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About Bohemia nugget. (Cottage Grove, Or.) 1899-1907 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 4, 1901)
The l3oetor'$ ?)ilemma By Hesba CHArTEtt X.-Contlnucd.) Without o llsht I went up to my own room, where the moon that hail shone upon mo In my Inst night's ride, was gleaming brightly through the window. I Intended to reflect and deliberate, but I was worn out. I Amis myself down on the bed, but could not have remained nwnke for a single moment. I fell Into a deep sleep, which lasted till morning. When I awoke my poor mother was sitting beside me, looking very 111 and sorrowful. She had slipped a pillow un der my head, and thrown a shawl across me. I Rot up with a bewildered brain, and a general sense of calamity, which I could not clearly define. "Captain Corey's man brought a letter from Julia just now," she said, taking it from her pocket; "he said there was no answer." Her eyelids were still red from weep ing, unit linr voice faltered as If she might break out Into sobs any moment, As soon as my mother was gone opened Julia's letter. It began: - "Mv Hear Martin I know all now, Johanna has told me. When you spoke to me so hurriedly and unexpectedly, this afternoon, I could not bear to hear an other word. But now I am calm, and I can think it all over quite quietly. "It is an Infatuation, Martin. Johanna says so as well as I, and she Is never wrong. It Is a sheer Impossibility that you, in your sober senses, should love a strange person, whose very name you do not know. A Dobree could not make an adventuress his wife. Then you have seen so little of her. Three times, since the week vou were there In March! hat Is that compared to the years we havo spent together? It is impossible tbat in your heart of hearts you should love her more than me. "I cannot give np the thought of our home, Just finished and so pretty, it was so pleasant this afternoon, before you came in with your dreadful thunder bolt. I was thinking what a good wire 1 would be to you; and how, in my own house, I " should never be tempted Into those tiresome tempers you have seen in me sometimes. Vou could not know how much I love you, how my life Is bound tip In you, or you would have been proof gainst that person In Sark. "I think It right to tell you all this now, though It is not in my nature to make professions and demonstrations of my love. Think of me, of yourself, of your poor mother. You were never self ish, and you can do noble things. I do not say It would be noble to marry me; but it would be a noble thing to conquer an ignoble love. Uow could Martin Do bree fall In love with an unknown adven turess? "I shall remain In the house all day to morrow, and If you can come to see me, feeling that this has been a dream of folly from which you have awakened, 1 will not ask you to own It. That you come at all will be a sign to me that you wish It forgotten and blotted out be tween us, as It it had never been. "With true, deep love for you, Martin, believe me still "Your affectionate "JULIA." I pondered over Julia's letter as I dressed. There was not a word of re sentment In It. It was full of affection ate thought for us all. But what rea soning! I had not known Olivia so long as I had known ber, therefore I could not love her as truly! There was no longer any hesitation in my mind as to what I must do. Julia knew all now. I had told her distinctly of my love for Olivia, and she would not believe it. She appeared wishful to hold me to my engagement In spite of It; at any rate, so I Interpreted her letter. I did not suppose that I should not live it down, this infatuation, as they chose to call It. I might hunger and thirst, anl be on the point of perishing; then my nature would turn to other nutriment, and asslmllato It to its contracted and stultified capacities. I went mechanically through the rout ine of my mornings work, and It was late in the afternoon before I could get away to ride to the Vale. My mother knew where I was going, and gazed wist fully into my face, but without otherwise asking me any questions. At the last moment, as I touched Madam's bridle. I looked down at her standing on tho door step. "Cheer up, mother!'' I said, at most gaily, "It will all come right." I found Julia standing by the fireplace, and leaning against it, as If she could not stand alone. When I went up to iter ana tooK ncr nana, sne nung her arms around my neck, and clung to me. In