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oYe4" herettrynly. .. "Sara! What
are you doing here?' lie riementied.
tilto eolaamed ugoin. -I came lueehreh
OF the sahib," .she eaid. "Ider inietrese
gave me a note to sen4 early thie. =ern"
Mg, anti the weather being so fino 1 take
nIYaelt. 'At• the hotel the y say the ea -
lab is out walking. 1 -route tor end tee
ctob lie"
Ile held out bre baud for the note, anti
obi/ tool( it Were, the tett6 Of Iter Shawl.
It wee re Liao or two front Lady Edith aek-
ing hint to Innele at the Oranee. He
three,it in hie emetet, ettd, gazed. at tho
or not .b.-0 should offer elm exPlattetion
dilatY r kate moodily and in doubt whether
big mooting with Mina, in douleht as to •
whether Sara, had seen him talon:glue's
hand.
Lady Edith that I will be there?"
-Tbank You, Sam," he said. "Will you
tell I
"Yee, sahib," eald Sara, She stood for
a moutene or two, eyeing' him with a
strange intentnerve then she salaamed
anal wont Oh.
CliVe InOehatically walked towards the
betel, Hie brain was in a whirl. It was
almost imposeilice Mr him to "think, for
ltes emotione overwhelmed his eetroaeity or
re:teeming. If he had ever laid the flatter-
iug ltaalon to hie soul that he had tweed
to love Mina, the) meeting -with her, this
diseovery that elm load not received his
telegram and letter, and had iled from.
Bensone Lento because Rho thou.ght, hint
in.ithlees, undeceived )inn, lie loved her
as devotedly, ea paesionately ea ever.
Ned that bathe: so, hie engagement to
Lady Edith staddenly appeared in. Its true
light. When lite ,brain grew (nearer and
able to reet, he saw tha.t• itt marryine her
he w011141 do her a• great, a eruel wrong.
He had honed that, in time he should be
ab'e to love her. but he kuew now that
the hops was futile, an impossible one.
Yes, ho must, at all (tests to her and
himeelf, tell hum the truth, the whole
tretii, and eeve-lier.-froni
cloveleee mer-
riage. But the ast was so great that he
naturally eltrank from the -ordeal through
whieh they must both pass. He would
wait until the election was oYer. 1111/11
they had returned to town, and the an-
nouncement of the rupture of the- engagen
anent could be made at- a time when, it
would attraet lees attention than it would
do at th,e, present moment, when hia name
was so prominently before the public.
He mule a pretence of a breakfast, and
plutiged Into work. He had to address a
umetine in the forenoon, and foected
Itim-
selt to coneentrate hie mind on his ePeech;
though he felt that it mattered little whe-
ther he were returued for Brimfield or
not, mattered little what beoame of his
oolitical eareer. What he 'wanted, longed
Mr, was a quiet life away from the world
with Mina!
lie was late at the Wynthe,wes iunele
and his liege/tett fame though he en-
deavored to foreea ehow of elwerfulneere
of (entree attracted attention, and evokert
the symptathiee of the ladiee.
You wall want a long read.t, after the
eleetioe, Mr. Harvey," said Lad-- Wyns
thaw. er used to think a faehionable doe -
tor the hardest worked man 50 the world•
,hat rta' ,t/10iiired. to alter my opinion, ami
give the paint to a present-day politiciati.
You muet take the kind of holiday ray .
d?otor goes in for. He sr,enels his fort -
nigh
t in bed every year; and declares that
,,'
1ores Men more good than the seaside
or the Continent -What a suceeseful eon.
oert, lest, nightl" she went on. "I wea so
eorry for that pretty young girl who ws
taken ill! I eetit intruire after her this
morning: but her party had just left the
hotel. Here meet he hard life-owlett is
the IG,..NV word for it?-etrentious, letet it?"
"I also eerie.- ,said Lord Chesterleigh,
"and wars too late. It seemed to me thee
ehe saw something, or ecnne one 50 the
eadieete that startled her; didn't You
think so. Clive?" '
Clive looked up, but was fortuuntety
tsperee a reply.. Tor Lady Edith Gaid, with
a leugh, before he tould amewer:
'•What, a romantic explauation, father!
'A fame iit the crowd' kind of ideal No!
I fancy she lost her words."
In Home, weer Homer " cried Lady
Wynthaw. "My dear!"
11 ie not tre unlikely as it eounde," in-
sisted Lady Edith *I know
who happened to lose his place while he
woe reading the service, eee. reehhe
-couldn't eepeat, tbe Creed without the
boos, though he must have Teed 11 hun-
cleerle of times!"
