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-. «waww.____mwâ€"- .mi- illp Winchester’s letter, an ,said wearily; “but I faloud, for you Wlll b ‘ in its contents.” l OR, PLANNING FOR THE FUTURE. W W CHAPTER 11_ nor, and possessing a sweetness of -- temper that made her irresistible With a sharply intrawn breath: to almost every one. She told me Gerald turned to the tablE‘, took that she should still k>ep the old d' home, which greatly astonished and beganto unfold it. displeased me, for I felt that the “I had almost forgotten it," he rental of it‘would materially add to vill read 1tl her income; while I also felt that it c interestedl was no right for a girl of her years tL live alone. Later, I understood be somefihe strange freak and her obstin- Ehould notl acy, asTI then regarded her decis~ , ,n 1‘ , . , o. tiv 01,-‘ion. . 10 summer L391), £3,313?“ "vital death of her father, which had cc- secret in connection with your 1110- curred early 1r} Pewmlmr, I l‘eall’lr ther’s marriage to Mr. Brewster, illl (id. .that “‘9' iglrbs ("In health was may be as well for it to remainilailing, and again urged her to such to every one but yourself.” lbreak lip housekeeping and come to “How thoughtful you a1way$lme blue st1ll rctuscl, and seemed “Perhaps there. may things in it which I 1 are!” Gerald replied, and bendingislwnsely nervous and troubled I ally as I would if you were my 1310‘; _: ther.” ‘ surance, and I trust that you ' i always allow me to act as such in. ‘ tual,” responded , With eirident emotion. . a weight in gold, and vci'y'soon we l l ‘ "You have always been so good tol C i a comfortable rocker for her, and .an appreciative look upon hcr.)When I Pressed the ven appeared to be restless and luncon‘ifortablc during the little vis- [it I was making her, and I accord- . returning to my own lonely home earlier than at aS_lI had intended. I neither heard “7111' from nor saw her again until early lill winter, when, one cold, stormy me I'find myself turning to you iii ever cmcr enc ' almost as naturâ€" _ _ y g i) lingly shortened it, “Thank you, Gerald, for th lday, the child suddenly appeared I am sure that. . . ‘ me, looking very ill and so far as I may. ‘ before I our fondness for each other is inuâ€" his companion, ‘VTCtChC‘d. she was in no ordinary trouble ; but “Then I shall have no secretfl}~ twk t? "hallway and ,lliin‘de - ' - . a 'x. ‘ 7' . , p ‘ fromuyou,” he smilingly returne(l,, I‘elrlc‘fm d :10“ (:11? ‘ Ingf ‘0 “ lit “so I Will follow my first impulse: “We 1" 19450“ 0 '1‘?“ 'Stl‘mzrt' and mad Aunt, Honoris letter toibehaviour, and her perSistcncc in you. Sit here.“ he added, plamnglhlimg alone 1;) the llqokllllelthéltlllud a ways ieen icrs. k. e in men seated, hen wife since the mouth of April lpreviousl 1‘. young inanmAdz-iui a j I 7 | . I l ( t ' 1" heirloom and placed it before herCi fgfiljtcm‘hig “ r ‘ u u this score ' ““ ' ' l ' repfsijlgoi;ffoffetm pinch I 31,311! some time previous to the death of henceforth regard it_and take Your her father. He had taken lessons 0‘“. HOW tfiis pom- relic has 'fr.ct_’l on the violin from Professor Harris, ted-inc every time I have packedlas '3 blmd, and 101' the SOlU P111" pose of enabling him to woo and 7 ‘\‘ ( ' V Butt-1313;: lfilé'mlfigr win the heart of his lovely daugh- tcr. Mr. Harris did not approve of his attentions, and had openly discou'agcd them; but, immedi- ately following his 31‘cwster persuaded her to marry him secretly~â€"ut least, their rela- tions were to remain a secret only until his college course was end- ed, which would be the following l summer, when he would ii‘nmediatee ly establish himself in business, and then take her to a. home such as he wished her to o:cupy~-»â€"-«"’ then, when she was _ brought the dismantled Winchester my trunk 9. be purchased 1 will have it made over into a fitâ€" ting ornament for your room.” Then, drawing another chair op- osite her, he began to read from -'Iiss Winchester’s letter. . “My dear boy,” was the tender ; form of address, “I-do not know when, if ever, this will meet your eyes, for I am greatly exercised in my mind as to the wisdom of un- : raveling for you the mystery which from your birth has cn'shroudcd “,0 , ‘ H m V your mg You are far too young 11. ‘ how .st ange. suddenly to be told amything about it at p1.c_ broke forth lady Broinlcy, in a sent, and yet I am impelled to veico of such intense pain that Carer- write out the historyof your mother ald turned to her 111 astonishment. 