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A UFAD rASTl By MRS. LOVETT CAMERON CHAPTER XVIII. Rosamond Enrlo had spent one of those nights of wakeful agony which as suredly leave their stamp upon the health and constitution more certainly than many a week's Indisposition which our friends reckon as a legitimate 111 'bass. Bhe knew very well what was before , Btr, what struggles with her own heart, what battles to regain her peace of mum what frequent and pitiful relapses Into abject despair and misery; this Is al ways the woman's portion when man ains against her; and Rosamond by bitter experience understood that it was her fate, Worn out and exhausted, mentally and bodily, by the long hours of agony she had undergone, she lay upon the stiff Hot sofa with closed eyenas, ana iace as leaden-hued as any corpse. Her boxes lay packed and strapped up In the ad joining room. Everything was ready' tor departure; but Mrs. Earlo did not yet know where sho was going. "I must have peace, she said to her self half aloud, "rest and peace." Poor woman, Bhe had to learn that there Is no such tranquil spot under the face of the sun where a heart that car ries about its own mortal wounds within Itself can know either rest or peace, She was tired of trying to settle whero he waB to go. Then some one came with a quick step across the room and knelt down beside her sofa. "Mrs. Earlel Rosamond! Yon are running away from mel Is this treating me fairly or like a friend? But what Is the matter surely you must bo ill. "I am ill," she repeated, In a dull Tolce, striving very hard not to break down uuder the- kindness of his voice and eyes. He knew Instinctively that this trouble was of the mind and not of the body. Lovers And out those things. "And you are going away? Where?" "I don't know I don't aire; some where quiet anywhere. I can't settle on any place." He got up from her side and walked Impatiently about tho room. "Oh, this will never dot" ho cried in much distress. "I cannot let you go away in this state of uncertainty. You are evidently ill not fit to be alone; you want a man to tako care of you." "Men, men!" she repeated, a little wildly. "What is the good of a man? Are they not all alike false and cruel and treacherous?" "Dear Rosamond," he said, holding her hand with reverent tenderness be tween his own. "Is this home-coming alone so very terrible to you? Pour out your heart to me, my dear; do not con sider me; I shall not be hurt by any thing you can say. Do you miss your poor husband so very dreadfully? Do not think of me." How blind how almost stupid he was! She, who was breaking her heart for the love of her life, and he talked to her about her husband! She could al most have laughed. "Oh, don't you understand don't you Bee?" she cried, despairingly. "You think me good and faithful; you look upon me as a model wife; you imagine that I am like the typical widow in St Paul's enlstle. Should I grieve like this sor row so wildly so desperately if it were merely death that had stricken me down? Ah, death would have been nothing nothing at all! Cannot you guess that it Is not because I am a widow, but be cause I have always loved one man always all my life; and I have .come back free free to love him, to claim his lure to he haoDV at last and I have found him married!" And in the wildness of her sorrow she flune herself back again face downward upon the cushions, convulsed by an agony of sobs and tears. Colonel Trefusis sat still quite, quite till. He felt numbed and cold. His fingers, that were loosely locked together ... ... t .1 : Between ins Knees, am noi ukuicu mcir grasp upon each other, neither did they tremble. His kindly blue eyes did not contract with pain nor open with dismay, only they fixed themselves a little blind the nattern of the carpet. For a minute or two ho did not speak. "You see that I must go," she cried despairingly. "Oh, help me to get away to go whero I cannot see him! Tell me where to go. Help me, I entreat you!" This appeal touched him and went straight to tho earnest, practical nature of the man. "Yes, my dear. I will help you," he answered simply. "You shall go to Dunsterton." "To Dunsterton! In Yorkshire, do you mean?" she cried. "Yes. I have a cottage there, merely a six-roomed cottage with a tiny garden, upon the outskirts of a village green. I had an old aunt who lived there, and who has died lately and left it to mo, furniture and all, just as it stands. I should never go