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her brother and knew that he was on
his way to the village. She did not re-
turn to the sitting-room fire and the
book she had been reading, however;
no, she went directly upstairs, took n
box from her secretary and, going over
to the window in the cleaning, sat
down.
'May be Ashley is dead" she said,
sadly; may be the Indiaman went down
somewhere with all on board, as was
rumored; may be it did"
The ring CLEANED family in the dusly
| light as she put it on her finger. "Be
true, Bessie; be true" the bit of paper
said. 81 shall always remember that
my love is waiting for me with heart
as brave as my own"
| Bessie didn't read the crumpled note
tonight. There was no need; she knew
every word by heart long ago. For six
long years they had lain, the note and
the promise, waiting their verification.
| After few minutes thought Bessie
returned her treasures to their hiding
place, and, brushing away few tears
bravely and hopefully, went downstairs
to wait for John and the letters.
Up the well-worn pathway leading to-
ward the valley home came pair of
light, flying feet; but John Anderson did
not hear, so he kept on dreaming.
by and by a lady wanted to pass. He
rose and stepped aside, bat in hand.
For moment the woman paused on the
stile, and then, with glad cry of recog-
milton, fluttered right into his arms.
80 John!" and Muriel Trowbridge
buried her face on her lovers breast.
The long, desolate four years rolled
away; the fact that she had been silent
fell back, and nothing was remembered
but that she had come, his own, dainty
Muriel.
"Muriel," said he, rapturously; my
long-lost lover
~ have run away from guardy," she
said, in a frightened tone, clinging to
him. 81 was so afraid / shouldn't find
you. o dear!"
II there was any thing more required
to unstring John Anderson's self-posses-
sion, it was Muriel's tears, as she ended
her little confession with sobs.
''He was opposed to your loving me
and wouldn't let you write; and so you ran
away and came back to poor, faithful
John?" he said, caressing her.
"Yes," came the answer between the
sobs. ''Guardy wishes me to marry his
nephew, and he took mo off to Europe
to make me forget you, he said. But !
won't wed Tom Walton. never!" ---H'-.
NO" said John. "You'll marry plain
John Anderson If you choose and no
man on earth dare interfere"
Then he kissed the tear-stained face,
and all the pain went out OF his heart
as he whispered something in her ear
which dried the tears and prompted q
little rippling laugh, something like
that he used to hear, to make music in
that long-silent world of his.
And Bessie waited and waited. Twice
see went down to the wicket and listened
for Johns coming, but only the cold
winds talked of coming desolation in the
naked boughs overhead. "He always
comes before nine o'clock, " she said, tear
fully; "but tonight, OF all nights, he II
30 late, poor brotheri''
The old clock on the stairs struck ten
and, listening, Bessie heard footsteps
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AMONG THE loELANpERs.
Description of a Farm-Houso and It's Prim
rFu

