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a strange legacy chapter iv you know what your grandmother did today kate v her father aaid calmly 8he told me ahe had altered her will papa but dldn t ay how did ahe say nothing more about it t she only said that yon should never complain that she encouraged me in disobedi ence i dont know what the meant but ahe told us so tjet growled dottleton who else heard her say so t dr lakeworth was there papa he knows all about it father 1 1 was in grannys room all the time he was there but she didnt mention it to him at all i daresay not but mark my words kate theres a very good understanding between yonr grandmother and mr tke worth kate did not feel called upon to make any reply and mr dottleson resumed sinoe sir alfred took upon himself to place mrs lamshed in this fellows hands i cant prohibit his coming here but when your grandmother has gone he will never seethe inside of my houso again he had not considered that his daughter would not be aware of the old ladys con dition and only sought to impress upon her that ahe must dismiss charles lakeworth from her thoughts vihope there is time enough to think about that then papa a few days i believe sir alfred fives her until the end of the week todays wednesday his rage and disappointment had made him utterly callous and his daughter heard him with a feeling of repulaion ahe had never known before he left her before ahe fully totalised the meaning of his worda and when it came home to her ahe forgot all else in the blow which had fallen upon her it would be a terrible loss to her mrs lam shed had done much to replace the mother who had been taken from her in her infancy and mr dottleson for ever absorbed in the cares of bnainesa bad sadly negleoted his duty as a father now he fiat had gone forth aho was to be deprived of her best friend and her lover in a few days she could cot save the first but kate made up her mind there and then about the second no power on earth oould separate them without charles lakewortha consent and the knew that it waa not likely to be given she would aay nothing to her father for the present it would only increase his troubles and though ahe waa far from feeling any sympathy with him ahe shrank from add ing fuel to the fire which blazed so fiercely already thursday morning broke wet and windy mrs lamshed waa visibly sinking and kate oould not hide from herself that even the brief span of life given by sir alfred was likely to be too long charles lakeworth came in early and his first glance at kate showed him that she knew the truth who told you he asked in a whbpsr papa did last night she answered the old lady who had been lying half asleep was ronsed by bis appearance at the bedside and made an effort to sit up kate understood her movement and with lake- worths assistance made her comfortable with pillows in the position she seemed to desire she remained silent for a few minutes as though endeavouring to remember something she wanted to say and at last spoke call yonr father kate mr dottlesons strident voice waa audible in the passage below demanding the im mediate production of his umbrella he was just on the point of leaving for business and wrong after all t he stole a look round coulee and kate still bent across the old dy with hands clasped beneath hers whilst she looked at him in dumb appealing pa tience he would grant this las prayer ol hers almost the only one aho had ever made but under condition obstinate pride if nothing else forbade his giving free consent to the marriage after he had declar ed it to be impossible he owed it to himself he came back to his station at the foot of the bed and oollected himself to speak but even while he did so tho end came mrs lamaheds hand slid gently from those on which it rested and the eyes which were watching him so eagerly grew fixed and dull it was all over ahe was dead the rain beat fiercely npon the window and the autumn wind moaned through the lrfleaa branches in the square outside within the three stood mutely round the bod unwilling to disturb the stillness which had last been broken by the voioe they were never to hear again presently mr dot tleson drew himself np and softly left the room the real character of the man as serted itself when he was once more alone just in time he murmured in a whisper which hada tinge of awe in it just in time had mrs limshed lived only five minutes longer she would have heard his promise to let his daughter marry charles lake- worth as soon as he was satisfied that the income derived from his profession was suf ficient to support a wife having before him tho dread of dr lakeworth inheriting mrs lamaheds money he waa determined that bis own loas should not be the means of removing his objection however fate ordained that he should be unfettered by any suoh promise and he assured himself that it would be long before consent was wrung from him now that he could forbid charles lakeworth the house without