VOL- xxxvi i Grand Clearance Sale Of Summer Footwear At BICKEL'S. We have commenced a grand clearance sale ot .til summer foot wear. We have t>o man} - ta - i shoes and Oxfords and will not carry a pair over. Every pair must be closed out during this salt, and will go during this sale at away down prices. So look out for some great shoe bargains at Bickel's. Men's $5.00 Tan Shoes at $2.50 Men's $4 00 Tan Shoes at $2.25 Men's $3.50 Oxford Shoes at .... $2.25 Men's $2 50 ' xford Shoes .it. . $1.50 Ladies' Fine Kussctt Shoes at $2.00 L lilies' fine R'i-isetc Shoes at $1.25 Misses' Fine Kussctt Shoes at 90c Misses' Fine Strap Sandal Slippers at 50c Men's Fine Vici Kid Shoes, Patent Leather Trimed it $125 Men's Fine Tan Coin Toe Shoes at $1.20 Men's Fine Slippers at .... 75c Boy's Fine Slippers at .35c Ladies' Fine Slippers at 40c Boy's Fine Tan Shoes at SI.OO Children's Fine Shoes at 50c it will pay you to visit this great sale and secure some of the bargains being offered.^ JOHN BICKEL, 128 SOUTH MAIN STREET, - - BUTLER, PA Huselton's Big Shoe Store. Butler's Big Centennial WILL OPEN SHORTLY. V'ou are certainly coming; it may not be convenient for you to attend the next one held in Butler. Better make your arrangements to be present at this one. We extend a cordial welcome to one and all to visit with us when you come. Make this store your head quarters; we will do our best to make your visit both pleasant and profitable to you. We have unquestionably the most satisfactory Shoe Store in this city with prices on goo.l shoes always lower than the accustomed. Women's Fine Shoes. Onr crisp, snappy styles will interest women that want neat fitting, comfort able up-to-date shoes. We show them in New Cuban and Military heels—2o shapes from narrow opera with luht turned soles to the extreme "mannish" hand welts in Kid Skin and Patent Leathers. Women's Oxfords. "Fashion's /Ml favorite." WH Queen 6hbl Quality flSfi Oxfords \ / $2-50 V J Other Styles for Street, \- -/ Dress, House, Outing. There s a wonderful amount of com fort in a well-made properly fitted Ox ford-comfort and style combined—for the Oxford is the smart shoe of the Beason—this year— and as usual the smartest and swellest shapes are here at HUSELTON'S. Look over the line of Tan, Calf and Kid Oxfords, Goodyear welts at $2 md $2. 50 and the Patent Leathers at $2.75 and s;i, and see if yon ever saw the equal of them for the money. Other lines in low cut shoes at 50c, 75c, $1 and $1.25. WE SELL 'QUEEN QUALITY' SHOES FOR WOMEN, $3.00- Thero is not another shoe in Butler that will match our "Queen Quality" Shoes for Women within 50c a pair. Ask to see onr Women's Fine Shoos at Ssc. sl, $1.25. $2 and $2.50. Yon will be surprised. Nothing in Butler begins to equal them at these prices. JHuiseltor\'s Shoes, Have made their way into the homes of the people. You see them everywhere, on the farm, the shop, 011 the streets, in the trains. They <lo service of steady business, they take the summer outing,they travel all the states of our country and many are touring in foreign lands at all times—they are on tho feet of the masses—and the classes —and "Never Disappoint"—no matter where or when they are worn. B. C. HUSELTONS, Butler's Lending Shoe House. Opposite Hotel Lowry. Spring STYLES m f f ";f." Men don't buy clothing for the XJ liwY I if or spending money. They Hi to get the best possible results for theftY V«ll* KV* CJ A "3?Cmoney expended. Not cheap s '*x\ . m\ .jitbut goods as cheap as they can he "AC. y*\ i.^V iflsold for anil made up properly, [ffn TWyou want the correct thing at the cor-'WC" lA •Jftlrect price, call an 1 examine - ' \ ' ! | 3, large stick of SPRING WRIGHTS—3, \ V k ' ■jfri.ATICST STYLES, SHADES \l KWM \: J i L r'' ms ' . .* 1 fr j ] j Fits and Workmanship g j I i Guaranteed. / G F. K6CK, <42 North Main Street, Butler, Pa subscribe for the CITIZfcN Everybody Says WE SELL THE BEST SHOES FOR BOYS AND GIRLS. Clever shoes for clever small Boys and Girls, not a Lit left up-to ilnte than Papa's and Mama's. Kid, Russia Calf and Patent Leathers. Regent and Princeton SHOES FOR MEN £!.50 AND *3.00 ; CAN ONLY BE B< >UGHT HERE. There are more "Regent and Prince ton" shoes walking around than auy other brand. They are most numerous j because man feels most at home in ! them. Best shoes in the world for |3.00 | and f:s. flen Oxfords. I /% 't'Pt / ft | 'i\M Men who never wore Oxfords are wearing them now. It's going to be a distinctly good Oxford season and we've prepared accordingly ■ >ll the right shapes in broad choice of leathers—Tan, Patent Leather, Ideal or Patent Kid and Vici. Prices to Men's Work Shoes at *l, *1.25, *1.50 and *2. Men Dress Shoes. Swell dressy shoes in Satin Calf, Vici Kid, Wax Calf, Tan, Russia Calf, splen- I didly made, exact duplicate of the and *;i.so shoes. Price *l, $1.50, $2 and *2.50. THE BUTLER CITIZEN. RAILROAD TIME TABLES. |>ITTSBURG & WESTERN ] Railway. Schedule of Pas i if;ngor Trains in effect May 28 1599. BUTLER TIME. P<l»art. Arrive .vli--.li i j A ... 625 A N i Allegheny Exprein 8 iv"» " '#l i•• i Nt-wTiLstle Accommodation .... SOS " :» 11 " Akron Mail H 05 A M 7 03 r V Allegheny KHHI Express '► 58 " 1- 18 " j Allegheny Expmu • '»• PJ t I" |i Chicago Expren ' 10 pm 1- IS HOI : ftltogfinnj Mail • " 745 p j Allegheny and New i'agtle Accom 5 44 T • '. " ('hicagc Limit**! 550 44 ** 1- AM i Kane an<! Bradford Mail A M - 50 P.M Clarion Accommodation 4 55 P.