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1.13.--. . ._.i L....z..._:~._:._=..:. ...:.- q.mi.;;;_m.;;:aa.-;â€".M- .» - f .4‘ was In l {fez-«taxman ~ ' I ' ' 1W 3.3: .3, Love. ‘WW4~H~4~H CHAPTER 11. September had almost passed when the earl mentioned home. He asked- his wife if she could tear herself from the dissipations of Paris. He won- dered that she looked so bright at going away. He did not know what she was thinking. Here, in'this brilliant, sunny Paris, he had not shown any love for her; he had, I in fact, hardly seen herâ€"he had treat- ed her as a perfect stranger. But it. might be different in his own home -â€"it might be different at Ravens- mere, where he would be alone with her; he might learn to care for her then. "You look pleased at the idea of going,” he said, briefly. "I am pleased,” she replied. "Are you not?” “No. ’ I like Ravensmere; but it is very dull. It is suitable for what people I call lovers of natureâ€"the sceneryaround it is among the finest in England; but I am always dull there.” .“We must hope it will be different now,” she said, timidly. He thought she‘meant because of the increase in his prosperity. She meant because she would be there, and would try to amuse him. “I do not know,” he said. “I fancy it will be pretty much the same.” She turned aWay, wounded by his coldness. , It was a chill even at the end of October when the Earl and Countess of Caraven reached Ravensmere. No preparations had been made to reâ€" ceive and welcome them. There was no gathering of tenantry. The earl’s tenants simply detesrted the sound of his name. They had been, so heavily burdened, so taxed andi tormented by the earl’s confidential agent, Mr. Blantyre, that they had no Welcome left for his master. They considered him an unjust landlord, and they did not scrunle to say so. There was no glad shouts of welâ€" come for him; even the curly-headed children had heard so often of the earl’s folly and neglect that they had no cheer for him when his carriageI drove through the' streets of Court Raven. It was but a sorry welcome home. The earl felt humiliated, disgraced. He remembered to have heard his father 'speak of the rejoi'cings when he had brought his young wife home â€"liow that fair bride. his mother. had listened with tears in her eyes to the cheers and cries of welcome-â€" how she had clasped her husband’s hand, saying: "We will deal with them as we wish Heaven to deal with us.” Now he had brought his wife home and not a cheer was rais- ed for him; there was not a cry of Welcome, not a smile. Strange voices greeted him, strange faces surrounded him, His wife lookedl sad and wistful. A brilliant fire was burning 'in all the rooms, while a. chill, gruy fog hung like a pall without, but the bright fires and the bright light could not give warmth to their reception. They dined together almost in silâ€" ence. Lord Caraven did not tell his. wife what a comfort he felt it to see the family plate once more in use. Hildred was slightly overwhelmed by the magnificence of everything around. How little she dreamed' that herrfortune preserved the grand old place from utter ruin â€"â€" that but for her the massive plate, the beauâ€" tiful pictures, even the old Walls themselves, would have passed from the Caravens, and the family name would have been written in the dust! Perhaps some such though occurrâ€" ed to him as he looked at, the sweet face before him; perhaps that thought made him feel a little more kindly toward Ilildred. After all she had saved him from ruin. He might think what he would of herâ€"she was a moneyâ€"lendâ€" er’s daughterâ€"she had been given to him with her money in exchange for at ‘ The Power. of Persuasion 0r Lady Caraven’s Labor of WV M“... +M+Ww~z~ww++++~zé scrupulous and ambitiousâ€"yet she had certainly saved him from the blackest ruin that could fall on morâ€" tal man. It made him feel a little more kindly toward her, but he did not love herâ€"nothing was further from his thoughts; still he remem- bered that but for her he would nevâ€" er have seen Ravensmere again. That gave him the idea that she, too, was entitled to some consider- ation. He had told her father frankly enough that he should never like her, and he knew that he never should. But the money she had brought him saved him from ruin. He ought to study her comfort and be grateful to her. After dinner was over, instead of lingering over his claret, he joined her into the draw- ing-room. . Perhaps the hour that followed was the happiest Hildred had known since her marriage. At the Hotel Meurice; although he had been care- ful to show her