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ir a ii«w J imtkk -'."h-H-i" M-i-i-i - - I "! â- i" i " i . i ..r. ! .. i .. r . i .. r . i .. i .. i .. i . i .. i . H"i "i' , The Power of PoFsuasion I Or Lady Caraven'« Labor of J,A, T„ i ,.i.. i .,t, ; „t,. ; „ i „ ; .. t ., i .,t. Z Love. CHAPTER III. iMy schoolfellows used to call me A K„_,*i- 1 . ^ ^ ,. .. 'Ilreda,' my father calls me 'Hil- A beautiful evening m October; it ^^ed.- You have so contrived as was as though some of the warmth .^^.-^^ ^^ j^^ ^^ „^^^ ^^ ^„ and sweetness of summer had re-iy^^ ^^ ^^^ -L^dy Caraven.' turned for a while The sky was .j_Tiidrcd.' -wife," or anything of the blue, the colors of the sunset were kind How is it?" gorgeous, the foliage of the trees i was magnificent; autuii;n flowers were blooming, autumn tints were over the land. It was twilight, and Lord Caraven. having no one to â-  I)lay at billiards with him, sauntered restlessly through the rooms, think- ing to himself how foolish he had | been not to provide himself with a companion for that most interesting ! of all games. "1 cannot tell," he replied, blank- ly. Tlie question had evidently puzzled him. "I will not do it again. Lady Caraven, if It annoys you," he .said; and then there was ; silence between them, broken only by the sighing of the wind. "Lord Caraven," she said at last, "will you be very angry with me if • I ask you a question?" , , ,. ^ I "No; without knowing what the | ""^^ '^ <=':"*'l "iing to do I must not let this happen , question mav be. I predict that- ' again, ho said. "To live here alone i certainly not " requires more strength of mind than | ••This" nucstion has troubled me «'»^^.P°''»<'f'='i °f- . ,. ^ . very much; it has been the one thing It did not occur to him that he which I have pondered night and day was alone-that he had a fair young ; _a question I cannot answer, one wife near him. He never thought of : that I feel is the key to a secret " He would not have re- 1 â€" but that, logue. Uriefly, what is your the ter-jtion, Lady Caraven?" "Briefly, it is this. Why did Imai-ry me. Lord Caraven?" , , ^ , . , . I "Why did 1 marry you?" he echoed, there could not have been a lovelier i -with a.stonishment her at all. nienibered her existence wandering aimlessly along race, he saw lier in the drawing- room. He almost owned to himself that : A low cry came from her lips, and she covered her face with her bands. "I am sorry to paiu you," ho said â€" "sorry to distress you â€" but it is bettor that you should know tlio real truth. Your father is ambitious; his hopes were (jjced on your mar- riage. He ollereW me the alternative â€" I could choose beggary, ruin, ihame, disgrace, the total annihila- tion of my house and name, or I could choose the money and marry you. Your fortune has saved me from worse than death. I am sorry to tell you this story; but it is best thut you should know the truth." "Yes," she agreed, despairingly, "it is best." She drew her hands from her face and looked at him. What nature of man could he have been that the aji- guish and despair on that girlish face did not touch him? "Then you have never loved me, never cared for me?" she said, faint- ly- "No. I am grateful to you; I can say no more." He saw her dr.aw the silvery shawl round her shoulders and sliudder as though she were seized with violent cold. "I feel now," he said, "that it You. are I young; aVid your whole life is blight- I ed. At fir;>t I thought and believed J that you understood everything â€" ' that you were as mercenary and am- . bilious as your father â€" that you were j as ready as he to give yourself and : your mone.v in exchange for my title; ll •You alarm me with that long pro-! f thought that- you, through him. â- - - - ouos- ' '^^^ *â- '"' f"ll value of the estate and ; everything on it â€" that you knew all chocse again, I should choose dis- grace or death." The night wind sighed around them, the sunlight had died away, the moon Was rising in the sky. "I am grateful to you," ho con- tinued. ••I will do all I can to show my gratitude; you ore and shall be mistress of the whole place. It is yours in so far as your mouey has saved it; you shall have every desire of your heart, every wish gratified. Your position is one of the highest in the land; you shall have every- thing to grace it. You shall have entire liberty; you shall invite whom you like, visit whom you like; you shall go abroad when you will and remain at home when you will. You shall be your own mistress in every respect. I will always see that ev- ery honor is paid to you." "In short," she said, "you will give me everything but