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And is that girl the child you used to play you used to would with ?" “Yes.” “She is very pretty. I was lookâ€" ing at her in church. Butâ€"what about the mother now ?” -“What about her ? She is very well.” “I suppose, though, she never goes out with them 7" “Oh, yes, she does”â€"-rather quick- ly. "I don't know why she happenâ€" ed not to be at church toâ€"day." “The father looks quite gentle- manly. What an extraordinary thing that he should have made such a marriage ! One is sorry for the poor girl.” And thenFrank made no answor. I and the next moment they had join- ed the res't of their party at the carriage door. There Was no room for Frank in- side the carriage, and he said, in reâ€" ply to Mrs. Warburton’s invitation to mount the box, that he preferred to walk. So the driver started, and a minute afterwards, at a turn in the road, Mrs. Harcourt, looking back, saw her son still standing in the place where she had left him. Upon which, being a shreer woman. she guessed the reason why he conâ€" tinued to stand there ; but, being a wise woman too, she kept her own counsel about it. Mrs. Warburton, however, after a. few moments, began to talk of the Trelawneys. "Did you notice that girl with a. broadâ€"brimmcd hat, in a pew or two to our right? That was Frank's old playfellowâ€"Dorcas Trelawney,” she said. _ “So Frank told me,” Mrs. Harâ€" court aizswered. “A pretty girl, I thought.” "Yrs, quite nice-looking, and deâ€" cidedly more ladylike than you would expect. That is, outwardly. I only know her by sight. I dareâ€" - say some vulgarity would appear if youfcame to talk to her.” "Poor thing ! One always feels sorry for a girl in a position like that.” "Always. It is very hard for her. It seems to me,” said Mrs. War- ' burton severely, “that there almost ought to be some law to prevent people from marrying beneath them." ' "I am afraid that such a law would not be very easily got passâ€" ed,” Mrs. Harcourt answered, with a smile ; “but certainly it is to me inconceivable how any man of cul- tivation could ever marry an un- educated woman." “Yes, it is amazing.” "What sort of person in appear- ance is this Mrs. Trelawney '1'“ " “Ohâ€"well, she is not aggressively vulgar.” “She is a little thin woman, Mrs. Harcourt," struck in Maud War- burton, “very timidâ€"locking, and . rather pretty, in a feeble way. You Would never notice her or look twice at her if you did not know her story. I met her .in, Gamble’s shop once, and spoke to her, just on purpose to see what she would do, and she colored up like a school- girl, and almost dropped me_ a courtesy.” ' Sea » _ a saute ,ndageeten. ummmmwaggfimow " z“; Or I ‘6 Gentllity Vs. Nobility of‘So‘ul.‘ â€" :v, .'..“:;.. ‘ 32,; ._ .7 ~..- "Oh,'Maud, my love, you should not do such things 1" Mrs. Warbur- ton exclaimed, in a shocked voice ; but the girl only laughed. “You need not be afraid, mamma; she won't claim acquaintance with us," she said. ' “The man himselfâ€"Mr. Trelaw- neyâ€"appears to be gentlemanly,” Mrs. Harcourt said dubiously. “Yes, and I believe he is so really. That is the surprising part of it. Quite an educated, cultivated man. But then there must be something wrong in him, you knowâ€"~some inâ€" nate want of refinement.” ‘ ‘Yesâ€"su rely. ’ ’ “And I have little doubt the same thing is in the girl too. 1 daresay she is a. good girlâ€"I never heard a word against her, and as far as looks go she would pass very well ; but what I feel, Mrs. Harcourt, is this,” said Mrs. Warburton solemn- lyâ€"“I feel that between her’ and so- ciety there is a barrier. You cannot throw it down. Her father has plac- ed herâ€"where he has 2 and the sins of the fathers must be visited upon the children,” said Mrs. l arburton, with her eyes closed. ' And then there was a solemn sil- once for a few moments, till Maud began to criticise the‘sermon ; after which they talked about that and other indifferent things for the re- mainder of the drive. ' “Frank is coming back to lunch, I suppose ‘2” Miss Warburton said, as they sat down presently ’to that meal ; andâ€"“Oh, yes, I suppose so,” Mrs. Warburton replied. But Mrs. Harcourt said nothing ; and they ate their lunch. and Frank did not i come. It was past four o’clock, and growing dusk, before he returned. Perhaps his mother had been watch- ing for him, and it Was not quite by chance that she happened