1% 8%* INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS, HOT WHAT HE HAD PICTURED HE KNEW HER Athletic Girl Hardly the Domestie Jewel That Fond Fancy Had Pictured. Not long ago a man married an athletic girl, thinking how fine it would be to have a wife who would be able to wait on herself and build the fires, 1 if necessary, and keep the dust demon ss on the jump without bringing on an acute attack of nervous prostration. Said he to himself: "A girl who swims and rows and plays a rattling good game of tennis, not to speak of liter fondness for walking and driving, is sure to be a domestic jewel. If we happen to be without a servant, she She It three o'clock. I'm going can keep the household machinery to my dressmaker. I shan't be more than a quarter of an hour. humming." Somebody must have told that girl she was marrying a man with He-^All right don't forget we are dining out at eight o'clock. money. Anyhow, she hasn't been able I to dress herself without the assistance Why His Mother Mourned. of a maid, and the only time she has William M. Fogarty has a story ever had the broom in her hands was about a good old Irish woman whose one day when she picked it up to hit son was about to start for a trip the cat with. If She'd clean house for around the world. as much as half an hour she'd have to She had watched him prosper with go away to some fashionable springs pride. To her he was a great man. to recuperate. And yet, to look at her, In her fond vision she could see all you wouldn't think she was so delicate.—Exchange. sorts of terrible tidings coming to him but she held her peace until he had started for the journey. Then she be* This Contractor got results. gan to cry. A neighbor tried to console He knew how to feed his men. her, but to no avail. Some years ago a contractor building "I'm afraid he hasn't the money to a railroad in a warm climate was get back," said the mother, weeping. troubled a great deal by sickness "He's got the money to go round the among the laborers. world all right, but how will he ever He turned his attention at once to get back?"—Indianapolis Star. their food and found that they were getting full rations of meat and were Paradoxical. drinking water from a stream near by. "It is a wonder that a hot-headed He issued orders to cut down the man is generally thought to be one of amount of meat and to increase greatly mettle. the quantity of Quaker Oats fed tc "Why a wonder?" the men. "Because metal is usually well tempered." He also foiled Quaker Oats and mixed the thin oatmeal water with their drinking water. Almost instantly all signs of stomach disorders passed and his men showed a decided improvement in strength and spirits. This contractor had experience thai taught him the great value of good oatmeal. 53 Asking Too Much. The mother of little six-year-old Mary had told her a number of times not to hitch her sled to passing sleighs, feeling that it was a dangerous practice. It was such a fascinating -3 sport, however, that Mary could not resist it and one day her mother caw her go skimming past the house behind a farmer's "bobs." Guar®11 When she came in from play she BOUT the middle of was taken to task, her mother saying August, 1862, Company For severely: "Mary, haven't I told you of the One that you must not hitch onto bobs? hundred and fifth Besides, you know, it is against the Sprains Pennsylvania volunteers, law." known as the Mary tossed her head. "Oh," she "Bucktail" regiment, of said, "don't talk to me about the lav/. which I was a private, It's all I can do to keep the ten commandments!"—Woman's was detailed as a Home Companion. bodyguard of Presi­ dent Lincoln and continued in that capacity Teamster's Punishment Earned. until his assassination in the Apparently it pays not to be cruel spring of 1865. During the three years to horses out in Chicago. A teamster of my stay in Washington, the most who admitted abandoning his horses critical period of the nation's history, I «_MV for six hours on a recent stormy day caw and' heard many things that have was fined $50 by a magistrate. The never found their way into the public humane society prosecuted the case prints. Some of the bodyguard were vigorously and promised to report the constantly with the president and his Sloan's Liniment is the best matter to the driver's employers. Presumably family, whether at fashionable levees, remedy for sprains and bruises. he will lose his job, as he receptions to foreign legations or private It quiets the pain at once, and was unable to pay the fine and will interviews. At all such functions can be applied to the tenderest have to serve a jail term. we were silent spectators of all that part without hurting because it took very spirited one, place. We were always treated with the highest belonging to Lamon, doesn't need to be rubbed all Deafness Cannot Be Cured respect by the Lincoln family, who regarded you have to do is to lay it on the marshal of the by local applications, as they cannot reach the diseased us as a part of the household. Every lightly. It is a powerful preparation District of Columbia, portion of the ear. There Is only one way to private of the guard received the same attentions and penetrates instantly— eure deafness, and that is by constitutional remedies. was Mr. Lincoln's Deafness Is caused by an inflamed condition of the relieves