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NUMBER 12.
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how thn vprv b wt riiJe antl rhomvat dMtirn In
Koyai. Wiltoss. Axuikm ARD Mohcettks, with oord-ri to match. andnaran
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f oui wh.ch to si.i.ct. Bt :;.xlv HiUHSels at l 23. and plenty at lower prior.
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Oration at t.tv ra-cn.b!e prlres. ...
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When In l'iU."ura d n't fall to eime dneet to the People". Sror for the above
toods and everything tu need In Ln-s GooJi. Trimmlnits, Suits and Wraps, House
Llneu, Luderwar. Miliincry, Etc.
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Ltmples of anvtblnK In the liry Goods line
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r inch .ultincs lu dark colorings, checks,
'Bd stripes. ceuts.
S Inch All Wool Ttlcota and Cloths, 23
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" .' inch American 'NovelUes.ctiecks.stripes
t.B'1 plaids, ,,3 eentl.
60 Inrh Si:n:ch (,'r-fvlots. In beautiful as
Vtment of various shade f urey and
mn stripes, 30 cents a yard : all-wool
B1 worth renulnrlj 73 ceuts. Exlraoidl-
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Siiie r.oidnre Suitiiis, 40 cents.
Impopted Novelty " cents.
All-Wool " " 73 cents
In brief the largest aasertment of special
alues In Wo.l uit'nis, s5 cents to 75
Bnts, ever placed on sale in any one store.
! SILKS.
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Plain Surahs. 1! inches wide, We, G3a.
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34 Inclu s l(i., f l . v -y best tiut di rumle.
T?ew Chev'n" Si:b itt Spring colnrlnss.
(jecKSM .I vtnve, no cents.
New Austrian Cloths, all Silk, entirely
new fahrlc, Jl 00 a atd.
80 pieces co loret! Armures. 11 Inches wide
"75 cents, best color ; goods mads to sell at
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lariiain evet aoiit
New Faille Kiaticaissx, Summer Silks,
fabutal Silks, iDdia Silks, tc etc.. at
; ices towr than such (ut;!ties are usually
l il l at.
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Jjurnal now readj free upon reijuest.
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yun also If mi did not receive a copv last
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aod a copy will be mailed, it ill order busi
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Try tho Cure.
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axraeabla. ITIc. V) renu at tirairirtM ; hy mall
reBliered. 0 cu. ELY bid s M W arron St..
Naw York. '
NATURE'S,
A KILIIRI E Kllltni
Far Mrk hi
CURE FOR
F.r Tor. 14 Llrrr.
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C0HSTIPAT10H. JSXSL
SItseor Aperient
It la carta I a In It atfecu
Tils ranlle In lu actl o
It la palataabla t tha
taat. It can ha raited
upon to core, and It rare.
I y .Murine, not ty ootrar
Iok, Bitare. Ik i,ot taa
i.leut pu'-tf.iiiv.t ynor
rlvca cr alhiw your chil
S:ck-l!ead2clie.:
dren to taka tt.eut, alwara
till .leicmnt phar
tuacntleal preparation.
AJtD wnien baa ten lor mora
than tony ye!r a pohUe
0SPEP5IA.errr""-rw,rt'
miriami
The Romance of HeaMeiili Hal
Bv Maxda L. Crocker.
CoPTuaarr, lSdQ.
In the front a grotty, well-kept (rarden.
where, cionbtleaa, ia aummcr the di.piay of
oid-foshioned flowers was aomcthinir novel
for an American to behold. But in ttie rem
nant of ita tormer frl ry I took but Utile
aatisfiu-tion, althougu the dUplay ot irreat
clumps tif thrifty niarijrolda and crimson
bed of U'e pr.uiiurns made it a warm, -rich
lioku.p picture.
But tho best prt of the visit there to re
member, to uiy uiud. was the warm wel
come we rocoived from the matronly-look-ir.sr
English luly in cbartre.
So pl.td to oava you come," she aaid,
smoothing out her apron of b.ue and wtiitt
chec ked linen anil handinf us each a chair
while aho talked.
In five minutes' time I felt perfectly "at
home" at Srin Urook, o iiann' l from a
clear, gushing fmtituin bt.'b Uigdown over
mosy bo'.vKicra nar the house.
LU ham so wcry buy L'.a the kitchen,
ladies, hand if you wouldn't mind to to
sit with me there, w!iy. Hi could wisit
with you to much better haJvantae," .be
said, after a lit lie, rvilh a Lri'iie of her head
ai.J a sort of aiNth iruinir an i.e.
Certainly we would ait with her there,
and fiTlli with wo .at nr..l ci.j ived her ao
ciaoility while she baked and Unified to a
turn l:i r br'ad and a n u;ij uf spriu
chickens meant for ua. Sin? kept no he!j,
ao she 'ouud it nc-ceasary to bo at toe helm,
onmpuny or no e.a panr. And audi a
bricbt, resial hoetess one hardiy ever
meets as did the honor of Spring Urook
farm.
And now, hovr pleasant the recollection
of tlioao sunny hours charted away Lwn- ath
the wealhcr-Lx'aleu (gables of the pleasant,
deep-windiweil ki'chen. 1 can almcist ae
myself rix king' s f.'.y to and fro in the uld
fashioiicJ ruh-bttom rocker, and litctubflr
to Mrs. Urcy's k.ntily voice, or fancy u.y
aelf cuddled up in the deep chintz-covered
arm-chair br the window, watching her
busy with her work,
i litit that Is, tu, anioiifr the pas and the
. twri':i;.;ht sefthng over the Uovrua over there,
and the dark, restless waters beyond, re
mind me that it is evening once more iuthe
suburban Hastings.
