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"80LSIHGER, i..i- 111111 M.-.x-t, ".---Peiiim. ii ja S. C. H ASSON. Editor and ::. '.V.?nLV' ! 7YYT TTATTT WV T r- r:PT r.ATHERS. WASTE RUI PQ uht ' " jfAT SAVING RESULTS FROM THE USE OF CAPO O REQUISITE 0FldHBADE C0TRUCTIOi7"'A ten it a a y laviiin' insula some extensive im- II LL sire now prepared to turn out RSlM.JiASS WOiiK on Short tier. Soliritinir a portion of your 1 ??5?gK?5f5F3E?SBia A Quick Plief for ever Type OF HFADACHE. Four Cart.ina!. Points Bespectimq Headache. ilic.id:i.li-..' : "l-'iyt "f the craa- ti.i!!v r-. Iii:"t --i.il in rvi-s I .r KKT. inq t,- in -in--. -.:i-i. S'Kithc ih-mith KorF- t!l Iici.1j.Ik-. i ALINR. Shnttl.l v.i- !i-...l.-h- ' lifh-ti rhililrrn snfc niTv..i:-. -i. L. " with hc.ut.ii In-, n . i.i . i'vs).i or i anv one -!- t..r l!:t r.i I v uitiv. anx.- : matter, use K.m-faunk. tl, .-T -c's'.t i..v l-iinl : ll'r let f mcity evt r .l rr i r un cailu-. rt-.l. Sa!.-, sure, won K.r: t Al-ISK. ' -rliilly Uii-k 111 attion. K-HKuL'VR rilrs -vrv tpeof hra-lache. e.per iillyttut -ii-trrssin-.-lv j.ainful type J-ciiliai to I. i-ii.- SiifT- rmi In m insularity or uterine irrt tali.in, or io-e .lali.--. . .Uire tliem U s.lan.1 lor II. iii; tieri.nis. 3 KOPF-LINF. CURES Nmou9 Shock, nihvooi Ohii-itt, UCMTU yifommr, DiGSTiV Ail-Mw. r.t-iTTio. wu cicuvtioi, ALCOHOLIC 0 WHIR CICISSI3. t. C ailmei.u anil cuuauioiis u !i rc nerve asic tuts on. KOPFALINE 1 inval.nM- fr Tearh.-m. Scholars, Prrarhers SliulM";. Me'i-h nils, l-jlitors. Men. Momrn an.. t hil.lre" l .v-r lo.ly whose nerves ate at all hk-lv lo C' l out ot orcli-r. It is al .ol-.iiriy .ile un.!i-r all circum'tanccs ami r .inlitions. Price, 15 cents. S..1.1 y tlrusniMs Ri-iiernlly, or sent to any J dress on teccl.t of juice. Soli Promiktors. WINKELMANN fc BROWN DRUG CO BALTIMORE. Mo., U. S. A. uOHfJ F. STRATTON'S Celebrated Russian Gul Violin Strings The Finrst in the World. Fvery String WjrrnteJ. John F. SlraltonVSr. Send 'or fll, SlTi. SIT T. "til St. CUloK-. HtW VOR wmm assets" If ti t.iP-pwi-nt tlx- M't t i.iii l-li- Niirwrtes , in Ain.-rii-ii. lo-k Mlfl an vcr! is! Ilflv I'oiir ywrr: known ami wiiinol lv i viry i.aiii-r. 'I'linti why h.imn-r lwl u-. mill niirrirnrrd Afnl ltmlilp Ineir alrn Mild Inromr. Now in the time to start. WT F.LLVANGER&BARRY, VI . .Inn" oi--rie. ltoeher. N. V ''-'' -' OtTJI Trk Otto. X t ' s Proprietor. BY THE BABY'S BED. Of what is th.? hal.y thinking As ho smil. s so. In his sli-p? Or llu- niotUi-r-kisos fMven In 111.- sih rt.-i- swil l ami tlofji? Or th- hin.l ho ha-s lat.ly ome from. lu re tli. sniiU of tho little onett stav Till into our ttirthly kc i. inn iloii Kivos thorn, somo swft't day? It may In- an atiRi-1 whispors In thv little lrealner's ejir Some nn-t.iKe of teriih-r meaning That We can never hear. It may In- he hear an eelio Of tho solids thai ant;. Is sinvr, .: they tl.iat iliiwti the starry spaces With the ilnams .i hiils them hrinR. I'riitm on while you may, my lial.y While your soul i:; free from stain As the lilies are. v. hen summer lla.- wa.ihol them pure with rain, t'nly u ji-ar fnim lii-aveii! e il keep your s.ul so white That you always ean talk with antrels. As 1 think you lo to-niL-ht. 1 fear for the future, hahy, Anl what it may hriim lo you ; So a.-y it is to falter. So iiar.l it us to lie true! O. reet that in sin may waniler, t. so:il that may to ast ray. If nioth.-r miuht only UuJ you Into the one rinht way! Itr aniel. whose loving whisper lie lit ars in tiream.4 to-uiKlit, Wad Ii i.v, r thi-; t hil.l atnl fui.le him In paths thai are paths of rit;ht. Waik t vt r. I pr iv. Iiesiije him, I'ntil tlo.! ealls him hi. rue. Then lea.! haek to the Heaven J'roiu.u hii-h he h;is lately eomo. KiM-ii 11. Kefonl, in 1-aiiies' Worll. rAlTHFL'L UNTO DEATH. A rouo-h. In-own (lop; sat at tlio verj' eil'f t.f the t tiliill.'-ltM Ii I l ;. k u ater. II.- was liiokiiir sleatliiy sc.iwanl. lit was t i.I. nl I v ultl. ami lie. was searretl I v inan v hull's; lull his : sunken liitnith, I ruin which he hail lust luanv teelll. slioweil that lie would not li-lit aiain x it-ttii iously. !: was p-aunt from n. lifetime of in sufficient fotk.1, imi yet he hail the air ot a iioo who is hueil. Soiiiet iines lie tui neil from his j.-ae al the sea anil vlaneeil liehiml him tit Ih ehiiil who was sitting- in a iiet l- liaiiuw a few fi-et ;iu ay . I el y I i nit' lie i;lalii--tl 1 1 : 1 1 s; he sliirlitly wai''eil his sti:ui of a tail, ami lliecliilil smiled nr she said in a soft oiee: "I it M It! 1 ioss! " And then l'.oss wairiretl luaitler; Imt he eiiu'i! not f.'ixe iniieh attention to his euiii anion, for his whole heart was with that lielit old woman w ho v as up to her waist in the water liy tlie outer most Ieto-f. It was there that the- Irish moss Lrrew. ami at low tide tin' woman eouid gather it. She thrnsl. h-r aim i low ii to t he shoulder i-aeh t iine for her handful of moss. She w as w et , sodden wel. save for a i-luall jdaee aiT iss her l.aek. She had a man's straw hat faslenetl hy a small roje tio-htly uinler her chin. Ili-r face liKiI.ed a hundred years old. it was in truth To old, sea met I. a nil leal h- i v: and it was a, face you !oed to look at. Kiery few inouients she rais.