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good deal in the act-she was not a
woman prodigal of such expressions.
The heavy blue eyes opened with eager
inquiry.
you must be very quiet she said,
with d smile. She did not withdraw
her hand, and with long sigh of re-
| asleep.
He was out and about his business
next day, though in rather shalSy
fashion. All day Helen went about
with half guilty, half happy strain of
feeling on her heart. AS the time came
for his return she went and stood be-
fore her glass, for the first time, per-
haps, in years, with critical and anx-
ious look at the reflection therein. She
was too pale; sorrow and loss had left
her face SCARED with their traces
what had she to do with love? The fit
of self-distrust left tremOr in her man.
ner that even Harry noticed.
Il believe you are living back again, ~
he said. AT this rate, Helen, you'll be
a schoolgirl again before you know it. "
Her lips quivered in a painful half
smile. He plunged on:
So5
Frank? No, you are not living back;
you are going to begin over again, my
girl and he stopped and kissed her.
They were not administrative fami-
ly, the Tryons. she flushed with a
pleased surprise. And dinner being
over, he and Bronson rode away in
pursuance of some of their horse-thief
plans.
They had not gone many minutes
when there came the sharp clatter of a
horses hoofs up to the door, and Bron'
son flung himself out of the saddle.
"Is it true?" he asked, eagerly.
cit is quite true" slowly and almost
solemnly.
''Oh, my darling"-he had her in
his arms; she felt his tears on her face,
his kisses on her lips-''what have
done to deserve such happiness?"
She chung to him then with little
cry. 20, Frank, every thing failed me
once. If that comes again / shall die. I"
He held her close against his breast.
sit shall never come again" he said,
softly.
And then in a minute more he was
gone.
All OF TINS out OF doors, Wnere any
one might have seen and heard every
word. But who was there to see in
that wide, green, empty world? The
silence was absolute. She stood listen
ing to the clanll of his horse little be-
fore she went back into the house, think
ing with happy smile how the world
had changed.
She sat sewing the next day swing
ing lazily in her low rocker. Sam Lee
was pattering softly about on the bare
boards of his kitchen floor. The south
wind sweeping through the wide-open
door tossed her hair about her fore
head. Outside the green and sunny ST.
lence seemed rhythmical in its bound
lessness.
TO BE CONTINUED.
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COMPLETELY WORN OUT.

Annie Rooney and Her Faithful Old 10
Done For.
so" said Annie, family, ''we can't
last much longer, can we?"
NO, dear" replied 10 in broken ac-
cents, I'm afraid our time has come"
The great-hearted, rough fellow looked
tenderly at Armies wasted form and his
eyes filed with tears. She had been
his sweetheart so long and it seemed
as though he could not remember the
time when he was not her beau. And
now they were drifting-both drifting
out into the great unmeasured sea of
the forgotten.
''Do you remember, Jo," asked Annie,
in whispered words, "those good
old days down in the bowery when we
first began to keep company? When
people only just knew that l was your
swectheart?'
"Yes, Annie" said 10, that was be-
fore the dagos took us up town on their
hand-organs. We used to think then
that soon we'd marry, didn't we? You
have been very good to me, Annie. Any
other girl would have sued me for
breach of promise long before this
But you've kept the rest of your
promise. dear 10 All this time we've
been together, never to part. After we
got into the Four Hundred l didn't
know but the fine ladies would get you
away from me. And 10, darling, do
YOU remember when we reached Bos-
ton?"
Indeed l do. The Boston girls said
before they knew you that they thought
YOU were low and vulgar. But they
changed their minds afterwards and
you became very popular. Aud how
slow the Philadelphia people were!
Long after every body in New York
knew us well, the Philadelphians were
only just beginning to get acquainted
with u.s. And how rapidly we went
through the west!'
"Ah, 10, these have been happy days
of ours. Think of all the festive scenes
at which we have been present But
it's hard, Jo-very hard, isn't it, to
come here to England and be murdered?
Listan-listen-''
And through the music hall was
heard
"She's my sweetart
HIM 'er beau.
She's nv Hannie,
HIM 'er JO."
Life
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lTo BE CONTINUED.
GOLD IN ALASKA.
The Coming Mining Country of North
America.

