LETTIM DOWN THE BARS, day he found himself at the farm house where, every summer, Mrs. Laurence brought her niece, not BY SUE CHE9TNUTWOOD. wishing to take her to a watering- From People's Home Jeurnal, place, I>ecau9e. although twenty, CHAPTER II. she had not brought her out. The But a word of thia man. politic lady had kept her back, H? was Mr. Laurence's son by hoping to see her elder nieces well his first marriage. The present settled first. Mrs Laurence, at the mature Izaak Walton said to the scholar. maidenly age of 30, had accepted •‘God never did make a more calm,1 the offer of the wealthy banker, and quiet, innocent recreation than an- for the past twenty years had been fling-’’ a most loving wife, rendering to This modern angler, standing him all the deferential respect that ^gloomily on the river's bank, seeth- position and wealth always elicited led a strange contradictory disciple, from her. of the quaint old teacher. “Calm, Neil, his father’s sole heir, since quiet, innocent,” he refuted each their marriage they bad not been assertion. There was fire in his blessed with any children, was her eves, a heavy scowl upon his brow, I pride and admiration, rendered so and his lips were almost fiercely by the aforementioned fact, ami compressed; whilst, though he this feeling was, perhaps, intensi stood perfectly motionless, the in find by the distant, though respect ward struggle w-.s so palpable as ful manner in which he had always to make the word quiet a sarcasm treated her, for Mrs. Laurence was As for that last term, innocent, a one of those women who admire little fish had nibbled off the bait, people with whom they cannot sue and was slowly choking on the wretched hook he had swallowed ceed in becoming intimate. He was gone the livelong day. Her nieces, left with a few thous When he turned homeward the and apiece, had shared their elegant home since their childhood, and trees had ceased to cast their shad scarcely had the little girls been owe, and the purple twilight spread under her care a week ere she had over all the pleasant land. planned a matrimonial alliance be As he approached the farmhouse tween her stepson and the eldest— he discovered sign? of stir and com- and prettiest—blue eyed Carrol. motion, and there were several Years passed by, until he was trunks turned on end on the low twenty and she eighteen. Then he browed piazza. Instead of enter imagined himself desperately in ing the house, he went around it, love, and asked his pretty half intending to seek information at cousin to be his wife. Of course the kitchen, but.he found the solu she accepted him, and they were tion ere he reached it. In passing' betrothed. The engagement lasted the dining room the savor of stewed I until Miss Carrol’s come-out party, chicken and the clatter of dishes • when a newer face caught her fickle came out through the open windows. fancy; then, for all the private and He approached one and looked in; terrible lectures administered by the bright lights within, intensify Mrs. Laurence to her niece, and the ing the late twilight without, left enticing and deceitful delusions she him unse<-n. % They were seated at table. Amy endeavored to practice upon her stepson, the engagement was brok and Carrol had arrived, and were en. giving a brilliant recital of their That I lad happened ¿even years summer’s dissipation The good ago, and he ha>I%»i>g since learned farmer and his wife were listening to sneer at his folly, for, though with wide mouthed admiration, Carrol was a beauty, his maturer while Mrs. Laurence was quite neg judgment found her both vain and lecting her