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VOLUME XIX. n & A CAPRICE? j& His was a face among faces. Im pressing by Its strong personality, as a cliff among hills; and here, In the wlndraeked night, wherein disorder and ruin joslled elbows, and the air wag full of rain and the plaint of peo ple, his power made Itself felt, and , gained him a hearing from officials who were over-anxious and travelers who were over-importunate. "The sooner wo e.re out of this the better, 1 suppose," he said to the guard who made his way deaf-eared through the clamorous knots at he doors of the carriages. "The water is rising fast, of cburso?" "As fast as It can, sir," the other re joined, giving audience almost uncon sciously to the single speaker who had succeeded In detaining him. "Two feet here means four in the Tregenna cutting, and, as the lines won't stand this volume much longer, the chances are ten to one against our getting far ther toniglit." "Damp quarters, that will in all like lihood be damper. Is there any ac commodation to be had within five miles, think you?" "Nearer than that. Polwherra lies but an odd mile away ; her Inn Is older than the coaching days." "Good news, which you might as well hand on. I, (or one, shall make use of It, as there Is no mortal service I can do my fellows by staying." "None, sir.'" You can't miss the ' road so long as you keep the steeple of Prlwh era In sight. Good-night to you." "Good-night," said Oswald Herrles. He paused to gather together bis slight paraphernalia a rug and a small portmanteau and then he and the old Anglo-indian, who had trav eled down the express and until then exchanged no further words than the average Briton considers necessary under such propinquity, set out across country, wading knee deep In the low er land encircling the railroad, and ar riving at last, wind blown and wet to the skin, on the crest of ground topped by the Ring o' Bells. The landlord, a hale fellow of seven ty, had acted with business-like pre cision on the uef coming up from the valley, and tured beds, blazing fires and the appetlzlngi scent of un seen dainties welcomed those who es sayed the stormy midnight walk. This-""VbilLfin odd haY-doien of them wake quit t) a man' was ha; an exoell Later, when tdey had got the shiver ing old creature Into the snuggest quarter offered by the Ring o' Bells, the girl came back again. She came straight on to the fire place, a subdued tensity In her man ner, her eyes wide. "It Is you Who must be thanked for .this, my happiness, and the life of one dearer than tho world can guess." Communication was re-established, the Anglo-Indian gone on his way; gone, too, the floods and the extra haif dozen at the Ring o' Bells; but Her rles stayed to ask daily after Nurse Lavender with a severe chill upon her, to suggest improvements In the low lying house, to give his help in re establishing the pair there, and to pon der on a woman. HIb business In Tru ro could wait, as it did. In the unconventional remoteness of this Cornish hamlet, it did not strike him as anything unusual that he should look in upon the couple day by day; Lavender was always to the fore, watchful, alert, garrulous, from her sofa in the corner of the low-celled room; and when she was about again, with feeble gait and uncertain humors, seldom absent from her mistress. Only Trefusis seemed to resent the Intimacy; yet when he might have done that which would have snapped it, shied from the single question Her rles put to him, testily, and waxed on a sudden morose. In an atmosphere of music and rest fulness the acquaintance ripened sought by him, by her simply accepted and though she wielded no blandish ment, welcomed him by never a smile, he watched her in a hundred homelike aspects, and in all found her lair. Lavender had been a strong tower to her girlish helplessness once, and In the memory of this devotion it was natural that her mind's eye should be occupied with the need of her friend, to the exclusion of all else. When they met on the weedy shore, the cliffs or in the village street, it was of her Jean Morant spoke. And the subject of an old and unknown woman's traits did not weary Herries because he loved. The end came with a suddenness that shook the girl's serenity to Its core. February's days were creeping to a close when the last page of a faithful life was shut, and the shock of that i in ' ru;naia.Wlvmh. In sixteen He told me," her voice had almos t fierceness in It, "that there was; and I believed him. Lies! Mo one could lie as Rolleston Moore. And yet I loved him; he was so handsome, so daring, and I, poor, foolish I hadn't met anything masculine that was not old or feeble, or selfish, or nnklnd, and was eager to think him all that he ap peared." She paused, drawing in her breath sharply. "It was a mistake he was utterly worthless, utterly vic ious and my guardian had known it, thinking In his cold worldliness that an ancient pedigree was sufficient atone ment for moral blots, and that we should Jog along as half the world Jogs on at any rate, away from his Immediate neighborhood. We were married two thousand dollars a year makes a man with a tottering fortune impatient. And if I was unhappy be fore no, I can't talk of It to you. But I knew on my wedding day that all questions of love on his part had been pretence; he laughed at the mere idea. And with that laugh of his my love fell dead. One night he turned me out of the house; afterward Lav ender and I went away together; at eighteen I was alone, and because, Ood forgive me, I nated him, I tried to drop the memory of those twelve months and came to Polwherra, and Lavender told people I was a widow, and together we grew to feel happy and safe at last. At last, and for this! But, oh! It Is for this, for this, you must forgive pie. Oswald; Because the pain of your pain hurts me more than ail past grief." She laid her hands on his breast, acid looked up into his face, and under her eyes his bitterness died. He caught her to his arms.