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BY CLARA AUGUSTA
international PRESS association.
CHAPTER XVT— fCoirrmtran.)
"She give* me up! Margie renounce*
me! Stranger* we muat be henceforth!
What does It all mean? Am I Indeed
awake, or la It only a painful dream?
He read the few llnee of the missive
a third time. Something of the old
dominant spirit of Archer Trevlyn came
back to him,
. "There la some mlsunderstan >*•
Margie has been told some dire false
hood!” he exclaimed, starting up. "I
will know everything She shall ex
plain fully.”
He seised his hat and hurried to her
residence. The family were at break
fast, the servant said, who opened the
door. He asked to see Miss Harrison.
"Miss Harrison left this morning, sir,
in the early express,” eald the man, eye
ing Trevlyn with curious Interest.
"Went In the early train' Can you ,
tell me where she has gone?"
"I cannot. Perhaps her aunt, Miss ,
Farnsworth, or Miss !,ee can do so.”
"Very well;" he made a desperate ef
f >rt to seem calm, for the servant's ob
servant eye warned him that he was
not acting himself. "Will you please
ask Miss Lee to favor me with a few
minutes of her time?”
Mias Lee came Into the parlor where
Archer waited, a little afterward.
Archer, himself, was not more changed
than she. Her countenance waa pale,
•ren to ghastliness, with the exception 1
of a bright red spot on either cheek,
and her eyes shone with such an un
natural lioht thuf ffl/Pli Arf’htfT fib*
a orbed as he waa In his own troubles,
n nlced It She welcomed him quietly.
iu a somewhat constrained voice, and
relapsed Into alienee. Archer plunged 1
• r once upon what he came to ascer
tain.
• The servant tells me that Miss Har- 1
rl-ion left New York this morning. I
am very anxious to communicate with 1
her. Can you tell me whither »be has
gone ?"
"I cannot. She left before any of the 1
f itnilj'-’were up. and though she left 1
notes Sot both her aunt and her busi
ness agent. Mr. Farley, she did not In
either of them mention her destine- <
tlon.” 1
‘ And did she not speak to you about 1
It?” - 1
‘‘She did not. I spent a part of last 1
evening with her. Just before you came. 1
but she said nothing to me of her In- 1
ten tlon. She was not quite well, and *
desired me to ask you to excuse her 1
from going to the opera.”
“And did you not see her this morn- j 1
tog?"
“No. 1 have not seen her since I left 1
her room to come down to you last
night. When I returned from my Inter
view with you, I tapped at her door—
la fact, I tapped at It several times dur- 1
lag the evening, for I feared she might !
be worse—but I got no reply, and aup- !
posed the had retired. No one saw her
this morning, except Fiorlne, her maid,
and Peter, the coachman, who drove
her to the depot.”
“And she went entirely alone?”
“She did from the house. Peter took
her In the carriage."
“From the house! But after that?”
he asked, eagerly.
“Mr. Trevlyn.” she said, coldly, “ex
cuse me.”
“I must know!” he cried; passionately
grasping her arm; “tell me, did the set
out upon this mysterious Journey <
alone?"
“I must decline to answer you.”
"But 1 will not accept any denial!
Miss Lee, you know what Margie was to
me There has arisen a fearful mis
undapotandlno lipluonh ltd T mildt
have U explained. Why will you trifle j
with me? You mutt tell me what you
know.”
“I do not wish to arouse suspicion,
Mr.Trevlyn, which may have no founda
tion to rest on. Only for your peace of
mind do 1 withhold any information 1
may post-ess on the subject."
"It is a cruel kindness. Tell me
everything at once, l beg of you!"
"Then, if it distresses you, do not
biime me: Peter saw Mr. Ixtuls Cat- |
tranl at the depot, and Is confident he
went in the same train, in the same cur
with Miss Harrison "
"Castrani! tlreat Heaven!" he atag
gorad into a chair. "la it possible?
Margie my Margie, that I thought so >
good and pure and truthful, false to me!
