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Show (By Mis. aide-eye- Her pomta bandlcapiMd her at the vary baptismal foot for the name bestowed apou her, UaUtaNe Hopkins, wae enough to make a spinster of the lorsUest girl ever born. When She left orbed they bore ber off to Europe, whore, while ber fire yean of travel gave ber an excellent knowledge of men In the composite, man aa an Individual was entirely unknown to her. Then followed her fathers death and ber mother's long yean of lllueai, when all the daughter'll thoughts and energies were concentrated on the sick room. Finally, to coinplet the lands which all her life bad been forged to keep ber In single blessedness, she found herself at thirty-livwith a very comfortable fortune and not u sign of a near relative with whom to share It. tto that she hadn't even that questionable excuse of lieroiuing married for the ki.e of u home. If Meiiitahlr had heeu'a jnmr girl she for sin might have proved a could paint so cleverly as hi make rival.- dcddeiily uni But now that e us, ln-- r - a lonely woiuiiu, she found with eriielly plain silver lines over her temples and no longer any ir:n-- of the e dimples where the sharp knui kies now showed, her only resource was her paleiie. One tiling site stonily refused to do, however, and that was to make n wurksliip of the old family home, t!ie at last hit Uhid the tiny brown cottage in rhe next square, wliere all the surrounding, lowering resiliences looked ill heartless frame disdafu ou tin tiiuilde-dowhouse, which the owai-r- , a weak-voice- d Hill" 'ild man. had flung to desperately 111 spit'..1 of all his fiishiomilile neigh-b- o s' scorn Slid tin- - templing offers of frantic real esitite dealers. Tlie old mat. had been found dead one u ruing that summer with tin rising suns rsys trying to warm his thin, white cheeks. Then al Ithe residents mi the square sighed In a relii vco way ami tha shrewd real estnie uu u began in hunt up tlie heirs with new propesalH for the valuable lnt of grotuid. when lo and behold! It was discovered tlait tlie d poor, dead owners will was 1 icing by a prodigal soil, and therefore the house would have to remain wliere It was until tlie question was settled. Again the fashionable square squirmed and fluttered, for it was evident that no oue with any would want to occupy the Innocent cause of all this trouble while there was the terrible .possibility that some sacrilegious laundress might rent the little brown house and mar the whole landscape with ber outrngious signs and of flauutiug, shameless lung line sheets and petticoats . At this point of suspended hostilities Miss llopklus conceived the lirillltut Idea of transforming the disputed property Into a icmixirary studio, to be used until the long legal quihlile should end. Whereat the entire neighborhood was enthusiastically grateful. It Is true that Miss Hettie, at which prim appellation poor Miss Hopkins nsrer failed to writhe, shivered s little at the duet in the corners and lifted her Immaculate skirts gingerly as she surveyed the rickety front steps. Bring over enough Imminent and Tails to make It strong and safe, she commanded the carpenter, whom she laol brought with her ou her linnl visit cf innpeciion. "Mind you, safe, she reicatcd, as a loose board in the floor creaked oniui--or.sbeneath her tread. "I'm on plenty of locks, too, and as the smoky walls loomed up before her in all tlieir bare, grim neglect, for .pitys sake, get It clean. Whereat tbs man promised profusely ami as ho went off grinned at the lrenmry of the timid little spinster's terror of anything not scrupulously hc-s.-- lf ohl-tiui- u inn-teste- - self-rcqs'- ly ueat. At last It was finished anil its temporary owner held a reception to tlie residents of ths whole square. Tiler came, one and all. and went awny fairly delighted at the result. The low walls bad been done in an unbroken and the floors Inid soft and smooth with something a sluule darker. The poor, liattcrcd woodwork now alione in a dark rich red. while thi tiny window-pain'formerly so pitifully cheap looking, were now voted quaint to a degree. The Chinns covered eouelies were tantallzlngly inviting aud the simple draperies added wonderfully to the artistic whole. And throughout It all there had not been done one thing to mar any of tlie old house's original rhariu lieyond the necessary nails and braces 'to steady the poor littls wreck. For the first time In her life Miss Hetty had Umo to be really happy and the big family house up on the corner