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CRISIS OF GIRLHOOD A TIME OF PAIN AND PERIL Mies mma Cole Bays that Lydia B. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has Saved Her Life and Made Her Well. many lives of beautiful young gutar he ‘been sacrificed two as they ripening into womanhood! How many iities or displacemente Laie voce developed at this it period, resulting years of aufering! Miss Emma Cole A mother should come to her child’s aid at this critical time and remember that Lydis B. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound will prepare the system for are and start this try the job In a young girl's life without or irregularities. Miss Emms Cole of Tullahoma, Tenn., writes: Dear Mrs. Pinkham: See hole eee have tar veormrond Sore we for Yrall to Lydia R. Pinkham's Vegetable Com- Oe a La ant Vegetable . Lydia ‘omy ‘was recommended, and fer tal it my health began to improve rapidly, and shi {feared my life sincerely hope my experi e ones will be a help to other girls who are pam asses protuoed to womeshood, for I know your Compound will do as much for them.” If you know of anyirl who is sick and needs aaotherly navine ask her to write Mrs. Pinkham, Lyon, Mass, and she will receive free advice which will put her on the right road to a strong, healthy and key womanhood. Mrs. Pinkham is daughter-in-law of Lydia B. Pinkham and for twenty-five panties been advising sick women Never Trouble Troub ‘Thera cherry little proverts Ta is vary well to heed. In a world where pain and sorrow Are quite plentiful indeed. If you would not have them double, Then keep this well in view To never trouble trouble ‘Till trouble troubles you. ‘Don't think when storm clouds gather ‘You are certain to be drowned. ‘The very darkest tempest ‘May quickly blow around. ‘And up above the bischness Shines evermore the blue. So never trouble trouble ‘Till trouble troubles you. ‘Often dimes gloomy morning Precedes a sunny day. So, without words of warning, ‘Our trials slip away. * ‘What panes we oft have suffered ‘From it is we never know; So never trouble tnuble Till trouble troubles you, Quit counting all the bridges ‘You may never have to cross, Quit climbing all the ridges ‘Of future pain and Las, ‘Trade on and do your duty, To God and conscience true, And never trouble trouble Till trouble troubles you. ' WHEN THINGS HUMMED. “Now, then, Hannah, things are go ing to burn! It was Aunt Judith Wellman who spoke. She had arrived from Indi ana for a visit with her sister in Mich igan, and the pair had been talking for the last hour on the veranda while Farmer Henderson was doing up the chores at the barn. “What do you mean, Judith? was asked, I mean several things. I mean that I have never heard of a case like it. Your Minnie has been old enough to marry for these last three years, and you've let a fellow dawdle around here and make sheep's eyen at her and keep all other fellers away, and yet hasn't ask her to be his, and maybe three more years doing it, I call it a mean shame. When ledy that thinge are going to hum I mean that some body has got to toe the mark mighty soon or get out. You and Elisha ought to have put your foot down long ago.” “You wouldn't do anything to em barrass Minnie?” pleaded the mother. “That's according, I guess the embarrassment will all be on the oth er side, however. Embarrassment is all right in a girl, Hannah, but it shouldn't be carried too far. Both of us were embarrassed when we were girls, but we weren't so much #0 as to kill our prospects of getting married. We knew when our beaux had hung around long enough. Has Minnia ev er given this chap a jog?” “Mercy, no! “Have you or Elisha ever given him a jog?” “Never !” “Then it remains for Judith Well man to do it, and he’s right on deck with both elbows stuck out. It won't be a week before we'll know whether Joel Davie means business or is just sitting around like a bump on a log.” “But you won't—won't— I don't know what I’ll do, except to decide the case one way or the oth er, and you needn't ask questions. I don't believe in folks getting married within a week, and I don't believe in courting for half a lifetime. A fellow either wants a girl or he don't. If he does, let him take her; if he don't, let him a by off and give someone else a chance. ' Minnie Henderson was 20 years old and a recognized belle for 10 miles around. Everybody was agreed that she would make somebody a good wife. She had been “keeping com pany” with Joel Davis for nearly three years. Joel was a bachelor of 27, living on the next farm west. He was steady, sober and industrious, and everybody said that he would make some girl a good husband. But Joel was also bashful and retiring. He was in love with Minnie, to be cute, but that very fact made him tremble in her presence. A hundred times over in the last two years he had resolved to propose, but on each and every occasion his courage bail oozed out of his finger's ends. He that the time must and would come, but whether it would take an earthquake or a cyclone to bring it about he wasn't sure. It was three days before Aunt Ju dith saw Joel. She liked his looks, and that changed her plans somewhat. She hadn't been going to say a word to Minnie, but now she changed about and opened fire with: “Well, I am astonished. So that's the feller that has been hanging around here for half his lifetime, and will probably die of old age on your father’s doorstep.” I don’t know what you mean by ‘hanging around,’ retorted Minnie, s witch a blush and a toss of her head. “Why, coming over hhere two or three times a week to talk shoot and ‘taterbuge, I am surprised at you. What can you see pat Se to encourage era I oT eT al l that if you asked him when the Pil ‘grim Fathers landed he'd fall off the veranda. Minnie Henderson, if you save the girl I take you to be you will send that feller packing this very _Evening.” _ “You misjudge him, Aunty. He doesn't push himself forward, but I assure you that — “I've got eyes in my head,” a snap ped her aunt. “It never takes me over five minutes in size up , man. Joel Davis is an It. He'll always be ten days behind the fourth of July. It's a wonder your father and mother, I have allowed it.” Minnie choked down a sharp an swer and went to her room to cry,and Aunt Judith auntered into the kitchen to say to her sister , “There, now, I've got the thing, started, and you and Elisha have got to turn in and help me, Minnie will cry, and then get mad, and then see Joel, and there'll be a wedding before you know