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This is a sentimental story, not a political cartoon. A rural Kansas widow visits a newspaper office seeking an obituary notice for her son John, who has died from overwork on the family farm. The narrative contrasts the woman's humble, dialect-heavy speech ("Ye 'sce, we live out in Cheever township") with the newspaper editor's initial gruffness and subsequent sympathy. John emerges as a dutiful farm boy who supported his widowed mother after his father's death, working himself to exhaustion without complaint. The piece appears designed to evoke Victorian-era sentimentality about rural hardship, filial devotion, and maternal grief. The editor's eventual willingness to publish the notice suggests a moral lesson about kindness and the dignity of working-class lives. This is sentimental fiction, typical of *Judge's* mix of humor and pathos alongside its advertisements.

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PACKAGESOrExpntos Retain BRANCH, 45 Weer St. BOSTON. To LADIES,” tered. Now's your time to get Re ‘ofdery for our celebrated ‘and Coftces. and eccure caatital Gord Wand ose tina Fe Set, Dia eset, “Totiet Set, Wates, Brass Lam Sr Websters ere For eal rae st 7 SHE AREA RFS ie Crosse & Blackwell's, FRESH FRUIT JAMS, Mado ftom English Fresh Fruits AND REFINED SUGAR, Are Sold by all Grocers IN THE UNITED STATES, UNCLE SAM'S CORN SALVE, Certain cure for hard and soft coms, bunions, etc. Contains no poison or injurious substances. Cures without making foot Sore or causing discomfort. By Mart, 15 Cents, ‘JAMES W. STAFFORD, White Plates, N. ¥, Many Imitate, None Equal JOHN'S MOTHER. She Wanted a Suitable Notice in the Paper, and the Editor Gave it. ‘There was a timid knock at the door of the country rinting-office of the Weekly Palladium. Alter the insual "Come in” there entered a faded and bent old lady, whose dress immediately proclaimed her as a resi- dent of the far-back townships. She had a frightened, bewildered look, and her bombazine dress was dusty and wrinkled with the long ride she had taken over the Kansas prairies in her trip to the county-seat. T regretted having called out-so roughly, and apolo- gized. She did not notice my apology, but. asked in a Trembling volce, "Is this the pristin’-ofice 7° "Yes," I replied ; ** what can I do for you?" “Tgaw ye didn’t have nothin’ about John in the i FGia not know John from Adam, and was about to tell her so, but was glad a moment after that I did not. “Ttold the undertaker,” she went on, "‘ter see that the paper knew about it, but I s'pose he didn't.” “No, he never told me, I am sure.” “Ye ‘sce, we live out in Cheever township, an’ ye prob'ly didn't hear of John’s dyin’. I looked fer it in the paper, but didn’t see nothin'.” “I'm sorry ; but if you will give me the facts I will see that it goes in next week,” was the only reply that I could make, “John was an awful good boy,” she began, ‘He was good to me, an’ that’s what counts, When we came west we had kinder poor luck. My husban’ died an’ the other boys left me, an’ with debts on the claim an’ no | money ahead I don’t know what I'd ‘a’ done ‘cept for John, He worked night an’ day plowin’ an’ plantin’ an’ He never had a harsh word for his mother— She stopped to wipe her eyes, and I found it conven- ient to look in another direction. She continued: ‘* He was twenty-five years old, but he looked ten more. He worked too hard. I guess it killed him, but I didn't know he was overdoin', He never complained. He wasn't sick long—just a few I'd have given my life for ohn if the Lord “dave let it be that way. | Vou don't now how lonesome the claim is now. Jest me alone in the sod cabin ; I can't die, an’ it’s only Sorrow to live. Thad John buried on the prairie, so I could go to him ; I'll go to him fer good pretty soon, I hope.” She sobbed a little, and then recovered sufficiently to give me the full name, age, etc., of the dead youth ; after which, her errand accomplished, she left me, to ride home across the prairies to the lonely cabin, If Idid not give John a suitable death-notice the next week, if I did not féelingly portray the unselfish heroism of the boy whose world was his mother and whose am- bition was to aid her in her necessities, it was not be- cause I did not try. I hope I succeeded in bringing a little comfort to the heart of John’s mother, who may be yet waiting to join the noble son buried beneath the carpet of sod stretching away from her door.—Detroit Free Press, days. I done all I could. fin it ‘The Sohmer Piano is an instrument that is an orna- ment to any parlor. 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