The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

\ ♦ Or * Gentility Vs. « ^ Nobility of Soul. ♦ i CONFUSION I OF CASTE. CHAPTER XII. An open window, with the May breezes coming solily throujrli itâ€" a iibrary, silent except for tlie oc- 1 (-aslonal scratch of a liusy pen, and on the broad, oid-fashioneU window- seat a small liguro. curled up, quiet as a mouse, with a bit of something \t called needlework in its tiny hands â€"some garment, or fancied garment, for a doll, tiiut it was fashioning clumsily, with feeble, patient fingers. Tl.; little brow was puckered as it Btoopef' over its work ; the small nxjuth was set with the intontness of its endeavor ; unconscious of dis- c-)Ti?ort from the full sunshine in its <;y?s, minute after minute the small creature went on with its work, per- sever'rig, steady, silent. Sometimes from his table where he sat f.t wor\ Mr, Trelawney glanced at thi! brii'.vii bent head, but the gin \c* waa rarely more than a placid momentary, passing look ; the busy m&n had grown accustomed to have this small, staid figure in his siglit ; its presence brought no sense of dis- turbance to him, but only instead of that a happy sense of peace and of possession â€" a feeling that within the four walls of this quiet room of his he held all that was dearest to him in the world â€" his books, the friends of all his life, and this new friend â€" his child. When Dorcas fint began to talk, her stammering utterances made a curious and sweet music in her fath- er's ear ; when her unsteady little feet began to toddle up and down the floors, he took to following those most uncertain steps with an an- xious eagerness that must seriously have disturbed his peace. Strangely enough from quite early daysâ€" us soon as she could walk and talk at all â€" he used to like to carry her into his study, and shut himself up with her there; and she, too, rapidly de- veloped a taste for being so shut up, and would cry to be taken to papa, and struggle to escape from Lctty's arms, till sometimes Letty's lieai't would ache a little sadly. Poor Letty loved hei- blindly and passionately, but Dorcas. I am sor- i!y to .s-ay, on her side, did not love her mother very much.. With a cu- rious instinct, she seemed, from a wonderfully early age, to be con- scious of iier mother's weakness of character, and. however tenderly she might treat her, to mingle her ten- derness with a certain tone of con- descension which Letty, though it pained her often, hardly ever re- sented, or regarded it as anything more than she deserved. "For she's so xilever, you see," she would say sometimes to Mrs. Markham : "she's like her father, bless her ! And like takes to like, you know. It's not to be looked for that she'd think much of me." And she would stoop and press her lips with a half sad kiss upon her little daughter's cheek, and smooth her hair from her brow, and then the next moment would listen with a sigh to the little fingei-s tapping at the study door ; for the child would stay with her mother while she held her at her side, but as soon as she was released the â- Coddling steps went always in one direction, and Letty would- hear the impatient demand of "Oppen. oppeii '." that never was made at the door of any room in which she sat. "She'd leave me for her father any day. I suppo.se I might go away, and they'd neither of them ijver mi.ss me. or ever care," she said^sadly, and almost bitterly, once or twice. Yet. though she spoke sadly, Letty's life was fuller and happier now. and Letty herself, perhaps, was stronger to bear some troubles than she had been before h.er child was born. To most people, as time goes on, the back gets fitted to the bur- den that it has to bear, and the sharp sorrow of to-day becomes only to-morrow's subdue'd pain. Letty had had her short time of rapture, and her bitter awakening from it ; and now â€" the world was coming by degrees to put on something of it.s every-day garb again, i;nd she had her fits of sadness still, and her "ossiouate longings and sometimes even her passionate despairs ; but in spite of longings her house had to be ordered (as she best could order it), and her little girl had to be nursed and clothed, and sometimes, fortunately, the coimnon cares of her daily life made her hu,if forget her disappointed hopes, and the simple joys of which she had her share came to her in at least partial stead of those other joys of which, in her girlhood, she had so vainly dream- ed. Little footsteps pattering up and down the stairs, a little high sweet voice making shrill music every- where ; these were strange sounds to fill Mr. Trelawncy's once empty and quiet house. He used himself to think so often as he listeiied to them recalling that old life of his, com- paring it with this that he was liv- ing now. Lover