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| THAT GIRL of JOHNSON s | By JJEA.JST K.j\T£ L\SDL \JM, | Author of .it a (iiri'i Mercy,“ Etc. Entered According to Art of Congress la the Year lMtt hr Street A Smith. _In the Other of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, 1>. C. | CHAPTER XVil.—Continued. When the meal was over Dr. Dun widdie arose, and, as was his habit, returned to the house up the road to see to his patient's condition, and found that Johnson had slept through the night scarcely stirring, still as a baby. Things were going well to help on his recovery; and though it would be months before lie could be able to get around, yet there was every hope and every reason to expect him to recover. Johnson moved and opened his eyes slowly as Dr. Dunwiddie entered the room. Vacant, hollow eyes they were, with a stare in them which startled Dolores. Dr. Dunwiddie was at his side in stantly, hut without a sign of haste. “He is used to your voice,” he said to Dolores, without turning his head. “Speak to him. Miss Johnson. Say anything to him—anything you are in the habit of saying.” Dolores came no nearer the bed; she stood quietly at the window, and asked in her ordinary voice, slow, un interested: ‘ Are you ready for break last, father?” The hollow eyes closed weakly for a moment. Mrs. Allen entered at that moment with the beef tea, and Do lores, taking the bowl from her hand, crossed over to the bedside. John son again opened his eyes with the old expression of distrust and dislike in them. She bent over him, and Dr. Dunwiddie raised his head a trifle gently on his arm as she put the spoon to his lips with steady hand and un moved face. But when she offered him the second spoonful he closed his eyes and endeavored to turn aside his head, with the sullen expression on his face. Dolores bent over the bed and held the spoon steadily to his lips, as she said, in a tone that thrilled her listeners by its slow, almost stern sweetness: “Drink this, father. He obeyed like a‘child, and she fed him carefully according to the doc tor’s orders. Dr. Dunwlddie watched her movements wonderiugly. Where did this girl get her womanly tact? Surely not from this man upon the pillows, whose face was indicative of nothing but a brute nature. It was an exquisite morning. Mrs. Allen wa.s with the doctor, there was no.need of her there, and she wont out and sat on the door-stone In the shadow of the pines. Heanlng her head against the door-post her hands fell to her lap. Her eyes were intent on the mountain with a sort of hun gry look in them. It had meddled so with her life—or was it the fate of the stars that crippled her father and pre vented his going to court where the men were eager to have him, like the vulture on the mountain. She knew little of fate or law, but it seemed to her that the one possessed her, and tl^ other was waiting, waiting in a ttfrriblq silence lor her father to go to prove the malice prepense in the laming of the mare—a waiting that appalled her by its dogged patience. What her neighbors thought she did not care; she had lived without them; she could still live without them. Had she known how roughly they used her name she would scarcely have under stood their meaning. Her mind was too pure and too high above them to comprehend the evil they would lay at her door, l.odie, among them all, was the only kind one. Not one of the woman had been near her, but the women never did come; she cared nothing about that, only there was something in her life that had not been there before and that called for companionship for the sympathy of Delores crossed to the bedside. other women. But Dora would come, she thought, with sudden brightness in her heart—Dora and her uncle, and young Green as well, until—until the truth were known. Then, what would they think or say—Dora and her uncle, who were honorable people, the nurse said, and young Green who had been so kind to them—so kind? Did he not risk his life for her father? Yet even then he must have known about the mare aid by whom the deed was done. Did Lie not. tell her himself that the man who had committed such a dastardly deed should Buffer the full penalty of the law? And the law had a terrible significance to her. Lodie came slouching up the path, fan, gaunt, angular, in the full glory of the aunllght. He removed his rusty hat as he stood before her, his hands beh'nd his back. "Be yer feyther gettin’ on tol'rable, D'lores? I kem tip hyar from the tav'n ter hear. We ’lowed he orter be improvin’, an’ wes waitin’ ter know.” "Who are waiting to know?” she asked, sharply. The tone was new to her, and the man was disconcerted by it. A vague fear had entered her mind in