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Meadow HARY J. CEiRU XIX it WM (U Bsght before tUO one ap fwtnted for th bridal, and Id thy solitude of her chamber a yoaag girl wept in the Utter hopelessness of depir. At tk marrow' early dawn he would be ther to lalaa her m hi bride, and though k wu noble tad good, than u In aar heart no answering chord of love, and aha know that without auch !vra '.hair union would bo oakery. On tha tab! at har aid lay har bridal draaa. tha gift of Biehard Dalaflald, who, without a shad ow oa Ma brow, or a wavering in th tonaa of hia to lea, had aakad har to ac cept it w a token of the aataam ha shoold cvar feel for har. Alaa! poor Roaa. a your taara foil Ilka rain upon the oraag wraath which aaaraad to mock your woe, bow little did you dream of the angolA It coat tha donor to aay to you tha word ba did, or that your Borrow waa naught compared to hia. , Slowly the houra of night wore away, and aa tha moon rose higher and higher in the heavens, her raya fell upuu the bowed form of Roaa, who, with clasped handa and bloodless cheka, aat praying, weeping, thinking, and praying again, until at laat there came over her trou bled epirit a ealm which ere long reolv ed ltaelf Into a fixed deetrmination. "Ske would tell him all how ahe lored Richard Delaneld, and how, though that love were hopeleaa. ahe could not cull an other her huaband." And he would re lease her ahe knew he would. It waa atrange how calm thia resolu tion made her. Riaing up from the crouching posture ahe had assumed in the flrat abandonment of her grief, ahe walked to the open window, where ahe atood gaxing out upon the atarry sky, until at laat, aick and faint with the weet perfume of the night air, ahe turn ed away, and shuddering, ahe knew not why, sought her pillow. It waa now the firat of June, and in that Southern clime the air waa always hot, aultry and laden with diaeaae. For two weeks a fearful epidemic, whose nature the oldest physician did not understand, had been raging in the towna adjoining, and many who in the morning rose up full of life and vigor, were in the evening no long er numbered among the living, ao rtpid waa the work .of death. In great alarm the terrified inhabitants had fled friin place to place, but the destroyed was on their track, and the "brain fever," aa it waa termed, claimed them for ita victims. As yet there had been no cases in Cheater, but the people were in daily dread of ita arrival. Mrs. Lanaiug, on the contrary, though uaually alarmed, even at the mention of a contagious dia eaae, expressed no fear, and went n with the preparations for the party, un conscious of the dark cloud hovering near. But when on the morning succeed ing the night of which we hare spoken, ahe heard, in passing Rosa'a door, the aound of some one talking incoherently, while at the same time a negro girl came rushing out, exclaiming: "Young miss naa now got cae Drain irrw, anu buu ravin' mad!" aha fled in wild alarm to the furthest extremity of the building, and gathering her frightened children to gether, with Ada, around her, ahe called to the terrified Bervanta from the win dow, bidding them go for ber brother and tell him aa ha valued hia life not to venture near the infected room, but to haaten with all speed to her. And j women would do all tnat was necessary; there, trembling, weeping, and wringing ! it wasn't like leaving her alone with her handa In fear, the selfish, cold-heart-; Lr. Clayton, for there were a dozen able d woman atayed, while, .parched with bodied females in the house to wait nxm fever and thirst, the suffering girl lay her." moaning in her. pain; now asking for "And if she dies?" suggested .lesxie; water to cool her burning brain, and but her mother would not hear to reason, again clasping her thin white bands con- and urged on by Ada, who was no less rulsively upon her brow, aa if to still its frightened than herself, she ordered out agonized throbbings. the traveling carriage, which soon stood But one there waa who did not forget, before the door. In her excitement Mrs. Lsnaing faik-d to She would fain have had ber.brother notice tha absence of little Jessie, who accompany her, but she knew it was lue going fearleaaly to the bedside of her less to propose it. Still, she would a-e beloved teacher, gently bathed the aching him before ahe went, and ber waiting head, and adminiatered the cooling maid waa sent to bring him. draught, while with childiah love ahe "I'll go. Let me go," said Jessie; and kissed tha aaben lips, and ernoothed back ere her mother could detain her, she was the long tresses which floated over the balf way there. pillow. In tha hall below there waa