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.....„,..._ r A Corner In Valentines. By CLARISSA MACKIE. Copyrighted, 1808, by P. C. Eastment. "I'd like my New York paper," said Mr. Timothy Scott for the fourth time that morning. "Just a moment, Mr. Scott," said the busy clerk apologetically. "You see we are very busy today," he continued, hastily making change for a small girl who had purchased a valentine. "To- morrow's Valentine day. you know." "I ought to know," growled Mr. Scott irascibly. "You have informed me of t:tat fact four distinct times this morn- ing. Do you mean to say that all these people are buying idiotic pictures to send to their friends?' "They are buying valentines—yes, sir." returned the clerk, with an appre- hensive glance toward the several cus- tomers. `Torr paper will be ready In a moment, 'sir. The package has not been opened yet" "So busy Belling valentines, of coarse. You needn't repeat the explanation," snapped Mr. Scott, turning toward the door. Pausing in the entrance, he look- ed back. The little stationer's was the only shop of its kind in the village. Here alone bloomed the flower garden of valentines. Here alone was the source of his annoyance. A diabolical plan entered Mr. Timothy Scott's clev- er head. A voice •Interrupted his mut/- Inge. Here is your paper at last, Mr. Scott," said the clerk affably. The old gentleman looked about the store as he pocketed the paper. The other custom- ers had departed; he was the only one there. "Show me all the valentines you have in stock," he ordered sharply. "Yes—yes, sir," gasped the perturbed clerk as he dived beneath the counter. Presently he emerged, dusty and breathless, bearing several large green pasteboard boxes. "These in the store," he said, indicat- ing the interior of the small room, "and these in the boxes are all -is have." Mr. Scott looked around at the rows of valentines. There were picture postale, lace paper missives, a few Bilk and satin beauties and an assortment of the coarse "comic" valentines. All of them a used varied degrees of sentiment, they were all resplen- dent in cupids, intertwined hearts, flowers and tender verses. "I will take them all," said Mr. Tim- othy Scott, reaching for his pocket- book. The agitated shopman stared vacu- • ously until he caught the fierce gleam in the customer's eye; then, with trem- bling fingers, he collected the valen- tines and placed them in boxes. In ten minutes the store was denuded of its festive array, and Mr. Timothy Scott was the proud possessor of slz huge boxes of valentines. "Can yon obtain any more for me?" he asked sharply. "No, sir," said the clerk. 'There isn't another one in the village, and I couldn't get any one to drive twenty miles to MAlertown after some." "Very good," said Mr. Timothy Scott as he paid his bill. "I will send my man after the boxes," he said as he left the store and entered the storm of fly- ing flakes. There promised to be a heavy snowfall. and Mr. Scott tramped cheerfully toward his handsome home very well satisfied with the result of his morning's work. Late that afternoon old Benjamin staggered into the house under the load of boxes from the stationer's, and his master ordered them placed in a corner of the library, where he sat toasting his feet before the pleasant blaze. "Die yer paper Is all de mail dey was, Bah," said the negro as he placed the evening newspaper at his master's elbow. "Somehow, Mr. Timothy, seems like dey's powerful lot o' excitement down to de postorfls, sah." "What sort of excitement, Benja- min?" asked Mr. Scott absently. "Why, I dunno 'sackiy, sah. I heerd Mr. Downs say as how somebody had boughten ebery valentine dey was in Beechcove, and dey want one to be bed fer love er money, nohow. Some aks like dey was put out about it. I 'spect some gemman bas a lot o' lady frien's he's gwine to 'member dis yer day," he chuckled gleefully. Timothy Scott's weazened little face flushed under Its mat of snow white hair. "That will do, Benjamin," he said gravely, and the old servant re- tired. "I danno, Hetty," he confided to his better half, who was washing dishes in the kitchen, "seems like Mr. Timothy's growing pesky Irritable lately." "What's he been a-sayin' now?" wheezed Hetty, lumbering across the room. "I don't set no store by ole bath's. Dey'e powerful peevish and hard to snit" ml don't recomember what he Bayed," returned Benjamin dubiously, "but he did look like he mought be sayln' something befo' long." Mr. Timothy Scott sat late before his cheerful fire thkt evening with a feel- ing of discomfort beneath his white waistcoat whenever his gaze encoun- tered the pile of boxes in the corner of the room. "What are you going to do with us?" they seemed to ask reproachfully. "Are you going to send us on our sev- eral ways to cheer sorrowful lovers and make little children smile's" No, Mr. Timothy Scott was not going to help the valentines to fulfill their several missions. He frowned aggres- sively Into the fire, and the glowing embers sent shafts of light up the chimney and framed pictures in which valentines played many a part, and that was) very strange too. A Thackeray Retort. There was a picture of a girl, such a Being asked once whether he had pretty girl, small and dainty, with read of the books of a popular black hair and soft black eyes. She novellat, Thackeray rejoined: wore a white gown and a blue ribbon, 'Well, no. You see, 1 am like a and she was giving Mr. Timothy Scott stry cook. I bake tarts and I sell a valentine, and Mr. Timothy Scott em, but I eat bread and butter." seemed to be very glad to get it. And there was another picture of the same The best remedy for wrongs done us girl, and a white gown and a blue rib b to forget them.