DON'T ORO WD.
JtontorowdJ this world laJarg enough
Fof 7o m well m mv,
Tfc donra f art ar opsn ttlda, .
The taJja of thought It free. ,,.
Ot all tftrth'i plaiwa, you r right ,.
To oknosn tha beat you o&a,
Vrorldet that rondo iot try "
To oro-d torn other bki '
2S2.,co,-d. proud ml! your dlnt lUk
WiU'illiten con ta laaa
Baoauia It oomaa ta oontaot with
AA9' UtUrod 4raaa;
alia lovaly world waa navar mda ..
Tor yon and ma alona;
Jauper bat a right to traad r
the pathway to a thron.
Doa't crowd the good f rota out your heart
By fottorlng all that bad.
But (Ira to every rlrtue room
The beet taat aiay he had;
Be ea-h day's reoord auoh a one .".
That yoo nay well be proud;
SlTe eaoh kit rlfht, glre eaeh hi room.
And nevar try to orowd,
-Alio Cary.
GOOD LADY DUCAYNE
BY MISS BRADDOX. .a
CHAPTER VIII.
It was nearly ten o'clock when Mr.
Stafford was summoned by message
from Lady Ducayne. whose courier
came to conduct him to her ladyship's
salon.
Bella was reading aloud when the
visitor was admitted; and he noticed
the languor in the low, sweet tones, the
evident effort.
"Shut up the book," said the queru
lous old voice. "You are beginning to
drawl like Miss Blandy."
(Stafford saw a small, bent figure
crouching over the piled 'up olive logs;
a shrunken old figure in a gorgeous
garment of black and crimson brocade,
a skinny throat emerging from a mass
of old Venetian lace, clasped by dia
monds that flashed like fire flies as
the tremb.irg old head turned toward
him.
The eyes that looked at him out 01
the face were almost as bright as the
diamonds the only living feature in
that narrow parchment mask. He had
Eeen terrible faces in the hospital faces
on which disease had set dreadful i
marks, but he had never seen a face
that impressed him so painfully as this i
withered countenance, with its inde- j
ecribahle horror of death outlived, a ;
face that should have been hidden un- j
der a coffin-lid years and years ago. I
The Italian physician was standinc on !
the other side of the fireplace, smoking j
a cigarette, and looking down at the
little old woman brooking over the
hearth as if he were proud of her.
Go-id evening. Mr. Stafford; you can
go to your room, Bella, and write your
everlasting letter to your mother at
Walworth," said Lady Ducayne. "I
believe she writes a page about every
wild flower she' discovers in the woods
and meadows. I don't know what else
she can find to write about," she added,
as Bella quietly withdrew to the pretty
little bedroom opening out of Lady Du
cayne's spacious apartment. Here, as
at Cap Ferrino. she slept in a room ad
joining the old lady's.
'"You are a medical man, I under
stand, Mr. Stafford."
"I am a qualified practitioner, but I
have not legun to practise."
"You have begun upon my companion,
she tells me."
"I have prescribed for her, certainly,
and I am happy to find my prescription
has done her good ; but I look upon thai
improvement as temporary. Her case
will require more drastic treatment.''
"Never mind her case. There is noth
ing the matter with the girl absolute
ly nothing except girlish nonsense; too
much liberty and not enough work."
"I understand that two of your lady
ship's previous companions died of th
same disease," said Stafford, looking
first at Lady Ducayne.. who gave her
tremnlous old head an impatient jerk,
and then at Parravicini, whose yellow
complexion had paled a little under
Stafford's scrutiny.
'Don't bother me about my compan
ions, sir," said Lady Ducayne." I sent
for you to consult you about myself
not about a parcel of anaemic girls.
You are young, and medicine is a pro
gressive science, the newspapers tell
me. Where have you studied?"
"In Edinburgh and in Paris."
"Two good schools. And you know
all the new fangled theories, the modern
discoveries that remind one of the
mediaeval witchcraft, of Albertus Mag
nus, and George Ripley; you havo
studied hypnotism electricity?"
"And the transfusion of blood." said
Stafford, very slowly, looking at P..rra
vicini.
"Have you made any discovery that
teaches yon to prolong human life any
elixir any mode of treatment? I want
my life prolonged, young man. That
man there has been my physician for
thirty years. He does all he can to keep
me alive after his lights. He studies
all the new theories of all the scientists
but he is old; he gets older every day
his brain power is gaing he is bigo
ted prejudiced can't receive new
ideas can't grapple with new systems,
n will let me die if I am not on my
guard against him."
"You are of an unbelievable ingrati
tude, Eccelenza," said Parravicini.
