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Power of Persuasion
Or Lady Caravon's Labor of
Love.
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A. week had paeeed since Ledy
Maven, reached Pari -i1 alrenge
eek, She hae seen but little ef
er husbend, He never took break-
* oh with her ; they met at dinner,
iAted twice lie had taken her to. the
,i,,i,seperit, He never hnerfered in 'the
ei,lectst with any of hor affairs.
Lady Caravan was a bride or a
sveek, Loft without a mother while
In the nursery, her father had
ducated her in almost convent -nice
'Inclusion.. One afternoon, a. few'
:Iinslitha before our story openAr-
..0ey Ramsome, lawyer arid •money-
es%ender, had introduced to Hiked,
Phis only. child, the handsome young
Lord 'Oaraven. On the day follew-
ing he hed announced to her tbat
s,:the noble, lord had deine her the
'lhonor
to Sue flir her hand, and had
!;)sintimatecl that it wee his wish that
• "s she - should accept him, Flattered,
and entirely ignorant, of the ways of
the world, she had fallen in with her
father's wishes without demur. '
A ..scene in Arley Itaneomes office
a short time previous to this would
throw a light on this midden and
brief courting. Besides Ransom°
himself, the only person present was
Lord Caraven, whose .prodig,ality
had wasted his inheritance and cov-
ered his ancestral home of Ravens -
mere with mortgeses.
"I have worked hard an my life,"
said Arley Ransome--"worked ae
few men hevls ever done hefore—
from satirise to sunset- and often
• through the long, silent night.. I
have worked because X love money
, --because X am ambitious; because X
have had an end in view, You know
my lord, that beside practicing as a
lawyer, I have been, and am now, a
• money -lender; it is no news to you
that I advanced the mortgage-rno-
ney on Ravensraere, and that, unless
you Pay it, the estate beecnnes nine.
'X have a 'daughter, and she must
take the place 1 would fain have
given to ray boy. My lord, I make
you this offer. You are a ruined
man; you tell me there remains for
you no hope—nothing but 'death.
'Now I will give you my life, liberty,
wealth: X will make you greater
passion and tontiSrness in her brill-
,
ish heart. "
It Was decidedly tireSeine lutVing
wife. True he saw little el her -41 r
days' together they Sometilnes il d
not exchange a 'word e but peop
began 'to look upon ihirn as a ma '-
ried man, and he did not like it—
When they met him they aelted how
Lady Oaraven was. '
"Lady Oara.ven 1" He Milled
scoeutolly to himeelf, remembering
all thefail, and stately themes w.ho
had botae.that 'name; remembering
the dar1-eyiR1 girl who now bore
.it, he smiled in bitterest scorn,
rfe, had never been one of thoee
men who look forward to marriage
As L110 000 great end and aim of Ilfe,
It had never had any chasm for hire
even, even in the days when he was
free .to dream as hewould; but his
visions had been of a golden -haired
love, radiant and fair,, never of
girl -wile, the daughter of a man who
had, as it were,outwitted hina—the
child•of a man whgehad dealt faith-
lessly with him., He shuddered at
the very thought 61 11.
He was not given to thought—the
rules pf sight • and wrong had not
troubled him very. mech. He eever
realized that it was wrong to have
married a girl he did not like—
wrong to leave a, young wife so en-
tirely alone. He never thought of
those thisgs; he onlyremembered
that flittering° vans a burden to him,
that his wife $ presence was some
kind of mute repreach, that he anis
a thousand times happier away from
her than with her.
Certainly he felt the burden loss
at Paris than he wcreld have felt
It elsewhere, because there was al-
ways something to occupy him and
distract his thoughts there were al-
ways some kind friends to relieve
him of the ennui and tediouseess of
existence.
One evening he was rather startled
by Hildred. There was a favorite
singer at the. opera, and they went
to hear her. She was very fair, and
the gentlemen were busily engaged i
discussing her, With Lord and Lady
Caraven was a Frenchman, the
Comte de Quesne, a great admirer of
than any of the Earls of Caraven fair women. The conversation,lcept
have been yet. I will give my up chiefly between the two gentle -
'daughter a down,' of, two hundred -men, • was'. about. the charming
• thousand pounds if you will marry actress.
"She is of real. taglish type,"
self -posse- said the eomte; and -the English
Lord Caraven lost his
sion for one half minute; be literally la_dies" are so fair—they aro ador-
looked as be felt—bewilde.red. Then awe 1
ail indignant repudiation of the pro- "I think . myself," remarked the
posal sprang to, his lips. He avould ,earl, "that fair-haireft.English girl
not to it. But finally when ie certainly the loveliest -object in
he had becoine accustomed to the "creation.'! .
