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Exeter Times, 1905-07-27, Page 6+1114 $+I 44+4-H H -,-t 4 + 41-H-14-1-144-1•114-11-1-1-11-1 vorite Niccc;is a - OR A SECRET REVEALED. ÷14+44-1444-14-44-144-1-1444 4 +"1-14-M-14 44-14-444444-i4-4-14-14-144-1-+ CHAPTER XLIII. It was sumo comfort to Ilettio to heave her tears hissed away, to feet lue.ng hands take hers, and loving lilhas touch her forehead. "Tell rue all about it, dear, and wo twi.1 forget it. I will trey all 1 can for the remainder of your life and wino to make you happy, and to >> v'" 1 love." toyou for th a umh v 1 atone III I. "1 have 90 little to tell you," said Ilettie, "and 1 aro so much ashamed of it. I asked hint to stay just a little with inc. but ho said 'No,' he must Ito; and 1 asked him why. It all came out then, Leah. lie did lose ole; ho loved me with all his heart. Ah Ire, if you could have seen his face -the sorrow on it which no wordy could describe. IIo did love me -living and dying, it will comfort mo to remember that. I shall never know love agtfln; but he loved rte; there was love unutterable in his eyes when he looked at me. Only think, Leuh, I have had but ten minutes' real happiness in lily life, and 1hat way when I first found out that he loved ane -before I knew what stood between us. Leah, the great sen lay before us; the wind brought the brine of the ocean and the fra- grauice Mom the meadows. I would go through a lifetime of torture for ono such hour Lignite Ile told me why ho must go. What, of all the reasons in the world, should you think it was?" "Was it that he was rich and were Poor, Ilettie?" asked Leah. "No; he cared nothing about that." "Was it" -and Leah lowered her voice -"anything about our father, ,. , Ilettie. •'No; he liked any father; he re- spected his peculiar ideas, and-- wo.:Id you believe it. Leah? -Casale oft en to discuss nnttters with hire. No, it was nothing about my father. Yon would never guess, Leah: it is too cruel to guess. Ile did love 111e; and he told Ire that because he love,) nu. he must go away and never see nay face again. Even while he said it all his great love was shin - ins in his eyes. And the reason was thi-.-that he was engaged to marry some c ne whom I ata sure he did not Joie. Ile told the that a certain tra:n of circumstances had led to his erg age•nent, and that he himself, inistal.ing the friendly, kindly admir- ation he had for the lady for love. had asked her to be his wife. Ah. Leah. how much- unhappy love there is in the world! Ile told Inc that this girl whom he was engaged to marry would die if he left her, and that nn;nown to himself he had learned to levee me with all his heart; it was for that reason -it was heca>rse he loved ale and could not ask me to be his wife -that wo part- ed. never in this world to meet again." "\What a sad story, Ifettier cried Leah. If ,i"o had het known, if she had but guessed who it was that had thus loved Ifetlio, she Haight have died than and there. • "Yore must not think," snit! Net- tie, "that he was wanting in loyalty and honor; he was engaged, prom- ised. pledged to this other, and lie had 110 thought of loving ane. Neither of us knew or thought of it until all at once the truth came upon us like a great blinding light; then bettor told him that he t go." "I think he was cruel to you, llet- tio." Feld Leah, all unconscious wham she was judging. "No; ho did not inland to be cruel, lie (lid not know. it carte un 08 all et once, Just as when ecopto thi;ek they are wading through a phallow brook and suddenly find themselves in a deep stream. Ile could never hate been cruel: he was the most gentle, the most chivalrous—" "ile should have thought more of the danger that you ran; the fact that colt were lonely and friendless shoeld halo plane hint all the more cautious for you." "I do not think that love often reasons," snid Bettie. "There was not much harm done." "Oil two lives spoiled," put In 1.101►, sadly. "I will not call mine spoiled," said Bettie. ''1 would rat her have loved him• nnf loved hint unhappily, than have been the beloved wife of any othee man. iiirn? will be life apart: but I will not call it spoiled. That. night. Leah, be kissed me. No nnan hail kitrsed me before: no man shall ever keel nae again. On that night. Leah, just for one minute. he took me in his arum and held me there; and until I die no arnw shall clasp me again. I seller pain: yet even lily pain is sweet and pleasant to tnc. Soietlines 1 think t hat we (11 1 t women can suffer deeper pain than women of more passionate na- tures. 