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! keeping all this back from you, I did 9 for the best.” “ Do you need to say that to me, papa?” ahe answered, with some touch of reproach. "Y ou are going, Yolande?" he M id, with a sinking of tha heart. “ That, again, it is unnecessary for you to ask me.” the girl said, simply. tentioa o f these Inventors to do this be raised to immense heights under "B o t not at once, Yolande?” said ba. T h e progress made by science In the seem ingly Impossible feat by means glass by natural as w ell as artificial u le « ? '1* l t * U op*“ Gunk. Not at |ast [,a lf century has been so wonder- o f w ire » la only partly correct, for light, while heat w ill be obtained by Storms ____ . „ . lu l that w e are likely to credit any since they have begun their experi systems o f grent radiators. To-m orrow morning, papa, she an- . . swwred. “ Oh, but 1 s m u t , you, you will Prophecy o f marvels which the future m en t» wlrelese telegraphy has come w ill be dissipated by exploding bombs be put to no troubla— no trouble at all. ll° lda- the Inventions pictured on Into existence, and la aaid to have ln the air. T here Is nothing particularly novel Mrs. Ball is coining from Greet to sea Ibis page, dreams o f a golden-aged to- worked aucceaafully over com p ara tive ly short distances. I t Is reasonable, ln the Idea o f a forcin g house fo r everything right. And I hava mads out m orrow, are at first glance distinctly lirta for her, irt is all arranged, you will Jarring to one’s cerdullty. T hey are therefore. If sound w aves may Ik* plants— every one Is fam ilia r w ith the not know any difference------' the dreams o f a French artist, M. transm itted without wires, that light ordinary florist’» greenhouse,and some, "Listen now, Yolande. I don’t dis Lanos, who appears to be the legiti w a v e » may also be transm itted In a no doubt, have beard o f the value o f approve of your going. W e have tried mate successor o f bla late fellow-coun sim ilar manner. O f all the m arvels o f actinic rays, either natural or artificial, everything, and failed; if there ia a tryman, Julea Verne. lamp, ou the past and present, even the p h on e as in the Flnsen electric chance o f your succeeding— well, per W hen are these dreams to become graph, which only a little w h ile ago plant life. Such a forcing bouse as M. haps one might say it la your duty to go. Lanos pictures here Is very pictur Poor child, I would rather have you esque and attractive, but here he ap know nothing about It; but that ia all pear» to depart from the dicta o f fn- over now. Well, you aee, Yolande, If mous scientists who have spoken or you go, there must be no unnecessary risk or trouble about your going. I have w ritten on the subject. been thinking that perhaps Mr. M elville | It is true that In some parts o f the may be a little too imaginative. H e see» J country progressive farmers, whose things strongly. And in Insisting that fields cover thousands o f acres, have you should go alone, why, there m iy be covered parts o f their orchards w ith danger that he has been carried away glass and canvas, and In this m anner by a— by a—w ell, I don’ t know how to protected their young trees In that sea put it, except that he may be so anx son o f the yea r when the weather, es ious to have this striking appeal made pecially the temperature. Is treacher to your poor mother as to be Indifferent ; to ordinary precautions. W hy should ous. Nothing so ambitious as the you go friendless and alone? W hy j btructure and apparatus shown by M_ should I remain amusing myself here?” j Lanos has yet been dreamed. “ Because you would be o f no use to , P rof. Marceltn Bertheloj, who also 1» me, papa,” said she, calmly. “ I know j a fe llo w countryman o f M. Lanos, one what I have to do.” o f the truly grent scientists ln F ran ce “ Yolande, you cannot be left In Lon to-day, has radically different Ideas on don with absolutely no one to whom you can appeal. The least you must do the subject o f food o f the future. l i e Is to take a letter to Iyawrence & Lang. is one o f the greatest o f constructive They will do anything you want; they chemists, and is not generally looked will let you have what you want; If upon as a dream er or romancer, y et he there la