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0 11A1"f1111. I, glass gives her back a AWL' 0:(1111111ille
OR, THE RESULT OF A
FANCY DRESS BALL
"Don't let as think of it till actor all passion of love throbbing in the
title dance, anyway," says hilary. ernlirace, all the quieceing wonder
"We heve a little breathIng-space and trembling despair of love in the
left. 11S." 01080 bottling of each to each, It in
"Not if ho .ts there I" an eternilv, that last long erush
"Oh, ha can't he I Coining by that
lain train i" She lets her hands
fall into her lap again, the needle
stieltihg up in dengermis proximity
to one of her pretty angers, and
looks at her sister anxiously. "If
he should (moo to the Mince, Ili—of
course," with eager conviction, "he
won't; but if be should, protnise me
you will not introduce ine to him, or
get any one else to do It,"
"But if he asks time"
"IIow can he ? Ile doom' know
you either "
"Ire could get on introd fiction.
.1,,,,dny, ont ,,g.ay philosophek,,,, r0flect. lon—e(ii tly mil ing cleric -blue mrs. Dxson_moore jaight_.--••
has risen upon the- world with (111110 CP.'', 0 111011111 a HUM 01117'7'1a°, hut "Not she. She will .bo taken up
a charming air, Tts 'sighs are ballnY tender too, and a strong, mem thin, with herself and her admirers. Now
Lind its S111110f4 frequent. IL Is eel- a 10[4211ml low, breed, MIll .carnost, promim".
1,1otitly in a glad and glorious mood, ,
end !Tell hair !—halt' that shines like. "Well, I promise. But is it wise ?
as well .it moy be, lutviug hist: twee '.1"/" gold. Not the dead-goln Ought you not to meet him at once,
h(111. We lillOW Of, 1100 l. ho crispy hair aad—.-_.••
highly decorated by that. splendld ei ,.
ee grinned, the MIS, who marshals us "'le, Dever See'llS et r 011' /311.1 a /rniXa "Mal•ry ltitn !" sareastienlIg. "No,
through most of our happiest hours, turn 01 both theme, looking alwees I think note I must have thine And,
and who 114 110 111 S11111111:: With all his as if half an hour ago 11 had come above an things,
might upon the long, old-fashioned out of a warm, sweet Mali, and Wee this 11 01100,'' I want to enjoy
glowing brightPl" tUld lo (1,1110) ..m.s. mantrea is giving another
.
through. the son rays that have fancy ball the' week Inter; you 1)111
dried it, • have to meet him there."
eatico lying on bor knees. 11 1E4 the "No, I don't. look like It now," "Sufficient utile) the day," says
hind of caned, .hoih ih cnici, and icx, says she, turning uway, and hitting Titterer recklessly. "And who knows
two; that ono associntes in one's 'her slim. figure drop once more into he may not have left long before
i mind with n. servant's 10000111g work hee loilerelizefeellale.
—determined In its shade, but pretty "But when I. that ? I have made up my mind
have the cap end gown on, 1 knee, not to meet him al Ude first. heel,
foe ell that, and striped; little linos I shall leek the thing. humiliating at all ovent.e;"
or dark violet running over the thought 1" Dicuta looks at her sister with a
. "There won't be a giel In the room certain concern,
lighlor ground.
Weeeeheevently!" sieve Diana, 1011080 11110 Yell," elle's riMaa alreelionatelY. "I wish you would try to like
married name is Clifford. She spealot I
rather absently, as if 'finding it diffi- wilfully misunderstanding her, much to you.
"Ah 1 that's my eavieg clause 1" him," says she. "lie Moans so
cult to elft her ailed from the mak- "housemaids will be a rare cinant,ity, "Exactly tts much as I mean to
... ing of the little moh-cap at which 1 expect I shall bo unique—I shall 'him, Don't. look SO l'0016011," With
8110 lEt SO Cl 1144'000y stitching. Thc /whops he that . astonishing thing • an Ireepressible laugh. "len going
glance she gives upward, as 11 in St 0 railey ball—the only of my kind to try and like him as .hand as ever
answer to 11 1l0196'8 rapturous sigh, in the room. I ehall therefore"— I ewe harder even, if 11 will please
is )h)) 1) mechanical, teeugh 81111 0.1,.. 8010111011— (1(01(11' a sensation."
'fleetly wishen le to be inelerstood "You will do that anyway," seys Yolli Do You suPPose T. too cennot
see all the bonbons' that are to be
that 'ale too acknowledges the heiteelerrs. Clifford. She looks at Iter sls- got out of X.18,000 0, 91010 9"
011.41011 1 . glories that al% 110 t In e in) ter a, little d iscon t entedly. "I'm "T believe you are as Idled as a
' the trim lawn outside, and rend:ming sure r don't. know What thee will -all bet," says Diana with some Indiana -
the garden an co rth ly paradise. PAIL Hey of nee. That I went in silk at- tion.
in a second hi' eyes fall to her task
. tire myself, and brought. you as Cin- (To be Continued. )
'"lio fled a Prince '9'
"Your Prince ! Why, he's found,"
sn;vs she, giving a contemptuous
iwIrt to the delightful liti le cop. saym Diana. "Ile is almost; sere to
"And that"—wIth an equally con- 1'0 at 'Lha hale Did I," slowly
temptuous pointing of ber revelment. "tell e'ele 9 1 21101' 0111 Miss Mason'''.
yesterday, and she said Mrs. Dyson -
Memo told her she expected him on
Um fifteenth by the late train,"
"The night of the ball 1" A startl-
ed look springs into hilary's eyes.
