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I 'would not trust the man for you trust him, Lord C'araven?” “I trust him implicitlyâ€"indeed I do not believe I have ever overlook- ed his accounts.” She looked at him in wonder. “Never overlooked his accounts? How very careless of you!” she said. "I am not careful by nature.” he told her, laugliingiy. “But,” she observed, earnestly, "such carelessness is wrong. You put a terrible temptation in his way by not keeping a check upon him.” "I suppose,” said Lord Caraven, indolently, “that I find it easier to let myself be robbed a little than to look after matters for myself.” The dark, eloquent'eyes that were raised to his expressed a, great deal. “What do you do with your life?” she asked. “It seems to me that you have no idea of duty.” "Nor haVe I. I'know well what to do with my lifeâ€"I enjoy it.” - "There can add,” said Hildred. «“But if I were you, Lord Caraven, I should look after my accounts.” ' Hildred’s heart sank lower and lowerâ€"every day brought her some fresh revelation of her husband’s character which was utterly unendurâ€" able to her. The worst trait of all was that he seemed to her, as it were, to lounge through life. He litâ€" erally did nothingâ€"no useful occupa- tion ever seemed to attract him. He never readâ€"he never wrote. If any letter of importance required an an- swer, he passed it to her, or threw it aside. If the agent brought the acâ€" counts, he said, in his indolent manâ€" ner: “Laythe books downâ€"I will we to them soon:” but he never looked at them. He had but one idea, and that was amusement. No idea of work ever seemed to occur to himâ€"selfâ€"indulgence and indolence was all that he cared for. Hildred’s heart sank in dismay. She looked at him sometimes as he lay listlessly stretched on a couch, and wondered why Nature had given so fair an exterior to one with so little soul. The handsome face seem- ed to have no purpose in it. If he spoke, it was always about some plan or other for his own special amusementâ€"it was either of billiards or of one of the games in which he took such infinite delight. He nevâ€" er advanced any scheme for the bene- fit of others; in fact, the people, ex- cept so far as they ministered to his pleasures and his will, did not exist for him. His was a hopeless charâ€" actorâ€"far more hopeless than that of a man of gravcr faults. I-Iis young wife looked at him sometimes wonâ€" dering if anything would ever interâ€", est him, would ever arouse him, would ever stimulate him to action. “It is a terrible thing,” she said, “to live so entirely for one’s self â€"â€" a terrible thing.” She thought to herself once that she would sketch his day. He never rose until after ten; he sat for some time over his breakfast, reading his letters and newspapers. The former were thrown aside. and seldom, if ever, answered; even those of imâ€" portance were ignored like the rest. There was gc‘wraily a muttered Semerhahe Recovery ' Prom Nervous. The laws if henna 0r ,Lady Caraven’s Labor of I do not like- CCI‘~ I Do. be nothing more to , ' by House .0. 00...... mm: :w' 'o-«aw' ' ' Moi-w. o :- J O t‘cvooo no... 0 00! 1.: '3“r’:“;”z"z"Z-:”z“r:rr>2<’svi'w-srr'“. . ’3' fid‘irh’fi ‘92-'14“. Md”?- word over , the bills if any came. Then he took a gallop on his horse wherever his wildrfancy led. That 'was followed by luncheon, when his ilordship did not spare his wine; af- ter that came billiards or cards, if any one worth playing with was in the house. Dinner was followed by wine and billiards until the early hours of the morning. It was not a noble life, it wasnot even a digniâ€" fied lifeâ€"it had no end, no aim, no object except selfâ€"indulgence. and the young wife looked on in sorrowful dismay. On every side she saw the :same evilâ€"nothing was attended to, nothing done; the indolent ease of the earl seemed to extend to every gone with whom he came in contact. .'l'he servants were continually being changed; nothing went right, as nothing does when the master of the ,house takes no interest in anything ithat passes in it. Another thing distressed her. She :saw that his old love of gambling iWas returned in full force. There were times when his'face grew very dark over his betting-book; and he would leave home on all the great race days, remaining away for some ‘tinie, and returning more indolent, more selfish than ever. Time had familiarized him with her presence in the house; but it was selâ€" dom that he took any