con suiting the feelings of any one else kate did not count she was barely twenty and oould not be expected to know her own mind yet at all events he knew what was beat for her and wonld exercise his own discretion in a matter so vitally important to her wsllbeing i wont disturb them now he reflected cynically they know that the farewell they lay today will be a long one and kate no doubt is a good deal upset by her grandmothers death he saw neither his daughter nor her lover again that day though the latter re mained in the house until dark had op portunity offered he would have told the young man what bis decision was and have ordered him to cease all intercourse with kate from that day forth but his mind was too full of speculations as to the provisions of mrs lamaheds last will and he was disinclined to go out of his way to add a fresh element of trouble to that which already reigned in the house time dragged slowly by until monday whon the funeral took place and mr reginald slimp arrived for the purpose of acquainting mr dottleaon with the contents of the document he had prepared on the preceding wednesday under mrs lam- sheds instructions it would be hard to say whether astonishment or delight waa eredomlnant in mr dottlesona mind when e read the wiil his motherinlaw had left her property in trust to himself until the day his daughter kate should marry with bis consent when it waa to be made over to her the income derived therefrom being set apart for his sole use and behoof until that event should take place should kate marry during her fathers lifetime without first obtaining his permission her wedding day was to be signalised by the trar fer of her grandmothers money to the central couldnt help it now ahe had given her word and intended to keep it mr dottleaon very majestically would be glad to know what ahe proposed to do kate candidly admitted that tho proposed to ally herself faith charley as soon as he was in a position to make her his wife and hoped that her father would not withhold his consent mr dottleson hastened to as sure per that he wonld never permit hi child to marry a man who haa revealed such a character a dr lakeworth in his paltry attempt to impose upon poor mrs lamshed kate hotly repudiated tho insinuation and any ones right to make it mr dottlesona knowledge of the world compelled him to adhero to his opinion and he capped this remark by hinting that when dr lakeworth was made acquainted with his objections and the terms of mia lam aheds will his affection for kate would probabl oool down miss dottleaon who inherited a small share of her fathers temper retorted angrily that if ho thought that there was no necessity for him to keep them apart mr dottleson amlled a smile of superior wisdom and brought the discussion to a close by telling his daughter that he preferred to be on the safe side and must therefore forbid dr lakewortha visit to elakewood square to that kate had nothing to say aho could not dispute any orders her father pleased to give in his own house however deeply they affeoted her she shrugged her shoulders and left the library in silence to write a long passionate letter to charles telling him the aubstanoe of the conversation she had juat had with her father and beg ging him to name a place where they oonld meet if im not to see him here ill see him somewhere else thought kate as ahe laid down her pen papa isnt likely to throw away a thousand a year when he sees im determined to marry him shell aoon get over it mused papa aa he olimbed into the city omnibus that morning she isnt likely to throw away a thousand a year in hard cash when ahe understands that i have made up my mind kate was ao thoroughly satisfied with the soundness of her reasoning that she troubl ed herself muoh less about her fathers pro hibition than he anticipated whilst he felt that it needed little vigilance to protect bo strong a position as that which he now held he therefore decided that he wonld oare- fully abstain from referring to the matter at all for the future he knew that his orders regarding dr lakewortha exclusion from the bouse would bs obeyed and thongh he had passing doubts aa to whether that would put a stop to the young peoples friendship he thought it best not to draw the reins too tight all at onoe time would complete what he had begun and harsh treatment might drive kate into something foolish ed murderous tigress of jooxsar on remov al to omp mr hansard soon recovered consciousness but strangely remembered nothing of what had happened he had been severely mauled about the shoulders and face a tooth having nearly pieroed his right jaw he haa been removed to the coakrata station hospital and though his injuries are severe he is doing favorably and is likely aoon to recover mr qmaston is a very yonng offioor juat out from coopers hill and had joined the indian forest department a couple of montha ago he had never before seen a tiger and waa not a sraottaed hand at large game