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the New tariff. A BIG UNDERTAKING. Peaceful Slumber Unknown. DREADFUL DREAMS DRIVE SLEEP AWAY. SLVAbfeNTrAHfe BAY Hindoostan had a monopoly on oranges till the fruit spread to the other parts of the world.

The crusaders brought back oranges, but the ancients around the Mediterranean were so unhappy as to die without tasting this delicious fruit. We are all eating the descendants of one tree if what the Portugese claim is true. They declare the progenitor of all American and European oranges was a singlo oriental tree transplanted to Libson and still living in the last generation. The Baltic Canal, 87 miles long, has been successfully lighted by electric arc lamps. The line is divided into four sections, fed by two sections.

Each section supplies 250 lamps of 25 candle power, taking 25 volts at the terminals of each lamp, or a total pressure of 7500 volts for the whole circuit. Millions of Cook Books Given Away. There is one large house In thU country that has taken business cn iti turn and means to ride in on the rising tide. Alive to the signs of better timet and to the interests of the people, they are now circulating among families a valuable publication known as Thi Charles A. Vogeleb Compaxt's Cook erv Book and Book of Comfort xsra Health, which contains very choice information on the subject of cooking.

Receipts for the preparation of good, substantial and dainty dishes, prepared especially for it by a leading authority, will be found in its pages. Much car has been taken in its preparation and distribution, with the hope that it will be just the thing needed for housekeepers, and just the thing needed also for the care of the health and household. As a Cookery Book it will be invaluable to keep on hand for reference-It also contains full information in regard to the great remedies of this house, which provide against bodily ailments, especially the Master Cur for Pains and Aches, SL Jacobs OiL To give some idea of the labor and expense of this output, more than 20fl tons of paper have been used in ita publication, and at the rate of 100,000 a day; it has taken several months foi the issue. The book can be had of druggists everywhere, or by enclosing a 2c stamp to The Charles A. Vogeler Company, Baltimore, Md.

Queen Victoria has been substituted for Sardanapalus in the new ballot that Sir Arthur Sullivan is composing for the London Albania. The ballo. will be descriptive of the longest reig-n on record. SlOO Reward, 8100. The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease tnat science lias been able to cur In all ita stages, and that is catarrh.

Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure now known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a constitutional disease, requires a constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, actir.a; directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system, thereby destroying the foundation of the disease, and giving the patient strength by building up th constitution and assisting nature In doing its work. The proprietors have bo much faith in Its curative powers that they offer One Hundred Dollars for any cas that it fails to cure. Send for list of testimonials.

Address. F. J. CHENEY Toledo, O. Sold by drupgists.

75c. Hall's Family Pills are the best. Vibrating in Tnnefnl Accord. Like the Strings of a musical instrument, the nervous system in health harmonizes pleasantly with the other parts of the system. But weakened or overwrought, it jangles most inharmonioas-ly.

Quiet and invigorate it with the great tranquilizer and tonic, Hostetter'a Stomach Bitters, which promotes digestion, bilious secretion and a regular action of the bowels, and prevents malarial, rheumatic and kidney complaints. Chinese laundry men command higher prices than laundresses of other na-alities. A Chinaman earns ordinarily from SS to 15 a week and his board and lodging. Sharks grow a new row teeth for every year of their age until they reach maturity. The jaws of a full grown specimen can be extended about 18 inches.

