VOL- xxxv Now Is Your Time To Buy TT/lnter F^ootwear • ■. &XXi3VX>%*t We find we are o- erstoeked - too Yes, entirely too many goods and we must reduce oar stock ami redact it quick'.y, w; ae_-1 mi lev aui we are gdiwl to-«k><»e ont a gn at many notKli in the next few w-cVs ?nd t.iev a-c gotnj; vtTJ Cheap It will oay >nu to come mil"S to attend this grefct Shot Sale lor here [ arc the very lojs prices they will GO AT: BM'sOil. Oiain Sbots Ladies' Kul>lx.*r Boots fi.oo Mrn'f He*vv Kij> Shoes s«c iioy's Rubbtr U.K,'.S ft.oo Vbuth soi Grain Sfc<jes s«>c Men*:. P.ubl>«-r M«o'( High Cm Hox Tex Shoe* |i 15 Men's Felt Hots anri Ovets Watn'i Kangaroo Call Shoes 75c Ladies' Fine Dongcla Flexible .'-ole Mams' Kangaroo Ca!f S'noes 50c Shoes ¥1 10 : Boy'S Kip Boots fi.oo Missts' Fint Dress Shr>es 75 r ! ' Children's F"int- Dress Shoes 4°° ] dfanplete stock of Rubber and Felt (foods of all kinds Boots and Shoes made to order. At all times a FALL stock of sole leather and shoe supplies,of all kinds. Repairing Promptly Dene JOHN BICKEL. BUTLER. PA. HUSELTOIN'S Short Talk About Advertising Talking through the newspaper is > good way of talking to the people if it is aot «bnse<l—if you tell the truth. A long list of prices rioes not amount 10 any thing unless you have confidence in the hous that bick- the prices in their hones ty and reputation they sustain. What Would Your Paper Dollar b« worth to von if it was not backed hy Uncle Sam You have got to take the deslen word in buying Footwear. You are not a judge as to values in this cue. It is wise to buy from the house you have confidence in. YOU CAN TRUST THIS STORE We doj't depend upon prices alone to "c-«tch" custoTi'"". it's the absolute safety of the goods, alhed to low prices, that gives us the advantage. WE FIT THE FEET OF ALL MANKIND. MEN'S AND BOYS' WOMEN'S and CHILDREN'S ij» veal, pit gf'ain and kip,7 soles and tap, fashioned on th - : swellest lasts, lace or kfgb cut at— ♦«, ti.25 and $1 50. button, at *■> i ' $' 50, $2, #2 20 lien's box calf, ru*stt«, enatntls, cordo-! and $3. in kid, box call kangaroo and vans, heavy soles on hull dog, cit' and crack-pio»H calt, <>il gram, veal unlin• «l. Cornell lasts—the Swogger style*--$2 kip, heavy, soles, tij- or plain toe, heel or and |2£o, #3 and 13.50. '•pri'ig OUR WOOL BOOTS and RUBBER GOODS all-fresh made to our order No old girls in st »c'< No »>d j >'is to scil . Good Boots und rubbers at $1.50, $1.75, $2, $2 2j and $2.50. W.-.rm Lined Shoes for Elderly Ladies .at 50c. 75c, fr and $1.25. Try this store—think you will like it. - "B. C. HUSELTON'S, .'4 .. i'% Ruller'n I>afiluff RUM House OPPOSITE Hotel Lowry. WC Are Sole Agents for th Jenness Miller Shoes for Butler. \ HE 15 A WISE HAN J * ( —WHO'HECL'ItIiS HIS CLOTHING FROM— f I! - !J. 5. YOUNG, t THE MEItC'HANT TAILOK, # ( 1 TIN- gocxlx, Ktyle, lit and (feu era I make > I up of his suits * JLTELL their own STOF^Y.S| |- - STRIVING FOR EFFECT. 1/ j V> \ '?/ Men won't-buy clothing for tie purpose i_ r , Jj- .. t ft«»f Pp« Riding money. They desire to get th "T J. V V ' 7l»>si t'«»ibl<- result", for thf m .ney expend z\ /I n 1 Xot i:heap goods hut Jioods as cheap a^ /-.'l I. > | -(f ) ithey can In fold and m«d<- up propeily If "Jl .V/V, "ill Jr~" *\j JxmA v " u want the Correct thiru- al the corrert |f e*»/ Jpprice rail on tis, we nave tednced our sprint; ■.. li T* '• IV t~ suinßi r gf«.'Ndo nto nitk< room I. »r I \ I i ! il/ \V ((✓ /onrh'-avj weigl't tfoods, V A |l/ \\J r J9 J|?s |/fl |jij | Fits Guaranteed. • Merchant Tailor. * T . 142 N . (YSAIN St.. Butler Pape sros, JEWEIs6RS. We Will sav«* You Money On - Watches ju : ( Silverware, 184-7 Rodger Bros. I 1 r) _ I T Platewape and Sterling Silvers . ( Our'Bepair Department * tkc i .ill \im . t W' .t.lu . Cl-x anil !e\"dr. "U 122 S. Main St, >. r Old jjold and silvtr taker »iic same as cash. 7> " H THE BUTLER CITIZEN. No Gripe «Th<!»n you take Hood's Tills. The big. old-fash ioned, sugar-coat-M* p.*lis. which Uar you all to pieces, arc not in it with flood's. Easy tottike Hood's ■ ■ ■ Of X end's _ I I ■p to etwj I | m Sale, certain and sure. Al! ™ druggists. L r iC. C. I- Bo< <1 & Co.. Lowell. Mass. T h<- inlJi IMU to take Jritli Hood's s«.-»anariil* Thousand* are Trylnp It. In ordet to prove the great ruerft of Ely's Cream Balm, the most effective cure for Catarrh and Cold in we have pre pared a generous trial size for 10 cents. Gtt it of your druggist or send 10 cents to ELY BilOS., 50 Warren St., N. Y. City. I suffered from catarrh of the wor l Knd ever since a boy, aud I neicr h'»j for cure, but Ely's Cream Ralru fcei ■ do even that Many aoiuaintanc-s i it with excellent results. — 1 <»car Uslr uu. 45 VV..rren Ave.. Cliicagr>, 111. Ely's Cream Balm is the acknowledged enr fir catarrh and contains no cocaine, mere'".* nor uiv 111 iurioufl drug. F e. fOoeui • .' '»"r by mail. WTDOW S APPRAISEMENTS. The following widow's appraisements of I pi rsonai property and r« :»I estate set apart forth' benefit » f the widows of decedents have tiecti tiled in the office of the Clerk of Orphans' Court of Butler Co.. viz: Widow of J. Knauff. personal p'ty. On • \v K. Nixon " " :«*> «> " .lon. W. Irwin " " t .V> •' U.K. Ziecler " " :**> on "H. S. Frederick " " 300 0» •' W. V. -ean.an " " :«0 00 " J. M. Crooks •' " •'»>" 00 " Earnest Winner " - *« («• •• W. s. Thompson " " 300 00 " "O. Brady, rir. " " 23.~> 0" •' T. Mcllcvitt. real e.tate 300 00 All persons Interested in the above ap .irasien. Nts will take notice that they will (i<» presented for confirmation tothe Orphans Court of Butler county. I'a., on Saturday, the 10th day of I'ec.. A. [».. IrtK -aid If no ex ceptions be filed they will lie .confirmed ate sofutciy. ISAAC MEALS. Clerk O. C. ROAD AND BRIDGE REPORTS. Notice Is li«»rt*by piven that the following road ana bridjetrs hav«* confirmed nisi by t h»* Court and will 1m? presented on the Hr-»t Saturday of !»