spite of .Mrs. Allen's assurance that they would not come for her father until ho was able to go to prove— “Why, jes’ we tins,” Ixxlie replied, clumsily. “He were a good un 'ntong us, was yer feyther, D'lores, an’ wes jest waitin’ ter know ef he is im provin’.” “Thank you, Jim Lodie. You can tell those who wish to know that my father will get well.” A flash came into Lodie’s eye, a deep red rushed to his sunburned face. "I be powerful glad ter hev ye say His face ghastly in its pallor. thot, D'lores,’ he said, gravely. “An’ ther rest of 'em'll be glad of et, too.” She watched him shuffle down the path and along the road to the tavern. Presently two light hands were laid on her shoulders, and a soft, low voice exclaimed: “Dolores, Dolores, I am Dora. Look tip and tell me you are as glad to see me as I am to have found you. I am so glad, Dolores.” Dolores’ fingers closed tightly as she looked up at the girl before her— the cousin who had come to claim her, the only one in all the world who had ever loved her since Betsy Glenn died. She was a small little lady, and neatly dressed from the wide-brimmed white hat with its drooping gray plume, to the blue ribbon around her throat, and the soft gray costume and delicate gloves. Her eyes were wide and gray, dark with excitement, soft with a touch of tears; her mouth was gentle and sweet, but the lips were colorless; her small oval face was white as death, save for a faint trace of feverish color upon either cheek. Dolores knew nothing of the nature of Dora’s disease, and to her the girl was a picture—something to look at and love and admire, but too fair to touch. Her eyes grew luminous as she looked at her. The brown eyes and the gray met. Dolores’ Ups part ed in one of her rare smiles that transformed her face for the moment','’ her eyes were like wells of light, beautiful, unfathomable. Young Green was standing behind Dora. During the time he had known Dolores never had she looked like that; it was a revelation to him of what she was capable. She did not s e him; she saw nothing but Dora, and it was uncommon for women to show such marvelous depth of soul to another woman. Dora saw no one but her cousin. They did not kiss each other; they offered no endearment common to women, but Dora sat down on the doorstep beside Dolores. “I am so happy!” she said. Dolores said nothing. Her eyes talked for her. Young Green, with a feeling that he had no right to be there, passed un noticed around to the rear of the house and entered through the low door of the pantry. Dr. Dunwiddle greeted him with a smile, but he did not speak, as he was busy with the bandages on Johnson's arm. On preparing one of the band ages he stepped aside, and at that moment Johnson slowly opened his eyes upon young Green’s face. He was conscious, and his eyes had the old look in them excepting that it was intensified by their hollowness. His face grew ghastly in its pallor, then livid with fury; the close set eyes under the narrow forehead were wild and bloodshot; instinctively the fin gers of his right hand were feebly clenched as he endeavored to lift him self from among the pillows, unmind ful of ths pain, as he cried in a hoarse whisper, between panting breaths: “Ye hyar? Fool, with yer—lamin’ an’ yer books. I sweared I’d get even —with ye—fer te—ef ever—ye—kem hyar—agen, a settin’ —my gal up—ter thenk—herself better’n—her feyther a-turnin’ her head—with yer—foolin’ an'—yer soft words—as though—ye’d look et—a—smith's darter fer—no good—” Young Green started to speak, but Dr. Dunwiddie, with a stern expres sion on his face which his fritfud had never before seen, said, v.i'.h quiet authority: “He quiet, Johnson. Not another word. Charlie, ri into the other room. Mrs. Allen, help me at once; his excitement has brought on hemorr hage.” As Green closed the door behind him he caught a glimpse of Johnson's face that lie never forgot. It was pallid as death and ghastly with the hollow eyes. Horror and amazement mingled in his fact* as lie noiselessly crossed the room and passed out of the house through the pantry at the rear, without disturbing the two on the door-step, and struck out among the pines beyond toward the summit where the winds were soft and the sky bine and still. He saw nothing around him clearly: his thoughts, in a tumult, were in the little bare room of the house below where the strong man, who had just been brought hack from death, lay in his repulsive fit of passion; and with the mare in the stables at home, the beautiful, intelli gent animal, ruined forever through a cowardly act of malice; the two blending so closely that he could not separata them, mingling with the stray words he had heard in the town of other