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I ernesa turned coldly away; nan to hear tha children wonder "why Unda ONLY ONE MOTHER. loving eon to comfort your raotfcerT-louknowalL she said mrsA t- Alfred never came to see them any more;" but the routine of duty filled each day and there was a certainty 'l do." he arnwerWl n-- 1 oinji CbUVX knowing your noble reason for one refusing me, I am here to ask auain soon 01 release irom tne monotony of teaching. and toot the old lady's hand in hii, I turned away. "Yes, gentlemen, I have been in many railway accidents, but I have always considered that the closest shave I ever had. "What was the blunder?" "I don't know.

Markley made light of it ever afterward, and kept it a secret, but no man on the, line stood so high in the confidence of the company after that as he. By his coolness and nerve he had saved a hundred lives. tne question I asked one summer October was midway on her colder. tinted journey across the earth when Mrs. Evans was called upon to find a morning not long ago.

Even as loved you then, I love you now. Hester, will you be my wife!" new governess, in vain sne scolded And she. lovinu him tndlv wit v. and even wept. Hester pave no rea THE WONDERFUL VEAVER.

There a wondcr.nl wearer High up in the air. And eaves a vhite mantel For cold earth to wear. With the wind for his shuttle. The cloud for his loom. Hnt he wen res.

how he weaves. In the light, in the glooml Oh. with finst of laces He deck hufh and tree! On the bare, flinty meadows A eorer lays he; Then a quaint cap he places On pillar an post. And he changes the pump To a grim, silent ghost I But this wearer Grows weary at last; And the shuttle lie idle That once flew so last. Then the sun peeps abroad On the work thnt is done; And he smiles: "I'll unravel It all, just for fun!" Independent.

the secret of her life revealed, tha son, but she nust go. "We are going very fast, Markley. He did not answer. His eyes were fixed on the steam engine, his mouth close shut. "More coal," he said; I threw it in.

The fields and houses began to fly East half seen. We were nearing umfreme, the next station. Mark-ley eye went from the gage to the face of the timepiece and back. He moved like an automaton. There was little more meaning in his face.

"More!" he said, without turning his eve. I took up the shovel hesitated. "Markley, do you know that you are going at the rate of sixty miles an hour?" "Coal!" I was alarmed at the stern, cold rigidity of the man. His pallor was becoming frightful. I threw on the coal.

At least we must stop at Dum-freme. That was the next halt. The little town approached. As the first crime wined out bv death It was not to spy upon her move. hand in his and let hi Una rtrAA Via ments that Alfred, finding the covern.

ess leaving the house, followed her on I Bea betrothal upon her own. the tram that took her to JLondon. xo woria Hester's secret in It was only in his deep, unshaken af- I Secret still. Society does not connect Ton bare only on mother, my boy WhoMhrart you can gladden iritn Or cause it to ache Till ready to break 80 cberifrh that mother, my boy. You har only one mother who will Stick to yon rough good and through d.

And lore you. although The world i your foe So care for that lore erer stiJL Ton bare only one mother to pray That in the cod path you may toy Who for you won't spare Self-snrritiu rnr So worship the mother alwoy. You bare only one mother to moke A borne erer wwt for your sake. Who toil day and night For you with (Might To help her all pain erer take. You hare only one mother to mint When he hat departed Irom this, Fo lore and rerere That mother while here.

Some time you won't know her dear kiss. You hare only one mother, jnst one, Kemember that always, my son; None rati or will do Wdat site has lor yon. What have you for her erer done? New York Evangelist fear of her future, the anx- stately bride of Alfred Graves iety to oe sure au was to De well in I ocure convict wno came her new hie. irom prison only to die; and even Mrs. A Good Story on Tom Ochiltree.

New York Sun. One good-story leads to another. That concerning Tabor and Wolcott drew out one of an encounter between Thomas P. Ochiltree and Senator She did not dream she was watched. x.vans was never told of any mystery as she took a cab, and, followed still, I or sorrow resting upon the life of her drove to a small house on the out- former governess, or the quiet idow skirts of Kentish Town, where an eld.

wno shares the Graves mansion and erlv woman met her at the door and 1 nna8 a Pceini heaven her dugh led her in weening bitterlv. I ter'a love and the respectful at ten- oleott in the same hotel. Ochiltree HELEN'S SECRET. I A. 1 ill That was all Alired saw; but the wu8 04 maa uo sou piaca had been fervently descanting upon face of tha wenin woman was Hps.

