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Xbe edemptiot? 1 .QdVid (Jorsoi? By CHARLES FREDERIC GOSS Copj-rlnht. 1W0, bjr The Bowen-MorriU Compaar. All Right Rmsrrrd CHAPTER XXI. Quietly, gently, briefly as he could f"avid narrated the events of the past few months, and as he did so she drew In short breaths or long inspirations as the story shifted from phase to Jihase, and when at last he had fin ished, she clasped her hands and gazed up Into the depths of the sky with ryes that were swimming In tears. "Poor doctor, poor old man," Pepee ta sighed at last. "Oh! How we have wronged him, how we have made him Buffer. He was always kind! He was rough, but he was kind. Oh! why could -I not have loved htm? But I Old not, I could not. My neart was sleep. It had never once waked from Its slumber until It heard your voice. David. And, afterwards well I could not love him! But why should we ' have wronged him so? How base It was! How terrible! I pity him, I blame myself and yet I cannot wish him back. What does all this mean for us, David? Perhaps you can see the light r.ow, as you used to! I think from your face and your voice that "ou are your old self again. Oh! if you can see that Inner light once more, consult It Ask It if there Is any reason why we cannot be happy now? Tell It that your Pepeeta Is too reak to endure this separation any longer., I am only a woman, David! t cannot any longer bear life alone. I love you too deeply. I cannot live without you." Waiting long before he answered, as If to reflect and be sure, David said quietly but confidently, "Pepeeta, I cannot , see any reason why we should eot begin our lives over again, start ing at this very place from which we made that false beginning three long years ago. We cannot go back, but, In a sense, we can begin again." "But can we really begin again?" ehe asked. "How is it possible? I do rot see! We are not what we were. There is so much of evil in our hearts. We were pure and innocent three years ago. Is it not necessary to be pure and innocent? And how can w be with all this fearful past behind cs? We cannot become children gain!" "I have thought much and deeply bout It," David responded. "I know cot what subtle change has taken place within me, but I know that It fcas been great and real. My heart was hard, but not It Is tender. It was full of despair, and now it Is full of tiope. I am not as innocent as I was that night when you heard me speak in the old Quaker meeting-house, or rather I am not Innocent In the same way. My heart was then like a spring among the mountains! it had a sort of Virgin Innocence. I had sinned only In thought, and In the dreamy Imagl nations of unfolding youth. It Is dif ferent now; a whole world of realized, ctualized evil lies buried In the depths cf my soul. It is there, but it is there only as a memory and not as a living force. There must In some way, cannot tell how, be a purity of guilt as well as of innocence, and perhaps It Is a purity of a still higher and finer kind. There was a peace of ir.ind which I had as an Innocent boy, .vhich I do not possess now; but have another and deeper peace. There ' was a childish courage; but It was the courage of one who had never been exposed to danger. There is another courage in my heart now, and It is the courage of the veteran who has bared his bosom to the foe! I know cot by what strange alchemy these di verse elements of evil can have be come absorbed and incorporated into this newer and better life, but this I do know, and nothing can make me doubt it that while I am not so good, yet I am better; while I am not so pure, yet , I am purer. Yes, Pepeeta, I think we can go back on our track. We can be born again! We can once tnore be little children. I feel myself a little child to-night I who, a few days ago, was like an old man, bowed nd crushed under a load of wretched Bess and misery! God seems near to tne; life seems sweet to me. Let us begin' again, Pepeeta. We have trav eled round a circle, and have come back to the old starting point Let us begin again." "Oh! David," she said, kissing the bands she held; "how like your old elf you are to-night Tour words of bope have filled my soul with Joy. Is 8t your presence alone that has done It or Is It God's, or Is it both? A change has come over the very world Bxomnd us. All is the same, and yet all is different The stars are bright er. The brook has a sweeter music. There Is something of heaven In this Intoxicating cup you have put to my lips! I seem to be enveloped by a pirltual presence! Hush! Do you bear voices?" The excitement had been too Intense for this sensitive woman to endure with tranquillity. Her heart, her con science, her Imagination had suffered en almost unendurable strain. She flung herself Into the arms of her lover and trembled upon his breast and he held her there until she had regained her composure. "Do you really love me yet?" she asked, at length, raising her face and gazing up Into his with an expression In which the simple affection of a lit tle child was strangely blended with the passionate love of an ardent and adoring woman. "Love you!" he cried; "your face has been the last vision upon which I fzd when I fell Into a restless slum-l-rr, and the first which greeted re turning consciousness, when I wake6 from my troubled dream. My life has Ieen but a fragment since we parted; at part of my Individuality seemed to i bav been torn away. I hava always 1 'elt that neither time nor space could separate us for " , At that instant the horse which had Hood patiently beside them on the bridge, shook his head, rattled his bri ne and whinnied. 