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cull if you wont me, Don't break
unother wi nlow. Cyril."
Norahheld out her hood to him,
"Will you not say that you forgive
me,, Mr. Wesley, for my rudeness to
you that night?" `she said, ]tet lug eyes
turned on ]tint so pleadingly that Jerk's.
heart, which was of the Very softest,
melted in a moment. -
"I'd forgive you more than that, Lady
Norah," he said; "and 1 understand' now
Mot the ding was meant for our young
friend here rather then for me; and be
LF got it, 11 you had seen him when 1 told
hien----- But there, he said, quickly,
"all that is pert of the past misunder-
standing, Lady Norah."
Newish looked up at him gravely.
"You are as good es Cyril said," she
murmured, softly. "But --but you must
not can me Lady Norah."
Jack stared at her.
"1-I beg your ladyship's pardon; Lady
Arrowdale, 1 suppose 1 ought to have
said."
"No," said Norah, "I am not Lady Any-
thing, I am simply Norah \Voodfern.'
It was a duy of surprises, but this
statement, delivered in her calm, sweet
voice, startled the two men pretty con-
siderably.
ar
siderably, Cyril got hold of her liands
again, and looked up at her almost in h
fright. Goddesses do not loso their
senses, or else he might have thought-.
Jack was the first to speak.
"What do you say, Lady Norah?" he.
said, gravely, for he saw that some-
thing was coming,
"It is true," she replied, Looking from
one to the other. "1 am not Lady Norah,
the daughter of the Earl of Arrowdale,
but the daughter of the countess' com-
panion, Catherine." ries lips trembled,
and she lowered her eyes, "111-111 try
and tell you," she went on, bravely.
"You -you must neither of you speak
until I have finished, for my bead," and
hand her fore -
she put For beautifulha to
head, "is whirling."
Cyril holding her hand, and Jack lean-
ing against the window with his arms
folded, she told the story and produced
Me certificates.
Cyril could scarcely keep silent until
the had concluded, then he broke out :
It is false, Norah) 11 is a pure inven-
tion concocted to suit some purpose .>f
Guildford Berton:s. Ile is a scoundrel."
"I -le is a scoundrel, without doubt,"
said the grave voice of Jack Wesley.
"But I think his story is true
"I don't believe—" broke in Cyril.
"in the first plane," went on Jaelc, very
quietly and gently, "ht; would not have
dared to concoct it, mach less to forge
these copies. He is too clever for that
You sce, a lawyer's clerk could satisfy
himself as to their genuineness by just
taking a journey to Plymouth and these
other places, and examining the regis-
tern--"
"Which may have been tampered
with," said Cyril.
Jack Wesley smiled.
"I am sorry to dispel a delusion which
has been of vast service to novelists;
you can't tamper with registers nowa-
days. They keep a correct copy at
Sontl;rset House."
Cyril's face fell.
Nal The story is true, and as Lady -
I mean Miss \Voodfern says, she is no
longer='
"Which doesn't matter in the slight-
est!" exclaimed Cyril, his ince flushing.
"As it happens, I have a story to
tell—" He stopped suddenly to utter
an exclamation of surprise and pain,
for Jack had administered to him a de
cidedly sharp kick upon the ankle. "Eh?
\Vital?" Then, catching llle expression
of warning in Jack's eyes, ho colored.
still more furiously, and changed the
direction of his wards. "But 1 won't
trouble you with that now, dearest,
What if it is true, this -this revelation?
It doesn't matter to you -nor me, Nor-
ah?"
"To me- not"" she smiled, through her
tears.
And as for men, I'm -yes, don't be
angry, dea'esll-I am glad! Do you re-
member our talk in the woods? Do you
remember my saying that I wished you
weren't a peer's daughter—"
"I remember every word," she answer-
ed, shyly, her eyes dwelling upon him
with as much of worship in then as a
woman ever permits her eyes to reveal.
