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Ii.m ri'- rt-nlly I evn l,,iii,t-..ir Ijr tf I li r I, I - i.f.l rT. id tnif.i w,, rvrTf (,., , yr ., I- "lif i.l i.rfltlrM. llfUle-t it. t .,... , ; "'' ' '.tii.l ria Ii IB in .-haratj ..I f. in.,. """"'"'... will VIV i-rtrv h I Irnii.t I to UMiiOi.tn. uur tair..hae ...lirfrl iailir.K r l'AslAY. II YI I',7 7 l'Ms n s ;...-.,..., iari.tI-am -r r.i. ''Ill U I .'..ri-r.. S70 ft tKH,.: I45s5 J.V?, "o. 41. iy'ifion 5-..'u,k ' ''a3'Mi.t.iuu.u-r.ll.;.J 1118 ! ; ELEVENTH AVENUE i i fliai a nil t a r in if i.l I . I ' A N S M A X "S . ( : ; 1 1 -i kwki.i: v ? rnr.TTTTTin r.i M .i v Auiu. mLoitai liiiiiiiiiiio. liU AN ! Optical Gcodc. Sole Agent - ki n; niK- Oelebrated Rockford WATCiUKH. Colunililii Frcilonia Watches. In Kty ami Mt'iii Wiiult-rs. ..a!:(;k sKurrms n? am. kinm .f .) V.W KI.1IY Hlwiiydon liamt. Mv litii of .If wp try is utisurpnssfft . ' nif an. I sei' fi.r yiinri'lf In f orp pnrchns n j -K w lieri". !-" I.I. wni.'K ir AK ANTKKO CARL RIVINIUS Ki'.nhnrii, Nov. ll.'lHS.'.'-tf. And a good a?7:f . . i,r i ii.! r- - ' r .T ... i 1 . 1 ! 1 i '.".,' j i u it.. i iii, vjt'iui must: see " 1 ne Kochester" trs V'?rV' rl forciLl v. All mt-ril. V' 7 iii.uh; in inrcc pieces oniy,4V.--:-r.;';'l irrrruer nun rras liLrr.t. and more cheerful than either. THE in A(i.-ih oi .rc v T PSICE3. J '-Ju ITS I 1HJM. I'tjii.'in. wrtttrn nt ri'irt nlre In the OLD RELIABLE 1 ETNA" . wllirr I irot 'tmnn 'iiniianl'. T W. DTCK, flaf H.-VUTKOlin FISlEIXSIIinWIKCOllT. ' ' M M r.f' 'KI BI S1NI.SS 171KL. r:,.r.rinr . .1 m vi.iasa FEES BROS.' Shaving Parlor, Mam street, Jfear Post Officr, t.Thr iin.r.-li:Tip.l ,l. lrr In Inform llie .nl. Ii.' Uiat lliry l'nf iiKni'. itivlni; mr ttr tn M .in . iri.rihtt.rt ilti-' whr t'..rlM?r'ii in hi ll it inf'" will tw mrrlr.1 in in the lui.irf. r'vvrv 1 limit iif.it an.! rlraa. Yitur tatronae auliriietl. ftrSi KKOS. r 'A iff A CRICHTUR MORROW. I.irk fl.tiiil r.il.ls ave alttvc us. Tin- K.iuu.ii'o ns tl ihf raia Hf:ir tl. iwi iiHiii Hit' Ion-Mi, Ami ui't ialt.iii; the lain' Tlit y ltr'a tin-ir sliiiim? lunrea A"uinst tnir Ittvftl rt'lrfat, Aii'.l li i.in .1 i.ii r swt'f t l.litHiinis v iia .s.viit. iiiisturin fit t: Yft will ixir lifarts ! jityiius, N.r fri'-f nor troiiblf iMtrrow; Tlifrf ftinif in if.icf. Ihe Mtitrm will ceasa Tlit'rt 'll tt -JL l.rii-'lilfr morrow! So. wlii-n our lives aro ilarUi ni'.L A n.l rliiu.N .r ill huni- tt'iT, , Wfll ni'Vf r f.ar thi' Ktinsbirit. J Will ti .1 Uif uorlil no inori.'. I.ft lu.t your hfarl-s In' troulleU'n Sit ill liimlly suvi'th He Who' in tiulati' liushi'd the waters 1 if storm v lalilft'. Hi- hrinj's thf lilm of Gileail To liral tlif unniKls of Sorrow; At Mis In hfst, tin ro i-onu'tli rt'st There'll lie a in if tiler morrow 1 Ilravc I'rother, art thou weary, A Ml is the journey lout"? Dear sisler. ilost thou falter. lias si.rruw si Kit tl thy souk? Kfjoiet .' tlie sunset rethlens. Tin clouds are rolling y. The irioi-iou.s "linn of proinise" I!au;'s in the eastern sky! Thy heaven will he sweeter l'oriinysof earlhly sorrow; The storm will rea there eomcth peace Thfre'll In a hrifhler morrow! AnUrew lMwiiini-', in Inter Ocean. OX THE WAY JI03IE. The Happy Ernlini? of a Pleasant Summer Vacation. "( Kxitl-liv, pirls, fTtvul-liy! I ilon't know how to thank voti. 1 feel as jrpatffnl its thi' liiiil'ets who profit ly tlif fresli air fiuitl. Ves, of eoursv I'll I 11 ivt.. i.n.l l tnr.1 ...... .....I ! set- m.i as smm as you can jfootl-hy!" D.tfolhv .Vilnius spoke ruthor sorrow fully an. I K'iLiu'tl out of the car win. low with reckless ilisreartl for pji-ssinr trains to catch tin' last plinip.e of the merry party of nirls who were waving giti K - 1 1 V . W as it really the end of her beau tiful summer? She settleil Lack in her chair and tried t.) prepare herself for what looked such an unpromising future; but try as she would ht-r thoughts went back to her life that summer so different from a!ivt!iiii'r she hatl ever Wfore ex- t't ii'lll'Ctl. tiu'i'i ville, Ilorttthy's home, is a de lightful little place, just far cnoiio-li from ISosfoii t. Ik- Huh' eiitlent of it. and in this respect it is wonderfully like its inhal itants, wins hav inr ihem selv.'s or their ancestors lived intjueer vi'le for tiie past two hundred ears or in. .re, lire sutiicUnt unto themselves an 1 .'i-i:i;ts a t ri lie ei ilitempt lit .us of th s.' who have not ha.l such ad-i':iiil;i-'i-s. 'the academy nt fjneerville, like I'vcrvthin' ami almost everylxtdy else, is an mst.; utioii t.f :iff.