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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Blyth Standard, 1900-01-18, Page 7BETS, Moods— Citeadlan fiTutantles." 1 out going away to fight, AnA, by jingo, when I do, No more Boerthat tight, Olt slay I they won't be "one-two." They don't come out and fight Ake Men, By jingo, gueas what we'll dot rho) them out, the hogs, from their Pea. Oh ..y1 they won't be ')one -ter*." From behind their banks of heed, By jingo% our fallen matte they'll View, Our cannon balls wilt drop -what a thuell Olt 1 they won't be "one-two." WEI Feet Abell away and drive them out, at game that's what we'll do; Then °barge at them; a yell, a ebonAl 011 say 1 they won't ba "one-two." -C. W. If., Brookliwt The Wrecker . , The New Year. • Make it a glad Otle, Thew dear Lord, To whom the year* 11001011g 1 3(1( 14 happy year, all erowned With love, and praise and song. • rut it, yea, let it overflow With loving KUM from Thee, And beet of all, dear, patient Lard, A. grateful heart would ba! A heart to thank Thee for the gift Of emit new year of life, A Mart to tenet this hand which wads Each joy, or care, or Arlie, ere A heart to pray (11 11(1 to believe That Thou dost answer prayer), A heart to hope, a heart to hoe, A heart to keep anti miutrel 0 tender Chan,. blew Thou this year! Bless Thou ties dawn and Moss Its noontide and Its evening, Lord, -s• And let each beast confem, Al days and WII416 and months go by To help the yea geow old, That of Thy ilery, King of kings, The half not yet (ti told! -Cheletiait Work. New !genes, 1900. Ono ing -more to onto of noble Our rade ghee our birth; onr t le, tho; Into 6 springtime hopes our ndltires came, Whose promisee to them for tet came true. What atm:glee and what gable have filled his day 1 What peeriele triumphs of a mind tet free 1 What etnbboru oitritkiIIg, ofileptinalk" to (411,0 The wotul birth -price of tleatee Hoary, sublime, dentitions yot dam Al p:a to die, No other New Yeate Mottling NH a 11 shall be. big Vouelittafe lam, Tinos lush l that tie men shall cry : the 3l00114o ..Cirand witathy parting, Nineteenth Century !" door el the IA Abe story, to -F. S. Martin, fe the4ttiott pate to, be h thlansgesuottage1Vllil0l. tad being III the Willta/W4, 8°Undi Th8t. P1(0,' Ur the NtIthi, 111/1 II V lea lel: thrmgb' SeseeesSee:eseseeeaeireAk When Mamie Coker stepped front the front door of she plain little frame dwelling under the willow by the river side that lowering Deeem, her afternoon site glaneed furtively at the window of the adjoining unl oose as If fearful that some oas Might eee her from its small, frost enervated panel. The saloon part of the structure wag ouly one 'dory 111511 and built as all addition to the dWellime Itst front door opened npon the read, and the window at which 'elm glanced overlooked the loug bridge leadieg over the river from the village. There was U0 fate at the wIndoiv, and no persen 113 night and the girt after a Moment of hesitation, gath ered her 014,1 closely about her and walked t apldly to the bridge, She gave a single hasty glance be. hind art sbe stepped upon the low woollen etructure. underneath which the (ratty current was running ewlft. ly with tea falling tide, carrying huge efloatilt cakes anti broken mammy tef leo eastward Into barite gat ilay. Her neat 'weetion drese, her bright Wahl shawl, her blue hood and iter w Ind reddened cheeks en livened mightily the dull green and browu A T A LB„ OF CHRISTMAS WHIM THE SURF BOOMS .... III. Homer STEttl.IN(i YARD. flavor of adventure; for Hank was not only a manor at heart, but he was 11 Frenchman. "It'd'," lie cried joyously, uftor the fleet welcome wee tom, it IA SIP( weeks wince we last met -and under title old tree, too." (4110 dropped her head 011 her toter's shoulder, while a shadow crossed bis face. "Olt, how et the old man?" he tusked, encircling her weld with his arm, "Is he just as bard to 7011 ati ever ? Dove he drink as much? Oh, Mamie, you must end this. Come 'with MP, dearest. Let UN go to the person age thls very afternoon." 'No, no, Hank," she IgoiSilti, "I can. not, I know father im-dreariful, but then he is my father. And oh, Hank, you know 1 promtoed mother on her death bad that I would look out for "But your mother never summetai ho ivould treat you this way," Inter rupted Hank, only to be Interrupted In hie tttrn. "Bemuse he has got drunken le all tho More reason I should Mlok 117 Mtn," she proteeted, "and now es pecially I enn't desert him when he's so very bad 01 1." "So very brut off," echoed Hank, with a frown. "Why, what's the mat ter now, what has Imppentel to the Oltl-to your father, I Mean?" VII fl 010 before she answerel. ke hese cf. the stunted 03611g panes to the tatbeloy at first the, gui 1:,6 et west and relieved the white expanse though glati euo9i101f of a bur - °, /mow covered clearing on the east, een long Immo in with Its horizon of dark water, and «oh, !ewe, wee too ul to tee the crunching of tier rapid foot. OVen YOU -about my father. BM steps on the frozen surface was brisk he le drit kb e00 j i has Neel) mesa In oontraet with the murmur an awful cough, and 1. --he won't Ing of the broken lee in tho wlrl stop drinking long ell/SIgli to get 1115 rher betleitth her feet and the well. Whs-, his Moe le almost purple monotonous boeming of the ourt a now, and his teinper-oll, he le really few miles away upen the beach. awful when 'sight comes and lio has Slut turned from the bridge into a been drinking all day. Hank, 1 am village etreet, bordered upon the one afraid of him sonn4lines when he gine 14110 by a ameeeslon of email frame to meeting and throwing simmer about Maumee and on the ether by the the room and mumbling about the swift running ever. The gentle slope gypsy, whatever 11 14 Melina 117" that, from the sidewalk to the waters and the onowstornt, and his fate, al age WAS snow covered, 1(1030 for u he &aye. 0 , dear, it is too awful." few toll, reedy grasses which, Ond M - 'bbml aloud on for lov. emerging from the frozen crust, or's eh leaned over before the wilel end "Alld 13 won't leave him for rattled their brown stalks to. 