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AN EXCITING PRESE1T.DAY ROMANCE
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BY WEATN W3Y CHESNEY
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CHAPTER XXIV.--(Cont'd),
"Perhaps he did. ile didn't say so
to me, though."
"The uncle took over the, whole in-
Merest when Mona's father retired.
He tied three months ago; be was a
bachelor, and Mona is his' heiress.
She is a rich woman, richer than ever
she was before my father took her
inheritance.",
Scarborough whistled.
"Good old Mona!" he said, laughing
"1'm glad, But I don't see why she
blushed,"
"She loves Montague, and she wants.
him to ask her to marry hire. He half
did so once before, and took his words
back because he found out that she
had some money. She thinks that if
he were to learn about this he would
never ask her at all."
"So we are to keep quiet about it?"
said Scarborough, "All right, I won't
give her away I think she is a splen-
did girl, and Val IL, in spite of his
eccentricities, is almost as good a fel-
low as she thinks, him. But do you
approve of the match?'
"Of course I do," said Elsa, "She
loves him What else matters?"
Scarborough did not answer; but
he stole a glance at the girl who had
given that as her philosophy of love
and marriage; and he remembered the
words, in case he should have to quobe
them presently against the speaker
herself
They rode the rest of the way in
silence, giving all their attention to
keeping up a good pace At the gate
of the Casa Davis they were met by
Muriel's father and Scotb, who had
ridden over from Riberira Grande.
Scott put a letter into Scarborough's
hand without speaking, and Mr. Davis
was waving a slip of shining paper in
the air
"Is that the photograph?" asked
Scarborough eagerly.
"Yes, Read its"
The words which they already knew
stood out white from the brown back-
ground of the paper, but between
thein there were now other words.
faint, but still legible.
"Diamond cache, Blue lake . . feet
N. of .dripping well."
"Where is the Blue Lake?" asked
Varney.
"At Sete Cidades," said Davis.
"Anel that is the road that Monta-
gue said those two had taken! By
Jove!" said Varney excitedly. "Or as
Val B., himself would say, Jumping
Jehoshaphat, sir! We shall have to
hurry!"
CHAPTER XXV.
"Now, Horace," said Varney, "dis-
pose your forces. We all put our-
selves under your orders. What are
we to do ?"
Scarborough turned to Scott.
"Axe you free to join in?" he asked.
"Yes,"' said Scott. "I've arranged
for bath your duty and mine in the
instrument room to be taken for us.
Yoa promised, that I should be in at
the death, you know, so I made Mason
and the Pathriot volunteer to see our
work through."
"Good. Then Phil, will you go to
the coast. I think Montague was
right, and that if they find the dia-
monds they'll try to get away at once.
Find out where Gillies' boat is lying
and keep an eye on her. If you see
them trying to escape, stop them if
you can; we shan't be far behind, I
hope, and will come to your help. If
you can't stop them, follow them in
Miss Carringtan's boat, find out the
name of the ship that picks them up,
and we'll cable to the American ports,
and have them stopped when they try ;
to land. Scott and I will go to Sete i
Citades."
"What about us?" asked Elsa.
"Muriel and I claim to be included in
your arrangements."
"Then I arrange that you shall both
stay here," said Scarborough at once.!
"Our work may not be of 'a kind that,
you ought to share."
Elsa's upper lip tightened with the
line of obstinacy that Scarborough
had seen more than once before.
"I shall go with you and Mr, Scott
to Sete Cidades, she said quietly, and
he knew that it was useless to argue
further.
"Very well," he said. "And Miss
Davis?"
"Oh," Varney cut in, "Miss Davis.
won't be available. She and I had a
talk on our way back from Furnas,
and as the subject was rather an im-
portant one, she will stay and tell her
father,' but Scarborough has ordered
the proper arrangement, I know," he
added, turning to Mr. Davis. "I ought
to be the one to stay to 'talk to
father,' but Scarborough has orderer
otherwise."
"My dear boy," said Mr. Davis
heartily, "if what Muriel has to say
to me is that she and you want my
consent to an engagement—why are
you blushing, Muriel ?—I shall be just
as glad to hear the news from her
lips as from yours. But," he added
silly, "it can't be that of course. be-
cause she doesn't approve of you."
"She is going to try to conquer her
aversion," said Varney,
"Is she?" asked Mr. Davis, with a
pretence at surprise. "Then I am
afraid you will have to look forward
to a very long engagement. Muriel's
opinions about men are, as you know,
the result of long and deep study on
the subject of man's iniquities; con-
sequently she is just a trifle obsti-
nate in sticking to them. She is my
daughter, so perhaps I oughtn't to say
so; but no doubt you've noticed it
yourself. She'll take a long time to
learn to like you, I'm afraid."
