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A DAY IN HARVEST. At last the wagon was loaded. The trunk cam* tn front for a aeat. Th* two feather bode were just behind It, with th* •afe nat on lop of them and the drop-leaf table anug agalnat the tailboard. Bed ateada, chair*, anew cradle, a randle aland and many bags and bund!**, built upon this foundation a miscellaneous su perstructure, craxy-looklng, yet held in pace with all the plow lines Jimmy Daw on could muster. Mrs. Dawson sat on th* trtmlt, her at tention equally and fearfully divided be tween th* reins in her hand, the baby up on her itnees end the broody hen with her clutch of egg* In the basket et her feel. The hen had belonged to Lllila Jtm, th* boy who hed died the summer before, bit* has stolen her nest, but Mfs. Dawson could not bear to leave her, any more than t kikl her. robbed of her eggs, along with Hie other fowls which went th* day betote. Jimmy gplped hard as he turned the key In the lock. The house was old and ram s(tackle, hut he had been born tn It, and had thought to live and die there. A tor toise shell cat came to rub against his leg*, mewing plaintively and looking up In his face He stooped and stroked the creature until it purred loudly and made a* though It would spring Into hi* arms He drew hack hastily. Buying "No, no. Mittens! You can't go! It does look tnenn to leave you—but It's the worst sort o' luck to move eats and walnuts! The good Ik>rd knows my luck Is bad enough a' ready." Superstitious—oh, Jimmy? I'm rather glad ol It. 1 shall take Mittens straight up lo the house—w# need another motts •r.” Mr. Atmhlre said, coming around th* corner of the house, then with a laugh, Jimmy Stood Back of Her, Hl Big Hand Fondling Her Hair With Clumsy Ten derness. •Hxhtly forced: "Maybe you won't rail illtteita- that may be bid luck, too—hut you'll give this to Mr*, mwwon, with my compliments—for the baby.” He hell! out a silver dollar. Dawson made no motion to take it- He looked down at Ah hire with smouldering eye* until the man quailed. Abshlre wan short, stocky, ruddy, w.th clone dipped reddish hair and board. Dawson, lean. dark, mus rular, towered a head abova him. and had lank, sun-bleached lock* blowing all over the collar of hi- rusty coat. ' Keep your money—now you've got It. Mr. Ahshlre." he said slowly at last. "It won't ever be name** betweenst us attain, now I've got my quitlanca In full. Hut remember this —1 owe ye a day In harvest. I'll pay It some tlroa-a km? day at that." Abehire laughed Insolently: "You dis appoint me. Dawson." he said. *'l had 1 nought you too much a man to sulk er whine over paying an honeat debt." "You thought right—l ain't whinin',” Jimmy wikl. cl imberlng up hestde his Wife: "You kr.ow I didn't know It was your money I borrowed—and you want in' my place—". "Certainly! The house obstructs out Mew," Abehire said. Dawson's eye# biased! "The first o' us Dawsons got the land from the Injuns." he said: "1 wanted to pass It on to chil dren o' mine—Jest aa It coma to me—" Mrs. Dawson laid a silencing hand on his arm. He shook It off. but Just then the baby began to cry. aa though pinched ■wish cold, for all tha mother'# cuddling "Hoar little mite!” he muttered, touching the clumsy hooded head. "To think I must take you live mile# In the teeth o' this wind—and then Into a cold house!" He started up the mules, and soon had them trotting at a rale which threatened to wreck the towering load. The baby cried fitfully, though his wife did her beat to hush It. It had been ailing all week. He almost wished he had pocketed his pc hie, and bogged Ahshlre to let him wait his moving until Ihe weather was milder Hut mild days are not plenty In midwinter—least of nil when the cold has rtrenglhened to a freezing new year. He bad stayed over tha day itself—if he moved then he would be moving until the next Christmas—and moving once was, to his mind, sunk-tent for a lifetime. “I wish you’d got us a place in the fall." his wife said at last, not reproach fully. but wilh a soft ptalntivencs* In finitely harder to bear. Jimmy Sighed deeply. He could not tell the truth—that he had hum Med himself before Abehire, hoping against hope lo stay on In his home, and !h the end redeem It. Ellen would never have done that. Bhe wn* Sery proud, for all her soft ways. Hadn't we better turn in. here at lha doctor’s?" he asked as the wagon came opposite a big gate, standing generously wide. Mrs. Dawson shook her head: "Do you think there's time?” she asked, "It's past 12 now—and everything to do when he gel there. Baby'# asleep—still. 