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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Blyth Standard, 1908-07-30, Page 3111 PAUL VANE'S WIFE) lisallo.441010440•400•61111b.,41P•416,•.410 14 NI\ 411"11110,41 Henceforth a warmer feeling grecs in ' fingers he Ives leering away the snow hi; helot toward Loraine, ,and as months I from Vieiao's grave. Loraine sate it yawn, sate the dank clods piled on one side, of the open chasm, as on the day when they hurled her, rival here. 'There was iter coffin with the grave mold creeping over it. She wondered, with n sort of frenzied expectation of yet fur. thor horrors, whether the dead would rise from tont coffin to confront her murderess. 'Chen she shrunk in fear, as, with a hideous, luring, devilish light in those unmuny eyes, the phantom form hov- ered above her as she cowered befo•o him, grasped her with its cold, slimy hands, and thrust her into the, yawning grave. "Tom grave awaits you, homily Ler n.!ne!" he Biased, in 0 voice of shuddering hate; but his word's fell on dull ears, for Loraine had suddenly become, 0 gib- bering maniac who thrust frenzied hands into her hair, tearing it out by handfuls, and laughing in wild glee as she saw that its raven darkness had changed to e silverysilverywhite.tr. His weird, unearthly nrthl y laughter mingled with hers as she felt herself falhnge falling. felling ---- went on, fled Loraine orulnnlh• usurp- ed the phare liraidmeve Lisle 1)1 at first taken in the correspondence, he began ,k look forward with strange P ieasere7llthe reception of those dainty perfumed missives from Arcady, in which Loraine poured forth her sym- pathy with his sorrow and grandmere's hangings for his return. But still he was too sick at heart to think of returning ,yet, Ho journeyed on to Mexain:10 a, ascended the "Vile, watched the sun set from the Pyramids, the moon rise over the Coliseum, wan- dered among the rains of Jerusalem, tented on the Thesbian Plains, and saw, the sun rise on Mont Blanc, It was the elose'..of, an October day when he found himself in London—a cold,foggy day, and at his bankers, Brown, Shipley & Co., he found letters awaiting him. One that was from Lor - eine startled him with tidings that her grandmother was an her death -beck. CHAPTER XXXVI. Christmas Eve nt Arcady. An ideal Christmas to -morrow would be, thought Loraine, as she dress, nside the heavy silken curtain and looked out at the snow•covered world lighted up by a full moonshining in resplendent glory from the Berk blue vault above. Every fir, pine, and hemlock wore ermine too cost- ly for an earl, and the poorest sprig on the ebb tree was ridged inch deep with pearl. All day the feathery white flakes bad been falling swiftly, noise- lesaly; but at sunset the storm cleared away, leaving• a splendid white world . covered with new fallen snow and silver- ed with glorious mooabeans. i-ioraine gazed at the radiant scene dor n fee mmnents,awhile a joyous smile parted her lips, then disrobed and threw herself upon her silken couch, to rest and dream of the, happy day that would dawn for • her to•mo•row. Wns it mouelts or hours that she slept of in the dint half light of the luxurious clamber ere she was startled by a ghostly nipping at her chamber door? It was the 'hoar when grave- yards• yawn and dead then wall(; and as Loraine sprung upright with it thrill of fear, the door opened wide and a ghastly visitant appeared or the threshold—a grinning skeleton form that emitted n pale. copse -like blue flame. Advancing, it turned its fleshless face toward her, and from the hollow eye -sockets shone a red, hellish light. Raising aloft its bony hand, it +beckoned Loraine to fol- low•. With 0 moan of fear, the girl eow- cred under the silken coverlet, hiding her face—but, horrors! the spectral in• tinder npproaehed the couch, and its skeleton fingers, 'With irresistible ferce, tore the soft' fabric from her frenzied grasp. She tried to shriek for help as the ley -cold, bony hand touched her warn temple; but her tongue cleaved to the roof of her"mouth. She could not titter a sound. "Conte!" uttered the spectre, bleakly; and Loraine, moved by an irresistible force outside her io\m volition, arose from her warm, white nest and followed the dread figure mut into the dark, cold corridors, down the broad, carpeted stairway, then through doors,,thnt open, ed as though by unseen ]ands, out into the cold, white, mysterious night. 