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These lands at prices that will prove I was ernely undeceived. My faith in humanity had received a shock from which feared, in my youthful pessimism, that it would never recover. Henceforth woman her charm for me, and in every fair I saw a possible Miss Preston. I steeled my heart against feminine attractions; I even changed my boarding-house because I discovered in myself signs of weakening toward a pretty 6hort-hand writer who came to board at Airs. Van Hashelars.

My mind was made up; I would live and die a bachelor. However, this sternness wore off, or, at least became softened with time, which takes the edge off the sharpest pain. I resumed my walks and character studies; but my experience of Washington Square been so painful I got into the habit of going up to Central Park to pursue my observations. One afternoon I sat on an iron bench just at the intersection of a carriage drive and a footway, reading a copy the Herald, which contained a graphic account of a gTeat ball on Fifth Avenue the night before. I was wondering how long would be before I could gain admittance that enchanted sphere I confess that I given to day-dreams when a carriage drew near, and an exclamation in a feminine voice caused me to look np.

A SORISE. Bfionce profound then faintly Low throbbing in the air, A presence holy, saintly. Hushed 'voices breathing prayer. A wavering light uncertain A soft glw spreading wide, A dusky somber eurtam, Prawn silently aside. Pale rays of rate completeness Far down the Bkys dim lawn, Mo'stlips of rosy sweetness Upraised to kiss the dawn, A sudden burst of rapture From bird-tliroats swelling long.

Which echo elves recapture. And flood the earth with aong. A richer color showing A flush across the gray; A deeper carmine glowing, Fight shadows rolled away, A gleam of polished sdver, A glow of burnished gold, A liquid mass of splendor, A glory manifold. A royal car suspended. Hung swaying in the blue.

The grand cornations ended. And rose tints fade from view. Oh, human heart, grown tender. With thought beyond all speech. This sunrise scene of splendor No human beat can reach; Revives hope's blessed story.

Rids faith ascend on high. And view eternal glory Where these tints never die. away, in which eat aneUerly gentleman I an excellent investment. and a very good-looking young lady. A Write for particulars.

Yes, papa, said the lady, it is surely I cannot be mistaken. When she STRANGER TAKEN IN. BY CHARLES W. CHESXUTT. ISAAC MULHOLLAND, Land, Loan and Invcstn cut Broker.

Kenneth, Sheridan I. R. HOLMES 00., AGENTS FOB THE SALE OF 100,000 ACRES OF TUB spoke I recognized Miss Preston. In the light of those eyes and the charm of that voice I forgot that I had been swindled, and blushed to the roots of my hair I am not sure that my hair did not blnsh, but as is naturally red I cannot be certain. I lifted my hat and advanced to the carriage, her attitude showed that she expected me to do.

Papa, she said, turning to the portly, well-clad gentleman who sat beside her, this is Dr. Scott, who so kindly helped me to rescue Harry from that very disagreeable predicament the other night; my papa, Air. Treston. We have been locking for you ever since, and I have been, oh, so mortified that I could not learn your address We got the directory, aud looked up all the Dr. Seotts, but could not find you.

IIow could you be so cruel as to leave us under such a burden of obligation for so long? As I was trying to collect my thoughts, and to tell the truth without referring to my manifestly absurd suspicions, the portly and respectable father invited uie to enter the carriage. I complied, and as wo drove through the shaded drives of the beautiful metropolitan pleasure-ground, I explained that I had been unable to find the house, A very natural mistake," observed Air. rreslon, oracularly, for one who is not familiar with great cities. To find a needle in a hay-mow is an easy task compared with searching for a person in New ork without an address in which oi inion I agreed with him; indeed, he could not at that moment have expressed nn opinion in which I would not have concurred. But why prolong the story? I accompanied them home; I got my money, though that was a small matter.

