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AN EXCITING PRESE T 0AY ROMANCE ;house• and the trees round it, Mona
halted in an open space of the. read,
"I think this will do," she said,B
iy $ST �' Y s "There isn't a hedge within fifty
Yaiiis,. and the siek-room of our head,
move
ache patient is double that distance
won't be hard
' , n. "Who's going to stay olid away, Our voicese
Matta*
!borough.
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CHAPTER 1X. ---(Cont d.) q had counted on you for
ut speak without pointing at thx gs
There's a bright moon, and an intelli-
gent observer .can deduce a good deal
0
om gestures. Now, then, what s t
fully �
smash, you know, and most of thein ai be done?"
We had decided that the I don't think it will alai 6o forget "I think," said Scarborough, "that
were poor. , „your ran
n. ti givep
he toup
ae
I o h be
diamonds shout l be . to to the liqui- the door of the you two 1
trbankruptcy, to be turned into { As he said this, e . of going with me to -morrow; stay
dator in l y, ( opened suddenly, Mrs. Cox- ,.
a small dividend of something or oth
room p y here and watch Mrs. 'Carrington. If
er in. the pound." j rington herself stood sniiling on the she goes—"
" threshold. ""Oh she'll go right enough,' said
own claim. t is, g
ins all her o
"She res >,
g "No, she said, softly, it won't do
Mona.
"Yes, I think she will. If she' does,
you can follow her. Does she bicycle,
Elsa ?"
"No."
"Then she'll have a carriage. You
on your bicycles can prevent her giv-
ing you the Slip. P11 carry Drat my
original plan of joining Phil at Fur-
nos.".
Mona turned to Elsa.
"Aro you willing to give up your
picnic?" she asked.
"I don't mean to give it up," sai3 feed for fattening steers. Some ex-
Elsaquietly. "I ani going.'' periments carried on in the States. re-
b are fed as
re -
Mona , looked ab Scarborough. sentry show that cattle tha
queerly. "A determined family, the
Carrington's," she said. "I thought
Elsa wouldn't submit to be bullied by
the lady with the headache. You
see, Mr. Scarborough, we're going.
But instead of Mrs. Carrington giv-
ing us the slip, I suggest that we
should inflict that experience on her.
What time can you call for us in the
morning?".
"I am.on duty bill eight," said.
Scarborough.
"Couldn't you get one of the other average daily ration of 16.3 pounds
"Oh, yes, we've settled it all: There; watch her
were rather a lot of people who suf- that duty, you know.""
andVarney.
I forgot about her," said Mona rue,
Carrington tori
the a
•er in i edng
said Elsa to Scarborough. "Isn'b it
splendid of her? She says that the
poor people suffered more than she
did."
"Oh, no, it isn't splendid, or heroic,
or anything of the sort," Mona cut in
before Scarborough could answer.
"Don't run away with that idea, Elsa.
I've got two reasons, both are very
ordinary ones. The first is that I've expect me to be ashamed of admitting
got a feeling that I should hate to et p be foolish. Introduce me."
Bouch a penny of the money which the xt . Dofi't
span who stole it from me lost his life Elsa stood where she was, and made
in defending. That's silly perhaps, no movement to do so. Mrs. Calving -
but I can't help it. The second is
that I don't need it."
"Not just now," said Scarborough.
"But if you grow tired of your wand-
ering life with the circus -troupe --
"Oh, don't bother!" said Mona. a battle of words with^two young girls
"I've got plenty of money, I tell you; But even after a defeat the "enemy
but it's a theme I don't want to dis- , sometimes rallies, you know, and
while I have been standing behind
that 'door I have rallied considerably.
you some You, I presume, are Mr. Horace Scar -
depends upon whether something I borough, the young pian who, my hus-
very much want to happen, does hap- band informed me, would very Poe -
pen. See?" sibly be my son-in-law one day,"
The others noted with astonishment "Mother!" cried Elsa again.
that she was blushing, and Elsa be- Mrs. Carrington laughed again.