-tl her head and put. tier drippiiiLT hand upover her eyes as she t in ned low a id the la ml ; she was at. lirst d:l!ed liy t he zl re of the water. When she looked iiji thus the little pirl in the w heel harrow al ways waetl her hat: then a dim. Is-au-t i f ul sm ilt- wo u hi come in the faded eyes. "It's jest, a doin' of her lots of "root I." she would say aloud, "Tin. aw ful olad I wheeled her tlown. I wish now I'd Kronoht her down oftMier this sum mer." Twice as she hked shoreward she called out. shrilly: "l'.o.ss. you take care of her; won't you. IloSsV Then I'-oss pricked up his ears ami shook his tail, ami t lie tril l laughed nnd said dic ii-iie.-sed she'll l'.oss could f.rit nlono; lirst -rate. "We're use't to it; ain't we. r.oss?" When she said this the tloi yitt. up, came to her side. o;ae her :i swift lick across t !w face, then hurried hack and sot down ui the edtre of the planks aaiu. luce the wonitin out in the water :. lipped ami fell splashi hir. and Itoss jumpt tl up, whinino- in a j iieous tpi'n i-r. and would not he comforted evi n when the child said, soot hi ntrly : "Never mil d, tdd ft How '" I'ut when the woman floundered to her feet uirnin and cried: "All riirht!" the doc sat tlown. Still he frequently p:i vf a lit! !e w hii:- under hi 1 rt-.'.t h. lie was thinkiiii' that this w i the first summer w leu he had not troi e out nioss i hit w ith his dearest friend, ar d lie could not understand w hy he w as so : t i IT and clumsy thai he was unalile- to i n n to er t he siipHTy r;eks and kecpcl.K.e to her. nosin"- th- moss she picked up. pokinir o er Iolister f a ml cral.s. :intl seei ii!' t ha t lotliini.' happened to her. Sniiii-I hint.' w;us the mailer with his h-ps. and with the whole of him. point how, and he could not pit over the rinks. Was it tlu- same thiinr tlrat kept liitn from irnawinp liones? ,ml he liked Ihcm just as well as put. Tie noticed that the yountr dop- w io I'ncd dtiw n t he road could crack hores w ithout any trouble. It was all very mysterious. When he lay in 1 he sun near where-1 he moss w as tlryinp. dointr and Kiiappinp; at the Hies, he often looked as if he were think inp; of nil those thinps. And what did the pirl's prandmother mean only yesterday w hen she st roki-tl his bend and said: "Poor old Toss! You're pittin' old. jes s I be. Twon't Ik' no hind of a plr.ee roil ml this hon.se 'thout lloss." He bail nuzzled bis bead under ln-r hand when she b:il spoken thus, but be didn't un derstand. TIow pleasant this brlpht day was, -w ith 5tesinjiiy.pvi.tle ea.st w imi a wiml that, l.rotipbt sweet, salt smells from the ocean. The diill sniffed the embracinp odor and stretched out her luuids, smilinp happily. To 1h snre, she could not walk, Imt pranny often vvbeeletl her to the. break water, where she could see tho moss pntlirretl. ... , It was a low course of tides, and now the water hail pone far out, so that one ould pet to the ledpes w here t he moss prew. I i ra mi v had no lMiat as most of the niosst is "had -there were suuie lniat-s .,,w fart her al.uiir.aii.l little Molly could see r..e men j ut their lonp-haiidled rakes .lawn ju.d draw thoinnp full. She knew that those men made more money I ban her graiidux.ther, but then she 'HI IS A yKEEMAN WHOM THE TROTH MAKES PBKK AHD ILL ABI BLATKS BK81DB-' EBENSBUKG, PA.. didn't kt.ow luucii uiHiul tiioney. Some of the n-eiphbors often said that, t hey t hcms.'lves , oi:ld not atTord to keep a dop. When they said t his pranny shut her lips tipht. an.! the lirst. chance she bad she would stroke thedop's head. "I puess they don't know much about dop." she told .Molly. " "n" I pin ss s lonp's we've anyt.hinp to tat- Iioss'll have some of it. Eh, old feller'.'' Molly sank back on her pillow in the barrow. Sh amused herself by utmost closinp her eyes so that the sea seemed to come up nearer and crimplc in sparks of lire. Then she would open her lids wide, and the preat stretch of water would lla.-h blimlirply on her vision. She played at this for a lonp t " m.'. a ml always in front of her was the dop: she had frown up in t he ennv ict ion that a(!! was well if he was near. Soon ev er 1 hinp prew delicioil -ly dim and then clear, and the salt smell was sweeter, and she was walk-np over the hard sand as straiphl as anybody, hold inp her bead up stronply. She did not know she was asleep. It was real to her that she was v. alkinp. Suddenly -lie sat upi ipht in her w hocl-1-arrow . cintehilip t he sitles of it. Koss was not t heie. Hat) lie barkt tl '.' Or had some one called'.1 She looked otV the h'tlpc. She saw I'.o--.