The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1893-03-18
THE LOVE POWDERS.


widow. She was still quite young
not over six-and-twenty, and her short
curly hair, OF dark-brown shade, mad
+. her look even younger.
There was a pathetic look in he
gray eyes that first drew Marsh Ken
dall's attention to her-that one ant
one other thing that had appeared
extraordinary to him.
He had been lettering around the
little suburban station, waiting foi
the train to the city until the heat
had brought on one OF the severe
headaches he so much dreaded. A
man can not abuse nature as Kendall
had, working all day and half the
night in the mines for months at a
stretch, without nature resenting the
neglect OF her laws.
So 1t happened that while the spirit
OF the mines had rewarded his zeal by
casting gold galore into his toil-worn
hands. nature had retaliated by visit
ing him with severe headache every
few weeks.
An accident had delayed the train
for an hour, and Kendall took ad-
vantage of the delay to look up
drug store and obtain temporary re-
lief for his aching head.
Not two squares from the station
he found what he was looking for. A
little one-story building displayed
the sign, drugs and Medicines, and
Kendall entered the store and looked
around for the druggist. A slight
rustic behind the prescription case
made him turn his eyes in that direc-
ton in time to SEQ the person emerge.
1t was the young woman with pa
thetic gray eyes and short curly hair,
and she advanced with an air which
stroye to be business-like and brisk.
The years that he had spent away
from civilization had not robbed
Marsh Kendall OF his innate rever-
ence for women. He removed his
hat with n courteous, il somewhat
nngraceful bow, and asked for the
druggist.
81 am the druggist; what can / do
Tor you?" asked the young woman, a
little smile playing round the sad
curves OF her mouth and chasing the
from the depths of the gray
eyes.
Kcndall's perception was keen and
after another glance at her he noticed
the dress OF black, unrelieved by a
single glimpse OF white, and thought
she had taken the place OF her dead
father, or possibly her husband, and
was trying to breast the pillows of
life.
A woman conducting such bust
ness was a novelty to him, but during
the ten years he had been away
strange things had happened, and
accepted this as one of them.
however, for he was one
of those men who think of woman
adjoining a home and making it the
brightest spot on earth for husband
and children, not as bread winner.
What would you advise for Sc
we're headache?" he asked, recover
ing from his first surprise.
The little curly head was bent
sideways as the druggist re-
flccted. "Antipyrine is good, and
too" she said, "but per-
haps these are still better" and she
took box from shelf and extracted
some grayish-looking capsules from
it.
These are marked sure cure,'"
she said, 'and have no doubt il you
have faith enough they will cary out
their promise.
Man Is creature of such imagina-
ton that as soon as he had swallowed
capsule, washed down with glass
OF cold water, Kendall's headache be-
gan to subside.
Reluctantly he left the store and
stepped into the hotel across the
street. He wanted very much to
know the history OF the young woman,
yet shrunk from asking about
her. He was relieved of this neces-
sity by the landlord, who was only
too glad to have some one to talk
to.
Guess you was surprised to see a
woman runnin' drug store, wasn't
youPn he asked with little chuckle,
II was. indeed" replied Kendall,
and the question in his eyes led the
loquacious landlord on.
shes Widow Kingsbcrry and hel
husband was druggist. He was {
trinin' kind OF fellow, never hal
good enough for her, and he took from
bad TO worse. They had been mar
ried six months when he died OF
protracted spree. Then she found h
had taken the money that she ha'
toiled and worked for to pay his in
surance premiums and spreed with II
ut was perfectly heartrenderin' I
sec her despair when she found on
how he had deceived her and left he
only the little stors. She was sick afte
3 ~ 1sath, that acoounts for her eurl
Anls = soon . she eoa1d opee
80 Outa. o. 49, e. 49, =,
-und she orsnsd up $ -, ss,,,.
4 - kept pluchily - II - ~.
5 Ksniall GROUND his teeth !,
cftal. His heart gave q grcar n col
Of pity for the poor little =