well-filled plate in her tiresome. Since that boyish epi blissful enj ryment. She was drees sode he hud been absolutely ini d with unusual care and elegance. I pervious to the «harms of the many Her gray hair was arrrnged in state fair ones who had used their ut pompadour, her gold eyeglasses set most ¡rowers to ensnare him, had on the bridge of her aristocratic forsworn society, and had devoted nose to assist the keen, blue eves, himself to his profession. llis instead of. as usual, dangling from friends predicted for him a bache the chain at her throat; while her lor’s life, and he bad accepted their delicate, jeweled hands were toying fiat with his usual nonchalance, with the plebeian bone handles of had almost learned to believe that her knife and fork. such was his destiny, when, a few I horndyke and Cora were not weeks previous to the opening of there. our story, he suddenly awoke to the “Perhaps they were out fur a fact that he had met his fate. spoil He turned away with a He had seen h r grow up almost «neer, left his string of fish at the from her babyhood, this bright, kitchen door, and. retracing |his frank, dark-eyed Cora; had played with her, and when he found that steps to the trout of the h »use, en- he loved her. earnestly, deeply, «les ilertd, intending t«> go to his room. In the large square hall he met perately, ami that this love would not I h > driven out from its strong Cora. She held a lamp in her I hold m>r vet quelled, he was angry. hand and was just fre.-di from the' He grew more cynical than ever the toilet. She look • <i r.i liant. There was a bright ll ish on het i and more reticent. cheeks, ,and her dark eyts were It happened just as the family lustrous with excitement. She were separating for the summer. lie remained in the city with his won- a knot of rosea in her hair and father, hoping to bury thia in add another on her bosom, which gave ed business cares; bulacarcaly had character to the pale, llercy fabric they Iwen gone a month when, with vf her graceful dress They ha<i met right at the foot strange caprice, he followed Carrol and Amy to Saratoga, where th«-v of the stairs, she st inding a foot were dissipating, being chaperoned strove bin , and thu-» blocking his1 pa?s<g«> lie looked weary and by a friend of their aunt's. »pent. Rut what would the needle gain TO HE Rg CONTINI tONTINl H> ID should it resist the magnet* One To Journals FJP.THi FRIC: OF ONE. I L AN OFT REPEATED STORY CrBU i FOR THIS YEAR What Chas. H. Hackley has Dene for V/-i£- Michigan—How the orJy Cloud in th j L.ij of an Honored Man was Crushed away by ¿cicrce. -------- -------------- —THIS PAPER— I-- WITH----- THE S N FRANCISCO Weekly Call ! From Grand Xapids, ííl CHICK St.S3 I’KK Y< A*. ------ OR------ THE SAN FRANCIS 0 Morning Call! PUCK SO O t Pi It l EAH. ------ ----------- ^HE SAN FRANCISCO j WEEKLY CALL M* * iiaiidxoine eight- page paper. It is la->u<-d every Thursday, and contains alt of tne important new* of the week, gleaned from ever-y qu tr ier of the globe, complete up to date of publication. It iur- nishee the latest and most reliable fiuuncial news and market quotation*, a< d give* special atteiiti. n to liorticul- tural and agricultural news, and is in every rr-q act a fir*t- tlass family paper, appeal) g to the interest of every member of the housenold. HE MOUSING CAI.I, (S bvbm laon a W bkk ) Is a live no tropoiit .a daily. it is the MOST RELI A- BLE. and is ree.ignizml as b<-iiui the LEA 1;1NG NEWS- PAPER <-( the Pacific Coast. Either of the abs\e apers w<- will send po’ti)-<id as a pre mium on reeel. t uf the follow, ing aubaerlption priera tor tba combination : I DAILY 8'LL ISO iHIi I...