i^^triss*31--••--—.Iran 1A LITTLE BISMUTH. ADINNER OF NETTLES. that nothing you might know could make clever American mode of advertising the drag .a. gentleman confronted him. "Yon are that staggered you more recklees. Ialli informed me when I shop. In the theater there ^were small jokes speaking of my betrothed wife, sir," he said. hnndreomSep ironr the trail he ad last saw her, two days ago, that she had bandied from one to another, and all touching Clark with clenched fist looked at him. ronteffor©$i long before. Thfc train Tras en been asked in marriage by the Baron Yolrath. upon the topic that absorbed that days' "Yon lie!" he thundered. The baron strode Joe Bunker,with his familyjoined a wagon A Story of Artist Life in Munich. egon, andTatfcer than ran the risk ofg attention in the town. up to him. At this moment the door of the train going overland to California in 1852. lost a second time in searching for the "And her answer to him?" Therefore when the curtain arose and the An artists procession inMunich has caused a dressing room opened and the actress with a trail,he cast his lot amongthem, and a "She had not given him an answer yet.*' He had a canvas-covered wagon^and a span favorite actress came forward, she faced a face like marble stood on the threshhold. «napension of business for the day. Toward a happy, and time, a prosperous ms "Then she shall not," he cried. "I will good humored audience. Yes, they were "Lilli, my loved one," *aid the baron, and of the wickedest, most forlorn looking mules that state.—Daughters of America. -dusk an elderly appearing woman, black-cloaked force her to see what my Jove is worth to merry and happy even saying farewell to her: wentto her and saluted her. that you could weE imagine* In the wagon her." and veiled, enters a drag shop in a a tragic incident made them cheerful as need For a moment Clark gazed stupidly at the was packed all his earthly possessions, including He made for the door. be. pair, and then without having said a word 1 -atreet a little removed from the business porPotion Without the Middleman's Aid. "Stop!" his mother said, ringingly. wife and four children.^|^ Had they known of the tragedy in her own ofthe town, WfM- to her went from the Toom, from the house, She took off her bonnet and reseated herself. ggEvery morning there comes to ifiSl breast would they have been as cheerful? reeling like a drunken man. There was also of his party an Irish lad The clerks of the establishment are among Her son looked at her. She enacted the role of a merry maiden with "Come!" said LUU "We Bhall be late for house in which I live a fine hale, old* named Kelly, who had been but a short tame "You have something else to do before be thousands viewing the pageant then passE^^-fn a puzzling number of lovers from which to select the train. Come!" man, with the fresh scent of country that," she said with an effort. "I was about in this country, and who left a life of misery a husband, coquetry'in her smile and on "But that man?" queried the baron. a few streets away. When the heels of to try to assistyou in its performance now I sa^&i her lips and all the time she was thinking lanes about him, who brings "The American druggist who has made in Ireland, in hopes oi bettering himself here. S he woman's boots rattle upon the marble remain here. Yon have yet to rectify tie that she had made herself vile in the eyes of Munich laugh to-day," answered she. "I abundant supply ofvegetables, «faf.'3 Bunker's load had been too heavy at the mistake you have made in your shop. Neglect 'Coring the proprietor of the shop comes for%^r~ the man she loved and whom she had let see have frequently met him he came presumably quality one can only find in the most for a minute what devolves upon you to start for the mules to draw, and keep up with that she loved. And yet his mother had "'Ward from the back of the long room, where to bid me adieu!" do in this matter and see if the Fraulein Lilli proved toherthatshewasnothingtohim,had the rest, so at the first stoppage he auctioned expensive green groceries and fruity "I am glad," soberly returned the baron, t, «%e has been brooding under the single gas jet will listen to the suit of the most effectually begged that she would set him free from her "that public life will soon be over for you." off what could be pest spared, for any sum he stores. He makes a business of ruined man in Munich." ,'„"*" ^-lighted in the place. He is a yonng man, "toils." Her toils? She had told the "Come she said. could get. serving the products of his Jrttte She picked up her book.YAt white of face, and wild of eye, looking as anxious mother that her son was In the train she shivered as though from that moment her son realized to the free, had promised that she would write to After that alL went well for many days. market garden across the North cold. The baron wrapped a rug around her. **U S a were undergoing a severe mental fullest his own weakness and her strength. him and tell him of her engagement to the Then she was drowsy. Then one morning when they were preparing river to a choice list of customers Hp $"' -strain. She had always governed him with her