10 leer thin white sural robe ale nuft, its delicate laces waving in the cold breeze, her dark, loseued tresses streaming wildly, her bare `feet bruised and bleed- ingas the hard crust of the scow lacer- ated the soft flesh, her dilated midnight eyes staring befc'te her with horror frozen in their depths, Loraine found • herself entering Forest Church yard, where gentle Nature had coverel the graves of high and lowly alike with a glittering mantle of ermine, On—still 011, and now Loraine, with a sudden prescience of the spectre's pur- pose, finds her power of speech restored, and falling on her knees beside 0 grave in the white path, shrieks aloud in wildest terror and entreaty: "No further—in pity's name, no fur- ther?" "Come!" answers the stern, hollow voice!; and, unable to resist, Loraine obeys. Yes, it is to Vivian's grave ho is sternly leading his cowering victim. There is lies white and cold in the silver light of the moon, the tall shaft stand- ing up above, twined about with dead branches of noon flowers that in the late ' autuni n flung their magnificent whits blossoms abroad to the air, dead now, Ike lovely, hapless Vivian. She, this sicked Loraine, falls on her knees and covers her face with her slender hands. "Look, beautiful devil?" a menacing voice breathes in her ears, and lifting her blanched face from her trembling hands, she was the witness of a terrible scene. Hr piaci of the fleshless skeleton face she beheld the corroding features of Gerald Holmes, whose spectre hand haunted her so many times before. The ghastly face wore a look of vengeful hate ash( hissed: "Loraine, in presence of your victims, read your doom(" Loraine saw the skeleton hand up- raised. The long, bony forefinger moved across the letters cut in the Marble shaft, and as the name Vivian faded in the cold, phosphorescent light emitted by the skeleton figure, her horrified eyes beheld in fiery characters: . "Loraine!" Mute `with terror, divining some fell purpose whose dread.import she scarce dared divine Loro.ine crouched in the cold snow, watching her enemy with a fascinating gaze. 4 x x ro # # She awoke with a start. It was only a dream—but such a dream! Was it stn 0111011, or a warning of the dread, had, black futtlee that was beginning for her today? CHAPTER XXXVII, Prom that startling dream or visior. Loraine Lisle awoke to her wedding -day, for on this glorious Christmas morn she rens to become the bride of Paul Vane. Slowly the colon came hack to her fare, and her dark, oriental eyes gleamed with hope as she thought of the new, sweet life that would date from to•da y, But so vivid bad been bet• dream that she flew; to see if indeed her splendid night -black tri sea had dialoged to sib vor. No, then raven lustre was mot dim- med. "Oh, how glad I au that I an so beautiful—teal -tines more beautiful than Vivian was. 1 will make him for- get her very memory'!" slue cried, ex- ultantly; and moved end touched by pride in the love that she had won, Loraine fell on her :knees and prayed —not for forgive:ess for her sins, but that Heave, would bless her marriage with the man ehe loved, No one in Lisle Was midi surprised at the way things had turned out. The gossips had always predicted this mar rage—tont is, ever sine Paul Vane had returned from abroad hastened by the illness of old Mrs, Lisle. From the first day of his cooing, Lornie's marked preference lead leen patent to every ob- server, and no one believed it possible that be could resist the blandishments of this #iron -of beauty. But then it seeped rather soon fora marriage when the flint wife, pretty, gentle Vivian, had been deal little more than a year. But old Mrs. Lisle explained the haste of the marriage, by saying that it was at her own desire it took place so soon. And to do her justice ache was concur scions of the artful hints by which Lor- aine had influenced her to this end. Grandinere had almost entirely recov- ered from her illness, and she fancied that