and darker tilings than he had dreamed. Then, like a touch of peace, came the thought of the two girls on the doorstep, two such lovely, womanly girls, each with a noble soul, yet totally unlike, the one whose life had been set in among the grand moun tains touched with their grandeur and nobility of thought and life, and to him the purest, most tender of wom en, the other proving her tenderness through ail her life in the heart of the big city with its temptations and its evils. CHAPTER XVIII. Dolores and Dora. “And you found Uncle Joe when every one else had given up the search." said Dora, softly, her eyes full of loving admiration. “How brave you are, Dolores. I would never have had the courage to do it, but then I’m not brave anyhow.” “Why shouldn't I do it?" Dolores asked quietly, turning her large eyes wonderingly upon her companion.. “He is my father.” “Of course lie is." Dora replied, with a nod of her bright head, untying the broad ribbons of her hat and swinging it around upon her knees. “Papa is my father, too. Dolores Johnson, and I love him; but I would never have enough courage to go off on a lonely dangerous mountain to And him If he were lost—no not if I had a dozen men to go with me. Suppose you had slipped over one of those terrible ledges Mr. Green told us about, or walked right off Into a chasm when you thought you were in the path? No, I couldn’t do it, ever, but L wish I were brave like you.” Dolores said nothing, because she had nothing to say. Dora must be a coward if she would not do that for her father; any of the women of the settlement would have done the same. “Mr. Green told us all about you,” Dora continued, "and I wished so much to get at you. but you would not come to me, and I could not come to you, and then the rain—oh, ‘the rain it raineth every day,’ and I begun to think I would have to wait a week at least, and the things Mr. Green told me about you when he returned from here made me all the more restless and anxious to get at you, you poor dear.” “He saved my father,” Dolores said, presently. She said it slowly, as though she were forced to say it. Dora nodded. “I know it,” Bhe said, “the man who came over for the doctors told us About Jt, but you saved him more than anyone else, Dolores, and you cannot deny It. They'd never have thought of going over there to look after the deputies gave up the search had it not been for you.” (To be continued.) COLLECTING FARES IN CANADA. Method Is Practiced, But Hardly Up to Date. “There are all kinds of ways for collecting fares on the street cars, but one that I saw recently in Canada was certainly unique if not particu larly up to date,” says G. M. P. Holt. “I was taking a ride on the four mile trolley road running between Sherbrook and Lenoxville, in Canada. The first thing that met my eye on entering the car was the sign, 'Noth ing changed over $2.’ I don’t see ex actly why they were so particular about the matter, as it didn’t strike me that the class of passengers they were carrying was that which makes a practice of carrying 10-doIlar and 20-dollar bills only. “But what tickled me the most was the fare-taking that occurred soon after. The conductor came down the aisle carrying in his hand a curious looking arrangement that resembled a large, square ‘dark lantern.’ It, had r handle attached which the, con ductor grasped, and whan he shoved it toward my face and said ‘fare’ I perceived that it had a glass front and a slit in the top where you drop ped your nickel or ticket, and then you could see the same go down to the bottom.’’—Springfield, Mass., Union. Pittsburg Industries. The Pittsburg district has more In dustrial superlatives than any other similar area on earth. It has the greatest iron and steel works, the greatest electrical plans, the iargest glass houses, firebrick yards, potter ies and at the same time Is the center of the world’s greatest coal and coking Adds. giPjijMIfipyii.i ■ . .im. i FREE SOUP < II THEY ALWAYS GO TOGETHER. NOT ALL THE TRUTH | WHAT PRESIDENT M’KINLEY DID ' NOT SAY. Improbable Story by a Brit'sh Freo 1 Trader That the Late President Had j Reached the Conclusion That Tariff Must Be Reduced. Americans familiar with the tariff legislation of this country will read with surprise the statement made by F. O. Schuster, the governor of the Union Hank of London, that in an in terview which he had with the late President McKinley two years ago the latter said: "My tariff bill lias done Us work. We have been able to build up many great industries in a short time and now gradually, but inevitably, our tariff must be reduced.” It hardly seems the proper thing to call into question the statement of so distinguished a person as the