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Show MEREDITH. flJlAN T 20 wekno'wmuch less than we think we know, though we would make it very warm for any one who informed us of the fact. The world then 1? a u i. rS tf. great, beautiful kingdom where is monarch we his minis-V- e and think better of ourselves in davs than we ever thought before We strut ver will think again. f the idea a little space puffed with ?T importance, or; stagger about Tw3i our ambitious dreams. And we wake up ;7some bright morning S that were wrong allt id that we for us, Universe wasnt made just this but is hot all after hat love Love i '1 telling my story. not I 20 when I met Vivian Mere- 1,23 just and as full of all the foolish and I notions that are common to fat adolescent period as I could be. he was indeed a lovable girl. L first at a party giveb by my dear LL Mrs. Horace Habberton, and on s j Jiring who she was was told by my VsJess that she was a 'poor young onan of good family, who wrote for I ntic 1 et i. il'iSt ej', i papers. not poor and I didn't, write I liked people g3 for the papers, but that description, especially when they was ! ! ) oo secured an early introduction to as she she was. as charming fun iiai !A.sr, ; like Miss Meredith, so I sought :ed was well she talked well well, Everything leaked. LL ij.tetoi.ced she-di- d well. ; before intimated to you have A SUMMER OUTING. Condole with me. He merely said: Well, these things often happen in Th Pleasures and Benefits to Be Delife. Youll get used to them by and rived In the Mountains of Colorado. y. You are young now, but after The days are here, when one begins awhile you will be cynical.' to make 'plans for his summer outing, I very much suspect that he had had and studies railway maps and questions friends to learn of the best spots, and disappointment in his own life. Well, I am not dead and I am not where the most varied amusements wed. I am 40 now afrd well fixed.) But may be had for the least outlay. To Kansas people the Rocky mountains sometimes wonder what the outcome are the most convenient and afford opwould have been,, what new ambitions portunity for the enjoyment of tastes for achievement I might have .devel- of all shades. Twenty-fou- r hours places oped, had God given it to tie to realize the inost eastern dweller of the state the dreams I had at 20. right in the heart of the great divide and he. has enjoyed such scenes tourists go across the can be no secession. ocean asto wealthy find. The Denver & Rio Grande road, the Great Scenic Route of Harrison Declares that Xt the world, takes you at Pueblo or DenWould Be an Impossibility, ver, and whirls you through canons 'Our government is not a confedera- where there must have been an enand where giant arms have tion of states, but as strictly a govern- chantment dashed the boulders into their present ment of the people as is any state govresting places. .The ride through the Harriernment, writes Royal Gorge displays the great Inson discussing This Country of Ours genuity of its engineers, and the obin Ladies' Home Journal. It stinate determination of its builders. is true that the vote upon the adoption The rails are placed in almost inaccesi-bl- e places, along the edge of the stream originally and the vote upon amendor which with wonderful skill torrent, ments Is by states, in state conventions been of the wayjfto make forced has or in 6tate legislatures; and that In room for the rockout bedana the iron toad various other ways the states are tecog-nize-d rails. At certain points Uhe torrent and used in the administration maintains its supremacy, but the diffof the national government. It could iculty is met and surmounted, a set into the cliffs hardly have been otherwise. But the of hangers tobeing made the bridge work support construction of Mr. Calhoun and of overhead, stream is still and The track. the Secessionists that our Constitution of its power over man, and jubilant laughs, is a mere compact between independent booms and dashes by as the train states? that any state may withdraw passes, not caring for the queer shadfrom the Union for any breach of condi- ows that fall into it, if it can only tions of the compact, and that each be supreme at this critical point. The state is to Judge for Itself whether the canon is one of the grandest in the wide enough, in certain compact has been broken, has no sup- world, tobarely of the stream and the admit parts, adn-tion port, either In the history of the walls of giant mounthe tracks, granite of the Constitution or in the text tains above and over all, and towering of the Instrument itself. The Constitumore a still