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Show ; CttOSS LILIES. OP-TH-E rou shall not go- - would .lather see you dead at my teet." "I shall go, er some day. lathAudi so she went out of hU life. He was an old Puritan gMra. as- cetic, dead to all pleasure and amuse-meiThere were but three things tor himhis liible, his sword and his daughter He had laid aside his sword, for he was growing old; but the Bible was always by him, and he loved to interpret it in his own fcarsh'tashtonr And then his daughter but she had gone. She was young and beautiful, panting for all that makes life sweet and grateful for love, triumph, for the applause of thousands. She had resolved to be an auress and to have them all. She waattiiled In that ugly, square hoube In Scotland. The dull unending moors overwhelmed her. The cold grey stones of her home crushed out all her life. She longed for the glare and glitter of borne great city. So one day she disappeared, and James Gordon was left alone with his Bible. He uttered no reproach, but his grim mouth seemed to close more firmly, w hile the lines grew deeper on his nigged fae. The neighbors were disappointed at his apathy. They mentioned his daughter a name to him, in the hope of arousing some emotion or torrent of abuse Hut he merely half rose from his ihair and looked at them. They were silent, and left him. So a yeai passed away, and he began to grow weary of sky and moor He sat all day in his oaken chair, with his hand on the Bible. Meanwhile Ruth Gordons name was on everyoues lips in Loudon. Her beauty had brought her all she had ever dreamed, moie than she could ever have hoped. It was the last night of the burlesque wherein she made herself famous 1 he house was crowded, and she excelled herself In every gong and dance. At the close of the piece the stage was coveted wth bouquets from admlrerb from men she knew and men who wished to be known to her. She stood anud a bank of tlowera, and bowed to the thunders of applause. She as a queeu, for that night at leash Then, when the curtain had gone down for the last time, she picked jp one or two of the ofterings and went off to the di easing room. One she hell in her hand had attracted her by its uncommon shape and condition. It was d a cross of w hite lilies. She threw it contemptuously on ter table, and pressed the other the gift of a young Earl to her lips. Who dared send me that shabby thing? she said to her dresser, and then picked It up, ftom sheer curiosity, to see the name of the man who had ventured to offer It. She dropped It, and uttered a cry of surprise and pleasure, then picked It Up again and biased It passionately. The label read: To my daughter. Come home. I am augry no more. Truly it was the happiest day of her life a triumph and half-fade- She left for Scotland that night How slowly the train crawled on through the darkness! She could not sleep, and she watched the lighted towns go by one by one until the dawn. Then the the roneert pttforra she presents a FOR BOYS AND GIRLS. most lovely picture of feminine gracs and beauty, which, addid tq her bird-ik- e WOMEN WHO ARE BECOMING' voiie, makes her particularly BOMB GOOD STORIES FOR OUR OLD FAVORITES. Her volte ts sweet, pure is JUNIOR READERS. quality, and veiy flexible. It is young as she Is la art, Gcdbut there It Hilda Clark .f th. Boatonl.a. TW(ht Id eviilenUj inui h gained, and much Bob CwMya Terrible Kid sts of the I hurck Choir Mori u0 10 While Carrying I'ncl be gained Itn'i Bi.srd talented by this tit t Lovflr rtrtaro of Cemlalus bongsjr, ss tlivs Ilonavin for (Money Lett li Ml Xll has mauy lira eo Mia ( arrlttr. SW1 a tinners and will undoubtedly VVoiUJ Hav 1crUhou. win manv -- rtiMk admlreis with stud Jeannle had followed her feo the room with tottering steps. Where is my father, Jeannle? Does he not expect me? Coror awa'; he la not here." Not here? DOt here- - 1 tel ye " 8fl.rlek- ed the old woman. Come awa, and clutching hold of the girl, she tried to drag her from the room. Ruth shook off her feeble hold and turned upon her like a tigress. Where Is he? What have ou done to him? she cried. The old woman moaned to then crawled to the window, Ttiere was a distant view of the kirkyard on the side of the purple Lin. '1 he setting sun fell on the w hite stones and tbey glittered like stars. She pointed hei skinny finger In silence and turn croakedYonder, yonder, yonder. The girl looked out, straining her eyes to see the beloved form. When the white 6tones flashed on her sight, the awful truth began to dawn on her. Yonder. she muttered, almost un-- 1 consciously. Then she broke Into a wild laugh, and flung herself Into a chair. She read the marked passage, and laughed again, still more wildly. So 1 killed him, Jeannle, 1 killed him, and he how muth did he pay you, Jeaunie, to do this thing? All hit wealth? It i. well. It was not too much for a deed like this" "Stay, Mlssie, stay, she whined, put-ting her flngeis to her ears to shut out the terrible voice. "Ye shall have It a. I am auld, and the money 1 could-n- a the boy. He could get no answer, HI at any rate the boy was alive, laws wrapped him up anew, and started for Twenty-EigMiles Springs, the a rarest