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Old Shoos.
How much a man is like old slices!
For instance, each a soul may lose.
Both, have been tanned—both are made
tight
By cobblers—both get left and right,
Both need a mate to be complete,
And both are made to go on feet.
They both need healing; oft are sold,
And both, in time, turn all to mold.
With shoes the last is first; with men
The first shall be last, and when
The shoes wear out they’re mended new.
When men wear out, they’re men dead,
too!
They both are trod upon, and both
Will tread on others—nothing loath;
Both have their ties and both lnclimf.
When polished, in the world to shine.
And both peg out. And wofild you choose
To be a man or be his shoes?
—Anonymous.
A BLACK PROVIDENCE.
. 1'he Baoillus of Shiga.
' Current Literature: Some years ngm
Shtga, a gre^t Japanese doctor, proved!
j that there was a bacillus of dysentery,!
! and that that disease coiild be cured by
the administering ■ : f a serpm in the same M
manner as typhoid. A year ago Drs. Du
val and Bassett, while working at the1
etiology of cholera infantum, reported
that they had found in lfcrty-two cases
of the summer diarrhoea of Infants ini
, the city of Baltimore the bacillus of
; Shiga. This bacctllus, known as the
* cause of tropical dysentery, had beea
bought not to exist in the United States.
Merely a Surmise.
Chicago News: “How old is Charlie
Huggins, daughter?” asked old maiv
Bifkins al the breakfast table the other
morning. '
"He’s twenty-four, I believe," re
plied the fair maid. “But why do you
ask?”
“Oh, your mother and 1 were only
wondering,” answered the fattier, with
the suspicion of a twinkle in his oft
optic. “We gathered from what we
heard of his conversation in the par
lor last night that he was in his sec
ond childhood.”
A Physician’s Statement.
Yorktown, Arlt., ,Tan. 11.—Leland
Williamson, M. D., one of our cleverest
; physicians, has made a statement, in
dorsing Dodd’s Kidney Pills and say
ing that he uses them in his daily prac
tice in preference to any other kidney,
medicine, llis statement has created a
profound sensation, as it is somewhat
unusual for a physician to publicly in
dorse anything in the shape of a patent
medicine. Dr. Williamson says:
“After twenty years’ practice in a
sickly and malarious country I have
come to the conclusion that it is al
ways best to use tbe remedy that will
relieve and cure my patients whether
ethical or not.
”1 have used Dodd’s Kidney Pilla
with uniform success in the various
forms of Kidney Disease, Pain in the
Back, Gout. Rheumatism, Inflamma
tion and Congestion of the,Kidneys and
all kindredi#iiseases; I always pre
scribe D’odu s Kidney Pills in such
cases and can testify that they inva
riably restore the Kidneys to their nor
mal state and thereby relieve the blood
of accumulated poisons, "producing
prompt and effective cures.”
A loarnqd biologist named Conrad
has just discovered that sauerkraut
contains microbes. It is said that they
rxhale the gas that gives to this dish
its characteristic piquancy.
Economy Is the road to wealth. PUT
NAM FADELESS DYE is the road to
economy.
Women are now being substituted
for men in the Italian postal service.
Signor Galimberti, the minister of porta
pnd telegraphs, is responsible for the
change.
A woman, still fair, as the dying rays
of the aun fell on her luxuriant brown
hair and touched with almost, youth
ful bloom the thin cheeks of her ear
■ nest face, stood before her easel, paint
ing with all her mind and soul as well
j as with all her strength.
i But with a smile that softened her
| features, with a tenderness that was
; beauty itself, she turned toward the
radiant vision that burst impetuously
: Into the studio, though she only said:
“Betty, child, when will you learn
to come in gently?”
“Oh, bother!” she cried, running
across the room and throwing her arms
: round her sister’s neck. “Now, Katie,
you bad old thing, what do you mean
by refusing Sir Edward Fairbalrns? I
have Just met him looking as glum as
an owl, and I know what that means.”
