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Lsdy Bromley w&atounded by
the storyttkI by ar
hieh revealed the plot bywbich
Jahn 414Itibberd had possessed, !Min -
sill of themillions of Mem-Brew-
*ter, leaving Anion' praetically
penniless,' The girl herself WIS ig.
Parent Of the reault of the conspir-
acy which she had overhesrd,
did stou net read about the
case n the papers1" Letly Brom-,
,ssked, in surprise,
"ThumpX had 40 MORetY;t0
for papers and no time to resA
them ,if I Wad," Ellen -returned, in-
differently. •
"You do not even know that your
&min Anna sitiaeried. Mr. Hub-
bard?" queried her ladyship, in
• surprise.
• "No; I don't know anything
about any of them. I've kept lug
•as dark as I could, for fear, of meet-
. sing thetas -that was one resotort why
I -didn't want to stay in the store.
I thought either Aunt Lu or, Anna
would collie intoine dOS to do some
shopping, find etie there, and hunt
•:
et. *way. I wouldn't have gone
there at all, only 'Doctor Aehreote
laid it was a great chance for me,
and be was 'anxious to get me eet=
- tied before he went away.", ,
"Well, Ellen, then I can tell you
somo-. newt," saki her Mistress.
-"Mr. Hubbard haa marriedMies
Anna Brown, or Brewster, as she
was supposed to be, and has tskert
her to Europe,"
"On! I hope he'll keepher
there," said the girl, with a sigh of
relief"Has Aunt Lu gone, tool"
"That I cannot tell you -I do not
know anythingabout her move-
ments."
"How do you know -who told
you Anna was married'?" demanded
Ellen ebruptly.
•"Well, I cannot explain it all to
you now," Lady Bromley. thought-
fully returned, 'for it is & long
story. The case came • before the
.court, and - was-one-ef Postilistr- .i.n-
terest to New York peetilts, tome*of
whom have been convinced. that it
was a deeply laid plot from the he.
ginning."
"It was," Ellen positively affirm-
ed. "And" -after thinking serious-
• ly for a moreent-"you say thst she
Miss Allison -ought to have had
all that money -that it was stolen
from her I" •
"The money was hers -it was
willed to her by Mr; 'Brewster, but
the poor child was -killed—
"Killed! Oh, good Lord! 11214 is
too mueh!" cried the girl in a voice
agony. "Did that devil kill
berV'
"Ellen," eaid Lady Bromley,
looking greatly shocked, "you must
not speak so irreverently. Where
did- you learn to use such etattlin
language I"
"Oh, 1 have had chances enough
to learn a great many things you
wouldn't care to hear about," she
responded bitterly; then continued.
excitedly: "But tell me, who killed
her./ Did. that nisei do it to get
ler smoney Oh,/ if I thought he
.clid,. 114 tell all I know to *tune
iudge, Overt if they killed me for it
the next 'moment: He is a devil -
there I! -1 can't bear I ean't
bear it!" she sobbed, bowing her
face upon her hands and weeping
. afresh. like- a grieved ehild.
"Ne, Mr. Illibbant did uot go so
far as that," seta Lady ' Bromley
gently; "he did not murder his
ward. She wave killed in * railway
stecident while on her way !roni New,
York to Boston. There is * mys-
tery about that journey-nO, one
seems to know jast why She 1115140r -
took it, so secretly and atone, un -
she was driven to it by' her
r•gvardizen's eertpelty, and *ea to
Tut herself 'under thti carti o settle
rsItitiitesIfi But tery eliortlY after-
wat Mr. Itubbard presented the.
claims ef the newly disoovered Mrs.
Brewster and Miss Anne Brewster,
at tirs sante time producing proofs
that Miss Allissin had tot been Mr.
