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In Peace and War - s Or, The End of It All CHAP. XVII.--(Cont'd). Brenda and Alice only passed four Hays in the little hamlet selected for them by Theodore Trist as a safe hiding place; but during that time & groat new influence came into ©renda's soul. She had always been sensitive to the beauties of Nature, but never until now had one of earth's great yronders established a longing in her sjoul -- a longing Company which is naught elsi rfreaching other countries had she loved the sea' ^rand incomprehensible : At first Brenda had di -ught of being impris in this tiny east c •o with her sister. A *cojne of a waning 1 a proof that, her feelings * her sister were as ' I -,yal as ever. She feare this point by rising almost hurriedly, and walking to the window. For a considerable time she watched the passing traffic; then she returned to the fire-place. "Poor Brenda!" she murmured -- "my poor Brenda! And . . . Alice silly!" The conn«ction between these two observations may be a trifle obscure to the ordinary halting male intellect; but I think I know what Mrs. Wylie meant. had hitherto Later on in the day she sent a note to Captain Huston, requesting . before him to come and see her, and by tho same message despatched a few words to Theo Trist -- hor res she I force--forbidding him to come r | "My rosarves," she said to her-first Brenda had dreaded the' self as she closed tho envelope ught of being imprisoned, as itj ergetically, "are thus rendered " ' tiny east coast fishing j less; but Brenda is reliable. I must "Yob . . . yes," murmured Hus ton. "But tell mo--what made you think that Trist was out of tov " "Oh, nothing!" airily. "Nobody stays in town at this time of year unless they can't help it; that is all! But I suppose these newspaper men hardly think of the seasons. They do not seem to realize the difference between summer winter -- between joyous spring and dismal autumn. "That is another thing," he said, "about Trist that I do not like. He pretends to despise personal discomfort. It is mere affectation, oi course, and on that account, perhaps, all the more aggravating." "Carried away by enthusiasm^ I suppose?" The soldier laughed. carried away by lie f hat beastly Captain Hustoi dow's note at 1 and! only eleven o'cloc She feared that Alice j ly. there was pit would lower herself in her sight. She he need put in dreaded the necessary tete-a-tetes j Suffolk Mansions, because she felt that her sister's ! There is no haven foi (Character had not improved, and | London except Picadilly «ould not well bear the searching light of a close familiarity. After an uncomfortable meal had been bravely gat out subsequent to Brenda'a arrival, the younger sister announced her intention of going out for a long ramble down the coast. Alice subsided into a yeliow-backed novel. This was a fair sample of their life in exile. Alice deluged bar .weak intellect with fiction of no particular merit, and Brenda learnt to love the sea. • Only once was reference made to Thoodore Trist, and then the subject was tacitly tabooed, much 5L the relief of Brenda. This happened during the first evening of their joint exile. Doubtless a sudden fit of communicativeness came over Alice Just as they come to the rest of us *~at odd moments, without any particular reason. "Theo," she said, without looking Howard the tall, slim form by the .Window, "has changed." "I suppose," Brenda said, with-pUt much encouragement in her man-)a»r, "that we have all changed in 'due way or another." "But Theo has changed in more than one way." Has he?" tells i! ceived the club. It ind, consequent-of timo before appearance loungers in in the n spot the so turned his steps. After inspecting the wares of a sporting tailor, he was preparing to cross the road a view of directing his course i St. James's street, touched him on the shoulder. Huston turned with rather alacrity than is usually displayed by a British gentleman with a clear conscience, and for some seconds gazed in a watery manner at a fair, insipid face, ornamented by a wondrous mustache. There was a peculiarity about this mustache worth mentioning. Although an essential- adornment, btle way, suggested effeminacy. 