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Ccrirrna Boar combine* in Oar Boar at Os* Hues, the *s*T •kin and complexion *oap and the best toilet and baby soap In the world. Qticura Complete External and Internal Treatment for Every Humour, Consisting of Cmrt aa Boar 'iic.i. to cleanse the akin of crusts and scales, and aoften the thickened cuticle; CdTlccB* Orit«*st i » : PIERCED BY AN ARROW W. rt. CROMIN. OopTrlfht, 1*"S, by Pally Su>ry PjbUahin* Oo j : Lieut. Ewing had a secret service to perforin near his station. The job would require two weeks of his time; but inasmuch as the town was some thing of a watering place and. as ho knew, fairly Ailed with guests, he had no fear of dying from ennui. Girls were sure to be there and with the gentler sex Ewing generally held his own and sometimes a part belonging to someone else. He was a dashing fellow. He had the true military bearing, the soldiers’ waik, the athlete's carriage, eyes as blue as the emerald sky. a face that denied he was of plebeian birth, and a forehead that denoted intelligence. He needed no one to tell him that he was good looking. At Attica, his point of destination, he registered as Giovan Colbert. There wasn’t much of a pur pose in concealing his identity. Still his home village was not so very far away and at certain times in his life he had said things to young women of his community that lead them to be lieve he was very much in love with them and really wanted to marry when such a thing was not true at all. Perhaps some of his escapade3 were still fresh In the minds of those about him. News travels fast and bad reports linger painfully long. Per haps some of his flirtations were known to the guests of this resort. Therefore to be on the safe side, he would conceal his identity for the time being. He had not been in the village more than two days before he saw a dream of a woman. She possessed all the graces which belong to her sex. Certainly she was beautiful of face and figure. She dressed differently from the other women; her laugh had mirth to it. her eyes had the light of a June morning. Try as he might, Ewing could not get an introduction to her. She seemed to have few ac quaintances. Her walks were made alone, and when she rowed on the little lake that fronted the hotel there was no one else in the boat with her. Her greatest delight seemed to be In the practice with bow and arrow and In this she was quite an expert. Five days after Ewing’s arrival one of her arrows pierced his coat, as he lay hidden behind a foliage of honey suckles. Instantly he was on his feet and she, seeing what had happened, seemed for the moment quite dis mayed. Kin me accident gave me soiuier the chance he had been looking, long ing for. She hastened an apology and he in turn made little of the In cident. Indeed, the arrow had done no further harm than to make a hole In his coat. Ewing would have been willing for it to have penetrated his skin—aye, to have taken off a piece of flesh. From that morning their courses took shape rapidly enough. Ho lost no time in placing his devo tions at her feet. He sang for her in a glorious tenor; he played the guitar for her at the window in the evenings when the other hoarders wished him sick or dead, or something of that sort.; he sent her costly flow ers and he forgot his business entire ly, which is sometimes the way of men in love. But Miss Agnes Dickinson, which was the name of the young lady, seemed unresponsive to his appeals. Indeed, she did not besitato to inform tl.e dashing young lieutenant that she had precious little confidence In what unmarried army officers, who had been educated at West Point, had to say about love, bhe had known too many of them. She had seen a half dozen of her young female friends heartbroken because they had listened to what some of them had had to say when the moon was soft and the chickens bad been to roost a very long time. One day she went into more specific details. She asked him if he had ever known Lieut. Ewing. Did he know Ewing? The question fairly took his breath away. Was It possible that she - w///«r-5/#7/m jgj Jt He registered as Jiovan Colbert | really knew who he was—that he was sailing under a false name. But he did not permit his mental perturba tion to betray him. "Why, certainly," he replied. "I know him quite well." "They say be is handsome; that he is bright, and that he made a gallant officer in Cuba." was her reply. To acknowledge possessing these gifts and that afterwards be should tell her he was Ewing would be an act of rainglorioosness that might operate against him. "Well, I don't know so much about his brightness. Neither