itlve Furnishings.
The Icelandic farm-house, outside
the few sea-ports, with isolated ex-
ceptions, consists OF n series of one
story structures placed longitudinally
side by side, with broad intervening
walls OF sod rising up to the gables.
The side and rear walls are composed
OF long strips OF turf, from twenty
inches to two feet in width, laid one
upon the other to the height of perhaps
six or eight feet Stones also are fre-
qucntly used in connection with the
turf, and not rarely the bones of sheep.
Upon these walls rest the rafters, and
on these in turn, cross. boards sufficient
to support similar strips of sod. The
front of the house may be constructed
altogether of turf, or of turf and stones
(this is rare), or of turf and boards,
or wholly of boards. This space is
pierced with one, two, or more win
dows. The roof turf, of course, soon
forms one whole, verdant or withered,
according to the conditions of the at
mosphere, and very likely dotted with
flowers. Similarly the turf walls. A
raven or dog perched upon the end of
the roof, and forming an animate
ornamental addition thereto, is not
an uncommon sight. The main ell
trance is usually through a structure
standing midway in the group, often
merely a rooted passage. STOPPING
down, you find yourself in broad.
unaoored space, lighted only from the
top entrance. You grope forward,
turn to one side, and, after passing
through an interim of darkness, door
opens and you enter the chief room
quest room). This is at times quite
pleasantly furnished, though of course
with exceeding simplicity and rude
taste, but usually it is almost entirely
bare. Its furniture consists of n mar
row bed occupying one corner of tho
room, often, also, case of books, q
table, and perhaps certain number of
chairs and benches, besides the painted
wooden chests. AS n rule, however,
there are only the latter, and perhaps
stationary benches along the sides of
the room. Almost invariably this
room, at least, has wooden flooring;
but in one instance this was not the
case. Occasionally the farmhouse is
entirely destitute of room such as
we have described, the sitting and din
ing room being coincident with the
so-called "bath stofa." At other
times this room is used only as sitting
and dining room, and there are bed
closets opening off from it reminding
one of heroic days. s.-Charles Sprague
Smith, in Scribner.
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satisfied, and the girls OF Folly Mill 30
clety nodded and smirled, but plair
John Anderson grew palmer and farther
away.
Once, only once, Bessie had grown
cross and said hard things. He was
speaking of his great passion for music
and his longing for higher aspirations
than to only SOW and reap and nothing
more; and she had reminded him that
he had ''tried once TO fly higher than
his homely wings allowed Of"
Wincing under this sore thrust, he
never mentioned the subject so near to
his heart again.
Well, he must go to the village TO
night. or course they wouldn't have any
guests tomorrow, but no and Bcss gem
orally received Thanksgiving letters, and
she set so much by getting thom the
night before. "Thank-ofrerings" she
called them.
Going quietly downstairs and shut
ting the hall door noiselcssly behind
him, he tried to avoid Bessie. He didn't
care to see her just then; there were
painful memories keeping him company.
His sister meant to be kind always, he
thought, but she was sort of strange
sometimes.
Nevertheless, halfway down the walk,
under the great pear tree which stretched
its naked arms up toward tho silent,
cleaning heavens, she met him.
"Going over to tho villagc?' she asked,
in voice kindlier than usual, and John
paused while he answered in the aflirma-
tive.
Bessie came closer to him then and
looked into his care-lined face intently.
Something she saw there appealed to
her sisterly affection. She put her arms
about her brothers. neck and whispered,
brokcnly: "Nevcr mind, John; it will
be all right by and by"
"Bcss pitics mel" almost sobbcd tho
great, strong man, as the wicket clicked
behind him and he turned into the Or
chard path.
Perhaps Thanksgiving memories had
been crowding in ON Bcssie's heart; per-
haps the thoughts of something sacred,
of which John never dreamed of, n ring
and promise unfulflled, had something
to do with the caress under the gray No
vember skies.
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1t wasn't far to the village, just over
there beyond the little white church
where, four years ago, Muriel Trowbridge
played the Thanksgiving anthem.
And he would walk across the mead
ows; he wanted to be alone with neither
beast nor bird to see. Out there beyond
the hills the sunset burned and tlared
like huge bonfire against the Novem-
ber sky, and the winds tossed the dead
leaves about his feet with shivering
moan. The sleepy quail piped in the
stubble in a monotonous way, but John
Anderson didn't mind.
When he came to tho stile he sat down
to dream bit. Somehow Bessie's part
ing words, together with the western
cleaning, had lighted up his twilight
hour amazingly.
His eyes wandered away to the great
white farmhouse showing up through
the shadowy valley. Yea, she loved
music, Muriel did, and sang so sweetly.
Hlrkl Was that a little melody she
used to sing coming up across the brown,
deserted meadows? No; it was only a
memory, and he remembered that he
was sitting alone on the stile in the
gray, cold twilight of Thanksgiving
Eve.
Bessie went slowly into the house aft
er She heard the wicket shut behind
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face that attracted Muriel Trowbridge to
his side as more than friend on her
first visit to Folly Mill farm.
But that was years ago, and tonight
that almost feminine sweetness had
been transformed into an expression in
dicating heartache.
1t hadn't all come about just tonight,
but this ievening it seemed that the
acme Of sad disappointment had been
reached.
John looked at his face as reflected in
the mirror and a strange, yearning ques-
tioning came into the misty gray eyes
involuntarily. wv I
"Yes,n he said, slowly, as II in an
swer, 81 am growing old; there's tinge
of gray already in my hair, and am
only thirty-eight 1t is not always years
that weigh one down."
That was as far as John Anderson
generally went along this line of solilo-
guy. The rnspoken surged back to his
heart, where the altar fires burned
steadily to shatte red idols.
To be sure he had never loved but
this once, yet it would be the last, for
no other image should ever be placed
on the pedestal sacred to her memory.
Mysteriously and in an unexplain-
able manner she had gone out of his
life on Thanksgiving night some four
years previous; but he kept the light of
hope burning in the windows of his soul
for her return, for Muriel was Muriel
still.
Sister Bessie had no patience with his
''moping;" but then he thought she had
never had such experiences, and that
accounted for her lack of sympathy.
The broad acres of Folly Mill farm be-
roomy villa seemed 30 lonely now since
that memorable summer.
1t didn't seem great while ago, yet
the years had drifted away and now to-
morrow would be another anniversary.
1t would be vastly different, how
ever, from that one when parlor and
hah were filed with merry groups, and
the long tables We're set in the great
dining-room to hold the display of
Bessie's Thanksgiving dinner.
And what a chattering there was! He
should always remember it, and how
happy he was with her so near and dear
TO him.
Tomorrow they would come homo
from services in the old white chapel
just below the farm, and eat their dinner
in the little breakfast-room adjoining
the kitchen-he and Bess-solitary and
alone; would it be Thanksgiving?
John shut his lips tightly and the
lines of patient suffering deepened
about his mouth.
Muriel Trowbridge was blue-eycd,
fair-haired, dainty little woman with
the sweetest smile and most musical
voice John Anderson had ever seen.
And on the Thanksgiving Day before
she went away they had walked across
the brown and wind-swept meadows
together and talked of friends and
friendships, and she had grown quite
serious, for as he talked he felt her
hand tremble on his arm and noted the
changing color on her fair face.
In the cold, dull cleaning he had left
her at her uncle's door with his first
warm, passionate kiss on her lips, but he
had never seen her since. And was it
not curious that he could thus drop out
OF her life and she not mind? John re-
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She death rate on the earth is calcu-
lated to be 81 in a minute, 1920 an hour,
9G,4sO day, 35,215,2o year. The birth
rate slightly exceeds this. 1t is calcu-
lated to be 20 per minute, 1900 an hour,
1Oo,sOO a day, or S6,47O,OOO in a year.
The estimated increase per annum, ac-
cording to this is, therefore, only lit
tie more than 100000, and it will be
many centuries before our earth gets to
be so crowded that the inhabitants will
jostle each other over the edge into a
space! The Malthusian's ideas regard
ing over population need, therefore, de-
tain any one from marriage.-Journal
of Health.
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"A little girl of Italian race is in the
habit of visiting certain houses in Bos-
ton quite regularly, receiving food and
sometimes other articles, which she
slows away snugly in the basket which
is her constant companion. In her round
of visits one day she was accompanied
by another little girl who had no basket.
The good lady of the house, after sup
plying the little girl as usual, remarked:
docs not your companion want some-
thing, too?' so, moi" was the reply.
"She's rich! Her father works!"
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"'MID pleasures and palaces, tho we may roam, a.,
Be II ever so humble, there's no place ike home.'
especially If blessed with wife whose
those dragging down pains arising from
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these troubles and brings sunshine to many
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a positive guarantee from manufacturers of
satisfaction or money refunded. Read guar
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To TINE EDITOR R:-Plenso inform you1
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the above named disease BY its timely
use thousands of hopeless cases have been
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two bottles of my remedy FREE to any oil
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address Respectfully, II, A. SLoouM, NJ. c.,
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On November 10th tho Louisville & Nash
vile Railroad inauguratcd fast limited
train CT Pullman Butfet Sleeping Cars and
and Jacksonville. This train leaves Cincin.
natl every morning after arrival of con-
Meeting trains from the North and Ea t, ar.
irving at New Orleans at :25 noon (twen-
ty-eight and half hours), Jacksonville at
:55 p. m. (thirty hours), without change.
For further information, write 3. S. Parker
Division Passenger Agent, Cincinnati, o.
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CATARRH.
Catarrhal Deafness-Hay Fever-A New
Homo Treatment.