'Mr. ... eh .... Hicks,' vaguely, an mimiurcd Huston, without much inters Hicks forgave magnani want of appreciation. "Yes, Captain Huston you?" ' Yea. His r "I? vay. . Oh! I'n from what it used to is self-abeorbedr--less^Bffffetic, J day," he less sympathetic." M w |_so had tfa •SS^urnea shgnTiy', and looked'out T Of the window, resting ber fingers" ' The sr. u|>on the old woodon framework. fort, pullc "You see," she suggested, "he has I stepped ii pther interests in life now. Ho is a1 stepped w great man, and has ambition. It is - slipped hi toaly natural that he should be ab- j compank dges, and note-book of his as if he review. If all his countrymen were being slaughtered round him he would count them with his penci: and take a note of it." Hicks gave a few moments' care ful attention to the curl of his mustache. Then he glanced curiously at his companion's vacant physiognomy. There was evidently some motive in this sudden attack on Trist Both these men distrusted the war correspondent, but were in no way prepared to test the value of the force which is said to arise from union. They distrusted each other Hicks did not confess deliberately to himself that he was in love \ "' Brenda GilhoLme, but he made pretense of ignoring the fact that she occupied in his thoughts a place quite apart. Ho respected in that lay the great difference. The unkempt and strangely-attired damsels who were pleased to throw the sels who were pleased to throw themselves mentally at his foot were not such as command respect. l"n his heart he despised them a little: for contempt is invariably incurred by affectation of any description. And so each went on his way1--the idle soldier, tho vain artist and the absorbed journalist, each framing his life for good or evil--pressing upward, or shuffling down, according to his bent; each, no doubt, peering ahead, as sailors peer through rime and mist, striving to penetrate the blessed veil drawn across the future. (To Be Continued). a. vjftguely I mi%tT!i^rfi^ - Idler made a vloW ef- known as ho KEPT HIS EYES OPEN A Young Man Maies a Valuable Discovery at Kimberly. When the negro laborers doscend into the diamond mines at Kimberly, they hew out the hard diamantifer-ous earth and put it in wooden tubs which are hauled on stout wires to the surface where the earth is spread over 'the ground to undergo for Several months the softening influences When enough it is shovelled into ing machines where the dirt arated from the rough diamond: at substant fin , CONSTITUTION IN COWS. Everybody is looking for some sign or external indication of vitality staying power in their cows, want cows that will stand to their work year after year, resist di good service. We all why the application nure is usually so I helpful to land. It furnishes both humus and fertility at one and the i be brouglft to land? Chiefly by growing grasses and clovers for pasture and for hay, but in somo instances by growing crops for the special purpose burying them in the soil. cattle. i call but I mixed notions of determin-On this point, Prof. Haeck-er in one of his addresses says: "An animal deep in brisket, with broad shoulders and fore legs far apart has no more stamina or endurance than one with a narrow, iharp shoulder and ewe neck. In act, tho latter, as a rule, has more terve force and endures longer. So ar as my observation goes, an animal with a good middle and carry-rplus tissue is fitted for much work and a maximum period." thoroughly agree with Prof. Haeckor in the above estimate. How often we hear men say that a deep brisket and much width between " lore legs indicates great lung heart power, when indeed it does thing of the kind. That is an beef cattle notion and is without foundation in fact. let > the truth i himaelf 3 tho road. The artist h him, and, furthermore, gloved hand within his with a famili: i pavement. " ; lady's t isband looked very • which seemed to say that they Hrs. Huston raised her smw.ll foot,! would live or die together until the ajid rested the heel of her slipper on i passage was safely accomplished, ftjhe brass fender, while sh3 cont plated the diminutive limb with s Mtisfaction. "I have met one or two p Wen," she said meditatively, "end I Invariably found them very much liko ordinary beings, rather less immersed in 'shop,' perhaps, and quite as interesting--not to say polite." Brenda winced. "Was Theo not polite?" "Hardly, my dear." As Mrs. Huston delivered herself Of this opinion, with a faint tinge Of bitterness in her manner, she Jljurnod and looked toward her sister, as if challenging hor to attempt a palliation of Trist's conduct. ©renda mover answered her sister's Challenge. She turned her eyes [away, facing the old moonlig-ht, i Ittaring at the silver sea with eyes ;that e*w no beauty there. j> "O God!" she whispered, glancing [Upward into the glowing heavens ^jrith that instinct