r$ wfiEN SHAIX TTJC MEET AGAIN?" to-day, I have carried this pistol, being ,m he was confronted by Miss Milner. I THE KJTEK OF LIFK stain har prefcfcy golden hair, little Elsie had almost taken her life away, nursuaded at first that you deserved was astrange sight to see that beautiful lay. When shall -we meet again, and so he gave his own life up to her, to be shot. I have been eager girl, clad in a white summer dress, Dearest and bent, There was no- need for Norman to go BY THOMAS CAMPBELL. and they grew to love each other to identify you, that I might have the walk up to him with a. huge-revolver Thou going eastward, and The more we lire, -more brief appear for help, for everybody had heard the with a love that was passionate in satisfaction ofshooting you, and, believe in his grasp. I going west. Our life's succeeding stages report of ho gun, and in a few seconds its greatness. me, I should not have hesitated Thou in whose love my heart A day to childhood seems ayear "Give me that pistol," she said very the whole household had rushed into When ma ny years had passed, and for a moment had I been convinced Seeks for its rest And years like passing ages. quietly, but firmly and quickly. The the room, and--then there was a great they were left alone, they neither of When shall ie meet again, that you were indeed the man I at man seemed dazed and handed the hubbub of voices, and cries, and lamentations, The gladsome enrrent of our youth, them were married, but lived together Dearest and best? first supposed you to be. The last weapon to her in a mechanical sort of but the only words that Ere passion yet disorders, till they grew almost old. She was day I was here I had some doubts as way. Steals lingering like a river smooth Uot in love's common way Norman heard was the piteous, "My a little delicate thing, and he was tall to my being on the right track. I am Along its glassy borders. Was my love spoken child, my child!" that broke in a wild, "Murderer!" she hissed rather than and strong. He used, even when she now satisfied that my suspicions were No sweet confession made, shriek from his mother's lips. spoke, "your own words have condemned was quite a woman to* carry her But as the careworn cheek grows wan, Sealed by sweet token totally unjust. Before I go any further, Was Elsie dead? you. I am Colonel Milner's about in his arms. And sorrow's shafts fly thicker, Calmly I uttered it, will you forgive me, and promise They lifted her up softly from the daughter, and this is the happiest moment Ye stars that measure life to man. They came to have the same Though half heartbroken me your friendship and aid in the floor. The blue eyes were shut, and Why seem your courses quicker? I have known since you killed my thougths about most things. They Not in love's common way future?" the little face was white except for the father." Was my love spoken. were very happy, though he perhaps When joys have lost their bloom and I felt, to use a vulgar expression, stains of blood upon it, but Norman was a little graver than other people. Before I could interfere she-raised breath "all in a heap." Seeing my hesitation What will its issue be? heard her give one moan, and that But she was as bright always as a And life itself is rapid,' the pistol and fired. The man dodged Cloud shadows fall Miss Milner continued: sound of pain was the first thing that bird. Why as we near the falls of Death, the bullet and ran quickly out. of the All is uncertainty I will satisfy you that I had good seemed to bring his own life back to Find we its ticie more rapid? "What have I to be sad about Yet over all door. As he reached the track the express reason for my conduct, and can only him. One guideth steadily she sometimes said to him. "I might thundered by, and the locomotive reiterate that I am very sorry now It may be strange, yet who would change He had never uttered a word as they Great things and small have all kinds of trouble if I had been carried with it, for a quarter of a Time's course feo slower speeding. that my suspicions should have fallen Whac will the issue be? came lurrying into the room. Some like other women but now I have mile, ths corpse of the man who had escaped When one by one, our friends ha\egone on you." God guideth all. of the servants began to question him none. You never let me bear anything And left our bosom bleeding? shooting only to die a mose horrible She then told me the following JAMES FREEMAN CLARKE. one took him by the arm and shook you never let me want for anything death. Colonel Miner was avenged, story: Heaven gives our years of fading 3trength him roughly but he neither moved I have only to five and enjoy but I was thankful that his daughter Five years or more ago, when the Indemnifying tieetness KEVENGE0FAG1EL nor answered. and be content." had been spared the crime of murder, And those of youth a seeming length. war was almost at its close, my father, He only stood by his mother's side And so she did liveall her innocent however justifiable it might have been. Proportioned to their sweetness. who was Colonel in a cavalry (his mother, who in her anguish never quiet lifehardly ever seeming to miss I managed, too, to keep th* story regiment in the Union army, was seriously In 865, having lost an arm in the spoke to him,) clinging to her gown, the things that she had lost, like a hushed up, and the