It cannot cannot be' 1 will not believe i
nr
"l do not ask you to," said Alexan- j
Irina, proudly. "I insinuated nothing !
I only replied to your question "
Pardon me. Ml*s Ism i am not
qutta tuyseif this morning I wilt go
now. I thank you for what you have
laid tot and trust it wilt alt he ex
plain* I
I trust SO, ausweie.l Miss tar turn
ing to Ivors the room
dtay a moment! To what depot did
P«*tor drive her?"
"The Northern, t think he anid "
1l»«in I thank yon. and good mnrn
tal*
Ho hurried away, got lain the first
so sad h* a me neruae, aad was driven
top|s Northern depot
f|a vs* somewhat acquainted with
Main hrt agent, and oaaumtag an non
.-natest an air aa was puealhle ta bta
proqfiat uteiur hod state, he strolled la to
ikte«i>r after a little ladtVweat
ooaVeor' tea he aaid
“*y the way. Hat»l« do yea haoe
□d, the vanag t'uhao oho
he heads al so ataay of our
doase aa* a as telitag toe
Mi* morning'
Yea I Utah oo Ha did
leave for the north this morning In the
early express. I marked his baggage
for him. He had been hurried so In
his preparations, he said, that he had
no time for It."
"Indeed? It’s a bore to be hurried.
Where was he checked to?”
"Well, really, the name of the place
has escaped me. Home little town In
New Hampshire or Maine, I think. We
do so much of this business that my
memory Is treacherous about such
things.”
"Were you speaking of Cnstranl?"
asked Tom Clifford, a friend of
Archer's, removing his cigar from his
mouth. Deuced fine fellow! Wish f
had some of his spare shillings.
Though he’s generous as a prince.
Met him this morning just as he wua
nomlng down the steps of the Astor.
Had to get up early to see after that
•onfounded store of mine. Walker's
oo lazy to open It mornings."
"You met Mr. Castranl?" said Archer,
■eferrlng to the point.
“Yes. He told me he was going away.
Woman somewhere mixed up In the
:a*e. Hald he expected to find one
wmewhere well, hanged If I can tell
where. There's always a woman at
he bottom of everything.”
"He did not mention who this one
was?"
"Not he. Hut 1 must be going. It’s
tearly lunch time. Good morning."
Trevlyn stopped a few moments with
Hr. Harris, and then went back to his
‘ooms. He was satisfied. Hard as It
was for him to believe It, he had no
nunr Hiimiiuivt?. wu 111 in •*,
ind she had gone away from him under
he protection of Casiranl. He could
lave forgiven her anything but that,
f she had ceased to love him. and had
ransferred her affections, he could still
lave wished her all happiness, if she
lad only been free and frank with him.
But to profess love for him all the
while she was planning to elope with
mother man, was too much! His heart
tardened toward her.
If there had been. In reality, as he
lad at first had supposed, any mlsun
lerstandlng between him and her, and
he had gone alone, he would have fol
owed her to the ends of the earth, and
lave had everything made clear. But
ia It was now, he would not pursue her
in Inch. Let her go! False and per
ilous! Why should her flight ever
rouble him?
But though he tried to believe her
worthy of all scorn and contempt, hts
leart was still very tender of her. He
dssed the sweet face of the picture he
lad worn so long In his bosom, before
le locked It away from his sight, and
Iropped some tears that were no dls
lonor to his manhood, over the half
lozen elegant little trifles she had given
l^m before he committed them to the
lames.
There was a nine days’ wonder over
Miss Harrison's sudden exodus. But
ler aunt was a discreet woman, and It
was generally understood that Margie
bad taken advantage of the pause In
the fashionable season to visit some
llstant relatives, and If any one coupled
ler flight and the departure of Castranl
together, It was not made the subject of
remark. Alexandrine kept what she
knew to herself, and of course Archer
Trevlyn did not proclaim bis own de
sertion.
For a week, nearly, he managed to
keep about, and at the end of that time
he called at Mrs. Lee’s. He wanted to
question Alexandrine a little further.
