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but you shouldn't swear,

eyes, dear; but you shouldn't swear,
should your"
Lord Thrapston felt that he had spoiled
the moral effect of his reproof, and with
out dwelling further on that aspect of the
subject, he addressed his mind to the more
practical question. The outcome, differ
ent as the source was was the same old
verdict
eve must tell Calder, my dear. It isn't
right to keep him in the dark"
II can't tell him. Why must he be
told Pr
"Well,' said Lord Thrapston, "it's just
possible, Aggy, that he may have some
thing to say to it, isn't it?''
II don't mind what he says" declared
"Eh? Why, thought you were so fond
of him."
$50 I ann
"And as you're going to marry him"
81 never said ( was going to marry him.
L only said he might be engaged to me, il
he liked''
'Oho So this young Merceron-"
mot at all, grandpapa. Oh, do wish
somebody would help mer'
Lord Thrapston rose from his seat.
You must do what you like" he said,
''I'm going to tell Calder"
'Oh, why?"
Because" he answered, Pm man of
honor"
Before the impressive invocation of her
grandfather's one religion Agatha's oppo-
sition collapsed
81 suppose he must be told" she adj
mitted mournfully. II expect he'll never
speak to me again, and I'm sure Mr.. Mer-
ceron WON'T; and she sat on the footstool
the picture of detection.
Lord Thrapston was moved to enunciate
a solemn truth.
"Aggy," said he, shaking his finger at
her, 'in this world you can't have your
fun for nothing" But then he spoiled it
by adding regretfully, "More's the pity!''
and off he hobbled to the club, intent on
finding Calder Wentworth.
For some time after he went Agatha sat
on her stool in deep thought. Then she
rose, sat down at the writing-table, took a
pen and began to bite the end of it. AT
last she started to write.
don't know whether ought to write or not
but | must tell you how it happened. Oh,
don't think too badly of me! came down just
because | had heard so much about the Chase
and wanted to see it, and l came as did with
Nettie Wallace just for fun. l never meant to
say | was dressmaker you know; but people
would ask questions, and | had to say some
thing. | never, never thought of you.
thought you we're about Is. And, you know
oh! you must know-that met you quite by
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Il think I can tell you now,' she said
more calmly. 'sBut was ever a girl in such
an awful position before ?"
Ii Is needless TO repeat what Mrs. Blunt
sald Her censures will have been long
ago anticipated by every right-thinking
person, and if she softened them down a
little more than strict justice allowed, it
must nave been because Agatha was an old
favorlte of hers, and Lord Thrapston an old
antlpathy. Upon her word she always
wondered that the poor child, brought up
by That horrid old man, was not twice as
bad as she was.
But what am l to do about them?''
cried Agatha.
Charlie.
dol Why, there's nothing to do. You
must Just apologize to Mr.. Merceron, and
tell MIN that an end had better be put
On, know-Mr. Taylor said that; but,
Mrs. Blunt, don't want an end to be put
10 our acquaintance. | like him very,
very much. Oh, and he thinks me horrid
Oh!'
Take another sniff, F" advised Mrs. Blunt.
"of course, if Mr.. Merceron is willing to
let oygones be bygones, and just be an
acquaintance
Charlie
Knew who, Agatha?"
"Mr; Merceron,h said Agatha, in a very
humble voice. eff you knew him at all,
you'd know he wouldn't do that.
Then you must send him about his
business. Oh, yes, know. You've treated
him atrociously, but Calder Wentworth
must be considered first; that is if you care
two straws for the poor fellow, which be-
''Oh, do, Mrs Blunt!'
-, Agatha you shameless girl, which OF
Don't talk as if there were dozen OF
them, dear Mrs. Blunt. There are only
two"
cone too many"
Yes, l know. You-you see, I'm-Im
accustomed to Calder"
ooh, are your"
Yes. Don't be unkind, Mrs. Blunt. And
then charlie was something so new-such
charming change-that-n
Upon my word. you might be you your
grandfather. Talk about heridity, and h.
sen, and ali that"
Cant you help me, dear Mrs. Blunt %
Il can't give you two husbands, if that s
what you want. There, child don't cry.
Never mind me. Have another sniff"
II shall go home" said Agatha. per
hap:s, grandpapa may be able to advise
me-"
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''Your grandfather Good gracious, girl,
you re never going to tell him!'
Yes, l shall. Grandpapa's had a lot of
experience; he says So"
q should think he had!" whispered
Mrs. Blunt with uplifted hands.
"Good-by, Mrs. Blunt. You don't know
how unhappy | am. Thanks; yes, q han
som please. Mrs. Blunt, are you going to
ask Mr.. Merceron here again?"
Mrs. Blunts liberation was exhausted.
''Be off with you'll" she said sternly,
pointing forefnger at the door.
By great good fortune Agatha found
Lord Thrapston at home. Drawing foot
stool beside his chair she sat down. Her
agitation was past and she wore a gravely
businesslike air.
"Grandpapa," she began. ~ have got
something to tell you"
go ahead, my dear" said the old gen
tleman, stroking her golden air. Her
father had curls like that when he was a
"Something dreadful I've done, YOU
know. But you won't be, very angry, will
your"
"We'll see."
'You oughtnt to be because you're not
very good yourself, are your" and she first
glanced up into his burnt-out old eyes and
then pressed her lips on his knotted, lean
old hand.
A6Sy, Sdlu lie, CNPCSI ,fOo pay we
deuce with the young fellows, don't your"
Agatha laughed softly, but frown sue
ceeded.
That's just it" she said. 'Now, you're
to listen and not interrupt, or shall never
be able to manage it. And you're not to
look at me, grandpa"
The narrative--that thrice-told tale
began. As the comments of Mr.. Taylor
and Mrs Blunt were omitted, those of
Lord Thrapston may well receive like
treatment, more especially as they tended
not to edifcation; but before his grand
daughter had finished her story the old
man had sworn softly four times and
chuckled audibly twice.
Il knew there was girl in that temple
soon as Calder told me" said he.
But you didn't know who 1t was. Oh,
and Calder doesn't?"
"Not he. Well, you've made pretty lit
tie fool OF yourself, missile. What are you
going to do now?"
That's what you've got to tell me-"
II? Oh, daresay. No, no; you got
INTO the scrape and you can get out of it.
And" He suddenly recollected his du-
ties: "Look here, Agatha. | must-hang
it, Agatha, l shouldn't be doing my duty
as-as a grandfather if / didn't say that it S
a monstrous disgraceful thing of you to
have done. Yes, - disgraceful, by heav-
en- and he took pinch of snuff with an
air OF severe virtue.
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GContinued.1