'Ile!" o the young man a lit - nether, Smetal entail eehooners anti Ile gr ttog tlo girl's tan - eking it under her xas puolied back. PP" she oiled passionate. toy dear laty, 1 1014 you mil you know' 11, anti it is ail, 11(11 tIOtI • V. What WOahi y body -sick," hosing g coldli k. "Nobody to him, eh h told • how IMO he eared for ,%.Itt 7 Bet .11 Seel his friends, ik It inkey guzzling r ado, 14 Itt, 1101,1. 1:111.11. applejack over hne aim help hill get drunk." "No, Hank, ne has not," KIM 1,0 itbi 1,1Ie fart and °empress - el lee. "They have nil deserted Ail III Ntliee he ba0111 to get so violent and to talk eo ersmgely." "De,serted mot ?" echoed the young 01'h/ell:los they have been les eltions ,derSeare. He WAR like the lender of n gong ,to them" yeti, I know," ee'Mani*, ex- eltedie, "but they(01)00' 11 One. Ile one them out. lie RIM he Mut going meet him fate alone, whatever lie men ns'by that. And 11( 10 is lone, except for lue. Ile alto in his bur day and eight, coughing, choking and drinking till he gets In a stupor. I can hardly get Min to eat anything, either, Hank. Cher heighbors are beginning to treat um queerly. They look at 1110 111 a Atrange way and say things I hate." "What do they eay ?" demanded the young man, fluehlog and clasping her waist again. "Tell me what they may, and who says it," Mantle gobbed for several minutes before she could command herself suffi- ciently to go on. Then she said, with effort, In IL Fet, monotonous tone: 'You know old Jesse Trimble -what it dreadful Man 110 le and what they say he limed to do years ago on the leach before they started the (tor - vice?" "Yea," wild Hank, gloomily ; "I al. wept hated the idea of your father being so thick with him, for he le a scoundrel and no nUtake. Re never tits - Med nay of them old stories, and ho never *mid explain how he was able to suddenly buy a schooner jot after the wreck of the Yankee Sallie, no Taney Years ate." "Two weskit ago," !Jamie went on, In that same, mt tone, "father drove him out, nearly kiting him with an empty bottle. Shute then Jesse ban been talking In the other saloune and anying father was no better than a wrecker when he wee young, and -and folks believe It and demist) ines I can gee they do." "Your father a beach wrecker 1" mos claimed Ilank. "Ono of those wretches that Infested title unfortunate coast years ago, as they tell round the firo on stormy nIghte ? Impossible!" hande dropped from ilain14 Shoulders ne lin said this and stepped back a few puma Militate drew buck, too, her Mee flushing proudly. ''So you believe Itt" ehe said, coldly, "Is the gigolo of an idle, drunken anti disreputable wretch to move you 00?" Sbe made a free gesture, and went on with warmth: "Suppose he was what you think -and more. What has that to do with me f Is this the measure of that love you have 60 Often talked 01 1' For several minutes Hank Probe' stood with folded arms and darkened face looking at the girl, who mood flushed and defiant before him. So this 000 his romance! Proud of his rectitude and honesty and the vague consciousness of a mental superior. ity to moat of those among whom he lived, it had been a bitter thing for hint to accept a saloon keeper for a fat heroin -law. But the sweetness and nobility which all the country recognised ,In ilifamie Crocker placed ber above her father's station, and had served to conquer his pride, But this -this Wall too much. To marry a wrecker's daughter 1 Bat as he gand darkly into those proud, [tattling eyes, another feel- ing gradually took poesession of him, replacing wounded pride a dawn re- places eight. Away with pride! He loved her 1 "Mamie," he murmured softly, "for- give me. I love you. I honor you. You are noble. Trust me once more. I will not fail you again." Bot Meanie was not to 113 won back e,n easily. We pr 1' leo) 1 01 smitten deep, and ber trusting love was sore- ly WOUnded, She motioned him back rot he approached penitently with out- stretched arms and said very elowly: "Bank, my pride bide me tell you !Whim,: smacks, their interiors pro- tried 11 tectea by catous, reline 1 ashore, 1100,1, whilst ' Met above the reach of "Ho ti dear! 10 tt t tl w - t left Cm, new tit ek,le hasAtm a he "Sick,' eh ?"