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• i i Power of PepsiiasioD il ^ ^; â- â-  ^ ^â-  ^^ ^ ^: â- â- ^'^':â- ^'^:'^â- ^â-  I â- â-  H - ^ â- ^ • h - h - i - i - i - I " : - t ' t " i • : ' i - i : ' i " i " i ' H -* \ ambition, .she had tried to love her • • hus)jund and be bad amused himseU • • ' by telling her o( bis conquests â€" he had frankly owned that he did not care for her and that he never should. Her heart was luiipty. It was too noble to be filled with friv- ol* ! olity. She mijjht have turned to " • that refuge for the destitute, flirta- tion; she might have thrown herself into the giddy vortex of the world â€" into the whirlpool of gayety. she might have lived on excitement. But she was too noble for any of these things â€" she could not have consented to them. "What shall I do with my life?" 1 The cry that arises from so many bills if any came, aching hearts now arose from hers. Or Lady Caraven'5 Labor of Love. CIIAPTEK IV. 'Xord Caraven," said Hildred, one day soon after this little scene, "who is the person â€" gentlem.an, 1 so often?" "Do you mean .Tolin Blaniyre, my faithful frictrJ and steward?" he ask- ed, laughingly'. "lie comes every day." "Is that his name? I do not like his face." "Why not, Hildred?" he asked. "It is not the face of an honest word over the Then he took a gallop on his horse She had no one to love, no one to wherever his wild fancy led. That care for â€" the very duties that might was followed by luncheon, when his have occupied her were taken from sho'uld"sayrperhttp^who*comeThere:'"''<^^'^'P '^^'^ "°t?P'""« '"^ "^.'"^j '"^7 l^r-and something of all this was a.y, y,. uui^oâ€" wuo uumca c ^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^^ billiards or caids, if told in the beautiful young face. She any one worth playing with was in had many sad thoughts, the house. Dinner was followed by One morning she was restless and wine and billiards until the early tould not sleep. She had been hours of the morning. It was not a , thinking about her strange lot in noble life, it was not even a digni- life until her head ached. The pillow lied life â€" it had no end. no aim, no was hot; she longed to be up and object except self-indulgence, and the breathing the sweet, fresh morning young wile looked on in .sorrowful air. She touched the repeatei-; it man, unless Nature haa for once dismay. On every side she saw the was just four. She thought a book made a mistake in her own hand- l^'^'^^. evil-nothing was attended to^ might soothe her, luid was much in- writing " :noUiing done; the indolent ease of terested in a new novel. She waa "It is not a handsome face, cer- ! t*^*^ earl seemed to extend to every always considerate about her ser- tainly," said the earlâ€" "far from ?^« ^'"^^ ^''°^ ^'^ '^''"^^ '",=°"^''."- '^•a^ns- ^Uany ladies would have it. â- > Ihe servants were continually being rung for their maid, and have sent changed; nothing wei-t right, q,s * hg^ for what they required; but Lady nothing does when the master of the Caraven rose and put on her dress- house takes no interest in anything i^g gown. Intending to go to the that passes in it. I drawing-room herself. Then the Another thing distressed her. She ' clear cold water in her dressing saw that his old love of gambling room looked so tempting that she was returned in full force. There 'stopped and bathed her face and were limes when his face grew very hands in it. She drew her wealth of dark over his betting-book; and he uai'k h lir behind her pretty shell- would Icavo home on all the great Uke ears. She had no thought race days, remaining away for some ' of the lovely picture she presented â€" time, and returning more indolent, her beautiful face glowing with more selfish than ever. : roses from the cold water, her hair Time iiad familiarized him with her falling in most picturesque disorder, presence in the house; but it was sel- the graceful lines and curviw of her dom that he look any special notice figure showing to greatest advant- it "I am not speaking of mere beauty j of feature â€" and perhaps I judge him [ harshly," she replied. "But it does j not seem to me an honest face. I | â- Would not trust the man for Do i you trust him. Lord Caraven?" "I trust him implicitly â€" indeed I i do not believe I have ever overlook- ; ed his accounts." | She looked at him in wonder. "Never overlooked his accounts? How very careless of you!" she said. "1 am not careful by nature." he told her. laughingly. "But," she observed, earnestly, 'such carelessness is wrong. You crimson and gold, the dew lay shin- tive monarch, for instance, King ing on the grass, the western wind Behauziu, whom the French defeat- was fragrant with sweet odors, ed and dethroned, thought nothini Looking at the morning sky, she jof sacriUcing a few dozen slaves bo remembered her husband's handsome fore breakfast; while his uoual mo haggard face under the garish light thod of ridding himself of surplus oi of the lamp, and she turned away undesirable wives was to place them, with a shudder. What a false un- : bound and siaeored all over wiU natural life it was! How she loath- honey, in the track of an advancini ed it! She laid her head against the jcolunm of the seruyi. or warrioi ants, by whom the unhappy creat» ures were, of course, devoured alive THE GltEEDY RUSSIAN BEAR. Twenty-five or thirty years ago i( used to be the custom of the Tsari of I^u.ssia to gobble up a Centra Asian Khanate every few months Most of these were, it is true, peltj states and ill-governed; but somi few of tiiem. were deserving of i better fate. Khiva, for instance, with its 700.000 stalwart peasants, and Bokhara with a population ol two and a h.alf millions and an area of nearly one hundred thousand squai"e miles, botli made a brave and protracted, though fruitless stand, against overwhelming odds. One cannot help feeling a thrill ol admiration, too, for the bravt cool green leaves of the plants that half filled the window, and,^ looking still at the morning skies, dreamed of the world, of life as it might have been â€" so difTerent â€" ah. so diller- ent, it she had only married some one who loved her!" (To Be Continued).- BABY'S OWN TABLETS. Are Nature's Cure for Children's Ailments. Medicines containing opiates should never be given to children â€" little or big. When you use Baby's Own Tablets for .your little ones you have a positive guarantee that they contain neither opiate nor harm- ful drug. They are good for all Tekke Turcomans, who, in 1881, so put a terrible temptation in his way ' of her. seldom that he spoke to her. , ago 1 A . â-  _ _l I. Ui.^.. *' ; A« ff\l* itm.- lliullln«, ,-,1" L'i ,i,t>,<it;i: r^*-" <-! by not keeping a check upon him "I suppose." said Lord Caraven, indolently, "that I find it easier to let myself be robbed a little than to look after matters for myself." The dark, eloquent eyes that were raised to his expressed a great deal. "What do you do with your life?" she asked. "It seems to me that you have no idea of duty." "Nor have I. I know well what to do with my life â€" I enjoy it." "There can be nothing more to or'l She went down stai: and was add," said Hildred. "But if I were .,,,.,.. vou. Lord Caraven, I should look the great study of her lue after my accounts." | ^^l^en the month of May came Hildred's heart sank lower and I ''.o^^^ he decided upon ^oing to Lon- As for any display of kinilness love, it was out of the que.stion. j .surprised to see the large lamp still It was a dreary fate. She tried to burning In the hall. She thought it bear it bravely, to store up knowl- had been forgotten, and went for- edge and wisdom; but at eighteen, ward with the intention of nutting when the heart longs for love, and it out. To her still greater sur- the fair opening life craves for its j?ri.sv, she saw Adoljihe. her hu»- fuU enjoyment, it is difficult to live band's valet, asleep in the great on knowledge and wisdom. She arm-chair. She spoke to him. strove hard; she told herself that | "Adolphe," she said, "what ai-e marriage was irrevocable â€" that hers, you doing here'' ^\â- hy is this lamp could never be undone. The only iciU alight? It is morning." thing that remained was to make ' The tired uian-servant looked the best of it. llow to do that was around him with »n air of stupofac- thildren from the smallest, weak- est infant to tlie well grown child. These Tablets quickly relieve and po.'