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CHAPTER XIL

WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEBX.

In spite of the pains and trouble at which Beautiful Jim hod been in order to secure a quiet half hour with Nancy Earle, they were not long left undisturbed under the shadow of tho wide spreading tie© beneath which they had taken refuge. For hardly had they settled themselves there In comfort before little Violet Leslie, followed by the incorrigible Tommy, pushed aside the branches and invaded their retreat and the incorrigible Tommy, it must be understood, was quite too full and overflowing with his own importance to dream for a moment of betaking himself out of the way for the convenience and pleasure of his senior officer.

And that happened to be tho very last chance he had of a quiet quarter of an hour with Nancy Eiurle before she left Blankhampton. Tor no sooner did they emerge from the shelter of the branches 1l.au they were seized upon bv two of the Leslie girls, who demanded in their friendliest tones what was the state of business at Lady Margaret's stall.

Now, in Beautiful Jim's opinion, as in that of ir.iny another eixui. the Leslie sisters wcrj quite the most brilliant and attractive girls in the town, but, as a truthful chronicler of Blankhampton life, I must own that, at that moment, he found himself wondering what In the wide world ho could ever have seen attractive about any one of them. Poor Jim I

Beautiful Jim.

By John Strange Inter,

that moment until they were

summoned into the Deanery for supper, he did not get rid of them, and by that time bis last chance of a quiet talk with Nancy was gone.

The Leslies did not go into the Deanery, having a little festivity of their own that night but as they parted from Nancy at the door somo suspicion of the truth dawned upon Sarah. "Norrie," she exclaimed, as soon as they were out of ear shot, "did you notire anything unusual about Beautiful Jim to-night?" "I thought be seemed uncommonly flat—for him. that is," returned Norah,

"iJs that Miss Earle," exclaimed Sarah "and he is as gone on her as possible. What a joke—and oh! poor old fellow, iame wo oouldn leave them towhat a shame gether she's going "Oh, there's tl

away on Monday/ a parish to-morrow,'

said Norah, easily. "Oh. but he is on duty to-morrow, Sarah cried. "Young Towers told me so, because Jim wanted nim to do It, and he wouldn't. He said old Jim was In an awful way about It." "Then I think he might have taken It, nasty little wretch!' said Norah, who had but little love for Towers. "Let us snub him all wo know to morrow

But ail tho anubbingln the world didn't alter tho fact that Beautiful Jim had found no oue willing to da his duty, or that he was eating his very heart out In barracks on Nancy Earle last day In Blankhampton. for Nancy

the sweetness and ymiw mUM"XBS bedroom that night thinking! First. ten when Violet Las-

He and Stuart came under the tree—as if poor dear Stuart would ever dream that they had gone there for more than fire minutes' rest from the noise and turmoil of the fair. And how, when he had espied his servant In the crowd, he had given that hideous cushion to him, and hade him take It back to barracks with neat oare. Then how he had sat beside her at supper, and how tender and gentle he had been, and hew he had held her hand at parting and looked at her—whjy, positively, her cheeks were burning as •he thought of It. And then another thought rose up In her mind, a thought ef which, owing to her training and the traditions ef her house, she felt more than half ashamed. "If only Stuart had net chosen just that spot and just that moment to take little Violet Leslie out of the crowd—ah! how different all might have been"—and then her eyes fell upon the child's little velvet pelisse which Jim had won and left behind him.

CHAPTER XITT. nr xsw qnARTKR*.

At last the time of young Stuart Earle's first long leave was over, and he went to Blankhampton to join his regiment, when for several months his life was certainly not of tho most pleasant kind, and was very different from any experience be had had before.

For one thing, he had made a bad impression at his very first appearance among them on each and all of his brother officers, from his commanding officer down to tho latest joined subaltern, so that every one of them was on the look out for the smallest sign of that "cheek" which every man of them felt it was his personal and particular duty to try to eradicate. A difficult task even for the united strength of a whole regiment, for Tommy's native bounce was apparently of unlimited quantity, while in quality, as bounce, It was of the very first water.

