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o o NO LONGER SAD. BY ALFRED CllATOK. "There's n gentleman to sec you miss." Miss Marion Amllcy walked into her aunt's artistic drawing room with a b slight hastening of tlio artificially languid 6tcp that had lately becomo habitual with her. A gentleman, at this particular after noon, meant some ono sho was con scious of rather wishing to sec than otherwise. Sho gave in passing a sidelong and surreptitious glanco at a mirror, which reflected a satisfactory vision in severe ly elegant visiting dress, and with a most unexceptionable snrine bonnet tipon a well poised littlo head, and raised her eyes to encounter a straight forward masculino gaze which caused her to start back with a dark flush sud denly overspreading her checks. "Owen Hilyar!" "Yes. You don't seem very much pleased to see mo." Sho did not; there was no doubt of that. Tho young man camo forward nnd took her hand. "Marion, come. Haven't you a word of welcome to say to moP I have looked forward to this moment so long and so ardently." IIo was very handsomo and eager, bending down to her, but to Marion ho only seemed, compared with tho men sho had of lato been thrown in contact with, uncouth and rough; and Ills clothes had not tho right appearance at nil. "Ofcoursol am glad to sco you," elm said drawing herself away with badly concealed impatience, "but you took mo so by surprise. I didn't ex pect you." Sho turned from him and began ro moving her bonnet. Ho looked a moment at her slight, round form, thrown into delicious ro lief with tho two raised arms, and then eaid in a changed tono: "I thought tho surpriso might bo as pleasant to you as it would have been to mo." Sho mado no roply. Good gracious! lAjid why need ho bo so intensoP And why need ho como dropping in upon her liko this, without a word of warning? "You expect someone, evidently," Lo hurried on. "WhoP Somo mini? Tell mo, Marion! Why liavo you writ ten so littlo of late, and such cold lot tcrsr navo you changed towards us allP Havo you forgotton usP" IIo had approached hor again, and suddenly, witii a burst of uncontrolln Mo passion, stooped and seized her in lus arms. Sho gavo a low cry pushed him from her and stood boforo him with flaming ejtsa. "Howdaro you!" sho said, trembling "with anger. "I low daro you presume! I hnvo forgotton you in tho sense that you mean, if you must know all. I do ngt wish to bo reminded at all of thoso daysbeforo I left homo. Tho whole tiling is hideous to me tho life, and tho placo, and all. Aunt llnrriinan lias mado anothor sort of existence fornio, and I moan to follow it. I have noth ing moro to say, and I hope you under stand, once for all." Hilyar had looked at hor very steadily whilo sho spoke. IIo interrupted her by not so much as tho movoinoiit of a muselo. Whim sho hud quite finished, lio slowly took up his flint and walked towards tho door. "Thank you for oponing my eyes. You havo baon very frank," ho said. Sho mndo, unconsciously, a faint movoniont to de tain him, but tho door had already clos ed behind him. Five minutes later, tho porson sho had oxpeotod to find on coming in from hor drive, and whoso namo was Frank Dutton, mado his nppcarnncu. IIo noticed that sho looked a trifle pale. IIo did not know that sho was quite in rotty for it. And Mr. Frank Dutton was in matters of feminine loveliness quito a connoisseur, or so ho considered himself. ' i .... . One bright spring afternoon two years later, Mrs. llarriman was driving up tho Champs Llyseos, in Paris, with hor two niecos, Marion and Virginia Audloy. Tho latter hnd only recently enjoyed her favors and tho advantage of her position and hor fortune, but, though not to bo compared in point of looks to hor stately older Bister, had already impressed her aunt with tho idea that after all, sho might "do bet tor" than Marion. To speak truth, Mrs. Harriman was very mucn disappointed in mat young lady. Had sho not dono everything for her, taking hor from her plain homo in nn obscure littlo town, and giving hor two seasons in London and ono now in Paris, and all under tho vory best auspioos? And what had como of it all? Sho iiad had a great deal of succor at first, to bo suro, and had seemed vory ecnsiblo of hor privileges and alive to tho duty incumbent upon iter of making tiio most of thorn. But then gradually eho had lost interest, grown moro and moro listless, and actually let pass thrco most exceptionable opportunities such as any girl in hor right mind would hnvo Jumped at of settling her Belf in life. And now this hut inox plieablo freak about tho Comto do . "Why, Marion. There is Owen 1111. yar, "suddenly cried Virginia, interrupt ing her aunt's irate monologue Tho carriage, rolling slowly on in the preM of vehicle, passed close by a tall, broad shouldered pedestrian, who was Waiting for a momentary break