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Show I CROSSING RUBICON. HEY wen both at the same country house that Sweats autumn. He wae an artist, hand-omgifted, well born, but poor as proverbial church mouse, and as proud aa Lucifer. She was an heiress, who, on attaining her majority some three years ago, had come into about (5,000 a year; added to this attraction, she was beautiful, clever and charming. She was bright, and very Independent, as suitors soon found to their cost You'll be an old maid, label, remonstrated the aunt with whom she lived. You are nearly 24, my dear." I don't care, auntie, laughed the young lady; an old maid Is as good as anything a thousand times better than having a husband one doesnt care for. Im not In love, dear, and so mean to keep my freedom. That was said end said truly then some weeks before she came on this visit to Halcombe Grange and there met the artist, Eric Errington; but could she have said the same as truly now, when the visit was drawing to a close? The lips might, perhaps; the heart was another matter entirely, and she knew it. She was no tyro of a girl In her teens, but a woman who lived In the world and neither could nor would deceive herself; she knew that she loved Errington, and he loved her, despite his proud reticence and silence. What woman could not read between the lines? What man could possibly at all times completely guard every look and tone and touch when thrown so constantly each day with the loved one? He is unconscious how or when his secret Is betrayed to that e, the high-spirite- d, their lives arere to be saved from wreck; and since he would not, well, she, the heiress, must, whatsoever the cost. When she was told he was In the when almost the actual drawing-roomoment hod arrived her heart sank, and at the very door she bad to pause a minute to pull herself together; then she went in. llow the man's dark eyes lighted up! How unconsciously close was the clasp of his hand on hers! If she had had one fleeting doubt of his love that second must have dispelled it. What r pleasure to see you again, and what Mies Bra? Ion!" he said; an honor you do me to let me paint your portrait! Is It? It Is good of you to call It so," label answered brightly, but inwardly every nerve was quivering and strained. Aunt Mary began again yesterday about having my picture done, so I wrote to you. My aunt will be down presently, but In the meanwhile we can arrange the sittings, dress, and so forth. Errington passed by the so forth, and only arranged for her dress and the m sittings. But now," she said, that that la settled, we come to you must please name your Pardon me," Errington interposed, with resolute quietude that In itself gave her fresh surety of her ground; but you must do me the great favor to let that part rest until the work Is finished. You are not like a strang- er and sent up the rising artists name at luce. "So, after all, you see, Eric, his wife says, arch and tender In one, you will win the best in the end, fortune and fame," And the priceless treasure that neither gold nor fame could buy, he answer:., smiling down on the dear lace "my wife." The Folks' at Home. "By-the-by- e, vulged Durtura Catch tha Crrm anil Study It What Follows a Dluturlianre of tha llalanra of Circulation aud Karvoua Control of Hluud Iruda. V or ex-Al- -- i re di- OF COLDS. The aew Idea of a cold, then, ts that It la a nervous disease, which, to do any serious harm, has to work through the microbes, which are always present In the body or In the outer passages waiting for a chance to make trouLir., The best way to prevent colds Is to keep all parts of the body properly clad and free from any undue exposure, for it Is the disturbance of the balance of circulation and the nervous control of the blood vessels that really causes the trouble. If the feet and the nose and the mouth are kept in good condition, the chances are against the microbes doing much damage, for it Is In the chilling of these parti that causes most of tb colds. A C T E R I OLOGY has at last divulged the cause of the J) greatest of all medical mysteries the ordinary cold. It has been attributed to all causes air, niulsiure, too much THE COMING DOCTOR. cold air, overheating and recently to IU Will Yaerlimta for All UIsmoim, Boys the Btomach and Walter llewmt. I have at last made up my mind as overeating, says the New York Press. The laboratory where the microbes are to the future of medical 'science, writes caught, cultivated and turned like lit- Walter Desant. As doctors are begintle beasts for several years have been ning to undersand that they are totally trying to Identify the germs of colds, unable to prevent or to drive away curns colds seemed to lead to many dis- tain diseases, they will presently pass n eases that have germs. on to adopt for all diseases what baa The first discovery was .hat in colds hitherto proved useful for one. They there are several varieties that produce will resolve upon inoculating or vaccithe same results. nating for them in early life. Germs look altogether different unAll of us, especially those of ub who der the microscope and in the cul- are graybeards, are agreed tbat old af.e ture tubes, where the microbes are ought to be a time full of peace, serene bred, after they have been identified and tranquil. A sunset in July, after and separated from others by being a day of clear sky and hot Bunshine, snared (from the common feeding should represent old age. Too often ground of all sortB of bacteria) with a under existing arrangements a sunset platinum needle. Then to mnke cer- in November, with no sun visible but tain that the real