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T H E G I R L A T T H E H A L F W A Y H O U S E S T O R Y o r T H BY H O I ' G H . A U T H O R O H T H K S T O R Y A t t l * t c » i f C O W B O Y N e ttf CHAPTER XXV--Continued. Franklin burst open the ,door. and they both went in. half pausing. There was that which might well give them pause. The table was gone, the chairs were gone. The interior was nearly denuded, so that the abode lay like an abandoned house, drifted half full of dry, fine powdered snow. And even this snow upon the floors had no tracks upon its surface. There was no sign of life. Awed, appalled, the two men stood, white and huge, in the middle of the abandoned room, listening for that which they scarce expected to hear. Yet frorii one |)f the side rooms they caught a moan', a call, a supplication. Then from a door came a tall and white-faced figure with staring eyes, which held out its arms to the taller of the snow-shrouded forms and said: "Uncle, is it you? Have you come back? We were so afraid!" From the room behind this figure came a voice sobbing, shouting, blessing the name of the Lord. So they knew that two were saved, anil one was miss- can't say a word to that Nory girl, no matter how I try! Accident sometimes accomplishes that which design fails to compass. One day Sam was detained with a customer much later than bis usual dinner hour. Indeed, Sam had not been to dinner at the hotel for many days, a fact which the district physi­ cian at the railway might have ex­ plained. "Of course," said Sam. "I done the drivin', an' maybe that was why I got froze some more than Cap Franklin did, when we went down south that day." Frozen he had been, so that two of his fingers were now gone at the second joint, a part of his right ear was trimmed of unnecessary tissue, and his right cheek remained red and scarred with the blister of the cold endured on that drive over the desolated land. It was a crippled and still more timid Sam who, unwit tingly very late, halted that day at the door of the dining-room and gazed within. He dodged to his table and sat down without a look at any of I:is iveighbors. To him it seemed t'..:it tall and white-faced figure, shuddering and shivering. "She went away into her room. We could not find the fence any ^ore. Uncle, is it you? Come!" So they came to the bedside and saw Mrs. Buford lying covered with all her own clothing and much of that of Mary Ellen and Aunt Lucy, but with no robe; for the buffalo robes had all gone with the wagon, i men iwbereby scientists refer us to as was right, though unavailing. Un- ! der this covering, heaped up. though insufficient. laV Mrs. Buford, her face white and still and marble-cold. They j found her with the picture of her bus- ! band clasped upon her breast. | 'She went away!" sobbed Mary El- i len, leaning her head upon Franklin's j shoulder and still under the hallucina- tion of the fright and strain and suf- j fering. She seemed scarce to under- j stand that which lay before them, but * the ape) that they are able at will to work back and forth the scalp upon the skull. Yet others and perhaps fewer men retain the ability to work either or both ears., moving them back and forth voluntarily. It was Sam s solitary accomplishment that he could thus move his ears. Only by this was he set apart and superior to other beings. As Sam sat alone at the table, his spoon rattling loud upon his plate in Cam* a tall, white-faced figure. continued to wander, babbling, shiver- ing, as her arms lay on' Franklin's shoulder. "We could not keep her warm." she said. "It has been very, very cold!" > 1 CHAPTER XXVI. The Artfulness of Sam. For a brief time there might have been fonnd support for that ideally in­ accurate statement of our Constitu­ tion which holds that all men are born free and equal, entitled to life, liber­ ty and the pursuit of happiness. With all our might we belie this clause, though in the time of Ellisville It might have had some footing. That day has long since passed. The stamping of the social die had ' of begun its work. Indeed, after a time there came to be in the great dining- room of the Stone Hotel little groups bounded by unseen but impassable lines. evidence of his mental disturbance, he absent-mindedly began to work back and forth his ears, perhaps so­ licitous to learn if his accomplishment had been impaired by the mishap which had caused him other loss. As he did this, he was-intensely startled to hear behind him a burst of laugh­ ter, albeit laughter quickly smothered. He turned to see Nora, his idol, his adored, standing back of him, where she had slipped in with professional quiet and stood with professional eti­ quette, waiting for his departure, so