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Romance.
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A story of Impassioned Love
'tween Priest and Devotee.
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No sleepier little town than St An atole lies
nettled amid the yineclad hills of " eastern
France, none of more smiling* gracious as-
P®ct, There is plctaresqaeness too in the
quiet streets, the loir arcades with round
arches recalling the Spanish occupation of
Franche Córate, part of the rich dower of Mary
of Burgundy, and bits of Spanish domestic
architecture remain here and there. Round
about rise the pleasant hills, mere gentle de-
clivities although designated by the name of
mountains in these parts; a little river runs
by the town, hiding itself in a green valley;
beyond, tower the dark pine forests of the
Jura; while far away stretches the Alpine
fairy land oí Blanc and its sister peaks,
flakes of violet and ambfcr In the far dis-
tance.
80 dead-alive this towniing of or three
thousand souls, so unfrequented by tourists,
and remote from the highways ol the world,
that nota carriage awaits the chance traveller
who makes a halt here. Only a tumbled-
down omnibus, for the convenience of busi-
ness men, plies between the railway station
and the one inn of the place. Into this cum-
bersome vehicle, on a bright September day,
stepped a lady whose appearance was little
In keeping with such shabby surroundings.
Her dress was simple enough certainly, a
nun's were hardly plainer, yet the black eown
of light gauze, the 1 oug veil that seemed a
part of it, and the small bonnet; a mere
coronet of jet on the golden hair, but served
to heighten the wearer's beauty. Hers was
loveliness of the most dignified kind, feat-
ures, figures, carriage, indicated the nobility
Imparted by hi<;h rank and elegant brin^Ing-
up, as well as a certain state natural to some
women; and, in spite of the studied sobriety
of dress, evidences were there of ancestral
wealth and splendor. From her small ears
hung rare enamels in the quaint setting of
the Renaissance. The brooch that fastened
her dress was a fleurde-lis fashioned of pearls,
evidently an heirloom; and as she gathered
up her skirts to step into the omnibus, a
flounce of rich Jace fell over the slender foot.
•There were no other passengers, and the
blue-bloused conductor, hat in hand, stood by
the door awaiting instructions. So self-ab-
sorbed, however, was the lady, that she did
not notice his presence, and he was obliged
at last to ask her destination.
Slightly colorinsr, and with the air of one
aroused from a deep reverie, she made reply:
"Drive me, if you please, to the Protestant
parsonage."
Then the door was slammed to, and the
noisy, stuffy old vehicle, with its daint> fare,
rattled off in the direction of the town.
A bridge was first crossed, then followed a
bit of brand new boulevard, finally the one
long street with its Spanish arcades traversed
from end to end. All this while—for the
drive occupied at least ten minutes—the lady
sat motionless as a statue, lost in thought.
Once or twice, when the horses slackened
speed, and she thought it was time to alight,
her color went and came, she trembled violent-
ly and drew a deep breath; but when indeed
the wheels stood still, by a tremendous effort
she recovered self-possession. Erect and
proud, not without a certain natural hauteur,
she now scanned the parsonage before ringing
the bell.
The humble aspect of the place showed that
the reformed faith was not in the ascendant
hereabouts. The pastor's house was a neat,
whitewashed, two-storied structure, standing
sideways by the road; abutting on it was a
small building of almost similar pattern,
which did duty as church and school in one;
shut off from the street by a high iron railing
and gate was a lonjr, narrow strip of flower,
fruit and vegetable garden. Nothing could
be plainer, homelier, more primitive, yet no
signs of abject poverty met the eye.
The garden was in good order. The bricked
jcourt in front of the church was cleanly swept;
the house from top to bottom had a cared-for
look. It was evident that the occupant had
been accustomed to rigid ecouomy, at the
same time to decency and order.
The latch of the garden gate yielded to her
hand, and the intruder now fouud herself at
the house door, opened—as in the fashion in
these parts—from above. No sooner, there-
fore, had she touched the bell than the door
flew back and ohe saw that she was expected
to ascend the staircase. On the ground floor
were only storerooms and wash-houses;
kitchen, parlor and bedchambers evidently
occupied the second story. And having
mounted, hearing, seeing no one, a second
time she was compelled to aunounce her
coming. The landing-place was dark; she
tapped gently at the nearest door.
"Is the pastor Anvilie within?" she asked—
without looking up. Her voice did not
tremble but it was in a strained key. She
had turned very pale, and was evidently ask-
ing .herself whether indeed she had courage to
fulfill her errand.
"The pastor Auville?—I am he," was the re-
ply, spoken briefly and absently.
The minister had evidently been disturbed
In the midst of serious occupation, and had
not so much as given himself time to identify
his intruder. Thus much was clear, a lady
waited on his threshold, he felt bound to in-
vito her within.
