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IPriii CABLEMAN
AN EXCITING PRESENT-DAY ROMANCE
BY WEATHERBY CHESNEY
CHAPTER XIV.--(Cont'd ; is to be continued. Give her what rea-
She spoke listlessly. Her mother's i sons you will for ceasing to make the
excitement seemed absured. But even I effort. Say that it is hopeless, that
if it were not so—if the man had ! the difficulties are insurmountable,
found the stone jar, and was carry -'that our enemies are too strong—any-
ing it off with him now—Elsa did not i thing—except the truth, that I am
know whether she wished to stop gh st much by . Youdwav to of romeguilt;
him. Yesterday she would have I Perhaps—I know it is only perhaps,
fought fiercely to keep the contents of but I cling to the slenderest thread of
that jar safe; to -day it seemed that
their safety did not matter. hope"
ope"in this—perhaps she will believe
u.
"No," said her mother. "Take us in Elsa sprang to her feet with a cry!
quickly. He may not have found the
thing. Anyway I must know at once."
She was trembling with excitement,
but Elsa was quite calm. It seemed
almost as though the hope, which in
"Stop! That is his message to you?
The last wish, which you were to re-
spect ?"
"It seems so," said Mrs. Carrington,
smiling. "At any rate I can find no
the daughter had died, was pulsing . other."
with strong life in the mother. But it i "And this is how you respect it?"
was not the same hope. The things I "Yes," she said. "The whole thing
they desired were not the same now `. is really too absured."
—probably never had been, perhaps j Elsa gazed at her in trembling an -
never would be the same. ger. For a moment she could not
"Quick!" cried Mrs. Carrington speak. Then with a low moan, she
cried:
again. "If the jar is not there, we
shall have to follow that man."
But the jar was where Elsa had
put it.
At the first cast of her grapple, a
coil of the picture wire round its neck
was caught, and it came to the sur-
face. Elsa chipped off the cap of
sealing -wax with which she had cov-
ered its mouth, and then, having taken
out the cork, drew from it the rolled
packet. Mrs. Carrington snatched it
from her hands, and tore it open.
"Wait!" cried Elsa.
There was something in her tone
which made the elder woman pause.
"Well ?" she asked irritably.
Fathermessy me a ave a> which
g g
I was to deliver to you when I put that
packet into your hands."
"Well ?" said Mrs. Carrington again.
"He said that his last command to
you, spoken through my lips, was that
you were to respect the wish which
you would find expressed in a letter
to you which that packet contains. He
said that you would understand, and
that I should not."
With a frown Mrs. Carrington be-
gan to read the letter. It was a long
letter, and as she read the frown
deepened. When she came to the end
she was silent for a moment, and then
she said shortly:
"Take the boat out again."
Elsa began to scull towards the en-
trance. Before she had reached it,
her mother gave a short laugh, and
said:
"What do you think this packet
constains, besides your father's let-
ter to me?"
"I don't know." said Elsa. "Father
spoke of proofs."
"Proofs of what? Of his innocence?
You little fool!"
With something that was almost a
sob, Elea dropped her oar, and turned
quickly -to her mother, crying:
"Mother! was he guilty?"
"Yes," said Mrs. Carrington, and
then, as Elsa buried her face in her
hands, she added, with a mocking
laugh: "I will read you a bit of his
last letter to me."
With a sneer on her lips this wo-
man who had called Richmond. Car-
rington husband, read to the girl who
was his daughter:
"Elsa believes in me. If it is pos-
sible for that belief to live,' charge
you, Rachel, not to kill it. She will
look to you for guidance. I have told
her that the decision rests with you
whether the effort to clear my name
"You are my mother; but I hate
you!"
CHAPTER XV.
The same two men were again on
duty in the instrument Room at Ri-
beria Grande who had been on duty
on the night when the cable message
"Danger—Circus" came through,
He came to the table and took
Scarborough's place in front of the
instrument. Scarborough went to
the window from which he could seta
the white walls of the C'hinelas in the
distance, she knows!" he muttered,
Since the morning when she had I
declared passinately that she no long-
er desired his help. Elsa had told him
nothing. They had met frequently,
and he had made a poii't of telling her
everything. She knew, for instance,
about the hooded woman, and she bad
in her possession the stone which had
been found in the dead man's fingers,
with the half obliterated crotches of
his last message pencilled on it, But
she had not met confidence with con-
fidenee. Scarborough knew nothing
of the letter which her father had
written to her, nothing of her reasons
for going alone to the Ring -Rock. Ile
would probably not have known even
of the fact, had not the rescue of
Mona de la Mar and the others from
the stranded Sea -Horse made it im-
possible of concealment.
