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Show What Alice suffered doubtless upon. I do not even know. How she unfalt Ingly forgave, the angel of the book must have recorded In words ws bars learned on earth. Through It all, I Jaek Akira drank bcav.ly while he waa in collide, but we tailed liliu a good fellow. After be le.T college be began to drluk beariljr and to 1st a gots! fellow, but we called him a ilruuk-ard- . When he was tweuty-flv- e yemw old, I looked upon b!ui as a lost mau. I believed that he would be a mere not at thirty, and that lie would die miserably before he wan thirty-live- . We lost etirli other for Koine years, and then, after a chance meeting in , New York, I dined with liliu must happily in tlie comfort of hia home and In the light of a lieautlful woman's eyes. AYben that light was withdrawn, and we were left to dim the remaining illumination with a haze of tobacco smoke, 1 fell Into d'ep thought upon tho agreeable failure of my pliopheej. What had saved Jack? 1 might have said it was his marriage, ltut 1 knew Unit he liml fallen Into the depths again Soon after. Hearing that report, i hud and had thought pitied her the wont of Jaek. Yet 1 eotild not liti t doubt t he wiin at last In tin sure well 1 felt that way. Knowing nim some surprising Incident must have changed the course of his life, and my curiosity eravi-- the Ktory. "I k'miv what you'll thinking shout, said he. 'You'll! wondering why I am l..'iv l.iKtead of being in tliu gut-- ! ter." think her irluelial anxiety was to preserve our home. "1 will i.ot weary you with the story of her struggles. There Is nothing so mean as iuui-y- , slid the less you have of It the meaner It is. dm inn reap a fortune at arm's length, but a few pcnuics will sneak into an Intimacy with nil'll owner which will desperately assail Ids si if rcsMct. May heaven forglie the man who will not guard his wifi- - trim that. If ho can; and I could, but did not, fur the sake of my appetite. At last there mini a day like that when 1 borrowed tin money from Kn-- n is. only fur itio.-serious. It was Wixlnesil'iy, and the polite collector hud mentioned Friday (he day when meu are liaugixl as the probable occasion of a humiliating experience for me. After many heart breaking 1 raised the necessary amount. I had preserved my connection with Allen A Graves. and was still In charge of their New York ottlee, lmt my Ksitluii was In Jeopardy because of my habits, and my salary waa 1 boroverdrawn and siju.tiidered. rowed that money of one of our Andy Glfa'iui. You know him. He said that ho wanted to 'talk business.' Andy cannot talk business coinfurl ably except In a liiptor sahsin. The demon inside me welcomed htin as a was certainly an excuse. friend, lb-rIt wus a matter of business to preserve my friendly relations with Audy. "The next thing I rciuenilier distinctly Is opening m.v eyes in total darkness. 1 thought at lint I was blind. How long it took me to discover when 1 was I am iiiiahl to say. lu lenllly 1 was I) lug ill Hie little vestiI got upon my feet, bule of my ollli-e- . cjieiied the Inner dour and turned on tl elcitrle light. My wnteh had j stopped, but from my windog 1 could ss flu Illuminated dial In the tower of tin city hall. It wus nearly midnight. Hut what midnight I hail no Idea whether 1 had lsxu tlnie days or u month. My inind was so stiipi'lied that I e itihl lint nsceit.'iin the ilate lit any of ihe vvuys which would li.'IVi suggest isl tlieiiisi'lves to me In my iiunn.il i nnditinti. There was a newspaper on my desk. My eye rested lloll It without intent: but at Inst one word seemed to detach It- self from the nige. It was llu day of the wix'k ill the dille line of the iaMr, and that day was Friday; then It was ulreatly hsi late. "Then was a pistol iu the drawer of my desk, and, somehow, though my hands trembled so that 1 could hardly hold the key, 1 mumiged to opni the lis-anil at last to secure the wenisiti. Yet it hcciiiihI an Idle anil cowardly thing to do. to die without a struggle. to iieccpl the ixiiisisiiimis of my fall as tluul. I put the pistol Into my MM'ket Mild hasleliixl from the ofltec. Hut one thought was iu my mind -- to ham the worst at omx. She would forgive me, certainly. Even u brotlier j ; I j ; ; . " y invs-Icrlc- d j : hr j . j ei.m-eale- - 1 s I 1 1 s u n e "Oh, no, .ho k, said I, ''iiolhlng of the sort. I always knew you would come out all right. You drink a little at " one time, of course, lmt No 1 didn't," wild Jaek. "I never drank a little. I druuk a liarrel. Moderation wasn't hi me. I was a drunkard. I lived the life of a dniukiinl. 