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^1 m ww' W H imu wwi JW if r iwiiia nmHw iff |u i | ii jg i Mj pw»i^^B»iWW Mi| Wi f< WMSWiii|y I 1 m ii u i lll l J i n i w> I W » W i m'« ii -lW ii ftl i i-ilHt1«^Wtffi> j Sgaro Bt CONFUSION I OF CASTE. Oentlllty Vs. I * I Nobility of 5oul. » CHAPTER XXII. As Frank walked back to Wood- lands, alter parting from Dorcas he suddenly made up his mind as to the next step that he would talte. Es resolved that he would tell his mother what he had done before the day ended. It was inevituble that she must know it soon, so ho de- cided, and not unwis«ly perhaps, that she aliould know it at once. Ac- cordingly, when they were about to part for the night, he said to her: "1 want to speak to you, mother;" and went up with her to her room, and told his tale. lie had been in a state of over- flowing happiness all the evening â€" his joyous spirits making the others wonder. Now, as he went upstairs with Mrs. Ilarcourt, he was still al- most irrepresBibly elated. He knew what was before bill}: and yet â€" un- til he had fairly begun his storj â€" he could not make him.sclf serious. He was tiilking such nonsense to his mother as* he walked by her side that when he suddenly checked him- self at last, and declared his news to her, her first impression was that he was merely talking some mad nonsense still. "Mother, I have got something that I want to tell you," he said to her, almost as soon as the door of her room was closed, and she had sat down before the hri^.' '\ have got something to tell you, and you won't like to hear it; but you are a brave woman, and I never could beat about the bush, you know â€" so I had better have it out at once. I was at the Trelawneys' this afternoon, and â€" I have asked Dorcas to mai-ry me." Mrs. Harcourt gave one look full in her s<on's faceâ€" a sufficiently startled look indeed; but the next instant she caught back hor flying courage. "Frank, I think you are off your head to-night," she said, steadily. "There is little doubt but that I am," he coolly replied. "But it is not much to be wondered at, is it? I should hardly think that the day on which a man first asks a woman to be his wife can be much like any other day in his life." "Good heavens, Frankâ€" are you talking .seriously?" Mrs. Harcoiu-t cried. She had started forward in her seat, and a look had come into her face which did more than any thing else to sober the young man. "Do you think that upon such a " subjact 1 should be likely to jest?" he replied tiuickly. "Vou mean me actually to under- stand that you have proposed to Miss Trelawney?" "Yes." "The Saughter of a common ser- vant." A hot quick flush rose to his face. "Yes â€" it you have so little regard for me as to put it so." •'And she has accepted you?" "Thank God, she has!" "Oh, Frank, in all this 'clly have you never thought of me? â€" ha\o you never given one thought to your mcther. or cared for the sorrow you were about to bring upon her?" "Mother, 1 have given my thoughts to you," he said quickly. He took her hand and cUxspod it. "In all my hafipiucss to-day I have never forgotten you for a moment." "And yet you uieanâ€" to break my heart?" "No â€" God forbid. 1 mean to do something, but not that. 1 mean to will you to love Dorcas." "You cannot, Frank. A girl who could consent to be your wife, as she has consented â€" after seeing you "*^pcarcely more than half a dozen limes, and knowing, as .she must knov.-. what her position is conipared wilh ;• 'ii.'S â€" sv.ch a girl ixiay be at- tracti-.u to you;but to me â€" never!" "But siippose you are assuming she has done something she has not done, mother?" "What am I assiuniug she has not done?" "Vou are assuming that she is ready to marry me." "And is she not?" â€" in a tone of eager hope. "Not till y»u consent to our mar- riage." "My dear boy, why did you not tell ine tins at once? You have taken a weight oft my heart that was near cru.shing me." "Because I have told you that you have it in your own power to make me unhappy?" "Do not put it in that way, my dear. Say rJther, because you have given me the power to save you from suffering for your folly. Oh, Frank, some day â€" before long â€" you will be glad of tliis!" "Glad that you will have parted me from Dorcas? Is that, then, what you mean to try to' do?" "Can you e.xpcct me to tell you that I will not? You are all I have in the world. Can I see you about to make shipwreck of yourself like this, and not prevent you â€" if it is possible to me?" "And could you deliberately take it upon you to separate me and Dorcas, and never have a doubt of the wisdom of what you were doing? never have a fear in your heart that you were making shipwreck of me?" "Oh, Frank!" the woman