any hiring of lodgings or any seems to believe that agriculture w ill thing of that kind, they will send one of become a lost art. their clerks. You cannot be stranded “ B efore many decades have passed,” iu London without the chance of assist he declares, “ the entire conditions o f ance. You must go to Lawrence & Lan g." life may be changed, and w e shall be “ I may have to go to them— that also compelled to m odify all our present Is arranged. But they must not inter theories, social, economic and even fere; they must not come with me; that moral, for they w ill have no more ap was not Mr. M elville’s Idea,” she said; plication than the original Ideas on though the pale face turned still paler as light to a blind man who has suddenly she forced herself to utter the name. received the use o f his eyes. In the "M r. M elville!” he said, angrily. “ You first place, agriculture and all the mul seem to think the whole wisdom of the titudinous pursuits connected w ith or world Is centered In Mr. M elville! J don’t at all know that he haa right in dependent directly or indirectly w ith coming to put all thla trouble ou you. the reproduction o f livin g beings—-ani Perhaps he would not have been so mal and vegetable— that now serve for quick if it had been his own sister or the alimentation o f mankind w ill have his own daughter------” disappeared. Then a strange thing occurred. She N o M ore T illa g e o f F arm . had flung herself down on the pillow "T h e re will be no more shepherds o r again, her faoe burled, her whole frame shaken by the sudden violence of her husbandmen. In place o f the furms to crying. day w e w ill have factories in w h ich "Ik in ’t— don’t— don’t !” she sobbed, pit artificial foods w ill be produced, mors eously. “ Don’t speak like that, papa! savory and easier o f digestion and as there ia enough trouble— there ia similation than any o f the products enough.” which Nature fnruishes us with at th e "W h a t is It, Y olandeT’ Mid he. “ W ell, T H E R A I L W A Y O F T H E F U T U R E — T H E A E R I A L M O N O -R A IL . present time. The old problem o f how no wonder your nerves have been upiet. to maintain existence by means o f the I wonder you have taken It to bravely. I will leave yon now, Yolande; but you m aterialised? M. Lanos answ ers: “ A l was considered the eighth w onder of cultivation o f the soil will, In a word, must try and come down to dinner.” most to-morrow; say the year o f grace, the world, w ill sink Into com parative have been totally suppressed by chem Dinner was put on the table; but ahe 1850.” insignificance when the telepfoote Is an istry. There w ill no longer be seen did not make her appearance. A mes As the fulfilm ent o f the prophecy is accomplished and com mercial fact. It fields o f w avin g grain nor vin eyard s sage was sent up to her; the answer was . . , . . . . . set a date which millions now llv- Is by no means so simple a problem as nor meadows filled with flocks and ‘a T ' ** undoubtedly witness, w h a, arc eithes the phonograph, the telephone herds, and man, ceasing to live him tea by and by. Jane on being question ed, said that everything had been g o t , some o f the von dera science has lu or the wireless apparatus now ln use self by carnage and destruction o f oth The mono-rail suspension road, er liv in g creatures, w ill in evitably im ready for their departure the following ,tor# tOT "*• and what are the cbano<M shown ln another picture, surpasses prove ln disposition and attain a f.tr nnrnlng. even to the ordering of Che dog- o f M - E en o»’ dreams becoming reall ties? cart for a particular hour. the present only ln Its size. Its height higher pla.ne o f m orality.” (T o be continued.) First, let us make a catalogue o f and its numerous ramtflcatlons. A Berthelfft has not only pointed tho- these m arvels o f to-m orrow: T o lie sim ilar road has been constantly lr way o f the future, but has actually 8 7 ,0 0 0 FOR A KEY. lone something tow ard Its realization. able to see and feel at a distance in operation between Bremen and Elber | connection with the telephone; to feld, Germany, for over a year. On Oer h alf a century ago he had already A Connotesear P aid Th ie P ric e fo r a travel through the air on a mono-rail- this greater and stronger road the scl