-; leapinp franl i.-ally over the Weedy rocks, lit went as if lie were a y ounp th:p lie went like a crea ture possess, d. I !e siH-liietl lot to leap, 1 mi 1 t o ti v f i om one rock tt a not her, ov er the still, preen pools. Molly could only seethetlopand.be muiiI him. shininp water. Where was pranny '. The child tried to scream, but she felt, as if in a nightmare, am! could not make a sound. till, there was somethilip tlow n be tween the rocks, on the far side of tho ledpv! It was there that l'.oss w as po inp. And there was the mosser in his I -oat, puttinp his rale tlown just as he hail lie. n do-up w hen t he child had poue to sleep. I'ort-n instant siie thoiifht she w as tlreaiiiinp. Hut 1 loss w as p.iiie. i ml - v cs- t hei f w as solcel h:np a moiip t he roe! s it w as pranny's hat st iekinp up. ami it did not move. Molly tried apain to scream, and il was as if her heart would lueak in the iryiiip. Her voice, was only a hoar.-.e k imi of a w hisjH-r. I hit there! l'.oss bad reached his friend. He tried to pull her out. be tween his lips he bal ked, he how let) nay. he screamed. Was his heart break inp also'.' At la-I tln mosser out-t here held his rake just alove the water and pazetl toward the. shore, listeninp. The wiml was olT the sea, ant! sounds from t h-e land did not come clearly. The man saw little Mollie Tow ne on the breakwater. Had she cried out? And was that, the Tow tie dop c.irryinp on so on the rocks? 1 loss w as tlow n by t he st ill fipure t ha t was lyinp in the shallow pool, lie was .-1 nipplilip with il. liiakinp frantic ef forts to pull it from t he w at er. Outlined or. the breakwater, apainst the dazzle of the blue sky, the man saw Mollie rise, up in her Imrrow, as if she would walk, and then fall back apain "(nod tiod!" be cried. He dr.j.MMl I he rake into the water. e:iu"hl up hi ,:its, ami rowed t the l.-dpc. . ii I ! time he rowed lie saw old M is. Tow lie: motionless foim lyinp there ami the dop tryinp to help her. As he stepped out of his lat and le pnn s lippinp ml jumpiiip over t he rocks tho woman moved and raised her head, lie saw her reach out her baud t'i the dop: be saw the dop throw himself down and lick her face t aperly. "'1 hat you, .1 i ii i Stow ell?" she fashed. "I puess I've broke my lep. I sliped. I've mossed !.'( year, n' 1 nev er si i pped to speak of before." She sxike t rcmhlinply, but wilh pride. "I s"o.se I fainted, or souie-Ihi.-f" "I'll pit you ripht Into the boat." said I im S towel I, briskly, " "n" take you home in no t iine." I loss stoixl close by w atchinp t he man. It was not easy to pi t her into the bo.it. and she winced and piew pah', hut she helped all she could ami made no sound. W hen dii was in at last .lini took u, 'iis oars to po round to the sandy l.u.tl inp. Tliere slmnl l'.oss sbiverinp on a rock. Ail a once In :ipc,-iri il old. T than cvt r: it seemed as if he could hardly stand. "Take him. t.m. said his mist ress. "No. h i l.im walk." "1 want, you to Take him. 1 tell you." nl st licrcely. "He's too old n' st i IT lo waik on the rocks." "Old: with a laiiph. "You oupht.T seen him poin it after you: The man liciran to row. Tears came into Mrs. Tow nc's ey es. Her voice was choked. "You've- pot to take him," she said, "or you needn't take me." "Oh. if you feel like that"- .lim lifted tin' dop into tin- boat, ami l'.oss crouched t'.ovv n by his friend, who put her hand on him. He leaned more ami more heavily on her; his eyes w ere fixe. I on her face. I.vinp there on the wet moss in the iM.ltom of the boat she could look, with out moviiip. into tho tlop's face. He slowly put his tonpue out on her tin kers. He pressed yet closer. With a eiirToiisly quick movement she man aped to draw him nearer. She bent "or head to bis head. "lie. lays too hard on ye;" said Jim. "fjeinine pull him away." "bon't touch liim!" she cried, in a cliarp voice. The net moment she sail1, hoarsely: "He's dead!" Eroni T?oss and Other Tops. Wmtinir Tiuin. They were dininp off fowl in a restau rant. "You see," he explained, as he showed her the wishbone, "you take hold here, ami I'll take boh! here. Then we must both make a wish and pull, and when it breaks the one who has the bipper part of it will have bis or her w ish pratified." "Hut 1 don't know what to wish for," she protested. "Oh. you can think of somethinp," he added. "No, I can't." she leplied; "I can't think of anythinpl want very niieh. "Well. IT1 w ish for yon." he exclaimed. "Will you, really?" she asked. "Yes." "Well, then, there's no use fooling with the old w ishbone." she interrupted, with a glad smile; "you can have me." FRIDAY. MAY 21. AN AMERICAN ARCTIC CITY. The Slaaalar Town Growlag In la Alaika. A correspondent sends from Circle City, Alaska, an account