C ow er l i , <11 I l k 11 D ead P asti By MRS. LOVETT CAMERON ♦ t> “ It choke« me to etop here," the mur­ mured; 'in her house, hvm g upon her charity, with her beautiful, tender face 1-ending over me every day. Oh. I can understand why he love* her ao. Could anyone in half a century ceaae to love such a woman aa that? But I — I can­ not atay here. H e might come and find me here, and it would trouble him; and never trouble him again— never.” She looked about for some wrap or Shawl to cover her shoulder*, but there was nothing o f the kind among her humble belong ngs. Th e aable cloak. In which she had been wrapped when ahe came, had been taken away at once to Airs, t a r le a room. So »he turned up the akirt o f her gown over her head, crept sw iftly and aileutly down the ata.rcaae, out at the front door, acroas the atrip o f garden, and in three “ k “*? waa nut o f .igh t down the road that led aw ay from Dunsterton to­ ward Keppington. N o one had seen her or noticed her departure; she hurried on • nd waa toon safe from pursuit. Bhe had no difficulty in finding her way; fo r Sheep Old en w rien ced sheep raiser« real lie the importance o f providing cover for anim als on the range or in tlie yards so arranged that the sheep can get under cover quickly in the event o f sudden storms which are likely at this season o f the year. A structure o f this kin-1 should l4— Expulsion of the Jesuits f- 1 what ls necessary In farm operations, Paris. but o f what avail ls it if plans are not 1601— Kinsale, Ireland, surrender^« carefully laid aud us carefully exe­ the English. cuted? There Is a city business man 1052— First newspaper sanctioned ; who was brought up on a farm and ls Russia. now spending some o f his city-earned lc m _ E(ir| o f .\rgvle Imprison* money at the old occupation. Largely, high treaton ns a matter o f sentiment, he bought l c w _ M ary_ g u e e n ot England. m the old homestead, aud after a time smallpox. used It fo r a summer horn«, leasing ]T M _ BmprMa E |ij!ah, th of Rt*| the land on the share plan. One sum-, bl)r[1_ 1>ie(1 on thl| (iate ^ | thbly their minde touched upon the earne C H A P T B 3 XXIV.-fContiouM l.* T h e W a lk e r A p p le. thing simultaneously, for Rosamond said, M First shown In any quantity at the ie octagon room. Mr». Earle wan kneel- as she shook the snow and mud off her Pan-Am erican Expos.tlon, at Buffalo, i f upon the floor, »upportiug the fair hoots in the porch: “ I wonder how my patient is! Bhe i ead upon her »boulder; the fragn.erkH I the W alker apple has since been tried f flaae lay in aiua.l heap» of cryntai- would not see me this morning; she said I in various sections aud found all that , owder about the prostrate figure. Mr*. she wanted to go to sleep. 1 must go up , was claimed for 1L Its exceedingly and have a look at her. Do you know, [ uccur leu tlu.i* up her hand» In ab»o- attractive appearance makes It valua­ I can't help thinking that g.rl Is above tte deapalr. ble as a market sort, and It has the ‘ “ The crystal goblet! She haa broken the station she is supposed to belong to." added merit o f being of fair quality, " I have thought the tame thing,’’ he I lit Oh, whatever ahall I do! the care- although not by any means a flrst- ? tea, good for nothing girl! Oh, Miaa answered quietly. Rosamond opened the houae door and I toeaujond, I've beard my late master class apple ln this respect. In size It jr that that goblet was worth more entered the tiny ball. Aa she did so her nmiretJ *erV i * 11 P° 5U at eTe'T corner, Is a little above the medium, and in “ D<* **/ ,fle btgan to know the an everything elae In the whole houae maid came fiying down the staircase to lunrim7 landmarks o f the country. But ahe waa color Is particularly attractive, being ^ !ut together; it waa aa old as Oliver meet her, with a face o f consternation. cry weak and ill, her clothe» and her striped with brilliant red. I'n d er test “ Oh, ma'am, such a dreadful thing has ¡iromwell, and some aay aa how it actual- boot» were thin; the heavy .lush of mud It