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Show AT MOFFOKD'S. MISS irldi. Everything might have continued to bo laid out on the lines of the book bad It regulation Sunday-schonot been for well, we will call It fate. "She waa 19 when ahe learned to love. It was a very short lesson and she mastered it easily. All her life aho had been lonely and longing for some one to confide In and cling to and ahe accepted hint unquestloningly aa her protector and guide. I do not wleb to He was not a do him en Injustice. thoroughly bad man; moreover, I do not desire to eacuee her or detract one lota from the magnitude of her crime. He did not deceive her. He told her the day before they were to be married that he had a life living. And ahe well, perhaps she ought not to hnve done It, end of course neither nn absolutely good woman nor n thoroughly unprincipled, aelflah woman would have done It. But she wee only nn everyday, erring mortal and she married him anyway. Do not atari ao. She ia only an Imaginary heroine. creations are not guilty of auch acta of Indiscretion. "'At the end of n year the very thing which he bad always assured her would be an impossibility became an assured fact. He returned to hla first love. It did not kill her. 8he schooled herself to look upon her punishment as the Inevitable reiult of her transgression, and, realising that her love dream waa ended, she turned once more to the Innate sources of power end ability which, with a little cultivation, would render her Independent of acofllng relatives and friends and faithless husband. While her baby lived there was still some near and dear object for her to rare for, but with the death of the little one she left the place that had been the scene of her deepest misery and greatest joy and began life again in a pluce. A new name waa chosen, new work was commenced, and the dead past hurled Ita dead comw another big fair. ol FIRST (lance at Jarvia when ba stepped Into my den that night told 'no that there erne something on ble mind. 1 had known him Intimately for fifteen yeara and in that time the clear cut linen of hie Impulsive large, Y nature had become ao familiar to mo that I waa aa well able to Interpret every phaae of hie varied humora aa waa he himaelf. But 1 did not preaa him for hie confidence. I had- - long alnce learned that Jarvia waa one of the kind that cetera to onea curiosity much more aatlafnc tortly if left to take the Initiative, ao I pretended not to notice hla abatrae tlon, but bualed myaelf la putting to rlghta numeroua odda and enda of houaehold derorationa that had become dlaarranged during a week'a abaence of the women of the family and waited for the pnipltioua moment when the apirit ahould move him to unburden hla aoul to me. It came Juat after we had finlahed our luncheon of beer and frankforta and rye bread and had atarted on our cigara. "1 called to aee Mlaa Moffbrd thla afternoon," he aald, moroaely, "and urged her to hurry up our wedding day. but ahe parried all my argumenta with the lame threadbare excuse that haa been dinned Into my rare for the laat aix montha: Wait till my book la finlahed.' Confound novela, anyway. E peri ally thoae that are written by women. I turned my head aalde to hide the Irrepreaalble amlle that would twitch at my llpa at hla recurrence to the plaint that bad formed the baa I a of our at leaat one evening out of every week alnce Jarvia had become 1 waa about to engaged. atudy up aome new phraae of conaolation to offer him, but before I could get It worded to my aatlafactlon he broke out of paaalonate force again with mot-than I had ever known him to expend when diacuaalng the aubjert: She expecta to have It in the handa of the publishers In two weeka time and inalata that, aa It la Incompatible with her vlewa for a woman dratltute of both name and fortune to marry a man In my atatlon, the wedding muat be poatponed until at leaat a fair degree of fame haa been acquired through her work, which aho feela confident la hound to be a aucceaa. Do you know," lie added, bitterly, "I think It one of the moat pernloioua reaulta of our boaated modern-da- y liberty that young women whoee minda ahould retain their natural freahneaa and innocence ohonld be contaminated by inveatlgat-In- g all aorta of acandaloua proceedinga and the Impulaea that would lead a peraon to act thua and ao Juat for the aako or writing a book that ahall bo true to Ufa Mlaa Mofford outlined to y mo for the flrat time the plot of her