Cuba.” “Will it ever end ?”’ she asked, | been his parting directions to Windom. ‘I | And it was there. Coming in floods, the
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up the war till she has to and meanwhile : vas FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN,
y these things go on.’” “it is all so terrible.” | will send word somehow, and You had bet- | like of which is never dreamed of in our ; Lr
ra “It is not war, Senor, it is simply mur- | “God only can tell,” he said bitterly. | ter not show your face in Havana till the | Northern country. It dashed and poured | White gloves will continue the most
rE {der “What is it, Jose?’ as the man brought | steamer is about to start. I can get you off | in torrents over everything. It shut out | fashionable throughout the season for all
Bellefonte, Pa.. J I “You use the right word, Miss—what the coffee. ‘Will Senor Adolfo step out | then, but I can’t promise to keep you safe | the glare of the fire as a gray wall. The | dressy occasions. ~ At the same time black
eliefonte, Pa., June 26, 1896. may I call you ?’? Dick asked, as she dried | here a minute,’’ said Jose, whose dark face long in the city.” So Dick stayed. His | flames lay down under it and died. The | Will be a good deal worn. The champagne
BREE === | his hands. : looked ghastly in the lamp light. His | host had told him in confidence that he | beaten palms tossed beneath the hissing | shade of tan has the preference over all oth-
OLD MEMORIES. = ‘‘Anita Varona is my name,’”’ she re- master, startled, followed to the back of | feared none of them would be safe much deluge. Crash upon crash of thunder deaf- | ers for ordinary use. —
Ware plied, simply. “Now I must go. Is there | the garden, where two of his men had | longer, as feeling ran high sion all those | ened, and the lighting blazed, playing up —
Pop gin | A anything you want ? I will have a little | been working on a summer house in the | suspected, of helping the surgents. ‘‘I|and down the balcony pillars, till Dick Much more pleasing than the ordinagy..
Ther 3 Talore ee he old love, fever remedy used by we Cubans. It may | cool of the evening. Both lay dead. One | shall go to the United States‘and claim | drew Anita into the library and shut to the cheap frame for pictures is a frafe made of
Toc ie te, She do good.” Onibis side with hands thrown out, the | redress,” he said. The roc) elim windows. All night it rained, and in the nicely marked pine, stained by rubbing fn.
“Anything IT want? I should think so,” | other staring up at the solemn moon with | workmen had terrified the whole family, | grey of the morning a messenger knocked
ToarBitted sway so fist. ejaculated Dick. ‘‘So much I can’t begin | blank unseeing eyes, a bullet through his and the servants huddled together, talking | at the door. Diaz opened it, a man hand-
to it with a woolen rag hronze-green oil
paint, thinned with turpentine. This
When our old-time friends have left us to name it.” brain. lin frightened whispers. About noon the | ed him a despateh, and dropped on the aint, thus applied brings out, all the
And we ore quite forlorn ; ? “Anything I can give, I mean,” Anita| “Who did thls?” Don Adolfo said, in | head domestic knocked on Dick’s door. , | floor. ; of the a of os giving a
We think of the fragrance of last year's rose, responded, a faint smile lighting up her | horror. oo |#¥Come in” said Dick. “They shot me just below here, and pleasing effect. The frame should be fin-
Forgetting about the thorn, dark eyes. “Two Spaniards walking across the fields | “Senor Windom,”’ the man began, ‘‘our took my horse, but I promised to bring ished by a narrow burnished gilt headin
We sadly dream of the old days “What are the chances of our being set | stopped and shot them down, and I don’t | master has gone away and we do not think | you this ,and I have.” His head fell forward | or molding which inay be purchased by the
That, long ago, passed by cd free 2’ he asked. know why they did not shoot me, for I | he will return. It is not safe here now, | and Diaz closed the eyes. | foot at a reasonable price.
“Not very excellent, I fear, Senor. Two | came up and demanded “Why 2’ ‘Oh,’ | and we have all decided to go back into| Half an hour later the volante came
other prisoners were also brought yester- | they said, ‘we have so many charges of ani- | the hills this afternoon to join Pepe Roque | round to the door. Dick and Anita, with
day, said to be a Frenchman and an Amer- | munition given us, and have to show it | the leader of ‘the insurgents, you know.’ | the valuables, entered it. Diaz mounted
Forgetting the pain, that, in them we knew,
For their pleasures alone we sigh.
