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commendation, testifying to the merit of
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from every State in the Union. Dr. Uart
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dai. All classes write, these letters, from
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Frozen Fingers in Summer.
One of the most peculiar cases that
has eyer come under the observation
.of a Denver physician came to the
office of Dr. H. H. Martin recently.
Mrs. George Rcld of Chicago was up
on Rollins pass and disported in the
snow until the train went to Arrow
head and turned on the "wye" and
started back to Denver. It leaves the
passenger two hours and forty min
utes on the bleak top of the pass and
all around is a wide expanse of snow.
TtTemptation to make balls of the
summer snow to pelt her companions
was too great to be resisted, and Mrs.
Rold enjoyed the novelty to the full,
i When she boarded the train for home
i she soon discovered her fingers were
frostbitten. Arriving in Denver her
r hands were badly swollen and she was
! driven at once to the office of Dr,
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The fingers of the hands were swol
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Rol-d can use her hands. Denver
Post.
PASTORAL.
The farmer sows his crop
- And his good wife sews his clothes;
The fanner darns the weather
And his good wife darns his hose.
The farmer pitches in the hay;
But should he cross her whim,
.His good wife lays aside her work
.And pitches, into him.
Judge.
Burmah is stirred by the question of offi
cial dress.
THE "COFFEE HEART."
ft Is Daagerona aa the Tobacco or
Wb.isiC7vHeart.
"Coffee heart" is common to many
coffee users and is liable to send the
owner to his or her long home if the
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ty or,foTtyyardstand find oht if your
heart is troubled. A lady who was
once a victim , ft the U"coffee heart"
writes from Oregon:
"I have been a habitual user of cof
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much in recent 'yearsi from ailments
;whjch I became satisfied were directly
due to tbe poison in the beverage, such
as torpid liver and? Indigestion, whleh
In turn made my complexion blotchy
and muddy.
"Then my heart became affected. It
wauld beat most rapidly just after 1
drank my coffee, and go below normal
asthe coffee effect wore off. Some
times; my pulse would go as high as
137 beats to the minute.. My family
were greatly alarmed at my condition,
and at last msther persuaded me to
begin the use of Postum Food Coffee.
"I gave up the old coffee entirely and
absolutely, and made Tostum my sole
table beverage. This was six months
ago, and all my ills, the indigestion.
Inactive liver and rickety heart actio"
have passed away, and my complexion
has become clear and natural. The
improvement set in very soon after I
made the chatig?, just as soon ks the
coffee iioi'sou had time to work out of
xny. system.
''My lmsbar.i has also been greatlv
beusted by the' Vise of Postuai. and
we';; find that a simple breakfast with
Postttm ; is as satisfy iug and 'more
strength enkis than the old heavier
mcaj 'tre' used to "have-with I ho other
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turn Co.,; Battle Creel:, Mich.
There's a reason. lieaiJ tho Kttle book,
"The Jioaa to Wcllville,". in i)Ugs.
A Letter From the Ex-Governor of,
Oregon. '
The ex-Governor oi Oregon is an ardent
admirer of l'eruna. He keeps it contin
ually in the house. In a letter to Dr.
Uartmaa, he says:
&tate of Oregon, I
Executive Department. j
The Peruna Medicine Co., Columbus, . 0.;
Dear SirsX have had occasion to
use vour Peruna medicine in vty
family for coULh, and. it proved, to be
occasion to use it for other aliment.
Your very truly, n. ill. ioni.
It will be noticed that the Governdr
says he has not had occasion to use Peruna
for other ailments. The reason for this is,
most other ailments begin with a coid.
Peruna Almanac fbr 1506.
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A jolly father of a famih' is about
as jolly as some of the jokes be tells.
There is more Catarrh in this section of the
country than all other diseases put together,
and until the last few years was supposed to
be incurable. For a great many years doctors
pronounced it a local disease and prescribed
local remedies, and oy constantly failing to
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iAT THAT IS FOND OF HUNTING.
