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BEAUTY'S SECRET.
BY ALAN MUIR.
CHAPTER ".

CHAPTER ~.
THE RECTOR AGREES WITH MRS. TEMPLE.
Her flying wheels next ceased their swift
revolutions at the door of the rectory, and
the little woman alighted with the step Of
five-and-twenty. She shook her head as she
marked how the once brilliant flower beds lay
neglected, and the stone steps, once white as
porcelain, were turning green with neglect
Dead leaves strewed the path; the blind Of
the dining room window hung awry; what
ever she saw told her that the enchanter Gold
had wandered off with his wand to other do
mains, and that his successor, Poverty, had
already marked all things for his own. =
II should just like Sophia to see this place" /"
our rnoralist said. at would be lesson for
her." She spoke as solenn3y as Il she had
been the pensive and didactic Mr.. Hervey
walking among his tombs. "A few months
ago everything was trim and shining with
money; now-and this is poverty, pious pow
erty!" she said, with inexpressibie scorn in
her face. u hate poverty
The door opened, and instead Of the man
servant of other days, wen chad, wen brushed
and obsequious, there stood before her an i'll
dressed girl, whose skirts, tucked up on one
side and loose on the other, told of work
hastily left. Mrs. Barbara Temple noted the
red bare arm and the dirty finger nails; she
lost sight of nothing, and all she saw turned
into moral lesson.
II like to live," she thought; 4but better be
dead than poor"
As she was going intp thai library whif
from the kitchen tickled her 1ostrils, but not
gratefully. e. "7-f- -
"soup, I suppose she mnrmured again.
~
ing!"
none Of the easiest jand she felt she must be
discreet and guapd her lips. Mr. Brent ad-
vsnoed tpSAe6t her. and tried to put on his
old chesSy smile but the conspicuous failure
va9ade tie attempt more dismal than plain,
honest sigh. Mrs. Barbara conversed with
her usual spirit and gayety for few minutes,
until the question came naturally:
aHave you any news Of your sons"
GNone since the vessel was last heard OF, !"
he answered "At that time he was tolerably
we'll"
N liked that young man." she said. II
never regretted anything in my life more sin
cerely than having to abandon the hope Of
calling him relation"
HAS your daughter abandoned it," Mr.
Brent asked, with faint smile
aHow kind Of you!" she thought; "you
have said just the word wanted"
4That question:" she answered, us one
which cannot reply to as readily as should
wish. We know what young people are;
there is always great deal Of sentimentality
about them 1t amounts to nothing. In time
itwears off, While it lasts, however, it makes
their management difficult. OF course, you
are of my opinion, that the keeping up of
this engagement, even in the remotest way,
would be injurious both to your son and to
my daughter: No good can ever come of it,
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Then despair possessed the workmsn;
When that toilsome day was done.
Mournfully they plodded homeward;
fingered there the Silent One.
How he labored in the starlight,
While cool night winds round him stirred,
While the world in silence slumbered,
Their Is no recorded word.
But the first faint flush Of sunrise
Showed the beam set in It's place,
While the stranger met the workmen
With smile upon his face.
Speaking low, in accents gentle,
Like some distant anthems strain:
"Unless the Lord doth aid In building,
AL the work Of man Is vain"
As the mists drift from landscape,
Swept the dimness from their sight;
Knew they then twas Christ, the Master,
Who had lahored through the night.
B. W.
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u have known him more or less intimately
for years." the elephantine magnate contin-
ued. He talked as if he was debating testi-
monal "Amore upright, honorable man does
not breathe He is charitable and humane to
a fault. Believe me, Sophia, l would not
open my lips to you on the subject if did
not in my soul believe that. Prendergast will
make you truly happy woman, and that he
is worthy of you. I can say nothing more in
his praise"
Sophia began to cry, not knowing where to
turn, and Goldmore, taking upon himself al
most unconsciously the paternal relation,
gently patted her OH the shoulder. Indeed, it
seemed as if affairs had only to be pushed q
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and the sooner it Is finally settled the better
for both Of them. Don't you think so9"

