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Let mo have men nlwut ino tli.it nru ( at.
Jilllui Cuwar , Act I , Sseno II.
t lng tlm fnt tuiint ttml I UCOMI
A man's IntrltiMc worth
Is gnugcd by Ills rotundity
I'roportlonutii ID Ills elrtli.
Tlio ( at mail , ilarlliin of tlm fatoi ,
Who , In fceri'iia tcpotu.
Ihifi initiiro's Mores usslmllnto
Anil turn to adipose .
\\lio ( iiitn tlio iMiiinUIes * iinUorse ,
AH liu'rf it rljjlit to do ,
Abiorusn corporoMty
t'ummcnsurnto thi-roto
"f.nt inp havn men nbotll tno , "
tlrcut C'n-snr , " ( lininroditt
Anil .IiilItM Cii'.Hiiiyou'll admit ,
Ik' know "where no win nt. "
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Oolli limk In vlrtiln'n stnllo ,
Tor us lie nrow In nillpuou
Hi * ilntli deiToii'o In tfiille.
Anil 'tis my creed , though cyntctcnrp
Anil ciivfl iniii'li tlieit'.it.
No Minn fan lie entirely KOOI !
Till hu Is ( nlrly ( tit.
No Minr cynic It tli ! nnn ,
No mNiiMllirupIc churl ,
And hit ivldr , inmily IKIMUII bonri
ThdlKht heart oftiKlrl.
Of rmturo'M I otlntv lu > partaken
With itrnlltuirVniHl test ,
Atul In her pantry U no ( ooil
Tlnit he cannot illiri'st :
Wlio from tin ; liniimllcbs universe ,
AH IIII'M u rlnht to do ,
Ali < -otliH ui'nrpoioslty
Commensurate ) t herein.
THE SCHUE TEACHER'S STORY.
/ ; . H llhtni In llnmatice.
I hnvc taught school forty-four years.
Now I Imvo delivered the keys of my
bchool houto to the coinmlttoo , I have
jmckotl away on the top shelf of my
tclosct a row of primers and readers ,
jjcofrraphie1 ? , spoiling books and arith
metics , and I have stopped work for the
rest of my life. Through all those
forty-four years I have squeezed reso
lutely all the sweets out of existence
nnd stored them up to make a kind of
tasteless , hut life-sustaining honey for
old ago. I have never spent one penny
unless for the barest necessaries. 1 have
added term by term to the sum on my
bank book , until I have been able to
build this iioufco , and Imvo a sulllcicnt
hum at interest to live upon. I need little -
tlo , very little , to eat , and I wear my
clothes carcfully and lonp. *
I was never extravagant in clothes
but once. That wsls twenty-five years
ago. when I was 3Ti , and expected to be
married in the spring. I had a green
nilk dress then a bright green. But I
had it dyed black , and , after all , got
considerable wear out of it , although it
was llimsy. Colored silk is apt to bo
1 had a blue woollen , too , a ealor I
tihouid never have bought if I had not
expected to bo married , and that faded.
I also had a black velvet cloak , some
thing that was very coatly , and I should
not have bought it under any circiun-
btanccs , but 1 was foolish. However.
that has made my winter bonnets ever
ince ; it was a peed picco and not cut up
much.
Looking backward forty-four years
I cannot remember any other
extravagance than this outlay
in clothes when I expected to
1)0 ) married at . ' 15. I never
Imvo bought any candy , except a few
cough drops when I had a cold. I have
never bought a riobon oven , or a breast-
pin. I have always worn my mother's
old hairpin , although it was so old-fash
ioned , and tlio other girls had pretty
uold and coral , or cameo ones.
My mother died when I was 1-J ; my
father when I was li ( ; then I began to
teuch. My father left mo nothing.
Mother was sick all her life , nearly , and
lie could not lay up a cent. However ,
there was enough to pay his funeral ex
penses , and 1 was thankful for that. I
sometimes wonder what my father would
nay if ho could see mo now , and know
how 1 am situated. I wonder if he would
think I had done pretty well. I don't
know how it can make any difference to
him now ; ho is past all such earthly
vanities , oven if lie knows about thorn ,
but I do sometimes feel glad I have done
so well , on his account. Anybody has to
have some account beido their own ,
oven if it is somebody's that's dead.
1 IMVO built this house , with six
rooms in it , nnd a woodshed. 1 have a
little land , too. I keep hens nnd I am
going to have a vegetable garden back
of the house , and a llower garden , front.
