$ The Minister's Rescue i . $ By Ethel H. Colwa. rnHE Little Minister" everybody I on board the Luorelia called Mm lucvltubiy, he wan so very little Hi, J mi oblnuljf a milliliter. And everybody, before the hucretU was three duys out from Liverpool, was pussipliiij about the tittle minister's (li-ftttion tu an ot the women patasn KT the woman with ikikenfd eye brow ann brtlr a thought too ifnMefi. Kverybody would linve gossiped (till more hill everybody heard and, under stood the whispered words which amused the curiosity and wonder ot the heud airwarririess on the evening when the little minister net everybody T" hy escorting the yellow-haired woman down to the eery door of her Hate-room. "Conrajre! Conrarel Po not de spair!" waa the balfompreheiided ejaculation with which be bade her adieu, And everybody, airain, would have l.ecn nearly frantic with excitement had the manner In wl.leli the two b (imi aerpialtited been publicly known. The yellow-haired woman waa lean f rar over the rail of the promenade flwk, well forward, upon the aecond day of the vnyase, when the little iitl'iilsier, who had been watehinK her keenly from hia tinobaerved aeat be hind a music room porthole, atrolled easily to beralde. "I wouldn't! Don't think of It," he Mid, aoftly. "ft really wouldn't be w.irth while, Pluck up heart and take t.mrairo. Your present aorrow will be over In a lifetime, anyways you'll be iurry for all eternity If you Jump over b"ard. poor child." "Why do you apeak to me like thla?" cried the woman, Jurnlnf wtd, dea prat eyei on hla kindly face. "Hreauss I, too, have been very !ue to despair. he made itentla an swer, "and, perhaps, with far less renaim than you have. I hart known vpilr foe my own elna rather than tiie sins of others. Yon have sinned. aUo doubtless, but you hava be a Vmied acalnat as well." For a moment the woman looked a though he wnild kill him. Then, and rienl.v. lie hid hef weary hejd down .mi the mil. and he could feel, rather 'than ee, that she waa Bobbin. Pres enile he stepped a little nearer, and, aiTVcfltur tu he deeply Interested In the tnsslnjr water, spoke to her Spain, In vry low tone. "Ifcm't give way here and now," he ethir'ed, tenderly. "Othera are vuii'hinir ua; yon don't want to at trai't attention. Hear up a little long er you hiive been alien! an lonff, I ati mire, Let them think you are III --It la only natural. Steward!" to the Mite-jacketed funetlontry of the lower Vrls, "wiine hot beef-tea for thla lady, l:timed!nie!y." s "Let me (rive you my arm to the up tier ilwk," he eufrireawd, when, the beef-lea hnvine; been ahaorhed in a sheltered corner, the tak of screen ing her from the. .inquisitive jrlancea .f ramial rlrrk-st rollers became a Vttie difllcult. And there on the up per deck which waa altogether too eipnseit and too windy to be anything but deserted the yellow-haired wom en relaled her atory. She was moved thereto partly by the knowledge of hia cluth and hia fatherly manner, partly because ahe looked through the clergyman, and aaw that he waa a nun and a gentleman aa wellj more than all, perhaps, becauae ahe had reoched the point where ahe could no lunger contr.in the gullt-burdencd mis ery fr.m which a womanly listener might hava ahrank whh repellant die fiit. It waa a pitiful atory, more pitiful, even, than the teller of it realised. A desolate child, fatherless, motherleia, she had never known a real home or , affection. Tossed and buffeted from one unwilling, unloving relative to an other, the had flouted them all, at is, to fall In lore with s man many jeara her aenior, and who had never borne a good name, She had gone through the preliminary punishment of the loat in order to be true to him, in hia absence. When, a year after he had bidden her good-by until "I can come back and marry yon," he had sent her money and directions to cross the ocean and heeinne hla wife In Liverpool, ahe had sacrificed her all, tlveming It no aacrifice, but a joyous privilege, to obey him. Two yeara later, inflamed with the Are of a new passion, he had offered her a goodly um of money to aign an agreement protecting him from any future de mand . embarrassments, and leav ing hin. . t'e to marry the woman of hia later choice as he hail promised untruthfully to mnrry her. Stung to the quirk of the sensitive, future which hud liiteiy known love for the first time, nil but maddened, des perate, she had left him but without taking the money. Now , another year Inter, she wns usirir the proceeds of 111 months of hardwvurk and snmi-dla- ipatlon to go b:ii U to America. Te llow passing of the lonjj M-fiays' voy age, desirable for financial rciior.s, had Iff; her time for the bitter think Ing and forecasting o long deferred, The (ilant Despair had her fast In hia Iron, relentless clutchea when the little minister hud Interfered. He heiird her through hi silence--the sympiithetlc, comprehensive al ienee so rich In balm and cheer. He, ton, had been lonely; he waa return Itiir now from the journey undertaken to bid hla Inst living relative a long g .od by. Ilia was nature, also, which, while It COtlin nevrr Know rem wickedness, suffered much because of fancied agalnat Woa ana man. (Unci the fancy, aa now Happened, taught biin great sympathy and skill In dealing with otherand greater sinners It waa not, perhapa, without its uses, Tha yellow-haired woman realized tha supposed and actual character of the fancy Intuitively: but the knowledge that he believed himself a aore sinner wm aa Inde finably comforting aa hia wis alienee, Pity after day tha little minister cheered, atrengthenad and encour aged her, heroically regimlleaa of the meaning glances east toward them by women who hair waa not yellow, and by men who considered facctiotw 9!echea concerning flirtatious par sons and the . latitude of the cloth: day after dy he Induced her to postpone further compact with tha Giant Despair at least until she had made effort a lit tle longer. And all went wall until tho afternoon when he wne powerlevs to fight the recurring battle with her hecauite. of the determined compan ionship and questioning of tha ascetic maiden lady who wanted hia views iik,ii the Athanaslait creed question --and also to talk uboiit the yellow