VOL- xxxvi
SICKeb'S!
The time of the year is here when you want to purchase
your winter footwear.
Our stock of BOOTS, SHOES. RUBBER and FELT GOODS in complete.
All our orders were placed early before the advance so we are prepared to offer
BIG BARGAINS.
-H||||«Novem ber 1 s rice
Men's double sole and tap working shoes 90c
Man's high cut heavy sole lx>x toe shoes -
Men's heavy sole good kip box toe boots ..•?'- - >
Ladies' waterproof oil trrain shoes
Misses' waterproof oil grain shoes
Children's heavy shoes ->oc
Ladies' fine dongola patent tip skoes
Misses' fine dotigola patent tip -hoes 80c
Ladies' fur trimmed Juliet slippers o>c_
Old ladies' warm lined lace shoes r
Men's fine calf latest style shoes *'
Boy's fine calf latest style dress shoes J. _
Ladies' fine dongola turn sole slippers
Old ladies' fine dongola shoes "
GOODS-^'
Men's Storm King rublx'r toots $2-»•» (
Men's rubber boots (regular height) *'"'"l,
Men's buckle arctics xl
Ladies' Croquet rubbbers , K '
» Misses' Croquet rubbers - )C
Men's self acting rubbers " oC
Boy's self acting rubbers
X X FELT GOODS. .V A
Men's felt boots and overs o _
Men's knit boots and overs
Boy's felt bcots and overs ?'
Youth's felt boots and overs *l-~;
Men's German socks and high cut overs .
Boy's German socks and high cut overs si.->o
Ladies' felt boots and overs sl.'->
Complete stock of Oak and Hemlock sole 'leather. Shoemakers'supplies of
all kinds. High iron stand for repairing, and a complete stock of Ladies, uent s
Misses'and Children's overgaiters and leggins; also a full line of lambs wool
insoles for making slippers.
JOHN BICKEL,
128 SOUTH MAIN STRI--KT. - - KUTLER, PA.
HUSELTON'S!
Showing of FALL and WINTER Footwear j
The biggest, most carefully selected stock of BOOTS and SHOES we ever of
fered is now assembled ly for the showing. Oro v Is arc Here all the time because
the best shoes for the money are here all the time
We please everybxly, no one disappointed, ask the thousands of people whom
we shoe and see. The newest styles from the
WORLD'S BEST MANUFACTORIES.
Women's Shoes.
We show all the newest shapes and j
fashionable tnanish shoes, heavy soles in
kid skin and box calf AA to E at $2, 2.50, ,
3.00 and 3.50. These shoes are the most
comfortable shoe a women ever wore.
In McKay sewed 75 cts. to $1.50.
Women's Heavy Shoes.
Our celebrated calf kip and veal un
lined at 85c, #1.25 and 1.50, then the oil
grain, kangaroo kip and grain it sl, 1 25
and 1 50, you can't duplicate in Butler
Children's School Shoes.
We sell only the best unliued kip
heavy sole tip only one pair to -buy dur
ing the winter, no rubbers needed; then
see the heavy veal oil grain, kangaroo
kip; prices 75c, SI.OO and up to 1.40,
sizes 13-2; sizes 9-12, 50c, 75, #1 and 1.15.
We sell "Queen Quality" Shoes for Women and
The Famous Mrs. Jenness Miller's Shoes.
B. C. HUSELTON'S,
Butler's Leading Shoe House. Opposite Hotel iiowry.
STRIVING pOR EFFECT! T^T
{J Sll I
Men don't buy clothing for the purjiMf I N j
or spending money. They desireAk. /F ' I
3: to get the beat possible results for theX A If. f<jT ill A
WTmoney expended. Not cheap goods'®- /J\ 4 7 i
goods as cheap as they can
CD s °id for and made up properly, ifV jpV* oT\'' : I
want the correct thing at the cor--® 1 i
j&.rect price, call and examine \ \j{rfj© ut I l
large stock of Heavy Weights, Fall 3; \ (tf fl'/ ff
Winter Suitings and Overcoats of® 1 \ i : fv/ 1 / -J/
latest Styles, Shades and \ y H* —~"W f
j t
Fits and Workmanship I-j / j i.' ,y'.
Guaranteed. & //
G F. Keen,
142 NorthlMain Street, Butler, Pa
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< ► That the dread house cleaning is over the next < 1
and more important work is picking a new carpet 4 \
* > To pick a carpet in our well stocked carpet rooms
( > is a pleasure, so say the many who have done so.
( > We have the famous Hartford Axminister, Wilton
\ | Velvets, Body and Tapestry Brussels and Ingrains . C
< , in a " the up-to-date patterns, on'y, and prices ?
i . that will astonish you. Then our China Mattings,
, . Floor and Table Oil Cloths, Linoleums, Rugs and r
Art Squares, deserve a passing notice. Ask to f
; ; SI.OO Axminister Rugs, 7
Neatest thing for the money ever shown in Butler at r
[DUFFy'S STORE j
PAPE'S, JEWELERS.
Diamonds, Watches. Clocks, Jewelery,
Silverware, Spectacles etc.
We have-a large and well selected stock.
We Repair all Kinds of Watches.
If you have broken jewelery that you think beyond repairs
bring it to us and we will make it ns good as new.
We take old gold and silver the satne as cash allowing the
highest marketprice.
122 S. Main St., Butler, Pa.
Men's Fine Shoes
i Come here if you waut the bast for
your money, they are here in winter tans
—box calf, cordovan, wax calf, English,
k grain, vici kid, heavy soles, all new
shapts at $1.50, 2 00, 2.50, 3.00 and 3.50.
j Satin calf fi.oo and 1.25.
Heavy Working Shoes
In kip oil grain 2 soles ami tap, high cut
box toe at if 1.50, i.ro, 2.50 and 3.00.
Heavy yeal and oil grain Creedmore's at
SI.OO, 1.25 and 1.50.
Heavy Boots at *»-50. 2.00 and 2.50.
Boy's School Shoes- Strong,
Dressy, Well Shaped-
Our Jamestown kip, high cut copper
toe shoe; then Bengal calf, oil grain and
crackproof calf, 2 soles and tap at fi.oo
1.25, 1.50 and 2.00, can't be duplicated
in any store in Butler.
THE BUTLER CITIZEN.
REGISTER S NOTICES.
The Register hereby fcives notice that the
following a<-rounts uf executors. a«lmini>-
trat«»r> and guardians have heen filed in
this office according to law. and will be pre
»ented to Court for confirmation and allow
ance on Saturday, the 9th day of I>ec..