in tho 6trcam of hor"cs and wheels to mako his way over. He iicard the tixolafiiation and raised his eyes. Virginia leaned forward and smiled all over her pretty face. Hilyar raised his hat, and already the crowi had separated them. "Oil, hasn't ho got to bo awfully handsome!" cried Virginia. "IIo al ways wns, of course. But Paris and civilization havo agreed with him won derfully." "Who is tho young man?" inquired Mrs. llarriman. "Why, a friend of our earliest child hood, isn't ho Marion? Good gracious! What's tho matter, Marion?" Marion was leaning back in her scat, pale as the white lilac in her dress. "Nothing. These first spring days are so oppressive." Mrs. llarriman produced her gold mounted, cut-glass pungent, and hav ing insisted upon hor neico making use of that restorative, concluded that she had recovered sufficiently to liston to her warnings. "I should liko you to tell me whethci you really mean to let all your chances slip, Marion? With' the exception oi Frank Dutton, you never had as good a ono as this Compto do . You lot that go Heaven knows whyI didn't! and now you're on tho way to letting this go, too. But lot mo tell you, if you do you'll ruo tho day. Do you hear mo?" "Oh yes, I hear you aunt," was tho weary reply. Sho had been through numberless scenes of this sort before now, and she had always held her own. But now, somehow, as tho earriago drove through tho porte-cochere and they alighted and mounted tho long stairs to Mrs. Harri man's apartments, Marion felt as though sho could battle no longer as though something had snapped within her. A few hours later Mrs. llarriman, with hor two nieces in tow, entered tho drawing rooms of tho American Minis ter. It was ono of tho largest balls of tho season. Marion was regally lovely in puro sim ple white, and Virginia looked liko a fresh rosebud in her fleecy skirts of pink. Mrs. Harriman's ambitious soul filled witli gratification at sight of tho sensa tion the two girls wero evidently pro ducing. And to mako her senso of tri umph complete, thoro was tho Comto do approaching and claiming Mar ion's hand for tho first walso. Havingassurcd horself that Virginia's order of dances was being also ranidlv scribbed over with tho hieroglypolrics of Uosiniblo partnors, sho allowed hor self to bo led away by an eldorly diplo matist to a retired coign of vintage, whero hor nieces could seek tho slieltei of her wing during in their unattached periods during tho evening. Ilio elderly diplomatist proved to be a conversationalist of exceptional brill iancy; so niiieh so that Mrs. Harriman, usually tho myst Argus-eyed of chapor ons, quito failed to notico that Virginia was dancing and had alrondy danced repeatedly Willi the brood shouldered young follow whom thoy had passed in the afternoon. Not so Marion. Sho had become conscious of Hilvar's presenco before site had boon in tho house a quarter ol an hour. Now, as she passed on the conito's arm, listening with a distant distrait look upon hor face, which the Frenchman took for tho expression o) maidenly shyness to tho words of re spectful adoration ho poured into hoi ear, sho camo upon him standing with hor sister in tho deep embrasure of a curtained window. Virginia was looking up with a smile that played in a thousand enchanting dimples about her mouth, and Hilyar'i oyes wero bent with a sort of plcasee contemplativoni'ss upon hor. Tho eomtc gavo a glanco sideways, and a hall sinilo which seemed to express an ap preciative apprehension of tho situation A pang shot liko n knife tlirougl Marion Audloy's heart. After all, she asked herself, why notP Virginia was so pretty, so unspoiled by tho world, sc true, though sho professed to bo se worldly. Sho turned her head slowly, and tin two looked towards her. Virginia mndi a sign with her hand, and simultaneous ly Hilyar's eyes mot Marion's. There was no look of recognition in tho man'f calm direct glance. Tho next moinonl Marion had passed on. "Why, it is not posstblo you did not know that that was Marion?" said Vir ginia. Tlio next morning n storm burst in tho Harriman abode. The diplomat ist's conversation had'not succeeded in rendering Mrs. Harriman oblivious to ail surrounding persons ami things dur ing tlio entire evening before, and to wards tlio end of it sho had become conscious of certain happenings, the, thought of which now unused a violent uncorking of tho vials of her wrath. I had hoped bettor things of you, Virginia, at least, whatovor your sistei may soo fit to do. 1 did not thml: you would put all your prospects In jeopardy nt tho very outset of your career by making yourself -so scandalously con spicuous with a young man who is a nobody a paujwr -" "I'm sure he is not a nobody at all," cried Virginia. "Owen Hilyar U well born and a gentleman. And as or his being a pauper well, ono doesn't think ol an artist's pecuniary