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CHAI'TKU XI.
The construction which Catalu Dene
had put upon his wife's conversation
with Iht admirer wait a very natural
one. Not for a moment did hU tnint in
hi-r loyalty and truth falt.T, nor did he
suppose that Mnjor Larroh had endeav
ored to shake the furwlstioii of either;
tuit tie thought t tint tbi latter hail been
vindicating his past conduct, and he
judged by Mm. Iene's agitated demeanor
thut she hail nut listened to him mi
timved. If so, (he hope lie had treasured
of winning her love at last was further
away than ever; indeed, he waa not sure
that he had not earned her actual hule
by roniinc between her and the lover who
hnd thna tardily rehabilitated himself iu
her esteem.
lie juired outside bin tent until the light
of (lay-break made tlie stars grow paler
and gradually fn,'c sway. Then he lay
dowu and alept. It aeemed to him that
he was sleeping mill aa he sut at early
breakfast and heard the gay (butter of
the rent.
Thin waa to be the day of the Tent Club
meeting, they were all aiixioiia for
good sMrt and to start betitiiea. The four
gi iitli ini-n for Colonel I'rinsep had
break flint ed with them rode away
iibreiitit, while Mrs Iene and Jane aloud
at the enlriinee of the tent, watching
them aa they went.
"1 hope I sincerely hope," said Mrs.
, Iene, slowly, "that nothing will happen."
"There la no danger, ia theieV" asked
Jam-, with a wared face.
"No, no -T aupjMiKe not."
"They have been jut several timeg be
fore, and nothing hiilpenedV"
"True," sighed Mrs. Ii-ne.
She acup'ely conm ioua of her own
wordH. She waa woiideritiK whether in
bed it waa tou late whether there iiiiuht
not Iw a hope yet. Following up her
thought, ahe went Iniide the tent, and
t.K.k up a louking glnas that lay on the
table underneath a rase of flow-era; but
It was mini M, and a little dimmed She
put it down impatiently, and turned to
la lie.
"1 wish I hnd what you lecp!H-d the
other day, and called vulgnrity," ahe ex
eliiimcd. "What waa it ? I forget."
'Tn-itineHK. I wlah I were aa pretty aa
yu."
Jane looked at her thoughtfully, and
lid not deliver the prompt protest whic h
wrha pH Mr. I eiie expected.
Well, what do you think?" Mr. Dene
ask i-il, with a abort laugh.
"I don't think yon are pretty. Hut
then," Jane added, haatity, "you know- I
never have thought prettineaa a thing to
tie demrcd. It U aueh a blank, iiiimeun
Ing word, which can be uwd for almoat
anything without mittnppticatiun. No,
I dont think you are pretty u you are
an-eet, and elegant."
"And dreH well. Why don't yon call
me a fiixhion-plate at oneeV" laughed
Mra. Dene, genuinely nmuaed.
June bluahed and laughed, too.
"I nni a great bungler at description
Colonel l'rinnep had a better word for
you laitt night; he aald you were 'Inter
eating,' and that ia just what I waa try
ing to expreKK."
Mra. Dene walked away, smiling. She
hud regiatered a great reaolve, and waa
only eager to put it Into execution. Win
had determined to put away the reacrve
which waa growing habitual with her,
and strive to prove the truth of what they
aid; she waa going to try to lutereat her
huHliand.
Kite put on her prettiest gown, not her
roatliest one aoiuehow the word ele
gant" had rather nettled her. Khe did
not wlah to appear a merely Intelligent
nnd graceful exponent of the faahlona,
tint aa a living, breathing woman, who
loved her huaband as. much aa ahe w-iah-t-d
him to love tier.
As ahe gave a parting glance at herinlr
ror, ahe coiifcAned to herself that the cane
waa not Impossible.
Animation had given her momentary
beauty. Khc had forgotten all her fears;
but n she crossed the ground from her
dressing tent to the one in which they
usually sat, she saw something which re
called them with added force.
Colonel I'rinsep was galloping toward
her over the bare maldan, and some dis
tance behind him came a procession if
what she could not guess, for such a
cloud of dust was raised that it was Im
possible to distinguish any object clearly;
but she feared even yet ahe scarcely
knew what she feared. It waa some
thing too terrible to put into words.
She went to meet him, staggering be
neath the hot midday sun, and with
hands half outstretched as though she
would wrest the truth from him If needs
be by force.
