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CHAPTER X,—(Cont'd.)
"What mean ye by the like o' that,
laddie?" she cried, catching at her
breast as if she felt a sudden spasm
of pain there, "How dare ye?"
Then he saw the wonder leap into
the boy's face and the color ebb from
his lips, For Kit has never seen his
mother moved to anger before,
"Wi' nitther," he faltered, "it's
nocht but a sprig o' white heather
that ]' gat ower there by the dyke -
back! There's plenty mair. Come and
see it growing sae blithely."
But the water in the caverns of the
woman's heart had now risen surging
up, and all her will could not keep the
wells in her blueeyes from over -
brimming. She sat down on a tussock
of yellow bent -grass, which like an
island rose defiantly in the midst of
the red heather. Then she put her
head into her hands and sobbed aloud
in the hill silence of that great blue
empty September day.
Kit was deadly afraid. Ile had
never before seen his mother thus give
way. Indeed, sorrow was not connect-
ed in Kit's mind with anything less
concrete than a hungry stomach, a
tumble from a tree higher than those;
which he usually selected for the pur-'
pose of falling off—or, at the worst,
with a crack on the side of the head
from the nearest of his uncles when he
was caught In some unusually out -1
rageous piece of mischief. These, as:
it seemed to Kit, were all provided for
in the scheme of lite. But that his'
mother—who was too old to get a'
"cuff on the Iug," and too staid to
climb trees and fail off them—should
cry was a dispensation unaccountable'
and mysterious—dike those decrees of
Providence of which he had heard In
the Catechism. The natter mast cer-
tainly be looked •
Lilies bent her head further upon
her breast and sobbed—the sob of a:
woman who tastes the bitterness of
once -sweet memories which time and
circumstances have turned to gall.
"Oh, how could he do it?" she wail -1
ed, half to herself.
Kit went forward to iia mother.
"Mither, wither, hearken to me!"
he said wistfully; "droner greet. mith
er! Are ye hungry? Tak' a bit o' my'
sugar piece. It's in your black basket
there under your hand. And I would:
fain hae a bite mysel'."
But his mother did not answer, or
even respond in the least to the invl-'
talon, which to Kit's opinion was the
worst symptom of all. So with the
fear of a child in the presence of an
unknown sorrow, he clutched at her
arm and tried to pull the hand away
from her face.
"Minnie," he cried, using the pet
name that he would have sunk into the
earth with shame rather than let any 1
one else hear him utter, "Minnie,
what ails ye? What garred ye greet?
Tell your ain Kit."
Then, finding that he could neither
pull away the hand nor still' his moth-
er's grief, the boy gave way utterly.
He burst into a howl of childish suf-
fering, the tears presently running
down his face and dripping freely
from his chin. "Oh, Minnie, Minnie,
drop it, stop it!" he cried. "D'ye hear
me? Gin ye diene, by my faith, P11
greet too. And how will ye like that?"
Lilies stilled her sobs. The magnifi-
cent selfishness of male childhood
braced her. She reached out her hand
and patted the boy on the cheek as he
bent toward her.
"We maun gang on to the schule,
and see the maiater," she said, rising
to her feet and lifting her basket. "If
we dinna make haste we will be ower
Tato."
Kit's spirits rose triumphantly.
"Come on, Minnie," he cried;
"there's Titty Cameron gangin' by the
black yett (gate) the noo. We'll n
let a lassie bairn wi' petticoats 'flappin
aboot her shanks beat us."
But as Lilies Mac Walter passed
on after the boy, her eyes went back
to the spray of white heather crushed
by her own heel into the blao
crumbly peat. She glanced once afte
her son. He was in full career, wi
his bonnet in his hand, chasing a gay
yellow butterfly which had conte flirt-
ing
irt
ing and prancing along the path, and
being greeted with a shout, had de-
flected across the moor with irrelevant
infirmity of purpose.
The woman hastily stooped and took
up the tattered spray of white heather
I n her hand. With her eye on Kit she
dusted it tenderly and placed it in her
basket. Then, apparently recollecting
that Kit would before long explore the
basket for the "sugar piece," she fur-
tively withdrew the sprig again, and
unbuttoning the top fastenings of her
faded black merino bodice she thrust
the battered and broken twigs within,
and refastened the buttons with fin-
gers that trembled with eager baste.
Then she looked again at the distant
figure of her boy as he leaped high
into the air in his eagerness to pre-
vent the butterfly from escaping him.
