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She had n quick Imagination, and she
pictured her dragging drcarily back to
the deAth-haunted house with no better
message OF comfort than that the min
lister was absent. Suppose she spoke to
any one on her way hOme-it was only
natural for Il girl to falkland learned
the truth? Suppose-aS she half fan
cied girl herself suspected the false
hood? The neighbors would rise and
cry shame upon her ~hushand-her hus-
band, who would readily have laid down
his life for his God and his people. and
she would have brought II on him. 1t
was this conviction which now carried
her on her Il She could not have
put her intention into words, but really
she grasped at the idea Of atonement
which presented itself, fancying that II
she went to tend the sick woman no one
could complain, and that her nursing
might ave the fickering life. Then in
a day or TWO she would really go on to
her sisters.
At the door Of the first cottage she
reached stood the girl who had come TO
her that morning, staring down the road.
She might have been expecting the doc
tor or watching him depart Although
the cottage was clDsr Ia the road. already
II seemei TO have put on an aspect OF
When Mrs, Wood spoke, the girl
turned her face without showing any
surprise. 1t was the older woman who
tremhlel.
How is She"
"Weaker." said the girl laconically.
ne OlltT lII n"l Itlt,
Has the doctor been here
i've come to nurse her. ! hone YOU
won't mind, because | know n good deal
about sickness. and you must have too
much on your hands. Perhaps ! can do
her some good, At any rate. I'll try.
she added hUmbly. You know who l
am"
Yes" said the girl, half closing her
eyes, and CHANGING Mt her visitor with
| what might have been Indifference or
contempt, You a come up II you'm
| minded to-"
she led the way, climbing a rlckety
| staircase which led directly into a low
room with one small window set deeply
under an ~overhanging ragged thatch. The
! room felt ~dreadfully stufry. ON a truckle
bed beneath Il gray counterpart lay the
sick woman-by her side, gaunt and livid,
the husband sat leaning forward. his
arms resting on his knees. As the
curate's wife came nerVously in he
| merely glanced at her without speaking,
The tragedy OF his loss or his own III,
ness absorbed his faculties. She looked
round upon the untidy, repulsiye details
and the disgust they caused sickenet
her so h q she caught at a chair, as n
the hold upon 1t would prevent her from
| running away. Then the stronger i'm,
pulse swayed her again and carried hel
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GO down. he said. II will come
Never before had she been afraid .oe
of a judge. and she said to herself that
he could not forgive her for having kept
him away until 1t was too late, she
ably at the open door, looking out Into
the lane and at the light swaying Of IN
trees against a wind-swept sky. and ie
She is gone" he said quietly:
God forgive me-" she returned with .
shudder.
and see II there is anything you can do
for them?"
but the, next momen she a left thu
she came down again the two went
silently out into the lane. 1t was she who
spoke first; You need not be afraid.
Then, as he did not answer. she put q
question, ".John, how did you hearf"
They told me in the village this mornr
ing thai, there was serious illness At AL
Yes: hut, of course, IL I had let you
know that messenger a come TO fetch
you. you would not have waited"
Il came pretty soon"
This evening 1 know, but too late for
that poor soul to say what was wanted
Oh, II was dreadful OF me! Nothing that
you can say is too bad"
did not matter to her. for / walked here
| directly after dinner. / did not tell you
where l was going, because you are 20
| easily frightened about infection"
She stopped and held him from her
with both hands. you v been hers
before to-day"
why, did you not known Did they
not tell your he asked In surprise.
Not a word! But. John. ! thought Il
was you'll don't understand-there was
some one she was hungering to sAeT.
"Ah, yes, poor womanl They had bu4
one other lad, and he has gone to sea 2
suppose she knew more about the dekk4
OF the two younger boys han rneV
fancied, for she has been calling out fok
him ali day. But there was no posst-
bility OF getting at him"
She drew a long breath OF relief.
And this was what you meant when
YOU said you mad some distance to waikiki n
"And what you meant when you start
ed for D~onningtonT'
"Yes-don't talk of it am %
She was silent, then cried out sud
denly: THE chiidrenl l m SURE you
did not even change your clothes when
you got hGfne, Oh, John. how could
you, how c}uld your And l not thorI
to see after "Reminiscences Mary nss<.
IN &ucch~ =. rtff.F rH.F EAIf -aat| X
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to the woman's side. although she saw
that 1t was useless to speak to her.
Is there anything we SoIid si HHee
There's some stuff the doctor left.
but her can't swallow His own voice
sounded ike the voice of despair. Her
heart sank lower as she began to realize
her helplessness,
All through the time that followed she
fancied the dying woman's eyes. with an
awful look in them, We're fixed on her de-
spairingly, Go where she would In the
room, they overlook her and asked why
she had dishonored her God AMI her hus-
band, For a time she fought them with
the iron strength Of her will, but they
Were stronger. one by one they broke
down her defenses and left her hudder-
ing. Yet 1t was night before she gave
way altogether. The girl had gone down
stairs, the man vas sleeping when she
frila upon %%, h SI,e SnsSs BY. o5hh.e d ssai!de aS sni
curse M any moreS He shall come to-
Was it fancy that the eyes which
held her Frightened? For a she
thought so. and yet TO her own ears to-
morrow sounded like a mockery. Wild
dreams ot flying TO fetch him were in
her brain when IA voice speaking to the
girl below, a step on the creaking stair,
made her heart stand still. her thin
hands nervously grasping each other, and
as she was in the, shadow he did not
at lllCA AlTAAlAN iS4 = i'N "H iAS Wv
realized who IL was he stopped in sheer
amaZement.
Louisa
She game out trembling and grasped
his arm. "Oh. joint" she sobbed.
What brought you? l thought you
We're at Donnir gton,"
Youth never forgive me-" she said,
dlsregarding. They sent for YOU 10
come here this morning, n / was
afraid 70 tell you
Because OF the infection and the hill
dren. | said you We're away, and then
then grew so miserable, thinking what
they might say OF you II they found
out that Il was a lie, that | couldn't
rest. ! fanc!ed might come and do
something TO make up by nursing her,
but haven't. John, don't be too angry!
lTM never be so distrustful again"
He made no answer to her appeal.
but put her gently on one side and
stepped forward to the sick woman.
who lay more quiet. When he knelt
new tenderness in his dry voice. The
girl had come up, the man rolled on
the bed and stood with his eyes fixed
on his wife's ashen face, The other
wife i her face buried in her hands.
Presently, her husband touched her on
| the shoulder.
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ATONING FOR a WRONG.
Conscience Vas o. Powerful Factor IN a
Wife'S ActiOn.

