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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1913-8-21, Page 6A Dark 511adow; mow. sot Or, A Coming Vengeance CRAFTER, •IV.---(Cont'd.). "I wee wenderiag what ambition you Cleve lunohed hie rooms on e elate - boiled potetoen mei a nottle bitter thee he lit a pipe, and turned to hes table. But he foiled that he meld tot Werla Raving paid eds and. sent the pease,- Pre/Ably a eitthe e foolleh thing to do, he maud eertainly done all, aud more Unto the ,oireumetveacese deramidedi teal lie Ailliatt 'to have been able to have deimitescd the girl, nebbes Ana Inielet from his vied; but he eould not do en. Re ;mut Ise own east terget Suddenly he remembered—it was strange that he should base forgotten—his Oro - 'mite to eall nt the eniesterielatee With eurieue relmatartee °bunged nis lounge suit fox the regulatien one. \snitch inveaded a long frock coat and sills bat, end set out foe Groeyenee Bettare. Ito emend a line of earriagee drawn up out- eide the groat bouge, which, is one of the landmarks of the faehionable world, aid, Ushered 'by a tootanan in rich livery, at- tended the etaire to the famous drawlug- yoom, in vehesh for generetiens greed ladies and. feanoue statesmen had been wont to meet for social and parts/ fano. tions ae famous as the persens who 'zinced in them, The niagnifloent room was erowded, and Lady Edith was- surrounded by a grouts ef men and women whose moues ware as familiar a.a household words, as Clive inacte his way slowly to. wards lie. Young ae sne was—a girl in her Position maturets °aria—she was hold- ing her own with tlie best of them, ter Proud lius drooping, her beautiful faee looking Jetat a trifle weary; but suddenly she saw him, and, as auddePlY, the ea- Preseion of her facie changed; a emile fleshed to her eyes. and cerved and sett. ened the haughty line of her lips, "You are late, Mr. Harvey," she said. "I thought you had forgotten." As Olive took her hand and bent over it, the contrast presented by the magnificent rooms this proud, dainty aristoorat'a daughter, to the shabby "second floor back," aud the vale face and slight form 'of the poor little street singer, smote him with the sharpness of a, sudden blow. CRAFTER V. Of course, Olive's entrance had attract- ed attention; neeely every one's eye e were levelled at hen, and there was a moment- ary WI in the lanze cliattert fer no- thing le so Quick as a Lond•on fethielle,ble emit to scent the "beet -the man, or so 'gager ketiognize the individudl who Premises to. be amens; betore the inter. keeene indieation of his approaching greatness lie is, very naturally, an 11110011. gidered quantity.. The man who bappenea' to °be seatea nee,r Lady Edith rose -promptly, and, with a little nod of acknowledgment, Clive took the chair. A, week ago no one would have given place to him. "It is verse good et you to come." said Lady Edith; ''I know how very busy you must he. There is a, full aecount of your life and works in several of the uxorning Papers, The Beacon esPecially."' s "I didn't know The 'Beacon went in for fsetion," eat& Olive, with a smile. "I hope you don't believe all the things they raw hone said of Tile. Lady Editla?" "Oh. they have nothing but good to say: it is 'roses, roses, all the way: Row liasope you must be—" "Count no man happy he mur- mured. She made a chaeming little grimace. "1 know hat doe't believe it. One can be happy vrithout being dead...And ie there areything so delightful as success!" Failure is sometimes satisfactory." he suggested. hate fellure," she retorted. "But I -can't associate it with Olive Karver, the 'friend ef the people.' Father says— But thinn I have said Quite enoogn nice tbings, and here is some fresh tea. Do you take sugar? You will find I shall cede ask you Clue once; it is the oue thing I remember. Are you going to speak to- neebt?" 'It's Wednesday." he reminded bee. "Ale yes. I wish you'd let me know when you are speaking next; I—father and I—want to go down to the House and hear yen; but yen must promise to be as ele- (Merit and as ecathing, as you were last night." All this was very eleasant, and alive enjoyed it, though raedestly nut it eeide with a few words of seledeprecia- non. "But it Mien all work and no play with eon, is it?' she asked. Clive laughed. "BY no means. I have • arausenaents, en& as they are?' "You don't go out mach?" the inquired.' 