love/' "Well, if you choose to put it in that light, yes." "I accept the terms," she said, gently. '•There are many women who have to find the happiness of their lives in the fuinilmcut of duty; I must do the same." Some girls, proudly indignant. Would have left the house; others would have retaliated fiercely; oth- ers would have grown sullen and re- vengeful. She Was calm almost to heroism, although a more cruel pos- ition could not have been Imagined. Kven his own confession that he could never care for hor had not quite destroyed her love. He was very frank â€" among his sins and im- STBE£T DUST. Its Xnjuriotia Effects Are of Two Kinds. Few persons realize what a sanit- ary agent is the spriukllng-cart iB our cities and towns, because few ap- preciate the dangers to health and life that lurk in dutt, esi;eciaily street dust. The injurious ellecia of stioet diurt are of two kinds^thost; due to th« mechanical injury cf the gritty pow- der ajid those due to the action of the disease germs contained in it. When one realizes that the streetsj even in well-cleaned cities, are a re- ceptacle for all sorts of (ilth, â€" de- caying \'eyetable matter, sux-h ai cigar slumps, banana skins and ap- ple parings, manure and expectorat- ed matter.. â€" ground up into a fine powder with soot and particles of sand and cobblestones, one can readily understand that disease may be caused by the inhalation of clouda of such dust. There is no doubt that many cases of consumption are directly due to the dust of city streets. The gritty particles irritate the mucoids meni- brane of the no.se and larjnx, and set up a catairh which prepares the soil for the tubercle bacilli, pi-escnt often in great numbers in the same dust. Other discnee.'^ may al^o te caused in the same way, and it is believed tluit cases of lockjaw, which some- times occur T.ilhout any previous wound, arise from the entrance of the germ of this disease into the perfections deceit certainly could not broncliial tubes from the dutt of tS'-a you the house contained â€" that you were '*â-  would be! be set down. Yet how different it all was from what she had thought picture. Wishing to finish something she was reading, she had brought her book to the window pnd couched down where the light fc.il. He saw a "I ask you the question," she went on, "because I have watched you and studied you, and I am convinced at , . „ ,., I last that you did not marry me for , â„¢""^'' y"" ^"â- '^ ^ fair, flower-like face, a shining wealth ; love." ' "^ believe it, an of dark hair in which lay gleaming pearls, a (lowing mass of purple vcl- "Love!" he cried, that to do with it?" as keen and shrewd as he was. I misjudged you â€" I beg your pardon lor it." She raised her pale face to his. "I swear to you," she said, "that 1 would rather have died than have known the truth." and respect you for Why. what has''*^' ^^"'' ^""^^ short time past I i have fancied that in thinking as I vet upon which the white arms shone •â- ! thought" slie continued "that!'^^'^ ^ ^"•^ mistaken. Now I know like snow on a purple crocus: the you had married me because vou lov- i '"^^ '^"'' '^^ P'"'^ ^° ''°°™ ''-• ^ "^â„¢ lovely ngure, the graceful attitude, | ed me. I knew that vou were cold ! ^""'^ ^^"-^ y°" â„¢"'^ sacriliced to that you had no : the picturesque dress, cut square in I undemonstrative the front, leaving the white neck gvmpathy, little kindness- but"l be^ ' "^^^^ youâ€" do youâ€" pray do not he bare, tlio wide hanging sleeves, thojijeved Implicitly that you marr ied ^^''^ with me," she saidâ€" "did you me for love." jlo^e anyone else?" "You ask nie if I had ever loved slender white handsâ€" all made a pic- ture thut he must have admired had the subject been any other than the mone.y-lender's daughter. Seeing her, he thought it was pos- sible she understood something of billiards, although "women never knew anything u.-setul." She saw him, and fancying from his manner that he wished to speak to her. she opened the window aod went out to him. "You will be cold," he said, with xmusual thoughtfulness. She went back to the drawing- room in search of a silvery scarf that she used. She threw it care- les.sly over her head and shoulders, where it looked so picturesque, and became her so well that he could not help noticing it. "This is dull work, being here alone," he said. "It is dull for both of us." she re- plied, briefly. "We will ask some nice people down at once; this kind of thing will never do. I wanted to ask you, do you know anything of billiards?" "Billiards?" she reapeatcd wonder- ingly. "Yes â€" many ladies play remarkably well. It is such a great resource." "Ilo you want me to play with you?" she asked, quickly. "Yes; I am borcu to death. I am tired of smokins I never read much, and there is nothing co do!" "Extraordinary." she cried â€" "nothing to do!" ."What do you mean?" he asked, mean nothing. 