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Exeter Advocate, 1901-4-11, Page 6A ' A WICKED GIRL. latAIty CECIL 11,IetY. (cmariXoED.) ,feel hot arid mad against the Man -who did this awful murder, It seems to me cold of you -1 mean" a caressing toaeh). "it is too submissive, too forgiving of you — of any 0110, Ella, Tell me -- just oee, or two things, Did you not know of any quarrel he had had — even an old one, long ago?" none," with a slow shake of the head. "Miles was not quarrel- some' "Of course not, dear, I never meant it. But you Must not be too uasuspicious — just yet. Some one might have resented somethiog he had done whieh was in itself harm- less — even aoble perhaps. Thiak it over — presently," as lala gently shook her head again. "Is theee any one who was jealous of him? You understand me, dear? Jealous of his bailie loved so well by pretty Ella Dope?" "No," Ella answered simply, as she met her sister's beautiful qnestion- ing eyes. "Miles was not jealous. I know he was never jealons, Never!" "And he was not robbed?" "Is it true that a fiva-guinea piece hung at his watch -chain, close to Where the—dagger was?" "I do not know," yo11ave heard it?" yes." "Then they think it was no thief?" "They seem quite sure." "And, Ella, forgive me for asking one thing more. Does no one think It possible it might have been—him- self? Oh, my dear" (with a hasty caress, as the soft brown eyes 1111 with tears), "what a -wretch I must 'be to have uttered such an idea to you! Even to have surmised it possible for one you love. Can you a forgive me?" , "Derry—" it was not till a minuta or two afterward that her sister broke the rather painful pause — "I am afraid that you forgot it would be impossible to, stay here, Aunt is always telling me she will never for- give you. Did you fancy— "Oh, I fancy lots of absurdities," said Derry, her voice wavering a lit- tle timidly, 'though her eyes were brave and defiant, "I even fancy I have more to forgive Mrs. Samuel Martin than sho has to forgive me. But now I come to think of it, I'm lest in wonder how I could even mo- mentarily have dreamed of staying In her house. Never mind, I'll go back to mine inn. I am only sorry I dismissed my luxurious 'post - shay,' but perhaps Sarah Eales will show, me -the way. Here she comes." But, Ella knew the rustling step better, and grew perceptibly' ner- vous aa there entered a middle-aged. lady, handsomely attired, and with a handsome face, though its expres- sion was hard even' to cruelty. "Ella, my love," she began, and then stopped short, and looked at Derry, slowly scanning her from head to foot — a scrutiny the girl bore with cool indifference, after one anxious glance to see whether it, pained her sister — "Ella," break- ing the pause at last, "who is that?" "If is Derry," began Ellae almost whispering in her timidity. "Pray, my dear," said Mrs. Mar- tin, "spare me such an imbecile nick- naro.e. If you mean your sister, of -course it ought not to astonish me to see her anywhere, as she was al- ways an odd young woman, wander- ing about alone; but still to come here. uninvited—'' "Derry is not my nickname, Mrs. Martin," observed the elder girl, in rather a kind and condescending sort of way, as with profound interest she studied the face, so ably pow- dered and so skillfully tinged eedth rouge. "No one is to blame when memory fails, but, if you will try, you may recollect that I was bap- tized by that name because I was born in Londonderry, and my Irish father had little whims, like -- an English aunt. For myself," speak- ing in a bright friendly way, "I like it even better than the Sanauella you made dad bestow on my sister a year afterward! Dear old dad! his only compensation was to hear me tone it down to Sambo." "Oh, hush, .Derry," whispered El- la,- pleadingly; and' Derry put an wan around her as if to console her for something unmentioned between them. "Ella, my love," inquired Mrs. Martin, "can you kindly inform me what brings your sister? It would be difficult fo imagine her taste har- monizing with yours and mine, or the quiet life of the country possess- ing any charm for her, so I am curious to know what has attracted' her to this neighborhood." "I will ariswer for myself, Ella. Don't you be troubled, dear," said Derry, seating herself and leoninii. back in a low chair. "I've taken a fancy to the country, Mrs. Martin. Is there any objection to my follow- ing my fancy?" "I am glad" (with cutting. empha- sis), "that you are rich enough to follow a fancy now, instead of a "Are you really?" cried Derry, with warm geniality. "1 was afraid you were not so deeply interested in dad and me. This knowledge would lie.ve giveh us unmixed rapture nal Ile we followed our trade, and I will , try, to appreciate it,now I only follow a, fancy." 