1 ! 1 Most Women Can tell a good shoe when they see it. !' . : Tais illustrates one of the stylos of the "La France." We have five others. All cost $3.00. If you will look over the town and compare every ot'ier Three Dollar Shoe .v. tr s one, you can't help baying the "La France." JOHNSON, SOLE AGENT. Needed in Every Home 75 THE NEW webster's International Dictionary A Diction. rr of ENGLISH, Biography. Olograph y, Fiction, ale. New Plates Throughout 25,000 New Words Pbri and Df InlHena Prepared under llio direct super vision of W. T. HARRIS, Ph.D., L.L.D., United Slates Commissioner of Edu cat ion assisted by a large corps of com petent. ticciutists anil editors. Rich Blnrltnss 234 Quarto Faaaa 5000 Illustration ty The International van first tunned in 1890, succeeding the "Unabridged." The Hew and Enlarged Kdition of the International trait isnued in October, 1900. Oct tit latent and bent. 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"Good nlpht," he Bald, "my little girl; (!ood nlht, I'm suing now; Good nlnht," he pus!1-!! the wavy locks Knelt from her upturnPd tTrow. "(lood nfRht, Rood-bv; I'm soing now." He turned 10 go, and then, lit clasped her close, and with a kiss, Began It all again. N. Y. Times. KNEW HIM TOO WF.IX. filic Hut vour father is well-to-do! He On the contrary he Is very hard to dot Ally Sloper. American Haahand'a Sonaj. Wives and daughters all remind us AVe must make our little pile; And, departing, leave behind us Cash for thtrn to live In style. Ufa. Taking- Their Cholee. "nas the man confessed yet ?" asked tne stranger at the lynching bee. "Well, not exactly," said the lead er. "He has given us a different con fession every time we string him up an were jus' nwaitm patiently till he gets practiced up nuiT to give us de kind o' a. confession we want. Got t be pertickler these days so th' pa pers don't take offense." liultimore Herald. Dritas to It. "So Itilkins hai joined the church at last7" "Yep. He concluded that as long as the members of the church all patronized his 6tore he might as well get something in exchange for tne baar and ruffle tickets he had to buy." Baltimore News. la tbe Right Place Ntw. Rill You say he lott his job in the weather bureau? Jim He lied too much to even suit them there. "What's he doing now?" "Why. he's writing up the advan tages of a new breakfast cereal." Yonkers Statesman. DON'T TOBACCO 5PIT and SMOKE Voter Li.'eawavl You cart b carta of any form of tobaoco uaing be UHtl .well, strong, njr enrtlt'. full uf w Ufa aad n,oi ,y taking f,0- l O-bAO, tliat ni&ki-s wcult zuea .tiutig. M.my teu pouud. in u-u Umts. Over BQUtOUQ cured. All druKKMS'fc- Cure Kuarauici-d. li"'t lrt aud advice l'Xl-K. AdJrrsa SlkRI.lNt k'lAlAUV tu, tUiuiu or icw Yoik. .'7 Y - 111 ma fl A i M ii ataaSaaail l A aaaaV i 1 1 aVasta Ol aaaraaral Our lec iiriui ucil it He lull. Anv unc aciiditiu tki.-tt h aud drrx.1 iptiotl ct any in vent ion w ill r-juiptlv rtctn-e our oiMiiioii fice con'ciiuug tli i-L--iilJiUmif ol Sdintr. ' ltow to Onluiu a J-j tent " fcciit uijii ttunest. I'lt-ut tttcuitrU UnouK h us ndvaiiiitc loi s.) le at onr jxrnoe. i uiculu t.ikcu oi.t throi:lt us ie-ci.c Sfncial Volt' f, irviliiouiehdfije. in i uh I ai -n kKo..L, IU illu.stratcti ait'l wUl'-ly cut jniUul, cui.fiii lifd ty M .i 1 1 u i net ti i ' t $ a:ni luvrnluia, bcati lor win pic cuuy tttLS.. A4ili VICTOR J. EVANS A CO. (Pittcut Attorney Cvars Building, WASHINGTON. D- C tM. Vm. - ttek.al.1.. Ccnul'tc tnied C. C. C. Kevcr sold la bulk. &tfW4rc of ti,c tkjtler who UitM to jell 'avuntliinj juat as gwuia." MISSED GREAT FORTUNE. South Afrtrnn tolnnlnt W nm Ft M.- fr Ton l.ntr In t.rtomi Onnpf of le 1 1 Minn. ' F. . Sfll.mflll, the nlnrst aulllh African cnloniHt, missed by ubmit five niinutrH the ncqnlsitlon of a fr tune of ;i:.oiK),0(MJ the preat D lleern dinmond fields, now one of the richest mines in the world, snys Stray Stories. He was purveying (Irlqnalnml hen the ordinal owner of the fa mous farm, W. De Herrs, held it. It was then nbout as barren and hope-lesa-lookinir o tract 4ia nny in Africa, and le Heers, with endless hard work from morning' till night, and very little help, had all he could do to scrape a living out of the place. There was haidly any water, and grass was scarce and poor; the total profits only amounted to n pound or two per month. When Mr, Salzman had completed his survey Pe Hoers, tired of profit