special notice of her, seldom that he spoke to her. As for any display of kindness or love, it was out of the question. It was a dreary fate. She tried to bear it bravely, to store up knowlâ€" edge and wisdom; but at eighteen, when the heart longs for love, and the fair opening life craves for its {full enjoyment, it is difficult to live on knowledge and wisdom. She {strove hard; she told herself that marriage was irrevocableâ€"that hers could never be undone. The only :thing that remained was to make .the best of it. How to do that was ithe great study of her life. I When the month of May came rjound he decided upongoing to Lon- (.on. I-Ialby House was prepared for them, and the handsome earl’s friends made ready to receive him with open arms. He had been welâ€" come in having married a wealthy heiress, he was now doubly welcome. Those who had won money from him before ilooked forward to winning more; those who had gambled and betted with him before looked forward to a renewal of those delights. He would be welcome. The elite of the fashionable world were- not sorry to receive their favâ€" orite again. The rumor that I-lal- was to be thrown open, that the young Countess of Caraven -was very beautiful, that the earl’s revived prosperity would enable him to vie with the best party-givers in London. was good news. The only Ione indifferent to it i'as the young countess herselfâ€"and she would fain have hidden her sorrows from all eyes and remained at Ravensmerc. The people of the great world‘did not quite understand Lady Caraven. She was among them, but not of them. In crowded ball rooms, in the opera house, at garden parties. and where the lovers gated, her noble, beautiful face, with its look of proud reserve, appeared out of place. She was very popular -â€"very much likedâ€"but not quite un- Iderstood. Fair ladies whose lives dered why smiles did not come as readily to her lips as to theirs -â€" .why she was graver, more thought- iful, more abstracted. It was so strange a life; the world around her was so brilliant, so gay, there seemed no room in it for anyâ€" thing but laughter and song. There were times when she looked wonderâ€" ineg at the bright faces of others, 'crying from the depths of her soul: "My heart is empty!” 1 ,The tender, loving human heart gwas empty. She had loved her faâ€" ‘t‘ner very dearly, and he had sold her to the handsome earl for a title â€"â€"for the gratification of a paltry ' drawing-room his penniless state, and, I of fashion congreâ€"' ‘were one gay round of pleasure won-‘ ambition. husband and he had amused himself by telling her of his conquests â€"â€" he had frankly owned that he did not ‘care for her and that he never should. Her heart was empty. It was too noble to be filled with friv- olity. She might have turned to that refuge for the destitute, flirta- tion; she might have thrown herself Iinto the giddy vortex of. the world -â€"into the whirlpool of gayety; she might have lived on excitement. But she was too noble for any of these thingsâ€"she could not have consented 'to them. "What shall I do with my life?” The cry that arises from so many aching hearts now arose from hers. ‘She had no one to love. no one to ;care forâ€"the very duties that might Ihave occupied her were taken from herâ€"and something of all this was told in the beautiful young face. She 'had many sad thoughts. One morning she was restless and could not sleep. She had .been thinking about her strange lot in l ;was hot; she longed to be up and [breathing the sweet, fresh morning :air. She touched the repeater; ’ it iwas- just four. She thought a book {might soothe her, and was much in- 'terested in a new novel. She was 'aJWays considerate about her ser- vants. Many ladies would have rung for 'their maid, and have sent her for what they required; but Lady Cararen rose and put on her dressâ€" ing gown. intending to go to the herself. Then the clear cold water in her dressing .room looked so tempting that she stopped and bathed her face and hands in it. She drew her wealth of mark hair behind her pretty shell~ like cars. She had no thought of the lovely picture she presentedâ€" her beautiful face glowing with roses from the cold‘ water, her hair 'falling in most picturesque disorder, the graceful lines and curves of her figure showing to greatest advant- iage. '1 She went down stairs. and was lsui'prised to soothe large lamp still She thought it lburning in the hall. {had been forgotten. and went for- "Ward