<•'•., Court. IHUK, beinjMhc 10th day of said month, and if no exceptions ar -filed thev will IK* confirmed alwolut^lv. 2i. D No. 1 September Sessions. HIW. In rc\ w-titition of citizens <»f Win fie Id township, for a'■ounty biidp-over Kouifh Kun on the Saxon station and Denny's Mill road. Court appointed <»eo C. Pillow. J. S ' hristley and (iediek Mr-Candles> as viewers. Aujr. 4. of VI«-W»TS Hied in favor of proposed bridge. -epternlM r 10. Approved, notice to »K* xiven ;i-' ordiriK t<> the rulesof <V)iirt and to be laid before the Grand Jury at next term. f*v THE ( ot'RT. EL D. No. 2, Sep iber Hes loos, WW* l n re. petition of citizens of < learfleld township for a eounty bridjre over Hunter Creek on Klt taninK Pike. Court appointed Frank shearer Homer Martin and V d. Slater viewers. Sept. r»th. Istis. Report of viewers filed in favor of proposed bridge. September 10.1H8K, approv ed, notif*e to IM jriven according to rules of Court and to be laid before the Grand .fury at next term. BY THE COURT. K. L>. No. •». September Sessions, I*DH. 111 re. petition of eitlz.en-i of Venango township for vacation of a oublie road. Court appointed Levi Porter. Wm. Urr and .1. .1. MeGarvey viewer-*. Aiitfiist 22. iKi*. Keport of viewers ti.erl in favor of vn atlon Sept«?mi»er 10. IM "i pproved. riot i.-e to IM* accordlnj! to rule-, of i ourt. Br THECOTRT. B. f). No. 4. September Sessions, IMS#H. In re petit i »n of citizens «»f Butler township forapuhlie road to lead from the Powder Mill Road to a point on the road leading from the Three liegree Road tothe Meridian road near MeCalmont Station. Court appointed Geo c. Pillow. Robt. MrClung ana W. C. Fleming vi"»«T». SeptemlH-r •"», Hsix. Report of viewers filed in favor of pro nosed road of road at H ft. notice t#» f»«- given according to rulesof Court. Bv THE < or RT, li. It. No. 5. -eptember Sessions. I*#" In re. petition of citizens of JefTerson townshlji for vacat lon, change und supply of a public road. Court ap|H»inted I. N. Meals, ROIMTI -rnitli and .John A. Watson vU*wers. Septetn ber r », Ih'x, Report of vlew«*rs filed in favor ot IH'titioners SeptemlKT l'». inys. approved and fix widtri of road at ft. N'»tlc#- to given according to rules of CouJt. Bv 1 HE COfKT. Certified from the record this 7th day of , November. IftH. ISAAC MEALS, clerk 0. S. (Jourt REGISTER S NOTICES. The Register hereby gives notice that the 'ollowlng a«-.*ounts of exe -utors, adminis trators and guardians have been filed in Mil>. ofliei-a - ordlng to law, and will be pre .ented to Couri for «*onfiruiatlon and allow -tii c on Saturday, t lie loth day of l>eeember, HiiM, at U A. of said day: 1. Final account of Adam Karnerer. guard ian or Juli t L Kamerer, minor child of lotin I> Kamerer. de *«*ased, late of Concord vwp. a. st :i!ed by Julia L Kamerer, executrix »" Adatii Kamerer. dec«;ased. 2. Final aeeonnt of Phillip Oaubenspcck, guardian of Martha Walley, minor child of >!artha L Walley. dcsceased. late of Parker t ~ # Fiua* dlstru'nit ion vcoupt of W. A. For •pier, C T* A of Mary Jane neep, de.-*-a»cd. late ».f Falrview l»orougb. 4. Final a>*couut oJ Mary K Sullivan, ad ministratrix of <y'ol. John M Sullivan, deceas- I ed. late of Butler Ixirough. | 5. Final account of J J Smith and John ! Kline, executors of Jacob Kline, deceased, late of Adams t wp. ft Final account of Peter LandgrafT, guar daln of <»eorge-- hoeiie, minor cfilld of Jos. Sciioene. late of llotiegal two. T. Final a <ounl of Stary A Rhodes, admin istratrix of Henry L Rhodes, deceased, I ate of sllpneryrock twp **. Final accuunt of Christina Fredrick a*i<l Theadore .1 I redrlrk, administrators of Adtrn J Frederl»*k,d«?' , eased.late of JefTerson twp. Final account of John A. Irvfn. adminis trate >r of Geo W Irvlu, deceased, late of For ward t wp. 10. Final account of R«*v W J tirlmes. exec utor of Nancy Richards, deceased, late of Corinofieucsslrig twp. 11. Partial at'eount of Tf torn as L Duff and S If Duff, executors of Samuel Duff, deceas ed. late of Wlnfleld t wp. 12 Final amount of A. p. Tatinehlll, admln- Istrat'Orof William Tannehill, d«'ceased, late of Slippery Kock township. Fi Fmai aceouut «»f James McLaughlin, administratoro Hugh McLaughlin, doceas ed. late r,f Mercer township. 14. I'ltoil account of IC I' S,*ot.t. trustee of the real c-.',iite of T)IODI:IH K. Cannon, de ccasi-il. biieof I'iiri.cr township. f>. rinal account of K'luur I 'nwun, admin istrator of Kimir.i Cowan, deceased, late of A'larn-i township. Hi. Final account of Louisa Kununer. ad iiiiuiatraliix of Vdam hummer, decreased, late of Hut ler iioroiigli 17 Final a am lof W. Il llramlon. exec utor of Marv A. l owan, deceased, late of Is Final account of fharlcH Divener. iruar dt in o lar V '>'I IOIIIM-H, minor -lilid of l» it io. 1 1' '''titiell. used, late of liouegal towimlilii. Final a - oiinl of I>l tie K.FIIek, admin I r.tt ri \ of W .1. Filck. deceased, late o flutter county. 30. Final »• count of \V. J. t'lnslemi, ail MluUt ratof qf ICI 'liurd I mstead, isle ol llddlcnex towiishi|>. 71. Pinal a --ount of V F. Werner, guar Joseph II Neeiv. Minor ciiild ol i*ely. deceased, late of Lancaster ::J. I'ar'ial .-u-count of \V .tv Llndscy • iirvivlfi/ ex -utor of William Liridsey ri,- e;i >< it. tat*- 'it i iterry township. -I Final account of lleorge K. (lay, exe utor of James M. May. deceased, late o Ponn i wp First and Partial account of S. <> Kamerer and Adam Kamerur, executors o joint U Ksmeret deceased late of Concur township, as tiled l»y H ij. Kattierer, surviv ing e\e,ntor and Julia V hipnerer, Kx'r ol Adam Kamerer now in-ceased. &>. Final account of Jolin Ku miner, guar illan of i lirlsteiia Hummer, minor child > Adam hummer, deceased, late of lluii- i borotnrh. I'lnal account of Thomas A. Vurks. adminlst rator of i'iarinda A Parks, deceas ed, late of Middlesex twp. 27. Final account of \\ . il. ("uhhlns, admin istrator of I' W. Thompson, deceased, ho of Allegheny twp. SH. Final account of W A. Fleming, exe - utor Of c'al.lierlue F. Jettison, deceased, late of I'elrolitt ho^o ~".i first, final and distribution account o Ale\. Mltclndi. trustee in partition of tii entateof { hrirtlaii otto, deceased, late ~ Hutlot ho fit 30. I' lit-tl account of Laviiia Anderson and Joncph Sutton, adminlstrnior* of J. L. \n dfrson. de eased, tate of Venango township. .it Irlnsl account of M. ('. Scaring, execi tor of it F. Scaling, deceased, late of Wort tw 11. ■Ki. Final account of J»cob Kaltcnbaugh executor i f Men s li .t.y licensed, lateo. tl. I ir-t partial mil of Owen llrady, auiiiliif .i rator of t /well llrady, S|\, dcceasen. I .te of l>olp't;i|l t «v(i. ;tl I ii|.ti v count of John K Uilghrist guardian of ill.niche s. shannon, minor chli bv adoption of Jutnes W and M. J. ituchiui an. oi . ;i ,ei), late of Marlon township, a tiled hy John McDowell, administrator o John K. (dlglirtat. now deceased. 