her convalescence had been great- ly helped on by the return of her fav- orite, the young rector. When he has- tened hone, after learning in London the new of her illness she, confided to him all her anxieties over her grand- daughter, proud, willful Loraine, whom she was soon to die and leave alone in the world. "I wanted to see you so much,"Paul, for I wanted to eontmend Loraine to youi` friendship and care, She is focal of you, I know and will look to you for advice when I amt gone." And so- clay by day the spell worked until it had caught deep in its meshes c' the ntan'a heart fancy. Reat sled fa ?adiagthe love in thegirl's splendid eyes, his own leaped to meet it, and Dile day, under the spell of ieatty's thrall, words were spoken that sealed Paul Vase's doom for time lied eternity. 1 She promised to be his wife, and af- ter that it was .easy to hurry up the marriage. Grandnrere declined that sire waw J feet happier when en it was ever, and Loraine said she had always want- ed to be married or Christmas Day. i, # # 4 # joyously the bells rang out on the crisp, sharp air "Peace of earth, and good-wili to meat" Arcady and Forest Church were adorned with wreaths of Trolly and mistletoe in honor of the day and the festal occasion. Loraine bad in- cited many friends to Arcady, and am- ong them her guests of 01e natal sunt• mer of one year ago Jesie Thm1lton, Freda Nnrdyz, and Beryl Meadows were to net no bride• raids; Frank Barrett aid Harold •\liendiows no ushers and Willie Be vers was Paul Vane's best man, Mrs, Aubrey was there in all her glory, her .chief r t at being the fact that Colonel POtfie was one of the very few people whoihad sent regrets instead of ucceptanee 71 return fouwed- ding cards, La Bella Lovable tossed her proud lend in anger at his refusal. She would have liked for hint to witness her triumphs. Will beautiful Vivian return in time to prevent this maddest marriage that ever was consummated, or will the bit- ter seed be sown that must reap such a cruel harvest of woe? CHAPTER XXXVIII. Summer is dead! The winds around her grave Mounted a low requiem through the chilly night: And the sweet flowers that to earth she gave Lie in her tomb, all withered at the What next? sight, Olt, the horror of 111 With akeletottThe frost's sharp sword stabbed Sum lire to the heart; :1ntl then October and in her blood .k pencil dipped, and ttitli'a Wondrous art Painted with crimson ail the sighing wood. And this is why such beauties mole ,adorn The earth where lately Summer reign- ed n queen, ,lad this is why that at each early morn Sneli glorious colors in the (amide are seen. W. J. Ilonners, jun. "Way up among the mountains of 011 Virginia the hinter snows were piled deep and white on the hill -side& and in the deep ravines by- the Natural Bridge, where in summer the bright greens clothed the face of N f• tine. From the stone chimney, of the Morley cottage nestling in the snort' rose tip 0 eheerful blue smolt and nithiu was the sweet bustle of Christ, Inas morning. Emma Morley had been up betimes, and now that breakfast was laid 00 the snowy cloth one could look around on the pretty Thome picture; the little moth with walls of pearly grey, the carpet that looked like a field of daisies and blue asters, a wide, open- ti1'roated, old-fashioned 'chimney' -place where the fire -logs blazed and flared nod eiaekted, making a cheerful, happy :mend. A tobbyeat lay beside the bright bob, and on a low enieket close to the tiled hearth sat a pale, thin little figure, with her sightless eves, large and blue, likc summer violets, turned toward the glow of the cheerful fire. As Emma Morley hustled in with the bright enffee-pot front whose nozzle came a pungent, appetizing odor, the girl wilit the hair of "golden gold" turn- ed with a sweet, childish smile, and from that smile and the restless me - antacid way in which her small, white hands worked, twilling and interlacing themselves together, one read the sot, row•fel truth—she • was ferble,mninded and blind, our sweet, suffering' Vivie , After that terrible night long ago, when, in her deliriums, she had almost met leer death from falling over the Na - total Bridge, the light of day had never pierced