Ll i ds Nh SU wr June's Strange Story. BY RYE BONNELL. It all began at the skating rink. Now I know that is a dangerous staie- ment, and may be some of you won't read my story ; but the loss will be yours, es 1 have a very strange one to tell. 1 repeat my statement boldly, it all began at the roller skating rivk. It was a clear, cold, sparkling Sat. urday night, and with many other June and I were gliding around the long room ; she had been in the gay- est spirits all the evening, and we «ere busily talking up to the moment that I first noticed something odd about her. Her face grew white, and the light left her straight before her, yet seeming to see eves, which stared nothing. Her hands grew cold as ice and seemed rigid as they were clasped in mine. I spoke to her, but she did not answer, and, I plainly saw, did not | hear. Her motions were mgchanial, |! ! A and the thought came to me that i The | band was playing gayly, and we | | I were to stop, she would fall. ed along in perfect time. | and carefully guiding h la t fully occupied in watching was er ; s sted, minutes or more, it ’ m her at ber fa ther's door that ht, she asked me nig to € » over the next evening, as si Ht to I somethir show me, and a had tory to te | promise i, and went home to spend hoursin useless thought, over her strange appearance Now, Il you, June and I are se that night at the rink, te ns, and for years I have been her 1; WT nearer relation, but friend ; once I had scught a had hint § le R " hat but firmly given to understand that 3 affection Cousin Joe, but nothing more. bad a very great 1 for For a long time I was very unhap- py, but it grieved her so that I had put it all out of sight now, and if I suffered she did not know it. I was her companion in all her sports and eseort ww balls and parties and now that the new skating craze had come, took great delight in teach | she soon excell “ | » » much i ed | ing her the art, ! did #he require ; jer teacher, Well, next evening I went over (her father and mine own farms adjoining I found ber father and mother just starting 1 in the edge of the village attend the lecture, and Aunt Mary told me to be sure and stay with June until their return. June greeted me fire, shook down the curtains over the windows, stirred the fire, until it crackled and snapped in rage; then drawing a low rccker to my side, sat down, There was a dull ache at my hart as | watched her. Why could she not care for me?| “I coaxed father and mother to go to the lecture,” she bagan, “so we a few rods in front upon one platform a man face. for it was the interior rink; a crowd « {and I saw notl | | back waited for = | about for 1 have just tell you, Joe, could be undisturbed, the queerest story to that you ever heard.” “First 1 waot you to look at these pictures,”and she handed me a sketch. I knew she drew remarkably well, but never saw any of her work that equaled that. It was & wild, snowy scene; a country road, running be- tween a high wooded bank and a steep descent; an overturned sleigh and two struggling horses near the edge of the steep; and in the road, partly under the sleigh, the body of a man, his face the one she had sketch ed atthe When 1 looked she silently handed me another. rink. up A train of cars, standing still, and | a broken bridge; | with that | A third sketch sl [ smiled when I first glanced at ol ie gave me, it | \ / A sKaling { people were there, hing special until 1 dis wavered that face. Another skater was | n the act of plunging a knife in [ handed the story. “] can’t explain |i roing to try, but it, know rav m mustache, and a firm me in in. Truly a loved, I a+ ded to myself after a glance : : r cheeks snd at June's sweet face the the as AW i dainty flush upon eT eves, “About ten,” she resumed, “a brake- man brought some provisions and by three we were ler ands warm ho once more un way eman shook bh The old gent 1y 10 : with me at paring, and meet n ¢ again soon “Now « story, about the picture,” and she held nes the strange part of my up the sn } WwW scene “1 had looked at Alf Trevor's t pie i ing of friendship bad grown up in my Ome way a fos ture many times, and heart for bim, when one day as | held {it in my hand, I said to myself, I wish | I could go in the spirit and find him, to see what he is like and what he is | gayly, called me to a cosy seat by the | doing. Mother was pottering about “There was a good fire, and every thing was right and comfortable. All at once as I sat looking at the picture, I became possessed by the idea that tenso longing to warn or ave him, And then Isaw as I see you, this | July I was sweeping and dusting the house and I sat just here alone. | road, the overturned sleigh and struggling horses, aud the body of the As | gazed anoth- er horse and sleigh dashed up and a man sprang out, just as the run- away horses went over the bank, car’ rying the sleigh with them, “The senseless mn and placed him in his I seemed to follow, but did not see where man tu the snow, new-comer picked up the | sleigh, then drove rapidly away, they went, but only heard a voice say- “He is Mother was skaking me by ing : all right; was only stunned.’ the ari, and scolding we for letting he fire go out,~sure enough, it was out, and I was shaking all over, “For a long time | thought of noth ing else, but gradually the 1M Presson You ens 4 | wore off, and I almost forgot iv gee | keep the picture iu an in | the frame on that table, well one day I had fivished my work and | the varlor. was shaking out curtain at the! window by the table, when I happened he [nstantly | picture | was “Pid | 1 in execution. ‘hicago had me for a passer nL train | ] | in dud 4 until | found N be I had faith matter, and when it stared Arrive city, 1 147 B in the did not res ~gtreel no ) face | own to a severe shook. being a large board- 8 % rooms the landlady was a good, Kindly soul, I hed | a room she had given me the i Hee and a great ialker el names al ry of every boarder in the he Imagine my horror at hearing Alf Trevo whole circumstances t' and the “ name, of and upon passing a certain door to be his wound, told that was his room I engaged a room fora week, by the judicious use of money got n= | troduced to the sick man ; every one in the house seemed too busy to look in, 80 I, being an idler, was very wei come, Trevor was not badly wound. ed I found, but bad lost a good deal was the face of June's story, Hang the fellow! How I tried to like a brother, [trying to study out how matters were | knew | we io the | and I found him every. thing June had described, and did not leave him until he was able 10 go home. As we shook hanks at part. jug I gave him a bearty invitaiion to spend Christmns with me, which he has heartily accepted. I was rather blue oo my way home, to end. 1 had been gone three weeks aad bad only written to my mother, 80 thought June would net koow where I bad been, and was vot pre. pared for her firet question : “Well, Joe, now?’ do vou believe me ,wnd shi The first entreated 1 { I stood amazed {shook her head, { laughingly time we tell tease he r, | were alone she 10 ne her all about it, and I, to asked what the use would be, she | us knew already, But she said she only had been to ( NICARO, and that Trevor was well home. So I told her the whole story, aud ' she only asked one question, and that unk he had soy knowl doe KE f nel | XO, was my Conscious o «(rin bas ruled Dis Jif told me many 4 {, among - HOUSEHOLD HINTS. { In paring frui Finger marks may be remos varnished furniture by the ' {tle t sweet oil upon = soft Patient ‘ rag. rubbing with chloro paint from black silk | material, : | , even the In cleaning paint spots which w r i 14) ut small eld 10 rubbing 5 Yi spats which k lik gashes cub {0 through the paint, may be removed by ubbing lightly wit np elsth dipped in soda Rusty blaek lace « be freshened Hu proved by be aud otherwis rinsing in water to which has and alcohol in the tablespoonlul each of borax and aleo- | hol, to one cupful of water, : i the [ace is partly dry dip it in water old kid rue 16 in which | been gently, pull {out the edges, and spread on cloth or an glove has botled, | blotting paper and dry under a heavy | weight, C— A—— | A deeaying shoot is a steady strain some peril menaced him, and an ju | of blood, There was no mistake, it|opon the roots, for, although growth has ceased, evaporation takes place as i * > loug as the limb remains, attached to scene; the snowy hill, and half broken | hate him, but ended in loving him | the tree. {are when seen by the hundred § | night and iu a region proportion to one | Afier | NATURAL GaS, People fool with patura! gas and wasles it bere in a manner quite pic’ turesque, but indicating at the ame time that they either don’t know just what to do with it or have got a great deal more than they can make useful | If you take the 9:15 a. m. train from New York for Pittsburg oo any day you will find the darkness after sun- by plunges alongside of long rows of flaming | down relieved frequent things like boiler furnaces, with holes | in the top in place of chimpeys, #0 that you see the white bot fire where the doors ought to be, and great leap. ing red and white flames where These are coke ovens, or furnaces in which the smokestack belongs, bitumin- | ous coal is reduced to coke, and very beautiful and surprising thiogs { LH] (it lines and Indian file, on a pi wi cases, no villages or houses « il any sort appear. In the heart of t awhile, a8 wi a Pe ut instantly they ar with IL even when the air 1s It leaks from the main burg streets, and, fit ’ tr 8) sand, penetrates ta tin ed that a resident has houses, Several ies it has happen. gown a gone Li : Har i ; yok for ROMmae here, and and bl Win n added borax | east one | wherein the street Wa org lights never | put out, because it would be a wast of money to hire a Jamplighter after the original lighting. This new fuel is valued by manufac and turers because of the intensity evenness of iw heating Que manufacturer said properiies’ that in his wealth-prodaciog power of the indus tries in and pear Pittsburg by improv ing the quality of every product in the developement of which beat plays a part. For the use in dwellings and | He is an ingenious per:on. { put the halt bricks into the stove opinion it will presently double the | offi 2s it seems equally desirable, I only saw it in uss in one hous? There 1 saw it io aa ordinary eylindri- cal stove. A pipe enptie | the gas in at the botiom of the stove, where it | used to be customary to keep the ash pan. Al first, when the owner turned oy | his new fuel and dropsd a match in { at the stove door the top lid was shot into the ceiling, the door flew acros® the room, and the dampers blew out, He got a lot of bricks, broke each one in two ’ BO that they looked like big « onis, turned on the gas and chuckled to see how ’ N " 1 the returned hea 7 4 gas for a few i hot [§ as he expressed it, he bad “foole stove 1uto thinking be had ting f get ’ 5 when the old-fashioned way « had been lighted in the stovs i { fooled me als or he J minuies the bricks became re Y like COA 8,-P {ia How's : i. think « sther and graves snd {0 save his neck.” ‘And what did you do?” ‘Took Ike’ piace, you Know. Jim said it didn’t make 1 Cire to him, considerin’ th who he licked, and #0 1 went in. offered me two cents and but I dida’ “And how did the fig! “1 4 b in : i take em.” “WAY wil oi ten Lim el n thiokin {ew ay = I thought bad, and 1 gave doubled him up a nufl” “Where's Ike now “There he 15 neross thie L there, lkey! CO wer! It's right! Big Jim was knocked out in three rounds, and you avd I'll go up and see the grave the fire. thing | the morning. Detroit Free Pross. --— “It takes 250 bushels 0! rotates to make a 10a of starch,” oly starch Sta po.atous at D0 cons por ( ushel. RE in {
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