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t * I I \ r 1 . as if it had come to me—the bless- ’ “Am I to live here?” I asked, s v,, «. - ----------- -------- But, Roy. perhaps she wouldn’t u ing of a good man’s love.” Sol persuaded myself; yet it I like it. tt “She? Who is she?” he inquired. BY NANCY CAVANAGH. was a little hard to feel myself shut “Why, Edith, to be sure. From New York Weekly •ut from all the beauty and sweet “What has Edith got to say. 1 CHAPTER II. ness of a woman’s natural lot. I should like to know?” cried Roy, think I never felt the bitterness of Iwas an old moid in good earnest “My darling little Pen, acutely I when Roy came back. They say being an old maid quite as t satisfied, the rest of the if you are □o woman passes the age of twenty* as I did that night, when Roydon world can say, do, and think what five without receiving at least one bad gone to the village in, and it pleases. Since you have prom- offer ef marriage, but I believe I Edith lay sleeping on the pillow at ised to be my wife------” was an exception to that rule—I my side, and the scent ef the hon “I!" the cozily furnished little never had an offer. All the girls eysuckles came wafting in at every breakfast room seemed to swim who bad grown up at my side mar* »tir of the dewy night breezs. “Stop. Roydon, for a he came often to our houa«, | around me. , ried, and became blooming wives and Well, I used io nake all sorts of lit- minute, please; I—I don t quite and happy mothers; but Pen Lil* tie excuses to leave him with Edith, understand.” haven remained unsought and un* “You said yourself, the first of while I went up »lairs to sit by my-1 wooed. seif and weave littlb threads of ro-1 August! It used to mortify me until I got ‘‘But I thought it was Edith!” to be thirty, and then by degrees I rnance in and out of my fancy knit- “Edith, indeed! A mere child — left off caring for it, and made up ting. How happy she would be with him! .nd ho. much I .hould > -boo'«ul. ’hol<!. h',rt' my mind to be as happy as I could .h «• . ¡moreover, is wrapped up in in tlar- _ . , o.......... i..,.. all by myself. So, as my near re enjoy, or try to, going to the Grey I ry Burnham! Why, Pen, where lations were all dead, and I had a homestead to see its dimpled mi»-' have youreyes been?”* tolerably snug little sum to fall treas sitting under the trees where Where, indeed? Could I hav- back upon, 1 took a pretty little I had played as a child. been so blind all this time—so res cottage, pnd had my niece, Edith One day Roydon came to me, for olutely, incorrigibly blind? Lonsdale, to live with me, for Idith young Burnham had called, and | “Do you love me Pen? Don’t look was pretty and penniless, and I felt was chatting with Edith, and I the other way; I will be answered!” as if Providence meant me to stand dare »ay he thought I looked lonely I did love him; I had laved him I in the place of a mother to that with my work in the hall. i long and tenderly, and 1 told him poor motherless child. “Pen,” said he, “what do you so, not without some blushings and She was seventeen, and as pretty think I am going to do?” misgivings, hoWever. as the freshest rose in all my gar- A dim idea that he was going to ' “Oh, Pen,” he whispered, hold- den. Tall and slim, with deep make me his confidante flitted j jt|g njt, doge tu my heart, “if you blue eyes, hair like heaven’s sun across my mind. , knew the years I hud been looking shine, and a complexion all pink *'l don’t know,” I said, smiling. forward to this time!” and white, you loved to look at her , So I was married, quietly, of “What is it, Roy?” just as you loved to look at a How “I’m going to refurnish the old course, and with no bridesmaid but | er or a