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Woman’s Glance for Man When you grieve, and let It show. And may tell me nothing more. You have told me, o'er amt o'er, All a woman needs to know. When 1 show you that I care (Meet your eyes and touch your hand), I have made you understand All a woman may or dare. So. the ears of Friendship heard So, 'twas seen of Friendship's eyes! You are sad, l sympathize, All without a single word. The Feud of the Fergusons. BY KATE M. CLEARY. (Copyright, 1901: Hy Daily Story Pub. Co.) "There's a buggy earnin’ over the bill,” announced Mrs, Ferguson. “Well, if I don't bellere something's gone wrong with the gear!" .She was peer ing eagerly between the sitting-room curtains ot warm red chenille. "Come here, an’ see, L?ssle— your eyes are jounger'n mine.” But the girl sitting listlessly by the little open stove did not stir nor speak. Her bright bit of knitting had fallen neglected on her lap. Upon it her slender brown hands lay clasped in the idleness of indifference. “Seems like you don't take 'ntcrest in nothin’ since you been up to Cart ville to visit,” went on her mother ir ritably. She sent a sharp glance in the direction of her daughter. Then she turned again to the window. “Its broke or something,'' she enunciated with brisk recurrence of curiosity. "The man's cornin’ this way. lie's leading the horse. He's coinin’ straight here!” It was a comfortable, common little room that wherein mother and daugh ter sat. The rag carpet had mellowed to dull tones and tints so subdued as to suggest the wonderful weaves of the Orient. There was a glass lamp on the crocheted mat of green wool which ornamented the round walnut center table. The couple of wooden rockers had crazy-work cushions and head rests. On the shelf which did duty for a mantel was a clock, a china dog, and two frost-white glass vases decorated with scarlet rases. The yellow light of the winter afternoon came in be tween the chenille curtains, and gave to the oval cheek of the girl by the hearth an almost peach-like translu cence. Except for that skin of child like fairness and the lustrousness of her long gray eyes, Bessie Ferguson could hardly have been called a pretty girl. Her tace in repose was sober— almost sombre. But when she was pleased, gay, animated she quite took the palm from the other girls in that part of the county. Just now her face reflected her mood, which was that of downright melancholy. Mrs. Ferguson, still sentinel at the window, kept issuiug bulletins. "He’s got far as the rye patch now. First 1 thought’t was Ellis Dix, but it ain’t. Ellis don't come here much since you got to puttin’ on airs after gittin’ back from Cartville. This one is taller’n Ellis—he's got a moustache tco. He don't belong in these parts. You go to the back door, Bessie. I'm skeered of the wind in my face with the neu ralgy I got. Find out where he’s from. You can tell him where's the tool chest in the barn if ho wants to fix bis harness. There—he’s knockin’!” Mrs. Ferguson looked frowningly after the slow-moving form of her 4a ugh ter. , “I wish I’d never let her go visitin’ to Cartvllle!” she was muttering to herself in accents of annoyance. "P'raps if I hadn’t told her she shouldn't have had anything to say to that Rene Ferguson she'd never have thought of lookin' at him. Like as not ’t was just the contrairiness of a girl that made her take up with him. An’ then, to come home and throw over Ellis Dlx like he wasn’t worth wipin’ her shoes on—him with the likllest bunch of steers of any man in the township! Sayin’ she’d marry Rene —or no one. An’ now mopin’ away like the life was throwed after her. We’ve had trouble enough with them Fergusons of Cartville. If they was blood relations instead of only hap penin’ to be folks of the same name, their family and our’n couldn't have got on worse all these years we been dealin’ up to Cartville!” Lessic, opening the back door, saw silhouetted against the white expanse of the snowy prairies, a big, burly fig ure in great-coat and slouch hat. ”If you need the tool box,” she be gan with perfunctory politeness, "you’ll find it in the right-hand-” .She broke off with a little gasp—her heart plunging. "Lessle!” said the stranger. “My girl—Lessle!” Then the slim little form in the blue, ! gold-braided gown was swallowed up In the fervent grasp of two powerful, rough-coated arms. "0«, Fpf!?!'’ Her vnicj was sweet— tremuious. "On, Keue—how dared you?” He kissed the loving reproach on her lips to silence. "For you!” he answered. ”I’ve driven over from Cartville to see your father. I’m going to ask him for you, And if he refuses-” The masterful look that, came into his blue eyes was a good thing to sec. “But—Rene! Father has gone to Iowa. And even when he is at home he has nothing to say it mother's around.” “But he's been keeping up the feud between the families all these years, and—” No—no! Its been mother. Father has only fired the bullets she made. If you can once get mother to favor you —hush, here she is!” "Land's sakes, 1 know now who that young man is!” Tho voice of Mrs. Ferguson preceded her like a herald ing horn. She appeared in the door way, rosy, excited, voluble. "He'e the nephew of Hiram Sands has been ex pectin’ to come to stay till ploug’ ^g timo. Come in Mr. Sands—that’s r name, ain't it, Tom Sands? Hiram, h« went to Chicago with cattle. He says for you to make yourself to home till lie gits back. The house is took keer of by old Betsy Lynch. She ain't much account. You better stop right Here till the boss is home. Got your buggy out of kilter, didn’t you? Lessie, you pint out the barn to him. We ll have supper soon's l can git. some spice cake stirred up an' the pork fried. You set the table, Lessie!” And she bustled off into the buttry. I^essie looked at her lover. Her fate was lovely in its sudden illumina tion. Her eyes were sparkling. She put up an imperious little hand and laid it on Rene's lips. "Don't say one word!" she whis pered. "Its luck—all sheer good luck! Now's your chance if —” The danc ing eyes flashed at him a smile of ten tier coquetry—"If you want me!" she concluded. "Yes mother, I'm coming. That is the barn Mr.