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Show ; leave his Katherlno Tymanu foot The Ballinacarra Very dogcart a little way from the entrance gate and do the rest on THEJFOX. pretty one. property wag a It comprehended some miles of wood, a grouse mountain, a trout Btream. There was a big bouse with a courtyard at the back, in a state of ruinous disrepair. It had acres of grass, long ranges of outbuildings. Fortunately, Sir Adrian Inges-tre'-s purse was equal to making It all as good as new again. The place was full of workmen; the noise of hammering resounded all day long. As soon as a few rooms were ready for occupation. Sir Adrian had moved In. He was delighted with his Irish property, none the less because he had His English bought It for a song. y friends were glad to keep him where there was such sport to be had. The country was ready to receive aim. Only two people held coldly aloof. They were his nearest neighbor the Prince of Erris, and his granddaughter, Kathaleen O'Driscoll. As it happened the Prince's property made a wedge in uallinacarra land. It was a small wedge, but It spoiled any chance of inclosing Ballinacarra land. It was a wild overgrown place, a wilderness by Ballinacarra, which had t been at sometime a park, and would be again now it was an Englishman's property. Sir Adrian Ingestre had come into the country with a kindly heart toward all its Inhabitants. He had no Idea of making a Naboth's Vineyard of the Prince's wild piece of bog and mountain. In fact he was going to call on the princo to ask him to make one of his party of guns, when another neighbor warned him of the indiscretion he was about to commit. The occasion was a dance, following a dinner at Derrybeg. His hostess had been very kind to him. In fact, her Irish softness of speech and man-n- r had made him her devoted slave. "I want to dance," he said to ner, "with the little girl in the green frock, who has the eyes of a mountain pony." Lady Derrymoro looked the way he Indicated. There was a shy child, with a golden brown head and extraordinarily bright eyes under a tangle of lashes. She was looking their way, and at the moment her expression was Dne of the utmost resentment. "I darn't do It," she said, laughingly. "Why, that Is O'Driscoll's granddaugh ter, little Kathaleen. Don't you know that they hate you like poison? "I didn't know anything of the sort,' ae said bluntly. "May I ask why? "Because Ballinacarra is O'Dris coll's land. Because they are banished to the waste and derelict bit of property. Because you are restoring Ballinacarra. Because we have all received you, and with constitutional inertness allowed you to take a leading piace Because you talk of among us. starting a pack of deerhounds. They do not con si (for that the sale of Ballinacarra included the deer. My dear Sir Adrian, the deer belong to none of us and we might well call them ours. The original deer forest, the lat bit of It that remains, certainly belongs to the prince. "The deer was mentioned Id the Inrentory of my property. They feed in my park all day. After all, my project Df the hounds was a dim and distant one. For the present I am quite satisfied with the fox hunting, especially tlnce you have made me master. They might have postponed their haired till I had given them cause." "You've given them plenty," laughed "O'Driscoll lasn't Lady Derrymore. a across horse these twenty his leg pot years, yet they resent our giving you It's no use telling the mastership. them that we couldn't afford to keep it ourselves. They would think we ought to have pawned our last bit of plate to keep the hounds out of an English man's hands. They say O'Driscoll won't let the hunt cross his land this winter. I know he Is trying to tlr up strife against you all over the country; and, mind, the people look up to him deal as the last Prince of Erris." "I never hoard anything so unrea. sonable." said the Englishman, aghast "My dear man, that's the charm of s," said I he hostess, flirting her fan "I'll call on him and have it out" "You will find the door shut In your fare." "I shall be no worse for that. The memory of the eyes under the rolden brown tangle of hair followed Sir Adrian Inns: after their owner had coldly refused him the dance which despite Lady Derrymore's warning's he had been determined enough to ask .om-pan- well-kep- - for. He had called at Castle Erris a c?ay or two later, and found the avenue leading to the dilapidated mansion In such a state of disrepair, so littered y the boughs and even whole trees of old storms, that he was obliged to The door was opened to him by an old man in a shabby suit of livery. When he had heard the visitor's name his face assumed the oddest mixture of comical perplexity and a dogged determination not to admit him. "Whisper now, dear," he said, looking furtively behind him. "I wouldn't take in that name not if you give me Darner's fortune. 