love baron. And she had done so. and by this "Lean thy head upon my shoulder," he for a start, one of the mules gave an exhibition certain apartment houses of the bet-1 until she had destroyed him in the will to oppose 'if-* "What is your wish?" he asks in a voice time he must be thinking her the basest said. her. of temper that was apalling. He woman in the world. And here ehe was ter order. He sells all that he can that has an English ring in it. She would have refused to do so, but he And now the strongest feeling of his life making peoplelight hearted with her piquant drew her pretty head down to his arm. kicked and plunged about, biting and kicking deliver, and the prices he gets, while The woman was fumbling at her pocket as swayed him—his love for Lilli. He knew the acting as a worldy maiden with more happiness "You have worked to hard," he said leaning at everyone who tried to approach him, reasonable enough to satisfy his though in search of her purse. actress other than his mother knew her delicate than she knew how to dispose of. She tenderly over her. "But now you will ending the matter by throwing himself in sensitiveness which contact with the got through her part and made a tableau of patrons, are sufficiently liberal to "I should like a small quantity of bismuth," soon be at home and at rest." world had not blunted. It was this delicate joy and beauty as the green cloth rolled down such a way as to put one shoulder out of "Yes," she returned, and closed her eves. compensate him handsomely There «he answered, when he had addressed her a sensitiveness which gained for her the chivalric at the end of the performance, "Yes," joint. second time. are other men, I notice, who make a respect of gentlemen, which often made When she was called before the curtain, He drew her closely to him and The druggist picked up a horn spatula, Then he was meek as a lamb while the men her impersonations on the stage too refined specialty of milk, eggsand other fresh W over her gorgeous gown she had slipped on a she did not resist. He held his arm went to the back of the shop, returned with put it in place.but when the harness was put for the general taste. long black cloak. For she had tried to escape around her. After a while he thought her table eommodities,which they deliver^ the spatula filled with a white powder, put on him, and he was hitched to the wagon he His mother's last blow was the hardest— from the theater without responding to the sleep was very peaceful and looked smilingly «ome ofit in the silver scaleupon the polished absolutely refused to pull a pound, and after after the same fashion, directly from Lilli would blame him for an instant's delay recall. down upon her upturned face. Then he cried «ounter, wrapped it in a bit of fine paper bothering for several honrs, Bunker was in the adjustment of the terrible mistake he their farms or poultry yards. They As she smilinglybowed heracknowledgment out. He tried to wake her and could not. amd handed it to his customer. forced to stand and see the rest of the train had made she would blame herself for it! of the plaudits, a boy. referring to her cloak, The powder she had taken in her dressing pay no tribute to a middleman, nor She did not immediately take it from his disappear in the distance without him No, he must not go to her until he had done sepulchrally murmured, "Bismuth!" and the room had given her a sleep from which she hand which caused him to look at her and The children cried loudly, Mrs. Bunker are they under any expense for a what he could to find the woman he waited people roared. She hastened from the stage, would never awake this world. mote her appaiel thus he was able to de•acnbeher quietly wiped her eyes, while Tom Kelley, on in the shop. city shop. They begin by drumming brushed past admirers who waited to give )i appearance to the police a little who had emphatically refused to go on with He hastened to the station. Here he notified her a last greeting, and reached her carriage up custom in vgood houses, and, as the rest, muttered, "Bad cess till the botherin' -later on. He also noted that the eyes back of Thrift And Waste in Married Life. the police as to what had occurred. with Greta it. creature. Av we lave our bones between they serve the best of material, are *heveil were fixed upon him. This, in his then There came to him an awakening from the She was silent all the way home. She "Writing in the Quiver, the author this an' the big rocks, it's him as will be till •frame of mind, irritated him. not long in establishing a profitable low morbid condition into which he had been sought her room at once, and bade Greta to blame!" "Here is your bismuth," he said almost plunged these last few days, a horror of the leave her alone. She sat before her mirror of "How to Be Happy Though Married" connection. After this it is^lai harshly. Bunker himself looked glum, and blamed outcome ofit. Allthatnight therewerevain and regarded the reflection of her face therein. says: I quite believe in marrying sailing with them- fe the trainsmen for leaving him. But provivisions Then she caught up the little package, tossed attempts to discover the elderly