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131ess sny soul! twenty! Why he's
vett more than twenty-eight himself."
'nly twenty-eight!" cried Erna.
"Why, that's young. Why did he go
at-,vayl and why did he stay so long??"
Mtn. Watson > 1g led and shut her lips
tight, as if nothing would tempi; her to
n.'tpswer those questions. Erna none that
ides had made a mistake, but she also
cram that she had asked the very ques-
tions she was determined to have ane
towered, if possible.
°'Ts he nice, Watson?" she asked, with
tat air of remote interest.
" n'iee! Well, I should say, Miss Erna.
Until he fell in with those seen in Lon•
don, there wasn't a finer, better noble -
;man in the kingdom, if I do say it."
"'Oh," said Etta, commisseratingly-
'I?id he have a taste for low company.'
"Low company!" cried Watson, on the
ila5fensive at once, to I+"rne's great de-
light. "Do you call a prince of the blood
Mee company. Perhaps not the most
'corral—it Mut for me to say—but not
•sar.tut you call low, by any means."
"It is too bad he had to stay away- so
Meg, isn't it," insinuated Erna.
,.Who told you he had to stay away?
That isn't so, He went away of his own she wee e
e.i?cord, and no ono knows that a word
knew sh d I i 5 1 Tu
of what has been said about bim is true. his bltnrl t
&or my part I never did and never will e,} t it 1 1 �i
believe the stories they tell, But, there!
been a could taken
we won't talk of that." that. t 1 1f tl Can
"What a pity!" said ilia little hypo-
But
id 3 See1t nobody_ 1 don't car
.crate. sadly., "that young men will be ae But it t'v:t n't. It t : :1 utu> ire iron tai tall�iit}t pin' svtixelttt
Met."
gate, half as higfh at au1 a, any mortal conn tt��,;;�+find 1 wadi; to
lint Mrs. Watson had put on her horse d,tald leafs. hot she Sort-�t do eo t iity-eight, nt t 16
i,t+inking cap, and was beginning to see something.1lltat: :aha!': The wall! ofest men in the klitgdott
1,:11ough the wiles of the inquisitive visi• Could she swerve hint and try him at e the zoudest ualite , U , e
toe.the teen? 1t was high. tit hone) had recta ns nlucad, o3 di3n FS'
.':Such a. pity!" she said, dryly, taken n, that. she knew of, and she had ]Sirilsrlf sup. 1 ant g (to
'Do yu:t think he will have a f:u;t set !Monied to the men ld,l of an the ; 1' slid 1 am going 10 ted
way of bringing it iibtttl
The subject of here
'
tivlate. Kae nearer at 11,E
pecked, ile had been et
meant 'that showed him off Le splendid
advau•tage.
"Good -by, Jim, I'm going down lay
Dabney way. 1'a1 gdiug to try the six
Bari"
"For Heaven's sake, Miss Erna."
But Erna, with a laugh, was off down
the avenue litre a rocket, Selhn taking
matters into his own hands—or teeth,
to put it correctly—and making such a
paeo as was not very sate in that place.
Even madcap Erna felt that, and tried
hard.to pull him up a little, using every
artifice at her eomntatttl to gain com-
plete control of the unruly animal. That,
however, she 'could not do, though she
diel sueeeed in cheeking his headlong' gal-
lop.
But, as she swept clown the broad
avenue of trees, she saw that the gate
was shut. It chilled her a little to see
that, but; she raised her clear voice in a
loud eall, hoping some one might be
0111 of the ledge to hear and see her.
No one appeared, howe'.ar, and the
great gate stood there to threaten de-
struetion.
What hlwuld she do? She had faced
danger on horscbaek• It seemed to her
that her head was always clearest when
amounted. on a good borne. She
e 'un. c notcheck e ire. .
fury he would bear straight
town on the rate. AIM i lac only
;i.•bat•! he have a 'en
The num all AA 5n: gild if 1e
could lake it, she con sit3iin.
keeper, still gapiui; al, the
turned earl,
"And who ist Mies I tt
minded the earl in the sn
tone.
