The Huron Signal, 1890-2-28, Page 2By Capt Charles King, U.S. A.
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CHAPTER I.
"Take this, porter."
In the Pullman car of the westward
bound express, half way across the con-
tinent, two paesengt'rs were gazing list -
lovely out over the wintry landscape. It
was a bitter morning in February. North
and south the treeless prairie rolled away
in suet -reeve ridge and depression. The
?mow lsy deep in the dry ravines and
?creaked the sea like surface with jagged
lints of faint, between which lay broad
spaces clean swept by the gale. Heavy
mason of ,loud, dark and forbidding,
draped the sky from zenith to horizon.
and the air was thick with spiteful gusts
and spite of snow, crackling against the
window panes, ,Making fierce dashes
every time a car door was hurriedly
opened, and driving about the platforms
like a myriad swarm of fleecy and ag-
gressive gnats raging for battle. Every
now and then, responsive to some wilder
blast, a blinding while cloud Caine whirl-
ing from the depths of the nearest gully
and breaking like spray over the snow
fence along the line. Not a sign of life
was visible.
The tiny mounds in the villages of the
prairie dogs seemed bl..c•kcd and frozen:
even the treaty sentinel had "deserted
post" and huddled with his fellows for
warmth and shelter in the towels of the
earth. Fluttering owl and skulking
coyote. too, had vaniehcd from the Lie
of nature. Timid antelope - fleetest
coursers of the prairie - and stolid
horned cattle had gone, none knew
whither. nor cared to know until the
"blizzard" had subsided. Twn heavy
engines fought their way, panting. into
the very teeth of the gale and slowly
wound the long train after thein up-
grade among the foothills of the great
plateau of the Rockies. Once in a
while, when stopping for a moment at
some group of brown painted sheets and
earth battened shanties, the wind moaned
and howled among; the iron braces and
brake chains beneath the car, and made
such mournful noise that it was a relief
to start once more and lose Round of its
wailing in the general rumble. As for
the seenery, only as a picture of shiver
provoking monotony and desolativa
would one care to take a second look.
And yet, some miles ahead, striving
hard to reach the railway in time to in-
tercept this very train, a email battalion
of cavalry was struggling through the
Wats, o4Uc•e•rs and men afore mud drag-
ging their own benumbed lipnbs and halt
benumbed chargers through the drifts
that lay deep at the bottom of every
"coulee." Some few soldiers remained
in saddle: they were too frozen to walk
at all. Sieve few fell behind. and would
have thrown themselves flat upon the
prairie in the lethargy- that a but premo-
nition of death by freezing. Lille mei half
deadened by morphine, their rescue de -
tondo' on heroic rneasuree, humane in
their seeming brutality. OtRcers who at
other times were all gentheem now fell
upon the hapless stragglers with kicks
and blows- As the train fine- up, at the
platform of a station in nodi -prairie, a
horseman enveloped in fur aid fret and
seam drum his positing steel reined up
beside the leading engine and stoutest to
the occupants of the cab:
"For (lode sake hold on a few niin-
Utes. We're got a dozen frozen men
with its we mint mend on to Fort War-
rener." And the traiu was held.
Meantime. threw fear to the rear in the
sleeper knew nothing of were was ;piing
on ahead. The ear wet warm seri com-
fortable. and most of its ..•cup ants were
apparently approciatiteof ate shelter and
coziness in contrast with the cheerier@
scene without. A motherly looking
woman heel produced her knitting. and
was blithely clicking away at her needkr,
w hjle her enterprising wone a youth td
four sumnere and undaunted confidence
in human nature. tacked up and down
the aisle and made impetu ue ineursiems
on the various sections by turn.. receiv-
ing ne+ m.alifkd welcome as meld be
*eeordied feeturem streaked with mingled
randy and cinders, and flngerw whose
propensity to cling to whaterever they
eructed was due no more to Mennets of
a predatory nature than to the adhesive
pmpertie?, of the gloom,* w hk•h formed
so tare a t of the confections'
he had lawn
since early meirtlhlpt. Four teeter ptayia*
whist in the retrfsoat rctkr. !tee at
three 1 trarell•rs, wheat lute
emery with the porter and sin 01 easy
p ip told of an apparent weer
trolling interest in the nod, a young
man of reserved manners, reading in a
section all by himself. a baby sleeping
9.11.9-RpUt the seat o tioesite the twat
THE HURON SIGNAL FRIDAY, FEB. 28, 1890.
Vers Brat nientaj ed. and a Menem
Kitten curled up lu the dap of one of
,item, completed the list of occupants.
The proximity of the baby and the
kitten furnishes strong .
evidence of the sex and general strode
thin of the two . referred to,
and renders detail superfluous. A baby
rarely travels without a woman, or a
kitten with a woman already encum-
bered with a baby. The baby belonged
to the elder passenger, the kitten to the
younger. The one was a buxom matron,
the other a slender maid. In their ages
there must have been a difference of fit -
teen years; in feature there was still
wider disparity. The elder was a fine
looking woman. and one who prided
herself upon the Junoesque ,F .,
which she occasionally exhibited in a
stroll for exercise up and down the aisle.
