IJ1U LMIA11A. JJ.VILI HVjILI lill KNUAY, ft Pj I' 1 KM IS II, R UJ, UIUO. i ESSENCE OF ROSES, B HARklF:TT PRIiSCOTT SPOITORI). i i I U.'opyrlBhl, 1000, byf Harriett I'ren-wtt Bp .1- tenderness lu her heart ami hiding It under 'Rosowater. EnmoMll It." .aid the JJXr do." .aid Iry, rather solemnly, sweet volco from tho depths of tho sun-! -Vou &ln't tho llrtt one, my son-h'tn-to bonnot. "Hut It coino over tho still, drop! find out that you never do as It were get by drop." And down tho gingham vista .luite near enough to your birds to to catch mem. a m. ' "I'd like to, though, " said Mather. "An' ou might f?ct a tail-feather, you know." "You might," said his father, with the llttlo dry cough again. And as Ann stirred about getting turner, vexed at you saw a faro ait sweet as a rose. Tor Bally Lavendar, with tho long pressure of her troubles hail fallen Into tho sore leaf. Hut If not much of the beauty of her youth was left, as 1 heard my mother say, there had grown In her face another she knew not what, the honeysuckle nu.i uciuij wmi even io mo cyo 01 a odors coming in tho window, tho smell child was loveliness She used to come down to thu port from tho shore abovo overy now and again, sometimes on tho milkman's wagon, some times In a boat that ch.mrcd to be rowing by. and that gave her u breath of rool ro fresbmcnt on tho slipping tide, with salt rmells from tho bar beyond and a feeling of remoteness from all her cares, making rails presently on certain customers who rarely failed her. Tho basket that sho brought was always a store of delight to tho children, who knew her gentlo ways and loved tho odors that her wares dif fused When Jerry Johns, tho burly Scotch peddler, lumbered along with his lustres and bombazines and smuggled lacos, naughty children hid whero they might, lest they should bo sent oft in hlu pack, hut not to the naughtiest child of us nil, my rousln Lester, for Instance, would Hally Lavendar's basket havo been any sort of threat. There were wonderful things In that basket. There wero not only tho "dlavolo" of tho chicken bone, dressed In red nnd nklpplng arross tho table, nnd tho doll made, of a hlckorynut nnd boxes mado of of the smoke from tho pine Kindlings sue had n vaguo feeling that Iry had not realized all his Ideals and sho put some mure shortening into the biscuit. Hut Ann was right about Sally. For her own sake Sally had not a rcRrot. In her sacrificial spirit It would have seemed a hardship had any other guarded Humph rey ono who might havo boon less tender with him, ono who might havo mado the shamo and trouble and poverty n reproach to hltn ono who might havo done rs Iry Hodge had wanted, and have put him away to lonely misery In a madhouse. Although Sally had soothed htm In his wild moods, nnd now that tho flames woro nthis, tended hm In his hatf-lmbccilo ones, yet In sorao Inexplicable way her mother yearning was still her wifely love; ho was tho husband of her youth, and sho fared along patiently, as If expecting that ono day ho should bo released from the spell, conic out from tho disguise he woro and be again tho splendid being bo once had seemed to hor. "At any rate, ho will be," sho said onco to Ann, "In that other coun try when we got there. And you can't wonder at mo looking forward to It an' burdock burrs nnd cholco bits of wnrucu irm'ti nnitiin- i,nri" gum and tiny pitchers carved from cherry Sometimes Humphrey had long, heavy stones and peach pltH, but thero wero tho i slumbers of a day ami night, and It was most dellclously perfumed cordials nnd , in such nnnnrtnnitina thn, itv wnnt,i dried roso leaves ready for jars of pot-1 down to tho port with tho basket of her im.irn ami iimo glasses or strango jam . accumulating treasures, being ablo ordl uinun iiiiiu tiru iiiuhh ami winter Derrics and thero was candy, a concoction of sugar and rider that mado tho mouth water be forehand. Standing at hor sldo and peep ing Into her basket as sfio sat down with it on her kneo whllo your mother brought her a rup of ten, was llko making ac quaintance with far foreign countries, so rich nnd oriental to tho childish fancy wero tho scents. Of t hem nil, however, tho rosowater might bo called ber specialty; sho