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-----"‘ Steel replied. "Who is speakiag to
trier
!!That for the present we lieed not
go into," said' the moeking veice.
As certain olcl-fashioned conteenpor-
tirles. of yours ivould say, 'We ineet
as strangers!' Sti•anger yet, you 'are
quite alone! .
"I em quite alone. Indeed, I ain
theonly one up in the hoUse."
"Good. I have told the exchange
people not to ring off till I have
finished with you. One advantage
of telephoning atthis hour ie that
one is tolerably free from interrup-
tion. So your mother is asleep?
Have you told her what is likely, to
happen to you before many hours
have elapsed?"
Steel made no reply for a moment.
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The Pria of Libuty
•!,
OR, A MIDNIGHT CALL
i
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CHAPTER I.
David. Steel dropped his eyes from
tbe mirror mid shuddered as a man
who sees his own soul bared for
first the mirror
t reeeaseseesessie
bill and doubled the amount for s x
months' delay, Re was restless and ill at ease to have taken," sas•s she, moving the
And all this because he had becoine night, and it . seeme'd just possible • books about a little iudiscriminate-
surety for an abseondiug brother. that his imagination was playing' ese
Steel had had put his pride ia his pocket him strange tricks. But no. In
r-ele "Vory.''
Re comes back from the window,
and faces lier from the other side
of the table.
"Yes. We are free." liter air is
quite. as •cold as before, yet SOMC-
hew ho isubws that there is a change
in it, a subtle change.
"Entirely free."
"I'm so glad," says Hilary, with.
careful dignity., "Because, once hav-
ing decided that a marriage between
us would be madness, I telt that
perhaps I was doing you sin. injus-
right •(only because they, hed asked
her), it was but an hour ago indeed
that sho, had rebelled. She Med
found the task too hard tor bean
Now the task .is at an end. Won't
rhe be delighted!
Meantime they have left the study,
-0.40. unary. and Key time to face.
deadly silence ensues, • ...Wet
reigns within this room. Ker ie
looking out of the window, end
Riflery is trifling with a book or two
on the table. She has told herself,.
oho ()Sight to go, but still -one or
two words milst be spoken, One
should bid even . the worst people
adieu when °tie has elient an, ..hour
or so with them. One should nevei.‘
be i•utie,
"Inlet a fortunate turn things
the time. And. yet
Was in itself a 1.1iityg of artietie beau- and interviewed his creditor, a little, IlIoorieli clock in Ito frame of cele-
ty-engraved Florentine glass in a polite, mild -eyed 'financier, Naho brities droned the quarter after
frame of deep old Flemialt oak. The
bevelist had purchased it in Bruges,
and now it stood as a joy and a
thing of beauty against the full red.
wall over the fireplace, And Steel
had glanced at himself therein and
Seen murder in liis eyes. to -morrow he could levy execution.
He dropped into a chair with a Within a few hours the bottom would "No man has elver'. told me se-
a -roan for his own helplessness. Men fall out Of the universe so far ae lace to face." • . -
have done that kind of thing before Steel was concerned. 'Within a few "Good again. I . recognise the
when the cart•ridffes are all gone and hours every butcher and baker and lightingring in yoor voice. If you
the bayonets ale twisted and hroken candlestick -maker would come abue lack certain phases of moral courage
eively for his bill. Steel, who could yon are a man of pluck and resource.
' Now, somebody whcs'is very dear to
me is at present in Brighton, not,
very far from your own house. She
is in 'clire need of assistance. You
also are in dire need of assistance.
Wo can be of mutual . advantage to
one another."
"What' do you mean by that?"
Steel whispered. "I wept you • to
help my friend, and in return I will
help you. Bear in mind that I am
asking you to do nothing wrong. If
you will promise me' to go to a cer-
tain address in Brighton to -night
and see my friend, I promise that be-
fore you sleep. the sum of 41,000 in
Bank of England notes shall be in
your possession." •
No reply came from Steel. He
Coidd not have spoken at that men
ment for the fee -simple of Golconda.
Re could only hang gasping to the
telephone. Many • a Strange and
weird plot came . and went in that
versatile brain, but never one more
wild than this. Apparently. no re-
ply Was . expected, for the speaker
resumed :-.• .
f '1 ara asking you to do no wro-rbg.