microbe of a given only a deepening gloom, rcprenents old disease Is found the germs must be uge. Since, then, there is no diifcrenre Injected Into a rabbit or guinea pig of opinion on the subject, all we have (or some dispensary patient) to see if to do is to arrange the most scientific same disease will appear. Microbes way of taking our diseases early. We which cause coMs are always in the shall vaccinate, in a word, for nil possible diseases In classes and groups. body or in the air. There are twenty different forms of Thus sonio unfortunates become gouty, bacteria constantly present In the nose, asthmatic, rheumatic and other adjecWe Deluding nine or ten whl:h are dan- tives as the clofk goes round. disof class for be under this clnumstances. vaccinated shall certain gerous There are ninety forms of germs in the ease If our ancestors or parents have mouth, forty of which may cause seri- had any of them, If there appears to le ous disease. any danger or any tendency. Consider Every one knows that colds are usu- what a huge amount of suffering will ally caught by getting oneself over- be alleviated by vaccinating the babies heated and cooling off too suddenly. for this class of disease alone. PhyWhen the surface of the body Is over- sicians will, of course, easily classliy heated all the microbes in the air the various ailments that are now seem to be attracted to the body, espehelped so freely indeed, I am quite cially If the air around is chilly or certain that In the long run science damp; microbes cannot be killed by will discover one universal vaccinatcold or damp, but they do not like It, ing stuff which will enable the Infant and are always on the watch to find a to have and to eujoy In the mildest resting place In a man, especially in form possible every disease under the one who Is overheated and whose skin sun all at once. What will happen afla covered with perspiration. If the terward? He will In after life only nose Is always in a condition of "ca- suffer from those diseases which he tarrh it la easy to see how k fresh cold lias brought upon him self by his own COYOTES SOMETIMES ADROIT. or acute attack of catarrh la caused by follies and excesses. These, of course, exposure to a chill. But how about thanks to the vaccination, will be of a ImtancM In Which They Have Clrcam various symptoms in other and dis- much milder type. If he leads a modthe vn Tlialr Knrniiaa. tant parts of the body which generally erate life, taking everything that beNo cuter animal is found In the west a cold? follow longs to life with prudence, he will than the coyote. The coyote Is to the is and overheated When the actually body "get" nothing as be grows plainsman what a fox Is to an eastern old. He will then sit and bask in the chilled Immediate of then the effect the is the more in evl farmer, only coyote cold on the surface of the body Is to sun; or he will sit by the fire, his dence, says Forest and Stream. A dog excite contraction of the blood vessels hands folded; his work done; no longthat had Its principal sport chasing and near the surface. Thus the blood Is er anxious for his own reputation; no otherwise worrying coyotes was led Indriven from the surface to the Inner longer worrying about his last book; to ambush by one coyote and then set organs, carrying along wilh it any no longer jealous or angry or sorry; uopn by several other of the prairie microbes that may have been lodged he will look on, curious and Interested. wolves and almost done to daath. About near This excites inflamIt will be the most delightful time posthe surface. 9 oclock one night one of the coyotes some far from sible. At the close of It he will be in mation organ away came to the kitchen door and howled the first point affected. The way It found sleeping in his bed, his face aggravating at the dog, which there' seems to act la as follows: calm and peaceful as the thoughts upon set after the coyote full tilt. The All processes going on in the body which filled his brain. 1 fear that I coyote fled around the house, down to are governed by the central nervous cannot, by any efforts of my own, the corral and around the blacksmith If. as a result of exposure to hope to discover the universal vaccisystem. the dog yelping after. Behind the cold, regular routine of nutrition nator; but it will be discovered; the the shanty were other coyotes, six or and of circulation Is checked In one husis of it probably grows in the hedge. seven of them, and all o them made foi of the body, the nervous force I am sure that It will come If only hepart the dog in a way that made it feel lone sent out from the central nervous re use the Jortunate discoverer will be sysly. The ranchman heard the fight and tem, If shut off in ime will be ,?,le to pile up a more colossal fortune place, the dog's howls of pain, and grasping increased In another. Such increase is than the brain of man has ever yet his rifle started that way on the run, inflammation. If any organ Is Imagined. From every class and every really yelling as he went. The coyo.cs took a liable to chronic Inflammation this will rank the money will pour in. No milfarewell nip apiece and fled, leaving a be the place picked out for the acute lionaire of America will be comparable sore dog behind. Since then the dog trouble as a result of having caught for wealth with the discoverer of the haB ryt been so much Interested as on cold. All the microbes universal vaccinator. And this considfanner occasions In coyotes. It follows will collect there,unemployed and unemployed mi eration will stimulate research. single coyotes vigorously, but the ap' crobes in a slightly inflamed