le toil on his patch of sunburnt desert, offered to let him have the fnipn in exchange for a waifrtcont. Mr. Salzman refused at firsit. and then said he would think about it. He went to Oie Town later on, where he hea rd st ni nge rumor of lucky finds in the district lie had left." The next time ht-trekked that way he went 00 miles out of his road to see Pe lleers and clinch the bargain offered. He found a stranger's wag on and oxen "ontspnnned" at the farm w.hen he arrived. Its owner had come only a few minutes before and had already made nn offer for the farm which was accepted. PLUTOCRACY OF PITTSBURG. Pnrir-Prond Vonnftrr Generation Forget What Their Knlhrri Mifcht Have Hern. Pride is a feature of the younger generation of I'it t sburgers of wnltli. Things of which some of them think they cannot be proud such as t he way In which their hard-working fathers got their Mart in life they try to forget. That the fathers ore sometimes proud of this game low ly start is responsible for this inci dent: 'l)o you know, young man, that I once wH very envious of your father?" said one of the steel kings to the son of a man whose wealth, while great, could be written with one less figure, says a writer in the New York Tribune. "And wJion was that ?" asked the young man, pleased to think that there had ever been a time when the "king envied his father. "It was this way," returned the old man. "I 'was working in a ditch for $l.r0 a dny " "I didn't know you start oil that way, interrupted the youth. "That's the way. I was working in this ditch for $1.50 a dny. and your father was working in the same ditch. He got $1.75 because he was stronger, and I envied him the extra quarter." LIGHTNING STRIKES UP. The Enrth necfimea C'harired with Negative Current Wuleh Rushes I'nwartl. The cause of death by lightning Is the sudden absorption of the electric current. When a thundercloud, which is highly charged with positive elec tricity, hang over nny certain place, the eartli beneath it becomes abnor mally charged with the negative elec tric current, and a num. animal or other object standing or lying directly beneath nUo partakes of Ihe last mentioned influence, says a .scientific authority. If, while the man, animal or other object is in this condition, a discharge takes plnce from the cloud above, the restoration of the equilib rium will be sudden and violent, or, in langunge that we can till under stand, the negative current from the earth will rush up to join the positive cloud current; and in passing through the object which scpurfltes the two currents, if it be an animate thing, will do s with such force us to almost in variably produce instant death. A person is really "btrtick" by the ground current, and not by the forked fury from above. KarulnH of CoTHeice Stndeofai. Ity a variety of employments, rang ing from teaching and technical work to bweeping rooms and washing tliBh es, 1C4 Columbia university btudenlh earned in three months laht yenr $15,0UU an aeruge of about $00 for each man. One student earned more than $100 a week during the three months by advanced tutoring, and another gained $1,0.".0 during the i:J weeks. Kcverul of the Undents earned $:i00 each. Of the women btudents 17 gained $2.4;i4.Gh, an aver age of $143, or $50 above the men'j average. Facta (rout Birth Statlatlea. Kcceutly compiled statistics show that the proportion of twins born as compared with other Infants is one in eighty births. (Jf triplets there is only one instance in 6.400, and quadruplets are as one to 512.UOO; while the chances of a quintet are even more remote, the ratio being ne in 40,!W0,finn births. A case is known of a WMiman who presented her husband with sevcu successive j triplets. Volaalarr Crop (ibarrTera. The agricultural department has 107,1km) voluntary crop observers, totton U reporlcd on seven times a y?ar, wheat eiht times, corn and oats each si truiea. it Saved His Leg P. A. Dtiu fur tli of LhOrutigP, (li., sulTcred for fix mouths with a i frightful running soro on his leg; I but writcH that ltut'klttn'H Arnica jinlvo wholly cured it in five yoars. For ulrtjis, w'hhhU, tiilcs, it's tlie Wt ,lv in tint worhl. Cure guar ant td. tlnly L'5 cents, bold by all dl l'j; it4. WIlEJf young Thomas Mnbrny, counselor at hiv, returned from the opera to the lint which he and his artist friend Hubert Hamilton shared, he found Hamilton hard at wurk isi a portrait. When he recog nized Mobray's step and heard his knock fit the door, lie quickly hid the canvas on which he was engnged, sub stituted another on the easel, and opened the door. "Well, Dob, I nm glnd to find you up," said Mobrny, laying aside his opera lint and coat, and Beating him self in a comfortable chair. "1 vtant to talk to you." "On ihe same old subject, 1 sup pose." "Yes about. Miss flertrude Jinssrll. You know she asked me to sit in her box at the opera. 