110 Ltataiffed. "I'M afraid I spend meet of my leisure prowling about the etreets." "Ali, yes; I 'see; studyeng the PeoPle--" "And smoking a- pipe," he put in. "Oh. but yon ought not to confine :your- self te studying one clue only," she went (nt. 'It seems to me—I dare say I'ne ▪ r on g—th at what is called 'the people' absorb all the atteution nowadays. The other elasses—the ene to whieb sem be - lone. for instance, is worthy of notice: "I'm afraid don't belong to any class now, said Clive musingly. "I am rather an oateast from Society; a kind of blaok sheete "Black sheep are more vieteereeeue, and eemetimes raore interesting, than the white; she re:lob:led with a pod. "But, I think you will find that you are not re- garded as an outcast." "Seeing that you are so kind as to per. nit me to be here*" he began. She gave a little shrug a her nhouldere. nnelitin't Mean that. T body—exeepting the •Colikler;atives, 'the old bine Tories—will be anxious to welcome :von. And that reminds me that I am inonorsolizing your attention, and that all these ;motile want to talk te you. can see it in their faces, and in the way they ere watching IA; some oe their faces ex- press their indigna,tion and itnpationce "IR that a dismissal?" he as ed. could neve evnisilx eoald not be ecteile • eratefled, La y Edith, be said. "You mean. that I ane 'Lora Chesterilenne daughter, da,ugliter of eix ex.0abinet Minester—" "With Yentli and"—be peewee before the \nerd "beauty"— 'with ail the raeans ot obtaiuing •your heart's elestre---" "Who, knowing Ids lieert.'s desire end having it, is sittithed?" she put in ovens - 1Y; then she laughed. "Row eerious we Ilene beeeme, and—how tArsenall It le my fault. Yon did not want to talk about youreelf; and. I—well, I'm not uaually givea to taelting of mine." She had drawn, herself -up with a return to her usual hauteur. "I thiuk :you must go now—to the other people. Oh, wait," ehe added quickly, as he rose at ore*, "my au.nt, Lady Dalrymple, has a dance on Monday. I will ask het to send you a (mad. if You mere to come?" Of (Anne Clive expressed his senge of lier graoiousness; and she joteed down a memoran•clum on an ivory tablet, and dis- missed him witli a slight inclination of her head. Olive woule have passed out; but Lady Bathe aseertion proved to be correct, and he wee stopped by the first grotto ne name to, and was caticaly sur- rounded by peptone, some of them even distinguished enough to be, oalled per- sonages, who appeared desmoue a ex- ehanging a word or two with M. Clive Ilarvey. Many a young tuan's head would harve been turned, by to much eat - tering attention; but Oliver; was not given to swelling, and ell with whom be spoke were impreseed• be his modesty. Lady Edith's eye followed lent—though she did nee appear to be looking in his direction—and when he had left her, her manner to those who remained becessee cold and unresponeive. When the Teet- ers had all gone she rose. and -went to tbe window, end loolted out at the SQUAT° with nes. delicate brows drawn straight. and her lips shut tightly. For the liret time in her life she had gone out of her way to be pleasant to a man: elle had been more than. "pleasant," indeed: and' her face flushed as she recalled some of the things elm had said to him. She had etooped to flatter him,- and lied reached elimax in offering to get him a card for her aunt's dance. "Offered"? Rad she not virtually asked him, to come? And he—lie bit her dip as she recalled is essen3r—arseess aeie not reet her 11411:ra, out, •Ln 114 etlf-POeSe5Md. fahitni- had seemed to hold her at arm's length. "At /trines length"; her mental phrase made her color deepen; her eyes flashed with sudden scorn of herself, and resent - merit of his reserve. he, Lade Edith Cheeterletgli, ha.d deigned to stoop to this. Mall 'who called himself a sociel outcast: arel ! • She caught no a flower from a vase. and (welshed it, in her hand. She would not see him again; would deny hereelf next time he called. Already he was spoiled, she told herself. by his sudden success; but even as the thought passed throuali her misses she knew it wae unjust one. Knew, too, that his very reserve, the re - fatal to fall at her feet and. worship her, ae most men would have done. had ren. •dered him more interesting to her. For the first time in her life Lady Edith had met, a, man who possessed the power of impressing her. She had 1 elt drawn to him on the preceding night, when he had entered the room just now something within her had grown waxm—was it her heart?