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AT TH' END O' TH' ROAD. 1 was born way back at th end o' th' road. **ere my remembrance of things first An' .uere 1 lived. pl>jed. wcrked an' growed. Jes natural like an' Jes because I lived At th' 1 -<1 o' th' road At th' end o' th' f *5 'twas much th' same This day or thai—except 'twas play When up from th' turnpike some oae came. An' jes as long as they happened to stay An' talk, At th' end o' th' road. If I strnysd away I was glad to get home To th' little red house, where mother an' dad An' I bad a little world all our own. An' jes as good irs anyone had, Out there At th' end o' the' road. From my attic window I've looked amazed Hour after hour at th' turnpike's line. A yellowish streak, till I grew dazed, Wondering where an' in what long time I'd get At th' end o' th' road. For where did they come from, th' folks that went Jogging along th' old turnpike? An' most all strangers that I hadn't met; An' over th' hills—what was it like. Somewhere, At th' end o' th' road? Oae day me an' ma an' dad Started off with th'old gray mare On th' longest ride I'd ever had. An 'twas almost night when we got there, I thought. At th' end o' th' road. , When T dot un next dav an' see The road still winding, winding down, Twas th' biggest world. It seemed to me. From where th' end was. through our town Up home, At th' end o" th' road. I've traveled that road now many a year. An' I've found some good an" found soma bad; Some up hill an' down, an' I'm not clear If I will be sorry or I will be glad To get At th' end o' th' road. —Walter U. Hazeltlne. In Good Housekeep ing. UNDER STRESS. How an Urgent Suitor Won a Widow in a Railway Train. The Comtesse de Moncley—who will soon change her name, as you shall see—ls one of the most dellaious wid ows imaginable, and also one of the cleverest I have ever met. From the very first day she knew precisely how to avoid any exaggeration that could be considered bad taste in the expres aion of her sorrow, without falling into the other extreme and making those who saw her In her widow's weeds think she must wear red satin under her crape. Early in April she had quietly left her Paris apartment, where no mala visitor had set foot since her husband's death, and it was only by accident that, a week later, I discovered the ad dreas she had so carefully oonoealod from everyone. It was "Syoamore Villa, Chantilly." On the first of May there might have been sesn to ar rive at a little bit of a house, situated at a convenient distance from Syca more villa, several trunks, an English cart and pony, a saddle-horse, a bull terrier, two servants, and a man bor dering on thirty. That man waa my self. I hasten to add that, in this circum stance, I acted solely at my own risk and peril, without any authorization, any right whatever, and with no other motive than my love—my profound love —to prompt me to hope that my change of domi cile would not be a dead loss. Ah, well —nothing venture, nothing win. And what did I venture? The salon, the May fetes, the Grand Prix, the mob in the Alle des Poteaux, a few balls —what were they in comparison with the charms of a most attractive neighborhood? I' have known men to cross the seas and spend fortunes to follow to the ends of the world ad venturesses whose whole body was not worth the tip of Mme. de Moncley*s little finger. Clarisse's pretty anger when I pre sented myself at her house, on the day of my arrival, was my first delightful recompense. In spite of her grand air, I saw that she was touohed, and I doubt if ever lover experienced so much pleasure in being shown the door by a pretty woman. She took her time about it, too, and only pushed me into the street after a regulation philippic, to which I listened very humbly, replying only so much as was necessary to lengthen the lecture, which concluded in these words: "And now you will do me the favor to return to Paris. The train leaves in an hour." "An hour!" I objected, timidly. That is hardly time to ship two horses and a carriage and throw up a lease—" "What is this!" she cried. "A lease! You presumed to —go, Bir! What audacity! A lease! And, if you please, where is your house?" "A long distance from here," I has tened to reply; "at the other end of the forest. I am sure it must have taken me fully three-quarters of an hour to come here." To be precise, it had taken me about five minutes. "To think," she exclaimed, "what a poor woman, deprived of her proteotor, is exposed to! You would not have dared to do this if my husband were still alive. And to think that he con sidered you his best friend! Poor