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In Peace and War | Or, The End of It All CHAPTER V. "It has blown over," said Trist softly, an the little lady came to- "Yes," replied Mrs. Wylie, with obvious abstraction. She wa.3 not thinking of the weather at all. In prist's monotonous voice there had" Seen an almost imperceptible catch. Slight though it had been, the acute ! little matron detected it, and she looked keenly through the semi-darkness into her companion's face. His meek eyes met hers, softly, suavely, aggravatingly lal. "Brenda," he remarked tionally, "has been lecturing on the evils attending a spirit of independence." "I have no doubt t marks were worthy of y« oration." "They were, Brenda's remarks generally are worthy of consideration." Were they of a personal na- tl-.o ash fro; "Brenda ^ signedly. courage, i artled," admitted the els all. And the result learned discourse on ;ource and value, by Thee "I always thought," said he to Mrs. Wylie, in a mildly disappointed tf t, "that she was plucky." jmts. Wylie laughed, and then with sudden gravity nodded her head significantly. "So she is--very plucky." "I think," . suggested Brenda, "that it would be better taste, and more natural, perhaps, to discuss me behind my back." Trist laughed. "I never discuss anyone," he s "That's a lady's privilege and n opoly. Men are usually fully o< pied in talking about themsel and have no time to devote to study of their surroundings." "I generally find that men either too much or too little about themselves," observed Mrs. Wy hear all sorts of confidences, many totally pointless stories." "Which," suggested Trist, ' go any further." "Which never go any further, cause their specific gravity is of such trifling importance that they make absolutely no impression upon the tenderest of sympathetic hearts." "I think," Brenda said to Mrs. Wylie, "that you must be gifted with a wonderful amount of patience, or you would never bother with your young men. The obligation and the pleasure must be all on their side." "It is," put in Trist cynically, "a sort of mother's agency. We ought to issue a circular for the benefit of provincial parents: 'Young men's morals looked after; confidences received and kindly forgotten. Youths without dull female relatives preferred. Address, Mrs. Wylie, Suffolk Mansions, London, and Wyl's Hall, Wyvenwich.' " Mrs. Wylie laughed comfortably. She looked straight into the young fellow's face with her pleasantly keen smiie, for he was tho first and the foremost of her young men, and she was justly proud of him. He had passed beyond the dense mediocrity of the crowd, and stood alone in a place which he had won unaided. He was one of those who said too little "Decidedly so. She has a pleasant way of telling me my faults. But I like it, because she is invariably right. Perfect sincerity is a rare thing in these times." "She was quite right, Theo!" was the reply. He smiled vaguely, and looked obstinate. "If," said Mrs. Wylie in an explanatory way, "I were a different sort of woman from what I am, I shook should consider myself very much sr the side. |in_used at being deprived of a fuller he said re- confidence. I should strive, and nag, and persist until I had wormed out of you your ambitions, your joys, j-our sorrows, and your possible motives. That is what Brenda means, I think. Theoretically, she is right; practically and personally she is wrong." "Is it not," suggested the young fellow in self-defence, "the height of egoism to inflict thoughtlessly other people one's petty, temporary, and often imaginary woes?" "Not always, Theo. There case where it is real kindness a little selfish, and to speak openly of one's feelings and thoughts. "Perhaps it is better. . ." Trist began, and then he stopped suddenly, withheld by a quick remembrance of the utter misery that weighed down the heart of the little Eton boy who had gazed stupidly < the cab window as he passed Windsor bridge fifteen years ago. He could hear again the rt shaky wheels, the vibrj, windows; and again t this kindly woman's voice, lovingly lowered, came to his recollection. "No," he said, correcting himself, "it cannot be better, but as things have turned out, perhaps well that there is no one listening too eagerly ig that day the clouds never It was twilight from morn-1 night. At times it drizzled ilent, feathery way, and oc-.ined harder. The hot and cold, intervals, and the ver was singularly loved ab< at the cosy 1 the second silent < uid sho i e others who told her n her cheery, careless her assumed worldli- a vast deal of good se unattached young in the habit of drop-r their spare evenings ttle drawing-room on floor of Suffolk Man-not, strictly speaking, j Mrs. Wylie's young ther was her fii ' the j • boy when I e forget poor me way of slipping i way. aid