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"Ah, child, I wish I knew where lives; or if he is-alive. Herbert wson and I have not met for Jwenty years. . ; 'It was twenty years ago, the { of June. Twenty years ago he ; Elmwood, and I have never rd from him since. 'I have never spoken of Herbert you, dear; but I never cease to on of him. Would you care to hear an old woman's story of the * ouly love affair she ever had?' -» "Indeed, Elizabeth, I would. But you must not say you are an 'old woman.' You look almost as young 88 I, who am fifteen years your junior. What is the story?' 'Herbert Rawson and: I were schoolmates; chums, comrades. We played 'together when we were chil- "dren, and after we left school were 'weethearts. 4 "Herbert went 'into' his uncle's re, with the promise of being aken into partnership when he had learned the business. 'The evening before his twenty- Rrst birthday he was my escort at a Hance given by the bachelors of the down. That was the chief social vent of the season. in Elmwood-- bachelors' ball. 'We all looked rd to it for months with the greatest anticipation. ©. « "We had had a misunderstanding which ended in a quarrel over a ~ distant cousin of mine, Ed Drew, ho had been paying me consider- sable attention and who had invited "A silly quarrel; that I am sure Herbert was as asham was myself. I was too proud to send for him to come to:me so wo ""The morning of the ball I re- peived a note from Herbert telling that he wanted to ask me a seri- question, and begged me to give the opportunity that evening 'send the ball. He was ng me a h of sweet {gin my favorite rer, and would take it as a sign I would consent to him put- e question to me if I wore Nurdrod bios from th recital of her life of them, just inside the ho 8 parlor sat a gentleman whose [face wore thé marks of struggle. Its 'browned surface was seamed wi started from his chair, took a good look 'at the ladies through the open window. at his side and then strode out on the porch, letting the screen door slam behind him. 'Elizabeth, Elizabeth!' he cried as he stood in front of the startled women, "'You won't have to wait until you get a million dollars to find Herbert. Let him bring you the money--yes, several -million-- and lay them at your dear feet, while he begs you to forgive him for being a heartless, careless boy that night so many years ago. "Here is the note, all yellow with age, that you slipped in my pocket while we danced. "I never read it, I never looked for it, I forgot all about it in my misery, in my abject disappoint- ment because you, as I thought, had not worn my flowers, but those your cousin had gent you. "My darling, it was not until three months ago on my ranch in central Australia that I read this bit of paper that explains all about the roses. I was looking ovef an old chest and came across the very suit' I. wore, twenty years ago, to the bachelors' ball. Out of pure curiosity I slipped my hand in one of the pockets and drew' out this little note. Wonderingly 'I read it Then the light dawned upon-me. 1 knew, I knew, dear, that you loved me that night, and ' I have come back to you as fait as it was pos- sible to travel to find you aad ask you the question I wanted to so much that night. 'Elizabeth, it is not tuo lata. Say it is not!' Wildly Elizabeth glanced abcat her. Her companion had sippad away. They were alone then in the sweet twilight, with the perplaxing hills ever growing darker. "Herbert, Herbert, I--oh, Her- bert. I have always loved you. Al- ways."' But before she could say more her breath was almost crashed cut of her body by his strong arms about her, his kisses upon her brow, her eyes, her lips. . "Dearest, you shall bave the mil lion dollars, the farm, the po.r lit- tle kiddies to make happy and ev- erything you want, if you will (nly forgive me and marry me. Say Jon' Elizabeth, say 'yes,'..quink- Id '"'Herbert, dear, you know [ willl Gracious, but you have grown: big !l and strong and brown, if it were not for your eyes." But even that sentence was Smoth- ered by a long embrace. SRE Re----" | DETECTIVES PROTECT GEMS. Duchess of Marlborough Installs Them in Her Home, -' Following the éxample of Pier- pont Morgan, whose treasure house g|in London has been more than once 'note | the object of an attack by burglars, the Duchess of Marlborough has now installed a band of detectives at Sunderland House, her residence in Mayfair, London, =. ... | Bix: ex-Scotiand Yard men are or. day. w employed--three day and Thre: To night duty. ugh: | the' mansion finished is fitted with the most h d expensive: system of ar alarms, the duchess tly developed a state of nervous. uced inj d somnia her: health, heir {agility , deep lines and his hair was almost|d . jpure. white. os ea | As. she finished her story, he Although Bnortly aft we saw ale uJ rop down with the grace and 'chamois. They were dressed in the native garb' of red jackets, wide blue