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Race BY- HAWLEY CHAPTER IX (Continued.) "But; Mnude, my darling!" "Yes, and Intend to remain so." laugh ed the girl merrily. "And the sooner the fact is broken to Mr. Pearman that he is not 'my destiny's lord,' the better." "Stop, child-glisten to me," and the nervous tremor In her mother's voice ar rested Maude's madcap humor instantly, She knew every inflexion ot that dearly loved voice, and her oulck ear detected coming trouble, much as the sailor fore- Bees the storm in that peculiar sobbing sound the wind sometimes gives forth Bhortly before the tempest bursts.. In a second she dropped quietly on her knees by Mrs, Denison's side, and leaninp on the arm of her chair, said, 'There's more to come, mother; you haven't told me all yet." "Xo, my dearest ; I hod hoped so dif ferently. I mean I told your father. In short ;" and here Mrs. Dcnlson fairly broke down, and wept copiously. Maude petted, soothed and coaxed, as she had done on many a previous occa slon, ami between the showers of tears learned how much they were in the hands of the Pearmans; how that their remain ag at Glinn Was an impossibility unless the l'earmans came tq-'their assistance; and how her hand was the price they placed on standing in the breach between Harold Denison and his creditors. About the foregoing of their own claims the poor lady wisely wild nothing. Hotter Maude should think her future husband stood chivalrously forward in her father's support, with the prospect of her fair self as his guerdon, than she should know that her hand was the sole bribe which induced him to forbear seizing upon Glinn. The saucy smile had left the girl's lips by the time she comprehended the sad story. It was replaced by n pale, anxious look, such as had never been seen before on Maude Denison's face. "You can't mean this, Another," she said, at length. "You surely don't wish that I should marry this man, whom I can't say I dislike, for I don't even know him enough to tell whether I do or no; but that I am to take this man for a hus band without any reference to my own feelings you don't intend that, do you?" "I don't know what will become of us If you don't, Maude," gasped Mrs. Deni son. "And is It not possible that we could live without Glinn V" inquired her daugh ter. "What would your father do?" moaned the mother once more, truer to him even still than to the child she adored so. f "It is hard!" said Maude, and her young face grew stern in expression as she spoke. "Do you think it quite fair -that I am to throw my life's happiness saway at eighteen to save Glinn? Mother, I know nothing of the world, but a man surely brings a bad introduction to a girl's heart who seeks her as Mr. Pearman would apparently seek me. I don't think I'm a romantic fool, but I never thought to leave your side in this wise. Of course I know girls do marry for money; but but I had had hoped I should be dif ferent," and here Maude was seized with an hysterical choking in the throat, which though it only drew a few tears from her own eyes, brought forth another shower from Mrs. Denison's. I really am shocked, for the sake of my readers, at the amount of tears intro duced into this part of my story. "Um brellas up!" would have made an appro priate beading to this chapter; but what am I to do? You see, Airs. Denison is one of those women who naturally dis solve into may I say, mist? on the most trifling- occasions, and come down in tor rents when things go hard with them. And, bear in mind, she was performing the hardest task that had ever fallen to her lot as yet. "No use crying about It, mother," said Maude, gulping down her agitation brave ly. "I am going up to my own room to think It all over; but come what may, I feel at present you will have to let Mr. Pearman know that I'm grateful for the honor he has done me, but respectfully decline anything further." When Maude reached her own room, she sat down and began to muse over all her mother had told her. Had it come to this really, that it rested with her to save her parents? What was she to do? I have said before that she was not like the young ladies of this world. She was rather behind the age in many of her ideas. She was very young, and bad, moreover, a tinge of that dear old-fashioned romance about her which is at