Lilias sighed, and a sweet half -satisfied
look rose in her eyes. Something like
a smile passed over her features. She
went demurely over the heather with
her eyes once more on the vague blur-
red blue, which was all she saw of the
sparkling lake beneath. Her shoul-
ders were still a little baht but the
burden seemed to be partly lifted from
them.
Presently Kit and his mother over-
took Titty Cameron. That young lady
was nothing loath to accept their com-
pany. She would indeed have prefer-
red to travel with Kit alone. Ent even
with the escort of the swain's mother,
much may be done. Friendship of the
most intimate kind was soon establish-
ed between Kit and Titty. The lady
put out her tongue at the gentleman,
and the gentleman dropped a sharp
stone down the lady's back when she
was not looking. What more was nec-
essary to immediate marriage?
They also talked a little in whispers,
and pulled each other's hair when they
could, but the only time they were
really caught was when Kit said to
Titty, "Stand wide, and I'll buzz a
stane between your legs." Then Lilies,
whose hearing was acute, heard the
"buzz" as the rough -edged piece of
whinstone took the hard road between
Titty Cameron's feet and boomed away
at a new angle.
Unto In excellent training, and even
now at sixty-flvo he was aeeustomed to
say that though in his best days he
eoUld perhaps have kept on longer..
indeed, till, the whole boydorn of Whin-
nyliggate was reluctant to sit down—
yet it war on'iy recently that he bad
compassed the secret of how to make
one "pawmie" do the work of two; and
how to produce a finer moral result
by one judielous flick upon a weal•
stretched• and rotund curvature than
by exertions" like those of two men.
flailing corn in a barn.
(To be continued,)
A Promising'Prescription.
"I don't know what we're coming to,
I'm sure,sure,"said the business man as he
and the minister sat. waiting on the
hotel veranda for news. concerning a
threatened strike, "The world seems
to be crazy these days, and no one
seems to know the: cure, for our trou-
bles."
"I ran across something the other
day that sounded good to me," the
minteter said,
"What was, it?"
"Just this simple sentence, 'Te must
he born again.' "
"Humph! That's from the Bible,
lsn't it? It's a mystical sort or thing
o that no one has ever fully understood,
seems to mo. 1 fear it is too. difficult
to understand."
"Prescriptions," the minister re-
plied, "are usually a bit difficult to in-
terpret. But It is seldom necessary
k that the patient shall understand the
✓ doctor's Latin. Why do I think this
wit prescription promising? Well, for one
thing because it goes to the root of
the trouble. Men are blaming the ills
of the world to various secondary
causes—ignorance, wrong laws, wrong
distribution of wealth, wrong sur-
roundings, wrong social customs, and.
so forth. Now none or' these things Ile.
at the root of the matter. At bottom
what is wrong is man himself. If
laws and social customs are wrong,
man made them so, If there Is ignor-
ance, if there Is injustice, man makes
It. if there are surroundings in which
man cannor thrive, they are surround-
ings that man has made. Fundamen-
tally man himself is wrong, and this
prescription In its very first word
strikes at the root of the trouble."
"You believe then that the problem
is a religious ane?"
"Fundamentally it is. It Is man's
nature, his disposition, that Is wrong.
Ed
'"Kit" she said turn•
proacn-
fully, "can ye no be douce and behave?
Come and walk by me. Ye will hurt
the bairn wi' your stares."
"Mither," said Kit, "I am no a.
assie. I just couldna miss. It was
as easy a shot as hittin' a barn door,!
and Tittle can stand stride legs frae'
yae side o' the road to the ither if she'
tries, though she is but a lassie in"
coats to her knees."
So in good time they arrived at the
school, Titty going in safely under the°
escort of the parent of a new scholar,'
though she was nearly one hour late -1
whole sixty precious minutes snatched`,
from the infernal gods.
For 'Yoilr Coordag
save work—money-time,
trouble and fuel—and make your
cooiting better.
Tier e! 4 . 15e. sad
10 Bee.
t88UI7 No, 6—'26.
CHAPTER XI.
KIT KENNEDY'S FIRST FIGHT.
Dominic Duncansbn—grey, deur,
self-opinionated, with a really kind
heart overlaid with habitual crusti-
ness, and the edge of his sympathies
dulled by the hourly practice of flagel-
lation --came to the door with a book
in one hand and the "taws" in the
other. He seemed to flush a little
when he saw his visitors, But the
traditional courtesy duo to a neophyte
brought the regulation smile to his
face.