-, and for many years mi Adams has U'en master there. And it. has ltiiif Iteeii the regret of Ir. Adams' life that H.rothy, his daughter, shoul.l not have Im-cii Jona than, his son, so that viictrviile could Ik' spare. I the shock of seeing a Smith tissil.lv even a Jitjies as his so. ,'i'ssi r. l;ut tlurin;? the last few years stranre nt it ions hail crept into (Jneerville. ami Dr. Adams ha.l willingly trrown In thin'- that in these days of wi. mail's ad vaiicemeut it would l' most tittiuT ftr Ikirothy. whom he had yiveii a most classical training antl nlm hatl thrown herself heart and soul into his work f. ir lh.rothy herself to lieeome in time "master" of Iueerville academy- 'l'o this project l..rt.thy hail iriven i';i!',-r assent, and it was alter no little piea.liiio; that her Philistine cousin .'! ;i liv.l. who livetl in i:tston, hail won .hit Ifctrothy and her father to her own plan for the summer. Aceordinirly the last day of June ha.l found Ilorothy with the Wards alxtard tin: Iniat Ixiiind for liar llarixtr, antl perhaps her o;ratitmle hail Ix-en shad . nvod by the thought tlmt it was some thing of a condescension for one of the (Jucervdle Adamses to be part of Mich frivolity. "Mnt it didn't last long." thought Ilorothy, peering out of the ear win dow for comfort. "'Ihe first glimpse of tin s.: grand cliffs bill. ting us wel come matte me humble enough; and if ever there wis a grateful girl, you dear cousin Mildred, slut is I and 1 couldii t tell j-oti half how I felt. Oh, dear, ilear! It's all over now, anyhow yes terday I was in it, and toil ay I am not sol muslin- sensible or father will wish he had kept me at home!" 1'or two months sue had led the most delightful, tin; most idyllic life. So ciety, that mysterious something that lit-. Adams regarded with such scorn, and that iK.rothy herself had hatl a little Pharisaical feeling toward si cietv bad taken an outing, and with her.' She had lie en part of it and she hail liked it- Yes In? fore all jucerville she was willing to become its chain- -j pion. "Talk almnt society Wing frivolous anl hollow, she thought to herself, rehearsing a trille, perhaps, as she re called how she, Ilorothy. who had her bri'i'It anil Latin at her linger tips, and w ho thought she knew something, had been obliged tt remain si lent many a lime when they were discussing in tensely interesting subjects, simply be cause she knew nothing about them. "Oh! It's a thousand times lietter to lie part of this living world and inter ested in tne things that are troubling men to-day than to be existing way back in the dark ages, and trying to hammer Oreek and Latin into heads that arc thinking of cricket and foot ball!" Dorothy looked defiantly out of the win. low ami the trees nodded approval as the train rushed by, taking her back faster and faster to tjueerville and the academy. Yes, it had lieen adelightful summer, antl Dorothy hatl show n as much eager ness for pleasure as she ever had for learning. 'I here bad Wen riding and rowing ;uid canoeing. Is tliere any thing much more delightful than canoeing? To feel the water in subjection Wneath her gave Ilorothy such a sense of se curity that she laughed at those who san! 1 ht"'e was danger. And the pranks they had played! ami the fun they had hail! "Probably it is Wcause people only bear of that side of the story that they call society frivolous" thought Ilorothy as she re me m Ik-red some of the queer notions she hail had bcrsclf. 'Why, even the men had Wen a de lightful surprise, for with all their as sumed intlilferem-e thejr hatl done some of the liest things. How small 6he felt that morning she congratulated Ned Marshall so gushingly cm his bravery, and lie replied: " 'You're awfully kind. Miss Adams but you didn't think I'd let the little fellow drown, did you? tih! yes, she might ven have made a hero of him if he hadn't parted his hair in the middle and talked with a lie p. If she could only have Wen as sensi ble aWiut them all! Put how could she help it he was so different from any one she had ever known, and he had Wen so kind jubt cousinly kindness, of course. "And it's all over now." she thought, "and I will W sensible. I was Wrn to W a teacher, I was trained-to W a teacher, and a teacher I will tie. " Having freed her mind she swungher chair around with a force that did not augur well for the pranks of the com ing boys at Queerville academy, and that provoked a smile from the gentle man Whinil her, who exclaimed: "tiently. Cousin Dorothy, you almost