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THE SILENT RULER. We only know he walks with noiseless tread, Unresting over-voiceless as the dead. We only know he brings us loss or gain, The rose of pleasure, or the rue of pain-/ all changes manifold of life or death, From a leaf's promise to a dying breath. We only know when this old earth and sky Pass into nothinguness, he cannot die- The silent ruler with his scyth3 and glass, Our Father Time, who sees the nations pass Yet gives no token over land or sea Of his new rclgn-the veiled eternity. -W. II. IIayno, in Youth's Companion. POOR ELIZABETH. o o nY A. JEWXYL. t. OE was aware how darkly the eyes of Elizabeth r o l I d frown; he knew also that tth eamo eyes could smile a sum mer of delight into a man's heart. Lilke _ - England's Eliza both, she was a born coquette and tyrant. No lover in her beat needed to com plain he was taken unawares, for was not her path strewn with victims? And did she not carry her scalps con spicuously at her belt? She used to think it a defense to protest, "Well, I'mi not, a cold, heartless flirt; I am really interested for the time being." Joe's sister, who adored him, would say.- "What a mean-spirited boy you are to keep on .dangling after that girl!" Joe would interject,- "She's angling-I'm dangling!" Said Mary, ignoring his wit, "She'll serve you as she did Philip Scudder, the youn;; American she met last summer in Ogdensburg, and lured over here in the winter." "Why, I'm sure she did not tell him to come; the town was free to all; is it her fault if she is magnetic?" "Oh, my saucy sailor boy, don't de ceive yourself! Will Marshall, in the postotlice another of her cast-offs-" "Well, he has found consolation," slyly interrupted Joe. Mary ignoringly proceeded, "He knows her writing, and I don't .suppose all those letters were written to ward Philip off!" "Well, well, Mollie darling, she can't help being fascinating; you know how it is yourself." "None of your blarney, Mr. Joseph Btewart Crerar! I am not going to be won over to smile on this midsummer madness! If she cared for you in the least I'd help you to woo her. Even as it is, your woe-begone face tempts me to set my woman's wits to work in your behalf." "Yes," he replied drearily, "she would step on me as readily as the reater Elizabeth stepped on Ra leigh's cloak. Still, as you have dis covered, 'Her very frowns are sweeter far, than smiles of other maidens are' o me. What can you do for a poor ,ld bachelor?" "I have a dim and distant idea,",rO Splied Mary, "of getting up a picnio to t 'housand Islands." "Oh, not distant, Moll, sweet Molli K onknow how short my time is now." "Must you go off on that wild expe Sition?" said loving Mary. "Would you have me sit at home at rase and bewail our fallen fortunes, when there is wealth and perhaps lame to be won abroad?" Mary's only reply was a sisterly pat and kiss. She went off with a pucker n her white brow, to think out her ionio campaign. In Brockville, town of many cliques, It was not by any means plain sailing to get such an affalir safely launched, and properly manned and womaned. Joo betook himself to his den, to put rome finishing touches on a little pcem ,or his scornful fair; for though he followed the sea and "sought out many inventions" while on land, it was a poet's heart that he had laid at the feet of Elizabeth Dare. Mary and Joe were both wrong. they saw Elizabeth only when on ard. The frown she had ever ready or her true love, Joe, was intended as aiuch to discourage rising throbs within her own breast as advances on his part. One fact that fanned the lame in poor Joe's heart was that she really never wholly discarded him. le was her boy lover, the first who had made her "choeek to change temp istuously," though even for Brock rille "he had a rustio woodland air," saving been brought up on a far-,a. to which his' father had retired after his '.ailure in business. Elizabeth did not scruple to call him "backwoodsy" when in lofty nood, and she vowed that his sailor Iwing, since he had gone to sea, was mo improvement. Therefore he stood little chance in a crowd. But alone, ander the greenwood tree, or rowing her about among the fairy isles, he resumed his sway. So he listened hopefully to Mary's picnic project. Always, between her various flirta lions, Joe Crerar had his innings. 