1 wish the doctor—" The Words ended In a screnm. She hod uncovered the tiny fac# cautiously, to find It pinched and blue, the little Ups gasping Dawson understood her Inartic ulate cry. A turn of the wrist sent Ihe mules through the gate, a cut of the whip set them into a dead run. up the ragged drive. But It was a limp and lifeless ill tie body that Mr*. I Hinson laid In I>r, Wharton's arms. ‘The 1 jort! gave, the Dord hath taken • way." the kind doctor said reverently. Cradling the dead baby on one arm. and with the other pushing Its distracted mother Into a seat at the fireside. Mrs 'Vharton bent over her and put her arms a boot her, sobbing lit silent sympathy She had lost a baby Just the year before, and knew better than lo mock this grief with spoken comfort. Dawson cowered miserably at the ethar side of the Are. through a k-edm half hour Then be got up and took,hls dead child In hi* arms, saying •• m pressed his rough cheek to Its waxen face: "And 1 havo got to bury you, little one. all by youraelt. Ahshlre owns tha graveyard- he says be don't want any more Dawson on hi* land, alive or dead.’’ "Abshlre la a fiend—or a fool—or both—" Dr Wharton began, but stopped short, staring at Mrs. Dawson. Bnc had risen, her y dry and burning. "We must go, Jim." she said In a high, harsh volte. "Dive me the baby! It Is so sound asleep M must be well. Bomethlng might catch th* hen. Il was little Jim’s, you know." th!* apologetically to the Whartons ”lt’a —tl’a the most we have got loft of Mm. Always, when he fell asleep on the floor, his pullet would go and perch on hi* shoulder ami *av quiet till, he waked. ’’ Jim took his wife m his arms, heedless of other eyes. "Ellen!" he said; "Ellen' Wife! You— you better stay her* with Mr*. Wharton. I'll go on—and see about things ’’ "You must stay!" Dr. Wharton said He saw that the poor creature was quite out of her mind Retst amt quiet might bring b#tk her reason. With Infinite sympa thetic pain* she was coaxed to swallow a sleeping draft, and sit sadly In the chimney corner, hugging the dead rhlld close to her breast. To humor and soothe her the hen was brought In, and set where she could touch the basket with her foot. Jimmy stood back of her, his big hands fondling her hair with clumsy tenderness Presently her head fell hack, her arm* relaxed, the little white face dropped so the waning daylight touched It Kllen dM not stir as Mrs. Wharton took It away: "You’ll let tw bury It,beside ottr Htthone," *he said to Jimmy. In a hushed whisper. He nodded apathetically. Ill* otto thought now was Ellen. He was of a alow, fond, devoted nature. Ho loved hts wife much ns he had loved h!a home He had never loved anybody elar. Hi* had chosen her In the cradle. himself a stout fellow & years old. Ho could not con ceive of life apart from her. yet tn the face of this awful fear, he almost prayed that she might never wake. "Lowd! Igxd! Take her rather 'n to sand her mad!" he supplicated. “1 haln’t got a home lo keep her In! I'd have to pul her away, where folks might treat her mean," Suddenly the thought came. If he could take her hnck among the old. familiar surrounding*, she would awake, herself. He looked out of the window. His wagon still stood beside the yard gale, the mules drooping their heads patiently and edg ing away from the wind. He was alone with Ellen—the Whartons had taken the baby away to the back of the house. He went with hasty quiet through Ihe door, out to the wagon and threw off the upper load Then he got a blanket or two, went back, muffled mien In them, bore her out dead asleep and laid her gently on the billowy feather beds. In a minute the wagon was out on the road, headed for Ihe old home, th* mule* gding at the swift, cheery Irot of Mast# chilled and eager for Ihe comfort of wonted stalls. Jimmy's mind was made up. He woukl break In the door, make a Are and leave Ellen beside it. while he went to apeak with Abehire. After all Ahshlre must be human. When he heard what had hap pened he would at least agree to let Ihe Dawsons stay the year through, working th# place on shares. Jimmy knew he could bes good tenant. Maybe by next Christmas Ellen would be strong again. It might be. also. Ahshlre would relent so fur as lo keep Ihem on until they themselves chose lo go He must have somebody to work Ihe land— He Was Holding Op HU Hand Imploring Silence. ' It wn* worthless without. "And I'll work for him bettcr'r ever I did for myself." Jimmy thought. "If only ha'll gimme leave to show." The house stood around the shoulder of the hill. *1 the head of Ihe valley through which Ihe mill stream ran. It was She fall In the stream lhat had templ'd Jimmy to hi# tear, tt wss tn plain sight from hi# house door, and he had thought ever since he wn# n mill boy. going ten miles with his grist, what a pity It was th* water power w* not harnessed and made to serve It# neigh bors. Ahshlrt's big new house stood some hundred yards higher up She vsHey The Dawson homestead, broad, low, ram bling. did shut