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Bo(h it'cri silent for <i few mimitct. ont of favor, and dismissed, both would be in a very hopeless condition.” “I see that. I trust old Craig won’t turn rusty, it would be very cruel. How can anyone be in the house with them and not see the st ite of affairs? They seem to me made for each other. But you have done the best you could in getting your uncle to keep quiet. He will g.t used to the idea. ” “Then, Mr. Waring, the help you can give me—I mean us—is to talk iu a natural. easy way to Uncle Sandy about Kenneth’s engagement, as if you considered it a settled thing, from your owu observation." “Well. I do!” said Waring. “My uncle, I can see, has a very high opinion of you—you have a sort of mysterious influence upon fiitn—so you must give Kenneth and Mary all th * help you can.” “My having any influence on so shrewd a man as Mr. Craig must seem a considerable mystery to you,” he said, laughing. “I feel much flattered, and will do the best I can for the cause.” Both were silent for a few moments, then Warirtg asked, a little abruptly— “Where is madame—1 mean Mrs. Fielden—now?” “In Paris—where they intend to make some stay." “I was in hopes they might be in London. I should like to see Mrs. Fielden again—I think she is a capital woman.” “She is, indeed!—a tru ■, loving friendl And when do you think of leaving?” asked Mona, steadying her voice by an effort. "Oh, about this day week! I must go then. And my arm is nearly as good as new. By the time I get to the end of my journey, I shall he quite fit for work.” “And—and how do you like the idea of going back to the woods?” this iu a low tone. “Like itl There is no use in thinking about liking what must tie. I have cut myself adrift from every other kind of life, so i must and will make it answer; but it —it’s an awful wrench to go. I can’t deny that! Still—” He broke off, and meeting tier eyes, exclaimed—“If you look so sorry for me, i shall make a fool of myself. That is,” flushing sympathetically as tie saw her fcolor rise, “I shall whine and bemoan my hard fate, in a fashion that will not increase any gleams of respect you may have for me.” “Is she afraid I am forgetting the bitter lesson she once gave me?” thought he. “Does he imagine I am Ashing for an avowal of the affection which lias died out?” thought she. “1 assure you I do not suspect you of n«ty such weakness. I dare say you will find y otr new home and life pleasant enough.” "t'.i, very likely! Indeed, given certain conditions, I can Imagine enjoying life on the ranch very much—though we are twenty-five miles from the nearest ‘city,’ as it is called—and it is merely a big village, minus the rusticity of a village, and plus the gas, the gilding, the lookingglasses, the gambling, the cheating, the orgies of a big modern town.” "What an awful place!” said Mona. “You must tie glad to have twenty-five miles between your home and it?” “Between my place of abode and it,” he returned. "Well, yes! though there are inconveniences. Yet you would bo surprised ft you knew how many good fellows —kindly, brave, generous—are scattered about among the general rowdy population, like nuggets iu dirt. Are you going—” “Ye*, you have sat here long enough. The sun is beginning to go down.” “You forgot that a broken arm does not constitute an Invalid. I am as strong as a horse now.” “Perhaps so. Then the country Is very tine about these dreadful ‘cities?’ ” "Superb! Tiie redwoods on the edge of which I am located are the finest stretch of forests you can imagine. I am afraid to tell you the dimensions of the trees—you would think I was romancing; then the beauty and luxuriance of the under growth, such feed for hogs—not very interesting stock, I acknowledge, but very profitable— while in the more open spaces, and where it ha* boon cleared, such a soil for wheat. Then, of course, we have a number of eraployes—hunters, herdsmen, keepers of various kinds, and some Chinamen for servants. The climate is perfection, the sunsets and sunrisings marvelously lovely." “What a wonderful country I You ought to be happy there.” “There are one or two things wantingstill one cannot have everything. You see, my friend and partner Watson is a queer fellow, sharp and clever in his way. He got hold of this ranch by a lucky chance. An old hunter had got it for a song some years ago. He did a good deal in clearing and improving, till he come to the end of his cash, And got sick of being settled. So Wells bought it as it stood cheap enough, then he found he hadn’t a penny left. Just about that time I wandered into San Francisco and met him, so wo entered into partnership. I hope to buy him out by and by.” “I think,” said Mona, “were I a man, I should rather like the life; but it must be lonely.” “Oh, it would be terrible for a woman, I am afraid,” said Waring, with a sigh. “I I must take out some solid reading with me, to provide for the winter evenings.” "How long shall you be in London?” “About a week.” “It will be full, as it is near Easter.

leading to Kirktoun.