You May naturally 'desire to know
why my friend does not COME to
moodily gazing at his flowers and you. That must remain my secret,
ferns. Row every leaf there wes our secret. We are trusting you be -
pregnant with association. There cause we knoNv you to be a gentle -
was the Moorish clock droning the roan, but we have enemies who are
midnigat hour. •When Steel had ever on the watch. All Youhave to
brought that clock— de is to •go to a certain place and
"Ting, ting, ting. Pring, pring, give a certain woman information.
pring, pring. Tiag, ting, ting, you are thinking that. this is a
ting." strange mystery. Never was any-
13ut Steel heard nothing. Every- philosophy. Are you agreeablet
thing seemed as silent as the grave. "
it was only by a lcind of inner The mocking tone dieSI out of the
mean,
clear 'voice until it was al-
most pleading. . .
"You have taken. Me at • a clutad-
vknanot,va—,
ge,'", Steel said. "And you
(To be Continued,).
inetiet to have his money to the ut-
termost farthing.. At first he had
been, suave and sympathetic. until he
had discovered that Steel had debts
elsewhere, and then—
Well, he had signed judgment, and
twelve; the scent of the Dijon roses
floated in from the coneervatory,
"I have told nobody as yet," Steel
said. hoarsely.. "Who in the. name
of Heaven are you.
• "That in, good time. But I did
not think you were a coward."
and the brown waves of the loacome
snarling over tho breastworks. And
then they die 'doggedly with the
Atones in their hands, and cursing
the tardy, supports that brought this
black shame upon them.
33ut Steel's was ruin of another
kind. The man was a fighter to his
lieeer-tips. He ha.d dogged deter-
mination and splendid physical cour-
age; he had graduall,ss thriist his way some way out of the difficulty. EV011
Mt° the front rank of living eaeseS his mother didn't know. She was
ists, though the taste of poverty was asleep upstairs, perhaps Streaming of
still bitter in hie in,outh.. 'Arid how her son's greatness. What would the
` good success was now that it had dear old nutter say when she knew?
come!
People envied him. Well, that
was all in the sweets of the victory.
They praised his blue china, they
lingered before his Oriental dishes
and the choice pietures on the pan-
elled walls. The whole thiug was
still a constant pleasure to Steel's
• artistic mind. The dark walls, the
old oak and silver, the red shades,
and tho high!, artistic fittings sooth-
ed him and pleased him, and played
upon his tender imagination. 'And the table under the grn.ceful elect=
behind there was a study, filled with stand that
a . Steel had designed him -
books and engravings, and beyond :self• • He snapped off the light as if
that again a conservatory, filled the sight pained him, and strode in -
with the choicest blossoms. goal to his study. For a time he stood
could work with the passion flowers
above his head and the tentier grace
of the tropical ferns about him, and
he could, reaCh his left hand .for his
telephone and • call Fleet Street to
his ear.
It was all unique, delightful, the
dream of an artistic soul realized.
Three years before David Steel had
Worked in an attic at a bare deal
fable, and his mother had £3 per
week to pay for everything. Usually
theee was balm in this recollection. ecieusness that he knesv the hour to
But not to -night, Heaven help him, be midnight. Midnight meant the
not to -night! Little grinning glexn- coming of the last day. After sun -
ons were dancing on the oak corni- rise some greasy lounger pregnant of
ces, there were mocking lights gleam- cheap tobacco would come in and as-
ing from Cellini tankards that Steel sumo that he represeuted tho sheriff,
lian given far too much money. for. bills would be hung like banners on
It had not seemed to matter just at the outward walls, antis then—
the time. If all this artistic beauty "Pring, pring, pring. Ting, ting,
had emptied Steel's purse there was :Wig, tang, tingl ting, ting. Pring,
a golden. stream coming. What mat- pring, pring."
tered it that the local tradesmen 1 13e11s, somewhere. Like the ' bells
were getting a little restless? The in the valley where the old vicarage
great expense of the novelist's life :usiel to stand. Steel vaguely won -
was past. In two years he would 1 dered who now lived in the house
be rich. And the pathos of the 1 where he was born. He was staring
thing was not lessened by the fact :in the most absent way at his tele -
that it was true. ls-b two years' l•plione, utterly unconscious of the
time Steel would be well off. Re !shrill impatience of the little voice.
was terribly short of ready money, Ille saw the quick pulsation of the
but he had just finished a serial , striker and he came back. to ' earth
story for which he was to be paid !again.