* 9 !"» A M l Cleveland and Chicago Kxpre«... •» 25 am SUNDAY TRAINS. I Allegheny Expretw 8 05 a M f* 1-A.M Allegheny Accommodation. ... •50 R.M "• ".T P.M New Cast In Accommodation 8 «>"» A.M 7 oa 44 | Chicago Express t 4<> P.M 5 irt am Allegheny Accommodation 7 03 pni On Saturdays a train, known as the tlw-atro train, will leave Hutl»*r at 6.50 p. in., arriving »t Allegheny at retnrning leave Alleghen}' a! 11.30 p. m. rullmaa sleeping cars on Chicago Kxj.r -i hetwe« !. I'ittahnrg and Chicago. , Fur through ticket* to all |*>int* in the wot, north | tfe<4t or Dniitiiw Kt ud information regarding r«nit«-. time of train*, etc. apply to W. K. TURNER, Ticket Agent. | K It KKYN<»M»S. Sup't, V P., Hut!, r, IV Buth-r, I'a. C. W. BASSKTT, G. P. A.. Alkhn v, I'a li (» DUNKLE, Sup t. W. A L. l>iv.. Allegheny Pi». 1> UFFALO, ROCHESTER & 13 PITTSBURG RY. The new trunk line between Pitcsburg. Butler, Bradford, Rochester and Buffalo. On and after May iW, 1900, passenger trains will leave Bntler. P. ct W. Sta tion as follow-", Butler Time: NOUTII. BOUND. I>uft"lfl and Buffalo an«U K >. Hufialo and K . (Mn An Br dation. so. 11. l>aily e\« ept Sue- Express. N«-._ j>nN n. day. Daily. Dailv. BUTLER. BUTLER. 11l TI ER. Ari p.m. Arr 11:25 p.m Yrr lorlo a.m Lv .5:22 p.m. Lv 11:28 p.m ;i.v 1<»:12 a.m Train V-. i has Pullman Sp<-« Allegheny t<» Unrt'aloand Rochester. SOUTH 110 UNP. Pittsburg Accom. Pittsburg Day Pittslmrjr Vivrlit 1 »aily except Si«»i-E\pr»->*. Dailv. K\pr« -s Daih day. No. IS. N0.3 No. 7 BUTLER. BUTLER BUTLER Arr 10:23 a.m Arr 5r31 p.m Vrr 5:47 a.m Lv 10:25 a.m Lv 5:34 p.m Lv r » :.0 a.m Thousand mile tickets good for pas sage between all stations on the B. K. <fc P R'y and N. Y. C. R. R. (Penn'a. division) at 2 cents per mile. For tickets, time tables and furthei information call on or address, W. R. TURNER, Agt Butler, Pa., or EDWARD C. LAPEY. Gen'l Pass. Agent, Rochester, N. Y. rplIE PITTSBURG, BESSE- L MER & LAKE ERIE R. R. COMPANY. Time table in effect May 27, 1900. CENTRAL TIME. Northward. Daily except Sunday. Southward. (Read up) ( Read down) l SI !l IONS 1 11 13 r>l P M A.M. A M A .M P M 12 50 8 :«» Erie :• 4 10 12 24 8 03 ar. .Conncaut.. .ar 12 21 •» 2S '.i 24 •» M lv.. Conneant.. .h '» -1 I •*! 11 2» 7 08 Coiineautville 1«» 51 5 d'> •11 10 r» 3s M'-adville Junct. II 1" li 11 58' 7 20 ar.. Meadville.. ar 11 .> li 55 1«» 12 5 55 Iv. Meadville. ... lv lo 12; 5 15 11 28 sojar. .(.'on. Lake..ar 111 2KJ r. 25 10 42 «» 25; 1 v..Con. Lake..h ilo 12 5 41 11 IS <i 44 :ir..Exjio. Park.ar II 1 v 0"! 10 55 '» 44 lv.. Ex|*>. Piirk.h lo 55 •» 10 54 li 24 llartntown 11 2 ■ »• 22 10 40 r» IK> c>Hg«>Hi ii o :r. ». 10 lo 33 r, o;{ Greenville «i :u» 11 45 «45 •; I M J*? *j«; W «.» .HI 5 2'. Mercer 7 12 |2 2-1 7 2* 5 «5 i» 28 5 Oo Orove Oitv 7 In 12 is 7 55 4 53 'j 1«", Harrisvillo 7 52 12 s'» 4 45, 9 Branchtou K «»1 | C*s 5 :{"» J55 ar... Hilliard... ar 855 155 3 25| B 45 1v... Ililliard. ..lv li 45; 11 45 4 10 y i£i Keixter 8 05 1 12 1 25 8 4S .Euclid J 8 20 1 2.'> 3 55 s: 1m Butler 8 fy»j 1 55: A.M.. I * J I l'.M 1 Train 9 leaying Erie at 6:30 a.m. ar rives at Shenango at 9:05. Train 10 leaving Shenango at 4:10 p. m. arrives at Erie at 6:55. J. S. MATSON, E. H. UTLEY, Snp't Transp. Gen. Pass. Agl. (Treenville. Pa. Pittsburg. Pa. PENNSYLVANIA WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA DIVISION. SCIIKDULR IN ERRF.IT Nov. 20,1899. SOUTH. WEEK DAYS- , A. M [A. M. A.M. P. M P M. BUTLER Leave G 251 8 o."> 10 50 2 35 5 05 tSaxonburg Arrive 6 54 8 30 11 1 •"» 3.00 5 28 Butler Junction.. M i 7 27. 8 11 40 325 553 Butler Junction. ..Leave' 7 31. 8 s:t 11 52 2."» 553 Natrona Arrive 7 40 9 01 12 01 ..I C !>_: Tarcntum 7 44 9 07 12 os' 3 42 *» 07 Springdnle j 7 52 9 16 12 19 3 52 Olareinont f9 SO 12 38 4 CHi Sharpeburg } 8 11 930 12 18 4 12 •; 12 Allcirh«ii)' • 8 S4 9 4* 1 «2 4 2.'> « 4:; A. M. A.M. !'. M. P. M. i>. M. SUNDAY TRAINS.—Leave Butler fur Allegheny City ami princiiul iutermeiliiite Hlalii'lirt lit 'u. ui and s:(>u p. ui. NORTH. WEEK DATS A.M.iA. M A M P. M P. M Allegheny City. ..leave 7 <Hi 8 55 10 45 3 lt» G 10 Shari«hurg 712 90710 57 ... .... Ciarcmont 1 11 04 . Sprintrdah* i 11 1* 0 :;7 Tarentum 7 37j 9 34 11 3 4». 0 40 Natrona 7 411 93811 34 50 »i 51 Butler Junction. ..arrive 7 4-v 9 47 11 I ' 3 5b 7 «*' Butler Junction... .leave 74s 947 12 1> 1 (>«i 700 Saxonburg 8 I'. 10 oo 12 41 4 7 21 BUTLER arrive 8 4<» 10 32 1 lo 5 05 7 50 A.M.jA.M. P. M. P. at. P. M SUNDAY TRAINS.—Leave Allegheny City for But ler and principal intermediate stations at 7:15 a m. an-1 9*30 p. ni. FOR THE EAST. Weeks Days. Sundays A.M.IA M ;P. >l. A. M. P M HI TLER. lv fi 25 10 50 235 7 3i» 500 Butler J'ct ar 7 27j 11 40 325 820 550 Butler Jet lv 7 48,11 43 35b 821 8 0". Free port ....ari 75111 40 102 825 807 Kiakiminetus J't 44 7 5511 5o 4 07' 829 811 Uechhurg 44 80712 02 4 19' 841 8 2:1 Paul ton (Ap0110)...." 8 2f»|l2 22 140 > r>s h42 Saltsbur« 44 861 12 4!» 5 «»8 'J 2:*. 909 Blaireville n j 9 22 1 20 .5 11 62 9 4o lUairsville Int 44 . 9 30 1 33: 5 50 10 <«' Altoona " 11 35! 545 850 5 15 . .. llariishurg ' 4 3 10,10 (H»j 1 00, lo oo- Philadelphia 44 6 231 4 2."» i 425 425 p. M.|A. M.| A. M. A. M. P. m Through traius for the cast leave Pittsburg (Union Station), ]is follows: Atlantic Express, daily 2:50 A.M Pennsylvania Limited 44 7:15 44 Day Express, " 7:; jo M Mam Line Express, 41 S;«N» 44 llarrisbnrg Mail, " 12:4o P.M Philalelphia Express, ' .4:50 44 Mail aud Express daily. For New Y<«rk only. Through buffet sleepar; no coaches 7:<»o 44 Eastern Express, ' 4 7:10 41 Fast Line, * 8:30 " Pittsburg Limited, daily, with through coaches to New York, and sleeping cars to New York, Baltimore an<l Washington only. No extra tare on this train 10:00 44 Fhilad'a Mail, Sundays ouiy 8.40 A.M Fnr Atlantic City (via Delaware River Bridge, all rail route), 8:00 A.M, and 8:30 P.M, daily. Foi detailed information, address Tlioa. E. Watt, P:ISH. A>rt. Western District, Corner Fifth Avenue and Sinith- Street, Pittsburg, l*a. J B. lIL'TCHISON, J. R. WOOD, General Munaaer. Qeu'' Paaer. A net*: Now is The Time to Have Your Clothing CLEANED OR DYED. If you want good and reliable cleaning or dyeing done, there is just one place In town where you can get it, and that is at The Butler Dye Works 216 Center avenue do fine work in out door Photographs. This is tin time of year to have a picture ol your house. Give us a trial. Agent for the .Jau.eetown Sliding Blind C'o.