ha
ruai
A NE
N®
“Mr
through
ifest to ti
growing
some tim
political
it clear tl
ing towar
cess of th
“The
might ha<
are learnt
mean. It
polled his
1896, and
ire taking
¡can man
They reac
go, and
trout to e
THE F
“Mr Hi
lared tha
rgument i
orking m
lection c
olds that
til ie full
itereet I
letbods b;
id other
¡> millioni
ery year.
“To this
much ol<
r llockefc
plied in
ith liornel
hie. Thi
ptemlier
“ ‘I hold,
ur made a
all of th<
0 work,
*m with
nd«; and
other cla
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the eating
mi witlioi
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be interfe
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dition ii
m to mar
ker.’ ”
♦
Eugene
Guard
WELL PIT
MATCRDAY.
OCTOBER 27
U S HONEST BELIEF.
The Oregonian Said Hard Things
About Mckinley.
nent that
>ung girl
youth, d
> that it i
tran that
ie person
refuses h
ier and
happ
the mar
ills to re«
or lack of
ncommon
ke vengea
i basely w
le inaauit;
lowed to t
ional id io
or whom
assion.
)0M FOI
io «ays th
1 in tins c>
First Na
has just d
corn panic
reatigitioi
ie bank
f »700.0(X
It BCAID
lion» exit
rs could h
until the
through
etna that
aeana of k
f their tri
a matter
’ aa a mat
NST |EV
CJ
till of J I
mrin b» r
of that n
i.
he leaves
e of XU
curious i
i to be p «
ie age of
marrying
tiled Stet
«sou fur t
“Mr Hanna seems to have dem*
onstraied conclusively that he can
do much for the laboring man when
If be
an election is pending.
would do as much alter, there
would be less the matter with
Hanna.”
Li Hung Chang and Prince
Although now a hearty supporter Ching are out in a joint note a»k-
of McKinley, the Oregonian was ing the poweta if it is not about
not always thus. On June 22,
to
for j^ace. The French
1899, it gave its views of his »d-' minister of foreign affairs, M
ministration and sounded the alarm pjchon, responds that it will fro
as to what dangers might befall time wheu exemplary puniabmant
the nation should he be continued ia inflicted on the principals of the
in the president’s chair, as follows: Chinese government who are di-
•< I he McKinley ad ministration rectly responsible for the violation
haa made moat disgraceful appoint of inlernalional jaw. The oiwilized
mente to othce at the behest of un-
. ,
scrupulous politicians. It has be- world «*eeuQ8 d««“>ined that China
trayed the civil service to the Ï must be made to realize her reapon-
spoil men, paralyzed the organiza- sibility as a nation through blood
lion of the army, violated its jetting of dignitaries who stand
pledgee as to currency reform, hu very near the throne.
miliated its muet efficient servants,
and discredited American intelli
The Oregonian indorses the as
gence and valor in the eyes of the
sertion of the Washington Post
civilized world.
“In a time of courage it haa that Bryan should have made no
quailed. In a time of ducieK.n it further personal campaign than his
has hesitated. In a time <>f action i Indianapolis speech. This is very
it has delaved. In a time ot honest |
moderate for the Oregonian. Na
dealing it has (altered and eejuivo— |
turally
the Oregonian could have
cated. Its policy baa been to drift ; !
been
expected
to declare that it
lta aim has been tn plaça e every
body, however unworthy, and cater would have been more agreeable if
to everything, however mischievous; Mr Bryan had retired before he
its course has t>een to sacrifice any made the Indiana speech. The
and every vital interest of the na
tion on the altar of partisan and Portland paper is getting very
liberal in its views.
personal politics.
“What is to irocome of American
valor and diplomacy if they are to
After the first shock people be-
be ahuilled and beat about for four gan to lose interest in the Galveston
years nr ore of such administration*?
horror. Still the telegraph brings
What ia to come of the army if it
details
that show what a terrible
ia to be taken more and more from
calamity
it was that overlook the
military men and turned ovei to
ward politicians? Wnatis to be- once prosperous Gulf city in a
come of the new dejieudenciea, if night-time. One month and ten
they are to tie delivered over to the
days after the storm, October 19,
t-poilamen, aa Alaska has been de-
livered over? What ia ti become lorty-two bodies were recovered,
of the gold standard in the next and the daily finds of victims do
panic if we have a president who not decrease. The total number of
can refuse nothing to Wolcott, bodies recovered to that date were
Steaart and Jonea of Nevada?