"Ye ,are welcome, Mistress Mae
Walter," he said, making Lithia a stiff
little formal bow, which affected no
part of his frame but his head and
necktie, "ye are welcome and your
brave laddie. I trust we will make
him a gold scholar, and that he will
turn out a credit to this seeminary
o' learnin'.".
Donoinie Duncanson did not waste
any time in supposing that boys might
possibly be good by nature. Forty
Yenta of mingled experience In the in-
struction of the boys of Whinnylig-
gate had made him fully confident
that goodness is always instilled into
boys by vigorous physical exercise,
He had, indeed, kept himself all that
do not sin through ignorance alone.
What is needed is a new spirit, and a
new spirit 1s just what this prescrip-
tion proposes to give os:"
"But will It work?"
"4t does work. Take JeCry McAu-
ley, river pirate, thief, probably a mur-
derer. You have heard that he was
transformed into a valuable citizen
who went out to save other human
wrecks. What did it? This prescrip-
tion. Valentino Burke, the burglar,
through trying this prescription be-
came a trusted deputy of the law he
had once flouted. These are only two
out of countless instances."
"Granted that it works in the cases
of individuals, that does not prove that
It will cure the Ills of society."
"Doesn't it? What Is society but
an aggregation of individuals? How
can you change society except by
changing the individuals? The pro-
cess is slow, I grant, but it is sure. And
do you know any other proposed reme-
dy as promising as this?"
"To be frank with you," said the
business man, "I do not."
Tea Supply Inadequate
—Prices Higher
Tea prices' are going up mainly be-
cause tea Is being demanded by mil-
lions more people. Tea is the cheap-
est and certainly one of the most palat-
able and satisfying beverages known.
But the tea -growers have been unable
to meet the tremendous demand. It
takes three years for a tea bush to ma-
ture to the plucking stage.
MEASLES.
The season for measles is durin
the winter and spring months. One
half of the deaths from measles 1
Canada occurred in the months of
January, February and March. A
great many of these deaths could have
been prevented if parents had real-
ized the danger and how to avoid it.
The dangerous age for measles is
early childhood. Sixty percent. of
the deaths from measles occur in chil-
dren under five years of age.Some
parents consider measles to be a nec-
essary evil of childhood and that a
child, may be allowed to catch measles
and have it "over and done with,"
This is a great mistake,
The older a child is when he con-
tracts measles the better the chance
he will have of recovery, the younger
he is the greater the danger, The
death rate of children having measles
at two years of age may be fivetimes
as high as it is among those who post-
pone the disease until the tenth year
of life,
Measles is spread by the secretions
of the nose and throat, especially in
the tiny droplets sprayed out in cough-
ing, sneezing and loud talking, Tho
danger of 'catchingthe disease le
greatest during the period from five
days before the rash appears and for
fivo days thereafter. Before the rash
appears the child may seem to have
only a cold, but in reality this cold
may be the beginning of measles.
From thetime of exposure, from
tan days to two weeks elapses before
the child le taken i11. The illness is
much less likely to be dangerous if
taken 3n hand at an early stage. The
first symptoms are a rise in body .tem-
perature and redness of the eyes.
Therefore, when a child has been ex-
posed to measles, the temperature
should be taken on`the eighth, ninth
and tenth days after'exposure. If the
body temperature has risen or the
eyes are reddened, put the child to
bed and keep him there. Bed is the
one safe place to fight measles, and
the earlier in the disease the child is
put to bed, the less will be the danger
of death or a serious result, such as
pneumonia, tuberculosis, eye or ear
trouble. There is all the difference in
the world between an attack of
measles developing in a child exposed
to body chill, and in a child safe-
guarded by warmth and rest.
Measles requires good nursing and
the care of a physician. The patient
should be kept away .from other peo-
ple until the rash has quite gone, and
should remain in bed as long as there
is fever or a cough. Do not let the
child be uncovered and chilled as this
may lead to pneumonia. A somewhat
darkened, comfortably warm room is
the best and the air should be kept
moist and soothing to the air passages
by means of pans of water or by wet
sheets, which may be hung across the
doorway.
MAKE PARLOR IN OLD-
FASHIONED HOME
SERVE A PURPOSE.