a passion of tears. It was some minutes before she could recover her self-corn mand. I had never seen her abandon herself to such a paroxysm before. "Julia, my poor girl f I said, "I did not think you would take it so much to heart as this. "I shall come all right directly," she sobbed, sitting down, and trembling from head to foot. "Johanna said you would come, but I was not sure." "Yes, I am here," I answered, with a very dreary fceliug about me. mat is euousu. said J una; "you need not say a word more. Iet us forget It, both of us. You will only give me your promise never to see her or speak to her again." "Olivia quite understands about my en gagement to you," l saw. "I told her at once that we wero going to be married, 1 .1..... T 1 ..t. .......1.1 tl.l i - l uuu mm i uui'cu duv nuuiu uuu u ineuu In you." f'A .friend In me, Martini" she exclaim ed, In a tone of Indignant surprise; "you could not ask me to be that!" "Not now, I suppose," I replied; "the girl is as Innocent and blameless as any girl living; but I daro say you would sooner befriend the most good-for-nothing Jezebel In the Channel Islands," "Yes. I would," she said. "An Inno cent girl Indeed! I only wish she had been killed when she full from the cliff." "Hush!" I cried, shuddering at the bare mention of Olivia's death; "you do not know what you say. it is worse man useless to talk about her, I came to ask you to think no more of what passed be tween us yesterday." TP? Stretton "But you are going to persist In your Infatuation," snld Julia; "you can never deceive me. I know you too well, un, i sec that you still think tho same of hcrl" "You know nothing about her," I re plied. "And I shall take care I never do," she Interrupted snltcfullx. "So It Is of no use to go on quarreling about her," I continued. "I made up my mind before I came hero that I must see as little as posslblo of her for tho future. You must understand, Julia, she has never given mo a partlclo of reason to supposo she loves me." "But you are still In lovo with her? Martin." she contluued. with Hashing eyes, and a rising tone In her voice, which, like the first shrill moan of tho wind, presaged a storm, "I will never marry you until you can say, on your word of honor, that you love that peraou no longer, and are ready to promise to hold no further communication with her. Oh! I know what my poor auut has had to endure, and I will not DUt up with It." "Very well, Julia," I answered, con trolling myself as "well as I could, t have only ono more word to say on this subject. I love Olivia, and as far as I know myself, I shall love her as long as I live. I did not come hero to give you any reason for supposing my mind Is changed as to her. If you consent to be my wife, I will do my best to be most true, most faithful to you. But my mo tive for coming now Is to tell you sotno particulars about your property, which my father made known to me only last night." It was a miserable task for me; but I told her simply the painful discovery I had made. She sat listening with a dark and sullen face, but betraying not a spark of resentment, so far as her loss of for tune was concerned. "Yes," she said bitterly, when I had finished, "robbed by the father and jilt ed by the son." I would give my life to cancel the wrong, I said. "It is so easy to talk," she replied, with a deadly coldness of tone and manner. I am ready to do whatever you choose," I urged. "It Is true my father has robbed you; but It is not true that I have jilted you. I did not know my own heart till a word from Captain Carey revealed It to me; and I told you frankly, partly because Johanna insist ed upon It, and partly because I be lieved It right to do so. If you demand it, I will even promise not to see Olivia again, or to hold direct communication with her. Surely that Is all you ought to require from me." No, she replied vehemently; "do you snppose I could become your wife while you maintain that, you love another wom an better than me? lou must have a very low opinion of me." Would you have me tell you a false hood?" I rejoined, with vehemenco equal to hers. You had better leave me," she said, 'before we hate one another. I tell vou I have been robbed by the father and jilted by the son. Good-bye, Martin." "Good-bye, Julia." I replied; but I still lingered, hoping she would speak to me again. I was anxious to bear what she would do against my father. She looked at me fully and angrily, and as I did not move, she