impressive object giving tion and laws of the United States take lesson of the great force of Nature hold of and deal with each individual, which has caused it all. The climb Is not as a citizen of this or that state, a long one, and after leaving Salida but as a citizen of the United States. you think it is over and that as oryoua grade, Each of us owes allegianeec to the enter upon a slight flown are now going that you valley, amiling United States to obey and support Its to slide down into the great San Luis Constitution and laws; and no act nor Valley. Never were you more misordinance of any state can absolve us taken; and if .you look you will see two or make it lawful for us to disobey the puffing little giants pulling the train laws or resist the authorities of the for several hours yet. At length, howUnited States. We Owe another al- ever, when you have begun to wish for the summit is reached, and legiance, each to his own state, to, sup- breakfast, a stride down tbe westis there port and obey its Constitution and ern slope, rapid and into the beautiful vallaws, provided those do not conflict ley. For more than fifty miles the with the Constitution and laws of the track is as straight as an arrow, and the The question train speeds along bringing you Into United States. whether an act of Congress is uncon- Alamosa for breakfast, right under the an act shadow of Blanco, the highest mounstitutional. or whether All around are of any officer of the United States, tain in this country. as as fields th6 eye can far smiling done officially, is unauthorized, must, of is vision reach, until interrupted by course, be decided by the courts of the the mountains which encircle the val-ie- y. United States in the last resort by the Some one has said the West Moun-- , Supreme Court. A power In a state tain and the Sangre de Cristo range court to finally declare a law of the on the east are a ring and that Blanco afford United States invalid would be destruc- Is the setting. These mountains enteramusement of and variety tive of national authority, and, indeed, every There is fine trout fishing; tainment. can of the national existence. There In season there are plenty of ducks and be, in a proper Constitutional sense, no Sand Hill Cranes, Brants, Geese and secession and no war between a state Curlew. These are in the valley. If and the United States; for no ordinance big game is desired you must go back repudiating the national authority or into the mountains, where Elk, Bear, Mountain Sheep and Lions, Glouse, etc., organizing resistance to it can have are still to be found. Outfit at one of even when passed any legal sanction, the pleasant little hamlets and spend by a state legislature. a month in these mountains and in this valley, if you want an outing. If you Watch Chains of Narrow Ribbon. wish to meet the gay social parties, The watch chain is again in favor. No that make the mountains their home in go to Colorado Springs, Man-itolonger is the jeweled watch fastened to summer, or some other of the delightful remiladys corsage. Instead it is tucked sorts on the line of the Denver & Rio securely within her bodice. The chain Grande road. is a most inconspicuous affair of narrow We know of no greater advantage to ribbon. The chains have a small silver heath, than may be gained by a sojourn or gold clasp to hold the ribbons to- away from the cares of business and the routine of living. gether, and a catch at the end, to which daily duties isof no routine but a conthere Here the watch is fastened. Narrow black tinued of resulting ribbon is used in preference to any more change, to a pleasure tired body or overprofitable other. Gold chains hardly larger than taxed mind than any other opportunity a thread are also used, and narrow within reach. The Denver & Rio Grande of its strings of tiny jewels are also dignified Company looks after the comfort and prowith care, of watch chains. name scrupulous patrons by the vides the best facilities for observation and enjoyment of the ride. If you have' The Stomach, Not the Heart never yet visited these precincts, deNothing Is more common than for cide now to do so this year, and get the imagine that they have heart rest and health you have been looking persons to ' F. P. BAKER, and they often make them- for. disease, conOklahoma and the Indian Territory. selves dreadfully uncomfortable in n maNew York financier, 20. A In the Twas elated? overwhelming sequence. Well, Was I more a business and Thornof who made cases, in !great the particularly, recently jority Just then occurred been fanciful all we had people, the pleasure trip through Oklahoma and