The Idea possessed him that in some i
way she might be cognizant of Margie’s j
destination. And though he bad given {
me gin up. lie luiigcii desperately 10
know if she were happy. He had felt
strangely giddy nil day, and the heat of
Mrs. Lee's parlors operated unfavorably
upon him.. He was sitting on a sofa
conversing with that lady and her
daughter, when suddenly he put his
hand to hts forehead, and sank back,
pale and speechless
In the wildest alarm, they culled a
physician, who put him to bed. and en
joined the severest quiet. Mr. Trev
lyn, he said, had received a severe
shock to his nervous system, anil there
was Imminent danger of congestive
fever of the brain
Hts fears were verified. Archer did
not rally, and on the second day he was
delirious Then the womanly nature
of Alexaudrlne Lee came out and
asserted Itself She banished all at
tendants from the itek room, and took
sole charge herself of the sufferer Not
even her mother would she allow to take
her place When tempted by Intense
weariness to realgn her post she would
take that atalned glove from her bosom,
and the sight of It would banish alt
thought of admitting a stranger
"No," shs said to herself, "people In
delirium sprah ot their moat cherished
secrets and he shall pot criminate him
self If he did that l*f rlhte dead, only
I at all the world can bring a shadow of
i -uspi iou against htm, and the atcret
I shall ns vet he revealed to ony other
I do she oot the long doya and longer
| nights away hy the side of this wan sk<
loved so hopel*salt bathing hts fevered
1 brow, holding hts patched hand and
: ling‘ting fogtUy ever the Hushed ith
I tuns, tun* face
I Ho «rah tone* sod lower day hi -lay
so vary Ww tn« the phtsMaa sold h«
could do no mute lie moot leave tp«
case There won nothing lot It hut It
anil with patience the nothings ot no
into
At lost the day come a hen the ta*
lags of delirium subsided, and a dewdli
stupor Utiertoned It was ths erlots u
the disease. The sundown would de
cide, Dr. Orayson aald: he would be
better, or death wonld enaue.
Alexandrine heard his opinion In
l atony silence. She sat by the bed's hea 1
| now, calm and silent: her powers of
self-control were Infinite. Her mother
came In to watch for the change, as did
several of Archer's friends, heretofore
excluded. She was not afraid for them
to come; there was no danger of Mr.
Trevlyn criminating himself now. He
had not spoken or moved for twelve
hours.
The time passed slowly. The sun
crept down the west. The ticking of
the watch on the stand was ail that
broke the silence of the room. The last
sun ray departed—the weat flamed with
gold and crimson, and the amber light
flushed with the hue of health the whits
face on the pillow, Alexandrine
thought she saw u change other than
that the sunlight brought, and bent
over him.
His eyes unclosed be looked away
from her to the vase of early spring
flowers on the center-table. His lips
moved. She caught the whispered
word with a fierce pang at tier heart:
‘‘Margie”
The phyaldan stepped forward, and
sought the fluttering pulse His face
told hla decision before his lips did.
"The crisis Is passed. He will live ”
Vea, he would live. The suspense
was over. Alexandrine's lubors were
shared now. and Archer did not know
how devotedly he had been tended —
how he owed Ills very existence to her.
IIa mAnilAd xtriwlv but tiv the middle
of May he wan able to get out. Of
course he was very grateful to the Lees,
and their house was almost the only
one he visited. Alexandrine was fit
ful and moody. Sometimes ah" re
ceived him with the greatest warmth,
and then she would be cold and dis
tant. She puzzled Archer strangely
He wanted to be friends with her. He
felt that he owed her an immense debt
of gratitude, and he desired to treat her
as he would a dear sister.
Perhaps It was because time bung so
■heavily on his hands, that Trevlyn
went so frequently to Mrs. Lee's. Cer
tainly he did not go to visit Alexan
drine. We all know how the habit of
visiting certain places grow upon us,
without any particular cause, until we
feel the necessity of going through with
the regular routine every day. He
was to blame for following up this ac
quaintance so closely, but he did it
without any wrong Intention. He
never thought It possible that any one
should dream of his being In love with
Alexandrine.
