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Helen Keller’s First Earnings.
What Men Heed Wives For,
There is a pretty story in eonnec-! ' It is not to sweep the house, and
tion with the series of articles which | make the beds, and darn the socks,
Helen Keller, the wonderful blind a>,rl ~ ■
girl, has written for The Ladies’,
Home Journal, telling about her;
own life from infancy <o the present!
day. She always has shrunk from
the publicity which follows success
ful literary work, and it was with
great difficulty that she was per
suaded to take up the task of pre
senting her own autobiography. She
had, however, set her heart on own
ing an island in Halifax harbor for a
summer b^me, and in a spirit of fun
the editor of The Journal offered to
buy it for her, or to provide the
means to buy it. When the work of
writing appeared especially irksome
Miss Keller was reminded of her de
sire to become a land-holder, and it
spurred her on. Just before Christ
mas she completed the first chapter
of her marvelous story; and on
Christmas morning she motived
from her publishers a check for a‘
good round sum. Her delight may
be imagined, for this was the first
money of any account which she
had ever earned. “It is a fairy tale
come true,” she said. Whether she
will really carry out her plan to buy
the island remains to be soen.
For the Complexion.
The complexion always suffers from
biliousness or coustipatiou. Unless
the bowels are kept open the impu
rities from the body appear in the
form of unsightly eruptions. De-
Witt’s Little Early Risers keep the
liver and bowels in healthy condition
and remove the cause of such troub
les. 0. E. Hooper of Albany, Ga.,
says; “I took DeWibtfs Little Early
Risers for biliousness. They were just
what I needed, f am feeling better
now than in years.” Never gripe or
distress. Safe, thorough and gentle.
The very best pills. Hollzclaw’B
Drugstore.
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An instrument bas been perfected
by a Jamestown, N. Y., man for sig
naling between trains on the same
railway track. It is based on the
wireless telegraph principle, and sig‘
nals automatically when two trains
are within 2,000 feet of each other.
It also indicates in which direction
each of the two is running, or if one
of them is standing still on the track.
and cook the meals, chiefly that a
man wants a wife. If this is all he
wants, hired servants can do it
cheaper than a wife. If this is all,
when a young mau calls to see a la
dy send him iuto the pantry to taste
the bread and cakes she has made;
send him to inspect the needle-work
and bed-making; or put a broom in
to her hands and send him to wit
ness its use. Such things are im
portant, and the wise young man
will quietly look after them. But
what the true man most wants of a
wife is her companionship, sympa
thy and love. The way of life has
many dreary places iu it, and man
needs a companion to go with him.
A mau is sonietimes overtaken by
misfortunes; he meets with failure
and defeat; trials and temptations
beset himjand he needs one to stand
by him and sympathize. He has
some stern battles to fight with
poverty, with enemies and with sin,
and he needs a woman that, while
he puts his arm around her and feels
that he has something to fight for,
will help him fight; who will put her
lips to his ear aud whisper words of
counsel, and her hand to his heart
and impart new inspirations. All
through life—through storm and
through Bunshine, conflict and vic
tory; through adverse and favorable
winds—man needs a womau’s love.
The heart yearns for it. A sister’s
and a mother’s love will hardly sup
ply the need. Yet many seek for
nothing further than success in
housework. Justly enough, half of
these get nothing more.' The other
half, surprised above measure, ob
tain more than they sought. Their
wives surprise them by bringing a
nobler idea of marriage, and disclos
ing a treasury of courage, sympathy
and love.—Our Home.
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rUHIonalres of tbo United States; Parti
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The Nicaragua Canal
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^ FACTS ABOUT POLITICS.
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IN EVERY OFFICE AND
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EVERY AMERICAN.
Where Pearls are Found.
Old geographies make the Persian
gulf the seat of the pearl industry,
but now many beautiful pearls are
found in different parts of America.