It away from at least half the prospect down stream. The valley opened out In broad, smiling vis tas belaw the llttla roeky rise on which It was built By the road Jimmy was traveling you came almost upon the houae before you saw M. Tha suit had left tha valley, but THE MOKNING NEWS: SEN DAY, BEPTEMBEK 9, 1900. It was ttlU full of drear winter daylight. Jimmy ahul hts eye* a moment, recall ing how It must look. He knew evety aspect by heart He had so much as fifty miles away from li Hand In hand with Ellen he had roamed over every foot of It, bench and level and hill slope, or sat In hi* rough porch, watching It grow green In eprltvg sun shine. or laugh Into summer leafage, or rustle with tat harvests In the red and russet time. He had watched through the rain, and the flne weather, tn th# snow, at dawn, at dark. There was no need to open hta eyes until he came to the gate. The mulea would keep the road of their own mo llon-bealde* he could drive ther* If it were black dark and himself stone blind. They must be coming on to the big rock now The road made a sharp turn there —he drew a little on the near rein, and smiled to feel the wagon swing without the least Jar. Suddenly Ihe mule* snorlsd. stopping In their tracks. Jimmy was almo.-t pitched upon their backs A* he scram bled upright he heard a crackling, hiss ing nolee—a hot red flare struck him wth the sttng of a lash. He stared a minute, uncomprehending, then fell back, moaning and covering hts eysa. Fl.tme* Imped, licking, darting, from every window of his house. The roof was smoking furi ously In another minute the fire would break through. Men were Kindling other fires In hr outhouse*. Ab*hlre watch.vl them, hi* hands In his pocket*. a faint gratified smile about his Up* Th* mule* backed and trembled, and even reared a little, but Jimmy drove them relentlessly rorward. The toad wa so narrow he must drive Into the lot before he could turn. Abshlre stood at the gate of It. He started at sight of Jimmy, "Left anything?" he ask**l “I hope It was nothing of consequence You see. I’m about making a clean sweep.” IMllars of Hr# shot up from the bouse, pwtnllng all the dull valley mrlth their own scarlet glow. They were so fierce the wind scarce eould bend them even at the* tip, and make of them flaming banner* In the tdty. The house wa* tin der-try. and burned with a roar like that of o hurricane. It roused Ellen’s numbed senses. She struggled up to her knees, looking wildly about her, then with scream, leaped to the ground and darted toward the door, shrieking, "My baby’ My little baby! Have you reft ft there to burn?” Jimmy held her. struggling and panting. "The baby died—and she went out of her head." he said lo Atiehlre dully, "I fetched her hack—l thought ft might help her—and that maybe you—” "It wa* foolish, and perfectly nseteas.” <h#hlre said. Irritably. "See here. Daw m, can’t you understand! You—*hla house—was In my Way. 1 determined to buy and burn It as soon as I began building You con easily find a better one. you have,still some money." "Excuse my cornin' Mr. Ahshlre!" Jimmy said, lifting his wife Into the wagon n he spoke: "It was foolish. I ought to a-known you eould not be made to eee there's thing* in this world money can’t either buy. or do." The roof fell in as he spoke, sending shower* of sparks and flaming brands for around. One of the brands fell upon Dawson's hare hand, burning It slightly. Another struck Abshlre on the cheek, but glanced off harmless. Ellen had grown quiet, looking about her with frightened eye* She gaxod at Abshlre vacantly, thn said, as though speaking to *an thlng Unseen: "Tou **y he shall he burn ed yet—and with Are of hi* own mak ing Il wa* only a mad woman's raving Bur long after the wagon had rumbled out of sight, when all the fire* hud attnk to glimmering hank* of coals, Abshlre, walk ing home at the head of his hired men, shivered, as though stricken with deadly cold. Abehire was Just Jimmy Dawson's age 27—but he had made the greater part of hts Mg fortune. He was not a native. He had been drawn to the county by the mineral riches of a district lying some thing deeper In the hills He had bought ihe lands for a song, then set up mines and furnaces upon them. Mysterious transactions vaguely spoken of as deals, had taken them off his hands, leaving him a clear million, magnlAcenlly Invest ed. Then he had decided to go In for Ihe life of a country gent lemon He owned already all the land at Ihe head of the valley There he built a big gray stone house, sheltered, yet airy, made green lawn* about It. and act orchards and garden* ami vineyards. A ring fence ran round It all, hut he was gra. tons -any body was welcome to go through hi* gates and along hi* well-kept private roads Indeed, he was gracious to everybody, when once