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Show tse money In the world, and for OUST IN TIME. self alone. I Uke you. yourBoston Post. It to cure herself ot a hopeless CASE OF SOMNAMBUllSM, Passion that Helen Brown left the city od It vanities for her Aunt Jolla's Visile hU He farmhouse, she had fallen la lova auuea. with a man who "All hotels have more or less exIgnored her very ex-- I stence, although she wa beautiful perience with somnambulists," said ths and sb heiress clerk of the New Orleans The quiet life on the farm j gave her houses, "but we had a case here recentloo much time to think, so when ahe ly that la certainly entitled to first haard that the Just a week ago position of under-- j prlaa for originality. Imcher was vacant In the country today a gentleman registered with us vchool she applied for the place and from well. L guess it would hardly be non it fair to give his address it waa a town She expeted to find her master a In an adjoining state, and I assigned lubberly rustic, who wrote poetry for him myself to a room on tha second It town paptr. and was lather surfloor. At about 1 oclock tha first prised when he turned out to be a night ha was here he walked downtoung man of intellect, with a refined stairs and disappeared through tbe Vs. front door. In aa hour or thereabouts How he diessed she was never quite hs came back, and aa he waa passing lure, for when she was 5a his company through the lobby some guests who he never thought of tt, and when ahe happened to be standing there talking tried to think about It afterwards ah Of noticed that be waa barefooted. Jould not remember course they were greatly startled, but If U was homespun, theu homespun he paid no attention to them and ust be a particularly becoming style walked sralght on upstairs. Naturalof cloth for a gentleman, and no man ly they concluded that be was either was ever more suitably dressed than drunk or craiy, and when they told Arthur Church the clerk on duty about It he thought And he Is superior to any one I Nevertheless, be they were joking. have ever met superior to them all!" mentioned the matter to me. and I told she declared aloud, la the solitude of him to keep an eye open for the genher walk homeward "Once, at least, 1 tleman the next night. I saw htm aev-srwill aay that to my own heart, for time during tha day, and hs apthough I do not love him 1 can at least peared to be all right, but at aM'ut the came houf as before be came down stairs again, and, sure enough, he was til rri Nk,t,id of-on- e I j j al MY MOST NOTABLE I THANKSGIVING i l tat tat alt tat Ms tat tat tat tat tat ate tat si It was . Thanksgiving time, nearly thirty years ago. To the ordinary Inhabitant of that portion of this country where I then dwelt the season was very mash like other, seasons of aatomnal fruition; there was nothing in ths earth, the skies, or tbs water that gave to this period any peculiarity which would distinguish it from the similar period of any other year, past or to come. Bat there was something that made this Thanksgiving season vary peculiar in ray eyes. For some time the whole world bad seemed to me to be permeated by the knowledge that something was about to happen which had never happened before, and which eonld not, by any possibility, happen again. I had always loved the Thanksgiving season. To be sure, much of the brightness and color in which ths landscape reveled In October was lost, hut the rich browns of the oaks, ths heavy greens of the pines and the sedars, lighted up here and there by soma late hanging tumae leaves or reddening Ivy, with hill and dale gently softened by the mists of Indian summer, made a picture In which I delighted as much as I' did in ths beauties of any other season. Bnt in this year the late autumn foliage was much finer than 1 had ever Van Dyke never known It before. dreamed of auch browns as I now srw, and the curtains of distant mist seemed aver about to rise upon visions of oven greater beauty than those which then entranced me. I .had always liked the first keen winds which bad come to us as ths event eourkr .of. winter, . making It delightful to wtah and he oat of doors, and also agreeable and aatlsfactory to go Into the house. But this year there waa a sparkling spice in the nlr which M would have been impossible for Mher people to understand, even if reason that I generally forgot to g out of doors on the regular go star-fallin- nights, and, therefore, was naturally aniious to make the best of what was left of the shower. This yesr the few stars that rewarded my vigilance by falling In the latter parr of November were exceptionally fine meteors. They glistened more brightly, they scintillated, they moved slowly, as tf they wanted to let me know that they knew of something at well aa I did. The birds of that autumn were of I reparticularly bright, plumage. member that they aang very well, and although