to be comâ€" ing downstairs as he opened the hall door. “Is that you, Frank ?” she said pleasantly, as she saw him. “Is this your first appearance since the morning, my boy ‘2” And she went forward to meet him, putting both hands, as she reached his side, cares- singly about his arm. . The hall was filled with light from a great fire‘of oak logs, and they went and stood before it. This hall at Woodlands was a place where people often lingered to talk. -“l.t-is pretty cold outâ€"is it not ? or have you got warm with walkâ€" ing 7” she asked him. “Ohâ€"I am warm enough,” he an- swered. "Yesâ€"your hands do not feel cold. Have you been having a long walk, dear ‘2” . "Nâ€"o, not very long. 011, noâ€" not at all,” he answeredfrankly, after a moment.‘ "I have only come from the Trelawneys’. I~ went home with them and had lunch.” ((011 1” It was the gentlest and most in- different "Oh l” imaginable, and Mrs. Harcourt, as she uttered it, continued softly to stroke and caress her son’s arm. - "You walked from church with them, I suppose ?” she said. ‘ “Yesâ€"I walked on with them after you were gone. I had not seen Mr. Trelawney before.’ ’ “Andâ€"had you seen the others ?” "Yes. I had seen them." A mo- ment’s pause. “I met Miss Treâ€" lawney in the road two or three days ago.” . “I thought her a pretty girl this morning, Frank~certainly,” Mrs. Harcourt, said. after another short silence. "I should thinkindeed you did, mother l”-â€"and the young man, warming unwiser, gave almost a scornful laugh. “Pretty ! You would think her more than pretty if you talked five minutes to her." “I am afraid I am not likely to enjoy that privilege.” And Mrs. Harcourt laughed too, quite cheer- fully. ' “Why not ? I don’t see why you should not. In fact,” he said a litâ€" tle quicklyâ€""in fact, I wanted you, mother, to come with me and Call on Mrs. Trelawney.” “My dear boy, I could not. pos- sibly do that. "‘ ._., _ figs - “Why could you not do it ‘2”â€" rather hotly. I “..‘hatâ€"whi1e I am staying with the Warburtons ? Depend upon it, Frank, they won’t be over pleased to think of even you going much to that-house, but for me to propose 'to . make Mrs. Trelawney’s acquaintance while I‘ am their guestâ€"why, my dear, the thing is out' of the ques- tion !” Frank bit answer. "Besidesâ€"to tell the truthâ€"even for myself, Frank, I think I should his lip and made no prefer not to know Mrs. Tre- iawney." . "Now, mother, that is pure preâ€" judice l” he exclaimed hotly. “Of course the marriage was as stupid blunderâ€"everybody knows that; but as for objecting to ,know Mrs. Tre- lawney nowâ€"! Why, you never Saw a nicer little woman than she is. She may not be quite like an ordinâ€" ary ladyâ€"I will allow that ; but if you suppose she is vulgar, you never made a. greater mistake in your life.” “Well, my dear, that may be so;- I can quite believe itâ€"but her cul- garity or want of vulgarity. is really beside the question. Whatever she is, I could not call upon her." “Because you are staying here?” “My dear boy, lower your voice. Yes, because I am staying here." “I can’t see it. mother. It is not as if we-wanted the Warburtons to receive her. I did think you would have pleased me in this matterâ€"see- ing' what friends they are of mine." “They cannot be such very great friends of yours, Frank, when you have neard nothing of them for these last dozen years.” "Well, you may think so, but the dozen years don’t make a particle of difference.” ‘ “You are speaking foolishly. A dozen years ago you were a child.” "Yes, and Mrs. Trclawney was kind to me. But you don't seem to think any thing of that." ‘I really don’t rknow why I should think very much of it. Her kindâ€" ness was nothing extraordinary that I ever heard of.” “I know that sheâ€"she and her familyâ€"made me happier than I ever was in any other house in my life." “Happier, do you mean, than you ever were at home, Frank ?” "You know I do not mean mother. 