In the Mississippi river and its trib
utaries in Minnesota and Wisconsin
quite a number of people are en
gaged in fishing for the mussels 4u
which the pearls are found. It is
said one pearl is found in every ten
mussels fished from the water. | The
fisherman does not worry about thii
He keeps the shells, and takes them
to the button factory, where there is
always a demand, for, as you know,
boys and girls use up a good many
buttons in the course of a year, and
no one ever knows what becomes of
them. A floating button factory
built on a boat travels up and down
the Mississippi. It stops at a place
long enough to use up all the shellB
and then goes on where there is an
other mussel bed, or where the fish
ermen accumulate a heap. Some of
the pearls are very valuable and
have been sold for as large a price
as $50,000.
An Express Package.
“What is its value?” asked an ex
press agent in a Broadway office of
a keen-eyed customer who had
handed him a package to be sent to
a western city. The man addressed
did not answer at once, but glanced
at a printed card on the wall that
reads, “Always state the value of
your shipment.”
“If I state the value, will your
company pay me that amount in
case the package is lost?” asked the
man in his turn.
“Certainly not,unless that is prov
ed to be its value,” remarked the
agent.
“If I state the value, oan I prove
a greater value if it is lost?”
“You will have to ask a lawyer
that question,” replied the agent.
“That isn’t necessary, for I hap
pen to know the law,” said the ship
per. “Your company is trying to
establish an unfair rule, because it
works only one way. You are right
when • you say that my statement
cannot bind you, for in case of loss
you can prove the value, but my
statement would bind me, for the
court would say that I was ‘estop
ped’ by my declaration as to tbe
value.
“If a shipper should undervalue
his shipment, thinking that thereby
he would reduce the charges, he
would have to stand by his state
ment, and your notice is calculated
to make him do that very thing.
Yon can mark my shipment ‘No val
ue stated,’ and then if we meet in
the courts it will be on an equal
footing.”—New York Herald.
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Between the hours of eleven
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night on Jan. 25th, 1901, A. F.
Clark, druggist, Glade Springs,
Va., sold twelve bottles of Cham
berlain’s Cough Remedy. _ He
says “I never handled a medicine
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satisfaction to my customers.”
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The great sixteen-inch gun, in
tended for the New York harbor de
fenses, has been completed and will
be tested at the Sandy Hook prov
ing grounds shortly. It is the larg
est gun ever constructed in this
country, and in all probability it is
the largest that will ever be con
structed, since extremely large guns
are not in as high favor as they were
several years ago. Rapidity of fire
rather than size ahd weight of pro
jectile is now depended upon to do
execution upon an enemy. The new
gun is a few inches less than fifty
feet long and weighs 300,000 pounds.
The projectile to be fired from it g
five feet and four inches in length.
It was the original intention of the
government to make about thirty of
the sixteen-inch guns, but the proj
ect has been dropped.
There are now 60,000 colored in
habitants in New York city, and the
excess of colored women over color
ed men as shown by the last federal
census is 6,000. The overwhelming
majority are not natives of this city
or state, but come from the south.
The great bulk of icolored residents
of the oity of New York come from
Virginia, Maryland,-North and South
Carolina, Georgia and Missouri. Mis
sissippi, in which colored residents
predominate, has sent only 366 col
ored persons to New York, Texas
713, and Alabama 636. The increase
of colored population, however, is
only through immigration; for
though the birth rate is fairly high,
the colored death rate is unduly so.
A Helpless Child.
A weak and puny child is badly
handicapped in the battle of life.
It is isolated from the healthy
enjoyments of its little fellow-be
ings. It cannot partake either of
their play or their sturdy work
and progress in the world; its
whole life is embittered by inca
pacity and weakness.
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scription will do both for her own
health and safety during her time
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bequeathing a fair measure of
health and strength to the pros
pective little one.
The cremation of the body of the
late Dr. Robert Grimes of Cheyenne
revealed the bullet received by him
at the Meeker massacre, where he
distinguished himself, as in many
other Indian engagements, as
“Fighting Bob, the Doctor.” Then
it was thought that the wound
would be fatal, but Dr. Grimes re
covered, and for twenty years, car
ried the missile which the surgeons
were unable to locate. The lead bul
let weighed more than the ashes of
the deceased.
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