I to uer. the attractions of Texas. The sena ter's face, should years of sorrow and tor was much interested. Turning 1 have told you there is a secret in my life I can share with no one. tears set their seal upon it.

Fought a Lioness. Kestlpsa nnn rurioua in snite nf him. I to Col. Ochiltree, he said: house came into view, the engine sent its shrieks of warning; i grw louder, louder. We dashed into the street, up to the station, where a group of passengers waited, and passed it without a halt of an instant; eatching a glimpse of the appalled faces and the waiting crowd.

Then we were in the Let me go my way and you yours, for pelf.AIfred lounsed into a refreshment A correspondent, writing from, "I believe that the Ochiltrees are wuuiu uetr ue nappy vrun a cioua 1 pi ace near me utiie uouse ana cawea 1 Auen.iurnisnes exciting aetaus or a one of the oldest families in Texas." lor something to eat. Clcse beside him of mystery between us." fierce encounter between J. D. In ver-nrity, the well-known Bombay bar ONE KIND OF HERO. "Yes, sir," said the Colonel, with two omcers 01 ponce inspectors they "In other words, you refuse me? mi much pride, "they are.

My great seemeed) were discussing some provisions, and Alfred heard one say: fields again. The speed now became mere was a quick resentment id rand father was killed in the massa rister, and an infuriated lioness, whom he met on a scrubby plain breathless, the turnace Alfred Grave's tone, for the refusal of "So Stretton's time is up. He came red hot. The heat, the Well, gentlemen, if you wish it, I'll 'j "tell you the story. When I was a yCioctiy' out of the penitentiary yesterday." 900 miles from Bombera.

Mr. In- ere at Goliad. He preempted the ancestral ranch when Texas was a fifth the woman he loved to be his wife was a blow at once to his heart and the terrible nervous strain "According to my idea, was the ply, "he ought not to have been there of Mexico. He took part in the long his vanity. He was not a conceited at all.

lie never did it never: 'He was wild, though." struggle for Texan independence, and his name stands high on the scroll of man, but when he offered his hand to his sister's governess he certainly did Yesisot on a spree'too often and was not expect a refusal. There had been in bad company, but never had anv fame. I thought a great deal of the ranch, "but my services in the Confederacy left me penniless at the end of many meetings before he spoke, and more hand in that bank robberv than some of them he had thought Hes you or ter Stretton face betrayed her love the war, and i was compelled to sell 'Got five years for it," said the oth of the man beside me, seemed to weight the air. I found myself drawing long, stertorous breaths like one drowning. I heaped in the coal at intervals as he bade me.

I did it because I was oppressed by an odd sense of duty, which I never had in my ordinary brain-work. Since then I have understood how it is that dull, ignorant men, without a sparlf of enthusiasm, show such heroism as soldiers, firemen and captains of wrecked vessels. It is this overpowering swallow, for him, in spites of the cold manner er, "and he's come out to die. He's it. It was a bitter pill to I veranty was companioned by two Somalis, who, like himself, carried firearms and wera lull of pluck.

The first game ot th kind of wVich ho was in quest, which it was his good fortune to see, was a lioness accompanied by a cub. She was in the sand, and he got a fair shot at her and bowled her over. She got up and made for some grass. While there Air. Inverarity followed her up and gave her a second shot, wounding her in the jaw and breaking a fang.

She again turned and made for some scrub. When she got in there she refused to come out. Mr. Inverarity, believ- oum 01 nineteen aim uvea witu my parents in a Pennsylvania town, I Tiad a tasteforrailroadingand aboy-ish ambition to become a driver, although I had been educated for loftier pursuits. During my colledge vacauon I lounged about the station almost constantly, making friends with the trainmen, and especially wtih a -driver named Silas Markley.

I became much attached to this man, notwithstanding he was forty years old, and by no means a sociable fellow. that was habitual to her. over at his mother there, "jerking but ancestral pride had to give way under the stress of pecuniary Scarcely a man to measure his own his thumb in the direction of the little house, 'and won't last a week con merits by the lensth of his purse, sumption." "Yes, sir," the Colonel replied, "I sold it, and worse than all, I was This was the secret, then! A broth that he was owner of a fine estate in the country, several houses in town er in Pentonville model prison, inno obliged to sell it to a damned En and five thousand a year, while Hes sense of routine duty. It's a finer glishman, sir" ter Stretton was his governess. thin than sheer bravery, in my idea cent or guilty, a convicted felon! AU fted shuddered as he thought of the fair stately woman he loved, with her ure, proud nature, daily tortured "How much did you cret for it?" the one naa come to Mrs.

