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THAT GIRL of JOHNSON S 'Ey JZA.JV K.A TE. LVDLVM. jUtihor of "At a Ci’i'j Mtr&f Etc. < | Entered According to /rt of Congress ?n the Year IS**) by Street & SmitI* I In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C. L "VT ... " -I'.'!*-:." — CHAPTER XVIII.—Continued. "The deputies?” Dolores repeated slowly. The softened color and gentle expression disappeared from her face; $ she drew her hands away from Dora's clinging fingers; she pushed back the k hair that had slipped down on her I forehead. Then the deputies had been f searching for her father. That was rwhat those men were there for that morning when they stopped and asked of her where he was. And If those men of the law came for him when he was not there, when every one knew that he was not there, and sought for him over on the oppo site mountain among its dangers, would they not come at any time for him to prove their case? Might they not even insist upon taking him over to the town in spite of his condition? ITncons( iously her fingers closed over the flowers in her lap, crushing them relentlessly. rr. ... t._1 _ ___.1 < P .s M. >* M PU11 UUUUO 1 Cl' uocu v**' ...... and as Dora wiped away the red stains of the blossoms from her cousin's bands, she said, with a sweet laugh: “Dolores, what is the matter? See what you have done to the poor, pret h ty flowers—you have killed them; their blood is on your hands, and your hands have stained mine.’ The effect of her words on Dolores was startling. She drew away her hands sternly and arose to her feet, clutching the door post to steady her self; her face was white, and her eyes wide and terrified. Young Green, re turning from up the mountain, heard Dora’s last words and turned away with a face as pallid as Dolores'. Dora arose quickly, and clasped her hands around her cousin's arm, raising her sweet, penitent face to hers. “Dolores, Dolores, I did not mean that—I was only joking—1 could not have meant it—I would not have said such a thing for the world—I forgot you were not used to me, and-’’ The words ended in a vio.et fit of coughing that racked the slender frame pitifully. Raising her handker chief to her lips she sank upon the step. Young Green entered the house un noticed and spoke to Mrs. Allen, who came out at once and sat down beside Dora, placing her arm around her with low, tender words of comfort. Young Green came out with a cup of water, and Mrs. Alien thanked him with a grateful glance, but as she took it and placed it to Dora’s lips she glanced at Dolores, ami her glance was full of hate; while young Green himself for the moment dared not meet her eyes for fear of betraying what was in his mind and heart. “Will she lie down and rest?” asked Dolores, presently, still standing at a distance from her, speaking as though her lips were stiff. At sound of her voice Dora opened her eyes slowly and looked up at her with a faint smile; but Mrs. Allen, without replying, motioned to Charlie, who, understanding her wish, crossed over to the bedroom and tapped light ly on the door. Dr. Dunwiddie opened it at once, and after a whispered word or two he went out to the girl, while young Green entered the quiet room. Johnson lay in a stupor among the pillows, his sunken eyes closed, his cruel lips apart, showing the discol ored teeth within; his short white beard was coarse and thin, and lent additional repulsiveness to the narrow face. The young man stood at the bedside looking long and earnestly at the face of the other, until the expres sion of wonder and horror slowly gave place to one of pity. "Poor fellow,"he said to himself; “poor fellow! Surely he has suffered r "Dolores, I Did Not Mean That." enough already; why not leave him In peace to God and his conscience; ‘Forgive as ye would be forgiven.’ Friend, go in peace. Truly, l have ned of forgiveness, and should not pull down the bridge over which I myself must pass. But how such a woman as she could have come from such a nature as his is a problem. My poor, tender-hearted girl, how she suffered just now and I could do noth ing!" Dr. Dunwiddie meanwhile went out to the group in the sunny doorway. Hi3 grave, dark face was full of kind ness as he bent over the frail girl, and spoke to Mrs. Allen. "She must lie down at once.” he said, "and be kept perfectly quiet for a while. No, you must not walk,” as -- ■ - . ...