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The Turning Point.

The 4 ojclock train wont ■pMdinK along the level line of the railroad one aunny afternoon. Ju*t 10 year* ago. and among It* paa»enger* were two young and hand»omo men. who had mot on the car» hy chance, hut who had been Intimate friend* at echool and colleger ami who were Intimate friend* Kill. lr one might Judge by the fervor of their greeting and the earnest manner in which they- conversed. without taking the least notice of any person aroimd them. At last the elder of the two. a tall, dark, young man. with large, dark eye* and Jet black hair and whlskera. arose from his scat, took hla traveling-, bag from the rack and began to shakh the dust from his coat and to wipe lit from his face with a cambric handkeri; chief, as If hi* Journey was drawingnear Its end. "Then you are sure that you won't come with me. Harry?" he asked, looking anxiously Into the fair, frank face of his companion. ;’I cannot." was the low reply. "Well, at least remember what I have been saying to you today. Give , It up. Hlfry—the drinking, gambling. the'folly of all kinds. Begin to save your money, instead of spending It all. as you do now. and as 1 used to do. and In three years, or perhaps sooner yet. you may be traveling this way or some other way. bound on my present errand, with a coat little home and a dear little wife waiting for you at the Journey's end. It Is worth far more than all the rest, my boy. I know, for I've tried both ways." "Why. what nonsense It Is to talk to me about saving. George! Look there!” cried Moore. Hebrew out his . pockctbook. in one compartment nestled a tm-dollar greenback. In the other were two onc-dollar hills. In a third, a little crumpled roll of currency, and In the fourth, a tiny case filled with postage stamps. "Behold my worldly wealth!" said he. in a mocking tone.’ "There is all I have before the next quarter's salary is paid, iind while I live in New York, I must spend the whole of my salary.. I cannot save-It. Expenses are too

high."

"Then do as I did." said Ids friend.

- "I found the tcmptatlgns and expenses

of New York 'life too much for me. I could not save, and what was worse. • I fomd that I was giving way more and more to the habit which I

mue

I wont up my

you to leave off. Henry. I place and went to yondi

wherein an uncle of mine lived.

town.

stated my case to him. He helped me. \He got me a situation in the leading store hererhe took me to board at his house and watched over me like a ■ father till I cared no more for drink. After that. It was easy enough to save. Henry, and I soon worked my way tip to home and happiness. Oddly enough. 1 started with only ten dollar* In my purse. But I was far worse than you arc. Cannot you get something- to do in some quiet, country place like this, where you will be kept out of temptation js I was? Try It. old boy. Write to me a month hence. ~ and If you have not found the place and the people to cure you by that time. I’ll find them for you. Is’ that

on the impulse of the moment. They parted. Henry Moore watched nls friend ns he stepped into a waiting carriage at the’ station, and dnpve away to meet his bride upon his wedding night. Then, as the train steamed slowly off again, he thrust'-^Is pocketbook liack into the breast of his coat, and leaning his cheek upon his hand, gazed moodily out upon Ahe flying meadows and forests, while he)mused upon his schoolfellow’s happy/fate. “The last Otae I saw him. he had been drinking heavily nearly all through , the • night," he thought. "Gambling, too. and loalog. His Dice looked purple and flushed; his eyes were heavy and dull; his cheeks were bloated; his hand shook like the hand of an old man. How different now. He Is ms handsome and fresh-colored as he was in his boyhood. He Is eager, alert, full of life, hope .and happiness. While 1—" a heavy sigh finished the