novel and naked my opinion in regard to the coualatent conduct of one of her characters. " I had long been aware of Jarvlo' avaraion to playing aecond fiddle to the literary venturea hla fiancee had In hand, but I knew from the extreme rancor that waa vibrant in every tone of hla voice that aomethlng of an unusual nature had tranaplred to vex him. "If not violating any confidence, I aald. perhaps you will not he averse to giving me a few proof-sheet- s, bally of this wonderful nineteenth-centur- y e to-da- novel. "No." said he, "that la what I had Intended to do. Aa nearly aa I can remember thla la the way she put it to me: I place great value, ahe aald, 'upon your knowledge of human nature, and Fleah-and-blo- od CENTENNIAL OF TENNESSEE TO BE COMMEMORATED. Eiirf.lU Preparations tor the I part-s- at Evaat Sana af (hi SplaaSId BsUdlags Already Finished Kvery thlag b Being Daaa aa Liberal Seal a. (Nuhrille Letter.) HE Tennessee Centennial and Inte- rnational Exposi- tion, which la to open here in May, will compare favorably with other greet fairs of the peat ten years. All the great buildings are nearing completion. The most aolque thing about the plane on which the exposition will bo run la the arrangement In regard to floor apace. Every other exposition has oharged a certain amount for floor apnea We are working on n different plan. We are not going to charge for floor apace, but Instead, wo nek n deposit from each exhibitor as a guarantee that hla exhibit will be in readiness for the opening day, May 1, 1897. The management promises to hnve ita buildings ready by the first of March, and if any exhibit ia not in Ita place on April SO, the deposit le to be forfeited. Otherwise, the deposit will be return- - modeled the building after the Hena luge,' the home of Andrew Jeekeoa when he wai president, adding to tt some phases of Greek architecture. The architecture of the minerals aad givforestry building ia Romnn-Dori- c, ing n combination of strength and beauty. The structure le 521x124 toet At the three main entrances there will be great portlooes, with aix columns each, crowned by gables which will ba covered with designs In relief. Over 22,000,000 Is being spent by the committee on buildings, and seven of the great structures are already completed. The children's building le erected from money raised by children only, throughout the elate. Around It will be n beautiful park, covered with blue gran and containing fifty deer. The exhibit In this building will be particularly attractive. Many collections of curloe have already been sent by American consuls In far off lands Ineluding a complete collection of lUmps and curiosities from tin Axons Islands. Nashville alone has raised 8251,000 for the exposition and every county In the state la sending In lie quota The governors of all of the slates have been asked to appoint commissions to see that the resources and manufactures of their eUtee are properly at the exposition. The same is being arranged with the mayors and chamber! of commerce of all the Urge cities In the country. Nashville contains eighty colleges, academies and other institutions ot learning outside of the public school! pletely. "'Three years of loneliness, privation and toil passed away, and then she found herself wooed by another mnn. But I am wearying you and muat hasten on. She did not love this man COMMERCE In the full sense of the word, for she was a woman whose former vows of were not meant for time ed to the exhibitor on the affection opening day. alone, but ahe knew that she could lie This will guard against the incomplete-nee- e very happy with him and could make of the great show during tbs lint him happy In return, so one day, after tew an has been the case with weeki, many refusals, ahe rewarded hie imnearly all the expositions, so frr. portunity by promising to marry him. Congress has recognised the TennesI have carried my own characters up to see exposition, having appropriated thla point and now what I wish to get $250,000 to pay the expenses of the at la this: I have portrayed thla sec- government exhibit. This recogniond suitor as being good, honest end tion by the United States governkind. He knew nothing of the womment gives the exposition nn otclal an's past; Indeed, he did not suspect standing, and in consequent it that she had one, end I want to know la expected that foreign governments if It would be nn Inartistic ending for also will partlclxpxte, and the exposiher to marry him without