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CHAPTER VIII. A fzw hours later Temple-Dene was ablaza with lights that flashed down on a brilliant scene Dinner was just ovor, an.1 the gentlemen as well as the ladies hid deserted the dining room; for outside, under the solemn Christmas .stars, and drawn up in a semicircle on tho snow-covered terrace, were the mummers shouting in coarse arisen an old world catch: "God rest you. mercy gentlemen, IiCt nothing you dismay!" In the large hall, where the vivid tolly berrie. blazed red on the steel armor of the knightly figures, and in feblons on the tapestried v. alls, a good-

iy company was asemi;ea tne house party of guests, with a background ot the domestic of the establishment. '"And this is England, and an English Christmas eve!" A pair of small, thin hands were childishly clapped. "Oh, 1 nover dreamed it would be so lovely, so delightful!" A bread siu.le went round, for the xoited speaker was the bride. "AVondera will nver cease," silently thought Gervis, as he stcoJ amazed. Glactiy had since the ;yternoon thxown otT the stv.por of melancholy that so often oppressed her now and puzzled her husii.md. She bad been at dinner the gayest of the party, all smiles and merry quip.-. &

"I wish Ant-dell could just s?e her ! that American girls are like thistle

now," said Gervis to himself. "The old

ever saw. Humanity held its breath in the face of the "glad tidings of great joy." And now, as then, the hush was followed by a burst of joyful song the mummers' carol:

All glory be to God on high. And on the earth be peace; Goodwill henceforth from heaven to men Begin and never cease.

"Amen." murmured Leila's low, sweet voice. And she raised wet eyes to the Christmas stars above. Tonight i-he could once again say, "God is good, God is good!" for to her sore heart the Comforter had come, the Christ-Child, with "healing on His

wintjs." To Gervis Templeton, as he gave her one glance, it was as though he gazed on the face of an angel. There was that in its holy, rapt look to help him on the right path. '"Gladdy" he moved to his wife's side ' I must take you indoors. This

! sort of night air is not good for you."

A fragile, almost wasted little figure it was that he led into the house, and pitying eyes followed it. "She's not long for this world; anybody can see that." the whisper went round. "Oh, nonsense ! Lady Jane, as she caught it, frowned. "Everybody knows

chap would stare. He'd have to swallow his dismal croakings a'out dee ine and wasting away. She's as merry as a. cricket!" Hut Ansleil could not see the transformation, for he had shut himself up lmrr.rvi nt y on arriving Vitk a tremendous headut lie; and it seemed as if Gladdy in h'.s absence had lifted hersolf as a plant raises its head after th.3 itorm has p.i.cJ. I've n wilful, the bride had escaped from the eiders of the party Lady Jane and the stately dowagers. She would have. none of their wearisome congratulatory speeches. There was "hut one person in all Tcmp'e-Dei:e GlaJdy wanted, and that was Leila Desmond, to whom the bride had taken a wild fa ucy. She would have none

by her si ie bat Leila; and Syb watched

the pair with glowering smouldered w rathi'uu V.

The old mansion of Temple-Dene, j every nook and cranny of It, was filled I

with guests, who had como from far and near, bidden to the festivities. Round a monster Christmas tree danced happy children, eager to grasp the girts dealt out to them by Santa Claus, a stately figure, snow-covered and holly-decked, sham Icicles hanging from his Lair and beard, nobody guessing that under the disguisD waj Gervis himself. He, and Gladdy also, had thrown themselves with ehiMish glee into the evening's amusements; while Leila and little Syb. fairly exhausted by the toll of decorating the hall, the gallery and

me numerous rooms, were well content to look on at the revels in which the whole establishment, guests and servants alike, were joining. There was one exception, however. In the quiet, distant library. Francis Templeton sat among his dumb friends, the long row of hooks. He alone, the master of the house, was absent from the Christmas rejoicings. Never more would he mingle with his fellow men. But In the revelry now at its height he was not even missed. "We must have 'Sir Roger de Coverley' and then supper!" at last cried Lady Jane. It was so long since the poor lady had tasted the joy of entertaining her neighbors that she threw herself into the business of the moment with genuine zest. "My dear!" She seized the skirts or Gladdy's silver brocade dress as the

girl fled past with a couple of flushed, eager children, one on e;.ch side. The bride had apparently cast off her melancholy of the previous night, and was radiantly gay. "You must dance 'Sir Roger' with Lames, our good old but-