My first visit was but one of many, nnd I now have an otnee in the basement'of my father-in-law's residence. Air. Preston 'is an alderman, and is interested in city contracts. He is already rich, and when his term of office expires we expect to move np on Fifth Avenue. As mv wife is her fathers only child, and will undoubtedly inherit his wealth, I am not obliged to enter the feverish race for money.

I am at present engaged in the preparation of a work on macrobiosis, which I expect will make me famous. There is but one drawback to our wedded happiness Air. Preston is a widower and I have no mother-in-law. Fe IN FINNEY AND HAMILTON COUNTIES, KANSAS. AUTIFUIiLT Xj A.

noon. Then telephone Uncle Georges house end see if he is at home;" and when the girl had gone out she continued, turning to me: Its all about my Cousin Harry. He is at Yale, and I am afraid is just a little wild. He tells me that through an unfortunate mistake he has got into a scrape, without any fault of his own, and that if I dont send him a telegraph money order for $50 by 0 o'clock, he is likely to be disgraced, and perhaps expelled from college. I murmured my sympathy.

The girl returned and announced that Uncle George had gone to Philadelphia, nnd would not be back until the next night. At this intelligence the expression of concern in Misa Preston's face deepened into dismay. Papa away Uncle George out of town and only $25 In the house, she exclaimed. Oh what shall I interrupted her: If I can venture to offer you my assistance I shall be glad to lend you the money. 0n, no, she said, I couldn't think of accepting a loan from a stranger or, such a recent acquaintance, 6he corrected herself, blushing.

I assured her with some eloquence of speech, that in a crisis like this the ordinary conventionalities of polite society should yield to the exigency of the moment; and in the end I persuaded her to accept a loan of $25 Papa will send a check when he returns to-morrow she said, or I will send the money by Katy, if you will leave me your card." I felt for my card-case, but I had left it home. I said it didnt matter; I often walked down that way, nnd would stop in a day or two, and see if she had recovered from her injury. Very well, she replied with a fine blush and an entrancing Bmile, I shall expect you. I went home with my head in a whirl. "What a divine creature! What beauty! What grate! Wliat refinement of sentiment! And to think that I had been able serve this bounti.ul creatine, and to place her under ail ol ligation to me, and that 1 as expected to call again.

I felt much like knight-errant of the olden time when he had rescued some captive princess, and had I ecu rewarded for his valor with permission to wear her colors. My ecstatic condition was the more excusable by reason of the fact that I had no lady acquaintances in New York Lnrrin Mrs. Van Hushelar and had been for rears immersed in the dry details of my medical studies, and entirely without ladies society. I concluded that two days would I reasonable time to elapse lefore I called see Miss Preston. I spent the next two days in dreamland.

If 1 sought my accustomed seat in ashington Square it was only to compare the women whopasec. with Miss Preston. It was very annoying have to think of such an adorable creature in such a formal way. Dear Miss Preston would have looked very well on an envelope, or even as a spoken address; bnt think of her as Preston, was maddening. 1 tried to supply the hiatus, and ran over all the pretty names I could think of without being able to decide upon any one which expressed all I thought her name ought to suggest.

I suppose if had known her name was Sarah, or Jane, even Sarah Jane, I would have thought very nice, but I gave up in despair the attempt to name such loveliness. To find relief from my restlessness I went np to the As tor Library and tried to read a bulky treatise on 'macrobiosis, which was my favorite study; but somehow the subject was less interesting than usual, and I finally found temporary distraction from my thoughts, in Ouidas latest novel. The two days finally ran out, and with winged feet I sought the home of my fair acquaintance. I was at st a little doubtful about the place, as on my former visit mv absorption in the young lady had been such that I had failed to notice either street or number. However, by following the same course as before, I soon found the house, and rang the door-bell.

A servant girl admitted me, and asking my name, ushered me into the parlor. I had been seated but a moment, when a somewhat elderly woman, of angular build and se vere countenance, entered the room. In answer to her inquiring look I said that I had called to ask how Miss Preston was. Miss Preston, why theres no Miss Preston here," she replied. I looked around the room.

