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The catalogue issued by John AL
6myth Company of Chicago should be
in the home of every person who values
economical buying -The book consists
of 422 pages beautifully Illustrated
and is sent free on application
No furniture house in the world
stands so high in public esteem as John
M Smyths iior thirty years if has
enjoyed ihe reputation for honest deal
ings and for the high quality of goods
it handles There is not a State in the
Union to which it does not ship goods
and the great West looks upon it as its
chief supplier
To have furnished half a million
homes is a distinction few firms enjoy
yet this is what John M Smyth has
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tions of thousands of different articles
used daily in the home and office From
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indispensable to the home
Such a book is a good thing to have
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cations should be addressed to John M
Company 3f50 16S W Madison
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5000 Reward for a Liost Plant
A British firm of orchid importers
Las offered 5000 for an orchid bearing
the impressive name of Cypripedium
Farieanim This is the famous lost
orchid For nearly forty years this
handsomest of all the todies slipper
variety of orchid has eluded the search
of the professional collectors Thous
ands of pounds have been spent in the
hunt for it and days and weeks of
weary misery in fetid swamps and im
passable jungles have been endured
in the search for it by those who spend
their lives in the quest of new or rare
varieties of the fashionable flower of
the day The history of the so called
lost orchid is a curious one Forty
years ago three or four plants of it ar
rived for the Calcutta botanical gar
dens Where it came from remains
a mystery to the present day for its
native habitat has never been discov
ered The plant flourished well and
was sold in some numbers till about
twenty years ago when it vanished
despite all efforts to reproduce it from
seed
Intellect in Insects
A writer in a medical journal asserts
that some animals and even some in
sects in a very low scale of life show
memory conscious observation and the
fundamental principles of reason He
speaks of a wasp which after finding
that it could not fly through a glass
window discovered a small hole in onj
of the panes and made use of it after
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ward even when the window was open
Gladness Comes
With a better understanding- of the
transient nature of the many phys
ical ills which vanish before proper ef
forts gentle efforts pleasant efforts
rightly directed There is comfort in
the knowledge that so many forms of
sickness are not due to any actual dis
ease but simply to a constipated condi
tion of the system which the pleasant
family laxative Syrup of Figs prompt
ly removes That is why it is the only
remedy with millions of families and is
everywhere esteemed so highly by all
who value good health Its beneficial
effects are due to the fact that it is the
one remedy which promotes internal
cleanliness without debilitating the
organs on which it acts It is therefore
all important in order to get its bene
ficial effects to note when you pur
chase that you have the genuine article
is manufactured by the California
Fig Syrup Co only and sold by all rep
utable druggists
If in the enjoyment of good health
and the system is regular then laxa
tives or other remedies are not needed
If afflicted with any actual disease one
may be commended to the most skillful
physicians but if iu need of a laxative
then one should have the best andwith
the well informed everywhere Syrup of
Figs stands highest and is most largely
used and gives most general satisfaction
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the gold and sliver question and Rives a com l ts his
tory of currency and tariff legislation since the war
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IN THE CLUTGJisOF fl GRIFFIN
was a real relief when papas
IT doctor was gruff and terrify
inpo say bear all to myself
ButBfaps I diverted my attention
too mrHf from what he was telling me
by this device or he scared me into tem
porary idiocy by his grim demeanor
Ac any rate I was conscious that as a
nurse I had cut a poor figure
It seemed a special pity that poor
papa should have had that illness just
then when mamma and -Isabel were in
Baltimore Mamma had gone there to
be under the care of Dr Baker and she
could not come home and Isabel could
not leave her If we had only had our
good old doctor it would have been bet
ter but he was in Europe and papa
had called in this Dr Griffin who peo
ple seemed to think was something
wonderful It was said that his prac
tice was really something phenomenal
for so young a man he was verging on
40 I am sure that is not so very young
or any amount of practice and I sun
pose he had to economize his forces but
it made him dreadfully disagreeable
I was sitting by papas bed when be
eame in that first day Some people
made such a hero of him that I felt a
little curious to see him anxious and