1899. at 9 a. m.. of said day : .
I. First and final account of \\. B. HO(ld>
and James Wallace, rvci'utors of l'eter \\ al
la<*e. deceased, late <»f Muddyrreek township.
2 Final ac«*ount of Ah \. Martin, adminis
trator of Thonias Martin, dweased, late of
Jefferson township.
:t Final account of .T. C. ( enn. t \ecutor «.r
J. Newell «ilenn, deceased. late of Worth
township.
4. Final account of James Unlay, execu
tor of James Fin lay. deceased, late of I rank
lln township. Ilt _
."> First and final account of Mary J. Nixon,
administrator of \V. K. Nixon, deceased. lat«
of Buffalo.
♦'» Final account of James Walker, executor
of John llanr.a. deceased, late of Clinton
township.
7 Final account of W. C. Hawn. guardian
of Nora M. Black, minor child of II C. Black,
deceased, late of llarrisville borough.
s First and final account of Charles Uirap.
administrator of Catharine Khnp. deceased,
late of Summit township.
Final and distribution account of Walter
U. Goehring. administrator of Sarah Coeh
ring. deceased, late of Jackson township.
f«i Final account of .1. J llesselgesser. ex
ecutor of John llesselgesser. deceased, late
of W'in field township.
11 Final account of W.J. Bell, administra
tor c. t.. a. of David il. Bell, deceased, late of
Butler, Fa.
12 First and final account «»f Kli'.a h. and
John O. Hut -luson. administrators of s. \.
Hutchison, deceased, late of Cherry town
snip.
n First and final areount of lb nry 1 .
KnaulT executor of Jacob KnaufT, deceased,
late of Middlesex township.
11 Final account of Frank Neely. adminis
trator of John Neely, deceas«*d, late of Lan
caster township.
15 Final accoun.of 11. 11. Be ringer, admin
istrator of Katie B. Wilson, deceased, late of
Adams township.
lf> Final account of I. B. Ilepler. adminis
trator of Isaac Ilepler. deceased, late of Oak
land township.
17 Final account of Adallne Peters, ad
ministratrix of John H. Peters, deceased,
late of Clinton township.
is Final account of L. C. Nortliime. ad
ministrator of Dillman Xorthlme, deceased,
late of ( ent re township.
1» I-'iaal account of «. H. Ho van], admin
istrator of T. A. McKevitt. deceased, late of
silp|MTyrocU township.
30 Final :e-count of John <.». A Vulllvan,
administrator of Mrs. Valeria Sullivan, de
ceased. late of HulTalo township.
21 Final a.-.'ount of T. A. anil 11. M. Par'
executors of Kichard <». Nelson, deceased,
late of Middlesex township.
First and partial account of George
Ansert and Conrad Anstert, executors of
Conrad Angert, deceased, late of Oakland
township.
Zt Partial account of Louisa Zelgler. exe
cutrix of Henry l>. Ziegler. deceased, late of
Harmony borough.
24 Fir>t and Final account of J. Howard
Coulter, executor of John Coulter, deceased,
late of Concord township.
£"> FinJ l ! account of S. li. Mct'all. guardian
of Florence Webb, minor child of John M.
Webb, deceased, late of Clay township.
2(1 First and partial account of Joseph
Neigh, Peter Neigh and Joseph Portman. ex
ecutors of Peter Linebaugli, deceased, late
of Summit township.
27 Final account of Elvira G. Lyon, guar
dian >f Margaret Loui.e Mitchell, minor
child of Margaret Mitchell, deceased, late of
Butler borough.
25 Final account of Anna M. Khmer, ad
ministratrix of George L. Elimer. deceased,
late of Butler borough.
2)t Final and distribution account of .s. F.
Bowser and William Donnelly, executors of
Margaret Dougherty, deceased, late of But
ler borough.
■P Final account of Lot Wilson, adminis
trator of James A. Gallagher, deceased, late
of Calaveras county. California.
;J1 First and partial account of A. 15. llam
el. executor of James Hamel, deceased, late
of Penn township.
112 First and tinal account of Ella Camp
bell and A. Morris, administrators of
Harper C'ampbel I, ''"ceased, late of Washing
ton township.
:« Final and distribution account of Solo
mon Hemphill and Catharine Sanderson, ex
ecutors of Henry Sanderson, deceased, late
of Slipperyrock township.
■H Final account of John B. Kennedy, ad
ministrator of Evander McCaudless. deceas
ed. late of Muddycrcck township.
Final account of Lawrence Huehle. ad
ministrator of John Buehler. Jr.. deceased,
late of Cranberry township.
W. J. ADAMS, Register.
~ ROAD REPORTS.
Notice is ho re by given that the following
road and bridges have been eon firmed nisi
by the Coyurt and will be presented on the
first Saturday <>f Dec. Court. 1399, being the
9th day of said month, and if no exceptions
are filed they will be confirmed absolutely
R. 1). No. 1. May sessions. 1N99. In re-peti
tion of citizens or < onnoqueuessing township
to review a road in said township from a
poiut on road leading from the Kutler and
Harmony road to Meridian road to a point
on the iiutler and Evans City road. March
1"», 1*99, viewers appointed and order Issued.
September I. I>9". report filed, stating that
there is no necessity for a road between the
noints mentioned. Sept. 9. 1 approved.
Notice to be given according to rules of Court.
BY THE COURT.
No. 1. September sessions. lso9. In re-peti
tion of citizens of Wlnfield township to
change a portion of the Saxon Station and
Win field 1* urn ace road. May -4. 1599. viewers
appointed and order issued. July 20, 1599. re
port of viewers tiled, changing and supplying
said road. Sept. 9. Is1»9, approved and fixed
width of road at 33 feet. Notice to be given
according to rules of Court.
BY THE COURT.
No. 2. September sessions. 1899. In re-peti
tion of citizens of Buffalo township to vacate
and supply a portion of the road leading
from Leasurevilie to Freeport. July 1"». 1599.
viewers appointed and order issued. Sep
tember 4. I*9». report filed, vacating and sup
plying said road. Sept. 9. ls<*9. approved and
fixed width of road at 33 feet. Notice tube
given according to rules of Court.
BY THE COURT.
Certified from the record this (sth day of
November. IHUO.
ISAAC MEALS.
Clerk O. C.
WIDOWS APPRAISEMENTS.