there, it Is utterly useless to me. It will hold you, and your child, and your servant You shall go there, I will lend it to you." "But but " she cried, confused and trembling. "I know it very well. It is but three miles from my old home from Kepplngton." Col. Trefusis continued to plead for his cottage, and Rosamond pondered. Finally she accepted his offer, on one condition only; she must pay him rent for his house. To this he was constrain ed to agree. There came back a little animation to her, when this was at last settled. It seemed so much better for her than, to go to some strange place where she had never been before. Borne few poor people would, she thought, re member her. "You will come down and see me sometimes?" she asked him, a they were traveling northward. "No, I think not," he answered, with put meeting her eye. "I will write to you; but I will not come yet After a Jaontb or two, perhaps, but not now, Unless you are in trouble." For where now were John Trefoils' hopes and dreams of happy and meows (Hi lore? In the selfihnws of her owa treubla Bosamoad forget the tfeMf as4. tender love, to whom her confession had brought the hopelessness almost of de spair. CHAPTER XIX. Now, with respect to these two women each doomed to suffor, because Brian Desmond had committed a thoughtless and selfish error, while the one wept -and wailed, and bemoaned herself with all the abandon of a strong and passionate naturo, the other had dono nothing of the kind. Kitten had come in from her bal, to find her husband sitting up for her. With one quick glanco she had taken in his haggard, grief-stricken face; the lines about hi mouth, the dark circles round his miserable-looking eyes. A sickening gasp of pain had cut through her heart at the sight, but sho had said nothing, She went to bed, and all night long she, too, like Rosamond Earle, had lain awake. All night long she had faced her agony In tearless silence, and sho hai said to herself over and over again: "He loves her, he has always loved her; am nothing to him. What can I do for him?" For it was for him, and not for herself, that sho thought What could she do to lighten his burden and to di minlsh his woe? That was her only thought Her utter unselfishness, and the very strength and force of her love mado her long to sacrifice herself; so that in some fashion or other sho might bring back happiness to the man she loved. She rose in tho morning as usual, and at the ordinary hour Brian and his wife sat down to breakfast together. The servant brought in tho silver-covered dishes and the steaming coffee. Brian's paper lay as usual by his plate. Kitten mechanically opened the little pile of let ters by her side, that were chiefly Invl tatlons, written upon dainty tinted and crested paper; everything to all outward appearance was exactly the same, and still this strange, self-contained woman uttered never a word. Just as her hus band was rising from the tablo she look ed up from her plato nad uttered his name: "Brian?" ' "Yes, Kitten." "Mrs. Earle is in London." He flushed darkly red, then turned pale. "What do you mean? How did you hear her name? Why should she not be in London? Remember, I will not be dictated to about her," he stammered half guiltily and half angrily. "Have I dictated to you?" she asked gently. "Who told you about her?" ho asked in a low voice, after a short silence. Sho looked up at him with one, of those rare, shy smiles which, in the days long ago, he had once thought so sweet and so delightful; and Instead of answering his question, she said to him softly and dreamily: "Do you remember the cherry tree in the old garden, Brian; and how I asked you to teach me the secret of happiness?" "Oh, Kitten!" he murmured abashed, covering his eyes for a moment with his hand. "Pope was right" she said with a grave, sad little nod of the head. "No one can teach that, because no one is happy; only for a little while one fancies it" And then she stole up behind him and passed her tiny white hands round his neck, standing behind his chair, so that he should not see her face, and lean ing her cheek, that was very white and hollow, against the dark curls of his close cropped head. He tried to draw her round so that he might see her face, but she kept her place behind him. And she spoke a lit tle brokenly, perhaps, but still very gent ly: "I am not very old or very wise but I think I have learned one thing; to each man and woman there Is only one other