woman in a It was a beautiful face, a pure woman face, for gold and working for silver were getting scarce, and the Indians down a piece of money and walked rapidly black cloak and vail who had asked for a And that other woman had as much as said had driven pretty much all the game from t-othedoor. Theknobm her hand, she paused. small quantity of bismuth. Every minute but there should be a reasonable she was not fit to be the wife of her son! The business of putting up preserves their route. Grave fears were entertained of "Is there anything else?" he asked. Clark became more anxious. The finding of The man she loved did not care for her, chance of getting work to do, for it and jellies seems also to be ex-^^w suffering from hunger ere their destination She opened the door and was gone. A the woman seemedto be the pivot upon which and she had promised another man to be his is nothing less than criminal folly to was reached, even at the best rate of speed tensively followed byrural housewives tjand in the procession was playing the liveliest hung his future happiness or unhappiness—it wife! She had been used to depict grief and they could make. of tunes wisps of the melody entered the seemed almost as though Lilli said: "Find agony on the stage now she called the sufferings marry on nothing a week, and that who seek their industry in much the As soon as the train disappeared. Tim and ahop. The druggist groaned, and picking her, and I am yours find her not, and take of art trivial, when she thought of uncertain—very! On the other hand, same way. Some of them advertise Bunker fixed their camp for a comfortable «p the spatula went to put it in the drawer my blame." Criers were sent out who ran those of nature. She felt thoroughly alone, in the family papers. The majority from which he had taken the powder left over there is some truth in the saying stay. There was a scant growth of timber, about the streets, proclaiming the incident. a homeless, friendless creature, whose will from the quantity he had weighed out for the and a clear stream of water ran merrily by. All night long Clark did what he could to had raised her to where she was, and whose employ a drummer to beat up custom that what willkeep one will keep two. woman. When he came to the place he It was July, and the weather was fine. rectify his mistake. At day break, haggard love told her that bhe had toiled in vain. She in town. Thefact that they can afford Show me one couple unhappy merely Started back with an exclamation. He had Four days passed quietly and uneventfully, and worn, he left the station and went home. contemplated her life, its privations, its neglected the shop for several days and by constant application of cold water, the expense of advertisement or the on account of their limited circumstances, His mother met him. She had heard of all struggles, until there had come into it a great «nd during his absence a clerk the beast's shoulder was so far improved, that he had done. With a shock she realized light and warmth—her love for the American. salary of an agent, and still make a. and I will show you ten who had taken the bismuth from the that, though doubtful of the wisdom of the that his task was undertaken for love of the And the light and warmth had been as greater profit than if they sold their are wretched from other circumstances. •drawer where it had always been kept and move, Bunker hitched up, and slowly started actress—ithad not been mereinfatuation with false to her as any represented on the stage. «nbntituted for it a newly discovered drug, along the trail. products to the shops, may serve as There are bachelors who are so him. She knew thatBhe herself was placed And she must be as worthless, as far beyond one of the deadliest and most subtle poisons For two days they journeyed on, aside forever, that henceforth hewas removed the pale of worthy society as that woman a slight hint of the proportions of ultra-prudent, and who hold such in the pharmacopoeia. He had properly then the folly of starting so soon became from her control And she had loved him as has let her feel that she was, when Bhe could gain that fall to the middleman or absurd opinions as to the expense of marked the drawer with the name of the apparent. The mule's shoulder became the only thing left her to love she had come accept the good and true Baron Volrath for poison, but the druggist had automatically retailer. A man in Fordham who badly swollen, and the third morning he from her native land for his sake. If she had her unloved husband. Pride, wounded tenderness, matrimony, that, although they gone to the usual receptical of the bismuth laid down when Tim aud Bunker tried to only thought that more than infatuation for had urged her to make a victim of a has quite an extensive fruit farm have enough money, they have not *nd had not noticed the change. He had harness him, and all their efforts were of no the actress had been the source of guiltless man. What had her life done for which, thanks to his passion for improving enough courage to "enter the state. •given the unknown woman enough of the avail to induce him to rise. his admiration! But no, she