of peace as he liad been so long, had anything ever thrilled his heart in all the years he had hitherto lived as the touch of these childish fingers thrilled it now ? He used to lie down on the sofa in his study, and pretend to be un- movably sound asleep, that they might come and wander over him, stroking his cheek, straying amongst his hair, pulling at his coat to try to rouse him, the little voice, 'too, calling him all the time with an imperiousâ€" "Papa ! Papa 1"â€" till, after he had lain still for a few min- utes, submitting to these sweet en- treaties, all in a moment he would stretch out his arms, and snatch the little creature in a rapture to his bosom, and cover the brown head with kisses so pa.ssionate that, half in delight, half almost in terror, Dorcas would quiver and .scream. Only when he was alone with the child did he ever betray his love for her in this impetuous way. A shy, undemonstrative man In general, it would not have been in his nature to show it so before any witnes.ses. In the presence of others â€" even in Letty's presence â€" he Feenied fond of the child, and was kind to her ; but that was all ; his warmest caresses, his tenderest nonsen.se, were all re- served for those hours, which both of them liked so well, when no other creature came between themâ€" when the.v were all the world to each other, with everyone else shut out. The exclusive devotion that was given to Dorcas at these seasons suited that little damsel admliably ; the power of giving it, and of at- taching her solely to himself, suited Mr. Trelawncy's jealous love. He came very quickly to know that she preferred him to every other creature in the house, and in his secret satis- faction in this knowledge 1 feiir that he a good deal forgot Letty and Letty's claims â€" nor did he ever, per- haps, even hereafter, remember thosp rights of hers much, I think. To the best of his power, it is true, he did try to use his inlluence over the child for good. Well as he loved her. his eyes, as time passed on, became quite conscious ot cer- tain faults in her, and these faults he tri"d, at least, not to pass over lightly. She was imperious and wil- ful, for instance, and he did his ut- most to teach her submission and gentleness ; she was selfishâ€" us by nature most creatures arc â€" and he tried to instil into her the habit of giving up her own desires (I do not say that he succeeded in this ulTort); she rapidly developed an ardent love for pleasure, and he tried hard to awake in her heart a counter-balanc- ing love for duty. 1 am afraid that sometimes his teaching fell on va- cant ears, and that somctiuies, too, perhaps, the strength of original sin in the little maiden filled his heart with a temporary consternntion ; but on the whole she was a.s good, perhaps as most children me â€" and, at any rate, he was content with her. As the days of imperfect speech and toddling infancy jiassed away, it seemed to him. indc-cti, as if each hour she grew dearer to him. He was thinking this, perhaps, to-day, as his eyes wandered again and again from his work to rest tondeily on the little figure sitting with bu.sy lingers in the window seat. Bending there with absorbed face over her piece of futile sewing, how sweet and quaint a picture she made, ho thought. He looked at her, and looked a huudred times. How earn- est, patient, persevering she was ! Possessing such qualities, what would she not be capable of becom- ing presently ? Surely he should be able to make a student of her â€" to teach her his own lo^â- e of books â€" to make hor, perhaps, a fellow-worker with himself '? Already the little lips could read easy words â€" English words in plenty, and Greek words even (at least, one or two. He had taught her the.se secretly, for his own special delight). She hud hud books for playthings from her earliest years. He- had taught her to build houses with themâ€" to make pyraniids of them â€" to search their pages for pictures â€" to take them in her arms and kiss them when they fell. She was a clear-headed little maid â€" not one who was accustomed to let her feelings run away with her, or to allow sentiment to get the up- per hand of reason, .Sometimes, I think, in spite of all his devotion to her, Mr. Trelawney came on hard bit» in his little daughter that made him wince. "She will not be taken in easily," he would say nt mo- ments with a laugh. Often he would watch her demure and composed ways, and wonder wliut strength of feeling lay beneath the calm and rather cold exterior. In person sha was like his mother â€" a dainty, pret- ty, rather Quaker-like little face and figure ; he wondered if in character she would prove like his mother too; and perliaps, though lialf uncon- sciously, or at least unwillingly, a certain reluctance to believe it pro- bable