those beautiful eyes. She had not seen the folb,ge turn at the frost's first touch of vivid colors or King Win- ter feign with his iev sceptre over the hold nitrl his hitter foe, Queen Summer, halted:has irleles with ler warns, sweet smiles, after Ile `blossoms tnthe light at Spring's sweet calling horst." Those poor, sightless eyes enuld net take in these varied beauties of Nature. Still, she stayed on with these loving friends and tender hearts; for Mrs. Morley said: "I eon never send her away until her friends claim her from Emma, and Sebastial, and Neddy, and Robin; for although 'Bossy is only a Clog, and Neddy a canary, and Robin n pony, yet God has given 0 sense of love to these dumb pets, and they all love the touch of her .tender little. hands. Alt, well, there!" she •ended with her fermate phrase, wiping the moisture from lir kind eyes, end look. ing up to the: mantel at the ,sotto, framed in Christuta-greens, which said: '•I was a stranger n id •ye tool: Mein." • Yes, the,' kind widow and her daugh- ter had taken- this' poor unknown waif to their, warnahea•th, There, sheltered by their homely roof, she had stayed on and on, "Verily, as ye have done this unto the least of My little ones, ye have done it mate Ale." Mrs. Morley entered with Emma, bearing a big platter of smoking buck- wheat cakes and fried sausages. Then she took l'irinu gently by the hand and led herr toward the tattle placed by the big, wide window; putting her kindly in, to the loge cushioned chair, her special seat. Eutma stooped and kissed her on the w'bite foretold, whine the golden eorls.Paul Vote:bad loved to play with in the nttld long syne envied so pretti• le; std as she poured the golden syrup over the hot buttered cakes for her helpless guest, murmured, "A loopy Christnms, sweet sister!" Emma felt very blithe and happy this l 11y t morning, fon she Was expecting her lov- c.n Charley, on a visit from Alderson, West V'irginia', where he had settled last fall to poaltleemedicine, She finn- ed Dr. \MillerCla�le_,y,, for be was her no, a"tri this brave, kind young 111001isfhad,f\onn her romantic heart,. '!"tisk,s sy's''0; , '1 wnot to flake ato�f 'with me as my bride, defier he had isnid "`o her \then he removed -to Alderstot; but 1'hlima answered, blushinga "I 001 too young yet, and, I must stay with nmrnfiba"Mid Nadia" She called Vivian Vithe` by that sweet name, for she had read in a smuggled novel of a young girl -,by thatname who was blind and;,•weak•m» nded. "Wild''She always be blind and situ- ate1" Klima had asked her love', be. fore he went away, and he had an- swered: "A'grent shock of some kind ]las shat- tered her reason, and only a shock can restore it" While still nt the table the sound of sleigh -bells broke gayly on the frosty in,. h 'e'. ata "It is -Charley!" With a qm 1 Emma era "'Jingle ay; bells, jingle, bells; jingle MI the d oh! whin full 'tis to ride in a one-horse open sleigh!'" BM Emma Was mistaken, and the joyous Christmas greeting died unuttcc. mil on her lips. A party of strangers were in the sleigh that had drawn up before the cottage in the wood, and the hoed - some gentleman in the front seat arose Nod bowed politely to Emma, "1Vi11 you tell no the way to Neteral Bridge? Our train has been delayed two hours by n snow -bank unbend, nnd..n', int - proved the opportunity by driving up to see the eighth wonder of the world,'not mole with hand9'" .He received no answer, for as he utter- ed the Inst words he had glanced up and seen the fare of the blind gid, who was sitting at the window with n weak smilo on he; delieetely moulded lips. He sorting down front his seat in high excitement and rushed past Emma into the cottage, The blind girl had'risen at -the unusual exeitement, and stood pale nod trembling violently before him its he staid as at n ghost. "Vivian? is it Vivian Vane?" he burst forth, in wildest agitation, gazing at her with his startled soul in his-e-yee. Vivian wee it Vivian? No, it_oottld not be, this pale, slim creature, staring so blankly before her with that dull, stupid air. IIis lost love Vivian—Paul's wife—the woman he had mourned so long as dead, by whose grave he had sworn such as bitter vote! His senses