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C«*««*««««4!«««««) »*«««« *«««*«ft««**«*«««^4^««« I CONFUSION OF CA5TE. Or Gentility Vs. S Nobility of Soul. ♦ [ting turning over the books on the chapte:r XXI. Mrs. Harcourt wiis a surewd wo- man, and as she watched her son during the next few days, she knew well enough that his mind was not At ease. He was stileat and out of spirits ; he seemed inditiercnt to the things about him, and became quicli and uncertain in his temper ; he grew unsociable, too, taking long, solitary walks, and betraying au unreasonable irritation if his move- ments were noticed or commented on. Perhaps she suspected him of go- ing to see Dorcas. At any rate this was what he thought, and his sensi- "Oh, don't speak so 1" "Hut how oi'e you to know about it if I don't tell you ? And I want jou to know about it." "Hut it is no use for me to know" â€"a little faintly. "What makes you say it is no use? There is only one thing that can make it be of no us-e â€" if you have made up your mind that you cun't like me." A sudden pause. "Dorcas, have you made up your mind to that ?" table, but he sfrang up as he saw i ""b. what is the good of speaking 1 about it ? â€" almost pUeously. It her. "Well â€" at last I" he said. "I was on the point of concluding that you did not mean to come." "I could not come," she answered. "Mamma told you, did she not ?" "Oh, yes â€" she told me you were busy. But 1 was almost going away. I thought that being bu.sy meant that you did not want to sec me" "1 am sure you did not think that." •I did, most certainly. I thought;'"""/"' ou were angry still because of .vei*-; ..^', , y terday. You know you were tive anger at her suspicion was only ! ^.'^tt ^^°" ^'^'^ good-by to me made tl.e sharper by the fact that going to see Dorcas was the very thing he was not doing ; for, to be Just to him, h^ was struggling pretty hard during these days to got Dorcas out of his head, and to ac- cept tho fact that it would be folly in him to persist in thinking of her. And so, being in this heroic mood, for a week he forced himself to keep away from her. and he took these solitary walks meanwhile, hoping by means of them to strengthen himself in his self-denial â€" thought in point of fact I am not sure that they strengthened him in anything except in his ill-temper. One day Dorcas had been sitting \ all day with her father in his study. I He had some writlr.g for her to do. ' and phe did it p^itientlv. In tiie | afternoon he culled her to road a batch of proofs with hiui. and night. "No, that is not true." "How calmly you say â€" 'That is not tru3.' Dorcas, what a quiet, cmo- tionl'-ss girl yoii arc ! Ii I had not seen you in a fury once or twice â€" as you were yesterday, for instance â€" I should get to believe that your veins were tilled with ice. I never knew anyone like you for uttering little crisp, frozen sentences." "Is that what you think 1 do ?" the girl said, in a low voica. She gave a little jarring laugh. Did he understand her so ill, or was he only speaking in jest ? "Yes. they seeiu frozen to nic. Not that I want them to be uilTerent. tliough." "That is fortunate, perhajis." "Itecause you wouldn't alter them for me, you moiin ? No, 1 don't suppose you would. I don't sui>- thev ' P"^'' i "" ^f"ld do any thing for had just began this occupation when ' °"^ '"â- Â°"''* >'°"' »orcas"?" the house-bell r-ang. "I hope that is no rupt tis," Mr. Trclawney said, im- is not a iiueslion of liking. 