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CONFUSION
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SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING
0EAPTEISS.-Air, Trelawney, a
echolarly recluse, =melee LOtty, the
niece of WS. AfarShain, his house-
keeper.
CHAPTER XI.
'I weeder if he 1011 love ine more
teeter our baby is born 1" Letty be-
gak timidly to think to herself when
the summer. cone.
There arose a. new dream of bope
for her in those bright Simmer
ri5Onthe when elle learned that she
wits going to leave a child
Pl'ospect, though half terrifying for
it few belef fiest moments, rapidly
came to 1111 her thoughts and heart
with it joy that, even in the small
degree in which it Nitta revealed to
him, her husband could belt dimly
understand.
To him, indeed, the expected atl-
vent of a child into his hitheeto
peaceltd house, I feat', was only a
very doubtful matter of congratula-
tion. "God bless me 1" he ejaculat-
ed precipitately when Mr. Gibson
First communicated the tidings to
hint, and he half started from his
their, and then Sat down again, and
passed his band nervously through
his hair, with a look upon his face,
ins less /Ike rapture than consterna-
tion.
But happily when this took place
eilly Mr. Gibson was present in the.
room, and the doctor felt no hesita-
tion in openly laughing at him. Pos-
sibly in the course of a long expe-
rience he had seen other expectant
fathers-, 1 in g
similar way from the same cause,
He laughed for a moment or two.
arld then •
said :-
"Yoe anestn't put on it look like
that before Mrs. Trelawney, youi
.know. Why, it's a very good thing'
for you, isn't ? You don't want
to grow old, and not have chick or;
child belonging to son ?" 1
"I don't know. T think I could1
stand being without them with tol-
erable philosophy," Mr. Trelawney
answered rather legubeiously.
"Well, yeti are not going to be'
called upon to stand it, you See."
"So it Seems."
And Mr. Trete.wney looked roundi
his quiet study with an involuntary'
MO. Perhaps he was asking in his,
Meet : "Shall I have this haven of
rest lavaded presently ? Will there
be no peace for nie presently, even
here ?" and was inwardly ehieider-
ing at the thought.
But when he saw Letty, happily hel
bad tenderness and manliness en-
ough not to betray to her that Air.1
Gibson' s news had ghee a, shock to1
hint He went to ber when Mr.!
Gibson Was gone, and was very good
• was appy
in the prospect that was before tier,/
be was happy too. he said. It would
make a great change in the house, of
course, "but we must; not take
alarm," he told her bravely, gulping
Mown somethi perha ps. as he
%poke. "We shall do very well, I
have 110 doubt-" And then he kissed
her, very werioly and tenderly, and
left her with the happiest heart, that
the had had for months.
Presently-ewhen ber new nappliiess
should come to make her strong. She
referred merythittg to that time
now. "It will all be so different
then," she was alwass saying to her-
oic.
"For it will make wenderful dif-
ference -will it not, aunt 1" she ex- t
claimed eagerly to Mrs. Itlarkhain,
when she came Lo her at last. For
weeks she hall been looking forward .5
tli Ill510.01a111'8 10.511, and when
at length her aunt arrived she re-
celeed her with almost hesterie
glachiess, and sobbed and clung to
her with an excitement that seemed 1
unitecOUlitable in her husband's
eight.
"GM suet dear, I'M so glad you
have come 1" she cried. ''You will
manage everything now -- won't
you ? hate tried so herd to keep
things straight, but -but I ha% en't t
been able," lhe p000 thing said
faintly, with her )(Ace neatening to 1
shake.
Perhaps the had Intently unmet be-
foreheucl to illsclet,e the ague sor-
Tetra of her married life to Mrs.
Marenam, but one after another she
poured them 0111 after this. She waS
one of those feeble women whose le -
resistible instinct it in to throw
themselves mid their burdens on
some breast, stronger than their own
and the temptatiot before her, e
the shape of Mrs. Aftu.klitun's moth-
erly bosom, was too great co. her
weak nature to resist.
So she cried a little silently, 1100 1)18
then she begari to tell her aunt how
she had struggled and surimed. /111
the poor trivial miseries, half sad,
half ludicrous, that those unman -
agealaie Intedreaidens o hers had
brought epee her-ehe told those
piteously, net sparing herself or her
-'theaPaeitle ; all the wettry sorrow of
her heart in her sad discovery, day
by day, of how little her husband's
happiness depended on her -how lit
-
tie he needed her -how much he had
lost in marrying her. The whole of
this, with passionate, desolate weep-
ehe poured into the elder wa.
nian'n ears.
"Tie is So good to me ; but it Is
only goodness -it isn't love ; it
wouldn't matter to him if I went
away -it wouldn't matter to him if
I died to -morrow," she sobbed, agate
and again in her bitter sorrow.
It was not eusy for Airs. Markham
to comfort her, while her own heart
was aching. But Sue took Letty
into lier arms, and did the beet she
mild 10 soothe her.