'That of her, whom my love will marry. said she should glee if she lo -t hint. 1 love hint as much, but it will not kill rle." "Would you wiah that it nnight, I'et' i ?" asked Leah. "No. 1 love you. and I shall find Bout miens pteaainee in life. but I Niall tee true as steel to my lost ►es te i wish you could have seen hire. Leah. To have loved one such, sten if unhappily. is joy enough for a lifetime. i hove te14 YOU my love story. dear. and you will now know w h'•'. a• i go through life, all inen will le to me tut as shadow.." '•i hese it will not be so, fft'ttte. ,1s tee years go ow roe will forget thee in:i'tent. which is h'rt a dream. aryl meet with IOtw sac who wilt 71i1'.e you haply," y 011 Vet tie shook her golden hs ad. Could any other man have such a iface as the mean who had kissed her by the sea? ('mold any one ever re - 1 pier•° him? She laughed the idea Ito scorn. "How strange, Leah." she said, "that we two sisters have a fate so ' diflerent! •1'o you -mint, darling 1 do not envy you -I aur not even ever so slightly jealous o[ you -to you every t!;ing has come, men love." "Yoe forget one thing," remarked Leah. "You had your father's, bless- ing. 1 had his curse; althouch no harem has followed it, still it lies up - On tee." "f have twondercd," said Nettie, with a sad smile. "tthether it has not fallen on mo by mistake." "No, I ant quite sure it. has not," dtclarcd Leah, warmly. "Yon de - Serie every blessing. fly lite is not. finished; it may overtake ate yet" - words which she afterwards remem- bered as proehctic. Just at that. moment the general cause down the terrace to them. "In your favorite shot, Leah?" he said. "Po you know how long you girls have been talking? -]tore than an hour. What is it about? Neither bonnets nor lovers, of that I am sibs." 'Neither sister spoke; and then Sir Arthur saw that each face awns pale and grave. Ile thought to himself that they had probably been speak- ing of their father. "Leah, 1 want you," he said. "I will not keep lou very long; but I should , like to talk to you before Vasil comes." 1icttie heard the name, and repent- ed it to herself. "Vasil?" It was an unusual name, and one site had hardly heard before. "'That must be Leah's lover," she said. "happy Leah! heaven bless her!" No knight would ride down the armee to woo her. She wondered if many worsen gave their lives for love. "Colne to the library, Leah," said the general. "I like bracing, clear, frosty weather like this; but I felt a twinge in my right arm this 'nom- inee and I roust not neglect it." See- ing that Mettle looked at hint iu- quiringly, he continued: "An old wound is like an old friend. I receiv- ed a sword -cut on this arm more than twenty years ago, and soune- times on very cold days it teases me even now: the moral of which is that it is easier to give a wound than to cure a wound. Do not leave your cozy corner,- Ilettie; I will send Leah back to you in ten minutes." As they walked down the terrace together, Nettle wondered if the time would ever come when they would discuss matters before her, if she would ever Le really one of them- nitcs, if, wh n Leah was married, she would take her glace in her unelt'.'s confidence. Not caring to watch Leah and her uncle, Nettie looked down the avenue and saw a gentleman walking up to the house. She drove back, thinking that it was some visitor for the gen- eral. and tho next minute had for- gotten all about the occurrence. CHA1'1'i',R XLIV. Sir Vasil walked slowly up the avenue; he looked tired and pale_ not at ail like a gay bridegroom. Sha- dows in his eyes told of sleepless nights. of weary days, of sad thoughts. Yet he had in his manner soo;ethine of the lean who has fought a good fight and has over- come. Ile reflected, as he walked be- tween the long lines of leafless trees, that after all he was mare fortunate than many men. tic had known the rapture of true love, even thon;h it had lasted so short a time. Many men lived n'id died without ewer knowing one such hour as had fallen to his lot by the sweet southern sea. The glow of it, the warmth of it, would last hire threrigh life, even through the chill of long years. How well he remembered the first morning that he came to Brentwood, acrd the beautiful face shining in the midst of the passion -flowers! What a fatal morning it had been for hint ile could recall the peculiar expresition of Leah's face the first moment her eyes met his; and sho had told hien seines•, that in that first moment she had loved hien. flow losing and faithful she had been to him ever since! flow many men would Os thele le es for the love she lavished on hien-and hu was so . cold! Ile made many good resolu- , tions as he waked up the av'enne, where the Neve:neer sun shone brightly through the bare branches. Ile would be more loving to her. Never again should his thoughts rove to the fair, pale lace that had lain on his breast for fee minutes. never to lie there again. ile would for- get it, and think cf the beautiful face that had smiles only for him. Ile world be