* RECIPROCITY PERILS.
MKELY TO LEAD TO INTERNA
TIONAL CONTROVERSY.
ratrlilnr: tip the TurlfT l>y Special Traile
Trcatle* Give* to tavor**! Nation* Ad
vantage* to Which Other Nations Are
Certain to Claim Themeel**■».
The Philadelphia Record, an ardent
advocate of free trade, lias something
really sensible to say on the subject
ot tinkering with tariffs by the ne
gotiation of special trade treaties. It
does not believe in this method of
“whipping the devil round a stump,"
and its reasons for opposing that
scheme of altering duty schedules are
worthy of the thoughtful consideration
of that class of protectionists who are
shouting for reciprocity on general
principles and without a thought what
may be Involved in the seductive pro
gram of buying more from, in order
that we may sell more to, foreign coun
tries. Speaking of the French and Ar
gentine treaties, which failed of rati
fication by the Forty-sixth congress,
the Record says:
"Ln these treaties the protectionists
clearly saw an opening for the ad
mission of the knit goods of England
and Germany and of the wool of Aus
tralia on the same terms. At the same
time they could not discern much com
pensation in the proposed reductions
of the tariffs of France and Argentina
on American import.^ the reductions
being of much more concern to the
consumers in those countries than to
American producers.
"Such is, in fact, the case with all
tariffs on reciprocity arrangements. To
the American people, consumers and
producers alike, a fair and square re
duction of excessive rates of duty is
infinitely preferable to bargaining for
privileges and preferences in reciproc
ity treaties. Nearly every one of these
treaties contained the germ of inter
national controversy. If reductions of
*
duty had been made on French knit
goods in a reciprocity treaty, how could
the same reduction have been reason
ably refused upon the same classes of
goods from England and Germany?
The duties on the wool of Argentina
could not be reduced without making
a like reduction on the wools of all
other Andean countries, or without in
viting reprisals upon American trade.”
Of the two propositions—wholesale
tarifT reduction and free trade in spots
by means of special trade treaties—
the plan of tariff reduction is by far the
fairer. Under that plan the producing
Interests of the United States at least
know “where they are at”; they have
ample notice of the proposed tariff
changos and are allowed the opportu
nity of being heard before final action
V is taken. Under the plan of reciproc
ity treaties secretly negotiated, secret
ly considered and secretly ratified by
a single branch of the law-making
power, the domestic producer discov
ers too late for effective protest that
a game of selfish advantages lias been
secretly played to his injury and very
likely to his ruin. Then follow, per
force, other special treaties with other
| countries anxious to break into the
i great American market, and by the
K time we have run the whole gamut of
f- reciprocity it will be found that we
I have played such fantastic tricks with
our protective duties as to make our
ft tariff system unrecognizable for the
I purposes of a coroner's inquest. tVe
j have parted with the control of the
, home market and taken bread from the
i: mouths of domestic wage earners and
||| their families, for there can lie no in
I crease importation of foreign manu
t factured commodities without a corre
spondingly decreased use and con
\ sumption of domestic manufactured
W commodities.
For once a free trade argument is
[ sound. If we are going into the busi
' ness of tariff revision, by ail means let
1 it be done openly and above board, and
not in dark corners and by the round
about, uncertain, unfair, and most like
■ ly futile device of so-called "reciproc
ity"; or, if we are to have a try at
reciprocal trade treaties, let it be on
m sound, safe and strictly orthodox lines
' laid down in the Republican national
JEt platform of 1900—namely, by tariff
concessions on articles which "we do
f-, not ourselves produce." in any case,
let the issue lie presented fairly and
squarely. If the country is tired of
■ protection and is ready for another ex
periment of "tariff reform" it will have
* the opportunity of saying so next year
at the congressional elections. Then,
if the voters so elect, the way will be
opened for the installation of a free
trade congress and a free trade admin
istration on the 4th of March. 1905.