- aleph littoolf from ler 11 What distress to press the When we lie In brd at nig And lean to 4he 313301(1150 Ot ehe fellow tot they nal nw, meitonm we elee! 1.4110 roof jtlet eat Of sight. y vow thne ts tell not mind " t We toes and turn And tumble, WO find our vows m 044'14 able, toss and turn again. Menouw, ineaoutv, in ea ti w, Fearful Faunae that give one pain. It may chance that lee are pious, And to language mild inclined ; But there's nothing short of wear- ing In to nee relieves the mind, Blank 1 blank 1 blank 1 blank 1 blank ! And expression of that kiwi, Wien some hourhate puked itt tor- ture And our hair le all turned white, And with brlo-a-brao we load up go out into the night - spits:, mew, fits, whisk - le not a eat In sight. A Woman's War Cry • FM npt thinking of the honor of old England u alie stands', ' • With her glory -crowned sceptre reach - log over all the lands ; But I'M thinking of the mother as she kneeia ere day le done, And opting her voice in anguish, "Bod have mercy on my eon:" I'm not thinking of the vessel as ehe ploughe the wavelet along, With Magnificent (sentiment and her brave three thousand strong; But I'm thinking of the woman, who, beside a smouldering tire, Strikes her breast and praye "Have mercy on my helpieu baby'm sire:" I'm not thinking of the army spread beneath an alien aky, I'm not thinking of the wounded as they struggle hard and die; But I'm thinking et the maiden kneeling on the dewy sod, And in desolation praying, "56513 107 o lover, () my OA!" I'm not praying for the honor of old England as abet stands With ber glory -crowned sceptre reach- ing over all tbe lands; But I lift my voice to heaven, to the King of near and far, 9111 He heave my supplication, "God have mercy! Stop the war." -Ida Baker, In New York Herald. Toeinorrow. At/own the long pathway that 'elute through Ole life We're chasing that phantom, To- .. Moment. 're el haven of hope, a harbor secure Froth Meknes, and trouble and tor- ' t Tos1orrow, tomorrow, we'll reap fruit ; IMW Our 1181111 will be Wilt bring um the gifte t, We crate; groirroW, surcease from tiletrear. MIMIC the fame or the wealth bat we seek ele like the ripe fruit On the eettni Tbehate0111 we'll pluck it ; to-niorrow 'MR Wing Aare tretturea to you and to tue. Tomorrow the comfort ; tomorrow the nee; Ilt'morrow the love that we crave ; ' Or, Meettientee. otir hardens too heavy we find, "Prteleetmer1. beetling the grave. Meter Maw ; but its mag- i A•• Isttbikly tightes eat ahead, On, and We note not the siefte te!gity we mut imueg tho gIvt ataallalli Sale toltolIl evergasea trebs, wliotoo befloell 0 wiTt i•inene.0 witti Christmao canoles 1111)1 fentooae.l with strings of white log. mut. Happy faros 11010 mei then lio.teed to her front t.1141p,11,,IllOOWII, soul I of the 110101'4 elan OW, the IA istrtsit to glow' also w tort of warmth Isesidor whi lo welled trout the cheerful c lives. 'Piave was n merry suggestion la ab1 these boll lay preparations that mole Mande noeltee'd Nee brighten nt first at elle glanced through W111. tioleff Of home OW home But It Wee a Momentary brightening only, for there ilOOnod of homely comfort and Christman expectation tOtild OIlly terve mentually to brlug more forcible to her mind that most unhappy home which was n11 she had knotga tame POW with each Litter thoughts she renche 1 a point where the road turned tack (rem the 1 ber ut tight autos Hem she paused and looked in hoth mrectiou. Tnere was no one In sight, n n the mily living thing W.1.11 a brown rabbit, which Scurried from the fence (s)0mer and sought some leafless bu •hes near by. The wind ocreemed past her, and following lt came the walling of the distant breakers. Then Mamie climbed the fence Thera war; a path trodden 111 the snow on the other side, which forowed the edge of the river under the scraggy plum there, for this watca favorite ramble In the summer, and it was not neg- lected now that Um river was mag- nificent with Its floating A half mile„down, where the path, which had been growing fainter, matted altogether, Mamie atopped. Ongle other person had gone further, a men, if the testimony of the foot- prints In the 11110W could be relied upon. The girl looked at theee foot- prints questionably and then 1 o!dly followed them. They presently swerved from the river and led back to, ward a clump of a dozen pine trees on a slight knoll. There wag a man already there. He e0a8 young, too, and he waved Ids hat and shouted ilo he saw tite girl ap- proaell. She broke into a rim floun- timing Iti the snow, and hn ran to meet her. And soon they were in a Mose embrace under the friendly shelter of the largest pine. "Oh, Hank 1" she oiled gladly, "Oh, dear old Hank! I've been so frightened of you these three weeks back with the (derma But here you are as Rafe and sound -and oh, no handsome!" she burst out proudly, holding him at arm's length. Henry Probe!, or Hauk, ne he Wan commonly called, wag not handsome, es his partial sweetheart said, but he wag as honest -faced and manly a Nnintry lad cm one might see in a summer vac/10)n. He might have been 25 yearn old, and he stood tall, etralght and slender in spite of his ungainly pettjacket, which stuck out In Itnnwe here and there, suggestive of a plenty of stout Mottling worn be- neath. He did not seem to belong to that country of taunted pines and white sand, which breeds sturdy and physt- catty powerful men, to be sure, hut makes them thickset and lumpleh. Hank Frobel was Wender and agile, as every motion howed. Hie face. too, wag not of the type of the coun- try. Dark (skinned, with black hair and eyee and a frank, mobile face, lie was spoken of everywhere as n " furriner." There were some, however, who witlepered Mutt 1110 mother had been the sole survivor of a French brig (wrecked off Barnegat Inlet many years before. The boy Was goon al 1, marl 1, in in the lener's kat, 141) the .tory went, where ehe took ref- uge, and where a month later she died. Ite atoryf the , Wreck had nothing to do with Ilank tint I do not love you after such Prober& becoming a beach