"Elsa's blushes suggest that I am in-
discreet." she said mockingly. "But,
Horace, if I` am to be your mother-in-
law, you ought to have the opportune
to forget me. Elsa, introduce the
young man to me."
Elsa had jumped up, and was gaz-
ing at her mother with a look of min-
gled contempt and anger.
"Mother!" she said scornfully.
"You have been—"
"Listening," said Mrs. Carrington
calmly. "Yes, child, I have. Do you
ton laughed.
"Very well," she said. "i must•in-
troudce myself.. I am Rachel Car-
rington, the woman who retired to bed
with a headache, utterly routed after
cuss just new, I have a reason for
that, too, which I shall perhaps tell
day, and perhaps not. It all
gan:
"Why, Mona—"
"Change the subject, please!" said
Mona with a laugh. "Mr. Scarbor-
ough, you haven't reported what you ity of knowing something of me. I
and Phil. found at the yenta." shall join your picnic to -morrow, and
Scarborough told them the result of vee can enjoy a talk together. You
the visit to the yenta, and of Varney's don't look pleased. Surely the ar-
sugestion that the Furnas district rangement is a good one. It will ob-
should be watched, night and day, in viate the necessity of leaving anyone
order to catch the man Gillies. Of here to watch me!'
course Gillies knew nothing about the She threw herself into a chair, and
scratched strove, and if it was he who her mocking laughter rang out again
had stolen the plan from Mrs. Car-
rington,. there was still that link miss-
ing in his knowledge; bit it was also
possible that he had other reasons for
S•x1 P ' I' ton
o a ay ng
roposii t.
It is safe be say that more silos will
be built in Canada this year than in
any previous year. Corn silage has
, roots as a .
prayed to be superior to
succulent feed for dairy cattle, and
when it is realized that a bon of corn
can be .grown for anywhere from
thirty cents to one dollar more cheap-
ly than a tonof roots, it is ap-
parent that the man who keeps cattle
and has not got a silo is not making
the best of his opportunities, says the
Canadian Countryman.
If growing corn instead of roobs ef-
fects a saving of half a dollar per
ton when eighteen or twenty acres is
reserved for succulent feed each year temperature in slanstroke may nob
(which is by no means an excessive I rise stave normal during the whole
acreage), by growing corn, over $150 course of the disease.
would be saved in the season's crop. Another condition very similar to
This is enough money to put up a sunstroke is that known as heat stroke
silo, , or heat exhaustion. This is brought.
A1thonugh for amany years silage about by over-exertion and insuffici
has been regarded as one of the best ent heat elimination. The direct
succulent feeds for dairy cattle, it is rays of the sun are not responsible for
only comparatively recently that it this effection, which very often occurs
has received proper recognition as a to an animal on a _cloudy, sultry day,
Some of the more prominent symp-
toms of heat stroke are weariness,,
profuse sweating,;': difficult ,breathing,
much as fifty and seventy-five pounds an extremely high temperature, and a
of silage per day sold for almost as rapid,pulse, which gradually grows
much as those fattened chiefly on weaker and upon the approach of
grain, while the cost of making one death muscular tremors will be noted.
hundred pounds gain was from $2 to.The treatment for sun stroke and
$3 less. We quote from Wallace's The
stroke are the same. Remove the
Farmer: "At the Missouri Station, animal to a cool, quiet, well ventilated
one lot of steers which received an place and permit a stream of cold
average daily ration of 37.6 pounds of water to flow over the horse and, if
silage, 4 pounlds of alfalfa hay, and 5 possible, apply ice packs to the head.
pounds of oil meal sold for $9.65 per If Inc is plentiful apply it all over the
cwt , while another lot received en body.—S. O'Toole, North Dakota Ex-
periment Station.
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THE CANADA STARCH
' CO. UMITED
MONYFIEA1,, CARDINAL,
BRANTFORR, FORT WILLIAM.