But the world talked. They said It
was a very pretty romance; Mr. Trev
lyn had been deserted by his lady love,
had fallen III on account of it, had been
nursed by one whom of course he would
marry. Indeed, they thought him In
duty bound to do so. In what other
way could be manifest his gratitude?
Vague whispers of this reached Trev
lyn's ear, but he gave them at first little
heed. • He should never marry, he said;
It was Hlnftil to wed without love. But
as he saw Alexandrine’s pale face and
strangely distraught manner day by
day, he came to feel as If he had In some
way wronged her, though how be did
not exactly understand.
One day he entered the sitting-room
of Mrs. Lee with the freedom of a priv
ileged visitor, without rapping, and
found Alexandrine In tears. He would
have retreated, but she had already
seen him, and he felt that it would be
better to remain. He spoke to her
kindly.
"I trust nothing bus occurred to dis
tress you?” She looked up at him al
most defiantly.
"Leave me!” she said, impetuously;
"you, of all others, have no right Lo
question me!"
“Pardon me!” he exclaimed, alarmed
by her strange emotion, “and why not
I question you?”
“Because you have caused me misery
enough already—"
;to hi COXTfXUlD.)
POSTOFFICE SECRECY.
Againal th« Kulm for I.etterCarrlrni Im
(ilv« A«l<lrrate*.
It la not generally known that I'nclt
Sam looks upon the address or where
abouta of one of hla citizens aa an In
violable secret. Such, however, ia the
case, sa.va the New York World.
A New Yorker who had been out of
the city for aonte time found upon bia
return, a few days ago. that one of hit
intimate friends had changed hie real
I deuc e without leaving hia exact new ad
' drew. All be could gather waa that
hia friend now lived In a Hat oo the
north aide of a certain street.
When be arrived at the block tu qttes
I lion he found to hla dismay that every
house In it waa a Hat house, lie would
| have to go from door to door until be
I found hla friend's name over otto of
I the door-bells.
He bad not proceeded far when be
met a letter carrier making bin usual
| delivery. Here he ihuught. waa th«
man who could save him a lot of tint*
snd trouble
"Yen. sir," replied the postman. In
response to his query. "I know tbi
party very well llut I am sorty M
ray I cannot give you his number It U
sgatnat the rules."
The same secrecy la ob««i>s4 at tU<
peat uflh-e The poalhl address of any
I buoy will not he given by ihe fcdefO
authorities even to a state oMtrer Thlc
rule la to accordance with Ihe genera
I princ iple Ihst n man » dealings will
j the gut.c ament are nf n conhdsattal ha
i turn.
tsingOH* St MuSSt. Meet.
Morale hours tsld with email piece
i { of dilTerent colored stone, in i eg via
patterns wsrs known to the hgypitan
|*oo H t' In McsbyhM hoar# af thi
bind Anted front IIW H C They set
common In the Athenian and Hama
II hsaasa
DIANA AND Tfl£ SPIDER.
--——
The ‘‘Band. Oiiaaet and Meant" la a
society recruited from au exclusive dr- j
cle of Nob mu’s youthful matrons. It
meets through the winter, with aggra
vated activity during Cent, at house*
of the members. "First tlanuels to the
Indigent;” Its symbol, a thimble, or,
crossed by a pulr of seissors argent,
on a background of tlanuel gules, sur
mounted by a h|h>oI of thread cou
chant.
The denture maid who serves lioull
Ion, Uni uud chocolate to the society's
fair Dorcases lieu is tales from every
ipiurter of the globe, of life lit the sum
mwr colonies along the New Kiiglaud
coast, of yachting cruises through Nor
wegian fiords in the yellow wake of
the midnight sun, of walking lours lit
the I/uncles and camping trips In the
mirth woods. Mhe knows her planet
Is-iicr than ninny whose orbits are less
circumscribed, and can safely lie telled
upon for information regarding elk In
Oregon or salmon In the Columbia, the
proper time lo hunt (he gristly in As
miuIIkiIu, and the relative merits of the
Amluiiislun donkey and his twin brotit
er the itocky imiuiitalu burro.