The great arms of the windmill look very
distant and hazy, like unto a ghost iu the
air; and I hear a few rooks rhatterlntr, and
perhaps quarreling, in the elms at the back
of the co'Uifre. Ohuiys will soon licht the
lamps, and then I will feel obliged to go in
doors and leave the twil.ght; mysterious
aad indistinct as tt is. how I love it 1 It puts
ms in mind of Joaquin Mi.ler's rest, por
trayed in his excellent poem, Tha ftest of
the Grave.'
There Cac?ys hts lighted up the chande
lier in theroeb?!d i f a p u lor, and tho mIi
light from the colored globus falis over a
piece of statuary lair as Undine, and slants
like a halo tlinuicti il,o g aA doors this siue.
And I can see from where I &it, here in the
delicious, shadowy night, coasin Jl.ltiug
arxnit the room, and tioto the sivtt p of her
crimson gown. Site la trying to bo glad and
happy to-uight, for I am to start for home
to-morrow, and she docs not desire to leave
any unpleasant iniprsinn on memory. I
know sho is heart ,ck, however, and un
uVrstand her dissembling.
My luggage is reaiiyforan early start;
Miriam's picture is nicely packed for a safe
trausiort, and Al'.an I'ercival's letter to her
is safe in the bottom of my trunk. The
Stan Leys, with whom I came over, are
back to Ecclesbourne and will be reialy to
morrow, so there is nothing left for me to
do than to join thenx.
I am loath to part with Gladys also, and I
do my share of dissembling and for the
same reason. I am so anxious to present
Miriam with her much-desired portrait,
however, aud to place in her hand the cous
ii.ly lover-like, I venture epistle, that my
separation from my cousin' cheery com
pany will not seem so bitter.
But, after all, I mind me with a pang that
it ia those left behind that ever feel most
sorrowful at parting.
I shall p" ia now and Gladys and I will
aing"Auld LangSyne" together once, more,
as we had planned, Ik fore I must go.' I
fancy we shall seo tho words through mists
before we get half way tlirouch the song,
aud perhaps break down aud finish the rest
in tears.
"Itoueh sea," said the captain, and I seek
my cabin. Miss Stanley, pale as death,
seeks hers also; by this time she is prune
on her cot wishing fjrercry thir.g butdeath
and an uuruly digestive apparatus. I am
lucky ; I am not disturbed by the soiling of
tiie ship, but I chose rather to tumble about
alone, if I must, than to fall sprawling ou
deck or trip up a follow passenger in trying
to keep my equilibrium.
'While I sit here on the aide of my trunk
I am thinking of two f.ices left behind me
on England's sunny shores. One is the
face of Cousin Gladys, of course, as she
bade me gLHid-bye, with hot tears trickling
down her white cheek. It is a memory that
brings a lump into my throat and a sinking
down of the heart.
The other f ace ia that of Allan Percival.
I met him on my way to the wharf, and he
wa.ked with me down to the pier. "You
are off now, he aald, and hia face was
something to ace.
A at ran ire, yearning, hopeful eaaressicm
lighted up those beautiful eyea as he gave
me his hand in a last good -bye. And I
knew that he at least was glad to see me
ro. Why I B-vcuuj a part, perhaps the
whole, of his life-happiness depended on the
message I was to deliver.
(sometimes I half believed that Miriam
will put tl.is message In the grr.te and shut
her heart against all the advances of the
light of love. It would, doubtless, be just
like her to mope out her existence sorrow
ing for those that need it not.
1 have bad letters from her in my ab
sence, and I judge from their tone she is
very homesick to see me. and to get her por
trait. "I have Arthur's and the baby'a
picture hnng up in my room," she wrote,
"where the sunset can linger over the be
loved faces, aud I yet lack one more face to
make up my trio."
Well, she need not wait long. But the
sea grows calmer; the heavy, threatening
clouds are breaking away and the sunlight
is glinting through I go on deck. I wonder
If this sudden change to fair weather is a
forerunner of a nappy change In Miriam.
How I wish with all my heart, as I cling to
the railing for the ahip still rocks like a
cradle that I might be the happy medium
of bringing both these friendless orphans
together in a grand reunion of love. I fancy
I can di this by diplomacy, somehow. Well,
wait; we shall see if it be possible.
CHAPTEK XXTV.
A glorious morning; the air crisp and
clear; a calm, blue sky, with au occasional
white, airy cloud floating high and quietly,
as if no storm had ever entered within its
realm, and a bright, arnooth sea.
Such ia the loveliness of the autumn day
that our voyage came to a close, and the
Lady Clare hove in sight of New England's
blessed shores. America 1 Oh foronr delight
ed vision. We came on deck to coueratulate
oue another on the aafe and altogether
happy transit, to cheer up and be glad, as
otily beme-coming souls are.
Some cne says: "Sing 'Home, Sweet
Home,' " and forthwith we find ourselves re
solved into a blending of socg aud chorus
concert. Poor Howard Payne I He per
t.ips never as we tfoj' certainly u. ot
when he wrote hiS "memorable verses
which we so gladly sing.' No; but we ran
not afford to be sorrowfully inclined to-day
simply because he was unfortunate. It
grates a little on a sympathetic chord some
where in our make-up to say this, yet it is
true.
We put a newer, sweeter pulse into the
music; we are all glad to get home, espec
ial y are we glad that it is an American
hmne, and there is no Inclinat ion even to
sigh, unless it be from sheer satisfaction.
It's all very well to talk of the pleasures
of aa '"ocean trip'' and tho grandeur of the
voyage, but we found it monotonous enough
after the first day out. l'erhas furyoung
persona given to being very seutimental or
inclined to flirtation, the hours between
shores may slip off "satin shod," but to
those having too much practical sense for
either the one or the other, I should say
time drags.
W'c.l, here we are, and we glide fnto the
waters of the nay, our own little Narragaa
sett- There are plenty of friends at the
pier awaiting those on board, and again the
handkerchiefs are waving, but this time in
glad recognition and not tearful good-bye.
