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THE FALLS CITY TRIBUNE , FRIDAY , FEBRUARY 23 , 1906. THE SPENDERS A TALE OF THE THIRD GENERATION By HARRY LEON WILSON . , , . Copyright , bj Lothrop I'ubllililnc Company. SYNOPSIS. TUB SPENDERS. CHAPTEH l.-Story opens with death of Daniel J. lllni-s , millionaire mlno own er anil railroad man , at Knlso Junction. Secretary wires frteiuls antihunt for Hints' .IKeil father Is begun , to acquaint htm with 11UWB. OHAPTEH 2.-Puter nines Is found. Mourns son's death. CHAPTEH 3-Ulnus' family wants to live In the east , but 1'eter urges that they stay i In west. 'Uecldo on 'trip through nines" J I properties. i V | I CHAPTEH 4.-On trip through Ulncs , ' i ' jiropertlc's son of deait millionaire meets Allss Mllbrey , a young lady ncqunlntancc from New York. Ho shows her through mines. Dlnos with her family In prlvutu cur. a ml Is lluttcrud by father and mother. i i CHAPTEH 5. Perclvat begins to fall in love with Miss Mllbrey and Peter Ulnes ex presses disgust at ways of easterners. CHAPTEH U. The Ulnes family departs from far west for New York. Arrives IP Chicago , where an old friend , Mr. Hlgbec Is met. CHAPTEH 7. Mr. Hlgbee tells Perclval how the Mllbreys , on hunt for a rich hus hand for daughter , sought to corral his I won , Henry. I CHAPTEH S. Miss Mllbrcy declares she cures for Porclvul lilnes , and ii'gietsthnt aho Is to try to marry him for his wealth. Tells of father's lac ) ; of ready money. A servant passed the open door bearing an immense pasteboard box with ono end cut out to accommodate the long steins of many loses "Jarvls ! " "Yes. sir ! " "What Is it ? " . ' "Flowers , sir. for Miss Avlce. " "Let me see and the card ? " He took the eard from the florist's rnvelope and glanced at the name. "Take them away. " The stricken man was once more alone ; yet now it was as if the tender beauty of the ( lowers hail balmed his hurt taught him to hope anew. Let R'.Z , us ' " n" sympathy and hope retire. * * For checrfuller sights we might ob serve Launton Oldakcr in n musty curio-shop , delightPd over a pair of silver candlesticks with square bases and fluted columns , fabricated in the reign of that fortuitous monarchv Charles II. ; or we might glance In upon the Hlgbces in their section of a French chateau , reproduced up on the stately Riverside drive , where thev complete the details of a dinner to be given on the morrow. Or perhaps It were better to be con- rerncd with a matter more weighty V , than dinners and antique candlesticks , f | I I "TAKK THEM AWAY " The search need never be vain , even in this world of persistent frivolity. As , for example : "Tell Mrs. Van Gelst if she can't come down , I'll run up to her. " "Yes , Miss Mllbrey. " Mrs. Van Gcist entered a moment later. "Why , Avlce , child , you're glowing , aren't you ? " "I must be , I suppose I've Just walked down from Fifty-ninth street , and before that I walked in the park. Feel how cold my cheeks are Mutter- chen. " "It's good for you. Now we shall have some tea , and talk. " "Yes I'm hungry for both , and some of those funny little cakes. " "Come back where the flre is , dear ; the tea has Just been brought. There , lake the big chair. " "It always feels like you like yonr arms , Mutterchen and I am tired. " "And throw off that coat. There's the lemon , If you're afraid of cream. " "I wish I weren't afraid of anything but cream. " "You told me you weren't afraid of y that that cad any more. " "I'm not I Just told him so. Dut I'm afraid of It all ; i m tired trying not to drift tired trying not to try , and tired trying to try Oh. dear sounds like a nonsense verse , doesn't It ? Have you anyone to-night ? No ? I think I must stay with you till morn- Ing. Send some on < 5 home to say I'll lie here. I can always think so much better here and you , dear old thine , to mother me ! " "Do , child ; I'll send Sandou directly.