"Why, your lordship;' r
in a sort of embarrasst%t
nominee of his grant Must
say as she's your loedelti
removed, But I to ''not
"Hent.!" said the earl f se 1• •eto re-
member. :Does she T11way l : o ttu `that
ways She will brei' 1101;' a tee' mine
day." he ne.ver did it before your lord-
ship. But there never is itiriy knowing
what she will do; shirr that madeem
and headstrong."
"".AIM" said. the earl ill the tone of
one who has no further. interest in the
subject and walked leisurely , up the
avenue looking rotund with interest
and a sort of eterrt melartch'oay at the
familiar scenes.
"Sir years!" he :muttered. "All
this ie the same and only I ani
different. The storm have raged
here as they " have raged •around
rne; and . it nary be that there are
changes which I cannot see, I roomier if
I amu changed outwardly."
01,1,11,
tit tllc ia-
C"tho0
Om; f
e.
CHATTER X.
"That was the earl I sate that day I.
took the wall," said Erna, ops aften-
noon, as she strolled along the cliffs.
She was' talking with herself, :Since
there was no one else near' to converse
with, and es her thoughts' were yet
much on the earl, she talked nf'him. She
had persuaded someone to give her a de-
seri}ftion of the earl, and shelled learn-
ed that he had walked from the,station
the afternoon of her ride 00 Heflin.
It did not take her long to;. put the
two things together, and decide that :,he
had asen him, even though lir thitt hur•
rigid moment of time. -
1 wonder if lie did nue 'Um 'honor to
ask who 1 was?" she went of, `e stip.
pose not, for they say he It simply
shut timeelf up at• to ati
;oing
tot'
oe here at the Castle?" inquired lirna, pinup.: in 1tie t•I'll u1T..
-'.••eying as well as she could the world- 13u1 if he rent et the ;;at, - A.h1
ly-wise manner of her Aunt Augusta. thai would wee it htott,it liauIn, deat.lx,
Now, Miss Erna." said Watson, lithos maybe; n ! t • I l met •
„CURED
iN24H+l $
Yost can, Vainiessly remove an eine, enter
wed, soft or bleeding, byapplying Putiiani's
Corn Extractor, It never bimis, leaves no Hear,
contains no Mao Me harmless tee arise composed
only of healing gum and balms. tonne years in
ase. Oure guaranteed. hold by all druggists.
rho, battles, Refuse substitutes,
PUTNA ' PAINLESS
,,, COaEXTRACTOR'
and the woman -srho had called to him
congaed to: wring her hands, and lay on
he r face, .watching him breathlessly.
Oit0e only he made a slip, and a scream
rang out from. the watcher. Then he
steadied himself and went 1 p foot by
foot, increasing the terrible distance be-
tween him and the beach at each effort.
Once he etooped and looked down, and
immediately he caught the agonised cry:
"Don"t look. down'. don't look dowel"
"If she knows the dangers so well, and
is cool enough to'watch me, why slid she
:take such a foolhardy risk?" }i:e mut-
tered, "Well, he added, cynically, "it
is not my" business to inquire into the
state of her understanding. I shall have
had the pleasure of some good exercise,
and in addition. *what happiness may
come from preserving a life—to sorrow, 1 f t
perhaps." blanee to a frosted window. pane. A
Hewes quite confident of himself now, lass tumbler or flask so treated lie•
tbounit had his muscles not been harder • comes a beautiful ornalnerlt to the
room or the glans cabinet.
THE ILLS OF CHILDHOOD
HOW TO CURE TliEfil
EASY T
French Chemist Does the work by
Using Glue.
A. French chemist has disno'ered st
vary simple and easy way to frost glees,,
say '•Che Practical Druggist, The
method is to cover a tumbler or bottle
or ether glass object with a thine
smooth and thoroughly Laid on covering
of glue. Either very good cabinet-
maker's glue or fish glue will sartra
perfectly. The only oare • that must be
taken ix to see that there are no air
bubbles in the glue after it has been.
applied, and that the ooating is uniforre,
and 'of even thickness over the testing
article.