-. , PL ÏE13, 1« ! AIV..MZ, WEEKLY GUL And i h¡> P p , P r law, ”♦2.50 SHILOH’S CONSUMPTION r:: ” . \S 'M» » r* * La 3 *’ ; Th- s • ' w!.bo»it ’• ar.Ñ'l'tsl I 1 All3r-. . K L’C » Uv .lt ! Iti» e - r.- .»•■»U»’- ■_ í?.'\ i Crvrh Cara is ,>:»>ry <•( nie<h-:iue. ' t: sell it on ? pus .1 > ot. er c r-. car t t «nr become r>,- »’»» .«*tf ♦>» ■ _ d «normo-u. ex kno-vi«. i * ? sa ¿»-•n - ,ar - | m ■ i- ’ It Fr»*e bite •tri V il »- ÌC In- ♦ pit i‘v« !<»’ù'"anaJu if « t . a * ; r\. í rhror’.ur Brou •l-.ui •a t. for V. —: »•-U. If j - ju : i*bil<> 1»» • '• •(’■'«un, or boopi.'.R Cough. ust ,1 n- ■ . .<•«.’. < i-?. if yon dread th-». . »> <.• rMc !.. 3.J.I.. JH, U.“ 11 »x hk ? Lrntv »L 1. h TirnE, ns. ¿n, - . 4. If your Lenir Prier lv ?’ At 3 r B;■ i h.ue. ...» Shiloh», Porose * i r. i i e.- «aia ty all Dtcy futa and 1) ¿lors. ■ most beautiful spot in Muske ts Inseparably associated with the name ct Ilackl y, and in ail West ern Michigan there is not a name bet ter known, ar.d among the studious and those interested in deeds of phil anthropy, 'his name Is known and ad mired. Chas. II. Hackley has been in the lumber business continuously since 1S56, and in that time has amassed a fortune, which gives l.im a rating among the wealthy men of the na tion. Dut with wealth there did not ccnio that tightening of titc purse strings which is generally a marked characteristic of wealthy men. There is no prettier spot in the State than Hackley Park in a square sur rounded and pierced by stone walls, emphasizing with their whiteness the creen of faultlessly kei t lawns, it.a crowning pride a towering scldier 3 monument on the top of which stands a bronze figure pointing ever in r - membrance of tl e heroes who died that the nation might live. Surround ing this park are the magnificent Hackley Public Library—a po m in granite—with its CO.OvO volumes, and tie equally stately Hackley rchocl, like a bee-hive with its 600 children. Other elegant buildings testify like wise to the liberality and munificence of ti-.is man who has pulled wealth out of the forests of Michigan. It is r.o wonder then that the name of Charles II. Hackley is I: .ova a' 1 ome and abroad. Ills munificence t I>b-. ■>« alone re, resents an cuila of : rly half a n-.i’.iion. For the pa: twenty y?a:s ho l._s been a constant ruf.’crer from neuralgia ar.d rlicuma- ti in, also numbness of the lower limbs, so much so that it 1 as seriously interfered v.i.h his pleasure in life. For some time past l.is friends have noticed that he has seemed to, grow young ay in. and to l ave recovered the health v.hi.h he had in youth. To a correspond-, nt of the Press, Mr. Ha. lcley ex) lained the secret of his transformation, and to Ids friends who have known now he suffered. It is indeed a transformation. “1 have suffered for over twenty years,” be r d. seated in l.is private office, “with pains in my lower limbs so severely that ti e only r !i f I could get at night was by putting cold water com presses cn r y 1; ' j. I was bothered m re at r.’ ;. t tl.cn in ti e day time Ti e n v.r and rheumatic j lur in my hr. . wl.. h l ad l> en growin in lot. nsity f r years, finally bccam chronic. I male t' ee trips to i’- i Hot l--, ii -.gs wi-'.i « r.ly partial relief, ami tl.< a f- II back to ray crlgi.ml st.--.to. J cm.) in t sit still, and m- Bufferinrs 1. . n t > make life look ver / bit e. Two years ago last Sen- i ' i> .- i n -i -id . n aeeovrit of Pr. ..„ ,.r i u*— - :..s fcr x .e I j . 1 Cl I IBKATED am Steel Strings . »n.»ia, bia.bi; l mu st., n . y . JOHN F. STRATTO?? Cttr’Ta rr.n nACKLUY PAEK. s arc rr.anuf.acl Dr. Vi ìiar.