rarely knew her except when she crept back there at dusk to her solitary state dinner and the undisturbed night's rest in the big, quiet chamber on the second floor. Canvases seemed fairly to fly from beneath her tireless fingers, and pretty soon everybody romc to recognise her works, because of the Inevitable old man, with a thin, pale face, who always stood out against the background of the old, slanting brown bouse. When she one day showed the last thing she bad done the whole out Into the square tiptoed, street again, with many a penitent 111 of the promise never again to speak tattered little house and Ita erstwhile owner. For Miss Hettys masterpiece pictured the dead, quiet face, there In the early sun. with the shadows of vines across his the morning-glorhigh, lined forehead and with one huge, rosy hlossom Trailing in at tlie open casement as though trying to lend warmth to tlie some of Its wasted, patient cheek lieyond. Now that I have so many. I think 1 ahnll try to si'll them, for the orphan asylum on the next street Is lu sad need of money, I hear. But I think I'll not paint him any more. slie added, softly, for iie-- dead now, you know." And poor, fond, foolish little Miss Hetty sotilied quietly as she laid ber trembling hand tenderly on the beloved canvas. It was that same evening that Mn Wllmartb brought her brother, Mnj. Ioane. to see the little collection. Mrs. Wllmarth lived Just across the street from tha big Hopkins bouse aud Miss Hetty had always found a gnd deal of comfort In the lirlght. busy young matron. She bad heard of the major's Intended visit with no little Interest. fur ska rameiubercti him as s' tali, so" Mndaoma boy with a hint of gray-gree- n s, wet-eye- d, y a - Iwowii JulU Fairfax.) IMnra LI Atimlrs Amarli-Wonn. Tbs viceroy is plain spoken alwut bis admiration fur American women. He says tliat when s reorter In London asked him where he had found tlie handsomest women lie replied that tlu-- were tlu American women be saw !n Moscow, Berlin, l'arla and ImndoiL Ilia opinion has been confirmed, he says, since he ctimH to tlie I'ulti-fiisics, and ha wants to see as many as possible. He Is however, to know If the women of the I'nltcd States cut their dresses as low In the neck as tlie English and French. He says be has too much retqiecl for them to believe that they do, for he considers It a most disgusting fashion to expose that part of the person that ought tu be acred to lufoucj. Chiaigo Uncord. :iir:ui'- and a pair . bouulr there Is no woman In ths world whose lie Lad her, then opinion value more. Still, In all my white i:. ked litiie maid of ten. as dmilit t Ids winter, I have ofreq feared lie went off to don his ilret gray mat t) it i: would lie wrong for me to take at Wert Point. Some way the tiny, unto me a wife. 1 have, maybe, only girl never quite forgot the a very few years yet to live, he added, beautiful, manly liny, alihoiigh she bail looking at her apiieslingly. Aud again never seen him since, as their schools she answered, softly: aud tea vein had contrived to keep We muy hojie tliat your yeara may them alum. Hut she remembered very be many. Besides, even the few yean well tiiut when she was a sweet girl will he very dear to your wife. graduate she was confiding In maidHe whs standing back of tier chair enly shy liens to her dearest friend ber now, with one hand so nuar that aba Ideal husband, when that friend felt It touch her hair. gaj-land erh'd: Do you think, he pleaded, almost iVhy, how funny! You've been de- In a whlsivr, that she loves scribing young CapL Doane, who was Do love lier?" came the reply, here visiting his sister, Mrs. Wllmartb, with a you touch of coquetry iever absent last week. only from the feminine heart Poor Hetty blushed as red as though "Better than all else In the world," she lisd Uen really guilty, and now came the brave rejoinder; better, I that the fatuous, dignified MaJ. Doaue sometimes think, than the world to had actually come to see her tiny Miss oome. Hetty grew pink to the tlH of her litThen, said she, closing ber eyes to tle ears until Mrs. Wilinnrth found herI self wondering If It could lie possible hide the happiness In them, then may confess that she loves you, betthat Miss llopklus were pretty ter, far better than she ever liefors after all. While tin1 matron, It possible for auyotie to love." watched tlie delighted hostess and her thought Tlie from Ids place bebig. handsome brother as they quite hind major sprung her bunds, cried her aud, seizing over their and the