country newspapers ELSIE. wounded. Our house was not and grasping it tight in both his caged bird that does not know the war, I accepted the quiet position of devoted a short paragraph to very far from the seat of war, so he hands. world, and has no longings to spread the description of an accidental death station agent at Big Lick Junction in was brought to the old homestead to its wings. "Oh, I wish I was dead! I wonder if on the railroad tracks. one of the wildest mountain sections Certainly there is no teacher like experience, dieas wo all thought. But he rallied I shall be able to die'" "She was the center of all the world The next day Miss Milner went 4 and in a few weeks appeared to be in Tennessee. The nor th and south though the lessons that she The poor young heart in its misery to me," Norman Foster said once away, and I have never seen her since. in a fair way to recover. When, one was passionately crying to itself. accommodation trains passed Big Lick teaches us are often bitter ones. when death came at last and parted, I am still agent at the Big Lick Junction, evening, a soldier called at the house, It was almost half an hour before a for it was she who went first. "She about 11 in the morning, at which "You will never learn caution, my but no ripple has disturbed the saying that he must see my father at doctor could be got, and when he was everything to memother and stillness of my quiet stream of life hour the branch time train left for boy, till you do yourself or some one once and alone on important military came they carried Elsie out of Norman's sister and wife and friend in one." since that eventful September evening. business, he was admitted to the sick Riverville, the country east, and the glse a mischief," Mr. Foster had said sight. He was not thinking of the bitterness I have the pair of sleeve-buttons and chamber and left with my father. An north bound express passed at 11 at to his son Norman, a hundred times. An hour later,, the little blue-eyed that had mingled with his love the two revolvers in my possession hour passed, when the doctor, thinking yellow-haired child lay quiet on her for her once when he spoke so he had night. If I had passengers I stopped yet, but I never wear the buttons, because, Norman was always doing some ray father would be worse after so if bed, asleep, with her mother's hand in ceased perhaps then to dwell on the although not givento superstitious her if not, she thundered past the wild and reckless thingclimbing some long an interview, decided to go to the hers. haim he had once done her, and had ideas, I imagine they may carry room and request the soldier to withdraw. junction at the rate of thirty-five miles Dt the highest trees in the garden, at come only to remember that they had And her mother, sitting at the bedside, with them ill luck.Philadelphia his horror he found my 'in hour. the risk of breaking his neck wading walked all through their lives together, was looking at her with a look News. father upon the floor unconscious, his like children, hand in hand. as if her heart would break* "Oh, my in the river beyond his depth riding One warm July evening I was waiting head badly bruised. His bureau was Elsie, whose little feet will never make 'jarcbacked on, his father's horse for the north express to pass. In Punishment of Criminals. open and emptied of all money and music on the floor again," she was The Ohio Oatmeal King-. other valuables. The robber and playing with the fierce old watch-dog five minutes it would be due. Through "A dark cell is not an adequate punishment murmuring over her through her bitter murderer had decamped. I say murderer, :hat snarled and showed his teeth at Chicago Herald."Yes, I knowSchumacher, the still night air I could hear the tears. for a desperado," says Mr. because my father died that the oatmeal king, who For Elsie was not dead, and did not Baker, Superintendent of the New every one who tried to caress him. puffing of the locomotive, and at the night, though not before he was able has just lost his big mills by fire," said diehut she was lamed for life. The York State Prisons. "Why, 1 have Norman had no brothers, but he had same time I saw a man hurrying up to tell something of his assailant. My the Ohio passenger, "and an odder shot had gone into her right leg a little known prisoners to get rat by being father had struggled manfully, though little sister named Elsie, three years the track. He came almost breathless little man you never saw. He's a below the thigh, shattering it to confined in the dark cell on a diet of of course feebly, for his life, and in the younger tnan himself, of whom he was German, of course, about sixty yoars into the depot and surprised me pieces, and the surgeon had had to bread and water. They seem to curl scuffle had torn away this curious \Tecy fond. There was nothing that he old, about as big as a gras.