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gentlemanly way for a quarter of an hour or eo, 1 would take my leave. In no case would I enter the by M ary r , p . hatch . house; upon that point my mind From People’s Home Journal. was clearly made up. For to enter was to break bread, to break bread CHAPTER I. was to proffer hospitality in return One of the most fortunate men in I “M y D eab B oy :—I am glad to when any of the family came to the are at Lancaster, and pro- the world is my friend, Stewart hear you • i pose visiting other places of interest city; •7* and to do this was to hean • . up- \ Hutchinson, who lives on Common . vt c. .„„on mv devoted head the same trials nearby. me. , . , often heard me, wealth Avenue, which everybody near by. You have - -........................... I which my friend solemnly protest knows is in Boston The owner of speak of my old friend and school- ’ ed were making him old before his a fine fortune, the husband of a mate, Jane Seavey. She lives in time. lovely wife, the jtossessor of talents j Guild, which I find by consulting “But man purposes. You know of no mean order, honorable, gal i mv atlas is just across the river the rest. lant and handsome—have I not from L----- , probably but a few “Tuesday, July loth, was all that said enough to make you agree miles. Now, my dear boy, I wish i could be wished for my purpose, vou to look her up [she is married with my first statement? to a farmer] and tell her • about I and I Bet out with good heart and I sometimes spend a few your mother. Tell her I have never courage for the undertaking Since with this friend of mine, for forgotten her, although somehow mapping out my plans with so Hutchinson did not insist upon his I decision, they our correspondence has lagged in much clearness and cutting his old acquaintances, as frowning as- seemed to lose their the last few years. In short, be some ladies do at the outset of their your own gentlemanly self. I want pect. matrimonial venture, and one “I trundled along, cheerily, for her to see my son. I want her to morning we sat smoking together in see my son. I had great respect some miles, ’mid many pleasant his library A fine apartment; one and affection for Jane in the old sounds; the whir of the grasshop object struck me as being slightly per, the whetting of the scythes on days.’ out of place among the otherwise ’ the meadows, the songs of the birds, “My mother is a great word hunt the droning of the bees. Who elegant appointments, and now, as usual, my eyes roved toward the! er, and she drove her subject to would not live in the country—a figure of a stuffed fowl, in other cover in the present instance in an part of the year? And the country words, an old white hen, perched ardent manner, very vexatious to sight» and the country smells. in the place of honor, the central me. | What is more entrancing, more en “You know mother, and that she object on the top of a fine cabinet. IV v. • nobling than hill, sky and river in I'nconsciously I turned an j i.. n. I is emphatically the head of our | such close intimaev, than the quiring gaze on my friend, who fam'ly. She has brought us al! up bieath of the flowers and of the new in the most wholesome respect of I nodded, placidly replying to my mown hay? her desires opinions, which are look: “I see your impatience; but ¡let veritable commands to us. There me linger a minute, foi the contrast “I see you i wonder at Biddy. I fore, j knew th re was no evading All my friends do. Thus I Ims far far I I i)er reqt)est to vjBit Jane Seavey I came soon enough. Ah! well, I have allowe«’ their curiosity to re- wj)O j pictured as a tall, antiquated reached the home of Jane Seavey at main unsatisfied. But I’ve half a 1 fenia)e ¡n a checked sunhonnet, last I had inquired my way at mind to make an exception in your ( piling berrieB by the roadside. intervals, the last time of a little girl, with a tin pail, who had hid c118®-” . I had seen many such on my w-ay den in the bushel on my approach, “Do,’ ’said I, scenting a story in j to Lanchester, and pretty young only peeping out to answer me in ! the way he vacantly contemplated girls, too, in the same occupation. awed manner as she glanced fear-] the various