shooting in an idlan jungle consequently he deserves all the more credit and praise for bis great nerve and presence of mind in a moment of such unusual and unexpected danger and to him the forest department owes the life of one of its moat promising students kate lost no time in running down to him asia missonary society to be devoted to papa wait a minute granny haa juat h purposes as the administrators of that asked for you ill see her this evening im late as it la but father please come now it may bo too late this evening mr dottleson threw down his hat and followed his daughter opstairs muttering something about morbid nervousness he was smarting sorely under the recollec tion of yesterday and had not intended to pay more attention to his motherinlaw than common decenoy demanded of him his manner softened when he entered the from and be took his stand at tne foot of the bed for ho saw in her face that she would not detain him long ho spoke as gently as he could he tried to forget his wrongs for the time knowing that he was in the presence of death what can i do for you j ho asked mrs lamshed did not answer an once ahe took charlea lakewortha hand in hers and reached with the other for kates to place within it as they stood one on either aide of the bed then laying her own upon them she raised her eyes to meet those of her soninlaw promise she said earnestly i all mr dottlesona angry disappointment rushed upon him with uncontrollable power as he grasped her meaning and the group waited for him to reply he turned sharply and strode over to the window whilst the three maintained their position watching him in silence he stared steadily out on the dreary square hardly conscious that h saw anything engulied as he was in the storm of oonfliotlog passions which the ap peal bad roused what waa ho to say t he had been taken at a disadvantage and would not thus be tricked into giving way he would not make a promise he must regret for the rest of his life to sooth the last hours of one who had treated htm so maliciously as mra lamshed but even in hla voiceless rage there awoke within him a feeling of something like envy as he saw the mighty difference between his own narrowminded sordid nature and that of the dying woman whose last breath waa spent in pleading for the happiness 0 those she loved he re called the time twenty years ago when as a atrugffllng povertyatriokon clerk he mar ried dorothy lamshed against the wishes and advice of her parents her mother bad opposed the union firmly but when it had takon place in spite of her she never turned her back npon them in time of need then came the days of his success in the world when mra lamshed had aoknowledg e dher shortsightedness and made him her heir after dorothy died the leading points in his life in which bis wifes mother had borne a part passed rapidly through hla mind and npon no single act of hers oould he lay a reproachful finger saying this was unjust or evon this was unkind could suoh a woman have ao changed to wards bim at the eleventh hour were his suspicions as to the doings of yesterday institution should see fit mr slimp was the sole exeoutor i see said mr dottleson gleefully rub blng his hands the poor old soul thought that i would give way at the very end and this clause about the missionaries was provided in case i retracted afterwards well well we neednt say anything more about it now shes gone but it will be a long time before a soiling finds its way into central asia or anywhere else she must have been a little touched in the head when she put that in she might have left me aa executor too foreign missions were mr dottlesons special antipathy and mrs lamshed had borne this in mind when she dictated her will when in the heat of tho moment she ordered the solicitor to be bent for she contemplated making a far more radical change in its terms than she afterwards thought would be either just or prudent she had intended to strike out mr dottlesons name and leave all she had uncon ditionally to kate but she reflect ed that her soninlaws conduct hard ly merited suoh treatment as this and that moreovor suoh a step wonld place him in direct coofllct with his only ohild by en abling her to defy his authority firm in the conviction that her granddaughter and caarlcs likeworth would remain true to ono another she trusted to mr dottlesons bet wr nature to yield to their withes in time when ho saw that tho two were bent upon marriago it was hardly likely that he would continue his opposition particularly if the total loss of the estate to the family were made the penalty of discountonance her aim was to compel his sanction to a union sho had sot her heart upon bringing about and as we have seen she was called away in tho very aot of trying to obtain it mr dottleson lost little time in placing his veto on charles lakewortha visits after mra limshods death to give him his due he went about tho business with loss bluster than might have been expected for his