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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION ATLANTA. Giu TUESDAY DECEMP '
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Woman's Kingdom
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comer. They are Invited _
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wall answer questions or accept
The beautiful Invocation to the New Year by
Alfred Tennyson, cannot be read too often, and
never falla to tnipire the heart with renewed
admiration for England’* greatest living poet.
Bing Out, Wild Bella !J
King out, wild belli, to the wild iky,
The flying cloud, the Croat/ light
The year Is dying In the night;
Bing out, wild bells, and let him die.
Bing out the old, ring in the new,—
Ring, happy belli, acrcea the enow I
The year Ir going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring In the true.
Ring out the grief that aape the mind.
For those that here rye Me no more ;
Ring out tho feud of rich and poor,
Ring In redrew to all mankind.
Ring outfalM pride In peace and blood.
The dale slander and the spite;
Bing In the lore of truth and right.
Ring in the common lore of good.
Ring out old shapes of foul desease,
Ring out the narrowing lust of gold,
Ring out the thousand wars of old;
p Bingln she thousand years of peace.
Ring In the valient man, and free,
The larger heart, the kindlier hand!
Ring out the darkness of the land;
Ring In the Christ that la to be.
The Closing Year.
To many the last hours of the departing year
bring tad reflections; there comet a mournful
cadence
“Like the far wind’s harp's wild and touching
wail,
A melancholy dirge o’er the dead year,
Cone from the earth forover."
But why sad thoughts on that which is “gone
forever, there may be regrets for opportunities
lost; and it is well there should be; it will serve
to make us mom anxious to improve the future
and strengthen the good resolutions always
made for the New Year. “A happy New
Yearf ’ the very woids ring out with a joy and
brightness that thrills the heart. Bright hopes
and anticipations come to young and the mid'
die aged, and old people reflect the joy of those
around them. What a blessing to have hope in
theheart, some one has said; “Hope will liro
on a bare common, and sing on a branch laden
down with snow. No date and no place are
unsuitable for hope. We may always hope, for
we always have grounds for it. Wo will always
hope, for it is a never fhiling consolation.
Hay the New Year of 1887 be one fail of hope
and happiness to each and all our readers. Let
us bury our regrets and disappoints in the
tomb of the old year, and start afresh with re
newed energy and stronger resolutions for the
new. With the sincere wish that all your
hopes may be realised, and wishing our many
readers a “Happy New Year,’’ we bid you adieu
for the year 18811.
We aro always glad to bo of service to our
readers, and are willing to answer questions,
both publicly and privately, and render ail the
assistance in our power, but we are compelled
to refuse hereafter so many applications for
situations, etc. Our comer, Instead of being a
medium for useful information and exchange
of profitable thoughts, has deteriorated into an
advertising rolumn, and as such has become
quite uninteresting. We would therefore ad
vise all who are aUe to do so, to send their *p‘
plications to Hr. W. A. Hemphill, busim
manager, and they will bo inserted as advertise
ments; and we urgently invite many of our old
correspondents from whom we have not board
in a long time to return and gladden our hearts
with theic words of “good cheer.”
Answers to Correspondents.
E. C. 0.—The request for stamps came from
a lady in Tennessee—“Mias Elisabeth Moors
Divine, Tcnn.” She was assisting a kind New
York lady to gather these stamps for a cripple
boy, who lives in Psai* and these ladies wished
to get him a place in a hospital. The stamps
he used in tasking of “papier macho.” Tho
New York lady is now in Paris and has
promised to write on her return and give full
information. In a private letter from Miss
Moore she writes me, “I have received a hun
dred letters from the “cousins" and over 22,500
stamps.” I give her address in fhll that all
Wishing to do so, can send stamps direct to her.
Mrs. A. P. G,, Job, Qa.—Wilt tend Claudius's
address on reception of stamp.
Lucy B. Jordan—Accept our thanks for club
sent; havo sent money and names to business
editor.
May Ashbaugh, Mancoa, CoL—We regret that
we are unable to find the poem you mention;
do not know the author. The “Clydesdale
lace” directions were perfectly correct, and has
been worked successfully by several.
' Correspondence.
Mrs. 8. M. Fairer. Fort U1U. 8. C.-1 feel it a
pleasant duty to write and tell you how much I
enjoy Woman's Kingdom. My husband has been
a subscriber since last April, having made a club
at that time. Living in the country lire miles
from our church, I find Talmage's sermons very
comforting when welstay at home, ani that li of.
ten. 1 am quite a young housekeeper, having only
been married about two years, and knew nothing
of country IIP) until then. But we hare a beauti
ful little baby now—Ftanklo Louise, six mouthy
old, to laugh and crow for us and with the com
forting letters from the titters my spells of home
sickness are not quite so frequent. I do all my
homework and attend my little blue eyed darling,
with the assistance of a small colored girl, but It
stirring. I try to steal a few minutes
■ ■- both of which I am so
Instrument stand Idle,
_AY> A conspicuous part,
r I wl»h toaakBom«omof the sUten, tome
fond; but brushes and
H rea mother who every one that
r wonderful, as she can do any
work she sees, keep bouse or at.
Being away from her now, alter
had her to depend on, laometlmm
and need a uft—a good strong lift
im a very little woman. Wishing
, the Kingdom, asking nod's bless-
c efforts dear editress, 1 close my
am letter.
lfrs. A. P- Dickson, Vriims, Robeson county, K-
C.-I would be pleased to correspond with seme
woman of good character and genial disposition,
who drains a home, and who Is willing to assist
with the homework and care of children. My has
band Is a physician and is neemtarily absent from
home a great deal, and I flnd it lrapoerible to se
cure a reliable servant all of tbs lime To any
one desiring a teacher lor small children, 1 havo
a friend whom I can heartily recommend as an
Instructor, and who will also uks special pain;
with the meals, manners, etc:, of thorn entrusted
to her care, or would teorot * position as copyist,
clerk or companion, end Is a lady of cultivation
and refinement.