So far as hi* manners in the mess room •were concerned, he was in an incredibly short time what Beautitul Jim called "licked into shape," but In other ways Tommy proved himself to be simply Incorrigible. For Instance, he never could be broucht to see that la Blankhampton society he was In any way Inferior to his senior officers, and even tn tl italaee of tho lord bishop himself he made ne more ado about openly chaffing R* "fai Jim. or telling an absurd tale at major's expense, than he did of flirting desperately with UtUe Vk*~* Li who was barely out of the sc! 1 m. Indeed, before' six months had gone by. Tommy had the name of being the st it ident young cub who haJ*ver art. tfc. blankshire regiment or the old city of Blankhampton hv his presence.

It must be owned that the women had had a good deal to do with it—they utterly spoiled him, for they wed htm to take almost any liberties t—I he c.K~*e, young, Ijr beautiful In f*s the la** neatly dl .a-

partly because he wi because he was so I

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guished nca Nota«* fee* that ass was I did not go flying off to charmer, and he **Vr understand that to going to tea parties the central ft. to Totnui moaot——agd the

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convocation, And to dances where Tommy's audacious flirtations made him the observed of ail observers.

But, th*"gh Tommy did not become very popular in his regiment, he was popular enough in the town to satisfy any ordinary craving after the approval of the many. He became after the first few weeks, the intimate friend of all classes —he was "Tommy" from one end of Blankhampton to the other.

Beautiful Jim did his best, but his influence went a very short way, for his advice wss anything but palatable to the last of the Esrles, and it must indeed be a very strong and firm will which can follow tne most excellent advice is the world if it is unpleasant, to the exclusion of all that life worth having, a much stronger will than Tommy was blessed with. In truth, all Tommy's strength of -pose went In an opposite direction, of serving his own ends and gratifying his own sense of pleasure. "Look here, you young beggar, said Jim one day to him, being moved thereto not by any desire to do Tommy good, but by en uncomfortable feeling that she would be grieved if she could see all that went on in PlMi^"nir^on society, if you go on like this, what uo you mean to come to—heyT

Tommy looked up with his own unabashed gaze. "What on earth have I been doinp to upset you now?" he demanded. "Well, 1 saw you myself kiss no fewer than three women last night," Beautiful Jim growled- "The greater fools they to let you." "like to havo been there yourself, ehr' remarked Tommy, fli

If Beautiful Jim felt half as contemptuous as he looked at that moment he must have attained to the very furthest limits of disdain, for his ugly face seemed petri fled with unutterable disgust. "Like to have been there," he repeated "Why. you young idiot, do you suppose there's a single woman, married or maid, in the whole of Blankhampton, that would give you so much as a look if I took the trouble to be civil to her? Bless you, child, don't flatter yourself. Why, it's because these women think you're such a baby—such a nothing—such a non-danger-ous scrap of humanity—that they let you make the young show of yourself that you do. But what I want to know Is, what the devil do you mean to come to?' "Well, veally, Jim," Tommy replied, with a certain "last of the Earles"haughtiness In his tone, "It seems to me you're troubling yourself In a very unnecessary way about my privato affairs, and"

But Beautiful Jim had broken Into shouts/of derisive laughter. "Tommy, Tommy, youll be the death of me yet

you

will, indeed," he said. "Your private affairs—why, bless me. child, the last joined sub hasn't got any private affairs except in 'applying' for leave. Private iffairs,

Indeed! Well, It's too lovely, that

—simply too lovely," Tommy looked blandly blank. "I dare lay It's very funny, Jim," he said, easily, •'but whero's tho johe?" —J IBT EtpTfytfogftS keep the lad from making a fool of himjelf with the Blankhampton women, and rained nothing whatever by the attempt had made, except to make Tommy Irmly believe from that time forward that die senior subaltern was eaten alive with lealousy of htm. And If he had only known that Beautiful Jim's whole heart and mind was wrapped up in his own sis terl If he had only known that to hhn, he—Tommy—was simply nothing but an Impudent young cub whose only claim to Interest, or even notioe, lay In the fact he was the brother of that Insignificant and not-to-be-eounted creature, Nancv Earls —well, It would have helped to takedown the young gentleman's Idea of his own greatness and his own importance mar' veloualy.