1 died the death of a drunkard." "MetaphnrivnllyV" "Literally. That may leniml absurd, lmt It lx only the truth. Norihiug hut death could Km me. ' "Not even "No, not even Alice." 111m eyes llllixl with (ears of tender- Hess at the mention of Ills wife's limn. "1 was never so wrung headed," lie eonliniiixl. "us to supNu that a mat! eau Is saved 'll' love alone. Any person who has had eerleuee In sueli matters knows that nit added motive for sobriety Is an added temptation to j the drunkard. You sm a man marry j and kixp seller for n while. Then you six him take a drink ngaln. You say It Is liecniiKC his love has waned with tin honeymoon. It's im such tiling. At first he does not drink lsxaiise the novelty of the situation kixp.x Ills mind IT the subject. Marriage sixms like n great vaeatlon from the dulliiewi of life. And then love grows stronger till he lNgi:is to renllxe what It Is. The preclotiNinxM of Ills possession reveals Itiw-i- r to him. He who has more than Ms due Is never fnx from fear. What If he lose her? llu reviews the dangers. In the front rank of them he sees his apiietile. And that Is the eml of him. As soon ns lie knows that It will be absolutely fatal for him to touch a drop of liipmr he Is certain to do It. That was iny experience, and my sin was the grealer because I knew It all beforehand. "Yet you ecnted the, consixpieiiix-s.1 have No; It killed me,-n- s already said. I will tell you tin story. You nr a tragixly ran make a out of it, Just ns you like. It Is a ghastly Joke. Mother Nature Is the Wfcf Isiil Soul Upturned. grimmest practical Joker, after all, a ml can claim (be limes seven, mid this Is the way she played It on me. with a far seventy more imicnr right would s Hut first 1 must let you Into the of our early housekeeping. 'I lie pliad again. This tail should lie my details seem trivial, lmt they cnutrllmt-c- lust. "It. seemed I was at home ns If by to final catastrophe. I began with file usual drunkard's iimglc. The key liiruixl In the street ' I climbed the dark stairs aud hsiani-e-othe wrong side of flu ' door. i isks. We took a flat In that long row came to the third lauding, breathless with my liiisli. The small key turiuxl 1 pointed out to you as we came up town on the L. Our furniture we pro-- , In the lock, but tin door dhl not onii. cured on the liistuliineiit plan, lr was Then was nothing alarming about not luxurious, of course, but you should j thnt; Aliee often used the seroiid l.iek make herself more seeure. hare s.x'U how pretty a home Alice l. "'Allei-' I called, and shook tin made with it. There were weekly puy-- ' resprivo. 1 uients to lie met: and for a mouth or door. Then was no was a cmfiiM'. Hun')', then more the rising suu and I wen ixpial niodel'i of punctuality. Then 1 let It sound wllln. n miinnur. as of the Is exluiustixl with go for a week. Nothing hnppeiied. I weeping of olii who was somewhat surprised at that, for the sliediling id tears. It was almost to li ml that she was there. my ixmtract with ilto dealer had been aWerelief had no friends to whom she nmhl more binding that the shackles of Israel In Egypt. Another week slipped go In mi emergency, but if tin nmtua by. and another. Various causes re- were Inn she might have taken ref- I duced our funds to a low chit. l'ns-entl- y uge with inuipanitivi strangers. name again. It seemed iim 1 owed $fi). A polite collector Koke came. I promised Immediate settle- - if the noise within ceased. I thought incut, a ml lie dcpuriixl. 1 was in re- - that she was coming to the door, lmt reive my monthly ehix'k from the Phil- she did r.et. (ei'taitdy she had liranl adelphia office iu a few days, and I re- me. "I'iil she deliberately cm lude me? lied upon that. Something delayed It. I borrowed J.TO froiu John liniiis. anil Had she learned of iny debauch? Had as he give me tho cash he looked at I bix'ii guiliy of Mimelliinu more than drunkenness'.1 In th uie in a peculiar way. " 'He thinks i'll go off on n spree and darkness whi.-the last and 'ul!y apeud this money,' said 1 to myself, thnx ibiys what itmadness lay, f.'igiitttii but ii'ViK-ablnritii'ii. Ill iny past? Hut erli:i)is slo m I I lorn a m:nb iioisat tin asleep. doer, as loud as I dsircd. fcaiir.g to let t the Oilier Inina 's i;i the hullse klinv ir my ilisgr.nx. 