I
£500 within two months of the de- Jefferies of the `Weekly Messenger,'
livery of the copy; two novels of his of course. Jefferies was fond of a
were respectively in their fourth and pate chat on the telephone. Steel
fifth editions. But these novels of , wondered, grimly, if Jofferies would
his he had more or. less given away, °lend him 41,000. He flung himself
and he ground his teeth as he :down in a -deep lounge chair and plac-
thought of it. Still, everything ed the receiver to his ear. By the
spelt prosperity. If he lived, DaVid4deep, hoarse, clang of• the wires, a
Steel was bound to become a rich long-distance message, assuredly.
trlith. "From London, evidently. Halloo.;
And yet he was ruined. Within London l• Are you there?" ..
London responded that it was. A
clear, voice spoke at length.
"is that you, Mr. Steel? Are you
ready. And all for the want of £1,- quite alone? Under the mecum -
000 I Steel had earned twice that stances you nee not busyto-night ?"
amount during the past twelve Steel started. He had never heard
months, and the fruits of his labor the voice before. It was clear and
were as balm to his Soul about him. soft and commanding, and. yet there
Within the next twelve months he was just a suspicion of mocking
eould pay the debt three times over. •irony in it.
Be would cheerfully have taken the "I'm not to-night,"
have faced a regiment, recoiled fear-
fully from that. Within a, week his
oak and silver would have to be sold
and the passion dower would wither
on the walls.
Steel had licit told anybody yet;
the strong man had grappled with
his trouble alone. Had he been 0.
man of business he might have found
Well, she had been a good mother to
bine, and it had been a. labor of
love to furnish the house for her as
for himself. Perhaps there would be
a few tears in those gentle oyes, but
no more. Thank God, no reproaches
there.
David lighted a, cigarette and pac-
ed restlessly round. the dining -room.
Never had he appreciated its quiet
beauty more than he did now. There
were flowers, blood -red dowers, on
thing stranger dreamt of in your
twenty-four hours everything would
pass out of his hands. To all prac-
tical purposes it had done so al -
11111...1.0.1.•••••
very busy.
Trouble With
The Kidneys
Alarnents of the IViost Painful Nature Result—Prompt
Cure Comes With the Use of
Dr„ Chase's Kidney -Liver Pills
From every Past of this broad land
come letters of recomMendation for
Dr, Chase's Kidney -Liver Pills.
• They *teem to be Well suited to
the needs of many people, who ob-
tain no benefit from ordinary kidney
Medicines.
When you wait to think of the
hosts of cures they are making it is
no wonder they have such an enorm-
ous sale.
Mrs. Caswell Iteid,
icolca, Grit., writes: --"For nearly
tWenty, years Was troubled with
kidney disease and Miro recently
betel cennpletely aired by Using three
boxes of Dr. Chase's Kidney -Liver
Pills. I have tried a great many
roan:dies, Wit never seemed to got
aaything to do Me MUch good Mail
I used these pills."
Mr. John Ciettrin, an Cad resident
or Thorold, Ont., states: -"Por twen-
ty years was badly afflicted with
'kidney trolibIes, iadigestion and
bladder derangenients. During that
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CHAPTER XVI. .
'Oh, Miss Hilary, I thought ye'd
nivir come! The inasther is in sich
a state! What wid seedily' to the
door for ye ivery inixtit and the ould
man in the study!"
"The old num in the study?"
'Yes, miss: Baal mild! The mis-
threes tould ma to stand on the
hall -
door -step, au' bring ye in, whinye
came, an' Misther Ker if he was wid
ye. An' sure," with a merry glance
from botw,een her roguish TriSh lids,
"where would be be but there?'' ,
"But"-ICer is standing a good
way behind, "why, bridget?"
"Fnix, I don't know, mise. Bar-
rin.' it is the ould gintlemaxi that's
the cause of it. He's from London
Town, I'm thinkins; a. sort of a
grand sort of law man, an' • it's
Something about a will, I think."
It is plain that Bridget has been
Applying her best car to the keyhole
of the study with grmit effect.
Hilary's face grows disturbed. She
turns round and beckons somewhat
haughtily to Ker. Her face is very
villAtte. appears that there is a man
here, a Tawyer, acquainted with my -
our" -reluctantly- 'aunt's will, and
he wishes to See you as well as me."