undeceiving tion thus be truly international. Work on the grounds has been prohimr" Jarvia paused there tn hla narrative gressing two years, and they are now well graded. Lett spring n largo numand sighed deeply. "I told her." he resumed, after a ber of trees, flowers and ahruba were little, "that I knew nothing of the planted, Including 2,500 rose buehea artistic aide of the matter, but that It Two large artificial Ukea have already would be a monatroua wrong for her to been finished and stocked with fish, and the walks are nil In readiness for do aa" " 'And would ehe hot be pardonable the cement Work on the ground! will be completed by January L under any circumstances T Miss MofThera are to be twenty-tw- o ford persisted. 'Not even when taking largo into consideration her sufferings and buildings, and many of them are already finished. One of these le the repentance?' "Under no circumstances,' I reaff- Fine ArU building, which le nn exact reproduction, as nearly aa it Is possiirmed with emphasis. ble to make It of that glory of archi" 'Then there is another point,' continued Mlaa Mofford. 'If she told him tecture, the Parthenon, as It originall what course would he be likely to ally stood. The building will be of pursue? Judging another man's nature etone and brick with concrete floor It will, and steel and glass roof. by your own, tell me honestly. The pillars I saw that her whole soul waa therefore, be fireproof. hanging in the balance with my reply and exterior decorations are being and I reflected before giving It. '"If she told him everything unreservedly, end he really loved her, he would never cease to care for her tn n certain way, but he would probably never wish to see her again.' 'That nettles that question, ahe went on, 'and now for one more phase of the subject, please. If she married him, leaving him In Ignorance and he subsequently learned all through other sources, what do you suppose he would THE BABY WAS A NEAR AND DEAR OBJECT. la order that I may work out a consistent ending for my story I want your Follow me suggestions and advice. eloaely, that you may lose no detail of what I have already written and may bo able to judge fairly. Once upon a time there was a girl of course. There could have been no novel without her. 8he waa not a very pretty girl and there waa nothing In all her girlhood days that bore the faintest trace of prettlnesa She was brought up In poverty; not the abject poverty of the tenement and the street, but a constant cringing strife for enough to eat and to wear, that is called respectable poverty, but which Is very nearly as hard to endure as the more Inferior grade. " 'Her parents died when she was so young that a mother's kiss and a mother'a good-b- y son faded Into memories that were confounded with the fancy pictures of her imagination and the lot of the homeless, friendless child became drearier than before. But from some one. heaven knows whom, fur In the bitter struggle of the lower life we seldom find out the soula that are fired with the divine essence, rhe had inherited aspirations and hopes and ao Indomitable courage that could not be extinguished by labor and hardships, and adversity only served as an Incentive for reaching out and grasping after the beautiful things she knew existed la the material and abstract him. "I read your book, I aald, jeattngly, when our first greetings were over, "and waa greatly fascinated with 1L You and your collaborator deserve greet credit. It Is undoubtedly the book of the season. I suppose the wedding will come off soon now? Jarvis' pale, thin face seemed to grow perceptibly thinner and his hands trembled nervously. "No." said he. "I guess not." "Why not?" I ejaculated. In uncontrollable surprise. Because. he returned, Miss Mofford was the heroine of her own book." - and Miss ("lira Parrish, seventh youngest W. C. T. U. round the world missionary, has started on her trif around the world. . ed es Children Ward-Conlc- y. (" A fans ns Experiment In the recent census of the county of iiniV)n the occupier of n tenement handed a blank paper to the collector with a confused statement that It did not apply to her. "And where do you live, then? asked the bemuddled enumerator, after a long struggle to disentangle the witnesa "Where do I live? Why, where should I live but iu my own ome "Well, where la your home? "This ia my 'ome, of course It la "But you said Juat now that you didnt sleep here last night. "No more I did. I never slept a