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_ -M11 M CRA.PTE VIII. ° a e {t 0`+me'I" pried Dorothy, as she follow-
HA R ed with her father. '
After giving orders to the ser-
vants to light up the ball -room,'
Dorothy was running to her own
apartment. for a moment, when she
caught sight of Nancy still busily
engaged in amusing some of the.
older and duller among the guests.
With her anger still raging
against her aunt's injustice and
hardness, she went straight up to
the girl, and, putting her arms
round her, kissed her affectionate-
ly"Don't tire yourself too much,
darling," she said, and she glanced'
defiantly at Mrs. Darnley, who w:as
sitting close by. "Now, perhaps,
Aunt Anne: will understand quite
thoroughly that 1 am mistress of.
Ripstone Hall," she remarked to
herself. "I felt that I should have
trouble with her. Aunt Priscilla
was bad enough, but I can general-
ly manage her—Derry's mother is a
different kind of woman."
For the next hour all was bustle
and confusion; every one offered
assistance to prepare the ball -room,
and the Hon. Maude Chester,
mindful of her future and her mo-
ther's instructions, dragged Mr.
Crawshaw into the thick of every-
thing; while poor Lord Merefield
struggled in vain to escape from
the Hon. Ella, in order that he
might snatch at least one word
from his cousin and his heart's
queen.
Derrick Darnley had wandered
about in. the cool and darkness af-
ter he had seen Nancy run indoors.
He felt that he must be alone to
scan the golden record of the past
few hours; to learn once again the
There was no dinner at Ripstone
Ftall on the night of the fete; that
es to say, there was no fixed cere-
znonious meal, but the large, hos-
pitable tables were spread, and in-
vited all topartake of what they
liked best.
Dorothy, highly delighted at the
success of the match, had suddenly
conceived the idea of having an im-
promptu death.
"We have a good band, heaps of
dancing people, I know; we have
all got on light dresses; the ball-
room is in excellent condition. I
think it would be e good idea."
"Oh, splendid !"
"Awfully jolly !" chorused the
Misses Chester; and their opinion
was shared by every ono else.
"Then we must set about arrang-
ing it at once," Dorothy declared.
"Papa, dear; where is papa?"
"I think Sir Humphrey is out in.
the grounds with Mrs. Darnley,"
Nancy replied; she was just passing
with some elderly ladies, escorting
them to the dining -room; her cheeks
wore glowing vividly, her eyes sl in-
ing like stars; she felt so nervous,
so irrepressibly happy, it was with
difficulty she could restrain her feet
from dancing. She rushed head-
long to do something—occupy her-
self in some way; or she felt that
people would be remarking there
was something strange about her,
and asking her the cause.
Dorothy frowned when she heard
that her father was with Derrick's
mother.
"Have you been introduced to
Aunt Anne, Nancy?" she asked,
turning back for an instant.
"Yes, just this very minute. She heavenly lesson that doubt and anti -
seems kind, Dorothy." cipation were ended, and that
"Hum!" observed Dorothy to Nancy was his.
Dancing had already commenced
when he returned from his saunter.
The soft, voluptuous strains of the
music mingled with the fast beat-
ings of his heart; from out on the
lawn he could the into the bril-
liantly lighted room, and his eyes
at once went to the one face that
made his world.
Nancy was talking to Lord Mere -
field, evidently soothing him in her
gentle way; dozens of couples were
gliding round. Darnley saw one
man after another approach Miss
Hamilton, but she refused them all,
and his blood seemed to leap in
triumph as he saw her eyes wander
round in search of him.
He threw away his cigar and hur-
ried forward; but just as he was
about to climb the terrace, he was
attracted by the sight of two peo-
ple staring hard at Miss Hamilton
in a fixed and curious manner.
