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Show Most youzg wives would not havfe relished the iJea of finding this invaf-uable relative installed as prime manager in her new abode. It mattered little to her, Constance said, still languidBY MASSON HARLAND.6- ly, who ruled and who obeyed. She had given up so much within three months past that resignation had become a habit; sacrifice was no longer INTERNATIONAL PRESS ASSOCIATION an effort. Having nothing to hope for, to" seek the more degrading position of CHAKTFK IT rCoNTiKro. she could sustain no further loss. How However, this is made unnecessary Llectricity Replaces Medicine. She had kept her heart alive upon a saleswoman in a store. Her future long this nightmare of apathy would states Paris from by the invention which we illustrate, A cable dispatch dreams has been a source of much and anxious continue was a question that did not nothing else for eight years which makes possible the use of the famous that electrotherapeutic the of home, and love, and appreciation; of thought with me. This marriage present itself in her gray musings. old machine with motor attachment. Dr. dArsonval, lecturing specialist. liberty to speak out what she had would, I hoped, quiet my apprehen- Having once conquered Nature, and on on living We would suggest, nevertheless, that of effect the electricity never lisped since her mother die.d, and sions by settling her handsomely in held Inclination under the heel of Reof expressed the belief that the the rear wheel be replaced by one inof being once again, joyously and with- life. If she refuses Withers I shall be solve, until life seemed extinct, she an- beings, a therapeuti- slightly stronger build, as the on eve of was world the out reserve, herself. There are no both angry and disappointed. She is ticipated no resurrection. She did not cal revolution, electricity being the creased weight and the force of the senharder specters to lay than thbse same old enough to leave off school-gi- rl no know that single battle, however medicine of the future. He said also motor will soon expose any weakness dreams. Memories, however dear and timentality. and blood', constitutes a cam- - that a strong - continuous circuit which may exist in spokes or rim. As long if The listener put out her foot and shut sacred, are more easily forgotten or palgn; that length of days and many through a patient could produce local the motor is shown there is little, dismissed, or smothered by the growth the register noiselessly. She had had a sorrows are needed to rob youth of I anaesthesia, permitting slight surgic- - any, added strain placed on the tubuof later ones. If she bade them fare- surfeit of disagreeable truth for that elasticity; that the guest who lingers al operations without narcotics. Dr. lar frame, which is a strong point in A time. attachment to old well now, it was for a lifetime. longest in the human heart, clinging dArsonval demonstrated the utility its favor when the lifetime! she repeated, .shivering with Yet it was truth, every word of it. to the shattered shelter from which all of electricity in skin diseases. bicycles is considered. The driving hub should be provided with a coaster to other a sick chill, and crouching lower over She was a mean-spirithanger-o- n joys have flown, is Hope. It is the register. Maybe ten, maybe her brother. She was incapable of doubtful if she thought with any disCombined Cane and Chair. twenty who knows but forty years? It earning a livelihood by other means tinctness at this period. She was cerWhile there really seems to be Is a tedious slumber of ones heart, and than those he had named. Her mode of tainly less actively miserable than in comparatively little use for the ina loveless marriage is a loathsome sep- life from her infancy had unfitted her that which immediately preceded her vention we illustrate in the picture, novelties continue ulcher for ones better and real self. A for toil and privation, such as must be engagement. That was amputation; yet the designers ofeach a little differlifetime! and I can have but one! But hers were her plain-spokbenefac- this, them turn to out, "she weariness. How reactionary one! If this step should be ruin and tor to die Nor had she the would fare by and by, when the wound ent from the other and more or less no be can . to to nerve redemption moral defy public opinion, misery, there had become a scar, she thought of least cumbersome and unhandy to acarry deabout. The chief difficulty in this side of the grave. His grave, per- debar herself from accustomed associa- of all. a to is character this supply of vice mine! as tions and pleasures by entering the probably haps just It was a handsome carriage In this very hour, she must ranks of paid laborers. Hesitation was which she rode at the masters right seat of sufficient strength to support resist the glittering temptation to fore- at an end. The wish that had been al- hand. A pair of fine horses pranced the person, without at the same time swear her