-hopper cut it off. by asking for a ticket to Nashville. up and go to sleep contentedly, like a sleeve button from his murderer. and just as lively, talks Dutchy, and "It might have killed her let us iked better than to have Elsie, as he "I'm no tramp, but I haven't a hibernating animal. Some less passive That, to me, horrible yellow jewel I writes the most vigorous English".hates think how much more unhappy we called it, "all to himself," and though have carried ever since.asthecnly clue cent," said he. "Say quick, if you'll infliction is needed to bring them to whisky and beer as he does a har, and might have been," Mr. Foster said, by which I hope to find the man whom terms. Let me illustrate. I once visited tie was so wild and willful when alone let me have a ticket for this, and stop works sixteen hours a day. He came as he held his wife in his arms, and I haveswom to be revenged upon. one of our State prisons, where a to this country as poor as a church tried to comfort her. "If she lives we Dr with other boys, yet it was pretty (he express." I was only a very young girl when mouse, started a little grocery and big hulking ruffian with an iron bar can bear all the rest. Thank God' He threw down a curious old sleevebutton .-o see how gentle and kind he could be my father died, but I haci no beer saloon,ran that awhile, and then Tha nk God!" split open the skull of a slender youth as he spoke, and I saw at a i\hen Elsie was his playmate, and how mother, sister or brother and concentrated began making oatmeal by a hand-mill The father and mother were alone against whom he conceived some glance that it was valuable. There all the ardent affection of my tie could give up his own wishes to do in his woodshed. Finally he sold hi? together in Elsie's room they had was only a moment left, but I tried grudge. The latter should not have nature upon my dear good father. So, saloon, peddled out meal and fai ina neither of them yet spoken to or even *he things she asked him, and never to size the man up. He looked strange, been sent to the prison at alla reformatory yormg as I was, I then and there determined from a handcart, which he wheeled seen Norman. somehow, but before I could determine speak a rough or impatient word to was the place for him, but and solemnly vowed to shoot about town himself, and in thirty "Where is he?" Mr. Foster asked after whether he was a scoundrel or a there he lay with a fractured head. It aer. that father"s murderer if I ever found years built up the large.-t factory of a long while, and the poor mother crank I gave him the ticket and went was shortly af\er I had abolished the him, on sight. Revenge is now the that kind in the world. He won't hire "Norman is always good when he is almost shuddered as she answered- out to wave my red light. As the ruling passion and only aim of my use of the paddle and, by the way, I a man in any capacity who drinks "I don't know' I know nothing with Elsie," his mother often used train flowed up he said: life, and you can imagine my emotion had discovered the law and had issued whisky or even beer, and has about about him," she hurriedly said. "You needn't try to sell that trinket, gladly to say and she only spoke the when I &aw you wearing the mate to my order before Grover Cleveland informed 7 him several hundred employes, who "Can you tell me where Norman is I will be down here in a cek or this horrible sleeve button." ruth and yet it was Elsie whomNorjaan me that he had found the are mostly Germans, and strange to he went out presently, and asked one 30 and will redeem it by paying you "Will you tell me wheie you got hurt on that sad day of which I say, zealous prohibitionists like himself. same statute. Well, the burly ruffian of the servants cash for the ticket. Much obliged to that sleeve button, for I am certain He once brought o\er from Ger "I think he is in the garden sir," the who felled the boy had no "dread of xm going to tell you, when in his bold you. Good night." that you never owned the pair?" many a workman who was master of woman answered and then Mr. Foster paddling. He was insolent and defiant The sleeve-button was a large topaz play he did a thing that he never afterward I related all I knew of the jewel and a new process. This man came under went into the garden and called in a quaintly wrought silver setting. the dark cell possessed no terrors forgot, or forgave himself ^r then added: a, two years' contract, at a large him. He knew that it was his duty to Apnrt from its intrinsic value it was to him. The convict sent to that dungeon is long as he lived. salary, his expenses being guaranteed. "Read this letter which has just .see the lad and talk to him. "Nor- quite a curiosity on account of its always determines the duration The second day after he beean work come, but remember that the man man," he called loudly, but it was evident age. As I had but one shirt The two children had been sitting one 1 of his own stay there, for he is let out Schumacher learned that he was a who gave me the button may be, and only after he had repeated his name sleeve it was as valuable to me as a morning with their mother in the dining-room, when he becomes submissive. Well, I beer drinker. In two hours the work probably is, as innocent as I am. Do twice that the unhappy boy came. pair would have been to any other talking, and looking at pictare-books sent for the oldest keeper in the jail man left the nulls never to ieturn,and not be oo hasty, as you may misjudge He came not daring to look into his man, and I wore the button accordingly. very happily, till, after a and I asked him if he could suggest with a check for neaily $5,000 in his a second i ime, and in any case, father's face, and the father in silence good while had passed, one of the servants some punishment not inhibited by pocket. This was the price Schumacher my dear young lady, do not shed put his hand upon his shoulder, and A month later another strange visitor came to the door, and told her hi5* principle.