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A EXCITING PRESENT-DAY ROMANCE
13Y WEATHERBY CHESNEY
CHAPTER X.XVII.—(Cont'd.)
"Exactly what I say. I offered a
partnership once before, and for cer-
tain reasons withdrew my offer as soon
as it was made. Her subsequent be-
havior led me to believe that those
reasons were no longer operative, so
at Furnas the other day I renewed my
offer. She accepted it, and it was not
till the day before yesterday that I
discovered that she had deceived me.
I had been shamelessly duped, Mr.
Scott; swindled in fact; and I think
that I am at this moment the happiest
biped in the island of San Miguel. I
don't except the two younger lovers,
Varney and Scarborough."
"Then the fraud was not serious ?"
asked Scott, laughing.
Montague became very grave.
"It was, sir. I was led to believe
that I was offering marriage to a lady
who, if not absolutely penniless, was
at any rate not rich. She is prepos-
terously rich, and she has been. aware
of the fact for three months. She had
not the slightest need of my assist.
ance."
"But it seems that she had need of
you."
"She is good enough to. tell me that
she has ; and on the evidence she of-
fers I am inclined to be vain enough
believe the statement. As I told you
just now, I am the happiest unfeather-
ed animal in the island. But of course
it is on false pretences."
"Well, I shouldn't let that worry
you," said Scott, laughing.
Montague sighed profoundly.
"I don't," he admitted dolefully.
"That is what I find somewhat dis-
tressing. I am marrying a rich wo-
man, and if I were ashamed of myself
on that account, I should think better
of my own character. But Jehosha-
phat, sir ! there is no room for any
emotion but joy in this contract! I
can't feel sorry. I could jump up now
and kiss that waiter ! Jehoshaphat !
Wouldn't he stare !"
"Do it," said Scott.
"No, sir ! I should make myself
ridiculous, and Mona dislikes my do-
ing that more than is necessary. Have
I told you that the repairs to the Sea -
Horse are finished, and that she will
be ready for sailing the day after to-
morrow ?"
"What are you going to do with her?
Sell?"
"No, sail."
"But you won't stick to that kind of
life now !'
"Why not, sir, if I like it and my
wife likes it ? We are going to finish
the tour as advertised, and be married
at the end of it. After that we shall
probably go into the same line of
business on a larger scale. I think of
having a fleet. I don't consider be-
cause my wife happens, fortunately or
unfortunately, to be rich, that there is
any reason why I should be idle for
the rest of my life. Besides, for the
present tour I am under contract to
my troupe."
"You are losing one of them, aren't
you ? Varney's wedding is to -morrow."
"Quite so, and a very charming bride
he is to have. But you are wrong in
thinking that I shall lose him. The
honeymoon. is going to be spent on
board the Sea -Horse ; Varney will per-
form as usual ; his wife will be use-
fully employed in learning the duties
of a chaperon ; and at the end of the
tour they will return to San Miguel,
and Phil will grow pine -apples in part-
nership with his father-in-law, The
idea is quaint, perhaps. I am given to
understand that it was the lady's.
"Muriel Davis proposed to go on tour
with a circus company, and on her
honeymoon, too !" cried Scott, "Im-
possible ! And as far chaperoning you
and Mona, why, she doesn't consider
you respectable."
Val 13. Montague smiled,
"I am Laid that she was Somewhat
prejudiced against us," he said, "She
has chosen this method of testing the
truth of her theories, and her father
agrees with me that it is n. very sen-
sible method, too. She is a very
charming girl, but between ourselves,
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inure, hilt 1 have no doubt at all that /
she will raise them. 1 have an im-
mense respect for that woman's abili-
ties, sir. However," Montague 'added,
rising, "we will leave the question of
her future livelihood for the widow
herself to settle. I want you to come
with me to the circus now. We are
giving our last performance in Ponta
Delgada to -night, and I have adver-
tised that it is for the benefit of Pam-
pas Jos, the Revolver King, who is to
be Married to -morrow."
".A. bottle o fizz first !" cried Scott.
"Bumpers to the three pairs who are
going intro double harness."
"I am With you sir. A health to
Pampas Joe and Muriel Davis I"
"To Val G. Montague and his leading
lady !"
'To Miss Eisa Carrington and the
Cableman !"
The End.
THE SWIFTEST FLYER.
New Type of Machine by the British
at the Front.
