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vealed Lucy.
'Then let's play with the dock-leaf
dolls, - responded Marietta with inter-
est, though the inside girl sighed about
the still wandering HKnight and Lady,
and that smooth barn board on which
they could not now be set down.
A green, wide space opened In thai
street which no child could pass without
lettering. For in the center of the space
stood u giant walnut tree with house IN
Its branches. A spiral stairway assembled
around the trunk TO MIR. Waggle's front
door, ten feet above the ground. The
house was built OF light timbers bolted
together with iron, but 1t had an ele-
CANT finish, and had been sketohed and
written about by strangers and gazed at
by neighbors until its owner resented
the approach of anybody. The folks all
around were willing to stay away from
Mr.. Maggie, but they would talk about
him. Though he was called rich and
great traveller and learned in books,
they considered it unsocial of any man to
build his house up in tree.
But Marietta seer city delighted in Mr..
waggle, with his air of foreign lands,
and his separateness from people living
on the ground.
He had q brown man to wait on him
about whom there was constant dispute
in the town. Some said this man WAS q
straight haired mulatto, others taat he
was a Spaniard, and yet Others that he
was, according to Mr.. Waggle's own
testimony. q Sandwich Islander. He
had broad, mild face. his hair was cut
straight around his head, and though he
wore thick American clothes even IN
summer he was always wreathing his hat
with flowers. Settled people who had
never been used to such sights could
hardly believe the gentle Sandwich
I lander harmless, and they felt they
ought to watch him when he did errands
or worked in the garden beyond the tree.
Marietta and Lucy stopped without
a word and gazed at Mr.. Waggle's
house, The door was shut, though all
the windows appeared open. Far back
in the garden the brown man g shoulders
bowed up and down as he hoed.
The walnut tree seemed as full of mu-
sic as il each one OF its leaves breathed
q song.
Step by step Marietta and Lucy ap-
preached the tree. They knew they
were not wanted there, but other chill
dreu had dared to go up that spiral stair
way leading TO SO exclusive world. If
they had tumbled down again in hurry
Marietta was sure it was because they
were cowardly. Mr.. Maggie had never
hurt anybody.
s'He won't care If we go up and sit by
his door, Lucy. I'm sure l wouldn't
care, if 1 could make such music as that,
who heard it.
Lucy blinked anxiously, but did as
, Marietta did. They felt the ridges of
walnut bark with the delighted awe of
explorers, winding around the ascent.
Flower breaths came from Mr.. Wsggle's
garden, and the whole visible earth was
stepped above lie rim OF woods in SHIN
meriDg heat. The sun glared back from
white houses. Leaves everywhere held
ripe depth of green, and Mr.. Waggle' 3
house seemed the harmonious center of
all these good things. Marietta wished
il could be always summer; for in the
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OUR YOUTHS Department
EDITED BY FRANCIs HoDGsoN BURNETT