1 have just left her, and I confess she never ap peared more charming. Do you know. Bob, I am pure she likes me, and 1 am ns much in love with her nn I ever could be with nny womnn. She is pretty, bright and " here Hamilton paused for a moment "I might aS well mot attempt to dis guise the fnct wealthy in her own right. Hut. to come to the point I nm resolved to mnrry her." When Mobrny had finished, Hamil ton mnde no reply, lie had nn ab stracted look and did not nppcnr to have heard what had been said. 'Wake tip, old man," called Mobray, rather loudlv, "and tell me what yon think of It."' "What, I think of It!" repeated Hamilton, unable to conceal his sur prise. "What will she think of it? Do you suppose she will accept you 7 "She has given tne every reason to think so," quietly remarked Mobray. 'But have you considered the num ber of excellent proposals she has rejected?" suggested Hamilton. "O, I know she has refused several recently. If theirs are the excellent proposals to which you refer." "nas not little Leonard Thompson, notwithstanding his great wealth and social position, fnifed to win her?" "Yes, T believe so," replied Mobray, evidently bored. "And hns she ever deigned to look at Lieut. Harold Schuyler, who is Boon to be military attache to the embassy at Austria?" "I don't know how she has treated Schuyler," answered Hamilton, rath er shortly, "but Schuyler does not know how to win a girl nnvway." "And then, there is John Mi I ford." continued Hamilton, "a man calculat ed to attract any woman. He has told me that he loved her, but. that he never had the courage to tell her BO." "O, there is no use to run over the whole list of her admirers," snld Mobray, Impatiently "Of course, she has hnd A number. I would not care for her if Bhe were not sought after. Hut as for the 'chaps' you hare named they are barbarians In af fairs of love. Certainly Bhe refused them; anyone of taste must have done so. If she had listened to any one of them, I doubt if I should have hnd nnything to say to her," and Mobray leaned back in his chair with a self-satisfied look. Hamilton was completely overcome by surprise at Mobrny'a assurance. He knew his friend hnd unlimited self-confidence in courts of law, but he had not expected to see him enrry this trait of character into the court of love. They sat for. some time In silence until Mobray reopened the ceQvereario. "You understand art, Bob, I will a 9 mlt. You can describe the physical beauty of Miss Eussell with vastly more ease than I. You could paint her likeness to perfection. But if you will, let me say it, I fear you would be at tracted by her solely from an artistic standpoint. You would be fascinated as an artist, not as a lover, with her low, broad brow and fair, oval face; her dark hair arranged tnstefully on a gracefully poised head, accentuating the fairness of that face; the freshness of her complexion, w hlch even your art could not copy; her lnrtre, expressive brown eyes; her mouth full of graces and gentleness; the perfect contour of her figure; and I believe you would not even be critical of her small, deli cate, slightly turned-up nose. All of these attraction you would Instantly discover and would appreciate. But while you understand these things as an ariist, yon know nothing of how to succeed In ntTairs of love. You would dawdle and lag around, and remain In a constant state of hesitation and fear. On the other hand, I am a practical lover, not a visionary or romantic one. I carry things through with a rush when oaee I make up my mind. Now I want to marry Miss Oactrude Saaaalh and I aas rasolrad to do so. I shall propose to aer next Thuraday night o Miss Wake's cotillon." Late on the following Thursday night, or rather, early Friday morning, to be exact, Mobray returned from the dance and went directly to Hamilton's studio, where he found his friend at til at work. His manner, a he seated himself, was