=~ ais by her madly _sreat eld = aa secocser tenia He Fue eee friends fey ‘Slee PROGRESS OF JAPAN. The een = the Last Thirty Years ;W Smet Val- OMAN azainst ing left uation, Fate 2 ark, revengeful face clouded ont jest Wide-Reaching, w= had returned to the o ite she the vision of the earls aq she ha had last a ua costae eae fan- : Woma maiden aunt, living ia the only remembered how | tastic-arts. The Japanese have the nature and without a word | Valerie hated her, and she dreaded her. | Father of butterflies than of By Mary 3. Holmes rou ‘The rest was neNeds , _ ae bf ordinary will not his love bore down all her scraples, she | not let them know—I am best lost! 1] 8nd ore re life seriously."” ; — esol ‘a dependent, unhappy, young. work, beg—stan Birdy I will not} Tha jitome of Sir Edwin i he 4g Falke scon antes was: she became | eo/back’ Arnold eee nr of the Japanese. coftrey Armistead and the detectives | “I don't understand you,” she said wie wite Judge me harshly if you will, *uisra looked at her curious To ce resigns Mad ante sere encan with the man and succeeded | haughtily. Ted famille NG each lita news I ref: You Bave « husband,” she said ab- my as ly Beat ann a fn foreing him on to his knees; then | words! . ywledge her as my | Tuptis: Jo you not love him? sees nore Fee ca hopes after scme little difficulty they put the} roe no, I don't,” answered Geo! ughter, or assist Fuike to provide for| A blush covered Alice’s pale face, but | material as that of the Japanese. handcuffs over his wrists and let him| ‘Tam a pretty good judge of things, | the low-hora wife he had chosen, as I id it. ‘The ‘+ of women and the rela- % Madasie Valerie, fee your own lips en called her. Since then I have dis- tions of the sexes are usually Roy gaze a him eagerly; his heart | have condemned What did you | covered that she was the daughter of considerable ata judg- fel, It was not Ju isper just now? ‘Failed? Wh an officer, a brave, gallant man, in ev ment of the civilization of a nai pacdies bs cach he td ese {em ve Sere plan, of course, Come, mereng se’ equal, but blinded as Judging by that test, how do the Japan. fe have ‘a ill confess?” as with rage and pride, I doubt if, id? How do the male “birds the detective elvitly; “this is all at pre- ‘Never!” said Valerie passionately. | even had I known it tien, it would hare Dutterflies’" conduct themselves sent? 4a is all alse! T know nocaing?” the females of thelr species? I willendss: “Only let me go and I'D tell all,” x Lord Darrell coming. I wilt ny 3 the limits of this letter Nba 7, =, roel Sacto, OK head genckcd ten hay alltel him that the woman he “Have you money?” asked Alice sto- 20 answer that question. Hlemen, good, kind gentlemen, have | 18 barboring in bis home is the sister ing with difficulty the Japaness, though a certain Dropor jerey—let me go. Ta e “Yes,” Myra answered pene a cee l-Btting European broader “tao no!” Valerie dcew him back, “1 “enough to last till we get vee PA. | et a ae a reat She held out her hands, and Roy, Bey ere. Soe on aca t ae limes ees eae inal ‘make them, are still Orientals. The me; ae te Ti we = 1 Wancing at them, conght chem ia his. | MT give you tll to-night willingly.” shail not 5 3 rates of tis; let Memes “ And Mr. Armistead tora emt cor eee ay Bees ick. back intake datnetin’s Ten cena ae hae diamonds are here, for she wears out ly. Door el fo the n effected. Bi is ie Sgant Pens sie in; . He Bas leet pe M vase a ae portico, while Myra rang the bell | almost wholly a material revolution. The Diohe old’ woredl toled hed ing her | loudly. oral attributes of the ney aod to snatch back | that her re eS, AN had failed, yet | child with her. For year after year Moretown was an early place, and lly as they were. ree eer iedtinh pan Gentil een meres age enrches een avail, when ‘a | the inn was closed for the night. More ularly has the attitude of frey tain aticoced te old oe ee SURAT the corridor | few weeks ago Fate flung me cone Oe aa = : .” she said boldly, = ens ae ee shape man, drew his pistol an a her own room, and as she wet merica, man as the sleepy landi