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METHOUGHT THE ROSE WAS FA I JIcthotiRht tho rcvso was fairest when full blown, 1 breathed its festal fragrance, and was glad: By dawn tho tud Its petals far had strewn; I found an uuerowned chalice lono and sad. Methoiiftht that Youth could no'cr escced lu prime; 1 joyed to lire and with all llfo was fain; But calkins caro outran e'en Her ting time And In the race I saw the stripling slain. Methonght that Beauty was a Joy for aye; 1 worshiped at her shrine in homage leal; Anon an envious Nemesis swept by And on mine idol M.'iit her blighting seal. McthouRht that Lovo by bards had been inallgn'd; 1 sanctuary gave him in my heart; Eft-soous the thankless boy a spot did find Wherein to lodge his most envenomed dart. Jlethoughtthat Life more precious wasthan gold; 1 prized each pregnant hour with sordid greed; But when both Ia)o aud Youth escaped my hold, They left me, pluudered miser, poor indeed. Methought that Death's oblivion ended all; 1 recked no future peace, no future pain, Till one long cherished, gone beyond recall, At iiartiug whispered, "Friend, ne meet again I" J. V. l'rlchard In Homo Journal. A SOLITARY PASSENGER. Tho 10:00 train from White Penk was lato that snowy February night. It nqver was what ono would call n painfully prompt train, but to-night it was full fifty minutes behind its usual time, and tho telegraph operator had nearly fallen asleep behind tho pano of ground glass over which tho word "tickets" was in scribed in a half circle, and toward which a most inartisttcally foreshortened hand was depicted us extending ngilt finger for the enlightenment of tho general public. Not that tho Hig Pino telegraph ollico was ordinarily open at so Into an hour as this. Seven o'clock was tho usual period of closing. Nor had Eunice Barlow any official right to tho tall wooden stool bo hind the semicircular gilt legend referring to "Tickets." In a manner sho had had greatness thrust upon her. Old Mr. Pettyclovo. who represented tho majesty of tho railway company in this particular spot, had gone homo in tho curly dusk with a raging facial neuralgia, and in common humanity Eunico could not have refused temporarily to assume his position with its duties. "It will only bo another hour of work," she told herself, cheerfully, as sho put an additional log of frost fringed wood into tho little air tight stove. "When tho 10:50 has passed I can shut up tho placo and go home. There are only two night freights, and tho conductors on both of them have keys to tho freight house." Hut in tho rourso of theso sanguine meditations Eunice had neglected to tako iuto account the driving snow storm and tho consequent "block" along tho rails; and sho was beginning to glanco rather anxiously at tho unmeaning dial of tho wooden clock on tho pino shelf above her head, for sho would have to walk nearly half a mile through tho lonely wooded road ere sho could reach her homo, after tho stm ion was shut for tho night, and sho hud n plumb, timid matured littlo mother sitting beside tho fire, who was suro to imagine all sorts of possible and impossible horrors if Eunice chanced to bo a few minutes behind tho regulation timo of arriviu; at tho doorstep. "I wish," Miss Harlow mused, "that I had thought to ask Mr. I'ettyclovo to send his boy Zenas over to tell mother that I was likely to bo detained a little. But thcrol tho train can't bo long now." Outsido the wind howled liko an infu riated demon in tho worst possible of tem pers The tops of tho pino trees kept up ii constant moaning, liko tho waves of some black-green sea. Within, tho clock ticked lustily on, tho logs of wood crackled and sputtered in tho stove, and Eunice Barlow yawned over her paper covered Ivanhoe, with u growing indiirerenco to tho fato alike of tho fair haired Roweua and Rebecca tho beautiful. Suddenly tho silenco was broken by tho tiniest sound, liko tho throbbing of "some (small silver heart. Eunice jumped up. instinctively obedient to tho call of her autocrat, tlio telegraph. "A message!" sho thought. "And at this time of tho night. Well, wonders liover will ceaso." A message it was; to