such a terrible discount in these utilitarian dars. "What can there be to think nbout?" cries Belgravia. "Preserve me from such an imbecile daughter!" shrieks Tyburnla. But Maude, after thinking for half an hour, witn sec iace anu Knit brows, suddenly rose with a . smile rip pling over her pretty face, and while the midday sun sun gunieu wirougu uer non nle brown hair, sat down to write to Grenvilie Rose. "He always gets me out of scrapes." she murmured, softly; "he must out of this, though and here she oven laughed -"I'm afraid Gren will think this what He calls a 'big un.' " CriAPTER X. Grenvilie Rose dwelt In the Temple. Tbere, In a couple of pleasant rooms, he md musty law books, the. latest period icals, and waited for business. Though there was very far from being any asceti cism about Grenvilie Hose, yet he stuck soberly and honestly to his trade. If the work didn't come, he couldn't help It lie was always In the way, and an asidu ous attender at the Westminster Courts. But if you aro "Coke on Lyttleton," strongly impregnated with tho departed afflatus of Erskine and Ellenborough, you cannot show it until you get an open lug. The' beginning of the legal profession is AnnmiA tn hu -nrlneinall v observation. At- tKMyi far from being speculative on I for a Wife SMART tho subject of undeveloped talent. It is not given to everyone to havo Sir Jonah Harrington's chance of n friendly judge, who Insisted on his continuing the case he had begun, in consequence of his lead er bciug temporarily out of court. So that whether Grenvilie Rose was a coming law yer, or a pretentious impostor, was still concealed In the womb of time. In tho meanwhile, the nothing he had to do he, at all events, did conscientiously more, a good deal, than can be predicated of many of us. He strolls leisurely out of his bedroom, in dressing gown and slip pers, tho day after Maude's resolution, and glancing round his breakfast table, takes little notice of tho heap of letters that He thereon. His attention, on the contrary, is arrested by the absence of some condiment he peculiarly affects. Af ter indulging in a solo on the boll, which produces no apparent result, he opens the window and runs up .the vocal scale on "William," terminating, crescendo, in "Wil-ll-nm!" which seems to produce some slight commotion, at length, in a boy with n pewter, and a companion fur nished with shoe brushes, who are light ening the hours by pitch and toss. Satis fied with this result, ho first opens the morning paper. Grenvilie Rose is not in the least ad dicted to the pursuit or study of racing; still, like most men of his age about town, lie very frequently hears it talked of. He knows the names of the prominent favor ites for the coming great three-year-old events of the season. Has he not more than one frind who has asked him to book himself for a Grenwirh dinner in the event of some Derby contingency com ing off satisfactorily? He throws his eye lazily over the sporting intelligence, and under the head of "Betting on the Two Thousand," he perceives "Five to two against Coriander taken freely." "S'pose he'll about win. Suit Silky Dallison down to the ground, I presume; not that 1 know much about it. But as he hath bidden rac to the consumption of clicquot and Iwiit. if Coriander wins at Epsom, it is fair to presume he'd like to see him well through 'his smalls,' to be gin with." Ah ! we go blundering on in our blind ness and ignorance. Can even the most far-sighted of us ever predicate twenty four hours ahead? What a mess Provi dence makes of our intricate calculations ! What shallow fools we seem, after all our study! I wonder what GrenviHe Rose would have said, if anybody had hinted to him that within ten days his destiny would be bound up with Coriander's? Can you not fancy his laughing retort: "I never race! 