—New York. R. FISHER & SON BUTLER, THURSDAY, .ITNE 14. 1900 headache I I? often ;t warning that the liver la ■ i Mow ■ | . t< Font a prompt, ■ j efficiint <ure of Headache and all ■ I liver troubles, take H | PiiSs | ■ While th y rouse the liver, restore I I full, r _rii:.ir action of the bowel?. ■ j tin y <lo not pripo or pain, do not ■ I irrit.- 'eur inflamethe internal organs, ■ I but have a jwsitive tonic effect. 23c. ■ I at all druggist! or by mall of K C. I. Hood & Co., Lowell, Mas 3. {£ ■WillII !!!■——■» >. ■•••#*' i> !oe Honest; m . _ w> The country i.s flooded with cata logues from firms who sa\" they ar--' Manufacturers offering Huggies, rlarness, &c., at what they say is whole . sale prices. Do jou believe it? VV'c will tell you how to test it. Bring your cata logue along with you to our store and look ov£r our Buggies and Harness and see if we cannot save you soiue money and if we can't do not deal with us, your money is yours and you have a right to use it to the best advantage to yourself. You should at least look around you before send ing your money away and if you can save money by buying here you certainly owe it to yourself to do so. Try it once. Bring your catalogue along if you have one. You are welcome to make the com parison whether you buy or not. S. B, Martincourt & Co,, 128 E. Jefferson St. S. B. MARTINCOURT. J. M. LEIGHNER. B. & R shirt waists thousands of them and all choice Greatest shirt waist season this store ever engaged in Doing a record-breaking busi ness with the kind of waists people w^nt —strictly new and uncommonly stylish styles—made by experts \ ariety of styles is simply enormous—yet all selected for some difference, pattern,.color, or both, that brings it within the range of jour approval. Colored Waists begin at 50c assortment extends to $4.50. White Waists 75c to SIO.OO. Prettiest dollar waists—colored madras or percale—pinks, blues, violet, black or watermelon red and white, and lots of fancies White waists also, SI.OO, that any of you who want neat, dressy, styles will declare great property. Fine assortment of colored waists $1.50, 2.00, 2.50. Making a feature of white Lawn waists $1.50. —four rows of inserting on front —dress sleeves, flare cuff—or shirt waist sleeves, stiff cuffs. Other dainty white waists $2.00, 2,50, 3.50. Misses' colored shirt waists—26 to 30 bust measure—50c, 75c, SI.OO, $1.25, $1.50, 2.00. White waists 75c, SI.OO, 1.25 to 2.50. Send us your orders for shirt waists. We'll save you money. 10,000 ysrds of pretty wash goods 6], 8. 10, 1 sc. styles and quality for little money never approached. Write for samples. Boggs&Buhl Department X. ALLEGHENY. PA. Good Fit and Work Guaranteed Karl Schluchter, Practical Tailor and Cutter 125 W. JefTerscn, Butler, Pa. Busheling, Cleaning and Repairing a Specialty. SNYDER & THOMPSON West Jefferson St, Butler, Pa. I, I VERY, BOARDING AND SALS STABLE. PLENTY OK ROOM, GOOD CARE AND L'IRST CLASS EQUIPMENT. BIRD SNYDER, JAMES A. THOMPSON. People's I'hone 109, Bell's Phone 59 I Milk Cans V V We make the strongest.A IF heaviest and most service JL jfable milk cans made. * X 5 gal, Cans $lB per doz. X X Try Our Cans. A. 6 I. J. KING. X y 532 Grant St., Pittsburg,Pa. V Ipestib , „ 1 I'L m C K OLAYJI RL x i\ scrmF.mEß. ft IFIOII Fill 8 -.4 A TAJ_E OF LIFE IN THE I. ★ BOER REPUBLIC. 0, - i •?: «• •?;«; * Sir: ,-.t •,v •m r i'< -iv- • ;>• •,v S'« •%>•%>•?>>• «• • atjir Arm CHAPTER XX. WAI.ro GOES OUT TO TASTE LIFE, ASI> KM STAYS AT HOME AND TASTES IT. At 0 o'clock la the evening, packing his bundles for the next morning'* , start. Waldo looked up and was Mir prised to see Em's yellow head peep lng in at his door. It was many a month since she had been there. She ■ said she fiad made him sandwiches for his journey, ami she staid awhile to help bitn put his goods Into the s&ddle i hags. "You < an leave the old things lying about." she said. "I will lock the room | aud keep It waiting for you to come j buck some day." To come back some day! Would the bird ever return to its cage? Hut he thai:!:cd her. When slie went away, he sto;j.! oil the doorstep holding the can dle till she had almost reached the hou-'-. Hut Km was that evening in no hurry to enter and. instead of going In at the back door, walked with lag ging footsteps round the low brick wall that rail before the house. Oppo site the open window of the parlor she stopped. The little room, kept careful ly dosed lu Taut' Snnnie's time, was well lighted by a parutiin lamp; books and v.ork lay strewn about it. aud It wore a bright, habitable aspect. Be side the lump at the table in the corner sat T.ymhill. the open letters and pa pers .