Muriel came and wound her arms
round her father's neck and kissed
him.
"Don't be worried, dad," she said,
"It won't take me long to learn to like
Phil."
"Sure?" asked her father, smiling.
"You don't mean to tell me that my
daughter is going bo abandon a cher-
ished prejudice without a struggle?
How do you know you will learn so
easily to like him ?'
"Because 1 lave him now."
With flaming cheeks, and a laugh
that was almost a sob, she ran from
the room, and Elsa followed her. Mr.
Davis turned to the three men.
"Gentlemen," he said, and there
was a slight quiver in his voice as he
spoke, "if you had no more pressing
business to attend to than the love
affairs of my foolish little girl, I
would ask you to stay to -night and
drink bumpers to her future happ-
iness; for I think that I have secured
a capital fellow for my son-in-law,
and that my daughter will have a
good husband. Phil, my boy, I hope
that you and she will be very happy
together, and I think you will, Bat,
if you will profit by her father's ex-
perience, don't give way to her crot-
chets too often. Stand up to her now
and then, or she won't leave you in
possession of a single opinion, that
you can call your own. There, boy,
off with you to your post! Where is
his post, by the way, Scarborough?"
omewhere along the coast oppo-
site the "Ring -Rock," said Scarbor-
ough.
"All right, off you go. But Phil—I
don't know what you young people
have found out to -day, so I don't know
whether your duty to -night involves 1
danger or nob—bat if the choice is
offered to you between letting the
diamonds go and risking your life to
get them, think of my little girl and
let them go. Mr. Scarborough, I ask
you to back me up in this."
t "I shall be all right," said Varney,
before Scarborough could answer.
"But how long am I to stick down
there, Horace?"
Mr. Davis laughed.
"He wants to hasten back to his
wooing!" he said: "I'll drive Muriel-
over
urielover to see you toemarrow, Phil, and
you and she can have an hour to-
gether without the necessity of aban-
doning your duty to get it.'
"But if there is danger—" Varney
began, doubtfully. '
"I don't purpose to let my daughter
share it, of course," said Mr. Davis,
"You young people have been fax too
busy. I suppose to have heti time to
observe the fact that the island of
San Miguel hen suffered to -day from
art earthquake. I- hear that a new
islet has been suddenly formed in the
sea near the Ring -Rock, and as it pro-
bably will d=sappear-'a€;'a=n in a few
days, I want to see it. That"s why
Muriel and I will be in the neighbor-
hood of your ::entry -beat te-morow,"
Varney said no more, but sot off at
once; and when he had gone, Davis
said Fa Scarborough :---
"I have to thank you for giving me
the chance of mak:nt, that yo.rng
man's acquaintance. IIe possesses
the excellent combination of high
spirits and sound common-senee. He
is- a fine fellow, and Ulla) him im-
mensely. I shill give my daughter to
him with perfect trust that he will
make her happy, and that's a great
thing for a father to be able to say
now -a -days. Now won't you read your
letter? Scott rode over with it from
Bibeira Grande on the chance of meet-
ing you here, and I gathered that he
thought it was important. You need
not grudge a minute or two. Miss
Carrington won't be ready just yet,
you know. The girls always have
confidences to exchange on an occa-
sion like this."
Scarborough had forgotten ab out
the letter, which he still held unopen-
ed in his hams. He opened it now.
It was from the uncle whom Scott had
christened Croesus.
"My Dear Horace," it began. "As
from the letter of yours which, I re-
ceived this morning, I gather that you
still consider that niy opinion is of
importance. I'll give it to you sbraight
away. It's this—if you meet a good
woman and love her, marry her, if she
loves you in return. There's a lot of
humbug preacher now -a -days about
the folly of marrying, if you haven't
this much or that much a year—the
exact suin varies according to the so-
cial position of the preacher—on
which be keep the house going. That's
nonsense. Marry on notling a year
if that is your income, and if you are
both young and healthy, and if yoga
love each other, Then put your heads
together and find a way of making the
nothing into a sum of four figures. If
you reverse the process, and wait for
the wife until you have the four fig-
ures to keep her on, the chances are
that you will find that one of two
things has happened; either a better
and bolder man than you has stepped
in and taken the prize from you, or
you have outgrown the power of lov
, ing. For love, Horace, the real thing,
I the thing that poets sing of, conies to
a man only when he is young; but if
he gives it a proper welcome then, it
will stay with him when he is old;
I if he does not, it flies, and it never
comes back. There is many a middle-
aged man in London now prosper -
I eus, contented, perhaps, and very like -
married to a woman whom he pla-
1 cidly loves—and yet he missed the
supreme joy of life, missed it irre-
trievably, because he had not the grit
to snatch it when it came. A man is
apt to think that because he holds
himself in hand, and will not ask a
woman to share his early struggles,
he is doing ssomothing noble; but the
real truth is that he is merely doing
something selfish. The joy is in the
fight, the winning' battle against the
world, for there are persons in the
whole world whom you love best; but
do you think that joy is an. exclusive-
ly made prerogative? The woman, if
she loves you, can fight as bravely, as
joyously, as you. What right have
you to deny her the chance of the
battle?
