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GOD'S MIRAC1.B OF aiAV.
FRANK DEMPSTER SHERMAN.
There came a message to the
vine,
A whisper to tbe tree, J . f . .
The bluebird saw the secret sign
And merrily sang he! t
? And like a silver string the brook .
Trembled with music sweet ;
Enchanting notes in evernf nook
For echo to repeat.: j- .
A magic-touch transformed the fields.
' Cirprnrr parh hr.ur Ihev erew. I
Until tbev shone like burnished shields
All jewelled o'er with dewi
. Scattered upon the forest floor
A million bits of bloom . u
Breathed fragrance forth thro'- morn
, mg's door . , ' 1 - I- ' '
Into the day's bright room.
Then bud by bud the vine confessed
The Secret it bad heard, i .
And in the leaves, the azure-breast
Sang the delightful word ; '
Glad flowers upsrang amid the grass
And flung their banners gay. ' '.
And suddenly it came to pass
God's miracle of May ! I j :
I Ladies' Hqmt Journal.
- - SUNDAY SELECTIONS.
Death is the door to Heaven.
,! The best things are not bought.
A little with contentls wealth.
Scorn never-kills true religion.
- Soul, growth requires soul-
food,. .- .j. ;. j, .J. - : '
Prayer should have hands and
,cct- t
God often .means yes when he
siys wait. I' . J; -1 I
A miracle '"explained, is not a
miracle. " I -')'. j: . i ll- - '-
Unhind 'words
stings.- , jl I
and
acts and
Begin at the bottom
tr rlimh a
ladder. . j , v.j.j
Heaven-sent
crowns. "I : ; 'V.
sorrows conceal
Earth s gloom
en's glory. ! -.';.;''
enriches Heav-
Persanal touch
with .the living
Christ makes Christian life possible
' , A cruel story runs on wheels,
and every hand oils tbe wheels as they
tua.Georee Elliott. p
JURRENT COMMENT.
. i-r The voice is Che yoice of Kru-
ger, but he hand 'that twists the
lion's tail is the hand -of Kaiser Wil
li elm. Phil. Ledger t Ind
The "clerks for members" sal
ary grab takes $35,000! out of the
Treasury every month, jhe fact that
Speaker Reed permitted jthts steal to
go through indicates quite clearly
that he has abandoned jail hope of
the Presidency. iVj Y. Journal, em.
Having made a speech in
. every city . and hamlet and pn every
. hill-top in: the United i States, Mr.
Cleveland's wonderful Boy Comp
troller is now going over the same
ground reluctantly submitting to the
interviewer. The wonder is that Mr.
Eckles can furnish such a. tremend-,
ous output of assorted views on his
meager salary ,-New York Commer
cial Advertiser Rep.
j McKlnley voted for the free
coinage of silver. He voted for- the
Silver Purchase act. He has de
clared himself in favor of a double
standard, ' He denounced the stop
page, of silver purchases. He is the
author of the Qhio platform; and he"
i will not say "where he-is at on the
money question, though interrogation-
comes from all parts of the
country. 'No wonder business halts!
Philadelphia Record gold) Dent.
: Rubbing It In. I Cora Why
do you think women frivolous?
M err itt Because when a girl makes
an enemy of a man for life she always
tells him that they can still be friends.
Puck. ' l ' V. ' ' J ... ; ; : : . J . ;
ttrm, jr . P. Bell, 0aacatamte, Kan.
wife of the editor of The Graphic, the lead
ing local paper i of Miami county, writes
"J teas troubled, with heart disease
tor six years, severe, palpitations, short
ness of breath, 1 together -with .such ex
treme nervousness, that, at times.I would
walk tha floor nearly all night. We
consulted tho best medical talent. . '
Thev SUM thcr was no help forme,
that I had organic disease of the heart for
"Which there was no remedy. I had read
your advertisement in, The Graphic and
a year ago, as a last resort, tried one bottle of
Jr. Miles' Kewo Cure for the Heart,
which convinced me that, there was true
merit In It. I took three bottles each of the
Heart Cure and EeatoratlvO Nervine and
It completely cured me. I sleep
' weU at night, my heart beats regularly and
I have no more smothering, spells. . I wish
to say to all who are suffering as I did;
there's relief untold for them if they will
only give your remedies Just one. trial."
