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Br f ! Circus TOWNSEND Y V BRADY A/m^Tmrrmssy^y^rfp ̂ SYNOPSIS. A jroun* woman cast ashore on a lone­ ly island, finds a solitary Inhabitant, a young white man, dressed like a savage * unable to spe&W tr« any known «®n- gruagfe. She decide* to educate htm and mold hts mind to her own ideate. She finds a human skeleton, the skeleton or a dog. a Bible and a (silver box. which laaa her to. the conclusion that her com­ panion was cast ashore on the island when a child, and that his name is John Xtovell Charnock of Virginia. Near the skeleton she finds two woman's .rings. »n? v»T Viiiifn bii&SM aii inscription ""<1. It €. to M. P. T. Sept. 10, 18®." KathSrine Brentou was a highly specialised product of a leading university. H«r writings on the sex problem had attracted wide at- teatfoa. The son «>i a. multi-millionaire becomes Infatuated with her, and they decide tc put her theories into practice. With no other ceremony than a hand­ clasp they ge away torether. A few days <m E"« yacht shows her that the man «Mjty pywfssse-a lofty !4ca!s t© posses iief. i Katharine discovers that the man is mar­ ried "While drunk, he attempts to kiss hvt. ©'he knocks him down and leaves him unconscious and escap?s in the ^arknesF in a grasoiine launch, During * »tovxn ahe Is cast ashore ort an Island. Three years' teaching pives the man a <fta education. She becomes a Chrls-#plen< »fs CHAPTER l)C--Continued. Aad he, too, longed for some hour to come when he might with right and decency and dignity speak the words which some day he must speak or die. He was not versed in the ways of women. He had no store of knowl- euge, BO lesson of experience to fall hack upon. He knew but one woman. He could not predicate from any petty maxim, or from any ancient aphorism, or from any worn out philosophy, what she would or would not do under certain conditions. Indeed, he only thought that he loved her and he must tell her or die in the concealment. And so matters ran on and on. It needed hut a spark to Ignite the pow­ der, It would have seemed, and yet a vast cataclysm of nature Only brought about the explosion. He had never touched her except to take her hand. Her person had been as in­ furiate to him as if she had been a star above his head. And she had been careful under no circumstances to allow more than that. Their hands had clasped often. Indeed, with ©very "Good night" and "Good morning" the circuit of touch was made and broken, but that was all. They usually parted si. aigoi ou the sands where she had first heen throw** ashore, He would siMuu and watc-h her as she glided away from him in the darkness toward the cave that was her home. She had Impressed upon him how she trusted him, the absolute assurance, the entire confidence that she had that he would respect the agreement between them and he would have died rather than have transgressed the law, stepped over that imaginary barrier, m potent as the circle, $f Richelieu, which kept them apart. And yet she would <qn*v*r know what horrible edbsttiafm ii£*$ut upon himself. How he stood with clenched hands and quivering tody and stared after her, long after she had gone. She would never know how that intensity of longing grew and grew until some­ times tie felt that he could not over­ master it She would never know how be plunged away staggering through the woods and threw himself down upon the sands on his side of the island, disdaining even the rude shel­ ter of the cave which was his home. mad fought It out. Sometimes she saw evidences of Internal conflict in bis soul the next morning. The calm serenity, the indifference, the animal­ like satisfaction with which he had faced life when she first knew him bad long since disappeared. There were deepening lines upon his face whlrh told of thought, of struggle and of character thus developed by these two potent factors la shaping human destiny. And he could never know what was In her mind, either. He never dreamed that she could love him. She was so far above him, so supreme In his eyes that the possibility never occurred so blm. If he bad known for a moment how she thought of him, the great passion in both hearts would have overleaped every obstacle and In a moment he would have had her In his arms. Well, indeed, It Is that the power to" read human hearts is re­ served for the Mind which towers f^011 above human passions because H ti divine. ' • - . ' - * And so these two While drawing together as Inevitably and as irresist- (( ibly as the tide come* In were still ae*er *ear- kept apart. Their feelings were In so­ lution as it were. A precipitant must be thrown into the atmosphere in which they moved and lived and had their being to disclose them to each other. I On one certain balmy night, they parted as usual. Was the hand clasp longer, was the glance with which he peered at her under the moonlight more self revealing than usual? Did something in his own breast call to the surface that which beat around her heart? At any rate, it was with a great effort that she tore herself away at last and tor the first