He had told Mona that there had
been no quarrel between him and
Elsa, and in their literal sense the
words were true. They met as
friends. But formerly they had met
as something more.
Scarborough turned away from the
window with a sigh. The jarring note
in his love -idyll rang to -day as a
very palpable discord, and he longed
for the time to come when the har-
mony would reassert itself.
A message was coining over the
cable. Scott began to take it down,
and broke off with an exclamation.
"Hullo!" he said, "It's for you."
"For me ? Can't be, I'm not impor-
tant enough."
"'Scarborough, Cable station'—
that's you, isn't it?—`Go in and win.
Finances arranged. Letter coming.
Ambler.' " Scott read the message
from the flickering of the siphon, and
proceeded in due form to write it
down. "Why doesn't your friend use
code?" he asked. "He's extravagant
in words. Is this private, old man?
Or may a fellow know what it refers
to?"
"It is the answer to a letter I wrote
some time ago," said Scarborough.
"Ambler is my uncle."
"The one who, to encourage thrift
in the young, puts three sovereigns .on
the top of every one you show him at
the end of the year ? That uncle ?"
"Yes," said Scarborough.
Scott whistled. "Then 'Finances
arranged' sounds as though it might
mean something handsome," said he.
"What does 'Go in and win' mean?
Stop, I'll guess. The girl at the
Chinelas? Right?"
"Yes, right," said Scarborough,
Scarborough again was sitting in quietly.
front of the siphon recorder, and Scott jumped up with a laugh.
again Scott was lying in a cane chair, "Then off you go!" he tried; "and
listlessly turning over the leaves of a 'good luck to you! I'll get one of the
novel. Specialization of function other men to take your duty. Don't
commonly took this form between waste time. Croesus, in the form of
these two. I
Uncle Ambler,
promises
over the sub -
No messages were passing over tha marine cable—excellent institution,
cables, and for the last half hour the submarine cable!—to pay for the !
Scarborough had been deep in fun when you're married. 'Finances !
thought. The task which he had tak- arranged' can mean nothing else; and
en upon his shoulders, when he under- as for 'letter coming,' I shouldn't wait'
took to solve the mystery which sur- for it. `Go in and win,' he says. Why
I rounded Richmond Carrington's death, don't you go?"
absorbed the thoughts of most of , Scarborough had thrown himself in- ,
his waking hours now; but the solu- to the cane chair, and showed no sign '
tion did not come. That there had of wanting to go.
been no actual murder had been prov- "Lucky beggars some fellows are!"
ed by the evidence of the Portuguese Scott went on, enviously. "It gives a
'; doctor, who had certified that death , man a pull to be born with an uncle.
I was due to the suddenbursting of an I've got no relatives nearer than a
aortic aneurism of long standing.. father, worse luck!—and he's as poor
1 But the doctor said also that it was .as aI am. Look here, why don't
impossible that Carrington should not you do as you're told, and go in and
have known of theexistence of this win e»
aneurism, and that it was very un- i "Because I don't think I should win
likely that he would be ignorant of the ? if I went in now," said Scarborough
Ifact that any unusual exertion would simply.
almost of a certainty be fatal. So I "Oh, that's it, is it?" said the other
Imuch Scarborough could understand; ' man with a laugh.., "Did you hint :as
but what he could not understand was much to Croesus ? His message
why Elsa's father had, by making this ' doesn't suggest that you did?"
1 exertion, doomed himself to an al -1 "I didn't," said Scarborough.
most inevitable death. He had little "But you've taken to doubting late -
doubt that the risk had been known, ly ? Do you know, a countryman of
and dared with full knowledge. But! reline once put the thing rather neat -
why ?
eat -why? What was the motive which ly? .'He either fears his fate too
had been strong enough to make Rich- much, or his deserts •are small.' You
mond Carrington brave death as the `
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know the rest"
Price .of a country walk ? 1 "Yes," said ' Scarborough. "The
Presently Scott, the man in the cane man who wrote that was hanged. I
chair, yawned, and threw his book don't think. Graham of 'Montrose is
down in disgust.
es toget in- quite a safe guide,'though he was
"What awful rot manages your countryman: .Fm not going:"
to print nowadays," he remarked. "Then you fear your fate too
"Sickening! I'll change places with , much ?" said Scott. •
you for a bit, Horace. Asiphon-re- • "Or my deserts are small. Have it
corder that doesn't record anything is which way you like. And suppose we
dull company, but the average modern drop the subject."
novel is duller. Bet you half a crown When Scarborough .wrote the let -
you can't read through four chapters ter to which this cablegram was an
of, this one. . Have a look at it, and answer, "Richmond Carrington was
pitch it into the stove when you've still alive, and the note of discord had
done." „ " not yetsounded in the love a idyll.' He
had told his uncle that he meant to
ask :EISti to be his ;wife, and he had
'n'ot riugested that there •was any doubt.
