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.. -55-.-T. -tpgyucuns nu uapnnvnnawv II Friends and f-.-Her slnners," "she4said, we air all on to ,p int ofdeath, and here, before you all, I make confes- sion. "I am a thief and a robber, and I shall never be pardoned. It wus me that robbed my husband, and, more than that, I stole the chickens tomake ` the sa1lad--one of em from each of my good friendsand neighbors. Jedgments` has fallen!" ' You wus driv to -it, Mrs. yvlggins, sez I, by your pardmzfs meanness. We an. knowed it, `and none of us blame you. . ` 'Il"..__ SA_IL I___j `II II _-l3 _I__.. C"'I__ r I ll nd out how to cure em.' , "OH. ho!" says theldoctor. Bring me the bottle, Mrs. Wiggins, and I guess _-- us vu-w no aw van.- MFE wtg1L Hetcied tt;' doctor he tasted it. .- .__..' _.--.- can now- She passed the chicken sallad plates to the help, and the help gave _em to the folks, and we all tasted it, but it didn't relish. Still we tried toeat it fur her sake.. Mostof us done it, too, and the coffee `wus good, and we cheered up some. Mrs. Wiggins didn't eat no sallad herself, so, she dldn t know how it tasted. After upper we all went in- to the parlor and_ sot` around, and Si Barker wus tryln to git up dancin, and -I~ did hope things would end happy, i when all of a sudden folks began to 1 look pale and say they wus p'isoned. So they seemed to be. One arter the other `wus took sick, and they all said the same thing-it wus the sallad. I felt very poorly myself, and so did my Obediah. The minister had gone home sick, and there wus a regular panic. There wus one doctor there, and he sent fur another, and old Miss Peebles said it wus like old cholera times. I t wus awful, anyway, but jest as we wus at; the wust, we ladies lyin about in the up stairs rooms expectin `to die and teelin sure it wus `arsenic, Mrs. Wiggins appeared amongst us. u1:1..:-...a.. .....1 4- .11.... _x__-._.. n -1. _ -,_l_1 `f rate` supber afe,t\ab1e % with owers. They was mostly marygolds and old man; `and some-folks don't1Ike the smell of neither. but the yaner and green looked pretty, and it was. all ready -for the company when they cum hum from church, __.a-. we. ca-so-an .However, she got over em, and the minister he said he didn t know after alibut it wus a providence to keep us from vbein too sot on the things otthis world and reminded how short life wus t and went back 'and,married em proper. i And so we did get back to Wiggins . ; only, Mr. Wiggins hevin been too mean 1 to-get the wagin mended, the wheel come off, and they wus all spilt out and- eenamost drownded goin over Slabside bridge that ain't got no railin. `Mrs. Wiggins, poor dear, was soaked. and when we tui: her into our wagin she kept sayin, J edgments-jedgments- jedgments is comin! We knowed what she wus thinkin of, and we tried to. cheer her up. .' `I'I'7-I1 ._I_-_. AI, , A in q . -- _ "w11",'v1"a'E'n the folks wus dried" and % dressed over we all went to supper, and we praised it up as much as we could. ` but Mrs. Wiggins sot down in her place \ like a ghost, and folks began to talk \ and laugh and help everything. But? she didn't smile. "V-ic-`e-i`E-hut-|t.`.l;1.i-t.sv`i'r.e d`th.ings"'f'eit. that we could see marks of innurd torture on- .poor Mrs. Wigginsf.tace', and: we telt to sympathize, tur she wu's nat rally' a moral .woman and a pious one. and she d been driven to sin "by the mean- ness of her pardner. You see. she wus one of thefn women that lives _t ur their children. Et.she d been a pelican. she'd hev took all the feathers out `of her buzzim to make `em beds. and she'd sackerced herself fur Melindy. She looked kinder better when she. got to church, butour minister he` wus young and hadn't married nobody before. and. bein narvous, be commenced efur to read the burial sarvice instead of the marriage arvice, and we, bein all stiff with horrer, hadn't presence of mind enough fur to stop him until he d actil- ly buried Melindy as fur as words could go, and Mrs. Wiggins wus in high strikes. 