One was a man on whom the well -
cut clothes seemed to sit uncomfor-
tably, who was lounging, in an un- Ah, well! to -morrow he would
gainly attitude, against a wall, know all, and she would breathe
a fixed, almost malignant lockon more freely, sharing her old trouble
his dark face, and an air of deep with her lover.
abstraction, which argued unfortu- "Dorothy presented him to me,"
nate indifference to Miss Maude she answered, loathing for the pre
Chester and her blandishments. The varication,
other watcher was his own mother. "And you like him?"
There was something in the ex- (To be continued.)
pression of Mrs. Darnley's cold,
light -gray eyes that annoyed and
pained her son ; but whatever vex-
ation he might have felt at the
knowledge that his mother had con-
ceived a dislike to Nancy, was
swallowed up in the more important
burst of jealous anger he experi-
enced in that steady gaze which
Mr. Crawshaw levelled on his dar-
ling.
"Darn each" muttered Darnley,
furiously. "How dare he stand
staring at her in that beastly way'?
I wish Nancy would let 'me speak
openly to -night, then I could make
him answer to mc. In any case, he
shan't be permitted to insult her
with his odious vulgarity."
Totally unconscious of the proxi-
mity of her lover, and the interest
she afforded to both Thomas Craw-
shaw and Mrs, Darnley, Nancy
chatted away as easily and as na-
turally as she eould to Lord Mere -
field, Conversation was, in fact,
almost an impossibility to her; but,
unselfish, as usual, she buried her
own, feelings, her desire to be alone
in her own room with her wonder-
ful secret, and exerted herself to
cheer the doleful young man, who
was growing more hopeless every
hour.
"Here you are, Derry," Dorothy
Leicester cried, with an unmistak-
able tone of delight in her voice.
"Where have you been, truant?
Never mind. I won't scold. But for
penance you must dance this waltz
with me."
"If that be a penance, I welcome
it gladly," responded Derrick, as
he put his arm round her waist and
whirled her away,
His eyes sought Laney as he
passed her, and lett her dazed and
dreamy with their sweet message,
"Oh, pptia, hew angry she makes He knew aha wattled understand why
herself; "I have not that keen ap-
preciation of Aunt Anne's kindness
that I might have."
And scenting warfare, she drew
119 her slender form and marched
into the gardens.
Her aunt was speaking just as she
eeme up to them.
"Remember, Humphrey, you are
a man who has lived all your life
in the country, and you cannot be
expected to understand these things
so well as we women do. I tell you
plainly that I foresee great trouble
and possibly danger from—"
"From what, Aunt Anne?" in-
quired Dorothy, sweetly, as Mrs.
Darnley came to an abrupt ending.
"What danger is near us?"
Mrs. Darnley bit her lip; she
hoped her brother-in-law would
have sufficient tact to make some
sort of excuse, but Sir Humphrey
blurted out the truth, as Dorothy
knew he would.
"Your aunt, my darling, has been
telling me that she considers we
are doing a very foolish thing in
having Nancy here," he said, put-
ting his arm round the slender
form. -
"And you, of course, have been
telling Aunt Anne that nothing on
:arth will induce us to let her go,"
9bserved Dorothy, very quietly and
ieterminedly.
"Your father and I will discuss
;his another time, dear," Mrs.
Darnley said, smoothly, speaking in
a calm, grown-up air, which had
the result of infuriating the lovely
little autocratic mistress of Rip -
atone Hall beyond all description.
"I think not, Aunt Anne," she
answered, very shortly. "for there
is absolutely nothing to discuss. We
have offered Nancy a home, and a
home she shall have as long as she
chooses to own it. Papa and I are
quite at one on that point, aren't
wc, dear old thing?"
Sir Humphrey who had been
fretting and fuming under a rigid
cross-examination from his sister-
in-law, gave a hearty response:
"That we aro, my darling. Why,
I wouldn't give up my Nancy now
.,Cor any one or anything, erfcept to
a husband, who unfortunately is
bound to come along one of these
days."
"Orr, of course," sneered Mrs.
Darnley, "adventuresses make pro-
verbially good marriages!"
Dorothy's cheeks flushed.
"I shall not stay to hear Nancy
insulted!" shee said, hotly.
