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CHAPTER V. fJH 2i tempted to rush off h was strongly home and dress himself and go iff to the Hall after

Dick, but he resis:- coiled up in a deep bed of hay. "Isn't cd the temptation j she lovely?" with a hope1 s j Dick Aylmer groaned Within himfeeling that he self; he had fallen from a paradise would gain nothing j of tenderness to the comparative perby it. that he would ! senality of a cat commonplace even

only vex himself by the tight of the other fellow philandering after the girl he had loved all his life. "She'll find him out after a bit." Im said to himself, '"and then she'll know how to value a man WfiO moans ever? word ay. and more than every worn- that he says." In the meantime Dick Aylmer wen: on and turned in at the hospitably open gate of Graveleigh Hall, with the assured air of one who knows before - hand what his welcome would be. "Is Miss Dimsdale at home?" he asked of BwImh whn mr.-.o in 11m dnnr in answer to his knock. "I am not sure, sir." Barbara answered. "Bat she may be in the garden I'll f.nd out. sir. in a minute." She disappeared agnin, leaving hirn there, and then a man ran out from the side of the house, to take the horse's head; and before Barbara ftpreared again. Dk k heard a light foot- i step on the gravel, and Dorothy herself, wearing a blue dress and a white sailor hat. eame Into tight "Oh! Mr. i Harris." she er led, in such a joyous i tone that Dick's heart fairly thumped in response. "I had no idea that you j were here. I wonder how it was I did not hear the wheels. Rome and he in - i trwteeed to my aunt: she is here, round this shrubbery we always sit here In the hot weather: the sight of the sea helps to keep one cool. Auntie." she continued, not giving him time to say a word, "this is Mr. Harris, whom I met at Lady Jane's, who Drought me home that day. you know;" then, turning to Dick, she said, "This is my aunt. Miss Dimsdale." I mm rery pleased to see you, Mr. Harris." said Miss Dimsdale, holding out her hand in a frank anu gracious welcome. Miss Dimsdale had the somewhat stiff manners of the last generation, or. 1 might say, of the first half of the century, but in her own house she was always more genial than in any other place, and Dic'.t Aylmer shook hands with her and feit well, that a very fate was following him in his acquaintance with Dorothy Strode, for here he was again forced, as it were, to be known as Harris, when all the time his real name vas Almer, and how was he to tell the old lady that some one or other had made a mistake that is. without fciving himself the look of an imposter? Like lightning there flashed through his mind an Idea that if Lady Jane had mistaken him for now body else, she had really no guarantee of his respectability, and with equal rapidity there shot through his brain a remembrance of his uncle's letter, his urea's threats and his ncele'i unyield ing, nnbendable yea, I must be hon- j rst and finish up the sentence as luck thought it his uncle's unyielding, unbendable, devil of a temper. And so. not from any contrivance or wish of his own. Dk'.:. in that awkward moment, let the mistake pass, and allowed the two ladies at Graveleigh Hall to believe that his name v. as, as they had imagined. Harris. In behavior he was very judicious; he talked mjre to the aunt than to the niece, although his eyes followed her wherever she went in a way which told Miss Dimsdale all too plainly what had brought him there. But, judging by his serene and sober conversation with Miss Dimsdale, you might have thought that Dick was sixty instead of six-and-twenty, and Miss Dimsdale was charmed with him. "Such a thoughtful, sensible fellow." she said to herself as she watched aim presently go across the lawn with Dorothy to see her Persian kittens, just at that time the very pride and Joy of her heart. Ay. but men were deceivers ever, sometimes quite unconscious though it bo. At that moment Dak was saying to Dorothy. " nd I thought the week would never get over the very longest week I ever lived." "Th n why didn't you come before?'' she asked, with innocent audacity. ('one before! But you sail that 1 wasn't to come till this week," he answered. "Beeiden, I didn't know I w isn't sure that I mightn't get bundled out neck and crop when I did come. Oh no. I didn't want to run the ri-k of that." "D. you often gt handled out neck ad crop when you go to eall at houss?" Dorothy inquired demurely, and with a sauey twinkle in her eye. "No. I don't." he replied with a laugh. "But I have known what, it was to have a (bcided cold shoulder, and I didn't want to find it here.'' "And you have not. I think Auntie has been particularly nice to you," she said, as she opened the door leading into the stable. Dick put his hand out to open the door also, and in doing so just touched hers. "I think," said he, In a dangerously tender tone, which would greatly ht-ve enlightened Miss Dimsdale, "that she is a delightful woman; she