had tho most of her 111 tie revenue from that, but bIio often Kuvn us n tiny Mask of It that mado our up per bureau drawers n, bort of garden of Kden for months, and wo put a drop or two of It on our handkerchiefs Sundays, or gavo the llask to one another on birthdays and re ceived It back when our own birthdays came. "I distilled It myself, m'am," said Sally In her pretty breathless way. "Every drop. And It's fresh. And I think It's sweeter that o much of it's from thn wild roses of tho waysldo and tho new buds of tho ewoctbrler lraf--th.it gives It n tang you don't often llnd In rosowater. I don't know what I'd do without my still. 'Twaa grandmother's, nnd hern aforo her. 1'vo uscd tho bottles you give me, m'am. And l'vo stretched .a bit of bladder over thj mouth, an' tho kid of tho gloves you gli mo, too and It was kind of you, ni'aiii and l'vo tied It with lit tle mlHsy's ribbons. An' don't you think It looks real tahty? I guess it'll bring mo lu quilo a. tidy bit of money, maybe enough for the winter's ro.il. For you know, m'am, I can't expect 1 can't let 0, ho's so poorly. Hut ho's as quiet now as a baby, lie's llko a dear child" And sho paused, lifting her beautiful brown eyes to my mother's faco. And my mother knov 'that then She wus thinking of I'olty, tho llttlo sprite who bud uremed moro elf than child, nnd who, it sho had not developed In her brief life all of Humphrey's madness, had yet shown something llko tho ethereal Ilamo of that strango Insanity of his and of hts mother's before him. I suppose all tho shore people thought, ns I knew my mother did, that It was fortunate for Sally that hrr Tolly was nt rest. Hut Sally never left off missing thoso ardent embraces of tho llttlo arms that passion of tears and klsfes after the wild frpaks; nnd sho always felt as If Polly had been defrauded of her charo of life, and In sonio blind way ns if sho had herself de frauded her perhaps in giving her birth, hlncn Humphrey was hor father. Hut Humphrey himself was qulto enough In those day for Sally's hands, with the disordered blazo of his brain burned down tnto Imberl'lty. Now, his old rages ovc, ho followed his wlfo round llko some household animal, forgetting to oat unless sho fed him, forgetting his speech, for getting everything but bis lovo for her. Ho went out with her on rambles through wood and lano In quent of her simples, protecting her from any chance trouble by tho mighty Blrcngth with which ho would havo fallen llko u wild beast on nnyono who annoyed her. reaching things beyond her and carrying bags and baskets tilled with tho berries ond herbs and flowers that sho used In her llttlo still. "It Is like I'nn and tho Hon," said my mother, when down a woody way ono sum mer day wo met her and her ahnggy com panion. "Hut. oh. such a sad and sorry, such an old faded Vnn!" She had Blgncd for us to pass her with out notice, fearing, perhaps, an outbreak from Humphrey, tor sho had long sliuo experienced tho hot pang of seeing that nil her llttlo world knew of Humphrej a condition, nnd, although tho pang had hardly grown dull with llnio, yet sho had t last tho relief of no longer trying to conceal It. "Though tho dear Lord Knows," sho said once, with u cimh nf narlly neither to tako Humphrey with hor nor to lcavo him behind, while none of tho contents of tho busket would havo been disposed of had ho been awaro of It, for ho concentrated on them all tho Interest ho might have felt In tho affairs of. the world at large, had ho been himself. 1'erhaps you would not havo wondered at this, had you over tasted a. certain con servo that Sally mado of rosehips and honey, or her sweet and fiery cherry cor dial, or had you drenched a corner of your tiro In tho cologne of her compounding And uono of these things did Sally over refuse Humphrey, although sho could not help crying when sho camo homo ono day and found tho wholo houso as If a storm had blown through It, and discovered that ho had brought In tho school boys and had mado away with everything sho had pre pared, and from tho salo of which she had expected to satisfy their slmplo wants for half tho year. Humphrey saw her cry. Ho knew It was on account of his misdeed. Ho could not