—ri she attempted to rise. "Allow me, Miss Johnson.” He raised her in his arms as though she were in truth a child, and carried her to the settle between the south windows. She did not speak until Mrs. Allen brought her beef tea and fed her with tender care; then, half rising among the pillows, whiter than they, she asked faintly with a wistful ness in her eyes that sent an angry pang through the woman's heart: “Where is—Dolores—Nurse Allen? I—want—Dolores.” Mrs. Allen called sharply in a voice that caused Dora to look up at her in wonder: “Come in at once, Dolores; Dora wishes you. Dr. Dunwiddie hearing the words and catering sight of the woman's face, crosesd the room and spoke to Dolores, his voice low with kindness. She started when he addressed her, and turned obediently with one swift, startled glance up into his face, and entered the room half hesitatingly. Dora put out her hand as she crossed the room. “Dolores!” she said, entreatlnglv. Dr. Dunwiddie turned quickly away and entered the inner room where his friend was waiting for him. By and by, when she was better, I Dora sat up among the pillows, and | drew Dolores down beside her, hold ; ing her hands caressingly between her own, smoothing the tense, slender Angers now and then with pathetic tenderness as though to atone or soften her careless, wounding words. She leaned her pure, pale face against the gray window casing that the soft, low wind with its subtle odor of pines should blow upon her. Her large gray eyes, grown black with a half shy love and pleading, rested on her cous in's grave face. And she did not know that the slender shred of pale blue ribbon lay safely hidden in the depths of the doctor's pocket as he re-entered the sick room beyond. They tallied long there at the cool south window, she, smallor girl, hold ing her cousin's hands closely in hers, telling her of the world beyond the chained mountains, of the life that throbbed and pulsed out of her sight. Dolores listened in silence, wonder ing more and more how this girl could care to love her, could care to have her for her cousin. "We will paint together, Dolores,” she said, “and sew and play. You shall sing and I will accompany you on my guitar, and you shall sing and accompany yourself, for the guitar will just suit your voice; and how you would look in an old gold gown with warm colored roses about you, play ing a guitar, its broad ribbon across your shoulders, your eyes—just as they are now. Oh, such a soul as there is in them at this minute, Do lores Johnson! The men will love you, and the women—must. Dolores, Do lores, I cannot wait. I wish I might take you right now.” She paused, breathless, smiling, sit ting erect, holding Dolores by her two young arms, her sweet face flushed with excitement. At that moment Dr. Dunwiddie opened the bedroom door and spoke to Mrs. Allen, and she entered with him, young Creen coming out. Dora flushed as she saw him. and she aroused from the settle, shaking Her urau suuuuy. “Mr. Green. I beg your pardon for detaining you—I do. indeed. Truly, I ! did not think." He smiled reassuringly at her. “It has been pleasant to me. Miss Johnson—so pleasant that I had for gotten the raso on at eleven at home. It is now ten minutes of that hour, and If you will pardon my leaving you I will send the carriage for you at any time you name.” Dolores did not move or speak. The case on hand. Her ears seemed sharp to catch and hold such sentences. These words only were clear, the rest were distant and Jumbled. Even when he spoke to her she seemed Incapable of hearing or replying. That her si lence was caused by anything he said he did not imagine, but be was grow ing accustomed to her silence. “I wish I could stay with you al ways," Dora said softly when the young man had gone, “but I cannot leave father. Dolores, you know. You do not blame me, I am sure. And I will come over every day or whenever I can. Father would have come over with me this morning, but Judge Green wished him to be In court. They have a strange case on hand, and I am so interested in it; aren't you, Do lores? About the laming of young Mr. Green’s beautiful mare, you know? I believe they have some new evidence 1 to be heard this morning. Young Mr. Green was to have been there early to attend to some important matter be fore court opened, and here I have detained him.” Still Dolores did not move or speak. In a vague manner the thought pre sented itself to her that one of the marble gods Dora had been telling her about could scarcely be more like stone than she, and she wondered, too, in that strange half sense if these marble men and women were capable of suffering as human men and wom en? And Dora continued in her Ipw voice, rising and pulling Dolores by the hand for her to follow. “Let us go out of doors, cousin mine; It Is so beautiful there with the pines and the mountains. 2 feel as | ih<nfh God were very near in the si lence of the hills, and ‘to be alone with silence is to be alone with God;’ but I think he is somehow’ nearer in the hearts of his humanity. You have ! not even t church here, Dolores. Why, | what do you do with no church, nor • schools, nor anything?" And Dolores, driven at last to speak, , asked mechanical!