Unfortunately, however, Jim had not. during all those months, the ghost of a chance of furthering his position with Nancy, for almost Immediately after Tommy joined the regiment Mr. Earle was seised with a somewhat severe at tack of bronchitis, and by the orders of his medical advisers was on the very first ordered off to the sunny of the Mediterranean, there to atay until the very last erst wind of our ungenial spring time should have taken its departure from his nativre shores. it had been a bitter blow to him, but it was useless to though he tried he was, owing to various rumors of disturbance floating about tho country at the time, unable to get it.

fight against fate, and 1 hard for foreign leave,

Just at first he wss rather elated at the prospect of a change. There was a some thing jaunty and soldierly about marching out, colors firing, band plaving, and a dosen broken hearts behind them, and for a few hours Tommy went airly round announcing that they were off to Walmsbury next woek. with a "fresh fields and pastures new" air about him that was irresistibly funny to those of his brother officers who knew what manner of place Walmsbnry really was.

But the elation of this yotmg Alexander, longing for mors worlds to oonquer, did not last long. From "tike fellows** he learned nothing Indeed, for aay inform atlon he would have had from them he would have remained in the ignorance which is bliss, doubly so in this case, until be reached Walmsbary itself tat In Blankhampton it was different. "Going to Walmsbury," cried one lady to whom he told Ids news with a very "girl I leave behind me" sort of air. **Oh,

nothing to do and nowhere to go,

and not a soul In the place that you can possibly know. No society whatever." "Oh! I dont know, Mrs. Fairlie," said Tommy, trying not to look as If his jaw was dropping perceptibly, ye* with aa uncomfortable sort of feeling that the Lady, who was quite a small social celebrity in her war la Blankhampton. was right tn what site said, "there must he plenty of good people round about." "My dear hoy, none," returned Mrs. Fsiriie, with aa emphasis which kilted the lset r. oaatof jaaattae left in him. "Not a who will take the very •mall#"* of you." "T»» the maaileet notice of atef fr ag as if an earth--dde.. real the ground un their v, ry III-.--: "Yt*. ••••.' Everybody wT--- anybody i' Km4w»Mof iry," Mi*. -i. wish

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Why, you'll be buried altve in Wal*uh

of thousands, 'tjdffilmaieelike your own they only regard aa useful in having got together fine country places for them to buy and as for any one of them ever asking you to dinner—why, they would almost as soon ask their sweep. Oh! my dear child, I assure you, going to Walmsbury you'll find yourself in no bed of roses." "But, Mrs. Fairlie," ssid Tommy, when he could get his breath so as to speak, havo you ever been to Walmsbury?* "Never," returned the lady, promptly. "Then how do you know all thisY" he inquired, triumphantly. "From the unfortunate men who have been quartered there," she replied immediately, and

Tommy

with. ii But Mrs. Fairlie was only the first of many who condoled with him on tho misfortune of being sent to a placo so uncouth, so unattractive In everv way as Walmsbury. Thus the young Alexander's thoughts and ideas underwent a complete revolution, and by the time half the week —the l&st week in Blankhampton—was over, his Indignation and disgust at his fate had positively reached their furthest limits. And then when they got to the hated place, and he found himself in his own miserable, deserted quarters, he became simply abject. When he saw the dirty, unattraotive streets, the pokey little shops, the 111 looking men and women, and the utter absence of any and every sort of rank and fashion. he fell Into a settled misery of regret

For the first time since he had joined his regiment Tommy regretted sincerely that he had not, when he had the chance, made himself more popular with his brother officers than he had dons. For he found Walmsbury no better that a prison, the very end of the earth, tho abomination of desolation! Moreover, he was fairly thrown on his beam ends for lack of fern Inine society

And, as the natural result of all this, it was not very long before Master Tommy Earlo got Into very unmistakable mischief, indeed.

hut It lsj^oi|jaPSfifS"^Bcers quart ex's at Walmsbury were arranged. It was not a barracks Intended for the accommodation of a regiment, but only for a detachment ef such regiment as might be quartered at Blankhampton. On the left of the principal entrance gate stood the larger of two blocks of buildings—this contained the guard room and cells, the men's rooms, and the married and sergeants' quarters on the right was a seoond block, which contained on the ground floor the orderly room and office, the mesarooms, and some other rooms used either for married officers' quarters or aa quarters for stall offioers, such as the doctor or pavmaster, if one happened to be needed. On the floor abonre were seven good sissd rooms and a! kitchen used In common by all the cers* servants on that storv.