which comes alike (to pagan and Ghristian, "send great war, so that Theo may go CHAPTER XVIII. J&-s. Wylie had undertaken task of reconciling Alice Htuston and her husband without any great hope rated with Alice The widow peace, and set could be but forts. Huston in her hidin Captain Huston at t he was still a me SVist by word of i (Country. Her Jtfierefore to bo received, ho acknowledgment could made. In this respect she was 1 ■py, because she was without Btruction from headquarters, '; and repoi fith lub of which th. Brendi the enemy' but That stolid i "Quite well, thanks." He mentally wriggled, poor t low, and in sympathy his arm I came lifeless and repelling. Hie removed his hand from the unappi "Do you know," ho asked pies antly, "whether Trist happens to Hu ble. prig, and honestly wished his wife's name from the ready tongue of slander. "I don't," he answered abruptly-"why?" This sudden question in no way disconcerted Hicks, who met the soldier's unsteady, and would-be se vere, gaze with bland innocence "Because I happen to know a Russian artist who is very anxious to meet him, that is all." "Ah! I have seen him since I came home, but I could not say where he is bow." If Hicks hod been a really observant man ho would have noticed that, his companion raised a gloved finger to his cheek, and tenderly pressed a slight abrasion visible still just on the bone in front of the ear. "He is generally to bo heard of," said the artist, at Suffolk Mansions. That is to say, when Brenda ing there." Captain Huston's dull eyes actually endow srtheless, had her action. Her first and, indeed" only c munication reached Mrs. Wylie morning after hor interviews % Theo Trist and Captain Huston Was only a few words scribbled the back of a visiting card, slipped into an envelope previously addressed and stamped' "Whatever you do, keep Theo and fAlico apart." mod tho card 'Is there," ho asked, with militarj nchalanco, "supposed to be something between Trist and Brenda?" Hicks laughed, and, before reply-ing, waved his hand gracefully to'a d, I friend in the stock-Jobbi concentrates. itil recent] jgo very carefully trates to pick out the garnets many other foreign substances "until nothing remained but the rough "diamonds. This is a slow and laborious operation, but it has been an essential part of the mining industry until it was superseded by a discovery made a while ago. Among the employees in the sorting room was Fred Kersten, a bright young fellow, who quietly went to work to try to discover a way tc separate the diamonds from other stones more quickly and easily thar could be done by the slow process of hand picking. He told no one of the problem he was working at but kept on with his experiments, discouraged by his many failui f find AN EFFICIENT PROCESS. One day, by the merest accident, he made the discovery he was after A rough diamond and a garnet happened to bo lying on a small board on the bench whero ho was working. Ho happened to pick up one end of the board when the garnet slipped off. but the diamond remained. This was a phenomenon worth investigating. Kersten found that thore was a coating of grease on the board which had retained the diamond, while the garnet slipped off. Ho procured a wider board, coated re side of it with grease and dump-t a few handfuls of concentrates on Then he found that by holding le board in a slightly inclined potion and vibrating it, all the contrates except the diamonds r the lower end and fell tho diamonds remained rchine by them compare the heart and lungs of a 1,000 pound dairy those of a 1,500 pound beef animal of tho most approved build botween the fore legs. They will find in most instances that both heart and lungs of the dairy cow larger than those of the beef animal. Indeed, THERE IS REASON FOR THIS. The dairy cow secretes a largo tit of milk daily. This is a great draft on the blood circulation. The blood is vitalized by the lungs* she requires strong breathing power. This fact should compel us ) provide an abundance of pure ir for our stables, for we are beat-ig ourselves if we do not. Compare the build of the race horse between tho fore legs with that of the draft horso. Yet will any n that the race horse is de-iung and heart power? It evident that the facts in these two cases do not justify the judgment of those who have reason-of tho deep, wide brisk-ting increased heart and lung action. The best and truest indication of constitution in man and animals is the construction of tho walls of the abdomen. A large, strong frame with a weak belly will not