Miss 8. U. J., Pitts, (le.—Weeks have lengthened
into months since my last visit to Woman's King
dom, though I have not telted so reed ooe of the
many Interesting letters. Now. as I lookout on
the beantMUl snow, I am reminded that we ere
•gain In the midst of winter. I woodor llascene
like this holds the maretescInstloE brother* It
appears that the tress must first be bowed, is it
seems, in humble submission, then most enure the
snow, covering ell with lb mantle end giving a
look of solemnity which nothing elm tuspTlhe
Uctnre of death presents Bat at Urt lb* dark
is;
own live*, wnen-Lowed MMitn mac matj *tnic-
ticn. that we only need patience And a firs tout
in cod to enable xm to look up and feel that it
«ni only a vr.ck of bis lore. We hope etery
mother who read the ptore on ••The Drew of
« hMdren.” in law week's Kingdom, majr be im-
I-rtf'Cd with the greet ixaportxacc of Storing the
S5H2? V th knowledge, Instead of cnltt
l0T ® ftr fine dress, and perhaps a rain
SL'P 0 * 111 ? 0 * . whIc ,h ra»y cause the child many
wnkfPPtae*. \ wish foe the kind edf-
ChrLtiSas. e<lCh ****** ot tIl ° Kln S do,a » * merry
Bailie, Lone Oak.—Will you allow a girl to Join
the Woman's Kingdom? I have received so much
information from reading the Kingdom that I
want to add a little too. One of the sistera asked
for a cure for tetter in the hand*. Apply printer"
jnk one time thoroughly, keep the hands wrapped
dr * tor day*. This has
cured one very bad case.
E. C. Q.—I.et me congratulate you on your dip
ping lrom the Ladies' Home Journal. Every Wo
man who reads your paper ought to thauk you and
Fanny Fanshaw. I with every paper in the land
would publhh it, every editor heed it and every
father and mother read it. What pomtble good
can come from reading of crimes and the iflthy
Jivea of criminals? Yet the newspaper* make
t hem tel vej—well, perfect carrion crows I have
tboncht of trying to secure a copy of every paper
published in the Xnited State* to see If it was a
strange fatality that brought all the dirty ones in
my w ay. Few papers could publUh Fanny Fan-
chaw's piece without condemning themselves. I
do know one. a secular neper too, that could. The
State Chronicle, published at Raleigh. N. C. Do
not think I am working for that paqer. I am
not at all Interested in it. except as lam in every
thing 1 know to be good. I do wish it went in
every home in America, for it is a paper for la
dles and gentlemen to read, no mother need put
Lexington, Holmes county, Miss.—My husband
takes The Constitution and I take the Lady's
Home Journal, but I prefer reading his paper.
We live among the hills that border the great
Mississippi valley, it has for yean been a king of
abackwood place, but it is ia a fair way to Im
prove now. Railroads are cutting their way
through our hills and turnpike* are crawling
through our low, lands that overflow. Country
stores are here and there, our nearest depot Is six
miles, our schools could be better if there was
more Interest manifested, and, by the by, we are
without a teacher, and some of those accom
plished young ladles that have been applying for
schools can get a school here If they would ap
ply to our trustees, which is William Lunsford,
Frank Nixson, Jeff Nix son. It is a paying school
I feel interested for 1 am the mother of three
children. I send two subacriben for your valua
ble paper.
Annie Thompson, Gny Tavern, Go.—I am only
a young girl in my teens, but I am going to write
a letter to the Kingdom and hope you will print
it if you think it worthy* space in your valuable
paper. I learned to make the Clydesdale lace by
directions given In the Kingdom a Aw weeks ago
and think it is very beantiftil. I would Uko very
much to get some new samples of lace, especially
the celebrated rose leaf. I had the paper that had
send me a song ballad of which the words
are the first lines, I think:
Where ever wc meet we always say what's the
news, what’s the news.
I hail the coming of your paper with delight,
and always turn to the Woman's Kingdom first,
read it over, and then the young folk column.
2 think Aunt Susie most hare the patience of Job
to read and correct all the letters thai aro printed,
success to the Kingdom and its editress.
Mollle, Salem, Ga.—1 cannot estimate the real
value I have obtained from this department. I
have often thought that I could add no link, that
had not already been contributed. Through the
sppearanco of a letter In this Kingdom I have
gained a bit of simple information, by writing to
her, that I can't refrain from telling the many
readers of your paper, thoee who are, as I was un
til a few weeks ago, worried by the misfortuno
of having freckles which mar the face of so many.
acknowledge tho merits of this eradicator asbo-
nost wonderful. After one application, In*
the former freckles, you will possess a
,—1 lilly white complexion that will never
sun burn again. You may positively rely on
what sho tells you. This is no advertisement
whstever, end will be of great value to many
unfortunates.
Mrs. G. n. Kennedy, Francisco, Jackson county,
Ala.—i, too, havo been a silent admirer of this
corner and have been benefited and con
soled by Its perusal ever since my husband has
been taking your paper, I am quite young and
feel tho need of all the advise herein contained,
from older sisters. My husband it a farmer and
we have a hard time trying to get a start in life
though I find fkrm life a very pleasant one and
iuld like to say to some of those dear sisters
to Is of life. 1 do my own housework; washing
and milking and attending to the poultry, etc.,
and I am happy and contented. Sistera, let us
not be famlfril or borrow trouble. I would like
to correspond with Darllna Boll, Overton, Ga., if
sho will write lint.
Hint* from John's WifCi
From the Ladies’ Home Journal
When stove and shoe blacking brushes get so
worn at their scrubbing end as to be useless, re
move the brush from the handle, reverse it, and
tack again in place, securing the two-thirds worn
brurti another term of service.
'Is It potato little or potato big today?" I over
heard a young girl ask her mother aa the clock
struck cloven.
"Neither, child, tmt middle slsed potato day,'
and as tho little helper clattered down the cellar
stairs with her pan. 1 said, "Whatever do you
mean? With your large crew of workmen fc~
w hit'h you must prepare meals, I should think a!
your days would be potato dinner days."
‘•8o they are,” was her quick reply, "but w
have learned to avoid waste in their oooking by
toiling dl fferent sixes consecutive days. Formerly
we would boll a large dinner pot of potatoes for
each noon meal, giving — “ ~
size. In consequence t
done, a waste of sever — —
yrsr. Bat now a days we keep the Potato hasp
lic ked clean aa we go, a dinner pot ol small ones,
wr holly, one day, large, maybe, rotten hearted old
frllows the next, and middle sized potatoes an
other day. Since adopting this plan, our botl!n<
potatoes are nearly all dona at the same Instant,
and nono come from tho kettlo half raw and others
mushed for the swill barrel.
Enter Not Into This Temptation.