'What's Hecuba- to me, or I to Hecuba?'" Yet it will be so. Grenvilie tosses the paper on one side, nnd in a carrtess way takes up his letters. Two or three are thrown aside; but his pulse quickens, nnd his handsome fea tures flush a little, as he catches sight of thatfirm. delicate hand lie knows so well. Maude's letter had been near the bottom of the pile, or he had not glanced over the paper before reading it. That cousin of his had wound her way into his heart strangely of late. He hardly knew him self how it had all come to pass. He had bullied her as a boy; he even, till quite lately, had snubbed her as a man. He had liked her, ay, loved her, in cousinly fashion, all his life. How was he to have dreamt that the gawky school girl who accompanied him in his fishing expedi tions at Glinn was to grow into the love ly girl Maude had of late blossomed into? He was no fool, and had as much com mand over his passions as Cve-and-twen-ty, that sets up for no superlative virtue and lives in the world, can usually lay claim to. That anything could he more injudicious than a love affair between himself, with mere undefined prospects, and the daughter of his ruined, spend thrift uncle, no one could be more clearly aware. That If Maude Denison married, it must be somebody with means and po sition, he thoroughly understood. That he should at present marry anybody, he quite recognized as an impossibility. And yet. with all these theoretical axioms distinctly present to his mind, he was forced to admit to himself that he was over head, and -ears in love with his cousin. That he had never even hinted It to her was a fact upon which he gave himself most extraordinary credit. That she had as yet given him no earthly reason to sup pose he was anything io her but Cousin Gren was a circumstance that he brooded over sulkily and despondlngly. With these correct and high-principled views, It should have been made matter of great gratulatlon; but you see it was not. I am afraid it will ever be so. The right people never do fall In love with each other; while, from tfoe days Helen left Menelaus to the present time, the con verse of the proposition seems inexhausti ble and unchangeable. But all this while Grenvilie Rose had been reading Maude's epistle. His face darkens as he does so, tho brows contract, and a curse breaks at last from his Hps in a low, guttural tone that bodes bad times for somebody, supposing that Gren vilie possesses power equal to his incli nation. "That brute Pearman!" he muttered. "My instinct didn't fall me. Better I'd have dislocated his cursed neck by throw ing him down stairs that night than this, And the poor child appeals to me to help her! What can I do?" Once more he gla'nces at the letter again ho reads the paragraph; "Gren, dear, you have been my resource in all my scrapes since I can remember. Do come to my rescue now; what am I to do? My childish troubles of bygone days were not of much account whatever they might look at the time. This seems extinguish ing the sunshine of my life on the thresh oldas if I was doomed, as I beard you say not long ago. I have said I cannot, I dare not. Both papa and mother say I am to decide for myself. But it isn't so you know, Gren, It Isn't There's papa, mor sneering and gloomy than ever, sug gesting that wo bad better make tlx mmt J of Glinn during tho remaining few wseks that it remains to us as I have decided to give away tho property. Mother, of course, nil tears; and papa bullies her worse than over. Oh, tell mo what to do, Gren. for I am very miserable. I can't stand It much longer I know I can't. 1 shall have to glvo In ; I cannot bear to see mother always In tears. I almost wish I was dead, I do Indeed ; and yet I don't want to die," "Yes," ho mutters, after reading It through for about tho twentieth time; "It's easy to see the whole thlntf. My precious uncle Intends yon shall marry Penrmnii, so that he may finish his days in Glinn, My mint poor soul, Is weeping n Dead Sea over the nrrangemont, and having her soul harried out besides. Mnude Maude, my darling, how can I help you? Pretty chance of a pauper llko myself being much use on the occasion," he mused, with a hitter sneer. "She never says, pqor child, by tho way, what sum, If any, would stop the gap though, of course, there must bo n price. However, that Is a question there Is no use In rais ing. Of course it's thousands; and to rnlse a few hundreds would require nil my Ingenuity, to say nothing of terminating In my eventual destruction t not but what It's little I'd think of that just now, to save Maude. My love, I am powerless!" And Grenvilie Rose Jenned his head upon Ills hands and tasted the bitterest sorrow this world can afford that of an appeal for succor from tho woman "whom he lov-. cd, nnd the knowledge that he was pow erless to