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was a new sen sation to Dolly this perfect, beautiful happi- ness. It seemed to her that some wonderful new brightne ss must have settled down over the world. And i was only this morn- ing that she had dusted the old bro wn dress and tried to brighten it with a fresh collar and pink bow. Only this morning-scarce twelve hours agoshe had pinned on the brown hat, with its dejected "droopy" bows, and wondered if she must walk about und er it all the sum mer. And now it was all away back in the pitiful past. For at no on a telegram had come for her. She was eating her lunc h, BO daintily put up by Aunt Harriet, when the messenger-boy came into the little back room of the millinery store and handed her a yellow en velope. 'It is all right. Coming to-morrow. ROBERT." That was all but oh, the meaning of it! It meant an end to the years of weary waiting. It meant comfort and happiness and rest and the al fillment of countle ss lovely dreams. And it meant that an heir had been found at last by the puzzled lawyers, and that the fortune of the old West ern miner would no longer go a- beg- ging for some one to use it. For the miner's will had called for "the son of my friend Garrison Brent," and Robert was the fortunate man Dolly's hands we re not quite steady that afternoon, when she fitted one after another of the pretty hats over her cousin Kitty's yellow bangs, and Kitty was hard to please. "You ain't interested, Dolly yo ur eyes are dreamy. Do you know Robert is coming hom e? Amy told me they had a telegram. is the heir isn't he rich? But he's had a hard time taking care of his mother and sisters and Mrs. Brown's children. That one is a little too close try a flaring brim." Dolly bought another hat and patiently laid the blue feathers around it. "Maybe you'll be getting married now," Kitty said, smiling under the drooping plumes, "now that Robert is a rich man." Dolly flushed and bent over the hats on the counter. "It looks like it's time," Kitty went on, "if ou are en 'aged, as people say But long eng i cements rarely ever end in mirriage, mother says. Yes, this one will do Get it ready by Sunday, Dolly and I near ly for gotmother told me to ask if Aunt Harriet is through with her head- ache." But it was not of her pretty cousin that Dolly thought no w, as she lay in the hammock under the low spreading magnolia-tree down by the gate. She was resting and thinking of the blessedne ss of this new world that had formed itself about herthe world that held Robert all her own, and a home that she would make beautiful for him. It was twenty years since Robert, standing by her under this very tree, all in blossom then, had told her the sweet story that every maiden must *ITS AGAINST THE KUI.ES, MISS DOLLY," HE SAID. he ar Twenty years! She had been a slip of a girl then, awkwardly con scious of her first long dress and Robert, a boy scarcely older than herself, had blushed and stammered over the story that is never easy to tell. And then his father had died, and his mother and sisters and, later on, a family of little orphaned nephews and nieces had been left to him. Dolly was the first to say they must wait. She could see how impossible it would be for Robert to take care of them all. left school and worked bravely on the old farm, and the wait ing bad gone on. So twenty years csept away. Dolly had remained in her aunt's homo, helping with the children at first, and afterward working down town for her aunt's daughters needed every thing, now that they were grown up, and Dolly was used to looking out for herself. And now the wa'iting was over at last, and she would be Robert's wife. She would rather have waited for this than to have been a queen long ago. It seemed to her that the very leaves knew and trembled, as she did, with joy and the stars twinkled down between them as if they, too, knew all about it. The town clock struck ten and Patty and Ben came in from the reading club. They always lingered a little at the gr te, as the manner of lovers is, ou know. Dolly smiled as the soft murmur ol their voices came to her. She won dered if the poor young things would ever be as happy as she was then! And then, as they walked slowlj up the path, words began to grow ou1 of the soft murmur. "Bob Brent has struck it, they say," ob remark ed in his elegant way, and Patty replied mournfully: "Ah, yes. How sorry I am for Dol ly! Poor faithful, loving Dolly!" "Sorry? Why isn't she in it? thought they were "Why, Ben," Patty broke in, witli tears in her litt le babyi sh voice, "ean'l you see that Dolly is only a faded, middle-aged woman no w, while Rob ert is in his primethe handsomesl man in town? And haven't you no ticed how he admires Kitt y? It wa^ all well enough when he couldn'1 marry but now But the words were indistinct again Dolly heard no more. She had risen from the hammock and was standing, white and still, hi the glare of the electric light. The stars were mocking her now