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i|r 1 / m KSTEBMS KET OR, PLANNING FOR THE FUrUKE. « CHAPTER II. curro-d early iu December, I realiz- ed that the girl's own health was With a sharrly indrawn breath, failing, and again I urged her to Q^raM turned to the table, took break up housekeeping and eoiue to up MIm Winchester's letter, and me. She still refusel, and seemed began to unfold it, strangely nervous and troubled i'l had almost forgotten it," h© when I pressed the matter; she aajd wearily; "but I will read it even appeared to bo restless and »loud« for you will be interested uncomfortable during tlio little vis- in'its cohtonts." it I was making her, and I iccord- '•'Perhaps there may be some ingly shortened it, returning to thiiigB in it which I should not m own lonely home earlier than hear," Lady Bromlcv gently ob- J liad intended. I neither heard iectod. "If there was auy vital from nor saw her again unul early socreb in coanection with your mo- "^ winter, when, one odd, stormy ther's marriage to Mr. Brewster, it ^^y, the child suddenly appeared m^ be as well for it to remain before me, looking very ill and •- •• wretched. I reauztMi at once that she was in no ordinary trouble ; but I took her to my heart and bade hor coniido everything to me. Then haveTlwaysTeen To^gfy^^io J l«arned the reason of hor strange su«h to every one but yourself." VHnw thoughtful you always ar^l" Gerald replied, an.t» bending an appreciative look upon her "You have always been so gi . , â-  , . m€ I find myself turning to you in behavaour, and her persistence in every emergency, almost as natur- l^""^ ''""*' \" *'''° ^^'^e that had «Uy as I would if you were my mo- always been hers. Bho h.ad been jUj^j, .. a wife Biuco the month of April «.'--â-  • â€" •• - â- â€¢ • previous! A y-uiig manâ€" Adam Brewster, by name, and a student "Thank you, Gerald, for that as- si?;-a.iiCQ, anid I trust that you will , , , x* ^- ^ u always allow me to act as such in *' Yalo-ha^l been attentive to her s« far aa I may. I am sure that some time previous to tho de ith of o«r fondness for each other is mu- tvial," rosponded his companion, with evident emotion. her father. He had taken lessons on the violin from Profe&sor Harris, as a bliud, and lor the sole pur- •"Then I shall havo no secrets P9«« ,«f epabling him to woo and from you," he smilingly returned; '""i the heart of his lovely daugh- '_'60 I will follow ray first impulse ^f/ and read Aunt Honor's letter to jou. Sit here," he added, placing a cotiitortablo rocker for hor, and ^ben, when she was seated, he brought the dismantled Winchester Mr. Harris did not approve of his attentions, and had openly discouraged then. ; but. immedi- ately following his death, young Brewster persuaded her to marry him secretlyâ€" at least, their rola heirloom and placed it before her. ti""^ were to remain a secret only ^ "P„f. vn,,,. fp...f nnnn fhia sa.TMl "itil his ooUege course wa.s end- Put your feet upon this sacred as such I shall ^^ which would bo tho following summer, when ho would immwliate- ly establish himself in business, and then take her to a home such as he wished her to c jcupy " fepo.sitory â€" for henceforth regard itâ€" and take your f^aso. How this poor relic has fret- ted rae every time I have packed my trunk 1 But now it could not 4.<e purchased from me for its .weight in gold, aud very soon wc .will have it made ov^r into a ftt- "ting ornament for your room." • Then, drawing another chair op- •posile her, he began to read from ,>li8.5 Wincliester's letter. "My dear boy," was the tender when, once settled upon a firm foundation, he would tell the truth, aad introduce his bride. If he hoped to yet carry out this project, he knew he must obey his fatlier, and so he conseiiied to the tour abroad. "He left a Imndsonie .sura with Miriam for her immediate needs, promi.ning to send her more, as he received his own rcnattances, and forward his address as «oon as he knew just what his movfcinents were to be. He said it would be best to still preserve the se^'ret of their re- lations to each otln-.r : 'but ere tho snows of winter fell kIio would be openly acknowledareu before the world.' Miriam trusiLed him impli- citly. She promised to do exactly as he wished, aad that promise proved fatal to her. It signed her own death-warrant and robbed you of your birthright ; for, from the hour of their parting until her dy- ing day, she novei heard one word from the man who h.