"Well, then, I am happy nowt" he
said, !.rightly. "You see, and he
laughed, "I'm so confoundedly
proud—"
,Tack Wesley, with his back 'turned to
thein, grinned.
"And I might now and then have
thought that you had thrown yourself
array, and that you regretted it, but
now--"
"You can bath revel in poverty toge-
ther," renlnt•ked Jack, blandly,
""Ex -exactly," retorted Cyril, but with
rather a guilty air; "we can face the
world hand in hand, and--"'
OR
THE STEWARD'S SON
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CHAPTER XYXVL 11 it is true that he is married to Becca
South.
"There!" exclaimed Cyril; "ttSet is
what she asked me before you came in.
Tell her, Jack--"
"Hold your tongue," said lack \Ves-
"Whore is -my -what?" he exclaimed, ley, whose acute brain wart beginning
gazing in. profound amazement at the to get the drift of things. "Are you
lovely face, which, though flushed with married to the young person mculioned?
indlgnolion, still conveyed a hidden and "Am 1? Oh, great goodness, 1 shall
suppressed tenderness. go mad," said Cyril. 'Married to her!
You ]snow; she must know, that 1 em
not; that 1 would not many any one but
-but one woman, if my life depended
on it!"
If there had not been that awful tra-
gedy behind it, the situation would.havc
been almost farcical. But it was very
serious to two of them, and Norah bid
her face in her hands and began to cry,
"Oh, what shall 1 do?" she moaned,
but with a endence. of joy and tliiinks-
giving, "Oh, clow how wicked I have
been!"
This brought Cpeil on his knees beside
her instantly,' and he dragged her hands
tenderly from her face and looked up at
her, all his soul in his eyes.
"Norah, my darling, my darling)" he
murmured, and a long string of pas-
sionate endearments. "What docs it all
mean? Why have you treated me so-
so cruelly? Why did you not answer my
letters? Why did you tell Jack" --Jack
had discreetly gone to examine a pic-
ture on the wall, and kept his back
turned upon the pair -"why did you tell
Jack that you were no friend of mine,
and -and let me believe that you wished
to see no more of me? 01,, my darling,
you have nearly broken my heart!"
"Kline Is -is quite broken," whimpered
Norah, her hands grasping his arm with
little spasmodic pressures. "0h, Cyril,
I thought, I believed, that you had de-
serted me; that you were married."
"Deserted you! Married!" he repeated.
"But why -why -why?"
"Because you went away with her -
with Becca; said Norah, in a low voice.
"I went off with Becca-poor little
Becca Southl" he echoed. "Great Hea-
ven! what made you think so?"
"They told me so at the station" said
Norah, faintly; "and -you were with her
that night of the ball, and I saw you -
ah, I saw you give her the ring—"
Cyril uttered a groan of desperation.
"I Icnowi les, I gave her the ring. I
once gave a child a stick of taffee, and
Becca was no more than a child, a -a
nothing to me. I gave her that ring be-
cause site had found it, end she was un-
happy about that, among other things,
and I thought it would console her—"
"And -and then you went away with -
Jack Wesley pushed him aside, and out a word—"
brought a glass of water and gave it to "Without a word? Why, Norah, 1
titer, and she opened her eyes and fixed wrote to you; I sent you a letter by her;
them on lcim penitently, and then on I couldn't help going. I wrote and ex -
Cyril, with an expression difficult to dc- plained it all. I begged and prayed you
scribe, but full of tenderness and hope, to send me a word -just one word. But
and a half -fearful joy. you didn't. Nor did you when I wrote
"Are you better, Lady Norah?" said from Brittany, imploring you to tell me
"Don't
Jack. Dori t pay any attention to him, why you had eat me at the ball. Why
please. Keep away, Cyril, Now, tell me didn't you write?"
what is the matter." "I never got the letters, either of
Then Norab opened her lips and them,' said Norah, the dears running
struggled for words. slowly down her face, "and I thought --
"Ask hint to tell me the -!he truth," oh, Cyril, how could I help il?-that-
she said, brokenly. "I can bear anything that you wished to break off, that you
hut, this uncertainty. Ask him to tell Inc had thought better of it, and—"
He puts his arms round her and
shamed her to him, and cut short icer
broken attempts at explanation,
"Thank Cod! Thanlc God!" he ex-
claimed. "And that is all) You are not
angry with ase for anything? You -you
love the slit, Norah?"