Glue thus applied to glaze sticks 1te
it very tightly. Then it begins to con..
tract as, •t dries. Now, its tight Meld
on the glass prevents the layers cif
glue from contracting without; pulitng
at the glass, and thus, little by littl
the glue slits and splits tiny fragments
-from the surface of the glass.
If certain Baits aro added to the glad
the effect is still more beautiful, le,
(nuns then the splitting of the truer
fragments is done in such a nxanner
that the result forms a perfect res an -
than those of the ordinary man of the
world, he would. have given out sonic
time before. T.te kept steadily on his
way, and within ten minutes was drawn
up on the ledge or rock, where a very
pale ,ybtzng woolen sat, her hands clasp-
ed Moiety t.ogr'therand her great browu Tu t1loueand:i of homes throughout
etes,.tilled with remorse. (Mirada Eeby's t)wn Tablets is the
There 1V111 a momeut of sneer) be; only xuediciee used when the childree
tw eo 'Ilcens, and then it was the earl are ailing., and tate mother who keep*
who him ie it.,, medicine on band my feel aa
"Oh"" he ejneulated, with a sort of safe as though there was a doctor
r,zti t Wonder, "it 14 you, 0111" constantly in the home. Baby's Own
"Mese it is 1," was the meek answer. Tablets cute all stomach and bowel
I t Won Erna Alatreh, 'very emelt sub- i•ronbies, break up colds, destroy
dumbt11 tieing face to faro with the grim worms, ,and make teething easy. Guar -
)1 511 earl who had Mei. performed a anteed free from opiates end poisonous
Moto:701a{'' W011141 tualI" him the admire- drug, lire. ilea. Wilson, Wilson's, N...
iiol of the best cliff climber on the B., ears: "1 began using Baby's otra
001151. Tablets about Live scars ago, and sines
TOT•TAPTEIl X.T. then bave used no other medicine for
1+e 1i :z renewed enema on the my children. They never fail to bring
There was
,'el'itt'r ..edge of reek after the brief eeeltangr. 01 relief. and T would advise all mothers
n s,ltut trurds between 1145 m0 i.l1.p girt and the to try them." Sold by medicine dealers
11 lttns,., : v.01117 uobleuli;: - 'Ile earl was engagedt' or by mail at :.a cents a box from The
jl apd r. ` nt
its recuv0rinr Erna seas or.1\'illam::' '_sietlicine {'o., I3rrmkvilla,
engeged ill ,lildyillg. Masten, the face Ont, '
me
5us-
\ \nd },nut !ret a w"t01 ,'AY"k•
die erreinedly, "you can't 'lump me any hullo'lt! tlnlu. eat :,'n 1..t. Alli Sll azul during that time 'ymi hied se-
anore. You did come very near it, but would tlecer find 1011 :shunt ilio :til, eluded, 'That is to say, 1'?ft •,opt pre -
al can't do it any more. I ought to el a. th,0 tvIli i, ur nothing. t'ast1+ 1711 't1k71 nue but
Mont' 131 1110
home had my twits alma toe. Shall 1 or -
brim
h0r ir;i;h :trd•ug th, and it tuns he had refused to send utv surf .,i
a a glans of wine for non?" ermeitie17111c 11' lots"• 111411 .,olu' cit;•
hd• brei( girl stunk'. tam hark -sea; seemed notification to the county fent lies' of hie
list and h:urdsontt• utast ,,he batt r.v•:r ; °,os hk, ;
Pinot placed herself in tr<t,t of t return. and 11ad Brett rofu,0 .._ ohte,y ,eco_ hot not at all t•1etis e t, , 'lilt's, no nurd,:r o,' Srta,n g .w
0
I, tisokeeper, and placed. her It.tncls on to attcrte biro gently, st, :ll.tt ire would" enough- to see one of the gentlemen roe's" boss, Mem ever' tittle he stan'a still
her am to ;boulders, while the a.e nun- 11e:jd Mir tor the vein. The earl, Navin11 1(1d', led }tIs brea nd I de ro of iko.M saddles :til re sirs on Trim,.