1' am talking about people’s houses. how happy I lawneys.” “I can believe that you ware hapâ€" py with them, my dear, but I do not think you can quite expect me to rejoice with you in that.” "I do not understand you, moth- er.” (And indeed he looked puzzled). “Is it natural that I should be glad to find you making friends who cannot be my friends ?” "Why do you say that they can~ not be your friends ?” “You 'know why I say it." "You say you cannot visit them asylong as you are staying here.” "That is not the whole. I say I do not want to visit them.” “Because Mrs. Trelawney is not a. lady '2” » “Exactly.” “And you will not give up your prejudices, even for my sake ‘2” "My boy, do you not know that it is only for your sake that T. choose to retain what you call my preâ€" judices ?” "You must make clearer, mother.” “I should not have thought it needed to be made clearer.” And then theyboth suddenly he? came silent. They were still standâ€" ing side by side, but a little apart now, for, she had dropped his arm a few minutes ago, and he was leaning forward-over the tall mantlepiece. resting his forehead on its edge, and looking hard into the fire. Was he thinking most of his mother’s words or of the hours that he had just passed .with Dorcas '? or were the that, other You cannot think was with the Tre- that answer that To prove to you that Dr.- E J :2 5 Chase‘s Ointmentia accrtain ‘ é a; and absolute cure for each I and every form of itching, bleedmgand protrudin _ piles, the manufacturers have guaranteed it. eo tes- tlUlOblalS in the daily press and ask your neigh- bors what they thinkofit. You can use it and getgour money back if not cured. 6°C 5 box, at all colors or EDMANSON,BATES 85 Co..Toronto, Dr.'Ghase’s flan-imam sweet and thebitter mingled toâ€" gether in his thoughts as he stood silent after her last speech ? For two or three minutes they re- mained without speaking, and then all at once there was the sound ~of an opening door, and a quick step ..... mu“... .....,. ._ ... .,. Wu“. ..-... .-.... More EvideHCe to Prove, that lndlgestion’bf the -Worst Kind can be :Oured, ‘ I - and Cured Permanently by Dr. Chase's:Kidnenyiver'Pills. _ More people suffer from indigestion and its accompanying ills, aseconstipation and derang’éd‘ikidneys _ and liver, than from any’othcr class of diseases. The use of'digestanto, pepsin}. bismuth, etc, cometifne‘s ' gives temporary relief when thetrou his is confined to the stomach,_ but thqmost serious-form of indigestzo is that which alIects the intestines, and is attended with constipation, kidneypains andcramps. . .‘ _~ ' That Dr. Chase’s Kidney-Liver Pills is the mostefi’ective.treatment for. this dreadfully common affliction for the benefit “of other sufi‘erers. is now generally known, and we here quote a letter from a. Peterbo'rqug f h‘fr'e‘sidont,":who gives his experience Mr. R."Bcach, 22.5, Shel-brooks Street, Peterborough, out", states‘2â€"J'Ab6uti‘two. years“ ago I became subject to cramps, 'which‘ were caused, I was field, frbm acute indigestion. I was so bad that I would be laid up for weeks at a time. These attadks came on periodically, and-distressed me greatly. "I then began using Dr. Chase’s Kidney-Liver Pills, and have found them a wonderful have entirely prevented a recurrence of my trouble, corrected the me feel like a. different person.” . . . . You need not 103° time and “1°39! in experimenting With new and untried mechcmes. You and made do rangement of medicine. They my digestive organs, know that. Dr. Chase’s Kidney-Liver Pills are backed by almost a lifelong experience of the great physician and receipt book author. They have proven their superiority in scores of cases in every community. Ask your friend. about them: One pill a. dose ; 25 cents a. box: At'all dealers, or Ednianson, Bates 6a 00., Torontoz bridge. Girls entered the hall, andâ€"“0h, you are here !” exclaimed Maud Warburton, coming forWard and joining them ; upon which, of course, they at once smoothed their faces and began to talk of common things. Was Frank’s conscience at all ill at ease as he went up to his own room presently, and began to think again . MAM FURTITUDh SEVERELYsAit‘ TRIED 7 BY. £111. MENTS PECULIAR TO HER * 'ssx_._. of the last hour that he had spent ordinary Medicine Will-Not ‘ Cur( with Dorcas ? A week ago that face he had been looking at to-day had had no place in his world or in his Iife"(except as the memory of a litâ€" tle innocent childish face, lost long ago) ; even two days since it had scarcely been more to him than pleasant sight to dwell onâ€"as a picâ€" ture might be, or a jewel, flower ; but now, of a sudden, it Because it Merely Touchos‘tbe Symptomsâ€"How to Get at‘!