J have good wwwllen carpets all over the
house , except the kitchen. I have stulTcd
parlor furniture , nnd a marble-topped
table , nnd h marble top shelf with a
worked plush scurf en it. 1 have a
handsome dining bet , and two nice
chamber sots , and two beautiful silk
quilts I pieced from bits my scholars
gave me. I shouldn't be ashamed to
have anybody go over my houso. And I
keep it nice , too ; you could not find a
speck of dust anywhere. Of course , I
have nobody to put it out of order , and
that makes a difference. It has always
been my habit to look at all the ad
vantage there is in llfo and I have
found there is an advantage side to
everything. I can keep my house a
great deal nicer than I could if I wore
not alone in the world. I sometimes
wonder what I should do if I had a man
coming in with muddy boots , or children
tracking in dirt O4id stubbing out my
earpots or kicking the paint off my now
doors.
To tell the truth , I never
cared much about chil
dren , though I have been teaching them
forty-four years. I never dared to payne
no before , but it is true. Once in awhile
I saw a child that I thought a good ucal
of. but taking them all together , I have
often wondered how their own mothers
could stand them. I would Imvo worked
my lingers to the bone for the few I did
tuko a notion to. I fairly grudged thorn
to their folks , but the others ! nnd I
had to hide it , too ; it wouldn't have
done for the children to think I was par
tial. They had all the mcannoas of
grown-up folks , without knowing enough
to hide It. Grabbing each other's apple-
cores , and teasing away each other's
candy , and the big ones plaguing the little -
tlo ones ; throwing paper balls , and
marking up the walls , and . o\ cry thing
else. 1 know , for one , that thoro'ssomo-
thing in the doctrine of original bin. I
gucbs most women that have taught a
district school forty-four years do.
I have never been sure , either , that
tlioy learned anything so as to remember
it , and have it do them any good. I Imvo
til ways been afraid that , no matter
how hard 1 tried to do my
duty to them , it was never quite
done , nnd that I was teaching myself
more than anybody else , just as I always
i-comed to hit my own hands harder
I him a scholar's when I hud to ferule
one.
one.I could travel all ever the earth , on a
map , and never once lose my way , but I
wonder if my scholars could. I can
bpoll through the spoiling book without
missing n word , but I know that not ono
of my tcholars can do it. I can do every
i.um in the arlthmotlemoasuro the depth
of all the wells , calculate the speed of
all the dogs and fo.\es , and suy the mul
tiplication tables by heart , but I am
quite btiro that no boy or girl ever loft
my school who could. It eooms to uio
sometimes that I have gonu to school to
my scholars , instead of my scholars goIng -
Ing to school to mo , and that I have
never been of any bencllt to any onu of
them.
Stilt , I have sometimes thought that I
was , once , and in u strange way , to tlio
strangest scholar 1 over had. Before
thinking cvou of tbia scholar , and tula
story , I have to rovlow my face , nnd my
whole character , in my mental visionns
before u glahs , to establish , as it wore ,
my own reliability to myself. Is it
likely that anybody , who looks like that ,
should tell herself that she saw what
she did not sec , or heard what nho did
not linnr ? Is it likely that anybody ,
who is like that , should ?
Hut , after all , I was never given to say
ing things that weren't plain common
sense. Still , it has always kind of seemed
to mo , when I thought of that time in
Marnhbrook. that it didn't ring like any
known metal. But there may bo some
metals that really arc on earth , though
they are not known , I suppose , and any
body might hear them ring , and be hon
est enough about it.
It was just twunty-five years ago today
that I went to Mnrshbrook to loach the
No. 1 district school. It was right
in the middle of the springtime. I had
given up my old school , because I was
expecting to be married that May. But
v/hcn I found out he'd changed his mind
toward me I felt as if I had ought to cote
to work again. I'd laid out a good deal
of money on my clothes , and I knew I'd
have to make it up some way , as long as
I wa always going to have nobody but
myself to depend on , tfio way I always
had.
had.Maria
Maria Roercrs hud my old school. She
had come from the cast village to teacli
it , when I gave I tup , nnd it wasn't moro'n
three weeks before he began to go
with her. She wn good looking , always
smiling , though it always seemed to me
It was a kind of silly smile. I was al
ways sober and sot-lookingand I couldn't
Mimlo ea y oven if I felt like it. Her
hair curled , too. I tried to curl mine ,
but it wouldn't look like hers , I wouldn't
believe it at lirst when folks came and
told me ho was going with her , nnd they
thought I ought to know ; but after a
while I saw enough to satisfy me. my
self. I wrote him a letter , and told him
I'd found out ho had changed his mind ,
and ho had my best wishes for his wel
fare and prosperity , and then I began to
look out for another school. He didn't
marry Maria Rogers till the spring term
was through. She wanted the money
for her wedding clothes. She was a
poor girl , or 1 could have had my old
school. As it was , she had him , and my
school , too.
