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SHS S (Copyright, 1002, by & R Crockett,) e S PN CHAPTER V., The Rond (o Keltonhill, “And now, Billy,”" aaid the wagoner, ab- ruptly dropping the manner and speech of Plerre Dubols and assuming those of Cap- tain Maurice Raith, “how came you here? 1 loft you a corporal in the Cameronians. I find you a ragged deserter, ahout to be kid- | naped and pressed into the service of the cnemy. You deserve to be had out and | shot, so far as I can see!" Billy Marshall replied in the bfbad Gall- | oway speech which a dozen years of desul- | tory military service had not overlald “Malster Ralth," he sald, “‘ye hae dune a guld turn to Billy Marshall this day an’ defl tak' him and breen him in reld pitfire gIn he forgets it. But, do you hear that?" “1 hear Willlam,” sald his lady. She was | weated buisily preparing a fowl for the pot, | which she had found straying upon the road, and had nippsd up beneath her apron | without permitting the moribund to emit even a cry of surprise. It was for this craft (among other merits) that Billy, her husband, gracfously permitted Bet to ac- company him upon his marches and cam- paigns. “Get on with your tale, Marshall,” inter- | rupted Maurice Ralth. “I bave heard noth- | ing yet to prove that you are not the de- serter I thought you at first.” | “And what for no should I no be oot on | Julst s1¢ a wee bit quiet job as your ain, captain,” insinuated the gypsy, shrowdiy. “What 1 am doing hero does not immedi- | ately concern you," said the disguised offi- cer. “I have saved you from the drill ser- | geants of King Louls. I want to bo sure before you and 1 go further whethor 1 shall have to deliver you to the halter of the quesn’s provost marshal!" The gypsy gave vent to a low chuckle. “It's easy seen that ye dare no a l‘lr‘hl‘ Galloway man, captain,” he eald, “or ye wad ken that no for a' the hangin' pro- | voste nnd cornels in the airmies or »' the queens an’ emperors and sielike In Kirsen- dom, wad Billy Marshall miss Keltonhill falr. Sno sald 1 to Cornel Grler o' the Saxand Twentieth, says I, ‘Yo ken Billy @ir, an' that if he doesna get leave to gang to Keltonhill fair, he will tak' leave and syne be hangit for his pains! And ‘he cornel, him kennin' me an’ me kennin' him, bade me drive aboot my business and ta' Bet wi' me. But he garred me swear on the crossed horn-spuves that 1 wad be back to him In three months' time. An' sac will T gin the sole o' my fact dinna wear oot on the road!" “But,” sald Maurice Raith, who knew the | conts of his rations, ever since the time when, while yet a young subaltern in “Leven's Foot,' “Colonel Ardmillan had been accustomed to 1ift her high in the alr in both hands, or ride her till she screamed with delight upon the uppers of his military boot. Yet for all her of mind as to men Frances smiled, not (ll-pleased as she thought of that day among the Namur corn, by the side of the sunken road, when at the parting of a bush of broom an eager-eyed youth of handsome aspect had stood dumb- stricken before her—the fullness of his homuge presently mounting to his brow and telling its tale in the stammering ac- tongue. Maurice Raith also smiled, as If a good angel had visited him in sleep. And so, perhaps, it was! As Frances sat at the window and watched the late moon rise, she was aware of a crouching line of dark figures that disengaged themselves one by one from the rude wall of the mountain village and stole across the space which separated the | last houses from the outer defenses. For A long moment each bowed head and bent | pair of shoulders were silhouetted against the great flattened oval of the moon as it reared “itself slowly up out of the valley mists. A gunbarrel rose black here and there. A scabbard clinked, sharply on a pebble, or in the distance as the light fell more sideways, a slant bayonet gleamed momentarily, Frances and her father had reached the country of the Cevennes in the simplest and swiftest way, by the Rhine and the Protest- ant cantons of Switzerland. The pastors of Geneva and place bad thelr own means of communi- | cating with the districts where their fellow religionists continued to make such sue- cessful head against the forces of the king and the all-puwerful church. It was easy enough, therefore, for Patrick Wellwood and his daughter to pass into the fast- nesses of the before a certain Plerre, the wagoner of Rocha-a’-Bayard and Hoo made his en- campment upon its outer margin. Novertheless that night, so mysterious are the waves of apprehension which pass across certaln sensitive spirits, Frances Wellwood, a mald of