—Syrus. bon, but her eyes were full of tears and pleading, while Mr. Timothy Scott was frowning at her with thick brows drawn closely together and a very an- gry countenance, and young ?dr. Scott turned away and left the girl, and he never once looked back. Thirty long years had he waited for her to send -for him, but she had never evinced a sign that she knew Mr. Tim- othy Scott, save that she dipped a little old fashioned courtesy whenever they met. And that had all happened thirty years ago, and she had never married and neither had he. She lived In a big, lonely house at one end of the village and he at the other In a house just as large and as lonely. Something rolled down Mr. Timo- thy's nose and splashed on the white waistcoat. He jumped up and blew his nose violently. He rang the bell for Benjamin. "More wood, Benjamin," he ordered sharply. "My fire is going out, and I am taking a cold." The neat morning after breakfast Mr. Timothy locked himself in the 11- brary and went to his safe, where he unlocked a secret drawer and took out a yellowed envelope, from which he drew a faded little valentine, the self same valentine that the girl in the fire picture had given to young Timothy Scott. This he placed carefully in bus letter case. Then he called Benjamin. "Have the sleigh around at 10 o'clock," he said amiably, and the grin- ning old servant hobbled away with alacrity. Down the village street glided the great Russian sleigh, Benjamin guid- ing the handsome bays and Mr. Tim- othy Scott muffled to the ears in furs sitting in the back. People stared aft- er the sleigh curiously, for the sight of the master of Scott house recalled to their minds that he was responsible for the fact that few people in Beech - cove had received valentines that morning. Through the great bronze gateway, which be had not passed since that other day so many years ago, they dashed up the broad avenue, sweeping in front of the colonial house, and he alighted with brisk agility-. The long wait in the familiar drawing room, the parting of the velvet curtains, the com- ing of a diminutive figure with snowy hair piled high, soft black eyes and white dress, with knots of violet rib- bon, and then, "Timothy," she said gently, "I knew you must come some day l" The minister married them that aft- ernoon—Violet Allen and Timothy Scott Then the newly wedded pair entered the sleigh and were sped down the avenue and up the street to the Scott house, where old Hefty baked and brewed in a whirl of mad excite- ment Benjamin was sent on fifty er- rands about the village, and when evening came there was a merry gath- ering of people In the old house. Every man, woman and child who was able to be afoot was there. The walls of the fine rooms were hung with gay valen- tines. The tables were covered with them. They were pinned to the dra• peries and suspended from the chande- liers. Timothy Scott and his beautiful bride received their neighbors cordially. There was a banquet in the huge din- ing room, music in the hall, and then the bride gave to each departing guest a valentine as souvenir of the occasion. "Timothy," said the bride when they stood alone before the hearth fire, "we must repeat this every year when Val- entine's day comes around—the recep- tion, the sapper, the music, the giving of valentines." 'We will," said Timothy solemnly. More Than He Could Do. It was an interesting time at the house of Dobbs, and finally when the doctor came out into the hall Dobbs was in a state of excitement equal to an election night "Well, doctor?' he said Inquiringly, grabbing the physician's coat front with both hands. "Twins," responded the doctor brief- ly. "How—how—many?" he asked in a dazed manner. "The usual number," replied the doc- tor, ortor, smiling. "Oh, yes—ah—excuse me, doctor. Boys or girls?" "Boys." , "Borer "Yes," "Then I'm a ruined manr 'Ruined?" was the surprised answer. "What's the matter with yon?" "Why, doctor, for the last twenty years it's been all I could do to meet the demands of my boys for my old clothes, and now at my time of life to have to commence to wear two pairs of trousers at once in order to keep up with the procession is more than 1 can undertake. I see ruin with a big R staring me in the face, and I can't make