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down to look at. but they are wiry j ler, you know. You must, really!" in

enough lor all that; they make old I sisted Lady Jane, women with the best of us." j "Oh. but Mith Templeton ith going "In a general way yes; but as re- j to show v.th the big ldack box where gards Mrs. Templeton, L:;dy .lane, you ! th poor lady was shut up dead!" must face the faot that she is handi- j lisped a fair-haired boy in blue velvet capped by a constitution so frail, and j and poiiit lace. a temperament so highly strung, that "Never mind, little man, I'll take you any sudden shock might kill her!" up to the gallery after the dance Is "Mr. Aiifdelll Glad to sec you have j over." recovered.' i Gladdy stooped to kiss the disapLady Jane wheeled round, to Hud the pointed. rov mouh

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Trouble bet worn the United States and tho litt.'c Central American st ite of Venezuela is possible as the result of a quarrel utweMi rival asphalt companies, who have conflicting claims to the f.nal Hernnule. asphalt bike located on the .-bores of the Orinoco river. Loth of the asphalt concerns arr United States cor; oral ions, one of thrn being the National Asphalt company, commonly known as tho asphalt trust. It is even charged that the trust has had a hnad in encouraging the rebellion in Vrnrzncla which is now in progress. T!m leader of the rc-hellion is Colestino INraza. who until recently Was the secretary of the present, president of the republic. General Castro. G'tieral Castro himself came into povcr as the result of a successful rrlMinn which nviilled in tho overthrow of the government, headed by Pr .-Ulr nt And rade. Sinc' Castro took cMuroI ,f the government in the latter par: of IM'ej he has swrrssf ully suppressed :it least two rebellions, so that he knows what he has to deal with.

Leader of 1hc trouble. O-lc-din-a Pernze, the leader of the pt'otiit rebellion, hrgn his outbreak in th" country along the Orinocr) riv -r in the last days of December. !':. A force of 2,r,00 mm was imraediat- iy s-nt against him by President Castro.

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statement that the Central American country, which has an area flVe times as lare as that of the state of Michigan, has a total population of only 2.320.000. somr what less than that ot Michigan, of which number nearly onefourth are uncivilized Indians. The ngular army of Venezuela consists of C.'jOO nun, with a militia which in time of civil war has put as many as 60,000 men into the fio!d. .So far a3 a navy ia concerned, Venezuela has only threo small steamers and two sailing vessrls, with three or four small riv-ir gunboats. Furthermore, it has been only four years since the United State intervened on Ik half of Venezuela in its dispute over the question ol boundary with Great Uritain and secured the appointment, of an arbitration com-mi.-sion. by the decision of which svra! hundred square mifcs of valuab'o teriitory. inclndins some rich fvold mines and the country to the south of the mouth of the Orinoco river, were saved to the smaller state

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and the venerable, white-haired Lames, the trusti'st of the "öinple-

of depression stealing over her. "What is it? Are you chilled?" anx-

iuuöi ukcu iiervis. wnen lie irot her : rr,

into the deserteu drawing room. ; At tho oppositp cnil of t I don t know yes. I wish th.tman ! rows - t Y

eyes that - naa stayea in his room, he frightens ; trails of scarlet hollv berries on her !me!' gasped Gladdy, faintly. i whltn ffntPTS nnH . p n.r