dr p The lud„, keeper hit,} latus out and tilt„ took it upon himself to sill. Itteran to look op and laevo• the cliff, and
..t her most ouldei determined, and threatening gaping in 1, grog, unable, it there 110. did 11 1 confine hiln_cif to the Cat- 1 r0cltnn we'll be too tired to do much
"sr. tcaa sit} tle at ail 11111,8111, hot was 1ontinuctily th0n at' l.ru:t.• She nonce with a sort 1 watlkin' on d.0 golden streets in Glory.,
,, ,. ,i0•'n'1 bud boon time. 10 open the antes, '.there ' , „, VI,
t his watt t'.t rte, riding Selit15 of resentment, that he looked last at` an'Wit of we have golds t,sr streets
wad, Satan,
"\VaLson, she said, "'y1n. a might be alms one passing along the solo„ t u ” Iter. Then his eyes ee:tndleted iuulifferen, i
J+:ave 'thin room until soil tell we all },' " wlu,u, ile coutruiled with the utmost lv from her with more interest to the 1 might et. fire. ter unl 'in.' eve could. o t
::Iron$ Lord Aubrey. T do think it' a toad 011 the other 5111' \u w41101 ease, told often going on. toot, striding t " beet„
a ai • that on. should act so; a if he they cotiid ort out of the W.I.Y. over tetet' and lnuuutazu, th:r iutl reeky peri • nus p•ith ln. had 0 neltlde<1• i Je•
d tricot (Inv leeks fur off ter de
Mme y \ `elm III,boy:up:
1tet ello els of et uel,tliilg of the
sort, 1 ;' 1 i fly "i)vxi t
p.
01 her di,t:tict lciniieau..
And the more ,h'e'stuttietl the less she. hog ,,Cabin Sayings.
liked the nirue11071. •'8150 found very lit- •
tle ene•ouragcntent for mirth in the stern ! :cson tem(' Mike uiu': in 00 lcurrp•
blue eco- and .et nluiith, when" it mew. . ter gt, ter he:lvr:n t> l,a:e des t1+>et want
ed tinder the tawny uousta1he, Ile, was 1 de angels ter thu.l. ,icv of de ids dal:
certainly very h:tn,k,uuie 111' verynoir•' der treasure won't keep 'twist rise' conte.
Js.,l done sameth"n dreadful. i itnla'e 'Now, '' t b 1 .. t tail. tireless ,y f:a''1`iurt the
4t'S a .hil;il 'vva1T,.SeLintl;.ii Yon would aroused the ivondet' of tltk le vcho
.k„•�ill Ask him myself. ., S • , t'. l blood; t
1r 1 TM d 1 , sal 1, o ,tilt plea to satin;L- ,
tit ut ygtt think you vv e t e nt+l, 1'uL', • of
ur , e tt; tr este t me 11 1 t,. saw Ltlln.. 1• the
•r. le -agent, ttrrn£tt .•il;rt. .a •h' f �i,'.,r C,Il't" lie; edit.. ritlp.�. l,e.
sill Ems. li"ied 11 1 l0ilr-0, eon d c l
ss «- .blit nsit<' inti ttrt da( it„t lea o,.'Fttr itis
inert la thm r. You would never dare° t)n 'the ar+Prlictun' wht tl a, Willi). 1 t d tntr it it uln' hl( t011ti
to t love of the, beautiful erewt; uSt a wilful
aicur a a thing: Besides, 1 don't believe ' as ;ourself, wito sits you sot nobly and } }
,°c;ur aunt will permit you to conte over
1dre while the taxi's its the Castle. I so braveiy! \07'1'5 blal?sliing at the
t 0n't mean tle say asiyLhing against the solid wall, but with clear eye anii dam -
a eri; but if 1 had a, slaughter its rets inen eht•elc looking up,
y---•-SWref1. well, well! 1'mustu't 'I'hel:s right. boy- Dowtt (01 yOUT
&ta nduhere talking, with so mush to be hauljche:+! -111! Lou the muscles sti�'-
fen bravely. bravely Altwell dune l
�`a'•dh'� ()ver! tipped it with your }roofs, but
she gushed by EMI ll 'Omni much thefirm hand anti quiet ewe o,f. your
•
sinners. but -hit's my opinion ant1>tnxuel
Gabriel will wake us all up too soon.