statue or any other beautiful house It looks dim and dusky ‘Edith; but I think the sun never ( thing and old fashioned now; and I want'«hone on a happier bride And I “You’ll be married some of these it to be fresh and sunny and win live in the old place, and E lith is days, Edith.” I said to her, “for some. Will you help me with your here with me; but next week we you’re too pretty to be left long are to have another wedding, and advice and counsel?” with the lonely old maid, and then Of course I promised; and for my blue-eyed blossom goes from I shall be, oh! so busy and so hap the next two or t hree weeks we were me to Harry Burnhams care. py, helping you to furnish your But, as I said before, it seems ( as busy as bees. house and make up youi wedding “We mustn’t let her know what like a dream; and as 1 s:t alone in things.” we are about,” he said that night, i my beautiful home, I almost fancy We were sitting on our little porch with a motion of his head toward ' m vself a solitary old maid again, in the summer evening twilight, until Roydun’s footstep in the hall, Edith. my niece and I, when a tall, “Oh, no, to be sure not,” I an- < and his voice calling for hie ‘deal straight figure came up the walk swered; "it would spoil the sur | little wife,” rouses me to a sense of and I looked wund»*ringly to see my new life and new happiness prise.” who it was. With hair black as a And I dare say I shall get ussd How pretty we did make the old I raven's wing, skin bronzed byytars place! Every room was like a cas to it after a while! of sun and exposure, features ket ready to recaeive a jewel; the j straight and clearly cut, and eyes bright carpets glowed in bouquets [«—« in whose dark, mirthful glimmer and mosses and trailing arabesques I there lingered a strangely familiar of Persian brightness, all over the light, he stood there smiling down floor; the windows were drajied I America’s Great Danger into my face. with neat ami tasteful shades* the ' "la this (Hen Cottage?” he asked pictures on the walls seemed per-i 4* ENGLISH COMMENTARY. with the utmost gravity. tpecuve of tropic sunsets and soft | Said an eminent English acienti»t recently: “Yes. sir,” I answered, "but—” Alpine moon»; while every vase 1 ** llio dunge. that confronts the gi eat Ameri “Don’t you retueu>l>er me, Pen and stand ana Itookcaee was ar can piopie tuilay is nut tho posoiblu adop Lilhaven? Don’t you remember ranged as I knew Edith would like tion of a wroug financial policy for the nation, or tho spread of socialism, or tho Roydon Greyf” liner, a-e < f corruption among public men. it. I III .tin* s 0 i>. d enough, to bo sure, but And then, sure enough, I did re __ to tho tr«rible Roy, said I, guardedly, the af (¡lev __ aro .......,1.;.... vx n« tilingc< ^ «... nip.rxxl member the boy who had gone ternoon that our work of transfer- a*'•“«•I’J*’»"»—l hadalnia-tnaiJ nation I I c line -of over«<ork. Tho mad rush f r away twenty odd years l>efore. matiun was complete, and we stood ««-nith 1» »'tit » killing pace, und tliuunaiids Well, he had mad« his fortune congratulating each other on our fill by the way every year. You are likely t) bo cne if the victims ’ in Venesuela, in the gold mines, successful endeavor»—fur up to this. 1 low do we know ? l'cc-inso it is the CXCCD- and came back to enjoy it among _ . _ ____ * »..I* —. r time I had been very diseteet, and •- lion to find _ a _ nia _ i or woman <-f »sltilt ago hi hie friend». Ah! to think there perfect health. Nervous Disorders" un> asked no questions—"when shall | «pmuding with feariul rapidity. Among th« were few left! Of course we had the queen of this enchanted rruliu symptom*, aie—lUcksi he, *J. i tousnew«, Cold a greol deal to say to one