Continued.
on ask her If | see her, whether she
wishes it, she whispered back; and, with
a hasty goodnight, seized Willie's arm
and hurried him off. Charlie was left
alone with Calder.
What the deuce did she mean?' asked
Calder.
81 don't know" answered Charlie.
Where did you meet her?'
''Oh, down at home The fellow she was
with is son of tenant of ours; she's going
to marry him."
"She's nice little girl, but I'm hanged
If I know what she meant"
And, as the one was thinking exclusively
of Agatha Glyn and the other spared a
thought for no one but Agatha Brown,
they did not arrive at an explanation.
One result, however, that chance encoun-
ter had. The next morning Miss Agatha
Glyn received a letter in the following
terms:
Madam hope you viii excuse me intrud-
Ing, but think you. would wish TO know that
Charles Mereeron IS in London and that met
him this evening with Nh. Wentworth. AS you
informed me that you had passed Mr.. Merce-
ron on the road two or three times during your
visit TO Lang Marsh, l think you may wish to
be informed OF the above. may add that Mr..
Merceron is aware that you are engaged to Mr..
Wentworth, but could not make out how far
be was aware of what happened at Lang
Marsh. I think he does not know it. OF course
you VIII know whether Mr.. Wentworth is
aware OF your visit there. l should be much
obliged if you would be so kind as TO tell me
what to say ii l meet the gentlemen again. Mr..
Merceron is very pressing in asking me Tor
news OF YOU. l am TO be married in a fortnight
from the present date, and I am, madam,
yours respectfully, NETTIE WALLACE.
'In London, and with Calderr' ex-
claimed Agatha Glyn. "oh, dear! oh,
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dear! oh, dearl What is to be donep 7
WISH IA never gone back to the wretched
place!" ''u
Then she took up the letter and reread it
said. '''''' al sue
Then she slowly tore the letter into very
basket. '--0 waste
calder has no idea where 1 was" she
Sald, and she sat down by the window and
looked out over the park for nearly ten
minutes. '0-
'Ah, well! I should like to see him lust
once again. Dear old Pooll" said she.
linen she suddenly began to lalgh-an
action only to be excused in one in her
position, and burdened with her sins. by
the 1act OF her having at the moment a
peculiarly vivid vision of Mile Busnell
going head first out of canoe.
CHAPTER VII.
The first Viscount Thrapston had been
an eminent public character and the sec
ond respectable private person; the third
had been neither. And yet there was some
good in the third. He had loved his only
son with fondness rare to find. and for
ten whole years, while the young man was
between IL and 81, the old lord lived for
ms sake a lie open to no reproach. Then
the son died, leaving lately married wife
and baby girl and Lord Thrapston, de-
prived at once of hope and of restraint
returned to his old courses till age
came upon him and drove him from
practice into Renaissance. Mrs. GIyn
had outlived her husband fifteen wears
and then followed him, fairly snubbed 10
death, some said, by her formidable father
ln-law. The daughter was of sterner stuff,
and early discovered for herself that moth
ing worse than a scowl or snarl was to
be feared. On her, indeed, descended a
relic OF that tenderness her father had en-
loyed, and Agatha used to the full the adj
vantages 1t gave her. She knew her own
Importance. 1t is not every girl who will
be peeress in her own right, and she
amused her grandfather by calmly inform
ing him that 1t was not on the whole a SUBJ
lect for regret that she had not been boy.
You see, said she, 1--WE get rid of the new
viscounty, and it's much better to be
Warmley than Tbrapston.''
The fact that she was some. day to be
"Warmley" was the handspring of that
hare-brained aunt to Lang Marsh in com
pany with Nettie Wallace. Nettie was the
daughter of Lord Thrapston's housekeeper.
and the two girls had been intimate in
youth, much as Charlie Merceron and Will
lie Prime had been at the Chase and when
Nettie, scorning servitude, set up in life for
herself Agatha gave her custom and did
not withdraw her friendship. In return,
she received an allegiance which refused
none Of her behests and regard which
abolished all formality between them ex-
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Meissonier,s n1sO1.o

