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:.f}>'*;'^mi. **ec«**c»«««***««*««*«*««*«««««#«««««i^««^^^4 S i CONFUSION I OF CASTE. « fore him that 1Â¥ Or Gentility Vs. $ Nobility of Soul. * â-  •wic jiiiii Luau were dripping down come to be a I ^^'if-er on the grass. â- 'Neitlicr you CHAPTER XIII It had, somehow, <:ustoin that they never asked Letty i 'i"'' your trouaora will be the better â- in accompany thein when they went i f"'" this sort of bath, n»y young out walking. Perliaps neither of them knew why she iievtr went with them, but it was an understood thir^gâ€" an arrangeii;cnt that they all siccefitecl tacitly. And. in truth, thui, poor heart of hers. If it ached a little for any neg- lect that was shown her, at any rate harbored no bitterness in it. Tlie child seemed lo her always to belong so much more to her husband. She wa.'i like his mother, he often said ; she had such pretty, dainty, lady- like ways ; .she was not like Letty, or Letty's folk. "I sometimes feel almost as if I hadn't brought her into the world at all," Letty would say wistfully to Mr9. Markham, when occasionally her aunt came to visit her. "I sit and look at her, and feel as if she wasn't mine at all. And she feels it too â€" that's the strange thing â€" and she so young. She'll come to me for any little thing that I can do for her, but, when she's got it, it's her father that she'll go and stop with. She never stops with me." And then the tears would come to Letty's eyes, perhaps made her gentle lament. She stood in the sunshine to-day, she would wipe them away as she â- watching Dorcas, and her father as they went hand in hand along the road. She had ci-ossed the garden thia friend.' "Oh! my trousers will dry again," the lad answered, with p, l^^'ji-h and a blush ; but his companion, coming up too at this moment, glanced at him and shook his head. "You will have to come away with me, my lad, and see if they can give you a lire at the inn to dry your- self." "If it is necessary to go some- where, you had better come home with me," Mr. Trelawne.v said re- luctantly, and with "rather cold politeness. ••The inn is a mile away my house is just thereâ€" behind the trees. As \vc have been the cause of your mishap, we ought to do our best to remedy it." "Well, if you will kindly give us the use of a lire for halt an hour â€" " the elder of the strangers said, a little haughtily. Ho was a tall man. and he bore himself as though he thought that, in other matters be- sides that of bodily height, he tower- ec above the common creatures of creation. His name was Harcourt, he told Mr. Trelawuey ; and Mr. and I Trelawney smiled to himself, tor he had heard of these Harcourts Ijefore, who were connections of the War- burtons, and who prided themselves on their blue blood. ^ When they reached the house, Mr. Trelawney muttered an introduction with them, and then stood looking | to his wife, and Harcourt began after them, leaning- on th» garden j rather loftily to apologize for the gate. Her husband turned back i trouble they were giving her. onco and nodded her a good-by, but ' was not a man whose manner nottiniid people at their eise, and j and those things, but I'll tell you Letty, to her husband's annoyance, j what I should like: I can't get on in blushed at his address, and became j those shoes very well, but I should almost tongue-tied. The grandeur of her visitor awed her, and she let it be seen that she was awed. "Oh. pray don't say anything. be the child was chatting and did think of her. "We'll go straight to the river â€" won't we ?" Dorcas had begun Ic- say.- "We're going there lirst, and then we'll go and be lions." Tt was a pretty river, winding its bright band of silver through thejl'ivi sure it is we who ought to meadowsâ€" with thick woods coming' â- down hero and there to the water's edge â€" with sedges and bulrushes growing; freely on its banks. A good river for some kinds of fish, so tiiat anglers came often to it ; there were some there to-day, pa- tiently plying their craft. Mr. Trelawney and Dorcas sat down for a long time, and watched thu rippling of the water, and the flashing of the sunbeams on it, and ) 'y. with hardly- talked togetherâ€" of the birds that ] tience, and began flew past above Ihoir iicads â€" of the wild ducks skiumiing along the sur- face of the water â€" of the cows that cam« slowly along the meadow, and down to the riM-r's edge to drink. Lazily they came, and lazily stood drinking for a little