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Bellefonte, Pa., February 12,
AN OLD VALENTINE.
In a tittle district school house
Overrun with grapevines wild,
Set two children close together
Who behind their lessons smiled
At each other, and the elder,
He a littl2 boy of ten,
‘With a happy in~piration
Seiz'd his paper and his pen.
And the little girl divining
He did not want her to see:
Tarned attention undivided
To the puzzling three times three.
Soon a touch upon her shoulder
Made her turn het pretty head,
In her hand was thrust a paper;
“It's for yoa," he whisperiog said.
And inside this folded missive
Were two shaky hearts in bine,
And beneath in ehildish writing,
“Sugar 's sweet and xo are you."
Fifty years have passed so swiftly
S.nee that February day,
* That the little maid remembers
‘Though her hair is turniog gray.
~ By Margaret E. Sangster, Jr. (age 13)
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WHEN ADVERTISING PAID.
[By Edith Bowman]
“Phat's what 1 call some package”
cried Hosmer proudly as he held aloft
a round meta! package decorated with
a smiling face which was sandwiched
between the legend “You can smile—if
you use Dentola.”
“It is pretty,” conceded the head of
the firm as he took the can into his
fands and inspected it more carefully.
“gome actress, isn't it? Her face
seems familiar.”
“Actress nothing,” was the contemp-
tuous retort. Hosmer could afford to
De flippant when he scored a success.
so Phat's the little typewriter over In
the shipping room. I caught her smil-
tng like that one day, and it made a
ait with me. I invented the powder to
go with it. It's the old ‘Saponica,’
with a little carmine put in to make it
look different. I tell you, Mr. Powers,
fn a week that Dentola girl will be
known all over the country, and the
sales—well, I'll be around for a raise
fn salary In about five weeks.”
Powers smiled and nodded. Hosmer
Bad a regular scale of self praise.
When he suggested that the firm owed
fim a hat for an idea it was only an
ordinary hit. The hint that he lunched
about 2 o'clock was a sign that he
had greater confidence in an idea. The
3ast time that Hosmer had announced
that he was worth a raise In salary
was when he had Introduced *“sun-
burn cream” which eventually had
mearly a quarter million.
Dentola seemed destined to enjoy a
more permanent success. ‘Within two
months the Dentola girl smiled upon
the entire nation. Even in the tiny
hamlets Dentola placards adorned the
general stores.
The Dentola girl smiled life size
upon the city throngs, and more than
fe size she beamed at train tired
travelers along the trunk lines.
Vaughn, the head of the shipping de-
partment, was rather vexed over the
dncident. He had supposed that the
pleture was merely to be used to deco-
rate the cans of powder.
It became something of a nuisance
when visitors to the model factory of
the cosmetic company insisted upon
seeing the original of “Miss Dentola.”
Vaughn, resentful of the admiring
glances of the masculine visitors, pro-
tested to Hosmer,
“It's all a part of the campaign,” de-
elared the sales expert, with a laugh.
*fiss Dentola is the best saleswoman
that ever was. We sold more than a
million boxes last month, and the or-
ders are still piling in. 1 tell you, Hen.
it pays to advertise when you adver-
tise right.”
“Sure.” assented Vaughn, “but you're
overdoing it. We wanted to sell the
tooth powder, not to bring people to
the factory to see Miss Dentola. There
was a chap in yesterday who said he
had seen the pyramids and the Sphinx
and the tower of Pisa and all the other
show spots of Europe, but he felt he
couldn't go back to Montana until he'd
seen Miss Dentola. By the way he
fooked at her I guess he would have
1iked to take her back to Montana with
him. He's only one. There's hun-
dreds. It's all Miss Pryor can do to
keep her work up.”
“I'll take her over in my depart
ment,” offered Hosmer, with suspicious
readiness. Vaughn shook his head.
“She would have to learn an entire-
ly new line of work,” he objected.
“She knows the shipping game now.
Tet her stay. even if your ads. are a
nuisance and worse.”
“But 1 think she ought to be in my
department.” urged Hosmer. “It is in
the advertising end that people would
expect to find her.”
“You get out of here,” demanded
Vaughn, half in friendliness and half
very much in earnest. He bad had
Minnie Pryor in his department for
more than two years and had given
her scarcely a look until Hosmer had
made her nationally famous,
When men in Alaska began to send
Vaughn began to realize that his as-
-this knowledge came to Hosmer about
-the same time there ensued a pretty
zace for favor.