every kindness, he had not thought of her or studied her. At Ravensmere it was quite different. The servants, he knew, would watch him closely, and would make their own comments on his be- havior; and, if they saw that he slighted his wife, they would imi- tate his example quickly enough. That he would not allow. She was only a moneyâ€"lender’s daughter â€"â€" a woman he could never likeâ€" but she had saved him from ruin; she should at least be respected. She chose her rooms in the west- ern wingâ€"rooms that opened on to a broad beautiful terraceâ€"from the windows of which one saw pleasant glimpses of garden and distant landâ€" scape. The housekeeper. Mrs. Hamp- ton, showed her over the whole suite. Lady Caraven preferred these. “Your ladyship has decided then on this suite?” said the housekeeper. Lady Caraven did not even hear her; she was looking sadly round the rooms. How many years would this be her home? How many long weary hours of suspense and pain would she pass here? Would she soon tire of this gilded splendor? She .would be always aloneâ€"her rooms always silent and desolate; no loving face would brighten them, no glad voices 1 cheer them. Alone all her life! No wonder that she turned with a sigh from the flower- wreathed window. The housekeeper looked curiously at the young face with the sad sweet . eyes. "You have decided, my lady, upon these rooms?” she repeated. “ch," said the young countess: “I prefer them to any others. And I will remain here now While my boxes are unpacked. I will not go down again.” _ Mrs. Hampton thought her decision istrange, indeed; it was the young wife’s first evening in her husband’s home, yet she preferred remaining“ alone in her rooms while he Was alone down stairs. . “Shall I take that message to the earl?” she asked. Lady Caraven looked up in some‘ surprise. "Oh, no!”' she replied. Caraven will not expect me.” And the housekeeper, who was a shrewd woman in her way, thought that it seemed a, strange kind of marriage where husband and wife preferred solitude to each other’s so- ciety. (To Be Continued). E! To prove to you. that Dr. Chase's Ointment 18 a certain E and absolute cure for each and every form of itching, bleeding and protrudin piles, the manufacturers have guaranteed it. so tea- timonials in the daily press and ask yourneigh- bore what they think orit. Xou can use it and get your monev back if not cured. 600 a. box. at all dealers or Ennsnsoxflnzs 8:. Co.,Toronto. Dr."©hase’s Ointment Paris has the biggest municipal his title and positionâ€"her father was debt of any city. It amounts to cunning, shrewd, and mercenary, unâ€" $400,000,000. @ain and Anxiet “Lord i Confusing}! Ease CHAPTER XXVIII. The summer was beginning to pass into autumn when Dorcas ended her visit to Mrs. Hancourt, and went back again to her father’s house. She had given her promise by that time to become Frank’s wife in two more months. “You must let me go with you," he said to her, when she was pre- paring for her journey; but she shook her head. “Papa would not want you, you know,” she told him a little sadly. “Hedoes not love youâ€"and he will never love you, I am afraid." So she went home alone. When she reached Shepton, it Was Letty, and not her father, who came to meet her at the station. “Yesâ€"your papa is well â€"- he’s pretty well, my dear â€"- but he didn't seem to care to come out this afternoon, ’ ’ Letty said. “He doesn’t go out much now. You see, he misses youâ€"that’s how it is. I get him to take a turn with me -about the gar-den on most days; but what he likes best is to sit indoors with his books. You mustn't mind if he doesn’t say very much to you at first, my darling. He’s got to be very quiet these last weeks.” , Dorcas found her father' sitting at his desk when, hurrying across the hall, she opened the .study door. At the sound of her step ,he turned his head quickly, but he did not rise; he merely held out his hand. "Child, so you have come back?” he said. He looked at her gravely and al- most coldly as, after she had kissed him, she stood at his side. The sud- den tears had come to her eyes; the Isight of the lonely figure had given a sharp pang to her. When he said to her, after a few moments, “And you have been very |happy, have you not, my dear?” for a moment or two she could not speak. All that first evening he said very little to her. He sat with her and Letty, and seemed to listen while she talked to her mother, but he said hardly anything to her himself, and never uttered Frank’s name. In the twilight she asked him if he would not come out into the garden with her, but he shook his