THE SMOKE of DECISIO By Fr-ink B. Wells < "cv >.) M. bvi. I'- < Eastnunt jU« ■ "M»*f <>u there!" Houdell pulled heavily at liis cigar Ui studied abstraction of the limb of tLe law Th** puUceomo advanced a »tep uearer, tiellowlng hoarsely: "I tell you to get a luovt- on you! u, ve U*en obstructing travel ou this ■ «. iH*r f'<r a quarter of an hour. Vu« "Sec here!" the bund If of obstinacy watt*'! ill** emblem of authority Into -ij.-m* "I'm P"iiiK to stand here till 1 UnNhed ttii- cigar You might as w«-H r»*t on that." The policeman uiade a move for the tuai - eoi ir "I'll gi\e you an lllus tratloU of the v. ay this cltl keeps Its -trvrt-i navigable!" he roared. It •ndell smile 1 grimly and stepiied t ; of lange of the policeman's rnus r arm Suddenly he became con bdi'DtlaL V young ask«sl my permission to i..urr> my daughter just a few mln uies Mtf i.and I've seut him around the comer ou an errand." • Well r • \V. : if he gets back before 1 fln -1-.L Utla cigar be ruii have the girl. If (%) W - J A iHa L- • i' v -kl * / / ,7 %^ "H' 'Lt> OS. fill.!" liElltirtlEl) THE OFKICEK. ' WHAT'S CP?" Le fads to - »v. up lu time he doesn't j pet ber That's the long and short of It." Tt«* pohii ii survey **d Boudell with mate ast« ii m.-ut. "It occurs to me," -aid. • tl. y>u have a rather tickle g- isj# of hi . II destiny. What kind of an errand <. you send this young fel low on?" N<>t much of anything. Just told b'.Ui to k • down and a>k the Stllluians 112 r <juut.ittons They're pine today the 'thee Is elo>ed. It hadn't ought to take him long to And that out." "Now. see bet.'." exclaimed the blue ci.it. "that alu t fstir! If that young lii.iu Is any got. I h<* will hunt all over the Empire Sta'e l«efore he will route back to you w.ih.ut the Information you wanted \-u will have time to grow baklbeadt I smoking cigars !»• fore you set your optics on him again Thai's my opinion." "V.'U might us well go about your l>us»in«—w!«*d Boudell. " 1 his is my affair . • -uri. 1 like to see a youiig man t ; rouiptly, and I'm giv lng blUi tln> ttr a test. He's good enough for i ost part " "He I- lie- Hid you ever see him before "Of • iur- I 1 ve He is one of my cierks I'm a b ker." "« M».** sigh i t ie utfieer. "I supposed by your w tloi.. that he was some stranger jou had pieked t.p on the street \on ;>.r< ui >re intelligent than I thought \ <ii v . re." "Now cktr out!" blustered the bro ker "(Jlie me any more of your Im pudence and I'll rejwirt you." "You will, eli .'{(it till you've got through with that elg; r. I presume. H> the way you am t i>Uu.ir as rast as you might. s«*»-ins to me." The ottber wandered down to the Ueit bio. k ruminating At the turn of the corner lie met a young man dash liig breathlessly along the walk. lie promptly laid a heavy hand on the young man's shoulder. *"Hol<l uu, ulr!" demanded the officer. "What's npT* "Nothing nothing Hou't detain me. I'm going iu an awful hurry!" strug gUtl the youth. "How do you know you are?" asked The polieeinaii mildly. "1£">» do 1 you hlameil fo*il!" "There none of that! I'll pull you In." threatened the otlieer. "I beir your pardon," the young man pleaded, "but you don't understand bo» Important It Is for me to lose no time." "How do you know I don'tV" "B«-e.aiise t»- why. there's n man waiting for me up at tin* next corner I have no Important dispatch. The man Is an old crank, and I've kept hint waiting half an hour already. He'll give me fits." "I don't believe a word of this stutf," solemnly deelare 1 the |Hili<-etmiu "You haven't got any important dispatches." "I have!" The youth glared at ti.e offieer like a wild animal "Then let me see "em," the polieeiliHU demanded "I ...t i t.i • •• sii e: jt vert mi I," the other. •| i.i I » i . i hadn't tot any dis I ,t. ioi <i <t even see the par tie* \ oil w« ie «>.d« led to see." lb >oiio- i.i . i began to turn pale. "Ho bi thti.idi ; did you tlud out all a:-»<ii in| .itniii •112 ho gnaped. • I j.i-t i i... . I h.it's eiMNtglas v:t. Ith odk<M • nsiily. "And I know anothei thin. >ou don't want to see that old clmp lip there on the eoruer." "itiit I do; I must," protested the } outh mat In. an effort to tear away from the otheer's grasp. "No you don't lie sent you down here on a tool errand, lb- knew that none of the Stlllmans were In the city. You want to marry his daughter, and hew auts you to marry ber, but he's got it in hi* head that If you illdn t g>-t Uiek by the time he had finished a cljfar he wouldn't give his consent. He's not through with the cigar. Now, of course, you don't want to sis.