(To be continued),
ON
(bowing^ I•ec kwhe a a.
1 Buckwheat is the leant common of
the grains. Pr:iba.bly, because of the
fact that it ha, been overshadowed by
° other crops Ivor l universally grown,
buckwheat has,. until recently, been
given but litvle attention by experi-
meet stations and consequently the
crop has leen quite frequentlly grown
in a very haphazard way. Buck-
wheat has been called a "poor land"
crop. It is true that buckwheat will
frequently produce a profitable crop
enland too poor to produce either oats
or rye profitably, but it will do still
better if given good treatment. In
fact, the New York Experiment Sta-
tion finds that "buckwheat when
grown on poor land responds well to
moderate dressings of even low grade
fertilizer and many farmers who do
not use fertilizer on other crops find
-it profitable to purchase it for buck-
wheat."
Soil Requirements.
Buckwheat is well suited to light
well -drained soils, such as sandy and
silt loams. It needs but little lime,
growing well in acid soils without
lime, where alfalfa and red clover
could not succeed. The plant seems
unusually active in taking plantfood
from poor and rocky soils. It needs
alarger proportion of phosphoric acid
and potash than of nitrogen, since
large growth of straw is not desired
so much as profuse bloom and early
filling of seeds.
When to Plant.
Under the most favorable condi-
tions, buckwheat will mature in 10
weeks, but, the average time is about
12 weeks. It does best when seeded
late, but is very sensitive to cold and
is killed by the first heavy frost. The
aim should be to bring the crop to
maturity just before frost. In the
latitude of southern New York this
means that the crop should be plant-
ed about the is week in July.
Buckwheat should be sown on land
prepared as for corn. It is an excel-
lent crop to sow where corn has been
planted, but where a stand has not
been secured. Best results are ob-
tained where the land is plowed early,
but fairly good results can be obtain-
ed by sowing immediately after plow-
ing if the land is well prepared.
Buckwheat is usually seeded at the
rate of three to five pecks per acre.
If a drill is used and the seed is of
good vitality, as little as three pecks
may be sufficient if the soil is fertile.
It is best to use a grain drill, but
good'results can be secured by broad-
casting the seed and harrowing it in.
Three varieties of buckwheat are
commonly grown—Japanese, Silver
Hull and Common Grey, the first two
being the most generally used. Jap-
anese has a dark -colored seed, while
the Silver Hull has a smaller seed,
glossy or silvery in appearance. These
two varieties are of about equal value,
when yields are considered.
Because of its plantfood require-.
ments and the exceedingly short sea-
son of growth, manure has not been
found satisfactory as a fertilizer for
buckwheat. Fresh manure contains
a larger percentage of nitrogen than
it does of phosphoric acid, just tlfe
reverse of what buckwheat needs.
For most profitable results on stony
and sandy soils under normal condi-
tions about 200 to 300 pounds of a
fertilizer containing one to tevo per-
cent ammonia, ten to twelve percent
phosphoric acid and two to four per-
cent potash should be applied at time`
of seeding. On loam or other soils
rich in organic matter, use less am-
monia. Buckwheat, unlike other
grains never straightens up after it,
once falls. Potash makes the stalks
strong and prevents lodging. Under
present abnormal conditions a fertili-
zer analyzing about one percent of
ammonia, eight percent phosphoric
acid and one percent potash may be
substituted or the potash may be
omitted entirely in which -case the
phosphoric acid should be increased
somewhat.
One grower says, "I like to raise
buckwheat because it is the only grain
for which I can buy fertilizer on a
90 -day note and pay for it out of the
crop it makes.'
Buckwheat blooms for three weeks
or longer and the grain ripens as
unevenly. This often causes quite a
loss during a wet harvest season or
from early frosts. Phosphoric acid
causes grain to form and hastens ma-
turity, hence an available supply of
this plentfood hastens ripening, thus
preventing loss from early frosts and
exposure ordinarily caused during wet
seasons while waiting for all the
grain to• ripen.