—and at his approa,ch a thrill of pleasure, surely the fest �f its kind, hed shaken off the coldriese, the pride, in whieb. titherto she imelseneaseel herself. 'Ole; I will not see him again:" she said; but even as she made the assertion her mind darted towards Monday with a, wist- ful longing. and she knew that she -would go to the ball in the hope of meeting hinis The door opened and her lather eame in. "All alone, Edith? All gone?" he said. Putting bis arm reund her •shoulder. "Ras Mr. Clive Rareey been here?" "Mr. Clive Rarvey? Yes; I think so; oh. Yes. he has," she replied indifferentlY. "Tut! I'm tsorry I missed him," said Lord Chesterleigh. "'Mr. Graham 'wants; him to e -peak at a big meeting in the East End. Re's just the mane I told Graham I should probably fbad him here, and would ask him." -"Since when have you been Mr. Graham's -messenger?" she asked. Lord Chesterleieh looked at her with. surprise. "What's the matter. Edith?" he asned. "Anything ;wrong?" • "Nothing, she replied coldly; "but it seems to me that Mr. Clive Resew is— rather toe much in evidence. Toe, will spoil him between you father" "Oh, hell tette a lot of seedling," he said. "Ite's that rare eriee a modest young man, But I mustn't eraiee -him, I eee, Editb.; for you don't like him, eh?" "I neither like nor dislike him," she said as coldly as before. "You forget that I have seen him only twice, and that I know vevy little about him—" "And care less?'' he finished, preeeing her shoulder and laughing. lie was, though. he did not know it, slither proud of his beautiful daughtere eeelusiveness and insuseeptibility. And care less," she echoed. earning 'away with a little gesture of profo-and in- difference. "We are dining out tn-niglat, You know. Iseauet go and dress. - She went to her own rooms, a suite so luxurious -that Olive, if he had seen them. %you'd, nave lieen still more stenelt by the nignehended, and kept berself aleof front ner fellowlereeete, whore 840 av &rod to regard es her inferiors; bUt, Oen .had eenie to bear her niaemer of superiority ellenee—in her hearing, at. a/1W rte— hfottrd. oxiocinaepode atWoO4usseepekkIelloion;nwoUriouw4toetn, en voloanio, teat they all went es absolute feet, of her. The dark eyes reeted only for a nionient on Lasiy Edith' face, and were then swiftly eovered; bet Sere. in that brief. feigning glenee, say that something beet dietuebed. her Youee- 'mistress* tweet leread serenity. She said nothing, but in edence began to lielp iLedy Leith to re- move leer dress, •• "I'm late, I thipk, Sara." mad • Lade Editb,, rather listlessly. "Yea, yeseI will ne penile ralestee" said the wernan in a subdued V&A). "TOU will evear—?"- "Anything eou. like," replied Lady edith, eho seek irtee her ehair before the glei„,ss, "I don't oa,re whieh it ie." isillasra'anwrd."uPne4faialteeiniiriga the lig°oifde:Lf ‘hvbelitr°, let, it fall, a cascade of flossy oyer her hands, etroking it admiringly, dot- ingly, as A =ether might have strelted the hair of net first-born. "Your head aches. miesie? Ceara Make pretty plainly.' 1, "No," she said, with a touch of tiolar arid a swift glastme. "No; 7011 mae stair, say, flve minutes longer; and am ine them up In telling -you hove ranch I envy of ()mime. But, think' it W ell, Yee, YE*. Gently as if she were touohing thistle- new town. Viet town has a. reason. So has its name. The first is the fact that it is the oni;y general freight and passenger division point hetween Prince Bei, - pert and FOTt GeOrge. The seeend ie—Smithers. And a very good reason the town tiorta1father is found who has not giveu wife a, Single Penny ainne their marriagee'' The bebies diet* riaebnna ae cerding to tile report, inelude cur- rant slake, bath buns, 1)0,5214 bis- cuits, boiled brea-d, belled potestoes, ehippeel potatoes, dry oatmeal gruel, fried lisle tomatoes eoffee 7 and apples. 