••,But•.antire C1e>"k in the.' Cable ,Com-
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1880 Chabot. Ave. Montreal
ON THE FARM
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The Dairy Stable and Clean Milk.
On a farm where live''stock is kept
greater attention must 'be paid to
cleanliness than on one on which there
is no live stock. This is particularly
true of a dairy farm, for the success
of which thorough sanitation is a
necessity.
To obtain the most sanitary condi-
tions, the diary barn should be built
on high ground, with good natural
drainage and `sheltered from the cold
winds of • winter. Horse stables,
poultry houses, hog sheds, privies, and
manure pits sould be far enough
away not to contaminate the cow sta-
ble air. There is always a tendency
for the barnyard lots and paddocks
surrounding the stable to get muddy.
and foul, but when the barn is situat-
ed on a high, well -drained spot this
tendency is reduced to a minimum, as
the lots soon become dry after a rain
and in the spring when the frost
frost leaves the ground. ' If the yard
is inclined to be muddy, it may be im-
proved by drainage and by the use of
cinders or gravel. It should be free
from mudholes, and manure should
not be allowed to accumulate in it. In
severe winter weather, or in the
spring when the ground is soft and
manure can not be hauled to the fields
daily, it should be stored in a manure
pit some'distance from the stable and
not in the basement of the barn or
any .place in,the dairy stable.
An ideal site for a barnyard is on a
south slope
that drains aWay from the
barn. A clean yard is a great help
in keeping the cows from becon,.ing
soiled by mud and manure.
.prinking "water for cows should be
fresh and uncontaminated from any
source.' The well should be so locat-
ed and protected. that there is no dan-
ger of pollution of the water by ;the
drainage from the barnyard,' manure
Ipiles, or other sources. The water
Itank or trough should -be so conveni-
ent to the stable that it is unnecessary
I to expose the' cows to extreme cold or
1 severe storms. It should be kept
clean and filled with an abundance of
fresh pure water, to remove any
doubt as to the ability of each animal
to satisfy its thirst.
The construction of the dairy barn
may be less important in keeping
down the bacterial count of the milk
I than careful methods in handling
milk. Proper construction, however,
lightens the labor necessary to keep
the barn and its equipment in a clean,
sanitary condition. In the old-time
basement dairy' barn little attention
was paid to proper ventilation and dis-
tribution of the light. This type of
barn is not recommended and. if used
for housing dairy cows the lighting
and ventilation should receive special
attention.. .
A . one-story dairy stable is a very
good type. It should preferably be
located with its length extending
north and south and have an abund-
ance of window space. If the stable
is located this way it receives the
purifying benefit of both the morning
and afternoon sun. The construction
should be such as to keep floor, walls,
ceiling, and stable fittings in a. clean
and sanitary condition. The floor,
gutter, and mangers"should be hard,
impervious to` nfoistilre, and free from
crack in `•which 'filth May collect.
The gutter back of the cows should
be larg erlo>.ighte hold the 'droppings;
a width .of 16 t2.18 inches and'a depth
of 7 inches..are" usually sufficient.
The Ighatter shtiir'Ic incline so as to
drain, readily unless the'liquid is tak-
ten up by -absorbents. •
All rains, ,and waste pipes should
be,�vater-tigle'ti •and air -tight. Every
,w;tis,te, pipe;slxoulcl haye:.a trap to pre-
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tar gh thie,waste pipe.
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•not be allowed to accumulate on the
walls and .ceiling, With a tight,.
smooth ceiling and smooth walls with-
out ledges there' should be little trou-
ble from dust and cobwebs. White-
wash should be freely applied at least
twice a year, both to walls and ceil-
ing, as it helps to purify the stable
and to keep it light. An abundance
of light is necessary -4 square feet
of glass per cow is generally suffici-
ent if the windows are well distributed
and not obstructed in any way,
Every cow stable should have a
' system of ventilation to keep the air
• fresh and pure and the cows comfort-
able without exposing them to injur-
ious drafts. If the smell in the barn
is disagreeable at any time, it indi-
cates that the ventilation is deficient.