loving and loyal to her, and in time heaven would send him peace. No man was either great or wise, or truly noble until ho had suf- fered pain. It Wa% the lot of every man; some live without p1eas•irce happiness or love, oat no one lives without pain. "I will make it all up to her," he thought, and then through the leaf- less trete he saw the terrace+ and the pretty hwfustrade where the great clusters of passion -flowers grew in summer -the very spot in w>•i'•)i he Sad first seen her. and, unless he was mistaken, She wa+ there now. Yes. be could lir the folds of a long flack !dress on the white stone of the ter- race; ho could see one white hand lying idly on the ledge whcro the brown tendrils looked withered anti dead. She was surely there; she had told him she, loved that spot best, because it was there she had seen hila first. She was loo:sing toward the house. Ile would go to her noise- lessly and take her in his arms; he would hies her Dud say loving words to her. lie want quietly up the great white steps, whero the marble statues stood and tho huge vases were tilled with o.ergreens, round the great clusters of almond -trees to the corner that Leah loved best. Ile smiled to him- self. Ah, ho was not 'mistaken! A tall. slender figure stood there, with a black dr'is trailing on the steps, a white hand resting on We balustrade. Ile could not see her face or head, for she teas loosing to- ward the house. Should he call her name? If he uttered but one wind. she would turn to hien with her face aiI bright with glad and happy love. s, No; he would go upto her and clasp I her in his sinus and kiss her, while he enact • heir guess who he was. Ono twin was half round her, and his dark handsome head bent over her before he perceived that the beau- tiful nrasses ut hair were of gold. The next mono nt the fair face seemed to flash into his own, a cry carne front the pale lip, a great shock over- whelmed thew. 'there %teas a te!'rille moment of fear atni pain. •of bewilderuutit anal surprise, followed by a deep silence that was full of agony. Then faint- ly from him cane the name "Het - tie!" -so tremulously spoken that it, was like a sigh. "Hettie," he repented, "is it you?" She shrank hawk with a little wail- ing cry, which seemed to go straight to his heart. Could it be Ilettie? Was that the golden head which had inin for a few happy minutes on his breast? Was that the fair pale (ace which Ito had covered with kisses ana tears'? Could it he the girl whom he 'hucl left by the sea, never to meet again? "It is really Ilettie," he said; and he laid his hand upon here, as though he half fancied she. would molt into thin air. "Iecannot trust my own eyes. Speak- one word to me. Are you really Bettie Ray?" IIo had seen her last, in her homely dress, plainly made of plain materi- al. in the midst of her homely aur- roendings. Now she stood arrayed in costly silk, with great folds of crape, with an air of distinction and elegance, a certain subtle change - more fair and lovely than ever in his eyes-Ifcttie still, but a very diile•- ent llettie from the simply -dressed maiden he had known at Southwood. She raised her blue eyes and looked at hint. "Do you not know Ire?" she said reproachfully. "Surely I am Ilettie Ray, just as surely as I am the most miserable girl in the wide world." "Hattie, nettle what brought you here?" Ho made no attempt to caress her. Ile drew back from her, and looked at her with wild, trou- bled eyes. "What brought you here?" ho repeated. "I have tried my hest: I have fought a fiercer fight with my heart than any loan ever (ought; and now, alien I had begun to hope for ptnce, you rise from the very ground, as it were before me. Ilettie, in Heaven's name, tell enc whet brines you here?" The face before hint was misera!de enough; there was the very anguish I of woe in the blue eyes. "Do you not, know," !ilia said slow- ly, "who I atm?" "Yon are llettio Ray," he replied. "Alas, alas!" she cried, wringing her hands. "I begin to sec now; I begin to understand. What have I done that Heaven should punish me so? What have 1 done?" "Ifcttie," he said, gently, "I do not understand. What is the mat- ter?" "Who are you?" Rha cried. She stool before him, with her hands clasped, her pale face raised, hang- ing as it were on the swords that were to fall from his lips. "Who are you?" she repeated. "110 not keep inc in suspense. Tell me quickly." Still no glimmer of the truth ane to him. Ile wondered at the intense anxiety of her manner. "1 forgot," he said; "you never knew any name. I am Sir Basil Carl- ton of Glen." She repeated the words after him, her white lips treeenlillci. They- brought heybrought no memory to her. "Sir Mail Carlton!" she repeated. "I do not mean that. Who are you? Tell due for Heaven's sakearo you Leah's hence? They