A FAMOUS ARTIST.

The death in New York on the 7thinst, ot Frederic E. Church removedene of the most famous of Amerlcarjartists. Mr. Church was 74 years oldHe was horn in Hartford, Conn., andearly evinced a talent for drawingWhen a young man he became a pupilof Thomas Cole at Catskill, N. Y.,where he painted his first picturesHe later removed to New York and lr

1849 was elected a member of the Na¬tional Academy. In 18r>3 and 1857 hew8s in South Africa and there he gath¬ered much material for later paintings,

JAPANESE ART.

fhoy tVlp*il Ip tbe Uloi'tl and Said !«*

More About lt.

"From Sea to Sea." hy Rudyard Kip¬ling: Long ago a great-hearted kingrame to Nikko river and looked across

it the trees, upstream at the torrentmd the hills whence it came, andrlownstream at the softer outlines ofthe crops arid spurs of wooded moun¬

tains. "It needs only a dash of colorin the foreground to bring this all to¬gether," said he, and he put a littlechild In a blue and white dressing-gown under the awful trees to judgethe effect. Emboldened by his tender¬ness, an aged beggar ventured to askfor alms. Now it was the ancient priv¬ilege of the great to try the temper oftheir blades upon beggars and suchcattle. Mechanically the king sweptoff the old man's head, for he did notwish to be disturbed. The blood spurt¬ed across the granite slabs of the riverford in a sheet of purest vermilion. Theking smiled. Chance had solved theproblem for him. "Build a bridgehere." he said to the court carpenter,"of just such a color as that stuff on

the stones. Build also a bridge ofgray stone close by, for I would notforget the wants of my people." So hegave the little child across the streama thousand pieces of gold and went hisway. He had composed a landscape.A.- for the blood, they wiped it up andsaid no more about lt, and that is thestory of the Nikko bridge. You willnot find it in the guide books..Chica¬go News.

Hil Offer.A generous if not alluring offer was

that made by an exasperated physi¬cian to the penurious father of an in-

tty"-young man. The old man wishedto secure his son's admission to theinsane asylum, but seemed unwillingto pay for the necessary certificate.After hearing his plea of poverty.which the doctor knew to be false.*#Ad hearing bim also tell of the many

expenses to which he had been put byhis ungrateful children, the physicianwaved his hand to end the recital.' Now, 6ee here," he said sharply, "youjust pay me for this one, and I'll giveyou a certificate for yourself wheneveryou wish to use it, for nothing."

At the Dinner Table.

"Georgie, don't stare at Mr. Crum-1 v that way. It isn't polite." "I was

y.'.st waitin' to see him pick up his

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REV. DHJALIW6E.*HB EMINENT DIVINE'S SUNDAY

DISCOURSE.

ubject: The Kell ot Honor.A Tribute tcEveryday Heroes.lu the Final Krait.

JuMment They Will Kcceive thcCrown of Valor.

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Washington-. D. C.-Dr. falftagc. whoI now preaching to large audiences inhe great cities ol England aud Scotland,ends this discourse, in which he showshat many who in this world pass1 as ofitt le importance will in the day of finaleudjustment be crowned with high honor;ext, ll Timothy ii, 3, "Thou thereforemhue hardness.Historians are not slow to acknowledgebe nierils ol great military chieftains..Vs have the full length portraits of theCromwells, the Washington*, the Napo-oons and the Wellingtons of the world.History is not written in hack ink, butB/ith red ink ol' liuinan blood. Thc godsA human ambition do not drink hombowls made out of silver or gold or pre¬cious stones, but out of the bleachedskulls of the fallen. But 1 am now to un¬

roll before you a scroll of heroes that theworld has never acknowledged.those wholaced no guns, blew no bugle blast, con¬

quered no cities, chained no captives totheir chariot wheels, and yet in the greatday of eternity will stand higher thansome of those whose names startled thenations.and seraph and rapt-spirit andarchangel will tell their deeds to a listen¬ing universe. I mean the heroes of com¬

mon, everyday life.In this roll in the hist place I find all

the heroes of the sick room. When Satanhad failed to overcome Job, he said toGod, "Put forth Thy hand and touch hi*bones and his Hash, and he will curseThee to Thy face." Satan had lound outthat which we have all found out.thatsickness is the greatest test of one's char¬acter. A man who can stand that can

