CETTING A WIFE ON TICK. A Former Telegraph Operator'* Story of Ili* Courtship in Chicago. "I found my wife in an odd way," i said ail ex-telegraph operator, who is j now a prominent officer of a western | railroad. "It was my third year in the railroad business, but I had not I forgotten the tick language, and I had 1 a room in a hotel in Chicago which had a party wall with a boarding house adjoining. In the boarding house lived a mighty pretty girl who was attending a commercial college in the next block, where there was also a | course of telegraphy taught, and I guessed by seeing the books and | papers she carried that she was tak ing that course. You see, I was i watching her rather closely, for I was interested from the first time I ever , saw her on the street. "She was a stranger in town, and, of course, there wasn't any chance for my being introduced to her, and as for flirting, she showed no more signs of ] it than a sister of charity would, though I gave her every opportunity, j I found out by a careful study of win- j dows that her room in the hoarding I house was next to mine in the hotel, l and that only made me feel worse—so j near and yet so far, you understand. ' I knew she would not be in the school j much more than three months, and as ; half that time had gone by and I still had made no progress, I began to 1 grow desperate, for I couldn't bear i the thought of losing her. You know a romance like that makes a deil more impression on a fellow than the real thing. "One Sunday afternoon I was in ray I room and she was in hers, and I could hear her driving a nail in the wall and a great thought came to me sud.- denly. The next minute I had car.ght up one of my shoes and was pounding ita , heel on my wall, hut I wasn't driving j nails. Not much, I was making a tele- ] graph call. It wasn't anything in par- 1 ticular, only an 'attention' call, and after repeating it till I was about to i give up in despair, it was answered j from the other side. Then I tele- \ graphed, 'How do you do?' and that was answered, a little bit slow, per- j haps, but answered all right, and the conversation continued. "She was not the most skilled op- ■ erator I had ever taken, but certain 1 )' J the most interesting one, and we talked through the wall till supper j time. That evening I began again, ■ but she was not at home, and when I got In at midnight I wisely forebore ! sending a 'good night' to her. Next morning 1 hailed her with 'good : morning' and got an answer, and then j I asked her if I couldn't meet her after breakfast and walk to school j with her, but she would not have it. | You see, she was shy without a brick ; wall between us. I was three or four days pleading with her with my shoe heel on that wall before she agreed to meet me, and by that time I had toll her everything, and she just couldn't refuse to give me some kind of a show. After my first walk to school with her I was utterly gone, and though she staid on and was gradu ated in telegraphy she never had a chance to practice what she learned, for before she got a job 1 had mads her promise to marry me and give up telegraphy."—New York Sun. Profemior CopliHcnu'ii Tliiory. "My dear," said Prof. Cophagus at the talile one day, "your pie is excel lent. Give me another piece." "I am afraid, dear," said Mrs. Cop- j hagus, timidly, "that we are eating too much pie. 1 think it would be a good j thing if we were to make custards and : stewed friut take the place of it." "I am aware," returned the profess or, lapsing into an attitude adopted on the lecture platform; "1 am afraid that there is a popular prejudice against I the American article of diet called pie. [ This might 1)0 overcome by calling it a tart. Let us investigate and see if j it has any rational basis. Pie is but the fraction of a degree removed from shortcake, which is generally accepted asa good.wholesotneNewlSnglanddish, being