reeled, his head swam; he grasped a chair for a moment and reeled blindly forward. ` For 0 moment only, then soddenly it all flashed oyer bine the startling lin truth. t t { t :Che woman who slept under the elute shaft near Forest Church was not his lost love, but some natteloss-waif;; and she, Vivian, was here—here among: the wild Virginia hills, blind and unknowing. Oh, God, Clow terrible! As Inc stood staring at the beautiful wreck before hint with dazed eyes 0 great W0111101' came over him. \Vas it all a dream, his leaving Rich- mond last night to keep his vow of vengeance against Loraine (for he head meant to tell Pant Vane the terrible sec- ret of Lorainos bad., black past); the detcntiott at the,Nattiral Bridge station of his train in the early dawn 0 Christ- mas Day; Use journey'tu the bridge to pas the two hours of torturing suspense that must intervene ere the iron steed geoid tear on to Lisle, and his vengeance he complete? Some time in his childhood its had heard at his mother's knee the words, 'Vengeance is mice, I will repay, s:dth the Lord." Here, in this Supreme mo- ment, he felt its full significance, for Providence had intervened' in his behalf by raising up this powerful weapon, as if beim the dead, with which to meal: a wily woman's spell from around a good man's heart, Reverently and _with something like awe Ile approached tine trembling figure before hint, and, taking the nervous little hand in his, spoke to her in tones of such thrilling tenderness that ever afterward Widow Morley would say, "It made me think of the Moon of Sorrows. ells, well, there!" the favorite ending of her speeches. "Mrs. Vane—Vivian, don't you know met he asked, eagerly. "Why are yaa lure a, this time, when your husband; Paul fate, is to be married to your em. erey, Loraine Lisle?" "The hotly is blind, sir—blind and week minded," interposed sirs. Morleyj in a timid, explanatory voice, Why did lee not die in that supreme montebt? Heaven and earth seemed to meet Eugene Fairlie shivered from head to foot; to choking, gasping soh escaped him, aitd two big tears rolled gently,. down his (heeks, Pressing the little hand' that he stil beta gently and tenderly, he repeated, yearningly: "Vivian! Vivian! Do you not retnem- her I'aul Vane? Do you not remember Loraine Lisle? Look in my fnec, poor girl, and, for God's sake, say that .you remember me, Eugene Fairlie!" r The hag, sumnter•violet eyes tuned slowly and settled on his face with a vacant star; 0 momentary smile flitted over those pallid lips, and thein, ever 80 faint and low, came forth the whispered words: "Vivian?? Paul? Loraine?" A tliekeing light of reason begat to dawn in the pale, sweet face, and she moaned in terror: "1. know yon, Eugene 'Pantie! -Save nc, save my child! Oh, God! the eaglet 1 am falling!" She sial: in a swoon to the floor, the dazed brain recalling in the first moment of couseiousne.ss the words she had uttered 00 falling front the balloon that fatal day, fTu oe continued.) • nt the door, meaning cheer - THE TORTURES soothsayers, astrologers and court eu- nuchs, appeared on a porch and seemed to enjoy the spectacle hugely, WOMEN SIFE1e dsoovinntaemroosntgcrithftie children and took personal direction of the events After all the cornpotipg Can be Relieved by Keeping theemidnrn were ted with exhaustion Io1rP Curren sense of hunter asserted itself. Blood Sup,�1y Rich With Dr. "Yaw," said he, "we will have a race Williams' Pink Fills. for the court chamberlains and another for the soothsayers;' There was no gainsaying orders of i9 gainsaying � Majesty, and all the chamberlains Ind to pair off in renins and run the regnin cd distance.' Irrespective of ' girth, weight of years Or of dignity the grave, court attendants had to grin childishly,• gird up their flowing robes; and giro ai extra tie to the strings 0 their outland, isitbonnets—and then run. "Itis Majesty seemed to hake pleasure ht;t1' spectacle," says the Nicbi Ndchi Shimbun of Tokio, _t Woutaa needs a blood bufldiiet m:hta,ite regulaciy just oecausae site hi a woe:ut, Fruun n 0turity to middle life, the health and happiness of every wvnman depend; upon her blood, its rielteess and its regular- ity. If her blood is poor and watery alio is weak, languid, pale and• nen volts, 1f her blood supply is irregular she suffers from headaches, backaches, sideaehes and the other unspeakable distress which only vgin en kn bV, Some women have grown to, expect, this suffering et replier litterralsi and to bear ti in hopeless ` silence. 