The American Economist does not
think that the voters of the country
will so elect if the issue of protection
or free trade is submitted to them on
its merits and stripped of the delusive
sham of reciprocity which is not recip
rocal.
PROSPEROUS IN SPITE OF
HERSELF.
Mr. A. L. Watson of St. Louis la
quoted hi tjie New York Times as say
ing in respect to conditions in his
section:
“We have much to be satisfied with,
little to complain of, in respect to busi
ness conditions. On all sides there
are signs of prosperity. Merchants are
busy, labor is fully and profitably em
ployed, building operations are on an
extensive scale, money is plentiful, the
prospects for the crops in our neigh
borhood are very promising, and the
railroads are going on to greater pros
perity.”
“The rain falleth on the just and on
the unjust.” saith the Scriptures; and.
although the state of Missouri did not
sufficiently appreciate prosperity to
cast her electoral vote la the last cam
patgn for tho party and tho policy to |
which all her prosperity is duo, she Is 1
sharing with the rest of tho country
in the good times which Dingley law
; protection has brought to the Ameri
can people. There Is time yet for a
I change of heart; and perhaps four
more years of such prosperity as Mis
j souri is having will bring the state
into line in support of the policy which
looks out for and gives protection to
American interests.
A MONOPOLY SMASHED BY
PROTECTION.
Now it is announced from London
that “the Welsh tin piste industry,
which has already been stricken by
American competition, is menaced by
early extinction, owing to the failure
of the employers to agree on a scale
of wages.”
When these Welsh makers monopo
lized the market, as they did before the
McKinley tariff, they had a hard and
fast trust of their own which dictated
prices to the helpless Yankees, and
wages to the helpless workmen. But
American rivalry has changed all this.
Our mills, with improved machinery
and better paid labor, have not only
gained the American market, but are
cutting into the markets of the Welsh
“combine” abroad.
The comic side of it all is that tho
protective duty of the McKinley tar
iff was vociferously opposed by the
professional foes of monopoly. As a
practical result it has smashed monop
oly, and in the long run it is certain
to give the mastery In one more branch
of the great iron arid steel trade to tho
I'nited States, where it legitimately be
longs.—Boston Journal.
PROSPERITY AT THE BANKS.
O
Owing to the great increase of de
posits, extra help is required at the
windows of the receiving tellers.
A HINT TO MR. BABCOCK.
The advocates of tlie proposition to
remove the duties now levied on iron
and steel must advance some other ar
gument besides the democratic war
cry, ‘ The tariff breeds trusts!” There
is neither logic nor common sense in
such a statement. The principle of a
protective tariff advocated by the re
publican party is as sound today as it
was in 1896, and its maintenance as
an essential factor of the administra
tive policy is as necessary now as it
was then. However rapidly changes
may come in the experience of gov
ernments they do not tread upon each
other’s heels at such a rate as to call
for a complete revolution, or the utter
abandonment of an economic policy
the adoption of which has resulted in
such a marvelous improvement in our
industrial condition during the past
four years.
No doubt Mr. Babcock will keep
these facts in mind while preparing
his program for the next session of
congress. Protection, and not free
trade, was indorsed by the voters at
the elections of 1896 and 1900.—Mil
waukee Sentinel.
IT MEANS BUSINESS.
Two thousand freight cars ordered
during the space of two weeks is the
record made by the railroads of the
country. That means business, both
now and in the future. It presents evi
dence of the fact that not only are the
railroads crowded with business be
yond their capacity to handle, but also
that the officials of the railroads are
confident that the rush of business is
going to continue. They are looking
to the future iu their extension of the
equipment of their roads, and are get
ting ready for the continual increase in
the demand for transportation facili
ties which the ever-growing business
prosperity of the country will bring
about. The demand for freight cars is
the other end of the industrial chain,
which has its beginning in the crowd
ed order books of the commercial trav
elers, all of whom report that busi
ness was never so active or orders so
numerous and so heavy as now.