young, nervous, ton reception, which as a bell, but the the Indian Territory, in a letter to a looking forward to for a long time. I heart is as sound friend gives some very interesting data had hoped very much that Vivian would stomach is out of order. even ine had preand information relative to The Land there. I accompany He says, in part: of the Fair God. MUCH IN LITTLE. sumed on her doing so, and my heart had she that I recall When she when my sunk experiences, while in regretted Mme. the Jeanne Hugo, granddaughthe and Indian Territory, it Oklahoma made other arrangements. was who of miserter Victor a Hugo, recently seems to me to be more like a dream She came with Halliday in a her divorced from husband, Alphonso than a reality. I never was more faable hired coupe, and she, wore only to marry a young vorably impressed with a people and is about could Daudets I But son, flowers.; few inexpensive not help remarking, as did every one doctor of Paris. the resources of the country are truly Mile. the When and Christine, Halliday Vivian wonderful. how else, fell colored on rides the woman, Before making this trip I was imlooked together. has she of railroads was very I heaps European looking bued with the Idea, so prevalent among Well, I suppose I who try to the conductors but me, found troublewith when Alsbury dejected people of the east, that this terrihad reason. He laughed at me and told levy two . fares from the freak. discov- tory have little in common with the inAmong Dr. Donaldson Smiths me that I must expect some reverses, terests of our people, and vas a place of Is Lake off such the eries in to Rudolph region carry not hope fitted more by nature for an abode for that I could, a prize by one triumphant sweep; why, that of the existence of fifteen new the red man and a rendezvous for outof Africans one of them dwarfs, laws than a, home for a civilized and it was worth some few, defeats to win tribes such a girl! as Vivian, and he prophe- none over five feet in height. Christian people. A personal investiMrs. Mercy Thorndike of Rockland, sied that alt would come tight. and inspection of the country been a pilgrim here below for gation I had great faith In Alsburys good Me., has dispelled this idea, and I fund She has amoved her earlynine-tentworld better ninety-tw- o years. the He knew of the sensational artithat judgment. n his place of residence times, and cles of than I, and I could depend upon outlawry and other tragedies settled even now. observations. But to me there was a isnt permanently credited to that country eminated alone is of manifested deal interest A content upon good most discouraging look of from the fertile brain of some Just now in an old document on exhiVivian's ' face when she danced and newspaper correspondent. Me. It is a comabchatted witt Halliday, and the total did bition in Bucksport, Thomas The Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific, Pownall, the mission, signed by Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe .the sorption in him which she displayed of Massachusetts, appointing Choctaw, governor not seem to Indicate that any thought Oklahoma & Gulf and the So I Jonathan Buck first lieutenant of a & Texas systems of of me had any place in her life. Kansas of 20 would "company to invade Canada, and bears Missouri, man What railroads each lead into and across this1 grew desperate. circumstances? I de- the date of March 13, 175S. such and the great amount of cattle, not, under Emperor William, of Germany, re- country, termined to settle it all for good, and ceived hogs, wheat, cotton and other produce from the empress several Christdrove span my view in end this with mas presents of great appropriateness. shipped out from there evidences the next door day to her around fact of the fertility of the soil and the of grays Sjhe gave him a set of porcelain plate of the country. and took her out for an airing. In even an with paintings on them of naval scenes, productiveness revive I pain should The Indian Why Territory Is rich in its six drinking cups, each holding a goldto I how proposed mineral lands and coal fields, and these old wound by telling and en spoon, and two large landscapes ' industries are only in their infancy, her and how she was surprised loved her, but painted by a German artist. should have, I that sorry Miss Hesba Stretton, the English au- -' while the cheapness of the land and the me? Whats never marry she could spent some years on the bor- rich soil over the greater part of Oklathoress, words? her offers inducements to capitalists use of giving JvPrvlike ders of Epping Forest. Her house there homa or