Yet no one would call her u beauty.
Her eyes were of a sowewhut fishy and
uncertain blue; the lids were tinged
with an unornanuental pink that told of
irritation of the adjacent interior sur-
face and of possible irritability of tem-
per. Her contplexiou was of that mot-
tled type, which is so sore a trial to its
possessor and yet eo inestimable a com-
fort to social rirals; but her features
were , . , .... her tee, ser fine. her dress,
bearing and demeanor those of a woman
of birth and breeding, and yet one who
might have resented the intimation that
she was trot strikingly handsome.
She looked like a wuuan with a will
of her own; her head was high, her step
was firm; it was of just such a walk as
hen that Virgil wrote his ••cera incesat
patuit dea," and she made the young
man in the section by himself think of
that very passage as he glanced at her
from under his heavy. bushy eyebrows.
She looked, moreover, like a woman
with a capacity for influencing people
contrary to their will and judgment. and
with a decided fondness for the exercise
of that unpopular function. There was
the air of grande dame about her, despite
the simplicity of her dress, whk•h, though
.et rich material, was severely plain.
She wore no jewelry. Her hands were
snugly gluyed and untiefigured by the
distortions of any ring except the lriar-
riage circlet. Ilcr manner attested her
a person of cunsequerwe in her .social
cine.• and one who realized the fact.
She had repelled. though without rude-
ness or iiia ourt.ecy, the sarruloae, efforts
of the motherly knitter to toe sociable.
She had promptly inspired the small,
candy crusted explorer vita such awe
that he had refrained from further visits
after his first confiding attempt to poke
a sticky finger through the baby's velvety
cheek. She iad spared little scorn in Jur
rejection of the bourgeois ai%ances of
the commercial traveler with the lan-
guishing eyes of Israel; he confided to
his cotur•ades, in rel*ttng the incident.
that elle was smart enough to see that it
wasn't h,•r he was hankering to know,
but the pretty sister by her vide; and
when chalkusged to prove that they were
sisters -a statement whijch aroused the
skepticism of hie shrewd aa4ociates-he,
had replied. substantially:
"How du I know? 'Cause I saw their
pasta before you was up this morning.
curly. It'd for Mrs. Capt. Rayner and
sister. an.t they're going out here to Fort
Warrener. 'fhat s how 1 know." And
the porter of the car had cunlirmerl the
atatetuent in the sanctity of the smoking
MUM.
Arid yet --such kat nnesrtainty d
feminine temperament -Mrs. Rayner
was no ruore incensed at the cwommereial
"gent" because be had obtruded his at-
tentions than she was at the young roan
reading in his own section b.cause he
had refrained. Nearly twenty-four hours
had elapsed since they crossed the Mis-
souri, and in all that time not once had
she detected in him a glance that be-
trayed the faintest interest in Iwr or -
still more remarkable -in the ur.quee-
tionably lovely girl at her side. Intru-
siveness she ,night resent, but indiffer-
ence she would and did. Who was this
youth. she wondered, who not once had
•
so touch as eGdrn a look at the sweet,
bonny fere of her maiden sister? Surely
'twos a far any roan would love to gaze
upon -40 fair. so exquisite in contour
aril feature. so pearly in cnniplexion,
se. lovely lea the deep. dark brown of its
%hailed eyes.
The boll glances of the four rani play-
ers she had defiantly returned and van-
qui'hesl. Those men, like the traveling
gents, were creatures of coarser mold;
but her experienced eye told her the soli-
tary arrupnrtt of the oppa.itewet ion was
a gentleman. The clear cut of hie pale
feature., the white. slemler hand and
shapely foot, the •tyle and finish of his
quiet traveling drree the eat modulation
anti re•fhnod tone of his yoke on the one
ra•ca*ion e. hen :she heard lint reply to
P eru.. imp -infinity of the train loy with
his endless room.] of equally questionable
flgs and Ih•ti"n, the book he was nailing
-a volume of Emerson -- all combined to
speak of a culture and position equal to
her .•man. She hal been over the tr•tns-
coutinenlal railways oftSi ehout,h kt
kneew that it was permissible for gentle-
men to render their fellow passenger.
some *light attention which would lead
to aunt ual introduction, if denmirable: and
this man n•fu eel tr. wee that the oppor-
tunity wee open to him.