This kitchen overlooked the road, and was of Irregular shape, owing to the fact that the well of the staircase was taken out of It. On the side of it furthest from the entrance gate was an empty room, and on the other were the two rooms usually appropriated to the officer commanding the detachment, though, in this case, Owen had not troubled to furnish both rooms, and had only brought a por tion of his goods and chattels from headquarters. Thus the room en either side of the kitchen was empty, while on the other side of the corridor which cut that floor of the building in halves were the quarters occupied by the doctor—who preferred to be on the upper story—Beau tlful Jim. Tommy Earle and young Man ners.

Thus Beautiful Jim's room was exactly opposite to the kitchen and it happened that one lonely evening at the begianii of May, after he had spent an hour wi a pipe and the pleasure of dreaming about his sweet Nancy Earle, he was just beginning to think It was time to dress for mess, when Capt. Owen opened the door unceremoniously and walked in.

That something serious had ha: to disturb tOwen, Jim saw at once by the unusual cloud on his solemn, good phis, which was to him the dearest in the whole regiment. "Hallo! old man, what's up?" he demanded.

It was still chilly enough. i& spite of the lovely spring weather, for all the offioers to have their fires biasing half way up their chimneys, and Owen, with the usual freedom of barrack life, began to tell him what was the matter by possessing himself of the poker and vigonraaly smashing the big lumps of coal. "What on earth is itf Jim asked, his curiosity now thoroughly aroused for Owen was a man of ouite unusually equable temper, aad this display of mental disturbance betrayed that something greatly eat of the common had happeoed to ruffie him. "That young ass, Tomm y," Owen burst oat in contemptuous disgust. "What—has he beea at it again?" Jfaa asked, not much surprised, except that Owen should think enough about Tommy to he annoyed by anything he might take It Into his empty young head to do. "And what's he been after? Mischief, of eouree," with an amused laugh "Mischief! I believe ml The young fotd—the Idiot—the—fast look here^ "^Idtogout his hand. "Way, that's Tommy's flashiest rizur— ata all gvetea Oabrieile's rings to flu," Jfaa esdaiasdL "Where in the world did it itf Surely youmr Tommv hasat Iwa «to psyrt32 to Us atnux 4et!rer "If the re wouldn't be mradi dor rw! Owen. No, it's 55—!5T~ toA^FJUiat

FERRE HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL

CHAPTER XIV. §f A TERBIBLE DREAM.

It Is not often that I wish my readers to follow me through a very close descrlp tion of bricks and mortar, of stairways and rooms, of doorway-j and win*

pert little barmaid at the Duck's Tailf 'Yes." I went in there this afternoon to get the address of that horse dealer that Whittaker told me about, and I found my lady dusting her bottles and counters so on with this blazing on her hand. Knew the ring In a minute, and, by Jove! I was down upon her like a terrier on a rat 'Where did you get that ringf I asked.

What's that to you?* she said, with as much cheek as even Tommy himself could have shown. 'You get It out of Mr. Earle,' ssid I. "'And what if I didf she returned, pertly.

A good deal,' said I In fact, last this: You're a good many years older Mr. Earle—ten at least—you're anything but a reputable woman, and, in fact, if you were as good as an angel out of heaven—which you are not—you'ro just about the last woman in the world (hat, his family would ever receive if you bamboozled him into marrying you. 1 seo you're wearing It on your engaged finger, and I suppose that means that you havo inveigled him into promising to replace it by a plain one. But he will do nothing of the sort, and you will just hand that ring over at onco to me. Wo don.'t allow our young officers to go about marrying any one they like, particularly such a woman as you are.' 'And it I don't?* she asked, insolently. 'If you don't? Well, I happen to be Mr. Earle's commanding officer just now,

sad

was crushed forth­

unless you at onco give me that ring and your solemn promise to make no further attempt to get him to marry you, I simply put him under arrest and keep him then until his father comes, and his father will very soon straighten np, I promise you. Remember, ne Is not 19 yot—that he's an infant—a minor and cant eveu make a legal marriage without his father's consent until hels one-and-twenty.

He Is absolutely de­

pendent upon his father, too, for every farthing hu has or ever will have so just me over that ring, and I will settle the matter with him.' And the end of it all was," Owen wound up, "that sho gavo me the ring and her solemn pledge to have dono with tho young fool for good and all. Of course it was pretty nearly all bounce that I said, and would not havo borne a moment's reflection If ,6bo had been a belter educated woman but it has served its turn, and it seems to me that anything Is justifiable to save young fool from coming such a cropper as that." "Yes, that's so," murmured Jim, turn Ing the ring over, and thlnkihg what she would say if she knew about it.