Dr. Miles Heart Cure is sold on a positive
guarantee that the first bottle will benefit.
AH druggists sell it at tL 0 botUes for 15, or
it will be sent, prepaid, on receipt of price
by the Dr. Miles MeUcal Oo-, Kikhart, lad.
Dr, Miles' Heart Cure
v ' Restores Health
i
E5 f IAOnandBmrDifATnnf relieved
DM W I Why Dr. Miles' Nerve Plasters.
loMitif una , ,
BROUGHT TO, TIME.
) "I am sorry," said the widow, Vbut X
do not see how It is to be helped."
i Mr. Timothy TJnkum, or TJnole Tim, M
Everybody oalled hlni, was nneftsynd out
sorts. He did not like the turn attain
had taken. -. V " '
Not many years before Timothy TJn
kum's only brother had died, leaving a
gon In his charge. This son was Harry
TJnkum, a youth of great promise- and ol
slowing anticipations. I
l The widow was Mra Mary Folger. In
the other years she had not only been a
warm personal friend of the Unkums, but
her estate Joined the Unkum estate, and
she also owned a large share of the Fohjer
ville mills, , left her by her husband, while ,
the rest of that valuable property had de-;
Boended to Harry.
It had been the earnest desire of the yn
kum now deceased that his son Bhould
wed with tho daughter of his near and
dear friend. . .
; Harry was 23, and It Was high timethat
he settled himself down to look after the
business which had been left to him. j
i "I am satisfied, ' pursued Mrs. Folger,
"that Harry will never marry my child.
The very faot that his father and I have
had the noose so long prepared for him in
clines him taavold it. And yet I doubt if
he will find a better wife.' Lizzie is a good
girl." ' I ! ;
"She's an angel!" cried Uncle Tim,
"and vastly top good for the graceless
scamp." ' ' ! ,
"I should not care so much," said the
widow feelingly, ''only that Lizzie has re
garded Harry as the man who was to be
hor husband, and she has learned to love
him." ' - j'- !- . ' , -!
"And, " added Uncle Tim emphatically,
'"I am sure that Harry loves her, only he
will not bring himself to acknowledge it.
Mrs.x FOlger, if you and Lizzie will -come
and spend a week at my house, I think I
can bring Master Harry to his senses."
... V . .
"Jfow, Master Harry," said TJnole Tim
TnaiT abrupt manner, "I want one thing
distinctly understood. Mrs. Folger and
her daughter will arrive this evening, and
I would know if you have any claim upon
Lizzie Folgor's hand or heart?"
"No, sir," answered the nephew. 1
"That is all. Wo 6hall now know how to
recoive and entertain our guests." .
Toward evening . Mrs. Folger and her
daughter arrived. , : ' '
jHarry greeted her as an old playmate,
and after tea he sang with her and talked
of the bygone school days. But Lizzie was
not over and above social, and when in the
bright moonlight of the August evening
they walked out upon the piazza she took
MS uncle's arm Instead of his, and he was
forced to offer his arm to the mother.
On thle following day Uncle Tim caused
his span of grays to be hitched to the light
buggy, and as the team appeared ,at' the
door Lizzie came out arrayed for a ride.
Uncle T,im gallantly handed her to her
seat, and; having placed himself by her
side he took the reins and drove off.
It was lato in the afternoon when the
grays, upon their return, came prancing
to the door. Uncle Tim leaped out with
wonderful asllitv. and havino-handed Liz
zie to the piazza he kissed: her upon her
dimpled check, exclaiming in a most ex-'
uberant manner as he am so:
'Bless you, my darlirigl You are an
angel I" ' ' j ",-
And Lizzie looked up-and smiled and
patted him upon the check in return.
Harry had been standing Upon tbe piaz
za, and he muttered something very far
from a blessing.
During the forenoon of, the third day
Uncle Tim met his nephew in the ball
and called him into tbe library.
"Harry, my boy," he said, with glow
ing faoe, "I liavo deemed it my duty to let
you know that there is soon to be a change
in our household. I am going to give it a
mistress." - l
VI don't understand." !
','Haven't you got eyes? What'ye sup
pose I brought Lizzie Folger here for?" ;
' Do you mean that that you are going
to make her your wife?" ( . "
'And what do you find wonderful in
that?"' ; '
"Atyour'agel" ; 't.
