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Care for Concnptlon. It bae care UMoeaaSa. ft baa not total ed one. It la not bad to lake. old everrwheni. Me. 5 T3 - ....ism feVcs IS CHAPTER III. PAKM LOVE THE SWEETEST. Louis and Mary spent their first summer vacation at their home near tho country village. They wero both at that age when love of romance over shadows all else in life. Tho practical and real will come soon enough, but they do not obtrude themselves on young hearts when all the surround ings are bright and joyous. These young people lived in castles in the air, and they hoped that if the realities of lifo were to run counter to their dreams, and their airy castles, they might never awake. Not a ripple broke, tho harmony of their young lives. Much of the time was spent in sail ing on the little lake. They called it sailing, but their homely craft had neither sail nor mast on which to fix a sail, or place to put a rudder. It was a frail thing which Louis had managed to put together at odd times some thing after the nature of a raft, with a rough box-like structure built much as children build play houses. This served for protection from sun and wind and' rain, and as it was tho only craft that floated on those waters, it had the right to go anywhere and everywhere, and no one cared to object or protest against it. In order to direct the course of the craft and control it. a sculling oar was fitted in the end of what might be termed the prow, and thus easily and roadly was Louis able to manage the little float. So, drifting and floating in whichever direction the wind blew, they had naught to do, save tell the story of their love, and over and over again they told it, and it neither grew mo notonous, nor did they w eary of telling it. Leisurely and unconcernedly they drifted on, with now and then a slight wind from the bluffs to break the the smoothness of the placid waters, and they wished they could float all the years away, and at will land on a shore where love weighed supreme and always. ' "Louis, If you love me. toll me so. " "Did you say 'if',. Mary V In the vo cabulary of love there is and can be no 'if. Tho little word has never come betwixt your love and mine. It must not now. 'If chases love away. 'Ifs' flourish where there is least love. They drive the schoolboy to despair, and mako him hate his books, his teacher and himaolf, and yet, 'ifs' are the rounds in the ladder of fame which enable tho student to climb to the top. In that blissful realm where love is queon there can be no 'ifs', because lovo wo nld die were an 'if admitted there. There never was yet a heart large enough for love and an 'if to dwell together I know there is not an 'if in any part of my being when lovo for you is my theme." "There now, Louie, I like to hear you talk that way. That is music to my ears. It is real poetry the oootry born of love. But why don't you keep on tolling me you love me?" "Why, Mary, only yesterday, I told you a hundred times that I love you." "True, true, I remember now you did, and to-day I want you to tell mo so a thousand times. I livo only in your love, and that withdrawn for a day, or lessened by so much as a breath of air, and I caro not to live. Tell mc you love mo; not in words, for they de ceive. Tell me with your eyes; tell me with your cheeks flowing with the flame that comes from swift-flowing blood through veins that ought to know no other duty but to bear the messages of love from your heart to mine, tell me through silent lips of the height, depth, and juration of your love. Put the story in big volumes and bo ages telling it, that I may .know that I am truly loved." "Mary, since early childhood I have told you the story of my love, and it has been the story of my lifo. As life grows apace, my story grows, too, and whithor I toll it with eyes or lips, with heart, or soul, it shall bo tho lovo you ask of me. It shall tako me ages to tell it, then let me live those ages in your love, and the ' story tells itself. To livo and to love are one. May Heaven never close the cords that bind our hearts together." Thus those lovers talked. The great big world and all therein were noth ing to them. Love was everything. Did Heaven hoar that prayer? The summer vacation ended, Louis resumed his studies at the collogo. His class would graduate In the spring. The fall months pass rapidly, and winter finds him busily engaged in pro paring the paper he is to road at com mencement. The professors expect much of him. He has been a diligent and tireless student, and hit) heart in his work. His theme is one of great interest throughout the land, and par ticularly to the farmers. Brought uo on a farm himself, and at home and in the college a close student of the effect the tariff has on agriculture, ho aip- Droaohes his subject of "Tariff Re form" with his whole soul