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'fall and Ej U-Ani I'rV-ea ' -lr do Wsiron ,( for Wind TIN" .TfI -"KEXS iilia. Kvnie ll In. ' I ' To coin d.wi . we.:Aj,rt,P&. "'"p ii 1 ii,t;."' k a CDVE, fc- " f Ti ' ' 1 I !'-'" --IL-KT. TA 'ill ! 1hI f ifth .. r-"i -LrRr,H ,.A ; (r7' 4iWes 37tliYfJ : StLES .NjVANTED itl'-eN., ;0.r.,, Af, To reliant . H- 4"' Xt liSrh iu.uiH ,.. Ktjm H',, ir...... uvivbut) 'fliiimh 1 1111 i Va,-Pl.l, Wf.n LTl. i 'T' F 1 -l . ' A In. - " I aaa-a - J MUT I Her; i ? uiuru.agf oili-twi: UlAt 0 for t" V(L. XXXIX. ; THE The FIRS7NATI0NAL BANK S s . OF Sojexvc, Penn'a. LAW, bornen OtPOSntCClveDIN AN08MALL mots, payable on demand. "k" uni AURCMANTS, FARMERS. TOCK O.EB. ND OTHERS SOLICITED. eppot"" -DISOUNTS DAILY. - b?d of directors: I.AlIrt J Ks v'. H. MiLLKit, JaMKS Inilf, ( HA. ir. FlKHKB, Jons Ktt, (;E. K. Scnx, ElWAKri.I.( Vai i.mH av AxilKtlRKKi I ri:inn:sT j I'kk.mi kt j : Cashieil ! The fcm.I uri '.cv, nf t ii is ban It :ir. w-, . r,w,, .,, jn ,...ll,1.al0 v Iisk i.rn.N.f Lie ouiv 'a,5Mf-l.vl,.;:mir-t.r.-if. ' I'J IMl'r i.mi:ksi:t. V. 1 tlrpanizcd a; 3 National, 1890 - . PITAL. $50 000. iv.,-. CliaslJarrisun, in J. I'ritts, Cashier. I are IR. tors: l'l- Win. 11, J'-iii - J.'ini liar, J" pli it, J roiuo SuB'l Sny.Icr, ,lf M. i 4Mk, Jol !l srum. lianMHi hnydt-r, hi mil S. iliiitr, V'm. Kr.Wi fn-to 'tiji. u,,,.; n.-ia the most il-.'Mi tnt ollJ;( i.: MiiU si.'e i Ankinjr. Furtiiui; to sft,,! iio!i(' : or wtt run ' -i j.l tj Jjo" iui m.; in .Hint. IMi.ik ,.,i.i),h- M'l-ur.-d l y.-neof lile-J-d f I ei turex in. jawi Hi-i'.'vred liiue it i . 4.1it-t-Ml.ii. in '! urtfc t!o l'nirn.1 uu lll.l, ri '.- flt-em;! lA-tNif N.:i.-J. inr."r.m. 1 . jFfifj LOOK' ! LJSTtN I IERE WANTS TO KNOW tl.; - ,.i 4 i anL'HITO GET THE MOST OF pa. tli.-m OF tWODLD'S COODSF03 0 Ileast moey? 1K t HAVt TEM. 1 Dishes llMi - A IIITlj YKI.IOW, Mass, i AK'KINt II AM W.-.ti:, GREAT VARIETY in IfT. f V...... -1: n lo t-Ki: 1am)kin(.g.asi:s, fAXfl I.AM IS, STM LAMPS i I 15 of all 3H'K riiioiif. charpe we ran Nreltand Odditis in China Ie place or ilULLUI Tin: she of . COFF.OTH, soi.i;m;t. pa !D(WV, f 1 7 ,,,K can DOWN Ahk for Some fouo?j National hi ourn. aept2S - 'W .... Hints in more rirnjv cr rhictlv in ny uitiMcal ujiv jn HUSTON. bition at Mr. Voile no iia. Hmhii- It ready for tlx- msrket. Threshing Engines jVrl'."" . y is HhitiKle Warhim-N Hay PrenKn, and liUil dani Juil-iin,uta neneraiy. . 1 -.1.1 ....":' fc-td i ii.n.1 for Ulna- I h ' traicd fUii"lfue I ! I So XQ L I (Znral Mlllllii, 1 V ui and wimtniJ ik. a,. Ilie -pilia ar ,.1 . : ". I Kill, h nt...7iis::"fcfn.? anyone w.,M r.U '.'i h! "r t'lei I wtf irno he injur,.! t J Oil curc-J aie.'' ""'''"'I JacoU Nr. ." Uir Noub-.M, J, T,L.v Jb, Oii cured jj? "C SU At iJiiuciMH :.ifo,X THE CHARLES ..VOGELt.CO.I,,,. It is to Your Inrcst TO HI V YOUR J Drugs and MeCjnes OK oft JOHN H. SNpER, st truftstin to oini of BlESECKER & Sl'DER. one b h';t th piirvst and Iost l in Mock, J wl;n Ini(rslMorneiinrf staiid- Six a:n taC HIS as certain of them lo, rti-oy tlicin, rather thati Kjsco:ioiircustoni. the fitrai can dt'iieiid on haviour i love r I MM 1 J thing-rts, ver fo Jei-fashi.t'bj. PRESCRIPTIONS FAMILtECEIPTS i filled with care. Our pricea n'as low as a-y otiier first-Tla., lmstnd 0:1 many articli-s .ni, h U-r. tnaile r " sincu other r had ret ton s The itit.Tp .f I -laved , - . ...r-. l-oun;v SKI IO K IIOW .. 1 . "" ,;,"e fc',v"''' "s a larennj of their cess, - o.u - ., we hhall ?tii! roiniie togive Wen the very l-rtKo.Hwfoj-t: a . money. not forget ti;a; we a-e ; niuke isxvialty of nine 01 1 r--shown t jbf FITTIXO TIJUSES. tor had efruaraiuec satkCu-tioi,. a:i,lf vcu had trouble in tkis din'.n, give us a call. 1! witlioul1 healed :liicr;il SPECTACLES AND EYE-LASSES oiii even great man, and daunt, - af viir!..!.. - i r..o . . fc . - j , 1UU Sll ( 1,H,M.! i.. I 1 look Lis t'jg lingers an- ... a,. :,vp yourey.T.itiiil. No T.r ciamimui,,,,, )lM l wet-eon fi. lent great suit you. Come and S,J, daughter as Knsfcotfu j JOHN N. SNYLTR. or ten ture, presuming' The Oils! Oils! lie letter ant of lightly ticular OomeMie trade the liaest l.uds of decline th(,j) this letteri Illuminating & Lubricting Oils l,ad alrea, t his belovei ' Naphtha and Gasoline, home tl J ii .0 a, Mr. ne mAne from Petrolenm.'We cl,allonre linil.ahu..i. ... . 1. 0 (ireat PRODUCT OF PETfOLEUM. cans) t..r I If you wish the most unilfrnily And ed at Ilu ners of hi Satisfactory Oils inn that f. The Hom 1 lie IX THE ' American ZNIarket, I!ut nat had expe.il i fill I.QU.,1 Trade for Somcrsit And aitpplied by vicinity received began sto fOOK EKHRITS SD rktAtiL & Kin -SICK. fcOVKKHIT, Pa. eariv in - lyT. OHU UIUI with ther cinnitti, a ladies wh jiericiice r Pianos - Organs .. ti..r. 01 IIV-'UIIIJ, fii)j (II J . I . . -ntii lr lis K in r, i-w.vt i. IiilSuritJ ... ..... , illlXlaiU ! liiiprMVP!iH-iiUrvTniiu!.iuKkinKihfiiMruiiuiit vlUU a nui inii-H-nl in ute. jnort durahtf . und Itf likeij to gvi out of'tunu. j th? lace lluat IUith tho Masin A IT0iiii;nrlnrKiiion1 Fmim ex. hiii.iL.m1 li' l',e tliul w inch i tlirrliif , i -.iit..... I iti-tninn-nt. imiiiT .f unv. other i n,-vt-'iB TO iuiriMitni n mi ui;inu-i'jii Ioih can- 1 J - T blazers am, dazzlemeihsion EVTason &. Hamlin own Belf-( stored. i - IN. ll.c 4i Organ and Piano Co., XLVV YORK. C HICAGO, iiicay girls . piazzas m' was interes j. & jacob onais, 11 IJAVII'SVILLE I'. O., (Somerhct Co., I'a., Auenti" for the THE WHITELY HOOP POLE MOWER. tar he and liad Ijeen and the chi forth. It was WHITELY SOLID STEEL BINDER, WHITELY AND CHAXi'ION REPAIRS. Bourbon co -' ft vnliror id..t to visit the along. Per -ilarity to M IlracebridiT O rordirs for machinery and Impairs lid he, thawi; purely ,. "1"" Tall ami wil ed Up ,o i . J. H. Miller's Hardware Store, o Somerset, P., will b .Attended to Promptly. uiorougn urt in, it seeme''l norse naa u was a pity U, - yyA Sample Machine if now on Exhi Miller's r-t-ire. (.'all unit sue it J. ,t JACOH KAl'K.MAX, JR., JiavidKviiie P. O., Someiet, Pa. Machines A i-inltv. riinipiest, mot dural-le, eco fintiiiril and Ilrrfrct in uw. was lier f s.a. hojm that he intoxicated Lj motion. AVhen B. KAKylHAK ooiorA- i M-inniea.j lady who ha Peuni'lvaiila ApTle-illurnl Wuriu, York, ttL toward her JLJLJIOi lb JL JL JL OjJLIo SOMERSET,' PA YOU OR I. j If we could know ilch I us darliiiR, would be firat to v.o wl;M be tirst lo bret tbe awelling ode ioiif upoo me otber lide Jf we could know If It were yitu. R1mi! walk softly, keepluR death In view? Shoiiil im love to Toil imiro ofl nnn.' Or sUild I trieire you, durliix uy le If it were you ? J r ft wr T ShoJ 1 lint,rove tbe momenta (lipping by I more clowly follow God pen vl.nr uu ii a (wuetcr tbarity to uum I Ifltwerel? . j If we ronU know ! Wcjiinot, darlitx, nd 'ti better no. Ltiv. "T"' ""ret, jut as I do to-day. along .ae rame old Kumliliic If I e uld know. , 1 1 WOUld not knnv . . of iw. during, will ba the first to co, u " OI"l'Itieioe may not h. l.m- . I'ln the puniui; anc ibe i?r.t"i. Iiutjheo, trwhiTe.ur how we're cnat ,": t wtiuM rot know. reK 1 to go ,:iii'T' U"Uii, Ml BRACEBRIDGE',e .ent'S D1LEM- fltr. If ih like lightning i'liiffrdio,1,althougi r0r Xot in i,H raIv tt ii tried oi.t to '.oaf ' t," tiimi,c isof" -A h it iV Ft lJ)"v't'',,,, ,'"t in thc e'"Hor; inadeuiA,t.w'"r,d m t,,e ,1"u,ttU vou rierg, Kood.n bulk ' hlt V Lit from ,H'r" wmauorbid conat. an ''Pi1"', or, it may be, the III Khare ie IW"l'tion, xml then, w hen liiitsell'geni'i-!"'1,a3 accumulated it ex- uenjljeet jn ai kTally on the most promt - itrv. I liia"the surrounding expanse a clfp of; 'i;ln at.' not fL. el? fed' have seen lightning strike ' SpanisU bayonet two feet Arizona niesna. There was in sight. If a man bad b-one at, it would have been a case iaut.tli hi ition. of liil6?1" M Bracebriilgn took the advice sort,"i;Bni siciau to " seek some quiet r hei '"d appeared at Ulue LicL Springs T,,. " ' - i iji ) this uo.....ft ....... .V.V.V,.., ths liefore he had met Mies Ret- l,S-t- tin 1Klir, !o, the daughter of Peter Costel- I ; reat " copwr king," at a dance in j fice de Ieon hotel, and had ay fallen head 1 her. She was over heels ir. a pretty little o, if she had contracted the fe :heatrials that is epidemic in le circles just now, would have t by an astute manager for a chambermaid." And, on the nd, if the great Peter, her sire, t ned on the old sod as Lord Luf- 1 otn ittr itl tt i.nt, little Uetta would have role in reality with great suc- it was, her sprightliness, her ucation aud clothes set her on where she received the hotn Ilthe adjacent youth. Up to the w i! Ponce de Leon dance she had it self such an excellent couduc del the shafts launched at her liethrongh her head and heart ; "Having the slightest trace, and an'erfeet. Put it was a strong ';,iian who could pxs over the Rf Richard lSrai-ebridge with- 1 thrill. Miss Costello had a . . ti :.i., - ..lL-u In j l3 11 Er,,, inna. - ' - f of 4H h , 1 thaCbi iJocN11 i'f" 11. inn tr in I- Ai.eie unc 00-1. aoi "n aud. and Mien Mr. I.racehndge p. tst g'dd pen into his nervous IVixl 0 wrote a business letter to the Wiy, asking him for his only mil;J Jaaow, and the prospect of eight and ' werrta dollars iu the course of na tion :ry properly felt himself a co,T ipstart while he was about it. Ifou Krat wrote r magnate agreed with him. telli" Jiracebridge a pompous onv mai we; 1 p him that the last deseend- chaiff the Irish kings was not to unan w ith an American of no par I,. W h or position, ond he must H. Mionor of the alliance. hen ehi'tfeached Mr. Hracehridge he for threceived the tearful adieus of by a f Tf,ehe baving been summoned l'n"ialTcmptory telegram from the n,f ,. Cost, , 1 wnim Uri ; .-r v j Redu,ot,no,e HpS'ance to pecr,j ! on in one striding (toAmeri jnjity. He ruled his daugh- Pennyl year stil n Mr. Braeebridge appear Ju!y hoik, he still drooj-ed the cor lines at r.tache, under the impress- aold on a so,n wot J '. turn nntd frultaof love were done, tion in rai''"'"" r"n" lM8' ki-r ano alone. Iietween J 1IIIU .hnra a varniim. After lie New Vork. t i. , ... , .iMta uiuuiauuii ui inuiir and aslii,r. , tii one can IUMlM Co"0' "ni 1,aJ ; in return, kind nature . -f a new charge. It was The o,a at Blue Lick, and, be- Itesant's ns young married ladies, laid amor,gH anj nurscg frora Cin. relates thai ,,. three thi joun? from the iH0OVereu frolll an ex. Cornwall 0' , t, ty years, over, bow This was tor , It was inl,allsl,,CU0U3 one ian be their imlurt,'1 or a bit of fancy work hundred aaryrted. So Bracebndge region wideband loaned his French the rocks oaDg married ladies, and mark the platbies, wearing his gay to an old Knj neckwear for the be- i r tn Anil tie if I (f 1 and itroi j, 'e j overwhehned, maidens, until bis the 11 tii of Xc Wa, v,.rv folly re- Editornlliantly-tinted Ken The Pennsy,lm to make gay the ion have tin .tresses, there PTI n.t. 1 for the annua ,nnp. , Washington, V. . u rinirenii-nts wil . J . of the asaociatic . . . d.rsi -l.y alto in. burg, will asset11""081 lu """J July 14, and lea train on Tintd'e that 80,116 f the ''? thoe at Pliilad around Millersburg, iV' wmble in that .de up a riding party also leave for ;Vmd Kitty Basil came of Jn'y 15. Theag her entire dissim will be visited in;0 that attracted Mr. down the Potore but think, and so tlience to Oid Poi ntut.ky girl attracts I' - rfi .liMr: .rini. ru.rtq aft t . ii""',,. , . n personal menu. to(.,iJll(ineoFriJliyi. Mh8"e"r; .vn hi. J utotAs nn hAr h flrk ; -"r . . . 