'oor fellow! I had forgotten all uiout him In my joy!" said David, starting at the Bound, and patting his snoulder. "You have had a hard run, ana are tired and hungry. I must get you to the barn and feed you. They will miss you at the stable to-night but I will send you back- to-morrow, or ride you myself, that Is, If Pepeeta wishes to be rid of me." He said this teasingly, but smiled at "er a tender and confident smile. "Oh! you shall never leave me again not for a moment," she cried, press ing his arm against her heart He paused a moment and looked down as If a new thought had struck him. "What Is the matter?" she asked. "Do you think they will welcome me home?" he said, with a penitence and humility that touched her deeply. Welcome you home?" she exclaim ed; "you do not know them, David. They talk of nothing else. They have sent messages to you in every direc tion. The door is never locked, and there has never been a nfght since you disappeared that a candle has not burned to Its socket on the sill of your window; what do you think of that? You do not know them, David. They are angels of mercy and goodness. I have been selfish In keeping you so long to myself. Come, let us hasten." Just at that Instant a loud halloo was heard "Pepeeta, Pepeeta, Pepee ta!" "It Is Steven the dear boy I He has missed me. You have a dangerous rival, David." She said this with a merry laugh and cried out, "Steven, Steven, Ste ven!" "WTiere are you?" he called. "I am here by the bridge!" she cried, In her silver treble. "She is here by the bridge!" The deep bass voice of her lover went roll ing through the woods. There was silence for a moment, and then they heard a Joyous shout "Un cle David! Uncle David! Oh! moth er, father, It is Uncle David." There was a crashing In the bushes, and the great half-grown boy bounded through them and flung himself Into the arms extended to him, with all the trust all the love, all the devotion of the happy days of old. mated countenance merging from this envelope like the bud of a ros from lta sheath. She waa as a butterfly at that critic 1 instant when Jt 1 ready to leave Its chrysalis and take wing. She waa a soul enmeshed In an ether eal body, rather than a body which en sheathed a soul. Quietly and sedate ly the lovers met each other at the ta ble, or at the spring, or at the milk- I lng. And" when the labors of the day had ended, they sat beneath the spreading hackberry trees, or wandored through the garden, or down he winding lane to the meadow, and reviewed the past vrttli sadness or looked forward to the future with a chastened Joy. Their spirits were subdued and softened, their love took on a holy rather than a passionate cast, they felt themselves beneath the shadow of an awful crime, and again and again when they grew loyous and almost gay they were checked by the irrepressible apprehen sion that out from under the silently revolving wheels of Judgment some other punishment would roll. Tenderly as they loved each other, and sweet as was that love, they could not always be happy with such a past behind them! In proportion to the soul's real grandeur It must suffer over Its own Imperfections. This suffering Is remorse. In proud and gloomy hearts which tell their secrets only to their own pillows, Its tears are poison and its rebukes the thrust of daggers. But In those which, like theirs, are gentle and tender by nature, remorseful tears are drops of penitential dew. David and Pepeeta suffered, but their suffer ing was curative, for pure love Is like fountain; by Its Incessant gushing from the heart It clarifies the most turbid streams of thought or emotion. Each week witnessed a perceptible advance in peace, In rest In quiet happiness, and at last the night of their marriage arrived, and they went together to the meeting house. (To be continued.) CHAPTER XXIL David's welcome home was quiet cordial and heartfelt The Quaker life is calm; storms seldom appear on Its surface, even though they must some times agitate its depths; mind and heart are brought under remarkable control; sympathy and charity are ex lenaea to tne erring; nospitanty is a duty and an Instinct; domestic love Is deep and powerful. When David had frankly told his story, he was permitted to. resume his place in the life of the old homestead as If nothing had happened. He ex pressed to his brother and sister his love for Pepeeta, and his determination to make her his wife in lawful mar riage. They assented to his plans, and at the earliest possible moment the min isters and elders of the little congre gation of Friends were asked to meet, in accordance with their custom, to "confer with him about a concern which was on his mind." They came, and heard his story and his intention, told with straightforward simplicity. They, too, touched with sympathy and moved to confidence, agreed , that there was no obstacle to the union. The date of the weddhig was placed at the end of the month, which, by their ecclesiastical law, must elapse after this avowal, and an even ing meeting was appointed for the ceremony. In the meantime David remained quietly at home, and took up his old labors as nearly as possible where he had laid them down. Such a life as he had been leading Induces a distaste for manual labor, and sometimes he chafed against It Again and again he felt his spirit faint within him when he recalled the scenes of excitement through which he had passed, and looked forward to years of this un varied drudgery'! but he never permit ted his soul to question his duty! He had decided In the most solemn reflec tions of