he was rid of the Dawaona. They did not prove troublesome—even ss a memory. He heard vaguely that they had gone away. Pome said Ellen hud come back to herself, others lhat she was still flighty. All agreed that Jimmy would take excellent care of her —and atnre she was not violent. It was well he had her to care for. Ahshlre listened with exactly the proper degree of sympathy. The speakers decided he could not have anything on ht* con science—he never made Ihe least effort to change the conversation. The truth was he was bent on proving to himself that he had not In lhat, n* In most other thing*, he had great success. Still, when he tsgan playing at poli ties, he kept rather out of sight. He made the party states, naming Judge*, congressmen and such like, and pulled the wire# whereby his puppets should put Them through Place honor* for himself he put aside. Th# leaders de cided In their Inner minds that tie was either very disinterested, or very am bitious. It might be he played for Ih* game, not the stakes. It might be also he aimed at the highest tilings, no did not wish to make himself cheap and hackneyed as a holder of those lens ex alted. He was a bachelor. Hl* mother and * bevy of orphan nieces kept house for him. It was open house the year round, and came easily to be he center of things social and things political In that part of the country. He had fine parties Indoors for his specially chosen friends, and barbecue*, lawn dances and so on. for his friends and th# county be side. Something momentous h*np n-I t.i one of the lawn dances. Ahshlre pro posed lo Margaret Wyeth. Bhe looked up at him. coloring faintly, and said wtlh the least hard breath: "I will marry you —when you are (lovemur of the stale." Then she ran away. Bhe was proud and ambitious —more ambitious for him than even for heraelf She wanted him to show the world what a man h* truly was. Then. too. she pine.) for distinction, ghe had been merely rich all her life All that was In August, a year before convention time. Kim ion came two months later, but the voting was a mere formality. Two wc-k* after Ihe lawn par ty the county paper farthest away from the. gray house, spent a column In proving Mr Ahshlre'* Alness lo be governor The next week, two other remote county wek- Wes, looking Into the future, raw Capl. Abehire the coming man A fortnight la ter various and sundry sheel*. made men tion of M*J Abehire. <-®l. Abahtre. Judge Ahshlre as among near political potentiali ties Followed an impressive sllenre. Ab shlre knew seed snust have lime to germi nate. He knew every move In the game, tt wae his cue to deny, to deprecate, even to refuse outright, uniH e very little while before the delegates were chooen. He played It almost 100 Ane, III* pre vious consistent aloofness misled A good * . ■ • . a*: he meant what he said. Two other possi ble governors did not believe, but chose gladly to pront by the faith of the rank and Me The convention opened with the prettiest possible three-cornered fight be fore It. No candidate had even a majority, though the only-oelglnal-He-ln-the-last ditch Abshlra men had a shade the best of It. _ - To make matters worse, lha two-thirds rule was ca!cvly less stirred and binding upon most of the delegates than tha coo Catarrh' lias become such a common disease that a person entirely free from this (UagustihK complaint is seldom met with It ia customary to speak of Catarrh ns nothing more seriotu than a bad cold, a simple inflammation of the nose and throat. It ia, ia fact, a complicated and very dangerous disease ; if not at first, it eery soon become# so The blood U quickly contaminated by the foul secretions, and the poison through the central circulation ia carried to all parts of the system. dalves, washes and sprays are unsatis factory and disappointing, because they do not reach the seat of the trouble 8. 8. S. does. 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If you hove Catarrh don’t wait until ft becomes deep-seated and chronic, but be gin at once the use of S. 8. S . and send for our book on Mood and akin diseases and write our physicians about your case. THE (WIFI SPECIFIC CO.. ATIANTA OA. etttutton of the I’rfted States. ’Tws true ■(was pity, and plfy ’twa*. twa* true Abshlre and hi* lieutenants had found that out. almost as soon as they awoke to a sense of the situation. Cautious Inquiry had convinced them It ws* Idle to name the word majority. The man who nam'd It would he hooted, and the man whose partisan he was understood lo be aoaured ly would suffer In votes. After the Slst ballot—the ballot* had not varied by ten either way—the convention adjottrnpl to meet again al 12 next day. It was after midnight. Two day* hsd de veloped no advantage for any man of the three. The assembly had been rea sonably