could her when it had all ended in this dismal varities, produces some of poison to kill her. They had camped for the night, a long not bring herself to say that her son's wife failure? She had befriended many, the poor Pitt used to say ihathe could not ways from water, and our travelers were He flew to the door. The woman was nowhere should be as Lilli was—and Lilli had spoken blessed her, she was a rising artist, a woman the finest fruit in the country, informs afford to marry, yet his butcher's about discouraged. What they used that to be seen. He ran to the corner and coldly to her, had smil with an ennuied air with ripening intellect and yet at this hour me that he now gets nearly, bill was so enormous that some one day was brought by Tim from a little lake looked up and down in the gathering gloom, and mentioned the Baron Yolrathl 0, her she was the meanest, most humiliated creature three times as much for the product nearly a mile away. but no one was in sight. He retraced his poor boy! she could imagine. Humiliated! She has calculated it as affording his steps to the shop and found on the threshold started and turned ghastly she had been Next morning they managed to remove to of his orchard, which he retails himself, When he came in she dared not sympathize servants about fourteen pounds of "the label marked "Bismuth," which he had selfish—there was a further humiliation for the vicinity of the lake, made themselves aa with him, she dared not say a word to him. than he did when he sold it to a meat a day each man and woman! placed upon the woman's purchase and which her—she must set at rest the troubled mind comfortable as was possible, and waited with She could only question him with stricken fruiterer. And stillhis customers get •he must have torn off as she agitatedly put of the man who loved her not. Yet why as much patience as they could for the time eyes. For the more economical regulation the package in her pocket. This label should she?—why should she not let him it cheaper than they did from the when they could make another start. "I am doing what I can," he said to her, of his household, if for no other bore his name. His first sensation was almost have his share of suffering? More than a week went by. Bain fell and passed on to his own chamber where he fruit shop.—Alfred Trumble in New of relief. The mistake might not now reason, he should have taken to himself heavily for two days, and you can well anderstand locked himself in and where she feared to go "0, God!" she thought, "but I love him. York News- 4 1 betraced to him if the poor creature swallowed how uncomfortable our friends to him. a wife. Of course a young man Dare I tell him that I hungered for a sight of the drug he had given hor. \»ere. That day red placards were placed on the him? that I passed by his place of business with a small income cannot Provisions became scarce, and there was The Flight of a Cannon Ball. 1 Where was the happiness of life? Here bill boards "Extras" were thrown about the in last evening's dusk and saw him in there? afford to marry if he smokes big no game about. They had reached a region was a&relderly bowed woman whose mourning city with sensational headings—"A Life Endangered," that, insane as I am at this moment, I entered To untutored hearers a formula set where there was timber, not heavy, but continuous, weeds bespoke sadness and loss. Might "a case of poisoning," "Wanted the shop just for a parting near look cigars and gives expensive drinks to and when one day the children Ite n6t have placed within her reach relief down in algebra would convey less all women who bought bismuth last evening," at him? that once inside I reahzed my position, every fool who claps him on the back asked for fodd and there was none to give from care and memory? Then he revolted and the like, until the whole city was excited and calling my art into requisition I became idea of a hindered though not vanquished and calls him "old man." He must them, Bunker put the harness upon the mules from this morbid reasoning and the enormiof and everybody was hunting for the elderly an old woman before him and asked for cannon ball than would the and started on. his responsibility flashed across him. woman in a black cloak who had purchased a drug that it was to me he gave the poison be particular, too, in choosing a wife simple speech of a savage who, after He went to the parlor back of the shop, Here The day was overcast and cloudy, and a small quantity of bismuth. The station which Has caused him so much anxiety? to select one who is economical and 'he found his mother reading—a stern, cold without much thought, he started upon a was crowded with people who wished to have I might tell him this to-night I shall be tracing its course (as only savages woman, in whose eye was a power of will unpossessed who can keep house with the least course he was sure would intersect the trail their medicines examined women became away before he knows it the glamour I have can), has called it "a demon let loose." by her son. followed by the train. But after traveling hysterical and declared themselves poisoned, thrown over him will have paled, and