j Entering the room on tiptoe, she gave th aound of footatepa, and the bride-. her uncle her mother's message, and groom's volca waa heard, asking for hia ' then stealing up to Rosa, wound her bride, but hia cheek blanched to a mar- j arms round her neck, and Inying ber ble whitenea whan told that ahe was dy-jsoft, warm cheek caressingly againet the Ing in the chamber above. In a moment white, thin fact of the teacher, wept her he had her in hia anna bla precious j last adien. They would never, nnvvr Rosa dying dying he believed, fur he, j meet again, for ere the summer Honors too. had beard of the atrange diaease, and ! were faded, one would he safely in the he thought there waa no hope. With a ! boaom of the Good Shepherd, who wou!J bitter cry he bent over the unconscious girl, who knew him not, for the light of reason waa obscured and darkness was upon ber vision. "Can nothing be done? Ia there no help?" he exclaimed wildly; and little Jessie, awed by his grief, answered, aa abe laid her soft, white hand on Rosa's forehead; "God can help her, and maybe Uncle Dick can. I mean to go for him;" and gliding noiselessly from the ,-oom, ahe was soon on ber way to Magnolia Grove, looking, with her golden curia floating over ber bare white ehoulders, aa if ahe were indeed an angel of mercy. e e e e e Alone in hia library aat Richard Dela field, his anna resting upon the table, and hia face buried in hia handa. All the night long he had aat there thus, mu tag sadly of tha future whan ah would be gone and he should ba alone. Why bad ahe eroeeed hia path that litth, bumble girl? and why bad ha been per salrted to love bar ao madly, or to dream of a tlsne whan b could eall ber "his own. his Roaa, hi wife?" Again and fata be repeated thee war to hlmaelf, and then aa he thought wheee aba would It when another ean ahoald bate act, he gioaasd stood, aad hi daaaaMag too. triad eat, "Hew eaa I gtro bar spr Tbe sua bad rteaa. mi, atoaggllag feMfh th rVabif nrlsJail tbkw, fail tpm Ma bowed bead; b U Hi aet rd k. Ce waa asm! at laat, aad ia I l AmiaM asthsr thaa Da. CUa t J afalswd few tot kit hatts, ovaa " Mr, aad wta a tsar ha laid bar to ; Ci, aad barttl bar arts tos raft ' ''-tr radar aad (ba vtkbst atae jiwlMflm twite v r 'ww jasr-l tt wfca . J to ft w viae Clek, Brook HOLMES fuver, and there ia nobody to help har." With a firm tp and cotupoaad nar-nor he want with Jasale to Cedar Grove, going Immediately to Roaa'a chamber, where, for a moment, ha atood appalled at tha scene before him. She had fear fully changed since laat ha aaw her, far tha diaeaae had advanced with rapid strides, and now utterly inaenafble, and white aa the wintry anow, ahe lay with har head thrown back, and her lipa apart, while her handa nervously picked at the bedclothes around har! Many a time had Dr. Clayton heard that thia waa a aura omen of death, and though ht had ever laughed at it aa an old woman's whim, he shuddered now aa be aaw !t in her, and bowing hia head upon the pillow he wept like a child. For a moment Richard Dela&eld stood gazing upon the apparently dying girl and the weeping man, who aeemed wholly Incapable of action; then rousing himself, he want in quest of the black women, commanding them In a voice they dare not disobey to come at once to the sick room. He had heard that nothing but violent and on tlnual perspiration had aa yet been rf any avail in auch extreme caaes, and calmly giving orders to that effect, he himself aasisted while the hemlock and the bottles of hot water were applied, then, administering a powerful tonic, he bid Jeeaie go to her mother, while he took his station at the bedside to watch the result. Quieted in a meaaure by the cool de meanor of hia companion. Dr. Clayton, too, aroae, and after hurriedly pacing the room, thuse two men, the one with hi fair, handsome fsce stained with tears, praying earneatly that she might live; while the other, with dark, lowering countenance and wrinkled brow, stood with folded anna and firmly compressed lips, struggling to subdue the evil pas sion which whispered, "Let her die! There will be a comfort in weeping over ber grave, and knowing that she ia not the bride of another." Ia the meantime Jessie had been mifa ed, 'and a servant dispatched to find her. But this the woman failed to do, as she was then at Magnolia Grove, and Mrs. Lansing was about venturing to go in quest of her, when she appeared saving "she knew Miss I,ee waa dying, she look ed so dreadfully." "Jessie child!" screamed the affright ed Mrs. Lansing, shrinking from the lit tle girl as if she had been a loatbim thing. "Have you been there in the room?" Without any attempt at concealment, Jessie told what