a move to defend myself." The doctor gave him a dose of chlo- ral te quiet his nerves. The Scent of Flowers. As a rule the scent of flowers does not exist in them as in a store or gland, but rather as a breath, an ex- halation. While the flower lives it breathes out its sweetness, but when it dies the fragrance usually ceases to exist. The method of stealing from the flower its fragrance while it Is still lir• !ng is no new thing, and it Is not known when it was discovered that butter, animal tat or o11 would absorb the odor given off by living flowers placed near them and would themselves become fragrant. How to Make Home Happy. Mary (angrily)—I think you are the biggest fool in town, John. John (mild- ly)—Well, Mary, mother used to tell tae that when I was a little boy, but I never thought she was right about it until I married you.—Liverpool Mer- cury. Unintentional /Sabbath Breaking. A Lessen In Grammar. In the early days of New England it In a certain mountainous region the teachers are appointed with little ques- tion eencerning their grammatical orthodoxy. Occasionally, however, a wave of school reform sweeps through the valleys, and undesired examina- tions are thrust upon embarrassed ped- agogues, It was during one of these periods of intellectual discomfort that the follow- ing sentence was given: "The bird dew over the house." Accompanying it was the query, "Is 'flew' a regular or an irregular verb?' One teacher after another shook his head hopelessly despite the slow, thought Inspiring fashion In which the examiner repeated the perplexing tact that "The — bird — flew — over — the — house." Finally a man rose in the rear, and, with the assurance of one who puts his trust In logic and a practical knowl- edge of natural history, he volunteered a solution. Bald he: "If that bird which flew over the house was a wild goose, it went in a straight, regular line, so the verb is regular. But if It was a peckwood and horror and fled,the kitchen. that flew over the house, then it went After that sinful day she never be- In a crooked, zigzag line, and so the gan her work on Sunday evening. verb is irregular." All but the grammar bound exam - Lincoln's Rules. iner were satisfied with this sensible On one occasion President Lincoln and rational explanation, — Youth's an entering the telegraph office of the Companion. war department, writes Mr. Bates in "Lincoln In the Telegraph Office," was heard to remark to Secretary Seward. "By jings, governor, we are here at last!" Turning to him in a reproving manner, Mr. Seward said, "Mr. Presi- dent, where did you learn that inele- gant expression?" Without replying to the secretary, Lincoln addressed the telegraph operators, saying: "Young gentlemen, excuse me tor shearing before you. 'By jingo' is swearing, for my good old mother taught me that anything that had a `by' before it was swearing." One day Secretary Seward, who was not renowned as a joker, said he had been told that a short time before on a street crossing Lincoln had been seen to •turn out In the mud to give n colored woman a chance to pass. "Yes," said Lincoln, "It has been a rale of my life that it people would not turn out for me I would turn out for them. Then you avoid collisions." was the custom to keep the Sabbath from sundown Saturday 'night until the same hour on Sunday. That this practice was attended by pitfalls Is shown by an Incident told in "The Pa- pers of the Connecticut Valley Histor- ical Society:" There lived in Ryefield a thrifty dame, an enterprising, driving woman and a notable housewife. The good wo- man was not willing to lose Sunday evenings out of her catalogue of house- work, but she was pious withal and strictly kept the lay to the sunset limit. As soon as the sun was fairly below the horizon she would begin her washing and get her clothes ready for drying bright and early on Monday morning. One cloudy Sunday she, supposing the day was ended, changed her Sun- day gown, rolled up her sleeves and went to work. As she was scrubbing away In the kitchen, her face toward the west window, the clouds suddenly broke, and tbe great round sun shone in full on the poor Sabbath breaker at work. She gave one cry of amazement What He Meant. Park row at 1 a. m. and a policeman and a sailor in conversation. "Keyslde, keyside!" said the sailor. "'Ow will HI reach the bloomin' key - side?' "G'wan wld ye. D'ye think I'm a locksmith, that I know about yer old key and its side? There's one key and lock I'll be after givin' ye, and that's to a cell. Move on now." "Keyside! HI said keyside as plain as HI could, blimer' Just then a high brow who had been to the postoffice buying stamps so that his rejected contributions would come back to him stepped up. "The man wants the keyside, what- ever that is, and I dunno," said the po- liceman. "I believe he's looney and P11 ran him !n." "He wants the quayside—the docks," said the high brow as he directed the man to the water front, while the po- liceman said: "Well, I'll be blowedr'—New York Press. A Slap at Mother. Dinner was done, and the family was assembled in the sitting room. Mother had taken up the evening paper and was reading an account of how a high- wayman had been operating in the'sub- urbs. Father was down on his hands and knees trying to act like a horse while little Willie drove him around the floor. "Papa," finally remarked the good lady, glancing toward her husband. "here Is a story about another man who was waylaid. Do these holdups always stop you with a pistol and then go through your clothes?" "Oh, no," grinfully replied father, arising from the floor. "Sometimes they wait until you hang your clothes over the back of a chair and go to sleep."