De roundness or de flatness er de,
east �.u1 a of (mete i wari'i,don't `miters e fit••}d rir ft:elin.'s;..
walking on the cI}ll l abore; : e.,NY a1 f "7i11 are Erna t 10reh, ti,'•�t't31t 71ot?• Whit gits me !a how ter f.<nee T or
{hsnog on the beach below, tool.: i t en Z•nv; nig,"'a it 14'1t'(1 1?rm:, gtute lntnt , 111 lsatc•h er it vt'hilst de '.•uther fours is
the other side of the „jut.:I'er11a}ts he , LIY, ## ic:tehin itr it :n .
wee thinking of u wasted Inc. ills head. l „1 Ido5:trht T reeu�a'u!te,l -ttett, !tet 1 lun woe de feet titan ie de fruit,
runs bowed,. anti Ins hands were iil,lti+id ! r I business, hut se, ue president of a apple
said, caralee ly. '11'.ell, • do you thin}, coni trust he never r wruld 'a' boon a sewage.can make iLe ',Hort• to „ 1" t u}, 1 "le : It may lie dal de po' titan is de hap -
again? 1 worth. let you lilt.” plest, but he ain't got t.lme ter Millet'kee, Hu•, replied ,lirna, timidl; ' 1 ISa1Ielin:i, on tis hill -toll.
"Please don't i t "Ilii .1 :Like Latheue on :kberbear s buzeuni,
I)en't !.11. gJ' ! ed: ilre. cart laughed Pl}. want ter go right ter sleep Veit It
n.
ihis ttanrtran "Wall' 'thenl dila der, u.:1 won't leave no initrue-
have 01 gup here for the express par- •dans ter a
wake me up ably.
hese of, 1 sting' you away from here, I :Cronble is so sociable he'll tails ter
suppose I may as well insist on falcine you all day - lottg. set up wid you all
a litt30 trouble•," niallt, and ge t o' yo" funeral in de rain.
Ire cureless unity did not serve to re- •l)e married loan what mnakea er sue•
store Erun's equaniosity, and she answer.
eees 0r his business is de same feller
ed, hastily:
"1 am 'very sorry. but 1 would not
hare (salted if 1 had,:thought. you would
come up.. 1 supposed you 7(011 hi conte
around. 1 called to you to go back, but Tobacco in Kentucky Mountains.
you didn't ;hear me:"
"Thanks, for ,so .melt consideration," 'lot only 'Will the greatest erop of Lo-
be said, with griin serea tu. "flay 1 in-
quire what tett would have (torte, if .i
had not ,some." '
Erna's-11eal drooped and her face
flushed, ' It was -a •struggle between
shame `and. indignation, and indignation
conquered, as it ,usually did with her.
,She;•tossed-her pretty head buck and au-
stvered, saucily enough:
"1: should have gone up aluue."
,.The earl slowly rose 10 his feet, and
leasied carelessly against the face of the
eliffesfnili.ng down at her with au 1111 of
exaspnrat ng'indifference.
Ott+"'he said, ironically, looking up
the dizzy path anis then down at her,
"you could have done It, then?"
Perhaps his sai•enstic -manner, it.'rhtt,+e
more 'still, his calm indifference toward
her, -stung her. eine rptang In her feet
with a flushed Mee, and reclaimed;
"Of course I could."
He caught her arnl in Lis strong ;rasp
alt said, quietly
",Chis is hardly the place for heroics.
There isn't r00x'1 enough.