The latest occupation in which women
The old earth is full of beauty ican, and sent to the Cabanas Fortress for | has been used to some purpose.’ ’ | Dick nodded. ‘‘Do you object ? There | behind, and they droveaway through the oe Pad fas Ce aly tery
And treasures, rich and rare. trial by the marine court-martial.’ ‘Great heavens” exclaimed Adolfo, “and are two old negroes who will stay.”’ softly falling showers. Don Adolfo had the wonder is that they have dou it
We will speed, on wings of hope, away “There were I” said: Dick. “1 say, they call this war. It is simply the niost “No, go along, you are perfectly right. | nor heen permitted to return to his beauti- | before. It seems to be one $0 Which Woo
er the fields so full and fair, Miss Anita, excuse me, but couldn’s you | atrocious murder.” | Miss Varona and I leave to-morrow, prob- | ful home, and he felt as if he never cared | are peculiarly adapted. Several youn
Tr Ga get me into a better place than this? I “It is, Senor,” said Jose. ‘Shall I have (ably. You had better take care of your- | to see it again. ; I onion have Yately rradvated Iy oie the N 8
em, let us bravely arouse ue, never can get well in this furnace. It is | the men buried 2” ! selves.” | Four days more saw them in Philadel- | York College of Pl Fina uated 1 an ew
And drive sad dreams away ; hotter than Hades,’ . ‘Of course,” replied his master, returr- { “Very well, Senor ;”” and the man bowed | phia, out of sight indeed of the horrible | Ail olicne oy my and 1 is under
fmproving the moments as they pass, “‘Does the Senor know about that 2’ she ing to the house, saddened to the bottom | himself away, and by 5 o’clock Dick Anita, | scenes enacted m that exquisite island of y Stood a yore Tk 5 a 2 ; to encourage
We'll live in the glad to-day. : asked with a little girlish mischief. of his heart. He was glad to find that all | old Andres and his wife were the sole occu- | Cuba, but not away from the memories | WO™Men drug clerks in this State.
= V. Toone: “Are you a regular nun?’ Do they | had retired. He could not sleep himself, | pants of the deserted plantation. Anita | that forever sadden those who have looked | 0
—— nurse people at the convent?” the young | and paced the veranda long into the night. was sitting on the veranda, her lap full of | on war. Habitually eating soft foods, even soft
ALAS! POOR CUBA! fellow asked, wisifully. His beautiful home was ruined for him. | moon-flowers, which Dick had gathered ame | bread, to the exclusion of everything that
2 | “I am not a nun at all, really,” she Dearly as he loved this perfect island, he | from the lattice, for he tried to keep her Silver In Mexico. | Is hard or crusty, is not only weakening to
BY L. ¢. Ww. | said, smiling, ‘but they think I am to be. felt he must leave it, never perhaps to r2- | thoughts turned away from the horrors so Tndsr BO 1, who bas Tived the digestive organs, but it leads to the
Hot was no word for it ! Dick Windom | come one. I myself know it will never be, | turn. He would go back to his family in | close around them. Everything was in | Alexanc or I Spe 3 30 has yes | rapid decay of the teeth. When these are
tossed to and fro on his hard little bed, in | but at present it is the only way to be pro- | the States. readiness for a start any moment. in Mexico since 18830, Fives Ji view ® 9 not used in the mastication of harder foods,
a small room, into which some unwonted tected. Would the Senor be able to goin | Dick rallied fastin his new surroundings, | “It feels as if a tornado was coming, it | he mi eradiiinne 0 y ab San a3 | the teeth become covered with tartar, and
spark of humanity had carried him when | a carriage to a plantatien a little distance | and Was soon out on the verandas. ard | is so still,” said Anita, and indeed the big | 1€ aC t Es 1s pews POUEY | sometimes loosen in their sockets, or the
attacked by the terrible Cuban fever. It from here? There is a gentleman, an Amer- | then about thie place with Don Adolfo and | banana leaves hung limp in the suffocating y T08 1] Un en ver ag tay 0 Sinee | £0MmS will bleed. I have been surprised
is a blessing even a spark of humanity had | ican citizen, who I think is safe from raids { Anita, who had discarded her nun’s robes | heat, the palms held their proud crests mo- | ave been a resident of Mexico since | that dentists did not look into this matter
been found in the heart of his Spanish | and might perhaps take him if he knew.’ jad appeared to be regaining, as young | tionless, and a low movement as of thun- | Lis. Ww hep 1 i Tu ere, fhe do | more carefully. The use of hard bread and
jailer, and confirms usin the belief that | “I’d take the chances ; as well die in! elastic natures will regain, much of her i der occasionally made itself felt in the air. [een ver fine RL was log 0 3 of | Other substances requiring thorough masti-
some kindly feeling exists in every human | the attempt as stay and burn up here. | former brightness. “1 will go and look down “the road,” i exchange AouY i way af te pe | cation will do more to preserve the teeth