After serving the UradaiiMUtu of the
I soeluty with it clip of lea uud a cuvulr*
sundwleh, she retires to a dusky eor
ner of the room, refilled the lump under
the brazen kettle, uud rearrange* the
Dresden cups uud saucers uud the
Jewel mounted spoon* liyxili the Usik
wood table.
When the 11 ulTy-haired Mrs. Jack, tin
society's president uud the hostess of
I l liu i iinii/u, i/i fitiin lit i nu/i j m"'
a lull iu the talk, which the wind 1111m
in with it neatly executed arpeggio,
Mrs. Jack's mouth droops in wistful
curves, and beside her eyes au llifuut's
would seem unsophisticated.
“Jack intjjt 1 must go wn- aim to
.1"' . but I siiall never dare to look
a tiger in tiie face, after my experi
ence on the Big Muddy.
Mr*. Jack * adventure* have famil
iarized the society with Tin Cup, Big
Bug. Bumble Bee and Medicine ilat.
But the Big Muddy offers delightful
Helds for speculation, for It has not yet
fouud a place on any map. und its
only high roads are ! lie half -obliter
ated trails left by tie- l ies when they •
unwillingly departed for new hunting
grounds.
“You remember I lie Idg-horn I shot
after Jack and tin* guide* bad tracked
him for ten day* over 1 lie Uuttlesnuke
range iu Wyoming?" Mia. Jack con
tinues plaintively.
'I lie society remembers the Idg horn,
as well as the giant shark ill the Mex I
lean gulf; the mountain lion and the 1
cinnamon bear with the amber eyes
picked off by Mrs. .lack's rifle In the
Han Franelsqulto mountains. The Idea
of her not daring to look a tiger In the
face under any circumstances taxes
the credulity of the society Was site
ever known fear, ever quailed before
beast, bird or Hsh this modem Arte
mis?
When she accompanies iter husband f
on bis hunting expeditious she wears
the woods’ autumn livery leaf-brown
tied scarlet au abbreviated skirt and
leggings of brown corduroy, a scarlet
leather shirt wiilt tdk's teeth for but
tons. a bat festooned with trout and
salmon flies and shining leaders. A
cartridge belt girdles her slender waist
with its depending revolver and hunt
ing knife.
It Is remarkable that Mrs Jack lias
escaped the cinnamon's embrace, and
bruin might well tie pardoned such au
Indiscretion.
“Jack has always said that my phys
ical courage first attracted him. But l
ltfld never confessed to him that there
was one test to which I should he un
equal. It came on the Big Muddy.
Listen:
“We were camped in the quaking
aspen. Snow had fallen, and the elk '
were coming down You could hear I
them bungling ou every sid” just be
fore dawn. It is easy to stop a baud
I of elk as they pass tier your ramp by
) imitating their call upon an empty
1 cartridge shell 1 have learned the
I trick, and Jack bad no hesitation iu
permitting me to choose my own trail
•me morning and follow it along afoot
In* anil the guides m*i»ttfriii^ In other
directions. The taste of the emup cof
fee wa*i null upon my lips; my cheeks
tingled with the frosty hreiitli of tin*
morning nfr ns I kept cautiously to
windward of the elk. whose trumpet
lug stirred me like martial music.
"A stray Uttr track showed here and
! then* In the fresh snow. Itui I was
after elk A hundred miles lay In*
: twi'i'U our camp milt the uearest si Itle
I luclll Ah, tile Solitude Ilf those
w-nls!"