Be 1 ill EL 010111011± She reef:NM:EL her`
Self. "Tee IL1E0 train 'Pon ! Ile will
be too tired to go anywhere."
"He may wish to meet you."
"A girl he has never seen ?"
"A gill he must either marry, or
lose :018,000 11 .1.0:10." -
"What a detestable will 1" criee
tvindows of Diana's home.
"What a clay 1" says Ilinne's sis-
ter, looking up from the pee of lilac
'oak
AIR
'Vim idea of your wearing this 1"
0 tile 11100 1115851 tVina. in Dibtry'S
lap—"at the biggest. fancy-dress hall
wo hare had hero for ages, when at
iliey moment you might be mistress
of eet8,000 a year."
"At tine* moment might, not, ol-
eo," awe her sister with a little
laugh. "And even if T were the
inietress of it, there would be a 0)1(8"
197)' too. That. takes all the gilt off
1111' gingerbread. In the mean
time"—smoothing out the folds of
the lilac zikirt with n fond hand—"I
sholt wear this. A housemaid's Tillery, springing to her feet, and
these is a fancy one—for every one beginning to pace tin and clown the and in front stretched to the far yonr word, will you be foresworn ?
except tho bona ilhe housemaid—and r0001. "Iniquitous X call it. What wall it broad band of light in which 'Must I spit upon. you ?")
es it is inexpensive, and as -pennies on earth had I ever done to Aunt her shadow cut a dead black line. "No, no, my brothel', no ! love
voila, X have elloetel l'eoviden- Charlotte that she should htsist on The air was cool, and seemed to you. too {yell."
Melly, al; a ball of this kind ono can bring some slight 0111111 to her fever. Aed with a, cry that Wan madness
For a moment she was caught out of devotion and enutterable sorrow,
of herself, and, as from a height, she Alasdair gripped his dirt) and drove
looked down on Maddalena, the poor it, haft -deep, into his brother's
harassed Queen, as on some one she heart, lotting go only when the
had never seen before. A tiny weight of ITeetoes body told on his
branch was blown agninst her face, grasp of the steel. And as the
and she noted 811(1.1251y form of a cer- Mood spurted, and thnt which WELS
tain green leaf. What sort of leaf Hector fell across the Queen with her
W)15 it ? ITme did Its edge bezeonie so
gracefully serrated ? IVhat intricate
veining I how Impossibly perfect 1
Curious, she tbought, that, at stzch
moment as this when 8/10 ought not
to • steal a moment from her lover,
she should be standing here in the
night, wondering at the shape of a
loaf, at tho 1110°15 of its.vona,tion. A
moment from 'her lover ? 1—she
turned.
She had been a moment only in
the light; but the glare, where all
had been blackness, caught the eye
of Asente, and in the glare the
brilliant whiteness that was Madda-
lena. Asunta left her place by the
Ilectior might pass a thou -
Leant time a for aught she cared. Yon-
der was her rival, yonder the woman
that had taken hector from her,
yonder the real object of her re-
venge. Crouching eueningly, she
slipped through tho devotes of the
garden like a wild woodland thing,
beautiful and murderous.
'Maddalena turned and entered the
rooln nettle. hector Wes standing
eefore ber.
'"I'ho world is a wonderful thing,'
elle said; "the worlcl and the night
end the stars, end there is 'tingle in
them all, lent one moment with
you, any beloved, ray Hector, is the
world and the night and the sten).
T. am a small thing, and toy lave is
O small thing, and togothee wo nre
as nothing before you, This day
you have made ine eeneen—there
but three of us in the ahole meth—
and look 1 I tell you ain e woman
peoudee of being loved by you lihate
T. am of my people, of Luy throne, or
my crown 1 Intuit aro they all but
yours—yours •?"
She lifted the „simple gold band
from her hair, and holding it fa
both hands, knelt and laid it at his
foot,
"Lot this be for sign that I LIM
yours, Say to me, 'Maddalena, my
Wife, come 1111 01 1110 I'0 and come.
fiety 'Maddalena, my wife, slaty here
mid lee 1110 hate) leave to go I' and
I stay,"
"Maddalena I" wee ell that he
eould say, and that In tolies broken
11101 a•lmost inaudible. "Maddalena,
my wife
She rose.