position as one does of other men's, and ho is rising wonderfully. Tho work ho is going to send to tho Salon is quito remarkable. In any case, he's an old friend. And if Marion chooses to turn her back upon such I don't." To which Parthian shot Marion re plied nothing. nut as tno nays passcu snosaw a change conic subtly over her laughing littlo sister. And once, having called unexpectedly upon a friend, sho found Virginia, wasjmpposcd to bo spending the day with ono of Mrs. Harriman s French acquaintances, deep in conver sation with Hilyar. The latter turned a trifle pale as Ma rion entered, and Virginia crimsoned with an embarrassment that was nbso lutely painful. Marion made but a short stay. Sho had learned moro than sho wanted to know. That evening, as tho two sisters went to thcir'room, Marion said very quietly "Toll me, Virginia, do you love Owen Hilyar?" Virginia bit her lip, hesitated, then laughed. "Well, you're such a Mentor, I sup- poso I must mako a clean breast of it with you. I don't know that I exactly love him, but I admiro him moro than any man I know. IIo is so simplo and manly, so unlike that foppisli Comto do , and all thoso fellows of tho typo of Frank Dutton, you know. And ho seems to singlo me out for attention wherover wo go and well, I think I could bo happy with him, really." "You are sure?" very gravely. "Yes, I think I am sure. What makes you look so solemn, Marion?" "A human being's happiness in this world i3 a solemn thing, littlo one. Sometimes ono misses it before ono is aware. That must not happen to you, Virginia." A month passed, and then ono even ing Marion came face to face with Hil yar at a ball. It was a hist breaking up for tlio season, as it were. Tlio night was warm and tho windows stood open. People who had been growing languid in their pursuit of social pleasures of late, were galvanized into new life by tho feeling that society was disbanding till next year. Marion, with a sudden resolution that was tlio fruit of many sleepless nights, mado a sign to Hilyar and stopped out upon ono of tho small balconies flower encumbered which looked down upon the broad Parisian avenue, with its even procession of lights broken into hero and thoro by the broad glaro of a cafe, anil with its quietly moving forms of pleasure seekers enjoying tlio warmth of tho night, "Ion will think what I am going to say extraordinary, I know," sho began at once. "But let that pass. I havo a duty to perform and I will not negloct ii. iv o wero irieniis once i want you to forgot all tho past and bo 1113' friend again. I know all about Virginia and you and I wanted to tell you that I will help you both, if you will let mo. There, that is all. Sho put out her hand bravely and ho took it slowly in his. His eyes burned so strangely in his whito face that an irrespressiuio nervousness took pos session of her. "Let 1110 go," sho said faintly. IIo paid no heed. "Did you think I loved Virginia?" ho said in a voieo that echoed in her inmost soul. "Did you think I had forgot ten?" "You can't you can't " sho stain moral. "Love you yet? Ah, Marion!" His grasp tightened liko a vico upon her hand, his eyes burned into hers through the darkness. "But I treated you so shamefully I did not know then I was crazy! Can j'ou forgive 1110 all?" "Marion!" Tho'passionatoly appeal ing tono seemed to draw her to him, and perchance tho midnight stars might havo looked down on tho' lover's kiss they know so well, had not Mrs. llarri man appeared at that moment with a certain look of haughty surpriso. "Marion, aren't you dancing this valsoP" "Yes, aunt. With Mr. Hilyar.", "What will your aunt sav?" Owen was asking a littlo later in tho pauses of tho dance. "I shudder to think of it!" sho laughed; but nevertheless thoro wero no signs of overwhelming dread on tho charming face upon which Hilyar riow looked down, at last unrebuked, with adoring oyes, And Virginia? Alas for tho sollish- ness of poor human nature! Tho thought had never como to Marion until sho had shut herself into her own room on hor return. Hut thou it caught her heart with a cold spasm. Was hor younger sister s happiness, thon, to bo wrecked because she, tho older, had found hor own? She went to Virginia's door and knocked, Somo moments elapsed and thon Virginia slowly opened tho door and stood before hor sister in her loug whito wrappor. Tlio child-like face was paler than usual. "Oh, Virginia!" said tho latter, con-selous-strickon, and could say no more. Hut if Virginia had a battle to tight, sho would tight it out alone and iu si loneo. " "I know why you havo come, Marie," eho eaid quickly, "and I know that you are feeling badly about me. But you needn't. You had a first -claim on him, j and ho has loved vou all along. I didn't I l.-Ktivthin? aPOUV nun. in uiv uun iviiu ' m ning, but 01 law 1 lC out. 1 ... T l.o..n 1.1.1 . think Jigsaw Mttthat I was gcttby? 