trousers, white gaiters fastened up the back with yrass hooks and sandals laced with string. They wore little caps and 'their rifles were slung over shoul- m the i er. ..'" "The Prince's patrol,' said our driver, as they saluted and swung along beside the carriage. .He re- parently satisfied them, for without looking at passports or overhaul- ing baggage they saluted again, fell behind and were lost in the land- scape. "Then we turned inland and covered the level mile to Njegush. This important village is the cradle of the present dynasty and the birthplace of King Nicholas I. IT IS A FERTILE SPOT and like all the cultivable land of Montenegro appears to be the basin of a long dry lake. We were too high now for the vine, the olive and the orange. "Not even the wild pomegranate, 50 plentiful in Dalmatia, could fol- low us here.. There were fields of rye and potatoes, or earth pears. We lunched lightly at the inn on excellent rye bread and coffee-- one can generally rely upon these and the wine being good--and when the horese were rested drove on through the valley, .over a pass and then down zigzags to Cettinje, which with its 2,000 inhabitants is the smallest capital in Europe. ¢ "The streets are wide and well rnaetalled. The houses are small, but they looked well built and com- fortable, and there are wells at various corners, where the people draw water in the evening. None of the Montenegrins is greatly rich or greatly poor. The independ- ence of the individual is as remark- able as that of the nation. We only saw two beggars in Cettinje, a crippled woman in a wheeled chair and a blind man who sang to the gusla. This is the national instrument, a one stringed fiddle carved with a horse's head. "There are villalike palaces for the royal family and various rather imposing legations, but in the main both houses and churches are very modest in appearance and do not lay claim to any great antiquity. It was the people who interested us chiefly. "THE DALMATIAN SLOUCHES. He is always ready for a reat, and though he falls into the most grace- ful positions upon a doorstep, against 'a tree or down upon his mother earth one gets tired of his picturesque idleness. The Mon- tenegrin has. square: shoulders and a stiffer back. He walks as if he wishes to arrive somewhere and looks upwrad and outward like an eagle. . '"The peasants v-car long coats of white feltlike ~l,:h with bright sashes and all have the 'torba' or pouch common . throughsut Dsl- matia. It is a big leather cou- "trivance, handy receptacle for pis- tol, knives, pipe and tobacco. 'The women are very comely, quiet eyed, dark haired. They wear handker- chiefs or lace veils over their heads and long, sleeveless coats of a pale color, just touched with embroid- ery, a becoming dress for old and young. The Montenegrin wife she does nearly all the work and soon grows old. '""We drove into Podgoritca one evening and met the country peo- : their way home after carried astonished us. arily along with a hile - her out Ttnat he may wear the coat without them : plied to: their questioning and ap- well told us that after is own a green wide skirted coat, wi 'sleeves slit near the shoulder, so when it is warm. And this a him a strange though very dignified appearance as he walks down the Katunska Ulica, a spare pair of sleeves hanging behind him and his 'struka.' a brown, carpety! plaid, with snicks of color, folded over his shoulder, its long fringe swinging at every step. When the soldier takes the field the struka is his blanket. It is much smaller and stiffer than the Scottish plaid, but it is almost waterproof, and the highlanders of Montenegro consider it a sufficient protection against WIND AND RAIN AND SNOW. "All alike wear the poetic head- dress of tneir country, a little round cap, which is at once a dirge, a lyric and a song of victory. It has a red top and a brim of ped- dled black silk, which is used as a purse. The black is mourning for the lost country; the red is in memory of the blood which has been shed. On the crown are five lines of gold arranged like a rising sun-- they are for five centuries of glori- ous independence-- and below them, in the Russian character, are the initials of the beloved ruler! who has lately heen made King. 'The Montenegrin type of face is short, square, brown eyed, dark! haired. It is ready enough to smile, to see a joke, but in repose it has a tragic sadness, a look of mourn- ing that matches the black cap! brim. What do the Montenegrins | mourn in their sunny home? Per- | haps it is the Herzegovina, a fairer' and more fertile land. It was once their country, but the tide of Turkish invasion drove them from | it, and they fled to the Black! Mountain and wrung a living from its gray, unfriendly slopes. ) "They sowed their seeds in the little pockets of earth that collect in dips and dells in the rock and built themselves houses of the plentiful stone. They grew hardly! from the hard life, looked forward to the time when they would have their revenge upon the Turks and kept their weapons sharp and their wits bright against the day. 