she bad done, and when her mother exclaimed, "You are a ilead child," ahe answered, fearleasly, "I am not afraid to die." Juet then the negro who had been sent to the village for the family physician returned, bringing the new that the feVer had broken out there the night be fore, and that in one family two were already dead, while a third waa thought to ba dying. In the utmost dismay, Mrs. Lansing now announced her intention of leaving the place at once and fleeing for aafety to her brother'a plantation, which was distant abont twelve miles. "And leave Miss Lee alone? Oh, mother!" aaid Jesaie, beginning to cry at the unfeeling desertion. But Mrs. Lansing was determined. "She couldn't help her at all if die atayed," abe 'said. "And the colored It s! her in green pastures, and beside the still wsters of the better land. "Bury her under the tall magnolia, a little ways from father." was Jessie's last injunction to Dr. Clsyton, whose tears burst forth sfresh, for not till then had he thought bow he must leave her alone in that far South land many miles aivay from ber native bills, and that to him would be denied the aolace of weep ing over her early grave. It waa In vain that Mr. Delafield at tempted to dissuade his sister from go ing. Hhe would not liaten, for their live, ahe aald, were all endangered by remain ing in town, and aa sever I other fiml Ilaa were going to leave, ahe ahonld fol low their example then bidding him haaten to them tha moment Rosa waa dead, she entered her carriage arid" waa driven rapidly away, followed by Hal bert and two or three negroes on horse back. 1'nfeellng aa thia proceeding seem ed to Richard, he (till experienced a Ben in! ion of relief at the s been re of tbe family, and thinking they would proba bly b aafer at Tbe Plnea than at Ceiar drove, he returned to the chamber above, where Roaa atlll lay, ia the earn death like nnconecion las, perfectly atlll ssv when a movement of tbe bead or a falat moan told hew aba evsTered. Tbe eieefc la the ball etraek the boar of eleraa. aad then, with a feeble amaa, the sick girl withdrew bar baad froaa beneath tha eeverhsg, aad wfcaa tbe stent man toak k wttbJa hat ewa forced ef Jaw , far It waa There waa waa to loll to Ma aataanSa; hat tbe aM Bm sai-lag ba had la Ml kaaasa, Waparad, "aet back aa sottt w bee, as tbagesd rot cat wagarr Soon, however, eaetr' . this thought aside ; aa unworthy af him, he aaid, "Look op. i Dr. Clayton ; aha li better. She may live. 8M" aad lifting the damp hair from her brow, he pointed to the dewy drops which stood thickly upon it "Thank hear so!" waa Dr. Clayton's exclamation, and beading down, he aaid, "Roaa, my predooa Roaa! She will live, and yoa have aavad her," he contiooed, advancing toward the dark statue, whoea hand he pressed to hia Up. "To you the credit la doe, for you worked when despair had rendered me powerless to do It; but now I am strong. I am my self again, and if I have any skill It thai) ba exerts la her behalf All that day and night they atood ever her, applying the remedies aaid to be meet aaacleat in caaea of tha kind, and when the next morning came ahe waa unquestionably better, though atlll in great danger from a tendency of the diaeaae to the lung, which, however, waa leas to bs feared than ita return to tbe brain. Very carefully and tenderly they watched her, and had not Mr. elaAeld been blinded by her supposed love for another, he must havs seen how much more readily ahe took thinga from him than from Dr. Clayton, following him with her eyes whenever he moved away, and seeming much more quiet when he was at her aide. By the cloee of the third day she was nearly free from the brain fever, but much fear waa felt by Dr. Clayton laat It ahould assume the typhoid form, which it did ere long, and then for three weeka ahe raved in wild delirium, driving Richard Delafield from her presence, shuddering when he came near, and begging of Dr. Clayton, whom ahe called her brother Charlie, "to send the black man with bia ugly face away." Thia atate of affairs was amoet intol erable to Richard, who, if he bad lored Roaa before, felt that ahe was tenfold dearer to bim now, and ao, though be dared not come in her eight when awake, be watched by her when ahe alept, stand ing over her hour after hour, and endur ing with almost superhuman strength the care which Dr. Clayton could hardly be aaid to ahare, ao absorbed waa he In grief at the thought of loalng her at laat. Thus the days wore on until her frenzy abated, and she sunk into a atate of ap athy from which nothing could rouse, not even the sight of Richard Delafield, from whom she no longer shrank, but for wbom she seemed to hsve conceived