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" FOUGETS, RRBIEnEtgitSGRIEV,E9 AND 10 10184D.» Falcorde Chase is apt to be considered somewhat dreary and dull by those mem, leers of the fashionable world who only exist to kill time and see no beauty in Nature's handiwork. But to Lauraine the whole place is,beau, tiful beyond weals. The great dark forest lands that shelter the deer in their coverts, the old bridle -paths, where the boughs meet overhead, the solemn, stately old man- sion itself, shut in by elm woods and mighty oaks of centenarian growth, the stillness and solitudeand repose that breathe everywhere these have for her ex exeeeding charm, ao ever -varied delight. For days and days she does nothing but wander about, sometimes alone, soinetitnes with Lady Et. wynde. The weather is mild and the sky grey and. soft. The keen, salt air of the sea braces and refreshes her tired frame, and languid spirits, Her friend is enchanted with the place, and throws eesbhetieism to the winds, and gime eboot in a neat tailor-made gown of homespun, and ebolielies the nimbus round her heir head, and evinces an energy and alertness that would astonish her ad- mirers of the " lilieseaudaanguor" clues. Ono closing evening they stead on the summit of the great cliffs, at whose boas A wild sea is breaking tempestuously. A wild- er sky is above their headamne tliet, foretells a storm cloee at hand. Lau/sine turns her thee Seawar,d, and the fierce wind and dashing spray seem to give it a new and wonderful beauty, "It is glorious !" she murmurs, as he stands there in a sort of rapture, "Itseems as if one eou)d move, breathe, be free in a place like this," "Free 1" says Lady Etwynde. "Is any- one that? Aa long as life shackles or souls, eo long does bondage curb our washes. never met a single person, men or woman, who eould do exaotly as they wished," WEllIA you have not much to complain of," laughs Lauraine, "You live as You like, do what you like, go where you like, and have no domestic responsibilities." "Trus," says her friend, with sudden gravity, yet for all that I have felt a pang of envy sometimes when I have seen a poor I beggar -woman in the streets press her cbild to her breast, and look with real love at its poor, pale, wizened face." " What a confeeeion for a dtseiple of Culture—one who has educated her eyes and taste to such perfeetion that, a criante bit of turniture, a false tone of colour, a mistaken arrangement of draperies, will torture her as a discordant mote tortures the ear of a musician t So you haven't outlived feminine weaknese yet, my dear V' "1 suppose Nature always exacts her rights from us st some period or 'mother," Palmeri' Lady Etwyado. "1 have become a,ccustomed to hear 1 am passionless and cold, end find it less trouble to live up to the character than to deny it. People aro always so sure they know us better than wo know ow -selves, Being a single woman, it is rather a mama to have such a reputation, aed as I dislike men, and petroniee fools, I am pretty safe." "But you are not cold-hearted at all," says Lauraine, turning her face, with its beautiful sea kissed bloom, to that lovely languid one of her lesthetie friend. "Don't you really care to marry ?" " What should I gain?" asks Laxly Et- wyude, tranquilly. "Le mieux est Cennemi du Men, you know. I am very well off I can do pretty much —not exactly—as I please. I have no one to control me, or consult. I can follow my own whims and vagaries. Am I not well enough ?" And yet you envied the beggar -woman?" "That was in one of those moments when Nature was whispering at my heart. Noth- ing touches me like a child's sorrow, or a child's love. I have often longed to adopt one, but—well, I suppoae the feeling would not, he there?" "You might marry for—love," suggests Lauraine, timidly. "My dear," murmurs her friend, with delicate scorn and faint reproach, "at thirty years of age?" "That is not, old for a beautiful woman," says Laraine, with unconsious but most sincere flattery. "And it is our natures that make us old, 1 think, more than actual years." Lady Etwynde smiles her Resistive, 11100n - lit smile. "I shall never love," she says, calmly. "Men are so uninteresting; and, besides, people always seem so unhappy when they are married," Lauraine colours hotly, and her eyes turn seaward again. "?es," she says in. a Tow voice. "The people we know and meee—in Society. But to their' marriage ha e been chiefly a Metter of arrangeMent, or convenience. Thera is not often any heart in "And if there were it would not last," anewers Lady Etwynde. "Sentiment is lovely in theory; you cannot reduce it to practice, though." "1 