appeared—a | kind remained unaffected. is here head. “Where is ae bes a Meas courage returned, and she could have Sa who had aaa this neighbor- for my mistresy and myself. We've | Sltogether superior sex. The aor who “saa itrousise: here’ two Pon ago? herself for her weakness Wii gaye | lost the last train to London. My mis-| Walks down the street in ad- Answer viiiokig_the traying hereelf me ae to a grumble “4 the e country. stat tress was tel for, her brother | Yance of his wife, who tots contentedly AR Fey Satie oes i ing why he had is very ill te start by the first train | 9 his heels. ho bis oneriage “T will speak—I Will speak.” She went y Darrell met this friend with out: | lend. The name of Margaret D ne tne She te literally of no 1 vin afar away with George; and, oh, sir, I swear ed the eel yor es @ man rubbed his chin and looked | S80 4 ley of oe oP ehildsea. And tried to help end give her a ao.| “My mother is q upset and ill | once my search led. Then with | doubtful for a soe ahia bap tacattponery sf ign—on my. hot I did!” with all this business. She has sent me | threats and cajoling I got the truth out ‘My missu: abed,” he said after | Jy introdi intel same house. This Hoy and ¥reok exchanged lances, | to fetch Sir Hum ‘She wishes to | of the man and his wife. My son's wife ile’ "Has you gotten money?” ampbaats, if only, to warn aWheie: have than Rone ponieaeed him.” kad died under their roof, Brokenvheart-| “Money: yes,” M, inked her | lish girls against the incredible folly of Game “I have been thinking that our best | 4. sick unto death, che purse. “Make haste and don't ask any a Japanese, as “Yes, speak,” broke in Sir Humphrey | Plan will be to ride in ba herself from Italy to place Fulke’s ohild | more questions, or my mistress will just doing. Soh 8 union, is, in 90 cases out faoa) ‘race this Italian | im my arms. Her aunt She | go off to the other inn.” of 100 fored to fo tgs pete cn 2 Tar” scodudrel;) the others End’ was nitty alone. Feeling that her own | “Lawks no. Come I dare say | The Japaneso, who may ‘ve all svailes, she travelled te | it’s all right; but it’s main qneer to see | shirt front and ce in a London yy turned ai Where are Be cng?" pears asked sei trace them down,” elevesey pot tas kc ea: “Do nothing, have questioned Nestley gaol,” y- CHAPTER X C: atc medusa bau ae wt had happened. She made some hurried excuse to Darrell, and slipped from the Valerie ‘shrilly, ignity in ? Gi er fear. matter?” to sgrvimss we YValerie’s heart stood still. ferocious?” she asked “Do “Are they very in a forced, they look very terrible?” Geoffrey motioned Frank at his hand on Valerie's, she ogden eyes. br brother, Pani!” we them further. Now to commanded Geoffrey chatting in her mien id Never Hked = vii ered forgetting even her “Is anything the “Nothing that I have heard of, miss,” vis, Vi answered Roy on the ‘VI. t Davis—Alice’s she shall have to away: the Jey with the police I will cart with you.” “Good,” returned Geoffrey; “tt will be a strange thing if we don’t catch him T think.” Frank Meredith here foined them, the stairs “Look after your friend, Armistesd,” waid the earl, waving id the dining- where a dejuener was spread. “If me, e friends, an search of Alice’s grandfather. Alice's er! ners came back to him with all its strange The weagite ‘of excitement and an- ere went through him for her sake, pets Do de the library as the nyou be ve 10 Sed pees your lope as to show me, have he asked ord Mae y. a, for, ix co Euswlotetonent he possessed no mento of Alice, ae mae smipage past nei unjustness, ‘and contemp’ “T have maar Sir EEA Ose “Please God he replied quiedy, but read his face. will you need none,” the observed. “Surely she must be found to-nis Darrell.” "Roy area and led the way to his rey: Darrell rose, with o1 psi Hanie Falke alone save for his ser oman, se hearing I was at the Abbey, was to be taken to me. ae cies ee that command you re m every I have heard of ir and they should go unp they all, but I confess to having felt a desire to mete them out the justice they deserv- ed. When I knew all I hastened to