Evans irom a However. I beeran to think that Mar- female seminary with letters of intro He was my ideal of a brave, skill- klev was mad, laboring under some by the secret of her brother's crime. auction, had proved herself trust Senator inquired. "Seventeen thousand dollars, answered the Colonel. "Did you net the money?" ful, thoroughbred driver, and I looked frenzy from drink, though I had never He had a vague recollection of reading worthy with the children, and no one had any desire to pry into her pri to him as Rometh nsr of a hero.

mm wumuuw. up the trial of some bank robbers where the name of Stretton occurred, but it He did not move hand or loot, ex vate aitairs dtirins the whole of the "Yes, sir," was the reply; $17,000 He was not a married man, but lived cept in the mechanical control of his first two years. was only a hazy memory at best. in gold, sir gold, and Bank of England notes, sir." with his old mother. 1 was a enirine.

his eves going from to Mrs. Evans considered her a trea inn she was dying in the scrub, tried to get in and give her the coup de grace. Foiled in this attempt he caused tho scrub to be set on fire, to windward, and stood within twenty yards of the fire on the other side. The liones came out at a spot scarcely twenty yards distant from where Mr. Inverarity was standing rifle in hand.

She charged straight for him. He fired when she was within two vards of the muzzle of the Hester was with her mother in a frequent visitor at their house, and I I the timepiece with a steadiness that 1 1 11 sure, and the children were much at home, even it a poor one, with crime The Senator rubbed his chin and for its inmate, and he had no right to was more terriuie ana tnreaieniug think they both took quite a fancy looked at the Colonel for a minute or tached to her an progressed rapidly. Then Alfred came back from abroad, than any gleam of insanity would more, and then slowly asked: intrude upon her grief. So he ate the food before him, paid the bill and have been. Once he glared back at and his sister, offering him the hos "Did the Englishman find the went out-into the street again.

It pitality of her house-at Guildford, suddenly made several discoveries. the long train sweeping after the en-cine with a headlong speed that ranch?" was auite dark, and he gave up any idea of returning to Guildford that. to me in their quiet, undemonstrative veay. When Markley's firemen left him I Induced him to let me take his place during the remainder of my vacation. He hesitated for some time before he consented to humor my boyish whim, but he finally yielded and I was in mrst, sue icunu out that although rocked it from side to side.

rifle and hit hrtr. In a second she was on him and the family had thought and spoken of night, finding his way to the West Enc Spanked by His Wife. One could imagine he saw hundreds of men andwomen it the carriages, her brother as an nij ynrneicr, n'pr I. and a hotel. got him down beneath her on the I 1 1 1.

A curious story is told at the Cam- all, at forty he looked younuer than Three days pasaed before he heard talking, reading, smoking, uncon grusB. out? iuiu iiuiu ui uis uriun, Ilia fol A irmilil lirtl-A 1 orkrhtsi) some men under thirty, rsext. that scious that their lives were tol at the expense of a member of glee. The fact was that in my idleness and the overworked state of hold of one man whom I now strong Congress, who, while of no small cal my brain I craved the excitement as suspected to be mad. I knew by iber intellectually, has not been bless ed with an abundance of avoirdupois, were in his hand.

He glanced at the sayathe Washington correspondent clock. ot the iew lork inbune. lie has a Hester Stretton, though she was reserved, was wonderlully fair and could converse with Alfred long after the topics were quire beyond the lady's comprehension. The old, old story day after day, and she could find no good reason for sending Hester away, and surely Alfnd was r.or to be turned from her house. Mrs.

Evans was constantly devising schemes for shutting Hester in the schoolroom, for sending her long errands and employing her time in needlework. LV.t if Alfred i.w..... --v. and, besides, 1 had such longing lreama of the fiery ride through the lulls, mounted literally on the iron Iiorse. So I became an expert fireman, and liked it exceedingly, for the excitement more than compensated for the rough work I was required wife who is much taller than he is "Twenty miles," he muttered.

"Throw on more coal, Jack, the fire 13 going out." 1 did it. Yes. I did it. There was something in the face of that man I could not resist. Then I climbed for- and who ahvj is well known to her children as a strict disciplinarian.

One evening, so the story goes, she ard a noise in the nursery alter xo do. But there came a time when I n-nt. I ward and shook him by the shoulder. bedtime. She promptly seized her "Markley," I shouted, ou are run jny fill of exriement.

