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Satisfaction (uarentesdi TJlp MAID af MAIDEN u to *Tba BOW O( Orange Ribbon.** •-/B> * ^-IT. Ztvi- &-&S. J i A UQYC STORY BY AMEIllA i# J Î (Copyright. 1900, If Amelia B. BahA' r CHAPTER XII.--(Continued.) "Poor little flBh!" answered Annie. "They could not cry out, or plead with you, or beg for their lives, because they were dumb and opened not their mouths, they were 'wounded and strangled to death." "Don't say such things, Annie. How can I enjoy my sport If you do?" "I don't think you ought to enjoy sport which Is murder. Y011 hare your wherry to sail. Is not that sport enough? I have heard you say noth­ ing that floats on fresh water, can beat a Norfolk wherry." Then Hyde and Mary had a game of battledore, and she watched them toss­ ing the gayly painted corks, until amid their light laughter and merry talk she fell asleep. And when she awakened it waa sunset, and there was no one in her room but her maid. She had slept long, but in spite of its refreshment, she had a sense of something uneasy. Then she recalled the story Mary Darner had told her, and because dhe comprehended the truth, she was In* stantly at rest The whole secret was clear as daylight to her. She was pps- Itive Rem Van Ariens was himself the thief of her cousin's love and happi­ ness, and the bringer of grief--almost of death--to Cornelia She said to herself, "I shall not be long here, and before I go away I must put right love's wrong." She would write to Cornelfa. Her" word would be ^Indisputable. Then she would dismiss The subject from her conversations with Mary, until Cornelia's answer arrived; nor until that time would she sajr a word of her suspicions to Hyde, fn pursuance of these resolutions the following letter to Cornelia left Hyde Manor, for New York the next mail: y "To Miss Cornelia Moran: "Because you are very dear to one of my dear kindred, and because If eel that you are worthy pf his great love, I also love yoy. ' Will you trust me now? There has been a .sad mistake. I belieVe I caii put it right. You must recollect the day on which, George Hyde wrote asking you to fix an hour when he could call on Doctor Moran about your marriage. Did any other lover ask you on that day to marry him? Was that other fover Mr. Van Ariens? Did you write to both about the same time? If so, you misdirected your letters, and the one intended for Lord Hyde went to Mr. Van Ariens, and the one intended for Mr. Van Ariens went to Lord Hyde. Now you will understand many things. "Can you send to me, for Lord Hyde, a copy of the letter you intended for him. When I receive it, you may con­ tent your heart. Delay not to answer this; why should you delay your hap­ piness? I send you as love gifts my thoughts, desires, prayers, all that is best in me, all that I give to one high in my esteem, and whom I wish to place high in my affection. This to your hand and heart, with all sincer­ ity. Annie Hyde." She calculated her letter would reach Cornelia about the end of Sep­ tember, and she thought how pleasant­ ly the hope it brought would brighten her life. And without permitting Hyde to suspect any change in his love af­ fair, she very often led the conversa­ tion t6 Cornelia, and to the circum­ stances of her life. Hyde was always willing to talk on this subject, and thus she learned so much about Aren- ta, and Madame Jacobus, and Rem Van' Ariens, that the people became her familiars. Certainly the letter sent to Cornelia sped on its way all the more rapidly and Joyfully for the good wishes and unselfish prayers accompanying it. The very ship might have known it was the bearer of good tidings, for if there had been one of the mighty angels whose charge is on the great deep at the helm of the Oood Intent she could not have gone more swiftlv and surely to her haven. One morning, nearly a week in advance of Annie's calcula- into account while the great sweet hope that had come to her, flooded like a springtide every nook and cor­ ner of her heart. In such a mood how easy it was to answer Annie's letter. She recollected every word she had written to Hyde that fateful day, and she wrote than ag^ln with a tenfold j°y. ^ CHAPTER XIII * With clothing of every description. tlon, the