What ia to become of the treasury 2.907.
nselt, now that Reed haa gone from
the safety-valve in congress, if we
are to have in the White Hous«'
the personification of complaisance?
What ia to become of our younn
men if the doors of public service
are to be closed to the capable and
ambitious, and oiron only to the
benchmen and Crosses?”
WILL WIN.
HE JEFF
BCSBANDi
Salem Journal.
The Cities Are Largely in Favor
of Bryan.
Albany Democrat:
“AH the
papers It 11 about the demand for
Oregon apples but the producer
who ships them himself has noth
ing to show for it when he has
paid the robber prices charged for
commission and freight. A Cor
vallis man tried it on 100 bushels
and had just $2 left for himsel .”
A Portland policeman has cause
to be haughty and proud. Single-
handed, and though confronted
with a revolver, he arrested three
footpads early Friday morniDg,
within half an hour after they bad
stood up their victim, and marched
them to the city jail together.
If Bryan holds his vote in the
country he will surely be elected,
because he shows signa of immenr
gain iu the cities. Nearly all the
large cities have Bryan mayors
and will roll uji immense majori-
Thomas Jeflerton: “Conquest is
ties. For instance in Chicago.
not in our principles. It is incon-
There were added to the registry
si-tent wi'h >>ur government.”
list« by th" aettond and last day of
registration 110,913. These, taken
Where is William Brown?
with the 204,490 names placed on
the books on M inday, give a total
H an F kancisoo , Oct 1» —A firm of
of 401,403 names as the registratio solicitors tn Aberdeen, Scotland, lias
in the 35 wards of Chioago for thi ■ renewed a former request to the police
year. Although a revision of the of this city for Information regarding
figures may reduce thia total some, the whereabouts of William Brown,
thia is the largest registration in the son of a Scotch clergyman, who
disappeared
from
Bakerstleld In
the history of the city. A9 com March, 189*. A aubatantial reward ia
pared with the registration of 380,- ottered to any one who oau flud the
245 of 1896, the total this year is missing man.
21,158 greater an I exceeds that of
Jaekaonville Time«: Wallis Na»h,
1898, which was 825,745, by 75,5 6.
a
“
blaweted Hlngllsbman," from Al
Chicago will very nearly over-
bany, ie making epnechM lu Josephine
balance the Republican majorities county. He has nothing to say about
in the interior of Illinois, The de- lite connection with the wrecking of
faction of the Prohibition and re- Job’s bank at Corvallis, and the Ore
ligious elemeuts from McKinley gon 1’aeitle railroad, although he finds
are large and unless they are rallied much fault with people, the lachete of
where shorn be ie uufit to looser.
back into line, as they were in 1896,
Cottage Grove Nugget Ootot». r 19:
McKinley in a defeated man, sure
A LIVELY CORPSE.
Eugene Register:
“There are
plenty of good, substantial, old
line Democrats who could not vole
their sentiment« it they would,
simply because there ia no longer
a Democratic party in existence iu
this country.’’
And yet, to be accurate, Bryan
received, 6,502,925 vote« in 1896.
nearly 47 per cent of the total vot>
cast. If there is no “Democratic
party in existence in this country”
there ia a mighty big aubatitute.
The biscuit trust must 1 pay
Hour trust’s price for ita raw
i
Urial, but the man who cats
biscuit pays tribute to both
I
llour and biscuit trust*.
the
ma
th«
the
Little Charley Earl, eleven years of
age, last week while out hunting about
three miles from town, killed a spike
buck deer with a muxxle loading shot
gun Joe Perkloe Is going mto the
culture of strawtierries on eu extensive
scale. He h ia already 3 scree I11 plants
anu will put In elx more. Hie farm le
ju»t east of town, an I the setting out
of plant» will oontiuue until the en
tire 9 acres are In,
“ l'li- Japanese accuse the Chinese of
i et'tog more s m order todiecoeer
>
air aod j„,w ^,1
J 1 - »re
1’be morale of either are on
psi «Ith the growers who peck fine
a(q • - wt> lb- outside tier of the box
anil then All In chiefly- with culls and
worn s
»lifi rnla Fruit World. In
Oregon the growers do none of the
above sb mmlng. Fruit in the middle
of the larxee is as goal as that on the
outside —which fact may account to
1 com ■ x'e it for Hie great demand there
alwayr 1» fur Oregon red app?«
1
'—«-e»
Gold apd Love
By Grace Mere«,1,,
"80 I must give up luy tpyewriting and liv« out of doors.’ she said.