As they paused to look at the sunset, and just as Waring had uttered the last words, a gentleman on foot came round a turn of the road. Waring’s brow contracted; he glanced swiftly at tils companion, and ex-

claimed—

"By Jove^it is Lisle!” In another moment I/isle was lifting his hat and shaking hands with Mona. “Waring!” he exclaimed, in a tone of extreme surprise. "Waring! by all that’s astonishing. Where — how — what lias brought you here?” “Chiefly railways and steamboats." “My uncle knew some of Mr. Waring’s people. They met in Glasgow, and Mr. Waring came back with him.” “I thought you were lost forever!” cried Lisle, in a tone which did not express very lively pleasure at his turning up again. “Well, here I am, you see, considerably the better for a sojourn in the wilds.” “So it seems. Why, you look years old-

er!”

"Now, Sir St. John, pray account for yourself,” said Mona. “Your sudden appearance requires explanation, us well as Mr. Waring’s.” “Does it?” said Lisle, flushing a quick glance into her eyes. “Well, Finlstoun was coming north for a little rest and fishing. so, as we both had had enough of gay and festive scenes for the present, I came with him, and am staying in my old quarters at Kirktoun for a day or two. ’How is a’ wi’ ye?’ as your quaint old uncle would

say.”

"We are all remarkably well. He will be a good deal surprised to see you.” “More surprised than delighted, I sus-

pect.”

“It takes a great deal to delight Uncle Sandy; but I think he was always placidly

pleased to see yon.

“I suppose it will be what is considered a good mat !i; bin she is too good for him!” “Y >n inig t av that of a good many.”

"Y ni t oink so?” “Yes. Don’t you?”

“I do; and I suppose MissCriig will soon be ; "i'is -.rm d in o I.a ly Lisle." “I e.in I.,; t'.m'. ">; she never seems to •n ■ ' nt i ■ i I have >il w avs imagined she loves someone we know nothing alxiut; lint I have no right to say so.” “No, we have no right to conjecture what she feels or thinks; only I trust iu God what she does, and whoever she chooses,

she wyi he happy.”

He left the room abruptly as he uttered

these words.

FROM THE FAR NORTH.

A Letter Written by Dr. Nansen, the Arctic Explorer.

A BATTLE ROYAL.

rrogress of On* of the I.atest Expeditions Organized for the PiirpoKr of l.oratlugthe North Pole and Explor-

ing »he Extreme North.

Dr. Nansen, the Arctic explorer, has written a letter to the London Times, i which will probably be the last he will j have an opportunity to send t n Fgrops , before he Is caught in the ice which he : hopes will drift him across the polar j regions. The letter is dated at Yugor , strait, which separates the European ! mainland from Waigatch island at the south of Novaya Zemlin. He wrote August 2. He says of his little vessel, the Fram, which lie built specially to j

withstand ice pressure:

“The Fram is a splendid ship for ice j navigation. She is as easy- to handle ; and steer between the floes as a boat, j

‘Ah!” exclaimed Mary, aloud, as she I She has already given me many a glad

looked after him, and then stopped to run over in her own mind a dozen or more of slight indications, which, viewed by the new light that hud broken In upon her, made proofs as strong as Holy Writ of the feeling entertained by W iring for her admired friend. “And oh! she does not care for him either, and lie is honest and true —I am sure he is," thought Mona. “Stay! doesn't she care for him? I am notsosure. Oli! where is Kenneth? I will go and talk

to him.”

moment when 1 have seen from the crow's nest how well she behaves and how strong she is. With a feeling of j safeness I let her quietly run with full | speed in between the big, heavy floes; • she breaks them under her with almost i no shaking, no sound in the vessel her- |

self."