above the lower light, and the breezes were whispering of the twenty years thai had rolled over her, carrying hei freshness away. Ben saw her there when he came down to the gate, and bowed with a cheery, "Good night, Miss Dolly," and I went whistling his newest favorite aown the street. Then Dolly crept up to her room. "And I would have let him do it! never would have thought of th change. Oh, the shame, the humilia tion of it! think that I, a faded middle-aged woman, would have held him to the promise made to a fair young girl twenty long1 yearq ago! was too true and noble I to let me know, too tender to hurt me. If only I had seen! It is all S different with women, but I nevei thought of it before. It would not matter to me how changed Roberl i might be I'd lo ve him only the more, I if he needed more. But he is grandly handsome andand he must have a young, pretty wife. It is best, I see thatbest for Robert and for her and for me for I couldn't bear to have him sorry oror ashamed." She loosed her dress at the throal and pressed her hands against hei temples. i "He mustn't be ashamed of bis-^ wife, dear, faithful Robert. must be happy, now that the world is brighter for him. I can bear itfoi him." And then she wrote a letter, and, when it was finished, she knelt by her bedside and the stars twinkled in i and the breeze fanned her nale, calm face. Faded? Oh, the beauty of it as she knelt there giving up all she held dear. What are dimples and all fresh prettiness compared to a beauty like that? You only get the soul after these are gone. In the morning before any of ^-he household was awake sh% took the letter and cai*ried it out to the mail 1 o' en the corner and then she went to the hammock under the magnolia and watched the un rise down at the end of the cross street. Presently the gate latch clicked, and then a pair of strong arms folded themselves about her and her head was on Robert's broad shoulder, and he was telling her how he had longed for her, and what an age the last week had been. "You would have been sorry for me, Dolly," he was saying "for my hurry getting off, I left your last pho tograph in the pocket of the coat I'd been wearing, and there was only the childish little thing taken twenty years ago. Forgive me, dear, but it's more like your little silly-faced Cousin Kitty than like you. Ther e, don't be vexedI know you are not very like her now but, between us, I believe you were in those first days, though it is hard to think of my beautiful full blown rose as anything less lovely and sweet than she is now. But you will soon be my very own, Dolly, and I shan't be missing a photograph when I have you." Dolly drew her breath. She was in the new world again. "Do you real ly want me, Robert?" she asked, a glad light in her dark blue eyes. "I'll show you pretty soon. Want you? Oh, Dolly!" and then he went on, laughing happily as he told her of his plan. "I'm coming to-night with^ Mr. Sims, and I'm going to claim my wife and tike her away with me. What a 1 tour ours shall be! Yes, I know there is always trouble about clothes and thingsbu we won't let that make the waiting longer. Put on the little blue frock and come away with me. I want you, and I've waited twenty years and now I must hurry to mother and Amy and the small ar my of young people. I'll come f6r my wife at 9, Dolly. Will she be ready?" What could she say but yes. And then how her happy eyes fol lowed him as long as his broad shoulders were in sight! She stood by the gate until the post man came to take up the mail, and then she flew out to him and begged for the letter she had dropped through the slot an hour ag o. "It's against the rules, Miss Dolly," he said but she held out her hand and lifted her pleading eyes to him, and he laid the letter across her palm. Then the breakfast be ll rang, and Dolly went in to tell them that her wedding day was come. CHINA'S WARRIORS. THEY ARE 2orf YEARS BEHIND THE TIMES. Antiquated 'Weapons, Banners With Dragon Pictures, HuR-e Umbrellas, Gongs and GineralsChinese War Junks. The Chinese have not yet gone to war with modern firearms and fought I according to modern Western methods. When they fought the English to slop the opium traffic their arms were not dissimilar to those the English had used 200 years before. Their bows and arrows were probably more effect ive than their firearms, says the New York World. But the'r equipment was at least i picturesque. They carried banners baring representations of green drag ons and other terrible creatures, and i also hug* umbrellas. Many of the sol aiers had colored penants attached to their persons. Their shields were also painted with alarming things. They went into battle with a tremendous beating of gongs and agitation of drag ons and umbrellas. I The stink-pot was a very effective Member of China's Bow and Arrow Brigrade. missile. I was an earthenware vessel containing sulphur and foul-smelling substances. It was very effective against wooden ships. A