The eonteet cootinaed with unahated
meter; a•Gil the day of the poll arrived.
The most frantic effort,/ ware being made
by the eiteporters of all three eandidates•
' anti (nice e friends were so exeiten and
absorbed in their endeavorthat they did
71.01 noties the lack of enthusiasm which
be sed dent y dip1yed,
On the night before the election Mr
13r -eddy and Hoehki addressed a meeting
in the same part of the town AM thee, in
which Olive wee epeaking, and the desig-
uations "Traitor." • 'Fraud, "She in
?Meted of the People," were hurled •with
redonbled madietivences ageillet Mr.
Clive Harvey. Clive passed the trowd
which leoehld •was addressing in the open
air, and paneed a moment to Helen Rosh -
In, who wee on his lege at the moment,
eaught eight of hint, and pointed rt trent-
/pious, dirty finger at him..
eYeeht •I tell Mr. Harvey to hie face
*et heed' a deceiver. Once a fraud aud
a traitor.. my friendeh always a fraud
and it traitor., Let hes friendeh, the arie-
to-crate bevo.hr, he'll betray zeni as he
'melt betrayed /mill"
T'nere were grooms and hieees, but- Olive
smiled -rather evearily-and passed on It
-wee not until he had got out of sound of
She ratioeue "mice that Koshki's words
took to themselves a eignifiennoe: was the
man not speaking the truth? 'Wao not
he, Clive, "betroyine his friende"--goieg
50 'deeertn Lady Edith? The that/get
made hie groat/ mentally.
'the followiag day Lady Edith, aocom-
Panied be as teeny other ledies ae the
earriage wetted hold, drove from polling
station to polling etation, and was re-
eeived everywhere with eletere, wh'ch
Cirnwred the few ungallant hisses. Clive 1
wee "burly"' toe, trying to persuade him-
self that he was "keen en the result, but
knowing all the while that he did not care
whether he lost or won.
In a, eeerte of the wildettt eveiteinent, in
an uproar which was "eeite like old
times." as Lord Chesterleigh said, the
Mayor stemmed out on the baleony of the
Town Hell, and annonneed the eon. Mr.
Clive ItarveY had been elected with a ma-
jority 05 eenrly five hundred, and was
deelered Merrober for Brimfield
etvidet the elurepe the yelle, the curses
of the mob, Cite, ,.",1115 forward to nro-
petse. the UsUal voLr. ,s1. thanks to the May-
or. Gordon stemmiee ip a mealy little
speeeh: thee Mr. Broddy's V01414 waS heard
in the •rrtielet of the mob. wheee he was'
' enrroneeed bv bis felenee.
"/ declare that the eleetion has been
Wee lev lege/keel:I" be shouted hoarsely'
"Yerthr oried inoel•ki.„ "liv lies end
triekere, Bet, Tet eliehter Clive Hervey
look Oat for hintemlf. Otirhour will come
-.arra seoner thee he think -el T. Rosliki,
/Tenet re the evernieg mn71, 1 ell hint---"
ree1 wee (15011441 III the eheera end
/mile of the Yieterinue narte, who, 'Mum
• Clive ere/eared et. the (1ooro.! the hotel.
preecieree tee nem!) to arriTY Wee t the
nf he! Iiie ned ltiebe, en their /3.110111-
.
dear; to 13C,4 00111 17itiee-yotem.
Lady leettlt wise Imre Cheeterleigh fol.
lowed in the co 1'H:tee: 'hut 15 AVG GO& 1141 -
til tlte'r tin wet at 5110 Orranee thee 911G
1,011.7d whianer hey Jerk? 4.0O1t1at1l11ltie11e,
71111 00 wood. notti'Me.!" -1111 51*
1110 11'1 01: D•gP'GS1' hint. "'Pin lower yell
wettld 'win. le there arything, in, 'which
m
mot eld frit!'" •
1/7111"1111 11
,104111o. ' 1'' tele
Itte 1o.»4 411) ler Imerie it wee, well tlett
eetyld eot see 11 10 r:rpe!
1111' 4.1e0,a,t, in great 'weareme, to
7,70 0. 1,, ." 110 sa id.
C 7./TE It 'XXVI.
roe triorte ree.e0175. lieS ltilown to
'tit en! sone re, the 4. 0 it d t /vitt:thee v
i0/i0011 01 Vallift1441ted, "ClWrI;14 b()1t, the
Aar after leui cleolion from rho piece ie
Wheal/ app. have been fighting: and., relive
terrnd it noceeRery 10 go to Lout -toe on t,ho
dray atter the pell; he 1110 0101G1Ged 50
tome k fot nollitieg1 friend who Will still
,
llgb5iig one of the- London districts. The
terielelle 'were to follow i51 11.. dee er
two.