Ilrewster's own thild, but one who
Ltd been informally adoptedin her
infancy." ,
Ellen was etill weeping, elthough
sae tr.d hetenod intently to whet
Ler companion had been *eying.
rer heart WAS ab001.4 bt0k011 •01POT
the, tottierelY fate of the heetitifill
*A who, bed shown her to %nett
zeduess„ avtd *Lora 0,0 had tote,
retly 'worshipped eve since 4mit se
Connt et. it. • •
h‘Ve.• btel aMikt
}rat* teld toAkty,'
contitirted, "tied fee sni
thie *gee:lurks /Ltd tote
s he ,..tb
e/
SSA
lett you
sslyslop
t 'with
me
site ' °
-ut
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t
waik
lug eet
favt you t4
eorapitnion
forth
OA trill
Jo
ug So brightlye
e s
ere areliAOM iii
h� ' really I"
ets
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lieve t
stverld
1104 YOti prior 1nk1 "0 un,
aid. her .eomPa410114 with Lady Brrniley, looking eXcessitelsr
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eigh;_._ it is very,s-'vety;'sa, ; but 4141144 'What it youmust have
wesntuststry to he reconciled to the
fact. And even if she- were livieg
die would not be -directly benefit -try
by ',webteetinetinyeethe fortune
eould never be restored to her ;10r,
ttrangels.euough another heir Wei
been diecovered, and- he i about
to take legal seeps tO--reclaiin
proeertr.i'
"I don't knoli„," Said Elfin un-
easily; *frac' of 'diet old fel-
low; itni afraid of Mint Lien too;
and long at, I can't do Mies At -
ion any good I'd rather not he
mixed up in it."
Lady Bromley smiled pitifullv at
her abject fear; it was evident that
the poor girl .1144 been governed by
terror all her 'life, And now shrsuk
from a repetition of eeertes *bleb
had rendered her existence, att41Y
wretched,. •
'• Still, she Iknew that she yroinclint
obliged to repeat what she had just
told her, and she wishes to per -
/made her to do it, voluntarily, if
Po:milder-
-,..rtIou-saw,_ :Winchetter .this
morning, did you not I" the inomr-
ear After -thinking a ulemente
-•"The -oretArou -ca11 Gerald 1"-
nacutYoefs,; that ,*ie his Christian
. "Yes; I saw him. • Is he your,
son I" „
"No; he is not a relative. al-
though X regard him as a very dear
friend. He was to have masried
Miss firewater."
"Her I" exclaimed Ellen, with a
start, and now appearing interests
tees in the young um to. *horn, ere.
vioutly, she had scarcely pre-', a
thought.
"Yea.; it was he who gave me this
lovely picture. of her, said lately
Bromley, bestowing a wistful !sok
upon the beautiful face, "and, E:.
len, strange as it may wpm, it has I fort to fi.ee herself from tlae grip
led it you have always -rega40
all inank'ind as your enemies!,
There,- run *wiry now, and you
needn't literry,either,-for-1 aux not
geiing to use the things to, -Mor-
row morning.'"
She took up a book antriesunied
the reading whieb. had been inter-
rupted by her ' long ionversation
with her maid, while lieu started
ferth to execute her commission§
with a willing step, but with a face
that was Still overcast with sad-
ness, for her heart was yet heavy
with grief over the untimely fate
of her whom she had regarded as
the "good Angel" of her life.
It was. nearly two hours later
when Bromley's attention
ware attraeted by loud talking in
the- hall Outs.* her truite.
A.-.41.44,:rithet41W --ixot -pay --mueli
Attention tosit, but alt at once she
started to her feet, with mingled
astonishment and fear, as a sharp
yriollowed-briter-own-ratme„-ut.