1 and your origin, together with cer- .“I-â€"I.mean how strange it is that min data, and events, which may girls Wlll allow themselves to be ,possibly become vol-y valuable to drawn into such .snarcs,” she you some thug. in the, future, andlhastened to explain, Willie she ‘ would otherwise be utterly lostâ€"~ fitl'pggled to regain her self-control. she could nobfail to believe llei'fif‘ll'gtoba‘cco has Immune within recent- n'ggdtlfiifngiwfoSrfiggei}: , in? 'vei‘y Popular in France, find- say- ,no,_,m be firm to resist temp- l " " ‘I ‘ ~ *- ' ling favor With smokers who suitor tatlon, and tell their 10"91‘3 [9113111011 the part of others, was what M, [-1083 m ream, swallowed in oblivion by some un- foreseen happening to myself. If we should both live until you atâ€" tain your majority, I should then _ feel it my duty to tell you every- when theyhre ready to give them thing, and allow you to make such their rightful place in the worldns use of your knowledge 1],}; you filight liOllOl‘Gd \VlVfiS, thenthcy Will. glV’C deem best. If, on the other hand, their llalldun marriage? Oh! it i I should be taken from you b-cforei secret “Ian‘mge 15 it SClfiSll M101 COW- ? that time, the story would be ready fll'dly “PM? for any man “L70 “1‘89 11P- ‘for you, and I should doubtless on an innocent maiden, and many have warning sufficient to tell you a on-e‘lias had her happiness ruined where to find it, together with the £0? me by weakly fileldmg ’50 her record of your birth. I am not your l0"'01"b' l"01'SllaSIODS-' .own aunt. Geraldâ€"you are not my “Yes, I believe :brothcr William's child, as I have said Gerald thoughtfully. allowed you to believe. That was He understood now ‘that her lady- only a harmless fiction, to silence ship must have been startled by curious questions and gossiping learning that the circumstances tongues. He was the captain of a attending the union of his father sailing-vessel, and died of fever on were so like the experience-of her a homeward passage from South awn marriage to Sir Charles Brom- IAiiierica. Your father also went 10y; but- he could not quite compre- laaCl'OSS the 803, but 110 0110 has ever bend. in view of its happy outcome. iknown why he “6"81‘ Came baCk why she should be so exceedingly again to his wife. Your mother was bitter against the manner of it. Miriam Harris, the only child of “Excuse me for interrupting my sister, whO, against the Wishes you." she continued, smiling; “I of her family, married Arthur Har- spoke almost before I realized what iris, a poor but talented musician. I was saying.” ‘Their home was in New Haven, and Gerald turned to his letter and .when Miriam was seventeen years resumed; 'old her mother died very suddenly, “So Miriam trusted him fully: but of hemorrhage of the lungs. Her upon the very day of her husband's death broke her husband’s heart, graduation, he received a letter and he never seemed to have any from his father. who was a weal- courage to battle with the world thy banker of New York, summon- afterward, and late the following mg him immediatelv homeâ€"telling winter he also passed away, after him that his mother, who at that a, brief struggle with that terrible time was in Parisâ€"â€"was on the point enemy, pneumonia. This left l‘iliri- of joining a party to Norway, Swe- nm entirely alone, and I ol'l‘crcdldcn, and the North Cape, provided her a home with incâ€"I was at thatl she. could have a proper escort. The time living in a neighboring townloldcr Brewster was unable to go â€"â€"but for some reason, unknown to himself, but insist-ed that Adam was line then, she preferred to remain to. start at once in his place. The lie the city, and continue her musicâ€" , trip, he stated, would occupy about teaching, whith, however, barely} three months, and would be a plea- gave her a living. She was one of’ san‘t change for the young man, the loveliest girls I ever saw, pc-, who for so long had. been closely 'culiarly refined in person and man‘ 1 confined to his studies. u I following ti o . matter; she ‘ I realized at once that' death, young I that is true,”l He also husband might- said that lic'had already cablcdldied. She passed away suddenly his mother that he- would sail on the next steamer, so there was no time to lose. The young husband rebelled outright- against this arbi- trary command, but more against the prOSpcctivc separation from his wife; but she, ever generous and considerate of others, advised hizn to do as his father wished, sayT'ug that she would do well enough to.