Idea. and realized that his 'onlY The-'8okiate•laughed.
choice was between the girl a,nd a "You -prefer 'the blondes' to tile
revolver he gave way. He promised brunettes, tber ?" he said,
to marry her and give her his rank, ,,
Oertainty,'' replied Lord Cara -
at the same he cursed himself for a
"I do not see how a woman
-Villain for wrecking an innocent von.
he 'can be beautiful unless she be fair."
life. She, thinking that
He had entirely forgotten his
laved her, and altogether ignorant
Young girl -wife with the dark eyes
of any other reason for the mar-
and the Spanish face. He' Would not
riage, accepted hins as we know.
have wantonly' pained' luir, but lie
• He sent every morning to ask if had forgotten her presence. She
she had any particular wish for
heard the words. Al, the tirae she
• that day—if there was any place she
made no remark, ; 'although they
desired to see: At fli•st she said
burned into her heart like fire.
'Yes," and went to the different The comte went home with them,
places of note. He accompanied her, and they were, joined by another
but, she could not aveld thinking .
iriencl ; but she found an opportun-
that he was slightly bored by these itY of speaking to her -husband when
excursions. The next time he sent the other gentlemen were busy with
elle declined, and he did not remon-
ecarte, and Lewd Caravan had with-
tstrate; he made no renutric, and she drawn to look freer some letters
felt almost sure that he was ra- that has just arrived, She sum -
hayed by her refusal. When they monad up courage and went up to
went to the opera, they were never him.
alone—he always secure'd some coin- ''"„ Caraven," she said,
panion. It seemed to Hildred that "1,0,01'17.6
la you mind telling me one
he was cmite as much a stranger as thing ,"
on the flest day he entered the
He looked, up in wonder—it wee so
• seldom that she voluntarily adclres-
She had, • indeed, no part In his sed him. As he looked he was
existence—he lived as though .5110 slightly impressed with her appear -
were not. .He had fulfilled his. Part ance—the tall, slender figure was
of the contract by giving' her hie draped_ hi soft, shining silk. the
name, his rank, his position. That girlish face was flushed with the
a living, beating human heart might egoae of speaking to him, the dark
long for more did not occur to him.. eyes were bright and starlike, filled
Pie never thought of her as his with unutterable thoughts. He eould
wife; the chances were that, if en:9 not help owning to himself Unit
one had asked suddenly if he there was sonie bearity in the thick
was married, he would have said coils of dark hair, in the tall, slim,
"No." Be had paid the forfeit of graceful figere, in the perfect glace'
his folly by being in some measure
compelled to burden himself with
tnis young girl.
El0 he Would have boon had Setae
child Nine to MN With treiribling
lips to tell a Pilifel tisiS
"Why," she said, "if that wee the
ease, dill you Merry ine ?"
"You 101014 why 1marriee you,"
he replied, gravely—"why ask Me
the miestien.?"
Ile saw a vivid eiger Spread over
her fees, a bright liget shine in liar
eyee. The eiraple girl thought end
believed he meant that she knew he
had Married her because he loved
her. Her hem t gave a great, glad
beand, 110 levoS her 1 She Would
enderetencl better in time ;he
woeld only know wily he seemed re-
lierVed, reticent, old, and indiffer-
at,
"Yoe know why I marrimi You,"
the handsome earl bad said • and
he words filled her heart with a
strange, sweet Pain.
"I will try to remember," she
fiSill, gently, ,
•
Dull as was his ear, he beard new
0
t
muele 10 her lanes, •
"You will remember what 9" be a solid masa m the 6011,, and the
asked, grabs grows lexeriantlY, eVen defy -
"X will remember why you flaV0 ing dry weather, and ptodueleg good
married mei" sbe replied ; and as melee le, spite 0,1 01000 cropping and
she went away he wondered greatly, law in the season when frost arena-.
"I ehould not think that ahe is arily kills less succesafill pasture.
likelY'til forget it," he said to hiin- The rection le that the farmers' hove
self. "Certainly women are puzzlescultivated the soil, planted and ie -
She will try to reinember why I Planted grass seeds, dressed the pee -
married ber—and the words seemed tures repeatedly with fertilizers, and
*like melting music on her lips, a made them in every way productive
light that was like sunshine Q11 flow- and fertile. • The soil is not more.
ers spread over lter face 1 Why, I adaptell naturally to pasturage than
married her 'because e'er father sold Millions of acres in the United
her for A title and she was willing States or Canada, which te-dee, Pro
-
to be sold 1" 41000 only indifferent crops of grass.