"What is it?" she asked, In a hoarse
whisHr.
"Tliere has been an accident and we
want you to get everything ready," hn
Jiegati, trying to lead her thoughts from
what had already hapicno(l to what
might still be done. Hut he broke down
under her steadfast, agonized gate.
"Whowho?" she screamed rather
than sjhike. Then, as his hesitation told
her all, she added in a strangely quiet,
miitlle.1 voice "Vou need not say. I
know I have known all along. It is
(icrald it la my husband."
He stared at her helplessly, and was
relieved when the sound of a dress rust
ling over the dried-up grass struck upon
his ear. It was Jane, who, seeing from
the tent that something unusual bad oc
curred, hastened to join her friund.
"What Is It?" she asked, in her turn,
and threw her arm round Mrs. Dene's
waist, as though to 4tftnd her from th
reply.
To her be could girt more circum
stantial answer.
"It Is Captain Den, who unfortunate
ly has been wounded, Tbey arc bringing
blni In now."
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"Seriously wounded?" asked Jane
quickly, and felt from the pressure of
Mrs. Dene's hand that she had put the
question which Mrs. Dene herself would
have liked to ask, only that ahe was
afraid.
"I think not honestly, I think not
They have sent for the doctor, and he
will be here shortly."
"Would you like to know how It hap
pened?" asked Jane, gently, of Mrs. Dene,
and again was answered by a faint pres
sure of the hand.
She had laid her head upon the girl's
shoulder, and was gazing into Colonel
I'rinscp's face w ith earnest, tearless eyes,
hungry for all the news that he could
give.
"It all happened so quickly; I cannot
tell you exactly how it was. We were fol
lowing a large boar, and he escaped from
us, just us we were closing round him,
into a small patch of thick jungle. Of
course the coolies ought to have gone iu
and driven him out; but he hud turned
ujMin them twice, ami they were iu a
mortal fright of him. indeed it would
have been a dangerous attempt. Dene,
who had been riding splendidly, hud al
ready ieureil him; and as we" were dis
cussing what could be done he jumped off
his horse for no horse could have gone
in and rushed into the grass himself.
'I'll drive him out for you!' he cried, and
the next moment there was a quick, sharp
scutlle ami the pig rushed on. Larroii
and some of the men who were further off
and had not seen what had happened,
pursued and killed him, I believe; but
Valentine am) I went iu and found pour
Dene stretched on the ground senseless,
his shirt torn and the blood flowing from
his breast."
Mr.. Dene shuddered and hid her face.
"How soon will he be here'" the Col
onel heard her murmur.
"In another ten minutes. The men are
walking very slowly, to spare him pain."
1'hcy were Indeed coming witli a meas
ured trend that added solemnity to a
scene already sad. To Jane it looked like
a funeral, and Bhe prepared herself tor
the worst.
When they reached the wounded man.
his wife was comparatively calm. She
only glanced once at his pale, uncou
neious nice, anil aner unit im not ven
ture to look again. His band was hang
ing over the side of the rough charpoy
they had utilized as a stretcher, and
clasping it closely in her own, she w alked
beside linn.
Colonel i'rinsep met them to say he had
procuriil n risini in the hole , and then
they carried him, and nlmost at the same
moment tin- doctor arrived.
Then followed nearly an hour of expec
tation, mingled with involuntary fear,
during which time no sound issued
through the closed doors,, ami Mrs. Dene
-lnng convulsively to Jane, moaning ev
cry now ami then in irrepressible nain.
but with the tears still very far from her
burning, m-lung eyes.
then the door opened very gently, and
the doctor came out.
Mrs. J tone looked at him agitatedly, but
could frame no form of speech. It was
Jane who asked hastily If there was "any
nope.
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every nope. jnueed, alter a very
careful examination, I see no cause fur
fear, he answered, with a grave smile
full of kindliness. "There is a great
weakness from loss of blood, ami I dare
any he will have a bad lioiit of the inev
itable fever, but from the actual wound
he has received I apprehend no danger."
"Thank heaven!" cried Jan,., impul
sively; but his wife remained speechless
still.
"Ho only requires plenty of nourish
ment and very careful nursing, and that"
gallantly "I am sure he w ill not lack."
He took up his hat, and with a bow In
cluding both ludics, and a promise to look
In again that evening, he went out. Then
only did Mra. Dene make a sign that she
hnd heard and understood all.
