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.L . o n .‘.-.a- ,o, a- o‘ "i; 9". Q .........._.r 13:...» .__.._ -bllck his freedom. It I. You mean that you wish me to re- lease you from your promiseâ€"to give you back what you are pleased to call your freedom l" "There’s no need for you to take it like that, Betty. You know it has been very pleasant, butâ€"" - “ But it cannot last i I see. It seems a pity you didn't think of that soon- or." "Well, to _tell you the truth. I thought of it some weeks ago, but I was under the impression that youâ€" well. that you had money, you know, andâ€"" But Leonard Bryng quailed before the flashing scorn of the blue eyes. " Go on." said the girl, coldly; “please finish." He wasn’t gifted with a very keen lnlelligence. this debonaire young cur- ate. so he went on, blundering. to his doom. f “Well. you see, if there had been money in the case my brother couldn't have objected; we should be independ- ent of his allowance. But. considering that he's an old bachelor and never likely to marry, be naturally looks to me toâ€"well, to place a suitable wom- an at the head of the. family, you know. - No doubt if she had money he would overlook the lack of birth and position, butâ€"â€"" ‘ "Stop!" cried Betty. fiercely. "You. ask me to marry'you. then, because you see in me a penniless girl. with neith- er father nor brother to avenge the wrong, you not only break your given word. and talk about 'freedom,’ but you add insult to injury and tell me that if I had sufficient money to pay your price, you would. have condescendâ€" ed to marry me. Go l" she cried. “I will not hear another word! I thank heav- en 1 know you as you are! And you. coward that you are. will know when you stand in the pulpit that there is at least. one woman in the world‘ who knows that you dare not preach as you practice! Don‘t speak to me againl I will not hear another word 1" llev. Leonard‘turned away with a shecpish eXprcssion on his handsome face. “ What a little fiend she is!" he mut- tered. “A perfect little vixen. for all her pretty face. Who'd ever have thought she could go on like that! And I thought. her so sweet and gentle. too!" Betty stood with her little quivering form drawn to its full height in avery paroxysm of passion, and wounded love _.; till he was out of sight, then. she flung herself on the ground and gave way! to a storm of grief. They had been engaged three months and Betty had thought him perfect, in spite of the fact that he insisted on keeping their engagement secret. They must wait, he declared, till his elder brother returned from abroad; to tell ' him by letter would spoil all. Raymond was such an old bachelor he would have no sympathy with lovers' hopes. So Betty waited. There was no one to be humored or deceived by her. but Betty had her secret. in six months she would be 18, and! would come into her estate. In the meantime she was too old to stay at school; her guardian was crusty and took little trouble. Betty didn’t care for society, so she was sent to rusticate with her old nurse and foster mother till the time arrived for the king to enjoy his own. ‘ Often the child had pictured to her- self how Leonard would tell her his brother had refused his consent, that there was nothing before them. but poverty. which he dared not let her share. and yet he could not give her up. How the clouds would lift and his dear eyes brighten when she told him that soon she would have a thousand a year of her own! it was sweet to think that he knew her only as " Bet- ty." Mrs. Brown's niece. She had al- ways called the old woman “ Auntie." and he never suspected she was an heir- ess in her own right. and no' relation to her humble friend. But. a day had come when Leonard met her in the primrose glen and told her of his brother's return. and inâ€" stead of telling him of their engage- I meat he had asked Betty to give him wouldn't be "honorable" to ask any girl to share his poverty, and the Squire would nev- er consent to marriage with a farm- er's neice. "The man \vllousksawoman to Shane his riches has some love for her; the man who her to share his poverty has more." , The words flitted through Betty's mind before she took in the full force of Leonard's words and recognized the great. unpardonuble insult he offered her. Then. as the truth was driven homo. she forgot all else in