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OR, A DECLARATION OF WAR,
CHAPTER XXVI.—(Conted.)
To-day'a reyelation was as unex-
pected as if was mortifying. Bat,
though the tears of spite had actually
started to her eyes, they were re-
solutely crushed between her eye-
lashes. Common-sense had already
Pointed met that to betray this morti-
fication would be not only perilous,
but likewise foolish, since the minis-
ter's daughter was no longer to be
feared. In a flash she saw her
ehanee. For what was it that at
this moment Ronald most urgently
required? A confidante and sym-
pathy. He should have both. Be-
fore he had done stammering out his
story she had recovered her self-con-
trol and chosen her part, His last
words found her hand stealing into
his, in the shelter of the feather -fan.
"Poor Roaniel Now I understand.
I really had not before appreciated
the depth of your sentiment. You
must forgive me for •those stupid
jokes. What a bad time you've had
Of it I But you're not the man to cry
out your eyes for the moon, are you?
And she's quite as unattainable to you
as the moon, you know; though it's
rather a reversal of the positions real-
ly. Just fancy preferring a great,
hulking quarryman to you!"
The glance which went to illustrate
the words carried a balm equally ap-
plicable to a wounded heart as to
wounded vanity, and laid it on pretty
thick too, for this was not a case
which called for any far-fetched
subtlety of treatment, as her intimate
knowledge of the patient told her.
"Thank you, Mab—thank you!" And
he pressed the fingers within his with
a vigor esdaicli made the smile she
sent him seem heroic even to herself.
"It's good to have you on my side. I
may talk- to you about it sometimes,
mayn't I?"
"As much as you like. A song?
Delighted, Lady Anne, I'm sure!" ---
the last sentence being pitched con-
siderably higher, arid addressed to the
hostess, who, across the room, had
been pleading for some music.
A minute later Mabel sat at the
piano, with her cousin turning over
the pages for her; and an hour after
that, having dismissed her maid, her
dressing -gown wrapped about her, her
place was at her bedroom fire—that
spot, and that attire, and likewise that
hour which witnesses so many self-
communings.
"Six months," she mused, as she
poked the coals. "I'll give him that;
—I think six months will do it. But,
all the same, it's just as well that
Duncan McDonnell is not lying at the
bottom of the loch."
She smiled into the embers—a smile
of trust in the future. Things would,
after all, work out to that so satis-,
factory arrangement which she had;
had in her eye all along. For those'
who knew Mabel best knew that, for!
all her random chatter and reckless!
bearing, she had a most excellent bus -1
iness head upon her shoulders—a far;
better business head than, for in-
stance, the stately ex -governess. It
was not from the casual daughter, it
was far more likely froin the precise
mother that any act of sentimental
folly might be looked for.
And yet there was something ten-
der too about that smile of trust and
triumph. After all, it was not only
because he had a fine estate of his
own, and because he would make an
excellent and useful master for Bal-
ladrochit, and a most comfortable,
submissive husband, that she meant
to marry ROnald, it was also a lit-
tle because he was just himself,
CHAPTER XXVII.
To Maggie IVIa.clish the reappear-
ance in the flesh of Dunean M9Don-
nen, had been as annoying as it had
been gratifying ot Lame Liz. Had
she not all along maintained that
Maggie's corpse lights were a fraud?
But, presently the triumph was temp-
ered by Adam's demise, which, taking
place within the fortnight, seemed to
justify Maggie in her declaration that
she had mentioned no names, and that
the "lights" would do for the father
quite as well as for the son. Her
occult reputation, though having sus-
tained a narrow shave, still survived;
and at the thought that the omen had
not been wasted, all Ardloch breathed
more freely.
It was on a still, white day with the
air full of noiseless snowflakes, be-
- hind whose moving curtain the hills
had vanished away as though they
had never been, that Adam set sail
for the Island. Among those who
stood waiting upon the little slate -
stone pier beside the old ferry -house,
round whose black tongue every boat
in the place had been gathered, there
were full-grown men who could not
remember such a snowfall as this. As
they kicked the snow from their boots,
pending the arrival of the funeral
procession. from the glen, the elder
ones dug precedents from their mem-
ories, while the pessimists foretold
great things in floods. Yet the gen-
eral impression on the public', was
stimulating, even exciting. These
dazzling, whirling masses, this un-
broken whiteness.on all sides, was a lit-
tle awe -Inspiring, to be stireebecatiee
so tmfamiliar; yet, by virtue of this
Very unfamiliarity, festive as well as
fearful. Winding -sheet or bridal veil?
The likeness held eitLer wee,. Yet,
even among the nearest moornere,
there were some to whom'despite
their sorrowful hearts, this white
world appeared to smile rather than
to weep.