said he was coming to -day. Heaven cannot be so cruel --you aro not Leah's 'lancet" • "I am Leah's lover, my poor dar- ling." he said, Sadly. "and she loves you so! Oh! how has iU happened'' We were talking about you the other day -no, this morning; it seems to Inc long since she told ole about her lover, and • how she loved him. 0, heaven. how it all comes back to me! I told her such a great love could never be a happy one; but how little I tho'tttht—" She paused, and then, after a minute's silence, she looked nt hint again "You." she said -"you are Leah's lover. She loves you so (na; lye. she said she should die if she were parted from you. And you -I remember you told tno that you did not love her. that it was circum- stances which led to the engagement. And she love. you so! (th. hnplts.) Leah. oh, miserable, thrice -wretched me" She shrank back, crouching against the withered .prays of tho passion- flowers. All her strength and youth seemed to leave her: her white face and wild eyes were torri`.le to nee. Half frightened because of her de- spair. he drew nearer to h••r. °llettie," he said, "whn• is Leah to yore) Tell me who vne are." "Po you trot know?" she said. "Have they not told you''•' " I',eid an: whatn" he cried 'What is it'.' A sickening sense of insecurity came to her. If neither Leah nor It 7 Sir Arthur had said anything to hire:. what could sho say? Was he to know all about her? If die told hire that Ate was Leah's sister, uud that they were both daughters of Martin Itny, what would halPen? Her heart grow faint with dread and pain. She held out her hands to hint with an imploring gesture. "110 10tu VOL Lnow'Y. she said. "Can y -mu not guess who I ant?" "blow can I? Why llettie, what meed is there for mystery? You can have nothing to fear in telling ,. • . What brines you, Martin !lays; deleghter, hero to Brentwood, and mind are you to Leah?" -Yoe cannot guess?" she said. "You have no flea?" "None. I cannot guess. What are you heaping from me, Ilettie'?" "My story and Leah's," she re- plied; "and I cannot tell it to you. Yoe meet as'c there to tell it." in his sod !en surprise and com- plete bewilderment he' never thought ,f %% het Ir_ut MartinRay d told bin t ha i n, of his wo daughters; all 'ower of 0 1 thought aid memory had gone from. hint. "nettle, le, you have lost faith in me!" he said. "No: it is not that. there is some one coining. Do not let inc he seen." The quic!c footstep of one of the men -servants was heard on the ter- race. {Without a word, Sir Vasil went to meet hint. "sir Arthur would be glad to nee you in the library at once, Si,' hits' il," said the man. If he felt any cia•iosity about the figure crouching ragn'nst the balustrade, ho gave no si!;n. "Say that I will he there in a few minutes," was sho reply; and the man went away. Sir Broil turned to Mettle. "1 et mo take you to the house, Hettie" he said. "You must not remain here." "I cannot go. You must leave 'me here. 1 cannot w'alk," she said; "I cannot stand. 1)u you not see how 1 trend,!e? Yon must leave me." Ile loo'<rd terribly distressed. "My (tailing!" he began. Tint she held up her hand. "Hush, Basil!" she said. "Retntem- t.er, you are Leah's lover." "i will not (cave, you, Hettie," ho said. "Yoe trill faint." "No. do not fear; listen to me. It will be all for the best. You go now. No one will know that you have seen Inc. and they will tell you , the !dory'. We must Meet after that as strangers. Go." "heaven krows that no man was !ever more puzzled or more unhappy then 1," he said. Her eyes were dim with tears as she watched him -Leah's lover; and !then, as he went slowly down the !terrace, a mist scenxecl to rise be- ; o- ! fore her; she swayed to and fro, staggered, and, hell less, fell sudden - :y to the f round. • (i'o be Continued.) CURIOSITIES OF SUICIDE. Remarkable Deductions by English Coroner. Ur, \Wtmn W.estcott, the well-known, coroner for the northeastern district of London, whose observation of the uautives and methods of suicides dur- ing the past twenty years has been SCOTT'S ESiJWON serves is s brier t• carry the wssiter ed and stlsrvsd eyeless along vigil k las tlel Aro supped In •siisery fest. 6ea11oe bee sample. T SCOTT a DOWNS, Cae�ietOarets. pc ese it de; ail amass. akes Less 'JAPAN'S GOLD N SILENCE Ceylon Tea to make a satisfactory Infusion than any other tea on the continent. BLACK, MIXED or GREEN. Sold only In Lead Packets. 