To those dying with thirst the The soil is made artificially rich, and
fall ' of 'clew is a boon. To Lady the sod Is the result of Careful.
Caraven the earl's few words seem • -
ed full of racaniag; she said them INTENSIVE FARMING.
T
over an'd over hgain to herself, his is Why English farmers make a
worth
"You know why I married 'you.10)1(1 ten times as
She said them With many Profit fronla
t
of accent, with different intonatione,
varieties anaih in money valttation 011 the pas-
ture. fields of this country.. Now if
and each time that she repeated it is possible to improve our pasture
them they seemed to mean inol'e and beide so that they will produce like
mere. Per some hours she felt much these English ones, what an enorm-
happier; it was like a break in the°us profit awaits ,the farmers who
cold tido of indifference, She kot w111 improve their flelds to the some
expecting kinder words to inflow., productive fertility? instead of be-
ing forced to pay interest on 00 10-
but they did not. Lord Caraven
did not appear to remember what vestment of $500 an acre, the aver -
he had said. , have to pay only on less than $50
age 'dairyman in this country woeld
I
He went out thatael
evening ft ,
the "little slipper" was over. s_he' per acre. All the rest Would repre-
sent profit.
heard a whisper of "billiards." I The professor lays down a few
asiotswbriaza
•
‘9 ON THE FAR
wsiwoweiogsraoso
IMPROVE GRASS LANDS.
Prof. Otsrees 5, Doty points out
that in parts of England and $te
lend 10)104118 awl dairyinea Make a
freM piteture lands whWh
have an aesessed valuation of four
mei five bemired dollen; an acre,
They clo this .341110(1prices for the
products. are 110 10055 than In 11110
'United States or Canada.' Tim See -
yet pf their success is necessity.
They have been foreecl to make eVerY
square inch of soil pay its highest
profit, And as a result they have
some of the finest pastures in the
world. The Sod 15 50 thick and
comeact that it is almost impossible
to cut through it The roots form
Wendere en many undown dal
WM.
CAVE IFOR STORING APPLES.
Per etering fruit On the fariu,
31011110(1 '0813 equal a good eave. .J.
Reeinid bent a can eevert yearn
ago and has toned it an exeellent
place in which to Stove apples, The
CA50 W115 eug into a north hill slope
and the dirt removed with a spade
and wheelbarrow, 11: is 15 feet wide
by 50 feet deep toul will hold tWo
carloads of apples. The day walls
need nothing to hold them ie place.
The roof ie nettle of bridge plonk,
hole in plats by posts along the
pities, The plank ere (1(15010(1 3511,11
it
dirt and eodded over to turn the
rain. Two 12-111011 tiles at the top
provide ventilation. Hate hove not
bothered much. A feat got in, but
were caught with a wire trap. A
fruit house 111y20 foot is built in
front of the cave. Double 1/0055
open to the north, so that two wag-
ons een. he backed in. for uuloading.
There is an orchard and timber on
the south, so that hot south winds
have no chance to enter this ceve.re
Apples astored in barrw
els, hh
ic'
are kept off the ground.
At, rust he was considerably sur-
prised in his wife. He thought to
himself that the daughter cid a 1324/1
like lawyer Ransome, sharp, shrewd,
cunning, must inherit some of his
propensities—that sho wourd occupy
herself with small intrigues and
maneuvers of all kinds. She did
nothing of the sort ; she was oulet,
grave, calm,,,'Self-poSsessed. He did
and harmony. She was simply yet
beautifully dressed; a pomegratutte-
blossbm lay in the coila of her
hair.
• "I Want yola tell me one thing,"
she repeated. "If you atiMire fair
girls with golden hair, why did yeti
marry me, .with hair ttnd eyes so
clerk P"
She asked tho question in such
perfect good faith, in such earnest'
tones, with such sad, sweet eye%
111101 ho Was touched, nbt deeply, bat
KING EDWARD NO ANGLER
ACCOUNT 05' POOR ANG-
LING IN CANADA,
Ile Has a Reputation of a Suc-
easeful Hunter of Large
Game.
Among the inass of anecdotal
matter recalled by the coronation of
King Edward VII., Canadian sports-
men are interesting' themselves in
reminiscences of the lack of skill as
an angler displeyec/ by the Xing
when, in the course of his progress
through the Dominion in 18E10 as
Prince of Wales, he visited some of
the best -fishing waters of Canada.