a kind of pity, asking him sometime "if he hated her because ahe did not love him, and telling him how hard she bad tried to do so, "but could not, and that lie must go way and leave her alone!" And all this while It never occurred to him that she fancied he waa Dr. Clay ton, though he did marvel at her never mentioning ber affianced husband, in whose arnja she would fall asleep, and whose hands ahe would kiss, cslling hlra Charlie, slid asking if he bad come to carry her home. Matters were in this state when one day, toward the dusk of evening, he was aurpriaed by the appearance of Halbert, who aald that the cholera had broken out at The Plnea, and he must come ira medistely, adding further, that hia moth er and Ada had both bad it; that several of the blacks ware dead; and that the man who two days before had been sent to Cedar Grove, had died upon the road. Greatly alarmed for the aafety of hia people. Mr. Delafield atarted at once for The I'lnea. CHAPTER XX. The house which Mrs. Lanalng termed her country residence for he alwaye spoke of her brother's poasesaiona aa her own waa a large double log building, containing nothing very elegant in he way of furniture, but still presenting an air of neatness and comfort; for Aunt Dinah, who had charge of it, prided her self upon keeping it neat and clean, aa ber master was likely to come upon ber at any time without warning, and she iiked to impress him with her rare .juali fieations aa housekeeper. With Mrs. Lan sing, however, she waa less plessed; but still, as the sister of "Mars'r Riehnrd." she was entitled to consideration, and in high turban and all the dignity of her position, the old lady bustled about from room to room, jingling ber keys, kick ing the dogs, curling the woolly pste of any luckless wight who chanced to be in her way, and occasionally atonplng down to kisa little Jessie, who, being of rather a domestic tnrn. followed her from place to plscc, herself resisting In spreading the aupper table, which, with ita anowy cioth, corn cake, iced milk, hot coffee and smoking stesks, soon presented a most In v '.ting aapect. Relieved of their fear and thinking themaelvea beyond the reach of danger, Mra. Lansing and Ada gave themaelvea up to the enjoyment of the hour, talking and laughing gayly, without a thought of the aick girl they had left behind, and who that night waa to have hsen a bride. Once, Indeed, when after sunset they were aaaembled upon the rude niaaxa, Ada apoke of her. wondering if she were deed, and how long it would be ere Dr. Clayton would marry another. Such la the world, to which Ads formed no ex ception, for how often do we hear the future companion of broken hearted man elected even before the wife of his bosom Is removed forever from his sight. For a long time Mra. Lansing sat there with Ada and her children, talkln.: on in different aubjects snd occasionally con gratulating herself that fbey were beyond reach of the fever, unless, indeed, Jessie had contracted it by her foollah careless ness. On her Isp rested the little golden head of the child, who was humming anatchea of "The Happy Land," a favor ite song which her ancle had taught her, and which she had often sung with her teacher, aaklng numerous questions con cerning th better world. Very nsturally now her tbonghts re verted to her governess, and as ahe list ened to the whispering wind sighing through th trees, she fancied It wa the voice of Rosa bidding her "come to the happy land." Sweet little Jessie, It was the voices of angel children which jou heard thus calling through the pines; for from their shining ranks one beateous form waa miaaing, and they would fain allure R back to Ita native sky. Come I dow to the saddest part of my story. Beneath the evergreena of the Beany Sooth la little mound, over which the thlalag aura keep watch, aad the eypreee aeroads It long green bough, while the oblldroa of the plaatattoa. dart-browed though tbey are, tread soft ly soar that grave, which tbey dally strew with towers, apeahiag la low teatee of "tha Aagal of The Plnea," aa they tens tbe fair jrwaag girt who parsed ao asjddoalr rma tbev astdet It waa i aw 000117 iva wash stoee Mrs. Leasing had ure abated la the village, there weso still frequent esses, snd sbw would Bog have deemed it safe to return, area If typhoid fever, which she feared nearly aa much, had not been In her own house. Bo there waa n" alternative but to stay, uncomfortable f ough she wss, for the weetber was Intensely hot, snd she miss ed many of the luxuries of her home. Still, it wae healthy there, and this in a measure reconciled her to remain. Occa sionally, it 1 true, be heard rumors of the cholera on