voices in consultation there. He was half dis
posed to try to slip out of the building upper
ceived, but his feet seemed frozen to the spot.
His mind seemed a blank. He wished with all
his heart that DR.. John had instructed him IS to
what he should do in case OF serious trouble.
There was stir in the glass ofie The clerk
reappeared, accompanied by the president, and
oh, horror! Col. Marshall.
Col. Marshall cody possessed himself OF the
draft and fixed his hawk-like eyes on Martin.
'Now, young man, - he said. make clean
breast Of it and save us further trouble. Who
gave you this money?''
Nancy Brown, - replied Martin, faithful to
his trust, although he shook from head to foot.
Nancy Brown, - repeated the colonel, satiri-
callY. This reads Susan Brown!'
81 meant meant to say Susan" insisted the
wretched Martin. Observation-Disclosures calls
herself Nancy, you know
''oh, she does. does sheT' commented the
colonel, with very uncomfortable emphasis on
the prOnoun.
Now, Martini he urged, speaking kindly
and persuasively, town up that DR.. John sent
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satisfied with life on the playground.
The inside girl was eager for some world
of libraries and gentle-spoken men and
women; q world in which she might meet
and shyly gaze upon Nathaniel Haw-
thorne and Washington Irving and the
great poet, Longfsllow. The inside girl
hated to write in ladies' albums, and
only did so because Grandmother Brit
ties said 1t would be impolite to refuse.
She did not expect anybody else 10 be
interested in what so delighted her. Ii
now seemed to be the inside girl who
hesitated at Mrs. Bope's gate, half
minded to go back and stuff the baby
poem in some crack of the old trunk.
But Mrs. Bope saw her and called her
into the cool dark house, pushed the
auburn hair off her warm forehead, and
set her down In horsehair parlor chair.
There was always a smell of dried
flowers and leaf mold in Mrs. Bope 3
house, and the engravings on the walls
had q stained look like a high water
mark. Mrs. Bope played on q dulcimer
with a small hammer. and was in the
habit of singing many shrill, sad songs
to the pecking of this instrument. She
was o pale young woman, and usually
wore sashes with her dresses.
She asked about the Brittles family
and Marietta answered in the polite
phrases of the village, looking about the
darkened premises in vain for any traces
of paper.
al brought the piece you asked me to
write, Mrs. Bope," said Marietta, feel
ing her face scorch.
''Oh; did your" responded her hostess
with the indulgent patience of grown
women. "Then you may read it to
me-.
'No, ma 'am, can It, - said the little
girl, standing up. "At school we have
to read our compositions. But when we
don't have to 1 don t like to. %
'Then / ought to say that you will
have to - smiled Mrs. Bope.
"I'll just give it to you, and I'll go
out aud sit in the culvert while you read
it. You can call me back If you want It
changed.
Mrs. Bope smiled unusually. She did
not oppose the small authors exit, end
presently smiled more through the win
dow at Marietta's shoes and pantalettes
dangling down the cuIvert s stone side.
Yet in q quarter of an hour she called
the child and sobbed in the hall over the
auburn head that had iustinctively
turned its face away from a mothers
sacred grief.
'Oh, you know just how felt-it Is
so strange for you to know just how
feltl' exclaimed Mrs. Bope, trying to
control herself. 'fl am going to put the
piece in baby's box of clothes with his
playthings and all.
''I wish / had brought il before, -
thought Marietta, swed by such tribute.
''Thank you so much for writing it, -
continued Mrs. Bope, drying her eyes.
''You're welcome entirely, Mrs.
Bope. But don't you want 1t changed
any?"
''No. ] called you back to have some
OF my sponge cake and peaches. 1 In
tend to buy something pretty for you.
What shall 1t be?''
Marietta had made up her mind dur
ing the moments she stood IN the hall
that she could not take pay for this liter
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you. or look me in the eye and tell me that he