He was a striking-looking man, in middle-
life, that is to say, in bis prime. But for the
habiliments of a Protestant pastor he must
have been at once taken for a Catholic priest
The priestly stamp Was undoubtedly there—
^the fine features closely shaven, the penetra-
ting look, the geueral aspect, recalled rather
thedicipllne of Loyola than of Calvin; and,
could It be? the crown of the head showed
unmistakable signs of the tonsure!
He was no meanlj-endowed son of Adam,
quite the reverse; but for ail that, an observer
would sincrie him out of a crowd by reason of
intellectual rather than physical superiority.
The noble brow, the eommauding look mark-
ed him from others. He ought to have occu-
pied one of the metropolitan pulpits of the
world. Such a man could be a force, moral as
well as spiritual a mighty lever of human
wills and passions, a powerful agent in the
strife of good with evil.
Bright sunshine filled the little study in
which the pair now stood face to face. The
lady bad raised her veil, her fair gold-brown
hair caught the sunlight. The place seemed
Irradiated by ber sensive yet sunny beauty.
«•Do you recognize me now?" she asked In a
voice of sweet, trembling, feminine appeal.
Georgette de Beaumont—ofttlmes your peni-
tent "in days crone by?"
"1 forget nothing," was the bitter, perhaps
Ironic reply. -"You are one of those who
to my confessional with your girlish
derelictions years ago."
For a brief moment he had seemed to stag-
ger, shrinking from that exquisite presence;
bat, just as she had done a moment before,
by a violent effort he now regained his self-
composure. Offering her a seat, the pastor
placed a chair for himself opposite her own,
then closed the door, evidently prepared; foar
confidence. . ..
"You have come to me In some tronne or
perplexity—that Í see," he began, smiling
fSJntlv. "And you are aware of my altered
circumstances. As a friend, as a minister of
the gospel, I am ready to advise, perhaps
able to comfort; the priest, the confessor, the
absolver, you know well, have ceased to
exist."
««I know it," was the timid, girlishly hesi-
tating reply.
Tet the beautiful speaker could hardly fcs
t jjjrL She waa in the flower of woman-
not in its opening bud, and had certsin-
, passed her 30th year.
I should have come to you long ago," she
Inuetl, "but my courage failed maM
•"Then she broke off suddenly, as If courag e
her still. A lovely blush tinged her
tears glistened oa the Ion? eyelashes,
light seemed to break upon his
mind. He leaned forward and scrutinized
her keenly.
"You, too," he said, "Geonrette de Beau-
mont, daughter of one of the most ancient
houses of Catholic France, you also have for-
saken the faith of your fathers? Is it possi-
ble that you are a Protestant now, like my-
self?"
"I am a Catholic still," was the passionate,
reckless answer. "But I am alone in the
world. My apostasy could pain none I love.
Only say the word, and I place my conscience
in your keeping."
be cried, in a voice deeply moved;
he was evidently wrung to the heart by this
confession, implying, as it did, an empty
woman's life, a hungry heart, an unsatisfied
soul. "Ob! leave these rude conflicts to
minds of tougher texture; these dire problems
to theologians, and rest content yourself to
be good and happy."
The words were uttered with deep feeling,
almost impassioned tenderness, and neither
knew how it was. She had slipped front her
chair to the side of his own, and was kneel-
ing there, kneeling to him as she had done
many and many a time years ago In the con-
fessional. The fair head, with its coronet of
golden hair, was uplifted to his, the sweet
lips were on a level with bis rough hand. All
shrinking, all terror, all hesitancy had left her
now. The supreme moment was come, she
felt entirely mistress of herself, able to utter
the inmost thought of her heart.
"You bid me be gool and happy," she said.
"There is only one way. May I tell you what
that way is? May I confess to you, as in the
old days?"
He smiled then, a sheltering, encouraging
smile, much as if she were some bewitching
child fleeing to him from chimerical terrors.
To his thinking, she was still the sunny,
sparking, frolicsome Georgette of old, no
soulless Georgette certainlv, but a worldling
from the cradle, the spoiled darling of a noble
house, the heiress of one of the handsomest
fortunes in France, rebuked by him, punished
by him iu the confessional, for childish short-
comings in matters of religious duty, years
ago. That smile, sad although it was, won-
derfully irradiated his dark physiognomy. It
brought back to Georgette's mind bis former
self. He seemed to her what he had ever been.
She knew not indeed of the change, outward
as well as spiritual, that had come over him
during these intervening years. For the caus-
tic yet benignant abbe, the consúmate man al
the world, the fiery disputant, the mighty ora-
tor, all these belonged to a bygone time. Pas-
tor Anville's friends and small congregation
were only familiar with an over-conscientious,
laborious and learned minister of the gospel.
