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Se-l c ?fi? . ' * .. % if ^ l THE VOIUNTE By SAM WA The gret big church wiiz crowded lull of broadcloth ail* uv silk, An* satius rich as cream thct grows on our ol' brindle's milk; Shincd boots, biletl shirts, stiff dickeys ao J ?tove-pipe hats were there, An' doods ith trouserloons so tight thtv couldn't kneel in prayer. The elder in his pulpit high, said, as he slowly riz: "Our organist is kep' to hum, laid up 'ith roomatis, An' as we nev no substitoot, as Brother Moore ain't here, Will some 'an in the congregation be so kind's to volunteer?" R??*> An' then a red-nosed, drunken tramp, of low-toned, rowdy style, Give an' ioterduct'rv hiccup, an' then staggered up the aisle! Then thro' the holy atmosphere there crcp' a sense or sin, An' thro' thet air er sanctity the odor uv ?p- . oI> ?n"Haaa/n^ J> r> 'nil Imc foofli JLUKZLl J.J\. Ll X 441 ILL iua J , U(C (rwvvti all sot on edge: "This man purfaues the house of Godi Why, this is sakerlege!" The tramp didn't hear a word lie said, but douched 'ith stumblin' feet. An' sprawled an' staggered up the steps, an' gained the organ seat. lie then went pawin' thro* the keys, an soon there riz a strain Thet seemed to jest bulge out the heart, an' 'lectrify the brain; An' tr.en lie slapped down on the thing 'ith hands and 'head an' kneesHe sLmdashed his hull body down kerflop upon the keys. t: BY THE GF TEIRIOUS OU liud better come to the 4 rr ? ball." said the Colonel, 3 V 8 Kith a bluff, benevolent p air. "I am a steward ami can introduce you to all the pretty women.. As a stranger, it will start you at once in the best set with vwu lifilri fmnhlo in fluwiwr w.ir. What;" The Colonel was unmarried, and did not even own nieces. Gerald Upcott had made his acquaintance originally ' at Homburg, where he passed as tlie young-elderly bean to his own great satisfaction and the high gratification of a circle of well-preserved ladies who played bridge, drank the waters and gossiped about everybody with equal fervor. The friendship had ripened in London, and Gerald had visited tiie Colonel's comfortable C~t, Mover was there a man more patently a bachelor without encumbrances. Gerald Upcott could not suspect any latent design beneath the festive suggestion about tho ball. An iniportart point, however, which Gerald did not know, was that Lady Calthorp was one of the Colonel's dear, well-preserved friends. She had recently been obliged, after putting it off i_; A. > as iong*as possioie. 10 nrmg vui u>.t second daughter. The eldest had been married off almost immediately, and, as there was a considerable difference between the two girls. Lady Calthorp haji got out of the ways of chaperonage, and did not take kindly to that stony path again after the long interval of peace. If only Milly could be married off at once, how nice it would be! So delightful, you know, to feel that the dear girl was comfortably settled,. and such a relief to be no longer obliged to drag her about to balls. The Colonel was Lady Calthorp's sworn ally, and was therefore bound to Introduce to Milly all the ? "eligible*' men whom he could catch hold of.Gerald Upcott was a highly "eligible" man. Do you see the idea"? ? The Colonel was distinctly pleased with what he deemed his own success. In this mood he was quite ready to commit the folly of introducing the eligible man to any pretty face that might especially take his fancy. Lady Calthorp would not have done that. She would have prodded him off in dexterous and perfectly natural manner. "Who is that lady over there?" Gerald said, "after a brief inspection. "The one with the large tiara and the dark hair?standing near that block of icetalking to the man with the heavy mustache?" "She's Lady Felton. The Danesfields brought her over with them. I have Just been introduced. A charm. v. ing woman. But the fun of the thing 15. that she is a dowager. Look at her. Does she look like a dowager? I believe that the old man was about forty years older than she was. Naturally she drops the dowager and calls herself Louisa Lady Felton." A sparkle of animation showed In .Gerald's face. "Louisa Lady Felton! This is interesting," he said. The Colonel growled under his mustache. It took some little time to effect the introduction. It was, how1 "ever, eventually accomplished, and "'- -"Gerald TJpcott danced with Louisa Lady Felton. The intervals are usually long at Winterton?no doubt with some good, that is matrimonial, object. After the dance the couple adjourned - to the long conservatory, where seats \ ^were judiciously arranged in pairs. Gerald TJpcott could talk brilliantly when he chose, and he amused Lady ^' Felton. This, no doubt, is why she \ conceded a second dance. His original \dea had been to let an acquaintance xaturetgradually and naturally. "When beard she was staying four miles views developed on different sat Second dance. They on the ^jbducd light, gazing down wall, wit* curve 0f the great seaI will f?Sr]o\viiig points of fire, win interest^ a story that I think Obscurity Of tK crHH Hprnld. The companion secir.