M. K. Bennett, In Good Housekeeping.
There art two great temptations to which a care
ful housekeeper is liable. One la to fill her ser
vants' hands so tall with the regular work that
when extra requirements come aa In times of com
pany or illness, or house cleaning, she herself
must be the one to follUl them. The other la
wherever she sees Incapacity; in any depart,
ment of the work to make up the deficiency by her
own efforts. In this way she will accumulate a
variety of tasks, such as the care of favorite lamps,
the dusting of bric-a-brac, the flavoring of costards
and mixing of salads, not to speak of the packing
of lunches, and arranging of trara few invalids,
which Is a great comfort to herself and other* to
have done with nicety. But ifshe does not limit
her desires In this direction, that task* will cer-
ainly trench upon the time and strength required
for oversight and plannings not to speak of rest,
and the constant occurrence of the unforeseen
will steal away the remainder.
Yet a housekeeper needs very much a little
leisure, not only to think over her work, but also
to nut It entirely out of her tlioqghti and give her-
■erf to something beyond or outside. Hsesbemay
become narrow in her limited round of duties,
stunted by her.comraonplare nature Bbe is large
ly cut off from society by the necessity to be much
at home. In the boose her position though cen
tral is a lonely one. Hbe is not one with the fam
ily ih* uih she may be dear to them. Their dif
ferent luiralu and interests separate them from
her. To nobody is the occasional society of a book
more r.ecdftil. or more precious. Her vigor of mind,
ry ranHy, I might almost say. dmend upon
...... quite aa many active minds lose sanity
through being deprived of all Intellectual tnfererto,
as from the over pressure or them. She will be a
better housekeeper, as well as a lovelier woman,
for a Utile leisure saved for reading, or better yet-
for study.
Isefal Bints.
Old Chairs Made Beautiful —A com*pmdent of
the New York Tribune describes her ingen ions re
pair work, which maybe Imitated elsewhere, as
follow*: "I have a great fondness and aptitude
for fixing np old chain and making them even
more comibrtable to sit in than when they were
new. I nail straps of strong, coarse doth over the
frame to Jbrm the seat cover this %fth carpet,
bound neatly, and if derirahle, put a cushion on ft.
If th# woodwork U totiered, a'boat, of paint will
ret tore it. Strips of tin may be naltodover weak
placet to strengthen them. I have just fixed np
an old rocking chair, of wlbich th« woven mtsod
back were all gone, to that It is both comfortable
and pleasant to iook.it. Aftor putting in the
back ard seat as above described, l made a cush
ion for both back and teat of com hutkt. then
covered chair, frame and all with cretonne and
cuts pretty tidy on ft It stands in the bay win
dow and 1 admired by everybody that sees It. It
costa only the cretonne and tacka."
A Gcod Thing in the House,—A flesh or friction
brush la ooe of thc nectRallies (n. a fiunfly. I used
to be troubled with cold arms and eoM toe? and a
numbness In my limbs, and tho doctor had Phi
lander buy one for me. I could not do without
it. In very cold weather It can be need Instead of
bathing, and when one is taking cold and begins to
less and uneasy and will get
the brush freely she will reel__
will be very apt to fall into a refreshing sleep. By
all means own and make use of a friction brush.
Oil the Household Machinery.—If the pantry is
across the room from the cook stove, a shelf or
table beside the stove having on it at least salt,
pepper, knife, fork and spoon needed in cooking
will save miles of steps in a year. Sugar, flour,
spices—plainly labeled—baking powders, flavor
ing extracts, etc., kept in one place, and molding
board, rolling pin, cake cutters and baking dishes
hi another group, rob baking day of half its trial*.
mnm. rinst nsn.V
runic umnucs ■ lusu •» a. niftto hanging in the
pantiy. with pencil tied to it, on which to Jot down
needed supplies as soon aa exhausted, is a real
nelp. Mrs. Fisher once said that "ever* *“
the house ought to contain needles,
scissors.
Truths for AIL
One cannot enjoy a meal, however appetising, in
a cold room. The better the meal, the more eager
ly all the blood in the body rushes toward the
body to receive it, and leaves the rest of tho body
to be warmed by external heat.
A waim room fbr children to make their morn
ing tolleta in is indispensable. It may toughen and
harden a child to dress and undress lu a cold room
and wash in Ice water, but it is a deal more com
fortable for the children and for those who care
for them if their dressing room is warm and ooay.
Their teamen are likely to keep sweet and unmf-
e mercury at sixty-eight degress than
‘ *“
greater.
A generous supply of coal and wood will lessen
the need ot hearty food. And yet there is danger
of effeminacy and weakness, both of body and
mind, if one has too many comforts and la too well
shielded from hardships. Did his winter in that
"half faced" camp in Illinois,
side, help make Abraham
was?” r ____
The Field of Befleetioiii
A Tumbler Garden.—Now is the time for children
tomako a tumbler garden. Fill a common tumbler
or goblet with water, cut out a round of cotton
batting or soft, thick flannel Just the sise to cover
he surface and lay it gently upon the water. Upon
this scatter the seeds of grass, flax or mustard, or
sll mixed, and gently set the tumbler away in a
dark place. In a few days the seeds will start, soon
the steds will begin to penetrate the cotton or
be covered with a thicket of green. After the
cecond day the tumbler must bo kept In a warm
place, and two or three times a week carefully re
plenished with water by means of a teaspoon tr
sjrlngc inserted beneath the edge of the flannel.
An Oak Treo Indoors. An Interesting experi
ment is to start an oak tree in your warm alttrng
room. Suspend an acorn by suspending a thread
a round it Just above the surikee of the water In
a small vase or tumbler. In about two weeks it
will burst its shell and throw a root Into the water
and shoot upwards, its straight and tapering stem
covered with glossy green leaves. A young oak
tree growing In this wao Is an elegant object. The
water should bo kept clean with bits of charcoal,
and if the leaves turn yellow add a little amonla
toll
Morning Frople and Evening People.—8arah
Orne Jewett enforces her suggestion that house
keepers place in the gucat chamber a few books,
so that If their guest are not yet sleepy when the
family go to bed, they can find something to read
in the chamber, as follows: The worl 1 will never
accept the fact that there aro two classes of people
dewn like clocks, and those who are at their
wont and weakest and dullest when sleep Is Just
over, but who are gradually winding themselves
np all day, re that when evening
oqual to an j thing. The trouble 1
.... .... 'le are such a majority.that they rule so
ciety ana make all its laws. Tho evening people
are obliged—poor things—to get np and have
- *■—do and dr —
breakfast when they do and drag themselves out
to keep early appointments, and when Ihov come
to their banpy evening and are wide awake and
* looming like primroses, all the morning people
re stupid and sleepy and unsympathetic.