'Ella, my love, if your sister's and father's cireumstances are really im- proved, I would express satisfaction, ' as it will save you any worry in that quarter; but if this is only her vaporous nonsense, and she haS come here with any idea of nay----" "No," said Derry, placidly shaking ker head, "I have come without any idea. I have come to spend my 'Wealth in this neighborhood, Mrs. Martin, as it seems to offer fine at- tractions for a. spendthrift'' She paused and sat quietly at ease, is she had 'said all that conid be desired, but the lady of the betisil had been t'aleen by' surprise, and for a few moments hesitated involuntar- ily, Then she smiled across at Ella before turning to leave the room, "IV.Ty love," .she' said, with a grac- ious little wave of her liand, "as 5004 ae YOua sistee has left you will, join. Me, and L Wi-S1t you would, not keep me evai Ling "I will not, aunt," she answered readily; but a forlorn expreesion crept over the pretty face when 'the door was closed upon the two gids. "Oh, Derry," she sighed, "why, don't, you try to propitiate her?" 'Ilecause—never mind,'„' said Derry bravely withholding what she had bee0 tempted to say, "I can't ItelP it. 111y sympathies are all with— the late Sainuela' ''What did you inean, Derry,' real - 1Y. about ,your evealtli?" 'This, dear. She hurried me into telling it in a way I did not mean. Dacia ,Toseph has sent nie from Ails- tralia a, whole thousand pounds, and offers to nialse me his heti•ess, if—as he puts it—I will leave sculpinga' "Oh, what a good thing for you." 'Is it?'the elder girl asked dream- ily, as she sat gazing into the, fire. 'slim dear old dad says so too, but like that soldier in the song, ate 'wipes away 0 tear.' " "Ire 11(WeT ye't, has been well tiff; you kno,,v, Derry.'' '\Vcll off?" vniee was ,stirred "I thought I should, and I went there first. Mrs, Frayd has sent me back in her little cart with her inan driving, and he's waiting' to drive Miss Ilope back." , "He must take me aret " to the Railway In for my luggage," , said Derry, as she kissed" her 'sister, and pretended, riot to be hastening her departure for that sister's sake: "Now don't harass yourself about me, Elia. 1 shall be perfectly happy. I shall -- I shall, I don't quits) know .it what I shall do; probably mediate' over my thousand pounds. - - "I dare say you shared it with father?" -We tossed up for each hundred." 01 D*rrYt" CONCERNING PLUMS. The Japanese Rend the Llet—Clean Culture nail mieced The conclusion 'drawn by the Kan- sas experiment station from its ob- servations on the Japanese plains is that they rank with the peach in hardi- ness. They head the list for table and aDon'a, 1001. shocked, dear, for we: marketioboingcuanillatLeess. irtheelerrollth -puncertain. atofe4lli really did. But I won quite enough .„ to meditate upon." Isimbank is perhaps hardier than 'I guess you will Write' a letter for Abundance, and it is nearly equal in father's amesomente, said Ella, try- quality. Ogon is hardier than either, ing to be cheerful. "Give him mY but not nearly so good in quality of lave;, and tell him I have not sPidits fruit, to write. I will be sure to drive 01 European over to SQC youto-morrow. o." plufns Commilnia Eerlv eweei,o.5 j-naies then?„ Red and One, Cealled 19 Orel are at the , The hrill, -weird cry hurried Derry head of the elaSs, but all European va- s away, with a look in her eyes sad- ricties have boon uncertain bearers' der than tears; Yet she uttered sever-. The fruit is of good quality for use al little polite commonplaces to Sate fresh and tor canning. pathetically, and the beautiful eyes trill, who conducted her do\em. into atoll The most promising varieties for shone like, stars for a moment; then now shadowy avenue where the little' general planting are those which have the glow faded. "You forget it all, of course, Ella, as Y.ou left it so "kliss Egllat,a" had soon," she said, bringing her gaze turn, for Ell nh snid on her. re.1 All varieties of the spociea amen - a et•tausly' waited . eana have proved hardy. While they froni the fire to her sister's face, and to hear of her sister's departure 1)0- . . . fore joining her aunt, it was very lotam In Varying degree the aStrIngen- speakine• in 0 low musing tone. "You ean not understand what it is for kind of Mies Derry, to come on pure cy or the wild plum, most of the varie- Pat and me. We love the beautiful pose to comfort you, and:i pray silo ties