* him. Hie youth st<H*l wrapped In bewil derment "Heavens!" he el claimed at length "What am I going to do?" "Well, 1 11 tell you if you want me to." replied the policeman "Then tell me." "Do you really want to marry this alrir "Yes." "I>oes she want to marry you?" "I she said she did." "All right Do you know where she I Is?" "I do." "How long would it take you to have the matter straightened out, ceremony lierformed, and all that?" The young man calculated rapidly. "Two hours would be sufficient," he announced. "Then get aUuit It ijulek I'll tend to j I the old man." I he polieeinaii turned and sauntered back to Where l'.omh II was still stand lug. "Have you seen your man yet?" the officer Inquired. "No!" the broker thundered. "He ] won't get the girl, you can bank on j that." "How was he dressed?" asked the j officer. "Light brown Miit, blue tie, black | derby hat"- "Then It was he. tireat heavens!" j broke iu the policeman. "Was what? Tell ine!" exclaimed I Bonded. "lie was run over by an automobile a few minutes ago and taken to the , hospital." "My < lod! And 1 was to blame! j Which hospital?" the broker asked frantically. "I'm sorry," replied the officer, "but 1 can't tell you. if you want to see him you'll have to make the circuit of them all." Late tha liiicht Bonded returned to his home after a fruitless search for the unfortunate lover. As he was mouuttug the steps a cab halted nt the curb. "I'apa," came a wee voice, "Henry and 1 have been married tonight, and you'll forgive your own little girl, won't you?" The broker staggered down the steps with arms outstretched. "'Jod bless you lioth!" lie exclaimed fervently. TIPS AND TIPPING. Th» I'UHtomnry Kiaetlon* on llonrd lite Atlantic Liuen. Do not take fright at what you may hear about excessive tips on steamers and in Europe. They are numerous, but need not be large. To scatter your money wildly In tips will mark you ns a novice. All the servant* will quickly spot you, pass the word around an 1 tleece you. Tips vary, of course, lu accordance with the grade of steam ers, hotels and other accommodations. If you travel In a specially equipped floating palace you must expect to pay tl least $'J5 for steamer tips. On regu lar tir-d class steamers, however, the following are customary and will be ample: Stateroom steward, $2.50; state room stewardess. $2.50; dining room steward. These are obligatory, tin the cheaper lirst class steamers they may be reduced to $1 each and be entirely dignified. It all depends ou the boat By talking wfth other pas sengcrs you can readily learn the cus totnary scale for your steamer. If you use the bathroom regularly, pay the bathroom steward $1; If less frequently this might be cut to 25 cents a bath. If you read books from the library, give the steward a tip varying from $1 down to? 5 cents, according to grade of steamer and frequency of his service to you. The deck steward's gratuity is a variable quantity; he has opportunity for getting tips from so many people . that he fares better than Inside stew ards, who arc restricted to a certain > number; hence do not be uneasy about him. I»lve him what you think he has earned In waiting on you. according to relative service with the other slew j ards. A dollar Is the maximum expect | e<l on ordinary boats. Thus your total tips need not exceed • slo a voyage and may not be more than $5. Be reasonable In what you require of stewards, and if you should ask special service of them outside the line of their regular duties, pay them for it Myra Emmons In Good House keeping. EARTH'S LATENT POWER. All Sol ill So Unln nee >ln> Vnnlnli In a Moment of Time. The late Professor S. P. Langley, sec retary of the Smithsonian institution, speaking of earthquakes, said: "The consideration of the unfamiliar powers certainly latent lu nature, such as belong to a little tremor of the plan et's surface or such as was shown In that scene I have described," referring to phenomena In* had witnessed when the comparatively insignificant effect of a few tons of dynamite was to make solid buildings unrealities, "may help us to understand that the words of the great poet are but the possible expression of a physical fact; that 'the ■ ■loud caplied towers, the gorgeous pal aces, the solemn temples, and we with them, may indeed some day Inconceiv ably vanish as the airy nothing at touch of Prospero's wand, and without the warning to us of a single Instant that the security of our ordinary lives Is about to be broken.' "We concede this, however, in the present case only as an abstract possi billty, for the advance of astronomical knowledge is much more likely to show that the k ncl of the comet Is but the bigness of line large meteorite against which our air is an efficient shield, anil the chance of evil is most remote —In nny case only such as may come In any hour of our lives from any quarter, not alone from the earthquake, but from the pestilence that walketh lu darkness from the infinitely little lie low and within us as well as from the Infinite pow. - of the universe without. "Soinethin. common toman and the brute speaks at such times, If never before or .