But Mrs. Darnley herself moved
sway.
' "You are a splendid child, and a
very ignorant one into the bargain,
Dorothy. Some day you will see
the wisdom of my remarks, and ap-
preciate them. I always speak out,
you know; it is an unpleasant ha-
bit, hilt I can't help my nature ; and
when I see your father making a
feel of himself, why, I' tell him so
without arty ado. Humphrey, i
hope you will consider what 1 have
said to you, and adopt my advice,"
And with that Derrick's mother
sailed away majestical.le,
he had not gone direct to her; and,
indeed, Now never geve that a
thought:: When the waltz ivas end-
cd he hurtled up to her, but as he
passed his mother be stopped.
"Are you not tee hot hero,
dear?" he asked, eeertcously and
effeetion,ately,
"No; I am amused."
Mrs. Darnley's . voice told hint at
once that, for the word "amused"
she should have substituted "an-
noyed," He gave her a sharp
glance.
"It has been a successful day, has
it . not?" he observed. "Dorothy
Makes a delightful little hostess,
mother."
"According to the manners of the
new school, I suppose she does,"
his mother answered, shortly. "To
my opinion, Dorothy requires at
least two 'years mare in the wheel -
room. She is pert and uninterest-
ing.,,
"Uninteresting—with that face l
Oh, mother!" And the young man
passed on, laughing lightly.
"They have come to blows 'al-
ready. What about, I wonder? My
darling?" His brows contracted
"I fear so. Well, after to -morrow,
Dorothy will have my help to fight
Nancy's battles."
He carefully smoothed all annoy-
ance from his face as he reached.
the girl.
Let the future bring what it
might, they would have no jarring
influences on their halcyon dream.
All should' be beautiful to them to-
night. And as he stood looking
down at her face, he lost all thought
save of het beauty and herself.
" `Ab; sweet, who hast hold of
my heart!
For thy love's sake I live;
0 but tell me, ere either depart,
What a lover may give •
For a woman so fair as thou art?' "
He whispered the words very low;
but Nancy heard them. This love—
s° new, so wonderful — almost.
frightened her.
What had she done, she vaguely
asked herself, that she should be
so thrice blessed ? And even in the
midst of the ecstasy she faltered
and shivered.
"It is too good—too good to
last!" she murmured.
But she kept this presentiment to
herself. Not through her should'
the faintest cloud fall over Derrick's
happiness—her brave, true, chival-
rous Derrick!
"At last," he murmured, as Lord
Merefield, seeing Dorothy alone,
rushed across the room, "I can
speak to you, Nancy!"
"Have you so much to say to
me?" she asked, shyly.
"Only the same old theme, dar-
ling. I love you. I shall tell it
you till you grow weary, Nancy."
"That will never be," she said,
with a smile; and then she drew a
shade closer.
"Has that man spoken to you?"
Darnley asked, eagerly, glaring af-
ter the millionaire.
Nancy hesitated. She longed to
tell him all;that t she knew Craw -
sham, only too well; that it was he
whom Derrick Darnley had stretch-
ed low in the mud that by -gone
night. But she had no chance. This
was no place or opportunity for such
a confidence. Yet it seemed as
though she were deceiving him.
—
SENTEi.NOE SERMONS.
A good man only punishes when
he dare not pardon.
Love for the truth often means
liking for my own notions.
Most of our thorns get at us in
our attempts to sleep on roses.
It takes more than pions wish-
bone to make moral backbone.
A good many who are saying
"steer up" ought to cash up.
The more you think of money the
more you miss true riches.
It is .not what you say to men but
what you are to men that counts,
Life is all wasted when every to-
day is a funeralover yesterday.
It is always much easier to re-
write a creed than to keep an alley
clean.
It's no use lauding recording an-
gels if you're afraid of a husked
auditor.
The graces of character grow not
through special efforts but in or-
dinary duties.
It is better for the preacher to
know to -day's children than all the
church fathers,
When the church acts like a cir-
cus the side shows always swallow
the main tent.