swept out of the room, with a dignity which I had never seen In her be fore. I retreated towards the house door, but could not make good my escape with out encountering Johanna. "Well, Martin?" she said. "It is all wrong," I answered. "Julia persists In It that I am jilting her:" "All the world will think you have be haved very badly," she said. I rode home again, Sark lying In full view before me; and, In spite of the dark ness of my prospects, I felt Intensely glad to be free to win my Olivia. Four days passed without any sign from Julia. My father had gone off on a visit and my mother and I had the house to ourselves; and. In spite of her fret tings, we enjoyed considerable pleasure during the temporary lull. There were, however, sundry warnings out of doors which foretold tempest. I met cold glances and sharp Inquiries from old friends, among whom some rumors of our separation were floating. There was sufficient to justify suspicion my fath er's absence, Julia's prolonged sojourn with the Careys, and the postponement of my voyage to England. I began to fancy tbat even the women servants flouted at me. CHAPTER XI. One morning we received word that my father was lying 111 at a hotol in Jer sey. Captain Carey at once went with me in response to the message. Julia, too, had been sent for, but she reached the hotel in a separate car. The landlady received us with a por tentous face. Dr. Collas had spoken very seriously Indeed of his patient, and as for herself, she had not the smallest hope. I heard Julia sob, and saw her lift her handkerchief to her eyes behind her veil. Captain Carey looked very much fright ened. He was a man of quick sympa thies, and nervous about his own life into tho bargain, so that any serious Illness alarmed him. As for myself, I was In a miserable condition of mind. Wo wero not admitted Into my father's room for half an hour, as he sent word he must get up his strength for tho inter view. Julia and myself nlono wero al lowed to seo him. He was propped up in bed with a number of pillows; with the room darkened by Venetian blinds, and a dim green twilight prevailing, which cast a sickly hue over his really pallid face. His abundant whito hair fell lankly about his head, Instead of bcjng in crisp curls as usual. I was about to feel his pulse for him, but he waved me off. "No, my son," he said, "my recovery Is not to be desired. I feel that I have nothing now to do but to die. It is tjio only reparation In my power. I would far rather dlo than recover," I had nothing to say to that: Indeed. I I had really no answer ready, so amazed was I at tks tone ha had taken. But Julia began to sob again, and pressed past me, sinking down on the chair by his side and laying her hand upon one of his pillows. "Julia, my love," he continued feebly, "you know how I havo wronged you; but you are a truo Christian. You will for give your undo when he Is dead and gone. I should like to bo burled In Guernsey with the other Dobrees." Neither did Julia answer, savo by sobs. I stepped towards tho window to draw up the blinds, but ho stopped me, speaking lu a much stronger volco thau before. "Leave them alone," ho said. "I havo no wish to see the light of day. A dis honored man doe not caro to show his face. I have seen no ono since I loft Guernsey, except Collas." "1 think you ore alarming yourself' needlessly," I answered. "You know you are fidgety about your own health. Let mo prescribe for you. Surely I know as much as Collas." "No, no, let me die," he said plain-! tlvcly; "then you con all be happy. 1 1 hnvo robbed my only brother's only child. ' who was dear to me as my own dough- J ter. I cannot hold up my head otter that. I should dlo gladly If you two j wero but reconciled to one another." By this time Julia a hand had reach! his, and was resting in It fondly. I never knew a man gifted with such pow er over women and their susceptibilities as he had. Mv mother herself would appear to forget all her uuhapplucss, If ho only smiled upon her. "My poor, dear Jullal ' ho murmured; my poor child!" "Uncle." she said, checking her sobi by a great effort, "If you Imagine I should tell any one Johanna Carey oven wuat you have done, you wrong me. The name of Dobree Is as dear to mo as to Mar tin, and he was willing to marry a woman he detested In order to shield it. No. you are quito safe from disgrace as far aa I am concerned." "Heaven bless you, my own Julia!" be ejaculated fervently. "I knew your no ble nature. But will you not be equally generous to Martin? Cannot you for glvo him as you do mo?" 