fbe Doctor's *f)ilemma
By Hesba Stretton
“n< has been living on Tardif's coarse
tare for a week,” answered my mother;
“so now he has compassion enough for
his Sark patient to pack up some dainties
for her. It you could only give him one
or two of your bad headaches he would
have more sympathy for you."
“Have you had one of your headaches,
Julia?” I inquired.
“The worst I ever bud,” she answered.
“It was partly your going off in that rash
way, and the storm that came on after,
and the fright we were in. You must
not think of going again, Martin.
I
shall take care you don t go after we are
married.”
Julia had been used to speak out as
calmly about our marriage as if it was
no more than going to a picnic. It grat­
ed upon me just then; though it had been
much the same with myself. There was
no delightful agitation ubout the future
that Lay before us. We were going to
set up housekeeping by ourselves, and
that was all. There was no mystery in
it; no problem to be solved; no discovery
to be made on either side. There would
be no Blue Beard's chamber in our dwell­
ing, We had grown up together; now we
had agreed to grow old together. That
was th« sum total of marriage to Julia
and me.
I finished packing the hamper, and
sent Pellet with it to the Sark office, hav-
ing addressed it to Tardif, who had en­
gaged to be down at the Creux Harbor
to receive it when the cutter returned.
I was in haste to secure a parcel of
books before the cutter should start homo
again, with its courageous little knot of
market people. I ran down to Barbet's.
I looked through the library shelves until
I hit upon two novels. Besides these, I
chose a book for Sunday reading.
Barbet brought half a sheet of an old
Times to form the first cover of my par­
cel. The shop was crowded with market
people, and as he was busy I undertook
to pack them myself, I was about to fold
the newspaper round
i
them, when my eye
was caught by an advertisement at the
top of one of the columns. “Strayed
from her home 1 in London, on the 2bth
Inst., a young lady with bright brown
hair, grey eyes, and delicate features;
age twenty-one. She is believed to have
jeen alone, Was dressed in a blue silk
dress, and sealskin jacket and hat. Fifty
CHAPTER V.
soon recover her lost strength. I had to
“Martin Dobree!” ejaculated both in stoop down to hear what she was saying
one breath.
"Have I kept quite still, doctor
she
“Yes, mademoiselles,” 1 said, un oiling asked faintly.
a
M
••
l
’
-
the tress of hair as if it bad been
I must own that my eyes smarted, and
pent, and going forward to greet them; my voice was not to be trusted. I li a <1
“are you surprised to see me?"
never felt so overjoyed in my life as at
“Surprised!” echoed the elder. “No; that moment. But what a singular wish
we are amazed—petrified! However did to be obedient possessed this girl! What
you get here? When did you comi?”
a won ierfu) power of submissive self-con­
“Quite easily,” I replied. ”1 catne on trol!
Sunday, and Tardif fetched me in h s
“I should like to see Tardif,” mur-
own bout. If the weather had permitted mured the girl to me that night, after she
I should have paid you a cull; but you had awukenod from a second long and
know what it has been.”
peaceful sleep.
“To be sure," answered Emma; "and
I called him and he came in barefoot,
how is dear Julia? She will be very anx­ his broad, burly frame seeming to fill up
ious about you.”
all the little room. She could not raise
“She was on the verge of a nervous at­ her head, but her face was turned to­
tack when I left her,” 1 said; "that will wards us. and she held out her small
tend to increase her anxiety.”
wasted hand to him, smiling faintly. He
"Poor, dear girl!" she replied sympa­ fell on his knees before he took it into his
thetically. "But, Martin, is this young great, horny palm, and looked down up­
woman hero so very ill? We have liearl on it as he held it very carefully with
from the Ri-noufs she had had a danger­ tears standing in his eyes.
ous fall. To think of you being in Sark
"Why, it is like an egg shell,” he said.
ever since Sunday, and we never heard “Gol bless you, mam'zelle, God bless you
a word of It!”
for getting well again!”