I don't know ns I should
have got any till fall , if the
teacher at the No. 1 district in Marsh-
brook hadn't left sudden. One of the
committee came for mo the next day
and said I'd got to go there whether or
no. I asked why the other teacher had
left , nnd ho raid she wasn't very well
"kind of hystoriky , " he called it. Ho
was an old man and a doctor. I looked
him straight in the face when ho spoke ,
and I know there was something behind
what ho said , and ho knew I did.
"I'll give you 50 cents a week more ,
seeing as you como to oblige , " sa\s he.
"Very well , " says I. I know what it
all meant. I had hoard about district
No. 1 in Marshbrook ever since I could
remember. They never could keep a
teacher there through thd spring term.
There wasn't any trouble fall and winter -
tor , but the teacher would leave in the
spring term. They always tried to
hush it up , and nobody ever knew ex
actly what they loft for. I rather guess
they bound the teachers over
not to toll maybe paid them
a little extra. Anyway , nobody
ever know c.victly what it was , but it
got whispered 'round there was some
thing wrong about the No. 1 school
house.
Nobody but a stranger or somebody
that was along in years and pretty
courageous could bo hired.to go there
and teach the spring term. The chances
wore that old Dr. Emmons couldn't got
another soul besides mo for love or
money , nnd if I wouldn't go the school
would have to bo shut up till fall. But
L didn't care anything about the stories.
I never was ono of the kind that listen ,
and hark , .and screech , and I hod had
enough real things to think and worry
about- . Then I had a kind of feeling
then I suppose it was wicked that it
didn't matter much what happened any
way , after what had happened.
So I just packed up my trunk , while
Dr. Emmons wgited , and then ho put it
in behind in his wagon and carried ino
ever to Marshbrook. It wa } about six
miles away.
Marshbrook was nan.otl after the
brook there , that runs through marshy
land , and gets soaked up in it seine
seasons of the year. That spring it was
quito high and the land all around it
was yellow as gold with cowslips. Wo
rode beside it quito a ways and the doc
tor said his wife had boiled cowslip
croons twice. Ho talked considerable
about such things being bettor for folks
to cat than meat , too. Ho didn't say a
word about the school till ho sot mo
down at the house where I was going to
board. Then belaid I looked ns if I
wasn't fidgety , and ho hadn't any notion
but what I should get along \\oll and
like the school. Then he said , kind a
if ho hated to , but thought he'd bettor
that ho gnessed I might just as well
make up my. mind not to stay after
school at night much nnd not to keep
the scholars. The school house was in
a rather lonesome place and some strag
glers might come along. Then , too , it
was rather damp there , being near the
brook , after the dew fell , and ho didn't
think it was very healthy. I said ,
"Very well. " Then Mr. Orrin Simonds ,
the man where I was troing to board ,
came out , and they carried my trunk
betwixt them into the houso.
I began school the next morning , and
got along well enough. The school wtis
quito n largo one , about forty in it , and
none of them very old. They behaved
well ns usual , 'mid I taught them the
best I know how. I ought to have done
bettor by them than I had ever done for
other scholars , for I hadn't any lookout
for myself to take my mind off. 1 sup
pose 1 always had hud a little , though I
hud hardly known it myself , and I ought
to have been ashamed of it.
I did not stay itftor school for some
two weeks , not because I was afraid of
anything , for I wasn't , but I hadn't any
call to. 1 didn't mind what Dr. Kmmons
had said at all , as far as I was con
cerned , but I thought I wouldn't keep
the scholars anyway , so If anything did
come up I wouldn't bo blamed on tholr
accounts. There wasn't anybody to
blame mo on mlno. If I didn't give up
the school and I wasn't going to do
that , anyway.
I wont to mooting the Sunday after I
wont to Marnhbrook. I suppose
some folks thought I .would get
somebody to carry mo homo from
meeting , seeing as it was onlv
six miles , nnd I belonged to the church
there , but I felt as if I had just ns soon
see some new faces.
Maria Rogers used to sit right in front
of mo at home.
I noticed that folks in the meeting
house at Marshbrook eyed mo some. I
don't know whether it was because I had
come to teach the No. I school , or bo-
cuuso I were my green silk. I suppose
it did look 'most too line , but I had it ,
and it was a pleasant Sunday , and 1
thought I might just ns well wear it ,
though somehow , every time I looked
down ut my lup as I sat in meeting ,
there was something about the color
seemed to strike over mo and make mo
Blclc. 1 never liked green very well , but
ho did , and that was why I got it. I
liked it bettor after it was colored ,
though it seemed a shiimo to have all
the stiffening taken out of it. It was u
beautiful picco.