7 olli-v - " i Summer icebndge- tooK ner i & : T tl.af .Iia ,nil h.r A handsomely , ... J for each other. It ier excursion to try of the Kgfiounl-in, lake anP qu'8' 'i'" But when uriTfc jr-sued by the II. f P"K them, lifting one eiJPi-ntftnplating a stj l8h"y down' nd just enough well to procure a of! ort ridinK skirt of jiolished rjc!ij::B ''"ir arran-emantalixing glimpse long, walkw fit T,,e ,'0"k '" ut B'x ncnea free, yet hig Jl ityl'l',isi'ionto1as.,ue piazza with the Ti f "ger as!, i. ai movement, w men -. , . , , , j , ne couiu oniy iou cen never k( liikly a dose of Aj. ection of graceful i k headache. Voa .21 MroGUflH eleaiiAing, and ( 4lisl.it morn etlerli3 yoUD8 married r Tit i t .an any other uiedi'Q uml' BPru"K uearmenis oi iuii- ESTABLISHED 1827. 4 WEDNEDAY, JUNE 25, 1800. mate fi-ietnlship, Lucy baby on th Brjt he was Bp e felt like kit-sing the spot. ed that, as Mrs. lacy h her eyes tn come for- ninth ned hitn wit ward and meet h1 er friend. It waa very simple. "Mr. BraeeJridgf, Mies Basil-" but Io.ir i:racebrvP,iLro ft-lt as thounh tl ie sates of paradise '(.iad been flun? open in his face. The v .vide lawn, carueted w itb mat ted blue k.. .,.,1 m1,-.1u,1 uilli f.trit ,6'- ' D' ame instmitly au enchanted si-ene, now tliat was to walk there Wltn , tliia WAiinr m.LLKa ... r vou ever, in toe vernacular of that state, "court " a Kentucky girl ? If you have, I can't tell yon anything. If you've not, there isn't any use in trying, a, it would not be within the power of man t- tell you everything. She c u fence arnl coquet until you are on the brink of despair, and wild with anger, and detcrmitod to let the jade ulone, and then, with one flutter of her eyelash, or one curl of killing sweetness in tlm corner of her mouth, she can bring 3'0U lo your original gt.ate of abhorring heljjlesiiiiesB. ., Bractibridga an.l lliUvIjsil went through the whole ).ritr;;f!n. Tt-oiild give ;t Verbatim, but iionor revcii's me from giving Mi.s Hasil's ai'fnal hentences, and I am by lid uic-ans clever enough to make jji new qjiVs fui the same lines. She went back homo that evening with the inspi ration of conquest danuin' in !ier eyes, and he went up on the hill liehind the hotel and smoked cigars over the invita tion that she had uiven '..'uu tocoiue over to Iill:rb .rg anU play tennis on thuir lawn. Miss Dasil's home was known as the " XunnfT." from the fact -hut it hud originally been owned by a family nam ' ffdNui.n. It more than comieii8ated for its sombre name. There were five daugh ters younger than Kitty, and people said each one gsve evidence and promise of 1 1 . ,1. .. . greater oeauiy inan me one umi rni luir.,r n. n.w ?o,lnpr Mister. Marion. ws gfiending theseas')n at West Point with an aunt, and turning the brads of half the cadets. With true Kentucky lack of me-cenary cqns-iderations, she married a West Point graduate tbe next summer, and went to Mexico to enjoy love in a desert. Next to her came the twins, Xellieand Sallie, just turning thirteen, and the vfr iest Tomboys that ever existed. If Brace bridge had not been in love genuinely a victim to the grnmle. jvaii the rude ness and pranksof those girls would have driven him out of the State. As it was, they took on some of the halo that he ha-1 fitted to their sister. He sent up to Lexington and bought a riding-horse from a dealer there, and then, like a knight of old, felt ready to do battle for his lady Jair, only in this case the battle must be won by a ready tongue as well as a Hashing armor. The Bourbon county pike winds through the green Gelds like a silver rib bon,' hard and 'w hite, brtt here and there are shady dirt roads where two horses can loiter along close together. Many and long were the talks and dis cussions that P-raccbridge and Miss Basil held, ever disagreeing, yet each con scious that every day drew them closer together. One night t was truly night when they started, for the August day had been too hot to think of anything but coolness and seclusion as long as the sun shone) there was a riding party. In the arrange ment at starting, Bracebridge had fallen to a Miss Biddle.a pasty-faced girl whose whole talk was of the Cynthiana and Lexington races, and who made desper ate bids for Bracebridge to bet her con fectionery and gloves upon the coming contests. If he could have given her a ton of candies ami a gross of gloves, and never heard of her again, he would glad ly have done so. But betting with liar now meant some sort of intercourse in the future, and he steered 'clear of the po-sibility. The moon