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The Commoner.
9
The Home Department.
The Burial of Sir Joliu Mooro.
(By Charles Wolfe.)
Not a drum was heard, nor a funeral
note,
As his corpse to the rampart we
hurried;
Not a soldier discharged his farewell
shot
O'er the grave where our hero w.ir
buried.
Wo buried him darkly at dead of
night,
The sod with our bayonets turning,
By the strugglins moonbeam's misty
light,
And the lantern dimly burning.
No useless coffin inclosed his breast.
Nor in sheet nor in shroud we wound
him;
But he lay like a warrior taking his
rest,
With his martial cloak around, him!
Few and short were the prayers we
said,
And we spoke not a word of sorrow;
But we steadfastly gazed on the face
of the dead
And we bitterly thought of the mor
row. We thought, as we hollowed his nar
row bed
And smoothed down his lonely
pillow,
That the foe and the stranger would
tread o'er his head,
And wo far away on the bill)'.v!
Lightly theyll talk ofcth spirit that's
gone
And o'er his cold ashes upbraid Min;
But little he'll reck if they let him
sleep on
In the grave where a Briton hns ial-1
him.
But half of our heavy task was doiif,
When the clock struck the hour for
retiring;
And we heard the random and dhtiit
gu-.i
That the foe was sullenly firing.
Slowly and sadly we laid him down,
From the field of his fame fresh
and gory;'
We carved not a line, we raised not a
stone
But we left him alone with his
glory.
TEARHllOiKHEEHfll?
Whether a woman is tearful or cheer
ful depends not on what slit. has materi
ally, but what she is physically. Many
an indulgent husband is driven almost
to despair by the tearful outburst of a
wife who
has "every
thing she
wants." He
wants to
know
what's the
matter. But
the wife
can't tell.
She only
knows that
she is de
pressed and
despondent.
Such a
condition is
latcd to
some form
disease. The mental depression has its
corresponding womanly weakness.
Doctor Pierce's Favorite Prescription
changes tearful women to cheerful women
by curing the diseases which cause phys
ical weakness and depression of spirits.
It establishes regularity, dries unhealthy
drains, heals inflammation and ulcera
tion, and cures female weakness.
JUrs. Alice Adams, of taboralory, Washings
lou Co., Pa., says ; WHh many thanks I writ
to let you know how I am. I can say by God's
"help and ybtir help I am well. I have taken six
bottles of Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription nd
two of his Golden Medical Discovery,' and I
can do all my work. I "can't praise your medi
cine too highly. I will recommend your medi
cines as long as I live. If any one doubts this
give them "my address."
"Favorite Prescription makes weak
women strong and sick women well.
Accept no substitute for the medicine
which works wonders for weak
Women.
Keep the bowels healthy Ty the
timely uee of Xtoctor Pierce's Pleasaat
TiUiis.
Household Hints.
It takes brains to mako a milliner.
It's all head work.
Cream io better and cheaper to use
in mashed potatoes than butter.
Some people are like" clocks; they,
are going all the time, but never get
anywhere. , ,
While your boy is still helpless help
him to help himself. Spend less time
scolding and more time teaching.
"Jones grumbles at cold weather and
he grumbles at hot weather, what does
he like?" "He likes to grumble."
A woman .scorns all advice about .
the selection of a husband," but takes
two other women along to help 'pick
out a hat.
When you have washed cashmere,
iron it with a thin piece of muslin or
crinoline over the ironing blanket.
This will keep the thread from flat
tening too much.
A remedy for a hoarse cold that Is
highly indorsed is a bit of porous
plaster. The plaster I3 cut into three
pieces, one of them applied at a time,
lengthwise, just below where. the col-.,
lar fastens, letting it extend down on
the chest. After a day or two replace
this piece with a second, and so on
till all three are used. In the case of
children who become hoarse., without
fever, this treatment Is often useful.
Texas Farmer.
fuller 0' satisfaction than a tin dipper
o new cider I'd like to know it;, but
the achin' an' doublin up it kin inter
duce into your system is a caution to
wildcats!"
"It's awful to read in the papors
about them unpardonable fellers that
eats pie with their knife an' tucks
their napkins under their chin, but
sonce I come to . think on it, them
ain't never the fellers that gits pulled
up to be examined in supplenient'ry
proceeding, so I've noticed."
"Goodness ain't always rewarded
jes accordin' to the way the books
has it sot down Now I never sold my
mother's three-dollar brass kittle fer
two shillin when I wa3 a boy, to git
money to go to the circus, an' I -never
played hookey to see a ball game, an'
I never robbed birds' nests, nor tied
tin pans to dogs' tails, an' yit, by
Josh, 1 hain't never got to be president
yit."
"After a man has learned enough to
instruct others he knows tfoo much to
try to do it." Dietetic Magazine.
Deacon Bllmbcn's Wisdom.
"If you want your child brung up in
the vay he should go, you want to
travel that way yourself, now an'
then."
"An' I want to tell you this. It
aint always the man what builds a
sky-scrapln buildin' that's goin' to
have a mansion in the skies, an' you
mind what I tell 3'ou!"
