————————— Robins and Hammers, Harpers’ Bazaar, It was Monday morning ; Lois had her washing all done and her kitchen | cleaned up, and it was mot yet 10 | The dew had not dried off! the not 0 ‘eloe 'k. the morning heart, things. kitchen proom into the and had Zrass, surprise worn off in her her her After work finished with she baa she came front entry, with its unpainted, uneven floor ; she was go ing to sweep that out, then her work in the lower part of the house was done and she had nothing more to do | before dinner except to put her own room up stairs in order She opened the front door afer she the then she could not help stand- had come the length of Carrow entry, ing there and staring out, her broom a beautiful outside the out-doors gave her ls aning littie while. It was and, aside from that somehow a The the the sweet sense of companionship. soft wind and the sunshine, and sweet spring smells, came in by open door like people. Lois felt it, though she did not get so far think 1t =~ 1h had been without ki Ving » was always mer SW Ok bird and 1 they were same Kind t longed and the spring. Lois was small and compact io fizure : closely around her furebead and hung had with bright eyes, skin, in her poor calico dress. her light brown hair erinkled in tight curls on her neck. She a pretty thin ] face, sensitive lips, and a thin She was neat There was no money in the Arms fam ily, though once they hal been com- fortably well off. Arms had been a prosperous farmer on his own account up in Rowe ; Hiram beaten old house in Pawlet and letting himself out to other farmers for low hire. A good many causes had brought it about, fire and mortgages | and sickoess. It had not happened until after Sarah A rms’ Lois. Sarah Arms bad been a high- spirited woman; there were peoyie | who said that her ambition and ex. travagance had brought about her | husband's ruin. bay window and a new piazza on the | snug farm house in Rowe, which the | old neighbors spoke of now dubious ly. “Hiram Arms never ought to have put on them additions,” said they, “but Mrs. Arms would have ‘em, poor woman,” So now the father and daughter grubbed along at Pawlet, the daught. er uncomplainingly, the father com- plaivingly. He was naturally a ner vous man, and trouble had shaken him, ment to John Elliott, their affairs be- | gan to look brighter. as yet much money; be would have to mortgage his new house, but he had steady work and good pay, and a prospect of better. Hiram Arms was to give up the desolate old house which he rented, on bis daughter's marriage, and go to live with her in ber vew one. He was very proud and happy about it, and talked it over a great deal among the neighbors; of | his davg! ter, and he was growing ga. ruloue, | very little of the | Lois was a girl who felt such | { room put in order, Lois had a time to sit down and sew { quiet sleep the whole afternoon on ! | would'ot mind | was just as mean now he was | renting this great unpainted, weatber- | she sat down a minute, death—that | was always a comfort to her daughter BLE There had been al | married But at last, since Lois’ engage- fery! John had not | { uanoticed in her lap, Finally Lois took her broom and | went about ber work, She had been | brought up ou the rigid New Eogiand | plan, and had a guilty feeling that |it was a waste of time if she stopped | a minute to be happy There was furniture in these large, square, low walled rooms, but every After own little thing was scrupulously clean, her sweeping wns done and her she the dishes were put away and her father before got dinner; after diuner, when ‘gone back to his work, she had a long till six o'clock. There Lois sat in the one of the two square front apartment which they used for a sitting room, sewing, She was making a kind of coarse edging. things as bougl coltcn She could not think of such her but it was iten trimming for poor little wedding outfit ; no matter, {or beautiful. her how she thought this Hattie S uith bad to do 18. She was her near est girl neighbor, and she lived a quarter of a mile away, with no ousas he lweer nis wis) to tell er I was l YOu Oug eal wad. “Wh “Why 1 don’t kuow as “Well, if you're sure it a bat if It made me real mad. As You see old Mis" Ellis borrow some scap this Fan en to an’ er morning, ind got to his new honse I'd bater talkin’ about John, an’ an’ you. I don't believe | tell you Lois.” wYes “Well, about whet a pretty girl you was, an’ I won t mind. Go on.” mother said something i=" Rlliot said, yes, you was pretty, | but she couldn't he lp wishing some | times that you had something to help John along with a little. She always thought the woman ought to furnish did an’ it was a | the Louse—she when she was dreadful John worked terrible | bard, an’ she was afraid he'd get sick. | And then she said she always thought | a girl ought to have at least two silk | dresses when she was married, a black | one an’ a colored one, and a good stock of clothes so her husband would not have to buy anything for her for | { late, two years certain, won't feel bad? "wm Now, Why, Lois, you would talk vo more on the subject | she died, times that she [ting Sunday clothes 8» sturdily | His {room for a little while after he hind. | Kitchen and sat down patiently | erance 10 & young man to bave to do | °/d arm chair, drawn into the back { everything. was awfal