"I have always loved you!'' site panted,
under her breath.
'Jack had transferred his attentions to
another picture, and the lovers had for•
gr,llen hies.
"And you did not know why I had
gone to Britton,?"
"I didn't know you had gone there.
I never received either letter," said
Norah.
Then -then where aro they?" de-
mential Cyril, of no one In particular.
Norah shook her head. Possibly she
did not care very much. She had got
her lover again and all in a moment joy
lied come back In her heart with him,
rhe held him with that clinging grasp
IVlitch only n W0111011 )mows the secret "lie happy ever afterwards," said Jacic,
of, as if she feared some one would "Don't mind him, dearest," said Cyril.
come and lake hien from her again; and "It is only his way; you'll gel used to It.
her lovely (yes, full of subtle worehip And now kir a bit of good news. We
and tenderness, looked into itis eager shan't be so very poor, after all.
()noir, 'Thanks lo Jack, here, who pretends 10
"Where are They? And why did the be a bear, but is really as soft -as
Peopih at the station fell y'r,u---- Why, shit----" la
by George! they must have, mistaken the "As an imbecile," put v in Jack; in a t
emigrant girl whose ticket I 'took for voice,
fleece," and in rapid sentences he told I've got enough work to last for -
Lir of the incident. fore-"
"Oh, Ilett was so lila you, dear!" she ")'our life.' growled Jack, knowing
murmured. "But --hut it was cruel that how very little more work would bo
you should be punished; I mean 1—" done.
",Say both." Cyril laughed.
"'That both should be punished because "I can't get a tvorcl in," he saki. "But
you were kind to a pour, lonely girl:" no nutter. And now, dearest—"
"Yes," he responded, with something "And now what about Lady -I beg
of his own bright, light-hearted smile,' pardon --.Miss Norah's dimte'?" put in
")hut it will be a lesson to ase. 111 never Jack. "Would 1L be very wicked if I
help any woman under fifty again, suggest Met the committee adjourn to
But Norah, dearest, tell ne-Ute teller's Cyril's favorite restaurant?"
--what became, of them?' Cyril laughed. •
North spook her head. "belt- is always thinking of his din -
"I do not know; T rtnulol--" guess Her," he rola,
she was going in say. then slopped, 08 "115cnt>.,o 1i tins nothing better to
Guildford Berton crossed her mind, think of, and no one to think for hint,"
"And -and what ore you doing ie,•rd? f said .leets, with n touch of gravity and -
Are you along;" asked 1,yril, in the inns evdlrl it
r> r
'jf
Id--tuvy.
r,e 1] [incS Sr many rnr4!1>ns !n s', Novell smiled 1cent
them enboth.
1. that he doesn't, know tvhlrh In put (hsl„ 'I will /ln tanythingYyouwish,n she
"Not alone, dearest? '!'h, re i.:., irn'umi 11.01,1, so Sweetly That Cyril bad hard work
w•fils you?" Ile totalled her blurt drew. Fir keep front hissing her straight before
"1 have hear of ---of your loss dear. if i ak.
ha heard y J
1 had only been with 3011! I rue Sirsorry,{ Whig) she left them to put on her out..
Norah, 1 only heard of it lies -ten 1010- door Ihm;s, Cyril exclaimed in e tvhts-
tit sort that this (delete Utes ago, from ,lack here- - per;
In the form of a label Is oat Nnl'ttlls (+yes grew medal again, 101 "You stopped me in lime, Jacicl 1 was
the wigglier of everybisttc she hlvep1 Ilio leaps00111 just ;Irving to tall heel"
of Emulsion you buy. "Yes, 1•-1 tun alone. s11i- said, looking! "Yen were,. And evould have Upset the
down, and with n sudden sort of end>ar• ivI 10 bug of tricks just as they were
arranging themselves nicely,n
"Eel- hot 1 shall have to tell hart"
Said Cyril, with a troubled frown.