7-f_____7A7_ _. . - - -- E." .Jr'T:.". ml! and IIUITU, JIIUI ECU` III III! .7 IUIUII-u n0IeI and has 0 ed up `business an all kinds of Black- emithingy oneahoeua, etc. All work will be done promptly at the lowest sure. Remember the place. Has purchaied the premises occupnd bv Chas. Mc- Guire, just cantor the Victoria Hotel, 111:! has nnannd un Imminent in all kind: nf Rim-k. NEWBUWKSMI Near Market Square. . IV|cLa_rty,. Make no mistake! This is the GREAT Scott in thegabove lines. Bement, ` Bulvert Pipe, Field Tile, 0ffice--91Dun|op Street, Barrie BARRIE SIEAM LAUNDRY. 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Communica- tions strictly condential. Handbook on Patents sent free. Oldest may for aocungcjgatenta. Patent: taken t much Mnnn & receive A ...3Zo7.Jn In'uc}m'a ?.eei1}.' 1...` 1} 3.721.. cnlatlon of any scientic om-nal. Terms, 88 Q van 2 four months. 81. 80 I! IN all nmvndmnlm-n_ IEIIIQIIIUII 1 GI) LII! UIII IICII 1 Cl Ill, year; rolfr mor 1t11s`. $1.mo'ld by all newsdeaiers. Muuu&co.am~-- Ne 1&5 1. Branch Omce. 625 F St.. Washlncton. D. TENANT--Why rent, when, such I nonthly navments. vou mu becnm. vnnr mm. I -7`j' SEC.TREAS. BARRIE LOCAL BOARD. 1:-ti WOODSTOCK, ONTARYO, Evenings ab residence, 67 Owen-St. D cuurge, Ill Ioll E. DONNELL, (Tun-Ac l)Al\I-nvvn 01:45.- ._-___ Calls attention `to the -~0F--_ y addreu. u. .YUu V'` ``" I `V --~-...~- U, 1 ht 139 let up in- your notnons I m.` tempted"-- A ` again," There, now. 5'03" begnmninvgu , ` A Pmgoingto swim asho1fe; e shouteg, It's a mile or mm? `t `peak at war heaven s sake. 3`: _' j ml, t'ktlt. J .7e(lilon 5t'(:l1l]mSt:P 'f3lkm` nonaegu "'- .thn. } % I I I'm serious." ` ~ T That settles It-" eH,fI,:1'?oa_:;f 56.! from the .0800 - _ j ? h'y`forthe shore." . - I med waadung 110"`. ;'` rm canoe to get atvher',-3 .n3--- her. The shell n-embled length and sank 4-'6" weight. Shef .._.'3. ..~ .1 Bob is not easily tired. His training with the college boat crew came in handy, too, now that the form of sport took an aquatic -turn. The long tramps over the country roads were varied with sailing. swimming` and an occa- sional hour of paddling in Bob's beau- tiful new canoe. The last, in fact, was rapidly becoming the favorite sport. But now sheavers that canoes,` like men, are mighty uncertain creatures. It happened this Way: They had `started out for an early morning pads dle-so early, in fact, thattherest of the household was still asleep. But the air was crisp. and the sun rising behind the Jersey hills made a picture long to be remembered. She is quite sure that we will remember it. He has no doubts on" the subject. She was sitting in the bow of the canoe `trailing her hands in the still water and, enjoying it all so much that it startled her when Bob's. aimless conversation took another turn. He did not say much, but it was all so Illdnn 41-H`..- -__- . 3 A -- 11 `v .53 1` en` 1!} W of t U0` tn CU! n. 51)) gjsusllcb 9 ,a ;'W / 11910 sudden t ill" ` 9 5 it W9 ad demess in the . tart. den 6 (led rrve 8 (38908 We Ct Sn.e The t the) ` nessigffe 4169" That (1 111 . the ed- . _ turtI90`:1II]]derin,`;,'1:Q 51301: 1,34%//the ch`; "`i?,gat C`9s?tr$roi1Vta;fe endsgtetd; n _ _ mean it` (ginglng (:0 f0udofDr 18195 ` 1108. an I ' arm f 9 B throwmg mucllfsed` at . It WaS.a1 m (Sun) aweF9d' ted p0m, . 