I is fit to be your aunt;" and then Dorothy laughed a little, and pushed j the door open. ' "See. this is my Lorn a Doone." she said, going into the nearest stall, and showing him a ball of v bite tiuff though it was a Persian cat which j bore the name of Lorna Doone. and she loved it. It was a beautiful c.it without doubt, and it tinned its bond back at the sight of Dorothy, and purred loudly, and with evident satisfaction. "I want to know j ist what you think of her." said Dorothy to Die - "truly and honestly. Don't flatter me about her. Lorna and I don't like I flattery we want to know the truth ! about ourselves the brutal truth if j you WlHf but truth at any price. Now what do you think of her?" "I can't see her properly." answered Dick. "Lorna deari?. get up rod show yourself off." said Dorothy to the cat; then finding that the great white Persian did not move, she turned her out of her bed. and took the four kits into her own lap. "I think she Is lovely." said Dick. "Isn't she an enormous size?" "Immense." Dorothy answered, "and a great beauty too." By this time Dick had begun to tickle Lorna Doone's car. and that lady began to respond after the manBar of cats when they are not shy that is to say. she had put her two forepaws upon his knee as he sat on the bed of hay. and was vigorously rubbing her cheeks, first one side and then the other, against his hand. "She has taken to you," cried Dorothy gladly. "(if course she has: Lorna Doone knows a good thing when she sees it," he answered, laughing. "Besides, why shouldn't she take to me?" "Seme people don't like eats, said Dorothy, "especially men." She had not forgotten hov. the very last time he Was in the house. David Stevenson had kicked her favorite out of his way. not brutally or to hurt her for David, whatever his faults, was not a brute but because he was so jealous of Dorothy that he could not endure to see her care for anything. "How tan you waste your love WASTE YOUR LOVE OX A CAT. cn a brute of a eat?" he had burst out, when Dorothy had caught up Lorna and held her to her cheek. "Some men hate cats a man who comes here sometimes loathes her," she said to Dk k. and Dick knew by a son of Instinct who the "some, one" was. "Oh. some men are eroas-grained enough for anything," he said goodnaturedly he could afford to be goodnatured, for be had realized what this girl's real feelings for 'some one" were. "For my part. I must say I've got a liking for a cat, but I should hardly class a beauty like this with ordinary eats. She is not only a beauty to look at, but she is evidently af- ! rionate, and -and and she's yours, you know." "The tea Is waiting, Miss Dorothy," aid Barbara, appearing at the door ; at that moment. "Come," said Dorothy gently. CHAPTER VI. MAY come and see over you Diek again?" said to Miss Dimsdale. whea be took leave of her that afternoon. "Oh, yes," she answered. She was quite coDQuqered by the delightful - modesty of his manner. "Voti will generally find us in about four o'clock, for we are very quiet people, and a few tennis parties Of a dance Of two are all that Dorothy Sees of lifo. Sometimes I v.'sh that it was different; but old trees, you hnow," with a smile, "are difficult to transplant." "And Miss Dorothy does not look as if she found life at Graveleigh insupportable," said Dick, with delicate Itatrery. "No; Dorothy is a good girl," Miss Dimsdale replied in a tender undertone, and then she gave a little sigh

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which set Dick wondering whfat it could mean. Well, after this it very soon became an established custom that Dick should find his way over to Graveleigh at least twiee in every week, and sometimes Miss Dimsdale asked him to stay to share their dinner, for she was a woman of very hospitable nature, though she was quiet and somewhat stiff in manner, and a little oldfashioned in her ideas. And although David Stevenson had all her wishes on