I bud u food boarding place , just Mr.
Simonds nnd his wife , and she was na
neat ns wax nnd n good cook.
She was kind of woodony.
nnd didn't talk much , but I
didn't ' feel much like talking , and I
liked It full as well. She used to have
supper early , ab.iut as soon as I got
home from school , and then I used to go
upstairs to my chamber mid sit by ray-
sol f. Mrs , Simonds didn't neighbor
much , she said , but I guess after I came
folks run in more. I'd near them talk
ing down stairs. I guess they wanted
to find out how I was getting along at
the Number One school.
Once Mrs. Simonds said , if she was in
my place , she'd make her plans not to
stay nftor school. She didn't seem anymore
moro fldgoty herself than a wooden post ,
but I gues.she'd } heard so much from
the neighbors she thought she ought to
say something.
I said I hadn't had any occasion to stay
after school , and I hadn't. I didn't ' re
ally have anv occasion the night I did
stay , but I felt kind of down nt the heel ,
and I didn't want any supper , and I just
sat there on the platform behind my
desk after the scholars inarched wit of
the room.
I don't know how long I sat there
quito a whilu , I supno e , for it began
to grow dusky.- The frogs peeped
ns if they were in tlio room
nnd there was a damp wind
blowing in the window , and I could smell
wintorgrccn and swamp pinks. It was
all I could do to Keep the children from
chewing wintcrgreon loaves in schooi
time. They were real thick all around
the school house.
All of a sudden , ns i sat there , I had a
queer feeling as if there was somebody
in the room , and I looked up. I saw ,
down in the middle of the room , a little ,
white arm raised in the dusk. It was
the way the children did when they
wanted to ask something , nnd I thought
for n second that one had stayed or comeback
back unbeknown to mo , and was raisinir
an arm. Of course , that was queer , but
it was the only reason I could think of ,
nnd it Hashed through my head.
"What is it ? " says 1 , and then I heard
a little girl's voicn pipe up , "Please ,
teacher , find my doll 'for mo. and hear
my neqt lesson in the primer. "
"What'says I. for it didn't seem tome
I could have heard right. And then the
voice said it over again , and that little
white arm crooked out of the gloom.
I got up and went down the aisle be
tween the desks , and when I came close
enough I saw a little girl in a queer ,
straight white dress , almost like a night
gown , sitting there. Her little face was
so white in the gloom it made mo creep ,
and her features looked set : oven her
mouth didn't move when she spoke. It
was open a little nnd the words just
seemed to How out between her lips.
"Please , teacher , find my doll for me
and hoar my next lesson in the primer , "
says she over again , dreadful pitiful.
I put my hand on her shoulder and
then I jumped aud took it away , for i
never felt anything so cold as her little
shoulder was. It seemed ns if the cold
struck to my heart from it and I had to
etitch my breath.
"What is your numo ? " says I as soon
I could.
"Mary Williams , aged six years , fhreo
months and five days , " says she.
Then my blood ran cold , but 1 tried to
reason it out to mypclf again that she
was some child I hadn't soon that had
run in there , and maybe she wastiU.quito
right in her mind.
"Well , " bays I , "you had better run
homo now. If you want to come to
school you can como at ! ) o'clock tomor
row morning , if your mother is willing.
Then I will hear your lesson and maybe
you will find your doll , but you musn't
bring it to school. I can't have1 any
dolls brought to school. "
With that she rose np and dropped a
queer little curtsey that made a pull' of
icy cold wind in my face , and was out of
the room , very fast , as if she slid or
floated , without taking any steps at > all.
I put on my bonnet and locked up the
pchool house nnd went homo then.
Looking back I can't say as I felt scared
or nervous nt all. I know I didn't walk
a mite faster when I went past tlm old
graveyard. There was an olu graveyard
near the school house , and the children
used to play there at recess.
When I got homo Mrs. Simonds asked
why I hadn't boon homo and if I didn't
want any supper , but she didn't act sur
prised nor curious. She never seemed
surprised or curious at anything.
1 wont upstairs to my chamber , and
sat down and thought it ovor. It seemed
to me there must bo some above-board
reason for it. As I thought it over , I
remembered that there had been a
strange , faint , choking smell about the
child , and then I put my own dress-sicirt
up to my face , and I smelled it then. I
hung my dress out of the window to air
when I took it off.
The next morning , when the scholars
filed in to school. 1 tried to think that
strungo littio girl might bo among them ,
but she wasn't , and she didn't como in
the afternoon.
That night I stayed after school again.
I had mndo up my mind I would. I
waited , and uftor a while that littio
white arm showed out of the ditsk , but I
hud not seen the child como into the
room.