3a. Final account of Sidney ti. Flick, ad mlnlst r-iti,- . f - . , i Metiti.i Is deceas-d. late of it,,a.'il*. towtiflhip' -* * iff}. I- inai ;j 'l'otott of ,1. M, |q U cL guardian of liertim hohlit|i.ve| mn,oi child of s. w Koliimeyer. elecci'tsi d. late or Alleghen township. 3V. Final account of tohn M Iteed. guar diiui of I'aulim Ktray, minor child of John Klray. deceased W.J. ADAMS. Register. 11 rail. I CHAITKR XV. ■NK CIIIUBH: OR (IIIO^T* Hut now -li" returned once more Into the usual routine ol the family. I fear 1 was uliable to repr all si>;iis of ajritation when. n<»xt day. she enteied the dinin? room, after we were seated, and took her customary (dace at the table. Her behavior was much ilie same as before; bat her face was very different. There was lipht in it now and signs of mental movement. The smooth forehead v. ould IK- occasionally wrinkled, and she would fall into moods which were evidently uot of in sanity. but of absiraeted thought. She took especial care that our eyes should not meet. If by chance they did. in stead of sinking hers, she kept them steady, and openid them wider, is if she was fixing tin in on nothing at all. or she raised them still higher, as if she was looking at something above me. lief ore she allowed them to fall. But the change in her altogether was such that it must have attracted the notice and roused the speculation of Lady Hilton at least. For me. so well did she act her part, that I was thrown Into perplexity bj- it. Aud when day after day passed and the longing to speak to her grew, and remained uti satisfied, new doubts arose. Perhaps she was tired of me. I'erhaps her new studies tilled her mind with the clear, gladsome morning light of the pure intellect, which always throws doubt and distrust and a kind of ne gation upon the roooniight of passion, mysterious, and mingled ever with faint shadows of pain. 1 walked as in an unresting sleep. Utterly as I loved her. I was yet alarmed and dis tressed to find how entirely my being had grown dependent upon her love; how little of individual, self-existing. Keif •upholding life, I seemed to have left; how little I I«red for anything, save as I could associate it witli her. I was sitting late one night in my room. I had all but given up hope of her coining. I had. perhaps, deprived her of the somnambulic power. 1 was brooding over this possibility, when all at once I felt as if I were looking into the haunted room. It seemed to be lighted by the moon, shining through the stained windows. The feeling came and went suddenly, as such vis ions of places generally do: but this had an Indescribable something about it more clear and real than such res urrections of the past, whether willed or unwilled, commonly possess; and a great longing seized me to look into the room once more. I rose with a sense of yielding to the irresistible, left the room, groped my way through the hall and up' the oak staircase— l had never thought of taking a light with ine — and entered tlie corridor. No sooner had I entered it than the thought sprung up in my mind— "What if she should be there!" My heart stood still for a moment, like a wound- E(\ deer, and then bounded on, with a pang in every bound. The corridor was night itself, with a dim, bluish gray light from the windows, sufficing lo mark their own spaces. I stole through it, and, without erring once, went straight to the haunted cham ber. The door stocd half open. I en tered, and was bewildered by the dim, mysterious, dreamy loveliness upon which 1 GIMED. 'ITIF moon shone full upon the windows, and a thousand colored lights and shadows crossed and intertwined upon the walls and floor, all so soft, and mingling, and undefined, that the brain was filled as with a flickering dance of ghostly rainbows. But I hail little time to think of these; for out of the only dark corner in the room came a white fig ure, flitting across the chaos of lights, liedewed, besprinkled, in-spattered, as she passed, with their multitudinous colors. 1 was speechless, motionless, with something far beyond Joy. \\ ith a low moan of delight Lady Alice sunk Into my arms. Then, looking up with a light laugh: "The scales are turned, dear," she said. "You are In my pow er, now; I brought you here. I thought 1 could, and I tried,*for I wanted s<» much to see you ami you are coine." She led me across the room to the place where slie lmd IS-en seated, and we sat side by side. I thought you mil forgotten me I said, "or had gn wn tired of me." "Old you? Tbnt was unkind. You have made my lijart HO still, that, body and soul, I sleep at night." "Then shall I never see you more?" "We can meet here. This is the best place. No one dares come near the haunted room at night. We might even venture In the evening. Look, now, from where we are sitting, across the air, between the windows and the shadows on the floor. I>o you sec nothing moving?" I looked, but could see nothing She resumed: "I almost fancy, sometimes, that what old stories say at>out this room may lie true. I could fancy, now, that I see dim, transparent forms iu an cient armor, and iu strange antique dress, men and women, moving about, meeting, speaking, embracing, parting, coming and going. But I was never afraid of sueli beings. I am sure these would uot, could not hurt us." If the room was not really what it was well tlttcd to lie— a rendezvous for the ghosts of the past then either my Imagination, liecoinlug