another, Hands and Feet, Diuiirc» , Hot 1 lushes, take possession of her fairy Uowvr? Fluttering Senaati* n, Fai ting, Head chc. ami a thousand and one questions in other wolds'’—and 1 could not Hysteria, Irritability of the Heart, Melan i to ask; and, as I don't claim te choly, 1 aili g Menvry, Fa'pitation. lth.u- help laughing at his puizied look — Miatism, bh it H iath. bleep!otm-s i < r- have anything of the saint in my Voua l,y»pep»in, Sexual Debililv, Fit«, <tc "when shall you lie marriedt*' Rr.V.'t*. A. CxRROtx, pastor First Ibptia* composition, 1 don’t deny that it So you have guessed it, you de Church, Yellow Spri gs, <).. write«as fd «•*.«: did make me feel just a little hard " I litre u-ed I*r. Mi'e»’ Re-uorative Nervine when I saw him sit dawn by Edith mur» little (Edipus?" forthop *t»ix m nth*. 1 Lnd it acts like “ Yes, I have gue«s> d it. ” a«li rm o-i the whol« mrv. us system. 1 Lonsdale ami talk to her. and look |K>1 found itt.qual in giving immediate “Well, wnat do you thu.k would hav« relief. I»r. Mil««* little Nirve and Liver into her hon**at blue eves, l>efore I Pi. 1» only nerd a trial and they will recom had half told him what had ha is- he an aupicious tiiur?” mend themselves to he ti e beat pills in the “Let me see; this July. Why marke:.'' pened in the yillagj during th« “ For fir« years 1 har« »offered from Ner not «ay the first uf August?” dreary yezra of his al»aence. But vous 1* mirition. I was u ns Me to work or "The first of Augtisl be it then,” •I.-, p. Th« firat doer of Dr. Udes’ Restora the feeling didn't last long “it's natural enough. I’m sure,” hr a»»enlrd “You »re sure there tive NervlMg««e m-relief, and one th. u «Bi d do!lira would not cover tl e go> d it lisa I reasoned with mvself. "and only i» everything hero you can think doo« m<-'—JOHN MINCH EK, Young» town, Ohio. what I ought to expect. She is as of?" Dr. Miles* Restorative NsrvlM i» un pretty as a picture, and now, if Roy “Ye«, everything ’’ •qua-led in ct'IUNU Nervou» Ihium It "Bcc«u»r,” he went on, “when mntaina wo opialea or dai>c«rna»drugs. Sold will fall in love with her, I can l«e mi a jawtive runintiv bv all dnigguta, or just as happy in their happiness you come here to li»e ■ Dr. Mil«» Medical Co-, Elkhart, lnd. A SHORT TALK ON MEDICINE OF GREAT INTEREST TO WOMEN. Pale Cheeks and Neneless Hands arc no Longer Admired. To be Strictly Correct you must have Rosy Cheeks and Good Health. I ‘I « I I I I I I t f Men Admire Wholesome-looking Women, and now Seek their Wives from that Class. fl FEW POINTERS FOR THE GIRL OF THE PERIOD Pure lilrxxl ix the veret of health and pale, complains of weakness, is “tiredoat" heauiy. Tin- fraturea may he regular, the upon the slightest exertion; if the is trou form iierfe-t. but no woman can be la-autiful ble« 1 with headache or backache, pain in the in th full srna- of the word while siiflT«-ring side; if her temper is fitful and her appetite from my of the pn-tiiiar«ilin<-nt> of h«-rsex. |x»r, she is in a condition of extreme peril, Diseax« d< «troy» tiir complexion, ix produc a fit subject for the development of tint tive -if wrinkles anil prema:ure ofd age. most dreadful of all diseases—consumption. Regular inontidy uterine action is necessary If you notice any of these symptom« lose no to every w «man’s health, and if this func- time in procuring Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills. ti hi of life is cheeked, dixeuse, a pale ami They will assist the patient to develop prop, regularly sallow complexion, are! a feeling of exhan»-, erly and -------- o , ; they will enrich the ■ ’ * and ’ restore ! health’s roses to the ti.ni, are the result. The inontidy secretion hltxal must continue from I puberty .. to the ' turn of ' cheeks, *"' * bright —1-1-* eyes ------ and a lightness of step vi ctm rj follow n»n<r„ their vhvii use, nn»^, anti ,ral obstruction. surely and ail all Uallgtr danger life without iinii.itoral obstruction, Any will breach of this law of Xatlire will result in of consumption mid premature death will be the distre««ing svmptouis whi h make the averted. Wise and prudent mothers will iis insist upon their daughters taking Dr' Wil' lives of seven-tenths of the women of this country misers!»