place. Hers hs gave the boy stimulants, and then went on to Benton. At the hotel the speechless and almost lifeless boy was plaeed in a sitting posture, with his feet In a tub of cold water. He could eat nothing, but light stimulants were forced down his throat, end in that position he slept nd expmenu. HEoutlookfpr for thlity-sl- x hours, being occasionally Lory' Birthday. aroused for the stimulants. grand op eranextIn He reNew York FVE.NTEEV rose- covered. but It was found necessary to Am o the most not eeable of recent season Is at presbuds In a ring, bath his feeL A big purse I l Thb k with slater amputate di'its was that of Mile Nits ent rather doubtwas made up for him, and he waa seat flowers ( arrit beset. an u know the to Owtatg ledged grand opera ful. In a fragrant 'cor- east to school. I ritna donna who sairificed an envionet. heavy losses Mir able Kuiopun operatic position tc y s Befvjants this talned by the Ab- -' 111. On, lUii litlmUn. . Mae to ihw country ' day bring. to oiii th hey" IT Grhh ComBe It the birthday The study of germs has produced Opera Comlq-ioi Arm the the in while icmpany pany she wreath nothing more Interesting than the die-- , Grau proposed esWears western cities, and Abbey, Si hoe if el Fresh and in and covery not only that all of theJIttls New York. The failure tablishing fair, the determination sy m boiling. of this opera comtque did not cause recalled bacteria, or microbes, organisms to of their most popular singers The young number of her years. Mile Carr.tte tc like America are not Injurious In their effects upon any thf The sweet blushes of her spring. main abroad next year, these managers man, but that some of them must anj she nmained here, singing are discouraged at the prospects for iu many coni ei is and anil love and hope of be reckoned as his friends, deEdTypes youth actually Fianco-Italia- n rooms, and drawing opera. Jean Friendly hearts your mistiesa greet. fending him, as they do, against othouard De Reszke (who have been the also in several light operas with much Be you ever fair and sucu-ser microbes which ere unquestionably When touring with the Carl And grow lovelier as you ope! backbone of the Metropolitan comRosa Gentle fen ed about injurious And even more interesting nursling, i Carrltte tnpanv, Mile pany) have announced their intention was Opera With fond care, and guarded so. than this la the discovery of the Rusl virv as Mignon and of singing exclusively In Europe next Scarce you've heurd of storms with- sian Carmen resavant, Metchnlkoff, that the miMelba the latter role out while creating year, and so ha3 Calve, Frost that bite, or winds that blow! nute cells in human blood which phymarkable enthusiasm wherever shf will be heard with Damrosch next seasicians call white corpuscles," are sang it Milo Carrltte possesses a son. has your life most powerful and effective enemies to rich btauty of the oriental type, the Kindly And we pray that heaven may send the germs of disease seeking to make resistible ihtrm of tier French an-c- i To our floweret a warm sun The Bostonians, famous for so many A calm summer, a sweet end. their way into the system. When exn slurs is a and organlza-tiobrilliant most bebt as the guest And whereer shall be her homo. years light opera amined with a microscope these cells Her charming artistic in this country, also of Robin or hostess she decorate the May place, present a curious and startling appearIn In filled Still New with apartments Hood are York a Into made have stay bloom. it. long fame, expanding help ance of Independent life, and under And developing In grace. Mile "Keep it. it is accursed. 1 would not New York this spring, delighting large tion of her artist It- triumphs proper conditions they may be seen to Carr'tte 1' is hi come an Immense faBut the audiences with the new opera by Victouch It If 1 were starving. crawl vorite slowly about Their manner of The in B is tor ol often Smith. cross and where she Herbert truss. Woman, the cross, the snilety, Harry Bob Ceseys terrible Rule, acting when they are called upon to lilies? Serenade must be seen to be appre- heard and some day she will undoubtSome years ago Fort Benton had a defend the blood against Invasion from "It was his orders, she whimpered ciated, for it has some extraordinary edly aea'n reign In opera comtque. dally mall from Helena. Tho stage- without Is almost dramatic In Interest It was O, the puir bairn, the pulr coach brought It three days of the week If a wound la made In the hand or arm, bairn." and on the alternating days the mall-sac- k or other of the body, Immediate part "It was what the girl said hoarse-- 1 was brought on horseback or in danger arises from the floating ly, rising from the chair and gripping a light wagon. The wagon waa driven In the atmosphere which light upon the old woman by the arm. Speak by a young boy. Bob Casey by name. the wounded surface and there find a you old hag, speak. Thla knew the road perfectly, and ready-mad- e boy breach through which thy Black and It was from his grave. waa warmly dressed, and perhaps his can enter the system. But ths marWhite. people were not old enough to the vellous cells In ths blood meet the enecountry