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THE DELEGATE. MtK BOl'C'II KI.LK WIGHT Although jtrmndinoUH-rw may at a discount in ime hnmi, lhy tr talnty were not t Alice Mannn'a, and lh y dUl not rtii!e uion a shelf, eith er. The nunnli'(t nnim in that loau tiful new hon-H', the cor.icHt rorner ly the tire m! the inont Invltins: chair iK'ionged hy riuht of love and rever ence t tirandinuther 1'arker, and when tliat d ar old white-haired ludy pjKike her Keutle mind, ehe wan mire of aiTiTtlonalc attention. So when youn Mr. Man cunie 1, limned Mnd exrittd, from u p.v ufternoon at a fiiend'n remdion, he imiwd with a mnlie at hearinir (irandmolher Tar Iter' rail from the library. '(me here a minute, my dear, he fore vou co up to 'httine your drens, 1 huvexuch lov ly news for you! Soon after vou went out the minister came in. all worried and anxious, lie Buid thiiiirs nln.ut the decline of hospitality in the eitv. and aked if we would not take d.'leirntiN. You know the con lerence eon venea tomorrow night, and although the lint has been jmbiirthed in the naner. some of the in-ople are inuking ncus, und he is sadly pu to it to find homes for the preachers, He seemed timid atwut aaklug, Ihj cause we were newcomers, but 1 told him that I was sure it wus nothing but inadvertence that had kept you from asking for delegates, and that he might send you two, provided they were two of a kind, as you have only the one euest-chaiuber. Won't it be nice to have delegates, deary?' "I don't know, grandma," faltered Alice, a little aghast. "I've never had the experience." "To be sure to be sure. I am a' w ays forgetting that you didn't know anything about real home-life, siend ing all your days wandering about over the world with parents that by rights should have been Gipsies. Dut when your mother was a little girl, and we lived in Urooksville, we used to have such exciting times when conventions and conferences would come our way. There is something so fascinating about entertaining any one whom the authorities may send you quite like opening a prize box Your dear grandpa and 1 have en tertainedas many as a dozen for more than a week at a time. We of the family would sleep upon pallets made of nuilts on the floor, giving up our rooms to the visitors. And such preparations in the kitchen! Why, we would hake cakes and pies by the score, grandpa would kill beeves and porkers, and the turkeys would be gobbling in my coops for weeks ahead of the time! Oh, I am so glad we are to have a little neeo at old times again!" Mrs. Parker sighed so happily that Alice Mason bent di wn and kissed htr, compelling smoothness into a brow that was troubled. Then site slipped away to her husband's study to pour out her misgivinge. "O Ted," she cried, MI never would have taken them in all the world! J don't see how I am ever to manage! .lust an afternoon tea makes Jane so cross that I tun afraid to give her an order for a week afterward, and il my dearest friend drops in to dinuer 1 feel like making the most abject apologieB and to think oftwo stran gers for a whole week! Grandmother forgot the grocery bill, too, Ted, and it makes me sick and faint to think of it, for we must not let her feel that w e don t do her Justice. 'With our pretty new house and our carriage," she added, "they are sure to send us the bishop or some other important person, and I simply must rise to the occasion but oh, I do hope grandma won't revert to old times this way again!" "Tne bishop or some other impor tant person!" repeated Ted Mason, vacantly. "Well, I love your grand mother, my dear, and 1 know that next to somebody eUe, she is the sweetest of women, but if they are going to quarter dignitaries upon us, I am called out of town I can't rise to occasions like that!" "O hush, Ted! You are going to do exactly as I shall make the very best of it, and grandma is not to be made uncomfortable. I am gcing to cook up everything nice 1 can think of. I'll put ap extra shine on the silver and cut glass, and this house will be spick and spun by tomorrow night you'll see!" Soou the house was full of pleasant excitement.- Mrs. Parker found things for her feeble hands to do, Alice flitted about busily. Jane was mollified by gifts and flittctry, and soon the right came, and the family waited in the library for the bishop. There were American Beauty roses bending on their tall stems on the library table, there were violets scenting the entrance hall, and Alice lelt a pleasurable glow of self-satisfaction. ; ' "I believe, after all, that I am rather., glad grandma took thedele gates. I nm not very otiuch of a church woman, but I reaiiz v that these men are doing a great deai of good and the bishops and the other leaders are always delightful men. I shall try to fulfil grandma's ideas. I shall drive them in the carriage to the church, and I'll have