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WONDEI CLEARM Everything in th? very much redu< make room for n come in. JYLany t S. M. RICE, J 1 AMARYLLIS I 2 By MARTHA S V McCULLOCil-WILLIAMS > V Copyright, 19U1, l?y T. C. McCluro y S+o-:<>:-O-:-O-:-O-:-OO-:-o-:-O-:-G KH-O+C Outside it was raw and gusty, witli wllite, liigli lying clouds scudding sc thickly across'<a pale sky that only wan and watery sunshine strained through the breaks between. Insidt there was the balm of May, especially In the south parlor, where I knew I should find Myrtilln. Myrtlila is tall and twenty, with a child's foot and a turn of the head and neck that would become an empress, She has coral red lips, a fine, straight nose, olive skin, dark almond eyes, heavllv Insliod nrul lldilivl mul o ir>?* straight brow, deeply shadowed by dusky lloss silk hall*. In virtue of all this she reigns as a queen over most men. We had been engaged until two weeks ago?to be exact, until the date of the Verinews' ball and the episode of the Grantley girl. The ball is ancient history now; besides, it has really nothing to do with Grantley girl at 4 a? in.?to fling "myself Into tweeds and set forth upon a week's journey. Coming home from It, I found my table cumbered with toy letters to Myrtilla down to the most fragmentary note?those of the last week unopened?my ring, my books, a bracelet or two. the locket with my picture and a litter of those Idiotic things one semis at Christmas and Easter and on birthdays. It was tilts ttltor flint sn \'ivl mo from nltor despair. I reasoned that if Myrtilla bad cared enough for me to keep it all this time she could not give up caring for me in a moment. Still, I knew there was a tough job ahead. But I did not dream she would go to the length of refusing to see or hear me or even to listen to my side of the case through Aunt Bab, most tactful of intermediaries, ller people backed her, too-all but Dicky. Dicky is fifteen and owns the distinction of being tl?o only tiling in trousers Myrtilla has found herself ttngble to subjugate. I cannot flatter myself that Dicky's advocacy of my cause was wholly disinterested. Dicky lias a line taste in terrier pups find a relish for stolen gallops on my hunters. At home he is allowed nothing more hazardous than a steady going cob. However that may be, it meant a lot to have any sort of friend at court. Otherwise, how should the hall door have swung open at my approach? The servapts had strict or I Things to|!UsP| But qui Sold by Uni ?t*Z | Southern gg % I THIS GREAT RAILWAY RUN -1 GREAT cour COWVCMu.VTLY UNlTlMQ ALL Tlir | - CF THE SO'JTH. 0 V.'. A. TURK, " S.I ? P*aernjer Traffic Maiwjor. Crr.rr V/aswtwgtom, D. C y W. H. YAYLOr?, Asa't Can \ P*3. As 3f>rLn W '' )> * " ' i * STORE SCE SALE. e Wonder Store at Ded prices now to ew assortment to hingsat half price. r. E. U.. Prop. I ; <lers to shut it civilly in my face, f j "She's in there, it beats me why von want her why yon want any girl, when you've pot heaps of (lops.ami horses," Dicky said, prinninp. as 1 shot past him. "She's been real hateful polite; no pood for even a fipht this whole week." Dicky's voice pursued me down the hall. The south parlor is a square jut, open | upon three sides to the sun, with walls j more than half windows, iron barred i outside and full of preen growing i tilings within. There is a big fireplace. Myrtilia stood in front of it, her eyes [ intently fixed upon the smoldering logs. , At my entrance she started ever so lit, tie, turned her head the least bit and kept on staring in the lire. "Myrtilla." I ventured irresolutely, my hand still on the doorknob. She sat down and took up her embroidery, her hut? tnrmrr averren. . Then I knew I had won half a point, t If she had been as angry as she believed herself to be she would have marched away with her nose in the air. I began again formally, "Miss Grey," but stopped short. She had begun to whistle oi'or her work softly, meditatively, as though she knew herself to 1 be alone. Something happened then. I am nel i tlier poet nor romancer, but my ranging ! eye saw in the south window a creaI ture of tropic charm, slim and tall, ; green gowned as a wood nymph, with frown" stTfl more wonderfuliy red. As I went to her she shivered and set all her green gown fluttering defensively, but I paid no liced to it, only said joyously, baring mv head: i .... .viimryuis: iou are a real godsend! I was never so glad to see any one in all my life." | Myrtllla's head came around so that I saw her profile out of the tail of my eye. 1 fancied she stared, hut dared not make sure of it. My