of that iiu:pular town, which ha-s ronn up out of the t ush of pol.l-miners to the Yukon river, and which derives its name from the fact that it is within the Arctic circle. I'erhaps no tow n, inhabited by civilized pcoJe, was ever built liefore in so re mote and inaccessible a place, even in S;ieria. Its nearest neiphbor, as a set tit m'ent. is 240 miles away; this is Forty-Mile City, another American miniup settlement. Circle City is 1,(100 miles from any place of consequence. -To transport ficiplit to or fr-jm the mines which center at Circle City costs 40 cents a pound. However, at last accounts Circle City was "booniinp." Real estate was ridic ulously biph. The buildinps are sul stantially constructed of lops, which i-jst from four to six dollars s: piece. Twiuph whipsawed lumber costs $100 a thousand. The unskilled laltorer re- t ives ten dollars a day for his services, and any kind of skilled labor is paid two dollars ami a half an hour. Eor a lonp time every letter that any Circle City man received cost him one dollar to brinp- up from the-oast. Now the povernment brinpw the letters, but declines to brinp newspajiers, so that Circle City, thouirh in It every branch of business is represented, never has a newspaper unless it is broupht up by a lu-vvcomer. All the summer the Circle City ieople knew nothinp about the resident ial sit iation not even who were the candidates. However, business waspuod; the peo pJe. without any lawful p-overntnent. i.-iade a povernment of their own. and livetl p'aceablv and rosierousIy, eat inp canned and desiccated vt-petables, with moose meat In abundance. Spokane Sokesmaji. BOYS IN WALL STREET. Tlirlr l lr.l Itotlea Wkat la Kierlrd of Thru. A Wall street lay is exjiected to lie sit the olliee at nine o'clock in the iiiorn ii'P ami remain there us lonp as his s rv ices are needed, thouph he usually pets away about four o'cJtK-k. He has an allow am-e of half iu hour at noon for luiik-lieon, but the Ie.st of the; time h.-Iuups to his employer. He is exect ed to be neat in appearance, clean as to hands and face, well mannered, truthful at all times, prompt in obedi cm e and faithful in puardinp the se ciets of his employers. The du ties lirst assipned to him are to ciarry inesapv-s, deliver stinks at iliier broke rape offices, and obtain checks for them. After awhile be is advanced to uiakinp comparisons of sales of stocks anil taking- the checks receiv.il from oilier brokers to le certi fied at t lie banks. Of late years the stock exchanpe chiarinp house has done away with so much of the stock deJlvery by boys that the iiuiiiImt of them on the street is not more thin half what it used to be. Formerly it was not uncommon to see from -5 to 100 loys waitinp in I'lie at each of tike prominent luuikt. o pet hecks certified, a-nd nearly evcrv bank employed a private jtolieemun to keep the Ihvs in line and in order. A st.wy is tol.l of a, new boy on the si re-t w lioonce went to make a delivery of stock. When the Iwiokkeoper made up the accounts at the close of the .lav lie found himself isO.Ooo short, ai d at examination of the looks showed tliat one of the ltoys had failetl tt brinp back a check ill return for some stock he had delivered. He was perfectly innocent about the matter, aji.l said t hat (if hud hantk-d th. papers in at the office w here ho was so nt to make the delivery, a-nd as they pave l im nothinp he suposed there was nothinp for him t pet. His cmployei treated him kindly, ami told himtoh. (areful not to make the same mistake Ovjain. He never tlid. That loy is nov. at the head of one of the lai'pe.t br.iker :ipe hous-s on Uroail stieet. Harer' bound Table. PERSONAL POINTS. The citieus of .Nt Hampshire have raised $S,7o0, w ith w hicli they will erect a stat ue of President Pierce insouie a propriale place. S. S. McClure is tryinp hard to cor rect the statement which somehow- pot abroad that he is not the real editor of the mapaiiie that Wars his name. Twelve voierajis of the war of 1S12 are yet livinc, with apes ruiiiiinp f rom '.O tt 1H4 yeurs. Tlie poverntiM-nt is alKiut to increase their Jtensions from $1"J to :n a month each. It is saitl that the publisher of a smart New York in. ipazino w rote to Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward alkinp h.-r to w rite a "snappy" life of Jesus. She ob jected lo t lie adjective, so the story poeti, a n I deciliue.l. Itisiuarck's lloswell, Ilerr Moritz Pusch. studV-d tlHolopy, but in 1S4S went into -obi ics as ;i lolcn t dcnii x-rat, .aine to the I'nited States aliout the same time as Carl Suhurz, and for a short time tilled the pulpit of a lirrman church. John. Coojier Van Tass-ll, 1h died the other .lay in (jreeusburp, N. Y.. Jit the ape- of i5 yeai-s, was the son of Willi. un C. Yan Tassell, who foug-ht in the war of 1S12, and the pran.ls.Mi of a Yan Tassell who foupht in the rev olutionary war. 1 n a letter to one of bis children ( uizot tells how on his first visit to Windsor he lost his w ay and 0tejied a w roup door and lieheld for a momeAt a lady hav iip her lia'r brushed. The next day the queen (for it was she) joked him about it. and he says: "I ended by askinp her leave, if ever I wrote my memoirs, like Sully or St. Simon, to mention how, at midnipht. 