any inflammation and congestion, of courtesy as the most famous statesman favorite saddle mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube. When this tube is inflamed you have a rumbling sound or imperfect and reduces the swelling. or diplomat at the capital. We all formed animal and hearing, and when it is entirely closed. Deafless 1 Here's the Proof. a strong personal attachment for the president is the result, and unless the inflammation can be' when he was in the -taken out and this tube restored to its normal condition, and when the grand old man laid down White House staa Mr. ROLAND, Bishop of Scranton, hearing will be destroyed forever: nine cases L. his life in behalf of the cause that had been Out of ten are caused by Catarrh, which is nothing a Pa. says:—"On the of 7th fcut an Inflamed condition of the mucous surfaces. this present month, as I was leaving his life work we felt as if we had lost the chose him. We will give One Hundred Dollars for any caw of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that cannot be cured the building at noon for lunch, I dearest friend we ever had. As horse and rider by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars, free. slipped and fell, spraining my wrist. O. During the first two years of our term of F. J. CHENEY & CO.. Toledo. approached the Sold by Druggists, 76c. I returned in the afternoon, and at service the most rigid discipline was enforced. gate I noticed that Take Hall's Family Pills lor constipation. four o'clock I could not hold a pencil Sometimes we would be ordered to use extraordinary the president was in my hand. I returned home In Bad Shape. vigilance and to let no one enter 4 bareheaded. After I later and purchased a bottle of The Missus—Jim, you've been drink Sloan's the gronnds of the White House without the had asssited him in checking his steed the president tng again! the walk they were to seize, gag and carry him proper passes and to be very particular as to said to me: across the river into Virginia. Thence he was The Mister—Mabel, m' dear, can I who approached the president. Often the order "He came pretty near getting away with me, not tell a lie—I— to be taken to Richmond or some other confederate would come for the guards on duty to didn't he? He took the bit in his teeth before The Missus—Goodness! Then you stronghold, where he was to be held as be doubled. It was seldom that he knew the I could draw the reins." must be worse than I thought. Go to a hostage. The members of the bodyguard direct cause of these extra precautions, but •bed in the other room. I then asked him where his hat was and he always supposed that the conspirators were we supposed that the officers of the secret replied that somebody had fired a gun off down frightened away when they saw our guard tent service were in possession of Information of Free to Our Readers. at the foot of the hill, which scared his horse, and abandoned the plan of kidnapping. some plot that brooded harm to the president and used it five or six times before "Write Murine Eye Remedy Co., Chica« and the lurch of the animal toppled his hat off. Not long after the attempted kidnapping another go, for 48-page illustrated Eye Book Free. I went to bed, and the next day I I led the horse to the cottage where the president Write all about Your Eye Trouble and episode took place, which afterward was was able to go to work and use my Up to 1864, owing to our vigilance and the they will advise as to the Proper Application and his family was staying. There he dismounted found to have been planned by a band of assassins hand as usual." of the Murine Eye Remedies in protecting hand of Providence, our beloved and went in. who made their headquarters in the ity. Your Special Case. Your Druggist will Sloan's Liniment chief had escaped the hand of violence. The tell you that Murine Relieves Sore Eyes. Thinking the proceeding a little strange, a Bourke, the veteran coachman, who had served is an excellent antiseptic Strengthens Weak Eyes, Doesn't Smart, back of the confederacy was broken, a good corporal and I started in the direction from at the White House through Pierce's and Buchanan's and germ Soothes Eye Pain, and sells for 50c. Try feeling pervaded all Washington and consequently It in Your Eyes and in Baby's Eyes for which the report of the gun had been heard, to administrations and thus far into Lincoln's., killer—heals cuts, Scaly Eyelids and Granulation. the strict watchfulness that had prevailed was taken sick and compelled to be off duty. investigate. When we came to the place where burns, wounds and grew into laxity. This was the fatal the driveway meets the main road we found the contusions, and will So Touching. Immediately a stranger, who represented himself period, for it was at this time that conspiracies president's hat—a plain silk hat—and on examining draw the poison Anxious Suitor—But, sir, I thrill at as an experienced coachman from Baltimore, were hatched and confederates overran from your daughter's slightest touch. it found a bullet hole through the corner of applied at the White House and was employed sting of poisonous the city, comparatively unmolested. The president the crown. The shot had been fired upward and insects. Practical Father—Young man, I find as coachman. From the first he was domineering and family spent the