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NO. 21'
HOMESICKNESS.
; The Tie That Once Has Bound u
Boy to Mis Home
Come Untied.
Will Never
The Kltl Ton Have Always Bought, anil which has been
In uso for over 30 years, has borno tho Hlnmituro of
0 and has been imulii under his per-
rz &JfT 801)1,1 "IcrvNlon sinco Us inliiui-y.
vTf. Allow no oho tiHli-rilvo you lii this.
All Counterfeits, Imitations find "Just us-good" uro but
I . i. r i iiu-ii I n that, trifle With iiimI rudnui-r tlio health of
luliiuts ami Children Experience nguliiNl Kxperiineiit.
What is CASTORIA
Castorla Is n harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Pare
jfiirle, Drops find Soothing Syrup. It is lMeusiuit. It
loutalns neither Opium, Morphino nor other Narcotic
siihstKiiee. Its npo Is its Riiarauteo. It destroys Worms
and nllays l'everlshncss. It cures DUrrliiea and Wind
Colie. It relieves Teething Troubles, cures Constipation
and 1 'hi t iih'ii. y. It a.ssiiiiilutes the Food, regulates the
Stoiu.u'lt and IS.nvcls, giving healthy anil natural sleep,
Tho Children's l'anaoea Tho Mother's friend.
GENUINE CASTORIA ALWAYS
Bears the Signature of
J
The KM You HaYe Always Bought
In Use For Over 30 Years.
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Oct in the Philippines the order '
to the military hands, it is said, is j
said to play "Home, Sweet Home" :
very sparingly.
The reason? ;
The old tune is apt to induce j
homesickness in the soldiers, and !
homesickness leads to desertion. ;
Cieiieral Leonard Wood, chief j
of st. ill' in the army, asserts that the
greater proportion of desertions in
our military forces is caused hy
homesickness.
It is the same in other armies.
In Canada some years ago the
authorities found it necessary, for
the same reason, to prohibit the
playing of "l.ochaber No More"
by the bagpipers in regiments of
troops composed largely of Scotch
men. Also-
A similar prohibition was made
for a like reason, by l-'rench offi
cers against the playing of "Kans
des Vaches" in regiments in which
Swiss troops were serving.
And-
Human nature being the same
everywhere, it is likely that much
playing of "Die VC'acht am Rhine"
would tend toward desertions from
the German army in Africa.
The home tunes touch a tender
spot.
The doctors say homesickness is
a real disorder. They call it "nos
talgia" and say it often takes the
form of acute melancholia and is
ruinous to health and frequently i
fatal. !
Persons literally die and go in
sane from the heart wrenchings. !
The poor soldier, far from fa-!
miliar scenes and home surround-1
ings, among a strange people, do-1
ing onerous duty, hears the dear
familiar music, and the longing for I
the homeland tugs at the heart, i
The longing induces brooding,
which ends in acute melancholia. ;
The lure of home makes him half
insane, and he forgets his duty and
his oath.
The call of memory is enhanced
by time and distance. j
' Who can resist the tender plea? ;
Those who lead men iniostrange i
lands do well to be careful they do
not awaken in the hearts of their
followers lond recollections of na
tive land and home and friends.
Because
The tie that once has bound a
boy to his home will never come
untied.
i WAYSIDE WISDOM.
WHEN THE DAY IS OVER,
When the bees come home from the scented clover.
When ihe sun sinks into its grave in the west;
When the heat and the toil and the care is over
And the day's head lies on night's soft breast;
When the stars shine down from the halls of heaven,
And the moon sails out o'er the sea of blue,
Tis then 1 grow tired of the whole world around me,
'Tis then, in the darkness, 1 long for you.
Through the dreary day with its weary struggle,
With the ceaseless throng 'moiig the armies of men;
When the heart grows sick, and the brow grows fevered,
It docs not seem that 1 miss you ihen;
But after the day's fierce fight is over
And the tired world goes to its well earned rest,
'Tis then that I long to take you and kiss you,
And hold you close to my hungry breast.
In life's short day with ceaseless toiling
For wealth and honor and wealthy lame,
When the heart grows numb and the brain is reeling,
I do not hearken to hear your name
But after life and its light is over,
And death leads me out from the haunts of men,
I want you there with your arms around me,
I want you to kiss me and love me then.
