He has come,” The pallor of death was on Evelyn's face as she rose to her feet to greet Louis, and be could scarcely suppress & ery of hoiror 4s the gashtly face rose before him, Bat with a quick remembrance of Bessie's wordshe spoke cheerfully his first words to Evelyn. “Evelyn, darling. How glad 1 am to come to you again.” The white lips quivered painfully. “li is new life to see you, Louis, if only to say farewell." “Farewell! You don't get rid of me again,” he said, bis heart sinking as he watched the quick breathing and trem. bling agitation of his betrothed. I hope you are all ready to be married," “Louis, you cannot wish to marry me THE INVALID. Evelyn Rossitur sat beside an open window, in a small cottage home, await- ing the return of her lover, who had gone from the village seven years be- fore to make fortune, Her eyes jarge and intensely blue, were unnatur- ally brilliant, and her hair, soft, thick, and glossy, bung in long ringlets around his her face. “Bessie,” she said, softly—and at her call a girl of seventeen came to her side 5 fossie, it was a strange vanity for me to curl my hair to-night? I wanted Lois to see me as | was when he left me. But I only look more ghastly than ever." Bessie bent carelessly over her cous now." “Not wish to marry you now! I have wished it for seven long years, Evelyn. in, pressing a soft kiss upon the lips quivering with emotion. *‘He can scarce: | ” ivalv ‘ ng | a n 's ly expect to find you entirely uncha ¥ | “You look as if you had been sick, she said, | {he said, “but I see no other change. gently. “You will regain your besuly |, oy Evelyn's heavy curls, her with your health, now Louis has come.’ {dear blue eyes, her little mouth, made | “Never, Bessie; he has come 10 “But I am so changed.” ed in seven years, Evelyn,” Ree } { for kissing { matron, with the bloom of health upon were read, and more than one came to see if “that girl actually dying of con- sumption was really going to be mar ried!" Bat Bessie cunningly contrived that Evelyn should be driving with Louis; or resting, whenever compnny appeared, constituting herself a very dragon to guard her. there was a quiet wedding, and Louis took his bride for a long wedding tour In September before they settled down in the plens- ant home he had prepared for her, from her native village, Slowly health eame buck and happiness many miles and hope, and Louis laughingly pro. tested Evelyn Dalton was younger and prettier than Evelyn Rossitur had ever Not till they were a staid, mar ried couple five long years, did they see been, Bessie again, Then, by urgent invita tion, she made them a visit, A pretty her rounded cheek, greeted her, and two noble boys of three years and one year old were presented to her notice, In the course of the first evening's conversation, Evelyn said—‘"Louis has me die, too hid me a long farewell, It 1s | fatality.” Then Bessie stole away, and aston ished Martha by an impromptu fandan- | “It's nothing of the sort,” said Bessie; go in the kitchen, with an accompany “its imagiva ion.” | ment of—"She is better already,” in an ‘Bessie you cannot mean that I am | energetic tone, that was suspiciously | “Now, Matrha," said, Miss Remember,” not sick.” | near tears, she » ” ’ “No I do not mean that. “vou are not to refer to Evelyn's ‘ + 23 “And with consumption, the fatal dis sickngss in any way. ease that has tsken my parents, lwo on 1g in the ace Of for u to talk as do," Martha, a dismal minded damsel o i ] ] providence brothers, and only sister to the church- I y you Look at me Bessie, | am ronk i | card not Abi yara, rif five and I look fifty. Lou ted twenty . : 1 tk } } oy § “Ain't she going the way of all Lhe | not love such a was shadow ty. \ ’ Evelyn.” eady,” said Martha, with phesy it,” = 20 | the bell, then, niust ! : I stepping into the dining room, SOULS table have set no place at yn. 1t'll be certain death to her t “No [ will not be ‘ . ut of her room, Miss Bessie She went as s J “She 18 coming. journing room, . ” N “Plate, cup and ww, were rapid quettish little straw bat, errand L iim put upon the table; and leaving Mar. was soon done: but, instead of 4 turning turning fitted to the the train was nearly due, > 4 tha to bring in the dish, Dessie her steps homeward, she went ul statron, where srotestion he did: uot It came as she climbed the wooden «a ar care for tea, steps