he will amount of waste. Swift's saying For not only doesit seem to be aimed all day, and not finding it, he became alarmed. "Let me tell you what I have done," he and were dissatisfied when it was proven that know that I am nothing to him. But he about nets and cages is well known. A solitary jack rabbit furnished them with «aid in English. they Avere mistaken. It would have taken a must not say I caused a possible death." with a mighty will, but somehow to He thought that one reason why a meal, and next morning he undertook to She slowly closed her book. barrel of bismuth to have given even the She fiercely rang the bell on her dressing govern its action with ever-ready intelligence, retrace his way. "What do you mean?" she asked leisurely, smallest quantity to each of those who table. many marriages are unhappy is because and evento have a"policy." as though she expected some extravagant claimed that he or she might be the unfortunate His wagon was lightly loaded, and the "Greta," she said, "the carriage?" women spend their time in making The demon is cruel and firm not story of an escapade. He told her what had victim. The day went on to noon, ground very hard in places, so no impression "It is waiting, fraulein, to take us to the occured Her brow contracted. evening came and the elderly woman in the nets to catch husbands rather was made, visible to inexperienced eyes, and station." stupidly,, obstinate. Against things black cloak remained undiscovered. "Blame your own weak self,' she said. after a few hours Bunker was forced to acknowledge "First I must write a letter. You shall post than in making cages to keep them that are hard and directly confronting "No, I blame you," he retorted. The Fraulein Lilli naturally heard of the himself hopelessly lost. it while I put on my hat. in when caught. Tune, a bird in the him he indeed frankly tries his "How me?" she demanded rising to her commotion. Her maid spoke much of it He knew he had gone south of the trail to She sat down and wrote the note to Clark *eet. "Explain yourself." when she carried the chocolate to her bed taild is WQrth two in the bush, and encamp near the lake, so when the sun came strength, and does his utmost to which should relieve his mind of all anxiety "Have you not made me as I am?" he side in the morning. out, he took his bearings, and turning due over his mistake of the evening before. But we see no reason why a girl should shatter them and sendthem in splinters north, journeyed on. said, unfit for business, unfit for anything Greta thought that her mistress looked she did not tell him of the feeling which actuated and fragments to widen the havoc not do all that is consistent with whatsoever?" poorly these two or three days, and that her going into his shop, she could not, So for days. A few birds, shot now and self-respect and modesty to obtain a he brings but with objects that are "I have not," she auswered, "but the actingwoman her acting last night showed a perceptible tell him that she loved the man ^v-ho was^o'nly then, kept life in their bodies, but at last it has." falling off. So with the chocolate she carried infatuated with hje* as an'artiste, the man seemed they must starve. smooth and face him obliquely he always husband. She should remember, fresh news of the strange excitement in the whom she hadjirher "toils." With a stride he was beside her, his hand "If no food is found by noon to-day," declared compounds, being ready on that conquests have to be kept as iipon her arm. city and hoped that it might provoke a Bunker on the morning of the tenth She stamped the letter and gave it to her evena slight challengeto come, as men smile. Instead, the fraulein asked her to be well as made, and that for a woman "Do not touch me," she said, shaking him day of their wanderings, ''I shall kill one of maid to Viost. silent and read the items in the morning paper, say, to "fair terms" by varying his v, £jff "and listen to me." the muleB." to fail to make and keep her home ^Txfen Fraulein Lilli put on the gown she "Well?" His heart was wrung by the sight of his had worn last evening when she had gone out line of advance, and even, if need be^ happy is to be a "failure" in a more children's sufferings, and although he knew "You have not for days allowed me to the dusk. Slipping her hand in the pocket Greta set the tray and the chocolate jugon resorting^ to crooked, to sinuous, real sense than to have failed in getting speak. I shall speak now." upon the mules depended their ever getting ehe came upon the small package Clark had the stand IU reach of her mistrsg-and plcked paths. By dint of simple friction "Well?" to a place of safety, he determined to sacrifice given her when she asked for the bismuth. a husband. "Why don't the up the paper. She had l\£tle more than unfolded His insolence of manner cast a glow in her them, rather than to see the little ones with metal, with earth, with even the the sheet when stye"uttered an exclamation. She went over to the fireplace, and unfolding men propose, mamma?" One reason face and made her harsher than she meant starve. All the forenoon, he and Tom the paper looked down on the little heap of soft, yielding air, he adds varied rota- L^, is because they are afraid that the to be. tramped the woods on each side of the route white dust, preparatory to throwing it into "Fraulein," crigffshe, "what do you think? tory movements to those first enjoined pursued by the wagon, on the alert for anything "I say that you should blame Lilli, the the flame. girls of the period will make extravagant The nustakjgr^yok place in the shop of your which would do for food. by his mission he improves his fell victress, if aught of harm comes from your Ah! the tender days when she had thought Amensj^S-friend, Heir Clark." wives. The other day a girl Ten o'clock. -leprehensible carelessness," she said. "I have that she was loved as she loved!