tered in an appealing tone, fell up -
She recognized the voice instant-
ly, scud going swiftly to the outer
door, she threw it open, to find El-
len Carson struggling fiercely in the title. The lead sulphide formed,
grasp of an excited but richlsydress- being insoluble, would remove some
, and rather handsome woman. of the sulphur frora the solution,
Lady Bromley was a person 4),r but this amounts‘wouldsbesrel '
queenly presence, and possessed a I ly small, and would probably not
s
#14,
inore Paw
e ,eetverettto
should,4 it *till AU
40, whether it is iise
with the lime'slphuz
• elto obtsined fro
ureelieve..not been uniform; in
$001,0 taCCIS ,t0liag$$ has been
badly Wilted; while other i no
injuries beve been observed. '
Prof. Or, S. Watkins; of the Uni-
versity of Illinois, he$ done eon-
siderable work on'this aubleet, and,
while his inveetigations ere not
completed, he discouraging the
'mixing of these two materials OW
UntCh as possible. Dr. Ws M. Scott,
of the Bureau ,of Plant Industry,
U. S. Department of Agriculture,
Witehington„ states that lead *nen-
ate may be used with self -boded
lima -sulphur washes for spraying
apple), but he found, in his ex
periments, that the fruit and -foliage
were badly burned when applied to
the peach. °
Bityw of the Bureau of
C etnistry, ,:stoites4
ave made Study of the
Trwhieh occui'ott mixkletlitse
two compound*, and have found
that Inere is *brays- more or less
decomposition, some lead sulphide
dvalciulasareenate formeds_
When heated, all of the lea is con-
verted -into =,the-. sulphides- The ca1.
cium arsenate is somewhat soluble,
'unless an ',emcees of lime is present,
in Which case it is rendered insol-
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Lin tom SEEN OBE T
Canada Ilea Give* the 014- C
try liew Ideas Alient.1110-ss
Great
Thorpe Lee, in Ttte London Deily
Mail writes as follows about Earl
Grey;GovernersGeneral of Canada:
sl An old 'politician who, had lived
' his life in clot(' touch with great
events, and thereby gamed wide
and deep experience as a student
oictlileut.i.1,00,161,4404;4, was est- 704rta cv r a 14, k I leed wteet
few ta-Colmoseentitshiit,no valtettooludiher Thforona
he opened them, and !mid, Faith.
Tbe answer surprised several of the
little knot of listeners grouped
aroundsiiim,--but-tutone who has ex-
amined the seltarsctere. of grett.
can doubt that it was profoundly
true. All -who have left their matk
npon the world's history have, had
implicit, unquestioning faith. Some
I behaved in God, scene in a cause;
some in a country, some in them-
--betieved with a
feryeat eertainity in something.
"'Without faith ye can do nothing."
That explains why our modern poli-
ticians get so little done. To ,the
great man,. however, another
quality is indispensable besides
faith. That quality is enthusiasm.
In how few men are these quail -
ties offaith and enthusiasm united!
How tiraid our politicians' are for
the most part; with what hesitat-
• ing voice do they speak -hedging,
qualifying, always leaving a loop-
hole for escape 'Beside these a
men like Earl -Gress stands -014-4411
heroic figure, a giant, a real man
Among -a- vetleititm •of was.viork
figures. Hebasftlili'and- he has
enthusiasm. He 'believes in the,
British Empire.
POPULAR GOVERNOR.
GENERAL.
In England, before he went to
Canada .five years ago, there were
some who estimated Lord Grey at
-th-True -WOrthS They saw
had done for such causes as • v0 -
operation, garden cities, and public-
forms--They-bads1
his unconventional rule in Rho
is, where, as Ailministrator, he was
re either to listen or to talk
to comers, and received them
usually in an airy costume consist-
ing of flannel shirt • and trousers
with a slouch -bat. They Imew he
was strong Imperialist and at the.
same time a -convinced Social Ile -
former, a, combination equally de-
airable and rare. But it was left to
Canada to bring out the greatness
of Olt man who went 1004' b
-the-Irornhiionfir 43 -oternor,-Getters
Arid it is Canada which „has taught
ue over here in EnglantIto appreel-
ate one of the finest Englislunen
of our time. .
Never has the Sovereign's ref,pre-
sentetive in the Dominion been
more universally popular. Ile is
liked 'becaukie he#puts on -no side."
