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Winter Night
At "HayS. >
A Tale of Love, Desertion and
Disobedience.
BY BRET HARTE.
CHAPTERI.

It was difficult to say if Hays farm
house. or Hays" as 1t was famil1arly
called looked any more bleak and
cheerless that winter afternoon than IL
usually did in the strong summer cum
shine. Painted cold, merciless white,
with scant projection for shadows, q roo1
of white pine shingles, bleacned light,
or through IN and wind, and covered
with low, white-capped chimneys, IL
looked even more stark and chilly than
the drifts which had climbed it's low
roadside fence, and yet seemed hopeless
Of gaining q foothold on the glanc1ng
walls, or slippery wind-swept roof. Inc
storm, which had already heaped the
hollows Of the road with snow, hurled
its finely granulated fakes against the
building, but they were whirled along
cutters and ridges end disappeared IN
smoke-like puffs across the icy roof.
The granite outcrop in the hilly field be-
yond had long ago whitened and van
ished: the dwarf frs and larches, which
had at first taken uncouth shapes in the
drift, blended vaguely together, and then
merged into an unbroken wave. But
the gaunt angles and rigid outlines OF
tho building remained sharp and un-
changed. 1t would seem as II the r1gors
Of winter had only accented their hard.
ness, as the fierceness Of summer had
previously made them intolerable.
It was believed that some OF this un-
yielding grimness attached to Hays
himself. Certain 1t is, that neither
hardship nor prosperity had touched bis
character. Years agS his emlgrant team
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sleeves and extremely full skirts, fin.
ished with buckram, and SO full as to
stand in scallops around the hips just
below the waist. The shoulders and
entire front of this jacket are covered
by cape-shaped arrangement of black
satin, folded in jabot fashion from the
neck to the belt on either side of an
elsborately braided vest. This braid
ing is one of the features OF the new
suits, and is done with heavy mohair
braid, about three-fourths of an inch
in width, skirts having elaborate de-
signs on the side seams from waist
line to hem.
A trimming which is to be quite lsv'
ishly used is velvet, either in ribbon
or in bias bands turned in at the edges
and lined with buckram. These bands
are used to trim the seams of skirts,
and are also set from the shoulder
seams to the waist-line. Velvet collars
and cuffs are used on wool fabrics OF
all sorts, as we'll as on silk.
Lace is to be quite as much used a
it has been through the summer.
Dresses of silk or fine wool are
trimmed with lace, about eight or ten
inches deep. This is set on in shoul'
der rufles and in bertha fashion !;
sometimes it is laid fiat and sewed
down upon the fabric.
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A Mysterious Treasure TrGve.

Last winter two boys of Litch6eld,
ILL.,, found buried in lane near that
place Jug, in which was chart show
ing windmill, country road and o
pathway leading to a large stone in q
pasture. Taking the windmill on
Robert McWilliams' farm in the east.
part of town as the one designated,
the boys located the road, pathway
and stone. After digging two or three
hours and finding nothing, they tore
up the chart and gave up without mem
tloning their discovery to anybody.
One night recently some parties dug
a hole nine feet deep, six feet long
and four feet wide on the spot. Next
morning A. j. Duncan, tenant of
McWilliams's, found the hole and in it
a part OF the handle of an iron chest.
There were evidences of heavy safe
or box having been dragged to the
road, where it is supposed q vehicle
was in waiting. What the treasure
was no one knows, though most peo-
pie imagine the chest must havo con-
tained untold riches. New Orleans
Picayune.
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sister Annie's property, and hers

