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Show was delivered during Jack s absence from home nnd the nature of its contents could be easily discovered withaTrtffc-- a do n towar 1 ths sea. A (jnr.lrn.Junteiua-JNow, how, the mid tuorna prun- out existing suspicion. The tlowir ever, that the desired information The aun burns hot. nud the wind from the was within her reach, Dolly hesitat-e- d. liifilHS EHIOBllS, THE HOME SENTINEL. THE BY P. O. SEN ! IMX rOHPAJiY. J 4. T. J IKKUIM, Hauager. . Hx ST, Tlautl, I T. and airni.i is listlessly Unwins-T"Stuff ose, sin thought. her susme to wake in this Inn.l of de.itn l.ieath were unfounded and her husMiiqf Hone Ol the I'.ot a picions Of liouihinir roses and 1i('h ho fair. letters had no connection band's And fcunUatux Jilutins mid (roldeti hair. with the alteration in his manner! The oleanders In- mtlier- d and broken. Suppo-- t him, instead, the repository a From tl.e the let Laid by euiiien no thrna.i of some guilty secret, or to lie him. 'i)i:. self involved in some criminal enterhe word a i spoken, Would a short riot rise ' Such hesitation, however, 0 n step reamiml t lie dark idle vs ntonir prise! A (jhoHtlv hand hill of h.ir mtl.eied flowers was only momentary. oners, S .itTeiins h third, n pole la The notion of Jack engaged in any ike sen loam dm en upon the wue. evil rave. project was too preposterous to To oi er a long toijrotten r and with a conviction be entertained, come The sun ami tl.e mill and (he rain susot her Now Some wiithig 4.233 yars old is on exhibition in I.u-is- , and the ink luoks not a for as fre:-- ns on a thirty-da- y h $100. - It now tr.uispir-- s that paste, such ns is U'od in so many editorial departments in this country, was known tel years B. C., but it lial no editorial -- 1, value. 1 ( The cutlery business is pushed to that extent in Germany th it a fair ) trnther tided. The stream once glittering in its own He in J i v Tlioush delichtetl to hear brightness, and borrowing further thin o:lge. t li ut I uin must ou maun. from the earth nnd sky, grew from hu h oeensioneil beauty mtv sorry tor the reason It is predicted th it there won't ho a Strange, shapenml it thought mv rrmunrtrmi-- i murky andopanue. letter, ymir less monsters seemed to w rithe und Shikeror Quaker lott in the United shell 11 h h ouiii b,o e n n j rt e t wallow beneath its surface; nnd still JStatcs twenty-livyou most Htroimiy to nlutmlon jour years lienee. It is ut Inset her. I. however. promise to keep Jack pressed closer to her side, till too inconvenient to try to bo different your secret mid topive vou in y best udvire the narrow pathway crumbled unfrom one's fellow men. on the point you put. lOTIOX As your ob- der her feet, and she fell headlong inTHE POISONED shoul't mu nnd to sue the imto tlie dept hs ot the rushing torrent. ject is to divert One day lust month tho pent la, ot in eiderilul dentil, you should empression Then succeeded an immeasurably a ruyr vvlm ii used both in zephyrs swept over Pike's Trait ut it J.uk, dear, who i.s Sir T.obert ploy has a r. period of rapid transit through seethAiern kdhrs ninetv-eikand vetumi moreovei, of an miles hour, sjieed is ing waters, and afterward of silence, that udv nut. lire. Iiom it Rallantyup.' special anil the signal service men felt their u.li-i-i taken tor the benetit of tlie eomplexion. ol darknsss, of insensibility, of an"liallantyne? Oh, hes a great I should hair loosen at the roots. siurg st its m, ministration in small nihilation. sudon Too mtervuts. nnd writer oiis.der.ible nt chemistry, doses, analyst den a dentil iin;.hr lend to investigation, TnF.RE are over (i iO men but better known ns the highest When Dolly returned to consciouswlinli would Is- avoided lithe symptoms affecof in the state of New York, and not over ssive ill- ness and found herself in her own treatment the wire tlio-- e ur n snnluul nml if Ins betause ness. your is important, twenty of them were crippled in the tions of the brain. ariiminted with bed, she at first imagined herself to beautiful heiress war. The railroads and saw mills are ions eire.itnstauees nttendinir the be waking after an ordinary nights And what have you been writing ttie stispn .No. 1. she nnjilit naturally ob.ect to rest. dentil ol She was, however, soon conresponsible for the rest. to him about? bceonnnir .No. g. Rut onee more. ndviseyou vinced by a sense of prostration and It a her is oar ert eue y to very iriv sltoget pro have? I low do you know The force which a California pumpindefinable tear that something unIn at y lisk, esoei i.illy to one in your posiYours ever, kin exerts while growing is equal to usual had occurred. This conclusion, happened to look at the letters tion. Roisr.rir R via. vntine. the strength of a large horse attached yon left on the hall table this mornmoreover, waseonfinned hvt lie presThe room where Dully was sitting ence of two strangers, who presented to a stick of timber, liout fool with ing. was light enough. The handwriting