- "He will go to the house of mourn ing. " "What's the latest ? " "Papa was on the verge of collapse this morning , and yet ho was striving so bravely and nobly to bear up. Xo one knows what that man suffers : it makes him gloomy all the time about everything. Just before I left , ho was saying that , when one considers the number of American homes in which ti ] ' green salad Is never served , one must be appalled. Are yon appalled , auntie ? lint that isn't it. " "Nothing lias happened ? " "Well , there'll bo no sensation about It In the papers to-morrow , but a very dreadful thing has happened. Papa has suffered one of thu crueiest blows of his life. I fancy ho didn't sleep at all last night , and he looked thorough ly bowled ovc'r this morning. " 'Dut what is it ? " "Well oh. it's awful ! first of all there were six dozen of early-bottled 1875 Chateau LalHte that was the bit terest but ho had to see the rest go , too Chateau Margeaux of 'SO some terribly ancient port and Madeira the dryest kind of sherry a lot of line , full clarets of ' 77 and ' 7S oh , yon can't know how agonizing it was to him I've heard them so often I know them all myself. " \ "But what on earth about them ? ' ' 'Nothing , only the Cosmopolitan club's wine cellar auctioned off. you know. For over a year papa lias looked forward to it Ho Knew every bottle of wino In it. He could recite tin1 list without looking at it. Sometimes ln > sounded like a French lesson and he's been un der ii tearful strain evei since I hit announcement was made. Well the great day came yesterday , and poor pater simply couldn't bid in a single drop. It needed ready money , you 1' know. And he had hoped so cheerfully all the time to do something. It broke his heart. I'm sure , to see that Chai teau Lafitte go and only imagine , it 1 was bid in by the butler of that odious Illgbce. You should have heard papa 1 rail about the vulgar noiivcaux riche * when ho came home he talked quite like an anarchist. Hut by to-night he'll 1 be blaming me for his misfortunes That's why I chose to stay here with you. " "Poor Horace. Whatever are you coing to do ? " "Well , dearie , as for me. it doesn'l ' look as .if 1 could do anything but one thing. And hero is my ardent young Croesus coming out of the west. " "You called him your 'athletic Bay ard' of.cc. " "The other's monte the point ai 1 present. And what else can I do ? Oh , If some one would ) nst be bravi' ' enough to live the raw , quivering life with me. I could do it , 1 give you my' word. I could let everything go by the board but I am so alone and so helpless " less and no man is equal to it , now- adays. All of us here seem to bo content - tent to order a 'half portion' of life. " "Child , those dreams are beautiful 1 but they're like those flying machines that are constantly being tested by the credulous inventors A wheel or u pinion goes wrong and down the silly things come tumbling. ' ' "Very well ; then 1 shall be wise I suppose I shall be and I'll do It quickly. This fortune of good gold ' " shall propose marriage to me at once , and be accepted so that 1 shall be able to look my dear old father in the face again and then , after I'm mar ried well , don't blame me for any thing that happens. " "I'm sure you'll be happy with him it's only your silly notions. He's In love with you. " That makes me hesitate. He really Is a man I like him see this Iptter a long review from the Arcady Lyre of the 'poem' he wrote , a poem consistIng - Ing of 'Avlce Mllbrey. ' The reviewer has been quite enthusiastic over It , too written from some awful place in Montana. " "What more could you ask ? He'll be hind. " "You don't understand Mutterchen He seems too decent to marry that way and yet it's the only way I could marry him. And after he found me out oh. think of what marriage is he'd have to find it out I couldn't act long doubtless ho wouldn't even be kind to me then " "You are morbid , chllu. ' "But I will do It ; I shall ; I will be ' a credit to my training and I shall learn to hate him and he will have to learn well , a great deal that he 1 doesn't know about women. " She stared into the fire and added after a moment's silence : "Oh , If a man only could live up to the verses he cuts out of magazines ! " CHAPTER IX. WITH THE HAHHAHIC HOSTS History repeats itself so cleverly , with a variance of stage-settings and accessories so cunning , that the repe tition seldom bores , and is , indeed , fre quently undetected. Thus , the descent of the Barbarians upon a decadent people Is a little tour de force that has been performed again and again since the oldest