"ABIDE WITH ME."
THE FRUIT BECINS TO FALL
The fruit begins to fall in the orchard far away
On hills and in the valleys of the dreams of yesterday;
The golden apples mellow in the burning August sun
Oh, beating heart, the summer, can it be the summer's done ?
Can it be, beloved, the twilights have begun to grow so gray,
The fruit, the fruit is falling in the dreams of yesterday !
The fruit begins to fall in that golden melody
Of the thud amid the grass that is lush beneath the tree;
The peaches' cheeks are burning, and there's crimson on the pears,
And all the pipes of summer blow the little farewell airs;
Blow the airs of dreams departing in the orchards that we know
In the morning dreams of beauty mid the hills of long ago !
The fruit begins to fall and behind the barn they pile
The windfalls for the pressing where the mills of cider smile;
The orchards seem so haunted with the murmur of the bees,
And, oh, my Lady Summer, tics her veil beneath the trees;
My Lady, Lady Summer, how her bright smile haunts us still.
While yet the fruiris falling in the orchards on the hill !
THE LITTLE BOY'S DREAM.
PRRSIDINT :
W. E. DANIEL,
Vlt K-I IIKSIOKSI
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Sometimes a man kisses a girl
against her will, against his own
will.
V
No matter how lazy a man may
be, his laziness seldom extends to
his tongue.
Most of us are too busy looking
for tomorrow's possibilities to see
those of today.
Some people look on the bright
side of things so persistently that
they wind up the proud possessors
of a gold brick.
V
A woman can go into the big
gest department store on earth, and
without half tring, ask fur some
thing they haven't got.
No Need to Stop Work.
lien yoni doctor oiders you to stop
u hi k, it flawis jiiu l can't," you
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The little boy smiled in his sleep that night,
As he wandered to Twilight Town;
And his face lit up with a heavenly light
Through the shadows that drifted down;
But he woke next morning with tear-stained eye
In the light of the gray dawn's gloom,
And out from the stillness we heard him cry,
"I've lost my dream my dream."
And he told us then in his childish way,
Of the wonderful dream he'd known;
He had wandered away from the land of play
To the distant land of the Grown;
He had won his share of the fame and fight
In the struggle and toil of men;
And he sobbed and sighed in the breaking light,
"I want my dream again."
As the years passed by the little hoy grew
Till he came to the Land of the Grown,
And the dream of his early youth came true,
The dream ihat he thought had down;
Yei once again he smiled in his sleep
When those near by night have heard him weep,
"I want my dream my dream."
For he dreamed of the Yesterdays of Youth,
And the smile on his mother's face;
A hearth of oldiime faith and truth
In the light of an old-home place;
He had won his share of the fame and fight
In the struggle of toil of men
Yet he sobbed and sighed in the breaking light,
"I want my dream again."
A MATTER OF FACT.
A Touching Little Story ol a Dying
Girl."
WOMAN'S BEST FRIEND.
A Well Trained Husband Is Han
dy When the Bills Come In.
entitle
. with
WANTED REGULAR WORK.
guaranteed
OnlV "sic. at all iluiggists.
to
No bachelor likes 10 be roasted,
but it is no more uncomfortable
than being married and kept in
hot water.
,RST AND HEALTH TO MOTHER AMD CHILD.
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KKS tor ur-.r viiii.uri-n WHUB
JINO, wi-.ll IHKII-Cl' MC'hsS. It
i the Lull. P. SOI TKNS Mi (..CMS.
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I H sure D(1 for Mr.
... olhu.g Svtllp." n Ufc M UW
so'
In the
days long
ago, In the
sixties, you
Know, when
Grandma went
walking. She
held her skirts so.
What would she say,
If she saw girls
today, with their
skirts clutched
so tightly.
They all
look this
way
A Dreadful Sight
to H. J. llarnum, of Krcevillc, N. Y.,
was the fever-sore that had plagued his
life for years iu spite of many remedies
he tried. At last he used liueklen's
Arnica Salve and wrote: "It has en
tirely healed with scarcely a scar left."