1'11! 90 Bob . dare FQP! On In yo! T :t-" . ale 911 dt 1396 1 di lgI1t' 1 your . 3,1 But. I ltlclws got .8 `The sI>e`* ed: go, , a K ex . V ,tt0 to11,,,'t9 ugh) UPS`? ere `.`WIlv yOuIt?S W in a Canoe` erve. B Vuso I ODS , 15` L % ofwns . 011 I) let 119,?" y temDt"'1 / / dd`, 1: % 119 , nut` ted it! may have Fesen U\:\vL\-Q ......--....., . _- ..__._v A few weeks ago she went to spend the summer with friends in a little hamlet up the Hudson. Thither also journeyed Bob. She is a strong, hand- some. athletic creature, fond of out- door sports. She begins her season's swimming long before the daring small boy thinks the water has lost enough of its chill. When she is not golng", she isin the tennis court. In the win-_ tern basket ball and long rambles through snowy woods serve to keep her cheeks rosy and her eyes bright. And the man who accompanies her on such walks needs to be more than a passably good pedestrian, for she will soon tire him whose limbs are not of iron. V v T Cululuubuu Some of them got angry. Others ac- T cepted it as a matter of course. There is at least one instance on record of a. chap who really "tried a second time and ended by responding to the usual throw down with whistling 8. popular air that begins, Comrades. comrades, ever since we were boys. Upon which occasion she told him he was a dear to take it that way. and they have been better friends ever since. ' 9 _.__h ., _,4___. -1, Va lguilds SCRSG Wu. g. ...-u-.. ------- - on being just friendsmhere in-1;le:`v". York. Bob never acted this way. Why. `we rowed and sailed and tr amped.to- gether summer in and summer out,-and he never thought of making a proposal. Dear old Blob! He had more sense. Bmcelup now. Be a man. Forget It; and so will I, and We'll just go on being. comrades. -1: ;1-........ nab nanny. I\LI..._... -- nu Lvuuu -.---- v--- -----y -unusual by being friendly. She encouraged` them perhaps in a certain liking that - she had for masculine companionship` which they_not infrequently misunder- stood. Then when the night and the moon and the soft breezes stirred them to declarations fraught with more than passing interest she was-'forced to mo `heroic utterances. ` , - nu... 1-run, aha u1nnIr'I nnv T l1l\"I - germ` uu".;!u'~~- V H I Dear me. she would say, I dont see why a man and a woman can't 'go_ 1.4.... -lnc+ Pr-ionu horn in. Khan-r their relations wereipnrely platoIi`ic." M least she prided herself on that fact, when any one suggested to her the L `possibility of an attachment `more ten-V der and affectionate. she poohpoohed it with an emphasis indicative or an` absolutely sure stateiof mind. She was not like other girls, she said; several `men had found that out. They began` _. ..,.:.m frinndlv. She encnm-nmad` llu: \. -Arthur. J. ' . 7 sane. toenii 4 ":3 1? "".P`.' 5'9`.'.* -. 1.. T" " ,;,D not ymd your wenpcnI.`t9;tieg ` am not voice to your`d!lIoII", ,, uni" -nd me n-v awe: < `w up aglin and strike (rah hiding `on my yet come 01! triumphlntx ' . You may win the light; who mush; you'll gain by idle weeping; V Te," but add to your distress. . - H the wicked world has wronged you, At its hands, then, seek redress. 