—the days skill as he goes: he acquires a strange LvfK gazed blankly at her. Greta went on was talking -with a middle-aged Bunker looked at his watch and a look of -told you that she maddened you—you knew when she deemed she had found a heart that i-'pajd che paper's account of the affair in nimbleness can do more than simply stern determination came over his face, but that no good could come of your" intimacy throbbed responsive to hers, and looked into bachelor the girl was of a by no all its minutia. strike—can wrench, canlift, can toss, he continued on, gun in hand, his watchful with her." aman's eyes seeing more there than flattery The Fraulein Lilli arose and slipped on a means shy disposition, so she began eye searching every grove and thicket as he J'I know that I love her." can almost grasp can gather from and misknowledge of the cravings of her peignor of rosy silk. She crossed the room to "chaff' him about his wretchedly passed them. ""A woman barely knowing he^/name hungry soul. She was called a coquette the to a box on the table at the further end each conquered hindrance a new and a They were just entering a small clearing, woman acting upon the^jtag-e -j 0f flattery of the world forced her to assume the unmarried condition. "Why don't she raised the lid of the box, only to let it a re baneful power, can be rushing, for instance, and Bunker was assuring the poor children irreproachable descen^y character it assigned to her. But had she fall. you marry? Can't you afford to 0tl a a a that they should soon have food, when a straight on in a horizontal coquetted with this man? No, no, a thousand a gentleman^youx^Tother is a lady. Could I "Where is the letter I wrote to the Baron keep a wife?" "My innocent young great shouting was heard in advance, which times no. And yet his mother as much direction, and then, because of some brook q~ 'aiHSEnce which should bring into Volrath?" she asked. caused the mules to quicken their pace, and as told her that he regarded her only as the friend," was the reply, "I can afford SSfranuly a player whose face has turned the "I posted it while you were at the theatre contact, spring up all at once like a* aroused the attention of all. rest did. There arosp before her possibilities heads of half the youth in Munich? Let her last night—w hen I came home after taking to support half a dozen wives, but I tiger intent on the throat of a camel, of a future with him, of a future without him, "Och,( iisther Bunky! but here's the foine nnarry one of her own fraternity, one who you there," answered Greta. "Did you not till she felt that she grew wild. can't afford to pay the milliner's bills atein' in^irely! Faithen we'll not be stharvm' —Kinglake's "Crimea."- "views her trade from the art standpoint. A tell me, fraulein, always to post the letter I now! Make haste wid a foire, an' get the How long shebtood thus she did not know. marriage with you was simply impossible. of one." And you mothers think not found in that box?" pot forninst it, en we'll have a faste fit for a Suddenly she heard a man's voice in the From the first I told you how it would be The actress turned her back to the maid. always about getting good husbands king!" adjoining drawing room. Almost with a Did you take warning? You but allowed Her acceptance of the baron, then, had gone A Black Hills Dramatic Critiqued for your daughters, but think sometimes He was capering and shouting so excitedly shriek she recognized it—the Baron Volrath's yomself to be all the more carried away by to him and she had meant to recall it. that all peered eagerly about for a sight of he must have started to find her as soon as youi infatuation, and were on the point of From the Custer City Chronicle. Why? how to make your daughters, the promised food, but there was apparently he had received her letter. And—what! Another declaring yourself to her when I came to the The story which convulsed the town told Her voice was a cross between thehum fit to be good wives. nothing visible near him but an immense bed voice in the drawing room—a second rescue." her more than it told the tow n, and she owned of a cyclone and the screech of a of nettles. man's voice—the voice of the man she loved! "And how did you come to the rescue?" to herself that she loved but one man, and Close by was the ruins of a log cabin, its For Clark had bepn overwhelmed by her locomotive under full steam. It he asked. "Tell me that." that