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|'lN LIQUIDATION^ The New York Stores Co. j Will discontinue business upon a date, not | fixed, but a matter of days only. Meanwhile a j Sale that is a Sale. I All goods will go at cost Just what the goods cost the Company I 25 to 33 1-3 per cent off i The Marked Selling Price. Some shelfwom I goods at a greater discount than stated above. First come, first to be served and first choice. N o other or further discounts will be offered | A BID FOR THE ENTIRE STOCK WILL BE CONSIDERED j DANIEL B. ELLIS, [ Attorney in fact for The New York Stores Co. In Liquidation HOTEL BLOCK MEEKER, COLORADO NOW’S a good time to have your name placed on THE HERALD Subscription List His Heart’s Desire An Informal Call That Had a Happy Ending. By GARFIELD MAC NEAL. The chime# were still ringing as Tom Hastings sat down In the half dark ness of the little church. He had strolled In hoping for temporary re lease from his bitter thoughts, but the quiet of the place only seemed to rouse bis brain to greater activity. Yet be could not think of bis story, tbe story already due at tbe publisher's. In stead be saw only a girl's face, now sweet and gracious aa It had been be fore tbe quarrel, now cold and repellent as the past two weeks had shown It A strain of music broke tbe silence. The choir was filing in. Hastings glanced carelessly at the white robed procession. The face of tbe first boy caught bis attention for a moment se rious, spiritual, framed In an aureole of golden hair, an Ideal face for a choir boy. But again his thoughts ran back In tbe old channels to tbe quarrel and Its consequences. Her work had seemed to go on ss usual. Sbe was a success ful miniature painter—at least fine car riages often stopped at the doorway of the* big studio building, and her room rang with feminine voices. That was tbe maddening part of It She lived Just across the ball, so be must see her many times a day. He had made np his mind to move. But then, be bad such a beastly lot of traps, or perhaps It was some lingering hope that kept him there. Borne familiar chords on the organ startled him. Was It the offertory al ready? Yes, and the Ideal choir boy was singing alone. His handsome face was flushed, and In his earnestness be waved his sheet of music geutly to and fro. "Ob, rest In the Lord," he sang. Hastings leaned forward. The words were apparently for him. The abso lute certainty of the boy’a tones car ried conviction. "And he shall give thee tby heart’s desire." The tender voice went straight to tbs man’s heart and comforted him. Yea. he. too, would wait patiently, and perhaps soma day he, too, would have his heart's desire. TUI then he would watt and work. Tbs next two weeks went by very differently. Under the press of a new enthusiasm the book seemed to write Itself. The last sheet had gone in to tbe publisher and he had always worn s smile when he met the girl on tbe stairs. Her bow was still as freezing, but be only smiled again and bnmmed the few bars from "Elijah,” "And be shall give thee thy heart's desire." Again Hastings sat in the little chnrch. Perhaps bis choir boy would sing for him. But the figure of the small leader drooped. In the glare of the choir lights his face showed white and haggard, while his eyes were swollen from weeping. A wave of pity went over the watching man. It might now be bis turn to comfort. The sweet soprano voice was low and broken. Hastings determined to find the meaning of tbe change, so be lingered after the service, and a kind faced cu rate told him tbe aad little story. "You mean Jack Haines? He has Just lost bis mother—consumption—and tbs poor little fellow Is left all alone He ts being cared for by neighbors, but we must find blm a place In some charity school.” That delicate child In a charity school! Hastings could not bear the thought of It. The face of the child and his own loneliness helped blm to come to a sodden resolution. His voice was very eager ss he said. "Let me have blm." And so Jack came to live In the btf studio building. Slowly tbe roses came back to hta cheeks. He did not forget tbe pretty mother, who bed gone tc sleep so quietly, bat he haunted tbl» new big brother Uks a shadow and crept Into his arms to cry away tbe grief that time was trying to heal. Bat It worried Hastings that the lad should be so solemn. When be came In and found the boy poring over some big book be would half laughingly scold blm for turning Into such a little bookworm. "You need some one tc play with. Jack.” be would say. "H Is bad for yoo to be always cooped n| with an old fellow like me." Tom war only thirty, but somehow be bad felt very old and settled since that night. Bnt Jack always declared that be didn't want to be with any one else and be was soch a shy child thai Hastings forbore to press the point He was therefore much surprised one afternoon on coming In to find tbe rooms empty. Where could Jack be' As tbe minutes went by. bringing nr boy. he became really anxious. The Janitor had not seen him. He war returning from fruitless Inquiries wbec he