soul that can give content, so that no other person on earth can bring any happiness to us, but that one only. And when a man who loves one, by some sad mistake, marries another " "Kitten! Kitten! do not say that!" he cried, but che laid her fingers upon his lips and went on. "Then with that other he cannot find happiness; oh, never never! Do you not think I feel It? But then, what is tho meaning of love If it cannot sacrifice itself?" He did not un derstand her fully, nor see what she meant, nor what she wished to imply; but he saw that somehow his love to Rosa mond was a thing which she had fath omed; and protested that she was mis taken, that he loved her and always should love her best. That Mrs. Earle was but an old friend of his youth, whom ho had met again and who was nothing to him, oh, noth ing at all. Perhaps, indeed he did "pro test too much," for Kitten only smiled sadly to herself. Of what avail are empty words to one who knows, as Kit ten knew, that he did not love her? Then at last, he got up, and mado as though he would havo taken her into his arms and comforted her; for she was al ways a child and never a woman in his eyes, and it seemed to him that a few kisses and a few tender words might make it all right again between them, and drive - away this suspicion which, surely, some ill-natured mischief maker must have been at pains to create In her mind. "Dear little Kitten, silly little treo elf!" ho said half-Jestlngluy to her. "What foolish notions have you not tak en into your small head! Come and kiss me, and don't talk nonsense any more, tree-elf," he said, trying to tako her Into bis arms. But Kitten pushed him back with her small white bands. ' "Go," she said, with an odd little gasp In her voice, which he only remembered long afterward. "Go now no, we won't talk any more nonsense, as yon say It was all all a mistake." And bo he went and left her. He turned back to nod to her before he left the room. Years and years afterward he oould see again the breakfast table, daintily decked with little ferns in china nots and bunches of summer flowers, Just as Kitten always loved that her table ebesld fee. Half an hour later a hansom carried up a note to a certain house In Con naught Squaro, addressed to Sir Roy Orantley. "You said If over I wanted a friend, you would be ono to mo. I little thought I should claim your promise so soon. Oomo to me, Roy. I want you. It will be Imagined that Roy was not long in responding to this appeal, soon after he was sitting with her in the shadowy coolness of her pretty drawing room, holding her tiny thin hand in fcis, and listening to her in dire dismay. "Leave your home, Kitten? Can you realise what you would bo doing? What will people say of you if you go away from your husband's nrotcctlon I "I shall not Roy. I shall still be in his house, onlv he will not know It" "I don't see how it can be managed," BUM Tlnv. "Do you mean that you will not help me? Oh, then - am sorry Indeed tnat sent for you." "Now. Kitten, tou know that is un Just Would I not die to serve you? But I cannot see the uso of this strong step which you aro contemplating. What is there to be ealnod by It V Alter all are you not his wife? Why, if you fear the influence of this other woman, why play Into her hands by deserting your post? How can you better your case by flinging aside your own rights and the security of your own position? "Ah, you do not understand,' sho said impatiently. "You talk about my rights my position. V it aro they when I have not got my husband s heart t vm he not be happier without tho perpetual reproach of my presence? Roy, only think how awful it must bo to havo to pretend to love a person every day of your life, when you aro always hanker ing after somo one else. Think If I had married you and loved Brian." Ho winced a little and turned away, Oh, women aro very heartless to the men they do not love. It did not occur to her that sho was causing him any pain, she was too full of the tragedy In her own life. i could not bear It," she cried; "and to see him strive and strugglo to slmu late a love for me that I know he does not feel, that Is what I will not sit by and do. I want to sot him free. "You cannot set him free, not really. Kitten: It Is, a folly to fancy It," he said, almost angrily, for this abnegation of herself filled him with a blind rage which ho did not dare to glvo utteranco to. "Oh, why why did ho marry you?' he said, with a groan. "That is my