'I l.eii wax no answer. "Confused, gl'ii'ii id aud utterly sick at lir.irl. I sank dowu ilpotl the floor and sat tbrir leaning against tin- wall. ita lmt know bow long. At HuiPfi I felt resent uii'iit against her. aud then 1 CM'llscd iny in it fault with weak argii'pents: again. I tell into nldcct plead tig. with my bps alimst against tin1 door. And then, in d 'si'ora! mn. 1 in my pncki I, thought r I'.i aiiil was mi t in lii ink ol death. Yet. through it all one hb'a giew sima-gsax the 01111111 faded -- I longed to Si e her itgaiti. 1ledgi-rest to my lips ami then I Drew Mr Ihtriirr anil Ailvanreil which no man could uti--r- . I non Him. violate; which no woiu.-.could hear, I. and then I niu slip Id, "Great hcavi-as- , what unmoved, from If I should !' "It eati'.e Into my mind to hurst ths "It Mrms alisur.l to be simlii'.ciii:i1 door, aud had got illicit ny feet to sbotit a few sticks of furniture, but make the effort wl.ei I was aware of when a man Is newly married titid has Ihe sound of some pei'sun asienduig a home for :!u first time In ten yens, the stairs IhI.hv It e. I had no w isli to lie may Ik panloncd for an cxixssive Ik discovered iu sueli a pliiht. and so anxiety to keep it uudistiirbcd. That 1 put my back it gainst tin d.sir and anxiety wiir of course, iny chief dan- kept ipiite still. The hall wax as dark ger. The drunkard Is always on the as it rollin. 1 ill not sic the man who edge of a precipice, mid If he looks passed me. nor did lie have a suspicion down he will cast himself Into th of iny pivKi'iiee. Ho went up the stairs depths. It is the same, perhaps, with to the next lauding and then paused. I wailed for ihe noise of the door's all mortal perils; they linve a fascination. I looked dowu that day aud was closing, but It did not come. Instead, 1 beard a dragged over tho brink. light, peon liar sound which, "That was the beginning of such deg even in m.v uiixeries, aroused my curi1 name to any osity. I .romrnibciod suddenly, that could not radathm ns man but a true friend. Tin poverly Ijiwnaiecs, who occupied tiie flat which drunkenness entails is not nearly altovc. were nwny fnun ihe city. What the worst of It, anil yet thnt ah me lx auk tills man deing at their door? haart-ruudito louk lark to eiiduro "I ascended the stair uouc-Uoalfarce-comed- Thera waa a ray of light above. It came f win a dark lauteru tu the bauds of a mxD w ho kneeled before the aoor examining the lock, lu an luataoat a wild ami absunt thought eaute to ms. I drew my revolver and advanced upou this man. lie beard mo and turueil. Knoiigh of tin light from his lauteru struck upon liix face to show uu a picture of fright. burglar evidently had uut tho courage suited to his profession. Dui't be alarmed,' sahl I. If you do what 1 tell you, uuil do it promptly, I will bt you go.' He looked at the revolver and then Itu uttered r sort of growl which rs ; ' DAIRY AND POULTRY. Su greater the amount of flesh laid on. Give them a large yard and never allow anybody- or anything to frighten them. Il is the undue exercise that exhausts SuerMifdl Fariaara llparal This the flesh and not the exercise they HaparmsBt of ttix l ame- - A Fc take fur their own pleasure. As I have Hint to Iba (ui of Urs fctocfc slated, keep them quite hungry for ml Poultry. five days, then increase their feed, being very careful not to overfeed them, F I.ATU. fashion and you will be surprised at the amount able iii thla counof fat they will lay on. The time retry have taken to quired to fatten a duik should not exwork In the dairy, ceed fourteen days. As soon ss they i a y a Chicago get fat they will commence shedding Chronicle. The fad their feathers. Then pick out the fattnew is not by any est and dress us they will get them, nieanri. Marie Anfull of In three days. If toinette, when tired dressed at the right time the feathers of court gowns, will pull out very easily. If picked too courtesies and in- toon they will be very tight and likely trigues. went to her to fetch the skin along; while if too dairy, which baa a place In his- late the will be very nutory. AVhat the beautiful Austrian merous. They must be shaved. A woman" did was, of course, imi- shoemaker's knife with a quite narrow tated, and French women of high blade is the best. Grind It very thin degree were soon busy making butter. half way to the back, then use a razor The Prineeaa of Wulea, who had been strop and keep it sharp enough to shave-withIf the pin feathers are cut close brought up in the most democratic fashion by the sensible Danish king, to the skin they will not injure the found that actually milking the cowa sale lu the least. 