objt cts. my self included, but different headgear I had I fully at my wheel; and now I saw and the care with which he Hipped great respect for country people, it just beyond, a fine large farm off the ashes from his cigar. They were, no doubt, the nerve and house, with broad verandas run “You writing fellows are not to sinew of the republic , and New I ning around three sides of it. Sit be trusted. But pshaw! who cares? J Hampshire people are notable folk Just change names and dates, in their way. But it was, I con uated on a slight eminence, it front ed a roomy barn, while back of it, Nobody will mistrust ” sidered, extremely embarrassing to an old-fashioned well, with sweep | “All right, _ . ” I answered; __ , not ex-' have a number of country --------- friends peeting if the truth were known, to I on your lint, ready to rush in upon pointing skyward, and clumps of maples and spruce-«, gave it a rus care about writing it up, so few of you nt the most inconvenient season. tic finish, quite Arcadian and the stories thrust into our face b are “And the young ladies of the charming, I said to mVaelf. worth the while. TO BE CONTINUED. family, who expect you to escort “You wouldn’t think now, to them to meeting, an they iii il, I look at her, that to Biddy 1 owe and to the shows. Mv friend, my life, to «ay nothing of my wife, Charlie Redwing had suffered in who you do not need to be told I I this way for years. Many’s the value much more highly ” time 1 had met him walking with | Owe the elegant Mr». Hutchinson John Roberta, a reekle-fueed »out h, t to that homely fowl. ImimsHible. in checked pantaloons and a steel I Stay! Was there not a knowing I watch chain, or with Mias Annie.l turn to the head, a sphinx-like cast in a flowered silk, or Mill Julia, in | to the “glittering eyes,” that Home- [ a dress very abort in front and verv | hew emphasized my long in the rear. At such times 1 ment? Assuredly. | mercifullv pretended not to see] “Go on,” ! said, “I mu in*git)ning him. And now. my excellent, but to believe you.” mistaken mother, wished to place “Thanks. Well, it happened in me in the same predicament I s?. the month of July, 1888. I had i “Jane Seavey, no doubt, hid • • ta Seven t been spending several week« at the aona, and, worse still, daughters oo ;s beven tb; I Than White Mountains, when, laing an To make myself agreeable to Jane Stove HMlt Seyen t.a.e enthusiastic wherliuun, I decided Seavey was to do the same by her l’olisti one fine day to take a run up to whole family- for mothers, aa » Soft Two ciirv 'S A.I.C 1 ».o tn ¡■.es ■ Lancaster, a village Home dozen mothers, I reasoned, are alike the I miles distant. I reached the place world over, no matter how different at sunset, and a more idvllic sun in other reap rts. Well, mv moth •vt I never witnessed. The village er must be obeyed, but I decided : 1 it» a veritable gem in a setting of to do her comm tnds briefly, very, a a I hoi sc briefly indeed. 1 would take the -»ni!v ' K circling hills of wondrous beauty. “I decided to *etuain there for a firnt pleasant day, bowl leisurely I A • I 0.” iti« •n CoM Aits., few days, taking short trips to ad-l ‘he delightful country roads, jacent towns, situated along the fringed with blue gentians, golden- Ì19 MONTGOMERY ST..S.F • • C AU. Conneticut valley; and I so an- rod and daises, and when 1 reach nounced in my next letter to in y ed the Seaver homestead, shoulder I Bruhnni the y tn’-'r composer mother, sitting tlwre on the ver- my bicycle and rap at the door -•* rave Oir. et r • t .4 4 ic nt ilarrig .a*» i tieatrw, and* of the Lancaster House, t he (there would be no bell, of course,) Nrw Turk, March l.-t. 1SK. J -bn F. *tr »ttuu very night ot wy arrival. Mot ht r and ask for a drink of milk. Then 4. IK- .r Sir» —I h ,vccirca yoar Kn«-»Un Out waa spending the assami on lhe I would announce my name, tell t »Ita ■‘in»!»« a th »rough trt*l, au l w a : :*»•• <» .t» thaï the/ ara tlw b--t t«-r.