troubled as I was and I smiled at him
as nicely as 1 could as papa said My
daughter doctor though he was lit
tle less than appalling extraordinarily
fill and gaunt and awkward with a
lugged serious face and a shock of
tawny hair like a lions mane
I was about to go but as he did not
glance in my direction he was proba
bly not aware of my intention He
sightly Inclined his head and said
Miss Macon will please go out Which
Miss Macon did with all due celerity
That was but the beginning of a se
ries of shrinkages that I underwent
during this illness of papas I am
only 5 feet 4 to start with but every
interview with the doctor made me feel
a foot or two shorter
When I looked out of the window ono
day and actually saw mamma and Isa
bel getting out of a carriage at the door
it was as if a ton weight had been lift
ed from me The doctor was with papa
who however was almost well and I
Avas in my own room keeping out of his
way I dashed downstairs like a mad
tning and hung my foot somehow or
caught my dress on a loose screw I
hove never known which and fell al
most from the top of the flight to the
bottom The doctor rushed out of
papas room and was at the foot of the
stairs almost as soon as I was Mamma
nd Isabel appeared frantically from
the opposite direction papa calling
fiom upstairs all the time to know
what it all meant I was so ashamed
of having caused the commotion that I
tried to get up hastily and close the
incident
Oh its nothing I just slipped I
began struggling to my feet and then
a great palpitating darkless settled
over all I revived to find myself as it
were in the clutches of a griffin I
had long applied his name to him in a
distinctly opprobrious sense
What do you mean by tearing about
the house in that fashion he demand
ed stopping at the door as he was
leaving
But somehow I was not so afraid of
him now and for reply I only laughed
feebly and inanely from my station on
the sofa It was well that my terror
of him had lessened for that miserable
sprained ankle required his attention
more or less throughout that winter
A strange thing happened soon after
mamma and Isabel came home Isabel
is very pretty and very bright We
were sitting together after tea when
the bell rang and who should be ush
ered in but Dr Griffin And with his
hair cut which was not at all an im
provementthough I had thought that
any change would be It was so won
derful to see him sitting there laughing
and talking like folks as Mammy
Judy used to say that I could not do
anything but stare at him And when
1red Carey came in I was positively
provoked But then I never saw Prod
auite so stupid and uninteresting
Not very long after that another re
markable thing happened The first
wonderful thing by the way began to
happen pretty frequently after a while
1 think I have a little knack of rhyming
and one day a magazine a real maga
zinetook one of my pieces Such a
thing had never happened before and
has never happened since It was a
sentimental little effusion whieh was
not about anything or anybody in par
ticular but it seemed to me to be pret
ty and it sounded as if it meant a good
deaL
I was standing on the porch when 1
opened the letter which the postman
had just handed to me I remember it
was a beautiful spring morning when
my cup of happiness was running over
anyway and this last drop was almost
too much I was about to fly into the
house as fast as my disabled ankle
would allow when I heard the click of
the gate I waved my letter to Dr
Griffin as he came upthe walk and he
smiled at my absurdly radiant face ft
was almost worth while to be so grioi
looking to be so transformed by a
smile I thought to myself I did not
wait for greetings or Questions -
I have got a piece accepted by tlitPJ
magazine I said eagerly -
Ah thats good he replied And
what are you scribbling about
Oh its just lovely I said Dont
you want me to say it to you M
Go ahead and dont jumble it he
replied dropping down upon one of the
seats on the porch
I clasped my hands behind me and
rattled off my piece flushing a little as
I did it from suppressed laughter at
my own audacity And then I looked
at him for applause There was a blank
silence and my eyes sank and cheeks
grew hot with mortification
Humph he said at last getting up
from his seat Well how- is4n1ftan
kle of yours ----
It seemed my fate always to be seen
by Dr Griffin at a disadvantage from
the time when he just saved me from
murdering papa with the wrong medi
cine on through various misadventures
almost to the present day and I have
hated him afresh every time as if it
were all his fault Some people al
ways see one at her best he appeared
on the scene invariably when one was
least desirous of spectators
I started out with rather a sinking
heart not long after the adventure of
Uie poem which incident by the way
had rankled not a little in my mind
to hunt up a Sunday school pupil who
had dropped off after an attendance
of a Sunday or two upon my class He
was said to live on a small street which
I had never heard of in a remote and
not especially genteel part of the city
which I had never explored and I fore
saw that I should get lost I stopped
on my way at the house of another