"Oh, you needn't complain. I have
paid you thousands to keep me alive,
livery year of my life ha swollen your
hoards; you know there is nothing to
come to you when I am gone. My whole
fortune is left to endow a home for in
digent women of quality who have
reached their ninetieth year. Come,
Mr. Stafford, I am a rich woman. Givo
me a few years more in the tunshine, a
few years more above ground, and I
will give you the price of a fashionable
London practice I will set you up at
the West-end."
"How old are you, Lady Ducayne?"
"I was born the day Louis XVL was
guillotined."
"Then I think you have had your
share of the Bum nine and the pleasures
of the earth, and that you should spend
your few remaining days in repeuting
you: sins and try ing to make atonement
for the young lives that have been sac
rificed to your love of life."
"What do you mean by that, sir?"
"Oh, Lady Ducayne, need I put your
wickedness and your physician's still
greater wickedness in plain words? The
poor girl who is now in your employ
ment has been reduced from robnst
health to a condition of absolute dan
ger by Dr. Parraviclni's experimental
surgery; and I have no doubt those
other two young women who broke
down in your service were treated by
him in the tame manner. I could take
upon myself to demonstrate by most
convincing evidence, to a jury of medi
cal men that Dr. Parravicini has been
bleeding Miss Rolleston, after pntting
her under chloroform, at intervals, ever
Mince she has been in your service. The
"ms BRAIN POWER IS OOINO."
deterioration in the girl's health speaks
for itself; the lancet marks upon the
girl's arms are unmistakable; and her
description of a series of sensations,
which she calls a dream, points unmis
takably to the administration of chloro
form while she was sleeping. A prac
tice so nefarious, so murderous. mnt,
if exposed, result in a sentenct only less
severe than the punishment of murder."
"I laugh," said Parrr.vicini, with an
airy motion of his skinny fingers; "I
laugh at on:e at your theories and r.t
your threats. I, Parravicini Leopold,
have no fear that the law can question
anything I have done,"
"Take the girl away, and let me heir
no more of her," cried Lady Ducaynp,
iu the thin, old voice, which so poorly
matched the energy and firo of the
wicked old brain that guided its utter
ances. "Let her go back to her mother
I want no more girls to die in my ser
vice. There are girls enough and to
spare iu the world, God knows."
"If you ever eugagu another com
panion or take another English girl
into your service. Lady Ducayne, I will
make all England ring with the story of
your wickedness,"
"I want no more gir.;. I don't be
lieve in his rxperiments. They have
boen full of daugerfor me as well as for
ihe sii-la au a.r bubbl-j, and I should
be gono. Til have no more of his dan
gerous quackery. I'll find some new
man a better man t an you, sir, a dis
coverer like Pasteur, Virchow, a genius
to keep me alive. Take your girl
away, young man. Marry her if you
like. I'll write her a check for a thou
sand pounds, and let her go and live on
beef and beer, and get strong and plump
again. I'll have no more such experi
ments. Do you hear, Parravicini?" she
screamed, vindictively, the yellow,
wrinkled face distorted with fury, the
eyes glaring at him.
The Stafford carried Delia Rolleston
off to Varese next day, she very lcth to
leave Lady Ducayne, whose liberal
salary afforded such help for the dear
mother. Herbert Stafford insisted,
however, treating Bella as coolly as if
be had been the family physician, and
she had been given over wholly to his
care.
"Do you suppose your mother would
let you stop here to die?" he asked. "If
Mrs. Rolleston knew how ill you are,
she would come post haste to fetch
you."
"I shall never be well again till I get
back to Walworth," answered Bella,
who was low spirited and inclinod to
tears this morning, a reaction after hei
good spirits of yesterday.
"a check fob a thousand!"
"We'll try a week or two at Varese
first," said Stafford. '"When you can
walk half way np Monte Generoso with
out palpitation of the heart, you shall
go back to Walworth."
"Poor mother, how glad she will be
to see me, and how sorry that I've lost
such a good place."
This conversation took place on the
boat when they were leaving Bellagio.
Lotta had gone to her friend's room at
sovon o'clock that moruing, long before
Lady Ducayne's withered eyelids had
openei to the daylight, before even
Francine, the French maid, was astir,
and had helped to pack a Gladstone bag
with esstmtiuls, and hustled Bella down
stairs and out of doors before she could
make any strenuous resistance.
"It's all right," Lotta assured her.
"Herbert had a good talk with Lady
Ducayne last night and it was settled
for you to leave this morning. She
doesn't like invalids, you see.'
"No," sighed Bella, "she doesn't like
invalids. It was very unlucky that I
should brek down just like Miss Tom
son and Miss Blandy."
"At any rate, you are not dead like
them," answered Lotta, "and my broth
er says you are not going to die.
iilii
THE COLUMBIAN,
' ltVemed rather a dreadful thing to
be dismissed in that o.T hand way,
without a word of farewell from her
employer.
"I wonder what Miss Torpintor will
say when I go to her for another situa
tion." Balla speculated ruefully, while
she and her friends were breakfasting
on board the steamer.