Months before Nansen sailed he sent a man hundreds of miles into western | j Siberia to get thirty of their best I

sledge dogs that were to be found and

The morning after this conversation rose deliver them at \ ugor strait in July • bright and fair, though the night had been , Dogs are an important feature of Nanso stormy tlint between tiie howling wind sen’s plans and it was regarded as a and her own distressful thoughts Mona 1 matter of so much consequence that got little sleep. | the man succeed in his mission that “1 must go down to the fishers,” said King Oscar had a gold medal struck to Kenneth, at breakfast. “I hear the two j g-u-e to him if he fulfilled the duty conMackilligans have been nearly drowned,: tided to him. He was on the ground and t heir lioal is stove in. Jock Is severely | with thirty-five dogs when Nansen ar-

hurt. They were driven ashore in the gale

last night.”

“I’ll come wi h yon,” said W'nring. You are just killing yourself,” said Un-

And how goes the Highland cousin? cle Sandy, who xias busy supping his porHas he grown reconciled to his uncle's ridge. “You look like a ghaist os It is!

plans?”

“Oh, no!” cried Mona, laughing; "he Is

rived. Nansen wrote:

"My man Trontheim went to the Ostiaks on the river Soswa, where the best sledge dogs in western Silieria are to be had. There he bought forty dogs, as he thought some of them might be lost on the way, and he was certainly

more irreconcilable than ever.” Then Lisle asked for Mine Debrisay, and described with cool sarcasm the surprise and indignation of Gen. Fielden’s friends at that warrior's marriage. Waring was very silent. Mona’s quick intelligence tol 1 tier that each man was annoyed by the sight of the other; Waring, of course, did not care to meet the man who had advised a step which led to pain and mortification; while the other—well, she understood his irritation clearly enough. Lisle imparted a good deal of London gossip before they readied the house, and was then duly introduced to Uncle Sandy. “Kb, but I’m varra pleased to see you!” he said, with unusual warmth. “It’s an uncommon time o’ year for a Londoner to come nmang the hills.” ‘You see. Cralg.larroch always has its attractions.” ‘May be so—may be so. It will be lookin’ brawly in another month. And now you'll ink' a bit supper wi’ us. We liavu supper at eight, anil Kenneth wilt put you on your way back.” “Thanks; I shall be most happy. I need not trouble your nephew. In your wellordered country the roads are as safe at midnight as midday.” “That's true!” emphatically. “I am glad you’re aware o’t. That great, lang, selfopeenionated young woman—how d’ye ea’ her?—that just turned up her nose (tnair than nature had done for her) against Scotland to a Scotchman!—that wusna

You’ll no be fit for a lang journey if ye

gang this gait.”

"Oh! I am perfectly fit, I assure yon, ' right, as five have died by various ac- | whatever my looks may he. If I did not ! cidents. From the Soswa river he rise up like a giant refreshed after the . traveled over the Siberian tundra, then care and nursing 1 have had in this estab- through the Ural mountains, then over : lishment, I should not be worth taking care 1 the vast plains again until he came | of - ’ j here with the dogs, traveling at last \\ eel. I dinna ken what s come to ye a’; with the sledges over the bare ground, there’s Mona wi’a white face, and you wi' over Krass nll(1 8toneSi as is t i le custom a lang ane, and Kenneth’s like a bag o’ ^ where they travel with sledge f' rtTii r,'* i' 6 " s ° f aeom ' and reindeers in the summer as well

fort to look at a cheerfu’, healthfu’ conn- .

tenance,” said Uncle Sandy, who had in the winter. Trontheim has car-; been extremely fractious for 'the last teu rled out h,s lasl< ' vel1 und as a r '" | days. ward ho will get the golden medal of j "What a compliment! Mary! Ifeelquite King Oscar, which I have brought with

ashamed of myself,” cried Mona.

"Ijet me know when you are ready to start,” said W. ring to Kenneth, ami soon after the two young men started to see what assistance they could afford to the

me for him. Now it only rests with us 1 to make good use of the dogs. They I are nice-looking animals, white, black | and gray, and with pointed nose and | standing ears, good tempered, and

shipwrecked fishermen, 1 tide Sandy call easy to manage. But against strange

weel-mannered for a lady that goes to the’ Queen’s Court, they tell me.” "Oh! the court is a regular otto potlritla

now,” said Lisle.