stopped short at a burst of child lab laughter. Coaid It be Jack? He never laughed like that But yes. Ii was his voice, and It came from the girl's rooms. Hastings hesitated. And now tbe girl laughed. It was tbe same saucy tittle laugh be had loved so much It the days gone by. It decided him. Bh< bad stolen his property and sbonlc answer for tbe theft He knocked boldly oo the door. 81ience. He knocked again. Evl dently they did not bear him. 8o b» turned the knob and entered tbe for bidden chamber. Surprising sight! On tbe floor In true Turkish style sat the stately Min* Trevor. On her lap were a big sheet of cardboard and sundry brushes ami paints. Her hair was disheveled, and several daubs of color ornamented her cheeks and nose. Over her shoulder In a state of great excitement lenued the truant Hastings hardly knew him His cheeks were flushed and his eyes were dancing as be cried. "Now, that is the way tbe little monkey swung off by his tall!" His cheek was pressed close to the girl's, and his arm rested lovingly oa her shoulder. Evidently she had won his heart too. Hastings felt a awlft pang of Jeal ousy and started forward. Then they beard him, and Jack sprang up. with a cry of delight The girl waa too loaded down to rise, and so she sat there. Perhaps It was tbe sudden flood of color to her cheeks; perhaps It was the upward glance of her eyes. At any rate, a sud den light came to Hastings. For a moment be stood there blinded, dazed. Then his customary coolness came to his aid. It was his turn to carry things with a high hand, and be moat make the most of it His eyes challenged hers as he said: "How long have you l?een a receiver of stolen goods. Miss Trevor? 1 am glad to see that you have the grace to blush for your sins, even uuder your paint" Jack was quite shocked. "Sbe did not steal roe," he protested. "1 was lonely, aqd I was waiting for you In the ball, and she asked me to come In, and 1 came, and we’ve had a beautiful rime," he added In a Joyous outburst "That's Just as bad," Hastings an swered severely. "You mean to say that she enticed you In here.” Jack was speechless. The girl had said nothing. "You might at least Invite me to sit down since you are so comfortable," Hastings went on. "and let me Join in the beautiful time, thought I don’t know, on second thought, that it isn't pleasanter standing. It la so unusual to see you at my feet" Miss Trevor started to scramble up. but two strong hands lifted her gently into a big chair, it was a new experi ence to her to be either commanded or helped. But she did not seem to mind it nor to notice that he waa still hold ing her hands. Both had forgotten Jack as Hastings bent over her and asked, "Are you glad that I have comer Jack is delighted with it all. bnt h« never can understand why Tom al ways calls tbe girl "Heart's Desire” when her name is Alice. Keep Ponies In Ice Stables. A Danish explorer who has Just re turned from a journey across the In land fee of Greenland made use of Ice landlc ponies, which he found to be well adapted to arctic travel. When stops were made the horses were shel tered in holes cut In tbe Ice. These ice stalls were quite comfortable and In severe weather were covered with tar paullns to keep out snow and wind The small horses gave a good account of themselves and will doubtless be used extensively in future arctic exp# dltlons.—Popular Mechanics. Torpedo Nets. Under tbe direction of Commander John K. Robison, U. 8. N., command ing the naval torpedo station at New port, R. 1., a test was recently made which seems to prove that the tor pedo net Is no longer a secure defense against the torpedo. In the experi ment s torpedo with a heavy charge of guncotton was fired from the torpedo boat Morris while she was running at eighteen knots at a steel net which was moored to protect the target. The torpedo went through the net struck the target and exploded. Panama's Caisson Gats. A floating caisson gate that is bo Iteved to be the largest of Its kind ever built has been completed at Ban Fran cisco and towed to tbe Panama canal, where It Is to be used when required as s dam across the entrance to any o! the locks when tbe gates are to be repaired or painted or when a lock U to be unwatered for any reason. PRACTICAL HEALTH HINT. Baokache. Backache Is seldom due to dis ease. Great fatigue causes It or < great strain, as from lifting or ! tugging heavy weights. Expo- • sure to cold and dampness will . make tbe back ache. Tramping ; about tbe damp streets without . baring tbe feet protected by | overshoes will give one a back- . ache which Is as painful as n ' throbbing toothache. Backache • is often due to excesses. The ; common, everyday home treat- • raent of the ordinary backache Is ) all that ts required. A hot bath. « a brisk rubdown with s rough ] towel, followed by a ten boar « rest In bed. vanishes the acblng ! and pain of nearly every back- < ache. This Is especially true of ! tbe kind caused by exposure. If 1 the muscles In the back have ! been strained (lifting, etc.) the ' bath, rest and a belladonna piss- ! ter over the