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have you a mother have you a mother if o honor and love her it she u aged do all la yoar power to cheer her declining years her hair may have bleached her eyes may have dimmed her brow may contain deep and tutightly farrows her checks may be sunken bat yen should never forget the holy love and tender care she has had for you in years gone by she baa kissed away from yonr cheek the troubled tear she has soothed and petted yon when all else appeared against you she has watched over and narted yoa with a tender care known only to a mother she has sympathized with yon in adversity she has been proud of yonr success ion may be despised by all around yon yet that loving mother stands as an apologist for all your shortcomings with all that disinterested affection would it not be on grateful in yon if in her declining years you juled to reciprocate her love and honor her m your best friend we have no respect for a man or woman who neglects an aged mother if yoa havo a mother love her and do all in your power to make her happy christian at work fired employer to bibulous clerk mr soaker why are you not like a gun soaker who feels it incumbent on him to laugh i hie dont know sir i employer meaninglj because a gun cannot be discharged when it is half oooked yoa may get your salary from the cashier never a show for him no sir said the old tramp sadly i cant get no work at my trade ive tried hard but it aint no nse philanthropist yonr trade why have you a trade tramp tearfully yes sir im a winter waiter at a summer resort hotel only a joke husband to wife i expect jokely will take a summons eut against me i hvc just given him a good hiding wife what for i husband irle bald that gambet was a gambler and that i was no better wife as a sudden thought comet to her is it not likely that he was only joking t you know how witty he is some times when he said that gambot was a gambler and yon were no better he meant just what he bald that you were no bet tor bettor one who bets or wagers hus band confound him yes another one of his jokes i was a little hasty perhaps i ought to have waited for him to explain it was his profession biggins do you see that portly man over there by the door wiggins yes 6ne looking man dlggiha ha takes life easily wiggins looks as if he did biggins he does hes a dootor impsisohbd womeu 0oir feminine vanity and selfwill oper ate behind the bars compulsion is the woman convicts drop of bitterness the complete mortification of that bar jiiess sort of vanity which fills so much of a womans life makes her durance doubly vile all her fine feathers are sacrific ed ruthlessly her hair which she has apostollo authority for regarding as an ornament is shorn of its last lock as soon as her cell has been allotted to her and the face whlchhasgzsd with perfect puatrtnew almost to rouse a countrys admiration and the toogue that has been mate under the finding of jury and sentence of judge are raised to plead pathetically with the holder of the scissors while theconidors sometimes ring again to the piercing cries for a sparing pity a the inexorable shearers gather their harvest of curls hut spring returns and the hair renews itself and before the next shearing day the girls grumbled that a thoughtless administration provides them with no hairpins one woman whose halrcon- tinned to be suspiciously resplendent as of macassar after weeks of incarceration was an ofcjoot of some wonderment even to the chaplain until she explained to him in con fidence that she allowed her broth to cool and then skimmed off the fat tbglittcr in her crownof glory anothergirloertalnlyrouged endroug tsllat ffocivtlyon thepallorof prlf on confinement great was theenvloub indigna tion of her deters in servitude against a frivolity so unattainable but greater still perhaps was the curiosity to discover how the accomplishment of such a frivolity could be attained at length it was discovered that the red threads woven among the blue thirts which she bad to sew wouldwheudrawn oat and ohewed yield the bloom yearned after by the cheek of beauty the manner in which nearly every woman finds it possible to disarrange and double one of her under skirts and present the fascinations of a orinoletto is bo comio that it has been know the spooks and goblius that delight to fil with terror all the night that stalk abroad in hideous dreams with which dyspepsias fancy teems will never trouble with their ills the man who trusts in pierces pills dr pierces pleasant purgative pellets vegetable harmless painless sure 1 a piiin roughly finished silurian iron sclitaire diamond ring with 22 karat gold lining is a unique novelty bobby boras understood it many and sharp the numerous ills inwoven in our frame more pointed still we make onrselves regret remorse and shame among the most dangerous as well as vexing of ills inwoven with our frame are consumption asthma bronohltis colds and long troubles generally however tho timely use of dr pierces golden medical discovery takes away their fearful conse quences but when negleoted leaves regret remorse and shame but you need not be ashamed to ask for the discovery as it has become a standard remedy found at all the drug stores where thousands call for it every day and where it is recognized as the leading medicine for all lung and throat affections silver matoh boxes etched with portraits representing tho seven ages are a new de parture wiiat it means to the man or woman who has never been ill the word health is meaningles but to the one who has t ufftred and despaired health appears as a pricolcas boon to the thousands of unfortunate women who aro suffering from some of the many forms of weaknesses or irregularities peculiar to their sex dr pierces favorite prescription holds forth tho promise of a speedy restoration of this priceless boon 1 tumox specialist knife book ttcc vrfrtu hosul no knife book t c h ucwicliar l m d no j niacin sc- balonr asthma can be cured w a trial buaie etat frjo tj ny