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Show JJ TPF ip Or Ll li'tS""'Ii i iii'oc T 1 1 ut v .'iTU -- - Withers with stately XX- I r.esfi. Both were high bred, but it was not Evelyn's beauty that had won her lover. " Her eyes and mouth were her MARION only really good features. Constanco r" knew herself to be the handsomer of the two, but the persuasion added to' love. the hopelessness of her INTERNATIONAL this had to knit that Tho qualities der that thoughts such as these have girl's heart that of the man who had CHAl'TEK X (Continubd. It was early In Marca when Constance preyed upon my spirits; racked me seen the beauties of two hemispheres, perceived, or fancied she perceived, a with anxiety, even In the blessed hour which had kept him true to her and her marked alteration In the demeanor of of assurance that my devotion was not alone, although cpjojed by absence, dis. her brother-in-laeouragement and the wiles of scores lie was not leaa wasted?" were of other women, lay beyond her power attentions and his fraternal kind, She of analysis and counter-charmrendered freely and cordially as ever, CHAPTER XI. come how had it to was understand addicted was less and but he began gay, IS rapid articulato pass when she had commanded her to fits of abstraction, profound, alCon tion had given hi3 while wits so far as to talk five minutes with though apparently not sad, stance no time for Edward's betrothed; owned reluctantly, absence from the family circle, withreply, but her ex- that had she met her as new acquaint out apology, became so common that it citement equaled ances meet she would have "ceasod to provoke Harriet's frivolous as she bent her been generally attracted by her win his, Mr. Withers. to and irresistibly disappoint wonder, veiled face upon ning ladyhood and the countenance Constance had never complained of or her hands and lis- that united so much sweetness with remarked upon this.' But her .mind in dumb sense and spirit. tened tua was tossed night and day upon emo the at alarm would she There was time now for little beyond of tide multuous conjectures, to meet the kindly commonplaces suitable to tions rising fain have termed apprehensions, rathhis avowal of love their meeting in a public place and er than hopes. Up to this date she had their prospective parting, and even believed her love and her misery to be and longing. unshared and unsuspected by him; had To her, what would have sounded In these Constance abridged ostensibly. s explicit and the others deemed considerately, reiterated, in her flimsy coherent to a third person, thanksgivings choked by tears that she and fervent. Ho knew her . j his mate, that the last precious moments with was the only sufferer from her wretch- and would not give her up; asserted his his affianced might be all Edward's. ed folly. Did she grow sucWenly cruel rights with a master's authority, while Without verbal pretext, she arose from and base the moment when the thought his heart ached at thought of the woe her place beside Evelyn and passed around to Mr. Pynsent's side, engaging that the error was mutual awoke in' store for her nominal possessor, him in conversation about his voy veheraptures, the remembrance of the suf "I have startled you by my fering he must also taste had not tho mence," he continued, taking the hand age and destination. The atmosphere power to still ?Vas the salve to her self that lay upon her lap. "I feared lest was a degree less stifling there. If she respect supplied by the discovery that this announcement might seem abrupt, moved, smiled and talked mechanically. her divinity was a fallible man, impo but the steamer sails at five o'clock, It mattered nothing now that the pentent to resist the subtle temptation that and I last night obtained Evelyn's per- etrating eyes she most dreaded never upon the visage had overcome her prejudices and sense mission to bring you to see her off. left their resting-plac- e of right, worth the price paid for it? A She owes you a debt of gratitude for of which they were taking a long fare pew terror, more sweet than any joy your sisterly care of niy lonely arid well. There was little to be appre the had ever known, Eoon laid hold gra;eless self. She loves you dearly hended from the rich man's restless reof her. It was Idle to ignore the fact already, as you will her when you have gards, which wandered incessantly that Edward furtively, but persistent had one gllmpso of her face. You re from her to the betrothed couple, his ly, sought a private Interview with her, minded me of her the first day of our gray eyebrows contracting with pain She might disregard his beseeching meeting. I have traveled with her and or mental disquiet as he did so. Had fiances, affect to misunderstand his her sick father for three months, and Evelyn been free to maintain her usual signals and his uttered hints, might at parting more than hinted at my at watch upon him, she would have taken seek, in constant ministrations to her tachment. With candor that would alarm at these increasing symptoms of husband's wants and whims, to guard have driven me to desperation had it distress and the livid hue settling upherself, and to forget these omens of a been less mournful, she declared her on his complexion. Con.tance did not Bearing crisis. But fcho comprehended Intention not to marry while her father notice these until, simultaneously with his designs; marked with a thrill, that lived. Heneed8 my constant care,' the clanging of the bell overhead and (was the opposite to pain, his chagrin she said. 