affair," said Kitten cold ly. and rather loftily. If Roy had dared to utter one disparaging word against Brian, sho would have ordered him out of the house, and Roy knew It "Wo need not go into that, if you please, but you can understand once and for all that our marriage was entirely my own doing, Will you help me? And will you keep my secret?" He promised to do anything and every thing Bhe told him. "I don't see how it is to be managed, he said doubtfully. Kitten rose and wont to her writing table, and taking a letter out of a draw er, gave It to him to read. It was from Mrs. Succurden, the house keeper at Kepplngton, and was address ed to Brian. Roy read it through care fully, then he looked up at her. "Well?" sho said Impatiently. "I am sorry, Kitten, but I really don't see " he said hesitatingly. "Oh, Roy, you were always a stupid boy," sho said, with a half-impatient gesture. "Cannot you understand that the housekeeper writes to ask Brian 1 she may havo a girl under her, to take charge of the china and glass; she says sho is -getting too old to clean and dust it all properly herself. And Brian gave me the letter to answer, and and I have written this morning to say that I am sending a girl down from London. Here is my letter, and you must post it for me." But still Roy did not understand. He looked at her earnestly and fixedly, striv ing to make out her meaning. "Roy, don t you see that I shall be the girl?" (To bo continued.) 1 Strawberries in Cuba. United States Minister H. J. Squiers, of Havana, Cuba, according to tho Philadelphia Record, transmits for tho Information of persons who may bo In torested in the cultivation of fruit In Cuba, a statement made toblm by W. Ladd, an American living in Sun tlago do ins Vegas, showing -whnt he has realized in five months from three- fourths of an aero of land planted in strawberries. After giving full details of tho preliminary operations and tho caro of tho young plants, he says: "In January, 1005, they commenced to bear, but the bearers were mostly na tive runners and the plants In my old bed, not those I imported from the United States. They have continued to bear up to date, which Is the fifth month. During a long dry spell in tho winter they, were carefully watered and tended and fertilizer applied ns needed. The expense for them has been about as follows; Commercial fertilizer, $108; labor, $150; crates and baskets, $45; express on fruit, $80; to tal, $403. Tho berries found a ready market In navana, selling for 80 and 40 cents per quart. Up to date I have sold $1,000 worth of berries with a net profit of $597. This Be'ems to be a fair return from the amount of money and labor expended. I consider my old bed of greater alue for tho coming season than it has been in tho past. The oldor plants aro the better bearers and I havo picked as many ns twenty-four berries from single plant , An Extravagant Dresser. "So you're In the wholesale clothing business?" "Ycb." "Where Is your store?" "Haven't any." "Haven't any?" repeated the inquis itive man. "No," replied the other in a resigned Voice. "I simply buy wholesale for my wife's private use." Detroit Free Pre. I W SSSI VBBSLA jSK-I V r-TdU-'. m I J v.- Hoe A((rt.n . . ntB Bst 0f a fence with thrco wide boards American agrlcu turn! P'oniem ml n19 up fonr or flv feet high, ac are known tho wo d ""V , COrdlnK to tho Ideas of the owner. At SlSZXX I thoroartbcro anccB used on farms and tho Binnnor An Ideal fUall. When ono Is financially able to havo tho stalls which coinblno nil tho con- " vcnlcnccfl they aro very dcalrablo, but the nvorago farmer must put up with much less. Tho Ideal stall 1ms n spneo between feed rack and gutlcr of eight foot and Is flvo feet wide. A food rnek Is arranged ho that tho animal may got at tho hay or roughage easily, yot not wasto a great deal of It, At one end of tho feed nick Is a feed box Riuilclcntly largo so that tho cow can got her mouth to It without striking her horns. Tho sides of this stall con Conquest American firt Desert garden implements. A Texas inriuui Is tho inventor of a hoo attachment applicable to hand weeding or guruen linna nf vnrlnlla forma 1111(1 SlXCB. '1 110 attachment consists of a cutting blade, which Is deslcned to be used In dctncii lng clinging vines and runners from tho growing plants. Tho Improved do vlco compriBC8 a weeding blade of tho usual form, and connected to uio nan die bv a shank which curves upward Extending from tho shank is a cutting