"Oh, Jane, Jane!" she gasped tremu
lously; and her joy being more than she
could bear, she burst into a flood of pas
sionately happy tears. Jane, too, was
very helpful, and tried to save her friend
what she could.
Colonel I'rinsep admired her more than
ever In this chastened mood, and told her
once, as together they were busy over
something Mrs. Dene had given them to
do, that if he ever were In trouble be
should go to her for comfort.
The following morning Jane departed
under Colonel Prlnscp's care, and Mra.
Dene was left alone with her husband at
Cawnpore.
No man could have had more devoted
care than had Captain Dene during the
days that followed. He was not allowed
to talk, nor would his strength have ner-
inittcd It had the doctor been less strict;
but bis eyes followed his wife gratefully
as she moved about the room, uiul some
times aa she stood beside the bed he
would lay his hum! gently upon hers.
After a week the Improvement In his
condition was decided. The doctor now
came only once a day, and after one of
his visits made a sign to Mrs. Dene to
accompany him from the room.
'lour husband is certainly licttcr. Mrs.
Dene," he said, turning to her with a con
gratulatory smile, "I consider him out
of dnnger now."
She looked at him blankly.
"Do you mean that ho waa In danger
before?"
"I don't know frankly I confess that I
didn't know. I feared some internal in.
jury, for the prostration was greater than
the acute wounds seemed to justify. Hut
I must have been mistaken. Doctors are
anything but Infallible, though It does not
do for thelt patients to supsise so."
She had been very pale as the knowl
edge of the past danger was borne upon
her. Then a sweet solemn Joy grew into
her face aa sho realised that It was sur
mounted now that aba need fear noth
ing, and might hop much.
Directly the doctor had left she ran
back Into ber husband's room, radiant
with happiness which aha could not con
ceal from him, although aha busied her
self with a thousand thing to distract
bla attention.
At length he said In the feeble voice
that hail often brought tears into Lor
eyes, but that now, furtilied by this new
consciuiisness of safety, had no pi.-f.er to
sadden her: "If yuu had t.l n,e,
Nora," he added.
"I do love you I do love you! Oh, Ger
ald, don't you know? Can't you guess
what I have suffered all this time think
ing I might lose you? You are weak, yet,
darling," she murmured, fondly.
"Strong in your love," he managed to
articulate, as she bent lovingly over him.
No thought of Harry Larron disturlied
his reverie. Without staying to analyze
his reasoning, he knew he had no cause
for jealousy; he knew she had loved him
all the time him alone, although she had
nut know n It.
Presently before she could remon
strate with him he spoke. By an effort
he had steadied his voice. It sounded
wonderfully strong and clear.
"Wife, wife! How happy you have
made me! You have given me new life
with new hope. I think I must have
loved you although then I did not call it
love even before we married; and latter
ly it the love, Nora has grown deeper
and deeper every day. Now a paradise
seems to have opened befure us a para
dise in which you and I, Nora wife love
is this death?"
She thought he bad only fuinted from
exhaustion, and threw her arms around
him to support him, but as his head fell
heavily against ber shoulder she knew at
once that it was something more. The
one pitiful gasp for breath, the marble
pallor that crept across his face and then
the dead weight upon her breast, all com
bined to tell the terible truth.
He had died died so, in her arms, at
the very moment when life had become
precious and full of beautiful possibili
ties. Just as she had entered into real
wifehood she was bereaved. She was a
widow 1
CIIAPTKH XII.
The trust that .Mrs. Dene had put in
Colonel I'rinsep was fully justified. His
conduct to Jane during their journey was
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n ,,.,, , mucous uk sue woiini nave
wislied. .Most of his time was spent in
the adjoining compartment on the plea
of w ishing to smoke; but he enme to the
door of her carriage at every stopping
place to see if she required anything, ami
thut she was provided with plenty of pa
pers and some fruit.
"I am afraid I have not done my duly
to my neighbor," he observed, as he took
a seat, when Hearing the end of their
journey.
"That all depends," said Jane, "on
where one's duty begins and ends. You
have been very good in getting ine papers.
I have not read half of them yet, and the
mangoes were delicious."
l'.oth felt relieved when they reached
their destination. Jane had jumped from
the carriage before Colonel I'rinsep could
nssist her anil had tlown to her father's
side. She took his big brown hand in her
own, and clasped it as though she would
never let it go.