41' ALFEr,i) NvAlantow SMITHERS. Important Westeim -Division Point Nalned After G.T.R. Official. Bight in the heart of the greet fruit erehard of British Columbia -- that picturesque spot known as the Bulkley Valley--eurveyors and en gineers and ell such am basY on a (lown, she ;Aimed, some liquid teem, en Oriental flat* epto tbe palms of her hande, and drew thein careesingly over the white brow. "Tilsit better, miesie? Row die. it come? The heat, the talls—you were late at tea,. and the sanibs pressed round you? Yee?" he said proudly, 'They alwaye do and will." • "Not when I'm old and ugly, Sara," re- marked Leder Edith, •• "Never old and ugly!" ,reeponded the woman proudly and defiantly. There ate some women who will never beand has for calling itself by the. nanle me (skald is one of theta. She is a dangle- of lee ssodeither. Not only because ter of the gods—" • , "That's Tennyson: though you don't Mr. Alfred. Waldron.Rini-Were is know it," seid Lady Edith. with a vane chaiienan of the Board oDirector f and a suppressed sigh. "No woiader am vain, Sara; and I Sara laughed eoftly as she bound up the hair, still oaeeseingly, as if ehe" were handling. something more reacioue than the virgin gold it resembled. "It is not earte elone, missie." she said with a vanity wheal even eurPaseed Lady Editlee; "does not every one -who coin.ee near me girlie tell her that she 18 beauti- ful, if not with their lips, with the eyes that cannot lie?" A faint lush rose to Lady.Edith's face, and she frowned slightly. s "Igo; not every one," she said, rather to herself than the woman. Sara oast a keen glance at the inirror, and her handespaused for a moment in their rapid but ranooth.movements. "Not every one? Then, if it is aswenean, she is envious; and if it is a men, he is a pig,"' she responded with a flash of an- ger and contempt darting across her -dark Lady Edith -laughed a trifle wearily. "1 ehould like Mr. Clive Harvey to hear you call him a pig," she eaid. Saba held the brush susPended, a,nd helrece ,et the mirror again, and kept her eyes there While the repeated the name, -"Mr. Olive Ilarvey? I don't kriow lume but he is a pig all the same she added resentfully, as the flush grew deeper on the face reflected isf the elms. ., "No; he 40 not, Sara." said Lady Edith. "Re ig *ere clever man, and beautifully matmered. And perliaps it showe his good taste that he does not a,dmire your child." "He must be blind, thig Mr. Clive Ilan. vey," said the 17107119,11, as if he vorti,smt- fag an Incontrovertible and self-evident fact; "blind. or an imbecile. Who -it he? ehoiild like to meet hen. to whisper, 'Fool!' Just tbat: Tool!'" fuLuedy.y. Edith laughed, but not very mirth - "No; he is anything •but aafool. Sara; he ie going to be a great man, a very gieat man. I think. All the world will be talkinof him—is•beginnine to talk al- ready.""efissie know him long?" asked, Sara -with assumed indiffeeenee; but her eyes. though apparently oast down: were watch. hie her =lett-etas faces ' _ • "Not long, Sara. I saw him for tne first time laet night." "What's ,he lfke, this clever, fool -man? Young?" asked Sara, still casualle. "Oh, gee; and very good-lookinga tou know the kindenarae. and e gereight and strong—with desk grey eyes ----e' contragt between the rime ef Lessees aed the Relaxes of Dives.Deoorated furnish eu. with the minutestregard for taete, and none at all for oast, they were remerkeble even in this age of artietio luleury. Rare books, •choice pictures, priceless brio -as brac, they were all here to minister -be the girl's roving fancy. As she opened the door of the sitting-roora a woman. who was at needlework by the window. rose Quickly; and noiselessly, approached her mistress, her eyes scanning her faoe with serange eagerness. She was a Riedel? of little More than middle age, but looked older than her years by reason. of the sallow face covered with a