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A WOMATS LOVE f OR, A BROTHER'S PROHISE CHAP'.'.'KU X.â€" (Conlinucil.) 1 "Ifef heart? A-ah !" This with Word of this outj-agc found its i f^ ^"eer of such uialevolent. signifi- »ay to Hector before ti.e afternoon J '^^i"'''! "-'i"*^ Hector was drivon to w.is far !=-ent. Kis fury was as not:.- ' '"?'' "^^ay. 'or he was jsalous as a Inif boUc tliewLite anger that named "^"'l ^'^^^ »">• a"'! '•-'^i^t, of all As- in Uravo, who, roallv gentle soul '^"''»' should surprise his hidden that he wa-s. tried for 'reprisal : but j t'"'?i«"re, and he feared that in his while rage kept Hector dumb, Mad-I'"'* *'>e might read his story. His dateiiii had no doubt of her action, even though Agunta added to Hra- vo'i iinp«,'«-ioiied demands the loud clomur of her hate. "Madame," she bla.zed, "this is the mercy ol Hispaniola. It was the siltn e only aggravated her "Kindness of heart," she repeated. 'To you â- ?" "I sjjoke in a general .sense. Not to me more than to another." "I do not call it kindness to treat same in Aruba. How did Marco i "^^ "''^ servant, an old friend, as she meet it ? With fire and sword and the rop«. No quarter â€" no quarter ! Let them perLsh." The Queen, moved by the fate of the brave handful that alreadv had now t; cated Don Augustin." Hector kept si oi:ce. "You agree with me ?" she urged. 'You forget that I, too, am a se:- vant of the Queen. To agree with taken death for her, was untouched y°" '''oul'I be to pass an opinion on by Asunta's BCieam of ven.gcance. ""y Hoyal mistress. A .servant must Indeed, If it were possible, her ten- | °°t criticize the one he serves." der eves shone more tenderly, and i "Vm ! I did not know that you the firm lines of her mouth quivered i ^''e" a coward, Sonor Grant." "At least I am brave enough to dilTer from you." "And a servile one, at that." "Remember that 1 come of a race whose creed is that the king or the queen can do no wrong." "So do T; but times â€" and kings â€" have changed. " "For the bettor, I believe." There was oppres.sive silenci> for a few moments, but Hector did not care to break it : better the most uncomfortable silence than more un- comfortable speech. Asunta laug'hed a little to heUelf. "The Queen, then, is above criti- cism." "As she is above suspicion." It was an unfortunate reply. Spoken in all innocence and honesty, it showed As^inta the opeuiujj she knew was in Ids armor. "To suspect her would be treason, then ?" "To Utter suspicion of her would." "So loyal a servant as you are would no doubt consider it his duty to leport the traitor who should utter treason." "Of a surety." "Then, tenor spy, go to your mis- tress" â€" in her intonation there was .subtlest crueltyâ€" "and tell her that I hate her, because she is not worthy to reign o^"er Palmetto, because she holds beisell too light " The .sentence was never finished. She had assumed an air of bravado that was almost Billingsgate in its "Madime," he stauimere;!, "O ! 'overacted vulgarity; her face, really macfame. forgive " And ho burst ; beautiful, fell into a jaundiced de- into tears. ! basement of sneering and jealousy : "Dcna Asuiita. Senor Grant, I j but U-e hate was beliind it all pray you leave us" i shrank before the look that stormed A meeting with Asunta was not to , into l!ect<jrs eyes. Hector's liking, yet he was glad to i "You make me almost forget, ma- be gone out of the room. Afterwards dame," he cried, "tl-.e courtesy a Bravo recounted to him with glow- gentleman owes to your se.\." ing pride what had parsed. j "Pray foi-pct it, sir." Sh# re- "You were gone. I knelt before coveed herself, her. 'Don .