'The soil is rich, but there is very little of it, so every patch is made to contribute its half dezen pota- toes or its HANDFUL OF GRAIN. 'You will wonder," said a Dalma- tian friend, 'how such a country can grow such tall, fine men," He had been in Cettinje in October, 1909 at the time of the ratification of the treaty by which Austria annexed Bosnia and hte Herze- govine. He said that war had seemed certain and that the Mon- does mot have a very easy time. | Fo vois The question of supply + staff very seriously, for a man will | live two days on apiece of bread 2 the size of his fistr He takes three | asked why he did not take more he tenegrins wished to cross the bord- er immediately to attack the Austr- ians, so indignant, were they that the country which was once thtrs and from which their Prince ..ad oust- ed the Turks, should be given away by Europe to Austria. | 'Envoys came in from all the villages eagerly asking, 'Will there be war to-day?" The standards were on their way to tne church.' One was carried by an old man over 60, who was told that he was too old to fight. He retorted that + his family had held the banner for | 300 years, and that until his son, | for whom he had cabled, returned { from America he would yield it to none. - But the envoys went sad- ly back to their village to say that there would be no war. The Prince counselled peace and his loyal subjects obeyed him. [The ontenegrin's simple field | equipment: hangs in a corner of this house." It consists of a rifle and a new. pair of 'opanaka' | and transport does not occupy the | | days rations with him when he goes out to fight, and if he were ave enough for at time either the enemy and else I shall be views held by, in the. r talking in little and then one splen- | En % BLUE AND SOARLET UNIT |0} up. oi Al . | way are all : Jiviig 'adead |" » 'Montenegrin's that 'he who avenges 'A lady who knows » Supers © of 1 D ountars, whe ' ov iat Rb ah 4 r o her views . The sub; «i 31 2 : a gL FORECASTS THOU: NG The isirel . that so 'suddenly } A i 3 r was not . 'But that. only two: bullets,' - returned the | man. 'Some of us have eight bul-' lets in us and we are not dead. If a man dies from only two bullets it | must surely be the will of God !'- "Bravery is not lacking. It was an ancestor of King Nicholas who held the monastery of Ostrog with thirteen against several Turks, and when a bomb thrown by the enemy lit upon the Ostrog wall the Vladika seized it and flung it! back, and it burst in thé Turkish ranks and drove them off. There are not only many tales of the, splendid past, but there is also to- day so much that is noble and heroic_that one could wish for an- other Homer to arise anu celebrate this land of war and song." SENS IT PAYS TO ANALYZE COAL. What Comes From One District May Vary Very Much. Uh:mistry has shown that coals from the same district may vary as greatly as cuts of meat from the same beef. That coal varies great- ly in its proportion of ash, sulphur and heat units (the elements that affect the value of steam coal) is shown by the exhaustive tests that! many large users now require be- fore purchase. | A neglect of this precaution often results disastrously. For instance, according to Business, a manufact- | urer who had taken advantage of an opportunity to save a few dol-! lars on the first cost of his coal by buying some that he had been as- sured came from the same district as the good coal he has formerly ' used, soon found himself in consid- | erable trouble. The increase in consumption to keep up the required amount of steam was so great that the added labor brought forth immediately complaints from the engine room. Firing had to be almost incessant and grates 'became clogged so rapidly that stoking was also close! to a continuous operation and all the while the ash pile was growing | into a mountain. | A chemist was called in finally to look into the condition. He did 80, and his test proved that the coal contained a fraction less than! two-thirds ash. Such lessons cost' money, but they have to be learned | In some way and the great ash heap, two-thirds the size of the original coal pile, made a striking | object lesson. - The storage of coal is also a con- siderable item. Frequent handl- mg will greatly increase its cost. In one plant where an expert was | called in to advise on this subject | he discovered that the company was | spending 53 cents a ton on the! transportation of coal from the time it reached the siding until it went into the furnaces. In a German factory firemen trained to appreciate the scientific principles involved in the work pro- duced a 'saving over the work of the regular but untrained stokers of $8.30 a day, or $50 a week of 144 hours. The un- trained men had prodvced a ther- mal