camps and barrack yards, felt something that w not the chill of the hoar frost run cold through her marrow at the sight of these dark shadows crossing the ashen oval of the moon’s dlsk. As they passed from her view she went quickly to her father's room. The door was unlatched. She went in without knock- colonel of the Cameronians and recognized that the tale was worthy of credit, “in that case what are ye doin’ here on a mountain in the very m'ddle of France? The gypsy looked at him cunningly. “It fe no' possible that we may hae your rea- sons and that 1 may hae my reasons,” he sald quickly, “there’s a sea to the south as weel as to the north of France. And th shortest cut Is whyles the langest travel!™ With which collection of proverblal lore Maurice Raith had for the time to be per- force content. By this time the horees were thoroughly wearied. The long ascent of the Causse had tried them severely, and it became necessary to rest them either at the first wayside inn which presented ftself, or to make their camp upon the open face of the desert. They were, however, so close to the disturbed reglons that tue utmost care was necessary. Maurice Raith took out a small case of arms which had been cunningly con- cealed In the sacking under the first wagon. The eyes of the gypsy glittered at the sight. “I hae naething, but this gullyknife,” he sald, n' falth, a pistol or twa doesna come wrapg whiles in this ootlandish coun- tryl” He strapped the satchel of powder and shot carcfully about his waist under his tattered blue blouse with chuckles of un- concealed satisfaction. “Mind,” eald Maurice Raith, ‘“none of your caird tricks here! Ye are to threaten nore, take no man's purse, put no wayfarer in fear. You are to consider yourself un- der my orders as much it you were in the camp of my Lord Marlborough himself. And more, in word and deed, ye are to treat me as Plerre Dubols, the wagoner of Roche-au-Bayard and Hoo, who has picked you up on the way." ‘With this he strode off to test the kal- ters and heel ropes of his horses. For the true Caussenards, Camisard and Cadets of the Cross allke were famous horse stealers, | and every stable In the limestone country had two doors, one which opened outward and the other inward, and that in spite of drawn bolts and shot bars. 8o Maurice Raith, till he should find him- self safe in the camp of the Camisard lead- ers, preferred to stable his horses at the sign of La Belle Etoile, and guard them himself with his pistols upon his knees. Maurice wrapped his cloak closely about him and sat sleepless, listening to the volces of the night. It was almost the first time he had had time to think since hoe loft the camp of the allles before Na- mur. He had dealt severely with Billy Marshall, as he told himselt for the good of his gypsy soul, but he knew the good qualities of the some time corporal of Ca- meronians, his courage, fdelity and strength, his unswerving purpose and ready resource in time of danger. Maurice resolved that Billy should not seo Keltonhill fair this year it possible, but bide with him upon the perilous tablelands 'of the Cevennes if money or love could keep him there. The stars swung silently overhead, de soribing their longer or ehorter circles round the polar star, and Maurice con- tinued to look 1into the gray, indefinite waste of nothingness. His mind went back involuntarily to the glowing vision he had seen among the corn that above the Meuse—the light, girlish figure, the lips as- tonishingly red, the eyes bluer than the skies, at once sapphire-dark and diamond- bright. Would he ever see her again? A volee seemed to speak from very far away. 0 back and see that my lord's letter: are prettily copied or you will b» whipped! Then it was that Maurice Ralth slept and as he slept he dreamed, and as h dreamed he smiled CHAPTER VI, The Mysteries of Love. Perhaps, for who knows the mysteries of the influence of soul on soul, the dream of the night which descended upon Maurice Raith as he sat with his pistols on his knees wrapped in his cloak upon the tufted scalp of the Larzac had overpassed a mile oF (wo of mis'y frost-scented darkness from & little double-windowed roof-chamber where sat a girl, her chin sunk in the joined palms of ber hands, her bare dim- pled ¢ tina lazily upon the sill Flower-o'-the-@orn meditated and her meditation was sweet to her, as a free hearted malden's ought to be Flove: “the-Corn's world wad exclu- sively a woold of men. Yet of all these she kaew but one well—her father. As for the ks the stern-faced veterans of Ardmil Jan's regiment circled her about like a wall She was watched and