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LOYE AND PREJUDICE.
BY AMY RANDOLPH.
UT, Hal, you would
like her," said Col.
Vandycke. "I am
certain of It."
"That Is where
I disagree with
you," remarked
Halleck Dane. "A
proud, haughty
heiress, accustomed
to have every one
fall down and wor-
ship at her shrine!"
"A dear, gentle little girl, with Just
spirit and sparkle enough to redeem
her from the charge of insipidity,"
protested Col. Vandycke. "Come, fore-
go your prejudices, Hal, and accom-
pany me to Miss Freyling's reception
tonight, and I will present you to our
little Queen of Love and Beauty."
1 Halleck Dane shrugged his broad
shoulders deprecatingly.
| "I have always said," he declared,
with quiet obstinacy, "that my wife
should not be selected in the glare
and glitter of a ballroom. My regrets
to Miss Freyllng, and my thanks to
yourself, but I have some letters to
write this evening, and I must make
a hermit of myself for the time be-
ing."
Col. Vandycke shook his head.
"Go, then, Hermit of the Wilder-
ness," said he, "but if you die a
wretchcd bachelor, lay not the blame
to me."
Mr. Dane laughed, but the smile
died away from his lips, as he entered
the twilight solitude of the villa^
street.
"I will not be introduced to Miss Du-
rande," he said to himself. "A man's
time and individuality are his yet, I
hope, but I have no surplus leisure to
Bpare in heiress-worship."
Halleck Dane had been physician
in charge of the Lindley hospital for
three months now. Lindley was a gay
little town, with a military station
close by, half a dozen churches, a
town hall, an atheneum, and several
manufactories.
Dane avoided making the acquaint-
ance of Miss Durande, the belle and
beauty of the place. In fact, he had
not even seen her as yet.
"I came here to work, not to flirt,"
he said, brusquely.
Miss Dorella Durande did not under-
stand this in the least. She was a pret-
ty, sweet natured young girl, who liked
all the world, and expected all the
world to like her. And at last she
reluctantly made up her mind that Dr.
Dane did not want to cultivate her ac-
quaintance.
"Let him go," said Dorella, pretend-
ing not to care a pin's point. "There
are plenty of pleasant people in Lind-
ley without him!"
And after that she was careful to
time her visits to the hospital so that
she would not meet the physician in
charge.
"I can't give up my poor, sick peo-
ple," said Dorella, "but I won't have
any sneering scientist contemptuously
overlooking me."
Miss Freyling had chosen an unfor-
tunate evening for her reception.
"Of all nights in the year for old
Hannah Hopkins to fall sick—on the
edge of Owl Glen!" said Dr. Dane, look-
ing dolorously at his order tablet, as
he shook the snow oft his coat collar
in front of the Are. "But I suppose
there's no help for it—she's old and
poor, and has no troops of friends to
rally to her aid."
THE MYSTERY IS SOLVED.
His horse, unfortunately, was dead
lame, and having no fancy for driving
the poor teams turned out by the local
livery stable, Dr. Dane resolved to walk
the four solitary miles, bounded by
pine forests and surrounded by deso-
late hills that lay between the village
and Owl Glen.
He had not gone far, however, be-
fore he became dimly conscious,
through the snow, of a little buckboard
wagon in front of him drawn by a
stout, gray pony and driven by a wom-
an in a dread-naught gray sacque,
with a fur cap, pulled down over her
ears.
"Some farmer's wife returning late,"
he thought. "I wish she would be po-
lite enough to offer hie a ride."
j He spoke up briskly. "Madame," he
said, "I am Dr. Dane."
i The pony was abruptly checked. "I
am going to Owl Glen to seek & siox
woman," he added. "If you would
kindly allow me to ride with you as
far as our ways lie together—"
"Oh, certainly," said the solitary
driver; "jump in. I am going to Owl
Glen myself."
"Perhaps you know Hannah Hop-
kins!" hazarded the doctor, who was
rather pleased by a something quick,
lively and energetic in the tone of his
interlocutor.
"Oh, yes, I know her very well.