1 am very sorry. I have seen a billiard table; but I have never played. 1 will try to learn, if you like." "llpginners are generally very awk- ward," ho said, frankly. "I cannot think how it is that I have forgotten to ask any one over. 1 must not be so remiss again." They walked down the terrace un- til they reached a rustic garden seat. ' and, with an air of utter exhaustion. ! the eurl sat down. Hildred took her I 'I am quite sure of one thing." she said to herself. "It is almost cruel to write such sstorics as the histories of Lancelot and Elaine. What a ditTercnce between such men city streets, as the stainless knight and my hu»- or how well band! There are women living as fair,, as tender, as lovely as Elaine; is there a man like Lancelotâ€" like Lancelot before he loved 'the Queen?" Ah, me! if I could have had such love as his! But I must be con- tent." It seemed to her like an answer to an unspoken prayer, when she opened a book and saw those words of Car- lyleâ€" 'Say unto all kinds of happi- nos.9, 1 can do without thoe. With "I had never seen youâ€" I saw you, „. . , ,, ...... ^ . , only once," he said, in astonish- t °"f sufhcienlly to ask her to be my | seK-renunciat.on ^hle b^ms.^ mont. "I know, I remember. Still, I re- peat what I have said to you; 1 â€" I fancied â€" I am quite ashamed to tell you the truth, hut I will do so â€" I fancied you had seen iiie somewhere and had liked ice." He laughed, but the laugh was not plea.sant to her. i "Did you really think that?" he asked, musingly. "Poor child!" , Then he turned to her with sudden briskness. "Do you really .niean to tell me, on vour word of honor, that I wife. No, I had not. I have never asked an.v one to marry me, for the simple, all-sutficient reason that I have never seen any one whom I should have cared to marry." j "And are you very unhappy with [awl" she asked, gently. I "What a strange question! Un- happy? Well, no; I cannot quite say that. I am, as 1 said before, grate- ful to you; and now that I lind you ' have been victimized, I am sorry for you." 'Now that our marriage is an nc- know why I fair, proud face to you do not you?" She raised he liis. "I assure you most solenmly that I do not. It is the greatest puzzle I ever had." "Did your father tell you that, I â€" I loved you?" "No." she "he did not. married <^ui"Plished fact, do you not think that we might manage to Make luo best of it â€" might try to forgot this wretched beginning) Could you i;ev- er care oven ever so little for nio?" That was to her new life â€" sclf-r^ nunciatlon without happine.ss â€" life all duty, with no reward but the knowl- edge of itself. "I can do it." said Hlldced. "It is an uncommon fate â€" I can master it. It might break a weak heart. an- ger a proud one â€" it shall strengthen mine. Fate is what people make it â€" I will make mine." (To Be Continued). Piles He looked at her thoughtfully. "No, not in the sense you mean- â€" not to love you as a man should love his wifeâ€" never! You forgive replied, thoughtfully, '"e if these seom hai-d wordsâ€" you Indeed he assured me j have asked me for fheiu." Cl that love was not needful for hap- 1 "'t is better to speak frankly: piness. He never said you loved me I then we shall both know what we are â€" he said you wanted to marry me." i doing." "And what el.se? Go on. What I She dropped the silvery veil that else?" i shrouded her head and face. "That if I consented his highest' "Will you tell me." she asked, ambition would be gratified." | meekly, "why you cannot care for Lord Caraven murmured some ter- i me? Am 1 not fair enough to please rible words between his closed lips. ; .vou?" "Then ho never told you why this i "Yes, you arc fair enough; but love To pror8 to yon thaO Da Ch-ue's OlntnMi'.t Isacortalo and ab«olate curs for e&ch aod etary form of Itchinn; blesdInEand jirotnidioz pUaa, th« mannfacturera hara mianintead it. See tas- tiraonialfl in tho dailr praas an.'i ask jour neigh- bors wbatthoy ttiiak oMt. You can uho it and sat rour mooar back if not cured. 6Sca box, ab nil dealers or Kd«aneon,Batiio & Cc'Tsroato. Dr,^Cha.8e's Ointment streets. The amount of duKt In a city varies according to Uie care taken to clean the ^-^tl•cets, but it varies estiecially with tho kind ol pavement, niacndamized .streets be- ing in this rt't-Tect the worst and the asphalted streets the best. But .