while, and then one after the other they plunged into the water, and swam to the op- posits bank ; and Dorcas broke into a shout of delighted childish laughter. A clear, ringing conta- gious laugh. The pair of anglers, who wore not tar olT, heard it and laughed too. They were a man and a boy, father and son, perhaps ; strangers they seciiicd to be. It had been a calm morning, but the wind bcg-an presently rather sud- denly to rise. Dorcas' light straw hat blew oft her head, and in a mo- ment whirled it out of roachâ€" a score of feet away. "Oh !" cried Dorcas at ihis catas- trophe ; and then she began to run, b\it the hat ran faster than she did. and â€" as though for pure mischief and delight in ballUng iior- not only ran, but suddenly, with a wild leap in the air, tossed it.self into the river, and went bounding away on the wa- ter like a boat. Dorcas gave another cry of dis- tress, but her cry was checked the j the welted garments from him, next moment by a pleasant boyish voice. "Don't bo afraid. I'll get it back for you," the friendl.y voice called out, and the younger of the two anglers plv-ngcd into the river, »nd in two or three moments more the runaway hat was arrested, and brought to land. "l am afraid you have given .vonr- sclf a wetting." Mr. Trelawney said, reaching the scene of action just as j They all went into the kitchen to-i the capture had been made, and look- gothcr â€" young Harcourt, Letty â€" j ingâ€" not perhaps with specially Uorcas, with a roused and eager j pleased eyes â€" ut the pair of legs be- | face. "What a nice fire ; they'll dry here like smoke I" said the lad. "Yos, only you mustn't put them too close," cried Letty, and, laugh- ing, drew back the clothes-horse that he was pushing to within a foot of the gate. "You should never try to make things dry too fast." "I didn't know that. I thought the faster the better "/" "Oh no !" "They are well soaked, aren't they ?" "Should you like to go to your pojJa now ?" Lelty said presently. "Or would you rather go into the garden ?" she added, after a mo- ment, a little timidl.y, for the hoy did not appear to catch at her pro- posal that lie should join his father very readily. 'There would be no one to see you out there â€" I mean see how you're dressed, and Dorcas might show you about the place." "Yes, I'd like that," snid the lad, "if Dorcas would take me." The.v looked rather au odd pair as they stepped into the open air ; the girl in her neat trockj with dainty little booted and white-stockinged feet, the boy shambling by her side in the ' trousers and slippers of a man. Dorcas laughed as she looked at him. and tilcn colored because -she had laughed. "You're thinking that I am a guy, aren't you ? Well, you are not tar wrong," he exclaimed, replying good humoredly to her laughter ; "but I don't mind, if you don't. I'd rather be here thau over there where you found us, for we had been at it for a couple of hours, and had not had so much as a bite. I think fishing is dull work when you don't catch any flsh." "I don't know where you'd like to go," she said, breaking a little sil- ence that had fallen between them. "Wo'\-e got some cocks and hen.<;, but I don't know if you'd care to see thein ; and we have a cow â€" " "Oh, we've had cows enough for to-day. We've seen seven cows, you know, swim acro.ss a river," the lad He j interrupted, laughing. ""No, I doti't set I care much about the cock.s and hens. r, ould have been forgotten almost as soon a.s it was past ; but in this (luiet existence of the Trelawneya incidents happened rarely, and wlien their guests weie gone, somehow each one, in his or her degree, felt that it was difficult to go hacK at oQco to the occupations that had been interrupted ; in Mr. 'IVolaw- ney's mind there was a certain con- sciousness of irritation ; and iu ihc minds of Lelty and Dorcas a sense of e.xcilement ; in Dorcas' alone per- haps a vague feeling of expectancy. Had not this afternoon's companion- ship been something new and de- lightful to her •?â€" a pleasure hirlierto untasted ?â€" a thing she longed to taste again ? "Are we going to try once more now to get our walk, Dort.y '.'" her fatJier said to her, and shj; iuiswcred â- YcH." readily, and they went out again toge£her ; but. though .