patrol. He faithlessness, but It would be atilt ohne the life because it aulted 111m for me to Gov so. I do love you, and better than oyeterhig, being one of you know It, But this thing must end hardship and peril, With nn Mitald0hal right hen and now. So Mars me now forever (intone' - " But I refuse to leen you," 8ald Rank, tenderly, gathering her !n hie Ulna "I take you now, with heaven to Witneas, whatever comes for bet- ter or for wono. It there be dakest eriale we w:1 I meet them together." It Wag mowing, but the lovers, their faith renews', scarcely notice 1 It until the Ineremeing wind hurled ley flakes bitingly Into their fume Then Hank too e Mande by the arm, and started with her toward the town. To thio ehe objected, saying that the villager's must not see them together or tbeir engagement would 1* suspected and talked about ; for these lovers were lovers In Keret, mince "01,1 bill Crocker," as they cancel her father, hated Hank most cordielly, Once the older man had Metal( the yeunger savagely, and then taunted hint for not striking bat k. But Bank, hi+ fatewleasing with angsr, fwd held Ille-ptittle for Betaken make. But Hank this afternoon heristei upon acoompattying his eeveetheart home, and glad she was eventually that he del so; for the storm rapidly iticreased in great violence. Now and then, la a hill, the dull rote of tho distant breaker' could be heard, and again me ngaln, as Rome wilder gust 1111611ell them floundering Into a run, Mnmle exclaimed: " How 1 thank Doi you tire not on tito heath to -night !" But Bank's flue wag troubled. He was thinking hari, but he eat 1 Itothing until they had crosee the bridge and the little river -alto mitten was dimly outlined, looking almost like a great siowhank . Mamie," he began gravely, "since our iloW cotenant this nfternoon under the pine two, I feel a new and power- ful responeibility. I am no longer merely your lover. I am your pro - teeter heneefortle I purpose acting for your good Indepentlimt of 'your wisher+. TIIIC thing must end now- thla very night-thlt seerreye I mean -title interne hay. lienveh ottly knows, when I will to baeliabgaitt from, the beach-meybe not for month I would not he a mete if I were to leave von here 'alone to the mercy of you, father, who, I think, from what 0011 ear, meet he emelt with drink. This Veil.' night, Mnmie, 1 thee fare year father and Mail hem an understand• leg. If he dries not eatielv ine-" " Beek! Honk!" she interrupted, fearfully. "If he 10 drunk he may kill you." But Beek was resolute, and Mamie, finding him rio, yielded. Perham she found pence and strength and an unknown Impetus* leaning upon hie [Smug will. for It Waft a very glad and a very happy (nese 0110 terned the next moment upon little Tommy Elkins a mightier's boy, who trudige•I pun then homeward bound wheeling vigorously and holding his freet-bitten mire with red net* of halide. " 'Pommy," ehe meal merrily, " Timmy, if it kneel on snowing this way you won't 0111(11 ale In the morning with your Merry Clirlet- MilA,' Ile you said you would the other day." " Won't, of 7" respondal Tummy, iv itit it ettittempteoue gesture itt ward the Monte •' you kin jes' bet no stores is gee to keep me from It. 11. eel en oclock by ilto peak roofed Wooden thaelaeee WA. mitterete 011 Rea shelf over the bar. Tho dim kerosene lamp, swinging front the Meng in Iti shabby braes bathes, did Ito best to rout the gloom, but that beet war Impotent against the heavy shadowa that 'in, feetel the cornets red , wetted not be dislodged. '' • "Ohl Bill (pe" eat la 'Mope 1- eitettrottonrii FIReme„e&ween 4the etovo'anti the bar. ildg was enear enough-, te the oto' to stretch his legs comfortably before him, crouch- ing itt filo Chair, and still get the full effect of its Mowing hent In his face. one he was neer enough to the bar to reach a gins( without melt exertion -an effort lie had frequently made, if one were to judge by the number of gleam, some empty, and others more or lees there Jima withht the radicle of ',his 11111 of amber liquid, which rested arm. A demijohn, wicker bound and cotries% was upon the floor by his aide. It was a etrangely repulsive, al- most a dreadful, fare, that title streams tnan turned toward the fire. it was frame in masses of dieorderel hair, for the long, greet matted and tangled hair of his head overhung his forehead, milt* moustache and beard, nearly white, had not been trimmed for many months. Tbat there was momething out of the ordinary In the old man'. appear - O M* was soon evident to his daugh- ter when she entered the room and walked lightly to his side There was an extra ribbon in her hair and her apron was white and starched, fresh from the bureau. An unusual flush tinted her cheeke too, and her eyes sparkled brightly. She carried a tray covered with a neat cloth and (steam- ing dishes, and as ebe reached her father's aide, ehe said, coaxingly "Father, I have a nice steak for you, vary rare, just aa you like it. Won't you eat itt! have *Me Strong tea here, too. It ie very hot. Do take it before it cool*," Then she added, hesitatingly, "And when you have eaten I want to talk to you a little." The old man paid no nftentlon to her at first. She thought be did not hear Mesa she repeated her %VOHS more coaxingly than before. A. third time supplicating hint, Mamie placed her hand upon her fa- ther's shoulder. At the touch he started, gathered himself up in his chair, and looked full at her. Before tbis look the girl ahrank