The following widow's appraisements of
personal property and real estate set apart
for the benefit of the widows of decedents
have been tiled in the office of the Clerk
of Butler County, viz:
Widow of Frank J Snyder, per. prop*y.>Joo 00
Jesse Jones 44 " 221 50
S C Bovard 4 - •• 300 no
44 II Kirchner * 4 44 300 00
4 * James Anderson 4 * 44 300 00
Michael Miller 44 " 299 95
Frank Relth * 4 4 * 300 no
* 4 George St ah I 4 ' 44 300 00
Frederick Eicholtz" 4 * 300 00
44 Geo L Ehmer * 4 44 :wx> 00
44 Martin Eyth 4 * 4 * 300 «io
,4 John McGarvey 44 44 300 on
John M. San key * 4 4 * 299 s7
4 * Wm M. Shir a, real property. 300 00
All persons interested in the alxjve ap
praisements will take notice that they will
be presented for confirmation to the Orphans
Court of Butler county. Pa., on Saturday, the
9th day of Dec.. A. D.. 1*99, and if no ex
ceptions be filed they will be confirmed ab
solutely.
ISAAC MEALS. Clerk O. C.
THE OVERCOAT
is the most conspicuous garment worn and
therefore it must be made to your measure
for in no other way can you obtain fit. style
and durability. The handsome garments
seen ih this vicinity are products of our
workshop and they are none too good for
you. Don't be lured by claims of the hand
me-down to give you a coat just as good, for
should you get into one. in two weeks wear
you'll look as cheap as the coat* and wonder
why your friends salute you with three
fingers instead of a heart v. giad hand.
Nothing but the best to SBS.
ALAIND,
MAKER OF
MEN'S CLOTHES.
STOP
and inspect the work at the
Findley Art Studio over the P. O.
The work is excelled by none
and equaled by few. We employ
first class help and also only the
finest materials that can be
obtained. Crayons, Water Colors
and Pastells of a high grade.
Framing done neatly.
A. L. FINDLEY,
Tel. 236. P. O. Building, Butler, Pa.
VTEWTON BLACK,
II ATTORNEY AT LAW
Office on South Diamond Street.
BUTLER, THURSDAY", NOV EMBER *3O, lfsi>{>
NONE SO POPULAR.
It is Diily Gaining Favor in Pennsylvania
Results Reported From People Who Hav<
Given a Fair Trial to the Remedy.
Morrow's Kitl-nc-oids, the scientific
kidney "remedy and backache cure, i
daily gaining favor in this state. Xr
medicine has evtr been sold in Pennsyl
vania for Kidney ailments, backache,
nervousness, sleepleness and general de
bility that has gained such popular favoi
as Morrow's Ki 1-ne-oids
We give you the experience of Mrs. E
W. Vulkerson. 30 Etna street, New
Castle, Pa., savs: - "About four years age
I commenced to have a dull heavy part
in my back just over the kidneys, and at
times it would be a sharp shooting pai.i
1 I was so nervous 1 could ujt ge> the
I proper rest and sleep. Morrow's Kidney
oids were recommended to relieve me so I
decided to try them. In a very shi.r
time they relieved mc of all the trouble
some symptoms I find Morrow's I.iver
ax to Di an reme ly for ejn
tipation."
Morrow's Kid-ne-oids are not pil's but
Yellow Tablets and sell at fifty cents a
box at all drug stores and at Redick &
Grohman's drug store.
Mailed on receipt of price. Manufac
tured by John Morrow & Co.. Chemists.
Springfield, Ohio.
Till* Is Your Opportunity.
On receipt of ten cents, cash or stamps,
a generous sample will be mailed of the
most popular Catarrh and llay Fever Cure
(Ely's Cream Baim) sufficient to demon
strate the great merits of tho remedy.
ELY BROTHERS,
5G Warren St , New York City.
Rev. John Keid, Jr., of Great Falls, Mont.,
recommended Ely's Cream Balm to me. I
can emphasize his statement, "It is a posi
tive cure for catarrh if ns«d as directed."—
Rev. Francis W. Poole, Pastor Central Pres.
Church, Helena, Mont.
Ely's Cream Balm is the acknowledged
cure for catarrh and contains no mercury
nor any injurious druu. Price, 50 cents.
Ittiier Savings" Bank
Hutler, Pa.
Capital - $ 60,000.00
Surplus and Profits - - $170,000.00
JOS. IJ PURVIS President
J. HENRY T KOI'TM AN Vice-President
WM. CAMPBELL, Jr fat hier
LOUIS B.STKXN Teller
DIKE'"TORS -Joseph 1.. Purvis. .1. Henry
Tro'Uroan, W. !>. Bran<lnn, W. A. St>iu 1 s.
Campbell.
The Butler savings Hank is the Oldest
Banking Institution; n Butler County.
General banking business transacted.
We solicit accounts of <al producers, mer
chants, farmers and others.
AU bJsiniss entrusted to us will receive
prompt attention.
Interest paid on time deuosits.
TMK
Batier County National Bank,
Butler Peon,
Capital p:»i'i in - - Ji x>,000.00
Surplus and Profits - $130,703.95
Jos. Hartman, ".President; J. V. Ritts,
Vice President; C. A. Bailey. Cashier;
John G. McMarlin, Ass't Cashier.
{ general banking business transacted.
Interest paid 011 time deposits.
Money loaned on approved security.
We invite you to open an account with this
bank.
DIRECTORS—Hon. Joseph Hartnian. Hon.
W. 8. Waldron, Dr. rn. M. Hoover. 11. Mc-
Sweeney. E. E. Abrams. C. I*. Collins I. G
Smith, Leslie P. Uazlett, M. Finegan,
W. H. i.arUin. Harry Heasley, Dr. W. C.
McCandiess. Ban Alasseth. I V. Bitty
Braun's Pharmacy.
Cor. 6th St. and Duquesne Way.
Pittsbuig, I'a,, L. D. Telephone 2542.
Wholesale and Retail.
Importer ami Jobberof Drugs,
Chemicals, Perfumes, Soaps,
Biushes, Etc.
The only house west of New
York carrying a full line 01
Meyers' Grease, Paints and
theatrical goods.
Physicians' Prescriptions
Compounded Day or Night by
"Registered Pharmacists" only.
Wholesale and retail
dealer in Lubricating and
Illumniating Oils, Capital
Cylinder, Dynamo, Water
White and Standard Gas
Engine Oils, Gasolein, Ben
zine, Paraffine Wax and
Petrolatu m.