-ihe held his hand and trolled by his side, she asked him none of the (lucs- tions that she was so fond of ask- ing us'ually ; she appealed to l.ini for no fairy stor.y ; the little i.nind had got nUed with novel and absorbing thoughts, and as they rambled be- neath the trees, it was only of Frank Harcourt that she talked, and of the things that Ir-in-v had told her. I am afraid the repetition of all the wonders she had heard pleased herself more than it plea.se(l her father. "Your new friend seems to be an amazing chatterbox. Dorty," he said once. "I don't kncv how he can have contrived to 'jll you so much in so short a time ; it would give me a headache, I am afraid, to listen to him." Ho laughed as he spoke, and the child laughed too ; but his was rather a sadder laugh than hers. "Oh. it didn't give me a headache. I liked it," she answered, in all sim- plicity. (To Be Continued.) PILE ABD LISTLESS. A CONDITIOiT THAT AFFECXI VERY MANY WOMEN. The Appetite Fails â€" Strength D«i parts and ''^e Sxifferer Feels That Life is Heally a Burden. From, the Topic. Petrolca, Ont. It is impossible that a medicine cai be so widely known and used as ar« Dr. Williams' Pink Pills wilhoul striking results frequently becoming known and the merits of this great remedy for the common ailments ol man and womankind being published. Mrs. Thos. Kettle, of Petrolca, Ont., is a case in point. Mrs. Kettle is an old resident of this district and is well j known. Chatting with a reporter oi j the Toipic the other day the conver- I .saliou drifted on the subject of mo<li- , ciiies. when Mrs. Kettle spoke in tin j highest praise oi Dr. Williams' Pini I rills, which, she said, had cured hei i of a long illness. Our reporter, beins . naturally interested, made further en- j (|uirics. when Mrs. Kettle gave hiii the following particulai-s;â€" "'I am th« I mother of twelve children and in spit^ I of the constant strain and worry tht I raising of so large a famil.v entailee upon me. in addition to my house work. I was tor man.v years blesses with splendid health. However, aftei the birth of my last child my strengtl seemed to fail me. and 1 felt that m.> health was gradually going. 1 con- sulted a doctor and continued undei his treatment for some months, but the only result that I could see wai that I grow steadily worse. I couU not name any particular ailment tha; I suITored from, but I was all 'rui down." lily appetite failed me, m.i strength seemed all gone and I becami pale and listless, scarcely able to draj myself around, and much of the tinu i in bed. I became alarmed at my long FOOD FOR REPENTASCT?:. Queen Alexandra, when Princess of | continued ill health and as doctor'" there luider that exclaimed Dorcas. I should like that like to sit down tree, and talk." "Would you ?" brightening. "Oh too." sorr.y. I'm so vexed theâ€" the young! "Come along then, and I'll tell gentleman has got bim.'^clf wet," she I you a lot of things. You haven't could only murmur nervously, bo- got any brothers, have you ?" traying by her awkward shyness all "No." said Dorcas, that at the moment Mr. Trelawney "Well, I thought .vou hadn't. I'll felt ho would have most wished to tell you something about Kton, hide. where I go to school, if .vou like." "Well, wo can apologize to one "Oh. will you '?" cried Dorcas, another presently. Let our lirst gratefully. business be to get the bo.y into a "Yes. as much as ever you'd care pair of dry tiijusors," ho said quick- to hear." restrained impa- 1 And then Mr. Frank Harcourt to load the way i leaned back against the tree at indoors. , I ^yhose base he had placed him.selt. He sent Lelty upstairs to provide ] and. luippv in the possession of an the needed clothes, and himself stay- i interested listener, began to talk. W'ales, came one day upon a tiny mile of a boy crying piteously. He was in charge of a fat and comfort- able old lady, who seemed iiuite un- moved b,v his grief. "What is the matter?" inquired the princess, who is very fond of child- ren. "Is he ill'?" "Wall, ma'am," said the comfort- able old lad.y, "he isn't he.xactly ill. but no stomach carn't stand nine buns." I Lit- time aac' b"st ed below with Mi-. Harcourt. Poor Letty was ill-calculated to entertain this fine gentleman, and he was consci-^us of her unlitness to do it with a rather sharp and irritated consciousness. "Will you come this way ?" ho said, and led his guest into the study, and shut the door upon him there. "I wish I had something better than these to give you, but you see I have nothing here except Mr. Tre- lawncy's clothes," Letty said to tno boy, in her gentle, apologetic wu.y, looking iu his face as she tendered him the garments that she had se- lected tor his