Peter Pcttyclove, station agent at Big Pino station. "Defalcation in Homo bank. Detain passenger on train 21. Small, dark, wear ing fur trimmed coat. Keep in custody until further notice. II. V. CAitTun, "Chief of Police at White Peak." ' Almost before sho had deciphered theso words, Eunice Barlow telegraphed back "All right;" and ouco more tho small sil ver heart left oil its tumultuous throb biugs. And not until then did tho tele graph operator realize what u very pecu liar position sho was in. All alono at Big Pino station, and officially authorized, in right of her substitution, to arrest a bank defalcator on tho spotl Even while sho pondered on this unex pected state of things thero was a curious thrill and tremble of tho floor beams under her feet; a shrill steam whistlo rising above tho sustained roar of tho tempest. Tho 10:50. officially known as No. 21. was swinging around tho curve. In an instant Eunice Barlow was out in tho deep snow of tho rudo board platform with tho lighted lantern in her hand. Tho conductor of the train was not at all sur prised to see her thero. Ilo know that Peter Pettyclovo was old and feeblo, and u spirited young female telegraph operator is rated at her full value in tho Big Pino isoction. Sho tried to signal to him that sho wanted to speak to him, but tho blind ing btiow drove its shroud liko sheets be tween them. He smiled and nodded to her iu tho aggravating way that monhavo when they uro particularly obtuse, shouted some incomprehensible comment on the weather, helped to loosen tho brakes, uud was au eighth of a mile up tho track be fore Eunice's lantern light fell on a Binglo black figure, its hat pulled over its eyes, Us form closely buttoned up In a fur trimmed overcoat I 1 "Is this tho station?" said rt low, well modulated volco, which gavo MIbs Barlow tho idea that tho unhappy victim of justico was a gentleman born and bred. "Whero uro tho porters Upon my word" (looking around after a bowildered fashion), "I'm afraid they've forgotten to put off my luggago. Isu't thero a firo bomowhero hereabouts?" Euulco Barlow looked solemnly at him as sho opeued tho door into tho bright, cheerfully lighted Httlo station. Yes, tho telegraphed description had been conect. Ho was small and dark, and, poor follow, ho looked as if ho was half frozen todeath. But now arose tho perplexing questiou, how was she to "detain him" "I can lock hlra In tho tlcko office," she thought to hersolf. "Ho will bo eafo enough until Mr. Pettyclovo comes lu tho morning. But, poor fellowl I do feel borry for him." Tlio solitary passenger fell headlong Inte tho trap laid for him by tho telegraph operator. Ilo walked directly Into the ticket olflco and sat dowu, with a weary nigh, ou the UlU wooden stool which had lately served Miss Barlow as a throno of otliee "Only about as old as our Victor woniu havo been lind ho lived." thought Eunice "Oh. I wonder what sinister inllueuco led him Into this terrible mistake' 1 won der You nro mistaken, sir," sho saiu. aloud, in answer to his reiterated ques tiotis "There are no porters hero There is no hotel nearer than the Pino Barrens, four miles away Tho agent is detained at home by sickness, and l am tho tele graph operator, on duty In his absence. " Tho stranger uttered a long, low whls tie. "1 think," said ho, "I must have managed to alight at the jumplng-oll place of all tho world. hat's to bo done, I wonder?" Ilo looked so cold, so youthful, so ut tcrly desolate, that Etinico Barlow's heart bled for him in his solitude anil peril. "Even if ho has gono wrong." sho pon dered, with nil a young girl's optimism, "ho may do better if he can only get a chanco. After all, I nm not tho station agent. How can they expect me, a woman, to usurp tho placo of tho officers of tho law? 1 could detain him perfectly well, but" "Can you tell mo," pleaded tho solitary passenger, "whero I can get a night's lodging and something to eat? It is nix hours since wo left tho supper station, and I am just recovering from a siege of malarial fovor. Surely thero must bo snino ono around hero who could act us my guido." "Thero is no ono hero but me," said Miss