I asked her again what she wanted ,
and she piped up , just as she did before :
"Pleaao , teacher , find my doll for mo ,
and hear me say the next lesson in tlio
primer. "
I got up and wont to her just ns I had
before , nnd there she was just the same ,
and the faint smell came in my face.
"Whoro did yon lose your doll ? "
Kays I.
But she wouldn't say.
"Please , teacher , find my doll for mo
and hear me suy my lesson in the
primer , " says she , with a kind of a wail.
1 never heard anything so pitiful as it
was. It seemed to mo , fomohow , as if
all the wunts I had over had myself
sounded in that child's voice , and as if
she was begging tor something I had
lost myself.
But I spoke decided. It was always
my way with children. I found 'it
worked hotter. "Now you run right
home , " says I , "and you eomo tomorrow
and I'll glvo you your doll and hear
your lessen in the pi imor. "
And then uho rcso up and curtsied ,
just its she hud before , nnd was gone.
I did not try to follow hor.
That ovoniug I went around to old Dr.
Emmons and asked Mrs. Emmons if I
could see the doctor n few minutes.
I guess she suspected what had hap
pened , for she looked at mo real sharp
and said she hoped I wasn't
gottintr nervous , and overwrought with
school teaching. I said I wasn't. I just
wanted to boo the doctor about a now
scholar ; and she loft mo in the sitting
room and called him in.
I askcu him , point-blank , if anything
had anything hud over happened there
in Mnruhbrook , and ho wouldn't toll mo
at first.
" 1 suppose you want to glvo the school
up. I thought you were old onouirh to
behave yourself , " says he. Ho was
pretty short sometimes , but , ho meant
woll.
"I'vo done tlio best I could by the
school , " buy B.I.
"Why couldn't you come homo when
school was done , as you was told to , in
stead of staying there in that lonesome
some pluco and getting hyBtorJckyV"
says he. "I don't know as I can got
another teacher this term. The suhaol
house will have to be shut up. It's a
pity all the female school teachers in
creation couldn't be ducked a tow times ,
G eirfclemen' '
H . . A _ /BL. Profitable Inducement IP-k. to j [ on J ,
w.lv
n li
Would you invest one dollar , if you were certain to
receive two dollars in return ?
We'll not mince words about our offer we need room for our Spring stock , which is on the way in fact several
cases are here now. We're unable to make room , unless we dispose of the bulk of our heavy weight stock ! There's
only one way to do this quickly ; and that is i
We've decided to give our stock of Winter Woolens away !
without profit that is we'll make them up , with our usual good care
± _ -at the actual cost of materials and. workmanship $
How can we do it- ? Another reason- $
m
It's a novel way we have of
Well tailors , until
keep onr busy
new friends ; besides , we clean itp all I he
trade ! We cant 4
spring opens vp
odd lengths that accitmitlitc during a bnsy
season's trade afford io let them go rcc'need
/ / pays 11 s to do it them very soon !
you II save it !
Hardly any need quoting prices. It's necessary to see the goods to appreciate them.
You've paid twice this amount lor garments of equal quality !
Suiting ! Trousering !
Is it necessary to urge you to
$18.60 $4.60
be prompt in placing
your
'
$22.65 order ? The best styles always $5.95
$ i & ; k $26.90 go first "The earl } ' bird , " etc. $6.90 J
/
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SJbt T .We mail samples. 2O7 S. 18th.
5rr No its-
goods charged
- to anyone. Between Farnam and Douglas.
* * * < " " * e * " ' $ ! ' $ > i § * > lH' 'ii ; i f iHltii i H t H I'l&I'i
and get the fldjjets.out of thorn. I'll got
a man for the place next time. I've had
enough of women.'I
! 'I don't want to give np the school , "
"What are you talking about then ? "
pays he. .
'I want to know if anything has ever
happened here in iMar.shbrook , " says I.
"I don't want to' giro up the school if
anything has happened. "
flo final'y ' told'mo ho\v a little girl
had boon murdered , some fifty or sixty
years ago , on her way to school , on the
brook road. They found her laying
dead beside a clump of swamp pinks ,
with a great bruise on the back of her
neck , as if she'd been hit by a stone , and
her doll and her primer were laying in
the road , where sho'd dropped them
when she run from whoever killed her.
They never found him.
"Was her name Mary Williams ? ' '
Bays I.
"How did you know it ? " says the doc
tor.
tor."Sho told me"saysi.
The old doctor turned as white as a
sheet.
"Yon ain't hystoricky , " says he.
When ho found out that I wasn't
scared , and didn't want to give up the
school , ho wanted to know what I'd
seen , and asked a go l many questions.