>f the day's |M>st lying scattered before her. while she perused the col umns of a newspaper. At the center table, wiili Ids arms folded on an open paper, .which there was not light enui.jh tu read, sat Gregory. lie was looking ut her. The light from tlis open window fell on Kin's face under Its white ". apje" as she looked in. but no one glanced that way. "Go and fetch me a glass of water." I.yndall said ai last Gregory went out to llnd it. When he put it down at tier side, she merely moved her head in recognition, and tie went back to his seat and his old occtl pation. Then Km moved slowly away frotn the window, and through it came In spotted, hard winged insects, to play round the lamp, till, one by one. they stuck to its glass and fell to the foot dead. Ten o'clock struck. Then I.yndall rose, gathered up her papers and let ters and wished Gregory good night. Some time after Km entered. She had been sitting all the while on the loft ladder and had drawn her "kapje" down very much over her face. Gregory was piecing together the bits of an envelope when she came in. "I thought you were never coming," he said, turning round quickly and throwing the fragments on to the floor. "You know I have been shearing all day, and it Is 10 o'clock already." "I'm sorry. I did not think you WOUlct tie going so soon." »l»u sai l in a low voice. "I can't hear what you say. What makes you mumble so? Well, good night. Km." He stooped down hastily to kiss her. "I want to talk to you, Gregory?" "Well, make haste," he said pettish ly. "I'm awfully tired. I've been sitting here all the evening. Why couldn't you come and talk before?" "I will not keep you long," she an swered very steadily now. "I think, Gregory, it would be better if you and I were never to be married." "Good heavens! Ein, what do you mean? I thought you were so fond of nie? You always professed to be. What on earth have you taken Into your head now?" "I think it would be better," she said, folding her hands over each other, very much as though she were praying. "Better, Em! What do you mean? Even a woman can't take a freak all about nothing! You must have some reason for It, and I'm sure I've done nothing to offend you. I wrote only to day to my sister to tell her to come up next month to our wedding, and I've been as affectionate aud happy as pos sible. Come, what's the matter?" He put his arm half round her shoul der very loosely. "I think It would be better," she an swered slowly. "Oh, well," he said, drawing himself up, "If you won't enter Into explana tions you won't, and I'm not the man to beg and pray—not to any woman, and you know that! If you don't want to marry me I can't oblige you to, of course." She stood quite still before him. "You women never do know your own minds two days together, and of course you know the state of your own feelings best, but it's very strange. Have you really made up your mind, Em?" "Yes." "Well, I'm very sorry. I'm sure I've not been In anything to blame. A man can't always be billing and cooing; but, as you say, if your feeling for me has changed, it's much better you shouldn't marry me. There's nothing so foolish as to marry some one you don't love, and 1 only wish for your happiness, I'm sure. I dare say you'll find some one can make you much hap pier than I could. The first person we love is seldom the right one. You are very young. It's Quite natural you should change." She said nothing. "Tilings often seem hard at the time, but Providence makes them turn out for the best in the end," said Gregory. "You'll let me kiss you, Em, Just for old friendship's sake." He stooped down. "You must look upon me as a dear brother, as a cousin at least. As long as I am on the farm I shall al ways be glad to help you, Em." Soon after the brown pony was can tering along the footpath to the daub aud wattle house, and his master as he rode whistled "John Speriwig" and the "Thorn Kloof Schottische." ««•»•«» The sun had not yet touched the out stretched arms of the prickly pear upon the "kopje," and the early cocks and liens still strutted about stiffly aft er the night's roost, when Waldo stood before the wagon house saddling the gray mare. Every now and then lie glanced tip at the old familiar objects. They had a new aspect that morning. Even the cocks, seen in the light of parting, had a peculiar Interest, and he listened with conscious attention while one crowed clear and loud as it stood on the pigsty wall. He wished good morning softly to the Kaffir wo man who was coming up from the huts to light the fire. He was leaving them all to that old life and from his height he looked down on them pityingly. So they would keep on crowing and com ing to light flres, when for him that old colorless existence was but a dream. He went into the house to say good by to Em. and theu he walked to the door of Lyndall's room to. wake her. but she was tip and standing In the doorway. "So you are ready," she said. Waldo looked at her with sudden heaviness; the exhilaration died out of his heart. Her gray dressing gown hung close about her and below its edge the little bare feet were resting ou the threshold. "I wonder when we shall meet again. Waldo? What you will be. and what I?" "Will you write to me?" he asked of her. "Yes. and if I should uot, you can still remember, wherever you are, that you are not alone." "1 have left 1 »oss for you," he said. "Will you not miss him?" "No; I want you to have him. He loves you better than he loves me." "Thank you." They stood quiet. "Goodby!" she said, putting her little hand in Ills, and he turned away, but when he reached the door she called to him: "Come back. 1 want to kiss you." She drew his face down to hers and held it with both hands and kissed it on the forehead and mouth. "Good by, dear!" When he looked back, the little fig ure with Its beautiful eyes was stand ing in the doorway still. CHAPTER XXI. TIIE "KorJE." "Good morning!" Em, who was in the storeroom meas uring the Kaffir's rations, looked up and saw her former lover standing be twixt her and the sunshine. For some days after that evening on which lie had ridden home whistling he had shunned her. She might wish to enter into explanations, and he (Gregory Rose) was not the man for that kind of thing. If a woman had once thrown him overboard, she must take the eon sequences and stand by them. When, however, she showed no Inclination to revert to the past aud shunned him more than he shunned her, Gregory softened. "You must let me call you Em still aud be like a brother to you till 1 go," he said, and Em thanked him so hum bly that he wished she hadn't. It wasn't so