to know that he could be In my on the threshold. As soon as ths VV orlcla Snpply of Cotton. danger from bllsxards. wound is open they flock to the place of in-- 1 of sources According to the best One Friday morning, an hour after danger and literally devour the enterformation, the world's supply of cotton Bob had left Sun River Landing for ing microbes. Unless ths invading in 1893 aggregated 18,200,()0 bales, or Benton, a blizzard of the wildest de- hosts are extraordinarily numerous 7,280.000 000 pounds. Of this Immense scription set in. In g few moments the and powerful, and are favored In by untowere bales 10,500,000 produced crop road was obliterated and rendered ex- ward circumstances, ths victory- - al the Vnited States, 2,600,000 In India like all the of boundleee rest the actly most invariably remain with the deand 634,000 in Egypt The remaining plain. Bob had no Idea which wey he fenders of the breach.' In varioua the bales were produced waa going, and decided thet his only parts of the globe. In different counchance waa to give the horse hie bead tries different standards of measureThe Flutl Tnu and let him go where he would. The ment obtain, and lnno two countries Mr, R. A. Proctor says that so far mall waa small end the wagon light is the weight I a bale of eptton exactand so waa Bob and he had no doubt as telescopes and physical research ly the same. The American bale averthe animal would pull through some- have yet led us. In size. In situation, ages 450 pounds.the Indian bale 400 and in destiny, in the length of her where. pounds,, and the Egy ptian bale 717 But before long the horse was as seasons and her rotation, In the figure pounds. Some Idea of thejvast extent hopelessly lost as the boy. He wan- of her orbit, and in tho smount of of the world's cotton area may be gathdered and wandered, and fqufld no way light and heat she receives from th ered from the fact that in the United out of the desert. The' blitzard sun, Venus bears a mors striking reStates alone It covers over 20,000,000 In intensity, and as Bob waa semblance to the earth than any orb acres. In 1830 the world's total output well wrapped on bis seat, he could do within the solar system, Had Venua of cotton aggregated only 636.000,000 HILDA CLARK. no better than continue to sit there but a moon, like the earth, we might and keep the horse going. doubt whether, in the whole universe, pounds or eleven times less than In 1895. Within a single decade, however, he did throughout the whole two orbe exist which ere eo strikingly This deA most clever, attractive and rethe product almost doubled, amounting and unique pointB. The musle it of a dreadful day, that teemed to Bob, similar to each other. Indeed, it is in 1840 to 1,192,000,000 pounds. Since lightful just enough Spanish coloring markable little artiste has lately been and doubtless to horse, too, longer by no means certain that Venus has then the world's product has been as to lend charm and dash to it and yet gaining much attention in musical cir- than an ordinary week. At last night not a moon, Montaigne, Rodkier, n follows: 2,391,000,000 pounds in I860, maintain the genuine Herbert ring. cles in New York. Miss Nina Ber-tl- came on; and just at this time Bob Monthaveu and others having The orchestration, solos, and concerted Humphries is clever, because ebt and his horse struck a considerable seen s body near Venus which pre4,039,000,000 pounds In 1880, and grand patch of tall grass, the tops of which sented a phase similar to that of a in 1895. From these figures numbers, from overture to finale are has a repertory of twenty-foEverv now and then the operas, the principal oratorios, and la came Borne Idea of the vast importance of the all excellent. up through the enow. Here Bob planet, precisely as a satellite would cotton plant as a factor in the worlds orchestra breaks forth In such droll numerable songs; la a remarkably decided to camp for the nlghL He have done. Venus has a of about little suggestive snatches, it la quite good actress, and the mistress of fotr could at least feed the horse with the 23 hours 21 mlnutss, and aday of 224 growth and progress may be obtained. year laughable without the aid of the li- languages. Added to this. Miss Hun- - grass, though there was no food tor days 17 hours nearly. The distance bretto. In fact it is all so musically from the sun 1s something less than him. Blood Poison and Insanity. It Is refreshing. Miss Hilda of thst which separatee Though the storm still rsged with three-fourtWhile the fullest credit should be satisfying Clark, who has been Identified with unbating fury. Bob succeeded In mak- the sun from us. It is clear that mere-l- y given to the staff of this important in- the company as prlma donna for about In the greater proximity of Venua ing a fire by pulling and matting the stitution (the State Institute of Pathol- a year, still makes most beautiful to sun there is little to render at the end tall the night got grass, through Is It but to state fair that the photographs and has gained much la ogy), alive. In the morning the sun shone least a large portion of her surface unstudy of toxaemia In connection with acting and stage