A Valentine to
Ah, little boy Cupid, 1 know you well;
ltut you re not as the poets say;
You have no arrows, that 1 have seen,
Though you captured my heart, one
day.
You wear more clothes than the pic
tured I^>ve,
And to call you blind were a sin;
But 1 know you are Cupid, for no one
else
Such a number of hearts could win.
For they all succumb to your winning
wiles,
The lassies, the maids, and the
dames;
Though Instead of “Cupid,” they call
you "Pet."
And “Honey,” and all such names.
So I send you a valentine, Boy, today,
To say you may keep my heart,
For It must be yours forever and aye.
Though I felt not the feathered dart.
IDA’S VALENTINES.
By M. Louise Foed.
"Tomorrow’s Valentine's Day, mam
ma, and oh, yon ought to see the big
box teacher’s got on her desk for us
to put our valentines In! Can I make
some more tonight? I know how to
make lovely ones!” and an eager little
face looked up Into Mrs. Lane’s.
Mamma stooped down and planted a
kiss on the rosy cheek, saying:
“Yes, Indeed, dear, as many as you
please. But to whom are you going to
send them all? iBn't you list about
full? Have you remembered Kather
ine and Annie as well as the others?”
“Yes, mamma, and I'm going to
make one for Alec Boles; he lsu't very
bright, you know, and the boys make
fun of him. I thought he'd like one.
I don't believe he'll have any; and
Kitty Welch has to stay at home now,
'cause her brother's got the measles,
and so I thought I'd send her one,
too.” replied Ida earnestly.
“I am very glad you thought of
them,” said her msmiua, ‘‘aud here
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you way iu« tb»ia If you lib*."
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*aeUla»*d Id* In bi*»i «in*.
"V*n, Indaad. **l<*< Ully Ilk* on* Hint
nuaa off lb* coady boa," **id wnwinn.
with a awry iambi* In bar ay#
Id* wm off l» a irka lo uotk* bar
valaailaaa. nad *o baaily did aba aorb
tk*t *b* bad tulla a baudful lo l*b*
to at bool tail fcornina
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ter up to thu very time the bell rang,
and Miss Walker kindly allowed the
wonderful box to be opened before les
sons were begun.
Time after time Ida's name was
called, until her desk was quite cov
ered with big valentines and little
ones, home made and store bought,
some rather the worse for handling,
and some fresh and clean In their
white envelopes.
“Seventeen!” she counted In sur
prise, when the last one was distri
buted, and the proud and happy little
maiden looked around to see who had
fared any better.
“How many did you get?”
"And you?"
"Oh, Isn’t that a lovely one!”
"I got most as many as you,” were
the words heard on all sides, and the
excitement had scarcely begun to sub
side when Miss Walker struck the bell
once more, and every valentine was
put away till recess time.
Only one little girl there was who
had not a single valentine; she was a
new scholar, a thin, sad-looklng child,
with big brown eyes. Her dress was
old and faded, and the first day she
came to school, one little girl had
whispered to another:
"Josie Dean’s father drinks, I guess,
’cause 1 saw her with him last week,
and he couldn’t walk straight.”
That was. Indeed, the sad secret of
Josie's home, and now, when all the
others were happy with their valen
tines, she was looking out of the win*
dow, winking hard to keep back the
tears.
Not one valentine, did I say? Oh,
yes, there was one of those dreadful
ones children sometimes call "comic,"
with a coarse picture of a drunken
man, with a bottle In his hand upon It.
Home thoughtless boy had put that in
the box for Josle Dean, and in delight
she had responded to her name.
But when she saw the cruel joke her
little (ace grew pale and frightened,
und the hid the dreadful thing in her
pocket before any oue could see It.
At recess time Ida was here and
there, showing her treasures and ad
miring others, and suddenly came up
on Josle Dean, who was trying very
bravely not to be disappointed, but
wiped away a tear <ts Ida came to the
window where she was staudlug.
lu a minute Ida had guessed (he
trouble, though she knew nothing
sbout the secret hidden depth* of the
| faded pocket. Sh«* saw that Josle's
' hands were empty.
"Oh. Josle," she said softly, "didn't
I <wi get any? I'm mi sorry Here I've
I got lots uf them, tuure thnu I need,
aud 1 want you to pick out the vary
prettiest one," and ska drew her away
into the dressing room, and spread her
valentine* out.
