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Valentines
More
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aurnxsfs T-Ii: latter part of the
5 TT B ' "-'"""'l1 o"iuiiiy th'
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ft H '!. .duns of iace paper.
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!!.i.n'i, scrap iwtiii- and
- ijTin -ntiii ortii which
v. Ki.nw, f;rtw from the
.n.j,' .! priiressos hy nat
"i.il hi-roes f elabora
tion. Itoftire valentines he-
iiii.e a iTosniz'd article
of ii.o-chandise lovers
were rnnM i. -uncd to construct their
own. A quill pen, ;i hlieet of writing
p:ier and ahi'ity to v.rito "tlogserol"
was the required equipment. Soon
tbero ap;eard ulilixing little chap
books called the "(Jentlenian's New
Valentine Writer." "Cupid's Annual
rimrter." "The Sfhool of Love." and
the "Ladies I'ohto Valentine Writer."
There also was a "valentine writer"
for tradespeople r.nd one for the joker
called the "tjnizzins Valentine Writ
er." Thcfce alentinc writers wore lit
tle six-penny pamphlets containing
choice specimens of doggerel for al
most all degrees of love and senti
ment. Here are a few samples:
Kmitul la tJo Tint: Umt Ims no end;
So Is my love t. you. my friend.
You :ir MJ. yon :irti pretty;
You ,if .sir;.;- '. AVIiat :i pity!
T inn smt;l- fer vour sake;
What :t IfjiKi.-otiK- i-ouplc no shall malte.
In tht tradespeople.- "Valentine
Writer" v:ilentins for almost every
trade mid profession were provided.
Here is one for the pawnbroker:
I po1pi ruv vvnnl for tlife I live.
Ati! :ini s"in, n u lien honor esilN.
Oh. tlwii. my ! .r. :n: answer kI
You kiniw hfij to at tin- tluvo balls.
The grocer's was as follows:
Your liveath Iq a!I-Filce. I lHlare.
And you're so n-.u and hnudi
Tluit you're as sivwt. 1 think, my fair
A.s j'lutns r up:ir candy.
3o favoialrfe. I ini'ore.
These vr;-- kindly welsh :
And If vim w.Il i:iy heart i-storc.
I'll treat i to s. .me tea.
Oftentimes these home-mad valen
tiiues wen- of the "cut" and "lorn"
paper nriely. beautiful designs being
"worked out by cutting or tearing the
paper
About the year len lb" manufac
tured article began to steal away the
early chaun ot St. Valentine's day.
Transformation scenes were a conceit
nf the ("er.nnn manufacturers. A Ion
bachelor Mts and bemoans his fate of
soiitiiriness until a shifting scene re
veals to him what bliss life would be
wilh her of his dreams. The more
elaborate f these manufactured val
entines were wonderful examples of
human ingenuity and handicraft and
some were ery expensive.
The manufacturer of valentines f0
years ago gao remunerative employ
ment to an army of women, to whom
tho work of construction was intrust
ed. Germany furnished most of the
material in bulk for valentines, but
the beautifully made artificial cambric
roses, each no longer than a pea. were
made in French convents by women
to whom valentines were never sent
and who were vowed to celibacy and
single Nfe.
The anonymity of the remembrance
Is its charm, as in the case of tho
young artist of Charles Lamb's ac
quaintance, who expended hours and
his best work on a valentine for his
neighbor, a young girl with whom he
had never spoken, but whose radiant
girlhood had given him joy to be
hold. To her surprised eyes came his
exquisite testimonial. And like pleas
ure shared our grandmothers when in
the pi-od old days folded sheets with
lace edges and most delicately hand
written crses beneath crudely senti
mental sketches found their insidious
way under their front door.
St. Valentine . Co. i
In day f ''- t. Valentino
. ' ItoMilc.l ill ..!.." f
' "Vyitia: : littJt" ttfoii'aTul cot
'V"hi iy ovorcioun.
The'' on. .1 yar li salllwi forth,
TIi!uk1j kf.m J'.H i.or:!.or blew.
1foUai- .1 l-it r ni i" loor
Oi ovcry maul lie Knew.
. l'ut Willi hier'.iMiis ae lie found
. The nzicU nt leauier p.ic!;.
Stuffed full of v.iVntines. tuo grcrt
A burden Ur bis bark.
' "I will T10 lonirT-." said the saint.
"Go truxrpixiK L'P and down.
I'll turn an honest penny now.
And buy a s-hop In town."