It was a valuable and very beautiful ring, the finest one of many possessed by the object of Owen's righteous iudif"**tion. In the center was a large sapp, of great price, on which was engraved the crest and motto of the Earles. Surrounding this were diamonds of much beauftr, which flashed and sparkled as the firelight fell upon them. "Have you seen him?" Jim askod at last, looking up from the ring. "No, I went into his room, but he has not come back from Blankhampton yet he Is due to-night, though," Owen an swered. "I think If he makes any fuss about the matter I had better write to the colonel and tell him about it, and get him to send one of the other fellows here and let the young ass go back to the regi ment. What do you think?" .Si tbiwfc. into the devil's awn faith In Tommy having been shattered long before. ''Perhaps still there are plenty of ladles in Blankhampton to keep him out of harm's way, and If he were to go and get engaged to one of the Leslie giris, her father would soon choke him off or, if he wouldn't be choked off, old Earle couldn't possibly object to anything in the engage ment but his son's youth and general Idiocy. Well, I suppose I must be off to dress it only wants ten minutes to mess now-—then, without waiting for are Owen went out, shutting the door wiih*a bang, and leaving Beautiful Jim with Tommy Earle's ring still in his hand.

They had a sort of guest night that evening, for in addition to the three officers of the Blankshire regiment and the doctor, who messed with them, they bad a young fellow staying a mile or two away who was not or the millionaire common to the Walmsbury neighborh the officer In charge of the commissariat department, the clergyman who acted as chaplain and the Roman Catholic priest of the district.

Thus it was quite a dinner party apd although Beautiful Jim looked once or twice across the table at Owen to *ee whether he had got over his annoyance, he very soon entered into a discussion on a more Interesting subject than Tommy's delinquencies, with his neighbor, the priest, and speedily forgot all about the matter.

Nor did he remember it till Tommy himself came on to the scene some hours later, apparently utterly tired out with the short journey from Blankhampton, whisre he had been spending a two days' leave. It struck him more than once that the lad looked very white and fagged, and he put It down to his having tried to cram too much into the few hours he had had to spend In the old city. "Any news from Blankhampton. Tommy?" tee inquired, civilly. "None in particular, returned Tommy, then got up and moved away as if be had heard enough on the subject of Blankhampton, and did not want to be questioned about it. "Poor lad," said Beautiful Jim to himself, "1m has evidently had an awakening to the real value of the charms and fascinations at the Duck's TaiL What a good thing for him! Poor old Owen will find the business ought."

easier to manage than he

He looked across the room at his friend, and found his thoughts running away to his little cousin, Nell Marchmont. Jim had never said a weed, and Nell had never said a word eitber~yet he knew that Owen had spent the greater part of his leave in London, and guessed that he had tiled his fste and that Neil had said no. Suspecting this, he had purpoeely spoken to her of Owen mon than ones, and she had flashed up a little at the mention of his name, sad a eertain dewy tenderness had coats into her eyes, a tenderness so tinged with sorrow that Jim gfeaaed all the information that he wanted from it Well, it was a pity, and Jim wished to the very bottom of his heart thst it hsd otherwise bat still. If NeO did not

It in that light it was no use his thinktlt.

ing any a And by and hf their gueets went away tad the four offieers went off to their rooms, Osneu going into Jim's for a last pipe test red of tandac to the left toward lis own. And for aa hour or so they sat istiier smoking and chatting, and An his frieod his suspicions shout Tom's disenchantment, to his aatiction, it need hardly he said. •And, by the bye, Owen, you feft the yoang fool's ring with aa. Ill give It to you.. Jiowt_whst thfe J&j4*far

have done with my keys? Ton my soul, Leader's infernal tidiness is the very curse of my existence. 1 don know where he has put them."? "Never mind, old chap, you dan give It to me to-mdhvw," answered Owen, who was {getting tired. "Oood nlght, old fellow,**

'Good-night, oid ehap," retained Jim, cheerily. It is safe to my that he wss hot five minutes in throwing wff his slothes sad tumbling into t*£ and te teas than a minute after thst he wm sottttd asleep and drauulng—dreamitt# that lie hsd committed some terrible miedtmneaaor, «nd that Owen—old Owen, his own especial chum—ended with, 'totwider yourself under closo arrest. Go to your room at once, and I will send for your sword."

