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A.'t'.,v!‘.>!'«v ^ jv »v »v .♦» »v «*» »♦*»♦✓ >»< »*, I Mildred J* 1 ^ ZSre'Vanion I \fgf ■ij;- B Y T H E D V C H E S S . 4 W{ il? *!♦ t!* ^ • ^K4'. »?' ;J» »♦» >•< <;> .<!< >;> »•< <;< .;/>;< >*< >;« >v CHAPTER XII. This terrible announcement she ut tered as though it could not fail to strike despair and remorse into the hearts of her hearers; and, indeed, in I^ady Caroline's breast it awoke min gled feelings of Joy and terror, though in those of Mildred and Mabel the Joy reigned supreme. Lady Caroline attempted a faint re monstrance, but -was sternly silenced; and on Wednesday, two days earlier than that on which she had originally decided, the old lady, bag and bag gage, swept out of King’s Abbott, very much to the relief of those she left behind. And now came the most trying ume in all poor Mildred's life. During ail of the past weeks that she had been suffering violence at the hands of her relatives, Lord Lyndon had become a constant, untiring visitor at King’s Abbott, taking no rebuffs, nor open slights, nor petulant actions to heart, but, as might a faithful animal, attend ing all the more assiduously to her wants who was his acknowledged mis tress. Patience, assisted by perseverance, has ever been known to work wonders, so it followed that in process of time he became—though so imperceptibly that it was without her knowledge— necessary to Mildred; so much so in- j deed that fewer and fewer grew the slights and unkindnesses on her part, while in their place a certain winning friendliness came and increased, rais ing false hopes in Lyndon's breast that should never have been there. The end of all this was that close upon Christmas-time, somewhere nboui the middle of December, while all their minds were fully occupied with Lady Eagleton's saying3 and doings, Lord Lyndon proposed for Miss Trevanion, and was rejected. This blow might perhaps have effectually daunted an other man; but Lyndon, still following up his trusty Instincts, determined to bide his time and never surrender hope until a more favored suitor took his place. Mildred, having lively recollections of the treatment she had received on a similar occasion, thought well to keep her own counsel in this matter; and so it was agreed upon between them to hold the entire circumstance a se cret from the rest of the family to Insure which, things of course wont on in the usual way, he calling every oth er day and she accepting his atten tions—which were never of the obtrus ive description—in the same manner as formerly. So well did they sustain their several parts that even Lady Harriet’s keen old eyes failed to de tect that anything was amiss. Sir George’s affairs at this time were going from bad to worse. He had be 'n hard at work for the past two months trying to find the ways and means to ward off the inevitable day of reckon ing. and had suggested plans and pur sued theories, all of which his man of business had frowned at and pooh poohed as utterly impracticable. Noth ing but the possession of a large sum of money—and that to be written in five figures—stood Deiween inni aau complete ruin; and how to secure the money was the .difficulty a difficulty beyond all surmounting unlesa some body could be found who for pure friendship’s sake would lend it for an indefinite period, trusting to time and chance for repayment Such a friend was hard to find. One evening Mildred, on her way to her mother’s room, was stopped by a servant with the intelligence that Lord Lyndon had just culled, and was in the drawing-room. • Would Miss Trevanlon go down and receive him, while she informed her ladyship of his arrival?” To which Mildred made answer that she would tell I^ady Caroline herself, and went on to her mother’s apart ment. When she came to the bedroom she found the door closed, hut opening it passed on toward an inner room be yond, where Lady Caroline usually sat, and whence voices, suppressed yet distinct, reached her. As she ap proached still nearer, they rose still higher, and words became intelligible to her ears. “If I do not g“t this money without delay we are simply ruined,” said Sir George, irritably. “Then I suppose there is nothing left you but to tusk Mr. Younge for it.” re turned Lady Caroline, in a reluctant tone. "I suppose not,” said Sir George. Ask Mr. Younge! Ask the father of the man whom she had not considered good enough to marry for money. What could it all mean? Mildred stopped short and pressed her hands tightly together. Surely she had not heard aright. They could not niean- she drew her breath hard and swept like a whirlwind into the room. “Papa,” ehe said, “what are you thinking of? Wlmt have you been saying? I heard you as I came along. Py wl at right do you intend to a$k money of Mr. Younge—of him of all men? What claim have you on him?” “Mildred, you d» not understand,” began her father. “I spen^c of a loan.” “Yes, I do understand,” broke in the girl passionately—“only too well. You speak of a ’loan’; when, then, do you intend to return it—In months, in years? Why, you yourself told ms only the other day you could not hope to see