The late Senator Price took tho
r11.11C0 on a trip up the Saguenay to
the Ste. Marguerite River. the pre-
sent preserve of the Ste. Marguerite
Salmon Club, and then. as now,
noted for the abundance of its sal -
Mon and trout. A few small trout
were, however, all that the whole
party could boast of. Mr, Price
hooked a large salmon for the Prince
Nothing came of, the one s.aitarY rules for making a good pasture, and gave it to him to land, but his
gleam of kindness. The next daY' some of which the farmers of Prince attempt was not successful. The
Hildred did not see the earl at all;' Edward island would do well to Prince had not had sufficient prac-
tice in salmon fishing to enable him
to kill a largo fish.
The official historian of the tour
notes that "it was riot for the want
of advice; there was plenty of that.
Every 0110 called out what to do, as
a matter of course,every one suggest-
ed a different mode from everybody
else, so that his Highness was be-
wildered, and the salmon proved the
TRUTH OF THE OLD PROVERB,
that 'in a multitude of counsellors
there is safety;' and, 'breaking the
line, got clear' away.",
Xing Edward has occasionally
angled for coarse fish in Scotland,
but has never made any reputation
as an angler, though it was recently
stated on the authority of Lord
Xfiollys that upon one occasion he
really did kill a twenty-one pound
salmon in the Tweed, Ile has a.
reputation tut a successful hunter,
especially large grune, but lie Is al-
most the only member 111 1110 British
royal family who is nte, also nn en-
thusiastic and fortunate angler.
°enaction fishermen can testify
from personal observation en the
litiatigouche and tJascupeditt rivers
to the clever tingling of the psesertt
Prince of Wales and of his aunt, the
he went over to St. Cloud with follow. In the first place the ideal
some of his felendS. The slight, pasture land mast he seeded with
gleam of happiness died away, and, good seed, and liberal•expenditere of
the old feeling of desolation came some kind of fertilizer. must be made
back to her, The Cointesse del annually. Then' weeds must be re-
Quesne called and pressed her to go ligioasiy destroyed,' pulled up root
out, but the girl was sick at heart.i and branch every year. It is 1m -
It was such a strange life--rnarrieclj possible to get a good pasture un -
without love, without even friendl less weeds are pulled up. lf this
ship, or liking--inarried, yet living Work is continued carefully every
with her husband as though she year, in Tour or five seasons weeds
were the merest stranger—his' 31)10,1 will have no chance Whatever.
yet knowing no ore of him .than • THE GRASSROOTS
bearing 1141 name, msharing his fate,' _
.did the lowest servant in UM 'house- will occupy, the seil so completely
hold; his thoughts, his mind, his ,that 110 weeds can find lodgment
plans, his desires, his intereets, hissthere. Weeds are becoming.the bane
amusenienta, his pleasures Were all of too many .pasteve fields, mid the
strange to her, It was an imheard-,inore:they are allowed to grow and
of position,. an unheard-of fate. I produce seeds the more obnoxious
"If J Uhl not know that he bad they Will grow. it is inipossible. to
Married me iieetweeehe loved me, I get grits'sseeds to -day that will not
should say rather that he did not have some' Weeds in them, and the
like me," wee a -thciught which of-', only hope of the farmer is to pull
ten occurred to her, but she 'drove up the weeds as fast as they show
it away as unworthy. "If L were: themselves. Good culture of grass
beautiful," thought the lovely girl,' pastures will pay as much as any
"I should think that he had mar- i kind of farming, and in our own
vied me for my beauty—if 5 had province where dairying is carried
grand ceneections, ler them; but I on so extensively perhaps a good lot
have 'none—I have nothing—any bettor than 503110 Other lines.
love has stooped to me from high Ono of the surprising things in
estate.' I shall never understand farming is the gradual development
what he . sow 111 0)8 to make him of land to a point where it will lPrincoss Louie, Marchioness of
love me." yield returns never dreamed • of by 'Lorne, now Duchess of Argyll, the
She had paid Si) little attention the early cultivators: and the ex- favorite sister of the Xing. The
to the words that she did not even, perience of the past season will like -
remember that she had been caflocl ly stimulate our farmers to greater
"Arley Ticinsome's heiress." Of alliallort in the direction of pitying
the ideas that occurred to epr, the more attention to our pasture fields
one that she had beemmarribd for in the future.
her money was., the furthest from
PERT1LITY AND DAIRYING.