motherinlaws will had given him an agree able surprise and it made him generous to use his own expression he mm all the trumps and oonld afford to play his hand easily he took k to book first and with all the dottoaoj e oould oomimu l it was not muoh pointed out that as her lover was not just suoh a man a he conld con scientiously approve of h must request her to give up all cammunlcatlon with him the attack was a failure kate firmly but respectfully declined to threw over the man to whom she bad given her promise mr dottleson reminded her that she had no right to make any engagement without obtaining his sanction kate admitted that there was truth in this but called hla atten tion to the fact that he had given charlea lakeworth permission to come to tho house when he declared hla attachment and had never withdrawn it if that did not justify her action in promising to marry him she so he remained in happy ignorance of the faot that hla daughter and charlea lake- worth made a praotioe of meeting rerularly at the lodging occupied by a miss amelia mumbole who was proud to oall the yonng doator her nephew and would do anything for him that he chose to ask when miss dottlesons letter telling him that the ser vanta had been direoted not to let him in when he balled and asking if he had any rela tion or friend at whose house tbey could meet reaohed him he put on his hat and went straight to his aunt amelia in barton ter race miss mumbole gladly welcomed the chnoe ot taking part in anything which would give a little interest to the monoton ous humdrum life she led and her sitting- room thns at onoe placed at her nephews disposal whenever he might want it tho tryst was thoughtfully provided was in very frequent requisition and one afternoon about three weeks after mr dottleson had closed his door to charles lakeworth it witnessed a meeting which requires some notice from us the two were sitting over the fire and the considerate miss mumbole reclined on the sofa as far away as posilble absorbed in the ptges of the queen has your father said nothing about me yet asked charles it was a question he put as often aa he saw kate dottleson not a word he has never mentioned your name since the day i told you of what do you think it means i suppose he imagines that ive for gotten you laughed kate we oano go on like this forever you know my work is gradually increasing and for your sake i must push 00 i dont intend to go on this way any longer charley ill make one more at tempt to get papas leave and if that falls i have thought of a plan to make him give it how will you manage that ill tell y n tomorrow i cant say for certain that i fill succeed but we must try they ptrted soon afterwards and kate went home to blakewood square she had no hope of obtaining mr dottlesona sanc tion by begging and her mind waa full of the sonemeby whioh it was to be wrested from him to be continued coueaqb ik battle a veteran officer regards it largely as a physical attribute the st louis globedemocrat quotes col james m thomson as follows the quality of oourage in battle i regard as being to a large extent a physical attribute i have heard a good deil ot talk about the nonohalanoe of men in action and their ease and composure after the first gun was fired but i never took much stock in it i went through the war in the army and it was my fortune to be in a portion of the service in virginia where there was a good deal of hard fighting to do and there wasno any oreditable way to get out of it either i saw service in twentyeight battles and i can freely say that i for one never got used to it i never went into a fight without an all prevadlng sense of dan ger and was always glad when it was over of course moral courage high patriotism and the military spirit kept the great majority of men right up to the mark but there were notable instances of men whose physical natures simply failed to respond when called on they could not possibly go into a fight a clear head and a full conception of tho enormous consequ ences of cowardice to themielves failed to spur them to the staying point and on the j first whiz of a bullet their signals of distress were visible to all in sight a wellknown new york colonel a perfect gentleman a scholar a patriot and a really noble fellow was bo weak in point of courage and his j humiliation so great at really being afraid to face danger that he was f oroed to retire from j the army went to washington pined away and died in a few weeks i knew another j prominent officer whose friend out of con- sideration for his wellknown falling used to manage on one pretext or another to keep him out of engagements and thus shield him from exposure men like that are to be pitied j not blamed they want to fight but their boaies aotually refuse to obey their will the tribune is published every friday at the tribune pmtin housi main street stouffville subscription 100 per annul first insertion per line solid nonpareil 4 each subsequent 