dog. parading about In a dignified manner, with n lady's tiding whip In his mouth, and a dapper young gentleman la a light, summer suit, approaching the lady and her steed. He saw them all as oat secs faces and figures In a vivid dream, and wondered almost audibly what “that fellow" was doing there; and then, as they plunged once more into the unbroken solitude of the pines, that girl's face seemed to stand out visibly In the ah before him and accompanied him. like a smiling spirit of good omen, to his Journey's end. Late that night, when, after eating supper and reading the evening paper, ■he wont up to his room the face was there before him. smiling like a picture from the bare white wall. He had gone up there to mr.he some alterations In his drees before going out to get rid of the rest of hlr evening In the city streets; but the face detained him. held him there In the cheerless fourth-story chamber, even against his will. ‘ “How graceful she was!" he groaned out. "What a pretty—what a sweet face she had! .How blue her eyes were! How brown her hair was and how It waved about her head and -face., like a little, soft, dark cloud of curls! She must hare bech 111 lately, or she would cot wear her hair like that; every other girl fe piling chig nons up higher than the moon. And yet she looked the very picture of health. Her cheeks were ns round and as rosy as the apples In her father's orchard. Perhaps she Is too sensible to wear chignons end false hair. Per bape-she-don't care so much for dress as oiher women do. What did she wear? I can't remember. I only know It was seme soft dun-colored material falling about Lcr In soft folds, without ruSlng or paniers of any kind. And a blue ribbon at her throat—blue as the 'bluets'—blue as her own sweet eyes! Oh. dear! If I could but meet a girl like that—a girl with ‘no nonsense about her.' as Mr.'Toots would say." he added with a laugh—"a girl who would marry a pooh man because she loved him. and who would go to work and help him build up his fortunc and his house together. Wbj^lt would be the making of me!" He took out his pocketbook and looked again at the tcc-doHar bill. •'Shall-l try It? Jerrold says he began with no more; and look how well he has done. Let me see. Here Is enough to pay for ny supper, lodging and breakfast, and my ticket back to the place where 1 saw her. That will leave,me the roll of currency for small expenses, and the ten dollars for my sole capital till I \find a place and work. Her father Is a fMner. I know. Ant} that chap In tbe'gray summer suit hates hard work. I saw It In hla face and walk. Ill do it. He can but refuse me at the worst, and 1 shall be able to look at that sweet face again. IH go."

The train sped on. The young man lo«t In painful memory of misspent hours, still leaned his forehead against the window frame, gazing on-all that pasMd before $lm as If he saw It Bot. Suddenly, as the train decreased its d again, and the warning bell be-

eyes that roused him In s momenL For half an hoar past their way • had led through a dense pine forest, rising greenly on either aids of the cars. 4 . But now there came*a sunlit >treek among the trees beyond his wind a*, and in the long, val space thus formed he saw a - lowly, but snug-looklng. gray cottage, with vtneshaded porches and portico, a green and level lawn,'with j a lake flashing brightly in the sun beyond it; and on the lawn a rosy, healthful girt of seventeen, standing . with her arch, mischievous face turned toward the passing train, and her arm* t —--clasped grimly around the neck of a . small, black pony, saddled and bridled, who seemed terribly frightened at the noise, yet perfectly docile te her voice and touch. Other figures filled the background. F The fanner, stout and hearty, dressed fas blue overalls, and wiping the per*pfmttoo from his brow, as he lifted

with her kandj as she train; c great, black Newfoundland

Yon know he is not very strong, father. and his hands have grown white and soft at college, and. cs l^e says, he is not fit. for tho work.” she was saying when her fathers growls ceased suddenly; and. looking cp, she saw a tall, handsome, Saxon-faced and bright-eyed young fellow, dressed in homespun, taking off his straw bat to her and her father, in the way that did not smack of country birth and training by any means. The light blue and the dark blue eyes, looked straight Into each other’s depths for one bewildering moment' Then the girl turned away v and walked out of the field, with a sadden, viv^d-felpsh staining the whiteQ^s of her throat apd forehead; and the yodig fellow, gazing after her involuntarily, began bis

2 o'clock that day Jane Halliday. giving the last touches io the

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well-spread dinper-Uble.. took_the tin born and went out on the aide piazza to "call the folks" to their noonday meal. She saw the heads tunn and the bending forms straighten themselves as the echoes of thecjnellow blast floated over toward'the distant hills, and lingering yst a moment felt her cheek grow hot again, when she saw the young man advancing with her father toward the house. “Here's a new hand, mother," sang out the fanner to hla buxomOrife, as they entered the kitchen together. “He came along' to look for work Just In the hick of time, after your dandified nephew cqt and run for fear hri should tan his cheeks- Tou'il make Dick’s bed up for him tonight, Jane. He Is worth his salt, I most own. and he shall stay here as Tong as he likes. Now. mother, dinner—hurry, Jenny, hurry!" They sat down to the Uble. Jane's chair waa directly opposite that which the new hand occupied, and presently