Mr. Knox was a little bewildered,
though flattered nt his daughter's delight
at seeing him again, in spite of the con
trast he must afford to those with whom
she had been. He looked down al her
with critical fondness. Was it possible.
In spite of the rapturous letters they had
received from her every day, that she
had not been happy with her line friends?
Hut when Colcncl I'rinsep came up lie
forgot these doubts in seeing his evident
consideration for June and attention to
her wants. Ami the child accepted his
civilities with such easy grace.
"Little minx! She has inherited this
Helf-sissession from her mother, whose
proper pride, as she herself calls it, is
generally equal to the most embarrassing
occasions." For his part it was as much
as he could do to keep his legs in n easy
attitude, and he had even more dillinilt
in refraining from giving a military sa
lute to his colonel, although in plain
clothes.
To escape from what he felt to be an
uncomfortable situation he moved away
toward the liiggiige-viin, swaggering in
his walk the more noticeably that lie was
not entirely at his ease. Jane looked
after him, and Stephen I'rinsep looked nt
her.
A moment later their eyes had met, and
Jane seemed to guess instinctively the
reason of his former imperturbability.
It was not because he did not care, but
because he cared too much.
And Colonel I'rinsep? He saw that she
had surprised his secret in the snme In
stant as ho had realized that he had a
secret to be colleen led.
After answering nt random her father's
questions for about ten minutes, th
knowledge that they were Hearing home
made ber hasten to open the subject.
(To be continued.)
Has No Credit System.
Arizona hns lots of things which tho
balance of the world can't boast of,
among which Gila monsters are pecu
liar. Rut, perhaps, the most peculiar,
and In one sense the most civdltalile
not only to Arizona, but to the world
at largo Is the conception of a Tempe
grocer of that territory. Ho won't
give credit. That Is the Inexorable
law of bla grocery Htore.JIo tells ev
erybody to come and buy for cash, aud
when his cuatonr-rs tell hltn they have
not got the cash, he tell, them In his
good-natured way: "Cull nt my coun
ter and get it, and tlie-.i buy w hat you ,
want." Tho funny part of the business
Is that he does just what he savg he
will do. nnd this Is how he docs It: A '
customer makes out a list of the things
lie wants. It Is submitted to the cash- :
ler. The cashier nlflxcH the price to '
each Item, adds up this amount, makes
out ,i promissory note for the amount,
,.. ui.ti.i tt lo (!,, ,.oul,t,.,..H ,1... '
tonier signs It, then without discount
the customer Is Kiven the amount In
cash and told to go forth Into tho store
and buy the K(mh1h be lias Inscribed on
his list Thin Tempe grocer bus solved
a lung-lost problem, one which the groc
ers will, In all probability, be only too
glad to Jump at It gives them a prom
issory note and does away with that
Infernal nuisance of open debts which,
under the laws of this and other States,
It takes so long to recover on, with the
chances of no recovery. Los Angeles
Times.
Th lover, women complain, does not
always survive In the husband. But
Is it not equally true that tlie sweet
heart does not always survlvo In tho
wife? Ladles' Home Journal
Idolatry was thus termed from two
Greek words signifying "the worship
of Images." Idolatry la not to t coo-'
founded with Paganism.
I
He Made a Mistake.
When I'tau Hill struck tbls town the
orher day he figured it out that he bad
a soft snap. After getting good aud
ready be rolled up the ten spot of hearts,
thrust the card Into the muzzle of a
gun, and then presented the gun at the
head of the cashier of our local bank
and demanded that his check be cashed.
That sort of bank business used to
work In 'Arizona In rlie good old days.
CASHlE R
"THltrST THE CARD INTO
OK THE GUN.'
THE MUZI.LK
but has been played out for several
year. Utah Hill meant well, but was
way behind the date. About the time
he asked for cash be got a bullet In
tho shoulder from the canhler, and as
be ran out of the bank the president
shot him In the leg. Nobody on the
street knew Just what Hill had been up
to, but about a dozen men had a crack
at him, on the off-chance, and when the
ftmoke cleared away he was dead, with
seventeen bullet boles In him, and an
hour later wan resting In bis narrow
grave. Ills being shot saved him from
being hung, and ho he hud nothing to
complain of on that score. lie looked
like an Intelligent man, and how he
came to be twenty years behind the
times we can't understand.