being if we are only lucky enough to strike | Ah § there comes the wind I’ The screen “What good angel prompted you to help said Dick, who was restless. “Your cous- | o Der oom In nn Sfvor it 2 4 or! | than all other things put together. It will
it. Dick apparently had struck it, or | was moving, and the first faint cool cur- | me in my extremity, and bring me here’ | In may send sooner than wo think.’”’ : ard t. hee len, i ug RL ® demoneti- also tend to keep them clean, and by insur-
else he would still have beén sharing the | rents crept in, forerunners of the blessed | asked Dick of his young companion, one | “Don’t he gone long,” pleaded Anita 3 apo > Sl > Sy Shines Jove Sn Ing good digestion, it will help to make the
miserable accommodations granted all | breeze that soon came stealing over Dick’s | day, as from his hammock he watched the | “and oh, do take care! Old Romero said | rent i rate or Se ange: i rng the breath fresh and pure. Those who suffer
those unfortunate Americans who had been | hot cheek. He stretched his arms out as if | feathery palms blowing in the afternoon | he thought there were Spaniards about’ | famine oo rich existed t 0 Ww ine period | prom, indigestion, instinctively reject the
captured by the Spanish man-of-war Masa- | to embrace it, and Anita looked pityingly | breeze. "“‘I never should have recovered | Dick passed down the stately avenue of Jom 19 to Ins They Cl of all | softer, sloppy foods, as they are apt to
gera, just a week before this hot morning | at the white forehead from which the fair, | but for your kindness.’ ‘palms, than which nothing could he more : e ng i! oT J Ss g oso Was | make disturbance almost as soon as swal-
whereof we write. The heat was intense ! wavy hair was brushed back. His lips | “I don’t know, Senor,” Anita said, rath- | beautiful. Their neighbor’s sugar planta- a vom the Hite 0 ta €S, the rates | jo\veq, They instinctively give preference
Every window in Havana was shaded, and | were parched with fever. rershyly. “I was just informed that my | tion ran close along side, and the cane was } lange Te $i iy 4) per cent. | t, the harder or more solid foods, those
closely, too, ‘by bamboo screens ; no one | ‘The Senor shall be taken away to-mor- | cousin Don Adolfo was in Havana. T almost ready for cutting. Its tassels stood j at Pn o ne = 23 0 i | that require thorough mastication and in-
appeared in the streets sbut those whose row, ‘if I can arrange it. Adios.” She | wanted to go back with him. You were | high and still in the evening light. Two 1 oo pa DD ri haul 4 her salivation.
duty rendered it imperative, and the un- | drew her veil, Ana eA hig alone. | So Taisen lp a fo 25 that LL pos want le doe)sing ig Jadeonly os and suffered less than any other | —
* lucky ones who did have to brave the heat- | No one did Dick see all the next ong, | toleave you. What else could I do?’ emerged from the canes a8 Dick. leaned | country. v ah Silvers A roliahis g andralt ios fol.
ed fe nly and glaring sunshine dressed weary day, except the usual rough attend. | “I don’t know j you ran a big risk, and | against a magnolia, gazing about him. oe le San Of the as or a ln a es
as coolly as possible, and bore a white um- | ants of the jail, and the quiet passing in | for a stranger.’’ - | They leered, but said nothing, and went Dope ig eading iv exam beep ett amitonia, one dees. o sulphuric ethol
brella. “Oh, for a sea breeze,” groaned | and out of the sister who visited there| ‘You have neverseemed like a stranger,” | on, turning off on a road running back of { So ele ao Le uienL, a A A Te rectified Spits of wine, tre
Dick, trying in vain to find a cool place on | daily. Detained by something the day be- | she said, softly. .. both properties. Dick shuddered, he Shanice > A ag n i it us nA a ounces ; rose water twelve onnces, Rub
his pillow. But it would be hours yet he- | fore, Anita had been sent to take her place, | - “And I trust I never may,” rejoined | hardly knew why, and returned to the | ambe, : 4 ed oh Ty ane He hd bi the head until a lather is produced
fore the wind from the ocean poured its | and Dick was to profit by it. A priest ac- Dick earnestly. house, to find Romero had served their | Sr an is : i Ie The me gi | then rinse in warm water. Use this a week
blessed coolness along the broad streets of | companied Sister Maria to-day, for one of | ‘There is my cousin on the lawn ; les us | light repast on the veranda, and Anita was ed o : Of 4 ou af lor S € fpeRs 0 for good results, :
the city, rustling the hot motionless trees, | the prisoners was dying and had asked for | join him,” said Anita, rising. They all | watching for him anxiously. She seemed | manufacturing the ming and other ma- | 2 :
{8 Bo J le | a
and lifting the bamboo screens, till the | final absolution. The two black-robed fig- | sauntered down the avenue, and were | to share his feeling of some intangible ter- | Shay fo x oi Phere Wasa large and i
languid inhabitants looked out once more | ures looked into Dick’s room. : | standing at the gate, when they noticed a | ror. : : | Fins a In t al sy on The woman who has equal regard to her