—Philadelphia Bulletin. Nevertheless He Got Her. "You say my daughter loves you?" questioned the old man. "I'm sure of it," replied the young man, "Well, well," returned the old man, looking the young man over critically. Artistic Blips. It Is a frequent matter of lamenta- tion on the part of artists that one of their number may spend genius and time on a piece of work, only to fail conspicuously In small detail. There is a story that one Royal acade- mician gave a hand five lingers and a thumb and that another painted a iive lobster bright red. The clever Goodall had been engaged in painting a number of laborers drag- ging a buge stone across the desert when a man of science entering the studio said to him: "I say, Goodall, if you want those fellows to pull that stone you must ,Rouble their number. It would require just twice as many for the task." But it Is not modern painters alone who slip up on points of accuracy. Even Albrecht Durer in a scene repre- senting Peter denying Christ painted one of the Roman soldiers in the act of smoking. Turner put a rainbow be- side the sun, and in another picture he got fearfully tangled In the ship's rig- ging.—Chicago Record -Herald. Fixing a Photografter, Senator Stone of Missouri once made himself unpopular with a certain pho- tographer. The latter Individual ap- peared at the senator's room at the capitol and announced that he was there to take a picture. Stone expostu- lated, but in vain. A few days later the photographer again appeared and presented the pictures and also a bill for $1O. Remembering how hopeless was his argument against having the picture taken, Senator Stone decided It would be still more useless for him to decline to pay for them. 8o be wrote a check. After the man's name was on the check be wrote the word "Photo - grafter." When the man presented the check at the senate disbursing office for pay. ment, he was required to indorse the check and write after his name, just as It was written on the face of the check. the word "Photo-grafter,"—St. Louis Republic. A Limit to His Power.m A curious blstorical anecdote is hand- ed down frothe time of James L James, being in want of f20,000, ap- plied to the corporation for a loan. The corporation refused. The king insist- ed. "But, sire, you cannot compel us," said the lord mayor, "No," exclaim- ed James, "but ru ruin you and the city forever. 111 remove my courts of law, my court itself and my parlia- ment to Wlncbester or to Oxford and make a desert of Westminster, and then think what will become of your' "May it please your majesty," replied the lord. mayor, "you are at liberty to remove yourself and your courts to wherever yon please; but, sire, there will always be one consolation to the merchants of London—your majesty cannot take the Thames along with you r' Honey Ants. Certain Mexican ants are selected by their kindred as storehouses of honey. They are ted with honey until the ab - 'There's no accounting for tastes, 1s domen speedlly becomes smooth and there?, round and an filled with honey that And somehow, although the youngthe skin is transparent These areants doomed to pass the remainder of their man knew that he ought to be happy lives as mere honey cella. from which over the possession of the girt, he their kindred extract the honey when couldn't help scowling and speculating I it is required There are several spec!- on that remark of the old man's. mens of these ants In the British mu- seum with the honey still wlthln their transparent bodies. The Mexicans raid the nests of these ants for the sake of the honey that their bodies contain, and the ants are eaten raw as sweet- meats. Power of Deceiving. There is a Brooklyn woman who pos- sesses a servant who is a model in all respects save one—in that she is none too truthful. Lately the mistress has been using all her eloquence to make Nora see the error of deceitfulness. But at last she had to own herself beaten when Nora, With a beaming smile, turned and in a most cajoling tone said: "Sure, now, mum, an' wot de ye sup- pose the power of desavin' was given us fer?" k' Garri:" David Garit•k o:f t.:,• occasion passed Tyburn as s liege el s eed was assem- bling to witness the execution of a criminal. "VV'bo is be?" asked the great actor of a friend who accompa- nied