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♦♦:"X":-X":-x«<">«:~:-:~:-:-x-:":-> V ♦ I Won by a | I Tune I sh:««:-;":":~x-X"X":">«x-X"X":»*> , "Good-by, dearest!" "Gocwl-by!" For the twentieth time Mark Jer- -myu uttered the words of farewell, ,and for the twentieth time the girl ^ responded, but, realizing that the partuig wus not an ordinary one, • they wore loth to part cveii then. • Yoara lience tJiey might meet again; . perhaps never! â- â- And, dearest, you'll remember, if the recollection of me ever stands in your light, you're to forget 1 exist- ed. Promise me that!" The girl looked into the earnest face bending over her, into Uie <iepths_ of the grave, brown eyes. •â- I cannot," she said softly. â- â€¢More- over, is it necessary? Is it what you would do were you in my place?" Her logic was unanswerable, and he sighed. "If you were the only child of somebody next door to a million- aire," she went on, "and your fa- ther forbade you to marry anyone who was not wealthy while you real- ly loved one as poor as a. church mouse, would you give up without a Jitruggle? Of course you wouldn't. Mark. You'd wait, and wait, and hope!" "But Waiting doesn't always bring wealth," broke in Jermyn, '•especial- ly in the musical profession. Why did my father ever destine mo for his own career he added. bitter- ly. â- 'Because it's what you're most fit- ted for," Elsie Kenton replied. "Mark, dear, you're going to be a great raa.i." He waived away her words with a smile and another kiss. "Vou flatter me, sweetheart," he said, "although it's true my father was far from being a mediobi-ity. He changed his name on marria,i>e', and died when I was only five years old. But his existence really ended, so far as the world . was concerned, when ho forsook his old name, for he never composed a single thing af- ter." "How strange!" remarked the girl, wonderingly. "And what a terrible example to you, dearest." "You may thirijk so. Of course, I was too young to know much tlien. and never heai-d how it all happen- ed, for my mother soon followed my father." "And his name before was? â€" ?" â- â- Wegar â€" Mark Wegar â€" one of the foremost composers of his time!" » » • » • • • A couple of years later Mark Jer- myn was in l^ondon. It seemed m.uch longer since he had parted from Elsie Renton in Paris, wliere they had been fellow students at the Conservatoire; she, tor the sake of flndshing a musical education, he be- cause he had his future living to consider. In i?aris the girl had been free from the hidebound conventionalities of home, and her doting parents would douljtless have been horrified had tlie.y known she ha<d dared to egard some one with affection. The two had parted; he to work for a ntunc and .she to enter society. And now he was in Loudon, his fame having pi-eceded him. and Mark Jermyn, the celebrated pianist, was amioujiced to make his debut before the mo.st ci'itical audience in the world. Success had not spoilt him, and he remained the .s«une modest man that had held Elsie's hiuid in his two years since; deeply, madly, In love with her still. Several times she had written to him, and with her last letter in his pocket as a tali.sman, he faced the eager crowd that evening. The performance was a S'iccess. Hark Jermyn's reputation was more than upheld and he quickly became the lion of the hour. luritalions from the highest in the land liter- ally showered upon him, so numer- ous, that they would have taken years to respond to all, one of the earliest coming from Ihc Rontons offering a princely fee for a short recital at a forthcoming "At Home." To this Jermyn stifliy replied that he only accepted socialengagements. An answer soon came altering the tone of the invitation, and a day or two later, he found himsxjlf about to meet his loved one once more. The place was already thronged with guests when lie arrived, but Kl- sie was the first to greet him, and as he took her hand he would have knelt down there and then and ki.sse;i It, had not decorum forbade. She welcomed him gnyly, imd ho fell all at once the happiest of mort;ils, for a !*in«le look served to tell him held her heart still. "I'm hostess for the moment." ob.served. "Let me take you mother." He followed her, and a littla later Was being introduce<I to Mrs. Renton. "Mr. Jermyn, mother!" The .stixtel.v lady atWressed, looked up. an<t as she saw hi.s handsome, clear-cut feature."*, started. "Mr. Jermyn?