspnrlnnce has Inrned me that It's "Axcuse me. Mrs. Bell,” he said, with you moan what you say, not one." the purnctlcnl num gits there. I'm a hoarse voice, “fur dishturbln’ yez. “Who —who —who's been darin* to nfther dilleately inshinuatln' to the It's business I'm afther havin’ will say that same thing?” cried Healy in Farrier Strait. Will yez come out?” Indy thnt she'd need nlver fear the angry surprise. He shot the l»st words angrily at mayor’ll objlct. Sliure she knows a Mrs. Bell laughed gleefully. his old friend, and as quickly as the sojer requolrea to ask lave to marry “Come In. corporal,” she said. "Do defiance reached bls ear Fin took a av the commandin'officer. Bn* It spiles you think I’ll tell you who said any step forward. Healy turned to the the chune av the poethry. an’ that's thing to me at all and have you eating widow and Isiwed with stiff, soldierly whut I’m askin'. Wull yez Jlst drill it the poor things up? Do come In!” Into shape. Graves, seeln' ye’re n schol formality. “ Begab. an ’ I can't Jlst ylt, Mrs. ar, which, I belave. Includes poethry.” “I'll be likely In town tomorrow," Bell. ” Healy answered. "They ’ll he The schoolmaster good nnturediy as- ! said he, “on the matther av the busl- afther callin' me name at retrate. Mrs. sonii-d the task and. much to the cor- J Bess betwixt us.” poral's admiration, succeeded shortly 1 Bell, swate Mrs. Bell, I’m askin' yea At once the farrier faced the widow. In submitting to the old soldier a suf- j to look at this wee bit av wrltlu’.” “Mrs. Bell,” said he. “tomorrow I'll "Oh,” cried rhe widow, suddenly ani seek an answer to my question.” Cclently creditable effusion, when Hea ly gratefully took his departure, leav- i mated, "do tell! Is it an invite to a But the widow made no answer. ing Graves to chuckle by himself for a hop at the post? Are the soldiers go She was now pale and trembling. ing to give another dance?” long time tn the desorb'd schoolhouse. “Corporal,” she stammered. “Mr. “Not yit!” exclaimed Healy, throw Htrait!” As the soldier left and took his way round the rear of the buildings, avoid ing oui a restraining baud as Mrs. They were swiftly gone, however, ing the neighborhood of the ¡tost trad Bell liegan to tear the envelope. “Not the farrier closing the door tiehind hint, er's and the guardhouse, his manner | yit." be repeatedly tenderly. “Wblu and the widow sat down, no little was more suspicious than ever. The j I'm gone. Mrs. Bell. It's—It's—a niat- frightened at such sudden mutual twirl of Ids stick anil the blit lioness of tber av business, me dear." wrath. The smartest and most amor "Business, corporal?" bls whistle were affectedly nonchalant. ous of youthful lovers she could have “I'll lie afther an answer tonight. managed, playln- ne against the oth He could not. though. If such were his ptirisise, avoid all notice nor help meet Lit it be the might wan. swate Mrs. er, but the white uent of these veter lug some one. He was almost beyond | Bell.” ans was beyond her power to cool. the post limits and had settled to a : "Ob. Mr. Healy!” the widow mur She warmed her pretty white hands businesslike walk when, just as be mured and blushed. Healy caught her at the stove and shivered nnd laughed turned the •■orncr of the corral, he ran in his arris and gave her a hearty kiss. a little and cried a little in turn. "The two silly old things," she mur fairly into Fin Strait, the farrier of his j “Oh! on! Mr. Healy!” she cried and mured. “To go and fight when one's own troop. Like the corporal, Fin was ' blushed again. “I-t V. be the might wan. swate Mrs. just as nice as the other.” a veteran, and the two were chums of (TO RK CONTINt'KD.) long standing. The farrier's room In Bell." the corporal repeater! and ran the stables luid been the scene of i away, himself a shamefaced red and Judge Bland of the St Louis court of many a quiet carouse. with none to fearful to look round to see If any one appeals has decided that workmen join in but the cronies them selves, and bad noticed them The farrier, being a privileged char must be paid In cash. He assessed a when Healy's pockets were empty and bls throat hot coppered of a morning acter. was excused from tattoo mil tine of »100 against an employer for he was always sure of a punch corn- call. Therefore there was nothing to paying an employee In checks payable (founded from Fin's stock of alcohol, hinder him. an hour after retreat, from tn goods at a store Instead of lawful I supplied to the farrier as a horse medi locking his room door in the troop sta money. The judge