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the rnattor was 10 urgent that he went
straight to tho pew md brought her out,
which caused even the mnStetE e 5Ps ase
there look surprised. & II Z took her home
packed her box and bundled Rher Into the
coach which tho stranger brough :. and md
ayay thay I sspecte that
kit and lsamotller knew some thing q q
their WHEREABOUTS and he had ma do It his
business to watch or the aa,nelt;
when Slt came for&his mother, and 4 he
followed d; When She lef II the coach ne
took anothert and pursued her and the
sstrang ceiling certain he was on the ne
nj But they we're oil too late. When the.
stranger found Mrs. farley next day she
could only tell them that little Nell and =
Eeahatn rctu n mofhor
&nuchf discouraged, 81 to ~ .ond on. 81 . .I
@ The part that. Kit had played In I, THIS y
made the dwarf hate llim posi- plo..
Brass, his rascal ~ lawyer, to ruin the lag
by milking n false charge OF the IT against
on One day t Il wt,ei, KIT came to 3Brasss
house to see sthe4stranger, who lodged up!
stairs the lawyer cunningly hid III fiye-s
pound note In the lad s hat and as soon On. t as
Tho loft Inn after him seized him n. the
street and accused him Of taking 81 II from
Ills Office desk s d. vi 4, \.
KIT was arrested 4; and the note, q {, (
course, wis found on his perso Inc eVi-
sdence seemed so strong that the poor TEL
flows5 was uica1ly tried found guilty and
sentenced to prison for q long time
ESAll might have gone 5Wrong but Tor, g
$littlo#mnld servant Eof A B rass' 8, whom the
starved and $uistrcnteda for
years. He used TO keep her locked ~ tho
Emody CELLAR and gave = err SO little .to eat
that she would creep into the once 90 N g; a.
night (she had found key tha Sfltted. the
idoor) Y to pick up the bits Of bread that
3Brass's clerk had left when he ate his MS
luncheon. 5$$s III G{3i
RI one night. while this little druid go was
providing about above Y stairs she over Il
heard Brass telling his sister wv ho was his
partner and colder and crueler& and more
Wicked 4 even than he wa 81 he triclss he
wa going 70 pla IT..
rested she ran wa VI from l3rass,s1lo
and told her story to III Is en- ploy VINO
had nl olong be eved in his innoce
mi Brass In tho II 1neantl inc had y gone 70 (
$Ouilp Is get Ills reward for this evil deed.
but h the terrible B dwarf only laugh he'd !, at
him and pretended u to ren len1be 81 nothing
$a t8 all bout the lbnrgai N. sS
SStiThis so enraged NJ the law yer 81 At When
$3hc wa brought face to face with tine new
@evide q and found tha IL he himself was
caught he made full conf sion Of the
bart Qllip had play ed xinSi Il and told the
whole storysto rev enge hlmsel fSupot tho
dwarf. *
EQullp at tho din y welllng here me = g
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T7IF6la "a & u,
It., and In five minutes the egg would pc
cooked. tho coffee boiled and TIE o msat
est sort; OF 4 d L boarder! Tho strangest
habit he had was this:S He seemed TO DO
very FOND OF Punch and j udy shows, and
,,jhsneyer he hcard one on tho street he
wn,,iS ~, = out WITHOUT his hat, mako the
s.n..,,,,n ~ =, form IN front OF the house
si9W tnan III 'them tn his rooms, where
ana .!eti oned FOR a long time This
~ lSa7 -. ,,g.Ia Roth Rrass and Quip
ntiolt ussu - ha,, nevcr could ross
Z tho dWaEt t att5s y III
Why y, fe al :, ,. !. VI \, vat or,ous stranger
was a long-nisslng brotherlof little Nell " > ,
grandfather. misunderstanding & ea had
Whan both were young men. Tho young
" ~ 4 s1hccomc a. traveller In many coun-
or :, ~ nhu an pieg hnd never seen his brother
s sties but tie days when they had been
eNiiaras ~ ia thine thnt had driven them
rs ~ = Gts and now 'had come back to Eng