Charles!" "He has never had any cause to com plain," I murmured. "Let us talk to gether of ,him." "Never!" "Then let us talk of ourselves, that will be better still." This suggestion shocked her so that it took me a long time to calm her. Finally, she did not wish to let me go without having sworn never to set foot in her house again. It is needless to say that it took half an hour to per suade me to make this promise—which I broke the next morning and as often as possible. I over the months that fol lowed, merely declaring that in this vale of tears there is no more happy lot than that of such an unhappy lover as I was. Clarisse had the most ador- Itble way of annihilating me with a, look from her blue eyes—eyes that were intended for quite another pur pose than annihilating—whenever she saw that I was going to fall on my knees before her, and I must confess she saw it at least ten times during every visit I made her, still in despite of her express prohibition. And when Iso far forgot myself as to tell her, if the intent were as good as the deed, the late lamented ought to have a heavy grudge against "his best friend," seeing that I had laved his wife madly from the very first. "Not another word," she would say, severely; "you blaspheme against friendship. Poor Charles!" And her white, dimpled hand would pitilessly stop my mouth, so that, if I had followed my Inclination, I would, have blasphemed from morning till night like the worst traitor to friend ship in the world. The day she left off crape, I profited by the occasion—naturally enough, it seems to me—to propose myself in set terms as a candidate to succeed poor Charles. That evening—it was a June evening, and the acacias made the most of the power which certain vege tables possess of intoxicating one with their perfume—that evening, her hand did not stop my mouth at all, it reached for the bell. Clarisse did not threaten, this time; she acted I saw that I was on the point of being put out by her servants—who consisted of U T TLER. PA., FRIDAY, AUGUST IQ, 1894. an old woman who had been her nurse and whom I could have bowled over with a breath. However, it was no time for airy persiflage. Without waiting for Nancy to seize me by the collar, I took my hat and fled. When day broke, I had not closed my eyes; not that the situation seemed desperate, for I had learned to read Clarisse's eyes. But, all night long, J had repeated over and over again to myself: "Heaven grant that the little hotel In the Avenue Friedland is still for sale! We would be so comfortable there." In spite of this, I was no further ad vanced when September came, the last month of my lease. I was no longer shown the door when I suggested my candidacy, but Clarisse assumed a bored air and calmly talked of some thing else. Between ourselves, I would rather she rajig the bell, for I divined that she was thinking: "My dear friend, you do not dis please me: quite the contrary. But you must confess that, in the solitude of Chantilly I have scarcely had oppor tunity to enjoy my widowhood. Let me see if it is really worthy of its rep utation. In a j-ear or two we can talk of your affair." In a year or two! Pretty and charm ing as she was, Clarisse would have a score of adorers aronnd her. and ador ers around the woman one wants to marry «re like flioa in milk —they may do no great harm, but they certainly do not improve the milk. Early in September Mme. de Monc ley informed me one day that she was going: to Paris on the morrow to have a look at her apartment. "I sincerely hope," she added, in a severe tone, "that you do not think of accompanying me." "How can you suggest such a thing?" said I, with appwent submission. "You leave at—" "At eight in the evening, as I do not wish to be seen. I shall send Nancy in the afternoon to prepare my room. Ah, poor Paris!" She no longer said "Poor Charles!" 1 admit that this "Poor Paris!" made me much more uneasy. The next evening, at eight o'clock, the doors of the express train, which stops hardly a minute, were already close. Clarisse had not appeared. She reached the station just as the bell ran?. "Quick, hurry up, madamel" oried the railroad official. "Hurry!" I repeated, opening a com partment at random and helping ner In. But, instead of getting in, she fell back, almost fainting, in my arms. Here is what she bad seen, and what I, too, had seen over her shoulder: The seats of the compartment were unoeou pied, and three men, perched like tnonkeys on the backs of the seats, held to their shoulders three guns, Whereof the barrels shone in the lamp light like cannons. One of them, as we opened the