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Shipping Depot, JONN CARLE & SONS, New York, Ahad tt a instances wr | distance, among the dead t { | at | remembrance | Higible | est possible flutter about her fingers | | folter | perceptible i THE WINTER GIRL, When winter comes with its ley blasts, And the nerth-wind ohill with its fleecy snow, In my room so drear I watch you, dear, As your dainty footsteps come and go, My fur-clad Winter Girl, Though the maid of spring may be divine, And the autumn maiden falr, And the summer girl with flaxen curl; With you they'll ne'er compare, My fur-clad Winter Girl, When the world is sad in the winter days, The earth is white and the sky Is gray, And Iam blue ; it rests with you To make us all feel glad and gay, My fur-clad Winter Girl, Bo, here's to the health of the Winter Girl! Though the fair With freckles and tan, there's nono thut With you, O Winter Girl, My malds of compare, fur-clad Winter Girl, Truth, en DICK'S PROMISE. HE handful of pick eted had taken by surprise, and the regiment, which was raw, x ci badly manled, Te “i Not until noon were the Paythans forced under, and a straggling remnant of “black fled like inky eclond toward hills, dark stain merged into the search for the living men under Jagai bec Was Aan As the VOLATLL. The sun licked with a tongue of fire fhe bullet ridden field, and from hroats dry as ovens cries and we ot up on the fet tere the flesh of f while the swel beneath the flaming tinual moven the stricken ones mg, the de thickly pack the t the men sky. litters amon wher DPOrary 2 of the in the | ywer to eateh tween frien the Sandhurst days 1 “Dawid and the j nt sobriquet had them to the barrack-room camp. IW On IRON, they acknar and Jonat of them was and didn't know it! “I'm r ol tain, y c me from t bresstbone, Sun found P'raps they'll give me i while you’ re skirmish country, Dick, 1 ] ng about the shall a’ voktad horiaepnd . Marian. arion—"" iis speech became insudi- le and he fambled about his bandages. At last, ripped lining of the ougt w a faded 4 M: b among the the ho breast from pont, ) ¥% it er's gam n with a tor ' r mouth ' W's my girl,” said the sick man ud oy a ns raved ¢ ver on now? Nine for a man with only ler why 1 Can you I, Dick, A captains pay YOArs § wall and vax “A sighed 18 expe! pious sithful as she Dick, and wondering how lon vitality is beautiful, king at his comrade, ; this spurt of Then an involan ty for the patient girl in E shed eyes as the first gray tint shado wed the tortured face before . “Philip, dear old « he 4d chokiz ly, what shall It her?” The « apltain stare “Don't look Don't le The sol when un would last tary land r ng nt hii into his ham,’ uessag« ake ipidly. like that, Dick! d up st at me t me die!” dier who had feared ler fire now prayed feebly his life, and the brief subsequent delirinm thirie ked piteously about the horrors of death. When Dick's hands, as tender as a woman's, touched him, the dying men kissed them and ealled Sis friend *“*Marion.” At nightfall jeason gleamed again r % was the ‘“Nine years s nothing for in an instant final spark e's waited, Dick, and iu s is the end. Don't let her be lone Dick I could trust her with von ~you il take my place, if you promi if you ean,” Dick groaned “Yes” man's TY to AO oan There was no wi mem prevent the | pledge, and in that moment of parting he would have granted anything. Marion Temple looked wonderingiy the visitor's until a fas rendered the name to her, of in l'hoere was the slight card, ns she turned the handle of the draw- ing rogm door, but the man who rose £0 moot her was far loss composed. you will pardon my intrusion,” he *“J~<1 was Philip's friend.” dh out: ' she maid, with =a pressare of the hand. “His letters always mentioned you as ‘Dick.’ Captain Esmond, of tho Forty-third Light Infantry, shifted his glance to | the window and back again to the small, spare figure in front him. Bo this was Marion! His second contemplation was a long | one, and detailed her from head to | foot, and he questioned silently if this | woman and the photograph treasured so roverently against his breast wero | ono and the same. The hair he had | mentally painted golden was in reality colorless, and the pictured eyes that had suggested a fathomloss b wore | warmer times aro | can | 1 himself to lift imps" | the less gaze, resembling drenched for- get-me-nots, He noted the incipient lines about her tired face, and the lnck of freshness about her smile, as if that, too, had perished, Only her voice and her black dress had any link to the vividly-imagined ‘‘Marion.” He had been prepared for a somber frock, and her tones were as soft and sweet as he had