^Qce prevented Ms prcssion which sh% significant cx"Once upon a time?& on his face, fairy tale, and yon nee; a grown-up as real unless you like-H regard it time there was a mm. upon a woman " "md a "Is this fairy-tale or real?" in. the lady, suddenly. % "Both. The man. it seemed, was . love. lie was a big man, with a bi mustache, tall, strong and absolutel straight. He fell in love, as such man would-over head and ears?lik a plunge in the mysterious lake, an all the world could hear the splas and see the circles. "What was the girl like?" "He told me that she was beautiful He rhapsodized about flowers o heaven, angels come down on earth and stars hanging somewhere midway The girl encouraged him in every way from what he told me as we smokec cigarettes in the face of the lake If half he said was true, she showed her love in a hundred different ways. There was no impediment. He was ER ORGANIST. LTElt FOSS. The organ roared, the music flood went sweeping high an' dry, It swelled into the rafters, an' bulged out into the sky: The ol' church shook an' staggered, an' seemed to reel an' swav. An' the elder shouted '"Glory!" an' I yelled out "Hooray!" An' then he tried a tender strain thet melted in our ears, Thet brought up blessed memories an' drenched 'cm down 'ith tears; An' we dreamed uv oF-time kitchens, 'ith Taby on the mat, Uv home an' luv an' buby days, an' mother, an' all that! An' then he struck a streak uv hope?a song front souls forgiven? Thet burst from prison-bars uv sin, au' stormed the gates uv heaven; The mornin' stars they sung together?no soul was left alone? We felt the universe wuz safe, an' God wuz on His throne! An* i Uon i n-oil in* <'f?crviir rm* dark ness come coram. An* loner black crape hung on the doors uv alt the homes uv men; Xo law no light, no joy, no hope, no songs uv glad delight? An' 'then the tramp he staggered down an* reeled into the night! But we knew he'd tot* his story, though he never spoke a word, An' it w"z the saddest story tbot our ears lied ever heard; He bed to!' his own life history, an' no eye wuz dry thct day, Wen the elder rose an' simply said: "2?Iy j brethren, let us pray." | ?EAT MVS- I 3 LAKE. | www?? ggp?pagga?gar.. rich a ad "would be a great chief?what we might call a lord? one day. I said to liim again and again ia primitive language, 'Go in, and win.' lie said, 'Not yet. I am net sure. I think she loves nv?. and yet I can hardly believe it. k seems so great a thing. And if she refused me I should kill myself.' Then one day this man came to me with a face as white as yonder electric globe, and eyes that glittered like the central light within. It was all over, he said. She had had a second string all the while?a great chief j whom I will call the Sultan of Ool. because it was uot his name. She had told him herself that she was engaged to the Sultan of Ool, and the man was raging mad. There were scenes, dreadful scenes. The lake was dangerously near?and he "was killed?killed in an absolutely mad enterprise, which meant certain death to him and safety to his command " Louisa Felton turned on him suddenly, her face full of emotion. "Wh * was this man's name?'' she said, and her voice thrilled. ".Tack Marslimnn." There was a silence between 1h?m. Neither could sec the other's face very well. "Why did you tell m? this horrible thing?" cried Louisa Felton, with sudden passion. "Oh, it is an experience?far away from us?in the unknown and beauti1 ir.lnri.dn TJ^ci/l/NO l*nv A ^*A*l iqi in.iuu^. i?t siucc? uaii; iivv .?vu, too, had your previous states? May you not have met that divinely beautiful girl. Coating perchance in n ca.no-? on the great lake, bedecked "with flowers and comraded by melody?and .she confided in you?" "What should she confide in me?" "Why she preferred the Sultan of Ool?three times her age?to that other, whom I believe she really loved." There was another silence. Then suddenly the lady spoke, and her voice was charged with intensity of feeling "You have done a bold and dangerous thing, and one which you might regret if you had come to the wrong j woman. As it