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GRANDMOTHER.
She sits beside the window wide,
£a wooden rocking chair.
Through cap of lace 1 well can trace
The snowy waves of hair.
So white It shows, so w arm tt glows.
A« sunbeams softly pour
Through window pane nnd try In vain
T® make It gold once more.
X love her eyes—dim. yet so wise,
And, ah. so quick to see
'T"lw pitfalls deep, the snares that creep,
The trials that threaten me!
X love her cheek, the lines that speak
Of life's long toilsome day.
'Tire. tender touch that tells so much
OC patient love alw>ay.
So old and bent, so weak and spent.
Vet keeping youth enough
T« htflp and cheer when skies are drear
And ways are steep and rough,
a tiwe to sit where shadows flit,
Sly tiead upon her knee,
AM feel her arm, so soft and warm.
Close gently over me.
1 lave to hear upon my ear
The broken voice, so mild,
"The long, full day of work and play
Has wearied you, my child!"
A tender prayer is in the air.
Oh. sweet, the hour and mood!
And sweet the tone: "My little one,
I trust you have been good."
—Toronto Globe.
fj^'Loui^mison
TART V.
CHAPTER XXIII.—CONTINUED.
T dropped upon the thwart again,
none too soon, for I was near overboard.
S. could see nothing-for the moment, but
-these two furious, encrimsoned faces,
-swaying together under the smoky
Lamp; and I shut my eyes to let them
grraw once more familiar with the
darkness.
The endless ballad h;id come to an
eml at last, and the whole diminished
company about the campfire had broken
iuto the chorus I had heard so often:
"Fifteen men on the dead man's chest —
Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!
tlrtclc and the devil had done for the rest—
Ta-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!"
t was just thinking how busy drink
«nii the devil were at that very moment
ftt the cabin of the "Ilispaniola," when
1 was surprised by a sudden lurch of the
«»raoie. At the same moment she
yawed sharply and seemed to change
&<*r course. The speed in the meantime
f.trangely increased.
£ opened my eyes at onee. All round
ifu.e. were little ripples, combing over
with a sharp, bristling sound and slight
ly phosphorescent. The "Ilispaniola"
liM-aclf, a few yards in whose wake I
W.MS still being whirled along, seemed
-to stagger in her course, and I saw her
spare toss a little against the black
neatioftheniglit; nay.asllooked longer,
I otade sure she also was wheeling to
the southward.
I glanced over my shoulder, and my
lieoxt jumped against my ribs. There,
right behind me, was the glow of the
eampfire. The current had turned at
Tight angles, sweeping round along
w-ich it the tall schooner and the little
•dancing coracle; ever quickening, ever
bubbling-higher, ever muttering louder,
went spinning through the narrows
f.or the open sea.
Suddenly the schooner in front of me
fgptmt a violent yaw, turning, perhaps,
- thsryjgh 20 degrees; and almost at the
< same moment one shout followed an
other from on board; I could hear feet
pounding on the companion ladder; and
£ knew that the two drunkards had at
la#fe been interrupted in their quarrel
4trtd awakened to a sense of their dis
aster.
C lay down flat in the bottom of
itha.t wretched skiff, and devoutly com
jmended my spirit to its Maker. At the
• end the straits, I made sure we must
fait silto some bar of raging breakers,
all my troubles would be ended
i speedily, and though I could, perhaps,
bear to die, I could not bear to look
itijacva my fate as it approached.
i must have lain for hours, con
tinually beaten to and fro upon the bil
lows, now and again wetVed with flying
■ »»pca.y«, and never ceasing to expect
de&th at the next plunge. Gradually
weatciuess grew upon me; a numbness,
ma occasional stupor, fell upon my mind
*rvra in the midst of my terrors; until
sleep at last intervened, and in my sea
to&acd coracle I lay and dreamed of
home and the old Admiral Benbow.
CHAPTER XXIV.
THE CRUISE OF THE CORACLE.