It was surely the same room in which I had seen her last. There was the same ugly steel engraving of Abraham Lincoln signing the Emancipation Proclamation; the same chromo of Charles Sumner between the front windows, the piano occupied the same corner, and on it stood the same open sheet of music, the latest popular catch, When the Chickens Come to Itoost, or some similar title. But, madam, I said, is not this the residence of Mr. Preston? No, indeed," she replied, this is Mr Ledbetters boarding-house. This is surely where I saw Miss Preton.

Bat perhaps I am mistaken in the house, though it seems hardly possible. There are no Prestons in the block, she said, positively. Then a thought seemed to strike her. rerhaps yon mean Miss Weston; she and her father went away yesterday. Was she a blonde, with dark blue eyes and very fine teeth, and did she wear a blue silk dress?" I inquired Her exact description, only those fine teeth were false.

They left yesterday, without paying their board-bill. Twenty-six dollars, young man, is a large sum for a poor widow to be swindled out of. I began to have an idea. Do you know where they lived? I asked, They said they were going to Boston, where they were expecting remittances, and all that. Bnt its my beliei that they live wherever they can get board.

That sort of people dont have any homes My idea had by this time developed into a theory. I remembered the stories I had read of the female sharpers of New York. I had been swindled. The sprained ankle was only a trap, into which I had fallen, like any common greenhorn. I made my I lost face as had of it to am he; it as And Intersected throughout by the Finest System of DlltlB i 1 Scattering the murky waters of the Great Arkansas Hiper broadcast over this fertile and beautiful Valley, giving KGYer-Failing Farms for Less Money I had come to New York to seek my fortune.

The path over which I was to pursue the tickle goddess was hut vaguely defined, at least in regard to details. 13ut I knew what I wanted to do, and that was to practice mr profession. I had just finished a three years course ia a New Jersey medical college, during which time I had spent the gieater part of bit modest patrimony, which had consisted of three thousand dollars realized from an Insurance on my father life. My father had been a physician of fine skill, high Ideals, and small practice, a not uncommon combination. I had no mother or sisters to keep me at home; our town was abundantly supplied with physicians; and, ns I did not care to wait half a lifetime for a practice which would have barely supported me during the remaining half, 1 had determined to seek my fortune elsewhere.

On leaving a small town, it was natural that 1 should come to a large one. I knew that the greatest success, other things I e-ing pual, was only possible whore the largest opportunities existed; and if I did not succeed in a largo city, I could not te-proaeh myself with the lack of opportunity. Hence I came to New York. 1 secured board at a second-rate in the neighborhood of ash-nigtcn Square. It was part of my plan of operations to study the city a while before hanging out mv shingle.

With this object In view I spent a good deal of time on the streets and in public places; and on pleasant evenings I frequently sat for an hour or tw in a-diing-ton Square. Seated there, on one of the public benches, often in close proximity to some bottle-nosed and ili-odored tramp, I would study the strange jumble of types in the stream of humanity that rolled through the park, which is more of a thoroughfare than a pleasure-ground. Most of those who passed belonged to the shabbier classes of the metropolis; you could see there every variety of New-Yorker, from the above-mentioned tramp to the shabby genteel clerk, only the wealthy and prosperous looking were leldom met with. One evening as I sat in my accustomed eeat, absorbed for the moment in a calculation as to how long the human stomach could endure the food at Mrs. Van Hashelars borading-house, when I was dimly con-Bcious of a female figure passing by.

I looked up, but the lady had gone too far for sc.e to see her face. AN hat I did see was a Blender figure, set off by a blue silk dress of a stvlDli cut, and though walking somewhat briskly, borne along with a graceful notion quite different from the usual grabble of a woman in a hurry; a charming back, above which rose a well-turned ueck, surmounted by a head of hair of the aolor poets are popularly supposed to rave about, a ruddy gold, on top of which in iiiirn reposed a most bewitching bonnet. This somewhat elaborate description but 'faintly pictures the impression she made njpon me at the time. 1 felt a sudden desire to see the lady face; I was sure it would be beautiful, and I have always been a great admirer of beautiful women, or rather of the beautiful in women; the distinction is obvious. I rose from my seat, and started down another path, running in the same general direction as she was going, intending to execute a sort of flank movement and meet her face to face on the other side of the park, where the two paths converged after along curve.