produce desirable fruit for can - labor. I wonder whether a thou- may discover the man ,who went 'al ning, marmalade and jelly: Quaker, sand pounds, could ever seem. to me to Mr. Miles's that night. Of course, Wolf, Weaver 'and Wyant have the worth so Much as one of his words it is not likely, as the police fail; best record for regular, bearing and of praise when I have worked not but Nve'll do all we can. He had unworthily. We love the freedom, some enemy of course, and it is just general good qualities. The varieties, of the sPecies angustl- • • • yellow village cart waited. been developed from our wild fruits.. the busy day -time, and the happy evenings, Who'll ,.he talks- to Inc. of, possible Miss Derry may find out. who he was,„ , folia, commonly called Chickasaw books and art, or takes me where he "Yes," Ella arsented,.'in a sorrow - thinks he can teach me even more. ful, wearied tone, and then joined 01), those delicious hours in the art ,her aunt. galleries! Or other evenings when ""It was an eccentricty, of that busy friends can be idle too, and we girl's to come all in black and yet have music or reading from a book not in mourning," Mrs. Martin be, we would discus, or when we rush ga,n, as if the thought had been rank - off in unpremeditated joy to a CCM- ling all through her solitude. "Ella, cert or a theater." my love, be with her as little as 300 "And you still call our father Pat, need, for she—" Mrs. Martin paus- Derry! You seem to be invited out ed. abruptly, She had been going to sometimes," added Ella, with a kind say "throws you completely, into the attempt at seeing a good side to shade," but she changed it compla- everything. cently into "she and I are utterly an - "Yes, and I'm vain enough to like tipatica." ' that too. To like wearing- a pretty "Yes," said Ella, submissively, as frock and looking at other women's, she sat down to pour% out the tea. and noticing how differently men talk in dress -coats or velveteens. Oh. yes, I enjoy it all." The whimsical glance was directed straight into the fire, and Ella guessed nothing of how the society of the clever sculptor; and that of his beautiful daughter who inherited his -talent, were al- most humbly sucd for by many whose aristocratic names the rich Mrs. Martin would have given her right hand to have upon her, visiting -list." course I, -Was a poor ,judge, being only thirteen 'When I left you," resumed Ella, "but I seem to remem- ber we were always poor. Aunt Crystal says father always will be. That he is not contented with hav- ing to work hard. for his money, but When he gets it he lends it." "It is his privilege," said Derry, sedately. "He has a few very genial friends who give him opportunities of lending what they usually speak of as if it were a bore to have it. There's one young man who comes a great deal to the studio and owes Pat nearly two hundred pounds, and he calmly informed me yesterday that if he ever needed to borrow money he knew he should never ask a rna.n who had to work for it! I will do him the justice to believe he thought he never had." "Oh, Derry, what a shame! Did father hear?" "No, several of us had just seen dad himself off to Paris. He has to sculp Sara, and he is to do some bus- iness for Uncle Joseph on the same visit, so I shall be able to stay here all that time." • "But you will be so dull, Derry, and lonely too! It is horrid of aunt not to let you stay here, especially now we are not going out, and I am so miserable. Aunt herself is cross, too, because she hates to be without changa and visiting, and she is -wor- rying so about who I am to marry, now that Miles—" '`Where's Miles then?" The shock of this sharp sudden question, made. Derry's cheeks as white as the beautiful -low forehead over which the hair was drawn back: in wavy richness. 'Elba's face dim- pled into a sinile, while heannyes were lifted to a gilt bracket, '''on which there stood, peering down, a fine gray parrot. "George has been silent a long time to -day," she said. "He always seems depressed if any stranger is here, else he talks of almost every- body; picks up everything. Sometimes his keenness startles`-ene almost as inuch as he startled you, Derry, .but not very' often,'T feel very angry with him, for if I make an effort to be cheerful With he invariably grows inelancholy- and silent." 