That's where I am going," said the
woman—no farmer's wife, as Dr. Dane
began dimly to comprehend. Now
she touched up the pony at full speed
"It must be Miss Martineau, the rec-
tor's sister," thought Dr. Dane. "No
one else would take the trouble to
drive out such a night as this, merely
to see a miserable old pauper wom-
an. "And he said aloud, "I beg your
pardon, Miss Martineau, for not recog-
niznng you before."
Did she laugh? or did he only fancy
It? But she answered, quietly, "It is
rather an unfavorable atmosphere for
recognitions of any sort."
And they drove on faster than ever.
"She's an excellent whip," thought
Dr, Dane, "and the horse isn't any or-
dinary village hack or farm screw."
"How it snows!" he said, at last.
"But you don't seem to mind it!"
"I don't at all," was the reply. "I'm
used to wind and weather."
"Then it c*m't be Miss Martineau,
after all," cogitated the doctor. "Oh,
I see now—it's Phebe Otway, the vil-
lage nurse, whom all the poor people
send for. But I can't imagine Daniel
Otway's wife with such a sweet, musi-
cally modulated voice. It's a gift of
heaven to save people, I suppose. Well,
I respect Phebe for having the energy
and resolution to face a storm like
this for the very problematical pay-
ment which she has to expect irom old
Hannah Hopkins!"
And then he relapsed Into silence
after one or two more remarks, to
which his companion did not seem in-
clined to reply, save in monosyllables,
until they stopped in the midst of a
whirling snowdrift, before old Han-
nah's cabin, on the edge of a thicket of
pines.
"Shall I put the horse out?" Dr.
Dane asked. "There is neither man nor
boy here to render such services,
and—"
"I can put him out myself," said the
woman, quickly. "I know where the
lantern and the matches are kept in
the shed, and I have taken Prince
Charles in and out of the shafts many
a time."
Without waiting for an answer, she
led the pony around the corner of the
house and vanished as it were into a
white wilderness, while Dr. Dane
opened the door and went into the
sick room, where he wretched old oc-
togenarian lay groaning by the light of
a pine wood lire alone.
"Well, Hannah," said he, cheerfully,
"how are you?"
But, instead of answerinfl, the old
woman screwed up her eyes to peer
past him into the gloom, as if expect-
ing yet another figure to appear.
The next instant the back door
opened and a small, slight figure came
In, already freed from clumsy cloak
or sheltering fur cap—a girl of per-
haps twenty, with clear, brown eyes,
rosy cheeks and coils of brown hair
wound around and around her head.
Hannah's blear eyes brightened at the
noiseless apparition.
"I knew you would come, pretty
one," she said. "You always come
where there is pain or trouble or heavy
hearts, my queen."
"So," said Dr. Dane to himself, "it
is neither Miss Martineau nor Daniel
Otway's wife. I wonder who it is."
All that wild, tempestuous night the
two kept vigil at Hannah Hopkins'
bedside, and, in his secret heart, the
doctor confessed that he had never
seen a quicker comprehension, a more
tender heart, a stronger fortitude, than
that of his unknown companion. And
when, at daybreak, the angel of death
set the prisoned spirit free, and they
sat alone by the corpse, Dr. Dane spoke
out:
"We can do no more for the poor
creature," said he. "She's at rest, now.
Let me take you to your friends."
"No," said the girl, quietly. "I shall
stay here until some of the village
people come. I will not leave her, poor
soul!"
"Can I send some one?" he asked.
"If you choose," she answered.
"But I don't like to leave you alone."
"Do not be afraid," she said, a little
scornfully.
So Halleck Dane left her. Fortun-
ately he met some one a few rods in
the road, and returned with reinforce-
ments—a sturdy old farmer and his
wife.
"Miss Durande," cried the woman,
the minute her eye fell on the slight
figure at the bedside, "you never mean
to say that you have been here all
night! But I don't b'lieve old Han-
nah could have died without you, she
was that fond of you. Heaven bles3
your sweet face!"
Dr. Dane started, feeling the color
mount to his face.
"Ah!" said he, striving to speak
calmly, "so the mystery Is solved! You
are Miss Durande!"
"Yes," she said, "I am Mis# Durande.
I did not reveal my identity before, bei
cause I knew you did not like me, Dr.
Dane."
"But I do like you," said the doctor,
impulsively. "It was only my fan-
cied ideal of Miss Durande that I dis-
liked!"