composed of a crust of flour and ! butter with fresh berries between, and a little sugar to modify the acidity of the fruit. If there is any doubt about shortcake, however, it may be said that the foundation of shortcake is identical with what we call biscuit (from the Latin, meaning twice cooked, or baked), biscuit differing from bread only in the fact of being raised with baking powder instead >f yeast ferment. And bread is the staff of life. Please pass me another piece of pie." But in spite of the professor's lengthy reasoning, his condition next morning might be briefly described as pi.—Leslie's Weekly. alio ui rii! of Znliiinmi. The brothers Woodward, two well known Natal ornithologists, have re cently issued a valuable work on the birds of Natal and Zululand, and their account of bird life round St. Lucia Bay. in the Province of Zululand, is very interesting. Among the birds encountered were the Bateleur eagle, the standard winked nightjar, which is extremely rare in South Africa; both the pied and the brown-hooded kingfisher, and the lark-heeled cuckoo (which was remarkably tame, even coming to their tent to eat porridge thrown to it). Game birds, it seems, are very scarce, at St. Lucia; but Verreaux's guinea-fowl was abundant, Zululand has a mocking bird, scientifl cally known as Cossypha bicolor (noisy chat thrush), and the long tailed cormorant is not uncommon on the hedges of that largo lagoon known as St. Lucia Bay.—Westminster Gazette. PEARLS OF THOUGHT. A bad conscience burns. He who rests need not rust. Moral darkness is moral disease. Bigotry places opinion before truth. It is easy to slip up on an oily smile. The fruit that ripens earliest rots first. Purity is the secret of pleasure in love. No man is great whose aims are small. The feet will go where the heart is inclined. Tomorrow will obey you more read ily than yesterday. A man is not dry the minute he is saved from drowning, j The fuller blown the rose of ploas- I ure the sooner its petals will fall. It does not relieve the heart of mai ice to use the tongue as an outlet. I Innocence may be but ignorance, ' but virtue wins victory after strife, i The man who coins his conscience j into cash will'never make a percent ! age large enough to buy it back. | No man has the right to say, "1 ■ have got to live;" he must live to say, I "I have got to do right."—Ram's Horn. GOLDFISH. They GtncrtiUy Acquire Their Itritiinn' Coute ft Year After Illrtli. Goldfish arc so common nowadays that tew persons ever stop to think where they come from or how they are raised. The pets require a careful and systematic raising that is scarce ly appreciated by those who expect to get them for a small price. The largest goldfish farm in the world, if it may be called such, is lo cated in Shelby county, Indiana, about 30 miles from Indianapolis. Here the original goldfish men in the United States have their propagating insti tution. There are two farms, several ; miles apart, both of which are re quired to advance the various brancli !es of the industry. In the northern | part of the county is one farm, of | eight or ten acres. The other is a few miles farther south and contains about 116 acres. The two farms constitute the Spring Lake Fishery, and in tho various pond 3 there are more than i 200,000 fish. j On each of the farms is a large ' number of small ponds, some of them not much larger than ten feet square. ' These ponds are all connected by lit ] tie channels, that the water and fish | can be let from one to the other with ! out the least difficulty. ! The breeding ponds, which are the ; most important, are protected from I the wind and cold by high embank-1 ; ments around the edges. This is all the protection that is necessary for ! the fish, even in the winter time. I While the fish are very delicate and readily succumb to overhandllng, they ■ are much more hardy than is general