â€" uJi. yes, of course! Your appearance seems fainiliar. But than, aren't your photographs all over London?" she asked. Mark bowed, t>ut guessed by her tone tluit she had never soon his portrait. Ho sauntered aimlessly about, con- .vsrning first with one and another, tUl at leosth be toua-i himmlf e<t- Ren- jdressing the host himself. And Jer- I myn wua agreeabl.y HUrjwised; Elsie's i father was not nearly so formidaMTo a.s he had pictured him to be; on the contrary, his attitude toward the .young lion of the season waa court- esy iind geniality itself. "Ah! my daugh'ter tells me she met you in Paris," he remarked. "One of the first to discover your genius, I believe? El.sio's a dear girl, my dear sir!" ".She is," assented Mark, earnest- 'y' "Always a dutiful girl, and a '-he other evening?" prize worth the winning," continued | "Unfortunately," responded the fa- Mr. Renton, briskly. â- â- It's a pity'mous musician. "Believe me, I'm we'i-o to lose her so .soon â€" but exceedingly sorry." there! the men. the men! I was ! "It's not your fault, my boy," ho young myself once." answered, kindly. "The event has "You mean some one will fall in brought something to light which 1 love with her?" queried Jei'myn, hope may mean your happiness. 1 a distant comer of the room. All turned and Saw that Mrs ton had fainte<l. A few days later Mark Jermyn called to inquire after Mrs. Renton, whom it was understood was ^:eri- ouHly ill. The younfi fellow waa at once shown into Mr. Renton's study, where the millionaire greeted him cordiall.y. "My dear Mr. Jermyn," he .said, "you're Uie very n>an I wish to see! You remember the ellect your won- derful playing produced on my wife anxiously. "Has fallen in love. Scores of them. By the way. there she is with Lord Mapleson." Mark Jerm.yn turned and followed the other'.s glance to where Elsie stood talking with the man he had noticed but a few moments befoix;. "Are tihey â€" â-  â€" '>" "Engaged, my dear sir, engaged. And to be married .shortly. My wife's a wonderful woman; she's arranged it all!" Mark's first impul.se was to floe, but he re.solved to learn tlie truth have learned that my daughter loves you." j "Yes," respontlod Mark, quietly. "And I love her too." I "Just so, just so! What I was going to say was this; my wife, it appears, was once engaged to your I father." I Mark Jermyn looked up in aston- ishment. ' •â- Yes," continued Mr. Renton, â- â- and from what -I can hear â€" of cour.se, this is in confidence between you and me â€" it broke Mark \Ve- gar's heart. My wife jilted him for from Elsie's lips first. At last he myself, and it seems that, out of caught her glance, following her in- Pity, he afterward nuuried a cousin to a .small ante-i-oom leading from whom he discovered had been in one of tlie principal apartments, •o'^'e with him for years. The air When the door closed, he took her you played the other evening was haci. and looked into her eyes. "Elsie," he asked. ••Is it true?" She avoided his gaze. "Is what true?" she uiurmui-ed. "That you'i-e engaged to Liord Ma- pleson? one of Wegar's compositions, was it not?" 1 "Yes," replied Mark. "My father left me the manu.scripts, with t!ie injunction it was only to bo played on tJie twenty-second of November in Her e.vcs filled with tears and she ^a^'^h ye;ir â€" the anniversai-y of what I could never make out." "Ah! my wife recognized the theme; it was the old love song l.e u.sed to play to her and of which she had been so fond. The date yon mention was the one on which s-he â€"With an ou'tstretching^ of lier arms broke off the engagement. Old mem turned towartl him passionately •'No!" she said veliementl.v. "He's asked me frequently, but I've al- ways refused. But mamma insists, and the rumor we're engaged is about alreadv. Oh, Mark! Mark!' 'what is to orirs came back to her, and â€" an-d â€" " "Say no more, sir, it',s a painful subject." ' ... "To be sure, to be sure! My wife wisdics me to tell .vou that, al- though she broke your father's heart, she has no wish lo break either vours or her daughter's. We ai-e El- that was irresistible; be done?" He took her into his arms. "You love me. what is to prevent our happine.ss?" "Mother â€" she insists. Father. I know, would rather I married a man of mv choice." 