wonderful letter was put Into Cornelia's hand. The handwriting was strange, it was an English letter, what could it mean? Let any one who has loved and been parted from the beloved by some mis­ understanding, try to realize what It meant to Cornelia She read it through in an indescribable hurry and emo­ tion, and then in the most natural and womanly way, began to cry. There was only one wonderful thought she could entertain--it was not the fault of Joris. This was the assurance that turned her Joyful tears into gladder smiles, and that made her step light as a bird on the wing, as she ran down the stairs to find her mother; for her happiness was not perfect till she shared It with the heart that had borne her sorrow, and carried her grief through many weary months with her. In the first hours of her recovered gladness she did not even remember Rem's great fault, nor yet her own carelessness. These things were only \v •crlflsryalB, not xflttby to he totaq. , . ..... . *,<•, fpy . The Return of Joy. Now it is very noticeable that when unusual events begin to happen in any life, there is a succession of. such events, and not unfrequently they ar­ rive in similar ways. At any rate, about ten days after the receipt of Annie's letter, Cornelia was almost equally amazed by the receipt of an­ other letter--a piece of paper twisted carelessly but containing these few pregnant words: "Cornelia, dear, come to me. Bring me something to wear. I have just arrived, saved by the skin of my teeth, and I have not a decent gar­ ment of any kind to put on. Arenta." • thunderbolt from a clear sky could hardly have caused such sur­ prise, but Cornelia did not wait to talk about the wonder. She loaded a maid with clothing of every description, and ran across the street to her friend. Arenta saw her coming, and*met her with a cry of Joy, and as Van Ariens was sick and trembling with the sight of his daughter, and the tale of her sufferings, Cornelia persuaded him to go' to sleep, and leave Arenta to her care. Poor Arenta, she was ill with the privations she had suffered*, she was half-starved, and nearly without clothing, but she did not complain much until she had been fed, and bathed, and "dressed," as she said, "like a New York woman ought to be." "You know what trunks and trunks, full of beautiful things I took away with me, Cornelia," she complained; "well, & rag left. I have nothing left at all." "Your husband, Arenta?" "He was guillotined." "Oh, my dear Arenta!" "Guillotined. I told him to be Quiet I begged him to go over to Marat, but no! his nobility obliged him to stand by his order and his king. So for them he died. Poor Athanase! He expected me to follow him, but I could not make up my mind to the knife Oh, how terrible it was!" Then she began to sob bitterly, and Cornelia let her talk of her sufferings until she fell into a sleep--a sleep, easy to see, still hunted by the furies and terrors through which she had passed. For a week Cornelia remained with her friend and Madame Jacobus joined them as often as possible, and gradu­ ally the half-distraught woman recov­ ered something of her natural spirits and resolution. Of course with many differences. She could not be the same Arenta, she had o' tlived many of her illusions. She took but little interest for a while in the life around her. Rem she did talk about, but chiefly because he was going to marry an Eng­ lish girl, an intention she angrily de­ plored. "I am sure," she said, "Rem might have learned a lesson from my sad fortune. What does he want to marry a foreigner for? He ought to have prevented me from doing so, instead of following my foolish example." "No one <!buld have prevented you, Arenta. You would not listen even to your father." "Oh, indeed, it was my fate. We must all submit to fate. Why did you refuse Item?" "He was not my fate, Arenta." "Well, then, neither is George Hyde your fate. Aunt Jacobus has told me some things about him. She says he is to marry his cousin. You ought to marry Rem." As she said these words Van Ariens. accompanied by Joris Van Heemskirk, entered the room, and Cornelia was glad to escape. She knew that Aren­ ta would again relate all her experi­ ences, and she disliked to mingle