would mingle with his specula- tions. For his mother had been a woman of many virtues and of few faults, but looking back now on the days when they had lived together he occa.sionally found himself ques- tioning whether warm blood could ev'er have flowed in her calm veins â€" whether in all her life 'ler pulses could ever have beaten fast. "If Porcus could be like her in some ways," he would say to him- self, "I should desire nothing bet- ter. My mother's culm sense and strength of mind, joined with the warmth and breadth of nature that 1 think I see in Dorcas, would make an almost perfect woman." And in happy faith he u.sed to watch the little maid, believing that he could already perceive ui <> seeds of all goodness and noblencs:: in this child of his, with her quiet, .self-possessed ways, and her grave, observant eyes. "Uorty's eyes are like two little stars, that watchâ€" and watch," he said to her. tenderly, once, and drew her to his side and ki.sscd them sliut. Such happy walks these two u.sed to take together ! With her mother Dorcas went very littl'i; out of doors, except into the garden, but her fath- er and she in summer would ramble hall their tfmc away, and e.en in winter there were few days when they failed to secure an hour or two in the open air. They us<!d to have endless interests in those expedi- tions of theirs. Holding his hand demurely as she walked beside him, Dorcas would ask him (|uestions without number ; scarcely a fiower by the road.side did sl.o pass un- noticed ; scarcely a bii-d sang in the trees or insect hnmnied in the air but she wanted to know its name and histoi-y ; she picked up pebbles in the rofwl, which he had to carry home for future study ; she required a reason and a moaning tor every- thing she saw, such us it taxed him to the utmost, and often quite be- yond his power, to supply. They used to sit down in the woods and meadows, and then she would make him tell her fsdry storie.s- or, rather, they would make up tales little six-year-old child 7 Rb would often, even to himself, luugh at tho thought of it. "But I cannot help it. The little soul expects mo to play witii her," he would say, in half jesting self-excuse. She expect- ed it, and so he must humor hor ; children mu.st play, and Dorcas had no companion besides himself (ex- cept her mother, of course ; but somehow they neither of them thought much of Letty for a play- fellow). So he talked nonsense to her, and played games with her, and they ran races together in the fields; imd tho grave student, who.se life till now had been spent amongst his books, became accustomed at com- mand to leave his desk that he might walk on all fours round his study floor, in ibject imitation of some lion or tiger roaming in its native woods. He was occasionally half ashamed of those strange occupations to which ho had descended. One day, when Mr. Gibson camo to see him, and, being ushered unexpectedly into the room, found his friend barricad- ed and growling in one corner of it, enacting a wild beast in its den, Mr. Trelawney leapt to his feet, and burst from liis imprisonment with his face on fire. "J was â€" I was only playing with that .silly child. One has to make a fool of one's self sometimes," ho blurted out apologetically, with an embarrassed laugh. And, though the other answered emphatically that he could not do a better thing, Mr. Trelawney was disturbed all through the vi.sit, and after this time often locked his study door when the lit- tle one and lie were engaged toge- ther at their games, shrinking un- controllably, in his shy reserve, from letting the eye of any stranger see him at his childish play. (To Be Continued.) To prove to yon that Dr. Chase's Ointment is a certain and abno'.uto cnra for oath and every form of itchinif, bliwdinKandprotrudinB piles, I UifrmanufacttirerH have truamntopdit. Seotes- I tlmonlalii in the daily pre<is and axk your noiKh- I bor.'i what thoy think of it. You can uco it and j get your monoT back If not cured. fiOo a liox, at •Ul'dtalors or Kdmanbon.Bates & Co., Toronto, Or.OHase's Ointment BABY CONSTIPATIOIT. Can Be Cured Without Keoorting' to Harsh Purgatives. Constipation is a very common trouble among infants and small children â€" it is also one of the most distressing. Tho cause is some lie- rangement of the digestive organs, and if not promptly treated is liable to lead to serious results. The little victim sulTerfl from headache, fever, pain in the stomach and sometimes vomiting. While in this condition neither baby nor baby's mother can obtain restful sleep. If proper 4!