would I swear that he is handsome; and for his de portment in Cuba I think he did no more than the other members of hit regiment. Still, he is not a bad fel low ." Having delivered htmself of this speech he felt easier. But he was treading on dangerous ground and he knew It. He wished the con versation might change. "Ah. but what a flirt he is." was Miss Dickinson s rejoinder. "I think him little better than a cad. Two years ago he paid the most devoted attention to Mollle Sherman. The neighbors, her friends, all those who knew them both were sure they were engaged, and that their marriage was but a little ways off. I have never seen the beast, but that is what 1 hear. I am told that Moliie has sim ply wept over his perfidy until her reason is well nigh dethroned. I wish—" "Perfidy!" the man exclaimed. "You don't know what you are talk ing about. I nappen to know some thing about that case. I know of a Her walks wire made alone, certainty that they were never en gaged; that he never naked her to marry him. I know moreover—" “Ah, yo i seem to he one of his friends truly enough.” “Well, I have a right to be—1 ought to he, and l am. Listen: 1 happen to know that all this talk about ids failure to escort her everywhere, to be constantly at her side since his re turn from Cuba is because she had, in a measure, tired of him, and he in a measure had tired of her. Where did you get all this wild information about his playing dog in the manger act. Somebody's been playing with you. She never told you anything of the sort." “No, hut some of her friends have been more communicative. By the way I ain expecting her hero to-mor row.” Now, that was something that set Ewing's mind thinking rapidly < nough. Sure enough he had never been engaged to Miss Sherman, but it was tncitly understood that he wanted to he and could he if lie were to say the right thing. And site coming where he was and finding that lie was misrepresenting his name. Whew! There was a dilemma. If he was going to say anything to Miss Dickinson, with whom he was now really in love, now was the time; and so he told her of the entire affair; of how in a spirit of fun ho had reg istered under an assumed name; of his love for her from the moment he first saw her, and of his earnest de sire to make her ills wife. “Well, l patched the coat I tore with my arrow. See there.” as she pointed to the place," one can scarcely per ceive that it ever needed a darning. Maybe I can heal the broken heart you have been talking about. At all events I am willing to try. I have known by that Intuition peculiarly the gift of woman that you were In love with me from the first time we met, and It was a good arrow that has given light and love to both our hearts, wasn't It, dear?” And the next day, hand In hand, they went to the train to welcome Miss Sherman. The Hlahnp F.»ozl«-<1. Bishop Potter i« an enthusiastic golf player. Some time ago he wan on the links at Saranac, accompanied by a caddie who was himself a golfer of acknowledged skill. The bishop made ready for a mighty drive, and with one tremendous sweep he topped the ball. Of course, he was deprived of the consolation which In such cases serves to sooth the temper of the lay man. All he aaid was: "Sh-sh-sh-sh-sb!” It was his way of relieving his feel ings. Then he tried again. This time he scooped up some cubic feet of sod. and once more the sibilant but In offensive and ineffectual protest es caped his lips. For the third time the bishop teed his ball, for the third time his driver missed the mark, and for the third time he unburdened his oppressed soul as above. The caddie could- stand St no longer. “Hang It, man!" he exclaimed; “sh-sh-sh-sh won't send that ball where you want St to go." St« York flat Bill I Fireman. 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First Prize $5,000; Second $2,000; Third $1,000 VALUABLE INFORMATION: To alii In forming four PNtlnmtp*. wp furnluh tb‘* lollnwinif ffyurr* which wp ohtaimsl fliriH’i from th»* 1'imi OfTlcr* |»rp ntmi-nt. at Washington. D. < , livin ' Ihr tfroiior total rovunun «»f the (lmmrttni*nt for «mc1i *vuf every year from IMW? to luui Inclusive. Tim fractional part of a dollar l s not ootiaUlered. The Total Rovenue of the l*ost Ofllo • Department for the year 1897 WAS $82,665,462, 1898 WAS 89,012,618, INCREASE 7.68 PER CENT 1899 WAS 95,02 1,384, INCREASE 0.75 PER CENT 1900 WAS 102,354,579, INCREA8E 7,72 PER CENT 1901 WAS 111,631,193, INCREASE 9.06 PER CENT The Total Revenue for the flrat half of the tear win nan, H 7 <1,01®. Total Revenue tie at the end of the ftaeal year. June 80, IWliJ? 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