Make Ileite Slowly.
The Telegram would suggest that if
there is to be any tinkering with the
tariff it be done by the friends of pro
tection, not its enemies. It will be
best to make haste slowly. We have
had some experiences with democratic
revision of tariffs and we are hardly
prepared to repeat them.—Youngstown
(O.) Telegram.
Knew IIow lie Felt.
Reuben Hay—I kin appreshyate what
a bitter blow Bryan's presidential de
feat wuz t' him now.
Jonathan Straw—How kin y'7
Reuben Hay—Waal, I know how bad
I felt when I wuz defeeted ter town
marshal las’ Monday.—Columbus (O.)
State Journal.
MAKING IRON NAILS.
CHEAT SKILL AND ENDURANCE
REQUIRED OF WORKMEN.
Work of Ihn I’nriillrr*—A <Sllui|)*f> of
the "iiqnprR *r" und the "Sluck KollV*
—Iron at Wet tin; ll«at 11 l’a»iiil to
the "Fluta Kolia.’’
One of the most impoitant industries
in Central Pennsylvania, both as re
gards excellence of product and num
ber of persons employed i3 the Wil
liamspart (Pa.) Iron and Nail Works,
on the South Side. The market for the
output is the world. The visitor to the
Williamsport nail works sees tons
upon tons of steel and pig iron piled
about outside the buildings. The first
stage of the process in the manufac
ture of iron nails is the taking of
some of these pieces of pig iron and
throwing them into several puddling
furnaces, in which great fires burn.
The fires are produced by gas and they
are always burning excepting when
a furnace needs repairing. Above the
furnaces is an arrangement which
converts the gas that goes up through
the pipe into power for running the
machinery of the works. In one of
these furnaces the pig iron is melted
to a liquid, when the impurities run
off, leaving only the pure iron, which ;
is supposed to be without fleck or flaw. I
The puddler who tends a furnace has j
a job which requires great skill anil
endurance. With a long iron bar
which he inserts through the doorway
of the furnace lie separates pieces of
metal as they become lumpy, and com
poses them into lumps of the size re
quired for the next process. This man,
just as the others who manipulate the
heated metal, is lightly clothed, but
the sweat pours from his body in
streams, and the great muscles in his
arms and chest swell and recede with
the laboriousness of his task, let
these men are all excellent specimens
of strength and health. The most re
markable tiling about the work is that
it does not destroy or even impair the
eyesight of the employes. The process
nf melting iron in a furnace corre
sponds closely to the boiling of taffy
on a kitchen stove, and when it gets
lumpy the taffy process is carried out
still farther, and only the pulling is
done while the iron is red hot. One
of the lumps, weighing about 200
pounds, is dumped out into a truck
and taken quickly to the "squeezer.”
a corrugated cylinder revolving within
a drum, which shapes the metal into
cylindrical form about three feet long
and one foot in diameter. Tli»n the
piece of iron, still red hot. is gmsped
by a pair of tongs suspended from the
ceiling and shifted over to the "muck
roils,” a series of rolls of different dis
tances apart, which gradually roll the
iron as it is passed through them into
a long, slendei* stick of wrought .'roil,
called a muck bar. The muck barn are
passed on and are cut by a great pair
of shears, propelled by machinery, uito
proper lengths for piling. The lengths,
now cold, are tied into piles in the
form of cubes, which in turn are
thrown into the great heating furnace
to be heated to a welding licat and pre
pared for the "plate roils.” The muck
rolls transformed the crude iron into
a liar; now the phite rolls will trans
form the pile made up of pieces of the
bar into long, thin plates. The proc
ess is the same as making the muck
bar, except that the roils here are
broader. With a pair of tongs sus
pended from the ceiling and manipu
lated by a skillful pair of hands one
of the piles is taken from the furnace
when it has been heated to the proper
consistency and run through the vari
ous rolls, until it emerges at the other
side, squirming and undulating like a
flaming serpent. It is now the thick
ness of the nail for which it is intend
ed, about 14 inches wide and 12 or 13
feet long. The plate hardens quickly
and is passed on immediately to an
automatic plate shears, where it is out
into proper widths, corersponding with
the various lengths of nails. After be
ing weighed the pieces are taken in
wheelbarrows out to the nail factory
proper, where they are cut into nails
from three-fourths of an inch up to
nine inches in length and proportion
ate thicknesses. Before being put
through the nail cutting machines the
pieces are heated in another furnace
which makes them yle d more easily
to the strong steel knives which cut
them up into naiis at the rate of any
where from 60 to 160 a minute, according
to the size of the nail. These machines
are operated by men and boys, but
they require little tending, as. except
ing for the very large nails, they are
self-feeding ar.d almost entirely auto
matic. After being cut the nails are
placed in a revolving metal drum,
called a “bluer,” which is heated red.