ly supposed. Many persons suppose that when the goldfish Is hatched from the egg it has the peculiar, pretty markings on its scales which make it so beau tiful and valuable. This is not the case. In its youth the fish is just the 1 same, apparently, as any ordinary fish. Even an expert could scarcely tell it I from the little minnows which are to I be found in any stream. It is of a whitish, silvery color, and shows not : the least evidence of the beautiful | hues which it will later assume. I There are many instances in which 1 the fish never change to the reddish color, but retain their silvery white , complexion until they are several j years old. Ordinarily the golden ! shades appear in less than a year. ! First, the fish begin to get dark, be coming almost black. From the dark j color they begin to assume a reddish | shade, and finally come out in all I their glory, full-fledged goldfish. Often the fish, instead of acquiring a solid I color all over the scales, from nose to tail, become spotted with big red blotches here and there at irregular intervals over the body. All the fish are fed exactly the same thing—toasted bread two or three times a week. Nothing else is | given them. The sun is the necessary I agent, and the only one, to complete the scheme of nature, and even this 1 sometimes does pot do its work suc cessfully.—Atlanta Constitution. No Mutter! to lie Tipped. An American slot machine res taurant lias been patented, and there i need be no more tips to restaurant waiters. Hot meals may be furnished in less than one minute by simply dropping a coin in the slot at a Chi cago eating house. When a customer seats himself in a certain restaurant there he finds in a metallic frame in front cf him a b'll of fare, arranged in a new kind of slot machine, made of coins of all denomin ations, from five cents to sl. The price of each article of food is stated on the bill of fare, and opposite each article is the appropriate slot, in which the customer inserts a coin of the proper denomination. In a minute a tray appears before the customer, and with his own hands he takes off the articles he has automatically or dered. —Philadelphia Record. Tlir I.li,mil Cure i In the vicinity of Odessa are what are called "ltmans," vast sheets of ' water, which were originally connected with the sea, but through gradual silt ing up of sand have been isolated and | are now extensive salt water lakes. By means of evaporation the waters in | these lakes have become concentrated, | and have been proved to be of so much j therapeutic value that the "liman I cure." as it is called, is rapidly grow i lng into popular favor. Yale and Harvard universities are ne- ! gotiating with Cambridge and Oxford ' lor an international athletic contest to take place in America. It roqulrs no experience to dye with PUTNAM FADELESS DIES. Simply boiling your goods In the dye Is all that is necessary, j Salmon fry in Oregon are fed on canned heads and tails of salmon till they are old enough to be planted in the rivers. To Cnro n Cold In On# DRT. Tate LAXATIVE PROMO QUININE TABLETS. AH druggists refund the m-.uey If it /alls to cure. | E. \V. GROVE'S signature IS on each box. 2bc, It is said that hornets never use the same nest a second season. I DOWNFALLS I 0 Sometimes in winter at every w (•) step there is danger of ® 1 SPRAINS : | ud | ! I BRUISES | V which cripple or hart ® ! ft? deeply, but at any time \S? i >2? from whatever cause ft? I St. Jacobs Oil 1 0 will cure surely and promptly 0 LIBBY'S Soups • TEN CENTS • 2 Libby's soups arc as good as soups • JJ can be. Some cooks may know • • how to make soups as good. None 2 2 can make them better none so • • cheaply. Six plates of delicious • m soup for i o cents and think of 2 2 the bother saved! ® • Oxtail, Mulligatawny, Chicken, 2 • Mock Turtle, Tomato, Vegetable, • o and Chicken Gumbo. * O At your grocers, in cans ready