some distent plautatiou, but it seldom visited the pine regions It would not coma there: she was sure of that; and secure in thia belief, ahe rested in otparati're quiet, while each day the heat became more and more tnteoee. The snn came up red, fiery, and heated like a furnace; the elonda gave forth no rain; th brook were dried up; the lsa-ee withered upon th trass, while the air waa full of humming Insect, which at night fed upon their helpless, sleeping vtctlm. (To be continued.) WEDDING PASSERS-BY ENJOYEE. CM Urea Caeored ste a Brideesneld Waved Uoeee le the Atv. A wedding gave great joy one day this week to many who were not direct participant In the affair. The bride home waa in a big apartment "bouse not far from Madison aijuare. Tbe cer emony waa to take place In a near-by church late in the "afternoon, half an hour before tbe bridal party waa ready half a dozen carriages were driven up to tbe apartment bouse. One of them waa drawn by a team of smart little piebald nag; the driver flourished a whip from which waved a knot of white satin ribbon. Aa soon aa the passers-by saw thia emblem of festivity they halted and In almost no time a lane of peering, ainlllng wo men, girl and men formed from the entrance to the curb. It was through thia lane of faces that the bride passed presently. She wa ail In white with a long white veil, and carried a big bunch of tbe cuatomary llllee of the valley. A faint murmur of admiration arose from the crowd as she tripped barer1 beaded across the broad aldewalk and was asalated Into tbe carriage oj a gray-haired man. She was dlgnlfled but conscious withal; her escort wa vlalbly embarraaaed; th two bell boys who kept the lane clear bristled with Importance. When the bride's carriage had driven away tbe rest of the wedding party filled the other car riages and the procession moved to tha church. But as a concession to the hundred of smiling people, says tbe New York Mall and Exprea, one of tbe brides maid a roguulah miss yet In ber teens waved a big bunch of roses from the carriage window as she waa whirled away. Their fragrance float ed through tbe sir and there wa a chorus of "Qh's!" and surreptitious cheers from the children. And then tbe pageant having disappeared, th crowd melted Into the duak. THE FACE AND THE COLLAR. Key Bfeane hr Which a Stoat Ma Mar Make lsaeelf Look Thia. Men who do not want to look any fatter In the face than they can help have an eaay meana of accomplishing their purpoee. Not all of them axe aware of the effect that may be cre ated by the form of a collar or cra vat. "The stout man who wa"iU to look a thin aa he can." aald tbe baber daaber'a clerk, "ought to wear a tie of the kind known aa a four-in-hand. Preferably it ahould be dark In color and drawn tight. That carries down the line 'of the face and lengthens It to a degree that tend to make tbe face look thinner. "Another aid to making a man look thin I Is tbe height of hi collar. Some stout men who want to look tbln ahould wear high collar and closed ones. Any collar that open in front makes one look touter under nearly every circumstance. Such collars are becoming to thin men. "The fat man ahould avoid the klud of tie that has a horizontal effect. This will add pound to his appear anceIn bis face at least. "On the contrary, this cross effect will make the tblp man look stout The broad plastron acarfa, as they are called, hare little effect on a man's look one way or the other. When he wear them It Is the collar that makes tbe difference. "lie should then-fore see that he weara a high one that does not open, If he wants to look aa tbln aa possi ble, whereas If ho wants to wem stouter, an open collar will produce thnt effect for him." New York gun. An KaoUtlca! View. Hhe (after tbe stolen kiss) How dare you! He Now don't get angry. You en couraged me by puckering up your lips. She I was going to whistle. He For belp? She N-no; for luck. He Well, wbat better luck could you aak? Oats Were Blootrocsiied. Th tawa of Winchester, Mass., la now a I moot entirely bereft of cats. Tbe superintendent of the state fowl batcherr, fladlng that the ' animals wrought great havoc among hlo poul try, Hied up wires and at night ran a powerful electric current through thorn. Dtu-haf, tha past two years over 300 cats bar been alectrocuted. ory rather (vlalUac aaa at college Pratt good Hgaaa yoa waoho, my boy; I aaat afford dgara Hha those. aa 1111 yaar ease, dad; Sll year Barrari iasaws. Chat yoa thlak ho to uythJ. asd ho Lot ywar hay haa trC aa( mmotm The University of Zurich Is about to establish a chair of Journalism. A flock of ostriches at Phoenix. Aria., now numbers more than 1,000 birds. The United State baa 78,000 poet owmVes. Germany la next with 45. 