"Presently, Letty, it'll ail gems
easier to you. Only don't you fret
about it. You've got through the
worst by now, I'm thinking. Just
you wait till your hands aro a bit
fuller, and you've more things to do
than alwaye to be thinking whether
Mr. Trelawney's fond of you, and
then -why, weal be having you as
happy as the day's long. You'll be
too busy to be worritIng yourself
them Daly."
And she stroked Letty's hair and
coaeed and comforted her till the
faint smile came back again.
"I think he will care more for me
presently, wben I ant not so useless.
I always think that. Won't he care
more for me then ?" she began to
ask, with wistful earnestness, plead-
ing for an answer for which the
other woman had not the heart to
Id t her plead in vein.
These Were good days to Letty
after Mts. Marldmiu came to her,
when, with all the petty harassing
ou es ot lier life rime", e , knowing
that other hands had taken the
burden from her neckshe could sit
and rest in still content.
Al. the beginning of the winter, on
a NoNember day, Letty's child was
bone Somehow, beiore it came, she
lied fallen into the habit of think-
ing witcertainty that it would be
bo. '-a. boy who would grow up to
be in all things like his father, not
like her ; she wanted no repetition
of herself ; but a boy who could
learn all the deep things his father
knee', and go to school and college,
and thea write books perhaps, and
be a good, wise, clever, learned man,
This had been her desire and
hope, over which she had dreamed
for months ; and lo 1 when the child
came, it, was no by, but a girl !-
and the answer to Letty's first eager
question-"fs he alive ?-is he
strong ?" knocked ell the riekety
castle she hud !Mezr building to the
g-roued.
"Yes, Letty," was Mrs. Markham's!
response, "perfectly well and strong!
-only its not a he ;" and then poor
Laity's eyes grew wide with a sud-
den blank surprise, and the poor
Tittle lips lerole hao a feeble disap-
pointed cry.
"011, I didn't. want a gii.1 ! Oh, I
am so eerie, t What is thc good 01
rt gi v1e" she began to wail.
"Olt if it only was a boy !"
Late' was Still crying to herself, and
she looked in her husband's face
When lie came to her almost as if
she expected to read a sentence of
condemnation in his eyes • for had
le not wanted a boy as uthelt as she
dd ?-atul she had breuget, htra ne-
Mug MIL a girl I
"Dear, I a111 so Sorry I" she whis-
pered to him, timidly, as her hand
tole into his.
-Sorry about, what, LeLty ?" lic
tnswer id. iatiocently.
"Aboet-the baby."
"Ilia, my dear', you couldn't help
1," he said.
She lifted up her arms and put
hear round his neck.
"I won't keep you," she began at!
once to whisper. "I only want you!
Lo say juSt Onee, that you're not
-cry emelt disuppoiuted. Dear, Is it
rue ? Are you really not so
vexed ?" AIM she gazed in Ids face'
vitlt an eareestuess that filled him
with distress.
"Certainly lint. Certainly not, my
arling," he answered tenderly.
"Oh, thee, I won't mind it se
much either." Ale: she gave sigh
Of relief. "111 try not to mind it at
01 presently. Bove you" -suddenly
-"ha ve you Seen her yet, dear '1"
"Yes, I saw her for a moment."
"And did vett"-very timidly, but
agerly-"did you-thlnk ber-nice?"
"Yes -yes; very Mee."
Mr. Teelawney emit -cote ,,new after-
smeds how OM falsehood ConliChavo
noised lips.
"Oh. lern so glad I Thee say" -
in it toile of tender complacency -
"Nitre* eays-ehe's so like you."
An ejaculation rose to Afr. Tre-1
Dr,Ch s n t
lewney0 Ups, but he bravely gulped
it down,
"I suppose 1 may have been like
her once," he replied eVasivoly, after
11, meMent's silence.
"And ehe'e such Sem ehild, they
Bey,"
"Yes -.so I hear. That -that Is a
very great comfort, Letty,"
"OM yes -a Relit Wad:Wt. An
111 try to Do happy /101V. ecu'
help being sorry etill-but if yot
don't Mind so much -that Was Wha
I had been efrald of most."
And them with a fitittering, wistful
settle, she loosened her arms, and
looklag sadly at her for a mamma
Mr. Trelawney turned away.
e .1 ' • • • k ?" he
said gravely to Mrs. Markbara out-
side the door.
"Why, Yee, sir -she's weak, of'
eoursc-hut :1 don't see aeything else
that's wrong with her," Mrs. Mark-
ham answered, a little on the de-
fensive.
"Well, but she talks so strangely
She says she hadn't expected to hay
a child."
"Not expected one, sir 1"
"Yes. She told me before you coin
in that she was quite taken by sur
prise,"
"Lord, sir, she couldn't have eaic
that 1"
"I assure you she did. She began
about it ns 80011 as I went to hei*-
about bethg unhapPY, lied not bay-
ing expected it."