liivfllllv' forgot ber famous pictures a sudden new light "Oh, my dear Miss Iletty, how do came into her eyes aud the g know? Has site told you? When? spirit inherent ill every happily ' you Tell me just whnt she said, so that I married woman quietly began Its tlie happiest, proudest man on may ork. Lri-.vi- : WHEN MISS AEHITABLE LOVED. e,. LU-e- 1 otwerved In itlvnni-u?Yea; iron ongbt never to luvlte vour flrat bnaliaud to jrour nvenud ninrrtise. SITS tMpptd m-- and pmnvauaily rurad. Ut Blaslu-rbn- l ttjr'MMul Ur.Ih kllw'ilirrUMns iui tnnui-- . Krdlsrar. Krr- - St Lrutl Sas4 tava. Kuu, KUOrkSM iHsitaltbls, Tm. Flrat Iliianier-'-T- lie inudlaily la vary unch Tlilnka ber dauclitar baa worried Second Hoarder "IHin't lUvs a sloped. word of it. Klie'a capable of atartlus any report to set our atleuiiua away rnwi tbs luosla. 1nek. If Us Baby la IVIUi TssU, asts sod saa Iltl old and wall triad warty. Mas It Wiaawws SuotsiiMt svaor (or fklldivs Taatblss. 1 should ba dellhted to aeerpt your offre of jrour band. Mr. Muilse." said tbs landlady, but uuforiuimtely t aui almidy soya ged to Mr. Hurruwea, who owaa 1S siora tbaa yoa do." IndlanapoHa JsurnaL Too lusts Is Sstd. Two bottlra of 1lao'a Cura for ConsumpThers is a point Unyer mrdlritlna lun ImuIiIs Mrs. rMUUol It ts Iini Ists to DMUd. tion cured mo , of a of s rlieniiio He teiult-iie- j, lud.. March Itll, lHUh. j. tiiherited NUrbola, rrlui-eluunr Mitpilml. slioukl uw tlmt iHtilgiuui ih- - furlln-- r iirunn-M- i Oueat, at a I'ueblo reiauraut Wbat onrt of tint um Indy Tbs of eblekeu do1 you call (his, waiter? Waiter la a Plymouth Kork. i ruveu U Hostetter inline ut Ids That, air, Sioinm-got some historical Itiilcr. wliii-b- . It (liould also lie Oueat Ab!I I'm gladit It's was Just aa ordinary livar roiaplilnt, Interest. thought runt riilililtttrtnt. and aud nerrouaums. Intr ague, y d J ld d Feuilnlna I'nlltlral Amenities. I to be reeognlanir' the membreea from tbo i aereamad dla-tih--l. DQHT said tlie aieakereaa, lookTbs ing freealugly tlirough lier lotguetts, In nut tu our aet. Cliurlunatl Imly GET Ulit Vou Ever Sea ns Indian? a Kiin--l not. an atamn to WET. umply-elglit- uui'ch-mukin- i ''IniiMiaMlIiln!' ilex-lei'ul- is 1 1m- Agent Colorado Mid-lan- d railroad, limvrr, an-- be will send you a flue colored plclura of one. Pilgarlic there is no need for yon to contemplate A wig when yon can enjoy the' pleasure of sitting again under your own "thatch." Yon can begin to get your hair back as eoon as you begin to use & Ayers Hair Vigor. iQSWEft& THE COMPANY FAYS THE FREIGHT pa Uwir mbshsm saa nasi bona vhla. Will Mat iSioaiaf rockhufasiaarliihifl Isiuatasaafa aaekad auahaia It aaa Its Xs tadnUaMaMaaaaalaa aaa aa aog wliaaia a a jack alulskaa la break. SI par aaat la wiuuahi iraaaadataal aud sill hand bafara bnakiuf. 1ar arl la aaa S ana auoia nuuua dullara stpanaw batata at priaaw paara without Wa aiaks hma Pk MB ML (IN Pita-i-ng- A Possibly Hoapouaivs Chord. Iloctur tour dniigbler, madam, ueeda rest.'' Pulleui'a Mother llut aba won't llaleu '' to uie, doctor. r "You must appsal to ber, In lbs luleroat of bur voiuloxlou.'i,uek. ute lng coquettes Hint had practiced tlie. budding lilniidislimeuts ou the gallant old major! Yes, of course. I know, but you see I wu nil'll .to make you confess, she lUM-tu- FISH BRAND SUCKERS DRY KEEP WILL YOU tad aa a. Saad fnr aa lllaratad oiroalar la TH B WHIM CO.. 1ZU Oula UL llauw. Oala nmilll llaMt VaraA. bt laUTl. In. Mauaa, qalarj, LINDSEY OMAHA Mick. RUBBERS I replied, at lust, with it laugh that would have wakened any more sane man. Then slie went frantically on lu reply to the unsuspicious mans eager questions: No, she never really told me but I know when a woman loves. All this time tlie eluted major wns putting on his coat and gloves, and at last he asked, with a return of his old-ti- k fresh-volre- d iwo-ee- M-- tlie t:ener:il "Slid Wlior Why. Kittle Harper, of course. Ton surely know lluit 1 meant her? Klttie Hnriicr, the gayest little Mackey im debutante that lind danced tlir season, mid the foremost of the flatt y broad-shouldere- r. earih! All the light burned out of Miss Hettys faea. leaving only the uslies of hoiiclcHM despair. Then she usked: Things went on famously. It was tin major who advised that the collection of imiiitiiigs - kept for a lime and one day iu the week for the orphans. When Miss Hetty slirluk-ingidemurred lie pointed out llial the children would he the gainers in the end. and so she relented. That winter found tlie whole ueighlsirhood lu the throes of an