"At my age!. What d'ye mean by that?
At my age ! I am only 63, In the prime of
life; I was never younger j in health and
vigor. Confound your impudenoel A girl
of sense looks for a supporter and a pro
tector in a husband." -f .
Harry began to open his eyes to the true
state of his Own heart. , The thing which
he had regarded as set apart especially for
hint, and which he might take into posses
sion at any timo, ho had not been anxious
to claim, but now that he saw the prize in
the bands of another he was startled into
a pew estimate of the value of the boon he
had slighted. 1
In tho evening-Harry followed Lizzie
into the garden. He had resolved to do a
desperate thing and. was 1 prepared to be--
plain and outspoken. . He urged her to sit
down,, and as he took a seat by her side he
found her,, trembling. I r
v Has my uncle askedyou for your
hand?" . . .:
"He has." ,
'And have you given him a favorable
answer?"- : ' i
f 'My answer has not been unfavorable."
' Ob, Li zzic T I had not thought this of
your' : - -- - " . -i . j -.
"How? Not thought what?"
"That you could thus slight me." :'
"Slight you? I do not understand."
"Yes you do understand no don't go
awayl don't leave me I have loved you, .
Lizzie!".. ' i.
"You-r-you loved me?" . '
" Yes. Here on my knees I confeea it.'
"Indeed, Harry, you must not. -Yoii
you" , i ' a: , . .
He was eloquent and : impassioned, so
much that ere long Lizzie's head was pil
lowed upoq his bosom and. one of her arms
twined about his neck. i-
'.' And you will not give 'your hand to my
uncle?",.. - - t. ' " "
"He never asked it for himself, Harry."
"What, not for himself?"
"No; he asked me for my hand, but it
was for you he .wanted It." - ,
"But," gasped the lover, "what did he
mean by telling me that he was going to
mase you mistress or his house?"
"He told me, "answered Lizzie, "that if
I ever became your wife I should have this
old mansion." '. .1
"Hello! What's all this? How now?
What does this mean?"' i :
It was Uncle Tim who Spoke."
Harry caught tho situation at a glance.
"Uncle Tim," said he, "I surrender."
New York News. -.' :
To Face the afosie. V
To "face the musio" Is a metaphor bor
rowed from - the stage where the. player
comes to the front and faces the orchestra.
It is, however, stated by some authorities
that the expression has a military mean
ing, the old militia laws ordering that
when arrayed In line the militiamen
should ."face the musio,"
: Seems to Be s Long Lived Set.
A list of the losses which tho Rmrnl
society has suffered by death during tho
past year snows tnat the pursuit of sci
ence is sot unfavorable to longevity.
The list comprises 19 fellows and seven
foreign members, and the average life
time of these 20 men was a fraction
over years. The average age of the
eeven foreign members was 79 years and
p months, tne oldest being Franz Ernst
neumann, vi, and the youngest Henri
Ernest Baillon, 67. The 19 fellows had
in .average lifetime of 75 years and 7
months, the oldest being Bisset Haw
kins, 98, and the youngest George Ed
ward Dobson, 47. The fellows were not
nil scientifio men, one of them being
Lord Aberdare, 80, and another, the
Earl of Selborne, 88, but statesman ship
tod law also seem to favor length of
lays. London News. I ,
l A Health Palmist.
i JOI9. Bt. Hill . is n vnmin I
made of palmistry something more than
,Z amusing an idle crowd
irightenins a m-Arininna nn ai t.
studied it with reference to its medical
u, uu proved the connection be
tween brain andhnni ti,- t j ,
pitals, asylums for idiots and the hlind
jr cYaweu u. haye opened
their doors to her.
sions made of the hands of the faunates
llaM ivoniou uiai eaon Oiaease brinm
,m vnu ugu uu tu iKuiu. jjcaidoa Let
tar. '.i-f- -
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trying to drive a spike with a tack hammer,
undertaking tojdo housecleanmg witn soap.
j .The modern cleaner, Gold Dust, hits the
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your housecleanmg difficulties, injures noth-
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Chicago, St. Louis,
Two
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Trains Wrecked.
