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A MAIDEN'S WAY.
A riify flrcuH, a roguish nmik
That a midden's way;
A hit flirtatious all thn while,
That’H a mnidon's way :
i’orhap* n now honu ovory night.
Or fancy honnetH out of sivrht.
Perhaps ten unitors in n plight
That’H a maiden's way.
A laugh that's filial with witching grace,
That’s a maiden's way;
Or pIho a «hy look on her face,
That’s a maiden's way;
A simple word that inukea m«*n try
To scale the mountains, sail the sky.
Or stick a dragon in the eye,
Th*t’s a maiden’s way.
rd of sympathy and love?,
' Vn’H wuy;
darkened up al>ovo.
That’ ..
When skier,...
That’H a maiden's way:
A trust more true than heaven’s bliss,
Companionship whnn fate’rt amiss,
A cheering word a simple kiss
That’s a maiden’s way.
Home and Mother.
In a quiet waiting-room of the Grand
Trunk depot in Lewiston, Maine, sat a
gray-whiskered old fedlow in a large
and broad-brimmed hat. He had been
studying a time table with some per
plexity, and had just laid it aside. A
question from him relative to the
starting of trains for Oxford county,
was introduction enough. His voice
was hoarse, but not unpleasant. His
inflection was odd. Being a Down
Easter, it was safe for the writer to
guess that the stranger was from the
West.
"From the West?’’
"You bet!” was the reply.
"Going to Oxford county?”
"That’s where I’m going.’’
The conversation was desultory until
the Westerner opened up. Said he :
"It’s thirty-two years since I’ve seen
the hills of Maine. I was raised up in
good old Oxford county. I reckon 1
ain’t thought of them hills since I was
a hoy in copper-toed hoots with good
old daddy too good, God bless him!
for nary sueh a youngster as I were.
I left home when I were 10 and went
out West; then I came hack and went
to sea. 1 coasted eight years, and in
’55 went on a deep sea voyage and
brought up in California. I’ve been
there ever since, but have come back
now, ”
"Alone?”
"Alone? Yea, alone! That’s the
bother of it, my hoy. Nary a darned
soul there nor here, as 1 knows of, that
'ares whether 1 get there or not -a lone
some man. Don’t you do it. Take my
word for it,-it’s awful, for thirty-live
years nothing to think of but work,
and dig and dive. No wife. Never had
none. No friends, except boys in the
diggin’s when I lir.- i went there, and
in town, where I’ve been running a lit- j
lie business of my own for the past!
eight years. Nothing ahead of me for
the past twenty years but getting rich.
No letters from anybody as 1 know of.
Nothin’ in my dreams but money.
Nothin’ else in the visions of the moun
tain peaks, nothin’ else in the chang
in’ surface of the I’acitic when 1 caught
a glimpse of it. I’ve been a sordid,
mean, low-lived skinflint, part o’ the
time, and a ro.vstorin’ hell-ol’-a-poor fel
low the rest of it. Lookin’ back, it
makes a lump in my throat, boy, it do,
honest, and l agree that a wasted life
is the nwfulest thing beneath the can
opy of blue.’ It makes me sick. I
don’t like to think of it. 1 like to talk,
ye see, to keep away from .thinking of
it."
"Going back to the old place?”
"The old place, eh? Yes, the old
place. Leastwise that’s what 1 reckon
on. What do you suppose made me?
Hadn’t been to church any to speak of.
It was only just a song as did it—a lit
tle old-fashioned song that 1 heard in
the evening three months ago. about a
mother that wanted to know where her
wandering boy was. It came up out o’
the night way off there beyond the
mountains, and 1 thought of my old
mother, God bless her! and the old
place. I couldn’t sleep for a eent that
night. 1 turned and twisted and sweat
great drops. 1 kept thinking about
home and about all I’d ever read or
heard about it. Seems as though 1
could see the old lady’s face looking
into mine with eyes full of love, as
good as she did when I were a kid. 1
thought it over for a day or two. Life
didn’t look half so rosy out there. And
the fact is I wanted to go home and
nowhere else, and you bet I started
when I made up my mind. I think I
only kind o’ want to see the grave of
my mother and (ix up the family lot,
you know, and do you know; my boy,
I have been sort o’ holdin’ on to have
a good cry (something I ain’t done for
thirty years,) and when I’m done with
that and when I’ve shied around and
seed all I want to see of the old place,
I'm going to Boston to see a brother of
mine, and go back again beyond the
Rockies and die there with my face to
the East. I could afford to do it.