'Where's MilOS then?'' "Yes," resumed Ella, smiling again, "that is the question he gen- erally asks noW." "How -wretched for- you," said her sister, kiesing her pitifully as they stood. "I fear it, is the cry he has often heard ,from your lips, dear, lately. Oh, Ella, i.t must be one of the greatest sorrows possible to lose --even without its being in that sudden and terrible mariner -- one's "So you can. ireag,ine it."' asked Ella, softly, "though you have so often said you could not fall in 1°'v'Ic?.c'an feel 'for you, clear, just the sanie---perhaps gnore, being one of those evoineri De Quincy speaks of, to whom a real female friendship can not be supplied by companionship of the other sex. Now, I must go, or darkness will fall upon Inc in a strange lancl. May Sarah walk with The woman entered so exactly' at that moment that Derry caught her- self uncomfortably regarding her, but after meeting the gaze with straightforward gravity, Sarah smil- ed tenderly into her young mis- tress' vestioning eyes. "I've got lodgings at Ilarrack's, Miss Ella,' elle said, evith it quite percepaible anXiaty in her even tonea, CHAPTER II. Derry Hope sat in the yellow vil- lage cart at the door of the Railway Inn, wondering what the immediate future held for her, whileeshe dream- ily watched the wizen little old man who had driven her go into the inn for her box. She saw the flat -faced waiter accompany hini out, with a skillful effect as if assisting, but for a wondei• she failed to notice his hun- gry expression of countenance, and no shilling. was forthcoming. While the little .cart stood there, a train; came sauntering into the station, and seeing it the old man had the appearance of being struck with an idea. "Would you be nervous, miss, to 'old the 'ors d a minute?" he asked Derry, who absently confessed her- self equal to that daring deed. Idly she sat until his little bent form was swallowed: by the station, then she made up her mind through natural deductions that for an un- limited period she must possess her soul in patience. So that when with- in reasonable time the little man re- apideared at the pony's head, it took Ir b stir rase that she paid scant ie so er P attention to the fact that, the reins were taken out of her hands with a stiff conventional speech, , which at another time would have made her smile, and that she was being whirl- ed away, not from Thaw -ton only, but from the cautious little old Irian who had driven her thither. She looked round once or twice at the tall, heavy figure beside her. even taking cognizance of a strong silent profile; and each time with an added sense of injury, for she , was, not accustomed to men who were not entertaining, and she had no idea how very apparent she had made it that she was sombrely wrapped earl thought. Often afterward she smiled,. to re- call how she had broken at last the discourteieus silence which was un- usual with her. , In the elderly manner she, thought fit to: a.SSume, she proffered an inch of encouragement to the grim-seera- ing person besider her, alluding affa- bly to the -want of picturesqueness around her. Possibly he considered the fact too selt-evident to need- dis- cussion, for he assented in the bald- est manner. "I hate flatness," she continued pensi-vely, "in scenery or people." Again he agreed, with no embel- lishment of language. 'Where is 1-lierrack's?" The question was perhaps a, little '1 impatient considering the elderly style she had adopted; but to all ap- pearance this did not strike her lis- te.ner. "Very little way ahead of us now.' "Who lives at Iflarrackrs'?" "I do." "Oh!" He did not look around, so could n:O.'t have been aware of her expres- sion as the startling fear evaept over her, that she had Made some egre- gious blunder, or that Sarah Ealen had done so for her. Do you, mean it ----that it your house?" she asked, feverishly. "Oh, no. I am sorry to have alarmed you, I have no house..." She would never have donfessed what relief the blunt words gave her.' She certainly did her la)st not to •betray it. "Why did not the man who drove me into rl'hawdon bring me back?" ' "Bcause I arrived in time. Though you WCVD not severe of it, 1 asked your pennissioam to take his place. 1 am staying in Dewring, and old Amos had to corae and meet me. Did he not tell 3,0U So?" "lie ought tO have done so, then I should not have seemed 10 impert rent. Still, had e'en.: deigned. to :is, ten to me in "Ilan -ton you \vould have known my name and destina- er0 DE CONPLNITED.) plums, have been somewhat injured by extreme cold. Robinson has prayed most nearly hardy and a regular and heavy bearer, producing fruit of good quality. Most of the class known as hortula- na have proved fairly hardy. Golden Beauty and Morema.n bave been the heaviest and most regular bearers. Moreman is a rather small, red plum, red flesh, small pit, andespecially fine for jelly. Golden Beauty is a medium sized yellow plum of fine flavor when fully ripe and a favorite for marma- lade. Wayland, Wild Goose and Clin- ton are larger plums, of good quality and fairly regifiar in bearing. Eighteen or 20 feet is recommended as a good distance for planting,. Clean culture is an important factor in fight- ing eurculio and fungi. Mixed plant- ing increases the chances for pollina- tion.