His real, his best self was perforce concealed
from the simple townsfolk. And only here
and there was the fact realized that the Prot-
estant pastor of St. Anatole had formerly
preached to crowded audiences in oue of the
great churchss of Paris, had secedei, in fact,
from Rome to Luther.
"By all means unburden yourself. I shall
Indeed be glad to serve you," he said growing
more and more genial, yielding, in spite of
himself to the witchery of her presence. Thus
encouraged, still kneeling beside him, her
hands clasped on the arm of his chair, her up-
raised face sweet and innocent as that of a
five-year-old maiden, she began her story.
IMPASSIONED DEVOTION.
"You thought, without doubt, that it was a
careless girl you had to deal with in days
gone by. I seemed a mere plav thing to you.
Very likely you even begrudged the t ime spent
upon me in the confessional, an<l, but for my
position, would have delegated the charge to
another. It was never as you fancied. I be -
lied myself, as many womeu do, putting on
the self that pleases the world. 1
was, from the first, impressionable,
sincere, capable of better things."
He was still as far as ever from divining her
errand. But he found it sweet to listen to
her, to be able to gaze on her, and feel in a
certain subtle. Impersonal sense that she be-
longed to him as of old. He could still chide,
caress, encourage.
"That better self I felt conscious of; how
could I assert it?" she cried, growing more
and more eloquent on her own behalf. "I
was compelled to live In the world, whether I
would or no. From my cradle upward I was
trained to play a part. And you too, even
you, my spiritual guide, my monitor, you did
not seek to arouse deeper feelings. I should
have listened to you in the confessional bad
the heart spoken."
The rebuke was a crushing one, and he
flinched under it; a word of apology and ex-
postulation rose to his lips, but he reserved it
till she should have done. She anticipated
him.
"I could understand your motive," she
went on; "your duty was not to make a
woman think for herself, or seek to be happy
after her own way. Brilliant as you were, ex-
perienced as you were, you yet lowered your-
self of set purpose In your dealings with my
sex. As a prlfest, as a theologian, you could
hardly act otherwise. But I read your char-
acter, although you never read mine."
Again he flinched. Her words had struck
home.
"I saw through the veil," she continued;
,lyou played with women's intellect as with
toys; themselves you did not despise. Bui
for your calling, your vows, I could liav<
played with you in turn."
'Does the priest cease to be a human be-
ing?" he asked, bitter almost to vlndictive-
ness. "Oh, have done; the stings of con-
science I have borne, and can bear; your re-
proaches unman me utterly."
She touched ills arm with a soothing ges-
ture, and made him meet her look of tender
pity and insinuation.
"It Is not yourself I reproach," she said
very gently. "Remember that; should I have
made the long journey hither for such a pur-
pose? But hear me out."
She paused for a moment, ss if to gathei
fresh courage and self-reliauce, then went on
in quicker, more fervid tones.
"Do you remember a curious experience
that happened to you during a memorable
storm in Paris, just ten years ago? A hurri-
cane so fearful raged over the city that it wai
dangerous to be abroad; the rain flowed id
rivers through the streets, many people were
injured by falling tiles, and the lightning
flashes seemed as if every moment they would
fire the place. Your vast church was empty,
but you were at your post, when a woman
dressed in black and closely veiled stole up tc
the confessional and knelt to you."
Again a light as of sudden conviction seemed
to break upon his mind, but this time of nc
impersonal nature; it was a conviction that
had to do with him as well as with her. He
flushed, turned pale, made an effort to speak,
but failed, the words stayed on his faltering
Hps.
"She confessed to you In the storm," Geor-
gette continued, "and what story was that
for a woman to utter, a priest to listen to!
Father,' she said, In pity, hear, comfort, ad-
vise me. I possess everything that others ol
my sex envy—wealth, noble rank, suitors past
counting, and all these are as nothing, even
hateful to me. I love one ighom it is sinful to
think of a lover. The only man who hai
ever touched my heart Is he who has charge ol
my souL And hs knows it, he is so far guilty
toot'—and your answer to this appeal!" she
cried passionately. "I resented it then. You
seemed more cruel to me than that awful
storm, more cruel than life, but you could not
help yourself. "Sister,' you said In a strange
voice, a volca that made me tremble, 'do noi
thfafr that you are alone in jour dilemma.
Many another, and many a stronger one, too,
has succumbed to the same temptation, anc
dared to love where love was forbidden. Praj
for them as for yourself. I have no comfort
to give you, but follow my counsel. Go bad
to the world, and when the world has taught
you to forget, then seek the church's pardot
and the church's consolation, not before.'"
"You were that woman!" asked the paste
his voice sinking to an aghast whisper.