him. "I believe his name is Vowel," wits the reply. "AIL" said Garrick, "1 wonder which of the vowels be is, for there are ewe- eral. At all events !t Is certain that it Is neither U nor is"—London Saturday Review, The Buckboard. "There are few persons who Imo bow the name of 'buckboard` came be applied to a vehicle," says a writ "It was away back in the twentl when the transportation of good wares and merchandise was aim entirely by wagon, A Dr. Buck w then In charge of military stores route to army posts in the southwes In east Tennessee much dtt acuity w experienced by reason of the rou roads, and there were frequent m haps, mostly from wagons overturnln Dr. Buck overhauled the outfit, an abandoning the wagon bodies, lo boards were set directly on the az! or hung below, and the stores we loaded In such a manner that the were no further delays from bre downs, and the stores safely reach their destinations, In special ems cy, too, the load could be shifted taken off in a hurry. Dr. Muck's e ample was followed, especially wbmuchroads were rough, and soon much tau Ing was done by the use of whee axles and boards only. Now we ha the buckboard, both in 'Carriage and a tomobile forms, conforming closely the original idea, though few suspec the source of It."—Cbtcago News, w to er. es, s, oet ae en Re gh Is- e• d, ng es re re ak- ed hitting upon a happy expedient, he emerge made out a shipping tag and tied It to er the horse of the goat Then he pre-, z vented the beast to the office of the' en 1- 18, ve u - to How He Did it. "When I was connected with a ceet• tain western railway," nye a promi- nent official of an eastern line, "we had in our employ a brakeman who. for special service rendered to the road, was granted a month's vacation. "He decided to spend his time in a trip over the Rockies. We furnished him with passes, "He went to Denver and there met a number of hie friends at work on one of the Colorado roads. They gave him a good time and when he went away made him a present of a mountain goat. "Evidently our brakeman was at a loos to get the animal home with him; as the express charges were very heavy at that time. Finally, however Technical Swearing. The late Sir John Millais was a very keen fisherman. He used to tell a story of an old man who was his at- tendant during a day's sport In the north of England. The old man was full of local gossip and small scandal, and where the natural supply fulled him he was clearly able to manufac- ture enougb of his own to go on with. "I were out with the bishop yester- day," said the old man, referring to a popular cburch dignitary, who Is also a good fisherman, "Ah" replied Mil- lais, "he's a good man"" "Well,' eon- tinued the old fellow, 'e may be, but 'e do swear n bit when 'ea fehin'," "Oh, nonsense!" replied Millais. "I don't believe that," The old man in- sisted that be was right, however. "I'll give you an Instance," he said. "I was standin"'longslde o' the bishop, same as I might be aside o' yon, an 'e'd got a big fellow at the end of ' line that was pretty nigh putllu' 'im off 'is feet, and i turns to 'Is lordahlp and I says, "E pulls — 'nrd, dou't he?' and the bishop says, Tea, 'e do.' Well, now, ain't that swearin'7"—Lon. don M. A. P. stock car line. "Well, that tag created no end of amusement, but it served to accom- plish the end of tbe brakeman. It was inscribed as follows: "'Please pass the butter. Thomas J. Meechin, brakeman, S. B. and T. Hy.' —Harper's Weekly, Ant Merchants. Ant merchants, clad in leather un- derwear, are to be found In Paris, London and several other European cities. Wherever pheasants are pre served the ant merchant Is In demand. It la not, however, ants, but the eggs of ants, that the man chiefly deals 1n. From every part of Europe ants are Shipped to him, and he keeps them In ant rune—places similar in tbelr nature to chicken runs—and he feeds and tends them carefully, so that their health will keep fine and they will lay generously, The eggs be packs In wooden boxes and ships to various earls, dukes, counts and other game preserves In different parts of the world. And the ants themselves he slays as soon as they cease to lay, pressing them and selling them in black blocks similar d to plug tobacco to dealers in birds and Is bird food. It is interesting to be an ant mer- chant, but leather underwear Is essen- tial to the business, as the little crea- tures bite unmercifully,—New Orleans, Times -Democrat. 