gover nor of an important London bank, but we are forced to observe that Mr. Schuster's assertion is in the highest degree Improbable. It Is inconceiva ble that the late Mr. McKinley should have used the expression, "My tariff bill has done Us work,” at the time mentioned, for In 1901 the McKinley bill was a memory of the past., and the good it had accomplished more than a decade earlier had been in a measure counteracted by the retroac tive Gorman-Wilson bill. When Mr. Schuster had the honor of talking to the late President McKinley the Ding ley act was in force, and he would not have committed the unpardonable act of assuming that its accomplishments reflected credit upon himself. As a matter of fact Mr. McKinley always expressed himself with great modesty In discussing his own work, and was never guilty of bragging. But the main thing In Mr. Schus ter’s statement is the opinion he at tributes to the late president that our tariff must he reduced. That we shall also take the liberty of discrediting, because It is at variance with Mr. McKinley’s repeatedly expressed view that so long as the tariff performed the work It was cut out for—that is, of promoting domestic production—It conferred a national benefit. No pro tectionist was more firmly convinced than Mr. McKinley that the chief function of the policy was to preserve the home market for the domestic producer. He was strongly opposed to any relaxation of the tariff laws which would permit foreigners to suc cessfully compete in American mar kets. In short, he planted himself squarely on the proposition that the world would be better off if external trade was limited to an exchange of non-competing products. He believed that there would be room for a great development of foreign commerce along these lines, but he took no stock In the free-trade idea that a people can be benefited by giving a chance to foreigners to undersell them in their home market.—San Francisco Chron icle. How Not to Mend Matters. Being greatly moved to compassion Tor the unfortunate millionaire pack ers whose. products are required to pay increased duties on entering the French market, the Chicago Tribune Bays: “This would not have happened if the reciprocity treaty with France, negotiated a few years ago, had been ratified by the American senate. I Many domestic producers would have secured tariff rates lower than those then in force, and would have been protected against an increase during i the life of the treaty. The senate would not ratify it, and American ! trade suffers as a consequence. “There is one way to mend matters, it has been hinted at by French ofli rials. If the United States will make ronressicns on some French goods in a reciprocity treaty the French gov ernment will be quite pleased to make Doncessions on Its side.” That Is characteristic “reciprocity" , ioctrine. In order to swell the profits tf the meat barons the Tribune would issasslnate any number of other in dustries. Bin. is there not another uni a better way to mend matters? How would it do to clap double duties >n all Importations from France until ! tuch tltna as the French government ' * i could seo 11 b way to treat American products as fairly as it treats the products of any or all other coun tries? We have a tariff that is the same for everybody. Why not com pel other nations to be equally fair to us, or suffer the consequences? Why not? That wouldn’t bo "reciprocity,” to be sure, but it would bo fair play and common sense. WANT IT FOR THEMCSLVES. Canadians in No Hurry to Lose Control of Their Own Market. The movement headed by Chamber lain in England to-day may be de scribed as a movement for 1 aciprocity with the colonies. At the same time a strong movement for reciprocity with Canada is being carried on in tha United States. We published yester day a circular issued by the Minnesota branch of the National Reciprocity League. Its officers are some of the most “solid men” of Minneapolis, St. Paul and Duluth. The circular sajs that reciprocity with Canada will be more valuable than with any other country, and that there is a large mar ket here for farm machinery and oth er articles used by a farming commu nity. Hut unless a reciprocity treaty is soon arranged, Canadian tariffs will be raised, especially on American manufacturers. American manufacturers are, there fore, urged to prepare for the interna tional Joint High Commission. Tho work is to be done “quietly and with out parading Its efforts before the pub lic.” Unnecessary publicity is to be avoided. A fund of $100,000 ought to be raised. The members of the com mission “must be Impressed with the conviction that the commission must make a treaty,” then members of Con gress