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giouna o: tne warm, dazzlingly bright llsv Vor o:u cnap would t.'o any w-,

interior, conspicuous figures, for bOch . morTai tn!-S -Fl3" o-i, Gladdy." Gcr-

wore white. j i said, amazed. At the bride's throat and in her ; "0h- of course he would! Oh, no. curly hair diamonds sparkled; while ' no! 1 didn't mean that. I want" j

1 :1a. in her dead-white crape, simply ' There was a pause "I want I-ila." made frock, had not a single ornament ! A fexv minutes later Gladdy was in save her own sweet smile and a bunch ' er own room, her new friend's soft of dewy, heavy-headed Christmas mj I arms round her.

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small e ng a gement. have taken place between the rival forces. Now it appears the

rt.oeis are running low on powder a n d muni1 1 o n s of war in general. As a

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"I love year dear old-fashioned Christmas customs." went on Gladdy. La: this time it was for Leila's ear on!y she spoke, and she squeezed her new friend s hand under cover of her satins and laces as the two girls stood -lose side by side. "I've read heaps about the way you keep Christmas in the old country, and I know that oid legend in verse, 'The Mistletoe Bough.'"

ently. "I was always a

and I'd no mother to see to me. you

"Oh, do you?" Leila turned her ! know- Ihit I never was like this beoft eyes on the bride. "Then vou ! fore- 11 is ?in(p the night of the lire

know, Gervis would tell you that many on the Prairie. Perhaps I got a shock. I people think the tragedy actually hap- 1iila. 1 hat black eyes, don't you? pened here at Temple-Dene?" ' Black, deep pools, that seem to hold '

"N no!" Gladdy gasped. Then she tdded: "Gervis did not tell me. I wonder he did not." Gervis. it seemed, had told his new

uiAi i'j i.otiiing auouu uih o.u 1 -""j utiuiuiin. t Mie on tne 1 home of his ancestors. j verge of some fever? "I rather admire j "Oh. well, we are not exactly sure. ! (lark eyes, they lash and .sparkle so you know," said Leila, hesitatingly; ! grandly." ;

"hut there is a tradition that a bride ; '-ne spoke calmly, as if to reassure of the family was lost, and found dead j tilf trembling girl beside her. in an old black-oak chest which stands j- don't mean dark eyes. I mean in the gallery up yonder." ! eyes blade as pools of ink, cruel eyes. Sbe pointed to the gallery running ; th;it bold your very soul in a grip of round the large hall. , iron. Leila, such eyes have a wicked "And many people firmly believe she i r,ov'er- Their owner could make one was the Ginevra of the poem. But of i commit any crime, perhaps even murcourse it is only hearsay, we are not j f,Pr: oh- that's why I feel such an positive." j agony of fear at times! Suppose I "I must see it! Oh, I must! Please j dl(l something!" take me at once!" And Gladdy caught Ii,a lrcw ber brows together in up her satin skirts to rush off. bewilderment. "Wait, Mrs. Templeton pif-ase wait "Uear, I can't think where you tan

a lew moments!" urged Leila, lavinc I li;,v seen such eves. Hut there's one

THE BASHFUL MAN. pfllrssl.r Alnrin:! the Young

('erlag UN Crip. A bashful young man had sat for some time in the terminal station at Philadelphia, waiting for his train to be announced. His grip he had shoved under his seat. Finally he jumped up and sought the train announcer for the third time. He was told that his train time had at lavt arrived. Then the young man remembered his grip.which he had left under the sent in the wait-

I am not strong." said Gladdv. pres- I , VUI.ryiag"ac"K- ,ie waa

weak thins- ' rt"u,;t-'1 LU iinu a o-auurui girl occupv-

fore. His grip was hidden by her skirts and the 'bashful young man saw no way of getting at it. He feared that he would miss his train, so he decided to speak to the young lady. Strutting up to her in a flustered state, his intention to politely ask her to allow him to get his grip was forgotten and ho d1tirfa nut t-WVi. f.i,,., ,. 1.. .1..