"Was it just to be judge, jury and
executioner, without even allowing the
poor defendant to put in a plea?"
asked Dorella.
"It was cowardly and base," ad-
mitted Dr. Dane. "If you can forgive
me, do. But I shall find It Impossible
to forgive myself."
The heiress held out her hand with
a most fascinating smile beginning to
dimple the corners of her perfect
mouth.
"Such humility is irresistible," said
she. "You are pardoned!"
They drove home together the best
friends in the world, Dr. Dane wonder-
ing how it was possible that the real
M>.ss Durande should be so unlike the
silly, simpering, conceited little per-
sonage whom he had decided she must
be—and Dorella, woman-like, thinking
all the more of him because she had
been called upon to forgive his short-
comings.
Of course the sequel remains to be
told. Of course Dr. Dane and Dorella
Durande liked each other all the bet-
ter, now, for having so heartily de-
spised each other before. And one day
Dr. Hal told Miss Durande that he
liked her better than any one else in
the world—and, in return, Miss Du-
rande confessed that "she loved him—
oh, so dearly!"
And when he heard of it, Col. Van-
dycke laughed as If it were a supreme
joke.
"Didn't I tell you, long ago?" said
he.—New York Ledger.
REFERENDUM IN SWITZERLAND
The People One of the Most Conserva-
tive of Forces.
The Swiss people, as consulted by the
referendum, has again proved itself one
of the most conservative of forces, says
the London Daily News. It has re-
jected, by 240,000 to 100,000, the pro-
posal to establish a federal national
bank. The voting has followed the law
of these national consultations. The
parts are extremely suspicious of the
whole; the voters rarely fail to make
short work of all proposals to increase
the federal power. Their first impulse,
and usually the last, is to say "No."
Of twenty-seven laws referred down to
a recent period fifteen were vetoed and
only twelve approved. This probably
accounts for Mr. Balfour's known par-
tiality for the measure. The referen-
dum made its first appearance in the
federal constitution in 1874. It is in
the "facultative" form; that is to say,
any federal law and all non-urgent fed-
eral resolutions must be submitted to a
popular vote if a petition to that effect
is signed by 30,000 qualified voters or
by eight cantons. The late Prof. Free-
man had a great kindness for this
method of consulting the popular judg-
ment and he saw in it a development of
the Landesgemeinde, which is the Swiss
equivalent of the New England town
meeting. It is naturally better suited
to small communities than to large
ones. The Swiss democracy, in one of
its aspects, is but a glorified town meet-
ing. Mr. Freedom was converted to
the referendum by a belief that it
would give us a vote on the real merits
of a question, and not merely on its
relation to the fortunes of a party or
of a minister, and he thought that Mr.
Bryce had exaggerated the difficulties
of its application to our own more com-
plex political society. At one time it
was a favorite device of the conserva-
tive party for dishing home rule. Mr.
Goldwin Smith thinks it would check
the corruption in Canadian politics.1
The Swiss are so satisfied with it that
they have it in the cantonal as well as
in the federal form. Some of the east-
ern states of the American union have,
made the referendum a "plank" in
their state platforms, but the movement
has made no great headway in the
union at large. It is probably thatj
tl» methods of American electioneer-
ing would soon deprive it of the sim-|
plicity and directness of operation
which it has in Switzerland.
Blood Poison and Insanity.
From the New York Medical Record:
While the fullest credit should be giv-
en to the staff of this important in-
stitution (the State Institution of Path-
ology), it is but fair to state that the
study of toxaemia in connection with
insanity is by no means a novelty, nor
is it the discovery of the enterprising
young gentlemen (connected with the
establishment) who have been credited
therewith. Over a decade ago Salomon,
Regis and others recognized the toxic
origin of mental disease, while no l*ss
than ten others, among them Herterand
Smith, have written extensively on the
subject. Perhaps most credit should'
be given to Dr. Allan McLane Hamil-
ton, whose paper on "Autotoxis as a
Cause of Insanity" was read before the
Medical Society of London in May last,
and noticed in your London letter a
short time subsequently. In this pa-
per, which contained much original re-
search, the connection between toxao-
mia and insanity was fully shown.
POOR MAIfS FRIEND.
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A Wife Restored to Health by Dr.
Hartman's Free Treatment.