'And 1 insist on you marrying both willing you should mari^y me!" he cried earnestly. "That is sie." if you're williijg to become the wife ; Someone opened of a nonentity?" She looked up quickl.y. "Who is the nonentity?" she ask- ed. "You, the clover artist or" â€" with a gesture of disdain â€" "Lord Mapleson?" Then, darling." he cried, "if your img uved long enough in the world mother will not consent, it must be , to gain wisdom by experience will a runaway match. You're sm-e you i bg obliged to admit this strange sad don't mind intrusting your happi- I union of Love and Quarrelling; but ncKS to me?" 'every one of us who has lived deep- No, iiKlecd, Mark, no! I love ly enough to know that experience .vou. oh! heaps more than I did two worketh hope, will admit that when years ago, tuid that's something. [Love quarrels with its beloved, it is isn't it?" I just becau.se this noble ideal of He admitted that it was, when j unity lias run otf the track, so to someone calling Elsie, sihe had to 'speak; a virtue has gone to seed; a leave. Mark strolled back to the divine quality has developed a de- drawing room with a lighter heart. | (ect. The outlook of quarrelsome Someone was n.sking Mr. Ronton I Love is not so hopeless when we can whether Jermyn was to play; the ] umlerstand this. See how it would host shrugged his slioulders. but tlie 'work if those two stiuabbling sis- musician at once Interrupted with iters would either of them stop to the door just 'then, and Elsie Renton, seeing Mark, threw herself into his arms. ♦ LOVE AND QUARRELLING. Every man and woman of us who has lived long enough ARECOffllMHEEETOSTAY FAEMEES FEOM THE OTHEE SIDE OF THE LIirE. Canada's Prosperity is the Hag- net Which Is Drawing the Yankees. Robert Ronald writing to the Lon- don Daily Express says :â€" Ten years \ company and of severui railways tn New York, is a Canadian. Am- erica's first ropresentativo in Cuba is also a son of the Dominion. The head of the firm of yacht builders who built tha Kaiser's yacM Meteor is also a Canadian ; so are the builders of the new Brooklyn bridge. Among- the great host of oth-«r dis- tinguished sons of Canada wh» have risen to important positions in tho United .States are Dr. Jumna Doug- la.s. president xtt a large mining ago there were over two million Canadians in the United .States. Long before the next ten years are over there will be quite two million Americans in Canada. There is no check to the influx of farmers from the Northwestern .States. It is estimated that the emigrants to Canada will number 7."), 000 at least, half of the Ameri- cans..- During the financial year re- cently ended they numbered 08.000. This new development in the awak- Mr. James C. . Stewart, the builder of the Westinghouse factories in Manchester ; Mr. Seymour Eaton, the founder and manager of the Book Lovers' Library, the great or- ganization for distributing books, which has spread over the United States within a few years, and has now invaded England ; Mr. William Chisholm, the organizer of tho Union Steel Company ; Mr. Hug* Chisholm, organizer of the Inter- national Paper Company ; and a ening of what an American Consul \ very large number of professors or picturesquely described as the •'.Sleeping Empire Beyond" is lead- ing to new problems, commercial and political. The farmers who are selling their lands in Dakota. Iowa, Nebraska, and other northwestern .States are not going to Canada as temporai-y residents ; they an; go- ing to stay, and in a few yea.'s the provinces of Jlanitoba, Alberta, and Assiniboia will be largely inhabited by Americans. RICHNESS OF THE NORTHWEST American universities. BRITISH COMMERCE. With the agricultural and indus- trial growth of Canada there will be a check to tho flow of talent into the United .States. Canada will soon have a literature of its own, and will otTer as good prizes in the in- dustrial world as its greater neigh- bor. While tho Canadian Government is welcoming the American emigrant it I is still more attxious than ever to Canada has poured out her wealth ' '*'â- ""' settlers from Uiis country. It in developing her railways in ad- ' '^ taking advantage of the present vancing agriculture, in improving i ^^^^^ ?'j.^"^^'^^^^. ^° !