proves to be only a fair bearer, but I y belonged to him! Oh, whatever »hall happened— that poor girl has gone! and »now which encumbered the roads aay to Mr. Brian? She »hall go thla left her more than an b„ur ago to go to soon soaked through them and saturated sleep, ahe said, and this very minute ary day."’ her to the »kin. Still .he floundered on. “ Hu»h, Mra. Buccurden. Go and send I have come from her room and It le «tumbling, staggering often and often, it a doctor; do you not see that the girl empty. She has dressed herself and la but picking Qp her step* again, and i very Ul? She haa fainted, and aee. gone." struggling onward bravely through It all. Rosamond looked at CoL Trefusls In lere la blood upon her lips." k * e ‘ back— back to my hua- “ 8ha haa cut herself with the glass dismay. band . houae; I f I , m to die, it will be “ I will go and order the carriage at j nd serve her right," cried the houao- , ter„ dl* there than in any other once," he said, hastily. " W e must follow eeper aavagely. P‘«ce, she said to heraelf. “ W hat would “ I don’t think it Is a cut," »aid Rosa- her.’’ And then, in a lower voice he said U he saw me now?" ahe iond quietly. “ Col. Trefusla,” half turn- to her: “ I think we have both suspected talu can. This poor girl is very ill; she together with all the folly o f her foolish »a fainted, and I think ahe has broken to consciousness of anything save ntter tiiat curiou* dual nature blood Teasel.” weakness and stagnation of thought which had made the great naturalist ! J l i e hastened away to fulfill her orders they rested somewhat wonderingly upon tremble when be thought of his child's B r a . Buccurden grumbled audibly. Bhe the strange and unfamiliar place in unguarded future. d id n 't want no invalids, ahe muttered, which she found herself. The chamber Behind her, far behind her up the »king up other people a time, and who, waa «mall and low, much smaller than lane, a man was floundering onward, too, jia should like to know, was to pay for the one she occupied at Keppingtou. Y et tors and medicines; and then there a bright fire burnt In the fireplace, im­ througa the snow and mud, toward the SE W W A L K E R A P P L E . great stone house that now loomed in as that crystal goblet, and ahe didn't parting an air of comfort and cosiness, sight above the bare woods on the shoul- this may be Improved as the trees ow how ever ahe was to account for to which of late ahe had been unaccus­ Mention o f the variety tomed, and the narrow white bed upon d.m °e Ith* hiU ln iroDt- Aud further j grow older. L ir . A t this moment Mrs Earle’ s carriage which she lay was soft and warm, ao etui behind a wagonette came quickly ls made ilm ply because It ls a promis- onward also, in the same direction. j lng one and seems worthy o f general mer, being at the farm considerable, i n 4 - G * o r f * W'hitetield born, rove up with the colonel iualde it, but that she felt no Inclination to stir. Rosamond was white as death. Col b doctor. The village pructltiouer was Home one rose from the further side he noticed the rather slip shod metli- , „ . , , . , , . te s t— Indianapolis News. l i J i — Singujar rising and sinking ofla| ut, and not likely to be home before of the fire, some one with re* Im sadly, after a pause, “ unless it was the first had done. She was better, but moment's reflection, "and a very apt one ' . Jurult still too .weak to reason and to think; as connected with you," he added, with made some experim ents that point to 1854— Thomas W . Dorr, leader of Write ft» ne of utter despair and hopelessness.” Rebellion, died. the probability that for some tim e i “ And see what came of It, years of re the little cough that hnd become a sec­ ft snnic. A NOS But Rosamond hardly heard the cum- ' there has lieen practiced a form of ‘ entance and regret! I f you had not ond nature to her hardly seemed to dis­ 1857— Bombardment and cn,-t. ^ 2 iken that rash ami Ill-considered tress her, or to concern those who wait­ pliment. deception ln milk adulteration which Canton, China, by Gilbert-] ed upon her. She took more food, slept J ™ - * * m ?