It was broad day when I awoke, and
found myself tossing at the southwest
txd of Treasure island. The sun was
•up, but was still hid from me behind
"fch«s great bulk of the Spy -glass, which
on this side descended almost to the
sea-fa formidable cliffs.
fjaulbowline Head and Mizzenmast
Hill were at my elbow; the hill bare and
dark, the head bound with cliffs 40 or
iSO Cee,t high and fringed with great
.•enanses of fallen rock. 1 was scarce a
-quarter of a mile to seaward, and it
Mil my first thought to paddle in and
land.
notion was soon given over
.Arao,<g the fallen rocks the breakers
spouted and bellowed; loud reverbera
tions. heavy sprays flying and falling,
succeeded one another from second to
• second, and I saw myself, if I ventured
nearer, dashed to death upon the rough
--«th<sre or spending my strength in vain
to ocale the beetling crags.
IStor was that all; for, crawling to
gether on flat tables of rock or letting
tJuemselves drop into the sea with loud
reports, I beheld huge slimy monsters
—soft snails, as it were, of incredible
'Myuefis—two or three score of them to
r. making the rocks echo with
their- barkings.
C Slave understood since that they
were sea lions and entirely harmless.
Butt the look of them, added to the
difficulty of the shore and the high
running of the surf, was more than
enough to disgust me of that landing
place. I felt willing rather to starve
IH.. sea than to confront such perils.
In the meantime I had a better
j chance, as I supposed. North of Haul
bowline Head the land runs in a long
way, leaving at low tide a long stretch
of yellow sand. To the north of that,
again, there comes another cape—Cape
of the Woods, as it was marked upon the
chart—buried in tall green pines, which
descended to the margin of the sea.
I remembered what Silver had said
about the current that sets northward
along the whole west coast of Treasure
island; and seeing from my position
that I was already under its influence, I
preferred to leave Haulbowline Head
behind me, and reserve my strength for
an attempt to land upon the kindlier
looking Cape of the Woods.
There was a great, smooth swell upon
the sea. The wind blowing steady and
gentle from the south, there was no
contrariety between that and the cur
rent, and the billows rose and fell un
broken.
Had it been otherwise, I must long
ago have perished; but as it was, it is
surprising how easily and securely- my
little and light boat-could ride. Often,
as I still lay at the bottom, and kept no
more than an eye above the gunwale,
I would see a big blue summit heav
ing close above me; yet the coracle
would but bounce a little, dance as if on
springs, and subside on the other side
into the trough as lightly as a bird.
I began after a little to grow very
bold, and sat up to try my skill at pad
dling. But even a small change in the
disposition of the weight will produce
violent changes in the behavior of a cor
acle. And I had hardly moved before
the boat, giving up at once her gentle,
dancing movement, ran straight down
a slope of water so steep that it made
me giddy, and struck her nose, with a
spout of spray, deep into the side of the
next wave.
I was drenched and terrified, and fell
instantly back into my old position,
whereupon the coracle seemed to find
her head again, and led me softly as be
fore among the billows. It was plain she
was not to be interfered with, and at
that rate, since I could in no way in
fluence her course, what hope had I left
of reaching land ?
I began to be horribly frightened,
but I kept my head, for all that. First,
moving with all care, I gradually bailed
out the coracle with my sea-cap; then
getting my eye once more above the
gunwale, I set myself to study how it
was she managed to slip so quietly
through the rollers.
I found each wave, instead of the big,
smooth, glossy mountain it looks from
shore, or from a vessel's deck, was for
all the world like any range of hills on
the dry land, full of peaks and smooth
places and valleys. The coracle, left to
herself, turning from side to side,
threaded, so to speak, her way through
these lower parts, and avoided the
steep slopes and higher, toppling sum
mits of the wave.
"Well, now," thought I to myself, "it
is plain I must lie where I am, and not
disturb the balance; but it isplain, also,
that I can put the paddle over the side,
and from time to time, in smooth places,
give her a shove or two toward land."
No sooner thought upon than done.
There I lay on my elbows, in the most
trying attitude, and every now and
again gave a weak stroke or two to turn
her head to shore.
It was very tiring and slow work, yet
I did visibly gain ground, and as we
drew near the Cape of the Woods,
though I saw I must infallibly miss
that point, I had still made some hun
dred yards of easting. I was, indeed,
close in. I could see the cool, green
tree-tops swaying together in the
breeze, and I felt sure I should make
the next promontory without fail.