for instant # ® serving just heat them. • O LIBBY, MoKEILL & LIBBY • Chicago • • Write for our booklet, "How to Make # ® Good Things to Eat." • ©©©•©•••oc®®ee©eooooo#t® " '"*MgaaBaLgginiinri ILL iiMijis&a^BiafigTa^^ | jbj jgr rm ga ■— me, g| M k, IjW 3 OUR mirror will tell you the bitter troth. ,] jflLJ?, f T^ZfjfSß 99 Healthy women looK younger than their age, but you look far too old ''l 33 K| ll®Hlil xime deals lightly with the woman in good health, but the wasting iftl rlHa \4r\Sff JfS BU JrW M ■■flraQj' ffij The Creator has endowed every woman with beauty, and every woman in good t'ftj on HI health is bcautllul and comely to look upon. A clear, fresh, wholesome look ?SI SO" IB ' s the fcsnlt the Possession of good H ft*! Bmz Iff TB jßhlv'W SP e- ©l| fccaltli. and no woman can be beautiful I .£1 wferfw wkfeaw SBWia 2m Sj ffjS an( j attractive without good health. ™n nr jttfC m §£r&\Bfir? j! ; 2 B|| The dull, dead, gnawing pain, the sense KJFSM 2E> • I Departing HEALTH and BEAUTY \ |JS of nervousness, weakness, oppression, I ffXP 1 '•.•■■a Galled Back by H and discouragement, the tired, listless, *us=ea hr q&erAirm n 1 SKSStS Makes Health | urm W > 1 and Happiness , V H producers of dull tcaden complexions, —■ —— ; V' 1 R unnatural flushings, dark circles under ™ tSP IS to M B® the eyes, humors, eruptions, blackheads, lustreless eyes, and other disfigurements H mnim i ■■■! i■ii mi i ■■WW which divest women of their natural gift of beauty. > •yjUt jtliJ y":'" Why be homely when you can be bcaatiful and attractive? -1 Get good health and with it those looks and attributes which attract, please, H and fascinate. It is within you' power to do so, for it is within every woman's power to be well and strong, and hence look her best, if she will use 9 Dr. Greene's Nervcra to give her strong, vigorous nerves, pure, rich blood, a clear complexion, and thus restore the energies and vitality of sound | and perfect health. p \ : i Cood health means youthful good looks to every woman, and It behooves women to restore jtfx&S&iST* '■ Si jj and maintain their health by taking that greatest and best of all health restoratives, jf^ 1 frifctsfiraaii—^Mi^—M S Dr. Greene's Nc. vura blood and nerve remedy. It will build up the health, cleanse and jdcWr .. I purify the complexion, restore brilliancy to the eye, make rich, red blood and RSL, Of I strong, steady, and vigorous nerves. Dr. Greene's Nervura will make you look k '** l J and feel young and restore your energies, vivacity, and enjoyment of life. JRfc3r I MRS. KATE AUSTIN, 40 Jenny Llnd Ave., Somervlllc, Mass., says: f QV 1 1 I "I had a pain in my side for soventean years. I also suffered with '' *1 N W i terrible backache and headache; such an awful headache, and I hatl not a bit of appetite. I cried with pain from womb trouble, and win as VWyr , ? Hi 9sl pale as a ghost. I was terribly nervous. I could not sleep for a iNr fy '~ longtime, and had rheumatism in my shoulder and arm. I suf- ''W-! i ?l I_LAb H fered everything; nobody but God knows how I suffered. lAT ■ I weighed 128 poundk. A friend reconled Dr. Greene's & vI'JKIIa V ,19 H H K Nervura blood and nerve remedy, and T commenced to Vj 7' * ■ fl I ————l n™nam<Lwnthattho , . Pi y ... .. ... tlrsl. bottle did not do WSJ JW'- ,*■') ."■ w'\l *h-> i' 1. \V. 1 I Destroys Beauty did me good and I iwvj: ■>'>s..&PQ&f (Jn[ np r snd Happiness. | WwMS&L 4 M ?, DRm GREENE'S || {"" |fc W M? \l B| I S""®" „ EfSSS I s B MziUCQS YOU Woiß 1 don't believe there I Iff SbL I end Restores PiltW ft I'tiW g I Your Good Looks. | jr H || trouble I hail lcucorrhoea, butsinco taking Kervurathat uS It I !,, ! 