*rtaln ,hat 11 ls Rrlan's lias escaped the attention o f health o f­ tep------” French forces. ___ • «o n II« aho cried, with excitement, "fo r “ Then I should never have known better, and aa the day wore away, en­ * lfe , ficers. In a paragraph In the B irm ing­ 1850— I feet mania for the poet Rope. Look' ham D ally Mail It ls explained that ig her lovely eyes up into his with a dition. tl^ deficiency o f fats, w hether due to the post Is ready to sw ing crane to.— Again there came the vision of that what la that before ua on the road?” M • mile that set all his pulses tingling. Exchange. VO “ It la a man.” the poverty o f the milk ortthe extrac­ 1874— Alphonso X II ., father o fjijn B Was ever so sweet a hope given to a tall, beautlfnl woman, bending over her - •» But is there not a woman or a child tion o f fats, has been covered by the W arm F o o d «» f o r C otv «. tan, who had loved and waited, us that with the pitiful Madonna like face, and present ruler, proclaimed K u'*ri‘ Hl i Spain. >ok and that entile? But John Trefusie this time there was a murmured ques­ further on? Yea, look how she stumbles addition o f foreign greasy niatl°r. I»r. Tne average dairy cow does not re- and totters! Oh, it must he her. Quick­ tion; roe not a man to snatch at ao great a Quesnevllle found that “ benzine would o-are warm mashes o f any kind, and 1 8 7 6 -G reat railroad accident at A l l f l “ My poor child, you are better to­ er. drive quicker!” she cried to the coach- dissolve foreign fats without affecting rise with undue haste. H er heart, If It Is generally considered best to let u a' ll0' man. "Oh. John, It will kill her, this e ever won It, must be hie of its own night?" tlie natural fats In m ilk." and thus by the animal do her own grinding o f 1884— Severe earthquake felt In I w h ;»c terrible walk through these roads, , nd Then Kitten looked at her some min­ ree will and by every claim. have grain and In Its usual state, although a'" > ^pain. “ I will never," he answered her grnve- utes gravely and solemnly, In silence. «he Just out of her bed. poor child! Look exam ining the samples which *• passed the ordinary test he discovered there can be no objection to the oc- 1894 Ex-Senator James O. F«it * . i n t. “ 1 will never conseut to your taking A t last her lips moved; she gave no an­ she has fallen !" The pedestrian hurried forward Rp. such substances as pork dripping and casional mash nor to any m ixed grain Several killed in the ny other great step in yonr life upon swer to the question, only she said slow­ ly and laboriously, because of the physi­ hlntl him the horse* were lashed on to ' cocoenut butter. he Impulse of a generous moment." moistened and fed quite warm , but y ,e * avan ouse, Bhe bent her head, a deep color *nf- cal effort which It gave her to speak, their utmost pace and lore on over the I simply as an appetizer and a change ‘ .... , _ heavy road. Rosamond's carriage, arrtv- S n o T T d r l f t ( ¿ a t e l l l n i f c , ueed her face front brow to neck. Bhe but still perfectly dlatinctly. , from .. , , 1890— Extradition treaty between the regular rations. \\ arm bran .. . Hj » ed upon the aeene to find Kitten 1 ,'u .J ■nderstood him, and ahe waa grateful to "Bhe moves a goddess, and she looks Th is Is a gate hinge o f my Inven­ . __ . „ ■ ” States and Brazil ratified... white and unconscious upon the wet road E v Slllalleyi ceIebratri ¡' tint. T h e strength of his self-control a queen.” tion. I t can lie used on any kind o f mashes are used to advantage w ith whilst a young man, who waa a stranger cowa Just a fte r calving, particularly nallst, died. tffected her more than a torrent of pae H er visitor drew back, she looked sur­ gate. Th e rod should be made o f 1- 1 prised, even startled, but she said noth­ to her, was bending over her with a face donate words, Inch Iron. T h e four eyes o f %-tncb If oil meal or some other laxative ls 100 0 -M r s . Isabel A. Mallon (Rati* j “ Now, aee