The Kiel canal is lighted over its G2 miles by electricity, and is the longest distance in the world lighted continuously in that way. There are 5000 poles. NO-TO-BAC FOR FIFTY CENTS. Over 401.000 cured. Why not let No-To-Pac regulate or remove your desire for tobacco.

faves money, makes health and manhool. Cure guaranteed, 50c and druggists, The tack machines used by the Atlas Tack Company produce two hundred and seventy-five finished tacks per minute. It is estimated by competent authorities that 620,000 tons of water tumble over Niagara every minute, night and day. Doubles the Pleasure of a Drive, A fine carriage doubles the pleasure of driving. Intending buyers of carriages or harness can save dollars by sending for the larRe.

free catalogue of the Elkhart Carriage and Harness Mfg. Elkhart, Iud. There are 22 allusions in the Bible to the east wind, 19 of them being of a disaparaging character. The Pike, says Bacon, is the only fish that has been known to live over 200 years. Mrt.

fVinsIow'a Soottalnjj Syrop For children toethinfr.softens the gums.reduces inflam ation, allays pain, cures wind colic. 2 cents a botUe, Gage county, Nebraska, claims a woman who can husk 75 bushels of corn a day. The Vermont Legislature passed a bill prohibiting Sunday excursion trains. We will forfeit $1,000 if any of our published testimonials are proven to be not genuine. The Piso Co.

Warren, Pa. Theater parties of women without escorts are common in New York. Modjeska has 600 bee hiyes on her California ranch. When billious or costive, eat a Cascaret, iandy cathartic, cure guaranteed, 10c, 25c. Michigan has a state mining school.

England has American railwav cars. New York spends 56,000,000 a yeai for amusements. FITS stopped free and permanently enred. No fits fter tirot Uay dm of Ir. ICLine'a Great Kmtrrm Itestorer.

Kree 2 trial bottle and treatise. beud to Dr. Kukk. 931 Arch bU Philadelphia. T.

Washington has an arid land commissioner. Cascaeets stimulate liver, kidneys and bowels. Kever sicken, weaken or gripe, 10a Denmark has women sailors. W. N.

U. 7. 18T. When answering; advertisements please mention this paper. Why sometimes it amuses.

Naked Pills jo are fit only, for naked sav- ages. Clothes are the marks Jj of civilization in pills as well Ji as people. A good coat does i not make a good pill, any more than good clothes make a good I Y) man. But as sure as you'd j' look on a clothesless man ui j. mad one, you may look on a coatless pill as a bad one.

5 After fifty years of test no pills stand higher than AYER'S Cathartic Pills SUGAR COATED. McKinley Rates Restored to Agricultural Products. Washington, Feb. 6. Yesterday's meeting of the Republican members of the ways and means committee was the most important of the series, for it resulted in the framing of the agricultural schedule, which was made a re-enactment of the McKinley law with few changes, except on unimportant products.

The most important step in connection with this schedule was the establishment of rates of 5 a head on cattle more than one year old, and of 25 per cent ad valorem on cattle valued at more than 820 a head. The McKinley rates on other live stock, in eluding the rate of $2 on cattle of one year old or less are restored. The Wilson rates were 20 per cent ad valorem on live stock, and, while the new duty of 55 on cattle does not reach the McKinley figure of 10 on cattle more than 1 -ear old, it is expected that, with the ad valorem on the more valuable grades, it will prove adequate to shut out Mexican cattle. It is against the Mexican stock that the increase is particularly directed on the representations of western cattlemen that their business had been ruined by the importations from Mexico under the Wilson law, which amounted to more than 200,000 head. Much interest centered upon barley, which the committee puts back to the McKinley duty of 30 cents a bushel, because the farmers contended that the Wilson tariff had turned over the market into the hands of the Canadians, while the malsters, who have been using Canadian barley, have made a hard fight against any increase.

The McKinley rates have been restored on fruits and berries, mainly for the benefit of the fruit growers of the Pacific coast. The fruit exchanges of the country had prepared a schedule of rates below the McKinley bill, although above the Wilson rates, but they did not succeed in having their schedule adopted. Among the products in the agricultural schedule which are returned to the McKinley rates are breadstnff and rice, dairy products, meats and meat products, egsrs and poultry, vegetables and salt. The demand of the farmers for the McKinley rate of 4 a ton on hay, instead of the Wilson rate of S2, was granted. Chicory is placed at 1 cent a pound in accordance with the requests of the growers in the Central states, who believe they can capture the home market with protection.