womanhood, or murder, with most a prayer in solemn sincerity was before it, and a liveried coachman sat involving the addition of so much maher own hand, the dear visions that had answered fearfully soon, and she on the box. She had sometimes envied terial to the cane that it becomes to be conveniently carried come to be more to her than reality.The would offer no appeal. Her destiny other women the possession of like the hand. The favorite methin about was was taken out of her hands. There was state. She ought to derive delight winter twilight had fallen early. It od of designing this combination is to the season best loved by her dream no more responsibility, no more strug- - from these outward symbols of her elestick and utilize the parts the split visitors. She had not lied in declaring gling. Hedges to the right and to the vation in the world. It was an imposa canvas seat, the latter to support To her Inquisitor that she had never left bristled with thorns, sharp and ing mansion, too, before which the folded up and contained in the being "been in love, hut she confessed thick as porcupine quills. But one equipage presently paused, and a tall of the cane. In the design part upper as path lay open to her feet a short and footman she had That equivocated opened the front door and ran here shown there is no cloth used, Can Be Attached to the Old Frame. her straight course that conducted her to briskly down to the sidewalk to assist nor of the shadowy figure is it necessary to use wood in the brake, and a second sprocket wheel is Ideal lover stood beside her in the Elnathan Withers arms. the travelers in alighting. None of staff or seat, the whole being prefer- necessary to connect with the mofriendly gloom. Mrs. Romaine would her associates, married or single, lived ably constructed of light steel, which tor, while the gasoline reservoir and CHAPTER III. have questioned her sanity had she in equal style, she reflected with & stir combines strength with neatness, and electric outfit can be arranged as ALF past five! of exultation, as she stepped out, be- lacks the bulk necessary In wooden usual on motor cycles. guessed how the girl had sobbed her wrote to Harriet to tween her husband and his lackey, griefs into quiet upon his bosom, how construction of the same rigidity. The Stephen Nechlediel of Newark and have dinner ready talked lowly but audibly to him of her Mr. Withers address dampened the staff itself is slotted for a portion of John Pawlitschek of Orange, N. J., love and the comfort his presence at six. We shall be rising glow. its length and carries a sliding are the patentees. in said This time, is brought. She had never looked Into our just home, my dear. You will Mr. Withers, as he find no cause of discontent with it, I his face, but she should know him in Hand Spraying Machine. d an instant should they two ever meet took his seat in the hope, he said, in benign patronage, One of the principal benefits In the flesh, as they did now dally in from the government expericarriage that was handing her up the noble flight of stone to convey him with steps. ment stations and the different colBpirlt. Somewhere in the dim and his bride from the blessed future he was waiting for her, Thank you, she replied, coldly. It leges of agriculture has been in aidfrom to borrowed had their she a is and patience ing the farmer in combating the- indepot part of the price for which I sold sects and fungi which prey upon his home, the hope. She was to be his wife the I must myself, she was meditating. as the crops. Years ago when the fruit trees was unlike of prodiConstance children mother jaded by her fort' not quarrel with my bargain. were affected by scale the advice genlined two sides of be almost and that Miss met Field them in travel, a hall the repression nights dispirited gies . erally given was to cut the tree down; to as cherubs e of 'her brothers tabid yond her power of concealment, but she wasp-likfigure, surmounted by a to is how now farmer the but taught puppets. She welcomed them to her had learned already that her lord dis small head. Her neck was bare and save the tree in many cases, gaining arms in these twilight trances. They liked to have whatever observation he crane-likher face very "rival, W several years growth over the time lolled upon her knees, slept in her em- was pleased to make go unanswered skin opaque and chalky; her hair black required to grow a new tree to replacd" . brace, strained eager arms about her She is your housekeeper, I suppose? and shining, the frpnt in long ringlets; the one destroyed. One of the most her cheek with their she replied, languidly. o her eyes jet beads, that rolled and' twinneck, dappled methods and practical popular No that is she does not occupy the kled incessantly. ilsses. ' Unsubstantial possessions treating fruit trees Is to" spray "of as a of cherished but salaried inferior in types good position these, my My dear cousin! she cried, effusivewith a liquid mixture containing poisthings to come. Other women