With a look of dismay lefrs. Afark-
ham went past Air. Trolawney with-
out uttering another word, and re,
entered the siek-room. "I declare
iny heart was in my mouth," she
told Letty afterwards. "You might
have knocked me down With a
straw." Bet the nexe minute she
was sitting laughing by the bedside,
for Letty, as 80011 aS She Caine near,
turned to her with a happy face,
arid -
"I've been telling him I'm so vexed
and he eays be doesn't mind," she
gladly whispered. "Isn't he good ?
1 Was so afraid he must have set his
been epon boy -but he says he
doesn't mind ono bit ; and he says
she looks so mee, she murmured,
With a cm -leering, joyful smile upon
hellt**11-tiaPts.uaine were they to give the
child ? Mr. Trelawaey's name was
Gilbert, and Letty had thought; to
herself that her boy should be an-
other Gilbert, so that front the very
first she might try in all things to
make lout like his father ; but now
she had no boy, so the nomenclature
of the baby had to be decided afresh.
"I think you had better call it
after yourself, Mr. relawney sug-
gested ; but Letty pleaded almost
pathetirally that this might not be.
'Id sooner ho anything than that,"
she Said.
"My mother's name was Alicia,"
Mr. Trelawney presently remarked.
"It is a mune that has been. several
times in the' family. I don't know
that I e.draire it tuuch myself, but
still -if we should be able to think
of nothing better--"
It seemed, bowever, that Letty had
thought of something that, at any
rate, seemed better to her.
"There is a name I should like,"
she said dly, if you didn't
think it was too old-fashioned a
one. I woeder 0 you would ?-and
if you would maid her being called
after aunt ?"
"What -Dorcas ?" he asked.
Ile was silent for a few moments.
I am. afraid in his heart he did not
like the name meth. Perhalls he
thought it was p,ebean, aod savored
too mach of charitable eometies ;
but Lolly's wistful eyes were looking
at him and he felt at this lime "very
tenderly 10 her, and had not the
heart to deny anything that she ask-
ed. So he was only silent far mo -
molt or teto, and then -
"Well, let it be Dorcas, if you
like," he said.
"1 wouldn't hale it 0 you would
rather not, dear."
"But I have no objeedoe at all.
It is a very good. name. Of course,
as you say, it is old fashioned, but
It is perhaps none the worse for
that."
"1 shotild like to ,give her the name
of a good woman '
"Well, your aunt is that, Letty."
"Yes -is she not 1" and the grate-
ful tears came to Letty's eyes. "Oh,
she's so good She has been the
same as a mother to me. 1 should
like to call baby after her, that she
might keow how we both felt."
So they told Mrs. Meridiem that
the baby was to be thristened Dor-1
ens ; and Dorcas she was accordingly
christened in nue time.
(To Be Continued.)
- •
Betts.tstifsite.ik00..ertIttrilttkettiqh
,111
"I was quartered at Afartheet that
1, year with ney squadron of the House-
hold Cavalry," sale the Major. "It
was our first try -out ie (be tropies
. and every jolly officer, line itied
Was dying of it was too hot
for golf, the ponies were too &el:
rith the fever to stand even an in
ning at polo, and there wastet 0 tol-
erable white woman within 00 utiles,
We were all bachelors but Col, Din-
Widdle, and he, for rolisous of his
own, had left the mail= in aiming, -
ham, and was glad of it.
"Well, we were hard put to it for
meant Sie matinee' he the ialiddite"4atfl CANADIAN 'WHEAT FLOCII, THE UNITED IRIPTI LEAGUE.
it as oho could. Or MeUree,
the day, when NM sun he at the Pre -I
Por angle fee photograpas. And We IT IS TEE VEZY EINEST IN LINEAL DESCENDAaTT 07 TEM
1104 it. TRZ WOBJ.zi L,410
"NOW, whet do you think? When
We developed and printed those pic- So , Says the Department ot Agri,
tures there WaS not a sign in any ot culture in a Oireulare-Acl-
Tice to IrarinerS,
them of Ali Bog, the boy, the leopard
or even the cloak," '
"Was there it Maitre of anYthiag?'" OttaWie hati issued a &Millar Point-
„ 'The Department cif Agriculture at
11-
e!'s of flour - made' from -Canadia
"Tina's the funny part of it,” ee-
, planed the MAIM', "the In4lirea ef thins advice to farmers regarding
tho g•roup of Staring °Sleeve were 1100. raising crowa , th,d hivit" them to
Dat I never knew how perfectly send
Isaw those
idiotic poor Plteeirn could Seek till seeds to tire seemeseneetai Farm to
1 1 d011btrUi . samples of grain and
" Venice is increasieg very rapidly
ivisi. Ovpolsptitalastti3o,iela. r Ittvsliiiasit 1h7s,d001104 len‘8-311.e, conteins, by actual analysis, about
The world's two largest islands, one-tenth more of albuneolds than
stetted elle sliensinersley, the spiritual- mg out the supesiority over a11 ot
0
gi.own wheat., The eireular oleo cen-
e recreetion until Ensign Pitcairn, a
weird -faced, inquisitive young temp,
began to give us all the creeps, with
e his stories about occultione astral
- bodies, spooks and 'manifestations.'