declared that a la cine. Together they had come out of bles and speeding away through a borer could not If be so desired waive pleasure bent. So the benefits of the statute or contract the war, together Joined the regular slight fall of snow army, together hnd campaigned In fre It happened while Corporal Healv was them awav HUMOR OF THE HOUR - ------ 7 Far the Pr«olr«a4er. ZOLA’S EARLY TRIALS. INCENTIVE TO EFFORT, When the Boddlna Authee Was riansed In Misery. The Lr«««« L)«rol«*« Life Teach«« to th« idl« Bara. Young Zola had kicked bls heels for several years In ministerial anterooms, but all to no effect. Gambetta. to pre vent Zola perishing of want, gave him the subprefeeture of Castle Karra sin. But for want of money he had to stop on the way. and for so long a time that M. de Freycinet slipped into the place. Zola during the period dealt with In “La Debacle” was In the south of France. How be then lived I can not Imagine. After tilings settled down In Paris In 1871 lie usd fallen into the blackest misery, and with a la-autiful young wife. Iler mother was no lon ger a tile to share her domicile and I hmi - i I. such as they were, with them. Zola sometime« liad to take the wool out of the mat tress of his tied aud sell It. He esea|ssl from death by famine owing to a letter of introduction from a doctor who attended his mother to A Baa B.-eak. “Mary,” he said as he picked up his Hschette, the great publisher. The knife and fork, "this steak. Mary—this latter employed him at a salary of All francs a mouth to tie up books in (tar steak is simply”— • “Now, 1 know you're going to say it's eel* and address them. Hut he rather tough and It’s cold and it isn’t fit to llk“d Zola and, divining in him drat eat and- -liooboo-you mean old thing”— rate stuff, engaged him to write for the “No, Mary; I was going to say that It (taia-rs those puffs known as reclames was the tenderest and moat deliciously for books the firm had brought out. cooked I have ever tasted, but since Noticing Ida punctuality and his re you have drawn my attention to the serve T'lth other young men. Hachette promoted Zola still higher by making matter 1 find that”— him his private secretary. He was But she had fled.—Baltimore News then an uncouth, shy, HI dressed, man nerless. squat little fellow, but he evi His IaSlsaatlea. “Aren't you sometime:, it little con dently bad a tidy wife, who paid great science stricken when you think of the attention to the furbishing up of bls clothes and to hla shirts. — London advantages you take of the public?” “Not at all,” answered Senator Sor Truth. ghum. “Look at the men of genius the Raia la Crossed Leas. public baa permitted to starve. Ixiok “Uncross your legs," said a doctor. at the heroes whose sacrifices are not “Oh. no!" said his son. “What’s the acknowledged even by a tablet of stone. Any little thing I can do toward use of being so polite all the time?” "My boy," the father answered, "It Is getting even with the public gives me sincere moral satisfaction.”—Washing not on account of a mere rule of eti quette thnt I tell you to uncross your ton Star. legs, but it is because leg crossing la Merer Satisfied. an Injurious thing, a thing as baleful to “I declare, those trolley conductors the health as kissing or as microbes. "When you cross your legs, you fit can’t tell the truth.” "What’s wrong now?” the knee cap of the upper limb into the “Why, the one on the car tonight put cavity under the knee of the lower one. me off three blocks from our corner.” In tlie cavity that you thus compress “What did he say to you?” there are the two ini(iortant exterior “Why, he said, 'This is where you and interior popliteal nerves and a get off. madam.’ ” number of glands and biota! vessels. “Well, it was, wasn't it?”—Yonkers Compression does not act well on these Statesman. organs. It lienumbs them and weak ens and emaciates them. You feel the A Compromise. Injury In a numbness of the whole leg. The leg goes to sleep. "Keep on with the habit, and your legs weaken. They become thin; they lose their shapeliness. It is only such men and women and children as never cross their legs who have strong and supple ami lieautlful limbs.”