But, as I said when I started, I have no
fr leads to bid mo welcome only as a "fellow
citizen." aa the politician says, and so I
come ashore alone. The Slauieys are met
by a pretty turn-out, which whirls them
away rapidly to their fine residence on
Blocker avenue. Here goes a clustering
lot of steerage passengers, strangers In a
strange land, by tae look of them. Finally,
here I go, a very eager woman, with multi
tudinous bits and sizes of luggage. I signal
a cabby, and after a few minutes of boss
ing arouud'l 1 am tearing away, too, toward
home.
The dead leaves drift, the aster peeps out
from the shelterod nooks by the roadside,
and tha half-naked hills come to sight as the
city recede. Yes, the dear, familiar hills
at whose feet nestles Bay View cottage. A
turn in the road, we pass a stone wall and
come to a cold, bare-lo,hing hedjre, and
there just beyond lie the dearest little spot
oa earth to my heart. There is the cottage!
"Half in liht and half in shade," as the
pfrf't Tennyson says. I can never briny my
self to say "Lord Tennyson." Shades of
the vine! No! His wreathif deathless ruses
and lilies and laurel didu t ueed the tinsel
and pomp of "ye Iord," not to my Ameri
canized way of thinking.
But here is Bay View cottage, and
d'Eyncourt, Lords and poets are alike for
gotten. Cabby assist me ia with my lug
gage, I pay him his charges and am once
more iu my own domain and square with the
world.
But where Is Miriam, whom I expected to
fly out joyously aud greet me with a cry of
joy! I ask myself the question with a
strange foreboding of evil stealiug over me;
then I noticed something I had not, in my
unlading of the cab and gathering- together
of my traps, noticed before.. There was an
unusual stillness about the cottage, and
through the half -open door comes n smell of
medicine. Can it be possible Yes, Mir
iam ia "very Ui," so Maggie says, as sue
comes tiptoeing out to meet uie.
1 leave my luggage forgotten en the little
porch and follow the maid into the house
with a great paiu at my heart. I feel dumb
and dizzy with the anguisb of disappoint
ment and. fear, but I manage to ask how
long Miriam has been ill and if sh is dan
gerously so. Slie has been ill for two weeks
or more and is at present faltering between
life and death, so Ikictor Cushman said last
evening. A neighboring lady is upstairs
with her installed us nurse until I should
return to make further arrangements.
Well, thisishard! AU my little dreams
of fanciful and tivoot ruuunica are pushed
back behiud the sable curtain, and a differ
ent tableau brought forth. And it maybe
that Miriam will never know of the mes
sage I bring her; perhaps I am too late 1 If
! J 1 VC - T
sx. I ss v" i - -e " 1 --
HOME, SWEET HOME.
T Lai not t.iken that trip with Gladys,
and if I had come borne on Queen Bess,
which sailed the very day we bought ticket
at the Paadington station for Tap low, why,
I should have been in time to have not
averted her illness! Hardly, but I might
have alleviated the sorrowful burden which,
I was sere-, had borne her down into the un
certain valley.
Dazed aud heart-sick I go upstairs to my
room. I must remove my traveling cos
tume bathe aud dress before I can go into
the darkened room across the halL
Maggie finds time to bring me up a cup of
tea, &ni sits down on the edge of the bed
for a little cossip in undertone. Dear child,
she is overjoyed to see me and to get rid
of the responsibility of the honse. Under
the circumstances I don't blame her. She
looks, worried and thin. Aud as I Bip
my tea she tells me that Miriam "took
with a pain in her head," and that the doo
tor said "the illness was brought on by un
due emotional exercise of the brain."
Whether Maggie heard aright or not, I
am convinced that my suspicious are cor
rect in the main. The physician is to call
at three o'clock; it is now thirty minutes
past two, so I am obliged to wait a half
hour Delore I can lata with turn myself con
cerning Miriam. Ho is such a voluble old
man that 1 conclude to go down -stairs to.
meet him, as he will peibaps give me a
noisy greeting, and it (sight disturb her
all the one I have to care for in particular.
I meet Mrs. Courtney on the landing, com
ing up with ice-water for the sick-room.
M-igRie has told her of my return, and she
clasps my hand warmly and says in a
whisper: "It's too bad to find Mrs'. Fairfax
so dread fully ill, isn't it!" She doesn't ex
pect me to reply, aad k tie pa on in a staccato
whisper: "Would I come in and see her!
She wouldn't know me, of course cart, but
then mavbe I would like to see Wr, any
how." I follow the narse into the siclr-rootn with
an afilrmativo nod. There on the pillows,
in the semi-twilight of the rowm, lies the
fair, proud face 1 remembered ao well. The
dark, haunting eyes are wick open now,
with a dull, listless expression la them,
and the taper fiugera stray over the pil
lows and clutch aimlessly at the lace frills.
Her bresith comes fitfully, and a hectic
flush on either cheek tells the tale.
I go close to the couch, and, bending over
her, whisper her name. She starts, looks
up at me for a moment, while the fevered
lipa part in a smile as she murmurs: "Yes,
yes, yes 1"' but she doesn't know me.
I grow sick and famt and turn away with
tho hot tears oa my face. I go to the win-.
dow and look out. The beautiful day is
clouding over and the autumn wind is tear
ing across the lot beyond the forsaken gar
den like a thing of spite, the dead leaves
flvingen before. Tlie garden, too, is deso
late; the lilies are dead; every thing which
seemed full of joyous welcome at first
now has faded out into sable folds. I gaze
down the road and see the doctor's carriage
coaiingi and yeu. 1 go down stairs alicr ouce
more turning to the bed and brushing back
the brown tresses from the hot brotv of one
who knows me not at this my sad home
coming. The physician says that "within tho next
twenty-four hours the tide will turn in Mir
iam's favor or ebb with the tid- of tin.e, and
shs will pass over." 1 recall In r won is of a
year ago: "If 1 only could pass over and be
at rest!" Somehow the very memory cii.iis
my heart's blood. Will her prayer b.j jui
awered! If she only could live to rind the
message of soul-a unshine 1 have brought
her she might not want to be "at rest" now.