8t. Patrick and the Roosters. SL Patrick's reputation as a snake charmer is known all the world over, but what he did to the roosters Is a bit of history less disseminated. There is a small district In the heart of County Sligo, It seems, wbicb strenuonsly re- sented the intrusion of the Seotchman. Succat (St. Patrick) had become ex- ceedingly domineering, and it was de- cided to put a damper on his progress. He said to his hostess, "Wake me when the cock crows." When he had gone to bed she whispered this com- mand to the neighbors, and all lite populace concealed their roosters un- der small creels so they could not lift their heads high enough to crow. In consequence thereof the saint overslept himself and was furious when he dis- covered the trick that had been played on him. He laid hls everlasting curse on the roosters of thnt district, and they have never crowed since,—Ex- change. The Number Fourteen In France, So far as Franco Is concerned, It is the number fourteen that has played a conspicuous and generally portentous part in her history. On May 14, 11554. the Rue de la Ferronnerie was enlarged by order of Henri II„ and four limes fourteen years later Henri IV- was as- saaalnated there by iteva:111nc—namely, on May 14, 1610. Henri had rived four Ulnae fourteen years, fourteen weeke and four times fourteen days—I- e., fif- ty-six years and live months. Then Henri', son, Louts XIII., dled May 14, 1848 (the same day and month as his fathers). And 1648 added together equals fourteen, just as 1553(the year of the birth of Henri IV.) equals four- teen. Louis XIV'ascended the throne 1848, which added together equals fourteen and similarly the year of his death (1715) equals, What Might Have Been. Lord Roseberyy in an address atGlas- gow university some years hgo gave ut- terance to the following interesting speculation: "Had the elder Pitt when he became prime minister not left the house of commons be could doubtless have in- duced Geotge III. to listen to reason, introduced American representation into parliament and preserved the thir- teen colonies to England. The new blood of America would have burst the old vessels of the constitaltlon and pro- vided a self adjusting system of repre- sentation. There would hare been no war of separation, no war of 1812, and finally, when the Americans became a majority, the empire would perhaps have moved solemnly across the At- lantic and Britain become a historic shrine, the European outpost of the empire." The Roman Forum. The Forum Romanum, the first that was erected in Rome, served equally for the purposes of trade and all pub- ic meetings as well as for the admin. lstratlou of justice by the consuls and A Compromise. other Roman magistrates, Later on, A private soldier was taken to the when the fora numbered some eight - guardroom for being intoxicated. He sen or twenty, they were divided Into became excited. "Sergeant, am I two classes, some for public meetings drunk?' he asked of the "noncom" in and the proceedings of the law courts charge, and others for the vartous require- "Yes—take off your boots," was the meats of trade. The Roman forum reply. Quite Natural. corresponded to the agora, or market "Of "But excuse me, sergeant," the do- course," said the tourist, "you place, of the Greeks, and no Roman Unguent continued, "I am only half know all about tbe antidotes for snake city was without Ulla Important center drunk." bite?" of judicial, political and commercial "Very well, then—take one boot off!" "Certainly;' replied the explorer. life.—New York American. said his superior.—London Scraps. "Well, when • a snake bites you _- what's the thing you do?' A Razor's,* Rae*. "Yell."—Philadelphul Press. The only known race of hairy human beings ,reside on the island of Tem*, adjoining Japan. They are about 100,000 in number and are known to tbe Japanese as the "Mosinee" or "all hairy people." They have the entire body covered with 'a profuse and re- markable growth of hair, the only ex- eeptlon being that the faces of the women ars bare, but usually stained how manhood will turn out than bow Every misfortune can be subdued' with a hiedof juice so as te resemble a young child will grow up. with pathos,•,-8oetates the boards of the iridins. Peculiarity of Madness. Who can tell why it is that In mad- houses the idea of subordination is Two Reads. very seldom to be found? Bedlam I First Mother (reading letter from son inhabited only by kings, poets and at college) — Heary's lettere always philosophers.—Medora Messenger. send me to the dictionary. Second Human deeds and human lives are never understood until they are finish- ed Yon can no more tell in advance Mother (resignedly) — That's nothing. Jack's always send me to the bank.— Puck. The Doctor at Bea. A veteran naval surgeon, speaking of the odd things that crop out In the service, said that one of the younger medical cranks in the navy discovered much virtue in sea water, and no mat- ter what disease came on his first ac- tion was to throw down the patient's throat a large dose of the nauseating liquid. The crew soon learned to hate him thoroughly. In process of time be fell overboard In a choppy sea, and a great bustle ensued. In the midst of It the captain came up and anxiously In- quired the cause. "Oh, nothing, sir," replied a tar. "only the doctor has fell into hls medicine chest!" Fooling the Youngster. "Mother," said Mr. Popley guarded- ly to his wife, "why not take tbe y -o -u -n -g -s -t -e -r to the m -a -t -td -n -e -e to- morrow?" o- morrow?" "Po," chimed