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TH£ g WIFT SPECIFIC COMPANY, ATLANTA, CA. THE RING , * OP THE ’if JOHN J. a’BEGitT. MATTERHORN, Copyright. lOOO. hy John J. a’Dccket. : geo o efoioo o oo oooo oo.ooo oooo oo oo oooo o SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSo o CHAPTER I. Uncle Gardner’s fine, crusty spirit the bequest of the countess. * was iii great form this morning after Things were pretty stormy in the * he dance - With the pleasant sense that bouse that morning. There had been a J}®. ™ s . awny tbe , bonsebo]d had in ‘ t TT n „ 1n dnlged m a much later breakfast hour small dance e „ • than they conhl when be was at home. Gardner had been unpleasant enough He liked to breakfast at 8. and insisted over that. Ho always made it a point ■ 0 n having his family present at the to expatiato on the extravagance of _ meal. After being tip late the night be- Mra. Rodney or the girls, as the case ' fore this was not always a comforting might be, when ho was drawn on for thing to do for the women folk, money. Mr. Josiah Gardner had made j . “What's the object of having luncb- a fortune and had mined his temper cm ? a * . tbia b ° nr of the dnyV” ho in doing it. He had had to put his noso to j ln b ' a dry ’ J m * UDez - ", b . , , , . .. . ! Mrs. Rodney understood perfectly the grindstone for years, and now that that the o]d gent]elnan k new it was he was relieved of that humiliating combination he tried to even np things by subjecting others to a like harrow ing conjunction. They were all thoroughly tired of it, no one more so, however, than Florence Rodney. She was a lithe, pretty girl of 20, a gradnate of Vassar and thorough ly up to date in athletics. It was a comfort to her to reflect that she lived in an age when women rode, swam, fenced, wheeled, and conld make a fair showing with men at tennis, golf and other physical diversions. Miss Rodney was an admirable ex ponent of the benefit of air, exercise and freedom for her sex. Her walk was springy and graceful, and she carried herself as straight aa a soldier. It was a sonree of immense solace to her in all the phases of her physical well being to feel her every musclo firm and strong and to know that her flesh, her heart and her lungs were in the best possible condition. brenkfast, bnt she said submissively: “Why. I thought the girls would be tired, and so I had breakfast a little later this morning. I did not expect you would be back so soon, Josiah.” “What! Breakfast? At 11 o’clock?” he asked, with the most exaggerated astonishment. “I suppose we'll have dinner at half past 0. ” Mrs. Rodney fpll back on silence, since her brother Jiad pnt this ns a sup position and not as a question. At this moment Miss Rodney came in with a bicycle costume on. Mr. Gardner, who affected to have a great regard for the proprieties of women’s dress, was rasped anew by the sight of his niece’s leg gings and trim brown derby. It was certainly a mannish sort of costnme, bnt it was not violently so. Mies Rod ney looked exceedingly well in it and thoroughly womnnly. - “Going out to ride yonr wheel, my dear?” lie inquired venomously. “How energetic the young women are now- Mrs. Rodney was a widow with little ! adays! Kicking up yonr hoels till 3 or money, two daughters to marry off and a mind given to tho things of this world. When her husband had left her impoverished, the sense of blood ties and family duty had induced her broth er, Josiah Gardner, to tako charge of her and her daughters. But he had this unpleasant fashion of complaining abont money matters. Mrs. Rodney's one argument in defense of their ex penses was the need of getting tho girls well married This meailt marrying them to men of means and good social position—rich men. anyhow, for Mrs. Rodnsy was convinced that money was enough of an “open ecsamo” for New 8 o'clock, breakfast abont the time wo nsed to have dinner at home, Sally, and then off for a ten mile whir astraddle a wheel! It’s a wonder how yon old fashioned girls ever grew np and got yonr natural strength, Sally.” Mrs. Rodney was an easy mark for the old gentleman because he knew so well how to prick her. He felt that the -allusion to the primitive style of their early life would be distasteful, and Mrs. Rodney, who was fond ofn languid, dignified pose, always winced when he called her Sally. Ho gave such a com mon sound to the name I Well, I'm going np stairs until York society at all events. If a man ; things are set to rights,’’ho continued, had not the blood or manners of a thor- j <*i hope there won’t bo a string of bills ongh gentleman, a skillful wife who coming in today. ” was a lady conld pilot him through the j The old man shuffled off, delaying to shoals all right Most American hus- ; look here and there for one object cr bands, except the few who are young another simply because ho knew they society men, do not figure very promi- , would feel relieved when he was gone nently in the social phases of their fam- ' Finally he went snorting np the staire Hies. They generally have the air of , . “What a pity you came in with yonr being casual and bored assistants at bicycle suit on, Florcncel” said Mrs. functions'of this kind, and not much is Rodney peevishly. “Yonr uncle seems expected of them except to pay the hills. 