Minnie Pryor, finding herself in de-
mand for the first time, developed into
+a beauty. So long as she had been
merely Minnie Pryor, typist, she bad
.gone her quiet way, but now Joseph
Powers, president and practical owner
given a royalty on the use of her ple
tion of a penny per box, the generous
becomingly for the first time in her
narrow life,
With the purchase of better clothes
she had seemed to acquire that inde-
finable charm which belongs to the
woman who knows herself to be in de-
mand. She did not develop what Hos-
mer was wont to term “big head.” but
she held herself well, and the apelo-
getle little typist of the shipping room
had become the belle of the cosmetic
company's works.
Hosmer had his room papered with
ler pictures, and the more he saw
them the more deeply in love with the
original did he sink. Vaughn had but
one of the posters in his office, for he
did not need them with the girl herself
bending her shapely head over the
desk by the window, and he, too, was
very much in love,
In the office both men made the best
use of their time, but once the closing
time arrived Miss Pryor disappeared.
Early In the campaign Powers had
saggested that the liberal use of her
face had rendered the girl rather con-
spicuous, so the company paid for a
carriage that took her to and from her
work.
At first Hosmer had approved the
suggestion, but now he went to the
other extreme, There was no chance
to walk home with Miss Pryor, and his
request for permission to call was met
with a polite negative,
He and Vaughn could only fight it
out during office hours, and when
Vaughn objected to Hosmer's contin-
ned presence in the shipping depart-
ment and asked Powers to give Hos-
mer a hint to that effect the sales ex-
pert retaliated by again reverting to
his suggestion that Miss Pryor should
be transferred to the sales office.
The constant bickering could have
but one effect. From surliness they
passed to open warfare, and at last
they brought the matter to the head of
the firm.
Each pleaded his case, and then they
stood waiting the decision with an
anxiety that showed plainly in their
faces. Each felt that a victory with
the chief would aid his fight, and the
moments that passed after the case
had been stated were painful to them
both.
Powers glanced slowly from one to
the other, and his face broke into a
smile.
“You both say that you bave the
right to Miss Pryor’s services,” he be-
gan slowly. “I'm afraid that you will
both have to hire other typists. Miss
Pryor tells me that you both are—er—
rather cordial to her. It seems that
you, Vaughn, have suddenly discovered
that you need Miss Pryor. Only a lit-
tle while before the advertising cam-
paign was started you told me that
you should have to put on another
girl, as Miss Pryor was willing, but
slow. I fancy that the way out of this
will be to get another Dentola girl and
another typist for the shipping depart-
ment.”
“Phere's no reason for such drastic
action!” cried Hosmer, but Powers only
smiled again.
“There is an excellent reason,” he
sald slowly. “I am to marry Miss
Pryor. She did me the honor to ac-
cept me, and as soon as the Dentola
eraze is forgotten we will be married.
Meanwhile she has her royalty from
the use of her picture, and she will not
need her position. She would have
told you this, Vaughn, had you waited
until this afternoon.”
Vaughn, too dazed to speak, turned
and left the office, and Hosmer was
about to follow when Powers detained
bim with a word.
“You sald that you would win a
ralse on Dentola. and you have,” he
sald kindly. “It pays to advertise,
Paul.”
“Yes, when you have something to
sell,” agreed the expert, “but 1 was
trying to sell Dentola, not Miss Den-
tola. The next time I get out a good
article I'm going to marry the original
first and advertise afterward.”
“Miss Pryor and myself are very
grateful to you.” said Powers, with a
cordial hand clasp, “and I hope that
you find another Dentola. Paul.”
“and I bet 1 won't Jose her to any
other man,” was Hosmer's grim reply.
Cretan Seals.
Some of the greatest scholars have
used thelr learning more as a weapon
than a means of illumination. Pro-
fessor Lewis Campbell's gentleness
and courtesy may be Illustrated by
the following true story: Some years
ago he was in the chair at a meeting
of the Hellenic society when Dr. Ar-
thur Evans described the results of
some of his first excavations in Crete.
Among his finds were a number of
seals and other relics showing traces
of affinity with early Egyptian art.