organ are pearance of another sends it back as certain to make trouble. There Is, howQulra Work. .. fast as it can run. The coyote likes one safeguard which saves the ever, faults of the nineteenth many Among badger flesh very much, but one coyote body from destruction every time a often reckoned haste. The is century Is not equal to a badger in a light, con cold Is caught. one says, is full of hurry and world, the a It when meets coyote, sequrntly There is in the body a set of valuable bustle; time Is outrageously dear. Yet badger; has to resort to stratagem till who do in the blood lu the business of courting men are aid arrives. The manner In which it vessels and tissues exactly the work marvels of patience and leisureliness A few weeks does this is Interesting. g of the department. when compared to what they were In ago, a writer says, "es 1 was riding These are the white blood corpuscles the middle ages. They liked then to a I along saw coyote and a badger. The or leucocytes. They differ from Col. commence a courtship by what Is recoyote seemed to be playing with the Warings white brigade In that they now as the next to the last garded badger. He would prance about it, first eat up the debris, the microbes and word In It, Will you marry me? and as If to bite It, then run off a little way, such things wherever they find them. they had little use for preliminaries. the badger following, evidently very The more germs and bacteria collected If the gentlewoman was wise and virangry. When the badger saw me It ran together in one organ the more the of course knew Immediately into its hole, while the coyote went oil white corpuscles swarm In Just like the tuous, she for she had previously to what say, forty or fifty yards and lay down, evl regular in the dirty been Informed of her suitor's fortune, dently knowing 1 hRd no gun with me. downtown districts. as he of her dowry, and a few minutes The coyotes device was evidently tc If these white blood corpuscles are only were necessary for the young peotease and so keep the badger Interested to see whether they were mutually eaught while at their work their round till another coyote happened along, bodies may be found filled up with the ple or not Lipplncotta. when the badger would hare been Tmcterla they have eaten. In rase of agreeable killed. sudden emergencies (like pneumonia) Goodnms. an immense swarm of white corpuscles The noblest thing Is to be a good will appear. "The Cold ad Hllrar OiMprla." man. IMety la helpful, but goodness H There are all sorts of ways of treat' supreme. Human life Is not a cursed The Gold and Silver Gospels Is thi name of a very peculiar book now pre- ing inflammation In an organ. Many thing, to be disinfected of its poison, served In the Upsala Library In Swe- are as familiar to the public es to the but a wonderful seed to be studied, nurporous or tured, given right soil, and grown to Its den. It is printed with metal type on doctors. The means to native is a mustard simply plaster d vellum, the letters belni perfection. Rev, 1 8. McCol-leste- r. a of number larger collect quickly silver and the Initials gold. When II was printed, by whom or what wen white blood cells in the places where The titles of the writings of Mr. the methods employed, are questloni they are needed. The same la true of Gladstone fill twenty-tw- o pages of the which have great interest for the curl all hot applications, blisters, painting British museum printed catalogue. flannel red or iodine with rage. but have never been answered. llouaa Mada Kauioua by Longfellow Mold to n Itoatun Xian. If there is no hitch In the papers the old wayside Inn at Sudbury, Maas., made famous by Longfellow, will pass Into the ownership of a Boston gentleman of antiquarian tastes, who will preserve the building and HU It with articles of historic Interest, says the New York Times. The name of the buyer will not be given out until the papers have passed. This estate passed S. H. Howe Into the hands of of Marlboro and Homer Rogers of Boston In 1893. Those two gentlemen have expeuded considerable money In renovating the house and Improving it, such as shingling the rcof and rctop-pln- g the chimneys, which had been broken In several places. This work in no way, however, interferes with Its exterior or its historic worth, for Mr. Rogers told a reporter at his house in Allison that he would not have that happen for thousands, and the work was done for preservation. When the deed came into the hands of Mr. Roger three years ago it was the first time It had passed out of the hands of the Howo family since the house was originally built, two centuries since. The building was built shortly after King Philips war and up to 1893 It was known as Ilowe's tavern. David Howe built It about the commencement of the eighteenth century and in 1702 received from Samuel Howe, his father, a tract of ISO acres of land. John Howe, the grandfather of David, had the lot on which the tavern stands assigned him In the apportionment of 1G51. In 1746 Col. Ezekiel Howe, who won fame In the revolution, hung out the sign and when, In 1796, the colonel died, Adam, his son. took the tavern, and for forty years conducted It as a public house. Lyman Howe, a brother, took possession when Adam passed away, and continued to keep an Inn until about 1866. Then its days of usefulness In this direction ceased. It has, however, been open to the public for several seasons past. Time and the storms have dealt lightly with the historic beams are structure, for the white-oa-k In a fine Btate of preservation. r. pic-tu- has now bacteriology CAUSE THE OLD WAYSIDE INN. Indeed, I hope