Heals Bums, Boils, Eczema, I'uta,
Bruises, Corns and Piles like magic.
Oulv L'."ic. at all druggists.
Meet people with a smile unless
they are borrowers.
CASTORIA
For Infants aud Children.
The Kind You Have Always Bought
Signature of
A farm hand had worked in the
field from dawn till darkness, do
ing the chores by lantern light.
"I'm going to quit" he said to the
farmer at the end of the month.
"You promised me a steady job."
"Well, haven't you got one?"
was the astonished reply.
"No," said the man," "there
are three or four hours every night
that 1 don't have anything to do
and fool my time away sleeping."
INSOLVENT,
"And," asks the referee in bank
ruptcy, alter the lady has given, as
best she may, a list of her debts,
"is this all you owe?"
The fair one bites her lips and
thinks hard for a moment, then
answers:
"I owe party calls to almost ev
erybody in town, judge. Must I
put them down, also?" Chicago
Herald.
Ahi.le with inc. last fall- th
The darkness deepens. I.uid
abide.
When other helpers l'uil and comtoits
llee.
Help of till- helpl,-, ,,,. ubi.le with llle'
On the white operating table of a
Chicago hospital a girl was dying.
Clara Butler, soprano of a su
burban church, by accident had
been thrown under the wheels of
a train and was hurried to the hos
pital in hope of saving her life by
an operation.
In vain !
Knowing that death was fast
closing down on her life, she whis
pered a message to her friends,
who were in an adjoing room, and
said, with a smile, "Tell them I
am not afraid to die."
Then she began to sing.
Pure and clear at first rang the
tones of the old hymn of faith and
trust. The glorious voice that had
often wafted the souls of devout
worshippers Moated through the
operating room:
The darkness deepens. Lord, with me
abide.
The surgeons and nurses turned
away to the windows, Their eyes
were wet. I he singer s soul,
winged for its flight, was in the
voice. Soon it faltered, and as the
darkness deepened and the waters
closed over her it died away in the
whisper:
Help of the helpless, oh. abide with me!
The singer was dead. She had
sung her own requiem.
You do not believe as the girl
believed? What would you give
if you could do so?
Superstition? Self deception?
Well, the girl was brave. Do
not you wish you could hug such
a superstition to your heart? All,
j could you but experience such a
! divine self-deception !
! It works, or, to put it in your
scientific speech, it is pragmatic.
Something, from somewhere, stifled
the awful agony.
Disbeliever, agnostic or what
not, are you not glad the poor girl
got her glorious strength as the
life ebbed from her mangled body?
You would no more take away
that girl's hope than you would
knock from beneath him the
crutches of the poor cripple.
Help of the helpless:
Are you quite prepared to say
that the girl's prayer was unan
swered? THE HANDY MAN.
His Job of Varnishing the Door
Was Not a Howling Success.
Mr. Brewster thought his front
door looked as though a coat of
varnish would do it no harm and
resolved to do it himself to save
the expense of a painter.
Finding an old "golden syrup"
tin in the yard, he went oft' to the
shop for some "best oak varnish."
He placed it in the pantry for the
night and was up early next
morning and by half past 12 had
got the door finished.
"I don't like it now it its done,"
he said to his wife.
"It's bad varnish," she replied.
"He's sold you the wrong sort of
stuff'."
He thought so, too, and went
back to the shop, taking what was
left with him.
"This is funny varnish you sold
me," said he. "It's dull, sticky
stuff."
After examining it the shopman
said: "This is not what I sold
you. This is syrup."
It then dawned upon him that he
had got hold of the wrong tin, and
he went back home to explain to
his wife who at once said' "Good
gracious James!" And I've made
the pudding with the oilier nnful1"
Then after a moment's pause,
"You'll dine today on roast mutton
and varnish pudding!" Pearson's
Weekly.
"I
In these days when everything
from spring hats to voting seems
to be framed up for the delight
and satisfaction of women, it is j
with exultation that we find a few
kind words for man. The Bahi- j
more Sun caught them, and passes j
them along as follows:
"A husband is a woman's best
friend!" exclaimed Laura Jean
I.ibby, the eminent authoress and
expert on nutters of the heart.