sister Annie's property, and hers
Zuleika' s-too, If she'd have the pluck
to speak up for herself. All this and
much more he said. Yet even while
his small fury was genuine and char
acteristic, there was such an evident in
congruity between himself and his
speech that it seemed to fit him loosely,
and in measure tapped in his gestures
like another's garment. Zuleika, who
had exhibited neither disgust nor SYM
pathy with his rebellion, but had rather
appeared to enjoy it as a novel domestic
performance, the morality Of which de-
volvcd solely upon the performer, re-
tanned her curious smile. And then
knock at the door startled them.
1t was the stranger-slightly apollo
getic and still humorous, but firm and
self lf-confident withal. She was sorry to
interrupt their family council, but tie
fire was going out where she sat, and
she would like cup Of tea or some re-
freshment. She did not look at Jack,
but, completely ignoring him, addressed
herself to Zuleika with what seemed to
be direct challenge; in that feminine
ye-grapple there was a quick, 1nstinc-
tive, and final struggle between the two
women. The stranger triumphed.
Zuleika's vacant smile changed to one
of submission, and then, equally ignor-
ing her brother in this double defeat,
she hastened to the kitchen to do the
visitors bidding. The woman closed
the door behind her and took Zuleika's
place before the fire.
Well" she said, In half-contemptu-
GUS liberation.
-Well?" said Jack in an equally ILL.,
disguised discomfort, but an evident de-
sire to placate the woman before him.
Its all right, you know. I've had my
say. It'll come right, Lottie, you'll
see."
The woman smiled again and glanced
around the bare walls of the loom.
And I suppose" she said dryly.
when it comes right, I'm to take the
place Of your sister in the charge Of this
workhouse and succeed to the keys OK
that safe in the other room?"
It'll come all right, tell you; yo1
can fix things up here any way you'll
like when we get the old man straight
said Jack with tho iteration Of feeble
ness. And as to that safe, I've seen II
chock full of securities.
ITo BE coNTIsVlpl
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Why Latin is Used By Doctors.

81 don't see," said the man who was
leaning against the drug store coun-.
ter, "why doctor can't write hispre.s
scriptions in English, instead OF.
Latin"
The druggist said: "You think, s
suppose, that the doctor writes his
prescription in Latin SO it cant bei
read 30 easily so the layman cant
steal his trade and learn what he iss
giving him. But that's all wrong. In
the first place, Latin is a more exact
and concise language than Englishs
and, being dead language, does not
change, as all living languages do. 81 4.
"Then, again, since q very large
part of all the drugs in use are botan-
ical, they have in the pharmacopeiai
the same names that they have in bot
any-the scientific names. .Two-tairds5
of such drugs haven't any English
names, and so couldn't be- written IN
English.
''But suppose doctor did write q
prescription in English for an unednss'.
Gated patient. The patient reads it,
thinks he remembers it and so tries to-
get it filled from memory the second
time. Suppose, for instance, it called
for iodide Of potassium and he got ut
confused with cyanide of potassium
he could safely take ten grains OF the
first. but one grain of the second !
would kill him as dead as mackereE
That's an exaggerated case, but it will
serve for an illustration. Don't you
see how the Latin is protection and
q safeguard to the patient? Prescrip-
tions in Latin he can't read, and con-
sequently does not try to rememter.
'.Now for final reason. Latin is q
language that is used by scientific
men the world over, and no other LAM,
guage is. You can get q Latin pre-
scription filled in any country on the
face of the earth where there is drug.
store. We had a prescription come
in here the other day which we had
put up originally, and which had since
heen stamped by druggists in Lon-
don, Paris, Berlin, Constantinoples
Cairo and Calcutta. What good would
an English prescription be in 81;
Petersburg?"
SCOT any good tooth powdergs
asked the man leaning against the
coulter. New York Herald. Z.
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rr,,prpIrnr NEWS AND NOTES.

Every moderate drinker is helping the
devil to put his mark on an army OF boys.
The devil has fish on his hook every time
some man says. II can drink, or can let 1t
alone"
It is said that Benjamin Franklin. while
working as a printer among LONDON peel
drinkers was known as the American aqua
tic" because he drank only water.
At the international congress against the
abuse OF alcoholic liquors which recently
closed its deliberations in Basle, Swltzer-
land. the believers in total abstinence were
in I'm overwhelming majority. The next
congress will be held at Brussels.
Statistics gathered and published by Gam
brinus. a beer organ OF Vienna, Austria. give
the worlds production Of beer for 1874 rs
SAT- 1862, ,22l gallons. or nearly i've ana one
ha,f thousand millions. The Voice calcu'
lates thai the beer kegs sufficient to hold this
quantity would belt the earth seven deep at
the equator.
Mr.. Ivan E. Gesheff. Minister OF Finance
OF Bulgaria. in a recent speech pointed out
that one of the greatest curses OF the peas
antry are the krichim drinking places), ana
recommended to the committee appointed TO
consider ways of bettering their condition
the devising OF the best means OF limiting
the liquor traffic in that country.
South Africa has a village on the great
Brak River owned by Meesrs. Searle Sons
who operate several small factories, IN when
nearly one hundred hands are employed, all
of whom are abstainers. The village has no
liquor, no policemen. and so evenly and
smoothly do all the inhabitants live and
work together that it is model village.
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The Banana Trade.