True. when first she took Iter Purvey
of those wItt► were to he her fellow tray•
eters at the '•tr^ander" en the *tisewrri,
else decided that hero eras one agaiMR
whom it eerie be ner•.mar•ytn guard the
. Sire had gond and eutl{ci.et
reasone for wanting no young man as at-
Yaeti.y it se this t•441 sada
Meg himself 1 , to pretty Nellie
lm tkdr tont*.,. Hbe 1tad already d►
ctesd what was tl eiLs's fts1Atre was to tete
Never, ladesd, would she hen lakes
hat to the gay frontier dallies whither
she was Dow ea routs. had ad that fu-
ture been skald, settled to batt se.tiattto
tion. Nellie Thanes, barefvy oat sd school,
wee betrothed. and walk away su, to the
ratan she, bar devoted aider sister, had
especially chosen. Rare sad meat un-
likely of cundithansl she had apparently
fallen is love with the man picked out
for her by . e, else. She was en-
gaged to Mrs. Rayner's fascinating
friend Mr. Steven Van Antwerp, a scion
of an old and esteemed and wealthy
family; and Mr. Van Antwerp, who had
bees educated abroad, and had a Heidel-
berg near on his left cheek, and dark,
lustrous eyes, and wavy hair-alnwst
raven --was a devoted lover, though
fully fifteen years Mies Nellie's senior.
Full of bliss and comfort was It'll"
Rayner's soul as she journeyed westward
to rejoin her husband at the distant
frontier poet she had not seen since the
early spring. Army woman as she was,
born and brash under the shadow of the
flag, a soldier's daughter, a soldier's wife,
she had other ambitions for her beauti-
ful Nell. Worldly to the core, she her-
self would never have tarried in the
army but for the unusual circumstance
of a wealthy subaltern among the ufllcers
of her father's regiment. Tradition had
it that Mr. Rayner was not among the
number of those who sighe.l for Kate
Travers' guarded smiles. Her earlier
victims were kept a -dangling until Ray-
ner, Ace, sucxuwbed, and tben were sent
adrift'. She meant that no penniless sub-
altern should carry off her ••baby sister"
-they had long been motherless -and a
season at the seashore had done her
work well. Steven Van Antwerp, with
genuine distress and loneliness', went
back to his duties in Wall st.eet after
seeing them safely on their way to the
west. "Guard her well for me," he
whispered to Mrs. Rayner. "I dread
those fellows in buttons." And he shiv-
ered unaccountably as he spoke.
Nellie was pledged, therefore. and this
youth in the Pullman was not one of
"those fellows in buttons," so far as Mrs.
Rayner knew, but she was ready to
warn him off, and meant to do so, until,
to her surprise. she saw that he gave no
symptom of a desire to approach. By
Ouun of the second day she was as deter-
tnined to extract from him some sign of
interest as sho had been determined k,
resent it. I can in no wise explain or
account for this. The fact is stated
without remark.
-What on earth can we be stopping so
long here fur'C' was Mrs. Rayner's some-
what petulant inquiry, addressed to no
one in particular. There was no reply.
Miss Travers with busily twitching the
ears of the kitten at the Moment ani
sparring with upraised finger at the
threatening paw.
••Du look out of the window, Nell, and
see.
••There is nothing to see, Kate -noth-
ing but whirling; drifts and a big water
tank all covered with ice. Ilr-r-r-r! how
cold it looks!" she answered, after vainly
flattening her tate agaiamr the inner pane.
•'There must be something the matter.
though," persisted Mrs. Rayner. „We
hare been herr full fire minutes, and we
are behind time now. At this rate we''1
never get to Warrener to -night. i deo
wish the porter would stay here where
he belongs."
The young man quietly laid down his
book and anise. "1 will inquire. madam,"
he said, with grave courtesy. •• You
shall know in a moment."
"flow Yee; kind of you,^ said the lady.
"inated 1 must not trouble you. I'm
sure the porter will be here after a while."
And even as she spike, am} as he was
pulling on an overcoat, the train rum-
bled (iti again. Then came an exclama-
tion. there time from the s-oun;;er:
•• Why, Kate! Look! See all these men
-and horses! Why. they are s oldiers-
/ay:dry! Oh, how I lore to roe them
,again! But, oh, how cold they l•ook-
frtozcn !"
"Who can they be?" said Mrs. Rayner,
all verhene'nt interest now. arid gazing
eagerly from the window at the, lowered
heals of the horses and the muffled flg-
ures in blue and fur. "What ern they
he doing in the field in such awful
weather? i cannot recognize one of
them, or tell oi8eers from men. Surely
that must be ('apt. Wayne -and Maj.
Stannard. Oh, what can it meant'
The young than had suddenly leaped
to the window behind them, and was
gating og with an eagerness and inter'='
est 'interim.; apparent than her own;
but in a moment the train had whisked
them out of sight of the mtorm beaten
troopers. Then he hurried to the rear
window of the car, and Mrs. Rayner as
hastily followed.
"Do yon know them?" she asked.
"Yea. That was Maj. etannar,l. It is
his battalion of the -th cavalry, and
they has -e been out emoting after rene-
gade ('beyennes. Pardon me. madame,
.1 mw.t go forward and see who have
boar led the train."
Ile stopped at his section. and again
she followed him, her eyes full of anx-
iety'. 11.. wan busy tugging at a flask in
his traveling I.ag.