formed ln his laboratory the whole se H is toric R elic. ries o f fats which make up one o f lhe I t may not be generally known that road at not lM * than 150 m iles an entitle prophet looks forw ard to elec there are many key collectors In this hour: to be abIe to 8t’e occurrences as trie traction on this system which will three fundamental categories o f sub achieve at least 150 miles an hour stances required for the food o f man. big w orld o f curio hunters. Some o f they happen at a kind o f public news Since that tim e the sugars and car^ the keys o f bygone ages are veritable paper station, and to farm at great T here is an experim ental road o f sn triumphs o f the locksmith's art. In central forcing houses, which w ill pro other form o f mono-rail, whose In bona that are comprised ln tbe second Rome the bridegroom ’s presentation of duce crop a fte r crop, irrespective o f ventor has claimed would ln practice o f the tw o categories have all been be able to travel at the phenomanal sim ilarly formed artificially. T o com a bunch o f keys to the bride as she clim ate or weather conditions. Certainly, M. Lanos Is modest. M. speed o f 300 miles an hour. A t that plete the series, It remains only to dis crossed hit threshold, to Invest her with the authority o f the matron, was Jules Verne would never have been speed, however, fe w persons satisfied cover the synthesis o f the third series, w ith life would be w illin g to risk the the albuminoids, the consummation o f one o f the most solemn ritee o f the content to stop there. which Berthelot believes w ill be at In order to gauge the value o f this service. wedding ceremony. Moreover, these E n t e r p r i s e In A g r l c n l t n r e . tained before the w orld Is much older. sym bolic keys had to be returned by klnd o f d ™ » mlnK- which at first sight According to M. Lanos, agricultural the w ife, who, when proving herself **ems 1° b® Invention run riot, a A ll young men fa ll ln love, but mos% «w o rth y o f the trust, was expelled * lanc* backward la a good prepara- enterprise ln 1950 w ill be carried on lu enormous forcing houses. Crops will o f them manage to climb out again. forever from the home she had dls tlon. RVELS </ the WORLD «f TOMORROW ams of Invention Run Riot- C H A T T E R X I I . —(Continued.) furglve. I hava been a traitor to my “ W ell,” said he, uneasily, "possibly friend; I have been a traitor to you. You fou r father Imagined that Archie Leslie shall never aee ma again. God bless might think that he had been unfairly you! and good-by.” treated if lie were not told— and then, I He kissed her hair, sod roes, and got was hie friend, don't yon aee, and they himself out of ths house. As he went mentioned the matter to me— and— and down that wide strath, his ayea fixed on being an outaider, I v i e reluctant to nothing, like on# demented; and hla mind Interfere at flrat— but then, when they whirling this way and that amid clouds •poke o f telling you, I said to myself of remorse and reproach and Immeasur that I knew, or I fancied I knew, what able pity. It seemed to him that ha felt a girl like Yolanda Winterbourne would on his brow the weight of ths brand of be sure to do in such circumstances— Gain. and so I thought I would realtors the suggestion to them, and— and If it turn C H A T T E R X III. ed out to be eu, then I might be of some And as for her; she wss stunned al little help to you.” most into unconsciousness by this shock That was ctererly done: he had not o f self-abasement and distress. She lay told her it wa* the Master of Lynn who on the eofa, her face covered with her had insisted on that disclosure. And now hands; she could not face the light. she was gathering her courage to her; W hat was she, then?