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THE INFALLIBLE MAN.
Them was a uiao who Dover made
A blunder In bis life;
Re loved a girl, but was afraid
If she became his wife'
That ho or she might rue the day
That brought them bliss, and so
Re put the happiness away
That wedded lovers know,'
One day the man who uever made
Mistakes poroelved the way
That led to fame, but, still afraid,
Drew back and stole away;
He shunned the winding paths that led
To distant, unseen ends,
And kept the road that stretched ahead
With neither steeps nor bends.
At last the mnn who never made
Mistakes fell by the way:
In garments that were badly frayed,
And pale and starved he lny;
Ho weeping friend bent o’er him there,
Nor servnnt, child, nor wife;
' But victory was his—ho ne’er
Had blundered in his life.
—8. E. Kiser, in Chicago News.
ROMANCE OF
A DEPARTMENT STORE.
By Edoah Temple Field.
William French prided himself on
the fact that he was not an ambitions
man.
He was wont to say that envy and
discontent are the twin roots of all
evil,and that to be satisfied with one’s
lot in life is the sum total of all eurthly
philosophy.
*i William did not put. it in that way,
exactly, for he hadn’t much more edit- j
dhtion than he had ambition. But i
tliat was what he meant when he j prepared to hear of
f would occasionally announce to his j he proposed ’ to
fellow clerks over the bowl of mush j She might faint or something. Girls
and milk that formed his noonday i were apt to do those things when
menl at the “quick lunch” counter, j you take them unawares, he had
“What I can get is good enough for | hoard.
association with her afforded the
young mau moments of exquisite joy.
At other times be would watch her,
busy over her cooking utensils, and
imagine how she would Took in a little
kitchen of her own manipulating simi
lar implements in the preparation of
his own supper.
The thought was intoxicating. Here
at last he had found n girl who would
be willing to share his humble lot, he
told himself. A plain little thing like
her would probably regard a tiny
three-room flat such as he had in mind
as a palace of luxury. He himself
would seem to her a sort of special
providence through whose benevolent
intervention she would realize all
those dreams of home and husband
most girls indulge in.
This thought he found even more
agreeable than the other, and he found
himself assuming a protecting and
even patronizing air with her at times.
The enamored young man went so
far as to bint to the object of bis affec
tion his hopes of having a modest
home of his own one day, and while
be could not recall afterward that she
bad betrayed any great interest in bis
plans, he took comfort in thinking
that girls are s-hy about showing their
feelings and that probably it had not
occurred to her that he would notice a
little clerk in the graniteware depart
ment.
Ho William dreamed bis dreams and
even began to inquire around about
the rent of flatB such as he would be
apt to require.
But he did not tell his love. There
was no hurry about that. He would
wait till spring—wheu rents were
cheaper.
And besides she was probably not
the honor
pay her.
me, and don’t you forget it.
And bis fellow clerks, mostly un
ambitious men like himself, would
generally reply, with laconic vague
ness of assent, “That’s what.”
William’s lot in life was sufficiently
humble.
He sold tin bath tubs in the poorly
lighted basemeqt-of a big department
store six days in the week. His Sun
days ho spent in riding a second-hand
bicycle, if it was fine,and reading the
piotorial papers or sewing refractory
buttons and reluctant patches on bis
clothing when the weather precluded
any idoa of outdoor .amusement.
for William was'- a bachelor and
lookAd h’skapco at the fair sex, as the
lovely promoters of much of the dis-
cohtent he so sternly deprecated And
'the gentle inciters of the reckless and
’wicked extravagance whose existence
in the world he so greatly deplored.
So when he caught; the flutter of a
Skirt on any stray bicycle ho chanced
'tp pass on a lonely road he would
scorch stonily"ahead and never once
! g|ance aioimd to see if the fair trav
eler was riding for fu’fi or to reduce
■her waist, measure.
Frdin iVhicK it may be seen that
Mr. French was very much of a philos
opher.
But, alas, even philosophers are not
exempt from the visitings of the ten
der passion, and it chnnced ohe day
ithat Cupid, for want of something
better to do, chose to’visit the base
ment of that particular store and plant
Ilia dart deep in the heart of the
young man who sol d tin bath tubs.
L It happened this way.
, A young woman came to fill a
vaoaney in the graniteware depart
ment, next to William’s own, and he
eo lone indifferent and even callous
to the charms of woman, no sooner
saw the new clerk busy over her
saucepans and teakettles than he was
smitten with a desire to possess her
for his own.
* Miss Thompson was not beautiful,
to be sure, nor was she at’ all imposing
of appearance, that she' should thus
ehptivate the heart of this severe critic
It first sight. And she trotted about
with a brisk alertness of movement
quite incompatible with grace and
elegance of movement.