!-,, miseriiim,. abuost iii’u«s»i unbearable. ...................... / A liaius’ Pink Pills upon the approach of th* eountyy few of these symptoms are severe headache, period of puberty, and thusuvoid all chanc«* few (»1 VUVIW r.^ .... ” -- - — -------- ™- of disease and early decay. joss of appetite. |>ul‘- or sallow complexion, rolpitati in of th- h-art, swollen ankles or iier>-on< le.s, off.-Hive breath, eic., etc. The »itiT-r-r mriv exhibit one or more of th ■>«• svniuto iH, or may have all. They From the Examiner, Han Francieeo, Cal. (imply in ii -me ihc ri vag -s «li.M-.asc has m i«!e Miss Lottie Donell lives with her parent* upon tji • s*sti. and the mor: of the symp at 702 Natoma Street, San Francisco. She tom« th- |>*i’ient shows tie- greater the neces is a young lady nineteen years of age, and of v------- „ .------ sity prompt - ----- 1------------------------ . , until for they have anil been p-rs'si-irt banished treatment, and the - prepowxsing appearance. Ever sine* ,»h* years bio »in of h«»aith is restored. To accomplish " ,en . y ears old Miss Donell has lieen a th -‘ill Dr. Williams’ Fink Pills are the sufferer “r“r from a rheumatic affection of the wrist, and since she was thirteen yean of o-i »• u'ithiiin-z remedy. They positively age she has been subject to various female cur Hl suppressions Hnd irr-^ulariti-s, weaknesses which have kept her physic*) w ii -li. if neglected, inevitably entail sick- vitality at a very low stage. Thu«, as she n-s- and tro.ibj-. By taki ig these pills for says, she has been a victim of disease ever a we-k -r ten «1 ('-.« tH-fore th- expec'e-1 rc- since she ‘can remember. When she w»» t tni >f e n-h p-ri si, the prompt appearanc- a little girl at school she was always placed of * the visitor” is ins irel. For snppres- ar a disadvantage with her playmate« on ac si in., th • p'lis must be taken steadily until count of her frailty of body and timidity of th r--apoearince iuk«-s place—generally in | manner. She could never loin in any of the a m.>n i ’ s ti 11-, so n-tim.'s |c.«w. Follow the I jm>re boisterous games, although she always dir.- li ms «>n the p i a-;» I t ilxmt each box. lur.gi d t<> do so. N ir i r.* w iii' ti will tin I their milk im- But the embarrassing conditions of Mist pr.v-.-l in qmilir.v an! lUititity by takinr ’ J’oi.ell’s life have all been eliminated with th - t piils. hi I also ol»* du relief from txiin in he past year, and the change is wholly i i th- '»i«-k an-l g-n-ril lr.igg.-«l-oiit feeling. due to the effective work of Dr. William«' A:! displ teements from weakness of the Pink Fills. u -rim* ii-game its are speedily lieve«) and “It must be remembered,” said Min lilt'm"-■ y ••ur.sl by the use of these p:l!s. Donell in telling of the great relief that Dr. !.»>u-irrit «■ i. I>—«ring town, weight in the Williams* Pills had afforded her, “that at p I. i i. i l l nl! female weakn-sa. 5 i,l apetsiy the time 1 began taking the pills I had been r--icf > -I - m- in th- a imi list ration of the for years« confirmed invalid. My wrist wn« I’. ik Pilis |-or Pnle P -onle. swollen out of all proportion by the chronic t’lir :n >xt orhii-nl ti -rio-l in the life of a rheumatism that Led Imtg since settled in it. w >«i»:iu i» tII «t attending tlie ce«.sati<>!i <>f The female complaints from which I had so m ■ !