Housekeeping for Girls*
It Is astonishing that mothersshould bo willing to
send their daughters into tho world unfitted to fol-
fill the practical duties of life.
Many years ago I went to visit a family In New
Jersey, In which there was* method of Instruction
for tho daughters pursued by the mother, a shrewd,
sensible woman, which has always seemed to me
to be well worthy of imitation by every mother
who has her daughter's future happiness at heart
This mother was a thorough housekeeper, a wid
ow, who, in addition to her household dutiee, was
carrying on the business of nor lato husband in a
building adjoining tho honsc. She had four daugh
ters. She gavo them tho best education the city
afforded, and it being the seat of a college, the
schools were uncommonly good. When tho oldest
daughter graduated from school, the mother took
her Into the kitchen, where sho was thoroughly In
structed in all the mysteries of that kind of work;
taught her ell other kinds of housekeeping work,
even now to select poultry, butcher’s meat, etc.,
and how to preside at table. lYhen tho was com
petent to do it, she alternated week in and week
out, with her mother, In taking entire chargo of
tho house as mistress. When the other daughters
graduated the same thorough Instruction was giv
en them, sad when these girls married, as they all
did, housekeeping was no bugbear to them, or
cause for trouble end anxiety to their husbands.
Their parlors were the resort of the best people of
tho place, and their house was a home in every
senre of the word. Will every other mother go aud
do likewise?—Rcliglo Philosophical Journal.
A Chance for tha Ladles.
Tn Constitution offers handsome Christmas
presents for December. Every lady ought to get
a share in them. Among other preaents are sew
ing machines. For every new subscriber you send
your name goes Into the Christmas Box. The first
name taken out on January 1st by the eommtttoe
gets 1100, the second ISO, end soon. It is no trouble
to get a few subscribers, and every one increases
your chances of a present, For three subscriber*
you get the picture free, for five by adding 91.25, a
watch and chain, end for ten a watch and chain
free. These oflbni open only for December.
Alligator Fear.
A writer upon Mexico gives an Interesting
account of a fruit cultivated in that country. Not
lets entertaining is what he has to say of the man
ner in which this fruit came by its strange name
among English speaking people:
I roust not omit to mention the aguacate, a very
delicate »eml-vegetablo fruit, sometimes purple
and sometimes green. It is something of the shape
of a pear, though not so much so in Mexico as I
have seen it in the Cape Verdes and South Ameri
ca. It baa one large round stone In the middle,
and its contents are of a substance like butter, with
very delicate, nutty flavor. In Portuguese, In
which language I fancy It was first known to our
sailors, It la called A beetle; and this word not ex
actly suiting a mouth with a quid in it, and the
shape of the fruit being flsmiliar, our tarn of the
olden time Jumbled the whole name into "alligator
pear," which the learned have adopted.
"What would you call it, then?" said a passen
ger on board who did not like to be disturbed out
of what be had called it fbr year*.
Now that Is a very dangerous sort of ride issue
to tall Into In any serious argument.
I would call it by its own proper name," I re
plied.
But who's to twist oue's mouth into it? Alliga
tor pear will doaa well as anything else."
"Well, than," said another, "anything ala* again
will do, and I'll call it 'crocodile apple.’"
One of these names is, certainly, Just u good as
the other; but to the end of the world "alligator
pear" will represent agoacata, orabscate.
It Should kb the Bi'sunna of every one
—wing a Cold to treat It promptly sod properly
•Bill it Is gotten rid of—Intelligent experience
fortunately presenting s curative In D*. D.
Jaybe’s Expectorant, thoroughly adapted to
remove speedily ell Coughs sod Colds—mllay
any exciting inflammation of the Threat or
Longs, am) remove the dlstrearing symptoms of
Asthma and Pleurisy.
Throw Away Tresses
and employ oar radical new method, guaran
teed to permanently cure the worst ease, of
rapture. Bead 10 cents .In stampe for refer-
ences, pemphlet eod terms. World’s Dispen-
rery Medical Aaradstlon, 663 Main St., Bo Ohio,
Joe Jeppeesoh cells the book which ht is
writing his "Bemlnlseoces.” J
When nil other remedies bll to cars Dr.
Bull’s Cough fiyrup will give instant relief.
FOR THE YOUNG FOLKS
Fun for the Cliildren—The Constitution's
Training School for Boys and Girl*.
A CHRISTMAS STORV.
as good as new and aqxks cars baqe.
From American Agriculturist.
Miss Hanford’s little village shop looked un
usually featal Just before Christmas, with Its strings
of cheap, but brightly painted tin toys, its gay
cards, and wonderftil display of wonted work, to
say nothing of the evergreen bosh that adorned the
window, flung with a variety of tinsel ornaments
that glittered like silver aud gold whenever the
sun struck them. Today, howeret, no flattering
sunbeam dancca that way, for old Sol has hidden
his Dice beneath a heavy gray veil, and a thick
snow is (ailing quietly but steadily, aa though it
meant business, and Miss Hanford’s face is almost
as gloomy as the sky overhead, while she matches
crewels, and selects needles fbr pretty Mrs. Pulslfer,
the doctor’s wife.—"It will be a white Christmas,
after all," says that cheery little woman, while tho
materials to complete her husband's alippereaaes
are being tied up, ‘ which, they do say, is bad for
the doctors."
"Yes; 'a green Christmas makes a fat church
yard;’ and no mistake," xtghi Miss Hanford.
"Any sort of Christmas makes a flat pocketbook
for you, I suppose," laughs Mrs. Pulslfer.—"Not
this year. The new shop with plate-glass tviudow«,
up the street, has cut Into my trade sadly; but,
thank the Lord, Tom Tucker and I don't neod
much," and Mias Hanford patted a big black and
white cat dozing on one end of the counter. "It la
sort o’loncsomc, though, livin' all alone, 'ipcclally
about Christmas. Sometimes I git dreadful blue,
and down In the mouth."—'-No wonder, poor
thing i" rejolna Mrs. Pulslfer, sympathetically.
"You ought to have my three young rogues; you’d
never have time to be dull, then. But, goodbye; I
mustn't chatter another mlnnte: all the oddments
for the stockings are to be bought yet."