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ceived from Mr. George A. g
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have used Pe-ru-na in my family
ever since you sent me your books.
Pe- ru-na has been the treatment of
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since then. Two years ago my wife
was sick for two months. We tiled
two different doctors, but the case was
very stubborn, being a menstrual dif-
ficulty. I can find no words to describe
her misery. The doctor's treatment
only made her worse, and I, belD£ ®
poor man, was spellbound, not knowing1
what to do. Finally I came across a
Pe-ru-na Almanac; looking into it i
found a cut representing catarrh oJ tne
throat. My throat had been subject
to periodical affection for the last
twenty years, and if any medicine had
done any good it was so little that 1 did
not realize it. Reading the book I
found that Pe-ru-na was not only good
for catarrh of the throat, but also ca-
tarrh of the pelvic organs and nervous
prostration. I immediately sent for
more of your books, and in one of them
I found a description of my wife's case.
I quit the doctors and purchased a bot-
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wife got up and has been well ever
since. I have not been bothered with
the throat affection since taking Pe-ru
na. Before my wife used Pe-ru-na her
trouble eaused her a week's sickness
•very month. B&t now she does not
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GEbRGE A. BLANCHARD.
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The above was a case of catarrh, for
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Women are as afraid to change their
milliners as to dismiss their doctors.
A man who has one new idea a
month, is a genius.
BINDING OF GRAIN.
Why McCormick Changed from a Left
to a Right Band Binder.
When binding was done by hand
the left hand cut harvester was a ne-
cessity. With
the left hand
machine the
heads of the
grain are at the
left hand of the
man doing the
f binding, so in
taking out the
bundle with the
band around it,
whether the man
turned to the
front table or to
the back table he
kept his position
toward the bun-
die itself—that
is, with the heads towards his left
hand; hence, in making the tuck he
Bhoved the ends under the band toward
the heads. Grain is handled by the
shocker by grasping into the heads, as
shown in the illustration, and the tuck
should therefore be toward the heads,
so that it will not pull out.
The applications of roller bearings to
grain cutting machinery was made by
J. G. Perry in 1869, and his patent, No.
86,584, for an Improved reaper, showed
and described various ways of using
roller and ball bearings in harvesters.
Unquestionably the most practical and
satisfactory applications of roller bear-
ings to binders and mowers has been
made by the McCormick Harvesting
Machine Company. The Particular form
used by them was patented in 1882 and
is now to be found in all McCormick
machines. The especially valuable fea-
ture of the McCormick roller bearing
is seen in the form—or cage as it is
called—which holds the rollers from
running together, and if for any cause
the cage is taken from the shaft tho
rollers will not fall out and get lost
in order to avoid the McCormick na'
tent the other harvesting machine com
pany who claims to be the originator of
roller bearmgs in harvesters has on
out the metal in the ring at the ends
th. rollers. If the cage ,s taC«
ttoo rollers slip out and become filled
with grit, or worse, get lost Th!
methods of the McCormick
result in an annual sa™ng 0{
thousands of dollars to the
public. New devices are not embTdS
in their machines until long and oft
repeated trials have shown them ♦« l
practical. It has been the saiH .
roller bearings as with everything
-McCormick experimenting iselSe
McCormick expense. at
The xnoet horrible disease to which
the human family is subject is cont».
cious blood poison. It has alw&y,
baffled the doctors, for notwithstanding
+>ia tarosrress made in some branches of
Sedfcine, they have failed absolutely to
discover a cure for it. Whether in tht
form of powder, pill liquid, the doo.
tor's prescription is always the same-
^Mr. (StoH^Sert, who resides at th#
corner of sad Street, and Avenue N.,
Galveston, Texas, had a severe experi.
Mice with this dreadful disease, and
under date of April 5th. 1896, writes:
"Several years ago I was so unfortn.
nate as to contract contagious blood
poison, and was under treatment of th«
best physicians continnouslv for four
years. As soon as I discove*ed that I had
the disease, I hastened to place myself
tinder the care of one of the foremoit
doctors in my State, and took hia
treatment faithfully for several months.
It was a very short time after he pro.
nounced me well, that the disease broki
out afresh, and I was in afar worse con-
ditioa that at first. Large lumps formed
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Of course, I was pronounced cured half
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I am sure that no one was ever
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