A PUZZLING CASE
“It seems years to me.
All life has and her hands were stretched out to help
ORIGIN OF AMERICAN ARMY.
changed for me. I had no idea then of me over the boat's side.
my mother's illness.”
If Tardif had not been ".here I should Articles of War A lop’el br the Conti-
H-nti' C *n«re»« in 1775.
have kissed them bo-h. As it was, I
'•
"Nor I,” she said, sighing deeply.
In the month of June, 1775, the Conti
"If I had known it,” I continued, "all tucked up my wet feet out of reach of her
this might not have happened. Surely dress and took an oar, unable to utter a nental Congress, in session at Phila
the troubles I shall have to bear must word of the gladness I felt.
delphia, passed three important reso
••
"Wh< -e are you going to?" I asked, ad lutions, writes General Francis V.
plead with you for me!”
dressing
neither
of
them
in
particular.
"Yes, Martin," she answered; "yea 1
By Hesba Stretton
from the Item, Lynn, Mau.
“Tardif was going to row me past the Greene in Scribner's. The flrst adopt-
am very sorry for you.”
1
e<l
and
took
over
as
a
continental
army
Thousands
of dollars have been
She came forward and offered me her entrance to the Gouliot Caves," answered
hand but without looking into my face. Olivia, "but we will put it off now. We | lie for e of New Eng'and troops which, spent in doctors’ bills by those afflict
I saw that she had been crying, for her will return to the shore and hear all your under the lead of Massachusetts, bad ed with epilepsy and, very frequently,
eyes were red. In a tone of formal po adventures. Dr. Martin. You come upon ! tssembled at Boston soon after the bat- it has been in vain. It so often
liteness she asked me if I would not sit us like a phantom and take an oar in | :les of Lexington and Concord; the sec happens that the doctors do not
>ÄÄÄS#5Äi5rfSÄ«Ä#<A«Ä><«ÄÄ«ÄÄ><Ä<
down. I considered it best to remain ghostly silence. Are you really, truly ond appointed George Washington strike at the root of the trouble.
A
"general and commander In chief of all cure which was easily effected,
CHAPTER XIII.
said, "but I defy you to do it. I am come standing, as an intimation that I should there?”
(To be continued.)
In one sense time seemed to be stand here to find her, and find her I will. 8he not trouble her with my presence for
tlie continental forces, raised or to be physicians had failed to accomplish
ing still with me after my home return, hasn’t drowned herself, and the earth long. I had no time to lose, lest Kate
raised, for the defense of American lib- any permanent results, is that of M.ss
Daltrey
should
come
in,
and
it
was
a
TURKEY AND PARTRIDGE NESTS.
co like were the days that followed the hasn't swallowed her up. I've traced
, erty;" the third adopted "rules and reg Annie K. Herbert, of No. 507 West
one to the other. But in another sense her as far as here, and that I tell you. very difficult subject to approach.
ern avenue, Lvnn, Mass. After years
"We
were
talking
of
you
to-day,
”
she
Owner of theTiW-kejr houurl them til ulations for the government of the
those days fled with awfnl swiftness, for She crossed in the Southampton boat one
of suffering from this terrible afflic
j
trmy
”
—
the
articles
of
war.
which,
niod-
said
at
length,
in
a
hurried
and
thick
ting on a Aest of t.ggs.
they were hurrying us both, my mother dreadfully stormy night last October—
tion she was made well by the use of
and me, to a great gulf which would the only lady passenger—and the stew voice. “Aunt is in great sorrow about
A peculiar and uuprece '.euted friend I ¡tied and amended from time to time, Dr. Williams’Pink Pills for Pale Peo
soon, far too soon, lie between us.
ardess recollects her well. She landed you. It preys upon her day and night ship has been found to exist between a I still govern the army and form the ba
ple. She makes the following state
Every afternoon Julia came to spend here. You must know something about that you will be dreadfully alone when turkey and a partridge near Monti sis of tlie military law.
she is gone, and—and—Martin, she wishes
ment:
an hour or two with my mother; bnt her her.”
Tills
was
tlie
origin
of
the
American
“I was the victim of epileptic fits
arrival was always formally announced,
“I assure you I never saw that girl to know before she dies that the girl in cello, N. Y. Herta Cooney, who re army. In the intervening 126 years
sides
ou
the
shores
of
Silver
lake,
lias
and spasms of the nerves from the
and it was an understood thing that I here,” I replied evasively. "What in Sark will become your wife.”
nearly
5.000,000
men
have
worn
Its
UI11-
The words struck like a shot upon my a small flock of turkeys of which he
should immediately quit the room, to quiries have you made after her?"