- the little while that he would be ab- sentâ€"three months would soon slip uwav, and she would be there in the bid home, to welcome him back upon his return. Adam BrCWster realized but too well that it would be a very iiiopportune moment to confess. his marriage and plead that he (lid not want to leave his wife; father, and he felt that if he should i be thrown upon his own resources, illC‘ would have a tough struggle for ‘cxistence. His plan, so he said, had been to get him to establish him in some paying enterprise, when, once settled upon a firm foundation, he would tell the truth, and introduce his bride. If he hoped to yet carry out this proiect, he knew he, must obey his father, and so he consented to the tour abroad. _ “He left a. handsome sum with {Miriam for her immediate needs, |promising to send her more, as he 'rcceived his own remittances, and forward his address as soon as he knew just what his ineveineuts were to be. He said it would be best to still preserve the secret of their re- llations to each other; ‘but ere tho lsnows of winter fell she would be I . openly acknowledged before the World.’ Miriam trusted him impli- citly. She promised to do exactly as he wish-ed, and that promise proved fatal to her. It signed her own deathâ€"warrant and robbed you of your birthright; for, from the ,lvour of their parting until her dyâ€" ling day, she never heard one word from the man who had pledged him- self before God and man to love .and cherish her so long as they both should live.” “Oh! how cruel! how cruel!” imurmured Lady Brom-ley sorrow- fully, while [teeth savagely, his face like a mask of chalk, a lurid light in his eyes. “The poor girl hoped and waited 'until longer ~waiting would have ,compellcd her either to betray 'hcr .secrot and produce the proofs of lit, or- become the target for a scanâ€" ldal-loving public," the young man read on. “She had not coul'i-olcu to her husband the fact that be- lforc the. anniversary of their mar-- lriagc should come round she hoped ,to become. a mother. She feared ithat the knowledge might troubl‘o l him during his abscnccâ€"â€"threc [months would soon pass away, and lher iicws would safely keep until 3 then. “This was the sad story she told line when she came to me, that to give her food and shelter until esbc could die. and hide in the grave what she had begun to believe was ' her shame. She would not hear one . word against the author of her mis- ! u . ,1. ._ . 'erywâ€"shc still loved nun Wll-ll ulolu» trons affection, and even though undue inlluci'iccwsome treachery bad caus +d his unfaithfulncss. She ,cmnmis-sioncd me to have her house - isold, and as I was fortunate enough to find a ready purchaser, her disâ€" appearance from the place where she had always lived was thus ac- counted for, and aroused no adâ€" verse comment. "Her baby 'as born a month or six weeks later, and then I begged ,Miriam to let inc.- seek her husband, 'or, in case anything had happened to him, seek his father, produce the proofs of her marriage, and de- nmand that justice and proper rcâ€" lcognition be aet-ordcd her and her child. But no; she. was as firm as a rockâ€"she had promised Adam that. their union should r imain a secret until he came to claim her Gerald gritted liisl dreary winter day, and asked me[ while I was absent from her room only a few minutes, and I found her marriageâ€"ccrtificate and her wedding-ring clasped tightly in her left hand, which was concealed be- neath her pillow. I put them both into the envelope containing your baptismal-certificate, Geraldâ€"I had had that rite performed for you unknown to her, and took the, re- spon-sibilty of adding your father's name to the one she had chosen for youâ€"and put them carefully away, feeling that, since she had not destroy-ed your birthrigl‘it, a Higher Power had wisely ordered their preservation." ' (To be continued.) "'"‘""‘>X* he was entirely dependent upon his lWIII'l‘E ANTS REA CH ENGLAND p...