1,23. and tret Britain third with 22, 400. Golden eagles are Increasing la the Scottish highland, owing to the ef forts made by large landowners for their preservation. Flower growers in th South of France and other favored clime find It profitable to send the producta of their skill to British markets. The navy, which give England the eupremacy of the seas, costs $156, 000.000 a year, or a little more than tbe United States pays In pensions. Berlin ba now a "bachelors' club" divided Into small flats, with smok ing and dining-room In common, where single men can live at moderate rates. The number of theological students In Germany has diminished gradually from 4,287 In 1830, to 2,149, or less than half, although the population has doubled since 1Jn30. Oregon spend for the education of children $12 a year per capita; Col orado. $11; Illinois. $11; California. $10; while Kentucky eipends only $3.32; South Carolina, $1.39; Missis sippi, $2.06. The Patron-Your picture Isn't bad, but the drawing's a bit off, Isn't it? Tte Artist How's that? The Patron Why, the clock says ten past ten, and tbe right time now is a quarter to four. Plck-Me-Up. The United States la almost a goat lese country compared with others, and the Importations of goatskins, young and old. aggregate $3.54X),0O0 a yeAr which reprewenta the aluugbter of 17,000.000 gvata and kids. IlMll lately children under fourteen used to pay half fare on the Vienna tramways, but the rule baa been alter ed so that any cblld above three feet and one and one-half inches In height will in future have to pay the full ,fare. Kiug Leopold of Belgium never wears glov. He Is very proud of hia hands, which are perfect In shape an4 appearance, and on which be spends a great deal of time. HI beard also comes In for a large ahare of attention. That low lying territory of tbe Mis glaslppl should at times be overflow ed Is not surprising if one considers that tbe "Fathers of Waters" draws supplies from twenty-eight States, draining one-third of the area of the United States ! The Brooklyn bridge has lost place as one of the wonders of the world since the building of the Williamsburg steel bridge, a mile farther up tbe Baat river, and the bridge now build ing to Black well's Island will be more wonderful than either. Captivity changes animal's nature. A lion captured when It 1 full grown will always be trencherous, but Hons, tigers, leopards or other carnivorous animals that hav'e been born In cap tivity can be tamed till they are as Ken lie and affectionate and aafe as poodle dogs. There are In New York City to day 1.320 millionaires, as againat 2U4 twenty years ago and twenty five In 18M. There were no millionaires In the city 100 years ago. The first per son to reach that distinction waa John Jacob Aslor, who became a million aire about the year 1820. Breaking away from a wagon at Rbeiuis, France, a horse dashed Into a passing motor car, and leaped Into the back seats. Tbe c'lauffeur waa struck by Its forelegs and thrown Into the road. Paasers-by were treat ed to the novel spectacle of a horse driving alone In an automobile. The Berlin newspapers tell of a wonderful bnby giant which was re cently brought by his parents before the medical faculty of that city for examination. He Is tbe son of a baker at Drlevera. and, although only eighteen months old, stands three and a half feet high. He measures thirty six Inches round the chest. The difficulty In damaging a war balloon In midair was recently shown by teats made In Austria. The experi menters snehored a balloon at a height of 7,000 feet and had gunners, who had not been given the dlatance, to try to disable It. It rerulred twenty-two ahota to find the range, even approximately, and not until tbe sixty-fourth round was tbe balloon hit. That each ring on a rattlesnake's rsttle represents a year of the snake's life I a popular but an erroneous be lief. As a matter of fact, a new ling develop every two or three months, and the snake, by the time It died, would have sixty or seventy rings at least, were It not for the fact that when the rattle becomes unduly long, accident break It off, either wholly or 1b part NO DIAMONDS, NO FIXIN'fc Tale Beireee Bad a Use tmw Aavlkiat; awl o esse. TTboy mt crowded into a narrow aoat a a Wabash aveaoe grip ear. Ho was . Urod-loeklng man with a babe la bla inaa; sate waa a Urod-kaoklag llttia ww- -Aiat yoa a gtod we're goia' to gat it, aha aaid, with bmtj tattha- slastn than any one would over haw suspected her of having stored awaj In ber auaemlc-looklng body. "AisTV you glad we're goln' to get HT" ahe went 00. "Juet think, $3,000, George, and it'll all be our own." George grunted. "Ain't it grand, $3,000?" ahe repeat ed. "I can flx up the barber abop a little now, I guewa, and you can get a dia mond If you want it," the husband aald, aa he shifted the sleeping babe from one arm to the other. "No, we don't flx up no barber shops and f doa't wear no diamonds. We're going to hang on to that $3,000 like it waa ail tbe money In the world." "I know, but I could make a lot more money If the ahop bad a few of those factory flxln'a. Flxln's draw a trade." "Ye, but George, you don't get any flxln'a with my money. It waa my pa that died, and he didn't leave no $3.