: [on WA DENTISTS CHAR. | oes rent vewns) A POUND OF CURE. [A Oe wats omnia” sie «| FACTS AND FIGURES | “When we | had never suffered any pain before and | | sumed, much encouraged. : : |—and it is hard to stand! Each nerve BY GRACE MCGOWAN COOKE. | went up the Nile the winter mother was Eien thle us the fignte of the majority of the When my sister first he’'rd my choice | in my body seemed to hold its breath | quite sure that rheumatism was all that | : i 1i either good of a profession she was for a moment | and watch, and when you hurt one they ‘Please don’t laugh!” | was the matter with me, there was an 5b Bn corse}. makes the Agure; abd makes it sifher struck speechless—a sure sign of amaze- | all cried together! I know I shall - | artist on the boat with us who wanted ] ment in a girl—and then gleefully ex- dream of > and b rt She leaned forward and looksq ol: 1 i 1 il There is no longer any excuse fora bad aghre. The 1 2 i 4 you ar your buzz-saw to- most piteously at the quiet, thoughtful to teach me io paint. was wild to “Century” is constructed especially for stout women. claimed : | night! man behind the desk. “I know you'll learn. He painted those wonderful, | Diagonal boning underneath makes it simply impossible “ : 2 71 “ ’ . . | A dentist! O Stanley! Then you | Please leave out the buzz-saw!” 1.4: 14 is silly, but, oh, please don’t | wonderful sunsets. He was an impres- | for lig Sol; 1 poate tr the corsetis break at . . . » ’ . 1! will die an old bachelor, for all the | exclaimed, audaciously. say so.” ; | sionist, you know, and the way he did | eh i women will look upon you as an in- | i be . ; | : : i Every stout woman who reads this will buy the ; p 3 s | So it happened that as a prophet | Gp very far from expecting to say | them was not a bit hard. I could al | Century” Corset. We want (you to take orders for us human wretch. Besides, no man ever | Nell has “no honor in her own coun- that you are silly,” returned Dr, Thorn- | MOSt do them myself without any show- | n your town. . . - . . 1 . - . - ” ’ - | - - 1 ” . fell in love with a girl in a dentist’s | try,” for I fell in love with a girl in ton with his most assuring smile | ing; but father interfered about that. | . No. 1..0LD FASHIONED FIGURE : ea tS oa > : r ; S - i . 2 | Fure i ue . chair. The prettiest of them look hor-| adental chair, she did not consider me | But the girl did not see it; her big | He said the smell of the paint would | Gi rid with their hair all frouzzley and | on “inhuman wretch,” : di | : ? D Frits ST, \ fae . : | : hei hs stretched. Ugh!’ y 10% Br i wretc hy and I did not | eyes—eyes which most modern physi- make me ill, and working in that light | cil ‘goukin’ bi6 nok sola to we dry goads ' ; ! Hi mou streichec No : I 1 [die bn old bachelor, | cians would call neurotic, but which all | Would hurt my eyesight. Why, doctor, | stores. We give you exclusive territory. We give S ! “Don’t talk sentiment, Nell, growl- | . ! | 4g : . ; : i et err OG urient : H 1a animals and children loved and trusted, | there was never, never anything the Te me Tey ed. 1 have 2 few things to lean suddenly filled with tears, and to con- | least bit the matter with my eyes, though | any other work and a pile of money to make before | — { Cnta mother did take me year before last to | : . et 3 “ os : y | ceal them she looked intently down at yee - ht ; cone tipping off the matrimonial plank. PLAYED WITH AN ELEPHANT AND : : 2 an oculist who fitted me with glasses. | We teach Sou thoroughly, ths! you cs becom = ! SHE DASHED HIS LIFE OUT her own slender, tremulous fingers as |‘ gl "4 an expert corset fitter. In the three years that followed 1 . thee fuiibled over ihe tvines of : -at | They made me wear them for six or | wo a 5 . TY Tosi a fow : Dada fter . 1ey tumbled over the tyings of a grea - : | Write us to-day for territory. Send $3.00 for outfit . did “learn a few things” and soon afte evra] 3 - more months, till they got the notion of | complete, including our two most popular corsets, ; . f parcel in her lap. / y 1 neil ete ur ¢ I was hard at work trying to make S : a 1 aie beinmine von the fruits of my having another physician, who said it | advertising matter to distribute, &c. a name for myself in a large city, I Stew York.