PER AAA SA ASAT ARR EE A A ib Bo ess of beautiful wont A thousand elec e Jekits shote upon the ul four of the white. gre wit ie pert was teat hose Servants in the The docks are fast. | / do not chatter!” was the most beantiful save that in her face, ns * she exclaimed, “what fs g of this? 1 do not under appened outside?’ he answered, slowly, “the ; are right. It is a quarter past moved impetuonsly to one of the gh windows and raised the blind, 28 a courtyard-empty. The e thrown wide open, and ser. d on either side-waiting. In the strect the stream of ve- flowed steadily on, Bhe dropped 8ain she sald, “you made no in the date?” shook his head sorrowfully. ie,” he sald, “I have exam- y card. The date Is correct of the journals, too, have sn- that madame receives to-night. sprang to the window. The sound eels echoed up from the court ins, it was but a single ) No other carriages fol i “The long line of carriages In the old days had blocked the was absent. Moussin also let Bima and turned dejectedly or he sald, “would it not be shook her head. She had pot the | | of & race of conquerors in her : for nothing. She moved toward ption 5 na nie it would be useless. : wil know of this to-mor- man ‘made his s wondering way. A dozen | servants sprang forward to receive his coat and hat. Save for those vio lines somewhere in the hsckground there was & hush everywhere. And { this, he had been told, was to be the | greatest function of the season fu Faris beautiful young widow eof Armand, { Count of Bordiere. Monssin bowed low before him, and { remained deaf to his whispered inter. rogation. “Lord Herbert Wentworth™ fhe moved a stop forward to meet thus! He held her fingers and looked <f stralght into her eyes, It was Lis way, this. “Murtel™ Le exclaimed. “What does it mean?” : “It means that you have stumbled inte 8 tragedy, my dear Lord Herbert” she answered. “WI you give nie your arm? tall room. ed. “Have 1 mistaken the date?! I have come over from London to be here—~crorsed this afternoon, All Paris was talking last week about your re p] option fo-night” “ft menns-1 do pot know exactly what it means” she answered “Hush” They entered the mngle room. The musicians were standing about talking in little groups. Martoni-the great Siartoni—was lounging in an easy "| char, smoking a cigarette. He rose at once at thelr entry. Bie looked upon tiem coldly. “Signor Marton” she sald, “will you be good enough to play © He was obviously amazed. *But—~the audience, madame™ “Your andience i hore” she an- swered. From the music chamber they passed back Into a small antercors leading 4 from the ball room. The sound of the violin pursued them. Marton! who played only for thousands, played for them. She motioned ber companion to sit by her side, “I will tell you what I know,” she sald, quietly, “Afferward 1 must ask you to go sway, This afternoon Are mand's aunt, the Princess of MNemurs, was herve. Hhe asked we some ques tions.” “Well 1 "My married life, as you know” she continned, speaking with perfect self: | posession, “was a magaificent failure {It appears to me now that Armand | paused only In (he midst of 3 casoer of dissipation to secure my wealth Uy marriage, and tmmadistely returned to ~the Irregularities of his former ie. 1 bore all that I considered a well re. specting woman should ear--nay, tmore--Litit there were Hmils snd Le reached them. 1 objected to provid. ing the wardrobe and jewelry for Lis little dancers. My father and bis father before him worked hard snd hogestly for thelr wealth, and it seemed to me sacrilegious to sew It equandered in eft my husband” “You were rich!” he marmared, vt knew him for wh Bat 3 “1 Hred alone nid best to aveld all = ep wif know, Lord He not wholly succeed.” *1 admit nothing of the sort” he an gossip of the angels” For the first thoy her ite, Lower and lowes music of the viciin, seemed to have heen the story she told, f« wards were onld and meas any rato, was conscious of