temperate and equable until th* last three ballots. Edged words and wrangling then had showed that temper* lagan lo fray under the long strain. The lender* felt Ih* situa tion critical. Their majority In the state was so swollen and riotous It would not tnken much to rend the party tn twain. "Argument t* a waste of breath! We have proved that— flat.” Llskea. Ab shlre’s campaign manager, hurst out to the conclave In Ahshlre'* room, after adjournment. "It remain* to try- well, h—m—m. Influence We must somehow clinch things before this time to mor row morning —or have th* very deuce .and all to pny." "Tell u# n*ws, I.l*k—lf you can't keep silence," Mtirtln said, yawning as he spoke Martin presumed on the fad of heading the Ahshlre delegation Aral Instructed Idskct swore at him and added: "News! If It come* to new* of a split. I Judge you’ll stay home from Congress this rime " "Xdk*ly—and 1 should hat* like poison to mis* five thousand a year, ear earned by the sweat of my—ears.” Mar lin said, tranquilly; "hul somehow I rant be afraid, when Abshlre sits th*r* smiling like a graven Image, never opening hi* month." "Silence ' Is—golden," Ahshlre said. I-lsket whistled Martin laughed ex plosively: "Abshlre! Ahshlre!" h* said, "what an old magnat* 1* lost In you! Her* you have been pipe laying and w* swearing ourselves hoarse, trying to hammer reason Into unreasonable heads!" Abshlre laughed, a low, ehnehtlng laugh, but sakl with n deprecating wave of the hsnd.: "Really. 1 have said nothing Yon all know that trite old proverb. Of eourae I am In this light to stay-and wtn. I looked over the ground a* soon as 1 name. A deadlock or a disagreement would. It appeared to me lie equally detrimental o the party. Naturally, 1 have don* what I could to prevent either —" “How? How? How? That’s what 1 want to knnw." Martin broke In. Ids ket frowned. Abshlre yawned slightly, as he said: "Oo to bed! Tell all ih# boys lo do likewise—and lo be very wide awake toward 12 o'clock to-day." After he had dismissed them he sat by the open window, smoking and think ing deeply. Tt was well he bad held to his reserve* throughout the cam paign. Btildle work was needed—and l.lsket had no genius for subtlety. He was all for making deals with the Al lison men. Allison divided about equnllv with Abshlre the vote of the mountains and the midland Ahshlre knew that hl hope and hts fear lay In the Cummin following—the rough, hardy fellows from the river counties They were alrwat a unit—more, they had an open, rtiltd-llke enthusiasm for their man More strictly speaking It was enthusiasm for their lead er—that slouching fellow, Does, who had practically forced Cummin's candidacy. Abshlre had seen Doss only once and then half n block away. For many reasons he did not wish a nearer view. It would be ruinous to meet the man and talk with him faee to face. He bad found out. though, that Doss, era* desperately poor—that he had a sickly wife lo whom he was Mindly devoted ■lt was said he would give his soul for ♦he chance of curing her Hers was an obscure nervous malady, for which complete change of air, scene and en vironment might work wonders. Recall ing Margaret Wyeth. Abehtr* felt with in him eel fa thrill of virtuous sympathy, a* he reAected that he had made It possible for this unknown woman to regain health and happiness. sH# took Margared's ptelure from his breast porkel. and looked at It. hi* eyes suddenly soft. hc had made him her lover twice over by netting heraelf thus to spur hi* natural ambition. Intuitively he felt that love .was the root of her as piration. He pul out the lights, flung himself, full dressed upon the bed. and fell asleep, his last const lows thought. "Margaret trill be there lo nee my tri umph." •Margaret was among the very first who climbed into Ihe gallery. Bhe had heen (here before The place had Indeed a fascination for her. which had betrayed to her father. MaJ. Wyeth, the state of her heart. A veteran of many oonwi tlons. he preferred to sit at hi* daughter a elbow rather than mingle in Ihe turmoil of Ihe floor. H# knew many of th • delegate*, and entertained Margaret wish piquant scrap* of instde political history, though he respected her Innocent enthu siasm far too much to even wtllaste that there wa* ever crooked work "H—m—! He's new—the lank fellow In th* gray snit." h# bsd said upon Ihe firm dny aa Ihe river couhty mm tiled In. After a llttla he had added "New but a man lo be reckoned with. If yon notice, there ha. not been a minute since he took hi* seat that he has not bud a knot of men around him." Monraret Met looked, and shudder# 1 faintly. Bhe had caught the man's eye, suddenly lifted. Ills face was mild and melancholy, but tha eyes hod a gleam Uka tha lambent Maker# she had aaen upon molten sieel. when Abshlre played