“A what? What tongue is that?” “Spanish. It means a general mixture.” “Eii, pow-sowdiw is the same thing; that's rale Scotch, and mi.ir expressive and wise-like. Weel, that tall leddy would hold her ain in the biggest pow-sowdie of

a'. tVhere is she?”

“You mean Miss MortonJ She is the most appalling female I know. She has raptured a Gn ek prince; who goes to halls in a white petticoat, and says he is de-

scended from Alcihindcs.”

“Eh, tie wad be a shifty sort of a greatgrandfather to have'.’.’cried Uncle Sandy,

who piqued himself on being

claiis-ical scholar.”

“Well, tliis fellow is about up to her shoulder, anil rather a doubtful personage. They are fighting over settlements at present; for thougli she is said to be fathoms deep in love, she does not like to lose her

grip of the £. s. d."

“And varra right she is. N kj, the tea is ready, coma awn’ and have a cup.” It was, on the whole, an uneasy sort of afternoon and evening. A sense of unfltr ness—a want of harmony, oppressed every one, thougli Mona and Kenneth did their utmost to entertain their guests. Both the girls sung and played and talked their best. Indeed, Mona was unusually gracious to Lisle, yet he was dissatisfied, and left with Kenneth early, saying that he was bound to Lord Finistouu for the next day, but thc following he would come to see t item, as lie was going back to town on

Saturday night.”

At luncheon next day, when the post came in. Waring, after reading his letters, announced that he must start on Monday, that he had lieen away too long, and it was

time he returned.

To Mona this was a cruel stab. He was, then, to vanish away from her—this frank, kind, brave man, whose qualities were the complement of her own, for whose troubles she felt responsible, and whose wounds it would hav * been the sweetest and most congenial task to heal, and she dared not try to hold him! No; if it cost her her life, she could make no effort to reveal herself. He was her friend, and nothing more! Yet a vague, dim belief breathed through her heart that he loved her still, to justify which there was not a tittle of evidence. T did not know you were here,” said Mi - Black, coining into the drawing-room the day after this visit, and finding Waring seated with a book before him and his head ou his hands. "Where is Mona?” “She lias gone out with Mr. Craig.” “Will you come with mi and look for

them?”

“No, thank you; I am searching for one or two books I brought here, and I want to put them up. You see, 1 have only two days after to-morrow.” “I am sorry you are going, Mr. Waring.” “1 am gratified to hear you say so. How sorry i shall be to leave you all, It would not he easy to say.” “Well, I think you look sad like, Mr. Waring. You must write Kenneth, and tell us all about yourself.”

ing out injunctions to Kenneth as he went not to commit him “to mend a’ the broken

boats in the parish.”

"And wha’U drive me into the toun?” asked Mr. Craig. “I must gang to the bank, forbye the minister’s and Jimmy

Tulloch's.”

“Mary will go with you, uncle. I have rather a headache, and I l ire say Kenneth and Mr. Waring will be back to

luncheon.”

“i hope so. I am no weel content wi' Mr. Leslie. I hops you have nne bi-en fas'u-

in r him wi' your idle cluvers. rest and kind treatment.”

“I think we have beeu very good and

prudent, eh, Mary?”

"Aweel, let us have the denner at one

o’clock punctually.” “I will see to it, uncle.”

Tiie dinner hour came, but brought neith-

er Kenneth nor Waring, and Uncle Sandy having been comforted with a good many “draps o’ whisky,” and wrapped up with care, started under Miss Black’s escort, for

the diminutive town of Kirktoun. It was a relief to Mona to be alone, hrtt

It oppressed her to be within doors. She got her hat, and threw a plaid round her

dogs they are furious; they almost killed a Samoyed dog which they got hold of the other day; it would have been torn to pieces had I not saved the

poor creature."

When Nansen wrote his coal tender, a sailing vessel that was to replenish his stock of coal, had not arrived, and he was in much anxiety because unless she came soon he would lie compelled to start with the coal he had in order to get through the Kara sea and pass

He needs j along the const of Asia before the new

ice should form.