the pas surging underneatl. “My dear friend.” she paid 3 accept your bellef In nie as a blessed gift. 1 will not tell you the story that man Lessault as I have had to tel it to-day to the Princess” “She azked you to tell her? he ex- claimed. “She asked me for the truth. She said that there had been talk, It was better for hier to know. To every word 1 spoke she listened with a cold smile. When I bad 8nished I bad a horrible fear. 1 was not sure whether she be- lieved me, Amd other callers came. She went away without a word, And to-night—see 1" There was a crash from the violin. Madame stretehbed out her hand. She pointed to the empty rooms. The hot «the reappearance into society of the | him. He, of all other men to tome They walked slowly up the long, still such a fashion. Seo, as you know, 1 will not speak Hl of the dead, byt men | swered firmly. “In Paris they would | man's hooks He would ave ken but she stopped him imperiousy. “Armand’s relations all hated me for | leaving him.” she maid, slowly. “I al towed Bim £5000 a year, and they called: it beggary. Then there was b's last strange wish, the only wish he ex. pressed about me, that I should jive in Paris—that, after my vear of mourning was over, I should come back amongst | his friends I detested it! 1 wished to | 20 back to America--or England; bat, after those jast words of his, bow conid 17 Cannot you wee, Lord Herbert, i what I am forced to think? This is bin revenge his and theirs. Ob it is such 8 hateful thought! I wanted to think kindly of kim, and the Princess was slways gracious to me. Yoru" He iterrupted her, “It looks pretty bad” he admitted, cheerfully, “although | never tongs! the Princess would stoop to such $1 thing. But, after all, every tragedy hay Hs lucky side for some one snd | {| should never have had this tetea-tete {with you if your roowos had been! crowded with goeste” “Your tete-a-tete appears to be aw | sured.” Madame Ia Comtesse ne marked, with a faint smile. “You may | even look forward to taking me in to supper.” “Gh, bot 1 am serions—very serious, Muriel” be sald, suddenly leaning toe ward Ger. “You know why I came the incment you would seo pe. 1 have been very patient, but I cannot walt any longer” “Io you mean that yon want to go? she asked, looking st Bin with wide Gen eye, “You know what I mean” be an- swered, vigorousiy, “I want you to marry me” EBhe diew a little away from Mm “Alter this? she murmured, waving her fan toward the tall roors. He laughed scornfully. “in England,” bo sahl, “there will boa not ling of this sort to fear, I do not | think that anyones wham the Duchess of Middlesex bide fo ber house will hesiinte about cording, nod there ju no | oF veniros : RAN DOWN A DEER $4 \ NE time.” said nonogenn vian George Welnier, one of the last of the ploueer residents of Potter Coun ty. Pennxvivanias, “Lavoy Lyman | wounded a deer back on the hills, bat the deer was 100 cote for him and got away. He came to muy place spd bor rowed my dog to take the fare tracks. “My dog wasn't 8 Bunting deg, burl aid I owanld take his and go along, Cand maybe be would do. I led bls bY a rope. “By and hy we canis to what Laroy me fo ston and held the dog until | to Jet the Sor go. It wasn't jong be- fare I beard Laroy shoot, 1 let the dog ge, “dnt bit the deer” said Laroy, Tou follow it “The reason Laroy told nie to follow rowan thar T had quite a knack of get fing over the ground pretty fast and pot mining if. When we peed fo raf? ismber dors Pine Creek and the Ruse Rehan , fren down to Columbia, we ae back owe mest of the way afont, bee cards thers seasn’t aay other way to) i ponte IY (hose days 1 wax down the river one spring and fram Harvishigre 1 tosh the canal as traveled hy sg to Jersey slwve, | was meventy mies fram hots then, ro fread ad contig tex “The voynany 1 wow pohly 5 to haw thane evening wax that 1 wag youn then, Ana Wan soaring my irl, AY MY Dich Tor swarking ber, BY okay ¥ s = $a oh SLAnt WALT ta