'Uncle, sho cried, "I could never. nover marry a man who says he loves some one else more than me." 'I should think not, my girl!" he said, In a soothing tone; "but Martin will very soon repent. He Is a fool just now, but he will be wise again presently. He has known you too long not to know your worth." "Julia," I said, "I do know how good you are. jlou have always been gener ous, and you arc so now. I owo you aa much gratitude as my father docs, and anything I can do to prove it I am ready to do this day." " ill you marry her before we leave Jersey?" asked my father. es, I answered. The word slipped from me almost un awares, yet I did not wish to retract It. She was behaving ao nobly and gener ously towards us both that I was willing to do anything to make her happy. "Then, my love," he said, "you hear what Martin promises. All's well that ends well. Only make up your mind to pnt your proper pride away, and we shall all be as happy as we were before." "Never!" she cried Indignantly. "1 would not marry Martin here, hurriedly and furtively; no, not If you were dying. uncle!" But, Julia, If I were dying, and wish ed to see you united before my death!" he Insinuated. A sudden light broke up on me. It was an lugentous plot one at which I could not help laughing, mad as I was. Julia's pride was to be saved, and an Immediate marriago between us effected, under cover of my father's, dan gerous Illness. I did smile, In spite of my anger, and be caught It, and smiled back again. I think Julia became suspicious, too. "Martin," sho said, sharpening her voice to address me, "do you think your father Is lu any danger?" "No, I do not, I answered, notwith standing his gestures and frowns. "Then that Is at an end," she said. "I was almost foolish enough to think tbat I would yield, lou don t know what this disappointment is to me. Everybody will be talking of It, and somo of them will pity me, and the rest laugh at me. I am ashamed of going out of doors any where. Ob, it Is too bad; I cannot bear it." She was positively writhing with agi tation, and tears, real tears I am sure, started Into my father's eyes. "My poor little Julia!" he said; "my darling! But what can bo done If you will not marry Martin" "He ought to go away from Guernsey, she sobbed. "I should feel better if I was quite sure I should never see him, or hear of other people seeing him." "I will go," I said. "Guernsey will be too hot for me when all this Is known." "And, uncle," she pursued, speaking to him, not me,, "he ought to promise me to give up that girl. I cannot set him free to go and marry her a stranger and adventuress. She will be bis ruin. I think, for my sake, he ought to give her up." "So he ought, and so ho will, my love' answered my father, "When he thinks of all we owe to you, he will promise you that." I pondered over what our family owed to Julia for somo minutes. It was truly a very great debt. Though I had brought her Into perhaps tho most painful posi tion a woman could be placed In, sua was generously sacrificing her Just re sentment and revenge against my fath er's dishonesty, in order to secure our name from blot. On the other hand, I had no reason to suppose Olivia loved me, and I should do her no wrong. I felt that, whatever It might cost me, I must consent to Julia's stipulation. It Is the hardest thing you could nslt me," I suld, "but I will give her up. On one condition, however; for I must not leave bur without friends. I sUull tell Tardlf If he over needs help for Olivia ho must apply to mo through my moth er." There could bo no harm in tbat," ob served my father. How soon shall I luavo Guernsey? 1 asked. "He cannot go until you nre well again, uncle," she answered. "I will stay hero to nurse you, and Martin must talto caro of your patients. We will send him word a day or two bcroro wo return, and I should like him to be gone before, we reach home," (To be continued.) The bird on n woman's hut has the wines of riches. COAST STATES ARE UP AND DOING REPORTS OF INDUSTRIAL. DEVELOPMENT IN THE CA8CADE MOUNTAIN REGION FROM CANADA flax a ProlllabU Crop. Tho llnx crop ot Idaho thin season will bring Inrgur returns to tho glow or thiui thoy would rocolvo for 1.250, 000 tmsliols of whoat. Tlio Industry which In of such ruennt dnto nn to nt most como undor tho bond of now business tins proved so successful this season that In many