stand anything. To be shut in a room as

fast as though it were a bastile, to be so

nervous you cannot endure the tap of a

child's foot, to have luscious fruit, whichtempts the appetite of the robust andhealthy, excite our loathing rod disgustwhen it first appears on the platter; tohave the rapier of pain Btrike through theside or across the temple like a razor orto put the toot into a vise or throw thewhole body into a blaze of fever. Yetthere have been men and women, butmore women than men, who have cheer¬fully endured this hardness. Throughyears of exhausting rheumatisms and ex¬

cruciating neuralgias they have gone andthrough bodily distress that rasped thenerves and tore the muscles and "aled thcchecks and stooped the shoulders. Hythc du!l light of the sick room taper theysaw on their wall the picture of that landwhere the inhabitants are never sick.Through the dead silence of the night theyheard the chorus of the angels.The cancer ate awav her life from week

to week anil day to day. and she becameweaker and weaker and every "goodnight ' was feebler than the "good night''before, yet never sad. The children lookedup into her face and saw suffering trans¬formed into a heavenly smile. Those whosuffered on the battlefield amid shot and¦hell were not more heroes and heroinesthan those who, in ic held hospital andin the asylum, had fevers which no icecould cool and no surgery cure. No shoutof a comrade to cheer them, bul numbnessand aching and homesii knees, yet willingto suffer, confident in Cod. hopeful ojheaven. Heroes of rheumatism, heroes olneuralgia, heroes ol spinal complaint, he¬roes ol' sick headache, heroes ot lifelonginvalidism, heroes and heroines! Theyshall reign for ever and ever. Hark! Icatch just one note of I he eternal anthem,"There shall bc, no more pain!" BlessGod for that!in this roll I also lind thc heroes of toil,

who do their work uncomplainingly. Itis comparatively easy to lead a regimentinto batts when you know that the wholenation will applaud the victory, it is com¬

paratively easy io doctor thc sick whenyou know that your skill will be appre¬ciated by a large company ot friends andrelatives), it is comparatively easy to ad¬dress an audience when in the gleamingeyes and flushed cheeks you know thatyour sentiments are adopted, but to do¦ewing when you expect the employer willcome and thrust his thumb through thework to show how imperfect it is or tohave the whole garment i..rown back on

you lo be done over aeain; to build a

wall and know there will he no one tosay yea did it well, but only a swearingemployer howling across the scaffold; t"work anti) your eyes are dim and yourback aches and your heart faints, and toknow thal if you stop before night yourchildren will starve! Ah. the sword hasnot slain so many as I he needle! Thegrcal battlefields of our civil war were n<>lGettysburg and Shiloh and South Mount¬ain. I he great battlefields w-ere in thcarsenals and in the shops and in the at¬tics, where women made army jackets fora sixpence. They toiled on until theydied. They had no funeral eulogium. hut.in the name of my God. this day I enrolltheir names among those of whom theworld was not worthy. Heroes of theneedle! Heroes of the sewing machine!Heroes of thc attic! Heroes of the cel¬lar! Heroes and heroines! Bless Godtor them!In this roll I also find the heroes who

have uncomplainingly endured domesticinjustices. They arc men who for theirtoil and anxiety have no sympathy intheir homes. Exhausting application tobusiness gets them a livelihood, but an

unfrujjfll wife scatters it. He is fretted atfrom the moment he enters the door untilhe comes out of it. The exasperations ofbusiness life, augmented by the exaspera¬tions of domestic life. Such men are

laughed at, but they have a heartbreakingtrouble, and they would have long ago

gone into appalling dissipation but for thcgrace of God.

Society to-day is strewn with thewrecks of men who, under the northeaststorms of domestic felicity, have beendriven on the rocks. There are tens ofthousands of drunkards to-day. made suchby their wives. That is not poetry; thatU prose. Hut the wrong js generally inthe opposite direction. Von would notlia ve to go far to lind a wife whose lifeis a perpetual martyrdom.somethingheavier than a stroke of the fist, unkindwords, staggering home at midnight andconstant maltreatment, which have lefther only a wreck of what she was on thatday when in the midst of a Iwilliant as¬

semblage the vows were taken and fullorgan played thc wedding march and thecarriage rolled away with the benedictionof the people. \\ liat was the burning ofLatimer and Ridley* at the stake com¬