[ fori:.; It has conducted with success time I was two years old until I
avoid meeting her. There was an eti
“I've Inquired here and there and ev ear and brain. What! had Julia and m.v Is Justly proud. The queen of the flock
reached the age of seventeen, when
quette in her resentment which I was erywhere,” she said. "I’ve done nothing mother been arranging between them my is an especially tine specimen, and has five great wars covering a period of Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale
happiness
and
Olivia
’
s
safety
that
very
seventeen
years,
and
numerous
minor
else
ever
since
I
came.
It
is
of
great
bound to observe.
always proved a perfect domestic mod
People cured me. Ten well-known
I had not taken up any of my old pa importance to her, as well as to me, that afternoon Such generosity was incred el, but for a week past she lias been campaigns against hostile Indians aud physicians of Lynn treated me at
ible.
I
could
not
believe
I
had
heard
tients again, for I was determined that I should find her. It's a very anxious
acting strangely, leaving home in the Filipino Insurgents; it has been the different times but none succeeded in
everybody should feel that my residence thing when a girl like that disappears aright.
morning and not returning until late in I chief instrument in restoring order nnd helping my case. I have even beep
"She
has
seen
the
girl,
”
continued
at home was only temporary. But about and is never heard of again, all because
the
afternoon. Affairs grew gradually inaugurating civil government nfter to the Lynn hospital, but the physi
Julia,
in
the
same
husky
tone,
"and
she
ten 'lays after my return the following she has a little difference with her
is
convinced
she
is
no
adventuress.
Jo
worse
and finally reached the climax tlie war with Mexico, tlie Civil War, cians there failed to cure me, so you
note was brought to me, directed in full friends. If you could help me to find her
hanna
says
the
same.
They
tell
me
it
is
when
she
did not return home at night. and the war with Spain; from its ranks can see it was a disease that puzzled a
you would do her family a very great
to I>r, Martin Dobree:
unreasonable and selfish in me to doom
Mr. Cooney, noticing the absence of have come eleven of the twenty-four good many doctors.
"A lady from England, who is only a service.”
visitor in Guernsey, will be much oblig
"Why do you fix upon me?" I inquired. you to the dreadful loneliness I feel. If his prize turkey, organized a search Presidents of tlie United States, and
“My illness at times caused racking
ed by Dr. Martin Dobree calling upon “Why did you not send for one of the Aunt Dobree asked me to pluck out my ing party composed of himself and Pat many hundreds of men occupying the headaches and an awful dizziness
right
eye
just
now,
I
could
not
refuse.
| highest civil offices, Governors of
her at Rbse Villa, Vauvert Road. She resident doctors? I left Guernsey some
It is something like that, but I have rick Callery, and started out to search States, Senators and Representatives made my head swim. I had what the
Is suffering from a slight indisposition; time ago.”
doctors called spasms of the nerves
the woods. The search had progressed
promised
to
do
it.
I
release
you
from
■‘You were here last winter,” she said,
and knowing Dr.'Heuior by name and
In Congress. Cabinet ministers, ambas
reputation, she would feel great confi “and you're a young man, and would no every promise you ever made to me, Mar for some time when they discovered sadors and Judges of the most import- about four times a day. The blood
would rush to my head and a feeling
tin."
the missing turkey and by its side was
dence in the skill of Dr. Senior's friend.’’ tice her more.”
“Julia!” I cried, crossing tn her and a large partridge. The two were cov i ant courts.
come over me so that I wouldn’t
"There are other young doctors in
I wondered for an instant who the
For a people who have never sought know what was going on around me.
bending over her with more love and ering a large nest and seemed perfect
■traflger could be, and how she knew the Guernsey,” I remarked.
Seniors; but as there could be no an
“Ah, but you’ve been in London,” she admiration than I had ever felt before; ly contented. They were scared off, war and have only resorted to it when The spasms left me very weak.
ewer to these queries without visiting answered, "and I know something of Dr. "this is very noble, very generous.”
and thirteen partridge eggs and neariy reluctantly Coreed to do so, the army During one year I had eight epileptic
"No,” she said, bursting into tears; “1
the lady, I resolved to go. Rose Villa Senior. When you are in a strange place
fits.
as many turkey eggs were found in the has tilled a large place In our history.
was a house where the rooms were let to you catch at any chance of an acquaint am neither noble nor generous. I do it nest.