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ou are over-tired, Mrs. Templeton," Leila's soft, rich voice was saj--ing almost tenderly, for her heart was strangely drawn to this woman she who ought to be the richest and happiest woman on earth, for had she not Gervis? Iila already knew instinctively that the bride was miserably unhappy.

all that is evil and bad in their depths?" "Oh, no!" Julia's own dark-blue

are sitting on a nail and might

tear your dres.s." With a bound the girl was out of the seat. w hen the young man grabbed his grip and fairly ran

through the waiting room and to hia i

train. The girl blushed as others sitting near giggled 2nd she, too. hurried out to the train shed and waited thero for hrr train.

her hand gently on the American girl's round, white arm. "The mummers are all village folk who have known us and Gervis all their lives. They would be terribly hurt if you ran away before the carols are finished." It was Leila all over to be ever thoughtful of the feelings of ethers. "Hut I always do just what I've a mind to do!" said Gladdy, half fretfully. "You shall see the old oak ch?st tomorrow. Mrs. Templeton. I promise you that." said Leila, much as she would have sought to pacify a fractious child. And Gladdy, docile enough where she loved-and already she loved Leila turned with smiling eyes to the half-circle of upturned rustic faces out on the snow under the stars. Presently Gladdy, pink and tremulous, was led out upon the steps to bow her thank3. "Her be rare and sweet to look upon, and that happy! God bless she. we do say!" the whisper went round among the mummers. "But Mister Gervi3, he do look grave, he do, same's he had the weight o all England on hia shoulders." somebody added. And there were one or two head-shake3, for we can't keep our heart secrets locked up from our neighbors quite E3 securely as we may Imagine we do. "Listen!" cried a voice from the hall. "Hark to the Joybells! They've begun to peal." From the distant villages and hamlets round came at one and the same moment a passionate peal of Joy. "The happy hells across the snow telling: once again the happy story to weary, sin-laden humanity that unto each and all a Savior was born! For a few momenta there was a little hush. The gay throng aood still and silent. Just as did the shepherds on that first Chrlstniai e?e the world

thing I know. Supposing the powers of evil are su.Tered to tempt or force us to be their tools, I know and believe that the powers of good God the Father and God the Son are far stronger, and that with Their help we can safely resist all evil Influences." "You mean to tell me your faith is so real, so intense?" Gladdy bent forward until her thin, sharp little face touched the soft round of Leila's cheek. "Why, yes!" was the astonished answer. To doubt for IcIIa would bo to question whether the sun rose each day to gladden the earth. "And you you also believe in God's goodness? How can we listen to the story the Joybells are telling and feel one txrap of doubt?" "I wish I were real good, like you," sighed Gladdy. ."Leila, do you know sometimes, quite lately, a strong feeling has come to me that my life will be a short one? I haven't enough stamina in me to live." She stretched out her thin little hands to warm them at the blazo of the wood fire. Leila gazed from them to her in profound amazement. Was this how a happy bride talked, then? And on Christmas eve. too, when the thought of Christmas peace was warmins eich heart. "Shall I send Gervis to you?" she said, softly, wondering a little at her own strength. Dut Gladdy, unheeding, continued to stare wistfully Into the leaping blaze, and the Christmas bells pealed on through the frosty air.

CHAPTER IX. Christmas day, with Its happy greetings and Its gifts. Its peaceful services. Its feasting of the poor and 1U great home dinner, was drawing to a close. It was night, and the merrymaking! at their height

M iliiiiiKiM of llraring. F. Larroque has re ently made some interesting observations of the mechanism of hearing. He studies the action upon the ear of sounds produced by the bowing of a string stretched by a vessel containing water which slowly Hows away and thus releases the tension very gradually. .He finds that when the sound is conveve'". to the two ears through hearing tubes two distinct impressions are created and there is no interference whatever by the phase of the two sound waves. This he concludes shows that the auditory apparatus of any one ear acts independently of the other.