"That's it!" exclaimed Mi* Hanford, as the shop
door shut with a slam. "That’s Jest lit I’m an old
maid, and ought to be used to livin' alone, dear
knows! but Christmas seems to itir «p all the
sociable reelin’* in my nature, and I'd a'mostbo
willin’ to give the trade them plate-glaas windows
hev left me, to her a lcetlo critter to cuddle up,
and make Just such 'a Christmas' for, as Cy, and I
used to hev, when we were youngsters, in tho old
red farm house. Tom Tucker, why ain’t you a
baby!” to which pussy only responded by a blink of
bis green eyes, and purred harder than ever.
"Tinkle-tinkle!", rang tho ahopbell, and two
eyes appeared on a level with the counter, sur
mounted by a shock of shaggy h«lr, and a shrill
voice piped, "Please, Miss Hanford, me sent mo
over for a thrce-ccnt loaf, and wantsto know if you
will trust her a few days longer." Tho little
country store was very mixed in its contents, and
kept bread and cake as well as toys and worsteds.
Hey! is that yon, Patsey Ilatt! Tell me, Pat-
sey, my child, how’s your poor, sick pa today r*
'Very bad! Ma, she’a ben up with him all night,
and most cried her eyee out."
Then you won’t hev much of a Christmas to
your house, tomorrow ?"
"No; ma says, Santa Claus sent word he couldn'
come this year," and a big sob choked the chlld’i
utterance.
'Poor little critters!" muttered Mias Hanford,
under whose rathcrstlff exterior beat the kindest
heart In the world. "There, you taka this seed
cake over to your ma, with my compliments," and
as the tiny girl opened her mouth to express her
thanks, she popped in a sugar plum, and laughed
heartily at the amazed fkco that nodded goodbye,
and disappeared across the road. ^
"It’s mighty curous, how queer things we
ranged in this world!" soliloquized Miss Hanford
"Not that I want to question the ways of Provi
dence ; but there is Mrs. Batt, with four youngsters,
and not so much as a peppermint drop to put in
their stocking*; and here am I, with a lot of knlok*
knacks gittin’ stole on my hands (thanks to them
plate glasa windows), and pinin’ to mako 'a Christ
mas’ for somebody, and not a kith nor kin belong
in' to me, that 1 know^of, for if brother Cy had a
ben in tho flesh, he’d a turned up like abed pen
ny, long before this, surely ( It's a mystery, and
no mistake 1"
At that moment her eye fell upon a card lying on
the top of a pile of pasteboard souvenirs, and took
It up. It represented a lady and child feeding a
dock of robblns, and below was printed,
Christmas, open wide thy heart!"
‘•That’s purty I" said Mira Hanford. It makes mo
think of the Christmas sheaf we used to hang out
for the birds. They were no kith nor kin, and if to
birds, why not to batts? Yes, I’ll do It I" and the
happy thought fairly irradiated the ragged foes,
even as the gleam of sunlight that Just thou shone
through a rift In the clouds made tho tinsel orna
ments in the window sparkle and glitter likes bun’
dred Christmas candles. Tho new Idee was more
foUy developed that evening over Mlm Hanford’s
solitary cup of tea and plate of hot buttered to*»t
in the wee parlor back of the shop, while Tom
Tucker sat by, like hit namesake, "singing for his
nipper" and keeping npa duet with tbekettio thst
hummed aud spluttered on the stove, end to tho
good woman their long seemed to be,
"Christmas comes but once a year,
But when it comes it brings good chesr. 1
And when the rash of Christmas Krs bittiness
waaovsr, the shutters barred, and tho quiet of
night bad descended upon the little snow-bound
village, the evergreen was removed from the win
dow to the back parlor end made more gorgeous
than ever with red, white and blue tapers, corn
ucopias, and a veritable 8L Nicholas, with rein*
deer and pack.
“I feel ’roort as IM was reskla’ It far one or my
own.” said Miss llaoford, aa sho lurreywl the re
mit of her Ishott and trltil on hw nlqhtcap; and
there wu a happy flow at bar heart as ih. aald her
prayare and wont to hod, that lasted Into Ihs
Christmas down and nil threafhoat tho sarrlasln
the old, stay, rlne-coraod church, although tew
had trlahcd her tbaaeaaon’a frestlnis and noflft
(raced her lonely morning hoard.
The overland eapreai from the Patlllo eoaat,
cornea ateamiof and thundering along orara wide,
■nowy expaiue ol flat country, and drawa np with
a rnort at a delate Uttla wooden station, standing
almost alone In the middle orsgreat prairie. Eager
fuaengen crowd to doors and window., glad of
anything to brash tho monotony ot their long
Journey, and the alght that maststhelvayea lanorel
enough to keep them there. A group of miners In
rough alllre, with kronuxt faces and unkempt
heurda, ore clmtered shoot a Uttla girl of some
eight or nine years, clad In n eoatamo itrengato
the petted darlings of teahloa, but warm and com
fortable for that bitter winter weather. A gown of
ooario aearlet flannel, such aa man’a thirls are
termed of, and a rudely-faahloosd fur coat and cap,
made hy loving hut unaUUtel fingers. Nothing,
how aver, can mar the winsome beeuty of Ihs little
maid, whoso brown <yea are dewy with loan; aa
■he cllnga roond the neck of one of the men, and
bolds up bar lips, to ho klaasd by *11 tho others.
"You will look after my Uttla gal, and take her
safe,’’ lays the tall man who bolds bar, with *
break ot hit rotes, to the conductor, aa he prtaaea a
gtnerena tee Into Ma hand.
“And gin her tbs vary boat of everything," pula
in another, while ha draws a sleeve scram his
eyre; “nothin', I reckon, Is too good Air oar Nag-
get"
•The luck of the camp will (0 with bar, I’m
afraid,' 1 groan, another; end then tho enxlnt
blow, the signal tor departure, end amid sobs and
handshakes the child la lilted to tbs platform sod
waves farewell, wbllo the group of men about,
"give the lltUe 'un a rend-off-hurrah! ter tbs Kug
get of Odd On camp!" and load chases awaken
the echoes as the conductor entere the Pullman
car, leading tho sea girl by tbs band.
The paaatngsn are deeply Intsnstsd and crowd
roond, to Inquire tha history of the mw comer,
“gbs In not tsaetly a p—anger," aaya tha gentle
manly oBIclal, “at tho la rent by expcM, hut I
can't put her In Ibe express ear. There la bar
label;" and be pointed to * card tanked oaths
■leeve of tht little fUrcoot, and addressed to
"Mire lltnnah Hanford,
HollyweUj „
"That's my aunt 1 " and I am her Christ-na.
prerent from Pop. Poppy gam reya, lean gat there
Id Hate tec Santa Clans to HU my Blocking."