cried, quickly. She put her hand upon his arni. "My boy," she said, in a tone of pain, "I have lived twice as long in the world as you have. Do you think we all marry our first loves? â€" or mourn for them all our lives if we have to lose them? I do not make light ol any disap- pointment you may have to STjffer. I will believe that you love this girl truly, if you like â€" I will believe that at this moment you would be con- tent to make any sacrifice to gain her; but go away from her, do not see her again for a year, and by the end of that time you will have come to your senses, and will thank me for having kept you fro;n marrying her." "Will you try me, mother?" he quickly asked. "Will you agree to our marriage at the end of a year if I promise during that time not to see her?" "No, Frank." "Then you do not believe your own assertion." "X do believe it; but if I were to make such a compact with you as you propose, you would try â€" you would not be conscious of it, per- haps, but you would do your utmost â€" to defeat me, from the mere love of victory." "Yet if we do not make this com- •pact, we must make some other. If it is not to be this, what is it to be?" And then he looked steadily in her face, and she knew tliat unless she Consented to make some compromise, with him, he would throw her bridle altogether olT his neck. She S'at still for a minute with- out answering him. Mrs. Har- court's nature was not an emotional on?; she had strong feelings, but ; she was not fond of showing her feelings; she had a good deal of sclt- j ina.stery, and was reticent in her I displays both of joy and sorrow. j "You know we must come to some j imderstanding together," Frank j said, breaking the silence first. "As matters stand at present, 1 am en- ! "a^ed to Dorcas, but she refuses to : moiTy me witliout your consent, i That Ls'-so farâ€" a plain statement. ] But now the question arises^ â€" what is to be done ne.xt? Of course I shall be willing to wait a reasona- ble time. You knowâ€" you cannot doubt â€" that it would cut me to the heart to marry against your wish. But it I am to wait, mother, you niust make conditions with me, or else my one object will be to per- :..:ada Dorcas to break her present resolution, and become my wife at once. Therefore, think what you can propose, tor you must propose something." And then, having made this busi- ness-like speech, the young man clo.s- ©d his 1 ips, and patiently waited for his mother's reply. It did not come for a good while, but at last â€" "I will withdraw my opposition," Mrs. Ilarcourt said, "at the end of thi'ec years, if you will promise dur- ing that time to hold no conmauui- cation with Jliss Trelawney." "You cannot expect me to ogree to such terms." "The terms are reasonable, Frank." "How can you call them rea.<;ona- ble when ten minutes ago yon told me I should change my mind in six months? Three yeois without hold- ing any communication with her! The thing is absurd!" "If you refuse my terms you had better propose terms of your own." "I will wait, if you like, or eighteen months." "I cannot agree to that." An- other pause. "I will do the utmost that I can, Frankâ€" I will take oil a year. If she is all that yoH say she is, you cannot think a couple of yeai-s too long a time to wait for hor; if I am any tiling to you at all. or my happiness anything, you can- not refuse this one thing to me." And then there was a long silence again, while he tried to make up his min<i what his answer would be. Two years away from Dorcas! It seemed at first to the .young man as if he could never consent to such a separation; and yet, if he refused to consent, what was the alternative on the other side? â€" a bare chance that she would consent to marry him, and, if she consented, aliena- tion from the mother to whom he had been a loyal son for five-and- twenty years. "You m^ike it hard to me," he said slowly, after a good while. "Can you expect that I should try to make it easy?" she answered, bitterly. "If you marry this â-  girl, remember you ruin every hope that I have cherished for your future life." "You ought not to have cherish- ed hopes for me. That is one of the rocks upon which mothers are always splitting, it seems to me. You make too many plans. You ex- pect your .sons to remain children all their lives." "If we do, we suffer cruelly for our expectations." And then they both became silent once luore, gngi-ossed in their own thoughts. "Dorcas would tell me to agree," he was s'aying to himself. "I think she would agree if my mother de- manded ten years Instead of two, and she would wait for me â€" God bless her!