Mrs. Markley 3ev 1 1. 1 woiuu rcomr slipper and started for the scene of the uproar. Jnst as she reached the door the children extinguished thelight. Stretching out her hand she captured one of the boys, and to one day fornunl a plan which seemed to give hor a good deal of happiness.

It was her son's birthday, and she wanted to go down to Philadelphia in the train witlioutlettinghimknow anything about it, and there purchase a present for him. She took me into her confidence and had me to assist lur. I arranged the preliminaries and got her into the train judge from the outcrie.3 he made the spanking was thoroughly, enective. (I 1111 lllO IUIC 1IUUKI lltl V7 OCUIVU but for the intrepidity of the two Somalis, who rushod up to the lioness and discharged two bullets into her body close to Mr. Inverarity head.

She let go Mr. Inverarity and made back for the scrub, but changing her mind she charged again, and once more proceeded to maul Mr. Inverarity. bad no time to reload, assailed the wounded lioness with the muzzles and butt ends of their rifles and bent her off. They reloaded, and following her up, killed her with two more bullets.

Mr. Inverarity pulled himself together, and notwithstanding his many wounds, took a photograph of his dead antagonist, who had so fearlessly tried conclusions with him at close quarters. The number of hia wounds was sixteen, thirteen being inflicted with the daws and three with the teeth. Hp wished outtheso withcarholicacid. The teeth wounds were very painful, but those inflicted with the claws were comparatively slight.

Air. Inverarity rode back to Berbera, being able to make only six hours a day. He returned to Aden in a steamship, and was there examined by the residency surgeon. The wounds were pronounced to be not dangerous, and none of the important muscles of the arm were found to be badly injured. The doctor ordered him to proceed to England, and was in hopes that a fortnight would see the wounds fairly healed.

Borabav Gazette. liut the mother was somewhat sur insist upon he.irsn hid nephews and mece3 recite loner poems while he made pencil, sketches of Hester's profile; if he would join her just as she started on the lona errands, and was seized with a desire to read in the very room where the "needlework" was in progress, what a prudent sister do more? It was some comfort that the "infatuation." as Mrs. Evans mentally termed it, was all on one side; that the pale face never Hushed at his coming, or the soft, dark orbs wooed him to her side. lint Mrs. Evans could not believe it possible for Alfred to oiler his hand and fortune to any woman and be rejected.

So she fretted secretly, while Alfred wooed patiently, till on the summer aain of Hester's brother and then the public journals told the story: He was dead. Only twenty-six, the papers said; but there had come comfort at the last hour. Two of the gang who had been engaged in the bank robbery had made sworn statments exonerating him from any guilty part in it. In so far as he vas under the influence of liquor, was in bad company and was led by them, he was guilty. Buc he was innocenc because he was purposely kept ignorant of their intentions and liad no knowledge thti" he in p.

vault until the hands cf the officers of justice were upon him there. Five weary years, disease, finally death.had pjiid the penalty of ayouth of reckless living; but the stain of actual crime was lilted from his memory, and the journals that had chronicled his trial and sentence gave publicity to his innocence and his decease. It was no shame to Alfred's manhood that his eyes were misty as he read the obituary ot the waste of life, touched keenly hy the closing words, "A widowed mother and sister were with him when he died." Alfred could easily picture the fair, pale face bending over the sufferer's pillow, and the low, tender voice comforting him. though his hand brought desolation into her own life. In the chamber of death, where the still face upon the pillow was peaceful in its last sleep, Hester and her mother kept watch together.

They had suffered most in tha five years that their lives had been separated, for the widow had been matron in-a large hospital, while Hester worked as governess in Mrs. Evans's family. Before her father's death there had been a home, happy and united; but afterwards poverty drove them upon the world. "Mother." Hester Baid softly, "I have saved something in these" long years and we will settle ourselves prised at the conduct of the second sufferer. Instead of sobbing, bevelled protestations in astiong voice, and at last swore roundly.

The mother, astonished, jumped up, and letting him fall from her knee to tb floor, exclaimed tenderl "Is that you. hubby?" Overwhelmed with confusion, he admitted that it "hubby" she had been spanking. After they had retired amid the muffled laughter ol the children, who were trying to restrain it by stuffing pillows into their mouths, explanations followed. He too, had heard the noise, and with the same object in view as his wife had gone to the nursery, where he had been caught by his spouse. Hereafter he vows that he will his wife to discipline the children unaided.

ning this train into the jaws ol death." "I know it," he replied, quickly. "Your mother is aboard this train." "Heavens!" He staggered to his feet, but even then he did not remove his eyes from the gage. "Make up the fire," he commanded, "and push in the throttle valve." "I will not." "Make up the fire, Jack," very quietly. "I will not. You may murder yourself and mother, but you shall not murder me." lie looked at me.