- "Jean, Jean, must such as this part us! It shall not It ought not. We are each other's, neart and soul. Look Into my eyes with your clear eyes, and tell me you don't love me then, and only then, will I leave you. Yet neither then!" Thc-re was a concentrated passion In his manner that for a half second shook her. She recovered herself, and after the brief struggle drew nearer to him, with a sweet seriousness in her voice that calmed his stormy mood. "Oswald, it is because I love you that it would Kill me to draw you down to anything lower than you now are good, great, generous. Because I care, you, too, must care, to make the world the better for your gifts, to bo strong for those who are not strong, that our suffering may be not only to our blessing, but to other people's." "You ask an impossibility." he said. Then she lifted her face and laid her lips on his. There was the solem nity of a farewell In her kiss, and he It . FRANKLIN. N. C. WEDNESDAY. MARCH 1(5, Mulching of Trees. All far-set trees and all of the orna mental trees and the shrubbery on the home grounds will be much benefited by a mulch of manure during the win ter. If this work was not done In the fall It may be done during any open days during the winter when a team can be used. Unless the snow should be too deep to work to advantage there need be no hesitancy about put ting this mulch of coarse manure, but not much straw around the trees at any time, it will serve to hold up the newly-set trees and will protect the roots from frost, adding fertilizer to them as spring comes on so that they will be In good condition to make an early start In the spring. Better put the manure to some such use as this than allow it to leach away In the barnyard. Why Some Fail with Incubator. A great many people have an idea that all that Is necessary is to get an Incubator, put the eggs in, heat it up and let It alone. A certain amount of attention at the proper time is abso lutely necessary. A man will become Interested in an Incubator and will buy one. When it comes his hens are not laying much. Ho wants to start it up at once, so he goes out to get the required number of eggs. Ho got 8 all he can from his friends and gets the balance from the store, no matter what sort of weather they have been through nor how long they have been kept, no matter what sort of hons laid them nor what sort of care the hens had. All he Is looking for Is eggs. He puts his Incubator anywhere, where it will be out of the way, and starU it up. He hatches about 10 percent of sickly chickens and then says that Incubator1- are worthless and throws the incubator in to a shed and gives It up. 0. M. Wat son, in Reliable Poultry Journal. Care of Nest Boxes. Few of us who keep fowls realize how they are worried by vermin. Quite often we hear of hens who persist i-i laying eggs In the dust box or on the floor, anywhere but In one of the nest boxes provided for that purpose. Nine provided for that purpose. Nine out of laaJayeatlgatlon will that th'f vthe re a aestf Vmln. m knof times out prove that suit of The ben her trouble. them. I 1 them doae together, the heads slant ing so aa to turn water. Next make another row, throwing the dirt on ths roots of the cabbages on the first row. When all the cabbages are put in they will be in a compact mass. Place straw on the heads, and boards on the straw, to shed rain. If preferred, the cabbages may be placed under a shed and covered with straw. It the roots are put in the ground and the heads out the cabbages will be alive and the stalks will give crops of sprouts for early greens In the spring and not a head will rot, while they may be cut off from the stalk at any time when wanted, whether the ground is frozen or not, by simply lifting the straw, in fact, they will be kept In such good condition as to begin growing in the spring, it not disturbed, In the effort to produce seed. Poultry as Insect Destroyers, There Is one advantage of keeping poultry on the farm that Is generally overlooked, and that Is the vast num ber of Insects destroyed by It. If every Insect destroyed by a hen In a day were counted and an estimate made of the number of Insects eaten by a flock of 25 hens, it would show that hens are more useful in that re spect than may be supposed. When busily at work scratching the hens secure many grabs and worms, while the larvae of insects also assist in providing them with food. A flock of turkeys will search every nook and corner of a field for Insects, and as a turkey can consume a large amount of food it will make away with a vast number of them each day. The active guinea is ever on the search over the fields for insects. It does not scratch, but every blade of grass Is looked over, and it rarely comes up to the barnyard to seek