|J«* Pit! Hl» Beit.
l„i'cl0 hail been colled upon in
. „f all the deacons and
U-d church officers, to pass
ntribution basket
D ,t half wav down the middle
',i,e wealthiest man in thccon
‘ fast asleep Arizona Pete
Id when near him, held the bas
,.r his nose and waited,
bft -nore was the only contribu
■tiniched him on the shoulder.
Iptl.er snore.
Ln lie shook him.
aid lesion.” he said, "you cant
t cneak out of this (fame. Pun
■l< or I'll throw you out of the
is recorded that Mr. Fuddleston at
I iHincled up to the extent of S5 for
Brst and only time in his religious
fr — Chicago Tribune.
I'm All Unstrung,
remark of many a nervous indivld
f lie or she will soon cease to talk that
after beelnntns ami persisting In a
«, 0( Hostetter's Stomach hitters,
(in 2 like It to renew strength and apne
Vul Bond digestion. It checks the ln
i f malaria, and remedies liver com
fci ci.iistipaiion, dyspepsia, rheumatism
X;,ln,.y disorder. It Is in every sense a
It tiouseiiold remedy.
Cleaning Fora.
(mine and sealskin are best cleaned
I soft flannel. Rub the fur dea
fly against the grain, and when it
(been thoroughly lifted and reversed,
i speak, dip the flannel into com-,.
Hour and rub lightly any spots
look dark or dirty. Shake the
kr well and rub with a clean dry
Inel until the flour is all removed,
(lo. chinchilla, squirrel and monkey
i may be very nicely cleaned with
l bran, (leta small quantity of bran
hi and heat it in the oven until it is
jte warm. Rub stiffly into the fur
leave for a few minutes before
(king to free it from the bran. Mink
be cleaned and freshened with
Inn corn meal, and, like the other
krt-haired furs, may be done without
Loving the lining. Rut the long
Ired furs are best ripped apart and
fed from stuffing and lining. Those
(n may not care to go to the troll ble
taking fur garments apart will find
bt the simple remedies described will
a long way toward making the
(kets and capes look clean, even if
t ripped apart—Good Housekeeping.
I K iuhlk.n, Mgr., ciane scoti, imw
liul Hull's Catarrh Cure a valuable remedy.
uiuhsts sell it. 75c.
■’renunciation uf "Bicycle. ”
The constantly growing bicycle fad
11s attention to the large number of
Sts of mispronunciation of the word
iicycle.'’ There is a certain class of
ople. particularly New York's fash-,
jalile set. tvho insist upon giving the
" a long sound, as in ’“'cycle,'” for
tting that a prefix or suffix often
anges the sound of the vowel “y. ”
ill others go to the other extreme
id give the "y” the sound of “'ee,” tout
e best usage makes the “y” short
id pronounces the ward “toi-sik-L”
ut even among those who give the
f'' the short sound there is a disposi
on to place the accent an the second
iable instead of the first, where it
'longs. When a Word comes into such
immon use as "bicycle,” it is'well to
arn to pronounce it correctly.—Troy
imes.
Cw<i Ongh IMaan
(hf oldest ana best. It will break up a Cold gutote,
u*uu anything elM. Ilia always-rellable. Try lb
1 kina silk erepon is craped lihe mourning
“I e and printed with small, bright flew
f|0TH;ERS
•A A recovering from
'tending child
S^^Jbirth, or who suf
fer :from the ef
fects of disorders,
derangements
and displace
ments iof the wo
manly icrgans,
twin inna Teiiei
md a permanent atate in IDr. (Pierce’s
■avonte Prescription. Taken .during
■regnancy, the “Prescription”
!?' preparing the system for parturition,
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o her and child. The period Of -.con
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CHAPTER TL
A HBRO XN OIL.
0hH was diverted from her conjec
tures by a heavy sigh, which resembled
a groan, hehind ber. Dolores turned
her head quickly, and discovered her
grandfather leaning against the door
way,, watching her movements in an
attitude so rigid and threatening, in a
frozen immobility, that she might have
believed him stricken with paralysis
had he not remained in an upright
posture.
‘‘What is the matter, grandpapa?”
she cried in alarm.
The sound of her voice seemed to
loosen the bonds of a spell, the silence
imposed by sheer impotent rage on the
benumbed faculties of the old man.