Well, 1 dp vow! That u a queer taste of yours, anyhow!” “I drank it so aa a child, but I think HI give it up after today, as I am to do farming work,”- stammered the young man. scarcely/ knowing what be was saying and nkwilling t* own his.blander lest Us'cause might pos-

sibly be |

"Gracious! " said’the fanner. But the good wife quietly changed the cup for another, properly sugared

and the '

in t '.‘He don't look one Ut like a ft Jane," she eald, w« - ‘ 1 'into the fleifl again 1* as much of a

clothes. And yet he must take hold of the " wouldn’t _ _ ho Is." Jane made a brief reply and changed the subject as speedily as possible. She had seen behest!, her long eyelashes how the stranger's eyes were fixed upon her when that mistake with the coffee occurred. "What a ridiculous excuse," -she thought, smiling. And then a sudden rebollecUon flashed across her mind with stunning j emphasis and meaning. Was it a dream? Or was It real? That rush- | lag train—that open window—that moody look - Bashing into sudden brightness as It caught and answered her .own laughing glance- while the car# whirled by. No wonder the face seemed so strangely familiar to her

Innocent eyes and softly clustering locks—what could It all mean? Cousin Dick returned no more to thA farm that summer. But the new hand stayed and worked faithfully all through ''haying time and harvest." much to tho farmers delight. At the end of the season the farmer made the young man a liberal offer for the ensuing' year. And thereupon ensued a Ions and confidential conversation between the two. • "Give me twenty-four hours to make up my mind." said Moore, at last.

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So. when the four o'clock train from the city thundered p»K the farm that evening the new hand Blood cn the lawn alone and watched it with thoughtful eyr-s. Taller and straighter he looked than when he first came to the lone pine lands, and there was a healthy flush on his cheek, beneath the sunburn, that told tales' of a different. a nobler, a holler life, then the former one had ever been. The farmer was busy at the barn. The good housewife, in the kitchen, was hurrying onward her preparations for tea. and Jane, with a two-quart tin basin In her hand, came out of the Jiouse and turned toward the garden as he looked that way. Her errand was for fruit for the supper table, but before the first handful of berries had ig^tled down upon the bottom ■of the basin, the girl started, listened a moment, and then turned crimson ns the new hand came up beside her. The berries were neglected.. Hs stood still a moment, then dropping basin and berries upon the grass, he held her by the hands. "Jane, your father has asked me to stay here and help him with another year," ho said. “He offers me good wages. And I am safe here—safe from many a temptation that you know nothing about—thank God. I am l better and a happier man for my stay hero this summer, but there is room for Improvement yet It rests with you to say if that Improvement

shall be made."

‘.'With me?" said Jane, glancing «p at him with a gentle smile. “With you; with you alone."

“Then stay.”

He took a pocketbook from the breast of his coat and opened it "Jane, you see that ten-dollar bill?"

"Yea."

"That marks this turning-point In my life. I was going headlong to destruction when a friend held me back. I had but ten dollars to begin the world with again a lf I gave up my t>D*ce and salary In New York. Yet my friend advised it. It was what he had done, and In throe years he had earned a home and a wife in another place. He had been as wild and as reckless as 1 was then, and It was seeing what a little sober effort had done for him that encouraged me to try. I came here—and yon know my. life and thoughts and habits from that day. We have been happy here together,

Jane."

“Oh. very happy." waa her reply. "Bpt now there must be a change. I cannot go on in the old way any longer.'Jane; your father likes me and I believe I may stay here forever so far as he and your mother are concerned. Now, for their daughter. There tk ten dollars, Jane, and there It what I have earned by sheer hard work these last six months added to It. I shall receive four times that sum another ysar from your father it I stay. Will It be enough. Jane for m# and my wifs?" She waa silent. B#cding down to look at her hevsaw that her eyes were full of tears. v “Can't you like ms, then?",he asked, In dismay. “Oh, U Is .not that. It la father and mother," ahe whispered. “1 must not" leave them." "There la no need, my lore. I may ten you now that your father has given his consent, and your dear mother will not be long behind him. Ob, Jane, my darling;! I found my hope, my Joy and my salvation that day I came to the Lons Pin* farm.*' “And not a single berry for supper!" bewailed Mrs. Malliday. when they returned at Ud to the house. But a tearful smile succeeded the lament, as. after a brief whisper from Jane, she kissed and blessea the “new-hand" as- her prospective son-in-law.—New York News (

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