was low in the sky as they rode home. As they turned out of the pike into an open lane that was a "short cut," Bracebridge's heart, when he found himself at last by Kittio's side, broke into a llame. He leaned over and covered her whip hand with his own. There was an an sweriug pressure from the little, gloved fingers. " Will your father lie at home to-morrow?" he said, his voice stiff from emo tion. " Papa ?"' she said. (lie knew she was humbugging,) " Don't you mean mo ?" " No. I must see your father before I see you again." Thre was a flash from eye to eye, and then Bracebridge rode on and heard the legend of the run Goldsmith's Maid made against Jay Eye See frrtin the enthusias tic Biddle, but even that horsey young woman could not not damphis new joy. When l.e w ent into the Millersburg ho tel that night he ran across Jack Blair, w ho had just come in from Blue Ltek. They smoked a cigar, apiece, white Jack went over the salient points . in the Springs' gossip for twenty-four hours, and then Bracebridge went to his room. He had just divested himself of collar and shoes when the door opened, and a large white envelope was thrown in. " They told me to give you that. It came this morning.' Came within an ace of forgetting it." ' " Thanks, Blair," and he picked it up. A business letter, of course. He hadn't read ten lines until he felt as though he should go mad. It was from Peter Cos tello : Fifth Aveivtr llutd, y. Y. Mr. Richard Bhaci:iiiiiikjk. IR : Finding that your atten,i.'ns to my daughter hare serioUoly ini.n.-i her health (" What iJoes the old fool mean?" poor Bracebridge ejaculated) snd the physicians saying that she must have her way and not be ciwwed I write to retract my refusal to you of last Janu ary. The doctors say she w ill die unless her mental trouble is relieved. Come at once. Yours respectfully, Peter Costkllo. - The old ass !" Alas, Bracebridge 1 Had this letter come to you two months ago, instead of sitting there with your head in your hands, disguited at iU style of composi tion, you would have pressed it to your heart as a harbinger of great joy. "Times change, my masters." All night long he walked the floor. Perhaps a thousand times he drew a sigh from his boot-heels and breathed out : " Poor girl ! Poor Ketta !" It is a terrible thing to have a girl dy- r fC mi ior yuu. vm cou.i he loved her ; but bow could loveu ner nae a siaier he L'ave ; Kitty ? Kitty, glorious Kitty, whose father he was to see that very day. He knew there would be no trouble there. He had already made friends with jolly, happy-go-lucky Major Basil. What would they think of him ? It had got to that now. Braeebridgu was too much of a man to shirk bis responsibili ties. If Betta Costello nad loved him enough for the parting to mean deatk to her, then he could only despise himself that he had not returned it in kind. She should never suffer frora bis fickleness. And then there was his explanation to Kitty ! He felt aa though his hair was growing white witn misery. It was dayi.ght when he finally finish ed the five sheets of paper in which he tried to do himself justice. He directed it to "Miss Kitty Basil The Nunnery," and then pked his few belongings that be had brought over to Millersburg, sent a telegram to Blue Lick for r! !ru- to oe sent to the Xew York Hoi., ti.auking hi stars meanwhile ihatonly yesterday he had pai l his bills to the end of the month, and went out in time to c:itch the one train to Paris, the adjacnttow:. As he went out f the Parnell Iloure ".dice he dropjied a dollar and his note t'. Miss Barfil in the waiting hand of the one bell-boy. "Take thib to Miss Basil this tnorn'n.g." "Yes, sir." And he wasone. As the train rolled aero the bridge there was a mist in Bracebr.dge'seys He never expect-.a to "te tho shabby 'ittle town again. He would have been wild could he have know n the fate of his letter of ex planation. It was la'.e afternoon before "Yellow Bob" round time to carry a note out to the Nunnery. As became in sight of the house from a turn in the lane that le-1 up to it through a natural park of forest trees, he saw MLs Kelley and Miss Sally Basil come mincing down the veranda steps with long dresses, plainly the prope'ty of their F-ster, dragging after them. As they saw the adored boy luey gave a couple of shri!'. screams and started back, and then, recognizing him, advanced more haughtily than before. "What do you want?" Mi-s Sally in quired, with freezing dignity. "Laws, Miss Sally, I don't want nothin Jes' fetched a cyard to Miss Kitty," and he brought out Bracebridge's letter. "Very well. Give it to me." And slip ping it into the pocket of the dress she was holding up, she walked on as though letters were as plentiful as leaves, and of more consequence, leaving Yellow Bob a picture of admiring awe. An hour later the dresses were hang ing in Kitty's wardrobe, and the letter's message was still unread. One would naturally imagine that this interval had been one '.of some anxiety to Miss Basil ; and perhaps it would have been except for one incident. When she returned from her ride the evening before she found that her father had 1 been hastily summoned to New York upon important business. After she had received a morning caller in the figure of Jack Blair, and learned that 5Ir. Brace bridge ha-1 also gone to New York, she went