So If you tvalk nlonq Broadway.
.The -windows you will find
Are' filled with pretty alontines
Of everv size and kind.
" "With, Cupid in the partnership
He 'peddles them no more.
But sells Ins dainty in:ssies from
; A bis department store.
Minna, Irving.
Gcod Will.
Good will is at work, and it is mak
ing things better. In spite of the pre
vailing social philosophy, it is gaining
-T-mind. Even now. with such partial.
halting, "half-hearted recognition as we j
ive it. good will Is making things I
better. Dr. Washington Gladden. i
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Old- Time
Love Missives
for the
Day
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EPYS, that delightful old
gossip of the reign of
Charles II., enters in his
diary on Valentine's day,
1CG7: "This morning came
little Will Meiser to be
my wife's valentine, and
brought her name written
J upon blue paper In gold
letters, done by himself.
tV .... .. i-r.vn hnth
wvi very pieujr. v ui; ivn..
2ri' .. . ii i i m, :. Hut
v. en pieaseu v.ii .c
I am also this year my
wife's alent!:.e. and it will cost me
five pounds; but that T must hae laid
out if ve had t.ot been valentines."
Two days later I'epys Fays: "I find
that Mrs., l'ierce's little girl is my val
entine, she having drawn me. which-I
am sorry for. it t-a-iig me of some
thing more that I must have given to
others L'ut I do first observe the
fashion of drawing iuoitces as well
as names, fo that I'lerce, who drew
my wife, did also draw a motto, ami
!iis girl drr-w another for me. What
mine was. I forget, but my wife's was
'.Most courteous and most fair.' which,
as it may be used as an engagement
upon each name, might be very pret
tv "
IV.it fully as interestir.g and much
m:ire strange were; the St. Valentine's
customs among the common people
Many of the observances were singu
larly like these of Hallowe'en. They
were nut fo gre.i s-oiw. but the resem
blance is unmislakable. Tor instance,
a pert miss, who liv.d in the lTO's.
writes: "Last I'riday was Valentine's
clay and the night before I got five
bay leaves and pinned four of them to
i he four coiners of my pillow and the
lifth to the middle, ami then if I
dreamt r.f my sweetheart. Hetty said,
v. e should he married before the year
was out. I5nt to make it more sure
I boiled an eg:; hard and took out the
yolk and tilled it with salt and ate it
shell and all without speaking or
drinking after it. We also wrote our
loers" names upon bits of paper and
rolled them up in clay and put them
into water and the first that same to
the surface was to be our valentine."
There have been endless devices for
alentines. but perh?ps the queerest
on record is that described in the fol
lowing little story. One St Valen
tine's morning an English gentleman
lemarked to his pretty daughter that
on that day 200.000 more letters than
the average passed through the Lon
don twopenny post
"Why. pap.i." replied the girl, "that's
just the number of young folks that
must be in love with each other
that's the way to reckon "
At that moment a Lachelor friend
of the family came in and learning the
subject of their talk, drew a small
package from his pocket.
"Here's my valentine." he exclaimed.
;:nd presented it to the young woman.
It contained a small rib. carved of
ivory and covered with white satin
ana ornamented with true lover's
knots. There were also some verses,
of which this is one:
Till Adam had a partner slvon.
Much as fair nin Itloouied he Heaven,
His hhss ua' im-omjiiete.
No soi i:il f ri ml those joys to share
Clave the r:iv seotie ;i vae.int air.
She came 'twas all replete.
"Well. r.ow. I call that capital,"
cried the lively lass. "After such a
alcn:iue you must take tho hint, my
dear sir. It's settled, you must get
married."
"Will you mnrry me?" he asked.
"I marry you? No. You. are too
old. Hut there are many women of
your age. Why don't you ask one of
them?"
He had to be contented with this
sorry consolation, though he deserved
a better fate for the ingenuity of his
valentine.
St. Valentine's day has always been
a favorite with the poets. It is men
tioned by Chaucer. Shakespeare. Goe
the. Donne. Gay. Lydgate and others,
and many first-chiss ersifiers have
written valentines. Of these none Is
more remarkable than Macaulay. That
renowned scholar and historian never
missed giving a St. Valentine's tribute
to his favorite nieces and his Valen
tin to the Countess Beauchamp.
daughter of the earl of Stanhope,
ranks with the most admirable of his
compositions.
It is a pity that the fine old festival
of St. Valentine's day is not made
more of by this generation. Some
thing should be done to bring back to
it the clarni. the romance, the poetry
of other times.