the blind- ing pain of a woman scorned. II. “Is anything the matter? are you hurt l‘" Betty mised her mar-stained face. and met. the lance of two steadfast brown eyes; iron the spedker swung himself from the saddle and led his horse across the messy award to where the lay. With a stifled sob the girl sprang to her feet. but. her bosom was heaving. her breath coming in gasps, and she couldn't speakâ€"nay. she could scarcely stand-sand the stranger slipped a strong arm round‘ her for support. My child. ! Old Farmer Brown had been break- had bad news? Ah. when we're young l i reverently. close and kissed her swaet lips almost “It was the happiest day troubles are apt to feel very heavy. and. .my life." he Slld, “for it brought.- clouds look very black." Betty freed herself from the pro- tecting arm and leaned against. the horse’s shining coat. her white flngers playing idly with t_ho pommel of 'the saddle. . “You will think me very foolish," she said “I've had no accidentâ€"no bad news. at leastâ€"-â€"" . “Only a lovers’ quarrel. that will come right in the morning i’" . “It. will never come right," the girl said quickly, impelled by a. sudden im- pulse. Thcn. checking herself. "But. you are too kind to trouble about me. i must not detain you. sir." “i will see you out. of'the wood._at any rate," he returned kindly. Then together they strolled toward the farm. - me you." l l l0 lllll llllll llllllll WHAT 15 come ON IN THE FOUR CORNERS OF THE GLOBE. .â€"â€"â€"-â€" Old and New World Events of Interest Chron- icled Brieflyâ€"interesting Happenings of Recent Dam- Queen \Vilhellnlna of Holland is fond of art. but has declared that she wholly There “’08 8- leflsnflt {881mg 0f cur“ l dislikes music. iosity in the stranger‘s mind as to who the pretty child was. As she paused l English brook trout grown in the at the white gate it suddenly flashed lNew Zealand .rivers are now export- across him. _ ' just been at the farm. This couldn t possibly be the little niece Mrs. Brown had talked about in a rambling. mys- terious way? This dainty girl. with her supple figure and gracefully pulsed head. could never be that woman's re- lative? But Betty had opened the gate while he meditated. and With a shyly murmured “Thank you i ' she was gone. I And the squireâ€"for he lt wasjâ€"rode slowly homeward, thinking. trying to recall what good Mrs. Brown had said about young folks and flirtation; how folks wasn't always as poor as they seemed, and how it was good for parsons to marry young and settle down with a wife and family round them. ‘ She couldn't have meant to imply anything about his brother and â€"-â€".- No! to speak of that pretty child- iSh thing in the same breath as any- thing so prosaic as a "Wife; and famlly” was too absurd. . _ j The idea. annoyed the squire in. a most unreasonable manner. .”\Vlfe and family l" How these folk did talk, to be sure i 'He must ask Leonard. And later he did drop hints on the subject, but his brother most em- phatically averred that he hadn't yet seen the woman on whom he would be- stow his hand and heart. Of course. it had been the squire's mistakeâ€"he shouldn’t have jumped to conclusions, but Mrs. Brown’s hints and Betty's tears had got mixed in his mind, and he had fancied his brother responsible for one or both. It was a, relief to think that Leonard free. ‘ After that the squire called often at Mrs. Brown's. She was one of his best tenantsâ€"there might be repairs ineeded at. the farm. . Always Betty was there, either help- ling to make sweet butter. collecting eggs or feeding little fluffy chickens, and one day the squire pulled up his 5 horse at the home paddock and watch- ed. \V 3.8 1 ing in a colt, and. there was Betty, seated on its back. her pretty face flushed with excitement. Then the farmer let go the leading rein. and Betty cantered triumphantly round the field. “Bravo!” At the squrire's veice the girl looked up. She was just about to .leave the saddle. and her hold on the high-spirited little animal's head was relaxed. \Vith a start it ' reared, then bolted. Betty tried in vain to .re- gain her seat. She fell, her foot caught in the stirrup. and the colt started at a mad gallop round the paddock. "Good God l" The Squire» SPI‘MIS 0"“ ! considering the plan of bridging the E was) the low wall, mud in a moment the re- 3 creamt little steed was brought to a! stand and the fainting girl was in his: arms. Kneeling down by brook! close by. they bluthed her face and hands ’ and soon the blue eyes opened. "It was all my fault!" the squire groomed. "I was a fool to shout like that. Youâ€"you might have. been kill- ed." ~ “Nay. nay. sir, don't take on. There‘s no harm done." said Farmer Brown good>naturedly. "The lass is noworse! are you. Betty, child? I'll just catch I It couldn't be! He had ‘ ed back to England in cold storage. Le Petit Congolais. the first news- "You have had an accident. No l" ! "I‘egreftgd it!" 