A Word from the Mayor,
A mayor of this town we have never
attempted to put on airs. Our ofttee
in the town hall has always been open
to all, and when out with the boys we
have been one of them. The time has
come, however, for a few plain words.
Presuming on our good nature, the
gang bus turned our oflice Into a loafing
place hud has become altogether too
familiar with us personally. Monday
afternoon, we us mayor were entertain
ing the mayor of Salt Lake In our of
fice, when half a dozen of our people
walked In and made themselves so thor
oughly nt home as to excite the strang
er's surprise and disgust. They refer
red to us as "old man" and "bully
boy," and cocked their feet on our
desk and helped themselves from our
official demijohn. We shall not strain
after dignity, but this sort of thing
must stop. As a critter we are no bet
ter than other critters, but aa mayor
It Is expected that we maintain a cer
tain reserve towards the common pub
lic. We ahall begin next Monday morn
ing to take on this reserve, and the
man who attempts to turn our public
office Into a bar room will be picked up
at the bottom of the stairs with more
or less bones broken.
. Newspaper Enterprise.
During the last six mouths The Kick
er has purchased a new paper cutter,
two fonts of Job type, a can of blue Ink
and $10 worth of pink paper for poster
work, and not a word of boamlng has
appeared In these columns. A little
thing happened the other day, however,
"THE KrSII.t.ADK LASTKDTKN MINUTES."
which we want to brag about, and
which we think equals anything In tlie
way of New York or Chicago enter
prise. At 2 o'clock In the afternoon,
Col. Joe Smith sent us word by messen
ger that we were a slouch editor and
must stop his paper. Our mule was out
at pasture a mile away, and our guns
needed cleaning. It was twelve miles
as the crow fllea to the colonel's ranch,
and yet at half past 3 o'clock we were
there. The fusillade between us lasted
ten mlnutea. It took five minutes more
to get the colonel to subscribe for three
extra copies to send East, and four or
Ova to water our male and tighten the
amddle glrtba. At exactly 6 o'clock we
were back at The Ktcker office tod
booking the new etibecrfpttona. Thna,
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II 1 -s
ill
in three hours, n-e cleaned twe guns,
run a mile after our mule, rude twenty
five miles aud bad a tight lasting ten
minutes. We don't admit that this It
the best we can do, but until some other
critter beats It, we shall rest easy.
J. Johnaou, Iiecea.ed.
Three iuunthu ago a man who wrote
his name as "J. Johnson," and claimed
to hail from Chicago, dropped down ou
this town, bought 1,000 acres of cactus
land at twenty-five cents per acre and ' ltiou 4ud tl"; '''Jt ot the o--ial set in
then proceeded to organize the "Great ' ?bk? he ov.e-- . KT tW0, T.
, 1 has been a sick girl from wterual trou-
estern Grazing and i rult Syndicate." , bles peculiar to women, and having re
The capital was placed at $1,000,000, ' eeutly recovered, has given our reporter
and shares at $25 each, and Mr. J. John- i the following interesting account:
son offered to put up money that every
shareholder would receive a dividend
of 40 per cent per annum. We refused
his advertisements for The Kicker, aud
last week were hunting up data to ex
pose blm as a swindler when be sud
denly disappeared. He went away
Wednesday, and Sunday morning his
dead body was found on Wolf Creek
by one of the cowboys of Big 4 ranch.
Mr. J. Johnson bad been shot In the
head. Furthermore, It has been defl
nitely ascertained that a buyer of his
stock came all the way from Wisconsin
to plug him. Some men went out from
Pine Hill and burled the body, and no
effort Is being made to find the murder
er. The chap who locates here to put
up a swindle on the public may get
away with some cash bixxlle, or be may
fall asleep to be tucked away under
the sod. If hp wants to take chances
we've nothing to say.
I'eace Returns Supreme.
Two weeks ago our esteemed fellow,
townsman, Maj. tillroy, lost control of
himself while speaking of Col. Baker,
another esteemed citizen, and charac
terized him as a liar and a horsothlef.