"You know them! [M you know -
hare you heard .d any infantry being
out? I'•udon MMP for detaining you. Imo
1 am very anxious. My hueland in Capt.
Rayner. of Fort Warrener."
"No infantry have been tent, madame.
1 -have reason to know; at keaat, none
from Warrener."
And with that he hurrieilly bowel and
left her. T11e next element, flask in
handl. Ito was crossing the wenn ewes
platform and making his way to the
head of th.• train.
' • 1 believe he ix an officer," said Mrs.
Rayner to her Ritter. "Who .1.. would
1* apt to know about the of
the troops? Diol you notice how gentle
his manner masa? -and he never smiled.
HP has such a sad fax. Yet he can't be
an alien, or he would have made him -
tell known to um long ago."
"I" there no name on the catcher"
askeei MM Travers, with panionahi. cotd-
.rty. "He bee an i rare --not
haadsem.." And a deaamy kink eaeme
bate le.r dent; eyek Oft war th1 .
no novo,, el a Mark, oval, d1 angus lana
with raven Mier and mustache. Tee
moth in the traveling writ was ant tall.
etas etevext-apt angularly, . . f-
ly handsuese, like /eleven. Indeed, he
was of ler interest to her than to her
married sister.
Mrs. Rayner coati sue no name un the
satchel, ody two initiala; and tbey re-
vealed very WM.
"I have half a mind to peep at the fly
leaf orf that book," she said. "Ile walk-
ed just like a soldier; but there isn't
anything thereto ludic -ate what he is,"
the continued, with a doubtful glance at
the items scattered about the now ramie
section. "Why isn't that porter arm?
He ought to know who people arr."
As though to answer her request, in
mate the porter, disheveled and breath-
less. Ile wade straight for the ratchet
they had teen , �..�and opened
it without Oarw
. J>�ti ladies re-
garded this, , ve with natural
astonishment, and Mit Rayner was
about W interfere and question his right
to search the luggage of
when tete wan turned hurriedly towards
them, exhibiting a little bundle of hand-
kerchiefs, his broad Ethiopian face
clouded with anxiety and concern:
"The gentleman toll me to take all
his handkerchiefs. We've got a dozen
frozen eoldiera in the baggage car -some
of 'em mighty bad -and they'', to in'
to make 'cern comfortable until they get
'to the fort."
"Soldiers frozen! Why do you take
them in the baggage car' -such a barn
of a place! Why weren't they brought
here, where we nosed make them warm
and care for thewr exclaimed Mrs. Ray-
ner, in imputative indignation -
"Laws, tm meant never dela the world
to bring froom people into a hot car'
Sure to make their ears an' noses drop
off, that would' Got to keep 'em in the
cold and pile snow around 'cut. That
gentleman satin' here -he knows," he
continued; "he's an °dicer, and him and
the doctor's workin' with 'em now."
And Mrs. Rayner, vanquialted by a
statement of facts well known to her
yet forgotten in the first impetuosity of
her criticism, relapsed into the stlence
of temporary defeat.
"He is an officer, then," said plies
Travers, presently. el wonder what he
belongs to."
"Not to our regiment. I'm sure. Prob-
ably to the cavalry. Ile knew Maj. Stan-
nard and other °dicers whom we passed
there."
"Did he speak to them?"
"No: them was no time. We were be-
yond hearing diatartox when he ran to
the back door of the car; and there was
no time before that. But it's very oJdr'
What's very odd?"
"Why, his co*dtuct. It is so strange
that he has not made himself known to
us, if he's an officer."
"Probably he doesn't know you --or
we --are .. .. .' with the army, Kate..'
"Ob, yes, he does. The porter know,
perfectly well, and I told him just before
he left."
"Yes, but be didn't know b.'f.,re that
time, did he :r
"He ought to have known," sciJ Mrs.
Rayner, uncompromisingly. ••At least,
he should if he had taken the faintest
interest. 1 .. ... 1 Capt. Rayner so
that he could not help hearing."
This statement being one that Mise
Travers could in no wise contradict -as
it was one, indeed. that Mrs. Rayner
could have dispensed with a, unneces-
sary -the younger early again betook
herself to silence and pulling the kitten's
ears,
"Even if he didn't know before," con-
tinued her sister, after a palms in which
she had apparently been brooding over
the indifference of the young inan in
question. ••he ought to have made him-
self known after I told him who I was-"
Another pause. "That's what I did it
for." she wound up. conclusively.
.,And that's what 1 thought," said Mies
Travers, with a quiet smile. •'however,
he had no time then: he was hurrying
off to Row whether any of the soldiers
had come on hoard. Ile teak his flask
with him, and apparently- was in haste
to offer some one a drink. I'm sure that
is what papa used to do," she added, aR
she saw a frown gathering on liar sister's
face.
"What papa did just after the war -a
time when everybody drank -!is not at
all the proper thing now. ('apt. Rayner
never touches it, and I don't allow it in
the hoose."