5 to your assistance courage. A And the tight again begin, ` - Knowing industry and valor . In the end will surely win. , . ._J.LnI J, Burdick in Lot Angelel H 4 EDD Wlu nuncay wnur Burdick Angelei liaaa. ronf|t0;b:iIf%` Rousseau and the Impostor. On one occasion Rousseau composed an opera, which was performed before King" Louis XV. and met with the royal approval. g The king sent for him, and- if he had put in an appearance he would probably have obtained a pen- sion. `He was, however, of a retiring disposition and could not bring himself to race the court. To his friendshe gave as a reason his `republican opin- ions, but his --real reason was his shy- ness. -Accordingly he ed from the court and sought the privacy of a coun- try inn. `While he was there a man came in who began telling the company that he was the celebrated Rousseau and proceeded to give an account of the opera. which he said had been per- formed before the king with great success. . . ~ ` - __ 1.. fl ----1...;-qq'n o\nnII-`AI! y culVlJIVIIlllll bl-Iuinruno-v -v__._ _ _ the forests ot the eastern Himalayas. It is sometimes called the bear cat." Its fur is a rich red hestnut above and a jet black below. the tail long and ringed like a raccoon s. and its habits rather. like those of abear. .It sucks up water instead` or lapping it and sitsup-T on its haunches to ght. g . _ -III, _r I.)..L..-nuar 1`: n 'Irln (If Ke`EIl| nu HUI-Ivwu on v--a ., almost `any means. Its color is bli_1ck,.` !_tsJo_.lt` alow,I_1ts t_u.ll_ Very long and pre- 1 I * J `with `r_- 2;...` . . auuucnm Most men T In Rousseau : hosltlon would have felt nothing but contempt for the impostor. but this extraordinary _ 3-1;. -_I-. U\I"I aunt` n"\Il!V'|A ' Its nuuncneu w uguu. The binturong` is a `kind of Asiatic kinkajou, round in. Sumatra and Java. It_1a` the only p_re`heni) tailed animal In the bid world. a dia3:incon_.whlch ap- pears to have astruck `naturalists more ` `than , had. detachment, or the `animal , -nu `.51.... Ongoing .' If h`. R shoni thlnx the uetuVI.|l.l.lI.l|v- Vb way u.-.........` from all other forms,` It has a. short, blunthead. woolly, soft gar andxeeth adapted for getting an hone_s't~llv1ng by, A'--- -'-3` ---In Inninl, C010? 18 5! ;'1aa;';;;;;;;r;s*;;.":h;' :;n;r1";;1`.;2;;:.`; river town have had good food for -much reection, and the oldest dame_ or them all admits that `even she doesn't,understand lt. - IUU LUV ll.ll}lUBl-VI. wuu yuan v-u.-v- u..-..-, man felt only pity and shame. I trembled and blushed so." he tells us in his Confessions, for fear the man` should be found out that it might have been thought that I was the impostor." He was afraid that somebody might come in who knew him and expose the pretender. At `last he` could bear it no longer and slipped out unobserved. 'V--'- `Ac-v nnnnlo IIYAIIIA lulu EIIPHCIJ vuy \IOl\lhrIv\u- v vu- Very few people would treat ah im- postor like that.--TWestm inster Review. ll Ililllcictuys alnlllulnnuunwu The west African "water shrew has the fur and shape of an otter, a tail like an eel and the habits of an aquatic in- sect feeder. __ J- I_' an --1513 I|++I7 hI1+-'f'n sect teeuer. . A The panda is a very pretty. beautiful- ly turred carnivorous creature found in; .A.I. . J4.-anal-n II, fh Dfmn '77\7n31,'}fz'EY1"n," she said, that when they got ashore she didn't show the least concern for the man. Now, the least you would have `expected would have been that she'd throw her arms about him and `say that she would never leave him. And didn't she?" No.; She just kicked up a pebble, . wrung the water out of her skirt and laughedt to kill. Then she said. kind otshort, `Thanks, and went into the house. _ , And did the man seem cut up?" ' No. He just looked at his oldcanoe sharplike and cussed. `I'll have to _ blow in aten to get it in shape again,f he said.-New York` Times. -- zvvuu vvo-vv cu I. vvuvo After some parleying the boatmen consented to be careful. With their as- sistance the canoe was righted, and the friends made their way shoreward.