^°°°L Canada, inland navigation, in building canals ' "^ and diepening river channels. and was beginning to despair of at- tracting immigrants in i;uch num- bers as would develop her nmgnili- cent domain. Now prosperity has come with a rush, and the Ajnerican farmers are only the forerunners of a great invasion. Four lecturers are at work travel- ling about the country describing the attractions of the Dominion. The Government are offering grants to encourage settlers, and are giv- ing prizes for school essays on Can- ada. The Canadian emigration au- thniitii'S are erecting a largo ofTice in Trafalgar square, which will bo fitted up in lu.xurious style. and Tho American capitalists, already , powerful in Ontario, and Nova Sto- i '^^''''"•^'^ '"'^ '" '' ^''" '"^ ^^'' prod'ico lia, in building up Canadian manu- ! °' Canada. The Government are facturers, will soon invade the north- "*^° pushing the fruit trade in this western provinces, where rich min- ^"""ti-y, and a company is about to erals remain untouched. Between '"^ organized - to start shops which the Rod Rive • and the Rockies there i â„¢'!' '^'"^ ""'^ Canadian produce, aie 60,000 miles of coal-bearing Altogether Canada is just now the strataâ€" a potential harvest richer : ^]°^^ prosperous part of the Em- than the prairies can yieldâ€" awaiting j '''''''• American enterprise. GOOD RESOLUTIONS. ho iihc to the remark that ho should only be too delighted. A move was made to the piano, while all voices were hushed as it beciuno known tliat the groat Jer- myn was at tlie instrument. He ran through several of his better known things in succession, playing as he had never pla.ved before, his audi- ence .si)ellbound and enraptured. The applause at his conclusion, unlike most drawing-room applause, was for once sincere. Mr. Renton was profuse in his thanks, and then his less genial wife inquired as a special favor, whether he would give them a novelty. "A novelty?" repeated Mark, anx- ious to please his prospective par- ent. "Ah, yes! I had almost for- gotten. To-day's the twenty-sec- ond, isn't it? There is one thing I only play once a .vear. and always on the twenty-second of this month." The last notes of the song were gradually dying away, when all at once there was a tense scream from reanember that it is onl.v Love, fool- ish. e:«fSperating, unbalanced. Love, that is responsible for the ill-bre>l domestic criticism tliat spoils tho home life. If Jane once honestly be- lieved that Mary's love made her so unpleasant, »ho would stop aghast, amused, no doubt, and very likely touched; but most certainly silenced. And that would be the end of the quarrel .â€"Margaret Dcland, in Har per's Bazar. It should be understood that good 3 aie usually, if not invar- iably, against bad habits, none of which we Will sijecify, lest our read- ers .iccuse us of being personal, and having one or other of them in mind. UNCLE REUBEN SAYS: "I kin sot down an' gib my feller- man advice b.v do hour an' feel as complacent as an old hen about it, but de minit m.y feller-man begins to advise me I git all upsot ol?er it an' wonder what de idiot am talkin' 'bout." "The pleasantost way to take cckI liver oil," says an old gourmand, â- is to fatten pigeons with it, and then eat tho pigeons." Perhaps Englishmen will also be attracted to the growing Northw,?st, but tlie Americans will certainly get resolution the start. What is to be the effect of this inpouring of Americans. to Canadaâ€" politically and commercially ? AMERICA.VIZING CAN'ADA. 'It is in the nature of good resolu- There are Americans who think the t^io"s to require tho penitent to b-e -Vorthwestern provinces should have constantly on his guard; and while been regarded as part of the "hin- """^ may readily remember to do a terland' of the United .States. There '^"^ thing or a noble thing, when are some who hope that the in- . '^'"^ chance offers, or the duty thrusts vaders will assist in the American- '*^^'* upon one (in that oll'cnsive ization 01 Canada. They think tho^''''^ °' duties), one is always for- Americans will become a discontent- '^^''''"S not to do the shabby. or ed outlander population who will ap- '"^^' °'' <l'sgnis>ting or wicked thing, peal to their (Government to take'^'"*'^ ""^ '''"'^"*^ ""^''^ ^<='f ^" ^^'^ them under its protecting wintr ^^"^^"- °'"^ '^ "^ ^^"'^ ^^'^^ °"*' '''^'^ There is not the slightest indication f,!"''''*^''. '"], V'^°"^ moralists say. at present of any such movement. ^^"^ '"'.^° "'f ''^''i'' not w«.h the ox- and there is no reason why it should P«'^tf"<"' '-'â- -)\}^<' f^'^'^f ^""^L-^ '"" m-jgg â- ^ stantl.v and fully able to pront by Americans are just as much at ''"f"'', '"" '""Vf i"',^^-^ psychologi- homo in Canada as in the States '^' ^"^'^"â- 'f" ,V'" V^ V"""*"; " tho,, i„rf . ,1. a J I-.,- " ^ •;"-"• '-<^= gives, and partlv 111 the hope of sug- tney left thev find political life less •â-  j- 1 " » 1 , t,.,h,,i„.,t •. v;. , gosting, dimly, remotely, a wav out turbulent, parlv politics le:/s cor- ^ ,1 â-  â-  â-  11 .u Y-,,,,* +„„„ 1; ."