THAT GIRL of JOHNSON S By JEAfi KATE LVDLVW. Author 0/ "At a Girl's Mercy, * Etc, Entered According to Act of Congress in the Ye.ir l^X) b? Street A Smith, In the Othce of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. D. C. CHAPTER XXII.—Continued. "Yes,” he said, gently, “I know he is dead, Dolores, but after death all things are made straight. He knows now better than he ever could have known from your telling, and I know ho has forgotten ti3.” There were sweetness and solemn ity in the young man's voice as he bent above the beautiful cold face that caused Dora to catch her breath in sudden comprehending of the depth of the kindly heart, as he slowly re peated, the touch on the girl’s hands very tender, the light in the loving eyes entering into her very sotil; “ ‘There Is no death. What seems so is transition: This life of mortal breath Js but a suburb of the life elyslan. Whose portal we call death.’ CHAPTER XXIII. "That Girl cf Johnson’s.” Dora was standing at the well at Dolores’ old home with her husband, waiting for Dolores and Charlie Green, tvho had gone at the girl's request to the opposite mountain. It was a strange freak of Dolores’, but with the usual simple acquiescence in any wish of hers they hod gone, and here Dora and her husband were waiting for their return at the girl's old home. But it was not the home of the girl’s remembrance. The garden was in fine order and the fence well built; ’no longer did the gate swing on its rusty, rickety hinges. The enterpris ing chickens were scratching among the shrubs at the back of the house, but not a chicken dared show its face at the front of the neat little house where Jim Ixidie and Cintiiy lived— the two young pepolc who had always had a kindly thought for its former mistress. Dora was standing at the w’ell watching her husband as he swung the bucket down among the cool shadows, her sweet face, grown more womanly and holding a deeper mean ing in every delicate line. She stood on tiptoe to look down and follow tlio flight of the bucket, but even standing bo she scarcely reached to his shoul der. She turned her pretty head on one side as a bird might do, and said, with an air that convulsed her hus band, though there was a deeper and more tender meaning to her words that ho would not let her know he un derstood. “The course of true love never did run smooth—and look at that poor bucket, Hal. You are fairly beating the life out of it against the sides of the well.” “Poor thing!” said the big fellow, In a tone that implied scant sympathy for the luckless bucket. “You had better say that Charlie is eating his heart out because your cousin will not love him, Dot. Is she never going to be good to him for his faithfulness, dear? He deserves a good life and a good woman, Dora; even your cousin cannot deny that.” “Don’t talk of Doric as though she were heartless, Harry,” Dora said, solftly, with one of her swift wistful glances up to his face. “Lorie is not like other girls.” The other two having passed down out of the settlement, followed by the j half scornful eyes of the men at the tavern, crossed the rotten bridge over the river and ascended the opposite mountain slowly among the bent bushes and mysterious mists that held in their hiding the snares of death and the pitfalls that lay in wait ing. "Thar goes thet gal o’ Johnsing’s.” Tqjn Smith said, with a rough break of laughter in his deep voice. “What en ther world slio's goin’ ower yander fer beats me holler.” “Goin’ ter say her prayers ower her feyther’s grave, I reckon,” joined in Hiram Sadler, coarsely, but the an swering laughter on Smith’s lips never passed them as Jones turned his indig nant eyes upon them, removing his pipe from his lips to make reply. “Et ’pears to me,” he said, slowly, with an emphasis that hushed their mirth, “thet ye might hev gained a mite o’ respec’ an’ kindly feelin’ arfter all these years sence Johnsing died. “Lorie Is not like other girls." Et do ’pear ter me ’t ye might keep yer mouth shot ef ye ken only say sech spiteful thengs. Ise only got these ter say ter ye, Sadler, an’ ter ye. too, Smith—ef ye kyan’t say kind thengs o’ the gal o’ Johnsing's arfter all she’s done as’ ’s still doin’ fer us i ye ain’t so welcome ter this tav'n as ye were. An’ ye ken take et as ye will. Thct's all I've got ter speak, an’ now my mind’s bettor’n when I sot hyar list’nin’ ter yer men talk.” A flush came even through the tan of rough Sadler's face, and Smith shuffled his feet upon the gravel and knocked the ashes from his pipe as he said slowly: ‘‘Thanke ’ee. Jones. Wes been frien’s nigh onter fo’ty year, an' fer my part I ain’t a-goin’ ter ’low