Discussion followed, in the course of
which a venerable admiral. who had
been present at the battle of Navarino.
rose and said that he did not know
whether he was in order, but he would
like to state that in the year 1828,
when he was cruising in the Levant,
he saw a herd of seals off the coast of
Crete—a sight which he had never seen
before or since, The situation was
delicate, but it was staved by the
chairman, who rose immediately to
express the thanks of the meeting to
the admiral for his Interesting rem-
iniscence. “Here,” he said, “we have
another link with Egypt, for all of us
must remember the story in the Odys-
sey of Proteus and his herd of seals
on the island near the mouth of the
Nile.”—London Spectator,
A Modest Request.
“\y dear friend, 1 beg you to lend
me $50,” wrote a needy man to an ac-
quaintance, “and then forget me for-
ever. I am not worthy to be remer-
bered.”—Philippines Gossip.
Where life is more terrible than
death it is the truest valor to dare te
fase of lithographs enabled her to dress]
live.—Browne.
Forty Years in Iowa.
[Continued from last week. ]
Dakota, Illinois, necessitated a ten days
overland drive with a covered wagon, which
proved to be a delightful outiog,and a kind
of recreation that bas been relegated to the
past. The early days of September are
usually bracing and healthly, there being
just enough tendency to frost at nighs, to
give an exhiliratiog tinge to the atmos-
phere, with Old Sol held in check juss
sufficient to make a pleasant combination
of day weatber. All day riding on a lom-
ber wagon, the occupant taking advantage
of the springs furnished by nature, avd at
such a time of the year, seemed to be con-
ducive to 8 ravenous appetite, and of the
kind oor old time ‘‘colliers’ of the
“Ridges’’ and mountain side hoisted, and
the merning and evening repasts, under
some tree by the i0adside, hoth smoked
and partially cooked over a hole in the
ground fire, was eaten and relished with no
consideration of what the taste might be
under more aristocratic conditions. Bridges
over the Mississippi river were not as na-
merous as today,and on arrival at the small
village of Savannah, now quite a city and
railroad center, we were up against a wait
of halt a day for a hoas to ferry across, and
a two mile ride for the first time on the
great Father of Waters landed ns on Towa
soil, near where the town of Sabula vow
stands. A railroad was then in operation
to Savannah, and preparations were then
being made to push track layiog on the
Iowa side during the winter, by first track-
ing the bridge, which nature was expected
to, and did provide, through its powerful
agent, below zero weather. The river i
perhaps a half mile wide, though the boat
landings were much farther apart.
The§Illinois side is generally given to
low and in many places, wide marshy
groundjwhile on the Towa side the surface
is broken and rather on the biofl order, so
that our route took us over some ‘‘Ridges’’
country for perbaps ten miles before we
came upon thejhroad expansive Iowa prarie.
Much of viiginiprarie sod lay in our way,
yet a surprising sight to us were the ban-
dreds ol acres of forests of green corn.
Herds of cattle, everywhere, on the open
wild prarie were passed, notil we finally
drew]rein in east DesMoines, the afternoon
of September 17th, 1869. At that time
there wae juss one bridge across the Des-
Moiues river for public travel. No not one
—there had been, but one span bad fallen
down, and we are therefore given the right
to stand up to the ‘‘oldest seftler” and
boast of having crossed the river the firs
time on a ferry boat from the east Grand
avenue landing. As against this one bridge,
our former article gives it as eight, at the
present time.
The reader ie asked to refer to our first
articlefand from that compare. The popu-
lation was given (1869) as 12000 souls,
domiciled] over an area two miles square,
a brick capitol scarcely noticable, a small
county court house, no postoffice building,
po city ball, no jail or any other publie
buildings ; but two railroads with small
frame station buildings, about one mile of
street railway from the court house to the
eapitol, with one car accommodating twen-
sy passengers, plying back and forth, drawn
by one borse ; a small gas plant, doling
out meagerly a kind of illuminating sub-
stance at $4.00 per minute, just four times
present prices ; no strees paving whatever.
| Daring the period of spring aod tall rains,
"the black loose ground of the drive ways
readily absorbed the fallen water and when
treated to the mixing process of all manner
of wheels sod soon created a mortar
bed of almass bottomless depth. At such
times it was not. uncommon to see loaded
wagousfand drays submerged to the hub,
vehicles of every[description, some broken
and damaged, all stuck fast and lef to be
extrioated under a later dried up ocondi-
tion.