The Coming Mining Country of North
America.
alaska is the coming gold-mining
country" says San Francisco business
man. at is a magnificent country, the
only draw back being the intense cold
and long winters. Along the coast
there is pretty good tim Der, and the in
terror abounds with fine fur animals,
especially the silver fox, the skins OF
which are more valuable than seal The
country is well watered, and the gravel
of the streams is filed with gold. OF
course all of this gravel does not pay to
wash out, but there is plenty that does
pay, and is easily gotten The great
difficulty is that you have to go up into
the country in canoes, and, the current
of the streams being very swift. prog
ress is slow. The great distance and
the fact that you have to carry all your
food with you is probably the reason
there are not more miners in the
country. The season being so short,
too-from three to five mcnths-deters
MANY. but short as the season is | am
convinced 4 man can make more at
placer mining in Alaska than in any
other country. The gravel Is exceed
ingly rich in gold, and in spite OF all the
difficulties and expense it is the richest
mining country in the world. The land
all belongs to Uncle Sam, and anyone
can stake out claim. You can judge
how rich it is from Che fact that there
are two companies at work dong
hydraulic mining, which is simply pan-
washing on a large scale"
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vonted bursts OF petulance stirred the
even tenor OF the days.
What has happened to HeIsn?"
Harry asked wonderingly one day.
well, any thing is better than seeing
as we did for three years.
But Harry was too much absorbed in
dcviSing schemes whereby C2rt2in Cor
don's band might come to grief to heed
such small bits of melodraraa as falling
in love, hopelcssly or otherwise
One night it came to pass that after
one of the brief, tremendous storms of
wind and rain peculiar to the latitude,
Helen answered her brothers hail from
the outer darkness, and opened the
door to find him and one of the herders
holding between them a notionless
dead weight, and recognized the white
face IS Frank Bronson's.
is he dead?" she asked, Quietly.
Il don't know; only stunned, fancy,
Set Sam Lee to heating water and rum
maging cur flannels. tree fell as we
were coming through the timber and
knocked him out of his saddle. What
a mercy you are not of the screaming,
fainting l;ind.'
Harry was giving explanations und
orders in 4 sort of running accompani-
r1ent that barely yelled his own anx-
iety. Helen. pale, silent and helpful,
obeJcd implicitly. When Bronson
opened his cJ-es at last, her face was the
first he saw as his swimming vision
ste;;died itself. He put out his hand
and she laid hers within it. There was
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1t was the evening after the coming
very bottom of her register of feeling.
They were all out of doors in the large
starred. dewless Southwestern night.
The two men outstretched on their
blankets lay silently smoking. Helen,
swinging in her hammock, was speech
less, too. By and by Harry asked her
some trivial question, and the voice
that answered him was hOarse with
tears. He took no notice, and minute
after she went into the house. Harry
followed her, and came back after
awhile, his own voice not over steady.
THAT girl has broken down at last.
It's the first time in years, and not easy
years either. doubt if any one has
seen her cry since she came home"
Mrs. Morse?"
"Who else?" testify. ''How I hate
the name-I never even think of it if
can help it. You don't know the
story?"
Il have guessed-that is. I mean
couldn't help knowing there was some
thing painful. Mrs. Morse is young to
be widow"
''She is twenty-five,' brusquely.
"Helen always would have her own
way. She had it when she was seven
teen, and married scoundrel. He got
life sentence for train robbery, and
was killed trying to make his escape
from prison. She got the news the day
her only child was buried
Bronson gave a half-groan, q sound
almost like a sob, as Tryon paused in
bis blunt recital.
THAT was two years ago. She never
whiInpered under it, and tonight she is
crying as if she would kill herself. And
/ don't know but she will. Think of
woman's life going to wreck like that"
Whatever Bronson may have thought,
ne said nothing. There was long 81
lence and much tobacco smoke.
Don't they take something's" he said,
hesitatingly, after awhile. "a cup of
tea or something. I'll broil a quail, if
you like"
That's So" accepting the suggestion
cheerfully. Then they went out into
Sam Lees shining little kitchen, and
pottered about with the best of inten-
tions, but with much disturbance of
small, jingling movables. Helen's cry
ing was over now. She lay prone and
nerveless with the exhaustion of such
ears. She heard the uproar among the
pots and pans, and wondered family
about it.
Harry opened the door finally, with
laden tray in his hands.
Il made the tea," he explained
breathlessly, land Bronson cooked the
bird, and we couldn't find the bread"
Hclen sat up and pushed the damp
hair back from her face.
Bronson thought of it." he said, per-
suasively. I'D try and eat u little
And Helen drank her tea, and nibbled
her bird with an unsmiling sense of the
untitness of things when meat and drink
were offered as n remedy for such
troubles as hers.
But it did her good. She slept dream
lessly that night, and if she came out
to breakfast with heavy shadows under
her eyes, the sad-lipped mouth had lost
little of its rigid lines of pain.
There had been an epidemic of law
1essness through the country for the
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SHE PACKED TOO MUCH.
The Appeal of One Woman to Anothe
Across the Hallway.