^itivel.v cure all stomach and bowel troubles, simple fevers, trou- bles with teething, etc. They al- ways do good, and can never do tbi) slightest harm. For very small in- fants crush the Tablets to a powder. Mrs. P. J. Latham, Chatham, Ont., says: "My baby took very sick. His tongue was coated, his breath oilen- sive iUid he could not retain food on his stomach. He also had diar- rhoea for. four or live days and grew very thin and pale. We gave him gallantly defended themselves againsl the redoubtable General SkobclolT. and only gave in at last when theii fortress capital, tieok Tepe, was stormed and taken by the conqueroj of Plevna. But it was with the fate of th« ancient kingdom of Poland, declared a Ru.ssian province in 1847, but nol finally conquered until many years afterwards, that the rest of Europe, and Britain especially, was chiells concerned. Nearly all tlio greal Powers, with the single exception ol Austria, protested, coaxed, and threatened by turns; yet the Beai medicine but nothing helped him un- jwas, after all. permitted to finisli til we gave him Baby's Own Tab- lets. After giving him the lirst dose he begiui to. improve and in three days he was quite well. He began to gain flesh, and is now a fat, heal- thy boy. I am more than pleased with the Tablets as I think they saved my baby's life." I Baby's Own Tablets are sold by j all druggists or will be sent by j lUiiil post paid at 25 cents a box 1 by writing • direct to The Dr. i liams Medicine Co., Brockviilft, I Schnectady, N. Y. L'chenectady, N. Y, Wil- or NATION GOBBLES NATION lowerâ€" every day brought her some fresh revelation of her husband's character which was utterly unendur- able to her. The worst trait of all was that he seemed to her, as it Halby House was prepared for tion tor half a minute, then arose, and. seeing the young countess, grew puzzled and half alarmed. AVhat was he to say if she repeated the !0N THE PRINCIPLE MIGHT IS RIGHT. THAT don them, and the handsome carl's question? friends made ready to receive him > "What are you doing here?' she with open su-ms. lie had been wel- asked again. _ come in his penniless state, and, j He dared not sa.v th.at he was were, to lounge through life. He lit- i '"^^'"g married a wealthy heiress, he waiting for his master: but. before erallv did nothing-no useful occupa- ^f^ ""^ doubly welcome. 'Ihose he luvd time to reply, there cajue. tion "ever seemed to attract him. He ^^'° ^\'<-'^ ™°i """"^y from him before i fortunate y, a knocK at the hal never readâ€" he never wrote If any Hoolied forward to winning more; ! door, and the next moment the earl letter oi importance required an an- i ^-li^fe who had gambled .and betted . stood before her. In amazement he swer, he passed it to her, or threw it I ^"-'^ lum before looked forward to a | looked at the vision before him, aside. It the agent brought the ac- I renewal of those delights. He ; Hildred he cried, counts, he said, in his indolent man- ^^V,"''' be welcome. :you doing here? â- Lav the books down-I will ihe elite of the fasliioii.abic world , ,, . , wei-e not sorry to receive their fav- cause 1 could not sleep "what are i renewal of those ! would be welcome. ner: "Lav tno dooks aown-i win ! '^'^e elite of the fasliionablc world i "I came down to find a book, be- •ec to them soon" but he never j ^'"'"e "°t sorry to receive their fav- cause I could not sleep, and. seeing looked at them He had but one "'""e again. The rumor that Hal- the lamp burning, I intended to ex- idea, and that was amusement. No l^y House .was to be thrown open, ^tinguish it. ' Idea of work ever seemed to occur that the young Countess of Caraven i Lord Caraven took out lus watch. to him-self-indulgence and indolence . ^"^^ ^Yy beautiful, that the earl s ! 