full of well matured thoughts. CUAPTKB IV. THE MYSTERIOUS STRANGER. One day the new spread rapidly through the neighborhood that Major Nordrum was seriously ill. A malarial fever was having its run with a con slant uncertainty as to the sick man'i recovery. Mrs. Patterson was a fre quont visitor at the Major's home, maklncr herself so useful in the tlok ! room, relieving Mary and the nun of a part of their duties, that they be seecbed her to make her home with them for a time, so that with less inconvt nience she might, to herself, render the atsistance she proffered. Seeing that Mary was worn out, and likelv to break down, Mrs. Patterson consented, and was placed in charge of j the house, A male nurse was needed, ard in- uiries for one wero made at the Jiiuty seat. In time, a strong, stout, i..iddle-agvd, prcntlemanly appearing franger applied for the place. His in terview was with Mrs. Putter-son. She employed him and installed him In his work. There was a mysterious sometning j ... i about this man and his habits which Mary oftentimes found herself tryinjj , to fathom, and the most singular thing was that the mystery seemed to in volve Mrs. Patterson with it. Why or how no one that noticed it could tell. Mary threw it off with the thought that" the worstof it was only a suspicion. Mrs. Pattersons' early history was a blank as far as tho people in the neigh borhood knew anything about it. While she had lived" the life of a Chris- j tain woman since coming there, and . while her character was pure and j spotless, yet tho closest observers had, j from time to time, noticed a strange-j ness in her actions which created aj feeling that something . was wrong. I Men unknown in the community had ; been loitering after night in tho shadow ' of tho trees that grew near hot house. They came, from where no ono knew, and they went, no ono knew j whither. She was never known to mention the never told it. If lie were living sho i never mentioned it. Yet sho had a j son she idolized. Why silently feed the mysterious with mystery? Tho stranger faithfully applied him self to the work assigned him. He gradually won the respect, and, it may be, the confidence of the sick man. He studied to please Major Nordrum. He labored to make his services indispen siblo. There was, however, a coolness between him and Mrs. Patterson which others could not help noticing. Why was the man nurse who was only a temporary employe of tho household, and a stranger, too, and who, when his services were no longer required, would go, as ho had come, a stranger, worthy of even being shunned by Mrs. Patterson? The man soon became a necessity at .Major Nordrum s bedside. No nurse evermore laithiui served trie sick, than did this stranger serve Major Nordrum. He was ever on tho alert to make himself useful, and he succeeded in so ingratiating himself into the af fections of Mary and the physician, and the nurso, by little acts of kindness to all of them, and by his constant devo tion to the failing invalid, that all was ready to trust bim and put the utmost confidence in his honor and integrity. To all these marks of respect shown tho stranger, Mrs. Patterson demurred by looks and signs, which seemed to be never understood, but sne communi cated her thoughts to no living person She evidently wanted to warn the family of something connected with the stranger's presence, but her lips wero sealed. She was tho woman oi mysteries. One morning, after a restloss night, the sick man callod Mrs. Patterson to his bedside. He told her that he be lieved he had but a few hours to live. He assured her that he was prepared to die but he was in doubtasto a future world? "Whore can Heaven be?" had been tho Bubject of his thoughts for weeks. Could Mrs. Patterson, whom he had always found so sensible and wise in worldly matters, give him some reasonable theory as to where God might put the souls of men, when life on oarth was ended? then he would die full of faith in the power of the Almighty to redeem the promises of Christ. Mrs. Patterson stood aghast. Sho was astonished that Major Nordrum, a man of so much intelligence and in formation, whoso life was spotless and blameless, whoso mature years had been spent in doing good to his fellow man, who, though making no outward profession of religion, was known to be a Christian, should, on tho verge of the grave, harbor a doubt as to the ex istence of a future state. Tho good lady controlled her feel ings tho best she could. She under stood the situation at once. Major Nordrum had not seen Heaven, had never seen any one who had, and now ho was in doubt whether there was a Hoaven. "Major," replied Mrs. Patterson, "as vou have faith in God's promises, have faith now that he will fulfill them." The dying man gave the Christian woman a look of satisfaction as if to acknowledge the justness of her mild reproof, and