summer at the soldier's it was evident that the person who had fired It her slightest touch is usually for a and after a few weeks became so import£ftit 25c., 60c. and $1.00 home, situated about three miles north hundred dollars. had secreted himself close to the roadside. We that he was discharged and Bourke reinstated. Sloan'* baok on of the city, and thither the bodyguard always hone*, cattle, sheep listened and searched the locality thoroughly, but One night shortly afterward, just about dusk, accompanied them. poultry tent Nothing endures but the eternal iice. Adilrco to no avail. the discharged coachman was seen sneaking Dr. Earl S. Sloan, It was in the summer of 1864, while we -commonplace and if one departs from The next day I gave Mr. Lincoln his hat and around the stables by some of the guard. The were up at the home, that an incident hap* Boston, Haas., U.S.A. "that it is to run the most perilous called his attention to the bullet hole. He unconcernedly stables had been locked for the night and it was pened that came very near culminating in risks.—Charles Wagner. remarked that it was put there by some not supposed that he could do any damage and just such an awful tragedy as followed only a foolish gunner and was not intended for him. He consequently the men who saw him did not go CANDID CLAIMS CONVINCE. PILES CURED IN 6 TO 14 DATS few months later at Ford's theater. It was laid, however, that he wanted the matter kept to the stables. Presently the whole interior of P^OmNTMENTis guaranteed to euro any case the custom of the president to remain late at fluiet and admonishea us to say nothing about it. the barns was found to be on fire. The guard There's our belief. We don't say the war department when anything of great was called out and by dint of great exertion we The next fall, after we had taken up our winter that One bottle of Stub-Roo Liquid importance was happening in the army, consulting It's a pity that wisdom doesn't grow saved the president's coach and team, but Tad quarters at the White House, a conspiracy to will cure Any case of eczema. But with the secretary of war and transmitting •on a man like whiskers. Lincoln's ponies and Col. Hay's carriage team kidnap the president was unknowingly frustrated we know that, Properly Used, we and receiving dispatches, and after perished in the flames. by us. Had the truth of the affair leaked out at have in his work was finished he would ride out to Dr. Pierce's Pellets, sman. sugar-coated, easy to the time, it doubtless would have created great Tlie plan was to have this man fire the the soldiers' home. That summer he had persistently excitement. Our quarters were immediately in stables and thus to distract our attention. During refused an escort. Imagining himself front of the south porch of the Executive Mansion, the excitement some of the conspirators were Few men put off until to-morrow perfectly secure. a position which placed us at about equal ready to rush into the White House and murder the meanness they can do to-day. One night about the middle of August I distance from the treasury building on the east the president, but instead of remaining in the was doing sentry duty at the large gate and the war and navy building on the west. 'WHEN YOU'RE AH HOARSE as a crow. When house Mr. Lincoln ran out among us and thus you're coughing and When you've an oldtasbloncd through which entrance was had into the Rasping. For reasons at the time unknown to us we in all probability frustrated another attempt at the sure treatment for all skin dis« deep-seated cold, take Allen's Luna BiSrnam. grounds at the home. The place is situated Sold by all druggists, 25c. 60c and tl.QO bottles assassination. were ordered to move our guard tent and place eases. Behind our hundreds of unaskedfor about a quarter of a mile off the Bladetnsburg it at the west end of the gravel walk, directly testimonials there's this big Fact: What makes this appear more likely now is Pompadours are responsible road and is reached by a devious driveway. in the rear of the war department. While we "Not One Known Failure in 8 Years." the fact that, after the incendiary was arrested many a high-brow About one o'clock I heard a rifle shot in the stayed there nothing occurred to arouse suspicion. If by chance your druggist doesn't he produced several witnesses, who later found afterward direction of the city and shortly Mrs. Wlnslow's Soothing Syrup. Shortly afterward we learned, however, employment at Ford's theater, to testify that he carry Stub-Roo Liquid, send one dollar could hear approaching hoofbeats. In two or For children teething, softens the guns, reau that on the very night after we had moved the was down in the city during the whole of the to us for a big bottle of it, express Summation, allays pain, eurei wtadooUu. 2Sc a bottle. three minutes the horse came near enough so tent the confederates had a plan laid to capture evening. These were the persons who doubtless paid. TeU^us aU about your case--* that in the dim moonlight I recognized the Some local celebrities are famous the president. The conspirators were to hide in Today. planned the final cpnspiracy that brought rider as the belated president. The horse, a «nd some are notorious. Stub-Roo Medical Go. the shrubbery and when the president came along great benefactor to the $rave.~- DuluttC Mina.