- • no matter how paved swept, need constant watering to keep the dust laid, and particularly is this the case .•â- dnce tho automobile anil the trolley-car have come with their rapid liiosc- ment, which raises tJiick clouds of dust. In some places in the United States the experiment has been made of sprinkling the country road.9 with petroleum, and the results, so far as laying the dust is concerned, are good. The oil, however, s>oils the dresses of ladio.s, and is therefor* objectionable. Better results ha^e been obtained recently in France by tho application of coal-tar, which makes a snirface like asphalt, but not so impervious, capable of arresting tho dust particles as they form anew and incorporating them in it- self. In cities, however, this is im- practicable, and the watoring-cart is there 1*e only snfetv. seat, unasked, bv his side. "Lord Caraven." said Hildred. "a •^â- â- '^"-^' '^o'"'' ^o '"y la^t shilling; dis- thought has just struck me. We have S'"'^<^e. rum, poverty and shame were marriage was forced upon me?" j 'S not to be taught or bought â€" it "No; he never told me that." | comes unperceivod. I cannot ex- "Then I will tell you now. He com- press myself well on the subject: but polled me to marry you â€" and I begin ' it seems to me absurd for a man to to perceive that ho has sacrificed you | say to himself, 'it is my duty to as well as myself." | fall in love with such and such a v o- "Sacrificed us?" she repeated. ' man, so I must do it.' " "You cannot moan tho word!" I "But if that woman wore his "I do mean it. both for myself and i wife?" she suggested, gently, you." he replied. "I will tell you, j "No man can love against his will. Lady Caraven; it is right thilt you • wife or no wife," was the hasty re- .shonld know the truth. I have been ' Ply- a si'cr.dthrlft and a prodigal. I have ' "Then, Lord Caraven, am I to live owed your father tho sum of sixty ; >n your house always an unloved, thousand pounds â€" T had mortgaged uncared-for wife?" she asked. Tiavensmero to him. I was also "The fault is not mine." he re- deeply in debt to others. I had lit- plieri. "1 believed that your father been married- third of A ber: and do -how long? since the never once "addres.sed me by name? j "^"'^ ""^ ^^ ^'^^ "^^^ hundred . ft»d pounds and a daugh ter . had explained to you that the whole affair wasâ€" was distasteful to me. all before me. Your father had the ! I^clii'^;'"S that. I married you; now istake. I Lady thous- I Caraven. I de.spise myself now for what I have done. It I had to ugust and it is now Octo- i â„¢"-"»i8<''i"-'nt of my affairs, and when ' that I have found out my mi! o vou know that vou have ^ ^ asked him what I was to do. he Vit.v m.vself and I pity you. Severe Pains in r.idnoy DIsoase and Stomach Troublesâ€" More Evidence of the Edlcisncy of Or. Chase's Kidney-Liver Pills. Kidney disease and stomach and , backache. but since using Dr. â-  not long before the pains cntlrelv liver disorders are aJ'nost always I Chase's Kidney-Liver Pills I ~am all (oiuid together, and for this rea"M>n j right again. Dr. Chase's Kidney-Liver Tills, on| "It is my belief that they are the account of their direct and continued most elective medicine a person can action on these several organsi, areju$« for kidney disease and stomach wonderfully effective in curing s^iich i troubles." complications. t Mrs. Hoss. 10<) Manitoba street. Mr. James Keeley, caretaUcr of St. Thomas. Ont.. states : â€" "I had a tie Primary School and Presbv terian very weak back, and at times suiler- church. Newmarket. Ont.. KtalM :â€" 'cd very much from sc*«r<} pains ! kidney disease "I lind that I'r. Chaw's Kidney- 1 across the .stnall of my ba.dk. Be- | Dr. Chos«'s lieving thta« to be caused by de- ranffenienUs of the kidneys. 1 began the u.«-ie of Dr. Cha.-se's Kidno.v-Llvcr Pills. This treatment seemed to be Li^cr Fills are the best medicine I ever u^^d, I was troubled for some time with kidney discas«. pains in th'> back and stomach disorders. At IXmm J mMhtriti v«r/ tavarely from left me. and I wa.<! quite strong and ! '''^ "'" well again. Me have also used Dr. Cha-se's Syrup of Lin.seed aird Tm^ pentine for the children when the.y had coughs and colds, and I new knew it to fail to relieve the troubl* at onoe." There Is no quicker or more cer- tain way of curing back painj* and than by the uw of Kidney-Li\er Pil!». Scores of thoutunds have proved thi.