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CHAPTER XXXII.--(aont'd.)
Meysie lilac Welter, the eldest
daughter of the. holism, now gro'w'n into
a tall slip of a girl, brought him his
porridge. This was, as usual, com-
posed of the scraps and bottoming of
bawls which had been left unflxris'hed
by the rest of the household. But when
the mother's back was turned Meysie,
who had her own views as to Kite
merits, poured over all a generous
"jaw" of new milk not unmingled with
cream. So that Kit fared for that
night like a prince» -indeed; better,
than many princes,
And the fact that his ear tingled
from the hard palm of Mistress Mac
Walter was no mama regarded by him
than the buffet of the storm he had
left behind him. Kit was of the bright
nature which takes the univerxe as it
rolls. And he was not unwilling to
count the hardness of his mistress'e
hand as part of the scheme of things,
He did not complain. Be could take
it out of the bag of chaff in the barn
afterwards, And besides, was there
not his new amulet of safety--"Pen-
nae, pennaranl, ?tennis, pommel, pen -
nae, peanis"?
Mistress Mac Waiter thought that
Kit did riot care for reading, or she
would have locked up every book
about the house of Loch Spellancl}el'•Ie.
And Kit, we may be sure, with such a
private -1 heftrxe him, did not flaunt his
accomplishments in her presence.
rr e a A,
The proceedings of the "Orra Man"
on the day after the snowy night with
Kit were very peculiar. It was mar-
ket day at the town, and he went down
with his master front Cairnharrow.
He wanted to buy some winter things,
he said. And indeed his wardrobe was
somewhat scanty. Mr. Rogerson ad-
vanced his "crra man some money on
the strength of work yet to be done,
a dangerous thing in the care of many
"'orra" men, who have mostly not beet
in regular places before, and whose
roots are therefore not set very deep
in the soil.
Diana be drinkin' it a'," said his
master, "Better buy your winter gear
first!"
He knew the nature of "arra" mem
But John Smith did net at once
proceed to buy winter clothing. He
skirmished this way and that through
the lanes about Vennei tel he lighted
upon an old dingy shop, in the window
of which were several books, a batter-
ed brass fender, some unmatched cups
and saucers, n pile of dingy carpets,
and a paraffin lmp without a globe.
The "Orra Man" entered and spoke,
thus to the owner of all these. "Have
you any Latin dictionaries or gram-
mars?"
The shabby old man in list slippers,
who had come stumbling and snuffle.
ing out of a back room, shook his
head
"What ken I?" he said; "she's away
frae hame the day. Ye can look for
yoursele"
With this permission the "Orra
Man," keenly watched by the ancient
long -coated guardian of the shop,
looked over the dusty books which
Were piled higgledy-piggledy beneath
the counter and behind the door, most-
ly tied in bundles with caring. He.
handled them with the x'wift delicate
art of a lever, blowing the dust front
the top, and running his finger along
the right-hand page to ice ready for
turning as he read.
The old neon watched him for a
little and then said, "Yo are a queer
ploughman to be seekin' Lakin die-
tiorlariesI"
aotamasormagnall
'after every meal'
:Parents,- encourage they
,thildren to care for theirteefht
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It remeaves food particles
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The "Orra Man" did not hear him
He was shaking his head over a doubt-
ful note in an edition of Suetonxus.
"It will not do--clever-undoubted-
ly clever. But it will not del"
"It winna do, will it not?" said the
old man; "then maybe you will find
something there mair to your taste,
since you are so ill to please!"
As he spoke he threw open an upper
cupboard, and row upon row of class-
ical books were disclosed.
"There," cried the old man, haugh-
ing senllely, "if you set up for a learn-
ed man, there's something to bite on
She bocht them at the sale o' a ddent-
inethat ran awe free Cairn Edward
a lang while eine-made a munehcht
flittin', that is. You'll see his name
on the boazda He was just desperate
for debt, they say 1"
And the "Orra Man," . opening the
nearest volume with a queer constric-
tion of the heart, read the name writ-
ten within. It was
Christopher Kennedy, M.A.,
on a neat, blue -edged oblong, and on
a flyleaf a Greek ode to Lilias Arm-
our's eyes, which he had scribbled in
pencil as he lay waiting for her one
day high up on the Dornal moor.
'Are ye a buyer or are ye not? I
canna hide a' day free the fire on
siccan a cauld mornin' as this, so I'm
teY,in' ye V'
The creaking tones of the ole shop -
man awakened the "Orra Man." "I
cannot buy them aII," he said; "I have
not the money. But I want to buy
them one by one if you will keep them
for me."
