Last summer a beautiful girl from town found part of her pleasure in
teaching some little children in a sea-side village how to sew. Her
little class came to her vine-shaded veranda every week, and there she
showed them how to hem and over-hand and fell and back-stitch, and when
work was over she gave them a little treat of candy and fruit. Do you
suppose they forgot her when the long winter came, and don't you think
they are hoping to see her again this summer?

Will you all take notice that if you wish letters answered in this
column you must send them a fortnight in advance of the occasion? It is
impossible for me to answer in "next week's paper" an inquiry which
comes to me on the Saturday or Monday just before an issue. Please give
yourselves and me a little longer time.

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A READY ANSWER.

The poorer classes among the Maltese have a ready wit, if the story told
by a returned traveller is true. An English officer stationed at Malta,
failing to make a Maltese understand what he meant, called the poor man
"a fool." Understanding this much, the man, who had travelled about a
good deal, though he did not understand English, replied by asking, "Do
you speak Maltese?" "No." "Do you speak Arabic?" "No." "Do you speak
Greek?" "No." "Do you speak Italian?" "No." "Then if I be one fool, you
be four fools."

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A POUND OF FACTS

is worth oceans of theories. More infants are successfully raised on the
Gail Borden Eagle Brand Condensed Milk than upon any other food. _Infant
Health_ is a valuable pamphlet for mothers. Send your address to N. Y.
Condensed Milk Co., N. Y.--[_Adv._]

ADVERTISEMENTS.

Arnold

Constable & Co.

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Chudda Shawls

IN TAN SHADES,

from 75c. to 3.50 each.

Less than half price.

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Broadway & 19th st.

NEW YORK.

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Columbia

Bicycle

advertising has for months been conspicuous by its absence. 1895
Columbias at $100--finest, easiest-running bicycles ever produced at any
price--have been doing their own advertising.

For the first time this year we can assure reasonably prompt delivery of
regularly equipped Columbias and Hartfords.

You See Them Everywhere

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Pope Manufacturing Co.

General Offices and Factories, Hartford, Conn.

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