happens, you have come .to the right one. I will tell you. It matters nothing now. What he told you was nntrue. I never refused him, for the good reason that ho never proposed to me. I did not tell him that I was engaged to Lord " "The Sultan of Ool," interjected Gerald, gently. "Because I was not engaged to him. and the engagement did not occur until after Jack had gone away in that wonderful fashion." "Yet lie threw nwav his life simply because be thought it true when the engagement was announced." "I can't help that," she cried. "The* fact is that be was a veiv cd?l man, and be behaved very cruelly and unkindly. lie made love to me in every way that a man could without actually saying it. fee made me love him, and he led me on to believe that he intended to propose; and then, when all the plqce was talking about us, he suddenly Quarreled with me about a trifle, went straight out of the ball room, left the place the next day, and never came back or gave a sign." "What was the Quarrel about?" "Absolutely nothing. But just think of the dreadful position that I was in?left the laughing-stock of the place, the subject of every unkind tongue. It was then that my dear old friend, Lord Felton, came to me, and asked me to marry hijn. He told me most delicately that he had always loved me, and that he knew that I could not love him, but that he asked me to be his wife in order that lie might have the right to protect me. Well, he knew all, of course; but I told him all, and then I gladly accepted the refuge he offered. The dearest, kindest soul! There never was an unkind word between us to the day of his death." "But would you mind endeavoring to recall what the quarrel was about?" "I tell you It . was the merest pretext. He came up to me, as I thought, to ask me for a dance. Instead of that he said to me suddenly and very oddly, 'Are you engaged to Lord Felton?' I said, 'Yes, for ' " "There!" cried Gerald. "You did tell him, after all." "But, of course, I meant for a dance." expostulated the lady in amazement. "Lord Felton always had a square with me for old friendship's sake, and I had just given it to him. Jack must ghave seen us talking. If he had come v h.a minute earlier he would have q jjed me give Lord Felton his square, e tion \n0 business to ask such a quesd right "t#11' aiKl h? certainly no h square da.off ia a fury becaus^of a was merelv ^ an man. No, it text" * cruel, heartless preI. "But don't you ? . , ~ ,, f in despair at the p^' crif . ' . revelation opened 1>^S ^ . pendant of suffering V"?- *!* . signed, "he told me I that you were engagt-t T , !'?'! . ton? You now telf m^C, wTa,?or I you may have meant by did say you were engaged to Lord' l>e?L. ' " seems to me perfectly dreadful that / T po small an error should have wrecked two lives." "Yes, dreadful Indeed," she began; | but at that moment the music struck j up in the ball room. Lady Felton literally sprang up. "Now, Mr. Upcott," ! she cried joyously, "you must kindly take 1110 in as quickly as possible." ("i era Id Upcott stared at her in frank j amazement. This change of manner was perfectly inexplicable. It did not altogether fit In with the theory of a | wrecked life. Even in the dim light , he could see that her exquisite lip? 1 were curved in a happy smile which ' made her look lovelier than ever. 'Tome, Mr. Upcott," she cried, im- , patiently. "You are not going to be , so ungallant as to allow me to go Id j by myself?" And she moved a step forward. With a quick apology, Gerald sprang ( up and escorted her to the ball-room. ; Immediately they were approached by j the tall, dark man with the heavy j mustache, with whom she had boon talking before. "I came as quickly as I could." she whispered, but Upcott's quick ears | caught the words. I The next minute the pair whirled j off in the waltz. Gerald had a glimpse j *? 1 of her face cs tiirv cam.? roumi. :mu , if over n woman looked perfectly harpy it was Louise. Lady Feltcn. Somewhat mystified, Ceroid made ills way round to the Colonel. Thpy stood and looked awhile at the dancers. "Handsome woman, that Lady Felton." quoth the Colonel, as her face came round in the whirl. "I hear, by the bye." he added?not. perhaps, with- ! out some slight spice of malice?"that j she is encased lo be married?very des- | porn to love affair." "Is the man here?" inquired Gerald, j with the most imperturbable visage. j "Yes. I believe so," replied the Colonel. annoyed at the apparent iil-sruOerss of his shaft. "Then I expect it is the man she is dancing with now," returned the other, with the memory of that radiant face