Ono St rone I'olnt. •'I don’t know what, will over be come of you, Tommy.” said his moth er. “You tear your clothes, knock the soles ofT your shoes, punch holes into your hate. los<- your school hooks, fool away your toys and play things, and don’t take care of any thing. You waste a great, deal by your heedlessness, Tommy." “I don't waste nothin' in hand k'chiofa, mamma,” snuffled Tommy indignantly.—Chicago Tribune Hall's Catarrh Cara Is taken Internally, Frlce, <5o. Cheap Ticket* Via the Omaha A Ht. Louis R. It. and Wabash It. R. St. Louis.one tvay.SU. 1 round trip. $15.35. On sale every Tues days and Thursdays. Ht. Louis: Round trip October 3d to sth, $11.50. Iloine M-ekers’ Kxcnralona. South: Hcptem lier '.’I. Octoller 5 and 10. and 2,000 girls It is piece work, and pays about $9 a week I'iso'e Cure for Consumption is tbs only (much medicine used In my bouse -D. 0, Albright, Mlffliuhurg, Pa., Dec. It, '96. A Colleellou of Pans. The most celebrated collection of fans in the world is now in the print room of tho Kritisii museum. It was brought together by Lady Charlotte Hcribner, who presented tho fans to the museum. Dr. Kay's Kenovator is all that It. name woulil indicate. It restores to healthy ac tion the functional orgaiis. cures constipa Hon. dyspepsia, liver and kidney disorders. Trial sine, ifec. Kec advt. Kx-Treasuror K. K Hplnner, who had more autographs in other people's bauds than any man of his time, is to have an eight-foot monument, costing $10,000, erected to his memory in Washington- I To Core Constipation forever. Tnke Ham-arots Candy Cathartic. 10c br Mo. If C. 0. C. full to cure, druggists refund money. Many a girl who marries for leisure repeuts la haste. A good way to keep all the bd/s on the farms would bo to keep all. the girls there. S'... 1". Sr*t.~ SffiL ,// , SS/t^ V % The Blue and the Gray. @ 0m Both men and women are apt to feel a little ytg0 blue, when the gray hairs begin to show. It’s a very natural feeling. In the normal condition Sgf of things gray hairs belong to advanced age. They have no business whitening the head of man or woman, who has not begun to go wpr down the slope of life. As a matter of fact, pSy the hair turns gray regardless of age, or of life’s seasons ; sometimes it is whitened by sickness, but more often from lack of care. &J When the hair fades or turns gray there’s no ^ noed to resort to hair dyes. The normal color Ifp? of the hair is restored and retained by the use of m Ayer’s Hair Vigor, ll vsW Ayer’* Curebook. "» story ol cure* told bv tbc cured." ME®/ e». free. J. C. Ayer Co., Lowell. Mass. j 1 1 i 1 . < , y S : < < > < i . < . i » \ > * » » FERN COTTAGE. iMiiy, tuiB. u«;iiui. She brought good letter* front New York, and support* herself by coloring V fashion plates for a magazine there." This was the last statement my law yer made upon the long-winded recital of the state of my affairs, when I re turned front a seven years' absence, to take up my abode In’my own home, He had by my directions renovated and put Info good order the large, band some house that was my Inheritance from father, grandfather and great grandfather, passing In each genera tion through it course of modernizing that still left the stately, old-faaiilencil walls and extensive grounds Intact. We Hiltons were very fond of Hilton place, and had ample means wherewith to maintain Its beauty. Hilt beside my own home, I also poii sessed several houses In the village of Crawford and one cottage Just at the boundary line of my garden, a pretty place that my mother hud christened Kern Cottage, from the number of rare ferns that nestled In the little garden under fanciful miniature grottos and Pile* of rock placed there. I confess to a feeling of decided un uoyance when I heard that this little ?cm of a country home had been leased to a worklngwomun. It bud been u summer resort for some of our own In Imate friends, who preferred an Inde pendent home to the hospitalities of ithers, and it annoyed me «» iwuk oi tny one living there who would not preserve It* dainty furniture and pret ty surrounding* with cultured taste. But 1 kept my opinion to myself, and. Indeed, for many days, wa* *o crowd ed with hunlnri* call* that 1 quite for got the matter. It wa* after twilight on a warm Ap ril evening that, passing the cottage, I saw through open window* my new tenant. She wa* bending over a small table,apparently drawing, while the cir cle of light from a student lamp fell full upon her, I had fancied a vul ~nr( commonplace woman, Tbla wa* what I *aw: A figure alcntifct and graceful, with hands a* white and perfect a* If carv ed In marble. A face purely oval, col orless and fair, with regular features, end shaded by hair of midnight black. Twice, while I looked, she lifted her eye*, large, lustrous and dark, full of suppressed pain. A face that covered a heart full of bitter anguish, a brain sensitive and cultivated. I