1 to have such an objection to it. ” Miss Rodney was rather a restive filly | “It might as well be an objection to and gave her worthy mother many an that as to something else, mamma,” occasion for fretful dissatisfaction. She had a will of her own, and her tastes, i as has been said, were for athletic pas- [ times and not for society, though she was fond of dancing and handsomo gowns. She did not show that keen de sire for bagging somo eligible man which her mother would have liked. , Mrs. Rodney had not infrequently com- ■ plained of this in her eldest daughter. 1 “I should think yon would want to get married and settled and not have to feel that your undo is breaking bis. heart over every penny he puts out for ; what he thinks is our extravagant liv- ! ing. You know, I am doing all I can.” Miss Rodney would try to keep her temper over maternal nagging of this kind and generally succeeded by de clining to argue the point. She was content to go her way, and go her wny she did. In justice to Mrs. Rodney it must be admitted that she gave only what entertainments she felt she could not escape and keep in the swim at alb She had to keep there, for the sort of - men whom she wished the girls to ..•marry wero there, and there must be opportunity for them to meet snch men. Uncle Gardner was not qnite as mean as he appeared to ba They generally - got what they wanted. He simply made the matter more pleasant for himself by growling over things and rendering tho women "Unhappy. He had gone away for the night of the dance aijd had not been expected to return until tho second day after it, so as to allow the house and the in mates time to get back to the normal. But ho had got disgusted with some thing at thtv hotel and came home the next day, fall of a fault finding disposi tion. The women groaned in spirit at this unexpected advent of the head of the family. Rose, the yonnger daugh ter, was perfectly in accord with her mother’s views and helped her in her arc set to riijhts, returned the young woman curtly “This is his morning for objections. He has let ns have the dance and now we’ll have to let him have his grewb He is always feeling particularly nasty when he calls yon ‘Sally* in that way.* Miss Rodney had not been gone long when the mail arrived. There was a stout English letter for Mrs. Rodney, in an envelope with the name of somo London solicitors on it. She opened it and almost gasped as she mastered its contents. They were enongh to aston ish a less impressionable woman than Mrs. Rodney Tho solicitors said that they had been instructed by the Count ess of Carrington to send 'the inclosed aims as farVs^rS^erTnde she *** “v ^dT" The humored and cajoled as well as a pretty I w,tb thls rcqnc ? t tbey d,d E °' 2?® hut not very clever girl conld hnmor and cajole a keen, cranky old man. Airs. Rodney felt that it was a little unfortunate that the characters of her two daughters were not reversed. Miss Rodney ought to bo disposed first in the matrimonial market, ns she was the |®J dor If she wero as compliant as IRose. this consummation would not be •o hard a one to effect Bnt Florence 1 " ” was nice to the men that she countess had died two days ago. Tho contents of the letter from her had been imparted to them by her ladyship. Their London address and cable name- were indicated in tho letter head, should < Mra Rodney or her daughter wish to communicate with them. To understand Mrs. Rodney's feel- 1 ings in this matter a few words of ex planation are necessary. The Countess of Carrington was Airs. Rodney’s sis- . liked rather than to those whom it was i ter - She had been twic0 married ’ once ! her policy to attract. Her sturdy indo- l to aD American who died and left her; .pendent American spirit recoiled from ' TvcaItl1 ' and the second time lo an Erl S'| deliberate efforts in this direction. She ; Hshmira, Hie Earl of Carrington, who' was determined that she wouldn't I bad died and left ber a titl& Tbe Iad 3* (marry anybody unless she both liked j wbo bad ff narried 8ncb treasure from and 1 'J- : ' 111 d him. and she wonldu't : two husbands' graves employed tbe Try to bring