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(including foreifju assets) $l.'!,tKiil,(i;)0.00 Jiuriioru, ;i uaruoru, vjonn., toiuesi .ii.iunnc.nii uu.j o,u-,.i,c'.. riifienix. Hurt for J, Conn. 0,588, 0.VJ. 07 Continental, Xew York, '(i,75t ! W.72 German Auiencun. New York, fi.a-Ni.uUS.KI tlTT.-Mntu.d Lif.i Iiih. Co. New York. !?'2()l,(5:W,!t83.(ifi LCIDENT Employers Liability Assurance Corporation, Accident Ins. Co. Subscribed Capital ot S oii.ui;.wi Firo. Life and Accident risks accepted ut the lowest, possible rate, jtihi. ;ied by a 81 nor. letrarn to mutual saleiy. All just, nanus prouipn.v hih isfac'torilv adjusted. lufonuation in relation to all Hiihsch d Insiir i,.h promptly furnished ELM Ell W. SNYDKit, Ait,, Itphone No. 1W. OHice on Corner Water fc Xn Sts. tS btu-tr "ve. V HEART SORROWS. Kvmy bosom bath Its sorrows. Every heart lu bitter wm: Masks they are, Instead of faces. Which are passing to and fro. Caul' wa know the weary watcoinca, Could we count the allent tears Bee the hearta all Beared aad bleeding, ToUlnc on through weary year. Struggling with onjimilon. maybe Striving 'neath misfortune's ban, ttanlllng. while the eoul Is starving. For the sympathy of man Would we not withhold the censure Trembling on our thoughtless lips? Ah I we know not of the trials Which have wrought this dark eclipse! Hope and faith in God are stranded; . Friendship fades like morning dew; Wrong and scorn have seared and blighted Hearts that once were brave and true. Sin and poverty., it may be. Drugged for him life's bitter cup; But. remember, he's your brother, Lend a hand to help him up Nor with righteous Indignation. Or a Pharisaic pride. Fold too close thy spotless garments. Or. pass on the other slile. Mrs. Mary Ware, lu Woman's Work. A FIRST ATTEMPT, fi it Oy J. n. W tw 4f-j Flynn. IT A 4 lXU$11J$L,!L,& are intended for children, ladies and all who prefer a medicine disguised as con fectionery. They may now he had (put up in Tin Boxes, seventy-two in a box), price, twenty-five cents or five boxes for one dollar. Any druggist will get them if you insist, and they may always be obtained by remitting the price to The Ripans Chemicsil company SPRUCE Am m pin mi v. ' k'r vTTr.v'iiD a vji -j mi bh aisri WliEELSj' jS 4 HtUR RODE ONE 2093 MILES IN 132 HOURS , 3 j ihe Belvidere 040.00 uperlor to all others Irrespective ' Prkv , Catalogue telU yoa , why. Write ler one. NATICMU. SEWC tlCCXI CO, I'r'-r:. Pfi myiowB.sU. , Diplomacy... . ' Toung Lady Bow old . would you take na to be, baron? The Baron, (bowing) Ah, madjemoU aolle. how can 1 say for yonr aeoom f j)ljbnenta tell mo what yw . leeks TT'S an awful -nuiisaucc. Will anil J r'lo (rpltinir enjig-ed!" said Will's young brother, nu-fully. "I don't mind their being engaged," I said ! lo young sister, slroUiug tier I cheek thoughtfully with lier tennis i rae(uet. "Hut 1 wish they weren't ul- , ways ciT by llieuiselve.s. They make i tip kiicIi a good set." I "Ami there's no one else this niorn 1 big." said yourg biother l!a!j:h. Iting I ing his raeij.iot. discontentedly, into the corner of the tent. "I'll give yon .1(1, j and service every time, if you like to . have a single. Alacdie." j Mnudie shook her head decidedly. I Jlalph was a line partucr a tall, lis- jiom boy just 1(1. and growing into a grand athlete inn as an opponent lie i was rather trying for a little girl two .years his junior. "Von play loo well, Itulpli," slie apologized, "and 1 get so ; I hot. l iitlier says you play better than ) 1 a i.ian." j "Not if he's a good player," avowed i Prank, frankly. "Will can In at me j I when he likes. Hut there isn't much ! j difference between a boy ami a man in ; , ui.ythiug. really, voir know." "Oh, but men can do lols of things boys can't." j "What things?" "Oh well smoke." "Look here!" taid Kalpli, contiden j tially, producing an ugly little clay I head with a vulcanite stem. ; "Oh. Kalph! Vou don't realiy, do : you'.'" j ' "Don't I just'.' I say. Mandie, let's go ' dow u by the brook, and I'll teach you to smoke, if you l!ke." 1ittle Jhindie inaile a funny mouth , big sister J'lo couldn't make prettier, faces than she; and Kalph had i-m-o ' confessed to a chum thai he "liked the 1 look of that kid." "1 should be sick. I : rpcet, nnd I don't think I want to learn, Kalph." j "We'l, let's go down by the brook, ; and I'll smoke," said the boy, grandly. Of course, lie. didn't insult Jier by say hig: ""Dou't tell" that was ipiite un i.eiessary. So they we:;t and sat on the grassy bank, a ml he had a few a very few wli ill's at his nasty pipe. Then they started catching tiddlers with ' 1 their hands, and putting them in a pool scooped out of the mud; and he let the ! pipe go out. A m::n would have relit it, I bit t Jlu.'ph felt that he had done enough for honor. 