his life that he would conquer himself In the place where he had been defeated, perform the tasks which he had so Ignominiously abandoned, and then, when he had demonstrated his power to live a true life himself, de vote his strength to helping others. The charms of this pastoral exist ence gradually came to his support In his heroic resolution. The unbroken quiet of the happy life which had Ir ritated him at first grew to be more and more a balm to his wounded spir it. The society of the animal world lent Its gracious consolation; the great horses, the ponderous oxen, the doves fluttering and cooing about the barn yard, the suckling calves, the playful colts, all came to him aa to a friend, and In giving him their confidence and affacilon awakened his own. Above all Pepeeta waa ever near him. It waa no wonder that her beau ty threw lta spell over David's spirit It had been enhanced by Borrow, for the human countenance, like the land scape, requirea shadow aa well as aun shine to perfect Its charms. But the Viurst of sunshine which had come with David return had brought it a final consummation which transfigured even the Quaker dress she had adopted. Her bonnet would never stay over her face but fell back on her shoulders, her sml- WOBKHTG 'WOMElf AiTD BALLOT. Araroment to Show That Thar Would Be Worse Off with It. The lack of the ballot has nothing whatever to do with the fact that wom en workers are paid less than men In the same occupations; the grant of the ballot would not raise the rate of women's wages to an equality of that of men's, says the Boston Tran script. The comparatively low pay of women is due to economic and social causes which the voting power could not affect In the slightest degree. Briefly " put the chief of these causes are: (1) The lower efficiency of the average woman worker, resulting mainly from physical limitations; (2) the temporary nature of the em ployment, which in most cases la ter minated by marriage; (3) the rapid increase of the supply of woman labor, which in recent decades has been crowding into occupations already fill ed by men; (4) the lack of organiza tion, which has left women at the mercy of sweat masters; (5) the para sitic relation of many women toward their industrial occupations, which are t-vt - . & gr --'- i mania If I ,mmm0mktM ,"4 W , Lr "-"- Fur-trimmed coats are in first favor. They equal the entire fur coat In popularity and are con sidered a trifle smarter for everyday street wear. The sketch shows three of these coats and one Buster Brown coat, over which is worn a fur mantle. Women and Civilisation. Woman had little to do directly with the shaping of old civilization, but we can not helD thinklnar that our modern not their sole means of support. These aenae of life and its more real and causes would persist even if women human Investment are largely and dl- naa tne Danot Whatever the suffrage rectly due not only to spiritual qual would or would not do for woman, itlea and distinctively feminine, but it would assuredly not bring her equal- to feminine initiative. In the clarified ity of pay with man. Hrht of the soul womanhood has been Nor would the ballot assist work- translated. ing women to obtain better legislative The woman Is still the mother, but protection against Injurious conditions maternity has for our modern vision of employment. On the contrary, much a significance which is not merely of the present legislation limiting the physical, but spiritual in its fullest hours and regulating the terms of era- meaning it Is the liberation of hu- ployment for women would be ren- manlty for finer uses. She is nearer dered unconstitutional by the proposed than man to the new Nature, as she extension of the suffrage. This legls- was to the old. But our ultra-modern lation, so far as It applies to adult naturalism has a pellucid atmosphere, women, now stands the test of constl- full of light, and there is a clearer tutionality only because women are in vision of truth. The humanities ahd the same class with minors as regards we might also say, the divinities, have their constitutional status. If women been transformed. A delusive net were given the ballot and thu3 were work of sophistication has vanished placed in the same class with adult The terms "masculine" and "feminine' placed to form an inset panel. Again, lace Is used on the cuffs, entirely cov ering them, and a belt is designed of lace on the cloth and cut to point low at the front. All pieces are stitched to the Jacket.- TJHF-. ABY him men, they would be deprived of the special protection now afforded them by the labor code. In this respect the working woman would be worse off with the ballot than she Is without the boomerang "weapon." Hope for the Victim of Narcotics. In an article in Success Magazine Alexander Lambert, M. D., says: From time immemorial mankind has sought substances to help celebrate his Joys, or soothe his sorrows, or blunt the drudgery of his existence. Opium and alcohol have most frequently been used for these purposes. Of late years cocaine has been added to this list Whenever these narcotics have been employed for these purposes they have often' been used to excess. When the habit of the excessive use of narcotics has once been formed, so rare indeed have been the instances of individuals successfully freeing themselves from their enslaving habit that they have been regarded as medi cal curiosities. In the whole broad range of the practice of medicine there have no longer their old elemental or conventional meanings. There Is, or there Is becoming, a new woman and a new man, and the dis