with freshened fices. Meanwhile the sun | “Does the Senor wish to confesss?’’ | little band of men up the road. Two men, | “Do you know,” she says, ‘‘Diaz has | Which was formerly supplied by the Uni- | laundress’ bill and her own appearance
shone on. What.a fool he had been to | asked the priest, and Dick had picked up | not soldiers, carrying workmen's tools, | come back? He wants to go with us to- | ted States. £ this + eu | does not wear one shirt, waist steadily until
come on such an expedition anyway ! Yet enough Spanish to understand. He shook | were walking towards this band, when a | morrow to the States. He says he has no | The success o this venture gy bs reals [16 1s soiled. She keeps at least two in con-
his motives had been good. He had just | his head. “I’m not so far gone as that.’’ | shot was fired, One of the workmen flung | one here to leave ; all are killed ; and he | ized when is known that the capital stock | gag circulation, as’it were, alternating
raduated from a medical college, and, | The priest held up the cross. Dick raised | up his hands and fell, the other dropped | thinks he can get ahead better there.’ | Was increased to $300,000, and that the fthom, = A shire west with a removable
i of the terrible suffering "Cuba, his hich hand Ay pointed upward with | his tools, bounded over the fence Ry “Very likely he can,” says Dick, ‘and | Gomieny Som a ore recently Ei 2 | collar may be made to seem perfectly fresh,
had felt inclined to try his hand at reliev- | a gesture of dissent. Adolfo’s grounds, and disappeared in the | yet I wish he had not come back to-night. | ‘arge gon Of mac ne mn he 101 | if it takes turns with another one and is
ing it, at least a little. He was not afight-| “Protestant I” the priest shrugged his | thick underbrush. | Why didn’t he go and get on some of those | SUL ange rn this ys 1e4P | aired and pressed on Its vacation days.
ing man by principle, and believed in arbi- | shoulders and passed on. “Let him dje in “What made you kill that man?" de- | steamers coming in with Insurgent supplies | oo le : " wv = Yas Te Y Dpur-| Clean collars each day in hot weather are a
tration. His sympathies were with the | his sins.” Dick turned his face to the | manded Don Adolfo, as the soldiers came | at Mariel 7 : Chased bis . ne > Migs an Lr | necessity.
insurgents, of course. Most young sym- | wall. Had Anita forgotten him, or had carelessly on, leaving the dead body in the | “I don’t know,” replies Anita, and then | Now manufactured in gaoxico. At Chi- | —
Boa J 2 | : ; { a AT huahua a cannin establishment with a | Someti y : -e th
thies inclined that way. It is natural to | she not been able to carry out her plan ? | dust, and pausing before his gate, ‘‘he was | silence falls between them as the twilight ! 4 g 4 mel Sometimes stout women move the arms
the young to believe in Te divine right of | The heat was terrible j evening approached, | just a plain countryman, doing no harm.” shadows gather, and the bats came out, sepiel 8 31,0000 now being organ- | gracefully, but the body has an utter lack
self-government, and to want to reform old | and Dick ‘could see the great red moon | “Bah!” exclaimed the leader of the | Wheeling around their heads. The thun. | ized for the purpose of preserving meats | of liberty and free motion or suppleness.
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abuses. But Dick, havitg had a Christian hanging in the hazy sky. He could also troop, “‘all countrymen are suspects. We | der still mutters, and the absence of the | and fruit, and a large brewery with a capi- | Drawing her corsets tighter never did make
education, honestly believed that war was | hear music and laughter in the adjoining | have orders to spare none.’ | stars shows the clouds overhead are becom- mo $200,000 i Dern put in hun, a stout woman less stout in appearance.
wrong. So he put his name down as doc- streets, for the theatres kept open, despite “You carry out your orders well,”” said | ing denser. : : i et er Satins I ve eon The first care is not to lace too tightly, the
tor on the Swift, and everybody knows she | the misery of the many, and men crowded | Don Adolfo, sarcastically. | “Do you see a light over De Soria’s o abs de and are in on mpis si n second is to banish all ideas of being stout
was captured. Of course, in time, the pris- | together, joining in the reckless merriment | “‘Besides,” said another brutal looking | plantation 2’ asked Anita suddenly. the northwestern part of Mexico a rai road | from your mind and let the muscles have
oners would he released. No one heliey with not a thought that eternit might | soldier, ‘‘we are fined if. we have no bodies | + ‘““What.can it he 2’ says Dick, going to | Will be built within the next year TUnNnIng | a5 free play as possible. All women can
an American citizen could be confined id overwhelm them rn the next Ho 30 show for each charge of ammunition, | the end of the veranda and looking out to- | from El Paso to a point south of Corralitos, learn to use their bodies gracefully, even if
long, much less drum-martialled and shot, | four hours. and we don’t choose to pay. I killed that | ward the sugar cane; now bending their | & Signe of 250 miles, Opening ap a hun there is a predisposition to stoutness.