guhle to her through the hi* furnace. ”1 can't make the (cIU out," her father went on "Hi* face Is old-iO at the least—yet he has the walk and th* miiW’le of. ray 85, He'* the worst dressed man In the Cummin crowd, ye* their leader, for a!! that." This rough fellow came |n on th* minute a* the third day'* evasion opened By time the chair hid done rapping for or der, he was on hi* feet speaking, not flu ently. hut with n subtle feeling tn hkt words that ratight the assembly Instant ly. and made It hushed and breathless. '’Honorable Mister Chairman.” be be gun. ”1 take It thar ain't no man on this floor who felt that he come here free Hl* people had sent him to say who they wanted for governor—and he was hound lo say what they told him. aa long as Ihar was any chance o’ gelling II for 'em Now It has done been showed that all the people cnln’t have their wav-oee- Ing that some wants one man and some another, homebody hos got to knock un der A man. a delegate even, can only do What he can do!" "Right as a trivet"’ "flo It. Carter StHmtyf "A Daniel come to Judgement!" cam* approvingly from all about. The speaker clinched his hands hard on th* back of his chair. Margaret, watching breathlessly, saw that be had grown very while. It was the first time he had ad dressed the convention—*h* was sure It wa* the flret lime Ire had ever spoken to any considerable body of men He did not look at the chat!man, hut straight ahead A>f him Bhe sat almost opposite, so could see the lamt>eni lightning strong er than ever in ht* eym. "Such being the ca*e," h* went on. ’’Judge Cummin has asked me to with draw his nsme—" Cheer* from the Ahehlre men shook the roof. Allison’* supporter* *st ten seconds In stunned silence, then added their cheers lo the babel cl hurrahs.—The river men were hurrahing, too—not over hiartliv. btit enough to show they were not or*. Those nearest the speaker smil'd almost grimly. Me was holding up ht* hand im ploring silence When It came he went on, every- ward vibrant with tense emo tion: "Our candidate being out of It. these hoys here." looking around at the men clustered back of htm. "have wild they’d Vote os I might choose for ’em I choose—that they shall vote each min a coord In to hi* conscience. 1 am going to vote for Mr Ahehlre’’—again the eheer* tvsrs deafening and prolonged-"because I’U get $1.1)00 for my vote, and I hav* got a mighty pressln’ need o' money." Manned ellcmx". then pandemonium A few Ahshlre hotheads charged upon th* river section, but were flung hck whence they came The chairman splintered his g:i vet m vain poundings. In the midst of It two Allison men el mot* forced Ab shlrr* accuser upon the rostrum "Thla I* a thing that cannot tw allowed j- - ■*.■■!*.- i m i tTr .'jyni-' : MCII * <^RSET ! j HZ-Sy FOR'HEN x New Parisian Comet and Hell for Men. to aland upon anybody's bare word," one of them sold "Show your proof—lf proof yon have!" The accuser opened a worn and faded pockeiltook and took out a crisp and rust ling half sheet of paper. It was a note to the president of Abshlre'* city bonk, dated the day before, and running: "Dear Th watte- Pay to Ihe bearer, for my use. tt.ixn; this ahall be receipt for the same Oblige, yours hurriedly, "William Spencer Ahshlre " As It was read aloud, amid a storm of hisses, another paper came out of the old pocket berk -a somewhat bulky paper, worn with many handling*, and begin ning to yellow It* owner unfolded It. saying as he thrust II under the other trim's eye. "It's ten year* since J saw MS Ahshlre. but 1 couldn't doubt hfs name when I saw tt. I've had that by me all these years, to make me remember II?' Bklmmlng the maces ef legal vevMagv the Allison man saw- that he held a re ceipt In full from William Bpeneer Ab shlre for Ihe amount of a mortgage loan made to James Dawson Aw he read Jimmy murmured, a llttla opohigeti.-ally, "You see. sir. Daws I* Jtit part of my name—but nobody down our way ever etills me by the whole o' It," "I see—many things—the other man sold, under cover of the cries and curses and on fused angry voices. "Mr Chair man, I move an adjournment until 1 o'clock." "No. ao! Allison. Allison! Allison by ac clamation!" was shouted all about When the chairman put the met Inn there was a tempest of ayes. Jimmy Dawson alone, with folded arms, and eyes full of fierce satisfaction, said: "No! I vote for Ahshlre, I am bound to pay him what I owe." DANCER! It Is a bad custom to take Blue Pill if Calomel, and trust to clearing out of-tha system by Balt*. Held Ins Powders, ate. You will retain Ihe mercury In th* system notwithstanding, to plague you in after yrars. Another tt,Judicious system Is th# free use of carbonate# of Rods. Magnesia nod of Balt*, and ihe various mineral waters as laxatives These agents merely act as washes, ami In many