"But how --e-•?" begins Ker.
She disdains rettly, however, and
ieads.hirn to Jim's study.
* *
The interview is al; an end. "The
mad Man" has gone back to Lon-
. R h br ht tr e ews;
to get up six to twelve times nighent t- ktowevcingetrange evough to induce
time was a great sufferer and had "21' ° as oug s ang
ly ps ar. trie
doctors and him, the second partner in the great
used all sorts .',ff meth -
firm, to come all the ivay to
to aswteI ied dfft•
"Finally, I began usieg Dr, Chase's land to explain it. ' 'A second will
been discovered, written by the
eines to no avail,
Kidney -Liver Pills and soon found 11°11Lids aunt, that entirely upsets the
have
cncoura6ed con nued first terrible ono, that Would
av rig .
deetro;ved or iliade the lives of two
to use those pills and after h 1 1 This latter will ie finger, -
Hilary looks at hint, and there
impulsively going tearer to him,
lifts her head and kieses him.
"T oughtn't to take it. T oughtn't
reellYe" sa,l's she deiecterily. "I'm
tice."
"It is too good cif yoa to trouble
yoursolf...so much about mo,"
"I was troubled myself, too; .
perhaps, I should not have thought
so much -about. you. You see, nay
refusal to marry you meant your
losing a great deal of money."
"I am not so wedded to money as
you seem to imagine." -
"I did not accuse you of that. I,"
Indignantly, "only accused you of
being willing to marry rao without
loving me," •
"And what did that mean?" He
almost laughs at the absurdity of
her reasoning. And in truth she,
has lost herself a little. She .malcos
a petulant movement,. and wisely
turns the conversation. • -
"You are going back to India,
thee?"
"At once?".
"As soon as ever I can," icily.
Then, with a sudden tench of anger:
"Why do you ask me? Surely you,
Who have arranged my movementa,
aro the one who must know Most
about thane."
"I?" she looks im. ''I to arrange
your movementS?"
"Yes, you!" He goes up to her
and looks lier deliberately in 'the which are capable of producing pens -
face. "Will you tell inc yoi aro not
onous products and the poisons
sending me back to India?"
"What are you saying?" says she,
with. an attempt at hauteur ' that
fails her. To her. horror she knows
that she is trembling. Who 'am 1,
that I should arrange your reeve,
ments?"
"That is beside the question;
though," with a quick look at , lier,
"I could answer you. 'Will you tell
me that you did not refuse me?" -
"Ah! There was nothing to re-
fuse!"
"There was me."
"Yore, but not your love."
"Both! Both.! I swear it. I swear
It now, Mary, with a clear con-
science, when there is nothing :to
preverbt your believing it. I love
you. There is no girl on earth like
you, ,I think. I love you -speak to
ur,le
But Hilary cannot speak. She
makes a very brave struggle, and
then, suddenly, like any silly baby,
her hands go up to her eyes and,
to her everlasting shame, she knows
that she has burst into tears.
Dear and blessed 'tears. They tell
him all things.
Suddenly she feels herself caught
in 'his arME. Her cheek is pressed
to his. His love, on fire by reason
of these tears, has now declared it-
self; that love, which he had half
derided, has carried him pest all
control. Like a tide it rushes on,
sweeping away all obstacles, dashing
straight to the goal of its desires.
• Hilary, in the midst of this whirl,
loses herself •a, little. Instinctively
she clings to hira. From. the very
first she had felt a certain sympathy
with Ker. Now she knows she loves
him.
* *
"Now what was it all about?"
asks- Ker five minutes later. "I
•think you needn't have been. so very
hard .on me, just becaise I happened
to be a bit late."
"Oli, no. We won't talk about it
any More," says Hilary, smiling at
hint it is true, but letting a little
sigh escape her. .
"Yes we will though. I can see by,
your eyes it is not all right ,yet."
"Well, I'll tell you the truth, Fred.
I," blushing hotly, "didn't like to
think you had found Mrs. Dyson -
Moore more attractive than me."
"Mrs. Dyson -Moore! Heavens and
earth! a thousand Mrs. Dyson -
Moores wouldn't have kept me from
you. Why, I wasn't within. a mile
of her •all day."
"Net," faltering, "with her? Then
whereas -a?"