had such establishment. I must surely have ly embracing her patrons hand and and in numerous instances Whole on, riches women with faces less fair and spoken to you of my cousin, Harriet winking back an officious tear. It is orchards have been saved by this like sunshine to have you home again. affections less ardent than hers. If Field. The apparatus required, .con- - ;. Not that I recollect. I am sure that How are you? the Great Father was good and mercicists of a' force pump' and large reser- Well thank you, Harriet; or, I ful, and the Rewarder of them who put I never heard the name until now. voir, and is usually transported on a Her mother, continued Mr. With- should say, in tolerable health, reMetallic Construction Throughout. their trust in Him, a true and loving farm wagon or vehicle built for the parent, who rejoiced in the happiness ers, In a pompous narrative tone, was turned Mr. Withers, magnificently con- Fleeve, to which one end of each seat On the same principle; purpose. of His creatures all these must be my fathers sister. Left a widow ten descending. Allow me to introduce my (for there are two seats provided for hough designed on a smaller scale, in this cane) is attached, the outer hers at last. If she resigned them now years prior to her decease, she accept- wife, Mrs. Withers! the device shown In the picture, ends of the seats being supported by which is intended for spraying berry Miss Field swept a flourishing coured my invitation to take charge of my it was a final separation. house. She brought with, her only tesy. Constance, as the truer lady of separate braces, pivoted to the staff and currant bushes, as well as plants And I can have but one lifetime, When in a This she moaned again. Thwarted and child, the Harriet of whom I speak, and the two, offered her hand. It was below the slotted portion. lies in prox- and small shrubs generally. sleeve the closed position be carried about in the can the two remained with me until our grasped very slightly, and instantly reless thus far, but still all she had. sprayer seats the imity to the handle, and hand and its contents discharged from The one idea recurred to her with the family group was broken in upon by linquished. and conceal the slots in the the parallel life The a of would Harriet death. have then to Charmed have the honor, I am spraying nozzle at the end. To presentiment. persistency while the braces lie close which God had given, the heart He had sought a situation as governess but sure! murmured Miss Field. I trust staff, for my objections. She is a woman of I see Mrs. Withers quite well? But against the lower portion. endowed! Robert C. Dulin of McKeesport, Pa., or thereabouts, and I pre- you, cousin did I understand you to If some one, stronger and wiser than thirty-fiv- e' is the patentee. I, would only take the responsibility of vailed over her scruples touching the intimate that you were indisposed? decision from my soul, would hedge me propriety of her continued residence with strained solicitude. Good Argument for Wireless. in on the right and left, I would go under my roof, by representing that A trifling attack of indigestion, riot The army officer in charge of the forward. As it is, I dare not! I dare her mature age, even more than our worth mentioning to any ears except- government telegraph lines in Alaska not! She sobbed and wrung her hands relationship, placed her beyond the ing yours, my good nurse. has reported the destruction of no less reach of scandal. For eighteen months in the agonies of irresolution. of the 1,800-mil- e Miss Field smiled indulgence in this .han 100 miles You told Constance about the tele- she has superintended my domestic af- concession to her anxiety, and Constretch of wire by forest fires. The gram? It was her brother speaking in fairs to my entire satisfaction. That I stance, who now heard of the indis- system was in operation only four the library below. The sound arose have not alluded directly to her before position for the first time, looked lays when the fire broke out, and -during our acquaintanceship is only to from one to the other in surprised si- communication between Good Pastor plainly Through the open register. and Fairbanks has been entirely shut I did. But I regret to say that she is be accounted for by the circumstance lence. off. It seems hardly necessary to renot yet in the frame of mind we could that we have had so many other and Mrs. to Withers like would Perhaps wish her to carry to the interview with more engrossing topics of conversa- go directly to her apartments? pur- mark that this would have scarcely comMr. Withers, said Mrs. Romaine. She tion. He raised her gloved hand to his sued Harriet, primly, with another occurred had the installation For treating Small Shrubs. to say stiff wireless in the delibsystem, and Constance with herself lips gallantry, prised always expressed courtesy. the setput in liquid under pressure and cone. labor smiled of expended the in reply. constrainedly erate precision even in