Happ:Iy. in the last few years the
comic valentines hae been more hu
morous and less vulgar. The Sunday
Magazine.
MR. GROUCH SURPRISED.
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My Valentine.
Dearest heart, thou canst not knojr
The love I give to thee:
Stronu as the river's onward Cot
Yet calm and silently.
On ev'ry page of life
Aa written heer by hour
Thine image tints It all
As suntlsbt paints the flovfr.
Then let this hidden pow'r
Gleam forth in purity
To bless and sanctify
The love I give to the.
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A plan, with illustration of a double
rrib ami feed place for hogs is given
herewith.
The first story is to be built six or
fix and one-half feet high, as per plan.
Floor L'SxSl feet concrete. Size of
building 2ix'.i2 feet, making a drive
way eight feet wide, north of drive
way, eight feet wide for feeding. Use
driveway to feed on, with an adjust
able or movable gate, so as to use any
pari or all to feed in. South of the
iriveway is a narrow passage or feed
way, and still south are the pens for
sows, and a pait of the pen and built
on the outside as hhown in plan,
with double doors. The Lotton half
Is to let the sows back and lorth to
the outer part of pen. and the top
naif can be opened for more air. and
also for a man to walk in and out
to clean out bedding and litter. It
ilso has windows to give plenty of
light in each bed. This plan is drawn
for II! feet high, but can be made 14
Vet if desired. One section can be
used for store room to put in mill
feed, and such things as one might de
sire. One or two sections can be
used for calves, or the driveway may
be used for sheep. It can be util
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For a 40-acre farm on which pota
toes, hay and fodder are the main
crops this division of fields will be
found suitable. The alfalfa and other
fodder crops are near to the pasture
to facilitate summer feeding. The C4
acres of alfalfa should give from IS to
:I0 tons ot feed and assuming a yield
Df 200 bushels per acre of potatoes
the !l.i acres devoted to this crop
should ghe. a total of 1.900 bushels.
The plan is intended for high priced
PROPER START
OF PASTURES
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Close Attention Should Be Paid
as That Means Econo
my lu Seed.
(BT W. It. GILBERT.)
Close attention should be paid to
preliminary cultivation, as this means
economy in the seed. In the first place
it is necessary that the soil should be
thoroughly cleaned and that annual
weeds as well as couch gras.3 should
be destroyed. An important consid
eration is the manurial condition of
the soil.
Although grasses are benefited by
nitrogenous manures, it is seldom de
sirable to apply such manure either
just before or immediately after sow
ing the seed.
The first effect of such manuring
would be to Increase the quantity of
straws produced by the grain crop ',
with which the seeds hare been sownj
Feed Place for Hogs
ized. Hesides the concrete floor saves
all the manure, which tan be cleaned
out at any time and hauled out on the
laud.
The Farmer's Hcrse.
Five minutes' vigorous work with a
rough cloth on a horse's hide after a
hard day's work will do him a lot of
good.
A team that works in the field all
week should never be put on the road
Sundays or holidays.
A bran mash on Saturday night is
to a horse what mother's pie is to a
boy.
Always use box stalls whenever
practicable. A horse tied in a narrow
tall is never quite comfortable and
is in more or less danger of being cast.
Horses very often lose their eye
sight through du.t and hayseed fall
ing into their eyes from the loft
above.
Does Winter Poultry Pay?
The answer to he question. Does
winter poultry pay? depends in a
large measure upon where your hens
are roosting. If on the bare branches
of a tree, on the northeast corner of tho
barn, there can be no doubt about it.
not
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methods will
Feeding Sheep.
In very severe, prolonged cold
j weather the sheep should have plenty
of clover hay or corn fodder, or other
such roughness as is available on the
farm. The ewes should be kept In a
good thrifty condition in order that
the offspring may be healthy and vig
orous. and thus to repress rather than aid
the young pasture plants.
Phosphatic manure, such as basic
clay or superphosphate, on the other
hand, should be used liberally, and
may perhaps best be applied to the
preceding root crop, though it can be
worked into the land during the win
ter months before sowing the seed.
In dry districts and on light soils
300 to 500 pounds of superphosphate
should be applied, but for most soils
400 to COO pounds of basic clay may
be recommended.
In purchasing grass seed I recom
mend the obtaining of the best as be
ing the cheapest in the end.
Possess the Land.
