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Show , r: UV k I BARTEaED.LIFE. 2uSnK -- 11 -- A $0 yj i n, - ,Svxc:. INTERNATIONAL CHAPTER PRESS ASSOCIATION 1 is always T a tb mkesh office to giu a.iv.ie in these matters," aaid Mr? Romaics, Your and I hare d,, I01 not ,0 at VJTT''X pTfCL5).2 tempi to influence you in any say, Cong auoe, not to b an your judgment 1 furor Of or against Mr W l hers. You, the one most marly Interested tn he coasuquences of your acceptanct r refusal of hia offer, should surely be able to make up your mind how to treat It and him. "I should be, as you say." responded the elgler-ln-l&But I cannot. She was a handsome woman. In the prime of early maturity, whose face seldom wore. In the presence of othere the perturbed expreealon that now tt. That doe not affect the fact of your Cat, answered Mrs. Romalne, with oonalderable severity. "There are times and circumstances In which vacillation Is folly criminal weakness. You have known Mr. Withers long enough to form a correct estimate of hla character. In means and In reputation he is all that could be desired, your brother say a Either you like him well enough to marry him; or you do not. Your In life will he bettered by an alliance with him, or It will not. These are the questions for your consideration. And excuse me for saying that woman of your age should not he at a loos la weighing these. Again Constance had nothing ready except a week phrase of reluctant acquiescence. 1 feel the weight of your reasoning, Margaret. You cannot despise me more than I do myself for my childish hesitancy. Mr. Withers any sensible and honorable man deserve different treatment If I could see the way clear before me I would walk In It But, Indeed, I am In a sore dilemma." Bhe turned away, aa her voice shook on the last sentence, and affected to be busy with some papers upon a ly w alt-nati- on -- SC&ad. Just In all her dealings with her husbands sister, and meant in her way, to he kind. Constance respected her for her excellent sense, her honesty of purpose and action but Bhe was the last of her friends whom she would have selected, of her free will, aa the confidante of such Joys and sorrows as shrink from the touch of hard natures refuse to be confessed to unsympathlzlng ears. Her heart and eyes were very full now, but she would strangle sooner than drop a tear while those cold, light orbs were upon her. ImconslderatJon of the weakness and ridiculous eensltivenesi e her companion. Mrs. Romaine forbore te speak the disdain shs felt at the irresolution and distress she could not comprehend. Js Mr. Withers personally disagreeable to your she demanded, in her strong con- , wa tralto voicp. I liked him tolerably well very well. In fact, until he told ms what brought him here so regularly, ConNow I am embarstance stammered. rassed In hla presence so uneasy that t wish sometime I could never see or bear of him again. "Mere shyness! said Mrs. Romalne. Bach as would be pardonable In a girl of seventeen. In s woman of it is absurd. Mr. Withers la highly esteemed by all who know him. Tour disrelish of his society Is caprice, unless" the marble gray eyes more searching unless you have s - seven-mid-twen- ty prior attachment? . k . ( I have Constance smiled drearily. never been in love In my life, that 1 know of. Ton are none the worse for having escaped an infatuation that has wrecked more women for time and for eternity thin all other delusions combined. A rational marriage founded upon mutual esteem and the belief that the eoolal and moral condition or the parties to tbs contract would be promot- d thereby is the only safe unlonrThr young, Inexperienced and headstrong, repudiate this principle. The mature tn age know it to be true. But, as 1 hare said, it Is not my intention to direct your judgment. This is a momentous era In yourr life. I can only hope and pray thijTyon may be guided Aright In ybur decision." Left to herself to digest this morsel of pious encouragement, Constance drew a low seat to the hearth register, clasped her hands upon her knees, and tried, for the hundredth time that day" to welgOhi facts of herposition (airly and Impartially. She had been an orphan for eight years, and a resident In the house of her elder brother. . Her sen lot by more than a dozen, years, and In the eicit- lug swing of successful mercantile life, be had little leisure for the study of his sister's tastes and traits, when shs first became his ward, and conceived the task to be an unnecessary one, now that ahe was to be a fixture in his fam- ily, and appeared to get on amoothly with his wife, In truth, it never to him to lay a disturbing finger upon the tiniest wheel of the domestic machinery. His respect for his spouses executive and administrative abilities was exceeded only by her confidence in her own powers She was never irascible, but he