conjugal all means, Mr. Withers replied nothing By flow a piston has been attrol its the wires, His endearments, albeit he was less for her. poles and stringing I fear your dinner ting themust As it to tached is, the sprayer, located in such be maintained in good which No? Constance heard the rustle of profuse of them than a younger and will have to wait for her, if, as I prea position that it can be manipulated disentire the throughout car-.ie- s the evening paper as Charles laid it more ardent bridegroom would have sume Is the case, you are punctual as Is conditionwhereas only stations would by one finger of the hand which the were tance, he as to been, yet of chair his creak frequent the enough and keep custom. down, machine. the your Upon disapplying the under newly need attention confronted his wife. What is the mat- his wife in unfailing remembrance of nozzle to the affected plant or bush Could I fall In promptitude upon covered method of conveying his claims and her duties, ge was, apter? . and pulling the lever a few times this of all others? queried Harday Some overstrained ideas of the beau- parently, content with her passive sub- riet, with the forefinger, a jet of the spraysentimentally arch, and preceded to these, seemed to see in her ty and propriety of reciprocal devotion, mission ing liquid is forced out. the bride ' upstairs. Motor for the Bicycle. The inventor is Alonzo O. Freeman I believe. She looks for a hero in a forced complaisance evidence of her :to bb cottinubd.) The large majority of those who a husband, and Mr. Withers has nothing pleasure in their reception. He was too rf Ionia, Mich. as an ew years ago took up cycling sedate, as well as too gentlemanly, to heroic in his appearance or composireto unable been amusement have be openly conceited, but .his appreciation. . Acetylene Gas. Before and After. place the bicycle with the automoof his own importance in society While acetylene gas has proven He is worth more than half a mil- tion made its has very! Do now the latter that think he knows you bile, really and in business circles was too proeffective for many forms lion, all accumulated by his own tal- found to admit a doubt of the much? appearance and Lave had to be con- wonderfully supreme same success has not RoMr. the of returned lighting, ents and industry, My dear, sir; he knows as much as tent to stick to the wheel or find some woman he had selected to bliss of for power or fuel puruse its rttended exerto afford maine. Constance cannot be such an share histheelevated of form pastime the average politician thinks h other Without due to the fact that position. this to as not being poses, moments. perceive cise and occupy their spare egregious simpleton puppyish, he was pragmatical; knows. is out of proportion value its vehicle heating than As a the manifest advantages of this connec- being slightly cheaper As much as he thinks he knows tewas he without being with other in cost its of to' comparison a never and have complained the regular horseles carriage, tion to her. I nacious in the extreme of his dignity before or after the nomination? carbide undergo the Should fuels. I but be machines of her of these may maintenance, burden number the he considered due to and the seen every day in populated districts, material reduction in price which, is have often wondered her own sense of this. Hadrespect been lighter Conmood her her not did heretofore no provision has been looked for,, .it. may bring about; a but urge Touches. The and expediency Finishing justice ; been :.to would stance have tempted to the old change in this direction, however, and at to put forth some effort Husband (to wife in full evening made for attaching a motor smile at the allusion to his cousins age, to make practical use of this ga3 "for It been has and necessary bicycle, There is but one way in which My stars! Is that all you are dress) as own three it both fuel and' power purposes.-- ' his years, carexceeding by to new frame an not entirely sufficiently provide she can do this. She is going to wear? learned had she accidentally1 through ry the engine which propels the cycle. thorough in any branch of literature, the indiscretion of a common acquaint; Wife (calmly) All, except the flowi"Birth Rate Is Low. or any accomplishment, to become a ance. He was sensitive upon this point ers. Which of these clusters would The usual method of mounting the " The native-born in Massachusetts motor for running the ; Successful teacher. In the event of my had likewise .been. informed. She you Select? machine is to place it in a circular are not reproducing themselves. They death or failure In business she would she The Husband (resignedly) -upon how many to ame in the position occupied by the have fewer children than the French discover, yet had; resource to the humiliating, he driven shaft in the regular bicycle, have. others. " livelihoodof taking in sewing for a A BARTERED LIFE. m ed en ' To-nig- too-heav- e; 'pro-1-ces- s. ' tete-a-tet- - ' self-supp- : d - |