' his side, she really grew to lice Dick ; the better of the two. for Dick was gentle and kind in his manner to each and all alike, content to let his wooing do Itself if the truth between you and me be told, bappy la the present, and a little inclined to leave the future to be as long the future as might be becau.se of the terrible old uncle in the background. Then, too, there was always present In his mind the knowledge that, sooner or latr. h would have to nike a clean breast of his identity to Miss Dimsdale and to Dorothy, and to cast himself upon their nurcy as regards the deception which had really been no fault of his, and to persuade them to consent to a secret marriage. And whenever poor Dick reached this point in his reflections, he invariably gave a groan of utter despair, for he had a dreadful foreboding that never, never would Dorothy's aunt give oven the most reluctant consent to anything of the kind. So the sweat autumn days skipped over September died and October was born, lived its alloted time, and in turn passed a Way and wintry November eame in. The last tinted leaves fell from the trees of the great oaks and horse chestnuts, and the tall poplars Which shrouded the hall were now but gaunt and shivering skeletons, only a memory of their old luxuriance and glory. But to Dorothy Strode the bare and leafless trees were more beautiful than they were either in their summer gowns of green or in all the manybued loveliness of their autumn frocks, for to Dorothy all tne world was lighted and beautified by the warmth and fii'o of radiant love better to her the leafless branches of November with love than the fairest blooms of springtime into which lore had not yet come. During this autumn she had seen but little of her old admirer, David Stevenson. He had gone to the Hall once or twice after he knew that "the man from Colchester " had bee une a frequent visitor there gone with a savage assertion of his rights as an old friend and a life-long intimate of the house. But when he found that Miss Dimsdale had. as he put it. "gone over to the enemy," he gave up even that much intercourse, and gave all his energies to his farming, content, as he told himself, to bide his time. At last about the middle of November When half the officers of the regiment were on leave, and soldiering and Colchester alike were as flat and dull as ditch water. Dich Aylmer cot into his dog-cart and turned the horse's head toward the big gates. "Hallo, Pick!" called out a brother officer to him, "where arc you going?" "Oh. a drive," returned Dick promptly. "Oh. a drive." repeated the other, noting the evasion Instantly trust a soldier for that. "(lot any room for a fellow?" "Take you as far as the town if you like," said Dick good-naturedly. "No. never mind," answered the oihtr. "I'll walk down with Snooks presently." "Didn't want a lift, you know," he explained to Bnooks, Who in polite society was known as Lord William Very, "but I did want to find out where old Dick was going. But Diek was ready for me, and as close as wax." "Yea, I know tried it on myself with him the other day." said Snooks reflectively. "Dick informed me he was maki: g a careful study of mare'snests for the benefit of the British Association." (To be continued.) Huxley ami Arnold. Dean Parrar records in his "Men I Hae Known" an amusing and perfectly good-natured retort which Mr. Matthew Arnold provoked from Professor Huxley, for the better appreciation of Which it may be added that the "sweetness and light" of which Mr. Arnold wrote were exemplified In his own very airy and charming manners: I sometimes met Huxley in company with Matthew Arnold, and nothing could be more delightful than the conversation elicited by their contrasted individualities. I remember a walk which I once took with them both through Unpleasant grounds of Paris Hill, where Mr. Arnold's cottage was. He was ashing Huxley whether he liked going out to dinner parties, and the professor answered that as a rule he did not like it at all. "Ah." said Mr. Arnold, "I rather like it. It Is rather nice to meet people." "Oh. yes." replied Huxley, "but we are not all such everlasting Cupids as you are!" 1 iin imcinalilc. It is part of a doctor's duty to keep up the spirits of his patient, since hopefulness is often the best of medicine', but the Cincinnati Enquirer cites a case In Which encouragement was carried almost too far. A man met with a frightful accident, as a result of which both 1 is legs had to be amputated. "Never mind," said the surgeon, a few days afterward, finding the poor man despondent; "never mid, we shall have you on your feet again within three weeks." Don't swear before a lady. A gentleman will always permit a lady to swear first.