Wheu he arrited it Ivle roenes, he Mixed
0 ereesing letter from She man who Wae
Yet 50 tho throee 01 Ir's oandidatesItie,
and Olive, /ve1em/141g the ueoessity foe
further 'work in whieh to ebaorh lumee.f,
x'ade an x>1iy• a dinner, with a
M
°hop. and set out for the nhace 05 eeting'.
He had a41 het t1int), Ot it froOt frientia and.
Pee, and, declining abe ectilow-politeelasee
invitation to supper, walked throueh the
werm and etuffy streets. wearily amd.
sadly, brooding over the problem of his
engagement.
And yet it had almost oeaeed to be it
problem; for he felt that there wps only
one oeuree ',Pen to him -the honeet,
straightforward one. Ile must tell Lady
'Edith the truth.
The meeting had beau i
mn a hall in one
of the heek streets of Che ece, and Oliye
found himself at 'the turning leadieg to
Berson's Rents. It Wilti noturial oecniglk
that he ehould be drawn in the direetion
Of the spot where Ire experieneed the
happiecat, moments of his life; end he paee-
ed ender the areliway, atel •welked in-
wards the house i11 whirlieMino, hnd
As ho eid so he heprd n step helr'nd
him, and looking round -for he had learnt
that it wee res well to Iceee an eye 011
Year 1un1 neighbor -be saw that it wae
Quilton.
"Why, Quill -en!" he said.
Quiltou nodded. "Convatuletioutim"
be betean; but Olive out himishort.
'WIust are you dolus 1 •, ked.
then he cheoked himself 'with a settee of
se'f-repropoll: he had quite forgotten' the
woman Qailton had eo kindly offeredto
Quilton nodded again. • "Yes." let eaid,
as if he had read Cliee'ts mind. "She's
verybad; eent for
I'll go With yon,"seid Olive
Quilton etopped and gazed before him,
"Why not? I shall not disturb her." re -1
areined Clive. "I am ashamed to say th: t
„I had nearly forgottee the poor e creature.;
)es; go with you."
Quiltons fo.oe grew like a, mask, and
he was 5110115 for -n. moment; then he stud
with an air or impassive reeignation. I
"Very welllin a little tired of PlserPig '
at Fate• it's a foolish game, and a toeing
e •
"I don't know -what yoe, mean," said.
Clive.rPbably not; but you may presently.
Come one
They entered the house next the one
in which_ the Humane had lieed: and Chve
followed Quilton up the eteara. The door
!Seems eiritteditil that a g1 houl
bed Of her rank and hale latlier'li wee .
I don't. It all depends iteon the evnY en.
whieh you regard it, 'the etrl hannY
-he palmed it men -WO almeat imiteeeepti-
,blyee"ehe low, eartter-A WOO one. ae.
cording to 'iny notiene, then that of
POO'S daUghteeeellte harritaver niletted her
frathere"
ttliee rose with- a gerstere reuediAting
the Areftlesent,
"It lthe riglite, the Suetioe; of the
thing!'e lte Bald. e
"Len. ye er Vrent Yenr IMIet ,of view!'
but the oneht to lireye smite say in itt•Slie,
oeght, to deeide. Well lot Lee do ete, eh?"
"Ten know. where ehe ie?' rieked iwe
Quitton looked At bin), c14104'54'.
dieerevered Iter ewhoreabls
oa, her ideal,
tity, quite lately,. he sand "Of ceterse,
elite dent be her father s name, le tun
aware•of her ro ationehip, to Lord Oheeter-
leigh.-rWhit, luau, oan t your geolis Wee
she ia? Where halm been your eYeee"
Clive stared at WM, _
"I don't 31adorstand,' he Said thicklY,
"I do not Know her, Where 16 she, Who
iS she? '
Quj1to. s11• l' iEe 1pE, wh1i•
eone DU,t, keelmitt his eye rt Axed en Clive.
"Sher le Mano, /3urrell ' sa.d. averttlY-
' Ciao dropped heath in' lai's chair in ebony
amezement•
"Mina!" he excleimed at last.
"Surprieede" seed Quiltou earclonieaely.
"Ina surpresee that you didn't, see the
liesm: but 1enhhose it waell't oetrange.
You did uot know her mother when elie
was yerung. Held on a moment."
Ile went out, and returned in a few min-
utes -minutes epent by Clive io attempt-
ing to grasp the stapenderee feet roweled
by Quilton-and retureed /v411 a minia-
ture.