day. But because the assault nowadays is made not with force of arms we are prone to belleva It Is no loneer made at all ; as If hu man wnys nad cnangcd a lilt those ugly , hairy tribes from the northern forests descended upon the Roman empire. And yet the mere dif ference that the assault Is now made with force of money in no wny alters the process nor docs It permit the re sult to vary. On the surface all la cor diality and peaceful negotiation Be neath is the same immemorial strife , the llfc-and-death struggle pitiless , Inexorable , What would have been n hostllo bivouac within the city's gates , but 'or the matter of a few centuries , Is now to select an cxampla which re motely concerns us , a noble structure on Riverside drive , facing the lordly Hudson and the majestic. Palisades that form its farther wall. And , tor the horde of Goths and Vlslgotha , Huns and Vandals , drunkenly reeling In the lltful llghC of camp llres , chant ing weird battle runes , fighting for eaptlvo vestals , and bickering In un couth tongues over the golden spoils , what litivo wo now to make the paral-1. lei convince ? \ \ ny , the same Barbar ians , actually ; the same hairy rude ness , the same unrellned , all-conquer ing , animal force ; a red-faced , big- handed lot , Imbued with hearty good nature and an easy tolerance for the ways of those upon whom they have descended. Here are chiefs of renown from the farthest fastnesses ; they and their curious households : the Ironmonger from Plttsbnrg , the gold miner from Dawbon , the copper chief from Butte , the silver chief from Denver , the cattle chief from Oklahoma , lord of IJOO.UOO good acres and 110,000 cattle , the lum ber prince from Michigan , the founder 01 a later dynasty In oil , from Texas. And , for the unnesthetlc but effective Attiln , an able fashioner of pork prod ucts from Chicago. Hero they make festival , carelessly , unafraid , unmolested. For , in the lapse of time , the older peoples hava learned not only the folly of resisting Inevitables , but that the huge and hairy invaders may be treated and bar tered with not unprofltauly. Doubt less it often results from this amty : that the patrician strain is corrupted by the alien admixture but business has been business since as many as two persons met on the face of the now earth. For example , this particular shelter is builded upon land which one of the patrician families had held for a cen- I tury j solely because it could not be dls- j posed j of. Yet the tribesmen came , j | i clamoring for palaces , and now this same laud , with some adjoining areas of trilling extent , produces an Income that j will snlllcc to maintain that fain- lly j almost In its ancient and bcllttlng estate. i In tills mammoth pile , for the potty rental , of $10,000 or $15,000 a year , many , tribes of the invaders have found shelter and entertainment in apart j ments of many rooms. Outwardly , in details , 6f ornamentation , the building Is I said to duplicate the Chateau Blols , those ( splendid palaces of Francis I. Inside are all the line and color and device of elegant opulence , modern to the , last note. ' To this palace of an October evening comes ( the tribe of Dines , and many another j such , for a triumphal feast In the , abode of Barbarian Silas Higbee. ] | The admirable host If one be broad- minded , is now in the drawing-room , ' seconding his worthy wife and pretty ) , daughter J who welcome the dinner > guests. ( i For a man who has a fad for ham and doesn't care who knows It , his bearing i Is all we have a right to cx- i ! pect , that it should be. Among the i group of arrivals , men of his own L''sort I , , he is speaking of the ever-shlft- Ing fashion in beards , to the evangel of , a Texas oil field who flaunts to the ! , ' \\orld one of those heavy mustaches spuriously extended below the corners of the mouth by means of the chin "growth of hair. Another , a worthy tribesman from Snohomlsh , Washing ton , wears a beard which , for a score of years , has been let to be Its own true self ; to express , fearlessly , Its own unique capacity for variation from type. These two have rallied their host upon his modlshly trimmed side- whiskers. "You're right , " says Mr. Hlgbec , amiably , "I