minute nil night long, and my 'ustrand 'll tell 'e the same. Household Words. Sarcastic. "Theres one thing," remarked Willie Wlahlngton, "that I've made up my mind to da" "Really?" responded Mias Cayenne with languid Interest. "Yea I shall never be n mnn of one Idea. "Don't any that You are still too young to be discouraged." Washington Tlmea Insert Kllll g Tor-- h. A device for destroying millers and preventing the spread ot fruit worms is coming Into quite general use auioug cranberry growers ou Cape God. It consists of a torch mounted on a pole which la left burning through the night. The millers are attracted By the blaze and fly into it. St Louis Globe-Democra- t. A Mngnlar form of Monomania. There Is s class of people, rational enough s la other respects, who sre certs Inly la dosing iheuiKclves. They srs constantly experimenting upon their atunincfas. ibeir nowete, their livers and their kidneys with trashy nostrums. Whoa theaa organs are really out of order, if thry would only use Hostetler's Htomach UKters, they would, if not hopelessly Insane, percairs Its superiority. mouu-nisuisc- "That young widow next door has bought Isn't that s little odd V' No: bicycle. he says ehe had to have It so ahe could carry dowers out to the cemetery.' Everybody Wants It. At leant every one doea who wants to savs money. Bend for It The Golden Eagle Catalogue for Fall and Winter. Sent free, and coete yon absolutely nothing. Twill eve yon money en Dry Good a, Gioaks, Millinery, Hhoea, Hoys' Clothing and Groceries. Ready Kept. IS. Don't fall to get one all we want yon to do ia to send your name, we'll do the rest. The Golden Eagle, corner (Sixteenth aad Lawrence 8ta, Denver, Cola Congmtnlete me, old boy at leet I'm on the top round of the ladder of aucceaa" Well, here's to you; but I'll bet you got there by turning it upaide down. reat gales naturally result from tha great merit which make the thousands of wonderful cures by (HloodTi Sarsaparilla The One Tree Blood Purifier. Hoods AM druggists. L curs Liver all Ilia u esnta Pills -- THE- Building- The children of the state of Tennes- THE WOMANS BUILDING made of staff and will be exact copies of the marbles and fragments in the British museum and the Louvre at Paris. In front of the Parthenon, and near the lake, will eland a statue of Fallas Athene, forty-thre- e feet la height, now being made In Parle. The commerce building, which ia to be the largest Jbuildiug on the grounds, measuring 691 by 256 feet, is based on the Corinthian and Ionic orders of Graeco-Roma- n architecture. The central pavilion ia crowned by n grant dome 175 feet high, to the top of which elevators will be run. The structure that will ba considered by many the finest of the exposition, is the agriculture building, it la In the Renaissance style, with dimensions of 300 by 200 feet. Six graceful domes crown its corners and front, while n great dome 100 feet In height rises from the center. The arches over the floor entrance ere splendid works of art finished with carvings and statuary. The txaneportatlon building will be simple In style, without n single oolumn. The ornamentation, however, will he classic and. contrasted with the great atretch of wall surface, 400 feet In length, will give a most pleasing effect The Auditorium, iu which all conventions and congresses will ba held, le in tha colonial style, in the fora of n cross, with circular colonnades connecting the enda It will hold 8,000 people The woman's building is very appropriately built after designs by n woman, Urn. Sara She has af Traas. America does not seem na favorable to tbe longevity of trees aa are many that parts of the old world. It la aald known pines In tbe north of Europe are to have endured for nearly BOO years.1 In Bavaria there is a larch which known to be 225. Many oaks in Germany are known to be over 300 years. Of other trees Individuals are known that have reached the ages set opp alts to them: Ash. 170 yean; birch, 100 to 200 years; aspen, 220 years: mountain maple, 223 yean; elm, 120 years;, and red alder, 145 yeara In our country there are few that are more than mere remnants. Must of Bart ram's trees are gnue wholly or has art fading. Tbe famous cypress fine yet a tew green brauebea Tbe In silver fir ou the Johuoon estate which figured In tbe Germantown, early issues of the 1 Iort lcult urlst": u 1 often elsewhere, is entirely dead now, though less than 100 years old. Meehan's Monthly. Ax-ore- be Justified - Thai Bee Mai One of