Hates on oranges have not been fixed yet, but the committee has decided to change the classification and make the rates higher than those of the McKinley bill, for the benefit of the California interests. The committee has decided to retain the Wilson rates on wines and spirits throughout the wine and spitit schedules. This schedule of the Wilson act was generally higher in its rates than in the McKinley act. Throughout the work the policy of establishing specific rates wherever it was found possible to substitute them for ad valorem has been followed. The interests of farmers, it is stated, have been particularly observed in fixing duties for the purpose of protection.

On the other hand, the increase on manufactured goods, most of them, have been on higher grades of goods and those which are considered luxuries. WASHBURN TO EDGERTON. Noted Populists Differ as to the Best Line of Party Policy. Boston, Feb. 8.

George F. Washburn, chairman of the executive committee of the People's party of Massachusetts, who recently issued a man ifesto calling for the People's party to separate the People's party from the Democrats, and suggested the calling of a convention, which appeal was replied to by Hon. J. A. Edgerton, secretary of the national committee of the People's party, has made the following reply to Mr.

Edgerton's recent letter: I do not favor the abandonment of silver or any change in the platform and my appeal must not be construed to mean that you do not discriminate between planks. We made a subordinate plank the issue, trusting to win by aid of the alliance. In the order of the platform scientific money comes first. We forced the Democrats to chammon silver, but we stand ready to defend it when necessary. I have received hundreds of letters, coming from nearly every state in the union, representing every faction of the party and including nearly every leader, and the unanimous sentiment sustains my appeal.

Your letter bears the distinction of being the only one opposed and the Rockj' Mountain News the only paper, so far as received. You favor a plan that would actionize the party and divide the West and South. I favor a plan that would unite all factions and lead to victory. You favor a plan that would suppress our main planks. I favor a plan that would open the discussion when the people want to talk about them.

You favor a plan that would add.thousands of adherents to another party. I favor one that would add thousands of adherents to ovir own. Fusion for a campaign, may be politic, but permanent fusion on identical issues means absorption and disintegration for our party. Disintegration from the same cause killed the Greenback party. Why should we invite a similar fate? You favor an issue that may be abandoned by the Democrats through some form of compromise.

I favor a plan that would not be affected by these changes. You favor a plan that would wreck and ruin all the reform papers of the land. I favor a plan that would preserve and prosper them. Should other questions absorb the attention of the people, or should any international agreement be reached by the Republicans, it would leave the silver forces stranded without an issue and afford them an excuse for backsliding. The issues I favor are the ones that wiil command the attention of the people during the four years.

Why attempt to force one issue when the people will discuss the otTS? Now a Pet' Swindler. New York, Feb. 8. Baron de Toulouse, who came to this country some time ago, saying he was a representative of the Siberian-Oriental railway, of which the czar is president, has been again arrested. The complainant is Miss Alice Masoj, who charges the baron with swindling her out of S30 on November 12.

More Territorial Judge anted. St. Louis, Feb, 6. St. Louis jobbers, as well as those of Kansas City, will send a memorial to Washington asking that Senator Harris' bill providing for' the appointment of two additional judges in the Indict territory circuit be passed at this session of congress.

A heroic effort will be made to have tha bill considered during the short THE SALVATION ARMY'S LATEST SCHEME. Spacious Tenement Houses and Temporary Work for Idle Men Chicago to Be the Center of a (ireat Social Settlement Colony. Chicaoo, Feb. 8. According' to Colonel Brewer of the Salvation army, Chicago is to be made the center of a system of social settlements similar to that in operation in England, made famous by General William Booth of the Salvation army.