guarded like @ virgin citadel. She might have been spoilt by a Neews. Firs Motl Bh. P B Fiodwas & Co. Capitol ave. Chas Marve 812 Go [y Kostorys, 608 So. ANA ®.. Omada. ageats. too ready service and homage had she not teen accustomed to these as te her daily ing and, pausing a moment on the threshold to listen in vain for his breathing, at last entered on tiptoe. The bed intact. It had not been slept in. “He {8 not here!" she murmured, step- ping back quickly. Frances had bound her father by a great oath not to go out aloné and wander about hour after hour as was his habit—ever since he had well nigh been shot by one of the camp sentries at a former slege of Namur. “Either he has broken his word or has taken to dreaming again,” she.murmured to herselt unhappily. Frances stood a moment thinking swittly. Then she went to the corner of her cham- ber and, taking dovn a dark fold of Spanish lace, threw it about her head, drawing it round her neck in the manner of a man- tilla. Then, sincé the night promiced to be cold, she drew her father's great cloak about her. The window was high, and save to an athlete impossible, though in all eon- sclence the stone work of the old wall built by the Templars was crumbling enough. But Frances Weliwood knew an- other way of it. Her father had gome out, and by the same road he had taken she could descend also. She was positive he had pot passed her door—she had been too wide awake. She remembered, however, that the low archway which her father used for an en- trance Into his prayer niche had a door that opened somewhither, and accordingly she turned back there and set her hand upon the latch, easily pushing the fron- bound portal open. She came up against the outer dark as against a wall and found herself at the head of an outside stair, which (as {n many of the houses of the castern part of her nmative land) connects the second and even the third story of houses in the Cevennes with the ground. When she had time to look, lo! the stars were blinking merrily. The heat haze in the valley had altogether vanished and there was a smell and plerceing breath of frost abroad. Still there was melther sight nor sound of her tather, Frances stood still as death while on might count twenty, listening. Every- where there was great silence. The black windows of the Mamisard village beneath seemed to be spying upon her. The streets of La Cavalerie were narrow, irregular and drowned {n deep shadow. The moon, grown old and sickly of aspect, seemed unable to make her pale beams penctrate. Her light sifted down scarce brighter thar’ so much | starshine. But Flower-o'-the-Corn had set her hand to the plow, and she would not go back. Resolutely she drew her cloak about her and set forth to look for her father. He had taken his little red double-volume Cov- enanter’s Bible with him. She had made | sure of that. So it appeared to Frances | that the errand upon which he had gone must-be a religlous one. Indeed at that | hour, and in that place, it was not likely | that he would have gone forth on any other. But the old fighting blood of the man who had ridden with Grey of Cryston and the two Camerons ai Ayremoss might possibly have persuaded h'm that it was still & re- liglous duty to hew Agag in piecos before | the Lord. In short, Patrick Wellwocd's mission might very weli be religious with- out being at all pacific Swittly and lightly she glided up ome | narrow close »nd down another, till she | tound herselt within the outer belt of gar- dens whose multitudinous intersecting ! walls made such excellent forecove~ to | these Puritan peasants, militant among the | high Cevennes. | She had often enough found her way out !of the labyrinth by day. It was a task more dificult by night. But with a keen | sense of direction (whem outside of the | walls of a house), Flower-o'-the-Corn | presently suceceded in sur-jounting the last stone dyke, and stood in the last diteh, or dry trench rather, which defended the forti- fied village of La Cavalerie, A little to the left, upon a low carthen rampart, Frances could see the head and shoulders of a sentinel. At times she could hear the bagpipe drone of his chanted | psalm! Anon there came a metilic sound as he grounded his plece on the battle- ments and gazed away northward, motion- less as those pailid limestone pinnacles on the sky line Frances continued to crouch gquietly in the ditch till the man bad taken himself {oft to the other end of his bvat. His { watch tonight was doubtless somewhat per- | functory, knowing as he did that th> greater | part of the effective fighting force of the { village was out upon