• She turned her lace torten! hint, and
Iter brown eyes 21a+11cd wrathftthy :ls
she cried out:
"O11, yon are horrid:".
"Quite .likely Shall .1 1. ist you n,. -.w""
She compressed 11:'r lip: itt impotent'
an.eter and Mundt his hand from Lee arm, .
"I do not Seed your beim I can go
alone," and hetet+ lie could stop her, oho
had Sprung to the fare of they cliff and
was elittibiil3;' lin with the insurance area
agility of a ()hellion,
feel Ile foilotvel, c-}trzu(gt his shoulders,'
out determined to Taut 1 stop to similar
freaks in the future. When they were
both safely at the top, he looked calmly
at her for a moment, noting her ex-
quieate beauty, though he showed no sign
of doing so.
he said, at last. "Will you noir
explain the nleanirg of this?"
ixdi hr contirnled.l
":oub1e, and made her retreat before she.
rider saved you betel it! �dl)It* jeltm!
•ws:: betrayed into anything more as }n•
That stare will be toll 1st the staltiea of
• diitereet as her last speech. the country note.
He was over and down on the hard
reed, his hoofs ringing Meer and firm,
and Erna was patting Iris neck with
}ler little hand, as if :ills were praising
him Por the deed he hart done, and had
no eeneure at all for his naughtiness. in,
Inking' the bit.
But the fire wee not out of him yet,
and, with a shake of the head, he was
off down the road at a full gallop, pass-
ing like a roeket a scrutlger who had
watched his sadden appearance over the
wall with startled eyes.
"I wonder if that"•s the usual thing,''
lie tnursrinred, as he stood looking after
her. "i did not know there woes a horse
in the country could do that. .And who
is she? Some pretty hoiden from one
of the county families."
She was out of sight by this time,
and he approached the gate, whish was
now open, and through which the white
faced lodge keeps' was staring in ter -
1'01•.
"Who was that?" demanded the
stranger.
The lodge keeper stared at the tall,
handsome loan, stud tried to recall where
he had ever Seen that grit. ince and
those stern blue eyes,
"Lord ha' mereenn he suddenly cl'1ed.
"The eerie himself! "didn't know your
lordship! We were not expecting you,
your lordship, to -day 1"
""1 carne earlier than T said," replied
the earl, in a curt tone. "Who 74a5
that?"
"Miss Erna, goer lordship."
">1,ho is lsliga Erna?"
"Miss Erna nfereh," replied the lodge
"You're a horrid dung!" (fried ]'iron.
"A;sst as horrid as Aunt Ariguela. But
if you think that I'm going to be treat•
*•d like a, citl,ild, and not 10514111 it, you're
a7rintaken. If I have to ask him .I'll find
out," and she tossed her head. in a ter-
ribly willful manner.
Selim was waiting for her wheu she
went out, and JIM was leading him up
and down in a very miserable Is'ame of
r0 431(1.
"'piss Ernst," lie pleaded, "won't you
table some other horse? `There'll - be
trouble for both of us. I don't rare for
myself, but Pd go drown myself-- throw
myself elsan•off the cliffs, if anything
happened to you."'
Happen to me on a. horse, Jim! What
cars you thinking of?" she cried, getting
ready to mount. ""0h, dear!" and she
patted 1135 shining neck, now flecked
with foam scattered b,y the impatient
't•reature, "Stand still, just a minute,
sett beauty. 01), won't .I have a ride!"
."Imo going with you, miss," said Minn
,;nits white, with fear of what he was
doing in letting Erna ride +�elirn. tile
=manageable.
"Let go his stead, Jim!" ordered Erna,
now firmly in the saddle sold sitting it
as. if glued to it, in shite of the patting
and leaping of the restive animal.
"Wait for use, Miss Erna!" cried •lint,
loosing t -h creature's head, alai spring-
ing back to avoid being stepped on.