"What I. your name, llule dear?" asked .weep
teeed Mrs. Parneworth, drawing the little stranger
to* seatberido her.-"Noggvt!"—"Nugget! But
that la not a name; havo yon no other P’
"Prize Nugget of Gold Ore camp I That's alb
Tha men ga re It tome, 'eaosc they aay, I'm worth
my weight in gold. Never had aay lock at the
mines till I came there. Hometlmea they sail nw
'Nog,' for.hort."
"What I. your tether called, ter I aoppoas, ooe of
there man la your tether T”
"They are all my popples; Poppy Sam, Poppy
Jack. Poppy Kit and FnppyPrtsr, bating PopCy
Stay real trot oat; and oh! 1 donft know what
they will do without their Nugget!" And tho
bonny little tees grew very sober at the thought
"Have yon no mother r asked Mn. Farnsworth.
"No. Bho went to heaven three yean ago, when
the partridge berries were ripe, and Pop Kit aaya.
It's a nicer place then even Kedtkln Canon.”
“And you have lived with these rough men ever
sincef"
‘They are not ronghl” cried tho child, flashing
upiu an Instant; "they are Nugget's dear, darling
popples, aud I love them, and .hall go back to cook
for tho 'mete,' Just at toon aa I learn to read and
write, and keep house like a lady;" and the bunt
into a wild III of weeping, and waa only pacified by
many gentle words and a tlgb of the Utile curtain,
ed berth In Uie sleeping ear, which the waa'
occupy during her trip.
The pain of parting over, however, Nugget be
came aa happy aa a lark, and the pet and plaything
of nil on the train. Her Ultle red gown fluttered up
and down Ute narrow aisle, like tome bright tropi
cal bird; her golden head peered Into every creek
and corner, end her qnalnt speeches were * con
stant fund of amtuement, while her brown eyes
opened In surprise at nil the new things the waa
constantly arcing and hearing, tor the wu
simple and Ignorant, u well u lrc.lt and sweet,
a prairie flower transplanted from western wilda
The great elite, they pawed through woronpor-
pctual wonder, and the wu never weary of gating
out of the window, until just as they leftChiosfo.e
heavy mow atonnaet In, to thick and dense as
sFut out oU tho scene.
It waa very strange, whirling along through this
while mitt, and gradually tha train morod slower
anTslower, the englno teeming to have to work its
way through deep drifts, nnUl on rising otto morn-
Rii, the pasrengere found themaolves at rest, and
were Informed they bad eome to * stand-still In
the dead country, and could go no further until
the auow plows which bad been telegraphed Iter,
should come to dig then out.
"Wo should bo In Now York tonight," sold tho
conductor, "but It looks very much as though wo
should spend our Chrlatmu on the road.”
• Oh I oh I oh I” came a chorus of disappointed
“Tonight la Chriatmu Kvo, turn enough I” aald
Mr. Grundy, a Jolly-(Seed old bachelor, and than
looked down to too a dismayed little face peering
up Into hit, "Well, Nugget, what la Hr’
"Isn’t that the night Santa Claus comes!"
“ 1 '1 believe It lal It's lucky be didn't travel'ty
this train.”
“But he won't know where to find mol” cried
Nugget. In alarm; “ha will never think of looking
or mo In a mow bank"—
"Bure enough; but I guest Aunt Hannah will tell
him you a re coming, and have the stocking Ailed.'
"No, sho won't; for she don’t know tthereelf.
don't b’lleve she knows (hero's such a lilllo gal aa
In the world. Fop aald, the didn't"
Well, Oiat'estrange; but, never mind, Nugget
will beat merry aa the can, even If we aro now-
bound. I'm going out now, to explore, and may
be I'll ste auow bird, toaendameeeag# to Bute
Claus by." And tho cheery old Allow trumped 0(T,
leaving hit little Mend aomowhat comforted.
He came back an hour later, with hie nrma full or
pine, laurel and holly, and tbeladlca amused them
selves In decotatlng the parlor oars, hanging
wreaths In tho window*, and festooning garlands
along the aide, until It waa tranaformad Into n per
fect green bower.
But Nuggetlwaa unusually quiet all day, although
the helped to bunch the "green.," and when the
had hidden her Menda goodnight, and wu tueked
away In her berth, sobbed heraelf to sloop, over
come with disappointment and hometlcknare.
"See, Isn't that pathetic I" It wu Mrs. Farita-
worth who spoke, polntlag to a little red stocking
pinned to tho curtain of the child's bed, which the
had hung there In the fklnt hope that the snow
birds might tell SL Nicholas oflicr whereabouts.
"Can't we HU It with aomothtng!” uked Ur.
Grundy. “I’ll drop a bright Oliver dollar In the
toe.” Aud he suited the action to tha word.
"They gave me tome rosy apples and a tew nuts
over at yonder farm house today," aald Fred
Howell, and they rettled In altar the eHrer.
The conductor, who wu * yankee, and handy
with tho knife, carved tome funny little animals
out of wood, and * young lady contributed a
pretty blue luff-ribbon, while, to crown *11, Mn.
Farnsworth made bar way to tha baggage car, and
managed to open her trank, and bring out n
beautiful wax doll that alto wu carrying to har
own niece. "1 can buy Ellle another, In Now
York," aha raid, and fattened the doll to the top of
the stocking.
Christmas dawned In a Howl ofaunshlno, and
tho occupants of the second sleeper on tht oast,
ward bound train ware awakened at an urly hour
by glad ahouta from section 7, whore Nugget wu
•Ming up In her bed, Inveetlgatlng the treasures
hidden In her 8anU Claus Blocking, aud,’merry
Chrlatmu I" resounded Horn behind Uie curtains on
*11 aides,
"Ha came; the good Santa Clans came, alter *111'
cried Nugget, In wildest (lu; "and I am tore, the
anow birds sent himand-geod nawa-the conduc
tor told them that tho track had been cleared and
that they would he off In ten mlontea.
Ho this railroad Chriatmu wu not so had, after
all; ter tbo traveler* gathered together In tho pine-
decked parlor tar, where marry gamu and sweat
carols mads tha hoot* fly. Nnggetwuthe gayest
of the gay, the hluoTnood binding ber soft yellow
bait; and, bugging her lint real doll oloeoly In her
arms, never realised that the wu an express pack
age, until Holly well waa reached Just after dark.