any man she could not feel : money and the title to make life as cn- jtoward ln this way to the point of pro- ' joyable as possible to a hard, selfish tDositar needles*:!v. and ambitions, woman. The feeling be tween tun two sisters naff nreome so strained as to result in perfect estrange ment. Airs. Rodney derived no other advantage from her rich relative than an occasion allnsion to “my sister, the Countess of Carrington," where she thought snch allusion was profitable. What she read in her sister's letter was therefore all the more astonishing. The countess, without any great warmth, set forth that she was ill and her doctors had advised her to attend to any testamentary dispositions she might wish to mnke as a matter of prudence. With thonght of what was dne to her own position and title and also of what would be right toward her own kin. she had devised the bnlk of her fortune to her niece. Florence, on condition that within a year after the decedent's death she shonld marry the Earl of Carrington, the eldest son of her deceased husband. If the year elapsed without snch marriage having taken place, the property was to go to the Earl of Carrington, who would add the name of Gardner to these which he had. If her niece. Florence, married the earl, moneys and investments that would yield an income of §10,000 a year were to be set aside and Airs. Rodney would enjoy this income for her natural 'life. On her death they were to go absolutely to Miss Rose Rod ney or her heirs. The Conntess of Carrington hoped in this wny that her dnty toward her own family and to ward that of her hnsband. and. inci dentally. to herself, would be perform ed in a manner suitable and advanta geous to all concerned. In the event of the Earl of Carring ton declining such union, the fortune of the testatrix was to go entirely to her niece. Florence Rodney Mrs. Rodney was in a feverish glow by the time she bad grasped the pur port of this sisterly letter It was so evident that the Conntess of Carring ton was striving to perpetuate her own tongh personality as far as possible for her condition when she became a dis embodied lady of title, that the benefit which would accrue to the Rodneys did not stir any very sisterly gratitnde in Mrs. Rodney But tho benefit was obvions. She would be the mother of a conntess. she would have an income of §10.000 and Rose would have a"pretty prospect for a girl as attractive as her self. Mrs. Rodney’s wild fancy set her at once to murmuring snch phrases in her small mind as “Aly danghter, tbe Countess of Carrington, I expect to come over this summer.” She even went so far as to pietnre herself as the grandmother of little Lord This and little Lady That It was intoxicating reverie But as the young Arabian gentleman upset the splendid fortune he had won. in his mind's eye, from the sale of liis glassware by kicking the glass to smithereens in an imperious moment of opulent disdain, so Aire Rodney’s large balloon of pride was pricked when the thonght arose that all this glory was contingent on her daughter’s consent to the proposed mar riage That she would not he too docile in the matter she had a sure premoni tion. But since the astnte old conntess had made the peace and comfort and respectability of herself and Rase de pendent on the decision of Florence, there was hope she might be “reason able." Florence was not a sentimental girl and was clear headed enongh. Even Mrs. Rodney could not charge her eld est danghter with selfishness. Here was room for heroic self sacrifice When her daughter returned from a good spin on her wheel, Mrs. Rodney had had time to think it ont After luncheon she said impressively: “I have received a letter which will sur prise you all. Tho Conntess of Carring ton is dead!” The family received the news with different degrees of calm. Rose, as the youngest, was the most impressed. Miss Rodney was not impressed at all and Uncle Josiah only gave a grunt “Awful blow to lose our titled rela tive!” he sneered. “So sudden and snch a warm hearted woman I” “Josiah. we must not forget that she was onrsister," said Mrs. Rodney, with an air of propriety. “It's only dne to good memories that we know it” observed the old man brusquely “She may have been a little worldly and certainly did not show much thought of us." assented Mrs. Rodney. “But she has done very well by us in her will. ” Uncle Josiah looked np incredulously It irritated the old mun to see Mrs. Rodney swelling with tbe importance of something to communicate, especially when he was keen to know it. “Uinpb! What has she done?' “She has left her money to Florence, and an income for life to me.” replied his sister. Miss Rodney did look somewhat moved at this. It meant