Arrangements have been made whereby General Booth is to come to Chicago and personally direct the inauguration of the movement. lie will apply the practical knowledge of such work gleaned In the principal cities of the world to the establishment of a system of city colonies, where at least temporary work will be offered every idle man in the city, will place spacious tenement houses under the supervision of the army, and later will extend the movement to form colonies within a radius of several hundred miles from the city. Eventually the movement will include the whole country. The methods will be the same as those cmploj-ed in London. In that metropolis the .1.000 men sheltered in one year cost but all but SI 000 of this amount was contributed by the persons helped.

It has been estimated that the expense to the city for the same work would have been with no return in work. Colonel Brewer stated that 'the first effort would be to enlarge the Prison Gate home, the Albemarle Food and Relief depot and other relief institutions in this city. Others will be opened and factories, where the work done will not interfere with the product of outside labor, will be established. "The next and most important step," said Colonel Brewer, "will be to secure several large tracts of land in the neighborhood of Chicago- As far as possible the tide of immigration is to be turned backward from the city to the land and the congestion in the crowded districts relieved. On these farms, under supervision of army officers, the men will be taxight to support themselves.

They will thus eease to be dependent on charity and instead will become producers and consumers' MILLIONAIRE A CAPTIVE. Mr. Richardson of New Hampshire at the Mercy of an Unscrupulous Pair. Feb. 6.

Some time ago a couple who announced themselves as Mr. and, Mrs. Stanton of New York came here with a slight, dark man about 50 years old, who was never allowed to leave the fashionable house where they lived, or to see any one who by chance should call. This man was said to be a Mr. Iliehardson, an American millionaire from New Hampshire.

It is also said that he was kept under the influence of a powerful drug and in this semi-rational condition his captors forced him to write checks for large sunio of money. An agent of the millionaire came hero abou' two weeks ago to find him. The police say this agent saw the Stantons, but, they had their victim hidden, and told the. agent they knew nothing about him. The trio disappeared a few hours before the detectives finally decided to search the house.

The detectives are divided in their opinion ai to where the mysterious trio have gone. The police say Stanton's real name is Frazer, and that he is an ex-Methodist preacher, formerly known in New York conference. UNDERWEAR COMBINE. Manufacturers of Hosiery anil Knit Goods Form a Sort of Trust. New Yokk, Feb.

(. At a meeting of the hosiery and underwear manufacturers here to-day, a permanent association was formed for the purpose of looking after the knit goods trade of the United States. A. B. Valentine of Burlington, was elected president and among the vice presidents chosen were J.

Y. Hanson of Macon, .1. II. Colvin of Ypsilanti, and Theodore Frelinghuysen of New York. The executive committee includes- XV.

G. Maxwell of Koanoke Kapids, N. A. S. Kuhl of Rockford, Owen Osborn of and Charles Chipinan of Easton, Pa.

VENEZUELAN PRESENTS. A Rosette and a Cane of Rare Woods Given to the President. Washington', Feb. 8. Senor An-drade, accompanied by Secretary Ol-noy, called on President Cleveland yesterday bearing a testimonial from the governor and people of the state of Zutia, Venezuela, in recognition of the good offices of the President and Secretary Olney in the matter of the boundary dispute.

The testimonial consisted of a rosette, composed of 172 samples of rare woods from the forests of Zutia, and a cane made of 135 pieces of these roots. To Keep From St. Louis, Feb. 8. John Giesen, a German, took a horse away from a crowd of boj-s last evening and drove it to his hut, and killed it food.

Giesen was out of work nnd with his wife and four children was starving to death. The horse belonged to a coal dealer, who allowed it to roam at large lecause it was lame. Some boys were driving it around in the snow when Giesen seized the horse. The boys who followed Giesen saw him kill the animal, cut off the hind quarter and start to roast it. Giesen told the policeman when arrested that he and his family had eaten nothing for three days.

They had not eaten meat for months. "Hob" Kneebs Convicted. Bekmn, Feb. 8. Robert Kneebs, the American horseman charged with entering the trotting mare Bethel in races on the German tracks under the name of Nellie Kneebs, was yesterday sentenced to nine months' imprisonment, and ordered to pay a fine of 1,000 marks.