More ud goodbyes had then to b* sold, and the
wu loaned over to the tender car* of* ex pressman,
with a covered wagon and pair ol prancing ho
Tho coey parlor behind Him Ilanford'i shop
a vision of contort and homely cheer on
Cbriaimu night, with tho crimson curtains drawn,
ann a glorious Are crackling merrily on the hearth.
And tha well-washed face* of the toor. Uttla Batts
reflected *11 the brightness u they gathered around
the simple Chriatmu treo twinkling will
lights, and made their months Into roond O' .
delight. Mbs Hanford bulled about like n mother
ly old ben, peaelng donghnuta, filling mugs of tweet
elder, and distributing the Uttla gifts ol which she
Bad robbed the store, to gladden the occasion.
IIow the tongues ran I How Tommy Batt but
his big dram, and Mat tooted hla tin trumpet!
How Hetty hid behind the tote, to load her new
fairy hook, and how Fatty careasad a coveted doll,
wllh rosy cheeks, wild with Minin' white Chriat
mu cheer and charity reigned over all.
“It is a sbama!” exclaimed Mat, u ha ret down
hla mug, drained of tha lari drop: "trory on* hu
a present, except Hiss Hanford; It Isn't fair!"
"It la enough forint lo set you to happy stray
little party," that! hottest opened her month lo
uy, when the wu Interrupted by a tremendous
knocking at the front door, and hurried off In*
Hurry, to open It.
There stood a very large man and n vary small
girl, looking like tho Ug bear and tha little bear of
the old telry atovy, wrapped In their fur
“ brd, I've '
time, and
Mg beu; "express charge* all paid."
‘ renal" cried MintJIanterd,
Chriatmu box this lima, and no mistake,'
'Bit** QSp sad ssyo
log ter ber spectacles; hot tht man haddluppeand
and tha llttte bear wu clinging to har skirt* and
stammering out, "You're Aunt Hannah, I know,
and pleas*, I'm Nugget, from Oold Ore Canty. Pop
aaya, I'm to live with you, and go to school; and
bare la a paper to tall you all about IL" ,
Three minute* later, Mia Hanford wu reading *
tetter ftoa ber long-lost brother Cy., In which he
begged her to ear* ter hla mother!** girl, crying
and laughing over Nugget, while aha warmed Uw
Child's bands at tha fire, and lasting that sbowu
“'Now! SliowwiyVwantedao to make a Chriat-
mu tret,” ah* thought, u the graceful Hula figure
danced roond the eveigroen, exclaiming wllh de-
llght.d'It Is aver so much prettier than the tire* lo
Bcdakta Canon, and mart bare grown In basrea, I
am son;" white tha quartette of Bates eat by lo
* U Andthen the quaint llttte child drew from be
neath har scarlet gown an old Mn* woolen sock
that wu fastened shout hu waist. It wu fitted
with rich gold dust and ora. a (tit from "Cy Han-
*8o Mias’lbroford'had^herChrtatmu present situ
til, and told It iroald sure than make up ter all
the had loat by them -—
plate-glam window
Tucker, who considered hla not* ont of Jolng, and
•tag in min toe hla lopptr, until Drttte took com
i.
Ume for a llttte Ml of Christmas, and Ih* lovely
tree," and whan at midnight Ulaa Hanford bent
orer tbs goldaw heed, nestled lath# earner of hu
Mg fratbu pillow, aba wu tore boom In Holly-
well had hod so sweats Chriatmu box aa her
precious Uttla Naggtt from Oold Ore CaiAp.
Dear Atnl Bust*. 1 om not qplt* yoang enough
letet alter, in fact, am rathar a slater, bol I hope
you will allow ma spate ID tell the children of the
literary aoefety ih* iriri* to my aehool here toreud.
1: la ratted “Hypatia " and meets every Friday
evening. Tho aro besides the president livovlec-*
prertdenti, a treasurer, a recrctnry and correspon
dent. About forty members. Tho president ap
points ten memben In each me.ting to bo on duty
at the following meeUng, tvhoso names being
taken alphabetically, bring each memberon duty
nearly every four weeks. Tho duties aro assigned
and the secretary reads tho names aloud, giving
eachonoMlIedasllpor paper designating what
the member la expected to do at next meeting.
This Is, ot course, alter the regular programme foe
that day hu boon finished. The duties are com
positions, reading, recitations, dialogue!, etc. Tho
admission fee la five cents, and for every derelic
tion of duty without valid axenao tha dollqucnt la
lined ten cent*. The money being used lo pur
chase hooka, subscribe to papers, ate., for it« of
society. I transact and negorlnte nil business for
them, and the secretary keeps the hooka. They
hare several books from F.lxevfr library and from
Anting, coating from two to thirty cents per copy,
alto several of George M. Baker'* "Heading Club,”
fifteen rents pu volume. Paper* tad magazines
are read aloud, and afterwards circulated alpha
betically, should memben with lo take home with
them, to Instance, Youth’s Companion to first hand,
ed to Maggie Adams'or next on roll, shoubt iho
wish to read It at home, and 8L Nlcliolu to Annlo
Gates, or next to ber at end of roll; Boy* and Girls
Weekly to latch Moore or Id* Nelson, and so on;no
one being allowed lo keep* paper more thnnono
night or a hook more than two weeks. Bomotlmea
1 give them a page In a until dictionary to compose
a composition, using every word on tho'page, and
to ita correct application. Often we have conver
sations or dialogue In French or Germtu; mnalo
vocal and Instrumental alternating with other
work. I alway* take pleasure In reading Young
Folks' column to Ute society test thing, orthera
would be to much discussion about , the different
letters that It would be impossible to keep order.
We are to have a llttfe soiree during tho holidays.
1 second the motion mado by Eugenia Davis, to
Irive Aunt Susie n present Wncn snail It tier If
she (Aunt Butle) will tend me her photo, cabinet
site, 1 will copy It In crayon; return to her nr tend
recipfe _.
unwelcome.
COIOTAKC* Cun.