Barlow, locking tlio cash drawer and preparing to extinguish tho ono rcf eetor lamp that glowed abovo tho now arrival's head. "But if you chooso to go homo with mo I daro say my mother will givo you somo supper and a bed. Our house I is tho nearest to this placo. And to-mor row" with a somewhat significant pause "you can begin a now career." "I'm awfully obliged to you," said the gentleman, jumping up with alacrity "But how many careers per week do theso westerners count upon? I'vo no objec tion, for my part, to tho old ono con tinued." Miss Barlow's faco remained inexorably grave. Sho considered it no part of her duty to countenanco flippancy liko this. Sho locked tho station, and hung tho key on its hooked nail close within tlio lat ticed casement outside, whero windsconld not hurl it away nor storms disturb it, before sho said, quietly: "This way, please. Tho lantern will light you sufficiently if you aro a littlo careful; otherwise you will find the way rather steep and narrow down the hill. You aro porhaps unaware that a telegram describing your personal appearance lias just como In from tho Whito Peak olIiceY" "A tolegrtiml By Jovo tho whole thing is out, then I" Ilo spoko quioklv; thero was genuine disgust and dissatisfaction expressed in every feature of his face. "Yes," responded tho telegraph opera tor, "tho whole thing is out. Your con jecture is quite correct." "Does I beg your pardon, but really this is a matter of somo Importance tb me does any one kuow it besides your self?" "No." "I may depend on you?" with implor ing emphasis. "Yes, you may depend on mo." "Thanks, awfully I" declared tho stran ger, with fervor. "You see, it makes it very unpleasant to havo theso things talked about." "I should think it might" frigidly. "And 1 had counted on remaining strictly incognito." "So l should imagine."' A brief silenco ensued. Eunico was wondering how her strange companion could speak so coolly of "theso things." "Was ho utterly dead to all bhame?" sho thought. Tho strange companion, in tho meantime, was secretly marveling at tho ease and lightness with which this ex traordinary girl stepped out through tho snow drifts. "A perfect" Amazon," ho said to him self; "and a pretty ono, too. Why don't sho keep talking? 1 liko tho timbre of her voice, it's u regular contralto." At length ho broko the silenco. "Can't I carry that bag for you?" said ho. "Do you know what is in this bag?" sho ppunter questioned. "Haven't the least idea," ho responded. "Tho money taken in over tho ticket desk today, and tlio keys of tho cash drawers I am responsible for nil of it." "Indeed? But couldn't I carry it, just tho same? You havo enough to do to manage tho lantern." "Yes," assented Eunico, "you may carry it, if you please; it will certainly givo mo n better chanco with tho lantern. You seo that I trust you." "Much obliged, I'm sure. Havo wo much farther to go?" "No; you could seo tho light down In the valley now if vour eyes were keen, and if tho buow didn't drive so fast." "It seems to me." observed tho young man, after another interval of silence, during which tho crunching of their feet in tlio snow und tho persistent howling of tho wind was all that broko tho spoil, "that they put a great deal of responsi bility on young women in this part of tho world." "A good deal of it is forced upon them, and a good deal they nssumo themselves," haid Eunico Barlow, composedly. "I am willing to admit that I have taken a heavy responsibility on myself to-night." "Eh?" "And I think," sho added, turning her calm, gray eyes upon him with a light as steady as that of tho lantern, "that you know what it is." Tho stranger looked surprised. "I won der," ho said to himself, "if I am all alono upon this midnight road witli a mad woman. It begins to look unpleasantly liko it." "Understand," added Miss Barlow, "that If I tako you homo to-night ami shelter you, I must have your prom ises" "The douco yon must!" cried tho young man, waxing more und more uneasy. "Oh, 1 say, now, this Isn't falrl" "Nover to repeat tho offense!" ' I won't If I know myself." "To turn over u now leaf from this time forward," sho pursued, vigorously. "Tho