the time the estate would re trieve itself. I ask you, therefore, is it honorable to borrow?" "Something must be done,” Sir George urged feebly, “else we must starve.” "Then let us starve,” cried Mildred, vehemently; "far better do that, or work for our daily bread as others have done before us, than live oom fortably on other people's money. Let us be honest, whatever we are; and surely to borrow without hope of be ing able to repay is the very acme of all dishonesty.” Lady Caroline rose, pale and trem bling. Mildred, she said, how dare you speak so to your father? You have altogether forgotten yourself, I think. How can you presume to dictate to him what is right or wrong? Is he not your father? Are you not his child? Ah, it is because he has been so good to you that you now fall in love and obedienee to him!” It was the first time she had ever rebuked Mildred within her memory, and her voice shook with the unwont ed agitation. “Do not speak to her like that,” In terrupted Sir George, gently, “She is right; she has but spoken the truth. I can now see for myself that my in tention was dishonorable and dishon est.” But Lady Caroline was still stung to the quick. , “And you, you ungrateful girl,” she went on, taking no notice of her hus band's speech, "how can you claim to have any voice in the matter at all yon who could have saved us all by putting out your hands and would not?” “Hush, Carry! ” interpeaed Sir George, authoritatively. “We have had enough of that subject. 1 will hear no more of it. Thinking it over of late, I can see no just reason why Mildred should sacrifice herself to please her family. If I am to be beggared in my old age,” he said, with a wretched attempt at a smile, “the sooner it comes to pass the better.” An awful pain arose in Mildred’s heart; her mother’s words had sunk deep into it. Was she indeed the cause of all this cruel suffering? Was it through her fault that sorrow had fall en upon the dosing years of her father and mother? CHAPTER XIII. Mildred descended the stairs and hurried across the hall, giving herself no time to think of or meditate on what lay before her, and, going into the drawing-room, found Lord Lyndon standing with his back to the fire. She went up to him, and held out her hand. “I want you to do something for me,” she said, in a low, choked voice—“will you do it?” wi ».uuii5r, x win, ut? i xxi liis pleasant, cheery way. “Why do you ask me that? Have you yet to learn that there is nothing In the world I would not do for you if 1 could?" "Hush!" alie said. “I would rather you did not promise just yet. Wait until you have heard my request, for it is no ordinary one. I do not think you can grant it. I shall not think it in the least strange if you tell me you cannot.” At least let me hear what it is,” ho requested, gently. “I want you to lend me, for an Indef inite period, fifteen thousand pounds.” Lord Lyndon was so taken aback that at first he scarcely recognized the importance of an immediate reply. He was rich, certainly—richer far than many men who were accounted well possessed of this world’s goods; but fifteen thousand pounds was a sum that few could put their hands on at a moment’s notice. He hesitated, there fore, for a little, and then recovering himself said quietly: “What day shall I bring it to you? Or would you prefer paying it In any where?’’ “You will give it to me, then? You really mean it? Are yor^ sure—cer tain? Think what a large sum it is, and how small is your hope of repay ment, and do not speak in too great a hurry.” ”1 am sure,” he said. ‘‘I promise you.” "And about securities?” questioned Mildred, trying anxiously to recollect all that she had ever heard about money matters, and not succeeding at all. 4X “We will not speak about securities,” answered Lyndon, gently. “Let it bo an arrangement between you and me alone; I shall trust to you to repay me the moment you are able.” The utter kindlines is and nobility of liis nature touched her to the heart. “What shall I say to you?” she said, in a low tone, while a strange trem bling pervaded her voice. “How shall I thank you?” “Say nothing—do not thank me at all,” he answered, in r. hurried, pained manner, moving pack a few steps from her. Meanwhile time was flying. One, two, three minutes parsed, marked by nothing except the small ormo'lu orna ment on the chimney piece, as it ticked away its Httle monotonous existence. He, gating absently In the fire, be thought him of what all thin might portend; she thought of nothing—re membered nothing—beyond 1he fact ♦ hat. for her, life's sweetness, liberty and tender sympathy were not. At length, rousing herself with an effort, she went up to Leydon and placed her hand on his. Her heart was beating wildly, her face was ash en. “Do you remember a question you asked me about two weeks ago?" she said. "Do you still care to remember it? Because, if so, I have a different answer to make you now.” "Two weeks ago I asked you to marry me,” he replied, in a forcsd, un natural manner. “And then I said ‘No.’" she mur mured faintly; "now—now—I would say ‘Yes,’ ’’ She covered her face with her hands; a thick, dry, tearless