back a lit- tle, for She saw aamething in her father's eyes ahe had never seen thert before -a grange, restless some- thing that appealee to her as unreal and vaguely awful. "Father 1" etas exclaimed, softly: "father 1 What le the matter f Are you sick I" Her father did not reply, seeming not to hear ben Ile continued hie gase, but did not mem to see her. The thought came to her that he wail struggling with himself torecog- nize ber. Something was working con- vulsively within him. "Listen I" sold the old man huskily, and the girl stood awed, A lull follow. ed, and they dimly heard the booming of tbe distant surf. "Do you hear them!" he asked in a wavering voice en unlike hie us- ual growling tones that Mamie teetn. bied with foreboding. "Do you hear them ?" he then asked again, etretching out both arm; in an almost supplicating way, The Inneelea Of his large hairy hands twitched and trembled curlonely, while hie fingers bent and unbent. There was moniething In this dread. tui epeetnele vaguely fattener to the girl. Mamle'm mind went back to it day never to be forgotten when, mere child, mite had seen In that tiiiry oson 1 strauge man, frightfully drunk, fall into nervouo convuistone, so that he had to be carried away In a wagon helddown by her father. Hie hands had twitched and trem- bled that way, "Hear what or whom ?" ebe mted, trembling more than ever, so that the dishes In the tray the held rat. tied together. "All the night I have been hear. Ing them," the old man Went On In lile 11114feli Monotonous voice. "The r°,* ' eman, and the storm. Th outing nearer and near- er breakers -and they will wallow me-hutt, no they wallowed tehime.zom, gel:le...teethed him out among lite mmail eyem grew large, and twom. ed to burn holm In hie daughter'e heart,0 gypsy mild It," he went on. "She said, ' Walt a quarter century.' This he the night, and they're coining -the breakers-eio you hear them?" Hie voice broko and a few big convulsive Hobe elm* Itim, but he did not move hie eyes from thew of hie trembling daughter, "It le the none night twenty-five yeare gone," he maid eniffing and half gaming, "tile same night, the mune Menem et been 100 lr for It for efiseks-anti here they moue -here they some." He broke Into Nolte, whish eitook lee great frnme, and then sereanted 111°1V1Irdt.eiglit into it state of nervous terror by title pitiable spectacle and Its elliunx, Mantle *Teamed too and dropped the trey of dimes with 11 crash, She turned, and seeing Hank. who had been awaiting her *gnat In another rootn, came bounding through the door, she ran to him and her face, crying exeitetily, upon hie shoulder. Hunk drew her to hint forgetting In hie protecting melee tude to look for the cause of her weeping. No wonder that Hank exclaimed at what he saw before 111111, for be ltad expected to he met with curets anti ‘tolenee, 1111 expeetatIon emphasized by the erash of illehee and the screams which brought iiljii Into the room. No wonder that Mamie clasped her leads and ehrank once more into her re"T.eheft?8otit41 rnixti4:a n had arisan an I sought the bar for Sopport. Lea11:41g one arm tree:daintilyupon tt, he was backing Jowly toward the WV1I and gazing al flank with a feu* miet horror-stniskot and sutures agesemp'licating that they aught welt Inspire astonlehment f11 the met uncosteerned observer eLber.t:to it her e'agre4thetr,b8 wthgett aonidd"'Mandd r elaspel his hands and shook the long hair eut of h:o eyes. But ht ,11,1 not take hie gaze a Riegle, moment from Ifenk's face, After several settauls of this strain- ed silence, he sai,I in an iwed whisper: " And eo you have ovum with 'an -.come for me -to take me back into 'em wit h y on.' Elio voices ceased but his lips atilt moved, while tho workings of lee hauls, ahowed the internal agony. Hank and Marafe, anging 010843 ta gelhar, did not enr, but Mansia's fees petal aad ehe caught her breath. Pre - remit' the old nein was moved greater convulsione, 0)11,011 made h1. July sway nal treated:. Ile seemed to struggle for tater:trues, end then fell upon Iia kunst and crieleee held tome: ' Oh, have Morey epee me! Yet! ve come back jest ee you 0011.1 then, strong and young, else, t he years have made me old ate! helpieee 1111108 pity, bets merry -fur her sake -for didn't I retire hn I Think of the temptation. All were dad but her eel she didn't know' of tbe Ilene barrels of ea:rits 1 bad saved -my fortune -to start my 00 10011 I "And then you: came out of the WI to opad it ronldn't help stelk eg you down tutus). lime to lienk, tor Ahem you. Were drip- pmg and tirgigiting for her -if I'd had time 1 ", levee done it -but eiltneed leer bead yens unborn yield- eltertiii-dave merry-" It"was al( over. With, a gasp Ihr gray wreekc hank in a hoop upon the floor. Hours later, after tho dreadful ex- citement was (lone ; after Hank tali Mamie, pale anl resembless, had eragged the dying man to an littera- visal rot in tits kitchen ; ;1(101 the doctor had eonand t) lkvd of apo- plexy nal del,risen tremens and said theta was no hope ; after the neigh - bore, beating 0 Lee way through the drifts, aid looked mplyingly at tie still heap of bad Mottles end gone home ; twigthit fire had berned ,oe ail 1 its Lamp spattered and smoked with the 'king oll-est 111 11100) ho.