though such rumors had been heard with- | Dick lay still, -the consuming fever was | man ; he is my twentieth to-day. I've | heads towards them in the light breeze that | try rie Th od ma > Stout women are acknowledged to be the
in the prison walls. But the fever, | burning him up, and again his restless | quite a little pile of. the hodies back there | has sprung up. ! ai oh bh it Les » ll dE dancers; and there is no reason
deadly a foe as rifle or machette, had at- | brain wandered to his New England hills, | if You want to see thém,’’ with a Jeer. i Fire! Fire! by Jove, Anita, they a i hy as been fur ¢ by New | why they shold not be graceful in pose
tacked Dick, and now as it ran higher and | The gray rocks, the light, swaying larches, Xo 1 replied Don Adolfo. “Windom, | have fired the sugar cane ! There are acres | YOrK parties.
higher, he began to fear he would never see | the hobolinks flitting among the long, | come away. Anita, you should not have and acres of it, and the wind is this |
home again. A drowsiness seemed creep- | white tassels of the bird cherry, the swal- | Seen this ;”’ for the maiden was as pale as | way I’ Dick’s excited voice rang through
ing over him, the sun tortured with its | lows dashing into the cool streams and out | the big white magnolias over her head. | the passages, and old Andres and his wife
fierce rays, and no one came to let down | aoqin, Oh, this heat, how awful it was, | ‘The men are fiends, They are mostly re- | came running up from the kitchen as Diaz
: . | and motioi. If a woman draws her breath
“Another interest may be recited show- | freely from the bottom of her lungs she di-
ing the wonderful progress of northwest minishes the effect. of her size immediately
Mexico. When the Mexican Central rail- by doing away with that ready-to-burst
SRT WAS et oho, 3 way thought the | 100k that is generally associated with stout-
his window screen. A vision of the clear, | «(yy ; : 27 | cruited from jail-birds, and enjoy killing. | makes his appearance at the door opening | northern part of it wou d be i ness. That is the look that must be avoid-
cold trout streams at home in New Hamp. To fis mp an ld ol | They’d like to kill me, but dare not.’ | onto the balcony. It was too true. Prob- | tive. I Sheng of nines a the devel- | ed, even if the waist measures an inch or
shire, along which he used to fish, haunted | silence. was almost as if Dick had received | Nearer and nearer rolled the clouds of | ably the very scoundrels that Dick saw on pine Say Jom pe a ong 0 18 Postion, | 50 more, and the bust and shoulders gain a
his burning brain ; he could almost hear { 5 splash of cool water. | war, blacker and more terrible became the the road had left brands to ignite the canes Jon 4 er, boi wi 7 one hs le most pro- | little. : :
the plash and ripple about the big stones | ‘Oh, I had given you up,” wasall he | Slaughter, fiercer the feeling on both sides. | that had only now begun to spread. It is | prio I ns of the Tm teil {It has been discovered that a double chin
and feel the coolness of the deep POOlS over | said. as he tried 10 fise, but Anita knew | SII Don Adolfo hesitated to leave his | spreading with a vengeance! They can 8 " Ag orcomy i, Yo ¢on- | can be banished by correct breathing. The
which he bent to see his prey lying so calm. | by the despair that still lingered in his | beautiful home. He was making some al. | hear the crackle and roar of the flames, and | Fening wi ir ra ar gens = No | roman with a short neck must hold her
ly in the brown water below. A faint voice what that giving up had been. | terations about the place, and wanted to | bits of burning leaves fly lightly over their | Ne He a Solan iv a az hi he head high, even stretching her neck until
rustle of garments broke the hot silence of “bo Adolf. ? A 4 | finish them. One day troops visited the | heads, dropping among the beautiful palms | difference i etween i if » 50: 1 conscious of the tension of the cords. She
his room. He turned and saw the black | oo gave permission to go to workmen in his employ, charged them with land dark magnolias. Anita stood spell- | Maintained, as it enabled Mexicans to keep
should also practice dropping her head and
: : : his house ; he was a relative of my father,” | York k : : Dick's <i their money in their own country. Other letting it roll listlessly about. This will
sown of a Sister of Charity, who w kind-{ ; Tr ar z >. | being in a league with the insur rents, and | bound by Dick’s side. . i : yn S ; : etting 1t roll listlessly a i
. admitted to the j a id 4 Tas t ae ol y: Se ria long, Dk Phe ov = Sad i hiss be sent to Matanzas 5 | “Ts not the house in danger 7 he asks, | gig i with whom I have talk- | give a graceful pose to the head, and the