about one prism of radiating smiles. The most romantic girl could not ask more in a lover than was hers. lie had told her that he could not see her again until he had seen her father. Her father had gone to New York, and this rash youth had followed him. Meanwhile. Bracebridge was going over the dreary journey. As the miles (lew by, perhaps his greatest sull'ering was in his realizing sense of the instabil ity of his own feelings. As he thought of Kitty's cleverness and beauty, and the love-light in her eyes, he was sure that she was the core of his soul. And then, w hen be thought of jioor little Ketta dy ing for love of him, he longed to reach her, and clasping her in his arms, assure her that her griefs were over. He at last arrived at the conclusion that this last was the proper state of mind. As he had fully determined to marry Ketta, she was the shrine at which he must burn his incense. It was ten o'clock of the hot August night when he reached the city. He took a handsome to the Xew York Hotel and wondered why they kept an invalid, in whom he felt a proprietary interest, in any such stifling atmosphere. And then he went to bed and to persuade himself that it was all a dream. The next morning, after a late break fast, he wended bis way down Fifth Ave nue to the hotel. He asked for Mr. Costello, was inform ed that he was not in, and then he ask ed if his card could be taken to Miss Costello. In the course ot fifteen min utes her maid came down and said that Miss Costello would lie glad to see Mr. Bracebridgo if he cared to see an invalid. His heart tender within him, he followed the precise Frenchwoman upstairs. He was ushered into a very dream of a boudoir, evidently fitted out in its de tails by the present occupants. Miss Costello was lying on a wicker lounge piled with 6ilk cushions that deli cately harmonized with the texture ot the tlfthabillr. She greeted Bracebri'lge with gentle languor, and presently told her maid that she might ro. A8soon as the attendant was safely latched outside, Bracebridge fell upon his knees and put his arm across the shoulder that invited his clasp. How happy they would be ! He could feel in anticipation the answering pressure of her arm. What was his utter surprise to feel her draw back from him, and to hear an icy voice say, in the ear attuned for the ac cents of passion : " "Mr. Bracebridge, what is the meaning of this extraordinary canduct? Will you be good enough to seat yaurself in that chair?" "Retta, my darling, has not your father told you?" "Papa? Told me what?" "That, in consideration of your health, he has at last consented to our engage ment" "Did he tell you that?" The invalid was sitting up. "Here is his letter," and taking it finm his pocket (be bad expected to produce it under vastly different circumstances) he gave it to her. She glanced rapidly ever it, and then fell back among her cushions with almost hysterical laughter. By this time Bracebridge was stand ing stiflly over her. "Sit down. Oh, sit down," she man- aged t say, finally "And did poor pop thins it was ou?" And then ' i sat up again, and reach ing out took Bracebridge's passive hands. "Poor Dick t Confess you had forgot ten all about me when you got papa's letter. Now, hadn't you ?" Bracebridge's face took on a fine scar let. "I knew it! I knew it!" she cried, "And I I had given you op long ago. It is some one totally diLerent.' And ther., still holding Bracebridge's hands, Bhe told him the story. The ob ject of her love just now wa the manager of her father's business in New York. A i.. a Knglanderof no social qualifications whatever, but with a "way" that had ensnared the heart of his employer's daughter. Miss Retta had skillfully play ed upon the feelings of her phvsicians. and had a deep-laid plot to make her father ask her the cause of ber rtespona ency, when she meant to tell him the truth. Thinking infallible, the old man had succeeded in offering his ("au'iLi to the ma.i she didn't wp.ih, and vrl-o dida't want her, "Go aw ay. Leave mo tha L'tier. I ca' settle hiii now," this daughter of her sire sail.', with determination ; snd Brace bridge gladly took her advice. As he boarded tbe ferry for Jersey City that afternoon, he was delighted to nee the portly form of Major Basil just ahead of him, and he went up and touched him on the arm. "Hello! Mr. Bracebridge. Y Ai here, Sir? Glad to seeyo-i. Where are you going?" Bracebridge gave a little embarrassed laugh and a casual glance around to sen that they were out of ear-shot. "That depends upon you, Major Basil." " Upon me ?" and the i '.cli voice was jovial. "Then you'll come back to Ken tncky. I can't ask better company. ' "But you will have to take me as a son-in-law." It was out. Major Basil grasped his arm. "You don't mean to tell me you've run off -vith my daughter?" "No. Oh, no." Bracebridge, never realizing that if he had done so it would have been regard ed as a capital joke by Major Basil, was inexpressibly shocked. "I only hope to marry her with ycur consent." "Well you have it," the major said cordially, shaking him by the hand. "I saw it was coming to this some time ago. and I took pains to inquire about you, young man, and I have no fault to find. Kitty's a good girl, and deserves a good husband and I believe vou'll make one." As the journey progressed, Bracebridge learned