“Is that
She laughed at his words—a feeble
"Yes,” I
■essar.v to though merry laugh, like a child's—and
- LI with
cut it off.
she seemed delighted with the sight of
fever.”
his hearty face, glowing us it was with
Both of them shrank a little
happiness. It was a strange chance that
tin door, A sudden temptation
had thrown these two together. I could
me, and took me so much by surprise not allow Tardif to remain long; but
that I had yielded before I knew 1 was after that she kept devising little mes­
attacked. It wns their shrinking move- sages to send to him through me when­
ment that did it. My answer was almost ever I was about to leave her. Her in­
as automatic uni involuntary as their tercourse with mother Ilenouf was ex­
retreat.
tremely limited, as the old woman's
“You see it would not be wise for any knowledge of English was slight.
It
of us to go about,” I said.
“A fever
breaking out in the island, especially uou
you have no resident doctor, would be
Very serious.”
Thus I si eur d isolation for myself ami
my patient. But why had I been eager
to do so? I could not answer that ques
tion to myself, and I did not ponder ovc
it many minutes. I was impatient, yet
strangely rein taut, to look at the sick
girl again, after the loss of her beautiful
hair. The change in her appearane
struck me as singular. Her face before
had a look of suffering ami trouble, mak­
ing it almost old, charming as it w h :
now she had the aspect of quite a young
girl, scarce ly touching upon womanhood.
We sat up again together that night,
Tardif and I. He would not smoke, 1, s
the scent of the tobacco should get in
through the crevices of the door, ami les
sen the girl's chance of sleep; blit he held
his pipe between his teeth, taking an im
aginary puff now and then, that he might
keep himself wide awake. We talked to
one another ill whispers.
"Tell me nil you know about mam'­
zelle,” I said, lie had been chary of his
knowledge before, but his heart seemed
open nt this moment. Most hearts are
“LOOK THEKE, TARDIF."
more open
hour.
happened, in consequence, that I was the pounds reward is offered to any person
"There's not much to tell, do tor,” he
only person who could talk or listen to giving such information as will lead to
answered, “Her name is Ollivier, as 1
her through the long and dreary hours.
her restoration to her friends. Apply to
•aid to you; but she does not think she
Messrs. Scott and Brown, Gray's Inn
Is any kin to the Olliviers of Guernsey.
Road, E. C.”
CHAPTER VI.
She is poor, though she does not look as
I stood perfectly still for some seconds,
My mother was lying on the sofa in the
if she had been born poor, does she?”
“Not in the least degree," I said. “If breakfast room, with the Venetian blinds staring blankly at the very simple adver­
•he is not a lady by birth, she is one of down to darkeu the morning sunshine. tisement under my eyes. There was not
tile slightest doubt in tny miml that it
the first specimens of Nature's gentle­ Her eyes were closed, though she held
folks I have ever come across. Has she in her hands the prayer book, from which bad a direct reference to my pretty pa­
written to any one since she came here?” she had been reading as usuul the Psalms tient in Sark. But I had no time for
“Not to n soul,” he answered eagerly. for the day. Whilst 1 was looking at deliberation then, and I tore off a large
“She told me she had no friends nearer her, though 1 made no sort of sound or corner of the Times containing that and
than Australia. That is a great way movement, she seemed to feel that 1 was other advertisements, and thrust it un­
there; and after looking up she started seen into my pocket.
off."
In the afternoon I went down with
“Ami she has had no letters?” I asked. from her sofa, and flung her arms about
Julia and’my mother to the new house,
“Not one,” lie replied. "She has neith­ me. pressing closer and closer.
“Oh, Martin, my boy; my darling!” she to see after the unpacking of furniture.
er written nor received a single letter.”