- trothe..1 lovers eat in utter silence, deeded by the dying wrecker line their :mild 8.01et., Nine& eat by her fatherS bedside, and now end then she ranoothed ltIo pillow anti bathed his head, following the directions the doctor gem her to vane the departing life es much as could be. rite had not touched lam 111016 than neceseary lit the first lours of Ode vigil, and hart kept her feet averted foto her eyes often closed. But, now, art the end approached, her wont - (tele tenderness again possealted her. Wm he not her father? Had he not loved her mother oneo-that dear mailer who had died years ego -just grelerly as Hank Mel loved her - Mee? Mimeo gimped -It emmed so long ago shire flank had loved her. lint her father. What mattered It now -the awful deed lie had commit- ted? Ilad 110 not expiated it by thee dreadful years Of V41101140 and title aw- ful death .' What mattered It that he land ruined her life -utterly ruined 11 -blotted out of it that aweet love wheel had absorbed her whole exist- enee, her very Well? Sim could stand it -she wee young and strong. And he had leen very fond of her -this father lying' here on the very threshold of eternIty-before drink had brutalized him. Mantle forced herself to think of them early yearn when they had beer to lumpy together, the three of them Olt, dear, dear father! And Manft. resulted beneath the covers and tirie, Ont 1118 bleated, hairy Iland to It with Fort caresses. Poor I She would never eee hint eguti even In eternity, Sho ehokod, (118IAndd nliot ekr3-%ahe did not dere to l" nt Hank. She knew he wills ,ittilitt on the other side of the b041 b1t Alf, care- fully kept her eyes awn from lent. It was kind of hint to alT, there with her. elle wished ehe wild thank Mel for doing to, but shee led pot try. She wondered ase .1 1110111; would do now. She hoped he would leave town at once, for it timid its very trying for her to atm blip ,100y tater day. For of cotree they eo111.1 never again join Minds and 1110 over this neirderotie ehromthat eeperated them. Yes, It wonmelt better for him to go wrovoin:4-0010r1 sgo 100 she (s -what mat- tered whw irl] ent ? But elle hoped he top far foray. She want. edtofrnet that oho was sotnewhee ir nano ll i Wonhl he marry ? itiatule'o heart grew vole nt the thought, But of courts, lie would. 'Why should love Ito shut out of hero? Hitt rather Mel not -her lips grew 1141.10 and cold. Ana tho-oh, she would go some- where end earn Tier living -where no our knew lier. Iiiirewould tenet] Reboot. or be a miesionitry. She thought she waled rather he n mietrionary-or one of those trnined mime she had rend n Itoolt Vita Coot of her fatheett that he nhynye kept Mot- own with three locker and out of which she lind seen Min take money. always suspected he had a great deal more money there than lie would admit possessing, 60 jealously did Ile guard the Must. But elle could never touch that money now. It had come of -crime 1 Site tieraight the word in spite of herself and it made her choke. An idea 1 That box and its hOr fl 1114 III hhl‘ econntdeindlethbeo I her father left.. made out of the write • $ t brought her some comfort. Sheeould make a little reetItutlen, anyhow. Oh, how ehe loved Hank 1 Her heart swelled in sympathy. for Mtn Itt bite agony -a ret apathy she could, never, never, erver tell him flee side of heaven. But what a meet thought thet wee 1 Perhape else eould tell him in heaven! Va0 eifferent from these were the thought( that filled the mind and etrangled the heart of the young man who eat eilently all these hones on the other nide le the bed, Numbed by the first Shock, it wits not until lung after that tat wax aisle to etraighten out the etory In les 31311111 and lit it to the known (nett and conditione of his life. And even then he was not fit for valm-refleption, to mapd was lte 0 helpless rebellion. So that story of, 111), birth which he luid heard so often, bebeted nt first And afterward rteeeted, was true after all. llot mother then really had been the tvife of a Fri nett ekipt per, and she Mune had lived of all Ouse who heti manned the brig that , went to pieces ou the beach so many years ago. Of ten lid had 4(0001 her gra (0 in the Hind of the Otte {nude natl. the char - esti burner's lint, width wax 1111 the .onte Ids titlltoitood kiww. They had sold Min many stories of her coming 4I1)'re. Some Nal 1 Hite had come out 4 the sea, others th it she 0110 (1 fugle Ive front Araks) woo had tiought the onely pines for refuge. This sandy trate, wliooP headstone wast a, giant ,.hie, and whose footetone was a ,triekly pear, hatt given aireetion to 110 0111,11111 imaglitiugs. SI any were tIr•ortei Ite had invented to .ietetint for his mother's corning to ietat demi its region and for her lonely teeth thore. !rimed wits the glotitty tater' of the ,staorant and Pal tnititiotts Floors. who ,,tew ni it her 1 111 itat10.1 nor religion, 14 Imaglalags wars largely tinted with unreality. had onee picture 1 10 mother a prilltltls, &lieu to ruin .,y utifilendly fairlos, and again as .tersolf a. geed fairy overcome by tho uneltleitlearte,ree, the phut devils, so cared by finatf#eationg whom betivetI When at the age of Moe he hall iteeniteifil al the {littera to tho amolhoro 011 one of their animal, @stings and mil run away he was Velum In by a •eiteto'ent resideet of this tillage hy dte riversi le. Thers lilt young, active mind and atoll imagination had en - tided him to quickly ,..:Loonstrtiet hilo Me and to cute!' up with the el 1)01 dim he MO never kinovn before, Ile esmina an adept fioluainein, awl at i.,11reidge ri 0yot •, with 11,1y if At Reboil 111 tn. I :as aq taught lip with ;lad passed eiery 01, A Id • f, :hors, Itt) 1 