40c, 5Oc, BCc. Dy all grocers. Highest Award 8t. Louis, 1903. H -1-1-1-11-1-11114-11-141-H+44 ile Farm %44.11 I'ROPEIt USE OF A ROLLER. A roller is one of tho most useful and yet ono of the most misused tools on the farm. Its use especially in relation to saving moisture seems to bo little understood, and often misunderstood by the average farm- er. In driving through the country a month later one trill see Inaaly fields which have been plowed, has - rowed and rolhel and then to lis; through the August suns, until seed- ing time arrives, writes a cores- pondent. Should you ask the own- er why this is so, he trill probably tell you that rolled 10101 18 1110re utoist, and that is why it is loft rolled. Let us investigate the claim. Ilis assertion that rolled land is more moist is correct as long ns there is plenty of moisture below to draw from. Wit have all noticed that land' seemed more moist the day after be- ing rolled, . but where docs the mois- tune conte from, and where is it go- ing? It is not coming from the air and going the ground, but just the opposite. It comes from the reserve below and goes into the air. Let us see why this movement of soil mois- ture takes place and whether it. is desirable. ,, Soil midde re retrains in the soil and is raised toward its surface by capillarity, as explained in a prev- ious article. It exists around and between the soil particles, and tho closer together these soil particles are, the firmer become the capollary spaces between them and the more easily and rafiidly can the water rise toward the surface. We know this to be true, when we think of the in- creased capacity of line clay soils to hold moisture over that of the coarse sands. Rolling affects the texture cf the soil by firming it, and crowding its particles closer together, thus making the spaces between them smaller and causing a movement of the deeper water upward by soil cap- illarity. The farmer then is right in supposing that it makes the (top) soil more moist. Now, let us see if this is desirable. True, the moisture will be needed near the top, where it can start tho seed, but will it retrain hero until the seed is ready for it? No! If a harrow does not follow the roller much of the moisture will evaporate into the air and be lost., just as it toes from the surface of cultivated 'gelds which have not had the sin -- ace stirred since the last hard rain.' f moisture rises to the surface, as i t docs after rolling, it will certainly etre in contact with the air, and j his means an evaporation of that ear the surface, while it will be re - laced by the moisture farther down, nd though the surface niay appear ]Dist for some time, the actual totsturo contact of the soil to the epth of two or three feet is less. hese fact:; are well shown by on;; of ; 'rot. King's experiments. lie d;ter- niied the moisture content of ono- i elred and forty-seven pairs of , :annples, one from unrolled ground, he other from similar soil rolled. Ile mind the moisture content of the mrollcd soils, when samples were aken to a depth of four feet, to be nearly ono per cent. greater than the' oiled. When taken to a depth of wo feet there was still a favor of leanly one-half percent. in favor of ! he unrolled; but when taken to a epth of about six inches, there was early one-fourth per cent. in favor et the rolled. This shows that while here is slightly more moisture near he surface of rolled land there 13 ess farther down, and because of the ncreased evaporation from the sur - ace, the available moisture in tho oiled land is less. Prof. King also brings out the , act that the level surface due to rolling increases the velocity of the wind close to the ground, in some cases as much as 70 per cent. which of course greatly facilitates evapor- ation. Are we then to conclude that roll- ing is to be dispensed with? Not at 11. It is soften better to have more oisture in the surface font of earth than mould be there if sho ground were exceedingly loose. and for that purpose we shonld roll, but always °member to follow the roller with a mo,ething harrow to make a (hist iul:h to lessen evaporation. Heavy lay soils may seldom nand rolling xcept to crush lumps or dry out the and in spring, but on very mellow nd sandy soils it is quite a neces- ary tool In dry weather it is well to follow the plow with the roller' and then harrow. this will save all the moisture possible and (Pave the! upper soil moist, insuring the ger- I miriation of the grain. Early plow- I Ing and harrowing after earn rain will insure a moist seed bed. Tho kind of roller has much to do with its usefulness as a firmer of the soil. Of course this varies directly as the weight, but the diameter of the barrel has atilt more to do with its firming power. A large barrel of course presents a greater surface to sho soil at. one itna' and so tannot press as much on any part of that surface us olio with a small barrel, which has only a narrow line in con- st with ►itI r the soil at a time. The heavier draft of the smaller barrel oft -sets its advantages, so a medium between sho two is sought. '1'he steel roller in which gas pipe or some other form of metal is used in such a way as