I told him as short as I could and then I
went home.
The next morning before school I got
some linen rags from Mrs. Simonds , and
a picco of bright blnothibot , and I made
a real pretty rag baby. I'd never made
ono before , but 1 couldn't bco why I
didn't ' make it as well as anybody. I
ravelled out a littio of an .old black
stocking I hud for its hair , and I col
ored its cheeks and mouth with cran
berry juice , and raado its eyes with blue
ink. I found , too , an old primer , that
Mrs. Simonds said ho"r mother had
studied , for I thought that might have
been like the one the child was carrying
to school when she was killed.
That night I stayed nftor school
again , and waited until I saw the little
white arm raided out of the dusk. She
did not wait for mo to speak that time.
She piped up quick , "please , teacher ,
llnd my doll for mo , nnd hear mo'say my
lessen in the primer. "
"Put your arm down and bo quiet , "
says I , "and I will hear your lesson. " I
put the rag doll in my pocket , nnd took
the old primer I had found , and went to
her.
her."Find the pluco , and go on
with your' lesson , " says I ,
and I gave her the book. She turned
over the leaves , ns if she were quito aj1.-
customod to it. and I saw at oneo that I
had the right book. It was a queer lit
tie primer , that had been written by an
old minister in Marshbrook , nnd used in
the schools there for some time. She
found the plnco soon and began to road ,
piping ip quito loud. You cuAild have
hoard her out of doors ; the windows
were open. Thi ' piece was called ,
"The Character 6fn , Good Child. " She
read it very wull , , I only had her spell
out a few of the \yoL'il .
"You Imvo got your lesson very well , "
bays I. rhon I < took the doll out of my
pocket , and guv * ltto hor. She fairly
snatched for it > vrith her little , white ,
gloaming hands Md they touched mine ,
and I felt the cbld strike to my heart
again. MI\
She hugged tho-doll tight and kissed
it with her still , parted lips. Then she
hold it oft' and looked at It.
"Please , teachor.'find my doll for mo , "
says she with agrMit } wail , and I saw she
know it wasn't htsr 6wn old doll.
"Hush , " says' " ! , "I can't find
a doll that has been lost
llfty years. This doll is just exactly as
good. Now , you'd hotter take it and
run homo.1
lint she just gave that pitiful cry
again "plcaso , teacher , llnd my doll for
mo. "
"You uro not behaving pretty nt all , "
pays I. "That doll is jiibt us good. "
Then , 1 don't know what possessed mete
to say it , but I says , "sho hasn't got any
mother , olthor. "
She just hugi/cd the doll tight , and
kissed it again then , nnd didn't Buy
another word against it.
"Now , you'd bettor run homo , " says I.
She rooo up and curtsied , and I was all
ready to" spring. I followed hor. I
didn't knaw as I could keep her in sight ,
but I did , and she went into the old
graveyard. I saw a plcam of white in
there a minute ; then it was gone.
That evening I went to Dr. Emmons
and told him what had happened.
"Now , " says 1 , "I want to know where
that child was buried. "
"She was buried in the old Williams
tomb'says he.
Then I'nskcd him to take a lantern ,
and go to the graveyard with mo , and
look in that tomb. I didn't know as I
could make him for quite a while. Ho
said the Williams family had all died
out , and gone away. There wasn't ono
of them left in town. lie didn't exactly
know who had the key of the tomb , and
ho kept looking at mo real sharp. I
suppose ho was afraid I was getting
hystoricky. I guess ho got pretty sure
at last that I wasn't , for I taught that
Marshbrook Number Ono school fcoven
years nftor that , though any young thing
could have done it , and stayed after
school every night in the spring terms ,
for that little girl never came to scare
anybody again. Ho kept looking at mo
that night , and then ho felt my pulse
and counted it by his watch.
"You don't want to give the school
up , " says ho.
' No , I don't , " says I.
Ho went out after n while , and pres
ently ho came back with a lighted
lantern and a key. I don't know whore
ho got it. Then wo wont down the road
to the graveyard. It was a dark n'ght '
and it was 'misting a littio. Ho went
alonsrin front with the lantern and I
followed on behind. Ho didn't speak a ,
word the whole way. I guess ho felt
kind of grouty at having to como out.
I didn't care if he was. I was bound to
find out.
When wo came to the old graveyard
ho opened the gate nnd wo went in. His
lantern lit up all the old headstones
and trees , and scraggy bushes , as wo
went across to the Williams tomb. It
wasn't very far from the gate. A lot of
little bushes were growing out of the
humped-up roof and I read Williams in
the stonework ever the iron door. The
doctor fitted she key in the lock while
1 hold the lantern. I felt the way I
used to when I was a child , when I
waked up in the dark , in the night , but
I hold the luntorn as steady as if my
hand had been nn iron hook.