'ether° you .aro. Look et that, and ad-
-mit that the iikencee s undeeiable. The
mother ware no aa beautiful as the
daughter le.
Clive examined the miniature. "It is
Mina herself!" he said; "but no, thevoza
a differemie," ..
'Yee; the difference between a girl witit
a gentle, lovable dieposeenet-got flora
her father, of vouree-tted a; 'Woman 'orltil
1 a passionate, ungovernable temper. • I
mean bored you wi 1 ie e ai a o e
eleeertiou, and her adoption by =elle, I
only cimeovered them by careful, under,
it Enough th5
tound the ohild in the e110e1 where be
mother had left•her.• It' e not a nieo etory:
not tho hind of story, he kind Of nnother,
; any one would, like to introduee to --the
, public through the sensetional newepepee
ENGIA,:D'S
OLD 1101111111
IsfANI" FAMILICS FOI"NAEW,B
,, •
41)Prelii-
ines,.Jltrinerft ritaltro
, •
iterattneee of the,,
1.'eerage..
Not to doughty cleode ef orms, sI -
though their alieestral; hells are de-
corated with•mauy a trephy.of the
battle, but :to the keen bueinese
oomineria1, ins tin et, talc'
the ability of ethe forefathers to
strike a bargain to MaX1Y RrAr*
, ,
land's "old nobility" owe their
rank and riches. Apprentices, farm-
,
ees, orapers, grocers, brewers and
even large owners feetire'ill the ro.
nert"Ilee'S of the -Peerage and baronet
cy, a Mere accident sometimes lead-
ing the way to a, title, estates and
great privileges in the olol'cla,ys.
Sioee one Edward Osborne jump.
ed from old London bridge to save
his master's daughter frena drown-
ing, afterwards marrying her and
acquiring by the marriage a. goodly
estate., every 'ambitious apprentice
hale been watching for a;similar
chance, for:Edward Osborne was
the founder of the Duke of Leeds'
family, and ib was his son who, by
court influence and intrigue, at-
tained to the highest rank in the
peeraae,
reports, not the kind05 etory'onw
e ould Earl of Dudley.
I
like told 111 detail in the Lew 0015115.W
rao, And it aS Nilard, an.
onve had rieen, and was pacing the
floor in zeistlees agitation. , other London apprentiee4 who
-
he"ItsaiutdTthe Injustice or the concealment! f„..soni.,ideti the family of the Earl of
r weem? Whitt would Mina, gain by iniecuey. He came ap to London
ae"ilq" le9rd Cheetcrleigh Yoe fa'ther' when a latl, and was bound appreine
titanic? Of what use would it he to her? .
Moneye
? ne -will eath
earn, in e -meh
et de- at to a city goldsmith. A lucky
lightfui way, more than she wilt anew chance placed him in possession .of
what to do with. What -would Lord ()hea-
th rare riches, for shortly after he had
daughterttulh gain by btO15
ewrovmeleiettiterrnole noe- set up in business for himself in -
1 4Oion, d 411, ,+lr,o 1,,,,i,4 lar - 1 1
lose deeghter. 'Lady Edith, to wienn he Lombard Street a sailor who had
is devotedly attached. And think idf' ohetj,irr' just landed from his ,ship came in
ea am thiuking of hare' saiTe
hoarsely. [and offered to sell him what proved.
"'Quite so. -0£ course, 'you,
"per eecenese oake, don't moon- Mel" Ward bought them at an immense
by a respectable, motherly old women, 'So epareen. But you aee nking of the advantage to himself, as well as a'
correct and highly-tonecl
with "u•r 1 to be a lot of rough diamopds.
alone of the rooms was opeuee to them groaned Clime.
"She's e eame, istr," eahe woof conithe du
- ee; "ty' ire ehe second. lot which the sailor brought
whom Quilton epoke were or two. ethioal. the more:. Gide of the question,
man. "Iabout th'm afraid nhe's'einkeng id tfast. Wit! trath. My dear fello-,or dorevealyou imagene th t el
e nex ay, ansi it, was this lucky
you pleaee tte come in? She made me Fend this caee of Mina'e is -without etroke .of fortune which enabled
They went into..the 1410111. 7111(1 Cline sew Waredale peerage? It is generally known ,
far you, sir. . that it etands alone? What, about the • warce 50 become jeW•eler to the
that the..-• t l • .1 '• t i
th !coUrt. But t was the bargain he
struck with the last of the Sutton;s,
Lord of Dudley, which enabled him
to enter the peerage. The Lord of
the woman propped un with cuehiono in a
chair She was much emaciated and look-
ed,ae the woman in charge had said, as
itshe were dying. For a moment or two
'the, dark eyes .getzed up at Quilton as if
he did not recognize him, but eted.douly
she •Rairl, m a weak, hollow v.oice:
-You hare come, Henry. wanted to
see You to tell you I am dying: '
Quilton did not contradict her, but re-
sponded with a nod. She must have reen
behind hie mask', however, foe she said
with a sight
"You've been very ewe to tee -better
than 1 deserve.—Who is tine?" she asked,
turningher heave- eves on Clive.