sech triflin’ words ter kem atween we. Hyar’s my hand on’t. I ain’t mebby so onfrien’l to'rd D’lores es ye 'pear ter thenk. Wes all say thengs’t wes don't mean, an’ mebby thet's ther way of us. Eh, Sadler?” Sadler node’er bis grisly head slow ly. He wasn’t so frank spoken as Smith nor perhaps so kind-hearted un der his rough speech. Smith said many rough things, but he would have done much also. And young Green, holding Dolores’ warm hand closely In his to assist her up the rough, seldom trodden path un der the bending houghs and ghastly mists, was thinking of the many years she had lived there in the stolid set tlement with not one friend in all the world save, it might be, the rough, un spoken kindliness of Jim Lodie and Cinthy. And with his kindly eyes up on the grave, beautiful face he could but wonder how such a life could yield such a marvel of womanliness and tenderness. It was a etrange freak of hers, no doubt, this wish to once again stand upon the brink of her father's death, but how could ho, loving her, dissuade her from a desiro so intense as this was shewn by the pleading of the dark eyes? And so they had come, and, standing in the very place where she stood years before, with the misty, mysterious gulf at her feet and the broken glimpses of blue heaven through the floating mist, a touch of grief and pleading and tenderness came over tho pure, pale face that caused this man, loving her. to bow his head as one involuntarily bows the head before the chancel with the touch of an indescribable holiness brooding above. And he removed his hat, standing so, with his hand upon her round arm as she stood immova ble searching the terrible death below her, as though for the solving of the bitterness of her life, as though for the solving of her own harsh heart lessness In accusing her father when none other save tho man at her side end others with wicked intent, charged him with crime. And there was an agony dawning over the pallid face and wide eyes that hushed all other thought for the time In the heart of her friend—all thought save an Intense desire and longing to take her into his arms and soothe this agony of bit terness and shield her all her life long from any touch of pain, any touch of life’s harshness. But he waited si lently with' bent head, his hand upon her arm, while she fought—and won— perhaps a struggle that few are called upon to fight, that few would con quer. Then the eyes, widened with agony, were lifted from the depths of horror and mystery seeking the brok en bits of blue heaven through the mist of the tangled pines upon the height, and an indescribable grandeur and beauty gradually grew upon the lifted face and in the depths of the grave eyes as though the peace sought had been won, and the bitterness of years was buried never again to be resurrected in all the life before her, never again to shadow, as it had done, the love and life of this friend beside her. And lie, guessing in part the thoughts in her heart, made no move ment save a more tender hold upon the steady arm he held. And he waited for her to speak. All her life passed her in review as she stood there conscious even though the bitterness of this warm, kindly friend at her side—all the bitterness and pain and humiliation and struggle of her life, all the thoughts and sor rows and struggles, and when at last she turned facing this friend, the change upon her face was as though an angel had touched her standing there, and life’s suffering had passed from her, life's struggles and pain, and left only the touch of heavenly fingers upon the eyes and mouth. One of li^r slow, radiant smiles broke the sadness of her face as she laid her hand upon the hand on her arm as she said softly, a new intona tion even in the low voice: “You mustn’t be so good to me, Charlie; I ought, to suffer alone some times. You cannot realize how much I deserve it.” He laid his other hand warmly over this soft hand on his arm, a new light on his face, and in his eyes that caused a sudden drooping of the face in the light of the sunset. “You deserve to suffer!” there was an intensity in his voice born from watching the suffering on her face, and from the suffering In his own soul. “You deserve to suffer, Dolores John son! If there Is need for your suffer ing how much more Rhould I suffer who was equal with you in thinking the unkind theugha? Come away from this terrible place, Dolores— leave all these old bitter memories here in the weird shadows and mists j only fit for them, and give your life I to my keeping, tell m» you love me as 1 love you—give me the answer to the I question I asked so long ago. Lorie, under