1 "(Irowu-iip people don't care about catching tiddler," remarked Matlic, suddenly, as lie deposited the seven- i tceiit.lt imlia;;py t'.shlet in the pool. ".Not women. .Men do. They like ! everything that boys do, so far as 1 can see. J'oys can do everything that men tan; but girls can't do what women i can. Though 1 can't see that wciuen do much." i "Oh, but they do. Lota and lots of j things." "We.l, they nin t much good at games, anyhow. They don't care about them really, anyone can see." "Some of them do. 1 do." ! "15ut you're not a woman, kiddie. ; I Mind! you'll be in." id he rescued her adroitly' from overbalancing, as she hung over the brook. It did not occur to him that a woman might have lin gered a superfluous second In a man's arms, just as his pretty comrade did in his. "When I'm a woman. Ralph, I'll play you at tenuis, and beat you," she said. saucily. "Hut you won't care about it really," observed be, disregarding the threat ai unworthy of serious notice. "You'll like women's things." "What things?" "1 don't know, do you? What things do women like?" "Oh. llirting: going for walks with young men: being engaged, perhaps I expect," answered I'm tie Maudle, wash ing her aauds in the pool, and waving them in the air to dry. Will would have wiped Flo'a hands dry himself, but iialph merely tossed over bit big pocket handkerchief. "(Jirls can't do those things," be ob lerved. . ' Maudie's eyes sparkled very wickedly. "Oh, but they could," she averred, "only they haven't anyone to do them witb. tloys are . so different than men. Of course, they can't make love, or any thing of thataort." . Kalph rested his chin reflectively up on his band, and kicked holes 4o ihe bunk with bis heels. "They don't went to: they could If they Hked." "No. they couldn't. You couldn't." "Yes, 1 could, as well aa you.-" , , f , "Ob. no. you conldnt. My part k easy at first I have only to look aloe, .hurt see me!" She smoothed her hair tad drees, folded her bands d&nnrely la her lap and looked htngutshingly at him. Then suddenly Itras very shocking, but history demands strict truth she put out ber tongue at him. Is that part of the programme, kid die?" asked ber cavalier, giving her a gentle shake. "Yea wi,tb a allly boy tike you." "What would you do if 1 were sensi ble?" "Nething." -Then how" "You'd beg-In, don't you eee!" Jtalph blushed and fait a bit uncom fortable, lie didn't bold U the school boy dictum that girls areof nooeeount. lie was too nice for that and so was Maudie. But flirtation ut first hand seemed rather awkward, and If any of the fel lows heard of it! So he paused, doubt fully, whilst Mandie bit ber lip and frowned. "You'd belter catch some more tid I filers," she remarked, with a naughty light dancing in her eyes. "That's the sort of thing for boys silly, big boys!" A bad-tempered lad would have grown angry, and a dull lad would have felt humbled; but Kalph was neither. So he just pinched her ear slightly and teased: "If you found me a very nice girl, I'd try." The hot color rushed all over poor little MaudicVi f.;ce. and something choking surged up in her throat. Kalph was so big aiul strong; she did admire him so much, and looked upon him as ipiite her property. A tear came up in her eye-, almost, that he should want someone uiinM" hutvhedidn't say uuy thing, "Perhaps 1 ou;-ht to find a girl for myself .'" he suggested. She nodded, const raincdly. "She ought to be a bit vounger than 1?" "Or course." "And pretty ami nice." "Certainly." "Well, who shall it tie?" There was a ! mischievous twinkle in his dark eyes, lie knew very well that there was no j,Mrl so nice us Maudie, "1 know. l'e just t bought of one. (iuuss!" "I don't v ant to know," said she, sulk . iiy, plucking viciously at the long grass. I "She's awfully jolly," continued he, i rellectively; "and pretty my word! I know she likes me. 1 think i shall many her whrti I grow up." "You'll change .tour mind, must like ly," said Maudie, savagely, "and lie's sine to. I dou't wa;:t to talk about such nonsense. I dare say she's nasty ; and .1 down horrid! And 's anyone only pre- I'll show her to y on her. , ou're horrid i i;.y I don't believe lie lend." "No. she isn't. siuue day. "1 don't w ant to "You'll have lo." "i won't." "Vo.l will now." lie put one strong inn ri'lit round Maudie's waist, and held her dangling over the. brook. "Look." .'