1 can't be anything to you, whether I like you or not." "You mean that you are too proud to be anylhii-g to me ?" "Y'es, we might like one another ; it seem;; â€" somehow â€" as if we could not help doing that ; but nothing can come of it â€" nothing, you know. We must go our .separate ways â€" no- thing else is possible. We are being foolish jsist for this one tiiiie, but an^rrv i Well, after this we shall be en- i.,„,j gaged to one another," he said. I Oh, no no '. \ "Why do you saj" 'Ko' ? Y'ou won't marry mo without my moth- er's Consent ; I tan understand that. But why should we not be engaged, and wait '.'" "llecause it would l)e no use. Be- cause 1 would not let you bind yourself." "Jiut you can't prevent me from biniliiig myself. I'll bind myself by a hundred oaths â€" " "Frank, you must not." "If you will look me in the face, and tell me that you don'tt care about me, I will go away from you this moment." And then he paused â€" quite long enough to allow her to si^eak if she hail \vi.-.hoti ; but, somehow, she hung her head, and did not speak. "But if you have so much as one grain of love for me â€" Uorcas I will never give yoa i;p as long as I live." "Hut 1 Cant marry you." "You could marry me to-morrow, if you would. 1 am mv owu master. inoment'a happiness â€" and it will end in nothing but. pam." And tlien the tears came to Dor- cas' eyes. Why would he persist in being so hopeful and so joyful, when she knew that she should never be his wife '? But though she was full of fear, she could not make him afraid. He stayed with her for nearly another hour, and throughout all that time she could not awaken one doubt of the future in his mind. "What have we got to do but to wait ?" he only said. He laughed at her when she told him that he would grow tired of waiting. "I have an obstinate way," he de- clared, "of never giving up what I want. And I am Uicky fellow too niunber of catj-rpiilars that tell on the track. The rails grew to« ptufty and slippery for tiie wttcels to adherg until cinders were thrown oc tham. A seated marble statue of tt^ EtOr press of Faustina, the ill-famed wife of the philosopher Marcus .\urel- ius, haj been dug up iu llie Homan Forum. The statue is complete, but is broken in four pieces and th« face has been mutilated. Leipzig University has had Lh« good fortune, unusual lor Gertaan Universities, of receiving a t250.- OOO benuest from a private indivi- dual, it was obtained after a com- plicated law suit with the Univer- sity of Vienna. J. B. JIatzenauer. who died re- a wonderfully ! ccntly at Afpenzell. in Switzerland, 1 have seldom! was tho lost man who was subject- i wanted anythingâ€" so farâ€" that Ihave'ed to judicial torture in that coun- I not got. If I thought I were to I try. He was accuse*! of murder in I wantâ€" this, and not have pluck en- j the 40's and subjected to the nock- lough to get itâ€" I think I might as | screw and other mediaeval ma:hiaes {well go and hang mvfeU, for I (without confessing. He was latec i should never be good for anything 'shown to tx? innocent, â- more in tiie world." ; iir. w. G. Cfroce is trying to in- j He would have gone, before he ! troduce an innovation In Eugli^ j left the house, and spoken to Mr. ' cricket, limiting the game to a sin- iTrelawney, but Dorcas would notigle da.v. A trial match was played 'let him. "It will all come to no- at Bristol, each side being liwiteii i thing." she said. "Why should he to two hours and ten minutes. Xiu ! have the pain of knowing ?" She : side making the greater number ol â- would neither let htm tell her father; runs in that time being the winner, [nor Letty. There was almost i!o-i a boundary dispute be- I thing lie could gain from her except i ^ween two Englisli coun- ; one prouii.se before they parted â€" tjgg *ems rather belated, but i that she would meet him outside the ' Westmoreland and Lancashire ar« village on the following day. She . nuarrelUus over Lake Wiiidernner*. ccMisented to do this, but she would jfjie former county claims that th* consent to nothing else ; and so ! (aj^g is wholly within its precincts, with this concession he had at ' -''-â- ^t i ^. ^J^g Lanicashire has strong evi- lo leave her. (To Bo Continued. 