door, had shouted in a terrible voice: "Don't come in, for —" I had closed the door so quickly that we had not heard the end of the sen tence. Then Clarisse and I bundled ourselves Into the next oompartment without quite knowing what we were doing. The train was already under way. We were alone. Mme. de Moncley seemed half dead with fear, and I must confess I was violently shaken. "Did you see them?" she oried. "What can be happening in that com partment? They are going to fight— to kill each other! What terrible trag edy is to be enacted right beside us?" "I don't understand It at all," I re plied. "Only one explanation seems possible to me. They are hunteiu who have suddenly gone crasy. Other wise, why should they climb upon the seats? If they siljuply wanted to kill oach other, they <*s#ld do it without all that gymnastics." "No," suggested Clarisse, "It is some dreadful American kind of duel. In such a case, it seems, they climb up on anything they can find. But why didn't they stop them at Chantilly?" "The train itself scarcely stopped there." "Did you hear how they called out 'Don't come in!'? The wretches, they don't want to be disturbed while they are killing themselves. Goodness! Just listen!" The fusillade had commenced right beside us. Several gun-shots had eounded, dominated by a shrill pierc ing cry, whioh still rings in my ears. Then a deathly silence ensued: they were all dead, however bad shots they might have been. Though we were making about fifty miles an, hour at the time, I made ready to g(fc-out upon the step and find out what was going on in our neigh bors' compartment. As I lowered the window two arms seized me and a voice broken with anguish but which sounded very sweet, just the same— gasped behind me: "Philip, if you love me, do not gol They will kill you!" It was precisely like the fourth act of "The Huguenots," except that my name is not Raoul. I saw the advantage of my situation, and I resolved to profit by it. I profited by it so well that, after a dialogue too intimate to be repeated here, I was in a position to sing—if I had had a voice, which I haven't: "Thou-ou ha-ast said it." For she had said it. Poor Charles was distanced now. She had said the sweet words: "I love you." A prey to emotions bordering on the hysterical, Clarisse sobbed and clung to me with all her strength, though I had not the faintest desire to intrude on the massacre next door. They •ould kill themselves at their ease. Let every man tend to his own affairs. As for me, I was very much occupied just then. That Is why, early the next morning, I hurried to my lawyer to speak to him about the little hotel in the Avenue Friedland, which was still for sale, but, thank fortune, is now no longer in the market. Decorators and fur nishers are at work in it, and when January comes, you will see it occu pied by a certain young couple that I know of. But let us not anticipate. When the train p*Ued into the city, my compan ion and I had quite forgotten our neighbors, or what was left of them; but now the authorities must be in formed and the bodies removed. I had jumped out, and was looking about for a sergeant de rille, when I beheld the door of the famous compartment open and the three hunters calmly desoend from it, carrying, rolled up in a rug, an inert mass which looked as if it might be the body of a young child. Without an instant's hesitation, I seized one of the assassins by the col» lar. "Scoundrel!" 1 cried. "What have you got in that rug?'' "Don't make such a row," he replied, "or we'll have a hundred people at our backs. It is only my poor dog." "Dog!" I repeated, indignant at the man's coolness. "Come, come, you cannot deceive me, I saw it all." My captive, whom I still held by the collar, opened a corner of the rug and showed me a setter's muzzle, with fleeks of foam on it dappled with blood. I dropped my hold on the man's collar in the greatest confusion. "Really, I scarcely kuow how to apologize," 1 said. "But, frankly. It la not astonishing that I should havo been deceived —three men crouching on the seats of the carriage and shoot ing—" "Still, the explanation is very simple, cjyg was bitten three weeks ago. I had the wound cauterized, and thought the animal was saved. We had been hunting all day near O'reil, but, no sooner were we on the train than hydrophobia developed and the animal began to snap at us. To at tempt to put the beast out was to tempt death, and there was nothing for it but for us to climb up on the seats and shoot the doff. We were not able to do so dntil after we left Chan tilly, for the poor brute had taken refuge under the