He who has many strings in his
hands is sure to get his feet mixed
up with some of them.
If we were not so anxious to seem
what we are not we might become
what we should be,
Glasses ehich are used for mills
or any milky substanee should al-
ways be washed in . cold water in
preference to hot,as the latter is
apt to leavels cloudy appearance,
and necesaiteIeo a great deal more
labor in the, westing, The same
rule tip Nets tt, perfectly' new glass-
es ws,.w.. l,..ve not peen used.
ROOMY VIEW Of ABYSSINIA
CONDITIONS THAT PREVAIL
AT THE COURT.
Menelik Alive and the Bfnpress en
Intriguer, Says a Mining
Man.
F. Margli.ordt, who for three years
was employed as a general mining
director by the Emperor Menelik
of Abyssinia, has just returned to
England. Ris description of the
state of affairs in ,Abyssinia is
gloomy, In an interview he told an
amazing story of the conditions that
prevail at the, court and the intri-
gue for power conducted by the
.Empress.
"The Emperor," he said, "is cer-
tainly .alive, despite the many rum-
ors of his death, but for all prac-
tical purposes he is dead. For many
years past he has been the victim
of an insidious disease, which has
played havoc with his mental facul-
ties.
"Menelik at his best was prob-
ably never anything more than a
somewhat astute aboriginal, and
unfettered by ill health -ens] domes-
tic millstones about his neck he
might have carried through the
task of reclaiming the ;country from
savagery.
NOW IT IS T00 LATE.
When the Emperor dies the major-
ity of the tribes in the kingdom will
instinctively rise up in revolt
against the Abyssinian section,
numbering about one-tenth of the
population, and a new government
will be established.
"At any moment Menelik II. may
succumb to his malady. He has
been at death's door many times in
recent years, and on each occa-
sion one has gleaned something of
the remarkable precautions taken
by the Empress to remain one of the
dominating powers in the land.
"The Emperor, a tall, hard faced
but decrepit figure, played his
cards_ very well until the Empress
crossed his path. She is one of
the wiliest women T• have ever met.
Add to her cunning the whole gam-
ut of unscrupulous devices and you
will get somewhere near an approx-
imate estimate of the lady's charac-
ter. For diabolical subtlety the Em-
peror cannot compare with her.
He still wields sufficient influ-
ence, mainly armed, to carry his
point when occasion arises, but for
the rest he is cajoled into doing the
bidding of the Empress, whose do-
mination is very hard to explain.
She is. neither young nor pretty.
Before she cast the bewitching spell
of her dusky personality over the
Emperor she had been
MARRIED SOME NINE TIMES,
even according to her own reckon-
ing. From the moment of this sing-
ular combination Menelik's power
waned,
"The Empress gathered around
hex e a r coutc]'q
clique,
making her pos-
ition secure, and thenceforth the
Emperor has had to pay due regard
to the foibles of his royal consort
in the matter of royal preroga-I
tives."
Mr. Marquordt has a very low
opinion of the morality of the Ab-
yssinian,
"The capacity for thieving is the
Abyssinian hallmark," he says.
"The people thieve from the cradle
to the grave and vary a career of
dishonesty with almost every known
vice.
"The King apparently enjoys the
privilege of 'being able to dishonor.
his own obligations, and the Queen
invariably tries to go one better.
As general mining director to the
Emperor, I developed one of his
gold fields and showed that it would
produce as much as nine ounces of
pure gold to the ton, thereby rank-
ing as one of the richest gold cen-
tres in the world. Love of gold is
one of his Majesty's weaknesses. I
have seen in his treasure house no
fewer than thirty bags of gold, each
bag sufficiently capacious to hold a
couple of hundredweight of coal,
"The gold was probably worth
millions, but instead of regarding
it as national wealth Menelik, back-
ed by his wife, perceived a• source
of clanger in mining success. ?'very
form of security was thereupon de-
stroyed, all compacts denied and
there was
AN END OF THE MATTER.