"Oh,” said Kate, disengaging herself
and turning to her easel again, "I was
' very sorry. I had hoped I had made it
j plain to him long ago, and that he
i would spare me the pain of a direct
j refusal.”
“Why could you not marry him?”
“You know I am not free: my heart
was given eight years ago.”
j “I knew It was that old tale.” she
: cried, contemptuously. "But, Katie,
I you really are absurd! Your engage
ment to Geoffrey Hilton came to an end
’ live years ago, and, of course, you are
| free, and so is he.”
i A spasm of pain disturbed the se
I renlty of the elder sister’s countenance,
i and, putting down her brushes, she
' passed her arm round Betty’s waist,
and sat down by her in the broad win
do'h seat.
j “Retty, darling, you were only a child
; of 15 when he went away, and you
could not understand my reasons for
i acting as I did. Geoffrey was an engl
, neer, but there was little hope of his
i getting on In the old firm, and we had
: been engaged for three years. Then
r—--—m—nr
"Poor Kate looks much older, be
good heaven, how lovely Betty ha
grown!”
The succeeding month only served ti
intensify these first impressions. Geof
frey spent nearly all his time at Thori
Cottage, and the Inevitable crisis ap- ;
proached nearer every day.
At last It came.
One evening the little maid ushered
Geoffrey into the drawing roow where
Betty sat alone gazing at the fire that |
I leaped and crackled In the grate. Hei i
r yes were full of tears: she knew not ;
I why, for she was not sad.
She jumped up at his approach, but j
j forebore to ask for lights lest he should
see the tears that were yet in her eyes.
"Sit down and wait for Katie,” she
said hurriedly. "She has just gone tc
see poor Mrs. Smith, who has a tiny
baby and is ill with pneumonia, so Ka
tie goes every evening to bathe the
baby and settle the mother for the
night, when the nurse comes and takes
I her place.”
| Geoffrey hardly seemed to hear what
' she said; he only knew they were
j alone, and he had never seen anything
I so lovely as her graceful figure with
the firelight glancing on her rounded
cheeks and lighting up her curls.
His silence and the intentness of his
gaze made her nervous, and for the
sake of saying something she said:
"I like this light, don't you? It is so
full of mystery.”
For answer he leant forward, tak
ing her two hands in his, and saying in
almost a whisper:
“Kittle Betty, oh, little Betty, the
mystery is here, in us. Since the first
moment I saw you in the setting Sep
tember sunshine I have known there is
no happiness for me apart from you.
Darling, tell me, do you love me?” And
he strove to draw her to. him.
She pushed him back with all her
Ji.vnrrWtita-.ni
By Frances Jerome.
(Copyright, 1903, by W. R. Hearst.)
The marquis of Bahama was often
criticised before his face and behind
his back because, although he was one
of the most aristocratic and fastidious
of men, he kept -with him continually
an ugly negro, named by some fantastic
play upon words Benito.
Besides being horribly ugly In per
son, he was Idle and Impudent, dis
playing, Indeed, sufficient good humor
when sober, but this was not his usual
condition.
Generally he was to be seen lying
about his master’s quarters either in a
beastly state of intoxication or sleep
ing off the effects of a debauch. It was
during one of these periodical affairs
that the marquis told the following
story. Seating him, facing a group of
friends. Immaculate as ever, holding a
fragrant cigar in his fingers, the mar
quis spoke as follows: “You have oft
en, my good friends, shown a com
mendable interest in my affairs, for
which I thank you, gracious gentlemen
and fair ladles.
“In no direction has this interest
more strongly shown itself than In the
matter of my poor Benito.” The mar
quis waved a white indolent hand to
ward an open window, under which lay
tljls negro In a drunken sleep.
“You know that I was educated In
the United States, and there I obtained
my dusky servitor, even then, as now,
faithful to my Interests when, I was
about to say, he was sober—but that
you can Judge for yourselves when I
have finished.