Mrs rally look at the marriages before of killed and ■'Not at all. Bi agine that you geni births, deaths, and studying the list wounded." "Invariably-. I look upon you as a person eminently capable of taking And I should hope that if there were anything wrong ii would have the good grace to me know before the penny papers iek it forth to the world." That sounds inconsistent." Nevertheless, it is not so. I am ; an anxious person, Theo. I nev-lie awake on stormy nights at . l's Hall and think of you--probably sleeping peaceably in tropic but I like to he; noticeable. At six o'clock in the evening Nielsen's boat dropped alongside, and Trist clambered on board the Her-mione. The ladies, having heard the sound of oars, came on deck to meet him. "Ah," said Brenda; "you are the first home again." "Yes. I have three, so I am content." was his reply. "Is there no sign of the Admiral?" As they spoke they moved aft and stood beneath the awning, looking down the deserted fjord. There was no sail, no suggestion of li; break the monotony of its wa Presently Trist took a pair of noculars from a small covered strewed to the after-rail, and gazed steadily at a certain point on the southern shore where there was a gap in the bleak wall of mountain. "The boat," he said, "seems to be lying there still; I can just see something yellow near the large rock overhanging the ri- Mrs. Wylie looked at her watch. In half an hour dinner would be ready, and the boat was five miles Even with a stiff breeze the Admiral, whose punctuality was proverbial, could not hope to be in time. She turned, anil, looking forward, perceived the stward standing at the open galley door, telescope in hand, wearing upon his keen North-country face a look of holy resignation. "That old gentleman," said Mrs. Wylie in an undertone, as she looked toward the distant boat, "is going to get himself into trouble. The steward is annoyed." Brenda was in no manner surprised when he presently turned to Mrs. Wylie and said: "It is no use waiting any longer. I think j^ou and Brenda had better go down to dinner, while I take the long boat and sail down to see what is delaying them." .The hostess made no attempt to combat his decision, but amended it hospitably. "You must have some dinner first," she said decisively. There was no interchange of anxious doubts, no alleviating suggestions of obvious worthlessness, such as timid people proffer readily to persons suffering from suspense: and Brenda felt that there was a great courage behind the smiling woman's face at her Trist went forward to where Cap-lin Barrow was standing, smoking is evening pipe just abaft the main- "Will you get out the long boat, ease," the ladies heard him say, with mast, and sail, and one man?" Presently he joined them in the saloon, where they were pretending to dine, and hurriedly drank some soup. > spoke, ohd the sound of tho ig boat was the only break jmfortable silence. The ste ivod noiselessly and lithely, behooved his calling. come on board and get something to eat; you look tired." But the man did not move. He shook his head. _"No inarm," he said bashfully, wantin' anything And I'm not tired . . . only I'm s bit . . • scared! I should like tt go back, marm, at once to the riv- Mrs. Wylie thought for a moment deeply. » "I will go back with you," she said at length. Then she went forward to where Captain Barrow stood with the rest of tho crew, now thoroughly aroused to anxiety, grouped behind him. "Captain Barrow," she said, in o tone slightly raised, so that all might hear her, "the Admiral not come back yet I am afraid that he has either hurt himself or is lost in the mist. I will go back with Cobbold in the gig. But . . . it will not be necessary to keep the men up." In the meantime, Brenda had not been idle. ^ She ran down below and found the steward already in the saloon procuring waterproofs. He was kneeling before an open locker when she entered the little cabin, and, turning his head, he saw her. "Are you going too, Miss?" he "Yes, Clarke, I am going." "Then will you put this flask of brandy into your pocket, miss? I don't like to give it to the missus. It's kinder suggestive like." She took the little bottle, and while he helped her on with her waterproof cloak he spoke again in his kindly Northumbrian familiarity: "It's a good thing we've got Mr. Trist with us this night, that it is! He's what Captain Barrow would call a strong tower." Brenda smiled rather wanly as she hurried away. "Yes," she answered; "I am very glad we have him to rely upon." Mrs. Wylie seemed scarcely to ice that Brenda stepped into boat and sat down beside her. The little lady was making a bravo fight against her growing anxiety. She even laughed when the sail filled with a loud flap, and nearly precipitated Cobbold into the water. (To Continued). SPRING