Perhaps if she lives there will be un
folded a bright, glorious chapter iu the
gloomy history of this child of bitterness.
Perhaps where the thorns are now the roses
wiil bloom, for "Love can never forgot his
own," I repeat; but I am ouly thinking of
Allan Percival in this connection, aud do
not consider that Miriam migut repeat it
with the outlines of two graves rising to
the beck of memory, to the utter exclusion
of all late gifts of affection.
The "twenty -four hours" are about ended.
Miriam is sleeping now, tranqud and pale;
the fever has burned itself out and she re
mains. The physician say.: "Sue will
wake after a little, a ace, conscious of every
thing, but very weak." I do not doubt him
In Uie least. She lies motionless and color
less as the dead, and I believe him.
Last night I watched with hi ra'.oac. Mrs.
Courtney, being nearly exha'irted, wei.t to
lie down and taka her much-needed rest,
leaving me, as I desired, alone with M.riam.
I bc-iieve she loves Allan 1't rcivaL Once
iu the night she tossed up h.-r thin hands
and murmured: "Ohl is it you!"' with such
a glad light coming into her dull eyes that
I for the moment forgot she was ill, arid
said, bending down and kissing her : "Yes,
it is me." Then she said, slowly: "It has
been so long since I have seen you, Allan 1"
1 was bending over her still, but when she
said "Allan". 1 started up with an inde
scribable feeling of happiness and an un
certain hope; that, I candidly beiieve, was
the sweetest sentence I bad heard for years,
and it seemed so much like wtiutl had hoped
would be, althougu it was foreign enougb to
the real Miriam as I had known her.
"So long, Allan; so long," sl.c murmured
over and over afterward a half dc-zen times,
and I am certain she loves hiia a lit He, at
least. I remember that in delirium quite
often the secret of one's soul escapes its
safeguard, and this comforts me. Oh!
Miriam, white and unconscious on your
pillow, you bare revealed to me a secret
which, doubtless, in your aane moments I
might never have been able to guess at, you
would Lava shielded and hidden it so
sacredly! ,
. The thought of Allan Percival's love being
returned is still in my mind when Mrs.
Courtney comes into the room, and L, catcn
irfg at aa idea, followed it tip with all the
alertness of a Pinkerton detective. I have
been but little else than a detective ever
since my wary feet touched the threshold
of Healherleigh Hall some weeks ago, so I
"put out my feelers" for a little enlighten
ment, if possible, aud I say with seeming
laucooceru; ''1 suppose Miriam has been
very restless ever since tier i!lnc.-,'' ?.iid
the answer couies: 'Oh! jes, ou can't
imagine l"-"
'Talking a great fJwuJ, too, I supiiose;
asking for me often, I dare say!" I want
to know if any one else ever Uoiird her say
"Allan," but do not ask directly, for the
reason that I J-?sire to keep her and Ilia
secret trrll; keep it as my own.
Oh lyes," ?trs. Courtney replies, with a
sigh and a pitviug lock toward the uncon
scious sufferer; "yes, she called for you
quite often; and sometimes she imagined
you were here, you know."
"Yes.'M said.
"And several times she seemed as if she
were talking to a gentleman, and would cail
him 'Allan' in such au affectionate way that
I supposed she saw, in her delirium, her
dead husband. Then I had no hopes of her
at all, for they say that if a very siek per
son thinks they are conversing with those
that are dead, why, it is a sign that they
will soon follow them."
I let Mrs. Courtney have her way about it
being the dead husband, and also about the
sign," for 1 have another evideuce to
prove my suspicion, and care nothing for
her beliefs. I sit there, nowever, listening
to ber whispering of the details of Miriam's
illness with seeming great attention. Of
course I had asked her for it, and I must
listen to every word, although my thoughts
were running away like maddened steeds
in another channel. I was back at lic it h-
erleigb; I saw the light of un worded love
shiuing in Allan Per. ival's handsome eyes
as he banded me a letter; heard him say,
with a little exultant hope ringing in his
fine voice: "Give this letter to Miriam with
your own hands." I remembered his look
of wistful, glad expectancy when I parted
with him at the pier; and then quiculy I
connected to those golden links Miriam's
words of the past dark sennight, and iu the
future I had spread out before me a reunion
ot lives, now seemingly so far apart.
But I wake from my fanciful romance
when Mrs. Courtney stops ber rambling
recital and asks me a question point blank:
"Hud I ever seen Mrs. Fairfax's hus
band V No, I had not
"Weil, had I ever seen his picture, then!"
Yes, I had; but the detective instinct was
again uppermost and I did not tell ber that
that was his portrait over there on the wall.
just visible from where we sat, through the
folding doors.
At my reply in the affirmative she gets
tip and motions me to follow her. I do so,
believing that there is yet another li:.k in
this golden chain I am trying to put to
gether for Miriam; one whtuh I had missed.
" TES, BBS CaJkUU ruH TOC QUITE UTTES."
Mrs. Courtney is determined, , to
solve something or prove something she
believes, aod I'close the door of tho sick
room softly, leaving Miriam slili. sleeping,
and tiptoe after my inquisitive neighbor as
inquisitive as she.