now career question ugalnl I'm blessod if I know what all this means," gasped tho solitary passenger, breathing hard, as ho breasted all ut unco tho flying shrouds of snow, tho keen tooth of tho west wind, and tho perplexing problem put forth by tho fair guldo. For lair sho was; ho could seo us much as that for himself. "Equivocation Is entirely useless," said Eunico, Boverely, "You know perfectly well what I mean. I havo given you a chanco for freedom; for what is still bet ter, fame and character. Seo to it that this chance does not pass unimproved." "Modi" muttered tlio stranger to him self; "very modi Entirely a hopeless case, I should say. I wonder If thero really was a telegram, or if that is merely a part of h:r bruin disorder? 1 wonder If Til better keep ou with her, nobody knows whither, ot cut and run for It, snow storm and all ?" 'Thero Is no i 'tlgntlng your ofTenso," gravely procceilc Niiss Harlow "Mind, I assert that ut 1 . ver beginning But. as 1 said before. I nm willing to givo you one more chance "Very kind of you. I'm suro." hopo lesy murmured tho young man. "But would it bo considered Intrusive if 1 were to ask what tho offense isY" "You have basely absconded with your employer's money. " said Eunice, with the freezing sternness of idealized justico; "In other words, you are a bank defalcator " "No, I'm not," stoutly asserted tho stranger. "1 beg pardon for contradict ing you, but that's all a mistake from bo ginning to end. I'll stand a great deal, but 1 won't stand such mimes as that." "This is scarcely a fair return for my treatment of you," said Eunice, with somo contempt. "Deceit added to crime" i "Oh, como. now, won't you givo a fel low a chance?" uttered her companion. "As tho school books say, 'Strike, but hear.' I've nobody's money but my own. and not too much of that 1 don't know anything about your banks nor their I defalcators I'vo been.only two weeks In vour country, and I think "it's tho snow ( lest cllmnte going My namo is Ernest I Tinsallon. and I was to have been met at the station by Col Copley, of tho Four lluiulreutli cavalry. Eunico Barlow gavo a littlo shriek of amazement "Sir Ernest Tinsallonl" sho cried. "Tho Englishman who was com ing out hero to hunt butTalo, and follow up tho lino of tlio Pine river? But you havo alighted at the wrong station, you should havo stopped at Piuo Barracks, seven miles beyond hero." "I heard tho conductor bawl out some thing about pino of one sort or another," said tho young Briton. "1 was dead asleep, and didn't stop to discriminate, mid 1 scrambled oil So I've made ii nils take, havo 1? But, all tho samu, it's aw fully good of vou to oiler to conduct mo to a place of Christian shelter " "And I have mado it mistake too." said Eunico, with a gasp "Just beforo your train came in there was a messago wired to Big Pine station a message to detain a bank robber who was said to bo on the train I was all alono. but I could havo locked him into tho ticket office per fectly well Wo western girls aro pro pared for any emergency" (with some pride). "But I was so sorry for you, you looked so young and lnliocent; and I do termined to givo you one moro chanco" "For a new career," Interrupted tho stranger, with a gust of laughter "Tho key to the puzzle! 1 seo it all now Don't you know, 1 was beginning to think you must bo a lunatic Anil how disagreeably near 1 canio to being locked up, after nil 1 And tho bank fellow, whoever ho Is. seems to havo got olT scot free Really, now, if ever man had a genuiuo guardian angel, you aro ono," he added, as Eunice led tlio way into a pretty littlo sitting room iiung with tho last of tho Christmas evergreens, and all aglow with red car pet and curtains, whero n firo of logs burned on the open hearth and a cozy meal was spread on tho tablo. Sir Ernest Tinsallon slept iu the sparo chamber that night, was called by starlight, and breakfasted at 0 o'clock tho next morning with the telegraph operator and her mother, and afterward accompanied her to tho Big Pino station, plunging through white masses of snow drift, and sliding, school boy fashion, across tho mirror like surface of frozen