that she might hale forth the dishes he had used. At this apparition, at this awful sight--for never in the his­ tory of man had Nora, the head wait­ ress, been known to smile--the heart Sam stopped forthwith in his bosom. "I-I-I-I b-b-beg your--I-I d-didn't know you was there," he stammered in abject perturbation. Nora sniffed. "I should think you Sam, the owner of the livery barn, } Tnight of knowed it," said she. "I d-d-don't b-b-blame you fer !augh- in', M-M-Miss M-M-M-Markley," said Sam miserably. "What at?" demanded Nora fiercely. "At m-m-my air. I know it's funny, cut off, that way. But I c-c-can't help it. It's gone." &rv had one table In the corner, where he invariably sat. His mode of entering the dining-room varied not with the passing of the years. Appearing at the door, he cast a frightened look at the occupants who had preceded him, and in whose faces he could imagine noth­ ing but critical censure of his own person. Becoming aware of his hat. he made a dive and hung it up. Then he trod timidly through the door, with a certain side-draught in his step, yet withal an acceleration of speed which presently brought him almost at a run to his corner of refuge, where he dropped, red and with a gulp. When Nora stood at his chair, and repeated to him frostily the menu of the day, all the world went round to Sam, and he gained no idea of what was offered him. With much effort at noncha­ lance, he would again wipe his face, take up his fork for twiddling, and say always the same thing. "Oh, I ain't very hungry; jes' bri me a little pie an' beef an' cotide." And Nora, scornfully ignoring all this, then departed and brought him many things, setting them in array about his plate, and enabling him to eat as really he wished. Whether Sam knew that Nora would do this is a question which must remain unanswered, but it iascertain that he never changed the form of his own "order." Sam was a citizen. He had grown up with the town. He was, so to Hpeak, one of the charter members of Ellisville, and thereby entitled to con­ sideration. There was no reason why Sam might not look any man in the face, or any womaQ. But this latter Sam had never done. H1B admiration for Nora bade fair to remain a secret known of all but the one most inter­ ested. Daily Sam sat at the table and listened to Nora's icy tones. Daily he arose with the stern resolve that be­ fore the sun had set he would have told this woman of that which so op­ pressed him; yet each day, after he had dined, he stole furtively away to the hat rack and slouched across the street to his barn, gazing down at his feet with abasement on his soul. "I ain't afeard o' any hoss that ever stood tip," said he to himself, "but I "I didn't," exclaimed Nora hotly, her face flushing. "Your ears is all right. I was laughm' at seein' you move 'em. I beg your pardon. I didn't know anybody could, that way, you know. I'm--I'm sorry." A great light broke over Sam. A vast dam crashed free. His soul rushed forth in one mad wave. "M-M-Miss M-M-Markley -- Miss -- Nory!" he exclaimed, whirling about and facing her, "d-d-d-do y-y-you 1-1- like to s-B-see me work my airs?" "Yes, it's funny." admitted Nora, on the point of another outbreak in spite of herself. Sam saw his advantage. He squared himself about, and. looking solemnly and earnestly in Nora's face, he pulled his right and then his left ear for­ ward until the members stood nearly at right angles to his head. After all, the ludicrous is but the unexpected. Many laugh who see an old woman fall upon the slippery pavement. This new spectacle was the absolutely undreamed-of to Nora, who was no scientist. Her laughter was irrepressible. Sam, followed9 up his advantage roy­ ally. "I can work 'em both to onct!" he exclaimed triumphantly. And did so. "There! Look a-here!" He wag­ gled his ears ecstatically. The reserve of Nora oozed, waned, vanished. Even the sternest fiber must at length succumb under prolonged Her­ culean endeavor. No man may long continuously wag his ears, even alter­ nately ; therefore Sam perforce paused in time. Yet by that time--in what manner it occurred no one may know-- Nora was seated on the chair next to him at the table. They were alone. Silence fell. Nora's hand moved nerv­ ously among the spoons. Upon it dropped the mutilated one of Sam. Nory," said he, "I'd--I'd work 'em all my life--fer-you!" And to Nora, who turned away her head now, not ing. They pushed into the remaining I Nora regarded him with yet more vis- room. "Auntie went away," said the ' ible scornfulness. One by one the guests at the table rose and left the room, and one by one the waiter girls followed them. The dining hour was nearly over. Sam. absorbed in his own misery and his own hunger, awoke with a start to find the great hall apparently quite deserted. It is the curious faculty of some for the purpose of hiding a smile, this seemed always a perfectly flt proper declaration of this man's r+» sard. » "t know I'm no good," murmured Sam. 