the light of your heavens, un der the tender light of your stars ere you left me for your new life and pos sible forgetfulness.” She met h!s eyes gravely and square ly, though the new light of tendernesi was still in them as she said, slowly, with almost her old slowness: ‘‘The happiness of a man's life does net altogether depend ca the love of a woman, Charlie.” “To a great extent, darling.” “But even If I should tell you 'no,' you would be happy after a while, Charlie. Time heals everything.” “Not everything, Lorie.” “Yes, everything,” she said, decid edly. “You know that time heals ev erything, Charlie—even the old pain of unforgiveness.” “Hush!” he said, swiftly, and his hands on both her arms as he held her facing him, were tremtding with the wish to hold her free from pain. “You are never to say such things again, dearest. I^et those things pass. You have suffered enough for them, and God will lay His great tenderness over them.” She was silent a moment, as though reading his Inmost thought, the lifted eyes grave and searching and tender Then she turned from the gruesome chasm buried at her feet in its treach “I am sure I want you/’ erous shroud of mist, and said, softly, with a tenderness that touched him deeply: “God Is very good, Charlie. I can not doubt his tenderness. All my life I will leave In his hands as you say— all my life, past as well as future." Then presently she added: “Let us go, Charlie. I leave here burled in the heart of His mountains the bitterness that has shadowed not only my life but the lives of those who lovo me. The mountains are His and my life Is His." But as they paused for an instant on the rotten brii;-.e with the waters sobbing at their feet, black with the slime and smoke of the town, she laid her hand earnestly upon his arm, and , lifting her grave faco to his, flushing with its new tenderness, she added, softly: "You have been so good to me al ways, Charlie! Are you sure—sure you do want nobody but that girl of Johnson’s? I come with empty hands, you know." Ho smiled into the quivering face and wide, searching eyes and he an swered her, taking her two hands in his closely as though he would never again let them go from him: “I am sure, sure that I want you, Dolores Johnson, more than any wom an in God’s beautiful world. Your hands may be empty hands, but they are beautiful in the work they do a'nd have done for others, for even these cruel people here who would havo ruined your sweet life, and the woman who, now your uncle’s wife, would have stained her hands forever for tho darkening of your heart.” And what could she say? And tho lights of the sunset were very tender over them as they crossed the bridge and passed up along the road through the settlement where the changes ol her working had given an air of neat ness and home life and widening ol view, with its school and church and kindly touch of neighborliness; and as they passed the tavern where Jones and his comrades still sat with theli pipes In lazy enjoyment, the men gave greeting with a now touch of kindli ness that went to the heart of the girl who had lived her twenty years among them uncared for and unloved. And the eyes of her lover were bril liant w-lth the depth of his thought for her, and his arm was strong to guide and guard her through any pah; the future might bring, and never again could this pale, beautlfuPgirl of Johnson’s Buffer alone or bear her life’s burdens outside of the palo of tenderest love. (The End.) Possibilities of Radium. Mr. Hammer, who xvas formerly u coadjutor of Edison, has produced with radium a partial paralysis of the fish known as tho electric ray, so thar It could give no further shocks. Ho has, with the radium, paralyzed small (1e!i so that they have been drowned, or at least died. In talking of this ex periment, Mr. Hammer called atten tion to the experiments of Prof. Curio and others recently in Paris, in whlcn guinea pigs, mice and rabbits were paralyzed and later killed by placing radium near th« spinal column. “It is perfectly reasonable to suppose," said Mr. Hammer, “that reople* brains might be paralyzed by putting powerful radium near their heads, say on a pillow at night, or near the spinal cord, and thus produce paralysis as in the cast of the animals.” This accuracy rerine department is far co operation in informa tion on the enemies of easy errors a nil friends of forethought, to Tulare mutually ex pensive mistakes, ft is for mechanical, com mercial ami profes sional people; the in dividual employer, employe and customer; and consists of extracts taken by jnrmission from the copyrighted letters, the lectures, notebooks and