head. "Not to~night, my dear â€" not to- night,” he said. I “is he angry with me still?” Dorâ€" cas asked her mother, sadly, when she went to bed, and she cried a litâ€" tle before she fell asleep. As the days went on. Mr. Trelaw- lney came by degrees to seem to ex- ipect her to sit in the study With ’him againâ€"to look for her if she was long in comingâ€"to fall once more into the old habit of taking ihelp from her in his work. He was ikind and tender to her. too, but it iwas always in a grave way; they [never jested together; he never for a llong time asked ' I ’about Frank, nor made any direct reference to her marriage. Some- itimesâ€"with a certain gladness, and {yet not without a. momentary na- ‘tural pangâ€"she noticed that he would turn from her to her mother, and ask for little services from Letâ€" , had always done for him of old. He was very gentle 'to his wife, and would sit sometimes holding her hand in his. He had ansWered a letter that Dorcas had written to him from the Dowcr House after Frank‘s arrival 'there, asking for his consent. to her marriage ‘in the autumn, so that she ‘knew he was not ignorant of the :time when she was to go away; but :for‘ several weeks after her return home he never spoke to her about her leaving them. The period of her stay was almost half past before one night, as they sat alone, he said to her. abruptlyâ€"- “We shall have been together. my dear, for one-and-twenty years.” “Yes, for tWentyâ€"one years,” he repeated aftera minute; “That is a. long time, Dorcas â€"â€" and We have been Very happy with one another. No father and daughter in this lworld, I think, were ever happier. lYou must remember me a little still |when you are gone. Yes, yes,” â€"â€" gfor she tried to interrupt him 'â€" "I iknow you will, I know you .will, my idear. Only you are going to begin [your real life nowâ€"and I am ending lmine.” She took his hand. and hid her face upon it, and the tears came as lshe tried to say something about lthe pain of this time passing away; M ‘ty that she for Her. Health Broke Down, Was Pale and Exhausted â€" Restoration Game With the Use of Dr. Chase’s Nerve Food. The case described in this letter is similar to thousands in which Dr. Chase’s Nerve I‘oodt’is successfully used. .It isone more example of the mamelous upbuilding effect of this great food cure. Mrs. Geo. Campbell, Upper Harbor, St. John County, N.B., writes :â€" “Last summer my system was comâ€" pletely run down, and I Was pale, ‘sations in the joints'. "When from the very restored me to health and strength. Toâ€"day I feel as well as I ever did, and give the credit to this prescription of Dr. Chase." Mrs. John Miles, 236 Wellington before beginning to use Dr. Chase’s in this condition, I heard Nerve Food. 'I was also troubled a of Dr. Chase’s Nerve Food and be- gan to use it. It seemed to help me first, and gradually.this treatment my health has been improved. The head‘ aches are a thing of the in sit, the great I pains in my back are cured, and I feel strong and healthy. As an eviâ€" [great deal, with sheeting pains across the small of the back. Under wonderfully Ideuce of restored strength I may weak, and exhausted. I had taken street, Ottawa, Ont., whose husband say that I am now able to do all care of a sick friend for four months and loss of slcep, as well as the strain ard a. 'iety, was too much for me.‘ Yum would lie down or sit down the nerves in my legs ,wouvlt‘: twitch. and I felt strange senâ€" is employed with Davidson &' Thack- ray, lumber dealers, states :â€"“I was lvery Weak, had _ no strength or lenergy and suffered nearly all the {my housework without becoming ex- Dr. Chase's Nerve Food, 50 cents I hausted.” for $2.50, at all -a box, 6 boxes {time with headache, in fact I hadidealers or Edmanson, Bates u: 00.. Lheadache for three whole days justlToronto, her any questions but the broken sentence reached no ending. "You know I would not keep you if I could," he said, after a little while. “I may have seemed very selfish, but I Would not do that. You shall go to your new home with your father's whole heart's blessâ€" ing. Love your husband, my dear; make him happy; tell him I give you to him! -â€" my own treasure! â€"â€" to be a light in his house. as you have een in mine.” He took her in his arms after that, and broke into one deep sob as he clasped her to him. A few minutes afterwards, as they were sitting hand in hand, he _spoke to her a little about Frank, and for the first time asked her some questions about her future home. The girl’s heart was full, and for a While she could hardly answer him; but she was young, that