1 BABY'S OWSr TABLETS. Cure All Minor His, and. Brin Joy and Comfort to Baby and MotSer. patitntl.v, at the sound, and they both listened for a few moments- Dorcas with her lips white. "It is I'rank," poor Dorcas said to herself, and I think for a few sec- onds she hardly heard her father's voice : her eyes had a mist before them as they tried to follow tho words he read. rive minutes passed, and then Elizabeth opened the study door 'I don't know." | -" ^° ^"'- i c<:{]yv.^'The n^ ^Z^^^'^y had \ ->^ " ^-il -'^ -"'^"^ to be my . ife not sat down yet) she turned away from him. and went rather quickly and oi>enod one of the windows, and â-  leaned out. i "Dorcas. I have come to say some-! thing, and, however iou take it, I ! am going to get It said. I have ^een here, you know, for eighteen' da vs." t • "Well dence that . Uie dividing line runs through the middle of the lake. Bv the accession of the new E»rl of "Chidiester si.x; Eriti.-h secular peerages are now held by clergj-msn. S They are Uie Marquis of Normanby, the Earls of Chichester, Devon and StraiSord. Baron Ponsonby. who is 'also Irish Eai'l of Bessborough, and little ones Baron Scai-sdale. the fatlier of Lord Cur^ou. Viceroy of India. .Another Irish jreer. Viscount Molesworth, is also a clergvman. The Earl of De- von 91 vears of age. is the smuJiKi faltering a tittle. "And they seom tc> me. ;is far as 'Mrs. TreUiwnev savs I am to tell j yo" "re concerned, as if they had you. Miss Dorcas," that Mr. Harcourt j boon eighteen montlis. 1 mean. I feel Is In the drawing-room," she said. â-  "s if we had known each other all in an indilTorent way. that time, or rather, as if we had "Let Mr. Harcourt stay in the "f''^'^'" l"^'"' oT knowing one anotherâ€" drawing room, then," Mr. Trelaw- =i« >f theie had been no break be- ncy exclaimed quicklv, looking up : twoon these days and the old ones. when another tiling â€" to you want i.s to for a moment from his work. "Is your mistress with him, Klizubeth ?" "She's going to him, sir." "Very well. then ; that will do. We may leave him to your mother. I think â€" may wo not, I'orcus '?" he said ; and. without even wailing for an answer, he wont on reading, un- conscious of tho cry in Dorcas' heart. She could do nothing. For a few mo ments it s^eomcu come what might we wore playfellows and friends, and â€" something more than friends, even then. And now I am going away in seven days more, and before I go I am going to speak to only for you. Oh, yes. I understand" â€" for she â-  "if 1 made a sudden involuntary move-jniost unmitigated lie I ever uttered ' mont. as if to silence him. and tried Hut I never said or imagined it If to utter some hurried words that | i thought that siah a thing .-..^. ,. fli<?'' away upon her lipfw-"yes. I I pos.siblo. I should go home uui to her as though, know you want to prevent me from | out my brains." sue must go 'to /'">".«; it. but I made up my mind] "Frank, dor.'t at one "But I am not willing." "Very well, then : we ai"e young, and we will wait '. I'l I have bro-ight my mother round ^''lu see. Iheie are only two possible things for us to do â€" either to marry at once, or tc wait." "No â€" there is fart." "Is that what do â- ?" "Not what I Want us to do. but" rather faintly â€" what would be right." "To give one another up ?" "You know that that would bo wLsest. Why, even you yourselfâ€" you said just now that you would be content â€" " "To ha\e us give one another up ? 