libraries of Hart if. J'ratt, ikik Park. Illinois, He is hunting the whole world over for information of every day use to you, ami he regrets his inability, jtersonally to reply to contributors. So far as possible he withes to have in this space the very idea you would like to find here, l oa are at liberty to send Mm any suggestion you may care to. His collec tion was started in IH13 and now contains un published information dating back to n»v, with systematic plans extending to 19bi. Your short story of sorts example of forethought given to him may prove to be your moet valuable gift to others. Forethought can be grown like wheat after we know how. A HUNDRED-DOLLAR DINNER. A couple of years ago' there came to me a beautifully printed invitation reading as follows: “The committee of management requests the pleasure of your company at dinner on Thurs day evening. Important plans will be presented relating to the approaching celebration.” 1 wer.t, L saw and was conquered. The banquet was in the interest of an old debt. During the dramatic appeals and after the many courses of gastric cndnngerers, I re marked that I thought the friends of my department weuld give them a hundred dollars. The two secretaries in charge of the subject replied that they would help me if necessary get that amount. Failure. By experience I found my plan for getting the money did not work. One young man told mo that I would be In better business if 1 were collecting money for the debt on his new house. Nearly every one seemed to think I was holding him up. Then came the following: “I am in structed to write you with reference to your pledge of or.e hundred dollars. I shall be glad to have an expression from you within a few days so that 1 may report to the committee. We are In special need of funds at present, and of course nothing would be more acceptable than the money. Very truly yours. Secretary.” To which I replied: “The plan 1 had for getting that hundred dollars has been rattled and it is not wise for me to promise when i can pay it, though 1 have not abandrned It.” Trouble. When the secretary saw me he twit ted me of repudiating my signature. At another time I hinted that he was using the lowest form of commercial promotion, jollying. In securing signa tures. We had plenty of arguments pro and con. Finally we decided that he should write me a letter such as he thought that I should have written him, and then I should reply to it as I thought he should have written me. Th'- is what he sent me: “Mr. Secre tary: Dear Sir—I write you concern ing the pledge I made to give or raise one hundred dollars toward removing the floating debt. When 1 made this pledge, about a year ago, I thought I had a plan whereby the amount could be easily secured. The plan has fallen through, however, and I only succeeded in getting three dollars. 1 regret very much that I am unable to comply with the conditions of my pledge and must confess somewhat to a feeling of chagrin that I have fallen so far short of meeting my obligations. I still consider myself bound to keep the agreement, however, although I am obliged to ask you to g.-ant me an ex tension of time, ft is impossible for me to say just when f will secure the money but as I am troubled very much about *hc matter you may be sure that it is my purpose to do this work at the earliest possible moment. Please tell me what you think of this, and I should also be grateful for any sug gestions you may make as to how I could go about raising such a sum of money. I have not had much experi ence soliciting money and not being very well acquainted with your work and the reasons why business men should contribute to it, 1 found myself handicapped to a considerable extent. Trusting you will appreciate the spirit in which 1 write this letter, 1 remain, very truly yours.” The Other Letter. In the sample letter 1 sent him there were blank spaces left for special In formation for me from him. The fol lowing is the complete letter: “Dear Sir—Your favor of the 6th Inst, con cerning your pledge of one hundred dollars to the debt fund is received. \ve—are simply experiencing what many others tynve been through, and 1 am as anxious to assist you in making your plan to secure one hundred dol lars succeed as 1 am to get tho one hundred dollars. In reply to your question concerning the Indebtedness which now rests upon us tho most of which Is funded, would say this was created as follows: The present building was erected on the site of the old building. During Its erection our work was Interrupted and the membcr ihip greatly reduced as there were few privileges to offer. We entered the new building with floating billr, amounting to $5,000 and an additional indebtedness of $5,000 was at once in curred in the purchase of equipment. l)uring tho next two years the work was conducted on a scale commensur ate with the plant. Owing to the hard times the membership was not as large as expected and there was a def icit in two years of an addilional $7. 