—A. Dickens. • Newer Tlxincss In Sweet Peas. The new Tom Thumb or Cupid dwarf sweet peas are very free fiowerinm" only six to seven inches high and of an emerald green foliage peculiar to their kind. A plant may cover a circumfer- ence of 18 inches, but it hugs the ground and neither climbs nor trails. The regular and compact dwarf form makes a beautiful setting for the pro - a. CUPID SWEET PEA. fusion of delicate blessoms of which the rose pinks furnish sotne of the most charming. Others of unusual brillian- cy are Countess of Radnor (lavender), Borealton (rich maroon) and Firefly (dazzling scarlet). They are all great favorites for low beds, edgings and pot culture. The new bush sweet pea grows in perfect bush form. It requires no trel- lis, like the tall sweet peas; neither does It hug the ground, verbenalike, as does the Cupid race. An average bush grows 16 to 18 inches high by from 12 to 14 incites wide. All the flowers are borne ou top of the plant, and the prop- er way to treat.this new type will be to plant the seed in a row to make a neat, even hedge, when no supports whatev- er will be required. No Ground Too Good For Carnations. The time for planting out carnations Is from April 20 to May 10 in this lati- tude (Monmouth county, N. J.). The plants ought to be watered before planting, so that they will start with- out wilting. Plant them carefully and just a little deeper than they had been in the fiats or pots. If the soil should be too dry, Water should be given to each plant. The best piece of ground on the place is not any too good to plant carnations, says an American Gardening writer. The summer culture consists of keep- ing the weeds down and the soil loose, and topping should be done properly every week. An Attractive Flower. No plant can eXcel Drummond, phlox In giving life and brilliancy to the gar- den, The many colors it can be pro- duced in allows o' its use largely for bedding, and It is a universal favorite. • ANGOUMOIS GRAIN MOTH, flow to Treat 'Wheat In Mu or Stick nL Stntoo Out All lof4..station. The angonmois grain moth has done so much injury to stacked, mowed and stored wheat in New Sersey that Dr, John 13.,, Smith of the state station has recommended remedial and preventive measures which are here enumerated. The time for some of them is past, °tit. ors ca11. yet be carried out, and all are -Worth knowing in view of their value for future eonting•encies: Thrash as soon after harvest as pos. sible and store in tight bins or good sackS. 11 the grain is dry when liar - vested, it may be thrashed at once and sacked; if not, tine -Isla as soon as it is in good condition. If the saelsed grain is infested, there evill not be wormy kernels sufficient to heat the grain. The moths, when adult, cannot make their way out and are stifled. Nothing can come in. from outside, and the grain re- mains safe thereafter. Besides, the thrashing itself kills many of the in- sects and rubs off many of the eggs. If binned, the bins Should be tight, ancl the grain should be tested from time to time to note any appreciable heating. II' it is only slightly infested, it will heat little or not at all. If it heats per- ceptibly, it indicates a considerable per- centage, of infestation, and bisulphide of carbon shoulc1 be used at once at the rate of cue dram per cubic foot or one pound for 250 cubic feet or bin space, Place the liquid in shallow plates on top, of the grain, cover with .boards, canvas or any other tight material and allow to remain covered at least 24 hours. If none of the grain is to be used for seed, 'awe it covered 48 hours or more. rt will not harin the grain for food, but may destroy the germi- nating potver. After il is treated keep 11 cot tied to prevent access of moths. Ilavo all barns or statehouses com- pletely freecl from all exposed or scat- tered grain by April 1. What is in stock should be in bags or in tight bins, kept closed until put to actual use. Bring in chickens to pick up all scattered grain, and make sure you have no stock from which moths can emerge to get into the new wheat. Es- pecially let chickens work over places vJhere grain haS been in shock. This point is of supreme importance because if no moths are allowed to