land TicF, 70 so I'|'a < az rrn,elchiId
Win at,e soon len rned the story OF their
misfortune and new VIZ fe ,nc n nu u lie lie
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EAY GAa,,l e.s >Di cklers ISh

4 Eclls slirleken when she saw w him, and her
grandfather sentiteril Into her ,ow 4 room
$50 that Is tho way ill the money, Il
have loaned you has gone! 'sSsneered sQnilp.l
81 our preclous scheme to make q fortune
S.wns the gaming table! Z a
The old man cried out At & this, Il trein--l
bling, tlIGt he had done It MI for little
Nell; that he had never sta ked q single
penny for himself M or Il wi tlo,it praying
that 1t might VIII, for her goodt He told
how he had begun months before, know
Ing he must soon die, hoping thus to leave
\ her enough TO live on ; how fter losing
all his own savings he had borrowed ana
lost all that, too. And 3 he begged tho
SdHnrf to advance little more SO tina :
Mcknight temp luck again. si!a rs
Any one but Quilp would have pltied
him. but not he. Flo refused and think
Ing Of a lie which would make the other
left 1liat It was Kit Who had told him
where the money was goi IS. Ga 4
e,ss The frst$ poor Kit knew OF this was,
that night when little Nell came to tell
him that her grandfather was very III.
that he ravcd d con tinually II against Kit
so that he must never come to- the shop
again. Kit was stupefied at this. II but
there was no help forEf i. SO tie Nell
wen sorrowfuhy back alone Il, AZ i..5la
gtS ne OtQ TCVTlOSllya SHOP DciUI6euf " Llo
dwarf now. and lie at once moved into
tho parlor. s he took II tile Nell 8 own bed
for himself. and she had to- sleep on q
pallet on; the floor upsta irs. She was
busy nursing her grardfath her. for he was
very sick for some time. and she scarce
SlySever came down because she was. so
saftpid OF the dwarf Az " ss 81
Cuilp was wal ting for the old ma to
de- thinking that then he would have
1tleSshop for his own. and mea ntlme he
did 4 hundred 4 disnErecable things. such
hs l.::llng the house with strong tobac Co
smoke from big pipe he used all the
time and driving every ono 81 a wa VI VINO
came To y ask how II the sick man WIS.
/ He even drove of Kit when he came be-
low. the window Il, Il beg i little Nell t.
come and bring her era nd "a tilerS to live It
his own mother house. u
f8$ts3S The old man would certainly have died
Sifliille Nell had not fnursed him SO faith y
fully all alone, till he grew better and
$at%IsnEt1l WAS able to sit sup N i
\ SCI But IT was litter thing to live as
they did. and on day 8littl O. n ell begged
her gran father to come a way wit h err
stos5Wa nder &anywh ere In u The n; orld. only
SO Ut was under God 5 sky md q way from
every, " one that pursued Il them ~ nd he
agreed W.;
So that night they dressed, and stole q
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often slept, with the object of terrifying
his wife by Ills long ABSENCE Here ne y
had set up, tho battered ureheaa o. o. u .
tRat oa tst y saa
Siishly hated ho amused himself by screw
ing glIniets into its breas STICKING FORKS
eysS ana eSsftps Sta RStsF
rived the dwarf received warning si .I.,,a
4 Brasss wicked sister. but he had no time
to get away When ne eafd a. ane ~ hno \, -
&he had SO long dened WIS at last y, {, upon p
him. he fell into panic, qnu d IL no. q
l.now which way 70 turn IL .T'eu 70
5ceeded in upsotting the stove; Lhon. 4 ho
slan.outIof the house onto the dock ~ ti q
darkness, 5i /, I, 4 VII Y ], 4,
s5sa Sst % sas o sSsf Ssf9 ssh l IL
\ Thought he could climb over tho wall 70
the next wharf and so escape, but N
h Her 1 ,a es AZ @ss ts ps fSS a
sT Mo so aws In terror but tho water
filled his tllropt and the knockhIng 60 on the
Tho water swept him close t9 q SHIP bu.