"Still I should think it a very useful
article when a lot of frozen and ex-
hausted men are on one's hand.," said
Mies Traver.. "That was but a small
flask he had and I'm sure they'll nerd
more,"
There cameo rush of cob' air from the
front, ani the swinging door blew open
ahead of the porter, who was heard
banging shut the outer portal. Then he
hurried in.
"Can ,Mme of you gentlemen oblige
me with some whisky or brandy?" he
naked. "We've got mune frozen soldiers
aboard. Two of 'OW are pretty nearly
gone."
Tien of the awed players dropper) their
hands and started for their section at
once. Before they could rummage in
their bags for the required article Mrs.
Rayner's voice was heard: "Take ,him,
porter." Anil she hell forth a little sil-
ver Bask. ••1 have more in my trunk if
it is needed." she adde%I, while a blush
mounted to her forehead as she saw the
quizzical smile on her tester's fate.
"Yon know 1 always carry it in travel-
ing, Nellie -in case of accident or ill-
ness, and I'm most thankful I have it
-Ever to much obliged. ma'am," said
the prier. "tut thie would be only a
thimbleful and i can get a quart bottle
of this gentleman."
"Where are thevY" pail the person
thew referred to, es lie came down Ute
aisle with a Mg brown brittle in his
hand. "Conte, Jim. let's go and see
what we can do. One of you gentlemen
take my place in the game." he rote hv-
pea, indicating the . 1 gents,
two of whom. nothing Loath, dropped
Into the vernier' meta, while the otberw
pushed on to tett front. of th. train. The
porter heaitasfd on. netenent
"Yes, take my pack; I shouldn't V
ametheil without dude ernetning. AIMS
pimps say to the Akar that I'w Mrs.
Rayner --Mn. Capt. Rayner, of the in-
tantry--and ask if there leu', something
1'can do to help,"
••Yes, ma'am; 1 will, ,,edam. Oh, be
knows who you are; 1 done told hem last
night. Ha's gods' to Fart Warman-,
taw." Aad, touching his cap, away went
the porter.
"There! He did know all along," said
Mrs. Rayner triumphantly. "It is most
eztraordu,ary."
•• Well. is it tete proper thing for peo-
ple
enple in the army to introduce themselves
when traveling! Hum aro they to know
it will be agreeable?"
"Agreeable? Why, Nellie. We always
done, especially when ladies are travel-
ing without an escort, as we are. The
comnu,uest civility should prompt it, and
officers always send their cards by the
porter 1110 current thew find army ladies
are on the train. I don't understand this
one at all, especially"- But herr she
broke off abruptly.
••Epec•ially what?" asked Miss Nell,
with an inspiration of maidenly curios-
ity.
"Especially nothing. Never tuitel
now." And Isere the baby began to
fidget, and stir about, and stretch forth
his chubby hatde, and thrust his
knuckles in his eyes, and pucker up his
face in alarming contortions preparatory
to a wail. and after one or two soothing
and tentative sounds of "sb-.b-sh-
eh" from the maternal lips the matron
abandoned the attempt to inducer a sec-
ond nap. and picked him up in her arms,
where be presently began to take gra-
cious notice of his pretty Oath Aad the
kitten.
Two hours later, just as the porter had
notified them that Warrener Station
would I.e in sight in fire minutes, the
young man of the opposite reaction re-
turned to thecae. Ile looked tirtd, very
anxious, and his face was paler and the
sad expression more 1 than
before. The train conductor stopped
Ilius to speak of some telegrams that had
been sent. and both ladies noted the re-
epect which the railway untcial threw
into the tone in which he spoke. The
card players stopped their game and
went up to ask after the frozen men.
It was not until the whistle was sount!-
ing for the station that Ile mod before
them and with a grave and courteous
bow held forth Mra. Ray twee silver flask.
••It was a blessing to owe poor fellow
at Jean. and 1 thank you for him,
madam," he said.
••1 have been so aaxious. I wanted to
do some -thing. Did you not get my mese
sage. Mr. - aha asked. a ith inten-
tional pause that he might supply the
neiaaing 110111e.
••Inde.d there was nothing we could
ask of you," he answered, totally ignor-
ing the evident invitation. "1 am great-
ly obliged to you for your kindness. but
we had abundant help. and you really
coulee not have reached the car in the
faem of this gale. easel rncrning, mad-
am." And with that he raised his fur
traveling cap and quickly turned to his
eeetiun and Irrsied Iatttsrll strapping up
hie eanous belongings.
"The man roust be a woman hater:"
she whits/ore! to Miss Tracers. "He's
going to get out here, too, Who can he
Leto..
There waw still a moment before the
train w told stop at the platform. and she
was 0.e to be beaten so easily. Bending
partly acmes the aisle she spoke again:
••Von have been so kind to these par
fellows that I feel Pars you must be of
the army. I think I told you l am Mee
Rayner, of Fort Warrener. May we not
hope to ser you tberer
A deep flush teas eta dere forehead. ad-
ftsing his cheeks, and passed as 'quickly
away. Him mouth twitched and trembled.