tlt 0 minister tool: fniley to him awl taught him a little :reek tel Latin. At twenty he Wee much re/es:lel, tool watt conotired n (matter then ths Ohio lawyer. It watt about that time tit It he limit re- otrdoi seriously the story 01 the wreck of the Frisieli brig, /Intl went ask into the tents to mike Inquiries. Ile returnee tele -sing that ills mother woe not the 001,0111 mai 1 to have been savel from the Prised] brig, and Ids wilition necept,e1 by newt of the **'11111111g(lu i'lei7S tiast think rein wed Ile Ile ea by the boloble of the dying wrecker. And he also revelled now with a 1 it ter manse of enlightenment 1114 first face to fate' meeting witt the et even -keeper. It Wee about ten A ears ago. The,v. heti menhionally seen each other, but ae their lives were eo aver.. :aril neither had particulerly regard- ed the other. The Inemortibio encoun- ter had occurred on a stormy mono leg on the beach. A ronstwise echooner had grounded outside the breakers and nem of file Illutra had gotte to the horn to see her and to render 0(1(11 alil to the Ilfe havers as they coold. Hank had gotte out in a boat, whiel , on returning, had tweet in the en 04 ho emerged front the brenke :tripping w eh water, ho alejoat ran into Crocker. The tallOoakeepee started hack and roised his right agedas if to ward off a blow. Then he rweifixi humor, mit, walking up to Hank, osked lihn who lie was Crocker's face and l'oo were colorless for the Monlenie linnk told him his nomesbat tale did not suffice. - where Ile en 1110 from (tad Who id par- Freeker followel lam neat ankrilte puts were. flank tsdd hint in; 11 few words what little he knew am., his- kt woneroly:. I I we hhyad tho liwaysisitiwbeenion 17tlt'b itt por 1011 seemed to hate him afterward, mid why he lost no opporbunity to insult him. He now knew the IrKir on Only to, Thus was the mystery of his birth committed by the Hee ever been breathed. for no hint of IIIIIrrior ot Itr‘r 11)1111 that 'at story, them cwleaaertluelTbri TirWentisit not rat enollif MMtirldiredreedred! H1 Yr tiles lips paled and Ms father had been heart throttled poinfully aa lie pia tared the awful wpm, enacted on the beach befrt" itt \lest born. Ile ea,w tie(hil bra-, oung, handsome, vigorous, 0(1 conqueror of the me that wrctle,d his radii, striding victor- lowly/front the envious grasp of the breaker, lie saw him, forgetful of ship 10,1 crew and fortune, filled only wit h l•ac of the sweet young wife bo b,) ,i1 remit up the sloping sand, /salsa with driven snow and dripping water, shouting nlond In agony , her who alone beetle him wee: ate, though he knew It not. And he w him, hott within renolt of 1110 rem sued wife, met by a human demon, struck ravagely down and hurled back Into the pea that he had conquerett. ilank's brain wbirled with the vi- vld picture. For w3veral hours, he thought afterward, he must have been a madman. Ile never could re- call what he did cluring this time, if indeed he did anything bat alt with his hands pressed to hie head. But he remembered one Leanne impulse, curbed he knew not how, to lay hands on tbe dying man and throttle oat of him what little life there was left. But time brings full relief to each impuleive, high strong natures as Hanies and long before the dim light of coming dawn struggled through the windows calm: auteeeded tempest itt h:s brain, The reactton, though, did not coins esiddenly. That awful Mature of storm and wreck and murder on the shore dissolved from the cenvue of hes imagination gradually before the coming of varied 31e101114 of present and future. 'Bitter indeed was the contrast In his mental lictuxo of what might have been as comparesl with what It 11 Re beheld himaelf living happll, in France with his father -perhaps in gay Paris. Or they might together have owael and Bolded a gallant skip ani lanilit of toh iaaot egaorntein toall ti„t tlie h 11,011 Iiroo- ini wrecker'a crams had limited his life to 1 li's •••• •A' o,a1 eddeiintluoylIbitimititrnemkolnit.we'hig'ehtiEeof1 bbeurr It1.1s:eumd-- months since he had thought of her before. Yet it was only a few hours settee ha hal been revelling in joyous dooms of love, and vow- ing that he would not change con-. (talons 1, ith any railroad nabob of the post or sliver king of the far west. Ile vaguely felt that sock a ser Idea Mange of sentiment was not healthy -possibly not real. He had an raw") i was t= to id& Love, elj . And what ion Gould poesible ever i r his heart again for this daughter of his father's murderer and author of hie mother's eorrow f For the floret time et hours flank looked up. Mamie was smoothing the pillow under her father's Mout She stroked back lee long hair and Iter tender eyes were bit of tears. The *gilt did not gotten flank In the lead, Oa the cemtrary, It flit el lam with unreasoning rage This tem the women who nth' ales had loved him 1 Look at Iter there. dig - molting In tear& and tentierneee over his father'e murderer. Bank wonderwl why he had stay- ed there ea long near her ittel her mardetexte wrecker (.1 a father, He Ilevrveld lents4, ton Y1":aliemgre.Be would e. not leave, lie dill not Oren make the effort. And then he wondered why he diti aot go. He despised eneel,fertfoiriellt. going. But he stayed. Juet as the gray dawn began W creep 111 at the windows and to mingle with the pale lamplight the gray wrecker M the bed gasped convulsively and was itt111. Mamts, with a little fluttering cry, the first sound ehe had uttered since decking the