demolished one of my pet castles in the air. I know you must have Wen preparing a harangue for the doctor on confess now, wasn't it the follies of fashionable life?" "Where did you come from. Cousin Jack? You certainly were not then when I came into the car. Where were yon? And where are you going?" "Not no fast. Cousin Dorothy! Hasn't the dictor always said that a success ful teacher should progress step by step. I tremble for the futurn of the academy!" "Don't lie foolish, please. Where did you come from?" "Originally? a merciful Providence alone knows. To-day, you say? From liar Harlior, madam." "Where are you going?" "To Host. ti if it please you. ' Can't I go to the head now?" "I don't understand," said Dorothy, petuantly. "Put you can't blame me for that I'll help you all I can. "You see. with my natural modesty I kept aloof from vour gi My party on the Wat. and at Ktx-kland there were so many tears shed and such sad fare wells said that I really could not in trude. I took my chair after the train started and then you " "Yes." "oh, yes Then you were lost in such deep meditation that you ignored me until yes, you certainly 1 i.L You Hung yourself at Hie, Cousin Ilorothy. What do you sunpose the doctor would say?" "I don't know. You'll have ample opi.rtunitvtoa.sk him yourself in Pos- t.'U." 'Perhaps bur you reallv did not think I would let you go without say ing gol-bv. did J'on?" -l thought we sa.i.1 it all last night. Didn't you say you should see me as sotui as you reached Poston? Antl didn't I tell you 3-oil would W quite out of your element in tjueerville?" "Uxaeiiy. we tre of one mind. Cousin Dorothy. I mean that is just whiit I think aWnt you. only I didn't muster up courage enough to say so last .-ven i:ig. "Put when you looked wi sad just now. d.-ar I couldn't help feeling jubilant; weren't you a just bit sorry at leaving ns?" "Why, Cousin Jack, how canyon? If I weren't sorry I'd le tbe most miser able creature alive. What has not Cousin Mildred done for me?" "Confound it! I say. Dorothy, that isn't fair, you know. I didn't mean mother. Can't you say you're soi ry to leave me?" His voice was scarcely au dible to her above the rumltle of the train, "i 'au't you say you'll come back soon to stay with me forever? You know how much I love you, dear." "Oh, Jack!" The Itvtk that accompanied ner replv must have meant much to Jack, for a blissful silence ensued while he beat a triumphant tattoo on the arm of his chair ami Dorothy again jx-eretl out of the window at the sympathetic land scaiie. Suddenly she exclaimed: "Hut Jack, what will Cousin Mil dretl say? And what will papa do aW.it the academy?" '.My dearest, dou't you knaw the mater is longing to have you for her daughter! We're such a woefully ig norant family we need a little academ ical training." Now there is no possible chance of an Adams again Wing "master" of QueerviHe academy, for Dorothy is now Cousin Jack's wife, and her name, of course, isu't Adams. P.stoii (iloW. Ilia OunilliHi Waa A .wrrfd. A rather vulgar personage, who had Wen created a marquis a few months previous to our story, man age. I to get himself invited to a court ball. 'I he new Hedged marquis could not contain himself for joy, anil exhaled prouu satisfaction at every jiore. Casting an Olympian glance around the room, he chance. 1 to spy among the ladies the tall, angular figure of an elderly matron, with compressed lips as though afraid of wasting her breath, ami as lean as a lath. She was lean ing on the arm of a 3'ouug gentleman. Who is that nanny-goat?" said the noble lord to a gentleman who was standing Wside him. Antl the latter replied with a knowing smile: "That nanny-goat is the ambassadress of S , the mother of the kid who is giving her his arm, ami the wife of the oM buck who has the honor of speak ing with your excellency." 11 tloivedi. A Niiiirp Keproof. Once, when canvassing Hampshire, Lrfird Palmcrstoii held a meeting at a hotel which was but dimly lighted at each end by two small windows. Dur ing the noble lord's seech. he was frequently intcruptcd by cries of "No! no!" proceeding from a little fat man in one of tin windows There were loud culls to bring him forwariL but I-rd Palua rston promptly said: "Iray, dt.ut interfere with the genth-man. I-t him remain the window. lYovi dciu e l:.s ilciiiiil him any intellectual light; it would W hard, indeed, to de prive him of the light of heaven!" Triuwity if Cnlar. A remarkable curiosity, show ing the durability of Washington cedar, is ow ntsl. it