not as buoyant as on the previous occasion. "Well, I proposed to her. Bob," he began, and then stopped and took sev eral slow puffs at his cigar, "and, by Jove, she refused me liked me, ad mired my energy and success in my profession, and all that sort of thin. Working Overtime Kight hour laws are ignored by those tireless, little workers Dr. King's Now Life PUli. Millions are always at wink, night and dny, cur itiK liidi,cf.tiou, liiliouauens, consti lution, biek hau dacha mi oil oloiijaoli livev cud bnwrl troBhloa. sy, pleasant, fciife, sure, duly 25 centr. at till drug btures. but . She didn't finkh the sentence still that 'but' finished me." And Mo-( bray gave a sigh, a rather unusual thing for him. "Yon will get over it quickly. Tom. you know you will," suggested Hamil ton, consolingly. "Yon hnve the faculty of recovering rapidly." Mobray smiled faintly and attempt ed to answer in the same vein. "Bui you must understand that none of the previous attacks has been quite as severe as this one." Then, seriously: "I m harder hit than yon think. Bob." The two friends sat for some mo ments in silence. "Well, I won't keep you up nny long er over-my troubles," said Mobrny, ris ing to go. "Good night, old mnn," and he started tnward the door. Then turning around he said: "By the way, '.that the douce are yoit doing up n t t his t imc of flight ?" "Just putting the finishing touches to a portrait I am to have ready for to-morrow," replied Hamilton. "The originnl will tRke lunch with me to morrow, and iTyou can spare the time I would like yon to join us, and give me your opinion of the picture." Mnbrny accepted and then sought in sleep to forget his disappointment in love. The lunch was served In Hamilton's studio. When Mobray entered he was surprised and disconcerted to find that the other guests were Mips Uussell and "VOU VNliKUPTANO AHT. BOB. 1 WILL ADMIT." her mother. But the truth of the sit nation did not dawn upon him until Hamilton went over to the easel and uncovered the portrait of Miss Jt j.s sell. "Some time ago," began Hamilton "Miss Ttussell wns gracious and kind enough to permit tlie to paint her por trait and to consent that I might keep it in my studio. But the harder 1 worked to reproduce a worthy like ness, the more I despaired of the power of art to accomplish the task of impressing her dclicnte features upon canvas, and I realized that if I desired to have that face nlways with me, my only hope was to possess the originnl. And when I think of it I am simply tin able to understand how I ever had the courage to ask for It." "You are a sly old fox," said Mobray, grasping his hand, "and I was wrong in supposing you were a laggard in love. "But he was," said Miss Uussell smiling. "I hope, Gertrude, you don't menn to imply that yon forced a proposal," re marked Mrs. Uussell, reprovingly. A Kmarl Woman. "You bet I've got a smart woman for a wife, remarked the grocerymao with pardonable pride. "We've all got that kind," responded the customer, smiling. "But mine is the renl thing," insisted the grocerymnn. "And I'll tell yoti why. I am going into the egg business ns a specialty, nnd when I had every tiling ready, even to the name of the company, I submitted it to her. Soon as she saw the name she kicked, 'What's the matter with calling it The Century Kgg compnnv?' said 1, be- cnuse I was proud of the name. 'You don't know much,' said she, in a tone of voice that crumpled me all up. Can t you see if you call it the Cen tury Kgg company everybody will say you call it that because the eggs you sell are a hundred years old? Now, if she wasu t quicker than chain light ning, would she ever have thought of that?" and the groceryman went ahead sandpapering tlie shine oft? of a few eggs in the basket that needed it. Detroit Tree Press. j Dross milking in nil branches Will ro to the house or do the work i .at home. Address Mary Lunwiu j Broad street, Milford, Pa. j I Coughed "l had a most stubborn cough 9 for many years. It deprived me of sleep and I grew very thin. I then tried Ayer's Cherry Pectoral, and was quickly cured. R. N. Mann, hall Mills, Tenn. Sixty years of cures and such testimonyas the above have taught us what Ayer's Cherry Pectoral will do. . We know it's the great est cough remedy ever made. And you will say so, too, after y'ou try it. There's cure ineverydrop. 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