ain't'stucl : any myself on this way of trimming up a man's face , but the madam will have It thin way says it looks more refined and Nnw Yorky. And now , do you know , ever since I've worn 'em this way ever since I had 'em scraped from around under my neck here I have to go to Florida every winter. Come January or February , I get bronchitis every blamed year ! " Two of the guests only are alien to the barbaric throng. There Is the noble Baron Renault de Palllac , decorated , reserved , observ ant almost wistful. For the moment he Is picturing dutifully the luxuries a certain marriage would enable him to procure for his noble father and his aged mother , who eagerly await the news of his quest for the golden fleece. For the baron contemplates , after the fashion of many conscientious explorers - ers , a marriage with a native woman ; though he permits himself to cherish the hope that It may not be condi tioned upon his adopting the manners and customs of the particular tribe that he means to honor. Monsieur the baron has long since been obliged to confess that n suitable mesalliance Is none too easy of achievement , and , In testimony of his vicissitudes , he has written for a Paris comic paper a series of grimly satiric essays upon New York society. Recently , moreover , he has been upon the verge of accept ing employment In the candy factory of a bourgeois compatriot. But hope has a little revived In the noble breast since chance brought him and his title tinder the scrutiny of the bewitching Miss Mlllicent Higbee and her appre ciative mother. And to-night there IB not only the pretty Miss Higbee , but the winning Miss Bines , whose dot , the baron 1ms been led to understand , would penult his beloved father unlimited piquet at ills club , to say nothing of regenerat ing the family chateau. Yet those nro hardly matters to be gossiped of. It It enough to know that the B.iron Renault do Palllac when ho discovers nlmsclf at table between Miss HInes the adorable Miss Higher , heroines saturnine thnn has for sonic time > * 90 his wont. Ho does not forget pre vious disappointments , but desperately snaps his swarthy Jaws in commend- nblo superiority to any adverse fate. The other alien. Lnunton Oldaker , was present under terms of honorable trueo , willingly and without ulterior inotlvo saving as ho confessed to himself a consuming desire to see "how the other half lives , " llo wan no longer the hunted ami dismayed being Pcr- . clvnl had met In that far-off and Impossible . . possible .Montana ; but was now un troubled , remembering , U Is true , that this "slumming expedition , " as ho termed It , had taken him beyond the d Launds of hla beloved Now York , but serene In the consciousness that half an hour's drive would land him safely back nt his club. Oldakcr observed Miss Psycho Bines approvingly. "We are HO glad to bo In New York ! " she had confided to him , sitting at her right. "My dear young woman , " ho warned her , "you haven't reached Now York yet. " The talk being general and loud , ho ventured further. "This is Plttsbnrg , Chicago , Kansas City , Denver almost anything but Now York. " "Of course I know these are not the swell old families. " Oldaker sipped his glass of old Ole rose sherry and discoursed. "And our prominent families , the ones whose names you read , are not New York any more , either. They are ather London and Paris. Their furnl- nre , clothing , plate , pictures and serv ants come from one or the other. Yes. and their manners , too , their Interests und sympathies and concerns , their aslilons and sometimes , their or morals. They are assuredly not New York any more than Gobelin tapestries and Fortnny pictures and Louis Selzo chairs arc New York. " "How quecrly you tall : . Where Is Now York , then ? " Oldaker sighed thoughtfully between wo spoonfuls of tortile verte , clalre. "Well , I suppose the truth Is that hero isn't much of New York left In New York. AH a matter of fact I think It died with the old volunteer fire de- mrtment. Anyway the surviving remnant is coy. Real old Now Yorkers ike myself neither pcor nor rich are swamped In these days like those pro- ilstorlc animals whose bones we find. fhcro comes n time when we can't ive , and deposits form over us and