Makers of "Crown Brand" ana
"Lily Mae" Corn Syrups, and
More 'idlouses, Lingerie and
Skirts—more Table Linen-
more Sheets and Pillow Gases
— more Curtains are
starched with "Silver Gloss",
than any other starch in
Canada. Your grocer hasit,
ry
Benson's Corn Starch, , 233
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FR(
UNSET COAST
WHAT THE WESTERN PEOPLE
ARP,,. DOING.
Progress of the Great West Told
in a Few Pointed
I'aragraphe
The Vancouver Company- of the
196th Western, University . Battalion,
left last week for Camp Hughes,
Manitoba.
tra
ex
rays of the sun falling upon the skull• more than repay you for any Tho Social Service Department of
A horse so affected may die suddenly care. Vancouver is going to open a new
hosee
as :though stricken with apoplexy or f you snow fight with ,z.b#laky station .next month to supply;. pizr
he may have a grainer' paralysis of th jig is up, 1�eep coal, and ten to milk to babies. ,r
respiration. The symptoms which one the horse will cool off ind a few June 30 was the last day on which
usually present themselves are rest minutes, loos` the jitneys might ply for hire in the
lessness, pawing, spasms, and a mark- Unlrofibable cows and unprofitable Esquimault municipality, according to
ed redness of the mucous membranes acres ltieep a felloworhaallasetare timise thintver'k .a recent by-law,,
i the cavities of the head. The o` the , Mt n'Y Thomas. Gibson, axed 30, was struck
lining h ing ab t po
pleasant either. by a log at the International Lam-
s Too g bad, that a horse should ever ber Company's jam in the Campbell
be galled, but if it occurs have a river and instantly killed.
pinch of powdered annin ready to A third attempt is to be made to
sprinkle, aver the raw place. Its is flout` the Japanese steamer, Kenkon
soothing.' all) Beals it almost immedf- Maru, No. 3, ashore on the Belle Chain
Reef since January 12 last.
ately.
A little wheat bran, or some mix- Word has reached Victoria of the
in the feed box at even- death, in his 84th year, of Mr. John
tbigof grainFerr;Ii. Ryder 'of Cheam, B.C., one' of
ing milking tine, is a good plan to "' >
bring .the herd'�promptly up to the ;the real ''pioneers of the Interior.
gate. IrregalarMr, Aaron Lewis; who was born in.
milking ilkin g time is a Victoria .56" years ago, died last week,
damaging m prahat', at St. Joseph's .Hospital, after an i11=
The mare that', is to beyoine a
mother must have, considerate treat-
ness of three. months'duration.
Lieut. J. A. Jackson, of the 20th
merit and good uaod. Avoid any Battalion,, who ecently won the MuJ^ '.'
that may. be must,; drive reasonably tar Cress, is the youngest son " scree
and, if drawing loads, let her stop oc- y o '
casionally to get breath. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas H. Jackson, of
If we watch hogs, closelywe may
a Chilliwack, B.C.
g y Mrs. Vera Hansen of Vancouver, has
learn many lessons from them. They been sentenced to one year's impris- -
know their needs better than we do,
CHAPTER XXI.
Mrs. Carrington was enjoying the
situation. These young people were
knowing, or guessing, the place to really delicious. They thought they
which the plan referred, and so could had outwitted her, and were disduss-
do without the stone. Anyway Var-
ing gravely what they meant to do
ney was quite right in saying that he with the diamonds when they got
must be watched." them. The stones were to be handed
over to her husband's creditors, for
distribution amongst the widows and
orphans in England; it was a touching
scheme, but it was not the one which
Mrs. Carrington proposed to see car-
ried out.
But though she enjoyed her triumph,
and did no mind in the least that she
had gained it by admitted eavesdrop-
ping,shall frighten our man if we go in a she was really tired. Moreover
think her headache had not benefited by
swarm. Phil suggests, and I
he's right that as Gillies seems to half an hour's crouching with her ear
"You are going to ride over and re-
lieve Phil in the morning?" Mona
asked. ,
"Yes."
"I can improve on that plan. Elsa
and I will go with you, and we'll call
on the way for Miss Davis. We will
make a regular picnic of it."