iaannainy her, ane whom my mother cares for as she 000 Hosa you” She wax silent, He saw that ber com. | posure wis broken at last. Khe was | trent Tig ali over, “Herlert,” she whispered, “libut this hurts me. I canned bear a coms to Fon now, People will say thar yon ; ; married fie out of pliy—or for oy | “But what does it mean?’ he repeat. money.” He bent aver her and kissed hor, “lot ther guy what they will, lear” be whispered, “WW hat do 1 care so jong the woman 1 Jove" ries sprig gulltily apart. They looked at one another snd the Contess’ hands flew to her hair. He pulled up tin the hind. “Why, all Paris is Lere™ be cried. "look: xo A carviage was standing before the door. The courtyard and the street were Lineked with an endless sscvession of vehicles Xeoross the Lal] roar Beer came old Moussin, stumbling with haste apd with the tours streaming down his face, "Madame, madame he exclrimed, “1 Is the printer! He should be galllos thaed, the mlecrennt! The cards mid eieven til two, not ten. and I-~idiot that I sra—1 looked pot at the thine. Jt wants stil a quarter of as bovr, and the streets are lmpessa bie —a sight mar. od, velous, Indes]! Madame will recive ™ “Certainly, Moussin™ she answered, calmly, "1 am prepared” Bhe moved forward, Lord Dlerbert staved by ber slide, “Hot you,” she exclaimed, “ow Is it that you are here an hone Lefore Four time? “1 pever looked at the carl” he ad. mitted, “1 arrived at aloe, and I sim iy burried here “It was pond fortune, ialend”™ she murmured, with 8 faint saeet gmile “You bave had your tete.a tote, amd yon have helped me thro hoa had ialf-bour, Please stand a litle farther PWayY fram me, and look as though you had just arrived” Movssin, erest and dlrnifad, low at the ertriines. Neves possesses] more of the gra Tet Never had bis valee gonnite a “105 and imposing, ir 4 5 vin my dog, | guses Prraele willy the deny for he £1307: seen aniline ta 30 He LR Alieghenes Kier oy the fev. river was fall of alrheles So that } 17 the doer put to senda Bh oraee tb of the sirlolos ans 5 53 him “1 followed the deer aver ridges and | thraveh hollows aod oetosy Wreams 7 pst ny 4 LT OR bas we Bim a5 figs PB #0 ; 1 4 fi it to rg or +1 Brening fice Be recled and fe 4 and west te Yenzey'n Ts shee 3 the ground, He had inst Rg Hi fefr tha x Beld. whieh borderad the river, BB the dog saw the deer Ro made a spurt and erated Din he the Sank, The dyer ty 1 af rhe dor and th il I> IER Fos ag the i FA fats : | wy aroan “He wogidn’t do Bh, and ga, ow Dut oan pnd to the pea tise hit rus was re ery ri gh after } =e ! ; a : Tus rid of Woe VOYAGE IN A CAPSIZED “Monsieur ot Madame lo Prince et)’ La Priveesus de Nemurs™ be "Madame Ia Duchesne de ie Excellency the Duke of Bette Moussin pansed, for he Pa Lis breatde Belind the sinless packed. The eourtynrd and 522 atkedl, The pussies of Comtesse had arrived 8 Penhelter, in The Skenh, Tartare 1 Fur South Af ies. itis a wellknot | question is one i of the Rand, The | : has a vieeady eonslden : ? hepartiog thet, and an 5 ye ey sugges: ; It lx stated tha are desperately posr io provinces, whict irl “Ron, sag that ever patinum placers of the Hy fof the Ural. The walking distance is {from 500 10 600 miles, These Tartars Pare sald to be a superior oless of nha belng excesdingly apt to learn, eleanly, temperate, hardworking spd silent, — Plhiflady inhi a Recand. i Outltved Its Usefulneas.’ An advertising agent has reached the conclusion that “there are tices when the circular is the only available mes dium, and must be used, but ag a rule it will be found to have outilved its usefulness. In most cages the poorest newspapers are nore effective than the finest circular” A Bosten girl has made a quilt out color flushed in the Joung Euglish- ol Ler old stockings. He said hae [days Bours b witer borsuas The Norwegian stearmshi ware not prepared to minke tive fron bottom large a to por. mit the bmprisoned man’s Hberastion: and therefore the wad was towed to Dantzic, where it arrived on Saturday. | Here the vessel was raised, and thos ended Captain Engellandt's captivity, | which lasted twelve weary davs ard | eleven nights. The banly seanmn ik i $s Fo 3 pal Evermd 1h i Rest E x roltie th at ! ALE 5 £ be didn’t bave herio red to ses TERRY Sibu Frag wte Resi 3 3 ep ISANY ARSLIGEY (WYN | : : ; oh i on ft TA aE z pa has bhad."