Address all mail orders to
W. F. Braun.
H. 0. HAYS. L. H. HAYS,
PUT YOUR RIG UP AT
iHavjs sros.' |
Livery and Sale Stable.
Best Accommodations in Town.
West Joletson street, Butler, Pa
People's Phone 109,
Bell's Plioue 59
L. S. McJUNKIiN,
Insurance and Real Estate
Agent.
117 E. JEFFERSON.
BUTLER, - PA.
Pearson B. Nace's
Livery Feed and Sale Stable
Rear of
Wick House, Butler, Pern'a.
The best of horses and first class rigs al
ways on hand and for hire.
Best accommodations in town for perma
nent boarding and transient trade. Speci
al care guaranteed.
Stable Room For 65 Horses.
CJA good class of horses, both drivers and
draft horses always on hand and for sale
under a full guarantee; and horses bought
pou proper notification-by
PEARSON B. NACE.
Telephone. No. 219.
yy.YNTED SEVERAL BRIGHT AND
honest persons to represent us as Man
agers in this and close by counties. Salary
JDOO a year ami expenses. Straight, bona
lide. no more, 110 less salary. Position per
manent. Our references, any bank in any
town. It is mainly office work conducted a't
home. Reference. Euelose self-addressed
stamped envelope. THE DOMINION COMI-ANY
Kept. 3, Chicago.
THEY THAT JIT IN DARKNESS
A yrORY
THE AUSTRALIAN NEVER-NEVER
k?m&n v v v
v _ YEHK AXACKIE
AUTHOR OF*THE DCV/ILS PLAYGROUND AfJD"3INNEiyTW.W'
COPW/UIT/390. EYRTTX/FKKA.JTOKSI COMMA/*
CHAPTER XXL
"THE DARKEST HOUR IS NEAREST THE
DAWN."
Next morning on awaking I could
hear tho go-go-burra shrieking and
cackling in its happiest fashion and r<?-
membor being somewhat mystified, for
that bird—"tho settler's clock"—never
begins to assert itself and expostulate
with dropsy humanity until there Is
aime light in the sky, while as yet it
was pitch dark.
Then the awful truth came crashing
down upon me —I was blind 1 Oh, tc
think that I would never again see tho
stars go out one by one in the blue
heavens at break of day or the lemon
glow ch&age to silver gray in the east
ern sky as the glorious sun rose, kissing
away thegauzelike mists from the palm
girt and lily draped lagoon I could
never again go to the door of my tent
and. -nying to that go-go-burra, throw .»
bill -n>f wood at it by way of playful
response to its premature greeting and
nit nt sheer light lieartedncss and good
feeling. It had nut been a jwisaing
dreaui. It was a stern, horrible fact.
P.nt tnen crime the thought of the
love that 1 had won if I had lost my
sight. Th it at least was mine which in
this world Hi <-:iie<l to me best worth
having. My blindness mattered not to
hi r. for she had told me that she had
eye- for Ujtli of us. 'l'ia-sv u. no dream
about that. It wa - gl>r; >.;s reality 1
Jack took me (lon to the creek for
a WASH, and then I went CVI-I with him
to the lamp and sat down in Lac shade
of a great overiian M. ; li< Uve until he
was ready tocoi'ie ai: i t.i.: vie to break
fast. Before in.'tiiy l. in tes 1 bocame
aware of a woman a; ; : I had
always maintained. s - .. a' to s-i y. that
even a blind pefson cov.ld t- '.I Nor ah
Mackenzie's step, and n..w that sight
wm denied me the truth of what had
betu lightly said struck home. It was a
light, buoyant, but thai stop, indicative
of h< r character. In tinctivrly I rose to
my f 'et to show h • taat I v.i cb«v-rfr.l
and not brooding over my i.iist'.<rtnne
indec-.l that I rather r-..aced in tho
hojie she had given me I wished her
"Good morning" mil held out my
band. I conld nut see her in tho fl ;h.
but could see her with wo:. rt'ul dis
tinctness i'i my mind's eye :;t that mo
ment as with a shy gl.nln on her
face she e:i:-:e toward me and caught np
my two hands.
"Is this all you have for me?" she
cried and kissed me on tho cheek with
out more ado.
Considering how things had come
about, was I altogether to IK? pitied?
Actually my speculations that day
shaped themselves into the question.
Did I not owe something to my blind
ness, after all 1
We made an early start so as to reach
the sts.t'or that night. The spare pack
horses belonging to tiie surveyors and
the squatter were called into use, and
every one was mounted. Jack attached
a checkrein to Sir Henry. So what
with the former on one side and the
company of the squatter and sometimes
his daughter on the other the time
somehow slipped so quickly away that
when at noon we stopped to camp and
have dinner I was taken by snrjirise.
In the course of the afternoon we met
Mooney and the other stockmen coming
at a brisk pace up the creek. It seemed
that some of the horses which stamped
ed from us when the blacks had attack
ed us in the cave made back toward the
station. When they were seen, Moo
ney had tal»m alarm, and. leaving the
station and everything in it to look aft
er itself, started out at once with plenty
of ammunition to find out what had
gone wrong.
By continuous traveling we reached
the station late in the evening, where
we found everything as it had been left.
It seemed like getting hcuie again after
the terrible experiences we had gone
through in that fateful cave.
In a conple of days the surveyors,
who were a capital set of fellows, left
for the Macarthur amid many expres
sions of g<x>d will. It was arranged
that after a few more days of rest and
preparation we should start for Burke
town in Queensland again. Chilcot was
to be left in charge of the station, with
fonr or five hands. By this
time Gordon wouiu be more able for the
journey, as he, with his sister and Sa
vile, was going back again overland to
Tarragong. Jack, of course, would ac
company me to Burketown.
At last the time came to say goodhy
to sonmof my old friends. There were
Gordon—who was now fast recovering
from his wounds—his sister and Savile.
It was indeed a hard thing to part with
them at the wharf. They had been so
kind and attentive to me in my afflic
tion, and so delicate with it all that at
times I was almost inclined to forget
my blindness. If the-essence of true po
liteness is to conceal tho fact that one
is conferring a favor and to make the
recipient lose sight of any indebtedness,
then they were nature's own gentle
folk. They were starting overland the
next day for Tarragong. Mackenzie and
his daughter were going round to Bowen
by one of Burns Philp's boats. I gave
Gordon an envelope containing a £25
bank note to be given to Savile and
Elsie when a certain happy event might
be expected to take place. Savile, good
soul, was unable to speak when he shook
hands with me, but I understood him.