more active A< SHE tipoke, began to operate upon my brain, or her fancies were mysterious ly communicated te me; for I was per suaded that I saw such dim, undefined, forms as she described, of a substance only denser than the moonlight, flitting and floating about between the win dows and TILL! illuminated floor. Could they have been colored ahndrfwy thrown from the Btalupu upon the fine dust with which THE slightest motion LU such an old and neglected room must fill its atmosphere? I did not think of that then, however. "1 could persuade myself that I, too, see them," I replied. "I cannot say that I am afraid of such beings any more than you if only they will not speak." "ALI," SDIE veplied. WITLI a lengthened meaning utterance, expressing sym pathy with what I said; "I know what you mean. I, too, am afraid of hearing things. And that reminds me, I have never yet asked you about the galloping horse. I. too, hear some times the sound of a loose horseshoe II alwuy.l betokens YV\L to M. ; hut I do not know what It means. I>o you?" 'Do you know," 1 rejoined, "thai there IS,A connection between youi family and mine, somewhere far back IN their histories?"* "No! Is there? How glad I am. Then I>crhap.. you and I ate ULATE-T AND that T'l how we are so much alike, and have power over each other and hear the same things." "Yes. I suppose that Is how." "But can you account for that sound which we both hear?" "1 will tell YV.U vli»t n»y old fostec BUTLEK, PA..THUMSDAV, NOVEMBEU ISSSB mother told me." I replied. And I be gan narrating wi>« n and where l first heard the sound: and then gave hei as nearly a<* I colli3. the legend which nurse had recount* il to me. I did not tell her its association with the events of my birth, for 1 feared exciting hei imagination too i « eh. She listened io ii very quietly. e>wev« r. and wiieti I came to a close, only said: "Of course, we <•: nnot tell how much of it is true, but there may be some thing in it. I hate never heard any thing of the sort. Uiil I. too, have an old nurse. She is with me still. You shall see her som# dav." She rose to go. "Will you mcel me here again, soon?" I said. -As soon as you vish." she answer ed. "Then to-morrow at midnight." "Ves." And we parted st the door of the haunted chamber. I watched the flickering with which her whiteness just set the darkness in motion, and nothing more, seeming to see it long after I knew she must have turned aside and descended the steps leading toward her own rocui. »lien I turned and groped my way back to mine. We often met aft r this In the haun ted room. Indeed my spirit haunted it all day and all night long. And when we met amid the shadows, we were wrapped in the mantle of love, and from its folds looked our fearles.- on the ghostly world al»out us. (Jhosts or none, they never annoyed us. Our love was a talisman; yea. an elixir of life, which made us equal to tht twice liorn —the disembodied dead. And they were as a wall of fear about us. to keep far off rlie unfriendly foot and the prying eye. In the griefs that followed I often thought with my-elf that I would gladly die for a thousand years, might I then awake for one night in the haunted chamber, r ghost, among the ghosts who crowded its stained moon -1 teams, and see my dead Alice smiling across tlie glimmering rays, and beck oning me to the < -Id nook, she. too, having come awake out of the sleep of death, in the dream of the haunted chamber. "Might we but sit there," 1 said, "tlvough the night, as of old. and lore and comfort each other, till the moon go down, and the pale dawn, which is tlie ulgli. -if the ghosts, be gin to arise, then gladly would I go to sleep for auotliT thousand years, in the hope that when I next beeome conscious of life, It might be in an other such ghostly night. In the cham ber of glll-sts." CHAPTI K XVI. v THE cusriMi SIIOK Time passed. Wc began to feel very secure ill that room, watched as ii was by the sleepless pen try. Fear. One night 1 ventured to take a light with me. "How nice to linve a candle." s!i said as I entt red. I ill in bed, though. It will drivi som, of them into tits If they see the light." "I wanted to show you something I found in the libra)*" to-day." "What is it?" I opened a book and showed hei a paper inside it. itith some vi i - written on it. "Whose writing ii hat?" I as' d "Yours, of eoevsi. As If I did not know your writinr." "Will yon look at the date?" "Seventeen hunlred and ninety three! You are miking game of 11. Duncan. But the paper does 100 yellow and old." "I found It as yo s.-e ii In that book It Itelonzeil to I.oi I Hilti n's brother. The verses are a translation of part of the poem beside which they He one by Von Sails, ho died shortly be fore that date at the liottom. I will read them to you. mil then show yon something else tint Is strange about them. The poem s called "Psyche's Sorrow. Psyche in,.ins the soul, Al ice." "I i'in mber. Vou told me about her before, you ki iw." Psyche's sighing I 11 her prison dark She is moaning I >r the far-off stars; Fearing, hoping, every sound sh« hearkens— Fate may now I e breaking at her bars. "Bound, fast bourn' are Psyche's airy pinions; High her heart, fcer mourning soft and low- Knowing that in : ltr.v pain's domin ions Crow t tie pa bus ' Uat crown the vic tor's brow. "That the empty lutnd the wreath In closes; Earth's cold winds but make the spirit, brave; Knowing that the briers l>ear the roses; Golden flowers the waste deserted grave. "In the cypress shale her myrtle grow- CTLI; Much "she loves, leejiuse she much hath borne; Love-led, through the darksome way she goeth— On to meet him in the breaking morn. "She can bear—" "Here tin translation ceases, you see; and then follows thv dale, with the words In Oormmi underneath it 'How weary I ainT Now what is strange, Alice, Is, that this date is the very month and year in which I was born." She did not reply to this with any thing beyond a mere assent. Her mind was fixed oh the poem Itself. She began to talk about il. aud I »\t<s surprised to lind