- 000 for barber flxln's, and I'll b thinkln' a long time afore I aay buy any flxln'a with my $3,000. I'm goln' to buy us a home, and there won't be any fancy flxln'a. I want Just a plain little home." "Ain't you even goln' to buy a dia mond V aaked the husband in astonish ment. "No, I ain't a goln' to buy no dia mond." "Well, you're the funniest woman I ever saw. Now that we're rich you. don't want to do a thing with the money. I wish your pa had never died and left u anything." The wife said something as tbe two go off the car. It was something about diamonds, but she said It In a way to let those who beard her know thaf she didn't hanker much after any of Klmberly's gems. Chicago Inter Ocean. It Waa True. After All. The penalties of being "too smart" are sure and always unpleasant. Stray 8torles gives a new Instance. Tbo clever young man was wandering up and down the platform of an Engllshi railway station. Intent on finding a a empty carriage In the express which4 was almost due to start. His search wag In vain. An Idea, which he considered very clever, oc curred to blru, and assuming an offi cial air, lie atalked up to the laat carriage and cried In a stentorian voice, "All change here! Thia carriage la not going!" There were exclamations, low but deep, from the occupants of tbe crowd ed compartment; but nevertheless they scurried out of the carriage, and packed themselves away In other parts of the train. The smile on the face of the young man was childlike and bland aa he settled himself comfortably In a cor-) ner of the empty carriage and lighted' a cigar. "Ah," he murmured, "It's a good) thing for me that I was born clever! 1 wlah they'd hurry up and atari." Presently the station-master put his head In at the window and aaid: "I s'pose ydu're the smart young fel low who told the people this carriage wasn't going?" "Yes," said the clever one. And he mulled. "Well," aald the station master, with a grin, "you were right; It Un't go ing. Tbe porter heard you telling the people, and so be uncoupled It Ho thought ycu were & director. Girl Miller of Ferklomea. On the IVrklomen River, mar Val ley Forge, Is a flour m'Ji which has the distinction of being owned and op erated personally by the only woman miller In the United States. She I hardly even a "woman miller," for she is only 17. Mlas Sallle Frelehler, the girl miller, is her own master entire ly, makes her own rules, does her own biiaiuea. keeps her own books and car ries on ber own correspondence, obey ini; nobody's orders but those of her customers. She played In the mill as a child, and, as she grew up helped her daddy, and, half uncotiacloiiMly and half with thought of the future, learned the miller's business thoroughly. When he died there was no oue elae to car ry It on, so Miss Sallle look his place. For two years now she has oper ated the mill entirely aloue, only call- I11K In aaiilstflnce when there Is s heavy load of rye to be taken In or a large Invoice of flour to be shipped.1 She Is at work before sunrise In wls ter and keeps hard at It all day. And she seems to like the respon sibility and the clean dollars her work brings In. She caters to one of the richest farming communities In Penn sylvania and the community likes ber and helps her to get along. Benldes being a thoroughly capable miller, Mlas KaUie has Won another sort of reputation In tbe last year and, a half. The farmers round about, con aider her an expert on rye In all Its atages, from the seed U the vrouod product. rrleadlr Criticises. Crltlcus Rsy, what waa your Idea of painting that picture of a fried egg In a hayloft? Do A uber Why, you Idiot, that pic ture represents a sunset la the Rocky Mountains. Crltlcus Well, I don't think much of tbe sunset, but tho mountains are certainly tho rockiest ever. Ah Aooalred HaM. Mra. Oramarcy-Do ron akhak t ta Intentional slight aa tha part a( airs. newncBi Mra. Park-Why, aa, my hasn't booa a lavdr iaw kaaw how t ba rada.-ryak. Tho hlladsass of jaatlsa raat bar Craa wtaklssj at ksw terar , aad thwagh It had la a Mao-