haired woman. The little minister. j whose gentlemanly Umtliict never U0 f- u diroction a,d cannol J,ut lowed him to discuss on woman with " . .... another, found anxiety dispoasesaing b encouraging to the people of the hia patient and polita boredom ar. he Inland Empire that thev are final noticed that thayellow-haired woman j, . rfvcr tannin ltimtiirh InAtttftd of OVI-r o r - - the rail. Hut before he could carry out hla awlftly formed resolu tion lo go to her Immediately there u the flash of a falling figure, a sud dm eommotion and ht reaiiied that ; the long-dreodcd elrcumsUiiioe had come to pat. !! was 'u the water alruoct as aoon as she was. Three other man made tbeme!f ready, but were a' trifle j kiwrr, ror various reason, iserore they reached the rail the little mlnia ter had caught hold of the vallow Iriin.' woman who alruggled and fouelit him wildly. "Don't save me," she gwaped, moan Ingty. "I can't help atruggting. but I dm t want to be ssvsd. please let me drown!" Pleasa, . . hand For all answer he slipped a under the littla, round, dclicala ehin which told such a clear story of the! weakness which loves v! find It hard to resist temptation, pushed her at nreis'-Iength from Mm. nnd swam ns strongly aa he mlvht until a rope came to him over the stern of the ahip. Kiret she wna drawn on board Kutcly, then he followed and was hur ried downstairs for brandy and hnrdi nibb'ni'. Almost before tha two combined brought warmth and vital ity hock to the lltnba which were ao InniK'iifinmtly weak and unfitted to contain the mighty spirit which up held them a measage eama to his stateroom. The yellaw-halred wom an hoped he had not been Injured In coining to her rescue; ahe would like lo see him to say "Thank you," when ever he should feel Inclined to leave hla berth. 8he herselt had been com manded by the eurgeon to remain mo tlonlets for some houre. When the aisles and staterooms had been einp-.'ed by the dinner-gong the little minister traversed the former and stood at the side of the yellow he.lrcd woman pathetically weak nnd young-looking lit her physical weak ness and spiritual abasement. At aight of him ahe broke into sobbing, ri'1'ardless of the now aympathetic stewarilftes, who considerately slipped from the room. "Why did you save, mef" ahe asked him, still weeping. "You knew I want ed to die. I want to die now, as God hears me, although I have learned thia evening just how eweet It would be to go on living if one only had a chance to atnrt over." And then It was that the aonl of the man and the gentleman stood up In the eyes of the preacher, and the divine Instinct which had henled ao many sine and aorrowe failed not the little minister, even though the rem edy required waa unusual. . "I, too, learned something while down In the water," he said, with the hesitating precision of one who re cites a lesson but hastily learned. "I learned that my life will never be quite perfect, never quite what It should be, unless you consent to be come part of It, my my dear. Will you" hia manner aa reverential aa though ahe had been the most con ventional of conventional "good wom en," "honor me by promising to be come my wife?" The hope and the wonder which flashed out In her face transformed and1 transfigured It: but the glory died . out a moment Irter. "You are only saying this for char ity's sake, to save me, to give me an other chance," ahe told him. "No," answered the little minister, with quiet tenderness and gentle de- termination, "you are qufta, quit mistaken, my my dear, 1 am saying it because I lova you." And the good God, hearing these worda of nubility and resurrection, looked upon them with favor end made them trua. Oae AOmtrlisI CMMciit. That no man la a hero to his vnlet la a truism that has come down through a long line of French cynics; but Lord Ulpon, e-viceroy of India, hud occa sion to demonstrate that he, at least, was nppreciRtad by a faithful retaiw-r. Boon lifter hla return from Calcutta, and when the criticisms of his admin istration wer parSciilarly fierce, Lord Ulpon was met by a member of the liberal party, who said to him, enthus iastically! "I congratulate you on your courage and public spirit In pur suing so large-minded and liberal a policy In the east." Lord Itipon mnilul us he replied: "It i" food of you to say such kind things of me; but to tell you the 'filth, 1 don't believe thrre was anyone In India who rea"y approved nf my policy except my old ricotcb gardener." Youth's Companion, A Good Mom. While the action ot the house rivers and harbors committee in recommending the' authorization of a lurvcy of the proposed boat railway between The Dalles and Celilo with the end in view ot hav ing a survey made for canal and locka in not all that could have been desired, it is yet a move in w, ! . . I I I i itere in an unexjicnucu tuuu ui 1214,407 in the appropriation for the boat railway which the com' mittee authoriaea tc be used in making the survey. This fund be ing immediately available will ad roit of work being commenced at once on the BUrvey, and it should bo completed in time for the en gineers to make a full report by the time of the convening of the next congress. The favorable report of the com- I mittee is unquestionably the re- ' suit of their visit to the Columbia I . . nrcr oasin iasi summer, aim ip evidence that when congrejsmen become better acquainted with the resources of the west they will be more liberal in their dealings with internal and oast improvements. We are certainly begining to feel the effect of the eant becoming ac quainted with the west, and to further advance our interests a strong effort should be made to in duce the irrigation committee to visit the arid regions next sum mer, for next to the improvements of our rivers and harbors is the reclamation of our arid lands- Dalles Mountaineer. Knows Nothing of It. James J. Hill, presidont of the Northern Securities Company, is quoted by the Journal of Com merce as saying he knows nothing of the new transcontinental rail way line with a Pacific terminal at Eureka, Cal. The plans of the line were given out some time sgo by Lord Thurlow, of England, and recently at Chicago. 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