freedom and living her own life. Despite herself, she beamed joyously “Rose and I are disinherited, are we?" chuckled Uncle Josiah sarcas tically. “I suppose she knew I wonld look after Rose, and probably she felt that her sister would be in a position to be of great help to her." said Mrs. Rodney diplomatically. “When do we get it, mamma?" ask ed Miss Rodney, with fiat directness. Poor Mrs. Rodney’s heart failed her at what she had to say. Bnt it must be said and now was as good a time as any, when her danghter seemed pleased at the prospect of such independent means. Josiah Gardner looked at her with his sharp, twinkling brown eyes. 3e was a well preserved man for his years and took the most active interest in things. “The countess,” Airs. Rodney began, with a sigh. “Oh. bother!' ejaculated Uncle Josiah. - “Josiah!' exclaimed Mrs. Rodney, with a weak quernlcusness of accent, turning a little, like the goaded worm “Have some respect l’or yonr sister!” Which sister was not specified. Tbe old man stuck ont his chin and looked impatient, lie retrained from saying anything, as ho really wanted to know quickly what had been dona Ho sus pected that “the countess" wonld have some string tied to her generous dispo sition of her wealth. “She makes this conditional on Flor ence’s marrying the present Earl of Carrington within a year," the poor lady said with aa little faltering as pos sible. Uncle Josiah leaned back and let off a dry, cackling langh. There was no doubt about the real merriment in it. however. “Is that all?" he inquired. “Let me see the letter. That’s tho quickest way of understanding the thing.” Airs. Rodney reluctantly passed it over to him. She stole a glance at her daughter’s face. Miss Rodney was breathing quickly and did not give a very good imitation of a young lady tickled at a prospective conntessbip. Air. Gardner read the cold, dry, bnt perfectly Incid letter which laid bare to his mind the purpose and aim of the defunct Conntess of Carrington. He hastened cbeerfnlly to impart its im port to_his niece, watching her all the lime with malicious pleasure. “Alatilda has done a fine thing for you.” he said volubly. “You get all her mcney, and all yon have to do is to marry an English lord. That isn’t hard. The man Matilda married died in a few years, used np in half a dozen miscel laneous ways. This yonng fellow, I un derstand. is a far more brilliant black guard than bis father and is a first rate candidate for a hospital already. He is up to bi9 neck in debt Sc, if yon can pnt up with n job lot of diseased humanity for a few years, he’ll go un der the sod and yon’ll he Conntess of Carrington forever after. I shonld think yon would jnmp at it, ” sneered Uncle Josiah. “These lawyer chaps were con siderate enongh to send their cable ad dress. Shall I run out and simply fire a ‘Terms accepted’ at them, Florence?” Mrs. Rodney made a weak, hopeless movement of despair. It wonld be a hard fight for her all alone and her brother so rudely against her. “Uncle,’’said Miss Rodney calmly, bnt with a hot. angry patch of color in her healthy cheek and a glitter in her eye. “there’s no need of yonr being any more disagreeable than necessary. 1 admit the prospect of escaping from my life hero and escaping from you makes this atrocious proposition have a force that nothing else conld lend it. The Earl of Carrington can’t bo much more of atrial than yon,’’she added hotly. “That’s the sensible way to look at it, my dear. ” returned Uncle Josiah, with brisk and unruffled cheerfulness. “But Matilda didn’t know you well. Alatilda was a business woman at least It was so like her to leave her money to Carrington and at tbe same time rope in you as a beneficiary, thus seem ing to have a regard for her own fam ily. I don't know why she shonld have cared about that.” lie went on, disre garding apparently Aliss Rodney’s beau tifully undisguised look of disgust “She never minded ns while she was alive. But people funk so when they are going to die." he observed philo sophically. “However, as I was observ ing, Matilda foolishly thonght that you were a degenerated niece and might balk at tho prospect of marrying a bag of disease and thonsands of pounds of debt So she ties np yonr mother’s and yonr sister’s good fortune with your consent llarry this titled biaekghard, and yonr mother and sister will be in dependent 'and comfortable for life. They won I have to live with him, yon know. So i • ■ i e is no reason why they shouldn't lie >py." “Josiah. ' cd Mrs. Rodney, “this is brutal. I..moot endure it If you continue 1'ke that. I shall have to leave the room. ” “There's no reason why yon shonld not, ir.y dear,” he replied cheerfully. “You can cry and plead