most palnfnl portion ; of the back In a good treatment. If backache Is persistent In spite | of all simple measures taken to • relieve It. It Is advisable always | to seek advice from a physician. SPELL OF THE PRAIRIES. Where the Oeean of Land B#sms Vaster Even Than the Sss. I had believed that I realised the vast ness of tbe United tftnte* without having actually traveled across tbs country, yet I bad not realized it at all. and 1 do not think that inv one can possibly realise it without having felt It In the course of a long Journey. I had Imagined (but I understood the prairies without having laid eyes upon them, blit when I raised my window shade that morning and found tbs prairies stretching out before me I was as surprised, as stunned, as though I had never beard of them be fore. and the Idea came to me like an original tbongbt: How perfectly enor mous they are! And how like tbe sea! 1 bad discovered for myself the trhril of another platitude. For a long time I lay comfortably in my berth, gasing out at tbe appalling spread of land and sky. Even at sea tbe great bowl of tbe sky had never looked so vast to me. Tbe land was nothing to it In the foreground there was nothing. Nothing met tbe eye In ■II that treeless waste of brown sud gray which lay between the railroad line and tbe horizon, on which was discernible the faint outlines of see eral ships—ships which were In real ity a bouse. ■ windmill and ■ barn. Presently our craft—for I bad tbs fueling that I was on ■ ship st anchor -got under way. On w# sailed, over the ocean of land for mile upon mile, each mils like tbs one before It and tbe one that follow ed. save only when we passed ■ little fleet of bouses, like fishing boats at ties, or crossed an Inconsequential wagon road, resembling the faintly discernible wake of some ship long since out of sight Presently I arose, and, joining my companion, ws went to tbe dining car for breakfast He. too. bad fallen under tbe spell of tbe prairies. Ws sat over our meal and stared out of the window like a pair of Images Aft er breakfast It was tbe asms. We re turned to onr car and kept on gazing ont at tbe eternal spares. Now and then In the distance we would see cattle, like dots upon the plain, and once in a long time a horse man ambling along beneath tbe sky. Tbe tittle towns were for apart, bat each little settlement had Its wooden church, and each chnrch Its steeple—a steeple crude snd pathetic In Its ex pression of effort on the part of a poor little hamlet to embellish more thao any other bouse tbe house of God.— Julian Street In Collier's Bayonets In Battle. The bayonet Is naed In warfare as much as ever. Its chief value la Its moral effect upon a line of troops Tbs reasons why ■ comparatively small number are actually killed by tbs bay onet are that those charged flee before the attack or those stacking are shot down or fail back before the concen trated fire. The band to hand conflict with bayonets Is comparatively rare because one or the other tide has given way before grips are reached. Tbe sol diers In tbe United Sates army are trained In this type of lighting.—New York Tribuns The "University* of Ham. Tbs town of Ham has perhaps tbs most nottble chateau in Francs As ancient as Rhelms cathedral, la enor mous walls have held as prisoners Joan of Arc. Conds the Hague not leader, and Prince Louis Napoleon aft er bis attempt at Boulogne in 1840 to win over Francs Here for six years be was a compulsory stodenL as ho himself put it. In the "University” of Hsm until bis escape In 1840 disguised as a workman.—London Chronicle* The Fishing Banks Newfoundland would bo nothing without that groat submarine plateau known as the "banks" on which all tbs fishing ta dons At a small satioa within the edges of the great bank that tbe cod loves so well tbe sea Is quite smooth. It Is canal for vessels Ashing on tbs bank to inquire from those that have arrived from the open sea aa to what sort of weather It Is "abroad." Tee Cemmereial. Bobble I saw you kissing stator again last night. Castleton—WsU. I’m not going to pay yoo a quarter this time. Ten cento Is enough. Bobby— That's tbe tendency In these days to cut out the middleman and let the goods go straight from the producer to the consumer without chargs— Ufis Liquid Hydrogen. The boiling point of liquid hydrogen Is 4.3 degrees C. absolute, or 268.7 de grees below common aero C. A tem perature of 273 degrees below aero O. Is absolute, and physicians are within 4-3 degrees of this Intensely interesting scientific point when handling liquid hydrogen. The Whole Story. "1 hear yoo are giving np your charge." said one aged and infirm min ister to another the other day. "How are your people toktng ttr* "Oh. well." arms the answer. "Pm re signing and they're resigned."—Liver pool Mercury. Helps the Memory. Btx—You may depend upon It that yonr friends won’t forget yon as long as you have mooey. Dlx—That's right, especially If yoo have borrowed It from them - Boston Transcript. Preserve your Just relations to other men. Their misconduct does not affect yonr defies Epktctna.