the appearance of a nurseand doctor a pumpkin if yon want to keep right Well?' ot the letter was legible enough; but in attendance on her. Before, howend up. I wasn't Well, I only asked. hml it been traced in unknown ever, she had had time to satisfy herIf vnr nrhe for literary f one write nwnre that you knew 1dm. characters or studied in a darkened self of the truth of her impressions a novel which wiil go off like hot Oh, yes, Rnllantyne and I Ere room, its meaning could not have she relapsed into insensibility. On cakes. Authors who have done this was reopening her eyes after an interval been less intelligible. What old friends. in the charhave made all the way from $.1 to $40 very secret and wliat the heavy she observed no ehnn-k's .lin But I never heard you mention risk lie ran? What this on a book, or about half tho wages of mysterious acter of her Jsurroundings. Tlie dochis name before. a wood sawyer. suggestion regarded from attendance tor, indeed, was not visible; but No. 1 troin a conversation which she overIndeed? of suspicious circumstances! A Soi th (aik h.ina girl who was Your beautiful heiress! heard she had littlo doubt that it This dialogue had been conducted No. 2! Then suddenly tlie whole truth stood was he who was describing to some taking a surf bath had her heel bitten with nn evident one the on anxiety disclosed in a revelation interested inquirer in the adjoining off by a shark, and u Charleston docno in horror tlie wildest of surpassing room the nature of her own malady. tor Is making her one of rubber, lie side and reserve on the other by Dolly's preof the speakers. vious apprehensions. She saw it at The voices of the speakers were low, says it will make her a light and means characteristic Jack Rivers had always been last, and realized himself to be the tlie door between tlie bed room and graceful walt.er. object of the detected conspiracy! tlie dressing room was nearly closed, frankness itself, and Dolly the No wonder now at the alteration in nnd yet with a morbid acuteness of Iow Ieiro thinks the day may and unsuspicious of her husband's inminer. No wonder hearing Dolly caught distinctly the come in Brazil when a woman can wives. at his restless nights, and his moodi- meaning ot every whispered word, walk the streots of a city ami he safe, and recognized tlie questioners voice Their married life indeed, had been ness and irritably. but it is a goo ways off yet They do Your beautiful heiress! IIow to be her husbands. of one though unalloyed happiness, barbarsome is a in but it it countries, dare her husband allow the use of And you forbid me to see her even undertaken against the advice of all such ous custom, he savs. terms! And about a woman, for a moment? their fremds and relations. Most positively. Through the too, whose claims to good looks he Every European nation now has Its father had been furious at had always denied. whole of the delirium this extraorDollys little allianco with one or more other her Your beautiful heiress, indeed! dinary dread of you has been herone engagement to a beggarly banknations, and in case of war tho whole refused to attend Strangethatat suelm timethese words dominant idea. If she caught sight had and er's clerk, of Europe must be embroiled. It is should rivet the attention of their of you now. I could not answer for her wedding or to give her any as- render almost to the exclusion ofe probably belter to have ono big genervery the consequences.' sistance towards tho young peoples other consideration; that at the moBut I thought you said the crisis al war and then quit. ment ot the discovery of a deliberate was past, and that she would probhousekeeping expenses.-JackDu. Agnew, of Philadelphia, eavs relatives, too, after his neg- plot against her own life Dollys mind ably wake again in a perfectly rationthat cooking, such nsonr lect of their solemn warnings against should dwell less on the awful nature al condition. of the contemplated crime than on Quite so; and in ordinary circumgrandmothers used to do, and such as when Miss tlie motive a stances you would naturally be tlie of its commission. is amentod now ami then by tho third marrying penniless girl, Tlie idea that Jack should plan her first person she would be allowed to assistant editor, would make us a na- Argent with her .112(3,000 might have been had for the asking, had wash- death with the object ol marrying her see, but I must tell you honestly that tion of dyspeptics inside of a year. circumed their hands ns they put it, of the former rival seemed by fur the dark- these are not ordinary in terrible est the stances. revelation. feature if of a whole concern. Under the laws Bulgaria For tlie meaning ot the allusion was What do you mean?1 patent medicine Is warranted to cure a In spite, however, of poverty nnd easily nprehended. Your beautiful I mean this. Rightly or wrongly certain disease and falls to do it tho the young wifo had nev- heiress could have reference only your wife has the