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EARLY DAYS OF THE LATE THADDEUS STEVENS. errj-e Alfred Tonmrnil (Oath) Reveals Some Heretofore Unwritten History Mcven and BadUMUM Trior to the War Period. HIRTT years age the master of Pennsylvania politics was in tho house as now its master is in the senate. Thaddens Stevens seldom fished, and never fished south. His heme in Gettysburg is now a doctor's office and drug store on the best street, a well-built brick house, which the owner has courteously shown me. It is a pity it dues not hold a tablet in the wall, for. if ever there was a coincidence, it was that Stevens' litt'e town should have become the battle spot of Gettysburg. I saw Buchanan in his office at Wheatlands June 4. 1S68, writes Gath. He died of rheumatic gout at the age of 78. He was born one year before Stevens, in the same month of April. When Buchanan, In 1821, took his seat in congress SS a Federalist, Stevens was an obscure lawyer at Gettysburg. He had been refused admission to the bar at York, the next county town east, and went over into Maryland to be admitted by the Archers at Belair. whence he shook the dust of York from his feet to settle on the site of the great battle he portended fortyI 4 m& THADDEUS STEVENS, seven years later. At Relair. six years later, a fugitive actor settled in the woods. J. B. Booth, there to beget John Wilkes Booth. The representative of the man who admitted Stevens to the bar was lately an inmate of the Maryland penitentiary, Stevenson Archer. The bar at York, which passed a resolution that no man should be admitted to the bar who while a student followed any other business, afterwards luxuriated in the possession of Jerry Black and his son, Chauncey, critics of Lincoln and Stanton. At Gettysburg, Stevens, avoided, poor, with his mother's brood dependent upon him, known as the club-footed attorney, had a practice poor and unprofitable but rich In human nature for clients, till, poorest of all, a negro murderer was thrown at him to defend. A hopeless case, but his effort to do mercy and not justice astonished the boorish county, and he stepped into the best business, and began to manufacture iron and open railways to the Potomac. He defended fugitive slaves and allied himself with the John Quincy Adams men. and when Andrew Jackson's physical popularity in Pennsylvania threw hi;n bach into the minority ho took hold of anti-Masonry as th1 lever to break the Southern thrall, and stood beside Seward at the Baltimore convention of 1831, which nominated William Wirt, of Maryland. The convention was astonished at his eloquence. In 1833 he went to the state legislature from Gettysburg, and took up the championship of the newly made and already imperiled public schools. Instructed to vote for their repeal, he defied his constituency. A born leader, he faced General Patterson, who afterwards led the first army down the valley in a struggle against troops for the legislature, and expelled, he was elected from Gettysburg, and sat till 1841, when he moved to the rich town of Lancaster, and became the greatest jury lawyer there, and in 1848 the Whigs sent him to congress, where he opened the attack on slavery, wltb Howell Cobb In the chair. He was rich, nnwedded, fearless a rich man not afraid of his property. "I honor the courageous South," he cried. "All her sons are faithful to human bondage because it is their cause. Do you believe that the North, tame as she Is, when so often trodden upon, will never turn? And if the issue bo made, the result cannot be doubtful. You will never vindicate yourselves by a separate confederacy." Such was the voice from Gettysburg in "8r0. Buchanan, from Lancaster, had been !n the cabinet and senate when Stevens withdrew from congress for sixyears, and reappeared there in 1S"), sixty-seven years old, but the leader. Buchanan in the White House was his constituent; they never spoke as they passed by. "It is a libel on Pennsylvania," he cried In the most opposite spirit to his townsman president, "to say that she will purchase peace by unprincipled conc essions to armed insurgents. If I thought such was her character I irould expatriate myself. I would leave the land where 1 have spent my life from early manhood to declining age and would seek some spot untainted by .he coward breath of servility and noannoss. To her pleasant valleys I would prefer the rugged, bold state of