that his prospective father-in-law ha-1 left Millersburg the evening of the ride. And like a flash he saw his loop hole if only he had never written that letter! As they drew nearer and nearertheir destination, Brnivbrid-e had alternate fits of exaltation and despondency. Suppose Kitty refused to take a man who a week ago was on his way to mar ry another woman, ami who had only returned to her when informed that ho was not wanted ? Half a dozen times he oiened his lips to confess it all to Major Basil and ask his advice, and then put off the evil hour. The major expected him to goat once to the Nunnery, but dread at his possible reception made him invent an excuse for going to the Bine Lick Hotel for a day. The last words he heard were) : "I'll tell Kitty you'll be over to-morrow." All night long Bracebridge tossed and tumbled the sheets of his bed ; aud as he slowly rode up the avenue at ths Nun nery, the next morning, his sU te of mind was not much calmer. His heart gave a bound of delightas he saw Kitty just dis appearing down a leafy arbor of the old fashioned sort, that led to a wisteria clad summer house. It would have given an extra leap had he known that this was the first time his letter had been near her. In the pocket of her dress it had laid undisturbed since the afternoon of the liroiipwNfV a fVt jMcock. He gave his horse into the hands of a grinning colored boy, and followed the path through the arbor, snapping his riding-cane against his boot. Although Kittie must have heard the sound, she did not look up until Brace bridge stood before her. She only receiv ed the congratulations of her father, and, it may be, looked for a different advance. Her air of surprise was pretty, but there was no doubt of the cordiality of her glance,.and in another second she was in Bracebridge's arms. After they had gone over and over their particular variation or the orginal life's melody (convinced that they alone knew the fundamental theme), Bracebridge finally plucked up courage to ask her what she thought when Bhe received his letter. "Your letter?" "Blessed soul," he thought, "is that a woman's way out of a dilemma ? Pre tending she did not get it? Or did she? Just then she put her hand into her pocket and drew out, to her infinite amazement the letter. "Did you put it here just now ? What is it?" and looking for a surprise de lightful, of course she took a long pin from her dress and began to cut open the end. Bracebridge was almost stupefied with amazement. He felt like a counter on a board being moved about by Fate, and then, regaining his faculties with a rush, he took the lettsr out of her hand. "I wrote it," he said, "fearing that I might not see you. It is useless now. I put it there in jest." And in his heart he excused himself the deceit. .1. S. Dwute, in Fitink lir'i. , - I Exciting. "Your duties must bo Romewhat mo notonous," said a lady to a mailing clerk. "They are, inueed." "The same round day after day and week after week. No excitement" , "No excitement excepting when we have to rush things." "And when is that?'' "When we find 'In haste' written on the corner of an envelope." "Oh, yes; that creates excitement!" "Trtmcndous !" t After all, the best way to know the real merit of Hood's Sarsaparilla, is to trjf it yourself. B sure to gwV'Hogd'a. WHOLE NO. 2031. An Even Thing. I had a big chunk rf lead from Con federate cavalry carbine driven into my shoulder at Brandy f'tatiou, and was in a hospital at Washington for treatment, when an Ohio infantryman was placed on the cot next on the left. He had been shot in th leg about two months be. re, and aft--r every eflort had been made to save the lim' , he had been brought here to have it amputated. A surgeon rime or:e day to notify him that tho operation would be performed the next day, and Bill, as we called him, listened, and then replied : "Say, Doc, I'm waiting for a letter from the old woman. I wrote to her that the leg would probably ha e to come off, and I ant to hear hat she has to say." "But that can't make any difference." "V eh, perhaps not ; but I kind o' want her opinion. She's always been down on one-letted men, and I aiit to seo whether she's going bak on c eo'co'i" "B"t she -von't, of cours ." "y-u ;'o.i't !:nor. :.bortibrt. ""oinrn 'her. the o?t- -C H''' ma cia-Xjmft ap and dc'vp "viil: i vc cn t)'2, cnC rvailizin' tbr.l I'vo 0i. .o stump'iig around for life, shh may feel s disgust. Give me three or four days more in which to get a le'ter." The surgeon consented, and in two days the letter came. Bill vas very nervous and excited, and he aked m to read the epistle and give him the news. It wasn't frmit hi wife, but from his sis ter, and she wrote : "On the day that you wrote Mary thai your leg would have to come off we start ed to drive to Unci; Ben's, .""ne hors ran away, smashed everything up, and Mary's left leg was so badly broken that it was amputated ye?terday. She has the best of care and is doin well. She sends love, and advises you to have your leg off at once." "Whoop!" yelled Bill, in a voice which aroused the whole ward. "It's her left and my right. Two wooden j.ins to go clattering np and down ! Two legs to hang up on the wall when we turn in at night ! One of you nurses jo and tell old sawbones to come in her and open his butcher shop as soon as he pleases, and some