understand that Sally should deny him anything, but tho sight of her tears wrought him to a fury. Ho rushed to the llttlo still in tho pantry, to destroy It partly In temper, partly perhaps that Us products should never again tempt him to hurt her, partly with Irresponsible out break. "Oh, Humphrey, Humphrey! Don't, don't touch it! Oh, tho mill, tho still!" cried bally, throwing herself before him. For thero was not another still to bo found and If nnythlng happened to this tho want that would befall thorn appalled her In swift fancy. Tho essence of roses that dripped through- U, tho poor, weak cor dial spirit that sho distilled there It was tho only thing between them and tho almshouse. For tho conserves, tbo can dles, tho carved trifles, slgnltled nothing bcsldo thoso dainty vials of perfume and of tonic that made her welcorao to young girl and housowlfe, and made tho children feel ns If tho gales of Araby tho blest blow ftbout her as sho walked. Humphrey turned to look nt her nnd paused with tho hammer In his lifted hand, nnd Sally gently loosened his fingers till they dropped It, and then she put his arm about hor shoulder nnd led him away, her lips still trembling, her faco white. And from that day Humphrey mtido himself tho keeper of tho mlserablo little affair, and although with noun to molest him, compassed In ono all tho watchfulness of threo heads of Cerberus "I llko to treat the boys," hn said half whimperingly to Sally that night, waking her from sleep to say It. "Well, dear," sho answered dreamily, al though sho meant to hide her futuro store. "They'ro good boys, Sally. They thought tho Jam was tine. So did I. They put tho rosewater on their hair an" slicked up. They llko tho chcrryhounce. I'm I'm a llttlo 'warn't Just tho thing to treat boys to, was It, Sally? It sometimes makes mo feel myself na If ns If, you know, tho world was going round tho other way. 1 thought afterwards, I thought 'twould mavbe strlko thum silly. You listening, Sally? 1 llko to treat tho boys. They'ro Just tho ago our I'olly was. Sally! What's bocomo of I'olly?" And thru Sally could endure no moro and broke Into bitter weeping, nnd Humphrey, sitting up In bed, took her In his aims and recked to and fro, his ryes blazing lu tho moonlight that ttrentnod oer them and Icoklir- llko a wild man of tho woods with a white, thin, helpless creature In his arms. Hy and by, in a pauso of her sobs, Sally found that, still holding her, Humphrey was asleep. Sho freed hcrtolf and pulled the pillows round to support him till ho should birds, the delight of both their hearts, had been led home by Mis.i Rhudy. a great deal more than rosy, both stupid and slll. and with feet treading tho air. And they had put him to bed and had sat down, nil three crying together. "There"' said Miss Ithody at length. "I take shame to myself for crying thls-a- way. There's no need of It. It's nti acci dent happens to the hens whenever Sally throws out her cherry stones after she's drccned 'cm. Humphrey's stole her cherry bounce and treated; an' thero ain't n boy on tho shore hut's come homo the same way. Mis' Dr. Mies' husband's nephew's ono of 'cm. 'l'vo thought that boy'd bust w'en he's et eight bananas nt a settln',' sea she. 'I'd Jest as llevos eat raw squash myself," ses Bhe, 'but I never thought to seo him so "t he couldn't tell his tmmo from Helzcbub's,' ses she. 'I'm goln' to glvo him scch a dose of thoroughwort tea.' sos she, 'that ho won't want to so much as smell cherry bounce again till the long est tidy no lives,' ses she. Hut lor, It's nothin' nt nil, Iry! Don't you fret. Ann. A boy's got to be a boy on' know life an' seo the w,rld some time or other, and I rbans of be.trts broken, of great powers trought to naught, of the profound misery of thoso who w.i'ch for I Ate uncertain foot fteps, who see poverty and degradation com ing:, tee tho corruption and decoy of tho soul they love. Nothing of all tho terrors of drunkenness did sho know, nor any of the heart-burning when the mau who sells the polton takes the house, in he has taken the happiness of the house, and rolls by with tho itches that he has wiung out of tears and pangs. A feeling of this had hardly begun In the