to leave the ground slightly 'uneven and yet firming it more than the flat surface barrel seems to be the more desirable. Floats Made of plunks spiked to- gether in such a way as to slide easily are often used on small farms. These Level the ground and pult•erize lumps and clods fairly well, but for finning the soil they cannot be as successful as a roller, since their weight is borne along the entire sur- face instead of a narrow line. From this staaclpuint, the float formed by two logs fastened a little distance apart is preferable. Itollirrg is as method sometimes re- sorted o-sorted to to warm the soil in early spring. This result is, however, by no cleans certain. Experiments tend to show that if the weather is clear rolling may raise the temperature, but if it be cool and cloudy it may slightly lower it. The reason for this is that while rolled and unrolle.1 • ground receive practically the san>o amount of heat from the sun, the unrolled land because (1 its uneven and hence increased surface, radiates more heat away into the air, hence the air near the surface of the un- rolled land becomes warmer and the soil cooler than in the rolled land. During cloudy weather the rule is reversed because little hent is re- ceived o-ceived front the sun and the rolled land is cooled more rapidly by the air, while the mulch on the cultivat- ed land acts as a blanket in keeping tho warmth in thee soil. 1'rof. King has found that in some cases unrolled land had a tempera- ture, ono and one-half inches below tho surface, ten degrees higher than rolled land, and three inches below six and one-half degrees. I believe, however, that cultivation will generally be found more valuable in warming the soil in spring than rolling, and that a roller should bo used chiefly in saving moisture, firm- ing loose soils and pulverizing lumps and crusts. ADVANTAGE OF ItOOT CROPS. There has been much controversy of late years concerning the relative values of root crops and silage. This seems to be one of the questi.,ns that ought not to be discussed inas- much as the two crops are essaltial, and one will riot take the place of the other, except in the sense that either provides succulent food for stock. When we commence to conn - pare the cost of raising either crop, we get into interesting figures. 'Those who have tried it know that 1t is. hard to sots the seeds of root crops by hand, and they also know that until the plants are Targe enoueh to hold their own it is hard work keep- ing the weeds down. As to tho feeding values of the two unquestion- ably the silage is the more valuable, and if called upon to decide between' the two, one would select :eilnf;c' every time. If one has a good silo' the root crops will have their greet-, est value in furnishing a variey in tho menu, but it is where the silo is unknown that the root troops .,ught to be extensively grown as furnish- ing a succulent fond 'and a (digestive at comparatively small cess, es telt as a crop which may be stored for winter use at small expense. LOOSE COLL:iIIS. Perhaps there is no more fruitful source of sore shoulders in working horses than the too common practice of leaving the hamestrans !merely buckled over the collar. Even modern ately tight fiances will, in heavy work, allow, of an amount of •lay, sure to result In galls. especially if the collar is not a perfect fit sur the shoulder on wbirh it is place:l. tine cannot always be sure of anything more than an approximately well fit- ting collar, but. 11 the homes are so adjusted over it that when tightly buckled on the sides of the collar press pretty firmly to the sides of tho neck, and give reasonable rare to the collars and shouldrs daily in other ways. it will be founri that the poorest shoulders on the farm mill get along without the soreness and galls only two common as the re- sult of neglecting to do this. MUCH Ai►O ABOlJT NOTHING. An old women who entered a coun- try savings bunk not long ago was abked whether she wanted to draw or deposit. "Nayther. ('•I wants to put some money in." leas the reply. The clerk enured the amount and pother, the slip toward her to sign. "Sign on this line, please," he said. "Above or below it?" "Just above it. "Mo whole name?" '•Yes.'. "Before a1! was married?" "No; jest ne it le now." "Of can't write." w \itsslonary-"('an you tell me whin has become of my predecessor?" Cannibal Chlef-"tile male • trip Into the interior." MADE NO RETORT- TO UNJUST CHARGES.) Has Been the Victim of Verbal Violence in t::e European Press. • 'l hero are some features of the v. which Russo-Japanese altogether lir if u to du not altu�;cthor csc•upo Europe attention, certainly elicit vcvy little comment, say's the London 'times. One is the reticence of tit • .1u1u4ese. \thea a prominent Journal of 5t. Petersburg enunciated the doctrine that extermination as ono extermin- ates noxious ver ' , was the on appropriate manner of dealing wi Itus;ia's preserlfoes; an outburst in'lignation aright have been expme in Japnn. 