In his steam launch he made a short reconnolssance in the Kara sea. and everything seemed favorable for an easy passage. He said of his further

plans:

“My present intention is to steer eastward along the Silierian coast until we reach tiie mouth of the Olenek river, west of the Lena ilelta. 1 shall keep as near as possible to the coast wherever there is much lee, as there is generally more open water along the coast than in the ice. If there is time

Bengal Tigers Engage In a Fight to u,.

Death.

A bloody battle occurred at Roger Williams park, i’rovidence, R. I., ju S ; before noon a few’ days ago betwee two of the finest specimens of th tiger family in captivity, resulting p the death of the animal know; throughout the United States “lYince,” the most ferocious tiger evv captured. It was three years ago, says a dipatch, that I’rince was captured aftej mangling three hunters in the foot hills of the Himalaya mountains. II was the finest specimen ever caught He was marked perfectly and weighe something like twelve hundred pounds. Since his arrival menagerie keepers the country over have visited the city to see him. A year ago a female, “Princess,” was bought, but at that time “Prince” was considered so fero-, clous that they were not mated. In adjoining cages they got acquainted] and finally they were put together in! a strong steel cage. The tigers never showed any dislike: for each other until a week previously when Prince began to punish Princess. She took his ill-treatment calmly, hut when he began the wrangle she was re inly. •Prince struck the first blow and showed his long, w’hite teeth. Princess laid her ears back and returned the blow and both began to hiss and growl. After walking around the cage with glaring eyes and lashing tails for several minutes, there was a sudden rush and the two came together in a life and death struggle, the ferocity and horror of which was intensified by the screams and roars of the otixer members of the menagerie. They tore each other's backs and chewed each other's necks until the blood streamed from the long cruel gashes their sharpened claws and teeth inflicted. I’rince seemed to have the best of it, but after a hard struggle Princess broke away from him and backed away a few feet, leaped upon her adversary with the force of a catapult, knocking him upon his side and burying her claws and teeth in his shoulder. For half an hour the battle raged. The cage and its immediate vicinity looked like a slaughter-pen. Finally Princess set her teeth In a death-grip in her mate's neok and held him until he was dead. Then she tore the meat from his body and drank his blood. Almost lifeless, she lay in the pond of blood for several minutes, and then raising herself let forth a terrible howl, as if cheering at victory. When the noise ceased the keepers entered the building. Princess sat iu her cage with one paw upon the dead Prince’s head, which was nearly severed from his body. She was covered with blood and the remnants of her dead mate, but she stood victress of one of the greatest battles ever fought between dumb brutes.

shoulders, intending to commune with her 1 and a good opportunity should offer oven hpjirt. in tVin froah awont nlr i . • * . at. * . .. z i. e „ 1

own heart in the fresh, sweet air. “I must put away tills deplorable weak-

ness. Where Is my pride, that I cannot resist this overwhelming tenderness for a a “sound J man who does not care about me?”

‘If the gentlemen return and ask forme,

Jessie," she said to the housemaid, who was doing some extra dusting in the hall, "I shall be by the wood, at tiie big oak-tree

seat.”

“Here's ane coming, mem,” said the girl, and Lisle came up the steps as she

spoke.

“Going to walk,” said the man cheerfully; “may I come, too?” “Will you not have some luncheon first?” “No, thank you; I had luncheon early with Fiutotoun, who dropped me near this on his way to Balmuir. It is quite springlike after the storm last night. It kept yon •wake I suspect. Your eyes—those load-

TYii ty hml reached the ncxtlc bench. stone eyes of yours—droo; ” "I did not sleep much certainly. Then, If you will not have any luncheon, we will go to my favorite point of view, and look at the sen; it will lie very fine to-day.” “By all means!” They walked on in silence for some little way, and then Lisle exclaimed— “I never was so amazed in my life as when I saw Waring with you! It seemed ns if he was to be your fate! What possessed him to come here to singe his wings again, poor devil?” [CONTINUED NEXT WEEK.) Hood’s Sarsaparilla has cured many afflicted with rheumatism, and we urge all who sutTer from this disease to give this medicine a trial.