sob escaped her. “But I have not asked you to say it,” observed his lordship, coldly, still keeping down with firm hand the ris ing hope that was consuming him. "What, Mildred, do you imagine that, because I have been able to help you in this little matter, I have a claim on you? You are doing both yourself and me a great injustice.” You are too good ior me, sam Miss Trevanion; ‘‘and yet I know you love me. If you still care to marry me, I will gladly be your wife.” “Mildred, Mildred, what are you saying?” he cried, all the Icy brave re serve breaking down in an instant. “Think what your thoughtless words must mean to me—life, hope, happi ness greater than I have ever dared to dream of—and beware lest I take advantage of them. If you are say ing all this—as I feel you are—from a mistaken sense of gratitude or pity I implore you to desist and leave m4 as I was before.” "Listen to me,” entreated Mildred, determined honestly to advocate her own doom, and holding out to him her hands, which he gentl. took and hekl. “If I tell you that I do not love you with that passionate love with which some women love the men they marry, but that I respect you above all living men, will it content you— will you take me as I am?” “If I were quite sure you would be happy,” he began, reluctantly. “I am quite sure I should be happy,” she interposed, and burst into bitter tears as she spoke. After a little she recovered her-self. “I feel nervous," she declared, try ing bravely to appear her usual self, and smiling a wan, faint smile, though heavy drops were on her lashes; “you should have come to my rescue—It is not every day the proposal is mado by the woman.” “My darling,” he said, tenderly ca ressing the small hands, of which he had again possessed himself, “I hope —I think—you will never regret it. Mildred, if I were quite certain that this was for your good, and that you would never wish unsaid the words you have uttered, I believe I might feel satisfied.” “Do satisfied, then,” she returned, but there was a terrible, dull aching pain at her heart, as she gave the expected assurance. When he was gone she weni upstairs again to the room where she had left her father and mother, and found them still there—Sir George standing at the window gazing out upon the snow-covered ground, Lady Caroline before the fire, as though in the act of warming herself. The traces of tears were still upon her mother’s cheeks, and even as Mildred gazed a heavy drop fell upon her lap. “Mamma, be comforted,’’ cried Mil dred, coming suddenly forward from where she had been standing unno tfced, in the shadow of the door; “I have done what you wished me to do —I have got the money for you.” Lady Caroline started and turned to ward her; so did Sir George. (To be continued.) WILL NOT LEND THE BOOKS. Collectors of Rare Volume* Have m, Hor ror of the Borrowers. A noted book collector of New York, one whose library is filled with some of the rarest treasures of the biblio phile's heart, recently complained of the total lack of the collector’s spirit among literary men. “I was recently asked by a literary man to send him a copy of an extremely rare book that I have on my shelves to aid him in some work that he is doing. Now, I want to help him all I can, and if he will come to my house he can have the use of the book as long as he wants it, under the most favorable circumstances. But send him the book—no, under no cir cumstances! It is not the fact that it is worth hundreds of dollars anywhere in the market, but the fact that if damaged or lost it would be utterly ir replacable that makes the collector shudder. If it were lost or spoiled Mr. Literary Man would send an abject let ter expressing his deep contrition at an untoward accident, perhaps with a check inclosed, but. of the real horror of the situation I think ho and his tribe could have no inkling.” Improvement* Upon National Cap'tol. About $300,000 will be expended upon ftie capitol at Washington durinjritin congressional recess. Many desiroblt improvements will be made, and the architect of the capitol has been au thorized to prepare and submit plain for the reconstruction and tiieprooT lng of the central portion of the huild ing and the renovation and redocora tion of the rotunda. Plans aro also to be prepared for a new fireproof building adjacent to the capitol grounds to be used for additional com mittee rooms, storage and power plant. ECONOMIC ASPECT. RECIPROCITY CONSIDERED FROM THIS POINT OF VIEW. The Forclnj Out 1'rocr** of EitandlRg ■'•relKi) Trade Ha* Invariably Horn Attended with Srrium Dcyrordou of llomvatic Industrie*. Such Is the suggestive title of a lec ture delivered before the students of the College of Commerce in the Univer sity of California, on the evening of April 4, liy Mr. John P. Youug, of the San Francisco "Chronicle.” Mr. Young is the author of "Protection and Progress,” a work of great strength and importance, which made its ap pearance last year and attracted very wide attention. Ranaing, as he docs, among the ablest economic writers of the day, Mr. Young's views regarding “The Economic Aspects of Reciprocity’’ are sure to