same as the farming and laboring well as the heard was given up because the nightingales 20. were of our class when you people. warbled so vociferously as to spoil her There is still some fair hunting in Of course. Halliday was the hindering a is There rest. about story so in nights not say did Anni-dark- o cause, though she late Mr. Robins, a famous Eng- the Kechi hills, southwest of the Lon to over run a and in the Gloss mountains, and many words. I took and when I came lish auctioneer, who, in offering an esare well supplied with fish. streams while, tor a little tate for sale, said the only drawbacks the Tck she was married to the poor rows to Crop prospects are exceptionally the desirability of the property were tor the wrote things klso who man the litter of the roseleaves and the good, and undoubtedly the coming season will see a large emigration from th P to noise of the nightingales. not enough sensible east to that country. Alshury was j ! ! - al. He laughed at my apprehensions and said: You are rich are you not? Halliday is poor. Everything is in your favor, for money will buy anything from a mans honor o a womans love. And well, on the whole, I believed him and thought he was very clever, and,1 in fact, felt rather sorry that I myself had not mader the remark it bordered so nearly on the epigrammatic, The spirit of it permeated the subsequent) course which I pursued with the occupants of the house on ffjenth street. Without being vulgar or ostentatious, I took every occasion to let them know that I was a man of wealth. Somehow at the time I felt shame-ijace- d about it and wondered whether my method were worthy the object, but I did not change.. I brought m trap around to her door,' drawn by a spanking team of grays, and took Vivian driving.! I pflt at the disposal of her and her mother; my box at the theater. I sent her,1 out of season. flowers that in their season were enor mously costly. Sometimes she, protest ed; at other times she received my at a quiet, grace that made bound and then fall back twice the distance it had leaped. Meanwhile the strong-face- d and earnest Mr. Halliday was still in positive evidence.' One couldnt help liking the, fellow, He wals such a man. He looked like one who might break steel bars with his hands if he only wanted to dQ so, and, what Was more,1' he looked as If his life were jflean, and I liked him in spite of myself. But because) he was decent and noble and likable couldnt him carry off Vivian, Alsbury agalii, but he up hearty that I was getting on swim mingly, and (that my course was the talk of our whnlA raL that ! , en-rou- te, there Ex-Pregid- ent . Ex-Presid- ent j t , i f u, . not literary. But I was off in this worlds goods.vand was !1 fairly amp-ab- le support some one who was So srary. .Then, besides I was 20. idea took sudden and violent pos-'siof me to have for a wife a aaa who wrote things for the papers, who, placed beyond the necessity scribbling for her daily bread, might follow her bent and make tbe name Jones famous. And, to my mind vian Meredith seemed just the person do this. I thought of her name it a pretty one, and I thought it would well, with my surname suffixed, Sed to a story or magazine article. 7ian to ? on 1 1 I TTEB. ' k I tsi ' 15 a resalt Irst-s- l Pray think of the hyphen between the Mere-- k Meredith-Jone- s! With and pben on the Jones I .insisted on the wouldnt It be the, very pers- of literary cognomens? it all was that I fell ia thought I had with the little stocking. She was very gracious and so I began to hope. I thought from feminine graciousness to love not a far cry, and so I had not kPed, was elated. Such a o iaay happen at 20, you know. ;e bad a quaint little house down icnth street, where she lived with mother and one servant and where r a while I began to be a frequent 1 found in the Widow Mereldelightful old lady, talked with familiar ease of the Imminent of our old families, and 6 over my cigarette, I concluded sht do much worse in tbe way Jbe upshot of or -- eon 3 cr- - high-bre- y d, ( -- ,l 3:My. hile the discovery began to me that I was not the only 'a u on who , a3 seeking Vivian Meredith ontions. ho- - r e On several occasions on Tenth caller, a street I had met strong-face- fellow, nnd upon earnest-Jonn-g Halliday by inquiry that he Por and wrote things for the ivian was very gracious to ' J and her mother treated him as I liked Halliday, but ; ;;crite. their attitude toward him, Ubury about it. He wa sort end mentor cf mine, lie was ' y 40 and withal cyaic- , All- - d, , , two-head- ed ! i . I ( r,: A llar. are children need nourishment. Is your child thin ; actually poor in flesh? Does it get no benefit from its food? 