Ile is respected because he is t
man of *busineas with actual exPeri-
ence Of affairs, and Om meet Cep*
dian business men Upon their own
ground. Mt,. is trusted *64 admired
"reason of his sympathy not mere
ust sympathy) with every good work.
regard the Breath Empire," he
said at Winnipeg reeently, 1"sks be
moot potent, instrument that' has
,ever been fashioned or conceived
b men for speeding the Wooing
o equal rights - ,zrect iroartial jes-
„tit Chritttiirt tervice, rand 'true
chivair,y air Over the Nadi.” Wes')
, our sneering, onkel Way, may
ile 4 such entickeiatirt. But the
striadiens are a young.end heelth.
te. They recognize in Lord
Giey he faith Mat can move mono, -
A* well as the Simple honor
andAtraightnett wlich„ made the
,Arehltiehop of Quebec ea/ of hins
thet "no one eould have *et a finer
*ample in the erformenee of
Christien duty bot public arad
rivet* life."
1„
face which, though refined and
sweet, was full of reserve power.
"Ellen!" she observed in a grave-
ly authoritative tone, "what is the
meaning of this disturbance? Why
did you call me?"
• At the sound of the voice, the
woman turned to look at the speak-
er, although she did not release! be mixed with the self -boiled lime -
he!, hold upon Ellen. sulphur wash for spraying apple
"Sha won't let me go," said the trees. In this case there would be
girl, waking another vigorous et. an 'abundottice of lime, and this con-
clusion wotild *gree with the find-
ings of Haywood, in that the eits
zesa,of lime_ would remit the ar-
enate from coming into issluW-at:
It is quite probable that if the lead
arsenate were mixed with home -
boiled lime -sulphur washes • there
would also be a sufficient excess of
lime to insure the '..nsolubility of the
calcium arsenate, and thus make
safe mixture for spraying purposes,
especially for the apple.
Lead arsenate is used presuntab-
in this mixture, because o
qualities which have mede so
popular as an inseeticide. It is
evident that,-wheusmixerd
lime -sulphur wesh, it it no d,
arsenate which goes on the tree,
but calcium arsenate; at least, a
very large proportion (of the lead
arsenate would he changed into cal-
cium arsenate. This being true, it
would appear as though it would
be much more economical to mix
white arsenic, dissolved in washing
soda (satlium arsenite) with the
liniessulphur wash. This is com-
monly done with the Bordeoux mix-
ture, , and the' lime present in the
-Bordeaux isssitticientsteinsure- the
inolubility of.the arsenic, I do not
think that this mixture would be
rade on the 'more tender foliage, but
t would probably be suitable for
preying apples.. We intend to ex-
periment with the mixture this sum-
mer, and \Shout be glad. to bear,
from anyone who has tried it.
In the ease -of ,mixing Peri' green
and the lime -sulphur wash, the
Paris green appears • to he entirely
token., up, some .of the arsenic
going into solutien as ample so
phide. part of the copper, also,
goes irkto splution, the remainder
being rendered lusaluble as 'map.
hide. The:presence of an excees of
Sine, this Oise ttoes not entirely
render the arsenic insoluble. The
use of Paris green with lime -
sulphur wash, therefore teaultt
*elm to be of ditubtftil expediency.
From what has been -said, evi-
dont that the use of the arsenicals
with lime-sulpher wash is still i
the experimental stars. Probably
the arsenate 'of iced, in the Tresenots•
of an excess of Unit, trity be safe for.
spraying apples. Perm green Jean.
not be reeomalended, end the -use
of whitesartenic dissolved was
ing eoda should not be tried, eke
materially lessen its efficiency. It
would appear, therefore, that these
materials could be used together
safety, in the presence of an
excese of lime, in all -eases where
they can be used individually."