« I at>4 Hudson, aa usual. She repMad al them of mother, deliver her tuea- t durable rtrtng» I bavaw-r nv.,1 once. Her letters arc usually a.nges. After conversing in a quiet I Tvui» ra-j ., Lw> J L>—»IX 4M THE OLD WHITE HEN. r I I« IF I I; A I t H 1 l! marvels of good sense and uncom monly readable, but on this oc casion I own to being vexed. I have it in my vest pocket now, I , was showing it to my wife yester- | day; fished it out of my drawers: BUCKS! BUCKS’! W. D. HUFFMAN will be in Burns again this fall with Grades and Thoroughbred, Bucks. Will sell Grades from $3.50 to $6 per head. Thor oughbreds $6 to $10. Ü ? • L Newspaper Man Relates a Mar vellous Story. An Iatcrcstfcg Chaptcr in Eis Own Life-Somc, V7c Hope, May Profit by Reading Same. /’roiu the Herald, Columbia, Tenn, ?'■)••—• j, ene of t|,p riphr.-t and ’ of Colombia (who is now clerk and l*a«ter bi _<• i .iii nest counties in Tenn<-s»ee. It , of tne Chancery Court of this county), re- wo ¡id be mi exaggeration to say that any ! commended Dr. Williams* Pink Fill.» tor on» m in knew every other num in this I Pale People. ■oiint.y, bin it may sui’ iy be said tluit few, if | *’I lieg.in using them ns per directions for my, can e one n arer to it than Mr. Joe M. locomotor ataxia, and in about one week . 'o<ter, wh.is ■ home is ut Carter’s Creek, and I some of my friends thought i was better; i ho is no v coniected will) t ie Herald. In | but it was two weeks before the itnprove- ic inter-.-t of the II r ad he has visited | inent was plain to *11 an<l satisfactory tc my- . ® horn • in the county. , irp<>n self. Then, however. I Curie the pills w» re i'-irly evi'ry • state ” ><••■ isions—that is, the //. r<rZ</’« an- doing their grand and j loriou« w»»rk, and >n he is lhe lhe .. isier of . I kept takin? them until 1 could hobble ii'i ! pie-nic ■ re'i rci i i ni lie is . Cerenio'ii»»s. " ” There T i< re ure are f \v w men better about on crutches. .... .. .... li'ie'l, “ Jt was suggested to me then that initure ku ... i.v ., i, few lietter li'ted, non mm • ■ nio.-e more trtisteil, trusted, I i ami \h it h<»s:iys .illy would do the rest, and I left off the pills. i , th- ’ H ’ raid, ", iineonditi .............. _ I In about ten days 1 saw that I was going and in»» |ti: vocally, will vouch fir. T i see liin now in perfe-t health and down hill again; I promptly renewed tl.e erjertv, on » would not think that two and pills, and again I Imyan to improve. A a !i.If years ago he was a bed-ridden second time I tried to leave the kittle to a i i 11i 1. a physical wreck, whose family good constitution, but found it still t>o n »ysi-i i i, I i,el <>•>•■« at home and friends i weak so I commenced on the pills agui.i ' t ho i ;'it wis sun to be called hence. ' and kept taking them until I was tee//, “1 was in my fifty-first year when 1 whs nvli ■« • it sii.di '« th' th- 1 e is is ', sail nut only lie but hi» j i -I. It is now alarnt two years since f t nj y i ,ia I a hundred friends will testify to ti'ken . sick. | I di c rded stick and crutch ai d found i >y leg< strong enough to carrv me. I am < n- [t vis i po.»n’bir nT: -tion he lind, and his ' legs i-ur- w h in rv -lions, his recovery a nine j lying snlenilid health, weigh more tnd 1<>< k :.. :t.T tl tnnn for year», and attribute my ........... _ e-ntnry ....... z ___ ____ ____ ___ ____ _ i’¡letter teenth miriele. And that others •nay enj iy th>» blessings of the wonderful health and my recovery and life to the n <licine dicine which ’ieyond n-yond the per idventure of magic of Pink Pills for Pale People, undir doubt—tinier Gil's Gil’s blessing—saving his the blessing of Go l. “ I have reconnnend-d these pil's to a Mr. F,mter F.wter —not desiring publicity but . ‘ ■th th the hop* hop» of d ting >ing good — has cou-I cou- number of people, and many I know Line been cured by them. I wish in my heart • - ii< ii> 1 to ti-ll tell of I •- •• sickness sickniws and his cu-\ cn-x that every person on earth wl.rf is ntf’er.r > It was ,vas in the fan of 1892 fie lie w-is was taken 1» w iv s a firmer f inner then, an 1 had spent the d <1 y \ as I was could get them and would try tlu in. “ To those who know me, I hope ii is m t ■xposed to the weather and working ■xpostsl „ in the . ’ lei n! I 1. 'in ’»» liiviirv m l f>r fix five hours wi« was in in thp the mini mud, in in a a necessary for me to add that 1 make t •« statement «toning position. In a few days thereafter ____ ___ of my own free will, without io hid a peenliir feeling in his feet and money and without t rice. Put -------- if there are bills; tn v became numb and felt as if ar.v who nre inelim d >o iloi.bt. 1 vill r,’fr , ’ * .» .»»