gravest suspicions manufacturer can bo prosecuted and insolation, her marriage norconsid. to the girl whose partiality for the about you. She believes you to be er regretted sent to prison. No cures for consumpJack Rivers had been no- engaged in some conspiracy against herself other ered than the happiest attractive tion can be found In that country. torious. her life. ol women till within the last few Kate Argent, indeed, with her But surely you attach no importOtf a recent Sunday morning the weeks preceding the above conversahandsome faco and fortune, had ance to what people say in their derats entered a colored church at tion. been a seriously disturbing element lirium? Natchez in such numbers that tho conNot generally, but this is a pecuDolly's during engagement, The Inst few weeks! and her existence had not been for- liar case. There has lieen a logical gregation had to adjourn. It was how When nnd Dollys misgivings gotten. And thus in the first trans- coherence in her ravings throughout estimated that 1,00D of tho rodents put in an appearance. .Hats have been were first aroused she scarcely knew, ports of pique nnd jealously tlie real her illness, which convinces me that but at the time when she put the horror of the situation was over- her distrust of you was thecauseand seen in white churches. and the discovery accepted not the consequence of her attack of question to her husband about his looked, The Vanderbilts own several farms, letter to the specialist they had al- rather with indignation than alarm. brain fever. Till I am satisfied that But not for long. her apprehensions are removed it and each ono Is conducted on strict ready assumed a definite form. By the time that she had restored would be madness to let her see you. business principles and an account kept She felt convinced that Jack laid tho letter to itsenvelope and replaced As it is, it she happened to overhear of all expenses and income. In this on his mind, and she, it among her husband's other corre- your voice, the result might be very way turnips are raised at a cost of $3 something she fully realized the dan- serious. You must lie contented, tor the cause of his spondence moreover, suspected per bushel, hay at $05 per ton and oats of her position. And wliat should the present, to leave her witi me. ger at about live times what they can bo trouble. It was not only that she do? She had no friends in LonBut yon will find out tlie meaning his habits nml manner laid gradually don whom she could confide in. of it all and bought for at tho feed stores. give me the earliest he ommitted the cus- She had only a few shillings in her news? that changed; Gen. 1 no k in, congressman from Of course I will. nnd, in any case, she tomary littlo attentions to his wife; possession, shrunk from the idea of presenting Mississippi, lost his right arm during that he sat at his meals And talk to her ot once? drumming herself at her fathers house as a runthe war. lie was on the confederate She is still in a No, not with his fingers on tho table, nnd away wile. side. Maj. Powell, chief of the geostate of great prostration. ToWhat should she do? Should she morrow, when she has some natural logical survey, lost his left arm, ho be- starting or staring vacantly when ing on the union side. Now both these suddenly addressed; not only that he make her discovery public, and throw sleep nnd taken some nourishment, gentlemen, who are intimate, buy ono displayed a strange irritability; that herself on theprotectionofthe police, it may be different. should she conceal her knowledge The doctor was justified in his fear pair of kid gloves betwoen them, their he locked himself up in hisstudy after or of her husband's intentions, and of the effect on his patient of the hands being tho same sizo. dinner, or went out late, with the un- await some more favorable oppor- sound of her husband's voice, ns was satisfactory explanation that he tunity of escape? Something, at any proved by tlie condition in which he Bnowx-SEyr Dr. Aim has been interBut what is discovered heron the sick viewed in Paris apropos of tho export-- , wanted to read at the club. It was rate, must be done. this this he sensation which room. He was mistaken, however, came bed alone not that to strange at meats of American physicians nnd the to toss nnd seems first to numb her heart, in his belief that the explanation of criticisms of tho American press. Dr. irregular hours, only t he weary watches. and thence to radiate through her agitation would necessarily be tumble through Is disposed to regard All this was nothing to the revela-- j every nerve nnd pulse? Dolly deferred. As soon as he had taken American physicians as idiots, while tion was awake nud perfectly conscious of his place at the invalid's Ledside she madeonenwiulnightwhen Dolly, e he thinks American newspapers ine listening breathlessly at hisside.over-- I her surrounding; she was sitting in introduced the topic herself. of maintaining tho mean between