on him. "What do you say to a little supper. Colonel?" It is. of course, impossible for a man like Gerald Upeott to feel foolish.? Philadelphia Evening Telegraph. LAWS FOR MAD DOGS. Uritl3?t R;.1uo3* Ilydroplnbb Casss by legislating Against Canines. It is still. We believe, an open question among people who don't know any- j thing about it whether there is such a j tiling as rabies among human beings, i Put we are bound to say no doctor "has any doubts 011 that score. Ilesides. it : is useless to discuss the question since j human beings who have been bitten by mad dogs do die of something extremely horrible, whether it is an actual fatal toxica tion or a form of acute mania induced i;y fear. We speak of this matter with some seriousness because cf the alarming number of cases of by- ; cirophobia reported in the papers In the | last year. The blame must rest on lo- ! c-al health and police authorities who , do not insist upon the passage of laws ; that would prevent the infection of nni- j mals with rabies, or, if the laws exist, i fail to enforce them. Whatever the disease may he. hydrophobia has been : stamped out In Norway, Sweden. Hoi- j land, Switzerland and Denmark. In Great Britain a rigid quarantine i against imported dogs and sharp laws I 0:1 muzzling reduced the number of fatal cases from 123 in 1SS0 to three in | 1S02. Some such action is needed in j this country. Every real lover of dogs { ?for we reverse the old cynical saying and nut it that "the more one knows of ; dogs the more he thinks of men"?every ! real lover of clogs should ho in favor of ! (regulation that, while aiming at the 1 protection of the human community. ; j also saves the brute creation from disi ease. As for the people who "don't be- j licve there is such a thing as rabies," j and the folks who have more sympathy ' for dogs than for men, we shall not at- | tempt to convince them. The present situation is. as a pnysiciau mis sjihi. ''precisely the same us if a centre of smallpox were allowed to exist," be- j cause a few persons did not believe in { vaccination.?Collier's Weekly.. TcIIott a Shield Against Mosqnltog. ' I Wear yellow if you would be free ! from the malaria-breeding mosquito. | This startling discovery emanates from the War Department at Washington. When the khaki uniform was adopted for the use of the army in summer and in tropical countries the authorities were not aware they were on the verge of solving a problem interesting to ; soldiers and civilians alike. It was not long, however, before it was found that the anopheles mosquito, which hv its bite, avoided the v..iuoso . men In yellow uniforms and swarmed about those attired in the old blue fabrics. Tills led to investigation, and after a series of experiments, conducted at intervals for a period extending over six months. It was found the anopheles would not light upon a yellow substance. A man wearing tbiii yellow cotton gloves was not touched b? the insects, while others with blue, black and white gloves were bitten repeatedly.?New York Press. Nature's Weather GIhssc*. Many anxious faces will to-day be "turned skyward-in search of portents for the week-end weather. Let holiday-makers regard nature's weather glasses.* When a cat sneezes it means rain. Distant sounds, such as bells and railway whistles, are usually distinct just before rain; and window blind cords become taut, and salt and black current lozenges moist. Rain may also be expected when dogs grow restless nud drowsy; asses hang, down their ears and rub themselves against walls; sheep become frisky and bleat terribly at night; the pigs are disturbed and run about,, and * ? -1 *-! ?rare?r?era cocks crow cany anu nay uau niu3? excessively.?London Express. Street Dust. There can be no doubt that the filling the air with clouds of fine street dust is in more ways than one injurious to the health. This dust cloud is-especially harmful to persons with delicate throats and lungs, and it must be no inconsiderable factor in aggravating the nil-prevalent catarrhal affections with which so many people are aflficted. Communities which permit this disgrace lack something of complete enlightenment and progress! veness. There ougl^t to be genius to devise a remedy, and there ought to be public spirit and intelligence to carry it into operation.?New Bedford Standard. Tlie Vicions Device. The vicar of Barton - 011 - Humber, England, bas adopted a device to shame certain members of the congregation who placed old and battered coins in the collection bags. These coins he hung up in the church, with the request that the