'l-our o c ock, he said. '1 am was all that ho cared for j revived prosperity would enable hiin i lateâ€" or rather early. I have been Kildrcd's heart sank in dismay. *» ^ie with the best puri.v-givers in playing billiards since eleven " .She looked at him sometimes as he I Lc^'o"-. '^''^s Sood news. Ihe only lay listlessly .stretched on a couch, | cme indillerent to it was the young and wondered whv Nature had given ! fountess herself-and she would faiu Little Peoples Eaten Up by Great i Countries During the Last j Piity Yerrs. There are many nations missing on I the map of the wold to-day. which : were more or less powerful states ;Well within the memory of people now living. The late.st example in point is, of course, the two Dutch i Itamblics in South Africa. Their acquisition has cost us two hundred j '""'â- â€¢7'' /.'"-â- ' ^â- =;'--^-"'=' .^ 7, '\^"?:;''^ i millions of pounds sterling, and ; -«'^l>«f^^<;l'"" ^Llached to tJio s^^^^^ his meal. But it was not a meai enjoyed in peace, at all events. TENS OF THOUSANDS of the Tsar's soldiers were killed, millions on miUions of roubles wer« expended; yet even so late as the autumn of 1861 we find the "Secrel Provisional Government of the Pol- ish Nation," after stating that 50,- OHO patriots had beeo slain, and 100.000 exiied to Siberia, still call- ing on the Poles to continue tha struggle. Turkey, once a champion among land-grabbers, has of late years seen much of her own territory filched from her: but she has. at all events, made one recent acquisition worth having, that of Tripoli, with its 398,000 square miles of territoi-y and its 1.300,000 population. Islands, of course, are constantly being gobbled by the big powers: but the.v hardly count, unless they are. like Madagascar or New Guinea, of extra large size. Still the .Neiz- ure of Hawaii, the Philippines, and Porto Rico by the United States, marks an era in the onward march of that lust.v young republic: while German.v was very much delighted with her share of Samoa, and still more at her acquisition of the beau- itiful and fertile Cai-oline Islands. Indeed, there seems to be a peculiar have hidden her sorrows from all !o fair an exterior to one with _- . . littie soul. The handsome face seem- I e.ves and remained at Kavcusniore ed to have no piTrpose in it. If he i Ihe people of the great world did spoke, it was alwavs about sonieinot MUUe understand Lady (.avaveu. plan or other tor his own special t •'^he was among them, but not oi amusementâ€" it wa.'^ either of billiards jthem. In crowded ball rooin.s. in the or of one of the games in which ho'd'e'-a' house, at garden parlies, and took such infinite delight. Ho nev- ; v.'here the lov.-rs of fashion coiigre- er advanced anv scheme tor the bene- gated, her noble, beautiful face, with fit of others; iA fact, the people, ex- ! its look of proud reserve, api>eared cept so far as thev ministered to his j out of place. She was very popular pleasures and his 'will, did not exist -very much iikod-but not quite un- for him. His was a hopeless chai- ^lerstood. Fair ladies whose lives acteiâ€" far more hopeless than that of : were one gay round of pleasure won- H iiian of graver faults. His young | tiered why suiiles_ did not come -" wife looked at him sometimes won- She looked conleuiptunuslv at him. "I believe," she said, "that your whole soul is engrossed in bil- liards." "1 have played the best game to- night that 1 have ever played in my life," he told her, laughing. She made no reply. He contin- ued: "I will quote a popular line â€" 'If you're waking, cull me earl.v' â€" that is, some lime afier noon. We shall have a grand match at the club to- morrow evening, and I have staked a small fortune on the champion bil- liard player of Kn.gland." Hildred looked at hini--thc hand- some face was worn and haggard, the eyes were tired and dim. The over 20,000 valuable lives. In re- i turn for this there have been added to the British Empire 1(37, ."jiO square iniles of territory, peopled by some 1150.000 sturdy peasiuits, whom it is reasonable to hope and expect i will, in the not far distant future, I prove as lo.val and valuable citizens as any of those in His Majesty's ; other