endure, the contrary, a deficient muscu-build with a strong muscular abdomen will often show surprising endurance. This principle is established by the structure of the umbilicus, weak, spindling umbilicus indi- alls of the abdomen wfw be thin ana weak and tho power i>f endurance correspondingly retyped. It is tho animal, as Prof. Haecker says, "with a good middle" not unduly large or pot gutted, but a belly w very strong muscular walls that ^ go to the end of tho course and dure best. This is constitution. It is well remember, always, that, large £ in both men and animals is no ir cation of constitution or stay power. HUMUS IN THE SOIL. During a recent trip through c JUDICIAL PROMPTNESS. Lord Coleridge Had a Curious Habit on the Bench. Lord Coleridge, Lord Chief Justice of England, from 1880 until 1894, has been described as England's greatest criminal judge. A writer in the Pall Mall Magazine says that in appearance he was tho very embodiment of judicial dignity. He was ever courteous and considerate, and never tried to win cheap applause at the expense of an experienced barrister or overwrought wit-He had a curious habit, on the bench, of leaning back in his chair and closing his eyes, and this times led the unwary to conclude that he was asleep. On one occasion, during tho trial of a prisoner for setting fire to a dwelling-house, the counsel for the defence was much upset through his ignorance of. tho chief's habit. Throughout the day ho had been trying to get before tho jury the fact that a man other than the prisoner had openly threatened to burn down the particular house. Each attempt to intrrxtfuce the testimony which the rules of evidence would not admit, was checked by a prompt objection, sustained by the court. But when the speech for the defence was begun Lord Coleridge iff into his usual doze, and the 1 saw his opportunity, [tlemon of the jury," said 'Jet l We have heard from the witnesses that a certain Bill Smith had, prior to the fire, " been dismissed by the prosecutor from his service. Now, gentlemen, I can toll something.--" 3ut not about Mr. William Smith, I'm afraid," came from the bonch, in gentle tones which con-eyed no sense of noyance. TRUE, ALL THE SAME. Tho man with tho bronzed face and he rolling gait was entertaining an ttentive circle of acquaintances /hen Mr. Button edged up just in time to catch the words, "And so the ship went down, with all of She went down?" asked Mr. 1 , excitedly. Yes, sir," smiled the brown-faced y but surely. nd f :ely < ixchangc y arrested by the di rength of the ills I i the ( i the ho invented a n which his discovery might part of his machine slightly inclined table coated with grease and vibrating when the n cliine was in motion. Another pi was a sort of hopper through which the concentrates, with a small current of water, passed to tho sur--- , face of the vibrating table. Con-had previously crossed the road in'siderable study was required to per-| order to be recognized by him in feet the apparatus, but at last the ;;iP"OhSno," he answered cheerfully;! ^mond Zm'Z'InvitTd'to" wif5 " that'l tnh°inraonf **£ t^er^oV^^^Z^^ f^"* were quite justified in taking it thas. ceXtes C°n~ They have always been great friends j Tha invention w„« -that was all I meant. Their mo- L h° 7,f T Wa* , ontire thers were related I believe" | success. All the garnets and other Captain Hluston looked slightly1 m" I tho i af ly-e' Lved )ther side the words ale thoughtfully, once "Whatever you do, keep Theo and' Queer felh Alico apart." "Oh, I "Brenda knows," reflected tho tgoctical woman of the world, "that Huston is jealous of Theo. She also knows that I am quite aware of this jealousy. It would be unnecessary to warn me of it; therefore this fneans tA*t Brenda has discovered a fresh iX'As^n." «he troie off her meditations at disappointed. He did display such eagerness or faster or slower, or "Trist," he observed cigar^case^ sociab walk eith-some oth- he . oke, i knoi No, thanks." The captain grunted, and put hi; case back with a suppressed sigh Ble had not known, but hoped. Thei he waited for a reply to his leadim and ambiguous remark. "Yes," mused Hicks at length he is. I dined with him tho nigW h* left for the Servian frontier.'