Indeed I am not tho gruff follow I have so
often seemed. Do believe that Doyoure
memlier how 1 told yon that 1 dreamed of
losing yon? And now the dream has come
true. 1 am always looking for you and
cannot find you.
"You have been very good to me, so pa
tient and genial and Crank No one before
has ever la-on so good. Even if 1 did not
love you 1 should say that,
“But 1 do love you; no one ean take that
from me. It is my own dignity, the
crown of my life. Such a poor life—no,
no, 1 won't say that now. 1 cannot pity
myself now—no, 1 cannot"
The Disagreeable Man slopped writing,
and the pen dropped on the table.
He buried his tear stained face in his
hands. He cried his heart out, this Dis
agreeable Man.
Then ho look the letter which he had
just been writing, and he ton- it into frag
ments
TO J!E CONTINUED.
A Fond Delusion Dispelled,
(inU'tia (sm*ttc.
The average citizen of Galena has
been hugging fondly to his bosom the
hope that he would not have to pay a
dollar a bushel for potatoes this fall,
but according to the emphatically
issued pronouncements of each and
every farmer at present this hope
must prove a soul-harrowing delusion.
Without rain this world is indeed ft
“ wilderness of woe.”
Effectual. —Charles J. Booth,
Olivcwood, Cal., says: 1 have used
Ayer’s Fills in my family for several
years, and have always found them
most effectual in the relief of ail
ments arising from a disordered stom
ach, torpid liver, and constipated
bowels.
Darlington School Census.
Tlir Democrat.