\ugu.stin,' said ?.cr Ma- | "I wish you were a man, Dona jesty, 'all the years 1 was your pupil Asunta " you taught me to remember, every I "Oblige me by thinking that I moment of my life, what 1 am. You am. begged me. if I should see in a j Hector laughed and waved a hand, look, or hear in a word of yours, a ; The s:ene appealed now to his sense shadow of dl.irosicct for nie, for the of the ii,:i'ulous, but he was not al- Queenâ€" you begged me to reprove ^ lowed to keep it on that plane. in a tremor of pity, as slie raisey her hand for silence. "Hush !" .she said. "Hush ! Dona Asunta. I know you hate llispanio- la : you must know bow I hate her. But the.se who have fallen into our hands, tliey are wounded, they are helple.-s. If I were to order ven- geance to be taken on them who can- not defend themselves, how could I e\or look for mercy who showed none'? If Stauipa finds pleasure in crushing the weak, am I to debase myself to his level ? Nay : rather let our prisoners be treated well : fed better, locged better, if possible, than my own soldiers." Bravo, the unimpeachable courtier, lost sTif-posscssion for a moment, and began to strut in conten^ptuous wrath. Tie Queen's eye noted the unwitting insult, and ready to for- give him tcr the take of how many years' devotion, ave: ted her head. He began to splutter and chitch em- pty air with giipplng Ungcrs. "Hut, your Majesty, you must re- taliatt " he began. Maddalena turned on Iiim with a flash like the leaping of a sword from its quiet sheath. The old man elood oj-en-mouthed while Hector was lost between admiration of this new manjiestution of the Queen's nature, and sorrow for the abashed chamber- lain. "Must!" she cried. "Must! My pardon, Don Augustin. My pardon, f.lr !" [Vou Jove the Queen â€" you love th« I Queen. Dure you say no ?" I He had conceived the iiossibllity of ! hia secret being discovered, but such j cruel blurting out of it, such drag- ging of it into the garnish light, he had not looked for; nor iiad he be- lieved that man or woman could be so envenomed as do it. The first stun, the shock, was over : now the hot blood ran to his heait, and every fibre cf him prickled witli p<i.inful fire. Mad ? Yes, thin wom- 'an with her calculated torture was j driving him mad. But like a cool hand on tlin frsvered brow came the I remembrance of tho.se few moments I in the garden and Heitor was to all 'outward .sxeming ice again. "The question you have nskod me, Dona Asunta," he said, "is you will forgive me for not answering. Sure- ly, ,your generous watchfulness mokes a reply unnecessary. The whole of this interview has been, I think, unnecessurv T bog you will now permit me to retiie." "You go, I suijpoEC, to tell tho Queen ' ' "No, madamc." "No !" with »ome surprise. "I ha\e no desire, madame, to be told, to her Majesty's face, that I am a liar." She paled with anger. The shaft had gone home. It was a hazarded guess, but it was a true one : that was precisely the course Asunta had arranged 'in the event of a confrontn- tion. "Adios, Dona Asunta." "A â€" dies, senor." rro be Continued ) JAPANESE WOMEN IN WAR DEEDS LIKE THOSE OF WOMEN OF SPAH.TA. THE SEISTENCE SERMONS. Faint heart is famished heart. Promptitude is the life of j>rai.=e. He wl-.o wnit.s on fate wins fail ire. Love ne'er boasts of its sacrifices. I Si'iritual growth is never spasmodic. The truth that hits is the truth we hatf Faith is never developed bv finding fault. The best kind of love is love of our kind. There is no service where there is servility. Men who are 'downca-'t are easily ca.st down. There are no rights without ro- sponsihilities. The high livers do not reach the heights of life. The devil would have no dupes if l.e had no decoys. He who gives the world most al- ways finds he owes it mo.«t. The world needs broad sympathy more than broad seritiinent.'