help her even a hair's breadth iTi her bitter anguish. Better to stand by her deathbed than this ! Our nineteenth century training makes us bear such trials well. But do not be lieve, my brethren, that when tho mask Is dropped, feelings are not much the same as of yore. Bitter tears are shed over worthless women, nnd deep lamenta tions made over rotten investments in the privney of the bed chamber. The matu tinal razor sweeps tho chin at times with a strange fascination for one strong free stroke at the jugular vein ; a morbid feel ing to end all this weary struggle, and cut tho knot of existence. A well-known writer, the other day, laid down : "It was better to be bored than to be miserable." I can't say I agree with him. I would rather be miserable. For more than an hour does Grenvilie pace hi apartment, musing over Maude's letter. But po! he can neither see help to be rendered, nor even anything to justify the slightest Interference on his part. Then he thought savagely of the old duel ing days ; how easy it would have been to have picked a quarrel in those good old times, and run his chance of disqualifying Pearman through the medium of a pistol bullet. But we have changed all that; and when we quarrel nowadays, we em ploy counsel Instead of firearms'. .''I sup pose it is all for the best, thoupjl? I take it there was more iMilitenehs In general society when tho being rude had to b so speedily justified. (To be continued.) CHANCE FOR A" BIBLIOPHILE. Unltiue Copy of Ancient llrconla, Full ot IllxtorU-al Material. Here Is nn opportunity for some rich collector of books, or for some library tliut likes to place upon Its shelves tomes which are vnlimble ns records of bygone days, says the N'ow York World. The opportunity In question Is u book believed by 1Ih present owner to be the only copy in existence, which was print ed In Osnahurg. Goriimny, hi WIS. It is valuable not ho much for its ago an for the wealth of historic material It contains. This book Is a history of the see of Osmiburg, the first Saxon-Germanic church, from Its foundation by Charle magne, in T72 A. D. It relates his nomination of Its first bishop, St Wlho of Frisia, nnd contains, first, the order nnd scries of tiie Mshoim of Osnnburg, with nn epitome of their origin nnd characteristics, from 772 to KJlSI nnd 1;2S, when Itel Frederick, Count of Hohenzollcrn, cardinal of the Holy Ro nmn church, ami Francis Wllllnm, Count of .Wartonbcrg, successively oc cupied the nee. Second, the nets, ciuioiih, stntutes nnd decrees of the synods mid eouncllH of the church held at Aleniniiln, Cologne nnd Osnnburg In 122.'. 11M50, l.'llO, ia22, 13(50, 142:1, H."2. KM. 102.", 1028, au thenticated by notarial certificates. Third, the apostolic inundate of Inno cent VI., dated from Avignon, 13150, to Wllbelm, nrclililshop or Cologne, "Do vita, hnbltu et lionestate clerlcorum et nionacliorum." Fourth, the confirmation of the Caro line constitutions of Curolus IV., Ro man emperor, ratified by the council of Constnnce. 1423. Fifth, the ceremonial of tho assem bly of the major synod of OHiinbiirg, 1(528, nnd the historic sermon of Pater Gullelmus Aschendorf. S. J. "Do vltus pru'ccdentlbus teniporibus enntis et ndhue dunintlbiis." Tho liook belonged In KH3 to the gicnt library of the BolInndlHts at Ant werp. On the title page, l the hand writing of Fnthor Jean do Holland, tho Illustrious "ancient," lire the words: "Domus prof. Hoc. Jesu, Antwerp, 1013." (House of tho professed of the Society of Jesus, Antwerp. 10-13.) When the BolInndlHts were expelled by Joseph II. of Austria, their library was seized nnd sold nt unction. It wus purchased for the monastery of St Nor bert nt Tongerloo. When these monas tics were afterward driven out by tho French revolutionists, their library was pillaged nnd the book came Into tho possession of Father Jean Frnncoto Van do Velde, 8. J., president of the Uni versity of Louvnln. Ills nutograph la on the opening page. The book, which Is in Latin, Is bound In vellum and In perfect preservation, belongs now to Joseph A. Donovan, Rochester, N, Y., who Is willing to sell It for $10,000. An Ounce of Prevention, Jlmmle How (ltd you know I wag going to call? Her Little Bister- I saw Nell talc log tiio pins out of her belt Puck. Vny io Ilnvo nn Inonlmlov. . Six; yenrs ago wo purchased n 100 egg