how- thoroughly she entered into it and understood It. She seemed to have crowded the growth of a lifetime into the last few months. At length I told her how unhappy I had felt for some time, at remaining In Lord Hilton's house, as matters now were. "Then you must go," she said quite quietly. This troubled me. "You do not mind It?" "No. I shall be very glad." "Will you go with me?" I asked, perplexed. "Of course I wIlL" I did not know what to say to nils, for I had no money, and of com so I should hate none oi my salary. Site divined at once the cause of my lies 1 - tatlon. "I have a diamond bracelet In my room," she said, with a smile, "and a few guineas beshli s." "How shall we get away?" "Nothing is easier My oh( ll u Whom I uiel:t (Ojied It/ you liefoie. lives at the lodge gate." "I know her veiy well," I Inter rupted. "But she's not Scotch." "Indeed sin- Is. But she has been with our family a most all her life. I often go to sis- 1.-T an i 4 ometlmes stay all ulgiU with In'r. You call get a carriage ready In the village, and neither of us will be missed before aorning." I looked at her in renewed surprise t the decision of ht-r invention. She vi-red her face, us she seldom ilid >w, but went on: "We can go to London, where you asily find something to do. Men i; - can there. Anil when I come "Alice, how old are you?" I inter rupted. •Nineteen." she answered. "By the way, she resumed, "when I think of it—how odd— that"—pointing to the date on the paper—'"is the very mouth in which I. too. was born. I was too much surprised to inter rupt her, and she continued: "I never think about my age without recalling one thing about my birth which nurse often refers to. sin was going up the stair to my mother's ro m when she happened to notice a bright star, uoi far from the new moon. As she crossed the room with me iu her arms, just after I was born, she HV the same star almost on the tip of the opposite horn. My mother died a week after. Who knows how different 1 might have l>een if she had lived! It was long before I spoke. The awful and mysterious thoughts roused In my mind by the revelat us of the day. held me silent. At length I said, half thinking aloud: "Then you and I. Alice, were born the same hour, and our mothers died together; Receiving no answer. I looked at her. She was fast asleep, and breathing gentle, full breaths. She had b en ■■it tiug for some time with her head ly ing on my shoulder and my arm around her. I could not bear to wake her. We had been in this position perhaps for half an hour, when suddenly a cold shiver ran through me. and all at once I became aware of the far-off gallop of a horse. It drew nearer. On and on it came- nearer and nearer. Then came the clank of the broken shoe. At the same moment Alice started from her sleep, and. springing to her feet, stood an instant listening. Then crying out, !• an agonized whisper. "The horse with the clanking shoe!" she flung her arms around me. Iler face was as white as the spectral moon which, flic moment I put the candle out. looked in through a pane beside us; and she gazed tearfully, yet wildly defiant, toward the door. We clung to each other. We heard the sound come nearer and nearer, till it thun dered right up to the very door of the room terribly loud. It ceased. But the doos was fltiDg open, and Lord Hilton entered, followed by s rvants with lights. I have but a very confused remem brance of what followed. I heard a vile word from the lips of Lord-Hil ton; I felt my lingers on his throat; I received a blow on the head: and I seem to remi nil er a cry of agony from Alice as I fell. What happened next I do not know. When I came to myself I was lying on a wide moor, with the night wind blowing about me. I presume that 1 had wandered thither in a state of un consciousness, after being turned out of the hall, and iliat I had at last fainted from loss of blood. I was tin able TO move for a long time. At length the morning broke and I found myself not far from the ball. I crept back, a mile or two, to the gates, and having succeeded In rousing Alice's old nurse, was taki R< in with many la mentations. and IML lo bed in the lodge 1 had a'l nt fever; and it was ail the poor W'LMAN could do to keep my present! a secret* from the family at the Hall. When I began to mend my first question was about Alice. I learned, though with sonic difficulty for my kind attendant was evidently iiuwil ling to tell ine all the truth that Alice, too. had been very HT; and that, a week before, they had removed her. But she either would not. or could not tell me where they had taken her. I be lieved she could not. Nor do I know for certain to this day. Mrs. Blnkesley offered me the loan of some o' her savings to get me to London. I received It with gratitude, and as soon as 1 was fit to travel made my way thither. Afraid for my rea son, if 1 had no employment to keep my thought", fron' brooding on my helplessness, and SO Increasing my de spair, and determined likewise that my failure should not make me burueu sonie to anyone else, I enlisted iu the Scotch Crays, before letting any of my friends know where I was. Through the help of one already men tioned in my story, I soon obtained a commission. From the field of Wa terloo I rode into Rr.issels with a bro ken arm and a sabre cut In the head. As we passed along one of the streets through all the clang of iron-shod hoofs on the stones around tue, I heard the ominous clank. At the same moment I beard a cry. IT was the voice of my Alice. I looked up. At a barred window I saw her face, but it was terribly changed. I drop ped from my horse As soon as I was able to move from he hospital 1 went to the place, and fi ml it was a luna tic asylum. I wai permitted to see the inmates, but di • ovcred no one re sembling her. I d( not now believe that she was ever 'acre. But I may be wrong. Nor v II I trouble my reader with the il>i orles on which I sought to account 1 r the vision. They will occur to himse f readily enough. For years and jenis I knew not whether she was alive or dead. I sought her far and icar. 1 wandered over Kuglaiid. I'rn ce and Cerniany, hopelessly search it llsteiilrg at ta bles d'hote, lurking ibout mad bouses; haunting theatres and churches; often, lp wild legious. hedging my way from house to house; I d d not find her. Once I visited Hilton Hall. I found li all but i.eserted. I learned that Mrs. V ilson was dead, and that there were only two or three servants lu the place. 