knew that she would have bone tew ealmfr and ecergtically ed i any attempt at lrtcrfere-t- r c m her op crutson as m a ,er of trie intii-in- r the ru'cr of tie sbUhinpnl he hv a much-abusfigure of speei U, called hia home. A 6a.,g ard il.g.nt abode ed Charie Mrs. Romalne ryte f she made of it ard, hehoi Constance well drevsel and we!! fe 1, habitually chi erful ami never rebellious he ay be forgiven for not hptnding a thought upon hir foe horns togethe.. md when he d renie.nbtr her, for d dwelling the upon h s. hindne,s to a hepless de, undent than ep'iuhiting upon Nr possible ii-- .g rjNr riism-ercste- and una;peaed rituil appetites For these, and for other whimsies, Mrs. Romaine had little thought and no charity. Life, with her, was a fabric made up of duties, various and many, but all double-twiste- d Into hempen strength and woven too closely for a shine of fancy or romance to strike through. She had coincided readily In her husbands plan to take charge of bis young slater when her parents died "Her brothera house la the fittest asylum for I shall do my her, ah had said beet to render her comfortable and contented." She kept her word. Constances wardrobe waa ample and handsome, her room elegantly furnished, and ahe entered society under the chaperonage of her alater-ln-laThe servants were trained to respect her; the children to regard her as their elder sister. What more could a penniless orphan require? Mrs. Romalne was not afraid to aak the question of her conscience and of heaven. Her beat" waa no empty profession. It waa lucky for her that she never suspected what years of barrenness and longing these sight were to her protege Constance was not s genius therefore she never breathed even to herself: I feel like s seed in the cold earth, quickening at heart, and longing for the air. Her temperament was not melancholic, nor did her taste run after poetry and martyrdom. She was simply s young, pretty and moderately woman, too sensible not to perceive that her temporal needs were conscientiously supplied, and too affectionate to be satisfied with the meager allowance of nourishment dealt out for her heart and sympathies. While the memory of her fathers proud affection and her mothers caresses was fresh upon her she had long and frequent spells of lonely weeping was wont to resign herself in the seclusion of her chamber to passionate lamentations over her orphanage and isolation of spirit. Routine was watchword, and in bodily exercise Constance conformed to her quiet studied, despotism visited, worked and took recreation by rule. The system wrought npon her beneficially so far as her physique was concerned. She grew from a slender, pale girl into ripe and healthy womanhood; was more comely at twenty-seve- n than well-educat- sumption that waa only too ridiculous to be Insulting Her quick wit and knowledge of the world helped her to a solution of the problem. 1 am poor and dependent upon my brother's charity, she concluded, with a new and s.lfllng uprising of dissatisfaction with her condition. "Men rarely fall In love with such more rarely woo them." Bhe never spoke the thought aloud, but it grew and strengthened until it eeied a btarthng blow from Mr. Withers proposal of marriage. H was a wealthy banker from a neighboring city, whom business relations with Mr Romalne drew to bis house and Into his sister's company, was all Mrs Romalne li.s could desire. His visits were not too recent, and were paid at aated Intervals, as befitted hla habits of order and punctually. Ills manner to the lady honored by his preference was replete with stately respect that was the antipodes of servile devotion, while hla partiality for her society, and admiration for her person, were unmistakable. He paid hia addre&jea through Mr. as bis fair ones guardian, offering voluntarily to give hla beloved whatever time for deliberation upon the proposal she desired. You had better think It over for a week, advised her brother, when h had laid tbs case duly before Constance. "It Is too serious a matter to be Battled out of hand. After that, neither he nor his wlfs obtruded their counsel upon her nntil the afternoon of the seventh day. Then Mrs. Romalne, going to her slaters chamber to communicate the substance of s telegram Just received by her d to th effect that Mr. Withers would call that evening at 8 o'clock, waa moved to grave remonstrance by the dlaoovery that ahe whom he cams to woo had no answer prepared for him, Constance waa no nearer ready after the conversation before recorded. I cannot afford to be romantic," she had reminded herself several times. And who knows but this Irrational repugnance may pass sway whan I have once made up my mind to pt him? This may be In all likelihood It Is my last chance of aehlev-ln- g an Independent position. It has been a long time coming, and my charms will be on the