SEEDING OF CLOVER. The usual practice among farmer is to sow clover on the wheat in th spring. This is done in order that the growing wheat may shade the young clover until the clover is weh rooted" and able to take care of itself. Not every farmer, however, secures a perfect stand of clover, as it is impossible to cover the seeds. Some wheatfields are harrowed, and with benefit, but the ground is us ' ly too wet to do so when the ch seed is sown, which should be done very early. The cause of failure secure a good "catch" of clover n be due to inferior seed, to insufficient quantity of seed, to washing by s, to destruction by birds and to >sure to cold. Before tho seed germinate it must be covered, if but slightly. Much of the is left on tho surface, not being led in by the rains, and is lost, e two special fertilizers for clov-re lime and potash. When the land is occupied by wheat the wheat potash liberally, and the younger clover must compete with wheat in securing a supply. The growth of the clover after it is seeded is the most important, as an early start and rapid growth place lore securely beyond the injury of drought THE TARIFF DISCUSSION. Low Tariff Against England -- High Tariff Against the States. An old countryman, settled in the Canadian Northwest, writes to a Montreal paper in opposition to an f the tariff on the ground that as the British people bear the burden of defending the Empire wc should buy our manufactured goods ther He says: , the county of "In "Yom ' he whispered presently ho soon afterward passed he narrow doorway into walk ally he of yo ind I leant over, the back of his and, reaching his wine glass, stood half full, he emptied it. not be anxious," he said; "I ihall be back before you knocked the ashes c he dropped it Then he stood before she should make ; , had gon > bring hoi little round-faced Eton boy to house of sickness when Mrs. Tr earthly pilgrimage was thought be at an end. Since that day had never quite lost sight of the boy, and years later she chaperoned Alice and Brenda Gilholme .through an Oxford Commemoration at the undergraduate's request. Such, briefly, was tho social relationship existing between these three persons brought together upon the deck of the Hermione beneath the magic of an Arctic night. A brilliantly capable woman, an intellectual i gifted well 1 i thei cial element lidst gloomy r deserted fjord, r tairs which weigh down men s minds and keep back all mental growth; but there was no sign of discomfort, no suspicion of bore- This .rbl t the t they The stillness that had come over them was broken at length by the voice of Admiral Wylie, raised in the cabin below and heard through the open skylight. "Brenda--little woman! Brenda-- ahoy! Come and play to me!" cried the pleasantly raucous tones. The girl rose from her seat at stairway with a light responsive laugh, leaving tho other occupants of the deck in silence. Presently the sound of her playing reached them. It was characteristic of herself; so perfectly trained, so technically faultless, and yet as innately sweet, was it. Trist moved restlessly at the sound of it, and Mrs. Wylie, watching him, saw the blue puffs of smoke follow each other with unnatural rapidity from his lips. She leant back, and drew her shawl cosily 'might At 1 ngth Tris sions be useful to the most independent of yovlng men, Theo), I am ready to do anything for you. Any little odd maternal jobs without pretending to the maternal honor, you understand " She rose and stepped to the side of the vessel, looking round the fjord and over the mountains in a practical, weather wise way. Trist followed her, and stood a little behind, in his still unemotional manner, with his meek eyes raised to a distant snowfield,, where the pink reflection of the northwestern sky hov- "Itiieed not be a one sided transaction," he said in the same worldly, hopelessly every-day tone of voice. 'There may be little odd filial jobs without acknowledging the filial ies, you understand." Mrs. Wylie laughed her easy, flow-rig laugh, and walked briskly forward; for the Admiral was calling er now in his genial, tyrannical au- "Yes," she said cheerily. "It may And so this compact was made at ;st--a compact of which his share ■as to be commenced rudely and leldenly within twenty-four hours, •hile hers was harder,perhaps, and ifinitely sadder, extending into ears yet unopened and unthought CHAPTER VI. The'two fishermen went off in opposite directions again the next day, the Admiral taking the gig and sailing down the fjord to the distant river, while Trist went ashore Nielsen's boat to fish the stream that ran past the little mountain homestead. It was a grand fishing day, despite i chill breeze too weak to move the louds, and the fishermen went off in igh feather. The ladies stood on ~'ed