'Tm a awful cowarq. I l l'ye 1-1-loved you ever sence the fust time that I seen you, but I was such a cowarq, I--I couldn't--couldn't " "Yoti're not!" cried Nora imperi­ ously. "Oh, yes, I am," said "Look at them," said Nora, almost touching his crippled fingers. "Don't I know?" • "Oh, that," said Sam, hiding the hand under the droop of the table­ cloth. "Why, that? I got froze some, a-drivin'." "Yes, and," said Nora accusingly, "how did you get froze? A-drivin' 'way down there, in the storm, after folks. No one else'd go." "Why, yes. Cap Franklin, he went,*" said Sam. "That wasn't nothin'. Why, o'course we'd go." "No one else wouldn't, though." Sam wondered. "I was always too much a coward to say a word to you," he began. And then an awfu] doubt sat on his soul. ' "Nory," he resume?! solemnly, "did ever any feller say anything to you about my--M-I--well, my lovin* you?" "I should say not!" said Nora. "I'd a' slapped his face, mighty quick! What business " "Not never a single one?" said Sam, his face brightening. "No, 'ndeed. Why, I'd like to know?^ Did you ever ask anyone to!" "I should say not!" said Sam, with the only lie he ever told, and one most admirable. "I should say not!" he re­ peated with emphasis, and in tones which carried conviction even to him­ self. "You'd better not!" said Nora. "I wouldn't of had you if they had!" Sam started. "What's that. Nory?" he said. "Say that ag'in! Did you say you wouldn't of had me--you wouldn't of?" His hand found hers again. "Yes," faltered Nora, seeing herself entrapped by her own speech. "Then, Nory." said Sam firmly, cast­ ing a big arm about her waist, "if you wouldn t of had me then I reckon now you do." And neither from this subtlety nor from the sturdy arm did Nora seek evasion, though she tugged faintly at the fingers which held fast her waist. "I don't care," she murmured vague­ ly. "There ain't no coward would of done it!" Whereat Sam, seeing him­ self a hero, wisely accepted fate and ceased to argue. The big arm tight­ ened manfully, and into his blue eyes came the look of triumph. "Nory." whispered he loyally, "I'll never work my airs ag'in for any woman in the world but you!" (To be continued.) TIME TO ACT. i When the back aches and you are always tired o u t , d e ­ pressed and nervous -- when sleep is disturbed by pain and by urinary ills, it's time to act. The kidneys are sick. Doan's __ Kidney Pills cure sick kidneys quickly and perma­ nently. Here's proof. Mrs. W. S. Marshall, R. F. D. No. 1, Dawson, Ga., says: "My husband's back and hips were so stiff and sore that he could not get up from a chair without help. I got him a box of Doan's Kidney Pills. He felt re­ lief in three days. One box cured him." A FREE TRIAL of this great kid­ ney medicine which cured Mr. Mar­ shall will be mailed on application to any part of the United States. Ad­ dress Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. Sold by all dealers; price 50 cents per box. GAVE VP HIGH COMMAND IN MILITIA OF COLORADO TYPES NO LONGER NEE-ED. Printing Is Now Done Without Agency of the Metal Letters. There are three companies in New York and Brooklyn that are about to put on the market devices Tor print­ ing without types. One is capitalized at $10,000,000. The process is as simple as a, b, c. To begin with, a typewriter with the standard key­ board is used to "set up" the copy, not in letters, but in perforations in an endless strip of paper. The com­ pleted tape looks somewhat like the music used In automatons that play the piano. The strip of paper ia passed through a machine which prints, with justification, sheet after sheet of matter of the required size-- a book page or a newspaper. Im­ pressions of this printed stuff are then made upon aluminium or zinc plates as thin as ordinary sheetiron, which are placed with equal facility upon both the bed-and-plated and the cylinder presses. One of these typeless machines is called the "planograph" and another the "lithotype." I have forgotten the name of the third. The principle of printing from plates as smooth as ?lass is this--water and grease won't mix. The text is put on in ink, the basis of which is grease. Enormous pressure is used, the typewritten piece of paper being laid flat upon the zinc plate and placed under heavy rollers. In printing, the ink rollers pass over the entire plate, but leave ink only upon the inked impression, for the rest of the plate--all the spaces be­ tween the letters--is covered with water from a water roller, which ab­ hors ink. As many as 164,000 im­ pressions have been taken from on« plate.