•■> I If >«v»*4»r I: I them to Dr. J. H. 11211 Iliii. J. .\I. LJ Hunter, 1!. ;Ul ’«'H. lint, p'rlrtns, it would be better to let Mr. D. Lockridge, J»ic TerwclL Anderson Ni-- ><t-r i 'll ins own experience, and this is hols. S. 1». and G. W. Nichols, all otC’lirti > « ' Creek. Maury County, Tenn., or if they wi 1 vh >• he says: “ ’ ill >-vi-ig th° numbness of inv feet and call upon me I will give them the names ol a • ids. th it iiam'invss spread until mv whole hundred witnr sses of as good m< n and women v .v is paralyzed. 1 had a dreadful con- ! as the sun ever shone upon. “ Hoping some noor sufferer may rend and -tio-i around my body, and as I grew •:-s ■ this ext -n led tip. cutting off my believe and be raised from a bed of pain, 1 Very respectfully, • reaih' i it finally got within a few inches am J<»K M. FosTKlt, i ii. th-1 »t and it was with difficulty that Care of the Herald, Columbia. Tenre*see.” i d it all. At irregular intervals I Dr. Williams’ Pink Pi!’» f>r Pale P»— V , ,-,|i-g pains throughout my entire sty . . I im'is, a i'l for at least five months pie arc an unfailing rem>dy for all d.s- e is»'s arising from a poor and watery cond - w is ;• f-ciy helpless, nn>l a man servant k ->t in mv room day and night to turn tion of the blood, such as pile and sal low co’nplex’on, general muscul-’r weakness, ei-i !wsl i»i ' vait upon me. “io - h • ariicrpnrt of my illness my fe-t lo -s of appetite, depression of spirits, lack of utnbiiion. aniemia. chlorosis or green sick !t •;« if I »v is w >1 ,ing bare-f,M»ted on a sti.T ■ > t. t on I e-mld not walk at all in th' ness. palpitnt’on of the heart, shortress of i. k. an,’ eov.id not even stand alone with breath on slight exertion, coldness of hands •:n < j ■ ■> s'mt. I rapidly grew worse, nnd or fis'f, swelling of the feet and limbs, pain n nv I f»s refused to carry me. Finally in the back, nervous headache, dizziness, 1 1. t my s ■ is.- ,t finding or touch, ami 1 >sxof memory, feebleness of will, ringing i.i ••mid not tell when mv feet were against sthe ears, early decay, nil forms of temde c ’di other, but felt all the while as if they weakness, leu-orrhiea. tardy or irregular periods, suppression of menses, hysteria, w»r-’ le ’n ’ pulled apart. In lhe lieginning I had called in ni^ paralysis, hwomotor ataxin. rheumatism, nil» I’SvMi-i m. a mrv suit »-»-.f :1 practi- sciatica, all diseases depending on vitiated fion-r. I ID ’- put me “ —'* * — *u *- on a ■ * treatment, with in- humors in the blood, causing aernfuls, str-l -lions tn keep verv quiet. But I eontin- swelled glands, fever sores, rickets, hip-joint >,sl I > ir -i»« w »-«e. an»l in alio’it «ix wrek» he diseases, hunchback, acquired deformitiea, to! I me cuv'.iiliy and “ honestly, - that - - be - hi’.d - decayed bones, chronic ervsip« I »s. catarrh. <1 >n- hi le’-t, l h it lie h i'l n’so nd vised with <v»nsumption of the bowels and lurgs. and «»in • of ’ ki' r i' i-i’s fi-idin»? physician«, giv- also for invigorating the bhsvl and system symptoms, but th it be could when broken down l>v overwork, worry, dis Ing them i»iv . ...r..... ,..................... - _____ ■ I » I t bin ' f»r in- inni it w;is nseles.« for him ease. excesses and indiscretions of living, re He an I the f hysictaiMi covery from acute diseases, such as fevers, to • *y .v f i-tb-r. wirk . n I. - dr!«rd pn noune »1 my di.-e etc., loss of vital powers, spermstorrh<ra. early decoy, premature ol»1 age. They a« t fit I di !n an I in>mra’dr. •• r, mt I -»»y I., t’-'-yc'- l l try nny- d-rr^ly on the blood, supplying to the bl<«i 1. end then I Iv- n t-vin ’ its life-giving qu-»l<ties by assisting it tn < ins t «•>« «n-esti«!. I tried «1.-*- nhenrb oxygen. th >t c-eat supporter of all ’el —* riot'y ~'>elt »'»Is. shoek- orginic life. Pink Pill» are sold by all deal- d .le.-tn>nni<e, with nn nie r- ers. or will be wit port paid on receipt of i f V' >>»»1j.» ira. both internally anil rrice. 50 cents a box or six bovea for 18 50, y addressing Dr. Williams’ Medicine Cth» ’ nil tn n-> »-e-rt. nrt’l. about _ *<, .1 a cjttca, Mr. Z N. Aiken, . Schenectady, N. Y. T# It