coming life 0f hers seemed to her in prospect very bright, and she talked of it to her father presently, with a happy smile upon her lips. It was on a morning in October that Dorcas was married, very quietly, without either bridesmaids Or marriage breakfast”, That was her OWn wish, and the Harcourt’s did not oppose it. Mrs. Harcourt came to the wedding, and drove back when . it was over to Wood- back when it was over to Wood- lands; at the church door they all parted. In almost complete silence Mr. Trelawney and Letty walked home across the fields; with something al- most like a groan he re-entered the house, and, not speaking to Letty, passed on into his study; but he left the door behind him open, and when he went into the room she followed himâ€"timidly at first, till he turned round and held his hand out to her. They sat dowu side by side. Preâ€" ently he laid his head upon her breast, and, for the first time dur- ing all the years that they had been man and wife, he called to her for help. “We must bear this together â€"â€"and‘ I am very Weak. You are the strongest; Letty, you must hold me up.” he said. THE END. + ALMOST IN DESPAIR. , I‘I-IE CONDITION 0]? MRS. JOHN SHOTT, OF ORANGEVILLE. Suffered From at Burning Sensa- tion in the Stomach.â€"â€"Food Became Distasteful and She Grew Worse and “ Despondent. From the Sun, Orangeville, Ont. The 'Sun is enabled this week through the courtesy of Mrs. John Shott, a lady well known and much esteemed by many of the residents of Orangeville, to give the particulars of another of those cures that have made Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills a household remedy throughout the civilized world. Mrs. Shott, in con- versation with our lepoz'ter, said :â€" "About three years ago, while liv- ing in Ingersoll, I was a great ‘sufâ€" ferer from dyspepsia. The trouble first began with severe headaches, dizziness and sometimes vomiting. Next I sufl'ered continually from a burning sensation 111 my stomach ; food distressed me, I did not sleep well at night, lost fies-h and became very Weak. I was continually docâ€" toring but it did me no good. In fact 1 was gradually growing worse and dcspaired of ever being well again. One day a frieno who called to see me strongly advised me to try Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills. She spoke so highly of them that I de- cided to take her advice, and I soon discovered that they were not like the other medicines I had been tak- ing, and that I had at last found something to help me. I continued using the pills for perhaps a couple of months, when I found myself fully restored to health. I have always since enjoyed my meals with relish and have had no return of the trou- ble. With my experience I feel cer- tain that if other sufferers will give Dr. Williams? Pink Pills a fair trial they will find a certain cure.” nourish the blood and strengthen the nerves. It is thus that they cure such troubles as dyspepsia, kidney ailments, rheumatism, partial pur- alysis, heart troubles, Vitus' ldance and the ailments that make the lives of so many women a source of misery. These pills never 'fail to drive away pain, bring a glow of health to the whole body and make despondent men and W0- men bright, active and strong. Do quently chosen as pets are very like« Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills enrich and name “Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People” on the wrapper around the box. 'Sold by all medicine deal- ers or sent post paid at 50 cents a box or six boxes for $2.50 by ad- dreSSing the Co., Brockville, Ont. â€".â€"_.+.._____. In Russia every creed is tolerated. Those who are by birth Catholics, Jews, Methodists or Mohammedans are at liberty to worship in their i own way ; but if an orthodox Bus». sian changes his religion he is liable‘ to imprisonment and exile to Siâ€" beria. Anybody who converts an orthodox Russian to another sect is ldeprived of his social and personal rights and sent to the mines for life. A peasant woman, Ckinikofl‘, Was recently sentenced to perpetual banishment to Siberia for having converted a Russian peasant to “Stundism,” a, protestant sectarian belief. not take any pills without the full' Dr. Williams’ Medicine, POOR FARMING IN RUSSIA. Complete Exhaustion of the Soil Is Threatened. Russia is essentially an agricul- tural country. Ninety per cent of the inhabitants till the soil for a livâ€" ing, but farming among the peas~ ants is not very profitable and seems to be growing worse instead of bet- ter. Three years ago the attention of the Czar Was called to the very