country and Aunt Pamela was no better thsn her day. All she knew was that thero was a private still somewhere up along the shore; that It belonged to u woman named Sally Lavendar, whose hus band was making drunkards of little boys, and It was ngnlnst the law to have n, pri vate still. At lcat sho believed It was against the law. And nt any rate sho would destroy the still first and see about tho law afterward. Sho callel n meeting of the Tnbltha styled tho tabbies by the Irreverent nnd, after assuring thrm that tho matter of dini Ring their name to thai of tho Martha Wellingtons could wait awhile, sho laid on the late tide, the sense of n awful I darkness opening out of the light and n singular stillness close nt hand, broken only hy that strange murmur of Hum phrey's voice. "Wife," he was saying, "It's a hard road you've trod with tue " j "0 no, 0 no, my dear." i "You'e gone nlong wdth seven devils, there's a hand come an' cast 'cm out nt last! Sally, I'd orter have saved you from 1 It In the beginning" "0, Humphrey, there hasn't been a day I haven't been glad I was with you!" I "Sally," he murmured again with stiffen ing lip, "my Sally, I never meant hnrm to a eouI." ! "O, I know It." I "And 1 loved you always," he said ptcscntly. I "Yes, always." ' "It won't be tirmen till you come," he whispered again after a moment or two. Ho lay a llttlo whllo looking up at her cjos, with a deep smile growing into his free. Then the eyelids fell a trifle, the glance rested on a space of clear pale uky full of an infinite distance. "Why, Sally!" tears, when sho and my mother were alone ?'"k nmo"K ,!llem "I'!.' """V" "E !!,r dlS together, "I'd havo died to keop It dark! "Well, well," said iry Hodge, as ho sat nt tho open window and saw them going homo In tho warm sunset, "what a life time yes, a lifetime ot of sorrow, ns you may sny, Humphrey Lavondar mado for Sally when ho married her." "An' married her belli" knowln' to it," said Ann. "Knowln' to what?" said little Mathor, so named In noblo defense to a predecessor! tho boy having Just como lu from driving homo a cow. "Knowln his mother's son hadn't no right to marry no ono" "Any ono, my dear. That Is to say" "Any ono or no one, It's all tho snmo thing! There, sonny, do run alone! If tress was, sho felt thnt thla condition of Humphrey's was better than the old days of frenzy or than thoso aftcrtlmos of dumb bllenco when for long spaces ho tittered no syllable, but glared with eyes tho more ter rible than onco they had been lender. At any rate, now sho could hear a coik crow In tho night and tho far clarion calls from farm to farm replying without btartlng In fright lebt It v.oko Humphrey in rasing again; bho could hear tho boatman blow hts horn for tho draw of the bridge to bo opened, and tho etho lluto It oft to mere breathings of music; sho could hear the meotlng houeo clock muko Its solemn nnd Intcrmlnnblo toll, nnd sho could eco tho golden stieak of dawn grow In redness and tho whlto clouds llock up like a troop of nngeu winging across tho blue as she lay you wasn't alius askln' questions you'd .gazing at tho window, all without tho fear ..u rfM. ..,.. Duuiu utiy. "Hut, nil tho same," continued Iry. Ignor ing hts wlfo's Irritation. "I can't, no I can't really say that Humphrey was to to blame, thnt Is," n llttlo dry cough punctuat ing his words for him. "For doctors, yea, tho doctors, I suppose It Is, hadn't then como to tho tho conclusion" "Ob, well, ho knew ho'd gone wrong moro'n once, nn' might again. Hut goodness me, It don't matter, for Sally'd ruthor'n not! What's that you got, Mather?" "Salt. Humphrey glvo it to me to put on tho birds' tails to catch 'em. Ho dono It up In papers for mo If I'd bo good an" not miss school. Hut I'm goln' to glvo It to Dave. 