think it niight be possible," says Laur- aine, dreamily. "Even fashion and the world cannot kill feeling. If people would only be more true to themselves—less areifi- cial, less exaggerated—they would be much happier." " Doubtless ; but far less comfortable! My dear Lauraine, Society suits its age and always has suited it. It is no use wishing things could be altered." "I suppose not," sighs Lauraine. "You are rather romantic " continues Lady Etwynde, as they turn back from the great bold headland and move towards the narrow path that leads into the woods of Falcon's Chase. "18 in an unfortunate quality for either man or woman. They will never see persons or things as they really are. They will love, and invest the person loved with every atigibute they would wish them to possese, eland which, alas 1 they never do. They throw a • halo of imagination round every head that is dear to them. Their existence is a series of shocks and disappointments. They see • their fairy weapons broken time after time in the world's rough warfare. 'They stand and look at life with wistful, feverish eyes, • praying, Be as I. fancy you,' and it never will. They break their hearts over the sufferings and Sorrows they see, and intensify their own by too keen a sympathy. They are never understood, especially by those they love best. They are like the poets who sing to deaf ears and go throe& life misunderstood, even if not scorned, and not ridiculed." 'f What make e you think lam romantic?" asks Lauraine, "A thousand things. Your love of nat. ure and solitude, your areistic fancies your • emotional capacity, your extreme sensitive - nese.. I have a weakness for studying ehar. aeter, When I first saw you 1 said to myself . 0 She ie not happy.' She is full '•of idealities.' ' She cares nothing for the world," She will not be content only to— live.' Am right, ownot "Can one ever know oneself quite ?" murmurs Lamaism, coloariug softly. " Do you madly think I am not--Imppy." "Think ! It !scarcely needs couselera,- tion. But I am net geing to encourage you in morbid seutitneut. I do not think you are a weak woman, I bope not. Bat I fancy you will need all your strength at some time in your life." "You talk like a ethyl. Do you possess the gift of second sight in sedition to your other accomplishments ?" laugbs Lauraine. "1 don't thiek so. It only needs a litele thought, a mental trick of patting two and two together, to reedmost characters. Of course there is a great deal of mediocrity to be met with, and yet 16 13 ;surprising how widely even mediocrities differ when you give yourself the trouble of annalysing them. Rumen attire is like a musical in- strument—there are but few notes, seven in all—but look at what volumes of melody have been written on those notes." " And, to puraue your metaphor, what a differenoe in the sound of the keys to eaell individual touch ; eoine give book but a dull thud ; others a rich, full, resonant sound, fall of life and. melody." "True, and thereiu Bee the danger for many nattu es. Tim master -hand that produces the highest order of melody is perhaps too often that of some passing, stranger who goes carelessly by—and who BO to speak, finds the instrument open— rues his hands lightly over the keys, awakens brilliance, life, beauty, where °there have prodemed but dull, prosale sounds, and then gams away and—forgets." "Ab, if we were ouly wood and leather, and had wire for our strings, flat hearts and souls,we should not miss the player, or sigh for the vanished music," says Lauraine "Unfortuuately, forgetfulness is not always Possible for us, desire It as we may. "Rave you overdesired it 1" asks Lady Etwynde,quickly, "Pardon mei she adds ;us she melees the sudden whiteness of the beautifel face. "1 should not have- asked. But you will not misjudge me,idle curiosity had nothing to do with the question." "1 know that," says Lauraine, quickly. " Yes, if thi ere s one thing I desire on earth it is the possibility of forgetfulness." "The one thing that never coroee for try in—or seeking—or praying," rnurrnure Lady Etwynde, dreamily. "Alas, those melodies ! A sail day indeed it is for the woman who eonfessea— " The face of the world is changed, I think Since first I heard the footsteps of thy soul. It is a, beautiful idea, is it not? That is one advantage of poetry—it clothes a thought in grace so exquisite that we feel as if con- versing with being from another world, I never can understand people saying they don't like, or men% comprehend it. Sense, memory., love, pleasure, joy, pain, all that, is senattive, emotional, purest, best, is Actedupon and intensified by