Massachusetts Animal an Adept at Re
trieving Game.
The firemen at the East street en
gine house have a black cat which is
remarkable for several things. It
possesses six toes on each foot, and
during the past year it has had about
two score and ten kittens which have
all i had the same number of digits.
The cat also has become a follower
of the hunting "game in more ways
than the average feline has aspired to.
It has an excellent record for hunting
rats and mice that can be found about
the premises, but it is also a hunter
after the fashion of dogs. One of the
firemen takes trips into the neighbor
ing places for hunting birds, and
wherever he goes the cat is sure to be
with him. Whenever he brings down
any game the cat is there to claim the
quarry.
It Is said that the animal will follow
the person in fuestion for miles in
order to get the game, and , it ' cannot
be deceived, for as soon as. one of the
firemen in the house starts out with
a gun the cat is always, a faithful fol
lower. Yesterday one of these trips
was taken with some success, and the
cat seemed as pleased at. -the results
as was the hunter. Springfield
(Mass.) Republican.
How he Loved His Engine.
The inense love whicb an engineer
bears for his engine is exemplified in
"The Wildwood Limited," a" story by
Cy Warman in the Christmas number
of Lippincott's Magazine This
makes- a new high record for
writer of railroad stories of consider
able reputation.
If a man wants to marry a girl -it is
a sign that she thinks a lot of others
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REGULAR AT CHURCH SERVICE.
Two Philadelphia Cats Have; Pro.
" nounced Religious Turn.
ppposite Hunting Park, on Old
Ydrk road, resides a family, Torpey
by name-. The Torpeys own two cats
that are different from other cats in
that they go to church. As regularly
as Sunday morning arrives the pair
of felines may be seed following the
Torpeys to St. Stephen's church.
Broad and Butler streets. No matter
what the weather or trahsplrings on
back fences, the two pious cats brave
probable attacks by impious mongrels
and set an example that many hu
mans would do well to follow.
Neighbors will attest to the truthful
ness of the statement that the church
soing felines spend the very early
morning .'hours of Sunday in licking
themselves into that state of cleanli
ness which is said to be secondary
only to godliness. Their fur is glossy,
their paws immaculate, and not a
whisker Is xmt of place.
Arrived at the church, the cats con
Cent themselves with peering in at .the
door. They are seemingly content to
delegate- the spraying to their owners.
Then they slip. In to the vestibule of
the priests' house adjoining, curl up
"and doze until church is out, whes.
they follow the Torpeys home and live
normal cat lives ut&lvariother Sunday.
Philadelphia Telegraph.
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THE ENGINE'S SONG,
Tkroogh city ind . torest, and field and
vush-with the roaribg tram; '
My strength is the strjgugt'of a thousand;
My brain is my master's brain.
I botrow the senses of him within
Who watches the gleaming line; -
His pulses I feef through my frame. of steel,
His courage and wilt are mine.
THE LITTLE
Written by
DID not notice that Brand
woe ?ti ilni emrilrin rr vitnm
I when I Renounced his new
A nnvel TTn TtrAtonfTfr! not
to hear, but I-saw him color
up. tie took no notice of me, when I
left the club just behind him, till I
touched him on the arm.
'"You heard what T said about your
book?" I remarked.
"Yes," he said. "I heard. I knew
you hadn't seen me, so j-ou needn't
apologize."
"No," I said. "I didn't see you, but
I wasn't going to apologize. It is a
bad book." I looked, at him, but he
would not look at me.
"It's true to life," he asserted.
"And what has that to do with it?" 1
asked. ''There's poison, but you
needn't give it to people."
"People needn't take my poison un
less they like. Apparently they do.
It's run to 33,000 already."
"I am sorry you are poisoning so
many."
"It isn't my fault if life is poisonous.
I didn't make it what it is."
"You're helping to make it "what it
will be. People can't touch pitch, or
read it. without the usual conse
quences." VYou've no right to call it that." he
protested. "There's nothing coarse or
repulsive in the book."