what she could. She gently lowered the . pray Ho a ed that I mus Corona. turning quickly round to Diaz. jen l ae t ane ; i k exercise of muscles will help consume the
blind, and, producing a little kettle of ice, | take the ky i 15 posi op Le So nre | S90 foar we'shall have trouble,” said Don | “I think it is, Senor; it isso long that Lin) fre 0 i) ut oie Ls extra amount of fat. Lung exercises in
laid some in a cloth” on his forehead and rai J ROW Wg hoaanstmin | jf to Dick. ‘People know Iam in | we have had raja.’ atlures since ave resi ere. © | breathing are the best ‘cure for excessive
re hi i i far he has been personal- " with the insurgents, and there- | - “What in thunder can we do, with so | Mexican banks ars required to keep one- Stoutness. The best time for this is before
il) on The Bifls ohies to ear. "How ly unmolested. Now, can you stand ?”” as | Ee Dl Fall oe ht of [few of us?’ mutters. Dick.. Then to | third of their cirenlation- in silver dollars | dressing in the morning and after undres-
“If she could only talk English,” saiq | Dick stood up, the priestly gown falling to the same crime. I think I'll go to Havana | Anita : “Are the valuables all packed ?” | in their vaults, hoard vis sing at night. Five or ten minutes exer-
Dick, half aloud. ? his knees. Youare taller than Father | to-morrow, and arrange for sailing, for I| ‘‘They are,’ she says, “in the lower of- | Perhaps the best sign of the stability of cise every day will reduce the flesh in a
“What would the Senor say 2” The | Romero, yet he is counted a tall man. Put can’t stand this life. Then I'll return for | fice.” | Mexico under a silver policy may be found wonderfully short time. Stand erect, with
clear low voice fell of Dick's 2d tonic ed | Your hair under this cowl.” She assisted you. You don’t care to stay, Windom ?”” | “We had better take them to the cellar, | in the fact that Mexican 5 per cent honds the head and chin well up; and rise upon
cars, and he raised himself up to look at | © PUSh his wavy crop under she ack | 0 co a0 you good by staying, can I?" | Diaz. You are not afraid to be left alone | Stand at 93 in London. | the toes at each inspiration, holding the
this blessed visitor. A very different face | 3D “Good. The cariane Waits right at asked Dick. “If I could do anything I'd | a little while ?”’ to Anita. SE — _ | breath for a moment, then expelling it for-
from that of the short middle-aged nun | the door. = Can you walk * It was qo un- {ye glad to stay.’ | “No,” says Anita, but she shivers slight- | What Ex-Gov. Campbell Thinks of Me. | cibly and completely, coming down upon
who had previously visited him met his | COMMON thing to see the Sisters of Charity | “I don’t see that you can effect any- ly asshe turns to watch with fascinated Kinley. | the heels at the same time. ‘Another good
fevered gaze. + | nding about in the shabby voitures that thing,” said. his friend, thoughtfully. | eyes the spread of the flames. Wider and | When ex-Governor Campbell was asked | breathing exercise is to draw In a full, deep:
“Say ? Oh, what can one say but ask re vo a ats by as oi] | “Nobody can do much now.’ | wider extends the devouring element. The | : 5 | breath. ~ Retain the breath while counting
: . : : { his opinion of McKinley, he replied ‘He is 2 :
how long we shall be kept in this awful still see the mingled thron g of soldiers and ‘“‘You had better come with us,” said | fences and small trees beside them, dry and av agreeable gen ar yo iA far ae. fifteen and then slowly expel it.
hole 2”? he answered, dropping back on his | Stil Wd : Anita, “and if you want to help here. re- catch fire, and bits of burning sticks are | Si : | — ;
pillow to enjoy her inn | * | citizens farn oe toning Aovantons of the | tum when you are stronger.” | Whirled up through the smoke, billowing ii Ty Coosa ih on The materials used for the most .expen-'
“I cannot tell the Senor that,” she said. Is ror Fp 20 sulny He Sanctions) Dik smiled, but secretly he did not | upward. Some pieces drop on the roof of friends, but politically we have opposed | Sive shirt-waists are entirely different from
“How is it you talk English?’ was his | °f theatre and dance-hall. 2 Di disdain her advice, enforced by pleading | Don Adolfo’s house, and Anita knows from each other in many a campaign the materials that are bought by the yard
next question, letting his eyes rest on the ' Wha if they i 2s 2 he tones. the voice that Dick and Diaz are up there “Mr. M Rate 5: pers nality as the | in the shops. They are imported expressly
fair young face framed so severely in black {orgn WD gio wortto dum eC] Adolfo was up early the next morning to | with wet blankets, while the two gray- | | ominee of the Republican party, and the | for the purpose, and consequently are quite
and white.