â€" I verily believe, till the ten years ended. She would do that much more surely than she would marry me now. Would any con- sideration indeed, make her marry me now? I doubt it. If I were to breaJc with my mother I believe the next thing would be that I should have to break with Dorcas tooâ€" and so pretty a liasco I should make of it! Should I leave herâ€" well, it would only be the pain of a two years' parting, and thenâ€" peace for us all, and a welcome â€" or a receji- tion. at any rate â€" a recognition and acceptance of my darling." "What may not happen in two years!" Mrs. Harcourt was think- ing. "Feelings that sipring up quickly run a good chance of dying quickly too. He must see more of the world. He mu.st be made to go more into society. 1 will have other girls to .stay in the house â€" cultivated girls of a higher class than these two hero, and he will come inevitably to compare them with Dorcas â€" to feel the charm of their good breeding. By degrees, surely he will forget her; have I not seen a little judicious separation cool a young man's foolish love fifty tin;e.^?" "I shall see Dorcas to-morrow," Frank said, breaking the silence at last. "If I should tmd that »he will be conteut to wait, I will wait, motherâ€" for two years. But ut the eiid of that time you must fultill your part of the compactâ€" you must not only cease to oppose our mar- riage, but you must receive her cor- dially." "That is too much to ask, Frank. You may marry SILss Trelawney, and I will not oppose your marriage, but my feeling about her unfitness nothing of all this alxould be spok- en of openlyâ€" to any one." "It seems to ine that that Is scarcely a fair demand â€" though, as far as I am concerned, it makes no difference." "If I do riot quarrel witli your folly, Frank, you need not quarrel with my prudence." "Perhaps not; only your prudence puts me on lire." "A good many things seem to do that, I thinkâ€" (happily)," she added to herself. But she did not say that lost word aloud. Her son was impetuous and hot-headed â€" too impetuous not to be also variable and impression- able, and diverted quickly from one ardent feeling to another. "He will forget her," she tliought, half triumphantly already. She drew his face down to her be- fore they piUted, and put hoi- arms about his neck. "You have given me a bad sleep- ing draught, Frank," she said; "but, oh, my deal', do not let us quarrel! We have been friends too long tor that." "Of course we have," he answer- ed quickly. "We have the same in- terests at bottom. Do you think I can ever forget all I owe you?" And he kissed her warmly as he bade her good-night. "Perhap.s I could scarcely have hoped for more success than this," he thought to himself, as he went away. "When I remember all her prejudices, and what different hopes she has had for me, and how she has no one else to care about â€" Poor mother!" said tlie young man suddenly and tenderly. He was resolved to have his own way, of course, but, as he went along the silent passages, he felt all at once, keenly and almost self-re- proachfuUy. tliat what he had done was hard for her to bear. (To Be Continued). PEOPOSED NEW ARM. the For Sofdiers and Sailors of Imperial Forces. The new ride to be experimented with in the British army is a com- bination of the Lee-Enfield and the Mauser. The breech action is of the Mauser pattern, and is adapted by the aid of thumb screws to rapid : adiiustment in the field without the I aid of tools. The sighting is most I comiilcte and up to the standard in I niost respects of match rifles. The baiTol is sliortened by five inches, and to maintain tiie balance an equal weight has been removed from the stock, the wood having been drilled with holes and the brass or steel plates replaced by aluminum. The new weiipon will be loadetl by moans of cHps, each containing five ! oartridge.9. I For the new gun the muzzle velo- , cities nill, it is siaid, be niuintain- I ed at 2,a00 foot-seuonds. It wa& at I first proposed to employ 2,500 footr I seconds, but the ro.sultin.g pressaires jin the gun barrel were deemed in- ; advisable. At 2,300 toot-seconds at j the muzKle tlie con'espoiiding pres- I sure does not exceed 45,000 pounds to the square inch. Ill appearance the new weapon is very han<.lst>mc. aiiid ig a marked im- provement in thi.s respect over the Krag. The bayonet and ramrod have been united iii an ingenious fashion, thus doing away with the nece.ssity for a bayonet scabbard. In this particiiliu- our authorities seem to ha.ve taken up the Russian idea, since for many years the prac- SUSPEISED BOCTOE. SAID A CASE OF ST. VITUS DANCE COULD NOT BE CtJREL. ! Called One Ifay and Fevjid thi Patient Ironiag and Learnei That Dr. Williams' Pink PilL Had Succeeded Where Othe: Medicines Had Failed. The sufferer from St. Vitus' dance even in a mild form, is much