donors should replace them with good money. This lias now been done in one case, but four others await like repentance cu rtUe part of the givers. <, .... TESTED BY TIME. Mrs. Robert _ j?9< Broderick, who ~~l resides at 1915 Virginia St., in San Antonio,?? J Texas, tells an every reader; it $ ^ shows as well cures are lastthe early part of the year 1902 I hod been a sufferer from kidney, troubles for many years. The pain in my back became worse and worse until it was a daily burden that interfered with every duty. I was much afflicted with headaches and dizzy spells and was unable to rest well nights. In May, 1902, after using Donn's Kidney Pills I made a statement for publication declaring that they had entirely . relieved me of the pain in my back. I have since then had a year's time in which to study the effects of the modi cine, and while I have had slight touches of the trouble since, the use of the pills has always driven away all signs of the disorder, and I have hecome convinced of the fact that the. first treatment was practically permanent in its effects, and I know that a box of Doan's Kidney Pills kept on hand is a sufficient guarantee against any suffering from the kidneys or back. I should advise every sufferer to take Doan's Kidney Pills, and I know that they will be surprised and pleased with the result." A Free Trial of this great kidney medicine which cured Mrs. Brodorick will be mailed on application to any part of the United States. Address Foster-Milburn Co.. Buffalo, X. Y. For sale by all druggists, price 30 cents per box. Good Roads Information. People of the Southern States whc desire information on tho modern science of road building can obtain it free of charge by applying to the office of public road inquiries, which is a division of the United States department of agriculture at Washington. There are in use today many inventions and powerful machines that make road building easier and less expensive than it has ever been before. Portable stone crushers, graders, ditchers, stone spreaders, wagon loaders and combination machines that will save labor in striking ways arc doing good work in various parts of the country. It is to the interest of those intending to build roads to find out all about these machines. There is a general awakening in regard the improvement of good roads, especially as it is understood that the extension of rural free delivery is con ditional on the success of this movement. The Department of Agricultlre is anxious to extend all the aid in its power. The people are entitled to such aid and should avail themselves of it. Knew What He Needed. * 't. The doctor's wife went to the. door. The doctor's wife and the woman next door were net on friendly terms, but the tramp cfldn-t know that. "De lady next dbor* tie's'nfd.'"gave me a piece of her homemade pie, a' I t'ought"? .v."I'm sorry," interrupted the doctor's wife, "but the doctor isn't at home just now. However, there's a physician in the next block, and if you hurry he may be able to give you relief before much harm is done."?Chicago Post. I j5/acA//c/>| 8 "I have used your Hair Vigor 'I I for five years and am greatly j pleased with it. It certainly re- ; stores the original color to gray hair. It keeps my hair soft."?Mrs. ; Helen Kilkenny,New Portland, Me. 11 11 1 111111 < , Ayer's Hair Vigor has j - been restoring color to j j gray hair for fifty years, I and it never fails to do j this work, either. I ? 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Fistula and Sores Cure Guaranteed in Every Case Treated | NATIONAL CANCER MEDICINE COMPAN Y Aa?t?ll Building, Atlanta, 0a t j|pllr ? o j "I WON'T, I WILL, I DID." I I know a little lad? ; With his mother and his dad, I He lives within a rosc-embowercd ! haunt, ! And this little lad at times Makes the queerest little rhymes, Singing frowningly, "I won't, I won't, I won't." But again his eyes of blue | Glisten as he locks at you, ' And ho tries your empty heart wi.'i love to fill, ' As he laughs in rosy glee, I Your surprise and joy to see, When he merry shouts, ; "1 will I will, I will." ! But I like this rogue the best, j When the sun is in the v-r-t. i Anri to hrvfi 'nrk the tired little kid. And ha holds himself awake, The glorious news to break, As sleepily he sinrs, "I did, I did, I did " ?"Washington Star. A LITTLE ITOr^E'S HIDE. "Whoa, Buck! When, Blight!" called out Stephen Hairis, pioneer; and the I glossy red oxen halted in the forest opening. "This shall be out dinner camp today, boys," said he. "See what I a fine spot!" J The pair of stalwart lads, with