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K Teay CATHARTIC a HlTRA0t mars wtoisnatgg AFTER ALW- We take our share of frcttlnffc Of grieving and forgetting: The paths are often rough and steep and heedless feet max fall; But yet the days aru cheery, And night brings real when weary. And somehow this old planet la a good world, after all. Thotigh sharp may be our trouble. The joys are more than double; The brave surpass the eowarda, and the leal are like a wall To guard their uVarest ever. To fall the feeblest never; And aomehow this old earth remains a bright world, after all. There's always love that's caring. And shielding and forbearing. Dear woman's love to hold us close and keep our hearts In thrall; There's home to share tegether In calm or stormy weather. And while the hearth-flame burns It la a good world, after all. The Hap of eWldrena rolces. The chance of happy choices. That bugle-sounda of hop and faith. through fogs and mists that call; The h oa Ten that stretches o'er us. The better days before aa. They all combine to make this earth a good world, after all. Margaret K. Bangster, In Woman's Home Companion. 04i4t4040eti00i4o4stOT 4- a 5 When Sain tal His Courage, By Elizabeth L. Gould. t 4- fa4aea4a4a4a4e4e4aee4a (fyOl know what the Judge told you I at the 'cadeiny exhibition, Sam my," said Hiram Lane, slowly, his eye fixed on the boy atrotcbed on the grass near him. "lie said If you ever wantMl to leave Moorby to let him know; that he'd like to do something for a boy with such a good brain and a head for figures. Those were his words, Sam my." The boy's thin face flnsmcd as he turned to look at his uncle, and he spoke with nervous quickness: "He's forgotten all about me long before this. Uncle Hiram. Why, that school exhibition was two years ago last June, and the Judgs didn't come to Moorby last summer, you know. I should be afraid to go and ask any favor of him." "I wish you hadn't such a bashftd streak in you, Sammy," said Uncle Hi ram, looking down at the boy with a half-reproachful, wholly affectionate smile. "You're just like your poor pa. A better man never lived, but hs wasn't built to get on in this world, and he didn't get on. I was hoping you might have a little snore push than your pa, Eammy, along with Us goodness. Now your ma's gone, I could be moved anywhere; or I could be put in the county fans, Sammy, if so it aeemed best for you to strike out to the city alone. I'm nothing but a helpless old hulk, anyway." "Don't you say that again, Uncle Hi ram! Don't yoa dare to!" cried the boy, fiercely, springing to his feet, aad rushing like a whirlwind upon the fig ure In the old armchair. "Arn't you all I've got in the world that belongs to me? Do you suppose I'd go away and leave you for the town to take care of? I'd deserve to be hung I " "Sho, now, Ram my!" said the occu pant of the armchair, gentry, aa he saw the hot tears in the boy's eyes. "We haven't got anything but each other, either of us; but here I am, lame so I'm no good to stir about; hands all knotted up with rheumatics, so I can't use 'em, and you just spend ing your days distributing milk, and sawing and splitting, which any boy with no such head for figures as you've got could do full as well. How much did ynu earn last week. Sammy?" "Only three dollars, Uncle Hiram," answered the boy, slowly. "You know my work is always slack after the sum mer people have gone. The judge and his family are going next week. Their hired girl told me to have Mr. Bar pent make out the milk bill. When I went there yesterday morning the judge was sitting on the side piazza, but he didnt know me." "Did you make your manners to him, and give him a good look at yon, Sammy?" asked the uncle, anxiously. "I mistrust you kind of half-turned your head away, or maybe the sua was in his eyes." "I took off my cap the best I knew how," said Sammy; "but he barely , nodded to me. He wasnt reading or anything, either." "Maybe he was ealculsting in his head," suggested Mr. Lane, quickly glancing up at the boy, and then averting his eyes. "You recall how he told you be used to love to do thoss mental sums, same as you did at the exhibition, Sammy?" The boy shook his head, and stood for