Sufferers are not generally aware that
these diseases are contagious, or that they
are due to the presence of living parasites
in the lining membrane of the nose and
eustachian tubes. Microscopic research,
however, has proved this to be a fact, and
the result of this discovery is that simple
remedy has been formulated whereby
Catarrh, Hay Fever and Catarrhal Deafness
are permanently cured in from one to three
simple applications made at home by the
patient once in two weeks.
N. B.-This treatment is not q snuff or an
ointment; both have been discarded by
reputable physicians as injurious. A pamph-
let explaining this new treatment is sent on
receipt of three cents in stamps to pay
postage by A. Ii. Dixon IL Son, cor of John
and King Street, Toronto, Canada.-Chris-
tfan Adpocate.
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ASKED.
membered how happy they both were
that night, and felt that it was.
And there had been such dark page
turned down over that ,golden-lettered
one that not a ray of loves sunshine
had ever beenable To- pierce its gloom.
81 want you to visit me, certainly"
she hAd said in answer, "and shall write
you when to come as you desire" Then
added, after. moments hesitation,
''about the holidays look for letter of
invitation"
Well John Anderson walked on air
until the time of the expected letter.
People remarked how bright-loolfing he
had grown to be; he could hardly be
called '.plain john any more. But
some OF tho mothers of the neighbor-
hood who had inarriageable daughters,
guessing at the reason OF this change,
werecruel enough TO wish that he might
never hear from that ''city fiirt" again.
And the years rolled on, and tho letter
neyeg sawa The snYious matgopy were
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MEpIocRITY dtoavs copies superiority Dob
bins Electric Soap has been initiated more
than any soap made. Ask your grocer for
DO6bfns Electric. All other Electrics, Elec-
tricity, Magnetics, ETC., are limitations.
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FoRr wArNr, Ind., Aurust