are said to be about to seize the arms and other properiy belonging to the New York and Lermudez Asphalt company at the F.ermudez pitch lake, while the regu

lar government, under President Castro, has seized a couple of steamers belonging to a steamboat company owned in the United States. In order to protect the property of citizens of this country from being confiscated in this way the United States warship Scorpion has been ordered to leave the harbor of La Guayra and run up the Orinoco river, and it is reported that the government at Washington stands ready to fend the north Atlantic squadron with a force of marines down froi.i Pnsacola. Fla., to Venezuela if the situation does not improve. Venezuela's Chief Seaport. La Guayra is the chief seaport of Venezuela and the gateway to Caracas, the tapital of the republic. At La Guayra the mountains overhang the water, rising to a height of 8.000 feet. They are visible at sea seventy miles away. Caracas is distant only ten miles, but it is reached by one of the most tortuous pieces of railroad build

ing in the world. The journey by rail from the s?aport to the capital covers a distance of seventy miles. The climate of Caracas is mild and pleasant, which explains why large cities of tropical America are usually situated some distance from the coast. Caracas is S.OffO feet above the sea level, and the temperature averages 71 degrees above zero all the year round. Locfa L:'K.e Absurd Trospcct. Some idea of the absurdity of a serious war between the United States and

&hc Hone of Contention. The asphalt lake, for th possession of which the rival American companies are fighting, li-s between a range of mountains and the shore of one of the cutlets of the northern delta of the Orinoco river, near the bay of Paria.

and several The lake is a mile and a half in length.

by a mile in width and comprises more than l.oco acres of swampy land. Mo?t of the surface of the so-called lake is covered with a rank growth of grasses and shrubs rising to a height of eight or ten feet and interspersed with tall palm trees. The pitch or asphaltum does not lie in an unbroken surface, as on the Trinidad lakes, but bubbles up,

as if from springs. The pitch, however, underlies most of the surface included in the lake and has a depth varying from two to ten feet. In the center cf the lake is a patch of about seven acres which is free from vegetation and in which the pitch is so soft that it cannot be walked on. The whole surface of the lake is so low that during the spring floods it is entirely covered by water. The pitch is dug out of the lake by native labor and cart?d to a convenient place near a snport, where it is refined. Tho raw asphalt

is put into huge kettles and slowly heated from above until the whole mass is brought to a liquid condition. The process of heating drives off the w; ter and gas with which the raw

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Mr. and Mis. T. B. Fitzgerald or Danville. Va., have deeded their place on the north bank of the Dan river, worth $0.000,to the Danville Orphanage as a permanent home. The late Chief Justice Faircloth of North Carolina bequeathed $20,000 to the Baptist Female University of Raleigh.

IS3 FRANCES M. ANDERSON, Corresponding Secretary of the Higher Educational League, writes from the"Astoria,"Washington, D. C. the following:

" 'About two months azo I was taken

very ill with la grippe and u a 5 obliged to go to bed. I took three bottles cf Peruna with very beneficial results, and was able to leave my bed in a week and regained my usual strength very soon.

have nothing but praise for Peruna, and recommend it to those similarly affl.ctcd whenever I can." Frances AI. Anderson. La grippe is, strictly speaking, epidemic catarrh that is to say, a varie ty of acute catarrh which is so contagious and runs a course more or les; definite, the same as scarlet fever, whooping cough, etc During the acute stages of la grippe It is not a very fatal disease, but the condition in which it leaves the system has caused the death of a countless number. Indeed nearly every person who has had la grippe within the last three years finds himself more or less deranged by the pernicious effects Oi." this disease. The majority of those who have escaped death find life scarcely worth living. If this vast multitude of people could only know with what certainty and promptness Peruna would relieve them of all the bid effects which la grip-v has brought upon them, what an untold amount of suffering would be averted! Thousands have already heard liow quickly this remedy will cure in these cases and have been saved; but tens of thousands nave not yet heard, and con