"I sm telling you my own story," she re
plied, "Hear me oat Tour
&
but did not crash me. I found a certain com-
fort in it after a time. At least then, I said
to myself, I do not suffer, I do not love alone,
and, who could tell—I was perhaps, even loved
in return? I found consolation in the thought
that we two, my nameless lover and myself,
were martyrs together. So I went back to the
world as you had bidden me,- I tried to be
mundane and heartless—to forget. My life
now was changed. My father was named
ambassador at a foreign court We spent
several years out of France, and existence
was one prolonged whirl of plessure and ex-
citement But I never forgot—•"
She flashed upon him the light of ber pure,
lovely eyes, and said passionately:
41 clung to one memory, I lived in it still.
And when I returned to Paris a few months
ago, an orphan, mistress of my own fortunes,
alone In the world, I learned your strange
story. Force of conviction had led you to
change your religion. Like myself, you were
free!"
The very sound of that word seemed to
have magic for her ears. The timid, hesita-
ting look of appeal vanished, her voice grew
strong, firm, exultant. Tears rose to the
sweet eyes and trembled on the delicately
flushed cheek, but they were tears of pure
joy.
"For, of course," she said, gathering his
hands to her own—the words she had just
uttered, almost to her own thinking, made
them already one—"it is of yourself I have
been speaking all this time, and I was not
surely wrong; you love me, did you not?
Think then of the joy I felt when I learned
what had happened. For the first time in my
life I rejoiced in the fact that I was rich. Ob!
I said to myself, now at last my wealth can be
turned to noble uses. In his hands It will be-
come a thing to glory in. I do not care for
splendor or ease, indeed I do not," she said,
emphasizing the words with artless sincerity.
"I could be quite happy In such a bome as
this, by your sida. But you were born for a
lofty position, you were born to rule. Think,
then, how useful my large fortune will be to
you. If, Indeed, it Is a better religion, a high-
er truth that you follow, you may be the
means of persuading many. I have planned
italL We will build a beautiful Protestant
church in Paris; from far and wide people
will flock to hear you. Once more you will be
In your proper sphere, for I am sure you can-
not be happy or quite satisfied here. This
career of a country pastor is too narrow, too
circumscribed, for a nature like yours."
He bowed acquiescingly. Yea, It was all
true. So much his face said.
"All that I have is yours," she went on;
"The vast fortune my father left me, the
hotel In Paris, the chateau iu Touraine, these
are as dross to me, and all I care for, I live
for, is this—"
The clear impassioned voice broke down,
the fair head dropped: the hand she held to
her heart was kissed aud bedewed with tears.
Throughout the latter part of their interview
the pastor had seemed under a spell. Once
or twice he was fain to interrupt, but utter-
ance failed him. He, too, was flushed, tearful
shaken in every limb. Those last wild words,
those burning tear and kisses on his hand,
broke the charm and recalled him to realities.
He rose now, and for a moment stood over
her with a strange expression, as if he were
calling down the blessings of Heaven upon
her fair head; as if, Indeed, he were shrinking
from some angelic vision, that reproved his
own faultiness and mortality. Then, without
a word, he led her to the window.
It looked upon the long narrow garden
stretching from the house and little church,
now flooded with warm sunshine. All was
calm, golden, peaceful; yet Georgette gazed
with a sudden, unexplained sinking of the
heart At the farther end, under the
shadow of a lofty plane tree, was a deal table
and by It stood a patient-faced woman,
evidently belonging to the peasant class,
busily ironing. Homely was her appearance,
It was nevertheless not without a certain
dignity and pathos. She looked so absorbed
In the business of ironing, so forgetful of
self, so lost to a sense of everything but the
matter-of-fact, prosaic task before her.
"You see yonder poor good woman," the
pastor said, as the pair thus watched the un-
conscious ligure from the window. "I loved
another, whose story you have just told. But
the first of my new life, and newly awakened
confcience, was to atone to her I had wronged
in my youth."
And romance had now surely knocked at that
parsonage door for the first, last time. With
burning tears, a hand-clasp, a whispered
word, and one long, lingering gaze into each
other's eyes, the two parted,—who shall say
ever to meet again.'
Strange as It would seem at first sight, this
fateful meeting little affected the tenor of
their outward lives. It was as If all the dar-
ing, all the heroism, all the force of these
two characters had been already spent; by
Georgette de Beaumont upon the initiative
that had been the one truly fine act of her
3ife; bv the pastor, upon the two-fold sacrifice
made for conscience' sake. He had suddenly
found himself at the parting of the ways; on
the one hand, beckoned worldly fortune, the
esteem of the great, a commanding social
position; on the other, poverty, scorn, an ab-
normal condition, but coupled with these, a
conscience at rest. Then came the second
choice. He might make material atonemeut
to the peasant girl he had wronged years be-
fore. He might then, having dismissed this
subject of self-reproach, think of the fireside
happiness no longer denied him, and even
dream of Georgette, the beautiful Georgette!