It will be noticed that Dr. Scott
states that the lead arsenates may
been diecoveresi that he le the real ,00- her shoulder. 1.44/y Bromley
hair to this 1,3rowster fortune, AA stushed slightly,. she, saw at „,013e6,
which- Mr.Hubbardhalt-loriradu"' that the weman wee coarse and
ill-
lcntly come:into Pasaeseien-"' tired;
"Well, I never r I shoutl esi '''Madam," she !midi now address-
wati awfully taixcd-up- &Nut 1 ing her,. "of what has my servant
cried the girl, with a puzseed air. been guilty that you should wish
"Indeed, it is- but it bid4 fair to. detsian,herio
Le be etraighteneel out pr ef- , "Your servant 1" repeated the
feetuztlly now, if Me. wiareteerer. stranger, a .peculiar look sweeping
Cali gather suffieient evidence to over her /see.
prove hit suspicions. Of' fouise, I to,y madam have you he
enflot exPlailyirall to You, out noyed by her in any way ?" toed'
u would be willing to teille court her Iadyshtp, her gravely inquir-
what you have related to rue to-dq, ing- eyes looking direetiy into the
erteve-the-victory--Vtil
ed." e her. ,
"Did she love him -verse -eon o- „et -4- know the girl; ard-
tinestiontd Men, . eager lied I thought ' she had no business tt,
leaping into her eyes. - he here," was the rather tstammer-
"Yes,. indeed," resPcnided her ing reply, Accompanied by a deeid-
companion, * with, starting tames ediy. emharraimed manner.
"And if she had lived' they would Then, abruptly turning her back
have been married Pitt a* soon its upon Lear Bromley, she hint her
ushed-anehlethereliscoucerted fame
Mr.. 'Manchester eould have settled
lips to E len's ear and whispered
this isw s. few fierce, -rapid words to her.
"Thou rn do it," said Ellen. The girl shivered in her grasp
with animation. "I would do rime- ae ebb listened, but her captor at -
thing in the, world for her; nobody m4)st-imm4diately released her hold
ever Voice so kilittcior-Yfas0,14-4111 t -Cr and, without deigning
to me; so if I tell *WWI know It
another Itstok at the quietly self -
rill be just vtlisic she wu1l1,4t1" possessed voinan behind her, walk-
inc '0 do for hiMS 014 -15vniu 'sue ed swiftly down the hall, and en -
could know that I would_n't otop tered & suite of rooms ,which, until
at auYthilif to 1411 her. Oh, Lad within a few days, had been empty.
romFey," she awed in a troubled (To be e(intirtned.)
tone, "why do wicked people al -
It
way a seem to get the ilpfer bend 1
,CLEAN POTATuES FOR SEED.
'Why dtitlovely people d trizi such
dreadful ways, and. ugly *retches Clean, sound seed is most desir-
,mazilige- to have such good times?" able for all farmcrops. Sometimes
"Poor child said Lady Worn. it is ttiffieult totprosure Potetoes
ley sorrowfully, '"that is a prob- that are entirely free from stab.'
lem that has pulled wise vett of The spores of this pest can be kills
ages; but some time, I am id either with tornieldehyde in
'
sure it 'will he •solved for us 'all. solution, or with formaldehyde And
Nowyou Mutt wipe your tears'and Potalssium. Ptrutitultaimte. For
not „cry anmore,:" added treating in a Malt WSW, the seed
theerfully, 'for I want yom to go can be plated in burlerk -seeks and
down' to' Lord le Ta)lor's foe' me. soaked for tack hours in a solution
when Mr. Winchester genies made, otit' pound of ferinaliri(40
Mote, ;on taMit he ready' to telt Or tent. sointion of formaldehyde)
hire all this wonderful story. Go to 30 gellit$0* of twater. •
bathe your fate, change your dress treating larger quentitiee,
then tIOMO tO Me for ameracriritlia te the potatoes a,nd place them
which / will make out mear4while. scif gerning units of the world. ,
Her ledyship made this errart ruing British EniPire -base
doors 110d 4E304 the eurrent of ft and equal eitizenthip, then
thought*, for the had been so adieus feel that, at 1414 they
riblr wrought up over the ,discov. amoug.thcza' a statesmen, in
ry. of Allison's awl tate she feared
the result, of such a strain upoo
her teelrogs if she were adlowed an
opportunity to brood over it. ,
She reslized that her •evitlente
would ver valuable to GerAhrs
s •
03101.tto felt.' that mho!. must
be cal rap re-inforeed,
itrid net thorougle3-
gained, In order to prepare her for
the ordeal of a court cxpeti#nee'
*ad the ereet-examinetien the
Viould oh!igod to umlergo as
OVA wi+ness iit wa
putPosely to get • the girl Out t attri uteg Aud privilegepf of &
ril
-4.1.Vc4,1141totl,
ae
hen hbd
't
tight bOt.,or reotii. Plato tits
oupce of Totamium permingailete'
:Sttlficiently' large vemkely' and on
hie pont four. pints • tormalin
solation. This is enough for aroma
eubiejeet eepseity.