easy after that to think him self an injured man. Ou that morning he stood some time in the doorway switching his whip and moving rather restlessly from one leg to the other. "I think I'll just take a walk up to the camps and see how your birds are getting on. Now Wnldo's gone you've no one to see after things. Nice morn ing, Isn't it?" Then he added sudden ly, "I'll Just go round to the house aud get a drink of water lirst," ana some what awkwardly walked off. He might have found water In the kitchen, but he never glanced toward the buckets. In the front room a monkey and two tumblers stood ou the center table, but he merely looked round, peeped Into the parlor, looked round again and theu walked out nt the front door and found himself again at the storeroom without having satisfied ills thirst. "Awfully nice morning this," he said, trying to pose himself iu a graceful and indif ferent attitude nsalnst the door. "It Isn't hot, and It isn't cold. It's awfully nice." "Yes," said Em. "Your cousin, uow," said Gregory In an aimless sort of way—"l suppose she's shut up in her room writing let ters." "No," said Em. "Gone for a drive, I expect? Nice morning for a drive." "No." "Gone to see the ostriches, I sup pose?" "No." After a little 6llenee Em add ed, "I saw her go by the kraals to the 'kopje.' " Gregory crossed and uncrossed his legs. "Well, I think I'll just go and have a look about," lie sakl, "and see liow things are getting on before I go to the camps. Goodby. So long." Em left for awhile the bags she was folding and went to the window, the same through which, years before, Bonaparte had watched the slouching figure cross the yard. Gregory walk ed to the pigsty first and contemplated the pigs for a few seconds, then turned round and stood looking fixedly at the wall of the fuel house as though he thought It wanted repairing. Then he Btarted off suddenly, with the evident intention of going to the ostrich camps, then paused, hesitated and finally walked off In the direction of the "kopje." Then Em went back to the corner and folded more sacks. On the other side of the "kopje" Gregory caught sight of a white tail waving among the stones, and a suc cession of short, frantic barks told where Doss was engaged In howling Imploringly to a lizard who had crept between two stones and who had not the slightest intention of resunning himself at that particular moment. The dog's mistress sat higher up, under the shelving rock, her face bent over a volume of plays upon her knee. As Gregory mounted the stones she started violently and looked up, then resumed her book. "I hope I am not troubling you," said Gregory as he reached her side. "If 1 am, 1 will go away. I Just" — "Xo; you may stay." "I fear I startled you." "Yes; your step was firmer than It generally Is. I thought it was tliat of Some one else." "Who could It be but me?" asked Gregory, seating himself on a stone at her feet "L)o you suppose you are the only man who would find anything to at tract him to this 'kopje?' " "Oh, no," said Gregory. He was not going to argue that point with her nor any other, but no old Boer was likely to take the trouble of climbing the "kopje," and who else was there? She continued the study,of her book. "Miss Lyinlall," he said at last, "1 don't know why It Is you never talk to me." "We had a long conversaXion yester day," she said without looking up. "Yes; but you ask me questions about sheep and oxen. I don't call that talk ing. You used to talk to Waldo, now," he said in an aggrieved tone of voice. "I've heard you when I rami' in. and then you've Just left off. You treated me like that from the first day, and you couldn't tell from just looking at thai I coiiluH't talii aUjia tiu you like. I'm sure 1 know as uiiicli a'. .'U? sueli tilings as Waldo il<x's," 1 Gregory In esoocUing bitttrncss of "I ilo imt kuow wlilcb things you re I'er to. If you will vullghtcu mo, 1 am Quite prepared to speak of them." 'lie said, reading as she spoke. "Oh, you never used to ask Waldo like that," said Gregory In a more sore ly aggrieved tone than ever. "You used Just to begin." "Well, let me see," she said, closing her book and folding her hands oil it. "There at the foot of the 'kopje' goes a Kailir. He has nothing on but a blanket. lie Is a splendid fellow —six feet high, with a inagultieeiit pair of legs. In his leather bag he Is goiu_' to fetch his rations aud I suppose to kick Ills wife with his beautiful legs when he gets home. He has a right to. He bought her for two oxen. There Is u lean dog going after hiui, to which. I suppose, he never gives more than a bone from which he has sucked the marrow, liut his dog loves him. as his wife does. There Is something of the master about him In spite of his black uess and wool. See how he brandishes his stick ami holds up his head"' "Oh, but aren't you maklns fun?" said Gregory, looking doubtfully from her to the Kaffir herd, who rounded the "kopje." "No; I am very serious. He is the most Interesting and Intelligent thing 1 can see Just now, except, perhaps, L>oss. He Is profoundly suggestive. Will his race melt away In the heat of a collision with a higher? Are the men of the future to see his boues only in museums, a vestige of one link that spatiued between the dog and the white man? He wakes thoughts that run far out into the future and back Into the pa6t-" Gregory was not quite sure how to take these remarks. Being about a Kaffir, they appeared to be of the na ture of a Joke; but, being seriously spoken, they appeared earnest, so he half laugl.ed and half uot, to be on the safe side. "I've often thought so myself. It's funny we should both think the same. I knew we should if once we talked. But there are other things—love, now," he added. "1 wonder if we would think alike