Once the straight path taken, the tempting
traverse lost sight of forever, he seemed to
loose all ambition, all enterprise, eveu all ca-
pacity of looking forward.
Again and again after that interview Geor-
gette tried to rouse him from his lethargy,
and entice him from the dead-alive country
town in which he was lost to the world. She
penned kind matter-of-fact little notes, such
notes as any rich woman may write to a poor
clergyman, making one proposal after an-
other. Now she wrote word that a church
was on the point of being built, and endowed
for him, in Paris, a parsonage-house should
be added; he must accept And when that
proposal was calmly and sadly rejected, came
another. Why, then, would he not go to
England aud settle himself among the French
Protestants of Loudon? A large following
surely awaited him there, and rich supporters
of the Reformed faith were ready to do for
him what had been proposed in Paris. He
should have his own church and ample means
of extending its usefulness. To all these
overtures the pastor made the same reply.
He thanked his 6weet benefactress, he was
overwhelmed with a sense of her good-
ness, but he was too old to change his
mode of life a second time. That was how
he put it, and Indeed and in truth, this man,
although still in his prime, felt the inertia an d
the spiritlessness of age. His splendid men-
tal powers were allowed to wear out, unused.
A weekly sermon to a scant congregation, the
occasional task of winning over some rustic
inquirer to the new faith, the supervision of a
small school, baptisms, burials, such were the
duties of one who might have risen to the
highest position In any church. Yet he seem-
ed not unhappy, rather passive and automatic,
as if the strings of psssion and action were
stopped forever, brought to a standstill by
some rude shock.
It was the same with Georgette. After
that journey to the parsonage amid the vines,
she returned whither she had come, and con-
tinued to lift in the world. Again and again
suitors demsnded her hand, but she steadfast-
ly refused to marry. With a little more deter-
mination of Character, a broader intellectual
horizon, she might have won for herself a con-
spicuous social position. She did indeed pre-
side over a salon, and pi ove the good genius
of many; bat, far the most pars, she frittered
away generosity and noble intention upon in-
significant objects. H?r favorite method of
doing good was to find proteges of young
struggling artists, authors, musicians, of the
Here was an adoration, a flattery
she could accept without shame or self-
approach. It pleased her to be adorned by
those who had nothing but adoration to give.
Her hotel in Paris, her chateau in Touraine,
were for the most part given up to this kind of
graceful single-minded hospitality; and when-
ever she travelled, with the suite of a prin-
cess, she was accompanied by some promising
painter, poet or archaeologist too poor to
travel on his own account
She did not seem unhappy, only pensive and
strangely indifferent to the good things For-
tune had heaped into her lap; strangely in-
different to life too! 8hc would visit cholera-
stricken patients, climb the most dangerou
mountain peaks, ride ungovernable horses,
and encounter perils of all kinds, without any
shrinking, much less real terror. In one
isolated respect were her outward habite
changed. She gave as munificently to bei
own church as before; she never openly seced-
ed from it, but it was well known that she
regularly attended a small Protestant temple
in one of the more obscure quarters of Paris.
Borrowers or Lenders.
Iu borrowing or lending men mav
~ n v
often change their positions, according
to the ups and downs of life. The bor-
rower of to-day may be the lender of
to-morrow. The lender of to-day be-
comes a borrower bye and bye. By
this change of position the pleasure
and pain of borrowing and lending are
distributed pretty equally among men.
It is pleasant to borrow, painful to
lend. In the first place, something is
attained for noth ng, which is the
highest aim of man in life. The lender,
in the second place, puts forth without
any return, and this is pa nful. To
pay back the borrower alwsiys finds
against the grain, while the lender is
overjoyed to be repafd. Tims the great
law of compensation shows itself even
in this matter.
The genuine borrower,a great one of
the great race, never pays back, and,
indeed, his superiority to the lender is
so manifest that payment is not expect-
ed of him. The public look with ad-
miration upon these borrowers, while
there is but little sympathy for the
lender who "goes broke." He is "a
chump," or peradveuture, a "sucker."
The borrower would appear to be the
broader man, the more trustful in hu-
man nature, while the mere fact that a
man can leud means he has been sel-
fish. He is regarded as the borrowers
legitimate prey as a punishment for
his criminal cumulativcness. The
borrower has the sublime effron-
tery of superiority. II j swoops
upon the lender for his tribute
as the feudal barons came down upon
the peasantry for theirs. Very little
sympathy is wasted by the public upon
the man who has been contidenced.
He has given unwillingly his lawful
tribute to his superior—the borrower.
The borrower represents, as Lamb
said, one-half the communistic idea—
the idea of "What's yours is mine."