blade, curved away from tho nanuio and shank. In using tho implement tho cutting blade Is forced forward or away from tho onerator by ft pushing motion and by Its peculiar form and position Is very convenient for severing vines, runners, creepers and similar plant life from the stalks of tho growing and valuable plants. Tho Implement will also bo found very convenient for chopping corn, or thinning cotton and CUTS DOWN THE WEEDS. other plants, and will also bo found very useful in working corn and si in liar crops upon which vines and creep ers are liable to be found, and whoso removal Is generally attended with much labor and annoyance. The cut ting blade being made Integral with the shank will not bo a cumbersome or objectionable addition to tho hoe. Amateur Mnahroom Groirlnic. The Cornell experiment station has undertaken to tell amateurs how they may grow mushrooms for profit in a small way in old stables, available eel lars and similar out-of-the-way places The fundamental requisite Ih a dark room of uniform temperature, that Is, ono that does not go below 55 degrees or above 05 degrees, Fahrenheit. Con slderablo success was obtained in growing mushrooms In boxes under benches in a greenhouse, and under benches in a basement of tho college buildings. The beds, spawned Nov. 23, and cov ered with dirt a week later, produced tho first of the crop Jan. 1, though tho regular pickings did not begin until a week later. Tho boxes contained about 00 square feet of surface and yield at the rate of 2 pounds of muah rooms for each square foot. A word of warning Is Included not to attempt to grow mushrooms ln the collar of a dwelling, as tho odors aris ing from the compoHt in the beds Is sure to permeate the living apart ments, despite the best efforts to pre vent it. Protecting- the Iliiriien. Every farmer appreciates that the expense for harnesses and for harness repairs is considerable during tho year, hence should bo pleased at tho suggestion of some plan which will enable him to keep tho harness In good condition. A harness should alwnvs bo hung up. Hero Is a simple plan. Mako threo letter T's of strong but light lumber and especially making tno cross oar strong. Fasten these to ! I J FOB HAN01NQ TUB HAnWKHB. a Joint in a convenient place with tho cross bar at tho bottom. Simply use the arms on which to hang tho differ ent parts of tho harness. If this ar rangement is not easy to put in opera tlon, thon uso hooks fastened to tho ends of stout ropes, but arranging somo way so that tho ropes may be looped back over a hook or nail during tho time they aro not In use. so thirn will bo no danger of any ono being injured by them. The lllustratinn shows both plans plainly. They are entirely practical and the use of either of them will add greatly to the long life of the harness. Exchange, J 8TAM. AND KKKD RACK. a pleco of. 2x4 material to keep tho bedding In "placo and tho animal from Btcimlng back into tho gutter. Tho Idea of tho fenccllko sides Is to lnsuro ventilation, and If any two nnlinals aro Inclined to quarrel they can bo Bcpnr ntcd by having nn empty stall be tween or by building up higher Uio dividing fence. Tho Illustration shows the Idea porfcctly. Value mill Vr of Pomace. Hatch experiment station has been experimenting with npplo pomace to determine Its vnluo for feeding pur poses, and tho opinion reached Is sum marized nB follows: Apple ponuico is a carbohydrate feed Klmllar tq corn silage. It contains about tho samo amount of water, rather less protein and woody liber and a larger propor tion of nori-nltrogenous matter. Ex periments with six sheep havo shown It to bo about as digestible us tho best grades of silage. Experiments with dairy niilmuls show that twenty to thirty pounds daily can bo fed to dairy animals with satisfactory results. It Is not advisable to feed over ten pounds at first per day, gradually In creasing until tho maximum amount ln reached. Thus fed, danger of a sud deii milk shrinkage, or of animals get ting "off feed" Is avoided. It Is bo llovcd that four pounds of pomaco when fed In what has been tormcd a "balanced ration" Is equivalent to ono pound of good cow hay, and to 8 to 3 pounds of well-eared .corn silage. A Simple Saw Clamp. This simple saw clamp can bo mado by anyone, and does not need any bolts or screws. The two clamps are mado of 1-Inch boards, 5 or 0 Inches wide, beveled on top and then dressed' down to nearly an edge at tho bottom, Tho saw Is placed In the clamps ln The dovolonmf.nt . ,. . with UamulUtude;V "t crease in variety U7mix the and bocomc.SJfeu yncuy or the w.i.. "i ffreater extent ens lie at Ih. vory L 1 Irrigation. The tt&St ers under Irrigation ar I t J1 mora Intihi.t. .t. ar9rCou. tlons of farming I- 1 a" i community of Interest mirth ttiAHA . . . 