Nestley, travelled down with Geoffrey, and learnt that my search was far from ended, and that ¢ hoped was from my -arms, perhaps for e1 Lady, Darrel ‘Seretched out her thin white hand. “Have courage, = are a said gently. “She will ‘su it.” Roy bent = Kissed his mother, ‘bis agitate “She shall be fonnd ic she is alive,” will bring her back two. “T am ready whenever you like,” be said abruptly. Geoffrey Armistead looked up from yk. his “Newton has returned No one answering ou! r dsrton has left the station. They hi legraph- ed up to janet men, and have it some police to Moretown, which pl I we visit our- selves.” Frank got up eagerly, while the earl buttoned his riding-gloves in @ nervous manner. Geoffrey Armistead alone was calm— he was too used to trickery and deceit —and his quiet manner was as a rock of the other two men,who were oe with excitement. fe will take Newton and another with us,” he declared; and in a few were once Alice sat beside Myra as the pony, urged by = whip, almost flew through the aeck Ds She iy Eres e eide of the cart, and coutened it ae, if its firm hardness were the barri than de Occasionelly ther apprehension would be go great that « sigh escaped her, but (agate is “He can't go m farther,” Myra said, suddenly beeing th tem maga “We must get out in a few mim id walk e_Test.” “What will you do with him?” Alice ted}; Just leave him beside a Gal kT and’ Gake Now, jump down; we've got a good mile to go yet.” Alice to good little animal who had helped her so well, then clasping the hand Myra held out, they rried on over the rough road ali dark; the fused to lighten the gloom. fest” Myra sald heent lessiy, as they approached the town: Tense orke pienaeaiielble accuse Ie to-night; we up,” command lit a candle, she dragged Alice a young women out this time 0’ | drawing-room, tion in Tokio, becomes an moment own boven “Peotd your tongue and lead the .way Myra was half fainting with fatiene und ¢ ‘Two Civil War Messages. It was a day or two after Gel Fitzhugh retired lines betw‘ were put in condition for des ee and messages ange th over them gave more al and civilian a Pte The Harcobure operator was of army variety and yt noted for anes diction or even grammatical accuracy, but he could be sé on occasion. Car! a civilian named Noble, oe knew more of the rules of syntax, but he was a bit fir ree Hes me the ie mes- d in-those days they were of since receiving and sending by aoa was not in vogue: peananinn the rebels went? Answer—They is. After all id is merit in the inter- pane There was no room for doubt as “josh.” Sardou as Stage Man: re. Sardou is one of the few great stage managers Irv displeases place on the ey for f few moments and goes thro In theory aa s stmpllctty itself; in practice it is sometimes productive of emotions which the scene fs not in- comes Mr. es ane but he has int.—Cassell’s Maga- sine. Cause of Lec Weakness. She Always Wile #69: pa, is vas oc in the dictionary Pa—No, I guess not, my son. Every _ while a ree comes into use: Ie— s the last word, then, or even at a public funo- Oriental threshold of his I have | ¥ notice, quite he crosses the to Ji ive years ago a happy aride, young, bright and gay. She stale a a to prematare- old woman of Luge twenty. lean, aS ‘actos Her servitude had Contueal ina on the part of of the wife is a sorious matter; on the husband's side if Is not even a illo, Nor 1s this by any means ‘ble ment protects, patron! a encourages immorality as does that of no other civilized country. It.even draws part of i ue taxes levied on this terribly gloomy phase Prey capes bextra ry general laxity ef moral fibre stril observant fore Auris does, that the physique nation is not what {t should be; as tvs in the. second. Pasar | abn! discouraging fea situation is that cle set bee the highest ls not 8 wholesome one. The members of seperate nd thi ‘are among the worst offenders; and whatever restrain’ the old religions exercised—and it was small—! of of son and out of season, of that spear Some sae the ae ee ee school of might ote ene Witoh onthly to the Nippon Shugi (Forward Japan) mov: it. Ac