Lamentations and better denunciations
against the city aothorities, made the life
| of a mayor and alderman anything bat
rosy, up to five years later, when cedar
blocks obviated the difficulty that at these
periods amounted to almost complete ob-
struction of traffic. Astention, in some
peculiar and sarcastic ways, was frequently
directed to these muddy conditions. An
enterprising liveryman with four stout
horses, attached to a flat stoneboat, with
some corn’and hay aboard, surmounted by
| 8 banner with inscriptions thereon suitable
$0 conditions,on several occasions traversed
the principle thoroughfares, much to the
dilectation of the sidewalk speotators—six
public eohool buildings, valued at $20,000
One college, a female seminary, avd a busi.
ness college—the latter recently established
y the late Jos. JW. Mufiley, a native Cen-
tre countian, supplied the meager home
opportunities for advanced education.
Eleven churches owned and ocoupied their
own homes, though a number of them were
of veryjordinary size and structure. Eight
hotelsjfurnished accommodations for ‘‘man
and beast,” about half the number being
merely boarding houses. Four banking
houses seemed to be sufficient to accom-
modate the depositor and borrower.
The reading public could add to ite gen-
eral information by the use of five news-
papers and periodicals, two dailies, one
agricultural, one temperance and ove
school journal.
As the stock in trade forty years ago, and
asa means of cornering and capturing the
advertiser of today, the subsoription lists
were not so openly heralded and ‘affidavit
ed,’ as today, 80 we are unable to farnish
a circulation comparison. The first news-
paper established in DesMoines was the
Towa Star,the first issue appearing in June,
1845.
publication
Tbe purchasing of a team of borses at gressing from a practically dead load to ite
accommodated fourteen hundred pupils. |
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Perhaps the moss successfal and profita-
ble newspaper venture is the agricultural
. The Jowa Homestead, pro-
owner of forty years ago, $0 a property
worth over a ball million today.
The postoffice receipts were $2000 per
asuonom. Parks as places of recreation were
not shonght of and had no place in oar
vocabulary as such and it hasonly been
within the past fifteen years that our pab-
lic beanty spots were given any considera-
tion. We found the fairs as then main-
tained and conducted, to be not very much
above the county fairs we bave attended at
Milesburg and Bellefonte, avd it is the pur-
pose further slong, to say something of the
greatest agricultural exnosition of today,
in the world. Much more might be pre-
sented, as to this city, as we found is, but
for the purpose of showing the advance-
ment and growth, enoogh bas been given
and we trust without encroaching on space
or Siring the reader. After a restful visit
of a few days with friends and relatives, the
covered wagon, loaded with some necessary
supplies, resumed its travel over the last
twelve miles of its jonrney, aod to its des.
tination, a 240 acre farm of improved Jowa
prarie land and in she vicinity of which the
writer spent fourteen years of toil, with |
some school teaching during the winter |
months as a diversion and exchequer
replenishment. About she middle of Oo |
tober (1860) the family, father, mother, |
brothers and sisters arrived and we were |
soon settled in a new home under condi- |
tions all new and strange and =o entirely
different, that could the writer have gotten |
away, the finest eighty acres in the country
would have been no inducement to remain, |
#0 deeply seated was thas terrible ailment, |
homesickness. The severing of ties of
friendship of a nineteen yearling, who knew
po hetter than to think shat everywhere |
was as good and perbaps better shau the |
Bald Eagle valley, transplanted to sor- |
roundings aod social conditions entirely
different, acquaintances, associates, and
everything to make life agreeable, to be
acquired and built up, will bave added an
experience that only ‘‘he who runs may |
know.” Iowa farms are of tracts compos- |
ed of an acreage of which forty acres isa
multiple—forty, eighty, one hundred and
twenty aod so on, the smaller not being
considered a paying venture for a man and
two horses. A stout experienced man with
three good horses, can plow, cultivate, and
orib forty acres of corn, with no assistance.