'fgU'l'ot him, and ho I don't know how ho did it but ho made mo understand And to-night, when I saw you two como in from tho balcony together, I was sure and I knew you had made it up There! Don t cry, Mario! 1 m sure you'ro much more worthy of him than I over could be. And I I'm a scatter brain, you know, and I'm certain to get over it!" And, with a laugh that might have ended in a sob, had sho permitted it, Virginia resolutely pushed Marion back, and closed tho door. A littlo while, and in spite of Mrs Harriman's opposition, Owen Hilyar and Marion wero happily united. New "Way to Become Lean. Starvation, semi-starvation, surcharg ing, "banting," alkalies, purgatives, Turkish baths, exercise, and the thous and and 0110 ways of reducing corpulency to respectable dimensions still leave a large section of our stout population in despair. M. Germain Sco comes to the rescue and solves (?) tho difficulty with his accustomed dash and skill. "O, 3 0 mnssivo fat ones, desiring to bo mado lean, cat not much meat, but drink enor mous' of tea." This is Mr. See's good news in a nutshell, I hat is tho cry now to bo heard in the Parisian wilderness of fat. Obese individuals ma3T suffer from shortness of breath from1 many causes, writes M. Sec, and infiltration of tho muscles with fat is an important one. Thoro arc many ways of reducing tho fat. Tlio first is b3' diet; tho second by moderating tho imbibition of fluid; tho third b3' muscular exercise; and there aro also balneotherapy or bathing and treat ment by medicaments. M. See docs not ipprovo of "banting," as it takes too long; and, further, ho argues that pro tciils such as meat, eggs, etc. ; aro 'pro ductive of fat. Ebstein has recently ad vocated "banting," combined with somo fatty food; but our author docs not fall in with this method. Stout people do not bear bleeding well, although this was tho treatment in vogue in tho six teenth and seventeenth centuries. Iodides, alkalies and diuretics aro not well borno by fat persons. Moreover, these medicines, when they reduce obesity, do so b3T destroying, or at least damaging, tho organs on which tho nu trition of tho body depends. London Lancet. The New Year. She cometli forth In lier virgl n whiteness, This dainty, winsome, glad new Year; She smiles In allher genial brightness, And promises bountiful hope and clieei. Her robes are wrought In somo fairy palace, Fashioned by lingers as nimble as light, And set with millions of shining jewels, Pearls, and diamonds as Pleiads bright. Last night the Old Year, stem and hoary, Hreathed his last on her gentle breast; Sho closed his eyes with her lily fingers, And followed him out to his tlaal rest. At morn she rose In regal beauty To reign as queen o'er all the land; Her kingdom's a realm unbounded, Sho rules it with a magic wand. All hall to thee, fair and lovely New Year. We own thy charms, thy bitching power, We feel the spell of thy wondrous presence And do thee homage from this hour! elma Uulaicell McMlte, in HI. LottU Jfaga- sine. Snakes in Her Stomach. II10 wifo of Lem Allen, a prominent citizen of Churchill count, has been an Invalid for a long timo. Occasionally hor sullerings were great, and recently hor ailments wero most serious, such as to causo her friends to almost loso hopes of her surviving. While labor ing under tho most accuto pain, ac companied with symptoms of inllama tion of tlio stomach and bowels, the most heroic medicines wero used. Af ter a tunc four snakes of tno water species wero taken from her. One waa quito tlireo feet in length, another about twenty inches, and two about eight inches. Tlio powerful medicines used poisoned thorn, and ovidontly tho3 re mained dead in tho stomach somo littlo time. How they wero taken into tho stomach and survived is a question. For quito awliilo tho lady seriously com plained of a peculiar sensation as il something was creeping around within, littlo thinking thoro was any reality in it. Since tho serpents wero unwitting ly poisoned sho has recovered rapidly, and bids fair to soon enjo3 her wonted health. Jlcno (Xcv.) Gazette. A Wide Difference. "Father," said a young lady to hoi patornal friend, wo, as a race, i,rP'l do you not think that aro rapidly degenorat- "I do, indeed," roplled hor sire. "In your opinion, do 3-011 think man !s now what ho used to bo?" asked tho daughter. "No, thoro is n great difl'eronco bo- tweon tlio two, for ho used to bo a bo" Religion in Chicago is graded in prices. Fashionable religion is quoted as active and in good demand b rich, nristocratio invalids. Second-class re ligion, with a sufllciency of pie-crust moralit), trimmed with nn abuudanco of deception, is exeessivoly active, and bring good prices, Tho wicked crj for it, if thoy havo no colatcnds to purchase it with. 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