Mrs. .lack leans bn> k in her elmlr
snd stglis reiiilnlsicuit) .is stn* mixes
i Into the blnxtlig hearth lire, a ctuirmtug
pli tun' In her house go cm iif old blue,
brightened w ith the gleam el |‘i ishiu
embroider). Interwoven with uncut
i Jewels
"I had gone three miles, perhaps
1 four, nwr fallen spruce up tin • n •
I side of a ragged mountain when,
crash, aerosa to) trail iiiiih* a tin ml
I elk ben.toil I.) a i.sutil'e to *oi||
*1 ‘rout king behind a tsiohl ■». I w sit
| is I I liavs* w illicit so often to lily
ga in* I non Alaska to tin* gull (a >
sun that t lutvt sc u noire Ibau In i ait
' «vi r hope to see if to* lit on to Is* a net*
dtcil. fit tie ml waa stead.* la* k ofteu
gets bitch leter I never it . I hath
! .I, Ittsoate sue The elk • aloe |„., ml
Ibe *itllb*l and i|r»it*|s*it l**a.l without «
struggle Ittn. og tbs* trail as I te
trwiett It low»nl tlo* * amt* li r tin- isa
II an mi.11>> I saw tttai I Itei. n. . o**w
twar tracks I was tea out that day
l for bear .uni I did tea are to • •*oo*
u|»>u mte abate sltbougti I tool te*
j it...light of sbitk ui. tbe ere*wo»ti*r am
It tot. ol upon tto*
1 **A bear lu a l*"ar t*U ■« * «t«*<tsy
erv i'me la the gi«*| te* cts.llhrss.ee
your a ilw* i rat toft by bis • lever 'i.i.o,
.if ,.s*riwg *b* g.ouel witlw*m typir
ertl >*ttoti I to* *um> t ss.ii *t. - u • t
ahead of ws was lUWttwMlH gal >tig bln
' j a toiei h »r tmebt«-weed b'ogrwwtwg
■ ha alisfaute Wtwevu ws el • rapid
1 rate
i btwdhMdy I uwlutfel my sell ly a
i «bo» el Mm. strut tug (*•• shoulder tie
, lamed wpou we with a r*s»i af pais
Ai llmr Instant T needed all my nerve.
This time 1 chose a tree for oover and
waited. He came on, without a halt,
straight towards me. 1 tired again,
missing him. I was Just about to try
the third ahot when the test came of
which I have spotaen."
•The test?" murmurs the society,
breathlessly.
'The lest to my courage to which I
had always felt I should be unequnl.!
Tbe thing I dreaded In my forest wan
derings with .Nek.”
"What?" the society demanded, with
one voice.
"I had raised my rifle, when 1 felt
something fluttering In my hair. 1 fan
cied a leader had slipped from my bat
rim. Oh, horror! It was a spider! -and
ns I shook my bead violently to dis
lodge It, It struggled Into my car.
"Ilmvo never been conscious of hav
ing IIred tbe third shot. Homcbow I ho
rifle wfis discharged, and by tbe same
chance the bullet laid the bear low.
T fa 1 tiled .and when I came to my
self I was lying across tbe bear's body,
with six nlrange men aiandlng around
me.
•Ten thousand holler factories were
at work In my brain. 'Hear tbe
noises?’ I cried. 'Will no one stop
them?*
"And now comas iho strangest part
of the story.
•The engineer of Jack's yacht once
got a mosquito In his ear. It drove
him quite mad before we could tlnd a
doctor. He bung over the yacht’s
side, held by six of tbe crew, begging
for death. When the doctor arrived
ti|K»n the scene lit1 Middled a handker
chief wet with ether, to the man's ear,
quieting tbe mosquito's struggles and
restoring the man to sanity.
T believed myself in the man's
plight; stark, slating mad, when, upon
lids peak of Darien. 500 miles from an
ambulance and surgeon. I beard one of
the men to whom I bad so wildly up
pealed, reply, quietly: nave no rear,
madam; you are In safe hands: we are
all doctors.'