It was high tinve, for I now began
to be tortured with thirst. The glow ,
of the sun from above, its thousand
fold reflection from the waves, the sea
water that fell and dried upon me, cak
ing my very lips with salt, combined
to make my throat burn and my brain
acne. The sight of the trees so near
at hand had almost made me sick with
longing; but the current had soon car
ried me past the point, and as the next
reach of the 6ea opened out I beheld
a sight that changed the nature of my
thoughts.
Right in front of me, not half a mile
away, I beheld the "Hispaniola," under
sail. I made sure, of course, that 1
should be taken; but I was so dis
tressed for want of water that 1 scarce
knew whether to be glad or sorry at the
thought, and long before I had come
to a conclusion surprise had taken en
tire possession of my mind and I could
do nothing but stare and wonder.
The "Hispaniola" waS under her
mainsail and two jibs, and the beautiful
white canvas shone in the sun like
snow or silver. When I first sighted
her all her sails were drawing; she was
lying a course about northwest, and 1
presumed the men on board wero go
ing round the island on their way back
to the anchorage. Presently she began
to fetch more and more to the west
ward, so that I thought they had sight
ed me and were going about in chase.
At last, however, she fell right into the
wind's eye, was taken dead aback, and
stood there awhile help'ess, with her
sails shivering.
"Clumsy fellows," said I, "they must
still be drunk as owls." And I thought
how Capt. Smollett would have set theru
skipping.
Meanwhile the schooner gradually
fell off. and filled again upon another
tack, sailed swiftly "for a minute or
so, and brought up once more dead
in the wind's eye. Again and again
was this repeated. To and fro, up and
down, north, south, east and west the
"Hispaniola" sailed by swoops and
dashes, and at each repetition ended
as she had begun, with idly flapping
canvas. It became plain to me that
nobody was steering. And, if so, where
were the men? Either they were dead
drunk or had deserted her, I thought,
and perhaps if 1 could get on board
I might return the vessel to her cap
tain.
The current was bearing coracle and
schooner southward at an equal rate,
i As for the later's sailing, it was so wild
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, rHURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1898.
and intermittent, and she hung each
time so long in irons, that she certain
ly gained nothing, if she did not even
lose. If only I dared to sit up and pad
dle I made wire that I could overhaul
her. The scheme had an air of adven
ture that inspired me, and the thought
of the water breaker beside the fore
companion doubled my growing cour
age.
Up I got, was welcomed almost in
stantly by another cloud of spray, but
this time stuck to my purpose, and set
myself with all iny strength and cau
tion to paddle after the unsteered "Ilis
paniola." Once I shipped a sea so heavy
that I had to stop and bail, with my
heart fluttering like a bird; butgradual
ly I got into the vray of the thing, and
guided my coracle among the waves,
with only now and then a blow upon
her bows and a dash of foam in my face.
I was now rapidly gaining on the
schooner; I could see the brass glisten
on the tiller as it banged about, and
still no soul appeared upon her decks.
1 could not choose but suppose she
was deserted. If not, tbe men were
lying drunk below, where I might bat
ten thein down, perhaps, and do what I
chose with the ship.
For some time she had been doing the
worst thing possible form
still. She headed nearly due south,
yawing, of course, all the time. Each
time she fell off her sails partly filled,
and these brought her, in a moment,
right to the wind again. I have said
this was the worst thing possible for
me; for helpless as she looked in this
situation, with the canvas crackling
like cannon, and the blocks trundling
and banging on the deck, she still con
tinued to run away from me, notonlv
with the speed of the current, but by
the whole amount of her leeway, which
was naturally great.
But now, at last, I had my chance.
The breeze fell, for some seconds, very
low, and the current gradually turning
her, the "Hispaniola" revolved slowly
round her center, and at last presented
me her stern, with the cabin window
still gapingopen, and the lamp over the
table still burning on into the day.
The mainsail hung drooped like a ban
ner. She was stock-still, but for the
current.
For the last little while I had even
lost; but now, redoubling my efforts,
I began once more to overhaul the
chase.
I was not a hundred yards from her
when the wind came again in a clap;
she filled on the port tack, and was off
again, stooping and skimming like a
swallow.