But she suited William right down
to the ground.
i To be’gin with, she had soft eyes,
of no particular color, perhaps, but
Somehow when their gaze rested on
'William he felt that here, at last, was
one who oonld appreciate his true
yelue almost as keenly as he did him-
eelf. Her brown hair, of a verv ordi
nary shade, was parted very neatly
over her smooth brow in a fashion ex-
tremely plain and unambitious com
pared to the imposing pompadours
worn by the magnificent young ladies
who sold ribbons and neckties at the
counters upstairs, and whoso airs and
graces made William so uncomfortable
that he frequently went to a rival es
tablishment to purchase the modest
“mgde-up” cravat which completed
his humble toilet.
®ver, Miss Thompson's simple
pee* gown, with ita trim y
1 waist’aMj. epotless 0 nffs and
lnon ®°* wickedly
Ho the winter wore on, and William
spent, more and more of his time talk
ing to his fair neighbor, and fell more
deeply in love with every interview.
To be sure be did most of the talk
ing.
He often confided to her his views
on extravagance and high living, and
took occasion to ridicule those who
spent their money on good clothes
and theatre tickets instead of laying it
up for a rainy day.
And while Miss Thompson never
said nnything he could construe into
an admission that she thought he was
rigjit, she always listened with grave
attention, and with her soft eyes fixed
on him lieremained blissfully certain
that here w»s a woman wiio would
thaukfully devote her life to helping
him save his income and provide for
his old age.
At last the spring drew near.
The flower counter in the" .main
aisle began to glow with golden sun
shine of daffodils and jonquils, and
odors of hyacinth aud Easter lilies
were wafted down the stairway to the
dim basement where the bathtubs end
the tegjfet^les hud their home.
And then one day William had a
shook. The cross-eyed girl at the
crockery department told him that
Miss Thompson was going to leave.
He could not believe it. But in
quiry at the glassware department re
vealed the fact that the rumor had
spread the day before, aud had be§u
confirmed by the youug lady herself.
William was astounded. She had
made up her mind to leave without
telling him! What did it mean, he
wondered?
Then he hnd an idea. Perhaps she
had grown to care so much for him
that seeing him every day was painful.
Ho had read of such things iu novels.
He resolved to tell k4r that very day
of the plans he had made for her and
ask her to become Mrs. William
French.
It was long, however, before his op
portunity came.
It seemed to him that every fat
woman iu the city had decided to lay
in a supply of graniteware that par
ticular day.
At last he encountered Miss Thomp
son behind a hugh pile of coffeepots.
“I—I—hear you’re going away,’’
he began, surprised to And himself
feeling decidedly nervous.
“Yes,” she said pleasantly, as she
made an. entry in her little cashbook.
“I’m going tomorrow.”
“Weil, I didn’t know—that ig, I
thought—I hope, I mean, that I’ve
not had auything to do with yonr
going, ” he went on, beginning to be
appalled at the miserable figure he
was cutting.
“You, Mr. French—how could yon
—I don’t understand, I’m afraid,”
sale of remuauts upstairs, and at the
noon Itour he was struggling to make
hie wey through the vast crowd of
ladies which snrged abont the counter,
when a little wbman iu a rustling silk
gown turned suddenly and faced him.
It was she!
He passed hor with only a formal
and hurried bow, bnt he had time to
observe, with rain, that she wore her
hair in’ a pomjMdour.
. CANNIBALISM IN CANADA.
The Kxistenre or the Practice Indicated
by tlie Arrest of Two Indians.
Recent arrests of Northwest Cana-
dian Indians by a detachment of. the
mounted police go to prove that can
nibalism is still practiced by Canadian
aborigines. Two prisoners brought
into the barracks at Edmontou by the
police were captured redhnnded, but
they seek to defend themselves from
the charge of murder by declaring
that their victim was addicted to can
nibal ism, and that having surprised
him iu the act of feeding upon human
flesh they killed him on the spot, in
accordance with their custom. These
Iudians believe that when one of their
number once tastes humau flesh, even
to assuage the pangs of hunger, he
becomes changed into a .windigo or
man-eating monster, who will not hesi
tate to kill in order to gratify his ap
petite.whenever the opportunity offers.
They therefore consider it a solemn
duty as well as. a simple act of self-
preservation to kill at sight, if possi
ble by a stealthy blow from bebiud,
any one known to have practiced an
thropophagy.
The missionaries say that it is
usually hunger and not a passion for
human flesh that drives them to the
practice. Father Dabion tells in bis
journal of a disease that was qnite
common nmong some of these Indians.
The victim suddenly became a hypo
chondriac, his malady developing into
a mania. In its succeeding stage the
insane was seized with such hunger
for human flesh that he sprang like a
famished wolf upon all that he met.