1 opened Mie door of the queen of Enpland. She lauphiily pave me the desired jx-rmission." ProRreaMlve Honors. She Maj. Ponrmelwell wears three medals. 1 wonder w hy they were given him? He lie pot the third liooause he had the other two; the second lecause hi had the first, and the lirst because he bad none at all. Washington Times. she kniiw. She They say he married her for her fipure. He That was quite natural. "Oh. no, it wasn't." Vanity Fair, 81.60 and 1897. THE AMMTION OF EVA. Eva Norrington insertod her latch key into th keyhole of a JScdford Square boarding house, and entered. It Km a dismal, windy, rainy Novem ber evening, ami ever since lunch she had been iwiddlinp- attout Iuidou, climbing grimy stairs of new spier of fices, and talking to eople w ho diil not seem espeeiaJly pleased tt see her. Her skirts were wet. and a wisp of damp hair wa-s tumbling over her eye.s. On the, hall table, disclosed by the tlk-keriikg pas jet, were some letters. "A year ago to-day!' saitl Eva to her self as- she closed the door against the wiml. "Has he written, or has he for gotten?" He hal not forgotten. Eva picked up the letter from tlie hall table, looked quickly round at the close.! hall door, at the closed dining-room hor. and at the. liaize door that led to the kitchen stairs and kissed it. Then she w.-nt upstairs to her bed-si ttinp-rooin with the letter in her hand and joy in ht r heart. "Hateful little room!" she murmured to herself, as she struck a match ami lit the. pa. "Hut it'n the list time, thank Ood!" The room was not really lnnl; a ln-d in the corner, a wash-stand, a w ardrobe. here and there a picture on the walls, ami a table by the window, rather rick ety, on w hich lay a heap of manuscript a half-finished story. "I will biiru that lefore I pv to bed to-night," said Eva, as she caught sipht of it. Eva Xorrinpton had been the pride ot the provim-ktl town which jrate lit-r birth. At the high stchoid no pirl i'uld stand apainst her. Her form poverness. who now and then asked her favorite pupils to tea. even said she might be a head mistress one day. To Eva this seemed atisurd. Hut when, at the ape cf 20, she gained a guinea prize for a story in a weekly paier she liepan to think that at least she might lie a preat novelist. At any rate she felt sure that somewhere ahead of her strclchcd a career: and a.s her Slat birthday approached she announced to her startled parents her intention of poinp to London in search of It. Thcrciin ensued a series of domestic scenes such as have leen common of late in the homes of England, wherein the parents play the part of the apprehensive hen. the daughter that of the adventurous duckling. The duckling invuriably pains its joint; and so it was with Eva Norrinpton. Having refuted arpumem and resisted, jiersuasion for a certain number of weeks, Eva obta ine.l a grudg ing consent to her departure. The townsjieople knew not whether to id mire or disapprove. P.ut they had rea 1 in novels of young ladies w ho took t heir lives and latchkeys into their un hands, became famous, ami married re spcetably after all. So during the weeks of preKirution for her ejunjialg-u Eva became something of a fip-ure in local society, and more than one din ner party was given in her honor, as well a.- plentiful advice as to the neces sary precautions agaiust London guile, and many recipes for puar.lintr apainst the colds induced by the fogs that in fest the metropolis. Eva was almost happy: for she had the hoef nines of youth andtlicauly. and all the exhilaration of taking her lite into her hands and fashioninp it as she would, with none lo raise objections to the pro.ess. She would have Itet-n quite happy but for Allan Cra:g. For Allai. Craig, whenever he heard that Eva was lient on going" to Loudon to make a name for herself, promptly of fered her his own for a subst it ute- It was a good enough nutue. and at the foot of a .