tinue to sufTf-r en, dropping Into the grave one by one. Peruna cures catarrh in all tage and varieties, whether acute or chronic, and is therefore the mosi effectiva remedy ever devised for removing all the derangements which follows la gripr-e. Samuel M. York writes from Union Grove, Ala., the following letter: I)-ar Sir "Last we; k I was taken with la rrippo and catarrhal deafness. I wrot yea for advice and followed

your dirt cii' After taking two bot tV.s ( f Peru:. a I found myseif we!l of ia grippe. :;nd my hearing was fully resr.ored. My health is better than it has bfen in five years. "My wife improved in health very much after taking Peruna." Samuel M. York. Miss Caroline J. Kahl. Otisco, Ind., writes as follows: "Three years I had la grippe and pulmonary trouble. I was very sick. I had hemorrhages of the lungs nearly evcrr day for a year and three bottles of ycur Peruna cured me. The doctor said I had consumption. I am now in better health than I have been for many years. "I highly recommend Peruna to all my neighbors and friends. Peruna ia my favorite iedicine. I shall always have Peruna in the house." Miss Caroline J. Kah!. If you do not derive prompt and satisfactory results from the use of Peruna. write at onco to Dr. Hartman, giving a full statement of your case and he will be pleased to give you his valuable advice gratis. Address Dr. Hartman, President of The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus.O.

I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people, who, in order not to sp.ak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything. H. W. lieeeher.

Km ma tine I and Queen Marclierlta. It has been stated lately that a coolness has arisen between King Victor Emmanuel and his mother. Queen Margherita, owing to the economy that he has seen fit to exercise since he came to the throne. The rumor is said to be contrary to fact, for not only doos Queen Margherita approve of her son's action, but she Is glad to see him following the example of his father, whom she greatly aided in effecting many economies at the court at the beginning of his reign.

Robbery on Italian Railway. The Venetian press advocates drastic measures for stamping out the organized robbery which prevails throughout the Italian railway system. Suspecting that the whole body of railway officials is implicated they consider that the only effectual remody would W. the collective dismissal or punishment of every official engaged upon a train In which a robbery takes placo.

Nd Not Wir Boxes. The western classification commltttt, In session at Hot Springs, Ark., has decided not to require the wiring of boxes containing boots and shoes, millinery goods and other small article!. A protent from Milwaukee shippers madf) by fiecrctary H. B. Wllkins of the Merchants and Manufacturers' association, was the cause of action Milwaukee Journal.

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Asphalt has been known from prehistoric times. Some forms of it were used a3 building material in ancient Babylon, and others were used in the preparation of mummies. During the middle aes it dropped almost from sight. In 1712 a Swiss physician discovered large beds of it in the Alp3 and succeeded in reviving the use of it as building material. It Is said that the value of asphalt for paving purposes was discovvered by accident

while the crude asphalt was bein-sr hauled from the deposits where it was dug. Pieces of the asphalt dropped from the carts and were gradually ground Into the roadbed by the feet of the men and horses. It was noticed that such roads soon presented a hard and resisting surface, and the idea of

using asphalt on other roads was developed. It was not largely used, however, until 1S32, and within the last 25 years it has made its gleitest progress.

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asphalt lake is due to the fact that it Is one of the few deposits of considerable size on this continent which are not controlled by the asphalt trust. A concession covering the lake waa granted to a small rival company, and a few months later trouble began. The ease with which a rebellion may be started In Venezuela Is said to be re1markable. The country is full of revolutionary leaders, who only need some

financial backing to start one of the periodical outbreaks which have prevailed In Venezuela ever since it ca3t off the yoke of Spain. It U also stated that President Castro and his followers were sadly disappointed in their hopes of finding some method of increasing their private fortunes after Uiey took charge of the government.

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