` 13; 4.I.- _-......:.._ 2.. AL- _....-II `V1-A- _1_-_e For m'e!"` she shouted. Yes, that : it. For a. woman's only a woman, and a good canoe s a. boat! AAL-.. _,-L, __c-ov- _;`We re all right} don t trouble, said the girl. - 7- ``1-}-;__ _na|uI ,u . .-- - - ..__ ---v BGQCI ]Keep ot`E! shoutedf Bob. 3'1: you come any closer, you'll scratch the paint on my canoe. II'IT7I.-L .1- ____ _ man u - - -o-w Van O-Cali %IIUI\I\;O -:`What do you mean? inquiredone. `Do you mean.to say that you care more for the canoe than tor.-for--. He hesitated. - ` V ._..u Inn!` gvu uvvu u._yu.l5 LU uu: "`Hold on a little longer, came back the answer. We'll have you safe in a minute. A _ , ` What would they./think it they found us _'like t_h1s?"" she ventured. f`I won't permit it." '- " _ Butt everybody around here`_kn'0.1;VI we re just friends. he said. .-You' know you've talked Plato till- 'Dnn'l> ha -III- n". ----`---- -- __-.. ,_..,.. -1}: uulseu nuto nu? -- Don?t be silly, 4It1;vajsn tthat I tear-` ed. "1 don"tcare whettheye think on that subject. But I don't propose to have them think ,I_ went out `wgth a stupid. man who `couldn't paddle a boat without upsetting it. o 'N'n4- dun ....'._u_ ..g --_ .. . - ......... u.u_vu5u LU neep Still." For answer she gave a kick that sent the spray- into his eyes. Then" she shrieked with laughter. His arms were beginning to get very `tired, andit sud-. denly occurred to him that she also might be fatigued. ' `(ff wan I-AA-- A ` ` ' v- 0 `Club YVIII'l'UC y0ll." P;hawi Rest. yourseit._ `I'm all` right. He paid no attention to the injunc- tion, and a tewistrokes brought him to her side. The tide was running strong, and they were drifting farther and farther from the shore. u1'.`....a. -1--- --- - _..- -.....- -.-.u.u ouc auuac. .Ji1st place one hand on me, if you dare." she shouted, and I ll let go the. canoe; , Then s'ee .how._quickly it'll be out of sight. The threat was eective. It was such a pretty canoe, and he had- no desire to lose `it. So, commenting on her stubbornness, he` waddled back and took hold of his end again-. Than a sauna` A` A--- :-- `~A* ' `` ---- uvvnq ll\lI\.I UL HID CHI] usului Then a sound of oars was heard, and soon [two men In a boat were within a few yards of them. ' llI-._ AI Not `to speak `of `a girl who know enough to keep still. war QLA ..Q_.A _ I n .-c -- vv -u-nvuu Ialtlcblls Ito" L j'"' "'5 lulsucul V "H 5'0" keep quiet a moment, he Bid. I ll swim around to you and hold V011 up. That will-rest you. V ' phi' Domain -.---..--IA ` 01,, .- Say; A there." was Bob's inquiry. what are you two trying to do '2" 1'.`l'.-`IA an an I844]- I-__.-.. 9: _,,, - . 3, never- liverieo. modern liondelcript Animals. A A! -_._ ._.nLnn- nth. 'V: h'en-'he' h-<-)t.n`e:he.cried and said he wished he'd giv Mrs. Wiggins the money V for Melindy s things, but `she "said it happened fortunate that her sis- ter,- Mellndy s aunt, had sent her a. present tur her weddin. IIVL- I_-I__ _- , "'1-?~`11-t'_1\I~x::-`Wiggins. he said he wns seilin his chickens`. not devburin of em` hum, and I suppose what she had done before kinder weakened poor Mrs. Wig- gins conscience, tor, seein her own coops wus locked up. the poor soul went around `to the neighbors and stole one chicken apiecetrom each or us. It wus kinder Just to do it that way when she might have took 'em all from one or us, -and those of no that caught her at it madelup our minds not to say nuthin,~ , but jest to pray fur her; and we'd sent over word thatger there wus vanythin . ewe could`do.to_ callon -us. `And per-' hang she -felt wefd be. awillin to th*?h*9*!