Belle 8helley, McDonald, G*.-I bare been think
ing and experimenting Utoly, and have learned to
make t nice varnish, and of course, must tell tho
cousins how ltlamado. I wouldn't ban gtrllfl
didn't tell everything! knew. Take equal quan
titive or stilled main and spirits turpentine, put in
nbottle and then aatthe bottle In spot or cold
water and boll until thoroughly mixed. This will
brighten np old furniture, picture frames etc.,
wonder frilly. Neat looking frames may be made of
brown paper and then varnished. Our fiowerx now
are Chriaanthemumt, and oh I how lovely and
sweet (hey nre, wish I could hand Aunt Hutto a
boquet or them right now. There ora so many
pleasant change* during tha year, and how I loro
Jhemell, always something new to please the eyo
aa well as to gratify the taste. This is always a
time of the year, sugar trolling time, and I
no on* enjoys It more than 1 do. Ida Leo
ton, thank* for your pretty compliment. If
J papers published roueh*d**(S as tnanv
K cssatu hours fur tho reclptentaas TiiaCoxniTU.
o.v, what a happy time we would have. I will
close hefbre my letter Is to long that AuntHuslo
will hare to out It In two and throw away both
nda.
Kaltte McCord, Cameron, Tex.—I ace one of tho
cousins, Hassell Moore, wants a Texas correspon
dent Well In the language of Artcmus Ward
"here she ar" and will (bully answer a few ques
tions ha asks, not with the view of aiklng him to
emigrate for I am tore If ho were to wake up aomo
morning In Taxes h* would think ha wav lo Para*
dire, and would hare hi pinch himself to bo aura It
waa he. Oh; yea we hart drouths, cyclones and
floods, and then have enough left lo apare soma to
tho earthquake aulfrrora. "Poor aalveaton” was
nearly burned up last year, and had an awful flood
this, hot iho got np and shook heraelf and donated
•0,000 betide* clothing, 'etc., lo her slater sultorem.
What waa that you said shout “look* Uko they
would set np n Ida excursion train and onmo/*
You make mo smllol Come whore, and lor what?
to feast on gophers, allaatora and salamanders and
— BiyN to i— —
jf. WaaenL .
we had to rend a realm
aalftt
orangeaiormayha to enjoy toot* of those flowers
you spesk of. We sent you one excursion train,
but wa had to send a regiment of United Ktatea
soldiers wllh them to masalhrm ga How did you
Ilka them? Which eqaaw did you fancy most?
Now those "poor farmer*” who didn't make any-
thing at all this year are all right. They o-nmlss
every other crop and then lieat terming In Florida
or the orange ciop either. How do you matuvoln
Iho rummer when you have mutton or heer for
dinner? You toy you "runoff* alloo and oortr Ilia
rretup lo keep the suits off.” Yet; that's tho way
we used to do down there, but then we didn't cat
much beeffor wire grass meat Is awful blue. Hour
much quinine do you use now? Wo used to keep
Ilia lo make change with when money was short,
low la the rand fiy, tadpole and mowpillo crip
blaycai? Ijueastbat freest you had In l*tl or i:
and Iho one last winter, sorter made them hide out
did II not? Now Rnaatll. aa I am on* of thorn imor
oranges? and I wllyJcnd yon In ea
. jaehange * map of
mind don’t think from lit also that its a
besIquIH ter It la not, only n grand old state whoro
one county covcrainore territory than tho wh do of
Doll Rooney, Acworth, Ga.—I hope Bheeweo was
■o thoroughly shaken upbylh* earthquake that
the doe* not allow them to raeddla wllh prirato
correspondence now. I am twin brother to Hhlno
IloonSy, wboao letter waa publlihed June 19th;
Our next birthday will make aa eleven yeartold.
We bare no animal psta, aa many of the cottons
here, but havo much pleasure In reading history
and writing to oar friend* hhlno rcrclveJ unite a
numlc r ofTntereBIng ptpera, which ho has non-
Erslo Whatley, Antioch, Ga.-1 am not going to
school now, It waa oaleomellmt ago; at the closo
one (etcher gave ne* pound party, which wo all
enjoyed very much. The hoytall carried a pound
of candy and the girls * cake, which mado unlco
supper. T got three prize* this year In school, ono
lu speaking and two In spelling. My alitor Julia
Belle got two prises, on* In speaking and one In
a; tiling, Pap* told us If we would get tho prlrea
he would give tie aa much money as they cost. I
had to study hard lo got them. 1 mn thirteen yean
old, and I am small lo my age. 1 am a twin to a
little brother; he died when bo was Just al” months
S id- 1 taut tha llttte rjlppla hoy 179 stamp* '
are mad* ont the little glrt'a nr
question to be Mary Lou Baker.
Ilattle L. Rowling, Leak county, MU*—I am E
llltla girl eleven yesra old. 1 havo never written
to Tits Coxamuttox, but 1 hope you will let mo
come lo. peps takes your paper; I lore to read tbo
Woman'* Kingdom and Young Polka' column,
Aunl Susie, Bill Arp and Betsy Hamilton’s Icttcrr;
1 havo but one pet, a llttte rldckrn, tt Is a Uttla
pallet; Its name Is Aunt Kuslc. 1 am not going 10
school now,
M. K. Adam* Rnmnurfleld, Ate.—I live Inn
beautiful Ultle town nearly eight miles north of
Helm* This has long been the scat of a college;
school has Just begun. Wo hare a military Ccm-
[Any here; my brother belongs to it. I havo no
cbcckm'andcroqi ““
paint sometime*.
Clara MeCaatssBd Nettle Worthy, Otark. Ark.—
Wo aro neighbor firia fifteen years old; we 11 ro In *
beautiful valley. We delight lu reading tho
Woman's Kingdom, Bill Arp and Relay Hamilton'*
tetter* We wen delighted wllh tho grammar
lasaoo In tho teat Isatta; we will try to memorizo
and recollect It. We would like lo exchanga
crochet patterns with soma of tho cousin* Wa
will tend eny 000 the Btrawbenr and leaf for tho
plnebarr; and also ir anyone, that win exchange
the fig leaf quilt for the hsel tap, we will bo pleased
to do BO.
to tba aswictelloo teat Sunday and spent SYcry
pleasant time, and heard an excellent aermon, It
wa* delivered hy Iter. McCall. I have only one
pet, n llttte block chicken. I rend you * card foe
your scrap book, If It will do to nut with cards
other cousins hare sent. 1 would llko to com-
'with tome of the cousin* tf they wUl write
Women with pole, colorless facet who foot
week sad discouraged, will reoslre both mantel
end bodily vigor by using Carter’! Iron Pills,
which aro mode for tho blood, nerve and com.
plexion.
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