Meissonier's favorites among his own
pictures were the ''Siege of Paris" the
Death Scene" which is at Amsterdam !;
the "Barricade," which he had presented
to Eugene Delacroix; the Prayer" the
Virgin of st. Mark" the .'Tpilleries,' -
Samson, ''1S07'' and lisa" The s.1S07'
is in the New York Metropolitan Museum,
his business successor, Judge Hilton.
1t is one of the artists largest and most
labored works, and he appears to have
been at infinite pains to secure historical
accuracy in the details. For instance, he
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-17

Secretary Gresham has accepted an in
vitation from the Grant Birthday Associa-
ton of Galena, ILL.,, to deliver the annual
address there on General Grants birthday,
April 81 A feature that will lend especial
interest to the celebration this year will be
the presentation and unwilling of the large
painting of Lees surrender, executed by
Thomas Mast II. Fl. Kohlsaat of Chicago
will present the painting to the city of
Galena.
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)TICE-We sell all publications at
t 10 per cent lower than elsewhere.
Complete assortment Of
CREPE TISSUE PAPER,
PER ROLL use.
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and now L have a
dear little babe
four weeks old,
and | am well. I
have to thank you
for this.
81 have spent
$4,000 for doc
tors bills without
a cure. For my
cure l only spent
l $500.
A. II was once
a victim or fe-
male troubles
-, in their worst
form. l have suf-
fereduntold ago
MES every month;
had to stay in bed,
and have poultices
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Women are sometimes compelled to
act for themselves, because of the suffer
ing forced upon them by incompetent
doctors, who are baff1ed by very simple
complaints, because they are not the
right sex to comprehend them.
India e. PinkhdB1, when she gave to
the world her Vegetable Compound,
lifted women from the darkness into
light. She placed within their reach
guaranty, not only of health, but of del
icaey and self-respect.
The following letter is a little story
where a "dear little boy" was the
" Waterloo"
81 have taken three bottles of your
Vegetable Compound, one package of
SanatiYe Wash. one box of Liver Pills;
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applied, and then could not stand the
pain.
my, physician told me if became
pregnant / would die. 1 had bladder
trouble, itching, backache, catarrh of
the stomach, hysteria, and heart trouble,
fainting spells and leucorrhoea. Can you
wonder that sing the praises of a medi-
cine that has cured me of all these ills?"
MRS. GEO. G. KIRCHNER, 351 Snediker
Ave, Brooklyn, NY.
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A BABY
CONTRADICTS THE DOCTORS.
All Are Happy, Glad, and Well.
ESPECIAL TO OUR LADY nEADERs.l

The theories of physicians in regard
to female complaints suffer Water
loo very frequently, when sensible and
thinking women take matters into their
own hands.
The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1895-10-23
A Plant For Arid states.