Early in the morning at the break of day two heavy, freight trains can
together. Both fireman and engineer jumped for- their -fives. They were not
hurt, but the train loaded with valuable freight was . derailed and three cars
smashed up inj the collision. No lives lost, but goods damaged. There was a
portion of these goods sent to this city and said by the agent at this place.
After other merchants bad seen these goods all piled op in a pile, and looked
as if it would' take labor to straighten them up and put them in shape, they
did not have the grit to tackle this jib.. Braddy & Gaylord were notified and
they were soon on the ground with tbe cash in band, and the grit and push
to back it up. I We made them a pJEss to take the lot for cash as jit stood.
The goods sold, Braddy & Gaylord I the purchasers, and we have them now,
and will sell them to you at a low price. Shoes were the principal thing we
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48 oalrs bovV Tan Dongola spring
heel, lace Shoes, from to 2's, shoes
worth 11.50. our price 1 00. ; :
300 pairs men's first quality, high cut
Creedmore Ties, from 75, 85. 95c,$1.00
tn 1 1 n The cheanest-- Shoe in this lot
is worth fl.15 a pair; the best 1.50 a pair.
500 packages wnttmore Bros . Kusset
Leather Polish. The 25c packages like all
shoe stores have. . We wll the j same
thing for 15c; he 15c siztf for 8c. The
Pat. Leather Shoe ' Polish 10c; our
price 5c The Royal Shoe Polish at 5c
a bottle. . "
800 pairs Lidies' Pat. Slippers,, nice,
fresh goods, with pat tips, five hole lace
at 45c a pair.
60 pairs women s solid uongaia anoes,
with solid uppers, soles and counters at
85c a pair, button or lace. j
48 pairs women s Pat. Leather Button
Boots, made of Dongola, at 75c a pair.
A 10b in old folks Home Shoes, made
of Brussel carpet uppers with leather
bottoms at 40c.
You wilLfind us at 113 Ni)rth!
Front'
Braddy Gaylord, Prop,
: . ! WILMINTON'S BIG RACKET STORE.
ma 10 tf
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Sale ol Summer Goods.
We are showing an elegant stock of
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Ducks, Ginghams,
- I Swiss Muslins ;
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White Goods, Laces and Embroideries
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White. Fancy and Black PARASOLS
Ladies' UMBRELLAS from $1.00
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uraers solicited for r
If. C. Bacon, Flour. Molasses &c.. &c.
1 ; Snuff and Tobaccos j
ot the -leading brands. :
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All leather, a
only 35c.
Ladies Shoes,
Men's low cut Street Shoes for $1.00
and 1.25 a pair. . j. :' ; . : ' .:
Children's Slippers going at cost.
A'so a big job in Men's Clothing. A .
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Men's odd Pants all prices, from 48c
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All styles-and shapes in Leghorns and
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of all grades. Come to us for Dry
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Notions and everything you may
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pb,
warm' weather, such as j-
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I 8SS Noifh Wktet ttwet,
my 17 tt Dw l WlhmtettM, w,
r BOMANTIG GIRL;
MI am not loh," said he, deprecating
himself. But he did not loosen, histoid
upon Helen's hands or withdraw his ardent
gaze from her eyes as he 6poke. '
"If all the rlohea In the world wer on
one side of the scales, and Just your 'love
on the other," she answered, with the vi
bration of deep feeling in iher voice, "you
' know which would .weigh the more with
my heart." ;L .... ,:
. ""Bus my iacaer may u nwui. .
vows he'll have po long haired poet in his
house or for his heir.!' 1 i : -l ;
She laughed obdurate fathers to scorn
not angrily, but merrily. .4 - .
. "oh, my dear, my dear!" she, cried.
'Why do you waste, time talking of fa
thersf See the sunshine on the water.
Come where we can feel-1 it the air, the
light. Come!" , .
'No, Helen, I'm not coming now,1' said
Robert, with sudden firmness. "You
must see the situation as it is. Here am
I, loving you. My father raised me as rich
men raise their sons. Now he says that
unless I give up what he calls my tomfool
literary ambitions and go back to Fur
naoeville to learn . about the smelting of
iron he'll neither give me an allowance
now nor make mo his heir. Your father,
naturally enough, refuses to- treat with a
suitor who has no other assets than a son
net in his pocket.' And I love you."