Scarborough shook his head.
"Too conspicuous," he said. "We
men to take the last bit for you, just of silage 3.9 pounds of alfalfa hay
for once? Couldn't you be here by
six—or betber, half -past five?"
"Perhaps Scott would do it," said
Scarborough doubtfully; "but what's
your plan?"
"To be off before the lady suspects
that we are even awake," said' Mona,
"She will follow, of course, but we'll
leave a competent detective to shadow
her."
"Who ?"
"Val B. He's at the Cable Station
now; he has been dining with Mr.
Scott there, and he's going to stay of cottonseed meal. It is interesting
the night. He'll do ib if you say I to note also that the steers receiving
told you to ask him, and hell do it the larger amounts of silage did not
thoroughly.' shrink any more than those receiving
"Does he know, Mrs. Carrington?" the smaller amounts. The dressing
"No; so you can tell him what you percentage was almost but not quite
like of her. Say that she's an in- so high in the cast of the low silage
interesting woman with a very sad steers.
past, a fascinating creature with "The Missouri experiment, when
abnormally developed criminal tend- taken in connection with Iowa and
envies, and that a day spent in
watching her will be well worth while
know more than we do, we should let
him go ahead without interference for
'the present, and be ready to come in
at the "'.act minute. So you see we
oughtn't to frighten liirn yet"
"Exactly," said Mona. "But that's gratification to future profit, and an-
nounced that she was going to bed.
just what I meant by suggestinga "Really to bed, this tithe," she said
picnic. If he sees you and Phil moon -
"But don't go, Mr. Scarborough, on
ing about here, he'll know that you are that account! I don't suppose a chap -
watching him; and you may be sure ± eron is really necessary, as Elsa's
he will see you. But if we all go:;friend is with her. No doubt that
he'll think it's just a picnic party, and friewas why Maoisenlic Mona de la
we shall be able to explore the whole
!Mar ---.1 have got your professional
neighborhood withoub exciting his :a-
any
rany body else's suspicions." name right, my dear, have I ?—that,
"And Mrs. Carrington?" said Scar- I no doubt, is why Mademoiselle Mona
1 de la Mar insisted upon staying. I
am not needed, so I will retire. You
e Me _: 5NK RIECI ! have arrangements to make for toe
morrow. I am afraid I have compli-
cated them somewhat."
"You have." said Scarborough,
quietly. She was trying to anger
him, he thought; but he was not even
annoyed; and he rather admired the
woman's impudence. She was a
type that he had not met before, and
he realized for the first time the trem-
endous advantage that a s imple
shameless gives a plotter who Inas
brains to use it effectively. Mrs.
Carrington had the gift of shameless-
ness, but she also undoubtedly
had the gift of brains. She was an
added difficulty of course, but his
hands were not tied by misund-
erstanding now; he was free to grap-
`pie with difficulties, and he rather
welcomed them as adding zest to the
to the keyhole of the door. She ex-
pected to spend an energetic day to-
morrow, and she did not think she was
likely to gain any other information
to -night, so she sacrificed present
Ripe Cherries
and
make delicious and
economical preserves
Order LANTIC ST7GAR by
name in original, packages
2 and 5 -Ib Cartons
10 and 204b Bags
MIESERVINO LABELS b'REE—Seed red
bail trade•mntk for book of 54 printed
gu,nmca labels to
Atlantic Sugar Refineries Ltd.