fancied, “I'm very glad to know yon,” was saying, ‘‘Tell me all you sbout—abont it. The official an- nouncement was the only news I had.” y Dick pulled himself together, with much gentleness, recounted the scene at Jagai, speaking of Philip's | death as a painless one, She detected the kindly lie, as well as the tears in his voice, and impul- sively held out her hand to him, It looked like a snowflake on the bronze of his, and in the emotion of the mo- ment he bent his lips to 1t, at the same { time conscious of a disappointment [ gnawing at his senses, Dick was dis- |tinctly human and it wds with a re- valsion of feeling that he recalled the derth-ery of his Jonathan and his own rzomise. It was easy then to pledge the of the beautiful, bereaved girl, but its ful- fillment with this calm, faded seemed a thing so diflerent. “Let us the sake our '" she said, as he left her, « Wino d. A few READ and, loneliness Woman wr be friends for 1 end, ho later Dick was with her After that igned a regular day lered his duty. He at Portsmonth, and one A Week hie sacri d in green-shuttered villa facing the He knew that she looked for his Le had told him so his promise r days conscious-stricken. second visit he for what he consi was qu ’ artered afternoon little SCA, ice the because s > { continued this off 7?" he touching her blac than nm leave re A YEAr ago awfal folded hands, r in and day out but nr dl wait and pray, for to make the dreariness -I got my troussean ready. idea first struck me I worked with feverish haste, but, little by lit- tle, the stitches were made more slow- ly to fit it with the gap that yawned in front of Even then the mar- riage things were finished too soon, for mathing hanvened until" The unuttered allusion, the revelation of a er fretted thread bare of hope 1 him toward her as he ore. Ina dim pathetic patience bad mutely « to slip from drifting down the rne her from dead level of of time upon his deepest pity, and WAS 80 av and wait, my lover, that, seem less 1 When the me. , Bolten had never felt bef realized the who WAY he of this woman, al lowed her p iretting ETR&D Ww hal st f yoars, The tirred FAavages he did 1 pulse Dick Marion to yield into his keeping, not pase to que aake her life No words of 7 hit em, nus They were engaged love vased t was tense with sincerity, and a newly awakened inte rest thal now without There tinlness in her lance when Inrking ni d, an i ward to his with a certain degree of contentment “Wi hen is it to be?” he asked to | end of the year, and at his of relief wered indefinitely. conscience, Iiek ex- to himself asa re down yet" from the had j between tl their compa Dick f« i smiled WAS A I'es it m 1] regret gradually he 18 AD Y have hat IOAY looke d for with Marion IMATrTiage War the was startled spasm when she gling with iN plain feeling lunctance to “‘settic thing but a shrinking step of his Promise ! It was nearing Christmas, was sticking holly spray of warm:y -any- final and Mar- about the poarlet praInst black, t pre tty as she langh- from the height of a on house; a glinted which was no | thought! od down light of “So my little sister will be home for after all” was telling him. Il make a lovely bridesmaid, Dick!" a nice little tractedly. “A darling! berries her dre LN WMiger or almos al im | Ps. tl she stich 0 wi She “Is she girl?” he asked, ab She's leaving school for good now, you'll BOO “lots of her She has the bluest of eyes, and another holly sprig for just here, thanks—and the brightest of bair you ever saw! Once 1-1 was like her, Prek." “1 know," have a photograph of yours which’ “It must be a very old one!” she interpolated, hastily, He drawn scimething, Trom his breast pocket, and she peered over his shoul {der. “Why do yon keep that like- | ness, Dick? It was takon long, long | ago, and the contast is horrible!” A vague unrest nd settled on her face, and the brightness had gone from her | voice as she continned hoarsely: **Do fos think that—that if Philip had come back to me he would have seen | the difference, and regretted every: thing ?"' Her gaze hung upon Dick yearn- | ingly, snd he, feeling convinced of his dead friend's loyalty, allayed her fonrs with fervor, And she was satis | fled, believing his assurances to be but an echo of his own sebtiments, at 3 . piease ; regarding him now with a pale, luster- she | can | | odd following taro« which stilled | Jug- | lo ountry have been calle and Dick | he marmured ; “I moan 1 had with- | A week later ‘‘the little sister’ ar- rived from her Paris school, fresh as a newly fledged butterfly. ‘So you are to be my brother!” she said, smiling up at Dick, ‘Hadn't you better kiss me?” The officers’ ball of