If you have never tried using the
largest, pleasantest room in the house
for the family bedroom, you don't
know how much more you will enjoy
it in that capacity, than as a parlor,
used only occasionally.
I live in one of those old-fashioned
houses in which a parlor was added
to an already larger number of rooms'
than is needed by the average family.
This company room was the largest
room in the house, and so pleasant,
airy and sunny with its south and
west indows and sash door opening to
the east upon the end of a south ver-
andah. So delightfully situated it was
a shame to use it so little. Such an
abundance of sunshine went to waste
in it and the finest view we had was
from its seldom -used windows.
I tried using it as a living -room, but
it was too remote from the kitchen
and dining -room, and an air of made-
to- be- used- only- on- state- occasions
clung to it so persistently that the
man invariably stopped in the "mid-
dle" room to lounge and rend, leaving
He—"Going to the pelting party to
night?"
Ste --"Can't, i gotta cracked lip."
1
OVERNIGHT SALAD DRESSING.'
1% taps. flour, % tsp. mustard, %1
Cup milk, t tsp, .alt, 1 egg yolk, '
lemon, 2 cups cream.
Mix flour, mustard, and salt;_add
the milk and egg yolk, and cook over;
hot water until the mixture thickens.,
When cool, add the. ,juice of one-half'
lemon and two cups cream, whipped
Until stiff,
Ills Audience.
Mike -"Did Ye ever speak before al
large audlenoe, Pat?"
Pat••—"Fairly large, 1 did."
Milne—"An' what did ye say?"
Pat --"Not guilty,"
Tokyo's Streets,
Tokyo is planning to have 211 scrpa
of streets by the end of 1021.
Mlnard's for Sprains end Brut",.
my cherished iivio g,roem to the k lis.
tian that the habits of years .had ban -t
iahed it,
I reflected one day; what an attrac-
tive bed -room It would make, and how
eonyenient the smaller room opening
from it would be as a nursery, The
idea so captivated me that I promptly,
planned to rearrange it for that pur
pose and soon had my erstwhile use -1
less parlor fitted up as a bedroom and
private sitting -room.
A fair-sized bedroom opened from,
tits middle room, which was also •a;'
large room, and both having a south,
exposure, I had a very wide doorwayi
cut between the two rooms, nearly 44
eliminating'the partition, and so tom -I
bined them into one delightfully long,
sunny living -room. It was se enjoy)
able to have the piano end'books and`
all the most useful articles pf furni-
tore out where we would use them
every day. Our living -?room` became
one, in a sense that no other room ever
had, while my parlor never afforded
me the pleasure and satisfaction that
my big, sunny bedroom does with its
accommodation for a fire in the win-
ter and plenty of fresh .and and sun-
shine during the summer.—Mrs. E. M.
A PRACTICAL UNDERGARMENT.
THE MONTHS f L A
MUDDLE
nF'EIiEESE
Tasty' Meat
Substitutes
We tell you how to 'sake
24 delicious meat imbed -
tete di sheswith Hrafteheest,
in the new Kraft Recipe
Book, sent free on request,
Send fork to -day and treat
your family to "Something •
different". The children
especially will benefit by
the change in menu,
4687. This pretty mode: comprises
a vest and "step-in" drawers. The
vest portion may be finished with
"camisole" top or with shaped shoul-
ders. If desired a closing may be
effected at the side of the panel.
Crepe, crepe de chine or nainsook is
suitable for this design.
The Pattern is cut in 4 Sizes:
Small, 34-36; Medium, 38.40;`Large,
42-44 and Extra Large 46-48 inches
bust measure. A Medium size requires
2% yards of 36 -inch material. Panel
of Einbroidery requires' tilt yard 9
inches wide.
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THE OLD MOTHER.
Lord, rest me from my daughter
Who it to kind to me;
Never reed I' walk alone,
Nothing have I that's my own,
What I begin, by her Is done;
And from all but her alone
Am I rested, till I moan.
Lord, rest me front my daughter
Who is kind to me.
—Elisabeth Morris.
FRUIT SALAD.
•'Half pound English walnuts, half
pound marshmallows, 2 cups diced
pineapple, 2 cups canned white cher-
ries.
Chop or break the nut meats, cut
the marshmallows in quarters with
scissors, and add pineapple and cher-
ries, -Mix with dressing, and let stand
twenty-four hours before serving.
Minard's Liniment for the 'Grippe.