^. TI.eve is more health in happiness than there is I'anDiness in health He wl'.o works for the human race has a good show in the heavenly racn. There is no vi:tue in hearing two sermons if you do not practice either cf them. j ^Vhen nione.v can secure your com- plaisance with wrong more money .will secure your co-opeiation. I The gate of hen von ma.v be nar- row; buC many will i:nd that it i takes more than narrowness to enter i there. , Loss of Son or Husband Tot the i Mik&do Is Accounted I An Honor. j No nation has a better right to be proud of what its women have done ' in wartime than Japan. Kven the : mothers and wives of ancient Sparta : have been rivalled in deeds of patri- : olism and self-sacrifice by the women ; of Japan. j In the feudal times, which came to : an end in Japan only thirty years ago, all gentlewomen were trained in I the use of the sword and lance, llie ' women of the samurai clasjs received a regular military education and if : the castle of a daimio was besieged, ; they were capable of as.sisting in the I defence if necessary. I A noted instance of the martial j prowess of tho Japanese women oc- curred during the siege of the castle I of Wakamatsu in 1860, where the I .Shogun made his final stand against , the forces of the Mikado. Nearly one thousand women and girls be- I longing to the families of samurai at- ' sached to the Shogun fought behind ^ the barricades and on the castle I walls. Many of them were killed in battle, while not a few committed suicide rather than undergo the hu- miliation of defeat. Yet the Amazonian qualitif's of the women of old Japan did not detract from their womanliness. Tho.v were tender mothers and loving wives. The nursing of tho wounded and sick was part of the education of every samur- ai woman. I With the passing away of the ape of chivalry in Japan, upon tho down- ;fall of the Shogunatc, the Japanese woman was called upon to face new i conditions, and how she met these ! conditions is shown in the history of Ithe CHINESE -WAR OF 1S95. "Shall 1 re{-eat what 1 saitl ?" He answered by a look in which there was as much pity for hor fool- ishness as there was contempt for you. You have taught mc well, sir: you have taught me well who needed no teaching on that point. .\m I not a Ribelro ? 1 ask you tor advice, got guidance, i her in.solent rersistcncc. perhaps lor help : tl.ei>e I take, and I "You walked with the Queen in for these I thank you. But. by the the gaidun last night," she went Holy ^â- irgin, sir, I do not take or- on. "I cannot deny it, since, no doubt, frlen'Jly eyes followed us." "She spoke to you " "Her Majehty was honoring me deis. To m».ko tho oftcn''e heavier yo'.i cry must hof- 'c Senur (irant, a â€"a â€" sttaM^c;', â€" sie s'lOnuuered over the woid. my friend : it was but her way of making n.o smartâ€" 'and be- with I er commands j THE DAUtY AS A TF.MPLE. ! The people called the Tcdas, living .in the Nilgiri i'i'l?. In^lia, have a J curious religion lilual evolved out of I the ordinar.v operations of the {'dairy. The priest, .-ays Dr. W. 11. ! Rivers, is the (teiryman, anil the temple is the dairy. Only the milk of the ."^acrcd bufi'alo is chiuT.ed in Ithe dairy temple. 'I'he milk of buf- I faloes that are not "sacred" is I chmiied in the trout I'art of the huts ! in which the people live. The dairy 1 temples lue of ditTercnt degrees of Uianctity, corresponding to the diiTer- , ent degrees of sanctit.v of tie buffa- 1 loos te.-ided in each. Even the ves- Isels u.svd in a dairy temple vary in sanctity. thoiJe that contain the ntilk being more sacred than those that onl.v receive the i>rouucts of the churiiinc. (ore Dora Asunt;i, one of my own people. IJcforc the stranger and be- lorc my own I have been itisultoUl' O ! si e was divine ! She is true queen, end true woman too. With- ".'Vnd her eyes spoke as well as her lips. 'I'he.v did not speak of Stato affairs)" "Dora .