There was no need to say anything.
Then the steamer Dugong blew its
whistle. In a minute the score or so of
bushmen and stockmen, with the entire
population of Burketown, hurriedly re
crossed the gangway and stood upon
the wharf. Soon we were steaming
down the tortuous river. In a couple of
hours I was sitting upon a deck chair,
with Nerah beside me. The cool salt
sea air was blowing on my cheek, and 1
felt strangely well and happy. The sea
had always exercised a powerful fasci
nation for me, and it exercised some of
its old wistful glamour for me now as I
listened to the swish and splash of the
waves breaking and coursing along the
sides of the old Dtigong. But at length
the vain regret forced itself upon me
that I could not now look upon old
ocean's mystic face as it heaved in the
moonlight, here with silvery flashes of
phosphorescent fire and there with a
yawning gulf of somber blackness. How
often I had longed when in the sad
voiced lonely bush to be once more
within sound of its ever changing an!
mysterious whispers. And now my wish
was granted. But, alas, I might listen to
the sighing of winds and the soothing
splash of waters, but it was written in
thi- book that I was no more to look
upon that dear familiar face.
'ili,-11 I felt the gentle pressure of the
hand that lay in mine, and I knew that
some one was at her old tricks of mind
reading.
"You should not think of such
things." she insisted "but when you
do rememfv r they ar<- none the less real
because you u«n't see them. I think to
hear-—to feci —them is ever so much
gmii.lt r I often shut my eyes on pur
pose to do this."
"That's not the only thing which
troubles me." L rej- ::: .1 aluiu.-t queru
lously; "it's the future the horrible
oselessnees and hopeh-ssuess of the fu
ture."
"That's rather hard upon me. isn't
it?" flie commented.
"It would be ten times harder upon
you. " 1 answered, "if I allowed you to
throw away yonr life on a blind man" —
"Listen to me. Dick." she interrupt
ed, and the words came from her calm
ly and proudly, as if from a conscious
ness of her own strength, but not with
out the tenderness of her infinite love
and trust. "I understand perfectly why
yon speak like this, but yon don't quite
know me yet. Whether you get back
your sight or not won't make any dif
ference—only perhaps I'd love you bet
ter as you aTe. Do you think a woman
only marries a man for his eyes? Is
there anything the world can give a
womjjn in exchange for her love?
There's nothing. iJick, and you know
it. Didn't you tell me once that yon
loved me better than your own life?"
The girl had caught up one of my
hands and now held it between her
own. She had come so close to uie that
I could feel the silky touch of her hair
upon my temples. She was very strong
in that which makos a woman woman
ly. My resolutions wavered. I should
not have been made of flesh and blood
had I not experienced a secret sense of
thankfulness in so far as I had done
that which my sense of justice demand
ed and failed to shake the girl's con
stancy.
"I'll tell you what." I said, "iu the
meantime we'll leave things just as they
are. In six months or so from now you'll
be with your father in England. By
that time I'll either be recovering my
sight or be a hopelessly blind man.
You'll have lots of time to think over
matters before then, so that should yon
have come to see things in a different
light you'll be at lil>erty to do just as
you please, and no one will be to blame."
"Agreed," she cried gladly, with the
confidence of one who has no fear of the
results, and we sealed the compact in
the simplest and best of ways.
And now I will hurry over the in
evitable'farting scene. At Thursday is
land the squatter and she who had be
come every day dearer to me transship
ped into one of the A. U. S. N. boats
and went southward. Jack and I
caught the homeward bound mail, the
Dacca, and went westward.
"In six months from now Norah and
I'll be with yon," said the squatter as
he wrung my hands on parting. "You
see, my affairs must be arranged down
south first. Remember, if you have lost
your sight, you've won that which is
ten thousand times more precious—you
know what. You've behaved like a
square man in the past, and, what
ever comes of it, I'm not going to in
terfere in the future. Norah is like
what her mother was, and I'm proud of
her. Keep your heart up, my boy."
As to my parting with her, I think it
is one of those things that it is as well
to say nothing about. What can one
say'! Suffice it that her last words to
me as she held my hands were, "What
ever comes, have patience."
And the remembrance of these blessed
words kept me patient in many of my
dark hours of trial. In spite of what
misogynists, pessimists, cynics, and all
those belonging to that sickly and short
sighted crew may say, I do not think it
possible for any man to gauge to its full
ness and depth the purity of motivo in
a true and noble minded woman.
The change came so gradually that at
first it was hardly noted. Then I began
to fancy myself the victim of some hal
lucination. It is often as difficult to
convince oneself of good news as to.
realize some terrible misfortune, strango
as it may seem. So, as at first I had
been slow to realize the fact of my lost
sight, I conld now scarcely credit the
fact that it was coming back. Then
there was a trying, terrible time of
doubt, when I thought that the feeble
gleams of light vouchsafed me were but
the flickerings of the dying power of
sight ere it went out forever to leave
me in a lifelong darkness. Truly, I
wanted patience. No one could have
been more in need of it. Looking back
on those days I can see how my punish
ment was merited —for who was I to
set myself up as suffering from asp'ecial
dispensation of Providence 1
At first it was as if the darkness were
only a little less accentuated and com
plete. Then it was as if I looked from
some marine depths through a great body
of opaque but turgid waters and could
distinguish the sickly, greenish light
—the light of day—dimly through it.
But that sickly greenish light, when I
stood in the sunlight, became day by day
clearer until, at last, turning my eyes
to where the great orb of life was, I
became conscious of a flood of glorious
light. But the doctor of the ship put a
stop to such dangerous experiments.
The thought that the power of vision
was not altogether destroyed within me
and that I might yet regain it roused
such a wild, tumultuous hope in my
heart that often it was as much as I
could do to control my feelings. Had it
not been for Jack and the remembrance
of those dear wojds of hers, "Whatever
comes, have patience,'' I think at times
some of the passengers might have
thought I was losing my reason in ad
dition to having lost my sight.
CHAPTER XXII.
DAWN.
It is hard to say what I should have
done without Jack on that homeward
voyage. He was kindness personified,
and he bore his new honors as he had
done his <l«iys of obloquy—never refer
ring to them.
One night Jack came into the Kiuofc
ing room where I was sitting with the
doctor, a very nice fellow, like most
ships' doctors, and told me, "Dick, the
lights of the dear old sod are ahead of
us." Next uioi'uiug we were within a
few miles of the coast.
Hume again, and, unusual experi
ence. snow in the channel!