His kindly gray eyes glared like those of a wild beast. Hut he controlled himself in a moment. "I could throw you off this engine and make short work of you," he said. "But look here, do you see the station yonder?" I saw a faint streak against the sky about five miles ahead. "I was told to reach that station by six o'clock," he continued.

"The express train meeting us is due now. I ought to have laid by for itatDun-freme. I was told to come on. The track is a single one. Unless I can make" the siding at the station in three minutes, we shall meet in yon der hollow." "Somebody's blunder?" I said.

"Yes, I think so." I said nothing. I threw on coal; if I had had petroleum I should have thrown it on. Hut I never was calmer in my life. When death actually stares a man in the face it often frightens him into the most perfect com without being noticed by Markley; who, of course was busy with his engine. The old lady was in high glee over the bit of innocent deception she was playing on her son.

She enjoined me again not to tell Silas, and then I left her and took my place. It was a midsummer day and the weather was delightful. The train was neither express nor accommodation, but one which stopped at the principal stations on the route. On this occasion, as there were two specials on the line, it was run by telegraph, that is, the driver has simply to obey instructions which he receives at each station, so that he puts a machine in the hands of one comptroller, who directs all trains from a central point, and has the whole line under Ins eye. If thelriver does not obey to the least tittle his orders, it is struct ion to the whole.

Well, we started without mishap and up to time, and easily reached the first station in the time allotted to us. As we stopped here a boy ran alongside with the telegram which he here and try to earn a living tojeth- er. A Cow With Hydrophobia Recentlyan exciting scene occurred in a railroad camp in North Fort Worthand several pistols were fired in succession. The officers repaired to the scene and found a great riot in the camp. Lanterns were moving around amid loud talking, and a man named White was cutting a fierce cow with an nx.

He was soon joined by other campers with hatchets and other weapons, all attacking the cow savagelp. Explanation wiu soon given. A fine horse lay on the ground horned to death, and other horses stood near, all bleeding from wounds made by the cow's horns. The animal had gone mad and the campers were slaughtering her. The cow was a blooded animal worth 200.

and the horses killed and fatally wounded were worth 600 Fort Worth Special to Kansas City Journal. posure. Markley pushed the valve still further. The hesran to eninne give a strange, panting sound. Far morning wnen he found Hester in the garden, for a wonder, free from the attendance ot a juvenile Evans, and made his declaration in explicit terms.

And without one flush on her white cheeks if possible, even paler than usual Miss Stretton had told him there was a secret in her life that kept her outside the ranks of married women. Still he pleaded, etill he owned it was no crime or fault of her own that separated them, and again he reed his suit only to meet the repetition of her declaration. "In other words, yon refuse me," he said, with angry emphasis. The color Hushed then over Hestor's face, for there was keen pain as well as resentment in Alfred's tone, for the first time she touched his arm, lifting her soft, dark orbs to his own. There was a thrill her voice as she said, steadily but in low tones: "Because I love you.

Alfred. If I had no affection for you I would put my hand in yours and share your wealth, for my life of drudgery a weary burden to me. But I love you, and so I bid you co from me and seek to fonret me in a happier smile;" Something in her tone ami lace awed her lover from any demonstration of pleasure at her frank confession. lie prisoned the little white hand she had placed upon his arm and said: "Confide in m-, then, Tell me your secret, or. if you will, keep it, and-rest assured I wiil never try to surprise it." "I cannot.

Nothing but death can free me, and your life is too useful, too noble, to be hpent in waiting for me. Forget me, Alfred." She was gone before he could say more and he knew her decision was final. Mrs. Evan's delight at her brother's escape was certainly tempered by indignation that Hester had dared refuse him. "Whom on earth did she expect to marry?" the matron thought.