is keel was smooth an =; slippery, a an
there vas n1elnE t. b1lng % a ta
&die., and he fought desperately. but the
rapid tide snother,ed M cries re 81 a ''la;
B1lntaiiyion the edge OF AZ dismal swamp,
inthe red glare e me blazing ruin W y e.
the building ~ Ehleh, he had framed ms ~
evil plots. And this WAS the end q
As Klt. heiound himself al ct once nee,
Game car; to the jail to tell him that he was
free and that every one knew now 4 Q, q
drink, and everybody shook hands, viii,
him. Then he was put into q coach ana
III hey drove straight home, where MS
mother was waiting to kiss him and cry
oyer him with Joy, l % Nv X y,
And last, hut EbY no means least OF all
his new good fortune ne dae Lear, ca I men
long fof little Mel and her grafh sy
We're, and that Kit was 70 IS. NTH nun
and, his enployer at once and bring them EN-
day and 4, on ,tt ths 1 HeI
ana fhaa strange chance by which the
Y lost had been found, a gentleman " no
now bound. Who had himself been kind
to the child and 70 the ,a old hl mant wnGm
him. had written os them tp none other
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but she tried to hide Il from her grand
father. n ~ Ill Sf 8li{ s3 5
rho Inn at which they lodged the next
III gi1t was full OF gshowmer, with trained
dogs conjurers and others hurrying to D. -
town where there was to be a fair with
|5horse races A to witch the Punch and
Judy partners werc bound, and title Nell
began to distrust their company.
VI no tell the truth Tho others believed the
|schild ana old man were running away
K, ON their friends, en- and that a. reward
might be gotten for givlng them up. The The
way In which the men watched them
Enlightened herr and when they reached !
the scene Of the fair she had de termined
to escape. u ii ia Eitb
IA Il was he second day Of the races be.
|Efore she had q chance. and then, while
the sl6Emens backs were turned l'.ll : tney
slipped away In tho crowd TO the open
fields aga In. "a IA ii !. 3R9s{
These alarms and the exposure had be-
4 GUT, 10 AFFECT tho old man. He seemed ato
Understand that he was not " holly IN his
right mind, I and was full Of the fear that
he would be taken from her and chained pee1
~: a a duneeo on, and little Nell had great
trouble IN cheering him. SS 58G
Ar, evening when they were 30 Il. worn
cut they came to a Village where STOOD {,
"a cottage with the Z sign 81 School N pig
letters In the WindoW. Inc pals w W
schooIn,aster sat smoking in the garden q !:
He was a sad sol tary ma and y, lo<ed
little Nell, whom he first saw her, be-
cause sl,s waa like I o fayorite pupil he
had had. Ia They slept in the school rs room
that night and he begged then. TO g stay
|flonRerS next day but little sg Nell wa was 3
anxlous to get as far as possible f e,
london ana from the dwarf, and and she =
Was 4 al the tins In fear that he#m1s . Z
Sfind them, So they bade the schoolma ster
rood bye and wa liked on. sS 5sl5s
Another days tourney lei e them 80 ex-
f,austed they could scarcely keep going.}
sTheyf mad aimo shed another g svlllage
when they came to .a tiny painted house ctI!s
On wheels, with horses to draw AZ ". g
door sat q stout j lady, with 81 large ibonn1et
on taking tea with o big drum Tor g. 2
The lady, as 1t ha ppened. had seen cen then,
AZ the fair, and had wondered them see
hem II, compnny wi III a. Pun ct1-arld- Ju l Y
show. 81 Seeing how tired they we're !, sh le
gave them tea and then took them into
the wagon to help TIL en- on II etrsway.SSS
The Inside OF the wagon was y k = :! 3
COSY room. 81 It had a tie bed n one end,
and q kitchen IN the Their, md & had TWO
curtained windows. AS the wheels rat i
tied on the old man fell AISLE ana $t g
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down stairs very quietly so Il as not to
wnlken the dwarf, who was snoring fright
fully inSthe back room. and went through t' s;
the shop to the front door, Tho bolts
were rusty and crea ked loudly, and. worst 81
5of ali, they found the KEEP was not ~
sthe5 lock. Little Nell had to take on he g
shoes and creep into the back room 'sd17 O., 70
get 1t out OF the dWart's pocket "a
she was terribly frightened to see
Quilp. for he was having g & pa cream al
and he was hanging so far out Of bed
thut he was almost stand ng on his head
his ugly mouth was wide open. and ! MS
breath came in q sort OF growing. But
she found the key q t. last and they !. un-
locked the door and found themselves
safely In the dark street Z I 5338s Il NJ
4 The old ma Il did not kn ON where to 50,
but little Nell took his hand and led hin
gently away, Is a ~ \, +, #
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night they slept at q cot tnge where tho
people were kind to them, ana all next
day they walked on ana on. & s3 s3 D
AT sunset they stopped to. rest In a.