‘ There now you Ink* just the on*
> ii Want Inoel "
lost* * fare brightened, but she was
too si » to aoept th* kind offer, uuOl
Id* ln»t»t»d upon It,
"Yen. you must; you see you ve been
her* such n little whll* that the girts
don't know you muck. Nest year
; you'll have plenty You see they all
, know me 'r«es* I've been her* so
long." she *ald eomfofttnsly
There «aa wne representing two
, Hill# girt* huslly and happily nt wurh
I* Ih* v*ry *' i *f making and wriiiag
j valentines, this on# Juste chose, and
•k||) l<Msl*4 Us
^VVVVVVVS/VVVS^VN
"We'll Kay that is you and me, ’ said
Ida, laughing, “and next year we will
make our valentines together,” and
the two little girls went back to the
schoolroom, their feet dancing with
happiness, and their hearts light as
air.
It would be hard to tell which of
the two was the happier, hut Ida said
to her mother that night, as she wai
tucked into her little bed:
“The very best part of the day,
mamma, was when I gave Jotse that
valentine. It made such a happy place
In my heart that it hasn't gone away
yet.”
“No, and it will not, for it is what
we do for others that makes us happy.
What is the verse about that, dearie,
can you tell?"
Ida looked thoughtfully a moment,
and then said, "Oh, yes, 'It Is more
PICK OUT THE PRETTIEST ONE.
blessed to give Ilian to receive,’ and it
is, sure enough, isn't it mamma?”—
Our Sunday Afternoon.
Apropos.
Uy Heleu Chaffee.
I Jet ween the alps of coffee
1 paused a bit to say,
"You've surely not forgotten
That 'tis St. Valentiue's Day?
"You used, when you were courting,
To sentimental grow,
And send me at this season
Some gift quite apropos.
"If blue by chanco my ball gown,
A bos would come from you
Forget-me-nots containing.
Aud a valentine In blue.
"If sweet you said my lipe were.
Like gold my curling lock*
You sent a golden Jewel
And sweets In costly bog
"Hut sentiment by wedlock
la dulled or soon or lataj
No valentine llude Cupid
For wives appropriate.*
, Ae day wore on, forgotten
These words uf sad regrw
the dour hell rang I aaawered.
A tue«»«iiger I met.
tn envelope with Cnplds
And rooee all enlaced1
I opened It. sad. trembling.
The pages swatted In bast*
To aUks and tare one hundred *
"To squash, to Ash. to ham
Payment received aad so forth-*
Tt* 4"Bs tgy teat Y—r*
President Schurman, of Cornell Uni
versity. who has derided to accept hts
appointment as a member of the Phil
ippines commission, though at one
lime, and perhaps still, opposed to ex
pansion, says that from what he has
recently learned he is convinced that
any other action than that which was
followed by the peace commiaslonert
at Paris In regard to the Philippine
Islands would have precipitated a
great international war.
Whenever a young man goes to court
and pleads guilty to being In love he
ought to get a life sentence.
; Work In Ihn llnlltil States I'ntent Oltlea
I The latest Official Report we have
states there are 5,533 applications
pending. But it will be gratifying to
Inventors to learn that Examiners who
were recently 8 months In arrears Hre
now reported to be only one and two
months.
Patents have been allowed but not
issued to Iowa Inventors as follows:
To E. K. Miller, of Klma, for a water
tank heater and feed cooker described
In one of the claims as follows:
A heater comprising a casing, a fire
box In said eating, a holler in the Are
of the tire box and the holler, draft
passages through the Are box and
traversing the space between the de
flector plate and holler, and a damper
controlling said draft passages.
To. H. Nelson, upon appeal to the
Rourd of Examlners-in-ehief, for an
attachment for brooms that is readily
slipped on the handle to rest on top
of the hurl in such a manner that
water will percolate from the attach
ment and he distributed by capllary
attraction to the straws for the pur
pose of moistening dust on the surface
that is to he swept and prevent dust
from arising and annoyances Incident
to sweeping.
Valuable printed matter and udvice
free.
THOMAS O. ORWIO A CO.
Solicitors of Patents.
Iowa Patent Office, Des Moines, Jan.
80, j 899.