"A frieed." saiQuilton.
"Does E kn•ow?'' she seked, not eagerly,
but wearily, almost ineliffereetly.
"Not yht," said Quieton. "You'cl better
tell hien. •
"Why?" sbe neked with a eigh. "Yon
made nie promiee to knee the secret"
"Yes.' Raid Quilton: "but I've changed
my mind, Go far as he is concerned. Shall
I tell him, Juanita?"
She made a gesture of a,ent wi
mth her
hand, and Qailton terned fo Clivs.. and,
witha. outword of /veneration,
settle
"Thie is Lady Cheeterleie,h, Ur. liar -
Y5)7."
Clive did not start; be soarcely felt, sue -
Misted: whyhe keew not. He received
the infermation v;ithoat a eign or a, word
-lady Chesterleigh," eaid oilmen. "She
50 his ftr,tt 1515."
Then the ghostly ,significanee of the
statement began to dawn on Clive; and
his tare paled.
Quilton nodde(1 as if neje he had read
Clive's mind. •
"Yes. His first wife-thie '1,4dy•••••Vrts
alive when he married the semen!, time,"
he weld. "Of course, he was ignorant of
the fact. She left him in a. moment of
jealousy, quite unfounded and unreaeon-
able jealousy, aud she contrived to here
a. report of -her death conveyed to him.
Why? you ask." Be smiled grimly. and
glanced at the woman. When jealousy
turns love to hate—"
"I never loved him!" broke from the
woman's white lips. "1 enerried him for
all he coiled gee.° me, rank, money."
"And she surrendered these re well ae
her husband," vitt Quilton, g-teeely, ame
emotionally. ecneebotly,says Jealousy is
as strong as death; anyhow" it's Otron.ger
than eelf-intoreet anti mennicnieleree," He
paused a moment. and then' added, • as if
in explanation, "Lady Chesterleigh is
Spanish. Yon know now why ene was at
Palace Grate aed in Groctvenor SC4111110.
Why She did not publiely deolare her rank
And Pnbliely demand leer rights She
knows better thee I do."
"I was aeharned ot t50,es," esaid the
-went an. "At others -/--I wareted revenge:
hut my courage always' failed me-, and
now I know -he -she meriet Quilton--
"has plade it cicier to ane-thet the frault
was mine, and that I shoald be silent to
She end. But, for mychild-but, you, will Pointed•Paragraphs.
take care of her, Henry?" she broke off •
lietlesely. Don't pass your worries; chloro -
the •arms of the chair. Qurton bent over fornh them.
her, then turned to Clive. /
"But there Moreover, the freckled criminal
"Ahe is exhausted," he seid.
is no more to be eaid, We'd better,,go.- 11 bound to be spotted.
rai Rend the doctor in." he prided the
etvoman eveo wee teeleenieteriee ese;ter„, The auspicious an man always finds
itive, "end 111 ;come backein the morning what he is looking for. ,.
evhiele he had sunk; mad he got Up and
IntA) -tab° is.too 'lazy to ;go after it.
roase himeelf front the . steno/.
-walked .01. with glutton like a man in a : The more a man's thit'st 18
;dream. Both men, were eilent untie they gated, the faster it grows. '
;reached olive's 1000:15: then •• •
!into a obeli., and leaet his head on his i a.'ne easiest thing for a, man to
nende, Quilton lit a pipe, eyeing the; acquire is old age -if he lives long
backwoods of ,America. What about the
Peneleigh baronetcy? The man who 'hearts
the title is the cousin of the roal
who; for family reasons, keeps a store in
Briterth Co"urnbia What about -oh, I
could reoall several cases to your mem-
ory. And in this one, bear in mind. it is
not, a question 01 succesoion. They aro
both women; no title, excepting the more
courterty one, 'Lady,' is at stake. It ie
just probable that Mina will 'marry a
title: ehe bertutiful, gifted enough to
cateh half the eieerage. And Lady Edith
---' paueem and Clive turned and
faced him with a' white, drawn face,
(T.o be continued.)