with the intention of putting it out. To her still greater sur- prise, she saw Adolphe, ier h‘usâ€" ;band's valet, asleep in the great arm-chair. She spoke to him. i "Adolphe," she said, “what are 'you doing here? Why is this lamp still alight? It is morning.” The tired manâ€"servant around him with on air of stupefacâ€" ition for half a minute, then arose, ,and, seeing the young countess, {grew puzzled and half alarmed. What Iwas he to say if she repeated the { question? “What are you doing here?” she iasked again. He dared not say that he was lwait‘ing for his master; but, before he had time to reply, there came, 'fortunately, a knock at the hall .door, and the next moment the earl {stood before her. In amazement he ilooked at the vision before him. . “I'lildred,” he cried, “what are .-you doing here?” i “I came down to find a book, be- ;cause 1 could not sleep, and, seeing ithe lampburning, I intended to ex- tinguish it.” Lord Caraven took out his watch. “Four o’clock,” he said. "I am :lateâ€"â€"â€"or rather early. I have been :Illilyillg' billiards since eleven.” looked She looked contemptuouslv at him. “I believe,” she said, "that your iwhole soul is engrossed in bil- ’liards.” “1 have played the best game toâ€" gnight that I have ever played in my !life,” he told her, laughing. I I She made no reply. I-Ie contin-‘ Xucd: "‘I will quote a popular lineâ€"'If you’re waking, call me early’â€"â€"that gis, some time after noon. We shall “have a grand match at the club to- iniorrow evening, and I have staked l a small fortune on the chain ion bilâ€" - . p !on the part of the invaders by a Sav- I fliard player of England.” I lrlildred looked at himâ€"â€"the handâ€" isome face worn and haggard, :the eyes were tired and dim. The ipicture was a striking one-â€"the girl- lwife in all the fresh beauty of her lyouth; the husband, still in his evâ€" ening dress, haggard, yet handsome even in his fatigue; the lovely light ;garish light of the lamp. She went into the drawingâ€"room fand opened the shutters, letting in iall the glory of the sunshine, all the fragrance of the morning air. She :opened the windows and looked out 'at the tall green trees. How fair it wasâ€"this world on which she look- ed! The sky was glowing with . lapse. A Methodist Minister Tells How He Was Rescued From a Helpless condition by Dr. Chase‘s Nerve Foo That Dr. Chase's Nerve Food posâ€"lter, of {)memee, and late of Fethany, sesses unusual control over nerves and well illustrated in the'case described below. give up his ministerial work, and so far exhausted that for a time heilapse was complete, and though Doctors was positively helpless. Were were resorted to, in vain. ithe sufferer, waslosing hope of .covery, when he began to use iChase’s Nerve Food. the Ont., writes: rekindles- nervous en- ergy when all other means fail is llir. Brown was forced ‘to vcmber I was overtaken with ous exhaustion. I had to ,able to help myself. Nervous was in “A year ago last No- nervâ€" For six months I did no work, and during that . time to waited on, not being or, col~ I Dr. Chase’s Nerve the physician's hands for consulted and many remedies .months, I did not seem to improve; Every efâ€" At any little exertion my strength limit to build up the system seemed iwould leave me, and I would tremâ€" lin vain, and it is =little wonder-that g-ble with nervousness. re- :1. when I heard of Dr. Chase's Nerve Food, and began to use it. As my system became stronger I began to do a little work, and have gradual- ly increased in nerve force and vig- until‘ now I am about in my normal condition again. I consider Food the best medicine I ever used. Not only has it proven its wonderful‘ restorative powers in my own case, but also in several others where I have recom- w mended it.’ ' D “From the first I used a. great r' many nerve remedies, but they seemâ€" ed to have no effect in my case. I Dr. Chase’s Nerve Food,, 50. cents a box, 6 boxes for $2.50. ‘At .11 dealers, or Edmanson, Bates 8:: new. '1‘. Brown, Methodist minisâ€"Lhad almost lost hope of recovery, (30.. Toronto: life until her head acbed. The pilloxv of the morning struggling with the; She had tried to love her crimson and gold, the dew lay shin- ing on the grass, the western wind was fragrant with sweet odors. Looking at the morning sky, she remembered her husband's handsome haggard face under the garish light of the lamp, and she turned away with a shudder. What a false un- natural life it was! How she loathâ€" ed it! She laid her head against the still at the morning skies. dreamed of the world, of life as it might“ have beenâ€"so differentâ€"ah. so differ- ent, if she had only married one who loved her!” (To Be Continued). .