Column of Caste
CHAPTER XXVII,
"I have been Writing to Frank,
and my letter will reach him toe
inorrAi
ew," re. Harcourt told Dorcas
on the clay after they had had their
talk together, aed then she paueed
moosent, 011(1" 'Do you think be will
130 lilielY to 00100 easy 0001101' (01'
that ? You ought to 4512031 better
than Do you think ho will coMe?"
she said.
11 WAE1 011 A W0E11105dLLY that elm
had written to her son. Ho would
get her letter in London on Thurs-
day morning, and it would tales him
eve houre to Come from London to
her thoughts.
• e e e
Three weeks had passed away, and
Lord Caraven began to wonder how
much longer lie was to remain in
Paris. If he hed been free to fol-
low his bwn ineliriations, ibey would
have led him to the gaming -tables at
Baden-Baden. But, as he Said,, im-
patiently, he had no idea of going
there with a whole train of peoplis
to look alter.
How long would she expect to 1'e-1
main in PAriS 9 The honeymoon—
that most absurd of all institutional
—vas supposed. to last a month. It'
Would be better, perhaps, to renmini
there eutil it was over, and then gel
to Revensinere. 13e. would be more
'comfortable there. The house was
spaciens, and it would be possible
for him to move about without, be-
' leg hounted by the girlish, wistful
fate, So in Paris, entil the honey-
moon was over, he decided on re-
maining.
• (To Be Continued.)
He—"You say circumstances over
Which you have no control prevent
your accepting any offer of marriage.
What ore those circumstances ?"
She— "Ye tits. ".
'44.•4•44,44444441.4.4=.4.......m.mom,
Strain and Anxiety
Too Much for Her.
Health Broke Down, Was Pale and Exhausted — Restoration Came With the
Use of Dr. Ohase'S Nerve Food,
The ease described in this letter is.
Winner to thousands in which Dr.
Chase's, Nerve Food is saccessfully
used. It is ono 11101:0 example of the
inarvelotie upbuilding effect of this
great food mite. ,
Mrs, Goo, Campbell, Upper Harbor,
St. John County, writes :—
;"Lest sunnaser my system was cons-
Pletely run down, and I Was pale,
weak, and exhausted. I had taken
ear° of a, sack friend for four Months
end lost§ of' eleep, as well tee the
etrain end anitiety, wee toe, ninth
for me, When I Would lie down ter
Ott dersin 'the ms"Oves 4,, rilY IMP
tuitions in the johltei.
"'When in this tiondition, 1 heard
ot Dr. Chase's Nerve Food and be-
gan to use it. It seemed to help me
from the very first, and geadually
restored me to health arid etrength;
To-ffity I feel as well as 5 ever did,
arid give t,he credit to this, great
presjeription of Dr, Chime."
Mrs, John lance, 280 Viiellingtoe
street, Ottawa, Oat, Whocie husband
Is employed with Davidson Thack-
rayi lumber dealers, stfites :—"/ Was
yeey weak, had Ms strength or
energy and suffered nearly all the
time with headache, lo fast I had
P470u14 tw1t1i, pa* A bait strange See- headaehe for thee, whole days itiet.
before beginning to use Dr. Chase's
Nerve Food. 1 was also troubled a
groo,t deal with shooting paine
acrose the small of the back. Under
Ibis treatment, my healtft has been
wonderfully impeoved. The head.
aches are a thing of the pase, the
paine in my back aro cured, and I
feel strong and heelthy. AS an evi-
dence of restored strength I may
Say that I ask how able to do all
my hoesework without becoming Mc-
hausted," s
Dr, Chase's Nerve rood, 50 cents
a bbx, 13 boxes for $2.50, tit all
dealers; or Eamenalen. Bate* Cikat
Toronto.;
Any branch of farming which in-
creases the general fertility of the
farrilland while paying a living pro-
fit is • worth mole than another
which steadily decreases the pro-
ductivity of the soil_ Robbing the
land to' make present profit is an
Unwise proceeding. Sooner or later
we Pay for it, and sometimes dear -
y. • Now, dairying, of all branches
cottage built for her on, the banks of
the Cascapeditt is still standing and
the pool in which she killed her larg-
est salmon still betirs her name.
it wes while visiting her in Can-
ada that the present P111100 of Wales
and his late brother, the Duke of
Chmence, proved to Canadian ang-
lers their skill with the fly and rod.
The Prince of Wales has incleecl been
called the angler -in -chief of the royal
faudiv and both in dexterity and
luck he recalls his late uncle, the
Duke of Edinburgh.