\sunta !" "Is it usual for a Queen, when out pasion what is a woman, what giving couuiiands to her servants, to is a queen? Smooth monotony a^ U-on upon his oral'?" man tires cf in a day, a kingdom '| --Her Maie-tv was fatiguodi the learns to scorn in a week. A spice explanation is'not due to you, but 1 ol th» dovil ia welcome even iu » give it." â- aint. "But the peace is matTe ?" said Hector. "Tie peace was never broken, iny friend: it was only proved. It is •trf»ngthonpd now." "I am glad." Hector, being a man of some im- •gl nation, had feared Hk; meeting with Asunta; not so much b.v reason ! niettos who see tho of coubt of himself, for he bad sud)- pl^j iiin-_ senor slent restraint to avoid making any reference to that lurid scene at Kri- gaocta; but he had measured Asunta to his own satifactioii, and he felt certain that she would recur to tho teipossibie subject. The first few formal ;»hra8cs tliat. passed made hha think that his forecast was luijust : but Asmita was cleverer than 'i*-''' i„g she prrried pKv with all her card.s on the table j ..j ^.j ^^.^^^ j ^.^, „,j,,j^ ^^, To loan upon his arms with both hands ?" "You aic too .voung to piny dueni- ua, madame" "The arm of an adventurer, too â€" who comes no one knows whence â€" who is no or.e knows who." "That her Maje-ty tru.sts me " Is not suflident for those Pal- game you ar«» "The game 1" "God gave me wits, senor, and I have not let them rust. 1 have seen what I have seen, and I do not trust you." That night at Frlganeta sprang to his remembrance, and it must have lunged fro »i bis eyes, for like lightn- bHd led him to conclude "Den Augustin B«>ry of temper." "That is to say he Is a true â- ictto,'' Hector replied. said she, "U I'j.J Pal .your show of candour, your enthus- ism, Don Baldassaie" â€" again that name â€" "and I offered you m.v love. I know you nowâ€" your schemes, the wobs you are weaving round tho "Vet surely his life of self-sacriflco tjuce:; â€" everything. I hate her, but, •hould win him »ume consideration." |.«<anta Maria ! how I hate youl" •Her Majesty will not forget what 1m due to lim." "Vou know her Majc-;ly'» well 7" "J I avc the lu;njr to be somewhat In her lonfidvnce, and I think 1 Are you mad ?' No. The Queen is â€" you oic. But mind i Palmetto shall be saved without th*- I help of either of you" "What do you mean ?" â- '{!o or, .senor, go on. I'l >t and know something ol her kin'diioss of: plan and schemeâ€" you will fnil a lit'j^, ». â- â€¢ ' noiuau's wits ."ihai'icr i;i tlte cad. A r.AD BHK.VK. â-  At last Mrs. Newlywcd rose to her feet at the annupl bu.sinc-s meeting cf the Ver;, -best-society Club "Nonii'^ations for the pre idency being in order,'' she Ka\'>, "I pro- pose tho name of Mrs. Tc'n:le. feedings It is the oldnion of a majority of us he;o that she is our onl.v jucnibcr Capable of filliri.g our retiring presi- dent's slices." Mrs. Tondcrfeeliiigs sprang up hast- ily, I.er c.\ cs bia;:ing. "You horrid, hateful thing !" she cxd.iinied, "when .vou l.now as well as 1 do that she wears three sizes larger than 1 do, and always has I I won't have ,\our old roniination â€" $o there, now ! " CnVRCII UOBHF.UY. Si Mcdders â€" "So they charged ye twent.v-live cents fer .vcr supper at the church fair ?" Josh 'Wiliiflitrce.â€" "Yn-as; they soaked it to me, b'KO.sh ! Why. all 1 et w.TS some scalloped osysters. an' situffed veal, an' devi'ed ham. an' chicken-salad, an' ^-ork an" beans, an" a leetle piece o' lemon pie. an' some coffee an' doughnuts an' pecan- nuts." ALL DOWN. Mrs. Newlywcd â€" Doctor, that bot- tle of motliclnc you left for baby is all gone. Doctor â€" Inipo^ihle ! I told you to give him a teaspoonful once a" hour. Mrs. Newlywed â€" Yes; but John, and I. and mother and the nurse have to «ach take a teaspoonhil. too. in order to induce baby to take It. It is a matter of record that some 10,000 Jap,anese women volunteered to get to the front as nurses in the field hospitals at the outbreak of tho Chinese war, and advices from Japan state that the number of women vol- unteering to go to the front as nurs- es to-day is greater than iu 1895. But the women who stay at home are not lacking in patriotic devotion. There is an