of j-cu boys write to Mary that we'll be the happiest couple in the w holo Buckeye ttate!" .V. 1'. His Double Break. ' I w itnessed a very laughable incident last winter," said a Frankfort man the other day, "and the moral, if there le any to the story, is that a man should know the crowd before whom he talks ! indUcriaiinately. It was iu the Court of Appeals chamber just after adjournment. A crowd of gentlemen were sitting aroun and the chief spokesman was a loqua cious memberof the Frankfort aenus loaf er, who was not acquainted with alt present. One of the brightest young lawyers in the State had just sfepped out after making a speech. He had been drinkinand t'ue Frankfort man said: 'What a mistake some follows make in thinking they speak better when they are half full of whisky: Now, I have heard tnat our two Senators keep soak ing full when on duty, and I think it is a shame.' " 'One of them has quit,' quietly re marked one of the gentlemen present. " 'Which one? was the query. " 'I have,' answered Senator Blackburn and begot up and walked out "The dumbfounded talkative man caught his breath and said : "Well, now, that was a dirty break of siine. I didn't know Blackburn was w ithin a thousand miles of here. But I don't csre. I have heard that Senator Biackburn drinks too much to sustain evon a Kentuckian's reputation.' "Still another stranger spoke up with : 'Well, he just never did drink to an ex- j cess, and I know that Untie Joe hasn't i touched a drink in a year.' "It was Senator Blackburn's nsphew this time, and the talkative man made his escape without standing on the order of his going. Lonio iUe ' 'o'lui-rroi. Absent Mindedness. What we call a't sent miudedness is temporary loss of memory. The mind, intent upon some present thought, ob literates or obscures the record of the past. We may even regard it as a partial and temporarj' form of insanity, and if we find absent-mindedness most common with persons of great mental powers we may accept the fact as another iliutra tion of the ne-.ir alliance between reat genius and madness. Certain it is that Briiyere's "Absent Man" was no mere creature cf fertile imagination. The original is said to have been the Count de Brancas, of whom a curious story is related. One day he was reading by the fire in his study, when the nurse brought him a child newly born to him. The Count threw away the Vx aud took the child on his knee to play with it. By and by a visitor was announced, and the Count, forgetting all about the child and lemembeiing cnly that he had been reading a book, threw the poor in fant carelessly onto the table. What a mercy he didn't throw it into the fire. It is recordeKl of La Fontaine, noted for bis absent-mindedness, that he once attended the funeral of one of his most intimate friends, and shortly afterward called to visit that friend. When reminded by the astonished servant of the recent death, he was at first terribly shocked, and then re marked : "True ; of course ; I remember now, I went to his funeral." A century of progress has not produced a remedy equal bo Ely's Cream 'Buhn for catarrh, cold in the head, aud hay fever. It is not a liquid or a snuff, but is peifec ly safe and easily applied into the nos trils. It gives immediate relief, and cores the worst cases. Don't say there is no help for catairh, hay fever and cold iu the head, sine thousands testify that Ely's Cream Balm has entirely cured them. It supercedes the dangerous use of liquids and snuffs. It is easily applied into the nostrils and gives relief at once. Price 50 cents. Many a hero who has been slashed and disfigared by a sabre withc pinch ing has ben known to ''lDl"Nif 4d Own Your Own Dooka. Let mo ay to you, youn man or ton: an, In gin at onc9 the foundation of j-o'ir library. You often ask professional men like myself, "How do you nse the public library?" I, for oce, snort rerdr, that I have never yet learned how, tho-igfi I have haunted their all my life. I never go into a public library that I do not get confused ; my original quest is blunted or turned aside by tbe pa- of catalogue matter, my ardor is cooled Ly the me-rliani-ai fuiwoieM of gttting what I tUotight I wanted. My ideality is broken down by tt. heat of the room, the lu of an overtoat on omj arm, my I. at and umbrella Uuder tn other, the search for a blank ar.i pencil, the crowding oftlm man next me i.e payment of a fine on :be last book overbold, the pert and air delay of the pretty girl w ho stands at the gate f knowledge, or, worst of all, the third or fourth rebuff of "out V -s I des ignate the volumes I want. So that if I had a.t idea buroing in my soul when I came in, I deport uUerly vexed and wholly out of w.-iti' e or speaking n:x.l for that forenoon. I must go back to my dert and kindi my fires anew. As to sitting down in the library itself, mak ing notes and kcepi i to my idea in that publicity, wifh me !t is wholly out of the oirstion. lrha it is my want of con centration. Perhaps, more ver, if I were a stitistician only seeking names ordafeH, r, on the ot..ir hand, an idle man bent only on ; jssing n -dlo hour over a novel indoors rather titan on the park benchts, I could read in a public obrary. But if my author is to Vin. lie me and inspire m with ns;gp"tioji f--r any t,iginal add eu work jr word, my dull head must be more soli. Ay, my ears less assailed. If yc . buy yocr own bwk it is a least fj?!n;'it brings n- infection :tto jour v .'cliiiij.. I. thcM anything nmre de-.iu'uf-d th'.n the fraranc of the io: i i j t jco. i s you crack it o-en . s "owers open j io .ho gaz cf daybr. k ? And the seni-e ' of p.op. i.ioTship prtv nCi ail hum-. You ' . : rt ... . ... n-ve i... inei j u r- s on vour iii j p,.ticlj for you: .