“At last when all the efforts of the
because I cannot help myself, with aunt's
R -V. JOSEPH W. CROSS.
visitors during the season, and the Vau ance.”
doctors had proved in vain I tried Dr.
If
the
partnership
between
the
turkey
white
face
looking
so
Imploringly
at
me.
vert Road was scarcely five minutes'
"Come, be candid with me,” I said.
Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People
walk from our house. Julia was paying "Did not Messrs. Scott and Brown send I do not give you up willingly to that girl and partridge continues to be agree Earliest Living Graduate of Harvard and hardly three weeks had passed be
University,
able,
Mr.
Cooney
intends
doing
an
ex
in
Sark.
I
hope
I
shall
never
see
her
her daily visit to my mother, and 1 was you here?”
Rev. Joseph Warren Cross, the earli fore I found they gave me great relief.
at a loss for something to do, so I went
The suddenness of my question took her or you for many, many years. Aunt says tensive business in partridge and tur
est living graduate of Harvard College, 1 continued using them faithfully and
at once.
off her guard and startled her. She hesi you will have no chance of marrying her key raising next year.
has Just celebrated the ninety-third an in six months I was entirely cured
I found a very handsome, fine-looking tated, stammered, and finally denied it till you are settled in a practice some
where; but you are free to ask her to be
woman; dark, with hair and eyes as black with more than natural emphasis.
That New Educational System.
niversary of h is and have had no return of my illness
Aunt wants you to have
as a gypsy's, and a clear olive complexion
“I could take my oath I don’t know your wife.
The Speers system of imparting use
birth in his com since’’ Signed,
somebody
to
love
you
and
care
for
you
to match. Her forehead was low, hut any such persons,” she answered. "I
MISS ANNIE R. HERBERT.
fortable home in
ful
knowledge
to
the
young,
as
exem
smooth and well shaped; and the lower don't know who you mean, or what you after she is gone, as I should have done.” plified in Chicago, is not a novel one.
Subscribed and sworn to before me
Worcester,
Mass.
"But you are generous to consent to
part of her face, hand some as it was, mean. All I want is quite honest. There
Mr. Cross was grad this 10th day of April, 1901.
With modifications, it Is the same sys
was far more developed than the upper. is a fortune waiting for that poor girl, it," I said again.
THOMAS F. PORTER,
uated from Har
There was not a tract of refinement and I want to take her back to those who
“No,” she answered, wiping her eyes tem used In training performing mon
(Seal.)
Notary Public.
vard with the class
about her features; yet the coarseness of love her, and are ready to forgive and and lifting up her head; “I thought I was keys and dogs. The learned pig gets
The pills which cured Miss Herbert
of 1828. He was
them was but slightly apparent as yet. forget everything. I feel sure you know generous; I thought I was a Christian, his education by the Speers method,
My new patient did not inspire me with something of her. But nobody except me but it is not easy to be a Christian when and so the system may Justly claim to
born at Bridgewa are a specific for all forms of weak
much sympathy; but she attracted my and her other friends have anything to one is mortified, and. humbled, and be well grounded.
ter. Mass., in 1808, ness arising from a watery condition
curiosity, and interested me by the bold do with it."
wounded. I am a great disappointment
and was prepared of the blood or shattered nerves, two
In the Speers system as prepared for
atyle of her beanty.
"Well," I said, rising to take my leave, to myself; quite as great as you are to
for college by Rev. fruitful causes of almost every ill to
“You Guernsey people are very stiff “all the information I can give you is me. I fancied myself very superior to the little bipeds of Chicago, the teach
Pitt Clark at New which flesh is heir.
with strangers,'* she remarked, as I sat that I never saw such a person here, what I am. I hope you may not be dis er points out on the Speers chart the
Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale
ton. Soon after his
word "hop.” Then the teacher hops and
opposite to her, regarding her with that either last winter or since. It is quite appointed in that girl in Sark.”
People are sold by all dealers, or will
graduation
lie
was
the
children
hop.
The
next
word
Is
close observation which is permitted to a possible she went on to Jersey, or to
Her hand was lying on her lap. and I
be sent postpaid on receipt of price,
HEV. CROSS.
married to his first
doctor.