rifles ' j on their shoulders, who had been walki ing all the forenoon beside the big : covered wagon, thought it was truly a fine spot, and began to make camp for j dinner, unyoking the oxen and turning j { them out to graze, kindling a fire with j dry twigs and mess and fetching water j from the clear brook that rippled by. Meanwhile children of all ages brgan j to climb down from the wagon. There j were ten of them, fine healthy children. ! The youngest, Martha, was a little yd; low-haired girl of three, the pet and j pride of them ail. They were overjeyj ed at the prospect of running about | and stretching their cramped limbs, j and the forest echoed to their joyful j voices. Last alighted the mother, a : ! brisk, cheerful woman, under whose i ' good management a dinner was seen < ; ready. Every day the camp dinner was j like a picnic to this fa^ly who had ; been thirty days on their way from j ! Connecticut to "the Ohio," where they j hoped to find a fine farm and a good j home. The wagon, which had been their ! traveling house for a month, was well | fitted up for comfort. The seats were : built along the sides, and so contrived j as to hook back at night. Then the I bedding, tightly rolled up by day, was j spread out cn the wagon bottom. The cooking utensils were hung up on the j .sides, and a rcomy box nailed at th "? ! end held the other useful articles. All j of the cups, plates, and spcons were of j- bright unbreakable tin. Under the j wagon swung the large copper kettle, | the most important of all things in the | households of those early times. After dinner the bright tin dishes were washed in the brook, and the fire very carefully "put out." But the trav?1 ?? -"11 linger fho troee en exers sini uiigcicu uuud cuv w ^? ' restful and lovely seemed the cool ! green spot. At length Mr. Harris said that the sun was fast travelling westward, and that they must be doing the same. So the oxen were yoked up, and in ! great spirits the pioneers scrambled to } their places in the wagon, and the oxen | started on at a good pace; and they , had gone a mile or two before the j fearful discovery was mai'e that little ! Martha was missing! It seems impos* sible that they sholuld not have known at once that she was not with them; | but so it was,?not one of them had j missed her! j The patient oxen were turned about, and as fast as possible the distracted family travelled back to the dinner camp, Mr. Harris and the big brothers : calling, as they went, the name of the darling child. The camp was finally reached; but | little Martha was not there, and no trace of her could be found. The forest had seemed so peaceful an j hour before, but now it was filled with 1 terrors. What wild animals might not ' lurk in the thickets! The very brook j seemed to murmur of dangers,?quick s?b4s and treacnorous water-holes. "fiaby! 0 baby!" called Mrs. Harris, suddenly, tweaking Into a sharp cry; and this time, in the anxious waiting pause of silence, a shrill little voice from right under the wagon piped out, j "Here I i9!" and over the rim of the grgat copper kettle popped Martha's golden head. Scrambling out, "headover-heels," she rushed into her mother's arms, as fresh and rosy from her sound after-dinner nap as though she j had been rocked in the downiest cradle in the land. There was praise and thanksgiving, there was laughter and tears, and the forest echoed to the glad shouts of the boys, who could not otherwise express the joy and relief of their hearts. Then they climbed into the big wagon again, i and this time each one made sure that J little Martha was not missing, i 'In after years the energy and thrift ' I of the Harris family brought them great prosperity. Broad acres and fruitful orchards and a beautiful home became theirs, but their most prized possession was the big copper kettle in mtlo nirw-nppr Martha took her VVUl^U liiuv _ afterdinner ride.?Anna E. Treat, in Little Folks. A FUNNY MISTAKE. Grandpa sat by the table, his razor in his hand and his looking-glass popped up in front of him. Little Polly i was watching him, half afraid, but I wholly fascinated by the sharp, shining blade. "Grandpa," she said at last, "where are you going when you are through shaving?" "I'm going to marry Mrs. Jaynor," answered grandpa, with a frown on his face, for he was hurried. He never thought that Polly might not understand. He was a justice of the peace and often married people. He had been hindered in getting ready, and now he rushed so fast to get off that he never looked at Polly's face. Half an hour i after grandma came in from the