The Abyssinian court enjoys the
possession , of immensely rich gold
fields, but no one will invest a pen-
ny for. their development. I have a
deed hearing the Emperor's ' per-
sonal seal, but the document is not
worth anything beyond what a'eu-
rio dealer would put upon it."
Mr. Marquordt is equally severe
upon the legal system of Abyssinia,
which be declares is no vile Its any
that can ho found. He says:
"The person accused of theft is
branded on the forehead; to be
deemed a purveyor of court gossip
ends in the culprit's tongue being
cut out, and every one su•epectod
of having overheard • unpleasant
truths is deprived of his ears, or
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various accusations, however ill
founded, the' punishment may mean
either poisoning, - decapitation,
hanging or stoning to .death.
"The cutting out of the eyes or
the amputation of hands and feet
are also among the barbaric modes
of meting out justice. When I re-
solved toquit the country a plot
was formed by the court to have
me assassinated, and only the great
firmness of Sir John Harrington,
the -British Consul,'' prevented it
being carried out."
EXISTENCE.
Hebrews 11: 6.
Though all external things may
glide
Beyond the range of mortal sight,
One great Existence must abide
And shine in everlasting light::
Our gifts and lives and days are
His;
And we rejoice to know "He is."
When to our fellowmen we turn
And view each face and form and
limb,
This precious truth we soon may
leaan •—
Their ilives are all sustained by
m
Though frail and weak and scatter-
ed far,
This fact remains, they surely
„are."
The soul awakened hem its -dream
WW1 fear surveys the press and
strife :
Placed in the vortex of the stream
It learns the deepest things of
life:
Beyond the changing dross. and
sham
The living soul can say "I am,"
And in that Ocean grand and deep
Which throbs with all -existing
love;
The soul its onward course can
keep,
And seize the prize all else above :
And grateful praise each soul may
give
To that great One in whom "we
live."
T. WATSON.
Uniondale, Ont., 1930.
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JEST COST GIRL HER LIFI1.
Young Woman Rad Dressed Up as
a Brigands '
From Paftinico, in Sicily, comes
news of a -very sad affair in which
an innocent jest has cost one young
woman her life and Ieft her sister
seriously wounded. The two wo-
men, Anna and Antonin. Polizzi,
the latter being only 16 years of
age, took it into their heads to play
a joke upon the tenants of a house
not far from their own. They
dressed themselves up as brigands,'
and directed their steps towards
the neighboring divelling, They had
disguised themselves so well that
they completely duped a mus nam-
ed Savarino who was walking about
with a gun in his hand looking for
game'. He asked' the supposed bri-
gands the reason of their visit, but
without deigning to rosily the young
women continued their walk. After
again calling upon them to stop,
Savarino placed his gun to his
shoulder and fired twice. The fic-
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One of them, Antenna Polizzi, was
shot through the heart, while An-
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from her cries of terror that Sav-
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of a woman, and realized the ter-
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now fled from the neighborhood.
LIGHTING THE FARM HOUSES.
With the increasing education of
farmers' children, and the increas-
ing intellectual and social life in
farm -Names, the use of artificial
light in farm houses is increasing,
and the money economy, but more
the sanitary economy of artificial
lighting is of inere.asing importance.
Nor may the aesthetic element, the
effect on life of attractive lighting,
be left unconsidered.
All kerosene lights without man-
tie are very unlike daylight, hard
on the eves, and hence likely to
produce pain and nervous irrita-
tion and injury to health.
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drops of oil of cloves, and put in a
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Don't stitch skirt seams all in
one, direction ; the bias side should
be held under the straight edge,
which means that the scams of half
the skirt should be stitched front
top to bottom and the other half
from bottom to top.
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PORTABLE HOG -HOUSE.