departing wishes for "Thai It wa shed d : yoi t of t :old that i ng, nwing to the heavy cloudi most dark. Nevertheless the ladies went on deck immediately after the farce of dinner had been carried to an end. At first they talked in a scrappy, strained way, and then lapsed into silence. Wrapped closely in their cloaks, they walked side by side for and aft. Until ten o'clock they continued their vigil -- -alone on the deck except for the watchful steward standing within the galley door. Then Brenda espied a sail looming through the gray mist. "There is one of the boats,' said gently, but there was a faint thrill of dread in her voice. Mrs. Wylie made no answer, but walked to tho after-rail, out from beneath the awning, into the rain. Brenda followed, and there they stood waiting. is the gig," said the elder wo-half to herself, otherwise the nts passed mutely by. personal and pecuniary." the same paper advocat protection against the Uliil "I £ Canada, trouble t ported to . bob. way s mal The i in the Trist had undoubtedly for help. Contrary to etiquette, the sailor did not make for the stops iging amidships, but came straight eath the counter of the Hermi-, lowering his sail deftly, and riding up to touch his dripping s the boat fell along- ^he . sailor was young and impul-iid not think much of yachtsman etiquette just then, but stood up in his boat, holding on to the rail of the vessel with both hands. "Please, marm," he said hurriedly the United States. There no united States protective duty that commodity, but if we lower duty on manufactured goods, oi farm products it certainly acts an export bounty on Canadians The reasoning is simple. If the American manufacturer sends an extra load of his warea into Canada account of the lowered duty, there will be another man required his factory to do the extra work; d as the car load of goods sent iii 11 take the place of a car load that >uld have been manufactured in Canada it is only reasonable to assume that one man less will be required in the Canadian factory; and therefore to balance things the Can-•kman becomes a bounty fed export. He leaves his Canadian workshop, where there is no longer ork for him and goes over to the booming protected factory across the lines, where he makes the extra car load of goods that is required to fill the demand from the free Canadian market. If this were the end, it would not so much matter; but now that he is in the American factory, the American, fanner, and not the Canadian farmer, supplies him with bread, beef and potatoes; and in this way the Canadian farmer suffers by the lowering, of the duty on manufactured goods and by the export of Canadian workmen. Can the Canadian farmer not see that the man who makes binders also eats wheat, and the the man who makes butcher knives also eats beef and pork, and that if these men work on the Canadian side of the line the wheat, beef and pork they eat will be grown in Canada? If there were no American duty the evil would not be so glaring; but why consider the Americans in the matter at all? Let u3 build up a Canadian home market, id this can be done only by keeping the Canadian workman, who is the Canadian consumer, at home, and" to do this we must protect him against foreign protected competition.". LATER IN THE SEASON. The food most suitable for young ;r should be that which is solu-to enable tho young plants to immediately use it. Lime, therefore, should be applied in a form that is soluble; hence plaster answers the purpose. Wood ashes provide potash ready for the rain to dissolve. If, then an application of 100 pounds of plaster and 500 pounds of wood ashes bo applied to an acre the mixture will greatly aid the young clover, as well as to assist the growing wheat to push rapidly forward. The chief cause of failure with clover is foul seed and imperfect preparation of the land. There are but few clover fields free from weeds, the -eeds of the weeds being harvested with the clover seed and sold to all points, only to spread the vil. The quantity of seed used from stern toward the head. The fowl is then dipped in cold water n the clothes twenty-thirty-six hours. All these are fine points in marketing of fancy poultry, and are a good distance beyond ordinary commercial methods. They are adapted for those who are determined to produce the very best and who know how to sell it when produced. These are the "lucky" fellows, who skim the cream of profit. CABBAGE AS STOCK FOOD. The value of the cabbage as food for stock may be summed up as strong in two points -- tho large amount that can be grown upon an acre of soil and its succulency, which makes it a milk producing food easily digested. But it requires strong soil and good cultivation, does not ":eep well for winter use unless pit-ed where it will be frozen until pring