a moment looking across the fields up to the hill on which stood the judge's house, its windows gleaming bright in the morning sun. "No, he's just forgotten me. Uncle Hiram, that's all," he ssid, after a few moments of silence. "I'm just one of the country boys to him, and I guess that's all I ever shall be. He's the on ly one that could give me a chance. Now I must run over to Mrs. Lapham'a and flnah piling her wood. Will you stay here and read till I come back at noon? The sun's good and warm to day." "You'll find me sitting in my castle, same as you see me now," said Mr. F.nnu, cheerily. "Pay my respects to Mrs. Lnpham, and tell her I wish she could pet out to enjoy this beautiful weather, but I al wu.vs think of what a sightly view she has from that south window of hers. I took special note of it that 1 day of the town celebration when I rode past the house, three years back." The cheery smile lingered on Uncle Hiram's face till the boy was well out of sight beyond the turn in the road. and thea ft gave place to a look af patient pain. "He'd counted on the judge's know ing him," said the crippled man, turn ing his head wearily against the soft old cnslon. "I know it just aa well as if he'd said so,: If the judge had shown signs of remembering him, Sammy would have plucked up cour age to ask him if there waa any chance for him down below. Don't 1 know how he's kept at his study evenings when he's been 'most teo tired to ait up? Seventeen years old last week, and going to be hived up here all winter, and only just earn enough to keep us a-going!" Mr. Lane pounded on the ground with his crutch in excitement, and scared away a squirrel which was on a journey to a neighboring elm. "Poor little creatur! I didn't mean to fright you," said Uncle Hiram, re gretfully, "but I just recollected that Sammy asked me if I'd fall aa soon call him 'Sam,' now he's 17, snd I've clean forgotten it ever since till thli minute! And he such a boy, and me such a drag on him, and forgetting such an easy thing as that! I'll get my mouth fixed for It when he comes back. 'Sam,' I'll say to him, 'Sam,' I'm glad to see you, Sam; and, Sam, I've bad a nice morning under the trees, Sam. I reckon the oftener I say it for n spell, the easier it'll come. I'll practice it off and on the rest o' the morning to keep my hand in," said Uncle Hiram, wisely. . Sammy's thoughts, as he hurried down the road that led to the Lap hnm houae, were not very comforting. "I'm nothing but what the children call a ' 'fraid cat,' that's all I am!" he said, bitterly. "Any other boy would speak up to the judge and make him remember, and perhaps get a chance. Uncle Hiram minds, too. He's hardly talked about the old war times, when he was drummer boy and got his wounds, once, for the last week. He'd rather be in an attic in Boston and know I waa working my way up than to stay here In Moorby; there's no body here be cares enough about to make him want to stay. And I might earn money enough to buy him a wheeled chair before long. While mother lived I couldn't go, but now I eould." Mrs. Lapham's house faced the south, and aa Sammy entered the yard he looked for Mrs. Larlham's smile at the window of the room where all her days were spent. She had been bedridden for ten years; the old sitting room of her early married life had been changed to hot bedroom, aad every morning before Mr. Laphsm started for his "Harness aad Shoe Shop" he dragged the bed close to the window. All passers-by were used to the sight of Mrs. Lapham's pals face propped into sew by the many pillows, and her thimble tapped many a summon to enter on the lowest righthand pans. There was no face at the window that morning, although, as Sammy drew close to the houae he could see that the bed was In its usual place. As he stood a moment Irresolutely at the turn where the path branched off toward tho woodshed, a man bailed him from a passing cart, saying "Hul lo, Sammy! How's business with you these days?" "Fair," returned the boy, soberly, adding under his breath, "I wish peo ple wouldn't call me 'Sammy!' It's tuch a baby name!" There came a tap at the window as the oart rattled out of sight and Sam my turned quickly to see Mrs. Lap ham's