She goes to a small secretary at the end of
the hail, by tho window, and takes from the
inper recess of the middle drawer some
thing and fumbles it over. ''Well,' she
ejaculates, "I can't open ft. The doctor
took it off' of her neckV she ccntioaed,
handing It to me, and told, me to ptit it away
until she recovered; or until you came
home, if she did not." I took the bauble, as
I thought, and walked to the window to
more closely examine it, the hallway being
dark. Pushing aside the curtain I saw that
it was a costly locket attached to a very fine
gold chain. Oue aide was resplendent with
diamonds, and on the other the arms of the
Percivals, a a word and shield beneath a
Latin inscription In semi-circle. I knew the
sword aud shield at ouco belonged to the
Percival house, as I had seen it ou the seals
at Heart herleleh in the great, louely library.
Mrs. Courtney comes over to the window
where 1 dpi zal wattes 0 6udcTrr U
s3L II
open it with eagerness.
1 thought may he. her husband's picture
and one of the baby's might be in it," she
said, "an& I should like to sec them just
ouce."
"Yes,". I say, after try ing in vain to open
it ia tho ustial way. "I have seen both por
traits." Then, as I am about to give it up
and put away the locket unopened, I dis
cover a secret spring just at the edge of a
resplendent diamond. I pressed it, aud to
my graliiication and Mrs. Courtney's sur-pri.-e,
the locket new open, revealing a
banusouie face.
"Wasn't he handsome, though!" ex
claimed my companion, rapturously, "but
the little one's picture isn't here," she add
ed in a disappointed tone. I stood staring
at the miniat ure. "That's him, I reckon,"
queried Mrs. Courtney, noticing my uo.
slracofd look.
"Ohl yes," I answered, pulling my
tho-ij:l.tsto-'cther, "that's him." liut, al
though it was 'him," It was not the face of
Arthur Fairfax v.uich looked up ao bright
ly from its cosily set luig. It was the face
cf handsome yov.ng Allan Percival.
"It is too awful ba-h" said Mrs. Court
ney, "that they must be separated!"
"Yes," I answer, "it is," but she means
cue and I moan another. rtie thinks that
this p!- nure is one of the deceased husband's,
and is pitying in her kindly heart the sad,
sad separation made by death; while I
know that it is the exact likeness of Allan
T'ercival, and I can not help but bewail the
fate that keeps them apart, knowing what
I do now.
Tills locket, then, is the key to the story in
cipher I have been trying to read. Thre
Is really more betv.ecu Miriam and her
handsome cousin, after ail, tna.nl had dared
to hope. I gaze into tbc bright countenance
cf the picture in my hand, and my hoart
throbs faster as I think: Aha! Allan, I
tive come to an understanding now with
you. I know now why that wistful, happy
expression lighted up your fine eyes when
I sa .v you last. You had reason to hep-?.
"Mrs. C'.-.trtncy," I said, softly, shitting
vp the tase, "ive need uot say any thin t? V
Miriam abcat this, tts she is rat her peculiar,
and devoted to her husband's memory.
lVrl.r;;u she miht think we Lad no right to
open ti.is locket."
"Uii 1 1 won't mention It," she answered.
'1 only wanted to see the picture, and
thought inaybc the little one's was there,
too."
CHAPTER XXV.
It ia mid Dei-ember. The sun gleams cot
fitfully between great, dark snow-clouds,
tsd, dances coquet tishly over the carpet
after having dasbed through the frosty
pane.
Outside the air is pkvciog cold, and the
deep white drifts lie all over the dreary
earth. The jingle of Lells betoken by their
merry music that somchijy is brave
enough to be out and erjoy tho weather;
yet it may be that they are out uoUtm
wlcne, and havethe musicofthebellstokeep
up their ecmrage and render the mouoLony
of enow, sr.oiv, snow more bearable.
Iuside th plants abloom m tLe alcove j
give us a K.lrr.iise of st!3im'e, und the bin: .
ii Lis til e abjva tie-in is warbling his I
niatchics icatin as trerrily as if all tuilu
were but a garJen of June.
Esconced in tho depths cf my favorite
easy chair Miri-iai is cuddiod up, rather
than sitting, just vrhfrr the fitfvl sunshine
61 rays over her dark tresses, which iuthe
s:in;ieht are a rich brown, and in the
snadows a black color. She is very pale,
and those dark, haunting eyes are darker
and more haunting thau ever.
S.ie has asUed me long since if I "man
aged to get her portrait," and I have told
i.er that when she was able to sit up 1
wocld rhow it to her.
'Control yourself nry dear," I said a half
hour ago, when I started upstairs for the
mucbK?ovcted picture, "and pray do not get
excited in the least, as Doctor Cushman
says the last excitement may bring ou a re
l;i 1 -ti ' ' Kha iiroinised me to be -;i 1 m nrl I
brouf-'at the portrait down, just as Peggy j
wrapiicil it up, and laid it in her lap.
A ui'i'. hiy whiteness crept into her thin
face, i.it with stonily Hugers she unties
the s-.rinij and undoes the picture.
'It h-3 be en a long time sinc e I have been
face to face with myself," she says, dream
ily, passing her white fingers CHressinely
over t';o portrait. When I looked on l.iis
pic'cie lat 1 had no idea, of the dlsuiai
future-, hail no comvptinn of how much
hearts cia endure and still live. It Is all
this side, this side, the lesson 1 have been
learr.iiit'." Then she paused, and, leaning
her head back among the cushions, shut
her eyes. Presently the teardrops slipped
from beneath the closed lids. "Miriam!" I
said, half alarmed, ''let me hang up the
portrait; you are losing your self-control;
no wonder you are so weak. 1 ought to have
known better thau to have been so rash and
rislrr."
At this she opened her eyes and locked
at me through her tears. "No!" she ejacu
lated, with quite an emphasis for one so
weak, "you have done right. I need some
thing to help me out of this rut of desolate
heartache, even though it euine through the
outlet of tears. They will do me no harm;
they will ease the puia here," and she
placed I.cr baud over her heart.