itself 1 shall go into the mouth of the Olenek, as some twenty-six other dogs are waiting for us there. As the sledge dogs from eastern Siberia are generally known to be better than the western Silerltt ones Baron Toll, the Siberian traveler, who is now in Siberia, proposed to me to let some dogs wait for us there too, so tii^t if I should happen to pass I may take them. “A small expedition has also been sent to the island of Kotelny, the most western of the New Siberian islands. <>a this islano two depots of provisions will be left, one on the northwest coast and one on tho southwest israst. It is on Baron Toll's proposal that these stores and provisions are arranged there. As he says, they nan do no harm, but it is not probable that we shall want them. Nolxxly knows, however, what might happen, and had De Long of the Jeannette expedition had some such stores of provislonson the New Siberian islands the expiMlition would not have hail such a sail fate,

and I think Toll Is right.

“After having passed tho Olenek river we shall go northward along the west coast of the New Siberian islands as far as we can in open water. I hope to be there by the beginning of September. It may be that we shall meet with unknown land or islands to the northwest of Kotelny, and possibly there may be open water along the coasts there. If so I shall of course use it as best I can. But when wo get no further there is nothing left except to let the Fram get beset in the ice and be carried along north wanl or northwestward by the current, which, accord ing to my opinion, must run in that

direction in those regions.”

The Moaning of • < Clofmre. M This word about which we are hearing so much came into legislative use in the British house of commons in 1887, and is applied to a rule which cuts off debate and prevents further discussion or motion by the minority, bringing the question to a direct and conclusive vote. The French word cloture is often employed to express the same thing. It is really an emphatic and decisive way of saying: “Come! we have talked enough about this matter; we must decide it now.”

Pointed. Clergymen are supposed to have a peculiar talent for “improving the occasion.” How one of them did this in a^ witty and, let us hope, an edifying manner, is related by the Boston Journal, In early life he had met with an accident which left him with a broken nose, a deformity about which, in spite of his piety, he was known to bo a little sensitive. One day a new inquirer propounded the old question: “How happened you to break your nose?” The minister answered solemnly: “To tell the truth, my friend, the accident was caused by my poking my nose into other people’s business.” Barmene Virtu®* and Sing. Among the hill tribes of Bunnah the four cardinal virtues are: To kill a foe, to fall in battle, 1 o become a priest, and to offer oneself as asacriflce to the earth goddess. The great sins are: Getting into debt, betraying public secrets, breaking an oath, refusing lios-; pitality, and skulking in time of war Hanking In Scotland. Probably in no other country in thc: world are banking facilities so ex-' tensive as they are in Scotland. In] every town, large or small, there is aj branch of one of the great city banks, '».id even every village with the least pretension to size can boast of one. While in England there is a bank or a branch bank to about every ten thousand of the population, in Scotland there is one to about every’ four tkou'•tind There i* no *uch thing as becoming rich while shutting (toil out of the heart in order to put money in the pocket. The Advertising Of Hood's Sarsaparilla la always within the bounds of reason because it Is true; it always appeals to the sober, common sense of thinking people because it is true; and it is always fully substantiated by endorsements which, in the financial world would be accepted without a moment's hesitation. Hood's Pills cure liver ills, constipation, biliousness, jaundice, sick headache, indigestion.

One hundred and fifty thousand Odd Fellow have died since the organization of the order in 1830. An Awakening. What is it that has been awakening people all over the Unit and cansing such a thrill of excitement and gratitude everywhere among the sick and sufl'ertng? It ia the new departure by the greatest sad most snccessful specialist in the cure of all nervous and chronic disesses, Dr. Oreene of 3fi West 14th Street, New York, who offers to the sick everywhere the opportunity of consulting him by letter free of charge. Think of It, sufferers, you who have sought in vain for relief, or for a satisfactory explanation of your disease! By writing him about your j complaint, this great physician will send you, free of charge, an exact explanation of yonr disease and what to do to be cured. He gives most careful and explicit attention j to all letters, and makes you understand just ] what your complaint ia. He is the discoverer ofthat great nervecure, Dr. Oredne’s Nervura blood and nerve remedy, and uses nothing in his practice but harmless vegetable mediIcines. The success which he is having in | curing disease through letter correspondence is marvelous. Write him, then, all about I your complaint and you will without doubt ! he cured.