— she who hitherto though still she maintained a curious had been so fearless and so proud. A sort of constrained reserve, as though flirt, a jilt, a light-o'-love— that was how ahe were keeping a tight hold of her feel ahe saw herself; and then there was a ings. kind o f despair over the misery she had “ I suppose,” she said, slowly, “ it is wrought, and a yearning to hare him fo u r idea I should go there— alone?” back to implore his pity and his forgive “ I f you are not afraid. Yolande, If ness; and then sudden resolves to free fo u are not afraid!” he said, anxiously. herself In another direction, at any coat " I am going to-morrow,” she said, " i f o f penitence and humiliation. She began Mrs. Kell will he so kind as to oome and to compose hurried brief messages, though take my place.” the throbbing brain and the shame-strick “ Don’t be so precipitate, Yolande,” he en soul could scarce decide between the said, with some anxiety. " I hare put fitness of them. These were some of all this before you for your considera them; tion; and I should feel I was burdened Dear Papa— I have gone away. Tell with a terrible responsibility if you were Archie not to think any more about me. to do anything you might ufterwanl re “ Y O L A N D E .” gret. W ill you consult Mr. Shortlanda? And then again: W ill you take a week to think over it?” “ Dear Archie— I send you back the “ No; why?” she said, simply. "D id engagement ring; I am not worthy to be I not consider when you were telling me your wife. I em sorry if I have caused the story of this Imaginary girl? Had you any disappointment, but you have I any doubt? No. I knew what she less to regret than I have.” would decide. I know what I have de And then again— to one not named cided. What use is there In delay? Ah, at all: If there Is to lie the good come out o f It To-day I go away. Never think of that you hare imagined for me, should I me again, or of what haa happened. For not haste? When one Is perishing, you give me: that is all.” do not think twice If you can hold out And then she began to think— If this fo u r hand. Do you think that I regret— wild torture of suggestions could be call that I am sorry to have a little comfort ed thinking— of the undertaking that lay behind— thnt I am afraid to take a little before her, and the thought of it was trouble? Surely yon do not think that of something of a relief. There would bo me. W hy I am anxious to go now is to an occupation, urgent, continuous, de see at once what can be done; to know manding ail her attention; In time, and in the worst or the best: to try. And now a measure, ahe might school herself to — I shall not be speaking to my papa forget. Perhaps, If this duty turned out about It; that would only give pain— to be a very sad and painful one, it w ill you tell me what I should do. In might be taken by Unate whom ahe had all the small particulars? I am trot like wronged ns a sort o f penance. She was ly to forget." prepared to suffer. She thought ahe de That he could do easily; for he had served to Buffer. Had she not proved a thought enough over the matter. He traitor to the man whom ahe had prom gave her the most minute Instructions; ised to marry? Had she not brought guarding agalnat thla or that possibility; misery to this best and dearest of all and she listened mutely and attentively, her friends, to this fine and noble nature with scarcely the Interruption o f a ques that ahe had learned to know, and Uiat tion. Then, at length, he rose to say by her Idleness and carelessness— the good hy; and she rose too. H e did not carelessness of a vain coquette, heedless notice that at she did so her Ups quiv of consequences? W hat would he think ered for ths briefest second. o f her? She could only vaguely recall " I f you are going to-morrow, Y o the reproaches he had heaped upon him lande," Mid he, ” 1 will aee you as you self; but she knew that he was in dis pass. I will look out for yon. I should tress, and that ahe wae bhe cause of It. like to M y guod-by to you; it may be And perhaps if there were trials In fur a long time.” •tore for her, if there was suffering iu “ It may be fur alwaya,” she eald, with store for her, perhaps be would never bar eyas cast down; “ perhaps I shall know that ahe rather welcomed that, never be back her« again.” and was content to receive her punish “ And 1 am sending you away into all ment? Perhapa be would never know thla troubla and grief. How ran I help how grieved ehe was. It was over and knowing that it la I who am doing it? done, and pest recall. And ahe knew And perhaps, day after day, aud night that henceforth her Ufe would be quite after night, I shall he trying to justify different to her. m yself— when I am thinking over K, and Mr. Winterbourne and John Short- wondering whers you are; and perhaps I landa war* on their way