•• ;;iin, something which Is not altogether physical apprehension, but more like thi' moral dismay when the shock of nn earthquake Is felt for the llr<t time and we know that startling lioubt supel i >r to rea ion whether the valid frame of earth Is real, and not •baseless as the fabric of a vision.' " Washington Star. A MnrtlliiK llotto. A traveling salesman died very sud ilenly ill Pittsburg His relatives tele graphed the undertaker to make e \ the ribbon should be extri" i! . with the Inscription, "Rest Ii peace." on both sides, and if there it room, "We shall meet In heaven." Tha undertaker was out of town and his new nssistant handled the Job. It was a startling floral piece which turned up nt the funeral The ribbon was extra wide and be e the Inscription, "Best In I>eace on l»>th sides, and If there 1« room we shall meet In heaven." TVII <ioo<l I lilimn. There an- ten things for which no one has ever yet been sorry. These are For doing good to all; for speak lug evil to none; for hearing before judging; for thinking before speaking; for holding an angry tongue; for being kind to the distressed; for usklng par dons for all wrongs; for being patient toward everybody; for stopping the ears to a talebearer; for disbelieving i inost of the ill reports. j The Inspector's || Romance «U CLAUDE PAMAKES l! Com right, l»*i. by M. M.i uimiiife'hain i i?L !S| j < Mice every two months now a day ir two earlier, and now a day or two aiter— Inspector I'rauforth had cnleriil the different postoffices on his route uud checked up and straightened out affairs. There were postmasters who had seen him grow old and gray since his appointment. They had always ! found him a pleasant spoken and a Just j man, but all stood In awe of him. In no department of the public service is ! I'ncle Sam more particular than In the | postal. The cash must balance ton cent with the postmasters, and any 1 uian or woman who attempts to play ) tricks with his letters are certain to j be pursued with relentless energy. Inspector Cranforth was generally regarded as a flint hearted man. It was ' understood that he was an old bachelor and had never known what love was. He accepted no excuses from postmas ters and Indulged in no flirtations while traveling. At fifty years of age he had g it to be part of the route, anil no one knew him for Just what he was. Out siile of his officialism he had a heart ns warm as any man's, and one reason— and perhaps the main one why he had j i.it maitied was the fact that he had . I ways maintained a home for s ,::otlier and a crippled sister. Ills sal could do no more. One day a wlnd t, 111 came in t!ie shape of a legacy, and if iie inspect >r had dreams of inatri i.'iiny and a fireside all his own, no one ■ i.ild blame liini. Those who looked upon the man as Hint hearted did not know the Ins and I outs of the case at the Dover post j office. An old soldier had been iiost- | master there for years. When he died his widow took his place. When she died her daughter Mary, who had known the Inspector since her baby hood, was left motherless, fatherless nml almost penniless. It was the In spector who paid a part of the under taker's bill; it was the inspector who ; had I'ncle Billy Smith appointed; If was the Inspector who got Mary Wll Hams a clerkship that practically mad® j her postmistress and financially inde pendent. Even the girl did not know the ex | tent of his kindness. When he found himself asking why he did It lie found himself replying that In two or three years more he hoped to be In a posl i tion to marry. At present his feelings toward the girl were merely paternal. What they might be In the future he j wouldn't discuss with himself. It was said that Inspector Cranforth took more time for Inspection at the Dover postoffiee than anywhere else. Some of the village gossips said it was because of Mary Williams, who re*rard ed him as a friend and was always glad to see liiui come, and others said ; he had his eye ou Tillie Langton, the j daughter of the village Innkeeper. It was the talk that the two girls were rivals, and the Innkeeper's daughter at least cauie to believe It and to feel bit j terly toward the girl In the postoffiee The situation of affairs was Just right when there came an official complaint : against the Dover postoffiee. William Pentield, son of Deacon Pen field, was In the habit of sending his old father money from lowa every month or two. William was of an economical turn ; and did not