The conclusion seemed ferfeptly rele
vant to Helen. She looked at him with
eyes swimming in tears of tenderness and
trust and pride. She smiled at him sun
nily through them. Her voioe trembled
as she spoke, though her words were jest
ing. - '- ' . 'it:
"Do coin your sonnet into a crust," she
said, "and bid me share it with you, and
I shall bo happy. . Happyi do you under
stand? Happy 1 And that is all you want
my happiness. " i f , : I
He caught her faoe between his hands
and looked adoringly at her. Then he
said, with sudden foreboding: - j
V ."Helen, Helen, aro you sure it is If
Are you sure you love me me, and not
merely the situation, the romance?"
'.'Now, sir, " said' Helen, tossing her
head, while righteous indignation dried
the tears in her eyes, "you are Insulting
mo." . ' i
i Helen's father unintentionally fanned
the flames of love. He forbade his daugh
ter to see Robert. i I , ,
j" You have a right to forbid Robert,
your house," said the young woman in
grand herolo style, "but you oannot pre
vent my seeing, him. I assure you I
shall. Your treatment of mo justifies it."
j "Don't make a fool of yourself, Helen,"
advised her father, "or I'll forbid you the
street. What has that feather brained boy
to live on?" - ; j j
' I "He's a genius, and he is persecuted."
1 .! "He's a young idiot! I hope a bread
and water diot will bring him to his
senses. See here, Helen. I don't object to -the
boy, if you love him, though heaven
alone knows why you should. But I'm
not going to have you marrying a pauper,
and I'm not going to aid and abet him In
insurrection against his father. If you'll
persuade him to be sensible how"
I "You do not know your daughter, sir,"
said Helen, her bosom swelling with the
proud consciousness that hero was a dra
matic occasion and that she was a heroine
equal to it. "Heaven forbid that I should
advise the man I love to his own undoing.
Did you actually believe that I would try
to persuade him to tura from odes to iron
ore, to fetter his genius, to" . ,. .
1 uo to your room, eion, anu pacK your
trunk for Europe!" thundered the old
gentleman.
; But later he compromised on a montl
at Lakowood. He knew ; that the levers
exchanged daily letters, each bidding the
other be of good ,' choerr' He observed
Helen's pride and lory in her martyrdom
with a feeling of helplessness.
I "TheIittle fool is positively radiant
ovorher misery," hei said to himself.
I She fancies she's a heroine ! Confound
old Donnobroon I Why doesn't he give his
son some money and let him spend it
printing his poetry?" f
When they came back to town, the ro
mance was at its hoight. ; Helen placed a
taper before her curtained window, and at
night Robert patrolled the sidewalk gaz
ing at it as at a shrine. , They wrote long
letters, though they did not carry out
their intention of meeting clandestinely.
And Helen was radiant, with joy of her
romance.
1 - 1. j." ;: , -
i Robert had been ill Ln his east side lodg
ing. His father had come, had seen and
yielded. - ' I
I "Bob, my boy," he had said, "be what
ever sort of a fool you chooso. I'll not ba
one any. longer, 'f - , i J
-1 And Robert, 'weakomed by illness, was
won by kindness, as he had not loen by
harsh usage. .' '
"IIU como back to Furnaceville, " he
said, "and I will learn the business. Po
etry will bo a side issue." j
. Wheroupon thore was rejoicing among
the elders, but Helen was unaccountably
cold. . - . -
(- Robert reoovered. There was no more
martyrdom. He called when he would,
Ho talked polities with her father. He
came to dinner. He went to the opera with
her. He no longer had to look to her taper
lighten window in order to feel near hor.
i The days of Holen were remarkably like
those of any other young woman npotf
whom fortune had smiled. Theywearied
her. He had .been a persecuted genius,
1 she reasoned. Ho was no longer persecut
ed. By feniinine'logic he was no longer a
I genius. -Shd had beeni a martyr because
I sho--loved. Sho was no longer a martyr.
)id sho no longer love? Feminine logio
faltered. She wept. "She was disappoint
ed iu him," sho told herself. And finally
she told him so. . ;
"For," as Mr. Robort Donnebroon said
ln the novel ho publishod a few years lat
er, "though men love women, women's
affections are given to situations, to ro
mance, excitement or to love itself. And
men are interesting to them only as the
vehicles by Which these things come to
them." New York World. i
Klectrlc IJbt 'test.