-heck It was generally respect ed, as Allan Craig had lately stepped into his father's business as estate agent and was prosering. Eva was disturlied, but she turned not aside , from her project. Eva had mapcd out her life ami Allan Craig- was not in cluded in the scheme. As she sat fingering her letter in her bedroom, she. went over the aarti.ig scene in her mind. The details of it would only increase the delipht of tin letter. For Eva hail learned duri up t he last year that happiness is so rare that it deserved to le rolled on the tonp-iie ard not swallowed in baste. It wa-s a: a danee on the nipht before her de- wi rt u re her last dance, so she t bought, liefore she started life in earnest. They were sittinir out a dance topther. for Eva was1 not disposed to think unkindly of Allan, though she murht re-sent his intrusion into her sohenie of life. She remeaubered how there had leen silence lietween lhcn for some moments. Imiw Allan had leaned his eiliows on his knees and dug the. heel of his dancing shoe into the carpet- "Ami so you are quite determined to leave us?" said Allan. "Of course," replied Eva, "My lmxes are all packed." "Full of nanuscrlpt novels ami either things?" "One novel and several stories." "I van not understand why you want to go w hen " "I want to well to live, a larger life." "You mean you want to live in a big ger place?" "Well, not exar-tly. I don't think you quite understand. "I quite understand that there is not enough scope for you here, and that I am pelfish brute for trying to keep you from your ambition. 1-ook here. Eva, can you honestly say that you don't love me a little bit?" "I shall be sorry to leave you rery sorry." "Then w hy " "Can't you see. Allan? I ltnow I have it in Die to do good work, and I must lie where good work is wanted. Here I am hampered; in London " "You may fail." said Allan, with a note of hoje in his voice. Then Eva sjkAp: "I shall succeed I know I shall. "Will you write to me?" Eva hesitated. She was liulf in clined to give in to that extent. Allau had mistaken her hesitation. "No," he said. "There shall le uo selfishness in my love for you. I will wait a year from, to-night, and then, if I-ondon is no go, you kjiovv there will always be me. You can't expect me to pray for your success, can you?" Eva, placed on her mettle, looked him in the face. postage per ear In advance. NUMBEK 2(). "I am IhhiihI to succeed." she said, and turned to go. The waltz had ceased in the room l-low, and a rustle of skirts and a ripple of tongues hail taken its place. "Eva once the last time. H-rhas. She turned again, laughing. "Quick!" she said; "some one will come." A woman may forget many things, but -no woman ever forgets the first time a lover's ai m was around her waist and a lover's lips ujn.ii her own. And Sis Eva sat in 1 he corner of a third-class carriage in the I-on.lou train next morn ing, looking forward to the career lie fore her, the remembrance of the su iort of A Mail's arm n-rsistcd in ob truding itelf. Having got what she wanted she had already Im-iran lo doubt if she wanted what .she had pot. For a career, after all, is a rather lonesome sort of a tliinp. Such small success as may come to the inexperience. 1 pirl upon her lirst incursion into literature came to Eva. She lived sparingly, worked hard, ami never made the mistake of refusing in vitations on the groiin 1 in" work. She staid up a Utile later or pot upulittlc arlier instead. A weekly tolumii on "Health and IVauty" placed at In r dis sal by the youthful editor of a Iu.v woman's pajn-r, who had un t her at the Writers -!ui and thoi.-rht her pretty, paid her weekly bill at the Njardiug bouse. Her stories found frequent ac ceptance and occasional Wt 1.-. me in t he miii jr K-riilicals. and a bappv m.-et imr villi an tdittr at a dinner pal t paved the way to her appearance in a wnleiv lead iiri'Tazine. I'.y the end of t he v ear Eva Norrinpton bad pot s: far towards t he realizat ion of herambit ion I hat w lien jM-ople heard her name mentioned t he-.-wrirkle.l their brows and tried to re in. I:.! .1- e. here they bad heard it liefore. At Lome, i.f c.iurse. her fan;" w as ureal. The aptrs in which she wrote oiicu lated frt-.-'y in the town, her sto.it s were discussed at afternoon teas, and towpftill. wen- plad to think that they xirt icipaled to some extent in the lit erary work of t lie cent ury. All this time Eva was horribly lone ly. She knew plenty of eople and liked them; they were kin.l to her, some of them licca-ise they liked her for herself, others liecause they saw. that she was marked for ultimate siccess. Having advanced a certain distance along the road she had lunged to travt 1. she could judge liet ter w hit her it w ould lead her. It Would lead her to a place in the nev. spacr paragraphs, to a place on the. I look stalls, to a place in the phot oirraphets windows, and to a place at H.ivwatei- or South Ken-iiiir-tou. This, t hen, must Ih J h-- end t f t he .