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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
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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.
Saxe Martin, though totally blind
since the age of 4. has been an active
and useful member of the fire depart
ment of Port Chester, N. V., for seven
teen years, "running with the ma
chine” to all Brea.
Keep your secret from your friends
and your enemies will never get next
to it.
HEADACHE, BACKACHE, DIZZINESS
IPE-RI'NA CURES PELVIC CATARRH.)
'•I am perfectly well,"
says Mrs. Martin, of
Brooklyn,
cured me.”
Mrs. Anna Martin, 4? Hoyt street,
ItrvHiklyn, N. Y., writes:
••/Vruna did so much for me that I
feel It my duty to recommend It to
others who may be similarly afflicted.
About a .* ear ago my health w as com
pletely broken down, had backache
dlsriness and Irregularities, and life
seemed dark Indeed. Hr had used
l*eruna In our home as a tonic and for
colds and catarrh and I decideu to try
It for my trouble. In less than three
months / became regular, my pains had
entirely disappeared, and lam now
perfectly w ell. "•••Mrs. Anna Martin.
Miss Marie Johnson,! I Columbia, Hast,
Detroit, Mteh.,ia Worthy Vine Templar
iu Hope Dodge No. fl, Independent t)r«ler
Oood Templars. Miss Johnson, na so
many other women also have done,
found iu Peruna a spool tic for a severe
case of female weakness. Mho writes:
“I want to do what 1 can to let the
whole world know what a grand medi
cine 1’eruna is. For eleven yeara 1 suf
fered with female troubles ami compli
cations arising therefrom. Doctors
failed to cure me, and I despaired of be
ing helped. I'erunn cured me in three
short months. I can hardly liclieve it
myself, but it. is a blessed fact. I am
perfectly well now, and have not had
an ache or nain for months. I want my
suffering sisters to know what I Vruna
hasdonc for me," Miss Marie Johmon.
Miss Ruth Kmcrson, 7" Sycamore St.,
ItutTalo, N. Y., writes: ‘1 Buffered for
two years with irregular and painful
menstruation, and I Vruna cured me
within six weeks. I cannot tell you
how grateful 1 feel. Any agency which
brings health and strength to the af
flicted is alw ays a welcome friend, and
today the market is so tilled with une
lo*s and injurious mod lei nos that it in a
piousuro to 1*now of so rrliitli’i' a rem
edy a-, you plaoe ho for* the public."—
Mis liuth Emerson.
It is nu longer ft <|uost ion ns to whether
Perunaean ho relied on to euro nil sueh
oases. 1 luring the tunny yean* in which
IVruna lias hot'll put to tost in nil forme
nml stages of acute nml ohronioontarrh
no one year has put thin remedy to
greater tost than the past \oar.
l’erun.i in the acknowledged oatarrh
remedy of the age. Hr. 11 art man, tha
oomponmlor of IVruna, has written a
hook on tile phases of eatarrh peculiar to
women, entitled, "Itenltli and Meant v "
It will he sent free to any address hy
The IVruna Modioino Co., Columbus, O.
If you do not derive prompt ami intis
factory mutt* front the use of IVruna
write at once to Hr. Hart man, giving a
full statement of your ease, and he will
he plot.si'il to give you Ilia valuable ad*
viee gratis.
Address Hr. Hartman, l'resldent of
The 11 art man Sanitarium, Columbus, O.
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boiled.
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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
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Total Revenue tie at the end of the ftaeal year. June 80, IWliJ?
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