and by this simple means they are
given a fresh blue color.—Pennsylva
nia Grit.
IIft4 Dln*OT«r«il a Cheep Cav
Dr. Ludwig Mond, whose discovery
of a cheap gas promises to effect a
revolution in the production, is a na
tive of Cassel, who, although he went
to England nearly fory years ago, still
retains a trace of his German accent.
He has Invented many wonderful
chemical processes and has thereby
acquired wealth sufficient to indulge
In his fancy for Italian works of art.
He keeps up a palace in Rome, a town
and country house in England and is
a member of five London clubs.
s:* Feet Thre# In III« Sock*.
Prince Edward of ftixe-Weimar
wiio entered the British army nearly
sixty years ago, is one of the tallest
princes in the world. He stands 6 feet i
J *wches “in his socks,'’ and in addi- |
Mon is a man of great bulk and weight.
THE STARS AND THE WEATHER.
— ... _y-*-_
Ndflnee tUfs There Is Xu Connection
Biittfmn Them.
Some have oven supposed that com
mercial panics occurred every eleven
years, to correspond to the spots on the j
sun. The most eminent authority oa
the subject in recent times la Sir Nor* ;
man Lockyer, who has maintained that ;
the Weather in India varies with the j
number of spots on the sun. None of J
these doctrines have, however, been
proved correct by more mature ex
perience. If the spots on the sun af
fected the weather in any one region, j
as India, they would affect it in other |
places on the earth. It might be sup- j
posed that the sun gives a little loss
heat when the spots are most numer
ous, especially as it is now known
that they are somewhat cooler than 1
the rest of the sun. But the extremely
accurate observations of temperature
made at Greenwich for fifty years do
not show the slightest change with
these spots. We must, therefore, con
clude that no effect of the sun spots
on the weather has been proved. The
same is true of the planets. The plan- J
ets have so little heat that it is im- j
possible to conceive of them as affect
ing the weather in any way. The fact
is that the extraordinary changes in
the weather which wre experience are
produced almost entirely by the acci
dental meeting of currents of hot, cold
or moist air. High above the earth the j
air is in constant motion—currents or
streams moving with great swiftness
around the earth, in some latitudes or
seasons in a westerly and in others in
an earsterly direction. Through the
heat of the sun water is constantly
evaporated from the ocean, and, to a
less extent, from the land. The vapor
rising up mixes in with the aid cur
rents and condenses into clouds which
are carried along with the winds. The
currents vary from time to time, and
when a cold and a wet current come
together we have rain. The sun shin
ing on the earth heats it up, and the
warm earth heats the air in contact
with it and thus expands it; the ex
pa nih d hot air tends to rise and, as it
does so, the air from around flows
down and in and takes its place. By
this i hange electricity is developed,
and thus we may have a thunderstorm.
—Prof.Simon Newcomb in Leslie’s
Weekly.
WE SUPPORT SOVEREIGNS.
Wbtt We Contribute to Royalty Aiuuuutl
to taut Sum.