Queen Alexandra is well known as
a keen disciple of tettak Walton and
often fishes for 'salmon in Scotland
with her daughter, the Princess Vie -
of farming, staiirls first in this re- totem The Alexandra fly, which has
epect. It can be conducted so that been called after her, is so deadly a
the farm land will steadily degener- killer on some of the old country
ate until the place is on the verge streams that its use on many of
of ruin and abandonment, or it, can
be made to improve the soil year
b• yInyeoarid'ar to bring up a poor form
by "dairying care should be taken not
to have more stook than the land
can afford. This is often the weak
point in dairying. A. man keeps 50
cotve on 0 farm able to support only
thirty or forty. The farm is bound
to run down. There is nothing oleo
te do except to starve the stock
or buy outside food which always
meens
POOR ECONOMY.
It is better to sell off the stock,
weed out the poorest of the herd and
keep only so many as the farm can
support, and leave a. little some-
thing over, Do not farni up • to the
very limit of the soil. That is, do
not teke off each year quite all that
can be produced. Leave a little bal-
ance in the bank as a nucleus for
future accumulation. Dairymen
make this mistake and regret it
when it is too late, •
As one sucteeds in dairy farming
with twenty acres, keeping a herd of
cows en it so that they have tunple
to eat and a little eurples over,
more land can be brought under cul-
tivation and the stock increased.
About half of the &airy farms to-
day need to have either the herd cut
111 tWO 01' half the land abandoned.
That is, the fonner are raising too
many cows to the acre, robbing 'the
soil so that the farm IR a little
'Meter eaeli yettr, and the latter are
only half cultivating about twine as
mach land' ha they aro capable of
handling With their limited 1050111.
It is better to seed half the lancl to
grass, told let it go at that ancl de-
vote the' attention to strenuous cut-
tivation Of the remaieder. A little
radical change like this 0111 work
them has been absolutely forbidden.
This remarkable fly WAS not, as
sometimes supposed, invented by the
Queen, bet by Dr. Hobbs. It was
originally known as the Lady of the
Lake, and 1.1119 110010 was abandoned
for its present one because of the
success obtained with it by the
"'SHEN PRINCESS ALEXANDRA.
In fact, it may not properly be
called an artificial fly at all, being
intended as a vague ituiteliou of a
minnow, and it was originally in-
tended to be cast and played Minnow
fashion just below the surface of the
water. Its coarse, green hackies
PartlY enclose a bright silvery body,
glimpses of which are given to the
fish by allowing the line to run with
the current and then drawing it
back up stream by short, sedden
jerks, which, open and close the
haekles. In this country, where sal-
mon are not taken in fresh water bY
minnows or other live bait as ia the
British Isles, this imitation is hot
so much affected by salmon. fishe1'-
11:1011.
Xing Edward's daughter, the
Duchess of Fife, is devoted to ang-
ling, and speeds 0111011 Of to110 ti1110
at the sport, accompanied by her
daughters, while the Duke is away
deer stalking.
Fishing is the favorite athusement„
too, of the little sone of the Prince
of Wales, and they were recently
quite pseud of their ability to send
a brace of trout of thole own killing
to the Ring and another brace to
their 051111 parents,
the Dower Howe. ' 1•
"If lie liked to oonie te-morrow lie
would be able to do it," Dorcas be-
gan invoiuntarily to think; as the
hours missed on. • "Bo might be
hime, and, o
e
r
e
,
baynftexll7nsu;r5111y0
I
might be m 1 re, know, by tinnier-
tiiewill choose 1" .
She theught to herself, that
Idght_
"Shall I be happier won he comes
than I am now ?" With a little
grave foreboding, she thought—"I
wonder if the happiest hours of all
our lives • aro not the hours before
We gnin what we went most 1"
It 3109 raining heavily 00 Thurs-
day morning; it rained for a long
time, hour after hour, anti Dorms
watched the low -hanging clouds till
she was tired. and stood at the win-
dow, listening to the. ceaseless pat-
ter of the drops upon the garden
path. If it would but dear up and
let her get out 1 the girl thought,
restlessly. It seemed to her as
thought she could not breathe in-
doors ; the beating of her heart op-
pressed her.
Would Frank come ? Now that
the time at which it was possible
for him to come had drawn so near,
she began to tell herself that she
WEL9 foolish to expect him. He might
have been out of town, and not have
received his mother's letter; he might
have business that would detain him;
he might not care for lier as she
cared for him. "Oh 1 ray dear, do
you want, rile less than you used to
do ?" she began to cry, walking up
and down her room, when she could
bear to sit still no longer.