* 1 '"^'"-a 't J.-i cui „( the vicious circle ui which the h^sti'r,^ „. l^ ' th" '"«ch.nery of^.„,^,„„ ..^^dies round and round." It n?.,^n,n.^ â- 'eproach. and liberty j.^ apparent at this glad hour of the as complete as under the Stars and i„f,„',t ,.^^,,^ that we ought to form rL ' â- ?• L â- '' '^ "° 'â- ''"^°" ''â- â- ''â- '' Kood resolutions and not put it off they should not become citizens of ^j,, tl.e Fourth of Julv, or next the Dominion, and the Canadian Christmas. Yet it is just as appar- Uovernment is certainly doing its c„t that if we resolve not to do this best to encourage immigration by or that, we shall prettv surelv do «?nding its agents to the United u, because wo forgvt not to. On States and m encouraging settle- the other hand, it is again just as "'^"''^ apparent that if we resolve to do The American emigration, on tho this or that good thing, we shall other hand, will have a tendency to- now and then do it, because the op- wards encouraging their trade. While portunity olTers or insists. Tho the trade between Canada and the good resol-ution ought therefore to Mother Country is increasing, that he positive, aud not negative. In its between the Dominion and its neigh- terms. This seems to us the solu- bor is growing at a much greater tion, and wo commend it to our rate. And naturall.y so. not only because of tho proximity of the highly developed United States, but also because the best commercial routes in Canada run north and south, not east and west. Canada needs American manufacturing pro- ducts, and tho Americans need raw and agricultural products from Canada. Tliis interchange of trade will greatl.v increase in the near future. At present the tarilT is all too much in favor of the United States, but the growing importance of the Do- minion a.s an outlet for American cai)itul and the development of its industries will soon induce the Am- readers. For, ourselves, as we have 'already hinted, we do not feel the need of so sharp a spur. â€" Harper's Weekly. 1 THE ONliY COJIPLAINT LEFT. In an Irish, town the bids of a 3"hooI acquired the habit of smok- ing, and resorted to the most in- genious methods to conceal it fnmi the muster. In this Uiey were suc- cessful until one e\"eniKg. when tha master caught them puUing most vi(;fc«"ously. "How now?" .shouted lie to one of 1 the culprits. How diire you to ba erican Government to enter- into re;;,] ciprocal trade relations. simoking'?" •â- Sir,"'Wid tho bo.v. "t am aub- takcs ^ Meet to headaches, al>4 a Iiipe „ . , „ -on the pain." CANADIANS IN THE STATES. | -And you? and >;ou? and you?" For many years America has at-, inquired the i«>dagoguc, questioning trncted Canadian^. and mafiy of j every boy in .his turn. ' these settlers are now returning. The ; One had a "ragir,g tooth"; aiiotli- .1. 'â- agUiK tqotb lie tJiird a IT H1':LPED TO HIDE THE AGK. "Rnstus. that's a pretty heavy band of crape on that silk hat."- "Yas. sah." "Some dear friend Just die ?" "No salt â€" but vo' see dia is 'specially old hat.'S numerous Canadian inhabitants ofler "colic"; the tiiird a "c^^ugh" the United States have not been ! in short, they all had sometliii.y foj* completely absorbed in the general ; which ' thq weed was an unfailing body of .American citizens. They reme<ly^ . ' â-  maintain their separate organiza- ! "Now, sirl" bellowed the master tions and have patriotic gathering.s. to the last bo.v. "pray. What disor- Somo of them become American citi-lder do you sru)oke for?" zens and ri.sc to important positions. : Alas! all excuses were exhar.sted; but they still look upon the Do- '>"t the intexrogatod urchin, putting minion as their fatherland. j down his pipe ajid "looking up in Iviii Some of tho most enterprising and 1 ma.'^ter'.4 £acc. aaid. in a whining, prosperous Americans are Cann- |*iyP°'-''"''^''^al tone: dians hy birth and education. There ."^ smoke for corns, sir!" is quite a large Canadian society in New York. The present City Chaniberlaiii of New Yorkâ€" Dr. K. R. L- Gouldâ€" is a Canadian. The former president of MUSIC AT HOME. Clara â€" "Don't yo« love to hoar me .Hi ng . CI ajrcn cc? ' ' ,. ,, , , .,j - - Clarence â€" "Honesty, Clara. I'd the Board of Aldermen in Brooklyn rather hear Cook sing: for then I now Deputy Commissioner of Docks ' know she is in s»,j<i .tw^uor^" V, •â- >^l|k--#^^(i«>«» • "a-* ,