time in his life, although she knew It not, be followed after her with a few noise­ less steps only to stop, his face white in the moonlight, drops of sweat bead­ ing bis brow in the violence of his effort. Having transgressed even to that degree the law, he turned In­ stantly, without waiting to watch her disappear around the jutting crag that marked the little amphitheater where she slept, and went to his own side of the island resolutely without £ mo- hesitation or delay. *Vh produced In her such Strang* emo- tions as she experienced then. For the earth Itself was trembling, quiv­ ering, rocking. The cave wall aboVe her, seen dimly by the filtering lieht of very early dawn which came through the opening, partook of the mad, fantastic motion. In another see* cad she realised that it was an earth­ quake. The air seemed filled with ft peculiar ringingL pound of storm. Her bod, of ctourse, was the soft sand ovew 'which grass had been strewn. She lay, therefore, on the floor and could not be thrown down, but she was rolled from side to side in a way which paralyzed her senses. Never in all her experience had sit* known such a sick feeling of terror.. When the foundations of things are shaken, when not merely the great deep but the solid earth is broken up, humanity stands as if to the presence of the power of (Sod. She lay resist­ less, staring, praying, wondering whether the shaking rock over her head woiild fall and crush her. In a moment the Instinct cf life quickened her to action. Sfco rose to her knees, staggered to her feet and tried to make her way to the en­ trance. Walking WM terrible. The earth seemed to have shaken for hours, and yet the duration of the ahock was really less than a minute. Its violence was terrific. Just before she reached the opening. It stopped with one tremendous shock as sudden­ ly as it had begun. The next second, with a roar that sounded like a thou­ sand pieces of artillery, the gray ha- iifilii. id from; ot ner was blotted out by a falling mass of rock which Just escaped her. The face of the cliff had given away. In deeper, intense* terror than before she threw herself against the barrier. It was as hard and as unyielding as the other walls. No light came to her even. She was Imprisoned alive In this rocky sepul- cher. She sank down on her knees and buried her face in her hands. She murmured words of prayer. Her mind flew to the other side of the island, to the man. Was he, too, entombed? Was this the end of her labors? Outside she could hear the wind roar and the waves thundering with awful violence on the shore. Be­ fore the earthquake had come the storm. There was still some connec­ tion between the cave and the outer air. It seemed, for she was now con­ scious of lightning flashes. After the storm, came the fire. Her mind went back to what she had read from the Bible a few days before of Elijah's uf&yuJi'. Therefore In like case she listened with all her heart for the still voice of comfort to her awestruck soul, if did not seem to come. She was doomed; she would never see him agaim, if Indeed he were yet alive. She knew her feeling for him now. She slipped forward and fell fainting on the sandy floor of the oave. And still the voice was there. Presently it came to her, as the voice of God usually comes to humanity, through the lips of man. After a space, how long after she could not tell, she was conscious of a human cry through the wild clamor of the storm. A voles that she knew and loved was calling her by nam*. Was It some wralthlik* fancy of ths storm? She rose to her knees, sick and faint, and listened. No, it was a human voice, his voice, her name. The cry WM fraught with frantic ap­ peal. It thrilled and vibrated with passion. It told her In that awful mo­ ment a story which she had not read. It revealed to her Imaginations of which she had not dreamed. She was fascinated with what the heard. She forgot for the moment to answer. All the woman In her, the eternal femi­ nine In her, listened. Her bosom rose and fell, her heart throbbed, her pulses beat Alone with that wild, passionate, appealing, frantic cry, she forgot the earthquake, she forgot the prison, she forgot the storm, she for­ got the world. She only realized that there out in the dawn, a man, the man of all the world, who loved her was calling her name. The old call of manhood to' womanhood, ef mat* to mate. She rose instantly to her feet. This time it was the beating of her heart that pitched and tossed her body. She leaned against the- rock wall and than she called his name. "Man." afee c îe4 "ars><m safe?" "Yes,*" was Entirely so, save for this prlsdo." "Thank God!" cam* f»i«u> to her from beyond the wall. "Thank God, I hear your vol**. l ahaU have you out. "j CHAPTER X. • Hearts Awsltensd • For the moment she forgot wh*r* she was and fancied herself back on the ship or more naturally tossing about in that small boat after that long, eventful voyage. Yet so motion to which sh& had ever beer. auhfsdtgff not even the wildest pitch of the etorm which had toallX cast h*r jjwajr, heritage 7 i*"yt £?» V* * ' She pressed her ear