He can also raise, ready for the barvest
twenty acres of wheat, ten acres of oats
five acres of timothy, and by joining force
with two or three like situated neighbors,
with thie combined effort and use of im- |
plements, put everything in she stack
without a dollar of actual cash outlay ; yes,
two men with four horses and the neces
sary up-to-date farm tocls, can do a much
better job, in thas one man's days way be
prolonged, horses not over-worked, a better |
return per acre, and a farm presenting the
appearance of heing well tilled ; and three
men, wish ten horses and good implements
can well care for one hundred aod sixty
acres with no farther outlay for extra help.
A two larrow gang plow with four horses
abreast, no stones, stumps or 100s, 8 qUAT-
ter of a mile or more between turning
points, tells the story of how much one man
can accomplish per day and similar appli-
oations of improved implements to almost
all other parts of farm work, as cultivating
two rows of corn with one tool drawn by
three horses abreast invites the non-progres- |
sive to stand up and take notice. The in-
novation of improved farm machinery comes
#0 thick and fast, that extravagance might
he the term to apply rather than economy,
according 80 a character kuown as Alex
Smudge. He writes one of our farm papers,
that **Art Bemus has gone and bought one
of these yere manure spreaders on wheels.
He is a gitten it into hws bed to do his work
like some of these here rich high falatin
ohaps. Next thing he'll be a pustin of swo
spoon falls of sugar in his coffee avd a
wearin of a nuther spender ; he's a spreadin
of it on entirely too thick.”
In the WATCHMAN jae to hand contain.
ing the first series of these articles we are
shocked to learn of the death of Hon.
Harry Curtin,a shaw, a hoon companion of
youthful days. He was indeed the ‘‘soul
of honor and high-mindedness’’ and ‘‘one
of the most companionable’ of young men.
There were just two months acd eleven
days difference in our ages. Good-bye to
one more of my hest boyhood friends.
8. W. BAKER.
Des Moines, Ia., Feb 5th, 1809.
[To be continued.]
We heard a man say the other morning
that the abbreviation for February—Feb.
—means Freeze every body, and that man
looked frozen in his alster. It was ap-
parent thas he needed the kind of warmth
that stays, the warmth that reaches from
head to foot, all over the body. We could
bave told his from personal knowledge
that Hood's lia gives permavent
warmth, is invigorates the blood and speeds
is along through and vein,and really
fits men and women, and girls, to en-
joy cold weather and resist the attacks of
disease. It gives the right kind of warmth,
stimulates and at the same
time, and all its benefits are lasting. There
may be a suggestion in this for you.
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——First Bioyole Crank—No, I never
carry an extra ounce of weight on my wa-
chine—not even a tool bag.
Second Ditto—But sappose you break
down on the road, and have no tools?
First B. C.—Oh, that’s easily arranged.
I carry them in my pookes.
———She—**] don’t see why a man drinks
till he gets tight.”
He—*‘I don't see why a woman laces $ill
she gets tight, either.”
The best coiffares aim at Greek and
Roman styles for the hair.
Something About Dakota.
Fditor Walchman:
I am going to write you a cold lester this
week. I say that because it is about Dako-
ta, for while I am writing one of the worst
blizzards [ ever saw is raging without.
The Dakotas-—Iland of wheat and
wheat——to keep the wheels buoy turoing
in the great mills at Minneapolis. How
insiguificans the Phoenix and Thomas's in
Bellefonte seem in comparison.
The general lay of the country in the
two Dakotas is alike, and the same may be
said as to climate. Inthe western partof
both you ges the Chinook winds from the
Pacific, which mels she snow rapidly.
In the southern part they raise corn, but
it is liable to injury from late spring and
also early fall frosts, but it is the boss | ba
wheat, oats, barley and flax growing coun-
try.
East of the Missouri river the soil, gen-
erally, is a deep, black loam, aud of course
very rich. This is especially so in the
great Jim River valley. West of the Mis-
wouri it is more of an ash color, hut yields
well too. Here is where the great Indian
reservations are, hut each year these are
diminishing and being thrown open to
Homwesteaders, mostly at about six dollars
per acre,
The 1ailroads are penetrating this vast,
new country, and towns springing up in
all directions.
The wants of she Indians increase as
they mingle with the whites, and the way
0 gratify those wants is to ell more land
to Uncle Sam, who gets his money back by
selling to tae land hungry Homesteaders.
The principal city in Soush Dakota is
Sioux Falls, in the southeast corner of the
state. Then Aberdeen, Mitchell, Yank-
ton, Watertown, Deadwocd, Haron, ete.