pared with this? 1shose men soon becameunconscious in the fire, but there is a

thirty years' martyrdom, a fifty years'putting to death, yet uncomplaining, no

(litter Avoids when the rollicking compan*ions at 2 o'clock in the morning pitch thehusband dead drunk into the front entry,no bitter words when wiping from theswollen brow the blood struck out in a

midnight carousal, bending over the bat'tered and bruised form of him who wlier1.he took her from her father's home prom¬ised love and kindness and protection, yet.nothing but sympathy and pravers andforgiveness before thev arc asked for:no bitter words when the family Biblegoes for rum and the pawnbroker's shopgets the last decent dress. Some day,desiring to evoke the story of her sor¬

rows, vou say. "Well, how are you get¬ting along now?'' and, rallying hertrembling voice and quieting her quiveringlip, she says. "Pretty well. I thank you:prettv well." She never will tell you. Inthe delirium of her last sickness she maytell all the other secrets of her lifetime,but she will not tell that. Not until thebooks of eternity are opened on thcthrone of judgment will ever bc knownwhat she has suffered.

I find also in this roll the heroes ofChristian charity. We all admire theGeorge Peabod .vs and the Janies Lenoxesof the earth, who give tens and hundredsof thousands of dollars to good objects.But I am speaking now of those who, outof their pinched poverty, help others.ofsuch men as those Christian missionariesat the west, who proclaim Christ to ije

people, one of them, writing to the secre¬

tary in New York, saying: "I thank youfor that $25. Until yesterday we havehad no meat in our house for threemonths. We have suffered terribly. Mychildren have no shoes this winter. Andof those people who have only a half loafof bread, but give a piece of it to otherswho are hungrier, and of those who haveonly a seattle of coal, hut help othersto fuel, and of those who have only a

dollar in their pocket and give twenty-iiyj^cv-nts to somebody .£kc aud of -that

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fattier "Who wears a snatroy coat and" oftbat mother who wears a faded dress,that their children may be well appar¬eled. You call them paupers or ragamuf¬fins or emigrants. I call them heroes andheroines. You and 1 may not ¦ nowwhere they live or what their name is.God knows, and they have more angelshovering over them than you and I have,and they Will have a higher seat in heaven.They may have only a cup of cold waterto give a poor traveler or may have onlvpicked a splinter from the nail of a child'slinger or have put only two mites mU>the treasury, but thc Lord knows them.Considering what they had, they didinore than we have ever done, and theirfaded dress will become a Avhite robe,ajjd the small room will be an pxternalmansion and the old hat will be exchangedfor a coronet of victory and all the ap¬plause of earth and thc shouting of heavenwill be drowned out when God rises upto give His reward to those humble work¬ers in His kingdom and to sav to them."Well done, g-:ou and faithful servant."You have all seen or heard of the ruins

of Melrose Abbey. 1 suppose in some

respects they are the mo 4~ exquisite ruinson earth, and yet, looking at it; 1 was

not so impressed--you may set it dovato bad taste, but I was not so deeplystirred as I was at a tombstone at thefoot of that abbey, the tombstone placedby Walter Scott over the grave of an

old man who had served him a goodmany years in his house, lire -cripuonmost significant, and 1 defy any man tostand there and read il without tearscoming Into his eyes.thc epitaph* "Welldone; good and faithful servant." Oh.When our work is oven will it he lound,because of anything we have done torGod or the church or suffering humanity,that such an inscription is appropriatefor us? God grant it!Who are those who were bravest rad

deserved the greatest monument- LordClaverhouse and his burly soldiers or

John Brown, the Edinburgh carrier, andbia 4wife? Mr. Atkins, the persecut<dminister of Jesus Christ in Scotland, was

secreted by John Brown and his wife,and Claverhouse rode up one day withhis armed men and shouted in front ofthe house. John Brown's little girl came

out. He said to her, "Well, miss, is Mr.Atkins here?" She made no answer, forshe could not betray the minister of thegospel. "Ha!" Claverhouse said, "Thenyou arc a chin of the old block, are you?I have something in my pocket for you.lt is a nosegay. Some people call it a

thumbscrew, but I call it a nosegay."And he got off his horse, and he put iton the little girl's hand and began to turnit until the bones cracked and she cried.He said: "Don't cry. don't cry. Thisisn't a thumbscrew; this is a nosegay."And they heard the child's cry, ana thcfather and mother came out, and Claver¬house said: "It seems that you threehave laid your holy heads together, determined to die like all the rest of yourhypocritical, canting, sniveling crew.