dose to the heap of huge loose stones which filled the opening. She could hear him working outside. "Don't be afraid," h* said at last "I fear nothing," ah* answered, i "If you are there." * In one instant th* situations of Ufe had been reversed. He was th* n^as* ter now and she hung upon his words and actions even as he had done la days gone by. She had no knowledge of what task was before him, but she could hear the progress that he was making. It was evident that he was working furi­ ously, and yet he stopped once In every little while to ndssur* himself as to her presence. "Woman," h* ortsd, "are you •fH there?" "Her* and waiting," was th* an­ swer. He needed that assuranc* of her safety to snabl* him to achlev* his prodigious task. How terrible were the efforts he put forth, she did not know until afterward, but his was the work of a Titan. He was moving mountains with his bar* hands. In­ spired by love, mightest of p&aslona, lie was tearing asunder, like the earth­ quake, the rocky foundations of the world. Well for him that he was so thewttd and sinwed. Well for her that God S; ad added strength and power and energy to all his other spelndid qualkies- H* had never done any work in his life harder than the climb teg of a tree, but no toiler with a heritage of earth's who!* experience WMi WWl f With a Gr*at Burst of Strength of labor could have struggled as did he. H* had been awakened at the self­ same instant In his lonely cell upon the other side of the island. With the first shock he remembered that some time in his days of darkness before she came there had been a similar upheaval. He realized instantly what it was. Less timorous than the woman, more agile, he did not lie su­ pine for a single second. His thoughts were instantly for her. He had thrown himself from his cave and had raced across the shaking, quivering Island without the hesitation of a mo­ ment. Never so long as he might live could he forget the shock that came to him when he saw his way to her barred by that great heap of rock, fallen from the face of the cHff, which lay over the entrance to the cave. For one moment he had stood appalled ua.A then he had got to work. How much time had elapsed before he ar­ rived at her door, how much time it took him to clear it way, he had no Idea. He had no thought but tnat he must open a passage and gst to h*r dead or allv*. It was not wise for him to expend breath in cries, but until he had soma reply he could not keep silent After that, when her answer came to him, he worked more quietly save for those periods when he felt that he must hear her voice to enable him to go on. Such was the furious energy of his toil that by and by the great saws of rock was cleared away save one huge boulder which fairly blocked the en­ trance. It was light outside now. A gray dawn and full of storm. Through the wider Interstices she could see him plainly. She knew now that her res­ cue was only a matter of time. A branch of a tree for a lever and his strength would, roll the rock away. She started to tell him but he caught a glimps* of her white face pressed against a crevice and the sight in­ spired him. With a great burst of strength, the like of which possibly had never been compassed by mortal man since Samson pulled apart the pillars of the" temple, he colled the great rock aside and stood in the en­ trance, gasping, panting, with out­ stretched arms. But 4 atej! divided them. That stop She took. Witk » sob of relief she fell upon his breast, naturally, Inevit­ ably. His splendid arms swept her close iu iiiui. Her own hands met about his neck. With upturned face she looked upon him in all the abandon­ ment of perfect passionate surrender. He bent his head and kissed her, the first time in all his years that his lips had been pressed upon another mouth. He clung to her there in that klsa as if to make up in one moment for all the neglected possibilities uf tie past, as if never in all the bringlngs forth of the futur* should such another op­ portunity be afforded him. He felt for the first time in his life the beat of another human heart against his own, the rise and fall of another hu­ man breast, the throbbing of another human soul. Tighter and tighter his arms strained her to him. She gave herself up in tbat mad, delirious, awful moment to the full flow of long checked passion, and kiss for kiss, pressure for pressure, and heart beat for heart- beat, she made repsone. It was too much. It was the man who broke away. There was nothing, no experience, no remembrance to teach him. It was all surprise. He thrust h«jr from him slowly. Her hands lingered about, his neck, but his back­ ward pressure would not be denied. He held her at arms' length, her hands outstretched to him, her bosom pant­ ing, her eyes shining, h*r cheeks aflame in the gray dawn. Yielding, giving up to him absolutely, yet some­ thing, the magnificent metal of thf man, the restraints through which he had gone, the long battles with his own passion, rose to his soul and gave him mastery once more. "Woman! woman!" he whispered-- no mere local nam# would represent