Granville, wheu the storm was over. stooped down and kissed it, seeing on it “skip,” and the teacher skips and the
50
cents a box, or six boxes for $2.50,
"So the world says,” I answered. "Of That she did not stay in Guernsey I am still the ring I had given her when we children skip. If the next word Is wife, Mary J. Danforth, who died in
by Dr. Williams Medicine Co.,
course I am no good judge, for we Guern quite sure.”
were first engaged. She did not look at “grin,” they all grin. If It is “wink” 1830. At that time Mr. Cross was prin Schenectady, N. Y.
sey people believe ourselves as perfect
I went away in a fever of anxiety. The me or bid me good-bye. and I went out they all wink. It is fun as well as cipal of Chatham Academy. The young
as any class of the human family.”
woman, who was certainly not a lady, of the house, my veins tingling with
Harvard man studied for the ministry
"I have been here a week,” she replied, had inspired me with a repugnance that shame and gladness. I met Captain Carey profit, you see—especially for the teach
pouting her full crimson lips, "and have I could not describe. Surely this person coming up the street, with a basket of er. When It reaches “flip-flap" and in the divinity school of his own uni WET WEATHER, WISDOM!
versity, and also at the Andover Semi
not had a chance of speaking a word, ex could not be related to Olivia! I tried fine grapes in his hand. He appeared "summersault” It becomes more so.
THE ORIGINAL
‘
cept to strangers like myself who don't to guess in what relationship to her she very much amazed.
"What is that word, George?” says nary, and was called to the pastorate of
know a soul.”
could possibly stand. 1 felt more chafed
“Why, Martin!” he exclaimed, “can the fond Chicago father to his bright the First Congregational Chureb of
*1*1101, then, was the cause of the little than I hail ever done about Olivia's se yon have been to see Julia?”
West Boylston, Mass., in 1840. There
offspring.
Indisposition which had obtained me the cret. I tried to satisfy myself with the
“Yes,” I answered.
“Pronounce it for me, daddy,” says after he lived for nearly fifty years in
honor of attending her. 1 indulged my reflection that I had put Tardif on his
"Reconciled?” he said, arching his eye
one house. He was a member of the
self in a mild sarcasm to that effect, but guard, and that he would protect her. brows, which were still dark and bushy, the bright offspring.
State constitution convention In 1853
“ ‘Reverse,’ ” replies daddy.
it was lost upon her. She gazed at me But that did not set my mind at ease. 1 though his hair was grizzled.
and of the legislature in 1873. Al
“
Ah,
I
know,
”
cries
Master
George,
solemnly with her large black eyes, which never knew a mother yet who believed
"Not exactly,” I replied, with a stiff
though approaching his centennial, Mr.
shone like beads.
that any other woman could nurse her smile exceedingly difficult to force; "noth and at once stands on his head.
OILED
Cross Is active, clear-headed and in
"I am really ill,” she said, "but it has sick child as well as herself; and I could ing of the sort indeed. Captain, when
It certainly Is a nice system.
CLOTHING
nothing to do with not seeing anybody, not be persuaded that even Tardif would will you take me across to Sark?”
tensely Interested in the affairs of the
BLACK OR YELLOW
though that's dull. There's nothing for shield Olivia from danger and trouble
Thread Used in Surgery.
world at large and of the old univer
“Come, come! none of that, Martin,”
WILL
KEEP YOU DRY
me to do bnt take a bath in the morning as I could, if I were only allowed the he said; “you're on honor, you know.
The modern surgeon employs in hfs sity of which he is a graduate.
■nd a drive in the afternoon, and go to privilege. Yet my promise to Julia You are pledged to poor Julia not to visit
NOTHING
EL5E WILL
work
dozens
of
different
kinds
of
bed very early.
Good gracious! it's bound me to hold no communication with Sark again.”
HENRY BATES STODDARD.
TAKE NO SUBSTITUTES
thread
for
sewing
up
cuts
and
wounds.
enough to drive me mail!”
her.
CATALOGUES FREE
"She has just set me free,” I answered; Among them are kangaroo tendons, Recently Elected Grin 1 Manter of the
*‘Try Jersey," I suggested.