-ouveiiieii. e.' You may , W jt down to thick Sr an ho: r with t o lay : impertinent voice whispering, "Harry ui . My turn nest." It U thiuking over a book which ;3 tlm ti-t aiu:iL!e tli'n alc'it rtading. That is the way we' tak.. th. li, Je book and eat it," as St. John say". A book ol real worm n-ems to ay, "Lay me down a-;d take me up a:;ai:i after j-ou have d-arued ovei hat I said on such a page." Your own hook, mark ed and leaf turned dc.wn, will s-uietinies stand a year on the shelf all disused. But you know where to find what you uant. l As time g'-es on one -'ay you spring out of yuri'hair eti'Iaiming: "I have read something on this point. Oh, I have it. It is in such a volume. See, here it is !'' You are conversing with your friend abt?ut Rome. "What did Dickens write about the Colloseum ? Dear, dear! I got it out of the public library. I have no Dickens of my own." But you have a Byron. Yen pull it down. Y-x. sit and charm yourself with a pleasure far more exquisite than when yr;i tirst perused it. There is no creator error than to sup pose that the mere reading of all the pees of a book oa. e exhausts it. It is ti.e fortieth reading that ail'oids the finest flavor of pleasure, .-lowly, yet surely, even with painful economy, you collect a fow good tilings. The store will al ways be wort a the investment to you. You will learn how to select. You will '.! s-ime books as years pass, tut s(nu; ! will always 1-e asdear as life toyou. Yon will acquire th habit of "haniring round'' book Ftores, which cultivates a man, as the face of it friend sharpeneth the friendship. You will rea l reviews and learn to be on .he watch for the newest and latest in thought. No one rea ls re views who does not buy books, yet re views are often nowadays the ripest thought in a new;iar. Your home will be perfumed by your library. The lack of the library is the severest reproach on many a sordid home among the men; money gotten. In fact one would, but for the overgrowth of which the illus trious Englishman couii-iains, as foon. think of borrowing cradii s and eating dishes as the few masterful looks that underlie present human knowledge and culture. "I am a youn; man living in a lourJ-ing-bonse. A library would be aa in cumbrance." To which I reply : A yot.ni; man with a library w ill prove irresisti ble. He w ill soon have a local habita tion and a rime. He will outgrow his boardir.g-house. The world has a p'aco for hiai and his books. Randolph Hill in Iloftim Cl'jf. Tho Domestic Dog. The varieties of the domestic d-r hae lately been discussed by French and English naturalists M. G. Mo.-ti!'et. in a papr read before the A nthrop; logical Society of Paris, atiruing fioi.i negative eviriecce tht on-existenci? of the dog in the earlier (quaternary epoch, ttjt.cs his presence onward from ii - -hidl-henis of Denmark, in which his remain.-, com monly occur. Pascing from the prehis toric sees in F.urope. hs considers at lensththesviden.-e that can b advanced of the existfme of several vaiieties of the dog among the Egyptians, and later on among the anciear Greeks and Ro mans, and in the fact of the innumera ble varieiies of the canis domestiens, the author believes we have one ef the moi-t conclusive proofs of evolution. Mcsr. Winder and Humphreys have also read a paper before the Zoological Society, of London, on so:ne caninal and dental character of th domestic dg. based on the resultd of the measurement of a lare number ot dogs' skulls of various breeds. ItsoV-jcct was te asccr'ain whether cra nial and dental characteristics afforded su.iicieiit information to ermit of a sci entific classification of the breeds or would throw any light upon their origin. The conclusion so far arrived at was that interbreeding had b.-cn so extensive anil complicated as to make it impossible to distinguish tho various forn.s scientific allj' from the characters examined. "Now, children, w ho was the strong est man?" asked the Sunday-school su perintendent. "John I- Siinson '." yelled a little fol low whose knowledge of sacred ami pro fane history was somewhat mixed. Six-year-old. Grandpa, we have come to wish you many happy returns of your birthday ; and mamma says if you give us each a gold dollar we are not to lose it on our w ay heme. At the Flower Show : lie Isn't that bunch oflillies handsome?' She Yes, but I should much rath.;: have this bride's boqiiet. Ile Will yon carry on -like it to mv wedding? She ha mj see papa first. Lady Tatient -.with big feet i "li you think my pedal extremities are unusually large?" Chiropodist (diplomatically "Oh no. While) in Chicago last summer I operated on a lady w hose shoes covered several achers." Still She Was in Favor oflt. Mr Watu What. Yon don't mean t v. that voa do not be'iove it- It'Jik. . HK . j r Ti.... T . . a oay wt reH : .rs. rons-. a- ue rtrtU was not tVnd ' '. o nap bi 3 ... XP. 1 i 1 ir. 'x xj.xj. .
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