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* * » » * w t ’■r' T' -r' Irv the Fowler’s Srvacre^ ^ v? By M. B. MAN WELL >1^ »!< jiV *V *♦# *♦/ •♦# %v *♦# *t/ »♦/ >•# *♦/ *♦* *♦/ *♦/ »♦, 't* x** /*« /,> »,» >}. CHAPTER I. "The dear hoy! It Is almoet too good to be true! Py this time they einixl be married, and Temple-Dene Is saved!" Lady June Templeton sat tapping her feet restlessly on the floor, her durk-blun eyes Hushing and spar kling ax again and again ahe read over a closely written letter spread out upon her lap, flood news—the best of all news - had come that day to the old home of the Templetons. The long, weary years of grinding poverty were at un end. Mi/re, the utti r ruin that threat ened Temple-Dene was averted once and for nil, Little wonder, then, that Lady Jane's eyes danced, and her mouth twitched with unaccustomed smiles. "I must, tell somebody!" she went on agitatedly. And she stretched out her hand to the hell handle, "Send Mlsa I.'dla to me, Somers," she looked round to say to the footman who answered the summons. While Lady Jane waited a slightly anxious pucker mine Into h'T brow. There’s bound to be a shadow behind each human Joy, however bright, and It would be a difficult task for her to tell the good news to the "somebody’’ whom ahe had summoned. It was a cheerless, cold December day—the first of the month. From the distant belt, of the Temple-Dene woods a faint mist was rising. Could the blue skies and the warm sun ever have laughed down on a world so dun and sodden? Would they ever again break through the gray pall of sadness? A slim figure of a girl, with hurt, bewildered eyes and a drooping mouth was moving listlessly along the corri dor In obedience to the footman’s message, and In iAdla Desmond's eyes the gray day seemed to lit in wllh her own “sorrow-shot” heart, Blio almost hoped It would he always like this now—dull and dun, lifeless and loveless. ‘‘You sent for mo, aunty?" She parted tho heavy, faded blue pluato portlero bet warn tho south and **,the east drawing rooms, and looked straight at Lady Jane. "Oh, Leila, yes!" Her ladyship started atid she spoke nervously. "Quick! How slowly you move, child! Come and sit hero by me.” She patted the blue-satin couch on which sho sank. Everything about and around the mistress of Temple-Deno was blue pale blue—for I/ttdy Jane had been a blonde beauty of tho fairest order In her palmy youth. Time had faded the hangings and aattn coverings, the frilled cushions and the hue of her own once rich robe, for Lady Jane Templeton was n miserably poor woman. Evil days had come upon her and her belongings, but they had not quenched the proud woman's spirit as they had that of her husband, Francis Templeton, the dreary, broken man, who snt all his days In the library, a victim to a form of melancholy. The masterful spirit of tho woman bad never rested, seeking a way out of the dark cloud that shrouded Temple Dene. All her hopes of dcllvcrum-s from shier ruin were placid In (Jer vis, the heir and only child she and Fruncls Templeton ever had, Dy day and night site had (spent her energies In rousing (lei vis to the res cue of his family. So the words that had trembled on the lips of GervU Templeton day after day were unspoken after all. From boyhood his heart had been filled with one Image—that of the girl, Leila Des mond, his mother’s eldest niece. They were orphans—Leila and Sybil— daughters of Lady Jan»’s passionately loved younger brother. When ho died bla sister gath; red the desolate chil dren, motherless ns well as fatherless, into her home, bringing th< n up und educating them. But the Instant tho mother recog nised that the girl, Leila, had grown to toe the one woman In the world for her son tho springs of love for her broth er's orphan froso up. Him si most hated Leila, even ufter she had gained her point and separated the two lovers. But It was I sidy Jane's hour of tri umph, und she could today at least afford to be gracious. Tome, n»y dear T/ella,” she repeat