—Philadel phia Record. It is human nature to take it easy when we ran, aud with moat people a big bauk account will paralyze effort and destroy aiubitlou. Who can toil wbat would have lieeu the effect on our uatioual history bad Abraham Lin coin been born Iu luxury, surrounded with great libraries, free to the multi form advantages of schools, colleges Ind universities, the manifold oppor- t uni ties for culture that wealth be stows? Who shall say whether the ale ien<-e of all incentive to effort might not have smothered such a ge'nlus? Wliat wealthy, city bred youth of to day, glutted with opportunities for ac quiring knowledge, can feel that hun ger for hooka, that thirst for knowledge that spurred Lincoln to scour the wil derness for many miles to borrow the coveted "Life of Washington” which be had lieu rd that some one iu the neighborhood owned? What young lawyer of our day goes to a law sclxMil or library with such a keen apiietite. with such a yearning for legal knowledge, a« this youth bad wlieii ||(. actually walked forty-four miles to iMirrow Blackstone's “Commen taries?" Where is tlie student iu college or university today who experiences that satisfaction, that sense of conquest, which thrilled Lincoln while lying on the floor of his log cabin working out arithmetical problems on a wooden shovel by tlie light of a wimm I tire or cuthiiMlaatically devouring the coutunta of a itorrowed liook. as if bia eyes would never rest on its pages again? Ou reading Lincoln's Gettysburg K(M*ecli and his second inaugural ad dress foreign readers exclaimed, “Whence got this man bls style, seeing he knows nothing of literature?" Well might they exclaim, but «their aston islinient would have been still greater had they known that those eloquent utterances tluit thrilled the nation's heart liad fallen from the lips of one who In his youth bad access to blit four books—the Bible, “Pilgrim's Prog ress." Weems’ "Life of Washington" and Burns' poems. Success. Trouble “If you ililuk that I am going to pay you a penny for thia advertlaemeut of mine In your measly old paper, you are mightily mlstakeu my friend.” said an Irate bu»iiM'*s man as he slaiumed down a copy of th« Mornlug Reveille ou the couider in the business office of the paper. “What is the matter with the ad vertisement?” asked the business man ager of the (taper as be came furward. "I'd ask what 1» the matter if I were you! What I wrote was ‘A fresh in voice of dairy butter every day.’ Will you just cast your eye on that ad. of mine aud what you have printed?" The business manager “cast his eye" ou the ad. indicated and looked for a place of safety when be read: "A fresh Invoice of hairy butter ev ery day!”—Lippincott's Magazine. Times His Portrait. One of the members of a certain sub urban photographic society recently de livered a lecture, illustrated by lantern views. Another member, thinking to have a Joke at the expense of the lecturer, slipped in among tlie slides a lantern liortrait of himself. The joke would come in, of course. Iiy Clerk—You’ve called me an Idiot, and If you don't take It back you may look the portrait ap(iearlug oil the screen immediately after the lecturer had an for another clerk. Employer—Very well. I'll take the id nounced the appearing of something quite different. iot back. So you'll stay. Fate and chance were unluckily against the humorist, for when his por Oat. Hicks— That's what I call real “out trait was presented the lecturer, with out kuowing wbat was on the sc^rn, and out” hard luck. gravely read from bls list: Wicks—What's that? "The next slide, ladles and gentle Hicks—When 1 was away from the office today, Burroughs called to pay men, la the picture of a refractory don _____________ me $5 be owed me. Being out, I was key!” out the fl ver. If I’d had good luck. I’d Minnesota*« Miekaamea. have been In and in.—Philadelphia Minnesota has been designated as the Press. “North Star State,” of which expres sion two or three explanations have Dlaconra*ed. “I’m sure,” said the clumsy man as been given one ou account of its geo be slipped off his horse again, “that I’ll graphical position, another that the north star ap(>ears in its cost of arms. never learn to ride.” “Oh,” replied the riding master, “Just It has also been called the "Lake State.” from the number of small lakes keep on trying!” “But I'm having my own troubles within its limita, and the "Gopher trying to keep on.”—Catholic Standard State.” because the early settlers found these animals In such abundance and Times. that they proved a serious nuisance. I.osteal Vlsw. Even a careful rider passing over a She—Miss Fortyodd is certainly a plain where gophers abounded was in queer woman. Why, she actually re ■lunger of being thrown by his horse grets that she wasn't born a man. aix-identally stepping Into a gopher He—Well, one can hardly blame her hole. for that Such an occurrence would Hl« Exact Age, have greatly Increased her matrimonial Asked his age In a court of justice, a chances.