Bather than give up good Mr. Atkins,pious Mr. Atkins, yftu would die. I havea telescope with me that will imnroycyour vision." And he pulled out a pis¬tol. "Now," he said, "you old pragmatic,lest you should catch cold in this coldmorning of Scotland, and for the honorand safety of the king, lo say nothingof the glory of God and the good of our

souls, I will proceed simply and in thcneatest and most expeditious style t»blow your brains out."John Brown fell upon his knees and

began to pray, "Ah! ' said Claverhouse,"look out if you are going to prav. Steer.lear ol' the king, the council and RichardCameron." "O Lord." said John Brown,"sinceit seems lo he Thy will that I shouldleave this world for a world where Ican love Thee better and serve Thee more,1 put this poor widow woman and thesehelpless, fatherless children into I byhands. We have been together in peacea good while, but now we must look forthto a better meeting in heaven, and as forthese poor creatures, blindfolded and in¬fatuated, that stand before me, convertthem before it be too late, and may theywho have sat in judgment in this lonelyplace on this blessed morning upon me.

a poor, defenseless fellow creature, maythey in thc last judgment find that mercywhich they have refused to mc. Thy mostunworthy but faithful servant. Amen.''He rose and said, "Isabel, the hour has

come of which I spoke to you -on ttamorning when I proposed hand and heartto you. and are you willing now, for thclove of God to let me die?" She put herarms around him and said: "Thc Lordgave, and the lx)rd hath taken away.Hlessed be the name of the Lord." "Slopthat sniveling.'' said Claverhouse. "Ihave had enough of it. Soldiers, do vour

work! Take aim! Fire!" And the headof John Brown was scattered on theground. While Hie wife was gatheringup in her apron the fragment of her hus¬band's head -gathering them up for bur¬ial -Claverhouse looked into her face andsaid: "Now. my good woman, how do vonieel now about your bonnie min.'" "Oh,"she said, "I always thought wee! of him.die has been very good to mc. I had no

reason for thinking anything but wed ofhim. and I think better pf him now.' Oh.what a grand thing it will be in the lastday to see God pick out. His heroes andheroines! Who are those paupers ol eter¬

nity trudging off from thc gates of he*voa?Who are they? The Loni ClavcrhotHesand Herods and those who had WC trtier*and crowns and thrones, but they live1.for their own aggrandizement, and theybroke the heart of nations. Heroes ol'earth, but paupers in eternity. I beat thedrums of their eternal despair. Woe,woe, woe!What harm can the world do you when

the Lord Almighty with unsheathed swordfights for you? i preach this sermon forcomfort. (Jo home to the place justAvhere God has put you to play the heroor the heroines. Do not envy any man

his money or his applause or his social po¬sition. Do not envy any woman her ward¬robe or her exquisite appearance. Be thehero or the heroine. If there be no flowin the house and you do not know whereyour children arc to get bread, listen, andyou will hear something tapping againstthe window pane. Go to the window, andyou will find it is the beak of a raven, andopen the window, and there will My in themessenger that fed Llijan. Do you thinkthat the God avIio grows the cotton of thesouth will let you freeze for lack ofclothes? Do you think that the God whoallowed His disciples on Sabbath morningto go into the grainfield and then takethe grain and rub it in their hands andeat.do you think God will let you starve?Did you ever hear of the experience ofthat old man, "i have been young andnow am old, yet 1 have never seen therighteous forsaken or his seed beggingbread?" Get up out of your discourage¬ment, 0 troubled soul, 0 sewing woman,0 nun kicked and cuffed by unjust em¬

ployers, O ye who arc hard bese, in thehattie of life and know not which way toturn, 0 bereft one, O you sick ene withcomplaints you have told to no one, comeand get the comfort of tbfi subject! Lis¬ten to our great Captain's cheer, "To himthat overcometh will I give to cat of thefruit of the tree of life which is in themidst of the paradise of God."

'.angers of Night Paruna.