As the little fleet of boats etill of
black ,figures which the flakes were
doing their- best to paint evlaite—at
its head the one coffin -laden, in which
the minister's surplice looked almost!
grey by contrast with its surround-
ings—drew to the Island there. was
the usual whirr and flutter overhead,
as the white birds, and the black
birds, the gulls and, the crows rose
,
screaming into the air from the snow -
"It's real wonderful how the minis-
ter vkeeps up, and him loving him
same as a brother," whispered one
man to anotheraduring the wait that
followed; for the tide was at its low-
est, and to hoist a coffin containing
a man of Adam's size up a face of
rock eight feet high, required both
muscle and ingenuity, By merely
rounding the nearest point, where the
shore dipped abruptly, a much easier
landing was to be t d; but, chilly
work though it was to sit still in a
boat with the snowflakes creeping
down the back of your neck, and stick-
ing in your eyelashes, the idea of such
an expedient did not so much as enter
into the heads of the most shivery of
the mourners. Had not this in-
hospitable rock been the McDonnell
landing -place for generations past?
To have made use of the Robson or
the Stuarts' equally time-honored
stageso grayofend-
ed Ardloch tradition as to endanger
the repose of Adam in his grave. Such
a breach of Island etiquette could not
even be contemplated. Ardloch,
used to these little tussles with the
fortress of Death, waited patiently,
in a silence broken only by the shouts
of the men hauling at the -ropes, and
the grinding of the boats against each
other, The bank straight opposite
lay there barely visible, and as still as
the Island itself; for all hands had
turned out in honor, ot the dead com-
rade. That familiar "chip, chip"
which seemed like the voice of the
place, was to -day hushed under the
deserted sheds.
Presently, muscle having triumph-
ed, the dusky procession wound away
among the white billows, scarcely re-
cognisable as the usually so familiar
mounds—the perfect carpet of snow
trampled to tatters beneath the many
feet. It was a new place to them all
to -day, dimly seen through the cease-
less snow -dance. The raised horizontal
slabs had become more than ever like
tables, by virtue of the white cloths
spread upon them; or, with snowy
cushions piled ,and thickening every
moment, seemed to be inviting to a
chilly repose. Even the upright
stones bore rims of white, which soon
would trickle over the worn names of
the' dead in showers of cold tears.
Among all this whiteness the new -
dug grave alone yawned dark.
Beside it stood Sohn M`Donnell, with
the flakes flying about his white un-
covered head, his narrow figure up-
right amid the restless whirl. The
speaker of a. few minutes back had not
been the only one who had- felt *a
vague astonishment at the minister's
bearing. One and all, they knew of
the affection which had united these
two men since boyhood; one and all—
Christian resignation notwithstand-
ing,—they had expected to see him
deeply bowed under this loss—for
they knew him to be of tender heart.
'Some had wondered whether,, he
would have the strength to conduct,
the ceremony. All had expected to!
hear his voice falter, and to see his!
head droop over the heavy task. And
now that the moment was come, that!,
white head seemed poised a little!
higher than usual; and his brown!
eyes were to -day not those eyes of the;
dove which they knew so well, but!
those of the eagle, which also they1
knew, for having, at rare moments.,
-
trembled beneath this glance, and,
shining from them a light which they
did not know. Nor was it the voice
of a broken man which spoke the
words of the Burial Service.
That something sustained him while,
he stood upright on the edge of the'
open grave, they all indistinctly felt,
without suspecting the real nature of
the invisible 'prop. And when—the
last vrords spoken --the minister
stooped suddenly, and, gathering up a
handful of earth, threw rather than
dropped it on to the lowered coffin,
there was not one man present who
came near to guessing at what the
act meant to the doer of it.
That evening Albert sought out his
elder sister. It was his last chance
of ' a private conversation, since his
box was packed, and in order to meet
the boat at Bonnet Ferry he would
have to be' gone next morning before
the house was well astir. With the
conclusion of his own particular job
at the loch -end he had succeeded in
obtaining einployment in Glasgow,
and thither he was hastening without
the loss of a single day, thankful to
shake the dust of ungrateful Ardloch
from his feet. What work remained
for him here? As little as at the
loch -end.
When he bad found Julia alone, and
having made the usual remarks about
being called in the morning and touch-
ing an early breakfast, he relapsed
into momentary silence'then said,
with sudden decision just tot:el-led with
embarrassment:
(To be continued.)
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It was their honeyinoon. trip; and
the first time.they had ever been out
of their own. county • „,
As they waited ori the jiletforrn af
their clestina,tion :for the guard to
bundle their boxes out of the van, the
young bride and bridegroom were
manifestly ernbarraseed,
Than a porter came up and ,aeled:
"Can 1 look after 'yet, baggage for
'Ihe red blood motinted te the young
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For the week ending March 2n0 the
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armies. During the absence of Briga-
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Colonel J. S. Dennis of the Canadian
Expeditionary Force is in command of
the recruiting program in the United
cSrtuaituesn..gf3rigadier-General White is
malting a tour through the South in
an effort to stimulate interest in re -
The pictures accompanying this
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being carried on in New York by the
Mission. Brigadier -General White and
Colonel Dennis have started v whirl-
wind campaign for recruiting Blcitish-
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States covering the next two months.
Their ambition Is to secure 20,000 men
from the United States, if possible,
before the terms of the draft canyon-
, tion between the United States and
Great Britain become, effective. Dur-
ing the eight months the Mission has
, been at work In the United States
has secured 22,000 volunteers for the
' British and Canadian armies, and has
examined about 16,000 more.