‘ Taken Into the Country in Bunches of Bananas. The most destructive ard voraci- ous insect on earth has obtained a foothold in England. This 'is the white ant, against whose ravages scarcely anything but metal and stone is proof. His original home is in South Africa, where he devours a village (of huts) at a meal, and (la-populates a dis- trict in a day, the inhabitants fly- ing before him as from the plague. Just how he reached England is somewhat of a mystery, but the most generally received theory is that the banana is responsible. .Eggs, brought over in the bunches [of fruit, have been hatched out in [the underground cellars in Lon- ldon and elsewhere, where much of it is artificially ripened, and the insects, it is avcrred, have since been disseminated all over the country. Their most rec-ent exploit was the invasion of Grindon Hall, near lSnnderlan-d, the residence of Sir lThcodore Doxford. The ant armies 'swariucd allover the mansion, rcn~ dcring it well-nigh untenable for ihuman beings. An expert, who was called in, found half a mil- lion of them in the greenhouse 'alone, with countless myriads in lcthcr parts of the premises. The problem now is how to exâ€" ;tcrminatc them, for though this is lsupposcd to have been successfully ‘accomplishcd in regard to a similar plague of the same insects at Load- I)urham, by means of a Especial toxic solution, similar me- ‘thodslravc not been invariably sucâ€" cessful elsewhere. Although nothing official has ap- peared as yet regarding the invas- ion, it is known that the Board of Agriculture takes .a somewhat iserious view of the matter. deal, it is fairly selfâ€"evident that . lany great increase in the number lof colonies will have to be met by ‘the enforcement of an insect alien actof asimilar nature to that which ,was used so effectively some years iago against the Colorado potato :bcetle and the Hessian ily.~~«I’ear- son’s Weekly. l gate, l _ __.......b ........_......_.<- l | N ICGTIN 591146518 TlPBACCO. Very i’cpular in Income for Snick- crs with Weak Nerves. 1What is known as “nicotinclcss” 1. . . itrom weak nc-rvcs or heart trouble. contain some {nicotinc, but most‘of the alkaloid x [has been removed by washing the leaf in water. Druggists were first to take up the idea of preparing such a tobacco, for sale to special lcustomcrs; but its popularity boâ€" lcumc so great that the French Gov- .ernmcnt, ,‘which monopolizes the to- [bacco traie in France, adopted the idea and started in to manufacture it on a large scale. The process described has the disadvantage that, incidentally to the washing, not only the nicotine, but certainly other constituents of. the tobacco are lost. It would be much better, of course, if “nicotine- less" varieties o fthc plant could be grown; and of this there seems to and give her her proper place. inlbc a sure prospect, in view of the the. world, and she would never break her word. A week later, during one of her violent outbursts; of grief, she ruptured a bloodâ€"vei- scl, and I knevr that from that hour h-cr doom was sealedâ€"~that she had gone before her. She, also, appeared to realize this, for as so “I l “th, t“, 7_ as the bleeding was stopped she iu-l - ' (“ sistcd that I should pledge my self to bring up her boy in utter igii"‘i'~ ‘ance of his parentage, at least up- on his father's side. I was to do the best I could for him, and ti‘urtl 'the rest to Godâ€"~if. she added wcarâ€" ' ily, there is any God. I have of‘en wondered why she did not dcst :3: the proofs of her marriage, and thus preclude the possibility of any future knowledge of it. I have sometimes thought she meant to do so, for s'rc kept them cousin-JPN.r by her, but clung to them as ling; as possible, vainly hoping lint: ll?!