He, as a general thing, represents
•'What's mine is my own." though, as
a necessity, lie must not hoard his
loans, else will he sink to the level of a
lender. Every man with his monev
has his affinity, who must borrow from
him. The man who neyer lends is an
anomaly in nature. The borrower is,
as a general thing a profligate—a jol-
ty, good-natured fellow. The reverse
of this is true, but the logic which savs
a man is a borrower because a profli-
gate is false. The brainy ones of the
earth have been borrowers; witness
that old literary coterie in Grub street,
that were always oscillating between
"flush" and "broke." Goldsmith was
either in a state of seige by cred tors
or decked out; in garments of various
hues. Savage was either "sitting
them up all around" or else lying abed
with his head through a hole in a
blanket, his clothes being "in hock."
Even Shakespeare was a borrower,
and Bacon, when not borrowing, was
being bribed. And Micawber, rare
Wilkins. how the world loves him as
the borrower par excellence! Any
man can earn money by working for
it, but to borrow requires genius of
the higher order. The borrowers
preserve the nation, for they keep the
money in circulation.—St. Louis Globe*
Democrat.
Her Dead Lover's Head in Her
Lap.
There is a little world of pathos in
the s mple story of the first burial at
Lawrence, Kas. Moses Pomeroy ar-
rived from Illinois in 1854, and set
bravely*to work to make a home for a
dear oue left beh nd. By dint of much
labor he improved h:s homestead con-
siderably and erected a tiny but com-
fortable house. Then, full of high
hopes for the future, he wrote for his
waiting sweetheart to come. The jour-
ney, mostly by stage and wagon, was
a long one, and when she arrived the
girl found her lover had expired but
the day before. He had been stricken
down by a disease much like mountain
fever shortly after writing for her, and
during his illness had had no thought
but for his coming sweetheart. He
was a praying man, and his constant
petition was that he might live long
enough to see her, but this was denied
him, and he died literally with her
name on his lips. The next day after
the girl's arrival the body of her lover
was borne to the tomb. The rude coffin
had been taken to the grave in ad-
vance. Laid on a bed of fragrant prai-
rie flowers, the body was carried in a
lumber wagon to the little cemetery.
The head of the dead man rested in
the lap of the living girl, who shielded
the form as well as possible from all
jar that came from the passage of the
springless wagon over the unworked
roads.—New York Sun.
One More Long Felt Want
Omaha Soak—"D d ye see what the
great Cardinal Manning savs? He says
a starving man has a right to steal his
neighbor's bread."
Saloonkeeper (combatively)—"That
don't give 3 on the right to steal my
whisky."
"Nov don't you get scared. I'm go-
ing to pay fer this whisky. Here's the
money. It's my last dime."
"Your last dime, eh! What'11 yon
do for dinner?"
Til steal that"—Ornate World
A ran! festivity at the village of Unterlie*
derbacb, near Welsbaden, Germany, brought
a number of young fellows together at an Inn.
I where they drank with the proprietor's son,
who, during the night, took tbem into hit
own room to rest there till morning. One of
them found an old rusty shotgun and began
handling it in soldier fashion. The son of the
Inn-keeper followed suit, when the gun went
off, killing one of the party on the spot. The
gun had been taken from the French in 1873,
and had been lying In the corner ever since.
Nobody thought it was loaded. Neverthe-
less the court sent the nnfortunste young
man to prison for three months.
Salvation Oil, the greatest cure on earth fot
pain, may be relied on to effect a cure wher-
ev er an external application can be used.
Pr'ce 25 cents.
It is the old. old story: Love at first sight!
A walk In tbe beautiful moonlight night; both
catch a dreadful cold and g¡ve up all hope,
but finally find relief in a bottle of Dr. Bull's
Cough Syrup, get married, and are at last
happy!
The white ties worn by New York waiters
are in most cases furnished by the house, anO
when tbe waiters not on duty the ties are left
with the head waiter.
Moxie Lozenges
Break a cold in twenty-four hoars, and prevent
one nnder the most severe exposure, while theii
nse does not render you more likely to take cold
afterwards, wrery woman keeps a few in hei
reticule for an emergency. Un cold, dam¡
days, you will see lots of people, in the draughts
of street cars, slipping one on their tongue. It
cents a package of thirty-six. Druggists every-
where.
Moxie nebve Food Co., Lowell, Mass., Prop's.
The Gallant Field Marshal.
We want to be counted on the side
of Miss Campbell, the plucky Ohio
girl, who has not submitted quietly to
be jilted by Mr. Arbuckle, the rich cof-
fee merchant of New York We
hope she will get a large percentage of
the money she claims, gentleman of
feeble livers and advanced years and
large sams of money should be taught
a lesson when they engage themselves
young women believed to be rich, and
run away as the briny tides of misfor-
tune begin to flow.—Murat Ha/stead,
in Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.