I hail strolled down some of the quieter
SHOWING FULL LINE OF GARMENTS AND HATS.
and
out
of
the
fullness
of
my
heart
1
told
horsehair,
silk
and
very
fine
sliver
“No, I’ll not try Jersey,” she said. “I streets of the town whilst I was turning
Grand Encampment,
A.J.TOWEB CO. BOSTON, MA55 s°
mean to make my way here. Don't you this affair over in my mind, and now as 1 him all that had just passed between us wire. Many of these threads are In
Henry Bates Stoddard, who was
His
eyes
glistened,
though
a
film
came
know anybody, doctor, that would take crossed the end of the Rue Haute, 1
tended
to
hold
for
a
certain
number
of
elected
grand
master
of
the
grand
en
Illustrated.
pity on a poor stranger?”
caught sight of Kate Daltrey turning across them which he hail to wipe away. days and then naturally break away campment of the United States Knights
“She is a noble girl,” he ejaculated; "a
“I am sorry to say no,” I answered.
into a milliner's shop. There was every
“
How
do
you
manage to get rid of
The short, tough tendons taken from Templar, at the re
Fhe frowned at that and looked disap reasonable probability that she would fine, generous, noble girl. I really thought
bores?’’ asked Snodgrass as he came
the
kangaroo,
which
are
used
for
sew
cent
convention
at
she'd
break
her
heart
over
you
at
first,
pointed. I was about to ask her how she not come out aguin soon, for 1 saw a bon
in and took a seat by the editor’s desk.
knew the Seniors, when she spoke again. net reached out of the window. If she bnt she will come round again now. We ing severe wounds, will hold for about Louisville, Ky., is
“Oh, easily enough,” replied the
will
have
a
run
over
to
Sark
to-morrow.
”
four weeks before they break away a native of New.
•’Do you have many visitors come to were gone to buy a bonnet she was safe
editor. "I begin to tell them stories
1 felt myself lifted into a third heaven Silk thread will remain much longer, York, having been
Guernsey late in the autumn, as late as for half an hour, und Julia would be
a I »out my smart youngster. Now,
October?" she inquired.
alone. I had felt a strong desire to see of delight all that evening. M.v mother sometimes six months, while the tine born
in
Essex
only the other day he said— What!
’"Not many," 1 answered; " a few may Julia ever since I returned home. My and I talked of no one but Olivia. The silver wire is practically Indestructible. County in 1840.
Must you go? Well, good morning!”
arrive who iutelid to winter here.”
mind was made up on the spot. If I present rapture so completely eclipsed the
With the entire outllt a surgeon Is He has, however,
“A dear young friend of mine came found her in a gentle mood she would coming sorrow that 1 forgot how soon it
able
to
select
a
thread
that
will
last
as
been
a
resident
of
here last autumn," she said, “alone, as release me from the promise she had ex would be upon me. I remember now that
Yellowish,
I am, and I've been wondering ever since torted from me when she was in the my mother neither by word nor sign suf long as the wound takes to heal and Texas since his
The Visitor—Of course you know
I've been here however she would get first heat of her anger and disappoint fered me to lie reminded of her illness. will then disappear completely. To 21st year, and is
knothing of yellow journalism up
■ long amongst such a set of stiff, formal, ment. It was a chance worth trying. If She listened to m.v rhapsodies, smiling accommodate this assortment of now living at Bry
■taiid-oltlsh folks. She had not money 1 were free to declare to Olivia my love with her divine, pathetic smile. There threads special varieties of needles an. He bad scarce li. n. Munii s m>. here?
enough for a dash, or that would make a for her. I should establish a claim upon is no love, no love at all. like that of a are required.
The Villager—Wall, the ad’ter of
Besides the needle ly removed to Texas when he took up
diff. •rettce, I suppose.”
her full confidence, and we could laugh mother!
the Banner lie now an’ agen puts in
craned
In
different
segments
of
a
cir
arms
for
the
South,
serving
throughout
Swiftly we ran across the» next day,
“Not the least,” I replied, "if your at further difficulties. She was of age,
cle, surgeons use needles shaped like j the war In the Confederate army. He items up side down so’s to make the
friend <;ame without any introductions.” and therefore mistress of herself. Her with a soft wind drifting over the sea spears. Javelins and bayoiiet points. | was paroled Mov 15, 1865, at Jackson. folks read ’em. I recken thet’s sorter
and
playing
upon
our
faces,
nnd
a
long
"What a dreary winter she'd have!” friends, represented by this odious wom
buff like, ain’t it?—Detroit Free Press.
pursued m.v patient, with a tone of exul an. could have no legal authority over furrow lying in the wake of our boat. Some are as long as bodkins, in a point Miss., having risen to the rank of cap
It
was
almost
low
tide
when
we
reached
like
a
miniature
knife
blade.