~;b`1* ""9 PW? #! $mi '_"vE1'1'. "i'~~ got the things tbgether. `somehow. and. she cooked the chickens . and made the aallad and borried chany P * *e1h*1-=-*:h Well, iiunay had her clothes after. all, but before. they wus nished Mr. Wiggins he _d got over his skeet and got-`as mean as ever again, and he wouldv t give hisonfortinate wife noth- in extry tor the supper. She borried The Tide of Fashion from the Rabbits and found out _ that she'd orter hev chicken salla_9_._ -_ - ` :'_ _..., 71` an.-hi Ivl\r\I BU IIU UL`: V He told em he ? been beset by Sb. -ber and that they wus. so fierce and furious he d been obliged to give em every cent he had. He described em as most outlandish critters. He aid "their hair wus like cotton wool and their faces black. Their hats wus tied. on with big-handkerchiefs, and they wus queer and slopy in the small of their backs. Their hands and feet wus `sort of small and skinny look-in, and they had blue overalls and linen clusters on. He said twusn t their strength that overcome him. but their bein so spooky and supernatm'allike . And one of em said in a ` ' ': voice, Little you know who we L. ..ud the other: We re tak- in your money because you don't per- vlde as you should fur solemn occa- sions. Beware in future!" - C1,`. __- I, ---- --u- --we vv vuulnao The help now, she'don t_ thinkthem V robbers wus supernsft -ral, and she sez it ever Mr. -Wiggins nds out the truth she dunnovwhat will happen to Mrs. Wiggins. I kinder think myself that the robbers wus Mrs. `Wiggins .and Melindy dressed up in some old clothes, with cotton batting wigs, and I don't. blame `em. - ` a The boat landin is in quite a lonesome place, and he went home by a sort of side path anyways, and just about dusk the Browns heard a howlln in the pic- nic woods and, goin to see what it wus, there was old Wiggins tied to a tree. `[1. `-1; 9-... I...9.: 1.--- I.-_-; 1., _ cu G`-U ` Well, when he spoke up like that Mrs. Wiggins she knew i`twusn t no good talkin, so she said, P r aps you air right, pa, and she- wrote down some things and kinder winked acrost to Me- lindy. who wus beginning to cry at the idea of her pa, that didn't know caliker from blankets, a-choosin her` weddin clothes. ` ---v -rvu- my-no O-QIQU QIDQQJ Iv\II\nI &\IIIl0 " Wll: that arternoon Mr. Wiggin went to town to sell his potatoes and got the money gnd come down on the boat as usual. ' - For rob iii hgmlock twilight of it: star. Wm nun. but Invm-n HIM` Alli` Inlun nn nan` '1he.-`vhelp saw all that -and heered what wus said and nat raIly told folks. 117511 J.I....J. -..;.-..._--.. `I M -__ .. -- `-----o Well, Mrs. Vgviggins she wus real sot up about it, and she said that Melindy should be dressed up asmuch as any bride there ever had been in Punkin- ville, er not a leetle better. But Mr. Wiggins, Me1indy s pa, he come of a close family, and he wus near himself- twus his nater to be-and when Melin- dy s ma asked him fur money `to shop fur the things he jest buttoned up his pockets and said, Naw. He oilers pernounced no that way when he wus sot. Naw. sez he, I ain't toiled and moiledfforty odd year fur to let my money be spent like water. You kin make a list out of whatis wanted, and 111 get it. ' `1-rr-n -_ s____ u__ .,__ . ... .. . -- His ma was sot ag in his marryin at all, and -Melindy she wouldn't never hev caught him etshe hadn't took airly mornin walks beut the time he went over to his place or business and met him aster by accident. `I .-... 4-1.1 ;L_; I. "C I - -.