is claimed, by a man on the Austin ranch, on Lake Whatcom. lt is a cedar log two feet in diameter, over which, it is said, a spruce tree four feet in diameter has grown. Over the main root of this and directly over the log is another cedar tree three fn-t in diam- , eter. The trees, including the log, are all said to W perfectly sound. A MODERN INVENTION. How It Came to the Eteacue of Mrs. Baacomb. The telephone rang briskly in Mrs. Howard Itascomb's pleasant home, and, stepping to it, she received this message from her husband: "Hello! Is that you, Lottie? I've concluded to leave for New York this noon. The boy is on the way to the house for my grip. You know what I'll need for a week or ten days' ab sence. tJet your sister to stay with you for company. Good-by, dear, s long. Take care of yourself." Then he rung off. aDd Mrs IJas fomli went In search of the satchel, which she packed with a deft hand. She was a young woman, sensible, well balanced, and nothing ever dis turWd or annoyed her to the extent of making her fidgety or nervous IJeing in robust health, she hardly knew what nerves meant. She was self-reliant, but domestic, and absorWd in her home life, which comprised her world. She had perfect faith in her husband, or else pretended to have, and cheated herself comfortably with the delusion. And she never cr.ssed any bridges until she came to them. She knew that her husband had in tended goiug to New York on the fol lowing day. and did not wonder or ponder over his change of plans. . When the messenger came for the satchel she sent it carefully packed, just as she knew her husband wanted it She added nothing to its usual eon tents an.l subtracted nothing. Yes stay. She did take out his seven-shooter, every chamber of which was loaded, aud laid it on the table under the mirror, in the back parior. 'Howdy has one revolver with him. That will have to do him this trip. I like to have one handy in case I should need iU" She smiled and smiled again without Wing a villain. The idea of needing firearms seemed so incongruous and absiK-iL in the afternoon she we nt up to her home to "borrow her aister," as she expressed it- Put Miss Madgio had gone away with some young friends and was engaged to spend the night at the house .if a schoolmate- So Mrs Pascoinb returned home alone. Two men ttood iu the doorway of an unused llight. of oflice stairs and read an s'veuin;f paper. They were mucu occupied in di' .cuss ing one item among the personal news. It was this: "The KubWr Horseshoe company is an assured fact. Mr. Howard Pas come drew sixteen thousand dollars from the M. & M. bank to-day, the in vestment of the branch company formed here, and will leave for New York to-morrow. A capital of eighty thousand dollars is assured." "Do y see!" ejaculated the younger and smaller of the two men. "Drew sixteen thousand dollars in spondu .icks. I toes home with it in his vest pecket, btow me ef he don't" "Maybe not, pard. S'posin it's a certified check?" "Then there'll W a reward offered to get it back see?" 'Jim, g'rouu' to th' bank an' find out w hich aud whether it were," suggest ed the wider man. "Pank clussed," remarked Jim, sen teutiously. "S'pose it air. Did yer expect to send in yr card to the cashier, or the pres ident? tiet arouu an interview th jatiitor. Pepresuiit yerself as XJister Puseomb's coulidential bizness man, caru't yer?" Jim started off at once without wait ing to give his "pard" any outline of his plan. He was gone an hour, but when he returned he was freighted with intelligence. "Pills" he chuckled, "five-hundred and one-thousand dollar bills whew! An' he'll sleep with them aWut his honorable j.usson to-night mebbe." "Does yer know the huusw?" asked the other man, after a sjiell of silence. "I dou't, pard. Put I've looked it up in the d' rectory, aud it's as handy as a milU'ii on yr nose. Let's go antl get soiuethiu wet to improve our minds. It's 'tween us this time you outside, me in savey?" The rascals wdio, in appearance at least, might have passed for honest men. walked out of the doorway and parted company, to avoid the eagle eye of the police, which would have recognized iu their duality a conspiracy against law and order. When Mrs. Pasco rub returned from her visit it was dark. She had staid to supper, and as the girl opened the door she saw that she was somewhat excited. "What is it, Kitty?" she asked, rather gravely, Wcause the girl was inclined to get flustratcd easily. "Oli, mem. what was tbe name of .the girl as lived