1 lias disappeared. I feel strong, and last summer was able H \U" ' IT 1 to do the work for fourteen in a family, and I weigh 103 H § rr' J 1 p*lj'|l .p'lf-* ' t I pounds. I was BO weak beforo, nobody knows how I Mi If 11 liimfi Vfc ■ I worked, but I had to work for my children. I sent two 303 ( I I \CsZsSSr-- ""SLI lii' l I> j 1 LA M Itiiffl bottles of Nervura to my brother in Nova Scotia, and it HI LI g did him lots of good. 1 recommend Dr. Greene's Nervura SJjjj It' f \ I J Women bave absoiate confidence in Dr. Greene's !g [/ (/l//// j H Nervura, marc so than in any other remedy, be- Ha [jV // // j//// /\ 1 U\l V\ \\ 3llflrll ilJl ttt/i H J g cause it is purely vegetable and a famous regular Eg V/V\ Sf \ If If 1/ // / \ \\ \ \ V\\ \\. / liWr* vrnJ ISH ' 9 physician prepares it, which Is a guarantee that it SIS Jl/Lj // / , \ \ \ \ \j \\\ V s / Mfo'liti® j y is perfectly adapted to cure. As an additional assur- IMiY/Tmr? (L / / \ \\ \ V.A \\ /t (. | 9 ance of cure, Dr. Greene, 35 W. 14th St., New York \U* \ U'. \|yfi_ j \ r 1 \ lt' U ' ' 1 City, gives you the privilege of consulting him with- HM \\ \V\ v I —(I /! n W out charge or cost, either by calling or writing about * - \ iixitj/ A LUXURY WITHIN THE REACH OF ALL! 4 T __ Why has MSXJ LION COFFEE is on every package of now become the leader ■ mai nnrrrr °* package coffees? II AN mm WfV?) {ty Jt And why is it used in -J J millions of homes ? you buy. It guarantees t Because it does not JUprt,. No coffee is LION COFFEE ii J r„ r v^ N tt 1 mixtures or chemicals unless it is in a 1 pound f / \ in order to hide imper sealed packet with the <„! fections. head of a lion on the J ust a P acka g e of LION COFFEE pure coffee —the highest , , ... Watch our naxt advertisement. ana you will under grade for the money, stand the reason of its popularity. In every package of LION COFFEE you will find a fully illustrated and descriptive list No housekeeper, in fact, no woman, mam boy or girl will fail to find in the list some article wkioh wiH contribute to their happiness, comfort and convenience, and which they may have by simply cutting out a certain number of Lion Heads from the wrappers of our one pound sealed packages (which is the only form in which this excellent coffee is sold). WOOLSON SPICE CO., TOLEDO, OHIO. | Tale students are to be taxed $7 apiece I for athletics. The Beat Prescription for Chills and Fever 1B H bottle of GROVE'S TABTSI.ESS CBII.L TONIC. It Is simply iron and quinine In . a tasielcas form. No cure—no pay. Price 600. | | Less than I per cent, of the land in Norway is in use for grain fields. Piso's Cure cannot be too highly spoken of BRa cough cure.—J. W. O'BRIEN, 322 Third Ave., N., Minneapolis, Minn., Jan. 6, 1900. Jasper is found abundantly in the lake : regions and elsewhere. DR. SHAFER Jv The U rlno Hpolallst (Water JB& 1 Doctor) can detect and explain the most complicated chronlo VC VI disease by the urine; If curable, Vs JSd/ treat It successfully by mail. Vv.-*" **7 Bend 4 cents for mailing caso . /' for urine. Consultation, anal y"' ysis of urine; report and book oil this new science, free. Y J p. CHAFES, H D., 423 Penn Ave, ■ 'First Floor, Pittsburg, Pa. Iw mm 111 _ Safest, surest cure fbr Dr.fclUll S throat and lung Vm a ■ mm w troubles. People praise Cough Syrup u S c . to "r'^ l i i: Refuse substitutes. Get Dr. Bull's Cough Svrup. ... IN CHILDREN ARE veritable demo DR. H |l | M|| nnd must bo removed VVUIuBfIW or seriouß results (■■BBBBBESSanBSaa follow. The medicine which for 60 years has hold the record for successfully ridding children of these pests is Frey'sVermiluge —made entirely from vegetable products, containing no calomel. IT ACTS AS A TONIC, by mail. E. &S. FRET, Bultlmore, Md. jjji neat Gouph Go.'l. DSC E in time. Sold by druggists. |*v ;, Water Si® WTatf&zflL . Greatest. Cheapest Pood on Earth f tor Sheep, Swine. Cattle, BilSion Bofiiar Grass j For this Notice and fOo.^ fail"wthVlOto getTm | * brilliant lUerMd catalog. I MAML^EDjQ.^O P. N. U. 7, 1901. DR O PS'Y^SS ; :3 BOOK of teatimoniala end 10 day*' trailer l>ree. Dr. H. H. ttIiEEN'SBONB. Box B. Atlauta, ,
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