her now, "Woman," b* whlapered, "aar Godi my God!" ' * V He Rolled th* Croat Rock A*id*. He turned away, sank down on one of the great boulders that he had thrown aside and burled his face In his hands, his body shaking with emo­ tions he could scarce define but well understood. The woman threw herself down on her knees before him and took him once more In her arms. "Man;" «he said, "I love yea!" > She drew his hands away from hta face; she laid her own face In hta bleeding palm and kissed it. "Man," she said, her llpa wet with his own blood in a sort of wild, bar­ baric sacrament, "man, I love you!" He stared ml. her aa one distraught H* had dreamed of this, he had imag­ ined it, he had prayed for it, he had hoped for it but no revelation that had come to him In the years of their association equaled In Its blinding brilliancy, in ita Intense Illumination, |he revelation In that woman's voice, tn that woman's *]res,4& tbat wotnan's touch. "Man," she said again, 1 lov* you. Do you understand! Do you know what It means?" Then h* found his vole*. He took her hand and pressed It against his heart, "I know,*' he whispered. I under­ stand here." He rose to his feet, stooped, caught her by the shoulders and lifted her to his level. A piece of rock iil bal­ anced on th* edge of the cliff fell crashing. The place waa dangerous. Without a word he slipped his arm beneath h*r, lifted her up as he might have done a child and carsled her out upon the sand away from the beetling crags of the rocky wall. She nestled in his arms with a sense of joy and satisfaction and helplessness cared for so **qu!site that it waa almost pain. He sat her down presently on the sand and knelt before her. The sun­ light sprang through the gray haze on the horizon's edge and lighted her face as he peered Into It Suddenly h* threw himself prostrate before her and his lips upon h««- "Not there," she whispered, laying her hand upon his bent h*ad, "hut here, here in my arms, upon my hefot, for Man, Man, I love you!" Then kneeling by her side he took her once more within his arms. "But you have not aald!" ah* began at last, "that you loved me." "There is no word," he said, softly, "In that speech that you ha** taught me which Is equal to what I feel. You don't know how I have looked upon you and longed for you ever since you made me know and feel that I waa a man with a man's soul. Night after night I have watched you as you went to your nook in the rocks. But that you have taugbt me honor and consid­ eration, what it is to be a gentleman. I had followed you and caught you la­ the dark within my arms.*' ' She laid her hand upon his breast Mid looked at him feelingly, entreat- ingly, with touching consciousness of his strength and her weakness. "What I have taught you," she ask*d, "you will not forgot?" "Never! Never!" He released her waist and took her nand and kissed It There was as much passion in the 'pressure of his lips upon her hand a* there was In the beat of hi* Wit against h*r own, she felt "You." he continued, "will say what is to be done."1 "Not I," she answered, pltoously, "but you. I have no strength when i you are by. Since that moment wh^n you kissed me, you are the master and the man, but you will ra*p*et m* in my helplessness?** "As if you were God In heaven," cried the man, ralslhg his hand as one who makes a vow. "You are to me everything that 1* pur*, that is holy, that is lovely." "No! No!" ah* whispered, a kwk of terror coming into her face." ."Yes," he said. "Through you 1 know God, through you 1 know woman. You are sacred to me. Never again, unless you give me laave. will I press my lips to yours; never again, unless you say I may, will I tike ydu in my arms; never again will 1 even touch your hand. Indeed, indeed, I cannot do these things. And yet I will love you in ways of which you cannot dream so long as I can draw tl e breath of life." He rose to-his feet as he spoke and turned away from her and stood with clasped hands and bowed shoulders. In one moment the whole course of their lives had changed. It had taken an earthquake shock to do it but so terrific had been the submerged fires of mutukl passions that a whisper op­ portunely uttered would have effected the same revolution. She sat and watched him wondering what would be the end of It She knew at last what love was, not the pale phil­ osophical emotion she had experienced in the cabin of that yacht God, how she hated that recollection. How she wished that it had never been. If un­ touched by man she could have been cast upon that Island to be given to this man who looked upon her as a goddess. She had told Mm some of her history, but not the part which was vifcal. It had been easy not to enlighten him wholly as to that. He knew nothing about conditions. He had never seen a ship or a boat within his recollection, and the story she had settled upon and told him was one that received instant acceptance from him. Indeed there was nothing that she had told him, or could have told him, that he would not implicitly have accepted and believed. The king could do no wrong. She was incarnate truth. And