—Sands!” If ever an intriguing lobbyist laid deep and intricate plans; if ever an insinuating suitor paid serious siege to the parent of bis adored; if ever a bold and ardent lover determined to win by strategem and hold In pride the one woman lie loved, the wiles of these were trivial compared to those of Lessie Ferguson's adorer. “That young man.” said the deluded hostess when her guest had gone to his repose in the little slant roofed bed-room upstairs, "is the best judge of spice cake 1 ever see! Did you hear . ... •'ri ‘‘Come here and see Lessie.” i him praise it? Anil he 9aid hp never ett such pickles—which is sayin' the truth—if I did make ’em! He knows my family too, and how high my fa ther held his head when he drove his own covered carriage as well as a buggy. What was the matter with you? You didn't have a word to fling to him?” Lessie looked up with a weary little pout. ‘Why should I? I supposed it was Ellis Dix that you-” ‘‘Ellis Dix!’ ‘echoed Mrs. Ferguson with an unabashed change of opinion. ‘‘What is Ellis Dix to a man that will likely come in for all Hiram Sands’ property—let alone a man that knows a lady an' the best of cookin’ In the county when he sees 'em?” To this triumphant argument Lessie ventured no reply. T^at night a snow storm set in—a memorable snow' storm that lasted three days. Then it was indeed, that Mrs. Ferguson learned how valuable an acquisition was her temporary lodger. It was he w'ho got the kitchen fire lighted before there was a glimmer of gray at the window pane. He too, cared for the stock, and dug paths, and mended the roof where it leaked, and brought water, and made himself adap tive, agreeable, and altogether delight ful. Not the least of his charm for the elder woman lay in the fact that he listened with sympathetic if silent interest to her laments as to the af fection of her daughter for a man upon whom she—Mrs. Ferguson, had ‘ never laid eyes.” "The trouble between our families? ! Indeed, it dates so far back I can't j tell you just how it begun, nut any how, the old man of the CartviHe , branch cheated my husband's grand father out of some land. An' here's that girl of mine havin’ ears an’ eyes for no one since she met Rene Fergu son. What's the matter with you now?” For Lessie, white and frighten ed-looking stood in the doorway. "It's Mr. Sands,” she faltered. "I saw him driving into the yard.” Mrs. Ferguson jumped up. "I'll be sorry to have you go over to your uncle, Tom!” she cried. "I hope you'll come over real often to see Hcssie an' me!” The young man rose also. "lie isn’t my uncle. I have never heard of Hiram Sands. I came here for—for lassie!” Lessie colored a delicious pink. She summoned all her bravery. She went and stood beside her lover. "You like Rene, mother,” she said. The pleasant kitchen with its tins e’istening like silver in the fireshine went round amt round. Mrs. Ferguson stared blankly at the two confronting her. "Rene.” she said at length. "Rene Ferguson!” "Yes, mother. You know he didn't say he was Tom Sands. You said so, and I—I made him pretend. He— Rene—thinks a heap of you already, mother!” "You've been mighty good to me!” cried the young fellow gratefully. The mother-in-law he longed to claim was silent. Rene tried again "If only Mr. Ferguson were at home now, he might persuade you—” "Persuade me! Have Ferguson! He wouldn’t think of try in' to! I’d settle matters right now if if It wasn’t for j —the feud.” ' Hut there isn't any feud now! I'm only afraid," with a long sigh, "Less-e will never he as good cook as her mother!” The mother meditated- then | smiled. "tluess I'll stir up some of that spice 1 cake for supper,” she said. A clock Is wound up to make It run, 1 but a business is wound up to stop it. fllgfrst I'OiIm on Kurth. At the Washington navy yard the government has the largest pair of scales in existence. They will weigh anything up to 150 tons and, what is equally remarkable, they will accur - ately register the weight of objects so light as a single pound. Well Paid Janitors. The school commissioners of New York City have just made public the list of janitors of school buildings for the coming year. It appears that the average pay of Janitors if about one third greater than the average pey of teachers in the public schools. Titflt. Ei fiov.rnori. Vermont invites inspection of her twelve ex-governors as examples of how conducive the states eold winters how conducive the state's cold winters hoys have always been long lived. They don’t run to flesh, but they last. Kenatortnl Fnda. Several United States senators are base ball enthusiasts. Among these Mr. Clark of Wyoming is one of the most ardent, while Senator Malloy of Florida was once eatoher on the Georgetown college nine. A WISE DRUGGIST. For SS.0(1 If* (iimrantc*. to Do That for Whlcli a I.adf Offer., lllm Si00. Kansas City, Mo., Feb. 25, 1901.