face, white and drawn, at the pane. "Why, she looked as if she was cry ing!" said the boy to himself, star tled out of thoughts about his own troubles, as hs entered the house. There was no longer any doubt In his mind when he stood in the door way and saw the invalid's great dark eyes. "Sammy!" she cried, in o high, trained voice. "The men are at work In the judge's meadow, and he's there with 'em ! They're going to cut down all my willows and my old apple tree, my dear old apple tree, Sammy! John Koberts is there with 'em, su perintending under the judge. I tapped him in this morning just after Mr. Laphsm had gone, and he told me. Why, Sammy, H teems as if those tress belonged to me! My viow'U be sll spoiled, and it's everything I have to look at, that meadow is, Bammy!" "Yes'm, I know," said the boy, with quick sympathy. "I suppose he thinks the meadow'U be better with out the willows, and that the apple tree doesn't bear much of any fruit. He doesn't realise about you, Mrs. Lapham, the judge doesn't; I don't believe he even knows about jreu. You see he's only here in the summer, and he doesn't see much of us village peo ple," added Sammy, gently. "It's an awful pity, Mrs. Lapham." "If he knew," said the invalid, crushing her handkerchief between her clasped hands, "if hs know, do you supposs he'd leave the apple tree, Sammy? Look I Here's where I see the buds on that long branch first ; nnd then the blossoms come, all white and pink, and then the apples. And the branches are lovely even when they're bare; and you know how they shine in thV snow and ice. I've shown you so often. The road is so narrow; how can the judge help knowing about me, Sammy? How can he, with that apple tree right opposite my window, close against the wall? O, Sammy! And the windows shine so in the sun after a rain! I shall be gone before they could grow high enough for me to see them again!" Sammy's face flushed n curious red in streaks. "I will go and tell the judge about it, Mrs. Lapham," he suid. Then he turned on his heel and rushed out of the house. Even ready-tongued people hesitated to ask favors lightly ef Judge Sauu- 'fcaTS. trial t-T aBO benevolent. Fear and excite ment choked together In Sammy's throat Many ideas shot through the boy's brain aa he ran along the road to the break In the wall where the meadow bars were down, and across the meadow toward the tall figure of the judge. But more vividly than all else there rose before his mind the Invalid's face, and it was the only spur he needed. "You may begin on that oldest apple-tree. Roberts," the judge was say ing. "I have an appointment now with Mr. Willis, but I shsll be back in the course of the morning to see how the work goes on. I "Judge Saunders, please stop!" came a boy's voice behind him, and the judge turned to confront Sam my's flushed and excited face. "What's the trouble, my young friend?" he asked, in a curt tone. "Where and why do you wiah me to stop?" "It's the trees, sir!" cried Sammy, his troubled eyes fixed on the judge's keen gray ones. Mrs. Lapham is an invalid; it's years since she could i lesve her bed, sir. Hsr husband pulls it up to the window every morning before he goes off to work, so she can look out. She can see just a strip of sky snd this piece of your meadow, and it's her picture, Judge Saunders; your willows and the old apple tree are her picture, all she has to look at." The judge stopped to pick up a long blade of grass as the boy stopped for breath, but did not inturrupt him. John Roberts and the other men stood open-mouthed behind their employer. "In the spring she watches for the very first sign of green on the old apple tree," Sammy rushed on, nev er taking his eyes from the judge's face, "and she sees it, too. And .then when the blossoms come and are in full bloom, why, that's her happiest time, sir. That long.strsggly branch," the boy pointed to one arm of the old tree as be spoke, "lies right across her window, sir, with the wil lows behind it. You see, 'way across the road the meadow space between the apple tree and the willows doesn't show; they look close together, all in her picture." Sammy paused, and the flush faded from his face, leaving It unusually pale. The