wood nymph 1 barely nodded; her tremors were all at rest. I bent toward her low enough to look into her golden tawny eyes and ran on: "What have you done to yourself? You are so beautiful, so strangely, so j rarely beautiful, it makes me desperate that 1 did not keep my heart for you, or, rather, it would make mo desperate if hearts were things that could be givVn or kept at will." Certainly the wood nymph stared; the golden tawny eyes looked at me Stt<r MfidtlloC. h/.?d I 1 * ...... ... .1 I mill m-iHl null llllllc<l a little more. IIor lips were the least hit parted, as though her breath eainc hard. I straightened and stuck a hand in my pocket as I added: "The pity of it! There's a true heart gone to waste! True hearts are none so plenty. Amaryllis." "Certainly they are not." came scornfully from the fireside. 1 affected not to hear and went on manfully: "I've played and lost?lost so misJOUS CON STIP ATEDjS to men look blue, m ickly change to rosy hue, ** lamon3 Pills their work do do || i*3B&WBkssftv* ion Drujr Co. 3JL,WAY WE RUN THE s through a BEST VEST I- 1 AND tHVE THE 4 ! BFST DIWtNfi I , < CAR SERVICE' I jnt, Atlanta, Ca. + \ % [Try for Health jpj 222 South Peoria St., f:i Chicago, III., Oct. 7, 1902. & Eight months ago I was bo ill that 1 was compelled to lie or Bit Eg down nearly all the time. My stomach was so weak and upset Kt that 1 could keep nothing on it gj and I vomited frequently. I Hj could not urinate without great pain and I coughed so much that my throat and lungs were raw gw and sore. The doctors proK nounced it Bright's disease and others said it was consumption. p It mattered little to me what Rj H they called it and 1 had no de- gj bJ sirotolive. A sister visited mo km from St. Louis and asked me if g fat 1 had ever tried Wine of Cardui. E In ( told her 1 had not and sho fc; bought a bottle. I believe that gj jfj it saved my life. I believe many St women could save much suffer- {' fig' ing if thoy but knew of its value, i 1 S; Don't you want freedom from jfl pain? Take Wino of Cardui 9 and make one supreme effort to 9 Kg l>e well. You do not need to be Eg rv wetvV, helpless sufferer. You I can Lave a woman's health and H do a woman's work in life. Why Em jgj not secure a bottle of Wine of p p Cardui from your druggist to- L; ernbly. Listen?then tell me tr yoi think 1 quite deserve what I am got ting?" "1 am going away," came faintlj from Myrtilla's chair, but Myrtiiln-her self sat still and even made a pretonsi of pulling stitches into her work. Find lag me silent through a long minute elio sat very straight and added: "Naturally one is nervous at finding oneself alone with a lunatic. Only lunatics talk to tilings as though they were people." "Don't uiind her, Amaryllis," I sail softly. "Poor creature, she is Jealous She thinks you are no more than a lily blooming in a pot. We know belter, ol course." "Really I did not dream y?vi bad sr much imagination," Myrtiiln said out right, snipping her thread as she spoke I stared harder than ever at Amaryl lis. saying: "Imagination is a fearful thing sometimes. 1 am glad. Amaryllis, you altogether lack it. You would never see in ordinary civilities to a gnjMVntfi1, "Dancing or sitting out every other number, 1 suppose, comes under t lie head of 'ordinary civilities,' " Myrtiiln said, her lip curling. 1 kept on quietly: "And oven if you felt hurt you would let ino explain. The Verinews have hearts as big as their fortune. Thus it happens 1 owe them what money can never pay. Not so many years back there was a l is huii,i iii mi.- ouvvi uiiu pin my governor in the ivorst sort of !\oli'. it n;fd d a cool million to grot him out, and a Verincw million tiki it. Yot the govcrnor was hardly an acquaintance, Verlnew learned his extremity by chance and came to his help h: car.se, as lie phrased it, he didn't think tlie other side was putting up a square deal. It does not lessen the obligation that he got his million hack, plus a good prolit. Eventually the Ornntley girl will have it. with several millions more. She is a granddaughter? unacknowledged because Mine. Vorlnew wishes to seem as young as theii fortune- but the very apple of the Vori new eye. They wanted her to be the belle of the ball?she was shy and sensitive and frightened half out of hei wits. Somehow she trusted me"? "1 don't at all wonder at thai " ?ni<i n voice from the fireplace. I bowed gravely and resumed: "When she is not friglitoned slie is pretty, Amnryliis. Her head is splendidly red? not ?n 1 ite so red as yours. Hlie is light on her feet, too. and loves to da nee as well ns the flowers do. The