/; "Why should we j have a church, and what is a church?” CHAPTER XIX. Time’s Developments. Johnson slowly recovered; the days passed, and the weeks, while he lin gered weak and complaining. Dolores’ presence annoyed him, and drove him to fits of temper, until Dr. Dunwiddie advised her to remain away from him as much as possible. Dr. Dunwiddie regularly drove over to see Johnson once a week, and Mrs. Allen remained in the low. unpainted house in the miust of its desolate gar den, filling the rooms with her pres ence, but daily growing more hardened tow’ard the quiet girl who was winning Dora's affection away from her, she "It Is So Beautiful There.” told herself, In excuse for her un friendly feeling, but the girl herself,, buried in other thoughts, believed It was from the kindness of her heart that she talked to her so often during the long evenings of the life outside of the quiet settlement and of the man ners she would there he expected to copy, and she accepted in 6ilence the many words of advice as to her lack of pride in allowing young Green to see so clearly her feelings toward him, and the cautioning uttered with a kindly smile or soft touch on her arm against allowing herself to be so in fluenced by almost an utter stranger who was kind to her only out of pity, and who could never care for bar other than as the merest acquaintance, she, the daughter of the blacksmith who was waited for to prove the malice in the laming of his mare. The woman knew well the stories adrift In the settlement that had somehow come to her she scarcely knew how herself, and of the girl’s dread of what might follow the prov ing of the case waiting in the town for her father’s presence. That the girl had never done her harm to cause this feeling of hatred she would not believe. Had she not won Dofa's heart in a fashion she could never do? Could she accept this unmurmuringly? Was there nothing she could do to hurt the girl in Dora's eyes? And if that were impossible—and she soon learned that it was—was it impossible for lier to wound the girl herself in every way conceivable to a narrow mind. (To be continued.) PHOTOGRAPHY IN THE DARK. German Professor Says Light is Not Needed for Making Pictures. The light is not needed for the printing of photographs is a discov ery w hich has been made by I)r. Wil helm Oswald, professor of chemistry in the University of Leipsic. He produces the required changes In the sensitizafl paper by the use of silver on nega tives treated with a solution of per oxide of hydrogen. The presence of silver causes the elements of the solu tion to react against each other. In a very short time in those places where there is silver in the negative the solution will disappear; In tho other spots remain. This invisible pic ture is then transferred to gelatine paper and finally developed by iron sulphate in solution. Gallic acid is then applied and the result Is a genu ine ink picture. Dr. Oswald declares that in this method the sensitized paper will keep indefinitely and the silver can be used over any number of times. He says the process is far cheaper and quicker than any now In use, besides requiring no light. By It any design or drawing can be quickly copied. One At a Time. A fond father was giving advice to his young son the other day. Among other things he said: “If you try to do more than one thing at a time you can't do anything well.” “Oh, yes. I can,” said the young hopeful. “I’ve tried. I did three things the other day, all at one time, and did ’em all well.” “How was that?” asked the father. “Well, you see, I swung on the gate and whistled and threw a stone at Tommy Brown—and hit him, too.” Had Often Been Kicked. "John Jones, the patient who came in a little while ago,’’ said the attend ant in the out-patient department, "didn’t give his occupation.” “What was the nature of his trou ble?" asked the resklent physician. “Injury at the base of the spine.” “Put him down as a book agent” I TITE EXTRA SESSION NECESSITY FOR IT SEEMS TO SE DISAPPEARING. There Is No Probability of Agreement on Currency Legislation, and Noth ing U to Be Gained by Forcing Action on the Cuban Treaty. The necessity for an extra session teems to bo disappearing. It was given out some weeks ago that the President had determined upon Nov. 9 as the date on which Congress should assemble in extraordinary ses sion to consider currency legislation and the consummation of the Cuban •eclprocity treaty. Since then reports have been current of an intention to name a date early in October. There 's gratifying reason to anticipate that the earlier date will not be the one teleeted. Members of both Houses of Congress are as a rule strongly averse to assembling in extra session at all, much loss at a date when state and local politics require attention. In many