"I Was in Cork, and that beastly
train was of course slow. And-"
"Oli, Fred!" she springs to her
feet. "Oh, what must you think
of me?"
"I needn't tell you," laiighing,
"you know,. I went, up to Cork-- to
get yen thie:1-" He ptits hand
in his pocket. "Why? --Where Oh,
heRreepitillis!"
sPoutl'a little arise, opens it,
and taking her hand, slips an exquis-
ite ditimend ring upon her engaged
•••••••••••••••.,••••...1
WATER svrpLY or TuE PAW%
The water supply of tlie farm is ob-
tained usunlly from wells. In Ina/1X
ceses the source of supply, is fro=
shallow wells, and With these there
conies the danger of pollution. 'When
the farmer first builds his home the
water supply from the shallow well
is pure. As the soil near the well
becennes covered • with litter and
of the** who died, •$18,499; givtng
total coet of $115,619.
SFIJilEP IN ORCHARDS...
'As a general rule, when we 500 or-
chards that have been set from 30
to 50 years, and all beyond that
time, says Dr, Galen Wilson, we See
many dead limbs and branches upon
the trees and decay stamped upon
them in every feitture; Ask the
owner of them- what that means and,
the invariable answer will be that
it is old age, when the true answer
Would be starvation and neglect.,
Tho land has been cropped and the
crops removed from the orchards to
sbe
oltodps0.0aair thOethiejorusree,fUtShOe EtIrv0Atolt.hr:tiWpil.. aome inmie)oxvteenritshtehdatantirp•srouinlinhgas
plv is Subjected to contamination been neglected, until the limbs and
more and snore as each succeeding
year 4tddS U. the material absorbed
by the soil, writes Prof. J. B.'Weem.
TJltimately the soil is saturated
and the ram as it falls to the sur-
face of the ground seeks the water
make an _adequate top growth. A
level and carries with it decayed
vegetable and animal matter which healthy, prosperous life of an .or-
chard is not limited - to fifty or a
may be present in the soil through hundred years or more by any .
which the •water passes. In many
ittga‘nxtsertisieupwpleyWhat is th
well which furnishes means' .•• •
the enpest and best me -
is used to wash the milk utensils is
of the family and thou of keeping the eon of an ease
chard in e good state of fertility?
-
situated near the barnyard.. Under
certain conditions the well may have 3 claim there is no better or cheaper
been placed so that the drainage of m. ethod than. by "shoving" it; that
is, by pesturing sheep upon the land.' •
the barnaard runs directly into the
are
well, It can easily be seen that the If one has more sheep than tho
Water contalnlng' these impurities of the orchard will inaintain,liao
veta
limy be unhealthy for two reasoes; pasture' adjoining it,. beiigisure
eaclose the sheep in the orchard.
It may serve as a carrier of the
nights. so that the most of their
germ of diseases which may be pres-
droppings will be left thbre to • for-
ent in the decayed matter in the soil;
tale° the soil. The leaves of the
the water containing the products of
decomposition and putrefaction can- trees. will assume greener 'color, will
remain on the trees much later and
not but have an unwholesome effect
upon the person using it.
• the fruit will be larger, will color
.
Material which in its pure condi-
better and every -feature of the or-
ehard will evince greater thrift.
ch
tion can be used for food undergoes es. days in summer the
ernical changes"I'
when exposed to m' althilY
the action of certain bacteria and sheep will nett in the shade of • •the
poisons may be produced. apple trees, and of course, will leave
much of their droppings exactly
AhT ExAmPLE,
• where they will do the most good.
of this change which is capable of Sheep will consume the immature
and "windfall" ipples with all their.
taking place in vegetable •and animal
matter and producing
is content of larvae of Predatory in -
poisons,
ahown in pressed beef, which when sects, and will keen the base of tho
•
exposed to the action of certain bac-
STEMS OF THE TREES
teria produces a poison.. Cheese entirely- free from the unsightl,y pro -
which is made under 'certain condi- vided only that the old growth of
tions, where certain kinds of bacter- sprouts there be cleared away when,
la can grow in it, produces a poison the sheep are first turned in. Sheep
also. 2.11.ese unwholesome results and prune the • orthard and have
are produced when these peculiar bac- healthy and fruitful trees so long
teria come in contact with food ma- as you and your blood relatives of
terial, and it is necessary in order any not too remora kinship shall livo
that good health result, to prevent to enjoy the friths of your orchard
the introduction of both the bacteria and your WIS0 attention to it in
season.