"That's why 1 condemn it! Vice that
looks like vice only appeals to the
vicious. Vice that looks like virtue
contaminate? the virtuous."
"I didn't invent the virtuous looking
vices; only described them as I found
them."
"You didn't describe them as vices."
"Preaching isn't my business or
yours."
"Photographing vices in fancy cos
tumes is thedevil's business," I told
him. "The things that you force upon
people' notice' wouldn't enter the mind
of a good man if there is such a per
son. Anyhow,' fhere are good women,
and they don't suspect that problems
like those in your book exist."
"They can't help seeing them unless
they shut their eyes."
"Then they shut their eyes. Would
your mother "
"My mother belonged to a past gen
cratioii," he interrupted.
"Good women are the same in ail
generations. We'll take oce of the
present day. Would your wife "
He grasped my arm roughly.
"I won't discuss my wife," he said
sharply.
"I'm not discussing your wife. I'm
discussing you. I was fond of your
father, Brand, and I've known you
since you were a little chap in petti
coats. You used to play with the dog's
head on my stick. I suppose I didn't
know you all ' the time. I never sus
pected you bad it in you to write as
you do, or that j:ou would if you could.
You can write. There's no doubt
about it. The less excuse for wasting
your powers on these 'men and wom
en' stories."
"I shall be grateful if you can dis
cover a third sex to write about," he
observed.
"Men and women are good enough
to write about, if you write about the
good in them. You only give us the
bad Adam and Eve's legacy that man
hood and womanhood have fbught
against since Eden. I don't say you
can give us all good. They wouldn't
be real men and women if you. did, but
take the writer's privilege, and give.
us something just a little better than
poor humanity."
"I can't make hiaaanity what It
isn't."
"You can avoid making it worse."
"There's nodiarm in the book," he in
sisted doggedly.
"My boy, there is. Don't take ray
word. I'm an old man; old enough
for sin to be saltless. I haven't been a
saint, either, but I've been an honest
sinner. I never passed off wrong for
right, even to myself. Ask one of your
own generation. Ask" I laid my hand
on his shoulder "ask your wife if she
would lik to have written that book."
He stopped walking and. madye a
queer little gulp in his throat. His
wife was a bold card to play against
him, for she was a colorless little per
son some oik had called her "the lit
tle gray woman" and I knew of do
reasou why he should value her opin
ion, except that he had married her.
kM she couldn't have won him by hor
looks or external attractions, I credited
her with some charm of character.
"My wife is proud of my books," he
said, after he had wiped his face with
his handkerchief.
"You're wife is proud of you. She
takes your books on trust blind trust.
If you put her instinct as a woman to
the test her instinct , as a gpod
woman "
"I won't discuss her. I say." He
raised his voice angrily. "You can say
what you like about me."
"Then I say that you are doing the
deffl's dirty work. I'm an offl citizen
m m
I hear, as I swerve on the upland curve,
To answer the knell of ray brazen bell,
The laugh of my giant voice.
And; white in the glare of the golden ray
Or red in the furnace light,
My smoke is a pillar ot cloud by day,
.A pillar of flame by night.
Arthur ' -Guiterman, - in Four ' Track
News.
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GRAY WOMAN
Owen, Oliver. g
of ttye world, knowing its weaknesses,
and a little more tolerant of them than
I ought to be, but I wouldn't have writ
ten that book. Men that are worse
than I wouldn't have written it. A
good woman couldn't even have
thougnt of it."
He -turned from me in a rage and
walked away.
As I have Kiid, I am no better than
my fellows, and I have tolerated many
a bad book in my time; but somehow
this book of Brand's weighed upon
my mind. The press blamed it, but
the public bought it. A noted play
wright dramatized it and put its evil
into concrete form. I could not stop
the harm which it had done; but I
thought perhaps I might induce his
wrife to stop him from writing like it.
So I called upon her.