you, or look me in the eye and tell me that he
did not.
u can't tell you that he did when he didn't,
can 1919 persisted the lad, trying hard to meet
The keen eyes and ignobly failing.
There q brief silence. Martin felt that
shame hung out her flaming banners In his
cheeks, but he pursued his momentary vantage.
''If you would please give me that paper.
sir. Mrs. Brown is waiting for it, and she is in
hurry
With a quick movement he caught up the pa
per- as the Colonel's fingers unwillingly relaxed
their hold upon it. He walked with dignity to
the door, but when he found himself outside he
dashed down the steps and swiftly up the
street, feeling rather than hearing pursuers at
his back.
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cal lectures all afioat IN the stories his
daughter had written around them.
Marietta could not afford paragraphs.
She wrote in one thick block, punctuat-
ing nicely, but making no breaks for
conversation. She could only admire
the spacing of tales in print, and muse
on the wealth of writers. People who
wrote like that must have loads of pa
per. To this little girl riches took the
form of creamy. smooth stacks of FOOLS
cap. Once her cousin from college
made her ar heiress with all his scraps
of pink, blue, green, buff aud ivory
white note paper. Such golden days
come seldom in lifetime. She ought
to have hid some of this windfall and de-
MED herself the lavish use OF il, so the
knight and the Lady" would not have
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'Poultice it by all means, il Beauty will sub
init to it. / assure you, Martin, that never use
the knife where haIseed will do the business,
Is one ofthe most solemn tenets OF the medical
profession"
Martin was red with wrath at himself, at DR..
John, and at the circumstances tina had con-
Epired to move him to make goose OF himself.
CHATTER XIV DIR. JOHN Is BROUGHT TO BAY.
Martins wrath subsidized, and DR.. John grew
serious. as he refined his horse in new place,
couple Of blocks back of the business center.
Here Martin - he said, handing the boy
stout leather purse, 'go TO the Oakland savings
bank this time. Have it made out to the same
person; do you remember? And give in any
name you choose; better a woman 5. Don't
wait a moment after you are through"
Everything favored Martins purpose. 1t was
half an hour after the time OF opening, and
there were few people in bank. He paid in the
money and saw it counted and handed over for
deposit in the vault. The draft was made out
and about 10 be placed in the boys hands when
an electric bell sounded.
''Just excuse me a moment, - said the young
man who was waiting on Martin, and be stepped
into an inner Office.
The boys keen ears caught the sound of low
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years old and an orphan and the genius
of your town all at once. For when you
are eleven, particularly if you are an
orphan, people have ceased to call you
dear little thing. Only your father and
mother know what you need much more
than food and clothes.
To be praised at school and be called
poetess by ladies with albums may be
fine thing. But genius at eleven is
lonesome animal with crying wants which
the people around him do not hear.
The attic echoed that cry, of which 1t
was, perhaps. Us tired as Marietta's
folks down stairs: "Oh, 1 do wish l
had some paper!'
One golden day when the sehoolmaster
praised her compositions, grandfather
Brittles had put his hand into his pocket
and bought her FIVE foolscap sheets.
They were an oily blue kind which took
ink reluctantly, but she made a book out
of them, ''The Hermitess of Marston
Moor 1t lay now in the old trunk by
the side of a tau-colored epic written on
wrapping paper and called "The Indian
Poetess Her Golfer of treasures also
held a number of poems, aud short sto-
ries varying in length from one inch TO q
quarter of yard. Besides, her fathers
leather note books were there, his medi-
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EN- years before the
news of the nomina-
ton of James Polk
for president flashed
rs the first message
over the first electric
I e g graz b line
stretched in the Uni
ted States the follow
ing sentence was
printed i'll the Amerl-
can Magazine for
1881. LIVERY one OF
US hears and reads OF
news by telegraph
from day to day with
1nt arar
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H, if l only had some
paper!" whispered
Marietta Brittles ris-
ing from beside the old
b air trunk in b er
grandfathsr's garrett.
Once upon a time she
had found a three-cent
piece In q crack of that
trunk. But half a
Saturdays pro bin g
with q knitting-needle
tailed to find such
It is hard to be eleven
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colonel testify. 81 tell you should recognize
that handwriting if I came across it on a papy-
rus in an Egyptian tomb. It's unmistable."
Then why don't you go straight to his house,
uncle, and corner him there?''
There you have me, Hobart. There is an
element OF uncertainty. What could say
what should do-if it shouldn't be the right
man, after all?''
II don't see anything for it, Uncle Robert,
but for you to come down with an attack of the
gout and send for him; though how you could
be justified in contracting it on such fare as We
have ct that stuffy old tavern
Then there is the danger that at any moment
he msy take fright and make off to Mexico or
Japan, putting me to endless expense and
trouble" pursued the colonel, seriously.
For, now that I've got on his track at last,
I'll never give up until I've got him.
Martin, in that instant, came to stern reso-
luton;
He would warn the doctor.
The time coming for that dreaded semi
annual drive to Oakland. Martin had grown
quite hardened to it by this time and looked
upon his part in the errand a diSagreeable
duty that he was glad TO discharge; but he knew
st would never do to undertake the trip under
~ colonel's sharp inspection.
Yet he had not the heart TO show any reluct-
ance when the doctor hailed him, saying:
We'll, Martin, ready for long ride to-mor-
row.
stammered the young fellow.
~ want to make early start six O'Clock
at the latest. BE sure to be on hand
Martin secretly hoped that he might wake up
sick the next morning, that DR.. John might
have an urgent call from some patient in
other county; that his horse might cast a shoe
anything to prevent the engagement from being
kept: but none of these fatalities occurred.
They started at the appointed time.
Martin decided that the time for reserve, the
time for all false delicacy, had gone by. The
doctor must be brought to realizing sense of
his position and the danger in which he stood.
1t would be sin to keep silence any longer.
But how difficult it is to talk plainly to friend
and on such subject
Six separate times the boy nerved himself 10
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SOME CURIOUS rELEGE,PHs.

BY II. il. Ballard, President of the A.nssiE
Association.
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A PAPER FAMINE.

BY Mary Hartwell Catherwood.
Author Of 1.-THE Romance of Dol!ard." etc.
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THE PRIZE SERIAL.
THE ABANDONED CLAIM.