“Y’»s, if you want to liv® at all,” was the doctor a answer.
"Weil, really, soni®tiines 1 don't care the »nap of xny finger for bring, its
•e monotonous and »0 hope!®»».”
_ ,
“No wonder. You have made a machine of yourself. M hen you go back to
Mother Earth-you're a country girl, are you not—you will be in love with lire
again, as you were a dozen years ago, when you couldn't st»j out of doors enough
to satisfy your craving.”
.
. . .
,__
"I remember!" Her eyes brightened. “I loved to work In the garden—not
the flow« garden, but amoug the vegetables, homely, useful things—like luyeeil.
No rm® can give me points on planting. I'm a farmer’s daughter.
The doctor took up th® morning paper and read, To let,, a small cottage
house; modern improvements, with kitchen garden; terms easy.
“Would that suit me?” she said.
“I think so.”
“I'll apply.”
“Let ine know the result,” said the doctor as he ushered her to the door.
It was a pretty cottage, and the owner lived next door.
His name wag
Adam Everett. She smiled when the agent told her this, for she was Eve Sher
burne. “A new Adam and Eve,” she said softly, »centiug a romance in this un-
tried country.
... ...
"Your husband, madam.” said the agent suavely, “will b® sure to like this
place, and if h® has a ta»te for farming he will find every facility to gratify It.
The former tenant was an enthusiast and improved the place wonderfully.'
“Indeed! Lost his money, ran away or died?”
"Married! It spoils a mau’s pro-»p®eta. I b®g your pardon a thousand times.
I mean unless the woman is practical a®d a home body. Now, you and your Lus*
band will be contented and propsuroua.”
“A happy prophecy. Does the owner object to lotting the cottage to a stogie
woman Y’
Tfee agent raised his eyebrows.
"Aren't you leobiug for yourself? I thought you seemed ss ptseoM wttk ev
erything that yeti were coenlng.”
”1 am. The haoband you credited axe with doee not exiet.”
Mis® Sh®rb»rn® learuad a few dags later that she would he a welcome tenant,
so, taking the dooVor out to piw judgment, »he engaged Hawthorne votta*e.
•be had lived there a week and had not caught a glimpse of th® owner,
•he almost lived out of doors, aihe unpacked her violin and praettoed music al
most forgottvu fn th® atrma of daily me«heal<’al work, rihe sang, Seo, and the
song floated in through the <<>eu window® of the next cottage.
"I wonder if it would be wise to caHY’ thought Adam Everett. “I hardly
know the etlqweria.”
He wa® a florist. Me loved flowers, and their cultivation was to him a pleas
ure as well as p«4Jt. When be sew every available inch of his ten ant’s ground
being planted and sowed, he succumbed to cariosity and iutervmwed Mias Shoe-
burn»’» gardener.
“Whet does Miss Sherburne Intend to do?” he asked carvlemly. “I see you
are plensing.”
"She wants to raise aad sell vegetables,” said the country man, “and, by gum,
she taquws more about it than a regular farmer. She can give me points. She's
a wo A er too. She can handle the tools as well as a man. If eh® were oaly a
little bit heavier—but she’s gaining. Hur cheeks are as red as poppies.”
Eve Sherburne sat on the piazza at dusk, resting. She heard the gate click
and a step on th® graveled walk. A voice »aid:
“I’m Mr. Everett, your landlord. I came over to get acquainted.
I have
brought some flower».’ *
“They are lovely. Oh, thank you! The country ie beautiful.”
Sitting in tb® rocking chair in the dusk, ahe talked and he listened; then ha
talked and ah® listened. They found much in common.
One day, returning to his 0 o'clock dinner, bo found on his table some aspara
gus In a delicate dish, temptingly served. A card bsside announced "Miss Sher
burne's compliments. It will be her pleasure to supply cooked vegetables in their
season. ”
To her door he carried every morning flowers enough to make her rooms fra
grant and beautiful. The raiu, the winds, the charm of the woods and fields, the
SJ®t and the freedom, won Eve back to health again. She was in love with
e once more. Was it because of the friendship that had grown between a
ionels man and woman, she wondered, or because she was in better health?
Adam Everett, man fashion, wasted no time in wondering. At the gale
way Eve stood oae lonely eight, resting her arms on the bars, Ringing softly.