"^abominate night parties for JW*dren,'' said a prominent city physi¬cian recently, while speaking of thecare of the young, "and I belie\e everyphysician does. It is not so much the

exposure and thc eating in the night,but the breaking into the sleep habit.Equally bad is it for children to studyin the evening, lt gorges their brainswith blood, and if they sleep theydream. I had a little patient of 12

years who was wasted and nervous,

and whose dreams were filled with

problems. It was a marvel and a prideto his parents that the youngerworked out hard problems in his sleepsuch as he failed to master whenawake. But he came near his final

problem. I locked up his books at 4

o'clock. He must not touch one after

supper; he must play and romp andthen go to bed. He is now robust.You cannot emphasize too strongly themischief of children's night study."

Quite Up-to-Date.She.Is your physician of the new

or old school? He.The newest, I be¬lieve. She.What is his distinguish¬ing peculiarity? He.Small doses andbig fees.

fHE OLD DOMINION.1TEST NEWS GLEANED FROM VARI¬

OUS PARTS OF VIRGINIA.

VERY CLOSE SHAVE.un Hunt With Bloodhounds Near Snf-

olk, Va.-Nearly taught The Quarry.-rite Two Youths Whom The Hounds.Vere Following Took Refuge In Sap-Ings.Many Spectators.

The man hunt with bloodhounds, in Nan-tnond county, came near resulting In a

*gedy Instead of a polite comedy. Blood-iunds generally mean business, and those

gaged in the hunt declined to regard thefair as merely a friendly sporting event or

a harmless illustration of their koennessscent. Two youths, Albeit WHsod, white,years of age, nnd John Ward, colored,;ed 31, were obliging enough to act as the

larry. Later In the day for a few momentsey wero strongly Inclined to wish they badit been so obliging. The bunt took placeidor official sanction, nnd was under the

pervislon of Deputy Sheriff Horfleet andurrlcane Branch, a detec.lve. There were

ree hotmds Iq the pack, two large Georgia>unds, Jobn and Tiger, weighing nearly0 pounds each, and Lee, from the pack on.

estate farm, weighing about 60 j omuls.jo Idea in the bunt was to test the Instinctid training of tho dogs. The men wereven n long start, and lt was understoodat they were to continue running untiley heard the baying of the hound", when

ey were to climb convenient trees. Thetter part of this program came near not

dug carried out. Among officials Invitedattend the hunt were the Chiefs of PoliceNorfolk, Petersburg, Suffolk, Newport

id Portsmouth, and tho Sheriffs of Nause-ond. Isle of Wight, Southampton andreenvllle counties, Virginia, and Oates

>unty, North Carolina. To enable specta->rs to hear and see tbe dogs the quarryere Instructed to cross highways accerslbb)

carriages. The men were given their

art, and when lt was time for tho dogs io

>llow thero was intense excitement. Aaterogeneous mass of humanity was presenthen the bloodhounds were loosened fromleir iron fetters. A wavering, snakelikeream of men and boys who were lateretched northward toward tbe town ofuffolk. Everybody was expected out. ltas tho first man hunt that had ever been

len in this Hectiou. As the fetters droppedom the big dogs' necks they at once dartedjiftly away on the trail. Their deep voices?hoed through forest, and field. Tho man

unt had begun, An instant 'ater thero was

movement of horsemen, footmen and car-

luges. At one part of the road the quarryad taken a different course from the one

utlined, and Detective Branch blew awhb-e and tried to recall the hounds, thinkingie scent had been lost. The dogs wouldot obey ami statements from tho quarryroved later they wero right. It was a cru-

lal test for the dogs. The ground was lu>tnd dry and I Miff breeze wa9 blowing.hose pursued varied their course by pane-rating briars, brush and thick undergrowthnd then running for n s°ason through drymd, tho most trying foll of all. The round-p was six miles in nn air line from the:artlng place, but the pursued claim theyovered ever ten miles in the'r circuitouslaney. The hunt, ns already said, carno

ear having tragic ending. Irritated bymg running and maddened by the hot soeut.de dogs saved their breath and only barkedt interva s. The men had sat down to restl the shade and the dogs were almost uponlem before they knew ll. They soughtmall oak saplings and had ju3t gotten clearf the earth when theblondliounds came up,sating and charging like demons. Afterheir masters arrived aud chained the dogshoy refused to be subdued. Bloodhoundssually notice none but their quarry. Intne of the dogs made n dash fora bystandernd was checked. The men declined toescend from their leafy jearehes tlil theounds were well In tho distance. Wilsonays he would not havo fallen from the littleree for iTO.GOO. Detective Branch, owner

f the two largest dogs, said after the hunte would not take fl.OOO for the pair.