presence. She was brightly, though the fine, powdery inhabitable by such beings aa exist on Insanity Is by no means a novelty, nor very young when she made the step enow still filled the air. Bob could not our earth. In her temperate and ic Is It the discovery of the entoi prising from a prominent church choir to the make out where he was; nothing was regions, a climate which we young gentlemen (connected with that stage, and her voice has not been Implain to him except that he wae far should find well suited to our require--.; establishment) who hg.ve been crqjltcd proved by the step. Naturally Miss from the road to Benton, and that not menu might very well exist; while the therewith. Over a decade ago Salomon, Clark had a most beautiful voice and a single fsmlllar object thet his gaze; polar regions might correspond to our Regis and others recognized the tt!?ic it is a pity she did not give It a less but he still trusted to the horse to temperate zones, and be the abode et of mental disease, while no less severe strain than origin that inevitable In find the way. Mounting hie seat, cold the most active and enterprtolng race than ten others, among them Herter comic opera. Bright, plquante Miss sod very hungry, he gave the reins to existing upon her surface. On the and Smith, have written extensively on Neilsen la one of the song birds from the horse and bade him go on. whole, the evidence we have points the subject. Perhaps most credit the south, her home being in Tennesshould be given to Dr. Allan McLane On he did go, but not In the right very strongly to Venua as the abode see. She sings and acts the double direction. The endless march of ths of living creatures cot unlike the InHamilton, whose paper on Autotoxls role In The Serenade" with all the a as Cause of Insanity" was read before before was repealed. The weather habitants of ths earth. day the Medical Society of London In May spirit imaginable; had this part been was frightfully cold. Here and there, written for her, both composer aniL a bunch of tall grass cams where last, and noticed in your London letter ' A Merry Kiilof a short time subsequently. In this pa- artiste could not have made a hapthe snow, the horse stopped to through selection. Other of the members pier One of the merriest of merry evenper, which contained much original rebrowse, and Bob let him do so as often ing games goes by the name of "mumsearch, the connection between toxae- company also seem to be particularly wished. he as NITA CARRITTE.. suited to their respective parts, and mia and insanity was fully shown. Another night came, and another mies." A11 the boys and girls, exceptThe Serenade is wholly satisfying phries has a voice of great beauty, four or five, leave the room. Two New York Medical Record. volume and flexibility, which she uses day, and days and nights after these, ing as a genuine comic opera. of those remaining act as dressers. Bob and still the horse and and wagon i with the utmost Intelligence. She Electric Btcycla Eight. getting farther and farther They place the others in chairs and put the many American .singers attractive because of her refined, in wandered, Among civilization all the time; the over the head of each a tall newspaper from A SL Louis Inventor has patented a away who returned from- their European teresting featuics and pretty, graceful life by browsing the eap, with holes cut In it through which horse device by means of which a bicycle-ride- r supporting and remarkable because she carriage; Cover the Bob but may furnish himself with an slowly growing weaker the eyes may be seen. has accomplished such a vast amount grass, dresses of the mummies with sheets, so for the and weather continued electric headlight, the necessary curfreezing, of work In her short life. Her work that they will not reveal the owner. rent being generated by the revolution In this country has been princ'pally Intensely cold. Now call fia the other boys and girls the Meantime of the wheels of the machine. A govof Benton had people in opera, and with the Heinrich Opera and set them to trying to find out who to for out Search ernor Is provided which keeps the curStarted the missing company Miss Humphries became well The whole region between Sun each of the mummies is by peeping rent substantially uniform, so that the known and greatly admired through- boy. s. After the party and Benton was thoroughly through the River light does not die out If the speed Is out the country. She has also sung no trace of either horse ts all agreed as to who Is who, remove but reduced, or blaze too brilliantly when searched, with the orchestras of Theodore Thom and see how many mistakes the the speed is Increased. Ey throwing as and Anton Scidl. and in England or boy. A week after the disappear havepapers been made. This game is almost was abandoned. The seareh ance the shaft that rotates the armature into the with the Carl Rosa Grand Opera comhad no doubt that boy and horse as much fun for grown people as It la gear as darkness comes on, the wheelpany. Miss Humphries has received people man at once provides himself with a bad perished in the storm, and been for children. Innumerable criticisms from