church va ri where two men were sitting
3patching UP Q Punch and Judy show
.p0oth, while tho figures Of lunch, tho
Doctor tho eXecutloner3 and the devil were
lying on tho grass waiting to besnlended,i
x The men were tlelldlng the dol lS.very,
5l,ad y. 4 50 little Nell took q need u and
gsewed them all neat ly, hey We're de-
lighted at this, and took the pair to the
Inn where they were to show the Punch
and Judy, and here they found them q,
place to seep IN y IN empty loft, II ji.5
Next day the SH and erers. went on with
tho shownler Il Yhen never they cam mo to ~
Village the booth was pitched and the
show took place, and hey never LEFT q.
town without a. pack OF va eyed phll drerl
ar their heels. The Punch a and ] Judy
srew t!resnrne "a fterRa time. but the ceTnT
rapys seemed bel ter than nope AT all
LITTLE Ssll vas very weary MI W wal SIN =,
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trained the IVY before the door. In tho
evening a bright fire was 'klndlcd and
they ali three took their supper together.
and then the Soho lmas ter said a prayer
before they all went gladly to bed, E FL
They we're very u happy 4 III his now
home. rho old man lost the insane thirst
for cunning, and the mad look faded from
his eyes, but poor little Nell grew palerj
ana more fragile every day. The long
days ot hunger and light OF exposure
had sowed the seeds OF illness. r <
,rhe whole village had grown to love
her. 81 Many came Ia. visit her and tho
schooltna read to her eaot day, 50
that she was very contented even when
che could mo longer walk 1 abroad as sho
/ had done. a AS she LAY looking out at the
peaceful churohyard, where SO many
who Sc lives were over " sleeping It Of
ten seemed to- her that the painful past
was only an ugly Wis lion. SS3 And at night
she often dreamed OF the roof opening
Il and q, column OF ght faces. rising far
into the sky, looking down on her sleep,
THE QUIET spot Soutside enadned the san1e,
save that the adr was full OF music and g
sound of angel s w ngs. ssf b s
III so the weeks passed In to WI " ana
Il though she came soon to know that she
was not long 4 for ear HI she thought Of
death without regret and OF heaven With
n
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4 gIlI1I411 n l71lE7.1 y 7l7-.lN no
,-TI:LE WANDER RS. &

r W4T O bright June morning.