>ro is taken in feeding the child and Baby's Own Tablets are used, there willbe no trouble found in curing and k*?ping baby free from this di.i- order. Mrs. T. Guymer, London. Ont., says : â€" "My baby was a great sufferer from constipation. Sh« cried continually, and I was about worn out attending her. I tried sev- eral remedies, but none of them helped her till I procured some Baby's Own Tablets. These tablets worked wonders, and now she Is in the best of health. I can i-.ow go about my work without being dis- turbed by baby's crying. I considei Baby's Own Tablets a great mefli- cine and would advise mothers tc keep them in the house for they will save baby from much sufTering by curing and preventing the minor nil- ments common to infants and small children," Baby's Own Tablets are sold under an absolute guarantee to contoin no opiate or other harmfid drug. Thev are easy to take, mild in action, promote helpful sleep and will br found a never-failing euro for con- sfio'vcion. baby indigestion, siiniiln fever, diarrhoea, sour stomach, colic ntc. Thev nllay the irritation nr- companying Iho cutting of teeth, hrcnk up colds and prevent croup. Price 2ry rents a box nt all dnitr- glsts or sent by mail post pniiV hv addressing tho Dr. Williams' \fedi-- cine Co.. BrookviUc, Ont. together, both bringing malcriiil out of their own fancy, and joining it all together into a rambliug m-sdley of nonsense, whose absurdity and want of coherence. perhaps, almost made part of its cha<ni to her. Was it possible that Mr. Trelaw- ney had come to spend Ikuus every day talking nonsense like this to a ESART TROUBLE. fHE SYMPTOBIS OFTEN JaXS> TTirDERSTOOD BY THE SUFFEHEH. The Trouble at All Times '^n £z> tremely Dangerous One â€" How to Promptly Believe It, There are many forms of heai't <Ii» liise, some of which manifest them- -.elves by symptoms which ai« misuiv lerstood by the sulTercr and ascribed .o indigestion or some similar cause, when the heart is really alTected. Th« slightest derangement of this import- ant organ is extremely duiigeroue. II at times the action of the pulaji^ia. too rapid and the heiirt beala^J^''"' lently, resulting in a sulTocaliiig feel- ing, or, if the lititt;t .seems inclined to stop beating, the ijulse bi'comeb sSoxv and you feel a faint, dizzy sensation, you should take the best course in the world, and fnat is to lake Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for I'ale People. You will find that tho distressinH uyniptoms promptly disappear and lliat tlie heart at all times arts iiorinally. Mr. Adelard I.a\oie. St. Pacome. Que., bears strung testi- mony to the value of these pills in cases of heart trouble. llu says: "For nearly three years I was great- ly troubled with a weak heart and in constant fear that my end would come at any time. I placed myself under a good doctor but did not get the desired relief. In fact. 1 grew worse; the least exertion would over- come me, and finally L had to dis- continue work. While itt this condi- y pro- cured a supply. They simply worked wonders in my case and when I had used si.x boxe.s I was again enjoying good health. I have had no sign of the trouble since and I can cheerfully recommend the pills to similar suf- ferers . ' ' Blood troubles of all kinds are alsa cured by these famous pills. If you Buffer from headaches, dizziness, lan- guor, boils or skin diseases of any kind, your blood is in an impure coii» dition, and Dr. Williams' Pink Pills,, ^ are what you need. These pills ar»<t" not a purgative and therefore do not weaken like medicines of that class. V; They a -e tonic in their nature and ' make n.!w, rich, red blood with ever.i dose. thus restoring health ane strength to hopeless and despondent sufferers. But you must get the gen. ulne, which always has the full nami "Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Palt People," on every box. Sold by all dealers or sent post paid at .")<! centi a box or six boxes for $2. .'ill, b.v ad- dressing the Dr. Williams' Medicim Co . Brockville, Ont. tion a neighbor advised ^e to tr; Dr. Williams' Pink Pills and 1 pro Dr.Chase in the Lumber Camp The Exposure and Hardships of Camp Life Bring on Kidney Disease, Backache and Rheumatismâ€" The Lumberman's Favorite Remecy is Or. Chase's Kitiney-Llver Pills. It Is to the teamsters, farmers, railroaders, lumbermen above nil others that Dr. Chase's Kidney-Liver Pills prove their marvellous-control over kidney disease, backache and acconivanying ills. Kxposure to cold, dampness, sudden change of tcini>crature and the strain and jar of active vigorous life, 0'''<luently bring on derangements of the kidneys, bowels and bladder, and consequent pains and aches in back and limbs. Mr. .lohn Orr, lumbcruiau Trenton, Out., states- "Through exposure to all sorts of weather in the Uini- bor caiiii>. and as a result of the strain of my work, I became a sufleror from kidney disease, whieli in my ra.se took tho form of very severe p.