of the state legislatures are to be elected which are to choose Suited States senators. In all of the states elections of one sort or an other are to be hold, lienee the strong objection to an October session. It is understood that a large major ity of senators and representatives are also opposed to an extra session in November. They argue that inas much as Congress is able to assemble the first week in December for the regular session, they should not be called to Washington in November unless some pressing emergency exists which requires prompt action. They can perceive no such emergency, iney know of no legislation which could not lie as well or better attended to at the regular session which be gins early in December. Currency legislation, they maintain, presents no such urgency, and the Cuban question contains any reference to tariff revts Ion it will be about as follows: “Wi favor lowering the tariff on sue! articles as may he deemed unentltlof to protection and raising the scheduh on such other articles as need furthei succor.” This vague and delightfully indefinite declaration would be broac enough to permit the gathering of al sorts of tariff Republicans. All could equally "euthu/.e” and after the vio tory Indulge in tui exciting family fight over the interpretation of thi ambiguous plank. l.et us lose nc sleep, however, in contemplating th« possibility of the Republican party adopting a tariff revision plank menac lug to the present schedule of rates.— Terre Haute Tribune. A Peculiar Proposition. "There never was and there nevei will be a soup house during a Repub lican administration,” says the Vintor liagle. "Can we not afford ever soup?"—Oelwein Record (Dem.). Under the McKinley and Roosevelt administrations the Record has en joyed the largest measure of pros perity 1n its history. Its columns are filled to overflowing with advertising its subscription list has never been so fat, and doubtless the output of its job department has been correspond lngiy augmented. Yet, strangely enough, in the face of conclusive evi dence right at home of the prevalence of prosperity, it sneers at a conditios the actuality of which it is too sen slide to attempt to deny. The average Democratic newspaper these days is a peculiar proposition.—Manchester (la.) Press. Best Tariff for Revenue. The customs receipts during the last fiscal year amounted to |283,891, 719. Their magnitude sug gests that the best tariff for revenue is a pro tective tariff and not a tariff for rev enue only. Whenever the free traders have attempted to frame a tariff on the latter lines it lias Invariably re THIS OLD HEN WILL “SET” NEXT YEAR AS USUAL. i»A Involves no exigency justifying the unusual and hazardous proceeding of an extra session. So marked is the difference of opinion as to the proper measure for imparting elasticity to the currency that there is no prospect of an agreement, and hence no prospect that final action could be had on a currency bill prior to the time for the regular session. As to the Cuban treaty, if American growers of sugar end tobacco are to be robbed of the protection guaranteed to them in the Ulngley tariff and solemnly pledged to them In the national Republican plat form, they can be as effectively robbed in December or January as iu October or November. Extra sessions of Congress are seri ous things. All Presidents heretofore have resorted to them with great re luctance. Even in the presence of so grave a condition as that which exist ed in the early part of 1897, when hun dreds of millions worth of foreign goods were being hurried to this coun try In anticipation of the higher duties certain to be Imposed by the Repub lican party; and when all labor and industry clamored for a speedy res toration of adequate protection, even under these circumstances President McKinley was loath to call an extra session, and only consented to do so as the result of strong pressure and strenuous urgency on the part of the business interests. If President Mc Kinley was reluctant, to break prece dents and summon Congress into ex traordinary session to pass the Ding I ley tariff in 1897, how much more re luctant should President Roosevelt be to take a step so fraught with risks on the eve of a great Presidential election! Currency legislation being practi cally impossible because of the failure of those leading in the movement to agree upon any plan, an extra session either in October or in November need not and should not be called on account of the currency. As to the Cuban question, if there is to be a fight over it inside the Republican party in Congress, surely there should be no precipitate haste in bringing on that fight Let us have peace as long as we cun. Tar'ff Revision. Many Democratic, some independ ent and a scattering few Republican newspapers ovanr the country are in sisting that the Republican paity In Its next platform declare for tariff re vision. In the meantime Uncle Mark Hanna and hie associate standpatters Just laugh. It Is pretty safo to as gume that if the Sepubllcan platform ... I suited in a deficit. High duties prop erly applied promote production In our own country, and through the conse quent prosperity, enable us to in crease our Imports of articles which we do not really need, but which, with the perversity of human nature, we are willing to pay more dearly for on that account.