“ny oss eld | give parting directions to his workmen. | haired negroes pass along buckets of water. | . > ] ! distinctive. Madras of different qualities,
stg ong Se "and pL ve somsenan Ga Sot of wen Sh he et i pe ing bn of be Tot St of Ho BAC Sr | Dot oa erent rales
plied, proceeding to sponge his hands. ahd Boonie we Oy a 2 | been ten or a dozen. -He rode around his | out for a moment, and bidden her stay pushed to the rear, and Hanna will appear | latter not so smart as the Madras ginghams
“And your father is a Cuban 97 POON. ry T Suspec | plantation to see if none at all had ap- | where she was in such masterful tones that in the foregroun a Hanna will loom up —and a thin weight of fancy white duck is
nothing. ; % we A iil ” Dick | Peared, but only silence and loneliness | she dares not disobey. _Denser rolls the before the people, and they will consider | ued. The solid colors with a hair stripe
I suppose they wou 1% nie, 10 greeted him wherever he went. Noticing | smoke about her, blowing in her £yes: | Hanna and not McKinley. He nominated | °f White, while not the newest, still rank
I ai if they found out you were ja boy lounging under a tree he called and feeling warm on her face, and an occasional Mr. McKinley, and he. ‘will manage Me- | Among the most desirable patterns. The
nia priest.” y y questioned him. spark lights near her, which she treads on | ple v's campaign. Gradually the people | ©!d-fashioned flowered chintzes that are as.
‘Was, Senor.” A wave of feeling swept
over her, but she restrained herself.
‘‘He is no longer living ?’ asked Dick,
feeling as if he were committing almost an
impertinence in thus questionin et as if = ‘Senor Adolfo may find his men in that | to extinguish. Thicker fly the burning | : ) - | sociated in our minds with curtain hang-
ey hear her soft, talking. i ed A Jour Tong 2g an 4 A eit field,’” indicating a stretch of sugar cane in | leaves and sticks. She looks over the Konia? Ten, i Mr. Me ings have been reproduced in the Madras
years wie he had left home, and this visit fnvolaitenly ¢ to in belt, and Dick. bend- | full growth nearly adjoining Adolfo’s prop- | balcony railing as an unusually large spark “Hanna is a bigger man than McKinley. | Shirtings. = The accepted pattern for these
was a n.
: erty. drops down, and there, grinning up is bi & y. | Shirts has a yoke at the back, with a little
pi Tone for fue, in the biome MN “In that field?” he asked, in wonder. | out of the darkness, is a dark, wicked face, dane mim area | fullness directly in the centre, which is
oy oh ti Blin oe 1 ony a f pans a |. ‘Si, Senor.” Clearing the hedge with a | looking positively fiendish, in the red glare Quay, Clarkson and all others, so-called. | held in at the belt by a stitched band that
ght ooh. TEE oe a om Would bound, Don Adolfo trotted his horse out | of the flames. She screams slightly, and ie However, 1 cannot fat « mec | O8ly extonds to te is none i i
among the canes, but the animal stopped | springs back just in time to avoid a shot. ment think that the people of this Republic | 8 tape ties down the fulness in front, There"
‘Killed on his own doorstep, with his
dear ones round him,”’ she said. ‘‘He did
not want to fight, and worked quietly at
home upon the plantation with my bro-
: f her black eyes. : : “ IQ t 91 3 2 , : —-"s - .