anecdote concerning the mother of the heroic Commander Sa- kamoto, who was killed on the bridge of his ship, the Akagi. at the battle of Yalu. which shows how the spirit of patriotism dames in the hearts of Japanese women. An ol5icial of tho Navy tepartment called on the family of the naval of- ficer to convey, as delicately as pos- sible, the news of his death. Having communicated his tidings to a mem- ber of the family, he was about to depart, when the shoji slid open soft- ly and the aged mother of the dead commander staggered into the room. She had been an accidental eaves- dropper and had heard all. Tremb- ling with emotion she bowed low to the visiting olhcer and said: "Tell the Emperor I rejoice that a son of mine has been able to be of .son!o service to him. " Some Japanese women refused to weep over their dead, because it was considered disloyal to the Mikado to wcop for those who had had the hon- or to die fighting for him. When a wifo or a mother heard that a hus- band or a son had been killed in bat- tle, tie first e.xpression uttered, was an acknowledgement of the honor conferred upon hor bv the gods in being bereaved for the CAUSE OF THE EMPEROR. To the Western mind such patriot- ism appears to be fantastic and hard to understand. In tho light of Jaj)- anese history it does not see;p so strange. The spirit of patriotism in tho Jap- anese women of the present genera- tion is the outgrowth of ages of feijliilism. Tho loyalty and devotion whicrt the women of past generations gave to their feudal family head ore in tho i>reseiit generation given to the Mikado. In time of war tho Empress of Japan sets an oxainplo for all tho women of tho country by her activi- tiis in behalf of all tho.se who arc sulTering or in distress. She may be seen frequently visiting the great military hosjjitals, accomiianied by a part.v of court ladies and noble- n.cn's wives. Following the example of the Em- press, all tho prreat ladies of Tokio societ.v do what they can to relieve the distress and suffering that inevit- ably follow war. There is no class of Women that does not contribute something to this cause; even those butterflies, the geishas, and the un- happ.v creatures in the Yoshiwaras give their share. It is not only the women of the sa- murai class who .show passionate patriotism in wartime. AH classes of society are reprosontcd in the mod- ern Japanese arm.v. and tho i>oosant woman has given proof that she is quite as devoted to the Mikado as the samurai lady. A story is told of an old peasant woman who sent her only son to fight for the Emperor in the Chinese war. By depriving herself of every- thing but tho barest necessaries of life, and toilinir eorly and lote in the fields, she had been able to give her son a sut)erior education, and she had tho satisfaction of seeing him fairly started on a business career. which proniised to be lucfleasful. irtuM the call to arms sounded. The little pcaiiant mother bad* Mf â- on give uji his business and antai the ranks of the army. The boy dM as his mother wished, and his regV ment was one of the first to set tooi ON CHINESE DOIL. Every morning just before daybreal the little peasant woman rose and, after meaking a careful toilet, as aj orthodox Buddhist she went to a little shrine nearby .and prayed to Ojin, the god of war. She did no! p.ra.v for her son to come home saf* and sound, but she pra.ved that he might prove worthy of the honor ol wearing tho Mikado's uniform. One da.v, when the old woman waa returning to her homo from the tem- ple, she met a messenger who told her th«t her son had been killed in the attack on Port Arthur. The mothers eyes grew dim with tears, and she swayed unsteadily for a mo- ment. Then she turned and .started to go back to the temple. "Where are you going?" cried the niessemrer. "Don't .vou understand what I say? Your son has been killed." "Yes, I understand." said