—San Francisco Chronicle. Trade Statistics. English papers, to prove that Great Britain is not retrograding under free trade, assert that the aggregate for eign trade of their country is $155 per capita, while that of the United States is only $45 per capita. Hence Great Britain is three or more times as prosperous as the United States. Let us look at one item in the propo sition. We are, in round figures, buy ing $100,000,000 worth of foreign sugar year by year and, equally, ex porting a like value with which to pay for the sugar. Sugar adds to our sta tistical evidence of prosperity $200, 000,000, or $2.50 per capita per annum. If wo made all of our sugar and paid our own farmers $100,000,000 for it, w« would by this standard of prosperity all lose $2.50 per year! The Democratic Position. Whatever the Democrats of Iowa stand for as to the Tariff is represent ed in the demand for ‘‘a tariff for revenue only." What they allege with reference to trust made goods is no more than appeal to prejudice. What they are after is to get rid of protective duties altogether. The Democratic position is that the way to correct abuses Is to destroy busi ness. That is not the Republican posi tion. The distinction is easily marked. —Sioux City Journal. No Change. The Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser says the nomination of Mr. Cleveland, or one of his kind, would be due to the returning sanity of the Southern Democracy, after an aberration of seven years. As most of the Southern States vote the Democratic ticket without question, any change in polit ical sanity, one way or the other, In that sertion is imperceptible.—St Louis Globe-Democrat. Fairness. The Sioux City Journal, which clips every mean thing that any editor writes about Bob Cousins' speech, has never printed the speech in full and probably never will. Yet Uncle George will lecture before the next editorial association on "Fairness In Journalism.’’—Ln»i Moines Capita.’. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. LESSON II., OCT. 11 -GODS COVE NANT WITH DAVID, Golden Text—“Thy Throne Shall Be Established for Ever”—2 Samuel 7-16—Longings for God's Kingdom, and Their Fulfillment. 1. David's Longing for the Religious Development of Ills Kingdom.—Vs. l-;s. The Kingdom was now fairly launched, with favoring wind and tide, to move on to its fulness of usefulness and glory. The king, with a noble longing for the good of his people and the Honor of Clod, deslnd to build a temple that would worthily express the nation's feelings to ward their God and strengthen their re ligious and moral life. Accordingly he con sulted with Nathan the prophet. The proposal struck (he prophet favorably, and he bade him Godspeed, for God ap proved of It. II. A Seeming Denial; with a H a lew of the Past Which Strengthens David's Faith.—Vs. 1-11. A Seeming Denial. 4. "That" (the same) "night. . . . the , word of the Lord eume unto Nathan.” by a vision (v. 17). The prophet was right in the assurance that the object of Da vid's desire was pleasing to God. hut there was need of light upon the last way of accomplishing it. God had n better an swer to David's prayer than he imagined. 6. "Shalt thou build me an house for mo to dwell In?" This expression is equivalent to a negative, and Implies that lie shall not build the house, as is stated lit 1 Citron. 17: t. It is quite possible that David laid too much stress on the building of tlie outward temple, and there was danger of not emphasizing the religious life for which the temple stood. David was not essential, hut God was. 8. ”1 took thee.’* Mis life was a plan of God hitherto, and from the past David was to learn lessens of trust for the fu ture. All David’s greatness had its source in God. His life was controlled by God. as the life of a child is guided by Ills father. From the sheepcote," i. e.. fold. God exalted the shepherd boy to be king. 10. “I will appoint.” or prepare (better, have appointed, us some render it), "a place." That is, by subduing their en cmUs he made room for a safe, unen dnngered expansion In itio promised land. "And will plant them. And move no more.” Met ter. shall he disturbed no more. "Neither shall Hie children of wickedness afflict them any more." They might at tack Israel, us some of them did after this, but they could not conquer and op press them. Practical. God often answers our pray ers in the way he answered David's de sire to build the temple; when It is not .heal to grant the exact thing we desire he gives us something better In Its place. III. The Threefold Fulfilment of Pa Md's Desire. God's Covenant with David. —Vs. 11-16. Prof. Ihnry H. Smith re gards vs. 8-16 (except v. 11) as rhythmi cal. and puts them hi poetical form. , First Specification of This Covenant. The House of David to Ho Established ‘Forever (vs. 11. 