1 maun il ( get Into the bouse u: seen and ma i u way n> the haun ted chamber. My feelings were not so keen as i bad :i Itlcipsted, for the] i been dulled by ong suffering ftnt nralu I 'ha* the n ion shine through (iii se windows ol sialned glass. Again tier beam.-* were crowded with gliosis. She was not amen a them. "My lost love!" I erleil; and then, rebuking my self, "No; she is not lout. Tliey say that time and space exist not, Hi our (bought,. If so, Ipcu thai which lliib iei II iw. and the past can never cease. She Is mine, and I shall find her what mailers It where, or when, or how? Till (ben. my soul Is but a moon lighted chamber of ghosts; and I sit w-11bin. the iii ariest of them all. W hen she enter II " ill bv a home of love And I IVII it I wall!" I .ii and »r led over the put, till I fill a sleep in the phantom-peopled night. And all th- night long they wre about me tli <• men and women of (he long past. And I wa\ ,uw ot (hell' Iwan t ,c>, u my' dreams over the v. uole b'-t's Im ilted In a long old fas!t d > wn. set 11 liing for one who was At|i ■. and yet Aotilil be some one else. From room lo loom I vv till weary, and could not find her. AC last I gave up tli> search, and. re tnailng to the library, shut myself iu. There. tai> i- ilowi fr> the shelf the voir me of "Psyche's Sorrow." from the i ut where the student had left it. thinking it. all the time, my own unfinished work. When I wo' e ii the morning, the chamber of ghost: in which 1 had fa'leu asleep had \an : s-'ued. The sun »! LIT IT through the windows of the library: ai ■ on its dusty tale lay \on Salis. op nat "Psyche's Trailer. Ihe sheet of paper, with the translation on it. was uot there. 1 hastened to have the house, and effected my es cape IH-fore the sen ants were astir. Sometimes 1 condensed my whole In ir.g into a single intensity of will— th t she should v-oue to me; and sus tained it until 1 fainted with the ef fort. She did not come. I desisted altogether, at last, :'or I bethought me that, whether dead or alive, it must cause her torture not to be able to obey It. Sometimes I tjut s :oned my own san ity. But the tlioi - 1:T of the loss of iny reason did m ; in trouble me much. What tortured me almost to the madness it supiiosed was the l>ossible fact, wliii h a return to my right mind might reveal—that there never had been a Laily Alice. What ii I died, aud a wok# from NIV madness, and found a clear blue air of life, a joyous world of sunshine, a divine wealth of delight around anil in me; but no Lady Alice- she having vanished with all the other phantoms of a sick brain? "Bather let me be mad still." 1 said, "if mad I am; and so dream on that 1 have been blessed. Were 1 to wake to such a heaven. I would pray Cod to let me go and live the life I had but dreamed, with all its sorrows, and all its despair, and all its mad ness; that when I died again. 1 might know that such things bad been, and could never be awakened from, and left behind with the dream." But I was not mad any more than rianilet; though, like him. despair sometimes led me far along the way at the end of which madness lies. CHAPTI'B XVII. TIIH FHVHICIAV. I was now Captain Campbell, of the Scotch <*reys, contriving to live on my half pay. and thinking far more aln»ut the past than the present or future. My father was dead. My only brother was also gone, and the property had passed Into other hands. I had no fixed place of abode, but went from one spot to another, as the whim seiz ed me—sometimes remaining months, sometimes removing next day, but generally choosing retired villages about which 1 knew nothing. I hail spent a week in a small town on the borders of Wales, and intended remaining a fortnight longer, when I was suddenly seized with a violent ill ness. In which I lay Insensible for three weeks. When 1 recovered con sciousness 1 found that my head had L>een shaved, and that the cicatrice of my old wound was occasionally very painful. Of late I have suspected that I had some operation performed upon my skull during my illnes.S; but Dr. Ruthwell never dropped a hint to that effect. This was the friend whom, when first I opened my seeing eyes. 1 beheld silting by aiy bedside, watch ing the effect of his last prescrip tion. "You would BLUSH at me, Campbell, were I to confess some of the liother this Illness of yours has occasioned me; ENOUISV., LUJUIIII. to overthrow anj couceit I ever had in my own diagno sis." "Co on," I answ«*ed; "I promise to laugh." Tie little knew bow far I should be from laughing. "In your case," he continued, "the pathognomonic, if you will excuse medical slang, was »very now aud then broken up by the LI iiislon of altogeth or foreign sympton T." I listened with 1 >athlcss attention. "Indeed, oil seve D occasions, when after meditating < your case till I was worn out. I ha fallen half asleep by your bedside. came to myself with FIN? stranges conviction that I was watching by t ? bedside of a wo man." "Thank heaven!" I exclaimed, start ing up, "she still 11 -s!" I need AOT doscri ■ the doctor's look of amazement, all ost consternation, for he thought a fi sh access of fever was upon me. and 1 had already be gun to rave. For his reassurance, howover. I promis 1 to account fully for my apparently senseless excite ment; and that evi ling I commenced the narrative whld forms the preced ing part of this st< *y. Long before I reached its close t y exultation had vanished, and. as wrote it for him, it ended with the E pressed conviction that she must be de id. 10re long, how ever, the hope o' ce more revived. While, however, TL' • narrative was in progress, I gave bin a summary which amounted to this: I laid loved a la ly—loved her still. 