we're lost to memory. " But this talk was even harder for Miss Bines to understand than the English spcccn of the Baron Renault ile Palllac , and she turned to that noble gentleman as the tnrbot with sauce iorall was served The dining-room , Its wall wninscot- cd from floor to celling in Spanish oak , was flooded with soft light from the red silk dome that depended from . Its crown of gold above the table. The aughter and talk were as little sub- : lued as the scheme of the rooms. It was nn atmosphere of prodigal and confident opulence. From the music- room near by came the soft strains of Haydn quartette , exquisitely per formed by finished and expensive art- els. "Say , Higbee ! " It was the oil chief from Texas , "see if them fiddlers of yours can't play 'Ma Honolulu Lulu ! ' " Oldaker , wincing and turning to Miss Bines for sympathy , heard her say : "Yen , do , Mr. Hlgbec ! I do love those ragtime songs and then have them play 'Tell Me. Pretty Maiden , ' and the 'Intermezzo. ' " He groaned In anguish The talk ran mostly on practical af fairs : the current values of the great staple commodities ; why the corn crop had been light ; what wheat promised to bring ; how young Burman , of the Chicago board or trade , had been pinched In his own wheat corner for four millions "put up" by his admir ing father ; what beef on the hoof commanded ; how the Federal Oil com pany would presently own thn state of Texai. Almost every Barbarian nt the table bad made his own fortune. Hardly Dnc but could recall early days when be tolled on farm or In shop or forest , herded cattle , prospected , nought ad venture In remote and hazardous wilds. " 'Taln't much like them old days. h , Higbee ? " queried the crown prince Cripple Creek "when you and mo had to walk from Chicago to Green Bay. Wisconsin , because we didn't have enough shillings for stage fare ? " He gazed about him suggestively. "Corn beef and cabbage was pretty ? oojl then , eh ? " and with sure , vigor- Dim strokes he fell to demolishing his diet de dlnde a la Perlgueux , while a butler refilled his glass with Chateau Malescot. 1878. "Well , It does beat the two rooms madam and me started to keep house in when we was married , " admitted the host. "That was on the banks of : ho Chicago river , and now wo got the Hudson llowln' right through the front rani , you might say , right past our jwn yacht landing. " From old days of work and hardship they came to discuss the present and .heir immediate surroundings , social ind financial. Thiir daughters , It appeared , were being sought In marriage by the sons Df those among whom they sojourned. "Oh , they're a nice band of hand- ihnkcrs , all right , all right , ' " assorted he gentleman from Kansas City. "Ono Df 'em tried to keep company with our JarolInO , but I wouldn't ntnnd for .k. Ile was a crnckln' good shinny player , uul ho could lead them cotillon dances hlowln' a whlstlo and callln' , 'All right , Up ! ' or something , like a car starter uut , "Fell mo something good about him , ' 1 says to an old friend of Ills family. Well , he hemmed and hawed ho wan u New York gentleman , and jays ho ! 'I don't know whnU.cr I could make you understand or not , ' ho Hays , 'hut ' he's got Family , ' Jest like that , bcnrln' down hard ' * ' on 'Family 'and you've got money , ' ho nays , 'ami Money and Family need each other badly In this town , ' ho Hays. 'Yes , ' I Hayw , ' 1 met up with a iittnilioi * < > f P' ' < > 1 > 1" hero,1 1 says , 'hut 1 ain't met HOMO yet that you'd have to blindfold and hack Into a lot of money , ' 1 says , 'family or no family , ' 1 Hitys. 'And that young man , ' ho says , 'Is a pleamiMt , charming fel low ; why , ' ho saya , 'ho'a the best- coated man In Now York. ' Well , 1 looked at him and I tmytt : 'Well , ' HII.VH 1 , 'ho may ho the hcsl-coatud man In Now York , but he'll bo the bc8t-booted , man In Now York , too , " 1 says , 'If ho comes around trying to spark Caroline any more or would bo if I had my way. Ills chin's pushed too far back under his face , ' 1 says , 'and besides , ' I niyn : , 'Caroline I.H being waited on by n young hardware drummer , a good .steady young fellow traveling out of llttlo old K. C. , ' 1 says , 'and while he ain't much for fnm'ly , ' 1 soys , 'he'll have ono of his own before ho gets through , ' 1 says ; 'wo ntnrt fam'llos where 1 come from , ' 1 nays. " "Good boy ! Good for you , " cheered the self-made Barbarians , and drank success to the absent disseminator of hardware. With much loud talk of tills utiedl- fylng character the dinner progressed to an und ; timing ! ) nullu d'uRnenu , floated In 'Si champagne , torrapln con- A CAKE U'AUC. voyed by a special Madeira of 1850 , and canvnshack duck with Roniuneu ContI , 1KG ! > , to a triumphant fhmlo of Turkish coffee and 1811 brandy. After dinner the ladles gossiped of New York society , while- the barbaric males : smoked their big oily cigars and bandied reminiscences. Illgbco showed them through every ono of the apart-1 mcnt's i 22 rooms , from reception hall' ' to . laundry , manipulating the electric lights with the skill of a stage man ager. The evening ended with a cake walk , for the musical artists had by rare wines been mellowed from their classic reserve Into a mood of rag-time aban don. And If Monsieur the Baron with his ceremonious grace was less ex uberant than the crown prince of Cripple - plo Creek , who sang as he stepped the sensuous measure , his pleasure was not less. He enjoyed to observe that these men of Incredible millions had no hauteur. "I do not , " wrote the baron to his noble father , the marquis , that night. yet understand their joke ; why should It be droll to wish that the man whosa coat Is of the best should also wear boots of the best ? but as for what they call line promenade de gateau , I find It very enjoyable. I have met n. Mile. Bines , to whom I shall at once pay my addresses. Unlike Mile. Hig bee , she has not the father from Chicago cage nor elsewhere. Qnel ( liable d'homme ! " CHAPTK. . . X. THE PATIUCIAN8 ENTERTAIN. To reward the enduring who read politely through the garish revel of the preceding chapter , covers for 14 are now laid with correct and tasteful quietness at the sophisticated boanl of that fine old New York family , the Mllbreys. Shaded candles leave all but the glowing table In a gloom discreetly pleasant. One need not look so high as the old-fashioned stuccoed celling. The family portraits tone agreeably Into the half-light of the walls ; the huge old-fashioned walnut sideboard , soberly ornate with its mirrors. Its white marble top and Its wood-carved fruit , towers majestically aloft In proud scorn of the frivolous Chippen dale fad. Jarvls , the accomplished and incom parable butler , would bo subdued and scholarly looking hut for the flagrant scandal of his port-wine nose. Ho gives finishing little fillips to the white chrysanthemums massed in the central epergne on the long silver plateau and bestows a last cautious survey upon the cut-glass and silver radiating over the dull white damask. Finding the table and Its appointments fault less , be assures himself once more that the sherry will come on Irre proachably at a temperature of CO de grees ; that the Burgundy will not fall below 65 nor mount above 70 ; for Jar vis wets of n palnto BO acutely sensi tive that It never falls to record a variation of so much as ono dcgreo from the approved standard of tem perature. How restful this quiet and reserve- after the color and line tumult of the Illgbeo apartment. There the ( lush and bloom of IIOWHC.CH were opprcHslvo to the right-minded. All smelt of the shop. Here the dull lonu.i and decor- aim linen caress and soothe Instead of overwhelming the Imagination with affects too grossly Html. Hero Is the rcrltnblo spirit of good form , Throughout the house this contrast might bo noted. U IH the brown-stone , high-stoop house , guarded by a cast- iron fence , built In vast numbers when the world of fashion moved north to Murray Hill and Fifth avenue u gen eration ago , One of these houses was like all the others Innldo and out , built of unimaginative "builder's arch I tec- Hire. " The hall , the long parlor , the back parlor or library , the high Htuc- i'oed ceilings mil only were these alike In all the houses , but the furnishings , too , were nil ) to bo of a sameness In them all , rather heavy and tasteless , but serving the ends that iiuch tilings iihould bo meant to servo , und never llamboynnt. Of thcso relics of a