'jnh'e squire drew the} is 75 years of fig? no“ and has “Tm” as she shook her head. “Then you've paper published in 'lhe Congo Free State made its appearance at the end of February. There have been 71,000 deaths from palgue in India so far. according to a recent. report by the Secretary for India to Parliament. Prince Niobhlas of Montenegro has written a farce for. the Cettinje stage. entitled “How One is Born," He had previously written a tragedy, A bugle on which the charge sounded that. sent the Light Brigade to destruction at Balakluva was sold gézluction in London recently for $3.- 0. O Standard Hill Farm. near Northaller- ton. on which the Battle of the Stand-! ard between King Stephen and the! Empress .Maud was fought in 1138 is- offered for sale. ‘ ' The old Guion line steamer Arizona, which once held the Atlantic record. has been refitted and .will be used in the lyorth' Pacific. She is an iron ship and is nineteen years old. ' ' An eighty-year-old elephant, “'8. 3 ,whose life has hitherto been devoted to crush- inglthe life out of condemned criminals in India, has been acquired by a Ham- burg dealer for 8. Berlin menagerie. ' Lord Charles Beresford, M.P., was summoned before a police court lately for not muzzling his dog. He pleaded that he was sorry- and that the dog had died since, but was fined ten shil- lings. morethan eighty books. Redclyffe" first appeared forty-five years ago,'and "The three years later. Berlin cemeteries are now infested .by People Who try to lift the gravc'slones in the hope of finding banknotes und- er them. Grunenthal. the Governmenl bank official wno is accused of having appropriated either misused banknotes 01‘ notes Withdrawn from circulation. had Picked out. graveyards as hiding places for his plunder. Large sums have been found by the police under three! gravestones already. Though only sixteen. murders of children have been traced certainly to the murderer V-acher and eighteen. more were probably his work. it seems! that in the three years after his re- lease from the madhouse there were no less than ninety-eight. murders and! Mt“Hilts to murder and outrage in! France where the police were unable to “The Heir of Daisy Chain" find any clue to the perpetrators. ! Russian Don Cossack regiments are! being drilled in crossing rivers on a! novel sort of improvised bridge. Seven THE ELEPHANM WAR. THEY like, me IDEAL BATTLE-i SHIPS OF THE. JUNGLE. Their Great Strength and Intelligence-o l'nlled States Army officers Advocate Tut-Ir [so In the Cuban Wnr- They PIN-e lived In the “'urs or olden Times No more formidable mink-inspiring engine of war could be imagined lhan a five-lOILEIt‘phllllt lrallsformed inlo a moving armed fort. il‘ucntyâ€"five of them sweeping forward at a rule of. fifteen miles an hour. a speed the ele- phaulcan easily maillt:lin_\\‘ould throw consternation into the Spanish lines. The military qmllificalious of all elo~ pliant are his size. strength, docility. power of swimming rapidly and long distances, the remarkable toughness of his skid. which in most places was illl- pelletrable to weapons of ancient war- fare and which will flatten many of the bullets used in modern warfare. All- other great advantage is his ubilityto go. like lhe camel. a long while with- or eight 13-11088 lire passed between the! out. a fresh supply of food and water. handles and tops of a dozen cooking kettles and are held firlnly in place by the handles, and are besides tied to- gether Dy forage ropes. A dozen bund- les of these lances fastened together form one section of a raft or floating bridge, whlch it has been found will support halt a ton of weight. A section can be put. together ill twelll‘y-fiVel mlnules. ' Gen. Zmrlinden, Military Governor of Paris, has taken up his official residen- Ce in the Hotel des lnvalides, the old soldiers for whom the building was in- tended having been lurned out. Their number had grown small owing to the establlshment of 'the system of uni- versal military service for a short term. of years. The survivors have been eith-! or sent back to their families. receiv-i ing a. money pension instead of the! State support they enjoyed, or else have been placed ill other asylunls. NEWSPAPERS 0F SPAIN. -â€".