must be pressed to support It. “A great market is growing up north of the Great flakes and the St. Law rence, and we should go after it.” We do not blame our American friends for “going after” our market, but that is ail tho more reason why wo should strive to retain it for our selves. Our tariff Is much lower than that of the United States all along the line, and we buy from them twice as much as they from us. If they really want reciprocity, they can get a very large measure of it by simply reducing their own tariff, and this is the course suggested by tho New York Sun. There Is no doubt that the opening of the Canadian west creates a new situation in regard to trade. Afthougn we have been accustomed to say that the International boundary Is an imag inary line, the Great Lakes have been a real barrier to trade and eommu nication. In the West we shall for the first time have to deal with an imagin ary line of great length, with a large population on both sides.—Toronto World. True But Not Strange. It Is discouraging to New England reciprocators to find that among Cana dians there Is a growing coolness on the subject of preferential trade ar rangements with this country. Not long ago Sir Wilfrid Laurier, In the course of a speech in the house of commons, said that the best way for Canada to remain friendly with the United States was to be absolutely In dependent of it. Obviously he meant to convey the deduction that the sur est way to get into hot water would be to enter into a reciprocity sch __*e. Evi dences are increasing daily that Can ada does not yearn for reciprocity. She wants to make more, not less, of the manufactured goods required for home consumption. And she is right. Sad as it may be for those who want to "control the Canadian market” from the south side of the boundary, it seems to be true that Canada prefers to control her own market. invariable Results. The Democrats are getting into a useless sweat over the tariff. When it needs reforming the people will let the Republicans have control of the job. The Democrats have been tried—with free soup, Coxoy armies and such like results.—Valley Mills (Tex.) Protectionist. How to Pay the Debt. If we owe any further debt or duty to Cuba it should be paid out of the national treasury and not taken from our sugar and tobacco grower* THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. LESSON I., OCT. A—DAVID BRINGS UP THE ARK. ‘—■<* Golden Text—“Blessed Are They That Dwell in Thy Holise"—2 Samuel 6:1-12—Ways in Which the Re ligious Life l3 Cherished. I. Religion Neglected. The Ark of tha Covenant IId Aside. -- The Ark of the Covenant. The ark was a chest of acacia wood. two and One-half cubits (three feet nine Inches) In length, and one and one half cubits (two feet three inches) In height as well as width, plaits) within and without with gold. The Hd was of solid gold, and was called the mercy seat. Upon It were two golden figures of winged cherubim, with their wings stretched out over the ark' and their faces turned to ward one another. Within the ark were deposited the two tables of stone en graved with the ten commandments t Dcut. 10:3). Importance of the Ark to the Religion Of Israel. “The ark was the most ancient and sacred of the religious symbols of the Hebrew nation." (1) It was the sign and expression of ttyr divine presence In Israel It Was the abode of deity. Just ns our churches are the places where we meet God. and the euclmrlst expresses the presence of Jesus himself. How the Ark Came to He at Kirjath Jearlm. Boon nfter the settlement of the Israelites in Palestine Joshua deposited the ark at Shiloh, twenty miles north of Jerusalem, and ten miles north of Bethel (Josh, lict». It was still there at the close of the period of the judges (l*8am. 1:3); and Samuel lived ut Shiloh with Ell. The sons of Ell had carried the ark from Shiloh Into a battle against the Philistines, hoping that God would give them the victory for the sake of this sym bol of ills worship. Hut God illd not re ward wickedness in that way. The Israel ites were defeated, and the Philistines captured the ark. But the Lord would not permit them to retain It. Their Hol 1 >ugun fell before It. The people w-ere smitten with severe sickness wherever the ark was sent. Finally it was restored to Israel, and sent up the Sorek valley us far as Kirjath-Jearlm. In the house of Abln ndab on the hill <1 Bam. 7:1). who put It under the charge of one of his sons. Hero it had remained about seventy years (tho twenty years of l Bam. 7:3 do not refer to the whole time the ark remained at Kirjath-Jearlm. but to a time of reforma I it iti iifult-i- Siimiit*!). II. Religion Revived. A Movement >o Bring the Ark to the Capital.