ensos It linn paid tho growors a greater not profit than tho coat of tho land on which It wan Brown. In No Perco County over 35,000 acres of flax was contracted I for at about ?1 par bnshol guaranteed, i with tho further proviso that tho grow- or was to havo tho nddltlonnl benefit of any mlvanco In tho Chicago mar kot. On this basis, somo of tho early arrivals wore sold aa high as $ I.B3 I per bushel, tho growors realizing; over , $122 por aero for his crop. In addi tion to tho 35,000 acres contraeiou lor thero was about 1C.000 acres produced by othor Rrowors. Waildnjton Leadt In Wheat. Tho current Issuo ot tho Ornngo Judd Farmor gives somo Interesting statistics showing harvest condition ot tho Unltod States winter nnd spring wheat by ctiitos and tho avorago rate of yiold por aero, as shown by such threshing results as havo beon receiv ed. From this table it Is son tnnt tno average ot tho entire United States winter Is 92.3 por cont. In which Wash ington Is 100, whllo tho spring crop with a total avorago of 83.4, glvos the stnto of Washington an avorago ot 95. Tho winter yield hns a total avor ago of 1G.1, in winch Washington is 25.0, and out or a spring yiold ot 16.0 Washington Is rated at 29.0, tho wheat condition of this stato being not only ahead of any othor stato In tho union, but far ahead ot tho general avorago as well. A Rich Copper Discovery. An extensive copper mlno, or rather mountain, has boon discovered by Mc Vey & Co., on tho west side of Sis kiyou mountains, California, about 8 miles from Garrotson's medical springs, 22 miles from Oak Bar. 5 miles south of tho Oregon lino ofJo sephlne County, nnd 24 miles from Jacksonville, Orogon. Tho ledgo ranges from 300 to 350 feot In width, and Is claimed to bo more ox tenslvo than tho fnmous Iron Moun tain mine at Keswick, In Shasta Coun ty, with tho likelihood of making Sis kiyou take ,tho lead of Shasta In tho annual mineral output when thorough ly deroloped. Tho discoverers havo been offered $150,000 for tholr pro perty. BIJ Timber Silt. A. B. Hammond, of Portland, con summated tho purchaso of tho largest unbroken tract of tlmbor land still remaining in first hands In this state tho first of tho month. Fifty thousand acres wero involved In tho deal and the land Is all situated In ono body on the Tualatin and Trosk Itivors. The land was purchased from the Southern Pacific and whllo tho consid eration was withheld, tho prlco Is re ported to bo In tho neighborhood of $500,000. Town Loti at $14,000 Each. O. A. Kjos, a local morchnnt of Lewlston, Idaho, completed tho pur chaso of CI feet frontage on Main and Fifth streets from J. Elchonborgor, tho consideration being $13.600 Mr. Kjos also paying a streot grade as sessment tax, making tho total con sideration $14,000. A handsome thrno story brick storo building will be erected on tho corner next spring to cost $65,000. New Railroad In Eaitcrn Oregon. Articles of Incorporation havo been granted to L. K. Moore, J. B. Hob ford and J. O. Etrod, to construct a line of railroad from Arlington on the Columbia Iliver, duo south, to Con don, county seat of Gilliam County. The capital stock Is $500,000 divided Into shares of $100 oach. Tho right-of-way Is being obtained as fast as surveyed. Tho line will bo forty miles long. New Smelter at Darrlngton. The deal for the site for tho smelt er at Darrlngton, Wash., has been closed, and It Is now only a question of getting the buildings up and tho plant Installed, whon work will bo bo gun extracting precious minerals from tho rich ores of that region. Tho cost of the smelter will bo $75,000, and tho dally capacity will amount to 250 tons. Denver capital Is behind tho proposition. A Rich Cargo. Of tho 3300 tons of genral cargo on board the Tosa Maru, recently in from China, the silk was tho most precious, That was valued at $385,000. Tho costliest cargo of silk ovor brought over ran up to half a million. For the first time a shipment of concctratos was brought ovor from Leigh, S. J., Hunt's mines in Corea, This ore was consigned to the smolter at Tacoraa and was valued at $25,000. Indication of Proiperity. The roport of tho condition of the national banks of Washington recent ly published, tells Its part of tho story of tho present unexampled prosperity. Their total rosourcos roso from $27,' 098,277 to $31,280,108 In a llttlo moro than twelve months, and tho individu al deposits In theso banks during tho snmo period havo increased by $3, 000,000. To Irrigate a