Kentucky blue grass will probably
more than hold its own against all
comers, when it once has possession
of the land. In the fight with quack
grass it will probably be worsted
where quack grass has obtained a
hold. In the contest with Russian
brome, however, the outcome would
probably depend upon the favorable
ness or otherwise of the conditions of
these grasses.
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CHICAGO MERCHANT
MAKES STATEMENT,
After Spending Thonaandi of Dollars
and Consulting the Xoct Eminent
Physician, He Was Desperate.
CHICAGO, ILLS. Mr. J. Q.
Becker, of 1 34 Van Buren St., a
well-known wholesale dry goods
dealer, states es follows:
'I have had catarrh for more
than thirty years. Have tried
everything on earth and spent
thousands of dollars for other
medicines and with physicians
without getting any lasting re
lief, and can say to you that I
have found Peruna tho only rem
edy that has cured me per
manently.
"Peruna has also cured my
wife of catarrh. She always keeps
it in the house for an attack of
cold, which it invariably cures in
a very short time."
BETTER LATE THAN EARLY
Here Is Case Where the Sage Old
Proverb Might with Profit Have
Seen Reversed.
There is a certain young Broad
street broker whose recent sad experi
ence in endeavoring to pull the wool
over his wife's eyes has led him to de
clare "never again."
Now. it is the broker's custom to
take a 5:r.O suburban train, thus en
aiding him to reach his home In We-t
Chester in ample time for the early
dinner that both he and his wife like
The other day he fell. Meeting an
old college mate he yielded to the lat
ter's entreaties for an eveniny in town
The next step was. of course, to tele
graph the wife, which If did in these
terms: "Unavoidably detained. Missed
the f.::;0. Home later."
When hubby finally did show up. he
observed an expression on the coun
tenance of his spouse that argued fail
ure of his little fib.
"What's the trouble, dear?" he
asked, with an affected nonchalance.
Without a word the wife handed him
the telegraph s-.ip. indicating with her
forefinger the words:
"Received at 4:lf." Lippincctt's
Magazine.
VOICE OF EXPERIENCE
1 "Excuse me. sents. would you mind
:..: .. .i:. ..- rn .-.-. -,..,,. I
felt ill l wiuii: iu ui ijuui xciici nui nuo
shot in der war?"
"Where were you shot?"
' "In der spinal column, sir!"
! "Heat it! There wasn't any such
1 battle!"
; Practical Christianity.
"On behalf of the sewing circle of
' this church." iaid the pastor at the
' conclusion of the morning service. "I
desire to thank the congregation for
, 57 buttons placed in the contiibution
J box during the past month. If now
. the philanthropically inclined donors
of these objects will put a. Lnlf-doen
' undershirts and three pairs of other
I strictly secular garments on the plate
' next Sunday morning, so that we may
J have something to Bew those buttons
1 on, we shall be additionally grateful."
. Harper's Weekly.
For Shame, Mr. Staggers.
"Our splendid cook left to-day and I
had to take her place," said 21rs. Stag
gel's. "I hope I shall be successful in
imitating her."
"I certainly 'tope you will be suc
cessful in following in her footsteps."
suggestively remarked old man Stag
gers as he chewed on :i crisp-boiled
potato.
Loved to Death.
"Did you ever know a girl to die for
love?"
"Yes."
"Did she just fade away and die
because some man deserted her?"
"So; she just took in washing and
worked herself to death because the
man she loved married her."
Ruling Passion.
"I knew h'utt's smoking would get
him Into trouble."
"Well?"
"At his wedding, when It came to
the ring part, he reached into his
pocket and banded the minister a
match."
Nothing endures but the eternal
commonplace; and if one departs from
that it is to run the most perilous
risks. Charles Wagner.
GET POWER.
The Supply Comes From Food.
If we get power from food, why not
strive to get all the power we can.
That is only possible by use of skill
fully selected food that exactly fits
tho requirements of the body.
Poor fuel makes a poor fire, and a
poor fire is not a good steam producer. I
"From not knowing how to select the
right food to fit my needs, I suffered I
grievously for n long time from stom
ach troubles," writes a lady from a
little town in Missouri.
"It seemed as If I would never be
able to find out the sort of food that
was best for me. Hardly anything
that I could eat would stay on my stom
ach. Every attempt gave me heart
burn and filled my stomach with gas.
I got thinner and thinner until I lit
erally became a living skeleton and in
time was compelled to keep to my bed.
"A few months ago I was persuaded
to try Grape-Nuts food, and it had such
good effect from the very beginning
that I have kept up its use ever since.