Mayor Rowe lia-nil.

Absalom Feyton Rowe, for 12 years Mayorf Frederioksburg, and who on the 24th ofist month was re-elected for another term,ied Friday morning. His death was due to,eart failure, superinduced by an attack ofhe gripps. whloh seized him two weeks ago.lesides holding the position of chief execu-

Ive of the city he had also been a memberf the City Council, president of the Agrl-ultural and Mechanical Society and a meal¬

ier of the Virginia Legislature, representinghis city and county In Its session of 1879-80.Ie was born In Spottsylvania county. No.ember 17, 1817, and had resided here since

arly childhood. His married life extendediver a period of 56 years, and for 52 years helad been a member of the Baptist Church,hiring his entire life he never used liquorir tobacco, and up to his recent illness hadlever needed tho servicos of a physician.

The l'erdue Mystery.Granville Nelson, colored, was arrested at

norfolk on suspicion of being connectedvlth the murder of Joha W. l'erdue. wholas been missing for several days. Blood-talned paper money and clothing were

ound In Nelson's possession. No trace of'ordue has yet been found.

W. Price Mooinaw.

W. Trice Mooinaw, a well-known citizen)f Boanoko county and for many yearsbounty Supervisor, died at his home after n

ong Illness. He was a son of the late Bev.Benjamin Moorna^ aud a brother of Bev. D.3. Moomaw. Ho was 58 years old and lssurvived by a widow and live sons.

Danville Tobacco talcs.The following ls the report of the tobaooo

sales at Danville for the past month: For the

month of May the tobucco sales amounted to

2.790,852 pounds. Ber the same month inLB99 they were 3,o61,821 pounds. Tho salesfrom October 1, 1899 to June 1, IMO, were

43,443,787 pounds. For the same period last

year they were 38,228,067 pounds.

Restless Americanos.Ail winter long, and into this, the

second month of the violet-scentedspringtime of Mexico, we have heardtwo distinctive sounds.the click ofthe kodak and the "taconeo," or tick-tack of the little heels of the Americangirl, marching through San Francisco,Profesa and Plateros streets. And stillthey come, this flitting army of rest¬less Americanos, male and female, as

the Lord created them, and instinctwith the hereditary nomadism of our

race, for no one stays close at homeexcept for financial reasons. That lsalso why many of us here in the trop¬ics will not go to the Paris exposition.It is well to be "franc" about it..Bos¬ton Herald's letter from City of Mexi¬co.

Harvests for Dentists.If a child' would eat candy once a

day and then wash out his mouththoroughly he might keep up the prac¬tice for fifty years without harm tchis teeth, but it is the constant suck¬ing of candy, always having somethingsweet in the mouth, that eats away thtenamel and reaps mighty harvests foithe dentists,

L.

Ifen ter.Particularly polite and gallant was

the young man who was saunterin?down Witherell street one day not longago, when the sidewalks were coveredwith slush and the ditches were flood¬ed to the top of the curb. He wore p

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wheeling a baby carriage In the samedirection. The gutter was more thanankle deep with ice cold water. Theyoung woman hesitated. To the res-

rue came the young man. "Can't I as¬

sist you?" he asked. "Thank you ho

much," was the reply, so appreciativelp its tone that the young man boldlystepped into the watery ditch and fer¬ried the lady across. Then he pieke.lup the carriage and carried lt over.

"There," he said, as he sat it down,"I guess I haven't wakened it." Hesaid "lt" because he didn't knowwhether there was a girl or boy underthe shawl. "Oh, it Isn't a baby," vol¬unteered the young lady. "I wa* downmarketing and this is such an easy wayto get the groceries home, you know.".Detroit Free Press.

The Trouble with Slanklns.

"I haven't heard anything fromSlanklns for a long time. He went out

vest and got to be a county treasurerir something of that kind. How was

tie getting along at last accounts?"'His last accounts, I am Informed, didlot balance.".Chicago Tribune.

LIKE MANYJTHERSClara Kopp Wrote for Mrs. Plnkham's Ad¬

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Very, nervous. Men¬struation, is very ir¬regular with sc vero

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