James wait there to bring them home after the sessions- " The looked-for ring at the door cut short her hospitable plans, and in an other moment she was looking upon her delegates but not upon a bishop. They very evidently were from the country. A tall, lank, white-bearded patriarch entered, and upon his arm was a chubby-aced young woman, hardly as old as Alice herself. The 'old man's clothes revealed the signs f long service and many careful IS VOl'TII'l fOHPASIOM. brushing and siNinglngs. The wife was evidently a bride, for her Ill- made, ill-fitting frock wbs of pearly gray with pink trimmings, and her hat was white, with a wealth of white flowers wandering over and under It. There w as not a percepti ble paute iietween -Mice's frightened taking in of the situation and her greeting of her guests. Mrs. Parker rose from bet chair to hold out her little wrinkled hands with her old fashioned courtesy, and Ted Mason did his share of welcoming. "lou must lie tireu," said Alice, hospitably, alter a moment, and then she led the way to the guest-chamber, and left them alone. iier nusnarid intercepted her on her return, and grinned as he shook her affectionately. "Don't you wor ry, Alice," he whiiered. "I am so relieved! A bride and a groom will talk to each other, and my brilliant conversational powers will not be needed." "Thut is true," agreed his wife, with flaming cheeks. "They will fn tertaiu each other, and Pll not need to go round with them. OTed, Isn't she awful: bhe looks like a pillow with a string tied about it and he Why did they send us such people?" The old minister, Mr. Harvey, had a certain Jignity which kept him from seeming embarrassed In the new splendors of Alice's dining-room, but the poor little bride was evidently ill at ease. Mrs. Parker devoted herself to them, and Alice was not far behind and before the first meal was eon eluded the conversation was general, if not very absorbing in its interest. There followed an hour or two in the library, and then Mrs. Parker said to the minister: "I am not strong enough for late hours, Mr. Harvey. Will you not have prayers now?" This was another unexpected turn, for Alice had not entertained a mln Ister before, and there ensued a flur rled hunting for a Bible. Finally she brought, from Mrs. Parker's own room, the big family Bible. Alice deposited It, wdth an effort, upon the table at the minister's ide, and men tally resolved that the next day she would buy one of more convenient size. "The servant, sister?" asked Mr. Harvey. "Do you not have her come in for worship?" Then came a brier but energetic argument in the kitchen with Jane, who finally came in, with a sulky frown, to sit down by the library door. Things were taking a strange turn in the butter fly's uest, but Mrs. Parker lay back in her chair, and as Alice gazed at the sweet, placid old lace, it seemed to her that she could see the golden light of past days dawning over it. The country bride sat still, regarding her husband's countenance reverent ly, and as Alice's eyes wandered, she met her husband's glance. His eyes held no laugh in them, although he smiled at her .understaudingly, and strangest of ail, when the reading was finished, Jane's lowering face had cleared, and she slipped quietly out of the room without even a shake of her expressive shoulders. "My gianddaughter ha made s.ime pleasant plans ror you, my dear," said Mrs. Parker the next morning to the bride. "We are so glad that our delegates are as they are. We had expected two gentle men, but 1 always prefer a lady. One gets so much better acquainted, you know." Allice Jbit her lip. She had or dered the carriage, and had intended putting it at the disposal of her guests, but she certainly had no idea of going out with them. , There was nothing for It hut to acquiesce, how pver, when Mrs. rarker told Mrs. Harvey that her hostess would take her to the church and remain there through the opening service with her. Alice considered that she would have to reason a little with her grand mother privately. Alice pointed out the pastor's house as they drove by, and Mr. Harvey looked at it with interest. "Well! Well!" he said. "The church is learning to take care of her servants these days. Such a fine house and they tell me you pay our pastor two thousand dollars a year! I guess I was born fifty years too soon, Nannie," he said, jocularly, to the little bride. "The younger preachers don't have the struggles we older men had. Why, I have . been preaching now for forty years, and my highest salary was five hundred dollars a year that was whi n the boys and girls were young, and you kir-? you have eight stepchildren, Nannie. Still, it is all right, and 1 am not the one to grumble. The re wards always did go to the deserving men. ana l snow x am noi mucn oi a preacher, so I am just grateful to be remembered oy my