them with her renewed dreams of love and her lover. "She will talk and talk," said Cor­ nelia to her mother, "and then there will be tea and chocolate and more talk, and I have heard all I wish to hear about that dreadful city, and the demons who walk in blood. Senator Van Heemskirk came in with her father as I left" "I hppe he treated you* more civilly than madame did." "He was delightful. I courtesied to him, and he lifted my hand and kissed it, and said, 'I grew lovelier every day,' and I kissed his cheek and said, 'I wished always to be lovely in his sight.' Then I came home, because I would not just jet, apeak of George to him." "Arenta would hardly have given you any opportunity. I wonder at what hour she will release Joris Van Heemskirk!" , "It will be later than it; ought to be." Indeed it was so late that Madame Van Heemskirk had locked up her house tor the night, and was troubled at her husband's delay--even a little cross. "An old man like you, Joris," she said in a tone of vexation--"sitting till nine o'clock with the last runaway from Paris; a cold you have already, and all for a girl that threw her senses behind her, to marry a Frenchman." "Much she has suffered, Lysbet" "Much she ought to Buffer. And 1 believe not In Arenta Van Ariens^ suf­ fering." "I will sit a little by the fire, Lys­ bet Sit down by me. My mind is full of her story. Bitter fears and suffer^ ing she has come through. Her hus­ band was guillotined last May, and from her home she was taken--no time to write to a friend--no time to save anything she had, except a string of pearls, which round her waist for many weeks she had worn. Hungry and sick upon the floor of her prison fil^ was Mtting. .when her na»? jras called; for bead after bead of her pearl necklace had gone to her jailor, only for a little black bread and a cup of milk twice a day; and this morning for twenty-four hours she had been without food or milk." "The poor little one! What did she do?" "When la that terrible Iron arm­ chair before those bloody judges, she says she forgot then to be afraid. She had no dress to help, her beauty, but she declares she never felt more beau­ tiful, and well I can believe it They asked her name, and my Lysbet think of this child's answer! 'I am called Arenta Jefferson de Tournnerre," she said, and at the name of 'Jefferson' there were exclamations, and one of the jurymen rose to his feet and asked excitedly, 'What is it you mean? Jef­ ferson ! The great Jefferson! The great Thomas Jefferson! The great American who loves France and Lib­ erty?' 'It is the same,' she answered, .and then she sat silent, asking no favor, so wise was she, and Fouquier- Tlnville looked at the President and said, 'Among my friends I count this great American!' and a juryman added, 'When I was poor and hungry he fed and helped me.' and he bowed to Arenta as he spoke. When ques­ tioned further she answered, 'I adore Liberty, I believe in France, I married a Frenchman, for Thomas Jefferson told me I was coming to a great nation and might trust both Its government BATTLE AXE C# MINOS* "Arenta Jefferson da Tournnerre.*' and its generosity. They were all ex­ tremely polite to her, and gave her at once the papers Xvhich permitted her to leave France. The next day a little money she got from Minister Morris, but a very hard passage she had home." "After all, it was a lie sha told, Joris." (To toe continued.) Ufcto NOT MAKINQ MUCH. New York Statesman Told a Story With a Moral. Gov. Odell's declaration concerning the incorruptibility of the present state legislature led Assistant Corpor­ ation Counsel "Charlie" Whitman, who is looking after the interests of the city in Albany, to tell this: A certain New York city "state* man" came to Mr. Whitman after his pernicious activity had defeated a certain measure of doubtful character and asked: "Say, Whitman, what are you mak­ ing out of all this?" "My salary and enemies good and plenty," replied Whitman grimly. "Nothin' doin* on the side?" In­ quired the politician. "Nothin' doin'," answered Whitman sadly. "Say," interpolated the statesman, "the game you are stacked up against reminds me of the story of the coun­ tryman who drove to market the largest bunch of hogs his county had ever seen. When he got to the village pork was plenty and he couldn't get bis price, so he drove his pigs home in disgust " 'Silas,' inquired his wife sarcas­ tically, 'what did yer make out o' yer trudge?' " 'Nothin' much, I cal'ate,' growled Silas, ' 'ceptin' only the sasslety of the durned hogs.' "And you, Mr- Whitman, how do you enjoy your 'sassiety'?"