Sir William Crookes,
English inventor of the Crookes
tubes which made the X-ray possi-
ble. He has received from King
George the Order of Merit and has
been chosen president of the Royal
Society.
Her eyes closed. and 1"er arms fell on
heel to 1.c/ea Clive before Clive oottlde SuccesB seldom c0me4 to a man
j haggard face absentin.
, "Strange Story, isn't it?" he eaid dryly. t eteiereu1,
"And, stranger itAg truo. le When a watch is run down it
wondering -or perhaps YOU haven't got' .
room to wonder-wheee 1 come in? I lov-, s4. -ons working, but it s onterent
Iso
d hebut she jilted me for nly Lord Cheeter-
er. See? was £(0inX marrY herv with me men.
Odell oh, X don't bear him a gredge, It It is well. enough to he a thinleee,
Itky 174326e,fiTt.,074t,Tvet'leir-i5; mi.' but to° °ft'en the inan.,Who thinks
Diiclley was hard up, and wanted a true, for the founder of his family
R20.000 loan on ample .security. was 'one john Smith, a respectable
Ward replied that he might do bet- draper of Nottingham.
ter than that. He. himself had a To theee examples of peers who
have sprung from the people in by-
gone days Could, et course, be ad-
ded...quite a, number of instancee of
men who, during the last few years,
have won peerages by reason of
their great businese capabilities,
There is Lord Devonport, who
started life as the son of an Us-
bri-age carpenter, with very little
money. When 21 he went into busi-
DAM On his own account. Keen, re-
solute and devoted to 'work, he
forged .ahead until he became as
Hudson - Kearley, the priocipal
partner in the great wholesale
house of Kearley & Tonge the great
tea importers and merchants, be-
ing made a baronet in 1908, and a
ba,ron two years later.
Then mention might be ma.ele of
the feet that Lord Brassey's fa-
ther was the humble son of a Clie-
thire yeoman, who first achieved
wealth and fame by successfully
.,ex-pleiting "navvies," navigators
as -they were termed, in the con-
struction of. railevay tracks. Engi-
neers iri England, Europe and
America sought his services and
so, many were his undertakings
that he eame to have an army of
75,000 in his employ.
indebted few fOrtime and rank to
Willia„• The Ereel of Ooslow has for. fere-
Ul
5pass
father one Thomas leoot, who evaa
linng Carl:1°1o' na' 41):1o0oar el.taf,fr°, 8b,boyni
and Nortlibreok-and two of bar-
lariy became the founder of four
• grocer'e -aesistant' in the days of
noble houses, two of earise-Cromer
lithe Williaan Craven, trampad
Oa London end found eiehes; while
John 'Baring, the .eon parson,
the fire() Stuart king, while anioag
,other .proud peenk whose progenie
tore, served behind the counter are
the Earls • of Brownlow, Denbigh
,auce Laioaliter`,
Perhaps one of the most remark-
able romances of the baronetcy is
that provided by the history of the
Cummings, the representative of
which, Sir Kenneth William (Jute -
ming, has seen 'service in all ,parts
of the world. Sir Kenneth entered
the niedioal service or the armr its
1862 and retired twenty veare later
after becoming honorable brigadier
surgeon. The first baron was euine
ed in the South •Sea Bubble, and
sold the family estate in Aberdeen-
shire. The second baronet emigrat-
ed to North America, where he wee
elected chief of the Cherokee In-
.
diens, and it was hie absence from
:England which led to the baronetcy
beim', deemed extinct, But it' was
assieraed itt 1877 by Sir Kenneth
The house whieh is now repre.
senile& by .the Marquis of Lans-
downe and Lord Fitzmanriee really
Otiginated thaough Wi1iith Petty,
scin of ,a -Hampshire clothier, while
the first•Leed Eldon was the son of
a Newcastle coal merchant who
commenced life by Making a run-
away match with the daughter of a
Newcastle •banker. Ultimately he
was called to the bar, and hie bin],
liant capaoilities led him rapidly to
the woolsack. '
.A. Radical Earl. -
'
It is the fashion in certain circles
to twit Lord Carrington, one of the
prime movers in the small -holdings
„ . „ .
movement with no' s Ln1 for
the workingman. The scoffers rare-
ly get the best .of the encounter,
however for the radical earl, to'a
goad humor that is seldom- ruffled,
fault,
sa ready Wit that is seldom at
"Tut, tut," is his Usual answer,
'"I was one myself two or three
aenerations ago." Which is quite
son, Humble byname, tend his lord-
ship had a granddaughter. If hia,
lordship would marry the young
lady to Ids son, Humble Ward, he
would be well satisfied with that
security. The bargain was struck,
and thus the Wards • and Suttons,
became united.