pupil of mine whom I knew to be ill
and whom I had been visiting for some
time
His mother received me in a cold
stuffy little parlor and entertained me
while Johnnie was being made ready
for company I listened sympatheti
cally to a long narrative of the heartless
treatment she had received from her
physician who really did seem to have
neglected his poor little patient and
to have been rude and overbearing be
sides I had passed him once as I went
in and had noticed how red and bloat
ed his face was and had thought then
that he was drunk He was a physi
cian I suppose of no standing I had
never before heard his name
And then she concluded I just
phoned for Dr Griffin My husband
said Dont you be bothering Dr Grif
fin hes got moren he can do tending
to the rich people But hes got time
to tend to poor people too as well I
knew And 1 phoned and he came
An hes an angel in a sick room
The comparison struck me as so lu
derous that a smile arose to my face
oefore I could check it
If I was Queen Victoria and John
nie was the queens son he couldnt be
kinder Now you can just walk right
in and see how pert Johnnies bettinV
After leaving there I walked on and
on as the story books say and it really
did seem that I had embarked upon
one of the vague nightmareish quests
of the Norse tales The end of my
journey seemed always just at hand
and still it lengthened lengthened till
I could fancy that I was a lovelorn prin
cess looking for the Castle of the
Clouds If Bonaparte Plunket had liv
ed east o the sun and west o the moon
or at any other of the addresses given
in those veracious histories he could
not it seemed to me have been more
tantalizingly inaccessible He took on
at last a half mythical character in
my mind as I could find no trace of
him
Hens and chickens ran squawking
across my path geese hissed at me to
my unspeakable discomposure puddles
of ill smelling water appeared on the
mean sidewalks dirty women and chil
dren swarmed about the doors and
still Bonaparte Plunketts place of resi
dence ever receded from me I began
to have a distinctly disreputable feel
ing as if I were becoming assimilated
to my squalid environments and a
faint fear arose within me as I realized
that I had not the slightest idea in the
world of where I was Yes I was lost
I stood still and looked blankly
around me beginning as the last
si raw to feel that my ankle was
giving out I was just making up my
mind to ask the way to the nearest car
line of the next person whom I should
meet when I saw a buggy coming
down the street A sudden hope took
possession of me He always came
when I was in some undignified and
ridiculous plight And yes
Oh Dr Griffin I called out
He pulled up at that quavering cry
and looked at me for a moment in the
blankest amazement
And what are you doing in Rock
etts miss he demanded as he helped
me in
jy wild wave of exhilaratin had come
over me when I felt myself safe in the
vehicle
I was oniy paying some calls I
said in an off hand way Arent the
claims of society burdensome I am
really tired
Calls he repeated And where
you calling in Rooketts
I was going to the PlunkettsV I
said But never mind It Isnt their
day anyway
1 began to repent my nonsense when
he took a little red notebook out of his
pocket and utterly ignoring my pres
ence began to look over it with knitted
brows We drove on in perfect silence
for several blocks and he manifested
no intention of resuming the conversa
tion ratall while I on my part was
ocqupled in regretting that I bad totally
forgotten that I was on my dignity
as my old nucse would say
WeU 3Iiss Frances he said sud
denly without looking up have you
forgiven me
Forgiven you for what I question
ingly replied but a reminiscent wave
of mortification swept over me
- He gave a short laugh still turning
the leaves of his book but did not an
swer --
AsTie sat looking down with his brow
furrowed and his rugged face showing
Syery hard line at its hardest in thej
clear daylight I stole timid glances
at him tfnd wondered how I had ever
had the temerity to recite those
c rable sentimental verses of mine to
Lim of all men I blushed hotly as I
thought of my folly
The horse had slackened his pace but
the doctor did not seem to notice it
Have you been writing any more
poetry he asked as if becoming con
scions bfthe claims of civility
No I said stiffly
He made no pretense of interest in
my answer Indeed he was quite evi
dently not at all attending to what 1
said I didnt like that whats its
name sonnet of yours he remarked
dapping the horse with the reins
Ah I said as if I had not already
been crushed by the snubbing whicli
it had received
Do you want to know why I didnt
like it he went on He put his boo
down and looked at me with a queer
smile
Yes I said but still with the
haughtiness born of inward humilia
Hon
He took off his hat and looked care
fully into the crown frowning as if ho
had that moment remembered leaving
something of the highest value which
seemed to be missing And then he put
it on again He cleared his throat and
jerked at the reins
I didnt like to think of your whim
pering about some whippersnapper
he said when I want you myself
When the trees and houses had sec