Whea they were all worked up with
1 the Ensign's story, I hit upon the
canny idea of getting up one of the
Indian 'adopts,' as Pitts, celled theta
to give a seance in our garden.
"Except. for the Colonel end the
Major -Surgeon we had no chairs and
the audience squatted around in a
circle upon the sand. We borrowed
a few torches from the Quarter-
nmeter, though we didn't need them,
s it, turned out, for the main wtte
tarell over the low roof of my (wait-
ers hefore Pitcairn, as sell -important
as Mrs. Jarley herself, Caine in with
Ali Beg, the vaunted mystie, who
alone could ineke sure )ny personal
guarantee that th t • 1111113111,
was avorta the fee.' Pithy Jed his
adept into the centre of the ring, a
Apace about .10 feet in diameter, and
fetrodueed him with a Pompous salu-
latot•y and a grand wave of the
lia'141he performer, who was ahnost
skeleton, had brought with him
none of the paraphernalia which
European magicians always have
To prove to you that Dr,
esa. oboesei Ointment is acerbate
L',.; end sIntolute aura for each
'ese and every form et itchiest
bisediegand erceradine
the mentifizetnrors beve imamate:AM see tes-
timonials le iho Write ergss end ask elm ne'elY
hors what teer think 01 Nen els etie it and
setyzur teeney hack 11 sot cured. teu &box, at 1
sliaenders eettoumoioN,BiTils Co,,Torento,
Dr. Chase.'s Oirrtgrieret
When standing up the heart in a
men teeth+ 81 tirnes a minute, sitting
t beat5 I. i 141121g flOW11 its
wilts ere reduced to 66 per minute.
MadmIve.ablararesworl
m or
The Exposure and Hardships of Camp Life Bring on Kidney Ditiestee, Backache and ElhOurnatism -
The Lumberman's Favorite Remedy is Or, Chase's Kidney -Liver Pik.
It is to the teamstere, furthers, relleoadere, lumberman above all others that Dr, Chase'Kidney-Liver
Pills prove their marvelloes eontrol over kidney disease, beckarhe and accompanying ills. Exposure 10 cold,
dampness, sudden change of temperature and the strain and jar of active vigorous life, frequently bring on
derangemente of the kidneyS, bowels and bladder, and eonsequent peens and aches in beck and Beebe. s
Mr. John Oer, lumberman, Trenton, Ont„ states-"Througlt expeeare to all sorts of weather tyl the jum.
ber camp, and ail a remit of the strain of my work, 1 beeeme a sufferer front kidney disease, which in my
eeee took the Win eif very Revere Paine ecross the beck, over the Ithineya end down the hips. When in the
wood e cattleg cloWn treena theme pains would come on me with seek forte that T would have to give up work
ahd retell% to wimp, entirely mod up.
"Platting that a number of the bo;yei in camp used Dr. Chase's Kidney -Liver Pills, 1 derided to Lry them,
mad didso With spleedid results, as they thoroughly mired me. T feel like my obi eel1 again, and ean work
Suet SO rood 08 the text eta T aree gea.tenil for tbis cure, aed honestly' believe that De. Chose! Kidney.
Liver Pins are the sereataet medieine there is for kidney dineftee,"
Slhaee's Itideey-Liver Pills have by far the largest sale in Canada. Of any eimiler preparation. They
bores proven their righti to a plate in every hinne as the most theronghly reneble medicine that selenee bat
devised, They ere peompt, end maitre) in action, end replete ited invigorate the, kidney!, liver and
bowele as no °thee medicine was ever knevte to do. You cell ecarcely millet a person but can tell you of 19-
UltOeS twoukht ithaut by thio treataient. 08, p111 & dos*, 2:e cents 41 1007t1 OA ell dieter*, or Est.
manses, Saud a Cs., 'throaty.
be tested. The circular retitle, in
part, as followw--
Canadian flour of the best sort
t'34x:611ValingA
ii. nub Batiinitind, in the Arc- and the alinnuoids, or gluten, being
ustralia, are p101011113' the best quality of Ilunga,rian liour,
110147i77:!;lal/11, OM Sal3f1WW, Jolande 'rises better and bottle its poeition .10
e in.ore tenacious, yield a dough which
410 PriteljeallY free -front mink"' the baked loaf. ft th ,eleadlly gain -
There is only one kind. and that is ing• ground hi the European markets,
very rare. and it is becoming better known as
February is tile Mildest month of D . f&'orn whieh
not only the best qualcity.. coalubjrneake
mi,
the year In London, the average be-
- Mg only seven degrees abole Carta
infi' point. barrel,
point,
uluu the lergest quantity per
rite letters delivered in 1%0%10h 0"
m . 31101•0 Three tests made by first-class Eng-
Afonday are SO pcentnum^ /rah
ernes than those ebakers ,ia Lomid„ withelivered on any C
dian flour gave the following restailitem;
otber day in the week, Na.ch using 100 lbs. Of Dour, they
The yomegest monarch who ever obtained, In the first instance 146
ascended the British throne 00118 Pounds or
Henry VI, He was 8 months and 25bread, 152 pounds of
bread in the second and 151 pounds'
days old at his accession. of bread in the third mum. For
4.--.