seat. Finally, by oalllng it, I persuaded it to put its he*d out, and then we shot it. I tell you, it's a trip I shall not soon forget." "Nor shall I," I replied, and I re joined Clarisse, who was waiting for me at a little distance and whose curi osity was vastly excited to see me thus politely take leave of the assassins. "Well, then," she said, making a lit tle face when I had told her the story, "that doesn't count. I take back what I said." But at the same time she softly squeezed my arm with her own, and I saw in her eyes that '•that" did "coant." —From the French of Leon de Tinseau, in San Francisco Argonaut. A PUZZLED WAITER. Sad Beault of Attempting to Speak a Language He Didn't Know. A correspondent who has returned from the Antwerp exhibition, narrates an adventure which befell two English men there. He says: "Two very pre sentable. well-dressed gentlemen, who bore the stamp of Englishmen in face, figure, clothes and easy-goinjr air, en tered the restaurant where I was sit ting, and one of them called out in self-confident tones, which could bo heard easily at the neighboring tables, what was undoubtedly intended to be 'Garoon! Deux bocks,' but which sounded: 'Gassong! too bo.' 'Oui, mon sieur,' replied the waiter, as he rushed into the inner room. "The two gentlemen engaged in ami cable conversation over the table for about five minutes, when it struck them that the waiter was a long time with their beer. 'Gassongl' was again shouted. 'Oui, monsieur," answered the waiter. 'Lay too do, si TOO play.' 'Oui, monsieur, tout de 9uite,' replied the Belgian, and ouoe more rushed into the other apartment. Again the two Eng lishmen engaged ia conversation for five or six minutes, and again one of them shouted indignantly: 'Gassong! lay too bo!' "The waiter rushed behind the scenes with more violence than ever, and in two minutes returned with a triumph ant face to plaee before the astonished visitors two plates of boiled turbot. They looked at the man and next at the fish and then, with the help more of signs than of words, managed to explain to the waiter that they wanted beer —bocks—not turbot. The situa tion was an embarrassing one for all concerned, and I could not help think ing that something should be done at home to prevent my company abroad meeting with such inconveniences."— London Telegraph. —"I like to see a man think a good deal of his home," said old Mrs. Jason, "but when he stays out all night to brag about how happy a home he has I think ho is carrying his affection a lit tle too far."—lndianapolis Journal. A DECEPTIVE TARGET. It Costs Something to l.earn to Hit the Dangling Ball. A shooting gallery peculiarity that has recently came into popularity con sists in a very light and fragile ball of blown glass, or in some cases a hollow egg shell suspended from a string. This always attracts the inexpert* enced marksmen, because the natural destructlveness inherent in human na ture causes him to prefer to shoot at something which he can smash rather than at a target that gets no harm from his accuracy. Therefore, says the New York Sun. be wastes his three shots, at one and two-thirds cents a shot, not on targets, but on the suspended mark. And he never hits it. The experienced man in rifle range gunnery wastes no time on the de ceitful ball. He knows that it can't bo hit. Probably he knows it from ex perience, for it is one of tSose facta that no man will believe until he has tried It for himself. The reason for it is that a very light hollow glass ball, or a blown egg if properly hung on a slender thread, will dodge any bullet that ever came from a gun barrel. The air that the bullet piles up in front of it blows the light mark out of the projectile's path until it has passed, after which the target swings back to its original po sition. This is very provoking for the marks man, who, if he be a good shot, bu the doubtful satisfaction of seeing hi# target execute three quick dodges at the aforementioned price of one and two-thirds cents per dodge. There is nothing, however, so re numerative to the proprietor as these pendent marks, for the gunners, pro voked at their lack of success, will keep on and on and on trying to hit a mark compared to which a pin head would be a barn door shot, and they only give it up in disgust when the cost be gins to tell upon them or when some wiser friend explains their lack of suc cess. Two dollars Is a cheap price to pay for the knowledge that one of these hanging targets is a better mark for a baseball than for a bullet. Ground for Disbelief. Mrs. Mullins (reading the news paper)—A Philadelphia man rejoices in the name of Medycvnv Garczynskiegro. Mr. Mullins—l don't believe it. "You don't believe that is his right name?" "Xo; I don't believe he rejoices in it."