food. Its industry prompts it to secure its own food, and In so doing hundreds of Insects are destroyed. The ravenous duck, whose appetite seems .never satisfied, will attempt to seek enough In the fields, and It cap tures not only Insects, but the field mouse, and small reptiles will be eaten If other food Is not plentiful. But If Insects abound they will be content with eating them in preference to any thing else Farm and Poultry Review Draining the Barnyard. ,'hen the barnyard is used as a kce for storage for manure It Is bard ! keep it dry and clean, but If a prop- place Is provided for the manure- It must be stored thero" ought to le no trouble Jn keeping the barnyard fy. Naturally, there must be some lading yor ditching done, and It is always to fill In the low places in to opsn" ditches, where b , "Sulhe barn- 1904. ASEMiON FOR SUNDAY 6UrIECT : WHAT ARE THE PERM NENT ELEMENTS OF RELIGION?" Aa Eloquent awl Forceful Dlsconrs by th Iter. John M. Davidson Man's In terest It. the Incarnation A Striking Thought About ! "Divinity of Blan.' Brooklyn, N. Y. In ths Fourth Uni tarian Church, Flntbush, Sunday morning, the pastor, the Kev. John M. Davidson, preached on "What Are the Permanent Elements of Religion?" He said: In this period of questioning, when c,U structures of religious faith are being tor clown and new ones are taking their places, when what seems the very foundation of faith is being removed here and there to moke way for new material, it is well worth our while to ask the question that is consequent upon such a condition, What elements of our religious faith are perma nent and are likely to resist the teudency to change? It is a question that is agitat ing more people than ever before in his tory. We have been told that there is a growing indifference to religion, that men are abandoning the churches, that pagan ism has re-sbsorbed large sections of the country, even Puritan New England shar ing in the general dinsolution. No one can deny that the influence of the church is not as great as it was when almost the only educated men were min isters. We who occupy the pulpits to day frankly recognize the fact that the occupant of the pews are not only our equals in intellect, but are capable of giv ing us instruction in many departments of thought wherein the minister of old time was held to be supreme. The minister of to-day must recognize his relatively changed condition. He addresses minds at least as well informed and as bright as his own and on many subjects more so. And he is woefully mistaken and unalert if he does not welcome the change as an advantage to himself and his work rather than a detriment. Nevertheless, for the time being, this condition tends to bring down the church attendance figures ana to lessen the church's influence. It will continue to do so until the church finds men who are leaders (if not in intellect) in the effort for social amelioration. They must be specialists and authorities in their field, as the physicians and lawyers are in medicine and jurisprudence. That the temporary falling off in the in fluence of the church as an institution ar gues for an indifference to religion I do not believe. The church has not yet learned its work. It is still delving iu theo'.ogies and philosophies, when men are no more interested in the one than the other. Both theology and philosophy are vital matters, but the old manner of discussing these subjects cannot now inter est men who are touched by the spirit of the scientific age. Until science and the whole new method of thought that fol lows upon recent scientific discovery have entered into and vivified theology and phil osophy, they will cease to interest or in fluence man. They have no point of eon tact with his interests. But men are in terested in religion, This very question ing and unrest proves It. Even the return to paganism, aa i( has been called, that trend, particularly noticeable in rural New England, away from the formtlism of the church and back to nature, it not so alarming as appears at first glance. We are learning to see that, although for cen turies we have called certain peoples "pa gans," thinking to give them a bad name and so td avoid more tedioui investigation into the character of then same pagans. we have mnct to learn snout religion, ana ' nissirilh-nrnhfLtt the u n-niTf f ,. In rough every mind that we are pot into this world in order to grow. We are not universally interested in speculations about Nirvana, or about atonements, or about ths "survival of the fittest," nor in the discussion as to the proper aim, whether for happiness or virtue. Perhaps every one is interested in one or another of thest means to the end, but we are all in terested in the outcome salvation for the human race. It is a universal longing. It is one of the permanent things of religion. Then mankind has been universally in terested in another thing th incarnation. Ever since man became man and learned that there was a power outside of himself to which he was bound, he has thought of this power as in some way entering into and becoming the abiding power of some object of the visible world. At first it was a inert stick or stone, a tree or river or wild beast that was the chosen dwelling place of deity. Then in gool time the feef ing grew that none but man would make a suitable habitation for the Creator; so we hear of the Greek