want to pay a registry fee or the premium exacted for a money order. The bill was simply Inclosed In a letter. The father was Inclined to be garrulous and to look upon it us a j smart trick to get ahead of I'ncle Sam, and so lu time every one In and around Dover came to know what would have been more prudent to be kept secret. A money letter was missing. Old Mr. j Penfleld haunted the postoffiee for a i week and then wrote to William. Wll 11am made affidavit that he wrote and : Inclosed a ten dollar bill on a certain date. It was the business of Uncle Sam to send out a tracer and for one of his inspectors to follow it up. In spector I'rauforth took his time about It, but he finally traced the letter Into the Dover postoffiee. By that time there was great ado in the town, i >ld Mr. I'enfield hadn't hesi tated to express his opinions that "some one" right In the home postoffiee had cribbed his letter and abstracted the money, uud 'rf course he referred to Mary. She claimed to be innocent, but there were those who held to the contrary, and when Inspector Cranforth arrived to carry his investigation further there was great excitement. To the Intense Indignation of hundreds of citizens the Investigation was held within closed doors—that is, Mary was questioned only in the presence of a Justice of the peace. She was nervous and excited and shaken. She admitted her belief that such a letter had arrived at about such a date, but what had become of It, If not delivered, she could not say. The establishment was a combina tion grocery and postoffiee. A person could have sneaked Into the postoffiee part from the grocery, but he would have had to look over all the general delivery mail to get the I'enfield letter He would have also had to hit the exact date of its arrival. Every incident of the day was re called, but suspicion could not be d!- rected against anybody. The letter had arrived, but what had become of It was a puzzle. Two hours' talk wa • leaving the Investigation Just where it had begun, when the outsiders demand ed that the girl's trunk at her boarding place lie searched. She went pale In an instant, and as the inspector noticed it a suspicion lodged in his heart. When asked if she were willing she hesitated mid finally declined Even the gmil old Ju tic.' ' !io i■( her friend, looked at icr v. ,tli pity in his face '1 lie inspector dari d into vacancy a moment, and i then his uiiiiil was made up. "Mary, ha ve you a ten dollar bill in I your trunk?" he asked. "I I she stammered. "Ila\e you or have you not?" "Yes. but but" "Tlli , Joll took the letter?" "Oh. I couldn't have done it I never I did it! ' she walled. "Then w here did the bill come from?" "I can't tell ymt. please don't ask inc anything mire I didn't take the Pen iie! I!• tier, l:it I I can't tell you!" "Poor ).'iil'" s ghed the justice as lie walked across to the hotel with the iu spt dor. "I've git a duty to do," wa II •• reply. When the ii; ,i etor had re i -he I his room he -it i i.vii and wrote out his resignation. ! • take inline.l iie ef:'e Some one e! e would have I > .tries! Man Willi It w;is the hard' t blow of his lib He had been thinkinti of her for a ir mill past as his wife It seemed Imp > Me that she cmli In guilty, mill yet the Inspector se lon t i take his place must arrest her on her own showii g. The man was feeling more sore at heart than ever before iu liiM life when lie heard two female I voices 111 the next room. There was a vacant stovepipe hole just above his head that let every word lloat through j The women were the innkeeper's wife and his daughter, and he heard the mother say: "Tlllle, where did you get that ten dollar I>lll changed?" "At the butcher's," was the reply. "And what did you do with the let ter?" "Burned it up. l>on't you goto fret ting over things. They say that Mary will lose her place, but nothing else will happen. 1 want to get Mr. ('ran forth in the parlor tonight and sing and play for him." Ten minutes later the inspector was at tiie butcher's, asking questions. He went from there to the postollice for a few minutes' talk with the accused* girl. When he had asked a question or two she remembered that on a cer tain date when she had half a dozen letters in her hand site had been called into the grocery part in a hurry and had left the letters on the counter fo! a moment beside the innkeeper's daughter. "And now about searching youi trunk V" askod the Inspector. She handed him the key in a shame faced way and said: "I don't want you to, but if you inusl then you will find the bill in a letter Head the letter." The justice was taken along. Tht letter and money were found, and bdtfc read the letter and replaced it and went out of the room almost