the moot remarkable natural phenomena discovered In recent yeara haa Just been reported In the southwest corner of Brown county, Indiana, says the Cincinnati Enquirer. It Is near the dimiuutive village of Elkina-vill- e. At lie entrance, which Is completely overlapped by the trees, the cold air la plainly perceptible. The winding way leads to a subterranean cavern which Is fully fifty feet below the eurface. This huge aperture le very like broad vaulted corridor and Is known to the nativea aa the devil's chamber. The air of thla apartment la near the freezing point It ia trimmed with glistening rock formations, which reflect the light and sparkle with the brilliancy of countless diamonds. From this point n number of halls lead off In n confusing manner, but the one to the Ice vault la evident from the cold blast that comes from It. The descent to tbls natural corridor le similar to the rocky decline at the entrance of the cave, but not over n dozen yards wHhln the frost from the lee vault le plainly visible and further on It le thick on all sides, like that crust that le formed on the pipes of nn ICe plant. A little further on the descent entirely ceases and here tha walla are frozen bard like the ground in the middle of the winter. Then the narrow way leads to a mammoth chamber and this large natural opening ia known as the Ice vault. In this great subterranean aperture, which extend fully 100 feet iu width, the Ice towers In a miniature mountain, appearing like a dozen !pwrg heaped together. The frost-line- d walls and dome preset: a frldneea which would bring the shivers to a seasoned Esqut-m- o. Here the i.e stands In n solid mass, extendine downward to a depth which would be folly to conjecture. Some have advanced the theory that the air la forced through under-passagof the earth with such pressure as to make the strange formation. Some have attributed the cause to an BUILDING. underlying bed of alkali, whose chemical change to a gaseous form has produced the phenomenon. Others have of the city. This fact has given It thought that the Interior heat of the the name 'I the "Athens of the South," earth, acting unoa the Iron pyrites, or beauIt abound In fine buildings and fool's gold, which largely abounds in tiful parks, while its hotel accommodathis country. I the true source of this tions are ample to care for the crowds unparalleled discovery. Still others that will attend the expoaltiou during think the sudden expansion of the carthe six months of Ita exieienue, from bonic acid gas given off by the heated May to November. limestone, which te also common in this country, could hare easily proTa Baplaca Hlselas Lap duced the ice. But thus far the theorAn inventor of n now form of artiies are nothing more than speculation, ficial leg says that If n man is so unand further than the fact that the lee fortunate ai to lose hie log there le no cava exists and te.' Indeed, n remarkreason whatever why any one beyond phenomenon none has been able his own Immediate friends should ever able to further determine. know It The now leg le said to be reIn of Aa Ideal Antleeptla simulation truthful lu markably tha motions of tha natural limb, It la salt Hennltlne. or electrolyzed curious contrivance of hinges, screws water, besides ita use aa n disinfectand elastic bands. Extending downant for sewerage, la now employed as ward from where the ankle should be nn ' antiseptic in Paris hospitals. Dr. to n point midway betweea tha heal Proger, chief eurgeon of the Deaf and and tha Instep are two steel rods, Dumb Children's asylum at Asm tret, placed one la front of tha other. One recently told the Academia de Medirests on x sort of roller hiage, and al- cine, na the result of long experiments, lows tha foot to give or bend with each that "the electrolyzed saline water te step. Tha other serves tha purpose of neither caustic nor Irritating; it may be bringing the foot back Into place aft- applied to the mucous membrane as to er the step has been taken. Any lateral the skin; It Instantly removes all bad movement of those rods la prevented odors, stops all putrescent fermentaby the sides of the slot through which tion, kills ml robes more effectually they more. A screw and n nut at tha and rapidly than any other antiseptic, top of tha rod alio prevent the leg cleanses and heals fetid wounds and from taming and thus giving trouble ores, and hastens healing: It is an in walking. The similarity to nature Ideal antiseptic. Consequently, It apIn form and notion of the limb Is Into me of the utmost Importance pears creased by the placing of xn artificial to make it known, and to draw attention to all the applications that it may be put to, both from a domestic point of view for deodorizing and denning, and from n medicinal point of view as an antiseptic and healer par excelDr. Proger used hermitlne lence. with success in cases of angina, coryza and Incipient diphtheria as well. do?' In doing whatever his outraged dignity and honor prompted.' I auswered. 