-_ Very Mule hows In Themâ€"Some Names Spain is a country of 18,000,000 po- pulation. but there are fewer newspap- ers published in it. daily, weekly, and! bimonthly, official, semi-offical. secu-! lar, and scientific, than are publishedi in Ontario and Quebec. And many, if! The military history of elephants commences with tile lnvaswn of India by Alexander the Great. The butlle fought with Porus is the first well-auâ€" thenticated account of the appearance of these largest of unimuls in war. 'l‘henceforward. they were used by the successors of Alexander the (heat. pur- licularly the Ptolciuies and the Selen- cidae. Antipater introduced them illâ€" to Greece and l’yrrhus took them into Italy. The elephants used by these Princes were of quills; ASIA’l‘lC. allele. but the (‘llrlhzigelliuns and Nlllllidiuns about. the commenceman of lbe l’unio wars. began to make a similar use of the African elephant, which differs from the other by having less size. weight and strength. with larger ears and, tasks. The elephant is exceedingly sure- foolcd and shows remarkable sagai-ity ill its choice of routes over mountainâ€" ous districts. It feeds largely on grass and is particularly fond of the stalks of! sugar cane and the feathery tops of bamboo. us well as fruits of every de- scription. ".l'he products of Cuba comâ€" prise everyihillg that an elephant might desire. in actual warfare elephants have been and probably would be used as ll. covering force. Where heavy artil- lery was not. likely to be ellcoulllel‘ed the beast might be stationed in front “that Struck a Flume, Austria, wank, not most. .of the newspapers published 0!! lbs lines. the inlcrvals between house and set it on fire turns out tolln Spain are newspapers in the HumeZ them “9mg occupied by “8115 l have been a meteor. It was assumed on'ly,_ for their most. distinguished troops. who could prevent the enemy from meteoric stone was _ > found in a deep! tain any news, being doVotsd to what. hole in the cellar are called "matters in general." or 2,000 feet. long and two side spans each ' Lord Brute has tried to encourage! marriage at Cardiff, Wales. by offer-l ing adowry once ayear to adeserving girl. The hrfayor of the town reports,| however, that. during a whole year he has received not. a single applicationq When the Gordon Highlanders went' into action at Dargai it appears from! the confession of one of the wounded! pipers that. each of the six pipers sent ahead played a-different tune. In spite of this the Gordons followed them. Liverpool’s Chamber of Commerce is'. to have been lightning t!” a {Quinton . characteristic is that they do not con- | Mersey by a suspension bridge 150 feet! above high water, with a central span of 1,000 feet. 1 $12,500,000. A British spinster. who chastised! her servant merely with "her fists! a poker, a. clothes pole. a stick. a! hammer. and the arm of a chair, andI by compressing her neck and kicking! her," has been punished by the un- usually severe sentence of-l2 months' The estimated cost is Rob Roy before he does further mis~l imprisonment. - such matters in particular as permit of the publication of the paper any day! of the week' or any hour of the dayâ€"! ll: doesn’t. make much difference which! . Barcelona is now the. most populous! of the Spanish. cities. exceeding by the recent. census the population of AIRâ€"j drid by several thousands. But. the two”, Barcelona papers which. have the larg-i est circulation are El how (the Par-1' art), a Catalan journal devoted to jokes! and El Modo .Espllnol (the SpaniSll l“aSh~! As we Spanish fashions- have: becn precisely the same for several con-l turies. without. the slightest deviation! in cut or color, fabric or article, the! [urgent necessity of publishing u. uews_! they were not, accustomed. and paper devoted to them is not. entirely! clear. 