Lem’rne tell you one thing, though:
all of my life and all of this gold ain’t
worth the loss of your mother’s love.
Put that down to keep. For if you was
me you could prove it, and would not
run any risk of being lured away from
it by any of the other things of earth.
It’s the best thing, I’m thinking, he
ought to take away.”
Correcting an Error.
Ephraim had swept the floor and
built the fires in a law office for sever
al months and knew something about
court procedure. When he was arrest
ed for the purloining of certain proper
ty belonging to Major Harris and hailed
before the Jnstice of the Peace for trial
he demanded a lawyer to look after his
interests. A young attorney took the
case as his first appearance and pro
posed to defend his client to the last
ditch, if necessary.
"May it please the court,” he said,
when he began his defensive operations,
"my client here is charged with the
felonious abstraction of a chicken from
the hen-house of Major Harris on the
night of March 20, between the hours
of 7 and 12 o'clock. On March 20—”
Ephraim made as if he wished to inter
rupt, but his attorney sternly waved
him aside—"the night in question, Ma
jor Harris came home, as he has testi
fied, at, or near midnight, and discover
ed his loss. I do not ask the court
why Major Harris was not in bed at
that unseemly hour, because of its ir
relevance to the point at issue, but, if
on the night of March 20”—Ephraim
again tried to put in, but was waived
aside —"my client did, as he is charged,
purloin the aforesaid pullet of Major
Harris, or words to that effect, I pro
pose tO sho%v that this chicken — ”
Ephraim could be restrained no fur
ther, and this time he stood up and
burst forth.
"Skuse me, boss,” he said protesting-
ly, "but you is wrong erbout dem fig
ures. Hit wuzn’t de 20th dat I got de
chicken; hit wuz de 15th. Hit wuz a
turkey dat I got on do—”
At this point the defense impulsively
withdrew from the case and Ephraim
was left to the mercy of the court.
The peculiar properties of Chamber
lain's Cough Remedy have been thor
oughly tested during epidemics of in
fluenza, and when it was taken in time
we have not heard of a single case of
pneumonia. Sold by all druggists.
A Rea! Excuse.
H. .7. Conway, of Chicago, the pres
ident of the Retail Clerks’ Internation
al Union, advocated at the recent con
vention in St. Joseph the same pay for
women as for men clerks.
"When women,” said Mr. Conway
afterwards, “do the same work as men
they should get the same wages, and
anyone who argues that this is impos
sible seems to me at once as ungallaut
and as illogical as the famous husband
of Paint Rock.
"This husband was returning home
from market late one Saturday night
with his wife. The wife was burdened
with a huge market basket, a broom, a
kit of mackerel—dear knows what all.
As for the man, he carried nothing.
"Coming to a steep hill, the wife
said reproachfully :
" ‘Jack, if you were a real man
you’d help me carry some of these
parcels.’
"Jack glared at her in disgust and
scorn.
" ‘Aw, how can l?’ he growled.
‘Ain't 1 got both hands in my pock
ets?’ ’’
The less a man knows about women
the more he thinks he knows.
Royal Baking Powder is the
greatest of time and labor
y,, \ savers to the pastry cook.
• V Economizes flour, butter
and eggs and makes the
food digestible and healthful
HillOmlWfNEK
Makes most healthful food
No alum—no lime phosphates
The only baking powder made
from Royal Grape Cream of Tartar
In the Presence of Her Enemies.
In a certain clergyman’s family it
was the custom that each of the chil
dren repeat a bible verse at the begin
ning of every meal in place of the more
general formula of grace before meat.
One day one of his little girls had
been found out in some little sin, and
had been sentenced to a much curtailed
dinner, to be eaten at a table quite by
herself, that her contaminating presence
should be set apart from the others.