'Without it he would die in the rapid rush of feet toward the shore, at his failure, and the augmented rest a week. He will never be better. Tho he threw both hands outward, with the Jessness of his mien, betokening per kindest service you can do me, as the aimless clutch of a sightless man, and plexity and desire. What waa to be the wisest you can do yourself, 13 to forget fell against her as she sat by him on of this pursuit, and her evasion cr me." I have been steadily disobedient the sofa. The utmost confusion reigned in the pt, when her own heart was the tempto her advice. I told her as much when ter's strongest ally? She dared not I found out by. chance two months ago saloon for a few moments exclama hear him say that she was dear to that Ehe. was in the city. She was very tions, inquiries and orders loud, him as he had long been to her. Know- resolute for a time, often refusing to varied and useless. Then Edward's ing, aa she did, that she ought to spurn sec me when I called, and again legging strong voice recommendeu, in string him from her at the remotest approach me, even with tears, to dismiss all Idea ent terms, that the room be cleared to this theme, she was never able to of making her my wife. It is now a of all except the immediate attendants say with an honest purpose that she fortnight since her father unexpectedly of the sufferer, including a gentleman was likely to do 1L If she doubted his announced his determination to return who had Introduced himself as a phy intentions, she doubted herself yet to Europe, and. In the antlc'patlon of siclan. The spasm passed into a swoon rnore. our second parting, acknowledged that so deathly and protracted that Con It was by no connivance of hers that my love was returned. Our engagement stance was ready to believe the pa he gained his point. She was taking would be an unsatisfactory one to most tlent was beyond the reach of earthly her usual afternoon drive one day people, but she is the earthly imperson aid, notwithstanding the doctor's asalone, when she was aroused from a atlon of the angel of patience, and I sertion that he would probably revive. reverie by the slower motion of the can surely wait a few months, or even and even Evelyn murmured once when carriage, to observe that the coachman year?, for a gift so precious. II r fa'her Edward would have confirmed the had turned into a business thoroughis afflicted by a complication of disor cheering assurance; "It may be. fare instead of taking the most direct ders, the most serious being an organic hope so; but I never saw him quito ' route homeward. affection of the heart. She. is the only so ill before." "John," she called through the front living child. It would be sheer barbarFinally life fought Its way back, Inch window, "where are you going? What ity to separate them, and with an in- by Inch, to the worn heart; the fingers brought you here?" valid's obstinacy be will not hear of relaxed from their rigid clinch, the lips "Mr. Edward told me to call for him taking up his abode in his daughter's were le,ss purple, and the eyes were unat 4 o'clock, ma'am. I thought he had house Ehould she marry. My poor closed feebly upon the anxious group. spoken to you about It," was the re- Evelyn, my gentle love; she is a martyr When he could move Edward and the spectful rejoinder. and I can do so little to lightei her physician supported him to his stateThere waa no immediate reply, and burden!" room, followed by Evelyn. Constance, he checked his horses to inquire. "It is very hard." He had paused and left to herself, had leisure to observe "Will I go back, ma'm?" what had not until now drawn her atConstance must speak. tention. The bustle of embarkation had Too j "No; go on." by his own reflec; She threw herself upon the back seat tions to note her thick articulation and ceased, "but through the almost desertag'aJn, with throbbing pulses and a studiously averted face, Edward took ed saloon sounded the measured throb that she had spoken the sen- up the word warmly. "Hard! WhU of the powerful engines as they urged tence which was to decide her fate for could be harder for both of us?" the boat through the water. She threw time and for eternity. "Heaven help me She interrupted him by an impet- open a window and looked out They to stand fast!" the tongue essayed to uous gesture. "You are talking wild- were already far down the bay, the nay, and while the heart was melting ly wickedly! Think what you would spires of the city lessening In the Into tenderness, and vibrating with ex- suffer If you loved without hope of re- tance, and the vessel under full headpectation. way. She met Edward at the statequital." . It lacked ten minutes of the appointHe absolutely laughed. "As If that room door with the startling intellied hour when they reached the office. could be. Affection, full and fervent as gence. For an Instant he looked as ;but Edward stood upon the door step, mine, holds a witch-hazthat never aghast as herself, then he recovered his bat and gloves on. with ' a smile. She errs In pointing to the fount of answei-in- g "It Is good in you to submit so quietly herself and love. Why. Connie, we were made must compose trust flo my meddling," he began, by tho for one another Eva and I!'r him to extricate them both from g Was no scalding drop of bitterness to the predicament In which his jtlme he was seated. "Hut I have to say to