He moved his right hand feebly
and mechanically, his pale features
worked, and his pallid lips twisted
awry as if by a spasm of pain, re
covered the power of speech sufficient
ly to articulate in agitated tones—
“You—you jade? What are you
doing there?”
“I was only dusting the portrait,
grandpapa,1’ she replied, relieved to
notice the change in him.
“I will teach yon, idle bussy! to med
dle with my house,” continued the old
man, a violent nervous tremor pervad
ing his frame, while his eyes rolled in
their sockets and Hashed ominously.
“How often am I to'worn you not to
touch my things? You have no right
to be here, at all. What are you but a
beggar's brat? 3—1—have a mind to
drive you off altogether. Go, beg your
bread of strangers! You are not wanted
•here.”
He seized her arm, and left the im
print of his claw-like fingers in a bruise
on’the-soft .and shrinking flesh.
Dolores recoiled, with terrified eyes,
and a deep flush of shame and anger
mounting to her cheeks. She was be
wildered and astonished. The act of
cleaning the portrait seemed so slight
an offense that-she was amazed at the
anger aroused. If she had not fully
understood the torrent of reproach
which had,gathered in volume on the
lips of her grandfather on the former
occasion, when she had attempted to
bury a broken doll in the garden,
his bitter invectives now reached her
mind with a keen force of comprehen
sion, wounding deeply her heart
The excitement and wrath of Jacob
Dealtry.did not abate during the en
tire, day. The most trifling incident
would arouse .a fresh paroxysm of
rage, and he would walk away from his
granddaughter as if in the fear of such
propinquity with the object of his dis
pleasure as might lead him to some
actof violence.
Dolores had trembled and wept at
first, troubled by such manifest in
justice, .as well as frightened by the
.expression.of her grandfather's coun
tenance. Gradually her tears were
.dried in >the fever of sullen rebellion;
.as, in the depths of her soul, the seeth
ing .passions, prone to swift action,
of her-southern temperament became
aroused. The slow hours were torture
to her irritated nerves, and each new
.attack Of Jacob Deal try, harping ever
.on the same chord of his grievances,
"I’Ll TKAOH YOU! JDI-E HUSSY.”
fanned tike rising flame of resentment
in the breast of tbe girl.
At length they met at the evening
meal.
“Yon deserve no supper, ungrateful
child, bat eome aleng to the table,”
grumbled tbe old man.
Dolores paused, erect with flashing
eyes and quivering nostrils.
“I will noteat your supper, grand
papa!” she exelaimed, in a trembling
voice “Yon make me hate you!
What have I done? I will go back to
the convent and take the veil No
body wants me anywhere! No! I shall
I go to the town and tell all the people
| how cruel and wielced you are to your
l only grandchild. Then those who
i hare children will take pity on me,
and eome and mob yon, tearing down
1 our tower stone by stone!”
“Eh!” ejaculated her companion,
blinking nervously, and turning his
head as if he had not heard aright.
At tbe same time ha clutched the
Pf tbe table, ai if to support j
himself, while an expresalon of start
led apprehension swept over his feat
urea
Dolores nodded her head energeti
cally, enjoying this unforeseen tri
umph. Evidently her chance threat,
actuated by childish spite, had intimi
dated her relative.
“They will mob you,” she eon
tinued.
“Who?”
“Oh, the good, kind people.”
“Hush!”
- “They will tear the garden all to
shreds and destroy everything.”
The threat was her defiance of ex
hausted patience, of overwrought
emotiona The tragic woe of the
pictured destruction of the Watch
Tower suited her mood.
Jacob Deal try uttered an unsteady
laugh, and then his voice assumed a
whining inflection.
“You would not set the populace
against me, child? There are always
wretches that delight to hound and
worry a poor old man. You shall re
turn to the convent and become a nun,
if you like. We must speak of it
later.”
Dolores made no response, but
sought her own chamber, supperless,
with nostril dilated and head thrown
back.
She was aroused from her first slum
bers by hearing her grandfather insert
a key in the lock of her door and turn
it, thus making of her a prisoner, lie
feared she might run away to the
town and set the populace against
him, then. She fell asleep once more,
with a smile on her lips.