command respectful con sideration. Inquiring into the causes of tho rise and fall of nations, Mr. Young makes tho terse comment that "the cause of decay In most instances was due to the failure of the defunct to mind their own business." There Is pertinent sense in tne remarK mai in almost every ease “nations which en gaged in the work of empire building pursued the economic course of neg lecting the development of their home resources.” Economic backing is es sential to permanency of government, and solidarity is best promoted by de veloping domestic industry. Advocates of reciprocity ignore or fail to compre hend the wastefulness of trade arti ficially promoted. They sec a chance to sell larger quantities of machinery to Russia by taking Russia's sugar on terms more advantageous than those granted to other countries; but they do not see that sound economics re quire that Russia shall make her own machinery; that we shall produce all the sugar we need, and that hauling machinery and sugar back and forth is, therefore, an unnecessary waste. They fall into the Cobdenito error of think ing that present cheapness is the only thing to be considered and that the people of today owe nothing to the generations to come. The wane of Egypt’s power and pres tlgo is traced by Mr. Young directly to the mistaken policy of Ramses III. in opening up reciprocal trade relations with Phoenicia und Syria. Egypt fell a prey to her more vigorous rivals, and became a heterogeneous population without a national aspiration, “a con dition which inevitably ensues when the solidarity of interests which a pros perous domestic industry promotes is Impaired by exchanging commercial independence for a state of depend ence upon foreigners.” The manufac turers of Egypt and of Rome, says Mr. Young, were constantly trying to push their surplus wares ou other peoples, and, like some modems who are clam oring for an “open door,” they over looked the fact that when a door is opened it permits egress as well as In gress. In short, they suffered the ex perience through which Great Britain is now passing, the destruction of do mestic industry through the flood of rival products that followed the forc ing open of the trade doors of foreign ers. The interests of individuals will always prompt them to adopt methods which consider their own advance ment at the expense of the community. It should be the aim of statesmen to restrain and not promote this tenden cy* It is a powerful enough factor when unaided, and influences the des tinies of men sufficiently without the direct help of lawmakers. In conclusion Mr. Young says it may be urged that a national policy such as here outlined is narrow and selfish, but reflection will convince any un biased person that in the long run Its operation will prove universally bene ficial. Certainly it is no great eco nomic achievement for a nation to flourish in brilliancy for a short pe riod and then decay. But that is the fate which has overtaken many com mercial nations, and it seems to be the destiny of Great Britain to share it. When a writer like Mallock coolly tells his countrymen that they must consider the propriety of emigrating as soon as their coal mines are worked out, he indicts the system he extols, for lie virtually advises a reversion to nomadic conditions. That is what the forcing-out process tends to. Through out the ages it has resulted in the shifting about of commercial centers, and is responsible for the attendant evils. It has made industrial people campers by the side of raw materials. Today they are exerting themselves to get rid of the bounties of nature as speedily as possible; at some future day they will be compelled to abandon the field of their operations because it is worked out, and resort to other countries, perhaps the very ones upon which they lavished the surplus -they should have conserved. This is not intelligent, nor Is It economic. There sught to be a.more rational scheme, but it will not develop until economists begin to teach that synchronous uni versal development promises better re sults than those attained by pursuing a course which operates to prevent the advancement of backward peoples. If the world were created for the enjoy ment of the existing generation, the forcing-out process might have some justification. But it has not been. Other generations are to come after us, and we owe an obligation to them. Economists must keep this in mind. They cannot, they dare not, take for their motto, “After me the deluge.’’ l!o«'t Sugar I’rotloi-llnn. The statistics of the be. t sugar In dustry, as summed up in a census bul letin, show that, after many years of manufacture on a small scale, it In. asst med large proportions, and in tlie census year more than one-third of the domestic sugar product was obtained from the beet. This quantity of sugar, 70 per cent of which was suitable for immediate consumption,was produced in a year of extremely unfavorable ag rueultUral conditions in the beet dis tricts. The yield of beets per acre was less than half that of an average sea son. The factories could readily man ufacture more than two and one-half times the quantity of sugar produced, if supplied with sufficient raw material. —Pittsburg Times. A CELEBRATED CASE. Federal Court Dedftlon Which Strike* » Wow at t'mlervaluiitton. A legal question of extraordinary in terest and importance in Its varied bearings and its remarkable possibili ties has just been decided by the United States Circuit Court of Ap peals. In the year 1898 the treasury department learned through reliable sources that a system of large under valuations existed in connection with the importation of embroideries from Switzerland and other countries, by the instructions of the department different customs officers took up the subject for customs investigation, and during the following year this class of merchandise coining especially from Switzerland was advanced from 30 to 40 per cent by the appraiser at New York, and this action by the appraiser was appealed by the importers to the United States board of General Ap praisers, where tho cases were heard by General Appraiser Sbarretts, who promptly reduced the advances referred to above to 4% per cent. One appeal was left to the govern ment, namely, from one general ap praiser to the full hoard of general appraisers, and it was expected and believed that the collector at New York would promptly appeal tho case. He not only did not appeal, but re fused to take tliis action, and was fi nally overruled by the treasury de partment and ordered to appeal the cases to the full board of general ap praisers for final adjudication. The full board of general appraisers sus tained tho original advances referred to of 30 and 40 per cent. The case was taken before the classification branch of the General Board of Ap praisers on the purely technical ques tion of jurisdiction, and this branch of the board decided in favor of the im porter, thus invalidating the action of the full board of appraisers. The treasury department then took the case to the United States Circuit Court, and Judge Townsend, following his usual inclination, turned down the government, thus sustaining the ac tion of the collector of the port and of General Appraiser Sharretta. The treasury department again ap pealed the case to the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Sec j ond District of New York. The decis I ion has Just been handed down from this court, which reverses Judge Town send, Collector Bidwell, General Ap praiser Sharretts and the Classification Board and sustains the position taken by the government. In legal points and stripped of con fusing technicalities, the case is this: Enormous undervaluations existed. This was proved and confirmed by the highest court, hut the collector of the port claimed and actually exercised the absolute right of final judgment as to whether the government should or shouid not appeal from an unsatis factory appraisement by a single mem ber of the Board of General Apprais ers. Had the decision of Collector Bidwell been sustained the govern ment would have been compelled to rebate $134,000 to the very un lerval uera who now are paying duties based upon the final appraisement made in this case. It would have had the effect of practically placing the appraising department of the government in the hands of the collectors of customs throughout the country, and of strip ping the treasury department of the power to compel the collection of rev enues to which the government was entitled under the law. it would hav« made a subordinate officer of the treasury department superior to the secretary of the treasury himself, su perior to the courts, superior to the law. it would have made the local collector "the whole thing," as re gards valuation, appraisement and the collection of hundreds of millions of levenue. Fortunately the United States Circuit Court of Appeals saw the danger and the illegality of such a Etate of things and smashed it. A GOOD MAN TO HAVE PLEASED / v*' Farmer \Zjk - Anierlcas^amer-^^s, protection Is all right. All my crops sold, all m;» mortgages paid off. and everything • can raiso this year sold ahead, THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. LESSON VIII. MAY 20—ACTS II: l-ll. Golden Text: When Ho, the Spirit a! Truth Is fume, lie Will Guide Tna Into All Truth—John 1C: 13—The Holy Spirit Given. 1. Anil when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord In one place. 3. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it tilled all the house where they were sitting. 3. And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of tire, and it sat upon each of them. 4. And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance 5. Amt there were dwelling at Jerusa lem Jews, devout men, out of every na tion under heaven. fi. Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them speak In his own language. 7. And they were all amazed and mar veled. saying one to another. Behold, are not all these which speak Galileans? 3. And how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born? It Partitions, and Modes, and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia, and In Judea, amt Cappadocia, in Pontus, and Asia. lo Phrygia, and Pamphylta. In Egypt, and in the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and strangers of Home, Jews and prose lytes. 