—James Fielding Blount, week's retreats Nb said * | was all nonsense.” We will send you measurement blank and make had received considerable patronage and | 39 years old, of Fort Wayne, Ind, was “1 Te i Tho Toe hod become “Was vour artist a young man?” ini one of the sample corsets to fit you. was rapidly attaining both a competence | killed by one of the elephants in the : yas yonder a what ih Eg ; the 4 5 Pr ingly er Secure territory at once. There is a substantia 3 «c oo = : snagerie fore »f my star patient,” he returned smiling- | quire 2 ctor, smilingly. | i i rou. . and self confidence when, one beautiful | menagerie of Forepaugh and Sells Bro- i “I did > Yuh: But vou had ii |? “Don't” she begged “it’s so sbsurd. | income in it for you 7 rine ic ; enter and | thers circus now showing in Brooklyn. | 'Y: : y 2 - a Sly oy . ny hig ne | Blount had a small water glass in Th ed my last advice verbatim, and gone to | He couldn’t help being young. Father | CENTURY CORSET €O., 3 2 eq by o 4 aiden In Sok me hand and was flashing it before an | taking in washing—or cellars to clean.” called him a fortune-hunter (when he | 109 South Fifteenth Street, or an office boy! ! ‘ as fas Ps ¥ Se aE : : \ . Straighte 4 ’ t highest mark | elephant named Topsy, known to be | You know,” she began again, “or was talking to me about nim, 1 mean), Figure No. 2.—UP-TO-DATE FIGURE, Pniladelphia,, Pa, t prmigh Shing 4p to my gues | plavial. 1 ‘Topsy did , 1 rather.” she corrected, with a little half- | and quoted that thing about his pictures | Acquired by fitting Figure No.1 with the *“ Century.’ I answered stiffly: “I am Dr. Walden.” | P i ul, but lopsy did not seem to rel- | hysterical laugh. “vou don’t know how | looking like a tortoise-shell cat having | “Par ndstake”'s . | ish the sport. {Hy Rl laugh, 3 | s : Pardon the niistoke, she mupiied; | Befor 0 + could lize | deadly weary I am of being told not to | a fit But nobody would want a for-| —— g then louder: “I came to have my teeth | tore biount coud realize her tem: | verdo. 1 am to let Maitha walt on] tame. even, tacked to such a bundle of | heart's pict he bont examined with a view to filling any cav- | Per, Topsy threw her trunk around him, ¥ordo, ail | tise as 1 am arts picinie hers, OF even cure Shou THE PINES OF CAROLINA ities there may be.” lifted him high in the air,and with awful | me, and the modiste manufacture my ] mise . a sweetheart at all,” she added. “Cer- . . eS . | : Ln * ales | “yr i 1g” nd : ; : ’ . As she took off her wraps 1 observed | force slammed him to the earth several | taste, and mother do my thinking, and i You poor child, : said the doctor, tainly, he wouldn't be likely to admire AT YOUR HOME, ;: times. breakin ; 1 in his body | the doctor to see to my body, while | “everybody has been living your life for {a young person who had all the ills | her narrowly, for I had all a young S, ¢ g every bone in his body | = Sh 4 > : lop havi 1 Mar’s otro: of estremely HeTvONS WO | and beating his brains out | the preacher attends to my soul, all | you so vociferously that you have hardly | that human flesh was ever heir to, and | or any one having plumonary asth- men, and felt a sense of 7eliet as che | | because I am such a wretched, no-ac- | been allowed to draw your breath nat- | had been dragged over half the known | matic or bronchd trouble—here ’ 1 timbed iar a hair without: any | | count creature that if I should ever | urally.” world with a view to merely keeping her | O : s | | attempt anything I'd get tired or be « . , alive.” SOMETHING NEW! sign of fear. POWER OF ELOQUENCE. Lo, mp y £ g Oh, I couldn't at all that least of Bat she said: “1 have fever Yad any) sick. all,” rejoined the girl, seriously, “I When the doctor came back he found a ; : ad “You cant’ complain,” said the doctor, | have had th different doctors who | her contentedly packing up her dolls OUR MEDICATED PINEY PILLOWS fillings and hope none are Necessary | smiling, “that I haven't set you to work.” i Ty De 3 “Now,” he announced, “first for th hos: 2 . v | S : a S # . Z, ! 