She went away, in the direction he
the cry of a child on the other side OF
the wall and slackened her pace; .. yHers
/ was told to fetch him" She rang the
bell and asked for the minister.
Wood, said the girl who appeared in an
swer, "but If you like to step In you
can leave a message with the missis.'
She hesitated. "TN stop here" she
In a minute or two she heard n light
football. and Mrs. Wood came into the
You asked for my husband ?" she
said kindly. Il don't know you face.
l think you must be a stranger
I'VE haven't been here long We'm
'"And do you wish to speak to him p,
Hes wanted to our house the girl
answered in a dull tone, as II she were
repeating a lesson, Johnny and Toms
both dead, and mothers dying Father's
down, too" she added.
The .curate's wife turned white and
stepped back.
"Diphtheery, Everybody's that scared
of us they won't come nigh the house.
The baker puts the bread inside the gar
den gate" She spoke stGiidIy, as Il al
ship had become a matter OF course, and
she did not look at the shrinking figure
of the wife and mother, who stood star
ing, but as no answer came she added :
The minister's wanted"
why did you come here? Arlington Is
not In this parish"
"There's no use going to Mr.. James
"You must try, Go back n say my
husband can't come"
The girl glanced at her with dreamy
acceptance before she made a final at
Mothers awful bad. The doctor says
her can't last the night"
The other stood stifiy. bracing herself
to her words.
very sorry II he knew, but he can't
come. He's away she added. And tax
The evening world., 1894-03-31