--- -- -r- nag an-v -`av:-on I am told thavt he proposed by Tag- gart s barn and wus excepted in front of the shoemaker s and gave `Melindy her engagement ring jest this` side of `the blacksmith s. When Melindy Wiggins got engaged to Pelig J enks; her ma wus just tickled to death._ Beaus was scase down to Punkinville, fur none of the young men would stay arter they wus growed up. Besides, Pelig is real torehanded and quite a catch. . T1`)- __-_ *4-.. , A in q n ---- -vo pun usuuvc. uwluglll In I ICII3 WI none but lovers find. and who finds none _ lovers; since the time and long before . The Che:-'ok`ee's toot upon the mossy marge Panel! you_eontemptuous. as the mountaineer Now paning idly notes and nothing-heeds; orchid, it I give your scent a voice b Strange as the aphinx a riddle, how your ower Ia bulnanand inhuman. part of man And innitely apart lrom man, who plush, But cannot take your beauty when he goes, Who brought your beauty with him when he came. ~ 0 orchid, purple cloud of winged stars! 0 purple crown and sweetness of the dark . Spirit, in habit this the dust of speech And rise up living at its somber heart To end thy monody with a rosy Love!" his all made of grace and fantasy, . 111239 (If finer!-anon and l\. nu-`.1- -8-. u..us -u uusue ul. grice anu tantuy. All made of fragrance and of purie air; > It is all made 0! death for life to be; Final N ml... ..... '.._.I' I.-_ L- n._.I_ I------ ELlNDA% S WEDDING. as 18 all made at death for to Findait who can, and" how he nds beware. --JoIeph Russell Taylor in Scribnefaagazine. PUPL` ramaau` ammo. The Discount` Fiend. There is probably no abuse which the long suffering wholesale market has had perpetrated upon it to such an ex- tent as that for which the discount end is responsible. Many apparently reputable merchants who would scorn the idea of dishonesty are at the same tlme often guilty of taking an extra 20 days discount on bills-"which have passedtheir maturity.` But this. is not all. Occasionally a _case`c`otues to light, -where" the disc-,ount~end.g`oes,so tar as V`to"d_e,duct_ 10 per. cent_ro:n;a*7g10vbiii, and lithe`-ilrm ln[ques'tion sees lit to the 1~retu'rn mi check and task :39: Rf.-fn set.` ::tlem.ent,the*toods' are: shipped y . 17 . .2 Poor Mrs. Wiggins. `she dropped on her knees and prayed right there fur thankfulness, and we all j'ined in, and as soon as folks knowed they hadn't tuk arsenic they all got better. " Mrs. Wiggins solemn and distracted looks and her not eatin any` had made them that worn t in the secret think that she'd gone crazy and done it a-purpose. which scared 'em.'more. . 1 " ` "`*And_they do say Mr.`Wiggins ain't quite` so near as he used to be since he saw what might come of drivin a wo-' man into a corner for want of a penny. nun _.- ..|._..u. 4----.. |:-n...1'_ 1-rn.. -xiv! \u\II-lul\rl I3 510 \II GU .l`mI-IIJJQ _-111. we; shan t f`> 1-*g;t Mellndy Wig- gins wedding in 9. hurry. those 0: us that went to it. T - This ain't p lson, ladies." sez be. There ain't no great harm done, only I don t'suppoe the recipe mentioned cas- 3 tor oil for sallad dressing. "1`isn t usual anyhow. Nobody is goin to die this 1 time, Mrs. Wiggins, unless it is you` yourself. You lie down and quiet` your- self. - _ ' ---.--v U - -- You don't know all. said Mrs. Wig- gins. `fMore n that, I went to the _store and tuk my chances and stole a bottle of ile. The recipe said to make the sale lad dressin with tie. I d- never made none. I stole the bottle. Oh, I shan rt never be forgiven. I shan t never be for- given! I tuk a bottle of pi son of some sort, fur it wus in the drugdepartment where iles, is kept, and I m a mur- derer!