(lazing at him in surprise and trouble,
Nellie Traver), saw that hie face was full
of pain and was turning white again.
lie halt choked before he. would reply; 11e
..poke low and yet distinctly. and the
words were full of .donee:
••1t --it is not probable that we shall
meet at a11."
And with that he turned away.
m ver .t,!rTISV$i1
A Lire Reword.
' I hsi been tn,ubied for •boot 35
years with bdi.uene.s anti liver com-
plaint. and after oleos shout three
bottles .1 Hurd•.ck Blood Bitten 11.ee1
entirely relieved. and leave reit had an
attack f.er two years."
JOSIAH GAWKY,
2 - Mel well, Ont.
et hat t. a Model wire!
A mile' wife is the woman In
whom the heart of her husband doth
safely trust.
she
i. the woman who leeks after ha
household, sun makes her h..pitaiity a
delight to him and not burden.
Wen hat learned that • vett answer
will turn away wrath.
Who keeps her sweetest smiles and
most brine words for her husband.
Whn i. hit confidant in sorrow or in
joy. and who does not feel the necessity
of xplsining her private affairs to the
Mei ihbe rho'.d.
Whn respects the rights of btshand
and children, and in turn has due regard
maid to her
Whe knees that the .Irenzest argu-
ment is her womanliness and so the cul-
tivates it.
Who is sympathetic in joy or in grief,
and who finds work for her hands to do.
1Vho makes friends and keeps them.
Who is not made bitter by trouble.
bet who strengthses •r.i sweetens under
it.
Who trill to eoneeel the faults of her
husband rather than blazon them forth
to an uninterested public.
The women whew. life look has lore
written on every page
Whn makes a home for a man-- a
home in • honest and in a heart. A
home that he is sure of, a home that is
fell of love presided over by one whom.
pries is above rubies.
She is the model wife. - Ladies' Home
J ournal.
Resit Mngar-Ossted Bordoek Pills do
net gripe .a sichew, Ttey an mild and
tp/sittial.
las
Pee1e� ta Matt.
There see times • hen it behooves ale
wives, end met digested of mea to de
anted to His level of mere rnamoaplace
people. A Maned toed geed but very
"rave sed reserved minister, makteg ►era
first woad of pastoral salla, visited the
family •.1 • sewber of hie charah, and
wee w. favorably impressed with the lady
that he sipped • Ivor time. Unitnue
stely, he had not made an epaliy plaas-
itg impression on her.
'•How did you like 111r Hattie 1" sired
her hn.b•od, over the tea -tabic.
Well, I wa't say that I Itked him
particularly." was the reply
•'Why, I fat ems you would b.
pleased with him, he ie such s tbunmgial
good and rarneet neo
"Oh, 1 dos t doubt that, and I do like
his sermous. diet I don't thtuk much of
him as a paster. •
•• Why, what is the trouble 1'
The wrath and disappointment that
Met been increasing ever since the mends
ter'" departure uuw broke forth.
"\Nell. I don': care gee a men is or
ho.c learned he t., wteo he crines to
take a friendly call at my homer, and 1
have ay baby all fixed up sod br. ugbt
in for Ina special Leuefi:, I think it's as
little ss the man ran do to pay *nese at
tenti,.n to the chill, and that man wt
here s fall tome, with that dear, sweet
baby under his very noes, and ,weer
even Fnked at her or asked her name.
He a;n't sympathetic, and I know I
sha'ut like him.
Let quality, not •tu.n•ity, he the test
..f • medtcu.e. Ayvr's Sarsaparilla u oke
uneiceotrfted extract o1 the best and
purest tncredteota. Medical men every-
w here recommend it as the surest and
most remanent flood medicine in the
market.
lie resealed masse,/,
The New Turk E.. , ,. t' !'....t finds
room for an instructive anecdote It
reports that the case of a New Haven
man, when wife and daughter died on
December 10th and Path last, and who
married attain Iasi Friday evening, n-
meoded me of the attaches of the
Registrar s office of the old sermon who
had jute buried hia fifth wife and was a
''coutter' " far a sixth. "Deccan, • said
a friend, "why do you marry su mus r'
"Conwlation, was the laconic answer.
"Does not the Good Book sufficiently
console the bereaved 1" "Wel," said
the old man, ••I've read the Bible
through an through. There's lot. of
comforter words for sadden, but nary a
one f.r widderers. I reeko,a the Lord
ain't waste,' time to euneule them as can
comole theaccives."
as IN Meow is
W ileon's Wild Cherry is a sure ears
for Co d., Coughs, Bronchitis, Croup,
V. bte.png Cough and Lie o
Voice. It has been in use t•.r twenty
years ; gives imme•ttate relief and eflecte
a rapid care. Children take it freely,
its taste being sweetsed ferment. Ira
As 1 Tessa dap,
She was a prod lady, and a rich one,
tor,, as iudicated by the fact tbst she
owned a pew in ons of Chief's.. • most
fashionable churches. She s re large
diamond earrings and a costume most
elab,nte. In fact, she carried with her
an atmosphere of ultra respectability
which was almost, ' ., a
gshe en-
tered church last guide', a trifle late,
and observed from a distance that her
pew was already necupied, and by
strangers. Walking down the •isl.,with
her nose in the air es if pe,inting the
North "tar, she stepped s1 her pew and.
