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-I'd like to sell it back to you for a dollar."

The young woman was looking at the girl thoughtfully, pityingly, but presently she turned her eyes to the wrap, which she had unrolled.

"I guess somebody must have worn it,” she remarked, with a laugh; "it certainly has that appearance."

"I wore it nights," admitted the girl. "When you went out after dark?"

"When I was in bed. It was warm and soft, and I liked it, and I couldn't wear it any other time. Isn't it worth a dollar to get it back? Seems like it ought to be worth something to somebody."

There was a moment of hesitation. Then the young woman pushed the garment away and left the room.

"Mother," she said to the elderly woman she found in the library, “the waif, that I gave my old wrap to the night Harry made me so angry, is here."

"Well?" returned the elderly woman, inquiringly.

"I'm going to order the carriage and go to her home with her," asserted the young woman; "perhaps I can be of some real help."

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how to raise turnips successfully. found out-"Just take hold of the tops and pull." Being young, he wished to marry, and sent 34 1-cent stamps to a Chicago firm for information as to how to make an impression. When the answer came it read, "Sit down on a pan of dough." It was a little rough, but he was a patient man, and thought he would yet succeed. Next advertisement he answered read, "How to double your money in six months.' He was told to convert his money into bills, fold them and he would see his money doubled. Next he sent for twelve useful household articles, and he got a package of needles. He was slow to learn, so he sent $1 to find out "How to get rich." "Work like the devil and never spent a cent." And that stopped him, but his brother wrote to find out how to write a letter without

pen or ink. He was told to use a lead pencil. He paid $1 to learn how to live without work, and was told on a postal card to "Fish for suckers as we do."

MODERN FOOTBALL.

The applicant for a place on the collegt football team was put through a long and rigid examination. Following are the questions asked by the captain and the answers of the applicant:

Q. Age? A. Nineteen. Q. Weight? A. Hundred and sixty-four. Q. Knuckles hard? A. I can crack a boiler plate with 'em. Q. Good biter? A. Bite an iron spike in two. Q. Good kicker? A. Kick a man's lung out. Q. What would you do if you were running toward the enemy's goal with the ball and their crack. player tackled you? A. I would throw the ball to my support, after which I would tackle the tackle.

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you found yourself the under man in the pile-up? A. I would eat my way out. Q. How would you tackle a heavyweight tackletackle? A. I would first butt a hole through his vitals, and before he recovered from the shock I would pick him up and throw him over the grand stand pat. Q. What are the three cardinal indispensables in a football game? A. A doc-. tor, an ambulance and a hospial. Q. Anything else? A. A funeral. Q. You cherish no personal ill-feeling against the members of opposite teams? A. Not in the least. Q. I understand that you know nothing of the technical points of the game? A. That is true. Q. You will do; please sign here.-Boston Post.

APLOGIZING.

An apology must not come too easily. I have a friend who apologises at the lease provocation. "Oh, yes! to be sure. You are quite right. I'm awfully sorry," and in five minutes she will be doing the same thing and rattling off the same formula. An over-issue of paper dollars; they become quite valueless. The superficial readiness to forgive comes under the same category. I once read a letter in which the writer apparently inflicted an injury upon his correspondent. He closed it glibly as follows: "I know you will resent this, but I forgive you freely beforehand!" Of course this coin was counterfeit on its face. Forgiveness and apology, from sinned-against and sinning, must stand for positive sympathy with the other party, or they really become affronts. Forgiveness is a sort of self-blame too; you blame yourself for not having forgiven before, and it is the lack of universal sympathy which lies at the root of both transgressions. You find yourself out of tune like a violin and you proceed to screw yourself up to the proper pitch.-The Whim.

AN ALLEGORY.

Edwin Markham.

There is flying through the world the story of a builder, a foolish eye-servant,

a poor rogue. He and his little ones were wretched and roofless, whereupon a certain good Samaritan said in his heart, "I will surprise this man with the gift of a comfortable home." So, without telling his purpose, he hired the builder at fair wages to build a house on a sunny hill and then went on business to a far city.

The builder was left at work with no watchman but his own honor. "Ha!" said he to his heart. "I can cheat this I can skimp the material and scamp the work." So he went on, spining out the time, putting in poor service, poor nails, poor timbers.

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When the Samaritan returned builder said: "That is a fine house I built you on the hill." "Good," was the reply; "go move your folks into it at once, for the house is yours. Here is the deed."

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The man was thunderstruck. saw that instead of cheating his friend for a year, he had been industriously cheating himself. "If I had only known it was my house I was building!" he kept muttering to himself.

But in a deep sense we are always building our own houses. Each one dwells in the heaven or hell of his own making.

I care not what his temples or his creeds,
One thing holds sure and fast.
That into this fateful heap of days and
deeds

The soul of man is cast.

CONUNDRUMS.

What is the difference between an honest laundress and a dishonest one? One irons your clothes, and the other steals them.

Why is a shoemaker like a true lover? Because he is faithful to the last.

Why are good husbands like dough? Because women need them.

Why are postage stamps like bad scholars? Because you lick them and put them in a corner.

Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.

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ABSOLUTE HEALTH.

Is thought of, dreamed of and occasionally enjoyed by the average individual. Is there any reason why you should not possess perfect health, abundant strength, together with beauty of form and feature? Some people insure for long life?

We are of great value to invalids, but we want everybody who "thinks" and who wishes to improve his mental and physical health to join us. Do you want to attain to the highest degree of manly or womanly perfection? If so, send us 50c and we will make you a member of the League one year, price, 50c, and will send you the thirty-six page magazine monthly, price, 50c, our official organ and a. package of Teethine, the new antiseptic tooth Understand, 50c pays the powder, free. whole bill.

Do not get the idea into your head that we have some quack medicine to sell. We deal only in the Truths of Nature. Act on our motto and DO IT NOW. Address International Health League, 488 S. Salina St., Syracuse, N. Y.

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Health in The Household, Dr Dodds
Hygenic Medicine, Ross,

Vital Science, Robt Walter, M. D.
A Manual of Mental Science, Fowler,
The Temperament, Jacques,
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Brain and Mind, Drayton & McNiell,
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Choice of Pursuits, Nelson Sizer,
Expression, Sir Chas. Bell,

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