Fits: All Fits stopped free, by Dr. Kline's
Great Nerve Restorer. No Fits after first day's
use. Marvelous cures. Treatise and $2.00
trial bottle free to Fit cases. Send to Dr.
Kline. 931 Arch street, Philadelphia. Pa.
ST. JACOBS OIL.
WHAT IT HAS DONE.
Relief. —In any climate at any season one
or two applications of St. Jacobs Oil relieves;
often cures permanently. This is the average
experience in ten years.
"Mister Photographer, I do wish you would
please hurry; the little dear is getting sc
tired." ' Madam, do you want an anatómica
chartl"—Harper's Bazar.
Consumption Surely Cured.
To the Editor:—
Please inform your readers that I have a
positive remedy for the above named disease.
By Its timely use thousands of hopeless cases
have been permanently cured. I shall be
glad to send two bottles of my remedy free to
any of your readers who have consumption if
they will send me their Express and P. O. ad
dress. Respectfully,
t. a. Sloccm, m. c., 1si Pearl St, n. y.
Offer No.' 170.
Freel—To Merchants Only: A three-foot
French glass, oval-front Show Case. Address
at once, R. W. Taxsill & Co., 55 State St.,
Chicago.
WORTH KNOWING.
The worst Scald or Burn can be cured with-
out a scar if Cole's Carboliaalve is prompt-
ly used. It instantlv stops the pain. Sold by
'^irrcrists at 25 and *50 cents.
State of Ohio, City of Toledo ?
Luoas County, ss. )
Frank J. Chenet makes oath that he is the
senior partner of the firm of f. J. Chenet &
Co., doing business in the City of Toledo, Coun-
ty and ¡State aforesaid, and that said firm will
pay the sum of ONifi HUNDKED DOLLAHS
for each and every case of Catabbh that can
not be cured by the use of hall's Catarrh
cube. frank j. cheney.
Sworn to before me and subscribed in my
presence, this 6th day of December, a. D. '88.
A W. GLEAHON.
< seal > Notary Public.
Hall's Catarrh Cure is'taken internally and
acts directly upon the blood and mucus surfaces
of the system. Send for testimonials, free.
F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O.
t3^~Sold by druggists, 75 cents.
18 TEARS ASO.
For 18 years I have intended writing you.
I got my back hurt when about 10 years
ola. "When about 20 I took severe cold in
my back, so that for 10 or 12 years I suffered
death twice over, after almost giving up I
Waa induced to try Merrell's P<
Oil. My wife __
and halt a bott. ,
years have passed and my back still re-
mains good. I have recommended Mer«
relPs Penetrating Oil to all like sufferers
since* As long as I live I cannot say
enough for it. felix Miller,
To Merchant, Hico, Ark.
J. S. Merrell Drug Co., St. Louis, Mo.: !
Cures.—The contents of a bottle have cured
thousands of extreme chronic cases. Used ac-
cording to directions there is a cure in
every bottle.
The Testimony.—Thousands of testimo-
nials substantiate the above statements in the
cure of all kinds of painful ailments.
The Proof.—To make sure of this show-
ing, answers to inquiries concerning the per-
manency of the cures resulted as follows;
That from date of healing to date of response
every cure has remained permanent without re-
currence of pain.
Its Supremacy.—The twenty million bot-
tles sold can be justly rated as so many cures;
in almost every case* a permanent cure. Its
price is the surety of every bottle being the
same, every bottle being a cure and the poor
are protected.
Said by Druggists and Dealers Everywhere.
The Charles A. Vogelpr Co.. Tffd
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Have treated Dropsy and its complications with the
most wonderful miccess; use vegetable remedies entire-
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to twenty days. Cure patients pronounced hopeless by
the best of physicians. From the first dose the symptom*
rapidly disappear, and in ten days at least two-thirds of
all symptoms are removed.
Some may cry humbug without knering anything
about it. Remember it does not cost you anything to
realize the merit of our treatment for yourself, we
•l1*0 £onstant'y cur'nST cases of long standing—cases
that have been tapped a number of times and the pa-
tient declared, unable to live a week. Give a full bis to?*v
of case, name, age, sex. how long afflicted, Ac. Send for
free pamphlet, containing testimonials. Ten day s treat-
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|P cents in stamps to pay postage. Epilepsy (Fits) posi-
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100 at University of Penn.. Phtla.: 400 at Wellesley
College, and three large Classes at Chatauqua Uni-
versity. etc. Prospectus post free from
Prof. LOlssETTE, 237 5th At.. Mew York.
The treatment of many thousands of cases
of those chronic weaknesses and distressing
ailments peculiar to females, at the Invalids'
Hotel ana Surgical Institute, Buffalo, N. Y.,
has afforded a vast experience in nicely adapt-
ing1 and thoroughly testing remedies for the
cure of woman's peculiar maladies.