what you have done now; ing more, snd Kitten saw her glide o f ab.olute agony, and gathering the used ln connection w ith it. It is often Iron. T h e eyes In the top o f gate more), author, died......... S* rrail, helpless burden tenderly up in his | Mddled yourself with t consumptive »»r sway behind ths sheltering screen at the advantageous to moisten tne roughage Justin S. M orrill o f Vermont i arm«. should be 10 or 18 Inches apart. This rant maid, and turned your house Into a foot of her bed. given thè stock, and w e have had them aged 89. (T o h« continued.) The next morning, which was the third mepltal. Here ie the doctor'« gig et eat corn stover, which they would not day. Kitten was alive once more to the die gate once more!” W O N D E R FU L _______ O K LA H O M A CW Men and Women* touch dry, by steam ing it fo r a fe w "P o o r girl, shs had s dreadful night. realities of life going on about her. She 1 tblnk every woman ls entitled hours nnd feeding it w h ile quite warm , in One r « n n t r A lo n e T h e y win I fear ah# la very 111; shs did not seetu sat up In bed to eat her breakfast, she was full of curiosity; she questioned the to he considered man's equal. lo be conaciotie when I last saw her." W e believe thoroughly in an occasion- eeed in V n iu e eto.ooo.ea* S h e - W e ll. If «he Is w illin g to bring “ W hat made yon bring her home lit maid who waited upon her eagerly and a! change which w ill furnish variety. J« •* only a years since th* 0. I herself down to h i. level I don't see Impatiently; that rash and Impulsive fashion?" even though there may be no apprecl- wa" lo o k '»* °n at the rush of s "W here am I? ” she asked her. “ It 1« s silly reason, 1 know; you will w hy she shouldn't he allow ed to pdke able or direct b en efit • ' nt0 ‘ he newly opened lands of "Y ou are at Dunsterton." lay eo, o f course, because you tro sensi­ as his equal.— Illustrated Bits. _________ homa. N o one then dreamed tin: “ How far la that from Keppington?" ble, but t— I am foolish! I think It ToiMlreaalnic H r . nnd d o v e r . county alone of the new territory "L itt le over three miles, my dear.” A ll fo r Ancestor«. was because Mrs. Bucctinleu told ms h : T o an inquiry how to fertilize a field produce in HKK* crops in value toi "B ut how did I get here? H ave I that the poor girl waa a protege of Mrs. T h e M oth e r-in -L n w -A re you read­ o f rye sowed last fall. Intended to be $10.000,000. This is the record of been ill?” Ikeeaaond'a.” ing the count'» fam ily history? seeded also w ith clover ln the early county, the southwest county of "M y mistress brought you In her own T w o days want hy. The doctor went The Father-ln-I j i w— Yea. I think I spring. Dr. C. W . W o od s recom m ended homa. for this year. • O A T E H 1 XUE FOR DRI FTS. gnd came. Tits sick girl upstairs was carriage, and it'» her own doctor that ought to get posted about those ancea- at a recent m eeting the application o f Tha cot,° " or” P now on ^ * 1 Yea, poor thing, ■sported better, though still unable to haa waited on yon. gate can be raised and opened over f..ur hundred pou n d, o f muriate of «a r e her bed. Rosamond was happy, you're been very ill; you was In s dead to r. o f h l* -U ,e y 'v e coat me such a T h i. - sn ow d rift». Th e collar w ith thumb appler than she had been for many faint when you was brought here, but •tack o f money!— Brooklyn Life. potash. This application was Intend- T h i, with the vn|IIe ,lf ........ •• screw w ill hold the gate aa wanted. ears. John Trefusla made himself the you are much better now.” ed to encourage the clover that was to — A Twisted Haw. $16 amount to $4.420.0**1 T h e hangings can be made by any „ at T„ , „ a ton, Um, HHIUUUl lO it.-t- " lloil "A n d whose house, then, is this?” mpanlon of her daily walks. Together b e sow n ra th e r • s rye, if • - fu lly $:’.."• “ Johnny, who waa Peter and who blacksm ith.— W . G. Freed. “ It is my mistress' house." bey trudged through the fast melting - waa Raul?" was preferred to grow a larger crop o f e *n and kaffir yield Is worth “ And her neme?" MOW, laden with basket! of provisions rye rather than the clover, he would >3.