I had told her previously of the Hall and
cf Petjy's mourning hec for dead; and of
how the two old servants would be over
joyed to see her dear face agaiti, so there
was no need to reiterate my belief that it
was her duty to go back and see them, even
if she c'ii uot choose? to stay. No. there was
no need ever to press the subject again, for
her Hint and nt refusal was more pro
nounced perhaps this time than before I
wen. to England, so I knew enough not to
touch en tbaL 1 only said: "Yes, I know ;
but you ought to cheer up for the sake of
your friends."
"Friends," she repeated, with a ghost of
a sznile lingering around her jerfect mouth.
"I have such an army! Patty and you."
Then she paused, and a far-away look nii;e
iuto her eyes and a faint color tinged her
cheek. Sho was Uaiiluug of Allan, 1 be
lieved, but I kept judiciously quiet. We
should get around to that by and by, if I
uiu not lai., by easy, pleasant stages.
After a moment she looked up with such
a wistful, yearnii.g look in the dark eyes,
but sho did not 6ay "Allan." No, sho Kaia :
"Of course I have Peggy and Aneil, who
are good and true in their way; but; they
are only Peggy and Aucil, alter aU; not
companions."
"Miriam,"- M said, rather authoritatively
for me, "you are not speaking of whom you
are thinking at all , nor have you e su men
tioned thtt wtfs name whom you desire
very mucA to see. Why not bo candid with
me, dear t I have done all in cv power to
rer.der you happy."
A wild,. frightened look Cashed over her
features, and I was afraid I sad said too
rauck. N aver mind," I added, apologetic
ally,, "t only had a fancy."
See shot a questioning plaeoe at me, and
a faiat Hash agaia overspread her counte
nance. Then in swift transition she was
again in tears. "I had a friend," she be
gan, aa if confessing a fault, "one whom I
think a grc-nt deal of, but I have h st all
trace of h!m, and I do n jt know now wliere
he is." Tae tears dropped clown unhatilcd
now, and she was crying like a child. "I
should write to him, but I have lost tae ad
dress I did have," she a J do 1. afur the first
paroxysm of grief had subsided.
"Would you like a letter from him, Miri
am!'' I asked, with a great joy v.igg.ng at
my heart-slrior". I felt lika Touu;. sun's
hero, so "Close on to the promised good,"
only the "good" belonged to someone elsj.
"Oil' yes," she answered, a hopeful li.'ht
buaoiiiig through the tears and Llu.nining
ber wan face.
"Well, Miriam," I replied, "wait until yon
are calm again, and I .will give youjuue
"Oh! Father in Heaven! Can it be true?"
she exclaimed, joyfully. It was the very
first tme I ever saw happiness so completely
outlined ou her usually sad face. I had
seen a lo jk similar ouce long ago when we
were wai.dering among the hula and rest
ing beneath the shade of a tree while we
gared ocean ward; but this was really hap
py at ticipatiou.
"1 presume you have reference to Allan
Percival?" she questioned, a rosy Hush
sw eeping up from clu-ek to brow.
"Yes," I answered, smiling. "I met him
in England, and he seemed very much
pleased to hear that you were at my home
in lihode Islaud, and be gave me a letter,
iiij ing: 4Give it to her-with your own
hands.' Iknowyou will be very happy
with him, Miriam, he is so noblo and good."
I said this last at a venture, but not
a.niss, for her sweet face was almost t rans
figured with the joy that shone from the
windowa of ber happy soul. "Now, when
you are calmer," I added, "I wiil give you
tin; letter."
The flush has gone from her face, and sho
is fitting over there In the fitful sunshine
culm as a summer's morning, outwardly at
least. ' I am calm," she says, presently,
looking away outover the frosty landscape,
hut there ia a ii ttie, happy tremor in her
voice, aud I know the love-light ia in her
eyes.
I take the portrait from her lap and go off
up-stairs. I hear her sigh as 1 shut the
sLa.rway-door behind me, and my heart
throbs for the denouement.
Down in the bottom of my trunk, where I
placed it weeks ago, I find the letter which
I was to deliver "With my own bands."
"Allan," I say, happily, "the darkest hour
Is just before dawn, you know," and I
go down-stairs light of foot and light of
heart. Why shouldn't I, when I was the
medium of so much life happiness, and I
h:id so longed to bring it about, too! It
seems to me that as I pass down the shad
owy staircase that the face of my dear,
dead friend. Lady Percival, smiles out of
ihe semi-uarkness, and I fancy I hear a
6veet, soft voice, long since bushed in
death, 6ay: 'Blessings on your devoted
head, my friend, for taking such good care
of my dear daughter; for proving to be j
su'-u a iireie,H waicn ana wara over ner
best Interests."
Miriam looks up as I enter the room with
a bright suiiie, aad I can not heip uttering
tltc words v.-Mcb. come involuntarily to my
lips: "Why! is this Miriam; always so
sad, so sad?" She doesn't rep! y," only
reaches an eager hand for the letter which
I a moment later lay on her white palm.
I turn away as the taper rirgers break the
seal. Somehow it comes to me that the
lu closed in sacredly hers; that I. even I,
have no right to intrude ou its perusal. I
take up my crocheting and. stirring up the
coals anew in the grate, seat myself at the
opposite window on my fancy work intent.
The wind sweeps tiowu from the hills anil
vil.irls the sno-.v lr.to min' tture mountains
and valleys out there in the front lawn,
where last summer she stood so wrought
up with sorrowful vengeance among the
iilies. Would she ever have such a sad
'ounteoance again as on that day! I did
not kr.ow. Would she ever almost hiss
spitefully throueh her .urly teeth that she
bated ii-r home i-r Hentherleigh home?
iikely. if I should be foolish enough
to broken tlx subj-.-t aguiu. But I will not;
I have more sense now.
