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VOL. XI. PLYMOUTH, N. C, FRIDAY, DECEMBHg lgg NO. 30.
: dill arp's letter.
Left," left, left! That is an ominous
word-r-I . don' t like it. Last Friday,
night I closed my mission down in
Alabama a most delightful week with
balmy weather, moonlight nights and
good people to cheer me. I retired
happy to dream of home and the little
grandchildren and the light that would
be shining in the window for me on
Saturday night. I:
The porter was to call me up in time
to take the 2 o'clock train for Chatta
nooga, but alas 1 he did not do it, and
I awoke to find that the train had
passed aud I was left, left, left Oh I
the misery of it. Shakespeare says
w' that there is no philospher can endure
.the toothache patiently, and. I will add
or being left by a train when far from
home. There is a goneness about it,
fo the train-has gone. - 1
The next train would not connect at
Chattanooga and I would have to stay
there till another 2 o'clock in the morn
ing. But all's well that ends well.
About daylight I reached my home.
All was still and silent. The good old
dog was lying at the door and gently
wagged his busby tail." The door was
locked but the window sash' waa not,
and I raised it slowly and softly and
was soon in the sitting room, where
there was a good comfortable sofa. I
knew that the door to our family bed
room was locked, and I heard some
faint familiar nasal sounds that assured
n ii mi 1
. me an was wen. me uiaguose who
Mjrjright. In a few minutes I was asleep
( 'and playing, on vthe hamionican - my
self, My heavy base echoed . to the
tenor in the other room and awakened
one of the girls, who whispered : ''Mam
ma, mamma, there is somebody in the
front room." it's your papa," said
she. ""1 know his trombone be still
8nd let Jiimsleep, for I expect he is
almost wonTout." ' It was .8 o'clock
when somebody kissed me while I was,
dreaming of the soldier boys drilling
and the officer said left, left, left at ev
ery step. Rousing up I received the
family embraces, and two little children
came running inland climbed all over
me and-made me Sappy. '.' Oh? it. beats
war, or politics, or a dog law, or any
thing. I was escorted into the dining
room to breakfast and saw at a glance
that the room had beenrepapered with
a tinted olive green paper and the bor
dering, m atched it beautifully The
doorsJSFa tne" "pSrior-weredfr opened
that room had been repap( red, too, and
was lovely. -
Somehow I never could make as
much ado over pleasant surprises as
my female folks expect, but I did my
best and. have expressed my admira
tion several times since. -Before I left
thpy talked about the old paper that
had gotten dirty and was falling off and
said that if I would get the paper they
would put it on, an! I assented. I am
glad that I did, for if I had been at
home they would have put the harness
on me and made me wait on them all
day, for I am the boy.
I met a man down in Alabama who
said that my letters were demoralizing
the women of this country and putting
new burdens on the men. "W hy,"
said he, "just look at me I am fifty
five. Years old &n&Weigb: nigh onto2QQ;
pounds,- and yet In y wife w ante mfeitoi
climb up a step ladder yesterday and
fix the curtains back, and I told her I
couldn't and wouldn't, for the ladder
was old and rickety and I might fall
and break my neck or some ol my
his wife and plants fle-wers and straw
berries and nurses the grandchildren,
too.' 'Yes,' said 1, 'that's what he
writes, but I don't believe a word of it.
He thinks that you women are going
to be allowed to vote pretty soon, and
he is just fixing to be elected.' Now,
Bee here, Mr. Arp, I fought four years
in that dogone old war and now I am
4tir.' I ( arti tat a rw i I'm nnr crfvint
to climb ladders and tend the flower
f-rrden just because you do; that is, if
Y'u really do it, which I don't believe."
Ad the good, jolly old veteran laughed
immensely- : .. '. - . -
Next day I made acquairitatiee wijh;
a condutor on the Alabama Great
.Southern, and he comforted me by say-
ing that my letters gave good example
it n n,t nnrA nliAor anrl niptnrfifl wha t hflttlfl
' vryugnt 10 ue. oaiu uw, ttu uvb who
- ,;iildren at our home, all under age,
td my greatest pleasure is in meeting
$.m when my run is off, and in help
uMhem and their mother to fight the
Xtle of life and be contented and en
what we have got and be thankful
;od for his tender mt-rcies. Run
Sj a train half night and half day is
jjS work, but I enjoy my home and
tf-all the more when I get with
and they are all the gladder to
ie."