It was hard to turn the key in the
rusty padlock nnd the doctor worked
quito a long time , but finally it snapped
back , and ho pulled off the padlock and
slipped the hasp. But oven then ho could
not open the door until ho had cleared
away some stones and turned up
sorab littio plant ? that had grown ever
the threshold by the rcols.
After ho had done that , ho opened the
door , and n puff of that same strange
odor which I had noticed about the child ,
came in my faco. Ho took the lantern
nnd stepped down into the tomb , and I
after him. All of a sudden , ho stopped
short , and caught hold of my arm
There , on the floor of the tomb , in the
lantern light , right before us , lay the
doll , aul the primer.
A scheme Is broached in Germany of cm
ploy i HI : electricity to inovo heavy trucks ami
ilrnys. This is merely a development of ths
electric carringo idea , wlilch l ua been suc
cessful In that country for several years. A
small storage batlor.v is placed in an ordi
nary phaeton. T-cart , or brougham , the
power Is carried tu the wheels , and the
regulated by the driver. Such n e.u'Hago
has been seen a good deal about New York
for the last few mouths. The scheme is en
tirely feasible and practicable , anil uxpcrl-
mulits Imvo been muuo toward adapting the
system to heavy trucks. The government Is
Interested lu tlio experiment , aud health
boards nro enthusiastic ever the subject ,
their claim being that If electricity can bo
substituted for lioress the cleanliness and
health of great cities will be Incalculably
Improved. Horses will always bo uaod In
timing for pleasure , but tlio conoral schomn
of employing electricity for trucks and
drays , provided tno spcoci Is limited , opens
up a wonderful Held ,
The coal tlpplo ot the HaeKott Coal and
Cnlto company , althoir mine on the Wheel
ing division of the Baltimore & Ohio rail
road , burned ono day last wnclc. There luvu
been laoor troubles on thin division for some
tlmo. but the minors arc still working. The
trouble is attributed to striking miners , or
their frlenUft. by some of the ofUclttls of the
company. Miners' Secretary McBrlUo deplores -
ploros tlio burning , and says ho does not
think tbo miners vrould bo guilty of such nn
outrugo. Tbq loss was ) ,600.
Cure Indigestion ana Dinousnesj with
DoWKt's Little Early Risers.
TIII : rii'J ro/ : > .
/ . D. Umlethlll. tn llan > 'i'
Inn Rreat war for consecrated ground
Ono who 1cd 1 t'h-ltt nnd ono who nerved Ma-
hmiml
Cncountuicd nindly , HO tlitit Christian knight
And /uulous Moslem foil In that llerco H lit.
Then , Mnco so wildly tliuy had waited the
strife ,
Tholr anger scarce could pass with passing
life.
O'er tholr palo corpses hung their souls , yet
wroth ,
Till a stions nngol bent and raised them both.
\Vliutl" fclirlel.rd ilio pagan. "Wouldst tliou
bear my foe ? "
"In nngol's arms slmll a cursed heathen go ? "
Cried the proud knight. Thu radiant angel
bent
Ills statolv head to hush tliclr discontent.
"Know , yo Dew lldcrod souls , " ho softly said ,
"All these who bravely battled , being dead ,
1'raUo God alllto In ono angelic host.
Who to servo truth have counted llfo well lost.
Tor men , midst whirling clouds of smoke and
llanio ,
Ood's shndow dimly oo , and giro It name ;
Some on Jehovah call , on Allah > ome.
And same tight bravely , though their lips bo
dumb.
Leant , faithful splilLs , wlicn the strife waxed
hot ,
1'or the < -omo God yo fought , yet know It not ;
Anduowtho pauus of death nro overpast ,
Thuhamo wide heacn shall hold jo both at
labt. "
UUZCTltlCATj XOTKS.
George Bartlett Prescott , who died re
cently , was one of the pioneers in electrical
science. Ho was a partner with Edison in
the ownership of all the patents In the
quadruples system in this country and Eng
land.
Chlcaeo Is already in the field with a new
telephone company which is to contest the
Held with the Bell company as soon as the
telephone patents expire , at the end of this
month. The company has a capital of
$1,000,000 , , and will lose no tlmo in pushing
its business.
The introduction of an ordinance into the
Philadelphia councils granting the privilege
of laying conduits in tbo streets to the
Drawbaugh Telephone company , under con
ditions that it will insure a great reduction
In tlio cost of telephone service , besides
guaranteeing a reasonable return to the city
for the franchise , opens the way for com
petitive telephone service.