Incubator nnd every season It has been sot five or six times nud huvo never had 0110 failure nor ouo bad hatch. Tho hatches nro nlwnys In tho nineties with tho exception of onco when wo only got seventy-eight chicks. Our hutches nro nbout tho same each time each season through. Wo nearly nlwnys havo from ninety-two to ninety Blx chicks, seldom lower than ninety three, moro often higher than that, nnd nlwnys such strong, lively chicks, nl most never a cripple among them seldom 0110 In fi00. Our Incubator has not had tho ndvnntngo of being kept In n cavo or collar, but we hnvo done so well with It Hint wo havo purchased nimHior- of 1!2ft mill OIIO of 210-Cgg Cll- paclty, ns we nre going into tho busi ness more extensively. Wo enn truthfully sny that tho In cubator Is n great time and labor saver nnd 11 money maker. It Is one of tho best Investments any farmer or any one who rnlses poultry can make. Who would cure to go buck to the slow way of raising chicks with tho sitting nen when It can be dono with tho Incuba tor so easily nnd so well? With tho hen the season of hutching Is Boon over with, while with tho lucubnlvr the early fries for market can bo sold when the market prices nro best nnd the enrly pullets hatched Unit will be wanted for fall nnd winter layers. We do not hnvo to wnlt on tho sitting hen to batch out 11 few chickens when wo hnvo tho incubator to hntch them by the dozens. A good Incubator will pay for It self over nnd over tho first senson of its use. It Is indispensable In the poul try business. To nil thoso who con template purchasing I would sny, don't tn nnn Hint In too cbean. Get a good one, oven If" you do have to pny more, s. The good ones nre the cheapest In tho long mil. There nre some Incubators that have to bo watched closely to give results, but these are tho thlii-wallcd kind that will not hold oven tempera ture. Our Incubator does not get nny watching after It Is onco set going. We leave for 1111 all-day visit any time even at hatching time and It takes euro of Itself. For the amount Invested nn Incuba tor will make inure money than any machine I know of. Mrs, L. K. Brack. Ilatidllnir 31 anu re. It Is pertluent also to hero refer to the trials conducted by tho Cornell Agricultural Station to demonstrate the losses to stable manure when ex posed to leaching and weathering, A pile of manure that contained elements worth ?5.-18, nfter being exposed for five months was worth only $2.03. Leav ing manure In piles In the Held Is un antiquated method that should never bo practiced, for the reason that It results In fertilizing thu spots where tho heaps lie too heavily, giving them fully three times as much of too fer tilizing elements as they need, w.hllo three times as much ground receives less than It needs, or not enough to make 11 showing. Where manure Is allowed to Ho in heaps oti u field for n few weeks or a month, It Is an Im possibility to spread It so ns to get an even distribution of organic mat ter and of the elements of fertility. It Is prefernblo to spread the manure di rect from tho wagon with a fork, al though thls is by no means un up-to-dato wiiy of handling It For tho most economical results, manure should be hauled direct from the burn ns soon ns It Is miule and scattered over tho Holds by means of u spreader. In this way, and In this way only, can the full value of manure be suved, provided, of course, enough bedding Is used In tho barn to nicely absorb all the liquid ex crement, the plant food of which amounts to nearly one-half of the total In tho manure and liquid excrement - When to riant Cherries, About tho best tlmo to plunt cherry trees Is In early fall or very enrly In spring. It Is better to plant lit Octo ber, even before tho leaves fall, strip ping the leaves off, than It Is lute, Just before winter sets In, in fact, mnny trees would do bettor thun thoy do, vero thoy sot enrly, stripping their leaves, not waiting for tho leaves to fall. AIcoliol from Vent. Alcohol Is obtuined from pent by treating tho fiber with sulphuric acid and fermenting with a special yoast. A ton of dry peat yields forty-three gal Ions of pure spirit at ono-fourth of tho cftt ot potato alcohol, INCUJIATOIt ANU tlltOODEK. rtserolstnir m HhM. Tho accompanying out furnlshc n excellent plan for exorcising a. hull, A largo, strong post Is