om conierence iu the way I am." It sounded strange to Alice Mason five hundred dollars a year, for a whole family to live on! How could they do it? Her own little perplex i tivs over ways and means seemed Silly in comparison. She led the visitors to the very forefront in the church. Mr. Harvey had said that he did uotwaut to miss a word of the proceedings. . The conference was about to open. Alice had never seen the bishop, but she did not need to have him pointed out A tall, fine-looking man, with keen eyes looking out from under a wide brow she had already recog nized him, even before he took his hair. Oh, if he could have been her delegate! ' Alice had never cared much for the old-fashioned church hymn; they had a sort of dolefulncss to her. but the familiar lines had a different sound as he related them before the organ ealed out: "Conir, ye that love the Lord. And let your Jy he know n; Join in a vuir with iwwt accord. And thus nurrouud the throne." The country bride sang clearly, and the quavering voice ot the old preach er rose triumphantly. Alice joined in. For the first time the sense of strangeness between her and Mrs Harvey seemed lo disappear, and as Alice sat through the morning ses slon, btie watched the little woman by her side, looked at the shabby dress, and came IA a conclusion. feiie had at home a beautilul new black gown, Jut from the tailor The cloth of it was smooth and snin ing, and the fashion of the roat 'a such that it would conoeal thetw ward lines of Mrs. Harvey's figure There was a black hat to match it Clad in that, the young wife would look really dignified, and Alice de termlned that she should have It But to mannage It without hurting her feelings! She et her mind to puzzle it out and almost forgot what was going on about her In-fore she finally concluded that In order to be ahlw to make the gift she must get on very friendly almost eirectiouate, terms with Mrs. Harvey. Mrs. Harvey accepted the gift with perfect simplicity. She look el like a different creature in the ne garments. Before noon of the next day Mr. Harvey assured Alice that in all his forty years he had never been treated so handsomely. Mrs. Harvey soon forgot her perplexity over the astounding number of spoon? and forks that surrounded her plate at table, and was able to enter into n very quiet and demure enjoyment of the drollery of Mr. Mason and hi young wife. Day alter day Alio went with them to conference, and remained through the sessions. One day she noticed how the old man's face always lighted up when the bishop began to speak. But nothing prepared her for what hap pened on a day when Mr. Harvej had been asked to conduct a devo tional service. He did not do it very well. He showed that he was a lit tie flustered, and his old hands quiv ered as he held the Bible. Alice felt sorry for him, and lor his wife, who looked at her husband so appealingly; but after Mr. Harvey had taken hi? seat the bishop rose. "Brethren," he said, "it has been long time since I have seen this old friend, before this conference. Forty years forty long years aco, he was just beginning his ministry, and was serving a piney-woods circuit away off In an out-of-the-way place. I was a young lawje? sent down to Florida upon a certain land case, and by ac cident, one hot summer day, I stop ped at a brush arbor out in the woods, where he was preaching to a congregation that had gathered there In ox-carts, on horseback and afoot. 1 stopped, more to rest in the shade than because I lelt any interest, but he had a message, and he delivered it from a full heart. It was for me for me! I dou't know how many others it came home to, but I wenl on my way thoughtful and Viore se rious than I had ever been in my li'e before, only to come back and seek him out at night like Nicodemus ol old. And like Nicodemus of old I was told the way the only way " The bishop paused a moment, and some cne out in the congregation be gan to sing, "Praise God from whom all blessings flow," as that congrega tion had a way of doiug upon all sorts of occasions. The bishop bent down and clasped hands with Mr. Harvey, whose uplifted face was ra diant. Alice, with downcast eyes, saw the little bride's hands trembling on her lap, and she put her own soft fingers in between, and they sat there listening happily together through the rest of the service. A "Ted, darling," Alice said that afternoon, "we are entertaining something bigger than the bishop we are taking care of the man who put him in the way of being what he is. Oh, wouldn't it have been awful if we had not been nice to tbem?" Tickling, tight Coughs, can be -surely and quickly loosened with a prescription Drug gists are dispensing everywhere as Dr. Shoop's Cough Remedy. And it is so very very, differeut than common cough medi cines. 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