During the first six months OF the,
current year more than 10, 600, COO
punches of bananas have been sold IN
the United States, and since about;
sixty vessels are engaged in carrying
this fruit to our markets, and from
fifty to hundred men are employed
in unloading each cargo as it arrives.
the banana business now probably
takes rank as the leading branch in
the fruit trade. The great increase
in the consumption of bananas is due
to the fact that the country fruit
stores can dispose of them more read
lily than other kinds OF fruit on ac-
count of their cheapness, and many
country merchants have built ripen-
ing rooms for the fruit when received.
by them in green state. According
to the Fruit Trade Journal, the ar
rangements for receiving and dis
charging cargoes are more systematic
in New Orleans than any other port
of this country. The vessels there
unload immediately on arrival at any
time of day or night, and the rail-;
roads give special attention to ship.
ments, so that the banana trains often
leave New Orleans and make as good
time as passenger trains to their des-
tination. In 1891 New Orleans for
the first time received more bananas
than New York, but already in the
first half of the year her importations
excelled those of New York by more
than 800, coo bunches. Mobile ranks
as the third port in the number Of
punches received, while Philadelphia
and Boston compete closely for the
fourth place.
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CHAPTER III.

The girl stood looking at the ingenu.
GUS forger with an odd, breathless smile.
1t was difficult to determine, however,
il gratifed curiosity were not its most
dominant expression.
Ard you've got wfe-and that's
herr" she resumed.
Yes"
Where did you first meet herr VINO
is she2"
She's an actress-mighty popular In
'Frisco-I mean New York. Lots o
chaps tried to get her-I cut 'em out
For all dads trying to keep me at Daw.
son's-I amt such fool, eh?"
Nevertheless, as he stood there strok.
ing his fair mustache, his astuteness did
not seem to impress his sister to enthus.
iastic assent. Yet she did not relax he1
breathless, inquisitive smile as she went
on:
And what are you going to do about
dad?"
He turned upon her querulously.
We'll, that's what I want TO talk
about"
You'll catch it," she said, impress
sively.
But here her brothers nervousness
broke out in q weak, impotent fury. 1t
was evident, too, that in spite OF it's ap-
parent spontaneous irritation it's intent
was studied. Catch it, would he? oh,
yes! Well, she'd see who'd catch it!
Not him! No, he'd had enough Of this
meanness, and wanted it ended He
wasn't woman, to be treated like his
sister, like their mother. like their
brother. If it camc to that, for he knew
how he was 10 lie brought back to take
Bijah's place in the spring; he'd heard
the whole story. No, he was going to
stand up for his rights-he was going to
be treated like the son OF man who
was worth half million ought to be
treated! He wasn't going to be skimped
while his father was wallowing in money
that he didn't know what to do with
money that by right ought to have
been given to their mother and their
sister. Why, even the law wouldn't
permit such meanness-if he was dead.
No, he'd come there with Lottie, his
wife, to show his father that there was
one Of the family that couldn't be fooled
and bullied, and wouldn't put up with it
any longer. There would have to be a
fair division Of the property and his
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TEMPERANCE.
THE DRINK FOR YOU.
Each flower holds up dainty cup

THE DRINK FOR YOU.
Each flower holds up dainty cup
To catch the rain and dew:
Each bonny gem upon its stem
Lets the light in and through.
The drink of flowers. distilled in showers,
Is just the drink for you.
The nightingale that cheers the vale,
From crystal streamlets few
On vibrant wings, and when 1t sings
It's notes are clear and true.
The song-bird's drink should be, 1 think,
The drink for birds like you.
The stars so bright that gem thu night,
Shining like diamonds through.
Are sleepless eyes in sheltering skies,
Glancing from curtains blue.
They fling their beams upon the streams
That flow with drink for you.
When Engar prayed for rain and shade,
A fountain rose in view.
For unseen hands had scooped the sands,
And brought the water through.
She wept and smiled and gare her child
the drink that's good for you.
"Better than gold is water cold
For boys and girls like vou."
George W. Bungay. in Youths Banner.
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SMALLER SLEEVES.
A NOTABLE FEATURE OF THE
SEASONS STYLES.
The Enormous Proportions Of Last
Seasons Sleeves to Be Reduced
Ostrich Tips for Hats-Wtn-
ter Coats and Jackets.