it. Don’t you weaken when the time comes.” Next day Joel came to the house to bring back a bushel basket he had borrowed, Minnie was upstairs and Aunt Judith hiding behind the door, no it was left for Minnie's mother to pay. Joel, I've been wanting to apeal to you for some time, I don’t think you ought to come here as often ao you do.” “W—what ! gasped the lover, as he turned very red. “Your coming here so very often keeps other young men away and dose not give Minnie a fair chance. Of course, she has no thought of mar rying you, 20 it isn't right to waste her time on you,” Joel stared with open mouth, but to save his neck he couldn’t say a word in reply. After making several vain attempts he walked off. On his way home he turned aside and climb ed the fence to speak to Farmer Hen derson, who was working in his Geld. Minnie’s father had been posted and was wasting his opportunity. Joe had stammered out that it was a hot day, and that corn seemed to be look ing up, and that he was afraid that one of his cowe had the hollow-horn, when Elisha finished chilling up a bill of corn, and slowly said, “Joel, they say that there's going ‘to be a heap of windmill and wire fence men along here thin fall, and if any of ‘em want to board with me, for a week or two I [hal] take ‘em in.” “W—why?” asked Joel. “Well, there's Minnie, you know. It's time sho was thinking of getting married. Some of those windmill fellers are smarter than chain light ning and well off to boot. I've always kinder thought I'd like one of them for a son-in-law, Mr. Henderson —began poor Joel, but he had to halt at that. The change in the attitude of the farmer and his wife brought a great fear to his heart and started chills up and down his back. “Minnie ain't looking for a hus band, you know. She don't have to do that, but when the right feller comes along I guess a match will be made. A piano agent the other day asked me if she was engaged, and I told him there wasn't anybody around here good enough. Yes, it's a pretty hot day, Joel, and I shouldn't wonder if tomorrow would be hotter. Joel didn't do any work the rest of the afternoon. He simply sat and thought. The result was that when evening came he headed for the Hen derson homestead. He was going to see Minnie and find out what had happened. It was Aunt Judith who was at the gate when he came up, and she didn't lose any time, waving : “Young man, I guess you've heard of me. I'm Minnie’s aunt. Walk along the road with me while I talk to you. You don't want to force yourself upon a family where you are not wanted, do you?” ’ “Has something happened?” ie antionaly asked. “Well, Minnie’s father and mother have got their wyes open at last. She has been praised 9 sinch that they realize she can make a good match. I don’t care to tell you what the sew ing machine man said today, but you can bet it was something nice. You know you hasn't just the sort of man the Hendersons want fors son-in-law. Minnie may like you in a way, but even it comes to real love that's an other thing . If I was you I wouldn't waste any more time there.” “But I love Minsie ! blurted out Joel, as he was driven to desperation. “But if she don't love you what are you going to do about it? Better give the thing right up and look for some other girl Going home, are you? Well, good-night.’ Try and think I have told you this far your own good. Next day a farmer's little gr brought Minnie a note, and half an hour after receiving it she was in the hickory grove talking with Joel. When she returned to the house she looked pale and acted in a nerv ous manner, but she was not ques tioned. Soon after enpper she plead ed a headache and went to her room, and Aunt Judith and Elisha and Hannah winked at each other. At 9 o'clock the house was quiet. At 10 Aunt Judith entered the spare bed room, where husband and wife sat waiting, and said “Well, it's over with. Joel came to the gate and whistled softly 10 minutes ago and, Minnie, who was all rested, slipped down stake and joined him. He had a buggy down by the barnyard gate.” “And—and ?”——gasped the moth she began to sob. _ “Hannah Henderson, don't be a goose! They'll dive to the preach ery and be married and be back there before the breakfast dishes are washed, Joel's got a wife, Minnie’s got a hus band, and you've got a son-in-law, and that's all there is to it.” or Skeletons of Giants. What archaeologic to declare will edge the mystery surrounding the an cient mound builders was discovered recently in one of a series of hill) along the Illinois river, in that State. The “find” shows traces of handicraft of past agea, and the bones of those who wrought it. Several skeletons were exbaved more than eight feet long, also pieces of remarkable pottery, beads and curious implementa. Un der the bones of the ancient dead were found vases, the largest of which ‘are capable of holding more than two ‘gallons, while under a akoll wan un earthed a bowl, in the canter of which is a well fashioned figure of a king, seated upon a crude throne. It is believed by scientiate that these bones may be those of a great leader of the race that once ruled this portion of the country. Strangest of all articles found with the bones were implements made of bamboo, some of them evidently shaped for purposes of weaving. Countless beads were found in the mound,of #strange material almost white, and possibly made from the boat of potter's clay. Another interesting and curious find ix a eell-shaped dish with a wolf's head, the work on which leaves no doubt that it was carved, even the teeth of the wolf gleaming from it, and an exquisitely executed as some of the ivory carvings of the Japanese. Thousande of persons are being at tracted to the scene of the excavation by the newe the wonderful discoveries. ‘The soil of the mound has never been disturbed and to this fact is attributed the marvelous preservation of the things taken from it. Eminent archaeologists are unani mous in the opinion that the mound ia a pre-historic, burying ground, greater in extent and more perfectly preserved than any yet discovered, and ie a val y unable contribution definitely settling many mooted points. An effort ie being made not only to secure this remarkable find in its entirety for the Jamestown Expraition, but the resulte of investigations de termining the history of the rase and extinct race of people.
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Shepherdstown, West Virginia, US
Thu, Dec 13, 1906
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