-xins acro.ss the back, over the kidneys uiul down the hi,[)8. Wui in tho Woods cutting down trees these pains would come on me with such force that 1 would have to give .,p work •wd return to camp, entirely used up. "Finding th.-it a nuinbcr of the boy.i in camp ti.iod Dr. Cha.«e's Kidney-Liver I'ills, I decided to try them, and did go with splendid roaults, as they thoroughly cured me. 1 feel like my old self again, and can work Just as good as tho ne.xt one. 1 aia grateful for this cure, and honestly believe that Dr. Chase's Kidney- Liver Pills are the greatest' modi<'iiie there is for kidney disease." Dr. Chase's Kiuiiey-Liver Pills have by far the largest sale in Canada of any similor prepnrnt i.in. They liavo proven their right to a place in every homo as I he most thoroiighl.v relinhio medicine thot science hn.t 4«vised. They nro prompt and natural in action, and regulate and invigoiale the kidneys, liver and tiowrls ns no other medicine was ever known to do. You can scnrccl.v meet a person but ran tell you of r»- innrkable cures brought about by this tifaUunut. One plU a dose, 25 cents a box, at all dealers, or EA- taansoD, Batsa & Co.* T<h-o»to. SHE KNKW 111311. A. lady of tho most reserved and exclusive type was waiting for her change at the counter in one of the largo shops, when she was approach- ed liy a very largo, gaudily-dressed, and loud spoaliing woman who held out a podgy hand, in a bright gioen kid glove, and .said : â€" â- Why, how do you do, Mrs. Blank'-?" Mrs. Blank ignored tho prolTcrod hand, and drawing her.sulf up stillly said, with the greatest frigidity : "I do not think 1 have tho plen- suie of knowing you, niadaiu." "No, 1 s'poso not," replied the woman, in no wi.so (Uiibarrassod by tho coldness of her reception, "but I've knowed you by sight for a long time. nn<l now I've got your ser- vant who worke<l at your house a year or two ago, and she's told ino so nnich about you that V feel tpiito ac(luainted with you. I'lonsant dny, ain't it ? Well, if she ain't polite to sail off without so much as a word! Shows her breeding, anyhow !" WESTEBN CUITICIKM. This is tho sort of criticism groat singers have to face when they warble in tho presence of Wild West- ern musical critics. One of them writes thus of the star of an opera company : â€" "Her voice was a cross betwc-in the hum of a cyclone and tho screech of a locomotive under full steam. It trembled awa.v in cat-like cadences, and rose again liko tho wail of a hound in distress. /Vgaiu it rose in mellow tones not xmlike tho wind dallying over the mouth of an empty jug. "Stopping only long eno.igh to take wind, she rose .slowly to her tip-toes, and with gyiating arms and heaving chest ga\e .i fair imita- tion of the roar that foioti.-lls a Dakota blizzard. Did Jim 'laker's pet panther, chained to a jiost iii -i yard at the back of the ciitra hotise. heard some of her high note.-^, and they skeared tho poor be.ist out of a year's growth. It was tie lir.-t timu our town was vis-ited by .'i gunuina female Calliope, and \"<i h-jpu s-lic'U come again." MODiOHN SOCIRTY. "What is your impression of moilern society ?" asked nn old-time friend. "WoU," was tho un.swcr, "I wouldn't liko to ha\e you mention it to mother or tho girls, but my impression is that society is n place where a man who has worked his way up in the wofld from nothing to a millionaire is likely to get sneered at because ho can't play ping-pong." Mcrritt â€" "If you keep on .lohnnie. you will soon know as much ns your teacher." Little .lohnnie â€" "I'd know as n>uch now if 1 had the hook be- fore me as she has." MISPLACliD SVM.i',Vl'nY. In tho days of the Indian Mutiuj it was the barbarous ci.>tom ol many of the rebel chiefs to throw all Kuropoans who were 'Uifortunat* enough to fall into their hands into pits containing tigers, who, ol course, fell upon them and devourc«i them. A mother was showing her littli son u picture of one of these ter. riblo scenes, and was talking vcrj solemnly to him. ti-yiiig to make hiii feel what an awful thing it was. "Ma," said he all at once â€" "oh ma, just look at that poor littlt tiger right behind there ! Ho won'! got any I" NOT NEW. "This smokeless powifor is some thing new, isn't it ?" asketl Mrs Biokors. who was reading of sotni military o.\perimonls. "Why, my dear," replied Mr Bickers, "you have used smoheloss powder for yours." Maud â€" "Yes ; it's a pretty fan. isn't it ? It -.vns gi\on mo by nij mother on my twenty-first biith- day." Mabel â€" "Really I How w»»U it has worn, dear." The teacher in the first grade wai dc\eloping tho word 'breakfast.' Wy way of introduction she ad dro.sscd the cla.s.s thus :â€" "What it tho first meal you eat in the ma.'n Ing ?" "Oatmeal," promptly ri spondcd Johnny. n ^: "Another good iiuin gone wrong. Folks say, but. no doubt, 'Tis only one more bad mau I-'olks have >u:.t found out.