—Boston Transcript, a ! service Leslie's Montaly, “Kgl Hw 1 started on thy deer's | Land Im ooh! in with the dog bes | 158 5 I had gone a guneter of a mile | : bos ; Foose had wat a ¢ the Ware ~ ER Lventy «five miles fromy Miles City, | Man. hes fuse won a race with death, ¢ ¥ To he bt wed tg i alght ha slept water nnderneath and the toon oof : above. —~London Dally Mall, THE HARDSHIPE OF A ROCOUT. An gnfortunate was sent with & dis patel to one of the smaller outposts in { the far Northwest, It was toeesnd spring. when the midday sun thaws the surface of the suow and the Jight {| frosts harden the mvited crosts fo a} giare of feo as dawziingly bright sw the blinding flash of sunlight fram poedished steel, The thaw bad crsted over the trail, and the scout bad to keep a sharp eye on the way, not to loose the path altogether Ruddenly the midday sin deviloped extrirdle pary hues. Magenta, parple and black ¥ ? 3 6% Fs J wh fg X x 3 asld were signs of the deer, and be (00 | op puy hogan to dance on the sow, aiterngiely with wheels and rockets heard bits aheot or ¢all and then I wan | of choesecnlored fire. Then the light want oft altogether. though the man knew that it was broad day. He hind hevome snow blind. The oniy fing was to give bis horse the Wit. The horses stood stock still. By that time | Bo knew that he hml lost the tral) aitogether, or the bronés would lave followed any visible path. He whepled the horse about, I¢ sei reluesd by go on: and then the man Inferred that the crust of fe» Bad been mo lund that the horse conld not follow hack the way ft bad come. That niglit the trooper slept under saddle hlankets with the faithful horse standing een : Lier. For five days the pollosman wan. far as Williamsport, and from thei? | jong blindiy over the prairie, Josing tail epant of time eating now 10 ; Lanench his thirst, and sleeping in the and ws aching to be how tht even ing the worst way, eo | slaved our ab! food, alter broabhiasr and was loins a1} 1 $romiper, Ye i By canvases : 2 ) Rogiette hatsoon 8 aud 900 the eves: | oo pannt and keep the setdle. As a {inst hope the thouzht struck high that TEA Ba wmeddied bis horse sud formed Phim Josse §omtel fod Ba way hack fro the fort. ard es potify his friends that he was 10% Fa dit this, apt the | faithful eriafors refuted to beasts the man ving on the snaw, amd stool aver ; htm, fn shite of all his ¢ Yr nf? in bales that the brence Bad psowed “hrongh the fee eruet to the tinder grass The Hooper Was gow 160 wouk sorte to drive be zixth day the mall ear fognd the nalr. The trachea wan gevepelr fromen, Bat the Tider and is a wR THRILLING RACE WITH DEATH, Edward Leng. a speared ghesdy . i seed oo BIS yadd by Flord Zalwayp, Hud dently in ite most horrible forsh, at Sd Kile caring for the shesp GIN 3 Bis right lez Dy a large No help was at hand, anil iT mew med hia Lr the oan mart die aon short time. Jansing on bis pay, el ware neither saddles par bd : a) inns nshed the gnunal Into 0 oTV, Uren SY ENT i 5 ; RTE UT L fae Mies Clty, where he could be enrol : 3 Hint Would bol = > Iast geen of Rim. 5» I ow pred to fateh Bing Before hp aot ¢ thee 15d ERCP by a dedtor as kia destiintions the Berge on the dead ran eYery af the way, Guns vexchel] here I just ax the deadly poison wan Digins ning to take hold of him in earnest. Aw | checked the pony In front of Do wih fed fo ints that bs had been by a partler. He was omried dowtar's ofp, where avery senile Wag done for hig, sod a8 st time De septpa in a fade way avery, shibongh It is Lelleved he cfg of Hig iegs as 1 remain of Tarps fie ¥ ty Bix