mesh of fine wrinkles, and the snow-white hair, which el:ewe:leap vividly To Immo ell the world before yen, W fee pfaineenbee ems ekini her dark (sees, yo sure that your Penbltion Will he grestiftee, fleetest black; b. a lies:tiller expression that Suceeee Wititing with the laurel as they rested on Lady one at oace wee -esti' en her hand, 'ready, when your proprietorial and appealing. lirglinees pleases to beckon ber, 'to plate The women, who was called $ara—a con - it on your brow. Oh, it is good to be a venient contraotion ot her native nrime, clever man! You are free to step into the Surya—a,nd WW1 not known by any otbet ermine te fight for all yoe are worth, to names had been Lady Edith's mese; mid pima Victory from the grip of Diffloulty„ -wae the meet important person in the do- to--- But you •are laugning. Row would mestio eide of the household. She had al' ‚von like to change plereee with. tee?" most taken the place of a mother to the Olive loaned at be17 she bent forward, girl, end had 5.0 affection for -her 'pritieb her eepreseion certainly not one of pride combined maternal loVe with the (levotiori and hauteur thet moment; said was Of the faithful slave, To sae' that she rather surprised and startled by the sod- 'worshipped, her noting mistress weald not dell revelation. It eeemed as if the nrido be an. extrevegant aegertione she svessie -which he had noticed were but ,a niask, have willingly laid down her life te give and, that for a, mouterat it had slipped the girl a moment's traneient pleasure, aside. alie settee the erave tegard of and would have elieerfully committed any els keen eyes, f,be color left her face, and. crime for the like trifling insult, She, she aropped break with e little aeature, seemed to lives with ordy one 'obieett 10 to as; if she was altos:nit aebamed of her ve- wa,tela. over 'Lady Edith, and iiiirritter her ease ana earafort; end theepursult "Other persens have their ainbitiorm as of her obled she Was quite reanie (aerie hem nee°. well as Mr. Olive itervey, be said in an 1110 not only herself, bet all the eepleemesory and apologetie tone, "Why No doube the woman's tireless minest,re. do eon remain ga slient?' she added with tionil had done; not, e little tp teeter the spirit of pride sand—it /inlet be written— feeph•of ,impationte. whielt ob a raze:Wisest Lord Ohegterleiteh's daugliter: but, even if glie been aleare of the feet, Sara would bave gloried in it. eer eyes the giri wae perfect iii body and mind. She vvas at vein of Lady alditlint beieuter zed ertiee rie if tboy had belonged to st. daughter of eer owe; end she smeat meet, of her time Plenviing and devieing clregees and othe,r adjunets with which to set off that beauty. Sara bad mute from 'India as aeah, or Mime, to Lady onesterteisb. That she eiverefeerl a great Omagh covert infer:ewe beet her yonng tnistrees was oUtdont„ but Pot surprising:, for it wag only naturee -Olaf tee eia amnia ropes' tbe **Mari who. nest to Isord. Chestertown, had been her 11 closest corapanjaa arnon babybergl, with a feettrie eomewbat watreer nad /nee° cen. fleenfial tbarietbat with Wbitih it mistreee gerierally tneettlf4 far taut eat periele tee. bet famialieritiee of atiecesii and sere vice with a comelaieeinee Svnich astonished ber friends, t eir wives and childi)en. An occa- tes eerverits" !inn Sara Wae bv ro Motes Datlaiar, tOX gito itlikO 'reserved and e Outing Shoes For Everybody ITHE PERFECT SHOE, FOR SUMMER SPORTS L Asg Youa og.taeeff. The wenaan made a gestare of deirecia- 1100. "It is just like the youne Magna). sahib —theyere all alike," sheesaidcontemPt- "Net quite," said Lady Edith. "This one M difeerent. Sara. Re says little. and he does not pay compliments and bow and smile like the others; at leaet. not, to me," she aided, -with a latigh, the wistful note in watch was not lost upon the wo- men's watchful, ears. "I would like to see him, this young sa- hib,who is 90 different, so clever, and yet soimbecile,"she said slowly. be continued.) QUEER IDEAS AMONG POOR. Lomb') Mothers Have Theories as to Care of Rabies. Remaelsable reveletions coneern- ing the life of London's (England) poor are contained in the annual