The United States contributes a vast
sum of money regularly to the support
of foreign sovereigns. The money is
not paid, as a tribute, but in the form
of interest upon many millions of dol
lars invested by these potentates. It
is generally supposed that several roy
al personages own real estate in New
York. As a matter of fact their hold
ings consist of railroad and Industrial
stOi ks and United States bonds. Queen
Victoria is believed to have derived an
infcome of 5700,000 annually from her
American Investments. She has been
generally credited with owning a large
interest in the Howling Green building,
though as a matter of fact her money
was nearly all invested in stocks. Her
holdings included American sugar,
American Steel and Wire Tennessee
Coal and Iron and one or two railroad
stocks unknown.
King Edward, when Prince of Wales,
enjoyed a considerable Income from
American railroad holdings. The prop
erty has since been transferred to his
..on George. The emperor of Germany
lms holdings in the Union and South
ern Pacific, Illinois Central and Atchi
son railroad bonds. His wife has, be
side, about half a million in American
railroad holdings, and it is believed
that several other members of the roy
al family are interested to considerable
amounts. The czar of All the Russiaa
Is said to be the best Informed of all
European sovereigns on American
railroad interests. The czar’s invest
ments are very conservative—Phila
delphia Times.
Moy Ying Fook I« Saving.
Moy Ying Kook is Boston's first !
Chinese newsboy. He visited one of
the newspaper offices the other day
and submitted to an interview. Hyo
is his statement: “1 sell pape evly day.
When I come from school I buy fifteen
pape—twenty pape sometime. I go
home and eat supper. Then I sell
pape on Hah-son-avnoo. I sell maybe
tlee. maybe four, to Chinamen, in
store. Then I sell on stleet to evly
one. Melican boy call me name somo
time. I don’t say I hear Melican boy.
Melican boy bad sometime. He play
gamble, penny sometime, dice some
time. He play in Chinese leetaulant.
Men chase um away, but Melican boy
come back. I no play gamble. I save
money, maybe tlee cent, maybe 10
cent, evly day.”
Can IU Carved Readily.
H. J. N.—A material which can be
carved readily is prepared by treating
peeled white potatoes for thirty-six
hours with a solution of eight parts of
sulphuric acid in one hundred parts of
water. The mass is then dried between
blotting paper and pressed. Pipes
closely resembling meerschaum and
other articles, can be manufactured
from it. By the employment of great
pressure a close imitation of ivory bil
liard balls has been made of this ma
terial.—Golden Days.
Lord Robert* no Hunter.
Lord Roberts is a fearless rider and
usually well In at the death in a fox
hunt, but his eminence as a hunting
man depends ou his splendid eye for
country and his unrivaled knowledge
of horseflesh and not on mere dare
deviltry. Lord Roberts has had his
share of “croppers," but, thanks to hts
light, steel-built frame, he has never
come to any serioas harm In the bunt
ing geld.
Mildred
Ure'Oanion
BV THE DUCHESS.
CHAPTER XIX —(Continued.)
“Do. doctor,” he implored, earnestly;
"I feel I shall never progress toward
recovery so long as you compel me to
remain in this room,”
"And whore, may l ask, do you
want to go?” demanded Dr. Stubber,
irritably.
lie had grown wonderfully fond of
his patient during the past few weeks,
and could not bear to deny him any
thing but what was impossible.
“To the library,” said Denzil; “they
can wheel the sofa up to the lire, and
I promise you faithfully I will not try
to walk. Give me your permission,
and then my mother and Lady Caro
line can say nothing. 1 want to go
down to-morrow.”
“Well, well, we will see about it,”
answered the doctor.
This reply, Denzil knew, was equiv
alent to a promise. And accordingly
tile following day saw him installed in
state in the library, with books and
early spring flowers around him and
all the family at his beck and call.
It so fell out that about three o'clock
he was alone, Mrs. Younge having been
called off for some reason by Mabel,
with an assurance that she would let
her go back again in less than five
minutes.