about that. I wrote an essay on love once. The master said It was the best 1 ever wrote, and 1 can remember the lirst sentence still—"Love Is some thing that you feel in your heart.'" "That was a trenchant remark. Can't you remember auy more?" "No," said Gregory regretfully. "I've forgotten the rest. But tell me what do you think about love?" A look, half of abstraction, half amusement, played on her lips. "I don't know much about love," she said, "and 1 do not like to talk of things 1 do not understand, but 1 have heard two opinions. Some say the dev il carried the seed from hell aud plant ed It on the earth to plague men and make them sin, and some say that when all the plants In the gar den of Eden were pulled up by the roots one bush that the angels had planted was left growing, and it spread its seed over the whole earth, aud its name is love. Ido not know which is right, perhaps both. There are differ ent species that go under the same name. There is a love that begins in the head and goes down to the heart and grows slowly, but it lasts till death ami than it riv* There an other love that blots out wisdom, that is sweet with the sweetness of life and bitter with the bitterness of death, lasting for an hour, but it is worth having lived a whole life for that hour. I cannot tell. Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood red flower, with the color of sin, but there is always the scent of a god about it." Gregory would have made a remark, but she said, without noticing: "There are as many kinds of loves as there are flowers—everlasting that nev er wither, speedwells that wait for the wind to fan them out of life, blood red mountain lilies that pour their volup tuous sweetness out for one day and lie in the dust at night. There is no flow er has the charm of all—the speed well's purity, the everlasting's strength, the mountain lily's warmth. But who knows whether there is no love that holds all—friendship, passion, worship? "Such a love," she said In her sweet est voice, "will fall on the surface of strong, cold, selfish life as the sunlight falls on a torpid winter world; there, where the trees are bare,- and the ground frozen till it rings to the step like Iron, and the water is solid, and the air is sharp as a two edged knife that cuts the unwary. But, when its sun shines on it, through its whole dead crust a throbbing yearning wakes. The trees feel him, and every knot and bud swells, aching to open to liim. The brown seeds that have slept deep under the ground feel him, aud he gives them strength till they break through the frozen earth and lift two tiny, trem bling green hands in love to him. And ho touches the water till down to its depths it feels him and melts, and it flows, and the things—strange, sweet things—that were locked up tn It, it sings as it runs, for love of him. Eaclfj plant tries to bear at least one fragraptj little flower for him, and the that was dead lives, and the heart that wns dead and self centered throbs with un upward, outward yearning, and it has become that which it seemed im possible ever to become. There, does that satisfy youV" she asked, looking down at Gregory. "Is that how you like me to talk?" "Oh, yes!" said Gregory. "That is what 1 have already thought. We have the same thoughts about everything. How strange!" "Very," said Lyndall, working with her little toe at a stone In the ground before her. Gregory felt he must sustain the con versation. The only thing he could think of was to recite a piece of poet ry. lie knew he had learned many. al>out love, but the only things that would come into his mind were the, "Battle of llohenllnden" and "Not a drum was heard," neither of which' seemed to l>ear directly on the subject on hand. But unexpected relief came to hlra from Doss, who, too deeply lost In con templation of his crevice, was surpris ed by the sudden descent of the stona Lyndall's foot hud loosened, which, rolling against his little front paw, carried away a piece of white sklxi. Doss stood on three legs, holding op the paw with an expression of ex treme self commiseration. lie then proceeded to hop slowly upward lu search of sympathy. "You have hurt that dog," said Greg ory. "Have I?" she replied Indifferently and reopened the book, as though to resume her study of the play. "lie's a nasty, snappish little curl" sal<l Gregory, calculating from her manner that the remark would be In dorsed. "He snapped at my horse's tail yesterday and nearly made It throw me. 1 wonder his master didn't take him. Instead of leaving him here to be a nuisance to all of us!" Lyndall seemed absorbed in her play, but lie ventured another remark "Do you think now. Miss Lyndall, that he'll ever have anything In the world that German, 1 mean—money enough to support a wife on, and all that sort of thing? 1 don't. He's what I call a soft." She was spreading her skirt out soft ly with her left hand for the dog to lie down ou It. "1 think 1 should be rather astonish ed if he ever became a respectable member of society," she said. "1 don't expect to see hlin the possessor of bank shares, the chairman of a divisional council and the father of a large fami ly. wearing a black hat and going to church twice ou a Sunday. He would rather astonish me if he came to such an end." "Yes; 1 dou't expect anythlug of him either," said Gregory zealously. "Well, I don't know," said Lyndall. "There are some small things I rather look to him for. If he were to Invent wings or carve a statue that one might look at for half an hour without want ing to look at something else, 1 should not be surprised. He may do some lit tle thing of that kind perhaps when he has done fermenting and the sediment has all gone to the bottom." Gregory felt that what she said was not wholly Intended