'Tis one of the master's bad day's. He's sittln' with his foot laid up in Cottonwood foreninst him, clanin' his ould breechloader, an' if I was to mlntion your name to him maybe tis the contlnts of it he'd be givln' met in me back. The dlvil a lie in it." Since Sir Adrian Ingestre could not storm the Prince of Erris In his own stronghold, he was obliged to retire. not knowing whether to feel angry or amused. During the following winter there were several unpleasant incidents in connection with the hunting. There were protests against the hunt cross ing their lands from farmers who had never objected before. Once or twice the riders were met by a group of peasants carrying pitchforks and other unpleasant implements. They learnt the way of it," said Lady Derrymore, "in the Land Lea gue times, but they haven't been putting it into practice since we declared peace all around. Upon my word, Sir Adrian, it's too bad, seeing all the en- ployment you've been giving to the country; but If it goes on we'll have to ask Colonel O'Conner to sacrifice himself for the rest of us and take the hounds. It's all the old prince. It's surprising what influence he' has." 'It's always easy to Influence people badly," 6ald Sir Adrian, with an oat burst of spleen which showed that he had been hard hit by the failure he had looked like to be as master. , It was , no later than the Tuesday after the hounds, having lost an old dog fox at the Lohort faplnney, gave cry again as they were being led home to the kennels. The members of the hunt had dispersed slowly and saJly The master, the huntsman and the whlpper in, with a few idlers, were all that remained. It was a winter after noon, cold and bright, with the yellow leaves yet shivering on the trees, 1,1 nee there hadn't been a gale to bring them , down. The hounds were let Blip and disap pear into the spinney. The huntsman gave "Tallyho!" although there were none but themselves to hear it They swept through the spinney and out Into the open country beyond, then made for Bargy Woods. Down the side of the ravine, up the other, went the hounds, giving tongue. Sir Adrian riding behind them. It was rough riding for the woods were full of the stumps of trees that had beta lately felled, and ence or twice Sir Adrian's mare stumbled with him, but regained her foot Once he was down. By the time he was up again and in the saddle he heard the furious barking of the hounds at a distance. They were evidently at fault; the quarry had slipped into a drain or otherwise baffled them. Sir Adrian looked around for the huntsman; he was not in sight He rode on where the yelping of the hounds led him. Presently he came out in the middle of a little glade. The dogs' voices were deafening by this time. They were leaping like mad below a great chestnut tree, their sharp, excited faces turned upward to the tree, their tongues panting, their tails going like mad. Sir Adrian rode Into th" midst of them, looked up Into the tree, and U a second was off his horse and ffogglng the hounds furiously with his whip." Presently the huntsman and whipper-i- n appeared on the scene, looking r.ith-e- r crestfallen and very muddy. Fir Adrian roared his orders. The huntsman called his hounds off. In a few seconds they were trotting away to the kennel, disappointed of their sport, but evidently anticipating their evening meal. Sir Adrian remained below th? tree till the din passed somewhat out of hearing. Then he looked up Into the soft golden masses of the boughs. "Now," be said in tone of concentrated emotion, fury, concern, admiration, amazement, all struggling together, "You bad better let that thing go; and then be obliging enough to tell ice what you did It for. I don't suppose It was motive enough that you mere spoiling the run. "Indeed, I never though of you," answered a sweet, cold volcs out cf tue tree. "And as for letting the little beast go, why, 1 just can't. Its quite a youngthing. and it has broken itspiw. It fell right at my feet, yelping lik a pet dog. Do you suppose I was going to leave it to the hounds?'' "You knew your danger, I suppose?" "Oh, yes, I know," replied the voice. airily. "It was a near thing, too. The first hound almost pulled me back out of the tree. I believe he carried a bit of the braid off my skirt away in his mouth." If the pack had "Good heavens! with the scent of the down pulled you fox about you, they'd have made short work of you." I shouldn't like that sort cf death," said the voice. "Of course, I knew it in a way. But what would you nave done yourself, if the fox had come tumbling at your feet like that? havo more sense I hope I'd than to do what you did," Sir Adrian replied grimly. ''But now, are you Is the little beasts coming down? paw really broken? Didn't it scratch and bite at you when you picked it up?" "No more than a pet dog. I have a theory that It is someone's pet fox; or it has been tamed by the suffering, We the Hon in the story. Here, catch It! I'm coming." band and wrist A small, were thrust from the warm drifi of leaves. From the fingers, held by the scruff of the neck, dangled helplessly a the time, and the Prince of Erris wai GLOBE SIGHTS. nappy. "It's almost worth while to have 11 Don't be surprised so much. for the joy of getting rid of It, KathaA knife was produced yesterday In leen Mavourneen," he said to his grand an Atchison kin row. A gossip is usually willing to be a daughter. to "I want tell you," she said, sittlni liar; so is the man who is always com- down on his discarded footstool, "w plaining. made a mistake about him over there,' It takes mighty good times to put an oi extra direction in dollar in the pocket of a clerk or head the her nodding Ballinacarra chimneys, just visible bookeeper. A real good friend is one who will the Englishman among the trees We O'Drlscolls are two proud not tclBay you are sensitive when you are own when we've made a