In North Dakota is first Fargo, then
Grand Forks, Bismarck,Jawestown, Valley
City, Mandan, ete.
The wheat goes mostly to Daluth and
Minneapolis, and I may say the same of
the other products.
1 do nos think that I ever saw cattle and |
sheep take on flesh as they do in these two
States,
The rainfall is ample, and well water is
easily bad, while artesian wells or springs
are quite numerous in the sonthern por-
sion. Fael is high, but when she railroads
reach the vast lignite coal fieids in the
western portion of both States, the coss of
this article will be materially reduced.
The people are almost exclusively from
the northern States, and north of Europe—
Scandinavians. The Indians are on their
reservations, and molest nobody,—their
war spirit is broken,
Educational facilities are on a par with
other States. Taxes ate low. The laws are
asgood and as well obeyed as in other
northern States. The race problem does
not exist bere,—negroes are as SCAICE AS
Irishmen in Germany.
As to the prices of farms, I will simply
say tbat they sell for all they are worth,—
and so of everything else.
It is too far north fora variety of fruits.
The summers are short and hos, while the
winters are long and cold, —blizzards don's
come often, but when they do come it is,
“Oh, my."
The famous gianite quarries of the north.
wees are at Sioux Falls, Dell Rapids and
vicinity. There is very fine raundstooe of
various colors and in greeat quantities in
the Black Hills, and also a fair grade of
marble aud other varieties of stone.
Commencing a short distance below
Yankton and extending north along the
Missouria river almont to Pierre, the state
capital, shere is found in inexhaustible
quantity, material to make the very fiuest
Portland cement.
Nataral gas is found at and around
Pierre, and is used eetensively for fuel and
for generating steam and electricity, bat
its development is only in its infancy ae
yet.
The fact that there is no bouded state
debs will account for the low tax rate, as
stated above. The limit of the state tax
is two mille on the dollar.
They are grand, new States but the long
cold winters and inabilisy to raise much
frnit is in my humble opinion, objections
to living there.
Respectfully Yours,
DANIEL MCBRIDE.
Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
Yon must bave a foundation before you
can build a house. You must have a foun-
dation before you can build up your health.
The foundation of health is pure blood.
To try to build up health by **doctoring’’
for vaplons of disease is like trying to
build a by beginning at the chim-
Begin at the foundation. Make
pure and you will find that,
are eliminated from the blood.
ereign blood purilying remedy is Dr.
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. It
has cured diseases pronounced incurable
by physicians. It bas restored health to
those who have absolutely despaired of re-
covery.
“Already Settled.
Pastor—What are they moing to name
your new twin brothers, Willy ?
Willy—Thunder and Lightoing.
Fustor--WHYs willy, you must be mis-
Willy—Well, anyhow, that's what Pop
called ‘em, when the norse brought ‘em
in!
A ———————————————
——An Foglishman, newly returned
from America, was asked il be had visited
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“Mr, Snag,’ said the doctor grave-
ly, “I am afraid your wife's mind is gone.”
“I am not surprised at thas,’ replied
i en Dvn Jet aud
ears,
it wasn's a to start on, Sithor.”
We,
we
A Historie Valentine,
One dull, rainy day I discovered an in-
looking time-worn valentine, bear
ing the date “Febroary 14, 1777,” in
old cabines.
Grandmother's
sat koisting before the fire-
firelight dancing merrily on her
shining veedles, and every now aud then
softly lighting up ber kindly face and snow
white hair.
Dropping down ou the bearth rug before
ber, I begged » story about the valentine
I bad found.
“That valentine was sent to yonr great-
g ant Faith by Donald Went-
worth,’ she no. *“‘My giand-mother
was Faith's vister and I 11 tell you the
story as she told it to me.
“Gurls married very young in those
days. Faith was sixteen when she was
engaged to Dovald. Grandmother often
said that few couples were better suited or
ppier.
*‘One day in Joly when Faith and Don-
ald were making plans for she fature, word
came that independence had been declared.
Great Britain no longer ruled the colonies.
But men and arms were needed to main-
tain their freedom.
“For a moment all was oonfasion and
harry. Sool i¥e were hastily bidden.