you, a story to tell be spared from her cup? Whose, then, thoughtlessness had placed them. which I can keep no longer. You must was the fatal mlsiake which had opened The worst that could befall them was a Siave seen, although you, have seemed the sluices of that other fountain that few hours delay In returning home. Dot to do. so, bow I have dogged your was drowning her soul with cruel He would see the captain forthwith, and request him to signal the first and anguish? steps for some weeks past, in the hope pilot-bojof stealing an opportunity for confesor other "Drive us near to the steamer as you homeward-1oun- d sion. I have sometimes ventured to can, John!" called Edward from his vessel they might espy, Constance did as he bade her reRelieve that your, woman's wit and window, and in Ihe appreciation of the woman's heart bad penetrated my truth that the sharpest ordeal was yet sumed her wat, and seemed to await that what entered so largely into before her and fearfully near at hand, the result of the affair patiently. "I Jmy thoughts and root Ives, made up so Constance submitted to be handed from am afraid your brother may be alarmed "much of my life, could not remain hidat our continued absence," was her onthe carriage to the- wharf. to tell den from jour eyes. I war-teremark. a haze ly she saw bewildering Through "II wni understand at one- - what has jyou of it long ago, dear Connie, but the noisy crowd, the emoke-stae- k of the recollection of what was due to the monstrous vessel, stumbled along happened when John goes home with unother withheld me, while I was yet the gangway connecting It with the the news that he drove us down to see uncertain that my love was returned. whore yielding ps lively i the mpv the steamer off," replied Edward, con3 had so little reason for hope, although of Edward's arm and regained sight, fidently. "We shall have a merry jhope has never flagged mine Is a san- hearing and consciousness of brain laugh tomorrow at breakfast over our guine nature, you. know that I hesi- when she stood in a handsome saloon, adventure. So long as you are not Now that I can a small hand, warm as hers was Icy, or angry with roe, I am comtated to speak (feel firm ground tinder my feet, my fluttering In her grasp, and a pair of fortable on the score of Elnathan's dishappiness is mixed with much alloy. I dark; thoughtful eyes fixed upon her pleasure." no at coTisct.i annst either take from one who is a face. ihopelesa Invalid the ablest and most "Yoa were very good to come," said nurse that ever man had; con- a low voice, fraught with emotion, yet 1errt In thm ioIy him, whose claim the world would steady. "Allow me to present my demn tests have shown that a Practical ileelare to be superior to mine, to lone- father, Mr. Present. Mrs. Withers, bicycle runs easily on the sand of the liness and sorrow, or consent to a ses- father." African deserts, and In due time the She looked tip and spoke the lady, and camel will follow the horse into sion of dreary wailing before I can tail my darling my own. I you won her father arose front his divan, sup- luted Mrs. ,1 SLAnMM - gjifeSY issr- ill-fat- PRESS-ASSOCIATIO- s. Mm ft 41 self-decepti- ers' Review. AmeMmz Low and High Protein Corn. The Illinois Experiment Station hai been at work for years on tho problem of low and high protein content of corn. In bulletin 87 the experimenters have given us drawings show ing the differences obtained through seven years of breeding from the original parents but breeding in opposite directions. We reproduce these. Ref- - j erence to the low protein cut shows a jiedium-slzegerm (which always contains much gluten) and a comparatively thin layer of horny gluten (this also always contains much protein). The legend "Horny Gluten" on the cut refers to the double row of white dots going around the entire kernel Just below the black line used to the hull. Every part of tho corn kernel contains some protein and matter. In fact, some constituent always the exceeds the protein even when the protein is highest, as in the case of the "horny gluten." A difference of two or three per cent in the protein contents makes a great deal of difference in tho relative value, as a little pro- d in-i'ca- te carbo-hydrat- e carbo-hydrat- e Boot f V" (C.p LOW rnOTEIN CORN. tein goes a long way in feeding. To make this matter plainer we give the following to show the presence of boih protein and carbohydrates (starchy matter) in each part. These are two el self-possessi- some-jthln- '. at et; - tin-hap- rp-nly- trt. py An Advantage In Freight. Fruit growers near the great fruit consuming cities have an Immense advantage over the producers of fruit thousands of miles away. We talk a great deal about California fruit being profitable to the growers, but it is only because they have powerful organizations of fruit men that they are able to make any profit at all. The cost of shipping, say peaches, from California Is so great that It amounts to a heavy protective duty in favor of the local growers. We are ia formed that the freight on a car of fruit from San Francisco to Chicago is $250 and the Icing charge is $125 more. This makes $375 that the car costs, without reckoning anything for attendance. This amounts to 1.375 certs on every pound of fruit sent from San Francisco to Chicago, as a car is reckoned to contain 20,000 In addition, the matter of pounds. time of transit of the California fruit must be taken into consideration in the packing