What the corn crop Ia to the middle
and southeastern states alfalfa promises
to become TO the arid states Of tho west
and southwest. Most people have heard
that 1t is q plant of the clover family,
and that III good years three crops in a
season are obtained from it. But of its
immense value to the soil itself few
have any idea. Like ordinary clovers it
strikes downward a thick and tongh
taproot. This great root goes down some
times 20 feet in search of the subterra.
nea water. 1t brings up from far below
the surface the mineral salts the soil
needs and makes it soft. rich and pull
verizable.
Beeyes are fattened Mt very small ex-
pense on alfalfa, with corn to finish
them OFF and improve their flesh. It is a
question that concerns the whole coun-
try whether it is eve TO get meat cheap.
ly again. Alfalfa will settle the ques.
ton in the affirmative il 1t has its way,
and the farmer will make just as much
profit too. Throughout Kansas. Nebras-
ka. Colorado, New Mexico and Utah ag-
riculturists are depending more and
more IN this new old forage plant to
make the horses and the mutton, beef
and pork for the eastern market, and II
never fails them. In place Of the grass
hay Of the east the southwestern farmer
cures one Of the three cuttings from his
alfalfa fields in a season and finds that
it Ia even better than hay. Under these
circumstances the agriculturist cannot
in tho alfalfa region do better than to 60
heavily into beef, mutton and pork rails
ing. s
The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1895-10-23

Caffeine, the active principle of coffee,
was discovered by Runge in 1920. In q
pure state it takes the form of long silky
needles. In ordinary coffee it is present
to the extent OF about / per cent. but
Java coffee contains A., and Marti-
nique has as much as GA. 1t is said by
kome chemists that caffeine i'll its essen.
tialities is identical with theme, the ao.
tive principle of tea. CLANS affirms that
the inferior qualities of tea contain more
caffeine than the best commercial grades.
The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1895-10-23

1t was Aug, "a that an English news.
paper, The Westminster Gazette, said Of
tho speed trials on the railways Of
Great Britain "Thus once more and
perhaps forever has the championship
Of the world in railway speed been gain
ed by tho cid country" DR.. Chauncey
NJ. Depew did not say much, neither
did Mr., II. Walter Webb, but they did
a deal of thinking. The result was the
lier on the New York Central road that
covered the 44O miles between New
York city and Buffalo in seven hours,
including stops for changing engines
twice. The time and distance actually
counted were from New York to East
Buffalo. The distance was 436x miles,
the time 407 minutes. The actual aver
age was 641s miles an hour, beating the
fastest British average by q mile an
hour. A fact to be especially noted is
that the American engines and trains
were much heavier than those employed
In the trial on the English roads. The
three American engines used in the trial
run weighed each not less than 100
tons. The weight Of the whole train
that made the record breaking run to
Buffalo was 256 tons. The English trial
trains weighed respectively 20. l05 and
1870 TOYS. One of the engines in the
American run was the famous 900 that
broke the worlds record once before
and held 1t till the English caught up
and passed 1t. The two others were
brand new, Of an improved pattern just
turned out in the Central shops,
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For Rent
For Sale.

A well built and nicely furnished four
room house in choice location. First
class well on premises. Large yard and
shade trees, good outbuildings. Also
the furniture which is nearly new and
of first quality. House and furniture
sald together or separately, o bargain.
l1:uire at DISPATCH Office early.
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The Apple Crop.

For 1895 the apple crop Of the United
States will be worth anywhere from
$50, 900, coo to 500, coo, 600, probably
nearer the latter figures than the former.
A large part Of this vast crop will come
from New York and Michigan, but Mis-
souri, is becoming a formidable rival to
those states. Apples are n surer growth
in Missouri than in either New York or
Michigan because Of the milder climate.
In the Ozark country the crop has failed
only three times in the past 30 years.
This year there will come near being
a glut in tho fruit market, so far as ap-
pies are concerned. Missouri alone will
furnish from $i2, 900, 600 to e15, 000,-
900 worth. Orchards Of hundreds of
acres are no great novelty in the prolific
Ozark country. Ex-Socretary of AgricuJ
ture Norman J. Colman has 5000 peai
trees and 2,000 apple trees, the latter
bending under tho heaviest yield they
have ever borne. Apples pay if tho pro-
Queer can get 20 cents a bushel for them
on the tree. In almost every part OF the
apple producing section the yield is as
great us in Missouri. The ouly hope Of
making this great quantity OF fruit pay
is TO ship it to Europe. where good APP
pies are ecarce. For this purpose the ut
most care must DO observed in packing.
The rest Of the crop that cannot be con.
sumed Mt home and made into cider cider
jelly und vinegar can he fed profitably to
live stock. Apple fed pork is a delicacy.
The people Of the United States, too.
ought to eat more apples than they do.
Nothing is more conducive to health
and long life. ~gH nnx
The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1895-10-23