He will also be deprived of all civil rights for two years. Seven months' allowance for the time which he has already served in prison will be deducted from the sentence, so that in reality Kneebs has only two months yet to serve. The court ordered the forfeiture of the mare Nellie Kneebs. Kneebs reserved the right to appeal. Florence Olythe's Husband Dead.

Portland, Feb. 8. F. W. Hinckley, husband of Florence Blythe-llinckley, the successful litigant in the famous will contest for Thomas IUytlie's millions, died early this morning in his rooms at the Portland hotel of appendicitis and its attending necessary1 operation.

For Eight Tears a Lady of Emporia, Kansas, Suffers Unspeakable Agony She Relates Her Experience. From the Republican, Emporia, Kan. Mrs. Jennie Carlow resides at 713 Merchant Street, Emporia, Kansas, and is tLe wife of W. R.

Carlow, proprietor of the Car-low Wagon and Blacksmith Works, who is so well known as the and as one of the most active members in Lodge 15, O. O. of Emporia. The distress of a condition of chronic sleeplessness is so terrible. Mrs.

Carlow's sufferings from it so well known, our readers we feel sure, will weleome the good news that she is now well, and will be glad to know how the cure was accomplished. Mrs. Carlow's statement is hereto appended in narrative form: "For many years I was a confirmed invalid, suffering constant pains through my breast and back, cf the most excruciating type, rendering me absolutely helpless. I was unable to rise up or lie down without assistance, and wa3 subject on the least ex-tion to flutterings of the heart and such shortness of breath, or dyspnoea, that I often thought I was dying. Peaceful slumber was unknown to me.

I would fall into a doze only to be awakened by the most horrible dreams, of too frightful a character to describe, and in the morning instead of being refreshed and rested, I would be utterly exhausted. I was attended at various times by every physician in the city, but none of them cou.d do me any good, though I spent hundreds of dollars in my quest of health. About three months ago. Mrs. Elizabeth Drake, whom you perhaps know, spoke to my husband advising a ti 'al of Dr.

Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People, stating that they had permanently cured her after years of suffering from milk leg, and he at once procured a supply for me. By the time I had taken two boxes according to directions, for the first time in two years, I was able to enjoy peaceful and restful sleep, and as I continued to take them my health improved, so that now while using the fifth box, I feel quite recovered and my health is entirely restored. I still take two pills every night Just before retiring, and wako up every morning perfectly happy. 1 advise every one whom I hear complaining to try Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, for although I recognize the fact that medicine that will cure one, will not another, still as most diseases are due to a bad condition of the blood.

Pink Pills in such cases will prove a certain cure. It is but natural that I should have the most unbounded faith in them. I am only too glad to bear testimony through your paper as to what they have done for me." The above is an exact report of Mrs. Car-low's statement. Charles Hakris, (Signed) Reporter, Emporia, Kan.

Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale Peopla are now given to the public as an unfailing blood builder and nerve restorer, curing all forms of weakness arising from a watery condition of the blood or shattered nerves. The pills are sold by all dealers, or will be sent postpaid on receipt of price, 50 cents a box, or six boxes for $2.50 (they are never sold in bulk or by the 103), by addressing Dr. Williams' Medicine Schnectady, N. Y.

The venerable fig was one of the earliest fruits to be cultivated, and its praises are sung in poetry, history and romance, while the Bible frequently alludes to it. It wag a principal food of the Greeks, and is now cultivated in all the countries around the Mediterranean, though our supply comes fiom Asia Minor, southern France and Spain. A novel safety lamp now used in German mines can be lighted without being opened. It is not closed in any special way, like other lamps, but its wick is provided with a cap that is forced down by a spring instantly extinguishing the light if the lamp is opened. 264 BUS.