poetry. A word, a line, will thrill us to the very core and center of our beings —will make joy more sweet—pain less bit- .er—love more exquisite and life less hard, even beneath its burden of regrets." "You love poetry. SO =eh questions Lauraine with growing interest. "More than anything. But by poetry I don't mean merely beentiful verses. I include all grand and noble thoughts that imagination has coloured, and that are read as prose. A really poetic nature is one that sees beauty in the simpleet of created things as well as in the grandest; that is humble and yet great; that drinks at every fountain diluted); thatsteeps itself in the enchantmen 4 of a scene, not measuring merely the height of a monntain from the see, level, or dwelling on the possible discom- fort of a storm at a particular altitude ; that know a its mind to be full of longings and yet can only partially satiety them ; that would fain be glorified, filled, enriched; and, alas ! knows only too well that the wings oi the mind are beaten against the prison -bars of a stern and hard existence, from which escape is only possible in dreams or—death!" "Do you not think such a nature muet be iutensely unhappy ?" "1 said so at the beginning of our con- versation. But still It holds the two ex- tremes that make up life—happiness and misery ; it gets more out of each than na- tures more placid and commonplace and content. 18 really lives, and the others— stagnate !" "You must have read a great deal, and thought a great deal," says Lauraine look- ing admiringly up at her friend's thought- ful face. "Do you know I think you are the only woman I have ever met who telks about other things besides dress and fa.sh- ion? I don't think I ever heard yon thy a scandalous word of anybody. You put me in mind •of something a friend of mine once said, Women who are intellectual always talk of things; women who are shallow, of persons.' There is a great deal M that if you come to think of it. How wearisome it is to hear of nothing but names' in a conversation ; and yet r know heaps of men and women who are considered brilliant and witty and amusing, and whose whole conversation turns upon nothing else but gossip respecting other men or women." "I quite understand you. Society is eminently arbificial, and objects to strong e -notions, and would rather not be called upon to feel anything. Why will people go on writing?' said a lady to me one day. Everything has been said that can be said. Literature is only repetition.' "'My dear madam ' I told her, light is always light:' but fsuppose you will am knowledge there is a- difference between having our streets illuminated with eit- her -ma hung on a rope, or brillant with gas and electricity. Arb aud science and lit- erature Must progress with their age. Scott and Fielding and Smollett don't suit the nineteenth century any more than perhaps Brandon'Ouida, and Rhoda Broughton may suitthe twentieth. Nevertheless each has ha,d its day and held its champions, ir- respective of what a coming generation will say on the subject. The immediate good, excitement, benefit, is all Society thinks of now. It has laid, its denaatids on each re- spective cycle—oirth or ilea a -n, or refined manners, or even mind. .13a.: in our age it worships the golden calf alone.You don'b I know, and I don't; but all our reward is to be wondered at, and never to 4get on' with people. It is Lady Jean Salomans who 'gets on.' But then she knows her age end accepts it, and goes with it. • 1 dare- say, being a clover womae, she laughs in her sleeve at one set, and yawns after a pro- longed dose of the other ; but sin's the most popular woman in London,and there s some- thingin that more satishectery nowedays i than n sa,yhig I am the Queen of Eng- land.' You and I will never be popular' in her sense,Lauraine, becaose we don'b take the trouble, or perhaps appreciate the re- ward. As for you, toy dear, you are too transparent for Society. You show wheth- er you are bored or pleased, or happy or saO, That doesn't do. You should aawaye go e,bout masked, or you are euro to offend see -mono or ether.. You are young, and have been very much admired, and have a splea- did position. Socially you might teke the lead of Ledy Jean, but you never will. You don'teare enougli for the 'homier and glory' of Bode' eaccess." "Non it seems to me unutterably weari. some." "Exactly, and yea sbow that you feel it to be so. 1 have done the same for long, but, then I covered, iny dereliction with the cloak of eccentricity. You siroply do noth- ing but look like a martyr," "Why will people live arid not as if this life was the be-all and end-all of