with Florence later on. " “Don't be silly, mamma,” said Miss Rodney prosaically “Uncle Josiah is patting it as badly as he can. bnt even be cannot do more than justice to this vile, miserable scheme of my aunt I am thankful to you for letting mamma see the thing jnst as it is," she said to her nncla “Oh. don’t mention it." said tho old cynic- “It is a pleasure to help you out in this trying moment I can see yon with tbe coronet of n conntess stack on top of yonr head. They wear coronets, don’t they? “But yon will note our dear Matil da’s forethought,” he went on. “I am almost proud of her. You might kick over all this debt aad diseasa So she bribes yon with yonr mother’s and sis ter's happiness Why she shonld have thonght that Carrington would possibly talk at bestowing his distinguished self on you I don’t see, unless she knew that his favorite typo of woman was the chorn3 girl. If he refuses, yon get it all. Bnt he won’t refuse, I promise you. You refuse, and he gets if* And if he gets it, he has got to tack the name of Gardner on to his own. Oh. Matilda was a corker for family pride. The idea of perpetnating the family name in that way I Hitching it on to an earl’s" title! It was great. Why conldn’t yon. if yon accept him and become the mother of a little earl to be, name him Josiah. after me? That is a now name in tin* British nobility It wonld probably bp the only strong, healthy thing about the poor little chap. He would snreiy he scrofnlous as a filial compliment to his papa.” “This is n little disgusting.” said Miss Rodney, looking at her venomcis CONSUMPTION I I I; never stopj because the weather A is warm. j j- Then why stop taking § SCOTT'S EMULSION I simply because it’s summer? Keep taking it. It will heal your Jt lungs, and make them strong for j ^ another winter. j | 50c. and |loo ; all druggists. J | oin uncle ln a way that even lie felt. “I decline to hear any more on the sub ject. You have really In yonr coarse freedom of language expressed the plain truth. I have never so agreed with you in my life L simply refuse, without the need of another moment's deliberation, my aunt’s infamous proposition. Tho only thing that can palliate her daring to make it is that she did the same thing herself And she, heaven save the mark, was an American girl! Don’t let the subject be mentioned in my hearing again. ” “But, Florence.' remonstrated her mother in an iujnred way. "don’t be rash. There is no need of any hasty conclusion Yon are taking all that yonr uncle says about this young man as true. Ho may be a very nice young fellow. ” “Mamma!” said Mis3 Rodney ex plosively. “As if the vileness of the Earl of Carrington was not known to everybody who reads even* the Ameri can newspapers only 1 I have heard of him again and again. Even the decent men in his own set despise him and cut him. It is hard that when this wretch ed woman conld have done her dnty by us she should have left so degrading a proof of ber utter bard beartedness and unwomanly feeling. Why. mother,” exclaimed the girl, wrought up by the melancholy dissent that was visible on Mrs. Rodney’s face, “yon would not have me degrade my womanhood be yond all self respect if yon were to have millions by it. That is what this coarse would be. I want independence as much as any one living, but I will not forfeit one bit of my self respect to se cure it. I would work ns n shopgirl sooner than marry this Earl of Carring ton. and 1 hate my nnnt for insulting American womanhood in this way. Yon know me enough to feel sure that when I say this is my last word on the snbject it is useless to think of it any more. ” “Bravo!" said Uncle Josiah “You are a credit to the family. I approve of your sentiments. Don’t mind your mother. I shan't live forever, and then you’ll all be independent. I am no Anut Matilda, conntess of Carrington. ” “No; yon conldn’t be qnite aa bad as she, I admit." said his niece, with re freshing candor. Uncle Josiah sniffed at this. Airs. Rodney heaved a sigh, as if her lot was a particularly unendurable one. and Rose looked a little like a wilting La France rose. Bnt they all felt that Florence would be ns good as her word. At this moment the servant entered with a card. Mrs. Rodney picked it from the tray with the air of a Niobe gathering a further harvest of tears. “Rev. Arthur Kimball." sho observed despairingly. “I did not know he was back from Enropa We most sco him, I suppose Yon can show him in. Wil liams. “This is a very appropriate time for a parson to call, when a family is pros trated with grief over the loss of a near relative of fortnne and of title." said Uncle Josiah, with placid sarcasm. Rev. Arthur Kimball was a fashion able pastor, whom Airs. Rodney