Up th« path to the other side caniu Adam. ¡She made a motion -to unclose the
gats- Hs stopped bar, saying:
"Kesp it «hat. Eve. until ruy _r fate is settled. Am I to enter paradisw? I found
oc my table tonight a plate of a|_
apples,
_
a woman’s gift. I have eaten. You pave
tempt*! me »way from my solitary existence, The first Eve tempted man out
of paMdhe. You are ttnpttag mu ta.”
A blush KUtfUHe.1 her face. She stepped baok and swung the gate wide la
SMWev. Aflte» unteewd.—Boston Post.
A Dangerous Game
“Carl, I don’t believe you truly love mq,” aajd Mildred Rqynolds (»41* 4ow.
Carl Langlois reddened under her gate. “Wliat nonsense, MUdrod. of tnswa
I love you.”
Carl had said, the last time he had visited her. .that they would azraaga their
plans for the future when he next came, but when Mildred had taude the remade
that aha did not believe he really loved her he was on the verge of departwq afid
still had not asked her to name the day which would make them huabMg! «1?
wife. Ils must have known what the question was she wished to ask. ygt he JId
not help hef ont, and so the qu«»tiou died, unaakod. upon her lips. lustaad b® QiTn
ad suddenly to th® clock. "IT1 have Jvst time to make my traiu,"-te eald hx£Mod-
ly, “®o goodby. sweetheart.”
Carl e mother had oft«n eeut Mildred klad-messages. and bad alao sent by Carl
rime very beautiful table ltaen for Mildred to eml>»o<der for im » h after her mar
riage. Bhe knew that Mre. Langlois washer friend, although they had oarer mat,
and determined to go to see her and discover whether Carl had ecMided
ba any
change in hie desire to marry. She shrank from the trial, yet felt it luost be atgde
for the sake of her future happiness. Accordingly a few days after Cast's pelt
she took a trip to his home, arriving there, as eh® bad planned, when Corl wsteab-
eent at his business. Wheu she introduced herself to Mrs. Langlois, she wag
warmly greeted, but when she told the object of her visit her host was visibly sur
prised and diecoticerted
"My dear child,” she exclaimed, “there must be u mistake somewhere. Carl
assured me only yesterday that you kept putting him off whenever he muutfoaed
your marriage. I cannot understand it.”
“I can, Mrs. Langh le,” said Mildred proudly. “Your eon has grown tlrpd nt
me and is seeking In some wey to free himself. But. thank heaven, Uia (Mtare
are not yet riveted and are easily broken. I «rill release him from a* <uage-
meat which ie no long«’ a pleasure to him."
“My deer, dear Mildred,” begged his mother, “do not speak so bitterlja X am
euro there ie some tniooodersttai ling.”
Mildred had turned very rale, and an overwhelming conviction that Cart was
false to her came upon her with crushing force, but she summoned up nougage to
face the truth.
“We must find out.” she said very gently, for the mother’s distress was also
▼ary great, whether he Is attentive to some one else. Have you ever noticed his
taking pleasure in the society of any girl her® ?”
>t“vb. no,” Mre. Langlois replied hastily. But suddenly her fsoe changed. Sure
ly. she said, aa if to herself, “ho cannot care for Marion Reed? And yet, now
that my mind is draivn to it. I hav® notioed him often with her. But Marion ia
such a gay little flirt, and then Nhe knew i»f Carl's encasement"—
Ah, Mildiwd said quickly, that la not enough to keep some girls from try-
Ing
away
man's “ !■?•■-.
love. It may bethat she has drawn him away from mo.
- to " win "
““-T - a —
But we must mats aure. my dear frlsud—for I feel that you are my Mead—and
If It Is true I will willingly give him up to her if it is for his happiness.”
They arranged ft that Mildred's presence in the house should be kept a secret
from Carl and that hla mother at mealtime should question him ia a way not to
artwiee hrs suspicions. so, as the two sat alone at dinner, Mrs. Langlois
"What a charming girl Marion Reed is, Carl!"
•ata^mar**
h* «**> enthualastically. “Do you know, she quitetasei-
“Cari.” hie mother said gravely, “that is not the way for a maa Boon'to be
inarr’ed to aaotber woman”-•
?***•*- Mother!" Carl exclaimed impatii ntly, “you know I told you Mildred
Would never set the day. and we may never be married at all.”