Professor .1 H. Johnson of Washing
ton university, St. I^jiils, who has just
been elected dean of the faculty of the
University of Wisconsin, Is an engineer
of the first rank, and is president of
the Society for the Promotion of En
gineering Education. He was gradu
ated from the University of Michigan
in 1878, and up to 1883, he was en
gaged as engineer on the United States
lake survey.
Chanueey M. Depew gays that he
was the other day accosted by a beg
gar, to whom he irave a dollar. "May
I ask your name?" said the mendicant.
Mr. Depew laughed. “Oh, I’m Glover
Cleveland.” he replied. “Who are
you?” “Well, I’m only Chanueey
Depew.
Dr. Johann AztalAs, a noted physi
cian, of Vienna, and his wife Caroline,
commited sulci..e on their golden wed
ding anniversary a few days ago be
cause a favorite nephew on whom they
had lavished affection and wealth
proved an lngrate and brought the
aged couple to the verge of financial
ruin.
An Kconoiulrul Hall.
Chief Engineer W. T. Manning of
the Haltlmore and Ohio Railroad has
invented a new ruil that experts say
has many points of Interest to rail
road owners, the principal one being
Its economical feature. It Is well
known that rails weat rapidly on
curves and where these are short and
traffic heavy, the cost of renewal Is
very large. Manning has evolved a
section, which, he asserts, will reduce
the cost 37 per cent per ton per year.
He adds materially to the life of the
rail by placing additional metal in the
head and on the side upon which the
wear comes. The new rail will be
given a thorough test on the Haltl
more and Ohio Railroad, the receivers
having ordered 1,000 tons from the
Carnegie Steel Co. The Pittsburg
& Western has also ordered 500 tons.
‘ Daniel Webster once got a check for
$6,000 that he was in nowise looking
for,” remarked a Washington old
timer the other day. "Webster was in
the United States senate at the time
and had delivered his masterly speech
on the compromise measure, In which
he sought to reconcile the differences
between the sections. Its broad pat
riotism appealed to Mr. W. W. Cor
coran so strongly that he sent the
senator the sum mentioned the very
next day in a letter expressive of his
admiration for the man and tne speech.
Years afterward I saw the original of
the reply sent by Mr. Webster ac
knowledging the receipt of Mr. Cor
coran's letter."
Charles A. Wolcott, president of the
First National hank of Russell, Kan ,
which closed its doors, has disappear
ed. He is said to have left a letter
advising the directors of the bank that
his accounts were so budly involved
that he could not stay and face ths
consequences. It is known that there
is a shortage in his accounts and ru
mor places the amount all the way
from $s,0(K) to $2o,oott. The directors
decline to publish the letter left by
the intoning lunik president, but state
that all claims against the bauk will
be paid in full.
Hlshop John P. Newman, of the
Methodist Fpiscopal church, who hits
been compelled to abandoned all kinds
uf ministerial work for the last few
months on account of nervous prostra
tion. is now convalescing at the Mur
ray Hill Hotel. New York. The
ft lemls of the bishop will be grat fled
to learn that he expects soon to he re
stored to his Usual vigorous health.
He will attend all of the approaching
conference* assigned to him.
Not even » ■ •■•!«!
like the tguidon Chronicle la proof
against the Inslduous snare of ih«
question, when the pew century be
gins. It hade far> well to tv** in thla
wise’ "Or this the last day of the
last veer but oae of the nineteenth
century, it Is but natural that our
thoughts should reyeit to the history
ot that 1 wonderful century,’ " etc
A handy blotting pa l I* formed of a
sheet of spring met si shaped Into a
cylinder. With the edgee trees *ed to
gether tightly enough to hold the edgee
•it the Mailer when inserted, the eylla*
dec being ranted an a bandied bale
to revolve as It le drawn over iho
"A City of Zinc” Is the name which
may appropriately be given to the
mushroom city of Portuguese East
Africa, Belra. All the houses, all the
.hotels ami public buildings, says a
Natal contemporary, barracks and
warehouses, are built of zinc. Even
: when a verson falls ill he is carried on
a zinc stretcher to a hospital, which
j is also, of course, made of zinc. And
' if he dies he is laid to rest in a zinc
coftlo.
There Is an advantage about the
i striped collar. It can lie worn longer
| without being laundered.
[True Greatness |
In Medicine !