‘ the Root of the Trouble. Behind the front woman suâ€"fiers indescribany or a time to time, and continues to suf-i for in spite of all her efforts, because seemed as if it had extinguished an ordinary medicine is' powerleSS'to dq other faces for him, as if he could good in such cases. Ordinary med-if see no others, and care for no Others cine may give temporary reliefâ€"even because of it. a purgative may do thatâ€"hut tho What had been the history of this one great medical discover ‘ capablq Sunday afternoon ? He had merely walked home from church with Trelawneys, had had lunch with of permanently curing an prevent] the ing a return of the ailment is. Dr. Williams" Pink Pills. These"pills arq them, had sat talking fqr an hour not an ordinary medicine; they an: to Dorcas ; that was all. For half of that hour they two had been alone together. He had sat near to her ; he had sat looking into her eyes ; and, as he knew in his heart,' he had been doing something almost like making love to her. Not that he had meant beforehand to do it, by any means ; but love-making is an occupation that people not un- frequently drift into unintentionally. He had drifted into itâ€"or at least to the very edge of i‘tâ€"on this win- ter afternoon. And now he was alone in his room at Woodlands, and hadâ€"if he couldâ€"to repent of what he had done. And he did half repent of it. His entertainment had been very delight- ful to him, but he told himself now that he had had no business to in~; dulge in it. He ought not to have talked to her as he had done, nor looked into her face as he had done, "I shall have to stop seeing her, if this sort of , thing is to 'come .of it,” he said to himself half savageL 1y ; but yet, even While these words were still upon his lips, he was cal- culating the chances of his meeting her again toâ€"morrow, and living 'not a patent medicine, but the prey scription of a regularly practising physician who used them in his priâ€"i vate practice for years before they, were given to the public under the name of Dr. Williains’ Pink Pills. They are the best medicine for man, the only medicine for woman. Mrs." John NcKerr, Chickney, N.W.T,,i_ says :' "Dr. Williams” Pink Pills have saved me many a dollar in doctors" bills. For some years I was greatly, afflicted with ailments that make tin life of so many of my sex miserable. I tried many medicines but found no relief until I began the use of Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills. These pills have made me feel like a new ‘ per‘ son ; the almost continuous suffer- ing I endured has passed away and life ~ no' longer seems a burden. 1 know of a number of other women who have been similarly benefitef and I think Dr. Williams' Pink Pill: worth'their weight in gold to those who suffer from female complaints or . general prostration." The happiness of health for both men and women lics in the timely use of Dr. Williams' Pink Pillsl which act as a nerve tonic and supl. again through the hour that he had ply new blood to enfecbled SyStemSi left behind him.” _ Perhaps it was no wonder this that, when' he got back Woodlands, and events of the afternoon, he after. cases of, to‘ sumption, pains in the back, neur4 thought over the algia, depression of spirits, shoum ’palpitation, indigestion, rheumatism They have cured many thousands of anaemia, “decline,” con< heart, say to hinlself that he had better reâ€" sciatica, St. Vitus’ dance and par- turn to town to-morrow. It would tial have bren wisest for him to do so, beyond question. And yet when the day came he did not go back to town, for had not Maud Warburton laid her orders on him to remain, and go with her to skate on the Upper Pool ? (To Be Continued.) â€"__..._+..__._._ WORD BLINDNESS. Some curious instances of the 13113» sical defect of "Word blindness” are. given in the Lancet. The disease is. fortunately, uncommon. In one case the sufferer, an Englishman thirty- four years of age, who knew Greek, Latin, and French 'well, suddenly lost all knowledge of English, though he could read and understand Greek perfectly, and Latin and French in a rather smaller degree. Another and almost that of a man who lost the power of reading at sight. This patient was able to write accurately from dicta~ tion, but was completely unable to read what.he had written. Word blindness is apparently akin to color blindness, but is certainly atâ€" tended by more inconventient con- sequences. .____;_.....__. . 