«. and iiu-.ii.v have sent us statct- meiits nimiliir to the atiove. One pill a dcse. ar.cts. n bo.x, at all dealers^ SAILING ABOVE TH3E CLOXnJS. A Yovmg Woman's Experience in a Balloon. A young woman who has made several trips in a balloon describes a journey through the clouds in which Silie nearly lost her li e. The a'iceiit was made fur the purpose of reporting on the Leonid shower of meteors which was i're<:lii;teil b.v tlie astronomers, but which could not bo observed from the ground on acco int of clouds. The aeronauts had i l.son without accident, and were so high in the sky that all souan.s of earth were inaudible. About nine o'clock in the morning there rose to us tho shrill, wild, un- mistakable note of a ship's .steam- siren, mingled with the clash and clang of hammers in some .shipyard. Wo were evidently over some big .•vaport town. What was- lo te (!onc? Clearly, nothing. To pull the \alvo i-opc meant a headlong fall of near- ly two miles: to climb the rigging and pierce the silk above the equuti r wa.s a g.vmnastic feat beyond even I our caplaiu'.s sailor ti ailing. Wo I had to leave it to fate. ! By noon my fathor declared that we bad fallen two Ll)Oii.<iaiid Ic t, j and wore still falling. Soon after we could wee the earth under the cloud.s. Once below the clouds we saw that the end wu.s near at hand. For a i few iiaicertain moments we were lost In the dense blanket ; then we re- appeared on the lower edge, to find green, lields! and pastures bdow i.s. We were de.''ci'"diiig in South Wale.-;, among the mountains of <.!lainorgnn- .sihire. mid as we swooped down to earth a wild gust ciiuj^ht our half- oniptled balloon and da.'^hod our car to the ground with a shock. Kinally our anchor caught in an oak trie. and in a minute or two we scram- •xactly what I rc^dred, for it WMJor EdsMgnscn, Bat«* A Co.. Toronto. ELKCTIUC TRACTION. Although tlie pitdictions freely made a few years ago that tlic de- velopment of electric traction would quickly drive horses from the licld of labor have not been fuliilkd. yet the Electric-al Keview cites statistics to pro\e that tho disappearance ol the horse is actually taking piace. although So slowly as not to attract much attention. In Paris the num- ber of horses fell off about 6 ptr cent, between 1901 and 1<J02. In London the decrease; in tho sanw time was 10 per cent. In Berlin, Vienna, and St. Petersburg a similar falling off is shown by the ceiLsiis ol horses. In New York it is es'»«int<Ki that the number of horses has de- creased 3.3 per cent. in the last twcjily years. BABY'S OWN TABLETS. CTore All the lUs of Little Babiea and Big Children. This medicine is good for all chil- dren, from tho feeblest infant, whose life seems to hung on a throud, to the sturdy boy whose di^caiive ap- paratus occasionally gels out of order. There is no stomach or bowel trouble that Baby's Own Tab- lets will not speedily relieve and promptly cure, and do it in a na- tural way, u.>< tin; medicine is guarantied to coniuin no o(i;ile or harmful drug. Kxperioi.cfd mothess everywhere iirni.se Haby's (}wn lab- lels above all modiclms. Alr.-j. James A. Wilson, Wyoming, Cut., soys :â€" "1 have used Baby's Owij Tablets for both my children. and consider them iiidl.spensible in any home where tliere are yoing children. One of my children was verv fretful, and I always found the 1'abieUs com- forting, and a splendid regiilator ol the stomach uiid bowels. I think the Tablets have been the means ol promoting many a sound night's rest for both myself and chi.dien." Children take these Tablets na readily as candy, and crushed to a (•owdcr. they can be given with absolute smfcty to the voun-^est weakest infant. You can get " tlu 1 ablets from any aeakr in medlcin* or post p«id at 23 rr-nts a bo.\ writing the t>r. Co , Brockvillc, Ont tady, N.V. ^"•-' rt .-v.\, by _^-*.liam^ Medicino or Schencc- SAVEP l,80O LIVES. We had been U'<t hoins in the bal- loon, yet had escaped the '-ea by ih- sfltin of our twth. Tho.-w who came | There is a horse in Havana, Cuba, to oi-r nssi-stance told us In their | which probably has sn\e<i tho lives fii-st words that wc were a mile and of l,HOtt humon hcinjrs. This unique Atlantic, towards ' philanlhropist is 'ket.'t in Hnvana'si bacteriologicul laboratory, which. a half from the which we were hendinR directly as we fell Yot five minutes more In the ten hours that we had been aloft and wp had been lost. for at th« time the wa was wildly roiif(h. Therefore'. I am not claiming too miich in calling this balloon ascont one of the records of B-'iti.sh bal- looning. like the Vastour Insititute of I'alti- morc, was founded by a new.'*, ai;er. This horso was given to that in- stitute in lSli.->. l-'iom that .\ear up to datn it is sail to have furniaiiod 74.(1111^ ciibic rcntiinefrcs of uiul- dii'htl.tii.i ^oruni, with a i-CCorU of l,tiro ciijrca. â- t 1 i