ed, "I have iiewi* groii news from my boy.” A shock of fear rau through th® girl, who had crept slowly up to th® faded blue couch. J.uly Jane, bu-lly engt«g"d adjusting her eye glnaae® and spreading out the foreign Inter on her lap, did nut ob serve blanching ehtclui and tumbling Ilf "I have heard from ClervU A vug derful thing haa happened. I,alia Yog will he astonUhed M) boy |s engaged. He has met a »w«*et girl tu Han l-’rau rleco a great hetr«»i„ and -and — writ, I ®up|M«ee they are actually mar ried, for the wedding was A»ed f»r the last dar In November ThU U the Ar»t of the month, •« f all u • II, they are married Can von believe It. India* And. child. Temple lien* l< saved Her money will redeem the dear old home Oh. how. g tn?" Imdy Janes vole® eaded In 4 chub• tag sound fh® w •« h mmtly itua . b* i V* i > I * c « I ng up a |*i i,.k. giving I • 41 he th ight « «t> an Msa •srvs ^ *#• #** V #♦< The word* ran* through the bruin of the listener. (kxl was possibly good to some folk —to Aunty Jane, for Instance, and to the happy girl-heiress whose gold had bought up ladle's own heritage; but God seemed terribly cruel to her. Ho had stripped and tubbed her of all that made life sweet and fair. Ho ladla sat dumb, twisting her allrn, small finger* together on her lap; and I-ady Jane's Jubilant voice went on In her ear*. “Such a letter, my d<ar; brimful of all particulars and details, Every thing I wanted to know la set down clearly. Dear boy, what a head lr* hns for business! The settlements are most generous quite extraordinary If she dies without heirs, everything ab solutely goes to tiervls; If he die* llrvt, Temple-Dene Is her*, supposing there Is no heir. Ho in any ease Temple* Done Is saved, and my life prayer granted." “it seems to be a good bargain for j both." 1/ella spoke at Inst, and her voice j sounded harsh and bitter, though tne j elder lady did not notice It. “A splendid bargain," she wsr, re peating, In all innocence. "And, you I see, tiervls was able to arrange tha j settlements himself without delaying, for I suppose you know, Della, that 1 Temple-Dene Is already the dear boy's j own by mortgage. All bis uncle's money left to Ucrvls was swallowed up In It when he came of age; but that was, after all, a drop In the ocean of debts and dUDcuitles, "However, all that misery is now al an end. This dear girl’s wealth will set the old pine* on its feet. My p >or | husband's life Is a frail thread now. , nigh spun out; but (Jervis will see to It that my future Is an assured one. And, of course, that In Its turn touches yourself and little Hyb My home shall be yours always, Ho, Della, the good news travels In a widening cir* i t ie, and i<kmJim one and all of us.’’ Dady Jane laid her hand on the girl’s shoulder, but Della shrank away quickly. i liuaii in mu* now io i it ho you out, my dear. You ahall sc> tho world and murry well. 1 shall manage that, never doubt It. Oh, how life han changed all In an hour! I ran scarce- j ly realize It that all tho money wor- 1 rles are to be smoothed out. But mr j poor Francis! It he could only have l hold out as I have done. Indeed, h# ! will not even comprehend the glad nows when 1 carry It to him, Leila, ' they say there's a black shadow to every toy. What If w hat If my poor husband's mind goes altogether? It would be better far If (Jod took hlin!" Lady Jane stood up, shuddering with horror. "I must go to him Francis must be told." With a rustle of her faded ullk skirts she left the zoom; but I^-Iln sat on, clasping and nnclaaplng her liu- ' gers ceaselessly, (Jervis married! For this girl the end of the world has come, then. To another belonged the tight of loving her lover, Ych, he had been hers. Of that, at least, site could never be rob bed. Leila, hurt and "sorrow-shot" to the soul, felt bitter and wore. F'or the last couple of years ever since the girl awoke to the knowledge that (Jervis loved her life had been a dream of Uapplners, Into which no ray of doubt had crept. Then came the crash