"But how did you come across her?" I sobbed, "thank heaven you are come I cun imagine circumstances in which
Inquired. “She did not full from the back safe! Oh. 1 have been very rebel­ nothing could be more delightful than
skies, I suppose. How wns it she came lious, very unbelieving. I ought to have the care with which a man prepares a
to live in thia out-of-the-wo. Id place with known that you would be safe. Oh, 1 home for his future wife. The very tint
of the walls, and the way the light falls
am thankful!”
you ?”
"8o aiu 1, mother," I said, kissing her. in through the win lows, wr.ul I become
"I'll tell you nil about It, Doctor Mar­
“You have come back like a barba­ matters of grave importan e, but there
tin,” be said, and he related how he hud
rian.” she said, "rougher than Tardif was not the slightest flavor of this senti­
met the young lady in London.
"Tardif," I said, when lie had con himself. How have you managed, my ment in our furnishing of the new house.
It was really more Julia's business than
eluded the recital, "1 did uot know what boy? You must tell me all about it.”
"As soon as I have had my breakfast, mine. 1 went about the place as if in
a good fellow you were, though I ought
mother. 1 must put up a few things in a some dream. The house commanded a
to have learned It by this time."
“No,” he answered, “It is not in mo; hamper to go back by the Sark cutter," splendid view of the whole group of the
Channel Islán is, and the rocky islets in­
It's something in her. You feel s. me- I answered.
"M hat sort of things?” she asked. "Tell numerable strewn about the sea. Th«
thing of it yourself, doctor, or how could
you stay ill a poor little house like this, me, and I will be getting them ready for afternoon sun was shining full upon
Sark, and whenever 1 looked through
thinking of nothing but her, ami not ear­ you."
ing about the weather keeping you away
"Well, there will be some medicines, of the window I could see the cliffs of the
from home? There was a curious thing course,” 1 sail; "you cannot help me in Havre Gosselin, purple in the distance,
—•he had not any luggage with her. not that, But you can find things suitable with a silver thread of fo.int at their
a box nor a ling of any kind. She never for a delicate appetite; jelly, you know, foot. No wonder that my thoughts wan­
fancied that I knew, for that would have and jams, ami marmalade; anything nice dered, and the words my mother and Ju­
troubled her. It is my belief that she (hnt comes to hand. And a tew amusing lia were speaking went in at one ear ami
out at the other. Certainly I was dream­
lias run away.”
books."
ing: but which part wns the dream?
"B.toks!" echoed tny mother.
"But who can she have run away from,
"I don't believe he cares a straw about
1 recollected nt once that the books she
Tardif?" 1 asked.
“Heaven knows," he answered, "but might select, as being suite I to a Sark the carpets!” < xciaimed Julia, in a dis­
the girl has suffered; you can see that peasant, would hardly prove interesting appointed tone.
”1 do indeed, dear Julia.” I said.
by her face. Whoever or whatever she to my patient. I could not do better
She had set h r mind upon having flow­
has run away from, her cheeks are white than go down to Barbel s circulating li­
from it, and her heart sorrowful.
1 brary and look out some good works ers in her drawing room carpet, and
there they were, large garlands of bright-
know nothing of her secret; but this I there.
"Well, no,” I said; “never mini the colored blossoms, very gay and. as I ven­
do know: she is as good, and true, and
books.
1
f
you
will
look
out
the
other
tured to remark to myself, very gaudy.
•weet a little soul aa my poor little wife
“You like it better than you did in the
was. If she should die, It will be a great things, those can wait."
"Whogire they for?" asked niy mother pattern?" she asked anxiously.
grief of heart to me. If I could offer my
"For my patient," 1 replied.
life to God in place of hers. I'd do it
1 did not like it one whit (letter, but I
“What sort of a patient. Martin?" »lie should have been a brute if I had said
willingly."
"No. she will not die. Invok there, Tar­ inquired again.
so. She was gazing at it and me with so
dif!" I said, pointing to the door sill of
"Her name is Ollivier." I said. “A troubled an expression, that 1 felt it nec­
the inner room. A white card had been common name. Our postman's name is essary to set her mind at ease.