-ut pledged him- self before God and man to love and cherish hei so lo.ig as they both should live." "Oh! hov,' cruel I how cruel!" murmured Lady Bromley sorrow- fully, while Gerald gritted his teeth savagely, his face like a mask of chalk, a lurid light in his eyes. "The poor girl hoped and waitwl until longer waiting would have compelled her either to betray her secret and produce tho proofs of it. or become the target for a scan- dal-loving public," the young man road on. "She had not confidcv. to her husband the fact that be- fore tho anniversary of thoir mar- riage should come round sho hoped to become a mother. She feared that the knowledge might trouble him during his absence â€" three months would soon pass away, and her news would sttfely keep until then. "This was the srul .story she told me when '*i)e came to oio, th.-vt dreary winter Uiiy, and asked me to give her food -ind shelter until Kho could die and hide in tho grave what .she h.-ul begun to boiicve was her hhame. She would not hear one word against the .author of hor mis- ery â€" she siill loved him with idola- trous affection, and even though she could net fail to believe herself "Oh! how strange!" suddenly broke forth Lady Bromley, in a voice of such intense pain that Ger- ald turned to her in astonishment. "I â€" I mean how strange it is that girls will allow tliemselves to bo drawn into such snares," she hastened to explain, while she of~address,' "I do "not know struggled to regain her self control. to brin^ up her boy in utter ign r- ance of his parentage, at least up- on his father's siuo. I was to do the best I could for him, and trurt the rest to Godâ€" if, she added wear- ily, there is any God. I have of en wondere.d why she did not dV-sc ly the proofs of her marriage, aiid thus preclude the puHsibility of any future knowledge of it. I Imv-;' sometimes thought she meant to do so, for she kept them coastaatly by her, but clung to them as long as possible, vainly hoping tha; 1 er husband might come hefor*.- she died. Slie passed away suddenly while I was absent from her loom only a few minuter, and I ffiut.d her marriago-certifioato and !inr wedding-ring clasped tightly 'n her left haiKl, which was concealed be- neath her pillow. I put them both into the envelope containing y'ur baptiamal-cerlificate, Gerald â€" I had had that rite performed for you unknown to her, .and took tho re- spoasibilty of adding your father's name to tho one 'sho had clioscn for you â€" and put them carefully away, feeling that, since she had jiot destroyed your birthright, a Higher Power had wisely ordered their preservation." (To be continued.) BOBSVS UOKSESHOES. Max ftluellcr's Lucky Penny- l*ariicll Stirred Coffee. -How "Wliy cannot they have suflicient resolution-' and moral courage to say 'no' â€" to be firm to resist temp- tation, and tell tlinir lovers that _ ^ when they are rca<Iy to give them . You are I'ar too young their rightful place in the world as! c to!d anything about it at pre- I honored wives, then they will givej „ and yet i am iiripelled to their hand in inarriago ( Oh! aj •vihsn, if ever, this will meet your eyes, for I am greatly exercised in my mind as to the \vis<dora of un 'ravcli.ig tor you tho mystery which •from your birth has enshrouded ,yoiir life. to be Beat, A man mure al)soliitoly governed by pure rea.-.on tiiaji Liord in.a»;auiuy could nut well bo louud, but; in liis diary he reiers to an alter dinner talk about tlie feeling wuich John- son hadâ€" of thiuKio); oneself bound to touch a particiar rail or post and to trend in the middle of a paving stono, anu he adds; "I cer- tainly have this very strongly." in one of his Hibbert lectures Ma.x Mueller said to the students : "Many of you, I suspect, carry a ha'penny with a hole in it for luck. I am not ashamed to own that I havo dc no so myself tor many years. ' ' Charles Dickons refused to lie down unless his bed was pla<^-ed due north and south. He gave notice of the rule before arriving at a a hotel, but a compa.s8 was always handy in his baggage to make sure. Mrs. Ju.