1 have reference to at Sandringham and superintending the dry pirking. Of course the dairy gave her better health than all can be pulled out when they are scaldthe medicine of the court physician. ed, though It will pay to always dry The Princess Maud also learned to be pick as you cannot hold scalded stock, an adept and no dairy maid in that while dry picked stock will keep innrltish iaie can beat young royalty definitely, whiili means a great deal making butter. Some time ago that when the market is overstocked: and favorite, Fanny Davenport, lost her will sell for enough more at any time health. Nobody saw or heard of her. to puy for the extra trouble. A nervous prostration was sabl to be Tll IslMMP, the cause of her retirement. Then No fowl can be rt ared with as much came a rumor from her country place. t ami with so little care as the She was milking two cows ut dawn, After they have attained the guoe. skimming the cream off yesterday's of four months but little attention age milk, and finally churning a little other than supplying plenty is dasher in a little blue churn, of required u good grins range and fresh water, until she could lift out great spoons of y a scrupulously roosting place, came yellow butter. Then tlie report whiti'h must alio lie free from lice and that she was well again. Tlie finest other vermin fuiul to the young, says private dairy in the world helongs to Review. If it is impossible to Governor I,evi P. Morton, who built it Fancier's the next best subfree provide after his many daughter began to stitute is wireraiiye, which need be netting, grow to girlhood. This dairy was for a long time managed by the family. A hut about IK inches high to confine milkmaid wculd do the butter work and them until innture. Give them fresh the Morton girls would help her. They water twice each day. also green food lived at Kileislie then, and part of uti'h ns turnip tope, iviery anil cabbage nr allow them free range morning and every day was spent with the cowa and the milk. To thiH day if they were evening. There is no doubt that there When sick or out of sorts they go to the farm is profit in goorc culture. and revel in tlie inarbie butter rooms Thanksgiving time arrives you can for a day. When the youngest was generally dispuse of the young goslings avertaken to San Framdsco for her health ut ten ceuts per pound, and their lust winter she Legged to go to the age weight will be ubout ten pounds. blitter house instead. The little daugh- Suppot.e, for inutnnee. you have twelve goorelots" at $1 each, the receipts ters 'of President Cleveland are also the sale wtuild be $12 und the cost from room at sanded a small, learning, in feed has been but a trifle. It is safe of Gray Gablea, the secrets of the dairy. There it is a common occurrence for to say that ycur profit will have been the comely wife of the chief executive $10 on the tranractlnn. Of coursa they of at $1 each, to he seen teaching Kutli and Father cannot always be disposed is often how to churn. This summer the little but on the other hand the price we take it as hence a than more dollar, of tots can make butter to the tune their sweet kindergarten songs, which a basis on which to figure. We doubt fowls would ray better, conthey have studiously worked at all win- if fancy of course, that we always have ter. This homely employment has been sidering. crossfound a great panacea for the nerves a ready maiket for our geese. By of the emotional actrerscs as well as ing a China gander on Toulouse geese, are obtained, quick to society women. Olga Nethersole has large goslings marke-.with medium learned its value, and no better grow, nicely bills and remarkyellow necks, length the lovely equipped dairy is found than ably easy to domesticate. My experi- -' young English woman comes into. aft-she has arisen at dawn to milk tin cnee has clearly demonstrated that the cows. And Calve, the grout Carmen, rearing of geese should be done entirely as (li tis no greater happiness, when the separate from the rearing of fowls, of both are naturally and old young to the to is season than fly over, singing her farm where, feeding the chickens Inclined to lie pugnacious, especially and milking the cows, she forgets ull so after the young are about half grown. about the lootligl.U. We favor hatching by bens, remarks