"They deluged my ear with water
from a pearly stream, which they
brought In a tin cup. Finding the spl
iler still nnauUlU 'd, one of the doetors
inked for a hypodermic syringe. Fife
were Instantly proffered. An ley ar
row penetrated, seemingly, to the seat
)f the gray matter, still wlihout effect
nI*at the spider, whose pernicious act
ivity caused me Indescribable agony.
“ ‘Fiber Is the ofily remedy,’ I said,
at last, and as coherently as I could,
repeated the story of the engineer,
•* lother,’ cheerfully returned the doe
:or who whs attending me ‘why. of
•ourse. Brown, fetch out that ether
lottle,' and If Brown did not produce,
'rom the depths of Ills waistcoat pock
•t, a small bottle of ether, may I he In
,i,mily retired from the presidency of
,ur society. It transpired later Mint
drown wu* a physician with an alien
iobbv entomology and carried ether
with him everywhere 10 anuestlilk* his
►pedinen*.
"In an iuntant relief came such a j
Messed relief a* only one who has
lassed through an experience like mine
•an appreciate.
"The rest of the story Is soon told.
When I gathered nyseif together the
ilx doetors presented themselves to
ue with due formality. They dined
hat night In our camp on my elk.
“.lack was tin roughly ashamed of
ne. For what did the elk and bear i
natter, with the memory or the spider I
resh In our minds?
•No, decidedly," Mr*. Jack repeats, |
s the maid fetches her a second cup of
ea. I shall never dare to look a tiger I,
n the face, after my Waterloo on the j
dig Muddy. It would have been a
denning legend for my tombstone—
Ids:
"due
Fo whom the forests were an open
book:
Who Joined to Diana's darrlng the skill i
of her spear,
Lies here
Slain by a bug ,u hei ear."
—Han Francisco Argonaut.
THIS TOUI W tt % TOPICII
imlard In n Tree. Hr Absorbed m
llultlr nnil Its Content*
These toad stories, or rather theooin
>|nation toad and-run stories that ara
list at present keeping the Maine So
lely of Veracious Tall Varnlsher*
deasantly occupied, reet-lved lids adill
ion from an artless raconteur In I*ort
and. lie says that he and Ids father
were wandering again among the old
lioice-sccnes In Hiram, when suddenly
the father remembered that sixty two
rears before, he had. for a boyish
|irank. stmt a toad In the cleft of a ma
de tree along with a three-ounce bottle
if old rum that he carried t<> the held
for the purpose of nerving Ills lioyish
mu. When, among the Hood of old as
UiudiilL.tiy licit It'll Vll ikf full. Ilitli' I'O
mciuhrancc rogardlni; »!»»• dead tond
i-iIifiI over lilin. i he old irontlemnn
sought oul the maple. All! then It
stood! Tlie wiNiiliimn had spared the
tree llitt the hark had closed over the j
cldt. mid then- mu HO Sign linn any
tond laid olllee hour* there from 12 to
12 nt that place. Hut the sou Itorriuved
n hatchet directly descended from the
one lleurne Washington used to carve
the cherry free with, mol, with the imv
tc ran I Unger isilutlau treuddlngl.tr,
hacked Into the umph- trunk
Ti e cavil)- was opened and says Hie
narrator. “we spiting ittrijr In horror,
hut from the luittotu or It was the head
of n blinking land llh* f»ve feet were
nt the sides, mol as we looked he
stretched himself uiul crawled lo Ihe
frufl of Ihe Imt • We hadn't strength
enough to slop him ns he Icafied over
the led lie Into Ihe river and was mil of
lem h We seats lied a long lime for
him. toil lot a Hai'c could Is* found
We would have given a gissl tnanv
dollar* to Ivave Waved him. hut It wrna |
loo late Tim «pt -slloti we wtstied lo j
solve la still u tat swrered The tistd |
I,ad swallowed the huU|». Imt hml he
derived am liem-nt from Hie I Upon
contained I herein'4' There ts • h-artv
no i|ttestlon aa to Ihe truth of the
«t,art for there la the Hole In the wate.