â€"â€"--â€" _q.-.._..-‘__. some «BABY’ S OWN TABLETS . Are Nature’s Cure for'Children’s Ailments. Medicines containing opiates should never be given to children -â€" little or big. 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(11.1dren from the smallest, est infant to the well grown These Tablets Baby’s Own all druggists or mail post paid at 25 cents a box by writing direct to The Dr. Wil- iiams Medicine (30., Brockville, or Schnectady, N. Y. Cchenectady, N. Y.‘ "â€"oh,‘ M tive monarch, for instance. King Behanzin, whom the French defeat.- ed and dethroned, thought nothing of sacrificing a few dozen slaves be fore breakfast; while his usual me‘ thod of ridding himself of surplus" 01 undesirable wives was to place them, bound and smeared all over witl honey, in the track of an advancing column of the seruyi. or warrioz ants, by whom the unhappy creat- ures were. of course, devoured alive THE GREEDY RUSSIAN BEAR. Twentyâ€"five or thirty years ago if used to be the custom of the Tsar: of Russia to gobble up a Contra. Asian Khanate every few months Most of these were, it is true, p-ettj states and ill-governed; but 80ml few of them weredeservfng of a better fate. ' Khiva, for instance. with its 700.000 stalwart peasants. and Bokhara with a population â€"ol two and a half millions and an area of nearly one hundred thousand square miles, both made a brave and protracted, though fruitless stand, against overwhelming odds. ' One cannot help feeling a thrill of admiration, too,« for the brave Tekke~Turcomans, who, in 1881, so gallantly defended themselves againsi the redoubtable General Skobelofl‘, and only gave in at last when their fortress capital, Geek Tepe, was stormed and taken by the conquero: of Plevna. But it was with the fate of the ancient kingdom of Poland, declared a Russian province in 1847, but not finally conquered until many years afterwards. that the rest of Europe, and Britain especially, was chiefly concerned. Nearly all the great Powers, with the single exception of Austria, protested, coaxed, and threatened by turns; yet the Bear was, after all, permitted to finish his meal. But it was not a men." enjoyed in peace. at all events. TENS 0F THOUSANDS ' of the ‘Tsar’s soldiers- wore killed, millions on millions of roubles were expend-ed; yet even so late as the autumn of 1864- we find the “Secret Provisional Government of the P01- ish Nation,” after stating that 50,- 000 patriots had becvi slain, and 100,000 exiled to Siberia, still call- ing on the Poles to continue the struggle. ‘ Turkey, once a champion among landâ€"grabbers, has of late years seen much of her own territory filched NATION GUBBLES NATION {33.151.11.323 $5.530 233111235213 “XE-‘51; ON THE PRINCIPLE THAT MIGHT IS RIGHT. cool green leaves of the plants that '1 filled the window, and, looking I Little Peoples Eaten Up by Great Countries During the Last Fifty Years. There are many nations missing on the map of the wold toâ€"day, which were more or less powerful states well within the memory of people lnow living. The latest example in point is, of course, the two Dutch .Republics in South Africa. Their acquisition has cost us- two hundred millions of pounds sterling, and over 20,000 valuable lives. In reâ€" turn for this there have been added to the British Empire 167,526 square ‘miles of territory, peopled by some 150,000 sturdy peasants, whom it is reasonable to hope and expect will, in the not far distant future. prove as loyal and valuable citizens as any of those in His Majesty’s other dominions- beyond the seas, says Pearson’s Weekly. ~()f course, John Bull is not alone in what unfriendly critics, both 'at home and abroad, are wont to stig- lmatize as a policy of landâ€"grabbing. iIi‘rance, for instance, has blotted out I half a dozen flourishing countries ‘of colonial expansion in 1833. FRANCE’S BI-G MEAL. Algeria was the first to fall,after a long and bitter war, characterized age ferocity, accompanied by such land so, many acts of gross treach- ery, as have rarely been equalled, at least within the last century. Genâ€" eral Savary, Duc dc Rovigo, was the officer in supreme command, and one of the earliest of his exploits was the massacre of a whole Arab tribe, including old men, women, and