- Vs. 1-8. David's First Work. When David became king of all Israel and the Philistines be came aware of the fact, they immediately made an nttack upon him and his kingdom in great force. Ills llrst work, therefore. Was to organise his army and defend himself. He Inquired of the I.ord what to do, and then came down upon them as a flood, und swept them once and aguln out of the country. The Assembly. 1. ‘'Again.'’ after tho great assembly for his coronation. "David gathered together," after consultation with the leaders (t Chron. 13:1-1). "Thir ty thousund,” representatives of the whole people. Tho restoration must be a na tional act, or It would lose much of Its unifying power. 2. "And David arose and went . . . from Baale of Judah." The assembling at Baale Is omitted, and the account be gins with the great procession as It start ed on Its Way with the ark. The Procession. 3. "And they set the ark of God upon a new cart." Probably irpm a desire to keep the ark sacred from anything that had been used for common purposes. So our Rord rode Into Jerus alem on a colt "whereon no man ever yet sat." "Brought It out of the house of Abinadab." In whose son’s care tho ark hud been placed (l Sum. 7:1). seventy years before. "That was In Glbeah.!’ III. Religion Mlsued. Uzxuh’s Wrong Act and Death.—Vs. 6-9. 6. "Came to Nuehon’s threshing lloor.” Naehon means smiting, and the threshing lloor was thus named after this event, because here was tho smiting of Uxxnli. In 1 Chron. 13:9 It Is called “the threshing floor of Chld on.” the durt, the stroke with which Us i!uh was smitten. "Usxah put forth his hand to the ark of God." To steady the ark ami keep It from falling. “For the oxen shook It.” By stumbling in the rough road (l Chron. 13:9). The word ’’shook'’ probably means were throwing down. The ark was on the point of be ing thrown off the cart, und was liable to serious Injury. 7. “And the anger of the l.ord was kindled.” Not passion, hut rather Indig nation—that feeling which makes him hate sin and compels him to punish it. All that was loving und good In God was aroused against the act. "And God smote him there.” On the spot, as with a flash of lightning. "For his error." The He brew Is uncertain, but from other versions It Is supposed to read "because he put Ills hand to the ark." 1 "The whole transaction was contrary to the provisions of the law, which gives specific Instructions for the trunsport of me urn cnum. s;. !>. "Anil David was afraid of the Lord.” He had rejoiced greatly In his zeal, hut had not been reverent enough. It was well for him to he afraid for u time. Wo have reason to fear when we have done wrong, and men usually do fear when Coo makes any sudden and special mani festation of his punishment of sin. IV. Religion a messing. The Ark In the House of Ohed-cdom.—Vs. 10, II. 10. "So David would not remove the ark.” He ieared lest he might make some other mistake, and thought It best first to learn all about his duty. "Carried It aside Into the house of Obed-edom.” A Invite be longing to the family of Kohath. who was appointed to have charge of the taber nuclc and ark (Num. 4:15). 11. "Continued . . . three months.” Long enough for the Israelites to learn their lesson. And the Lord blessed Obed edom. and all his household." This would show to all Israel that the ark Itself brought blessing, not death. The death cume from disobedience, not from the ark. Another lesson was also taught. V. Religion the Life of the Nation. The Ark Established on Mt. Zion.—V. 1”. "And it was told King David," etc. The fact that God blessed the place where the ark was, impressed David with the truth thst, while it was dangerous to disobey God. yet It was the greatest blessing pos sible to have near him the ark of God and his manifest presence. "So David went and brought up the ark of God,” as semollng the tribes once more, the most eminent priests, the flower of the army, the princes and dignitaries. "Into the city of David with gladness.” Practical. 1. Religion Is the essential element of a prosperous and successful nation. It is the soul of Its success. It is not to be ruled by the government, but is to pervade the whole nation. * Every-Day Heroes. In the course of a rreent sermon the Rev. Charles Goodell, D. 1)., of Brooklyn, said: “All ages and ail lives furnish opportunity and incentive for the heioic. We have read the annals of the great battles on land and sea. and the contests of the arena, but. after all, we are coming to understand that the greatest display of the heroic is in private life, and the victories which men have plucked from the steeled hand of misfortune are greater ;han those which have been won amid the cannon's roar."