mean, I wouldn't mind a bit, Lois.” “I don't,” the cotton edging again and went on said Lois, and took up working, trying to look pleasant and Lunconcerned with her red eyes. She however, though Hattie kept alludifg to it, Hattie went home a little teatime, saying to herself know what to make of before didn't Arma. 8b distress: she Lo Lois felt nothing but hong no aopger against any one——none against Hattie, nor even against Mrs | Elliot, Her mother, had told had uld her a good not enough o have a hard time the world,* would have told her that now spirit, and we ing through and Rr en alive, r Hattie went she there Ig Lo the carpenter's hammers rds, but “ant ’ | no 100 had rer 3 they » her as done, they she kept saying it over to herself in a un that drowned every- | of 18580 1 was so bad th and took away the weet. 1 a bitter afier taste, J mean Lo find Was a g | smart one, apd she Nometimes t over; that's all thinkin and over, g it all over, and Sunday cae; that was his regular coursing might fore dusk, + love making, was prompt and earnest and day-lighted with Elliot He His tall, stat figure bore his ill fit- that it made up for their want of grace. face, firm John looked Just as he Was, large with browy cheeks, with heavy but strong mouth and chin, fronted Lois and her father and life squarely. The three sat solemnly in the front came, the in his Then Mr. Arms went out in door way, and listened to the frogs, aud the low hum of goices in the next room. Both sounds seemed to belong He | generally went to bed in a little room [to spring he had left behind. | which opened out of the kitchen long | before John left, though this sober young man never kept up his love But to-night he still sat there Lois, don’t fn his chair, though balf asleep, when the front door closed. He wondered Lois’ poor little cotton edging lay | |dreamily why John went so soon—an and she wus | sobbing pitifully in her little coarse handkerchief, “Now Lois, I wouldent have told you if I'd thought you'd feltso bad.” Lois wiped her eyes, and raised her head bravely. “I don't feel bad,” | said she; “only I wouldn't have be- lieved that Mis' Elliot would bave spoken #0, when she know 1 was do. ing the best i could.” “Well, I wouldn't; I think she [hour earlier than usnal, Ther he | heard Lois go up the front stairs to and then he locked the door and went to bed himself. Next morning he looked curiously at Lois a good many times when she was going about getting breakfast for him in the early light. He thought she looked very sober, Once he asked her if she did not feel “well, and she said yer. After breakfast, how ver, her room, ( Coneluded on next page.) before many | she bad | I can't | night Joho | | sasme tr He came early, long | NERVOUS PROSTRATIO Everything, down to Attention, Doctors. Everybody knows that the life of the average physician is a hard one. He is often compelled to ride great distances | through mud and rain for a merely nom- inal fee. Itis not fit nor proper for us to condemn any physician for his work, but | “we do assert that his practice can be made | easier, and he can effect more cures by licious use of PERUNA. | this great remedy to he will find that his ot the proper and ju If he will only ads his list of medicine usefulness will be y increased. Full direction for its | be found in the “Ills of Life,” and hie should d at once pro- cure this valuable book, ¢ ; N. J. 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MN ATNER N AND SLEEPLESSNESS Milroy. Pa, Jue oh Hy bine suf ope for a Pravin s so that life at time weemme oto her a buries Her mach brokey mach differ fhe wae inde then tlome Youre Nerv rest a 1 colon wan » and detyr that ohe sid pot wit hos eon her daily § ehold dution try the H war o months tan now sleep well at might, k wird mw fort pert eid to is has worn it over tw even da that a burden before Ble has ismptor od’ in general health aud complenion | der ur appli bie for n rvonstienss slewpdsseneseand goneral debility JOHN COX NO MEDICINE NEEDED belleville, Pa, May 30 150 I have boon greatly benefitted by the the Howard Bkield. No 2. for sad i pat bony have worn it sinc May and =o net Hike t with wt | mow feed thankfnl for your applissce and have adviscd oth re ta give they wuld be benefit ng the day ST wae ance invalus Geatlemen ee of fed as | have been C. NR PEACY WHAT A LEADING DOCTOR BAYS Milroy. Pa» 1 Jane 2 1882 have suffered many Years Gentlemen i Cramps in my lower ex tramitios, mostly st night of ten having walk the room for relief 1 procured a Howard Shield and hove boon wearing it for Lambago or RY eamatiom in back and have had the most wonderful re the small « mastle to 8 tet w odd the nee with tier and my Het dines fmy back and have gained nderfanl degrees, 1 can th f spplinmee Ron te particularly nervous de FREON Ihe matic and nervons compiale lity I have ¢ them § ; tients a see wilh benefis A HARSHBERER M.D WHAT THE PRESIDENT OF THE lay NATIONAL BANK SAYS Ashland, Pa "hat your March 5 1888 Applian mime Gentlemen I know rom personal 1 1 therefore ror Wield to Mrs. Hanburger some time ago for Sciation nd indaced her to send for one whieh she 4id and hae teed 1 for about four weeks and she is now able to bearcund and Teels entirely cured Yours re folly, GRO, 0 HELVRICH, President of the 1st Nationa! 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