Hike that man and that kind of
. When our people realize that
4ie is the best place on earth, and
.J mother-is -its dearest inmate we
"J have an ideal com! on wealth.
Coleridge says: ,
f V "A mother is a mother still
Tli holiest thin g alive."
Lyttleton says: .
"The lover In the husband may be lost
lSut the wife is dtarer than the bride."
All the great poets have paid tribute
to the home and the mother, for dome
is not home without a mother. Of
course there are many married women
who are not mothers and do not wish
"to be. With them children are in-
trudera, and the pity is that their moth
ers had not been of, similar mind. In
New England and fashionable northern
circles the maternal instinct has been
smothered, and has gone into ah "in
nocuous desuetude," as Mr. Cleveland
would say. A good gentle Tom How
ard said that a Boston mother wouldn't
have but one or two children, and Bhe
wouldn't have any if she didn't want
an heir to inherit the estate.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox wrote a re
markable letter two years ago on the
decay of the maternal instinct in New
England, and the great increase of di
vorces and voluntary separations. Mary
Brent Reed has recently published an
article on the same subject as applica
ble to France. She says that the fash
ionable women of the 1 period won't
even dress like women. They despise
hips and try to hide them. They pre
fer to be as slim as race horses, and to
conceal every sign of a maternal form.
Children are intruders, they say, and if
by chance they have any they are put
out to nurse and to be reared by un
motherly hands. What , an awful pic
ture this is what a sad descent from
the motherhood of our mothers what
a counterpart to the Saviour's teaching
when he said, "Suffer little children to
come unto me for of such is the kingdom
of heaven." Nearly all the great men
of the world have been nursed by noble
mothers, and it reioices me to know
that Mrs. Sarah Butts, of Brunswick,
has a book now in press with Lippin
cott that will rescue from oblivion the
mothers of many of Georgia's great
and g6odmen. .With her. it has been
a -labor of love. How our biographers
from Moses down have lauded the great
men "hut paid small tribute to their
mothers. - -
But the highest heaven is reserved
for them, and an eternal fame that will
not pass away like, that" the great men
acquire in this clialhgeable.world. Alas,
poor Dewey, how soon did his garlands
wither. But we still have Schley and
Brumby and Hobson left, and a
host of lesser lights that illuminate the
the southern skv. Bill Arp.
; ' Hlot Holding Back Cotton,' .
Macon Telegraph. -
The claims of the bears that a great
deal of thetotton is being held back by
the farmers of the South has not yet
been substantiated. On the other hand,
aeftreful investigation by.reliable par,
tieshas developed the fact that there is
no disposition whatever "on the part of
the farmers in any Bection of the South
to hold back their cotton. The con
trary seems to have been true; the
price ,Qf cottony this fall was eo much
better. than, last year, and, in fact, bet
tha'n many farmers expected, that, with
few exceptions, they took advantage of
the good weather and hurried their cot
ton to town as rapidly as possible, fear
ing that the price might go off and not
caring to risk the cha ices of an ad
vance. While the fact is well . estab
tablisbed that there has been no general
movement in the way of holding back
cotton, the unsupported assertion of the
bears that such a policy has been
adopted continues to serve the purpose
of the speculators, who are persistent.
-VW lirtrP hte of Ore Land;
Raleigh, N. C, Nov. 30. The Cam
bria Steel Company and others have se
cured 10,000 acres of magnetic iron o
lands in Ashe county, embracing the
Ballou ore bank, which is 67 per cent,
pure. The rfj-'alty.-to be paid is 25
fceljUf a tfitoIt is xfeelared; that this is
X4 rlchesi'ina ""larges't'depit df ' msrg
netic ore in the Southern States. It is
said that the Southern railway will ex
tend its line from Wilkes'joro, N. C,
to Bristol, directly through the ore
lands. The Norfolk and Western may
alBffftnlUJjA branS lUne there from a
point harned ChftrrotYard8rs'"A Penn
sylvania firm has also purchased the
Gambill copper mine, only six miles
from the Ballou ore bank, and will put
in at once an extensive plant. Opera
tions are resumed, after some ten years'
idleness, at the Ore Knob copper mines
in Ashe county, and a New York Syn
dicate is negotiating tor thenl, J A Mil
waukee firm has bought for $40,000 the
Elk Kuob copper mining property, also
in Ashe county, and has also purchased
20,000 acres of land in its vicinity.
Wireless Telegraphy.