They wa liked through many city
streets, then through more.
scattered suburbs. and at last.
came to the open country, That
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searching Wnere Z
IL one 81 these was EQuilp the ugly dwarf
He had .s5 loaned the grand Tier more
money than the shop would bring, 9, ne
had IA b secret hoard so1newh here, u which
might mis- beE his tShe could md them !, !, He
soon learned that knew ANYTHING |! 3
about It he would not 50 he q "a MS
lawyer "a sleek. #o " seal named sBrass)
made mnanyIplans for running them down
But tor long time get ;s, ~
trace. n 3. y. \. " 6, VI
curious lodg who K roon1ed z III. Brass,s
Shous Is. SsSE& He seemed i to u have a plenty v q
money, but was eceentr!s, and ne,
iis Ia, BIZ box-like& trunk and 4ingthis
was va assllver St ove that SGD TO cook
his meals. It had sa lot $of 1T tleEo penings
ain IL IN one he woul put an egg' n an,
other come co Zee, II, a not her piece Eor
meat and In the fourth some water.$Th Then
lie would light O lamp that stood under tlt
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s.-TH[lH ( SEARCH.

.SY31T Is not 10 be supposed Of course
&1 that the flight Of little Nell a q,
4l.xx her grand father from the Old
Curiosity shop wa 81 no t not Iced
N&I All the \ time. while they were
Il wand erng DO ut home less and
\ aaai II 81 n Wret ched III more han one went
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,1i1yr!L,ENNDL11.

,5.l /. Il1yrLE "a DLL. A
HERE was once, OH \ q #i,arIpw
Tsidc street IN Lon on. q shabby
b building that people called the
S Old Curiosity Shop, \ because all I
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When kit had grown to be a man and
had children of his own he often took5
been tie "Old Curiosity Shop. and told;
them over and over the story Of little!
Nell. And he always ended by saying
that II they were good like her ;theys might
know her as he Ind done when he was ~
boy. sltsl IT, III Isl III, TN \
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1905-10-18
Moving O Whole Town.

America has accustomed US to hear
'ng Of the bodily removal of houses, but
but it has been left for Russia to pro-
vide the spectacle Of whole town of
some 5000 inhabitants changing its To-
cation. This, however, is the case with
Lepsinsk, town in the district Of
Semiretsche, in Russian Turan.
twenty-five years ago Lepsinsk was
founded on land provided for the pur-
pose by the Governor General Of the
province. This land had, however,
formerly belonged to the Semiretsche
horde of Cossacks, who strongly OBJ
jected to the transfer. For twenty-five
years the dispute has continued, and
HOW at last the inhabitants Of Lep-
sinsk, hearing of a suitable site thirty.
five kilometres to the northwest OF
their present quarters, have decided to
remove thither In body, taking their
possessions and as much Of their habi-
tations as possible along with them.-
T. P.'S Weekly.
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Tired, nervous and irritable, the
mother is UNIT to care for her chill
dren, and hercondition ruins the child's
disposition and reacts upon herself.
The mother should not be blamed, as
she no doubt is suffering with back
ache, headache. bearing-down pains or
displacement. making life burden.
Lydia e. Pinloham's Vegetable Com
pound is the unfailing cure for this
condition. 1t strengthens the female
organs and permanently cures all dis
placements and irregularities.
Such testimony as the following
should convince wcrnen of its value:
Dear Mrs. Pinkham
"Iwant to tel! you how much good Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has done me.
l suffered for eight years with ovarian
troubles. | was nervous, tired and ir,
ritablc, and it did not s"cm as though could
stand it any longer, a. had five children to
care for Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound was recommended and it has en-,
tirely cured me. cannot thank you enough
for your lotter Of advice and for what Lydia
J.. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound hns done
for me.-Mrs Ph. Hoffman, 100 Himrod
Street, Brooklyn, n. Y"
Mrs. Pinkham advises sick women
free. Address, Lynn, Mass.
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Ternncrancn Notes.

Mrs. Carrie Nation and others have
contributed $500 towards the project
of establishing q weekly Prohibition
newspaper in Oklahoma, to he pub
lished at Guthrie.
Illinois is the latest, if not also the
first State, that has fully organized
Temperance Department" in its Sun'
day-School Association. Pennsylvania
leads in a movement to get temperance
into the regular machinery OF the
church by the appointment OF "Tem-
perance Secretary for every mission
ary society.