My first impulse was one of despair,
but my second was toward joy. Hound
she came, till she was broadside onto
me—round still till she had covered a
half, and then two-thirds, and then
three-quarters of the distance that
separated us. I could see the wares
boiling white under her forefoot. Im
mensely tall she looked to me from my
low station in the coracle.
And then, of a sudden, I began to
comprehend. I had scarce time to think
—scarce time to act and save myself.
I was 011 the summit of one swell when
the schooner came stooping over the
next. The bowsprit was over my head.
I sprung' to my feet, and leaped, stamp
ing the coracle underwater. With one
hand I caught the jib-boom, while my
foot was lodged between the stay and
the brace; and as I still clung there
panting a dull blow told me that the
schooner had charged down upon and
struck the coracle, and that I was left
without retreat on the "Hispaniola." '
CHAPTER XXV.
I STRIKE THE JO LEY ROGER.
I had scarce gained a position on the
bowsprit, when the flying jib flapped
and filled upon the other tack, with a
report like a gun. The schooner trem
bled to her keel under the reverse; but
next moment, the other sails still
drawing the jib flapped back again,
and hung idle.
This had nearly tossed me off into
the sea; and now I lost no time, crawled
back along the bowsprit, and tumbled
head-foreinost on the deck.
I was on the lee side of the forecastle,
and the mainsail, which was still draw
ing, concealed from me a certain por
tion. of the after-deck. Not a soul was
to be seen. The planks, which had not
been swabbed since the mutiny, bore
the print of many feet; and an empty
bottle, broken by the neck, tumbled to
and fro like a live thing in the scuppers.
Suddenly the "Hispaniola" came
right into the wind. The jibs behind
me cracked aloud; the rudder slammed
to; the whole ship gave a sickening
heave and shudder, and at the same
moment the main-boom swung in
board, the sheet groaning in the blocks,
and showed me the lee after-deck.
There were the two watchmen, sure
enough; red-cap on his back, as stiff as
a handspike, with his arms stretched
out like those of a crucifix, and his
teeth showing through his open lips;
Israel Hands propped against the bul
warks, his chin on his chest, his hands
ly r ing open before him on the deck, his
face as white, under its tan, as a tal
low candle.
For awhile the ship kept bucking and .
sidling like a vicious horse, the sails
filling, now on one tack, now on an
other, and the boom swinging to and
fro till the mast groaned aloud under
the strain. Now and again, too, there
would come a cloud of light spray over
the bulwark, and a heavy blow of the
ship's bows against the swell—so much
heavier weather was made of it by this
great rigged ship than by my home
made, lop-sided coracle, now gone to
the bottom of the sea.
At every jump of the schooner, red
cap slipped to and fro; but—what was
ghastly to behold—neither his attitude
nor his fixed teeth-disclosing grin was
any way disturbed by this rough usage.
At every jump, too, Handa appeared
still more to sink into himself and set
tle down upon the deck, his feetsliding
ever the further out, and the whole
body canting toward the stern, so that
his face became, little by little, hid
from me; and at last I could see noth-
ing beyond his ear and the frayed ring
let of one whisker.
At the same time, I observed, around
both of them, splashes of dark blood
upon the planks, and began to feel sure
that they had killed each other in their
drunken wrath.
While I was thus looking and won
dering, in a calm moment, when the
ship was still, Israel Hands turned part
ly round, and, with a low moan, writhed
himself back to the position in which
I had seen him first. The moan, which
told of pain and deadly weakness, and
the way in which his jaw hung open,
went right to my heart. Hut when I
; remembered the talk I had overheard
I from the apple barrel, all pity left me.
I walked att until I reached themain
-1 mast.
| "Come al»oard, Mr. Hands," I said,
I ironically.
I He rolled his eyes round heavily; but
he was too far gone to express surprise.
All he could do was to utter one word:
"Brandy."
It occurred to me there was no time
to lose; and. dodging the boom as it
once more lurched across the deck, I
slipped aft, and down the companion
stairs into the cabin.