trouble Is she lms not yet quite caught the rhythms she must move to, so needs nuist lean heavily upon her partner. I understood; some of the others did not. Occasionally one was tlurricd, still more occasionally one impertinent. And a single cad let her see lie was ashamed of dancing with her In spite of the millions. At her lirst hall! Think of it! I had to take away the sting of it somehow. Perhaps I did seem devoted, but she didn't misunderstand. I told liei about Myrtilln in our very lirst waltz." A little inarticulate cry from the lireplace here. Covertly I saw tears on Myrtilla's cheeks. She made as though to rise, lint sank baek, turned away hei head and resumed the furious stabbing with her needle. I gathered the greenery of Amaryllis in my hands. laid my cheek against it and said dreamily: "Amaryllis, tell me why I am fated t-'.-t- ..... . iu?v uuniv^v imir. aji iin* painters and poets agree that rod Is ever sr much more beautiful." "Are you sure, quite sure, you do love it?" Myrtilln asked tremulously. Slit was not answered in words. Five minutes later Dicky, bursting in upon us, found us side by side, looking down at Amaryllis through sunshine grown suddenly and magically warm and golden. After a long look Dicky whistled, turned on bis heel niul said from the door dver his shoulder: "Sc you two have made it up. McSnlfterc said you would, 'cause that red Illy bloomed so far ahead of time. But ] don't care about that. All I want is to know wbnt you're goiu' to give me when you get married." I _ r y > \ i ... ^i?????i The Battle of the Nile. But for a pin prick there would have been no battle of the Nile. At one moment Nelson was fretting his heart out in vain quest of the French, with no one to furnish a clew as to Iftielr Q whereabouts. Next minute the secret was out?In a lady's boudoir. Sir John Acton, commander In chief of land and ? sea forces at Naples, was In his wife's room when her maid was putting the finishing touches to her ladyship's dress. The maid drove the point of a tl pin into her mistress and apologized, si Some one had ^t flint moment handed h the maid a letter from her brother, a d French sailor, from whom she had not h heard for some time, and its receipt N had startled her. Sir John Acton, fore- si seeing possibilities, offered to read the cl letter while the maid continued her at- tr tent ions to her mistress. The moment cl he had read it he dashed off to find Nelson. The letter gave all the infor- -ci mation as to the whereabouts and in- n: tcntions of the French. Upon this Ncl- ci son acted, and the battle of the Nile 01 resulted from that pin prick. h tl No Ilnriu Done. lC Foreman (explaining the accident to the owner of the building)?Barney was ai working on the roof, sir, and he slip- vv ped and fell the whole four stories, w . bringing the cornlco down with him, 0' sir, and breaking both his legs and n half his ribs. yi OWIIOI*?Oh. well, never mlnrll T In. tl tended that cornice to come down in w ngy case. is ti Cliqrlty IIck'Ihm at Home. 0 Wealthy Merchant (at an evening p party)?(Jentlemcn, we will not allow this festive occasion to pass away without remembering the poor. In one of my houses there lives a poor clerk & whom I shall have to evict tomorrow c - unless he can pay his arrears of rent f .1 by then. Fritz, hand a pinto around.? c Dorfbarbier. tl ? e j Transformation. ^ An English farmer had a number of e guests to dinner and was about to-help g them to some rabbit when he discov- tl ered that the dish was cold. Calling Q the servant, he exclaimed, "Here, n Mary, take this rabbit out and 'eat it cl ' and bring it back a little 'otterl" ti ti A Slander. W j The I.ady?I gave you a piece of pie a: last week, and you've been sending r your friends here ever since. c< i> The Tramp ? You're mistaken, lady, u Them was my enemies.?Judge. fi i What ConntitnteM Death. Is the cessation of the heart's action R an invariable sign of death? T^iere is c I on record the case of a woman whose heart was revived by artificial re^piraI tiou some time after she was supposed ^ to have died, but the heart stopped Wtf?*,..tbft?aiiifitifii .respiration the case of a decapitated murderer whose ltoart continued to beat for an hour after the execution. Was the man ^ dead ? }j] i * Obviously the cessation of tlie-.b^rh's ni activities is no criterion. A. medical ly 1 authority who lias lately countered this absorbing and important question offers the following definition of what ; we call "death:" "Death," It Is suggest- ^ ed, is the name given to the inability w 1 of the orirans of the hndv tr? ?et tncntii i or Willi that harmony which is cliaracteristic of "life," although the derange- jls inont of this vital harmony does not preclude a possible hctivlfy of the individual organs, which recalls Herbert j Spencer's well known definition of life, gc t as a continued adjustment of internal ^r relations to external relations. ? liari por's Weekly. 