David Cecil, the firstof the Salis-
bury's, was a middle class water
bailiff, and eduld only bequeath his
daughter the aseode,rate sum of £20
at his death; but his son Riehard
was a page, and afterwards groom
of the robes to Helir;a• VIII., and
he made such good use of his op-
portunities that he was suee,eesful
in obtaining huge grants of and
a title for his son, 'William Cecil,
who became Lord Burghley.
And it was no norther). baron
who founded the house of Bedford,
batons H.enry Russell, who in the
fifteerithsentury made a modest liv-
ing out of the part ownership of a
barge at Weymouth..
Ancestors Kept Sheep.
Nearly 300 years ago there was a
piquant scene in the House of
Lords, when 'the Earl of Arundel
taunted the Earl Spencer of those
days with the fact that a time when
certain great events were. happen-
ing Lord ,Spencer's ancestors were
keeping sheep.
"When my ancestors were keep-
ing sheep, as you say," 'retoeted
Lord Spencer, "your ancestors
were plottang treason.
It is an incident in the family his-
tory of the Spencers which recalls
the fact that they sprang, from
farmers who bred their sheep and
cattle in the Warwickshire fields in
the fifteenth century, the foander
of the line being John Spencer, a,
grazier, who took to wife tile
daughter of one William (haunt,
husbandman.
The founder of the house of An-
glesey was a William Paget, son of
one of the sergeants of the mace
in .the city, while about 500 years
ago,•the Ba,tharets were trading as
clothiers at Canterbury and Staple -
burst,. Ultimately one . lianneelot
Bathurst became•aLodon aldernian
and his grandson secured' a title.
Reearence.to the SPeners rP-
enenfas eee that 35'0 years ago the
fatuation--I wee much yeuilger than she does nothing elee. head of the house of Ca,vendieln, of
No Gardena, practice doesn't 81- b.- th Duke of Devonshire is
the other merigagel Lady eldith--is-te h e cca,eienall lose
forehead, arta ate terned his (Wes away tient,
Olive Imoke 'with a groan, I W e
,
owner in Stiffolk, who had the gnod
lack to obtain an appointment as
•tee.aeurer, ot the chamber of the
king, and obtained grante of land
from which the Ca,veridiehee derived
enormous wealth. •
The Marquis of Ripon is lineally
deseended from a line of trealeernen.
at York, whese name he hear, and
it was behind blie counter that the
foundations of his 'house ware laisi;
while Would be no Earl of
Oraveci to- day, if William Craven,
son of a ork1*11ire hiltibandrnan in
' Queen Elleabethle time, had yeet
takan it into his head to tramp to
London to win a fortune,
iiron Poriitite and ,i,cerage.
The Earls of t ssex are etittaity
"me firet vela -and alive! TIren-thee. ways make perfeet. Even goo hi f was an obseure
illegitimate!" The eweat stemci out On hie P Yalelan• 0 ST Pa"
"Yes," said Quiltoti; and the ainall,Wcad I —
meant, volumes. !
"Dear IMO (raid Olive. "What -What
te be done? She doee not knetv---?"
Quilton el/re/reed hie elven-dere. "etot
vet. It teete Yeti: you tvhether she ehould
ever know,'
"With me?"
"Yee," eeirl. Quittee mateer.ot-frot
tone. "Only three of 115 know the tenth):
aed there will be mile' two pkeoeflti5 11'
you Ulm- to (teeters, iteovell road 000Ct•
elioultin't. Yen •woulol :have to 1)1010 11.
Yon'd find it re,thereearietot." 110 8a1)E051
11 reomeet ee if eetlectinst, 'le feet, Yda'd
fend it altar/at imperaime, onesterme
identliV are herd to deeide—eXpeeinhY
when the iteastere take a hand in it." I
Clive nnesed lile band -Oyer MS brew, t
"But , bet the woMan spoke of se 011 114," I
lis•tmicl healestee, ."Xer child 88a -h10,
Lora rateterleiehat. Merciful windier/6e, '
Hoi) tite,
eilettee eveuld nerttettlete?"
"No, I deitet, reepOnded geiltea voter,
"1 euepoSe to your ticrietootktio beta 15
Most people would be
heuefitecl by the occa-
sional use of
Nan -pro -Co taxalives
Gently, thoroughly, and
withoutcliacentfoet, they free
the syettin ef Ithe waate
which poisons the blood and
loevers the vitality. 25c, a
130Z, at your Druggitit'S.