report of Dr. Thomas, the medkal officer of health for Finsbury. Their social oust -oras, superstitions and ideas of babiee diets make a strange ehapter in the reeorde of human ignorance, as the following extracts from the rep -ort iserae to show. In a family where the father was a casual laborer the mother had kept the home together for many months by paweing thing,s. She pawned her husband's shirts and. trousers -LOT 62 cents, and spent the money as follows: Tea, dust, 4 cents; sugar'4 cents; oond.eased milk, 4 eents; oleomargarine, 4 eenbe ; coal, 9 dents; ems, 2 cents ; potatoe,s, 4 tents; sausages, 8 cents; bread, 11 cents; tobacce and cigarette papers, 3 cents; borrowed of the Gran.d Trunk, elehough that alone Would seem sufficient reason money eepaia, 4 cenee; pawn nick - eta 2 cents a,nd 'paid. woman for pawning clo'bhes, 1 The superstitions of the poor are many and curieus. One father thought that next to geed food there was nothing like e, day in the cattle market to cure a suffering baby, He put his theory into prac- tice, taking an infan.t once 'weekly to the nia,rket. A woman. had twins. One died and the other wasted and get ra,- pidly worse until the mother, on the suggestion of a, neighbor, put lerge doll in bed with it. Froin, this time, the Mother averred, it immediately began to improve. 'Dolls often core babies '/ said the woman, "especially when doe- ters have ne hopes and give them The Weighing 'centers, whete ba- bies ean be examined and weighed and their mothers advised, have to contend with the difficulty that in mine instances, mothers will not , bring their babies becaase they have been teld that it is urtlitckY to have a, baby weighed until it is e year old. Dr. ThernaS :says "Tel the shims it is not uncommon to find that thers contribute little or nothing towards the support of A. W. Smithers. Salt VOW Seger r11.03 eXtra grams - w sold la Gime din bane* slz „Co of etietele ; au cheiceeteeva Puree, eanesti gar, nue faale (red label) In this every frcloW ftint% taro to battoos% L *boat the oleo of a pin point, Medium Groh' (bItte lab511) Line small seed peeies, even end white and marvels of otweetuovo, Co:wee Gioia (green lebon Like *mat dlemoadsnd almost as brilliant, but cm Ickes, (netted, filler fist She Yea ' Prefer, livery grant, no wetter its olze, es AIMS* extra granulated nue eaese stone la:towns:4Y menet& se-poneo to soon pure. Th. weleitt to soarantood as well at the quality, nags too lbee, es 11A., ao lbs. Carton 51119., lbs• St Lorton essay Malebres, Montreal. 4 $111*.••••••11.1•• • *Am. mou."0•141•1 0_moro workers At omelette ee toture ool in f I s their home wilth onr wcolnielfrfuclir Ckilti- u VVANTE .., teal Proueee. Shatele, raeolimuleal work, vexedly dove. All peer terns furnished. "Fessitively no experienee required. We . furnish the Pl'e0015 El el ,cheraloale arid seemly you with pietures to color, which you return to us. Goo pricee paid prdaiptly by the week or 'month. No eanvaesing or sening—eur trav- ellers sell the live& end the field it unlimited for our work. If you went cleans Pleasant work the year Town' for whole or spare time, write us and we will send you contract and am preses we pay. COMMERCIAL ART WORKS,. 816"COLI,..ECE STREET, TORONTO, ONT. Ontario a ud tinder the eoutrolof wit,h the University Of tbe Department of Agriculture Veterinary E. , 1211aNGE, V.S., of Ontario. AWAY for Oalencleas Prince:me College Toronto, Canada Re -Opens OCTOBER lst, 1913 .1111.••• seveseseakessesesesecteesseseweveseeefse 10il the Farm 1:1011.11a1146.460641a11011,11101100.111001111Albali Packing .Produce for Market. Packing is eqUally as important as any of the other operation's iu- volved in the Preparation of fruits and vegetables for market. • There are several important pointe in con- nection with this. work- worthy of consideration, probably the most important of which is honesty, writes Mr. S. B. Shaw. "Every grower's pack should be as good as his bond," Customers want hon- estly packed goods and they are us- ually willing to pay good prices for theme A grocer. never lines by placing honestly peeked produce on any market, be it at home or abroad. - Each pack -age