she would have to tell klm all Sue woum nave to put into that pure soul, alive with passionate devotion, admiration, respect every feeling that can make up the sum of mighty love,^ this story of evil and shame. There was no help for It She would have to tell him. But she could not tell him now, not on this day. She would have a tew perfect hours. She would stand for a little while within the vale of Eden. She would look for a little time through the gates of heaven. To-mor- row! To-day she would have and she would enjoy to the full. She rose softly to her feet as well and stepped closer to him. She laid her hand upon his shoulder. She could see the mus­ cles in his arm tighten as he clenched his hands the harder. She turned him gently about and lifted her perfect lips to his. She kissed him again. Her hand sought him; her fingers parted his iron grasp. She drew his arm about her and nestled against him. "I trust you," she said, "as I love you. I ^hail be saf£ with you. You shall not draw away from me In such isolation. You have waitod long for kisses like thia." And then the man spoke, the man In him. "Woman," k* aald, "yours are the only Ups that have been pressed upon mine, save perhaps my mother's as a child. Has any other man ever kissed you?" 8h* could not 11* to him. "Dont ask m*," she said, the fatll* request. The man had turned awar with • groan. No happiness is unalloyed ; Ho Joy comes into our lives that some pain does not dog its footsteps. With love came jealousy before the flood. "At least," she said pressing closer to him and he did not repulse her, "I have loved no man but you." "Oh!" he said, taking her ono* mor* within his arms, "that I might know for one moment what Is out there, how you lived, who saw you, who fol­ lowed you, who loved you!" "I shall tell you," said th* woman. "But you have told me." "Not all." ^ "When the rest then?" ^ "To-morrow. Meanwhile let us en- Joy the day"--the old. Old human prayer, let us enjoy the day despite the morrow--"let it suffice that I love you; that I never loved anyone elee; that no kisses like to yours have ever been pressed upon my Hps, not I be­ lieve not upon the Hps of mortal woman. Let us pass th* day In hap- pinesM together. Come, w* must breakfast. We must see what the earthquake has done to our Island. We hsve things to think about, things to do." "I have nothing to think about but you; nothing to do but to love you." Hand in hand, they stepped across the sand to the shade of th* tr**s, a* royal and a noble couple, the splendid woman nobly planned, fit mate for the godlike man, children of God and Na­ ture, both of them in loose tunics which she had woven from the long soft grass, which left neck and arms bare and fell to knee and were belted in at the waist. Unhampffred by any of the debasing or degrading garments j of civilization, they were a pair to j excite tht»-admiration and envy of th* gods. CHAPTER XI, The Conscience Quickened. They had spent th® morning to­ gether, but not as usual/ Things were different, conditions had changed. For t he first time in years the dally leseon which she bad gives him was inter­ mitted. To-day they were both at school with Love for preceptor and such willingness In their hearts as made them ideal pupils. The storm had died away as suddenly as It had arisen. No visible evidence of It was left save the tremendous thunder of the long undulating seas upon the outward barrier. The earthquake had not greatly damaged the island, the fallen cliff, a few prostrate paisss hsrs and there, that was all. But there waa visible evidence in them of the storm through which they had passed and which still held them in Its throes, in the .tumult of their souls. To the man the experience of th* morning was absolutely new and to the woman It was so different from what had hitherto transpired that It was practically so. They luxuriated in their emotions. They sat side by side, hand In hatad; they walked to­ gether, hand In hand. Yet it was the woman who was the bolder, £he woman who made the advances. The man was not passive. Kiss for kiss, look for look, word for word, touch for touch, he gave, but the initiative was hers not his. He was putting s constraint of steel "poc himself. She saw that and was glad. It made her bold. Womanlike she tried and tested the blade that she had forged again and again, growing daring in hsr Im­ munity, braver in her trust They stood In on* part of their wan­ derings before the door of what had been her cave. Hand in hand they looked down upon the heap of rocks that he had torn away. It was noth­ ing to him; to her it was incredible. She could better estimate what human strength waa capable of than he. Sh© had standards of comparison which h* lacked. "It cannot be possible that, you lifted that boulder and that one, alone?" ah* said, gazing at him wonderingly. "At that moment to release yqsn, I efculd have torn the rook asunder^Hie cried, throwing out his arms in & mag­ nificent gesture of strength and force. She caught his hand with her own and once more pressed her lips with­ in his palm. "I don't know how