When the family was seated around
the dining-room table the usual little
ceremonial was performed, and when
her brothers and sisters had each re
peated a text, her father called on her,
sitting solitary at a wee table on the
other side of the room. At first she de
murred on the ground that being debar
red from the family circle she saw no
reason for joining the family devotions.
Her father insisted; she remained silent
a moment thinking, then spoke out
clearly;
"Thou preparest a table before me in
the presence of mine enemies.”
They Bagged at the Knee.
A Kentuckian was talking sadly of
Col. H. G. Toler, the noted horseman,
who recently died in Wichita.
“Col. Toler raised John R. Gentry
and many other famous horses,” said
the Kentuckian. "The turf has suffered
a great loss in him. A better judge of
horseflesh and a pleasanter man you’d
never find.
"I used to love to watch hi in study
ing horses. He was very keen. He
was at his best then.
"A rich tailor once brought him to
see a new acquisition, a trotter of
doubtful quality, for which, however,
$4,500 had been paid.
"The tailor was full of enthusiasm
about his horse. He little knew he had
been done.
" ‘Look at him,’ he cried. ‘There’s
a horse for you. Look at them legs!’
" ‘Very pretty,’ said Col. Toler,
grinning. ‘Very nice legs, indeed. But
don’t they bag a bit at the knees?’ ”
The greatest danger from influenza
is of its resulting in pnuemonia. This
can he obviated by using Chamberlain’s
Cough Remedy, as it not only cures in
fluenza, but counteracts any tendency
of the disease towards pneumonia.
Sold by all dealers.
Country Manual Training,
Century Maira/.ine.
Even manual training needs new di
rection as it touches country life. It
may not be necessary to eliminate the
formal exercises of model work and
weaving and the like : but some of the
practical problems of the home and
farm may be added.
“ How to make a garden, to lay out
paths, make fences and labels, are
manual training problems. How to saw
a board off straight, to drive a nail, to
whittle a peg, to make a tooth for a
hand hay rake, to repair a hoe, to
sharpen a saw, to paint a fence, to
hang a gate, to adjust a plow-point, to
mend a strap, to prune an apple tree,
to harness a horse—the problems are
bewildering from their very number.
Manual training can be so taught in
the schools that are required for it as
in ten years to start a revolution in
the agriculture of any commonwealth.
Many persons find themselves affect
ed with a persistent cough after an at
tack of influenza. As this cough can be
promptly cured by the use of Cham
berlain’s Cough Remedy, it should not
be allowed to run on and become ti-ou-
blesome. Sold by all dealers.
Lord Russell, a famous jurist, once
went to Scotland to help the Liberals
in a campaign. He purposely began his
speech with a few sentences of bad
Scotch, and then, when the confusion
caused by the blunder had subsided, he
said:
"Gentlemen. I do not speak Scotch,
but I vote Scotch, and I often drink
Scotch. ”
He was greeted with tremendous ap-
lause.
When Russell was a young man he
was sitting in court listening to a trial
for bigamy. A friend leaned across to
him and asked: "Russell, what is the
extreme penalty for bigamy?”
"Two mothers-in-law,” was the re
ply.
After exposure, and when you feel a
cold coming on, take Foley’s Honey and
Tar, the great throat and lung remedy.
It stops the cough, relieves the conges
tion, and expels the cold from your
system. Is mildly laxative. Sold by
all druggists.
WHIPS
WHIPS
When I sell 216 Buggy Whips at $1 each,
call at my place and I will explain. The U. S.
Government prevents my telling you through
this paper.
Remember, I have a full line of brand-new
Buggies—no accumulations from la^t season or
du^t-worn goods to offer. And when I make
prices and terms—the buggy will go home with
you.
COME TO SEE ME. FM ALWAYS AT
HOME.
for all stomach troubles—-indigestion, dyspepsia, heartburn, gas in the stomach, bad
breath,sick headache,torpid liver, biliousness and habitual constipation. Pleasant to take.
SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS.