on tiptoe The inspector had never heard thai Mary even had a beau. The lettei proved that she was engaged to ti young man in a neighboring town, and he had sent her the money to save up with more a.uinst their wedding. "Why didn't you tell me this be fore?" asked the inspector of the gir that evening. "I I didn't want to hurt you," sin i replied. "Hurt me how?" "I knew you were falling in lov< j with me. and you are so old, you know j and I'd have to say no, you see" "1 lintlerst !ml," he finished, with a sigh, and, going into his own room, lit tore up his resignation and sat down and figured it all out and said to him sell: "The girl i tight. Hie man of fifty , J who has a ro.nanc •is an old fool!" } i He was not entertained In the inr j j parlor that < veiling. He never stops j I there now. The tiling was somehow j | fixed Up between (lie landlord and old [ I I'eatield and the • »vcrnmciit, but It is ; whispered around that It cost the for ! 1 iner a thousand doll irs and that Tlillt- I I Is likeh to die aa old maid. TONICS. Two Sniinti) I'npiilile of >ll»- . lii. fan Well an lU-iK-flt. There is perhaps no class of remedial agents in >re abused than tonics. The abuse consists both in the excessive ' use and the misapplication of this class ; of agents, which within a restricted field possess an indisputable and im- ! portant therapeutic value. The misuse j of tonics i- d ivibtless the outgrowth j ! of a misconception of the real nature of ! i this class of remedial agents and its j limitations. .\lan\ physicians also seem j to lose sight oi the fact that tonics are, as lias been said of drugs in general, two edged swords which are as capable of mischief as of hem tit. Indeed, when ; the true nature of tonics as is true. In fact, of most medicinal agents Is thor oughly understood. It Is apparent that even in cases in which they accomplish the maximum of benefit there Is also ; a certain amount of injury lnfilcted upon the >inanism, so that the effect obtained is re ilh ami simply the differ ence bet w> , n the mischief done and the i good accomplished. If the difference Is on one side, the total result is benefit; if on the other side, the result Is harm. This principle holds good with regard to most remedies, whether the means employed is a drug or a nonmedielnal l agent. The popular idea of a tonic Is well expressed in the following definition, which we find in the National Medical dictionary: "An agent which augments ! gradually and permanently the strength and vital activity of the body or Its parts." A stimulant is defined by the same authority as being "tin agent which increases the functional activity of any organ or series of organs." The distinction made seems to be that a stimulant produces temporary excite nient, whereas a tonic produces a per manent increase of strength and vital activity. Ucod l faith. Tlit* Word "lNjllcy." That "policy" which a man gets , from an insurance company Is no rel ative of that other word "policy" which the statesmen use. The latter Is a lineal descendant, along with "polity" and"police," of the (Ireek "polls," a city. But the former is the late Latin "politicum," "poleticum" or "poleati- CULU," a register wherein dues were enrolled, which is believed to be real ly the Greek "polyptychum," a docu ment folded into many leaves. If so, the development of the word may be paralleled by that of "diploma," the parent of diplomatist," which meant simply a document folded double. — Chicago News. LIVING ON STILTS. A StrnnKC Sl»sh« I n tlif French Tur- IM-iitinr «,ro*\liiK Country. l'eople live on sixteen foot stilts in the remarkable turpentine growing country of France. They don these stilts after breakfast and do not re move them again till It is time for lied. There are two reasons for the wear ing of stilts in the turpentine country. One is the turpentine gathering. Tiie other is the herding of the great llocks. The turpentine conies from the mari time pine. This tree is tapped, a shin gle is inserted, and from the shingle is hung a tiny bucket Into which the tur pentijie drips The tapping process is like that Used on the American sugar maple. Young pine trees are tapped low, but with each year's passage the Incision Is | made higher, so that it Is not long be i fore most oi the trees are tapped twen | ty or thirty feet from the ground. Hence the huge stilts of the work i men. on thee stilts they traverse the ! fiat country, covering five or six yards l with each stride, and quickly and casl -1 ly they coll t the turpentine that over Hows tli ' Siiilc bucket-! hanging high j up in the trees it is lor heroin al o that the stilts are u- fnl. The country is very fiat, and the I man unless lie continual | ly dimbt d a tree would be unable to keep ail the members of his huge thick in i lit But striding about on his tilts he c iinmands a wide prospect. 