Early one dull October day a girl came
quickly along the lanes towards Marldon.
There has peer much rain and little frost
tina Autumn, so that the country had
not quite lost it's Summer tinge of green,
but winds had blown necessarily ana
given the foliage a tattered. ~isconnect
look. Something Of the same look
scared and uneasy, was repeated in the
girls face. Every now and then she
glanced behind her. with a swift. in
voluntary turn of the head, as II she eX-
pected to hear footsteps or a call. Moth
ing came. The population in this coun-
try district was scanty, and she only
passed a cart driven by a man n two
or three chool children. truants from
school,, who were climbing the hedges in
search of a few remaining blackberrles.
As she saw them In the distance the I'M
easy look in her eyes became more
marked. and she scurried by them on
the opposite side of the narrow. muddy
lane without a question. although she
was sure they could have told her what
she wanted to know.
Presently she came upon an outlying
whitewashed cottage. with a garden still
full of chrysanthemums and %geraniums
and smoke flying lightly out OF a chin
ney. She paused. then closed her rather
tremulous mouth determinedly. NO.
she said, ~ won't. I'll find the house
somehow"
At last. seeing a man working In q
field, she called to him over the gate:
"You needn't come no nearer. but ]
wish you'd tell me where the minister
lives"
mana surprised. .tSee that little white
house BY the big ellemf Anybody'n show
The evening world., 1894-03-31
WRITTEN BY NAPOLEON.
THE Sunday WOrld'' Has an TN
published Romance.

The great French General whose name
is familiar to every man. woman and
child who eve went to school once wrote
a a The original manuscript
was discovered in Lord t~shburnham's
library. 1t has never been published,
and will appear in the Sunday World
TOMORROW.
The evening world., 1894-03-31
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The evening world., 1894-03-31

There will be a fac-simile of Napo-
Icons handwriting also. The Juror
which has comrassed the world and made
public everything Napoleonic, as II the
nations were to worship the French hero
as a god. is still felt to the point Of en-
thusiasm in Paris. In giving this ro-
nance publication the Sunday World
adds an important and exceedingly in
teresting relic to French literature. Mr..
John Brisben Walker. of the Cosmopol-
itan. secured the manuscript for use In
America
The evening world., 1894-03-31

Othll Pity. deserving sufferers the rheumatic il
the most So. This terrible disease steals upon its
victim with the suhtlrty Of u robler. not only
rendering him helpless hut i~ntilcting the most
insuffeTablc agony, often through q lifetime. The
world over Is strewn with distorted, crippled
wrecks from this mnlady. and whyf because
people believe that 1t must be druEged away,
while drugs very seldom cure or give even tenn.
porafy relief. In the twenty-five years our In.
Nention has been nTon the market we have cured
more than that many thousand sufferers from
rheumatism, and therefore well know that
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would be no Rheumatic where = Dr. SASDEN
electric BELT could be had. This belt IL .
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from the first hour used, and severe cases are often
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neglect to Investigate 1t Is throwing health and
happiness away.
1r. A. 7. ~NpES- Dear Sir. Last summer I
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TO HELP THE POOR.

worId's' Free bread Fund.
The Social Two will give their first an
nual bazaar and ball for the benefit Of
the poor and The Worlds" Free Bread
Fund, Saturday. April IA. in Central
Opera-House, Sixty-seventh street. near
Third avenue.
The hall will be open early in the af-
ternoon, and the bazaar will continue
from 2 o'clock to IL. At ll.30 dancing
will be commenced.
Misses Ella Block and Rebecca Wal
ZACH constitute the Arrangement Com
mittee.
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For jaundice and all other
conditions resulting from
constipation, go by the book
on Beecham's pills.
Book free, pills csc. AT drug
stores; or write to B. F. Allen
Co., 365 Canal ST., New York
The evening world., 1894-03-31

A trio OF beautiful young ladies-MIss Marie d.
Shotwell, Miss Ruth Carpenter, Miss Lillia9
Lawrence-assisted by Baby LII. Little Ruby and
Master Wallie Edinger, will he In attendance -
present fragrant flowers to lady visitors.
The evening world., 1894-03-31