Chicago, Nov. 30. Prof. W. S. John
and C. L. Fortier, of Milwaukee, to-day
made a successful test in this city of the
wireless telegraphy. ; They succeeded in
telegraphing without wires through a
suite of seven rooms with all doors
closed and through seven walls.
Another te9t was made when the sig
nals were conveyed through three fire
proof vaults and an ordinary telegraph
switchboard, in which thirty wires were
connected up and about 40 dead wires
were located. Notwithstanding the fact
that this switchboard contained live
wires, the current passed through all of
the vaults and through this fcoard. This
is one of the moat severe tests that has
ever been given wireless telegraphy.
A third test was made in which the
sending instrument was placed inside
of one of the steel vaults and both doors
were closed and the combination Jock
turned. The signals were then trans
mitted clearly from the inside of the
vault tc an adjoining room.
During the reign of Queen Victoria,
beginning in 1S37, Great Britain has
had 24 wars.
SAM joks disfigured, but still
IN THE! IUNU.
"The frost is on the puukin and the
fodder '8 in the shock."
North Georgia waa never so full and
flowery in the products of nature as at
this time peavine hay, corn, fodder,
cotton, 'cotton seed, potatoes, turnips,
etc. This is certainly a year of plenty
and a fall of beauty. An idle farmer is
a vagabond,' a busy farmer is doing
well. This is the, prettiest fall I ever
Baw, the forest, with its variegated col
ors, is charming indeed. A man who iB
not happy now with his present sur
roundings, has a' bad liver or a bad
conscience. The country was never bo
prosperous, why, even Cartersville ia
building. The Episc ipal church is build
ing a beautiful rectory, the Baptist
church is building a nice parsonage. I
thought Cartersyille was full "grown, but
if she is full grown she has had a lick
somehow and is swelling in spots. Then
we are talking about a cotton factory
here and great manufacturing enter
prises." Talk is cheap, however. I think
we are holding a caucus . daily now on
the prospects, and we are at least as
well off as one of our fellow townsmen
who told me that he had bought a ticket
in the- Lonieana State Lottery every
month for 20 years, but that he had
neyer drawn any prize, but that the
prospects for being rich at the end of
every month was worth to him all that
he had ever invested in the tickets. I
tell you there's nothing like, prospects.
A man or a country without prospects
ought to retire to the cemetery, and
amid all these good times we have vari
ations along different lines. "We have
elections that break up the monotony.
As I expected,' they are preparing for a
picnic in'-1 Kentucky. Four thousand
people with their numbers increasing
were gathered at Barberville, Ky., yes
terday clamoring-for a fair count.
"Nose to nose," the newspapers report
the race between Goebel and Taylor,, I
have been up in Kentucky. I have
heard about that Goebel election
law, and if a man's own election law
does hot elect him then his law is a fail
ure. I ho more believe that Goebel is
elected governor of Kentucky than I
beheveI am; Kentucky is too evenly
divided on political lines to jrun the
thing like we do in Georgia and Ten
nessee and Mississipi. It will take votes
to elect in Kentucky, sometimes a reso
lution by a corrupt legislature by a cau
cus the night before the election, some
times padded returns. We can run that
down' "South in Dixie," when it is ab
solutely necessary for the good of the
party, but up in Kentucky, where the
in elligence and virtue and manhood of
the State is about as much on one side
as the other, the thing won't work, in
my candid judgment. Somebody told
me the other day that the Georgia legis
lature was in session at this present
time and that there was a Hall bill up,
and I either dreamed or beard that there
was a Willingham bill up, yery much
up when it isn't down. I learn that it
is either now on the table or under the
table. We will see what we will see. I
read a ponderous, logical, resistless edi
torial in The Constitution the other day
warning the-people against the disasters
which would .come to Georgia from the
Willingham bill r that if that bill was
passed If' the temperance legislation
temperance growth of the last UU
years would be immediately wiped out
of exiBteace; and. that whisky would
flow ankle deep over the State with a
dipper.faanging.on every gate, or words
to' that effect. '"
I expect the Constitution ' and' Jour
nal force are all teetotalers and practical
tern peranee men,. but.- they are off .on
theory and sentiment. - It I looked with
disfavor v"upon temperance legislation
and-saw the thing as , I see it, 1 would
not feel .uneasy enough to write on the
subject. The Wintngham bill ought to
pass and become' a'law, but I no more
believe that it will pass and become a
law than I belieyl that the temperance
crowd in the legislature are as smart
and cunning as the whiskey gang in
the legislature. . A bull yearling can de
rail and wreck a whole train of cars,
engine and all." - A fellow can derail the
whole business again at a switch. I
don't doubt the temperance majority,
or the willingness of the Georgia legis
lature in its majority forces to pass the
Willingham bill, but I doubt their
ability to do it. I believe in the un
manageability of the minority when the
minority has got more flense than the
majority. I mean chicanery and legis
lative sense and parliamentary power.