case# cause tha for mation of i-oncrettons In the bladder, ure tera. kidneys, gall dud*, etc One of R#d way'i I'M# Is a# easily swallowed as Ih* most sgreesMe of these drastic saline washes, and, besides, twine free from their objections, no concretions, calculi, stone, or other foreign substances will occur while these PHI* are used. Dr. Hadwsy'a PHI* are Indeed the most important necessities of every family. Small—Elewaatly I'saleg-Bo taste or Smell. TIIF. ONI * PllJg Safe ta sir aa a Oearrsl Medicine. RADWAY'B PILLS are mad* from ex tracts—from new Ingredients—entirely vegetable, superior In every reaped to the ordinary powders and substances* of th# commonly advertise! Pills Two of RAD WAY'B PILLS will act quicker and with greater safety, ami with no pstn or grip- Ins than half a dosrn of Ihe common dtaa ll< pill*. Price JSc per box Bold by all drug gists, or sent by mall on receipt of price RADWAY * ro.. a Elm Btreet.New York Be sure to get "Railway's " OPIUM Morphine and Cocaine habits cured pain, tessly In to to 29 day*. The only guaran teed painless cure No cure no pay. Address, Pit. i. H. HEFLIN, ieeeust Orava, Cl a. A Tear for a Pain Only expectant mothers or those who h bom* i • children, know tha full meaning of the*# words. It? I Every woman should tell every other woman about / r' f* >?. *q * **moTHars interna th*t wo<uh.i imi- w Irrnt that dlammlm mil ***** Incident to childbirth. L C-JFjd There Is nothing Ilka It. r* 3*5 _ , JNQ. %. NOITON.frf Hirt#**, H. **Tb HudirMi't T a. Pjtf'AVkV 1 ratal l f*Aivts M.dh* % ptte-Mi. wife *•<* mH ism | Mbrc , n#Htei **4 tn Wttof rat ram** Maura*. X * >V % \' . bM ibdding bpictvaiaiy.Oibt oh $.• '•• * fkvM hybllUrtt Mmm wni t r*i4 w v ‘ JJtWmSffljiw ? ’AjL’ I irfipl 4 prfc®, B| ,m kt -dll rnttfla • MrithffftbsHdl. ton- /'fjl i' ’ m I? ttrYhimfr u for all i;*t of n? mi. w*itd (* r/fmSrarWft f | . . t fc4 JffMs f f.| • tddrtih. / ' 'urwL #Pi ft 'Ht if\ \ J TnrnatiifTt ii* itt't.t t.*Toi*.r ttiaara. *. .. 1 • THR CORSET W AI ST MAS. Cartstan tleherdashers Air* Heavily Patronised by Handles. Paris. Aug. 31 —lt Is strange, but none the less true, that Pari* ts no longer th* tiring room for women only. Husbands and brothers arc here shopping with an energy that formerly women only ex pended on th* business of getting ward robes The explanation l* not far to seek With highly commends We tact and clev erness the French manufacturer* hav* of kite year* been turning their •tterakm and machinery to the buslnes* of weav ing wonderful hosiery, handkerchief*, cravat *tlk -, underwear, linen and shirt ing* ttial could not fall to Interest and at tract the' masculine visitor and though Dondon amt New York taller* tnav he greatly in advance of their Parisian brothers, the Isrndon and New York dan dy* ttnd ft a pleasant thing to patrootae the Parisian haberdasher for *ll the small and dainty details of dr**#. Continental men hav# come to regard a yearly trip to Parts a* a sartorial neces sity and the <lerman, Kiuslsn and FtHMk military swell I# perhaps rcttpooslbl* for the brisk trade In men s corset* lht ha* of late year* grown up tn the gay chpß*' While the continental* Inspired th* ( timet traffic. It I* perfectly true that English men and American* have no small tnftu em-e In sweitfng th* volume of thla **•■ etnl trad* The American man nsed to scorn age and vanity ns It might concern the disintegration of ht* figure, hul of late years he ha* come to think that a Hdy round slim w-alst * 1* rummendnhle addition tn fils appearance nod the mtn? cor*el-maker In I'art* say* he has a boob ’full of waist measures and name* tbwt hall from the other side of th* Allantle "My wife Ir a well known rorsetbr* for ladles.” raid the stay-maker, "and when we compare notes I And that my pntronn or* as fearful of losing their good lines a* her*. and almost a* willing to struggle for a renewal of tha youhtful contour*. American men begin vrry early In life to thicken at the waidt. because their way of life, their rich (cod and their long of fice hr ore are conducive to a weakness of the abdominal muscle*. A young man one year out of Harvard found he could not button his frock coat aero** his middle, so evil had hern the effects of hi* office labors and he came to me for a com pressor. You *e# In collcga with hi* hard athletic training he had had a figure lo be proud of and be didn't want to lose 11. 