hearil his muttered words. She knew her own room, among her own familEven during the short period which She had preceded Dolly's relapse into unextravagant praise uml vindictive cen- he was nwake nml not dreaming. iar furniture and ornaments. sure. Why, then, should lie talk of murder could see the sunlight on the wall consciousness, the appearance of her and medical attendant had attracted her poison, nnd seem to bo balnnc-- playing with the shadows of the univerfamous John llopkins The leaves. Site could hear the favorable attention. Beyond the exin his mind the comparative ing sity is reported in great linaneial dis- merits of alternative modes of death? tick of the clock, the loud chirping of pression of kindness which suggested tress sad news to very many who ate Wliat could it mean the sparrows ut the windowsnnd the ready sympathy she had noticed a Its friends throughout the west ami Could the terrible explanation distant roar of the street trafie. She look of power and determination knew it in its days of greit influence which had previously crossed her could smeil the faint perfume of the which promised assistance ns well as and power. Its future depends upon mind lie true, and were this irrita-bilit- mignonette in tlie flower box on the The conversation which she pity. Baltimore and Ohio stock, in which all this abstraction nnd this sill. But she could neither stir nor had overheard confirmed her originthe endowment fund is invested, ami sleeplessness thesymptornsofa weak-- ! speak. No movement resulted from al impression, nnd, while reminding her frenzied efforts to rise and when, her of the actual nature of her awful mind, ofapproaehinginsanity? railway stock is always an uncertain ening Such being the suspicion already in agony at the discovery, the tried secret, pointed out a suitable repositquantity. entertained, tiie result of Dollys dis-- j to call for help, no sound followed. ory for it. Many years ago Whitelaw Held onco covery that her husband was 'in cor- Though neeutely sensible of the horDoctor, she said, do you know g respondence with a brain doctor went out for a stroll in a short, may ror ot her t position, and of her own Sir Robert Ballantyne? velveteen jacket. As luck would be imagined. Evidently, she thought, helplessness nnd danger, Dolly sat Yes, was the answer, given alter have it, Sarony spied him nnd invited Jack knew his danger and was nsk-- dumb nnd motionless: and by degrees a pause. I know him, too, continued Dolhim to step in and have his photo- ing lor assistance, and what was the tlie senses of sight nnd hearing, hitherto clear and accurate, became of a wife in tho circumstances? duty Mr. Reid consents'll. taken. lie excitedly, a heartless, wicked ly graph Surely to ascertain tho nature of the diin nnd distorted. The well known man. I cau see his face now; a low, never wore tho jacket again. But tho advice given in reply nnd to carry it objects surrounding her took strange dark forehead; cruel, cunning eyes photograph fell into the hands of a out with all the discretion and devo-- ! and fantastic shapes, nnd the cusOh, no; Ballantyne is not as bad popular caricaturist, nml from that tion possible. tomary sounds assumed new and un- ns that. Mr. Reid to whenever this, figures There was no difficulty in the first natural meanings. day Dolly was no I know more than think. He In a cartoon ho is made to wear the part of this program. A letter, ob- longer in her own room in the little nnd Jack want to you me that poison in from Sir the discarded These Robert blos Jack may mnrrv again. old, long viously borough. jacket Ballantyne, lodging pocket knife can be made for eleven cents. This is cutting it down to a Jj tif the eorrei tness original picions Dolly ojiened the letter. To the card n old that stands l.v the eea The Honors dieam and blossom and wither. And the wild hank hovers over the ol tjeath, 111 the l.oKom heati iut The red tips mil never uirnm draw breath, A d aie at lest now nniiuht left to show 'I he h. e and the s .non nr Inns uso. Junet Ross. e It margin drooped and ran thus: lr )! soms which surrounded tier were nc t the counterfeit flowers ot chintz and carpet, nor that monotonous hum tho roll ot distant wheels. They were real flowers, and they fringed the margin of a bright river that glided b) to the cadence of its own soft Miigiuu. And along its banks walked Dolly, nnd Jack was with her: but how sadly altered! He moved silently at her side. There was nocarressmgtoueh. no look of love in his eyes.no tone ol tenderness in his voii e; nnd at every step he seemed to force her nearer to therivers brink. Thenthe nspeet of the river itself changed, and its ripples seemed to utter sounds of warning and woe. The lights that had flicked his shallows disappeared, and the flowers that had edged its 1 I 1 inten-iio- re- 1 n oinim-n-- t sii-p- u uieilb-im- i ht t f i one-arme- d - pro-r- '1 1 I 1 most-light-heart- 1 s 1 1 t. ' i j Brown-Soquar- d ipa-bl- 1 ' y, i ; t r)j i ' tight-fittin- j i i I i , s i ; 1 Grandmas Night Oat. madam. Pray, compose yourself, delusoma The strange under Tou are Sheboygan County News sap-- , sion. plements tlie story of the wanderings It is no delusion; I opened . ir of Elmer Foster, the 7 year-olLov, Roberts letter and learned the whole in the woods, near Mosinee.for saven plot. clear Mrs. Rivers! I assure you days, with the following: "My the lost Lov fini vou must have mistaken his mean-imThis story iu told lieen many Ot tha papers, but "But 1 remember the very words: is a here I should story of C, grandmother I should employ arsenic, and u small lost in this country sever in print unadministration its suggest til now. She was 73 years ol and doses. "Mv good lady, ht me set your from the East, a clergyman's wife of mind at rest. Your husband is writ- the old Calviuistic faith of the Piling a novel. grims. It was in the year I'"! ), iu "Writing a novel! "Yes. lie calls it The Poisoned October, she said to her daughter The villian murders his and Potion. in there home in wile, with the object of marrying a Glenbeulah, that she would g over huswoman with money; nnd your one of tlie neighbors livingamong to ical med a on assistance band required the kettle hills in (Jreenbush. point. He wanted the name of a in the afternoon she startedAlong but poison at t lie homo ol But if that is nil, interrupted stopped onherwaytarried and too long. In Dolly, what was the risk Sir Robert the bru-- h and through tramping warned him against? woods she lost her wax, and Perhaps, was the answer given came on, and then a storm of night thinksleety was with a smile, liallantyne snow nnd rain. She spent the night ing of his own early literary efforts. by the side of a log and in the mornA first work is generally a heavy-draiing finished the journey aud reeeived on an author's pocket. a warm welcome in the way of hot that been supposed It might have surrounded by hot those explanations would have suf- drinks in a bed. of water. The bottles bricks and of the groundlessness ficiently was a slight stiffness bad result she only invaii-Jbut the apprehensions, iMio died mg long was still dissatisfied. The story was for a few days. home of a daughter livthe at sinee, she could how but plausible enough, be sure of its truth? Might it not be ing in Kansas, aged something over itself a fiction devised for the purpose 8(1. Of course after she got home had all sorts ot ofullaying her excitement. Moreover, the grandchildren and ask. to it is or.e ol conwould questions Jack it that was probable fide t lie history of his novel and cor- these, nowin middle life, who told the t lie News reporter. When respondence with Sir Robert Rallan-tyn- e story tofew days this lost old !adv to this new acquaintance? M as after a got home, the it likely, when he had never men- (who found herself) tioned "the subieet even to his wife, grandchildren were full of questions, little Ed, a, boy of five, that he sliouM communicate it to particularly whiskered man with wife the doctor, who, no doubt was tlie lie is a big local practitioner summoned at the andbabj- of his own, now. Damma want you fra i J, ah time of her attack of illness? Convinced by tliesp considerations .alone? No, darling, I was not alone. that she was the victim of a decepGod with me, God is everywhere. was further a Dolly question: tion, put Witlr you down by tlie log where But how do you know all about slept? my husband's book and Sir Robert you Yes dear. Bnllantyne's letter? Well, why didnt God show you My dear Mrs. Rivers, 1 am Sir the way to ttie house then? Robert liallantyne. It wasnt his will, dear. And well for i)olly that it was so. Did He cover you up so you and the services of such a skilled physician had been available during was warm, damma? I wasnt very cold until most her illness. Her condition, indeed, had at first morning. Then what did you do? seemed hopeless, but care and skill I got on my knees nml then I eventually triumphed, and from the moment when the cause of Dollys said my prayers, thanking God apprehensions was removed her re- for keeping me all right, nnd then I got up on mv feet nnd found covery was rapid and uninterrupted. my way, and when I got to the in and kneeled The nature of the first meeting be- house I went tween husband nnd wife, with its down and thanked God for bringing strange mixture of mirth and tears, me there, and then the folks came can be only indicated: Dollys contri- around me and took off my wet tion was met by a hearty acknowl- clothes and put me in n warm bed. But little Ed. wasnt quite satisedgement of Jacks share in the reWhy didnt God go right sponsibility for the mystification. fied. Not that he could be fairly blamed along all the time with damma end for the solicitude on his wifes behalf, not let her get lost and sleep in tlie As a big which had alike been responsible for woods by a log all niglit? liis literary enterprise and for tlie se- boy the question remained unanswered in his