use. It was a bright frank face, and something in it, as she looked at it, made her smile. The boy did not frighten her as his father did. "Oh, they'll do capitally. It Wouldn't be half the fun it they were the right size," he answered. with his pleasant laugh. And then, when, Ave minutes after- wards, he came, rehabilitated, down- stairs, though Letty met him on the stairs' foot, and would have taken he insisted, with boyish eagerness,- on carrying them to the kitchen fire with his own hands. "Oh ! I'll take them : don't you trouble yourself. That's the way to the kitchen, isn't it ? What a jolly kitchen !" he exclaimed ; and he stood iu the doorway, and nodded at Klizabcth, who was carrying a leg of mutton in a saucepan, as if he had known her halt hi.s life. i They sat together for nearl.v an hour ; the boy pouring forth, the girl asking questions. At the hour's end a call came for them from the house. "That lad seems to think he is going to spend the rest of the day here." Mr. Harcourt was saying, as he stood at the hall door, with a scornful laugh. 'He is taking his ease, I think." And ho watched the two children for a few minutes be- fore he called to Frank. "How long do you think it takes to dr.v a pair of trousers, ui.v bo.y ?" ho aiiliod as the lad came up. "I have been waiting for you for this last half hour." "I didn't know .you were waiting for mo, sir. I won't keep you a moment," Frank said. He ran upstairs and dressed .him- self. Ho met Letty in the ball as he came down again, and thanked her for the clothes she bad lent him wit"h the boyish vnse and grace that seem- ed to come to him so natui-allv. DR. A. W.CHASE'S JCATARBHCUSE... BABY'S Orri T.ABXETS. Mother's r.est Help When Her tie Ones Are Ailing. Every mother ncetls r, i. some a medicine Tr-t- lior lilliu ones. Baby's Owr Tablets ai-e the medicine in the world for constipa- tion, sour stomach, indigestion, diarrhoea, colic, simple fevers aim ilio troubles of leoUiing chib'ren. The Tablets have been in u.so for .vears and thousands of mothers siiy ihat nothing ei.ve acts so qr.iokly a'.:d relieves and cUres little ones so .sureiy. Mrs. It. H. LaKue, Mountain 0;;t., simpl,y voices the experience of otiier u-iothcrs vv-hcn she says : â€" "1 can n.'commend Uaby's Own Tablets to all mothers who have IV'oss or delicate children. I do not know how 1 could get along without them." Children take thcic Tablets as readily as candy, and if crushed to a powder they can le given with alKoluii; safety to tbo tiniest, \veakest L.ibios. There is a cure in tjvery Tablet and the.v arc guaran- teed to contain no opiate or other liarmful drug. Y^oii can get the Tablets iroiu any dealer in medicine or they will bo sent post paid at i;o cents a box by addi'ossing the Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Broctville, Ont. c. mo MF/r HIS MATCH. Never cros.s-cxaiuinc an Irishman" advised a prominent lawyer. "Yes, I'm speaking from experionce, " he continued. '-The only witness who ever made mc throw up my hands and leave the court-room -svas a green Irishman. A shunter had been kill- ed by an express train, and the wid- ow was suing for damages. I. was engaged by the raihva.v compaii.y, j ~ â€" • ; and had a good case, but made the ;Thcn thov all stood together talking I "'.'f'^''" ."'' .tpi"K to turn the main I for a few moments before thev Imdo ! ''â- ',H"-'''f • "'^ ? , , , â-  one another good-bv. ' [ In his quaint way ho had given a The unexpected visit hart been but i "'''"''"'' descrip ion oi the fatality, a small incident-the accident of an o«'i«'<""i"y shedding tears and call- la sent direct to the diseased parts hj ;ho Improved Blower Heals iho ulcer«, clears the air p.iM«ses. stops ciropplnes in tlie throat and perniananifv cures Catarrh and Hay Fevar. Blower "P"- All deslei^. or Dr. A. W. Chaso Wedicaoo Co.. Toronto and Buffaio medicine had done me no good I de- \ termined to try Dr. Williams' Pinl i Pills. I purchased a box and though; 'â-  it did me some good, so I got six box- I es more, and before I had linished tak- ing the second I felt a lot better, an* j by the time I had linished the sevei bo.