The Appeal of One Woman to Another
Across the Hallway.
Said woman who lives in an apart.
ment hotel: Just as was going out
to-day the lady in the rooms across the
hallway of the apartment hotel begged
to see me. She looked dreadfully, and
she was half crying.
Wont you please lend me dress,
or-or cloak. have got to catch
train she gasped.
''She seemed to need dress, but /
knew her only slightly, and 1 made up
my mind she had gone mad.
"'My trunks have all gone,' she
walled. John is to meet me at the
wharf. We sail for Europe in an hour.
no one to turn to. l can not get dress
made; you can see that yourself. If
you have human heart you will help
me out Give me a cloak and-and a
pair of shoes, and "a thick veil. Oh!
please be quick
~ told her that she needed rest and
perfect quiet, and that would rub her
head / asked where she got the dress
she had on.
g It's an old thing / was going to
leave, she sobbed, and 1 don't want
my head rubbed. want some clothes.
You see, packing in such warm work
/ decided to put on these old things
and just slippers: You must give me
shoes, too, and-oh, shall miss that
boat
My dear madam
oh, don't you understandP' she
shrieked: 4 have packed everything
everything. The clean clothes l laid
out, and my travelling dress, and every
thing. They are all packed-and gone
gone. / forgot / had all these things
on-and / packed everything-every-
thing, and John is at the wharf now
and with the children from their grand
mothers, and you will not help me-
'She went completely into Mysteries
right in my hallway, poor little woman.
She was a good deal smaller than /,
but / fixed her up. wonder what John
said when he saw her."-N. Y. Sun.
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SIR PATIENCE,

His good right hand may hold 10 sword.
No hauberk on his breast.
No shield he bears to guard and ward
No helm with plumed crest,
Silent he stands, unfettered, free:
And he my chosen knight shall be-
His tireless feet have found path.
Where warriors dared not stand
Through wilderness and wild mems wrath.
Across the desert land
Enduring ills so cheerfully,
That he my chosen knight shall be.
TIE cruel cold to him is naught,
nor sultry sun 1T noon
Wild tides and pests, terror fraught
Sing him 4 soothing tune.
This soldier, standing sturdily
My valiant, chosen knight shall be-
Fierce Zeal, his brother, wrought him wrong,
His friends forgot him quite
The rich, the great, the proud the strong,
All hcarc1 on him their spite:
He smiled, ana servo! tnern faithfully;
This lou knight r1y knight shall be-
And little children hold his hand,
And mothers weary-cyed;
The hungry poor throughout the land
And those that starving died
Knew him as friend, Familiarity.
Their friend my chosen knight shall be.
And ignorance, and shame, and sin
Do him no hurt nor Scath;
Nor foulcst fends with all their din
Can vex his quiet path;
Walking and talking graciously,
This gentle knight my knight shall be.
For he hath slain my deadly foe
That wrought me Only shame;
Fearless he fought the flends below
And gained q glorious name,
Doing and daring doughtily;
And he my knight of knights shall be-
And on his mouth my kiss shall rest
When that good day shall come
That wed l love him best
And he will lead me home.
o good Sir Patience come for me,
For none but thou my knight shall be-
-Hetta l.. H Ward, in \. Y. IndepeEdent.
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capital under the single tax would not
be a sufficient equivalent for any bene-
fit which the tariff can be supposed to
confer. it would yet be every way more
desirable to pay bounty from a direct
tax collected by the government.
25. The imposition of a tax for the
purpose of restricting a business sup
posed to be harmful to the public is an
ineffective makeshift, as has been strik-
ingly shown in the experiment of high
license.
20. The single tax could be collected
more easily and at less expense to the
government than any other tax from
which it is seriously proposed to raise a
large revenue.
81. 1t is impossible wholly to prevent
the evasion OF taxes on personal prop
erty and on incomes. The possibility
of such evasion acts as a discrimination
against the following classes: (a)
Those who are too honest to dodge the
tax; (b) those whose taxable property
is so small that it is not worth
their while to take the trouble neces-
sarv to secure a legal exemptions; (c)
those who are unfa ,niliar with business
and do not know toe methods used for
escaping taxation, Id property in the
hands of trustees who have no personal
interest in saving the tax, j. e., property
belonging to orphans and charitable ,a-
situations.
g. The imposition of taxes on the
improvements of land, while personal
property escapes taxation partly (ns it
does or wholly las it should), is a di-
rect Encouragement 20 the improve
ment of land
90 A succession tax would be ductu-
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COULDN'T BE A WASHER