12, 18). "Me will make thee an house." A fam ily, a race of persons of one stock. "I will set up thy seed after thee." David's descendants should continue the succea islon, "and I will establish” (make firm and enduring) "his kingdom." The lino of descendants shall never cease. Ho v. 16. "Thy kingdom shall be estab lished for ever.” "The dynasty of David Is an everlasting dynasty." The Fulfilment. (1) In Solomon, his son and successor, who recognizes the fulfil ment of tills promise in his elevation to the throne (1 Kings 8:15-20). (2) In the succession of kings. "After the destruc tion of the temple and the extinction of David's dynasty In Jerusalem, the writer In Chronicles and the post-exilian proph ets regard the promise as still in force, and still In process of fulfilment to the seed of David, with no limit to Its eternal operation." (3) The complete fulfilment was in Jesus Christ, "great David's great er Son.” In the words of Kell. “The pos terity of David could only last forever by running out in a person who lives for ever; that is. by culminating in the Mes siah, who lives forever, and of whose kingdom there Is no end.” The New Tes tament repeatedly speaks of Jesus as the son of David, and inheritor of the prom ises tl.uke 1:31-33; 20:41-44; Acts 2:23 31; 13:22, 23). Hecond Specification of the Covenant. David's Heed Should Mulld the Temple (v. 13). 14. Iio shall hullo on house for my name.” The glorious temple that David desired to build was built l»y his son fciol omon, while David himself had the priv ilege of inuking grout preparations for this temple, at least one hundred and fifty million dollars In gold, besides vast quantities of other material. Hut this temple was but one expression and symbol of Clod's spiritual temple, "built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief cornerstone; In whom all the building, fitly framed together, groweth unto an holy temple In the Lord; In whom ye also are bullded together for an habita tion of God through the Spirit” (Hph. 2:20-22). "God built for David a house —even a temple—by the incarnation of Christ, who came from his seed. For Christ calls his own body, which he took from the blessed Virgin Mary, of the seed of David, a temple: 'Destroy this temple, and In three days I will build it up again. He spake of the temple of his body’ " (John 2:21).—Theodoret. Thus David's son Solomon built the temple at Jerus alem. David's gienter Son built the spir itual temple of the whole world. The Third Specification. The Relation of Sonshlp Established (vs. 14. 15). 14. "I will be his father, and he shall be my son." "Israel at the Exodus had been taken up Into the relation of sonshlp to Jehovah. . . . Now thlH relation ol sonshlp is applied to David and his seed In a peculiar and higher sense.” (1) It applies to Solomon ‘‘who by his historical transactions this temple, his wide king dom, his glories, his sufferings) points the way to the ultimnte realization In the Messiah.” "This relation of sonshlp in volves two special phases, chastisement and mercy. The chastisement is on ac count of sin, and In order to its removal. It Is chastisement by paternal love. . . , But it Is a chastisement ot redemption.”— Professor Briggs. 15. “But my mercy shall not depart away from him, as I took It from Saul." In Saul’s case, not only was he himself punished, but the kingdom was taken from his family. This relation of sonship applied to Israel during her whole his tory, which Is the best commentary on these verses. This promise was complete ly fulfilled only In Jesus Christ. In Jesus, the Sou of God. Is God’s fatherhood best made known, and through him to all who love and obey him. Why Christians Should Be Joyful. Dr. R. A. Torrey, speaking of the Christian's duty to be ever joyful in the Lord, says: "The Christian life is a life of constant joy. It Is the be liever's privilege, as well as his duty, to rejoice, and to rejoice all tho time. The Christian who is not rejoicing all the time is not only disobeying God. but bringing dishonor on Jesus Christ. No Christian ever has any good ex cuse for not rejoicing. Rut note the sphere of the believers' joy ‘in the Lord.’ He Is the source and the ob ject of our joy.” * .v