--New York Press. Carnegie Dialect. Though Andrew Carnegie's English is singularly elegant and pure, he has at his command a weird Scotch dia­ lect Mr. Carnegie is a student of Scotch words and idioms. He likes to point out the oddities and freaks of his na­ tive tongue. Recently, at a dinner party in New York he. said to a young woman: "So you think you can understand Scots, eh? Well, then, what do we mean in Scotland when we say a per­ ron is just flflsh?" "I don't know. What do we mean?" the young woman asked. "We mean he is a bit of a weed harum-scarum," said Mr. Carnegie. "A weed harum-scarum? What is that?" "It is the same as wowf."<> "But what is wowf?" "Wowf is noon or sal. That is to say, a bit by tne east. Havers, lassie, ha'e ye no Scots at all?" Then Mr. Carnegie laughed and erv plained that a weed harum-scarum, and flflsh, aud wow, and nook, and sal, and by the east all signified the one thing, "crazy."--Minneapolis Tri­ bune. Economy Extraordinary. W. W. Young, who had listened to some remarks on economy, told of a boy who carried the sentiment to ex­ cess. "I saw the lad in front of a gro­ cery store in a little town," said he. "He had a big green pepper in his hand and the tears were rolling down his cheek. The green pepper showed the imprints of his teeth. I asked him what was the matter and he said, 'It burns.' "'Why are you eating it, then?' I asked, and he blubbered out, 'Well, I thought It was an apple when I bought it. I guess it ain't any apple, but I paid two cents for it an' I have to eat it, anyway.' "--New York Times. How to Transplant the Arbutus. The question has often been asked: "C-ln the arbutus be transplanted?" And we answer: "Yes, it can." If >ou have an old pine stump in your yard, so much the better; but if not, in the fall, find some isolated root, and dig a large circle about it, dis­ turbing as little as possible the roots In the lifting, and set out in some shaded southern exposure; or, better still--if you have it--on some south­ east bank, where it will get the morn­ ing sun and the warmth but not direct glare of the afternoon sun; and my word for it, if you have been very careful in the lifting you will be greeted next spring with the dainty little beauties in your own yard.--Na­ tional Magazine. Under the caption, "The Union Pa­ cific Railroad and Louisiana Terri­ tory," the new World's Fair folder is­ sued by the advertising department of the Union Pacific, which has attracted such general attention, recites these interesting facts: "While the construction of the Union Pacific Railroad, its trials and triumphs, are a part of the history of the United States, the important part played by this railroad in the develop­ ment of the Louisiana Purchase can hardly be estimated. In the building up of this vast domain it has been one of the chief factors. One hundred years ago the popula­ tion of the region was estimated at 20,000. Up to the inception of the Union Pacific (in 1860) it had in­ creased to 3,233,529. In 1900 it num­ bered over 13,000,000 of inhabitants. In this wonderful growth, with its stu­ pendous increase in all the many-sided phases of commercial, material and intellectual prosperity, the Union Pa­ cific--as a glance at the map will show--has had a conspicuous share. It has opened vast regions of fertile country to settlers, and brought great areas of an unknown and unproduc­ tive wilderness into close communion with metropolitan centers and mar­ kets. Thriving cities, towns and ham­ lets, through its efforts, have sprung up in every direction. It may be of interest to know that the total number of manufacturing plants, and the value of their outputs, combined with that of the national products as reported in the census of 1900, give an aggregate production for the Louisiana region of $3^00,000,000 annually, or 223 times the original pur­ chase price. The same census reports (1900) also show the total population to be 13,343,255, of which 8,303,096 in­ habitants are living in the states and territories reached by the Union Pa­ cific. On the 1900 census figures, it is estimated that the true wealth of the Louisiana purchase can be stated at about $13,051,868,359, of which $9,360,- 621,387 is represented in the states reached by this great railroad." Rejoiced at Lincoln's Act. At a meeting of the Bostonian So­ ciety in the Old State House, Boston, W. Parker Jones told how Edward W. Kinsley took the news that President Lincoln had signed the emancipation proclamation to Gov. John A. Andrew at the State House, and said that the two men immediately danced about the room and sang. Then