here Wfore I came?" she responded with a counter question. "lleruame? Sarah something, lean not rememWr just now why?" "Oh, there was a young man hero looking for his sister, but her name was Annie Donovan. He said he hadn't seen her in ten years and she was grown up now, and he talked buteh fnlly aWut her. It would bring the tears till your eyes ma'am, to hew heard him." "Kitty, I wouldn't gossip with strange men if I were you. It isn't safe. He probably was a tramp, and all that story about Lis sister was just made up out of whole cloth. What else did he want?" Nothing, ma'am, and I didn't let him inside the kitchen door. He warn't no tramp, an I'm sure he were tellin the truth." Mrs. Pascomb did not prolong the argument, but busied herself until Wd lime with some household duties which were really in the line of pleas ures to her womanly nature. Then she saw that the house was locked up, sent Kitty to Wd, and went into her front parlor, which was lighted and cozy, just as if the master of the house were at home. "I must send father's message to How ard." she soliloquized, and seating her self at the pretty little desk which had Wen one of her wedding presents she wrote a jntstal card. After giving the business message from her father she added one for herself. When the car.l was aildrvsr ed the went to the window and looked out, wondering why she had not thought to write it earlier in the evening. There was a mail box diagonally aero the street on the "I'll just run across and mail it- I'll leave the door open it won't take a moment." Taking a wrap from the hat-tree in the hall she threw it aWut her, saw that no one was passing and slipped out. It took her only a moment to drop that card in the Wx and run back to the house. The door was ajar as she had left it; no one was on the street, but in that one moment It was past midnight. Mrs. Pascomb was reading a very interesting novcL She was surprised when the c-ltx-k struck the half hour, and laid her book down. Not that she felt sleepy, but she had just determined that she would sleep downstairs in the new folding bed in the back parlor. There were portieres Wtweeu the rooms but thc:-e were drawn back and hung limp on either side. The "bed" was a large handsome bookcase, with bric-a-brac on its top shelf. Mrs. Pascomb let it down and admired it from all sides. It took q all the space Wtween the walls ex cept just rom enough for her to pav. to the little table under the mirror, where Howard's revolver ay. She now pushed this further back and laid her watch antl chain her wedtiing present from her father her diamond graduation ring, her diamond engage ment ring and her purse, which she took o.it of the pocket of her dress, on the table in a shining heap. "I wonder if he married the tall, thin one, or the short, homely one," she saitl to herself, and, going out into the parlor, picked up the IkntiIc again, and was soon deep in the plot. A noise roused her. She looked at the folding dtKirs leading into the hall. They were locked, she knew. Then she turned her eyes toward the back parlor. "It's the new folding-lied getting used to W'ing open," she thought, con scious of a slight exhilaration in the region of her heart. Then she glanced at a mirror, in which she saw the full length figure cf a man standing back of the portieres I have heard it said, or read some where, that every man is ready to pro tect a woman from every other man except himself. At that moment Lot tie Pascomb would rather have seen a tiger standing ready to devour her. IJer next surprise was at his manner of address: "Good evening, ma'am." and he stepped from the portiere and stood be fore her. "You needn't W frightened. I ain't goin to hurt you." "What do you want?" Her voice did not even tremble. "I want the money yer husband brought home that he's goin' to take to New York to-morrow." "I don't know what money you mean, but my husband is on his way to New York now. He left to-day at noon." She had risen from her chair antl started forward to reach the revo'ver. Put she could not outwit the disap pointed and enraged burglar. He sprang to intercept her, and struck his foot against the folding Wd. throwing himself across it in his at tempt to retain bis balance. There was a grinding, whirring sound and a complete d.sappearance of one of the principals in this affair. On that same night a Wlated citizen hurrying home was accosted from the lower window of a house he was pass ing in the residence portion of the city. "Sir, oli. si !' He stopped, for it was a woman's voice, pitched at an alarm key. Will you please find the policeman on this Wat and send him here in stantly?" 