judge stood looking off across the meadow, drawing the blade of grass through his fingers. "That's all, sir," faltered Sammy, "but but I thought you wouldn't perhaps you wouldn't have the trees cut If yen knew, tor Mrs. Lapham haa such a very little pleasure, air, and she's feeling so aad about the trees." "Urn! I'm sorry for that," said the judge, turning his keen eyes toward the boy at last. "I suppose you're overrun with pleasure yourself, arn't you like most of the rest of usf "Sir!" stammered the boy. "Do those old willows over there come Into your friend's picture?" asked the msn, abruptly, pointing to a clump fur along the little meadow brook. "Oh, no, sir," said Sammy, quickly. "She can't see those at all." "Take the men over there, Roberts, and begin work at once. These trees may stand as long as they're needed to mske a picture for Mrs. Lapham.' said the judge. Then, as the men moved awuy, he turned again to the boy. "It's a pity you'd rather help run a milk route than learn to be an ac countant," be said, in his former curt tone. "I'm rather disappointed in what I hear of you now. I thought you had ambitton." Sammy's face grew scarlet again and his lips trembled, but he kept his eyes fixed bravely on the judge's. "I think I am anxious to do some thing better, sir," he said, slowly. "But I'd thought you had forgotten all about me, and I didn't like to say anything, and I have my undo to support, Judge Saunders." "I never forget a face," said the judge, briskly, "and you can earn more money in an office I know of than you ver can here. I'll call to see your uncle this afternoon, and have a talk with him. Now you'd bet ter go back to Mrs. Lapham and ease her mind. I'm not sure that you wouldn't make a good advocate," he added, with a grim smile. As the boy turned to go he looked up at the Lapham window, and his grave young face broke Into a smile. "How glsd she'll be. air I" he said. "I don't see how I can thank you for her and for myself." "Look here!" said the judge, laying his hand on the boy's shoulder. "Listen to me. Take seven, multiply by four, divide by two, subtract five, add three, mutKlply by eleven, divide by four, add two, divide by seven, multiply by six, divide by ten and what do you have?" The judge had spoken aa rapidly as his tongue could move, but none too fsst for Sammy. "Three, sir," came tlje instant re ply, delivered quietly. "We'll call that thanks." said the judge, calmly. "I have three boys, and not one of them can add 12 and 13 without a pencil and paper. Good by!" When Mrs. Lapham, crying softly for joy, had been left behind, nnd a whirlwind had fallen upon Uncle Hi ram Lane, nnd made dear to his mind the morning's news, the lame man set his lips for a self-appointed task. "Sam," he said, carefully, "you de serve it all, nnd Sam, your old uncle Is glad, Sam, nnd from this dny on, Providence permitting, I will never call you Sammy again." Youth's Companion. The Beat Way. Mrs. Atherton You mustn't believe all you hear, Bessie. Bessie I don't. I only believe the pleasant tilings, Sonjerville Journal THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. Lessen In International Series far Se-itember XX, tool Temper- THE LESSON TEXT. (Proverbs 23:3-36.) . Whe hath woe? who hath sorrow! who hath contentions? who hath babbling? 1 who hath wounds without cause? who fcath redneas of eyea? 3a They that tarry" long at the wide; they ttat go to seek mixed wine. SI. Look not thou upon the wine when It Is red, when It glveth his color in the cup, when It moveth Itself aright. 12. At the last It blteth like a serpent, and stlngeth like an adder. 23. Thine eyea shall behold strange wom en, and thine heart shall utter perverse things. 34. Tea, thou shalt be as ha that Ueth down In the midst of the sea, or aa he that lleth upon the top of a mast. aV They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not sick; they have beaten me, snd I felt H not: when shall 1 awake? I will seek It yet again. GOLDS! TEXT. Wine Is n mocker, atrona drink Is raglnm and whoso ever la Irerlrril thereby Is not wlae. Pro. aOtl. Warning Against Wine. The verses marked especially for the lesson form one of the best known and one of the most eloquent passages in the book of Proverbs. They set forth the tempta tions of wine and the ruin which yielding ia sure to bring. Verse 29 sets forth vividly the sufferings of the intoxicated. The words "woe" and "sorrow" are exclamations in the He brew. We might translate : "Who keeps saying: 'Oh!' snd 'Alas!'