Garden Spot. Articles of Incorporation of tho Aso tin Land and Irrigation Company hnvo been filed with tho county auditor nt Asotin, Wash. Tho object of tho cor poration is to Irrigate lands, generate power, buy and sell land and maintain and operate irrigation canals. Tho capital stock Is $40,000, shares having a par valuo of $100 each, Tho com pany Is at present constructing a canal in Tho Forks or Lake district and oxpects to have several thousand acres undor water by next spring. TO MEXICO. Wotld't Ur$Mt Trult Drier. A prune dryer thnt Is oxpoctod to dry 30 car loads ot i-urod prunes this sermon, that will afford employment to probably 100 persons; nnd In snld to bu tho largest prune drier In tho world, In to be put In operation next week nt the orchard ot thu Corvallln and llonton County Pruno Company, nix miles north of Corviillln. About $6,000 hi cash ami thrco months of time hnvo boon devoted to the build ing of tho drier, and Imrrlng a few minor detnlln, It Is now ready for work, it has boon warmed onco or twice already, and has behaved satis fncorlly on ench occasion. Its con struction and Its operation nro mild to bo mnttern of koeti Interest to pruno gtoworn nil ovor tho stnto. Tho now plant will rocolvo 2300 bushots of green prunes nt ono time. It consists of 10 tunnels,1 or, moro properly speaking, five twin tunnels, Knch ot tho.ton tunnels Is SO feet long, 44 Inclios wide nnd 44 Inches from floor to celling. Tho fruit Is cnrrlcd through tho tunnels by a minimum rnllrond, tho car wheels of which nre four Inches In height and have flanges thnt run along n mlnlnturo track. Each car platform Is 30x42 Inches nnd Is four Inchon above tho floor. Ench car ac commodates ten trays ot fruit, nnd each tunnel holds thirty-two earn at a time a total of 320 cars In all or 3200 trays of about throo-fourths of a bushels or fruit each. The plnnt In houcod by a main build Ing 110 feot long nnd 40 feet wide. An L nt on end In 20x30, nnd nccom modntcs tho onglne and boilers. A 22x32 room at tho othor end shelters tho dipping nppnratun, whore, by ln genlous contrivance prunes nre dip pod four or flvo tlmon and spread on trays rontly for tho drier without Inter vontlon by the hand of man. 8o far ns known, tho dipper Is tho only ono In ubo In tho country. It was used tho first tlmo at this orchard last year, with great success. Tho pnines nro dumped Into a vat. and In n short tlmo a screen tilts from tho bottom and throws tho fruit Into another vat Tho process Is repented until nil tho vnts nro passed, whon tho fntlt In spronii automatically on a tray, ready tor the tunnel. New Route to Gray'i Harbor. Thoro Is now nt work on tho Hooul am axtonslon of tho Gray's Harbor ornncii of tho Northern Pacific Itn road a forco ot about GOO men and a largo numbor of toams. It Is tho In- tontlon to havo tho work on the 30' mllo oxtcnslon finished beforo tho wot weather sets In, nt lenst so far as tho grading Is roncernod. Track laying hns nlrendy beon bo gun nnd tho contract calls for tho com pletion of tho lino Into Uio Qulnlault Indian reservation within a year, Three surveying parties nro at work north of tho reservation and thero Is no doubt but that a right of way will be secured to tho Straits by tho tlmo tho track laying on tho prcsont lino In finished. Anthracite Coal li Found. A party of prospectors has locatod thirteen coal nnd Iron claims In tho Cascades about 60 mllos west of North Yakima, Wash. Ooorgo Wolkel has brought out n load or the coal and submitted It to a test In tho furnaces of that city. Tho coal Is said to bo tho host of anthra clto and burns frooly without smoko or flamo and loaves no cinders. Flvo veins of coat havo been locatod. Thoy range from three feot to thlrtoon feet in thickness. The coal covers largo doposlts of Iron ore which has been traced for eight mllos. Spoclmons wolghlng 100 pounds show tho grado of coal dlscovored. To Build SairLake" Line. . Sonator W. A. Clark of Montana will call for bids this week for tho con struction of tho first thirty miles of his San Podro, Los Anglos and Salt Lako liallroad. This now pleco ot road will extend from Los Angles to Pomona. Tho total longth of t,ho road from Los Anglos to Salt Lako Is to bo 713 miles. The cost of constructing this mlleago will bo paid for by a bond Issuo of $20,000,000 nt 4 per cont and tho salo of a consldernblo portion of tho company's $25,000,000 ot stock. The Santa Fo Is having built 450 oil tank cars for tho California