the Cause. | At last the chant ct his psalm, lilted in lc.mmu tashion with coplous grace noles | { MARCH 1, the political leaders of that | levennes nearly a month | 1905. —_— and quavers, grew faint in the distance Frances caught up her cloak and skirts and sped hastily across the sparse grass of the sheep pasturo in the track of the expedi | tion she had "seen leave the village so silently The moon was for the time being behind a cloud and shone through various thin vlaces here and there, itke a lantern that 18 moved to and fro in a tent. There was no trail to be followed upon the dusty, pebble-strewn grayness of the limestono upland. But as the dark figures took their way across the moon's disk, Frances had almost involuntarily observed that a long, low, jagged scarp of limestone showed 1ike & broken too‘h against the ris- ing moon, also in the line of their march. This now appeared ver; obvious imme- diately in front of her, lying pallid and un- earthly right across her path, the moon's rays striking mistily upon it. Flower-o'-the-Corn felt a sudden terror overpower her. She was, of course, armed as usual. But there seemed to be some daunting influence abroad tlat night upon the face of the waste. It was so high up under the moon that somehow spirits of good and etil alike might be expected to | choose it as their natural playground in preference to the warm, homely, farm-be- at night and cocks crowed clarionlike In the dawn. Frances stole on into a little circle of blanched and moonlit crags which rose out of the bald plain, casting long flat shadows, like a lunar crater. There—there—quite near her, because the circle of pallid rocks measured nowhere more than 200 yards across, were men who crawled nearer and nearer to a certain point on the opposite face of a natural amphi- theater. Suddenly on a rock, flat on top like a t bel, she saw a man spring erect and throw up his hands. He showed black against a slate-blue horizon. Instantly here and there half a dozen shots went off, clanging loudly among the rocks and reverberating from {nnumerable narrow gorges. The dark crawling figures raised themselves erect and rushed upon a group of wagons and | horses encamped some distance out on the plain. It seemed to be no surprise, for flashes of fire met them here and there as they came. There was no shouting on either side. Only a knot or two of dark bodies writhed and struggled om the ground, and anon grew still. The camp of Plerre, the king's wagoner, was in the hands of his enemies sooner than he had anticipated. He himself lay gagged and helpless while the Camisard leaders Investigated first the royal marks on his ‘wagons, then the commissions in his pock- ots, and last of all the official seals which had been set upon his casks of wine. One after thé other a dark lantern was upon the faces of the three prisoners. “Let us question the servant,” sald a tall, red-bsarded man, evidently a leader among the assallants. “We will make him tell us what the king's wine and the king's wagoners are doing here so far from the marshal's camp.” “Kill the accursed of God—I bld you, brethren, the enemies of his people!" com- manded another volce sternly. “Let them that carry the wine for the lips of evil- doers drink deep of the cup of wrath and an- :[er and trembling. Kill—I say—kil And among that throng of flerce, grave men there arose an ominous Murmuring. ““Well spoken, Castinat the Prophet. Have they spared us? Have they not slain young and old alike—the mother with the babe— gray hair and goldflocks? Kill! The ac- cursed of God shall not live half their days!” The tall man with the red beard had meantime been Interrogating the EyDsY. But he could not get Billy Marshall beyond the muttering of threats and oaths in an unknown tongue which sounded profane to his questioner. “I can make nothing of him. He is elther A fool or a madman,” he said at last, ris- ing up from his knees. ““What is your will, men of the bond? Shall these die? “Aye, let them die!" eried the crowd, pressing flercely forward each with a weapon n his hand. But before a weapon could be unsheathed, the light figure of Flower-o'-the-Corn flashed through between them. “Stay!" she cried, “Brothers of the Bond. These men are innocent—at worst they are but servants of those who do us evil. Re- member him who sald that all they who take the sword shall perish by the sword. And who restored the ecar of the high priest's servant which Simon Peter cut oft!” This appeal was precisely that which was best suited to influence the men about her. Frances Wellweod was not her father's daughter for naught. “I ask nct that the two men and tho woman should go free,” she cried. “Take them back to the village with all their horses and gear. Then if they have done evil let them die the death. But let not the Brethren of the Bond slay the inno- cent in cold blood!