mistake pi quarrelsome. done an injustice. He's a gentleman, No woman should put her popularity if he is rich, and he's kind, and ho lias to the test by taking uer children and no intention of hunting die dur whicfc going visiting. are your property, he says, and it i3n'l ' The average woman loves to look his fault that he bought Ballinacarra penshe and speak in a mysterious way and desires very much the privilege ol or what has come Into her life. knowing you, grandpa. When a man comes down towu In "Why, child, what do you mean! the morning good natured it is a sign ttU I II JUUlBt'li lllttU 6lUUfU III Kg Jjg JjjjJ a good cantaloupe for head with stories against him, and ureakfast set me cn to make it impossible foi Let a woman ask a man to describe him to keep the hounds?" the right sort of mn for women to And then Kathaleen told him th trust, and look up to, and he will destory of the fox and of Sir Adriau'i scribe himself. conversation, which had shown quit When a woman reads her husband's the proper feeding toward the O'DMs old love letters a certain expression colls, who had been a power in th gets into her eyes, and she says, disland long before a Iningstre had fol how he has changed!" a Norman robber into England dainfully: "My, lowed little fox. certain of their cusGrocers that say In the same manner Sir Adrian re- and much more to the same purport tomers buy cantaloupes every day, and no ceived it and laid it down on the moss. Be sure Sir Adrian's remarks lost ol then next day complain of the quality. Miss Kathaleen's in repetition The thing showed no inclination to thing Why don't these people quit eating run away. Its anxious face wore an them. The next day the Prince of Erris cantaloupes? Sir expression of a dog in trouble. In a community where the people are bath chair was seen trundllni ancient Adrian mentally inclined to that theoand afraid to express their cowardly up the avenue of Ballinacarra, and th ry of the fox being a pet look out for fanathonest convictions, apologies for not having mad "What are you going to do?" asked Prince's fools disturbers. and Isn't it ics, peace an opportunity earlier of welcoming the voice at his side now. to will submit that people to the countr surprising Miss Driscoll had swung herself Sir Adrian Ingestre one or foolish of the antics man, any no was left O'Driscoll country down with surprising ease and grace which ' 1 set oX them? to be desired. thing from the tree. An Atchison man says he does not The little fox's paw mended in time "Going to set the paw," he answer- but before he made the choice offered like to appear unappreciatiye, but that ed. I've never done as much for a fox to him of being a pet or having his lib be can not feel flattered when a man before, but I have more than once for c rty to be hunted .Miss O'Driscoll had succeeds in coaxing a pet dog to shake a dog; and, as a preliminary, I'm going to shange her name to Ingca hands with him, even though the man promised to muzzel you old fellew. A fox's bUo And the fox, having made his looks at him approvingly and says: tre. is a very nasty thing, Miss O'Driscoll, as you, fortunately, have not been ob choice became the permanent InmaU "Well, sir, it isn't every one that dog of a comfortable house at Ballinacarra will shake hands with." liged to realize. sometimes raid An Atchison man's favorite prayer is He produced his hankerehlef, and, Only, sad to relate, he he loose. iik as follows: "Give me health. Give me when a henroost ed got with surprisingly little resistance on But Ladj power to be fair and useful and sensiwild brethern. the part of the fox, bound up his Jaws. any of his fox a was privileged beast ble. I do not cure for a crown, but I Then he looked about for something of Ingestre's for hia would like to avoid being a nuisance to and her partiality ladyship's which to make splints, found what he Sir Adrian, to th the community in which I live. I do was shared by quite wanted and performed the little opera not care for immortality, but I greatly grief of many honest dogs. tion skillfully and tenderly. desire to be fair with my friends and When he had finished. "Now, what DRIED EGGS FOR BAKERS. are you going to do with him?" he neighbors, and appreciative of every thing worthy. And at the last great asked. "Ballinacarra Is nearer than In Iowa Thai New Industry Important day, give me an easy death, and Erris. Supposing I think I could get Will Keep Hens Busy. oblivion." Atchison Globe. . a donkey cart close by I take him A recent report from Sioux City, la. there. of weeks Slouj The girl had been leaning over bim says: Wichin a couple will be in Canada and Reciprocity. full dedicated egg plant so intent on what he was doing that City's A good many '.hings in connection be transformlnf her breath was on his cheek; he could operation and will with the trade reciprocproposition bale se where the upward sweeping eye- daily about 8,000 dozen eggs Into are with some of Canada ity amusing, lashes caught the light on their ,old; era' eggs. them wearying, says the New York The factory building which has beei Commercial. the down on the young roses of ner Chief and foremost In process of construction for the Na among the later in the cheeks was like a baby's. disposition of Egg Company foi Canadians to make light of the fact "That will be best," she said. tlonal Bakers months, now stands comDleted. and tht