1,. hi A IlnrKnln. pi "I have something for you here, my n< love," said Mr. Darley as ho proceeded fr ' to.oj?on a large, round box. n< "Wlmt is it, precious?" ui "Wait and see." te Darley carefully unwrapped the artl- it clo and disclosed a lady's hat. tl: "Isn't it a beauty?" he asked. "I rl I bought it myself as a surprise to you. Don't you think it is a perfect dronni?" i Mrs. Darley gazed at the hat and burst into tears. fr "I don't wear it!" she cried. "It gi doesn't suit me at all. You meftnt to te please me. I know, but it isn't my ni ' style at all." cc "Don't cry. dear. The milliner said gi you could exchange it, and if you'll hi agree not to buy any ties for me here- p( after I'll let you select your own hats g, I and bonnets." fll I An agreement was concluded on that di 1 basis. % : Don't Have anj ing Do i We are recei supplies, and ha Don't Dflv 25n. noi I X- -~?7 1-v by parties who i will be put in. \ I will guarantee a Bailey Lumbe "MBSflu *^DR. I. M .DEN' 'rown and Bridge Work a Specialty. Sculptured by Nature. Nature ilirough the active agency of 10 rains, winds anil even the (lust unetimcs performs wonderful things 1 the strange fashioning of the obnrnte stone into forms resembling the union face. On the very summit of [mint Tamalpais, a lofty peak that tands about twelve miles from tlie ty of San Francisco, Is n most relarknble profile wrouglit in the solid :one. Just a few minutes' walk from the id of the railroad that leads up to the lountnin's summit, on the trail that ireles the crest of the peak, brings ne to the Old 'Lady herself. Tills uge natural sphinx seems to guard, le path where it narrows on a rocky tlge. The profile Is perfect. The seams ud creases made by the centuries of oather are like lines of care and age oru In the human face. No one, howrer aged in our worldly years, cap rclember when the Old Lady was oung. However, when one passes farlcr along the patli and looks backnrd tlie outline of tlio wrinkled visage i lost, and instead tlie eye can dimly aee tlie features of a woman young* nil as beautiful as an Egyptian rlncess. lie Ilnd Money Ilefore. Colouel Carr was traveling in New lexlco once, when lie ran into a party onsisting of -Senator Tabor and bis riends. It was only a few months nftr Tabor had "struck it rich." Prior to lint event he had possessed scarcely nough to buy a postage stamp, but he ras making up for lost time. Carr had lost ids watch key and bean innulrinsr for one. Mr Tnimr lought this n great Joke". "The idea of man wanting a watch key in the inetccnth century!" ho said. After huckling over it for sonic time lie lrncd to Carr and asked an explana011. "I want to understand It?a atcli key! And a man as up to date i s you ?" j "Well, the fact Is," responded the ' >lonel, "I had enough money to buy a "ateli before stem winders came iuto ishlon." It was a center shot and was greeted ' y a roar from the entire car. Tabor ot off by buying champagne for the I rowd. An Intelligent Illrd. A species of woodpecker inhabits the riest parts of Mexico, where during , ?e droughts it must die of starvation ! jdess it made a store. To prevent this toe. the 'Ltre'e'W^,?.f n.Specl,?8 ?f jojwtp a nut. The woOrtpiTRW ' niitHioles at Intervals in the stem and lis it from bottom to top with the Jts, the separate holes being apparentmade for convenience of access to io column of nuts within. The intelligence which not only conructs a special storehouse, but tenches le woodpecker to lay by only the nuts, i lilch-will keep, and not the insectsi lilcli would decay, is perhaps the igliest form of bird reasoning which as yet been observed. Iluylnc n Wife. In Uganda a man can buy a hatidu:.e wife for four bulls, a box of earidgeji and six needles, and if he has le luck to go a-wooing when woman ippens to be a drug on the market ? can buy a suitable dnmsel for a llr of shoes. A Kaffir girl Is worth, ^cording to the rank of her family, 0111 four to ten cows, and in Tartary > father will surrender his daughter aless he gets a good quantity of butt in retnrn, and in certain parts of . ldia 110 girl can marry unless her fa- I ler has been padded by a present of i ce and a few rupees. Water on Unit IcmIiI|>*. As nearly as possible 8,000 gallons of esh water are used In n large battlelip dally. About two-thirds of tills is iken up by the boilers, and the reninder is used for drinking, washing, loking, etc. When the store which le has taken out with her from port is been used up a vessel has to dojnd upon her evaporators for further ipplies. Every modern warship Is tted with evaporating machinery to still the salt sea water. 