• lipped under the door noiselessly a sig Ollivier.”
"It is certainly handsomer than th«
nal agreed upon between mother Ilenouf
”Oh, yes," «he
pattern." I said, regarding it attentive­
• ml nie. to Inform me that iny patient eral families of i
ly; "very much handsomer.”
had at last fallen into a profound alum should know this
"Julia, my love," said my mother, "re­
bar. whl h seemed likely to continue me her Christian name. Is it Jane, or member that w« wish to show Martin
some hours.
Martha, or Rachel?"
those patterns whilst it is daylight. To­
"I don’t know,” I said; "I did not ask.” morrow is Sunday, you know."
The morning was more than half gone
The packing of that hamper interested
before mother Renouf opened the door
A little tiuge of color crept over Julia's
• nd came out to us. her old face looking me wonderfully; and my mother, rathet tintless face. We then drew near to the
more haggard than ever, bnt her little amazed at my taking the superintendence window, from which we could se* Sark
of it in person, stood by me in her store so clearly, end Julia drew out of her
•yes twinkling with satisfaction.
"All goes well," she said. "Your lit­ closet, letting me help myself liberally. pocket a very large envelope, which w«i
tle mam'zelle does not think of dying There was a good space left after I had bursting with its contents.
taken sufficient to supply Miss Ollivier
They wer« small scraps of white silk
how Tardif re- with good things for solas weeks to come and white satin
I did not stay to
I took them nieehaaic-
If my mother had not been by I should aily into my hand, and could not help ad­
csived this news,
WHS impatient
myself to »ee hoe
was going on. have filled it up with books.
miring their pure, lustrous, glossy beau­
"Give me a loaf or two of white bread,” ty. I passed my fingers over them softly.
Thank heaven, th»
was gone, th«
delirium at an end. The dark gray eyes, I said; “the bread at Tardif'« is coarse Th»r« was something In the sight of them
opening languidly as my fingers touched and hard, as I know after eating it for a that moved me. as if they wer« frag­
her wrist, wer« calm and Intelligent. week."
ments of ths shining garments of some
"Whatever are you doiag here. Mar­ vision, which in times gone by. when I
She was
weak as a kitten, bnt that
did not trouble me much. I was sure her tin?" exclaimed Julia'a uuwekua« voice was much younger, had now and then
natural health was good, and the would behind me.
floated before tuy fancy. I did not know
any one lovely enough to wear raiment
of glistening white like these, unless—■,
unless----- A passing glimpse of the pure
white face, and glossy hair, and deep
grey eyes of my Sark patient Hashed
»
across me.
"They are patterns for Julia's wed­
ding dress,” said my mother, in a low,
tender tone.
I
(To be continued.)
MEISSONIER’S CUTE GARDENER
CURED BY PERUNA
How He Flanted Fish E kics and Grew
Red Herring.
A good story is being told about a
gardener who was for many years in
the service of Messonler.
This gardener was not only wonder-
fully skilled in the art of cultivating
flowers and vegetables, but he also was
a true scientist, and as he was endowed
ABOUT CIGAR BOXES,
with a phenomenal memory he was
t p.inisb Cedar la the Best Wool, but able to give offhand the botanical name
Comes from tuba.
I of any plant that was shown to him.