should bre filled with Not only because, as the highest officer of the Grand Trunk P,acific, he is called the counsellor of the Grand Trunk official family. Still, that is not the only reason why the first general freight and pessenger division point east of the western terminus of the new rail- way should be called after the good counsellor of the official family. He was asked to be the godfather ofmany westerntowns—towns which look calraly on huge glaciers and rushing torrents, on mighty cascades and forests of cedar; towns which are springing graduals- ly from canvas and tent prosperity into the more substantial forme in lumber and brick: • And now comes the reason why the last town—and most deekledly not the least—came to be named after the greet man who is quick te recognize good work, and just as quick to clothe criticism in silence. "Serve the others first," wa,s motto. „ ,And that is how they have Edson and Wa,trous and -Biggar and Wain- wright, not to forget named 'after' the great man, Charles Melville Hays, in whose brain the whole Western seh.eme originitted. It was all So characteristic of Al- fred Waldron Smithers to wish to be the la-st godfather on the West- ern line. g But we must speak of Smithers, the man.. ,His modesty has been hinted fat above. Forty years ago when he wits a youth of 23, he join- ed the London Stock Exchange, and remained .a member until four years ago, when he resigned, te devote his energies to the development of railroade in Canada. Being the sen of the late William Henry Sillithere of the "Benk of Euedaeid, it seems natural thee he should be recognized as a finangial authority throughout the 13ritieh Empire. Iri 1895 he became a director of the, Grand Trunk, later being elected vice-president and ehairmen. England still. , claims much of his attention, he being a director of the South Eastern and Chaeham Railway, and cheirmart of the Eng- lish Association of American Share and Bondholders. And apart from all this, from his interest in things of national im- port, he is possibly the most inter- esting it his private life. Children are his weakness, and wherever he is, he is seen surrounded by laugh- ing tots, all delighted to he enter- tained by the "big trien of fintinee." the same grade throughout. If this is done the top may be "faced." "Facing" is the - arrangement of from one to three layers of fruit on the top thus increasing: the at- tractiv-eness of the package. This is an honest and perfectly legitim- ate practice prided the eneire eon - tents are fruits -of the same grade as those placed on top. Secoads and inferior grades should never be faced with prime specimens. There is neither cash nor character in this practice., A few seconds or culls scattered in with a lot of fancy specimens gives the buyer an op- portunity to discriminate against the whole package and ruins the reputathan of the grower as an holi- est packer. Produce should be cool and dry before being packed. Heat and Moisture promote decay. Condi- tions of this kind should be guard- ed against, for decay means loss. Allow -all fruit and vegetables to cool in' the packing -house, and have them dry before pt < kiag. They will keep longer and present ttbetter appearance at ane time of sale if handled in this way. So mach of the success in Marketing farm pro- ducts depends upon the packing, that growers cennot be too partic- ular in seeing that this work is done in such a way as to showtheir pro- duce to hest advantage when put on discovered how unparalleled a the - lent ration, as well as a pure supply, of drinkieg water, is apparent. Realizing the great stimulus to , produetion which grass is, the dairy-; man anxious for large yields should, seek to pattern his ration as nearly as possible the year around after this natural food. Grass alone, of course, would not be satisfactory for winter feeding, for it keepe the body of the comatoo full of water and allows her to stif- fer from the cold, but in conjuneL tion with more fat -forming foods, such as gralas and fodder, grass would be, a part of an ideal winter, ration. The nearest approach to grass, however, is silage, and it is for this. reason that