various covered, up by the drifting show. light; but of course be has to work for sections of this country and Europe Isck-KoIt, as I) is his own muscles that form Work. But valuable lettera belonging ts many sufficiently lauatory to have the souve of the energy from which In were the corporation mall Master 'William Abbott writes telling ar mining quite turned her bead, were she-no- t the electric current is developed. how to make a top that writes. First aensible as ahe la clever. She is of bag, and ten days after Bob had some of the parties Interested Uke a spool, cut the head off and Irish descent. In fart, born in Ireland Uniform CUnfttn but educated abroad and In this coun tn these letter employed Billy Rowe to sharpen it down to the hole as in makgo out In search of the bag not of ing the ordinary spool spinning top. Strangei But I hear that your New try. Petersons Magazine. Bob. England cUmate ts exceedingly van-ablThen Uke a pencil, sharpen It, and pnt Billy went on horseback and rode It through the hole, the sharepned end At the SL Kllda cycle grounds, the Native Not a bit of It; quite the far and wide. Passing over some ris- forming the spinning apex of the top. championship of Australia was is much the same It ground, he thought be perceived Cut off the other end, leaving a handle pretty contrary. captured by M. Porta, the Italian cham ing a object la a distant coulee, to spin with and the top Is completed.-Wheall the year round continually changmoving M. A. McDonnell .and plon, defeating IL As he approached toward went znd ing. Boston Transcript MARIE DONAVIN. spun In the usual way it will W. Martin, the American entries, C. B. It was a horse, slowly write all sorts of queer studies last fall in quest of concert en- Kellom, the Australian flyer, and i he saw that designs; and drawing a light wagon, and that In the it Is said that no two persons can make fh Ronton gagements, and public approval. Miss large field. was seated a email human fig- the same kind of drawings, , He And so you love me because I Marie Donavln has perhaps, been the Walter Sanger, the professional rid wagonAt length Billy saw that It was ure, am not like other men. And how do most fortunate. he was claims will that few in er, Miss Donavln engage and the mall wagon. Bob Casey For use in bathrooiiis where there is am I not Ilka other men? selected as soloist for Gilmore's band, competition races this year. Most of you know a new device Bob seemed to have settled down to no stationary wash-l&She You are the only man who hay on their tour last fall, and sang with his attention, however, will be devoted sleep; but now and then he would consists of a framework to hold ' aa never told me he was not like other great-succIn many cities where to match cm tests at the big meeL atso earthen bowl hinged to the bath-tu- b men. Brooklyn Life. Louis Cfmm and Fred Schlnneer will straighten up, grab the reins, and they sppearad. Ohio claims Miss Donto guide the horse, only to drop that It can be swung under the faucets tempt avln as Us own, and she certainly ride a match race at paced his zest a moment later ap- to draw the water for washing and possesses much of the cleverness and Grand Rspids on May 3L It Is hoped back into Understood unconscious. when not In use can be folded back Her Dearest Friend When will the ambition for whichjthe representative to heat Hurets world's reoord of 541 parently the wall to be out of the way. overhauled shook Rowe and them On from noted. her seem state to be Ilea. . wedding take place? Brooklyn Life. SOMEQUEE.NSOFSOSO ht . -- ui s siuc-ssfu- 1 - aa Hor-rebo- al 7,280,-000,0- ur hs sub-Arct- G. POINTED HER FINGER IN SILENCE. train dashed through the misty wilds of Cumberland, past utreams and heather and moors, and at last she was in her own land, flying through the Scots Lowlands, thundering across thegreat Forth bridge, and its rival that spans the broad waters of the Tay. She drew near her home and the scenery became more familiar: every spot she passed wa8 bright with memories of childhood. The train 'Slowed down and stopped. She got out left her luggage at the station, and walked towards her home. In ten minutes she had reached the house. It looked more cold and grey than ever after the brilliance of London. She hammered at the door, waited for a minute or two. and then struck it again. Presently faint sbuflltng footsteps sounded in the hall, the door opened slowly, and Jeannle, the old servant, confronted her. She threw herself ou the old woman's neck and kissed her withered cheeks. My father," she cried. "Is he well? O, I am so happy. Jeannle." And she tried to pass her, but the old woman stood in the way. the tears rolling , down her face. The girl shivered la her rich sables and stepped back. Jeannle, Jeannle, what Is It? Let -- me by," she cried, and pushing her aside, she rushed into the dark dining room, where her father was wont to was empty, but sit The oakenon chairtable open at the the Bible lay the book of Ruth. One passage was marked with a blue penclL It was the verse beginning: Entreat me not to leave thee. The blue- pencil had dropped - to the i t Door. - eye-hole- lf e. 25-m- lle n ess ur srint f |