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and intended return ing themsolves later in the evening to ait up ier the tigress long before the appointed time mr ormaston and mr hansard the latter a student in the forest sohool saw their watoherrunlngfrantioally baok toward the camp on questioning him they found he had just seen the tiger coming up the revise toward the kill they immediately took up their rifles and went off in aearoh keping fifteen or twenty yarda apart they walked rapidly off but they had not pro ceeded far when without tho slightest warn ing mr ormaston who was below heard a groan and aaw mr hansard suddenly borne down to the ground with the tiger on his baok he was taken unawares and it was a critical moment but he stood his ground and kept hla nerve and iu the next momenta 12 boro bullet wont crashing through the tigers spine this brought her mortally wounded rolling down toward him but a second shot stopped her further career as the camp was only a few hundred yards off mr ormaston hurried off for assistance on returning tney found mr hansard who evidently also rolled down the hill lying in sensible a few feet away from the long dreod- oat wawr vase 1 op sjua ooixti sast aw sbblb baies btkbotsk jft iii ate oasfe paid tor hides wool8hepfcins sad all kinds of qnin 8trarie of the sexes in 1880 there were some 50000000 in the m wtftitut oppllittwllmoaftolefrblt united states and about 882000 more males than females that was only because more males were born the females live the longest of the centenarians 1409 were men and 2607 were women the boys start out nearly a million ahead and are in the majority until the sixteenth year when the alris are a little mora numerous sweet sixteen is a numerous age anyhow after that first one and then the other la in majority the girls gradually gaining after thirtysix and leaving the men far behind after seventy five to balanoe this longev ity of the females in almost every state a few more boys are born not many more but almost always a few it is astonishing to aee where the census gives thousands and hundreds of thousands of boys and girls under 1 year old there are with one or two exceptions always a few hundred more boys and only a few hun dred more in only six of the fortynine states and territories are mora girls born and in these states they are very slightly in excess from eleven to eighty these excep tions are arizona delaware florida lou isiana montana and north carolina t not to ba fooled again a shepherd onoe to prove the quickness of his doe who was lying before tho fire in the house whree we were talking aid to me in thi middle of a sentence oo corning some thing else i am thinking sir tho oow is in the potatoes thouh ho purposely laid no stress on these words and said them in a quiet nnoonoerned tone of voice the dog who appeared to be asleep immediately jumped up and leaping through an open window sorambled upon the turf roof of the house from whioh he could see tho potato field he then not seeing the oow there tan and looked into the farm yard where she was and finding that all was right came baok to the house after a shorn time tho shepherd said tho aame worda again and the dog repeated tho out look but on she faise alarm being a third time given the dog got up wagging hla talllooked bis master in the faoe with ao oomioal an expression of in terrogation that he oould not help laughing at him on whioh with a slight growl he laid himself down in his srrull oornor with an offended air as if determined not to be mude a fool again jmoaquitocs the bill of a mosquito is a complex in stitution it has a blunt fork at the head and is apparently grooved working through tho groove and projeoting from the angle of the fork is a lanoe of perfeot form sharpen ed with a fine bevel beside it the most per fect lance looks like a handsaw on either side of the lance two saws are arranged i with the points fine and sharp and the teeth well refined and keen the baoks of these saws play against the lanoe whon the 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she said oalmly and firmly and i may not even hope i yes she responded thoughtfully you may hope and why he asked with renewed fer vor do you say i may hope because she rejoined softly this is a free country thomas a edison in a recent talk about his phonograph said for seven months i worked from 18 to 20 hours a day upon the single bound apecia i would say to the instrument apecia and it would- alwaya say peola and i couldnt mak it say anything else it waa enough to make me crazy bat i stuck to it until i succeeded and now von can read a thou sand words of a newspaper at the rate of 150 words a minnte and the instrument will repeat them to yon without an omission i you can imagine the difficulty of the task that i accomplished when i tell yon that the impressions made npon the oyunder are not more than onemillionth part of an inch in depth and are completely invisible i even with the aid of a mlcroaoopo