A new type of aeroplane now be-
ing used by the British at the front
has already accounted for 27 Fokkers,
according to a statement made by
Baron Montagu. C. G. Grey, editor
of the Aeroplane, gives the following
description of this new aerial "de-
stroyer":
"These small fighting machines are
distinctly a British product, first be-
ing introduced by the Sopwith Firm
a year or so before the war, and from
that first experiment they have been
developed and fitted with more and
more powerful engines, until to -day
the British scout biplane is the fast-
est thing in the world, except a pro-
. jectile from a gun. The German Fok-
I believe her father thinks she wi 1 kr monoplane is a fast destroyer,
make a better wife to my excellent but its success is limited to some ex -
friend, Phil Varney, when she has
learnt that between the inevitable
right and the inevitable wrong there
lies the vast country of the debateable.
Many excellent people live in that
country, whose coats are neither of a
pure and heavenlywhite nor of an
impossible black, but a hard-wearing
respectable shade of grey; but she
does not, or will not, know them. Her
eye at present can see only crude black
and white; Mr. Davis hopes that un-
der our tutelage she may learn to ap-
preciate the artistic values of the half-
tones."
"Which is Phil—black or white ?"
asked Scott, with amusement.
"He started black, and then became
impossibly white, I believe," said Mon-
tague gravely. "The honeymoon will
probably teach her that he is a very
serviceable shade of pearj. grey."
"You'll be a funny ship load," said
Scott. "What a pity Scarborough has
to go to London to arrange about that
clerkship. You could have found room
for another honeymoon couple, couldn't
you ?"
"Easily. As it is, Miss Carrington
is coming with us."
"What !"
"She will be Mona's guest for the
remainder of the tour. The girls have
become great friends, I am happy to
say. When we have gone through our
advertised programme of West Coast
ports, we shall run up to London, to
be present at Horace Scarborough's
marriage. I hope to arrange to have
my own celebrated on the same day."
Scott regarded the Yankee circus -
man with a look of amused admiration.
en .
Mr. Grey concluded as follows:
"The improvement in the British
aeroplanes may eventually have a
considerable effect on the air de-
fences of this country, for the im-
provement in aeroplanes must neces-
sarily be more rapid than the im-
provement in airships, and conse-
quently it is quite probable that new
types of destroyer -aeroplanes may
be introduced which will make it al-
most impossible for airships to get
away from this country, if they ever
reach it. Improvements in climbing,
speed, and power of aeroplanes have
been so great that they can now
reasonably be expected to outclimb
an airship, and the speed of the best
aeroplane has always been superior
to that of the best contemporary air-
ship. So that with these improve-
ments in the organization of the de-
fence stations, it is not unlikely that
even the most improved German air-
ships may find it too expensive to
continue to annoy the British isles."
LORD PALMERSTON'S DINNER,
Eighty -Year -Old Englishman's Sill of
Fare.
In these days when Metchnikoff's
death sets everybody to talking about
lactic acids and Bulgarian ferments as
the only diet for the aged, it may be
reassuring to glance at the dinner of
an Englishman 80 years old. Here is
his bill of fare : "He ate for dinner
two plates of turtle soup ; he was
then served very amply to a plate of
cod and oyster sauce ; he then took a
"You're a rare head for detail, Mon- pate ; afterward he was helped to two
very greasy looking entrees ; he then
tague," he said. "Of course all this is dispatched a plate of roast mutton ;
your arrangement. But you've forgot- there then appeared before him the
ten one person, haven't you ?" largest, and, to my mind, the hardest
"I think not, sir. Who ?" slice of ham that ever figured on the
"Mrs. Carrington." table of a nobleman, yet it disappear -
"I did not forget her. When I heard ed just in time to answer the inquiry
that she had recovered from her chill, of his butler. 'Snipe, my lord, oi
He instantly replied
I went to Sete Cidades and offered her pheasant 7',' thus completing his ninth
the post of wardrobe mistress on board dish of meat at that meal."
my schooner, and cashier in the circus. This was Lord Palmerston, who lived
I have an immense admiration for and worked like a horse till he was 81
that woman's strength of mind and (thus beating Metchnikoff by ten
business capacity. However, she re- years), and would doubtless have
fused. I learned subsequently that poured scorn upon the scientific slops
some of the ladies who will be with daancl. gruels offered to old men in otu
me on the Sea -Horse would not have y Palmerston was one that was
nourished by his vituals and would
been pleased if she had accepted."
fain have meat.