2 now,” adding as I lowered the headrest: | Much has been written and related “Dont you see,” she returned, “that me pe ne Spee OE ey sat and then I'm going ig with : ; “How essential it is that you have pretty | ; lic persuasive el an eh So y to learn to breath right. 5 They are treated with our new dis ling paper!” | the persuasive eloquence of mimis- | js just why I cling to you, and tag after | They both laughed, and the doctor | you. covery—a secret process and fully pro c hy p pe : 1s bh Shag . ters of the Gospel as well as the queer | you in this absurd way? They've taken put his finger on the big parcel, and They were in the doorway, and the | tected, whereby we get the concentrated es, and that cep the cobwebs out | manifestations of the power of religion, me to a new doctor, you know, a nerve | said. “Well. what's in here?” doctor paused, key in hand. She had | EXtract Pine Needles, It is the result of of the corners.” T answered. ne di : coi | ig 2 . : y W 5 ! . 1 long trial and experiment, and we go be- . ta 7 .. as noted from time to time, but there | specialist at the hospital—and I can’t “Why. just this” she returned, catch- | just found her voice, and her eyes were | f thi 1 : 3 Inspection showed a small cavity in| is probably nothing stranger on record LE A y, J it 8 ) il oft the 2 1: “OL. doctor oS S Joonis with an article of real f || bez —] can't— ! i ; i - | full of tears a cried: ctor, rit— 2 s ri a back tooth. than that which is here set forth, says, “I didn’t k » caid the d i mg the covers and Balding them $0 7 ? : 1 that I on hs el re #0 1 fill 2 {> ‘she 3 : ? idn’t know,” said the doctor, sim- | gether; “there is only one thing on earth will you really? How good you are! at. J e dread disease, this 0 it’ ust be filled at once!’ SAS she Chorlotte News ply. “I'm sorry.” And she knew well | that I have b crmitted tol to | Do try to make them understand. Tell will help to check and stop it. if you cried, closing her eyes and clasping her | A snake entered East, Side Presby- | that he as sorry for more than the thet 2ve ooen pernAtied fo lean io ther alk to thei Just ae de 4 have not but are afraid of it, we guaran. . . . a JAS S r - TY] ee] t S 1 ~y 3 hands over a tiny silk handkerchief. | {opin Chapel during the morning ser- || £ atient. do perfectly. - When 1 had singing les | t PR Inst ps yon foe this Specific 10 prevent it. All the 4 1 . £ - loss of a pa . ‘hi , z ini I pulled up the drill and began as gently | vice vesterd: raw] : Sf ush 0 p x i sons for a while to develop my chest, me ; : € eluents of pine and tar are int and the : ; | vice yesterday, crawled upon a bench,| “Why, doctor,” she went on, “you | they stopped them just about the time “Well hardly,” smiled the doctor. “I | Price is such as to place it within reach as possible, but the tooth was one of | (ictly ro al Bn eed ° . y pp J " > : : : of all—$3.00, and fit fa h If ; : quietly arranged himself in a coil and | seemed to me more like an angel than a | 1 got really interested, because another | think they want something a little more 3.00, anc or any home. the deceptive kind that externally seem | omained complacently throughout the | ; id ‘Sh d Xk 8 y 2, oe : 5 : you are in doubt, send 10c for small sam- so sound. when all decayed within, Pain! oui man’ when you sai e needs work. | doctor thought they might be injurious | severe than I could find it in my heart | ple and submitit to your physician, they was inevitable. Her eyelids quivered orviee. . . . She isn’t ill at all.” How could you know | t5 me. They let me learn a little about | to say to vou. T’d like to tell them that | all endorse it. Or send us your own di ily. and i ain toaching. herls I'he bench which his snakeship chose | that? Nobody else has been able to see | cooking the year we lived at Cannes ;but | if they can’t take care of you properly, pilldws, Which Se will thoroughly re- 9 3 gnuy, 3 o> | for his devotional exercises, if such |it in all these miserable years—except | | T want to take the entire responsibility novate and medicate to any degree of shoulder, felt a sudden shiver, and— she had fainted away! At first T simply stood still and star- | ed; then I began to fan her, expecting every moment to see her open her cyes. But there seemed not a quiver of life in her! Thoroughly frightened, I lifted her light, limp form and carried her