-*, law. After mature reflection he replied had paid for upholding blood, even though it be guilty blood led him back into the house. came to Big Lick, this time a lady. jiistress that somebody wanted her. and enforcing his rules to the verv let- that he had once been in the navy, let the law do that." He took him into his study and The train which daily made the round ter." "Then I must send you up stairs, She said nothing except to request closed the door. "I must punishhim, and would recommend hanging up trip on the branch line from Riverville ny little Elsie." Mrs. Foster said. me to unlock the door, and soon I saw but how can I punish him?" he was by the wrists. I got him to rig his apparatus, to the Junction and return one morning her walking away up the mountain But at that moment Norman exmaimed, thinking to himself. I must speak brought a very beautiful young and I tested it by having Edmund Kean. side. The Riverville train left without "Oh no, let us stop here. I'll to him, but what can I say?" It lady. She was rather tall, with a perfect him hang myself up. What doubts I Miss Milner, and I was once more bake care of Elsie." seemed so useless, almost like mockery, figure, and a face which, while it entertained as to its efficacy were On the 2Cth of January, 1814, an. alone in the deserted depot. And he had taken good care of Elsie to use words of ordinary rebuke was handsome in the extreme, was obscure country actor, named speedily dissipated by a brief experience. Ed 30 often that his mother almost at to himto treat him as if the feeling About 10 o'clock she sauntered into particularly noticeable for its determined mund Kean, who had been engaged in I was not hurt, but I was awfully Dnce replied, "Very well. Amuse her, towards him in his heart was one of the station. expression. It was a fascinating sheer desperation, a very model of a glad to sit down. Then I sent and be kind to her, and I dare say I common anger. "Let me stay inside there, out of face. strolling player, shabby, almost shoeless, for the thug. He entered defiant, and 3hall be back very soon." And rising sight, but where I may see and hear For a few moments he stood silent This young lady, who apparently whom the mediocrities treated at laughed at ^the ordeal before him. up, she went away without the least this man who wrote that he would be with his hand still on Norman's came to Big Liok with no particular rehearsal with unconcealed contempt, With a slip-knot adjusted to his wrists, anxiety, and left the two children here to-night." shoulder then he tried to begin to object, loitered along the road which appeared at Drury-Laneas fehylock toan he was soon hoisted until his toes alone. speak, but a knot came into his I agreed on condition that she gave led over the mountains, loitered back indifferent and half-filled hou*e, touched the ground. At first he They were nearly always happy throat, and the words would not up her pistol, which she did after hesitating again and prepared to take her seat in but when the curtain foil upon the when they were together, and so they come. There only came instead of for an instant. laughed. After a little he began to the car which she had left but an hour fourth act it was upon such a burst of began play, and for a little while them the sound of a great rising sob. It was just such a night as when two or so before. blaspheme most savagely. A little wild enthusiasm as had not been hoard everything went perfectly well. months before, I had sold a ticket for She was very pleasant, said she was The boy looked suddenly up in great while longer and he yielded, then wept since the night Siddons played Isabella a sleeve button. I began to wish I They played at being horses at first, staying at Riverville, but thought terror and anguish he had never in and whined and begged for mercy, for the first time before a London had never seen the unlucky trinket. and Norman let Elsie whip him to her she would like to sketch the wild his life before seen his father weep. promising to behave forevermore like audience. The next day all London As my custom was on line evenings, I WThen let down he dropped heart's content then they played at scenery in the neighborhood of the He looked up almost wildly into the a cherub. was ringing with the fame ot the new drew my chair out to the platform being bears, and that game went quite Juunction. white and quivering face, his own all in a heap like a bag of rags. In less actor. Richard was his next impersonation. and lit a cigar. Just as on that other harmoniously," too and then Norman After the main line trains had cleared quivering too and then something all than fifteen minutes from being taken "Just returned from seeing evening, about five minutes befoie the 3aid he would be a soldier, and as Elsie away I assisted her to the car. As I at once swept away from each of them Kean in 'Richard,' wrote Byron in from his bench he was taken back express was due my man hurried up. was always very njmch delighted when did so I displayed the sleeve button on all anger and fear, and in their common his diary. "By Jove, he is a soul! there with no injury done to him, yet "Good evening, Mr. Agent. Please Norman made