13ut women would escape much of this misery it they took a box 'm• two of Dr. 1lrllions' Pink: Pills to help them over each eriticul -period. These Pills actually make new blood. They help a woman hist when uatnr•e makes the greatest demand upmt her blood supply. They have done this for thousands of.wnnnen .throogheut Can- aila,.w•hy not for ,you? 1lrs, Joseph Kinney, Gilberts s Cove, iN. S, says: 'Tor teen years I suf- Schoolboys' Weather Observations. In interesting method of instructing boys in that pairt of nature study per- taining to the atmosphere has been de- vised by John Reid, the headmaster of the 1!eckleford Council School at Yeovil. Each dad' of the school week several. bo re sent to the corporation gas � t 1 wit 1 s to opy the records of baron ter movements and. 00 there 1«int otie 00 too less experienced Lads accompanying them. 'Meanwhile other boys mite the direction of the wind and record the temperature from readings of thermome- ters hang' in the open on the north and south shies aJ-the school The teacher at the class then enters the particulars on a sheet, and encourages the scholars to make deductions from the collected t'tt.t, The boys copy the results, and every Fridey they write an account of their observation, in the forst of "gem oral remarks" on the week's weother.a_ 1 oudoh Evi-ning Standard. ♦ 4 Between the Acts. Concrneses Well, Marjorie, have you do re e sing? 1111 jorle—Ne, I haven't- I'm only resting, -Punch, NOT A JOYOUS HONEYMOON. Garibaldi and His Bride Passed It in the Saddle Fighting for Freedom. The honeymoon of Garibaldi and his wife Anita was a campaign of brilliant sen fights that would have done credit o John Pawl Jones, At its disastrous ending, when their ammunition was ex- hausted and it was time to take to tlie woods, Anita fired the last caution shot, helped to ley the trains to blow up the vessel and was the last over the rail as fererl from nerrousttes nod thmeo ( the ship went to the bottom of the sea. ferehles,ahnt make'11' lives of seo To the woods they went and there be, lvorireu one of the almost constant gent C u•ibnhb s =relater (neem as one of misery?1t tiniest wonlal lac con- l the nuhtary marvels of the century, finedto inc_irrl for weeks. 1 spent In the service of Rio Grande du Set, le"epless,'nights, and seemed to loan' with nnlitnry supplies always at the e. all coinage. [tried several rloetnts,' zero point, this picturesque (soldier de - all hitt they failed to give uu any re - 'fief. The hast fleeter I consulted• told ate frankly that he could not under - tike my ease unless 1 would undergo an examination. ft rens then I de- cided to, give Dr. Williams' Pink Pills at total. After tnlanr, six boxes, was meeh improved in health, but I continued. to tithe the Pills for a couple of months more, when I felt like a new woman. 0011 was enjoying smell health a 1 11511 not esperieneed for ten yogi's boforgr• L: have had no return of ,ibis trfM' s slice, but I have midi ole Pills Ce i&ince that suit, only a little less savage in its ter - time for tt1e after eff4' `'p4 in grippe, rots, Anita rode with the general. n r the result v n l�fi^ hoped for. At the end of one of the foree1 fold tl e - ens 1 p These are plain facts from my own marches—n flight of unusual lengtltand expe•ienee, and I have always felt that great hardship—Menotti was burn. I eannot too strongly recommend Dr. Williams' Pink Pills`. to the miry women who suffer as 1 did." 'Yon eon ,t these Pills from anv dealer, in medicine or lie mail at 50 cents a biz, or six hoses for 52,50. front The Dr, IVilliems' Medicine Co., lired: rill(, Ont, 4•♦ AN AIRSHIP Ll1. To be Established Between New York and Boston. velopcd'0 genius for battle, ,t skill in re- treat, 0 persistence in pursuit and a patience in camp that amazed the Bra- zilians, endeared him to his followers and made hint the idol of Anita. It was a', war of magnifieent distances and 1 slto•t rations, Nand -to -hand fights with thin bayonet and • 100 -mile flights oyer vast stretches of treeless plain and path- less wilderness were the lot of all who • in those days rode with Garibaldi. Whether it was the heart -breaking re- treat—with privations and sufferings al- most unthinkable—or the tireless purr ,13astnn, . Mass.:- duly 2.7.