of all fair hopes in the knowledge tbit the love-dream must end. Aud now (Jervis' was married. With a moan 1/cllu would have risen from the couch, but u pair of soft arms held her down. "Darling sis," a breathless, quick voice said, "I know! 1 have heard the news. Aunty has just told me. I could kill him, I could! I hope all tho sorrow^ und griefs in the world will come upon him and her, too. I hope they will be unhappy ever after." ; The hot words came raining fiercely, I and a young face, working eonvul- , sively, was pressed against Leila's Ice- i cold cheek. It was Sybil, the younger sister, warped ulike In mind and body, for tho girl was deformed. A careless nurse had dropped the tinder Infant on the flagstones la the hell. Injuring her spine irremediably. Never would Sybil Desmond walk tills earth straight aud tall; aud she had grown up with a wild, distorti d frame of mind at enmity with all mankind all save the idolised sister, who was all the world to poor, misznapcii Bye. CMAPTKK II "Aih1 you're going to lake me to Kiiglaml for Chrutmut, to your own home. tier*!*?'' "To our (Hint, uiy wife. You mutt learn to eay our*.' not 'youm.' Iliad djr,'* A newly made hualnul and wlf« aat haioi lit hand In the h andaome falai 1* <«i of a train acceding over the i'wnudUn 1‘wiIIl' r<* lw,-*v out* aide wa* the white world of tow fall en enow, while iu the . «r, with It* mlrruta. it* Intelt furniture, lie flow • r« and fruit, It* allken hinging* and It* * «l|li I » >1 mill the Alm<>a|ihr , w «* like mldvntnmer, 1 hey had !>e «u man I d hut a few week*, theee h*»dle*e h uum lover*, and the honeymoon had mu •* >.*i waited t r the young yeli* the <onr»e of true lot* had Mowed with a autuulb new* aliogvihef wymniuilnl There had he* a the ftr*t meeting when the 1 looking tall fwung , Englishman, upon whom ail eye* wer* turned with admiration, find encoun tered the slim round-*} »d heiress of Hiram Kalrweather, the Chicago man, whoa* corner In Iron had mad* him world-famous, Gladdy'* mourning for the dead father had only Just blended Into ten der grays and virginal whites, and th« girl, liberally adorned otherwise with shy blushes, cunning dimples and huppy smiles, was entering the wide ly welcoming arm* of society. Gervls Templeton was the first Eng llshinan of good biitli Gladdy had as yet known, Hiram Pair weathers "boom of luck” had not come In time for him to take his place In the top most circles of American society It hud arrived all too late for th* patient, meek helpmate who was ly ing in a shady corner of > country churchyard, with tired, hard working hands folded restfully. Jt had come too lute to polish their only < hlld Into a fashionable lady by means of a European education; hot Gladys was young scarcely nineteen —arid rarely dainty of face and form, so society willingly accepted the roam uncultured a* it w,<*. and petted her unstlntlngly. Hut society could not keep its new Idol for long. After the first shy look, the first few stammering words, Gladdy had no longer u heart to boast of, though she herself was innocently Ignorant of the fa-t. Por this girl there would never bo any other man than the chivalrous English stranger whom fate had In troduced into her life. No other lovo could ever tukc the place of that which filled her veins with Its blissful ec stasy. Her simple heart secret w as an open page Gladdy knew no gulls wherewith to hide It, The astute dame of fashion who, for a certain handsome sum allowed by the trustees of the wealthy heiress, took Gladdy under her wing, contented herself with smiling blandly at the pretty love scene going on under her eyes. "Happy's the wooing that's not long n-dolng." (Jervis Templeton did not let the grass grow under his feet, un til he had secured tiio matrimonial prize of the hour. And, to do this young Englishman Justice, he fully meant to "have and to hold . , , to love and to cher ish,'’ this fair, sweet woman whom he had won, until death should part litem. "He's got what lie came over hero