dash Tor iife stood «1 In front dhsrtar’s afflow aller Goan Tel no with a gas dropped fend rks. The mad dash af t¥eniy. ifen wat ta ng for the mimal } seat, im — PR TRAODINAERY JOURNEY. London Espeess darresnondent Petgrel arr states 8 1 eo ene iver of the train fromm Reval ta starg wis ciling kis locos 3, a Tew dys aps, When cored a man lying on thee stan { the engine. Phar shosd 4 5, iy at prtiien thee engine. states thar lie wis rer Russ pha, and ti making lang ma pander been al thabugh wl Bal evant got fi The ry RA 3 shastiam ! red. Ele ; traveled fully this way withont paoaiug toe kad Geen hig Intesiion the denrney to Peltin on Wee 1En% etl ig that Le TR VEY FOOLING A TIGRE witled sewed 1p how % vig oid rire A Cape | jin sf the Ni was rank pad in Marqueid had time ty drop | Tie rile of Took only three feet h when the tiger enme leds without poe por amd made Hr the ar pinpwd, ie native by fhe jog ain Marana fedgred & bale Mitte aml thea shed Bim ballet, Freak at Foaprek. Citizens of Peapack, M.J.. are disenss. big the latest of the wony freaks which wave made that little town famous. A re squirrel with a pure white tall is} all to inhabit & grove pear the home of Professor €. Ll. Boehaven. A white sone the worse tor Re taiun Le un. YDS Bk SI88 OCB sek In the ¥leinity, wi, The pony ridden by Gann | THE LOVE THAT LASTS. Phere many Joves that ll man's beast And make ox STILL SURVIVING. Pleasant 01d Gentleman—"Have y0U {lived here all your life, my little man? Axthur {aged six)~"Not yet."—Lip= pincott’s Magaxine, AXD PAY THE BILLS “This shopping business is an awfal nolsanee,™ “Why, Henry, you have Do reason to complain. I'm doing the shopping. All you do Is to carry he parcels.” = New York Journal LACKED EXPERIENCE. Mamma Hion't lef me catch you In a ie again, you saughly boy ™ Jobkinny-1 won't if I can help it, but then I haven't had the experience that HOW HE MISSED A BATH. Traveler (to hotel clerk~"1 want 8 roopy apd a bath, please” Hotel Clerk—"Well, 1 can give yous rooxa, but 1 Baven't time to give you 8 bath Jost now." Columbia Jester. REAL CAUSE, Toat—"My wife Is worrying about thers Lelgg thirteen at the table to bgt Chnat-"3nperatitions, eh? Teal-«"Na, not exactly; but she" a, any a dozen silver knives and forge" — L ah HOWE, A FELLOW-FEELING, *You were very lenlent with that cone ducoor,” sald the rst passenger. “Oh” replied the other, “we're all line ble to make mistakes” “Perhaps you were a conductor yours self once” “No, gir: I'm a weather forecnster "w Philadelphia Press, POOR CHILD. “1 hear Jack Kandor was here to see the baby.” sald Mr. Hoamley, “Yes” hin wife replied. *1 supposes the grat thing he said was: He looks just Hike ils father” ™ “Xo; the first thing he sald was Wiad heavens” Then be said that Me Plitadelnhia Press, NOT ASPIRING. Hasking-"1 wonder your friend Sil fers never want to the Legisiature. conmalder him eminently qualified for pattie service” Belmont", there's ao doubt about file Hiness. That's the very reason, you | gee, why he never had any desire that | way." —Boston Transeript, a faut wide, anid wi | DIFFERENCE OF OPINION. “Wins ls goniua? gsked the man Kio Mag g xing for abstrose questions “There in a difference af sninion on that question,” answered Mr. Bivins Barker; “some people think that geniue is an iofinite capacity for taking pains: ‘uthers that it ia the ability to get ob without dofug any work worth Den tieni ing.” XY sxliington Stay. AANA a Sn THE DIFPEREXCE. Customer ~— “Seg here, this wateh doesn’t run half the time.” Jeweler—""Wall, your account dops™ New York Journal IT] OFTEN SO *I anderstasd that old Galidust cap ries S80000 In life insurance.” “1 shouldn't wonder.” “He must cousidor his life of very great value” “Quite likely, but that doesn’t make fit s0.” “No “Oh, no. It merely shows that he is worth more dead than alive so far as the community is concerned.” ~ New York Herald.
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