I was surprised at the ease with which
I digested it. It proved to be just what
I needed.
"All my unpleasant symptoms, the
heart-burn, the inflated feeling which
gave me such pain disappeared. My
weight gradually increased from 98
to 116 lbs., my figure rounded out, my
strength came back, and I am now
able to do my housework and enjoy it.
Grape-Nuts did it."
A ten days' trial will show anyone
some facts about food.
Look in pkgs. for the little book, "The
Road to Wellville." "There's a Reason."
Ever rrad the ikorr letter f A ntn
e appear front tine to tine. Thej
are ccualae, trae, aad fall kaauut
stores t.
NEERASKA HAPPENINGS.
Stal3 T.'r.vs and Notes in Condensed
Form.
The farmers' Institute which was
held at Dunbar two days last week
was largely attended. The exhibits
were larger than in years past
Arthur Cruiksbank and Ernest Black
have bought the Thompson drugstore
at North Bend and will go to that
town next week to take possession.
The three-year-old boy of Mr. and
Mrs. Sherman Taylor of Wymore, died
suddenly Saturday afternoon at 1:30
of ptomaine poison, supposed to. have
been In meat.
Oliver Bosworth of near Utica. was
adjudged insane by the insanity board
Tuesday and taken to the asylum at
Lincoln. He had formely been an In
mate of that institution.
Louis Stander. living three miles
northwest of Weeping "Water, has
sold his farm of 240 acres for $120
per acre. AI.ut:t twelve years ago he
bought this same place for $10 per
acn
Judge Thomas sentenced Harry
Sweeney of Schuyler, to one year in
the penitentiary for a forgery recently
committed at Leigh, in that county
When arraigned ho pleaded and man
aged to secure the minimum penalty.
James Barry of Odell pleaded guilty
in district court to the charge of sell
ing intoxicating liquors without a li
cense. He was fined $22 and costs
which he paid. Barry was indicted by
the June term cf the grand jury.
Twenty -four new members have
1 eon added to the First Presbyterian
church at Madison. This is the re
:ilt of an active church movement
tl'iit has been inaugurated in Madison.
Oth-r churches ah-o report a, number
of new additions.
The court house nt Imperial. Chase
county, was entirely destroyed by fire
at 10 o'clock Wednesday night. The
records vaults hae not been opened,
hence the condit'ons of the records
Is unknown. The fire was undoubt
edly of incendiary origin.
Report has it that E. P. Bracken,
general superintendent of tho Wyom
ing district of the Burlington, with
headquarters at Alliance, has been
transferred to the lines east as as
sistant general manager, with head
quarters at Chicago.
The directors of the Boone county
agricultural association met and de
cided upon the dates for the next an
nual fair. The dates choses are Sep
tember 20, 21, 22 and 23. John O'Neill
was elected ppresident; Iver Bygland,
vice president; J. E. Green, treasurer
and H. L. Brooks, secretary.
The chair of mathematics of Hast
ings college, made vacant by the re
cent resignation of Miss Esther Alex
ander, has been filled by the appoint
ment of Professor Wells of OHivette,
Mich., college. Miss Janet L. Carpen
ter has been nppointed as instructor
'n Latin, since Dean Filson resigned.
The village of Elm Creek, Buffalo
county, is soon to install an electric
:ght plant. John Nitchie of that place
was in Kearney Thursday and was ne
gotiating for a large gasoline engine
mil other equipment for the construc
tion of the same, beginning in tho
spring.
Mrs. Bowdish mother-in-lawof Frank
Wild, postmaster at DeWitt. was so
badly burned at her home Thursday
tfternoon that she died shortly after
ward. Her son. Homer Bowdish. who
ran valiantly to her rescue and who
'arried her out while her clothes were
.till aflame. Is in a critical condition
fiom burns he received from the in
halation of flame.
Oni tha hanks made a splendid show
ing when the comptroller of the cur
rency issued his call for a statement
rjf the business of the national banks
tor the close o January :si. The re
ports of tho national banks of Omaha
and South Omaha show an increase in
loans over the corresponding call last
Kar. February 5. of $1.4:!0.G15. and an
increase in deposits over the same
late of $2,949,532.
Pallas lodge. Knights of Fythias. of
Frhuyler gave its annual banquet
Tuesd.iy night. Over 200 were pres
ent. W. M. Cain presided as toastmas
ter and responses were made by Rich
are O'Neil of Lincoln. P. G. Chancel
lor, supreme representative and others.