de- velop in the spring the fields cannot be much infested before harvest and pro- ceeding then Under the first recom- mendation -will give practical exemp- tion from injury next year. If, on the contrary, infested grain should be left in barns, exposed or scattered about, the chances are that the infestation will be as great or greater than this year. Therefore use up or put under cover every kernel of this year's cror of 'wheat before' April 1. Infested grain may be fed to chick ens and, if not too bad, to stock. If very bad, horses and cattle will refuse It and should not be urged to eat. Hogs and fowls, are used to dealing with food of this kind.. Disulphide of carbon is very inflam- mable and should be used with that fact in mind. The vapor given off by It is heavier than air; hence when evaporated on the surface it sinks through the grain to the bottom, killing everything in its way. It will grad- ually work out through cracks or open- ings at or near the bottom or which may be provided by boring just above the bottom board auger holes that can be closed with corks after the vapor is all out. Floral The Star petunia is a new variety worth loolzIng after. The pompon and cactus varieties of dahlia are line. Hardy phlox wakes one of the lae8t, of garden flowers. . Few plantS have as pronounced an effect when in flower as the Crimson Itainbler rose, with its thick set cluster of crimson bloom. Weigelia rosea is the best ltno-crn of tho weigellas. its floWers of i•ose color bit'Ve character enough to please all. Ligustrum japonleuin macrophylltun Is a foliage privet of japan type—loll ego rich colored, with gold and iCave,,) La,rge, an exCeedingly handsome plant, Bee Feeders and Feeding. In iocalities where the surplus is gathered mostly from white clover the practical beekeeper finds- stimulative feeding early in the season of great ad - A NEAT DEE FEEDER. vantage. Such feeding has to be done every, day and in small doses, and the feeder that admits this kMd of foed- ing without opening hives and disturb- ing bees. it would seem, would at once find favor among beekeepers'. An American Bee Journal correspondent presents a drawing of a feeder design- ed to serve this purpose. It is a shal- low tin box about four inches in diame- ter. The bottom is removable and per- forated. The long spout is to reach clear to the 'outside of the hive. This feeder Is tucked away under the cush- ion immediately 01701 the cluster of bees, the spout running to the outside, either at the rear or side of the hive. The filling is done by the help of it lit- tle funnel with an elbow to it. AS soon as the feed is poured in the spout must be closed with a tight fitting cork. ' The coming Beef Animal. We are becoming a nation of beef aristocrats, and WC are not willing to put up With the quality:of beef which -was,.provided ten 'earsr ago by our lo- cal butchers. This, change of tastes has been brought about largely through the better methods of feeding cattle, as 'now Practiced in -the great'graitr grow- ing states. Not only is this true of our own people, but also in the foreign naarkets where our beef productS are sold. Likely there trill always be a limited demand for Special purposes, for canned beef,' which will consume a large part of the inferior grades of beef which finds its way to our principal markets, but the general public, those who are beef consumers of today and lhoSe who buy small supplies from day to day; are becoming a little More fas- tidious', and there is a just discrimina- tion between the good and the inferior Sorts and the poorly fed end Me well fed 0010101. The ideal animal of tile future Will not beonewith a prepon- derance of fat, It mUst be one of rather ',natured beef, nicely grained and of sufficient solidify to give 1;,. stance tO`the eareass.--,-Prairic Farmer HEROIC MRS. BOTHA, PART PLAYED EY BOER GENERAL',i„. WIFE IN SECURING PFACE- 1Tow She Persuaded, itte-i. Stern 'Sol - atter 'rush:mil to Meet ',B./ten:eller' anti Milner In Cenrerenee--She la .5 Daughter of Ireland,. The happiest woman in. South Airlett today is Probably Airs. Louis Botha, wife of the commanding, generel of the Boer; forces. She succeeded in 'bringing about; a conference between General Kitchener. and her husband regarding a means of ending the South African war. Love VTas the metive power that induc- ed Mrs. Botha to attempt the seemingly impossible. She is a descendant of Rob- ert Emmet, the Irish patriot, and the thought that 'she would have to tie1)4, withelie foes not only- of her country, but' of her ancestors, 11)001 have stirred all the antagonism bequeathed to