*- The access. All th< minerals that are not wanted over the surface of the tablo every diamond, large or small, is retained. A more simple and complete device for saving time, labor and loss of diamonds could not. be invented. Tho entire work is now done by machinery, hand picking has been wholly superseded, and both them, on land that, has been long ltivation. On the hi"' :rop had succumbed cold. In the lower lands tho crop had been able to maintain The difference was to be in part to the great fertility qI the valleys, but more to of humus or vegetable tho soil. Some of those clay hills when in grass do not pro-ce freely, henco when the grass 3ps aro broken, not much humus deposited in the soil. Sumus, in a certain sense, is more needed in soils, and is more valuable than fertility. In fact, hu-fertility, and it is some-re. It is a substance that particles of soil so that the roots of plants can easily push through thorn to greater food. It is a substance that helps the soil to hold more water than it. would otherwise retain, and it furnishes food in a form that is easily available. Whether it brings fertility to* soils will depend upon the ch^icter of tho plant grown to prodl^e humus. If it is a deep ieeding plant, it may bring fertility to the surface soil FROM THE SUBSOIL. If, in addition to feeding deeply, it can draw nitrogen from the air, as clover does, it will further enrich is a shallow feeding plant, it may soil. On tho other hand, if it f put in the soil virtually what ook from it. But, even so, then in a form more available the plants than it was before. And other benefits that result from lupply of humus in the soil also present. The value of humus to the s< ery great. Every attention should e given to keeping up a supply of he same. A soil may be highly fertilized and yet not bo at its best for producing, for tho si] that tho supply of humus is deficient mng lond I the i mark the spot But where were your" In the captain's cabin." And couldn't you get o ?.in queationed Mr. Button. Why, n^ I never thought of get-c; out,"fwas the cool ^nswer. Oh, I suppose it was all so unexpected?" ~To; we all knew she would gc down." Antd how did you escape?" "I didn't have to oscape." "How's that?" Mr. Button inquired. "If the ship sank with all on board and there was no chance for you ta escape, how do you oxpect us to believe your story \ 1 INSPIRED BY THE MUSE. He was calling on a young lady and had been talking himself against time for several hours, not noticing that she was, to say the least, slightly wearied. "Do you know," he said, after completing a monologue of several thousand words, and thinking a little flattery would be appreciated, "while talking to-night, I have felt as if I wore inspired by one of the Muses. And which one do you think it is?" Ho looked beautiful face for which he to be a wide y er as she answered: "I guess the Muse that inspires you to-night must be Eutorpa." Ho didn't, really know anything about mythology, so he Couldn't tell just what she meant. But wh<m he got home he took down his encyclopaedia, and thore in cold type, staring him in tho face, he saw: Euterpa--the _>iuse who presided vrchingly into her 'he modest blush i watching proved , which grew wid- LUIHTS YOU OAISOT SEE Experiment With an Ordinary Field Gun -- Aro Yew Color Blind? Captain Sykes, of the Yorkshire Militia, announced recently an old discovery. He found that an ordinary field gun, if daubed all over with blotches of red, blue and yellow point, becomes to all intents and purposes invisible, at least at any considerable distance. Six guns and their limbers so painted and streaked with the three primary colors, as they are called), were placed on the Fox Hills, at Al-dershot, and a number of Artillery officers invited to -locate them. Tha distance was only three thousand yards--a mere trifle in actual warfare--and the officers wore armed with tho best of field glasses. But so perfectly did the painted guns harmonize with the natural background that no one was able to pick them out. Some Horse Artillery sent forward to engage tho guns never saw them at all until they had reached a point barely a thousand yaitds away. Many animals of all kinds take advantage of the way in which sight, especially human sight, confuses " rs. The leopard, living in low thickets, whore the sunlight, broken by leaves, falls in patches on the sotjj beneath, has a skin blotched with k spots, making tho oreatuse practically invisible except at very 'ose quarters. Among fish, insects, reptiles and snakes, hundreds of species are known of which their markings render thorn practically invisible in their natural surroundings. RECENT RESEARCHES have shown that a far greater number of people are at least partially color blind than was formerly imagined. The commonest case is a deficient perception of red, blue, and diet. Often partially color