--New YorH Times. * IT WA8 HIS LAST "MASM^ Young Lady's Remark Too Much for Elderly Gallant. A handsome gentleman of 60, who looks much younger and still retains an eye for the beautiful in the fair sex and a tender fluttering of the heart when the ladies glance his way, got Into a street car In company with his son, a grown young man. A striking feature of the elderly gallant Is an extremely long and full goatee and big, flowing mustaches. The gen­ tleman found a seat directly oppo­ site two unusually attractive young ladies, immediately beside whom the son found his seat. In a few moments the girls were glancing often at the old gentleman and chattering together in great glee. The gentleman hugged himself men­ tally, but restrained his emotions in the presence of his son. On leaving the car the son said: ^ "Say, Governor, I've got ft good one on you." > "Well, what is it, my son?" "Why, one of those girls next, to me said: 'What a funny looking thing that old man is over there.' To which the other replied: 'Yes, isn't he? He looks like a goat!'" That was the old man's last "n^tsh," Crltlsh . Archeologlat Announces a Noteworthy Discovery. .Mr. Arthur Evans, the British ar- cheologist, has just announced some surprising and noteworthy finds made during his recent excavation of the great palace of King Minos, in K&os- sos, Crete. Everywhere were found traces Af a mlgjfiy conflagration, burnt beams and charred wooden columns lying with­ in the rooms and corridor. There was here no gradual decay. The civiliza­ tion represented on this spot is shown to have been cut short in the fulness of its "bloom. In one of the side eh ambers of the labyrinth, which is thought to have been a sort of arsenal and royal treas­ ury, was discovered a series of double battle axes made of bronze. . A large number bore the symbol and seal of King Minos, and were evidently used by the famous King and lawgiver him­ self. These ancient weapons were no doubt employed in defense of the pal­ ace when it was destroyed by the Do- rain invaders, some four thousand years ago. In the inmost maze of the famous labyrinth dwelt the famous minotaur, or bull of Minos fed dally with human victims till such times as Theseus, guided by Ariadne's ball of thread, penetrated to its lair, and, after slay­ ing the monster, rescued the captive youths and maidens.--New York Her­ ald. Respected the Late Departed. Andrew Carnegie tells, with a merry twinkle in hla eye, a story of a boy­ hood friend with whom he renewed acquaintance on a recent visit to Scot­ land. In the course of conversation Carnegie happened to ask about a cer­ tain Georgie McKay. "He's dead long ago," said his friend, "and I'll never cease regretting him as long as I live." "Dear me! Had you such a great respect for him as that?" asked the library king. "Na, na!" It wasna only respec* I had for himself; but I married his wid­ ow"--New York Times. Controls Cuban Shoe Market. 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I give all credit where it is due, and that Is to Pe- runa.-- Emma Mitchell. • By far the greatest number of female troubles are caused directly by catarrh. » k,,, mr ns-ia---1 n a™.* ^ : They are catarrh of the organ -which i* affected. These women despair of re­ covery. Female trouble is so common, so prevalent, that they accept it as almost in­ evitable. The greatest obstacle in the my of recovery is that they do pot understand that it is catarrh which is the source of thefar illness. In female complaint, ninety-nia* cases out of one hundred are nothing bcS catarrh. Peruna cures catarrh wherever located. Chronic invalids who have languished far years on sick beds vriih some form of female disease begin to improve at once after he* ginning Dr. Hartman's treatment Among the many prominent women whe recommend Peruna are:--Belva Lockwoo^ of Washington, D. C.; Mrs. Col. Hamilton of Columbus, Ohio; Mrs. F. E. Warren, wife of U. S. Senator Warren, of Wyoming. 