they joined in grateful prayer. Book Long Unappreciated. The late Dr. Samuel Smiles' "Self- Help," a book fated to sell by its millions and be translated into almost evefy European language, lay un- printed for six years in its author's desk condemned by publishers. It was printed and published finally at Dr. Smiles' expense. Important to Mothers. Kwnrtne carefully every bottle of CA8T0BU* a aafe and rare remedy for Infanta and children, and see that it Bear* the Signature of la Dae For Over 30 Years. Ttie Kind You Bam Alwajr* Bought. Motor Care for Railway. The department of trafbc of the Bavarian government has requested a number of prominent firms to submit bids for the delivery of motor cars to be used on the Bavarian railway lines in connection with the present steam service. / Aaic Tonr Dealer For Allan'* fmt-EHc, A powder. It rests the feet. Cures Corns, Bunions, Swollen, Sore, Hot, Callous, Aching Sweating Feet and Ingrowing Nails. Allen's Foot-Ease makes Dewor tight shoes easy. At all Druggists and Shoe stores, 25 cents. Ac­ cept no substitute. Sample mailed FRF.II. Address Allen S. Olmsted. Le Roy, ,N. V. Steal $10,000 From Museum. Several gold and silver objects of historical interest, valued at £1,930, were recently stolen from the Arch­ aeological Museum at Grosswardeln, In Hungary. Trust men, and they will be true tc you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.--Emerson. All Up to Date Housekeepers use Defiance Cold Water Starch, because tt is better, and 4 oz. more of it for same money. Young man, if you don't believe that kissing is unhealthful, just let the girl's papa catch you at it. Canada is au Indian word, meaning "collection of huts." * Sherman Bell, adjutant-general of the Colorado state militia, who will resign because he declares the troops are "degraded to the use of corpora­ tions," was a Rough Rider under Roosevelt and made a reputation for bravery at San Juan. Previously he had been a cowboy, and still retains a cowboy's manners. He has been mining, superintendent at Cripple Creek, and, though anti-union, is popu­ lar with the miners. SHELLFISH MAKE GOOD TRAPS. ! MOROS KILL MANY FILIPINOS Many Instances Where They Have Brought Death to Victims. The familiar story of a mouse being trapped by a live oyster, though curi­ ous, is not the only instance of the kind. The great naturalist Frank Buckland records the story of a rat Fifty-Three Men, Women and Chil dren Slain While Asleep. A report has been received at Ma nila from Camp Overton, on the isl­ and of Mindanao, dated May 15, stat­ ing that a massacre had taken place on May 12, near Malabang, on the which was caught by the same appar- i southern coast of Mindanao. ently harmless shellfish. Some years I Fifty-three Filipino men, women and ago a common rail was found dead on the shores near Penzance. Its beak children, the families of employes of the United States military govern was tightly caught in the clutches of I ment at Malabang, were surprised at an oyster, which was still alive. The bird and oyster were removed and mounted. An even more queer case was that of a small salt water fish which was found in a pool in the rot ks caught firmly by an immense mussel. One would think that the mussel must have been pretty sharp in closing his shell. A story is told of a colored man who was caught in a similar fashion. He put his tongue into a half opened oyster to get the juice and the oyster caught him tight by the tongue. Jupi­ ter, when released, was chaffed by his friends. "Why, the oyster couldn't have hurt you," said one, "for he hasn't any teeth." "No," replied Jupi­ ter, "mebbe not, but de Lawd knows dat he have turrible hard gums."-- New York Herald. midnight while asleep by the Datto Alis and a band of Moros from the HONORED BY HIS CHURCH. Dr. Henry Chosen Moderator by Pres­ byterian General Assembly. Rev. Dr. James Addison Henfry, who was elected moderator of the Presby­ terian general assembly, in session at Buffalo, is a distinguished clergy­ man who has published many ad­ dresses and sermons. He was born October 25, 1835, at Cranbury, N. J., where his father had been pastor of the Presbyterian church thirty-seven 'years, and was educated in the Col­ lege of New Jersey (now Princeton). Dr. Henry has been pastor of the Princeton Presbyterian church at Philadelphia since 1860, and has rep­ resented the church in several pan- PHIUPMw lit/VN&l w (Map of Philippine islands, showing loca­ tion of Malabang marked by star.) Rio Grande valley and slaughtered. The chief and his followers escaped before the alarm could be given. IJk Methodical John Bright. John Bright had a curious method of guarding against any failure of memory or language in his public speeches. When he had to deliver a speech of importance he wrote* a sort of essay on the subject and tore it up. He then wrote another and treated 4t in the same way, and finally a third In this way he considered that he had not only exhausted his own thoughts upon the matter in hand, but had gained such a command over the language in which It could be ex­ pressed that he could never be at a loss for the right word. Presbyterian councils. He is a.