in the youngster quiet- ly "thprn's only one 't' In 'matinee." IF WOMEN ONLY KNEW. What a Heap of Happiness it Would Bring to Hastings Homes. ilard to do housework with an Itchinghack. brings you hours of misery at leisure or at. work. If women only knew the cause that Backache pains come from sick kidneys, 'Twouid save much needless woe. Doan's Kidney Pills cure sick kidirys, Hastings people endorse this; Mrs. Thomas Ames, west end of tiec.n'I Street, Hastings. Minn., sags: •'1 .offered a great deal frum kidney trouble ,and during last summer my back dim- pletely gave out. It was usually lame and sore and caused me great discumfuti, At times 1 would tee very dizzy and suffered so severely from headaches that 1 would be laid up for days at a time The muscles in my back would Reinsure ,and stria. The pains would extend int. my neck fuel I was scarce!, able to turn a(y head. My kidneys were much din- ,erderrti end the secretions unnatural in appearance, causing me muchdiscemf.rt I procured Hean's Kidney Pills xi F. %%- Finch's Finch's drugstore and they curd me 1 xm glad to say that i have not bad rhe rt'turn of the trouble since that time. A remedy that nets up to Its represehtati.•1,8 as • I)uan's Kidner• Pills fa w"nhy recommendation of all who use It." For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents. Foster -Milburn Co.. Buffalo, N Y., sole agents for the United States. Iteulember the name—Doan's—and take no other, Illuetration KUM WESTERN CANADA Some of Atte choicest lands for grata crowbar. stock raising tied mixed farthing to the stew dis- tricts of Saskatebe van and Alberta have ra- ttily been Opened for Settlement midst tYe Revised dosestesd Repletion Entry may now be made by proxy (on certain conditions), by the father, rn other, son, daughters brother or aster of an Intending homesteader. Thousands of homesteads of leo acres each are thus now easily obtainable In these great grda- growing, stock -raising and mixed farming sea - lions. There you will end healthful cltmab, good neighbors, churches for family worship, soboal, for your children, good laws, splendid mels. and railroads convenient to market. Entry fee la h ease hi 510.00. Fot paapblet, "Last Best W "partkuLtsastorates. reveal. beat time to and where to locate, apply to B, T. HOLXS8 WSJ on Street. Se. Peel. MMa. Canadian Government ages* Lace Curtains or Draperies alas like new by our special pr- ows. Why throw away a pretty pair of lace curtains or portiere, just because they have become soiled, when ws can clean them ata small cost, and return to you almost as good as new' lefermslle beskiet free. Deters ewes* putt M erten* $3 er stere Gross ere SUMMONS. State of Mince, ,ta county of D:.kuta —s,. Muria court, ars. Judicial district. Jobe Pelua. plaintiff, vs. William L. Amy., Herbert Am,a, Amelia Ames, Emma H. Ames, John Ames. Reginald Hall Ames, Eleanor Ames. Oliver H. Ames, Luelis B. Ames, Luella Ames, Ruth Atoea, Sunau Trench, the eat awe help of 011‘ er Ames. deceased, Albioc P. Hamilton, the unknown heirs of Atn.tra Arisbin, deceased, also all other per. sons unknown, chiming auy Ight, Ode. estate. interest, or lien In the real estate de- scribed to the complaint herein, defendants. The state of Minnesota to the above named defrndenta: You. said defendant, and each of you, are hereby sumu,oned and required to answer the ...Plaint of the plaintiff herein, which com- plaint is on ale In the otaor of John Reetz, cleric of said court. and to serve a copy of your nn.o-er to the .aid eomptniut uon the sub- totit,ers at countybof 1►afkb eendl tte ate ofofMlnuesote. ,vithiu twenty days eftrr the sen foe of this um mons upon fou. reclusive of the day of such ' ttiar,and li you fail to 'Insert the aald oom- ,laint within aha time eforrt.aid the plaintiff lutetititt ll court he relief d e°dedinithis tseldttrcomplalntf ttogether with the costa and dist,ur,rments of this action. Dated February 8th. Ilius. SON PI.1aug'a Altornr,)s.GFirst `kratt,onel haul• •telidtatt, tfastluce. ttlenesota, NOTICE: OP LIS PENDENS ',Air of Miuur.o'a. counts of iMtotn.—ss. Set c, ort. 11,1 judicial dis•ele. P•'fur. id .1u if/ is. t1itIIam L. ,►me., .°rhea ,Alum, A.11.11 Amts, limens -Ir. Imes, 3 Ln .110.. k•• (n -.!d 11,11 .11105. Rle,nor ours, t►Ii,, r if. tn.,. Lisette B, Amer, Luella ,tiny. Ruth ter•, .0 • u Trrnob, the uiittlh,wn heirs "1 t.►I.trr 104,•, deoeeaed, tiblou P. 'tantL'tun. th • unktrowu b• les of tlu,trte tleisbin d.•er,-r,l, also all other p{,eer- ,u05 uuknuw'o, c1.111,1 (1 ,rot right, Mir, e.irte, tee st, or lira in the reel eaAwa de- -*gibed 1, for complaint herein, defendant, lichee Is hereby given of the prmlenc,• to the ..bevetxwr' of an action between the abut• amrd pletrtiff and the above uatned dere° ants. Thea the object of avid acTioo Is to del. may end efendants I or to the I lands hrrrlu described.of the andto bar and en - elude the defendants from any and all such claim*, and to quiet and perfect the title to said bends In the plaintiff. said land. are situate to Dakota County, Min- nesota, end are described as follows, to•wit: TI, north one hundred and twenty iters of the -outhweat quarterofsection thirteen, township ane hundred end fourteen, range nineteen, note:' February 8th. 1908, Ulna, HODGSON R LOWELL, Plaintiff's Attorneys, Hastings. Mlonesota. j( ORTOAGE SALE. Default bas hoe., made 1° the payment rf the sem et four hundrad (1100,0)) dollars .