Running Board Limit.
Loads on running boards should not
extend beyond the bub cap on the
left side nor more than six inches on
the right.
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Do Welt/Int a New Calendar?
We have entered upon another year:
with our old ?tad unrefertnod calendar.
Prc.poaala tor its slmpll•ioallou have
often been made; but 1t remains corn-
plioated and erratic,
Lestyour we had fiveAid 1
t
r
February a tiling which, though It
bad not happenel previously for forty
years, will happen again ,after an inter.
val of twenty-eight year., Yet nor-
melly it Is only. twenty.eight years
before any one day of the weak re -
ours as leap year day,
Why then, the long luterval otforty
Years since February 29th previously'
Pell on a Friday? Because, under the
Gregorlan_correetlon to the calendar,
three leap years are dropped In tuilr.
hundred years at three successive can -
Miry yearn, and because in the last in-
terval a "doubla'b" year (19001 Inter-
vened,
Working for Nothing.
Seine countries still use the Julian
calendar, and consequently they make
every fourth year a leap year. 71 fol-
lows that by their system each week
day has lis turn as leap year day once
every tWenty.eight years.
Another anomaly Is .that in a leap
year persona who aro paid 'monthly
or quarterly have to give a day's work
for nothing. If the salary is $5,000 a
year, tilde mepns a loss to the worker ,
of $13.70. The State, In particular,
gains largely through this peculiarity.-
Pay is also affected by the calendar
in adifferent manner. We sometimes
have fifty-three Saturdays in a year,
and. consequently most workers re-
ceive an extra week's pay in 1t. This
makes a great difference to big elm!
poratlons, as well as to the State, Old
age pensioners, too, get an extra
week's money.
Coincidence and Prophecy.
On the other hand, millions of peo-
ple have to pay fifty-three premiumson policies 3n such a year—an error -
mous gain to the great Industrial in
suranee'efflces, which -do not sulfffer a ,
corresponding lose either in the pre -
Wing or the following year.
A further peculiarity of thi1' alendaf
is that occaslonally two great anni-
versaries of the Church tap on the,
same day. Thus, In 1921 the Annucia-
tion war on Good Friday, and. it will
be again In 1932. This coinoldence Is.
generally supposed to. be referred to
in the prophecy—
"When our Lord shall lie In our Lady's
lap
England will meet with a strange tills -
hap."
Some authorities, however, con-
sider that the coincidence meant is
that between the Annunscietlon and
Easter Day, as In 1894. Easter in that
year fell on March 25th, the Feast of
the Annunclatfon.
In connection with miscellaneous
anniversaries, also, there are many
curiosities. Some people, for in-
stance, are unable to reconcile the
date of a birth with some other date.
This may be due to' failure to allow
for the difference between our former
calendar and the present calendar.
A Fixed Date for Easter,
Let us take a single illustration. The
anniversary of George III's birth is
given as June 4111, whereas in many
books he is-sald to have been born on
May 24th, 1738. So, fu, fact, be was,
But when the calendar was altered 1n
1752 birthdays of, all living persona
were post-dated by eleven days its far
as the law was concerned. Atter 1762,
therefore, George 'III,': birthday was
celebrated on June 4th.
The question of a fixed. date Sur
Easter has often been raised. The
variations in the date of Easter cause
a great deal more Inconvenience and
disorganization In the community than '
Is generally realized. School, univer-
sity, and law terms have to be altered
in accordance with the -change In the
date of Easter, while the date of Whit -
sun and the question of holidays also
depend 'upon it.
That is Slaccess.
Wealth -- prowess --power—only the
few attain,
Tot this= one triumph Is denied to
none;
To say each night, computing loss and
gain -
"This was my job to -day; this I have
done
With all the skill I could command, 00
less,"
That is success.
It well may be at your allotted task
-You find no dearth of pitfalls in tile
way.
Pause for a little while to -night and.
ask: .
"Mn -1 one pato ahead of yester-
day--
Nearer the goal?" If you cru answer
"Yeti"
Thal is success.
Time flies on phantom wing, yet no
twin needs
'l'o. Count the speeding years as for•
felt quite.
)S'e live not In days only, but in deeds.
If this dead year hes brought you
In its flight
New store of wisdom, tolerance, kind
linerra --
That 1s eueeess.
—Ted Olson in''Forbee,".
Telephone operators in Bombay
must be able to speak six lahgeages,