back from the shall not succeed very well. hill. “ But It Is I who Justify you— that Is “ I scarcely know what haa happened enough," aha said In a low voles. “ Did 1 not decide for myself? And I know to-Any,” Mr. Winterbourne was saying. that In your h M rt you think I am doing " A ll the time I have been thinking of our going back. And I know what 1 right; and If you art afraid for m well, that la only klndneaa -such as that shall find when 1 go back— the wreck of the happiness that I have so carefully you hava always shown to me Hers she stopped; and he did not aee nursed all through three years. It is like that her hands were clenched firm, as hedging round a garden, and growing she stood there opposite him, with her flowers there, and all at once, some morning, you find the place tram pie, 1 •yea cast down. down and a wilderness. I hope I am not In v e n t io n s M n c t 1850. "And whatever happens. Yolande— you unjust, Rhortlands, but 1 thiuk he might graced. On the other hand, the French F ifty y e a r» ago the telephone was w idow o f the middle ages. I f left des- may be In pain and grief— and perhaps have spared her.” tltute, had the right to tear aw ay the onkuown; now there are m illions o f all you may endure uiay only and in "W h o ? ” sacred keys o f the house from her telephones In use lu nearly every city bitter disappointment— well, I hops you “ Young I<ealie. I think he might have w ill not Imagine that I earns to you with spared her. It waa not much. Dou’t girdle and throw them in the grave aiul t0WI1 ,n Europe and Am erica, and my prupoMl unthinkingly. I have you think—-ont o f consideration------” o f her deceased husband. By this ac ln commercial towns In the rest o f the thought over It night and day. I dldl “ Nonsense, man. W hat Young Les tlon, com monly known as “ throw ing w o rM- Then the submarine cable was not come to yon off-hand----- ” lie has done seems to me on reflection, the keys In the pit.” she publicly re- ln lts experim ental stage; now there "A h , then,” she Mid, quickly, “ and perfectly Just, and right, aud reasons nounced all further ties and disclaimed are over 225,000 mlleq o f cables, or yon think it is necessary to Justlfv your- ble,” esid John Shortlands, telling s lie the debts o f the man who had left her e,10,,Kb to reach from the earth to the sslf — you. to me, ne if 1 did not know in the calmest manner possible. "T h e unprovided for. From that moment The electric light, now almost you as well as I know myself! Ih> you young couple ought not to be hampered think I do not know you mid do not tin in starting life. A little trouble now— she was le ft unmolested, fo r In those universally used for street lllumlna- deratnnd you -because I am only a girl?” what is that? And It will be better for superstltlous days no one would have ^ on a,ld very considerably adopted by H er forced eoinjKisure was breaking you too. Winterbourne. You would hove dnred to Interfere with a woman who a,orea- workshops and homos, waa uu- down altogether; she was trembling some kept on worrying yourself. You would had thus fretal herself from any mar- Liiowu half a century ago. lh e phono- what; and now there were tears running have been alwaya apiuvhenalve about riage responsibility. graph was not even a dream fifty down her cheeks, despite herself; though ■something You would have reproached W e cannot but adm ire the work o f a8o; neither waa the "m ovin g •he regarded him luravely. as if she yourself for not telling him.” the old locksmiths, who manipulated P *°Iurt* machine, now ubiquitous, and would not acknowledge that. "A n d now. W hen they reached the lodge, Yolande Just as you and 1 are shout to say good was not. as usual, standing iu the porch at w ill brass. Iron and steel, so as to ev * n ,en J’eara aR° tbe wireless tale- delineate the delicate traceries and * raRb bad no* l'***ed the stage o f by, perhapa forever, you think it neces to welcome them home from the hill. sary for you to Justify yourself to me— “ Please, air,” Mid the maid, “ Misa fretw ork o f guipure and church win- dr* all,a- None o f these are a w h it less you. my l>eat frleud— my more than Winterbourne haa a headache, and says dows. Th is metal cra ft had eviden tly a' arvelf>ua I * « tb* Pictured auggos friend----- ” would you exruM her coming down to a great fascination, since It can boast ,loua o f fu ,u re bT 01 • F r* ncb ar- And then— ah, who can tell how auch dinner.” not only o f several masters o f renown. things happen, or which is to bear the He stood Irresolute for a second or notably the celebrated Benvenuto Cel- U k * JulM V ern* ’ M U n tm dld ,,ot blame?