for both Of them Don't you think so?"
u do" the poor clergyman replied.
He had no spirit left Never a man of in
dependent will, he was now reduced to a
mere animated machine, worked in matters
Of this sort from the outside.
aMy daughter has wild romantic attach
ment to your son." Mrs. Temple continued.
aNow you can help me to put an end to this
affair. You only can put an end to it, but
you can do So"
II can, can II" he replied.
@Yes; tell Sophia that you do not approve
of it, and that you consider it likely to be in
furious to Percival, which it surely will be-
Say with perfect truth also-you can-that
you are tolerably certain that even If she re-
manned constant to him he would not remain
constant to her. Just fancy, Mr.. Brenti a
young man at the most impulsive period Of
life, thousands of miles away, and with nc
hope of seeing her for years! Constant, in
deed! Why, in fairy tale it would be toe
absurd to be true~
He sat before her, passive and receptive,
agreeing to everything, promising every
thing. But, indeed, if the proud Sibyl, and
the infexible Goldmore, and the intellectual
Caroline had bent to her will, little wonder
if our poor rector bent, too, broken as his
nerves and win were by the one terrible
storm Of fate Whenever she asked him, "Do
you think so?" he answered, II think So"
Whenever she said, "N'll you say so to
SophiaF' he replied, II will say So" And
thus she faced him, energetic, full Of plot and
will, talking fast, and with frequent action
driving her meaning home. An onlooker
might have thought the scene private mes
meric experiment, and Mrs. Barbara Temple
the strong and resistless operator, and poor
Mr.. Anthony Brent the helpless subject
around whose volition and reason another
mind was coiling itself in swift and powerful
folds.
49," said our little mother, when this task
was done, "you are to set before Sophia the
facts of the case, and its probabilities. You
are to tell Sophia that Percival ought not to
marry her if he could, and that, in time, he
would not marry her even if he ought, In
terest. duty, affection, probability. Sophia,
shall hem you in, and force you to yield"
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@- Two clergymen once hotly disputed
on some knotty point of theology until it
was time to separate, when one of them
remarked: "You will find my views
very we'll put in a certain pamphlet" of
which he gave the title. To his surprise
his antagonist replied, "Why, 1 wrote
that pamphlet myself"
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THE LEGEND OF CHRIST CHURCH.


Near the southern coast Of England,
Rising dark from hills Of green,
An ancient church with Norman towers
By the sailors eye IS seen.
Seven centuries have written
Strangest stories on each stone,
Making thus a vast palimpsest
With rank ivy overgrown.
Of the legends, rarest, sweetest,
Is the story Of its birth,
When the mighty frame was lifted
Skyward from its native earth.
In the time Of William Rufus,
Norman monks both brave and good,
Laid with zeal its strong foundations
For its timbers hewed the wood.
Day by day there labored with them
One who from the forest came;
No one knew his home or nation.
No one ever asked his name.
+ As wild violets on the hillside
Bloom when southern winds have blown,
By the deft blows Of his chisel
Flowers sprang from solid stone.
And woods felt all the magic
OF his gentle artist hand
Yielded shapes that filed with wonder
All the skillfnl Norman band.
When at eventide the master
Paid the wages Of the day,
Needing not, the wondrous stranger
Wended to the hills his way.
Then the puzzled workmen queried:
''Who Is this, who asks no hire,
Yet whose perfect skill leaves nothing
Truest art could e'er desires"
None gave answer to their question,
But as whir,ing mountain SHOWS
Heap great drifts amonxthe gorges,
Steadily the church arose.
TIL the hour came for placing
The great beam which spans the nave;
For its length the oak tree, bowing,
All his mighty fiber gave.
No oak on the hills Of England
lowered 80 far above his kin
As this monarch, strong, sound hearted,
Fit church walls to enter In.
Ahi we all fall short in something,
Measured by the laws demand,
And the oak beam failed In inches
By the distance Of hand.
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INDIRECT APPLICATION you
told me you needed the alcohol to clean
the mirrors with, and here l find you
drinking it.
Faix. mum, it's drinking it and
brathin' on the glass Dim doin'.-Life.
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A VIEW OF THE EARTH.