many a Man Makes Donkey of Himself
6y Trying to BE GAY.
Inc temptation to fiirt with women
tackles about nine men out of n and
downs them. But it by no means fol.
lows that man will f1irt even after he
mas inundated himself by consenting
10 do so. 1t really takes more nerve
IMAM Is to be met with in everv man.
lie Will sean each woman he passes
view her swiftly over from top to toe,
making mental note as to her face
ana form, her dress and complexion. try
10 catch her eye, and feel terribly puffed
up II she favors him with a glance in
passing But he wouldn't know what
to do If she smiled. He wouldn't have
the countenance to meet a single adj
vance on her part. 1t may be a surpris-
ing statement, but it is true one
Inc other evening fellow was wait
ing for the suburban gate at the North
western depot to open. He was a re-
spectacle married man from IRVING
Park, but ne had always prided him
self on his eye for female beauty. He
wouldn't have anything to do with
really fast women, and always thought
OF them with species of disgust But
here, at the the side of the baggage
room door, was demure little woman.
pretty as peach and with Il form fair
ly glorious. He had missed his regular
train and would have nearly half an
hour to wait. At another time he
would have gone away and transacted
some business in the meantime. but
here was an opportunity not often to
be met He would make a mash"
He walked past her two or three
times and convinced himself
she was willing to pick up
Irritation. AS he walked past her one
time his heart gave great thump, for
he thought she came just to the point
OF speaking to him. Next time he came
along he stopped trifie behind her
and said, low so that the baggageman
couldn't hear:
Evening, little one"
His head was in a whirl. He had in
suited many woman with his eyes,
but here was the first time he had at
tempted to complete the outrage. She
turned about slowly, met his eyes
without tremor and waited He
didn't know what to do. The muscles
of his face refused to manufacture a
smile He was conscious of twitch-
ing, an embarrassed look, a guilty
blush. He struggled a moment under
the cool challenge of that superb being,
and then he started to turn away. for n
group of men and women had come
gathering and laughing down the iron
stairs, and he recognized some Irving
Park and Des PLANES people But he
had no time to escape. The pretty girl
caught him and held him, and nailed
his shame upon him, and she did it
without for an instant appearing any
thing other than the lady she must
have been:
Hereafter when you don't want any
thing, don't say anything. Married
men sometimes think themselves ire
sistible because they once fooled one
good woman"
The Gathering, laughing group
stopped at the foot of the iron stair
way, caught the tableau, almost pitied
him in the painful confusion, and then
permitted him to escape from the de-
pot. He waited for the last train home
that night and never again attempted
to pick up an acquaintance with
handsome woman.-Chicago Herald.
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last few weeks. The particular mani
festatica Of tic disease was horse steal
ing. Now, to take a r2c-'s horse was
generally worsc-for the community
than taking his life. The public sense
of justice did not always wait for the
slow and rather uncertain action of the
law. Harry rode away that evening
without defining his business, and Bron-
son found Helen alone, in her hammock
as usual
These two did not find talk necessary.
They had reached that grade of ac-
workmanship where loGg silenccs arc
unmarked. \ souadless half hour passed.
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The Chicago Herald on the Single
Tax Limited.