to the sofa. Everything I could think of I did to they were, was occupied by several | poor me, and I only felt it in a dim, ladies who form the choir at the chapel. groping fashion.” Nobody saw the snake enter the church, The doctor smiled sunnily. “Oh, that but the first intimation of the reptile’s | ig my religion,” he returned. “If people presence was when a gentleman, who are a little ill, why then a little work; sat on the seat just behind the choir | if they're more ill, more work, and if bench, leaned over during prayer and | they're ‘like to die, why a great deal whispered to one of the ladies to move of work and thought for others—not up toward the other end of the bench | for themselves—that’s a patent cure of | should overheat myself and take a cold! | “But, doctor, I can dress dolls. [ |Tearned that when I was a little girl— | too little to be manufactured into an not enough to do it well, for fear I: | fective,” she returned, evasively, as she | interesteing invalid; IT have never lost | the knack of it. Last week, when I felt | | so frantic and desperate because the | to have nervous prostration again, and | | doctor at the hospital said I was going | off their hands—may I say something like that?” “Say anything you think will be ef- busied herself over the tyings of her numerous scarfs. “Anyhow, there will be two of us to face them, and there's strength in numbers.” “No,” returned the doctor, as he took strength to order, for $1.00 each. This is no fake—we want agents and the first in each territory or city will get a spec- ial opportunity. ther particulars. N. Y. FEATHER & BEDDING CO., 439 Canal St., New York City. Mentionthis paper when you write, please. Tr i Tl to on pirposes avd and he would tell her why he wanted | my own.” | finer was hestoring whether sher'd | the ting out of her inde sad compelled R70 : )_Puzbose. her to move after service. The lady| “It made me fairly love you,” burst | peter take me to Africa or Australia | her to look at him, “there isn’t in this Bd BI PB S there on my knees, fanning her, I had | . lied ith tl h : | : ; i . i = complied with the suggestion and | out the girl, and she blushed rosily, add- | for the sea voyage, I just made Martha case, for.a man and his wife are one. time to contemplate the situation. gingerly and quietly moved in the di- bought; all kinds and conditions. Send them in Write at once for fur- ing, apologetically. “You must take that | 5 out and buy a dozen dolls for me, and en {ey 2 ! 2 bon at our expense, and we will allow highest value in rection indicated, afraid to look to the |in a Pickwickian sense, doctor—or in a |] have been dressing them ever since, ) 5 cash, or exchange for new goods. 100 pounds, by express; over 100, freight. To call for help from the adjoining offices would only bring me into ridi- cule as a young man who half-killed his patients; there was not the slight- est clew to her identity, so I could not telephone for her friends; besides, it was only a faint caused by fright prob- ably, for I could not have hurt her very badly. I would just wait. As T came to that conclusion she started up and threw one arm across my shoulder. It was a new and de- cidedly thrilling sensation. But in an- other instant complete consciousness re- | turned and she sprang to her feet with an air of intense disgust. 1 felt all the humiliation a man can feel and expected reproachful, even an- gry words from her, Instead, she turned | deliberately and climbed in to the chair. “Perhaps you will let me put a bit | was certain of a scream and a fainting | as he would keep an eye on the reptile right or left, yet fearing that some- | hymanitarian sense, perhaps, I ought to thing dreadful was about to happen. gay” As for the discoverer of the unwelcome “Oh, I understand,” replied the doc- visitor, he was in a dilemma. If he ap- | tor. as he came around the desk, and prised the lady in front of him of the took the bundle out of her nervous, reason for his unusual suggestion he | futtering hands, and seated himself fac- | ling her. “Now, my dear little child, | scene, and he knew that any attempt of | | want you to be quiet and relaxed and his to forcibly eject the extraordinary worshiper would result in