FoRT WArNE, Ind, August %, 1850.
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recommended Hibbard's Rheumatic Syrup
After taking one bottle was entirely cured
/ have recommended your remedies fire.
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l.. O. ZoLLINaER.
Ask your druggist for It.
We have personal knowledge that the
above statement is correct.
DREIER d BRO, Druggists,
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SORE Throat or Cough, If suffered TO
progress, often results in an incurablo
throat or lung trouble. " BroiUn's Bronchial
Irochcs" give instant relief.
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THE law permits q man to use his wife 10
rob his creditors. Yet in the face of this II
is argued that marriage is failure.-Bing-
hamton Herald. fa-.
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= AND now rival OF Edison's has come to
the surface with an invention for piercing
the ears without pain. No modern opera
house should be without one.-Puck. >. -
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farm.

HE who engages in the battle of life
should remember that some of his
worst foes, and such as require the
hardest fighting, are within. Until he
has learned how TO fight and master
them he is not fitted for engaging with
the enemies without-United PTesby-
tegian.
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WOMEN, like diseases, always search out
our weakest points for attack; and they
generally find them.--Milwaukee Journal.
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Do NOT purge nor weaken tho bowels, but
act specially on the liver and bile. A perfect
liver correcter. Carter'S Little Liver Pills.
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A loc. smoke for5c. "Tansilps Punch {"

THERE is q wide difference between the
best-known and the known best men of q
modern city
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THE fence owner who puts up sign
"sticlt no billsn as warning to agents for
theatrical companies would possibly do
moro good by making it "bill no sticks.r-
Washington Capital.
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A Thanksgiving Story in Two
Chapters.
written for This Paper.l
CHAPTERI.

W ou Id b c
Thankspiy-
inps' Yes. and
plain John An
doreon finished
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THE highest grade of impudence-To wait
in an umbrella shop for shower 10 pass
over.-Fliegende Batter
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THE coseLER.s Wall.

What though the landscape bright about me
iesi
What though tha cln It's golden nectar spillsi
What though the CROW In somber beauty flies
Into the purple glory OF the hillsi
My old anatomy hns got the chIlls;
know that soon III be stuffed full OF sage,
And that is why my tears bedew the printed
page. Nf
My wattles soon will light the old ashheap;
My pnions soon will make kitchen brush.
subtle sadness sets me all a-creep.
Here in the bosom OF the twilight hush
see the beauteous maid In crimson plush
Laugh Rt the feast In most exultant tone,
While with young Thingumbobs she snaps my
frail wish.bons.
'Tis growing mirlt, and can read no more.
Goodbye, my wives and progeny good bycl
Soon shah lightly swing on yonder door,
Announcing that Thanksgiving Day is nigh.
The cranberries are plucked, the pumpkin
pie
Blooms like q fuliblown tiger lily.bell;
Alas alacls, alas alack, alas! FAREWELL
--Pucki
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THE best cough medicine is Piso's euro
for Consumption. Sold everywhere 25c.
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THE star actress wardrobe is incomplete
nowadays without q divorce suit.-Icrre
Haute Express.
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Sufferers from Catarrhal troubles should
carefully read the above
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THE easiest way for good wife to gel
elong pleasantly is to practise what her
husband breaches. .-Atchison Globe. .,
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DfSffsTs ought to mako good campaign
orra,s9,rsi they nave snon an oneeuye way
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Mild, equable climate, certain and abundant
crops. Best fruit, grain, grass, stock country
in the world. Full Information free. Address
Oregon Immigration Board, Portland Oregon
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THERE is q silver lining to every cloud
the man who can't get credit is never
worried by duns--Boston Courier
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uniform In action. No gripping pain so com,
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adapted to both adults and children with
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stipation, Dyspepsia, Biliousness; and, as an
appetizer, they excel any other preparation.
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The cleansing, antiseptic and healing quail
tiles of DIR. Sago's Catarrh Remedy are un-
equaled.
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WHEN mans coat is thrcadbare 1t il
easy to pick holo in It.
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THE weather is as uncertain as the age OF
a7girl over thirty. Richmond Recorder. .
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HAVE no equal as n prompt and positive
cure for sick headache, biliousness, consu-
patton, pain in the side, and all livor troub-
les. Cartcr's Little Liver Pills. Try thom.
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r OYSTERS arc very self-possessed Great
nres. They never turn red when they get
into n stew
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