mind and for that matcrecy observed regarding it. The notion of the Poisoned Po- ter ns a man it is no nearer a solution had indeed originated in its tion. Why did God let 6uch a good authors desire to increase his income old lady get lost a long time ago in and furnish his wife with the comforts the kettle hills of Green bush nnd why to which she had once been accus- last month an innocent little boy rathe great north woods? tomed. While anxious for her enjoyment of the benefit of his success, he had deA Dog That Wails for linen. termined to spare her the anxieties Mr. W. S. Wells, of Wilkesbarre,. preceding its accomplishment. A mutual misunderstanding had Ta., is the possessor of a beautiful ensued. Dolly ascribed to the wrong black and white cocker spaniel, which, cause her husband's restlessness and for intelligence is not surpassed by while he attributed , any dog in the state. Every morn-inghis wifes evident anxiety to the privaas soon as Boss hears his mastions to which she was subjected. The Poisoned Potion, Jacks ter stirring, he brings his slippers,, sensational novel, nppeared while the after which he scampers to the front appetite for mysteries was at its for the morning paper, always zenith, and was admitted to be the porch success of the year. Dollys father being careful to close the door after has now little reason to be ashamed him. Boss never thinks of retiring of his no longer the beg- for the night without first saying his garly clerk, but one of the most prayers. He places his front feet upprosper authors of the nay. Jacks on a chair, bows reverently, closes relations, too, who washed their His ej'es and nothing but amen hands of the whole concern, when it pronounced by his master willinduce was represented by the little house in him to cease his devotions. the borough, act very differently now One evening as Mr. Wells was closthat it has taken the form of a well ing the house for the night Ross came in with what his master supposed to be appointed and hospitable establishment in one of the most fashionable a bone, but when ordered out with it streets of Mayfair. Loudon Society. refused to obey, and insisted upon delivering to Mr. Wells wliat he held in An Outlaws Dumb Pickets. his mouth. Upon examination Miv There lives in a wilderness section Wells found, to his great surprise,, of this (Columbia) county a hermit. not a bone, but his spectacles and He has wielded a destructive knife case that he had dropped by accident and revolver in half a score of trage- in the barn while attending to Boss is not lor sale. Philadies and is constantly on the alert, expecting to be assassinated. This delphia Iress. mnn, who has forfeited the companionship of mankind, is guarded by Mj Wifes Bridge. animals that are well trained watchAt Tokio, Japan, is a fine bridge-callemen. He lias a inagic control of the Adzuma-BashMy brute creation, and owns six large . The name ha3 a romantic-origingoats and nn equal number of dogs. His lonely cabin stands in the middle A brave general who had of a fifteen acre field. When lie goes of a to plowing three of the dogsareplac-e- quelled rebellion in an other part on home the was empire hastening at each side of the field at his rows account of the receipt of a message-thaend. The dogs are trained to patrol the adjacent forest, and no human his wife was dangerously being can approach without being the last day of his hurried journey exposed by these vigilant sentries. a At night the dogs nnd goats lie he found his course barred by after when long' about the cabin the goats without bridgeless river, and the yard inctesure and the dogs with- nnd anxious waiting, he managed toin. When any human being ap- tted a boat to cross in, and was met proaches these goats set up nn un- by messengers bearing the sad tidwile had earthly series of bleating. The dogs ings that his dearly-love- d within understand the signal arid just died, before he could arrive rush furiously at theintruder. her hand for the last time and Armed to the the teeth the adieu. My wife could not wrait say hails the visitor. If found proprietor to be a for me, was all that the stoical friend ono word from the hermit sil- warrior would trust himself to say ences both goats and dogs nnd the ns he stood there ns if frozen by guest is invited in. Thus guarded His soverign, touched bv the desperate man savs lie sleeps compassion for the blow which luu more securely than the czar, because, fallen upon him while away fighting unlike the ini penal cohorts of the lat- for his country, ordered a bridge ter, his faithful sentinels cannot be built at the spot and named it bribed or otherwise rendered unsafe Adzuma-BashBut the people say by collusion with tliier owners that it cost the monarch only Magnolia (Ark.) Cor. Atlanta since a lot of paper money was Constitution. manufactured especially to pay for R d r. 1 grand-ehilure- n ce n s son-in-la- his-hors- d i, Wifes-Bridge- . d t ill-O- n s the-shoc- to-b- e i. ene-mie- s. t |