• Being. a "dyed -in -the -Wool" admir-
er of sheep, I have witnessed much
of their being kept in orchards.
Years ago, when I WaS studying up
on. the subject of growing hot -house
lambe, I drove about six miles to
see an expert at the 'business and his! .
flock. I found them in his orchard.'
A few weeks previously he had plow-
ed it and sown it hr Canada peas‘as.
and oats, and at this time his sheep
were feeding upon them. He used,
hurdles, and fed off in patches, as it' -
were. The next fall, in Novembers
I called again to observe his method'
of wintering his sheep.? That season
there Was very little fruit in all this
section, owing to a late frost the
previous spring. He invited ixie in-
to his capacious fruit cellar and,
pointed out 600 bushels of great re
winter apples which he was holdin
for a better market, .and aid:s"It
believe here are more apples than.
any half dozen farms in this town-
ship could show this season, and
sheep were the cause of it." The in-
cipient fruit at the time of the frost
seemed to have the vigor and
strength to resist the frost. This.
man kept 100 ewes to grow hot-,
house lambs, and from them 'that
year he sold 107 lambs at 8 to 10
weeks of age at $6 to $11 each. And
he is still at the business. ,
branches have so outgecsivn the roots
of the trees that the latter Cannot
convey nutriment enough to the.
formo to keep them itt fair growing
condition ' even if there were new in
the starved soil enough of it to
taken twelve boxes tvas again in per- ',pate clear, 01 the ,es1s,000 a year,
feet health and vigor. I can sleep
undisturbed, the pains in the kidneys left bv the old aunt, one half 13 to
and back aro gone, and 1 ant feeling . go to Rilarir, the other hal/ to
Well and strong. I consider te. •
Frederic Ker. There are no metric-
ateoever
Chate'el Kidney -Liver Pills a great e• } • I rive m e to- sliced hot worths- of it. All the time you
Vere thinking •of
'You • were thinking 01 me, too,"
"Yes, but how?" ••-
"Never mind, you Were thinking of
ine That.'e the geeet points"
".1 certainly wee doing that -with
boon to stifferieg humaeity and had the ()Id' lawyer on his journey. They
I' kronen abeat them when I was a' law begged him to spend a, month,
young marl could have escaped stiffer- a eight; a, weelc, a day even, With
Mg. all the best years of iny life." seem, so thankful were they Inc his
Dr e Chase's Kidney -Liver Pills, intelligence, Intt all to rics elTect.
one pill a dose', .25 cents a box, at FituT4f thv tallow hint to the door,
all dealers, or itclinannori, Bates &
Clompany, Torotito. To protect you
againet imitatiene,, the portrait and
themselves, into the body.
The germs of many diseases are
widely distributed by means of wa-
ter and milk supply. It has been
known that the • epidemic of typhoid
tever has resulted from a contamin-
ated water • supply • being used for
washing the milk cans, without boil-
ing.
The open well has also been known
to become • contaminated from the
germs brought in the mud adhering
to the boots of the persons who used
the well water. These germs would
be deposited on the platform and bo
washed down by the rain into the
well. Sickness which results from
the intorduction of germs into the
body, such as typhoid, is a very
costly experience to the community.
A few years ago the city of Ply-
mouth, Pa., had an epidemic. • The
population of the city wee 8000.
There were over 1000 cases an.d 100
deaths from it.
The cost to the Community was es-
timated as follows : Loss of wages
of those who recovered, $30,020;
care of sick, $67,800; yearly earnings
• "Your first!" she pauses, and quite
a distressed •change grows on her
face. "Oh, not your first! Fred -my
florin! That WAS your first! Oh! how
could you throw it away like that?
Do you think we shall be able • to
find it again'?"
."1.1 not," laughing, "I can. give
you smother." • •
"011, no. That or no -other. I'm
.suie I know the spot where it tell, of 'the plant,. After the leaves 'coma
She stops short, and colors mence to blights nothing can • cure
violently,.• ' them, but a person will be able • to
"You wliat9 tfe takes her hands prevent the disease from goiug down
POTATO SPRAYING.
The spores of potato blight aro
carried through the air, and•fall on
the leaves during the last of • July
to August 1 for the late blight. They
soon -germinate and -enter the tiseues
and presses his lips to her palms.