childâ€" ren, during the night. Ie also trt-acherously murdered two power- ful Sheiks whom he had enticed inâ€" to his power by a written assurance 'of safety. The result of it all was ito give to France 184,474 imile of territoryâ€"mostly desert. ! Tunis, with 51,000 square miles of l iterritory was gobbled up in 1882; and Madagascar so late as 1895, the conquest of this latter island adding 228,500 square miles to the colonial p-osseSsions 'of the Republic. It also extinguished in fire and blood one of the most unique-negroid civilizaâ€" tions of which we have any knowl- {edge g ATTACK OF INDIGESTION. The conquest of Annam, again, in the spring of 1884, and Tonkin in the latter- part of the same year, ‘gave Frante 15,000,000 new â€"'â€" and unwilling -â€" subjects, and 115,000 square miles of territory. In put- ting on all this flesh, however, the country gave itself dyspepsia pretty badly, and ministries went and came, came and went again, with 'something of the dazzling persist- -ency of a. quickâ€"change artiste in a modern music hall sketch. The eating up of Dahomey was per~ haps France’s least excusable bit of nation-killing; for if ever there was a despotism that richly deserved to be' strangled, it_was that establish- ’ed the truculent gang of ruflians who claimed to rule over that unâ€" happy land prior to the arrival of the white conquerors. The last naâ€" since-she first inaugurated her polio;~ _ square 5 having, that of ’l'rif‘oli, with its 398,000 square miltsn of territory and its 1,300,000 population. Islands, of course, are constantly being gobbled by the big powers; but they hardly count, unless they are, like Madagascar or New Guinea, of extra large size. Still the seiz- ure of Hawaii, the Philippines, and Porto Rico by the United States. marks an era ,in the onward march of that lusty young republic; while Germany was very much delighted with her share of Samoa, and still more at her acquisition of the beau- tiful and fertile Caroline Islands. Indeed, there seems to be a peculiar satis-faction‘attached to the swallow- ing of little independent islands; else why did John Bull go into such ec- stacies over Fiji, Zanzibar, and 0th or similar earth morsels. BRITAIN’S BIG MOUTHFULS. Burmah is thebiggest of Britain’s modern acquisitions, so far as mere mileage is concerned, leaving out of Iconsideration, of course, her South IAfrican colonies, and Egypt and the Soudan Provinces, both of which latter are under our protection only â€"nomina lly. The incorporation [within the British Empire of Bur- .niah dates from 1885, when the halfâ€" imade and wholly wicked King The- baw saw fit to wantonly massacre :a number of peaceful British trad- :crs, insult our Commissioner, and Earrogantly refuse to even receive our iEnvoy. The result'was, of course, fwar, which ended, so far as [the IKing was concerned, in the speedy [capture of his capital, Mandalay, gand his own deposition. i Ashanti, another independent state ‘ruled by yet another bloodthirsty ipotcntate. King I’rempeh, was ab~ {sorde early in 1806, giving us 4.5,- :000 square l‘lllitS‘ more territory. EEiglatcen months previously Uganda ,had been gobbledâ€"a country just iabout twice as big as Ashanti and {fully twice as populous, and to if we have since added four other no; tive “kingdoms,” known as Usoga Unyoro, Ankoli, and Koki. To at- tain our ends ,in these remote re- gions entailed almost perpetual lighting for some years, the brunt of which; however. was borne by blacl troops led by British officers. E: ' m prov: t2) youi that In: . - ‘ 159’s ( in meat 5 accrfaiu g g ‘58; and, absolute euro for each a?» and .evary form' of itching. bleeding-and protrudin piles, the manufacturers have guaranteed it. wee tee timonialu in the daily“ press and ask yournolglir burs what they think ofit. You can use it and get your money back if n t cured. 605 a box. 31 all dealers or EDMANEON, ATES 8: CO.,Toronta firiémase’e @intmeni A FROST ALARUM. Electric contrivances which giv: alarm by ringing a bell at the ap proach of frost have been used U some extent by California frui' growers. The apparatus consists e a battery relay coil, thermometer and alarm bell, and it is so adjust ed that when the mercury in th= thermometer falls below a certai: point the electric circuit is broken and the bell rings. 'As the instru ment can be set for .any temperature it can be used in hot-houses for var! ous crops. It is set to a few , de grees above the point of danger, marsâ€"M- M L.