-.3 Medi Ine Con a tad;..*. . Y„ : : -i are t li r.Iy in i :¿(.-s bearing t’.e firm's trade mark -,.d wrapper, at 5Ü cent3 a t- x cr six V. :;» 3 for and are never sold ‘a I till.. They may be ! ad of all cr.-r- -ists or d'rect by maii from Dr. hams Medicine Corr.¡ any. Th» ■*- . t w! Ich linse pills uro sold mak -s a < outre of treatment inexpensive al co:_. are-J wi.a c.__r r-mcdi-J. Have Said Ta Caaaaaera Far M Year«. WHOLESALE PRICES No. 1. Farm Harness. * $24 Road Wagon. Spring Wagons, S3OtO$43. Guaranteed same a. »ell Tor •« to la 1« »tylea of Road Wagons. Surreys With lon< trade», S6O, «RA same as sell for GM to G100. Top Buggies WV m >35. Phaetons low as >65. HARNESS. ru*t Send lor l allj JOHN F. STATTON, Jaia«>.*«r, Jfnnxfnrt. I a hotrtaU Dnttr' ¿teening pr ... and what they had and some cases so nearly . I mine that I was I- tore; -e<l. c. t , ‘ nut know whet!-. . tlm tewi - n, 1 were genuine cr no:. l t ? wish to be t.ur.-.baggod. s , ; wr one who bad given a tr sti—i- - i i eminent profers< r < f m r.-.. . 1 The reply I recciv d -. . er than the printed te«.:..., ; ; ; * gave me faith In the m -u “ '* *u “I began taking Ute pills a: ■ r • » them ta be all that the pi--' -. . r told me they would be It t.- 0 i’F t! r e months bef re I expert. . — e' ar./ perceptible bettereru nt of my cond:- tion. Xy disease v.-aa of such lor . standing that I ul.' n >t ettpo: t -r-v../ recovery, end was than’ .fu! ev;n to fc-» relieved. I progress« 1 V ! !y. hew- ever, towards recovery, a:id for tl 5 last six months have f ’f ~"7r .l£ a perfectly w 11 men. I b■-.»•. r-rtrn- mended the pills t> m.-ry ' 1 eopk, aaj m only too gk-.d 13 e. -. ci:crs » health through ti e m d d m of t' 3 wonderful medicine. I r.. r.r.ot ray u» much f«r what it 1 a d n ? for me.” rr. Williams' I 1 f'r Pal» I’copte have r n enormous ur ic, ai. I from all quarters c e i I Clewing re- ports of tl e excelle-1 r :■ v.i'.s fair—, i.ag their uco. a an..lysi¿ promt: t i'.ey contain in a ccn<l,n< i'-l f T t 1 the ckment3 n-ccssary to r-v? new l.fo ml richness to the l ined ’ 1 re- store clattered nerves. They ar? 3 unfailing specific f~r c-.-.ch c _3 locomotor at. ::in, partial raralysi3. Et. Vitus’ dance, sciai- a, n. urai.'la.. lheu- piatlcni. nervous hcndac’ n, t > rit-r ■ ’ lets of la grippe, ; 1. : a . : • s 1 cart, pale end s.-.Ilow cc m .1 ud.cr.s. t at tired feeling r?eu!:::'.g from nerv ous prostration; all dise_r< 3 r.-suiting from vitiated l.umo.-s in the bloex^ such .-s s.-r.-fula, chronic erysipelas, etc. They are clso & Iflc for ti u> blcs peculiar to few-!>»■-, such as su»i- pressionr, i regular»'.:'. ?, and rd] for:n.i of weakn< s. They build up the blcoj and restore the gl.w ct health to pal' an.l sallow che-t-I.s. In men they ef fect a radical cure in all cases arising from mental worry, overwork cr ex cesses of whatever nature. There are no 111 effects following ti e use cf tl-.19 wonderful medicine, and it can be p’.vcn to children with perfect safety. AOWntf them the dealer s’ profit». We are the Oldest And Larveat manufacturer« in America Felling this way. Ship «object to approval. pan freight both wag» if not satis factory. Every tninff war ranted Why pay an Agent G10 togaO to order for you ! Write roar own order. Boxing free. We take all the risk of damage in shipping. letVIehn fritar. Mandolin. Banja 1 Tletod " sri ' ELKHART CARRIAGE and HARNESS MFG. CO. JOHN F. STRATTON’S Birminf I ■ -i • •’ •trie». Mnrl«, Pouble and Farm. RhUnir SmMIrs Bridle, auwt Fir Nets, send « cento in »tamps to pay postage, lit pa»re catalocne. eNo. 41. Wagon. 840. . W. B. PRATT, Secretary. Elkhart, Ind