'here was a take-it-for-granted devo tion permitted which she had no hesi lation in "snuffing out," as she ex pressively, if not elegantly put it, when a more eligible suitor struck her i fancy. To-day, at the picnic, she ac lually smiled upon him. "Joe, you haven't written me any i poetry for a long time." "Oh, yes, I have Bess, but I've had no encouragement to send it." "Well, never mind. Take me to i the little throne you made for me long ago, and let us hear the latest from four muse." 1 Joe only too gladly led her to the r9utio seat by the water, and throwing himself at her feet, produced his note oss book. It was filled with a medley of knowledge, for Joe was a lad of parts. "Do you remember the day you ad mitted there was a probability of your . getting to care for me by degrees?" he asked. "Did I? What a memory you havel Well?" ky "The words suggested a little song. Shall I read it to you?" s "Proceed!" ,s "Love! At first he dreams of love, And half in scorn domands, What is this little god With arrows in his hands? Love! Right speedily responds Dan Cupid with a dart; The answer home has come Into our lover's heart. SLovest? say eyes to eyes, MOore tenderly than spcoch, IIanud clasping hand replies. 0 Sweet Cupid aimed at eachl Our lover swears by warlike Harold, His godship's bow is double-barrelled!" d "That's 'real cute,' as the Yankees so say. However do you think of such es things?" u- But Joe's mind, even while rcading, to had been wandering. o "Now is my chance," said his hope - ful heart. "Bess was never so dear rn and sweet to me before." Aloud. it. "Bess, I'm going away to win fame a- and fortune: will you keep this little as haud for me till I come back?" s? "Can you trust me, Joe? You don't u- while you are near me; how will it be to when you are far away?" "I hope you will give me mbre ss cause to trust you," said Joe. "You ie will be on honor then you know." "It seems to me there's a good deal Id of taking things for granted going on," said wilful Bess, trying to summon a re frown and pull her hand away. But the hour was Joe's; he held on masterfully, saying at the same time-: "Oh, yes, let me take it for granted?" And he slipped an emerald ring on p her finger which she knew was about et his only heirloom. There was a be Id witchment perhaps in the green gleam of the jewel which completed the rn charm; be that as it may, she did let it him take her hand-for granted-and something else besides. Ah, picture 3- too fair to be realized! Locks of gold to and bronze intermingled! Eyes of blue saying to eyes of brown, "Lovest?" As they walked back slowly to reali ties Joe said tenderly: "I do not ask you, dear one, to call 't this an engagement. I love you too n well to bind you with promises till I can offer you a home and position to worthy of you. My father's debts are w nearly paid: I am in honor bound to devote my energies first to clearing h them off." e And Bess, all softness, replied: r "You are a dear, honorable, old boy. e I am afraid I shall never be worthy of n you." is "Dear heart, you are my guiding u star! It is the thought of your smile, the hope of winning you for my very e own, that nerves me for life's battle." e As they drew near -the boats, one look at her brother's face was enough - to tell his faithful little sister that it r was well with the lad; her picnic was ' a success. She found a chance to r Whisper, ere they embarked: "Has she acceptedyou?" "She has accepted my love." Elizabeth and Joe corresponded fit fully during the first year of his ab sence. It could not be otherwise, his movements were so uncertain; and for other and less good reasons, so were t Elizabeth's. The expedition had been so far suc s cessful, and already a firm foundation was laid for the fame andfortuneJoe's t soul craved. As the second year drew r to a close Elizabeth's letters ceased al r together, and Mary (she was Mrs. Mar shall now) wrote: "Do not build your hopes too high. SElizabeth is in Montreal, gayer than ever. She will look at nothing now but an oflicer, and almost outs her old t friends, so dazzled is she by the red I coats. A Major Shaw is her chief 3 cavalier at present." t Joe, knowing his lady love of old, t was not so overcome as he might have t been by this report. He determined to see how matters were for himself. He was intrusted with letters to the Government, and though his modesty i had kept the fact so far from being Sgenerally known, he was a made man. Upon reaching Montreal, he found his way without delay to the statelfy home of Elizabeth's uncle. Elijah Dare's position in the Gov ernment gave his niece the entree to the best houses in the town. At that period no city in the world was more full of enjoyments in which the young delight. Though Europeans picture Canadians as frost bound all winter, that is really their gayest season; en livened by skating, snow-shoeing, curling, sleigh-driving, with dancing worked in on every possible occasion. Three or four of the kkest 'English regiments made thingsjn ,ely that win ter; the "red coats"J. Tored briskly into all the sports arfive-ieties. Elizabeth thougt et ornfully of her sailor love as she ,,:ed with Captain Blennerhasset, h>:",:s s that he held her. arm against his orders so awk wardly as to scratch it with his decora tions. Who would not be wounded in such a cause? Her softest thought for Joe was gratitude that he had left her