1 lei ia I ;i sit were, upon a hill. The st.it wearers carry a fi:!een foot I : tail' with a round, fiat top lik • a din- I per plate. When It is Inn 'itime or when they are tired they plant upright | under them the staff and sit down on | its roilll 1, Hat top. Then in comfort, j eati I so dizzily high, they cat and ! rest and chatter a strange sight to be hold. New York I'ress. I | p, ,~r-ggaw| \\ TAKEN AT HER WOKI) i || J Bij JOANNA SINGLE Jj| Coini ife'ht, 1806, by K. ('. Paroella j| John Mason did not slam the gate simply because he knew that this mani festation of rage would surely delight Kosalic. She was watching his depar ture from the window, and he was an grily conscious that she knew he would, as usual, return in a few days, although she had said she hoped she would be rid of him for awhile. She was so young and so lieautlful—and HO provoking! At the entrance to the little park, al ready growing green in the April sun, he met her sister. He did not know Anne very well- he had been too busy with Kosalic. He wished now that he had made friends with her; her blue eyes were so like and still so unlike Rosalie's. Anne stepped in front of him and stopped him unceremoniously. "Been trampled upon again!" she ob served. "John Mason, for so clever a man generally you're sometimes an awful fool!" She submitted this thoughfully, in a voice too gentle to be insulting. "Then you and Rosalie are agreed, and 1 suppose you are expert testi mony. May I turn and walk with you?" She nodded and then asked a matter of fact question. "How many tlnias lias she refused you?" "I had not thought to keep count. Rosalie just now Informed me that this was the last time. I didn't know I had been the same sort of a fool so often. I But don't you think she ought to give | me credit for my persistence? Not ev ery man proposes so many tlui4*s —to | the same girl." Anne laughed dryly as he continued: "1 would have given up long ago if 1 were not unexplainably sure that she does -care for me. In fact, she never has saiil directly that she does not. She simply says she won't marry me. What's the matter with me? Am I too rich? I can give away the stuff if she j likes. Am I too successful? I might ■ lose a case to please her. Should 1 be i as ugly as Satan? Perhaps she would j like a Beauty and the Beast effect! What does she want? I've said and done everything under heaven, and Bhe walks on me she trails me!" ! "Precisely! That's why I called you what 1 did A girl likes to trail a man. but hates the man that will be trailed. Not logical, is it? To use her own words, you are always around : underfoot. You give her no time to want you or miss you or think about you. She's too sure of you. She know ; Just where you'll lie. You never let her want anything bad enough to appreciate it. \-hen it conies. She has always had her own way. She ne»*ds to l>e a bit afraid of you. She needs to be i bullied:" He frowned. "I am not a brute. That ' is not IIIV way." "No? Well, what has your way ac | eomplished?" He tried to laugh. "Oh. I'll take your advice. 1 II do anything you say. It can't be worse than It is now." "Well, 1 hate the responsibility. If you get her you'll tight; if you don't, you'll both be miserable anyhow. You must got In rand then work out your own salvation In the first place, you must give her a shock. Write her a note and accept your dismissal. Tell her you begin to see that she is right and that y.ai Uisli to be friendly with her and the t unity. Then call some time- on tin- lather or on me. I'on't stay away. Vbsenees of that sort are llattering; you must be quite unaffect ed by her presence." "You kiiov- that i> impossible. You know how the sight of her" "You've go : to do it! And you must take another out occasionally. Be ing natural! modest, I dislike to sug gest that y<-u semi me dowers somo titia's and < eu:e for a walk with uie. That will b-ing tilings home to her. A girl lit. t" have an admirer transfer himself boc-ily to any one, but espe cially to her sister." When they had planned their cam paign and ne left Anne at the gate she had him laughing. Rosalie saw them ami shrugged her shoulders. While reti eving her hat in the hall Atme rem: iked to her sister: "Well. dear. John tells me that you have dismissed him for good. You know I never would have interfered if you liatl wanted him. Irut 1 am glad you do not. Now you may find tlmo for your music. Your talent is too marked to be neglected. It will be a relief for you to have him out of the way awhile. You're too young to leave father and me, and, after all, 1 think you're