A rustle i f paper mid a sigh, and-I look
up to see Miria'n bury her face in the letter
written oa Allan I'ercival's knee in Heath
erleigh Park. I can not tell whether she is
huppv now or not, hut I watch her furtively
and pretend that I do not care to be enlight
ened in the matter.
The better way to find out some secrets
is to dissemble, mul nlnv "f"ri !'ni:ft'-fni:("
to tne import, ana; aorording to the natural
perversity of things, they will unfold them
aelves belore your disinterested vision.
Some persons are like oysters; undertake
to be familiar with their affairs and they
shut up, shell-like, and you are left a vic
tini to your own over-imiuisttiveness.
To l CurUinned.
A WONDERFUL SPRING-
Its Water Corn tl lYomt Cu of Aloo
tiolb.ni lu Three Days.
Cured of intorrjperunee in throo days!
How many people know that tho
State of Georgia owns a natural inebriate)
asylum?
And, nevertheless, such is tho fact.
"It is the most wonda-rful spring in
ttie United Slates," said Special Oflicer
Iirodorick, of tho Atlanta police torco.
'"To what spring do you refer?'
"Indian spring. I have taken three
nreTt to that spring a ho were so far gone,
am the liquor habit that it looked as if
it was impossible for tht ni to quit, and.
every one of theiu was cured immediate
ly. One of thf m had been practically
drunk for four months. I took alorg a
supply of whisky, as people said it
would kill him to quit oil too tud lVu
Iy." "Did he taper e? m
"Ho took one drink afte-r he gat. to
Indian spring and after that declined, to
touch a drop. He said he. did not. want
it at all. He remained there thrr-day
and you never riw such a transforma
tion. He was as scTu-r as a judj. his
face was cleared ef ita bloat and the red
liquor look, and he, was himsc-Lf again.
Since that timer he has been at. work
steadily and hs not touched a, drop.
That wax six months, ago, lorsj Kiuugh
to effectually Hcttlo the ruatW-3.'
Dcms it pro e . equally elV-uejou3 on
others?"'
"I liavo tri4 thre caeies Mad with the
Rarpe happy results in ewwy case. L"
believo that that littls atring, whica
dues not holi over a gallou of water, its
0110 of the most valuable4., in this coun
try, and worth all tho h'pitals in tiio
land for the4 cure ef im-briau.s."
"Why don't sonic-bcdy ship tho
water?''
"In tb first place, tbt spring Tbt longs
to the S juU; of Georgia., and is juist as
the Indians lett it lonf; ago. Thcsstato
government has wvr permitted any
body t lea.;.' it or to attempt to anlargo
the fujw. The wir ia fre-e for any
body,. In the secorul place. tL re is a
vola'ite gas in thei water than escapes
afte-r a few hours, rendering it fiat and
robulng the witter ' of it extraor
dinary qualities.. For these- reasons io
attempt has e-er been made) to txi
prt it, and pe-0le aro coujedled to go
U the spot to enjoy its Ik uefits. I ifi
a wonderful spring in many other r4
spects, but it. is tho kin of all lhjuor
habit cures that ever 1 have bven." .
Atlanta Ceirtstitutiou.
HosV'.ss "Ami o you reaily belieyw
the moctn to 1 inhabited, professor?"
l'rofosruir "Ah, wll. I do saot say at,
but rt in vun inon i.i vieh zer inns "be
vui man." Hostess "And which wight
thu.l-, pray . Professor "Vy vat
yo.i call it? Ze honey iu.,KJli:'
"Wiliia!!.," s iid a grieved father to
his dissolute boy, "do you know you aro
going 8' ralght to tho dev II?" "2'o, sir,"
answered William, promptly "There
isn't any devil. He's been ruled out of
'.lift gane. You'll have to como at uie
some other way now, father." And sad
ly tut firmly Villiain'9 father camo at
him for tho next ten minutes with a
lor.j, tough. Lickcry swucL.
KANGAROO HUNTING.
Katea.lve ftlltat.,m or Their Utile La
tile lulled Mtat.
Thero are o,000 kangaroo skins ro
ccived in Newark, N. J., every week,
The-y aro all tanned in ono largo estab
lishment en Sussex avenue., and aro
ttien made into fine shoe. Australia
and New Zealand f:irni.-,h kangaroo '
Lidos for tho world. The kangaroos aro
killod in. Australia alxaut S'.H) miles back
from tho co:ist, and are shipped from
Melbourne, Sydney and Newcastle, in
Australia, and from Masterton, in New
Zealand. Up to 1WJ the kangaroos
weire killed and eaten in Australia, and
their hides wero cut into shoe-strings.
Hut an Englishman named P.rown in
that year discovered tho remarkable
character of the leather, and brought
several thousand skins to this country.
Ho tried to well tho hides to tanners;
bat the-y were shy of tho nove lty, and
he had to sell them at a sacrifice, to
a book-binder. The book-binder made
triangular corner pieces iu ledgers and
commercial books out of the skins, and
j) ascertained tho pood quality cf
The leather. It au in thia way that
the larger leather factories were Crbt
attracted to kangaroo hide. Tho skin
was found to bo very tenacious, and
the ooi.ipaetnes of tho grain prevent
it-s absorbing water, whil.3 liio aoids in
blacking tiii-t with an al most impervi
ous ulstauce. It was Lard Work for
years to get the kangaroo, skins. It was
not until the N'-vc arker, ho now tans
them, sent agents V Australia three
years ago that the demand could m' sup
i'UeU. Tho characteri-siic climates of
Australia and the pugnacity of tho
kangaroo make hunting the hide dan
gerous. Yint-r starts in. May and ends
in December ia that country. Tho rest
of tho year the heat is inti nse. the ther
mometer frequently reaching 140 do
frees. Kight men hunt together for
kangaroos. They are ca-ilcd a "set."