and one passenger alighted. Thi “Bat ut thirty. with the handsome face, and an He the platform, you will help Evelyn to the ta RS ll. brown-be ) an ab “ . was a tall, brown-bearded m ble.” said Bessie. “Evelyn! will Evelyn come down? ‘ TT f a or } > was . . . *" expression of eagre haste, “Certainly. Come Evelyn, rapidly striding across . you think it will hurt “Not a bit. “Don't me’ when Bessie put a little white hand up- on his arm. ; on 2 wr would make you well, There “Mr. Dalton,” she said. ( . eis doctor like a happy heart,” So, “That's my name, be replied, courte ’ 8 Al went the lvyn, leaning upon Lou first im, ously raising his hat down stairz for the time in .] am Bessie Rossitur,” she said. | the three months, have outraged all proprieties by room a perfect bower, with cut am about to by minutes,” coming to meet you and | on the table, snowy curtains on the ask vou fo outrage them still more, : . re 3 \ isk you to e i windows, and a {resh brightness over ittine |} with 3 Rf few : ; 3 " sitting ner th m i everything. ng closed shutters words, ss br her face belied her light lowed to the narrow wooden bench upon the station lyin Her earnest were open, the room ght as hands wld m open. and Lm Dalt t once fol . Ww ) and Louis Dalton al once | ake it, snd Evelyn's piano wide Boars Wor torly loti i > \ > 3 form. were utteriv alon Ta) She whispered to Bess, “ih, ling E ir bas not been touched vill “I eome fo ge Not since Willie died, “But said Bessie, quickly. remember Lo has come, id, “If you had sent u when you wrote you were com h It was still early when the perem;j to . i Ria oi | tory little cousin ordered Evelyn up bidding Louis i till she I should have written could not do that | have cone t : bl slairs again, ana aditrr rine you. You heard of'the t« good night, watched the inval in Evelyn's home in the last was a sleep. But going downstairs then find Louis years ?" “Yes! ‘ she was amazed to n the porch. dy disease that has left he I you may think I am but a ‘Evelyn fancies hersell dying of the “Not here is pe Jone " Mone in | wag about to speak ; ‘'w the world. want you to save her life, \} under Evelyn's window lightly. den.” presuming Come to the child, when I tell you I do with the doctor about my c« and | not agree usin; but “Hessie,' sald once he they were out of hearing, “she is d) ing." “She only coughed twice while she love her very dearly, we has | made me watchful. I believe some poi | can feel my it, | and | know that I was in perfect health when | went there,” son lurks in that house, selt weakening every day I am in anid she | every few minutes for more than three months, I tell vou Louis, was down stairs,’ Bessie, trinmph I antly ; “and ‘But why not tell Evelyn this?" you and you “I have, again and again, but depress. | alone, can save her, { told me, Bessie, of your loving conspir- acy, | hard to believe imagination could carry | your old house, had two li | and sold it IMIASINA : | | told you Louis’ coming | is no Eve. | Bessie had made the | flowers | has been coughing when he first came home, It is me 80 near the edge of the grave.” “It was not all imagination," said Des. sie, gravely. “Mr. Emerson who bought NEerng cCnses of illness resulting fatally in his family, again, The new purchaser | had the whole house enl ged and in removing the floors, the building upon must found to rest wn green swamp, The have rend trated stagnant every room over this i told me of her that there w '} ©“ Id not he [He CALIDC : ply AD, And he ere thoroughly Croaging “glad to bel might live for Louis and I happiness.” “Was | not a true prophet ‘1 told you when Louis would make you young aguin love and hope against imagined | fatality, i and love was conqueror.” — A A— He Counted the Kisses of all nations world { the French are most | tice of given to the prac statistics, and in carrying it out | they take into consideration all manner | of subjects which would never enter | the minds of other people. bman: in point it is narrated of a Freon wedding who recently died, that on ki day, some twenty years ago, he took the resolution of keeping a yearly record the of kisses { with his wife until their union of number exchanged became | severed by death of one or the other, During the first year of wedded life the exchanged of 36 500 or « Kisses reached the colossa) fF Batre gun n an