Buy your fencing, pine or redwood
shingles, clear and common lumber OF
all sizes Of Fonlks and Powning, Verdi
or Reno. The best mountain pine and
low prices. Common timber on the cars
at Verdi at $40 PEI thousand. y
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AJAX CYCLES.

Strictly High Grade. Twenty pound
wheel, n hundred dollars; same quail.
ity, twenty-six pounds, seventy five dol
las; also children's wheels best and
heapest. l.. Griswold Agent.
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NIAYi.

Ladies' do not neglect your health.
Thoroughly investigate the Viava treat
ment, it never fails TO cure if used cor
recily. All inquiries gladly answered
ty MRS. T.. FOWLER, Agent.
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Notice to huntars.

] hereby notify all hunters not IL
'respass upon my premises. Those
Who do not heed this notice will be
prosecuted. 7. q. Hermann
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Business Locals and Spicy Items

When you stop i'll Truckee for a day
or fora month you should remember
you get tie best accommodations at the
Whitley House.
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"Sorry, madam, but you will have to
get somebody to identify yun."
"The ideal Don't you see my name
right there on the check:'-Boston
Transcript.
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A Bargain.

We have a cabin, II IL, in a desirable
location; an entire outfit consisting OF
stove, dishes, bedding etc., and a good
sized lot. Cheap for cash. Apply at
DIsPATCH Office.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1895-09-12
The Mahsuds of India.

They are a lean, why, keen Wis.
aged people, with a peculiarly wolf.
ish, hunted expression, due proba.
bly, to poor feeding and the sharp.
ness OF the struggle for existence,
from which no section of the tribe
is exempt. The Mahsud is verita,
BILE Ishmaelite. His hand is against
every man, and every mans hand
Is against him. Though collectively
thieves and robbers by hereditary
calling, with the Gumal pass just
south of them as a happy hunting
ground throughout the winter, they
have some virtues which civilized
man frequently wants.
They are individually brave and
fearless of death, and they are very
particular about the honor of their
women. A faithless wife has her
nose cut off, and sometimes her lips
slit as we'll. The adulterer, if he can
be caught, is either killed or has a
foot or leg Topped off. Our officers,
by the way, in the late expedition
were struck by the number of MAIN
ed men they saw in Mahsudland.
On inquiry they found that the leg
less ones were only local Don Juans,
who had been tried and convicted
for loving mot wisely, but too
well. "-Blackwood's Magazine.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1895-09-12

Attentie1 is directed to the iobbing de-
partment ofthe MARIETTA JOURNAL which
Is provided with Steam Power. New Job
Presses. New and Latest Styles OF job
Type and most approved and extern
siye facilities for the execution of Job
printing of all kinds from the smallest label
to the largest poster, in black or colored
inks, at prices as low as can be had else
where tor an equal grade of work. We are
prepared to prlntat short notice, pamphlet
posters, programmes, circulars, letter heads
checks, envelopes, bill heads, blanks of all
kinds, catalogues. business cards, and every
hing in the line of r. ins used in the CON.
duct of every day business w. w;ll du.
plicate Atlanta prices. Gt> !. j. rial
and see.
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A novel operation in surgery was

A novel operation in surgery was
performed by an Ansonia, Conn,
physician on the 2 months>old son
OF Edward Feeny, OF the same place,
few days ago. The child fell out
of a hammock and its skull was bad
ly injured, so that portion Of it
was depressed nearly an inch. The
docto contrived a curious pump,
resembling a syringe, applied it
over the depression and pulled the
piston. Instantly the sunken part
of the skull few into it's proper
place with popping sound. The
child, which had beer insensible
since the accident, regained con-
sciousness at once, and is rapidly
getting well.