"Perhaps yon may never want an
other situation." said Stafford.
"You mean that I may nevor be well
enough to be useful to anybody?"
"No, I don't mean anything of the
kind."
It was after dinner at Varese, when
Bella had been induced to take a whole
glass of Chianti. and quite sparkled
after that unaccustomed stimulant, that
Mr. Stafford produced a letter from his
pocket.
"What, did the write to me? I am so
glad I hated to leave her in such a
cool way; for after all she was very
kind to me, and if I didn't like her it
was only because she was too dread
fully old."
She tore open the envelope. The let
ter was short and to the point:
"Good-by, child. Go and marry your
doctor. I enclose a farewell gift for
your trousseau. Adeline Ducayne."
"A hundred pounds, a wholo year's
salary no why. it's for a 'a check
for a thousand!' " cried Bella. "What I
a generous old soul! She really is the
dearest old thing."
"She just missod being very dear to
you. Bella." said Stafford.
He had dropped to the use of her
Christian name while they were on
board the boat. It seemed natural now
that she was to be jn his dhargetill they
all three went back to Engiand.
"I shall take upon myself the privi
lege of an elder brother till we land at
Dover," he said; "after that well, it
must be as you please." j
The question of their future relations
must have been satisfactorily settled i
before they crossed tho channel, for
Bella's next letter to her mothur com
muuicitttd three startling tacts.
First, that the enclosed chuclc for 1.
010 was to be invested in debtiiture
stock in Mrs. Kolleston's name, and was
to b; her very own, income and princi
pal, for the rest of her lite.
Xext, that Bella was going homo tu
Walworth immediately.
And last, that she, whs rmin ti lm
, 0 . - .
married to Mr. Herbert Stafford in the '
following autumn. I
"And I am sure you will adore him
mother, as much as I do," w.ote Bolla.
"It is all good Lady Ducayne's doing. 1
never could have married if I had not '
sicured that little nest egg for you. He
eays we will be able to a id to it as the
years go by, and that w.ierever we live
there shall always t9 a room in the
hous9 lor you. The word 'mother-in
law has no terrors for him."
THE END.
THE PARIS EXPOSITION.
Russia tho First to Accept the Invitation
fur th Fair of 1000.
Russia is the first among the great
European Powers to acct-pt the invita
tion to the Paris Exhibition of 1900.
Since the presentation by M. Bouge of
his report on the bill the exhibition has
been the object of lively di?cnssion. A
struggle is in progress between the
Government which is not satisfied
with the left bank of the Seine alone
for the exhibition grounds, but would
add that part of the Champs Elysees
reaching almost from the Place de la
Concorde to tho Avenue d'Anlin and
M. Bouge and his supporters, who would
confine the grounds to the left bank,
with the Trocadero.
It is thought that Parliament will
adopt M. Bouge's report with slight
modifications. The enthusiasm which,
at the start, greeted the idea of a uni
versal exhibition to close the century
has vanished. It was promoted by the
desire to prevent Germany from seizing
on 1900 for an exhibition in Berlin. The
Figaro denounced Germany as wishing
to deprive France of her right to that
year. M. Francois Deloncle lost no
time in bringing in a bill for an exhi
bition in order to steal a march on Ger
many. Whether she was annoyed or
not. Germany did not show it, and her
indifference has tended to lessen the en
thusiasm. Later on, after time for re
flection, French feeling for the exhibi
tion became much cooler. The com
mittee, instead of squandering millions
and turning Paris npside down for years
for the sake of a six months' bazaar,
wish to keep within moderate limits. It
is possible, however, that the Chamber,
thinking France rich enough to pay
even for follies, may adopt the original
scheme.
A Maiden Authoress Bays Her Say.
Miss Marie Corelli writes to the New
York Herald that the is a most modost
and retiring porson, and that she refuses
all requests lor her portrait or to ap
pear before the public, though she
might make a great deal of money by
reading from her own works. She de
nies that she declined to have her latest
book, "The Sorrows of Satan," sent to
the reviewers out of spit, but declares
that she wanted to show them that it
would sell without their praise or blame ;
and she adds that she has the pleasure
of knowing that 30.000, out of the 30,000
already disposed of, were sold before a
single notice of the book hud been pub
lished. Miss Corelli admits that she is
a fighter, and that she has not scrupled
to return the blows aimed at her with
interest, "as all should who Bet value
on 'the noble art of self defence.'" Iu
concluding her tirade, she says: "I am,
happily, unmarried which is much
better than being unhappily married,
and I live, as most youug unmarrieU
women live, at home with my relative,
controlled by them In siu-h wise th.tt I
certainly should not be allowed either
a cigarette or a latch key, were I fool
ish enough to demand those 'new wotuan
privileges!" She also denies tlmt aho is
patronized by the royal family of Eu4
land, though the Queen and the Prinso
of Wales read her boqks.