to say how much I love you," she cried. "Say that you will try to car* as much for me as I for you and I will be content." he answered. And so there was a pretty rivalry between them as to which loved the more. In the midst of the strife of tongues the woman spoke. She could, not keep away from the subject "You love me," she said at laat, "be­ cause you think me more than I am, because*" she ran on in spite of his protesting gesture, checking his deny­ ing word, "because you have *e*n no other woman, because--" "I will not hear another word," lk* cried, finding voioe at last and stop­ ping her. "I know not woman or man save as I know you and myself, save as you hsve taught me by the women of whom you have read me In that single book we have, the women of whom you have told me who have played their parts In the world. All of them together are not Ilk* you." "That Is because I am alive and here and they ar* dead and away." (TO 9B CONTINUBD.) liltf1! i Bptyomtei Milk- Contains double the tra triment and none of the Impurities so often found In so-called fresh or taw milk. The use of !o~ evaes pure, rich, whole- some, healthful milk that is superior in flavor Gcoooinicfti in cost, yn/s lingKHildl 1ft if the purest, freshest high grade milk, obtained from selected, carefitMy fed cows. It is pasteur izfd and then evaporat­ ed (the water taken out), filled into bright* new tins, sterilized and sealed sur tight until you need it. Use Libby's and tell your friends how good It is. '• :fU Ufe IcM GOOD AND WARM. Mir 1 : & *?*:' -At* First Office Boy--I hear your made It hot for you yesterday. Second Office Boy--Yes; be fired Lesson From the Jap Bear Many Others Might Tak* to H*art What Qite JMUsn Deolar** H* Has Lsarned. "I never go to the Zoological park." said a frequenter of that resort "that I do not get some valuable lesson from the animals. Last week I be­ came fascinated with the little black Japanese bear. He Is truly Japanese in size, reminding one of the dwarfed trees of that people, and the day I saw him he was doing a whirling dervish set around his cage--chasing himself In a continuous performance that made me dizzy, and disdaining all attempts of visitors to entice hla from It I noticed above his cage a placard stating his genus, species, etc. It also bore the information that In disposition this species was ex­ ceedingly irritable and unfriendly, that no specimen had been known to make friends with *v*n a keeper, and thst cowardice was a l*adlng charao- lstic. " 'How Strang*,' I said to my com­ panion. 1 should think that If the** bears are cowardly they would try to make friends In order to b* saf* from harm.' " 'Perhiips/ aald m$ companion, who 1* a shrewd observer, 'but ! have no­ ticed that people who have ugly tem­ pers are nearly always cowardly.* That gave m* a hunch. Wh*aev*t, sloe* than, I hav* b*en oa th* point of losing my temper th* word 'cow­ ard' has oom* up before me In larg* black letters and It Is not a nice word. We are not always so- much ashamed as we should be of having hasty tempers and we often Indulge them with very little compunction; but no man will calmly brand him­ self a coward; so th* Ittti* Jap b*ar has b**n useful to m*.--New York Press. Frightfully Cloe* to P*aW>. A thrilling incident la connection with a recent ascent of the Parseval airship' In Berlin Is reported In the German press. A boy who had come too near the ropes, got hi«w right leg entangled, and when the balloon rose he was lifted up In the air. bead downwards. While hanging In that position he succeded, as a good gymnast, in catching the rope with his hands, thus getting in a 'safer and more comfortable petition. The crowd below watched with bated breath the movements of the boy. hanging be twe«n heaven and earth at a height of 606 feet. It was then that the p«o> pi® in th* balloon noticad th® signals isuui beiow, and brought down the airship, whereupon the hoy was res­ cued half d**d from hi slttaft. When Her FaKfr la the Lerd FaHeA During tlie progress "of a big ""pro­ tracted meetiug,' for which the south la famous, an ardent sister of the church, who usually came in an old- fashioned buckboard drawn by the family horse, was late for a particular­ ly Important service and was betag severely censured by the pastor. Explaining the reason for being lata the good sister said that the horse had taken fright at a paasing traia and bolted and that the wreck of the rig bad prevented her from time. "My dear sister, such Mttte -- should not make you late for divia* services. You should trust In the Lord." "Well, brother," ah* replied, aad there was a look of «alm paacefulasaa on her face. "I did trust in the Lord till the belly band busted and then I had u> Jum»."--^Uahiwg -ghrnnfriii^v T*l*graph. HARD ON CHILDREN. 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My nervousness disap­ peared, j was not sreatatea by rayps- pils, life seemed full of sunshine, aad niy heart troubled m* no longer. "I attribute my change In health a«i spirits to Postum alone." Read the little book. "Th* Road •• Wellrili«,"inpkg». "There's aRsasatt." •Y A esw