'Taln't no good" "What the reason you're goln' to glvo It to Dave?" "You can't get near enough, you know," said tho roy urchin, looking up In n wonder ing simplicity and opening his rod, pudgy fist that, with all Its hot moisture add grime, Ann could have kissed, always nthamed though, sho was ot the passlou of that had grown to bo turture. That was a groat d-Ml to be thankful for. Somo time, perhaps, Humphrey would lu right again. And If that never c.tmo to pass here, why thrio was all heaven and tho hereafter. Yet sho frequently felt as If, before that time, her own mind might bo gone, with tho care, tho worry, tho sleep less nights, tho sorrow. Now tho moon hung lu tho window, looking upon her like ii graclouH friendly spirit promtblng peace, and Sally repeated to herself t ho texts that lu somo occult way gavo her comfort and took heart of grace for tho morrow, nnd her slender arm atlll clasped round Humphrey, as n mother holds her baby even In her dreams, sho slept at Inst herself. Hut there wero other wakeful people ou tho shore that night. Iry Hodge was not sleeping. "This Is reullj as you might Bay really " ho kept saying to hlaisolf without getting any further; whllo oven Ann tossed and turned in her dream. For that nfternoon their only son, Mather, the rosy little lad who bad longed to catch the from a barrolful of the tubers that stood oi.tsile the counter The old fellow -lt,.pid out ot the house as soon as he ionl.1 n cnlently and limped away. I followed him, thinking to give him what change I could spare, for I thought he must be desperately poor If he must steal a potato When 1 caught up with him and offered him n little money the old roan roared with laughter. When ho had got his breath ngattt he said: "You saw me stenl the potato, didn't you?" "Yes, sir, I did." "Well, lemmo tell you, my son, I've got po tatoes to sell. I raise thousands ot bushels of them. I've got the biggest market gar den In this county, and I've got more money than you ever saw. Cnrryltr a potato In your pocket will cure the rhcunmtlz, hut for It to do nny good you've got to steal the potato. See?" 1 saw. SBSMLL PX. Scarlet Fever, L Millions will be pent In politics this year. We can't keep tho campaign going without money nny more than we can keep tho body vigorous without food. Dyspep tics used to statve themselves. Now Kodol Dyspepsia Cure digests what ou cat and allows you to eat nil the good food o,i want, it radically euro stemarh trouble in a jiomj dip.s i.u-n o Womlrrfiil Dim olniiini'iil In the llrnm Miire Imlustr). One of the latest and mo.it wonderful de velopments In lira-s iiiuuiiiR, r'i""'ts th-' New; York Sun. Is the owe of the diamond lie by means of whhh lug.it bras in tuil.iv drawn down to wire of the tlneness of uli." tenllis of a thousandth part of an In. Ii. Steel may also be drown nrarlv is tl . nnd the two product when coinnloted .in as tlno and soft us the threodM 'nf a r.,,. wrb, nnd are us wuy and glossy as l.u mini lialr. The brass hair Is ot n beautiful u'llnu-i color, while the Mecl Is of all Imii gr.iv Ibis wire Is about ns strum; as a humim hair and Is of value for niichanlfal pur poses, belm; lu great UemHiid bv makers of electrical apparatus. Never before was so tine wlro drawn. T'ntll r rent years wire wan drawn through steel dies. The development or the diamond die tn Its tv ent stage of perfection has rendered possi ble the proiluetlnii of uui'ii iimr wire In fuet, the size of thf .vlro now pn.siblo Is limited only by the ability to hold together .- ii iiiinrs lornuKU iih uio. ; The dlumoml die Is made of a flake dli 1 mond looking not uutlko a hit of ulnulu s The hole thiougli which the wlro Is drawn Is drilled through the diamond, and thn stono Is thru stuck ,itl a Kteel l,ih with glue, directly over a hole in the sdah will ii Is a trllle larger than Jmt In the uiain.v id Tho wire to bo drawn Is tli.-n led tlimugu tho diamond so that the stone bears stead ily ngnlnst tho slab. This keeps tho d.u inond lu position. The brass Ingots from whhh tho eib webby wire Is made are four Inches situ.' re and long enough to weigh nbnut IM noun li One of theso will make miles of the oi web wire. It Is tirst put through slorl rolln until It Is reduced to the- size of one u linger, nnd then It Is drawn b mm blnerv through a set of steel dies, gradually de creasing In diameter until It i onic out In the shape nf the wire of the tlncmss se--M In the ordinary trades. Then It Is put through a set of eight dlitnriul dies, tho diameter of the last brlni; the Intlnltt'stlniiil part of an Inch Indicated above. Another curious thing In this brass mak ing count rv Is