-trupple and the turuioii of the tijrht. Ami how she hated the tight! A tipht wherein victory would brinp her no nearer to t he act (lali'ies of li'e: for she had come to learn in t he year's -t rui''li' that our social system by no means places women on an equality with ineii. ami that w hcreas men can buy t he cov eted fruit of the tree of knowledre of good and evil by the jiottle. women must, buy the tree outright, ati.l pay cash. It was a terrible r.iTair. And live most, unfair thing alut the whole business was that, while success was almost within her grasp, success was not what she wanted. There is no fun in livintr your own life when tha is precisely the life toil do not want to lead. It was not as though Allan Craip had lever kissed Eva Norriuplon. She ojieneil the letter cut ting the cnvehqie with her nail scissors. For Milne distinction must 1m- made In tweeii your first love letter and yoii." loot imiker's bill. She felt like one w ho lias held Lis breath to feel what sulToeat ion is like.- The k'tter was long. Eva read quickly at lirst. then slowly, knitting tier brows as she turned the papes. and came at. Int to the signature: "Ever your friend. Al lau Craig." The lei ter lay for some minute- in Eva's kijt, while she looked v.iput ly louml her room. "He is afraid of sMilinp my cfln-er -my sn-cess has put an insuperable bar r;i r lietiweeri us." she murmured. The phrases of the letter bad burned them selves into her brain. "O. Allan! 1 wish I e.nil.l tell y .in or do you want to bear?" Five years (viss-'d Ix-fore -he s.-iw Al lan Craig acaio. and then the meeting was I'tioNjvected .it the exit of tlie the ater w here Eva b: 1 trone lo see I he hundredth jerfortn:iiiee of her play. Allan w a obv iousl y proud of know bur lier, and intr.nliK-etl his wife, to whom she pave prait-ful reeopn'tion. It was raining and Allan olTcrcd t. see Eva to :. cab. They stood for a moment on the st-ps to t he ent ranee. "Yes." said Allan, in answer to Eva's polite question, "all is goi r g w el I. We have a lit tie daughter Eva my w ife's panic, curiously enough. lie stoivl by the hansom as she en tered, p-iiarding her dresst from the wheel. As she turned to give the ad dress, be snid: "I ought to congratulate you on your Kucce-ss. It is very sweet to me. You know you owe it all tome. Are you grateful?" "Yes; I owe it to you." she saitl. letui ing forward as th apron closed uKin her. atnl the atti'ixlnnt constable irrevv inipatient. "Come and see me Tues days." "I can't think why I F.hoiild tie, mi silly." said Eva to herself, as she stuffed her handkerchief Wick into her icki.-t and felt for her latch-key , when the cab drew up liefore the hall door of her fiat in Kensington. F.lack ami White. rotu a 1 1 - Hat t ! it. Paths in which herbs and spices are bruised and macerated have In-come more and more M.pular in Paris, IJer lin. Vienna, ami other large cities ale-oad. In Paris, at the new est lat hinp establishments, almost any kind .if Kith can 1 had. The lemon juice bath, pine bath, milk bath, salt, barley, rose w-iter, rice, cologne, nnd wine baths may lie indulged in, and are saitl to be far more enjoyable and lieneticial than massage, treatment. N. . Sun. What Worried lllm. Hoax W hat's wot rv ing you now? .loax My old uncle's at death's door "Wluiit tlotvs th.' tl -ctor say ?" -ri,. I.,.t" wi-ri-viin. me most He said be would pull him throiiph, uud 1 forgot lo ask him w Inch way."- j ""; l n relianlorirraUtlon et U Oak FaaaHAB com men a a It to th. fmw--K.. i ?" fo""n low ra,..; i lan, a ttmeo i ineh, tnonui.."..;":: U2 1 iDCh, tnontha .V"" tjZ I Den . i yea, - lDeoe.. onui....;.v.v rS S !aene. 1 yeM. " ,- Hxlnma. i year I".":::: K M leolomn, month, JJ'S 1 colnmn, 1 year 7 Btulne! Item. .,t miwiou"oe"nm 'ttmm AZr'lToZ --tor .NMa-. aXM -ray and itmllar Not'lri-".."". j5 tw,rl.lntKn or I'"e4intni ol'a'aT"aorporm TTann,I.w",y.lBmttCTo, iku KL T1r"U fM an raruntneau. n1 Jo r.ntia ot all klnug DiaU and I FASHION 1.4 INoiKUMfcNlS. . ut.ru, HllriH, to Hr fh X9gM ThU SriMia. There is a fashion in musical instru ments so far as the English young wom a n is concerned w hicli .-ompels chacg s as sudden and sweeping as those which take place in. regard to the same youn wom.-n!. bonnets and hat.sv Of eours.) all of them w ho have pretensions to be ing eonsidereil what is vaguely termeil "unisical reckon amotiir th. ir accom ibshiueiits the ability to play the piano, ami they do not .listlain to de vote the surplus of their musical abili-.v to instrumentsof a more nrtable kiml. ror a time it was the banjo, then th iiKin.lolin. tLeu, taking a llifl.t upward tlie v.ohn it.-lf was deCr:id,-,l into the l-osit.on of a "fashionable" instrument, dividing its claims with the vhdoDeello. We are said to U- now on the eve of another change. According to Music, the instrument which is to I e in vogue this winter is the Irish harp, which many young uin,n ln-loncMg to thn very smartest sin-iety are said to In-already industriously prncti.