Aud then , accompanied by Faith's
father and brothers, rode away to join
Washington's army. While Faith, with
mother aod sister, wasched —eyes dim—
forged smiles— until they were gone from
sight,
“Bat with the men away twice as much
work must be done by the women. Bo
white my grandmother did twice her sbare
ot york in ne Doves, Faith and her mother
pie up the ropped by the men
and hoed the corn. y
“Is was iu Febrnary that Faith received
thie valentine from Donald—the first she
bad ever bad. Postage was expensive in
those days and letters were seldom sens.
*“The next September Donald fell in the
battle at Brandywine Creek.
“No, dearie, the grief did not kill Faith.
Noun were built of stronger stuff in those
ays.
“Faith was 8 good and brave woman,
sweetheart. Although she lived to be
forty seven she never slighted a duty, and
she woo the love of all whom she knew.
*“When thearmy so needed gold, she
gave her necklace—Donald’s gift—saying
her country needed it more than she. Bat
| what a eacrifice it was no homan being
| ever knew.
‘Perhaps without such women as your
| Rreat-great-great-annt Faith, the United
| States might not have maintained its free-
| com.”
Out of the Ginger Jar.
If a fool is out of his place anywhere on
earth it is on a farm.
The ali-around man tries to be equare
with the world.
Will some one please step forward and
tell us what the see-saw?
Are your harrow teeth aching out in
suime snow-drifted lence corner? It so, why
Blest is the man whose wish and care
Is just to be happy anywhere,
The men who try to hide their light are
few, while those who seek to shine in the
light of others are many.
The kitcnen ange is not very large or
imposing, bus it is a most 1mporiavs com-
plement to the castle aud sheep range.
The reason so many men are lounging
about waiting for political plume, is be-
oanse they are too lazy to raise plums of
wy other ror.
% i» ap apparent contradiction that
while the grocer desires 10 take orders from
everybody, he still insists upon doing quite
as he pleases,
A tempest in a teapot is a familiar phe-
nomenon; but only those who live in the
oyolone helt are permitted to observe a tea-
pot in a tempest.
While you are tinkering around at this
season making things, make a few good
resolutions and then stick to shem like a
sand-baur to a sheep’e tail.
Good nature is as Sontagiops as the mea-
eles. Put on your best smile when you ges
up in the morving and observe how every-
body will grees yon with a sunny face.
Little drops of water, little grains of sand,
Make the mighty corn-fieids that cover all the
land.
“When I hear a
man braggiog about
hardships,’ said Uncle Remus, “I jost ask
bim: Was he ever on topof a er mill
and blown a hundred feet in the ait?"
Too many men who before their marriage
were always particular to ges out of the
huggy and belp the yonng woman in, may
be observed a few years after marriage sit-
ting in the wagon while the good wife
olambers in over the wheel as best she may.
There ie something wrong when the mas is
less thoughtful of his wife than he was of
bis sweetheart.— Farm Journal.
——The paradoxical, not to say absurd,
antics of Time were never more ge
exemplified than in this matter of Val-
entine, says Richard Le Gallienne in the
February Delineator. Never was insul$
more whimsically added to injury than
the arbitrary association of the stern ani
slaughtered saint who fell martyred be-
neath the clubs of the Emperor Claudius,
$umewhete toward Sie dba of 3he 1hi0 oen-
ry, joyous esnen
festival whiob takes his name in a
corded as ‘‘a man of exceptional chassis
of oharacter,” — to be associated wi
Ophelia’s beautiful, ribald, beart-breakiog
song:
And [a maid at your window
To be your Valentine,
and to be grossly libeled by Charles Lamb
as “‘a rubiound priest of Hymen, attended
with thousands and tens of thousands
little loves’!
The historical fast is that poor St. Valen-
tine’s reputation as a saint was sacrificed
to that astute pol of the Christian
Church, which, finding the old pagan
festivals too deeply rooted in the poprlar
sentiment, changed their name to thas rl
Soule Christian saint, and adopted them for
own.
Thus Valentine's Day was originally a
feast of Februata Juno, and, on the night
before, boys would draw the names of girls
in order to divine who should be their
sweethearts in the coming year. The
Church frowned on this innocent game and
ear a, sopra
eart—w , it may so »
game would somewhat languish. Yet, in
til
old pagan
of playing the game has gone on un
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