The final bouts of the Prospect A. c.
boxing tournament will be held at Wo-
kal's Assembly Rooms, Long Island
City, tonight.
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Billy Vernon will box AL Mccormick
at Miners Bowery Theatre tonight.
At the Eighth Avenue Theatre Stanton
Abbott will meet Mike Breslin and
Tommy McCabe.
The preliminary baseball games at
the Polo Grounds should be called at 3
o'clock.
The evening world., 1894-03-31

Several changes in the Harvard 'Varsi.
ty ball team have been made. Hopgood
and Stevenson were tried at first and
Deans at second. The initial game oi
the season will be played to-day between
the first and second teams.
The evening world., 1894-03-31

Denver ED" Smith has received a let
ter from J. ]. Quinn, his hacker. stating
he has succeeded In getting $1,000 In
Pittsburg to post a forfeit for n match
between Smith and Goddard.
The morning call., 1894-02-04
WILL NOT BE SOLD.
Huntington Cannot Purchase the
Panama Railroad.
The Line is Essential i'm the Con-
struction of the Big
Canal.

NEW YORK, Feb. 3.-The Herald cor
respondent cables fpom Paris: To-day /
saw NJ. Monchicourt, the liquidator of the
Panama International Canal Company. in
regard to the rumors which have been
started to the effect that the Pacific Mail
Steamship Company was about to pur-
chase the Panama Railroad. He said:
There is no truth whatever in the story.
The railroad will not be sold. as it is
essential to the construction of the canal"
l was referred to Monchicourt's secre-
tary for further particulars. and that gem
tleman said: "Of the.70. 600 shares of PAN
anna Railroad 68. 543 are owned by the canal
company. There have been no negotia-
tiOns for the sale of these shares to Hun
tiugtOn or to any one else.
1T would not wise for the canal company
to part with them. The canal and the
railroad run side by side, and the latter is
Indispensable to the former for the con-
veyance of supplies. machinery, etc. 1t is a
very important part of the canal work.
III the railroad were handed over to third
parties they would have it in their power
to make whatever freight rates they chose
for the canal company. 1t would be al
most like man selling the staircase of his
house and keeping the house for his own
use. Persons in possession of the stair
case could command the situation"
The morning call., 1894-02-04
CRUISERS DISABLED.
There Are Traitors on Board the
Fleet of peiXOtO


MoNTEvIDEo. Feb 3.-Dispatches re-
ceived here from the Associated Press cor.
respondent at RIO dated January so seem
to confirm the reports of the disabling of
the cruisers Nctheroy and America by
some unknown and treacherous members
of the crews. The machinery of the Au-
rora has also been disabled in the same
manner, and the vessels, now in Bahia,
are undergoing repairs which will make it
Impossible for them to leave for the south
before February 8.
The announcement is made that the
transport Itaipu is about to leave Bahia,
having on board a regiment of soldiers in.
tended to re-enforce the troops of Peixoto.
This announcement conflicts with the dis
patches received yesterday that the Itaipu
had joined the insurgents and was block
aiding Bahia.
Admiral Benham, after having consid-
erably cooled the ardor of the insurgent
sailors in the bay of Rio, has demanded
and received an apology from newspaper
there which had acted in a manner calcu.
lated to offend the dignity of the American
admiral. The Tempo recently published
officially letter from Benham to Peixoto
with many interpretations considered of.
fensive by Benham. The latter protested
and the Tempo promptly published an
apology.
As there has been no confirmation up to
the time of filing this dispatch of the fall
of the town of Nictheroy. 1t is believed the
report is unfoupded.
The morning call., 1894-02-04
A CHURCH BLOWN DOWN.
Many Persons Injured During a Gale
i'm Alabama.

BIRMINGHAM. Feb. 3.-A heavy wind
and rain storm has passed over this city.
At Gate City. six miles from here. the
Congregational church was blown down
aud a number of persons injured.
The Christian EndeavOr Society, COM
posed of thirty women and children, was
holding meeting at the time. The roof
crushed in burying them beneath the
debris. Nearly every person in the build
ing was more or less injured.
Those injured most seriously are: Mrs.
r. l. Pritchett. internally injured, will
die; Mrs. James Miles, internally injured.
will die; Charles Olsen, thigh broken,
probably fatally injured.
The others were not seriously hurt. A
great many physicians went from Birming-
ham to Gate City tonight. and great ex-
citement prevails there.
The building was a small frame struc-
ture, otherwise many would have been
killed.
In this city several roofs were blown off.
but no one was injured.
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GLADSTONE'S PLUCK.
He Was Ready to Take the Risk
of an Operation.