It was such a scene of confusion as
you can hardly fancy. All the lockfast
places had been broken open in quest of
the chart. The floor was thick with
mud, where ruffians had sat down to
drink or consult after wading in the
marshes round their camp. The bulk
heads, all painted in clear white, auri
beaded round with gilt, bore a pattern
of dirty hands. Dozens of empty bot
tles clinked together in corners to the
rolling of the ship. One of the doctor's
medical books lay open on the table,
half of the leaves gutted out, I suppose
for pipe-lights. In the midst of all this
the lamp still east a smoky glow, ob
scure and brown as umber.
I went into the cellar; all the barrels
were gone, and of the bottles a most
surprising number had been drunk out
and thrown away. Certainly, since th«
mutiny began, not a man of them could
ever have been sober.
[TO BH CONTINUED.]
HOW VICTORIA AVERTED WAR.
Famous Inclilrnl of tlir Krlirlliuitllr.
latfd Anew.
During the American civil war two
envoys of the confederate states,
Messrs. Mason and Slidell, were seized
on board an English ship. This insult
to the British flag could not be passed
over, and a disastrous war between Eng
land and the northern states of the
American union seemed inevitable. The
prince consort was at that time sink
ing under his fatal illness, but not
withstanding the anxiety of the queen
011 his account, her mind was unceas
ingly active to devise means of prevent
ing war. We are in a position to state
on the authority of one of the most
prominent statesmen of our time and
one who had the honor of enjoying in
a special manner the confidence of her
majesty, that it was the queen herself,
in opposition to the views of her min
isters and of the distinguished man in
question among them, who averted the
war. Sh* insisted that the dispatch
which was sent to America demanding
peremptorily the surrender of the en
voys should be communicated at once to
all the powers and the grave conse
quences of the conflict from an interna
tional point of view pointed out.
The result wa| an able state paper
sent to Washington by Mr Thouvenel.
in which he stated that France regarded
the act of the American captain who
had arrested the confederate envoys on
board an English ship as quite unjusti
fiable and expressed the hope that the
federal government would accede to the
demands of Great Britain. Austria and
Prussia immediately followed suit, and
I'rinee Gortschakoff, on the part of Rus
sia, urged President Lincoln to sur
render the emoys without delay and
with such an explanation as would sat
isfy English national feeling. These re
monstrances from the powers enabled
the government of Washington to es
cape without humiliation from an un
tenable position and saved England
from entering into a war which would
in all human probability have ended
in the disruption of the American union
and sown the seeds of deathless en
mity between England and the progres
sive and powerful northern states.—
Quarterly Review.
Not So Had After AH.
First Pretty Girl (angrily)— That fel
low across the aisle ought to be horse
whipped. lie has been staring at you
for the last ten minutes.
Second Pretty Girl—Why, my dear
you are mistaken. lie has been looking
steadily at you, excepting when you
turned in his direction, and then he
would look at me to avoid meeting your
eye..
First Pretty Girl (sentimentally)—l
wonder —who —he—is.—N. Y. Weekly.
TaKariM of a l.nndnllilr.
In the village of Sattel, in Canton
Schroys, a curious landslide occurred
a short time since. An inn was carried,
without sustaining any injur}-, 35 feet
down a hillside, stopping just short of
being precipitated into the river
Steinen. The garden, the immediate
surroundings of the inn, the road in
front, are all intact. Even two large
elms near the house have not suffered.
A Conclusive I)emonst rn 1101.
"Peacock feathers and shells are con
sidered unlucky, are they not?" in
quired the lady who is writing a book
on superstitions.
"I dunno about peacock feathers be
in' unlucky," replied Mrs. Corntossel
"But I know shells is, because last week
Josiar lost s3l in a game thet was
played with 'em."—Washington Star
Acted Her Port Well.
She—Do you remember, Frank, th«
fight you proposed to me, I hung
head and snid nothing?
He—Do I remember it! Well,
should rather say I t!id! It was tbe la«
time I saw you act so!—Yoakcrs State--
man.
jprj \ qyv-y
IMPROVED CORN HOUSE.
It Is Inaccessible to Hats unil Mice
Ilecunse There Is No Hiding
IMitces t'ndcr It.
I notice that many farmers suffer a
great waste from vermin in the corn
crib, and frequently it is very serious.
Ilatsare especially a great enemy in this
respect. Unless the cornhouse is so
made that there are no hiding places, it
is imposible to dislodge the rats from
their retreat.