himself a soldier, she my cuff, and as she caught sight of it I anguish they clapped each other Life, nature, truth, without exaggeration a thoroughly cowed brute, who always let me have a ticket to Nashville and tsat on the floor fCnd laughed -and fancied that she started. in their arms, and on his father's or diminution." Colei idge" said behaved well afterward. It was a my sleeve fastening, and take enough clapped her hands with pleasure, as he breast the lad wept his heart away. However, I thought nothing much it was reading Shakespeare by flashes out of this bill for two tickets. That marched up and down the room, with salutary discipline,.andlbelieveinit." of that, because twenty people had We learn by experience indeed but of lightning. The receipts rose from will make us square, 1 believe, and I'm the poker held like a gun against his each asked twenty different questions how much the happiest are they who 100 to 000 nightly. After his third everlastingly obliged to you." shoulder. about it since it came into my possession. gather wisdom without her sharp and appearance Whitebread raised his salary "Stay a minute," I said. I have The Danger That Lies in a Dimple "Only it doesn't make a good gun bitter teaching' from 8 to 20. One week the taken a fancy to this old button, and it's not long enough I'll get father's Well, the next day the lady came From the day on which he shot his Deep. committee presented him with 100, would like to buy it of you." real gun," he said, presently. "I know again, this time bringing a complete little sioter. Norman Foster was never From the Chicago Tiibune. the next with 500, while splendid where it is. Just you stay here a artist's outfit. For two weeks Miss "Don't wantto sell it," hesaid rather an entirely light-hearted boy again. The one woman in New York who is presents flowed in upon him from all minute till I fetch it." Milnershe had introduced herself curtly. How could he be wholly happy any favored by fortune in the respect of sides. Society fawned upon him, flat had been a regular passenger on the "Oh, come, I'll give you a fair price And he ran out of the room, and more when his reckless play had taken beautiful dimples above all her sisters tered him, courted him. During six Riverville accommodation. She talked for it. Will let you have another ticket returned almost immediately with a the light and gladness out of that other is Mrs. Florence Rice-Knox, the singer. years he sustained the fortunes ol to me a great deal more than she and give you 5 to boot." long revolver, which he trailed after little joyous life? Her fair, round face when she laughs Drury-Lane upon his own shoulders sketched, and always about war. "Can't do ithurry up. I can hear him on the floor. The look of Elsie's shrunken face in or smiles show a number of deep rivals rose up, fine actors, but all paled 1 suppose at the end of those two weeks the train." "Oh, Norman, it will shoot me her little bed seemed half to break his dimples about her mouth and in either before the splendor of his overwhelming I had told her of every item of interest "Why, is there any little history attached cried Elsie, rather terrified at the heart when he saw it first, the sight of cheek which add greatly to her beauty genius.The Gentlenxan'3 Magazine. (or otherwise) which had come in my to the button?" I asked. sight. the two little ciutches she was to use, and cause much envy among her associates. way during my army life. But she "Yes, there is, butlookabove, man." But Nornan explained to her, with well, that took them all down, I think. Why or how dimples in a never tired, and would ask a thousand "Lo ts of time," I said, as I gazed at such an appearance of knowing all All of them at least, except Elsie herself. woman's face can be subject to the and one questions of things I should my watch. There was only three minutes. about what he was saying, that guns Farragfut in Mobile Bay. caprices of fashion is a question not never myself have thought of. "Any objection to telling me never w'ent off by themselves, and She looked at them with big, round The smoke became *o chick that ouldbe easily dicided, but certain it is that what it is?" this as I slowly rose from that, indeed, it needed very strong Then for two whole weeks I saw eyes, and laughed, andsaiditw little could be seen from our decks. they play their part upon" the stage my seat. hand.* to make them go off at all, that nothing of my amateur artist, when so funny to walk about on those two Tho Admiral, who had remained about for a generation or two and then disappear Elsie, who always believed whatever "Yes, I have a decided objection to one morning Miss Miner alighted from sticks. "You walk with them now, the poop deck and lower mizzen rigging, almose entirely for a decade. Norman told her, and, besides, was telling you my private affairs." the train and shook me most cordially Norman, and let me see," she called, now came forward, with about Fifty years ago dimples were one of not naturally a timid child, soon forgot by the hand. The conductor had a He was now getting out of temper. easerly, from her bed, where she was four fathoms of small rope coiled in her fear, and laughed and clapped the requisites of perfect beauty, but letter for me. It was addressed to He was a powerful looking man, but I propped up with pillows. But Norman his left