existence, I wonder?" murmurs Larmaine. " Faney fretting one's emit away in the petty worries of social distbeetion, the wretched little triumphs of Fashion. To me it seems such an awfully humiliating waste of time." "You laugh ea my enthusiasm f or Culture," answers Lady Etwynde; "but that is the only eva.y to reform the Blame that, disfigure au age 80 advanced and refined as ours. Invention and science have never done to much for any period as for this, and yet men end women shut themselves out from intellectual pleesuree, and demand scarce anything bat frivolity, excitement, and arouserneut—not even well-bred amuse - merits either. - The gold of the millionaire gilds his vulgarity, and lifts him to the level of princes. Good birth and reficement, and purity and simplicity, are treated as old- fashioned prejudices, We are all push- ing and scrambling in a noisy bewilder. ing race, We don't want to think or to reason, or to be told of oar follies in the present, or of retribution in the futate. Gilt and gloss is all we ask for, no hash names for sins, no unpleasant.questioning &met our actions. Ah toe 1 16 18 very sad, but it is also very true. Society is a body whose members are all at variance as to the good, and %greed as to the evil. Thepassions, the absurdities'the interests, the relations of life areher ettselfishly gratified, or equally selfishly iguored. It is not of the great- est good to the greetest number that a men or woman think e now ; but just the greatest amount of possible gratifleation to their re- speetive selves. Witb much that should make this age the most highly -cultured the world lute known, there is, alas 1 much more that renders it hopeleesly and yulgarly abased." "And there 18 00 remedy ?" "My dear there are many, But Society hugs its disease, and cries out at the physic. It knows of the cancer, but will not hear of the operator's knife. Perhaps, after all, it is right. Think of the trouble of being highly bred, highly educated, pure in thought and tone, sparkling and not vulgar, amusing and yet relined, dignified yet never offending, proud yet aever contemptuous. Why, it would be a complete revolution. Fancy forsaking artifice, living in a real Palace of Truth, where everything was honest, definite straight forward ! Think of our poor, pretty painted butterflies, for- saking their rose gardens and beaten by the storms and cold winds of stern prejudices and honestly -uphold faiths. Ali, no 1 It is eimply preaching a crusade against infidels, who aro all the more vindictive ia oppo- sition becauee civi1ization, instinct, aud reason, tell them they are in the wrong. • . Why here eve are almost at the lodge, and here comes baby to meet us. Ale, Leuraine, thank God, after all, that we are women. Woula a, cbild's smile and broken prattle be a volume of such exquis- ite 'poetry to any other living creature ?" Two little eager feet are toddling to meet Lauraine, two tiny arms clasp her neck as she runs forward and snatches up the little figure, A thrill of sweet, pure joy flies through her heart, " Hes.ven has not left me com- fortless," she thinks. (To BE CO$TI7I1TED.) A Steam Digger. Among those who have long maintained that digging by steam was not only advise- ble but possible, is sn old Sornersetthire farmer, who has freely spent both time and money in converting his ideas into praotice. The digging apparatus is fixed at the back of the machine, which consists of a porta- ble engine of eight -horse power, mounted on a pair of steering wheels at the front end and broad travelling wheels at the back end. To the rear of these wheels are four sets of steel digging tines, six to the set, driven from a four -throw crank shaft, so that no two sets of tines enter the ground at the same moment. Just beyond the mov- able digging tinee is a bar carrying a set of thirteen fixed tines and covering fourteen feet, that being the working width of the machine. As the digging tines throw up the earth the clods are projected against the fixed tines and are thereby broken up. The tines are driven at an average speed of 1 34. strokesper minute, the working stem pressure being 120 pounds per square inch. The digging apparatus is raised and lower- ed by means of a small independent steam cylinder, while the depth of cut is regulat- ed by a screw and handwheel arrangement. The superior value of steam digging is said to consist of the exposure of much greater surfaces of soil to the action of. the atmos- phere than can be effected by any other mode of cultivatimi, and this advantage is gained withourpressure being brought on the soil by the procecs. The First 3nternational