"Miss De la Mor, for instance !"
queried Scott. :
"I naturally consulted Miss De la Colony of Barbary „Apes.
Mar before going to Sete Cidades at There is at Gibraltar an interest -
all. I had her full permission. She ing colony of Barbary apes, the only
one in Europe. Only twenty of the
animals are living. They are highly
prized and carefully protected. Their
home is on the higher eastern por-
tion of the famous rock, except at
such times as they are driven down
by cold winds.
considered herself entirely capable of
managing the widow."
"What is the widow going to do for
a living 7"
"I am not in her confidence, sir, so
I cannot tell you. But I don't think
we need worry. Before she came to
this island elle managed very well on
an income which was officially re-
turned, I believe, as nothing a year.
Have you observed her dresses 7 They
are not those of a woman who dines
off a crust habitually. I don't know
Sounded Ominous.
"Ile insists that he is not worthy o
me."
"I don't like the sound of that. I3et
ter look up his financial rating again
ON THE FARM
Washing Milk Cans,
The matter of washing cans by city
dealers, -while only a small part o the
daily onerations, is a very important
one. Many different methods are used
by various dealers\ in caring for the
Cans after the mint is removed frOM
them. Some of these methods are as
follows :
1. Returning the cans unwashed.
2. Rinsing with water (either hot or
cold),
3. Rinsing out by means of hose
with either hot or cold water. This
is quite common at some. plants but
is not satisfactory.
4. Rinsing out with hose an9, then
steaming with live steam.
5. Washing the cans out by means
of washing powder and hot water and
a hand brush, then rhising.
6. Same as 5, with an additional
rinsing with boiling water or steam-
ing.
7. Cleansing by means of machines
of various kinds.
One of the simplest of these ma-
phines is a jet machine, by means of
Which sprays of cold and hot water
and of steam are successively forced
into the can. Some of these simple
machines also have dryer attachments,
by means of which a draft of dry air
is forced into the cans, Another type
of •machine is the brush machine, by
means of which the cans are brushed
out with washing powder and water
and then rinsed. They may be steam-
ed after washing by a spray of live
steam. Some of the largest machines
are fitted with powerful pumps, and
the cans, in an inverted position, are
run through the machine and sprays
of soap and water, rinse water, hot
water and steam are successively
forced into them under considerable
pressure. After being thus washed
and sterilized they aro also dried in
the modern machines.
In justice to the farmer the dealers
should give considerable attention to
this question of .washing the cans. If
the cans are allowed to go back un-
washed to the farmer it is a very dif-
ficult and often an impossible task
for him, with his facilities, to clean
them. Even a rinsing witn cold water
is better than nothing, though of
course it is not satisfactory. It does
not matter what method is used, so
long as the cans are well cleansed and
sterilized: The drying of the cans is
also an important factor. Not only
does this leave the can in a t vach bet-
ter condition, but it will also preserve
its life, as it helps to prevent rust.
It is also important that the cover be
thoroughly cleansed and sterilized as
well as the can. It is not a good plan
to put the cover onto the can until
the latter is dry. When the covers
are not put back on the cans immedia-
tely, the cans should be kept in a clean
I place where there is no' dust or con-
tamination. The covers should be
placed tightly on the cans before they
are returned.
Some of the large dealers who oper-
ate country stations not only wash the
cans in the city, but also rewash and
sterilize them when they arrive at the
country plant This is owing to the
fact that the covers may be removed
from the cans during the trip back to
the country and thus the cans may
be contaminated.
Considerable experimenting has
been carried on by the Dairy Division
in regard to sterilizing cans. Bacteria
counts were made -from cans receiving
ordinary washing and rinsing. The re-
sults showed that the cans contained
from 300,000 to 18,000,000 bacteria per
cubic centimeter, with an average of
4,600,000. To 10 gallons of milk put
into one of these cans there would be
added more than 100 bacteria per cubic
centimeter, as an initial contamination
from the can alone ; that is to say,
that is the least number that would be
added. With a little steaming these
same cans could be rendered prac-
tically sterile.