two governments were cut off and "When he gets well" Percompany is only waiting for the plac made impossible of renewal by Canada "It must bo for you to decide. bad of him better make a pet Ings of it machinery in order to be . ti v ii i t v. ' ... uhooiuu haps you v t i. v ti tj to keep him from being hunted again." business. Two car loads of machinerj ected the absurd Alaskan boundaryj are on the road now, and Superintend question into the proceedings. Recishe said softly. "I think I shall give him his choice," ent A. D. Robinson expects to have i procity might have been had long ago "You know I think It was splen lid all In place and In working order it ind its practicability and efficacy have of you," he went on. "Perfect lunacy, two weeks. already been tested, had Canada not of course, but splendid, all the same. The company has erected n remmod attempted to "score a point" aginst us She reddened at his praise. lous building for its factory. Althot;gl in that way. And It Is doubtful If any "I think you are very kind," she but one story high, the building toven agreements as to trade reciprocity can said, simply. "I don't know any one the entire lot owned by the company sver be reached by Canada and the else who would have been so good to SOxlCS feet in dimensions. United States so long as the Alaskan the fox, and so clever." When running at ltn full capacity boundary matter remain unsettled. "And ou forgive me." he asked ex- the factory will turn out about a tot tending a frank hand. "I want to be of the dry product per day. As it takei The Bridegroom's "Voluntary." friends with O'Driscoll and his grand- four dozen eggs to make a pound a Sir Frederick Bridge, the English daughter." la a crrvwt fnr ttUcr nernrrl- the "baker's egg." the purchas'm miisl-la- n She put her hand into his. agent of the company will need to buj ing to "T. A. T.," and has a fund of "Grandpa was angry because the 8.080 dozen each Cay. amusing personal experiences to draw deer were to be hunted," she said. Mr. Robinson was ssked If It wouh upon. One of the great musician's "I shall not think of it again," he an- not be a difficult problem to secun beet stories Is about a provincial swered, eagerly. church organist, who was once a pupil a quantity of eges every day. . She flung back her mane, and her &n are "Oh. no" be deplled. Epgs vetj of bis. This young man was cppolnted bright eyes looked at him, at one?, shy abundant now, and we could" easllj.to an Important church In the Mid- and fearless. that many of the kind of eggs w lands. In course of time he married. "There are other things," nhe sild, pick buy right In the local market Thi During his absence bis voluntaries s my fault I did my best to make we buy are largely what arc call were much missed by the congregation. of more Importance. It was eggs ed 'seconfls'. That Is, they are oggi They had always been appreciated, and father hate you." Vkbich are either cracked, or dirty, o their renewal was looked forward to. "But you don't hae me?" in other ways are unfit for packing -- imagine,' says Sir Frederick Bridge, Not now." Their hands were still We have now In storage a go id quan "the intense amusement of the people clasped above tho little fox, whleh lay of eggs to start off with." when the newly married organist gave licking uneasily at the splintered lg, tlty Bakers' Egg companj as his first voluntary, upon his return, National The between them. to the largest baken Handel's 'Waft Her, Angels, to the "Not now," she repeated, and then sells its products Is used in cookinj Skies.' It in the country. "New York Tribune. ber eyes fell. as are fresh eggs manner in the wm? Down along the woodland road r.ime Queens His Long Suit a little donkey cart, returning from the Last year the company supplied 100, Na to the "baker's of 000 egg" late Henry VIII., known as pounds The market, whither it carried a family of Biscuit tlonal company. "Bluff King Hal," was onee tangled up little pigs. It was easy to arrange for St like the Floux The factory, a In City game of draw with several of his the carriage of th fox to Ilalllnacarra. the lami by Louis operated and was losing heavily. An factory courtiers When they had seen it started, Miss I In will be operation only company, her hand. held out O'Driscoll expensive jack pot was cpened, and ti month the the in months year, few "Clood-by.said. the surprise of the courtiers the she froc are when usually plentiful, eggs he "We go the same king eame in and drew tjnr card3. ay," replied, They mere still more surprised when turning to recapture his hors, which June to October. was grazing in a little glade close by. he won the pot with four queens. named Florence lassie beautiful A side "If you will but turn bark the pages nil walked then, by side, They Onee wept till her tears flowed ii af history." he remarked, as he raked h? bad spen her within her own gate. In the chips, "you will understand that torenee, "I shall let you know how our patia When asked why she cried, It is a cold day when 1 can't get a few ent progresses," he said, they partand a Fhe of sighed little old queens! " replied: ed, and it was with curious thrill son s been here with "our". sheriff "The And the diplomatic courtiers lau:,;i-pleasure he said that Columbia Jester Its victim set worenre" free for Th gout had heartily. Milwaukee Pentinel. , sun-burne- d " j .3 y a Rrnnd-"thing- I " H |