respect ed as snch. He was this somewhat despite himself, for lie was not a half bad sort. His favorite way of spending his vacation was to go to Switzerland and climb the most inaccessible moan- tains there He had just returned from one of these athletic ontings. Between him and Miss Rodney there was a warm bond of sympathy, based on tlieir devo tion to physical development. After some preliminary small talk and inquiry abont friends Aliss Rodney said: “Well, what Alp have you conquered this year. Dr. Kimball? I suppose you will soon be driven to tho Himalayas for your vacation. Switzerland will be a sucked orange. ” “After this summer I almost feel as if it were." replied the clergyman cheerfully^ “l did the Matterhorn this year. It still lias the credit of being something fit for a climber to vanquish. Of course the old time glamour of its sharp crast when the gnides themselves used to wag.their heads and tell weird tales abont the nnseen horrors that cling to its top is done away with. Too many have shinned np this slippery needle of the Alps. But it is tng enongh still to be something to boast of. As an Englishman, a member of the Alpine club, said to me this summer. ‘Alont Blanc is inglorious today Little boys and girls take a promenade to its top as kindergarten play at moantain climbing.' But it mast have been a glurions moment for Wbymper when he planted the first pair of hnman feet on the virginal peak of the Matterhorn! The trip must have been a melancholy memory, however, for the vanquished spirit of that hitherto unsealed eyrie seemed to wreak revenge on this in trusion of man. You know four of the party were lost on that first ascent. Whyinper was the only one of the climbers, except two of the gnides, who retraced bis steps after the victorious climb. I am happy to state that one of this first party to reach the top was, like myself, a clergyman." “And is it renlly so difficult?” asked Miss Rodney eagerly. “I don’t think there can. be any doubt of its difficulty. ” said Dr. Kim ball. with a dry smile “It is a tongb climb, and I have made many. The Zinal-Rothhorn was a corker. I thonght, although I found a gray haired woman at the table d’hote at Zermatt who had done it a few years before and was not very boastfnl abont it. A man who had never climbed attempted this peak and did it, althongh tho gnides had to sim ply transport him over the icy and shelv ing parts of the rocky ledges. Thcwe are plenty of peaks to practice on Bnt it is the most glorions feeling in the world to scratch your way. like a hardy insect, up the rough, haughty peaks that nature seems to have reared as a defiance to the passage of man " con cluded Dr Kimball as be rose to go "I see from your looks that you are keep ing np yonr own ontdoor exercise. Miss Rodney That is right ” Yes. but bicycling and oven follow ing the bounds seem tame compared to scaling the Alatterhorn," replied the girl, with an amusing note of regret in her voice. Women have to admit a man’s su periority in some things, don’t they?' remarked Uncle Gardner, when Dr Kimball had retired “Here's a small, not overm’.iscnlar parson who can climb the Matterhorn! Women have to shrink into tlieir petticoats over that” “Two women have done it without 'shrinking into their petticoats.' as you so elegantly put it. ” retorted his niece, slightly nettled at thu old man’s gratuitous gibe “That mnst make it all the harder for tho poor women folk, who have to content themselves with small exploits, like riding a wheel or playing tennis," returned the determined old man. "I shonld think yon wonld want to climb tho Matterhorn. ” “Oh, I dare say I may some day." re plied Miss Rodney carelessly “I have not a doubt that I conld." “I’ll bet yon §100,000 yon couldn’t do it, ” grunted tho old man coiitemptu- opsly. #“It’s not as easy, of course, as wa gering §100,000 .when you wnnldn’t really and seriously wager a penny on it” The two were alone. Mrs. Rodney and the subservient Rose had retired as soon as Dr. Kimball left The old man looked at her with a cold gleam in his eye. “Look here." lie said after a moment of this steadfast gaze at the resolute figure of bis niece “You’ve done a good thing in treating yonr Aunt Matilda’s low proposition with perfect contempt Of course you may relent later on, but it was tbe spirit of an American girl that made you fire np as yon did at the first flush It’s the only spirit of the kind in the family, and I think it should be encouraged. Yon think I am own brother to Alatilda for meanness, simply because I don’t pay for every silly extravagance of your mother and you girls: bnt I ain’t, and I’ll prove it to you.” Uncle Gardner was a little excited, an nunsnal thing for him