«-r'' iri'>-i. or. a« it is most genero!!; y long xiiffcrtd ¡.nd waxt-d my laxly away until i - ■! «I, thè chini -e or turn <>f lift*. T T ne I was but h mere shadow of my former self sy up« > ih «ttt'-U'h ii’ 'his period tire fninting and I had really come to think that the .«pe l« or att ick» ->f fain'ness • •r ‘lizzinieiM, I rightness and happiness of life was not li - l o-h ". generai ........ - •«li — ’bility. ........... e -li ‘ niHtion. • • meant for me. I hail not the energy to per Ian holy hvsteri t, p»in f «i-’iii-’ of «iv-!.... L ' in the form even the most simple of my household idri i, ete. etc. T ir ._ duties, and. in a wor I I was completely‘nin lo ih or li:n;«s hyo liyu • « h li > otri elei i-.r i «r-1 l-i >1 o ie —for lietter or wora;« down.’ 1 began to take Dr. Williams’ Pill« —f «r tn-for'iier if thè pnti -nt is wise enough while I was in this condition and !*■ fore I to o «iiy t i «y-’ein i—linst the ravages of had taken half n Box of ih- m I realized that t'i- «y utd-i n -itte uli ig the ehsi'g»*. For they were doing me g.e>d. 1 began to feel i.o- p rtw-.- n-> *■ m-dy ever discovere«! lively again and to l.tse the lux feeling in They my liinlw. I felt so happy over the momen ispials Dr. W’tii.i ih ’ Pink Piil«. p :• fv the bio>1 1 v ic,;ug dir- -t y upon the tary relief that had lieen afforded me that I -v-t. i I-.- n t n- «.-verity of this rt-solvi-d to < oiitinii'ataking the pills. After s \ I d e- ti rp-riol -i-tl finally |e-«-■-the patient tak mg several more boxes I was mote than i«i ih«- eti; >vim-nt ef ro'iint h-alth. All convinced of the high merit.« of the pills, for I'-hiti't this rr'>i«' il ia-rio-1 should I w'.« then wholly relieved from the rheu 1-1-- •«« ......... ... matic pairs in my wrist and I had so for re- t ce «>f. Wiil.ttiM»’ Fiuk F'ils. g'in'xl niv vitality of body that I really t’ALE AND SALI.OW GfRLS. believed I had never experienced the euer- voting effects of thoseara«tiiu- -liseases which «1 enn •«.< ni «• «Fstr-ssiug than to «oc are «« peculiar to women. It ¡»» very great a girl -lro >p;"i<; an-l f d ir.' in th» «nrinv’ime r*- to me to lie able to te 1 my young of volt II I III**-.-..| ,>f t er« s pi -wiug, rlens' ladr friemL, of the r-lief thm h«» lieen sf- royv «il ;t'ì«l in <-!i>stj< sten, there are forded in.- by Dr. Williams’ Pills > d T will d ili »*•«•«. t> il" s tìlow, >r gri-eni-h t-oni'dex- sur< ly -on’iiiue to recommend their use to i > ì, an I t a tgiii‘1 1 of «tei» that le-xmeiks all wh-» s-e aftlh-ted with the c anplaiats il’«*-.. >• a:t«l iti o-ir)y <|. >ith if prop-r trent- wh-«-h I suffered.” ■u -ti is -t »1 «.r i ij.’ty res<>rted to and per- from Pink Pills are sold by ell dealers 0" w II be «; t l i i «nitil <ie t'ntiovvri-lir.1 Ido «I is vii- r ■ « «I « « I Hi ■ f\i«irti«ms of lift- lasy.tu • remi s-nt post paid on receipt of price, S 'cents* box or «’X loxes for *2 5*» (they ar- n»-y-t la. ì"i»o!i t.irents r- t« a rroat .. r-«ponù- snt-1 in bulk orby the 1 Ok by ad-lre-sme l>r. V-l, v t -h • fi- ò ’■ ••• ’• tx a— b”<l- x* j v..i d-. filter is, ll.iama’ Medicine C m -, Hdiwuxtady, «. » 4u.„ .... . . AA-.U.'W^. A Thankful Girl. ELKHART CARRIAGE and HARNESS NFC. CO. ■an B«M To O wmmm F«r M Ynra, «•Wwf them the beaten' prnjltt. W« arw tb« «M and LMaaa* maaufactarar. la America «all *hi, way- Ship nibyact to approval. Wr pop Av. ba*b wap. ir bo * «aUtfactorv. CvoryUiin* w ranted Why pay an A«ont •>« to *M to order vont Write yonr owa order Beiln« tree. Wp tabe aU the ria« of damawe la shipping. WHOLKMAL1 PRICKS *■ W»«on«y »SO to MB. <»■• ae soil Tor M to STS. 1« styles at royo wtu Ion« »te»teh Tool ton« •*” «• I MARMKSS. ”