Others
tain
from
a
private.
Since
that
time
tation. "She was quite young, and as her.
I turned shortly up a side street and the Island. I found Tardif's house com have the sharpened end triangular.
Nothing Equals St Jacobs Oil
he has been in the cotton and cattle
pretty as a picture. All the young men
would know her, I’ll be bound, and you walked as fast as I could towards the pletely deserted. The only sign of life
business. He Is now one of the leading For Rheumatism, Gout, Sciatica,
was
a
family
of
bens
clucking
about
the
"Phtholognyrrh” Spells "Turner." cotton brokers of Texas. In the Texas
amongst them. Dr. Martin. Any woman house which was to have been our home.
Neuralgia. Cramp, Pleurisy, Lum
who isn't a fright gets stared at enough By a bold stroke I might reach Julia's fold.
He walked up to the hotel register
The door was not fastened, and I en ■nd signed his uame with a flourish. Volunteer Guard Mr. Stoddard was a bago, Sore Thoat, Bronchitis, Sore
presence. 1 rang, and the maid who an
to be known again."
brigadier general from 1885 until 1893. ness. Stiffness, Bruises, Toothache,
Could this woman kuow anything of swered the bell opened wide eyes of as tered. but there was nobody there. 1 “E. K. Phtholognyrrh.”
In 1867 Mr. Stoddard was prominent in Headache, Backache, Feetache, Pains
Olivia? 1 looked at her more earnestly tonishment at seeing me there. I passed stood in the middle of the kitchen and
"Look here. Turner,” exclaimed the the relief of the yellow fever stricken
called, but there was no answer. Olivia's
in the Chest, Pains in the Back, Pains
■ nd critically. She was not a person I by quickly.
"I wish to speak to Miss Dobree," I door was ajar, and 1 pushed it a little clerk, who knew him well, "are they In Texas, remaining in the little town in the Shoulders. Pains in the Limbs,
should Mke Olivia to have anything to
more open. There lay books I had lent hunting for you or what? Where do of Millican when there were but three and all bodily aches and pains. It acts
do with. A coarse, ill-bred, bold woman, said. "Is she in the drawing room?"
"Yes, sir,” she answered, in a hesitat her on the table, and her velvet slippers you get that outlandish name?"
whose eyes met mine unabashed, and did
people left who did not have the dis like magic. Safe, sure and never fail
were on the floor, as if they had only
"Get back, my boy. get back! You're ease. He also did heroic work at Gal ing.
not blink under my scrutiny. Could she ing tone.
I waited for nothing more, but knock just been taken off. Very worn and brown alow," replied Turner, airily, as be lit
be Olivia's step mother, w ho had been
ed at the drawing room door for myself, were the little slippers, but they reas a cigar; “that's my same old name writ veston during that city's hour of need.
the ruin of her lite?
Semblance of Perpetual Motion.
sured me she had been wearing them a ten In plain English and prouounced as He Is greatly beloved by his brother
"I'd bet a hundred to one you know and heard Julia call, "Come in.”
knights.
Into
a basin of clear water put a
short
time
ago.
her," she said, laughing and showing »11
CHAPTER XIV.
I returned through the fold. All the usual Just 'Turner.' Ix>ok at it. Of
few pieces of camphor. They will
her white teeth. "A girl like her couldn't
H
a
Explanation.
Julia looked very much the same as she place seemed left to itself.
Tardif's course I do It Just to get them all guess
go about a little poky place like this with
commence a peculiar motion, travers
“How old are you. Uncle William?"
out all the young nren knowiug her. Per had done that evening when I came re sheep were browsing along the cliffs, and ing. They wonder what nation I am
ing every part of the surface of the
"Well.
suh.
I
wuz
bo
’
n
In
de
time
er
luctantly
to
tell
her
that
my
heart
was
his cows were tethered here and there. from; what my name la. I can now
haps sl>e left the islaud In the spring. I
water, bnt may instantly be stopped
de
high
win'.