to accept her words of hopo and comfort. His lips parted as if ho would say something more. That the end was nigh was evident. Tho household was quickly summoned, but no word did he utter. Mary, weeping as ono whose cup of sorrow was full, held her father's hand. Mrs. Patter son, calm and almost stoical, held tho other, and the stranger bathed tho dying man's temples. A sigh, a groan, a fluttering' heart, and all was over. Then camo the funeral and after that a sensation that startled the whole community. CHAPTER V. STORY OF A LIFE. In a drawer where Major Nordrum had kopt his private papers tv ere was found, after his death, the following letter written by Mrs. Patterson: To My Dear Frlnnd Andrew Nordrum : Yesterday I told you I would give you my reasons in writing, for refusing your oiler of marrlago. I will now fulfill that promise. I was an only child. I was born in , a New Kngland factory town, In the year 1& . My father was the senior member of the firm of Patterson & Groundwlg, who owned and operated a large woolen mill, and wero consid ered quite wealthy. 1 was given aa good an education as tho somina-ios of those days furnished young ladies. At the age of 19 I graduated, not at the head of my class, but with my head well stored with book lore. On ray re turn from school I took a great interest la tha welfare of the operation of the mill, and was constantly busy ia various ways trying to improve their condition. Silas Groundwig was the city partner and received and sold the t;oid8 manufactured at tho mill. He visited the factory three or four times a year, and each visit ho sought to make his coming and stay agreeable as possible to me. It did not take me long to perceive that his politeness grew out of something more than fi-iendshiu. so I could hardlv sav I was surprised when he asked my hand in marriage. While I had no particular reason to dislike him. I did not enter tain that love for him that I felt I should to warrant me in accepting his offer i lost no time in telling him so, and with real sadness and sorrow I ac quainted him with the state of my feel ings towards mm ana v,e parted. A few mouths afterward I heard mut terings among operatives about pay day having passed without their wa'es having been handed them. ; At this time my mother died, and ton- 1 learned that matters were in a worse condition than ever. I asked my father to take me into his confl uence ana leu me an, ana no then in formed me that his partner had in vested the money in schemes that bad proven worthless, and that the laciory would havo to bo sold to satisly the mortgago that had been placed on it. I saw that such a proceeding would leave the operatives -men, women, and children-without money, without food, and with scant raiment, and, in, many instances, without shelter. I knew that Mr. (JrounJwig was a man of many resources, and I was not long in getting to his oflico. anl importun ing him to come to the aid of the pen niless operatives. Ho did not appear a hard-hearted man. He was a busi ness man in every sense of the word. The world might have called him cold, and. it may bo, the world would have been right, but I thought I detected in him a warm, sympathetic heart. So when ho referred to the lovo he once, had for mo, and assured mo that it had grown stronger with time, and when ho again asked rao for my hand, and gently intimated that wo could do to gether what I had implored him to do for the operatives, I yielded, not for love, but for humanity, not because of any affection I had for him, but that almost a whole village full of people I loved (and I loved them all the more because they wero poor and needy) might not be turned out into tho world friendless and homeless. We wero married. The factory hands were paid all that was coming to them. They never know that the one they loved so much, made the greatest sacrifice a woman can mako, for their sake. I did not then know, myself, how great the sacrifice was. How bit terly I have learned it all inee. A few months after the marriage my father died. I think he believed to the hour of his death that I had mar ried a man I did not love to save my father from bankruptcy. My great sacrifice boro bitterer fruit than that. A boy babe was born to gladden my heart. My whole soul was onrapped up in the child. There was no ono else for me to love. The father of my darling boy had continued his specula tions and lost all he possessed, and, on tho day my child was born, my hus band came to my bed-chamber and de manded that I should sign a paper transferring to him all tho property my father had loft to me at his death. I refused, and the man who had the j right to call me by the holy name of wife, in that hour, if in no other, angels should guard the mother's couch, struck mo a savage blow, and then passed beyond my threshold, out into the world, no