1 Connections M ne Dntil Yon i Lving a large stool ve employed an ex r foot for having oom vill be gofte, when Ve are in the busine ill work. ir and Manuf; Office Bank Building Union, S. 0 The orily Difference. ; Tlx? waiter was n colored uian and was anxious to please. After looking over the hill of fare at the lunch hour I concluded that 1 wanted a slice of ox tongue, an article which I found ; among other things to be ordered. Ac| cordlugly 1 told the waiter to bring me a piece of tongue, lie returned without any unnecessary delay and shoved the dish out in front of me. I looked-.lt over. It was not tongue at all. The waiter was hanging around the back of my chair, for lie knew an explanation would be In order In a few mintiles. "Say, old man," I said to him directly, "this Is not ox tongue at all." He smiled, ricking up tlx; bill of fare, , he said: "I knows It alu't ox tongue, i boss. You see, the steward done made a mistake. It ought to bo ox tail. Dat's the only difference." "The only difference," I repeated, and the humor of the thing dawned on me. "Well," I added directly, "If the difference should ho any greater I'll be durned If yon wouldn't have to get off the ox." The waiter caught the humor of the situation and snickered his way back to the kitchen.?Galveston News. An Klnstlc Appetite. I The American black bear has an npj petite flint uiny be appropriately termed I elastic. He will kill a thousand pound steer or capture the tiny field mouse for a meal with equal Indifference. If a pig or a sliecp Is not handy. to his reach lie will diuc on a colony of ants or a nest of wood grubs. He will feast on dainty birds' eggs or swstet stores of wild honey and on the foulest carrion with like gusto*. He will flsli for the savory trout, but at the same time snap any warty toad or slimy lizard that may happen along that way. He will seek the luscious v? iiu piuT!) wuen it lias ripened or the wild grape nmons the branches where the vine clambers and bears Its fruit* but will not iniss the opportunity to i make food of nny snake that may lie '.In ambush there for birds that come to peck at the plums or grapes. The bear has a comprehensive palate. There Is scarcely a thing In the animal or vegetable kingdom that will not tickle it. A Jlnltlim Glnxn Bye. Some years ago a Haitian general wrote to a Paris optician to supply him with a glass eye. The optician; flattering lilniself that a successful eye would secure for him a Haitian decoration, devoted his utmost intelligence to the production of a splendid glass optic. Six months elapsed. A small box reached him from Haiti. A cross glittered in wltlialluftwdfoc Jmt. to ..his horror, ? eye, accompanied by therbflowing note: "Sir?The eye you forwarded to me Is of a tint that resembles that of the Spanish ting, and I am too patriotic to wear any but the color of my'country." The optician, proceeded at once to the admiralty, there ascertained the colors of the Haitian flag and then manufactured a scarlet and green eye, which he forwarded. Sueee**fiil Reminder. A small church was sadly in need of repairs, and a mooting was held with a view to raising funds for the purpose. The minister having said that $500 would he needed, a very wealthy and stingy member arose and said he would give $1. Just as lie sat down a large piece of piaster fell from the ceiling and struck him on his head, whereupon he jumped up hastily and said that he had made a mistake, that he would give $50. This was too much for an enthusiastic deacon present, who, forgetful of everything, called out fervently: "O Lord, .bit bim again! Hit him again!"?Mount Morris (111.) Index^ In a Minute. Wo <lo a good many things In a minute. For instance, we are whirled on the outside of the earth Just thirteen miles and have pone around the sun I,081) miles; a ray of light has traveled II,100,000 miles; the lowest sound your . ear can catch lias made 900 vibrations, the loudest tone 11,1128,000 vibrations; twenty-four barrels of beer have gone down 12,000 throats; 0,073 cigars have been mndo; 300 tons of coal have been mined, and (00 worth of gold has been extracted from mother earth. ade or Plumb- -jr~ iee Os. - w A | pert plumber. L neotions made the plumbing >ss to stay and Bduring Co.