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B HARklF:TT PRIiSCOTT SPOITORI).
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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,
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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.
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nnd in Council Illuffn by J. C. Delluven.
Druggists
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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.
One day during n cold snap last winter,
says the Woman's Homo Companion, I saw
an old man In n grocery acting rather sus
piciously, and soon I saw him steal n potato
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Tho Kind You Havo Always Hought lias borno Iho filpnti
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Just-as-tfootl" aro hut ISxperiment.s, mid endaiiKer tlio
health of Children ISxpcrlcnco ngninst Kxiicriment.
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