One dealer who had recently in -
Stalled a modern washing machine had
some tests made by his bacteriologist
on the results obtained. From the pre-
liminary tests made less than 260,000
bacteria, were found to the can and no
undesirable types. Before the machine
was installed, counts from the old one
which had a much less efficient steam-
ing device, ran as high as 20,000,000
bacteria to the can and some were un-
desirable. Of coarse the large dealer
- must have a machine that will do good
, and rapid .work, but the main result to
be obtained is a clean, sterile and dry
where she means to raise funds for the girlie,"
is I s um a.
Do ALL your preserving. with
Pure cane. "FINE"
granulation. High
sweetening power.
Order by name in
original packages.
2 and 5 -lb Cartons
10 and 20 -lb Bags
9
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This Book of
printed and
gummed labels
for fruit jars.
if you will cut a red ball
trade -mark from a Lando
bag or cartou and send it to
/Atlantic Sugar Refineries, Ltd.
rower Butz., Montreal 25
can regardless of the machine ueed.
The main means to accomplish this is
thorough cleansing with washing pow-
der and water, rinsing, sterilizing with
live steam, and rapid drying, then
cover the can and keep it from con-
tamination.—U. S. Dairy Division.
Cleaning Grain at Threshing Time.
In a bulletin entitled. "Grain
Screenings" issued by the Dominion
Department that the loss entailed in
shipping Western grain uncleaned
amounts to considerably more than
half a million. dollars. The following
account of an experiment by a West-
ern grower should be of value in. con-
nection with the problem of eliminat-
ing the waste due to the shopment of
grain subject to a dockage on ac-
count of screenings.
.A. monitor cleaner and a five horse-
power engine to run it were purchased
and both mounted on an extra strong
wagon gear. A 15 -foot ordinary grain
elevator was attached to the elevator
wagon or bin. Another box wagon
received the screenings (mostly brok-
en and shrunken grain). The cost of
the entire outfit, including operation,
repairs and interest on capital, was
$1,195. The grower calculates that
he saved on his 60,000 bushel crop 1,-
600 bushels of broken and shrunken
wheat worth $960, freight on which to
the terminal elevator would have cost
$220, and haulage to the local elevat-
or $64. He thus has a profit of $49.
The out fit paid for itself in one year
and he says is as good as when it
started.
This experiment, it is argued,
proves that cleaning the grain on a
large farm is practicable where one
has his own outfit. On a medium siz-
ed farm where the threshing is hired
out, it could not be done in the case
of grain hauled directly to market.
When the grain is stored on the farm
before hauling, cleaning is practicable
and advisable. The really practic-
able way for the whole country gen-
erally would be that the threshing
outfits should include a grain clean-
ing attachment, as many of them now
do a sheaf loading machine.
Any ordinary threshing machine if
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fitted with proper screens and care-
fully operated is capable of removing
many of the smaller weed seeds that
now constitute a considerable percent-
age of elevator screenings.—Seed
Branch, Ottawa.
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Dairy Notes. -
It is hard to make some men realize
the great influence of a good, pure-
bred sire in a herd. The sire is more
than half the herd. If he is richly
bred, every heifer inherits from him
good butter traits.
Sires should be selected from fami-
lies of cows with rich records.
A good price for a superior bull is
money well invested. The difference
between the price of a strictly high-
class sire and an inferior one is made
up in the first lot of calves.
Keep the old bull that has proved
his merit.
Fill the silo as soon as the corn is
fit. When the kernel begins to glaze
is the right time. The more ears
there are on the stalk the better the
ensilage.
A silo is one of the best investments
on any farm. It means the succu-
lence of pasture all winter.
This means an increase in cream
and milk production at less cost.
Now is the time to turn off unprofit-
able cows. If after a good trial any
cow is below the standard in capacity,
send her to the butcher.
Feed windfall apples, with the grain
ration, and watch the results. Don't
let•a single apple go to waste; there
is feeding value in every vegetable;
get the good there is in it. Little
things help to rotind up the profits.
A small grain ration with good pas-
ture will quickly fatten the old and
unprofitable cows. Now is the time
before the cold sets in.
A Notable Event.
"People often preserve the pens
With which historic documents are
signed."
"Quite so," said his wife. "I think
I'll preserve the pen with which you
signed that $5 cheque you gave me the
other day."
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another. This last one when applied
to underwear means all the good
things you want in the underwear
you buy for yourself. Don't forget
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SCOTS ADVANCED
IN SEA OF DEATH,
HEIM IS A PEN PICTURE OF A
SCENE AT THE FRONT.
Officer Describes Experience in Half -
Mile March Under German
Fire.