^rus- tee of Princeton university and of the Theological seminary. Jockey's Mind Is Wrecked. Physicians are puzzled over the case of Jockey Minder, who was in­ jured in a fall from Rathskeller at Churchill Downs on May 10. He suf­ fered a severe wound in the head, rendering him unconscious for several days. He is npw recovered, but his mind has played a queer prank. He is as a child of 6, and recalls none of the twelve years on the turf or the six years before he first secured em­ ployment as a stable boy. He wants toys and can only be induced to take medicine by the offer of a nickel. May Have Been Fumes of Cider. Col. John W. Vrooman, at a dinner the other night, described the expe­ rience of a visitor to Herkimer who had imbibed freely on his way there. He accosted one of the citizens of the town and asked him 'some ques­ tion. The citizens leaned over and got very close to the stranger. "Why are you getting BO neaf me?" said the stranger. "Because this is Sunday; all the saloons are closed, and your breath is mighty consoling."--New York Times. Yale's Graduating Class. Of this year's graduating class at Yale numbering 313, 112 will go into business, eighty-five into law, twenty- four Into medicine, twenty-five into teaching, nine into the ministry and twenty-six will do special work. Intelligence of Horses. Broad-headed horses are the clever­ est. In cavalry regiments it has been noticed that horses with broad fore­ heads learn their drill more rapidly Uuu the others. An Expensive Sport. Auto boat racing is an expensive sport. The boats cost from $10,000 to $25,000 each. If they cannot win races they are not much use, as they have no accommodations on board ar.d are uncomfortable boats to be out in, except in the smoothest kind of weather^-To run them a pint of gaso- line is issued for each horsepower an hour. A hundred horsepower motor will nse about twelve gallons an hour, and gasoline is worth seven cents a gallon. Youthful "City Father." A1 B. Mauff, the youngest member of the Denver board of aldermen just elected, was born In Chicago thirty- four years ago. He went to live in Denver with his parents when but four years old. Age of Sierra Nevadas. The age of the Sierra Nevada moun­ tains, the youngest of the American ranges, is estimated at 3,000.000 years by Prof. Lawson of the University of California. _. " to Tw®nty-five Ladle*. OK , , 08 8tarch Co. will give 25 ladies a round trip ticket to the St. Loum Exposition, to five ladies ifl each of the following states: Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas and Mis­ souri who will send In the largest number pf trade marks cut from a ten-cent, 16-ounce package of Defi­ ance cold water laundry starch. This means from your own home, any­ where in the above named states. These trade marks must be mailed to and received by the Defiance Starch Co., Omaha, Nebr., before Sep­ tember 1st, 1904. October and Novem­ ber will be the best months to visit the Exposition. Remember that Defi­ ance is the only starch put up 16 os. (a full pound) to the package. You get one-third more starch for the same money than of any other kind, and Defiance never sticks to the iron. The tickets to the Exposition wlil be sent by registered mall September 5th. Starch for sale by all dealers. The publishers of The Reader Mag­ azine have in their June nhmber made good their promise of enlarge­ ment and improvement. This Is the fourth issue since the Bobbs-Merrill Company mo,ved the magazine west, and in that time they have practically made it over. With its ne^ conven­ tional cover, in browns and blues, its w^ll proportioned page, its cMir type «id soft-toned paper, The Reader is mechanically as handsome as magazine in the country. any Kubelik Flees from Admirers. Kubelik, the violinist, has bee® al­ most as much embarrassed by his enormous success in Paris as was Paderewski in certain cities in this country. He had to leave the build­ ing where he gave his concert a day or two ago by a side door to escape the enthusiasm. prominent Mrs. Danforth, o! St Joseph, Mich, tells how she was cured of falling of the womb and Its tccompanyifig pains and misery byLydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. " DKAB MRS. 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