' . hands n his pockets,
I cs1 C
rhe tit n.-1 his 1 r
Jtl ., p
end P0TOWI tl np 1118 mouth,
"If you will Wm, my advice, just for
once, sou Mil Iteep that 141 of interna,
"Where Is your wife?"
Cyril's arms, which had been held out
to tape her to his heart, dropped to his
side•
"Your wife," Norah repeated, her lips
quivering; "where is Becca? .Oh, how
can you—" she meant, "offer to lake
me fn your erns," but Bald, instead,
"' "how can you come to me?"
. "Beccal 'Do you mean Becca South?"
said Cyril, more and more amazed.
"How on earth should I know? \Vhat
have Ito do with Becca South, or Berea
any one else"
Norah's breath came last, and her eyes
'' dilated.
"011, how can you answer me so?" she
said, piteously. 1 know everything) It
is useless to try and deceive me, It is
wicked -cruel and wicked. Why have
you come here?" and the lovely eyes
grow dangerously limpid.
Cyril put his hand- to his head. No
doubt at that moment he fancied he was
dreaming, and that it was only a vision
ofNorthwhich stood before him, ask-
ing the most extraordinary of conn -
drums.
"Norah," he said, desperately, "Norah,
1 don't know what you mean. I'm in a
whirl. What are you doing here? Why,
I've not seen her since the night of that
confounded ball at Ferndale—" Ho
stopped suddenly, for Norah had swayed
slightly, and with a low cry, sedge into
the chair.
He sprang to her, but she put her hand
out to keep him off.
Iia called upon her name in a frenzy,
and es her eyes closed, he looked around
for the bell. Not seeing it, he did, per-
haps, the wisest thing he could clo-
thing up the window and seizing a shell
which 'ornamented" the table, flung it
at the window opposite.
Jack's head appeared promptly, with
every expression of health upon his face,
"Come over et oncel" shouted Cyril,
and before Norah had succeeded in fight-
ing off the fainting lit, Jack Wesley was
In the room, looking amazedly from one
to the other.
"Well," he said, "what has happened?
Lady Norah, are you ill? Cyril, are you
mad? \\'hat have you been saying to
her?"
"It's what she has been saying to mel"
retorted Cyril, half demented.
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"What is it, dea'esl?".
At this juncture Jacked looked round,
lion until---wellUntil after you are near -
vied," he said. "Bluht out to her that you
are the Earl of Arrowdale, and --well,
you'll see what happens. Miss Narnit is
es sweet-- Look dere, Inc(; fOr sooto
Inscrutable reason Providence has seen
111 to bestow upon you an angel in 111e
guts() of a woman -bold on a nlcule!-
but angels have some pride, and if yott.
telpher who and what you are, her pride
ntny take alarm. Keep quiet for a litho
while Longer, and thank heaven for Its
goodness to a young cub who doesn't
deserve half well luck as to marry the
best woman 1 have ever nett"
Cya it grasped his hand in silent con-
sent as Norah entered the room.
They went to the restaurant, and Cyril
being, es Jack remarked, quite Incapable
of ordering a decent dinner under the
circumstances, undertook the selection,
They were happy, these three, two of
them ecstatically so, and the third -who
read the paper a great dent, and pre-
tended he could not hear their soft mur-
mers-happy In their joy; and it carne
to Cyril us a sudden shock when, abrupt -
1y lowering the paper, Jack said, in a
tone of earnest gravity, almost ap-
pl'oaehing solemnity:
"But where is this girl, Becca South?"
Cyril stared at hien thoughtfully.
(To be continued).
LAUGII COST IIUSBAND,
Alirth at Spoiled Shirt Front Broke 011
Engagement.