5 of the Nelghborllood, the Bludgeon (a satirical journal with a grewsoaue and! gory name), Publicity, the organ of! turning the elephants back on their l-OW'll ranks. " Being held in reserve in the rear a lherd of twentyâ€"five elephants might be brought forward at the moment of a. crisis in battle and turn the doubtful scale of victory. "The military value of the elephant was best tested ill the Panic wars. Hannibal attached more importance to' the animal than any contemporary 4 . general, and he made more skill‘ul use of them than any other great comâ€" ‘maader of antiquity. ‘At the battle near the river 'l‘rebia lI-I'anuibal charged and . - BOUT-El) ’lflI‘E- ROMAN CAVALRY with a large herd of elephants; but the lnfantry stood firm against them and eventually drove them back on the Carlhagenian lines. annibal had brought-his elephants over the ice-clad Alps. subjecting them to the rigors oil a. climate lo which had conrelluelltly. greatly lessened (heir flghtlng value; so ill this campaign he . ! lost all but one of the animals and (lid OtherlBarceLona papers are the Voice- llol. receive a fresh supply until after his victory at. Canada. . ‘Hillllln joined him at (‘llpuu u iih for- ty elephants and 4.000 Nulllidiun ('0,le- l‘y. Later he was defeated at Nola by the Republlcans, and the Family Ploâ€"UBIHI‘CCHUS. wilh a loss of four elephants tonal. in Mam-1d, the cup-[mp unew5_. killed and caplured. llc met a similar 'chief, then, I'll help Betty up home.” lsqgffgg‘11:???‘Lfiéfifimghzggfimdaggg completed aconsistent socialistic ca- and queen but very comfortable, n.nd rear by ending her own life With prus- the squire kept chaffirng her little cold sic acm. She lived with the Socialist hands in his own warm clasp. Dr. Aveling and bore his name, but at ! “You might. have been killed!" he l the inquest he asserted that they had repeated hoarscly. "Betty , do you 3 novel gone through the form. of mar- lklnow if you had died the light of my airings. life would have gone out? Oh. childie, A curiously annoying than is that 3could you ever accept am old man's love? l solar ,of a negative film of the late !but. i love you more 'llhan all the world 1 eclipSe. taken for the Cinematograph by Karl Marx’s daughter Eleanor has !1 am old enough to be your fat-her.” .besidel" I lane of the British astronomical expe- I III. . !dll-l0n8 lto lndia. Somewhere between you have money after all. It i- lluxar in lndia, and London one of the seems! Raymund has done well for lliui- ! boxes was owned and only the eclipse self. You won't. tell bun we were ever ll film taken out. engaged?" ; w. . . Y ' _ _. “I shall tell him some day that you “,lmm Rees' 0f Ll‘mdo‘erbv l’lg lull- asked me to lnalrry you." said Belly ; er- d'e‘l muffin? at the 386 Of 104 proudly. "But 1 will. not betray you. I years, having worked at his calling till l .Dml'l be afraid .1 kmlw “ow to he geP' ? within ten days of his death. He boast- erous. And Raymond trusts me; he will . not press the matter." ! “Well- you can afford to be gener- ous. I suppose," Leonard answered sul- lenly. or all. You see. you and 1 might have ed that he had killed over 20,000 pigs.! .He was seized. by a press gang before ;the battle of “'aterloo, “You've not: come off badly aftâ€" ._ ‘had to wait years for the property." ! "Oh. how dare you speak like that!” cried. "Is all honor dead within. Foul Bill. you are going away: aftergbegin by saying What. a splendid fel-! this we need not meet again tillâ€"" "Till you are married. Well. you can jafford to despise me now. Betty." "Youlr one my is 'Affordl afford l'" she said. ‘Bul. the girl who is loved conquers all." C O O 0 It was nearly a year after their! but leased, as he was too small. Sir Henry Hawkins, the sporting Jus- tice of the Queen's Bench. though hel is 80 years of age, does not intend to write his memoirs. He says: “if you “'33 IB‘ low you are they call you egotistical, and as for saying anything against my- iself. PM be hanged if I will. would I ‘ you t" as I am loved can ‘affc-rd' a good deal. l» ' )ven a womfln scorned can ‘afford' to 3 st. the author of the tragedy "Fredeo be generous in libs man she though; ! condo" in the com-L of appeal, The de. she loved" “hen real 0‘8 comes on lcisian is that. the French law is clear . M. Bruneliere has lost his case again on the subject of criticism. and that an author whose, work is reviewed un- wedding and Betty and um squire ; favorably has the right‘to reply alganr stood among