"Tou are right. Mr. Langlois,” said Mildred, who had been unable to mist
the temptation of listening unseen. "You are quite welcome to ask tha fascinating
Miss Reed to be your wife, for I am heueeforth a stranger to you.”
Before Carl could recover from his astonishment she was gone, and aa her train
*<£!/** r**Jy to
she wee out of his reach. anl the pssslonste protests of
affection which ho was prepared to make, the promises of future fidelity, were »ev
er uttered.
Now that he had loot her. Mildred appes-ed to Carl as a rredoue treasure
Which be would give anything to possess. The attractions of Marlon Ro^ peled
Uto iuelgnlfiean.-e, and he took the next tesla in pursuit of Mildred, hoping«^» m,
could win her back.
-w
But once assured of the flaws in her idol Mildred had cast him out of ter
heart and. though it „
sore, it » *• not breksu, be-auw she realised hie un-
worthlnesa. Sb. rvrii-. 1 to see Carl an 1 returned hie letters unread. Within a
week, mortified st hi- rejectiou. he had offered himself to Msrion Reed.
blue j« wide" ’
ilri
*h» «UM, epsedag h. r
tne rN<x 1 ,ni
»l*tly. "I am going to marry you If you will hero
••'”■•1'. I woh’t.” replied the pretty flirt decidedly. “I was oaly ammdag myself
with you. my dear boy I hope your heart Is not broken." she sdded mocking v
fur rumors of the true state of affairs boAreaobed her ears._ i ..in-,» ia^
-**•«?»
Pretty Ethel I.ee had a will of her own,
and no one was more astonished at the
The trees stood wirlm .r<,u#d
manner of Its expression than her friend, chnrch, scarce a |,.af movtu, ,aj
Madam Morrow, when Ethel plainly in only sound coming from th» vloeel, 1»
formed her that she declined to marry a woven branches, foretelling a
tian “old enough to be her father.”
Unrest and turmoil. Across the
In her girlish fancy she had woven Intervals were arches built of lifcZ
eertain sweet pictures of her ideal love, roses an 1 tied with streamer ot '
whom she had never seen, but to whom satin ribbon, while in the < hancel
she had been betrothed in Infancy.
vases of roses sent out their fra-?,
The nearest approach to this ideal was distinguishing the close annua of
Dr. Macy, who had attended her in a
severe sickness. Had he proposed she and making the air heavy withn
would have accepted him; but he didn t. sweetness. Out through the opea
Iler fancy, however, received a severe the world looked threatening; th® fl*
shock when she received a letter which ing sunshine slowly di-appeared bef
Informed her that her guardian would be the fast glittering shadows and the
there the next day to claim his little n-ari st the door shivered »lightly ¡»,
bride, while Madam Morrow, quite at a wind which found entrance through J
n
loss to account for this sudden change of ices.
As the last of the sunshine fled b»f
sentiment, having been kept in blissful
ignorance of the mischief wrought within the gloom there was a stir in the chun
the past few months, strove in vain to ex and all over the vistas above the cha*
and uroun.I the orgun luft light Jaj,
postulate with her.
“I think I might at least have been al out from the gloom. Clusters of lam
lowed a choice,” sobbed Ethel passion veiled with tender vines cast a
ately. "But no; instead of being treated radiance on the central aisle, wLU, m.
like a free, rational creature 1 am im es of glimmering tapers in the chain
prisoned at school until my l*ird and mas and about the altar, whose only
ter chooses to come and take me. No tiou was the cloth denoting the festal 4
doubt he is some fussy, snuff taking old of the ecclesiastical year, flickered tin
bachelor, without an idea in his head ex pure flame in the increasiug wind.
Outside also a transf.irniatioo had (
cept his meals and his rh^Hnatism.”
"My dear,” expostulated the lady curred. The erstwhile deserted str»
anew, “I am really shocked at such lan was blocked with thronging earriigt
guage. I am sure his letters to you would whose lights glimmered and twinli,
refute any such charge, and the stead like a convention of stars, far up u
iness of maturer years is decidedly in his down the i.viii .e end • lustering at t!
neighboring corners until scarcely a »
favor in my opinion.”