The public is becoming quite know
ing in many branches of electric knowl
edge, and in none mare than in the de
termination, with greater or less accu
racy, of the efficiency of the electric light
At one time a central station had no
great difficulty in foisting upon its ens-'
tomers as a 16 candle power a light tnat
the ordinary jjas jbt would be an im
provement upon. Kow, however, people
are more dritical, and they have a very
Bhrewd idea as to whether they are get
ting as much light as they are paying
for. If they have any doubt on the sub
ject, it can be easily set at rest.
The latest method of measuring illu
mination is, based -upon the principle
that the illumination, falling', say, on a
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What She Would Do.
"Johnnie, dear" said his mother,
who was trying to inculcate a lesson in
industry, "what do yon suppose mamma
would doctor you if you Should come to
her some day and tell her that . yon
loved your studies?" f Lick me for tell
ing a falsehood," saidl dear little John
nie, with the frankness of youth. Pitta-'
burg Bullethi
A Stride to Sreadom.
' "Which." asked thft AnormliistfahftA.1
young person "which is the proper
woe ox a nurse jar a lady to ait on?"
"Both." resrxmded thA onvema ioiv
with the short- hair and seal brown
Moomers. Cincinnati Enquirer.
ANSELM'S BABBIT.
' "But what Is the user"
- "The usel Decidedly yon are not up
in fine little psychological points. The
charm tn a lie, in a true lie, is precisely
that it is useless: A lie is Its own reward,'
Its own pleasure.; 'What usel: As though.
Anselm Cousin Anselm, you know had
been influenced by any motive the day he
benevolently invited . us to help eat his
famous rabbit. : You of course remember
Anselm's rabbit?" !
To tell the truth, I did not remember It
at all... My interlocutor was a southerner
from the far south, a liar from excess of
imagination and skeptical as all liars are,
for they believe only in their own lies. He
is an agreeable talker, however, and his
fancy gallops so gayly along that his
tongue has difficulty to keep pace with it.
. He begins a story, forgets it and sud
denly replaces It wtth another. So without
occupying my mind any further with the
subject oh which we started I prepared to
listen to the adventures of Cousin Anselm
and his rabbit: '. "
V Yon don't -seem to recall it. Well,
never mind. It was one day last year. I
had risen early, as is the habit of all our
shopkeepers, and sold - nothing. I was
standing on the doorstep with you or some
one else deciding about the f lather when
Anselm went by and said,. 'How do you
like rabbit cooked?' I
, 'Mon Dietr! Potted, with a great deal
of thyme and wild thyme,' I replied, and
I think I said a bit of orange Jpeel as big
as the nail. - . I ! "
" 'Goodl It just happens that I was
looking for yon to ask you to eat some pot
ted rabbit with me at the Bastion.'
"Potted rabbit at the Bastion! . - '
"Those words alone i made my mouth
Water. One Is so comfortable there, far
from one's wife, for the meekest of men in
our town would defend this peaceful ref age
with Mohammedan ferocity against an in
vasion of tho ptber sex. l The only room
serves as both dining room and kitchen,
and one can sit and watch 1 his breakfast
simmer, and the ooals in tho oven glowi
dim and die out with a last, hot flame,
while outside ln the scraggy pines of tho
slope a few parched grasshoppers croak
despairingly. j' - i V
" ' When shall we eat our potted rabbit
tomorrow?'' ! .
What hnstej Jesting aside, yester
dayl visited the rabbit hutch, and there is
a mot her who will have her little ones in
two days. It is a precocious breed, and we
will date the breakfast for five weeks from
now.' !: - '..
'Well, in Ave -weeks,' said I, a trifle
set back. During these five weeks I did
not find leisure to forget the rabbit.
"The Jnest morning- Anselm came to
bring the latest news. 1 '
i "Six 6upcrb little rabbits had arrived
one especially, all gray with a pink -nose,
already moved his ears like his father and
mother at thdtlght of a cabbage stalk.
"He was the one we would eat.
"Two days later it was another matter.
The male, in a jealous fury, had devoured
his progeny. They had to imprison blm
under a basket with a heavy stone on It.
"Three little rabbits had fallen victims
to thjs modern Saturn, Lut by a miracu
lous .chance the gray one with the pink
nose had been spared. ' ' .'