Menem haughtily so the u.her, who hal
followed a1 a respectful distance, itemis-
ed in a tone ..f concentrated but sup
preened contempt :
••Wh.• are these persona
my pie t
And the !Meister wondered what Stade
the c'rgregaton laugh. -Chicago Tri-
bune.
alularm stamen by Dyspepsia.
Outtinres is a symptom of dyspep.ia,
"i have used Burdock Blood Bitters for
dizziness which tame over me in 'spells,
so that I had to 1011 work for a while.
The B. B. B. entirely cored ase."
JAar, \\ aleui',
9 C hesterfeld, Oat,
Vett It foists: Ow.
Mamma (to family physician'; -Dot -
tor, what are the symptoms of this trees
influenza
Physician -it begins in many cues.
madam, with a feeling of languor - an
inrlisp.ition to any kind of exertion -
Willie (setting dean the eat bucket'
-I ran feel .t diming on, mamma
Physician -And a total inability to
eat %teething.
Willie (picking op the sal hackie
again with wrest promptness, -But i
don't think I am going tr. have it very
bad.
■/saevl'a UJstesett$A- rws Sandrwa.
Treatment Mr
It is said that stammerers rare',-, :t
aver, show any impediment to speech
when .pealing in whispers. On this
fact a new method of treatment has been
advocated by Dr Glen, which is au fol-
lows: la the that tau days apeakine is
prohibited. This will allow rest to the
voice, and constitutes the preliminary
state of treatment. During the nett
ten days speaking is permissible in the
w hispering voice, and in the coarse of
the next fifteen days the ordinary con-
versational tone may be gradually em-
ployed.
An old land mark was recently re-
moved trot.. Queen street, Brome's,
when the old low cboreJ, once 'be pr •p-
erty of the Bible Christian denomina-
tem, was torn down and made into pre•
w end. The building was owned by
'Ilan. Watson, sr., of Herri.ton, formerly
of Brussel.
MIAs.... C. C. Bit PAarea & Co.
1a-ar .9ir..-1 took a severe cold is
Febrar eIso which settled iw mj bock
and kidneys, clang exorweiattng rain.
After being wit1o•nt sleep four nights
thrnneh intense suffering, I tried your
MINARD'S LINIMENT Aft., the
first application I eon so much relieved
that 1 fell into a deep sleep and COIN -
piste raxnery abnetl followed.
Jon!! S. l'1.Loop.
la
Lawreserito mag.
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NEWS OF THE WORLD.
t'WIT$D er*T e.
Two mew eras ad 111Weillput were reported
V Monera, Casa, Prawn
11a O'Neal (Neb.1 tiler dile have bees
bitrat; km MOM. lamresos MAK
A party d Philatsphla divines he$e -
saiW from New Terk to the Hsly last.
11s valor Mr has areamd dtrsashar b
IMM. A. It of two southern,, vale.
A Wander steamer with a0 palomino co
board le frame to the tenets of heelless
President Harrison has authorised an
ezpsaditare of $;,000 us the Dakota Indiana
1 committee of thy 1I"s•te bee reported
rably
on the 1 1 Copyright
tag Wednesday, at Falces, Sy., D. IL
murdered Calria C lemeala, kis
sap-
As (agaaluut counterteitr d One dollar
tearer cents ats has been arrested in
A▪ t Butte, Moot., Thomas Uryaat, 18 yeas
of age. murdered his neither. He was ar-
mload.
Farewell & ('a'. extensive dry gouda so-
tabllehmeut In Chicago was dertrey.d by are
11475,w0.
congress will probably vote Vestal to re-
!leve the prevailing destitution aiming the
It kota redskins.
[its. Josses, a tanner of Roam, N. \'., was
smothered to death mese a fallisg load d
hay on Wednesday sight.
The fourth trial at the Navaea rioters in
the Meted States Cort et Baltimore resulted
Us the eosvtttles of S; rioters.
(Its. Jobs A. Faster. formerly Brigadier
c lases, ef the American army, deed to New
York from the effects of whiskey.
abscessed goods packers of lade ma have
a national organisation. A Nataoe-
Cosvention will be beki at Baltimore May
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fnun.l riddled with bullets in a beep of era:
rets.e os their tarn. six nulls from Omaha, se
Neb. the
Indian students attending erbool at Car by
hale, Pa., here nontrtbute.l kis) towards the eq
fond to retievr their starving brethren is He
Patina. cy
Kamm ('ity brokers WA ticket "weepers" ga
ha,e hese detected in who/reale forgeries by de
,oases of which they ubtalned railway tickets o0
et endured rats we
A rained Board 'Leona �t u Wichita. bL
Eames engaged a hundred ns.n with gnus no
and knives on Thursday', and two r:••a ware
[scally wounded. o
A mal . of Congress ha. bees ap ex
pointed to have Marge of all questions bear
Mg upon reespratity between Use United
'.!tats and C. sada.