"Your wife, hector, my beloved,
now and for emer I My peOnlo will
surely not ask froin Me that last tor-
thre—to 100(1 0,110000 111.0,11, YOU0
Wife 00 110 1nan's. X cannot 130
yours, I shall be rio man'a I"
"Madclaleitn, how you love !"
"There 16 no 'how,' Ilector, I love
you—that is all. 1 lovo you."
Net yet had they toecheci lip to
lip or breast to breast, That, by
Seine secret Concord, was 1cep1 for
the last moment, tind as 0 sacrament
too hely to be aSed lightly,
eied now fell on their ears the Met
stroke of twelve, sounding front San
liernardino.
She rose end moved 1.0 11011, her
foot, epureing the oroWn, MA con.
sciellsly, tint 08 ff she krietv not it
were there,
• "We part float 1"
• "We part eteW I"
Lin to lip, and [Wens
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tti A Woman's
Love...
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CHAPTER XVIII,—(Continued.)
From the distance came the faint
echoes or cheering and tbe dying
sounds of 11111810. A, little wind
made a hush among the leaves, and
overhead the cold stars made more
eeautlful tho beauty of the deep blue
sky. Thick dark lay on each hand,
k4,9 and ahotild be Studied by all Ittio
pie have borsee. It amnions to more
'eel then simply throwing the feed at
111°111. 1110 Skill of the set•oessful.
life into afe-011 eternley into which t20 0,3 feeder entr•rs the very Me of ani -
of birth to the day in the future epvai6zz
when death must fiently twee : an ',(eae,e.."°4,0,41.4"AtrP-4,Seer4Sret P0111;HP°17i1;!::;) 111.11;v'N"";:"1".17ai'd 101:''l 111%1:
s fere, ornitltv1,sr ji.r.ez; Iftc.ir‘:,1(te.huile,1,1,051)00e11,3.
Is pent all their days from the day eel
eternity of happiness, an eternity of
Tim:m.14y 1.3uG b.:Kr Ns. there n il 1 be 1(0 11011tP 101. 011Y la
eA,0393
riY
pain.
"I love yoll 1"
"X love you 1"
And then again silence falls. And timed Statrs departuain of iinrienl.-
in the silence eoul meets soul, and , .
eure 113 ver,v satisfavtory. A rough
all about them speoalls tile kind iffiztforni was built, on a Nide hill, on
dark, and each soul knows its fel- .
which W0013 Elle 10100018 M10,10 010' tie!
1OLV, EOM Is mixed with it, in an in- .,
(Waldo ecstasy of despairing' Joy, a stock solutions of lime anit Leaphete,
wild nbandonment, an intolerable and two half -barrels hosing' (thole;
pain or ha ppi ness. Mores of garden hots: 1111 ))1'1)01( to
"Ciood-bye for ever I" the bottoms. 'Po make the bur -
"No, Hector, no. (loud -night,— c,latlx, a stock solution of four pounds
only good-hight 1" 111110 was put into 0110 10111-barrol.
The silence is shivered by a laugh and the seletke of six poiwils. set-
tle knoWs and. tho crackle 1)1 a pistol, photo In the other; both WCP0 tilled
His 05'0 jfi aware of Asunta's face at with water by moans of a Mee,,
the window. lile siva), cart t0118 C11011 liaelzed up
Maddalena IN a. dend weight on his at the lowee side of the plat form mei ' „ , - ', , , ' yn
' sis. will NW' hut IL ehould he of a
left arm, 1thole no longer. digestiote inez innatabe• nattnee .•
tho two dilute mixtures rim out
"A lasdair ! A.1 asd a ir 1" 10 title she (ffiould receive
theough Lhe straleor into the pimp athfil'i°11 ' ' . .
Asunta la gone, but the faithful barrel through the pieces or hoe,. ilLy eight pounds of meal I o every :10
foster -brother IR here rightlfit. milk iwoduced, in ordim
Oda means the lime and seilphiir are 11°unas ur
„Tho Aihsdite,, ihc eiiiech ie di/1.11mo th , thi i .,d, 1 .1 1 that she may P1 (2(1 ,..!eoninuicutly.
, et om, y 111 XL 1) 11 e a: -
Rector speaks in 0 mile*. lag run into the liarrel, told not vein- —
The bullet has passed through Hee- bined too rapidly to matzo a ezod COWS .LTIele, COM) 111 11,NEliel,
toe'e protecting hand and entered iiiix.11,1,0 u 3 ,• I .0. . . e, .i .1, „) 3 , f .
., nt et t 10$0 C.011 Ifiellit 11 .ows el en e ow a titmice( pie et-
her side. Already 0. blur of red light flocculent enircipit al e is formed once for ono milker over. another. The
8110100 011 t110 silVer of her robe. She !that will not settle rapidly. 11 the length of the finger nails mate mal(,
Is cold and lifeless, white es the
leoe bordentix, the method et.1‘).':,i-e");.tlifi'elfie. (lo' r011
rt"(Itt. elaii,:),;(;)'.11:-.8veryT.14)11,11;g0
suggested by 311, 13. IVitito of tho that is afraid or " may he
rim fee him. it is (lent 1) to the
animals he eileseie
11•1Eit fs 11PORTA NT,
To iiiipro•;,, the (pudgy of the herd
awl the quality of 1n1 wag yjohl, n
man meet net. only breed itis cows
8E111 SANG,FOR 11111 KING
TEE WEIRD EXPERIENCE OF
MME.