There was a sound of *heels on
the wet gravel about three o'clock,
and Dorcas's heart gave one great
bound, and then seemed as if it
ceased to beat. Mrs. Harcourt was
reading, and she too suddenly put
down her book. But the door open-
ed in a minute, and only some or-
dinary visitors were ushered in—a
Mrs, Wilson and her daughter, who
lived in the neighborhood, and who
had 101-110881)' chosen this wet after-
noon, they said, on which to pay
their visit, because they were sure
that they should find Airs. Harcourt
at home. So the • mother attached
herself to Mrs. Harcourt, and the
daughter to Dorctia,• and they talked
and the icall lasted a long time.
They- wereLlively people, and they
talked so loud and long that not
even Dorcas' ears caught the sound
of another step rresently that came
up the garden stairs, and entered the
house by the unfastened garden -door.
Both mother and daughter were
talking volubly, and the room Was
full of their voices and their laugh-
ter—when suddenly the moment came
at haat that Dorcas had imagined to
herself a, thousand times.
It came—this ineffable moment that
she had dreamed of by day and night
—the supreme moment of her life, as
she had thought it would.eurely be;.
and, instead of rapture mid un-
speakable eniotion, it brought only
a quick start of surprise—a rush of
blood to her cheek—and then, for a
little while,' almost a cessation of all
feeling. She merely turned her head
as the .door opened, with the rather
tired smile with which she had been
listening to ono of Miss Wilson's
stories still upon her lips, and her
eyes and Frank's met for something,
as it seemed to her, less than an in-
stant., And then there was a. sudden
bites of welcome—a series of delight-
ed exclamations from Mrs. ancl Miss
WtIson, and, after a fcw seconds,
Frank's hand clasped hers; but she
had not, courage then even to at-
tempt to look into his face.
With a feeling as if she was half
&tinned, as if she was only half
awake and half alive, she sat still
minute after minute. She 'said
''Yes" and "No" almost meeliani-
cally to Miss Wilson; she caught a
few of Frank's words as she listened
with yearning ears; she could not
keep her eyes from sometimes turn-
ing furtively towards him.
1 do not think that first meetings
after long absencee are always sweet.
Time works its changes so fast, and
the face we left seems so often not
the fate we find again. Was there
not something different in Frank ?—
sonic change that made his look un-
familiar 9 There came a sense to
her as of something altered, or lost,
that filled her with a vegue pain
end chillnese.
At the end of a quarter of an hotir
the Wilsoes took their leave, and
FI'LLYITE left, the room with them to
hand them to their carriage. And
then Mrs. Harcourt went up to Dor-
CELS, and put her hand upon her
arm.
"Stay here, my dear, WOO I will
send him back to you,", she Said,
abruptly. "You shell have him
soon; I oely want him first for a
very little while."
The two women looked at ono an-
other for a. moment. There was
something in the elder oneie face
that Dorcas remembered afterwards;
hut at the time, she only said, "You
are very good to me," hurriedly,
ancl half aloud.
She sat alone for what seemed to
Mr 0 long time. (Perhaps Aire. Har-
court did not think it long.) Then
in the silence she beard his step
crossing the hall, and the dods
opened and he mine to her.
Had she been afraid a minute ago?
She had nutde herself a coward witl
thinIcing that he W115 changed; bu
(114 110 seem changed ,now as he stood
at last looking in her ince again
with more then the light of his old
glothiess shilling in the eyes elle
loved so • (tIv,epl113% oontin.ued,)
"Prisbie le the liteiest man I ever
knew," "What • makee you think
so?" "1Se actually seems to be glad
that he's getting bald-liecteed, so he
won't have to comb his hair any
inoret'
TRAINER- 0" .11418110
HOW IT IS DONE Bx TgE VA,
RIOITS NA5'IO00.
Netisecle Treed in. Gerinally, qaeltit
DireSia and 4u8-
5
In Gerinany the voureee ef
tion fer an infantry floldier 00111'
(1111505 preparatory' instruetiori, then
range Prieg, mid, lastly, field or
combat The firing exercises
are combat:tee with groat exactsteset,
tied in 000 year of work the oldies,
le expected to have fitted himself to
2150 EL rifie well in ectual warfare;
A feature of target practice in Ger.
many Is the ingenuity diePleyed in
fashsoeing the tergete, In perman-
ent ranges figeres ane arranged as
diseppearing 01' moving targets, and
are martiPulated from covers not
eeticeable from the front, A target
hundred metres long may be erected
rePreeenting a line of bigotry 000
in ten mi.nutes by eight men, and
may be worked by one man. By in-
genious methods the advanee of re-
inforcements or the thinning of a
Ithe of infantry or the advance of a
eolumn of soldiers is eimulated.
