CONQUERED FOR EVER. spirited girl, that Miss Lin* Westfield, but a woman is nothing more than a “I’m sure I beg your pardon.” said woman after all, and I don’t see for the Mr. Dalton. hfe of me how she does it. A house like “There is no occasion for apology,” that costs money to keep it up! How •aid Lina, looking like a queen—or, does she get it? Embroidered frocks,— rather, like a beautiful young princess blue velvet blouses,—rose« and cabinet —as she stood there in the soft, daffodil pictures! Edwin Dalton certainly mar glow of the spring twilight, with a little ried a poor girl, and neither of them «urly-headed girl in either hand, while left any estates but debts By Jove; I a chubby boy of five played in the grass mean to be at the foundation of this at her feet family enigma! The girl will find that “Oh, but I beg your pardon—there’s she can’t blufl’ me!" twice I’ve done it—there is occasion for But when the curtain rose and the apology,” gently uttered Mr. Dalton. beautiful actress glided on the stage. “Just look at the awkwardness of the Mr. Dalton had neither eyes nor thought* whole affair. Here I’ve been abroad for for anything else. five years; and when I come back, I The next day he drove out ouce again learn that my poor dear cousin is dead, to the cottage. It was noon, the chil leaving three children. I at once re dren were playing under the shadow of oognize that it is my duty to provide a monster elm on the miniature lawn, for them. I come here and discover to and in a blue-ribboned wicxer chair, my surprise, that you, the sister of their with a book in her lap, Lina sat watch mother, have assumed the charge—that ing them. you decline to give them up.” “Again?” The girl drew up that queenly figure She raised her queenly black brows of hers straighter than before. as he advanced, dotting his cap, so that “You have expressed yourself correoi- the sunshine turned his ruddy Saxon 2,” said she, “I am the sister of their hair to gold. sad mother. Do you think it likely “Yes, again.” he said, smiling. "Miss that I wanted them to be bound out to Westfield, I have your secret. You, respectable farmers or apprenticed to and no other, are Leonora West, the trades?” superb actress whose grand impersona A pained expression stole over Mr. tions are now stirring the heart of thia Dalton's face. great city.” “I shall be more than glad,” said he, "An open secret,” she said, smiling. “to assume the care of one or all, if—” “Well, and what of it? You know, now, "I want no help,” interrupted the how I support these bttle ones—what high-spirited girl. “We have learned has bought my cabinet pictures and to love each other, these little ones and paid the wages of the groom who takes L Henceforward our lot must be cast care of the Donv? It was neeessarv to in together. Will you walk over the no sometning, ana 1 uo not Deneve in garden? We have some beautiful roses doing starvation work for starvation m bloom, and I have been unusually prices.” “Miss Westfield!” he cried, "I honor successful with my carnations this sea- your spirit—I respect your independ •on.” The young fellow eyed Miss W’estfield ence.” “Because I have chanced to succeed,” as if she were a riddle that he could not she uttered, not without a certain royal read. “You have a lovely plaoe here,” said scorn. “And if I had failed----- ” “If you had failed I think I should he, tentatively. have honored you still more,” he said. “Yes,” said Lina. There was something in his earnest “But is it not lonelyP” look, bis frank tone, that established “Not at all." friendship between them at once. She “Wouldn’t it be a deal more amusing smiled, and the little cousins flocked in town?” eagerly around the new-comer. “Not for me,” decidedly. "May I stay?” he asked. “But you are forgetting plays—operas “Yes,” she responded; "you may —theaters—all the delights of an even ” ing in the city,” argued Mr. Dalton. stay. And, when Mr. Dalton went away, “These little cousins of mine, now— there was strange, uncertain stir at won’t you let me take them in to see a his heart, a a new revelation. real playP Just for once?” When the season was over, the man The children’s eyes sparkled—they ager of the theater respectfully inter nestled close to the fascinating stranger viewed Miss Westfield as to a second whose proposals were so entrancing, contract and cast pleading glances in the direc "Judging from our receipts,” said he, tion of the princess-like Lina. She “we shall be able to pay you a «till ■hook her head gravely. higher salary. And I may venture to “I do not approve of the theater for hope----- ” children,” saiu she. "I shall not play anywhere this sea Mr. Dalton lifted his hands in comic son.” she said; “to tell you the truth, amazement. Mr. Daly, I am going to be married.” “But, Miss Westfield,” said he. “how "Married!” gasped the manager. exceedingly