hand. Spiingingfrom a gun to her hands louder than ever as he began they are rarely seen now. Perhaps "The Station Agent, Big Lick Junc- had never known fear, so I resolved did not do what she asked him. the hammock netting, he started slowly to strut up and down the room tion." I opened it and read"Please to try his mettle a little. this is well, for, alack! there lies more He could not, but ran out ot the room up the main rigging, apparently again, leveling his revolver and pretending have the trinket left with "Must be something not very good peril in one dimple than in twenty with a great sob. more absorbed in watching the battle to fire at one enemy after another. you by a stranger two months ago, to tell connected withthisbutton," as swords and the word is wicked enough She had become, even by that time, with his glasses than in his own movements. handy on Tuesday night. He will be I twirled it between my fingers. as it is. There have been efforts at the dearest thing in all the world to He lingered for a while half on hand to keep his promise, and will "Curse you! can't you hear the train "Shoot! Bang!" cried Norman at various limes to produce artificial him, and she remained dearer to him way up, but as the smoke thickened want to take the express for Nashville." coming?"" he muttered. "If you won't the top of his voice. "Shoot! Bang! than all other people as long as he dimples by various processes, but he continued the ascent until he was give me the cursed trinket keep it, but There's another down. Now I'm coming continued to live. This great sweetness with little success. There is no charm for God's sake stop the train." to you. Shoot!" directly under the top. Here he passed, This was Tuesday,sothatIhadonly and blessing came out of the injury except about the genuine, laughing, I will when you tell me where you an end of the rope over one ot the But there his voice all at once ceased, a short time to wearthebutton, which that he had done her, that to changing, come-and-go dimple of ye got it or where the mate to it is," I for as he shouted that last word, I had begun to regard as my own. make up to her for what he had 10b- puttock shrouds, and. getting between, olden time. answered. My "monkey" was up now pointing the muz/le of his gun at Elsie Miss Milner stood near while I read bsd her of, he gave her the devotion of both parts, which formed a long loop and I was game to see th8 end of the suddenly a terrible explosion shook my letter, and when I was through his whole life. coming under his arms, he held the' A goocefarm is one of the curiosities play. The stranger's "monkey" was the room, and as the shock threw him asked me it I could give her ten minutes He had been rough and willful and ends at his breast with his left hand of agriculture on the eastern shors of up, too, for he whipped out a large to the floor, such a cry of pain and of my time where we could talk reckless until now, but the thing that while he used his glasses with his right. Virginia. Within an area of about seven shooter and snouted: "Dn terror rang in his ears as he never before without fear of disturbance. We went he had done to her changed him, He remained in this position through 3,000 acres live 5,000 geese, of several you, get your lantern and flag that had heard, and as he never afterwards in to my inner office and 1 locked the through the suffering and remorse it most of the battle, but just as we en-* varieties, attended by herders and train, or, by Gd, I'll send you to follow forgot. door. Then she drew from her pocket brought with it, into another creature. tered the bay he went into the top regularly fed with corn, etc. The object the man who took the mate to a smail revolver and the mate to my He became a perfect knight to In a moment he was on his feet again, with the pilot. The above is sJlthera is the collecting of down for quilts that button from me. Look lively, sleeve button, laying them upon my this fragile little sisterpatient and with his face as white as death. Of was to the historic and interesting and pillows, and once in about six now I warn you it's unlucky to keep desk. A curious smile overspread her gentle, wise and tender. course.he knew quite well what he had story about his being lacked, to the weeks a plucking takes place. Only that trinket trommel" face as she said: "Mr. Norton, She never grew very strong the done. mast.Washington Star. the breast and sides under the wings the first time I came to Big The train was coming along rapidly. shock she had borne had been too great "Elsie!" he tried to gasp but there are to be plucked, and it requires the Lick, I came with no particular In about a minute it would pass unless for her even to rally wholly from it, came no answer. Huddled together yield of nearly 100 geeee to weigh a purpose, merely to while away stopped at once. By thX time we and in her weakness be used to care on the floor, in a little heap,quite still, The entire expenses of the recent pound. The raw feathers are sent to an hour or two of a summer day. were both in the ticket office, and for her and wait upon her with a love and with the red blood that oozed out Burlington (Vt) cavnivftl were $3,- K4,S Philadelphia for cleaning and sorting. Every time I have come since, until as the stranger uttered his last words that never tired. on tho carpet already brginning to 577.40. *i *yi i!