White Ea.00 of Ludwit 'IX, the Gnly
Thing Visible in the
Glocan.
Tile following remorLuble story,
vritich we believe is (mite now to
English readers, 0000110f4 LIS 1.001.1-1 10
god 1°1114111 W110 ill'itrd it I00111 the
lips of 000 Or .11 est, 101 118 intimate
1)100110, St15 1.00(1011 'l'11411 Is.
11 Wa '4 mere Dual 1 Iiirty yenre ago,
wizen Einem)) wits diming with the
fault) or Mow, letters emtchless
voit:/,, er 18' 90,, the Mad
i<Ing Beverte, set ids heart on
right. and weed them out according hearing the diva (deg in his private
to stand:mil, init it also involves the theatre in Munielt, lie wrote letter
quota -loll of food/Int CowS cannot after letter begging, fl\011 111181001.11gt
expeeine te tellk well (01 a small hoe to 8111g 1,0 11i111 mid offering her
antonat of food. The main thing is teell'avagant sines of mina; hut
to give the cow ail the bulky food Patti, (11,0;0111ff Lhe esPeeieneei 1)61'-
s/stonily refused his Were, AL last,
Ludwig 1014110d }WI' With tt fee so
0000n:1000 that. she could net realst
it, and she yielded.
When she reached 100n101) on' the
day appolated ',he found to her Ws-
gnst—for she 6011.0 acenstffined 0 be-
ing received everywhere ue a queen—
that, not. econ a eurring() 01' &l been
sent kr her, and the mid her maid •
merle their wny es beet they could to
the neerest. hotel. She had seareely
ilnielled luncheon sehen a gorgeously
W1010001 111 Wh1Ch SIM WELS crowned.
"Tighearne. !"
0(11(111,
'115(1)1
gnu t ig,hlander took her
from Hector, now wounded in both
arms, and laid. her gently on a
"Dead !" hector murmurs In a
deze. proportion of moo to sulphate given
"Dead I" comes the echo fi•om. in the directions should be used. ft
Alasciair, less than four pounds of lime to six
"0 I Cod, why not 1, why not I?" pounds of sulphate IS used, the fo-
Asunta is forgotten—she is noth- liege is likely to be burned. The gell-
ing—Maddalena is dead, Maddelena oral tendency, however, Is to use
is dead, lova is dead, the world is morn This is undesirable fee
think of aught. else—this fills space. 0108 that are likely to clog the
There is no room to three reasons. It is thri lime petal-
"Alasclair yam, so the more lime lewd the morn
liable the nozzles am to (do)1ging.
They are slanding, one on each Secondly, the more lime lIfff'd Lee
side of the couch where she lies.
"You love me, my beollier ?"
"0 I my mother's son, I love you!"
"Your promise is sacred."
"Whet promise ?"
"Do you forget yen summer after-
noon in the Forest of Rothienturchus,
when to the brotherhood of milk WO
added the brotherhood of blood ?"
"I remember, Heckle, I remember—
but do not ask me now."
"i do ask you noW, I do ask you
notyn..
.e.ekie, Meld° 1"
"You passed your word 1"
"Perhaps she is not dead, Let me
go for assistance."
"Alasdair, will yon go back on
solutione are too 0)1(1111)11 (1 \vein SU OW' difference I:gime:11 mei 'Mlle.!'
brought together or teee nei settee- and another. It may also make all
entry mixed, the perelpitate (mere- the difference between ti nervous or
cr and heavier and 111 likely settle kicking vete, and n, quiet, gentle one.
within a few minutes, with bed re- A good milker will Fell CO ft tilet HIS
51111.S. ringer 11:11iS 000 141111 well pared and
Unlese for very good reasons, the shorn A COW 11M11111 IP' as well
pleased to have her ion drrtwn ns
the reviler is to have 1101 profits te
be derieecl from it,
bringing ma into art affair of this
kind 1 Why could she not choose
501110 other niece.? Some other
nephew and niece, who knew each
other ?"
"There would have been less wis-
dom there. People who knew each
other—1 That's generally fatal 1
Wheel strangers meet there are possb
be as bizarre, as eccentric, us ono
likes,"
"Still," says Diana, with a re-
gretful eigh, and a swif1 glance ttt
her lovely sister, "I lied always
lin-
'8)111)911 you
"Oh. I know," with amused intone
theme. "Joan of Are "
"COrtil 11115' not," indignantly. "A$ Whiles. •
'eforiiiiige 'You would hall; looked "There run indeed, end very 11))"
bL'ntltiialus 'Moraing,!. pleasant ones. 'I feel certain,"
../ shall ic,ok. :As Snivrth SLOOPMEE short to regard her sister
Jane," snys Miss 'Burroughs 1Vi111 With an 010001100 eye, "that Frederic
calm conviction. 81(4)litts the call-
ec) 81(111 161111 daintily careful lingers
—di, is es yet, only lacked together—
foul ('0)100(18 it with an admiring eye.