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j back to Washington from the South he refused the hand of Colfax and pressed to take that of Stevens. At the head of the ways and means committee he raised the revenue which beat Davis. Lee. and the other Stephens. "No truce with the rebels," was his stern speech, "except to bury the dead." December 2. 1SG1. he introduced the bill to emancipate the slave.-, nearly a year before Lincoln acted. He was the greatest revolutionary leader after John Adams and the Continental Congress of 1770. DUNS DELINQUENTS. Monitor Vsi-a lv Utthodisi Church In Owroa. After careful consiueration the Centenary Methodist church of Portland, Ore., has decided upon a novel plan for raising funds necessary in conducting the affairs of the congregation. It was suggested by the pastor, Rev. J. J. Waters, who has determined tn ran kta . church as a democracy, giving every body opportunity and inducement to contribute. At a meeting of inlluential members he explained his plan. He showed a lare roer with all the members of the church on it. Opposite each name are fifty-two spaces for credit marks. The roster is placed in the vestibule of the church, where it remains, and is In plain view of everyone entering the church. At the close of every month the roster is taken down and all who hare contributed anything to the current expenses of the church are checked up in tho spaces opposite the names. The amount paid is not given, but the check indicates that something, however small, has been p.;id toward the support of the church. The contributions come into the hands of the club by means of envelopes, and the amount and name are obtained in this way. The roster will show just who has paid anything and who has not. It is claimed for the system that the delinquents get tired after a while seeing the row of blanks after names and begin to pay something in order to fill up the blank space.-;. It is a sort of ever-present dunning board. It looks down with Significant silence on every member who enters the church door. The delinquent cannot escape its all-seeing eye. Whether present or absent, he knows it is there, and the blank spaces serrn constantly to say "Pay something." The meeting adopted the plan unanimously. A NEW RAPID-FiRE PISTOL. The new ?.Iannlicher rapid-fire pistol has recently been brought to this country for the purpose of exhibiting it to the authorities at Washington and seeking to have it adopted for use in the United States army. As the name of the new weapon implies it is not a revolver, but it can discharge five cartridges in rapid succession, five cartridges being an ordinary load, and it can be reloaded with that number of cartridges in much less time than it takes to load a revolver. As the empty shell is thrown out every time a cartridge is fired the weapon is ready to be reloaded as soon as the last of the five is discharged. The chief importance of the weapon, however, rests in ihe fact that it uses the smokeless powder cartridges, which would blow an ordinary revolver to pieces, and it thus becomes a most formidable weapon for army use. Its action is much like that of the Mannlicher rifle, which is well known to military men. The bullets fired from it have so much initial velocity that at a distance of twenty feet from the pistol they go through twenty-eight sheets of iron, each 121,000t hs of an inch thick. The weapon is loaded by bringing to SHOWING METHOD OF LOADING, a full cock, pushing forward the barrel by the aid of the middle sight, placing the cartridge charger in the special groove of the magazine aperture and loading the five cartridges into the magazine by a single pressure of the finger. The magazine may also be loaded by inserting, one after the other, five cartridges into the slot and pressing them home. To extract the cartridges it is sufficient to push the barrel forward, as before, as far as possible; and each operation will eject one cartridge. All They Could lo. There is a good old story of a general whose death was announced in a newspaper by mistake a circumstance which annoyed him very much. He called on the editor and demanded that a contradiction should be inserted in the next issue. " That, general," was the editor's reply, ' is quite out of the question. We never apologize and we never withdraw a statement; but I tell you what we'll do for you. We'll put you in the 'births' next week." An Eleetrlc I'en. Among the many curious Inventions in which electricity plays the principal role is mentioned a pen. provided near the point with a minute incandescent lamp intended to illumine a small space on the paper, and prevented from shining into the eyes of the writer by a little reflector placed Just above It.