11. (’rotes and Arabians, we do bear • hem speak In our tongues the won derful works of God. The apostles, filled with the Holy Ghost, and speaking divers languages, are ad mired by some, and derided by others. Whom Peter disproving, and shewing that Hie apostles spake by the power of the Holy Ghost, that Jesus was risen from the dead, ascended Into heaven, had poured down the same Holy Ghost, and was the Messiah, a man known to them to lie approved of God by ills miracles, wonders, and signs, and not cructflsd without Ills determinate counsel, and fore knowledge; lie baptlzeth a great number that were converted. Who afterwards de voutly and charitable converse together; the apostles working many miracles, and God dally Increasing his church. What Was the Gift of Tongues? The apostles at this time actually spoke In the languages mentioned. Hut many, i comparing lids account with 1 for. 14. think that the gift was of ecstatic utter ances of God's praises in various lan guages us mouthpieces of the Spirit, but without any permanent knowledge of tho languages for use in preaching to all the world; others, that it was a permanent gift to help the disciples in their mission ary work. Little is known for certain. Hut there is no trace of anyone being compelled to spend a long time in learn ing languages. Paul, who traveled most, declares that he speaks "with tongues more than ye all" (1 for. 14; IS), nor is it said that even at Lvstra he did not un derstand the Lycaonlun dialect. Professor Ramsay, In Ills late book, The Church In the Roman Empire, says that in Asia Minor, while most books were written In Greek, and Greek and Latin were used by the officials and the educated, the great body of the people, to whom l’aul preached, knew only their own dialect. Twelve unlearned men, chiefly Galilean peasants, could not well evangelize the world without the gift of tongues. As Greek then, so "English now veil! carry a man over the world, but English will not enable Idm to preach to the people of In dia or of China."—Professor Stokes. Illustration. Professor Stokes makes use of the scientific fact of hypnotism, which shows that "it is impossible to as sign any Mndts to the influence of the mind over the body," to show that such an importation of the gift of speech Is certainly possible. Illustrations. The great forces of the world are invisible, as steam, when pow erful enough to. do work, as electricity, as chemical forces, the X-rays, gravita tion, We recognize them by special mani festations. We know electricity is every where, by the lightning. We know it is in the wire by its light, or motor work. There is need of these special manifesta tions. The Greek word for spirit is used In both senses,—wind and spirit. 1. It is an invisible power of which no one knows "whence It eometh or whither It goeth." No weather bureau can predict the wind beforehand, but only when it recognizes it in one place, can Judge by the direction whether it will go to another. 2. It Is very powerful. The air Is so powerful that even free dynamite smiting against It on one side crushes the rocks on the other. 3. Yet It is very gentle and delicate, breathing around the rose, and gently touching the little child. 4. It comes pure from heaven. 5. The air is all-pervasive. It penetrates the hardest rock. 0. It Is the breath of life. No one can live without It. _ “We are but organs mute, till a master touches the keys— Verily, vessels of earth Into which God poureth the wine; Harps are we, silent harps that have hung on the willow trees. Dumb till our heartstrings swell and break with a pulse divine.” John the Baptist had said that “Jesus shall baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with tire.” Fire is one of the most expressive symbols of the Holy Spirit. Fire, shining in light, Is mysterious in na ture, Ineffably bright and glorious, every where present, swift-winged, undetiled, knd undeniable. 1. It represents the revealing power of tlie Holy Spirit, shining into each soul, and illuminating it as a house when the lamps are lighted within: as a twilight scene when the sun rises upon it. Mining: Inhibition for Itemll^o. Bendigo, perhaps the most famous of Australian gold fields, is preparing to celebrate its jubilee by holding a min ing exhibition. It was in October, 1851, that the first nuggets were found by an old shepherd on the spot where Golden square now stands. Since then Bendigo has contributed 17,169,680 ounces to the gold output of the world. The old shepherd was a pugnacioou3 and quarrelsome person, hence he was christened by his comrades "Bendi go,” the name of the most renowned English prize fighter of that period. WISE AND OTHERWISE. Confidence i3 the champion of suc cess. A blush on the face is better than a blot on the heart. Ignorance shuts its eyes and im agines it is right. Lots of busy people never seem to accomplish anything. The more promises a man makes the more he doesn't keep. The harder it is to acquire anything the longer we retain it.