“I then proceeded to complete my ed
ucation by a tour of the principal cities
of the old world. Finally I came to
Athens, and there I stayed longer than
1 anticipated, for there, friends, I met
my fate. A beautiful widow, with dark,
lovely eyes and curls ensnared my fan
cy. We met at the embassy; and
though I rose early and worked late I
could never flatter myself that I had
made any Impression on her marble
heart.
"One night at a ball at the Embassy,
betw-een a waltz and at polonnaise, the
subject of a picnic next day in the
fields outside of Athens was brought
up, and finally decided upon. I had
heard stories of Greek bandits, who
were collected in bands outside of the
city, and I took occasion to men Son the
fact that they sometimes took prison
ers of people, and held them for ran
som, falling which they subjected their
prisoners to frightful atrocities. But
It made no impression. To the gay
music of the orchestra the plans were
completed. I was rewarded by a
bewildering glance from Eva's black
eyes, and a W-hispered invitation to be
her particular escort on the morrow.
"The party were to proceed horse
back to a certain spot near Athens, and
there dismount. The servants were to
prepare luncheon-. And so with gay
est anticipations the party broke up
for the night.
"Summoning Benito, who, for a won
der was sober, I threw him my keys,
and, bidding him to have my riding
clothes and horse ready for me, and to
waken me at an early hour, I went to
bed to dream of the fair Eva.
“When I awoke the next day the sun
was shining hot in my face. Springing
out of bed, I found it was 11 o’clock,
hours after we were to have been on
our way. Blind with rage, I dressed,
and hurrying out into the empty court
yard, I saw my faithless slave, lying
prone in the sunshine, dead drunk. I
seized my riding whip and beat him till
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rame the chance for him to go out to
the mines In South Africa, and I could
see he was wild to go, but did not like
to leave me to more weary years of
waiting. I loved him too well not to
wish for his happiness, so I bade him
go, and go free. I would not have him
hampered by me in any tvay. He was
not to go out there merely with the
idea of getting a home together for me
as soon as possible; he was to be abso
lutely free to choose the path most like
ly to lead to ultimate success.”
Betty gave her sister a warm hug
and said;
"You are a dear, unselfish darling.”
But Ivate shook her head and contin
ued:
"He knew I made enough to live on;
lie could not know mother would die In
a month. He thought I was happy and
comfortable with my painting to fill
my mind, and mother and you to—”
She hesitated and then went on: "To
fill my heart.” Then, with a sudden
compunction for her hesitation, she
added Impulsively: “You have been the
I ;oy and comfort of my life.”
And I?” cried Betty, enthusiastic
ally. "What would 1 have done with
out you? Y'ou have been mother and
j father and sister and all to me.”
Kate could not repress a sigh as she
; added:
"What shall I do when you get mar
! vied?"
"Oh,” said Betty, airily, "I shall not
marry at all. We shall be the two old
maids of Thorn cottage."
“You do not look cut out for an old
maid,” said Kate, gazing fondly at the
lovely face beside her.
“On the contrary, I ‘feci a vocation'
for it,” said Hefty gayly. “The truth
is that Geoffrey will come back and
marry you, and what will become of
poor little me, then?”
Kate blushed once more, but replied
slowly:
I “It may be he is married already."
But a few days later came the letter
for which Kate Carteret had waited so
many years. It was a short one from
Geoffrey saying he was sailing Imme
diately for England and hoped to find
a welcome waiting for him from his
“old friends at Thorn cottage, Crow
bury.”
“Why, Katie, how handsome you
are,” cried Betty, looking with wonder
at her sister's transfigured face.
"Nonsense!” said Kate, “remember I
am past 30, and faded and worn."
At last the anxious weeks of wait
ing were over; Geoffrey Hilton had ar
rived.
The fate of the three was settled in
! the first few minutes as Geoffrey held
Katie’s hand, and each eagerly scanned
the face of the other.
Thought Kate with exultation:
I "He Is Just the same, my noble love!”