am a physician, though I have prac ticed little, preferring to write for the use of younger students; but I love my profession, 8nd cannot quite keep It* instinct* quiet, when I study a new face. And all these Instincts warned me that here was a woman burning a candle already flickering at both ends, I had quite forgotten that mine was not a strictly honorable position, thus spying on a solitary woman’s privacy, when an elderly womnn, seemingly an upper servant of better days, name Into the room. "Will you never eeaso working?" she said, fretfully. “When the daylight Is gone, and you cannot sort your colors, vou take up that drawing that Is ruin ing your eyes. Rest, child!” "i hen the voice I knew must belong to that face, full, rich, melodious, but freighted with sadness, answered her: "Rest! You know I cannot rest!” "Play then! Po anything but strain your eyes any longer over that fine work." The widow rose then, sweeping her heavy, black draperies acres* the room to the piano, where she played. Surely If this was recreation. It waa a pitiful mockery. Walling, minor music full of sobbing pain. Heavy chords melt ing Into sad refrains. A master touch, a rare power In the long, slender fin gers only called out strains of heart breaking pathos. The old servant took out her knit ting. seemingly satisfied to have driv en her mistress from actual work, and the darkness fell around me. making ..*111 nlnaraf t ho liricrtit i • 11 ttf lli/ltf upon the table, ami the aoft, ahadowy gloom of the corner where Mr*. Ray nor. with her deep, aad eyes and break Ing heart, poured out aomethlng of her pain In inualc A aoft rain drove me home, hut I mimed long and deeply over my ten ant. I called aeveral time*, anil re ceived courteoilb welcome wan enter tained by atrletly conventional eon ver nation. heard the piano In aotne faah lonahle. ahowy niualc, and found the rurfare aoelety of Mr*. Itaynor. n gen tle. ictlned lady, attractive and agree able no more 1 might have accepted i h I a for the •cal woman, but I had a habit of lin gering about tiiv garden, amt aa the drawing room of Kern foliage com mandril no other view, my neighbor aeldom cloned lbe window* aa the | prtug crept Into aummer. I'uter. more I thadowy, with added aadnmta In the ' great, dark eye* Mra Itaynor became | almoat ethereal aa the warm weather 1 atote unmet king each day from her «lrena Itallent proairaixl at la*i. and gently *ubnd <|ot*tly not aa If ih«r* waa any larvae in the thought hut aa tf It wa* a naw pueathttlte |y ».iai« problem cf lib "bin I ami not ' dt# yef " "Then you must obey me,” I answer ed ”1 will send a carriage every af ternoon with a earefti! driver and you must go with Susan for a drive. You must l>e outdoors as much as possible, excepting during the heat of the day, j anil then, If possible, sleep.” Her dreary smile confirmed my opin ion that sleep was a rare visitor at her pillow, but she did not say so. Indeed, she made no complaint, evi dently allowing my visits solely out of regard for Susan. And to Susan I turned at last for counsel. Hhe had come to my house for some medicine I had brought from Paris an opiate not yet in use In this country. And I pointed to a scat, say ing: "Susan, I am past sixty years old, crippled, ns you see, seldom leaving my home except for foreign travel no gossip. If you think you can trust mo with Mrs. Kaynor's secret trouble, I may be able to cure her," The woman looked startled for a moment, and then, bursting into tears, she snlil: "Oh, sir, It's awful trouble, and we don't want It, to he known about here!" "I'll not betray you,” I said, gently. "You see, sir, she Is not a widow, after thinking herself one for four years! He, Mr. flaynor, sir, for she's never bid her name, Is a bad man, a man who nearly killed her with his drinking and gambling and bad com pany. He spent all the money her fattier left her, he crippled her boy with a blow of his drunken fists, and then he left her poor and sick, and the boy all crushed. She worked day and night for the child, little Harold, end he grew to nine years old, but al ways crooked and puny. Thou Mr. Haynor found us out, and he would have taken the child, he would, the fiend, because she loved It. Ho wc stole Harold away In the night anil tent him to Germany with u friend, I'm lollifin nett nl/irv tail ur/tntr nit’ We heard Mr. Raynor wan dead heard II. from hlN own brother, too, who be lieved R, and Mis* Kdna Mrs. Raynor, I mean-thought herself free, when she let Mr, Duchesne come to see her. and ah, well, doctor, ho was a true man; gentle, kind and loving, and ao good to Harold. Hhe thought, she was a widow, and her heart was sore, so sore you can never guess, for she wji* one lo take trouble hard and what harm, if they loved each other? They wguld h'.ve "been married If Mr. Ray nor bad not came hack, pleased as Punch to find lie could make a little more misery for