improved form of this missile is likely to be in troduced in European warfare if the bullet-proof cuirass comes into general use. The Chinese army at present consists of three divisions. The first is the eight banners, comprising "all living Mnnchoos and descendants of the Mon golian and Chinese soldiery of the con quest." These furnish guards for the palace and garrisons "n different prin cipal cities and other places. The second is the provincial army of the "Green Standard," comprising the land and marine forces. This numbers about 500,000 men and is used princi pally for garrison and police duties. The third division consists of the braves or irregulars who are- enlisted and disbanded as required, and"Tiave been much used in real warfare. Considerable bodies of troops have been drdled and armed in European fashion, but the bulk of the army is still a mediaeval mstitutioa Match- A Chinese War Junk. Jocks, gingals, bows and arrows, spears and lances are the usual weapons. Sometimes foreign arms are put into the soldiers' hands without instructions as to their use. The Chinese soldier wea rs a uniform similar to the dress the Chinese laborer in America commonly wears* has a conical bamboo hat, and on the front of his coat the service to which he be longs and on the back the word "brave" is inscribed. The Chinese have proved themesleves to be capable of great and sustained bravery under competent leadership, such as that of Chinese Gor don. The Manchoo Tartars, men of the Soldier of the Tiger Guard. race of the reigning dynasty, are the fighters of the Chinese army. Certain of them composing the Tiger guard*, are dressed in yellowthe im perial colorstriped in Imitation of a tiger's hide, and having ears also to their caps. This cap is made of. spilt bamboo, capable of resisting a hea vy blow. The shield, also of bamboo, is painted with a monstrous bead, calcu lated to terrify the enemy. Every flra soldier has a silk flag flying from a Sa^SUS?"* 1 *"VEI'L The military policeman, says a Brit ish writer, wears a placard on his breast, inscribed "robustious citizen." It is impossible to imagine anything more whimsical and comic than the evolutions of the Chinese soldiers. They advance, draw back, leap, pirou ette and cut capers, crouch behind their A Tartar of the Chinese Army. shields as if to watch their enemy, then jump up again, distribute blows right and left and then run away with all their might, crying 'Victory! vic- tory!' The Chinese muskets had no stocks, and the soldiers held them against their hips. The men who acted as gun-car riages had their ears staffed with cot ton wool. The war-Junks composing the Imper ial Navy were invariably built to repre sent some alarming animal. The centi pede was the name of one with three rows of oars, representing ttie feet of that insect. The Hawk's Beak was made at each end like a hawk's beak. There were also wheeled vessels, which A Chinese Flag- Bearer. have been used in China for many cen turies. The men were usually supplied with rattan shields painted with tiger's heads. The hea vy troops wo re cuiras ses of quilted cloth covered with iron plates, and helmets of polished steel. Their matchlock was of wrought iron worked like a fowling piece. The match was a cord of hemp or coir, and the pan had to be uncovered with the hand, which prevented its use in wet weather. The gingal is a swivel gun from six to fourteen inches long, rest ing on a tripod. The artillery consists .principally of weapons like this. A writer says of the navy: "The greatest ships they have are called juncos, which are very great and are made for the wars with castles very high on the poop and prow, like to the ships of the Levant. There are so many of these that it is easy for any general of the season to gather in a lit tle time a navy of from five hundred to a thousand of them of the same maki ng and greatness." COD-FISH THAT ARE TAME The Place in the Irish Channel "Where They Seek to be Fed. A Logan, near the Mull of Gallo way, there is a most interesting tidal fish pond. A rent in the cliffs facing the Irish channel admits the salt water through a arrow fissure, protected by a grating, into a circular rock basin, some thirty feet in diameter and twen ty feet deep. The cliffs rise high all around stone steps descend on one side to a ledge leveled into a footpath at the water's edge. N sooner does the visitor's foot fall resound on the stairs than the green water, hitherto motionless and apparently lifeless, becomes peopled with large brown fish, rising from the depths, gliding and dashing about in a gieat state of exeitement. These are cod, lythe and saithe, which, caught on lines in the sea, have been trans ferred to this pond to be fattened for the table. They are fed daily by the keeper, and experience has taught them to connect the sound of footsteps with their mealtime. Formerly, a clapper used to be rung to summ pn them, but this was no more than a stage trick the footfall on the