Plymouth and my own peopla wait
ing for me! There were my mother and
my sister Kate, the only living rela
tives 1 nau. iitu wnat neeu 10 sjvan ui
such an occasion? Surely fate had mix
ed a strange draft for me! How much
of it_was bi%ter and bow much sweet t
I nad 1 -t so much and I had gained so
much Might it be writte nin the
h k that there were yet l»rigut»T day#
in store?
For now 1 could "sets men as trees
walking."
«••••••
Home again! IL w strange everything
was at first! At times soma of th>' ways
of civilization appeared to me absurd
and supfrtki'ins. Perhaps I was a little
inclined to chafe over my enforced in
action.
February was comparatively mild
for that season of the year at St. Le<>n
ards on-S. a. where my people had taken
a honse for the winter I cortld n<iw
walk slowly about alone, and. thongh
unable to recognize human features,
could trace outlines with tolerable clear
ness. Oh. how sweet life was breoming
again' My feelings at this p»-ri. <1 were
of a nature that I do not care to write
about. There are some things which,
like delicate flewers, cannot he trans
plants! My life was colored l>y the
memory of one dear face, and all the
current of my being set toward it
There were times when I looked npoo
my blindness as a blessing in disguise,
for it was not hard to realise that but
for it I "blight never have fully known
the depths and purity of her great love,
which had risen superior tc the tragedy
and wreck of my physical life Still the
prospect of recovering my sight was
everything, for I told myself that had
my blindness continned it would have
been a crime to allow her to throw her
self away on an imperfect ami useless
life. But riow+*ould, with a glad heart
and a clear conscience, accept the pre
cious trust she had so nobly offered
On my arrival in England I had gone
to a gr* at . enlist. Contrary to expecta
tions he did not give me much comfort
I almost rets nted it when he told nie
that, despite the temporary improve
ment in my sight, he could not hold
out any definite hope of recovery. "If
you get better, good and well." he said,
"but you've had a hard time of it in
the gulf, and the shock was a terrible
one. It's as well, however, to tell yon
frankly that, once let there be a relapse,
and it means that any vitality yonr
eyes now possess is leaving them for
ever. You know the old saying about
the 'flickering of the candle. * "
Oh. these were cruel words, althongh
in all truth the great man meant thctn
kindly enough. However. I only re
membered the proverbial caution at
physicians with reputations to lose and
took his verdict for what I thought it
was worth.
One morning I receive my first let
ter from Norah, bnt am sure that no
chivalrous reader wonld care to read it.
Suffice it that its tone was cheerful,
although she advised me to exercise pa
tience. Could I not, she wrote, take up
again my old predilection for story
writing—reluctantly abandoned be
cause editors were not sufficiently ap
preciative? I had now a unique experi
ence to draw upon. She had heard
there were typewriting machines for
those whose sight was like my own, or
better still I could employ an amanuensis
for a few hours every day. There was
nothing so conducive to happiness as a
little work or having a hobby, no mat
ter if it were only keeping rabbits.
Strange to say, what she suggested—
the writing, not the keeping of rabbits
—had been growing upon me for some
time, until at length it had become al
most irresistible. In the old days I did
not realize that I was only writing
about the same common place and hack
neyed things that hundreds of others
were rei>roducing from their colorless
lives—colorless like my own—and
which only a few, either by reason of
the subtle spark of genius or the quick
ening touch of sorrow, were doing well
Now I felt that in all truth my appren
ticeship had been served to the greatest
cf all masters—experience. I had seen
what it falls to the lot of but few to
see —I had heard the keynote of exist
ence in the school of human suffering
and the infinite tenderness and purity of
a true woman's love—the pathos and
the poetry of life. Ah, that were a song
worth listening to—one that never
grows old.
As soon as I resolved to take np my
®ld pursuit again it seemed as if the
Workaday world was not so very far re
moved from me after all.
• ••••••
The month of June, the town of
Plymouth and the mcrning of the day
wljen the great Australian liner will
arrive with the squatter and his daugh
ter on board.
r" 2
"Hello, Kate! What brings you out htrcf''
Truly, I had been dealt mercifully
with, for my sight had not only been
partially restored, but now my bush
sweetheart was coining to me; not to a
poor, blind, helpless man, bnt to one
with health and strength, who did not
want for his share of the good things of
this life. Truly, out of evil good may
come; for when sheer necessity drove
me out into the wild Never-Never Land
of tropical Australia I little thought
that there, of all places, I should meet
with her who, to me, was to prove so
fejuch.
There is a gentle breeze rippling tae
waters of the channel, and tho blue sky
above is flecked with fleecy clouds.
Stately ships, with all sails set. are
gliding past to disappear again in the
mysterious depths of the blue horizon.
They remind one of beautiful sentient
things. There js a salt sea smack, an
exhilarating vitality in-the atmosphere
that seems to breath new life into one.
Noon, and Jack, who is now my
brother-in-law elect and'has met us at
the hotel to await the arrival of the
boat, has strolled out with me to one of
the old piers in order to kill time. It is
a blazing hot day and in two hoars we
go off together in the tender to meet
thß great mailship. and then—but my
heart was too full to think of it.
We leaned against a low wall and
looked out to sea. It was not much I
could distinguish, but my imagination
filled the void. In a minute or so we
were joined by my sister Kate. I was
of course glad to see her, and remarked
mischievously:
"Hello, Kate! What brings yon out
here?"
"The same reason that brings yon. sir
—something in the air, I suppose," was
the unblushing reply.
There was a pause for a minute, dur
ing which I rested my head iu my
hands, for a strange drowsiness stole
over me just then. Still. s«-eing that
the fever I f ••!{»• I ÜBCJT t r th* past U vr
night - had caused n»« to «leep badly,
thi> did r>..t -««rike 1 •• a*<dd IK- a::;-»
coa-scions at a voice in my
head which -.iiiif >n unison with a hand
organ which kept grinding oat "An*
tnmxi I. are*" in n n- ighl« street
Th* lazy lap of the water. the y
laughter of - n*» seafaring men pnshing
off in a small L<*t »■ TIIHW ax if fr-m
the ciouda. an ! the Bruond ra-*pin.:. f
a -aw in a arpeatct'i fhop hard tr
seemed very nnr< al and far away Sm*
om me by the arm. It *n a
second or two before I realii> <lit« .i«
Kate.
••Dick. I've brought yonr gr«s n
gln?» Y*u mnstn I leave them cff
Just yet. yon know Let me put tbem
on yon. uld boy. at once."