A pathetic ending to a village romance
I. reported from Slmmonjhal, in the
Canton of Berne, Switzerland,
According to ancient custom, o bride
and bridegroom must walk to church
unaccompanied on their wedding day.
On the way, the bridegroom, dressed in
smart evening clothes, slipped on the
snowy ground and spoiled his shirt
.rant. The humor of the situation
was
loo much for the high-spirited girl, who
burst into a peal of laughter. )ler lover
however, took another view of the case,
and was so incensed at the levity of
his bride that he left her and returned
home.
The girl wont on to the church alone,
and In tears told the story to the wail-
ing crowd. Relatives tried to prevail
upon the young man to return, but be
was obdurate, and broke off the engage-
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-
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Dividend payable Jan. 6th, 1005,,., 48,357.00
Reserve Sued 1,742,020.43
$3,401,077.28
Capital ...... 81,74'2,020.42
n0
Rescrve Fund .... _... ..........
Security to Policyholders - 8212,020.42
Losses paid from the organize lion od the Company
to date ........ .... .... .... .... .. ..:'518,012,687,45
DIItEC'.I ORATE:
Hon. Geo. A. Cox, President; J. 0, Kenny, Vice -President and Managing
Director; lion. S. C. Wood, 13, N. Baird, Geo. R. R. Cockburn, W. R.
Brock, Geo. McMurrich, J, IC. Osborne, E. le. Wood.
OSLER, IIAMMOND and NANTON, Winnipeg, Man,, Genl. Agts for Mani-
toba and N. \V. Territories.
D. C. McGDEGOH, Vancouver, B. C... General Agent for British Golunsbia.
Agents wanted in all towns not already represented.
A Most Attractive and Patriotic Policy.
We published in another section of
this paper the advertisement of lire
Union Trust Company. '.'Itis Company
has large holdings of laid along the
lino of the Grand Trunk Pacific in our
No'tnvest.-
'rilo Union Trust Company has seem,
ea for the management of its Lands De-
partment the exceptionally able services
• fair, E. \V. Hodson, formerly live stock
eonhmissionee of Canada and organizer
or farmers' Institutes.
The Union 'frust Company is to be
cohgratuialed o1 securing air. Hodson nor
this position, as his more connection
with thole land business will. undoubted -
13 secure the confidence • of the entire
farming community of the country.
The plans of the Union Trust Com-
pany for sale of lands, colonization, set-
tlement,
et.
Com-
pany
etc., are most unusually (helpful
ospoelolly to the setter with small cap -
hal. Thole actione Is a general and W-
reathing one end it will certainly pay
anyone con Iempia ti ng tekinm Innds up
in the Northwest to communicate with
then.
TWO VIEWS OF CURZON.
Ile Is An Unbroken Colt, Ora Genius ,
Take Your Choice.
Now that Lord Curzon is no longer
Vtecroy the Indian press is paying its
respects and disrespects to ,him with
great freedom.
A0h
National Con -
of the N ex -president
gress says that Lord Curzon departed
the shores of hulta "unwept, unhonored
and unsung.” Those who did him
reverence were els unqualified pane-
gyrists, "the men who'hall blinded their
eyes and stuffed thetr ears with ooton
all tlhe lime that there Was going on a
Most unequal and deplorable struggle h0•
hveen the people, the educated classes
specially, alt the one side, and the umbridled rnd irresponsible autocrat on
the other."
Ile theta proceeds to Characterize the
ex -Viceroy as one utterly wlllh0tlt
modesty end blowing his own trUsnpet,
cie carriad about him says the writer,
"throughou,t his viceregal career the im. y
petuosity,of.ttlo boy al I•.ton and all the t d
LJN THE �aws
UO \VIN'l'l3R EGGS PAY?
Eggs freshly laid are high In winter.
