CHAPTER XVJII.—(Continued.) "Why, Martin,” she said, averting her face from me, “you know I should never consent to marry you, with rhe idea of your caring most for that girl. No, I could-never do that. If I believed you would ever think of me as you used to do before you saw her, well, I would keep true to you. But is there any hope of that?” “Let us be frank with one another," I answered; “tell me, is there any one else whom you would marry if I released you from this promise, which was only given, perhaps, to soothe my mother’s last hours?” “Yes,” answered Johanna, hid her face in her hands, marry my brother.” Captain Carey! I fairly gasped for breath. Such an idea had never once occurred to me, though 1 knew she had been spending most of her time with the Careys at the Vale. Captain Carey to marry! and to marry Julia! To go and live in our house! I was struck dumb, and fancied that I had heard wrongly. If Julia wished for revenge—and wh n Is not revenge sweet to a jilted woman ? —she had it now. I was as crestfallen, as amazed, almost as miserable as she hud been. Yet 1 had no one to blame us she had. How could I blame her for preferring Captain Carey’s lo>e to my poor affections?” “Julia," I said, after a long silence, and speaking as calmly as I could, ' do you love Captain Carey?” “That is not a fair question to ask,” answered Johanna. “We have not been treacherous to you. I scarcely know how it has all come about. But my brother has never asked Julia if she loves him; for we wished to see you first, and hear how you felt shout Olivia. You say you shall never love again as you love her. Bet Julia free, then, quite free, to accept my brother or reject him. Be generous, be yourself, Martin.” “1 will,” I said; “nty dear Julia, you are as free as air from all obligation to me. You have been very good and very true to me. if Captain Carey is as good •nd true to you, as I believe he will be, you will be a very happy woman—iiap- pier than you would ever be with me.” “And you^will not make yourself un­ happy about It?” asked Julia, looking up. “No,” I answered cheerfully; "I shall be a merry old bachelor, and visit you and Captain Carey, when we are all old folks. Never mind me, Julia; I never was good enough for you. I shall be very glad to know that you are happy." Yet when I found myself in the street —for I made my escape as soon as 1 could get away from them—I felt as if • verything worth living for Were slip­ ping away from m<>. me. My M y mother and Olivia were gone, , uneen invented by an English engineer. . The bullets are poured into a case front a hopper, and guided into a disk three feet In diame­ ter. revolving in the case at the rate of 15.01X) revolutions a minute. They are discharged from the edge of the disk. Man's Temperature. Man's ordinary temperature la 98.6 degrees when In good health; that of a snail 76 degrees, and of a chicken 111 , degree*. - ----------------------------------- We have remarked that soon after It | Is announced that a tnan seems t® drink at the fountain of perpetual youth be dies. The moat successful nation is deter nu nation. HER HOUR OF TRIUMPH. She Rejoiced W han the Horse Had KickeJ the Bugxy to Piece«. Some neighbors and friends of ours had a horse called Alcade, says Horace Vachell In his interesting description of California life; and thereupon be goes on to relate an incident in which the horse played an important part. Alcade was a most respectable horse, but like all of 11s he had his failing; he would flick his tail,over the relua. So one day my friend, when about to take his wife out for a drive, tied down Aleade's tail so tightly and securely that not a wiggle was left in it. Now. It happened that only that morning my friend’s wife had turned on the water—water, you must under­ stand, Is a very precious article on a ranch in Southern California—and, alas! she had neglected to turn it off. So the water had flowed away; leaving the family tank empty and cracking beneath the ardent rays of the sun. Conceive, If you can, the wrath of a husband condemned by his wife’s care­ lessness to pump many hundreds of gallons of water! You may be sure that he—he was an Englishman—told his unhappy wife that she bad com­ mitted the unpardonable sin; and she, poor soul, appreciating the magnitude of her offense, held her peace—which Is remarkable because she was a daughter of the West. Perhaps the husband was sorry that he had spoken so harshly, and thought that a drive behind a fast trotter would establish happier relations between the two who should be one. Be that as It may, after the drive was over he began to unharness Alcade, Ills wife standing by and talking to him. The traces were unhooked, the breeching-straps unbuckled, and then Alcade was commanded to leave the shafts; but Alcade. wise as Balaam's ass, never stirred, for he knew that his tail was still fast to the buggy. There­ upon my friend took the whip and ap­ plied it smartly to Aleade's hind quar­ ters. Alcade, who had doubtless been nurs­ ing his wrongs all the afternoon, and who saw his opportunity, as the law­ yers say. to show cause, retaliated by kicking the buggy into a heap of kind­ ling-wood. My friend’s wife watched this per­ formance with interest, and when It was over she turned to her husband and said: “My dear, after this I shall turn on the water and let it run as often and as long as I please.” CHILD ARMY CAPTAIN. Son of Gen. Lawton Held That Rank in I’h i 1 i ppi nee. The Change of Life Is the most Important period In a man's existence. Owing to ruoden» methods of living, not one woman in a thousand approaches this perfectly natural change without experiencing a train of very annoying and some 1 times painful symptoms. Those dreadful hot flashes, sending the blood surging to the heart until it seems ready to burst, ami the faint feeling that follows, sometimes with I chills, as if the heart were going to | stop for good, are symptoms of a dan- Mas. J bkxis N obls . gerons, nervous trouble. Those hot flashes are just so many calls from nature for help. The nerves are cry­ ing out for assistance. The cry should >>e heeded in time. Lydia E. Pink­ ham's Vegetable Compound was pre- l>ared to meet the needs of woman’s system at this trying period of her life. ' It builds up the weakened nervous system, and enables a woman to pass that grand change triumphantly. “ I was a very sick woman, caused by Change of Life. I suffered with hot flushes, and fainting spells. 