the Fancier's Review, giving four eggs to each, and after one month the attenItrport on tikliiunlns Milk. bulletin No. 42 of the Ftali experi- tion of biddy is no longer necessary. ment station reports results of expeIjite in the rearon if females are plenty riments in creaming, made by F. P. we allow the rouse to hatch her young I.intield. U. S. A. Tlie following are and wc give each a clutch of ten eggi. the conclusions drawn from the experi- This number is sullici- nt for safety. If too large a number is placed under ments: 1. As regards thoroughness of skimthe goesc some are liable to be broken. ming. the effectiveness of the method.; Geese tire easily and profitably raised of erruming milk, according tu our in tlie South. They are expires in ridwork, stands in the following order: ding a cotton field of grass. (1) Separator, (2) tdiailow pans, (3) deep Ni'W foul try llonxpx. puils. in often more work to fix up a poulIt 2. When the aettir.g methods are try house thun to build a new on?. To practiced, the pans will give much the attempt to work ocr one that has no best results during the winter, or cold o' projections and cross beams end months. Ih discouraging in the extreme. Crack 3. There Ih no advantage, but rather and there admit the uir and are the opposite, in moving the pans into here to effectually stop. We saw diilicult the house during the cold weather, sueli a lioun last winter, where tlie lie in Hint a they provided place owner liml r.'.lempted to paper up the kept where the milk will not freeze. by which the wintry blunts 4. Of the deep retllug can, those apertures uccess. He hud used f- -lt paper, fuund which are skiiume.l by d rawing the it on ever tlie Joints and leaving skim-mil- k from the bottom, give the nulling dead-ai- r u r;'?' c between the paper amt belter rcMiits; lmt the Cooley or subThis had apparently b(en hoard:;. merged can. its rtgurds thoroughness of the 11 lii'U'. till the luns fur got to ai! right skinimiii;;, does not srem to pjsset-it i.ii'1 tbiis tearing it Bgiiit.st not sub- fiying any advantage out iho-- c from He j'ds'.s. T he tacks hi Id on to mersed. the wood i.i right, hut tlie paper was 5. From the remits given it i evipulled o'er the heads. So we simply dent tint from a lo rd of ten good raws, say that new houses are desirable a re erat or would be a wise investment. where they can be secured. Matched ur-ehv obiahud its The extra butter tor building will il'iiibiless pay lur.ilcr aliitd at 2o eeuu a prund. would pay Lest in ihe cud, though it may cost 20 per cent, a year on its cost, a commure at first. pared with remits from shallow pans. Hnd f0 ier irnt. n year us compared Color of Milk ami Itiehneas. Tlie with dicp ecitlng. of cream does not indicate Hie color IS. With tin set ting methods th" richness of the milk, though it is somecooler the water is kept, in which the times thought to dj so. A subscriber mill: is set. the better the skimming. of IK view had a number the Harr.nr In fact, to do the best slimming it h of cows that lie determined to test. The absolutely necessary to use Ice, and a milk of the best cow had a very light sufficient quantity of it to keep the color, and provimu ly to test lug her he water at 40 degrees or below, at ail had not supposed thnt ber milk was times. richer than that of several oilier cow. In fact, cue of h'.s Jersey cows that had ralftnliic a very rich roLud cream had been Perfect clennllncrs must be kept up. looked upon as the one giving the richHer cream when investiif not their flltlil:u!i will almost exii-eest milk. (hat of the hog. says American Poultry gated was found to be much less rich Journal. If their pin cannot be kept Hum that of the one giving the pale clean any other way use straw. Da milk. This shows that the eye is not not Id them paddle iu mud unless y.u aide to determine the real raiue cf want to flavor them with it. Duck:; milk and cream, but that chemistry, as 111 npplied in the Babcock test, is the only lay on fat very rapidly a ml oft-:- ; reliable process. SO fat that they will drop ih'iid frci:. gt n sudden fright. Do not be afraid f a fond min dillnrutly use the give them a large yard as llu- exercise I: After tloxer beds nud your plants the ne in L It they take will increase their fat. ::!l th hftir: lull In canrul will I'l'uiv a mistaken Idea to pen nuy kind of not to bee rut tin ms yet. poorly rstab-liilie- il fowls In small yards to ktep them from plants wlu-- trying to