Cenadiau flolir is unsurpassed.
sweetness, whiteness and strength,
THE WONDERS ilE SCIENCE The percentages of alimmolds er
---- protein, the Most himortant point
SOME MIXTURES wHicrt SEEM from a nutritive standPoint, ns as-
IWIRACLEP. , reetained by Mr. P. '1'. Shutt, M.A.,
How Cotton -Wool Is Turned In a cent.; Mungarian,
—
Canadian, best patents 12.59 per
Central IFIxperiluental Farm, Were:
best grade, 11.27
the 'Terrific Explosive. per cent. The determination of glu-
There is 110 softer substance in the se„„asea„, hest nateilts,
wet gluten,
Guncotton. ten, both wet and dry, was, also, in
favor of Cana,dlan flour, 'tamely;
world than cothon-wool, and we use. 84.22; dry gluten, 12.138. Hungarian
It for wrapping up all our most h„t grads, wet x1114.011, 211.17; dry
treasured and breakable possessions. gi„te„, 9.79. The results prove Can -
Treat this warm and fluffy wool with odium tiotir to be the best for bread
nitric acid, and it is speedily turned odium
.
Ito guncotton -one of the most ter-
1C1O1tier seed ran be sown in all the
ifie ex.plosiVes known to science. A
rod, takes the hundreth part i2,1'.h00e:3; tlitoL, ec;ast. elinia'te of British 00111and1
ound of ordinary gunpower, ,
econd to explode. Guncotton la, _vst, 0 wai iiihvoatiAtaigees,sg7iintgh ttille egett.actitil
1/ in one -fifty -thousandth part of a ci°
crop for the efierent year, for after'
eCTuilecciOtton was first, discovere,t
luxuriantly, acting as a catch cross)
the grain is cut the clover grow
ixty years ago, and eery country,
daring Lite latter part of the season.
as so delighted with an explosive
Green clover turned under Is espe-
1 such newel. that quantities of it
chilly valuable to the land, because
were ramie and stored. But ex-,
plosiOne became distressingly h,,.,_ ‘tivlit.ilienrggie•oqwilbatfiltlitestiobrsoiiribusogferioinstoltilen;
h
lc,isete,ntw. bilZeik•e1111,v,Ectistwounset.ya_ftvuStt, ovissounvaitc--, 1
is stored iniviii)iwiLlg spidueedyths tiissiii..0s,A by
dreadfully wounded another sixty. mal ut g
ti.lid made the towit look as though ""1-"m". which, when P101181ted under,
had been bombarded. This ltd 10 adds cousidhe erably to tavailable
to discovery that guneottozi could nitrogen in the soil, as well as to
e mixed with water -that is to say, tee store of humulddsTaluttspriolpsoritsiiown
of nitrogen thins
toroughly damped, and so be stored
is equal to thet obtained from a
i safety, while still retaining all its
explosive properties. Torpedoes are 1 ssmg, " en tons of hatnent
to -day chwith m
charged oistened001- "
entnnr'-
e o th" acre, Considerable
simplies of potash, phosphoric acid,
eottou at hea'vy pressure.
Nitrogen is a dull, heat.), sort of and lime Inc ulsn takea uP bY the
gas. It puts out Ilre instaliteneOusly elover plant tillring its growth, part
and kills auy iiviiv.. thing pi„„g0d01 wheel is gathered from depths in
into it. Yet 78 p,itts I 1, 100 or ths'i the toil not ranched by some other
air we breathe are composed of this! 1ll,e1" ""Ps• Tests year af I cc year
gas. lit is the 20 per cent. of oxv- with wheat, oats, burley, and myth -
gen which is combined with the id-
trogen that transforms it into lite -
giving, pure, and elastic air. Water,
on the other hand, puts out fire, and
will Dot sustain
W.Allel-BLOODED LIFE ;
yet water contains, comparatively
speaking*, more oxygen than air
aboutthem, though , he wore upon1 in
his skinny shoulders a dirty, drab- r
colored <leek, which he unwound aud P
dropped upon the seed its he sainted 5
COlonel Dinwiddle anal Um ribald s
ring of sahibs round about.
"But hear what Ali Beg did be- s
fore osr unbelieving eyes, ancl, if you
can, expiate 11, for 1 cun't. Having
dropped his cloak upon the sand he
unbelted a crooked scimitar that
hung by hix side and htid it behind
him. Then, with a strange exclama-
Gem, he fell upon the cloak, rolled it
between ins tint paints, paddled it,
smoothed It and peeped beneath its
hem as it seemed suddeely to swell
and spread, The silence of cullosity,
if not of respect, fell upon us. but T
1
it
ti
eoniess that n3y Male stood on end! 11
and I could feel the gooseflesh on my, 1.1
spine, when the wizard jerked awav 11
the cloak end disclosed a chubby,
bright-eyed naked /ndinn boy sitting'
squarely before us upori the sand. It
could have been no ordinary hellu-
cination, for the child leaped nimbly
to his feet, chattering to his curator,
Ali Beg, as we exchanged cries of
wonder. The boy Was there as real
as any boy I ever saw at night by
the light of either moon or torch.