his wife.” “Rut. he Is not. living now?” "Yes, he Is, sir; the more's the pity! Mr, Duchesne Is In Germany with Jlarold, and my poor dear Is work ing her precious life away to pay for the baths for the boy, and to keep Mr, Raynor away. Hhe pays him ao much a month to leave her In peace." "And this delicate woman supports a husband and child?" I said. "Yes, sir, and Hvph upon the mean est of everything for the sake of he tug alone! It's awful, doctor, to think of those two loving hearts, one in Ger many, one fretting here, and a tiad man between them. They won't even write to each other, but wo hear from Harold how kind Mr. Duchesne Is to him. It is like him to try to comfort her by being so good to her crippled boy!” •'It is a sad story,” I said. "And 1 was too hasty In thinking I might help Mrs. Raynor If I knew it. We have no medicines, Susan, for such misery as this.” But yet I was glad to have heard the story. I sent books to the cottage, and I GViti- f r»»iiill'll I IV (rvilitf In u/ln tho heavy-hearted woman awuy from her own troubled thoughts,und amused at her rare patience am! courage, 1 had done hut little In mv efforts to restore her health, when Susan < ante hastily to summon me one heavy August day, ••Come, please," she urged. "He'd there, hurt!" "Who?" I asked. Mr itaynor! He came cursing and ! swearing, heeuuse his money was nol sent last mouth, and thlfc morning hi went over to (‘rawfurd slid got drunk He was coming home again, when h< ! stumbled, sunn-how. aid fell under * j hay esrt. lie's badly hurt. I think j the wheels went over hi* breast. 1 i stipttnee. had ss he Is, we'll have tc I nurse him " And had as he was, tyrant, torment or and traitor, (he new natlent thui thrown upon mv hands w-ta nursed aa tenderly ns II he had been both lov j Ina sod he loved Out of her heavy deepotideucv throw Ins self sable, Mrs Hay nor developed her charitable, for suing iiat'ii In the Weehs of illaes ! that followed her h i-baiid s lalurtea fast from th" #r*t I believe ahs would have lo p! him in life If by any sell-sac i thee It Ini been fMwstble. ho* 1 *h« could only make *i«Mother the pa* •age to Ihe grav* I had tbourni hn own tenure of III* hoi frail, hot In Ipr denoton she grew ; at rung* i. nh« gami-l sleep by get owl phystcel r*battalion and talmanaa hy j the itt*e looanesi of doty performed dttean hy Btv ad* teg provided food that »** noortshlna to small uia«' >bi an t aa th> intur* t man wil'd t"J »»d the portal* at eternity we kepi hla wife from throwing hat *t lit* « »y | by out nnitad effort* 1 would like, for humanity'" xak*, to write tha* the reprobate reformer*, cr even showed common gratitude for the rare lavished upon him. hut he died ax he hail lived, sinking Into xtupor for daya before the end came, and never. Susan assured me. bextowlng one word of thank* upon hlx gentle. tender nil rxe. It ivax a email funeral cortege that left Kern Cot tag** to lake the remain* of John llaynor to hi* New York home. I Inalxted upon escorting the widow, and left her with an aunt, who wax HympHihiring and kind, hut evidently xpoke from her heart when ahe laid to me: "Thank the Lord, he lx dead thlx time!” I scarcely expected Kern Cottage to he occupied xoon again, hut Mr*. Ray nor returned In a few wcekx, working again hu*lly. for her hoy, ahe told me, content to hear some further xepara tlon, ax he wax gaining greatly by the German treatment. But the deaolate yearning wax gone from the large, dark eyes, and health eame hack xlowly In the winter monthx. when my advice wax followed, and Huxan guarded my patient against overwork. The piano ceased to wall and sob, and the slen der fingers found task* in weaving gladder strains. A year |M*sed, and one evening, Just before tha Christmas time, 1 opened the cottage door. Upon my startled «*Hrx fell the sounds of song. Never had I heard Mrs. Kaynor'a rich, melod ious voice In xong before, and I paused, astonished, os Busan whispered: "Her hoy la coming home for Christ mas. Mr. Duchesne Is bringing him. and we expect them any day, And Murom Is perfectly cored. I dlil not go In. Such joy at that I felt should have no witness. They came, these eagerly expected travelers, just before the Christmas bell* rang out their Joyful peals. The slender, handsome boy bad hi* moth er's face, and was evidently cured and on the way to a noble manhood. And of bis companion I can only say that I have no truer or more valued friend than Frank Duchesne, who comes every summer with tils heautl fill wife and pretiy children to spend the hot months at Fern Cottage.