™ Some were for mercy and cried, “To the village with them! Let the ministers judge!” But there remained a dark-brow~d minority, men of much suffering and many travelings, eye-for-eye and tooth-for-tooth men, who continued to edge nearer to the prisoners, fingering restleasly at their ‘weapons. The quick Instinet of Frances Wellwood | caught the movement. She drew her pistol and set herself determinedly in fromt, standing almost across the prostrate bedy of Plerre the wagoner. In the small un- | certain 1ight of the lantern she saw that & cruel gag had been thrust into his mouth. She bent down and released the V-shaped twig wrapped about with a handkerchief which had been used to hold the jaws| apart. “At least let the man answer for him- self!” she cried “Who and what are you? > The wagoner was too much exhausted with his late rough experiences and pres- | ent pain to do more than lift up his finger | and point to the second of the three wagons—that which carried the largest cask of wine. It was marked with much distinctness, “For the private cellar of the | Marshal de Montrevel, a present from His | Most Christian Majesty." . “There,” sald Plerre, the wagoner, | hoarsely, “let what you find *here speak | for me CHAPTER V [ The Chief of the C; Then was scen a wonderful sight plunder of a king's wagons by the Cami peasants of the mountains. Pierre the wagorer, from where he lay | still bound (though new ungaged) upon the | rough pebbles, said hoarsely to Frances Wellwood “Tell them to knock in the upper bung, | but, for the present, to leave the lower!” | Instinctively the men obeyed, and this is | what they found. Across the whole length of the great cask, just above the lower bung- | hole, a flooring or partition bad been bullt. | Beneath in the lowermost hollow there was | still a suficiency of wine to satisty many | thirsty souls, that is, If any one had taken | the notior to tap it But above all was dry as a bone, and the Camisards, all unkindered, drew from its roomy depths, a multiplicity of arms and | gunpowder of the best British manufac- ture, Genevan Bibles and Camisard banners with various inscriptions, medicines and comforts for the wounded, togetber with a considerable packet of papers wrapped in | oflekin and indorsed as follows | To be opened only in the presence of the accredited leaders of the people calied misards. The | rd strewn valleys beneath, where dogs barked | l |10 | as those which 1 give to my own men.” | personal | that he was to report if, by mischance any- Camisards and of our own envoy and plent potentiary, Firre Dubols, presently rouller at Roche-a-Bayard and Hoo MARLBOROUGH, EUGENE By this time the small surprise party of fighting Camisards who had made the at- tack was reinforced by others, most of whom carrled lanterns and rough protected lamps of tin, such as are used In stables and barns in the countiy Frances Wellwood stood beside the man whose life she had saved. And when out of the last cask (addressed to Mons le Mare- chal de Montrevel) a small fieldplece com- pletely equipped was extracted, she became nearly as excited as the poor village folk, who, lifting their clasped hands toward the | heavens, joined with one voice in the old Huguenot chant: vah! Jehovah! Crolre en tol, c'est la vie. Ceolre en tol, c'est la vie, Amen! Amen! For the shining fleldpiece with its fn- scription in letters of gold: “To our feliow religionists struggling for liberty. From their brethren of the States General of Holland,” seemed to bring these poor Ignorant peasants, driven and barried by the great and powerful of their own folk into one company with the whole church of the First Born, militant on earth. At last they knew that they were not alone. | The glitter of the polished steel barrel w more convineing to them than many em- bassies. The Lord's folk, embattled on their flelds, remembering Sion by other Babylonlan waters, were not unmindtul of them, God's poor persecuted remnant on the Cevennes. The process of disintegrating Plerre's stores was almost concluded when, with the fast brightening light of the autumn morning, breaking in waves of rose and crange up out of the eastern valley whence the eun must rise, there appeared two men upon the sceme. As they came in sight Flower-o'-the-Corn recognized the taller of the two as her father and ran to him fleet- toot ‘Where have you been?" she