cording to the writ destined next century to be of nations. ‘Western civilization is effete; the white are played out; vistble on every hand. Japan, on the other . Christianity; 10 is hers to into the van of and in, Brance and The eaten Who wrote this fee o Cousot and’ pete ot 5 in a 9, 20) and spent rea ences on a night’s dissipation at = house. His ideas of progr: be founded on the up-to-date sodiness of ginza at Tokio, and ets don’t know. Go ask your moth- —Chicago News thing ia the moming can out, get to the station, Bo up 6 town; once ere, I know of a standing than @ Yo! derk. Sorel ‘adireend, © torslgner {0rRighie® kohama shipping ‘A SERVICE OF SONG An Interesting and Instructive Sermon on Music in Religion. Rev. Dr. Talmage Declares That. the Best Music Has Been Ren- dered Under Trouble--God Meant All to Sing--The Proper Music for a Church. Washington, Sept. Talmage 3.—Dr. ‘to-day discussed a most attractive ment of us worship—the service of song. His ideas will be received wit! Interest by all who love. to lift their voioes in praise ouse. ‘I'he text le Nehemiah vil, 67, An they had bund: 3 singing men and singing wome! music dered unt trouble. The first duet that 1 know any- ing of was given nd Silas pial sfonsl on this abject. ‘Those who can sing must throw their souls into ee ex- eroise, and those who cannot muet jearn how, and it shall be heart to boat, fotce fo. ralon | hymn to hymn, anthem nthem, he musio shall swell Sabilant with fh tbankeelving and tremul ‘Have you ever noticed the constructio: man throat as indicative oe ments of the world. You would call such = mal that a monster, and yet you mx oked if, with the human ive, ent of m cal instruments that m: you shut it against te praise of God. Let Lind refuse os ha wean Bat o children of the aren King id speak thi abroad, isis seems to act in 01 he natural world. ‘he omnipo- tent voice with which God comman the world into being seems to linger yet ‘with its majesty an s, and you hear it in the grainfleld, in the swoop the wind amid the mountai winesses, in the canary’s le and the thunder nature and Jona tee fae of which ve cannot hear at all a1 terrific that oe aie pee ey Judgment Day’s Great M es Ac eatareool “secs overwhelming, it isas when you stand usical signs above the Sore as Se division of is ones man 7 ito the plano and to sing 38 "Not 60 in Bible cont Miriam, ple, Would co: Levite choir would come in with the response, “For his merey enduret | all drawlin; for-| 2, t 5 wih the love.apd glory of Christ, they And in those days there and life Musi SESH to thrilling th ins ing ad stupidly. ervor the spirit and he is playing the music. h of the judgment day is New York, Brooklyn, Boston, tharleston, New every city which bas any ent ds, ie) Orleans, Chicago and the praying and but people get up on tiptoo and sprin; to me when 1 was the pasto1 church in that city and told ay in sin, n rightly rane arried to certain i a mumbling bar cuse you! Still, it is better to do as Paul sic must be st the preaching ke g hats and wonder all that no! THE GHOORKAS. al im the ‘The Famous Hill Men of Ne} British Army. The famous Ghoorkas of, the British are epanl, They that in time a dictinctly new type evolved, combining the Ian ing characteristics of both races. this is not so, as most of the cious have either the Aryan or Chinese cast bao cay have covered es glory in shis campaign bave iit. and Gurup; hair on thelr faces. Is is on record that the Pathai children st jess jena at the little Roy Ghoorkss, chany Hissar,” in hey he committed in ‘‘very shame.”’ vide for in ihe, Indian, serv Pse ranks subsor: Jand required for an asylom, financial hel, the by 811, of which close on 4, issued by the next most prolife produ mber of varieties it has issu ie his 80 ejontet te life is characterized absent had | Dest t-mindedness, ishn at symptoms of a craving for + fo ps Such a one usually has a expectancy that, some time or other, hs as psalms in fausie bas only ane’ design,” and shat is which comes with th Did you ever it But — an greene Em! 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