The following morning Jacob Deal
try was mild and ingratiating in man
ner. Evidently his anger had spent
its force over night.
Dolores was sulky and heavy-eyed.
At breakfast the old man insinuated
that she might return to the convent
if she wished to do so. The girl
pouted at his alacrity to get rid of her
'companionship. She beheld herself a
nun, with a flowing robe and a veil,
investing the placid image with all
the fervor of a youthful imagination.
The next moment fright seized her at
the thought of the prison bars of re
straint imposed on her wayward
humors and impatient spirit by dedi
cation to the cloister.
“Not yet, grandpapa,” she said, ap
pealingly. “Let us wait awhile be
fore we decide. Besides,” she added,
with soft feminine reproachfulness,
“there would be no one to take care
of you in case of illness if 1 left you. ”
“To take care of me?” repeated the
grandfather in shrill accents. “Tut!
I need no care or company. Suit your
self, girl.”
A warm color mounted to the tem
ples of Dolores, and sudden tears
dimmed her eyes. Her glance
strayed to the garden, and then
reverted to the picture of the Knight
in the entrance hall of their dwelling.
“Do not leave us!” the pomegran
ate and orange trees seemed to whis
per, swaying in the light breeze.
“Do not leave us!” sighed the flow
ers. each unfolding bud of rose and
jessamine wafting their fragrance
to her senses.
“Depart if you dare, foolish child!”
said the Knight of Malta in the pict
ure, a threatening shape in the
shadow'.
“I am not sure that I would like to
become a religious recluse,” the full :
red lips of the girl murmured, half
ruefully.
Unconscious of these subtle influ
ences at work on the nature of his
granddaughter, JaKob Deal try pointed
to the picture with the intent of dis
paraging its merits.
“Rubbish! Mere rubbish as a paint
I ing, you understand,” was his con
temptuous comment.
“I like it,” said the girl slowly.
“Give it to me and I will hang it in my
room.”
“Nonsense!” he retorted, regard
ing her with furtive uneasiness.
“What put that idea in your head?
Do not touch the picture again.
I forbid it. Ha! Carry the ICnight
away to your room, indeed!”
“Crandpapa, do you believe that he
built our tower?”
“Pooh! No.”
“Perhaps he did, you know. He
may be pleased to shelter us here, or
very angry with us for the intrusion.
It is like that with ghosts who have
buried treasures, for example. I
heard the Sister Scolastica once tell
ing-”
“How you run on. with your wom
an's tongue," interrupted the old man,
peevishly. “When 1 said that the
picture was poor trash it was between
ourselves Some fool may take a
fancy to it and pay a good round sum
for an ancient portrait of a Knight of
Malta, artist and date unknown.”
The mobile features of Dolores ae
| quired a scornful expression, and she
i replied with that mixture of audacity
| and timidity which had ever charac
terized her intercourse with her aged
relative:
“Then you wish to cheat some
stranger? I would not try to sell the
Knight at all in that case, but just
leave him hanging there on the wall. ”
Jacob Dealtry chuckled, and rubbed
his chin.
“Your advice is sound, my dear.
Perhaps X will leave him,” and he
moved away.
Dolores sighed, and went to the
fountain, where she gazed at her
blooming image, reflected in the
water, for a long time, What was
lite after all? Perhaps “the riddle eC
the painful earth" flashed through her
being for the first time. As every
maiden, in all social conditions, be
holds in a swift and dazzling glimpse
the vision of fleeting pleasures not to
be her portion, and the brave knights
riding away two and two, the foun
tain's basin may have served as the
crystal mirror of the Lady of Slialott
to Dolores, giving back, as yet, the
blue sky above. To be young was to
resemble herself. To be old was to be
like grandfather. She shuddered
slightly, and turned aside, with a
yesture of repulsion. Perhaps it would
be Tetter never to grow old. That
night the glrldrlfted softly away Co
ilreamland. Between shifting shadow
snd rippling light, other than that of
the moon, she beheld a radiant shape
approach her door and pause on the
threshold. The accompany ing footstep,
which had echoed on her heart and
smitten sharply her brain, had been
clear and ringing ,with a vibrat
ing, musical sound, unlike the
dull, shutting movements of gsnnd
father around the house at all
hours. Woven of the tissue of pure
fantasy was her sleeping thought,
mingled with the teachings of saintly
lives in the convent school. Not the
angelic presence of St. Ursula this, but
the Knight of Malta, terrible, beauti
ful, awe-inspiring, his cross glittering
with a phosphorescent ray, and his
drawn sword sparkling as the waves
of the Mediterranean gleam in break
ing on the shores of the island in the
midnight hour of summer. Spurning
the clogging film of the obscuring
years in the portrait, he revealed him
self to her in his pristine strength of
noble and chivalrous manhood, and the
soul of Dolores trembled in her breast.