Almost as they closed the one door
in making their exit the other, situated
at the top of the room, opened, and
Mildred Trevanion came in. Seeing
Denzil so unexpectedly alone, she hes
itated slightly for a moment, and then
came forward, looking rather shy and
conscious, he thought.
She was remembering her last Inter
view will him in his own room, and
was feeling terribly embarrassed in
consequence, while he was dwelling
upon the same scene, but was viewing
it very differently—not as a reality,
but merely In the light of a happy
dream.
“I am very glad to see you,” she
said, rather awkwardly, standing be
side his lounge, and looking down upon
him.
You might have seen me long ago
if you had cared to do so,” he re
joined, reproachfully. “You are the
only one of all the household who
never came near me during my ill
ness.”
Mildred glanced at him suspiciously.
Had he really forgotten all about it?
His face was supremely innocent, and
she drewr a deep breath of relief, which
1 yet was mingled with a little pain that
he should so entirely have let her visit
j slip his memory.
"You had so many to see after you—
f was scarcely wanted.” she said; “and
of course all day I heard reports of
your well being.”
“Still you might have come, if only
fir a few minutes,” he persisted. “Not
that I expected you would. There was
no reason why you, of all people,
should trouble yourself about me.”
"If I had thought you wished me
t»
“Mildred!” he exclaimed, angrily;
and then she ceased speaking alto
gether, knowing she had vexed him by
Lht! open hypocrisy of her last remark.
“If she had thought!”—when she
knew, in her inmost heart, how he had
been waiting, hoping, longing for some
sign of her presence.
"So you have broken off your en
gagement with Lyndon?" lie said,
presently, regarding her attentively.
“Yes,” she answered, quietly; “or,
rather, he broke it off with me.”
“He!” repeated Denzll, witli amaze
ment. "Then it was his doing—not
yours? How could that he?” Then,
jealously—"Anil you would perhaps
have wished it to continue? \rou
have been unhappy and miserable ever
since?”
“I have not been unhappy exactly,
or miserable; but I certainly would
not have been the one to end it.”
“What wras the reason?” he asked,
unthinkly; then—”1 beg your pardon.
Of course I should not have asked
that."
“There were many reasons," re
turned she, calmly. “Perhaps”—with a
little bitter laugh—“you were right
after all. Do you remember telling me
that you thought no good man would
ever care to marry me? Well, your
words are coming true, I think.”
"Will you never forget that I said
that?” Denzil’s voice was full of pain
as he spoke. “You know I did not
mean it. How could I, when I think
you far above all women? You know
what I think of you—how I have loved
you and always shall love you until
my death.”
“Oh, hush!” implored Mildred, tre
mulously, suddenly growing very pale.
Then, hearing the sound of approach
ing footsteps, she asked him hurried
ly—"Are you getting stronger now—
really better? I should like to hear
♦ hat from yourself.”
“Would you?” he said, looking
pleased and radiant, and possessing
himself of one of the small slender
hands that fell at her side. “Do you
really care to know? Have you any
interest at all in me? Say you will
come and see me. then, here to-morrow
at this hour. Think how lonely It is
to lie still all day." He pressed her
hand entreatingly and kissed it.
“If nothing prevents me,” promised
Miss Trevituion. with faint hesitation;
and then the door opened and Mrs.
Y'minge. Lady Caroline and old Blount
came in.
“Ah. Mildred, got d child,” cried Mrs.
Younge, Innocently, “you have b*«n
taking care of him while [ was fearing
that he was alone all this time. Den
zil. you are a spoiled boy from all ths
attention you receive. I hope the time
illil not seem too long, Mildred, dear.
1 meant to be hack directly."
Miss Trevanion blushed, and, mak
ing some pretty, graceful answer, es
caped from the room, w'hlle Iaidy Car
oline glanced covertly at Denzil, who
appeared totally unconscious of any
undercurrent in the conversation, and
old Blount looked mischievous.