Power' Bldg. riltonireax 40
and 15.3 pounds of shelled corn, sold
for $9.75 per cwt. In. other words,
the steers getting no corn, but a large
amount of silage, together with oil
meal and alfalfa have sold within 10
cents of those getbing 15 pounds :af
corn a day. These high silage steers
aeatally sold 5 cents higher per cwt.
than. two 48-oaylstvwrites.
than another lob which received an
average daily ration of 17.5 pounds of
silage, 3.7 pounds of alfalfa hay, 15.6
-pounds of shelled corn, and 2.6 pounds
Pennsylvania experiments, indicates
very strongly that the beef cattle men
to a close observer of character. Val. have finally reached the point where
B. Montague thinks himself rather a they are almost compelled to rely on
connoisseur of character, and is al- large amounts of silage. For years,
ways complaining that the female vil- the Englishmen and Scotmen have fed
lions he meets are bloodless and feeble their average steer 70,100, or even
—no real gritty vice in 'em, sir! Ex- 120 pounds of roots, together with not
plain to him," said Mona laughing, more than eight or nine pounds .of
"that this one is real hard sand, and grain.
he'll do anything you ask for the "Silage is a little more concentrated
chance of studying her." than the roots used by Englishmen.
Scarborough thought for a moment! and Scotchmen but it looks as though
"You know him better than I do,"' the corn felt feeders had at -last been
driven to adopt the methods of the
feeders across the water."
he said at length. "Don't be annoy-
ed at what I am going to ask. Is he
absolutely trustworthy?"
(To be continued.)
MORE WOMEN THAN MEN.
Expected That There Will Be a
Majority of 1,750,000 in France.
The latest statistics of the French
Labor Department show that while
women outnumbered men in France
before the war by 756,682 (in a total
population of 39,602,258), the war will
probably decrease the number of men
at least a million, giving the women a
majority of 1,750,000.
The additional million excess fe-
male population will be obliged, in
part at least, to support themselves,
increasing considerably the percent-
age of female wage earners, which,
according to statistics of the year
1912, was one-fourth of the total
number of employed in commercial
and industrial establishments subject
to inspection by the Labor Depart-
ment.
- One should learn to talk well—
also when it is well not to talk.
game.
"I should like to hear what you
mean to do with me," she said sweet-
ly. "I am coming tao your picnic,
but I realize that I shall not be very
welcome. 1 am an unfortunate com-
plication—how are you goign to deal
with it?"
Scarborough smiled.
"I don't think there is anything to
be gained by saying," he answered.
"You hope to be able to leave me
out afte ran?"
"Oh, no," said Scarborough, "If you ..
say you are coming, I have no doubt
that you will. But you will probably
make your own arrangements.
Mrs. Carrington gave him a quick
glance.
"Young man," she said, "you are
not a fool! I admit thab I hoped you
were. Good. night"
She swept retailing from the room,
and Mona jumped up and opened the
long French wirKllows that led to the
gardens
all:
ui"a
""TAi AND NI ATH
'
--London Ulxiiiioii.
Farm Notes.
Don't turn a good cow off just be-
cause she is getting old.
Give the good old cow a little better,
care. Every calf she gives you will
When they are out of condition they
will doctor themselves, if they have a
chance.
It is easier to skeep a horse's
shoulders healed up then it is to make
them so after- they have once been
sore. Some horses have thinner skin
than others and it breaks through eas-
ier. Watch every spot that is likely
to be chafed and pad the harness to
protect it.
These Fall Pigs Were Profitable.
Fifty-seven fall pigs fed at Univer-
sity Farm, St. Paul, last winter and
marketed recently, left a margin of
$4.56 a head to cover cost of labor,
risk, interest, profit, etc.
R. C. Ashby of the animal hus-
bandry division at University Farm,
began a series of tests two years ago
to determine whether raising fall
pigs'is profitable in Minnesota. The
margin of nearly five dollars a head
is the result of the test.
Eleven sows farrowed fall litters
for the tests, and the pigs were wean-
ed December 16. They were plut, on
feeding tests two days later. The
records kept cover all feeds consumed
by sows and litters from farrowing to
weaning and from the time the act-
ual feeding test was begun until it was
finished.
The total cost of feed for the sows
and pigs up to weaning time was
$186.81. From weaning time to the
time.marketing the feed cost $577.88,
making a total cost of $13.42 a head.