“In proportion,” says the good father,
“as he finds wherewith to glut this
hunger, it grows like thirst in dropsy,
and accordingly the Indians never fail
to kill at once any one seized with
this disease.”
This will be the line of defence made
on behalf of the present Indian pris
oners at Edmonton. Father Nedelac,
who’journeyed as far north as Lake
Mistassini to minisfer to the Indians
there, reports the murder of a young
man 18 years of age, in 1867, by his
own mother, f<y the same reason, and
another;missionary tells the story of
the murder by another Indian woman
of two entire families, with the excep
tion of one young man.' The victims
ipduded two men, two'women, three
boys, aud four girls, aud she subsisted
for some time upon tbeir flesb. The
late Father Durocher converted to
Christianity a Naseapee woman named
Yeronique, who was au inveterate
cannibal, and only escaped death at
the hands of other members of her
tribe because of the dread which she
inspired in them by reason of her
powers as a sorceress. Her first vic
tim was her husband, who had died of
starvation, and she continued her
feast until she had devoured three of
her children, two of whom had died of
hunger, while the third was killed by
its.unuatural mother. She next killed
a woman of her own tribe, who had
herself feasted upon the body of one
of her children and became food in
turn for the wretched Veronique. It
was thought within the last few years
that cannibalism was extinct among
Canadian Indians, but the contrary is
evidently the case.—New York Sun.
Honor Among Beggar*.
Even the beggar life iu Spain has its
bright side. Iu the following story,
which was told only three years ago,
the feeling shown was just as noble as
could have marked the conduct of a
prince.
A traveler, stopping at Madrid, had
been in the habit of giving a few cen-
tiraos daily to a Tittle girl on the street.
Gfoe morning, ns he passed the corner
where she stood, he gave her, as he
supposed, the usual sum. Presently
he heard some one calling him and
looking around saw her running after
him. On overtaking him she held up
a two-peSeta piece and said:
“Your honor has always given me
centimos, bnt today, by mistake, this
was among them.”
Similar episodes help to fill the
notebook of the traveler who lingers
a few months in Spain. If he pursues
his researches beyond the lines drawn
by couriers, tonrist bureaus and hotel
, .. . . • ... • attendants, he will meet everywhere,
k “ftl phed ’ “ ev,d r ent Jbewilderment - both among the eduoated and the
Oh, yon see—I thought maybe
you’d been expecting,you know—that
is, yon might have known that I was
going to ask yon to marry me, yon
know. I’d have asked yon before—
only "
, . ,pr V’ don't •pofogize,” she ex
claimed, quickly, “It’s much
that yon didn’t A man
ideas would be making a gi
to marry.. And besides, I’m
be married next weekto**
poorer classes of modern Spain, the
hidalgo spirit of the days of Calderon.
—Youth's Companion.
Prettiest Part of the
Papa-4-So Emily stands at the head
of her class in French?
Mamina — Yes. She and another girl
stly even ip the written ex-
*“***»: wfiTaecide#
0 FARM TOPICS
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Purifying Sour Solla.
The valne of lime in purifying sour
soils is such as to make its general use
very necessary. Lime is not a fertil
izer in the striot sense of the word,
but in connection with manure it is
often absolutely essential to the fer
tilizing of the soil. Land gets soar
from one cause and another, and some
soils actually get “manure sick.” It
is possible to so feed the soil that it
gets indigestion, and the more that is
piled on it the less it seems to pro
duce. I have seen soils so rich that
they could not produce more than very
small crops. They’were manure sick
and sour.
It is at this stage that lime comes
in to correct matters. ' A top dressing
of lime on such a soil will do more
good than a thousand dollars’ worth
of commercial fertilizers. It is possi
ble to raise abundant crops for several
years in succession on suoh soils by
simply giving them a top dressing of
lime every year. It is owing to this
that some farmers have gathered the
impression that lime is a good fertil
izer. The action of the lime was not
to furnish any plant food, but simply
to correct the acidity of the soil, so
that the abundance of fertility conld
be taken up by the crops.
Lime is good sometimes to kiil cer
tain germs which multiply in the soil.
Thns, the bacteria which causes club-
root in cabbage will be killed if the
laud is dressed in the spring with
lime. It has beneficial effects in other
ways, too. It tends to loosen and dis
integrate the texture of the soil, To
that the drainage is better and the
meobanioal condition of the soil is im
proved so that the roots of the plants
can extend downward for water and
food.
Lime is of value on the manure pile
at times. Mixed in with the manure
it will tend to sweeten it, and it will
enter the soil in conjunction with the
fertilizer to perform its work there.
“Wliei'e heavy dressing of manure has
caused the potato scab in those tubers,
it is wise either to dress the land with
lime, or to mix lime with manure just
before applying it.—A. B. Barrett, in
American Cultivator.