1 " Drafts. ruin his neighbor'. t'T.1 management of hi, Wate'r tinned wasto nf .... KTm brlhglng of now J Z r..pr.etI cnlls special .ttTO Ing cost of water, whil1' must havo whether toe coil hi small. DurlnHth..:i2,tH cost has n.nn : "'atm rights In Colorado, for exZ ' were orlg.nnlly pl" m ' rir.01'. Where J . vv..in mi ncro root for would have hron r ,Kia 1R9 e --.w .v,v 0,000,00(1, "t e-i Hint year Tnr it. . "i "MumcuKo now to use the economically, thoy wmm - pllod enormous quantity, therefcl Juring their crops and their It J Miviuuiuuiiy uint or their m through seepage. During the Investigations o tJ fow years many Instance! of ori gatlon have como under obterti nn uio restricted supply la miJ canuos, uio wasteful or unskinw or water oy one farmer often i , i. . .i... . uiuv uio crupa or some otter fd must suffer because of It or thitl must remain uncultivated, nJ rormeu, tho yield of crops andtW unucu productiveness of the i4 dopend on knowing how to me i aright and on tho cstabUihues laws and regulations to compell wuen men know and refuse to M Denver Field and Farm. COUNT TOLSIOL Count Tolstoi, tho noted Iicu'j qulto optimistic. He sajs It It i sary to get rid of the present pi mcnt. Tho people are tired of i which has hitherto rested upon and wish It supplanted bj oj ported by love, Rood will tod I tlnn acts. Couut Tolstoi, t 14 novelist, social reformer snd reHi mystic, was born In 1828. Hei ucated at tho University of Kt served In Uio Anny of the Cik and In the Crimean war, belns sp; SIMl't.E SAW ci. a nr. your IiuikIh. and them Irmortod in tim linvnlwl u 1 n (t i ,1 . ) . . 1... .. i . ! ....i.u niui, iiuu mu liuiiiuiur iiiiu.ua It perfectly llrm and rigid. The frame can be made to stand on tho ground or Jloor, or cun bo made low to placo on work bench. Ilollnl Tltulirr. A now process ban been discovered for warring against white nnts, tho peHts of tho tropical regions. Thcso termites as they aro called destrov uie woouworic or tiio driest buildings wiuiin six months. Their action Is In Hldlous, says the London Mnll, inas mucii as Jlie outward appcaranco of the wood docH not betray tho rotten ncss within, nnd their ravages, If not discovered in time, lead to tho total collapse of tho buildings. Somo tlmo ago It was suggested experiments should bo cnrrled but by a London wood-process syndicate. Specimens were prepared and sciiit out to a num ber of tropical countries. After n somewhat protracted trial news has been received from tho Madras nrnsi. dency that tho specimens sent there havo successfully resisted tho attacks or tlio white ants. Tho process lm- proves, toughens and strengthens tho wood. This Is accomplished by boiling tho timber ln Hncchnrlno solution, and afterward drying It at a hlch tomnorn. ture. A revolution In tho oxport tim ber trado to tropical countries Is prob able, as Jn places wiioro termites abound soft wood will bo used lusted of the more expensive varieties, Filth tin tf WemU. Thero Is nothing which hold in thn soli with such pertinacity ns weeds. xt is probable that tho Ecvntlans urn to-day fighting tho samo weeds whinh thoy woro trying to exterminate by tho aid of tho Israelites when thoy wero in bondage. Wo must always bear this in mind, that wo manure and cultivate all Uie weeds wo do not da. Btroy, Eternal vJgllanco Is the price we pay for the exterralnatloa of weeds. i Iff.; JSi COl.NT TOLSTOI. r,i niviuiim Coininiinder In ' He was In Uie battles of Tcb and Hebustopol. He retired i of tho camnalgn, After the W t anrtu 111, llVPll 0 1 working with nnd relieving tti ants and also dovotlnR blB study. He Is the author of books, chiefly novels, tim" famous ob a writer. Mnklnir D,ofl' v.ii'i'hnt Mlgg Jones, the writer girl, says she was th Jl nil the other young wowr-- shore. ,.,.. , GraceNo wonder. W .m nil the on uown were , .-Mh 1 tho olilce to write letter. J suo snt on the porcn smiled whon he road mem. phla Tress. f'inr Kaon"' a..i...hMrs. IlackloU 1 mo tnut ui"i ." -.:n . tti tn hor. Is exceeding' w1 titiBy.npnthetlc nml menus that she doesn't goMip. delphla Ledger. Common MW' u "Hllgglns .an IM w . 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