Swine were originally nativoa .of
WW1; .damp climates; When do -
medicated and given proper Pro-
tection they are found profitable if4
all agricultural districts, And yet
no other farm animal is'subject to
such uncomfortable quarters] he
frequently sleeps in filth and eats
from sour and darty troughs. Pox:-
tunatcly, farmers are now appre-
ciating better methods for shelter
and herd management. With the
practice of these improved methods.
we find the portable hog house ra-
pidly coming into favor.
Only the simplest kind of work-
manship is necessary to build the
portable house and much odd lum-
ber can be worked into it.
The portable house is peculiarly
advantageous since it can be read-
ily moved. The renter who finds
it impossible to provide expensive
quarters for his hogs can well af-
ford to construct portable houses,
since they can be retained as per-
sonal property.
Many farmers construct hog hous-
es without considering the import-
ance of sanitation, ventilation and
drainage. A hog house of any kind
should be located on a high, dry
site, and, if possible, on soil con-
taining sufficient sand to drain
well. A house located en an eleva-
tion may be somewhat colder in
winter, but it is much cooler and
more comfortable in summer.
When a larges number of animals
ars continually housed in ono hog
house and fed in or around the
house, the surronndin>rs are sure to
become more or less filthy and un-
sanitary. If feeding is done on the
inside it keeps a portion of the floor
wet, and gives the entire building
an offensive, disagreeable appear-
ance. On the other hand, by using
the portable house, moving it oc-
casionally onto a fresh pieceof
ground, and feeding the hogs at a
different place ane avoids these un-
sanitary conditions. These port-
able houses are built to accommo-
date from four to six mature ani-
mals or ten to twenty shoats.,.Thia
method keeps them much cleaner
and more thrifty than when allow-
ed to congregate in large numbers.
Individuals of- a herd showing evi-
deuces of a contagious disease eau
be rapidly isolated.
The shed -roof portable house is
a building six feet two inches high
in front and three feet in the rear.
When cut in the middle twelve -foot
boards can be used for boarding
the front of the house. A small
space left may be elosed by a bat-
ten or frieze board at the top.
The door of the A -shaped house
is arranged to slide in grooves. A.
roof ventilator is desirable when
all the doors are *hut ; if more ven-
tilation is wanted it can easily be
secured by opening the small slid-
ing door in the rear. This simple
plan of ventilation avoids any di-
rect drafts upon the animals and
proves very efficient.
SOMETHING ABOUT OATS.
The market grades of oats de-
pend on the color of the grain and
its freedom from mixture and from
dirt.
About two pounds of straw are
usually plu;!uc•cd to one pound of
grain, The proportion of straw
may be materially reduced, howev-
er, in some varieties and in some
seasons, or it may be materially
increased. The hull usually com-
prises 30 to 36 per cent. of the grain,
though the range is, from little more,
than twenty per curt. to about 46
per cent.
Analyses show that oats are high -
et. in protein than corn and about
equal to wheat and barley. They
aro higher in ash than any of the
other grains, and considerably
higher in fact than either barley
or wheat. An aecount of the hulls,
oats contain the highest pereentago
of crude fibre, an undesirable ele-
ment. Oat straw contains More
Protein and more fat than corn.
stover or the straw 'of any other
small grain,
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DAIRY NOTES.
Study rations for each cow.
Milk comes by invitation, not
force.
The dairy cow is what man makes
her.
It`inatters not how well our dairy
cattle are bled or how intelligently
they are fed, if the environment
does not eorrespor,o our efforts are
in vain. Cows. should have clean,
warm stables and should occupy
them at all times wiron the weather
is unfavorable outside. They
should have good pastures, plenty
of pure water and shade. With
good cattle and proper 'surrounds
ings we have a reasonable misur•
-
ance of SUeeelfS,
Tea kettles should be:tttreed iup-
eve me octet use, It
aide down up -
every time
is generally the little drop of water ,
that 1, allowed to scan
d infile hot-
, lone of the kettle that eassss the
iuteWroet kir+ stop:, toodhn, toren table ,Deals. hello rtict, and GHCC vital makes its asp•
,e and Wed*
armee, a hole soon follows,
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