At least 500 cubic 'feet of air space
should be provided for each cow. The
feed room, silo chute, and hay chute
should be conveniently located, but
at the same time they should be in a.
separate room to keep the odor and
dust out 'of the stable as much as pos-
sible. -Canadian Farm.
An Incentive to Improve the Herd.
When the Dairy Act, relating to
paying for milk by test at chesse fac-
tories, comes into force there will be
an incentive for patrons to select and
breed their herds for butter -fat pro-
duction. Under the old method of
paying according to quantity, the pat-
ron with the low -testing herd was be-
ing paid more than his milk was real-
ly worth for making' ,eheese,,?while the.
high -testing milk was sold below
value. Numerous tests have been
made which prove beyond a doubt
that there is nothing fair in paying
for milk, according to quantity, fur
cheese -making purposes. A differ-
ence of one-half per cent. in the test
makes a difference of twelve cents in
the value of cheese made, from 100
pounds of milk when cheese is sell-
ing at fifteen cents a pound.
No dairyman wants to profit at the
expense of his neighbor, and yet in
many factory sections this is exactly
what has been taking place. Evident-
ly low -testing herds are in the maj-
ority or paying on a quality basis
would have ben universally adopted
long ago, and there would have been
no need of legislation in order that
justice might be meted out to all pat-
rons of factories.
The new Act, is in the interests of
the dairy industry, and instead of
there being only a few high -testing
herds in a factory district as at pres-
ent, it will tend to raise the average
test and incidentally the returns from
the dairy herds. Dairymen and
cheese makers should co-perate and
do all in their power to promote pay-
ing for milk according to quality. If
the herd gives a low average test,
there is a way of improving it. True,
the test of the present herd cannot be
raised, but by using a bull from high -
testing ancestors the offspring usually
prove to be better than their dams.
andmostsatisfactory
The os
easiest
way
of obtaining a high -testing, high -pro-
ducing herd is to weigh and test the
milk from each cow regularly, then
save the heifers from the best. At-
tention must be paid to the breeding
of the herd sire. He is considered to
be half the herd, and if his ancestors
were only average the offspring can-
not be much better. By paying at-
tention to breeding, the average yield
and puality of milk per cow will be
much higher ten years from now than
it is at the present time. If the aver-
age is raised by 1,000 pounds of milk
per cow per year, it will increase the
profit by at least ten dollars without
additional. expense, unless it is in the
cost of the sire. The average milk
and butter -fat yield can be increased,
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Starch to Blanc Mange
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and we believe it will be done. When
the dairyman with milk testing 3 per
cent. receives twelve cents per hun-
derd pounds less than his neighbor
who sells 3.5 per cent, milk, he will
soon begin to apply the ways and
means fo bringing his herd up to
the 3.5 per cent, or even higher test.
It isn't 1,a matter of improved stabling
or specially -prepared feed that makes
the difference. It is the breeding that
counts.—Farmer's Advocate.
Fertility and Dairying.
Dairying is the system of farming
that will maintain the fertility of
the farm without the use of high-
priced fertilizers. For two reasons,
dairying maintains the fertility of
the land. First, because in butter
there is almost no plant food of value;
and, second,. because 90 per cent. of
all the grain feeds purchased for the
cow, as well as 90 per cent. of all food
raised on the farm and fed to the cow,
is returned to the farm.
With barnyard manure and an oc-
casional crop of clover, the land will
remain productive indefinitely . When
we stop to think of it, whenever we
sell wheat, corn, or oats, and get one
dollar, we sell about 80 cents worth of
our farm. When we get one dollar
by selling butter, we sell less than
one-half a cent's worth of soil.
The land owner who makes his
money selling the soil fertility, and
in 10 or 50 years leaves the farm
worn out, is not a farmer, but a soil
robber. He holds the same relation
to the soil that a timber thief does to
our forests. The tillers of the soil in
the future will find their fathers have
not been kind to them; that they have
inherited barren patches. We should
dairythem, because there ispresent
e ,
money and future for the farm in it.—
J. P. Fletcher, in Farm and Dairy.
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There was a chilly silence. Then
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"Er—and can you recommend'the
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Sir Wm. ,lames Thomas has pur-
ched trasedoops.
5,00,000 cigarettes for wound-
Tlhe first "Bantam" to die for his
, country is Private Weightman, of
Liverpool.