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FARM FOR SALE. n5a.b>tt>iu land; 4."> a. good timber; liulance cultivable; ^ mile of public road; H fr^m U. i:. «ta. IJ ver tiirouch oue ead; all fenced. Price, $1,000; |l,0ii d m n, balance 6* If desired. Address A. A WHITSETT, Harrisonville, Ho. Humes In FLORIDA. Orange and Vegetable Lands. Send ten cents for printed matter tint will Interest you. SMI Estate Agency, Box 6, San Kate*, Florida. AGBSTS. AGENTS WANTED--One bil-flu intelligent woman In every town to de.non urate Mountain Snow­ drop. Sold on guarantee to cure all facial eruptions. F r particulars address. Mountain Snowdrop Co., This treatment at oooe stops fUtta^ hair, removes crusts, scale* and du> draff, destroys hair parasites, sooths* Irritated, Itching surfaces, stimulate* the hair follicles,"loosens the scalp skfts* suppli s the roots with energy u# nourishment, and makes the hair grov upon a sweet, wholesome, bsalthy when all else falls. trillions of women now rely on Cotfr> cura Soap assisted by Cutlcora 01at» Vent, tho great sklncu re, for preservings pnri'ylng and beautifying the e>kin, ftr cleansing the scalp of crusts, scales anA dandruff, and the stopping of Ailltoy hair, for softening, whitening and soothing red, rough and sore hands, for baby rashes, itching* and cliafings, tor annoying irritations, or too irv or offensive perspiration, for ulccratlr# weaknesses, aud many sanative, ant!* septic purposes which readily suggesfc themselves, as well as for all the pui>» po-es 01 the toilet and nursery. . Cuticura remedies are the standard sklu cures and humour remedies of tb9 W>>rld. Bathe the affected parts with bo* water and Cuticura Soap, to cleanse th* snrftice of crusts and scales and soften the thick"ned cuticle. Dry, withoofc ha d ruij'iing, and apply Cuticura Oint­ ment freely, to allay Itching, irritatioa - and inflammation, and soothe and heal* and, lastly, in the sererei forms, taksi Cuticura Resolvent, to cool and cleans* the blool. A Mtigle set is oft»n sulfr- clent to cure the most tortu> ing, dif- figuring akin, scalp and blood humnava*. from pimples to scrofula, from Infancy* to age, when all else falls. Bold thmurhmit the weld. Ctthmn Bmlvwt Mfc&.t form of Chocolate Coated Pills, 2.1c. per rial ef9VO|i» meat, Jtfe , Poip. lie. IVfKktu London. S7 P<|. : Pari*. 0 Ko" de U INix \ R^tnn. 13? Coiumbtte fitjfr Ihuir it l h*vn. Corp , Pole urop». IV Stud tor " Hot to Cura Erery Haaoui." CHAMPION TRUSS WOK N^W JTHT<5llJoRr OetYOUR Physician's Advice. BOOKLKT FREE. Philadelphia Truss Co., 610 Locust St., Phila,, Pa. *E CURE CANCER AT HOME P NO KNIFE. NO PAIN, NO PLASTER. Hook and testimonials HKEK ASON CANCER INSTITUTE, ISO W. 42nd St. NKW YORK. FREE EXCURSION! Pay High Price for Drawings. The extraordinary price of 1,850- guineas was paid recently at Christie's in London for a set of twelve illus­ trations la cbarcoal and wash by Fra- ki&a-h.* Write na for particulars sf fires •xsurmioas to NI cheap lana lute tm emu WSOUTH DIKOU WORTH PIKOTI aOOD UXM. low PRICES. EAST TERMS. litre agents wanted to solicit laadsecters. WRITS FOE FREK ADVERTISING MATTER. EL WOOD LAND COMPANY CAPITAL, S100.000. » *r. nu>u MIWHS9TS. or, 111* Refereu Travel on the Two new sleeping c a r l i n e s , v i a Pig Four r o u T Chicago to Dayton Springfield Columbos A striking contrast between Defiance Starch and apy other brand wilt be found by comparison. Defiance Starch stiffens whitens, beautifies with* •ut rotting It gives'clothes back their newness. It Is absolutely pure, It will not injure the most delicate fabrics. For fine things and all things use the best there I s . D e f i a n c e S t a r c h io cents for 16 ounces. Other brands 10 cents lar ia ounces. A striking contrast Irom Sf* LOUIS to Dayton Springfield Columbus For full information and putksUn, call on A Rents " Big Kour Ruutt,M«r lieu. the uodcrusu wawNJ.tnai, V.P.mvk. 0*sirua.JbT.^fU|k Asst. a. v.****. CtMClXKAVt. U. [Thompson's Ey« Uaffllrte.1 with •an w«>. wis W. N U. CHICAGO, No. 29, t9Q% When Answering Advariiacmenfifc Kindly Mention This Paper, STAftcnco, Neb. SO S C m Urn*. Sold by dnmsfe asEuss&xms -•f-yrar v- m +M-