narrow-minded ali this is! “Heavens and earth! At this rate the Our theater, for example, is the ed.uca- tragic stage is going to be ruined! You tional level of our age. The superb les geniuses leave the footlights——” sons which it impresses on the----- ” "Not at all,” said Lina. "We only “I beg your pardon. Mr. Dalton.” change our audiences.” •aid Miss Westfield, “but there is not Ana so the matter was settled. Mr. one of your arguments which 1 have not Dalton too* the beautiful young actress listened to before. I am excellently to his home, and with her went the well posted upon the subject. But it is children. getting late—my engagements—” "1 could not part from my little ones,” “A thousand pardons!” cried the said she. wistfully. young man. “If I must say good-even "My darling.” cried Edwin, “every ing----- ” thing that you love is doubly dear to “Good-evening.” me! There was no temptation to further She had conquered him— conquicrbd lingering in the crisp, curt tones of her him for ever ! voice. Mr. Dalton turned away not without disappointment WILD DOGSOF ATLANTA. “I don’t understand these girls,” said he. "There isn’t a trace of the ‘Jolly a Carious R.*«ult of tho !.••• Roboll* lOB. Girl’ element about this one! Well— one can tlway* consol* one’s self by Did you ever hear of the wild dogs Soing to see the divine young actress lat Hillsdanie raves about—the cold, of Atlanta? At one time th$ country the calm, the unapproachable beauty around here was at the mercy of the** savage animals. Horse*, elephant*, and oi the tragic stage.’ And so Mr. Dalton bought himself a camels can be mad* to take an almost white silk tie, a pair of primrose-color- human interest in war. but dog* can stand the racket The din of battle ed kid gloves, and a bouquet, and went not and the smejl of villainous saltpeter to the theater. But while he eat there, waiting for breaks them up entirely. Our dogs had a bard time daring th* the gold-fringed curtain to rise, his siege. were thousands of them thoughts wanaeted back to the cottage in tbo*e Tnefe day*, and when the season of •mec he had left “My unknown cousins!” he mused. •bort rations *et in they were th* first feel it In manj instances they w*r* “Pretty little sprites they were, too. Yes, to abandoned by their refugeeing owner« it would have been a pity lor them to and bad to literally forage for a living. be sent to the workhouse. She is • ine thunder ot the Ing guns, the un "Tlie Idcwl earthly shrieks of the shell*, the noise of falling buildings, the rattle of mus ketry. and the heavy tramp of march for young people is what the paper* ing soldiers all struck terror to the ca call St. Nicholas. Do you know about nine contingent Toward the close of it,—how good it is, how clean and the siege nearly every dog in the city was half rabid or in the last stage of pure and helpful? If there are any nervous prostrution. The wretched boy* or girl* in your house will you brutes sought shelter under houses and not try a number, or try it for a year, in bomb-proofs. Majestic ni .stitts and surly bull-dogscuried their tails between and see if it isn’t just the element you their legs and yelped mournfully at need in the household? The Lmdou every unusual sound. Hundreds of the rime* has said, "We have nothing bolder ones made a frantic break over like it on this side.” Here are some the breastworks and ditches, and made their way through the lines of both leading features of armies, never stopping until they reach St. Nichol*» for 1886-4887. ed the woods. Stories by Louisa M. Alcott and It was even worse after Sherman'* army entered the place. The citisen* Frank R. Stockton,—several by each were driven out in such a hurry that author. they had no time to think of their pct* A short Serial story by Mr*. Bur and uo means of transportation for nett, whose charming "Little Lord them. Later, the destruction of the city by tire, and the general pandemo Fauntleroy*' has been a great feature nium that ensued, scattered the few re in the past year of St. Nicholas. maining dogs. War stories for Boy* and Girl*. These innocent victim* of the ravage* of war had a terrible experience during Gen. Badeau, chiel-of-staff’, biographer the rigorous winter of 1864-5. Their and confidential friend of General misery drove them to form strange part nership*. and it was a common sight to Grant, and one of the ablest and most see them roving in bands of a dozen or jnipular of living military writer«, will more. The old saying, “Banish the Contribute a number of pap'r* de dog from bis kennel and you have a scribing in clear and vivid style some wolf,” was illustrated in this ease. In of the leading battles of the civil war. the course of five or six months the They will he panoramic description* country people for fifty miles around of single content* or short campaigns, were spinning marvelous yarns