500. Every year since then wo have paid all bills, Including the interest on this indebtedness, which we are now undertaking to remove. Your under standing that tho payments were due when all had been secured must have resulted from a lack of sufficient ex planation, which I very much regret. The Agreement in tho subscription book which you signed Is certainly very clear on this point. The wording of this agreement is as follows: 'We, tho undersigned, hereby agree to give or raise the sums set opposite our re spective names toward a fund of $17, 500 for liquidating tho entire floating indebtedness of - and we guaran tee the payment of the sums in equal installments on the following dates: -,-,-,-While this is practically the same as a non interest bearing note very few regard it In the same way and as a matter of fact we would not undertake to collect by legal means in a case like this. But we need not talk about the negative sid » of this question; you are going to got that money and if wo can help you as .veil as we would like to you are going to make your original plans work successfully. It Is easier to get money for some things than for an old debt, wh'ch is like burying an old horae. Nevertheless It Is something which ought to ho done and wo can never he truly successful as long as this indebtedness hangs as a millstone around our neck. There are men who like tackling difficult Jobs and con quotiug them. Regarding the rea sons why business men should sub scribe to our work the following seem to me among the best: First, next to the church and the home it Is a great moral force in the community, the value of whoso restraining and up building it is impossible to overesti mate. Commercial Value. Every business man should have a part In maintaining such a work. Sec ond it Is a work of prevention, an ounces of which we are told is worth a pound of cure. Most business men prefer to give ten dollars to keep a young man from going wipng than to he taxed a hundred dollars for taking care of litm after he has gone wrong. That kind of a proposition appeals to a business man. Third, it provides a suitable place for young men to spend their leisure hours. An employer of young men Is not wor ried about the honesty, sobriety and faithfulness of those employes who he knows are members of our work, and spend their leisure time at our building. They are anxious about the young men who patronize ques tionable resorts and lead a life where the temptation to live beyond one's means is often responsible for loss by tlieit nnd defalcation. Those men know this and spend much money for private detectives to study tho habits of their trusted employes to find out Just how they spend their time and money. Finally, as to the methods of soliciting, I would say It Is best to ask for what you would like and take what you can get. Most solicitors make a mistake by not asking for a largo enough sum and in a way that sug gests (hat they ure extending a priv ilege rather than asking a favor, or perpetrating a hold up. Try to find men who have money and who are not common marks for every one with a subscription paper. It is better and more economical to cultivate a few In telligent givers for largo amounts than a great number of givers for smaller sums. The whole question of getting a man to give money is an ex tremely difficult one. Scene men seem to be naturally endowed for this work, but it is also clear that others can acquire it. 1 an; confident that If you do not consider yourself in the first clars you will soon be numbered among the second- Very truly yours, Secretary." What might have caused us to lorever disrespect each other may on this plan of exchanging let ters prove mutually helpful and en cou ago us to do what we want to da CORRECTING ERRORS. -. "Let mud dry before brushing it off from your clothing.” Thi^s sentence is lrom Spurgeon, I believe, and as near as I can give it. My friend the desk editor of a trade magazine and the bookkeeper were just discussing correcting errors. The booukeeper thinks you are likely to make things worse by paying atten tion to errors. There is certainly a right time to do it if it is to be done. The editor recently got a sarcastic letter from a man to whom he had written a polite inquiry regarding an office error. The bookkeeper thinks it is best to ignore errors all you can. If they are likely to cause trouble if not corrected it seems to me the right time and method should be found for correction. The bookkeeper says tlfat casing attention to errors is likely to cause coolness which would not other wise occur. Hut by not correcting some errors you are likely to cause something worse than coolness That Is what 1 thiak—what is your opinion? ; .?.