her front the. past. But she remembered the beautiful Botha farm in Vrybeid and the four children Nyho called her mother and be. gen her efforts for peace. All that this meant in sacrifice of ,pridi and race prejudice, what intensity of da. votion moved her to the attempt, slie alone can tell. Ti he nfluence of that sell forgetfulness Is traceable throughout the, intmeriews of the two great leaders, 11 touches every provision of the armistice' and turns the tide of good feeling- of the two nations toward each other. Only after months of earnest study of the situation did she act. She felt satis. tied finally that the Boers wore uphol(1. ing a' lost cause and that 1110011 bloa(i WAS being uselessly shed. She SSW' thh devastation that was sweeping over Dar' country, and while Kruger, 1)c 1Vet and Steyit were loudly crying for vengeance and anuounchag their determination to wage war to the bitter end Mrs. Botha quietly began her propaganda for peace. One by one she talked to prominent followers of her husband and found a strong sentiment in favor of a speedy settlement. Surrender with honor was Plainly an idea not displeasing to the men who, step by step, had opposed.I3u1-, ler's progress to Lydenburg. Having satisfied herself that her course would be approved by the majority, the brave womaa found means to COMMUlli- cate with the English. She intimated that the Boer forces would not oppose a cessation of hostilities should the condi- Gnus be to their liking. The reply was conciliatory, and the finale of many mes- sages was a semiofficial summons to Cape Town to confer with Lord Kitchener. In the course of her interview with the British leader Mos. 13otha learned that he would meet the Boers half way, and a messenger was at once dispatched to General Botha; but hardship ancl suffer - MES, Louis nOTZA. mg bad made Botha doubtful of Britisti clemency. His answer was half hearted, and the wife who had braved so much al- most despaired. She told Lord Kitchener, however, that she was determined to continue her peace work and left him with assurance that she would seek her husband and make a personal plea. At once she departed for the Boer camp and to Botha depicted the horrors that war had already brought to the patriotic burghers and their fam- ilies. She drew such a vivid picture of desolation yet to come that. the Boer gen- eral began to yield. She saw his hide - mien and renewed her plea for peace. Into it she. brought their personal af- fairs and painted the happiness that would surely be theirs when warfare and bitterness were at an en Botha finally consented, though with much reluctance. She obtained her hus- band's promise that he would meet Kitchener, discuss the situation and state the terms on 'which he and bbs 111QD would lay down their arms. Back to Kitchener she sped with the news. She ,r bad scarcely known sleep. She was Avon) with anxiety ancl feverish with hope, but she clid not leave the British generallt a meeting between the leaders had beer arranged. The world now knows the VD Snit of•that meeting. To fully appreciate the difficulties with which Mrs. Botha had to contend IVO 11111St. know the character of her hushaml, He is not a pliant man nor one necu0. touted to surrender, but he is a in.,541.01 intellect and as 0 member of the yolks - mad proved, during the many stormy scenes that preceded the actual declare - tion of war, that he possessed the coolest head in, that assembly. He opposed the tvar and foretold the awful devastation of his country which would follow in the flotsteps of the British army. But when tile time came and 1315.41.2,17/1 try was irherdtrievably pledged to war 10Nivtatie0nfonttiteloleisdeeitnwoningmatiolliirtildbaynalgttalbilcill‘ tgcolose tinil 111). nrni1 for, by honest industry, be had become 0 ' wealthy farmer and stock breeder. Al thili `01 first call to arms lie threw aside his sena- torial duties and took up his rifle, rejoin,- ing his old connnando at Vrylieid as COM, mandant under General Lucas 'Meyer. It is said that at the battle of 1)uncleill General Meyer, feeling convinred that' the God of battles had decided against' tato and his forces, decided to surrenclel, to the British but Louis Botha fiercelynd combated his general's decision. and poinl- blank refused to throw down his arnis.of, ;0000301 ohtihsan\tle.ennttoudpo vsco.l,y tilhiigk at notos;ment :,, tialintion of fighting burghers. Irisb Story. "IVhat sort of language does that ha 0.,retielit,(%Lestti tlalfirseliiiIr, tla!lc?" asked the lob,sto 1 ,i "Oh, 1 sunnoso some kind of' Fine rit,h1" replied the urehin.--New CommerCial ko,tvertiser.