'Phe adept bowing and grinning llitira
pleased Cliimpanzee now dropped the
cloak again, went hysterically to
work with his lean hands, turning
from his task only twice to look at
the boy who stood silent beside him
gazing about at, the white faces of
the fascinated audience. When the
cloak began to assume the fottn and
else that seemed to satisfy the adept
he whipped it away again, and there,
as plain as bianself or the boy, ;yawn-
ing as if just awakened, its mean,
furtive, yellow eyes darting lurid
glances upon 128 la,v a full-grown leo-
pard, the hale on its lawny back ris-
ing angrily as Ali kicked him 0110 a
standing posture, his footle ',teeth w
coining to out* nostrils es he snarled 11
with rage, his tail whippieg the sand 0
into our faces es he lashed it about. is
Ole it was a real leopaed, I think, 13,
At all events I remember 80)110 01 ue T
who happened to have them slipped
out our pistols, mid 1 eau still see
old Dinwiddle biting his grav nine -
tache US he reacheci for his either,
'But it was the climax of the ca
weird spectacle white) i„
a series of vindictive kicks end cuffs d
the adept was working- the sinister of
beast Otto a fury, The great cat „
was snarling and sainpping, leering
and strkin
ig at 11111), when he sudden- in
ly furled the cloak round the boy, 0,
who nu
all ettlrees d - ,
tope confirm the value of this method
of adding to the fertility of the eel!,
in preparing the land for crops, in
the Eastern provinces. the advant-
ages arising from tall.ploughing have
been proved. Also the yield of
wheat on land that has been slimmer
fallowed will average telly one-thircl
It Was Organized Vivo Yearn Ago'
-English jotienals
The New WarrkCm
°aeItM
Yoerclal AdVere
tlser sPeake thee of the United Irish
Letegue: Journalistic iier 011 the
'United Irish League, 10111111 may be
regarded to a prelude to government-
al moiateetion, has begue in earnest
in Englesed. There 15 00 doubt 11010tee to the eeriousness of the ether':
tion Irelesid, although the attitude
of oho Goverement SOOMIS Still to he
one M skepticismMne
. r. Wynda, the
Irish Secretary, leas apOken plalahy
fornomththeecctulIgneltp,uthiuni ta
tiilvvosnsecztyjudgesssv-
in the Conservative papers, the likag-
lish authorities have not yet awak-
ened to the real scope of this latest
movement,
t.
league, -whith ite supporters
now rtilmit is a lineal descendant of
the old Land League, was oi;ganleed,
some five years ago, in the County
of Mayo, by 1Viniara O'Brien. It 16
doubtful if be expected it would
grow to such a size In $o short a.
time, because the chances wore ea
great of the government's lennedittee-
ly taking steps to suppress it. But
England, until very recently, has
paid littio 00 no attention to th5.
movement, regarding it with the in-
difTerence with which it usually
treats all things Irish, until a crisis,
comes, and, left to itself, it hae
spread over nearly half the island, 112
has a formal existence in Meter; it,
e
is rinly established' in the rural dis-
tricts of Leinster; it has a lwrge aliU
increasing number of aggressive
branches in the counties of Water-
ford, Tipperary, Cork ited Kerry,
and it 0 impreme In Connaught.
ITS EARLY MOTIVE.
The League began its career with
an agitation for a division of the
large grazing farms of the west and
south among peasant proprietors of
small agricultural holdings. Mat,
with its growth in size has come it
correeponding growth 111 ambition.
it looks now -to making the Coverts-
ment of Ireland as difficult and dan
gerOUS as possible, and its ultimate
end is Irish independence. There ars
tWelse hUndred branches of the Lea-
gue in the -whole of Irelaad. In all
the counties but, Sligo, Roscommon
and Leiterim, probably a majority of
the brenclies are as yet useful for the
collection of revenue; bat in these,
the proportion of branches actively
engaged int boycotting for that, up
to the present time, is Lite alder
method used by the league -is very
high. In them, according to the lat-
est police reports, there are seventy-
one farme which have been abandoned
owing to its workings, and thirty-
two persons aro nor under conneta,nt
or partial pollee protection. lit Gal-
‘vay, thnum
e ber of"derelict" fermi
is 120, and the numn
number of persos
tinder police protection eighty-four.
t.
PRINCIPLES.