and the fruit graded moro carefully than it would otherwise have to be. Much perfectly sound fruit must be left out of the packages, simply because it is ripe; for it would be rotten by the time it reached the customer. As our own fruit growers have good fruit soil and climate, with, an ever increasing population to feed, there would seem to be no reason why this advantage of freight rates should ever be taken from them. There is every reason why our fruit growers should plant ever increasing quantities of hardy and standard fruit trees. Bromus Inermls for Pasture. Bromus inermls makes an excellent pasture grass, as it shoots up In the spring about two weeks earlier than any of the native grasses, produces a good aftermath or second growth, and continues to grow especially late In the fall. If the summer Is dry it will stop growing, and start again after the beginning of the fall rains, but If tho dry period is not too long it will continue to grow frtm early in the spring until late in the fall. At the Kansas Station we have grown Bromus inermls In a field way for four seasons. This summer we have pastured some young stock, ranging from 9 to 18 months of age, on a field of Bromus Inermls seeded last fall. These calves havo not Bhown any noticeable preference prairie-gras- s between Kentucky and Bromus inermls, and have thrived well on the Bromus inermls. The grass stands tramping by stock exceedingly well. It is so vigorous that it will run out all weeds and other grasses, after It once becomes well established. It, however, may be sown with other grasses and legumes, and allowed to take full possession in a few years. Kansas Bulletin. blue-gras- VHWi.' - & :V vfvff 'J.'J p s, Eagls and Cows Battle. ' - , , from Somerville, N. to the Drovers' Journal says: A large gray eagle, the first seen in this vicinity in many years, created consternation among a herd of cattle on the farm of Charles Covert, near Mount Bethel. The eagle flew from the mountains to the lowlands where the cattle were grazing. It took shelter In a tree, and waiting an oppor' tunlty swooped down on a calf of the herd. The mother of the calf and several cows surrounded the eagle and forced it from its prey. The eagle ab tacked the cows and its onslaught was so furious that the animals were stampeded, but they rallied again and circled frantically around the calf, thrusting at the eagle viciously with their horns each time it renewed Its attack on the smaller animal. The eagle resorted to stralegla measures, by driving the cows, one by one, across the field. At this Juncture Covert, who bad been attracted by the disturbance among the rattle, appeared on the scene with a gun. The eagle alighted on a rail fence to await developments and a minute later fell to the ground shot through the head. It Is one of the largest specimens ever seen here and Covert will have it preserved. Four of Covert's cattle had strips of hide torn from their bodies by the eagle. A dispatch Embryo; StmBrebrvo ,V-- iv- Boot r y fee-lin- . ! . pre-occupl- ed - Why? Due pmb1ie'nrTwr---to light other problems equally brings. worthy of solution. Thus w Journey toward tho truth and ' Infinity. Farm- ttarch, . - "W?" I Tin lCj high froiein. cony analyses taken from ihe bulletin mentioned, one analysis being for a kernel and the other for a kernel. PROTEIN CONTENT (Per 0nt). Low High protela protein kernel VerneL 4.64 7.36 Tip cap 3.84 4.97 Hull .'.19.21 24.S8 Horny Gluten 10.99 8.12 Horny Starch 8.61 7.22 Crown Starch 7.29 6.10 Tip Starch 19.91 19.66 Germ 12.53 9.90 Mixed Waste 9.28 12.85 Whole Kernel It will be noticed that In some of Its kernel has less parts the kerprotein than has the nel. Thus In these two analls tha kernel has less n the and germ. Th- - protein hull cap, tip In the other parts, however, rjore than counterbalances the losses Ir the parts mentioned, even the crown ssrch having more protein in the corn. corn than in the CARHHYnriATB CONTENT (Per Cent). Low High protein protein kerneL kernel. 90.57 91.50 Tip Cay low-prote- high-protei- n high-protei- n low-protei- high-protci- n n in Wnere the Cream Should Sour. Some bold the view that, since the cream has to be soured before churning, why not let it sour on the farm? This Is objectionable for the following reasons: 1. It is the work to Introduce and develop the flavor in the cream, which gives us the fine aroma In butter which we, as 93.29 Hull 94.30 well as the consumers, so much desire. 75.87 63.07 2. The butter will be more uniform Homy Gluten 91.S4 88.S3 In flavor when one man, who underHorny Starch 92.27 Crown Starch 90.50 stands the work, docs it, than when 9.1.81 90.75 a number, who don't understand it, Tip Starch 33.07 Germ 36.73 are trying to do It. 3. The proper Mixed Waste 33.43 85.71 facilities to do the work are always Whole Kernel 80.12 available at the creamery. 4. To most ....8511 In the case of starchy ma'.ter (carbo- farmers all sorts of favors come unhydrate) we find the tip cap, hull and der the head of souring, which to the butter might be most germ again deficient in the very qual5. The maker has made a ity for which the kernel ;g noted. Here Is the basis vi a good problem to be stuiy of the work, consequently is Ir worked out It is rather surprising 'o a beite position to produce what Is find the greatest overba!an?e nf rsnjref than those ho are unlearn ! in the homy g1 itrfl, lnfed J? nS respect W. A. Wilson. high-protei- low-protei- n n butter-maker'- r s ohjeo-tioriah- le |