“There are something like 14.tXW.tXM)
I Borne of his employer’s friends fre­
cigar boxes used in the United States
quently tried to battle him by handing
I annually, unit about niue-teutlis of that
| number are made In this city, where him seeds or cuttings of exotic or other
out-of-the-way plants, but they never
| the trade rivals the clothing industry in
succeeded.
point of capital invested, and the uum-
I Now, Meissonier was proud of him,
ber of people employed,” said a lead­
but he vowed that l>e would, once at
ing cigar-box manufacturer in New
least, bewilder him, and one day. while
York to the writer. “The material out
Emile Augier was dining with him, be
of which the best boxes are made
J. A. SIMPSON.
summoned the gardener, and taking
comes principally from Cuba, and is
(K y B >»rd of Education, San Francisco]
from his pocket a small paper package,
known as Spanish cedar. The recent
Hon. J. A. Simpson, secretary of
war with Spain shortened the supply in which he had previously placed some
eggs of dried herring, he said to him: the board of education of San Fran­
and increased the price of the article
to such an extent that many box mak­ "Here are some curious seeds. Can cisco, Cal., writes:
“I have found Pertina an ideal
ers have been compelled to use a cheap­ you tell me what they are?”
"Of course 1 can, sir.” replied the tonic. Some months ago I suffered
er and less desirable grade of wood for
gardener, and after examining them with neurasthenia (systemic catarrh),
the purpose.
for
a moment or two he gave them a caused by too close application to
“One New York firm has been experi­
otliee work. My system seemed worn
most
impressive Latin name.
menting with timber from the unex­
I
"If you sow them now,” asked the out and I felt far from well.
plored Paraguayan forests, which are
painter, “how long will it take for them found Peruna benefitted me very
said to contain the finest cedar wood
much. It built up the entire system
to appear above ground?"
in the world. They have, however, ex­
and made me feel like a new man. I
"A
fortnight,
”
was
the
reply.
perienced considerable difficulty In sell­
“Well," said Meissonier. "I wish you believe it is well worthy the high
ing their boxes, as cigar manufacturers
would sow them at once, for I am praise bestowed upon it.”—J. A.
and connoisseurs insist that it spoils a
Simpson.
fine cigar to put it in any box not made curious to see what kind of plant It is.”
‘‘Summer Catarrh,” a book written
A
fortnight
later
Emile
Augier,
de
­
of genuine Spanish cedar. The latter
by
I>r. Hartman, president of The
wood always retains the flavor of a siring to see the end of this joke, came Hartman Sanitarium, on the subject
I to breakfast at the painter’s villa, and
good cigar. Indeed, some people claim
of the nervous disturbances peculiar
that it improves the flavor. The reason I j as he and his host were nt table the to summer, sent free to any address by
given is that It grows In the same lo-' gardener presented himself and said: The Peruna Medicine, Co., Colum­
"If you gentlemen will oblige me by bus, O.
calitles as the best Havana tobacco.
"Attempts made to use cedar grown stepping into the garden I will show
in the United States for cigar boxes I I you the plants that those curious seeds
Enterprise.
have not been very successful. The I have produced.”
Miss
City
(entering
small country
The
two
friends
followed
him
to
the
Florida and South American cedar con-1
notion store, wherein was collected a
tains a peculiar gum that melts when conservatory, where he pointed out to little
of everything)—Have
you
the wood Is exposed to the heat of a I them twelve odd-looking objects in a Black's "In Silk Attire?"
box
tilled
with
freshly
watered
brown
store or house, and thus the labels and ,
Clerk—No. But here’s one new
sometimes the cigars In a box are earth. They stooped to examine them piece of Anderson gingham, ma’am.
spoilt. Of course, the smokers of cheap­ more closely, and the next moment
Solicitous.
er brands of cigars are less particular they burst into shouts of laughter, for
Little Ethel—I guess you don't like
about the quality of the wood used for the strange objects were the heads of
coffee, do you, Mr. Smith.
their boxes, and a veneered cedar, twelve red herrings.
Mr. Smith—Why, yes, Ethel. I am
made from a peculiar sort of cedar that
very fond of coffee.