- NE of the notable features OF
the new styles is the decrease
! in the size of sleeves. There
is little probability that
small sleeves will come in for long
time, for the large ones have been
much more comfortable and easy to
manage, and everybody is satisfied
with them but last season their enor-
nous proportions made it impossible
to wear anything in the way OF ordln-
arY wraps, and women who had those
which were ever so handsome were
compelled to put them aside, and
either buy new or get along as best
they could. The latest sleeves droop
o little over the elbows, ana are rea-
sonably full at the tops. The straight
portion from wrist to elbow is fairly
close-ftting, and is in most of the new
suits entirely untrimmed. Some cos
tunes, however, have deep. turned
back cuffs; others have plaitings; 9TH
ers are trimmed with bows and bands
of velvet, and a few have passenen-
terie or lace.
Large puffs from elbows to shoul-
ders are used on dresses of light M
teria1; but the tailor costume and
cloth dress have the dropping effect
Just described.
Outside garments are, for the most
part, either in jacket shape or in short
basque style, with points in the front
and an elaborate arrangement of
trimming set on from shoulder to
waist-line.
One of the handsomest models OF
the season is made of black poplin.
The skirt is the usual faring shape,
and the bodice is close-ftting. A jac-
ket basque has large leg-o'-mutton
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All men find it necessary to have q

All men find it necessary to have
light cover coat among their stock OF
outer garments, and the well gowned
woman, who prides herself upon al
ways having the correct thing to wear
Low buys one once if not twice year.
Just now the style for these coats IS
to have them quite short, with skirts
at the back full enough to allow the
skirts of the gown to stand ous we'll,
loose fronted and buttoned under q
fap, and with the front SO cleverly
cut that the curve from bust to hip is
not distinguished.
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rrRs TC BE GENERALLY USED.

It is more than probable that furs
will be again most popular this sea-
son, Judging from hat one sees at
the leading fashion emporia. Furs
are not only seen on mantles and
Jackets for outdoor wear, but are
used to trim costumes of every de-
scription. Sable, as usual, is the
ultra favorite, but blue fox and silver
fox are also much patronized. Thera
are, of course, cheaper furs than the
above mentioned, which are very
effective aud decidedly more within
reach of ladies whose purses are not
elastic.
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WINTER COATS, cAPEs AND JACKETS.

WINTER COATS, cApEs AND JACKETS.
Velvet is a very great favorite in
the making of fall and winter capes,
jackets, closks and redingotes. black
velvet particularly, though the deep
shades in brown and green will bs
used. Fur edgings and spangled
bands and points are the garnitures.
There are very few medium lengths
in coats; they are either sh ,rt orlone,
and the puzzle as to how the iacketor
coat was to go on over the immense
dress sleeves has in measure been
solved by the Introduction of stylish,
elegantly fitted models, that are sleeve.
less, this omission concealed by a
pretty cape that nearly reaches the
waist. For unpleasant weather this
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will button across, so that the cape
cannot fly open, thus making very
comfortable cool weather garment.
The redingotes of plain ladies' cloth,
fancy diagonal, rough checks and
English cheviot in various patterns
will be very fashionably worn during
the winter. These have, immense
cape or sailor collars covered with
braid and edged with fur, and large
Cromwellian cuffs likewise trimmed.
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POPULAR SCIENCE,
Bicycles were substituted for horses
in recent bullAght in Spain.