”
have asked at all the drapers' shops, hut not in bar keeping, but belonged to an At last I caught sight of a head rising hear people talk about me all round.
by dropping into the water the
"And when was that?"
m»body recollects her. I've very good other. She wore the same kind of fresh, front behind a crag, the rough shock It Is. as 1 said before. English spell
“Hit wuz endurin' er de big freshet minutest quantity of an oily substace
news for her if I could find her—a slim, light muslin dreas, with ribbons and lace head of a boy, and I shouted to him. ing. ‘Phth.’ there la the sound of f
middlewiaed girl, with a clear, fair akin ■bout it, and she eat near the window, making a trumpet with my hauda.
In •phthisis’; 'olo.' there is the ‘ur’ In •uh.”
and g ’ey »yea and hair of a bright with a piece of needlework in her hands;
“And when did that occur?’
Not Personal.
“Where is neighbor Tardif?" I called. •Colonel;' 'gn.’ there is the 'n' in 'gnat;'
bfowti. Stay, I cau show you her photo yet she was not sewing, and her hands
“Down below there!" he shouted back
"Well, suh. hit wuz some time after
Vicar
’
s
daughter
—Oh, Mrs. Upton
•yrrh'
Is
the
sound
of
'er'
in
'myrrh.'
graph."
lay listlessly on her lap. A mingled feel again, pointing downwards to the Havre
de atars felled; ter know zackly how ol’ do you know I am going to Lady
Bhe put into my hands an exquisite ing of sorrow, pity and shame prevented Goaaalin. I did not wait for any further Now. If that doesn't spell 'Turner' what
I Is, I wuz bo’n w'en dat oak tree yan- Kaceby s garden party next week?
portrait of Olivia, taken in Florence. me from advancing into the room. She Information, but darted off down the long, does It spell?"
der wuz a small saplin'. en lfghtnin'
There was aa expression of quiet mourn looked up to see who was standing in the steep go Hey to the little strand, where
Mrs. Upton—Really, dear? I hope
hit ol' Marse Ben on de head en broke you 11 enjoy it. But they tell me that
fntaaeaa in the face, which touched me to doorway, and my appearance there evi the pebbles were being lapped lazily by
Hens Not Feeling Well.
the core of my heart. 1 could not put it dently alarmed and distressed her.
Twelve eggs sold by a Brooklyn his Jug er liquor.”—Atlanta Constitu Lady Raceby is so much less ex
the ripple of the lowering tide. Tardif*s
d<jwn and speak indifferently about it.
“Martin!” she cried,
boat was within a stone's throw, and I dairyman bad among them five that tion.
clusive than she used to be!—Punch.
My heart beat wildly, and 1 felt tempted
“May I come in and speak to you, Ju saw Olivia sitting in the stern of it. I
were decayed. The purchaser returned
The curl tfie girls are wearing hang
to run off with the treasure and return lia ?” I asked.
shouted again with a rehc.nence which them, saying that he wanted the prod ing down one side, is called “the
After the Ball.
go more to this woman
“Is my aunt worseY’ she inquired hur made them both start.
Janice,” after Janice Meredith. We
uct
of
healthy
hens.
“
These."
said
the
Ida
—
The
McDougals gave a ball
"Ah! you recogniae her!" she exclaim riedly. "Are you come to fetch me to
“Come back, Tardif," I cried, “and
purchaser, "must have been laid when regret that Action never evolved a bald that cost $10,000.
ed triumphantly.
herr
take me with you!"
“I never aaw such a person in Guern
"No. no, Julia." I said; "my mother is
beaded hero so that baldnesi could be
May—Ah, a Scotch high ball —
The boat was too far off for me to see the hens were not feeling well."
gey,” I answered, looking steadily into as well as uaaal, I hope. But surely you how my sudden appearance affect»-1
called the "Chauncey,” or "Reginald,” Chicago News.
When a woman meets another worn and become the rage.
her face. A aulien and gloomy expree- will let me speak to you after all thia Olivia. Did she turn white or red at the
■ion came across It, and she snatched time?”
i ,4 •eund of my voice? Ry the time It neared an down town, she always screams
O-1HL,
Men and women waste a lot of valu
“It Is not a long time,” she answered.
the portrait out of my hand.
the shore and I plunged In knee-deep io out tn an excited way: "Well what
“You want te keep it ■ eecret," she
"Has It net been long te you?" 1 askeA. meet It. her face was bright with smiles, | on earth are you doing down town?"
able Uiua faellng sorry for each other.
fbe Doetor’J dilemma
That Has Attracted Wide-Spread
Attention in Medical Circles.