"Jim would have liked to give you
something better," says Airs, CM -
ford, letteing forward, with hoe e1-
b0w8 on 1101' knees and the cap be-
tween both her hands. leer tone is
plaintive. "Ire says you are too
ansurd too proud—"
'J is OW dearest brother-in-law W11111 a sigh. Money with her is not
in 11011(1,''50965 TTilary, un- too plentiful.
('1150090(1((801111(1))10 her voice.
1 hat is why I 1101 not go-
ing c) lot 11 1111 beggar himself and
the 1(111)1119 for me.'
"Whet, 1)1)11801150 1 A mere gown
I01 IS tie Nary last man in the
world I should 0900 care to marry."
"Of course, if you have made up
your mind beforchend—"
"I haven't made up my mind about
anything,"
"Not to look at him."
"You are wrong there. Ien tied/1g
to look at him—from a distance I"
"It is such a great doal of money
to throw away," says Mrs. Clifford
"Who says I'm going to throw it
away ?" cries Hilary gayly. "Per-
haps X am going to seize it. And
Perhaps it is ha who will throw it
away after all. Ile may not like
••
mo 1 He—may reject me 1 Me—"
"Well this im fl MOM gown, too. She turns once more to the mirror as
And I'm sere it will suit (11e, 1)0 if to gain support from it. "Iln-
you know, Di, flinging anvil the mortal gods I what an awful
lialleilnished dress aria going to a thought t" says she. "I confess,"
long mirror let, into one ofthe Nvalls, in a stricken tone, "IL never °colter -
night, en esvhil doled, arose ed to nie before."
within my mind. I reit that the
dress would suit me so admirably--
so alLogether—that 1 hymen to think
that perhaps I was to the M0111101'
born—that Nature had meant 1110 to
be a real Sevalt Jane "
She poem at herself in the gloss,
* leaning 0 little forward, poised, as it
teem, on her tees, and with her
hands clasped behind her lutelt. The
"197011, it needn't error new," says
Diana, her fair, hancleome face light-
ing. "And you needn't pretend you
think. it,"
"But it's so serious, DI, If 1 re-
fuse to marry my cousin Feednele, or
if he refuses to marry me, 1018,000 11
year goes to 'The 110010 for lose an-
imals—the dogs.'
"Well, it is la your own hands,"
¥'i Can er e
The Tired Feeiing.
lnsthl Now Vigor and Energy Into the System and
Add New Fiesta and Tissue by Using,
r. Chas 's Nerve F od.
Why not join with maitre and re-
joice at the coming of enring? leheee
is 1.11011118 et hand whereby you can
Istrcbine the feelings of languor and
fatigue cute make apring the Lime for
renewing health ond Vigor, instead of
giving way to WeakeeSs and despond -
e)1097.
...Everybody needs 11 spring restorer
Live to enrich the blood and build up
Ole syStem after tlie debilttating ef-
reete Of artificial wintee life,
Experience hoe proven that them is
no preparation extant so well suited
to these needs a8 Dr. Cliase.'s Nerve
Peed,
It is only veneentible thet this
vent food CUM, 6911101 1111S been en-
dorsed by tens of thousands of pee -
pie on this420111h110011, Shollid be su-
, parlor to the prescription of all brain-
tteee 01:0(101', haatily Writtea awl 1158-
11197 11111.9 we the drog ebore(
Ilettchtelie, Sleepicestiness,
etomach teoubles, loss of energy,
embitio0 and the. obility to appist
*Mites fielf • to 'the teak in hand are
among the, indications or MI' 051115.1151-
01(1 al Ihto *SUM,
A. rimath's treatment with Dr,
Chase's Nerve l000d will do wonders
for you.
Besides the bonen yott feel, yeti
can prove that new fieelt and tissue
is being added by noting ;your in-
crease in weight.
Mrs. 1, Edwards, 14 Winnetl.
street, Wooestock, Ont., and Whose
huebend is employed with the Can-
ada rename) CO., states:— "My
daughter was 'very much. 01111 d01911
111 110E1101, felt tired And languid, and
was very nervous. Wie began the
080 of Dr. Chase's Nerve Food, end
Mgt, X ean eay that, she in very much
better. She has gained in weight,
her gedor has improved, and she
soma real stt•ong mul well. We halm
also used Dr, Chase's Ointment in
our fitfully and X cannot speak too
highly of iLs curative properties."
Dr, Obese's Nerve Veer', 110 eras a
box, six boxes for 12.80, at all 'deal-
ers, or TC(Imanso)l, Bates & Co., To-
mato. • To peotect you rigateiSt irni-
tattoos, the portrait and sIgnoture of
Dr, ie, W. Cheee, the tauten reeeipt
beele =thee, are on every bog,
10 brettete
more easily the mixture 18 washed off.