It quite often happens Lhat the cost of
lnnking them is slid higher where the
tine consumed in attending to the many.
wants of the loins is added to the cost
cf a 111,11111 supply o1 egg lrtoduc.iny
!'nets, there must he a ge 101108 Sappey
of eggs to Harte ends meet, And every
ono knows biddy's exasperating lndlffcr-
e1)0e to any kind of good treatment when
sho wants to take a time off. 'Phis is
very apt to be In whites, writes Mr.
Grant Davis.
To get eggs abundn'tltly in winter 1P -
to
heus smustchtelan sofeed and managed care.
tllrtit their
laying habits may he somewhat diverted.
from the normal egg producing season,
spring and summer. Force them to .lis
their bent during the summer menthe
and 11 will be uphill 1015111088 10 get
tlhcnh to lay when it is cold. Recently,
I saw the advice given That If to get
winter eggs begin to fee] in summer 111
order' to get the hens in trim. Tho
trouble is they will get in Inlin and gel
mut again by the tune cold wenlhm' be-
gins. This plan of feeding for egg in
the Intl is 0 gond one and non 1 basil
followed for s01n0 years, but 1 invtu'i-
nbly llnd, thnt while the hens lay very
profitable until o01d weather sets 1,n they
will lay little in winter until towards.
spring and I da not coax them tn, know-
ing that it would result in failure, 'They
most have their seasons of rest. A hat
fed continuously for eggs will got, oil hoe
feed and out of condition and will not
n d more
feeding
air
lay as much as less e R
rational mnnsgemenl, Givo them a rest'
and a P.hango of diet in the holiest sum-
mer weather and they will give a gond
account of themselves during the fall
months. To warp for winter eggs with
this flock of hens will give a negative
result no mutter how careful a feeder
may have them In charge.
As a general rule, we sheath look (0
the early pullets for our successful win-
ter layers, Pullets hatched in April and
kept growing will be at matlrily before
cold weather sets in and given mason-
nlrle care and feeding will begin to lay.
They will not lay every clay, P. is true,
)rut. with a comfortable house and an
abundance of feed to keep up heat and
make egg malerlal et the same time,
they will continue to lay all winter. Late
pullets which do not mciure unlit along
in winter are not apt to begin the egg
business until the approach of spring.
To try to make hens lay which are too
young or. aro 'laid out" is only to In-
vite failure and possible injury to the
flock especially it stimulating feeds and
condiments aro used. To get the pul-
lets started laying 1,1 the Intl, they must
be kept in the best of health, be lively
and thrifty. From this kind of stock
winter eggs can 1>e produced with pro-
fit, and he who is in the egg businese
neglects one of his best opportunities if
he does not raise a 101 of early pullets
for the following winter's layers.
insobriety and immaturity which ascan
pony youth. The fact is, he WAS an un-
broken colt. Ito conjured himself as an
autocrat ruling n larger population than
that of the Czar of All the Pussies, Ile
pictured himself ns Ono who blended a
'T11)51'1115 and Suliman the elagnifcent
into one."
On 'the other Hand, an equally deckled
article in the Calcutta Review declares
that "it would be hard to find nnelher
ruler who combines in himself all those
qualities; taenial and moral, which Lord
Curzon brought to bear on the difficult
task of governing a vast country ]lite
India, and that, it is no disrespect to
Lord Minto in ally that ha does not pos-
sess 1110 genius with which his predeces-
sor was gifted."
WESTERN ASSURANCE REPORT.
Annual Slatcment Shows Company to
be Enjoying Prosperity.
Thr, 'minuet slelement of the Western
Assurance Company 0111 be found in
another part of to -days issue, and will
be seen 10 bo one that sloes much credit
le this progressive company. T110 ,year's
lransaolions resul10(1 in 080,140.12 tieing
detailed lo dividends, enol 1113,254.69 ad-
ded In the reserve hu101, which now
arnoalts 10 81,7Ji',020.i9. 'Pito liability
for unearned premiums on unexpired
risks is eslhnntccl nt $l„1"2;163.!16, By
deducting this 80111 Isom Lhc reserve it is
Mere I. surplus that i c e s a i1, s over mi. semi
1
lel and ell liabilities amounting to 1$019,-
000.06. The flee premium. dewing the
year amounted 10 $2,880,590.34, and Iia'
marine premiums to 9705,704,, The Ilio
losses were 10,5/7,006,20, and the marine
losses $665,157,97. The excellent list of
assets which is published in the 011111 -
al statement shows that almost one-third
of them Consist of municipal bonds and
debentures.