kitchen with a dear little cake. "Here, Polly," she said, but Polly was not there. . i "Polly, Polly," she called, but no lit, tie feet came running. She looked in . J the parlor and the bedroom and up | stairs. No Polly. I "Where can she be?" she asked In i alarm. "She could not have gcno out of doors this cold day. I believe seme one has kidnapped her." "Nonsense!" said Uncle Ned, but he, too, joined in the search. Upstairs and downstairs they went again in vain. At last grandma heard a muffled sobbing under the stairs. She threw open the low door of the "cubby hole." There was poor Polly huddled up In a miserable little heap and crying as if her heart Vould break. "Why, Polly, what is it?" cried grandma, her alarm of one kind yieldin gto another. "I?don't?want?grandpa?to?to? marry?Mrs.?Jaynor," sobbed Polly. "I want him to stay here and be my grandpa." Uncle Ned laughed. But grandma glanced at the little tear-stained face and did not laugh. She took Polly in hc-r lap in the big rocking chair and explained all about it, how grandpa only performed the service that married Mrs. Jaynor to Mr. Brown, and how he would come home again as soon as the ceremony was through. So Polly dried her tears and ate her rake, but she never felt quite comfortable afterward when Mrs. Brown was near.? Chicago Record-Herald. LIFE OF THE WHALERS. We have raised a race of men who have gone down to the sea in ships on the most hazardous of enterprises. No men have hourly for a lifetime taken such disastrous chances as our whalemen, and their voyages have been frennpntlv crowded with moving acci "X * ? ? dents, hair-breadth escapes and distressful strokes. And we go to these men, like Desdeincna, "with a greedyear to devour up their discourse." The records of the thrilling voyages of our whalemen arc kept in log books, and in the hundreds of volumes stored in old sail lefts. How many of us have pored over them to have our nerves played upon after the manner of the fictionists, but it is not there. And we seek out the roan whose ship is struck and sunk by a whale in midocean, and who takes to the bc&ts and .reaches land after weeks of buffeting, and the men whoso ships are crushed in the ice, and their story is as prosaic as the story of the man who goes to the day's work in an electric car. We are thrilled by the beat journey of Dr. Kane, of a tramp in the Arctic by Nansen. Last week a man arrived here who had made a boat journney in Hudson Bay as remarkable as that of Dr. Kane, and he had nothing to say excepting that it was four weeks and five days from the time he left his ship in a whaleboat witht two comrades until he reached ' a fur station. In answer to persistent questioning a reporter dragged from him that it was "hard work," and a shipmate spoke up for the adventurer aDd explained to a reporter* that there I was not a minute of those five weeks, I nicht or day. when the little beat was ret menaced by the floating ice which piled up about them, on occasions as high as the church steeples. And against Nansen's performance can we produce a whaleman who put a half dozen pieces of hard bread in his pocket and, in midwinter, left his ship in the Arctic, in latitude 75 or thereabouts, and walked 1,500 miles back to civilization. And, to save him, he couldn't understand why the reporters wanted to talk with him. Hence it is our habit to say, often in the spirit of criticism or at least regret, that our whaleman is not "imaginative."?New Bedford Mercury. KRUGER'S FIRST LION. Mr. Kruger tells this story of his "first lion" in his memoirs. A rumor had reached his father that their herds had been attacked on the banks of the Rhenoster River, in what is now Orange River Colony. The lion, it seems, sighted the party that went out in search of him' before they were quite face to face with him, and came on them with a rush. "The three adults with whom I had come," says Mr. Kruger, "my father, my uncle, and my brother, quickly tied the horses together and turned them round with their heads in the opposite direction from which the lion was bearing down upon us. This is the regular procedure at a lion hunt, for if the horses catch sight of a lion there is pi ways a danger that they may get lightened ana Doit. "My father placed us. I was told to sit behind, or from the lion's point of view, in front of the horses, with my rifle covering him. His last bound brought him close to me; then he couched, with the intention, it seemed to me, of jumping right over me on to the horses. "And as he rose I fired. 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