sim pler day not many mirvlvc to us , save in the shameful degoneraey of board ing houses. But In mich as are left , wo may confidently expect to Und the traditions of that more dignified time kept unsullied ; to llnd , Indeed , as wo Und In the house of Mllhroy , a settled air of gloom that suggests Insolvent but stubbornly determined exclusive- ness. Something of this air , too , may bo noticed In the surviving tenants of these austere relics. Yet It would inrdly be observed in this house on his night , for not only do arriving guests bring the aroma of u later irosperlty , but the hearts of our host uul liosteim beat high with a. now .lope. For the fair and sometimes un certain daughter of the house of Mil- irey , after many ominous mutterlngs , ilolays , and frank rebellions , has de clared at last her readiness to bo a credit to her training by conferring her amlly prestige , distinction of manner and charniH of person upon one 2qulppcd for their suitable mainten ance. Already her Imaginative father Is avlshlng in fancy the mouldlcst wlno lollarn of continental Europe , Already he fond mother ban Idealized a hoim n "Millionaire's Row" east of the nrk , where there shall bo twenty ser vants Instead of three , and there shall cease that gnawing worry lest the reacheroim north setting current sweep them west of the Park into ono if those hideously new apartment louses , where the halls are done In fiiarblo that seems to have boon sliced from a huge Roquefort cheese , and where ono must vie , perhaps , with a shop-keeper ior the favors of an lr- revorcnt and materialistic janitor. The young woman herself entertains privately a state of mind which she has ! no Intention of making public. It Is enough , she reasons , that her action should outwardly accord with the best traditions of her class ; and , Indeed , her family would never dream of demand ing more. Her gown to-night Is of orchard green , trimmed with apple blossoms , a single pink spray of them caught In . her hair. The rounding , satin grace of her slender arms , sloping to the opal- tipped fingers , the exquisite line from car to shoulder strap , the molting ripe ness of her chin and throat , the tender pink and bite of her fine skin , the capricious , Inciting tilt of her small head , the dainty lift of her short nose , these allurements she has Inventor ied with a calculating and uatlslle' ' eye. ! She Is glad to believe that there Is every reason why It will soon b < over. And , since the whole loaf Is notor iously better then a half , hero Is the engaging son of the house , also ( Irmly bent upon the high emprise of matri mony ; handsome , with the chin , it nuty be , slightly receding ; but an unexcelled leader of cotillions , n surpassing polo player , clever , wlnptiig , and dressed with an effect that has long made him remarked in pnlito circles , which ro mere money can achieve. Money , In deed , If certain lU-nntured gossip of tradesmen bo true , has been an incon slderable factor In the encompassmeut of this sartorial distinction. He waits now , eager far a first glimpse of tha young woman wliOEo charms , oven by report , have already won the best de votion he has to give. A grievous er ror It Is to suppose that Cupid's ar tillery Is limited to bow and arrows. And now , Instead of the rude com mercial horde that laughed loudly and ate uncouthly at the board of the bar barian , wo shall sit at table with people ple born to the only manner said to be worth possessing ; If wo except , In deed , the visiting tribe of Bines , who may be relied upon , however , to be have at least unobtrusively. ( C'liiiliniu-d Next \\V-k ) A Habit To Be iicourn.i'eiL Tht ) mother who hay acquired thu hnlilt o ( kccpliii. < n hand u hottlo of Chainlii'rhifnV Couph Ut-im-dy , fares lier > flfii i.'rt.'ut amount of imcisltii' : > .s and imxiety. Coii''hs o > ld und croup to which children urn Misct.-i > til > ln are quickly cured by lie iibe. U counter- * act" nnv , tendency of a cold to result In pneumonia , and If civcn us goon us the the first cymptnm * of croup nppeurK , It will prevent the attack. This remedy contain ? nothing Injurious and mothers < ; ive It to little ones with u fei'linu of | i rfe < ; t ticuurity. Hold nt Korr's Store.