'Fix me up until I con get the leisure lo take up golf and pOlo and then I will be all right.' he said "Well we Atted him to a coraet belt Tt consists of a broad belt made of three stout wide linen hands, whale-boned In frrnl. hack and at Ih* sides and lacing In the rear. With that we pulled him back Into the limit* of his college waist line and Ihe effect was magical "That is the stay that most of the Amer ican and Eng lino mm wear who come to us, while for adorn, tor continentals and British officer#, and for the young gentle men m one of vour Am-rleon military academic* We mak# a regular gentleman's stay, lacing Ilk* a woman's In the rear, extending high over the body, hack and front, and rurved lo compress Ih# waist An English colonel designed lids stay, an we call It the Carleton and I her# are more men who wear It under their evstl liwr dress than you know. "There Is a famous American actor who never goes on the slsge without hi# slays In order ta make hie Bond street frock and evening coals lit with exquisite nice ly. He used naturally to posaes* a lwi. ty-*btht-h*rh waist which for his well made shoulders was a wonder, and now that year* of fl**h have come upon htm h# depend* upon his strong close-lhced corset* to remedy the defect. "A pair of handsome evening slay* com as much a* eighteen or twenty dollar*, for It I* far more difficult to build a cor aet for a man than for a woman. The woman s stay Is an accepted fact, while with a man w# must shape M# figure on natural, youthful, slender line* and have th* observer not only doubtful, but realty Incredulous of Ihe presence of the corset. Then. too. woman's lungs and feminine philosophy and acceptance of the tram mels of clothe* are such that she I* not hard to At. while Ihe men and especially Ihe Americana! (here Ih# Frenchman threw up hi* hands wl'h .i gesture of de spair!. "well, they want a miracle, with no *uffertrg and nslputlon of comfort to pay. Htill I am willing lo confess the men are learning Ihe force of our old French saying that on* must suffer to be beautiful, and I make left pair of stays today where formerly 1 made tsv." Beau Bri—Wt UPPSMN BROS.. Proprle'Ofg, Jhugglst*. Uppman's Wet*. MVABHkH. C Old NrwffPArEßfi. nius cents, at Dualnem Offlta Morning News, i. t. slofhin m a n mr nttoil scnfih ia:. For I*l* of Hope. Thunderbolt. Mcntggm sry, t’stlle Park snd West End. Subject to change, without not i-i i "i li"'-) iNh hath PTREft. t-> cllj for 1 of II 1.1 isi of Hops. F> am from Tenth | kID am for Tenth 10 IS am from Tenth ;1015 am for Tenth 11 80 am from Tenth 11 so am for Tenth 180 pm from Tenth 1W pm for Tenth 100 pm from Tenth j 100 pm for Tenth SSh pm from Tenth 1210 pm for Tenth sBo pm from Tenth | Ihtpm for Tenth 388 pm from Tenth | 180 pm for T- nth 480 pm from Tenth I •*> pm for Tenth 480 pm from Tenth 4 80pm for Tenth son pm from Tenth 580 pm for Tenth SlO pm from Tenth 580 pm for Tenth *n pm from Tenth | 180 pm for Tenfh *Bu pm from Tenth ,SBB pm far Tenth 7UP pm from Tveth 7no pm for Tenth 7 Bt> pm from Tenth *m pm for Tenth 880 pm from Tenth 800 pm for Tn4h fli pm from Tenfh ilottipm for Tenth WBO pm from Tenth ill Wpm for Tenth IBDK OF HOI K AND BOUTON ST.. VIA THUNDERBOLT. I,v city for 1 of H ll.v. I. of H. for j$ at via Thun A C, Turk vis Thun A C. Park 880 am from Bolton H 0 am IB# pm from Bolton : 380 pm for Bolton 880 pm from Holton 410 pm for Bolton 480 pm from llokon SBO pm for Bolton SSo pm from Bofton 480 pm for Rotten SBO pm from Bolton 7Sof>m for Bolton 788 pm from Bolton 888 pm for Bolton MONTGOMERY l,v city for Mont* ry; l.v Montgomery. am from Tenth s*. am for Tenth I*n pm from Tenth 12 15 pm for Tenth SBO pm from Tenth 3b) pm for Tenth 5m pm from Tent h 5 4f. pm for TeMAt Tin NDKRBOLf ANI* IBI.E OF HOffe Commencing at 8:80 p. m ear lea vs* Thundcrhott every hour for I*l# of Hapa tmth s*Bn p. m. Commencing at 8:88 p. m. ear leave# Isle of Hope every hour for Thunder bolt until 8:88 p m ■ nft’NDEBBOIjT ISHVn,!. Commi*firing at 700 a. m etir leaves Bolton street Junction every 80 minutes until 2# p m.. after which tlm# ear leaves every 10 minute# Commonetn* m 7:80 a. m ear leave* Thunderbolt for Bolton street Junction every 88 minutes until 325 p. m., after which Hm car leaves every 10 minute* The to minute schedule is mslntalnrd aa long a* travel warrant* It ~ WERT END. ' Th* first ear leaves for West End St 789 a m snd every 48 minutes thereafter until lino a. m, after which a car run* In each direction every 88 mlnuta* until midnight H M. LOFTON. Oen Mgr. mirnirn 125 Cowess si. west. We handle the Yale & Towne Manufactur ing Company’s line of Builders’ Hardware. See these goods and get prices before plac ing your order else where. a a Nut, r. r muase, free Ha Ok Vio* Presides*. BaagV Bum. Jr Bee r and Tree*. NEAL-MILLARD CO Builders’ Material, Sasbt Doors and Blinds, Paiats, Oils, Varnishes, Class and Brushes, BUILDERS’ HARDWARE. Lime, Cement and Plaster, •ay ss* WkMskss Street*. A FINE ASSORTMENT Brushes, Strops, Etc, ENrm LOVELL’S SONS 1 lit DrM(l nm. SEED RYE. (tSOftdtA SEED RVE. •OUTHBBK *r. KD HVB. TEXAS REt> R- P, OATB. HAT, OR AIN. run-R, FEED. Bruits ani* vsoerAttuES, CHBBSfi. BEANS. PSAS. W. D. SIMKINS & CO. 15