• , t ^' ;• T Irst chapters of A. L. Harris’ most powerful novel me FATAL REQUEST Or. FOUND OUT will be published In these columns NEXT WEEK Don’t miss the beginning of this fascinating story TONIC WAS TOO POPULAR. Why Farmer Quit Mixing Wild Cher riee and Whisky. “The wild cherry gathering that haa heen in order during the past month for the purpose of making wine," re marked the old lady with a good mem ory, .V"reminds me of my childhood on my grandfather's farm. There was especial excitement at this season of the year, for wild cherry meant that he whole family, together with hired helpers, went out to the wild cherry frees either to work or enjoy the ex« tttemcnt. The men carried an im* mense sheet made for the purpose and spread it under a tree, ‘an’ our hired man,’ as James Whitcomb Riley poetically puts it, would climb the tree wjd shako from it a veritable shower of the small, dark fruit. Oh, no, it wasn’t for wine. Happily, my grandfather lived in a malarial dis trict, where a good, sharp tonic was necessary the year ’round, so these cherries were dumped into a barrel of whisky, which was presently con torted into so efficacious a tonic that As a wonder the cellar stairs weren’t worn out during the winter. I must say, in Justice to my grandfather, however, that, noting the effect the ’tonic’ had upon his men, he not only turned his back on whisky and gave the birds carte blanche in the wild cherry trees, but he absolutely re fused to Bell his barley crop to a brew er, whatever this particular principle might coat him.” MEDICAL THEORY IN INDIA. Simp!* Rule* by Which Practitioner Wa* Guided. While In the city last week, Dr. Bertha Caldwell of India told some anecdotes of the doctors of that coun try. One day she was riding In the cars with a Mohammedan doctor. She asked him what kind he was -an allo pathist, a homeopathist, or an osteo path. He answered: “I don’t know.” Dr. Caldwell asked him how l.e prac ticed and what kind of medicine he gave. Opening up a box he carried, he exhibited seven bottles containing liquids of all colors of the rainbow. "You see,” said the Mohammedan doctor, “fever makes the patient red, and then I give him red medicine. A cold makes him blue, and then I give him blue medicine. If he is bilious he Is yellow, and then I give him yel low medicine.” And thus he went on to the end. She remarked: “You must be a homeopathist." “Imagine my amusement,” said Dr. Caldwell, “when, on walking down tho street the next day, I saw this sign int front of the doctor’s door: :. : : “Gee-ul-wbiz, Servant of God. : : : : “Homeopathist." * : : : —Pittsburg Post. in hasteTtoTverify ARTICLE. But Newspaper Reporter Was Late In Arriving. When New York reporters went to Westchester last week to ask the Rev. Dr. Richard Mattice, a Presbyterian clergyman there, whether it was true that he had resigned from a co-opera tive grocery store, run in connection with his church, the clergyman said; "Yes, it is true, and I am glad you came to verify the rumor before pub lishing it. I had a different experi ence with the secular press when I started the co-operative store. One of the religious papers printed an elaborate article about the venture, with pictures. When the edition was about exhausted a reporter from the paper came to see me about it, and sat while 1 read the article through. “Well," he asked, "is it correct?" “H—m, yes," I replied; "there are a few mistakes, but—" "It is correct in substance, isn’t it?” he interrupted. "You have really started a co-operative store?' “Oh, yes," I said, "that one fact is true.” "Well, I am glad of it,” he conclud ed. “Our paper likes to get things straight, and goes to a great deal of trouble to verify an article. I shall be grateful if you will mention that fact to your congregation.—New York Times. Believes in Physical Training. The duchess of Marlborough be lieves strongly in physical training for children and her own two sons, the marquis of Blanford and his little brother, Ivor Charles, are undergoing a courso of instruction daily at Blen heim palace. Fortunate. Percy—I—aw—wondah why Miss wmsom is—aw—always out when I call?" / Jack—Oh, that girl was born under j i lucky star. f Mi f >'