right .about his not being the right man for you." Rosalie shrugged her shoulders. The next day Rosalie, without com ment, handed Anne this note: Dear Jlls.i Carteton 1 want to thank you for your frankness of yesterday, and I assure you that I shall not annoy you ag.ihi as i have In the past. Can you for gh•• ie<» for having troubled you BO much an I so '."ii •' Vti'i are probably right In I KILLTHC COUCH AND CURE THE LUNGS w " Dr. King's New Discovery /Consumption Price FOR I OUGHS and 50c & SI.OO ISOLDS Free Trial. Surest and Quickest Cure for all THROAT and LUNO TROUB LES, or MONEY BACK. MM Rif! A Reliable TO SHOP Tor all kind of Tin Roofing, Spoutlne and Cenoral Job Work. Stoves, Heaters, Ranges, Furnaces, eto. PRICKS TUB LOUKST! QULITV TUB BEST! cot JOHN HIXSOJN NO. 116 E. FRONT BT. deciding that I t euld not make you hap py, as 1 hop d to be able to do. May I hope to continue m\ present friendly rela tionH with you and tiie rest of the family? If 1 may, I will not again trespass on your kindness. It will be, as you said, the last tine you shil! have tie* pain of refusing Yours sincerely, JOHN MASON. "Well, I like a man to know when he's had enou-'h," remarked Anno. Again Rosalie hru;_-;ed her shoulders and made a vy littl»> face. Fot a We •!: Rosalie was blithe and busy with hr music. The second week Anne observed that the gayety was a hit I I mid ' ■ t during the third idle moped ali ti Joliu had somehow kept the o'her men of her set away from her, and [towers and drives anil theaters were le-s frequent. She had no time to miss him. In tlie fourth week he called—while -h • wis out. <>' course she could not know that Anne had phoned him to coiiie. He v. a- I--avini just as Rosalie entered and .-hook hands with her eor dially. lie did not look broken heart ed, and he seemed to he on very good terms with Anne, to whom next morn ing he sent some violets. Kosalic saw him out walking with Mary I>ye. Then he took Anne driving. She began to rcaii'e that Anne was very pretty If \. a year or two older than John. Itosalie's Irritation reached Its climax one morning at the breakfast table when her younger brother Ted remark ed in a teasing drawl: ••John seems to he taking his medi cine like a man. Rosy! He's all right, and I am glad Anne seems inclined to keep him in the family. He probably appreciates being treated like a huniun being after the way you always walk ed on him. 'l he fellows say he's the best young lawyer in town. But I should think you'd hate to have him take his pun: .liment so cheerfully, I Ji isy!" I»y tHis time ICosalie had reached the limit of endurance. She sprang up auil, before any one could interfere, had boxed Ted's ears soundly and fled to her room. No one made comment un the scene save that Mr. Carleton amusedly met the laughter in Anne's eyes and told Ted that he would have no more of his teastng. Rosalie's ca pricious treatment of John had long been disapproved of by her family, and, while they were ail sorry for her, they thought it time she should come to her senses. Time had been slow and torturing to John. He wanted to tell Kosalie that he loved her and her only. He wanted to sen I her flowers, to give her every desire of her heart, and he found it a misery to see her or not to see her. Meantime he was very attentive to Anne, who was becoming vastly bored with his raptures and sorrows and was longing for him to win his Kosalie and let her go back to her old peaceful ways. At last one night Anne waked aud heard Kosalie sobbing to herself. In the morning she pleaded headache and stayed in her room till nearly evening. Anne had a long conference by tele phone with John and took pains to have her father and Ted spend the evening elsewhere. After dinner she went to Rosalie's room aud pleaded being tired. She c >axed Rosalie to arrange her pretty hair and don a pretty gown so she ' could go down if any one should come. While Rosalie was sulkily doing as her sister wished, Anne heard the bell and slipped d.»wu to answer It. She came back saying it was some one for her ! father and asked Rosalie If she would mind going to the library and bringing the book she had left on the table. Rosalie, in her trailing blue dress, went downstairs and through the hall into the library. She had half crossed the ro >in before she saw John sitting in a great chair in the dim firelight. She wanted to flee from him, but some how her feet would not move, nor did she tin 1 a word to say. Then to her dismay she knew that a slow tear was falling down her cheek. John'came quickly toward her. It seemed very com!' irtal le to be leaning against him. After awhile he held her off and looked at her. She tried to smile. "Well." lie que tinned, "how shall it be? Von I. II iw y 1,1 : .'