National btugt and Chamiaat Cd.
of Canada* Lannert 11e
Thinks -Big and Li(tle.
Wihzt do you think of this for
smallness? It would take 250;4)00
years to count the .arboins on 0 pin's
head. We would hate to hewn it
for feaa -we wouldn't end it. But
we ',must take the. weed of science
f -or it. But thee is not half the
story. New, if you take one of
the'se inconeeivablr small atoms,
and explore the interior of it, you
will:find a• universe filled with eir-
cling orbs, much like a sola,r sys-
tem, and every orb witha motion of
its own that, is caleulated down to
thehb00.000001 of a, second and with
• eourse exa,et ae a. planet's.
Sornebirnes WO like to get onto such
facts and speculations, when we
think of how, alla,11 W,C• are in this
world of tears and how insignifi.
cant' are humea'n events generally..
TheY belP 'te•Make a fellow hold up•
his ;head and feel that he is bigger
than a universe of atoms anyhow,
and yet it is no time for•varoty.
"Have you hot water in your
house?" "HaveTi My cleat bov,
am oever out of it." "
The
fragrance of
the violet and the
color of the leaf
Smell it; liOld it to the light.
See hovy crystal clear ith-
0 pure, translucent green, the
soft green of violet leans.
Then smell it. As 5005115
Yeti do YOU will/vent the fresh,
dainty violet perfume that it will
bring to your toilet,
Cet it today by asking your
druggist foe
Jtrgens
vvIo T
•Glycerme Soap
•, .0. a cake. 3 call:ester 25
Per sate bp Canadian 0/n4704o/ram
cogs onaot in dual n Newfoundland
Far a sample asks, send 2,1140111 10
the Anarow I rivens Co.1.1a,s6tr.%te,r1gikhe,
Oakeiv.
011 the Farm
lbelli>11611.4erickisitswehibrokWi;
,Scraping Apple Trees.
Dr. J. B. Dandeno, Bowmanville.
On the question of serapine, ap-
ple trees a differene,e opiniou
seems- to exist.as to the advisability
of scraping tke eoarse bark oft old
apple trees. It is not the intention
here to inflict the views of the writ-
er upon the orchardist; but rather
Ito give an explanation, with reas-
ons, relative to the effects upon
the trees which have been scraped.
The arguments offered in favor of
scraping are :-(1) It removes ecale
ittirseeee.ts, and eggs or cocoons of
other insects; (2) it somehow or
other impreves the growth of the
The arguments against it; are
(1) It removes a coating of e,ork
which is a non-conductor of heab,
and therefore leaves the tree more
liable to froet iojury and sun scald;
(2) if removed deeply -and is al-
most impressible not- to serape too
deeply -the tree suffers from dry-
ing out, .or loss of moisture -which
may be considerable during cold
dry weather ; (3) if wounded in this
way doevn to the living layers, fun-
gus ,disea,ses gain a foothold; (4)
lit is a waste of time, and if the bark
I so scra,ped off is not burned the in -
I sects and eggs are still capa,ble of
• injury. '
This outside cork layer is imper-
vious to water, and at the same
time it permits passage of gases,
that is to say, it supplies the tree
with a covering perfectly suitable
to its needs. And, as it is a non-
conductor of- heat, it protects the
tree against sadden changes of
temperatare.
It is stated that the chief insect
aimed at in scraping is the oySter
shell 'sca,le, or bark louse. This
can not be very, serious, for this
scale ,can not penetrate the bark
of the trunk and therefore can do
no damage there. It must crawl to
the twigs -where tile bark is thin,
However, even if there were many
scales on th.e trunk, it would be so
much easier to kill them with lime -
sulphur. One could spray ten trees
while he would serape one, ancl de-
stroy the scale much more e-ffectu-
Mrs. Casey was proud of her
strong, muscular son, a,n,c1 abillmore
proud of him when he went intro a
gymnasium and mad.e himself local-
ly famous, says The Argonaut. Thee
one day it rumor eeaelied her ears
which she didn't like, and when
,Miehael eame home that sight she
proceeded to take bbn to task.
"Look here, Mike Casey, what's
thisaVael leaning ehent yer doin's at:
thegymnasiiini? , Don't ye kniave
it's' poor we are, an' havin' 'no
money to pay for yer destructive
rryin' on 'Why, what do
9> r
ye mean, rnotheel" asked the as-
toriished Mike. Am they sayin
all over town that ye have broke
two of their boot records d.own
there?" she howled.
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A P,ASTit
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AND LIGHTNES3,USE
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