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tion. At all events he has become a great preacher and occupies the pulpit in Grace Church in New York. He has a happy home and a sweet little wife. What more could a man wish 1" "Frances Harrison Hope is an come to the wise conclusion that if there were cooking in the worlel there would be less sickness, and so she has set herself to reform-not the whole world, but a part of it-vin the cooking line. She has established a cook- ing school in New Orleans where rich and poor alike are taught to cook. Not all sorts of so-called fashionable dishes which are absolutely worthless, but the good wholesome things that sus- tain life. She is a very thoroug-h woman and her school is an excellent one. Some of her more lofty-minded friends were in- clined to make remarks about her life work, but me tell you, there is no more praiseworthy career." And the old man glared volumes at a poor innocent fire-fly which happened to fly near him. "On leaving college it was Henr-y Marshall Lankford's determination to become a doctor. He went to the Uni- versity of Chicago, studied faithfully and upon graduation came out at the head of his class. Then he went back to the far-famed eastern shore and put out his shingle in the town of Princess Anne. It is more than that he would have been successful if it had not been [or that he had of making such fiendish faces. It has grown upon him so much that he is con- stantly twisting his face, even when he does not mean to do so. One day he had a very nervous patient, and when he began to examine the man's eyes 'Chem' unconsciously began to make his 'monkey face.' The poor man was so shocked at the sight that he went into convulsions and hac! to be taken to the hospital in an ambulance. I don't think he has ever recovered entirely. That little incident ruined the poor doctor's practice. For lack of something better to do he hired himself to a museum, where he can make 'faces' to his heart's content."