I am not positive that those must hava been fewer or lasier, for 1 mads no complaints about ths scarcity of chestnuts. If I remember rightly, those I ate were remarkably fine, either one great cheetnut In a single hall, or a fairly large one with two little ones which did not Interfere with the expansion of tbe fittest. Thera was a peculiarity about ths weather of that November; very often the skies were really cloudy and gray, and the rain sometimes earns down with steady persistence, while the Mid and penetrating winda made people think of heavy overcoats before their But these days of appointed time. bad weather had very little effect upon me or upon my spirits. It did not occur to me that the melancholy tUy had come, and as for their he saddest of the year, that was fmpoasi-bi- s. At that time some sort of a ran waa always shining. If it were not ths ordinary sun about which our earth revolves, it waa a particular orb which existed for my especial satisfaction. It sometimes even shone at night, after I had gone to bed that la, if happened to be awake. But it was not only nature that was more than usually agreeable; the people of this world, so far a 1 knew them, were very pleasant, remarkably so. I do not remember quarreling with a living soul during the whole of that November. It teems ss though my intercourse with my fellow beings was unusually genial. In regard to social progress and tha steady betterment of the human race, I was an ardent optimist Even people I knew aa not being very pleasant of manner or intelligent of speech seemed then good company. Politics did not trouble me at all. I suppose a good many people voted tor the wrong men, but I paid up attention to their misguided actions It was scarcely possible there could he any candidates for office who did not possess some virtues, and a strong disposition in the direction of general altruism,., made , me , wish .well to air good people who had been selected to administer the affairs of townahlp, county or state. There was truly something exceptional la .this Thanksgiving season. Other people may not have aotieed It, bnt It lmpreeeed Itself most forcibly upon me. How could It be otherwise! It was a time that my first hook wag published. la-t- I MY FIRST BOOK. who were In the habit of migrating to the south In the late autumn delayed their Journey this year, those of them who did remain made - themselves very conspicuous and agreeable. It waa a great year for rabbits. In earlier days 1 had given much attention to trapping these little creatures, but seldom took much interest in the sport-unt- il the snow had covered the earth ind" thereby Induced -- 'game creatures of various' kinds to cast their eyes upon the delicate morsels exposed in traps by men and boys. But now, although I did not care to trap tha rabbits, I was charmed to lM upon them ae they akipped about on the edge of the woods, wagging their little tails and sitting np looking from aide to side, wtth their little noeee nervously trembling, while tbelr long ears waved in the breesea. The rabbits' far seemed very long and fine that year, and lam aura that its color must have been extraordinarily wall adapted for the adornment of tinman youth and beauty.I do not know that there were great crops of corn that year, or that the pumpkins had gilded to a greater extent than nauai the brown, denuded fields, but I felt the farmers ought to be very happy people. To me the country was pervaded with an atmosphere of richness and unsurpassed fulfillment. I knew that the sppls crop had been very good; at least I knew that the trees had horns some remarkably good fruit, because I had tried a good deal of it, A GREAT TEAR FOR RABBITS. and it had never poeeessed to a greater waa the Juiciness end sub-sd- d extent knew I flavor It bad It perceived they I was so fond. which of I Its understood and I origin, there, It was also a great year for chestdid not care a nap of my fingers whether or not anybody else knew nuts, and a very poor one for squirrel I do not wish it to be supposed that 1 . anything about it In those days, after the regular waa not, and am not. fond of squirrels. periods of meteoric shower, there I like them better now than f used to aned to be a good many falling stars la my earlier days, although they are At a fashionable Thanksgiving dinwhich appeared to he left over from as active competitors in the business the butler brings In ths turkey. ner I had as waa chastnot and of I when always (he grand display, gathering But in this Thanksgiving It is then rtmovsd and carved in the been accustomed to watch for these younger. ' " with a great deal of Interest, for ths season of which I speak ths squirrels butler's pantry. J THE WARNING BELL CLANGED, appreciate his worth. Love him? Ah. it I only dsred. I could! 