CORN PER ACRE. It's marvelous how we progress! You can make money at 10 cents a bushel when you get 264 bushels corn, 230 bushels oats, 173 bushels barley, 1,600 bushels potatoes per acre! Salzer's creations in farm seeds produce. 810.00 WORTH FOR lO CENTS Just Send This Notice and lO Cent to the John A. Salzer Seed La Crosse, and get 12 farm seed samples, worth $10, to get a start, w.n. "Fire ornament" as a term of abuse has proved deadly to a 16 year-old girl at Hackney, who drowned herself in the River Lea, because the bojrs hooted at her, applying that description to her.

Persia and Anatolia provided the original quinces, the Greeks took to their culture, and they may be seen on the walls of Pompeii. liegeman's Camphor Ico with Olyrerine. The original find ntty genuine. Cure Chapped Hands and Face, Cold tc. C.

M. Clark N. llaveu, Ct. American ice cream is advejtised in the City of Mexico at "only one dollar for an American quart. Lawrence Barrett's widow lives in London.

Down Brakes, and Reverse When a train is discovered rushing on to a irigmiui collision, it is a thrilling instant as the engineer whistles t5 Down and reverses his lever. Brakes alone are not enough the whole propelling pow er ct tne en-gine must be made to work in the opposite direction. That is how it is sometimes with disease. There are timea urVi en the system is flying along the track of disease at such a frightful pace that no ordinary methods will prevent disaster. There are Elenty of medicines which act merely as rakes to "slow up" the disease and put off disaster for a little while; but that isn't enough.

What is needed is a medicine that win instantly reverse the entire wasting, degenerating process. When people are losing flesh and strength and vitality, with the life oozing out of them day after day, they need Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery, which acts directly upon the vital forces, completely transforms the entire nutritive organism and totally reverses the wasting, debilitating process Which i at the root of all diseases. It enables the digestive and blood-making organs to supply the circulation with an abundance of pure, healthy, red blood. It stops the wasting- of tissue, builds tip solid muscular flesh and healthy nerve-force.

Miss Mary Whitman, of East Dickinson, Franklin writes For nearly ten months I have had a bad cough, and instead of retting better, it grew worse, until I was advused by friend to try Dr. Pierce's Gotten Medical Discovers. hesitated at first, for it seemed me nothing would give relief orjlr death. My parents were anxious about me. and I was said to have cpnsjimption.

I tried your medicines, and before I had taken many rjerse there was arrest changre. When the second bottle was empty Issdiw couch and was a tt deal stronger. I Hv rs i vimvmHvvnitHHTvf Whoever chooses to use St. Jacobs OH for fj ztt urzs or jarttisesj of St. Valentine, hoped would ever more be his guiding spirit.

E. Ye Olden Valentine. HE fingers of TIme have encrusted with gold The page that I cherish for memories old; I gaze at the couplet that's homely and true. "The rose it is red and the violet blue;" And here is the heart that was lovingly drawn By one sleeping now at the gates of the Dawn, And oft as I linger o'er picture and line A tear lies empearled on the old valentine. 'Twas wafted to me in the long, long ago, When the world sweetly slept 'neath its blanket of snow, When high on the mountains and deep in the dells We heard the clear notes of the silvery bells; But fairer to me than the feathery fleece, As white as the wings of the Angel of Peace That covered the earth in the winter sunshine, Wa3 the once snowy page of my old valentine.

A thousand have smiled at Its quaint little rhyme Who know not the story that clings to its time; It brought to my cheeks then a healthier hue. Love's roses are red and its violeta blue As red as the cheeks of the sender, I know, As blue as the eyes that I loved long ago; No wonder I cherish in shadow and shine The fast fading truths of the old valentine. Whenever this page and its rhyming 1 see The portals of Memory open for me, And back from the years with theii shrouding of snow Come a hand and a voice that I missed long ago; And over a picture that hangs on my wall Rays that are golden a moment doth fall, And beautiful grows in the winter sunshine The wee, crumpled page of the old valentine. From Sentimental Sally "Sentimental Sally" sends us the following valuable and seasonable contribution: He who would have me for his valentine Must have no other love than mine; I cannot share his heart, I will not have a part, I must have all, or none. For he my heart has won, And there he reigns alone, A monarch bn his throne.