Balloon targets are used to repre-
sent lines of sharpshooters lying in
O trench. •Infle,tion Keeps them erect,
and when punctured by a bullet
THEY SOON cioa..a.Apsn.
The war in South Africa has caus-
ed the Dritish service to revise its
muaketry regulations, and the re-
ported changes show in a nulehell
what the struggle with the Boors
has taught. The new regulations
abolish volley Bring to a great ex-
tent, Provide a system of ering be-
hind cover, and encourage individu-
ality rather than consolidated ma-
chine work. A new system of Bold
fillet; has been adopted at Alder-
shot. Targets are placed at the
crest of a long hall, and a, balloon
advances to take the suprosed posi-
tion of an enelny. peculiar part
of the arrangement is thet the ad-
vance is the whole time subjected to
shrapnel fire, which is simulated by
the explosion of small, harmlese
bombs suspended over the heads of
the dunamy men in the fort or laid
at their feet. Ihnumy guns In the
"enemy's" position are fired in the
same way. All over the ground ate
covered pits for the use of =wee
who, by means of mirrors, use
watch the advance in all its move-
ments.
A picturesque feature of the work
in the Russian army is that a cer-
tain number of selected men of good
constitution and keen sight are
trained in hunting animals, the ob-
ject being to have specially trained
men for difflcult and dengesous du-
ties of war.
ARY REMOUNTS
have been showe to be a factor on
which. success in. war depends in
large measure. •Great Britain pur-
chased 300,000 horses for the South
African war; Germany has 130,000
horses in her army; Fre,nce has
142,000, and 'Russia 175,000. As
high as 500,000, it is stated, would
be required to bring tiny one of the
countries mentioned up to a wer
footing.
In Austria-Hungary all the horses
purchased for the army a.re procured
within the limits of the empire.
There aro nearly four million horses
,in the comitry, and in case of war
all may be taken from their private
!owners and returned on the dawn of
peace. Horses and officers are given
O system of superior training by
loosing a deer and' following it in
an exciting chase over all obstacles
capable of negotiation in the course.
All horses and mules for the French
army are bought in open numket.
WHEN WOMEN ARE PRAVE.
A. Dentist Says They Have Hare
Nerve Than Men.
A dentist has observed 1.118 dis-
tinctive character of men and wo-
men who occupy his chair from clay
to day, and has gathered seine in-
teresting facts. Ile says:
I "The actions of a. man in my
chair are as different from those of
a woman as day is from night. In
the first place, a, woman will pre-
sent herself at the appointed time,
trembling perceptibly, but deterrain-
ed to see it through, 110 matter how
great the pain may be. She gets
into the chair, taettles back against
the heacl-rest, and, though sho may
tLinch when the nerves are aggravat-
ed, she will not utter one word of
complaint.
• "A. man coines maintaining a
blustering, bravado attitude, and
gots into the chair with so much
man in a dentist's surgery before
apparent resignation ancl determina-
tion that if you never heal seen a
you would declare he was wonnurs
Cry point. But just, wait. The min-
ute you begin to hurt him you hear
superior in point of bravery et, ev-
1 "Tho 1(001420 ery
go through the
llrst operation, and when told to
'come back the following clay will
agree to do so. What is more, she
`. will Seep her word. But a man will
go away gnashing his teeth, and the
ichances ate you won't 500 him again
ifer a week. You hove to use all
sorts of 0100.115 to get him hack. The
1f5151, of the matter is he haen't the
courage to undergo 0 rePetition of
the pain to which he has been sub-
jsectei.tindt. jh'iltstt, cien t ase of suddenwsohlobeelne,.
the mein it must be
Ithey have more nerve than
i This. is evident in the of 11
, tooth. A. num stands this ordeal
j better then a woman; but When en-
, &malice enters into the operittion. he
is aot her equal in point of not•ve in
0417ArleSsDPSe'etTO THE IN'PEREST.
nature ?"
"Do you believe in the study of
"Why, to extent. I lite to
have a lantlscases ,aound every glie
I make love to."
Air. Fargone--"My dear fellow, 1.
am is, deepair.. That girl's heart is
, ae bard es steel, 1 can melte no 1111-
p1315121 011 on It.''Fri en d—"You
don't go at it ra the right way, Try
diamonds—those )..a.Adet, than
steel.'' •
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