longer my nusDana, except in name. If he could have then gone to his grave instead of afterwards returning to my presence, much of sorrow 1 have borne, and many tears I have shed would havo been spared me. For soven years he remained away. I hoard of him from time to tirfo, as an adventurer seeking a livelihood by dishonest means. One day be returned to my homo. Ho claimed my boy my darling boy. His boy. Though the father had never seen the child, though he had aimed a blow at tho mother on purpose to kill tho babe, though he had abandoned tho family and left the mother alone to care for tho child, yet the lawyer told me there was danger that the law might take my boy understand, my boy and give it to his unnatural father. TO BE CONTINUED. Train Robbers and Wreckers. The Eailroad Gaaette has collected statistics of train wrecking and train robbing for the first six months of 1803, which yield some surprising re sults: One is accustomed to think of train wreckers and train robbers as investing sparsely settled Western States, but the statistics show on the contrary that such crimes are most prevalent in well-settled States. The Gazette's figures show sixty-one at tempts to wreck trains and twenty one attempts to rob them. Massa chusetts and Illinois head the list in the number of attempts to wreck trains, and Ohio follows. In these three advanced States were made more than one-half of all the at tempts to wreck trains, and the State of New York follows. The only explanation offered for this prepon derance of train wrecking in well- settled and, generally speaking, well- governed States Is that the mileage of railroads is greater in those Slates than In others, aud that tranrjs, who are responsible for ruost attempts to wreck trains, tlourisli in thickly set tled regions. The geographical distribution of attempts at train robbing are sti'l more curious, lov heads the list; Indian Territory and Oklahoma takeu together have the same nuruoer; Texas fob jws, and then comes Kanaas and Neb aska. bixty-seven per cent, of all the train robberies or attempt d trian robberies occurred In these four States and two Territories. To Hi-muTO Grease. Aqua ammonia, two ounces: soft water, one quart; saltpeter, one tea spoonful; Bhaving soap in shavings, one ounce, mix together; dissolve the soap well, and any grease or dirt that cannot be removed with this prepara tion, nothing else need be tried for lu When a boy grasps the toy pistol bo Miies hold of the butt end of an accident TAT y. I II II KB II N I 1 The United States Government reports ROYAL a pure cream of tartar baking- powder, highest of ail in leavening- strength. "The Royal Baking u . . H the purest and most reiiaoic taking powuci c fered to the public." Late United States jj, Government Chemist. ROYAL BAKING POWDER -T'-v-"-,L v - . J( The three feathers of tin Prince of Wales have been prominently used in handles of large bonbon and berry ser vices cf silver and silver gilt. This is probably due to the royul wedding. Jewelers' Circular. A new substance ca led va'.zin is now being manufa itureu iu Bsrlin under a ( Stent, and it is duiined to be 200 times sweeter than sugar and free from cer tain objectionable properties cf saccharin. Tho Firt Stovrn. A heating apparatus called a "stuba" (stove) was widely ured among the higher claes of Romans before the be 'ginniog of the Christinn era. This class of beaters was fixed and immovable be sides beim; in several other respeeta wholly different from the modern stove. In Germany and Svtindinav'.a they were used in bathrooms and hotireuges Jur ied the middle ages. 1 hey were us ually constructed of brick, 6tono or tile and wereof immense 6iz, Thny some times covered the whole side of a 20 or 30 foot room and often extended out in to the room as much as 10 feef, in which cbsb the smooth, flat top m used for a bedstead, the heaied surfaca imparling an agreeable feelinK of wurmth during those cold nights of bnc ago, when such things as covers were quite rare. Cardinnl Polignac of France wns per haps the first to attempt the coestruc tion of a stove wholly of iron this at about the beginning of the ighteentH century. The first real improvement over the old Roman "staba" war brought about by Franklin in the year 1745. Ooe of his efforts produced a typical base burner, nhnost perfect and a model of workmanship. Stoves were not used in private houses to any great extent prior to the year 18.'J0. Philadelphia Press. She Took Ihe Clftari'tte. When a belt line car was coming down Virginia Btreet yesterday after noon, a solemn looking young man was the occupant cf the rear seat. Just as the Seventy-fourth armory was reached two beautiful young women signaled the car and walked out into the road way. One was a tall blonde with brill iant blue eyes and golden hair, and the other a brunette of manificint figure. Both