A wounded subaltern of the Scot-
tish Border Regiment has written
home:
Never again in my life do I want
to go through such unadulterated
hell. We entered our assembly.
trenches in a wood (niell,)ned here
"Blighty" on account of its unhealthi-
ness) on Friday at 11 p,m. The din
of our own batteries forbade sleep, as
did also a few gas shells which Mr.
Fritz distributed around us at early
dawn. He then commenced searching
the wood to try and knock out our
batteries, which were evidently mak-
ing him very uncomfortable and an-
gry. Fifty-nine "brumpep and
lightning "whiz -bangs" burst right
over us, felling two big trees, but
strange to Say, wounding only one
man.
At 6 a.m. our artillery commenced
its hurricane bombardment, which
lasted an hour and a half. I can't de-
scribe the infernal din, but the near-
est 1 can get is the real! of 1,000
trains going through a tunnel and
multiplied by 100! At about 7 a.m.
our gunners hit a Boche land mine
about two miles off, and the*eund
shook like an earthquake. We thought
all our assembly trenches would col-
lapse on top of us. At 7.15 our guns
found another land mine, which went
up with a terrific roar, accompanied
by the before -mentioned earthquake,
(We now learn that these mines were
the largest ever explodd in this war
so far.)
. Machine Guns Spray Death.
At 7.80 a.m. our A Company left
the trenches and marched througb
the wood to the corner where they
were to debouch and went out into the
open. D and B Companies followed.
suit, and then C Company, which con-
cerns myself. Our half -mile march
through the wood was enough to
break one's nerve right away, for
machine guns were pouring lead all
through the wood from every direc-
tion, and how we got through that bit
without a single casualty is a mys-
tery. We arrived at our debouching
point, which by this time was being
shelled with high explosive and
shrapnel, as well as being tl.target
for 10 Boche machine gun, li: which
made the open ground a sea of deathp
It was a distasteful task leadatirtY
men out, but it had to be done, as the
Regiment were waiting behind
to follow up the Borders. We had
gone about 30 yards when three of
my brave lads were killed outright
I then halted the men and made them
crawl 011 their stomachs another 20'
yards, where we found cover in some
shell craters. Men were falling
everywhere. Then a shrapnel burst
overhead, knocking out some of my
brave fellows, killing three of them.
One of them next to me had his skull
telescoped by a huge shell splint. I
got a small fragment in a most un-
romantic spot—it rendered sitting a
pain—which, however, did not worry
me much.
I then gave the signal to advance,
and to their everlasting credit. not • a
man held back. Before we had gone
another 100 yards I found few survi-
vors of A platoon. We got into an-.
other shell crater just as a lad was
hit in the arm by a machiw gun bul-
let. A corporal and 1 bandaged him
up as best we could and then a big
shrapnel beast burst right'in front of
us and we go the full blast. Mc-
Knight, the corporal, bad his thigh
smashed and arm broken and I got
a clout behind the right ear with a
splinter which knocked me silly.
Fight Way Through Gas.
I awoke to find myself alone in the
shell crater with my head roughly
bandaged. Mr. Knight must have
bandaged me and then himself and,
thinking me dead, crawled back te
the wood. I tried to stand up, but
everything seemed to reel about me,
so I loosened my equipment, nd after
a drink from my water bottle began
the "longest" journey I ever wish to
make, crawling on hands and knees
back to the wood.
The accursed machine guns 4yere
sending. up dirt all round me, and
why lam not riddled through and
through is a perfectly marvelous
thing. If God ever watched over any
man He watched ove• ne last Sat-
urday on that nevei4K-be-forgotten
morning. I passed first one of my,
fine fellows, then another, some doubl-
ed up, others lying stiff, but all "gone'
West" as bravely as any men in ,gar
finest Guards regiments.
On my way I met one of my serge-
ants with half his face blown away.,
Do you know that this man wanted to
carry me, and got quite angry when I'
told him that it was he who wanted,
carrying? Never. shall I forget the
grit of that splendid chap, and I hope
I shall meet him one day again in
'Blighty."'
Wedding Ring of Lead.
A wedding ring made of lead is
going to adorn the finger of Lady
Dorothy Walpole, daughter of the
Earl of Oxford, on the day she weds
Capt. Arthur Mills. The ring is
made of a piece of shrapnel which
struck Captain Mills in the foot,
permanently laming him.
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