about presenting a sort of.literary picture gal "them wild dogs from Atlanta.” lery of the grand and heroic oontent* The dog belongs to the genua which in which the parents of many a l>oy firoduce* the wolf, the jackal, and the and girl of to-day took part. ox. Tame dogs of course lose many of The Serial stories include “Juan the characteristics of these animals, and Juanita," an admirably written but when persecution aud misery cause them to relapse into a wild state they story of Mexican life, by Francis take the appearance, the habit* and Courtney Baylor, author of "On Both the tastes of wolves and jackals. Such Side*also, “Jenny’s Boarding- was notoriously the fact with the Atlan House," by James Otis, a story of life ta dog*. They lost every trace of domes in a great city. ticity. 1 hey grew to enormous size, Short Articles, instructive and en with savage eyes and cruel-looking tertaining, will abound. Among these fangs. are: "How a Great Panorama ia Occasionally a gang ot these ferocious Made," by Theodore R. Davis, with beasts would swoop down on a farm profuse illustration«; "Winning a yard, devouring chickens and pigs, and commission," (Naval Academy), and attacking men when they stood in their “Recollections of the Naval Acade way. It took the liveliest kind of shoot ing to drive them off. Sometimes they my;'’ "Boring for Oil" and “Among would surround a lonely cabin and wait the Gas-wells," with a number of strik for the inmates to come out They ing pictures; “Child-sketches from even made raids into little villages, George Eliot,” by Julia Magruder; forcing the inhabitants to shut them "Victor Hugo's Tales to his Grand selves up in their houses. The disap children," recounted by Brander Mat pearance of many a negro in those thew* ; "Historic Girls,” by E. 8. perilous times was fwlly accounted for Brook*. Also interesting contribu when his skeleton was found witii every tions from Nora Perry, Harriet Pres particle of flesh gnawed off and with cott Spofford, Joaquin Miller, H. IL the ground around showing evidence* Boysen, Washington Gladden, Alice of a desperate struggle. Wellington Rollins, J. T. Trowbridge, Early in 1865, when a few refugee* Lieutenant Frederick Hchwatka, Noah began returning to Atlanta, they had to struggle with these wild dogs for the Brooks, Grace Denio Litchfield, Rose possession of the ruins. Bloody en Hawthorne Lathrop, Mrs. H. M. Piatt, counters occurred among the ash hea|>* Mary Mapes Dodge, and many other*, and piles of debris. Every cellar and etc., etc. The subscription price of 8t. Nicho hole in the ground held these raven ous brutes, and they leaped upon men, las is 93.00 a year ; 25 cent* a number. wom«*i and children without the slight Subsciptions are received by b«x>k*el- est provocation. At that time it wa* lers and newsdealers everywhere, or dangerous to ride or drive out in the by the publishers. New volume begin* country. On the main road between with the November number. Send here and Decatur, in broad daylight, for our beautifully illustrated cata dogs were known to attack horses at logue (free) containing full prospectus, tached to buggies, forcing their driver* etc. T he C’ bnthry Co. New York. to open a hot fusilad* with their revol vers. R. G. Head, whose signature as After getting this taste of a wild life president of the International Range the Atlanta dog* went to the bad alto- Ether. They never reformed. A to association of America, demands jus illess warfare was waged upon them tice at the hand« of the president of from Stone mountain to Kenesaw, and the United Htates and an act of con one by one they bit the dust until they gress to suppress the rebate system of were all wiped out. The reader at a shipping cattle and to check pleuro distance must not jump to th* conclu pneumonia. formerly stock type as a sion that this indiscriminate slaughter printer in Corvallis. Boh has made has caused any unusual scarcity of dog* the riffle, and rounds up a handsome in this region. Thank* to the univer pile. His present sddre«« ia Denver, sal human weakness for pet*, we ar* Colorado. In his letter to President abundantly supplied with bench-legged Cleveland he say« : MI am empowered tices, terrier*, pug*. Newfoundlanders, mastiffs, and bulla If some unexpected by the live stock men of the plains, calamity should cause them all to go who have more than fiffOO,000,1)00 In wild, after the fashion of tkeir predeces vested in cattle alone, to respectfullv sors, they wopld be an uncommonly invite ;h« attention of your excel tough crowd to deal with.—Allan«» lency to the imminent danger threat ening our herds by the existence of ConsiituUon. contagious bovine disease«, which, if There ie only one job printing of once introduced to th* open rang*« fice in the county.—D. C. Ireland A of the west, will sweep our entire in terests from the earth. Co.