What had come over me that I ahenld
think we were some considerable dis
tance* apart instead of being cl.set.-
gcthcr? The voice in my head struck
np a:. th« r tune. and the hand .*w»n nc
Cotupauied as before. . The rasping and
hi»-rfng of the raw. the lapping of the
wat» r anil the call* of the *atl>>rs becan;.'
a confused jntuble of *>und A sadden
chill crept over me. my heart fluttered
painfully, a horrible presence
me.
WHS it "the flickering of the candle"
the great oculist hail spoken about ? I
found my voice and cried
"Knte. isn't Otsl's world very Uan
tifnlt"
"Yes, Dii-k." she answered. with a
woman's naming in«tinct "But n>t
so beautiful as humanity." and ber
arm w. Nt ronnd my waist.
"Then. lass, I've looked mr last on
it and on yon!"
For candle had burned down in
its socket !
As they led me back to the hotel be
twe n them the organ broke into a
joyonn* dance, and I conld hear the
rhythmical patter of the children « feet
tripping it right merrily on the paving
stones. Oh, how fnll of the glory and
the gladness of life were these children'
And, oh. the irony of fate that should
make that <>rgan peal ont, as like a
prematurely old man. I passed it, "Sun
shine Above," snnshins above!
Suddenly I stopped.
"Jack. " I :isked. "plac® me with my
face to the snn."
Relnctantly. as it weiy, they turned
mo ronnd nntil I conld feel its warm
rays kissing my cheeks, bnt there was
nothing before my lifeless eyeballs Imt
an nnhroken twilight I might in the
future b« al>le to tell night from day,
bnt nothing more. How had I sinned
that the cnp of promise sbcrald have
been held ont to me and then dashed to
pieces immoiliately it touched my lipat
They took me into the private sitting
room. There 1 threw myself face down
ward on a conch and gave way to the
rebellion in my heart. just as I had
done win n my sight had first been
taken from me. Resignation, forsooth!
Let them pr« .ch it who have success
fully triumphed over a living death like
mine. At first those with me wisely re
frained from th< >se stereotyped words of
BO called comfort They knew that a
clasp of the hand and a period of sig
nificant silence conld do more for a man
at such a time. My mother, good sonl.
came and knelt by my side. "His will
be don«." she said, struggling to be
brave.
"His will!" I cried "When it
means the ruin of my life?"
"Do yon think it is not as hard for
me to Ixar." she rejoined; "yon. who
are the only boy I have left t"
Oh. how ashamed 1 felt of myself at
that moment! "Have mercy upon me.
0 Lord, for I am weak!" I cried.
Oh, how I hated that flickering of
my dying sinht: Why had it not passed
from me forever so that I might have
been spared the torments of disappoint
ed hopes, the bitterness of aonl? But
those words of my mother made me
rtnuk. If I had often regretted lacking
the opportunity of proving my man
hood and that letter self which I be
lieved was in every man. had 1 not now
one cbanco in a thousand of asserting
it? No sooner had this thought possess
ed me than 1 became like my old self.
Just then a messenger came to nay
j U
U \) ir*
Involuntarily both »»iv '"iwd* trcnt f"'
that the Almora was signaled and the
tender would start immediately
I insisted on Jack and Kate going out
to meet the ship. "Better tell them to
go on to London," I said in my trouble.
"Anyhow, it's several months since she
spoke as she did about my blindness.
One's mind can altxr in that time. Let s
give her the chance of breaking with
me if she wants to. "
If I could not be altogether reconciled
to my fate, at least I tried to think of
her. though what it coet me to speak as
I did no one can tell
They left me alone in the room at
my own request, and the minutes drag
ged on like eternities. I had settled
th*ings satisfactorily in my own mind
and waited to know my fate. There was
as I thought a murmur of voices on the
stairs for the hundredth time, and
again I was disappointed. Fool that I
was to think that » fresh, beautiful
young life could come to link itself with
such a wreck of humanity! Women
loved to be heroic It was all very well,
and natural enough, for her to come to
me as she did at first, when the shock
of horror on hearing of my lost sight
hail given way to a flood of pity. She
was doubtless true to her better nature
when she said that my blindness made
n.> difference in her love. But was it to
be expected that it could last forever
under such conditions? She was young,
and time had been given her to realize
calmly tho folly of continuing our un
fortunate attachment Was she to be
blamed if she drew liack at the eleventh
hour? No; it were wiser to do so. If
she came. 1 myself would tell her so.
But she would not come. Another age,
and then, just onUide on the landing,
there was the sound of footsteps. One
step there was no possibility of me at
least mistaking; it was quick, fre?*and
buoyant. Soru« one knocked; my heart
st' 1 still for a moment, then throbbed
on violently. I roae to my feet to show
her that my mauhmid was not alt.'geth
cr dead. I found my voice, and the pr>
eaic "Come in" became a tragedy in
two words. The door opened and shut
Involuntarily both my hands went out
to her. and I knew that, weakly enough,
my eyee were tilling with tears Oh.
what a magic there was in her pr»
eucq! The conventional words of wel
come stuck in my throat, hut it did n.-t
matter, for in another moment her
bead was pillowed on my breast "Oh,
Dick, " she cried, "I am crying because
I'm so glad: You will never, never let
No. 4H
me g away mtn T~
51 v -urn r— . u.- c» wmt t toe
wind* as I h. ai IMT fc id ami kw»d h* *
on the lip*
P.IJB>IIN-« f IMB'th" I wan the kapp*-
, est man in th-' t: fee ktiw:: me'
It : i- w - fit yt rs -'.nre my
wif«- and I ch • this qu:- t » r!h»»d'
eru !.« nd>a mi-Mi wfc- re in th*
si nr.; • d»- <-an thr w ..p. n the window®
ac l .til. w ti. s* • t —•nt . f r»
and fb« •*!r_-{tsjx bird* t.» e< me in to
gether There are in. «nch f hinge as
g! my skbs» or fcigs to the Mind My
hi.'at l»a»t isone- f perpetual ■> tar htm
A*!.- .in* i R.. ,>f the fiv« and tweatv
blind tH-n who sit A wn with me t*»
dinner ev. ry < 'hrt-tm.is day if be &««
r. t liTe in a w rid • f his >vi m.ikta*
IF r in«t.ir my typi-t has jnst trld
me a< 1 dictate th> -e lines that there ie
a thick f. -£ creeping op fr ei> the * »»th
i »a.~t lint what d* I per*, Fiaily care f. ?