thers, but the Spaniards say all the coun- | © 3 : iy short, snorting and rearing—at what Yi A ‘What's that 2’? asks Dick, appearing at | ™ . ” iS no yoke in the front of thé shirt, but
try people are cy and y evening as Le would not be right,’’ he said, im- pile of artist heaped eo thrown care- | her side. She tells him, and he suddenly will deliver thamseves to Hata four narrow side-pleats. The favorite pat-
we sat resting after the heat of the day, a DATs Je f i ht? She neked ter under the hedge, and by a throws his arms about her. _ ‘He meant to To Church Goers. tern for the sleeves is the bishop sleeve ;
Spanish troop rode up, fired a volley into “N Bly aE Hi he ve on > kto glanc® at two or three of the ghastly faces | kill you ! Thank God he missed ! It was | but again in the Madras shirt this is very
our house, then jumped from their horses 9 Desai, BY tO Wea Adolfo knew they were his workmen of the | one of those awful soldiers.’ | Having entered a pew, move along ; do | much modified, and shapes in at the hand
talk and could only lie back and accept : : « > 2 ask : . : yl ; i
d murdered those whom the volley had ey 5 J 3 day before. He leaned, sickened against Can you save the house?’ asks Anita, | 5 block up thei end of a pew as if you did | into a turned-over stiffened cuff of the ma
bosib In spite of her brave effort for Sara Anite senselrallys Ans id trembling horse. Murdered ! Nine | withdrawing herself gently from Dick’s not intend age TE else on it, | terial. The collars are ‘made separate from
, ’
control, the quiet of her face broke up, the men ! For what? Nothing but to use up | arm. : or as if you were holding it for some special | the shirt, and are white, turned over, very
ugly and she bowed her head Mons oodonss hey ana odin powder. A movement by the hedge re-| “I fear not,” he replies. He does not | friends.” Do not rise to let others in, but [ much on the same cut as last year’s ; but
on her hands. ini Tes of Don Ad olfo, oh them | vealed a woman, sitting with her head | tell her that the roof is already burning in move along and leave the pew invitingly | the neck of the shirt is so finished that a
“By Jove,” exclaimed Dick, his horror heart 1 bowed on her knees, a five-year-old child, | several places, and they have given up the open, ‘so that they will know that they are | stock can be worn just as well as a collar.
getting the better of his weakness, ‘‘anq | hearty welcome, | with scared eyes, crouched at her side. He attempt to save.” He is thinking what to welcome. If a pew holding six has five in | Stocks of this season are quite odd, and a
you?’ "I donot know how long you can be rent up and touched the woman's shoulder. | do with her, for he knows not how many | it. "qo not file out in forma, Procession. to |
: + ) ; novelty which will not be very popular. A
“They did not hurt me, but put me on a | Safe here,’ he said, helping Dick upstairs, She looked up. soldiers are around, and they have nowhere let one poor, scared woman goto the other | straight band of satin or silk js fastened in
horse behind, oh, such a dreadful man, and | ‘Yesterday swo tramp companies of Span- *‘Did you know any of these men 2” he | to flee should the house burn down. At end next to the aisle. It is not necessary for | the back, having very much the effect of a
brought me here, and—I sought the pro- | lards passed and fired several volleys into asked. this moment a tremendous clap of thunder | stalwart men to sit at the end ready to
tection of the church to escape.’’ the house. We keep rather at the back of “Yes, Senor, my husband and two sons | breaks directly over their heads, .and | hush out and kill Indians, as possibly it
“Escape what »” said Dick. ‘Oh, never | the place, and fortunately no one was hurt. | are there,’ she said quietly. through the lurid smoke they see the Yght-{ wae once, ans, as :
mind. Then you are the only one left of | I fear I shail have to get away from here in “What will you do?” he asked, the ning tearing the clouds asunder. Peal fol- —_— Ruffles are much worn, but they are not
your family 27’ B a week or two. Diaz, make the gentleman faint sick feeling returning. lows peal, rendering slight the roar of the - The Trout at Fault. Vis tip-top favor ; the newest things are col-
“The only one. My four brothers and | comfortable, and Anita, my dear, come | “What can I do, Senor fire, and a strong cool wind sweeps out of “ a | Tr Bande close-fitting to the throat, and
my father—she stopped again. “Oh, | With me. Had I known you were alive ‘God knows, I don’t,’ he said, dropping | the advancing storm. You didn t stay long at that _hotel high, with pleatings either of 1ace or +ibbon
mother, mother ! Tt is well you did not |and in Havana, I would have taken care of | 4 coin into her lap and riding away. The | ‘It is just in time,” says Dick ; “pray | Which advertised a fine trout stream in the falling over the back of the neck. Broad
live to see this day.” She was crying soft- | you before now. I thought you were all | ohilq picked the money up, attracted by | God it may be in time.’ Vicinjty ! 1 lained that it | Tibbon bands, very much bow trimmed. at
ly, and Dick was at his wit’s ends what to | gone. There, sit down and. rest i Jose | jtg glitter, but the Womay continued to| ‘I think, Senor, the house will be No ; the hotel man explained that J a 2 En
say next. shall bring you a cup of coffee,” for the gaze blankly, hopelessly, at the heap of | saved,” says Diaz. was a fine trout Stream, but he couldn’t Tt is noid impossible to Wear. too. much
“If T was only well,”’ he groaned ; ‘‘yet | girl's face grew so pale he feared she would | ead. Two hours later Don Adolfo left for “I think so, too,” says Dick ; “pray | help it if the trout hadn’t sense enough to > :
: : : : i lace this year.
what could one do ? Spainawill never give | faint. “We have fallen on bad times in Havana. “Stay and bring in Anita” had | rain 1’ find it out.” :
clergyman’s collar, and a black satin tie in
a stiff bow in front finishes it off.
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