Be seemed to address her in a tongue
that reached her senses like the mur
mur of a sea shell, or the soughing of
the wind through the trees.
After that, Jacob Dealtry brought
the tiny dog Florio to the delighted
Dolores. Her happy and careless tem
perament cast off the first somber im
pression of the incident. Hhe did not
forget the Knight, she even entered
into a secret alliance with the picture,
unknown to her grandfather. She no
longer whispered to the pigeons and
the flowers, but questioned the dim
portrait and wove histories about the
career of the hero; muttered poems,
vague, confused, and fleeting as the
rainbow spanning a dissolving storm
cloud. She artfully led her grand
father to converse about the history of
the island. Jacob Dealtrv was a well
informed man in many respects, and
he spoke occasionally, in connection
with some relic of stone, pottery, or
^lass discovered by him, of the rule of
Count Koger of Sicily, the institution
of the Order of St John of Jerusalem,
the first crusade. He repeopled that
rock of soft sandstone called
Tufa, known as Malta, with genera
tions of earlier inhabitants, until the
coming of the knights to hold the cita
gainst the Turk. Tliu little maid
at his, elbow listened demurely, and
the old man may have experienced
some transient sentiment of gratifica
tion in the awakening intelligence of
his granddaughter. He was ignorant
that Dolores, bridging time and space
with fancy’s airy bow, linked each
glorious deed with the original
of the portrait. Nay, she ac
tually became the heroine oi
thrilling adventures, in which, about
to be swept away by an invading host
of bold and brutal Corsairs, the Knight
Templar rushed to her rescue, and
drove off her assailants with prodigious
valor.
These idle reveries resolved them
selves from roseate mirage into a solid
conviction in the mind of the girl.
The Knight had built their tVatch
Tower and protected them in humble
poverty, a feeble old man and an ig
norant child, within his precincts. He
still kept guard about the crumbling
beacon at night When the sea was
rising, with a monotonous beating on
the strand heralding an approaching
tempest, Dolores fancied she heard his
footstep of a sentinel coming and go
ing beyond the boundary wall.
To-day, Dolores lost herself in pleas
ant dreams, as she worked on the pink
dress. “To render it sweet and sacred,
the heart must have a little garden of
its own, with its umbrage and foun
tains and perennial flowers; a careless
company!'’
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
Lunar Photography.
Professor Langley lias been interest
ed for a considerable time in the pos
sibility of preparing a chart of the
moon by photography, which would
enable geologists and selenographers
to study its surface in their cabinets
with all the details before them which
astronomers have at their command in
the use of the most powerful teles
copes. Such a plan would have seemed
chimerical a few years ago, and it is
still surrounded with difficulties, but
it is probable that within a compara
tively few years it may be successfully
carried out. No definite scale has yet
been adopted, but it is desirable that
the disk thus presented should ap
proximate in size one two-millionth of
the lunar diameter, but while photo
graphs have been made on this scale
none of them show detail which may
not be given on a smaller one:
A Sad Tima for Actors.
The critic met the old school actor
on the highway, and, observing a pale
melancholy in the face of the Thes
pian, said: “What's the matter, Ham
leigh? You look blue.”
“I am blue,” returned Ilaraleigh.
“These new school actors are knock
ing us old fellows completely out.”
"What seems to be the trouble?” 1
asked the critic.
“Pm not educated up to the stand
ard.” said liamleigh. “A man to be a
good actor nowadays has got to swim
in real water, or ride a race, or manage
a buzz-saw, or be an expert farm hand.
I can't swim, ride or milk cows, and I
am as afraid as death of a buzz-saw.
Result, ruin!”—Harper's Magazine.