a f«t It has n- tb:mr t» d» with my
w.»rld In my mind * eye that truer
"ii:ht I can see ißitimi a great vattry
•hape.l a h« r*-sh<!e. hrmmrd in by
magnificent terra>-e«l cliff* There is a
»*ry . t tnr-jT! • hla* v.-r my head
Ther*. are ;i. tnr> -jrie «rr npn ■ f rrcas
and f. afh r |>alms all ar> nml Tbe
white snnlight streams down with pitl
lew* intensity, the "badows ar* black mm
ink. hard, -harply d>fianl palpable
lint I could g.on d-scr dn<
f rerer A man if he has a Ive for na
t':r.* and the U-antifnl can cnltiTate the
p.wer 11 observation nntil his brain w
like a •« nsiti/.d plate that will
countless ii:ipr-sn;<>as Yes. lam n<»w
in a »..-n«e <juiie ind. t»tf.d> of tight,
and in the rapacity f«.r w rk—gcmi
Kid • r in>liffi renl. as the raw Qiay he
B< ■« my great« ?>t happine«*(. save one—-
th- fare that grows rn. r-- precioaa «r:th
the years
THF rip
AN ELEGY IN BRCX3KLYN.
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ami l.' th# fride * tath IM
To janc!i«« >* 8el:» >*« 'nntu **»
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ka*i mm i-binae« fr-rth th# leil
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Htantljr i MJ tb* «ri» ftiwrfU.
A4i«« until I |H » bit* t «l
But »o« th« ro#*t i.
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Atfl. hi th# ri;n< ■»•.' ** rirwt in taM.
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■-'« fitrni ttah •Oatant Krirrt • ;• nmy #e*C
AJB.I all th# »Sr a JaaJJjr rti J*
9h> a whara law < ata ae"" Hw •■*<"* l- tK* fccH
Aa-1 torn* too imtm r. .r * hi ! UxkOj «r-jMa
Sara that fmaa " rry oj. a arn«»>» am
llasi ■ hunca torth with ><a t. lapfm>aa avail,
An*l ail th# toß#a familiar (or a frrn
lit.- JO# ft* ml ajmi. .<«» of loan jHI
Trt all bat tr « «rh snail »r tt k tS#r ca«
r»».n tMr front «rf* «•!!« «■ th# hast.
Sir» »- how t; taara i.«t aumoxr .ta la hdae
Kutcrp# Uirly duwa «p<ra botft Irat -
An i as I p- rirf . n thia •■■•irtioi thine
I.i«ht >r|.hrn «lr an.) err tan my . a##*.
Aii' what M that? Ikthinka to ata thry . ':n#
Ha. k frm«r*nt axwina U I«BB» crvak.
Ac! BOW. in aril' 0< a't that I h»*« mi-t.
Srnnr claim m thla 1 > to r«i.V
Who fr >m tta . Karma prr. i;;'.tatr kit Srd
Ac t left the bonnlar In hia pome »ad »rVfca
I will not acriva thrtr natuxra t. .harlosa
S.ir waata amshar liar -a *«il» an draA
■t i waaine lata, and I ids ar#h I" P»aa —
At all ea«nta. I »wsi TU go ti»«k#d.
-Bewklya Uia.
■■Mil* Mterarr Valea.
The BillviUe IJtcrary clnb haa gone
to the seashore for its annual bath.
Our lgemry department Is abeeut
from the pajier this week. th«* editor of
It having taken a contract to grade a
railroad.
Major Jones' new noTel will be out
by the Ist of September. In faet. the
major says It will be #»X) out.
The BillviUe Lecture bureau has been
quiet this wvek. All the women are
at the seashore.
A literary supper for the benefit of
the town hall will be given one nlgM
next week. Itarbecued lamb will be
the feature the evening.
While one of our leading literary
men was peacefully plowing In hfs
field last week some miscreant stole
his shirt and his entire library, the
latter consisting of Bunyan's "PW
*ri m's Progress" and two bound vol
umes of The »'ouiiresslonnl Record.—
Atlanta < 'onstltutlon.
Ira.
It's a wise child that knows it* <mrs
father when It aees htm out In com
pnny
It doesn't take much of a man to toll
how a thing ought to be done. The one
who goes and does tt d» series the
praise
Tb*' man who goes to church may
not enjoy the «ermon. but he generally
goes home with a good appetite for hta
Sumlay dinner.
It is claimed by sutue people that
baldness indicates creat rain power,
but the makers of aMeg»t! hair restor
ers keep on rettinf rich. <"hlcago
flatcallerald
la He t a<mtMHl ttX
-What's his name 7* whispered fbe
chairman of the mass meeting, who
was slightly deaf.
"Smith," replied the secretary In a
low tone, "of Chicago Liwn."
"Ladies and gentlemen." sal«l the
chairman rising, "we will now hear !h»
*oic«- of lalxir I have the honor to
troduce as the nest sp»-aker Mr. Smith,
the wull known Chicago laundryman."
—Chicago Tribuna
lllrhli Irraapllaka4.
"la your friend ah • xp.-rt hamlwrtt-
Ing witness?" Inquired one spectator at
Rennes.
••Xo," answered the other. He
doesn't confine himself to handwrl' ag
lie's an all rouml expert He can tes
tify on any side of a case "—Was' :i#-
ton Star.
Amy liar faa Ha Thai, at laam.
"Well." said the uU gentleman to
his son. "you have failed in Sti.e
of business I have set you up in. I*
there anv thing you yon can «lt>T*
"Oh. yes!" replied the boy
ly. "1 eimkl write a play.~—
Chicago l'ost.
HIGH LIGHTS.
Wlar Saylaaa r*M4rair4 far t »r»
Oaay Rragera.
Jto«-l«"ty contains many women whe
have (toiwl jewelry and t*d mann» •
it is Iwtter to have !» ed
ami U»«t than never to have lost at aIL
If you n-trird all annoyances as a U •!
ly impersonal, life i< no chore at a. :
When a small Uiy gets blr enoiiac w
run to a fire he conablers klu If
grown up.
Only first class people <an hoi I th»
respe.-t and admiration of their second
class friends.
lb-fore a woman goes away f.<r the
aummer she alwajia plans wUt she
will do when she gets lock.
When some people get Into - - iety
they are too hugy to attend the i :n k
which gave them their start.
It la sometimes »o hot that e u the
vainest woman doesn't care v -ther
bcr nose looks shiny or not:—« .ea*«
Record.