NEW YORK, Feb. 2-Smalley cables
the Tribune from London: 1t is not
known on what authority the Pail Mall
Gazette let fly the TumOr of Gadstone's
resignation, nor does it much matter. H.
deed, it would not matter at all had Glad
stones teegraphed denial from Biarritz
stopped short at the word untrue
What follows does in measure lend
plausibility to the story. which was prob
ably based on nothing but the known and
now admitted fact that Gladstone's pnysl-
cal condition is not quite what il was.
The story, though discredited and dis
believed. spread panic among his follow
ers. What then must be their feelings
on hearing from their leader himself that
lie has been considering the probable
necessity of resiguiDg.
That his age and the condition of his
sight and hearing have for months past
been such as to make relief from public
cares desirable they have knnwn, but tbey
have begulled themselves and the public
with constant assurances of his unimpaired
health ana vigor.
No doubt mis- vigor and general physical
condition, and, above all. his nervous
energy are remarkable for man of 81.
Sir Andrew Clark's testimony, now first
publish ed, is medical confirmation of the
truth obvious to the nop-nedical mind,
The morning call., 1894-02-04
BURNED LIKE TINDER.
Miraculous Escape From Death of
EMPLOYEES in an Omaha Store.

employees IN an Omaha store.
OMAHA, Feb. 3.-Shortly before o'clock
Tonight fire broke out in the show-win-
dow of the Boston store and five minutes
later the entire building was ablaze. The
store was crowded with clerks and Gus ON
ers. it being the custom TO keep open on
Saturday night, and the third floor of the
building was occupied as a night school.
There was at once panic among the
people in the store and a mad rush for
the exits began, men, women and children
crowding for the streets, salesgirls and
cashgirlS leaving their outer belongings.
Everybody escaped alive. but pumber of
girls employed in the millinery and cloak
department were badly scorched and bis
tered, several losing all the hair from their
heads. On the west Of the burning build
ing stood ST. Magdalene's Church and
it WAS quickly on fire and burned like a
tar barrel. On the south and across
Douglass street was the Young Mems
Christian Association building and a row
of thTee-stOry fats. On the ground floor
of the Young Mems Christian Association
building is Thomson & Belden's dry
goods store. They suffered considerable
loss. and the upper floor of the fats were
cleaned out. The intense heat from the
Boston store building kept the fremen out
of that portion of Douglass street for half
an hour and that gave the flames a chance
to get across the street. So rapidly did
the Boston store burn that the cashier
abandoned the cash in the drawer and the
bookkeepers had to leave the books on
which they were working. The safe door
was open. but no one dared to tempt death
by trying TO close il. The escape of the
inmates from the blazing tinder-box was
all but miraculous. The losses of the
Boston store foot up S235. 600. insurance
$4,000. The other losses are estimated
az $50 nOn.
The morning call., 1894-02-04
VASQUEZ HAS PLUCK.
He May Yet Vanquish the Allied
Forces.
Four Times They Assaulted Picacho
Hill and Four Times Were
They Repulsed.

NEW YORK. Feb. 3.-The Worlds San
Salvador special says: Word has been
received here from Tegucigalpa, Hon.
duras, that the revohtionists and their
Nicaraguan allies made four successive
attacks upon President VasqueZ's in
trenchments on PIcaeho Hill and were as
uften repulsed.
The fighting was desperate and many
we're killed and wounded on both sides.
The Nicaraguans captured two cannon.
Another unsuccessful assault was made
next morning. Vasquez has been re-
enforced by 800 men, we'll armed. and
many soldiers In the Nicarsguan camp are
dying of disease.
The HODduran Cabinet has passed a
vote OF confidence in Vasquez, and it is re-
ported that the lottery com pany has offered
him financial aid.
MANAGUA. Feb. 3.-GeneraI Ortiz tele
graphs that Vasquez is running short of
provisions, and is losing daily by deser-
tions.