Perhaps he knows what is coming.
"I watched where it fell; I meant
to go back and pick it up." says she
bravely, but blushinguntil the tears
coin° into her eyes.
"What? Even when you thought I
was going away forever?"
"Not a bit of it," says Ker, clos-
ing his arins round her.• "I'll tell
you what you thought -what • you
knew -that nothing on earth would
induce ate to go away, so long as a
shred of chance remained to me that
you would still relent arid marry
me!"
"I didn't know that. No Mcleod. I
fweoltulsdurgeottou didn't care -that you
•
"Well, you know now?"'
• "Yes, • and I wonder at it," says
She. still in an extremely abased
fraine of mind, "considering • how
bad I• have been to you all along."
"I am' a wrOnged man; I acknow-
ledge that,", sase; Ker. "As there
was to be an. alteration in the will,
1 wish all the money had been left
to me,", .
"Flow grecelsr of you!"
•"Not at all. Greediness has noth-
ing to do with it. But such a will
would have. enabled me to pi ova to
yeti the truth of some woi•de I eaid
•to you • tie -day. ' you remember
them? You asked me if I would
marry you if you had not a petuty
in the world, and when I said 'Yes,'
you svoOldn't believe nio• ."
"How could I?" reproachfully: 1" e prayer' The Pe°Ple Ill the see -
emit a seat , and largest of the 3,850 islands or
eyee-bet bs a, tone:,• iwhicti the 'EmPire is composed wor-
into his tubers by either pulling or
mowing the vines. • This, of course, se,
checks tlie growth of the potato, but-,
it is better to have small and sound
potatoes than larger ones • that
are decayed. It is still better to
properly prevent the blight of the
leaf, and, •consequently, the rot of
the tuber, by spraying with bor-
deaux. •
The first spray sbould be made the
latter part of Jima, and from that -
time until the vines commence to
show • that they are becoming,. ripe,
the bordeaux should be kept con-
stantly upon the leaves and vines.
If it doe S not rain to wash it away,
it will be sufficient to spray once
every two weeks, but an extra p.p.
plication should be made after a
hard, dashing ram. • This a.pplica-
Lion will not kill the potato beetle
or other chewing insects, but if any
such peste be present, add about a
third of a pound of paris green to
each .barrel ot the bordeaux. •This
then becomes ,both tUngicide and
an insecticide.'
JAPANESE GODS.
It
Is said that there aro no ferVer
then eight millions of gods worship-
ped by the Japanese. Praying le
made very easy, In the streets aro
tall posts with prayers printed on
theist and with a small Wheel at-
tached. Anyone passing by call givo.
the wheel a tarn,. and that counts
• "I Inetuit i t, It oevev•er," Atlas isa ship the bear. sited 1.everence the sun, '
earneetly "Though I can't prove. It'011! wInd' Itrld wetel'•
it. You have still -a penneg"
"No. 'No. Only a helf-penny 1 EIR,.A. W. CHASE'S Ofif,
now," Wye she w I th e del I gli MI 11 is I AlmOu
CATARRH CURE4 ,
tie gineee. And • you }levee the • • 0 r
ftOrq 'hi that they eati show' • Ito n volgeintect. What n. knees-, darling other half. It is like the old broken
gratitude beyond \verde to the man ring! Do sou khow, Feed, • I never eixpeoce! 'Why,'' laughing, though
whe hes deltvered Poor bee,
dear Vr
ilerY 'had a ing ht me life 'for" a little shyly, "We
O 'nest be lovers
D ."
signature of a A. W, Chase, the from h'hdil
er ateful emma, And elie• grin glad of thet;" says Ift it '.`1!ta Jlfe! 611,VIA ho, m it low lose.
oudr3t,box, been o good ell thrOugh,:neon low tone, "gat glad the first al111asasss hes to sane
.fignolls receipt book atithols,--!•0 hae
•
darling so anxious.. to do what, waS to you hae hot been forestalled," Ckei In. Ounthimed.)
ta scat diger to the clawed
• tarn by the Improved Mame
...---) Itega (ha Ulcers. clears the dir (..716.',
passage.% slops dropo!nga In ths
1..,
throat and pOrmanarrly curb§
Catarrh and II ay Paver. DlowtP
fee. MI erbleig, or Dr. A. NV, Chase
UN-tic/lie Co,. Toronto bed %deft