blind persons name these quite correctly. But they are unable to distinguish ' itween rose red and bluish green. A few years ago Dr. Favrd' examined the color perception of one thousand railway ofltcials, and found that ninety-eight were quite • blind, and a number more partially so. Women, it may be mentioned, are hardly ever color blind, but why this is so no one pretends to explain. After any severe nervous shock you will bo vary likely to find that have become temporarily color blind. Your perception of green light has probably gone, at least partially. White objects will then appear to you of a reddish purple, and green objects to bo very much duller in hue than ordinarily. Anyone can make him or hersolf temperarily color blind by wearing a pair of ruby-r glasses. The prolonged action of~red 1" by 1 red light the r ly, when tho glas. ... moved, a rftlnbow appears' to haw. two colors, Yellow and blue. Many people have" found it difficult to believe in the possioility of the extraordinary attitudes assumed by galloping horses or other < Here TO GRASP, it though the Mice from the retina. What s sts call the positive- image, p 3 for a perceptible period placed by a nogativ tho , but i i profiting "Jack Oladhand Bramble -- "He had When soils s yei cropped 1 > pain humus i oils tho seasons when everything is favor-te for growth, but in adverse sea-is, more especially seasons that ' deficient in moisture, the diffor-e will be very apparent. This vin/l j INVISIBLE COLORS. Teacher (to class) -- "I will give two cents to tho boy who can name three invisible colors." Tomtay SmitW--"I can, sir." Teacher -- "Go on, then." Tommy Smith -- "A lawn after a snowstorm is an invisible green." Teacher -- "That's very good. Now, the next." Tommy Smith -- "During the recent burglaries about our neighborhood there was no policeman about. That's an invisible blue." Teacher -- "It's very wrong to say that. You shall only have a Tommy Sn stuff tho cent that will be j .h (angrily) --"Well, in your pocket and invisible brown. "Who was that poor wretch that the mob tarred and feathered, rodo on a rail, horsewhipped, and threatened to lynch?" "Why," said the leader of the mob, "that's tho follow who wroto to the papers that the citizens of this town had no re-speet for law and order. We showed him that we were law-abiding itizecis, you bet!" Whales are increasing rapidly, as t no longer pays to kill them, 'wenty years ago 400,000 barrels f whale oil V-as produced annually. This he.s now fallen to about 60,- 000. plomcntary to the positive image.' Thus, if the sight seen was a regiment of scarlet-clad soldiers, the negative imago would show those soldiers in a greenish blue hue. So the impression wo get when >oking at any thing is actually made up of a number of different if the object, whereas the in-eous photographic plato gives " one of these views, and hence looks to us unnatural. ill and slmplo experiment can be tried by any reader, which will go far to convince him or her what a debt we owe to color, and what a good thin« it is we have sunlight, which enables our eyes to take advantage of the beautiful hues of Nature. Make a room quite dark, and then burn somo carbonate of_ soda in the flarr.o of a ;Bj."jf«SK'gas"' yolj^w^iglvt*^ su-ffcbiently strong to illumioato everything in the room, but you will realize with a sudden shock that, bright though the light is, all distinctions of color have vanished. Only I ght and shade remain. A crimson carnation, a bluo violet, a rod table-cloth, a yollow blind--all look grey or black or whito. The faces of those present look positively repulsive, for all natural color has disappeared. No othor experiment will so well convince those who have witnessed it how great a loss would be that of our sense for color.--Pearson's Weekly. WORLD'S SUPPLY OF COAL. The available coal yet stored in the earth in Germany is estimated *)y Prof. Ferdinand Fischer, of Got-tingen, at 160,000,000,000 tons; in England, only 81,00O,0OO,CCO tons: in Belgium, Austria-Hungary, and France, about 17,000,000,000 tons each. The store of Russia is but imperfectly known. North America can produce 684,000,000,000 tons, and Baron von Richthofon has stated that China has a supply nearly great. Japan, Borneo and New South Wales have considerable coal; Africa, an unknown quantity. Germany's coal should last another thousand years, but England's sup-r will begin to show signs of ex-ustiori within fifty yea.ra. In tho ited States the production has reased from.about 6,200,000 <*,ons ^1891 to nearly 45,000,0^ in