For a ntamelit there wits a battle be-
tween the rider and the horse, tend then
tie latter seemed to con�eludo to post-
pGne further operations for the time, and
subsided into a dancing, sidelong xnov'e-
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thing Better Don't Yoga; Then Ask
for Pas and Ttmbs Made of
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Tlodi One a Solid !1 siened, ILastrng Mass
Without a lIodhp or Seam Just as Good as
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hMini and he pac'd the rocky bea,'it
more slowly titan nes iii, wont.
Everything wits tut! And famiharl even
to the hollows wore in some of the
greater rosy,: and Seldom hie eyes fell
on anything that slid not remind hint
of a day erhe11 he ems under the`guid-
attc0 of the mother he had loved, and
revered tow. IL>. laughed bitterly when
he recalled the botish,pl11iauge he had
taken its innocent anuretic til,,,
There was the ussting. Viten to had
emoting
get a
And
..rete,to
Save
ad his
fear., in
alto
1'heai lie
perilled his life snore halt
the almost perpendicular'"
coveted egg for his eel
once he had joined a 11,'
go out through the h•i
some wrecked unfertu1i9
mother had wateliell hi
her heart, perllnpe, hzt
and ltadl. beeu $ii proal
returned safely:; •
Ole, she had Bever etc
of his becoming a brave
and he nt.ight have done 11
he had not. Ile luta eaten'of t11e Dead
Sea", fruit, and the ashes Mere in his
mouth.
""Hoy! hoyl" ;
sounds floated down to blip out
of the silence of the cliff, end' there WAS
a note of alarm. in the tone that caused
him to tarn. and look quickly up. \'Vas
it a woman the saw there suspended) ap-
parently about a quarter way. dorwn the
eliIf?
"Help! help!" '
There 1708 110 doubt'. of it.. Some. fool-
ish creature had wandered down there,
not realizing, probably, Lite periloas na-
ture of the descent, and now was in
momentary danger of death.: All this
passed through tin earl's testae as be
looked. The intention to try to save her
was instant..
He quickly :scanned tlto farce of the
cliff. IIe'remetubered the .place well,
and as he recalled it les' knew better
than before hots dire the 7501lutrl's peril
was. The safest way for him would
have been Lo go around. to a path about
a quarter of a mile batt; and decend-to
her.
But that would have taken in much
time, and she might lose her precitrious
hold in the meantime. Ne would scale
the cliff. Ile had done. i1; before, and be
had done some Alpine and other motin-
tain-clitnbin. g since that flied() him
sure of himself.
Its way.
i'ng nlan -.
10.101, .13151
what listens ter. what Itis of 'omatt says
at•de supper table, -1 neie Menus' Maga-
zine.
a . s •------
In an instant itis emit was off
and lying on the mind. The next
moment Ice was climbing the rocks,
which seemed almost : to lean aver
hint, The womaan, above him
sate what lie wits doing, stud began to
wring her hands and cry out something
which rens entirely lost oil 11110,
iHe continued to clime \7'ith the agility
of a termer and mormtatineet combined,
The toy of life is in the living of it.
baeeo in hi'utury he grown in central and
northern Kentucky, which has hereto-
fore comprised the 'burley belt of the
State, but from reports which have
reached here the mountain counties of
eastern Kentucky, stimulated by: the
1.igh prices which the organisation of
the Purley Society has recently secured,
will this season take up the growth of
the weed and the creek bottoms of the
mountains will be dotted with little
patches of burley tobacco. A resident;.
of this city who recently returned front
a trip through Clay and Owsley Coun-
ties states that many farmers an that
section have planted tobacco beds and.
aro getting ready to plant their rich,
bottom lands and newly cleared hillsides
in tobacco. He says that the crop front
this new territory will this year form ne,
inconsiderable quantity, 'Them; will be
no danger from .tight rulers in that vi-
cinity, and the planters expect to ship
their matured crops of tole -tree to mar-
ket down the creeks and 11751s hy raftat
and small boats to Frankfort or Louis-
ville for sale ''-T.exin;ton Correspond -
ante Louisville Courier-,fourea.i.