Thirdly, it is the eulphate that is British vessel 1 esper at Molerie,
effective in killing the spores and pro- Franco, last November. The vessel
venting the black rot. was laden with casks of wine, and
the inhabitants along the coust
broached the casks as they crime
ashore, and indulged in an orgy,
lusting 5301110 clays, From drinking
at the bungholes of the casks, the
revellers stove in the heads of the
casks and ladled out the wine with
pails.
The more thirsty did not wait for
pctils, but used their wooden shoes
as drinking cups, while one adven-
turous woman leaned into a cask to
drink, with the result that she fell
in and WAS dragged out by the heels
barely in time to save her life.
ORGY LASTED 97011 DAYS.
What the Wreck of a Vessel Meant
in a French Village.
Fifteen persons oot, of several hun-
dred stunmoned were fined fifty
francs in connection with the scand-
al which followed the wreck of the
The limo is added simply to count-
eract sufficiently the poisonous ac-
tion of the machete so that it will
not also injui•e the foliage, The oine
In ntaking borcleaux is to make the
sulphate as destructive as possible to
the fungus without also being injuri-
ous to the leaves of tlie plaids. If
more lime is added than is necessary
for this purees°, the toxic action of
the sulphate may be so far weakened
that it vill not kill all the fungous
spores and rot as well as) other trou-
bles may follow,
0.11.i0011 0111c11' way Eue101110'ell, 69110
Minded her a lettrr front the King,
with the curt information that he
should expect her at 7 o'clock punc-
tually at the palace. \Own:, Male.
Fischer, who would sing with her,
would. give her further (Ili-mien:is.
With the let tfq• VMS a programme
drawn up by his majesty.
ItIEETS MANY INSULTS,
This ea vat ier 1 refitment of the
"Queen of' Song" was more then she
could boar, end Aline, Patel, stamp-
ing her foot ill 11119101't 01101010ed :
have never been treated so i•adely in
my hie I will not sing—never 1
never: never! and Non can tell the
king so !" And it wits some time
before the. messenger, with all his
diplomatic arts, could smooth her
101110(1 phtmes. Bet, the crowning
indignity Was to come, for just as
madame had recovered ber equanim-
ity her (29705 fell on 0. posteeript to
the letter, which had moil -eel her
notice nt the first reading, lt ran
thus : "The king commands Dime.
Patti to appear in pure white, with-
out any color whatever, and not by
any means to wear a satin gown,
but soft wool. Silk is painful to
his majesty."
For once the great prima. donna
had 110 words to meet Vich unparell-
eled Insolence, and she fell book into
a chair in helplees amazement. When
she recovered her speech it was to
DAIRY WISDOM. For days the 00111(0 population, declare point-blank that she could
men, women and ehildrezt, wen: in a not arid would noi appear in uhlte—
The dairyman now will find whe- I state of wild drunkenness. Ordinary "and that ended the matter." how -
thee he has foci his cows through the avocatioes were entirely suspended, ever, in time her sense of amusement
winter for production. 1 cattle diect of sturvaLion through and the officer's pleading triumphed.
If foci wisely and well he wilt not want of attention, and generally the over her indignation, and she wom-
bat%) to wait half the summer for • coedition of the neighborhood lens
them to acquire strength to 1110100 LiePi01111110.
00111.1011 in the dairy.
Haptilly every year we see fewer of
the old, slip-sbod, rattling -bones
11E0110 011 iLS lips, 101101100 LIS of a clairyinen. eehen a /minis enlighten -
fiend broke at 1.110 window, ecl he never does 11, and he meet be
In the broad band of light Ala8-?onlightenetl or he drops out of eight.
WIIITE FACE .197 TETE GLOOM
Ho simply starves out—so beware!
Clive the usual feeding of hay and
gritii: in the morning tend at nhig
as well, until the pasturee are Izmir-
iaiPlant now for variety and abund-
ance of feed for the whole year. As
much feed as poseible should be
grown on the farm and any' lack
should be purchased, for the well-
fed coty will pay back the outlay in-
terest the very next day.
Every dairyman, whether he keeps
five cows or fifty, should vote a
rueeession of succulent foods for tho
cows.
First in the spring is rye, then peas
and oats gow in 51(000.451011, then some
millet, which will be ready in about
sixty days from planting, then early
sweet corn planted 111 drills and thin
elleTTING PAPA'S coNsENT.
The lovely girl tapped softly at the
done of her fatluir's private office.
There was no response. she tapped
O little louder.
"Come in."
She tin•ned the knob and entered.
The grey-haired money -grabber looked
up frem his little desk.
"Halloo, Lucie!"
"Halloo, pa!"
"Money?''
"No, pa,"
'*Ield Anything Wrong?•'
"No, pa,"
'Talk faster, my girl,"
-Well, you see, pa. 1 want--"
"leow muchr
"Walt. pa. Clive me time."