the development of hydraii le rolls which are so srii'iillllrallv adlusi"! thut a copper cent may be rolled out imdi r them to the size of an mormons platter and to thinness that amounts to trausisir rney, so that a newspaper mav be read through the metal. The opera'lon linn to be conducted with great care One nf tl.e rents thu" rolled out wax sent to Queen Victoria ns a curiosity some time ago and the queen returned u. b ttcr thanking the workmen. mm yk I Diphtheria, Ooueh and" fplilemlcj of m'-cr ronticlom tilsc.iscs tre more pitlcnt now than nt any lime 1 1 a...... . ii.. i iPr&'yt yf and Ube. i nitthod of M j disinfecting the homt In JL order to kill UV.-& and catching lllltSJtl. Ninety-five per cent, of these dlieajei cn he prevented hy the proper tue. of disinfectant! which destroy these disease brccdimt, germs. DR. CEO. LEININCCR's' Fo s-m a Z - d e-Ey (13 Q CENF.IiATOH (uilnt( solidified formaldehyde offers the people the only iafe;ucrd a;(nlnit the spreed ot ill contagious ami infectious diseases. Hy the proper "use of the generator you avoid all danqcr of Small Pox, UlphtherM, Scarlet Pever, etc., entering your home. In the treatment of Whooping Cough, nothing excels Solidified Pormaluchyuc. . llillorr M. 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' r ff&)y 1$ ofer have SaVec) jyou from if ii Vie befinninj)V p guess tho headacho he'll havo tomorrow, poor little dcur creetur, will be all the life of thnt sort he'll ever cure to have An' It was only In tho way of an accident w'en all'fl said. " 'An' an' If It was," Raid Iry. 'I don't know really um I don't know what wo'rn going to do nbout Humphrey.' "It'a an accident that'll happen again If wo don't watch out!" Bald Ann sharply. "Humphrey'd orter bo restrained and there's no doubt about It." "It would kill Sally If ho Is," said Miss Ithody. "It'll kill me If ho lon't." Thero wero n number of tho mothers on tho shore who agreed with Ann thut this was an accident that might happen again. And although their husbands laughed nt tLem 'hey wero In a state of ularm, llko that of.n brood when u hawk hovers In tho air. "I don't caro what Jo says," cried Mrs. Iljrnc3, letting hor llatlron cool when Llbby nud Susy Wuyno ran lu next morning. "I'd ruthcr seo my Ilcnny brought homo without n brcnth in his body than with that breath. You keep still, Ilcnny! I know your throut'n dry, and lt'd orter bo! An' his tongue you'd orter seo his poor llttlo tongue, tho dear Innercent! My lord, 1 shouldn't think a man'd want that tonguo twice. To think of that child's being made n tippler without knowing it!" '"Twotild break mo nil up," said Susy looking huirowfully down tho orchard, her faco still as, pink and whlto na tho tipplo blossoms there, "If my llttlo Davy got Into tho habit of this. And, of coureo. Humph reyil coax them in again, l'vo trembled tomo oven when I've rccn him sucking cider through a straw new cider, too. Hut cherry brandy oh, It ically Is wicked." "Wicked ain't no name for It," cried Mrs. Carter, who had followed hor. And with this tort of feeling abroad nmong the mothers it was not remarkable, that going down for their shopping to tho Tort ihe Tort people heard of Humphrey, and tho' still, and the cordlnl, and tho boys. In this way tho matter camo to ray Aunt Pamela's cars. And ray Aunt l'amela was the head nnd front of nn aasoclntlnu which Just then was sweeping all beforo It in tho causo of tcniporanco, nn entirely new causo In oi.r part of tho world at that period, when the decanter stood upon tho sideboard nnd ocry well furnished Moro closet had its keg of Marsala or Madeira. liven Aunt Pamela, In all the oxubcrnnro of her enthusiasm, had not banished tho old rum bottles, that had her grandfather's immo nnd date blown in them, from tho comer butfet, where stool her grandmother's flowered china, tho lovely I.nweustall that Ehe always ivashod herself. And sho never thought twice about mining tho comfortable Joruns thnt tho min ister and tho doctor took togotlior beforo going out. without a thought of harm, to address iho temperance cociety. Tor It was temperance, not abstinence, they wero preaching, nnd they wero proachlng that for poor fellows who really could not