"It isn't in mine, then.” Ethel retorted. of Space was left. The soft baited, in
“Age and youth were never meant to go toci utii' faced ushers, em-li with a drw
together, and old husbands are proverb! inc spray of lily buds iri Lie buttouhuj
ally jealous and tyrannical. As to his went swiftly buck and forward in tl
letters, I’ve no fancy for loving, senti ni le. and 11 glittering, perfumed tbna
mental nonsense copied out of some filled the vacant pews, mingling tints 1
'Complete Letter Writer’ palmed off on pea-h bloom and turquoise with them,
me. I’d give more for one spoken word of the lilies aud sending waves of fn
that I knew was original than for 50 ionnbie perfumes up to meet th» fu
written ones. It's too cruel to think of breath of the surroundi. z blossoms.
Heads n Lied, roici w hispered
it, and I wish I was dead!” And Ethel
went off in another paroxysm, while her ly. fans fluttered, an I the silence trur
preceptress retired in silent and hopeless placed by a quiveriug expectation whit
perplexity, leaving her to recover from strengthened as tin organ found its n*
ami began to bren e out soft snaulu
it at her leisure.
But tears and protestations were alike of love songs, iu v ! i li were inte;miagu
unavailing to ward off the revolution of an echo of the “Lo engrin" swun song
A movement out-i '«• the great Jw
time. The hours went inexorably on,
and despite the somewhat flighty visions amt tile organ siidd-nly merged its wii
of flight, elopement, suicide or some other pels of “Then Y oil'll Remember M»" in
desperate resort by which to evade the tlie stately strains to which the ku.ght <
impending calamity, the appointed day the Grail led his royal bride to her uq
and hour found her sitting in her room, tials. The whispering ceased and th
pale, moody, but in perfectly unimpaired Hutter subsided as up the aisle adrua
health and physical condition, without th«« bride. Gowned in sweeping satii
any indications of decline or any nat with the diamond star at I,< r throat !id
ural or supernatural escape from her ing fire on every aide, ami her great b»
fate. The massive doorbell clanged pres quet of rosebuds seeming to whispa
ently, and then a knock came to her door, greetings to the very floor ns they paue<
and the automaticlike servant of the she never once lilted In r face The la
house in a woodeny voice delivered her veil, which swept the hem of her gon
self of the announcement, “A gentleman covered her ns with 11 mist, aa I not M
to see Miss Ethel in the parlor,” ami then cvlien she left her satis: . J an I smi!«
retired, while Ethel, after a moment’s father to lay her l and in that of th
rebellious declaration that she "wouldn't groom wailing at the altar did she lil
go down—he might wnit there until her ey es. Throughout the ceremony the,
doomsday for all she cared!” changed were covered by the long lashed lids.au
her mind with characteristic feminine only for a single instant, as the roup!
consistency and left her room with a turned from the lienediction which pro
noitnced them n an and wife and "blew
slow step and a sinking heart.
The parlor door was ajar, and, entering ed" the union, did she Io k at bet brid»
with downcast eyes, she almost ran groom.
I’.eut and shriveled and ugly as he vui
against the tall figure standing before
one of the windows. Then she looked up, w ith nil ugliness which not all the glamoa
with a start, and gave utterance to a cry of bis millions could remedy, and lit*
of surprise as she found herself face to that single glance the bride'» blue era
face with Dr. Macy, whom she had not were droppi 1 again. The joyous Men
delssohti march pi«a!e<l -nt from the «
seen for the week past.
For a moment she stood trembling, si ran loft, and a tliousan 1 eyes were its
lent; then, forgetting everything in the in envy on the bri'•■. whose futur» »*
wild, passionate tide of mingled love and paved with gold: h : still her eyes wen
I «groom looked 1
grief tkwrt swept over her, she extended never lifted. The
the fhiwerlike face a- if he would fuh
both her hands.
“Oh, Dr. Macy, have you come «t levour its beauty v ith his hungry eye
He tried to suit bis steps to hers, but th
last?”
The young physician's hands closed limp which year- ami infirmity bad be
over hers with a fervent, thrilling pres stowed <>n him could not I • le«-«-oei. Th
sure; his dark eyes rested on her face, in steps were slow—too slow by far forth
stinct with the sentiment she had longed joyous music wliiib seemed to set tb
pace for beating hearts nnd «Inncing feet
to see there.
.lust as the couple reache*! the entrant
“Yes, my darling. I linve come for you
—for you only—to take you home,” he the storm broke. nu«l th«« double door wii
Hung open by the wiml despite tb» ran
answered.
“Home! Where?” she repeated, be endeavor of the ushers to hold it «I-*)■/
gu-:t of rain flung throu the «wojogb!
wildered by his words.