"That's something 1 can't spnro."
"Just a minute, par want to
"lVhnt erin it cost?"
"Don't interrupt, pa; T want to
glee a young elan something."
"13iiithda9' present'?"
•.Ye8."
"Well, den't come to 100, I Ineven't
ane* idea what a Young man wants."
"But 1 bave, pa. know just
what he wanls.''
why de you come to me?"
'Because 1 waut yoll to approve,
ised te obey Hat royal instmetions.
Before 7 the royal carriage erriv-
ed and Patti was driven to the pal-
ace and conducted through long, dint
rorridors crud rooms to the private
theater, which, to her amaeement,
elle found in absolute darkness save
for the fitful light of the moot),
au saw ci, woman flying, .A. leap
like a stag's and he was after hoe,
:A. second it seemed, and his hand
had gripped a neck, The frighted
face was Asunta's and in her hand
was a pistol, There was one swift
snale and as a dog shakes a rat,
Alasdair shook Asunta, ana revenge
had recoiled on itself.
* * * *
I-Tector lay 011 LI great bier 01 the
Cathedral. A pall of silver cloth
covered him. 'And oa it flainect
single blood -red rose, a rose that
looked like a heart against tho splen-
did white, a rose that was the heart
of Maddalena—for Maddalena elk'
not die—would to Cod she had I At
the foot of the bier rested the crown
of Pahnetto—in homage to him that
bed W011 it. On the altar glimmer-
ed innumerable candles, the polo
lambent glow of the lamp that burns enotigh so it Will produce 001'8. Tilelltt
continually shone down mysteriously craPs should follow uP to the frost
the pallor of marble columns gleam_ period.
ed, and to ancl 'fro went the dim Any of the above crops not used up
figures of priests in vestments of rich ill the succulent state, should be cut
hue. Tho organ pealed, end carefully cured foe use in winter,
And then, through a len° of the Oats and peas cut when in the milk,
men of 1-4i:beetle holding torches, a melte the most valuable fodder.
lane miles long, went hector Ch After frost there 8110111L1 130 011 nlizin-
holm Grant to his rest on the high- dance of roots and ensilage to draw
est peak of the 111.0111C, 31 rare Lind from until time for the spriee feed
most royal progress,
OVer against his bed is a rock on aglan
toi'not lot the boys rush the COWa,
which they have cut
hector Grant, nor the dogs C111180 them,
have your sheep been armed with
l'almetto Eeinembere 1 a hell] If not, do not put it orf
(The End,) single clay. The sound tif„n. hal is a
-4,— great protection 10001 vicious dogs.
SENTENCE F.A1'I11111ONS.
laqiitli 01008 her force to facts, 1-1011811 TALE%
Doubt determines nothing,
Nicking raises nothing but dust, esllion ni01 lt-flattt1b01g011)etoltloarNs7.arkTi9;?ufl'olh10orus-•-
iirlietel'uvhioli tIvloillgInuo3Itt echuotosteo 1111tritiosILthlicr,iss8e: 71:01gotsthenn41/8100019 htotlir17 11 (1170018,
rtilnl-alittisiolgo
Salvation is move than 04 010 es-
cape. how unfltied you aro for further ef-
fort. 'rho surrering imposed Will
Virtue is not a matter of vocabel- cense the horse to lose in eonzlition
(try. and nervous enerv, which Will be a
Nothing eucceeds tvluire the soul nal toss 10 yon,
1)11\1114 Clod life nod loto are 89'0o(137" chafe the horse, and that the bits ore
Nee that no parts of the harness
1111"h
lnot drawn up too Light in the mouth,
ittle silence may save a lot of Variety of feed is of groat import-
•sorrosw,
mm
ei an .111190975o
lways cuts his wn 041`P01T
A. 0 hay should he ant or clinmiecl,
fingers. and mointened, and the night grain
Repentance ettenot tear tm the eciets ration should be grimed and fed with
or the imet, this,
The 111011 60110 lakes 1ile lie 11 dose The guiding hand 8110111d over lid
always Mule it a 'little. one. watchful to :w61 that each horse has
No man reaches the stage 01 tri- his required ellowanae, One horse front injury In wooden eases, and
elnpli bet by the sLeps of trial. may need a little more, and another peeked I 11 II'001, were pineed in the
Vit•tue may he ifs own reward, but a 111.1 Ie less, to keep him in proin,r rhildren's cots, whieh wore constant -
it is net tia 069e MIVaa1181ag 411M11 1• hotilth and condition, The. first; in- ly °eyepiece day and eight, hy the
A Mall 11101014 110 Particular 1c0- ffication of fallieg ofT shoeld iie true- stx little ones in turn during the three
geese by patting himself on the Intel:, ed and remedied at once. weeks required for ineubntlon. As
' ' ' Wator often, water wieely. 1111en cinch of Ow coin contained 400 ogee -
978, el To prove to yea thee )'Jr, thin often hinges the reputed ski11 of 200 on each sides -the human litenba.
