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FURNISHED HOUSES FOR RENT.
A few Furnished Houses remain unrented in Pinehurst. Desirable parties,, giving satisfactory references, can
secure these homes at reasonable rates.
There are also Suites for Light Housekeeping and Single Rooms for those who obtain table board at the
Pinehurst Casino.
For the security of both invalids and pleasure seekers, cases of pronounced Consumption will under no circumstances
be allowed admission.
Address for Illustrated and Descriptive Circulars, and for other information,
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LINE OP THE HEART.
"Do you believe in it?"
"I don't know," ho answered doubtful
ly. "I never had opportunity of judging."
"Then I'll read your hand."
"What! You?"
"Yes, really," she replied, nodding her
pretty head. "I'vo been studying it; books
and all that sort of thing, you know.
Come over by the light."
He rose and followed her to tho corner,
where a softly shaded lamp diffused a
mellow glow Outside tho wind was
howling bitterly, but an old fashioned
wood fire blazed comfortably in an old
fashioned grate, for this was an old fash
ioned bouse.
Ho had never noticed how round and
white her arms were until tho loose sleeve
fell back when she took his hand. The
touch of her cool fingers thrilled him.
"I thought so," she began. "You are a
dreamer, and you do not want tho world to
find it out. It's been rather a hard Hie in
some ways. You haven't always had all
thac you wanted."
He shaded his eyes with his other hand
and rested his elbow on the table. "Safo
observation." he remarked.
For the tiniest part of a second he gazed
into a pair of reproachful brown eyes.
"Don't chaff, please," sho said. "I can't
do anything if you do."
"All right, little girl," he responded,
half caressingly. "Goon."
"Your palm is elastic. That shows a
hopeful nature and a strong one. Your
lines aro deep. You will get tho full of
living in suffering and joy."
Tho piano sounded softly in the next
room. Her sister was playing half to
herself and half to her father, who sat
nodding in the library.
"The mount of Jupiter is well devel
oped,' sUo went on. "That means pride,
ambition, desire-for power not a snob
bish pride, you know, but that which will
not lot you stoop to baseness."
He smiled to himself She was reading
him very well
Saturn 13 rather weak. I'm afraid
you're not cry fond of quiet or study.
Yet you have an ideal of a heme which
youhaonot yet found Apollo is yi d
You like music, pictuics, books, lui ;n
appeals to you from the standpoint ( i:ie
senses it's tho stained glass windows,
the organ and tho vested choir with you,
not tho doctrine. " t
"How well you know me!" he began.
But she paid no heed to the interruption.
The girl in tho next room drifted in the
opening bars of tho "Serenade." It sound
ed liko soino faroff melody.
"You liko money, but not so well as
you do some other things. Books and pic
tures and travel and your own way como
first." He colored and her lips twitched
temptingly.
"This is Mars. You know there aro two
mounts of Mars. This ono under Mercury
means passive courage, self control, resig
nation and strength of resistance against
wrong. Tho other ono over by your thumb
means temper. I'm glad to see that it is
less prominent than this." She looked up
at him with an adorable mischievousness
that mado him feel a queer tightening
around his heart.
"Here's Luna down hero. This means
romance, ideality, imagination and mys
ticism. If it swells here, it means a rever
ence for well, for tho 'eternal womanly.'
That's tho best part of you. You want to
put a woman on a pedestal and keep her
there."
Tho bewildering sweetness of the "Sere
nade" sounded dimly through his con
sciousness and mingled with the breath of
the roses his roses on her breast.
"You are sympathetic and charitable,
generous to a fault. Friendship means
much to you. Ah, I know that!" sho said
to herself. "But this lino of heart! It's
too far down in your hand. Feeling is
your court of first and last appeal. See
how deep it lies. How it dominates your
hand! Thero's a marriage line, too only
one there's only ono woman in the whole
world for you."
Tho lamp flickered. "It must need fill
ing," sho said. ' "I must hurry or we'll be
left in darkness."
Woven in with tho "Serenade" l.ervoico
vibrated on his heartstrings now merry,
now serious, now so wholly sweet and
tender that it sounded liko tho vision of
Schubert in tho room beyond.
"Sho will bo all tho world to you," sho
said wistfully. "There will be no room
for your old friend then. That ideal home
you have dreamed of will bo yours and
hers." Her eyes rested full upon his, and
almost in a whisi.r she added, "It is not
far away."
For a moment he searched her face in
tently, but tho lamp was almost out now
Then something that he saw there gac
him courage, and he slipped swiltly out of
his chair and knelt beside her, taking dar
ing possession of her.
"Is that little homo to bo truly mine?"
he whispered. "Ah, sweetheart! Don't
you know?"
Pale and frightened, sho tried to slip
away from him, but ho held her fast.
"Oh, no, no!" she cried, half sobbing.
"Please, darling!" He tried to draw
her down to him, but she resisted, and ho
wisely waited for her to come to him.
"Can't we go on just as we were," sho
ventured, "friends and all that? You will
find some ono elso for tho other but no
such friend as 1!"
"There's no going on, dear," he said
gently. "This is tho parting of tho ways.
There is only ono woman in the wholo
wido world and the little home? Why,
my life, it wouldn't bo a homo without
you, don't you know?"
The roses were scattered on the floor
among their drifted petals, and even in
the shadow rhe saw his face, tenso with
appoal. His arms were drawing her closer.
Tho lamp flickered and went out. Sho
could feel his heart throbbing against her. 1
Sho fancied sho could hear it too. Tho
"Serenade" was almost finished now, and, I
thoroughly humble in her surrender, yet
wholly womanly, she bent down and '
kissed him in the dark. Kew York Truth.'
fn temperance reform mado him unpoj u
lar with tho liquor sellers, and they tried
to get him removed.
At a hearing on tho matter ono witness
testified that Mr. Dow was arbitrary and
reckless of tho lives of tho men. By way
of illustration, he said that ho was ordered
by the chief to take tho pipe which he was
holding into a place where he refused to
go, telling tho chief that no man could
live thero.
On cross examination he wuis asked:
"What did f.,r. i:w do then?"
"Snatched the ipo from my hands and
told mo to clear out."
"What else?"
"Bo took it into tho fire himself."
At that point tho case against tho chief
broko down. Youth's Companion.
Took It Himself.
When tho lato Neal Dow was a young
man, ho was chief of tho volunteer firo de
partment of Portland, Mo., His activity
THRONE LIGHTS.
Oldenburg's dynasty is saved from ex
tinction by tho birth or' a son to the hered
itary grand duke.
Sidi Ali, bey of Tunis, now 80 years of
age, is about to abdicate in favor of his
son, and to go to Nice to live, according to
Lo Figaro. lie has ruled under French
protection for 15 years.
King Leopold of Belgium offers a prize
of $5,000 for tho best military history of
Belgium from the Roman invasion to the
present day. It may be written in Eng
lish, French, German, Italian, Spanish, or
Flemish, and manuscripts must reach Bel
gium before Jan. 7, 1901.
During his recent visit to Denmark tho
king of Siam was taken to tho grave of
Hamlet, and after standing a moment in
reverential silence he turned to Crown
Prince Frederick and said sympathetically:
"A relative of your royal highness, I pre
sume Has ho been long dead?"
Queen Victoria is to have a new yacht
within two years. It will cost $1,500,000,
and will bo tho most luxurious craft
afloat. Other European sovereigns use
war vessels for pleasure trips. Queen Vic
toria's yacht will bo built after designs
submitted to her, and will have guns only
for firing salutes.