— hla arms were round her trent two, obviously greatly disturbed, then be Uni and Antoine Jacquart. but also o f * 1ve “ P unconditionally to his hling figure, and ahe was sobbing vio slowly and thoughtfully went np ths a royal amateur. lo u ts X V I. him self, 1 lm " gm * Mon- H U f ° « ' abad® w lng o f lently on hie breast. And what was thla >taira, and gently kuocked at tha door renowned for his mechanical hobby, future scientific wonders has a basis wild thing she eald in the bewilderment of her room. In experim ents now being conducted. and who has left to posterity severnl o f her grief. "Oh. why, why was my "M a y I come In, Yolande?” H e Is iu>t, however, an Inventor, and life given away before 1 ever saw you?” 8he had Just time to untie the wet keys peculiar fo r their double I,*s snr “ Yolande, ' aald he. with Ma face very towel from her head, to smooth her hair, mounted with a crown, ln great de even he would not like to hazard the assertion that tue apparatus which pale. “ I ant going to M y something; for and sk up in !>ed. mand among collectors T h e ir reputa w ill he used fifty years hence w ill Ibis is onr last meeting What can a "Yes, papa.” tlon, greatly due, no doubt, to the po few words matter, ray darling. If w e are He entered, went over and drew a sition o f the worker, pales before that conform with those so effectively need never to tee each other again? I love chair near to her, and h i down. In his pictorial compositions. Those o f the master who executed the her you. I ahell lore you while I hare life " I am sorry for yon, Yolanda," he who are slaves o f fashion w ill notl-e aldic chef d'oeuvres, bearing the arms W h y should I nog aay It for thla once? mid, in a low voice, and hla ayea were . . . .___„ . that the artist has not attem pted to o f the Btrozzl fam ily, recently bought , . . _ ... .. . - . I blinded myself; I tried to think It nervously bent on the ground. , ' * foreshadow anvthtng so fickle as taste friendship— friendship, and the world fo r a w ealthy connoisseur at the huge “ W hy, papar* ¡ in drees Hla men o f 1850 continua to was Just filled with light whenever I ssw She spoke In quite a cheerful way: and price o f 17,000.— N ew ark N ew ». ¡ adhere to the styles o f 1905. you! It it our last meeting, you will let •a he had not suffered hie eyee to meet T e le p h o n e o f t h e F n t n r e , me M y this for once- -how can k harm hers, he was unaware how that cheerful W illin g to P ro m ise. F or five years past, or more, there yon r* ness wae belled hy toe strange expres •*lf I tall yon som ething," said Bhe shrank out o f hla embrace; she alon In them, Bhe waa forcing herself D ob b * mysteriously, " w lll you proi^T haa ln and w orking ln sank down <m the eooeh there: and turn to make light of this matter, she would las not to repeat It? " an M Par,ra<‘ nI al manner, a methpd o f ed away her heed and hid her faoe In her not have him troubled. And perhaps. In "Bure thing, old man." replied Bobbe I ™ " " f i t t i n g » Picture by wire, but in deeal. to her this waa In truth a light hands “ (Jo, g o ” ' ahe tnnrmnred. ''W h a t hare matter, as compared with that tragic dis ” I*ve never beerd yon aay anything TWltor* lr an aI,plnPt to transmit to great d l. I done? For pity’ s sake, go, and forget! closure and ita consequences, which w orth repeatin g."— D etroit Tribune. ________________________ fauces Instantaneously the reflection o f seemed to hava cut away from her at Forget T In massaging ordinary salad or an object anch as It here shown In the H e knelt down by the elds of the one# and forever the shining and roae- oliv e oil may be need la place e f eeid picture o f tbe man at tha telephone o f •ouch; end he was paler than ree f now. colored year* o f her youth. | the future. T o say that It la tha In I f I errad. Yolanda," sold ha. “to “ Yolanda, It is for yes to forges and A G R I C U L T U R A L E N T E R P R IS E IN I P's?