^tin McCarthy has told us Parncll gravely cheeked her stirring coffee "the wrong wav" and insisted that she should take another cup. A gentleman of Portrush Hcnt Lord Boberta an old horseshfo wlien things looked ill in South Afri<ia. Grntflfullv ncknowledeimr it, the General added that ho would i keen this horseshoe in eompanv I "with f>r<e picked un the d;iv T •♦♦â- â™¦â- â™¦-♦♦♦•♦â- â€¢â™¦â€¢â™¦â™¦â™¦â™¦â™¦â™¦t ♦♦♦•♦♦♦ ♦• ♦ ♦• * : About the Farm : ♦• ♦ ♦ ♦ PRODUCING MILK. After a year's observation with the herd at Cornell Univerbity ex- periment station, H. H. VViug, pro- fessor of dairy huEbandry, reaches the following conclusions : Ist. With a good uairy herd, carefully fed and kept, milk can be produced for sixty-iivo cents per cwt., and fat for sixteen cents per pound for the cost of food con- sumed. ' 2nd. That individuals of the same breed vary more widely in milk : and butter produced than do the I breeds themselves. 1 3rd. The large animals consumed loss pounds of dry material per 1,000 pounds live weight per day than did tho smaller animalB. 4tn. 'i'hut in general the best yields of fat were obtained from cows that gave au Icabt a fairly large how of milk. 5th. In general, the cows consum- ing tho most food produced both milk and fat at the lowest rate. Cth. For tho production of milk and fat thoro is no food so cheap as good pasture grass. Ivote particularly "6lh." This being the case dees it not stand to reason that the best results in win- ter months must come from feed- ing the nearest approach to green pasture grass? And is that not silage and properly cured alfaifa'? a deserted wife, yet a lawful wife she was, and she insisted that some triend's hou!»e or undue iiulu mce â€" seme treachery on tho part of others, wa-a what had caused his unfaithfulness. She couimiij^ioned me to have her house Bold, and as I was fortunate enough to find a ready puichaser, her dis- appearance from the place whore she hud always lived was thus ac- counted for, and aroused no ad- vers<i comment. "Her baby was born a month or si.x weeks later, and then 1 begged Miriam to let me .seek her husband, or, in case anything hw' happen6<t to him, seek his father, produce tho i . , .i ,x t- ci i j c c I _i 1 entpr^n < •»<• Ornnee Frt^e State n'>d proofs of her marriage, and de- ! maud that justice and proper re Write out the history of your mother ' secret marriage is u selfish and cow a,r.d your origin, together with cer- , ardly thing for any man to urge up- taiii data aud events, which mav on an innocent maiden, and many possibly become verv valuable to a- on© has had her happmess ruined you some time in t!ic future, and for life by weakly yielding to her jiould otherwise be utterly lostâ€" j lover's persuasioiM.' ' 8 wallowed iu oblivion by some un- I "Yes, I believe that is true," foreseen happening to myself. If said Gerald thoughtfully. we should both live until you at- tain your majority, I should then feel it my duty to tell you every- thing, and allow you to make such use of your knowledge at* you might deem bc-t. If, on the other hand, I should be taken from you before that time, the story would be ready for you, and I should doubtless havo warning sufi&oient to tell you where to find it, togeth'. r with the rojord of your birth. I am not your own aiiut, Geraldâ€" you are not my br-. tlier William's ehild. as I have allowed you to believe. That was only a harmless fiction, to silence curious questions and gos.»iping tongues. He was the captain of a sailing-vessel, and died of fever on a huinewaixl passage from South America. Your father also went across the sea, but uo one has ever known why he nevor came back agiin to his wife. Ycur mother was Miriam Harris, the only child of my sister, who, against the wishes of her family, married Arthur Har- ris, a poor but talented musician. Their home was in New Haven, aud when Miriam was seventeen years old her mother died very suddenly, of he:r.orrhage of the lungs. Her death broke her husband's heart, and he never seemed to have any courage t-o battle with the world afterward, and late the following filter he also j-assed away, after a brief struggle with that- terrible eac.iiy, pneumonia. This left Miri- *ni entirely alone, and I offered her a home with meâ€" I was at that time living in a neighboring town â€" but for some reason, unknown to me then, she preferred to remain ir the city, and continue her music- teaching, which, however, barely gave her a living. She was one of tho loveliest girls I ever saw, pe- culiarly refined in person and man- ner, and possessing a sweetness of temper tiiat hiade her irresistible to almost every one. She told me that she should still k ;ep the old home, which greatly astonished and i/ispleased me, for I folt that the rental of it would materially add to ber income ; while I also felt that it wns no right for a girl of her years ti live alone. Later, I understood the Htraiige freak and her obsti'i Key, as I then regarded her decis ii>?'