average of 100 aday, butin the following twelve month, | | there was a notable decrease, not more than 16,000 being inscribed on his regis ter: whilst the third year shows a still greater falling off, the average number of kisses being but ten a day. After the lapse of five years a further the for on s recorded and lif fied, re exchanged « AC int ly two wh twenty-four hours—one in the morning on rising, and the other on retiring to rest. Later mn, daring the last ten years of his mar ried life, they only kissed each otheron leav ng for or returning from a jour ney , and be had hence very little trou ble in making up his aanual domesnt statistics, Now there was pos sibly very little diminution of affection “When | come | notwithstanding this ominous-looking | {on opposite “ | had not spoken asked | i came | 250 250 § Fencd tor Ce tory | Gra AS A Case | But you will rip out some time, oh, yes, in will, 1 know some good men—some of the best in the world who will confound some way you it, and in New England even a deacon has been known under a demn it, terrible strain to con- jut 4s a rule, my son, don t do it—itisnt an evidence of smartness or worldly wisdom ; any fool can swen And a great many fools do, 1, my son? Ah, if 1 could only gather up all the useless, unenlled for, ineffective awenrs I dropped along the pathway of my life I know | would blocks many inexperience feet and my own heart would be lighter by a ton than it is to day. going to be a fool just remove stumbling from Jut if you me because other my what a men have been, oh, my son, yon, what an awful, what a colossal, hopeless fool you will be, A A——— A Funeral Instead of a Wedding There was an affecting scene at Al bany, N. Y., at the funeral of George A. Joston and Albany railroad, on Thurs- [hompson, who was killed on the day last. The parents of the young man separated a few years ago, the fath” er taking a daughter and the mother the son, her sole support, and now dead When the coffin was « last look to be de eased, the mother pened to enable a if the ither stood They they nt the face « and f of the coffin, taken (198 for raised their eye dead boy vas | | | | i | | @ | 1 | { | Attention, Veterans || Bellefonte Marble Works G. 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When ber health began to fail everybody in the village kept her reminded of the fact that she belonged to a doomed family, You will try to take her away-will you not 7--that is the only way to save her life,” “Most certainly; and 1 can never thank you enough for coming to meet me," replied Mr, Dalton, “Let me hurry home now, and you follow soon. | think we had better not go together.” Though she walked quick: ly, Bessie found Evelyn already excited at Louis’ non-appearance. “I heard the whistle more than half an hour ago, Bessie,” she said. “Can anything have happened to Louis?" “We will not think so yet,” Bessie said, “For my own part, | am glad of a spare minute or two to devote to Martha." ~~ “You will not have it. I hear a step, loss she has suffered was pressed hourly before Evelyn's notice. She was broken in health by sorrow and loanliness, and every surrounding aggravated the trouble. Martha would eroak anybody into the grave alone, and Martha has had the aid of the whole village. “God bless you, and help me to carry out our loving schemes,” said Louis, If we do save Evelyn, you will have done it, under Providence ; for, but for your warning ; I could not have hidden my fear and sorrow." Bat Bessie rising to say good night, only repeated-—“It all rests with you.” The next day, to Evelyn's own intense amazement, she found herself out driv. ing with Louis, very white and very weak, but with a faint hope, long 4 stranger, gathering about her heart, It was apparent to Louis himself that the despair he had at first seen in the large blue eyes was gone, and encouraged by this, he entered heartily into all of Bes. sie’'s plans, Evelyn was coaxed into consenting to the preparation of wed- ding garments, and though she said she would not live to wear them, she yield- ed to Louls’ whisper—'‘Bemy wife soon, darling, that I need never leave you.” The village was horrified when the banns of the dead ; every token of the terrible | discuse arose from the growth of famil- | iarty rather than from estrangment. 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