llhe [mimroses where he: length in U119 columns 0! the periodi- . l paper whch has been frequently re-? ferred to in the cable despatches from! Spain during the past few days is La! Ispoua, a Conservativu Journal, which" makes claim to a circulation of 5,000.? it is a four-page paper of blanket.Z style and makers afeature of foreign? despalcnesâ€"when it gets them. Ell Glooo. a Journal of Liberal tendencich has a much larger circulation, though? smaller in mere than El Liberal or the. Imparcial two other papers well-known§ to Euro; can readers generally who are! fammar ivlch Spanish journalism. " ’l'he propensity of Spaniards to in? dulge ln bombastic titles is reflucledl somewhat in the press of that country.’ Cadiz has two daily papers. one known? as the Defender of Cadiz and the oth- er as Glamor. One of the Madrid pap- ers. a paper almost wholly devoted to allusmlns to the past and the great-. mass or Spain. is called the Future ('en-l tury, and two of the papers of Malaga’ are known respectively as the News and the Future. A' favorite title rim- ong the provincial papers of Spain is Publicity! (publicity.) which can hard-‘ ly be regarded as a wise selection of title for a country which receives so few foreign telegraphic despall'hes‘ and in which a press censorship exists or so stern a quality as to divest Spun- ish papers generally of all claim in inâ€" dependence in matters relating to the Government. There are, approximately. 1.200 pflpo ers in Spain. of which 509 are descrilmd as newspapers. wlasscientific journals (mostly monthly journals) 100 are re- ligious papers and MO deal with {ash- ions (Spanish fashions). satire. poetry, music and art subjects. Nearly one.-. half the papers of Spain are publish- ed in Barcelona or Madrid. In the lat- ~relrcated Ihrmlg’b the “straight line. -lhe luissrlgcs. Sripio's pikemen . feel -_lic and its African auxiliaries. loss at Grumentum. two elephants be- ing killed in an unsuccessful attempt to relieve Capmi, and fivc more slain in Ihe battle of Camisium. At the battle of .llelllurus his elo- phants were repulsad by pikelllcn, four being slain on the Spul) and the rest being driven. back on the (.‘ul'lhugcniun llaes. . - V . The most relllal'kable example. of the use of elephants during this period was presented at the battle of 7.1mm, where Hannibal covered his line. with no less than eighty elephants. Scipio imllledialely changed the usual fnrlu~ alioll of the llomall lines. When- lilo Romans had sloorl before IN A SOL“) l’llALANX he left wide, spaces like lanes between the manipuli of the legions, lllasking the arrlmgellll-lll: by throwing forâ€" \Hll‘d a number of skirulisbers and light troops. Hannibal gave the usual order for the elephants to charge the Roman lines in a body. As they went tearing down upon Ibo army the skirmisbers lanes and lim passages “are left wide'opien. l-Ile- phanls on the charge will keep on in at As llley sped through throw javelins and darts into their and trunks. ‘l'lluu lol'iurcd. they soon lul‘ucd bark and fled in fright up- on lheirown people. 'l‘ll'll battle taught the humans the value of the "fell for- mutual). The last Roman battle "with whizh elephtlllls were connected wuslllc bat- tle of Thillfiillfl when Julius Caesar overthrew the lust. army of the repub- That the victory over them was regarded as important was shown by the frequent appearance of elephants on Human coins and medals. spoil rs. had first found her. and she told him #3 cal that criticised him. the story of why she cried that day. "Alli you're anr cried for him since.- Betty b" "Newt. Hayllmud. Those were my 'first. and last tears for a false lover, !and l have never regretted that day." l l l l Miss Charlotte Yonge's name ls'to be given to three free scholarships for girls, rfor which her admirers. head- ed by the Princess of \Vales, are col- lecting money in England. ){iss Yonga ter city there is one paper published. Elephants were used in large numâ€" in French. and in Gibraltar. under- here in the wars of ’lndia as late as English control, and therein one pub-5 1779. and they form at this day- Her, lished in English. The average. clrcuLl important factor in the British army atinu of a Spanish newspaper is 1,200. in India, being used for the transport- copios. ation. of batteries and supplies. .., P... van... wen-MW“ New 3 .,, --,¢W JW~d ..