for,” moodily said one of many dis appointed swains. "That's ho," observed another. "It's always like that. Those dandy Eng lish chaps have only to throw the handkerchief, and the richest of our heiresses, as well us the smartest of our summer girls, are at their feet. Ibthl It’s sickening!” "Oh, come," broke in a kindlier spirit, "surely It's not so barefaced as all that? Though, now I think of It, he does not seem over-head-and-ears in love with that little Kairweather glib There’s tt look In his eyes as If he had missed the chief uini In life, and consequently didn't much care how things went.” Perhaps the last speaker was not wide of the mark. Gervls Templeton ccitalnly had a past of Ills own lock ed carefully away honorably away now. For the young man meant the vows he took upon himself when lie and trembling, shy Glnddy stood together at the altar, lie would love and serve as rvll an lie tould the swoct, young j helpmeet God wus trusting to hla care. Never should she know, If he could help It, that she had come sec ond, not llrat, Into his heart to remain there. So another youthful pair set out for weal or for -woe who might nay as yet? (To he continued.) I* lug II liamu. Khama Is king of the Bainangwato ] tribe. Ills 10,000 subjects are called Hecbanas. because they live In Bcchu analand; but th^v resent this name themselves, and 4b not acknowledge it as a tribal term. Khama Is an old man now lean, hungry and as ugly ns can be; but be Is a very good old man, and In his way has probably done more real good to the cause of the native* In Ills part of the country than any other two doxen nutlve chief*. Ho will not allow any lutoxl > atlng liquor whatever to he sold any w licit) within Ids dominions, lie and all bis people are strict teetotallers, anil there is a heavy line for making tschuala, nr Kaffir beer, a compara tively haiiiiltbb dtvorllon of fermented nicalle meal. Ilu nt<»r«*u« ( «*ai«n« Kvlunit. Many htiuioroins feature* were de veloped In tlie Inking uf the lenau* oi l»0U. One <| i> lion wa* liutlatcd hy ilx* remark "length of reeidenee," \ whit h nan t xpactod to show how long the ptople living lu various lotallUc* at the time of the census had been ihere When the report* rams In It was found that many of these i}uerlea were answered In tig urea In tbl* way: ?oitu, IS 3d, elt- The enumerators had gone ar<>un,1 with a foot rule and had measured the length of the real- j delo ee of the people the) t outlied llltkel I nim«er le Marta. Autwetp has the highest rhtmuey lu tha world It belongs to lbs Mllesr Works loiupaw) and |* tin Ing high the lutel lot tlUMuslef i4 So feet si |(,g twM suit It feel gl the top • OSMS -- mmm - w krriaeial >«<»»•#• %»*>•*«* A Ovitoau ihsmtat ha* analys'd tha aitin- i*l nutmeg* that ara mad# lg IMlgtUMi in twigs i|u*n title*. they lu ► ‘ • i 40 p«r * rat of ati**■■ <1 sobotagvs*. ■ ■ i■——————————— INovel Attempt to Reach [North Pole Explorer Will Erect Trolley ts Carry His Supplies To ihe north pole with the aUl of windmill and trolley llna Is the latest In Arctic exploration, and the plan in only Just disclosed by the return of the steamer GJon to Mammerfect, Nor way. after an unsuccessful search for the Abruzzl experitlon, which It miss ed. The originator of this novel ex pedition Is Lieut. Uauendahl, the Oer insLO explorer, and on account of the secrecy malntalioHl he reached the arctics before hls plan for reaching the farthest north became known to the world. With the story of the methods to he employed the mystery of the absence of dogs In the expedi tion Is cleared Lieut. Hauendahl, who Is of soinu note lu Germany a« an explorer, left size of the vessel to It passed out to | sea. referring to It sarcastically as "Ha lien da hi'a Ice crusher." llut with the return of the Ojoa light was cast on the plan to be pursued, and the story shows Hauendabl Is nearly as daring anr startling as the \ intrepid aeronaut for whom he Is to search. The (}Joa fell In with the Matador at Cape Houth, and on a vlalt