wore fluffy white dresses, and both were exceedingly fair to look upon. Every Feat in front of the one which the solemn youLg man occupied in solitary state was crowded. "Well, Lit," said the blonde, "I guess we've got to get in here " "That's the smokers' seat," replied Lil. "There isn't any other," contended the blond. "I don't like to get in where men smoke," said the brunette, pouting, "Hurry up, ladies, if you want this CBrl" broke in the conductor, and the two women olimbed aboard. The solemn young man looked them over with a great show of interest. He had just lighted a cigarette, but out of deference to his seatmatee he threw it away. Thn blonde giggled. "Seems kind of queer to be riding in the smokers' seat, don't itf she asked. "I don't think it's queer," replied the brunette. "I mean it seems ai if we ought to be smoking." The solemn young man looked up. Then he dove down into his coat pocket, fished out a new package of cigarettes, broke the stamp and handed it politely to the blonde, i She shrunk back as it frightened. Not so with the brunette. She reached over, took the cigarettes, put them in her handbag, smiled a smile that was so bright it sh lines the sunlight and said: "Oh, thank you! We'll smoke them af ter we get Dome. And the solemn young man doesn't yet know whether she was stringing him or not. Buffalo Express. K. A. ROOD. Toledo, Ohio, says! "Hall's Catarrh Cure cured my wile of cutarrh fif teen years ago ana sne nns nna no retwu of it. It's a sore ours. Sold by Druggists, 70. Powder is nntUuibtcJly j 1 i i i i i . y. i f CT CO., 1C VAU. ST.. UCV-YOIK. . -.; . - w- He blushed a fiory red. Her heart went pi o pat. She gently bung her head and looked down on the mat. He trembled in his e peach; he rose from, where he eat and shouted with at screech, ''You're sitting oa my hat!" Tit-BitB. Tirnrains Can your daughter play the piaLo? Robbiua wearily I don't know whether she can or not, but the does. Chicago Hecord. ' Eyes of Deep Sea Flab. 1 The eyes of deep sea fish are very varied; some have neither eres nor, sight; others have greatly enlarged eye-1 bulls, so as to catch the least glimpse o light. Their eyes tend either to disap pear or to be unusually efficient, bus sines no trace of sunl'ght can penetrate to any great, depth, and it is probablyj quite dark beyond a dspth of soma 200 fathom?, of what use can eyes bef Fish have been captured at a depth ot nearly 3,000 fathoms, where- there muit be not only absolute stillness, but also total darkdesr, except for toe fact thai! some of thestt deep Eea creatures are phcsiiiio.'es ent and therefore luminous. This tact m first ascertained in the Challenger expedition. Since then, MrJ A 1 cock ot the Indian marine survey has found that some deep sea crustaceans h-ive a similar p Vker, one large prawn qu te lightening up a bucket' ul of water in which it was placed. Fish with large eyes have therefore a better chance oi finding; feed and mates, but tbey cannot wholly depend upon sight, since soma havo quite abandoned all attempts to see. Some ngair, have luminous organs on, their head or body or tail, which ar under control, so that they can actually! throiv light at pleasure on their prey or extinguish it in time of danger. Thus the angler, among others, attracts it prey by means of those colored lures or phosphorescent lights. Chamber's Journal. A Feminine Weakness.. Did you ever notice the weakness wo-i men have for marking their letters "per sonal?" They seem to think by soi marking the envelope the letter will getj to its destination quicker, through thej same line of reasoning which souaysars ago led women to write oti envelopes "inj haste," supposing that the postnasal would immediately start on a run with! them. The habit of writing "personal" some times leads to very embarrassing results.' I have known a purely business commu nication Hddretsed in unmistakable! feminine hand and marked "personal" to rise a liveiy row in an unusually' peaceful family. Nen York Herald. ' Who woitld be free from earthly ill must bin- a box of Beecham's Fills. 231 cents a box. Worth a guinea. David S. Muzzey of Lexington, Maes. who was graduated this year with honor: from Harvard, has been appointed pro- fessorof mathematics at Roberta ool-j lege, in Constantinople. Drapery pins of long irregular loops, ot sold, set intervals with diamonds.! have been introduced. These were first) seen in solid diamonds. It is an ew peoinlly graceful shape. Pen Can Describe Tho Buffering I endured "1, len -hrn. from Dra-i papula,. I tried aim. oaw every medicine and el- mnat icave up hope oi ever botna; any better. But Hood' Bamuarillal nave me rollel verv aaanl L' ' , ... . ' " 1 ma now i am aaurM j cured of djrapepaiaJ md a (Trifle everr one loi ,try Hood'a SarmperUUJ lira. J. Fentona IBM. 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