1 could! O, what am I saying? In love with two men in the course of six months Impossible. It would he too contempt! Me." -- And now, cheek grew in hie bare feet. Otherwise he was fully dressed; he had his bat on his head and be wore tbe expression of a man In a brown study. As on ths first occasion, be spoke to nobody, and one of the employee of the bouse slipwent him. He ped out behind straight up the street, walking very slowly, and looking neither to tbe right nor the left, After going eight or nine blocks, he stopped, and then strolled back. When he entered lh hotel he passed under a strong light, and it waa plain from ths appearancs of his eye that ha was sound asleep. He went upstairs, entered his room, which hs had left open, and that was the last seen of him for tbs night Next morning l took him aside and told him what had occurred. Hs was perfectly dumbfounded, yet he said that hs had arisen both mornings with a vagus recollection of having taken a midnight walk, which hs supposed was Hs had also been merely a dream. pnxxled. to note thst his feet were soiled and bruised. He stayed with us one more night but did not repeat the performance. The man Is a well-to-merchant, and assured me that hs had not walked Jn his sleep before at hs least, sot to his knowlsdgs-silne- e New - Or lea as wag child. This tended elred to ' o driven, tag. The,-- , there, a p. the fore.o by winnei of ginger 7 antmalirr tag gs Tbe w whips u drive be the ground between i ' at the hT, ter V peats Meeese,-ai- n home pul, la raised, the first c years ba I cane by b' tha relna Piccadilly tha would compelled to pull up that la Mksd of them pick up n far in the drive to tha Upper B would be your route' ae that are put to are endless routes, b by law to tako the t eon not draw n line, Loodon, marking tt, ha is told to go boi. another month. But doaene of others succe walk along n Londot, proof of tbe enormous who know their city li many hansoms there t do not know, but I 1 cab I sailed one mon the eab I railed tha, No. 80,878, I spent a rab No. I and didn't t, theo that No. I was tt private hansom of the ; Detroit Free Press. scarlet,-an- d' flush upon her depitethA tact that she desplaed herself for it. a strange and delightful Joy thrilled Mias Brown at tbs remembrance of certain glances she had received from the eyes r, and though her pf her own col does had froxen those looks, though her haughty composure had rebaked the words that almost trembled on hie lips and died unspoken, Helen mv-bs- t ArUn Gkwek loved her, and would some time say so, despite all her coldness. 81ower and slower her steps had grown, into a reverts, ths pleasure of which hid made everything else forgotten. All unheeded the warning bell clanged afar in tbe clear air, and onward, nearer and nearer, came the puffing monster, scattering smoke, and grime, and fiery eparks In Its wake. As in a dream Helen heard her name called; a choking, maddening ery was la her eara; aa aha looked np the great fiery eye of the down express seemed biasing In her face. Two strong arms encircled and dragged her back;' an, Agonised voice whispered; "Nellie! Nellie! my own my darling! Thank God. not too late!" And then everything was darkness and silence. When Miss Brown returned to consciousness tha train was tar out of sight, her head was supported on Mr. Church's left arm, whlls his right bung limp beside him, and bis face, pats as ths snowbank they leaned against, waa bending anxloualy over her. ."Ton ars hurt! O, Arthur!" And then tear and blushes swept sway all Miss Brown's haughtiness and cool "Tou have risked your Composure. Jife for meL. How could you do It? O. Arthw d rthnyl wy . 4 Id.,jroa fellow-teache- ea dolt?" Hanawli Are ! - i try ty-thr- ea one-fift- My darling, it is only a broken arm. and to hear you aay dear Arthur in that tons and with that look would ha vs been broken all to places. My darting! My Nellie!" And now tbs teacher, as Aunt Julia said, had to givs up, too, and it really seemed ae if fate was against ths district school that first winter. But Mias Brown said "no," and since the season was to nearly over anyway, the school should not be closed, for sbs would teach both boys and girls UU Mr. Churchs arm was better nd he could come back and resume bU place, which he did soon, with hit arm in a sting and looking pale, and on meeting Mias Brown he teemed to grow even paler and unaccountably shy. Bnt Helen laughed merrily and whispered at the first Opportunity: "Ton are not angry with ms, Arthur! And It was too mean for Aunt Julia to tell, anyway." "It is a peaat offense getting goods under talas pretenses," said Arthur, "and people will aay I hava sold my heart. Neills. "They cannot say you hava sold It cheap, anyway, for I am awfully rich,' was ths gay answer. 