The attention n
of the League is ow
actively directed to the ••gre,zing"
farms, A "grazier" Is usually a,
well-to-do shop -keeper, who invests
his savings in young stock, which he
fattens for the English market on a
grass farm hired "for an 11 months'
take." It is an article of the lea-
gue's constitution that all such
81018 should be divided among' small
armors. The result 0 that these
raziers nee constantly being sub-
ected to the "forty -foot polo ruedi-
ine," which is the severest fonts et
oycott. The next class against
vhich the league is movifig is known
Is the "gtobliers." In the first in -
lance he was a farmer who had
1110010a farm from someone else for
ion -payment of rent. Now, it means
n addition to that, anyone who at-
empts to enforce a mortgage to m-
over money that has been loaned,
Such a 11304 is brought befoee
'Lane Court'with the result that
te abandone his claim, apologezes to
he league and enrolls in it, or 000
ekes his dose of fert,y-foot pole.
nedicine, A farmer who has brought.
upon himself the emelt& of the lea-
gue is often subjected to the punielt-
meet, excuse for which is fotind in
the eviction in years past from the
land held by the farmer, ox' the Nutl-
et. or grandfather of one or the lea-
gue's members.
METHODS USED.
An example of the methods used Is.
found 111 the following manta from
ihset:Sligo Champion of 'rune 22,
is
'Shut all the househbldess ille
prIP1/01, Wilb011t exception of class or
creed, who shall not on tale day
fortnight, Juno 30, be enrolled 111
this league, bitcoesidered eligible for
the forty -foot pole medicine; that tx,
lac:klist of their am
nes be pasted up,
n some public: place, In °tele'. that
be others may know exactly those
vlio ere in need or the tone', asel
hat We elose oar subscription list
on the above-mentioned chtte.
In mettle districts of Sreland, Lhe
iise or the boycott is its general 118
11 Willi irt the clays or the old
land troubles, Violence has as yet
twee resolted to in only a few eases;
but unless the government steps In
end suppresses this inerensing agita-
tion with firm hand, another year
Is 111,11y to see the whole /5111/10 111 a
turmoil and all the good work of the
last few years undone.
NAMING Trite C'ETTLD,
Now, nereeearily, when the new
girl baby arri1101, there wits much
01501158ion nmong the 3/10111b001/ Of 1.1/0.
bannity 05 tO What her liante should
be,
"We will rail her `Cf oral d I n a, '
wild the fond mother.
"Why not en.11 her 'Esmeralda ?'
eked the first grandmother, "1 sew
hat mime ist a, story °nee, and xtl-
aye wanted to try it, 011 a baby."
"Oh," murmured the sewed gra enl-
tether, "that would never do. IA
s call her lertnehon," "
"But awl, yeti think 'Eit
H ess' Is
peaty mane, and so odd, too 1"
111, 01 one ot the melte.
"Texettee me, lattice'," ventured the
001' father, Who 'sat. near by, "but
oil mein to forget. that we are
eying to find a inane iOr 1. l)1itzzthn
• 111111 not 101'Ave-emit (agar."'
14
more titan on land that has been pre- I
does. What makes thae cornitinationeparail by only fall or roving plough-
tnore peculiar is that bydrogent nag,
gas, whiCh is combined with oxygen The tests carried on at the Expert- t
to f00/11 water, 18 111 110t, nearly mental Farms for ten years have rut -
so dead n gas 58 nitrogen. It is the ly demonstrated that increntsed eropa
lightest of all gases, end wll r
ill bUrerom,
result fearly sowing. Sowing t
freely in air. ttt the earliest possible time and c
Two deadly Poisons ultimo' everY then sowing 0 81100101 50101.5 a • week ,
day 111)0(1 000)3' 1.1)1)111 111 thio eiviiized Inter, then fain' other lots at inter- '
world. Ono is a bluish -whites metal. vals of a further week 0/1011 has 1
Inch is so desperately reflanarnable shown. that the hest, crops have been
tat, if swallowed, it would set one had from the second :towing's made
n Ike ineide. The other is a s jeste onweel< after it Was 110551b10
11 gas, which will suffocate instant, to soW Ill' 110101, 'flut ateeage of the
ally living Liting that. breathes it. ten 385 vs' eXperienee showe that
he metal is sodium, the gas chlor- with whent delity or ono week be-
e. Yet in chemient combination, yond the period mentioned has en-
10ee two f0001002110/012 salt. tailed a loss of 0-011 1' 30 per cent.,
iS ,e palest fonin an two weelxs 40 per cent„ three weeke
we generally see the eleirent nearly 50 per d
tee., end four Weeks
sleet; Who wined for a unmeant 50 per rent. of the crop,
1.1 gine t ha t more than half of the The eh -cuter conelildes by advising
plicate while of en egg composed reenters who have tiouhts regarding
this black thermal ? Net 52 the 4unilly or their grain 00 8000 to
arts In °eel' 100 of Pgg '111'"1°n '(00,11umaniples or it to the Oepert-
'e earbon, and fifty-four parts,
11nent. of Agriculture al Ottawa, In
each 10fi of the breed we1 °eche. thus loss of \enemy of grain
standing nexus Then thrustieg th
drab mass of boy end cloak at the
creature, Ali stepped aside and Mood
motionless while the brute MI tooth
and elaw upon the covered boy.