to bi pitied, but when the dinease assume: an aggravated fonu the patient ii usually as helpless as an infant, an< has to bo watched with as mucJ care. St. Vitus' danco is a diseasi of the nerves and must be treatei through them, and for this purposi there is no other medicine in th« world acts su speedily as Dr. WiU liams' Pink Pills. Proof of thii statement is found in the cure ol Miss Louise Luffman, whose home is at Poucher's Miili?, Out., who was cured by these pills uftei- two doc- tors had failed to bore.it her in the least. The young lady's mother tells the story of her daughter s illness as follows :â€" "1 do not think it possible anyone could be afflicted with a more severe form of t-t. Vitus' dance than that which attacked my daugh- ter Louise. Her arms and legs would twitcli and jerk, her face waa drawn and finally her left side be- came numb a.s though paralyzed. Two doctors attended her, but their treatment not only did not help her but she grew steadily worse. Her tongue became swollen, her speech thick and indistinct, and she could neither sit still nor stand still. Sh« could not hold anything in her hand and it was recessniy to watch her all the time as we f:'ared .s^he would injure herself. The doctor v,-ho at- tended her told me she would never get better, and it was then that 1 decided to try Dr. WilliaiBs' Pink Pills. After she had taken two bo.X'3 wo could see an improvement in her condition. Her tLjipctite imv;roved, she could sleep better and the spasms were less severe. From that on there was a marked improienient in her condition, and one day the doctor who had said she could not get bet- ter called while passing and found her ironing â€" something she had notJ been able to do for months. I told hiui it was Dr. Williame' Pink Pills that waa curing her and he .vaid, â- \Voll. I am surprised, but continue the pills, they will cure her." .She used in all eight or ten bu.xes, and is now as healthy a giri .i.s you will Ihid anywhere, and she has not since had a symptom of the trouble." \ If jou are weak or ailing ; if your nerves are tired and jaded, or 3'our. blood is out of condition, you will be wise to use Dr. Williams' link. Pills, which are an unfailing r;uie fait... all blood and nerve troublts. 3!u.tKr,\ be sure you get the genuine, with>-. the full name "Dr. Williairs" Pink Pills for Pale People" on tlio wrap- per around every bo.x. Sold by all medicine dealers or sent post paid at 50 cents a box or six bo.xcs for $2.50 by writing direct to the Dr. Wil- liamsi' Medicino Co. Brockville, Out, THIS JLMCING OF MAUBLF^. 31^^ Ch^sej Ointment Is accrtain a«Li»59 *"4 "â- "'"lut* cure for cac'i • •vcs? and cvary form of ItchiiKj, ,. , . O'ecdinirnndprnt.-udlnKptltMi, ts« njanufaoturers have tni.iranlocd it. Seotcs- Umonials In thodaily pro/isand Btk yournoigh. bora â- whatlhoy thlnt ofit. Yon can use It and gyt Tour moner faa^jk if not cured. i»o a, boi at Ml deaiors or itcsi.iS80.v,BATii3 &. Ckj., Torootfl, to be your wife will not be likely to change. Leave that alone, how- ever. If you come in the end to many her 1 may not love her, but I shall nc-ithcr sligi.t her nor quar- rel wilh her." "Then I will give .'/ou my answer to-uiorrow." "1 have no other word to say. I think I have a right to ask that This Little The Burning', Stinging: Rcnsctions Taken Away and the Raw Flesh Heaied by Dr. Chase'a Ointment. It is not at all unusual for cliildrcn to suffer greatly from eczema, a form ol itching skin diseaee, but It frequently happens that relief is very hard to obtain, and neglect is likely to leave the subject a life-long victim of this skin trouble. Dr. Chase's Ointment has proven itself a quick relief and permanent cure for thia ailment. Talte, for example, the following case : â€" Mr. C. Wile.v, who is employed as cooper by the Kennedy & Pavis Milling Company, Lindsay, Ont., utate.s : "I used I>r. Chase's Ointment tor ecy.oma on my little girl some few yeors ago, and eoon brought about a thorough and permanent cure. She had suHci'cd for considerable time, and though we tried a great inany remedies, Hr. Chase's Ointment was the only preparation to prove elective. "I cannot fnpeak too hi.ghly of Dr. Chase's Ointment, as it certainly eSectod a. prompt and permanent cur© in this ease. Dr. ChaJio's Ointment is remarkably effective as a treatment for sore feet, and every form of skin irrita- tion. iUiis. J. Rrunton. AUandnle, Ont.. stales : â€" "I cnn recommend Dr. Chase's Ointment as a sure cure for sore feet. I ."tand a great deal on my feet, and have been troubled for some time with chafing and blisters. My toes were often raw and very painful. "I had tried nearly everything recommended for sore feet, but Dr. Chase's Ointm«it isi the only remedy that did me any real good. It sooUiod the burning and sttnging. and thoroughly healed and cured the sores." Vv. Chase's Ointment is, we believe, the most ciTective and uio.