"The next week Anselm came with a
sad expression and said that three such
strong and healthy little ones exhausted
the mother, and he should have to sacrifice
two of them. ' v
"He felt bad over it, but the last would-H
pront the more thereby. -fr"
"From this time the romaining rabbit
filled Our llVesAtthe cafe or on our
promenades Anselm talked only of him,
melting' oyer his infantile graces, relating
lis caprices, noting bis progress.
"More than once at the hour of depar
ture for the pastures, when . the silent
streets were awakened by tinkling goat
bells, Anselm knocked on my window, cry
ing, ' While you are lying snug in your bed
I shall be gathering the herbs our rabbit
Is fondest of groundsel and birdweed,'
and on leaving, to prove his zeal, 'I shall
spread the herbs lout in the sunshine a
minute, for you know dew is deadly tb the
rabbit' -! -
"In the vapors of my interrupted sleep'
this rabbit appeared gigantic to me,
"One morning the rabbit escaped, and
Anselm, sli:t ;.:uch perturbed, came to
tell me about it. Af tor some hard running
lie bad succeeded in recapturing him.
"At last Anselm announced: that the
rabbit would be just right in a week. The
feast was set for Sunday. For the remain
ing time tho rabbit was to have a dry re
gime, no more herbs, no greens, none of
those water soaked' plants that make the
flesh of rabbits so soft and Insipid noth
ing but lavender and marjoram should he
eat, an odorous diet gathered expressly for
him on the mountain by Anselm. "For
nothing ln the world would Anselm have
c barged another with this duty,
"Sunday came. '
"Anselm wished to depart the first, of
all at dawn and dispatch the victim with
a blow on the head classically, then clean
him and put him in the pot.
"I was to come later at my ease with
two friends, who would help me to carry
tbe wine and other provisions.
' "Was the rabbit good?"
. "Alas,-my friend, thisrare rabbit, so
fat, so round, so sweet-Smelling and dain
tily fed, never-existed except in Anselm's
imagination. : . if.
--"1 arose very early that Sunday morn
ing, and by accident I surprised Anselm
in the act of buying a rabbit of the meat
vender.
"I have found since that Anselm never
possessed either rabbit hutch or rabbit,
and it was solely for pleasure that the good
fellow had lied to me for a "month, adding
each day a new bead to his rosary of Inno
cent deceptions.''
"And what do you conclude?;'
"Ma foil what with that rabbit and
Anselm I have forgotten thoTpoInt.''
From the JJ rench For Chicago Herald.
Prince Charlie.
He ,was a young- Prince Charming,
beautiful, brave, capable of enduring
hardships and, till his misfortune soured
Mm, not only kind, but of an uncom
mon and almost impolitic humanity.
Well might Walton, the spy, pronounce
him, with the blood of John SobiesM in
his veins, "a far more dangerous enemy
to the present establishment of ithe gov
ernment in England than ever his fa
ther was."!
In thSse days, when a king of some
sort" was a necessity, England seemed to
have in Charles a king born to be
adored. But; the tendency of things was
invincibly : against him. He appears, I
owU to myself, to have had better qual
ities than any man of his line since the
f ourtsh James fell at SFlodden. There
was nothing his Scotch expedition,
till the fatal morrow of Culloden, that
did not become a-gentleman and a. king.
The Cameronians, a feeble, but virulent
remnant of the auld leaven of the cov
enant, publicly blamed his "foolish
lenity and pity" to the "redcoats whom
Providence put into his hands. "
If his courage is accused so has that
of Marlborough been, and the evidence
of Malcolm McLeod, "never was a man
not a coward so prudent, nor a man not
rash so brave, " may be taken as dispos
ing of a childishly malevolent accusa
tion. He was gentle and considerate till
misfortune taught him suspicion and
hope deferred made the heart sick. The
exposure, which he bore so gallantlv in
the highlands, and the habits of that
oountryf taught him his fatal vice, which
corrupted, and debased "a character nat
urally noble and generous. Scribner's
Magazine.
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iJo you ever go to church?" asked a
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VNoJ 1 don't," was the reply. "The
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a a naye to go alone if I went at alL
"What are vonr views?"
"Well. I'm a MpthndiH'
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' ( I Athenian Hnmnr.
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