brooks. Mr Pettyclovo was there, with his faco tied up in u upotted silk pocket handkerchief. There were also several telegrams awaiting tlio hand of the operator. One was from tho chief of police at White Peak, stating rather late, perhaps that tho bank defalcator had at tho eleventh hour, and on the very step, so to speak, of tho train, surrendered himself to the local authorities There was another, from Col Copley, of the Four Hundredth cavalry, inquiring if any thing had been heard at Big Pino station of tlio missing English baronet who was overdue at the barracks. "Only think," said Miss Barlow, with a littlo shiver, "if I had locked you up in tho ticket offico all night, what would Col. Copley havo said!" "That, under tho circumstnnces, you had douo no moro than your country ex pected of you," returned Sir Ernest "But, 1 say, all this thing wus awfully plucky of you, Miss Barlow I don't know' of an English girl that would havo had tho courage to go through with it." Eunice smiled a littlo. "Hero Is your train. Sir Ernest." sho said. " But 1 haven't thanked you half enough." Ho stood holding both her hands, his fresh English faco all eager ness. "It Is quito unnecessary to say any more," observed Miss Harlow, quietly "Thero is the telegraph 1 am wanted at my post of duty now Good -by, Sir Era est. I wish you a very pleasant journey " Sir Ernest Tinsallon went on his way into tho blue, glittering cold of that peer less winter inofntng, with tho pino trees looking liko Druids clad In ermine robes, and tho plains all sheeted In level pearl, and Eunice Barlow never saw him moro No, ho did not como buck to woo and wed her, as the hero of an orthodox love talo should have douo. Ilo could not, being already engaged to another young woman in England But ho sent a superb ham per of gamo to Mrs. Barlow, In caro of the telegraph operator at Big Pino station, and ut muiiy an English dinner table afterward ho told tho story of his mid night adventuro in tho wild west. "Tho prettiest girl you over saw, by Jovo!" ho reiterated, in that earnest way of his, "and tho pluckiest! Joan of Aro was nothing to her. I dreamed of her for a week alterwards, with her swinging lantern und those great gray eyes of hers, aud tho pretty littlo speeches about 'turu lug over a new leaf that she mado to mo. Yes, I did, and I'm not ashamed to own it, oven beforo Lady Tinsallon hero. Eh, Kato?" And tho English brido laughed good humoredly, and observed thut "to bear Sir Ernesl talk, tho American girls must bo full Hedged heroines." "Sho was; I can vouch for that." said Sir Ernest. Lucy Randall Comfort In Harper's Bazar. Tlio Young I-upp'n Snow Cradle. Tho Iapp baby very often has, a snow cradlo, for when tho Indulgent mother attends church sho makes a holo In tho snow outsido und deposits tho young Lup lander therelu. It Is no uncommon sight to seo a circlo of these snow cradles in front of a Lapp chapel; und now and then a lot of fierce looking dogs uro ou guard to keep off the wolves thut might medl tato a raid on tho baby contingent. 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WliCOHfMi nCMOK"OKTHB HI.OOP.SKtN AM) Hi AM whether itcliliii:, tmruint;. bleedlnp, smly crusted, plmpl, b. itchy or copper-colori-il. wrtln oi of linlr, either simple, scrofulous, lit n dltnry or contBirlons, nrv fpeedllv, jnnnnt ttlj, eco nomically and infallibly cured by the ( i'ticvba. ItKMHtilKf, ct'llMMItiK of Ct'Tlci'ltA, tnr Krcnt skin cure, CTtkt'ia soap, nn exquisite k n pu rlllcr and bcniittticr. tiiitt t i'mivka Kkoi.y ewt the new blood and skin purifier and crenkst ol humor remedies, when the best pliv..W lat antl all other rcimillt fall. CrTiernA fin.MKDIKftnro the only Infiulibb' blood nutl 8kln piirllli-rs arjfl dally ctlect tnnrt ccat cures of blood and skia disease than al, other remedies combined Kohl evcrywlu'ie. Price, t'fTicuit 1, TiOc, Soxr, 2ftc: Ukuu.vknt, . Prepared by Potter D'ug and Chemical Corporation, UcWoli, Mass !cntt for " How to cure Morel ami Skin DIs cne,." Hi I'lmplts, blat'kitt'Hilx, I'liuppcil ami ouy ttTx t-tr skin prevented bvecruTiit sui . 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