*«00.000. fcll „ “ Her name is Mrs. Earle." “Them waa the guy* w a t robbed lor the poor at the cottage«, whom Rosa A n iro n t M u tton . recommend a dressing o f nitrate o f . ‘ ’hp,,‘ leading crops, t ere Something between a sigh snd an ex­ each other to pay each other without tnond waa accustomed to visit almost O. I. Thompson o f the Bureau o f In value $10.000,000. Besides thr* daily. During these walks they talked clamation escaped from her lip*, her lettln' their le ft hands get wlae.” — Anim al Industry »a y e a considerable soda. I la half a million bushels of whwt often end earnestly about the fate of head fell back upon her pillows. A faint Cincinnati Commercial-Tribune. S f fd F a r m ln f. number, but not many thousand«, o f quantities of garden truck, cattk ! 1 i »n a n 's wife, which weighed like a load- flush stole up Into her face, and she T here are at the present tim e more croea bred A n g o ra » find th eir w ay to horses, poultry, dairy product! u jaton s upon Rosamond's heart, and tacitly closed her eye*. 1'ooalble Klplanation. "D o you want anything else, my ( j^ ^ B th e re grew up a sort o f tinapoken under­ “ W h y ? " asked the tourist w ho waa »took center», such a* Chicago, K a n ­ than six hundred seed farm s ln the broom corn. N ew t'n lted States— farms, that ls to say, standing between them. Rosamond would dear?” inquired her attendant kindly. In ■ F ren a y. doing Y ellow stone Park, "is this called sas City, Omaha, B u ffalo and “ Y es," said Kitten, looking at her the 'political geyser?* ” take no new joy of life for hereelf until York, and are »old there to the pack- devoted to the production o f vegetable, . _ heM’ S Just ns the collection had |ehe had restored happiness to ths woman eagerly, "1 went to be left quite, quite old Deacon Smi ” ^ “ D on 't k now ," answered the guide, 1 lng house». I f In good condition. T hey field crop nnd flow er seeds to be sold nP | who waa In sorrow through her own In- tlon*— by myself. I f your mistress ask* are purchased at a price »lig h tly under to farmers snd gardeners. Rome o f members was observed to t I Itrumentallty. Col. Trefusla come to nn- to eee me, say I don't want to be dis­ “ unless It's because It throws nothing th at paid for sheep, «n d are disponed these plantations are very extensive, around ‘ he pew and " Uu .v P [le rs ta n d this, and thay apoke o f Mr*, turbed. I — I want to go to sleep. I but m od." o f ln the carcass, and som etim es ln comprising aa much aa one thousand hair. Rrgi shall not want anything.” j Pesm ond frequently. u n i r Too t t l a d . canned form, as «beep mutton. These BcrM | “ W h at sm de trouble wld "D id you ever »ee her?" he Inquired of When ahe ws* left quite «lone. Kitten Canvaaaer— I am organizing a piano goats are usually som e th at have her one day, when they were returning crept out of her bed like a guilty thing. Rpnrka?" whispered the parso*- P a l ry N ote*. 'f r » m their walk. “ D o you know what Bhe found her poor shabby clothes neatly club ln thla neighborhood. Would you served a good purpose ln clearin g up "F ren zied finance, pawson. M ilk from uninspected herds should care to Join? folded on • chair together, and with In­ ahe la lika?*' brushwood, snd becoming fa t on It, not be »old to thep ubllc. pered the deacon; "fren zied fl F la tlelgh — I'll be only too glad I f are worth more as slaughter animals "N o , I nevar saw her; hut I hare finite pains and difficulty she managed "Fren zied finance?” Aa an extra and y e t prudent precau­ to drees herself, then ah* crept to the you w ill promise to uae the club on the heard that aha Is small and fair.” than to sell to tom e other person for . ” 8bo'. H e thought he done window. Col. Trefusls was thoughtful; and pos tion, pasteurization of all pianist neat done. brush clearing. a penny In de collection, en should ba obligatory. done discoli ehed et was a dm**’ i li J | r la J