Exposition. The first great international exposition was that held ot London, in the Crystal Palace, in 1851. The next similar under- taking was the "exhibition of the industry of all nations," held at New York in 1853. This was held in Crystal Palace, which was afterward destroyed by fire. A similar ex- hibition was also held in Dublin the same year. In 1854 an exhibition was held in Munich, which was at first very successful, but cholera appeared and caused such a fright that the enterprise was abandoned. The first greatParisinterna•tional exposition was held in 1855: The second English inter- national exhibition was held in London 1862. Next in order were those held a Constan- tinople in 7S63; Be.yonne, 1864 ; Dublin, 1865 : Cologne, Oporto and Stockholm in 1865; Melbourhe, 1860; Agra, 1867. Then came the great Paris exposition of 1867, followed by several smaller Ones at various places, until 1873, when a vety fine one was held in Vienna. The next important dis- play was the Philadelphia Centennial. Again a number of smaller ones, then the great Paris exposition of 1889 and now the World's Columbian Exposition in Chioag city, the greatest, of all. One of the most effectual ways of pleas- ing and of making one's self beloved hi to be cheerful. Joy softens more hearts than tears. • •' A cheerful heart paints the world as it finds it, like a ;sunny landscape ; a morbid mind depicts it like a sterile wfidernese, and dark ae the "shadow of death." • Michael I'. Chalk, of Duluth, the motet fa,- mous diver along the bake, has invendal a eabinarine armor which he believes will withstand ehe preesere of the sea at depth of 1,800 feet. , A WOMAN ACIFEDERED. to a vira,e That Orbigs to Mud the Deed • efdaelt the Dipper. The foul crimes a Jack the Ripper were again celled to mid be London the other night by a murder that was cornea - ted in Rotherhithe, a suburb a ;short ells - tame to the eouth-eest al London, The Indy of a woman belonging to the unfor- tunate class wale found with the throat cat, the wounds showing that the knife had been used from left to right, as was the ease in all the murders committed by the Ripper in the Whitechapel diatrice of Leaden. Persoes in the "threats at the late 'Jour at which the murder was done state that they heard a woman scream two or three titnes. They real in the direction from which the soonds came and found the woman Iyingon the pavement, with the blood streaming from an awful gash in her throat, She was maconscioue when found, and died a few minutes Afterward. The polize were promptly on the scene, having beesi attract- ed by the screaming, bat the murderer had effected his escape, leaving not the slightest clue to his identity. The degraded women ofRotherhithe are panic-stricken by the fate that has befallen one of their slumber. The body of the (mad woman was not niutilated in the disgusting manner filet characterized the crimes of "Jona the Ripper," but it is thought that the aesassin Was frighteaed away by the sound of approaching foot- steps before he ho.a time to mutilate the body. The police are searching among the friends of the dead Woman for a possible clue to the murderer, They don't believe that "Jack the Ripper" 110,8 commenced operations again, but think the crime was due to jealousy or to a drunken quarrel be- tween the woman and eoine man whose am quaintanee she had made on the street. Vaniahed Lake Agaesiz. If you look at a map of the Dominion of Canada you will see near the centre of its southern border the fertile province of Manitoba, contitheing the greater part of Lek° Winnipeg, end embracing a. vast ex- tent of rich prairie laud, whose abuudant harvests and bountifel pastures have won for the province A world-wide fame, nob - Il st t hsod t nenndiunr, gethe long, cold winter that it has Geology has an interesting story to tell of the former condition of 'Manitoba, and of the origin of its productive soil. A great lake, exceeding in extent the whole chain of what we now call the Great Lakes, ev acnexisted there, and to this vanished lake, whieh no man ever saw, though the evidences of its former existence are plen- tiful enough, the name of .A.ge.ssiz has been The present Lake Winnipeg is only the, shrunken and dwindled remnant of the great body of water whose oozy bed Ilea now been turned, into thousands of harvest 4°13histit perhaps the most interesting thing about Lake Agassiz is the faot that it was formed, so to speak, by a tremendous dam of leo, which shut it in on its southern side. This was near the close of the so- called Glacial Period, when the great sheet of ice that had covered more than half of North