'Then give something which produces flesh andmak.s rich blood. . i of st Cod-liv- Oil, er with.J) does Hypophosphites It this. 5 than changes the unhealthy action to one of health, thus removing the cause. (J It acts on the nervous system, which controls the processes of the 5 6 body, toning it up into 5 sound and vigorous ac- - J 5 more j t ( 5-al- l . t food for t5 tivity. Itboneis and brain, i growing It makes the thin plump t5 the the 5 Iruddy There are two educators on the Venezue-to lan commission. They are appointed teach Great Britain geography. " iii The - D. V. Shbles Investment & Mining Co., of Cripple Creek, Colo., can furnish you strictly reliable information concerning mining properties in the. Cripple Creek district. We always have options on some choice properties that ar bargains and handle no others. Local and Eastern bank references given on applictlon. Correspondence solicited. J An English market reporter says, hides are Britain. If war Is devery scarce In GreatTscarcer. clared they will be ; pale, ; weak, strong; it feeds and cures. : t JUST AS GOOD IS NOT SCOTT'S EMULSION. m wato A GREAT CHANCE, TO MAKE MONEY. made Mb. Editor: I read how 'Mr. Jones for orders a taking better job have I money. for Case storing new Fireproof Deposit the polieies, receipts, deeds, mortgages, notes, fire. Every family money and valuables from W orld Mtg. Co-- ( F 26) or fanner buys. I sell for cleared $27 first week, $39 second, Columbus, O. $147. last week sister made $23 same first month firm. for Washer Dish National selling one esn honest firm, any work, Light, easy C. BARRET. J. make money by writing thqm. Many who were eager to take 6ticks to Cleveland seem now disposed to stick to , IN THE . WORLD if Al him. Newllns Gulch gold camp boasts of having some of the richest gold placer land in the'i state. You Can reach the camp quickly and conveniently by taking the Gulf road, There would be fewer second story t thieves if more literary pirates were caught stealing their first story. 11 the Baby is cutting' Teeth. sure and use that old and remedy, Has. Teethinv- Children for Winslows Soothing St'"7p Be well-trie- d Dramatic schools ought to turn their attention to Forrest cultivation. The stage needs one. . FITS AU Fits stopped free by Dr. Klines Great use. Nerve Restorer. No Fitsafter the bottle free t J trialtirstdays Marvelous cures. Treatise and $2 Fit cases, bend to Dr. Kline,931 ArcUit.,Ptdla., Fa. When mud prevails in Boston a great many pedestrians become Common carriers. Newlins Gulch gold camp can he easily and quickly reached by taking the Gulf road. A man knocked senseless in a prize fight isnt knocked very far, generally. PIsos Cure for Consumption has been a God send to me. Wm. B. McClellan, Chester, Florida, Sept. 17, 1895. 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I L . well-know- j sr: Everything Goes In London. certain San Francisco vendor's opinion is that It is the easiest thine in th world to sell a mine in London for almost any price, provided you have anything to show an expert. Some time ago he was in London with a mine to sell. A company was organized, an expert reported favorably; and a meeting was held to discuss the terms. The vendors price was 50,X0. That," said the of the syndicate, is more than spokesman we expected to pay. AVe thought of 40,000. There isnt much difference. Suppose you knock off the odd 10V The vendor ultimately did. When the papers were made out. he was delighted to find that the syndicate had been talking of pounds. He had meant dov gl at hair Imressiting. SMOKE YOUR MEAT WITH- - :.KRAUstRS JLW fmcu UQU1D EXTCACTarSUtJ LAR.LKK&SSER1 ER3.KHIC.1fa, f xm K AEKMtmiK Gw. a oca oair me wono'i windmill business, because it has reduced the cost of Wind power to l ,X what it was. It has many branch m houses, and supplies its goods and repairs at your door. It can and does furnish a better article for less money than A t'zr-lo-u It makes Pumping and. I Geared, Steel, Galvantzed-afte- r b- Completion windmill V Tilting A and Fixed Steel Towers, Steel nzz Saw Frames, Steel Feed Cutters and Feed w-- tk Grinders. On application It will name one g, A of these articles that It will furnish until usual price. It also makes Januaryand1st at 13oftbe all kinds. Send tor catalogue. Tanks Pomps Factory: 12th, Rockwell and Fillmore Streets. Chicarw fi. vrr " - A Perfect Food jr? Liebig said hS All of Walter JT of good chocolate Baker & Cos Cocoas and Chocolates are goody the best, in fact That is what Baron von Walter Baker & Co., Ltd., Dorchester, Mass, j , j, - j ,tiv j; v j , - j 4 i |