'Can I W of any assistance?" "No. It's a burglar, and I have him safe." The policeman arrived, and with him the passer-by she had accosted, whose services were not required, however. The policeman went to the telephone and summoned helix. Meanwhile he took up a position where earlier in the evening the folding Wd had stood. It was now shut up and looked merely a massive bookcase again. When the patrol wagon arrived this bookcase ljecame an object of imme diate interest. One blue-coated official was stationed on either side and two at the foot. Mrs. Pascomb and the now awakened Kitty were detailed at a little distance. "Now!" said the sergeant, and he manipulated the case as Mrs. Pascomb had shown him how to do a moment W fore It came down on the run, and there, limp and half-smothered, was the trapped burglar, his forehead cut anil bleeding from a chance incision as the Wd had shut up with him in an ex plosive embrace. "So, Clever Jim, you are at it again! Here you are." said one of the police men, as he snapped the bracelets on his wrist. "Your pal's not in it this time," as he handed him over to two of the force. "That's him!" said Kitty. "That's the man that was lookin for a girl as he said was his sister. Oh, the vill yun!" He was taken away, tried and con victed and sent up for five years but he never opened his mouth as to his metnod of getting into the house. It is quite safe to infer that Mrs Pascomb never resorted again to that very com mon practice of ladies who mail late letters of leaving the house door ajar. And the folding Wd will remain a book case to the end of its days unless it should again W used as a burglar trap. M rs. M. L. Payne, in Detroit I'ree Press. The ailiiti; I 'la.ee of Concrraa. There is a mourners corner in one of the cloakrooms of the national house of representatives and another in the sen ate cloakroom, where the disappointed and disgrunthil congregate to express their dissatisfaction with the existing order of things. There, it is averred, statesmen gather to sit with the corpses if their dead hopes and ambitions, and each place Ls know n locally as a i liam-W-r of sighs. A joke or a good story is never heard there. The Mtiaira of Aiirlnit t'cyft. There is every evidence to prove that the ancient Lgyptian women were highly regarded and that a kind of higher education prevailed among them. They transacted business, le queathed property and acted as rcgcnt.s. Some one has remarked tliat they must have la-en good home-makers, for the portraits aud statues of Lgyplian men represent them with a happy, good natured expression. . iuiiLiNr; of the Tuoor. now Sho Lost a Wajror for Cap tain Lonsdale. She was the daughter of the trumpet major aud the darling of the troop. Kvery one loved Phj-llis Payne, from the age of five she had Wen quartered with her father with the regiment. ' Onr darling has grown into a Wauty," oliserved the adjutant, cheeri ly, as he rode past the group of men toward the object of interest. 'A letter for you," he said, in more official tones, dismounting Wside the girl. "The colonel would W glad of an answer to-morrow." The adjutant rode reluctantly away as Phyl broke the seal of the missive. After reading the contents the girl's dark eyes were humid. A quiver of disapixjintment parted her lips. "Only that," she said Wneath her breath. Only my services! Aud I thought" What she thought was never uttered; ler father came to the door of the aungalow. "Capt. Lonsdale is waiting inside to ipeak with you. I've given him my ivord. dearie, although it will W like Irawing an eye-tooth to part with my little girl." As her father stepped outside Phyl flashed an angry glance at the cap tain. "I low dare you? I forbade you to appeal to my father." "Paint heart never won fair lady yet. I dare anything for the chance of win ning you. I will have you, PhyL 'Why do you hate me?" the captain continued, querulously. "I love you. I am willing to make you my wife, al though you're not " "A lady," she interpolated quietly. A violin was lying on the table: the girl took it up, with the Ww, fingering the instrument absently. Her mother bad Wen of gentle birth; the insult his words implied stung keenly. "You are so Wautiful!" he cried, moving nearer. The refrain went on jerkily from the violin; there was a suggestion of scorn in her action. "Phyl ! Have you no pity? Are yon as