The recent description of Herr Kolb's
method of malcing tbo lines of electric forces
visible has brought out another , and in some
respects similar method by Prof. Weller of
Essllngcn. In Kolb's experiment , a quantity
of pure anhydrous oil of turpentine was
poured into a Hat tray or vessel , and some
sulphate of quinine stirred in with & rr i
rod. The discharge from an electric "Influ
ence" or "static" machine was then sent
through it by means of wires terminating
in brass balls dipping Into the turpentine.
This developed white crystals of quinine ,
which arranged themselves In beautiful
curving lines between the balls. Prof. Wol-
lor uses two electrodes , or metal surfaces
connected in an electric circuit , and a inllkv
mixture of triturated sulphate of quinine in
oil of turpentine. Shortly after the elcctrio
discharge Is pf ssoJ through It a clear sp.ice
Is seen at tbo positive olcctrocio and parti
cles of quinine cluster around the negative
olcotrode In strcaranrs directed along the
lines of electric force , Either of thuso ex
periments can be easily carried out by the
electrical student.
Ono of tbo most wonderful of modern dis
coveries In the region of electrotherapy is
the system of "cuprlo electrolysis" brought
out by Gautlorof Paris , by whli'li a metallic
deposit can Do made on any part of the
body , internal or external. The process will
bo understood by recalling tbo fact that an
Iron needle connected with tbo "posltlvo"
polo , plunged Into human tissue , U quickly
attacked by tbo oxygen ami cblorlnu set
free ut this pole , Is converted into oxychlo-
rldo of iron , a double salt , and Is soon com
pletely dcstroj ed. The same Is true of any
metal atta'ckcd by oxygen or chlorine. A
copper needle or bull ) or other conveniently
shaped electrode penetrating tissue or laid
against mucus.membraiio , especially within
tlio cavities of tbo body , is converted into
oxychlorldo of copper , zino Into ox.vchlorldc
of zinc , and so on. This method luTs only
recently been introduced into ibis country ,
but Us benefits promise to bo fur-reachln ?
when it is brought into general practice. In
gynecological work H secures results at
tainable by no other moans , as the introduc
tion of the posltlvn copper sound affords not
only the intrinsic advantages of tno current ,
but also the further bonollclal action of an
anllseptlo salt whoso permeation Into tbo
tissues contributes to their strength and nu
trition. In other words , tbo motalllo de
posit U m-st made , and then , by what Is
termed "c-nlaphorusls , " driven Into tbo tis
sues. It Is highly probabln that this will bo
the treatment of the futuru In catarrh
cases , A copper bulb through which an
electric current Is passing Is swept ever the
nasal , throat nnd mucus membranes , and de
posits and drives In tbo copper sals. This
method Is both rtpul and painless , aud its
affects are described as maclcal.
Tlio mayor of Cincinnati has been author-
bed to cxpena { 100,000 for the bcnclit of the
unemployed.
THE COMPLEXION AND BEAUTY ,
MME. M. YALE'S
Excolslor Complexion Romodlos
Awarded the Highest Medals nnd Di
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SpeulallBt , la the moat beautiful woman living- ,
Hur beauty lias been ciiltlvatutlnnd lieryoulli pri-
BeriiHl bythousoof tlieso remedies. At 41 nly
does not ioolt more than 18.
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FOR M3TH PATCHES , SALLOWNESS ,
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million men , women nnd children havu bci'ii curmi
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THE HAIR AND EXCELSIO I HAIR TOHIQ.
Gray hair Is now turned back to Its original color
without dye for the IlrHt tlmo lu tlio hlatory ot tlio
u oriel. Mmo. Valu'h KxeolnlOr Hair Toulo IB con
sidered the moot advanced triumph In chemistry.
U restored thn natural color to i'r.iy hair. contalnH
uodyu , and Ntops luilr falllni ; In from'Jt houra tu
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OUIDZ TO DHA'JTY.
Mine. Yala will nentl hrr ' 'Guide to Deauty. " n
vnhnblu book , fnu > . to laJlot H-Midliu U cents In
poHtaife htainpx to im for mailing u'lino. Ulvrn
extracts from Mum , YatiiH fanoua lectures on
beauty , and general udleu on buauty culture the
moat advanced branch of education -which glvim
every woman an I'qiril clruice to beconio beautiful
and remain jouu ; nlu-.UH
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( /Venn U , S. Journal o/Hc die lite. )
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agyllvlngrii ) > lclanlilacnccet3l9a9tonlthln ; ; > . Wo
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tendjIth a largo bottle of Ills absolute cure , free to
Any luffcrer \ \ ho may tcuil tlirlr I'.O. anil KzprcBi id *
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