Veen jssioaq a fanner named McBride,
4 Tiptoe, Tess., shut aa.t killed F McNear.
his hnttts."ia•lsw, on Wednesday, and data
sstempted to murder his wife.
TM C. . I Hoses Committee on
Teryttoe des deeded to report favdwfbly on De-
legate Carey's bill rue the adinw ion of the
eeritory of Wyamisg as •,hate?
Mn. M. Itewecn, of F.versos, Pena, s
llsnday gave birth to tour girbe They are
•of ordinary sae, perfectly formed and will
Uve. Mr. and Mn Newton are loth of iris
birth.
The United States Menace have eliminated
cause in the Rrtinueiaa Rxtrfditaon Treaty
npecilrally exampled from Me Wit of
tical cream aleemple saw the Med the
or any member at W family.
is the Brttbbb Fstrfditias Treaty objec-
tions L feting mote in the (?nftet I taco
Senate to the canoes providing extradttiva
for persona charged with menalaugbter and
obtaining money under fable pretences.
At Chicago. Rnbt Henderson, a member of
the Rey. D. 1. Mrrdy's , shot
Ma Hattie Hind. • inerntrr d the elver, m
the fans and Caen committed suicide. Hea-
dsman had deserted his family,mad Mise Hind
was ruproeing him.
New W.rk tow historic Rt. Paul's Church.
Washington wok, hipped, and where
Al. exercises of tM. Centennial weer
we- nearly rabbet ef about Vein lan. we,rth .4 altar o'. >.I • . A p.b.'•man
caught the thief. Mower, while piling teethe•
plunder in the graveyard outeide before re-
turning to the church for mens.
The 1'. 14. Senate pared the folk,wing rw-
asiseKdn:
''That the I'nited Rtateed Amerks
. thea people of Brant on their
= just and peaceful d the pewter,
duties and reapanibabties of telt,,• . a,
hared .n the free ...resent of tbn revered
wad on their recent adoption of a Republiewa
form .t."
roamer.
Ras Ak.ola a reported to have died from
the worn ds received in the recent batt., with
King Meark k.
Further particulars of the latest Siberian
horror Mow that the cruelties were worse
thea at first reported.
Prince Bettesberg has been appesnttd com-
mandant of the Dragooae in V lana&
Yr. Parnell will introduces s mJion demen• t-
ing the repeal of tae 1'.rwcian Act.
Emperor William declares Ho. intention to
work for the amelioration of the corsebtiem
of the working classes. whether be rap. gra-
titude or ingratitude
French Council of Agri inure has
•t in favor d intp.ring a dine of :i frames
nen udiaa morn, 5 frame. am d„r•nmsal and
deri,stive., :t torr•s no rice in the husk and
1. fleas on broken and cleaned rlt's eel rise
tt•ter
TS, paper' ' leml urg evert that Rewrian
sgrnt• in GGa1. a are endeavoring toperoes&
tate j* urate the; the memsy appropriated hy-
Austria 'o relieve the disarms arising from
that failure of the crop" is a gift from the
twee.
A MWbrnra,, Anse -elle der. patch sin the
e'taltowial C,,nfereenthe nttanin.otely adopt-
ed a sontion In favor of Colonial Federation.
The Rcsm. Rittlrm• tears the death ret the
Belem et Zanzibar may lead to try i!,ktame
complkatkms.
A sad accident happened to s walling
tarty at Pesten, Franee. Thwwiav The
vehM•le cneveytng the bride and bridegroom
and a number ver their Monde was upset and
raw whole party precipitated tate the river.
The Mlle and bete:groon mei tea others of
the party were drowned.
In the Hn.r.s ret Commas Mr Cladettnne
ranpatukseed the f upon the
preens wenn they had yes in tee Herta-
gem dispute mad their wow w ha nea•„tisattag
the itaman treaty &shaped that the meal
tovr•ram.rtt Bal would be rnsosived r a
I. heed .pmt.
the Impartal Henlee of roaun.ai, M-
F:erg,wxi. 'Valor Kr -rotary her eras
oei., stated that dere paprn eon- '
g the Aagkr Poruigumss dispute, ter►
1 41'. tet territory in Menthes*! Afri•*, wadi I
wsm be promoted to Pari wts.t They weal/
errvw t.n largely duns.' the •
which le ns.Wag the hnstii. fool* aerwr
raelf+w.d n/IiIIR tie f .gtii ry OS PIM-
rm.. TM rdtglsem Mtwwe tie MI6 era
Neutral. . be st1i, an frMd-
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