The farmer does not need expen-
sive machinery far harveabing the
buckwheat crop. An old-has}iioned
cradle, although it requires hard la-
bor, does the harvesting well. The
drop reaper, however, is one of the
most satisfactory machines for har-
vesting. Cutting is begun as soon as
the first blossoms have disappeared,
or often just before the -first frost is
expected. Buckwheat will mature
its seed in a few days, if, after cut-
ting, the crop is left in loose bundles
where they are dropped from the
cradle or reaper. It should then be
set up hi small shocks and tied near
the top with some strand's of the
straw bent upward from the sides of
the shocq. The cut buekwheat is
usually left in the field in the shacks
until threshing time, when it is
drawn in and threshed either with the
flail or by machinery.
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GETS BIG FAMILY PRIZE,
Paris Woman Raises 19 Children—
Seven Boys at Front.
Etienne Lamy, member of the
French Academy, has recently given
$100,000 to found prizes for the largest
families among the peasants of
France. He has suffered more criti-
cism for limiting his prizes to Catholic
families than praise for his generosity.
As long ago as 1841, a philanthropist,
M. de Reverdy, founded a prize, $600
every second year, to be given to the
most deserving family in the city of
Paris.
This prize has just been awarded to
Mme. Deviercy, a widow, aged 66, who
has raised a family of fifteen (eight
boys and seven girls) out of the nine-
teen born to her. She has provided
for their needs by selling vegetables
from a pushcart.
Mme. Deviercy was born in Paris
and her husband, a mason, died soon
after the birth of her nineteenth child.
One of her boys is paralyzed, but the
other seven are at the front, as are
two of her sons-in-law. The youngest,
belonging to the class of 1916, has just
been invalided from Verdun. He has
been at the front fourteen months and
has been cited in the order of the day.
Another son has also been cited and a
third was wounded. The prize win-
ner has already twenty-eight grand-
children, ane of her sons having sup-
plied fourteen.
Of Course.
"I am going to name my new store
'the Vortex.''
"Why that ?"
"People will jusb naturally be
drawn into it."
Whipping doer not always separate
a boy from his bad habits,
A gentleman is one who does not
discriminate inhis courtetsy,
The average woman swallows flat-
tery, just as a baby swallows buttons,
regardless of the trouble that may
follow.
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either insect eneciea or fungous dis-
eases, as the buckwheat plant is but
little effected by either, It is an ex-
cellenb crop for destroying Weeds and
for renovating and putting the soil
in fine mellow condition, and when
properly handled could be grown with
profit on many more farms.
Hot Weather Rules.
1. Load lightly, and drive slowly.
2. Shop in the shade if possible.
8. 'Water your horse as often as pos-
sible. So long as a horse is working,
water in small quantities will not hurt
him. But let him drink only a few
swallows if he is going to stand still.
Do not fail to water him at night after
he has eaten his hay.
4. When he comes in after work,
sponge off the harness marks and
sweat, his eyes, his nose and mouth,
and the dock. Wash his feet but not 10. If the horse is off his feet, try
his legs. him with two quarts of oats mixed
5. If the thermometer is 75 degrees with bran, and a little water; and add
or higher, wipe him all over with a a little salt or sugar. Or give him
damp sponge. Use vinegar water if oatmeal gruel or barley water to drink
0. Saturday night, give a bran
mash, 'lukewarm; and add a table-
spoonful of saltpeter.
7. Do not use a horse -hat, unless 'it
is a canopy -top hat. The ordinary
bell-shaped hat does more harm
than good.
8. A sponge on top of the head, or
even a cloth, is good if kept wet. If
dry it is worse than nothing.
9. If the horse is overcome by heat,
get him into the shade, remove har-
ness'and birdie, wash out his mouth,
sponge him all over, shower his legs,
and give him two ounces of aromatic
spirits of ammonia or two ounces of
sweet spirits of nitre, in a pint of
water; or give him a pint of coffee
warm. Cool his head at once, us-
ing cold water, or, if necessary, chop-
ped ice, wrapped in a cloth.
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. ; ME Id HAY
CITY PEOPLE SUFFER MOST
FROM HAY FEVER,
Caused Nearly Always From Rag-
weed Pollen, Seldom From
Goldenrod.