cried. “Why did you not tell me you were going away? Are you returned safe and sound?" “I am well—a little fatigued, mayhap, with being so long upon my feet,” said the old man, patting ner soft cheek; “but very greatly is my soul enriched within me. This night I have seen cause to sing songt of de- liverance." The dawn grew brighter, a cool, lucid clearness. Frances looked about her with | cager curiosity to see the face of the king's wagoner, Plerre of Roche-a-Bayard and | Hoo. But to her disappointment he had with- drawn himself with the companion wao had arrived with the old minister upon the camping ground. The two were walking at some distance from the busy throng, who, with the somewhat surly assistance of Billy Marshall and his wife Bet, were now har- nessing the horees In the wagons in order to convey the whole within the defenses of the village. But with the swift recognition and ac- knowledgment wherewith men of power visit each other, through all disguise this young man had seen that Plerre the wag- oner was other than he seemed. The two withdrew together, and in five minutes the sealed ollskin parkage of instructions had passed from hand to hand. With the swift elan with which he did | everything, the young man was about to tear it open, when rice Raith directed his attention to the superscription, written in my Lord Marlborough’s own hand. “To be opened only in presence of the Accred- ited Leaders of the People called Cami- sard: The young man laughed lightly, and even a little scornfully. “Ask them," he said, with a wave of the hand to the men of La Cavalerie, “the Camisards have but one leader, and the name of him Is Jean Cavalier." He bowed a little mockingly as he spoke. The disgulsed wagoner of Roche-a-Bay- ard and Hoo fell back in astonishment. “You——," he cried, “you! Why, you are but a boy. You are never that Jean Cav- aller before whom the best generals of France—the Marshal de Montrevel him- 10— “No—not 1,” raid the young man, gravely 1ifting his hat, “of a truth, not I But the God of Battles. He haih given us the vic- tory! I myself am nothing. The men are good fellows and willing, but with little knowledge. Still—they will follow, and so the great thing is that someone shoud lead. I do as well as another. Never have I seen a hope so forlorn that I could not find ten men to follow me. And you, who are a soldier, know that when ten men arrive upon any one place, if there are ten there already, there is not room for twenty. One band or the other must leave. That is all! “You have enunciated a great military truth,” said Maurice Raith, “and one which my Lord Marlborough constantly practices in his campaigns. But I have one thing to k of you, General Cavaller—" “I am no general,” Interrupted the youth, flushing a little, “only a poor lad of the Cevennes. I claim no rank cnd use aonm “You had, I think, something to ask me?" added Cavalier, as if unwilling to discuss the subject furth “Only this,” sald Maurice Raith. *I have made you acquainted with my rank anC cre- dentials. You know that I am fully em. powered to treat by the allies. It will, as you must perceive be most hampering to me to be known for what I am. Let me re- main, save to you and those whom you deign to homor with your confidence, no wore than poor Plerre the wagoner of Bra- bant.” “Your incognito shall be safe with me," sald Cavalier, courteously, “I see your point. You have to carry our answers back to the duke, and it may be (if things march prosperously), return here again to these mountaln (ops. I give you my word that your wish shall be respected.” vertheless, you will guard my repeated Maurice, anxiously, “and especially (I have my reasons for asking from the Genevan minister presently sojourning with you, pasteur Wellwood.” There was an unmistakable alr of relief on the face of the young leader of the C: misards as he gave the promise required of him. “You will not take it ill, then,” he sald, “if after this occasion I treat you some- what distantly and if my orders are even | “I thank you," sald Maurice Raith. “I have been for a long season under the orders of my Lord Luke, and heaven knows they are plainly enough ex- pressed.” The two young men laughed and parted Cavalier calling after himr that all his per- sonal properties would be found in the bles of the Templars at La Cavalrie, and thing was lacking. “I do mot wish,” he said, “that when you return to your masters you should be able to Teport to them that we of the Cevenmes are thieves and robbers!"” Whereupon Pierre of Rocha-a-Bayard and Hoo saluted and fell in st the tail of his displenished wagons. The