She rose to greet me with a friendly
smile. She was one of the women that
eldeiiy men like, because they have a
kindly feeling for elderly men. I
smiled at her, too.
'"I wondered when you were coming
to congratulate me on Charlie's book,"
she said. She always imputed kind
intentions to one.
"I'm afraid I haven't come for that,"
I owned. "My dear, I don't like Char
lie's book. You see, I'm an old fash
ioned man?"
"I see." She flushed slightly. "You
don't believe in problem stories?"'
"I believe in them? Oh, yes! I'm
old, and my eyes have been open for
some years, but I don't want to open
other people's. I don't want to open
yours, my dear. I'd rather, you believe
the world was good. It's the belief of
you good little women that makes jt
better. Charlie believes in you, and I
want you to make him better. I don't
meau that he's bad. He's a very, very
clever man. as the book shews. He
sees thing that most of us miss.
We're betjer for missing them, my
dear. We don't want to be told about
them. He's told us. That's what's
wrong."
She worked furiously at the embroid
ery which she had picked up.
"Is there anything in the book that
you bad missed?" she asked quietly.
"I'm afraid not. but I want the
world' to be better than myself, you
see!"
"It isn't. It sees things just as you
do. and pretends that it doesn't just
as j'ou pretend."
"Concealment implies condemnation!
Evil isn't so dangerous when ii's kept
out of sight. Sneak of the problem
story!"
"The pretence is threadbare," she ob
jected. I was surprised that she ex
pressed herself so well. "Tbe-6 are
hundreds of published probleiss, and
many of them are far more luricl. The
book is, at any rate, refined. Its prob
lems are such as come to good men
and women; such as leave them some
of their virtues."
"Yes." I dropped my hat in my
eagerness. "Yes. That is why the
book is so dangerous. Other tales
show worse evils, but they show them
as evils; as temptations that the frac
tion of goodness in us fights against,
even when it is overcome. Your hus
band has brought in the Powers of .
Light to ffght for the Powers of Dark
ness. The plain man shrugs his
shoulders at the other books. He
shudders at this. Even the club smok
ing room condemns it. Some of the
best men go so far as to avoid the au
thor." She looked up over her work. Her
face was white.
"Does Charlie realize this?" she
asked. .1 nodded.
"We were talking about it the other
evening. He overheard us. He must
have known before Of course he
knows."
She plied her needle again.
"Have yeu spoken to him?" she in
quired. '
"Yes. He left me in a temper be
cause I counselled him to put the mat
ter to you. You have a great hold
over him, I am sure. A good woman
always has a hold over a man. I am
certain that, at the bottom of his heart,
he is ashamed of the book, but ".
. "But" she laid down the work.
"He didn't write it. I nidi" '
"You?" I cried. "You!"
"I. No, I am not saying it to shield
him. It is quite true. I I wonder if
you could understand? You see, I am
not pretty or attractive. People gener
ally left me alone. So I "used to sit
and watch them; and see things. I see
a great deal. I can't help it. It is my
nature. I dare say I looked too much
for what was baoV but it is hard for a
woman when she is not attractive. It
makes her look for defects in others.
1 was very bitter against people then.
I'm not bitter now, because Charlie
finds me attractive. It wouldn't occur,
to you that I can be, but I can. It
didn't occur to him at first. He came
and introduced himself to me out of
sheer pity for my loneliness. He's like
that. A lame dog, a man who's down ,
on his luck; even a 'little gray woman'
you see T know my name he can't
pass them. He came and talked to me
just because he thought I wanted some
one to" talk to, I made up my mind
that next time he should come because
he wanted to talk to me. ' Do you
know I almost screamed with my anx
iety to attract him. And when he was
going he gripped ray hand and nearly i
broke it you 'know how he does with
people he likes and said, 'What a lot
people miss, by not talking to you.'
And I began to cry. 'I've been lonely
lonely lonely!' I told him, 'and
every one thinks I'm stupid and dull.'