A local option election was held a
short time ago i'll an Eastern State.
Two mon Travelled eighty miles to de-
posit their ballot. They had convic-
tons on the duties and privileges Of
citizenship. They both voted against
the saloon. and no-license carried by
two votes in that town.
The English Lunacy Commissioners
report shows that ineDricty is stated as
the cause Of from eighty 10 fifty per
cent. of all eases Of insanity. Iii some
sections alcohol is used more freely
than in others. There the percentage
of insanity from this cause is greater.
There is something very significant in
these figures.
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Eurly Closing in Russia.

Some of those who are fond of speak.
ing of Russia as an uncivilized coun'
try should turn to the Times. They
will find there a summary Of Shops
Early Closing bill, drawn up by the
Russian Minister Of Finance, which
would be a credit to any country.
1t marks a stage of social reform
higher than we have reached here. Es'
pecially important is the provision fo1
local committees for carrying out the
act-representing employers and en-
ployes in equal proportions.
1t would be hard to find an instance
of government concern for labor equal
to it in the American Republic, which
the journalist trots out as the happy
land in contrast to terrible Russia
London Saturday Review.
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TILE GREAT DESTROYER
SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT
THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE:

Am I MY Brothers. Keeper?-Yes, 1t Is
Woe Unto Us IF We Put the Bottle to
His Lips, Directly or Indirectly-Pal-
terIng Excuses.
When Cain, after Staying Abel, said
with that fine show of indignation,
"Am 1 my brothers keeper?" he said
what every liquor seller and liquor
user since him has said: II use 1t in
moderation. Is it my fault if others
become drunkards? That is their look
out. Let every man attend to his own
business"
A menagerie lets loose it's lions and
tigers to roam over a village. "They
have never hurt me-" urges the keeper,
when men protest.
A snake charmer frees all his ser
pents in the midst Of crowd. "They
never bit me-" he declares serenely.
A man builds bonfire in the midst
of a pine forest, and all the valuable
trees are burned up, together with a
village near by. II didn't spread the
fire." pleads the man. 1T spread it.
self"
A man who knows he has smallpox
travels on a crowded train to reach his
home. 81 didn't ask those other people
to get on that train," he says.
Here was a man in Buffalo, N. Y,
who stole from his baby, as she lay in
her cradle, both her little shoes and her
underclothing, and sold them for five
cents to get drink. II didn't tell him
to do that" says the saloonkeper. Nor
l." says the c0mrade, who treated"
him now and then.
A consumptive went from Minneap-
oils to Colorado. Before that time he
had never tasted a drop of liquor. A
physician there advised him to live
out of doors, ride horseback, and drink
whisky three times a day. He be-
came a sot, and in q drunken quarrel
killed O man. But I didn't tell him
to do that" doubtless said the physi-
clan.
Over against all such paltering eE-
cuse the Bible sternly declares that, in
this matter, as in all others, we are
our brothers keepers.
It is woe unto us if we give our
neighbor drink, if we put the bottle to
his lips, directly or indirectly.
If we are voters, We are our BROTH
ers' keepers. If We vote for officials
that favor liquor selling, We are put
ting the bottle to QUIZ neighbors' lips rs
truly as if we stood behind the bar and
handed out whisky.
We are our brothers keepers as we
keep "the door of our lips" as we sneer
at "the temperance fanatics" and ridi-
cule the wise temperance laws, and
plead for personal liberty"
We are our brothers keepers even in
our own family, as we use liquor for
medicine when less dangerous drugs
are equally efficacious, and as we use it
to season the food OH our tables.
No one can be his brothers keeper in
the way God approves until he is him
self kept by God. Kept pure and
strong. Kept with clean, unexcited
brain. Kept sympathetic and loving.
Kept with O sane conscience.
"If even meat eating" said Paul
nobly, causes my brother to stumble,
I'll eat no meat while the world
stands" There spoke a Christian
brother!-Amos R. Wells, in Sabbath
Reading,