When brought to bay ti. kangaroo
jumps like a flash for thv hunter's chest
and tries to cruoii it in with his foro
feet. T prevent this each man wears
across hi breast two or throe-inch
thick matting-. Armed with a spear,
with a club-attachment at th4 other end,
they rid upon swift horses into a herd.
With they agility a-id. cq'.wpoiso of
circus riders tin y stand crvt upon
their hrrH and Hi' their spears
and club:. -The ks.r.garo. is a bio
to jump clear over a b..rii. As tie4
game is bagged it i Hkln:e d. and tha
skin is st 'if h,. ,1 mi ce(1.,tnl pnd
pegged down to prevent "l.rin kafc. Tho
r1"h furni 1'ts- meat or th c:itnp.
ICach man pJn his pr-.v '.te rri.i--k upon
uis booty, snd wh 11 they h.avu 100
skins apie r tin-;4 return. iac.Jc tr-'vili-'.atien.
Tin rr-' :i.-e lvc r.iy c.r:-' of
kangaroos, aiui-i.'.4- tiietr. ti:o l.'u. , red
W&llahy, black, gr-iy and 1'i.i'c.i- r, tho
llitter f!iriisb(Ug tl.ebest lea: her. as it
lives ni iiniy in woo! 1 si--:iiois. When
..he shi;ip:n: p-ts ,tr.. ts-i,. m 1 tl:.- hunt
ers INpo-.e. of tin- skinx V.y a.; -Lion to
tho highest bhl.iers arid ts-alin nKut
seventy cents h j.o4in-.L TTmigan o 111 t
crs tuako laco pi-oflts. Ouj inrui is
known ti b:ve cicu.e-1 ':.?: frc? of liv
ing evrx-iisi-s in a sit:;'"ti .- a.-. The
tanning uf I--incra-o skiito is cot.-fiiu-d to
men e:npl y'dl hy Amiu'i'mis, 115 other
JuaU'a cni notatTfTd to pay kiie l:igh
pricx-.s 'or th" raw maMrit.i. Tio result
is tiint l'y 'i-ian and Ijoo'.o: slx-in in-uf;e.-t,urt'rs
bay tin ir --u jit of ka:-.i'uroi
leatheir direv.-tly fren- ..'.'.irv-i;. and
prominent J .-aiors ::i C n'...i .-, t rH-et,
Siuiin, and even . u -trr.il:'. i L-.. 11, m-' ive
their supplies lnun tt..-; s:i.ie. Tho
manufacturer hero stuu,s tho id "a that
the original seven-lea-rne boots; wero
made from tho skin of the groat Austra
lian lcapcrii.. Providenco (IC I.) Jour
nal. -
ABOUT MOONSTONES.
They Come from In Hit and Are ver
bold ly 11'!-
"The word 'precious' can not be ap
plied to moonstones,!' said a well-known
dealer In jewelry; "because their
rcarketalilo value i relatively small at
all times, and is still further influenced
by tho decrees of fashion. For some
years past we huvo had but few calls for
moonstone-s, but about twelve months
ago they were rcstorou to popular favor,
and will probably continue to be much
usocifor suuiv time to curne. The stones
com, from Indian are ci-aisily prcn-ured,
and there is but iitclf) wao-to in cutting.
They-aro almost invariably of abluisli
white tint, t'ie rays ef tlie most perfect
steles mile resembling moonlight
(hence the -name), those of a less clear
or- yellowish hue boi.nr of but little
value4-. Whir, carved the clear trans
parency of the stone li of course marre d,
leit many of tbe.n a so einlx llished,
tiho man -ai the niiMjn be-ing a favorite
device,, and a bab lace4 aurrouuded
wilh a cud of pearla or tiiatnonds .
arother."-
The moonstone In selom worn alono
by fashionablo p.;!e. having usually
an accoaipanying sttixig of diamonds or
otheT precious Siviitos. In response to a
quostien tho JeaLt-e alii'-i: 4'Tlio
largesi moons vuno 1 hve v-r scr-n s
one of oblong l1itj4' about one and three
quarters incln-s- in length und ti ree
quar jer3 of ai.iuuli iua width. This ..was
set to represiva UatUTtly with puttial-;
ly 'Jose'd wings f briliiantly-c Jored
stoje-s,4and whs intended to 1k -orn as
a pendant. Then stones aro not, valued
by we-igh i as others are, but s! iply by
appeiaraneo auid. size, a pcrfoc'ly round
stone being more desirable lljn a flat
ter on tind more rare.
As t'ao iMCAiasteme Is traditionally
lucky ll is. moat suitable for-souvenirs,
parting and anniversary gifts, and from
present Indications will I v much used
for favors and wedding pr sen Is during
tha coming; gay season. Y. Sun,
Ttie Mont IK-hirattlo Knd. ,
Most i"ople havo aiany things in
which they desire to succeed, iniioce-nt
iu themselves except when they inter
fere with a higher aim and worthier
purpose. It is this coiiliict of aims, thin
gradation of duties, that makes lifo
uften seem so complex and so dillicult.
The questions oome continually belore
tvry thoughtful mind: 4,Is this aim
which I set loforu me the highest I can.
reach? Is it not merely adesir;.ble end,
but tho mot desirable? Is it likely
to lead to still bet'er and worthier
purposes, or is it likely to hide tiic-m
from ic4'."' As we answer these qiies
tiens to ourselves intelligently hud con
scientiously, the rightful limits of each
will Ktotno clear, tnd our desire to
succeed in each will harmonizo with
thoso limits. Thus the desire for pleas
ure tK) limited by ttie desire for
he'll th,-the care of self by the care for
r e thers, the love of money bv the love of
I honor, the effort to please by the elloTt
W do j-igLt, IS. Y. i.edc'fcr. - - .1.
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