—Chicago News. Georgia darky replied: “Well, siili, I ez ole ez de big white To« Cr««l. “Yes. Miss Searenyellough's poodle oak tree on Nlarse Tom's plantation.” “And how old may that lie?” Inquired died yesterday. It was awfully pa a lawyer. thetic. She kissed ft goodby.” "Well, sub. ef I makes no mistakes, “Kissed it, eh? Well—er—was that before or after the doctors bad aban de white oak tree is de same age ez de mill dam, en de mil) dam ain't a day doned hope?”—Baltimore News. older dan de red barn, what come nigh ter bein' burned up w'en de stars felled!” Why» "Mamma.” said little Willie gravely —Atlanta Constitution. after a visit to Mrs. Cosmetic, whose Speedlag the Parti««. nose looked as if it had just come out Mamma—I was surprised and shocked of the flour barrel, “why doesn’t that lady use smokeless powder?” — New by the coldness with which you greet Yorker. ed Miss Boerstim when she called. Ethel—Yes, mamma, but I made up Oat of Stab«. for it later. The Parson—Has your young friend Mamma—Did yon? high Ideals? Ethel-Yes, Indeed. You should have Miss Marmaduke—Has be? Why, be seen how cordially I trade her “good- expects to tie an airship man some day. by.”—Philadelphia Press. •-Yonkers Herald. Then aafi Mow. Tl>« aox.enl. dear «riurs— A wonderful throng! And they died In a garret. To live In a song! They told us the story At which the world thrills. Locked In a rude corner From bailiff« with bills. The modern, mad writers Who thunder away— They live In n palace And die In a day! They tell us no story Humanity feel a And ride to oblivion On automobiles! —Atlanta Constitution. Caleslatlng. Elderly A<lorer-I am sixty nine and have »300.000. Fair Young Thing—I'll give you an answer the day after tomorrow. I will have to figure It all out in the mortuary tables. _________ _______ Patient (after giving the doctor »3 and receiving a prescription!- But sup pose. doctor, this doesn't cure me? Doctor- Ill that esse come back, and I'll relieve you again. — Detroit Free Press. LAY UP YOUR TREASURES. Mo Ma« Shoold Spenfi the Whole of Hi« Income. Is any one t<si (sior to save? Is an im portant problem which tlie readers of a London dally are at present attempt ing to solve. The question Is not by any means a new one. It is one which has troubled past generations. Just as. In all probability, It will affect the gen erations yet to come. We cannot say that this latest discussion of the sub ject Is throwing much. If any. fresh light ii|Min It. In the first place, there Is a diversity of opinion regarding the term "poor.” One mail, who derives an income of »t.:i50 a year from private property, fancies he comes under the category, while another does not consider any one poia' who has an income of ».KM) a year, says a writer In Leslie's Weekly. It is manifestly Impossible to flx any limit In a matter like this. Very much de|M*nds u(ion the locality and the con ditions aud surroundings of the Indi vidual. An Income that would be amply sufficient to Insure a family a comfortable home, excellent social ad vantages and a good living In a coun try village would mean many priva tions and sore discomforts in any large city. On the whole, however, we are hi- clined to lielleve that Max O'ReU’a views on tlie (stint under discussion come nearer the safe and common sense rule than anything we have seen. “I do not care.” lie says, “how small the Income of a man is, be should never spend the whole of it, especially if he lias a wife and children. He should at least save enough to (ray every year the premium on a good life policy. No man Is worthy of the name w*ho does not do this, at least, at the price of whatever [WlvaUons be has to submit to. Some pleasure may tie derived from high living, hut certainly no hap piness.” Wbfff One of the wonderful things is that a woman of fair Intelligence will paint her cheeks like a clown's and appear on the streets. Why does she do it? Does she Imagine that people think the paint is bloom of youth? Does she not know that people laugh at her? There are two things that people are quick to notice- w lien a man wears a wig and when a woman paints her cheeks. —Atchison Globe. The Ocaliat. Patient I can’t see that there’s a thing wrong with tny eyesight. Oculist Jonnlwyse - The most posl five proof that you need glasses, my dear sir, when you are unable to see anything so (ilaln us that!