Rugby and Dunchurcli. Agricultural
Association have decided not to hold
a show this year.
The death is announced of Mr.
Lewis Herbert Yeoward, a well-
known Liverpool ship owner.
1)r. X. Stratton Warrack has been
appointed deputy medical officer of
health for the Port of London.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer is
to be asked to .receive a deputation on
the subject of double income tax.
A hut for soldiers' wives is to be
erected by the Y.M,C.A. in the church-
yard of St• John's, Waterloo road.
A Belgian school has been opened
at Letchwell, and 150 Belgian chil-
dren are being taught In their own
tongue.
Between 15,000 and 20,0.00 mem-
bers
bers of the Shop Assistants and
Warehousemen's TJnion have joined
Ithe colors.
Mr. Francis Giraud, clerk of the
peace for Flavershain, has just died
in his SSth year. Ile was town cleric
for 32 years.
About 160 German prisoners, pre-
sumably captured in the recent fight-
ing at St. Eloi, have been landed at
Southampton.
At the annual meeting of South_
ampton Board of Guardians a woman
member, Mrs, Palmer, was elected
vice-chairman.
During March 11,000 tons of fish
were sent to Billingsgate Market, as
compared with 16,000 tons during
March last year.
At the Parkhurst Convict Prison,
Isle of Wight, convalescent convicts
In the infirmary are knitting woolen
scarves for soldiers.
There is still aserious labor short-
age
hortage in the agricultural industries of
Lancashire and more women are
wanted on the land.
Pte. "Dicky" Thorne, son of a well-
known Ashford (Kent) musician, has
been awarded the D.C.M. for gallant
conduct at the front.
Nearly $36,000 has beeu collected
to endow a chair in Russian at the
University of Birmingham. About
$60,000 will be required.
During the week ending March 10,
the number. of L.C.C. necessitous
children fed amounted to 13,689,
against 39,475 a year ago.
ROYALTY BEFORE THE CAMERA.
Just Like Ordinary People When They
Have Their Pictures "Took."
The photographer to the British
royal family tells in Tit -Bits of his ex-
perience while engaged in his work
and of the formalities to be observed
on the occasion. The last time I was
at Buckingham Palace, he says, I took
six different photographs of the King
and Queen and other members of the
royal family. When I was taking a
group of the royal children, Prince
John suddenly laughed just as I ex-
posed the plate. The Queen, who was
in the room, said to the little prince,
"Now you have spoiled the photograph
and another will have to be taken.
You must not spoil this one."
"I am very sorry," replied the
prince most solemnly, "but it wasn't
my fault; some one pinched me," an
explanation that made 'Her Majesty
and the lady in waiting smile. The
next picture was taken without/ acci-
dent. Royal patronage is, of course,
very valuable to a photographer. All
royal sittings are paid for, whether
the photographer is permitted to pub-
lish the photographs or nob.
When a photographer is summoned
to any foreign court, he is supposed
to wear evening clothes. Some, years
ago I was summoned to a well-known
West End hotel, where the King and
Queen of Spain were staying, to
photograph their majesties. I went
in my frock coat, and when King Al-
fonso's equerry entered the room
where the sitting was to take place he
glanced at my attire, and exclaimed:
'Good gracious'i You cannot appear
before their majesties dressed like
that!"
"Well," I replied, "that is the way I
dress when I am summoned to Buck-
ingham Palace."
"Oh!" replied the equerry doubt-,.
fully. "Well, I must explain it to Itis
Majesty."
King Alfonso at that moment enter-
ed the room, and the equerry began
his explanations about my attire; bub
the Spanish monarch . quickly inter-
rupted the recital with a laugh. "I
think Mr. — looks very well in-
deed," and the sitting then proceeded.
e.
A Moving Tate.
Caller—"I would like to - secure a
place in your moving -picture com-
pany." Manager --"You are an ac-
tor. ?" Caller—"Yes," Manager—
"Had any 'experience acting without
audiences?" Culler—"Acting with-
out audience is what brought Me
here,"
.Better if
IIs IiadtSpoken.
No
A ratherom ohs na. a tai
p p vl captain
n
had been tom e
e p 11ed to await the cum-
ing of a new naval cadet. After the
usual introduction, t oducticl, he remarked,
"Well, youngster, the old story, I
suppose—t1he fool of the family sent
to us!"' "Oh, no,' sir!" rejoined the
youth, "that's all been altered since'
your day!"