The dream was so real thst he awoke trembling from heed to foot, to find the fire still blazing cheerfully, and the sound of footsteps going along the corridor out side."

Gad, what rot a fellow can dream," he said, and turning over fell suleep once more. [TO BE COKTETUKD.]

THE ONE LEFT BEHIND.

What Pond »nd FoolUh Creature* Won*u Sometime* Are, Blew Them The one who is left behind—eh, the one who is left behind! it is almost always woman. What does she do# If she loves the careless, happy-go-lucky young fellow the deliberate, sanctimonious old fellow, she will gaze after liim through a vista of tears as long as there is apiece of hhn in sight and than she will rush up xtairs and grab one of his old vests or coats or plunge her head Into an old hat that has been left behind too, and cry like the big baby she is. At breakfast bar

coffee

will taste salty like tears, and at

dinner her soup will be tasteless. If she sleeps at all for the first few nights she dreams th«r. she sees her beloved afar off. He is ^vttning towards her with a smile of love on his face. He comes nearer and nearer. She stretches out her arms to embrace him. dark cioud falls between. She calls, but he does not answer. Sho gropes around In the darkness, but she cannot find him, and she wakes, sobbing, to find herself sitting up in bed with her

arras

outstretched and the tears

streaming down her face. Ah. is there a woman

who

loves much, who has notdreamed

such dreams when parted from her beloved! Careless Charlie or solemn Solomon prom bed to write from the first stopping place. They forgot to do It, of course but the one who is left behind does not forget to look for the letter. She starts and trembles st every aound of the doorbell, and if it rings unusually sharp and quick, she is sure it is the telegraph messenger bringing the news of a railroad or steamboat disaster, in which her beloved has been mashed as flat as flounder, or blown sky high. It wss not a telegraph messenger. She thanks Qod for that. But It was not the expected letter either, and she plunges her head into the old hat agalu for comfort.

In what strange ways we women comfort ourselves when parted from a beloved one! I know a woman—a literary woman—who develops a sudden fondness for needle and thread and thimble when her husband leaves hoina, She overhauls every article of his wardrobe and sews on buttons by the dosen and tape strings by the yard. I half suspect the sly

mnn

a short trip from home

once or twioe a year just to get his clothes mended. I know another wife who always mounts her husband's old slippers on a pedestal of and morning' until* he returns. I know woman who has a vest belonging to her sailor love who has gons on along cruise. She keeps it hidden carefully away tn the bottom of her trunk. I caught her kissing and crying over it one day and I said: "Why didn't you ask him to leave you a pair of his old boots She turned her eyes on me with a glare and answered: "Do you suppose his heart was in bis feet!" "I bops not," I replied, "but it oertainly is uot in the pooket of that old vest/* "No," she answered, "but it used to oover his dsar heart, and I'd rather have it for a keepsake than the diamond locket Kate wears with her sweetheart's picture in It." "How tsstes do differ!" I said to myself, thinking of the comfort Kate gets out of the locket hidden away in her boeom, and what comfort Mary finds in the ring that bar Harry left her to remember blm by when be went to New York on a business trip ten days age, and how fondly Jennie treasures a pocket handksrehief that belongs to the man the loves.

Ah, what fond and foolish creatures we women are I—Pearl Rivers in New Orleans Picayune. tsvt Toer Strength.

J'

Voting mothers, be ss diary of your strength ss a miser of his money. You will hare abundant ass for all at your eommond, in the rearing of your children. All used unnecessarily is wasted, squandered. You have a certain life supply, and when this is exhausted you must fail, though that exhaustion may occur at 40 years of age. Like the momenta, never returning, the vital supply, that was intended for the whole life, cannot return when once wasted. Let little feet run up and down stairs, to do little errands it will do the children no harm to do that part, and will favor yon very much. Do not lift a whole tub, or even a pell of water, if it in any way over exerts you. A little planning, a little time taken for a hard effort, a little rest taken when yon are weary, will prove economy. Overwork is ss disastrous as the payment of exorbitant interest. Hall's Journal of Health.

Be Careful.