AS blame. "Well, I don't know," he said sulki ly. "To me he looks like a fool—to walk about always in that dead and alive sort of way, muttering to himself like an old Kaffir witch doctor! He works hard enough, but It's always as though lie didn't know what he was doing. You don't know how he looks to a person who sees him for the first time." Lyndall was softly touching tiie little sore foot as she read, and Doss, to show he liked It, licked her hand. "But, Miss Lyndall," persisted Greg ory, "what do you really think of him?" "I think," said Lyndall, "that he is like a thorn tree, which grows up very quietly, without any one's caring for it. and one day suddenly breaks out into yellow blossoms." "And what do you think 1 am like?" asked Gregory hopefully. Lyndall looked up from her book. "I.ike a little tin duck floating on a dish of water, that comes after a piece of bread stuck on a needle, and the more the needle pricks it the more It comes on." "Oh, you nre making fun of me now, you really are!" said Gregory, feeling wretched. "You are making fun, aren't you, now?" "Partly. It Is always diverting to make comparisons." "Yes; but you don't compare me to anything nice, and you do other people. What Is Em like, now?" "The accompaniment of a song. She fills up the gups In other people's lives an»l Is always number two. But I think she is like many accompaniments—a great deal better than the song she Is to accompany." "She is not half BO good aa you are," said Gregory, with a burst of uncon trollable ardor. "She is so much better thaD I that her little finger has more goodness in It than my whole body. I hope you may not live to find out the truth of that fact." 'You are like an angel," he said, the blood rushing to his head and face. "Yes, probably. Angels are of inauy orders." "You are the one being that 1 love!" SUltl rrrvgOTj, lug. "I * loved before, but I know now! Do not be angry with me. 1 know you could never like me. But if I might but al ways be near you to serve you I would be utterly, utterly happy. I would ask nothing in return. If you could only take everything I have and use It! 1 want nothing but to be of use to you." She looked at him for a few mo ments. "How do you know," she said slowly, •that you could not do something to serve me? You could serve me by giv ing me your name." He started and turned his burning face to her. "You aro very cruel. You are ridicul ing me," be said. "So, lam not, Gregory. What I am saying is plain, matter of fact busi ness. If you are willing to glrejiio your unfile within three weeks' tlmeTl am willing to inarry you; If not, well. I want nothing more than your name. That Is a clear proposal, is It not?" He looked up. Was It contempt, loathing, pity, that moved In the eyes above? He could not tell, but he stoop ed over the little foot and kissed It She smiled. I "Do you really mean It?" he whis pered. "Yes. You wish to serve me and to have nothing In return. You shall havo what you wish." 6he held out her An gers for Doss to lick. "Do you see this dog? lie licks my hand because I love him, and I nllow him to. Where I do not love I do not allow It I believe you love me. I, too, could love so that to He under the foot of the thing I lov ed would be more heaven than to He in the breast of another. Come. Let us go. Carry the dog," she added. "He will not bite you If I put him In your arms. So—(Jo not let his foot bang down." They descended tbe "kopje." At the bottom he whispered: "Would you not take my arm? The path Is very rough." She rested her fingers lightly on It "I may yet change my mind about marrying you before the time comes. It is very likely. Mark you!" she said, turning round on him. "I remember your words—you will give everything and expect nothing. The knowledge that you are serving me Is to be your reward, and you wfil have that You will serve me, and greatly. The rea sons I have for marrying you I need not inform you of now. You will prob ably discover some of them before long." "I only want to be of some use to you," he said. It seemed to Gregory that there were pulses iu the soles of his feet, and the ground shimmered as on a summer's day. They walked round the foot of the "kopje" and past the Kaffir huts. An old Ivaflir maid knelt at the door of one grinding mealies. That she should see liirn walking so made his heart beat so fast that the hand on his arm felt Its pulsation. It seemed that she must envy him. Just tlien Km looked out again at the buck window aud saw them coming. She cried bitterly all the while she sorted the skins. But that night when Lyndall had blown her caudle out and half turned round to sleep the door of Em's bed room opened. "1 want to say good night to you, Lyndall," she said, coming to the bed side and kneeling down. "I thought you wore asleep," Lyn dall replied. "Yes, 1 have been usleep, but I had such a vivid dream," she said, holding tlii' other's hands, "aud that awoke me. I never had so vivid a dream before. "It seemed 1 was a little girl again, and I came somewhere Into a large room, on a bed In the corner there was something lying dressed In white, and its little eyes were shut, and its little face was like wax. 1 thought it No. 24 \v: - n 0• 11. and 1 ran forward to taka It, l>ut son..' one bold up her finger and ■<a:<l 'Hush! It !a a little dead baby.' Anil 1 slid. 'OIi, I tnust go aud call Lyudall, tliut she may look &t!tals.