was not the one whom she aad accepted blackened condition showing plainly by letter, telling him of her acceptance of the "By appealing to the woman herself," she as her husband, but he who had trembled away in cat-like cadences A Point of Etiquette. what agency it had been destroyed. A beautiful baron all that his mother had said concerning ^answered, "as you J* Ifaiow." made a deadly mistake through and rose again like the wail of a spring of water bubbled from among her was proved true. And he had seen in "Yes, by goinr Tback door of a theater, thought of her. If that letter she had placed ^The "point of etiquette," in regard the roots of a towering pine, and danced hound in distress. Again it rose in her love for himself if ever a woman let a man asking for ^ft-ebs and laying before in the box was posted there was another to away across the clearing. It was a to not sealing letters sent by the see her love for him! It had all been simulation, mellow tones not unlike the wind her your puritj. .eal ideas, to such a degree be posted at once, she fumbled at the pocket lonely but beautiful place, and had urt, then. showing her your distaste for her that she of her peignor. hand of a friend, is to be considered, dallying over the mouth of an empty been a happy home perhaps, one day. He took the letter to his mother. "Forgive needs must see in me the weakest of men be••eause •'Greta," she said, "the letter that was undoubtedly, as settled by the usage jug. Stopping only long enough to When the children could see no food they me," he said. "You will understand when of your presumption, and so she gives here?" began to cry in a disappointed wav. yon have read this." of polite society, And yet there are take wind, she rose slowly to her tip me up And this is the woman you say is "I found it when I hung up the dress last "Arrah now hush up wid ye! We'll soon She could say not a word she could only not fit to enter our poor family that sends its evening," answered Greta. "It was stamped, two sides to the question. To intrust toes, and with gyrating arms* and have ye filled to your mouth wid good atein'." carry the letter into the privacy of her own sons to foreign^countries trying to eke out an so I posted it along with the other." Lilli heavy chest gave a fair imitation of to a Mend an ^unsealed letter room and have her agony beyond the sight of existence on a beggarly income which at laughed. The second letter went to Clark in Then while they all looked on in bewildered the road that fortells a Dakota blizzard. humanity. home would not keep us according to tradition to a third person is a compliment to a it she told him she had accepted the Baron surprise, he quickly built a fire, and hung a and in the "set" we call our own. In going Volrath. Well, it was right that it should go Clark was well nigh crazed that day, he Old Jim Baker's pet panther, friend but why should it be thought kettle over it. Then he put in some water to Lilli as you did you showed that she after thp other letter and yet she would have was jeered at for the excitement he had chained to a post in the lot back of necessarily uncomplimentary if the from the spring, a handful of salt, and proceeded as equal to the highest womanhood, a given the world to have had them both in her raised in the city, and people were doubtful to crowd the kettle full of the tenderest the opera house, heard some of her woman less than a lady would never have relented letter be sealed? On the other hand, hand at this moment. if there had been an elderly woman who shoots of the nettleB, poked the fire until your visit as she has done—would high notes and they skeered the poor "Greta," she said, "Why do sit there wanted a small quantity of bismuth and the sealing of a letter may be deemed it blazed right merrily, then leaving his never have given up the man who loved her." reading nonsense? Do you not know that who, instead, received a deadly poison. He beast out of ayear's growth. It was always advisable, for one good "greens" to cook, sat down beside the fretting She was putting on her bonnet. we leave Munich after the performance tonight?" got through the day. busy with the authorities children and began telling them wonderful the first time our town was ever "You are scarcely accountable for what !*%•$$• reason at least. The contents of an and the crowds around his shop. And stories of life in "Oireland," until in visited by a genuine female calliope you are paying," she«aid. "I did that for Greta threw down the pnper^^i'feot'ii all the day there was but one absorbing unsealed letter are never safe. They laughing at his droll speeches, they almost yea Tor which you will yet thank me. Lilli—" "But, Fraulein," she ened, "I thought we thought—Lilli. When the night came he and we hope she,ll come again." are safe so far as the honorable forgot their hunger. "Is as true a woman as you are." should wait until to-morrow, when the Baron thought of her in the theater, her last appearance This he kept up for half an hour, peeping t*Bhe raised her chin. "As though I should Volrath would come to Munich and go to friend is concerned, but not safe in a triumph. When it was about