sunk Into tho ground nnd securely set. On top of, tliln post Is placed nn Iron phito some what slmllnr to Unit used on tho ipl stcr of n slolgh or wagon through, which tho king holt passes. A long swoop, ovonly bnluneed, Is placed upon tho top of this post nnd pinned by means of n long rod, or, as wo might say, king bolt Tho sweep Is necessarily largo nt one end and small at tho other, which makes It posslhlo to bnl nnco with ouo ond comparatively short nnd tho othor long. Tho bull la tlod to tho rojm attached to tho further end of tho long nrm, nnd In that way can havo n Inrgo ctrclo to movo In. Tho supporting post should bo nbovo tho ground high enough to carry tho ran kxehcisino tiik Hum sweep nbovo tho bull. For ji tlmo tho bull inny nttcmpt to freo himself, but If tho iKst nnd sweep arc tnndo prop erly ovjd securely thoru will bo 110 (lun ger iflid ho will soon settle down to exercising In n much better maimer. The VnlMP of Til Mrnliilnif. THo properly placed makes soil dryer In wet weather and moro moist In dry weather. This Is dllllcult to understand until wo consider tho na ture of tho soli. Soli In 'proper condition Is porous, something nfter tho manner of u f.ponge. It will hold wnter up to n certain point without leaking. Until It becomes thoroughly saturated, It con tains nlr ns well as wnter. Air Is warm and nlr Is needed by plants in the process of growth. Tllo leads tho water nwny quickly In the spring so tho nlr can penetrate the soil nud warm It so seeds will germlnnte nnd grow quickly. Un drained bind, If low, fills with water In tho fcprlug to the saturation point nnd the excess of moisture passes off In vnjKir through the process of evapora tion. It requires n great deal of bent to warm fhe water sulllcleutly to cause It to pass off In this way. That heat Is lost. After evaporation has dlsfclpatcd the moisture nnd the soil becomes dry enough to work It breaks up In clods, because It has baked down and packed together like-mortar. It Is almost Im possible to prepare' n good seed bed III such ground. Agricultural UpltomUt. Country' Itnluful!. The total rainfall of this country, Including snow and that on wnter ureas, was given ns 21. ",000,000.000,000 cubic feet n year. Half or moro Is evaporated. About one-third flows Into the sen. The remaining one-sixth Is either consumed or nborbed. Of tho 70.000,000,000.000 cubic feet flowing an nually Into tho sea, less than ft per cent Is used for iowcr. It Is estimated thnt 8.1 to P5 iKr cent of tho volume Is wasted In freshets or destructive floods. There nro In the United States proper 232 st renins liuvlgntcd for nn aggregate of 20.115 miles, and nsmuch mora Is navigable by Improvement. A Urecil Worth I'nrlntC for. Tho calf which un Kngllsli fanner had taken tho summer resident to see surveyed his owner and the strnngor with n weary eye. "Whnt breed Isyour calf V" asked' the visitor. The fanner removed a wisp of straw from his mouth and said: "The critter's fnther gored a justice o the pence, knocked n book ennvassor end over end and llft! trninp'over n fciico; and, ns for Ids mother, sho chased a brass bund out o' town lust New Year's day. If thnt ain't breed enough tn pny 2.1 shillings for, you can leave him be. I'm not pressing him on anybody." A Very Chrai Onte. A light, useful nnd durable gnto can bo made of sassafras poles nnd barbed wire as shown In the cut Hot n strong I'Ot.B AM) WHIR OVTE. post -I feet In the ground la tho mlddlo of tho gutewny and balance tho gato on It. Tho lower rail Is tnndo of two forked sassafras polos socurely nnllcd together so ns to -work around tho post W. II. Thompson, In Farm nnd Homo. Hepunilile Alolnl HurrclM. An economical retainer In which to ship products Mich 11s cement, llmo and plaster Is described In Popular Me chanics. Kb halves aro separable and can bo nested In a compnet form for the return journey. Tho cohI of the barrel Is ubout $1, wlilcH 1 n little moro than twice that of a., wooden bar rcl, but they nro claimed to bo good for ut least fifteen round trips, sad the room they occupy wlion empty cut down tho shipping bill one-liulf, lllnta for the banner. Llmo sweetens tho soil us generous deeds sweeton tho soul, Uso the lintchowon tho old rusty cans, At least don't uso thera for milk or cream. 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