In all acts of psralearnest there is nothing more reprehensible than a careless handling of daagsroos droga In every household there should be a safe and separate place for their keeping. They should be plainly labeled, and under no circumstances whatever should they be placed elsewhere or mixed np with other bottle* or packages. Whenever empty bottles ere reased for other drugs, the old labels ebouid be taken off and oec labels pet on. No one should trust to their msnory in a matter of sech vital importance. It IS inoooodvably strange that those who bold thetr ioved oast* lives in their hands will take any cfasacea with socfa deadly agents ae dangerous draga There is bat one safe method of with them—have a piece for them and a cast iron rule for keeping them there, —Calibrator and Country Gentleman.

A gfetwwd Widtw.

A votersn correspondent recalls aa aaraeing faddeot of bis early years. He remembers going to a man's funeral with hisgrandfather, the parson. Tbs poor widow seamed to moom the ices of her hasbend very much, and the minister vainly tried to eomfort her. She said she had "got to live a poor lone widow all the days of her life" The boy cried to sse her cry. After from the grave the called his grandfather aside and said: "Plsrson Eaton, I hope yea wont say anything about my telHng yon that 1 should lives poor lone widow all the rest of s*y life, for I may change my ariad." Like a shrewd general, she left a iray open for retreet, and she soon found occasion to uss ft —WL Daart Herald.

Bit Herself.

Just thirty years ago "La Grieette d® Beranger" was first played at the Theatre des Folks Draraatiques, Paris. The part of Lisetts was taken by the celebrated Virginia Dejaset. The famous old actress at that time lost all her teeth. In honor of the new part she was to personify she ordered a beautiful new set Finding her teeth uncomfortable, die took them out as soon as the {day was over and put thom in her packet. In the green room she unfortunately sst upon them, and rose up with a scream. "What is the matter!" asked genial old Adoipbe Dennery. "Nothing," smiled Dejaset "1 only bit myself."—San Fraucisoo AxfMOaUt. r-5': ••i Origin Of "Calico." I

The word "calioo" has a queer origin. Many centuries ago the first monarch of the province of Malabar gave to one of his chiefs, as a reward for distinguished services, his sword and all the land within the limit of which

a

cock crowing at a certain templo

could be beard. From this cireumstanoe the little town which grew up in the center of thu territory was called Caliooda, or the cock crowing. Afterwards it was called Calicut, and from this place the first ootton goods woe imported into England, bearing the name of calico.—St. Louis Globe-Demo-3, „s.nV.?

A Bath tor the Skin.

Way back In the oldest toilet books, there is mentioned a hath that will give tone to the skin and keep it in proper condition. It is very simple, consisting of tepid water in which has (Men put half a pint of pure vinegar. The ladles of the olden times did not disdain to have their books of oosmetics, and each generation of lovely women wrote in the family book about that which bad tended to make her most beautiful, so Chat the craning beauties could read, learn and inwardly digest tt is said Cleopatra herself wrote a book on the arts of the toilet, and I have been frivolous enough to think that the Sphinx knows where that book is hidden and wont tell.—Exchange.

Bracelets of closely woven gold, ornamented Itb tiny enamel pinkm are much in demand. uaor rnvMtlon in Cooking. fin ingenious device for preventing the odor of cooking from escaping into a room has been patented. The invention is of the simplest possible description, and ooasists of a hood with folded sides or leaves, which covers the sides of the stoves. The odor passes into ths hood and is oarrisd dirsstly into the chimney —New York Telegram.

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"Doctor, what's the matter with mef" naked Blifkins when the family physician arrived. "Anything very seriousf" "Well, youll have to be careful and stay in the house awhile.'1 "But my wife—Doc,she* an awful talker." "It cant bo helped you've got the dumb ague, and youll have to take car® of yourself." "Say, Doc, couldnt you complicate the malady for me a littlo bitf" "How do you mean!" "Could you oblige me by throwing It Into the deaf and dumb aguef1—Merchant Traveler. •Ji. An English Medical Authority Affirms that the best regimen for preserving health may be summed up in the maxim "keep the head cool, the feet warm, and the bowels active. There ia a world of wisdom in the obfs an'excTtIng"cause#o??/tber diseases and, with many persons of sedentary habits or oemipatlons, this inaction of the bowels is a source of constant annoyanoe, producing piles, prolapse of the rectam, fistula, and various dyspeptlo symptoms. All these are warded off, and health is maintained by the use ot Dr. Pieroe's Pleasaut Purgative pellets.

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