Ideliyde ig*S i liberated, and
Is the, filagree The room should
Ptiostdi' and the, potst.oeS kft ex
scd for 34 to thenits, The, eptorkt.
er of the seed' is not in
0
t
.#1
s,
eept experimentel1Y.-11. Ilareour
!gaol° Agricultural College,
rsers%de*te.
t
sisztwets ALM CA
ought sssel 'maid May Isle
arriett agood.hatured ina
ebe did." --
settee I met- him resttrdo
grouela."
he% heen,married to Mis
four toosths now -ou
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And when Lora ,,Grey loo fOr.,
1101 itO the do when ('*nada
vse her prver re'prnt4ii.n in
u tropozil Coutieih wh*n he
peak s of the approaching to*
nent of* ystem "under) which the
fiTOIVIrt OF SOCIAL
P4.441/013t.
ve lin!"eiti
„ the Uhl',
Yes, sir. tied the
leasa,r
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tur
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botia Fftsent4
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thenteelVelv at. the table in -
Wie, and dem .0 -
liowever,„ eerntin
ordered, -and the seat went to
Conservative. Two years later
Grey elected • without
double Then he was twenty-nine,
a young man who had done well'at •
Oxford; who had married the greet
heiress, -Visa Holfordst *1st
heir to his uncle's peerage; wbo
Jiwasdrowthdet,9wroVitad mwoitshtouctoartnsfyetetably
irect
44Bilisut own.
th and comfort *** no
what he "wanted. Ms energy des.
mended work, adventure! ex '
Once. At first he plunged Into
questions at home. Now be wouki
be presiding at a co-operative con-
gress; now pushing- a plan to beau-
tify railway embantumentse now
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WAS granted a license * public
house on his estate. Next day he
found he could sell the property,
if he chose for 210„000. The mon-
strous absurdity of it struck him.
lie became the untiring advocate
-ereittWAttemsArAtet.,*,
this occupied him; then he began
pine for a wider -field. E0 found it
through the agency Of Cecil Rhodes.
Rhodes wanted sotaeone to help
him in obtaining a charter, for
Rhodesia. Lord Grey (heshad suc-
ceeded to the title in 1894) iMkt
the 11140. Afterwards he became
administrator, and a trustee under
Rhodes' will,
'When the Governor -Generalship
of Canada was Offered to him lie
was not petticularay atkX101,111 to go.
But it was a great 0 portunity; and
as soon as ho had .seeepted it he be-
gpn to see what work for the Ems
pire he could do. The speech be
made at a dinner given celebrate
his appointment simply sparkled
with ideas. nerd was in if none
of the soleniti portentousness which
is visual in pro -consular utterances..
The Canadian very :soon took to this
?modern Don Quixote, this unusual
Englisluista-With the Irish eyes and
none of the English stiffness. -
five years he has made himself
great name. And now he is to re-
tain his office for a further yettr in-
stead of returnirg to England a*
the end of the present one.
*PLEADED GUILTY_
'In this business," remarked the
customer in the drug store, "I' alp-
ore-orless-knolt
Aheraptitieer7-
h, I knew all about sem afore
ame here," replied the new boy.
hail 'ern When I was six year*
old and they broke out all over
Inc." ,
0 ,
ro
ro
re is taken by
to select
only the choicest mater-:
ials; and putthes4s up ia
the Same carefulmanner
every time,. You are
thus assured ofuniThr
goodtwm and 'thisis
the reason that thou*
of ,Libbylt :gives such
general safisfaction to
every housewife
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