Dr. Pierce' Favorite Prescription
is the outgrowth, or result, of this great and
valuable experience. Thousands of testimo-
nials, received from patients and from physi-
cians who have tested it in the more aggra-
vated and obstinate cases which had bamed
their skill, prove it to be the most wonderful
remedy ever devised for the relief and cure of
suffering women. It is not recommended as a
" cure-aU," but as a most perfect Specific for
woman's peculiar ailments.
Aa a powerful, invigorating tonic,
it imparts strength to tne whole system,
and to the womb and its appendages in
particular. For overworked, ''worn-out,"
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dressmakers, seamstresses, "shop-girls," house-
keepers, nursing mothers, and feeble women
{generally, Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription
is the greatest earthly boon, being unequaled
as an appetizing cordial and restorative tonic.
As a soothing and strengthening
nervine. "Favorite Prescription" is une-
ualed ana is invaluable in allaying and sub-
uing nervous excitability, irritability, ex-
haustion, prostration, hysteria, spasms and
other distressing, nervous symptoms com-
monly attendant upon functional and organic
disease of the womb. It induces refreshing
sleep and relieves mental anxiety and de-
spondency.
Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription
3
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is a legitimate medicine, carefully
compounded by an experienced and skillful
physician, and adapted to woman's delicate
organization. It is purely vegetable in its
composition and perfectly1 harmless in its
effects in any condition or the system. For
morning sickness, or nausea, from whatever
cause arising, weak stomach, indigestion, dys-
pepsia and kindred symptoms, its use, in small
doses, will prove verv beneficial.
"Favorite Prescription " is a posi-
tive cure for the most complicated and ob-
stinate oases of leucorrhea, excessive flowing,
painful menstruation, unnatural suppressions,
prolapsus, or falling of the womb, weak back,
female weakness, anteversion. retroversion,
bearing-down sensations, chronic congestion,
inflammation and ulceration of the womb, in-
flammation, pain and tenderness in ovaries,
accompanied with "internal heat."
As a regulator and promoter of funo-
tional action, at that critical period of change
from girlhood to womanhood. "Favorite Pre-
scription " is a perfectly safe remedial 8gent,
and can produce only good results. It is
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RHEUMATISM,
Neuralgia, Headache, Sore Throat, Sprains,
Bruises, Burns, Wounds, Lame Back,
And All Pains Of An Inflammatory Nature.
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The Lumberman needs it In caso of accident.
The Heaaewife needs it for general family use.
The Mechanic needs it always on his work
bench.
The Miner needs it in case of emergency.
The Pioneer needs K-cnn't get atone with,
out it.
The Fanner needs it in his houses his stable,
and bis stock yanL-
The Bteaaeheat ms er the Beanaaun needs
It in liberal supply afloat and ashore.
The Uoree-fiamcier needs it—it is his best
friend and safest reliance.
The Stoch-erower needs it—ft will save him
ati
efficacious and valuable in its effects
when taken for those disorders and derange-
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period, known as " The Change of Life."
Favorito Prescription.** when taken
in connection with the use or Dr. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery, and small laxative
doses of Dr. Pierce's Purgative Pellets (Little
Liver Pills), cures Liver, Kidney and Bladder
diseases. Their combined use also removes
blood taints, and abolishes cancerous and
scrofulous humors from the system.
"Favorite Prescription** is the only
medicine for women, sold by druggists, under
a positive guarantee, from tbe manu-
facturers, that It will give satisfaction in every
case, or money will be refunded. This guaran-
tee has been printed on the bottle-wrapper,
and faithfully carried out for many years.
Large bottles (100 doses) $1.00. or six
bottles for $5.00.
For large, illustrated Treatise on Diseases of
Women (180 pages, paper-covered), send ten
cents in stamps. Address,
World's Dispensary Medical Issociation,
663 Main St, BUFFALO, N, Y.
Oar New Store, which we now occupy,
haa about 3 acres of Floor Space.
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WHISKEY
Strictly Pure tor Medldnsl Purposes.
Pure Old Pickwick Club Nour
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No charge for package. Send for sample order to
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Complete price list mailed free.
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cures serafala,
salt rbanm,
dyspepsia,
headache, kid*
nejr and liver
complaint, ca-
tarrh, rheuma-
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sure to g«t
Hood's Sana*
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tl: six for IB.
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V
Hood*a SarsaparUla told br
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Also Colic. Croup. Headache. Lame Back, Wounds,
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These Medicines are Warranted by your Druggist.
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dorse Big U aa Iba only
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We have sold Big G for
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faction.
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Whon 1 say cure I do not mean merely to stop
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