Pencil Culture*
If we expect to be successful in cul
tivating peaohe3 we must give the
trees the very best attention that
modern experience has taught ns, to
produce the most practical results.
There is a good deal of unsatisfactory
advice given to the farn^&t^jqne war
of Another. I Jam
one would wilfully publl
for the purpose of misleading'those
engaged in agriculture; bnt too many
give vent to half-formed ideas, or to
conclusions too hastily reached. It is
a common failing to draw sweeping
conclusions from a few’ facts, and
therein is onr greatest danger in ac
cepting the advice of others. Never
theless,-we cannot discard! all advice,
but simply try t? seleot from the chaff
the wheat that will be of value to us,
and then to use onr common sense in
the matter.
There are many things n’ out peach
culture that we are still inoertain
about. It is conjectural yet, and cau
tion mnst be used in accepting the ad
vice of any one who attempts to settle
these important questions from a few
faots. But, on the other hand, there
is so muoli known and repeatedly
proved, and yet not practised by those
who enter into the work, that a con
stant repetition of the faots seems nec
essary. It is hard to account for this,
exoept upen the theory that there is
a large class who are so conservative
that they will not aocept anything un
less it is covered with the moss of
ages. •
In oaring for peach orchards, culti
vation, fertilization and pruning mnst
be considered. No peaoh orchard can
be made profitable without good cul
ture being given to it. Onltivation of
the soil has an important bearing on
the time of maturing of the frnits. The
maturity of the trees can be postponed
by giving a shallow cultivation. Early
maturity of the peaoh trees means an
early death, and it does not pay. Yet
certain varieties hasten to their early
destruction in this way unless checked.
Even after bearing the trees need cul
tivation. This should go on nntii
August. Shallow plowing and pulver
izing with the harrow will alwaya ben
efit the trees. /
Soil fertilizers ot some kind mnst
be added every seauon. The trees are
taking from the soil certain elements
that mast be supplied artificially.
Wood ashes stand first for this, but
some soils will do just as good if fer
tilized with stable manure. Lime and
pqtash are necessary for the peaoh
soil, and they should be supplied in
some forift An application of oanstio
potash solution to ihe trunks of tho
trees should be made after the fruit
has set, that is, from the first to the
middle ot Jane. Pruning end thin
ning in tbeir season should bo at
tended to also.—James 8. Wilson, At
American Cultivator
Guaranteed tobacco habit cure, makes weak
men strone. blood pure. Mo,H. AU druggists.
i V D ; r j®K thit past year 1514 persons were
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Skin Diseases In Young or Old.
Tetter. Eczema, Ringworm, and kindred trou
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for 60c. a box, or prepaid for same price by 3. T.
Shuptrlne. Savannah, Ga. Voluntary letters
blessing us for cures, from all over tho country,
are on file, and we are glad to show them.
—A hog weighing 900 pounds is owned bs
wm. H. Stettler, of Boyortown, Pa.
Don’t Tobacco 8pU sad Smoke loir Life Awe j.
To quit tobacco easily and forever, be mag
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Boo, the vronder-wor'.rcr, that makes weak men
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—Linen is the Irish industry which baa
never auflered from any kind of repression.
Educate Your Bowels With Cos carets.
Candy Cathartic, cure constipation forever.
10c, 25c. If C.O.O. tell, druggists refund money.
--The Manchester Cotton Mills, at Rock
Hill, 8. C., are running day and night.
fSeaotr Is Blood Deep.
Clean blood meana a clean skin. No
beauty without it. Cascarets, Candy Cathar
tic clean your blood and keep it clean, by
stirring up the lazy liver and driving all im
purities from the body. Begin to-day to
banish pimples, boils, blotches, blackheads,
and that sickly bilious complexion by taking
Cascarets,—beauty for ten cents. All drug
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—The steeplejack ought naturally to be a
tip-top fellow.
To Cure Constipation Forever.
_ Take Cascarets Candy Cathartic. lOoorBe.
It C. C. C. fall to cure, druggists refund money.
—There is a great increase In exports of
wire nails, steel plates, bars and rods and
electrical and metalworklDg machinery.
tf
44 Pride Goeth
'Before a Fall.
Some proud people ihink they Are strong,
ridicule the idea of disease, neglect health,
let the blood run down, and stomach, kid
neys and liver become deranged. Take
Hood s Sarsaparilla and you will prevent
the fall and save your pride.
DYSPEPSIA
“ For six years I wu a victim or dys
pepsia in its worst form. I could eat nothing
out milk tosBt, and at times my stomach would
not retain and digest even that Last March l
began taking CASCARETS and since then 1
bare steadily Improved, until I am as well as 1
ever was In my life."
David H. Hcbphv. Newark. O.
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W percentage of cures made by
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