Whisky has just got to have brains and
money to carry it along. The temper
ance element has plenty of force and
power until it .collides with the whisky
power. I have tested the strength,
chicanery and power of the whisky
traffic on one side until I waa twenty
four years old, and on the other side I
have tested it for twenty-eight" years,
and I know something about it. They
are awake when we are asleep. They
are like the fellow who bragged on bis
father as a physician and surgeon. He
Baid a man camj to his father one day
who had knocked one of bh eyes out
with a piece of lightwood. He said his
father made him catch the big old torn
cat, and he took the cat's eye out and
put it into the fellow's head. The man
asked could he see out of that eye.
"Yes," said he, "it was a fit, and he
could see as good out of it as he could
out of his other eye, and the only differ
ence was that the cat's eye was awake
at night watching for rats while his own
eye was asleep." There's no use talk
ing, the whisky crowd has one eye open
day and night The temperance people
go to sleep early, and are not in a hurry
about getting up in the morning. I
sympathize with the temperance ma
jority of the Georgia legislature when I
see how utterly powerless they are in
the presence of the .mighty minority.
They need sympathy.
I am still at home, and in addition
to other physical complications and dif
ficulties, I was mixed up in a cyclone in
my lot the other day. For a moment I
was looking on the cyclone in the shape
of one horse hitched with one trace
only to a two-horse wagon; another mo
ment I was lying down on the ground,
two wheels of a wagon running over my
arm and shoulders, another wheel run
ning over my heel. A Georgia cyclone
would not have done me up much
worse in a shorter time, and my friends
all say I needed rest. I am getting it.
I haye got one good leg and one
good arm and a tolerable fair pair of
shoulders, a chin very much disfigured,
and soul full of gratitude that I am
what I am, and that I am no ammer
than lam. When I do get well and
the soreness has passed away I shall be
glad. I have no broken bones, but I
think everything about nie looked
broken but my bones.
Coming up on the train the otherclay
from Atlanta an old negro at Big
Shanty selling apples, called my wife
"sissy,' ' and told me to buy some ap
ples. He knew 1 was her husband. I
said, "This is a gay widow I am sitting
by." He plied, "Boss, then take her
in; she looks like Bhe has got money
behind her," to " the merriment of all
the passengers. .My wife came 'mighty
near being a widow in a few hours,
leaving off the "gay," but I am still
here and my wife is not a "widow ; wo
man." Yours truly,
Sam P. Jones.
' Seventh Fever Victim at Normal.
Greensboro. Nov. 30. Miss Men
Gougan, of Robeson county, a student
at the Normal, died this morning of
typhoid fever. She had been sick about
ten days. During the last days of her
illness she was nursed by her mother,
who today carried the body of her
daughter to her home at Lumber Bridge.
The total number of deaths from the
fever at the Normal is seven. There is
an improvement in the condition of
most of the patients, though several of
the girls remain critically ill. The di
rectors of the college are still in session,
and nearly all the members of the board
are present. They are still silent. Their
conservatism and painstaking efforts to
ascertain the cause of the sickness are
to be commended.
Raleigh, Nov. 30. Dr. Richard II.
Lewis, secretary of the State board of
health, received to-night a telegram
from Dr. Anderson, one of the bacteri
ologists of the board, stating thatthe
water in the wells at the Teague house,
a rented dormitory, and at that of the
central well, which was used by all the
students of the State Normal and In
dustrial College, recently allltcted with
a serious outbreak of typhoid fever, is
bad. This fully explains the epidemic
and ie a cause that can be promptly and
completely removed, so that this most
useful and popular institution can be
re-opened with safety on the date to
which it was suspended, January 2,
lltOO. .
Financial Stringency.
Nashville Advocate.
In spite of the good, times of which
nearly all the --papers are talking, the
supply of money, in the great centers,
is hardly sufficient to meet the demands.