>. Tl..'> summer following tlie de ..ih ot her father, which had oc- He understoid now that her lady- ship must have been startltvd by learning that tho circumstances attending tho union ot his father were so like the exp^'rioiice of her cwu marriage to Sir Charles Brom- ley; but ho could not quite compre- hend, in view of it.i happy outcome, why sho should be sti exceedingly bitter against the manner of it. "Excuse me for interrupting you," she continued, smiling; "1 spoko ft':nost before 1 realized what 1 was saying." Gerald turned to his letter and resumed : "So Miriam trusted him fully ; but upon the very day of hor husband's graduation, he received a letter from his father, who was a weal- thy banker of New York, summon- ing him inimediatelv homeâ€" lolling I hiiji that his mother, who nt that, time was in Paris â€" was on the point of joining a party to Norway, Swe- 1 <ian, and the North Cape, provided j she could have a proper escort. The } elder Brewster was unable to go | himself, but insisted that Adam was] to staru at onec in his place. The; trip, he stated, v.ould occupy about three mouths, and would be a plea- sant change for the young man, who for so long had been closely confined to his studies. He also said that he had already cabled his mother that ho would sail on the next steamer, so there was no time to lose. The young husband rebelled outright against this arbi- trary comm.and, but more against the prospective separation from his wife; but she, ever generous aid considerate of oth'^rs, advised hiai to do as his father wished, say"n^' that she would do well enough 'n â-  the little while that he would be ab- sent â€" three months would soon slip away, and sho would be there in the old home, to welcome him back upon his return. Adam Brewster realized but too well that it would be a very inopportune moment to confess his marriage and ple-id that he did not want to leave his wife ; he was entirely dependent upon his father, and he foil that if lie should be thrown upon his own resources, he would have a tough struggle for existence. His plan, so he said, had be^n to get him to establish him in some paying enterprise. cognition bo accorded her and her child. But no; she was as firm as t rock â€" sho had promised Adam that their union should remain a secret until he came to claim her and give her her proper pla.;e in the world, and she would never brottk her woi-d. A week later, during one of her violent outbursts of grief, she rupture<l a blo.jd-ve-:- ,i!iothe>- T foi'nd i>t Pfiardebnrg t^e diiv before General Cronje sur- rendered. SIAUTL.VL MUSIC. lustancos Which Testify What .Sol- diers Like BcHl. It is an understatement of deeds .°cl. and [ knew that from that h.iut j of heroism wiiicli delights tne her (loom w: s sealedâ€" thai she | British .soldier, declares hir Arthur would go the same way her mother hud gone before her. She, al.s<j, appeared to realize this, for as so 'i as the bleeding wus stopped she in- sisted that I should pledge myself "I can testify to the great merits of your Emul- sion, especially in all diseases of a pulmonary nature. It ha» saved many lives that otherwise would have yielded to consump- tion ... we keep Scott's Emulsion in the house all the time and all the family use it. "-MR. C. J. BUD- LONG, Box 158, Wash- ington, R. I. Scott*s Ision does ALL it does by creating flesh and strength so rapidly that the progress of the disease is retarded and often stopped. It is a wcnderful flesh builder imd so easy to digest that the youngest child and most delicate adult can take it. If you are losing flesh from consumption or any other cause take Scon's Emulsion. It will stop the wasting and strengthen the whole system. Be sure to get SCOTT'S AI,I. DHUOQISTt Lcl at Mad ron « oopx at Mr. Budlvofi't Itlteiâ€" kill o*»a l« rooUy •roA|I*rj«l.-H»\d rout lDt*rwMa.ilHo»«nr«Md>.