If we imagine an observer contemplate
ing the earth from convenient distance
in space and scrutinizing its features as it
rolls before him, we may suppose him to
be struck with the fact that eleven-six-
teenths of its surface are covered with
water and that the land so unequally dis
tributed that from one point OF view he
would see hemisphere almost exclusive
ly oceanic, while nearly the whole of the
dry land is gathered in the opposite hem
isphere. He might observe that the great
oceanic area of the Pacific and Antarctic
ocean is dotted with islands-like a shall
low pool with stones rising above its sur
face-as if its general depth were small in
comparison with its area. He might also
notice that mass or belt surrounds each
pole and that the northern ring sends off
to the southwark three vast tongues of
land and of mountain chains, terminating
respectively in South America, South AT
rica and Australia, toward which feebler
and insular processes are given off by the
Antarcticcontinental mass. This, as some
geographers have observed, gives rude
ly three ribbed aspect to the earth, though
two of the three ribs are crowded togeth-
er and form the Europe-Asian mass of
double continent, while the third is iso-
lated in the single Continent of America.
He might also observe that the northern
girdle is cut across, so that the Atlantic
opens by wide space into the Arctic Sea,
while the sea is contracted towards the
north, but confluent with the Antarctic
Ocean. The Atlantic is relatively deeper
and less numbered with islands than the
Pacific, which has the higher ridges near
its shores, constituting what some visitors
to the Pacific coast not inaptly called the
"back of the world" while the wider
slopes face the narrower ocean, into which
for this reason the greater part of the
drainage of the land is poured. The Pa
cific and Atlantic, though both depres-
sions or fattenings of the earth, are, as
We shall find, different in age, character
and condition and the Atlantic, though
the smaller, is the older and from the
geological point of view, in some respects,
the more important of the two. If our
imaginary observer had the means of
knowing anything of the rock formation,
of the continents, he would notice that
those bounding the North Atlantic are in
general of great age, some belonging to
the Laurentan system. On the other
hand, he would see that many of the
mountain ranges along the Pacifcare COM
paratively new and that modern igenous
action occurs in connection with them.
Thus he might be led to believe that the
Atlantic though comparatively narrow is
an older feature of the earth's surface,
while the Pacific belongs to modern times.
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DON'T TRY TO BE FUNNY.

Corwin, of Ohio, "Tom Corwin," as ev-
cry one called him, was a natural wit, and
his reputation as humorous speaker was
better established than any of the other
men in Congress or in the country. One
evening after he had delivered speech
at a political meeting in Ohio which
had been highly complimented he seemed
dissatisfied with himself, and finally
said to those around him in his room !:
II feel i'm the mood just now to give
few words of advice to you young
men, which 1 hope may influence your
future lives. Let me say to you, in So
ber earnestness, don't try to be funny,
like me. You could doubtless make bet
ter clowns than l have made of myself,
but don't try. 1 shall regret to my dying
day that / ever said a funny thing. The
world will laugh at me; but the world
despises the clown at last. l can do moth
ing else. When speech is announced to
be made by Tom Corwin, everybody ex-
poets a clownish performance, and any
thing else would not be tolerated.
IL am relegated to the circus ring for
the rest of my life. Whether feel serious,
sad or happy, it is all the same-it must
be funny speech; and | know it, and l
Weld to this popular prejudice and clam
UT, duu ~ VII HohihS o iOOi VI 49, SSA'l
and | shall continue to do so to the end
of my career The man who talks as /
do never gets any credit for any solid
attainments; he is never looked upon as
statesman and if he gets any political
preferment it is only as a sort of joke,
and not because he is supposed to be a
statesman. If man could talk funny
when he felt like it, and talk sense at
other times, or if it were possible to make
people understand that he was only
cracking joke to amuse them it might
do; but that is not the way in which the
world is constituted. A man must be fun
ny or wise. You may rise higher in the
long run to be wise. This reputation of
mine hangs about my neck like the body
of death. 1t is the Nemesis which will
haunt me to my grave. Shun it while
you may" These remarks made great
impression upon the young men to whom
they were addressed, and when Mr.. Cor
win had concluded, they were as silent as
though they had been in attendance up
on funeral.-Ben. Perley Poore.
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Observation-Disclosures is talent that
must not be wrapped up in napkin. 1t
is a power that must he felt. Neither
should it be deprecated. Many think
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" Oh, where did the
beautiful star go
The beautiful star In
the east
Did it set forrrer that
Christmas morn
When its wonderful
mission cva4d :
Or wns 1t A planet
like the rest!
W ith earth AMI water
opd olyv
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For sign Divine"
70 happy soul! the gate swings wide,
The sign Is thine;
In woe thine arms extended wide
Portrays the cross-the crucifed-
The sign Divine"
GERTRUDE GARRISON
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a faithful officer, and a good