NE day Martin followed
the two strange gentle
men up stream, to give
them a basket OF peaches
they had engaged He
heard their voices floating
out OF a leafy covert.
1.-TWO weeks time al
ready gone. and not so
much as a square look at
this DR.. John yet!'' The
colonel spoke impatient
ly.
"Yet you felt sure he
was the man that day we
met him on the road-fast
as he drove, and with his
hat pulled down over his
face, z" said the lieuten-
ant.
Telegram-herald., 1890-12-24


An Axsa cesals iissss S~.E Esek tsA-aS
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Bsex fskA~R. lll. hse s. L@Ss est-
vFsas nixss - f4Ta- a1sase q ~ An1
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ratersa ~ nAskes ngn. ~ eattefe1
ao~a. tss 9e9E esasad sne E2ggea the
ssed eouess ana q boy " heR thef
LA 3 tha heass with thsai aBa eona-
pelle1 ths sgrFsn&er e ssys - : a1resa
snd . trunk. frcaa ahieh theg tooA
= ees Ia e4sh A. ths burslars snesv
ths entire Ia of ths lad spa exastiF
- here she moaey was keps q p es-
lesed thsy Ike Ia tie seigt bofhcoo
RIcHLASp CKSEsR Wis Dec. -a-
A tasssea robber Sunday uigha entered
the resldsBoe ~ n seuthard .
wealthy farmer ssd town treasurer ~
Basna Vista. and covering Ar son'n-
ard 5, in . revolver he demanded Wat
money he HAD. About 600 was turned
over and the robbeg departed, leaving
% eie~.
HANSIBAI. No. Dee. Z2-A senss.
tianal robbery hss occurred near say
der. ia Rails County. the victim being
Leland MsEiroy. weli-to-do farmer.
bout o'clock sunday night knock
summoned him 20 the door. and he was
confronted by two masked men armed
with revolvers. who demanded that he
hand over his money. Mr. Meklroy
handed over his pocket book containing
SIo4 IS. The robbers then searched the
house. They found trunk which they
broke into and discovered bag Of gold
containing -. 900. In another part Of
the house bag was found containing
s. 800 in greeHbseks This seemed To
satisfy them. and leaving the house
they fred two shots In the air and dis
appeared The shock has 80 prostrated
Mrs McElroy that fears are entertained
Of her recovery Mr. McElroy is about
IS years Of age and is reputed to be
worth $4,000. The robbers are still at
large.
Telegram-herald., 1890-12-24
DREADFUL CAL LAMIIY
5000 People Killed and 10
600 Wounded. Many
MoFlally.
Hundreds cfthe Wounded Not
Expected 10 Live.

bFIsagf iatg ~ @pee 81. n fen
ine stale Nee "a >oefsiY anei lA itfS ana
Aaplas lass sunimeT tne then nfsssacui,
IA bls reilEiug sp0oll'. slsiea tAst 4 hAa
bosn estimated thAf tAe mentxfs 81
that sooeig bad saved Tie lifes ot AZ 4
60 annually see h.s advertisement
"A me neWspap pes Feporls
Mi u haa Alsa neeu esi mated taat
they had kilea seoa ouinEnt aaa
dfesdf0lls n1nFsa o10 mort - ihat
they are noa suffering nfth chronic
clssasss "a the ass of theH AYpeIasf-
nl.e ssnuges auo other means Of 81
~ .ulstsfing MoFphne niei4i. ocaiu
and ether wei lnoNn active poisens.
4 pesscian approaching lat ltaside
or SEX man Qf woman Viii ts pei
deTmlC syringe p als hend Is more dsnr
GelCus fhsu raitIesnakc cooled eAds
SO sprrg because belne on your tteii
yoa car jump aslts and nNold tie TAI.
uesnakt, but tie SICK nlan on "a hack
= perfectly he piess before -tAe ply 81.
clan, ana must take tne fstai oose or
the physician e mole dangerous than
an indian Will a rife. because the IN
dian might not hit you " "a his bullet
or be might change his mnd, hut the
physician never. De has been educated
10 beneve that he must stop your pa in
Immediately even li &c lakes your ilie.
and stop that pam he Nil, whatever
tho consequences. ln this way, n yea
are not killed DumeC ateiy, and many
sre, YOU arc. lN the use ct these pow
erful norwles, lulied 10 = certain death
with 4 false hope.
Tins false hope is Indnlged IN by
other members of the family. Tie s.ck
man = unable 10 express hls oplnloA
while he Is under the influence % the
drug snd may never come out oi H.
IL D. extremely difficult 40 learn tie
numbsr killed in THIS way. as these
causes Of death are not reported 70 tie
Board ol Health.
The case Is frequently spoken Of in
THIS way The man became unCon-
sciOus and renamed 80 unti lac olcd.
"He died of Heart Failure" Nor
phine. ChloTal, StIychnne, etc.
How different tls the treatment OF
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ist, III painful and chrome diseases.
Without giving YOU pohatiye medicines.
drugs 10 stop the pam ID. TODD
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Call on or send some member Of your
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will provide the means for your rapid
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the enjoyment of all your faculties.
All the time you are taking his medi-
cines your head Will bc clear, and you
Will know what Is going on around you
and you feel bright and cheerful.
Telegram-herald., 1890-12-24