—Ixra Angeles Herald. Mol All Heformed. “So de.v convicted dat feller dat was swinging a high society bluff so as to lift jewelry,” said Plodding Pete. “Yes," answered Meandering Mike. “He's got bis prisou clothes on now. Dey've changed him from a social lion into a aebra."-Washington Star. At a dinner given by a philanthropist to the Society of Reformed Criminals a gentleman complained to his host mid way through the festivities that he bad lost his watch. The host was a man of great Ingenuity. He caused all the lights to be turned out. Then be ob served: "Sonic one here has a watch that does not tielong to him. If by the time I have counted a hundred It Is r.at placed on the floor in the middle of the room, the police will be sent for.” He i-oonted a hundred, and the light« were turned on again. Thirty-three hand some waidles lay In the middle of the room. The maker All»ff1a«ro te f'ymr«. Ralawater Oeed If T«« Like It. Troaaaaihrail««. A St. Louis man disregarded a sum "When a man gets used to drinking mons to serve on a jury because his rainwater." said a New Orleans man to marriage to a St. IsJhis woman had the Washington Post, “there is no other been set for the same hour. He ■ water in the world that tastes so good. thought he knew which court order to Most of the people in New Orleans obey.—Richmond Times. hsve cisterns In their yards which bold an abundant supply of water caught Th« Meed «t Modish Soda Mia«. Under ordinary social and gastronom- , from the cloude. the pureat and tiest Ic conditions there Is probably a great In the world, according to my notion. deal more heartburn than heartburn- i The winter rainfall alone la used, th« summer catch not lielng desirable. It Ings.-Indianapolis News. Is somewhat curious that in northern Advise an old man to marry a woman latitudes the cistern water does not young enough to be bis daughter, and | keep wholesome and sweet as It does he may ask If you take him for a fool, in our country.” but he will not ba offended Atcblsoa In the lower depths of the ocean Globe. _______ __ ___ some of the fishes go blind, while oth It Is stated that on the lower Elbe n< ers develop huge eyes. Home are so Tillage or farm Is free from malaria constructed that they can swallow Malaria mosquitoes abound. fiabea much larger than themselves. I blàk *. w ÌÌÌ t I m .“«^ papers MtFFITT W ItAPPING ... 1 1,1 i TOWNE OARO STOCK ...Straw and Binder«* Board... as-a;-.VH-<ii rtrot street r»L Maia ISO. S SAN FRANCIHCl). A CITY EDITOR Bright’« DUcase and Dlnbotca Are Positively Curo ble. Before the businetM men who In corpora ted the Fulton Oom pounds Invested kbey put them to the tent in dozen« of cn«e«. Hearing that K M Wood, the editor und proprietor of The Wine tnd Spirit Review, of b.M) Montgomery St., had z certain oane of Bright’« Disease, he wasunruf thoee urged to teat it. The following letter will row be under>«t<>od : •Offir Wine and Spirit Review. Montgomery St., San Franc I m co. •’Sept. «1, “Gee tie men : I oonnkler It my duty to tell the world whu the Fulton CompouudN did iu my case. In November, INW, «fter a leug ill* new», which carried me to the verge of the grave, a scientific aaalyMih by the most uoted tDBlyzt In thin city dUclofted chut 1 was « vic- ttm of Bright’« Di«ea«e My physicinn told me that mv only hope Uy in a strong oouNtitutiou and a change to a warm clime. He suggested Sant« Barbara, and I went there, having falleu from «25 pounds to lefts than 190 in a «hurt lime, During my abaenoe in the south a San Frun* cisco busfnesR man called upon my wife, and told her of the Fulton Compound; that it was actually curing Bright’a DtseaMe, and urged that 1 try it. I began under protest. I boou felt better. Normal Bleep returned, and iu a few months I regained mv health. I now weigh pounds, and enjoy better health than I have in fifteen years. Naturally I told aeveral friends, and in every instance the results were the same, even where they had been suffering for years. The world ought to know that Bright’s Disease is at last curable, and appro* elating my own good fortune, I will be glad to give further details to interested parties. “ R. M. W ood ” Medical works agree that Bright's Disease and Diabetes are Incurable, but 87 per cent, are positively recovering under the Fulton Com pounds. (Common forms of kidney complaint and rheumatism offer but short resistance.) Price, |1 for the Bright's Disease and fil 50 for the Diabetic Compound. John J. Fulton Co., <20 Montgomery street, San Francisco, sole oompounders. Free tests made for patients. Descriptive pamphlet mailed free. Save the Baby. The mortality among babies during the three teething years is something frightful. The census