An he said, 'You needn't be lonely if
you'll let me talk to you. No! Talk to
me, you bright little thing!' It was
the first compliment I ever had the
very first! Well, that is over now. I'm
not a bit spiteful to the world. I even
like a few people. I like you. But you
see I'd got into the habit of studying
the defects in people, and I'd grown
curious about them. Women always
are. I knew others would be curious.
So I wrote the books. They succeed
ed. I knew -they would; or I shouldn't
have used Charlie's name."
"Arid he was willing to borrow your
success?" I said huskily. It hurt me
to lose my gpod idea of him.
"No. He wasn't. I made him do it.
I don't think you realize that I am
clever enough to manage Charlie quite
easily. I told him that I didn't want
success for. myself I don't very much
and that my greatest desire in life
was success for him. That was cer
tainly true. I declared that I hadn't
the courage- to publish the books un
der my own name. -That wasn't true
at all. I pointed out that I should find
it difficult to study people if they knew
I wrotej I persuaded him that the
books ' woul do good, because truth
always does good. That, of course, is
false. I Hon't think he was quite per
suaded at the bottom of his mind, but
he thought the bottom of his mind was
Wrong; because he believed in me. I
believed in myself. Well, you've shown
me I was wrong."
She snatched up the work and sewed
again for a few minutes. Her eyelids
flickered and I supposed she was
going to cry, but she did not. So I let
her .fight out her battle alone. I
thought she was using heavier artillery
than I could bring to bear.
"I suppose," she said, presently,
"you expect me to say that I'll own up
to the books and clear him? If so,
you're mistaken. I shall not. I won
der" she laid" down the work again
"if you'd believe me if I told you
why?''
"Yes," I promised. "I ihall believe
you."
"If I owned the books the blame
would fall on me. I shouldn't care, but
Charlie would. You see" her face lit
up, and I saw at last that she had at
tractions "Charlie is very much in
love with me. He would rather peo
ple attacked him "than attacked me., I
shall get my punishment in knowing
that he is hurt. You need not f eai
that I am going scot free. I don't
think yon want me to be hurt, though';"
I picked up my hat and rose.
"No," I said. "I don't. You are a
good woman, in spile of the book.. God
bless you! You'll come out all rght,
my dear."
' I Jaeld out my hand' and she put both
hers over it and smiled up at me.
' "Yes," she said. "It is the belief cf
yea jood men that makes women bet
ter. I shall come out all right. You
will see:"
I saw. when fhe next book appeai-ed
under his name. It was a great, good
story, and it took the world by storm.
Tbe hero was a man who sacrificed
himself to shield a woman and I knew
she meant him. The heroine was a
woman who learned the lesson of life
from her love's sacrifice and I knew
she meant herself. Her father-confes
sor was a kindly old gentleman who
tried to spread the butter of benevo
lence over the bread of the world. She
thought she had portrayed me, but
she had only succeeded in picturing the
man I ought to have been! The clever
est of women subordinate reason to
feeling, and "the little gray woman,"
whose charnv society is beginning to
find out, has an affection for my un
worthy self. If the blessing of an old
sinner can benefit her, she has it.
Black and WThite.
Cured.
A story is told of the wonderful cure
from deafness of a patient "who was
recommended to hear a Wagner opera
and to sit near the prchestra. by the
trombines. The physician accompanied
his patient and sat beside him. Sud
denly, while the crash of instruments
was at its loudest, the deal man found
he could hear." "Doctor." he almost
shrieked, 'I can hear!" The doctor
gave ho sign that he noticed the re
mark. "I tell you, doctor." repeated
the patient in ecstasy, "you have saved
me: I have recovered- my hearing."
Still the physician was silent. He
had become deaf himself. Harper's
W'eekly.
Not the Owe. -
Commenting on the number o?