stone is quite enough to awaken them to activity. Most of the cod, being deep-water fish, become totally blind in captivity from excess of light but they become so 'tame and accustomed to their keeper as not only to feed out of his hand, but some of them allow them selves to be lifted out of the water. One may witne ss the strange sight of a huge cod, more than an ell long, dangled on the knee like a baby, his mouth stuffed with mussels and lim pets, after which he is returned to the waiter with a mighty splash. On the table these fish, thus tended and fed, prove much better than fish brought straight from the open sea. KNOWNPEOPLE. I WME OP THE WORLD'S NOTABLE MEN. Men in Various Walks of Life Who A.re Attracting the Attention of the Put McCelebrated Personages Far and Near. John D. Kernan. President Cleveland's appointment of John D. Kernan as member of the com mission to investigate the recent strike is one that gives much satisfaction to the people of his native state, New York. Mr. Kernan is not widaly known throughout the country, but in his own state is liked and respected is an authority on labor matters, has had a wide experi ence in such sub jects, and his pres ent appointment will certainly add to lis reputation in this line. Mr. Ker JOHNB.KEEKAN. nR ftt Creek, near Utica. is a an of splendid phjsique in the prime of life, yet old enough to have had extensi\e experience. The commission will be gin its sittings within a few days, and the lesult of its findings- will go large ly toward finding methods for solving future labor troubles. John M. B. Sill. John B. Sill, United States minister to Corea, attracts considerable atten tion, owing to the present troubles in that country. Mr. Sill has been min ister to Corea since January 8th of the present year. is a Michigan appoin tee, and has for years been one of the best known men in the state's educational ciicles. Mr. Sill was born in New York in 1831, and began life by teaching a ,:ountrv school in Hillsdale county, when he was but 18 years of /V-lil^F IP age. I 1854 he graduated from the *.M.B.SIU* Michigan state normal school, of which he afterwards became principal. Since then his time has been about equally divided as superintendent of the De troit public schools, president of the Detroit female seminary, and principal of the Michigan State normal school. has published several well known educational works Arisutsawa. The war between China and Japan makes the leaders of the respective armies of interest. Prince Arisugawa, commander-in-chief of the Japanese army, 1*br first kozoku or imperial prince, has a h's- tory, and he has helped to make one. Sixty years old, he looks less- than 50. Dignified in his bearing, and insist ing upon the re spect due his rank, he is affable to those with whom he is Acquainted. was commander-in-chief of the imperial ar my during the war of the restoration (18GS) and as such decided the fate of the Bakufu leaders after the battle of Ueno. I 1878, in the same capacity, he subdued the Satsuma rebellion. It Is believed that the present trouble is the outcome of the recent activity of Japan in forcing Corea to adopt a num ber of reforms unfavorable to the Chi aese. Japan's interests in Corea are much greater than those of China The rebellion in the interior, which at one time threatened to lead to the fall of the king, gave Japan the opportuni ty to increase her prestige. Recent re ports are to the effect that the king as forced to the adoption of a treaty disastrous to Chinese trades Isaac Zangwill. Isaac Zangwill, the young English writer, who has become so popular, is said to be the wittiest man in London, and et some of his stories show great strength, and a power of somber pres entation whidi pla ces him among the very first of new English writers. Mr Zangwill is under 30, a Jew and a scholar. His early life was lived in poverty. to the a ge of 14 he was educated at Bristol, where his parents lived, but once he reached London and found a place as teacher of a board LUNawmk school in the East end. staited to read by himself for a University of London degree, whieh he secured be fore he was 21, though he had but a few hours to devote to the work each day. His fame and growing fortune are the reward of hard work. is fihe owner of one of the finest private libraries in England. T. ABISUGAWA. Robert Bv Wrenn. The tennis champion of America, Robert Wrenn, will be called upon to defend his title at the Newpo rt tour aament, Aug. 21, against some very Expert players. Robert Wrenn is the youngest play er who has ever won a national championship. is 20 years of age, and in college cir cles is universally popular as an all around athlete. entered Harvard college, havi ng fit ted in Cambridge, with the class of '95. With a bound he jumped into col as, WBBHS. lege athletics im mediately on entering college. Two fears ago was his first real season on the tennis court. After weeks of more or less brilliant playing he was officially