1 never said so !" "No â€" but to have usâ€" like thisâ€" to-da\ . â-  ' ever said that, it was the I Disease attacks the I through the digestive organs. Baby's ! Own 'Fablets are the I'^est things in ! the world for all bowel and stomach : troubles of children. They act â- quickly and gently, and alvva.vs cure Qi^igst peer in England j indigestion, colic, constipation and diiirrhoea. They ai-e also a great hel|> to teething children. Mrs. Ca- briolle Barnes. Six Mile Loke. Out.. says â€" "Baby's Own Tablets reached me just in time as my baby was i very ill with indigestion and bowel I trouble, and 1 am happy to say tho i Tablets relieved him after a few i doses. He is now doing splendidly j with just -a Tablet now and then I when he is I'cstless. I am the moth- I er of eight childien and have tried ! nearly all the old remedies, but have I never found a medicine equal to 'Baby's Own Tablets." i Tho Tablets are guaranteed to con- tain no opiate or harmful drug, and crushed to a powder they can be given to the smallest, feeblest chibl MOUTHS 01 PAIN CAUSED BY A TUTlffiOE. OF THI BEEAST. with a certainty of good results. I Sold by all druggists, or sent post paid at -o cents a bo.x by writing ! direct to tho Dr. Williams' Medicine I Co.. Brockville, Ont., or Schenec- ! tady, N.Y. imatciiied it. was j ud blow I POEEIGN NOTES. please talk so â€" as Interestins Frank : and then she knew that she 'ifte"" I '<?ft .von .vestorday. and therojif you were mad. could not goâ€" that she could do no- : is "» time to lose. You see. T am "But I am mad. How can a man thing but sit still. So she sat still, !s>^i"R away in seven days. Tell me be any thing else who has got what and they did their work. i °"'.v thi.'?â€" do you think, before these i he wauts most in the worid ?" She heard the drawing-room door | seven days endâ€" do you think it po.<»-l_ open at last, and nor heart gave a ! siblo that you could care enousjh fc â-  , greap leap, and then for a few mo- 1 "le toâ€" let ns become engasod ' "Fr.ink. !" ments, while she listened, sootnod to stop beating. She thought he was going then : but. instead of that, it was her mother come at last to call her. Letty opened the stutly door with rather a doubtful face. "Is Dorcas busy '.'" she said. And thou, ns she saw what was going on â€" "Oh. you cun't sparo her, dear, I suppose '.'" she asked. "Do you want hor '? She como in a few minutes," Mr lawne,y said. As she closed the door of study behind her, she found mother standing in un irrcsonito way midway in the hall. "Oh, my dear, 1 ar.i glad you have come," she exclaimed at sight of her, 'for Frank seems so restless ; I can't tell whether he wants to go or stay. 1 have just come out again can Tre- the hor In her agitation, and almost ter- ror, the girl started back fr>,.in him. tho blood dushing up hot to her face. "Do you mean that you can't do it ?" "I mean that you have no right to ..sk uio such a thing. Voii have no right to talk that wayâ€" in jest." "Oood heavens, Dorcas ! â€" as if it was lossiblo I could say such a thing in jest !" "You know that there could not be- any thing of the sort between ns. ! You know that. There could not,": she exclaimed nervously, "oven if we [ knew one another wellâ€" anU we haven't seen each other halt «. dozen â-  times." j "Yes, we have â€" half a dozen limes exactly : besides three times that I 'â-  DR.fl.W. CHASE'S OK CATARRH CURS.. .^DC U Mnt dlrocf to ti, diseased - g^fWdielmprortd Blower. Heali the ulceis. clears th. air frr^ .,;-;â- - -'"•"•â- Trtver. Blower M«iicla« C*. Toroaio and Buijl* But it will 1h) nil right now if you'll have seen .vou without speaking. So go ami talk to him g little. 