—Passengers between New York mud Bosom. will within eighteen meal's be travelling hi airships operated by American aerial navigation companies, 'm eo dnngi to at atnouueeutent liy-•Charles J.. Glidden, the autoutobilist; ir9ttr hes recently l . coue,eit ettlt usl:r•rie balloonist. Olid• den ser., a ooutpaop, commissioned to 10• corporate which tau granted to -dr- by the • C!Orpornttons Commissioner, wili use either dirigible balloons 01• aere- pinucs, Its purpose will be to menufse• tore and operate. aerial devices and to ,establish aerial routes for the tranquil, union 1/1 freight and passengers in the. United States, Canada and Mexico, With relay stations at Springfield and _Ce vv Gniveu, trips between Nev i'o•is and Bestial can be made most of the yee withal seven or eight hours.. G'lid• des plats to experime tt fust with small balloons, capable of carrying one or two passengers besides the operator. Stetio;s will be established •'lose to street ear linea on the outskirts of cities, 44.4 AN EMPEROR'S JEST. Corean Court Dignitaries Have to Run, Races for His Enjoyment. Recent Japanese papers recount an in- cident of palace Life in Corea whieh,;ae- fending to 'Japanese interpretation,, 11- lustrates the delicate wit of. Ertgcr• or of Corea. It appears that tlie Em• peror was about the oily one in the palace who appreciated the joke. Some weeks ago he got the idea of entertaining sone of the school children of Seoul within the palace enclosure. A dun was set for the entertainment and a general iuvitatiou sent out to the two schools that pass under the name of public institutions in that shabby old town. About 400 children went to the eidetic grounds. Some of the palace chamberlains re- ceived the youngsters and arranged a series of athletic games for their compe- tition. In the height of tine running and leaps* the Emperor, accompanied by the Empress, her court ladies and the Twelve days thereafter the denoted mother, the embodied spirit M the splen. did trooper, was again in the saddle. With the child in her ams and iter car, bine at her baric, she was in her usual place at the head of the eohuun.—Na- irnei Midgazine. It Parrs. When the dimpled baby's hungry, what dors the baby do! 11 doesn't lie serenely and merely sweetly NO; The hungry baby bellows w'itlt all his little night 'fill someone gives it something to curb its appetite; The infant with the bottle which stills its fretful cries A lesson 5Llin13' teaches—It pays to advertise. The lamb lost on the hillside when dark- ness closes round Stands not in silence trembling and wait- ing to be found; Its plaintive bleating echos across the vales and meads Until the shepherd hears it, and, hear- ing; kindly heeds, And ,whet its fears are ceded, as on his breast it lies, The Tenth has made this patent: It pays to advertise, The fair rind gentle, u'.jnidcn W110 (eves the bashful boy Assumes when in his presence a manner that is coy; 'She blushes and Sin trembles till he perceives at last, And dlasps her closely to :Tim and gladly holds her fast, And as In bends to kiss her and she serenely sighs, This fact is demo st•oted: It pays to advertise. —S. E. Kiser. in Chicago Ilerald•Record. Nailing Him. 'fie—It's jolly nice to kiss one like you, She—(No answer.) Ile—"That is, of course, if she doesn't mind. She— (No answer.) ]Ie—lf she gets mad 1 other thing. She—(No answer,) Ile—I'd like to steal R++'y,55 She—(No answer'.) Ile—If it would he, qui She —Have you finisle Ns—e-011, yes! She—Then how can fool remarks 'when y abeam. and ' entirely • Young's lb,gnnnet• SHREDDED Start the Day Right by Retie SHREDDED AT for breakfast with ?talk or cream and a little fruit. It is a mltedlebuildiug food, easily di. gested by r fldoat delicate stomach. Pats Vimin - dor Into Tired Nerves and Weary Brains SOLD BY ALL GROCERS 1001 W HE AT