one fhictei dss taft bros rochester sx cug guaranteed sure care for lonjr- mano log cough ou etc al vour drufgbs tor it or write to a tkenoortr u05mder co drugttuts toronto the body of a flying fish in variegated it cold with diamond and sapphire stndded to bring a smilefrom that graveestamong men hand80m6 laoe pln pi a prison ohaplaln and a woman without a looking glass i only the aubtereat and severest orders of nuns renounce that and perhaps it is the female prisoners most oppressive penance fir the relief of whloh she is even willing to risk the imposition of extra pun ishment a task the more a meal the less by an aooident whioh she declares she will regret for a lifetime she has broken a win dow the hole is there sure enough but life worth living for 24 years i have travelled this contin ent over and over best of all artioles meat or drink to restore health instil wholesome vigor raise the spir ts and make life worth living st lson mineral water is excelsior myself and family all use it would part with any other favorite rather than st leon where ihetecvedgtdxr this j vontsi- f it la found concealed in a cornei of her cell g st west toronto impossible to and behind it a btrip of dark cloth her sub situte for quloksilver and all for what there are no male hearts to break and few male eyes to see only those of governor ohaplaln and dootor a billet donx while brown is calling on mrs bright a letter is handed in to her whioh she hastily opens ah 1 1 see said brown a love letter oh i it is only from my butcher was the answer i have received many a tender line from him an opportunity missed polonius was a splendid- bit of character work yes but he had his drawbaoks when he started off and said neither a borrower nor a lender be he lost the best chance in the world to show off bis wisdom hows that why he should have gone on and said if thou must do one or tother let it be borrowing theres money inv harpers bszar he wasnt a oneboise preaoher little willie to the minister at the dinner table was tbat your oarrlage yon oame here in i rev mr frontpew why yea little willie there papa he drove two horses and you said be was a onehorse preacher it was bis mistake look here mr higginbotton said the grocer by way of a joke to the old farmer i found this stone whloh weighs five pounds in the bottom of that last orock of butter i bought of you lucy oonsarn ysr ploter this is yonr fault i rejoined the man as he turned to his wife r taint nolther i you handled the crooks i but you must hev mixed em up down cellar no i didnt though the gal probably did shes just that keerloss wall smith ill allow for it the crooks got mixed this was the one we were goin to send to the preachers donation party and ive bin horn swaggled out of a olean dollar i orter hev put a lable on it a blizzard on tue cattlje banges scvaral cowboys fcrlsb ol cold and nan gcr in the snowdrifts one of the results of the terrible blfzzird which swept ever eastern colorado and nor thern new mexico on thursday and friday of last week has reaohed denver from fol- aom n m on thursday night henry miller the range foreman for col r g head with several cowboys camped near sierra grande with 1800 beef cattle whioh tbey were holding for the purpose of loading in cars at i oolook that morning a bliz- zird from the northwest struok the herd driving the oathe toward pan handle texas the cowboys being unable to hold them the snow was bo blinding that it was impossible to see fifty feet ahead miller called his men together and they started to follow the herd and made an attempt to keep them bunched bo far as possible the men became separated on friday night one of them wandered into heads home ranoh half dead with cold and hnnger he told his story and a resonlng party was immediately stnt oat and at noon the frozen bodies of henry miller joe martin and charley solly were found lying on the open plains not far from feltom the other men succeeded in finding their way to camp before being overcome with cold the goat was all bight sec this coat he queried as he entered a york street clothing store the other day yes i soe dot coat vhas sometings wrong i sbonld remark i soe how it is all shrank np i i see how did she come i got oaught out in tho rain oxaotly did i sell you dot coat for waterproof v no but it hadnt ought to shrink up like this dot may be but suppose dot coat swell ont und vhas so big dot she vhas worth two dollars more would you pay me extra 1 of course not oxaotly sho vhas oven if she shrinks yoa doan blamo me if sho swells you doan pay any rnoro please doan block oop der shtore my frendt dls vhas my busy day imitation is sometimes called tho sincere form of flat tery this may account for tho number of imitations of tho original and only pos itive corn cure putnams painless com extraotor all such fall to possess equal merit so when purchasing get the genuine putnams safe sura and palnlets all dtoggiit some newspaper statistios a writer in the london times sets forth some newspaper statistics collected in con nection with the paris exhibition and col lated by la nature according to these germany publishes more periodicals than any other country in europe its number being 5 500 of which 800 are dallies next comes england and then france the total given for europe being over 20000 china has only three journals while japan has 1500 the united states is credited with 12500 of whioh 1000 are dailies these figures however the now york sun points out are those of the census of 18s0 and our contemporary estimates the present number of periodicals in the country at about 19000 of which 1700 are dallies other statistics given by tho times writer are calculated to create doubt as to the accuraoy of any of them for instance athonsls said to have fifty four dailies an extraordinary number for a city of less than 1000co inhabitants it ia stated that in canada 700 journals are published most of whioh aro french this will bo news to moat canadians 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