hard as your face is tender? Is there anyone else?" The captain laid his hand on the arm moving the bow. "Is there. Phyl?" "Yon are hurting me, Capt. Lons dale." "What a soft little arm it is!" he saitl. .Irawing the loose blue sleeve away from her wrist- "ee; the im press of my cruel fingers. Poor little arm !" He Wnt his head suddenly, pressing his lips to the delicate llesh. A shadow fell across them as a figure stood in the open doorway. The girl's voice re lieved the silence by a commonplace: Good evening, colonel." Capt. Lonsdale made a hurried de-1-arture. saluting his superior oflieer, who remained in the doorway. "May I come in?" "Yes." "Don't put that down. I can talk to you while you pla5"." The colonel leaned against the wall, watchiug Phyl as she rested her chin again on the violin. "1 can't!" she cried, with a hysterical little laugh. "1 think I think you uula- me nervous." "Never mind. he saitl. gravely, taking the instrument from her hands. "I have heard of your music. Who taught you?" 'My father. I'm proud of dad." The colonel smiled; the smile made his stern, ugly face almost handsome. The colonel was a widower with one child. People said hU marriage hail Wen a failure. "You had my letter?" he asked as they moved out under the veranda. "Yes." 'Are you willing?" A moment's hesitancy, in which the colonel scanned the girl's face eagerly. "Yes; 1 will go with you, colonel." "Thank you. Little Jack will W so glad. There is no woman in the can tonment be takes to but 3'ou." The colonel was going to the hills for the hot months "I understand. It will W my first situation." "What do you mean?" "You have asked me to go to Simla as companion or nurse to your child. You have forgotten to incut ion one thing the salary." The colonel bit his lip. Was she jok ing? Phyl was looking fixedly at the llowcrs planted near the mango trees. Had she seriously misconstrued his let ter wherein he had asked her to accom pany him with her father on their leave of absence for the sake of little Jack? "Do you want a salary?" he asked, bluntly. "It is usual, is it not?" "I believe so." At that moment an ayah, leading a child, came across tbe compound. A few minutes later Plij-1 watched the colonel, with little Jack clinging to his hand, cross the parade ground. The child's white frock W-cameaspeck in the distance W'fotc a sob broke from the girl's throat That night a wager was made by Capt- Lonsdale among a few of his boon companions. "I'll swim two miles against stream up the GiMtmtec on the day 'Our Dar ling' marries any man but myself" "Done!" cried half a dozen voices Standing outside his bungalow early one morning, the colonel, with Capt Lonsdale, watched Phyl romping with his child. She had lifted the Wy on to her shoulder, ami. with arms up raised to steady her tiny burden, ran toward them. "You will W alone until to-night," he said. "Capt- Lonsdale has arranged a longor expedition. Shall you W frightened?" "Frightened? No! What is there to fear?" she answered, brightly. "Nothing. The servants are within call. I have forbidden them to leave the bungalow in our absence." The trumpet major, riding Whind the celonel, vcntuicu u cumuiciiuai remark: They make a handsome couple my girl and the captain. lle'U have cause to le proud of his wife eh, colonel?. . "His wife! Did you say his wife, Ravnc?" "Aye. colonel. I've promised her to Capt. Lirtisdale, if he can wia her. And an-l 1'hyllis?" The captain joined them and the party rode on. Phyl stood at the door of the bunga low, a cloud on her face. "I hate him! I hate him!" she mut tered. Toward midday the Wy grew tired ami fretful. Phyl. carrying him to her own bungalow, laid him.ou a heap of rugs in the corner. Once little Juck started up with a frightened cry, and to soothe him she sang an Imliau lulla by, continuing the weird tune upon her violin at the Wy's request. Suddenly some indefinable instinct caused the girl to look over her shoul der, her hand tightening on the violin. Petween her and the sleeping child was a large snake. He hatl uncoiled himself to nearly his full length and risen upon bis tail with elevated bead antl glittering eye. It was the dread ed cobra. As Phyl gazed at the reptile, conclu sions rapidly formed. The snake hail Wen attracted by the music; it was evident by the darting forward of the cruel forked tongue that the fascina tion had Ceased with the music. With an almost imjiereeptible move ment the girl drew her bow across the catgut. l'or an instant a palpable change came