"There ain't nothin' truer than that
the race ain't always to tfcp swift; but,
all the same, if I was a bettin' man,
I'd put my money on the fastest hoss."
"Don never git down-hearted 'cause
you hain't got somethin 'good that
somebody else has got. A hen ain't
got no teeth, but jes' see the luck she
strikes by It She don't have to have
no -gum biles."
"There ain't no rose without Its
thorn. Jes' look at new cider. If
theres a luxury on arth sweeter an
Don't He Blue.
Miss Seraphina was In the dumps,
for no particular reason, simply be
cause she had a chronic tendency to
indulge In low spirits. Even the cat
was aware that Miss Seraphina was
blue, and humped her back in protest
ing fashion, as she sat in the corner
looking in vain for her mistress' no
tice. Miss Seraphina's sister, Molly,
observing the familiar signs of a wet-
blanket 4day, had, ..early in- the morn
ing, decided to pay a long-promised
visit to a friend in the next village.
Molly could .not endure Seraphina's
melancholy fits. The maid in the
kitchen stayed, in her own department.
She, too, had lost patience with the
lady who was moody and cross with
out reason, whenever her life did not
quite suit her.
Parrots are uncanny creatures, but I
fancy Mis.s Seraphina's. nephew, Tom,
could have told how it was that the
parrot in his cage suddenly called out
vociferously: "Don't be blue! Don't
be blue!" At any rate, Seraphina was
very much startled. Just then, that
cheery old soul, her plain-spoken Aunt
Betsey, appeared at the door. She said
briskly: "Come over and help me
quilt, Phreny!" "Oh! no, Aunty, I'm
too far down," said the niece. "More
shame to you! You're only lazy!
And," she went on: "You're ungrate
ful, too! Come along!" "Don't be
blue!" said the parrot; and Seraphina
threw a shawl over her shoulders,
picked up her thimble and hev bonnet,
and followed Aunt Betsey to the cozy
home around the corner, where that
lady -lived In never-failing sunshine.
"I tell you what it is, my dear,"
the relentless mentor continued, as
they seated themselves at the milt-Ing-frame.
"Most of us' could over
come our blues by making a bravo
and honest effort. You are drifting
Into a state of chcerlessness because
you' do not exercise enough In ' the
house and go out too seldom Into th
open air. People dread your long face
and your gloomy ways. Children run
-away from you. What you need is to
see your folly, and then make a strong
fight against it."'
I Will Cure You of
Rheumatism
No pay until you know it.
After 2,000 experiments, I have
learned how to cure Rheumatism. Not
to turn bony joints" Into flesh again;
that Is impossible. But I can euro J10
disease always, at any state, and for
ever. I ask for no money, Simply wrilfc
me a postal and I will send you an
order on your nearest druggist for six
bottl :3 of Dr. Snoop's Rheumatic Cure,
for every druggist keeps It. Use It for
a month, and if it does what I claim
pay your druggist $5.50 for it. If It
doesn't I will pay him myself.
I have no samples. Any medicine
that can affect Rheumatism with but
a fow doses must bo drugged to the
verge of danger. I use no such drugs.
It is folly to take them. You must got
the disease out of the blood.
My remedy does that, even in the
most difficult, obstinate cases. No
matter how impossible this seems to
you, L know it and I take the. risk. I
have cured tens of thousands of casss
in this way, and my records show that
39 out cf 40 who get those six bottles
pay, and pay gladly. I have learned
that people in general are honest with
a physician who cures them. That !s
all I ask. If I fail I don't expect a
penny from you.
Simply write me a postal card or
letter. Let me send you an order for
the medicine. Take it for a montM,
for it won't harm you anyway. If it
cures, pay $5.00. I leave that entirely
to you. I will mall you a book that
tells how I do it. Address Dr. Shooo,
Box 515, Racine, Wis.
Mild cases, not chronic, are often
cured by one or two bottles. At all
druggists.
"I do pray, Aunt Betsey," said
Seraph Inn.
"Perhaps. But you don't mean what
you say, or you'd help the Lord to an
swer your prayer. Prayer and pains
go together! Remember your parrot's
sermon, dearie, and don't be blue!"
Seraphina promised that she would
try not to give up to low spirits any
more than she could help, which, for
her, was a step forward. Christian
Herald.
Fireside Chats.
When grown people are nervous and
tired they want to rest and be let
alone, but -they never think a baby
needs the same thing. If it is restless
they rock it, toss It, shake rattles at
it, anything to keep it awake and ex
cited. They will not let it take a good
cry, forgetting that it may be a relax
ation to it, as it sometimes is to them.
A baby's fretfulness is purely physical
and the result often of over-excited
nerves, and it should, at least for the
first six months of its life, be -kept
quiet and unstimulated beyond its
natural pace of development.
The day of usefulness for brooms
may be doubled If a little care and at
tention are given them. They should
not be used always one way, as this
makes them wear one-sided. They
should never he stood on the brush,
but hung up. A hole through the end
(Continued on Page Twelve.)
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