-ng. It is not the large and rather iinw ieldv thin" we are wont to see in th,. street orehe-T-tras, but a U-aut.if.illv rini-h. d and dee orated bttle instrument, some 31. i,10h in height, and aU.ut the weight of a t-anjo. It ;N i fa,.t t!ie article which the minstrel U.y slung 1 hind him when. wi,h his father's sword girded on. he srt forth on that bellicose ex pe d.t..o of which the ltalLa.U tell us 1 he tone of ,t,e Irish Lan. is saal.to Ik lart.cularly sweet, though a little thin. SOUTHS URBAN GROWTH. Her Kara! Itlatrlrla Have Sot Pro. Iirrai.r4 I'rupurt loatilrl . The rural south, esju-cially in the older iMirtions. is. ecinoiiically s-ak-ii p. far trom progressive, and what was once the sinple oceupat kn of the south ern gentleman is now the last that ho would voluntarily assume. In the rich i alley and on Ihegrazinglandsof south west 'Lrgini:i, in parts of l.eorgia and in the blue grass refiiMi of Tennessee farming pays f airiy, ow ing to t he great et thrift of the inhaUtants and to the fertility of the soil, but, on the whole, t iie progress of the new south, like that of the rest of the country, certainly has not. taken this direction. It ia through its urlrnu development ojily that the section has justly earned its sobriquet. New cities like Koeiiioke, Ya,. have sprung upon ground that 'u years ago v as parceled into farms. Ante-ln-llum villages have lutfiinc large cities, as ii. the case t.f At lat.ta and Chattanooga. Oid tow us l.l.e Na-hv ille and ltichuioml have taken a fresh lease .if life and be come rich and progressive. A new- rail load lias made the fortuiieof this place, a new tot'ile or other industry ha caused the growth of that. And all this progress has l-en due to the aboli tion of slaveiy ajnl tin the destruction, of pro rty caused by the civil war. The southerner of the last :itl veun. has simply had to work in order to live, and, likti the rest ot the world, be has preferred the town to the country. Atlanta. Vendlamat M tha. The wnter-nixy is dangerous to voting women who wade into ponds to cut reeds for thatch; the sandman, has his female oountcrjiart; when a I my noils it is Hermann that has come; when a girl gets sleepy over her spin ning it is Oretiiot ka. Keapers w ho fail lo rest for an hour at midday are in danger of u ragged femaJe demon called lVhesiwoliJza; she comes with a sickle rtotihd to a jiole and cuts olT their heads. She. seems to have Ieen sun stroke ersonilied, but is now. like Scrpowniza. only a huglear used to frighten children away from growing crojs. Here in the Spreewald exist many of the superstitions common to Ireland and Scotland the changeling, the whirlwind, w iil-o'-t he-wisp, koliold, leprvchaw ii. and goid little eople gen erally. Here is the crafty spirit of the lake ami the tleinou that springs on men's shoulders at nieht. Here ese cially is the ban-bee; indeed, imi less a family lliaii the Hoheiizollerns have a privaieand particular w bile lady w bo appears in the unsentimental vicinage of the Sohloss in the heart of Perlin and wails round t he 1 -at t h-meiits w hen a death is to occur in the family. Con nection lietwcen the P.ritish islands and the lands drained by the Elle and Yis tula luts ltecii constantly reriew.-tl by migratioii and emquest. In reiiiOte leri.ils the ra-e seems to have been t.Iike in ltoth countries. Charles de Kay, in Century. HE FOOLED THE "BARKER." SuppiMH-d amamrr loly Waatvd to LJ(Iat IIU 1'lpe. "Overcoats, hats, suits. Itoots and shcs at half pri-e liest ill towu lit you r treat you more goods for less inoiK-y w hoie stock must lie . St p right in, sir. Overcoat, -ir? Step r'urht in." The liarkcr iu front of a State su-eet clothing house was earning his money, ami Ik knew it, says the t'hieagi Pot. The customer be had caught was tall and thin and only tolerably well clad. A new on-n-tr.it was cs.iccialiy needeil. He looked along the line displayed, look note of price-, ami at lasit scnifJ tiverM-ri-u:slnl by the liarkcr and turned in at t lie entering of the door. The harked- watched hi in, torssmp aft r him ser.-ips of guaranty and frag ments of rei-oinmeiidat ion. 'Vtie shabby, thin man had lie-n "worked off I he street, ami was at last clearly within the door. There he took a filled pil" from his left-hand pocket, u match from his right-hand ocket, and stand ing where the recess ami the dretssed dummies proti-cted h-im from the wind, lighteil his pije. Ituttonrtl his frayej overcoat and passed tin. 'lliereoals, hats, suits, boot.- dati bing h'ni. lie f.ioieil me and shoes at half pr"ro l-ext in tow n." resumed th-s barker, and looked for fresh victims. C hicken lie. Ttoil until lender one or more chick ens, according to the size of the pie re quired. The chickens must lie cut into siiimII pieces ami Imiled in sufficient water to insure plenty of gravy. When done, skim out the chicken r.nd arraug-s in a bakiup dish. Thi.-ken the pravv slightly and nur over the chicken: be sure it is sufficiently seasoned. Makes b'scu'it dough, roll alvout one-half an. inch thick and cover. Pake until a light brown. Ladies World. fits-
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