Which runs between Chicago and
New York aud Boston, over the Mich,
gan Central. New York Central and
Boston & Albany Railroads, has prob
ably excited mOIo comment OF the most
favorable character from tie travelling
public IN general and metropolitan
press n particular than any other train
on wheels. The New York World SAYS.
The train ls made up OF Wagner hui
iet, smoking ana library, sleeping, din
ing and drawing room cars, built ex-
pressly for this service. They repre-
sent the best possible outcome OF the
car-bulldeg's art. and every appliance
for case and safety has been drawn up
on IN the construction Of these rolling
luxurles. Once of on the dying
trip the passenger does not suffer the
least annoyance, passing over such an
easy graded and curveiess route as
these two roads combine 10 make. The
vestlbule arrangement OF the train
makes IT thoroughly comfortable and
luxurious from end 10 end and the day
spent on tins trip between the seaside
metropolis and the great city by the
lakes could not pass more pleasantly az
the best appointed hotel. The meals
served are from ChOlCc menus, Will AL
that is substantial and delicious IN the
great markets at either end OF the line.
The sleeping arrangements include we'll
heated, ventilated and lighted cabinets,
where the utmost privacy and ease may
be enjoyed."
BY the recent change IN the time card
of the Michigan Centrals Grand Rap
IDS division the tram which formerly
left Grand Rapids at ll:55 a. m. now
leaves at l:20 p. m, except Sunday, ar
irving at Jackson 4:30 p. III. and Detroit
6:45 p. m, connecting with the North
Shore limited, bringing the passengeJs
INTO the Grand Central depot at New
York at p. m. and Boston st 9 p. N.
on the following day. No extra charge
Is made for tins magnificent and sump-
tuous service, nor for the wonderful
speed with which the passenger is safely
and luxurlously carried.
For accommodations and any infor-
nation desired apply TO g. w. Munson
city ticket agent, 81 Monroe ST.. or to
+. NJ. Briggs, general agent. Grand
Rapids, Mich.
Telegram-herald., 1890-12-24

BrooNINeTON, H.. Dec. %. - The
drought in Central Illinois is getting TO
hc a serious thing. There has been
only one rain this fall and that was not
heavy one. There was but little
rain during the summer and now every
creek in the country IL dry. Farm
crs are hauling water for their stock.
an unusual thing for this time Of
year The thermometer has been be
low the freezing point but two or three
times and there has been no snow or
Ice. There has been no freezing Of the
ground at all and in some paris OF the
country blowing has been done the past
week. A large mum her Of cisterns are
dry and many wells have given out
Telegram-herald., 1890-12-24
KATZER CHOSEN.
lie 70 Made Archbishop of the Catholic
DiOees OF Milwaukee.


Di0ees OF Milwaukee.
MILWAUKEE, Dec. 23.-Bishop Fred
erich katzer viii shortly become arch
bishop of the Catholic diocese of Mil
waukee, TO fiji the place made vacant
by the death Of Archbishop Heiss last
spring. Father Zeininger has acanowl-
edged that official notice OF the appoint
ment has been received here.
The selection of Bishop Katzer ends
a contest which has attracted great
deal of attention in Catholic circles.
II means victory for the German ele-
ment OF the church over the Irish and
American portion. Bishop katzer
took an active part in the last
political campaign, first attract
ing attention by an add, ess
in Milwaukee wherein he charged that
the Bennett law was the work of the
Free Masons. All through the cam
paign he was an active supporter of
the Democratic ticket and did all In his
power TO defeat the Bennett law candi-
dates
Bishop Katzer was born at Ebersee, Upper
Austria February 5, 1874 After completing
his studies at Linz he came 10 America in
company with several young theo-
logans, Mgr zeininger among them,
and soon after was appointed Pro
fessor OF philosophy o. the Theo-
logical Seminary al ST. Francis, which position
be occupied until 1875. In the same year he
went to Green Bay after the late Bishop
Krautbauer had tazen charge OF the diocese
and assumed the position OF vicar general until
he was consecrated bishop in June. isS5l