Bat Hester, pondering over ii all, accepted the pain as one more sorrow in her shadowed life, and made nc moan, looked for no sympathy. It was hard to see the face that had been ever full of sympathy and tend- Sense and Scents. Sir John Lubbock maintains that there are insects which perceive colors of which we have no glimpse, and hear sounds which to us are inaudible. Yet we never hear of a human retina that includes in its vision those colors dependingon vibrations of the ether which are too slow or too rapid for our ordinary eyes, nor of a human ear which is entranced with music that to the great majority of our species is absolutely inaudible. We never hear of a human being who could perform the feat of a bloodhound.who, in a dark night, followed up for three miles the trail of a thief, with whom the blood-houna could never have been in con-tact(he had iust purloined some rolls of tan from the tan-yard in whh-h the dog was chained up), and finally sat down under the tree in which the man had taken refuge.

Why are those finer powers, which so many ot the lower animals possess, entirely extinguished in man, if man be the real heir of all the various genera which show powers inferior to his own? We see no trace in animals of that high enjoyment of the finer scents which make the blossoming ot the spring flowers so great a delight to human beings, and yet men are entirely destitute of that almost unerring power of tracking tbe path of an odor which seems tc be one of the principal gifts of many quadrupeds and some birds. handed to the driver. The next moment I heard a smothered exclamation from Markley. "Go back," he said to the boy; "tell Williams to have the message repeated; there's a mistake." The boy dashed off; in ten nutes he came Hying back. "Had it repeated," he shouted, 'Williams is storming at you; says there's no mistake, ml you'd lest get on." He thrust the second message in as he spoke.

Markley read it ami stood hesitating for half a minute. There was dismay and sheer perplexity in the expression of his face as he looked at the telegram and tin? long train behind him. His lips moved as if he was calculating chances, and his eyes suddenly quailed as if he saw death at the end of the calculation. I was watching him with considerable curiosity. 1 ventured to ask him what was the matter, and what he was ingtodo.

'Em Kt," he replied curtly. 1 no engine gave a long shriek of horror that made me start as if it 'Yes, dear. I took the house furnished for a month, thinking if Oliver came home willing to work for an honest living, we should get on somehow. I had saved a little, too. Hester, for him.

and he will not need it," "Hush! You must not weep now. Bemember how happily he died, mother, the stain liited from liia memory, his heart at peace, lie was ready to go, mother. My poor broth er!" Softly the tender lips pressed the dead man's forehead betore Hejter ltd her mother away from the room. They had not crossed the narrow passage to the parlor when the doorbell rang, and Hester, opened the door to face Alfred Graves. Before she could speak he entered, closing the door behind him, and advanced to the widow, who stood inside the little parlor.

"Mrs. Stretton," he said, lifting his hat. I have just heard of your sorrow, and I have come to ask you to let me aid you in any way where a gentleman's' service may be required. I am the brother of Mr. Evans." "You are very kind," the widow faltered.

-We as you say our trouble" And here the tears stifled utterance and she could only turn from him and weep. Hester lifted ner eyes appealingly, to meet Alfred's fixed upon her face. 'There is no longer a secret between us," Hester," he said in a low tone. 'Will you not give me the right of a off to the south I could see the bituminous black smoke of a train. I looked at Markley inquiringly.

He nodded. It was the express! I stooped to the fire. "Xo more," he said. I looked across the clear summer sky at the gray smoke of the peaceful little village, and beyond that ut a black line coming closer, closer across the sky. Then I turned to the watch.

In one minute more well, I confess I sat down and buried my face in my hands. I don't think I tried to pray. I had a confused thought of mangled, dyingmen and women, mothers and their babies. There was a terrific shriek from the engine against which I leaned. Another in my face.

A hot, hissing tempest swept past us. I looked up. We were on he sid ing, and the express had cone by. It srrazed our end car The Plumber Feared. A plumber was sent for to tbehouse of a wealthy stock broker to execute some repairs.

He was taken by the butler into the dining room, and was beginning his work when the lady ot the house Mo bn," said she, with a suspicious glance toward the plumber, "remove the silver fromthe sideboard and lock it up at once." But the man of lead was in nowise disconcerted. 'Torn," said he to the apprentice who accompanied him, "take my waich and my chain and these coppers home to my missus at once. Th-re seems to lie dishonest people about this house." eekl? Scotsman. were iuarKiey a own voice. The next Jnstant we rushed out of the station i passing.

In a sort of delirious joy and dashed through low-lying farms 1 sprang up and shouted to Markley. rt n-1TAl 1 iva nuiiu ue emeu oungerou tome. "Put in more coal," said Markley, iieuiu noitpeaK. ne sat mere immovable and cold as a stone. I went to the train, and brought his mother to fciin, and when he opened his eyes oumwicii iv uu UUl 7LOQS.

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