a disruption of the solemn services. He finally de- cided upon the former course as the wisest, and moving nearer the young woman told her in a whisper that a snake was occupying the same bench with her, but to remain perfectly quiet at peace for about fifteen minutes, while | | talk to you. I'm glad you sent Mar- | tha away, and that your mother is not here, for I want to address myself to you, not to an expurgated edition of vous self —which is what I usuzlly get when I call at the house.” She nodded and laughed mischievous- ly. She was beginning to lose all fear, and feel no embarrassment with this | grave, quiet, kindly, youngish man, who and dispatch it at the first hostile move. Be it said to theeverlasting credit of | deed, from laughing. | his well-molded mouth drooped with | keen sympathy as he looked at the gay- | hospital or somewhere where they have and I believe I never was so happy for a week in my life.” She laid them down in a smiling row on his desk. “There!” she said. “Re- member, I beg you not to laugh.” But Dr. Thornton was very far, in- | The corners of ly-fashioned toys, and thought of this superbly endowed young creature re- | duced to that method of expression. “It’s like a poet in prison, making | shoes,” he said, half under his breath. “Now, I have thought,” she hesitated, “that you might, perhaps, take me to a | children patients who would care for them.” | which Mr. G. F. Brochat, of Hamilton, | Brochat was unusually busy, and was TO FEAST ON LOCUSTS. The Biblical record that John the Baptist was fed upon locust and honey in the wilderness is the precedent upon Baltimore county, near Lauraville, pro- poses to give a locust feast to his fam- ily and friends. Mr. Brochat is an ice-cream mannfac turer, but contends, nevertheless, that focusts are not only fit for human food, but are, in fact, a luxury. He proposes to feast his friends upon locust soup, broiled and fried locust, stewed locust and locusts served in pies and other- The feast was recently, but Mr. wise. Reference on request or Dun and Bradstreet. N.Y. FEATHER & BEDDING CO. Inc., 439 Canal Street, New York City ECZ E M A Tetter, Salt Rheum, 3 Barber’s Itch,Scald — ————-. Head, Ring Worm, Itching Piles, Sore Eyelids, Facial Blem- ishes, and all Skin diseases promptly cured by Spencer’s Ointment. Sent to any address on receipt of 25 cts. A. O. PILSON, Pharmacist, 1327 W. Baltimore St., Baltimore, Md. hopper, or Rocky Mountain locust,which is common in the West, has jaws and can eat. Usually when they arrive in any numbers at all, everything green for miles around is completely swal- lowed up and disappears. “The cicada, however, has no jaws and cannot eat when once above the surface of the ground. It may absorb dew and dampness, but it cannot eat. u of cotton into the cavity before you | 0 youre Iudy she neither, screamed foo. Ea a | “Sure enough,” he answered, making unable to spare the necessary time to | 1 hardly think the cicada would supply go.” I stammered. lr ren, Bat ot aeiey, fone a 5 ur vi i | an obvious effort to Soe the situation as | gather the thousands of locusts which nourishment enough for a man to live s “Do you suppose I'd be so silly as] fervously throughout the service. Tol vp ; o 2 : ii i jan ordinary ane. : I'll send for a cab. were needed for the dishes he is pre- | upon, although the grosshopper, or lo- to go home without finishing the work?’ ‘snake followed the good example set de a oa ° a < or | : My carriage is down-stairs, if you | paring to serve, Every blade of grass cust proper, _which is eating all the she answered, scornfully. Liss by the congregation and did not am oe ye nee is Os 2 useless! will use that, and Martha may go home | in Lauraville and the surrounding coun- | time, might. I'he cicada, instead of hav- There was nothing for it but to go ung. you don’t use your brain it | the best way she can.” try, it is hardly an exaggeration to say, | ing jaws, has simply a sharp-pointed on, although my own nerves were now shaken and I would have given dollars stir from his comfortable coil and after becomes cloudy in its workings; if you | the benediction had been pronounced don’t use your arm it withers; and most | Her eyes were bright, and there was a