over the cobra: his eyes rested upon her with softened bright ness The charm that held the snake at bay was in her hands! Again the Indian lullaby broke the silence, the refrain sounding strangely weird in its related cadence. Once more the reptile was spclllxiund. Phyl's back ached, her lingers felt cramped; a feeling of dizziness was overcoming her. If the exhaustion su pervened the charm would W broken. To rouse herself Phyl rose to her feet, continuing the melody to which the snake's head was swaying rhythmic ally. Snap! A string flew asunder Wneath the Wiv. The three strings now Wneath Phyl's trembling lingers vibrated weak ly; the discordance of their tones grated harshly upon her ear. With gasping sob she glanced at the open door and back again at the slceji ing chiltl. The violin was slipping from her swollen hand. With an effort Wrn of utter despair she broke into a song as the sound of the fallen instrument startled the cobra. Gradually her eyes grew dim; her head sank lower and lower until it touched her t x som. She Wcame con Scions that her voice was only weakly crooning. Th-re was a rushing sound in her cars as of many waters and above it all rose a childish cry, clear and sweet. "Daddy! Daddy!" Then it Wcame quite dark. When a few miles on the road that morning the colonel's horse hatl stum bled, slightly injuring its knees, ami the rider determined to return, not sorry for an excuse to forego the cxqie dition. The trumpet major's state ment had filled him with fear. At the trumjict major's bungalow tbe horse came to a sudden standstill, his cars set back and quivering in every limK A voice singing gayly reached the colonel; the air seemed filled with iis laughter. He smiled sadl3 then grim ly. How happy she was! While be--The song w as coming to an end; it grew fainter and fainter. Dismount ing, he moved nearer to the open dtxir of the bungalow- and looked into the shadow of I he room. l'or one brief instant the colonel's eyes seemed filled with blixxl and through the crimson mist shone out his son's bright hair and the white face of Phyl. In the next his hand was upon his sword and a cry went up as the girl tottered forward and his weapon fell upon the cobra. The colonel's arm dropped heavily to his side as his sword clanged to the ground, his eyes distenid with hor ror upon the severed parts of the snake. At his feet was the prostrate form of ThyL In one swift glance he noted the violin with its broken strings and the girl's stiffened hands. .The wh.de truth flashed upon him in the instant. With a great sob he raised her in his arms kissing the still face passion ately. "Daddy!" The colonel roused himself. Little Jack was standing Wside him, his baby face full of awe. tie away. Jack," he said, hoarsely, as Phyl's w hite lids moved and a breath escaped her lips. The colonel carried her to the rugs in the corner. "Phyllis! Phyl!" As she met his eyes the terror slowly died out of her own. A deep flush crept into her face and failed. "Phyl," he said again, "look at me. Phyl! Don't turn away. Oh. my love," he cried, "my heart's love! You are given back to me. All my life I shall W grateful; all my life, dear." The eyes of the woman were raised at last. "1 love you: I love you! I love you!" "Who is that woman, Lonsdale, rid ing w ith the colonel?" "Ikm'tyou know? Ah, you were or dered to another station Wfore the dreadful news reached Luckuow." "What news?" "Of the colonel's unfortunate attach ment. He married the daughter of our trumpet major." "What, Phyllis Rayne? Phew!" The subaltern screwed up his eyes glancing sideways at Capt. Lonsdale, "ls that Phyl. little Phyl, the darling of the troop? I rememWr her now; you were 'sweet on her yourself, old "fel low. Py the way, Lonsdale. I never heard of your two-mile swim up tho Goomtee. Suppose you funked it?" Chicago Post. AT MONTE CARLO. Thk net profits of the Monte Carlo gambling house for the past year have Wen S'J.:mN.(mk). A MMUCATK has Wen formed to work the gambling bonanza at Monte Carlo if the prince of Monaco can W got into satisfactory negotiations. TliK. Monte Carlo gaming-tables are losing some of their attractiveness for visitors, and the attendance has evi dently diminished during the past year. Pki.ikvi-iis in the old superstition ,--that made Friday a day of ill-luck w ill doubtless W glad to leant that it was on Friday that "Monte Carlo" Wells made his first great winning of g.'0,tM0 at the Monaco faming tables.
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