— (Special.)—Some two years ago a lo cal druggist engaged in a transaction which was in its details somewhat re markable. He was visited by Miss Anna P. Nichols, who had a doctor’s prescription for rheumatism, which the druggist was filling. In the course of conversation the good lady said: “1 would give one hundred dollars to get well.” He immediately replied: "Give me five dollars and I will guarantee to cure you.” She agreed, and he at once handed her a box of Dodd’s Kidney Pills, say ing: "They are 50c. a box. Two boxes may cure you, but I am quite sure that ten will.” Miss Nichols tells the story as fol lows: “Dodd's Kidney Pills are verit able life preservers. 1 was troubled for five years with Rheumatism, so that at times my right arm seemed paralyzed and I could only walk with difficulty, and could not go out of doors if the air was damp or cold. 1 took eo much medicine that I think my system was poisoned rather thaa helped. One day when my druggist was putting up a prescription for me I remarked to him that I would give one hundred dollars for a remedy that would make me better.” “ ‘Give me five dollars and I will guarantee to cure you,’ he said. I readily agreed and he handed me a box of Dodd's Kidney Pills, saying, ‘They are 60c a box. Two boxes may cure you, but I am sure that ten will/ I left my prescription intact and, In stead, took these Pills, and I found them, as I said before, to be veritable life preservers. Before I had finished the second box I had my first perfect night's rest in years. I gradually im proved. I had determined to use the ten boxes before I would give up, but Imagine my surprise to find that be fore half that quantity was used I was completely cured. This was two years ago, and I have not had a twinge since.” Miss Nichols is Vice Grand Baxter, Rebekah Lodge I. O. O. F., and is one of the best known and most highly respected ladies in Kansas City, and her experience will be read with Inter est by her many friends. Dodd's Kidney Pills never fail to cure Rheumatism. They are 60c a box, six boxes for $2.50. Buy them from your local dealor if you can. If he can not supply you, send to the Dodds Medicine Co., Buffalo, N. Y. Among every 70 births there is a pair of twins. The gloomiest mountain doesn’t cast a shadow on both sides at once. Don't Gat Footsore? Gat FOOT-EASE. A certain cure for Swollen, Smart ing, Burning, Sweating Feet, Corns Rud Bunions. 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There is now being erected in the town of Bedford, N. Y., one of the lurgost reformatories for women over built in this country. The reforma tory, which is to cost $300,000, is de signed for girls ami women from 16 to 25 years of age who are guilty of first offenses. The cottage system is to be used and the plan will be ready for use next summer. Bet liln Vote Awily for I.tfe Among the fost curious election bets on record is one made by John 1*. Courtney, Democrat, and Harry Wal lace, Republican, two plumbers doing business in Minneapolis. The agree ment was that the loser must for his life cast his tote as the winner shall dictate. Courtney, who was a candi date for alderman in the recent cam paign, was the loser and is now en gaged in earnest but so far unavail ing efforts to substitute some other penalty. Wallace is obdurate aud swears that Courtney mmt in future vote the Republican ticket. Don't Want » ('liKiige In Clliunt*. A recent Northern visitor to West ern Florida reports that the negroes of that section of the state to a man are opposed to its proposed annexa tion to Alabama. They say they do not like the climate of Alabama, that it is sickly and unhealthful, and if Western Florida is annexed they will all move out, believing that annexa tion will bring in that objectionable climate. A divorce suit makes an appropriate traveling dress. Mending watches and clocks Is one way to Improve time. Ask your grocer tor DEFIANCE STARCH, the only 16 oz. package for 10 cents. All other 10-cent starch con tains only 12 oz. Satisfaction guaran teed or money refunded. A benevolent man owns stock in the happiness of all mankind. The llo.t Herb Tea. Garfield Tea Is made from T1ERBS; there are no harmful drugs in its com position. It is the best blood purifier known to medical science. The best net far catching an Amer ican heiress Is a coronet. 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"Last year,” he said, “the hoard had to pay out 1130,000 in back salaries to men who had been reinstated by the courts.” Fronts on “Koniola.'* George M. Smith, the London pub lisher, In his literary recollections publishing in Cornhill, says that George Eliot got $35,000 for "Honw ln," and might have had $50,000 if her artistic conscience had allowed her to divide the novel into sixteen parts, as Mr. Smitli wished. ftulchle Kpitlfinlc. The number of suicides in Paris is very largo at present and the chief cause is thought to be the general retrenchment following the exposi tion, which has thrown many people out of work. Throughout France however, suicides seems to have been increasing for some time. In the five years ended January 1, 1901, the num ber of suicides was no less than 27, 000. In the senate on the 18th a number of tributes were paid to the memory of Judge Samuel Maxwell. 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