efficiency of 66.6 per cent., while the trained stokers, on the same job, brought it up to 72.7 per | cent., an actual saving if expressed | in dollars and cents of $8.50 a day. In another German plant where a similar test was made a saving three times the amount of that just quoted was produced. ----e WEDDING PRESENTS. | Sent on-Approval in England and Returned After Wedding. A trick to make a good showing of presents at a wedding has been revealed recently .by a London, (England) firm of silversmiths, who say that certain of their customers have sent for six or seven wedding presents at about $20 each, to be sent on approval 'to their houses, all the goods being. returned after the wedding with a note to the ef- fect that they were unsuitable. a This is certainly a cheaper plan hiring presents,' as many mid- e. class families have done in the' past. As it is a time honored 'cus- tom to show wedding presents in gland it is possible to hire silver knives, forkes, rose bowls, out glass dishes, &o., should friends and relatives have failed to do what is expe hem for the bride nd bridegroom. | i "The goods that are used in ' this labelled with good other appropriate in- placed ano d'and Germany recently. | speech broke out between Turkey and Italy came as no surprise to is One who has made a study of affairs of nations. It was simply a case of Jougeontinged ill-feeling - coming to a . For 8 past, Italy and Turkey have stead. ily rubbing one another the, wrong way in Northern Africa, says Lon« don Answers. It was the same between France Not a diplomat in Europe but knew that those.two great countries would sooner or later try to pay off old scores. 'here is no love lost be- ween France and Germany. France can never forget how, forty years ago, Germany caught her dis- organised and unprepared, and compelled her to hand over an indemnity of two hundred millions sterling, besides two of her best provinces. Those provinces, Alsace and Lorraine, have been a thorn in the side of Germany ever since. Nations have their feelings just like individuals. The Kaiser would get no welcome if he were imprud- ent enough to visit Paris. The memory of the days when Paris was in German hands is too recent and bitter. Sooner or later the air will be cleared--by war | THE COCKPIT OF EUROPE Austria is in for troublous times when its aged emperor dies. No- thing is more likely than war with Italy or Germany--perhaps with both. Students of international politics declare that Austria- Hungary will flv into bits when the tight grip of Francis Joseph is re- laxed. Twenty millions of its in- habitants are German by blood and and sympathy--and Ger- many naturally turne a greedy eye towards them. The south- west corner is as Italian as Italy it self, and Italy has old scores to pay. Over three millions in the south-east are of Servian blood. It is not at all improbable than within ten years Austria-Hungary, if not dismembered peacefully, will be the cockpit of a big European war. Sooner or later, too, say most people, war between Great Britain and Germany will come. Germany was a late starter in the race for colonies, and wants a better out- let for her growing population and commerce than the few jungles and barren deserts that are all she possesses abroad. Britain has taken her pick--and Germany con- siders herself unfairly elbowed out of thines. The friction that led recently to the separation of the hitherto joint kingdoms of NORWAY AND SWEDEN is not dead yet, and might easily end in war, but for two things. They are not strong enough to fight if the Great Powers disapprove of their fighting--and Russia is very close, and very ready for fresh ter- ritory. Peru and Chile have reached such a point of prosperity that the ill- will which exists between then isa very serious matter. Their quar- rel is about a boundary. It runs vaguely through dense jungles on the slopes of the Andes, jungles unexplored as yet, but certainly of immense value in these rubber- growing days. Whatever war breaks out in the West of Europe, poor Belgium will cortainly be in it. Bigger nations will certainly use her territory as a short cut. Switzerland is luckier in that way. No thought of possible wars need ever worry Switzerland. She has no sea coast, and so has no navy Her army she could as easily du without. a FACT AND FANCY. It's no use giving the cold shoul: der to a vegetarian. Wild peacocks abound in Mada- gascar. ) Telephone kisses, like straw hats, are not felt. | It is easier for a plain woman to be good than 'a pretty one--but what woman admits that she is plain? . The king of Spain draws a salary of $750,000 a year. . Noahj, that wonderful promoter, - floated "a company when the whole * world was in liquidation. ~~ A bee, for all its industry. can only collect a tablespoontul of honey, a year. VRE You can tell by the tone of a man's voice when he's going to pro- pose, girls--there's a ring in it. REASONS FOR JOY,