servitor, of a kind ne:ghbor hour, before, seised her father's hand, and then laid one palm upon his forehead. For etweral minutes she hovered over Wm, Then with a asp she flung herself upat the bed bide him and burled her face in the pillow. One low, quiver- ing moan was the only sound ;the msde. Hank etartei a little. The old man must be dead, he thought. What a tremendous seise of relief catne with the thought! It seemed to Honk as if a chord which had been strangling him war euddenir eut. He breathed great draughts of air with a sudden muse of free- dom. Then he leaned forward 6041 listened to make sure. Yes, the lab- ored breathing which had been the accompaniment of all hie aony, had eteured. The old nuta was dead. The clock struck five. Each stroke was loud and clear -elated isheerful. Hank stood ap. Heavens, how stiff he was. Ile rubbed les legs and moved his arms, slowly at first, then ;Igor - may, How meld it wits! He looked at the fire. It wait nearly out. Ile otiltIreenwed itnhosomireaugetilittls Ho!, titzkield nantd the can window, but it was covered' N ,,N1111,11d101a,110i1111;.,1 illtizillkocuitl. to AtlItio 10001 Wal veld and still and white. Night was piing very fast, and Hank felt that blitek shadows were lifting trona les heart, too, The sky was clear. One large star blascil on the western 11001' won. It burrowed Its way through the sluidows, through the vviudow, (Imp down into Hanker heart anti made n, little glow there. Ile looked nt the river. The tide again was meriting out with tte ley burdens -lust ao it rimiest oat Met night as lo and Alatule stood under the pine tree, wrapped in melt other.* RCM, Alt, that glow in Ilia heart was a flame itow take you now, with heaven to w 'Wee, whatever comes, for better or for wove. If there be ft:Irked trials we will meet them -together." Those were the words he had epoken to her then. That wag the swept vow he had made, And how had he kept that vow ? The blood rushed into 111ank'e face. Traitor, voward that he 1,aml The Mune In het heart \‘'ele It bias- ing furnace now. Poor Mantle 1 Poor, crushed, 'ut- terly heartbroken girl ! Whitt mut hats been her nscony, her otter wretched hinelilleaS during this °writ!' night while he woe wrapped in selfish, in despicable dreams ? heart thumped 1101101Y, tut 111s blood had thickened in It. He timed and walked inisteudil,v to. ward the led it here Mantle still lay 160tlonloss and sillienn,t7Would alte-oh, . 1).1:17 1slie ,lespise l hut how still elle wee! Was elm- f1,11s Shoule,'. ho murmured thickly. Shp 0(11 n pale fate and looked at him no though lie was far off. He stretched out lets arrive A strange, yearning look enure into her eyes. Thus they looked Itt I'leh other, searching each the others4 soul with their etrained eyes. A minute pansed-a full round min - OP Of 00 long kende, and still throe t wo Nen relied ellently each °three soul. Teen they came together 111111 Hank drew her beelde him to a seat on the dead wreelterSt oaken chest, at the foot of the bed, and Mamie, Milking her head on her lover's eltoulder, wept as though her heart would break. The minutes passed. The clock ticket loudly. The fire blazed in the stove. There was mother sound. Mamie had ceased weeping. Her tired eyes had calrose.et d. She slept calmly In her lever m Then a noise was heard In front of the bOnee. The snow banked up aphid the east window was bra.lied awny. A ray of glad light, etralght from the eon, tieing redly from the men, @hot through the pane and into the room. It touched the edit bed, entered the beard of the grefy wrecker. It fell upon those staring dead MIN, which Mamie bad not known eneugh elms It bathed the face of MainieS lover In lte radiance and caromed the rich brown hair of the sleeping girl. And then came a Pimp rap on the pane, and Tommy ElkInce /thrill e cried out " Merry Christmas 1" River is Foeever Singing. 'There is something pecaiar about the Yukon River that I have MOW heard of in connection with any other streem," mid Captain Gray, who has recent* been renning beat* on the lig Alaska artery. "From tile mouth of the Yukon Up as far sts there is any navigable water the stream le constantly sing:ng. No natter where you are, there is a anted eke that made by escaping eloon, At first I lime to thitrk thol maybe it came from the boiler of engines Bud when we were tied up at leght with every- thing colt, 1let sound wits the 'mine. I have pezyli••1 my brain to find an explanation of the phenomenon, but withcso The singing goes on day .e1,1 Mght, . When you get up stream some distance you can aka be, r lhe rocks rolling over the bed of the river, and this produces a most pecuEnr sound.". -Por tie nd Telegram. NoMore Nitro -Glycerine Powder. mannfeeture of nitro-glyrertne powder for the uee of the army will is, abandoned and the army ordnanne ,tepartment toll adopt a pure soluble tetton powder, tilmilar to that toted by the navy, The division for this change is brought about by an acct. i'ent which relent lv weenie lat Suety llock while testing a 31 -titch gent and tell I1. t11 • wok' lett owder mad.) for use In fidnelt guns, but with the gralfia cut Itt half. The 0136050 01) this coras'on gave n premiere of over SO,. 000 ponnde, which exeeeded the pro, - sure gatlge of the gun, Several parte of the Leceth meettaniem were Injured. A Liberal convention WI been call. tel for Wedeestlay evening to Main. ate a candidate for the.approaehing bye -election for Winnipeg city. 17 1 1 1 I III st.