Coal Tar Scents.
grows in Mexico, Is often substituted
Litt'e Ethel—Well, you make such
Many perfumes owe their origin to
for the Spanish article. But It cannot
swallowing it that I thought
coal tar. “Extract of new-mown hay” a It noise
hurt you.
be done without the cigar dealers find-
and other similar delicate perfumes are
lng it out, and the consequence is that
obtained from a substance called cu-
even a good cigar when packed In such
inarln, which up to a few years ago
a box sells at a disadvantage.—Wash­
was extracted from sweet woodruff
ington Star.
and other scented grasses. It was dis­
covered that cumarin could be ob­
A DOUBTFUL STORY.
tained by distillation of one of the
Too Good to Be True, Though a Sober volatile oils of coal tar. White helio­
Man 1e Is It.
trope is also made-almost entirely of
“Never had such a shock in my life. coal tar, together with seven other I beats all records and always will.
Cures
I questioned for a few minutes whether scents, generally known by the names
1 was in my right mind. I was sick, of the flowers they used to be extracted
ana good and sick at that. 1 called up from. The Island of Mauritius lost
ceentral, and was Informed in one of much of its scent industry through the
the most pleasant voices I ever heard rivalry of coal tar scent. Vanilla, one
that they were busy on the line of my of the most delicate products of coal, is
Weakness of
regular physician. Just as I was go­ used by the gallon in making the ex­
the limbs
ing to cut loose on a string of profanity tract of vanilla, for flavoring custards
and all
she said: ‘You’re sick, sir. I can tell and puddings. Coal tar also gives us
Aches an4
from your voice. 1'11 call physicians till that greatest boon of the man whose
Pains.
I get one. Meantime you’d better lie doctor won't let him take sugar—name­
down.’
ly, saccharin. Of this substance, one
"Say, nothing but a dead faint would pound is equal to two hundredweight
have removed me from that telephone. of sugar, as far as sweetening power
I listened as 1 heard her ring for one goes. It Is quite wholesome, and is
doctor after another, always quick and Into the bargain a capital disinfectant.
pointed in her inquiries, but patient Jam made with saccharin ought to
and not a lost note in that flute-like keep forever. Coal tar scents are by
voice. I forgot that 1 was sick, and 1 no means cheap and nasty substitutes.
was sorry wheen she finally found a They are harmless—sometimes more
physician whom she told to hurry to harmless than the original preparations
me.
they have superseded. And, in spite
"A little later she called up to know of the evil odor of coal tar, not one
If 1 needed a nurse. Of course 1 did. workman has ever been made ¡11 by
Just because I wanted the pleasure of dealing with It.
Ineligible.
hanging on to that receiver while she
Natural Waters.
routed up one number after another
“So Spudder's going to join your
All natural waters contain a greater fishing club, eh?”
until the desired article was procured.
"No. He heard that a man had to
It was great. When it came to getting or less amount of mineral matter in so­
drugs she was only one removed from lution. Rain water has the smallest be a pretty good liar as well as a fish-
to Join.”
a magician. 1 ordered dainties that I percentage of solid impurities of any, erman
“Well?"
never ent, Just to hear her call for them, and therefore it Is taken as the stand­
"Spudder
can’t fish.”—Brooklyn
for I pretended a degree of weakness ard variety of soft water.
Life.
The terms soft and hard, however,
that would not permit of my standing
The Climax.
too long nt the 'phone. The whole as applied to water are scientifically
Tommy—You must be a regular
thing was a startling revelation to me. considered purely relative.
Water is usually reckoned to be lady-killer, Mr. Sappy.
When I’m well the company is going
Mr. Sappy—Why do you think that.
to lose that girl or she'll refuse what a "soft” when it contains less than one
good many mammas regard as a five-thousandth part of Its weight of Tommy?
Tommy—Well, Mabel said that
mineral Ingredients and “hard" when It
catch.”
after you left last night she nearly
Then one of the most desirable ell- contains more than one four-thou­ died laughing.
gibles in the town went to the telephone sandth.