young Ca- misard leader looked about him for his companion of the might. The fastor wi standing in close speech with his daugh- ter. CONDITION OF ONAHA'S TRADE Ali Kinds of Sensonable Goods Moved Vory Freely Last Weok. JOBBERS REPORT GAINS OVER LAST YEAR General Tendency of Prices Decldedly Upward and a Number of Import- Advances Have Re. cently Taken Effect. There was a lively movement last week of all seasonable lines of goods. The city was tyll of buyers and as a general thing thelr orders were very liberal. A good many new faces were noted among the ur. rivals and as practically all of them bought thelr stocks before leaving, the city job- bers naturally felt that they had made new friends. ‘Several large opening stocks were also sold last week which helped ma- terlally to swell the total volume of bus- iness.” Wholesalers and manufacturers i all lines agree that spring trade so far this year has been the best ever experienced and, more than that, it has far exceeded thelr expectations, which Is saying a good deal when it is remembered that it was generally predicted that the spring demand or 1003 would break all previous records. A good trade is expected for this coming week and In fact present Indications polnt to a continued liberal demand throughout the season. Advance orders are also coming forward as freely as could be expected this early in the season and with average crops job- bers expect a big fall demand. They have placed their orders with manufacturers as though big crops were assured and they are going to carry larger and more com- plete stocks than they did last fall. Prices are still In ‘a very firm position on practically all kinds of goods. During the week under.review a number of im- portant advances have taken effect and present indications point to_firm markots for some time to come. Manufacturcrs are finding a ready market for all the goods they can turn out and in_fact are largely oversold, 8o that local jobbers are still having a hard ‘time to get prompt de- liveries. Frelght s also moving slowly the same as it has been for some time past, 8o that there Is more or less delay all along the line. So far, however, re- tallers have been caused no great incon venience, but it remains to be seen how the late’ buyers will fare. Another Advance in Sugar, The grocery market Is In a very strong position, with the tendency of prices cldedly upward. The demand is very brisk and local houses are working their full force to keep, thelr orders filled up to d Another advance of 6¢c in the price of sugar went into effect last week. This adva.c covered che entire line. The demand I3 reported on the increase and an active and strong market s looked for. There has been very little change sifce last report in the rcanned goods situation There 1s, however, a little better demand for corn’ and some sales have becn m that would necessitate an advance of 51 per dozen in the selling price. The can- ners almost without exception have with drawn thelr prices on future corn, and where they are offering quotations are 5@M4c per dozen higher than the oper ing prices. There is also a better demand for drie fruits than there was a Short time ngo but the market 13 without material changs su far as quotations go. Some lines are getting In very light supply and particu. arly {s that true of prunes. It is thought that any great increase in the demand would result in an advance of prices e coffee market is still In a very strong position and prices on both green ang roasted coffees have advanced igc. The Lrediction is being freely made that prices will rule still higher in the futare. As predicted a week ago, the market on sYTup is in a very strong position and an advance of 4 scales went into effcet last Friday. Manufacturers are largely over- #old and many of them are not taking or- ders to be shipped at an earlier date thin the last week in March. Those who are best posted on the situation say that mer- chants cannot go wrong by placing their orders at present prices. The Lenten demand for fish is now in full swing and jobbers say that it lnoks as though the demand would be unusully large. There is a giod supply, however, of all kinds unless it be of mackerel, which it is thought will be well cleaned up be- fore the new catch comes on the market next July, and July fish is of, course not considered the best There has been no change in y 2 Br i e ge in prices during the week e woodenware market is very strong and in fact several advances have taken effect since last report. Jobbers look for still higher orices in the near future and are advising their friends to place