tinction between theai is not one of 'spheres." No exaltation of life, here or hereafter, could be humanly Inter estlng or at all human In which wom an did not have her proper -share and her peculiar distinction. Thl share and this distinction woman has had in the great modern renaissance. She first brought the creative lmagl nation within homely bounds. But here we touch, upon a field to which we must give separate consideration. Harper's. ftids and fimcigs The new colors are all subdued, del icacy and refinement adding charm to their beauty. Wide wale serges and other coarse is no situation more trying to patient weaves are worn by girls more than and physician than the struggle to ob- the smooth cloths. literate the craving for narcotics and to re-establish the patient In a nor mal state in which he may again face successfully the problems of existence. Until recently this 6eemed all but impossible, but lately a treatment was discovered which successfully obliter ates the craving for narcotics, and per sons who were formerly enslaved may now have the opportunity to begin life anew without their resistless desire for narcotic Indulgence. A a KsMlt. "Some adjectives," said the teacher, "are made from nouns, such as dan gerous, meaning full of danger; and hazardous, full of hazard. Can any boy give me another example?" "Yes, sir," replied the fat boy at the end of the form, "pious, full of pia." Sporting Timet The newest coiffure is flat In front and piled heavily over the ears. It Is called the Brittany. Jet buttons are a favorite mode of adding the Invaluable touch of black to a colored garment. The new felt hats are lovely, the felt in many cases being difficult to distinguish from cloth. Many of the handsomest silk gauzes have printed borders' which work well Into the new draperies. The spherical button In gilt and also in silver Is appearing among the novel ties In dress trimming. Black waists are popular and are shown in net, crepe, voile, mescaline, taffeta, moire and satin. Coats for fancy wear have lace In sertion oa the collar. It la usually Food for the Dabr. Make a thin paste with two table spoonfuls of flour and boil It In a quart of water for fifteen minutes (pour paste Jn water while It is boiling). Then skim half pint of cream off a quart of milk. To this cream add one and one-half pints of the above gruel and two tablespoonfuls of granulated sugar. If milk sugar can be obtained substitute four tablespoonfuls of it In the place of the granulated. This amount is for twenty-four hours, one quarter of a pint to be given every two and one-half hours as a feeding. If the baby won't retain the milk, feed It the plain gruel mixed with the sugar. This Is an old nurse's recipe and has stood the test of time, bringing little ones back to strength and health when all other foods have failed. ' Back to (he-Cnrvea. Couturiers are following closer the lines of the figure than at the begin ning of the season. That i3 to say that now since Parisians have re turned from the country and Invested In new corsets, their figures are some what more reasonable. The corsetlers have decided that they have been mur dering the feminine figure long enough, making only lines and angels where curves ought to be. However, things have not yet adjusted them selves, and the normal figure will not be with us until next spring. breadth down. Smooth out all creasea and lay folds flat. Then begin at the outer edges and roll each side toward the center back until the two rolls meet ' In this, way the hang of the skirt is not injured, there are no wrin kles and the front breadth is smooth and flat. If the skirt Is too long for the trunk fold it near the top and. place a roll of tissue paper under the fold. For Invalid. Beef Juice. Take lean round steaV Heat it slightly la a pan over tha Are, then squeeze In a warm lemon squeezer. Season with a little salt. Serve in a colored claret glass, as In valids often object to beef Juice on account of the color. Baked Milk. Put the milk In a Jar, covering the opening with white pa per, and bake in a moderate oven un til thick as cream. May be taken by the most delicate stomach. Glycerin and Lemon Juice. Half and half on' a piece of absorbent cot ton is the best thing to moisten the lips and tongue of a fever-parched pa tient. Onion Gruel. Boil a few sliced onions in a pint of fresh milk, stirring In a little oat meal and a pinch of salt; boil until the onions become ten der, and take at once. Halrdreaaina; Stylca. Only Woman Snrgraa. Dr. Rose Ringgold is the only wom an contract surgeon in the United States army. When on duty she wears a divided skirt and a uniform coat. She Is especially Interested In the hospital problem of an army in the field, and has made a study of the work of the Japanese hospital corps in the war with Russia. The Explanation, "Charlie, dear," queried the fair maid at the ball park, "why does that man behind the hitter wear such a big bib?" "That," explained Charlie, "is to keep his shirt front from getting muss ed when the ball knocks his teeth out" Chicago News. Folding tb Skirt. To fold a dress skirt properly for packing and so avoid the crease down the middle of the front breadth, fasten the skirt band and pin the back to the middle of the band In front Lay the skirt on a table or other flat sur fact, rlgnt aids out, with the front On War. A Canadian statesman proposes to solve the woman suffrage problem by giving the ballot to all women who have babies. , Kcxtl A Mississippi woman has Just be gun a seven years' term in the peni tentiary for stealing half a pound of buttar and five eggs