back- ward condition of agriculture. He appointed a commission to investi- gate the question. A part of it:l work W115! delegated to the well- known agricultural expert, Prof. Lenz, who has just presented to the commission a report of a pessimistic character. Prof. Lenz says the irrational sys tem of farming practised by the ma: jority of small Russian farmers may easily lead to complete exhaustion of the soil. This exhaustion, he says cannot be made up to the soil even by the use of the best of fertilizer: forva long series of years. Vast as Russia’s agricultural in terests are, the peasantry are among the poorest farmers in the world One reason is because, except ii Poland and some other districts, thl land they till is not owned by them They live in villages, and the lam belongs to these communities, 0' mirs, each taxâ€"paying individual hav ing the use of a part of the lam held in common, and being respon sible for the taxes on the patch 0 GROUND HE CULTIVATES. The result is that the moujik, o: peasant, knowing that at the end 0 a short period his allotment of th: land will be subject to a redistribu tion, does not care to improve th» soil by careful cultivation. He her no ambition to expend upon it tim: and money with an eye to the future Shouldhe do this he would expect ti lose all he expended upon improve ments. Hence he barely skims ove the surface with his rude plow, no only to save labor, but also that th manure he plows in may benefit on]: his crop and not the future harves which some other may reap. He ha no attachment to the soil, no inter est exccfit the present. The sys tem is thoroughly bad. The result is that English farmer raise from three to four times a much grain to the acre as Russia: farmers. If land were tilled in Rue sia as it is: in England, that countr; would toâ€"day be the greatest whea raiser in the world. As it is, wit] only eight or nine bushels of whea to the acre, the Russian crop varie from 375,000,000 bushels to 450, 000,000 bushels a year. It will probably take a long tim to make very noticeable improvean in Russian agriculture, but some 0 the ablest men in the country ar now studying this problem. Agricu] tural schools and experiment sta tions are beginning to be maintain ed in widely separated parts of th farming area, so that better idea as to practical agriculture may b diffused among the whole people. Th tariff on most kinds of agriculture machinery has been removed to en courage the introduction of imprm ed farming implements. Thus, a‘ educational work is going on whic'. will some day, doubtless, have profound influence for the bettermen of agricultural conditions in Russia â€"â€"~â€"-+ SPIES IN THE ARMY. A System Blamed for Much In justiceâ€"Some Hard Cases. Now that the war is over, says th London Express, the‘ hard cases 0 several officers and men who hav sufl‘ered under the drastic rule 0 martial law are coming forward fo Parliamentary and legal hearing. The chief case is that of Major Cu milleri, of the Indian Staff Corps who was removed from his appoint incnt on the Headquarters Staff i: South Africa on the evidence of a is male spy in the employ of the In telligence Department. Major Camilleri’s alleged oli‘enc was that of giving away the date o the departure of a'convoy from Kru gersdorp for Rustenburg while i; conversation with a woman whom 11. did not know was-spying upon him Major Camilleri denies the charge and points out that the preparation and departures of convoys were a] :ways self-evident, and that the con ‘struction put upon his conversa *tion was wrong to the last degree and cannot possibly stand the tes ‘of full legal inquiry. The case isenow in the hands 0 ,a well-known barrister: and a pee iof the realm, who is also a general lhas carefully gone over the details ‘The latter -declares his belief the; Major Camilleri is innocent. The matter now rests with Lon Kitchener, ’ who confirmed the re moval of the officer, and if. nothinj should result the system of espionag. 'upon officers will be laid before I’ar lianient in such detail as will con siderably surprise the public, am 1 convictions secured in South Africa The cases of several men. including Sergeantâ€"Major Edmonstone, of th Imperial Yeomanry, are in the hand. of lawyers, so that. a plentiful (:i'()‘ of appeals is in store for the authori ties. .__..___+-,.._._ Proprietorâ€""'l‘hat dummy has in. lCI‘I down again. Why don't you pic? it up ?" Shopâ€"assistantâ€""I though it would pick itself up.” Proprietor “Where did you get that idea "' Shop-Assistan-tâ€"‘ "1 hey my t'u figures won’t lie.” shake belief in at least some of tlr