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Brigadier -General White has made
the point that if a Britisher or Cana-
dian desires to aid the Allies he can
do so by promptly volunteering, be-
cause the machinery of the British
and Canadian armies for • training, men
has been so well developed by three
and a halt years -of experience that it
can. train a man, put him in the firing
liao, and haVe him invalided ,home iu
six months. This has actually been
done in quite a, number of eases. On
the other hand, the United States
Government, starting much later, has
had its hands full in training the lint
contingent of the draft numbering
about 700,000 men, and the second
draft will follow. close upon the heels
of the first.
Food Control Corner
Those who are crying to the Gov-
ernment to provide feed for hogs, and
bitterly criticising officials for failure
to supply sufficient, bran and sharts,
should take a look at the facts.
Canada does not produce sufficient
bran and shorts to feed.hogsin nor-
mal times and recourse to other feeds
has always been necessary. In the
effort, however, to aid farmers, an
export embargo was placed on mill
offal and the price of 'bran and shorts
was fixed in fair proportion to the
price of wheat and several dollars a
ton lower than in the United States.
This, of course, was satisfactory as
far as it went but the trouble was
that it could not possibly go far en-
ough. Not enough 1;ran and shorts
are produced in Canada to go around.
Canadian mills from September 1st,
1915 to February lst, 1918, ground at
the rate of 18,000,000 bushels of
wheat a month, which was a very
high proportion as compared to
normal. From this amount of wheat,
however, under the new standard flour
regulations. about two per cent. more
of the wheat berry is retained
in the flour. Only 120,-
000,000 bushels of feed can be pro-
duced in a month, 01! 21,000,000 pounds
a day. There are 17,322,000 odd
horses; rnilch cows, cattle. sheep and
swine in Canada, not taking poultry
into consideration at all. The bran
and shorts produced in Canada would
thus give each animal (hie meal in -two
or three weeks.- A cow would con-
sume five pounds a day; a hog, accord-
ing to its age, from on -half pound
to three pourids—though little shorts,
of course, is fed to the more mature
hogs. -There ,..were, approximately,
3,619,328 hogs in Canada last year,
so that out of ,every five or six hogs,
only one, would be able to get a full
three -pound ration of shorts per day
'or, if the shorts was divided equally
among all the bogs, less than two-
thirds of a pound would be the maxi-
mum allowaace.
Nor is this all there is to the prob-
lem. The question of distributing
this feed to the farmers throughout
Canada arises. It has been suggest-
ed that farmers be allowed car -load
lots. There are 714,646 farms, in
Canada. Giving each one its share
would mean that each farm would get
a car -load once in twenty-four years.
A car -load contains twenty-five tons
and there' are about eighty-four eae-
loacks of bran and shorts produced!
in Canada per day. It takes a HO,
barrel mill about fouetecn days to
Iproduce a ear -toad of feed. Siaty per
!, cent. of Canadian rolls have no great -
capacity than 100 barrels a day or
less, and could Ship a car -load no
1 oftener than once a fortnight.
NevertKeleeS, despite this dilricilltY
and all dIfficulties, Canada will have
• .
to produce more hogs. The European
situation depends on it, The difficul-
ties will have to be overcome. Farm-
ers will have to grow the coarser
grains and depend less upon mill offal.
Anierican corn will be coming more
freely into Canada as the fine weather
develops and transportation difficul-
ties lessen. Every farmer should
realise that we are at war, that
Allied Europe is hard pressed, and
determine to do the best he can, under
his own circumstances.
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TO MANE A MAGIC BOAT.
An Interesting Experiment -for the
Small Boy to Make.
The surface of all water is covered
by a film of the water itself, which in
its action is not unlike that of a thin
sheet of india rubber. To comprehend
this one must imagine the rubber to
be •trthisparent. The surface of the
water itself is so elastic and under ten-
eion, so that a needle, though heavier
than the water, may be floated on the
surface.
Several interesting experiments may
be made with the elasticity of / this
film. One of the best is to place two
slender splinters of wood side by side
on the water. Now drop a little alco-
hol between the splinters. This alco-
hol will immediately biteak the surface
film between the splinters, and the
pulling force of the remaining film,
since there is nothing between to hold
them, will cause the splinters instant-
ly to fly apart.
Another interesting experiment is
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pointed at one end somewhat like a
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the gum will destroy the surface film
so that there will be 'no pull In the
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not balanced by one in the rear, the
tiny boat will run fprward as rapidly
as the camphor can dissolve the film
in Some
erearinteresting "magic
tricks might be developed from these
experiments which would surprise and
instruct friends.
Manure should be thOroughly incor-
porated with theefine ploughed seCtion
of the soil. The more porous and
better drained the. soil the deeper ]nae
nure can be ploughed under..
In a time needing food
economy Many people are
not getting all the nourish-.
ment they might from
their food.
It is not how much you eat,
but how much you assim-
ilate, that does you good.
The addition of. a small
teaspoonful of Bovr_il to
the diet as a peptogenic
before meals leads to
more thorough digest-
ion and assimilation
and thus saves food, for
you need less.
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