to Hauendabl by Captain Magerup the former related how he expects to 1 reach the pole. His plan Is to steam his vessel to the edge of the Ire field, at about the eighty-first parallel of latitude, where lie will disembark his forty water tight supply chests, each weighing 300 pounds. Thereupon Bauendahl and an and the performance will be repeated until the pole In reached. The num ber of chests to be dragged at one haul will depend upon the strength of the wind. The chests were carefully construct ed In Oermu-ny for the purpose. They are shaped like the pulkha, a sledge used In I-spland, and fitted out with low runners to facilitate their move ment over the ke. Where a space of water too large to pass around Is encountered the chants will be lashed together to form a raft, on which the whole party will cross When the Ice Is too broken or uneven to drag the chests by the windmill method, the trolley feature of the plan will lie put Into use The cable will be Mining on bamboo tripods brought along for the purpose. The chests will be hung to the trolley cable by means of hooks, nnd pulled along by the members of the expedition, who will remove each Impeding tripod as they reach It after having fix J another Just behind the traveling chests, Ifauen dnhl calculates IiIh company, split up m VVIN&MU.L. anal CAfck-C. D»»or,iMO RoKia• Hamburg with seven men on a little Ashing steamer, the Matador, in Ail gust last. The objects of the expedi tion—an attempt to reach the north pole and an Incidental search for An drew were known, together with the fact that It carried provisions for two years. Hut just how he was to reach the pole, or make any progress at. all through the arctic Ice in his puny one engine vessel, Lieut. Hauendahl kept to himself while still In Europe There were many who doubted the sincerity of the expedition, and laughed at the rtArt^WWVWWVWWVWWWWV aaalatant will puali ahead, dragging a windmill on ft aledge. To the windmill will be attached a tout cable, which will pay out ua the aledge advance*. Whe lithe length of the cable liaa been run out the windmill will be fixed on the highest ground available and act In motion. The action will turn a wlndliiaa, winding in the cable, to which the aupply cheat a have been at tached by the party remaining behind. When ill Ithe ehuda have been brought u pin thla manner Hauendahl will again puah ahead with the windmill, *Srtrt/WWWVW>^WVWWVWWVV into par tic* of two along the line of the trolley, ran ereet and take if down a« the cheat* are moved forward with out great delay and without bringing the caaea to the ground. The explorer W>j>e* with ten hour* of work a day to make two or three mllea each twenty-four houra, and In thin way rover the COO mllea from hln atartlng point to the pole in a year, allowing 100 daya for delaya due to etorma, intenno rold, etr. He figure* he han Juat enough provlalona for the Journey to and from the pole. Gave $10,000 to Eloping Couple. W. C. McDonald, a wealthy ranch man, whoso cattle feed on a thousand hills, and whose great stone house Is located twenty five miles from t'hey enno, Wyo., followed hard and fast on special trains last week to Inter cept his daughter Anna, who had eloped with Walter Hartwell, a drug clerk at Van Tassels,, the little town near McDonald's ranch. The old man had two big revolvers strapped to his waist, and he told every conductor and hrakemuu and engineer and tire man of each and every train on which ho rode of the many things he was going to do to Walter when he caught him. Hut when the old mini reached Om aha his anger had cooled, and he fell on the hotel clerk's neck and said: "Say, pard, 1 was mad. Yes, 1 was. And I won a-golng to fill that ten derfoot full of plaintive holes. Yes. I were. But, say, pard, It’s all over now. 1 Jest want my little Anna. I’m a poor old lone fool dad, and 1 wants niv little girl, and I want to take her hack home with me, and If she wants to bring that plll-mlxln' dude back with her, why, all right i