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Show s b gaced & & ream. a t 54 deep-sunk-en'ey- vironments. The work is neglected while they talk project, the settlement of which appears to be, to the younger, over-som- a question of vast importance. She is 'trying to win the consent of the older woman. I will work early and late, mamma, dear, to make up for the lost time, and .you know I have not been anywhere during this whole wretched summer. Do say I can go; therels a dear little mother. You see I can wear my white dress, and, if you - will lend me your hat, the expense .will beJsmaiL. 1 know you do want your poor little girl to have the outing. Just say I can tell Annie when she comes tonight that I can go -- -- tomorrow. So pleading was the expression on her young daughters face and so eager the pretty bright eyes, that Mrs. Roberts was about to give her consent, when from the bed a voice tremulous and weak called to her: Mary, what is it? or It must be important, you would never have stopped the clatter of those beastly machines. Tell me what it is more trouble for us? Tenderly, and just as a mother would soothe a fretful child, JMrs. Roberts bent over her husband, rearranging the pillows and wiping the moisture from his Be quiet, dear heart, theres jface. nothing amiss, she said. Annie Morris met May at the office today and told her of an excursion her Sunday-schowas to have tomorrow and asked May to go with her and Margaret, .and the d ar child is so eager, I Before she could utter another word the sick man .gave vent to a loud cry, .and, half raising himself in the bed, cried: :My dream! My dream! No! no! mol May must .not gosXsay- - Whilsl I slept here today I was (it seemed to me) standing in the midst of a throng of excited people. I felt the swaying vof a boat, and some one, skipping me on the back, said: Cheer tip, old fellow, she-may be saved." I knew something bad happened to May, for she .had been and by my side a few minutes before, no! no! No! mow. Keep was not there will be she brought home! sa.y,or May -- ol -- -- back dead! s --- - -. y ri T t - f; ! ! Trads n... Anvone sending a sketC' and description v. bother an quickly ascertain our opinion free Conirvn.icv Invention is prohs'el? pEiehsmifc. Handbook on Patents tionsBtrictJyconfldeutial. patents. sent free, : : st ag"iioy for sojiiruig Patents taken through Slui.n & Co. receiv-epecinotice, without charge, in the and t-- $CM& KSAS'CITYISTAR iliust-nt- ed A bar dsomtv weekly. I.higcst ctr culat m of - ly scie tide journal. Teres, IS year: lour months, L Solci by all newsdear m Two papers. "each week? .for a year for $2.00. S Qg.361Bad.a,. Branch Office. Ksvv F 8U Washington, it. C. 625 and Mrs. Roberts left the room. But though she had spoken lightly to of her husbands dream 'the mother felt .uneasy, and wished she had gone that afternoon to the office instead of May ill Ell if v L- 1 Our fee returned if we fail. Any one sending sketch and description of sending May When she returned to the room May any invention will promptly receive our opinion free concerning the pater was standing just where her mother How to obtain a patent sent upon request. Patent. abilitv of same. had left her secured through us advertised for sale at our expense. May, May; what ails you, daughter? .Patents taken out through us receive special notice , without charge, in Come, fix the table. A cup of tea will The Patent Record, an illustrated and widely circulated journal, consulted do us both good. The girl moyed in a listless manner by Manufacturers and Investors. toward the cupboard, .and, gathering Send for sample copy FREE Address, the dishes, did her mothers bidding, EVMJS & VICTOR but with a face from whieh all joyous anticipation had vanished. A slight ( Attorneys,) noise in the direction of the bed atG- WASHiHGTGPJ, tracted their attention, .and. 'drawing; near, both mother and daughter heard the sick man .mutter: Better not go, Annie. or G FINER A L PRESENTS For EVERY DAY USE He was quiet again in a.moment, and just as the two were about to sit down to their frugal meal May said, with an The lamp that doesnt flare up or smoke, or cause you evident effort, Mother, if you will not to use bad language ; the tamp that looks good when think me silly, Ill not go tomorrow, stays good ; the lamp that you never will you got !t ingly part with, once you have it ; thats after all,, and will try and persuade An"Cbc JMew nie to do the same! Other lamps may be offered you as just as good Before a reply could be given two they may be, in some respects, but for all around goodvoices were a heard ahd merry, girlish ness, theres only one. The New Rochester. To make sure the lamp offered you is genuine, look for the name accom-sounded on ! the door, quick rap on it ; every lamp has it. (300 Varieties.) ft pauied by an impatient, May I come Old. Made Now. Lamps We can fill every in? Without waiting for an answer lamp want. No matter whether you want a new lamp or stove , an old one repaired or two young women entered. One could a vase mounted or other make of lamp transformwe can do it. Let us a New into ed so scarcely understand anything said, on the subject. send you literatureRochester, We are SPECIALISTS in the treatment of diseases of anxious was each to, have the first, FREE. j j -- J. Patent CO., - Evans Building, . of Steady I Yfee Lamp Rochester. -- refln-Ishe- All ready, May? 'asked Annie THE BS0HESTE3 LM1P Har- d, Consultation Lamps. word. 00., 38ParkFlace A S3 Barelay St.,' New Iwi, jj ris. I No, May hesitatingly 'replied, am not .going, Annie. THE Not goiugl And why .not pray? Your mother is willing, isnt she? Let me take your hats, and, whiie HEW- you Ill tell jou all about it, May-replied- PEOPLES NATIONAL FAMILY NEWSPAPER, . And the girls, at her in, amused astonishment, acquiesced. Give up this jaunt indeed! Why,; even now they saw themselves the center of a merry set of beaux and lassies.' Give it up, indeed! Not they! What could May meam? When she told them YORK of her fathers dream it fell upon unheeding ears. But May remained firm and the girls left, ridiculing her for being so foolish as to allow a dream to mar.a day of pleasure. The morrow dawned, a perfect summer day. A boat, gayiy decorated, carrying as many passengers as the law allowed left .the wharf. Those on board were as merry a set of young people as ever existed, none gayer than the two sisters, Annie and Margaret ga-zin- -- TRi-WEEK- LY Harris. The day passed all too swiftly. At its close our young friends turned their faces homeward, tired out, but happy. TRIBUNE But what is'this? as .A oryl Another ! O! Godl The wharf May stood at the foot of the bed, too man. frightened 3ias bsoken as the .pallid as thes'iek people stood ready 'to move, while Mrs .Roberts, by Zander to board the boat, and merry , laughter coaxing and firm touch, persuaded the JGeatinued on 8th page. d man to lie back on his pil '.half-craze- -- bx--r mm mvm tuc mim uisutm nLcins be the first to ridicule superstition in anyone; cheer up, banish your tears and see to your drees while I prepare supper, 1 to In a neat but plainly furnished, room low. Almost immediately he sank into on the third floor of a tenement house sleep of utter exhaustion. 4 wo women were engaged in an earnest Not until his breathing became reguconversation. Two sewing machines, lar did mother and daughter venture about which were scattered overalls in to speak' Then Mrs. Roberts, pressing .an unfinished state were mute witness- the frightened girl to her breast, said: es of the straitened circumstances of It is fever, dear; pay no heed to i. &he oceupants. If your father was in health he would old-iashion- ed v SUBSCRIPTION & In a corner of the room upon an bed, lay a man, sadly worn by vthe ravages of disease. His burned with a feverish glitter. .J ust now they were fastened upon the Jaces of the two women, whose conversation was carried on in an undertone. .It required but a casual glance to discover that these two were elosely reflated, the features of the older being reproduced in the faee of the .younger, .a girl of about seventeen. 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