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By feeding poultry rrnd stock with cooked food during the winter months, at least one-third of the food is saved; also having stock in a healthy condition, preventing hog cholera among your hogs, and insuring the hens laying freely during the winter months when eggs are always wanted at high prices. This Cooker will pay for itself In one week's time and is without doubt the best and cheapest on the market just what its nam1 implies, a Farmer's Handy Feed Cooker. Upon application to the Empire Manufacturing Co.. 615 H street. Quincy. 111., a catalogue, giving a full description, may be obtained. They nre made in all sizes. A Very Rich Haby. The greatest heiress in the world is the baby Grand Duchess Olga, daughter of the Czar and Czarina of Russia. Already she is one of the richest persons in the world, and what she will Inherit is beyond .-omputation. Her bassinette is studded with precious stones, and she has a doll whose dress is ornamented with priceless emeralds. Every pin used to fasten her imperial garments is made pure gold. The week she was born l.oOu,000 was settled on her. The sum was invested in British. French and other foreign securities, as the czar, like other monarchs. is not absolutely certain of the future, and does not wish his family to be in need at any time of the accessaries of life. AN OPEN LETTER TO MOTHERS. Wo are asserting in the courts our rirht to trie exclusive use of the word "C ASTORIA," sad "PITCHER'S CASTI RIA.-" a our Tni.ie Mark. I, Dr. Basiuel Pitcher, of Hyannis. Massachusetts, was the originator of "PITCHER'S CAST( UIA," tfefl mono that has bOfBfl and doos now bear the fac-similo signature of CHAS. H. FLETCHER on every wrapper. This is the ori-inal "PITCHER'S CASTORIA" which has been used in the homes of the mothers of America for over thirty years. Look carefully at the wrapper and ne that it is "the kind you have always bought," and has the signature of CHAS. H. FLETCHER on the Wrapper. No one has authority from me to use my name 9 except The Centaur Compan of which C'has. H. Fletcher is President. March 8. VBK. SAMl'KL PITCHER. M. D. Prevent iiic Ship I roin Sinking. It is proposed to construct the hatches on ships so that pressure from below will fix them more firmly m their seats. This implies that they shall be air tight. Then as long as a ship with a hole in her does not capsize, the confined air will give her a chance at least of lloating. At present hatches are put in from above and are designed to exclude derk wat-r, not to restrain air. An air-tight hold would make it possible to force out water down to the level of a leak by pumping in air. Try Or:wn-0. Ask your grocer to-day to show you ; a package of GHAIN-O, the new food j drink that takes the place of coffee. The children may drink it without injury as well as the adult. All who try it like it. GRAIN-0 has that rich seal brown of Mocha or Java, but it is made from pure grains, and the most delicate stomach receives it without distress. the price of coffee. 15 cents and 25 cents per package. Sold by all grocers. Tastes like coffee. Looks like coffee. Sleepern Made of Cast-iron. Cast-iron sleepers are fast taking the place of the steel sleepers on account of their greater durability find the saving when worn of 70 per cent of the original cost by remelting. Wooden sleepers are not plentiful, while those of steel are cheaper than the cast iron at first cost: they do ao: last so well, nor when worn can thy be put to further use. Kead the Advertlaementü. You will enjoy tnls publication much better if you will get into the habit of reading the advertisements; they will afford a most interesting study and will put you In the way of getting some excellent bargains. Our advertisers are reliable, they send what they advert'se. Old Woman 011 a Stone rile. Because her son wouldn't work, 60-year-old Agnes Boatman went on the city rock-pile at Williamsport. Pa., and hammered away for a day. She had applied for assistance and her .son could have broken stone at $1 a day, but wouldn't. Hlchctt Chimney In America. The highest chimney in America is that of the Grant smelter, Denver, Col. It is 325 feet in height and cost $50,000. Don't Tobacco Spit and Smoke Your Lite Awav. Toijult tobacco easily and forever, be mannet ic. full of lif. nerve and vi:or. take No-To-Bsc, the wonder-worker, that makes weak men strong. AUdragg1St,Me.OrL Cure guaranteed. Booklet ami sample free. A.i.lresi StcrliiiK Kemotlv Co.. CMeSflO or New York An ordinance has lately been promulgated in Japan exhorting the people to eat more freely of meat, with a view to increasing the average hight of the race. It is easy to find fault but it's hard to tell what to do with iL