There Wes a roar, a fountain of Hand
sthe men jumped up, some ntrered,
fame helmet, some ran to the' houRe
for emotions. and IL wonid !neve gone
hard with All Beg and ble dialnalieal
beast Ilea not jemped up,
cool is a veteran on dress parade, 10
00S0ore order. But we were all
Standing, exerted aid pestle strieken
et er 1(i11 1,/13'5 f)te, when the bowing
o
1
suddenly Mid his hand on
ht isoisiAss withdrew the eloak end
Mamel us that the boy 10115 10011C.
;mottled? Vanished?
' Ali Ileg had no sooner made his
ow obeiea nee to Colonel Dintvidcle
'and the circle Limn be waved the
!empty (etude a Met times, spread it
itliove the leopard'e heed and covered
' t let chop -lithe me 00111011. As we
looked the el 0111< dropped down,
donne, till it My flat. and A/goading
on the send. The leopard wts gone,
picked xxp the ill -smelling etonk nay-
eelf, and if the earth had opened and
swalloteed the beast it could not
have disappeared more thorolighly.
Well, that's nearly all of the 'super.
natural' part of etory. We 00..
pealed it till every men 01 the sta-
tion was halt daffy about, inestieism
and bankrupt, with paying; echniseion
fees. We'd have ail 130011.1110 13111100-
isiN, 1 gr105/1, it one fine day colonel
Oinnithlle's Moen lindit come sloirg.
1.01tring lndin. With a pally of lent:
Belt folks toad n. rumple.
'Mk' 10000 111/ her niitel 1 500 the
.shoW' end titelfie lint malty nietureti of
tts 'Flu" Is. I" faCts "rb"" front unfavorable weather Miring har-
vest may be promptly detected, and
; the extent et the injury ascertained.
IS:moles weighing 030'11 one ennee
muy by seta to the Central Expert -
r eII yin n •1 •
-y g igsnie s; •
ou
your own flesh and blood, the inp
of an tipple, or the skeleton of n
mouee. '1'110 pencil 3011 write Wilit
d 1 I . rt inniouil to ymir
8001'!-pil 1
1100 composed nr the sante element.
TIM 'KEEN STEEL
of a razor -bled") depentle on carbon
for its 11110(111i51S. 1.058 011111 0110 part
of carbon is there to the in) peels of
100/1 ; 3001 without it, the blade;
which will efil, it hair would be
better Limn 11, hareelhoop. On the:
Otto)' hand, if more than that tinyl
proportion or carbon 0000 I1li.500
With dill 10011, it W01110 110 steel 310
longer, but mere brit tie east or pig -
inn!.
(I old, when a lame ut eh, pure, is so
soft that It can be dented With the
fingee-nati, Add ono pound at colt -
1 per to twenty of gold., and -the re-
salting- i1tixtut' 111 01101051, as hard ne
f copper Nembees of metallic
1 alleys seem allnost iniraclem,
terent are they from the 11111lerialo
t which hav gone I o SonipOSe therm
1115m11 is extremely unlike either the
copper or zinc which makes it ; but
the Inost, curious thing nbont 121.11114
bs that tt very little Iced added to it
will femme it Ili appearance to pre -
(timely reeninble gold. Why dull, grey
leae shonlni have this effect i one of
; the myst Pries of met allurgy.
' A Wttle nine! added lo steel will
make it mixture harder than either
itst emistitrients, l'hospliorne, the
soft PO. of all ihe Inetuls. ntid 0110 Of
1
to lightest ;rites riiiiirnunis Strength
ilresit,v o making it
enen 01,110, thanemen repel foe eel. -
tom perposeR ; nuti Bet might
be thclenititely eetetded.
mentni arnt at Ottawa, free, i
through the mail. These santrdes are t
tested tonl reportml on free of charge
t•
anti -their percentage or vitality ean
1(511* h1' he delronined within a (01-
tI 114111 af pe they eris'ei ved.
A MEAN A DVANTAG E.
;Cll. 1 ittl 13, 140 1 o em Lli s tbto
grocer told get, a quart of the best
temple," said his mother.
And elle handed Lim young hopeful
a couple ot good-slzed Jugs.
tt hen the boy had gone 1 said to
the InOtlier
"You dichet tell taint to get 5 113,
thieg in the other jug. Is be going
to !nate it at the shop ?"
"No, nta'ain; he's going to bring
it back here again," she l'eplicil.
"But why send 11110 jugs to get a
quart` of tilenele ?,"
"Well, you eve, it's this Way. 'if
Ile has a Jug 111 (teeth hand he can't
go dipping HS finger in the treacle
and eating it itS he tomes along,"
An emiee»t brieelstee, noted as
nrueh for a habit 110 had ot Sueking
lozenges its for his eloquence, Was 0
once ilefending a murder wise, Ile
Wait etanding -with a bullet lo one a
hand end the maul] lozenge In the p
other, when Ruthicely, in the midst,'
of it fine burst of eloquence, hle face' P
fell, heti in a tone et $tgony ba SP:
/wird : "Gentlereen, l've ewalloWed
the bullet 1" . b