Soft water has the property of easily
and asked the time, though he bad
On to Hu Curves.
three clocks and a chronometer, nil ou forming a lather with soap, and Is
Reckless Youth — Father, dear,
therefore suitable for washing pur­ would it be asking too much for you
duty.—Detroit Free Press.
poses, while hard water will only form to advance me a small loan—say
a lather, and that imperfectly, with about *50.
A Queer Inscription.
The Governor—Not at all. my son.
A queer sentence closes the inscrip­ considerable difficulty.
A mineral water has more than one You might ask me for double the
tion on a tombstone In a churchyard in
with equal likelihood of get­
Leigh. England. After announcing the two-thousandth of Its weight of natu­ amount
ting it. You can't afford to be modest
ral
dissolved
acids,
and
a
medicinal
name and other particulars of the lady
in these little requests a bit more than
there buried, these words follow: “A water is a variety of mineral water I can afford to grant them.—Ohio
virtuous woman Is 5s to her husband." containing a varying percentage of dis­ State Journal.
The explanation Is that space prevent­ solved natural solid or gaseous drugs.
you KNOW WHAT IOV ARE TAKING
ed "a crown" being cut in full, and the
When vou take Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic,
stonecutter argued that a crown equals Kate at Which Infants Should Grow. because
the formula is plainly printed on every
An Infant should double Its weight bottle showing
that it Is simnly Iron and Qui­
5s.
In six months, and treble It In a year, nine In a tasteless form. No Cure, Ne Pay. 50c
A Fellow-Feeling.
provided It Is a healthy child, and Its
The Killing Bug.
Perambulating Pete—Boss, I ain’t an nutrition Is In every way satisfactory,
“What was that?” asked the old
ordinary tramp. But every spring, says a writer In the Journal of Hy­
’bout April, tuy wife Insists upon clean­ giene. If a child does not increase at gentleman, suddenly appearing in the
the rate of one pound a month during doorway.
in’ hou----
“I—I guess it was a kissing bug,”
Mr. Boerum Place (Interrupting him the tlrst yenr of life, and twelve ounces she answered, hesitatingly, while the
a
month
during
the
second
year.
Its
sympathetically!—My poor man! Don't
young man tried his best to look at
say another word. Here’s a dollar!— nutrition Is not satisfactory. If a child ease.
does not grow nearly three-quarters of
Brooklyn Eagle.
The old gentleman looked at them
an Inch every month during the first both sharply.
A Conservative Claim.
“Does the kissing bug make people
year of life and half an Inch a month
“I suppose you think you have the during the second year of life, it is not blush?” he demanded.—Chicago Post.
greatest climate In the country," said satisfactory. The latter Is, of course,
the tourist.
They Were False.
not of the same Importance as the for­
"No," said the man who was suffering mer. Clearly, premature
Blithers—He called me a liar to my
children
from a cold.
"We don't claim the would not be so large, tbougffi they very teeth.
Blathers—Serves you right;
greatest tn that line. But we do claim should increase at about the same
_ . leave
your teeth home next time.—Ohio
the largest variety."—Washington Star. ratio.
Journal.
State
Jacobs Oil
Rheumatism
Sprains
Acts like
magic
Conquers
Cheap Enough.
The Pull that Draws a Ton.
“Isn't It ridiculous to say ‘Talk Is
Ou level pavement a pull of thirty-
cheap?’ ”
three pounds will draw a ton. on ma­
"Oh. I don’t know. I could take you cadam It takes forty-six pounds, and
to a place where you’d get dead loads of on rough gravel 1-47 pounds.
It and a shave thrown tn for 10 cents."
Don’t mourn for those who are dead;
—Philadelphia Press.
think w bat they are missing.
The Hunt
Mr. Muggins—Been hunting yet?
Mr. Moo ver—Yes.
Mr. Muggins—Shoot any ducks?
Mr. Moover—Wasn't huntin’ ducks.
Mr. Muggins—No?
Mr. Moover—No—huntin’ a house.—
Columbus (O.) State Journal.