Her Valentine. The postman pulled the bell "with vim. The watching maid blushed rosy red; "It's a valentine from him!" With dimpling smiles she softly said. She tore the envelope in twain, Her eyes the missive seized upon; Her face grew drawn with pallid pain Twas nothing but a tradesman's dun! Susie M. Best.

Overexertion, on the football field caused the death of Joseph Kapp of Brooklyn, N. Y. I ROMANCE OF A VALENTINE. It was the fourteenth day of February and the lovely Estelle was sitting in her luxurious boudoir when a package was handed her which she opened and exclaimed with innocent delight: "It is a valentine!" How exquisite this wreath of hand-painted roses delicately tinted, as all tea-roses should be. And this little pocket! What can it contain? A ring.

Amazing. And written on it this motto: "Think of me." There are no Cupids, with bows and arrows, and lines, rhyming with love and dove, charms and alarms, rain and pain, etc. but a neat blank verse expressing regard and admiration, and conveying no hint of the donor or other information than that he was one unknown to her, who for the loves of art and travel, which had always ruled his life, would soon be far away on the other side of the blue waves. Estelle took the ring from its hiding place and slipped it on her 'finger, curious to know if it then her maiden "HER ARTIST FRIEND. modesty suggested that she ought not to accept and wear a gift from an unknown giver and she withdrew it quickly from her finger and determined to return it.

But now the question arose: to whom? where? After reasoning with her conscience she again put in on her finger. It fitted nicely and preduced a mysterious presentiment of coming bliss, and a sensation about her heart which she" had never known before painted her cheek with the lovely color of the tea roses on her valentine, and she said emphatically, "He shall be my ideal; I can construct him as I like I shall make him as handsome as Apollo and as gifted; and who can chide me if I become a hero worshiper?" And he only ask3 that I think of him. Her soliloquy and state curiosity were interrupted by a friend and comrade of the art school, Mrs. Bird, a widow lady of wealth and an enthus-ist about art, like herself, whose errand was to propose a journey together to the cradle of art. Estelle was only too glad to accompany her and accepted without hesitation.

A feeling she could not account for prevented her from showing her valentine or speaking until Ions afterward of the little talisman that now seemed almost like a betrothal ring. The congenial friends made their trip a series of delights and would have regretted reaching their destination so soon if they had not been just in time for one of those annual fetes which the American club of artists delight to celebrate. As they were speeding along on their pleasure jaunt seated on the deck of a comfortable beat watching their companions and enjoying a delicious breeze and the varied scenery mountain, crag, castle, monastery and dark forest Estelle observed a picturesque looking young man, artistically dressed, as suited the occasion, gazing with a surprised and earnest look at herself. His rich brown hair and glowing eyes cf the same color reminded her of her ideal, the beautiful hero whom her imagination had created, and she felt the finger encircled by the mysterious ring give a little throb in unison with her heart beat. At this moment to her surprise her friend Mrs.

Bird gave him a smile and nod of recognition and before she had time to recover from her confusion of mind, Mrs. Bird requested permission to introduce her artist friend, Henry St. Leger, and she very soon found herself absorbed in conversation with the most attractive man she had ever met. But It was long after this, on another St. Valentine day, when the artist friends homeward bound, sat gazing down into the dark blue waves that she laughingly gave an account of her first valentine and the little circlet of gold, which she observed, but did not know why, attracted his attention and excited his curiosity, that he ventured to tell of his long years study and self-denial, whilst at the same time he had followed and worshiped a star which he thought too far above to be but which he now.

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