free. She put his grandmother's ring away in a box, ready to return it to him on the first opportunity. His letters she destroyed as soon as they were read, and feilt no fear as to her own, know ing how honorable he was. And every day Joe looked out over the lonely waters, dreaming higl dreams, and planning another worthy throne for his queen, saying softly to himself: "The sweetest woman that e'er drew breath, Elizabeth, Elizabeth!" When Joe was' ushered into the re cepition-room of the Honorable Elijah 1 Dare he was told that Miss Dare was f at home, and would see him. Pres ently' she entered the apartment, a very queen. He would have clasped r the radiant maiden to his heart but e the frown of old was in possession. His bronzed cheek blanched. "What! Is this my welcome?" he cried. She smiled coldly. "I'm glad you have come, Mr. Cre rar, for we can at once come to an un derstanding that this nonsense must end right here." And she handed him the emerald ring. "But why! What have I done?" said Joe. "I have nothing to say against you. It is your position that will not do. You are little more than a simple sailor. I wonder you do not yourself see the absurdity of your pretensions." "But," eagerly began Joe, "have you not heard-do you not know-- " He stopped abruptly; this girl must accept him for his own sake, if at all. Elizabeth held out her hand. "Let us still be friends, Joe," she said, almost pleadingly. He stepped back and folded his arms. Something in his manner startled the coquette. She looked at him questioningly. "Then you reject me, Elizabeth? You mean it?" "Yes, fully. Now you must go," she hurriedly added. "Major Shaw is waiting to esedrt me to the govern or's reception." He bowed low, almost mockingly, though he could not hide the anguish which the dying love in his heart threw up to his eyes. He simply said, as they parted: "I think you will live to be sorry for this." Why, when she found herself alone, did Elizabeth tear from her corsage the roses Major Shaw had sent her, and cast them from her as though their thorns had stung her? Sorry she began to be from that hour, for she had a heart which seemed to turn and rend her for keeping it from its rights. Sorrier she grew as the months went by, and Joe was talked of in every drawing-room as the won derful young inventor whose energy and skill had made him rich and fa mous. But her "sorrow's crown of sorrow" was worn on the day when Miss Eliza beth Dare received cards inviting her to the cathedral to witness the joining together in holy matrimony of Captain Joseph Stewart Crerar to Madeline, only daughter of Sir Angus Cameron, com mander of Her Majesty's forces in Canada. Poor Elizabeth! ANTIPATHY AMONG ANIMALS. Different Species of Beasts Dislike Each Other. The likes and dislikes of animals are unaccountable. Some horses take a violent prejudice against certain men, even though they are treated kindly and though the man's moral character is fair. Between the cat and dog there is a violent antipathy,which, however, is not frequently displayed by mutual respect, and even affection in exceptional cases. The elephant hates dogs and rats. Cows dislike dogs, and so do sheep,and,what seems stranger, are particularly partial to bears. On the other hand, horses loathe and detest camels and refuse to be de cently civil to them after long acquaint ance. They even hate the place where camels have been, which seems to be carrying race prejudice to an extreme. Evolutionists are accustomed to ex plain these instinctive feelings as sur vivals of ancestral enmities dating from the days when one race preyed on the other. This would account for the natural enmity of cows to dogs, for when cows were wild they were obliged to defend their calves from bands of predatory wild dogs. Butwhy should the horse like dogs? It is but the other day that the wild horses organ ized to defend their colts from wolves in our Western prairies. What could the ancestral horse have had against the ancestral camel of a million years ago? Above all,why should the horse approve of the bear? It must be that the horse has a dormant sense of beau ty and of humor. The ideal of the horse is grace,combined with strength. He disapproves from the bottom of his nature of the hopelessly vulgar, awkward and unaesthetical camel. The bear, he sees at once, though clumsy, is unpretentious, truthful and not de void of a sense of humor. The dog he recognizes as a good fellow, compan ionable not unselfish. He therefore forgets his ancestral predacious habits. A strong bond between the dog and the horse is that they are both fond of sport, whereas a camel would not go an inch to see the best race that was ever run. The horse does seem a little preju diced in the case of the camel, but it is a fine, aristocratic, unreasonable prejudice he has. 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