BLOOMSBURG, PA.
A POSTUlSTER LOSES THE USE OF HIS
LEGS AND ARMS.
Edwin R. Tripp, of Middlefield Center, Meets with
a Hazardous Encounter Which Renders
Him Helpless.
From Oltg Republican, Ooptr$toum, 1T.T.
Mr. Edwin R. Tripp, the postmaster at
MiditUfleld Center, N. V., recently had a
dangerous experience wkicn left him in a
helpless state. His system was so much
shattered that it waa feared he might never
recover.
In an Interview with a reporter of the
Rtpubliean, regarding thin experience wliicti
had attracted considerable attention, Mr.
Tripp stated :
"In March, 1SJ2, I was taken with what I
afterward learned was locomotor ataxia, and
waa unabla to walk, and I kept potting
worse until I lost the use nf my arnn. I
doctored with two skillful doi'tors I ut re
ceived no Iteneflt, and also used a galvanic
battery but kept getting worse anil the doe
tors told me they could Ho no more. This
was in May and June. 1892. I rare up all
hope of ever having the use of my limbs
aain, and did not expect to live very long.
I whs unable to dre.se. or undrew mvirlf. and
could not get around the house unless 1 waa
moved In a chair.
" I think it waa in June thnt I read of the
case of a mail in Saratoga Co., N. Y., who
was tukeu very much tui myclf. He hud
taken Dr. Williams' Pink 1'ills fr 1'ule
People which contained, In a condensed form,
all the element necessary to give new life
and richness to the blood and restore shat
tered nerves, and had been cured by their
Use.
" I learned that the pills were prepared by
the Dr. Williams' Medicine Company, Sche
Cectady, K. 1'., aud only cost 60 ocnU a box
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Immigration In 1897.
Only intolerable conditions at home,
great hope of improvement elsewhere,
or reckless spirit of adventure could
lead one to cross the ocean and land
upon a foreign shore with only $15
cash in hand. Yet the data furnished
by the Commissioner-General of Im
migration show that $15 was the
average amount of money in the pos
session of the 230,832 immigrants
who came to the United States in the
fiscal year 1897. Even this amount
was $4 more than the average for the
year 1896. The fact that 230,832
persons attempted a new life, in a
strange country, on an average capital
of $15 is a forcible demonstration of
the desperation incited by old world
wretchedness.
The decrease of immigration from
1896 is 33 per cent. The percentage
of illiterates over 15 years of age is
23. Fifty-two per cent, of the 1897
immigrants came from Austria-Hungary,
Italy, Poland and Russia. Thirty-eight
per cent, came from the
United Kingdom, France, Germany
and Scandinavia. Thirty six per cent,
of the 1S96 immigrants had no occu
pation, whatever and 46 per cent,
were farmers, laborers or servants.
Seventy-two per cent of the immi
grants of 1896 were destined for
Illinois, Massachusetts, New York
and Pennsylvania, and 1 1 per cent,
for the States South of the Potomac
and Ohio or West of the Mississippi.
That the volume of immigration
swings upon industrial activity in this
country is indicated by the fact that
the total was one-third larger in 1896
than in 1895 and , in 1897 fell below
that of 1895. A.v.
When bilious or costive, eat a Cas
caret, candy catharic, cure guaranteed,
loc, 25c. 4.,., .
i
or six boxes for $3.50 at any druggist's, and
sent for two boxes. I used the pills rfclth.
fully aud tbey rare me an appetite. I then
sent for four more boxes, aud before I had
taken all or tnera my leet ana jegs wnica
had been cold heirs n to ret warm!
" I waa a member ol the Town Hoard that
summer and had to be oarried and put Into a
wagon to go to the meetings, and in fact waa
helpless, aa my neighbors know. In August
I could walk around the home by pushing a
chair. I kept retting better and managed
to more arouna more, until at election time
tlmt year, I walked with a cane to the poll,
a short distance from nir home, t continued
to tke Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale
People uutil I had taken eighteen boxes. I
could then get around, and to-day walk to
the post office and back, a distance of one.
quarter of a milt, three times a day, and
attend to my duties as postmnstrr.
"In the spring of lSi'.l I was elected town
clerk, wbioh office I held for three years, I
had previously been a Justice of th peace
for thirty-two years. I am now 70 years of
nge, ami have lived I this town for about
1'ortT-eix years. For nearly fifty years I
worked at the blacksmith's trade. I am
able to do work In my gnrden now, and saw
some of my wood. I consider that my res
toration to health is due to the use of Dr.
Williams Piuk Pills for Pule People.
Eiiwix U. Tairr."
Subscribed and sworn to before me this
23d day of June. 1897.
iioUEB HANNAH, A'alary Public
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