to be. He went on aa Miss Rodney made no re mark. though she was attentive enongh now. “When 1 die. I hope you think 1 mean to do the fair thing by you and the others. I don’t believe in giving a kickat yonr relatives from yourcoffin,” said the old man “Now, if you scale the Matterhorn within six months I’ll pnt by stocks aud things that will let you have an income of ten thousand a year. 1 don’t believe yon can do it, ” be added spitefnlly. “and I'll show that I don't by making this offer. ” “Do yon mean this?" cried MissRod- noy, springing to her feet She was un deniably excited. “I generally mean what I say. don’t I?" replied her nncle shortly “Then write it down in so many words and let somebody witness it. and I will climb that Matterhorn if it kills ina If other women have. I know I The old man was opposed to this, but his niece worked on his pride and tera- "1 will climb that Matterhorn if it kills per until he drew up this proposition in writing, and it was dnly witnessed. Miss Rodney took it with a proud air of trinmph “I don't know what can have in duced yon to make snch a heavenly offer, "she said, “except that you are so sure I can never do it. Bnt I will. Uncle. Jasiah Gardner, and I thank yon for doing it. no matter what yonr ob ject was if I do succeed and get this money from you. I really believe I shall you!” “Well, don't begin any sooner than ueccssary." said her caustic relative. “I shouldn't know what to do with a kissing, ’dear nncle’-ing kind of a JliVegeiablePrcparationfor As similating iheToodandReguIa- ling theStcunachs andBowels of Promotes Digestion.Checr ful ness andRest.Contains neither JicapeafpldErStHfUnSITuIIER Set d ~ JbiScnna * tfcJtdU Sails - Mist Seed. * Apcrfcct Remedy for Constipa tion, Sour Stomach.Diarrhoea r Worms .Convulsions .Feverish ness and LOSS OF SLEEP. facsimile Signature cf NEW YORK. EXACT COPY OF WRAPPER- {The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature The Kind You Have (Always Bought. cash THE CENTAUR COMPANY. NEW YORK CITY. VANDIVER WHISKEY CO., JOHN M. VANDIVER, Mgr Ho. i8 Broad St. (BAHEY’S OL STABLE) HOME, GA. FINE WHISKIES, BBIIBIES, WINES, ETC. JUG OUDKUS PROMPTLY FILLED. -TELEPHONE 1NO. ii-t A BOON TO MANKIND! D" TABLER’S BUCKEYE n aj§frtr*1 a! MEBSpiniasi cn my 33^ in j £ 2 _ co » 3 C H rn £ Its s? tilts n o;; co t* PILE CURE [TO BE CONTINUED.} Would Not SnflerFo Again Tor F t j Times Its Price. I awoke last night with severe pains in my stomach. I never felt so badly in all nit life. When I caiun down to work this morning to Miller & Ale- Curdy’s drug store, they recom mended Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. It worked like magic and one dose fixed me all right. Tt certainly is the finest tiling I ever nsed for stomach tronlilc. I shall not. be without it in my home hereafter, for I should not care to endure the suffer ings of last night again for fifty times its price.—G. II. Wilson, Liveryman, Bnrgettstown, Washington Co., Pa This remedy is for snle liy E. Bradford. “Paw,” said Japbetb, ns they int on the hurricane, deck of the. ark, “do yon ever think of going into politics?” “Well,” replied Noah ns lie pushed the giraffe’s head out of the snil,’“if I did, I think the floating vote wonld lie all I’d have to look after.” A sallow, jaundiced skin is a symp tom of disordered liver, as it springs from biliary poisons retained ill. tlie blood, which destroy energy, e.lieerfnl- ness,strengtli,vig<>r,liapi.in‘'ss and life. Ilerbine will restore I he mil oral func tions of tile liver. Price 50 ids. T. K. Burbank. “Yon have pugilists iu your frozen country?” said the iucredulons sport of the temperate zone. “What do they feed on when they are training?” “Train oil,” solemnly replied flie edu cated Esqniman. Neglect is tho short step so mnuy take from n cough or cold to conanuip- tion. The early use of One Minute Cure prevents consumption. It is the only harmless remedy that gives imme diate results. It cures nil throat and lung troubles. Children all like and mothers endorse it. E. Bradford. A New Discovery for the Certain Cure of INTERNAL and EXTERNAL PILES, WITHOUT -PAIN. CURES WHERE ALL OTHERS HAVE FAILED. Tubes, by Mail, 75 Cents; Bottles, 50 Cents. JAMES F. BALLARD, Sole Propriefor. - - 310 North Main Street, ST. LOUIS. MO. FOR SALE ItY T. F. BURBANK. W ORMsIIvermIfuce! Uoct in Quantity. — Host in Quality. Fsr 20 Years Has Led si! Wsrus HgmsdieSs imES, SOLD 3XY JXX,Tj SK-TTG-GISSeS. BALL A R D, St. iLoujs, FOR SALE BY T. F. BURBANK. Prepared 1 PHFSEISVR Til K 111 BOS. Hanglity Lady (who has purchased a stamp)—“Must I put it on myself?” Postoffieo Assistant (very politely)— “Not necessarily, ma’am; it will accom plish moro if yon pnt it on tho letter ” Reporls show that over lift: en hundred lives have been saved tlirongh the use of One Alinnte Cough Cure. Alost of these were cases of griptie, cronp, asthma,whooping cough, bronchitis and pneumonia Its early use prevents con sumption. E. Bradford. Friend—“I suppose the lialiy is fond of you?” Papa—“Fond of me? Wliy.he sleeps all day when I’m not at home and stays np all night just to enjoy my society !” In almost every neighborhood there is some one whose life liasbeen saved by Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera ami Diarrhoea Remedy, or who lias been cured of chronic diarrhoea hy I lie use nf that medicine. Such per-nns make a point, of 'telling of it whenever op- piirtnnily offers, hoping Ilia! il may he tlie means of saving i ther lives. For sale by E. Bradford. Daisy—“Dick says he loves me for keeps. Wlmt dots that meau?” Dick— “It means forever.” Ruth—“No. It means yon can keep his presents if it’s broken off.” Ivy poisoning, poison wonnds and all other accidental injuries may be quickly cured by using DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve. It is also a certain enre for piles; and skin diseases. Take no other. E Bradford. Every fellow who professes to be/ a singer isn’t a professional singer. ' ■— The practice of killing birds, in or der to preserve a handful of fruit or a few stalks of young: ™»rn is cruel, and should not he dime. If. is necessary to preserve our birds, as much so as to preserve the fertility of our land. Our birds, the mocking: bird, shrike, thrasher, bluebird, wren aud quail, are the greatest destroyers of worms and insects, and area blessing, yea, a for tune to the world. If one would plant peaches, plums, grapes, etc., enough, the depredations of birds would never be noticed; but where one is meager in their investments and only grows two or three trees or vines of a sort, they are liable to miss a single speci men. Birds are as plentiful here as any where in the world. Out West where the prairie chicken and blue quail have been killed out, the gras>hoppers and cutworms al times make farming almost an imrotsibiiity. let the birds alone; let them live, for each one one is worth more, than its weight, in gold—sparrows, of course, excepted. She continned tho conversation, “No, sir, I wonld not murry the best man on earth.” “Of course, yon know,” he urged, “that it is not the custom for the bride to marry the best man.” To those living in malarial districts Tutt’s Pills a re indispensible, they keep the system in perfect order and are an absolute cure for sick headache, Indigestion, malaria, torpid liver, constipa tion and all bilious diseases. Tutt’s Liver PUSs KodoS Dyspepsia Cure. A Card (if Thanks. I wish to say that I feci under lasting obligations for what Ghnnihcrlain’s Cough Remedy has done for onr family. We have nsed if in so many eases of coughs, lung troubles and whooping cough, and it has always given thu most perfect satisfaction; wo feel greatly in debted -to the manufacturers of tins remedy aud wish them to please accept onr hearty thanks.—R. spi ctfnlly, Airs. S. Doty, DeAIoiues, Iowa. For sale by E. Bradford. , Digests what you eat. i It artificially digests the food and ald3 Nature in strengthening and recon structing the exhausted digestive or gans. It is thelatestdiscovered digest- ant and tonic. No other preparation can approach it in efficiency. It in stantly relieves and permanently cures Dyspepsia, Indigestion, Heartburn, Flatulence, Sour Stomach, Nausea, SickHeadache,Gastralgia,Cramps,and all other results of imperfect digestion. Prepared by E. C. Du Wilt & Co- cijlcaao. E. BRADFORD. First Octopus—‘"Here comes old Shark. Lei’s swim away.” Second Octopus—“Wliy?” First Octopus— “Oh, he’s always telling about the time lie caught a man ten feet long nnd let him get away.” If yonr sight is blurred with specks and spots finaling before your eyes, nr you have pains on tlie right side under tlie ribs, thin yutir liver is deranged, and you need a few doses nf Ilerbine to regulate it. Price 50 cts. T. F. Burbank. “Aladhme,” said tho tramp, “I was onco a member of the Legislature,” “And are yon snro,”she asked, inclined to bolieve him, “that your reformation is completo.” When you.fd.irt qnt to “tackle” the linnyUffbe don’t fotget to tako a bottle Qt Dr. Tichenor’s Antiseptic. Nothing cqnal to it for fin wonnds, fish hook wonnds, bites nnd stings of insects, and it is no bad thing for “snake bite.” Remember it cures eolio also while yon wait about ten minutes. -Yonr druggist can sell it as fast as you can buy it. Price, 50c. F. C. CORSETS American Beauties* F. c. Latest Models. VII rjen uox KALAMAZOO CORSET CO. SOLE MANUFACTURERS. SOLD BY -A- C. COBB. • - ■-L.