The feed was counted at these prices:
Shelled corn, 75 cents a bushel;
ground barley, 65 cents a bushel;
shorts, $26 a ton;. tankage, $55 a ton,
The pigs averaged 19111pounds
when sold May 6. They were sold at
$9.65 in South St. Paul, a price equi-
valent to $9.40 at home, The sell-
price of $17.98 left a balance of $4.5¢
each. No account of manure is
taken in these figures.
The pigs were fed in five lots, three
lots from self feeders and two lots
fed by hand. Those in the lots in
which the self feeders were used did
better than those in the other lots„
The corn -fed lots required abolut seven
bushels of corn, forty pounds of tank-
age, and from bhirty to forty pounds
of shorts for each pig from weaning
time to the close of the test.
The pigs•were feel grain alone. They
were given no mills and did not have
access to the cattle yards. Mr. Ash-
by thinks that when milk is available
or when the pigs can pick up after
cattle the margin will be correspond -1
ing'ly increased.
Heat and Horses.
Sunstroke is caused by the direct
onment for picking up a little girl
and throwing. .her clown with such
force as to break her thigh.
Sentence of death has been pro-
mulgated against `Betsy," the mas-
sive black bear which nightly visits
the headquarters of the 6th Field
Company C.E., at Vancouver.
Frank Picknel, an old-time fisher-
man of New Westminster, plunged
into the swift current of the Fraser
River and rescued a child.
An 18 -year-old Japanese girl, of
Vancouver, died from injuries re-
ceived by a street car.
Giant timbers are being cut at
Hastings mill for keels of British
Columbia ships.
A firm of Denver contractors wins
a suit of over half a million dollars
from Foley, Welch & Steweirt, Van-
couver contractors.
Dr. Gilbert Hartin, a physician tiifi:.
Nelson, is taking his first. vacation
after 21 years of hard work.
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THE IMPERIAL OIL
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• BRANCIIES
IN ALIT
CITIES
It Connects Marseilles. With the
North Sea.
The report of the opening of the
canal connecting Marseilles and the
River Rhone is an important piece of
news frons` France that does not re -
lace primarily to war, although, inci-
dentally, it is a testimonial to the
spirit of the French and the stability
of their industry that work on the
canal has been kept up despite the
war.
The importance of this canal which
was begun in 1904, and which is sixty+
miles long, is that it connects Mar-
seilles, the principal seaport of
France, with the North Sea. A delta
at the mouth of the Rhone makes passe
age in and out of that river difficult
for large vessels, and heretofore fore 112
ar
seilles, the great French Medti"t-
ranean port, about twenty-five miles
from the mouth of the Rhone, has been
cut off from the inland waterway sys-
tem of France by a ridge of hills.
The canal bores through this hilly
barrier five miles of the canal beim
a tunnel beneath a hill. This tunnel
by the way, is seventy-five feet wide
and seventy feet high, dimensions that
make it the largest tunnel- interior in
the world, according to despatches.
By the completion of this work
which has cost about one hundred
million francs, vessels up to six hun-
dred tons displacement can go by
water from 14arseilles to Havre and
the North Sea without passing
through the Straits of Gibraltar. Mar-
seilles has now direct water communi-
cation with inland cities like Lyons,
Avignon and Valence. Incidentally, the
canal will probably be useful in time
of war, for through it small fighting
craft, like small destroyers. and sub-
marines, can make a quick run be-
tween the Mediterranean and the Eng-
lish Channel.
CLEVER PLANTS.
Begonias Pick Out a Suitable Place
for Tendrils.
-
Tho cleverness of some plants is
indisputable. A. sundew, or fly -eater,
deceived by a piece of chalk, seized
it in its tendrils, but upon discover-
ing the fraud immediately withdrew
them, A fly, held just out of its
reach, did not attempt to move, but
as soon as it was brought a little
nearer the plant prepared to take
possession of it. Darwin showed tha
a begonia had a habit of searchin
for a bole to insert its tendrils into,
and even of withdrawing the tendril
to insert it in another hole if the first
proved unsuitable.
Nor is this power of selecting con-
fined to any particular class, Climb-
ers like the lianas will refuse to coil
round a brunch not strong enough to
bear its weight.