afford to drink; not for rnitle men like themselves, who sont their sherry on long, rolling voyages of calm and storm to Eon3on it. It Is plain, you seo, that tho temperance society had como to us nono too soon. Hut oven enthusiasts In a great cause, out ot their very enthusiasm, may make mis takes, and, sooth to say, my Aunt Pamela was ono of thoso peoplo who take up a causo simply for tho sako of its excitement and for tomethlng to bo busy nbout. Nothing she secked. because nothing sbo knew, of honiits beg6ated, of widows made, of or- beforo them tho monstrous fact that boys were being ruined by tho possessor of n btill live miles up the river, nnd that, ot coutlc, thetr own boys were In danger, near as they were to a community subject to such a demoralizing Influence, nnd sho moved that they scud a constable nt ome for tho destruction of that tool of evil, and declared that It woh u vote lint . Pnmela!" cried my mother, hur rying In ns soon ns sho heard ot It. "You no nil off. It la nothing of tho sort. Sho Is a poor woman who sells herbs nnd disilU osu water " "I never heard that roso water Intoxi cated llttlo boys," said my aunt, loftily. "And I know hor I am very fond of her I buy a great deal of her " "I know you refused to Join our society, but you needn't boast4 of buying stimu lants, Kmlly," said my aunt. "Stimulants!" exclaimed my mother, out of all patience. "Sweet llttlo Sally Lav ondur's essence of roses! I gavo you a Jar of her potpourri" "Yes. And It Is recking with ulcohol!" "Tho poor, weak cologne sho makes her self! "With that 8 1 ill. I iiippose, whero sho makes tho cherry brandy that has torn the hearts ot nil tho mothers in tho village who nro scolng their boys turned Into llttlo beasts by her machinations" "O, Pamela, this is ically tuo ridiculous!" "You tuny call It ridiculous," bald my aunt, with her eyebrows at tho given at tltinlo for disdain. "I call It tragical!" And tragical it was, a3 to her grief my mother found, when hastening up tho shoro lu tho chatso my Cousin Luster and I fol lowing, uiiuollccd lu hor uuusual anxiety, on a milk wagon whoso good-natured driver protended that wo wero pirates who had overcome him and wero forcing him to drlvo us whero wo would. Hut my mother was Just too late. The constable had arrived first and had con fronted tho bewildered Sally and had de manded tho still. And Humphrey, under standing nothing but that tho dctcuso of tho still was In question, hud thrown lilib belf upon tho mau v ith all his maniacal forco. Tho still hud been ruined In tho struggle; tho man had been borne to tho ground, but not seriously hurt, and lu hts fury Humphrey had broken a vessel on his brain. Sally was on tho grass of tho llttlo gar den plot, holding Humphrey's head upon hor breast. It was luto of a bright June afternoon. I remember now nil tho picture of tho moment It struck me more than the feeling did the sky of that tender blue which vorges toward evening, the roses einmberlnu over tho high trellis behind, tho great, fragrant, blushing roses that Sully hud trained there, Bhaklng in the soft wind with n gay nnd cruel rustling, the white, Htlll woman who seemed to see nothing in nil the world but tho faco upon her breast that strange, dark faco whose burning eyes woro fixed on hers with a comploto Intelligence. The doctor, for whom Iry Hodge had run, was on his knees, holding Humphrey's hand and Ann nnd Miss Ithody and Llbby and Tom llrler I knew them nil after wardwere with my mother by tho big whlto rose bush, crying and trembling to gether. Humphrey was plainly dying and Sally knew nothing of any words but that the bounds of whoso dark mystery she seemed to bo treading with him. The gust of a sweet brier tossing In tho wind brings It all before me now-the faces of the frightened children nt the gato, tho cries of tho men far off launching a lutlo sloop he said suddenly nnd loud nnd clear, "there's Polly!" And then Humphrey was gone. It was little Mather at the gato with us who broke Into a wall of sorrow. Hut Sally sat looking Into tho clear spare ns If she Journeyed after Humphrey into that Infinite distnnce. fr months' M Isplneetl. 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