1 think, . that makes nine. But I don't care she's tireil of having so much of â-  whether it is nine, or ninety, or mo." I what it is. That all goes for no- Wlth a contented face she let I>oi^ j thing. I have been in lovj; with you. "You have gotâ€" what perhaps vou will i-epent ha\ing asked for to-moi-- row." "Do you say that because vou judge me by yourself '? Do you mean that you intend to repent when 1 am gone 'I'' "I am almost repenting now"â€" quiokly. ^ "You Sivy that iu words, butâ€" your eyes don't sa.v it." â- â- t)h, Frank, wc nave both been so unwise-â€" so rash an^ recklessâ€" like children. You havo been so very rash, you know. ' "Yesâ€" ti. auk t;od, t have." "You should not thank Uod for cas inss hor, and the girl wont on I only know, from the lirst moment 1 such a thing as that. We are iust into the room. She round Frank sit-' looked into your face." ; like chiUlion. We are snatohino- a They Refused Free Medicine. Avoided the Lumberaian's Hospital and Cured Themselves by Using Dr. Chase's Kidney-Liver Pills. Ltimbermcn prove their confidence in Dr. Chase by buying his remedius and using them instead of the ho»- pit-tl treatment supplieti them without cost. An interesting Icttor, .Mr. John L. lUekey, now carotuker of the Public and High Schools, Tre«to«, Ont., states : â€" "1 have usoil Dr. Chase's Kidney-Liver Dills and found thoin the Rieatost modicitie I over tried. I used them wImju in the lumber camps and believe by k.-eping the kidneys and bowels regular and the general health good that they protect a person from catching contagious diseases which arc so common in the camps. "1 havo seen hvmdreds of men umIur Dr. Chase's Kidney-Liver Dlus in tnc ".â€"-"::: camps. They buy tliem by the dozen when going in, and to show how much faith they he vc in them they buy them when they could got their ino.iicine for nothing by going to the ht.spitnl e.imp. Dr. Chasie's Kidney-Liver Dills keep my liver, kidneys and bowels legular luid my health good. I would not think of being without them." Mr, .lohn l)rr, lumbornian, Trenton. t)nt., states : â€" "Through exposure to all sorts of weather in the f-jmber camp, and as a result of the »tr«in of my work, I became a sul^erer from kidn«>y disease, which is my case took the form of very savers pain.« acrov'ss th» back, over tho kidneys ami down the hi|j< When in the woods cutting down tioe« IJieae pains would coiae on u* Willi sixh force that 1 would have to giv» up work and r«turn to camp, ontirely used r.p. "Finding that a niunber of tho boys In camp used Dr. Ch«.<»'s Kiilnoy-Uver Pllli, I decidod to try theov 4W4 did so with splendid rosultA. as they thorouchty curad me. I feel like my old .self again, and can woik |M*t as good aa the next one. I am Rrateful for this cure, and hone.itly beli«v« that Dr. Chase's' Kidney- Liver nils are the greatest medicine there is for kidney disease." Ur. Chajw'e KlUu«^-l.ivcr rill»a one pill a dose, i5 cent* a box. A,t *U dealer* or Kdmanson, B*t«a A «•., 'foroatOa Items From All j the World. 'the ycisrly kv^s by wear or , tislx gold coins is £lS.0Ot>. I In Ital.v thirty iwrsvns of 10,000 die by the assissin's knife. No Dritish Sovereign has vetoed a Parliamentary Bill uuring the !o.st j 1S5 years. ' An eel has two separate hearts. One boats at sixty, the other 1(50, times a minute. Torchon lace of au>' pattern can now bo u>i\de by one machine, ow- ing to a recent invention in Vi- enna. Uorllu statisticians have found , th.it only 5i'7 Christian namtes uiv ! employed for the 41.01K1 children ; born there ejich year. ] 'Iho bigge--^t wine-cooler Is ut : Windso'-. and belongs to the King. : It was made for Oeorso TV.. and I two men could sit in it with ease. ; In IJorman.v one mo.n in 12 1:! goes I to a university, in Scotland one in I J2t>. in the Unitcil State." one in 2,000, and in EngUuul one In ."S.OOO. I In Siberia. if a luan is disstitis- I lied with the most trilling acts of ' his- wife, ho tears a cstp in- veil from , her face, anil tliat constitutes a. di- i I vorcc. ; In Berlin n student who wrote for the nc^-.'spapors ha.' been tinoil hoavi- ! ly for publishing the s<tbstauce of a , professor's lectures in his articles j i without permission. I i IVrh.ips the largest camellia in ex- istence is at riintitz Castle, near Drv«sden. Oermaiiy. 