"Well,” said he, when he had shaken
hands with Denzil and wished him Joy
in his kind hearty way at having re
covered his freedom, “I have Just been
with Sir George, Lady Caroline, and
he tells me you are determined to mar
ry off all your family at once, like a
sensible mother.”
"I don't know about that,” returned
Lady Caroline, laughing. "One at a
time, if you please, will suit us well
enough. We do not want to bo left
without any solace In our old age. But
you mean Charlie and Frances, I sup
pose?”
"Yes,” said he, "they have come to
a proper understanding at last I hear."
"I think they came to that before
Christinas,” observed Lady Carolina;
"but the question of late has been
when to name the wedding day.
Frances was very refractory in the be
ginning. but at last she has given In,
and It is actually arranged to taka
place on the thirteenth of next month;
always provided the day Is fine—as she
says nothing on earth would induce
her to be married in rain ”
Old Dick laughed.
"She has been such a spoiled pet all
her life,” he commented, “that I think
she will give Charlie something to do
to manage her.”
“I agree with you,” said Lady Caro
line; “but she is such a dear girl with
It all that one can not help loving
her and forgiving her the very trifling
faults she possesses."
"And then true love is such a
smoother of all difficulties,” put In
Mrs. Younge, softly, raising her eyes
from her knitting.
“It is time for us to be thinking of
wedding presents," said Denzil. “I
wonder what she would like, Lady
Caroline.”
“Well, I hardly know,” answered
her ladyship; “hut I can easily find out
by putting a few adroit questions. I
suppose jewelry is about the best thing
a young man can offer.”
“And how about Mabel's afTair?”
asked Blount.
“Oh, the child!” cried Lady Caro
line—“surely she can afford to wait;
and, besides, she must, as George has
decided nothing must lie said about it
until Roy is in a better position.”
“1 have just been talking to Sir
George about that,” said old Blount;
"and 1 think it a pity the young peo
ple should be sighing for each other
when they might be together. I am
an old man now, with more money
than I know how to spend; so I have
decided that they shall have half, and
set up housekeeping without further
lay.”
"My dear Richard,” cried Lady Car
oline. greatly touched, "this is too gen
erous. Why should they not wait?
Why should you deprive yourself of
anything at your years?”
“My dear creature,” returned old
Blount, “I am not thinking of doing
anything of the kind. I am far too
selfish to deprive myself of any lux
uries to which I have been accustomed.
But I literally can not get rid of the
money; so they may just as well have
it as let it be idle.”
“There never was anybody like you,
Dick,” said I^ady Caroline, with tears
in her eyes.
“Except Sir George.” returned old
Blount, mischievously, at which they
all laughed.
“And still we have Mildred to dis
pose of,” he said presently, with a side
glance at Denzil, who gazod stolidly
out »f the window.
“Dear, dear—will yon leave me no
daughter?” expostulated Lady Caro
line; and Mrs. Younge, who had grown
very intimate with them all during
her son’s illness, looked up plaintive
ly to say:
“There is really no understanding
young people In these days. Now how
she could object to that nice Lord
Lyndon is beyond my comprehension
—quite. He seemed in every way so
suited to her.”
“And he seemed to me in every way
unsuited to her,” put in Denzil, im
pulsively and rather crossly.
"Did he Indeed, my dear?” saijj his
mother, with mild surprise. “Well, see
how differently people judge.”
“Differently, indeed,” coincided old
Blount. “And now tell us, Denzil.
what sort of a person do you think
would make her happy?”
There was a sly laugh in the old
man’s eyes as he asked the question,
and Denzil, looking up, caught it; so
that presently he laughed too, though
rather against his will.
(To be continued.)
Cottaga Hospitals for Canada,
Countess Minto, the wife of the gov
ernor general of Canada, has offered
to become the head of a movement to
establish cottage hospitals throughout
Canada.
The less we have the more the re*
cording angels places to our credit
when v> give.