The New York bankers are not able to
meet all the demands that are made
upon them, and it is fearad that condi
tions will grow worse before they grow
better. As to the causes that have pro
duced this stringency there ia a great
variety of opinion. . But it can scarcely
be doubted that the reckless speculation
of the past year is at least partly re
sponsible for it. Another fact of im
portance is the growing surplus in the
Federal Treasury. Though the expendi
tures necessitated by the war with
Spain and the present hostilities in the
Philippines have been enormous, the
government now holds in its strong
boxes nearly $300,000,000 in gold. To
subtract bo large a sum as this from the
ordinary avenues of , trade without ef
fecting some disturbance, is a manifest
impossibility. It is proposed, as a
measure of relief, that the Secretary of
the Treasury shall either deposit $50,
000,000 with the national banks, or
else buy up large quantities of its own
bonds. But neither of these schemes
seems to be altogether feasible.
Emphatic Enough.
The angry parent strode into the
parlor.
"Girls," he said, "who are these
young men ?"
"Papa," replied one of the daughters,
"this is Mr. Young and this ia Mr.
Yates."
Whereupon the old gentleman invi
tingly opened the door.
"Git!" he thundered.
And they got. A word to the Y's
was sufficient.
"I never thought the titne ' wouUA '
ever come when I should be d,r'"dj(
hear that piano going,"
Fogg, a? "instrument" '
house W -"arried d '
to 11 . j -
"rlRK.D OF THE GAME."
Charlotte Observer.
A certain man died in North Caro
lina the other day. It was asked of
one of his friends of what he died, and
the answer was, of whiskey and mor
phine. He wad a man of eifts and
promise, and it was asked why he should
thus dispose of himself, and the reply
was, "O, well, he was tired of the
game."
The answer was full of meaning. The
world is full of people who are tired of
the game. They haye worried and
struggled. t Perhaps they have reared,
or tried to rear, children who have been
a disappointment to them. Perhaps to
them "fortune had looked backward."
They have worked hard, and seen no
result of their labor; the past has been
unfruitful, the future is unpromising.
They have thought upon the problems
of life and they see nothing in it for
them. . They are tired of the game.
Hon. Henry Watterson delivered in
Charlotte a year or two ago his lecture
on "Money and Morals." It was not
worthy of him, and was a disappoint
ment to his audience, but it contained
toward its conclusion this striking in
quiry, What is the use ? A man who
had become President of the United
States said to him that this was the
goal of his ambition; that for years he
had looked forward to the presidency;
that when he finally reached it, he
found that his former friends had be
come his enemies and that his former
enemies had become his friends, and so
the chief value of the office had gone
he was unable to reward his friends or
punish his enemies. Tde question waj,
wherefore had he expended his ener
gies; why had he spent reBtless days
and sleepless nights in seeking some
thing that brought no pleasure in the
attainment? The answer was, of
course, Solomon's Vanity of Vanities.
But we lose our course and yet not
altogether. Is the game worth the can
dle? That is the question which hun
dreds of thousands of human beings all
over the earth are asking themselves,
and the answer they get is in the nega
tive. If they are in public life and try
to follow the popular caprice they find
themselves involved in all sorts of ab
surdities; if they follow the dictates of
conscience and of right, they lose caste.
If, far from "the madding strife,"- pur
suing the even tenor of their way, they
often find toil unrequited and effort
gone for naught, they get tired of the
game.
The world is full of these luckless
ones. Is not the great majority to be
so classified ? It is a world of toil and
moil, with nothing to show for it when
we have run our little race; when all
life's duties have been done. It may
be a cottage ia left; it may be some
acres of farming land; it is tolerably
certain to be a widow and several chil
dren. It is not quite heroic to get out of it
all through the medium of whiskey or
morphine; it is not quite the thing to
leave to others the care of children
which we have brought into the world.
But there is the ever-recurring ques
tion, Is it worthwhile? and the ever
present answer, I am tired of the game.
Cotton Seized and Sold During the War.
Columbia, S. O., Nov. 30. Governor
Miles B. McSweeney today addressed a
letter to the Governor of each Southern
State, asking for united effort to get
Southern Representatives in Congress
to work for the passage of a bill refund
ing eleven million dollars to Southern
people from whom cotton was seized by
United States troops during the War
between the States.
The cotton was sold by the Collector
of Customs of New York, and the funds
placed in the United States Treasury.
The United States Supreme Court has
decided that the Government has no
right or title to these funds, which are
held for the ultimate return to those
entitled thereto.