How true it is! Though he may
be neglected and forgotten for
weeks, when the bill collector
comes around the husband is call
ed to the front. Whatever minor
position he may occupy at other
limes, just after the first of the
month he becomes important. He
must face the grocer, meet the
milliner and answer the 'missive of
the dry goods man.
''Whether the suffragists will
admit it or not, a husband is a very
handy thing to have around the
house. He can fix the furnace,
bring up the coal, talk back to the
hired man, and some exceptionally
brave and hardy ones have been
known to go to the extent of taking
their lives in their hands and dis
charging the cook. Thev save a
lot of trouble when ladies ward to
go to the theatre, and are exten
sively used as companions in go
ing to bridge parties and returning
from the same.
"A sad and silent figure he may
be, and his name appears in the
blaze of social lights only as
'among those present,' but when
he gets away even the busiest club
woman of a wife soon finds that
something is missing. In a theatre
or at a reception he makes the fin
est of fur-holders and wrap-carriers,
and nothing else forms so ex
cellent a background for brilliant
costumes as a row of them stand
ing up at the back of an opera box.
"Laura Jean is right. A woman
has no better friend than a well
trained husband. And the women
realize it. Whenever the supply
of husbands runs short in any
community there is sadness and
; sorrow. Bachelors are all right
; in their way, but the only genuine
is the man who marries. He fights
the world battles, keeps up its
tires, moves its furniture, looks
after its children, and pays its
bills. Though he seldom gets a
monument until he has passed
away from this vale of tears, he is
a hero, too."
HEADED THEM DI E.
was Crippled,
could hardly walk
and had to Crawl
doivn stairs at times on my hands
and knees. My doctor to!J me 1
had an acute attack of inflammatory
rheumatism. I was in the hospital
for weeks, but was scaicely able to
walk when 1 left it. 1 read about
Dr. Miles' Nervine
bought a bottle and began to get
better from the start, and for the
pait six months I have had scarcely
any pain auJ am able to walk as
well as ever." T.H. SANDERS,
P.O. box s, Rockaway, N. J.
few medicines arc ol any benefit
for rheumatism, but Mr. Sanders
tells plainly what Dr. Miles' Re
storative Nervine did for it. One
ounce of salicylate of soda added to
one bottle of Nervine makes an ex
cellent remedy for rheumatism,
which is now known to be a neiv
ous disease and therefore subject to
the influence of a medicine that acts
through the nerves, as does
Dr. Miles' Nervine
SuHerers from rheumatism seldom
fail to find relief in the Une ol
Dr. Miles' Nervine, with salicylate
of soda.
Sold under a guaranteo that assures
the return of tho'prtce of the first bottle
If It fails to benefit. At all Druggists.
MILES MEDICAL CO., Elkhart, Ind.
Tlie Tliim-A-Weel Edition
OF THE
New York World
Practically a Daily at the Price of
a Weekly.
No other Newspaper in
world gives so much at so
low a price.
T'
"Got a good scheme."
"What?"
j "Gave my ti.incee a phono
graph."
! "l-'or heaven's sake, why-"
, "None of the other fellow
i call on her now."
will
in- great political campaigns
are now at hand, and you
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promptly. The World long since
established a record of impartiality,
and anybody can afford its Thrice-A-Week
edition, which conies ev
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Sunday. It will be of particular
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daily.
The Thrice-A- Week World's
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TOUGH LUCK.
An aviator sad did cry,
"Oh, Agnes, look at me!
I started out to sail the sky
And now I'm up a tree!"
Nothing can astonish a girl more
w hen she means to flirt with a man
than to have him begin it first.
Things worth
apt to come your
after them.
while are more
way if you go
col-
A short sermon makes a fat
lection plate.
Children Cry
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ed Maybelle.
"Having two callers at the same
time and letting each hold a hand,"
Grace explained.
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THE ETERNAL WOMAN.
"Can you see anything the mat
ter with my throat?" asked the
woman who was consulting the
new lady physician.
"Your throat? Goodness me!"
exclaimed the lady doctor. "I
had forgotten that. I was count
ing how many of your teeth were
filled with gold and how many
with amalgam."
Children Cry
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