'Not only her former alo, but her deceit In dealing with him would give him license to resort to any method of avenging himself. 'Then you think,' she laughed, that my heroine la beyond redemption?' '"8o far as human laws go, yes, I aid. "So you see, my friend," continued Jarvia. with an attempt to shake off hie lit of melancholia.- "1 am going to be en author, after ell, in a roundabout way. When 'our book "nines out you shell have the flrat copy. But really you can't wonder that it puts me out of aorta, now can you, to hnve my sweetheart mixed up In auch nn affair, even though it be in the moat Innocent way?" And I, pondering deeply over what I had just heard, let Jarvis ont of the front door without answering him. Jarvis left town the next day and It was six montha later when I next met S.a.rk.U. rkii.m.n ice-seal- ed far-aw- "He would Tha Loag art 1 7 INDIANA'S ICE CAVE. heel tendon within the foot at the hack This extends of the ankle Joint. through n hole In the leg to a nut about half way up. It gives an astonishing flexibility and control of the artificial limb In walking. Another Strange Lapse of Msaiary. Those lapses of memory which ws read are hard to believe, said tha woman, "unless one has known something of them from personal oontacL I knew a very nice girl vho lost bet She occupied a memory altogether. room with her sister. One night as they wen about to retire she complained of n severe headache aa severe aha could hardly boar tha pain. It seemed to wear off, however, and aha went to sleep. Tha next morning eha awoke deed to the pant She was an entire stranger, knowing no one and recognizing nothing familiar In her surroundings. A strange tsature of her Case was in regard to her fiance. She was engaged to ha married to a very excellent young mnn. In tha general obliteration of tha past, her recollection of him had gone, and net only that, hut she did not recognise in him as he came to her n etraiigor, a desirable man to become engaged to, and utterly refused to have anything te de with him. New York TUuaa A beautiful and costly kloycle was given by n Chicago groom, to his bride, as a wedding gift Foui weeks afterward she eloped on It. her escort being an expert' wheelman. i see are erecting a building for the centennial exposition, to take place next spring .at Nashville, and some very unique Ideas are being carried out. All exhibits will be for children and by children, showing children's work. ! Childrens organixationa of the whole country are Invited to contribute their Ideas and valuable specimens of any sort. Little Mis Lizzie Pearcy, 12 yeara old. daughter of the United State-consto Colon, suggested a very unique Idea which le to be carried cut. She proposed writing to every United States consul at foreign part of the world, over 31 It Timber, and asking them for some typical toy or doll belonging to that country. Responses have come by scores and the collection of dolls promises to be a moat surprising one and of great value. Some very valuable toys have already been received. Exchange. DENVER, COLO. SESD Addrru for il'w Fall OataloBilB. Urtr tOO St ttlylm fn CLOAKS, ETC. ul Tbi KVomn of It "Now, dear, I hare ope favor to ask of you." It'a granted." Then please don't tell me that you hnve never loved before, that you never dreamed that you could love, that I am the only girl yon hnve ever been " engaged to, that I wont" He (Interrupting) But you never She (anxiously) hare been engaged before, have yous dear? Brooklyn Life. Jnt When It Happened. It was near the hour of midnight, the hour when virtue sleeps and vice stalks abroad with its nude and polluted form and scatters crime In all Its festering and fetid blight among In their Innocence and purity. Chillicothe (Mo.) Tribune. rhaaaa af a parch. The speech of the aborigines of Africa changes with almost every the flowers that sleep same dsy Mali Ordtrs Hied DONT tOVfEftfc GET WET. 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