2' TR AVELLIN G RATS . The strange characteristic of 101m ll’llllg‘,gll.,-killd of rat which infests‘ the east. ceast of Norway, is that it 1: yer in china“ y: mignates westward . Every few years large colonies. of these rats turn their noses westâ€" ward and start on a journey that ends in death. They go over rivers :and mountains, steadily crossing the Country and rearing families on the way, till they reach the brofid Atâ€" llantic. Here, one would imagine, !they would stop, or turn in some iother direction, in the hope of‘ being lable to continue their journey to the west by an' overland route ; but they boldly plunge into the ocean, and swim, everlwestward, till they are drowned. This is a fortunate charâ€" acteristic for the Norwegians,~for if the rats did not kill themselves the people ‘would have a hard task to keep them under. -â€"+‘ THE BRIDAL WREATH‘. The bridal wreath is usually form- ed of myrtle branches in Germany : it is made of orange blossoms in France, as well as in our own coun- try ; in Italy and the French Canâ€" tons of Switzerland it is of white roses ; in Spain, the flowers of which it is composed are red roses and pinks ; in the islands of‘Greece. vine leaves serve the purpose, ‘and in Bohemia rosemary is employed ' I l _.in German Switzerland, a crown . of artificml flowers takes the place of the wreath. SO CIETY GAMBLING. Ladies in fashionable, society. . in London are losing thousands of pounds at the fascinating game of gamble before they arrive at what are called years of discretion, and married' women squander their husband’s money as well as their own. A “society” pa- per has mentioned the case of a lady who lest £80,000 in one night at bridge, and other losses brought up the total to more than £200,000 which. her husband paid. more curious case Was. ’tance in paralysis. But substitutes should be avoid-ed if you value your health ; sce that the full name “Dr, Williams' Pink Pills for Pale Peoi pie” is on every box. Sold by all dealers or- sent post paid at 50 cent: a'box or six boxes for $2.50, by ad« dressing The Dr. Williams' Medicinl 00., Brockville. Ont. +_.._._.. COALING AT NAGASAKI. The coaling of army transports a1 Nagasaki, Japan, is oneof the mest interesting sights of a voyage, the Work being done by about 4:00 Jap- anese men and women very quickly and by manual labor alone, no me chanical device of any kind being used. Coal barges are run up along each side of the transport. vixery opening is used to receive coal, While lines of women are formed on ladders and along the decks to pass coal in baskets from one to another. These redâ€"checked little, bright-eyed wo- men work with great speed. A Jap- anese contractor, as soon as a trans- port or steamer arrives, quickly measures the bunker space to fill. He then contracts for the coal, and‘ in loss than three hours- has about four. hundred Japanese men and women loading coal from a dozen boats into the vcsrsel. «4wâ€" SMOKING CARRIAGES. It is stated that the railway au-n thorities of Belgium have been se- riously considering the advisability of introducing smoking carriages for ladies only. This step has been urged upon them by the indignation aroused among some ladies recently by the aetion of a young woman who persisted in smoking in a "car- riage reserved for ladies only. 'When remonstrated witlrshe said that c as there was no law ~'prohibit-ing ivoâ€" men from smoking she was within her rights, and, as this was the fact the guard could not interfere. + FLIGHT OF BIRDS. Dr. F. H. Knowlton, of 'the United States National Museum, says that. perhaps the longest straightaway flight made by birds in their migrations is accomplished by some of the shore and water birds that .inest in the islands of Behring Sea and spent the winter at H'awaii andI‘anning Island, 2,200 miles away As some of these birds live entirely’on Vthcshore, and are probably unable to .rcs-t on the sur- face of water, they .must, says Dr. Knowlton,’ accomplish the whole dis- a single flight. Yet, al- though there are no landmarks for them upon their long journey over a waste of Water, they make theirway to their destination with .the' ' pro- cision of a rifleâ€"bullet. ' FUNERALS IN PARIS. All the funerals in Paris are con- ducted by a single syndicate,..which, 1‘ has a licensed; monopoly of the busiâ€" '9 ness. There is a regular" tariff of 1 rates, a .first ‘class funeral costing $2,000, and a cheap, or ninth-class, five ‘dollars. 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