guess I can stand it If she can. And, say. I've (hanged my mind about a-shootin' of him. Yes. I have, pard. Instead of that I'm a-goln' to give 'em $10,000 for u weddln’ present And there’s more where that came from, pard. Just so'* 1 get my little Annie, pard. I won't have to look at him, anyhow, and If the Injun* don’t steal him ho can roost around the ranch and get his three square meals a day all of his sweet life. All I wauls Is my little girl, pard, that's all.” And at last accounts the telegraph wires In every direction from Omaha were bending almost to the ground under the weight of messages which said: ‘‘Anna, come home and be for given. Ten thousand dollars for yer wedding present 1 won't kick no more on the dude. Anna, conic back lo yer Poor Ole Dad," FLORA OF CHAUCER. Itltn l'i|irtHaluii lu ttulijerllv* l’l*Mur* In Ouler World, Just fi<M» years ago In a little house within the garden of Hi .Mary's i Impel, Westminster, sml the airs of English poetry, Oct. 25, Hop, was a day on which a gnat light parsed beyond the ken of iuen. tUrki tied for a time, Its radiance has brlghleued and duff used itself down the ceuturl a until uow It la the guiding star of all who seek to know our mothar tongue. Chaucer's verse mark* an cpo. h In the English language and literature, Imt atrongly aa It appeals to the bookman, to tha antiquary, and to the thoughtful oh server of those earlier eoadltiona of am lal Ufa. Its study la fputn a leas sa lient point of view of almost equal worth Among tha many critical analyses which thia anaiviraaiy calls forth, a word may well Im given tu Chimera poetry In |t» retattoa lo (he flora of England Not only la livtag therala tha charm of Kdglialt tMd*. tha eoag of lath, the Hollering lawvwe and hreath of meadow sweet, hut Chamer Meat, la i now degree, givtas eaprwwioa to that • ihjes-tive pleasure la the outer world so dtaUhvUvaiy aa clement In modern life, but hitherto unrecognized in literature and almost unknown to Individual emotion. The Intellectual enjoyment of nature Is largely the outcome, the line efflores cence, of scientific study. Slight trace of Its existence Is seen In the older cbuslc*. In Its more subtle phases, even lit Chaucer, the force Is but nas cent The opening words of the “Can terbury Talcs” tell how under the null kenlug Influences of spilng, “lungen folk to go on pilgrimages," an Impulse which was chiefly a physical exhilaration t'tiaucer was himself a typical Knglishmatt. with the love of outdoor life permeating his whole be ing, but the poet's fancy touched to liner Issues that r*> Iph nt tempera ment Ilia tu(g<s bubble over In glad Hrsa S'* “The smale futllee luakrtt mchells.'' and even, when approm long old age, he as* down to write hi* matt clous Isle* Ilk* his owu |*»>kiu lt< vdour. "Halliard he was a> goldtlio h la the shew.*' Triad the Modern Culture Magas ne Ths traveling mas wants full Nr* at hulsla, but k* do-soi t ttbject to half fw» ua Ih* ixllrsxdt IiirunitMiit «< » .mu. We are, for the mom part, I nron •.Unit hm Kami- full of Rood resolves today, and tomorrow throwing them to tin* wind*, today proud of tho nr duoiMUMW of our railing, and girding ourselves to self-control and neif.de nial, tomorrow sinking back to soft tin s and self Indulgence. Not once, n* Beau, but again and again, w# bartoe poare of conscience, and fellowship with Clod, and the hop" of bollntme for what fa. In simple fart, no more than a bowl of pottage Vat.ua Ooda Mmrl holr« |'wiu«t|i| Aimf The compulsory nervine act U eg peeled to heroine g law la t'hlle In a few da.“» I*v this i t the distinction brtWHcu the regular army and the national guard is abolished and i abort service conscript army established, with |nttucuriil ln»truitors. About jnuuu m«n will be under aims nl *11 l tut hi All young Chileans will he It. able for service from nine months to one yi«er st the age ol yu, ih-r*aft.r parsing Into the reserve. H tbert If Held In Chi ego Itcrord Bury Is the g< knowledgiusnt of the good fortune wf other#