When the Colonel heard of thjs lan
guage ho lost his usually placid temper
and called the Major a eow-stealer and
n bigamist Theu both sent word to
each other that they would shoot on
sight and during the next ten days the
public momentarily expected to hear of
a tragedy. We seldom meddle with
such affairs, but In this case we were
requested by numerous friends to en
deavor to bridge the chasm. Three
days ago we bridged It. We got the
Colonel and the Major together in Jim
Buck's saloon and disarmed them as a
starter. The Major had called the
Colonel a liar and a horsethief. We
have the records of both men, and It
bsik us only a minute to convince the
Colonel that he stole a horse in Indiana
In 1SS7, and that bis general reputation
around town was that of a liar. We
then turned to the Major and satisfied
blm that he stole a cow In Illinois five
years ago, and that be married a second
wife Iu Nebraska last year without get
ting a divorce from his first Both gen
tlemen had told the truth about each
other, and ns wsm as this fact was ap
parent they shook hands and made up.
Tliere will be no shooting no gore.
The horsethlef has forgiven tlie row-
stealer, and the bigamist has extended
the hand of peace to the liar. It is well.
Detroit Free Press.
Kditor of tho Arena.
The olfice of the Arena Is on Copley
Square, Boston, in a building that
fronts the new public library on one
side and the church of the late Phillips
Brooks on another. I had never be
fore met H. O. I-Tower, tlie editor of the
Arena, and was curious to know what
manner of man is making that queer
and radical periodical. I found a pale,
slender man of about 40, with a pair
of searching black eyes looking through
big, gold-rimmed spectacles the pallor
of the smooth face heightened by tlie
muss of black hair that crowned the
head. He is not a solemn sort of fellow,
however, as this description might
lead you to suppose, but Is a
very bright and entertaining talker,
with a wholesome vein of humor
for seasoning to his radicalism and bis
Intense seriousness on questions touch
ing social and political reforms. He be
lieves In a powerful but peaceful revo
lution, which Is to begin In the West
and Is to work out a new currency sys
tem, state ownership of all natural
monopolies, new relations between cap
ital and labor, checks on the enormous
accumulation of wealth In a few hands,
and a golden age of Justice, temperance
and leisure for tho laboring classes.
The Arena has a devoted constituency
of readers scattered all over the coun
try, who regard Mr. Flower as the
apostle of the "good time coming."
Some people call It the "Cranks' Re
view." It certainly Is a vehicle for put
ting a great deal of crude aud wrong
thinking Into print, but no man who
wants to keep well-informed on the In
tellectual and spiritual drift of the
times can afford to miss reading It
K. V. Smalley's Boston letter to Chicago
Times-Herald.
Good News Condensed.
One of the curiosities of tlie cable
code method of sending Information is
shown in a recout message announc
ing the loss by Are of a ship ut sea, Tbe
whole message wiia conveyed in three
words of Scott's cable code: "Smoul
dered, hurrahl hallelujah!" "Smoul
dered" stands for "the shin has been
destroyed bv fire:" "hurrah" for
saved by boats," and "hallelujah" for
"all hands saved Inform wives and
sweethearts." New York Tribune.
Didn't Want, to Buy Flic.
A country woman stopped some few
minutes in front of a store In Spring
field, Mass., to gaze at a patent fly-trap
In operation, which was pretty well
filled, and after studying the placard,
$2 intently, moved ou, after paplng
out: "Tew dollars I I wouldn't give tew
cents for all the flies In Springfield.'
Equatorial Speed of the Rarth.
The velocity of tbe earth at tbe equa
tor, due to Iu rotation on Iu axis, la
1,000 miles per hour, or a utile In 8.0
seconds.
WOMAN'S WIT.
TOLD BY A SOCIETY GIRL.
Bonethioa About Morphine! Balphar,
MolaMnec nnd Other Tbintf.
From Ote Eceuiuf A'etoj, .Yerari S. J.
Among the popular society leaders iu
East Orange, N. J., Km ma L. Stoll, a
charming young maiden, stands in the
fort-moot rank. Mie is of a lovable dispo-
lusitrau ui iiiipruviug uuuri ujr uuv VI
my physician I became worse. For live
weeks 1 was unable to get out of bed and
about six o'clock each morning 1 suffered
horribly. My lips were sore and lacerated
from the marks of my teeth, for in my
efforts to keep from screaming 1 sunk my
teeth deep inU juy lips. At such times I
rolled and tossed until the bed shook like
an aspeu leaf and it finally got so serious
thut the doctor I won't tell you his name
gave me some morphine pills to take.
The very thought of them makes m
shiver. These morphine pilis simply put
me to sleep for a while, aud when I DC-,
came conscious again my agony was re
Dewed. "The pain in my stomach and back waa
more than I could stand. 'Your blood ia
poor,' said the doctor, 'take sulphur and
molasses,' aud 1 did until it was a great
Wonder that I was not a molasses cake.