. But these funds cannot be recovered
except by Congressional action, as legis
lation is necessary before action can be
brought against the soyereign Govern
ment. By special legislation some few
claims have been granted, but it is de
sired that Congress remoye all restraints
so that lawful owners or heirs may be
reimbursed. A Senate bill waa intro
duced last year, and was reported favor
ably by the Senate Committee on Claims,
but was lost sight otin some way.
A Thirty-Six-Found 'Possum.
Spartanburg, S.C., Free Lance.
A Spartanburg man traveling in the
harness and sadlery business, is respon
sible for the following, the truth of
which he vouches for: The negroes of
Greenville county held a stock show at
Pine Hill, in that county, On October
6, and a 'possum, weighing 36 pounds
and having tusks 6 inches long, was
placed on exhibition. Its tail had been
cut off and marked in Pu?
mark. He would noj"'
ing on hia lands Bv'r
have been mark'
life-time. He
and.
i-y
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RALEIGH A MODERN SODOM.
Raleigh News and Observer.
A sensation was created here Sunday
in church circles by Rev. F. M. Jordan.
Mr. Jordan, who has preached ;the
gospel in nearly, every Baptist church
in the State at one. time or the other,
has been here for Bome time superin
tending the publication of a history of
his life and labors.
Sunday morning he attended the .
First BaptiBt church and was called on
by Dr. Carter, at the conclusion of his
sermon on ''Christian Growth," for a
prayer.
And such a prayer it was! The ven
erable preacher witn bowed head seemed
to be talking familiarly with God, tell
ing Him of the bins of the people,, man
by man, and asking the Almighty for
mercy and indulgence till they could
be called to lepentance.
"Oh, God," he Baid, "Thou knowest
the majority -of Christians are like
wasps larger at birth than at any other
time. - And they grow smaller and
meaner as time goes on. Thou knowest
also that a great many members high
up in the church drink beer and whis
key and go to dances. Oh, Lord, they
call them germans, but that'a just to
fool the people. They are regular old
dances nothing in the world but fid
dling and dancing. We read the paper
this morning and there they had print
ed the names of all the gala and their
partners. Oh Lord, have mercy on
these miserable rascals.
"Then, oh Lord, a lot of them are
giving card parties around here, going
into saloons, visiting places of ill-fame
and playing the devil generally. No
wonder that when they ask a sinner to
turn from his evil way, he replies, 'Go
'way, you old devil, we know you.'
We heard only this past week of a
prominent church member who had
been drinking beer ten years and who
went home and found his" little boy '
dead drunk and as limber as a dish rag.
Oh, Lord, have mercy on these misera
ble sinners who pretend they are fol
lowing inee, nut wno go arouna wiin ,
their breath smelling like an old swill
tub. We have a little grandchild," Lord,
that we were thinking of sending here
to school, but, oh, Lord, this is such a
degraded, fearfully wicked city, that we
are afraid to send her here. Then'
there is a college here where the youDg -'t '
men are encouraged to give dances. '
Oh, Lord, have mercy on the president "
of that institution. .
"Thou knowest there are only a ftw r
righteous people in Raleigh. All the -rest
are wicked, and were it not for
these few good people the whole city .
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down hre and brimstone and destroy it '. -like
Sodom and Gomorrah.'! .
Willie had swallowed a penny, and
his mother was in a state of-, much -alarm.
"Helen," she called to-'her.
sister in the next room, "send for a
doctor; Willie has swallowed a penny !" -The
terrified and frightened boy looked
up imploringly. "No, mamma," he
interpose, "send "for the minister."
"The minister?" asked his mother, in- :
credulously. "Did you say the minis-,
ter?'' v "Yes; because papa says pur ,
minister can get monev out of any
body." - ' -
Mrs. Newly wed: "I was going to have
some sponge cake as -a surprise "for
you, dear, but I must confess it was a
failure." Mr. Newlywed: "What was
the matter?" Mrs. Newlywed; ?'I
don't know for shure, but I think the
druggist sent mo the wrong kind of-,
sponges." " : -; V .
Look En Your Mirror
Do yon ee sparkling eyes, healthy,
tinted sk in, a tweet expression and a grace
ful form t These attractions are the result
of good health. If they are absent, there
ia nearly always some disorder of the dis
tinctly feminine organs present. Healthy
menstrual organs mean health and beauty
everywhere.
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