silage is held in such high esteem by those who feed it. HOLIDAYS IN TURKEY, One Would Not Know That Turk Is Celebrating on "Holy Day." In nothing is the natural sober- ness of the Turk more manifest than in his holidays, says a writer in'Sceibner's Magazine. He keeps' fewer of them than his Christian eompatriot, and most of them he celebrates in such a, way that = an eutsicler would eearcely suspect these fact. This is partly, petha.ps, a, mat -1 ter of temperatemt, and partly be - cease, Islam has not yet passea certain stage of evolution. A birthsiey, that is, is still a, holy day. Secular and patriotic testi- eels are everywhere of eomParae tively recent origin. In Turkey,' where church end State ere one to a degree now unknoNve in Western -countries, there was no real na- tional holiday until 1909. Then the fest anniversary of the re-estab- lishment of the constitution wits celebrated on the 23rd of July (July 10, old style). A highly pie- eures,que eelebration it was, too, in Constantinople at least, with its magnificeet array of rugs and me- cliaaval tents on the Hill of Liberty,: its review of troops by the Sultan, its proeession of the guilds of the city, and its evening illuminations. Illuminations, however, were not invented by the constitutien. Long before a 23rd of July was, the splendor -loving Sultan Ahmet sale. While it is of the utmost im- portance that each package be filled with the same grade throughout, it is equally as important that it be done carefully. WW1 the softer varieties Of fruit and vegetables, such as poaches, plums, tomatoes and egg plant, that are usually put in small packages, each specimen should be placed by hand. This not only makes the pack more attrac- tive, but it lessens the liability of damage resulting from bruises. Produce of a firm nature' as apples, potatoes, etc., will notbruise so readily,, and as a result it is not so necessary to handle each individual specimen in packing. GraSS and Silage an Ideal Feed. "When I get my cows into grass again there will be more milk." This is a statement frequently heard during th.e last month that the herd is confined in the yard. When once 011 pasture the yields show a marked increese even though the—animals may have had plenty of good grain and forage previously. What is there about gress which makes it sueh an excellent and very satisfactory food for a milk cowl Is it not its succulent nature'? Sacculence means full of juice, and the juicy ration for the deiry cow is the eceirect one from all view- points. Large quantities of water are required by the cew in order bo make large quantities of milk, A large part, in fact, all but about ten or twelve per cent. of milk, is water, and, consequently, the cow that produces- 8,000 pounds of milk in a year makes use of something,t' like 7,000 pounds of water, or a lif, tle over, for milk alone, to say noth- ing of whet is required for her body. Thus the imPertance of a Sileeil atre for such displays were the steep shores of the Golden Horn and the Bosphorus, The accession day of the reigning sovereign made an annual occasion for 'great fami- hes to set their houset and gardens on fire with an infinity of little oil lamps and, in all literalness, to keep open house. This was the one purely 'eeeular holiday of the year— unles 1 except the day Of Hidk Elyesfe Hisir or Ilizr Elye,ss is a distant relative of the Prophet Eli- jah, of the God Apollo. and 1 sus- pect of personages till more an- -ague. His day eoinoides with- that of Greek St. George, namely April 23rd, old !style, or May etti, accord- ing to our mode of reckoning, I must add that he is frewae,c1 upon in orthodox circles, and feested only -in Constantinople or other localities subject t -o Greek influ- ence. Holiesty and Policy. "Pa, why is honesty referred to as"aPT-olyabliaebYiinbecause so high a pre- mium is placed on it," replied the weary insurance solicitor. Na-Drut-Co Laxatives are differeut it that they 40 210t gripe, purge nor Callee eatesea, not does continited use lesseu their effectiveness, 'Vett eau alveays depend on them,. ese.a boss at your Druggist's. 17S National Dreg and Chemetill Co of tanaeastbnIten