whete the toad lumped lo fvrviVe lt|
tail the reuiletnau w no so ptcaaawll.v
twrmiea it tut* evkh-mlt missed the
|s,tnt There i*n I Ihe least ihmtu that
when Ihe Maine prohibitory law was
• iso'll the toad made loo.o il t etal
deputv aud prvwwpHv rind the li.ptct
amt alorvsl II, according to the statutca
made and provided that a the hunt
of iiwid He waa lewisloa Journal
ts« Mat T»et that Wat fatsdat
t\ inks Itnl <“U have a gtwsl thin
real viday V
ttioka ttf lUWMe I did l**M» I Vow
SMI lew used up I *Wi MiltWIPlI
loirvtsl
Trans-Mississippi Inventteo#
Omaha Nebraska, June 27, 180U. —
Anion gut the Trans-Mississippi invent
ors who received patents the past week.
Messrs. Sues A Co., Uulted States Pat
ent Solicitors, Be# Building. Omaha.
Nebraska, report the following: Dan
iel Harmon, Davenport, Nebraska,
road grader and ditcher; Clarence H.
Jmlson, Council Bluffs, Iowa, card
shooter; (leorge l.amoa, Fort Madison,
Iowa, gas engine; (leorge D. Foster.
Preston, Iowa, portable corn ahoclr
press; .John H. Nelson, Omaha, Ne
braska, drink mixer; (leorge R Perk
ins, Schuyler, Nebraska, photographic
tank; Hans U. 8i«h, Millard, Nebras
ka. Improved combination cart, and
Conrad Stroebel, Omaha, Nebraska, re
versible plow.
Amongst the curious inventions Is
sued the past week are found the fol
lowing: a machine for weaving cross
wires in wire fences; an electrical en
ergy indicator; a fodder bundler; a
button hole sewing machine; an anti
train robbery aparatus; an improved
pencil for arc-lamps; a mechanism for
converting continuous rotary motion
into alternate rotary motion; a pneu
rustic tire alarm; a bicycle skirt com
prising attached bloomers; and a spring
actuated saddle post for bicycles
A copy of any of the. above patent#
will be mailed upon receipt of 10 eta.
t he ltl#i-hwater stele
Nebraska hits been termed the Black
water State The explanation of this
poetical nickname is found in the fact
that the water of ‘he principal stream#
is as dark as that of the rivers flowing
from the bogs of Ireland. The soil of
Nebraska Is very rich and louiny. and
It is suid there are [>eat beds in the
state, the statement being apparently
confirmed by the color of the water,
which is caused by the presence of or
ganic mutter.
An empty head and a rattling tongue go
well together.
Econo
my Just think - every bottle of Hood's Har,»
parilla contains too doses. This Is true only of
Hood’s
Sarsaparilla
The One True Wood Purifier. Alldruirtctsts. Ik
Hood’* Pills cure biliousness, headache.
Duxbak
is the name ^9*
of the
bias
VELVETEEN
yT SKIRT BINDINd
that is rainproof and sheds water. It
wears—like the other S. II. & M.'s and
does not turn gray like the cheap kinds.
Put it on your truvelingand sea side gowns
If your dealer will not
supply you we will.
Sample* ihowtny label* and material* mailed free.
" Homa Dressmaking Made Easy." a new 72 page ^
book by Miss Emma M. Hooper, of the Ladles
Homo Journal, giving valuable points, mailed for
2 be.
S. N. A M. Co., P. O. Boa 699, N. Y. City.
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and thirsty,—HIRES Root
beer.
Made o«Sjr by the < tiarlo h Hire* <'o . Philadelphia.
A Zbu (k-u:k»g- make* 6 gell»a* Hold every where
Do you more good than
all the doctors in Christen
dom—a month at Hot
Springs, South Dakota.
One of the healthiest
spots on earth—an ideal
place to spend the summer.
Rook about Hot Spring, (rtw if you wiita
to | i'rann. dril l I’l.srugrr Agent lint
bngtou Ituuw, Omaha, N.-t.
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