-tes I had perfectly regained' mj health, had .gained weight and felt belter than I had for some years. ] consider tlie pills a splendid medicine, a real godsend' to weak and ailing women, and have frequently recom- mended them to ni.v frieiuis and usee them Willi m.v children, ulwa.vs with good results." Judging from Mrs, Keltic's healthy appearance to-daj none would imagine she had ov oi known what a da.v's illness meant. Dr. "Williams' Pink Pills are a posi the cure for all diseases arising from impov'crished blood, or a weak oi shattered condition of the nervoiii <>y.stem. such as epilep.s,v. St. Vitus- dance, paralysis, rhcuinatisiu. sciat'- ca, heart troubles, anaemia, etc These pills lu-e also a euro for tin ailments that make the lives of si many women .a constant miser? Sold by druggists or .sent ijtj mall, postpaid, at TjO cents a box o- six boxes tor S2.50. by addiet-Mni the Dr. Williams' Medicine Co, Brockville, Ont. hour â€" a thing that in an iictivo life A Sp ring IV^edicine That is a True Tonic. Or Ghaso's Nsrvo Footi Builds Blood, Creates Nerve Foroe, Inofeasss Flesh and Weight, and Makes Weak, Slokiy People Strong and Well. The day of sarsaparillas, sulphur and cream of tartar, and salts ns spring medicine has grono by. Peo- ple are beginnin.g to listen to the advice of their physiciaus and to build up their systems by the use of such preparations ns Dr. Chase's Nerve Food. The stronj; point in favor of this groat food cure is the fact that it actuall.v creates new. rich lite-sua- taining blood, and, builds wp the s.vstpm gradually and naturall.v. For this reason it is the most satisfao- tor.v" spring metHriuo that you ran possibly obtain, and its results are permanently beneficial. The tired lim.'jr-viid feelings that tell of low vitality and an exhausted condition of the system soon dia- appcar before the \italizin(f, upbuilt.'''ng inQucncts of this gi-eat restorative. It conquers disei^e by liUing thti system with health, energy and vigour. Mrs. S. Thompson, 240 Itfunro Street. Toronto, Ont., states:â€"! was .'ery much run down In health, and whenever I exerted ui.vselt more than usual I had sever© attacks of splitting headache, and waa vory nei> â- *ous, so much so that \ could not rest well at nights. After using Dr. Chase's Nerve food I found that my nervoa were' steadier, I <;ould rest and sleep better than I have for a long time, and was entirely free from headk nrhes I can speak vory highl.v of this previaralion for nervou.-i trouble. Dr. Chas»'i Ncrvo Food has the endorsement ol the best people In the InntJ â€" phy9lcian.i anil laymen atflte. It Is bound to benefit anyone who uses It, occi'ise It is composed of tha most potent rcstoratlvea •I nature. 60 cents a bo.\. 6 boxes for $2.50. At all daalei-a, or Kdmanson, Dates <& Co., Toronto, ing on the saints. Among other things, lie swore positively that the whistle was not sotiiuletl until after the W'hole train hod passed over his tloparted friend. 'Thea 1 thought I had him. " 'Look here, McCinnis." said T, 'yon admit that the whistle blew?" ' "" "Yes. sor; it blewed, s<ir.' A IIOUSE-CI-KANIXl! KPISODE. Clarisâ€" "Oh. Clarence, I liear a bur- glar downstairs!" Clarenceâ€" "Well, let mo alorer By tbo time ho falls over the stephui- dors and soapsuds buckets a.t I dt« when 1 came in he'll wish he was soinowlicre else." HER MISTAKE. "Lot's see," Paid the inexperienced salesman, "the price of that ping^ pong sot is $10 net." "See here." exclaimed Mis. aotro.x; "I don't want the price of the not: 1 want the whole outfit." OARDENIKG. "I noticed you hoeing .vonr gardfii yestorda.v. What are you raisins"?" â-  "UlisU-i-s. mo-stly." O'MALLEY WAl.sr. A prelly design for u slender fiy urc. The body of- the *VMisl ma,y Iji maile of either etnuiine or challie o; any soft fabric, while the yoke ma; be of cither striped silk, groiiadiii. or Loui.sino silk. Whatever the ma, terial used, it may be tuckt.Hl oi jiccordion plaited. Al the .seam <» the yoke and boii.v of the waist then comes the butterlly folti in both tht front and back. The .«ilk uialeriti. used in the dn\pe<l fold is agnic productHl in the elbow pulT of tin sleeve. The soft !\»d thin materia, used in the ^Icwve has tucks riiiuiiiij around the arm in the upper pan. anti Ieii.i4th\vise in the lower arm. tiuautiUes of uiaU'rial leiiulred.â€" Thirl.v-two and thirty-four bust iiiea- 3t;ro will retinire two and ono-hal' yartis of tuc4<etl silk tw.-nly incfce; •wide for the .voke and .'^h-i \es. an« one and one-half .vnrds of plain ui\\ for the lower portion of the waist puffs nnil fold. Thirt.v-six busn measure will i-equirc two and three fourth .vards of ft<iioy .'»ilk, t^nd out und thrce-ftiiirUis ynnis of plait riilk. Thirty-eight antI forty bu.si measure will ret|uire lbr<'C yard.-i o tucked siilk and two yai-di* of plaii fabric.