America, was beginning to dissolve and retreat. As the glacial ice melted away, and the bed of the lake slowly rase with the dimin. tailed pressure, the waters of Lake Agassiz were gradually drained off, leaving only the Winnipeg of to -day, the basin of the Red River of the North, and the broad prairies of Manitobaas tokens of its former existence, aud evidence of its vast extent. CATTGIIT RED-HANDED. Au Ripple° orate G. T. R. Wile Hee Been Robbing the Dail Rags. A Port Huron special says 1—For several months past the post -office authorities have been puzzled by the disappearance of large numbers of eastern and Canadian letters, lost between London and Port Huron. Government detectives have been linable to locate the thief. About two weeks ago Chief Inspector Stewart, of Chicago, and Special Inspector Larrimour, of Battle Creek, began work on the case. Disguised as farmers, they spent much time on the trains between London and this city. A leIV days ago the conclusion was reached that the loss occurred at this end of the tunnel, and a vigilant watch was kept. Suspicion fell on Charles Ford, foreman of a gang of men who inspect and repair cars in transit. In his capacity he had access to all parts of the train at all times. On the arrival of a train on Saturday evening Ford metered the postal car. In a few minutes the inspeetors followed and caught him in the act of rifling the mail bags. He was at once taken bath custody and no less than 289 letters found on his person. He had large pockets in his coat, made purposely for caerying parcels. It is said he had keys which would unlock all the mail pouches. No accurate estimate can be made of the amount of money he has obtained, but it, is thought it will reach many thousand dollars. -Ford was taken before Uniterl States Commissioner Harris, where he ad- mitted his guilt. He will be held to the September term of the grand jury. Ford has been in the employ of tbe Grand Trunk many years has occupied a responsible position, and had the confidence of his superior officers. He has a fine felaily, and was a general favorite with all who knew him. He is about 37 years of age. Large quantities of all kinds of articles have been discovered. itt Ford's office, in- cluding jewellery, fancy goods, postage stamps, etc. He is in jail. A Race Without Money. In a recent publioation of the Imperial Geographical society of Bessie is the sur- prising announcement that the Chewsures— a,ace of 7,0 00 people—in the department of Trout, government of Tiflis, know noth- ing of the use of money as a medium of ex- change. The unit of valuation among the primative people is the cow. A horse is valued at three cows and a stallion at six. If a Chewsmagbecomee enraged and cracks his neighboes skull he is obliged th pay sex - teen cows. If he break a bone of his neigh- bor's arm five cows will rehabilitate him in the eyes of society. A wound ie the fore- head calls for three calves. If ohe mats an- other en the part of the face usually cover ed by the beard the puniehment is compara- tively severe. The "doctor" places as many grains of wheat along the cut as pos- sible. For each grain of weeat so used the critninal must give up a cow. Wound 3 in the beardlees part of the fece cell for one third as many cows only. The man who injeres his neighbor's hand surrenders she, teen cows. Thirty cows even will pay for the loss of an eye. The people are said to be happy and contented, leao misers exiat among them 'In religion, as in friendship, they who profese most are the least sincere, leveceitydper. ponasnibilitoywwalks hand in hand wibh caa o ea-rout:el•rvoasx QTT074101 Oramui lcezro . ....----„_. 1 ICOrrOLaNg O CorroLEN Trorsx O CortoLs O Joribun r orrraN aCorrOLEi, COTTO Vail 0 JCOTTOLE NCorrotax orrotzrrrotur Co roLw OrrOLgNOTTOLNOTTOL1OribLQNLU CPTTOLB OUT Or TH411 FRYING' PAN .. 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AIONTREAL "6:0RA:lEn. o4, PAPER i aj:mcAnnuR w tU ih CI .6 'RACTORY +01,77:Rs\ ALIr CANADA 151583 FACTORY Ext, IE71. F. CROSS, ?rep. ApRliancns for all kinds of Phy- sical Deformities. Grecs, Improved Pal Arti ftoini Li Albs. nor.-- a I Bo feta PHItirs LIST arin.CIR,iiti.bA7,"...'S Attar 17.ing 712 Craig Sttee., blonizeal Siding 015 *BOOT & SHOE NIANUFACTURERS J. & T. STEPIIENS, Wholesale, Beteadry St, •DENORNING CLIPPERS 5,5. E111B •, t77 fai>sia MUCILAGE & LIQUID GLUE MANS. E. AULD, • .Prices Right. 759 Craig. • OSTRICH FL'ATHER MANFN. W. SNOW, Feathers Repaired, 1918 Notre Daae eae. SCALE MANUFACTURERS W. GORDON le CO, 601. St. Paul STENCILS, STEEL STAMPS, MS; ETC. G. W. DAWSON, Benckfor Prices, 749 Craig- TRD 1 •AlrfxBTEB WI TINLES