Bicycles were substituted for horses
in recent bullfght in Spain.
Tobacconists generally blame the.
bicycle for the lessened demand for
cigars.
The great advantage in electric de-
position is that almost any metal may
be deposited upon glass.
A Minnesota girl of fifteen can dis-s
tinguish no color, everything being
white to her, and she ls compelled to-
wear dark glasses to protect her eyes
from the glare. 54s &
The fremen OF San Francisco are
experimenting with new respirator,
or air filter, by means of whicn they
are enabled to work forty-five minutes
in dense smoke without suffocation.
Experiments have shown that mild
currents of electricity may have 9
beneficial effect on the growth ofs
plants, but, of course, o heavy charge
will kill plant Just as lightning viii
kill tree.
Electricians say that trolley car is
by all odds the safest place to be found
in thunder storm. The wire and
trolley pole serve as perfect protec-3
tion, and car has never yet beent
known to be injured by lightning.
Although a rubber horseshoe has
been invented for use on icy pave.
ments, nothing satisfactory seems to-
have been found for horses compelled
to travel upon wet asphalt. It's no-.
ticeable that horses accustomed to as.
phalt learn the trick of stepping cafe-
fully, as men learn to walk with STIFF
fened ankles on ice. &
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TIPS FOR HATS.

Nothing is more certain than the
popularity of ostrich tips. Hats, near
" all, are trimmed with them; the
number in each case depending upon
the use to which the hat is to be put.
Two or three are modest number, if
the chapeau is for general use. Seven
or eight are not large collection if the
hat is for dress occasions.
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HAYR YOu A ROY TO SPARE2

To Parents: The saloon must have boys, or
it must shut up the shop. Can't you furnish
It one? The saloon is great, strong fac-
tory. Unless il can get about 2.00O.000 boys
every generation from somebody's homes.
for raw material, some OF these factories
must close down, and the money in the pub
lie treasury must grow less.
"Wanted-Two million boys" is the notice
we might read over every distillery, brewery
and dramshop. One family out of every five
in the world must contribute atleast one boy
TO keep pthe supply. National Temperance
Advocate
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ALCOHOL Is THE CAUSE OF DISEASE.

Alcohol is neither food nor medicine-
more, 1t is the chief cause Of disease. Sir
Andrew Clark says: II do not desire to
make out strong case. am speaking SOL
emnly and carefully in the presence OF
truth. and tell you that am considerably
within the mark when say to you that. 60
ing the round of my hospital wards to-day,
seven out of every ten there owed their i'll
health to alcohol" Doctor Higginbottom
says: II consider I shall do more in curing
disease and preventing disease in one year
by prescribing total abstinence than could
do In the ordinary course Of an extensive
practice OF hundred years" The declara-
tions of prominent physicians the world
over could be cited, all going to show that,
In health or disease, in old or young. In all
climates, the human system is injured by the
taking of alcohol, and the amount OF injury
done is proportionate to the quantity OF
liquor taken. Five thousand doctors in this
country have said it. So have more than
two thousand in England, and So have the
leading memters in the profession IN the
other countries of Europe. 1t is the fruitful
source of diseases of the stomach, lungs,
heart, blood, skin, liver, kidneys and ner-
vous system, not to speak OF alcoholism and
delirium tremens.
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ApsrA1srRs THE BEST ARcHERs.

Professor Helm. Of Zurich, Switzerland,
writes with reference to the Swiss archery
competitions as follows: "The Swiss have
been distinguished in archery for centuries.
I had occasion. a short time ago. to speak
with one of these far-famed huntsmen. This
clever marksman assures me that all who at
tain skill in shooting are strictly temperate
men or abstainers. Even temperate men
have to become abstainers about a week be-
fore entering into schutzenfest (competi-
tion). The besr marksmen not only refrain
from alcohol. but live exclusively on milk.
butter, cheese and eggs. They must also 60
to bed betimes at night. and many OF them
do not smoke TOBACCO
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THEY GO HAND IN HAND.

The saloon and the custom of treating and
of convivial drinking 60 hand in hand.
mutually creating and maintaining each
other. Were /: not for the practice OF treat
ing, most saloons would be closed for want
of business; and the saloon is necessary for
treating, as usually practiced.-Sacred Heart
Review
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There are no favorite fashions IN
plume arrangement. The fancy is
for artistic grouping, and the more
picturesque the effect, the more in the
mode is it,