I he cornhouse, shown in end of view,
is made so it is inaccesible to rats or
mice, and there are no hiding places be
neath it. It is elevated three feet above
the ground on firmly set stone posts,
neatly dressed. The cribs may- be, made
from six to eight feet wide and of any
desired length. For 4,000 bushels of
•orn in the ear, the building should be
s&mhjjj JJ j J J J i
EI lp
—— f ''Heifer; 3=£:
AN IDEAL CORN HOUSE.
40 feet long with cribs eight feet wide
and 12 feet high. In building this, one
should use six by eight timber for sills
and two by eight joist.
The floor is made of two by three,
laid one-half inch apart so as to admit
the free circulation of air among the
corn. The studding should be two by
§ix, set three feet on centers, with
two by four girts notched into the
studding. The ends of this building are
sided with one-eighth-inch matched
drop siding put on horizontally, ex
cept the gable, which is put on vertical
ly with the ends notched as shown in
cut. Ihe sides are covered with one by
three-ineli strips set one-half inch
apart, and are put on vertically. The
space between the cribs is 12 feet wide,
and is closed inside from the bottom
of the cribs to the ground, formic# an
inside shed which is not accessible to
any farm animals. This inner shed is
closed by rolling doors at each end. The
cribs are boarded up inside the shed
with three-inch strips, placed horizon
tally, one-half inch apart, to admit air,
and by opening the doors free circula
tion of air can be obtained in fine
weather.
Above the shed it is floored over,
forming an apartment 12 feet wide by
40 feet long for storage of corn. A trap
door may be made in this floor to hand
up corn from below. The shed between
the cribs will make a splendid store
house for implements. As many doors
may be made in the cribs as desired.—
Charles H. Hickox, in Ohio Farmer.
BUILDING A CISTERN.
V-'hy Cheap Methods of Constructioa
Should in Xo Clreuiiistuiicen
lie Employed.
When making a cistern the same
rules as to doing the work in the best
possible manner apply as when build
ing a house. If expenditure cannot be
afforded to make a large reservoir,
without cheapening the work, make
it small and perfect. There are, of
course, some methods of construction
cheaper than others, and the cheaper
as good as the more expensive, so far
as utility is concerned, the extra out
lay being for surface appearance.
There may be cases where they have
stood well made in this way, but it is
risky. Build up good brick walls, well
cemented, and use a stone cap and
then you have a certainty. When the
size for the cistern has been deter
mined upon, take a stick—a strip of
board—and bore two holes through
it as far apart as half the circumfer
ence of the place to be dug, then
through these holes drive pins a few
inches long-, and use this as a sweep
for marking the circle upon the sur
face. Dig- down, making the sides as
smooth and true as possible. If the
cistern is to be jug shaped, begin to
draw in when half the desired depth
has been reached. A flat stone should
be putin the bottom, if convenient to
do so, with a basin dug out of the cen
ter; then the brick wall, commenced
at the margin of the basin. Do not use
soft bricks. Sooner or later they will
slack down from moisture absorbed
from the soil, and make the cement on
the water surface unsecure. Use aryh
brick, at least those that are made
from good clay and well baked. One
can readily tell by the looks or testing
with a hammer whether fit for use in a
cistern or not. After laying the bricks
in good cement, the wall should be
coated with plaster, made as follows:
Clear, sharp sand, well screened, two
parts, and water, cement, one part.—
Western Plowman.
Dust for Poultry Houses.
Now is the time to collect a few bar
rels of dry earth, road dust, fine, dry
dirt from the cornfield or potato patch,
or anywhere that is most convenient.
This is handy to have in the fall and
winter for sprinkling under roosts and
on the floor of the poultry house. It
absorbs ammonia, keeps down smells
and keeps things in good shape gen
erally. It will pay to attend to this
now, when it can be done so easily. D
costs nothing and is a real advantage
to have for use in winter.—l. Graber,
a Agricultural E^itouiist.
Do You
Like Boils
If you d<\ not, you should take Hood's Sarsv
fiarilla and it will purify your blood, cura
your boiis and keep your sy.stem free from
the poisons which cause them. The great
blood purifying power of Hood's Sarsa
parilla is constantly being demonstrated by
its many marvelous cures.