^tlBsoiir propAruticn. Juft AAiid as h or.i4 wtjti. itcBlng fbln ri*por. SCOTT * BOWNE 126 W*Ilia(toD St., W. Toraalo Conan Uoyie in "Thiough tno Magic Door, " Anything "in the least "highfaltin' would dtpr<,-ss a body of linglish troops; German troops can march to battle singing Luther's hymn; Frenchmen will work themselves into a fren/.y by a song of glory; hut English poets need not imagino that martial sung is what the British soldier needs, as those instances testify. Our sailors, working th:^ he.avy guns in .South .Vfrica, sang 'Here's Another Lump of Sugar for tho Bird," 1 saw a regiment go into i battle to the refrain of 'A Little I Bit of the Top," The martial poet, I unle-ss bo had tho geniiis and in- sigiitof ii Kipling, wouid nave wast- ed a good deal of ink bet'oro he had got down to such chants a.? these. The Russians are not unlike us in this respect. I remember read- ing of some cidumn ascending a breach and singing lustily from start to tiuiah, until a fe^ survivtra were left vicioriou.s upon the cre^t, ivith the song still going. A spectator inquired what wond- rous chant it was wliich hud warm- ed tiiem lip to .luch a deed (f valor, and he found that the e.\:ul mean- ing of tho wi'ids, endlessly repeated, was "Ivan is in tho Ga'iden Pick-' iug Cabbages." The fact is, I suppose, that a mere monotonous sound m.iy take the place of a tom-tom of savage warfare, ant! hypnoti;^e tho soldier into valor. • WE.VLTH IN PEAT. The promise held forth by a great installation in northwest Germany, for tho utili^ation of the immense peal(-bofc^ that exist there, leads to tho siigg«>.^tioQ iu England that tha huge Bog of Allen in Ireland may next become a great centre of industry. The Gorman uuder- 'taking contemplates the bringing of a large part of the bogs under cul- tivation, logflthor tvith the conver- sion of the peat into fuel, to be caj- ployed in thn developmout of elec- trical energy for agricultural p.ir- po.sfts, as woH as for supplying lighfc and power to a :i umber of towna situated within a racUub of 50 milea. LIVE STOCK NOTES. The sheep that furnishes a coat, both for himself and his muster, does not owe the laiior anything tor his keep, and tho bettor the keep the better the coat. Many persons make the mistake of cutting off tho horse's mane. This is detrimental to the horse s appear- ance and weakens the neck. Even the foretop shoulu be leit untouch- ed as a protection to the poii, good horsemen say. L)uring tho laying season it is no unusual matter for soft eggs to mako their appearance now and then. This is unsatisfactory, be- causo not only is it a sign that something is wrong with tho bird that produces tho sholl-icss egg, but these soft eggs areliablo to cau&a some of the bens to become «gg eaters. Look out for the^stretchcs. Tho symptoms are kaowa by the sheep spreading its legs out and stretch- ing itself. The cause is too much dry feed. The remedy is a bran- mash and an ounce of raw linseed oil. If the liock are fed roots, bran and linseed meal, there is never any danger of constipation. Tlie skillful breeder has developed early maturity and tendency to fat- ten easily. He has done this by taking from tho pig for many gen- erations all trouble or cam about his shelter or subsistence. The re- sult is a breed to which good shelter and plenty of feed <tt all times are especially necessary, and without wiiich they may not thrive so well as these hogs less carefully bred. Several kinds of lice make troubi* for chickens, but the most commoo kinds are the gray louse, which is about the size of the head of a pin aud is found under the wings and about the vent, and the head louse, which is a large gray louse aud attaches itself to the heads of littl« chickens and quickly saps their lives away. Ordinary gray lice find their best breeding place in filth, so the first step iu getting 'i<l of them is to clean up the preiniBea thoroughly. Follow this by painting the roosts and all crevices with kerosene and dusting insect powder on the fowls. For head lice tho host ; remedy is lard ov vaseline rubbed i on the heads of the little chickena. 1 It the roosts are painted over onc« a month throughout the fall and winter, tho Howls will bo kept in better condition and much labor , and loss will be avoided next spring during nesting time. The duft bath should, of course, bo supplied, for it will also help to keep vermin in suhjeetion. As dust is quite cold it should be placed where the sun will warm it in the middle of the day. It is considerable of a task to catoh ev ery fowl in a large fmek and dust them with insect powder. The u«e of the liquid on tho roosts is a much more simple operation, and quite as efficient. Red mites can be destroyed by carefully saturating the perches, boards and cracks with coal oil and crude carbolic acid. "I wouldn't cry like that if I were you," said a lady to little ' .\.ice. 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