It was time wasted in taking it because I
was not benefited in the least: my suffer
ing continued, but by a mighty effort after
being in bed so long, I got up. Oh, but I
was a sad sight then. From 112 pounds
I had fallen to ninety; my cheeks, were
pale asd sunken and I limped; yes, ac
tually hobbled from the extreme pain in
my side. Then 1 read of Dr. Williams'
Pink Pills for Pale People and the testi
monial in the News inspired me with hope.
1 got the pills and took them. Before
many days 1 began to improve and before
I had finished one box 1 felt as if I could
go out and walk for miles. 1 soon stopped
limping and through the Pink Pills I soon
bid good bye to my headaches, while the
pain iu my stouinch anil back slowly but
surely succumbed to the influence of these
pills that seem to be able to persuade all
Imin to leave one's body. Now I am as
used to be; well anil strong. light-hearted
and merry, but never without the pills.
See, I have got some of them now," and
from a nearby desk she handed out one of
the boxes.
Dr. Williams' Pink Pills contain, In a
condensed form, all the elements neces
sary to give new life and richness to the
blood and restore shattered nerves. 1'ink
Pills are sold in boxes (never in loose
bulk) at 50 cents a box. or six boxes for
$2.50, and may be had of all druggists,
or direct by mail from Dr. Williams Med
icine Company, Schenectady, N. Y.
How Ants Kill a SiiBkj).
That ants can actually kill snakes is
4 bard thing to believe. There is irre
futable evidence, however, that they
do, and scienfist have discovered that
tbe snake has hardly a more dangerous
enemy. The large red-brown forest
ant is the sort that, is most, fatal to the
ophidians, and a curious thing about
the attack of these tiny creatures on
this comparatively enormous reptile is
that they kill It for food and not on ac
count, of any natural antipathy.
When some of the ants catch sight of
a snake tbey arouse the whole com
munity at once, in platoon ard ba'
talions the little fellows set upon the
repille, striking liuir nippers into 1 s
body and eyes at thousands of
points at once. So rapidly and con.
certedly is this done that the snake has
no chance at all of escaping. It is like
a thousand e'ectric needles in him at
once. The snake soon becomes ex
hausted and dies ignominiously.
Then the ants set harder at work.
This may seem a strange story, but it
is true. They begin to tear off the
flesh in small pieces, gradually strip
ping off the skin and working inside of
it. Not until they have carried away
everything except the bones and the
skin itself do they leave it.
Hall's Vegetable Sicilian Hair Renewer
is, unquestionably, tbe beit preservative
of the hair. It is also curative of dan
druff, tetter, and all scalp affections.
The Uraat Odd Fellows' Temple.
The great Odd Fellows' Temple in
Philadelphia, which cost $950,000, was
recently dedicated with imposing cere'
monies. This monumont to odd fel
lowshlp is nine stories high. It is situ
ated on B.oad street. Oflices for the
grand officers of the state are 'on the
ground floor, also an auditorium 98
feet by 65 feet and 40 feet high, with a
seating capacity of 1,200. Directly be
neath is a drill hall of the same size,
except in height. On the second, third,
fourth and fifth floors are 105 offices
for rent. The remaining stories will be
devoted entirely to the order. Four
lodge rooms are upon each floor. On
the ninth floor there are two encamp
ment rooms, which contain many new
and novel featutes for conferring de-,
crees. A roof promenade, command
ing an excellent view of the city and
surrounding country, is provided.
Canton Springfield was asked to par
ticipate in the dedication early last
summer and has lately been permitted
to extend tbe invitation to all Patri
archs Militant in the eastern states,
which will insure an immense at
tendance. No man ever worked honestly with
out giving some help to his' race.
Kuskin.
No man backslides while be Is prais
ing God with all his might
A man (n earnest about bis soul will
be in earnest about everything he does.
Why We Are Behind Europe.
The countries of Europe were for
tunate In haying a system of roads as
tablished long before tbe invention of
the steam railway. In tbe Untied
States tbe rapid extension of railways
has canted the roads to be neglected.
Good roads art essential totbeproe-
Klty of rural districts, aa tbey pro.
to local oommeroe and tend to maka
be people baiter acquainted with one
another. Thomas W, Kmtm, fcaw
York City.
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