I Thought Betty with a strange, tense
feeling at her heart:
. "He is very handsome, and I think
his love must be worth much enduring
} to gain."
i Thought GeofTrey as his eye* wan
dered from Kate to Betty: - '
might, her face so white which a min
ute before had been so rosy,,
“But it is wrong—wicked," she stam
mered. “How can you? Think of Ka
tie.”
“Katie!” he cried. “But that was all
over years ago. We certainly were en
gaged, but she in her wisdom broke ii
oft and now—oh, Betty, listen to me
I love you, I love you. You are the only
woman in the world for me. From al
time it was ordained that we should
love.”
But Betty could only refuse stead
fastly to listen, though It was music
to her ears.
“I—I—thought you came here because
you were going to ask her again.”
“Betty, child, what are you running
your dear little head against? It is
certainly true, if you must know, that
it was in my mind when I set out for
England to see if she were still unmar
ried and willing to have me, but,” he
added with passion, “when I think ol
my feeling toward her and compare it
with the love I have for you, I know
that you are my real mate, and my sec
ond self.”
"But,” murmured Betty faintly,
“what if she thought—as—as—I did?”
"Nonsense!" he said firmly. "Katie i
much too sensible a woman. She gav
me up live years tiso, and now anyom
can see she is wedded to her art. Shi
has no place for me, or any other man
in her happy, well-ordered life. If j
thought otherwise—and his brow dark
ened—"if for a moment I thought she
had continued to consider herself bound
to me all these five years, and waited
for me to return and claim her; if 1
thought that,” he repeated, turning al
most fiercely to her, "I would
never have said a word to
you of my love—I would have
married her, and before God
I would have made her happy. But
now,” he said, turning tenderly tc
| Betty, who, cold and rigid, was gazing
! straight before her, seeing nothing,
| “we know it is not so. Love me, Inj
j darling, and let us take the happiness
j that God has given us. She would be
the first to wish us joy."
"The first to wish us joy.” Yes, Betty
felt in her heart perhaps she would,
but it would be from a broken heart.
*'Glve me time; 1 cannot answet you
now,” she cried brokenly, and left the
room hurriedly.
Katie, coming in ten minutes after
wards wondered to find the room empty
and dark, and the fire nearly out.
For hours Betty sat huddled up ir
the window seat in her bedroom, feel
ing not the cold of her body tor the
misery of her soul. Why was this sac
rifice, not only of her happiness bul
also of his, demanded of her? Why was
the fate of three persons given to her,
who had already ceased to be a child,
to deckle?? Over and over again hei
.numbed brain formed the words:
"He loves tne, and I love him but he
would marry her if 1 told him tl e
truth. Shall I tell him, or shall I s-y
nothing?”
» '
I could do no more.
“A merry laugh greeted my ears.
Looking up, I saw the fair Eva, seated
behind the half-closed blinds. I rushed
to her side, to find that some mistake
in her riding habit had angered her.
She had refused at the last moment to
go, and they had set off without her.
it is needless to say that I never passed
a happier day—even considering that I
might pardon Benito.
"At nightfall a single rider rushed
breathless into the city. The brigands
held the party for ransom. And, sad to
relate, before he could return to them
they had been murdered. Thus you see,
gentlemen,” said the marquis, with a
merry twinkle in his eyes as he rose
to depart, "I not only feel bound to
provide for my good servant, but even
to keep him reasonably drunk.”
“But,” called after him one of the
party, "Marquis, what of Eva?"
The marquis turned and bowed, with
all the grace of Spain, and without a
word departed.
French Politeness.
Harper's Bazar: During the past
summer, which I spent amongst ex
clusively French people in a hotel at
Saint-Germain, I estimated that I lost
quite twenty-four hours out of each
week saying good morning and good
evening to the mdh, women, little chil
dren, and dogs about me. If you en
counter the same person twenty-five
times in the same day you must each
time smile rapturously, pause, at least
shake hands if you do not kiss, cere
moniously inquire how he or she is
'going,” and ceremoniously bid him or
her "au revoir” at parting. Not only
every man and woman expects this,
but all the little children toddle up to
you, shake hands, and exact the same
amount of ceremony. Then every well
regulated French family has a dog who
more than likely occupies a chair and
eats off a plate beside you at the ta
ble, so that It is considered churlish if
you do not also stop and tell the dog
'bon jour" and “ au revoir" a dozen
times a day, pausing to take the paw
which he is prettily taught to extend to
you.