wane soon! True, a marriage with Elnathan Withers Is not the dpstlny of which I have dreamed, but then dreams are but foolish vagaries after all. Life la real and earcoti-tih- ip Ro-nial- ne Official reports say that the Turk,, in occupying Kllssura. Albania, killed 2b9 insurgents. William Waldorf An Ear'y IncijiiN Eytlnir tt i C-- oi shoot as Nit,c along a tint' write M'ss look out' hi 'V t A ,uj wnn-,- s Rosie to a (N't nt in n apk i, tie tilings m rt- - i i a i are tenia) offered for a song since F. A. Mills Waited. "Ive Honey purchased Waited Long for You from George NichaU and Hugo Schlamm several Incident y i years such as ti,e vail ug jj , n , n. icm i r ears wjo beard, And none tit ar,i lg4 givt n, for at thut moire it a p t, hhot was heard and ?onHihing las-,,'- ! me wlih moft ominous win. tit I scuttled into a nearby shop ohmd the counter stood a you ig woman calmly chewing gum, and wMle discreetly too soon was 1 j withdrawing hervdr close to the wall behind the counter, cranng her nock and watching eagerlv the direction of the shot. Two or three shots were fired in rapid succession; then waa Miss Russells Bonnet. As time pauses the news relative to the automobile mishap of Lillian Rusla becoming sell auti- - Ulaechs-nat- e more accurate, and It now appears that, far from being an exaggerated story, Miss Russell was much more seriously hurt than at first imagined. Heretofore all stories of the mishap agreed that Miss Russell in a miraculous manner escaped injury, but this, it seems, was not the case. Bite bad her left shoulder dislocated and her right arm so badly bruised that it has since been kept In splints. Her neck and both shoulders were TWO QUEENS OF bus-ban- Th w the leading exponents of the burlesque In America are Irene Verona and Frankie Raymond. Our - Two of art (A beard the fall of a body, after which there was silence, After a pause of a few minutes the young woman, who had not for a moment paused In her gum chewing, passed around to the front of the shop, went to the door, looked out and saw, what I also saw, a man lying apparently dead, and without glancing toward me sho said, There, hes done it! Hal said hed git him fore th. end of the month, .and turned away from the door. In doing this she saw me and Bald, You kin go out now; reckon thar wont be no mo fuBsin And the young woman was quite correct in her brief summing up of the situation. There was no more fusin that night, and I learned afterward that the scene 1 had witnessed waa an episode in a domestic difference between brothers-in-law.- " Gustav Luders. per-tecte- I hard-workin- g 0, , e Hsisll well-regulat- ed from which she probably will die. . Mrs. Rhodes, who lived eight asilea aorth of Wood In Washita county, Oklahoma, was struck by lightning while milking and Instantly killed. The bolt also killed two cows and n calf. Three hundred milk dealers 8a oon- d rentioa at Plttsbnrg, Pa have an organization which practl-sall- y places the trade of Pittsburg and BURLESQUE. Allegheny In the hands of a combine. A dispatch from Vienna reporting the destruction of the Vaskapu In the Black nea, says the opinion la expressed that the Bulgarian revolutionists were responsible for tie expie-llon. ; , Judge Belden at Hamilton, O ha refused n new trial tor Alfred 8. murderer of Knapp, the two of hla wives and three other The court fixed December ltth few the execution, Mary Gano Bryan Cobb mother of William J. Bryan, died on the 14th at her home In New London, Ind., in her Ifilat year. Mrs. Cobh we on of the pioneers of the county. She waa born in Kentucky. George Coggan, a smelter employe of Pueblo, Colo., who ha shown signs of Insanity, beat his wife on the head with a revolver and then cut his own throaL He la at the point of death. The woman may recover. Two young son of M. Epstein, living with their parents over a junk shop In Scranton, Pa., were burned to death In a fire which destroyed the building. The fire la supopaed to have been of Incendiary origin. The monthly statement of the public debt sbowB that at the close of, business August 81, 1903, the total the - treasury, debt, - InM amounted to 8083,924,387, which 1 a decrease for the month of 88,008,984. The statement is made that the mine owners have worked Illustration shows them in their most their mines during the summer la ae- pleasing turn In the popular "Alad- cumulating a great surplus of eeal la din, Jr, order that they may meet the possibilities of a recurrence of any labor figured for life was due to the fact trouble which would Cfiuse a dosing badly cut, and that she was not di down of the mines. t that she wore a bat very much like a who died at J, Francis Bchrelber, poke bonnet - Ah she struck the Eureka, Ills., on August 21st, was the ground head foremost the peak of her oldest postmaster In In the Halted bat was bent over her face, and thus