-st thoroughly .satisfactory tre,itmpnt th&t Was ever ussd for eczema, salt rheum and itching skin disoascs aad «ruttiou«. 60 canta a bos, at all iealeKi. or Eklmanaoa. Uat«* ic Co.. TorualOt Nearly all the agate marbles that wear holes in the pockets of all schoolboys on earth are made in th« State of T!iuringia, Germany. Om who live in the villages gather small square stones, I'luce them in moulds soiiiel.hiiig like big colVce mills, aiio grind them until they are round. The nuirblesi made in this way are the r/.,„o .>o o Tw»^r.„„„ c TT J. â- ,, coiiiiiioii china, painted china, glaz- i^cme as a message of Hotre to all ^ ,.,i i â-  i • -, .â-  . , o uj-c y.yj ail j.,j chiiui. and imitation agates. Im- Tired and W^orried Mothers. I italion agaU-s are made from whit« In homes where Baby's Own Tab- ^'•""'•' '"'."'' "^''e Painted to represent tioe in the Uussiaii army has been to I 'I,',",*';^; '^'l!''.^ ,J!"iJf''''..^^\°^l] always keep the ba.voiiet fixed. " 4 BABY'S OWN TAELETS. lets are u.wed cross and fretful child- ren arc unknown. The litt'e ones are cross bccau.se they are ailing and these Tablets are the host modicino in the world for .stomach, bowel anil toothing troubles. They will maWu your baby well and keep it well, and they are guarantcou to contain no ingredients that can harm the small the pride of the marble player's hi.'artâ€" the real agate. Tlie agata painted china marbles are of plain white stone, with lines cro.ising each other at right migles [laiiited upon tliem. lila.'^ alleys are blown by glass blowers in the town oi Lau- schii, Clernia.ny. The expert work- men take a piece of plain glass, and est. weakest infant. Motl;ers every- ! '^'""^'^*"' '-'"' »'f ''^''i glas-s, heat them where giv,o these Tablets tie highest i 'â- *^' ''"'" '^'°^ *^''''"' together, give (uai.sx?. Mrs. K. lIcMaster, Cooks- i *^'"^''" " twi.^t, and there i.« a pretty town, Ont., says : ''My baby wa:i '''"'-'•^' '^^''•'^ the red and wliitc threads much troubled with constipation and °' ^los^" twisted in.side into the form indigestion, and was very restle-ss ' °f '•*''-' '<-'tter S. Ijarge twisted and peevi.sh at nights, l' ga\c her '• e'"'^"" alleys and plain glass alleys Baby's Own Tablets and she is now regular and re.sts well. 1 al.'o find tiiat the Tablets are a great help during the teething period." Children take these Tablets just as readily as candy and crushed to a powder tliey can be given to the youiigest. feeblest infant with none but.gcof" results. Sold by all deal- er.?, or sent po.st jald at 25 cents a box by- writing direct to the l>r. Williams' .''edicine Co.. UrocJtville, Out., or Schenectady, N.Y. LONG riSTA..\CK HEATING. Gornuins are boasiting that there is nowhere in tlie world a building similar to the one which wa.i re- cently erected hi Dre-sden. In this novel building there is an immense furnaci', from which hout is supplied to several public builcings in Urc.s^ den, including the Uoyal Castle, the Koyal Ol era House, nnd tlio police hendqunrtcrs. The heat is conveyed to those buildings through pipea. and in some instances the di.stance is STo great that the furniace h-as been po^Milarly dubbod "the long distance heating uppuratus." This plau of heating large buildings is iTaid to work adiuirsijbly, and ar- rangements are now being made to establish sfljiiilar furnaces in other laige cities of Germany. Kvith the figure of a dog or sJiecp inside are made for very small boys ', and girls to play with. But tha I marbles mo.st prized to-nlay are the ! real agates. These marbles arc seal I brown or black in color, and many I of !hem have large round circles j ' thi'iu that look like e.vcs. _^'' SECOND SIGHT ^'CATTUS. One of the mogt^curioiis details 61 the Mnrliniqtje' eruption is Ine pi e- vision of difci.ster which al'iiost all the animals in ih.- iijh'nd .seem to have had. Cattle became so uiiea-'^.v that the;.' could hanlly tijj inauagctl, dogs how!.- i continually, n7i<i show- ed every .syniptom of fear, ihc sMakes left the vicinity of ihc v.)!canc»i whore they abound, 'and even th« birds censed to sing, and left th« trees on the luoumtalii'silV. All this, be it reuieinberel. waa in April, weeks before (he nutbreak. 5far alone seems to have felt no prcmoi> ition of the coming death. FUNEKALS BY POST. The .rnpa;ier;o In British Columhic arc now s^'iwliiig the Rshe.«> of theii dccea.sud relatives and friends to ''a- pau by post to be burled. The cosi is only TJd.. and in this Way thi heavy steamer rutos are avoXietl. 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