remove off. Such an idci i; un obnoxious s-running the fat growing alongsitl.. contrary to natural science. In physi- Ri move tit"! e v itls the fingers. animal food should all enter into it. The food should be regularly fed so that the animal shall not he Irritated by hunger. Now, supposing that your aow Is in Just the right point of flesh neither too fat pr very lean st ought, after a mouth of such preliminary treatment, to bring a liner of thrifty pigs, whiili xbe will raise with ail due care and tendernesa. If b' won't, you may be sure that there D some constitutional defect, and the sooner you change your breed the better. No one can afford to keep an. large number of swine without conveniences for cooking their food. Tim cleanest, most profitable, mid in nil respects the "handiest" method is by steam. An apparatus costing a hundred dollars will do an immense amount of service routing nothing for repairs exrept an occasional resetting of the boiler. Hy its use food is better cooked, and the work done with le3 trouble and expense than with open kettles. One of the sins of the atato of Illinois, which ascends to Heaven with cry unappeasable, is the waste of food fed out to animals. I speak it with ull soberness, that the whole stnto ought to sit one day annually in sackcloth and ashes iu atonement for this rasa offense. I.abor, expended in preparing food properly, tends strongly to economy. The breed of swine which we most affect is one so peculiar to this j Institution as to have obtained the name of Hospital breed." Like most other races, either of men or pig. K a composite. Commencing originally with the "Irish Grazier," tve have refined th breed wirh the Suffolk, the Windsor, anil other choice blood, till we think that, in complete adaptednes to tlie wanta of this section of country, our swine cannot lie excelled. As our swine go abroad mostly at an ,r!j age as breeders, two litters unnuall. are produced from each sow. Figs are better generally, in my opinion, by taken font the sow at six or eight weeks, and carefully tended, than suffered to attend the dam longer, if the litter Is large. There Is some check in their growth at flrrt, but when accustomed to their new die:, they rapidly make amends. A. McFarland. Coring XVrMt plmtlnn Hum. Tlie hams are first vigorously rubbed with saltpetre anil then with salt. In order to prevent the spoiling of tha hams as many ruts ns can be prudently made are made near the bone and strewn with saltpetre and salt, says the Now England Farmer. The liami thus cured are pressed in a plckletub anil entirely covered with cold salt lyo. According tq their size hunts should remain In salt from three to five week After this the hams are taken cut of the picklp and liung up in a shady but dry and airy place in order to becotric air dry. llcfore the pickled hams can be put iu amoke it is absolutely necessary that they first be exposed ft r several weeks to the drying in the open air In the way just mentioned. long as the outside of the ham is in absolutely dry. us long as it appea moist or sticky, it must be kept awry from smoke. Only entirely air-dr- y pieces must be subjected to this way of conservation. Smoking is done 'a special large chambers, the hams being hung up on the ceiling. On the floor of the smokiBg room a sultab s quantity of sawdust, wood shavings, and, if possible, an addition of Juniper branckcn is slowly charred. Besides juniper, beech and alder woods are used. Onk and resinous woods are to lie positively avoided. The smoking should go on very siowly. It is recommended to smoke for a few days cautiously that is to have the smoke not too strong, then to expose the hams for a few days to Ihe fresh air, repeating this way until the hams have become Ilami sufficiently brown. should be actually in smoke two or three weeks, and thus the whole process of smoking v.ill take about six INTERESTING CHAPTERS FOR OUR RURAL READERS. - u rs pin-feath- V" I Mat izrJ In Secure the Wripai. at last luto these words: 'VVliHt do you want?' With my left hand I struck a mnieh and lit tin gas in the hall. In oilier to have light enough to sluiot by. 'Conn with me,' I said.' ami made him go down tin flight of stairs, currying his tools with him. " Now.' said I, yon have nlpiierx In thnt little bag. Turn llu key In tills lock.' He did it, for he had no choice. I ussured in) self Hint llu door could Ik. opened with tin small liitcli-kcy- . 