the old woman, calmly, "and I am going to thank Ojin for the honor he has con- ferred upon me." The .lapanese woman who above all others distihguished herself in wartime was the Empress Jingu Ko- go, who led a Japanese arm.v in per- son to Corea in 203 A.D. and con- quered that country. .She was equ- ally renowned for hor beauty, her pietv, her energy and her martial va- lor." She assumed the supreme power on the death of her husband, the Mika- do Chiun.ai. in 200 A. D.. and immed- iately demonstrated hir military gen- ius by suppressing a formidable re- bellion. A few yours later she in- vaded Corea, and quickly subjugated that country. .She dressed in male attire and fought at the head of her soldiers. After her return from Co- rea she gave birth to a son, who became the Mikado Ojin and like his mother a groat warrior, Jingu Kogo is worshipped as the goddess of wai in J.apan to-day, and her son Ojin a» the god of war. • The history of the feudal warfari in .Japan is replete with instances ol the heroiism of the women. It oitei ha;)pened that the wifo of a daimie was called upon to defend the casth from attack during the absence o her husband. She was well qaalifieo for the t,-isk both by training and e.xperi.'nce. Considering what Japan has been in the past, it does not seem strange that the Japanese woman of to-dav should poEse.ss a keen martial spirit and intense I'atriotism. BURIED LANDSCAPES. One of tho most curious results ol I geological exploration is the discov- .ery of "buried lanci'scapio;." by Hhich ! is meant parts of tho former Vace ot the earth now covered under latoi deposits, but yet retaining so man.v of their original features that th( geologist can ideally reconstruct thi : scenes that would have been pn-sent- od to tho e.ve of man if he had boi^n I roseiit among thorn. SomotimL-; 'buried landscapes exist in coiuitrioi now den.sely inhabited. Recent in- ivestigation has shown that one lies j beneath tho region in England known j as Charnwood Forest. Tho rocky projections seen there are the pc-aUs and aretes of a buried mountain chain belonging to tho old red so.nd- Ktone period. Several diflercat phas- es in the history of this laiidseai>o ! have been traced. At one time it 'contained salt lakes and desert ex- I pauses. In its modern form it is a pastoral rogion. with barren, ston.v tracts and rocky oinirionccs whore the ancient mountains project through the soil. WHY SNOW BURSTS A CUN. j In a discussion at the Royal .So- ciety in London rocontly of some o.\- pcriments on tho oOects of sudden i piess-.ires, attention was Ciillod to a 'siaguJsr exporionco. which, it was said, people who go shooting in win- . ter sometimes havi-. If tho mui-.'/.lo ol a g'.'n happens to got jiiuggi-d up ', with a little .snov/. the gun iiivari- i ably biirsts when firod in that coiuii- ,tion. Light as the plug oi snow i.<;. I it rec|uires a definite time for a linito I pressure, however greet, to got it j under wa.v, aod diiring this short I time tho tension of tho powacr gases I become so groat that tho barrel of i the ordinar.v fowling-piece is unable I to withstand it. ELECTRIC FISHES. There arc about 50 species of (:sh j known to possess electrical organs I capable of im)<arting a shock. A .special study ot some of them has j recently been made b.v Professor Mc- iKondrick. F.R..S.. cf Glasgow Uni- i versit.v. with .the purpose of ascer- , taining the source of their peculiar 'power. He finds that the oloctricit.v I is generated in specia'.i7A.'d orgnns, which arc either modified muscles or modified glands, stnicturi?s which in all animals manifest electric pro- perties. In eccnom.v of production these electric organs far svrj'oss an.v- thing .vet conlrivi-d by man. just as the lisrht of tho glow worm excels in a similar sensi? out lM.'st «fTorta tc produce cheap illum}«:<tlo«. 'n onc^ case there is a secrtt yet to Ix- din covered.