occasionally into the kettle, whose contents The Treatment of Wine. fiavegone to her had she not been," she said: Berlin with us." |,%Sr*%? f'W time for the performance to be over he left for any other sense. They may be lost steamed right merrily, and keeping the fire *'as though a Clark would harbor a feeling "We leave Munich to-night.M»*Tl£-«"KSfc the house. False as she might be, he loved from the envelope easilv and innocently. There is probably no greater delusion roaring. At the end of that time, he dished of admiration for a woman who is not as irreproachable "Yet they say the baron will not be here her—he must look upon her just once more out a quantity of well-cooked greens, and invited in the modern gastronomie in every respect as the ladies of till to-morrow." ', *. fp-p,m I /«p? before she left him forever. But the theater They may beabstracted and them to partake. Jus own family. She is a good womnn, but "We leave to-night." '-& was dark when he got there he could not see art than the notion that age enriches read bythe servant to whom the note All did so, and found the queer -so are there manj' good women of unfortun*ate "Greta could not understand her mistress her go to her carnage burrounded by the wine illimitably. If a three or fire is delivered at the door, or by any food very satisfying, if not very palatable. parentage, and with miserable ways of that day she was tyrannical, nothing pleased youth of Munich. When asked by Mrs. Bunker year wine is better than the crude «arning living. A ballet dancer, a waitress her,and she sttrted at the slightest noise, refused Then a rage seized him: he would go to her prying individual who may find the how he knew nettles were good to eat. Tim 4n a cafe may possess all that the Fraulein to see any callers. nd grew more unbearable house, upbraid her for all her falsity to him. juice, the process must go on forever missive lying on the hall table awaiting replied, mournfully: Xiln has nscribed to hen but would you marry each moinent. She was glad enough He tore along the street in which was her and the wine of 500 yeass must be the owner's arrival. Especially "Dear lady, yenever stharved in 0irland,or the dansuese or the waitress? It is all when it was time to go to the theater. Even bijou residence. Greta was coming down the ye wud never ask!" the veritable nectar of the gods It 'Over, and happily over to-morrow night is here her mistress brought that day's mood unsafe it is to placean unsealed package steps. ,her last in Munich. In Berlin she will renew with her nothing was right, hor costume was Camp was made, and in the afternoon Tim "Herr Clark," she cried, "I was about to is a myth of the poets. Wine is an articles of money value. Would •her early triumphs, while you will have complained of, she wa3 curt to the manager electrified all by bringing in a hatful of potatoes, post this letter for you." organic product, and to everything any sane man send a $50 bill in an .grown calm enough to recognize the force of and delayed the rising of the curtain much which he had found in what had once A letter! He snatched it from the girhtore any reasoning—especially when the fraulein beyond the usual time The house was been a garden, and Bunker shot a jack rabbit. organic there is the immutable law unsealed envelope by the hand of a it open and read it in the light from the hall. marries a title." She had not mean tto say packed from pit to dome on the occasion of Poor children! How greedily they of growth and decay, life and death. Lilli had not written why she had not come friend or anybody whomsoever? The that. her faiewell to Munich. Moreover it was an watched thefood as it cooked, andhow eagerly to his shop, but he was a lover, and he read Inere is no exemption. Dosing with especiallyjollyhouse for the affairs ofthe druggist friend himself if he knew the nature the little thin hands were outstretched to "What is that*'" he cried quickly. between the hnes^—he read all that she had had assumed ludicrous proportions and cluteh a share when offered. foreign substances, fortification with "Your violence has prevented my telling thought and had not put down in her communication of the inclosure, would be very apt people were accusing one another of wishing Next day refreshed and re-invigorated they jon all. Your love, as you persist in brandies and alcohol, care of tern to him. She loved him! to protest against this sacrifice of to purchase a small quantity of bismuth. started brough.on their way, and _a half-day's travel terming j'our insane infatuation, has made He rushed up the stairs to the drawing a-t t«, perature and other devices may room. common sense at the shrine of etiquette, them the camp of a long me somewhat fearful of theconsequences were The gamins of the city were already using to tell you all that the fraulein told me but ''Lilli, Lilli," he cried, rapturously, "Lilli.a wagontrain, which was stopping for a day to, 1 8 a Off the fatal decline, but for the name of the drug as a catch word. I only a little.—Home Journal. .your mistake in the selling of poison proves Lilli." rest and recruit their stock. Many wise heads declared that it was all a