'There was nothing of (11 kind. The atrocious doctrine elicited only passing ri fe'reuce. Nor was much larger attention bestowed on the cremate u of the Russian religious press denouncing the Mikado as anti - Christ, declaring that the pagan Ja- panese must be crushed, and seeking to revive, in all its savage cruelty, the religious Ir1toleranco of medieval Europe. Such an occasion to point the 1 neer of scorn at Christianity might have 4,een seized and power- fully utilised. On the contrary, even the religious publications of Japan scarcely noticed it. They seem to have regarded these bursts not as a typical mood, but as n temporary aberration; and they were doubtless right, though it is not to the victim of violence that ono generally looks for tolerant dissrtntination. ItUSSIAN OUTRAGES. In the matter of outrages commit- ted by ltussla11 soldiers against the persons and properties of non-com- batants, the same reludtance to do- nounco has been observable in Ja- pan. There have been many such outrages. That is unhappily indis- putable. No one, au,lesss he had lived in the east, and iry actual observa- tion learned to appreciate the con- tempt oo-teurpt entertained by the average Oc- cidental for the average Oriental, and the sense of freedom front all legal restraint that marks the former's at- titude towards the latter, could have foreseen in full pleasure the horroete that w•oerld sare•ly attend a Itussi campaign in China or Korea. With painful iteration reports have fol- lowed each other across the wires; and, had Japan a Gladstone, or could a Japanese Gladstone find suf- ficiently excitable audience's, there might well have been a holt. propa- ganda against these atrocities. But there is almost complete silence. News carne in constantly during the winter about the destruction of Chinese dwellings and tho use of their materials ferr fuel In tho valleys of the Sha -ho and the Hun. Com- passion, deep compassion, is felt for Hie unhappy people thus deprived of a roof to shelter them tinder the bitter skies of a Manchurian win- ter; but the .Japanese comment is merely a regret that Russians do not understand the value of charcoal. When a Japanese soldier finds a log of wood he crumbs it to the charcoal - burner and receives fuel sufficient to last hint for several days. The same log sieves the Russian for a single bonfire. (fere, then, is an excuse which oetains retitle recognition. As for other • outrages of a nameless nature. it is really remark- able that many a -japan-sae does not employ them to construct the com- parative vindication they plainly suggest. By western critics he is habitually aceuted of moral laxity. Because the absence of prudery his customs show would in the Occident he necessarily accompanied by ab- sence of moral restraint, his jnd its assume that in Japan also it is so accompanied. MAKE NO REPORT. Ile might now point to his cam- paigning record; might ns' ether in the war of 1594-115, in the Pekin expedition of 1'900, or in the present combat, there can be laid to tho charge of .Japanese soldiers one, even ono, attested instance of outrage a!_ainst the person of a female, whereas many such instances were constantly laid to the charge of solv�ee of his European comrades In the h�t•- kin expedition, and are now unc'1as- ingly laid to the charge of his flue - man loch by the Chinese and the leo, renna lie refrains absolutely Froin any such nnalogy. Whether he trusts the world's Intelligence to detect the truth, or n hethen he Is too proud to defend himself at the expense of others, the fart ie that he preserves silence. A larger question is the Yellow Peril and the profound racial prejudice In+;siring the victims of that phentoni. If there be one re- proach that the west, with assiduous navumeption of sapierie.rlty, owes to cast in the teeth of Japan In the days of her isolation, an'I continues to cast in her teeth whenever any remnant of ger old conservatism displays itself, that repr'oaeh is uncia) prejudice. What a crushing retort the •la;ernes° night now make by merely I•oieting to the.l'ello:v Peril preachers and their dlsciplee. the most unequivocal n(Ihercnts that the creed of racial exclusiveness has ever commended! But they snake no such retort. They evidently think that to bandy word+ would terve no useful purpose. 'I'o admire their golden eilencc is easier than to mutilate it. • A SUSi'ICIOUS PR(iXitfITY. A lady was cotru'laining io her dairyman some time ago a tWit the quality of his milk. "Short o' grail feed, mum -short o' grass feed this time o' years," saki the jocular milk- man. "illet>! ;