Joneses in Wales, a writer says: "II
is inconvenient if, when a foreman
calls 'Jones!' forty or fifty men come
running to him." It recalls the old
story told of a certain Oxford College
much resorted t to by Welshmen. A
man from another college went into
their squad in search of a friend; and
called "Jones!" All the windows look
ing on the squad flew open. "I want
John Jones," said the man. Half the
windows closed. "I mean the John
Jones who has got a toothbrush." All
the windows closed but one. London
Globe.
King Edward's father used, to be re
ferred to as "Albert the Good." A cer
tain .French writer declares that the
present sovereign should be referred to
as "Edward the Sbrewd."
WILLIE'SHAPPI?
Willie to the c-irus wen
He thousht it was immp
His little heart went pit
for tne excitement-was
Harvard
THE END OF IT.
. JVM. 91.X-V n
your tainted money?'
Second Millionaire "Nope; the sec
ond generation will lose the taint, and
the third will lose the money." New
York Sun.
THE WILY HUSBAND.
"Yes, whenever I can I bring home
to my wife the freshest bank bills
that the bank can deal out"
"What's that for?"
"Why, the moneys is so pretty that
she hates to spend it." Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
THE MERRY WHIRL.
Crawford "Why is your wife going
to remain away in the epuntry so
-late?"' '
Crabshaw "After resting all sum
mer at a fashionable resort, she has
to go to a sanitarium." Browning's
Magazine.
NO RIGHT TO KICK.
Customer (at 5-cent lunch counter)'
"Saj waiter, one of these eggs is from
last year's crop."
Waiter "Well, if you will look at
your check you'll find. I haven't
charged yon anything for that one."
Chicago Tribune.' i
SHE WAS PROVIDED FOPv.
"Want any typewriter supplies?"
asked the peddler, sticking his head in
the office door, j
"No," replied the young business
man, absentmindedly, "I just got a box
of bonbons only an hour or so ago."
Philadelphia Press. ' -
WORK IN PROSPECT.
"If you keep on," said the credulous
layman, "you will find cures for all the
diseases that flesh is heir to. Then
what will you do?"
"Then," answered the scientist, "we
will proceed to seek cures for the new
diseases to which our remedies have
given rise." Washington Star,
. ONTO HIM.
Mr. Jolyer "Ah; believe me. I love
no one in all the world but you."
Miss Bright "There isn't a man liv
ing who cafl truthfully say: "I love no
one in all the world but you."
Mrs. Jolyer "There isn't?"
Miss Bright "No; unless he's talking
to himself." Philadelphia Press.
HE NEEDED STALKING.
Lady "May I photograph your farm
servant at work?"
Farmer "With pleasure, miss, if ycu
can spare the time.''
Lady "Oh, it won't take half a sec
ond." Farmer "But you may have to wait
two or three hours to catch him work
ing." Ally Sloper. .
IN OUR BOARDING HOUSE.
"You don't taste any veal in these
chicken croquettes," said the landlady,
her face beaming with conscientious
pride.
"That's right," rejoined the hard
ened hardware clerk. "What are they
,inade of codfish?" Columbus Dis
patch.
USELESS TO HER.
"Well, my dear," said Mr. Blugore,
"I've engaged a box for the opera this
evening and "
"George! how thoughtless of . you!"
cried. Mrs. Blugore," you know very
well I'm . so hoarse I can scarcely
speak above a wliisper." Philadelphia
Press.
CONTEMPTIBLE PRUDENCE.
First Student "Didu't Longhead
have any bets on the . last football
game?" , ' . .
Second Student "No. He thought
our side would lose and he wouldn't
bet."
First Student "He wouldn't, ch?
What sort of a college man is he, any
how?" HAS HURT EVER SINCE.
Mr. Biggs "When you-get angry
you throw anything at me that you
can lay your hands on."
Mrs. Biggs "Well,' I never hurt you.
I can't throw straight, joa know."
Mr. Biggs "You hurt me once."
Mrs. Biggs "When was that?'
Mr. Biggs "When you threw your
i
1
self at me before we were married."
Detroit ICribune.