'But, indeed, dear, I can't help being nn heiress, and yon must forgive me. "Could - not- - your father leava the money to some one else!" worn-oA Fmuv - - "He might endow a home for U m Berth. When asked teachers, I suppose, and svsn theo Lord Kelvin In a lecture stated that pastor replied: "dvfh ws would finally get ths benefit of It result of recent investigations it upon his pastor as 1 matter whet But, after all, dearest, that ths earth had been ought to da estimated waa who has the money? Am I sot worti the abode ef life for shout 89.000.001 Herald. loving for myeelf alontfV . I all yam. "That you are, darling. Despite - - r If t . Tbe Are le, " How the existence t i Invlv 4 tb.tr celestial body may be r 1 the spectroscope is ex;.' by t r v W. W. Campbell, of the tory. In glvtng aa accour i V discovery that Polaris. Star, la n triple system of the Unec-o- f the tjctri cables us to detenu. whether ths star is tppij, eedlng from us, and bow cent observations of ' Wwrle Big Beat. with a spectogrsph ' t The English marine publication,' the thlrty-e- l telesC" ' "We our British , is ssys: variable Syren, pride velocity selves that tha aggregata tonnage of solar system sow , British ships approximates to tha total five miles per merchant tonnage owned by tha reI two At maining maritime countries of the qudeiW-fc- ., world, but there is another phase of days will the matter where a comparison with comes five talks '! other nations places us In a position la repeated every h other than first tt appears we hava explanation of U' i only eleven vessels of over 10,000 grow ths star is circling tons beaded by the Oceanic, with her is turned toward u i But Germany has twen 17,000 tons wise, and it can cl vessels la thst category. Tha rausa It la associate United States is ths only other nation body, tha two rev with vessels above 19.000 tons and she oommoa center of has four. Ths biggest ship owned by belle ef n dumb France Is 1,893 tons, whlls Norway's air, Tha orbit U greatest ship Is of I.Z77 tons gross. - In is comparable is ( peed Great Britain is right ahead of orbit around the e& vesher competitors, having thirty-on- a gravity, and, tberek sels with a speed of twenty knots or tem, la approaching t more; Belgium has six, the United present with a vslrn. States four, Germany and Holland h miles per te three each, France two and Russia one. was approaching at th Thus in speed the British flag excel miles per seco and one-ha- lf ths world, while tbe disparity between of this change of velocity I Germany and this country, so far ss may he due to a change ij site is concerned, will soon be lessened, thus of the orbits of the as several big vessels art nsaring com- tem, but the moet of tt mu j pletion in British yards" produced by tbe attraction body on tha two bodies cof Ohm la CaMforals. four-da- y system. The pj well a Is Chronicle: San Francisco It known fact that several hundred dia- revolution of the binary i7 monds of commercial size have from tbe center of gravity cf time to time been found In connection third body Is not knows with gold placer workings in certain ably many yesra. Both r Polaris are fnvls portions pf tbiajitaU,7',,r,tt,a stones have heed Lienee hi proved by tkf months twenty-seve- n which their attraction found in one placer mine on the Feather river, all hut one being in the rough motion of Polaris. and. globular, whlls ths twenty-sevent- h 8ANDOW ON E bowed n well defined crystalline structure. The largest or these weighed ays metMl Pmeitoa, but! a single carat, and tha small octaIs tbe rreper a hedral brilliant weighed but quarter "Dumbbell practice g of a carat, but all were stones of purs every sinew, from tbe C cron si of recent The discovery water. elbow, from the top of sanda close to the limits of Oakland sole of the foot," San has already been announced In Ut man, raid in a recent Chronicle, tut tfcS discoverer is not yet young can be kept prepared to define the locality, prob- and older peopler Near ably for commercial reasons. proved even whe5. Manvel, San Bernardino county, tur- meat which appe quoises hava been found which in color quite hopeless, and quality surpass tha Oriental gems. rare must be practising, and Flesearee mt rablle LUs It must ha aa expenslva luxury, the number cf Aug writes a correspondent, to be an M. P. usily and not for tha Louth divlstoa of Lincoln-shirs- . overtired at flrstfC Tha following art taken from does state most tha list of donations by Mr. W. R. dumbbell exercise r Perks, M. P. for that constltusncy, tlon, give grace that and per Nursfigure Lincolnshire daring the week: thst comes fi ling Institute. 10 10s., Tetuey Primi- ringsunder clef control, foal Saltfieet IS; Methodist chapel, tive of an easy hr bow, 8; Market Rasen horse and dog point not expect too mu, how, 8; Salvation' Army at Louth. Somer-eote- s strength by degrei North 1; at l; ditto Bardney ends ths blood thr-Wesleyan ebtpel, 8. and smallet contributions to football clnbs at Horn-Mark- new life, which g!v Bascn. Ludford and to every Individual Louth. London Dally Telegraph. . do at ths pick 1 AN ECCENTRIC Faterl' 4, ut t r i 1 . |