Just as I approached the point where the paths came together the lady slipped and fell, uttering a little scream. I rushed forward and assisted her to rise. Are you badly hurt? I inquired in a ympatlietio voice. Oh, no," she replied, thanking rae, 4it is nothing at all. But as she started off the came near falling a second time.

I caught her and placed her arm in mine. Shall I call a carriage? I asked. Oh, no, she said, it is hardly worth while. I live only a short distance, and if yon will Certainly, I said, not waiting for her to finish the sentence, I shall be very glad to assist yon. A few minutes walk, and one or two turns brought us to a brick house of conventional style, and I helped her up the high stoop and rang the door-bell.

As she did not release my arm when the door was opened, I could do nothing less than help her into the house. I deposited my fair burden on a cushioned arm-chair in the parlor, and, hat in hand, was beginning an elaborate parting bow, when she exclaimed; Oh, do Bit down and rest a moment. How tired you must be carrying poor me uch a distance. I sat down. I may say here that she was quite as pretty as I had imagined her to be.

1 suppose we ought to be introduced, she said. I am Miss Preston." And I am Dr. Scott, at your service, replied. Our conversation had net ad vanced beyond thi3 preliminary stage when the door-bell here rang, and the servant sirl entered a moment later with a telegraph message. Excusing herself, Miss Preston hurriedly tore open the envelope and srlanced at the message.

Her face took on look of concern, and she said to the serv- Katy, is papa at home? No maam, he went to Boston this after at in to to to to I or it out- Than can be found elsewhere. On every hand, side of the Irrigating District, vast tracts of UDsnrpassed for fertility, offer the freedom and richness of their domain, especially to the upbuilding of the man of small means. Correspondence solicited. Make a specialty of locating Negotiated a Loan Under Difficulties. A man dropped in on a Stockton lawyer and wanted to borrow $10.

Havent got it, said the lawyer. Well, returned the modest man, can't von borrow it for me? I might; but you must pay back that $5 vou borrowed of me a year ago first. He left. The next day he came again and brought the $5. Thank you, thank you, smiled the member of the bar, pocketing the piece.

That aint the proper thing to say; thank vou is too tame. Yes? Yes. What should I say, then? Why, you ought to say 'Come on, old boy, lets go down, an have someth. Well, then, come on, old boy! They went down and had something, and the old hoy called np all his old friends. There was just $3.10 left out of the half-eagle.

That afternoon the old boy dropped in on the lawyer again. How about that $10? he asked. What $10? YYhy, that $10 you were going to lend me if I brought back the $5. Iyq come to get it. Great Cresarl Say, just sit down over there and go to studying law.

I heed a man just like you Im going to make you my partner. Stockton r.aL MniL Children in Hotels. Florence Alarryatt, an English writer who visited this country last summer, states that she saw a little girl of six take her place alone at a hotel table. On being asked by the waiter if she ought to be there without her parents, she coolly answered, I guess I pay my way. A writer in the Art Age supplements this story by one of a 5-year-old girl whom he once saw seated alone at the crowded table of a hotel.

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Ledbetter, yon have my sympathy, but I dont see I that that helps either of ns. Where are you boarding? Having found out that I did not wish to change my boarding-house, Mrs. Ledbetter at length permitted me to wish her good afternoon. ner? asked the amazed waiter, a3 ha served her. No, replied the young lady.

bhe dont want none. Shes dead. George Augusta Sala, when in this country, said: I object to two things in America the pia and the hotel child. Not until the child is made into the pie will I tolerate either. Youth's Companion.