saved It from all Injury. Curiously States In point of service. He was enough. Miss Russell, who has been postmaster of Eureka for forty-fou- r an ardent adherent of Christian Sci- years, receiving bis commission from ence, cried aloud and vehemently for Postmaster General Holt of President a surgeon as soon as she could get Buchanans cabinet In 1S&9. her breath. A party of Ladrones have assembled Miss Bates, who went to her resin Laguna and have caused much anene, had found her pinned under the to the peaceably disposed Into led a manner in car her that noyance heavy believe she was being slowly crushed habitants in their depredations. The to death. With the assistance of the provincial constabulary are, accordchauffeur and a passing postman Miss to reports, keeping in close touch Bates succeeded In raising the car, so ing with the marauders and have had. that Miss Russell could grope her skirmishes with them.' many an out. hour later, way When, half John Butler of Rockland, Maas., Cl sU men tried to lift the car, they were unable to move It. years old, is the father of thirty-fiv- e children, the oldest of whom I 48 Lion Swallows Money. and the youngest 2 years old. A he Madame Schalle, a lion tamer, la has reared his numerous progeny re-mourning the loss of a roll of bills whii working hard at his amounting to 8340, and one of her epectably be believed that "Mr. lt may trade, an of attack pets is suffering from man." Butler is a or "greenback poisoning," " tjnder escort of a itroug guard a very rare disease. The trainer ensliver coins, aggregating ill,-16tered the cage with the money carewere shipped last week from th fully stowed r away in her corsage. During the performance It slipped out United States mint at Philadelphia to and fell to the floor. Bnitua,n one of New YorkTwhere they will be placed the biggest lions, mistaking the roll an board the steamship and taken to for some new delicacy, pounced npon " Manila. , It and swallowed It before his misstockmen from different Twenty-fivtress could stop him. Of course Madame Schalle could have had the parts of the western grass country animal shot and dissected, and so met In the Midland hotel In Kansas have recovered her greenbacks, but aa City last week and arranged to perthe beast is worth a good deal more fect the organization of a packing hi in. live. than $340jihdecld-edto,le- t ttr com pete "vithYSncreged At any rate," she has the consolation "sompsny trust of knowing that her money is safe aa packers In the trial of the directors and ofr far as burglars are concerned. fidala of th North Jersey Street Rail- 'Some Coming Melodramas. way company on a charge of manHere are the names of some of the slaughter for last Februarys crossing promised melodramatic treats of the accident at Newark, N. J., the court new season: decided a verdict of aequittal of all She Would Not Bln." the defendants. "Through Fire and Water." -cotton manufacturing Seventeen "No Wedding Bells for Her." concerns of Fall River, Mass., will Down the Old Mill Stream." shut down until September 14th, A Working Girls Wrongs." , Out .in the Cold World." throwing out of work nearly 13,008 And when It is known that The hands, operating 1,300,000 spindles." will reFall of the Delay In .the arrival of new cotton sume its tour it will be seen that caused the shutdown. adequate provision has been made for The 7,000 Japanese In the Hawaiian this form of entertalnmont Islands are being organized In one with Consul Salto as president Joseph Jefferson has purchased the body of the society. One of the chief obA. on Taft Edward summer home of of holdthe association will be the jects Buzzard's bay. Mr. Jefferson's Re200 acre of the labor difficult! settlement nowrexceed ings there volving Japanese employes. itep-granA- Trtc. ds " vio-tlm- covri'ftriTi.l Wppplnf con- d nest" The weeping tree of the Canary Islands Is one of ,the wonders of plant life. It Is of the laurel family, and rains down a copious shower of water drops from Its tufted foliage. The water Is often collected at the foot of the tree and forms a kind of pond, from which the Inhabitants of the neighborhood can supply themselves with a beverage that la absolutely fresh and pure.