—N i Y. Ledger. Ilscp Holes Id tlie Ocesn. The deepest spots so far sounded in I the ocean, were found a year or two ago by the surveying ship Penguin, while returning from the Tongu group to New Zealand. In three place* a depth exceeding live thousand fathoms was found. Till these sounding* were made, the deepest water found was to the northeast of Japan, where, in 1674, the United States steamer Tusearora obtained a cast of 4,065 tathoms. The Penguin's soundings are 6,022, 5,147 and 6,166 fathoms. The increase Is therefore 600 fathoms, or 3,000 feet. These soundings are separated from one another by water mueh less deep, and the holes may not he connected. The distance from the two extreme soundings Is 460 miles. Specimens of the bottom were recovered from the two deeper soundings, and prove to tie the usual red clay found In all the deepest parts of the ocean. These soundings afford additional evidence of the observed fact that the deepest holes are not In the centers of the oceans, hut arc near land, as two of them are within one hundred miles of Islands of the Kermandec group, und the other not far from a shoal. Doubtless deeper depression* in the bed of the sea arc yet to be found, hut the fact, that this sounding of 30,930 feet shows that the ocean contains de pressions below the surface greater than the elevation of the highest known mountains Ih perhaps worthy of record. _ Very Natural. "Whut's the row between you and Miss Nipper?" "Oh, she accused mo of cutting her In the street, und I explained, too, that as 1 had only met her at evening enter tainments I didn't recognise her with her clothes on." NOTES OF THE VOGUE. Moire ribbons ure. (or the moment, higher In fashionable favor than satin or taffeta. Oyster color Is the very nsweat shade and Is particularly effective in heavy satin or fsllle. A new summer dress material U called challle de lustre, nnd Is, as Its name Indicates, a glossy fabric, some what resembling mohair. The modish silks for early autumn wear ure In the pretty bayudere stripes a trying fashion, however, becoming te uotiti but women of the Trilby type. Narrow baby rtbbou Is a feature on modish gowns, and Is now ruitted au< weed to edge ribbons of greater width ' a particularly pretty fluteh for thi I king ribbon sash. The old fashioned Iron grenadine i« again the vogue, superseding ihe Dim ay materials which maiuiusrade undo that name, and (o which even thi crispest of taffetas tails lu give a sat. Isfavtury body. tlrtlllaiu hoed plaids ale In high fac et. and the up-lo date girl revels la as : endless variety of sallor-hai band* belli | and nevhilea. which worn In eels, give n ■ hit Duiah lo her duch shirt and tall | ov-bullt shin waku A full nu-he of black at ihe thro* i gives a modish In tab la the simplest •wtnno and W a needed »oo> h of p#e ( raetlon iheee chilly August evenings One recently seen in I am don la of Mach ! ihiffoa, - as* aded la ihe waist-lies and ! « tg«l with ttairow while ostrkh feelh I *« f. mntiug To aiold that unpleasant wagging at Ihe bottom of Ihe drew* the newest stlh , pett hosts are stiffened at (he hem with a whal*bnga. one ort*r of the Kansas City Htar called upon him for an interview re garding the matter. We found Mr INK wller a tall, and apparently wall preserved man of seventy years, lipon our loterrw gating kin oonoerning hie m of Pink Piiia he gave us the following, and with his eti tire consent to Its publication “I had been troubled for several year* with extreme nervousnesa. At first it did not prevent me from attending to my feres duties Atiout three years ago, however t began to grow rapidly worse, then my nights la* nine sleepless, and I could n,K sisep two hours In an entire night. 1 be came terribly affected too with indfgeatiou I Ish'Siiis alarmed at iny condition, ami con sillied a physician. One doctor told ou tlie trouble wes insomnia, and took hi* medicine for that tint without relief An other told ine it was nervous prostration, but his medicine hud no more affect than the same amount of water Finally, so* log l)r Williams' I’ink I’llls advertised and noticing particularly the testimony of a |M-raon who had been cured by them of a very similar disease to mine, I determined to try them I called upon our local drug gist. Mr .1 Htlversand procured a supply I began taking them, and In a very short lime luv nervousness was less severs After I had given them a thorough trial, I found myself entirely rural. 1 can now liadown ai mgbt and go to sleep without the slight est trouble Furthermore the cured*** hern pnnnanent. and I run recommend Pink rills to all who are afflicted as I was for their equal cannot lie found Dr Williams' Pink Pills for Pals People are now Riven to the public aa an unfailing blood builder and nerve restorer, curing all form* of wvak ness arising from a watery condition of the blood or shattered nerts*. The pills are sold by all dealers, or will be sent post paid on receipt of price, ho cent* a box, or alx boxes for fc.60 (they are never sold ill bulk or by the 10(1), by addrumiag Dr. Wllllutns' Medicine Co., Hr.bannctady Jf. V. Curiosity I* one of the permanent and certain characteristic* of a vigor ous Intellect. 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