Is proved by the health of the iieople j
who have taken It. More people have V
been made well, more cases of dls- S
ease and sickness have been cured by A
Hood’s Sarsaparilla than by any f
other medicine in the world. The f
peculiar combination, proportion and i
process In Its preparation make I
Hood's Sarsaparilla peculiar to itself I
and unequalled by uuy other, »
The price of liberty often depends
upon the Judge.
A CANADA FARM.
(That a Former Resident of IdahoHays
Regarding Western Canada.
Mr. T. A. Tolmun, of I.acombe, Al
j berta, N. W. T„ a former resident of
| t’asela County, Idaho, who moved to
I Western Canada in July, 1894, writes
| as follows:
’T brought here thirty-four head of
cattle, fifteen horses, two wagons, two
sets of harness and one hundred and
fifty dollars in cash. I homesteaded
the southeast quarter of Section 28,
Township 40, Hangs 26, west of the 4lh ,
Meridian, also purchased a quarter
section of Canadian Pacific Hallway
land. I have been farming more or
less all my life, and I am convinced
that you can raise crops 40 per cent
cheaper here than where I came from.
My capital at present, counting every
thing. is about five thousand dollars.
The yield of my grain all round in 1897
was 60 bushels per acre. This year
(1898) yield of wheat per acre, 37V4
bushels, oats. 60 bushels, barley,
36, and potatoes, 400 per acre.
I consider that this is a much
better country for a man than
j where I came from, provided he is in
dustrious. You got a frpe homestead
here, and Canadian Pacific Railway
lands are cheap and the terms easy.
1 have now made my seventh payment
on the land purchased by me, and am
much pleased with my purchase, as the
land has already much more than paid
for itself. School law here is decidedly
ahead of where I came from, and there
are schools wherever there are set
tlers.” ___
Why Isn’t there money In any busi
ness you have your coin invested in?
I Ex-President Harrison was taking
‘ an evening walk in Indianapolis a few
j days ago when a woman oalled out
; that her house waa being robbed. At
, the same time two men rushed out
l and sprang Into a carriage. Mr. Har
rison leaped Into another carriage,
pursued the fugitives, overtook them
and captured one with his own hands.
A woman’s rights advocate recently
ran against a Morman in Halt Lake
City who had only one wife. “Are you
a misogynist?” asked the first. “No,”
responded the Mormon, “I’m a bi
metal 1st."
One short year of married life turn*
auburn tresses carmine.
All fabrics are left in the most de
sirable condition after washing with
Diamond “C” Soap.
Tailors make wedding suits and law
yers make divorce suits.
Health fbr Ten Oenta.
('ascarets muke bowel, and kidneys act
naturally, deetroy microbos, cure headache,
billiousness and constipation. All druggists.
The man who praises the baby al
ways wins the mother’s smile.
j; Try Grain-01
:: Try Grain-Ot ii
[ J Ask you Grocer to day to show yon * j
' ► a packageof (JRAIN-O, the new food < >
,, drink that takes the place jf coffee, j j
| * , The children may drink it without ’ | ^
i ► Injury as well as the adult. All who < i
i l try it, like it. GRAIN-0 has that \ \
• | rich seal brown of Mocha or Java, < ’
< ► but it is mode from pure grains, and < >
,, the most delicate stomach receives it J [
° without distress. $ the prioe of coffee. <>
< > 15 cents and 25 cents per package, i
J * Bold by all grocers. J [
J l Tastes like Coffee J [
• * Looks like Coffee < >
, , Insist tint your grocer gives you OItAlH-0 o
• ► Accept no imitation. < >
“Nothing but wheat; what you might
call a sea of wheat,” Is what was said
by a lecturer speaking of Western Can
ada. For particulars as to routes, rail
way fares, etc., apply to Hiiperlntendent
of Immigration, Department Interior, Ot
tawa, Canada, or to W. V. Bennett, 801
New York Dtfe Building, Omaha, Neb,
WANTED Csso of rum Heeit* Hist R I P-A N-*
trill Dot hrDcflt. Bend ft rents to Ripens Chemical
Co., New York.for 10 Minifies and IJJUU testimonial*.
Dr. Kay’* Renovator,
Blit, constipation, liver and kidney discases.bll
Uousness. headache, etc. At druggists 2f* A $1.
WILL MAIL SAMPLE BOTTLE ON RECEIPT OF 2Bo.
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