-aid he. pointing to the wave i::g relleetiou in the stream, "Isn't she rippirg'.'" I'retty Maudie blushed nnd laughed and willfully sllut' Iter eVs. "I don't see anyone," she said, in a soft, pie iscd little voice. "You'll drop me, Kalphie." "Yes, 1 will, if vou don't look at her and say she's pretty." She opened her eyes a little, but she looked at l.ini. "Wlio'ii pretty'.'" "The young person in the water." "That boy do you mean? No m l, wry." She turned her laughing, saucy face up towards lis. Her eyes were so blue and big, her lung hair brushed so softly against his face, and her mouth looked so rherry-ripe and fresh, that he couldn't help Listing her a good many times. KiTljdi always did things m thoroughly, you know! And Maudie didn't struggle, because a grown-up won. an wouldn't have, or because she didn't want to. of both. It's no use asking me which, for I r.cver could un derstand female ways; and I don't be lieve anyone ever could. Then they sat down very close to gelher on the bunk of the brook, with their legs dangling, and saitl nothing for a moment. She looked half pleased and half shy; nnd he. to tell the truth, looked rather foolish. "I wish I did understand making love. Maudie girl." said he, slowly. "Hoys don't like it." "I cxptet they do, if they once lr gin." "lint a boy couldn't make love really." "I'erhaps with practice," he sug gested. Do you know, I don't think he was such a very simple boy. "Oh. no; not really." "Why?" "P.eeause he cor.ldn't fall properly in love. Not very much, you know." Maudie gazed at hiin with saucer-eyes that looked fathoms deep. I doubt whether she was quite a guileless little girl either; and I don't believe there is such a thing! "I think he could." said Ralph, decid edly, "If the girl were you, Maudie." "Hut people would laugh at him." Kalph winced a little. "Of course, he wouldn't make a fool of himself before people like - men," he said. loftily. "But he might like her very much, and make love to her when no one was tibout." "Ah! Might." "And he might promise to marry her alien he grew up; and she might prom ise hiin." "Y'es they might," murmured Maudie, looking at her shoes. Then the boy's great arm went quictlyround her waist, and she let herself be drawn close to him, looking as happy as a woman! ' "I know it sounds soft. Maudie." he aid, bashfully, "but, on my honor, I do like yon an awful lot I don't think any girl, was ever hnht so nice. Don't rou think yon could promise to marry me when we grow up?" , Yes," ahe whispered, nestling her pretty bead'rlgbt into hi shoulder, "I wilt, BaJph." And she did! Madame. HOME DYEING A Pleasure st Last, I MAYPOLjfVl V SOAP ' No Muss. No Trouble.- s- I -SOAP-1 I -fQ- ! P- m iff : i 'V -SWASHES !? DYESsi e g ;S AT ONE OPERATION : if . . ANY COLOR, jj; The Cleanest, Fastest Dye for';. -Soiled or Faded Shirt Waists,: ; Blouses, Ribbons, Curtains, Under- ;i r linen, etc., whether Silk, Satin,;! ;S Cotton or Wool. 5; :SolJ in All Colors by Grocers nnrf-i Druggists, or mailed free S": ; for IS cents; ; : Address, Tills MA WOLE SOAP DEPOT, ;i ;5 127 Duane Street, Hew York. 4C -c-C'0-eHi-tt-XH: &-5 9 ;. (t s-Jl-c CtS l i I Southern I Progress. Look I Look ! ! Look at yourself when you buy clothing at my Ktore. 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Start tho now yearriht hy sending your sur plus money-a hundred dollars, llfty ilollars, twenty, ten or even five dollars-lit once to tlir Co. and receive by return mall your shares of st jek. llefore long you may find that white you have labored on and toilen, your money has been making money for vou, and while you have not ifone to Alaska nor devoted your time and labor to oilier promising ventures, you have reaped all the benefits and have enjoyed sueeess. Bend your money by cheek, money order, express money order or registered letter to International Exploration anil Investment Co., 5, 7, U & 11 Uroiidway, Xew York, X. Y. Responsible agents wanted in every oity and town. $125 Per Month. $125 Per Month. WE WANT A FEW MORE MEN, 1 1 1 1 (- -Aa nar aa K.000,mod1 habeo Ummt-& im &i. Panfa tatbcdral ftaaaaana: r: . 1 AH TBAVELISIU, ' ) rorsiTY. ' ( r OESERAL, ialan i year rui OUTFIT FREE. Apply at once for territory, of : A. H. Henderson & Co., Geneva; N. Y; IMPORTED STOCK. SEEDS. 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