the season was nearly over anil only a few couples were enjoying the last waltz, while { others, shrinking in dim corners, were making the most of final moments. Marion Temple stood alone by the { door, scanning the dancers. fhe { looked very tired, and the fresh white | dress seemed out of keeping with her haggard weariness, Presently she turned from the brilliant room, with its glare of flags and colored lights, and passed slowly up the staircase, glancing furtively behind screens and fern bowers, which were everywhere about the corridors and landings. Once she halted, and her heart missed a heat when, through the green of a bank of plants, she caught a glimpse of yellow hair beside a patch of scarlet. “The little sister's” voice reached her faintly, but the tones of Dick were distinet, Marion there only a then away to the room, the words throbbing in her brain, insistent oppressing her pightmare, Marion was women with whom Her pain afterward, joy added disillusion “Hasn't cried the li stood hurried man's and an like a mome nt, 1 1 CloAk- ache one of those brave an insignificant de, ydy credits with emotion. WAS SEH canie nie when, girl whose bitterness of outs nol face d the to the sh gall it | ttie , Marion? n they were seated together in the carriage. ‘‘I have enjoyed my first ball! Andall my partners danced superbly: and I don't know whether to laugh or cry been lovely sister, w hie with Lap} Die rath night shrank Tar Lome Diness, on Marion looking he said invoiuntar ymmented r tired” when to them, and from 1 k C } WIA] A cn craten 1 the with Every ideno WAS AD eV] fing 1 the touch of a pg prettier than the with little pink ro very and haste, Te I others, a: } sebuds much Lina is pu ss shar ckered in he gully before the gle candlelight fli shadows about that amirmas. I shall never wear them after all,” she moaned, when at last, a} folded and replaced each thing, gazing with anutterable tenderness into the dep tha of the box, as if 1010 the eartn- turne “So 1 Faia way and { hole of her de ad, second tir a hallowed Then, for the d the key 0 began a ne, on sud min her des Dick who woman, and as they st their realized od there, hands clinging together, he what a soldier's girl can be, Bomeone opened the peed that “tea was perhaps some of Mari into the caress sister.” “Wo we re just talkir ling you," door and an ready, - n's pain melted “the little nor sae FAYE dar tell of yon, Dick has something to London Ans — wWers Number of Postage Stamps Used, Two hundred million two-cent post. age stamps that are reported as worth loss by postmasters throughont the iin by the Post - master General and will be destroyed. Although 200,000,000 seems to be an yrmous number, it is really trifling compared with the { used by the American year, and would Inst less than twenty days. It requires about 12,000,000 stamps a day to conduct the ¢ lence of our population, total of 4,880,000,000 for the There is not as much letter-writing these times as there was when the country was more prosperons, but a decided increase has been noticeable during the last two months The weight of the mails is an accurate ba- romoter of business affairs--Indian- apolis Sentinel . I — Probiug the Mystery of Ether, ent number « stamps people eac! irre or a voar *] Adel | Inte Robert Stanton Avery has left in | his will to the Smithsonian Institution | for ‘lectures and treatises upon and | | concerning those mechanical laws | which govern othereal mediums” | might appear at first blush to be the testamentary whim of a very ethereal personage. fie legacy, however, may prove incal enlable from the standpoint of Amer joa's position in the world of science, The mystery of ether—that unknown, | hypothetionl medinm for all the waves of heat, light, sound, magnetism and electricity lies at the bottom of the secret of nature, and the Avery endow. ment may yet be the incentive to orig- inal research which shall take man- | kind » step nearer to the sources of | world energy and force of transmis. | sion, = Philadelphia Record, THE M BERRY | to n | and she's worth her weight in The bequest of 8115,000 which the | The value of this scienti- | SIDE OF LIFE STORIES THAT ARE TOLD BY THE FUNNY MEN OF THE PREES, Odd or Even — Interested — After Reuding Wouldn't Pop--Nothing in It, Ete., Ete, “Hast thou a lover?" asked the swaln, “Ob, malden of the Rhine," Bhe blushed in sweet confusion Andsoftly faltered **Neln.” Ho felt rebuffed and knew not What best to say, and then A sudden thought eames to him He pleaded, ‘Make it ten.” New York Mercury, INTERESTED, want to introduce lady—a very nice Minnie—*‘1 young yon gol Pig Bob—*‘Stout girl, I hope?’ Puck. WOULDK'T POP, Ada—*“Is Jack Rogers a talkative | man?” Helen—*“I've been trying for two years to make him speak.” -—Philadel- phia Life, APTER it READING, “lI only g five dollars for that poem.” “If that was my poem, Mr. Pen- scratch, I wouldn't have let 'em print it for five hundred dollars.” Life. A FITTING RECEPTIO Saburb— “Dora! “Yes, Ma. “op to the CI} Mrs. Daughter Mrs, Suburb ay ‘Hail un Bhe—'"hose glasses are nud enough for me, strong What comes next to Mr. Cynical Sn ing, two society their ¢lub room. severely “My dear frien you that you are “Well," r 1, allow nd na, y» I'm a de cAnse ur frie frien Sifting. ney: WHAT HE WANTED brouch ta ho waiter } fast he =e 1't want a spoon either, 1 the guest The waiter was nonplussed od you bave anything gir?" he urged. “Yes, heat, Take it back,” and the waiter took it back.—Detroit Free Press, growl m' in ib, A DOMBSTIO Her Father—‘So you have had a proposal, my daughter?” Herself—'‘Yes, papa—several. iceman proposed to me.” Her you accept him, my dear?” Hersol{- "Nay, nay, papa. Her Father—““Ingrate!” Herself — “After him a plumber pro. posed to me, dear papa.” Her Fathor (excitedly) *‘And him w=did you scoept him?" Herself ‘Not for jewels and proo- ious stones, papa mine." Her Father—*'Foolil Idiot!" Herself‘ had a third proposal, papa. The gentleman is an iceman in the sufamer timo and a plumber in the winter." Har Father (on the verge of apo. plex, ,~ *“Madeline~" Herself (ealmly)—*‘I accepted him, father." Her Father—'Fall on my neck, my angel child- yon are the rarest rose of them all. "~Truth CONVERSATION, ” An | Father (breathlessly)—‘‘Did | girl— | gnid to be the | w y ic- Patti recently sang for Queen tora. Vasear girls wear black black BErge gowns, Mrs. James G, Blaine has gone to Washington and will spend the winter there. Mrs. thi Priuti caps and L. 8B. Merchant is Cedar Rapids (Iowa) ng C President of Republican OmpAnYy. and fads Enormous ehigne lntest ymen of England, Js CANES ATO among the 1 collect © English women lergymen’s | old surplices for use in the hospitals | {| Mrs. where mired. soft, ——— —-— The fine linen 1s req in the last Poston was aged ninety- { woman voter 41 of Stearns, $1 oldes ie vipal elect I Catharine r Women's Christian As- higan incindes nine- 8, with os membership Mon treal, 0,000 for = Canada, has testi ridow of the | 81 Thom ps Thomyps Christmas editions of t} y Examiner and the Ro sky News r, w ’ y WEL of Di Lye of which | of the Duke 00K a severe Massachusetts has a new woman lawyer, Ann F. Acton, Suffolk Conuty, a student in the Boston Uni- versity School of Law snd s native of Australia. Bhe came to Amertca wing she was seventeen. if Ui abeth, of Aunstria, manages her ranch i of Texas, which has he dis Uy =u man sad made Ad 'y the late they super: perty, and ness has rough y are mak y hold on Mi Xican ent ally name drawn w ex n in this to m the fact made in Mexico, and t are obtained partly by threads from the material and this the design, Ihe Is &p in the extreme ana pecially suitable to small article the table, and Kv seen fre arawing i uilding lery I — Electric Wires Rome writer ve the likens perves ry apt y to electric wires, anda the general working of their system to that of electric cars, A man who “slips his trolley” like Mr. Jeremiah Eney, 1812 W. Lombard 8t., Raltimore, M4, will noed something better than even a @al- vanio battery to set him all right. Mr. Enoy found that something in the following way: “I suffered,” he says, “a long time with neuralgia in the head, I gave St. Jacobs Ofl a fair triai and am entirely cured.” In this way the great remedy acts as a motorman to restore broken wires, and sets the system to perfect action Feathers as an article of dross were firsts worn only by men in the hemlets Dr, Kilmor's Swaxr- Root cures all Kidney and Bladder troubles Pamphlet and Consultation free Laboratory Binghamton, N. XY. The world In 1580 had 210 miles of railroad ; the mile ge in 1888 was 854, 810 Bissrder. That is the state of your stomach it, you feel it, you show it need is Ripans Tabules, Safe, tive. Yon krow The remed Sure and Rife: Dox't Wheese and cough when Hales Honey of Horehound and Tar will onre, Pike's Toothache Drops Cure in one minute, Myre, Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children teething, softens the game, reduces inflamma. tion, al are pain, cures wind calle, #50. a bottle Karl's Glover Hoot, the great blood purifies, ves freshness and clearness 10 the Sooplax. n ant onres constipation. 2 cts. 8 ota, 18, I have found Piso's Cure for Consumption an unfalling medicine. F, R. 1505 Boott Bireet, Covington, Ky. October 1, 1884,
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