-Th-e water comes out of lbs tree itself through innumerable pores situated at the margin of the leaves. It Issues from the plant as vapor during the day time, when the heat-i- t sufficiently great to preserve It In that condition, but In the evening, when the temperature has lowered very much, a considerable quantity of it la exuded In the form of at twenty-on- e. liquid drops that collect near the edgs of the leaves nntil these members so CHAPTER IL UT all this time she bend down nnder their dncreaaln was an hungered. weight as to pass, for them, th limit of the angle of repose, when the tears She would cheertumble off on the ground below in a refundhave fully ed to her brother veritable shower. two-thirof her liberal allowance of "Sir," said the citizen, the car I rod pocket money It he home on last night waa so crowded had granted to her that people, myself among them, had with its quarterly to hang on by their eyelids, so to payment s sentence apeak." The street railway magnate went on ofTraternal fondness, a token, verbal or looked, that he writing. remembered whose! child she was, and So crowded, in fart, that the conducthat the same mother love had guard- tor was unable to collect all the area. ed their -- Infancy. Her sister-in-laThe magnates pen dropped to the would have been welcome to withhold floor. What was the number of that many of her gifts of wearing apparel car?" he asked eagerly. Chicago Post. and Jewelry had ahh bethought herself SOME CUTTINGS. now and then bow gratefuly kisses fall npon young lips, and that youthful Social Gardening Cultivating an so heads are often sadly weary tor the lack of a friendly shoulder, or s loving quaintance. Punch. bosom, on which to rest. She did not "Have you noticed, pater, how often accuse her relatives of willful unkindeaya, And so on, and so ness because these were withheld. They the mater onf " "Yes, my eon, but I nolle It interchanged no such unremuneratlve never applies to buttons." demonstrations themselves. among Husband and wife were courteoualn What supports the sun in the heavtheir demeanor, the one to the other; ens?" asked the country school teach were children demnre models of er. their Why, Its beams of course," rw filial duty at home and industry at piled a precocious youngster. school; the training in both places befee-bla ing severs enough to quench what I suppose," he said, fit would b glimmer of Individuality may have useless for me to ask 70a to b my been born with the offspring of the wife? It would, she U methodical and practical parents, Con- thata your styl of going replied, lt" about stance found them extremely uninterJones: "Heavens! Ive left my purse esting, notwithstanding the natural love for children which led her to court nnder my pfillow." Smith: Oh. well their companionship during the earlier your servant la honest, ient aher weeks of her domestication In . their Jones L "Tbafa taka If just house. It wasnext to a miracle that to my wife!" she did not stiffen In this atmosphere Into a buckram image of feminine pro"Yes, sir, taid Gallagher, Tt waa priety a prodigy of starh and virtue, funny enough to make a donkey laugh. such as would hav brought calm de- I laughed till I cried." And then, aa mind of her he aaw a smile go round the group ht light to the and exemplar, effectually chased all grew red In the face and went away thought of matrimony from tbosa of angry. masculine beholders. Had her discon' A little girl coming out of the fieldi tent with her allotted sphere been less told her mother, who waa at the cob active, the result would have been certain and deplorable. Bhe was. Instead, tage door, that ahe had Juet seen anake feet long. Her mother popular among her acquaintances of took lttwenty all in and swallowed it both sexes, and had many friends. If few lovers. This latter deficiency had Punch. given her no concern until within two Gone in good faith. years. At twenty-fiv- e she opened her t eyes in wide amaze upon the thinning Joint debates are usually dlsee ranks of her virgin associates, and began seriously to ponder the causes that sected events. had left her unsought, save by two very If a womans glory Is her hair, how silly and utterly ineligible swalni, whose vertiures were. In her esteem, pre about the wig dealer? ha a. ao-ce- iro ago. Astor tributed 8100,000 to a fund to aid the research for a cure for cancer. --n Half a dozen workmen were kilted at Cedar Rapids, la., by the collapse of a building, they being buried the ruins. The sergeant and Six privates whe were recently arrested for treason at Meta, have confessed that they stole two bombs with new secret fusee attached for an agent of France. William Sipes, a deaf mute, had n juarrel tn written conversation . with Sis' wife in Chicago, and at ib climax hot her five times, inflicting wqunda As a writer of catcby and sparkling music Gustav Ludera is light opera best-knot n cf American one of the composers. He is credited with the ambition to write more serious mnslo than be ha heretofore attempted. - - ThreeThouzand for a 8ong. Bernstein Co,, the music publishers, offered 3,000 for all rights And Interest in the new etory ballad written and published by ALTrahern Shapiro. and entitled "They All Spoke Well of Mr Trabern declined the offer, believing that he will realize a greater sum by controlling the song, as orders he has 'received the adv In the past two weeks show every Indication of a phenomenal selling hit This is the largest sum that has been You. V w - I - f |