?" The quar relsomeness, the discontent, the bod ily Injury from trivial causes and the muddled vision are all familiar char acteristics of the drunkard, especially when he is actually under the influence of liquor. The process of drunken ness is described in verse 30. The man is far gone in vice who spends much time in drinking and one of whose favor ite pursuits is the invention or testing of new ways to mske liquor palatable. Such wine as waa known to the writer of the Proverbs was so mild at the strongest that it required much more effort to get drunk than is needed with the use of modern distilled liquors. Yet even the comparatively innocent wine of that age fully deserved the severe words which follow. Wine is attractive to the eye and the taste (v. II), but its beauty ia like that of the poisonous serpent, whose sting is fatal. The rsat of the pasesge de scribes the wsy in which the sting be comes manifest. Ths writer men tions first the strsnge vsions which the drunksrd sees; then foolish and vicious speech; recklessness; insen sibility, snd persistence in the evil course. He lies down fn the midst of the sea or on the tap of a swsyiag mast with equal disregard of danger. Ths last verse is exceedingly dramstic, and represents the drunken man as speaking in his half-awakened stupor. The passage says nothing of the re sult to ethers, but gives warning of the personal danger arising from In dulgence. This dsnger is common to sll who use liquor at sll, though of course many sssm to escape it. The Blsck Valley Railroad. An Im pressive illustration for the enforcing of this Issson msy be hsd from a tract written for sailors by Rev. Stedman W. Hanks nearly a quarter of a cen tury ago. The inherent force of the allegory contained is sufficient excuse for agala bringing it to public notice. The road is advertised as the "GREAT CENTRAL FAST ROUTE from 8IP PINOTON to the BLACK VALLEY." The assurance is given that accidents by collision are entirely avoided, as NO UP TRAINS ARE RUN OVER THR ROAD. Tickets over the same are sold st all liquor shops. The route taken is by no means sn attractive one. Those who start out upon It have no idea of of talrtng a through passage. They start at Srppington, pass through Med IcincvfUe, and expect to get off at Tip pletoa. But this train seldom stops at Tlppleson. It rushes madly on to To persville, around Drunkard's curve, through Rowdyvllle, and makes a stop at Quaurelton. After this the sta tions are passed very rapidly: Riot Wile, Beggartown, Woeland, Gamblers vtlle, Flghvtlngton, Brothelton, Pitfall, obbors' Den and Prlsonton. Here an other stop is made, but the journey is soonresumed, and the train with ever increastng speed whisses on to Dellr lutnton, Demonland, Hornets' Netft Tttioket, Screech Owl Forest, Horror land, Serpent Land, Maniacville, Idiot flats and into Black Valley. Then a long run is made through the Great Desert, Cloud Land, Thunder Land, Storm Land, intofTornado Gorge, and the train slows up at Flood Crossing. H te from here only a short run to the efty of Destruction. Surely the pros pectus of the trip is enough to keep any sane man from embarking thero on. Vbe trouble is that few see to wtswt great ends littls things lead. The city of Destruction is within full view if only ths trouble is taken to look. Ite wrecks may be plainly seen strewn boot its streets. It Is the little drops that make the mighty ocean, the little wtne glass that brings men to their fternal rnin. The other road is as easily taken as the Black Valley one, and all lhot is worth while lies that way. One"no"se cures the passage. It is the start, and then the habit that is formed that ac complishes tho work. And remember that temperance is as much a habit as Is drink, and as easily formed. Itaiu'N Horn Illnst. Tall trees need deep roots. A traitor is not he who fails, but ne who flees. Except life be deepened its widening