pink color coming into her cheeks, has a locust upon it, and there are mill- | beak, which it can sink into a rootlet | ions in the neighborhood of Hamilton. Funder the ground and suck out the sap, the gentleman who had discovered his of all, if you don’t use the life that is to have her go. Her pluck was admir- able, yet 1 easily guessed that she was inwardly quaking with fear. “Ugh! that snake in the grass!” was her only exclamation, however, as I drew up the drill. At last the ordeal was over. Hur- riedly she gathered up her things, paid | her bill and turned to the door. I tried with a little Frenchy gesture and said, | themselves.—Life. | visitor that the eloquence of the Rev. | snakeship secured a club and ended | given you—use it, I mean for any prac- the snake's career. It was about two | (ical purpose—it will be taken from feet long, and of what is known as the | you.” cane variety. | Among those who heard of the queer | girl. “One is so miserable when there's | . | | Hugh W. Hoon attracted to his church | nothing on earth for one to do.” the incident was a fruitful topic of | ~ r cat red. conversation for some days. Some we | girl; you have been kept as useless as | vated, I think it alone ought to make “One may be perfectly willing to give | it up, most of the time,” answered the | “That’s why you have been ill, little | “Hurrah!” cried the doctor, “it’s rank | mutiny, and I'm with you every time | Amuse yourself with these books for a few moments until I dispose of a case be ready to elope.” When the doctor was gone she arose | and went softly about the room. “How wonderful—and how delightful-—it must » or two in the dispensary; then we shall | | who would indulge in having a sweet- | Some of the members of Mr, Brochat’s | family look with distress upon the lo- | cust as an article of food and are dis- | posed to await a trial by his friends before they themselves partake. There is, however, indisputable evi- dence that the locust is not only edible, but in some parts of the world consid- ered a dish calculated to please the most an elephant from a horse. The grass- but it cannot eat at all above the ground. “The French eat locusts as a luxury, but they do not eat them alone. They | are served with kidneys, sweetbreads or other dishes, and they appear to enjoy them immensely. 1 cannot say that the locust dishes which IT have tasted were in any way enjoyable. There is little or no flavor to it, although, of course, a drink in a saloon” to: apologies, but she ent me short, |; 2 0 "ph oe Tn | 3 | be,” she said to herself, “to work every | exacting epicure. In France locusts are | any sort of flavor can be given any dish, saying, with the glimmer of a smile: hig polt in the world's hlstory tat? ghing shepherdess on 2 shelf. [day at Something useful, somethiug nec- | served with kidneys and with sweet- | and you hardly know you are eating VY “You were as gentle as possible; but | ii mk roan Shoat Holt Oh, I have, I have,” she breathed, | essary. breads, and in various forms are con- | anything at all. ; —well, T wish I had been born with | Sl ofieur. Brae parents and Is geile) and I did hate it so! The winter we | She paused before the bookcase and sidered by the French a most delight- | Seventeen years ago Mr. George W. false teeth!” She bowed and was gone. | dl sealed ob the personsl: repres | were in Japan (Dr. Olivant sent us read the titles on the volumes. “I'm ful dinner dish. | Seipp, crier of the County Court at Tow- Then I walked the floor, gritted my | ae % the Prifce of Darkress] there, you know, for my—my throat, I | such an idiot that I hardly know what | Prof. Philip R. Uhler, provost of the | son, says he first ate locusts. His appe- teeth and did various other boyish | ee hn dndeit | think it was—or maybe that was the time the names mean, even,” she mused, smil- | Peabody Institute, said that he had eaten | tite now does not crave them and he i”) things that would not look well in | - i" tae Wanedt to ee d&- | they thought I was going into consump- | ing ruefully. At the table she stared | locust soup and had tasted locusts, both | has not partaken of any this year. He print. Ah! There was her handker- | a vis And orion is congresar] tion), I did