dominions beyond the seas. says Pearson's Weekly. ' Of course. John Bull is not alone in what unfriendly critics, both at home and abroad, ai'e wont to stig- ;Uiati7.e as a policy of land-grabbing. : Francv. for instance, has blotted out 'half a dozen Uourishing countries since she first inaugurated her policy of colonial expansion in 1833. FRANCE'S BIG MEAL. ing of little independent islands: els« 'why did John Bull go into such ec- istacies over Fiji. Zanzibar, and oth- er similar earth morsels. j BIUT.MN'S BIt> MOUTHFULS. I Burmali is the biggest of Britain's inoderu acquisitions, so far as mere imiloage is concerned, leaving out ol consideration, of course, her South African colonies, and Eg.vpt and the i Soudan Provinces, both of which 'latter are under our protection only iâ€" noiuinall.v. The incorporation 'within the British Eniv>ire of Hur- uiah dates from lS8o. when the half- made and wholly wicked King The- ' baw saw fit to wantonly ni-as.s-acra tt number of p-eaceful Brili.-h trad- ers, in.sult our Commissiouor. ami arrogantl.v i-efn.se to even receive our Envov. The result was. of course, Algeria was the first to fall, alter j ^^.j^^. •,^;.,^jp,, ended, so far as tin _ readily to her lips as to theirs â€" deriiig if'Tinylhing' would ever inter- 1 why she was graver, more thought- , ^j^.^^j.^ ^..^g ^^ striking oneâ€" the girl- est him, would ever arouse him, ('"'• more abstracted. wife in all the fre-sh beauty of her would ever stimulate him to action, j It was so strange a life; the world .youth; ihe husband, still in his ev- "It is a terrible thing," she said, j around her was so brilliant, so gay, ening dress, haggard, yet handsome "to live so entirely for oiie'si self â€" j there seemed no room in it for any- even in his fatigue; tho lovely light a terrible thing." thing but laughter and song. There of the morning stru.ggling with the She thought to herself once that were times when she looked wonder- gurish light of the lump, she would sketch his day. He never j ingly at the bright laces of others, i she went into the drawing-j-ooin rose until afier ton; he sat for some 'crying from tlie depths of hor soul: and opened the .snutters. letting in time over his breakfast, reading his ; "My heart is empt.yl" [all the glory of the sunshine, ail the letters and newspapers. The former i The tender. loving human heart j fragrance of the morning air. She was empty. She had lovi-d her fa- opened the windows aiuf looked out tlier ver.v dearl.v, and he had sold at the tall green trees. How fair it her to the handsome carl for o, title iwu.s â€" this world on which sho look- â€" for the gratification of a paltr.v ed! Tho sk.v was glowing with were thrown asid- and seldom, if ever, answered; even those of im- portance were ignored like tho rest. There wa> -r.-m^raily a muttered u long and biltcr war, characterized on tho part of the invaders by a sav- age ferocity, accompanied by such and so maii.v acts of gross li-each- ery. as have rarely been eciualled. at least within tho last century. Gen- eral Savary, Due de Rovigo, was the officer in supreme command, and one of tho eai-liest of his exploits was the massacre of a whole Arab tribe, including old men, women, and child- ren, during the night. tie also treacherously murderotl two powcM- ful Sheiks whom he had enticed in- to his power b,v a written a.ssurance of safety. The result of it all wa.'i to give "to France 184.474 square i miles of territor.v â€" mostly desvrt King was concerned. in the speedy capture of his capital, Mandalay, and his own deposition. i Ashanti, another independent stat« ruled by yet another bloodthirsty j potentate. King Prenipeh, was ab- sorbed early in ISiXi. giving us 45.- 000 stpiare miles more lerritory. :Eig!iteen months previously Uganda hail been gobbled- a counlry ju.s-1 'aiiout twice as big as Ashanti and full.v twice as populous, and to it we have since added four other na- tive "ki'igihniis," known as I'.sogiv jliiyoro. Ankoli. and Koki. To at- t.Tin our entis in these roinote re- l.iji.ns entailed almost perpetuiO lighting for some years, the brunt ol Tunis, with 51,000 square niiles of I ^,,^.