1 was afraid to go on the street, my head and back troubled me so. I was entirely cured by Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegeta­ ble Compound.” — M bs . J ennie N o bi .S* 5010 Keyser St., Germantown, Pa. Poor Child.’ “You’ve got a little brother,” the nurse at breakfast. “He born last night.” “Really,” said Tommy, “And night was Sunday. Poor kid!” “Why do you say that?” “Cause his birthday won't do any good. Sunday’s a holiday, how.”—Philadelphia Press. said was last him any­ A Waste of Hospitality. Mrs. Hermitage (of Drearydale)— I believe I will invite the Gothams out from the city to spend Sunday with us. Oscar. Hermitage (hopelessly) — What’s the use, Mary? They don’t want to buy a suburban cottage..—Boston Journal. The Kentucky State Guard numbers among its members the youngest indi­ | vidual that ever d o lined shoulder Accounting for It. straps in the Cull­ “It may be merely fancy,” remark- ed States army or I ed Mrs. Seldom-Holme, “but since my who has been un­ husband commenced drinking the wa­ der fire In battle. ter from that iron spring he has’ This person Is seemed to be ten times as obstinate Capt. Manley as he used to be.” "Perhaps,” suggested Mrs. Nexdoor, Lawton, son of the “the water is tinctured with pig late Gen. H. W. iron?”—Chicago Tribune. I.awton, who, al- though only 13 LAWTOX What Did She Do? (Aged 13). years old, is the Miss Prism—Don't let your dog bite bugler for the first battalion artillery. me, little boy. Kentucky State Guard. Little Boy—He won't bite, ma'am. At the age of 11 years this boy was Miss Prism—But he is showing his on the firing line and under tire. He teeth. Little boy (with pride)—Certainly went to the Philippines with his father and served in various commands until he is, ma'am; and if you had as good teeth as he, you'd show ’em, too.”— ills father’s death In December, 1899. Tid-Bits. Soon after arriving he was assigned to Not So Bad. the position of volunteer aide on his father's staff with the rank of captain. Mrs. Housekeep—Oh, Bridget, you He served faithfully and well, going haven’t really broken that piece of through the entire campaign: taking Severes? Oh, my! That’s the worst part In all the expeditions, and endur­ thing you could have broken in the ing the same hardships as the others of whole house! Bridget—Faith, Oi’m glad to hear it the command. wasn’t the best, mum!—Philadelphia Before starting on that long north­ Press. ern expedition with Ills father to Lu­ Thrown from His Cab and Killed. zon. the result of which meant so much, he served for some time as an aide to The following is a most interesting Gen. Fred Grant while the latter was and, in one respect, pathetic tale: — Mr. J. Pope, 42 Ferrar Road, Streat- stationed at Bacor. Of all the relics brought back from the Philippines, haia, England, said: “Yes, poor chap, he is gone, dead— says the Philadelphia Inquirer, the horse bolted, thrown off his seat on most treasured by him are the official his cab he was driving and killed— papers showing his assignment and pro­ poor chap, and a good sort too. mate. motions while serving In the volunteer It was him, you see, who gave me that army of the United States. half bottle of St. Jacob's Oil that made a new man of me. ’Twas like Speculative Mathematics. this: me and Bowman were great Two club-men were discussing the friends. Some gentleman had given financial affairs of some of their ac- him a bottle of St. Jacob's Oil which had done him a lot of good; he only quaintances. "Now there's Brown. He’s been used half the bottle, and remembering speculating heavily In wheat. How has that I had been a martyr to rheuma­ tism and sciatica for years, that I had he come out?” literally tried everything, had doctors, "Away ahead.” and all without benefit, I became dis­ “And th-re’s Williams. lie has dab­ couraged, and looked upon it that bled extensively In oats. Has he made there was no help for me. Well," said anything?” Pope, “You may not believe me, for "He hasn't done as well as Brown it is a miracle, but before I had used has. But Thompson—you know Thomp the contents of the half bottle of St. Jacob's Oil which poor Bowman gave son?” me. I was a well man. There it is, “Yea, I know him.” you see, after years of pain, after us­ "Well. he's worth as much as Brown ing remedies, oils. embrocations, and Williams put together." horse liniments, and spent money on “There you’re wrong. I know Thomp­ doctors without getting any better. I son’s circumstances exactly. He Isn’t was completely cured in a few days. worth a cent.” I bought another bottle, thinking the "Just so. Brown Is worth two hun­ pain might come back, but It did not. dred thousand dollars, and YY'illlams is so I gave the bottle nway to a friend two hundred thousand dollars’ worse who had a lame back. I can’t speak highly of this wonderful pain­ off than nothing. If you combine the too killer.” wealth of the two It amount to noth­ ing. the same as Thompson’s. Have Autocrat of th« Tzbl«. you forgotten matWi matics?” The head waiter at the Cliff House, Manitou, was given a smoker the Onr of Their Characteristics. “Our minister Is a splendid man. Ev­ other night and a fine gold watch. The distinguished official responded erything about him is so good." and with dignity to the "Yes. I've noticed that, like many appropriately presentation speech. He then lifted ministers, he even has a good appetite.” his hand in token that the audience —Philadelphia Bulletin. was at an end. His guests departed and the great man was left alone__ Give any woman time, and she will Denver Post. complain of the condition In which her clothes with real lace on came out of "Whim Coal.” the wash. “White coal is the striking name If a baby is well-spring of pleasers given bj a French paper to the force generating electricity by harnessed twins must be a deluge. mountain streams.