heroes, "descendants of the gods," of Druidic and Delphic oracles and of prophets in all lands whose speech was controlled in an especial way by Deity. We hear of a perfect incarnation of Deity in Buddha, born of a virgin, with hie di vine parentage attested by miracles of va rious kinds, and teaching that there are many incarnations similar to his own; that whenever the world has advanced to a condition in which its needs are different from the old, God incarnates Himself in a mortal who thereupon becomes a great leader and prophet. Our minds, of course, now revert to another incarnation, that of God in Jesus, who also taught that there are many incarnations; who prayed that His disciples might be one with God as He Himself was one with Him. And avain we see the tendency of men to obscure the great truth by the particular example. The truth which has most obviously appealed to men is the incarnation of God in a sin gle man, or, formerly, in a class of men, as prophets or priests. The truth of that endures, and that ha been pointed out by Jesus and all the greatest leaders of men is that of perpetual and universal in carnation. God has breathed the breath of life and has lit the spark of divinity in mankind, for we are His children, made in His moral imsge, inheritors of His divinity because we are natural sons and heirs. This is the tremendous fact toward which the world is groping. It explains the r. 'W proven fact that mankind's trend is up ward rather than downward. It gives us the courage for going on, for keeping up the struggle when to our restricted view the obstacles seem insuperable. It com pels as to believe that this world is found ed upon good, that the good is "hastening on toward immortality, while evil is self destruction. If "God's in His heaven," God's in Hi world as well, the guarantor of it fundamental integrity, the iuspirer of every good thing in the hesrt of man. Do you not see how intimately connected are the two ideas, the incarnation of God and the divinity of man? Both idea are everywhere recurrent in the theologiea uf the world, though their particular expres sion in one faita is utterly different from that in another, and it is the difference in th isolated expression of the truth that keep men apart. The permanent thing, the larger truth must wait upon our fur ther enlightenment and broadening of view before it can bring us together. We are learning, it is true. The exittenc of aa unwonUd spirit of toleration and unity in religion, the modern armation of the universality ol spirit show that we are catching some glimpses of the larger truth that lie behind onr incarnations and atonement, our theophanies and oracles, our Buddha and Jesus of put time. If w had heard th real message of Jesus and the prophets and poets we should long ago I "ve aiscoverea mis iruin. 10 oe a bus ' mm hi i to be a descendant of God, to be a de scendant of God is to.be Hi prophaLHi inn, th ink NUMiJEU U 8EEING TROUBLE. "I've seen lot of trouble," the old man declared, "Yes, more than most people I've seen, And yet I am cheerful and well have I "fared, For I ou philosophy lean. The worst never caused me to weep of . complain, All Ills like a stolo I've borne, . At eighty you see me without ache or pal", And frenb ns a daisy at morn, ', "I've seen lots of trouble hard poveA ty ' grind, The keen disappointment of love But even tlmt trouble could not cloud my mind, I've been all that weakness abovej The f allure of schemes that were hope fully pluiined, Ingratitude base of a friend, It is something, I know, that you don't understand, Yet I have seen trouble, no end. "Serene, undisturbed, I have beea through my life, Philosophy ever my guide; Unmoved by tho hardship and worry and strife And blessed with a pachyderm' hide. For all these afflictions that you might call sore, Never wrung from my bosom a groan; With calmness and HrinnesB these trials 1 bore, Because they were none of my own." Chicago News. HUMOROUS. "Don't you believe, then, that 'pub lic office is a public trust? Oh. sure. It's very like a trust. Some fel lows seem to have a regular monopoly of it." Philadelphia Prss. "Everybody says the baby looks Ilk you. Doesn't that please you?" "I don't know," replied Popley, "but I tell you what; I'm glad that nobody thinks of saying I look like the baby." Philadelphia Ledger. First Sportsman Good guide, la he? Second Sportsman Oh, yes. If necee sary, he'll do the shooting and bring home the game and let you say yc did it, and thrash anybody that says you didn't. Now Yorker. , The Book-keeper That new messen ger spends all his time reading such books as the "Boy Bandits." The Pro prietor I can see his finish. The Bookkeeper Where? The Proprietor On -Wall street Cleveland Plain Dealer. Mr. Tucker I think I shall give op my .business, my dear. I might aa well have some good out of my money. Mrs. Tucker Oh, not yet, Samuel. But when one of us dies, I .shall give up housekeeping and see a little of the world. Town and Country. He It certainly was a pretty wed ding, and everything was so nicely ar ranged. She That's Just what I, think; and the music was especially appropriate. He I don't remember.. What did they play? 8he-"Ths Last Hope." Llpplnoott's MagasJne. . V. ; "The trouble with the average wo said the female rights lecturer, rol fAdRClslon.'' "Tea,1 an anr
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