1 My heart lient like a. had mi voice to tell tin burglar lie might go. 1 wared my hand, and lie vanished in a seii.ml. Then 1 entered. 'rite hall wns.liare: no curtains hung liefure t lit imrlor door. The window stared at me. Knoiigh light sbone in from tin slnxt to show a mom absolutely empty! My wife's name came from my lips (u a n in such as n man may use when he pleads for mercy iu the face of death anil lias no hope. "1 raised tho pistol which was still In m.v hand, and I lieu 1 whispered tu myself, not lieu.' Kvi-- tin bare walls, 1 thought, retained some sacred memory of iter which slrycd my hand. In thnt room, I said, had coti-- to me tla one chance of my life, anil 1 had thrown It away; but I would not die there. I would at least hide my disgrace from the eye of mercenary curiosity. I wished no such epitaph an the papers would he likely to give. "As for dentil iUelf. It had ilready come. When I turiuxl to leave that mom then was upon me the peace which hi the reward of tin good nut a and tin pardon of tin common lot ut us all If them hail 1mxii any hope in my soul Hint 1 could ever make amends to her I would have lived iu torment If necessary to do It. Hut 1 Itad utterly detain'd of myself. "I tell you, Ila'T.v. 1 was dead when I left Hint room. Tin funetieii of was all that dixtiiigiiishiil me from one who itad passed through tin gn at change. My uiiud has ceased to exist and my heart to suffer. Doubtless the muscular energy of my frame the actual would have curried me physical eonsuium.it ion of suicide, bur meula!))' I had died of despair, of solvexl Itself r. l"co-iiiotio- t- , "I passed down tin stairs, opened anil closed tin outside door and stood upon the step, lu tin sky was the glimmer of dawn. Tin physical seuse which yet survived lu me perceived it and was mum weary of living at this sign of mvlvltig life ami tumult and struggling. The soul was gone and the Imtly was (inpatient for dissolution. Ami yet tin habits of this life persist strangely in tin lsiily. Wlmt do you supiaisi. Harry, that this present shell of tuy spirit did when I ceased to dlrix't it?" 1 shook my lead. feel to "Well. sir. it wtilkixl lifty-si- x the left i !ii width of two city lots turned to tin left again an.l cnterid a lions', it mounted two flights of stairs, pi city opeied a door ,'Nld Walked into a itit-i a little parlor. Thru it pusxixl room where a dim light limned ami a woman lay asleep, with one white arm Stretched nut as if In greet a man whom sin loved. My bodily eyes saw that, and t lien my soul eatin back. I fell upon my knees beside that hd and eovered tin white baud wiili kisses. "That's the xti.ry, Hirry. The sm:I wlieli it cull. 0 b;u k to me wax iM'Uer than lie fore. I rail resist temptation; it mil do Its own will, bring no limn tin slave of Hint witeli who poisoned m.v blood eenltuies ago. perhaps; and al'iovc all, it rati love without fear, being now Kitflieieiitiy in harmony with what It loves to feel seisin." Ilf ixi.iie you don't net d to in told that it wasn't Saturday morning,'' lie i'intimicd. "That paper iu tuy ofliei wax almost a week old. 1 had Ixx'ii iineonstior.s front drink not mote Ilia a six hours. As for my getting Into tho wrung house, 1 d!s,oven,d the next dnr that tin man who built that h!oek of tints got his lix'ks aud keys cheaper by having them all alike. Hue of t lit reasons why we iuoyixI out: ami yet i forgive him for his parsimony. Indeed, 1 bless him for il. Otherwise might not have died, ami if 1 liad not died, I could not liaie lin'd tlie new life." ClolH' Democrat. Furm la; llrr Figure. (.rowing girls do not always spare-elate that it Is while they are growing that they are forming tlielr flgmvK for after life. Propping tlie shoulders a little more every day, dropping the head j us one walks, standing unevenly, so that mu hip sinks more titan tlie ithit all these defects, easily mivelixl now. wFI be live times as hard in live ytarx .uut twenty-liv- e time a hard la tea liar blue-handl- d-- bn-in- g - s . d.-e- - cd - n 9 iwlSR art taught to axerclss In oriiMlIau der to aailmilata our food and tha The diet of breeding sows should os greater the assimilating power the mixed. Farinaceous, vegetable, and ology wa weeks. mol rrniliictliin of Wheat, The following table exhibits the estimated acreage and production of wheat in tiio United States for 18, according to the reports received Sep- tember 1 by the Department of Agrlcul- ture, compand with the production id Arrnga I ! IS'Ja: |