will be Its weakening. No man will ever be wise who is un willing to be esteemed a fool. It is the touch of selfishness in our ambitions that turns them to sin. The Bible makes no mistake in de scribing the man who talks about its mistakes. Our sorrows may seem to wipe out the stars, but they can never blot out the Bible, our compass. HIS WllC'S weak Bean It h a singular thiag that in the popular view ef disease the interde pendence ef the several organs of the body is lost sight of. The heart, for example, is diseased and it is treated aa if it were entirely separated from, snd independent of, every other organ. The fallacy ef this opinion is shown by the cures of heart "trouble," liver "trouble," kidney "trouble" and other so-called "troubles,'' effected by the use of Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discov ery. Primarily the "Discovery" is a medicine for the cure of diseases of the stomach aad blood. But it cures die eases of organs seemingly remote from the stomach, because these diseases have their origin in s disesssd condition of the stomach aad "its associated organs of digestion and nutrition. I doctored with three different doctor tar weak heart, bat they did me no good." writes Mrs. Jails A. Wilcox, of Cygnet. Wood Co. . Ohio. Boa j i "I was so tired and discouraged if I had hsd my choice to litre or die I would have pre ferred to die. My hSthaad heard of ' Golden Medical Diaeeeery ' sad he bought a bottle. I took that aad the first half seemed to help me I took sis bottles before I stopped. I am per fectly well, aad am cooking for sur. boarders. It has bees a Cod-aead to me." Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets cure con stipation. A Fair ahiehanne. A little boy was suffering from a ' severe cold, and his mother gave him a bottle of cough mixture to take while at school. On his return she asked him if he hod taken his medi i cine. "No," he answered ; "but Bobby Jones did. He liked it, so I swapped with him for a handful of nuts." Tit-Bite. Wanted a "High Ball" Tee, The new arrival at the boarding house proved to be a woman suffra gist "I look for a wider opportunity of usefulness for downtrodden woman. My prayer, morning, noon and night," ahe said, "is for an elevated sphere." "Dont care if I join you." aaid the Coarse Boarder. "High ball for me, too," Jr. Y. Times. Tee tateriess. Mies ttruckile Mother, you are too imperious ia your behavior. Mrs. Btrucklle Too which? Mice fytrnckile You shouldn't or der people arpund the way you do. Mrs. Struekile I'm rich enougTi. Miss Struekile Yes; but I'm afraid folk will suspect that you began life as a cook. N. Y. Weekly. Aa Baeenraclngr Setback. Mr. Perkins Miss Simpson, my heart holds a great secret, but I feel ; timid about confiding it to you. Miss Simpson Well, Mr. Perkins, I ! can't help you out any; the man who 1 proposes to me, Mr. Perkins, shan't i have a chance to throw it up to me that I led him on. Chicago Record- HeraU. A IAD MUFORTl'KB. , "Wunst I used ter wear jest as good clothes as thea you've got." "You did, eh? What brought yon down te this?" "Dey found on where I got o clothes an' pinched me." Chicago American. Cloeta-Stealera. All optimists put off their woe Until to-morrow sa we know; But pessimists, to keep life gray. Groan all to-morrow's groans to-day. Puck. Aa III Wind, Bte. Mrs. Pepprey There's that Miss i Nexdore pounding the piano. Mr. Pepprey Yes, I hope she'll keep it up all night. Mrs. Pepprey What! Mr. Pepprey Yes, the landlord will be here shortly, and we'll use that as an excuse to have the rent reduced. Philadelphia Press. A Difficult Problem. "Do you think that money is the real test of success?' asked one emi cnt citizen. "I don't know about that," answered the other. "But it strikes me that the lack of it is a pretty accurate lneas reruent of failure." Washington DON'T TOBACCO SPIT and SMOKE YourLlfeawayt You can be cured of any form of tobacco easily, be made well, strong, mametic , iu""1 new life and vigor by taking HO-TO-BAO, that makes weak men strong. Many gam ten pounds in ten davs. Over BOO,OOU cured. All druggists. Cure guaranteed. Bopk , let and advice FKKK. 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