>.' "Ami they put their faces close down to my ear and whispered, Tt is Lytt lall's baby." » ."And 1 said: 'She cannot be grown .up \ 1 1. Siio Is only a little girl! Whviy Is she?' And I went to look for ydtf but I could not find you. "And when I came to some people who were dressed In black I askeft them where you were, Wnd they looked down at their black clothes am! their heads and said nothing, / 1 could not tlnd you anywhere and then I awoke. "Lyudall," she said, putting ber f&<jy down upon the lmnds 6he held, "It made me think about that time when we were little girls and used to play to gether. when I loved you better thab anything else In the world. It any one's fault that they love yoa They can't help It. And It isn't your fault. You don't make them V)ve yon. I "mow It." Thank you, dear," Lyndall sold- "It Is nice to be loved, but It would be bet ter to be pood." Then they wished good night, and Em went l>ack to her room. Long aft er Lyndall lay In the dark thinking thinking, thinking, and as she turned round wearily to sleep she muttered: "There are some wiser In their sleep ing than in their waking." [TO BE CONTINUED.J Sneet lt«*v«ntfcl She sat lu a cur with a littW smile Of satisfaction on her face, for she wafl well and tastefully dressed, and that means a great deal to a woman. Av 6he moved up to make room for a new comer a man entered, and as he sat down he said to the comfortable one: "Why, Jane, this isn't your afternoon oft'! How did they come to let you out today?" The young woman grew very red In the face, for all the occupants of the car were looking and listening, and stammered out as she half rose and then fell back in her seat: "Now look here" — "How well you're dressed, too!" con tinued her tormentor. "They must give you S2O a month. Eh? Is your mistress about your size?" "Now, do be quiet!"' cried the uncom fortable one. "If you think"— "Diamonds, too," went on the miser able man as lie caught a flash from her waving lingers. "Or are they artifi cial?" The tormented one sprang up, stop ped the car and made a rapid exit, followed by the cause of the trouble, whose farewell remark to the kun&tet of the car was: "Well, well, but some people are too sensitive!" They were husband and wife, and this was his weird idea of taking bis revenge for a curtain lecture—Phila. delphia Times. A'Woudrrfnl Geological Freak. Among the many wonderful freaks in nature there can be none in the geo logical line that can possibly that known as "The Giant's Head." It stands, or, rather, reclines, against the face of the cliff at Point Plnos, in Monterey county, Cal., and all who have viewed the wonder declare It to be the most colossal as well as the most marvelous freak in natural sculp- All portions of tlie "head" except ths back, which appears to be "blocked" Into the metamorphic rocks agains* which it seems to be so naturally re clining, are as perfect as though fresh from the hands of some giant sculptor. The chin, mouth, nose, eyes and brow are all perfect, as Is also the hair, which appears to be gracefully drawn back from the forehead. The ears are not so "true to life" as the other features are, but even In thie respect no stretch of the imagination is required in order to see tolerably perfect auricular appendage*. The bold features, backward wave of the hair, massive forehead, mustache, fine ly chiseled nostrils and deep set eyes are all reproduced on a natural yet gi gantic scale -and with wonderful exact ness. The Typewriter and thm Bf». There is the general opinion among oculists that the eye is much relieved by the general introduction of type written matter. A recent medical work upon diseases of the eye gives a great many proofs in substantiation of this opinion. The characters are so large on the keys that there is no appreciable strain on the vision, and when dexterity Is at tained the eyes can scarcely be Bald to be used at all. A vast strain Is taken off the eye by writing with the type writer instead of the pen, but the ad vantages of reading the typewritten matter are even more important from a medical point of view, and the strain upon the hands is also slight. It is said that a person can work for eight consecutive hours, with slight In terruptions, without the hands being conscious of fatigue. In using the typewriter the additional labor of fo cusing the eyes calls the muscles Into undue use, and the result Is that many defects of vision which would not probably be discovered under normal conditions are brought to the front.— Scientitic American. I'urla la France. Paris has always been France. AH the great movements of the country have been centered here, whether po litical, religious, social, literary or ar tistic. So that any attempt to trace the history of the city launches one imme diately into the study of the nation, while an effort to master the history of the French people sends one to Paris. One realizes this particularly when he conies to study the lives of her great men and women. They may have been born in the south or east or north or west, but to rise to the first rank they were obliged to seek the capital. It was there they sought instruction, formed relations, began their careers, played their parts.—Scribner's. , Not Tactful. Lord John Russell was not tactful. On one occasion he took the Duchess of Inverness down to dinner, and after he had sat down for a minute he Jump ed up and went to the opposite side of the table and sat by the Duchess of St Albans. Ilis wife asked him afterward why he had done it. lie said, "I should have been ill if I had sat with my back to that great lire." "I hope," said Lady John, "you gave your reason to the Duchess of Inver ness." "No," he said, "I didn't, but I told the Duchess of St. Albans!" Uomciitlc Infelicity. Husband —What's worrying yßu n Wife Oli. I was thinking about the lace curtains you said I might buy for the parlor. If I don't get them, the neighbors will think I can't afford them, and if 1 do, they'll hide the view of our handsome new furniture which the neighbors might have through the windows. —Philadelphia Press.
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