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Confederate Pnti|e Itinpi.
Person* who have kept any of the
old letter* they received in the *outh
during the war might do well to look
them over. The Confederate govern
ment authorized the issue and use of
local postage stamps, and nearly every
city in the south at one time had its
own stamp. Many thousands of these
were used, hut so rare are they now
that they bring high prices. There is
among collectors a keen demand for
them, and an idea of what they will
bring may be gathered from the report
of a Bale which occurred recently at
the rooms of the Philatelist society.
New York. Local Confederate stamps
sold as follows: Athens, tla., #40; four
varieties of the liaton Rouge (La.) 5
cent, 941, $77 and $30 respectively; Ma
con, two varieties, for $03. AO and $171;
Lenoir, N. G, $H2, and Mobile 3 cent,
black, $40.50. As time goes on these
curiosities will probably increase in
value. They are already beyond the
reach of everybody but wealthy col
lectors.—Atlanta Journal.
Tobacco-Stinking Breath.
Not pleasant to always carry around, but It
don't compure with the nerve-destroying power
that tobucco keeps at work night unu day to ‘
make vou weak anil Impotent. Dull eyes. loss
of Interest in sweet words and looks tell the
story. Brace up- quit No-To Boo Is a sure,
quick cure. Guaranteed by Druggists every
where. Book, titled “Don't Tobacco Spit or
Smoke Your Lite Away," tree. Address Ster
ling ltemedy Co., New York City or Chicago.
Telegraphic Mistakes.
The telegraph has indulged in many
witticisms at the expense of the mem
bers of both houses of parliament. It
lias transformed a classical allusion to
"Cato and Brutus” into “cats and
brutes;” the celebrated phrase used by
the late Mr. VV. Forster in a speech on
his Irish policy, "mauvais subjects and
village ruffians” into "wandering sav
ages and village ruffians;” "tried in the
balance and found wanting” into “tried
in the balance and found panting;”
“the cow was cut in halves” into “the
cow was cut into calves,” and “the
militia is a great constitutional force”
into “the militia is a great constitu
tional farce.”—Macmillan's Magazine.
The Ladies.
The pleasant effect and perfect safety
with which ladies may use the Cali
fornia liquid laxative. Syrup of Figs,
under ail conditions, makes -it their
favorite remedy. To get the true and
genuine article, look for the name of the
California Fig Syrup Co., printed near
the bottom of the package.
The man who would lead others, must
first learn how to stand alone.
A novelty tailor button is made with a
metal rim and sews through and through.
The Little Girl's Pririr.
A little girl in a Pennsylvania town,'
in saying her prayers the other alfhC
waa told to pray for her father aM;
mother, who were both very ill, set
for one of the servants, who had loot*
her husband. She faithfully did aa she
was told, and then, impressed with the
dreary condition of things, added am
her her own account: "And now, O
Uod, take good care of yourself, foe iff
anything should happen to yon we
should all go to plecea Amon.”—Keur ■
York Times._
Make Tour Own Bttteret
On receipt of 80 cents in U. 8. stamps, 1
will send to any addrees one package Hto-I
ketee's Dry Bitters. One package makses
one gallon beta tonic known. Cure* sieaa-i
ach, kidney diseases, and is a great ape*-1
tirer and blood purifier. Just the medicts*
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A Good Veneer.
Mr. Hardtack (who has just die*
charged Mr. Jackson)—You want m
recommendation, eh? You are abatg
lately good for nothing. How can 11
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Mr. Jackson—Well, sah, yon miffhll
jes’ say dat ye tlnk Mr. Jackaon woslli
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It the Baby is Cuttlag Teeth.
Ba rar* and dn that old and wall-triad raraady, Km
Wunov’a Boothmo Strut for Childraa Twttif ,
The trouble with culture U that it baa tf
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“Mbbbob’b Stogie Corn lain.” .
Warranted to rare or monar refunded. ilk |aar >
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Coarse linen in ecru
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Armure crepon, or armure with eraphi
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What parj of ft ia the durkeet? Tfc#
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Now la the tlMe to care yoar Corwa j
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comfort to ilia feet. Aik jour drueglu for ia Ua
Velvet rapes are fashionable lined with
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1 cannot apeak too highly of Piao'a Cm
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