When the washerwoman brings home
your linen, there are at least five min
utes spent in ceremoniously greeting
and parting from her. In the opera
tion of receiving and paying for linen |
you exchange “mercis” and "pardons”
not fewer than ten times. Any other
serving person or tradesman who
?omes to do business with you
hroughout the day you similarly re
?eive with “bon jour, monsieur” and
'au revoir, monsieur," and you thank
nim and beg his pardon as often us
you can possibly get the words into
.he tength of time he has to stay.
Woes of a Father.
• Chicago Post: "Papa, what does gal
ant mean?”
“Oh. it means courtly. Why do you
isk’”
, "Because It speaks here of a gallant
ihlp."
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cagoula Diogedes in the rotunda of the
Great Southern Hotel Gulfport Sunday.
“The queen reigned over a people that
lived on the border of the Red sea who
were the richest In Arabia. They were
represented leading an idle life, owing to
the abundance of natural produce of their
country, which afforded the sustenance of
life and also frankincense, myrrh, cinna
mon and balsam that gave'them an exten
sive commerce with other nations.
"The queen, owing to the splendid repur
tatlon of King Solomon, whose power and .
wisdom had spread to the remotest
of the world, visited him at his own court.
Presenting herself at the foot of Ills
throne, in each of her hands she held a
wreath of flowers—one composed of nat
ural, thq other of artificial. Art In tha
labor of the mimic wreath had exquisitely
emulated the lively hues of nature, so
that at the distance It was held by tha
queen to exercise the sagacity of tha
monarch for his judgment it was deemed
Impossible for him to decide which wreath
was the prpduction of nature and which
the work of art. Solomon was for a mo
ment perplexed, yet to be vanquished by
a woman irritated his pride.
“An expedient presented itself to thai
king by a swarm of bees on the outside
of a window which he ordered opened.
The bees rushed In the court and alighted,
on one of the wreaths, while not a singlo ^
one fixed on the other, Sheba was baffled
and was convinced of the wisdom of Solo-i
mon. Such Is the story handed down that;
the bee only rests on the natural beauties
and never fixes on the painted flowers,
however inimitable the color may be laid.)
Ml.”
GIVES “GO.”
Food That Carries One Along.
It’s nice to know of food that no*
only tastes delicious but that puts the
snap and go into one and supplies stay
ing power for the day.
A woman says: “I have taken
enough medicine in my time to furnish
a drug store, but in later and wiser
years I have taken none but have de
pended, for the health I now enjoy,
on suitable and sustaining food of
which I keep on hand a tested variety,
plain but nourishing.
“Of these my main dependence 19
Grape-Nuts, especially if I have before
me a day of unusual effort, either men
tal or physical. In this case I fortify
myself the first thing in the morning
with about four teaspoonfuls of Grape
Nuts moistened with cream and no*
much else for breakfast and the ^
amount of work I can then carry
through successfully without fatigue
or exhaustion is a wonder to those
about me and even to myself.
“Grape-Nuts food is certainly a won*
derful strengthener and is not a stimu
lant, for there is no reaction after*
ly-ards, but it Is sustaining and
strengthening, as I have proved by
long experience.” Name given by
I’ostmn Co., Battle Creek, Mich. k
There's a reason four teaspoonfu®
»f Grape-Nuts and cream will add
more strength and carry one further
than a plateful of coarse, heavy food
('hat is nearly all waste. Grape-Nuts
rood is condensed, pre-digested and de
licious. It contains the parts of the
Wheat and Barley grains that supply
the rebuilding parts for Brain and
Nerve Centers.
Look In each package for a copy of
the famous little book, “The Road t«
Wellville."
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