U es 'ihee11e,',4°,31,aleamelliProlefeeleecla a '11)1(1 11)1 feeder 0,11t1 handler,
IPJ i
nil every feem of itching, torn sureoeded in hatching 1,200 oggs
Giro 11 11'111'111 00011 IlleSh, 1.11001;SL 01 11 111110, for evhielt they received 1.
cent an egg, or M. 'llivir rarniege,
theeefore, for lying in bee' ror twenty -
ono clayS anueented to exaetly, $4 a
Week, a sum far execorting the over-
age wage of o Itussion dialled worii.
num ln the country districts, . .
As she stood on the dark stage and
an unseen orchestra began a 8071
prelude she fancied slie saw through
the gloom a white. face from a box
opposite to her, "it wtts
she afterward seta. "the lar,0 1 black,
empty theatre, the strobe; of tresic
coming from 1. lolew not where, ancl
that one white face, the only sug-
gestion of life anywhere, lookiag at
me from out of the darkness. Cold
shivers raft down my hack, und when "
I opened my mouth to begin tho
arta, net a sound came front it."
It would be difficult to imagine
situation more trying eYen to 0. Per-
ez/0 tho strongest: eerves. The
king, for be was the owner of the
uncanny v:hite face, when he failed
to helm the expected voleo, eese ex-
citedly from Ilk seat, and leaned for-
ward indi of the box, the moonlight
falling on his spectral ' 11100. The
Brewing horror of her situation
seemed 0011SO the singe:. out of
her stupor of fright, ttIld W101 e,
mighty effort her imprisoned voice
rang ()ill, flooding the empty build-
ing 101 1 11 SW00 tooss. '1 was the
eefort My 111'0," She Said later. "1
"Oh, that's all right, of course. !Was desperate, leit when I found my
thee him anything you please. Want. , voice pet my head back and 010110121
01 chequer' ed hands and sang—sang as
pa.'' have rarely sung before ur since."
"Oh, speak up." As she wan waiting the signal to
"I want. YOS 1015E it's right, sing again, a messenger appeared'
pa. X want you to say again th,a, with the announcement that the king
can glee him anything 1 'dense." had 10141 enough music and had gone
"Silly girl, Of 001WS0 you rem 10 Ills apartments, For a Moment
You've always lied your 6„.„ way, ra ratti was stunned, and then, seeing
that, all'?" the comical aspect, of it. n11, she
" Wa it , You see, know Just laughed heartily (Ind peepared to re -
what. he weals." Orli to her hotel. On the following
flay the court chamber/an called at
You said that. before,
filo hotel with. en autograph letter
••13erattse what he 6011(115 10--•—•".
of thanks front the king and rt. p10 -
"
sent or costiv jewels; and later she
"11I -111-111N"
leavned that Ludwig had tweet deys
To (('1(1111
In cursing blmself mid her for beteg
lured by the magic of hor voice to
CHILDREN AS INCUBATORS, mich
to Itallari 11111810 0114 thus
raellos And limner aro combined in prove disloyal even for a. few mein-
ri, simpler story from Russia, relating ants to his beloved 'Wagner.
to a, poor peasant woman living uear
Viletke, Who Was left absolutely des- MEN W110 00 MAD.
Witte with six children to support,
A scientist has gathered from sta-
At lust n. luminous idea strnek her,
iisties that the military nett naval
Mho suggested te the teighhoring
P1'0105810118 111081 claieklY wear out
Poultry farmers that site should r
tho brains. Out of 100,000 soldiers
hove thenervoni the trouble end ex- dud sailor, lnp Ivere 50,1Avnied
PE111140 Or using incubators for hatch- tire. Next tame the liberal profes-
ing phial:ens and turkeys. May
ions, artists heading the 1101, fol -
weed, and the oggs, "walls, secured lowed closely by lawyers, and more
dist an tly by doctors, clergymen, lit-
erflrY 11101, 011E1 servants. In
100,000 about 177 cif these go mad,
lei donmetic gervante and ?Mime:tie
155 out of 100,000 go to the asylum
and of mechanics only sixty-six, The
saneet people, eleinteenile, are tome
mereial anon, of whoa( fortY.-two 1(1
100,000 go mad,
Some num export to aopoiro
their good habits th their secon 1
childhOod,
When a roan ifi emitent will) What
he A, he id never etzezneert with Whet
he liae.
; leg a ed za °geeing Klee
the menufeelerere bare enerantend it. 8ceirs
thaordsls ir: 11)0 50)197 press and ask yearnolffir
born whottliny think 0311, X00 00(1110311,aryl
gat year mono: hack 111)81ree it hex. fll
011 C1001000 00 1110141Mtax,11.erteilsr Co.,Teronla
Dv. Otiate'e ointment
salted, s01( 11 a pint or so of molasses
011 fiaturda:v *night, as the ilorses
will riNt the following day.
De not neglect the lump or roll
of slit in the merger(
8m:cos:mil 111,1 10 reeding is an art