^,,j ,,„^vcvcr. was borne by blacV Remarkable Recovery Fr om Nervou s Collapse. A Methodist Minister Tells How Ke Was Rescued From a Helpless Condition by Dr. CKiase's Nerve Food. That Pr. Chase's Nerve Food pos- sesses unusual control over the nervc9 and rekindles nervous en- erg.v when all other means fail is well illustrated in tho case described bcUiw. Mr. Brown was forced to give up hi.s min).>iterial work. and so tar exhausted that for a time he was positively helpless. Doctors were consulted and many remedies were resorted to, in vain. Every ef- lort to Wulld up the system scenud iln vain, and it is little wonder tiiat 'the sufferer was lusinK hope of re- covery, when he began to us« Dr iChuMJ's Nerve Food. 1 Bir<. T- Orowu, Uelbodlsv miuiit- j ter, of Cmcnice, and late of Bethany, I Ont., writes; "A .vear ago last No- vember 1 was oN-crtakcn with nerv- ous e.xhaustlon. For six months 1 did no work, Rud during that time ; I had to to wailed on. not being ' able to help m.vsolf. Nervous col- I laiwe was complete, and though I iwas in the physician's hands for ' months. I did not seem to improve. ! At an.v little e.xcrtion my strength would leave me. and I would trem- ible with nervousness. "From tho first 1 used a great innn.v nerve reaiedies. but they seeni- 1 cd to have no ePTect in m,v caiie. 1 iliad almost lost hurc of rocovcry. when I heard of I>r. Chase's Nerve Food, nnd began to use it. A» my system became stronger I began to do a little work, and have gradual- ly increased in nerve force and vig- or, until now I am about in my normal condition again. X consider Dr. Chase's Nerve Food the best medicine 1 ever used. Not only ha» it proven Its wonderful restorativo powers in ro.v own case, but also !â-  several others where I havo recont- mended It." I>r. Chase's Nerve Food. 50 c«nta a box, 6 boxes for $2 60. At all dealers, or Edmaason. Bate* tt Co.. Toronto. territor.v was gobbled up in 1881; \ and Madagascar so lute as 1S()5. the j conqucMt of this latter island adding l;32S..'500 souarc miles to the colonial I pos.-^i'ssions of the liopublie. It also lextinguishe<I in fire and blood one jot the most unique ne.groid civiliza- j lions of which we have any knowl- jedge. i ATTACK OF INDIGESTION. j Tlie conquest of Annam. again, in the spring of 1884, and Tonkin in the latter part of the aanie year, gave Franco 15.000.000 new â€" and unwilling â€" subjects, and ll.'S.OOO siiuaro miles of territor.v. Tn put- ting on all thi.s Mesh, however. the country gave itself dyspepsia pretty 'badly, and ministries went and I came, came nnd went again. with something of the dazzling persist- : ency of a quick-chnngc artiste In a modern music hall sketch. The eating up of Dahomc.v wiut per- i hapo Franco's toast excusable bit of I nation-killing; for it ever there was i a despotism that rlchl.v deserved to , bo .<5trnng1ed, it was that cstabli."*- ed by the truculent gang o( ruIBons I who claimed to rme over that un- I happy land prior to the arrival of the white comjuerors. The last na- troops led by Britith ofllcers â- ^â- B To proT* fo jon tbib Pn BJl ! #% #% Chase's Uiiitmc:it,i8aix<riaia nm M Sm^^ »">1 absolute cur« tor caok â-  â- â- ^^^^ and cvor.v form of itcbinft bleediiiKund rrolnnlina piles, the m»Bufact«r«r!< have KH»r«nto«l it. Saotea. timonials In the daily tires.! and ask rournoigh- boMWhatthoy think of it. Yon can uso it an< fft Toiii- !nrio«>y back if not cured. 60c a boT, al all dealors or KnMANSON.PATEB & Co..To7ojito Dta'Chase's Ointmenl A FROST ALARUM. Electric contrivances which givi alarm by ringing a bell at tho up proach of frost iiavo been u.sed ti some extent bv California frui' growers. The apparatus consists o a battery relay coil, thermometer and alarm bell, and it is so adjust ed that when the mercury in tlii thermometer falis below a ccrtuii point the electric circuit i.-i broken and the bell ring^t. As the instru ment can be set for un.v temperature it can be used in hot-houses tor vnrl ous crops. U is set to a 5cw <ii grees above the point of dangai^