of HMW shows that about one iu every seven succumbs. The cause is apparent. With baby's bones hardening! the fontanel (opening in the skull) closing up and its teeth forming, all these coming at once create a demand for bone material that nearly half the little systems are deficient in. The result is I eevlshness. weakness, sweating, fever, diar rhoea, brain troubles, convulsions, etc., that prove terribly fatal. The deaths in 1900 under I three years were 304,988, to say nothing of the vast number outside the big cities that were not reported, and this In the Unit»*! States alone. When baby begins to sweat, worry or cry out in sleep don’t wait, and the need !s neither medicine nor narcotics. What the little system is crying out for is more bone material. Sweetman’s Teething Food sup plies it. It has saved the lives of thousands of babies. They begin to improve within forty-eight hours. Here is what physicians think of it. 2934 Washington St., San Francisco, June 2, 1902. Gentlemen—I am prescribing your food in the multitude of baby troubles due to im peded dentition A large percentage of in fantile ills and fatalities are the result of • slow teething. Your food supplies what the deficient system demands, and I have had surprising success with ?*.. -n scores of cases this diet, given with their regular food, has not failed to check the Infantile distresses* Several of the more serious cases would, I feel sure, have been fatal without it. It can not be too quickly brought to the attention of the mothers of the country. It Is an ab solute necessity. U C. MENDEL, M. D. Petaluma, Cal., September 1, 1902. Dear Sirs—I have Just tried the teething food in two cases and in both it was a suc cess. One was a very serious case, so criti cal that it was brought to me from another city for treatment. Fatal results were feared. In three days the baby ceased worrying and commenced eating and is now well. Its action in this case wan remarkable. I would ad vise you to put It In every drug store in this city. Yours, I. M. PROCTOR, M. D. Sweetman’s Teething Food will carry baby safely and comfortably through tl.« most dan gerous jieriod of child life. It renders lanc ing of the gums unnecessary. It Is the safest plan and a blessing to the baby to not wait for symptoms but to commence giving It the fourth or fifth month. Then all the teeth will come healthfully, without pain, dis tress or lancing. It Is an auxiliary to their regular diet and easily taken. Price &0 cents (enough for six weeks), sent postpaid on re ceipt of price. Pacific Coaat Agents. Inland Drug Co., Mills Building, 8an Francisco. LOST HIS NERVE. Wky It W«a That HI« Pete Failed to Hit the Sheriff. There were thirty men in the White Wolf saloon when the sheriff of Silver county sauntered In to arrest big Fete Thompson for murder. I’ete was play ink a hand In a game of poker, and after nodding to him the sheriff stood up at the Inr and called for a drink. His I lack was scarcely turned when Pete laid down his cards, pulled his gun and fired six shots as fast ns his Anger could pull the trigger. The sheriff never moved. When the smoke had rollf-d out of the open door and we could see. the sheriff stood in the same position and wore the same smile. One bullet had burned his cheek; a second bad grazed Ills ea>; a third had ent through hla shirt collar under the left ear. Big Pete was r. uead shot, and yet he had missed bls man at fifteen feet. “Got through. Pete?” asked the sher iff, breaking a silence that was posi tively painful. “And you you are not heeled!” gasped Pete as his arm sunk slowly down. “No; come on.” “You didn’t bring your guns?” "Nd; !f you are through shooting, we’ll go.” Pete laid his two giins..down on the table before him and walked to the doer and out Into the street. Ills horse was tied to a post a block away. He reached the horse, mounted nnd then headed down the long street after the sheriff, who was giving him not the slightest attention. In five minutes the pair were out of sight. "What ailed Pete?" was asked of the barkeeper, who had come to the door of the saloon. “Lost his nerve.” he brusquely re plied. “How do yon mean?" "Why. the sheriff coming without a gun and standing there to tie shot at took all his sand away and made a wo man of him." "Huppoae the sheriff had had a gun?" The man Jerked his head toward the field wherein fifteen or twenty victims had been burled and said: “He'd 'a' bln over thar.” "And will big Pete get clear?” "Likely; hnt he'll have to leave here. The lioy* have already put him down as N »» ”