°d six prime, letrremtfrom Frbruar, 7th.1907,smount- lull le all to'hesum of four hundred .rad twenty. three and 90.1001$04.8(1) dollars. which amount to shinned to be due mud Is due at the date of this notice upp,u that certain mortgage duly executed by "ldney E. Peck and Marc A. Peak, his wlte, 10 Gates A. Johnson, dated February 7th MS, and auly recorded in the odice of tie treater of deed. In and for Dukota County, ill aursota, March 18th. 1905, at er80 o'clock p. m., in book 91 of mortgagee, page 5 thereof, Which s.td mortgage was date assigned by said Guars A. Johnson to Henry it Fuller, the under - /lead. t,y dery of assignment dated December Itch. (914,, end duly recorded In the office of said register afore mild, December Iltb. 19115, at Inc o'clock p m.. in book 83 of mortgages. pace 376, .ud no action or proceeding hu., been inst.tuted .t law to rrouvrr the debt rrtnaioing secured by a.ld mortgage, now, therefore, notice is hereby given ity virtue of the pourer of sale In said mort- gage contalerd aid puma t to the statute In such case made and provided, that said mortgage nil' br foreclosed by a axle of the premises here - fa after described, at public suction to the high• est bidd.•r therefor for cash et the front door of tine cuunbousr, in the city of Hastings, county ear state aforesaid. on Not.dat•, )larch 9th. tst4 .t the hour of leo of the clock in,he loren•on of said date, to pay said debt and interest, and also the sum of twenty ave (1195.0(1) dol6aa as ruor- neysA fees and .11 costs and expenses of said sale. Ra1d premises 00 to he sold are described as fo1- luers.to-wit: The northeast quarter of the north- ea5t 99uarter Wit of uet0 of sectio° twentt•-one taeoalI. Io township our hundred littera erwp. I IN. port h of range teen() (R.20), wen of theafth principal merldlan, metal ning forty acres more or leas, according to the l• S. government survey thereof. Dated January :kith. 1008. HENRY H. FULLER, Assignee of Nor gage. Cna.LxsJ ilsaarx(LL, Attorney for Assignee, St. Poul, Minnesota, 6Si Germania Life Building. ESTATE OF DECEDENT, State of Minnesota, county of Dakota.—as. In probate court. In the metier of the estate or Hubbard Nichol*, decedent. s The abate of Minnesota to Mary A. Nichols, 08.01.0 Nichols, Hester A. Lyon, Altair* Mania, Violet M. Horten, Celesta V. Swan, Harriet M. Dennison, Frances E. Poor, Frank Nichols, George ti. ' labels, Atherton B. Nichols, Daniel Nichols, Ernest Nlcbols. ArthurIebola, Non Mendel, Hertle Sanford. Lura Wblu•, tI e1L willlema, Edward Stone, and all per- sons Interested In the final account end dis- tribution of the rotate of timid deoedent. The representative of the above named decedent, l,.vdn filed In this court his anal socount of the edministrathnt of the estate of -old decedent together with hie petit 0,, praying for the edjuatrtent end allocener of said anal account end for distribution of arid estate to the perwns thereunto entltl d. Therefore. fou. end each 1.1 o.u. are b-rrh, cited end required to Own e'nn.e•. 11 Nd{ ,"u hairbefore tide court. et the pro,IMtr sour, room 111 the c,urth"use. In the en, of ttmeling.. In the 0011810 of Dakota, stair o: Minn. wits. on the Nth dal or Mercia, 1908. at 1• n u'clo.'k a, m . In ,rid petition sh• uld ttot be granted. Whaose, The Judge of said court. and the aeu of Arid wwrt, thl. atthdev of Prhruart.100e. ant.; 1'nt'ti, P. MOH1N. few P obatrJudgr. Lv$TATE oM DEE('EN'I' - 14 Stale of Mlnneeotacounty of Unkota,—ns, to prob.te a,urt. In the matter of the reit,. of Harriet Barbara', decedent, Letters of .dmlmttr.tfon eith the will an- nexed on the estate of said deonsed this day bevies been granted to Julia Kerberos, and ft appearing by the .ffldn,It of said representative Diet there are no debts of aald decedent. It 1s ordered that the time within which all otndttora of the above nrm,d diadem natty present claim- against her estate in this court, be, mad the same hereby Is, limited to three months tn.m end after the date hereof; and that Fridry, the 96th day of June, 1908. st tea o'olook a. m., In the probate court room. at the ooarthouse at Hastings. in said county, be, and tie seats berth,. 1s aged end appointed as the tutee and plate for hearing upon sod the es• amination, adjustment. and allow•anoe of such claims as shall be presented wlthln the time aforesaid. Let notice hereof be given by the publication of this order in The Hastings Oatette as provid- ed by 1..w. rated February 11018, 1901 By the court THO0. P. MORAN, (L. a) *Se Judge of Probate. r tr' -t •e. 1.• Pei twee 11g 111aV$Za2 O'a»/.