cxlnivnguiit social whirl, for iliere was hu unusual number of pink and white debutantes, with tlie of still more unusual aeiMiiquiiilim-ii- t luiuilsnmc, eligible men. Before she knew it Miss Hopkins found lierself ill tlie very midst of tlie mini Jollity, even gowns for laying aside her those willi liiiiis of violet alsiut the throat and wrists. No tea was quite perfect without ilie dear little artist's preseme: no girl l'elt quite satisfied If sis hud nut had a chut with Miss Hopkins iN'tween the duuces, and even the Poor ilyuiH-iisia- , ica-cui- Vi s cur-lmt- nT dour-eye- Hall's I srs Is s constitutional cure, rrice, 75c. "lira. Tmah. la tliero any rtlquetts to hs iKiya liked to creep into the softly-shade- d courtliness: little studio to uceumpuny its owuer I want to thaiik you. Miss Hetty, home at dusk. Her Monday afternoons grew famous and the orphans on for you have done me the greatest fathe corner hud enough uew shoes and vor woman ever did man. It is now, I know, but both of us quilts aud real puddings for Sunday dinners to make them everlastingly are old enough to remeinlier, are we grateful to tlie happy hearts in the tluy not. when a gontlemnn showed his and homage to a Indy by kissing brown house mi the next street. Miss llopklus ulways hud the pretti- lier hand? Without a word she extended her est girls in town to pour ou these occasions, and generally someone with a poor, trembling little hand, and he laid really good voice or an unusually skill- his lips reverently to her cold fingers. ful touch on the violin couhl lie found But she conhl keep In no longer, and to make music. Then, too, the pictures tlie startled major heard first a stifled tliumselves could bear nqieuted visits, sigh, then a moan, and at last a great, for tlie iMMir, sweet old man grow very cruel sob rose to her pale, quivering dear to them all, now that he us not lips, ami Miss Hetty had betrayed her-selthere In the flesh to trouble tl. . FurMaJ. Donne staggered back and his thermore, it was almost ns go-i- l as going to cotifessUon to rreep up, stilly face grew terribly white. I ling your forgiveness a thousand aud gently, before tlie last of them all, wliere Miss Hopkins nlwnya kept a times, madam, he said at last, lu a bunch of fresh violets standing low. strange wire. I never dreamed the sweet little canvas, with its until tills instant live morning glories and Its sleeping But Miss Hetty sat bolt upright lu d man. her elialr, clutching the And then, the best thing of It all to earn'd lion liends on Its anna, and little Miss Hetty, was tlie major, the raised to him her poor, hurt eyes, wild tall, courtly major, who was so attent- with desiierate npjieiil. Will you please go, MaJ. Donne? ive to her and seemed to enjoy 1 icing with her more tlian any iimu in all her And as for dreninlng you are m (stale life had done. When a woman waits en, for there is nothing for you to until site Is thirty-si- x lvefore she loves, dream. Tlieu she rose from her deep the result is going to lie terrible in Its chair, still holding the llona heads till Intensity. Mrs. Wlluisrth saw It, and her nails bit into tlie linrd polish, and trembled, excepting for the fluff that said: her brother really seemed to see no one Aud please tell Kiltie that Miss pIho lint Miss Iletty, except, of course, Hetty sends her her blessing. the girls nil that seasons buds who He closed tlie door ltcliiml him as flocked about the major lweuuse be ppntly as though there were someoue was so different from ordinary men. ; diml In the little brown cottage. Miss Iletty knew it. and held her Tlie lire on the shallow grate had breath. Hie boys iind gills saw it, died to a low, even glow when Misa and smiled gleefully. In fact, every- Hetty finally stirred from the body seemed to recognize it except the chair, nnil tsik from Its place man himself, who went Mindly on. tlie dear little painting of the dind heaping poor. fluttering Miss Iletty owner of tlie house which now sliel- witli compliments and making oien tered j,pr. Dropping It up on the low love to all the young iris who gave ln,P lu fn!t f .r. she sat the vlo nd- him his tea, and sat in oien-oye- d i,,t8 bero-nth- . and tla-- knelt down as lie relnied his thrilling sto- - forp ti bending her tired little head to rles of army life on Western plains. jlpr quivering hands. Tlie hist ember But at last, even the major knew It. the tire turned black .the light In t luniM-cnheart tlie roay-n- l isded lamp burned lower and and his great, manly, felt like lead. It