Fremont's bank clearings were
greater by nearly $300,000 for Janu
ary, 1910. than the clearing for the
first month of 1909. The total clear
ings for thu month Just closed were
$1.790.1S2.44.
During the last ten days Kearney
has witnessed two fights on commodi
ties with a great deal of interest.
The first was the ice fight, when the
price was lowered for the coming
summer to 25 cents per hundred
pounds. The last and perhaps tho
most welcome fight on prices was a
flour fight that started last week. A
local grocery firm started selling flour
at $1.55 per sack when the price for
the same grade was $1.70 elsewhere.
The product being the output of the
local mills, the balance or the grocers
cried for help to the miller. The re
sult was that they put flour down to
$I.".0 per sack, the lowest it has sold
for some time. The firm that started
the fight declares it will sell flour for
cowt for the next year.
The old Oakland hotel site at Sut
ton has been purchased for the pur
pose of erecting a Carnegie library.
Consideration, $1,175. Work will be
gin as soon as spring opens. Mr.
Carnegie has promised a donation of
$5,000 for the building. Several books
of biography, history and fiction have
been added to the library this week.
Charles K. Ott has sold his interest
In the Lyons Sun to his partner, J. J.
Haydon. who also purchased Mr. Ott's
residence there. Possession will be
given February I. Mr. Ott will re
move to IJncoln.
W. S. Thompson, a farmer living
north of Tecumseh, attended a public
sale and bought two "runty" yearling
sows, paying $6 apiece for them and
at the time feeling that he had got the
worst of the deal. The sows farrowed
and raised ten nice pigs and when the
pigs were weaned Mr. Thompson sold
the sows for $21 each. He fed the
pigs for less that eight months and
so'd the lot at a lltle over $200.
The Masonic templecraft at ameet
:ng Monday voted to equip the Ma
sonic temple, which Is one of Fre
mont's largest blocks, with a steam
heating pi nut
This Contractor got results.
He knew how to feed his men.
Some years ago a contractor build
ing a railroad in a warm climate was
troubled a great deal by sickness
among the laborers.
He turned his attention at once to
their food and found that they were
getting full rations of meat and were
drinking water from a stream near by.
He issued orders to cut down tha
amount of meat and to increase greatly
ths quantity of Quaker Oats fed to
the men.
He also boiled Quaker Oats and
mixed the thin oatmeal water with
their drinking water.
Almost instantly all signs of stomach
disorders passed and his men showed
a decided improvement In strength
and spirits.
This contractor had experience that
taught him the great value of good
oatmeal. i 53
HE KNEW HER
She It's three o'clock. I'm going
to my dressmaker. I shan't be more
than a quarter of an hour.
He AH right; don't forget we ars
dining out at tight o'clock.
Askrng Too Much.
The mothel of little six-year-old
Mary had told her a number of times
not to hitch er sled to passing
sleighs, feeling that it was a danger
ous practice. If was such a fascinat
ing sport, however, that Mary could
not resist it anf one day her mother
saw her go skimning past the house
behind a farmer's "bobs."
When she came In from play she
was taken to task. Her mother saying
severely: "Mary, haen't I told you
that you must not hitch onto bobs?
Besides, you know, if Is against the
law."
Mary tossed her head. "Oh." she
said, "don't talk to me ahout the law.
It's all I can do to keep the ten com
mandments!" Woman's Hone Com
panion. Teamster's Punishment Earned.
t AnnnrnntK It rai'o nnt tn lir nrilGl
to horses out in Chicago. A teamster
who admitted abandoning his horses
for six hours on a recent stormr day
was fined $50 by a magistrate. Tho
humane society prosecuted the ciso
vigorously ana promiseu 10 report, uio
I matter to the driver's employers. Pre
sumably he will lose his job. as he
was unable to pay the fine and will
have to serve a jail term.
The Cagey Bachelor.
The woman who wanted the bach
elor to come to dinner called him up
at his rooms.
"Hello," she said, adding In the irri
tating way of women, "do you know
who this is?"
The tactful bachelor didn't, but he
was too diplomatic to admit It.
"Hello, beautiful lady," he made an
swer. So Touching.
Anxious Suitor But, sir. I thrill at
your daughter's slightest touch.
Practical Father Young man, T find
her slightest touch is usually for a
I hundred dollars
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relieved me of CHRONIC
CONSTIPATION of 20
years standing. Ship me at
once 6 packages . ' ' (Signed)
Arthur Hubbard,
Emporia, Kansas.
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