Exhaustive investigation and re-
search has convinced us that the hay
Ifever victim has one thing to be thank-
ful for --he never need be afraid to
hit the hay. The only ,
ty 7i plant, weed, or
vegetable which never has been con-
victed of causing pollinosis, which is ..,,,;
Greek for hay fever, is the hay itself,
Anything else that grows in yon va-
cant lot, from Rumex obtusifolius, or
as it is called, dock, to Plantago lan-
ceolate, which is a mean uppish way
of saying plantain, may account far
your particular case of "autumnal
catarrh," or, if you prefer, "hyperaes-
thetic rhinitis," but never, never timo-
thy or clover hay, writes Dr. William
Brady, in the New York Sun,
About one per cent. of the popula-
tion of cities have bay fever. Most of
these cases come in August and Sep-
tember, but some cases develop in
early summer—the so-called " rose
cold," which generally is not caused
by rose pollen. Hay fever symptoms,
in the milder cases, resemble those of
ordinary coryza or "cold in the head,"
Indeed, the disease may be mistaken
for a "cold." There is sneezing, block-
ing of the nostrils from swelling of
the mucous membrane, serious or
watery running of the nose, itching
of the inner corners of the eyes, and
slight elevation of temperature at
the onset and a tendency to subnor-
mal temperature later. There usually
is considerable general depression,
due to the subnormal temperature and
difficulty of breathing through the
nose, :especially when Iying down. In
some cases asthmatic trouble occom-
panies the attack.
The development of the epidemic
when hay was harvested each year
led to the suspicion that hay pollen
was a cause. The fa'ct, is, however,
that ragweed (ambrosia) is the cause
in the majority of cases, and t1u more
conspicuous golden rod is to blame
fora very small proportion cf the
cases.
Ragweed to Blame.
Ragweed will grow any old place,
where nothing in particular is grown.
It comes in two sizes --trial size and
hospital size. The trial size or com-
mon ragweed is a low, mean, ordinary -
looking weed that infests the byways
of civilization.- It has ragged, thin
leaves and spikes of homely, green
flowers at the ends of the branches.
The weed loves to spring up in fields
where a crop of wheat, rye, or oats
recently has been cut, and usually
grows two or three feet high. The pal -
len of ragweed is as 'light as smoke
and flies for a considerable distance
on the wind. It' is so abundant during
the ripening of the flowers that it will
stain the clothing of a person walking
through the field a yellow- color. That
the ragweed pollen is the specific
cause of hay fever may be demons-
trated in any case by freeing same
harvested pollen in the room with the
patient. It will bring on the symp-
toms at once at any time of year if it
is truly the cause.
Various other plants than ragweed
may produce pollinosis in certain
cases.
A popular idea is that hay fever
may be avoided by going to a high ele-
vation, as in the mountains. This is
only relatively true. Ragweed and
other hay fever producing plants are
uncommon above an altitude of 6,000
feet, but in mountain resorts of or-
dinary elevation suck plants abound.
and hay fever is frequent.
City folks suffer more frequently
than country folks. The explanation
for this is unquestionably a matter
of acquired or inherited immunity—
the country resident being exposed
from infancy and the city resident be-
ing exposed only upon rare occasions.
Hard to Cure.
The pollen does not produce the
characteristic irritation. The symp-
toms of hay fever come on within a
few moments after the patient has
been exposed, as in driving past a field
or walking along a street where rag-
weed may be growing.
The treatment of hay fever is a
thing the profesion never boasts
about. Cures are none too many. Op•
orations an minor irregularities in the
nose and throat are seldom, if ever,
effective. Sprays, douches, saIves,
powders, and internal remedies have
their place and help to render the at-
tack endurable, but do not cure. A
sea voyage, of course, is an ideal
remedy.
Hypodermic doses of ragweed and
goldenrod pollen have been used with
good effect.
A thorough cleansing of the nasal
passages with simple normal salt so-
lution (teaspoonful of salt in a pint
of boiled water), or with baric acid
solution (a tablespoonful of powdered
boric acid dissolved in half a pint of
boiled water), or with one of the
various alkaline antiseptic solutions
considerably diluted with warm water,
is helpful. This must be done re-
gularly night and morning.
)'laving Fun With His Wife.
"My wife gave a reception yester-
day,'
"Did you attend?"
"'Yes. I played a practical joke on
! her, I got in lino when she was receiv-
ing and before she knew it she was
smiling and saying she was glad to see
111e."
Proven.
14Iilly—Ninety-nine women hi a
hundred are naturally generous
Billy ---Yes, where one woreait will
keep a secret ninety-nine will give it
away.
Thirty years ago a drought in Anse
t' -glia destroyed ten million sheep.