“ before- she, ('mne lal'o‘e'lv used for wr' ' I . . - . I a in;r would go the same way her meitllcrlcofmmm Yen; “tug pp 0 success of the experiments in which Lzovernmcnt solcntists have been engaged. It might be possible in- deed, to carry the matter too far. I w ' ' l‘ho binnatra leaf, which is sh cigars, nicotine, and has almost no flavor, save. a slight Its value, indeed, is argely (luc to its tastelessnessâ€"â€" this being very dcsu'ablc in a wrapper. V “i;3 _â€"_._. _... _ An entire battalion of the German Army" is being trained in the use of airships. There are 762 varieties of Arctic flowers. which have but two colors, white and yellow. After eating (11120318 :1 girl should iimm-diately sit down and pe-usc some work if licti-rn that is (calcu- lal-r'd to take her breath away. In- I ' _â€"_‘ WWWFWOM 011 the Farm DIDN’T» TVANT EDUCATION. I In' the great effort that the forces of agricultu‘al education are; put- ting forth in many ways to get farmers to see how and why they should become better farmers the principal reason advanced for the change is larger revenue. But the man who resists this teaching or will have none of it is so blind that he cannot even see the increased profit. One of the men who took a. cow census gave the following in- cident which illustrates how stupid- ly blind some men are :â€" .He found a farmer with a. herd of siktcen cows, the milk of which he was taking to a creamery. Actually lhe did not get money enough from {his cows to pay for their keeping, 'nnd be lost about $8 a head. With- in a quarter of a mile of this man was another farmer, a patron of the same creamei‘y, whose herd of nineâ€" teen cows paid a profit above the cost of keeping of $17 each. The differ-once between those two men was one man’s loss adicd to the other’s profit, or a difference of $25 a cow for the poor herd. I did all I could to arouse the dull man to a sense of the situation he was in and showed him the figures relating to the more succcsful farm-er. This see-med to anger him and he said it. was “all false,” and he knew it. So slow and sunken was this man’s mind that he had never had a dairy or agricultural paper in his house. That showed clearly the amount of' brains ho was bringing to bear on his work. He boasted to the census- takcr that he had got all he had without any of this “bloom-ed fool education.” There are plenty of just such men today keeping cows and wondering why they cannot get along better thanthcy do.â€"â€"â€"Hoar-d’s 'Dairyman. I .â€"â€"â€"â€"â€",â€" LIVE STOCK NOTES. Sheep dread hard, cold rains. Not half the farmers of this country give them any shelter from such l storms. . If a poultry/man has a good strain of a good breed, has a comfortable :house for them, and give the proper Icarc, success will surely result. lFailurcs are due to the lack of some or all of the above. ' If one seeks a bull for the special purpose of butter making from the 'hveifers raised from him, only such as havc‘bcen bred for several gon- ei'ations from the best butter cows and bulls selected from such cows will be likely to meet the wants of the breeder. So also if ~ beef or milk for the mark-ct is the special. object sought. Why not work the bulls? It is no wonder that bulls so often be- comc vicious. They have nothing to do but to study dcviltry. For some inexplicable reason, they are consideer too good for any sort of labor. In this age of rapidly doing things, we do not expect to see an increase of the use of oxcn on the farm. But we have the bulls, and if working them will make them more harmless, Why not put them under the yoke? ' The quantity of food required to keep an animal in a healthy state of progression bears a. certain ratio to the live weight of the animal; two pounds to two and a half pounds of dry food for each 100 pounds of live weight. Exposure, irritation, and the introduction of large quan- tities of cold water into the system entail a waste of food. Care shoulj be exercised in the selection of foods, which should contain, as near as possible, the proper quantities of flesh-formers and heat-producers; a large excess of either entails a cor- responding loss. It is not sound practice to pass a large quantity of expensive foods through an animal for the purpose of enriching the soil. ' ___oX¢ .IIUS'ILALIA’S CLIMATE. Australia’s huge northern terri- tory has a tropical, almost an equatorial climate, and the heat is very cncrvating to Europeans. Its capital, Palmerston, contains more Chinese than Caucasiai‘is. The former are the ruling race and the employers; the whit-es are the serum: and the (Employed. Largo herds of buffaloes roam about the silent plains of this enormous terri- tory, which would be a Sportsman's paradise but for the wild natives. who are cxcoptimmlly fierce and l‘.i'eacberous and have killed a numâ€" ber of the hunters who came to hunt the buffaloes. {ogO-g, w: gml .m K I. Z . '3 l i I I I I , ', ' I I t f l ' - 4 ‘ -.‘ C | . ’ . “V . I