not, label said gentWell, be it Is you please, then." Thank you very much, Miss Brandon. He rose. She, too, stood up; the moment bad come; the womans heart stood still for a moment that was agony; two lives happiness or misery hung on her courage or failure. Well, I suppose your time Is valuaone. ble?" she said, turning to hiu, but her But no one save Isbel Brandon her- eyes did not fully meet bla self suspected Errlngtona secret. He Mr. Errington, I believe if I am neither held aloof nor markedly sought rightly informed that I Lava come to her. But there were one or two others congratulate you? among the party who did so, and one Congratulate me! repeats! the artday MaJ. Glyn, the host, said half jestFor what? ist, In genuine surprise. ingly to Eric: on what account?" My dear fellow, why don't you try His surprise, and, oddly enough, the your chance with the beautiful heiress very comedy of the position, gave her and win a fortune, and therewith a new courage. Why, I heard that you speedy rise to fame? are engaged to an heiress," sie said. "Thank you, not I," said the artist, The Rubicon was crossed; .here was with a laugh and shrug to cover the no going back now, come what would. I have no Indeeper feelings stirred. flushed to the blow, then Errington tention of being ticketed fortune hunter' by the world or the fair lady her- paled again. It is absolutely untrue, h said, In self. Even a poor devil of an artist a strained way, and drew back a step. may keep his pride and honor untar-- ' It never could be true of me! nlshed." But why not? persisted Isbel, now But, Errington, nonsense! Glyn standing to her colors with true feminstared. Suppose you really cared for ine staunchness, her eyes aglow, her a girl who happened to be rich?" Boft tones steady. as I heard, you If, So much the worse for me, Glyn. are attached to her, why should your You really mean that you wouldnt be an engagement Impossibility, as you woo her or ask her band?" Imply? said the other. Never, Had some one Glyn, perhaps dared This had passed on the terrace. to tell her this, meaning herself, but Some one half behind the lace cur tains of a window above drew back without naming her? flashed across with quivering lips and heaving breast Eric, in haughty wrath and pain. he repeated Why Impossible? Is this terrible gold of mine to be Beto a sort of stung desperation. ever, then, a hopeless barrier between two lives? Isbel muttered, locking her cause I am a poor, struggling man who boldB his honor dearer even than love if the story were true. Neither the world nor any woman born should have the right to believe me a dishonored fortune-hunte"The world's judgment!" she said and now her breath came quickly, her eyes flashed like diamonds. "You are not such a coward, 1 know, as to fear that; but is It much less cowardly to be afraid of even the risk of the woman's mistaking your motive th woman you lot e, remember?" She was speaking with a strangely passionate, if suppressed, force that sent a sudden vague thrill through the man a dim sense of something that dazzled him of a personality beneath the overt meaning; an assertion of his love for the heiress as a fact, not a mere figure of argument. The woman you love, remember, and whose happiness, per? haps, your pride may wreck as well as your own who doubtless knows your heart's Bccret, and curses the miserable FIRST.' MY LOVE FROM THE and cruel pride that stands benever will speak. gold .white hands. "He tween your lives. Heav never breathe a word, and I Isbel!" Errington sprang to her do en! what can I the woman say or side caught her hands In his own. Is And shame? gold yet yet without My darling, my love from the first! jand a mistaken but noble pride and Forgive, if you can, worse than fool us for to jsense of honor apart keep I have been. Ah, my poor label!" ever? I know he loves me would tell that the For girl burst into tears as he 1 Is it poor. O, me so at once were her to his heurt; the tension locked must cruel. Something ought .cruel, must needs give way at last, brave girl be done; but what?" she was. though was the woman, There It was; she, were you so cruel? Why O. why so helpless. And shortly nfter this thi me to to loice did 0, Eric!" you party broke up. "My darling forgive me! because 1 loved so much I feared your scornful A month later the artist one evening refusal. Why should you think me difbin to from Isbel. and, received a letter from other wooers? And I nevutter surprise and Joy. oddly mixed ferent of this happiness, dearest,1 dreamed er to paint her with pain, she wished him "One word tell be passionately. said, on call her he Would please portrait. lover." me your you forgive st 11 the next day? Eric. I love you, she whispered, Of course he would go; but how go lifted her face for a moment for and self-be 'through the ordeal without kiss. bis itrayal? What matter if some of the world did j Isbel had to strive with herself much did place, harder for the ordeal she had at lengtb say, when the marriagethe hike had Inter was the pn money It that to resolved wlth an Infinite courage and who not. cared those He face. Therefore was It she had named sought? aa hour free from all visitors, and knew bim and his wife knew well it 'when her aunt, Mrs. Brandon, would was a love match entirely. The not a mere portrait of beautiful istill be In her own apartment. One of :the two, she saw, must cross thn Rnbl-ico- n Mrs. Errington, when seen the next and burn the boats behind If both May at the Academy, made a sensation ly. DUE TO MICROBES.! d. well-know- te red-hor- se tl sh-int- street-sweepe- rs street-cleanin- street-sweepe- rs violet-colore- o-i- |