1 did not know \\ tore she was, nud had reason to fear that her mind had given way under i ic suffering of our separation. Betwc u us there exist ed, as well, the boiu of a distant blood relationship; so diMant, that but for its firoliabio share 111 the production of another relailousini ol a very marvel ous nature, it ui oid scarcely have been worth alludii a to. 1 his was ,i kind of psychoi >gical attraction, which, when jusiiinil and streugtheu ed by the spiritual energies of love, rendered the iuinndlate communica tion of certain let:tings, boin mental and bodily, so rapid, that almost the consciousness of lue one existed tot the time iu the mental conseiounu 'ss of the other, Nay. SO complete 111 tiuioa was the con;luuiiicatiou, that I even doubted ber lesiiiuolij as to some strange eorrespoiiuciiccs in our pail history on this very ground, suspecting that, my memory being open in her re (inspection, sin s*w my story, and took il for her o-vu. It was, therefore, easy for me to account for Or. Kutli wens sclentilic hevviitlerinent at the symptoms I manifested. As (ity lealtii revived, my hope and longing tuci eased. But although I lovtil Lauy Alice with more eiitlrcuess than even during the latest period of our intercourse, a certain calm endur ance had supervened, which rendered ilie relief of tierce action Mu longer necessary ty collUllUllUce of a sine existance. It was as If the concentra ted orb of love had (Utilised Itself In a genial warmth through the whole orb of nfe, imparting fresh vitality to many roots which had remained leaf .i -s in in.i being. For yearn Uiu U»»'d oi iiaiile was th;- only field that lull ..oiuv the (lower of delight; now in iore began to live again for me. One day. 'lie first on which 1 ven lured lo walk into the llelds alone, I was delighted with the uiultiUid« el the daisies peeping (mill the gras everv w'-cit the first attempts of tin earili. become conscious of blindness, to open eyes, and see what was about and above her. Kv -rythlng Is woudt • I'ul after the resunectlou I'totu Illness. It is u I'cktU'rectlou of all nature. But somehow or other. I was not satisfied Willi the daisies. They did not seeui to me so lovely as ili»' daisies I used to set when 1 was a *'hlid. 1 thought to myself, "This is the cloud thai gatti er'i wiib life, the iliinu. ss (hat pas son and suffering > asi over the eyes or .in tuind." '1 hat it.oui.-ni n»y gar.e fel' U|HJU a single, solitary. red-tipped (litisr. My reasoning vanished, and my melancholy with it. slain by the led tips of the lonely beauty. This was the kind of daisy 1 had loved as a child, and with the sight of it. a whole tield of tbelu rushed back into my wind—a field of my father s where, through the multitude, you could not have found a white one. My father was dead; the tiel Is had passed iuto other hands; but perhaps the red tipped go wans were left. 1 must go and see. At all c ents, the hill thai overlooked the field would still be there and no change would have passed up on it. It would rieelve me with the same familiar lock as of old. still fronting the great mountain from wnose sides 1 had txst heard the sound of that clanking horseshoe, which, whatever might be said to account for it. had certainly htd a fearful connec tion with my joys and sorrows both. I till thr ghostly rider still haunt the place? jr. if he did. should I hear again that s- >und of coming woe? Whether or not, i defied him. I woul l not Im* turned from my desire to se<* the old place by ai y fear of a ghostly marauder, whom 1 should be only too glad to encounter, if there were me smallest chance of coming off with the victory. As so.in as my friend would permit ne. I let out for Rcotland. (TO US CU.MISBED.] SHOHT AND FUNNY. In matrimonial engagements men have to face the powder. A late supper embraces such things of which dreams are made. Life is short, but it only takes two seconds to fight a duel. It's better to marry and be boss than never to have bossed at all. A business man always reads the postscript of a woman's letter first. There's something crooked about the business of a corkscrew manufacturer. A girl never acquires a reputation as a vocalist until she begins to render her songs. Whenever a woman reads of a man going wrong she always wonders what the woman in the case was like. A man's meaning is the same during courtship and after marriage, but It la expressed in different language. The wise man always knows enough to cast his lot wltfc a woman who has enough money to build a substantial house thereon. CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS. More than one hundred collisions oc curred on Japanese railroads in 1897. Railway wheels made of leather have been experimented with in France. A South Sea Islander greets a friend by flinging a Jar of water over his head. American pulp-making machinery la gaining considerable headway In Scan dinavia. Farinelli could sing 300 notes with out drawing breath, while fifty exhaust most singers. In the Japanese temples there is a large drum used In worship. It Is call ed kagura-taiko, and gives a tone much like a gong. England holds the honor of having first formed societies for the prevention of cruelty to animals, and of having first legislated for Its punishment. A lion hunter who has made a study of that animal's peculiarities says "all lions are left-handed. When one strikes a forcible blow it always uses Its left paw." If the Prussian conscription were ap plied in India. England would have 2,500,000 regular soldiers actually in barracks, with 800.000 recruits coming up every year. FACTS WORTH KNOWING- Two-thirds of the beef consumed by Englishmen comes from America. The Empire of Japan compriser to day about 4,000 rocky islands. lodine is a crude alkaline matte. - , produced by the combustion of sea weed. There are more public holidays In Honolulu than in any other city In the world. In Australia spring begins Aug. 20; summer, Nov. 20; autumn, Feb. 20, and winter. May 20. The young woman who