'Hie tree is •21 feet high. and annually produces about ."><>. Ot'O bloss^>m.«». 'llio french Dost OtVico Department h.is exeludeil mourning envelopes from the mails for tho ivason that they can be ol^KMied without mucli chance of lieteciion. During a year tweuty-livc Mrs. J. M. Timbers, of Hawkes bury, Tells How She Obtained Eelief After Doctors Had Failed. JFrom the I'ost, Hawkesbury, Ont. Mi-s. .Jamos M. Timbers is well 1 known to nearly eNCrybody in Hawk- 'esbury. Vankleek Bill and surround ing country. She was horn in Van- kleek Hill, but since her marriago twelve years ago. has lived in Havrt esbury." and is greatly esteemed bj jail who know hor. Mrs. Tiuibers ij ] one oi the many thousands whc I have proved the great value of Dr Williams' Diiik Pills, and gives hei 'experience for the benefit of othci j sullero!-s. She sa.vs : â€" "Whi'e nurs- Over 'ing my first child 1 sulTercd from â-  I nursing tumor under tho left breast Bri- I "^''^ "'"^'- symptom was a sharp pain followed by a growth, which gradu- ally increased in size until it becam* as large as an egg. It was exceed- ingly painful nnd caused ire great sui'iering. I consulted a doctor, who gave me medicine, hut it did me no good. Then 1 consu!te<i another doc- tor, who said I would have to under- go an operation. In the meantimo, however, the tumor broke. but would not heal, and as a result I â- was feeling very mi;ch run down. At this time ni.v attention was directed to Dr. Williams' I'ink Pills, and I be- gan using these. I soon feit that they were giving me increased strength, nnd afti-r using a few boxes. the f.iinor disappeared, and I was us well as ever 1 had been. My health ha.s since been good, and I cannot speak too highly of Williams' Pink Pills." These pills cure troubles like above, because they !nake rich, blood and drive all ijnpurities from the system. Through their action on tho blood they also cure such trou- bles as unaeinia. heart lalpitation, erysipelas, scrofula, skin eruptions, rho.nnatism. St. Vitus' dance and the ailments that make the lives ol so nian.v women miserable. Th« genniiie alwa,vs bear the full name "Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pak People," on tho wrapper around every box. Sold by ail dealers ir mediciiie. or sent postpaiil at ,"C cents a box, or six boxes for $2.50 by addressing the Dr. WiHioms Medicine Co.. Brockville, Ont. Dr. the ixmI D.VTK ON .Sll.VKU CtUNS. Most peoiiio have an old silvei coin of some kind which they ar« ; keeping as a relic, either for setiti- cubic I mental reasons or beca"!^" thoy Ihinl yards of the granite pavonient of it worth more than its face value London Bridge is reduced to pow- ^ In soiue instances, the date or tlh der by the enormous trathc; 20.000 , inscription has been worn away am vi hides civss daily, and 2<H>.0OO,it is iinjiossiblc to read it. evei foot pas,sengers. IwiUi a strong glass. The lollowinj Kent's County Council has deeid- methiHl, originally pre.ctisitl at tlii ed that baby carriages .shouKl carry British Mint to discover the genuin- lights, at night, ns the language of coins when silver was called in. vvil the statute regulating the lighting oiiable aivyone to read an obliterat of vehicles is generaf enough to cov- jcd inscription: Make the poke er ix.'rambul«tors. retl-hot in the lire and then plac Berlin's watchful police author!- j the silver coin on it: the in.';».'rii>Uo. ties hcvo is.<»ned a warning agains.t iced drinks in summer weather as hein^- injurious to health. People are warned not to drink beverages that are cooler thnn 50 dcgi-ees t'nh- ronhcit. \ railway l'-;^',in was recently aCuppcd aear Ilheiuiii. France, by the wiU be plainly visible in the (j''*"^' i.sh hue, which will fade a.-* tho rot cools. The mtna. which is .^t a parroi but one of the Rr^clA^trihe. ca talk more distinctl.y tipfe O'V *il> er bird.