tied back into their normal places and
the waterfall had ceased rushing and
pouring in my ears I looked at him and
saw that he was talking on but of
what he said I had only the vaguest
notion The blankness of my face
must have struck him at last for ha
stopped abruptly
Wait dont say anything yet ho
said
We were drawing near to my own
home but the horse went very slowly
If you could tell me he began
there was something positively uncan
ny and awful to me in the humility of
his tone but dont say anything un
less it is yes Take time any length
of time
lime It seemed to me that it had
been 1000 years already It was such
an old old fact that Dr Griffin had ask
ed me to marry him that I felt that 1
had been bom with the consciousness
of it I tried to remember how things
were before it happened but no there
vas nothing before that
Neither spoke as he helped me out of
the buggy and solemnly walked with
me up the long green yard He paused
at the porch
If he said you could possibly say
yes dont make me wait
I ran up the steps without replying
and opened the door stopping with my
hand upon the knob and looking back
at him standing upon the walk below
Yes 1 said and banging the door
I flew upstairs to my own room
Then I peeped at him through the
shutters and I saw that he had bowed
Lis head on his hat for a moment as
if he were in church
What a ridiculous couple we will be
Ladies Home Journal
Pharaoh the Oppressor
The worst blot on his character was
Lis ruthless destruction of the works of
his predecessors No doubt in such a
time of distress it would be difficult to
supply workmen for public monuments
but his utter disregard for everything
that went before him outdoes even his
orgulous father and is painfully in con
trast to the careful restoration made
by his artistic grandfather Seti I He
planted his funeral temple just behind
the magnificent building of Amenhotep
III and proceeded to smash up every
portable stone whether statue or tab
let to throw in for his own foundations
and then reared his walls with the no
ble blocks of the great temple and
even stole the very bricks Not con
tent with taking what he wanted he
further defaced what he could not use
and all over Egypt the statues of the
kings may be seen with his name rude
ly cut over their inscriptions or bat
tered with a hammer on the exquisite
ly polished surfaces of the eher mon
archs With little of scruples of taste
or of feeling he was yet not devoid of
ability and energy for a difficult posi
tion and though we may not rank him
with a Trajan a Belisarius or an Al
fred yet it would be hard to deny him
the company of a Vespasian or a Clau
dius Gothicus a George tine Second or
a Victor Emmanuel Century
If your men folks strew the worn
coats and boots all over the woodshed
have a closet made by putting up two
boards on either side and hanging a
print curtain and plenty of nails and a
shelf at the top to hold newspapers
after reading
Every bad married woman that ever
lived had an indulgent husband
Sympathy and Truth
If a man cannot be really loyal to
truth without sympathy neither can he
be truly kind and generous without
truthfulness For if he weakly yields
to every one right or wrong and is
what Emerson calls a mush of con
cession he is not really helping or
strengthening or elevating any one he
is only indulging his own ease by giv
ing some one a cheap unwholesome
and transitory pleasure The courage
of truthfulness is one of the most im
portant elements in all social inter
course and one of the firmest founda
tions of al worthy friendship
Yon Are Not Shaken Before Taken
With malarial disease but with prodigious
violence afterwards If you neglect immed
iate measure of relief The surest preventive
and remedial form of medication Is Hostet
ters Stomach Bitters the potency of which
as an antidote to miasmatic poison has been
demonstrated for over forty years past The
liver when disordered and congested the
bowels if constipated and the kidneys If in
active are promptly aided by it and It Is In
valuable for dyspepsia nervous debility and
rheumatism
An X ray examination of the body of
an Egyptian king in the museum at
Boulak showed that one of the arms
had been broken and the bones had
been set and reunited
Halls Catarrh Cure
Is a constitutional cure Price 75 cents
Julius Caesar was an epileptic his
attacks of the disease sometimes seized
him while engaged in urgent business
and he frequently remained uncon
scious for hours
I never used so quick a cure as Pisos
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Attila the Hun had a nose so short
that from the front it presented the ap
pearance of two holes in the middle of
his countenance surmounted by a small
wart
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half the usual work on wash day Ask your prrocer for
a bar of Dobbins EUctric ioajt and the directions
will tell you how Be sure to get no Imitation There
are lots of them
Richard III was commonly supposed
to have been a hunchback but accord
ing to some authorities was a well
made handsome man
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teething sottens the Kums reduces iutiammatloa
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