ranked as eighth player in the United States. Last year he won the Ameri can championship with ease at the Newport tournament N. E Worthinston. Judge N. E Wortftjagton, whom Pres- ldent Cleveland has appointed a mem ber of the special tabor commission to investigate the recent strike, is a resident of Peoria, ill. was born in Brook county, \Y. Va., in 1837. was graduated at Allegheny college, Meadville, Pa., and became a school teacher in Illinois in 1858. I 1808 he became superintend- ent of the schools of Peoria and Taze well counties, serv ing until 1872. Aft erward he studied law and was admit X.B.WORTHISGTOK (y ba 1882 he was elected to congress by the Democrats, and served several terms. was elevated to the bench of the circuit court in 1891, and has still sev eral years to serve. Judge Worthing ton was one of the delegates at large to the last Democratic national conven tion. has the gift of eloquence to a marked degree.' Rudolph "Weber. A interesting scientific exploring ex pedition to the Island of Sumatra is being arranged by the American Mu seum of Natural History and the New York Herald. Mr. Rudolph Weber, of the American Mu seum of Natural History, is the learned gentleman who will be in charge of the expe dition. Sumatra lies in the Ea st Indian archipelago is al most as large as Texas, and some of its natives are very warlike. This will be the first scien tific exploring expe dition in its history. Mr. Weber is only 36 years of age, but has already distinguished himself in several departments of science. has been in the Museum for three years and was five years Princeton. was born near Zurich, Switzerland studied at the Zurich university and also at Munich. believes he can prove that the East Indian archipelago was at one time a vast continent con nected with Asia, and that he can there find traces of the aboriginal man. H. B. Cleaves. Gov. H. B. Cleaves of Maine, who was recently renominated by the recent Republican convention, was born in Bridgeton fifty-three years ago. was educated in the public schools and at the Bridgeton academy. woik ed on the farm and as a lumberman, and in 1862 enlisted as a private in Com pany of the 23d Maine volunteers A the expu*ation of his term of enlist ment he re-enlisted In the 30th Main veterm volunteers, and a few months later was commis si, B. CLEAVES. R, WEBER, S *K ioned first lieuten ant of Company F. was mustered ouf of service at the close of the war, having won the reputation of being a brave and useful officer returned to his native state, studied law, and has since pi-acticed his profession. I ^875 and 1876 he as a member of the gislarure and for two years thereafter was city solicitor of Portland. From 1880 to 1885 Mr. Cleaves served the state as attorney general. The govern- o'- is unmarried. Maj. W H. Upham. Maj. W Upham, the Republican nominee for governor of Wisconsin, is a native of Massachusetts, fifty three years of age. is one of Wisconsin's best known citizens, and he has a career peculiarly striking enlisted in the 2nd Wisconsin regi ment at the age of 18, and was terribly injured and taken prisoner at the first battle of Bull Run The report reached his home at Racine that he had been left dead on the bat tle field and a fu neral service was held for him. After eight months in Lib by prison he was exchanged and le turred to Washington in a shattered ct edition, his wounds never having befn properly dressed. President Lin coln became interesced in him nnd ap pointed him a cadet to West ^oint. completed uis course with honor, and served with distinction in the regu lar army. Some years after he became a civilian and engaged in the lumbering business at Marshfield, where he has been remarkably successful. is a member of the Loyal Legion and of the G. A. R. Charles Johnson. Charles F. Johnson, the Democratic candidate for governor of Maine, was the unsuccessful opponent of Gov. Cleaves in the last campaign in the state. is but 36 years of age. early education he received in the pub lic schools of his native town of Winslow. I the year 1874 he gradu ated from the Co burn classical semi nary at Waterville, after which he taught school and continued his stud ies at CoHey univer sity, and in 1877 entered Bowdoin college where he graduated at the age of 21. then, filled a clerkship in a Boston railroad office for two years, and was principal of the high school at Machias for four years. I 1886 he was admitted to the bar, and has since been in the active practice of his profession at Waterville and also a prominent politician. w. H. XJEBAM, F.JOHNSON. _ A Impracticable Bat. When a girl gets one of those imprac ticable, impossible fiat hats perched on top of her coiffure she is unhappy until she gets aboard an open electric car and lets that impracticable, impossi ble flat hat blow off into as adjacent' township. Then all traffic must stop until 'the precious noodle has recovered that egregious, preposterous awl damn able flvina machi ne _,. ^M^.J *V