IT ALL DEPENDS,
"Rave you any idea what 1101E lay wife
will return home, i,lortanite
I ant tell. 1kn 'W e
"1 e s1, e know t51hC w .11L
shopping, but 1 don't know how much
ln0ney She lar + . • - -
AIAPLE SUGAR \1:17CtNG.
As the maple sugar season uppreaehen
my advice to the sugar clatter is, to be
prepared to catch the hest run of rap.
Slave everything clean; the sturuge tunic
and gathering tub Should be made of
lined with lin; the spouts, buckets, paths
and evaporator should be of lin also. it
is much caster to keep them moan titan
when made front anything oleo. Tap
with (t -incl) bit about Ste Inches deep
311 the most thrifty side of the tree. My
choice woukl be o11 the south or west
side of the tree, says Atr, L. G. Osgood.
la about two weeks after tapping use
a reamer that will enlarge the Imre to
about to inch. 1n this operation the !role
Is cleaved of all foul clatter and diseol-
creel wood, which causes the syrup that
is made at this time to be dark cinema
and to taste strong. This reaming of the
hole Is a1 important operation, for it
enables the sugar meteor to matte ti much
larger proportion of the better grades.
Use a spout that is made in such 11
way as to (IL in either of the holes the
strong enough to hold the bucket when
full of sap. The gathering should cont-
inence about as soon as the sup humins
to run, and be boiled as soon as gather-
ed. The sap sh.oulcl he strained into the
storage look, as well as when gathered.
The storage tank should be placed outs
side the bolting place and on the north
side and be protected from the weather,'
The evaporator should be one Thai
atones boiling and has the grimiest heat.
iug surface. The bucket covers keep
out much clh't as well as rain water, The
syrup should be strained floc the evap-
orator through a conical stratums', made
from the hoovtest and most closely
woven all -wool flannel; this is much
bolter than felt, The syrup should not
be teemed through the strainer; when 0110
becomes clogged, halve mother nod lei
the first drain out and 1110/1 wash 1110r-
cugh1y 1101010 using again. If the syrup
i, boiled to log pounds or more per gal -
Ion, most, if not ail, of the malate cf
time twill be removed, -
My best market for 11111 maple sweets
1e in my otvn section, although i send
them to many other states.. 1 put my
syrup In 0110 -gallon eons rind gentle it
and glut a sample 111 smith bottle with
05011 grade. '1'11en when a cusiotner
0011101 1 tan shale elite, what is in en.eli
let. My best syrup is trade into smell
cakes, put into one-half pound 11oxite
Willi my address on the top of each bete
and these set for a fancy price,
The rinrkm' grades 1 uuhdce into si.tgnl'
and put Iola snmU pefls and these sell
for a gond price. Much of my sucessse
11: sctIhlg ley syrup and sugar is, 1
think, due to the collfdenf0 my Cuslor•
111018 191.0 that they are getting it purer
eolith.. And I earnestly advise the 811-
(41.7 maker not to adulterate 11118 17l0st
delicious product of the maple. Give
gond weight and a pare m'l.liin and you
15111 make more money, 110011100 leaving
the sa1ifeeliol.ot knowing that y011 and
doing right.
1lne,uorw,, IT GEN'FL"',
"ifarold, men yon sure yon 0111) st,popl't
me 11n the style.----•-”
10 w11iih you nre neettstemeee Yev,
dear, but 1 can't support you in the styli.
to N lett I ani Ila1 lie .
cuslnrn0d�,
Al
Will have L - 1 y '1 yea
0 0 c n for two hereafter, yeas"
knoWmn