—Life. A 8or« Way. Maud —How did you get Ned to pro pose to you, dear? Marie—l told him that you were dead in love with him, and were de termined to win him at any cost, dear est.—N. Y. World. Trmclng: the Record. Teacher—And Lot's wife— Pnpil—Was turned into a pillar of salt. Say, teacher, that's the first pil lar-case mentioned in history, isn't it? —Harper's Young People. THE MORTAL COIL WINTFB. SPRINB. —Truth. Sorry Tbroe Time*. When a friend who shared our hobby horse and our cookies in childhood floats off on a European steamship we are sorry. When she returns grasp ing a cane wo suppose she is lame and are sorry. When we ask after her poor foot and tind she is only trying to be a swell we are sorry again—this time for ourselves. —JJ. Y. Herald. IN PASSING. Through halls whose carved panels held A of cherubim. Cp stairways wide I wandered »n Through curtained alcoves dim: And ever as my footsteps came By alcove, hall and stair. A myriad mirrors started up And caught my shadow there. Sometimes my profile paled and sank A smile upon my lips; Sometimes a blur my features were, Swift darkening to eclipse; But following as these figures fled Faint ghosts of grayish gleams— I walked beside, as one who walks Companioned in his dreams Oh: winding years that round my path Like mirrors Sash and pass. Once, always, do you hold for me The wraith within the glass; Some nfuht or day. some star or sun (As what should say: "Beware:") Reveals in your dead seasons' flight My shadow passing there. —Ernest McClaficy, in N. Y. Independent. fly Ma ckftH- Ev C/Ov£fvmrt- »■%—TT#K were seated |! ySwl i, \fCW. at the card rt !.'1 r VWI table in the ! °® ccr! *' c l u k" ' t ,1 I I' room, playing B if! I P°k er w ' * if I // the post-trad jjl {I t jj er and drink ing warm beer. The windows had all been thrown open to admit the night air, which, from radiation, becomes quickly freshened in drv climates, when skies are clear and the sun has set, and bathes the thick-walled, adobe buildings, tempering them and making them habitable, and, if closed in the early morning, seem cloister* of coolness —welcome refuge, after drill or duty done in the glare and pitiless heat of day. No other mater ial know n to architecture so well re sists the penetrating ardor of untem pered rays shed in southern summer by a cloudless sun; for adobe is of mother earth, the grand conservator of heat and cold, and, like her, makes stubborn resistance to changing tem perature. The walls of the building now seemed hot and exhaled through the room the expiring heat of day. Stand ing near them, hot air was breathed on the face like the slow, warm breath of a great animal sinking into silent sleep. The sun had set, and the dimness of twilight was creeping from the valley over the foot-hills and rising in shadowy cones of moun tain purple up the pine-clad slopes be yond, spreading over forests that framed the base of frozen bastions, whose faded whiteness, seen in fail ing light, was that of snows a sunset had left cold. The curtains and flanks of nature's grand redoubt were no longer visible, for the fugitive after-glow had faded into gray, and the sharp tracery of the divide was lost for want of light. Through the open window we could see the sentry-lamps, just lighted, bor dering the rectangle of the bare parade—steady, sultry, and yellow, like the street-lamps of a foreign town. Around each, as far as the illu mination extended, lay a disk of yel low where the white parade had taken up the tone of light that fell upon it. Certainly in each disk lay a circular shadow, cast by the base of the lamp On the side of the general bar-room a light near the door of the traders' store illuminated the compound as far as the troop corral, where a stable guard paced the trravel in his rounds past the heavy gates, challenging and admitting mounted parties returning from duty or from pass. It was shortly after dinner, and, be ing yet warm, the game had not grown hilarious. Davis, out post-surgeon, had not joined in the play. That afternoon he had been shooting fool quail on the mesquite flat up the Gila; he was late at mess, so had missed the arrival of the week's 'mail, this being Friday; and, still in shooting-jacket, was seated at the reading-table, look ing over news contained in latest New York papers, now ten days old, and opening his letters. "I thought I heard firing toward Maekay." David had walked across the room and was standing near an open window. lie spoke quietly t