so plead and beg to be al- with awe-struck eves at a shining jase fried and broiled. : : never ate any cooked locusts, but says chief and cardcase, forgotten in her| 20 Mr Hoods power of nad to take up kindergarten work. | of surgical instruments. To think, There is,” said Dr. Uhler, ‘very little he does not see why they would not extraordinary haste to get away. Open- | Wana “ limit : { Those dear little Japanese children are she murmured under her breath, ‘of hav- | taste to the locusts. It is like eating | be as good fried, broiled or stewed as ing the latter I found the cards inscrib- % | so cunning and sweet, and it would have | ing the courage to use those things on | the soft shell of a crab. There is no crabs, shrimps or oysters. ed: “Miss McNair, 474 Fast C i | been like work in fairyland for me, but | a living creature. Yes; and the knowl- | more flavor to the locust than there is Mr. C. Bohn Slingluff, of the Bal- Avenue.” | Physician (at hospital) =-1 thought | mother thought it was too much of a edge and skill to use them to cure and | to the shrimp, and there is almost no timore County Bar, says it has been Of course these things must be taken | von merely had the riensles? | strain on my voice. Oh, yes; it must | not to kill! ; nourishment at all to it, because of the his custom to eat locusts and that they to her as soon as possible! So behold | ; Patient Well. isn't that enough? have been my throat. I remember from | The mantelpiece was full of photo- | lack of meat. On the locust that we | are the most palatable dish any person a 4 me in the twilight of that very day | ppysician—VYes; but you are covered | that! Well, they cabled Dr. Olivant graphs. She picked out a sweet-faced, | have here, or the cicada, which is its| ever ate. He has not been feeding on ringing the bell of a beautiful residence. | ith bruises from head to foot. How | about it, and he said By no ad let | gray - haired woman for the doctor’s | proper name and title, there is absolute- | them this year, however, because on ac- : While waiting for her entrance it| 45 vou account for that? | her exert herself in any way.” I was | mother. : Ail of the others, save one, | ly no meat at all, There is nothing to | count of the dry season they did not suddenly dawned on me that the proper | pent Oh, they brought me here in | to lie on a cot in the sun for three were children (Dr. Thornton Is a spe- | it but the shell, and it is almost im- | come up in their pupa state, and he only 3 thing would have been to have sent | ambulance—Chicago News. | hours every day, and think of nothing | cialist in children’s diseases), but this | possible to derive nourishment from it, liked locusts in that state. They came 4 8 the articles with a polite note and the | | at all! But I didn’t,” with sudden | one picture of a smiling girl troubled | no matter how it is cooked or served. | up half-winged, and they are not so 4 thought added a mite of lead to my | . [ferceness, " just lay there and thought | her a bit. ] “The locust which John the Baptist | good that way. 3 sinking spirits. : | She—After all, what is the difference | of awful things as much as I pleased.” “It’s his sister,” she said to herself. | fed upon was entirely different from | a She did seem somewhat surprised, but between illusion and delusion? | The doctor smiled encouragingly at | “Oh, yes,” in the tone of one who re- | the locust which we have now in Balti- | “Yes,” said the father proudly, “there greeted me more pleasantly than I| He—Illusion is the lovely fancies we | her. “You've got I nice little temper | assures oneself, “she quite looks like | more. That locust was, in fact, the |is good stuff in my boy.” hoped. After thanking me for the arti- | have about ourselves; delusion is the | of your own, which ‘might become the | him. I don’t believe ,” after a long si- | grasshopper, and is as different from “I agree with you,” replied the un- 3 cles, she clasped her hands together foolish fancies other people have about salvation of you; if it’s carefully culti- | lence, “the doctor is the kind of man | the cicada which is with us today as is cle. “I just saw him pay twenty cents ! ¢ |
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