A mysterious smile irradiated Dr. the violence of tin« wind drenched t»
Macy’s handsome face. Then he drew bride’s white gow n, and she shrank bad
frightened into the church again.
her closer with a fond, confident clasp
Outside, just against the pole whirl
“To the home that has been awaiting
my little wife for eight long years. Will supported the ov.niug. leaneii a hP"
unobserved by any of th'’ throng w
she come to it?”
But Ethel struggled from his hold and clustered iile' it the ■■ r.i; r. inte»'
stood staring nt him with widely distend seeing the splendor nnd loveliness of
bride. It was n tall njc! slender nru*
ed eyes.
“What do you mean? It cannot be whiidi bent slightly before the win ■
on the white, uptiirm d fa«v there «•
possible that—that”—
“That Dr. Macy Thornton is Ethel's no consciousness of the drenching
long expected guardian?” was the smil which beat down ot tim thin ewuM
ing answer. “Why not, my darling? If coat and rtmbby Li_!i silk fat
I chose to see my prospective wife a lit I whi< b the clustering ■ ■' k hmr lay
.
tle before the time and after finishing my against a white forehead.
Some one handed the giwni a
medical studies abroad, came here to see
'
and love her far better than I had imag nnd with shaking fing. - 1 p
ined possible, am I less welcome in her just it about l.is bl id - wt '
His uetrous fingers f n I "•> <«» .
ayes?”
“But my guardian is an older man than clasp, aud ns she rai-« p her hea'
fou—old enough to be my father!” stam low him greater facility her eye»
I those burning dark « yes which
mered Ethel.
“Who told you so?" asked Dr. Macy, ’ her from under th«« <!rem bed a
T!i<« depth of agony which
-
Sis dark eyes dancing with merriment.
“Why, nobody. 1 always imagined it. |...:„C«1 to pass like a t'a-h to her 1
, mid. shmldering. »tie caught 'ne »
It was my only idea of a guardian.”
“Most happily dispelled. I trust,” said lu r newly made htisbmul an “ "
” 1 b. < ,:4
Dr. Macy, approaching her again. "Ah, m ried to her ear’
my faithless little sweetheart, I have her. warm ami frag: nut wl’h
read your secret all along, and. although i of favor blossoms placed for t
sot old enough for such a guardian as tire.
,
.g
The doors were <! ■• ’ t.e
you fancied, I am Just old enough to be
your husband, darling. Will you try me moved a little, an 1 It -
' '
tnd see?”
I there was a groat »tir. Th-
But she couldn't say anything for a 1 jubilant Mendelssohn man b fl«
moment, and when she did speak her an- . faintly a« tlie waiting figure I-a
* , «
iwer was too low to reach any ears «are ward suddenly, an I a- >'
those for whom It was intended. How ed awav for the last tim- the _
lver, when Mndam Morrow entered the gold looke.1 longingly and imlngu
parlor, an hour later, she was as much I the eyes of love. - Pittsburg I re-*.
nirprisol as her pupil. And in the wed
Why II® V. «• Great.
ding that followed there was not a
A physician connected
•hadow to mar the radiant brightness of
•Jie young bride’s face as she gave her ty extension movement
self into the keeping of the handsome one very poor quarter be
thysidan. no happily reconciled and iden authority on children's »
tified with her long expected and lately man whose claim to sk’1
came from the fad that *
ireaded guardian.—New Y'ork News
children, of whom but <
in«. With so much si<
Blockheads.
if
When reproved on « ne "ccaston for not bora coucxled that »he Thi
thoHty
on
'he
»ubj>
!■
ittendlng a committee called to consider
the paving of St. Paul's churchyard with of freqnc'hi «tthoi gb 1:
wood. Charles Macklin, the noted Irish cation.
priori
“YVhy is he «nch » «
,e.»
sctor. said. “Oh. you lay your hea ls to-
ent
of
the
frr
d.-nsrsno't
(vther, and It will soon be done.”
ger in a ani-dl <itr.
,ere »** **
“Why. be wa« in <ha>
rwreasonahle Dears.
There Is nothing that convinces a wom had the big fire.”
“Bnt d.»« that mak'
an jo readily that marriage Is a failuie
j r<
•• for Iler bn-txnd to say to her in a Intendin' ?"
it
\
“Certainly. I' t for 1
kind voice. “But you wouldn't under
j,-, Coa^*
Y
stand it. my dear, if I were to explain It have been a big fire.
iioa.
:e y<" Ufa.