was oue Mustering lower .and finally flickered out Tlie evening lute in tlie winter, and tlmt servants up at Hie big house felt no mighty military man was tramping val- apprehension at tnc of iantly aliuig tlie street on Ids way to ita mistress, ns she had told them site Mrs. Wllmarths. But as lie jmssi-- the would sis-ntlie night with a friend little browu cottage he tioliei'd the farther down the block. The hours unand. within the light turning up crept on. the storm racked the little even lsiand walk, he rang the brown cottage, tlie dawn revealed the mahell bravely; for tlie puzzled crooked old nteps drifted high with made a mighty renow. jor had all at solve, and when he once deeldi'd to do found her Hint morning, with a thing he never retreated, whether it tlieThey dlin light falling Icily on lier tiny, was to take an enemys camp or brace gray face. Just abore was the canvas a woman. with tlie other dead eyes and lijia. Iiuf to he fut.ml Miss say. Hetty Strange atone there iu the warm, rosy little there wan no gleam like the morning lu the sweet, pathetic, fragrant room, with Its queer old china, glisten- glories loneliness of the violets ngnlnst which russet-ing silver, odd pictures and rich, bound bonk The tiny little host- the silent womans weary cheek rested. ess mw the detent Ination in her callWhat Is a llattrr.Rta rtrr f er's face, aud sunk Into he deep elialr, fingers toTlie prlnclole of the atarteri Is knitting ber beautifully-kep- t gether In desperate hrqie and fear. based on the fact tliat the changes Tlie major refused tlie proffered tea, almost gniflly. thrust his hands Into called souring tluit take place In cream his pockets, tilled another chair, and and milk are due to minute forma of finally strode across to tlie tiny, tow life known ns hneteriii. There are window, and with his hack bravely many different kinds of these lmcteria, tunied toward her, he liegan: -er I want o and the object of the starter Is to use My denr friend. I feel Hint the kind tlmt will start tlie souring in ask yon something we have known each other well enough tlie right way. It is the same aa using for me not to he afraid now. My dear Miss Hetty, and lie wheeled alsiut, yeast to make bread rise every house facing her so nlirtiptly Hint site almost wife knows the necessity of having gasped, tell me honestly, as though ; yenst of known and certain strength. you were sjienklnc for yuurself tell Many dairymen make Hii-l- r own snrt- me, am I too old to marry? HIh1 hail lousing fur it for er out of skim milk. Tills is heated to months hnt when it canie she felt the alHUit iio degrees and then put in a littto brown house nn-- crnelly. Tlu air-tigcun. In twenty-fou- r , gn-nlopen lire, ngsinst with li ln-forms n Hib-- euril. and it hours soiira hamlsoine umjn- - was oullincd like a The Is kept In an air tight vat. creaia t mt-of refuge, swam ningntfit-i-iihoure liefiire churning and twenty-fou- r her. and her own vnli-seemed it ts wnnui-to To degrees, anil up miles away when qjie finally found then a of tlie sour milk equal, intlty qii conrngt' to answer: to 1 per cent of tlie milk. Is put In, and "We tore with oar lienrt-i- . major, and tlie whole well stirred. This "starts" our hearts never grow old. tto souring of Hw cream, and It gtien She saw the line strong fare towm. on ln .KHnr nn.l uniform way d he came to her very close, It thc airtight vat. o that at the seemed to her, sIHiongh she could not plllj f twent-four hours it is Just riH! 1 hnve put out her hand and touchist pmiU)(), fOJ giMHl rhnrnliig. There are him, and the soft hinipllglit fell on his j ysriotis oninun-lnl starteTS isiwdera' benutifu sliver hair like a holy liene- - atl(1 iqUld-wh- lch omitnin thin Immedltely her thoughts went mPlltillK OP aourliig prlneiple already luick to that far-of- f day of tong ago. l'rof. Conn tins pre;iered when this Fame hair wns heavy aud prepared, what lie rails Bscterm No. 41 which it brown and he had kissed her. a sH'elnlly active and vnlunbto fnr Then his rolee n cull. si tier to the meiit cnpnlib' of spreinling through Hie she Mill and lieurd say: present, cream nu!fo.-- y and laiartlug a You cau never know how gl.-n-l yon Him butter. - kie ti'n OwY'-- r have made me by saving tint: for -- slN"T-Su hlgh-liacke- i ; high-Imcki- 'd i I Gladness Comes a better understanding of tlie transient nature of tlie many phys- ical ills, which vanish before proncr efforts gentle efforts pleasant efforts rightly directed. 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