■! you h >< .1 yon would no* cr have tin • • m • sin- ; I The Home Paper j !of Danville. ! i | Of course you read J i m is., \\ i THE TUPLE'S| Uq PULAR 1 APER. | ' Everybody Reads It, Published I:very Morning Except Sunday a! i No. 11 E. Mil ho ng St. Subscription 6 cen > Week. I" hope you will not. Just ror variety, suppose \ >u take me." After the little minutes bail cunning ly slipped away and It was time that he should leave her, llosalie exclaimed I in dismay: "Oh, Anne's hook! She will be wait ing for It." "I hardly think so," John asserted dryly. "Your sister Anne is wise. She knew better than to expect you In a moment when she sent you down to me!" "Sent me to you!" Itosalie echoed. "Yes, my lady! I>o you imagine your sister has been trailing me about for her pleasure? She is more glad to be rid of me than ever you were!" "Then ii was not Anne—ever?" John l.iuf-hed and bade her good night. "If you were not perfectly sure that it was 'not Anne ever,' you would never, n-'ve have asked uie!" which both oft! .•! . knew to Ie true. And Aune went to be 1 and slept the sleep of one who has successfully per f >rmed an arduous duty. Bepara( iotis. Why do we grieve at separations? Why do everlasting farewells chill our hearts, and the fading away of lost Joys till us with bitterness? "Be not the slave <>' words," says Carlyle. "Is not the distant, the dead, while I love it and long for it and mourn for it, here in the genuine sense, as truly as the flo ir 1 stand on?" And are not all good e\; riences thus forever a part of our lives? Can we therefore regret or mourn any past Joy, any lost friend? Nothing i.; lost or gone from us that we have the spirit and capacity to appropriate and make our own forever. It is not the touch of body that makes presence. Have we uot all known times when presence In the flesh brought no nearness, and again when the absent one seemed un speakably near In spirit? So not to be within the actual physical sense, but to be able to appreciate and love the spirit of another, Is the true association and communion. Hence our friends need never die, nor need we ever be parted from them. Further, In order to realize them truly we need to be separated from them in the liesh at times. Else we shall grow to think them all body and forget that diviner, intangible, un namable essence—the living spirit, the real self.—Exchange. Conclusive. Insurance Solicitor Well, doctor, ! have you examined this new claimant? Doctor No. I haven't thought It nec essary. You see, I've been treating him for the last seven years. Insurance Solicitor I hat's enough. If he has sur vived that he must be a person of won drous vitality LACKAWANNA UAILKOAD -Uli<M)MKBUki4 DIVISION J Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad. In Effect Jan. I, 1905. TRAINS LEAVE DANVILLE. EASTWARD. 7.07 a. in. dally tor Bloomsburg, Kingston, Wilkes-Ha i're and Scran ton. Arriving S'-r an ion at SM'i a. in., and connecting at Scranton with trains arri\ ing at Philadelphia at 8.4K a. in.and New York City at 8.30 P. in. 10. 1W a. in. weekly for Bloomsburg. Kingston, Wll kes-Barre, Scran ton and intermediate nt»- Hons, arriving at Scranton at 12.35 p. m.and connecting tlure with trains for New York City. Philadelphia and Buffalo. 2.11 weekly forßloomsburg,Kingston, Wllke« Barrc, Scranton and intermediate stations, arriving at Scranton at 4.50 p. in. 5.4.1 p. in.daily for Bloomsburg, Espy. Ply mouth. Kingston, Wilkes-Barre, l'lttstou, Scranton and Intermediate stations, arriving at Scranton at 5.85 p. m.and connecting thera with trains arriving at New York City aib.so a- in., Philadelpeia 10 a. m.and Buffalo 7a in. TRAINS AKRIVE AT DANVILLE 9.15 a. in. weekly from Scranton, Pittston, Kingston, Bloomsburg and intermediate sta tions, leaving Scranton at #.85 a. in., where It connects with trains leaving New Yorx City at 9.50 p. in., Philadelphia at 702 p.m. and Buffalo at 10.80 a. ni. 12.44 p. in.daily from Scranton Pittston, Kingston, Berwick. Bloomsburg and interme diate stations, leaving Scranton at 10.10 a. ui. and connecting there with train leaving Buff alo at 2.25 a. m. 4..88 p. m. weekly om Scranton, Kingston, Berwick. Bloomsburg and intermediate sta tions, leaving Scranton at 1.55 p. m., where It connects with train leaving New York City at 10.00 a. in., and Philadelphia at 9.00 a. in. 9.05 p. in.daily from Scranton. Kingston, Pittston, Berwick. Bloomsburg and interme diate stations, leaving Scranton at 6.85 p.m., wlicre it connects with trains leaving New York City at 1.00 p. m., Philadelphia at 12.00 p. in.and Buttolo at 9.80 a. in. T. K. CLARKE, Uen'l Snp't. T. W. LEE. CJen. Pass. 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