possesses c The seacoast line of the globe Is computed to be about 136,000 m11e.4. The oil of tobacco found in the stem of long used pipes is one of the most active and powerful poisons known. The atmosphere Is so clear In Zulu land that it is said objects can be seei by starlight at a distance of sever miles. There are 70,927 people in Iceland and they are so free from crime th.. but one policeman Is kept, and hit place Is a sinecure. There Is 87 per cent, of water and 1 per cent, of solids In milk. The siui'-'i in the solids Is In greater proportion than In any other solid. DON'T. Don't get the blghead—lt will COB. you too much for hats. Don't yawn when your employer is twlllug an alleged funny story. Don't neglect to know a little more than you let people think you know. Don't use n gallon oJ words In ex pressing a tp.islHM>nful of thought. Don't air the faults of other people until you have renovated your own. Don't think all the medical students , ire snobs because they cut people dead. Don't deapise little things. The mos <|iiito la more bother than the ele phant. Don't think because B)»n were born to rule and women to ob«-y that they always da. Don't employ a physician who rec ommends a change—and then takes all you have left. POINTED PARAGRAPHS. Snake charmers ought to make ex cellent bartenders. The ton#ue of liberty usuaU> belongs No. 40 to a married woman. A thing of comfort is seldom a Joy to the woman of fashion. Some men are worth more than oth ers and some are worth-leas. Heft.i niers should devote more of their time to reforming reforms. Unless a man possesses self-control n« is Utile better Ihi.n & slave. PITH AN") POINT. The water soon escapes when it'a half-tide. » Friendship and confidence are plants of slow growth. it doesn't take m .ch to make a one legged rttsn hopping mad. Wise is the son who admits the sn preior wisdom of Ms father. The majority of people seem to for get that to-morrow never comes. Putting a porcelain egg under a hen ts seating a good eggs-ample. An office-seeker seldom runs for the postoffice to mail his wife's letters. A man makes more good resolutions when he's broke than at any other time. Little girls are fond of dolls, but af ter they grow up they have a fondness for dollars. A St. Louis doctor refuses to allow his wife to raise ducks because they make such personal remarks. When the sun doesn't shine a woman has the blues and when it does she worries for fear it will fade her carpets. It has been proven that the young American Is just as much at home in shooting Spaniards as he is in shooting the chutes. Whenever a girl tells a young man (hat she dreamed of him the night be fore he might as well begin to save up money for the furniture. FEMININE FANCIES. It Is always the prettiest frock that receives the baptismal first. The woman with pretty rings can not be persuaded to wear gloves. To love once is to love always—but not necessarily the same person. It ought to be some consolation to a widow to know that history repeats it self. The noblest study of mankind may be man, but his favorite study is wom in. Some of the most disgraceful acts are performed by the most graceful sin ners. Why should a woman always act as though she were sshamed of a good appetite? Was there ever a husband born who gave his wife more money than she wanted. Fifteen women in the parlor car ask for hassocks who never think of using them. Rain on the roof may sound very soothing uniess yoa nappen ID DW out, in It with your best frock on. ODDITIES IN PRINT. Alexandria possesses the largest ar tificial harbor In the world. There are 230 glaciers in the Alps said to be over five miles in length. Among the Chlnsse a coffin is con sidered a neat and appropriate pres ent for an aged person, especially If in bad health. The greatest height ever reached in a balloon was 26,160 feet. Two of the three aeronauts who made this ascent were suffocated. The grape cure, which is popular in southern Europe, was advocated en thusiastically by medical writers as early as the tenth century. The Italian criminologist, Dr. Fer rlana. found that of 2,000 Juvenile criminals 1,112 were idlers. The pre vailing crime was theft, being 1,182 of th« whole. A Ixindon specialist says the most expensive drug Is called physostigmine, an ounce of which would cost nearly 11,000.000. It Is prepared from the Calabar bean, and is used in diseases .f the eye. The codfish industry of Newfound land Is the largest of its kind In the world, and has been In existence nearly four centuries. The annual export i amounts to an average of 1, 350,000 hundredweight. SOLAR FACTS AND FIGURES. Matter weighing one pound on the moon's surface If transferred to the earth would weigh six pounds. If the sun was to be divided into smaller planets It would make 1,J10,- )00, each the size of the earth. The moon moves through space at the rate of 3,333 feet per second. Its mean distance from the earth Is 238,860 miles. The number of asteroids known to istronomers Is 423. Some of them lave not been observed since their dis covery and are practically lost. A ray of light travelling at the rate if 186,330 miles per second would re lulre eight minutes and eighteen sec >nds to pass from the sun to the earth. The diameter of the sun in miles '• tstlmated at 866,400; Jupiter, 86,600. tat urn, 71.000; Neptune, 34,800; Urar is. 31.900; Earth, 7,918; Venus, 7.700. dars. 4.5130; Mercury 8,030; Moon. 2.- 82. A Urm lit of Nurreea. "From all that I can hear," said Senator Sorghum's friend reprovingly, "I shouldn't be surprised to find that you were actually a member of the sugar trust!" "My boy." replied Senator Sorghum, with a far-away look of ecstacy, "you always were such a delicate flatterer!" Generally Ike Case. tie married to get a home, you know; He was weary af boarding-house fare; le married to get a home—but, oh. You can seldom find him there. We still depend on France for wtaMt But none on earth competes With Uncle Samuel In the lina I high-grade feotUsA _
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