and oven then having but a hort season, while if stumps and any decayed leaves are feel it is almost impossible to prevent it imparting a rank, unpleasant flavor to the milk and butter or even to tho neat unless its use is discontinued two or three weeks before the slaughtering. As regards the nutri-ive value. Professor Johnston in 'Agricultural Chemistry" estimated 70 pounds of cabbage to have about value as 4 pounds of oil cake, 12 pounds of pea straw, 16 pounds of clover hay, 20 pounds of meadow hay, 110 pounds of oat w or 120 pounds of turnips. last we think ho based upon the or English turnip, which are not utritious as the rutabaga. The e of the cabbages, as of the s, is best found when a small given along with coarse, dry fodder and a limited amount of grain. FROGS STOP TELEGRAMS, said that one of the gresv rited s It Id be a rule to alway much seed rather than incur the risk of too little. It would bo well if corn should follow wheat, so as to work and cultivate the land, in order to clean it of weeds, and sow the clover seed in the fall, as by so doing the land could be thoroughly prepared, and made fine, the seed being lightly brushed in, thus onab-" ; tho farmer to have his field of •er uniform. Failures also oc-from lack of a supply of lime and after tho clover is well under grow 1 c.lo-, iuld- be id if i well limed after harrowii supply of wood ashes cannot be tained the crude potash salts she be applied as well as the lime. THE HOME BEAUTIFUL. rland telegraph line in Central Australia is the common green frog. In order to save the insulators from being broken by the lightning, they are provided with wire "droppers" to conduct on to the pole in case of need. The frogs climb the poles, and find the insulators cool and pleasant to their bodies, and fancy that the "dropper" is put there to furnish them with a comfortable seat. After a nap, they yawn, and stretch out a leg until it touches the pole. Result, sudden death to the frog, and, as the body continues to conduct the current to earth, we have a paragraph in the papers to the effect that, "in consequence of an interruption to the lines, probably caused by a cyclonic disturbance in, the interior, we are unable to present our readers with the usual cables Miss Maison - "I waited ; the the Admiral told me to do until seven o'clock, and he never came. Then I landed, and clambered up a bit to look for him. When a' was a bit up I saw the long boat comin' and Mr. Trist steering her, so I went down again. Mr. Trist's gone up the river, marm, and mo and Barker waited for two hours and heard nothin'. Then Barker says I'd better come on boarJl an' tell yer, marm." "You did quite right, Cobbold," replied Mrs. Wylie, in a singularly-monotonous voice. "You had better PEARLS OF TRUTH. Originality is simply a pair of resh eyes.--T. W. Higginson. To be good and disagreeable is high treason against the royalty of virtue.--H. More. room hung with pictures is a l hung with thoughts.--Sir Joshua Reynolds. The readiest and surest way to get d of censure is to correct our-sl ves. --Demo sthene s. "Do yoi belie love at look, they wouldn't blest home, humble surr plation of a eed, e i to the In lundings in tho cont, beautiful grove of tr< should go by but a t ine is added to mall, yo ■ pur e lig •s will but have had There is no iheltered horr m the gold of ce the beauty for bleak, im- ingly i the v ills, and v .hield- arable dignity in a well-es- ■ill forego many advantages such a site. Native trees ing, and there is something out a tree indigenous to a place that those of foreign tablis Of c 3 thin u re--they thrifty and symmetrica t costly nursery spec: grow FOWL FOR MARKET. In France, the fowls are wrapped after plucking and still warm in a piece of fine linen cloth, and then in iarse cloth or canvas about 15 i inches, with holes for tying along the edges. The legs are drawn up each side of the breast and tho loth tied very tight with cord pas-ing through the holes, working se my ignor->ught I to call you Mr. r. Boues?" The Doctor ■ "Oh, call mo anything ome of my friends call idiot." Miss Maison -- i I noticed s blush on your cheek just i Jack came up for his wait: (a girl intensely modern, ly)--"Did you really? I t fully hard to blush, but I v it wasn't noticeable." ber always talks to you did not know that yov, that language." Jinks don't; but you needn't te The wonderf t invisible e i capable of s , tha ■i lo. -- "To-day he colates and ri pting t The first railway in Engla egun in 1825; in Austr 'ranefe in 1828; the United 1829; Belgium and Germany, Russia, 1838; and Italy, in 1 riff* was the name of a J chief, who, having a port, in levied tolls on passing vessels. Last year 6,870,000,000 c 2,650,000,000 cigarettes wc factured in the United Sta- atives of India : f whom there : 3 by begging--to