0 IL
citizen.
Returning to the McNelly case again.
| the state and defence gave notice that
| they rested their cases and after some
| consultation took place between the AT.
| torneys on both sides as TO the time OF
| argument and the number of speeches
| to be made, IL was finally agreed upon
that the defence be allowed three
| speeches and the state two,
The district attorney. Mr.. RE. Han
new, then opened the argument for the
state which occupied a little over two
hours, going into every detail connected
with the case and on his part nothing
was left undone to obtain a conviction
and from those who know him best they
do not hesitate in saving that Ii was the
greatest argument that they ever heard
him make.
Mr.. Hanney was then followed BY G..
II. Breedlove, of BRENNAN, whose won
derful reasoning powers were brought
out TO their fullest extent, and as an
orator. he is ranked among the first in
his profession; his very department and
carriage ia dramatic, there are no SUPER
fuous words, motions or gestures, but
on the whole, every word suits the sub
ject he is handling and every gesture is
applicable 10 the word, sentence or ex-
preston intended to be conveyed and in
short, he, as 1t were, throws his whole
soul into his argument and possesses
the faculty Of carrying his listeners
with him whittier he pleases.
In picturing vice and virtue he will
carry his audience down as 1t were to
the lower regions and gradually lift
them up to some celestial sphere with
such ease and grace as to put them In
perfect oblivion and make them I'M
mindful Of their present whereabouts.
Then came after Mr.. BreedlOve another
lion OF the bar for the defense, Gen.
Boone, from Nayasota, who also made
splendid argument for the prisoner, and
then last but not least, was Judge Moore,
from LAGRANGE, who occupied the atten-
ton of the jury for about two hours and
half, thus making in all three speeches
for the defense, and while we are closing
this letter the district attorney Is about
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Prompt Reform of Bodily Evils.

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The following patents were gran
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Harold GOOch, Bonham. holder.
II. M. HOrnie, Paris, spring socket
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G. III. Houston and +. r. Mulkey.
Savoy, motor.
Houston, support for coffee mills.
George Surratt and II. Heyman,
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p. 5. Upton, Arson, gate.
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Expert Testimony.
Editor LIGHT:

Editor LIGHT:
desire to call attention to the fact
that the almost instantaneous death of
Heintz from pistol shot through the
frontal portion OF his head Monday night
expert testimony that was given in, on
the trial Of Ygnacia COrtez for the muir.
der of Sid Staniforth. Expert testi-
mony is fast falling into merited disre-
pute, and the day is at hand in the near
future, when il will be laughed and
eered out OF the courthouse, consume
ton most devOutly 10 be wished. II
HeintZ was killed instantly by n bullet
through one temple, and coming out al
the other, the same thing was likely in
the case Of Staniforth, and then he
could not have fired the second shot.
Il TT
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G. 3. FRANKS.
The Great Dry Goods and Clothing Empo-
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rum 8 special Announcement.
During the week, we will offer the
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In flannels and Lady's cloth; pushes,
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we're elected
President-R. Hanschke.
First Vice-President-M. Kraksuer.
Second ce-President-R. Becker.
Treasurer-Charles Hugo.
Secretary-A. Kuhn.
Corresponding Secretary-W. Schur-
wirth.
Musical Director - Professor Carl
Beck.
CHAIRMAN OF COMMITTEES.
Finance-Ed. Stoves. Sr.
Quarters-F. G. Haueisen.
Railroad-G. Schneider.
Picnic-Alex Joske.
Reception-Charles l.. Wurzbach.
Commers-Dr. +. Herff.
Printing-R. Hsnschke.
Music-Professor Carl Beck.
The chairman Of committees will ap-
point their own co-workers and report
accordingly.
The chorus, consisting Of Americans
and Germans, will consist Of from $50 TO
200 select voices, which will be invited
shortly, and will commence rehearsal In
the Knights Of Pythias hall, In George
Dullnig's block, at an early date.
In addition to local singers Ii Is ex-
pected that over 500 singers from vari-
Gus parts Of the state will attend and
take part.
The orchestra, consisting of SO pieces,
will be one Of the finest ever brought to
the state.
The committee are determined that
the sixteenth saengerfest shall eclipse
the last one, held in 1877, which was
universally recognized as a great sue
cess.
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working But Crippled.

Part of the street commissioners force
are grading the lower end of Avenue C.,
and another part is doing the same ser
vice for Grand avenue. The carpenters
are engaged in putting in culverts on
Pine street.
The street commissioner is anxious to
clear up much important work that is
absolutely necessary TO be done, but the
recent ill-adVised reduction OF his staff,
retards work and comparatively cripples
his effort to do the necessary work OF the
city.
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