their orders at present quotations. Lively Demand for Dry Goods. Dry goods jobbers experienced a very lively demand last week for all spring lines, There were fully as many buyers In the glty as at any former time this season and as°a result all hands were kept busy walt ing upon the customers. The general im. Rl’vsslnh now is that the most of the heavy uyers have placed their first orders and that there will be a little slackening in the demand from this time on. A brisk trade, though. is expected throughout the season. for although merchants bought very ‘freely, an enormous trade is looked for in the country which, if it mu. terialises, will soon reduce. merchan stocks to a point where they will have to place additional orders. This coming week jobbers intend to start their men out with fall samples and from the way merchants talk, salesmen expect to do & good business from the first. Tho scarcity of many lines of fall goods and the upward tendency of valies will, of course, make merchanms _buy e: they would otherwise. They res there is danger of a short, covsiderable higher prices and as none of them care to be caught short, traveling men hope to break all previous records the number of advance orders they w take in the next few weeks. The cotton goods market is still in a very strong position and in fact there wus quite a boom last week and nearly all staple lines were more or less affected. Those who arc best posted look for continued firm markets for some time to come and are very con- fiaent that early buyers will make no mis- . as every nts to higher prices in the future. e " e Advance in Wire and Nails. The ollll.‘ important change in the hard- ware market last week was an advance in wire nails amounting to 0c per cwt. This advance was not exactly unexpected, as it Wwas announced some time aga that there would be several advances during the spring months. Other lines of hardware are guoted as being In a strong positio: but there have been no changes of im: portance since last report. Local jobbers experienced a very nice de- mand last week and say that spring busi- ness is starting out in very promising man- ner. Everything now points to a big tra for the next several months and in fact more stock is moving out than there was year ago. There is no special feat.ire tn the trade, as the demand covers practically the entire line of seasonable goods. Rubber Clothing in Demand. Rubber goods jobbers report & brisk d« mand for Tubber clothing. s wel a8 1.+ footwear. The rainy and sloppy weather of last week caused all kinds of epring rubber to sell freely in the country ana jobbers also experienced a good demand. Whol salers who handle clothing say that with & normal spring they will sell more stock this season than ever before. Macintoshes a4 that line of goods are becoming mor. popular every year and as people have plenty of money this year, jobbers figure {hey will spend some of it for rubber cloth ng. There has been no change in the situation for fall rubbers. Traveling men are book ing a good many orders and so far as re- ported prices are being well maintained h no prospects of any weakness. Whole salers look for merchants to soon change their tactics and begin ordering their feil stocks freely. eather goods trade is also of very tory pruportions. A g0od many re coming to market and are plac- Ing very nice orders. They renort the pros- pects for spring trade as belng very flatter- ne. Fruits and Pr Fruits and vegetables moved out quit freely last week, but on most staple lines there was very little change in prices. There was, however. guite an advance in green stuff, owing 1o the killing frosts in the south, ‘that destroyed & large propor- tion of the cTop of green onions, radishes, spinach and that class of garden truck Very little stock was received on this mar- ket ‘and the few shipments that did arrive 30l at fancy prices as compared with those that were in force the week before There was not enough to supply the locui demand, so that very little was tent to As Maurice Raith glanced back over his shoulder young Cavalier crossed toward them, walking quickly and eagerly. The sun rose (To be continued.) Publish your legal notices in The Weekly Bee. Telepbone 238 the country. It is not known yet what turn prices will take In the near future, but dealers rather expect more liberal re- ceipts in a short time. e egg market has fluctuated up and down to some extent this week, the price depending upon the receipt: It o lakes one or two stormy days 10 strengthen the Mrk':.mb.:'m‘l‘x) The poultry a butter marke ave shown very Uttle change the week. " ad