Hood's Sarsaparilla
Is America's Greatest Medicine. $1; six for $5
Hood's Pills cure Sick He%laclie. 25c.
He Didn't Know About Hairpins.
"By Jove!" exclaimed the bridegroom,
as he sat down and tugged away at his mus
tache, "this is too bad!"
They had ju»t arrived at Niagara Falls,
and the porter had bowed himself out after
carrying up a trunk that weighed 487 jiouuds,
for which he received a 50-cent "lip.
The frightened girl dropped her travel
ing hat upon the center table and stood as if
transfixed, with one of her gloves half off.
"What is it, Harry?" she asked.
"This is a fine go,"he muttered. "I won
der how in the world I ever came to do such
a foolish thing."
Then he felt in his pockets again, and cast
a helpless look at the big trunk.
"You —you haven't lost your pocketbook,
have you?" she asked.
"No, darling," he answered, "but I left
my keys at home, and the one that open*
your trunk is among them."
"Oh, is that all?" she exclaimed, with a
happy little sigh. "Here" —and she removed
1 hairpin from her rich brown locks —"open
it with this. Now 1 know that lam the only
?irl in whom you ever took a real interest.
Otherwise you would have known. Ah,
Harry, dear, I am so happy!"— Cleveland
Leader.
Why He Was Troubled.
.Tack —Come, old man, cheer up. What if
she did break the engagement; she's not the
only fish in the swim.
Tom —Oh, I don't caie about her break
ing the engagement, but you see I've got to
go right on paying installments on the ring
for the next six months. That's where the'
icy breeze comes in.—Chicago Evening News
Fortify Feeble Lungs Against Winter
with Hale's Honey of iiorehound and Tar.
Pike's Toothache Drops Cure in one minute.
Suspicious.—Nephew (to rich uncle, whti
has fallen down stairs)—"l hope you are not:
hurt." Uncle —"Oh, you do, do you? You
know very well that 1 must be either hurt or
dead."—Cincinnati Enntiirer.
Piso's Cure is a wonderful Cough medi
cine.—Mrs. W. Pickert, Van tsiclen and
Blake Aves., Brooklyn, N. Y., Oct. 20, '94.
There is more money squandered in foo!
bargains than is spent for whisky.—Wash
ington (la.) Democrat.
Sure
Gas*® for
G&isis
When the children get their
feet wet and take cold give them
a hot foot bath, a bowl of hot
drink, a dose of Ayer's Cherry
Pectoral, and put them to bed.
The chances are they will be
all right in the morning. Con- .
tinue the Cherry Pectoral a few
days, until all cough has dis
appeared.
Old coughs are also cured; j
we mean the coughs of bron- |
chitis, weak throats and irritable
lungs. Even the hard coughs
of consumption are always i
made easy and frequently cured J
by the continued use of »
Aner's :
Chary :
Pectoral'
Every doctor knows that wild
cherry bark is the best remedy
known to medical science for i
soothing and healing inflamed
throats and lungs.
Put ono of
Dr.Ayer's j
Pectoral
Plasters 1
over your lungs
Thm Beat Modtcmi
Advfco Freot
We now have some of the most emi
nent physicians in the United States.
Unusual opportunities and long experi
ence eminently fit them for giving you
medical advice. Write Ireely all the t
particulars iu your tuiso. /
Address, l>r. .T. C. A YER, 1
Lowell, Mass. i
[ What's tie
1 Matter with
| KANSAS ?
S KANSAS OWNS (in round numbers)
• 900.000 horses and mules. 550.000
9 milch cows. 1.600.000 other cattle.
• 2.400.000 swine and 225.000 sheep.
S ITS FARM PRODUCTS this year in
• elude 150.000.090 bushels of corn,
9 60.000.000 bushels of wheat and mil
• lions upon nvillions of dollars in value
• of other grains, fruits. vegetables, etc.
• In alone it has a shortage.
• Send tor free copy of "What's the
0 Matter with Kansas?"—a new book of
0 96 pages of facts.
General Paaaeoger Office,
0 The AtehUoo, Topeka A Santa Ke Railway,
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