The proposal of county option in the
matter of taxation has attracted consid-
cradle attention outside of the state Of
New York. The Chicago Herald, in
discussing it editorially, says that it's
real object was to put it in the power
of any county to mage trial of the
single tax limited" That was by no
means it's only object 1t gave equal
opportunity to any county to raise rev.
enue by taxing personal property alone,
if it SO desired. 1t gave, in fact, oppor-
tunity for actual experiment with any
system of taxation. The Herald seems
to assume that the single takers are the
only people willing to put their theories
to such a test. The Herald, in sEscu-
lating on the possible result of -u:a
legislation, says:
If such a county as New York, il
the exercise of its discretionary power,
SHOULD put the whole burden on land,
or on land and improvements together,
the commercial consequences would
probably be important. With personal
property wholly exempt the city of
New York would be more than ever an
attractive center for corporate enter
or the securities representing such prop
erty is pretty much exempt there now.
Still. the assessor is supposed to look
for it. SO that much evasion, with the
attendant annoyance and wear and tear
of conscience. has to be practiced. If
evasion were rendered unnecessary
New York would become more than
ever a financial center, and the folly of
attempting to tax the mere shadows
and ghosts of property would become
apparent"
Queerly enough, the Herald thinks
that there is not much probability
that any county would exercise its local
option in that way" because of 1.-The
popular notion that mere paper evil
dences are property and that they ought
to be taxed" We can not speak for
Chicago, but we are very confident that
New York would exercise its option in
this matter with view to securing the
very advantages that the Herald points
out The real estate owners see this
as clearly as the Herald, and they favor
the levying of all taxes on real estate.
If they are willing, who else will OBJ
ject and insist ON having his own prop
erty taxed? Of course, the owners of
realty do not believe that the single tax
unlimited will follow in their time, if
at all, or they might not be so willing;
though the owners of improved prop
erty are beginning to see that even that
would not be an unmixed evil, if they
are also engaged in active business.
Our Chicago contemporary is mistaken
about one county, at least.-The Stand.
ard
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Judging by Contraries.

$50 your first love married a doctor,
eh?'
Yes She seemed cut out for a doc
tors wife"
''In what way?"
.sOh, don't know what gave ME that
impression, save for the fact that was
not doctor."-N. Y. Truth.
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HITHERTO, it is questionable If all the
mechanical inventions yet made have
lightened the day toll of any human
being ohm Stuart Mill.
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The Minister'S Fatal Joke.

81 hear that yoh am dissatisfied wuf
de new ministah," said one of the col
ored residents of suburban town.
"WeIl. dunno but we is. Dab am
chu'ch committee 'cidin' oh his case
now" .What wuz de cirkimstanceS?'
profanity De folks wuz talkin' bout
buildin' err dam ercross de little ribber
dat goes by de town. An de minister
come an put his oar In. "hat ala
he saw" .'He said he didn' b!eve de
ribbah was wuf it, an OATS de point
dew is 'cidin' on "-Washington Post
Recent Investigations go to show
that the horse has no ear for music, and
only a slight understanding of time and
military signals The popular impress
sion that a trained horse can waltz IN
time to music is unsupported bv expert
ence, as in such cases the music Is al
yays PLAYED to suit the step OF the
horse, which is regulated by signs from
the trainer
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-08-11

rffat is OF importance. AS secreIary OF
the Society for the Practice of Modera-
ton, Mrs. Marsh can afford to disregard
the i'll natured sneers of those who may
have enjoyed greater advantages in
early life than She 1t is not by whole
sale abuse Of others, Virginia, that you
will persuade me of your innocence. On
your own showing, you have written to
Mr.. Spence, and misconstrued Mr..
Bars poetic impetuosity as an at
tempt to flirt with you. do
not desire to discuss the mat
ter further. We shall soou know
whether you are sincere or not in your
professions of study. AS have told
you before, your future is in your own
hands; but first and foremost you must
rid yourself of this propensity to behave
in trivial manner"
felt that silence would be the best
palliative for my wounds; and so dis
couraged was of being able to change
Aunt Agnes opinion, | thought it a
waste of breath at the moment even to
mention Mrs. Marsh as my authority for
the statement that Miss Kingsley had a
tender feeling for Mr.. Spence