"Great Ceasar. old man!" exclaimed
the gunner, as he opened the door and
found his friend’s house brilliantly il
luminated at noonday. "What does this
mean? Why are all these blankets over
the windows and why is the gas burn
ing in the daytime?”
"Sh !” whispered Guver, cautiously;
"it’s a scheme of mine.”
"What kind of a scheme?”
"Why, my wife is in the country and
1 tell her 1 remain home every night
and read. I’ve got to get rid of some
gas somehow, so it will go in the bill
at the end of the month."
Foley’s Honey and Tar is the best and
and safest cough remedy for children.
At the first symptoms of a cold, give as
directed, and ward off danger of croup,
bronchitis, sore throat, cold in the head,
and stuffy breathing. It brings comfort
and ease to the little ones. Contains
no opiates or other harmful drugs.
Keep always on hand, and refuse sub
stitutes. Sold by all druggists.
“He Sweared.”
In an open window of a West Lex
ington street home a voluble parrot
from Australia was holding conversation
with a pure American kid and his braid
headed sister.
‘‘Pretty Polly want a cracker?” re
marked the kid.
‘‘Yours truly, yours truly, yours tru
ly,” replied the parrot.
‘‘I ain’tgot any, Polly,” said the kid,
grinning.
The parrot cocked his ear as if to
say, "Beg pardon, sir; but what’s that?”
‘‘I say,” said the kid, falling to the
implied query, “ ‘I ain’t got any.”
"Oh, devil-devil-devil-devil-devil-dev-
il,” screamed the parrot; and the little
girl turned and showed a pair of heels,
screaming as she hurried homeward:
"He sweared, he did: he sweared,
and I’m going to tell mamma.”
More Danville Proof.
Jacob Schrall, 432 South St., Danville,
Ill., w’rites: “For over eighteen months
I was a sufferer from kidney and blad
der trouble. During the whole time
was treated by several doctors and tried
several different kidney pills. Seven
weeks ago I commenced taking Foley’s
Kidney Pills, and am feeling better
every day and will be glad to tell any
one interested just what Foley’s Kidney
Pills did for me.” Sold by all druggists.
After acquiring all the knowledge he
can from books, many a man takes a
postgraduate course by marrying a
a widow.
TO THE CITIZENS
OF MEWNAIM
Reese Drug Co., druggists, handle Gil-
hooley’s Irish Liniment, and they back it
up with what might be called a Govern
ment bond. In fact a guarantee certificate
goes with every bottle, to the extent that
if Gilhooley’s Irish Liniment does not cure
Eczema, Rheumatism, in any form. Salt
Rheum. Lumbago or any skin ailment, you
are out nothing, as the druggist you bought
it from will give back your money and take
the certificate for his pay.
The matter is entirely in your hands.
Gilhooley Irish Linimsnt Co.,
ST. PAUL, MINN.
A FIND INDEED
IN FURNITURE.
Look these offerings over.
Call personally and inspect.
It’ll create no obligation to
buy. Dining tables, rocking
chairs, iron beds, art squares,
odd dressers, matting.
A “square deal is a fact
here, for everything we sell is 1 guaranteed.
Call and see our line of furniture. It is up-to the-Q
in every respect, and a better line cannot be found.
Scroggin Furniture Company
WHEN IN NEED OF
LUMBER AND PLANING
MILL STUFF
Of all kinds—Brackets, Mouldings, Columns, etc.—you will
find it to your interest to give us a call.
HOUSE BILLS A SPECIALTY
Vulcanite Roofing
R. D.CoIe ManufacturingCo
49-54 E. Broad St., NF.WNAN, GA. ; ’Phone 14.
Notice of Dissolution.
The firm of Wm. Byram & Co., composed of
Wm. Byram and G. W. By ram, has been this day
dissolved by mutual consent, Wm. Byram succeed
ing to the business and assuming all of the in
debtedness of the old firm.
On the same date the firm of G. W. Byram Sc
Co., composed of G. W. Byram and Wm. t0
was also dissolved. G. W. 8 ^fThtedne^
the business and assuming all of the in
af G. W. Byram & Co. This Feb.
r. W. BYR -jl
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