and Toxas petroloum oil trado. Will Burn Oil. aonoral Managor Knittschmltt, of tho Southern Pacific Company, who has just returned from an extended Inspection trip ovor tho line from San Francisco to Now Orleans, has an nounced that all of tho company's lo comotives will bo equipped for tho burning of oil Instcnd of coal as ex peditiously as posslblo. To that ond Btorago tanks with a capacity of 30, 000 barrels each will bo eroctod at Oakland, FrjOBno, Mendocino and other points south and east on tho line. Pacific Log Rafting Thn mnmmnMi Inn- rnf unnt r.f f ' - " - - - O WWb Hum tho Columbia Iliver rocontly arrived last wook at San Francisco Intact. Thore aro 620,000 lineal foot of pil ing in tho raft, somo of tho sticks running to 120 foot In longth, and ns groat as 22 lnchoa thick nt tho but. Tho raft Is 025 feot long and cost $30,000 to connrinpr. It lu natlmntn.i to contain 7,200,000 foot of lumbor. This Cow Will Do, A COW Which Is bollevrwl to ail records for Increasing a hord Iirh timr added to hpr famo by giving birth to tnpiots. , Thren tlmnfl nhn tina rtmrlii.mil t..t and on that nrnnnnr. Imr munn. a' Podosto, says ho would not part with her ns all but ono of tho calves wero porfoctly formed nnd lived. His ranch Is located near Stockton, Cal. This last act of tho cow has attracted much attontlon, and many pooplo call at tho place to seo tho trio of calves. Wotnon Msssi Avoid Norvoue Prostration If you nro dangerously stole what , li thu ilrst duty of your phynlelnn 7 no quleln tho nervous system, lio deadens tho lmln, nnd you sleep well. Vou ought to know thnt when you censed to bo regular In your courses. irrow Irritable without cause, anil puss sleepless nigiiis, moro buhuuh Mna. ItAitri.KY, troublo somewhere, ami norvoun pros trntlun Is sure to follow. You ought to know thnt Indigestion, exhaustion, womb dlstilnceiueiiU. falntlnif, (llzrlnchs, licndnche. ana backache sent! tho nerves wild with Affright, and you cautKit sleep. Mrs. Hartley, of 231 W. Congress St., Chicago. III., whoso portrnlt wo pub lish, suffered nil thr agonies, nnd was entirely cured by Lyilln E. l'iuk hnin'n Vegotnblo Compound : her cni should bo n warning to others, nnd her euro enrry conviction to the minds cf every sufferlntr woman of the un falling efficiency of LydlaE. Plukham's VcfeUblo Compound. No Seaihorc Engagement. She Yor proiKisal ot inurriiigo was quite ttnexjMHitetl. lie So much tire letter. She Why, prnyT He llcciiuso It is the unexectel thnt usually lmpons. Ghioitgo News. A Natural Query. Mamma (who is expecting the mill iliter) Willie, wo will have it very uico old pcntlomnn to ten this even iiifr, nm! you must bo very good whito he's here. Willie Why, Is ho Santa Clutis? Philadelphia Press. till Preference. "Would you rather hnvo something clue than u piece of nioT" aketl the kind neighbor ot llttlo Freddie, who hnd run an errand for Iter. "Yes, ma'am," said Freddie, promptly; "I wu'd rtither havo two pieces." Ohio Stato Journal. Tact and Paihlon. "Thofco troticors nro very much worn this sensou," suid thu tailor dis playing his goods. "So are the ones I hnvo on" replied tho poet sadly. A SUCCESSFUL MAN How Ho Obtained His Present Envi able Position, "Honesty, aggressiveness ami health aro tho requisites for success. " Thcso nro the words of John II. Uiley, of Ciuenovia, N, Y., who hns attained the main thing that all men de.nl re. "Tho first two qualities I mention aro necessary," lio contin ued, "if a man or woman wants to rho in lifo, but they aro of little ttso if tho third is not in your possession." 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I consider I)r, Williams' Pink Pills for Palo I'conloa wondorful remedy, and I havo recommended tliein to n great many peoplo, Rheumatism hns hcon cured in hundreds of other instances by Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pnlo People. Thoy are a sncoilla not onlv for that disease hut for all ailments arising from a divordurcd condition of tho blood or shattered norvos, such as locomotor ataxia, partial paralysis, St. Vitus danco, sciatica, iiouriilglu, nervous headaolio, tho after cllects of tho grip, palpitation of thu heart, pulo nnd sallow comploxions and all forma of weakness either in mnlo or loinalo. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pnlo Peoplo aro sold in boxes at GU cents a box, or six boxos for $2,150. and may bo had of nil druggists, or diroot by mail from l)r, Williams Mcdioino Co., Sohonectady, N, Y,