"Dinna fret; they'll keep themsel's
easy eneuch in the toon o' Dumfries:
There's nae run on the dead languages
in Dumfries, Bibles are drug stock,
and even Shakespeare -man, I dinna
think we hoe sellsd yin o' Mm for
twenty year, except a big bound copy
to Rob Veitch, the hosier, that he uses
to keep his letters doon on his desk,
and to throw at the dogs that come
snuffin about the wicks o' his shop
door-"
This being the state of the literary
market in the neighborhood, the "Orta
Man" carried away on easy terms Ride
die's Latin Dictionary, Dunbar's Greek
Lexicon, a couple of Edinburgh Aca-
demy's Rudiments (arid but unequal-
led schoolbooks), Cesar, Licy, and
(what was a sacrifice to his own de-
sires), a pretty little Eizevir Horace
which he had often seen in his dreams
during the as sad years.
But John Smith went back to the
yard where he had put up his beast
without a farthing even to pay the
hostler, and naturally without having
added one stitch to his stock of winter
clothing.
Yet the "Orra Man" was thrice
It was an unthought-of chance„
though of course natural enough, that
the old "general dealer" of Dumfries
should have picked up the cls sical
books which no one else wanted, and
that he should have preserved them
ever since in a dusty cupboard of his
back -shop. But to the classical mas-
ter it seemed of the Lest omen. It
brought him, in his own esteem within
measurable distance of his old posi-
tion, and he could hardly wait for the
seclusion of his "stable left" before
turning to his favorite passages, and
verifying the exactness of certain
quotations which had been grains of
gold to him in the dark ways of the
underworld.
A somewhat shy and reserved man,
was the new "Orra Man" among his
fellows, "a weel learnt man" they
told each other when sizing up the,
new comer, "a great reader and juist
wonderfu' weel informed-konned
nocht about farm wark when he cam'
to Cairnharrow. But. he was quick
#n learn-faiih, there's little that he
canna sat his hand to noel"
On the whole exceedingly well liked
was the "Orra Man," but accounted to
have a bee in hie. bonnet or such a
learned man would never be where he
was this day, Yet in such repute and
serious respect is learning (or even
the report of it) held in Scotland,
that there was not a man but would
have stoped half an hour longer or
stopped
half an hour simmer
*lobe Smith with his wont about the
stables or in the fields.
"He's no used to it like usl" these
kindly hearty farm lade would say;
"what can a learned man ken about
skallin' middens?"
wrapped in joy.
you, of eeaing lent bis Iter -Teen Tohnny, Joct¢ la not a suitable:
youth,
stain at college, name for a minister in the Making,
The "Orr Mart" reached tits: his Jecit was, fi soft, I.n4ierltttnlsh
pupil ehoutd enter for, the in three youth, leaky end steepethoulalered, a
years, He wound be fifteen by that Coward by nature and te tale -bearer
time, and just within the Standard or by edtirtion, For thin haat Itis would
Age,
many a time )save "knoolred the head
'"If I carnet train one pupil better off btm" had it net been that lie knew
than n man wile has twenty to attend well that Jeek waled carry his iexdev-
io my name is noir John Smith!" lu antes .straight to hie !nether within
And thou rh the terms of the aide -I Johnny or Jath Mac Waiter was ao-
rnatnn were dubiotte, the tIf the g and counted the best aehoiar at the School
dittci line w high KIt Kennedy resent- of Saint end s "Gown, He had a hood
it memory, and his dombtlo was ane of
ly began toundergo were of the most the ancient stamp who consider them
severe and drastic kind. selves disgraced if they do not send
Both. the "Dile Man" and Kit lived a achoiar every year to the univorai-
I'or therte stolen bourn, when by the tide --and. a bursar if, postale, Thie
light of a stable lantern they read to- old-fashioned pedego uo thought that
tether the solemn -sounding, grave- he could make something out of Joel;
thoughted Latins, and after a while, lilac Walter, "lie's no what I could
with infinite stammering, the nimble- wish, nor what I bee lied in the past,
witted Greeks, Piet he's a fair ordinary lad, and. be -
During all that first winter JCI: mettween me and the taws we'll Maybe
his teacher every night In the Black mak' a Scholar oot o' Jock yeti"
Sheds -certain ramshackle ereotionai (To be eontinued)
of wood on the boundary line of both
farms. • here, wrapped in old seeks,,
and by the feeble shine of g tallow Coii"ee in Many Climm
dip set in a stable lantern, Kit mated In the art of coffee -making there are
tered his verbs, regular and irregular," no standards; each oountry has its
and so macadamised his way to the own ideas on the' subject, The French
Latin version which he hoped one day like thole coffee black, strong, and hot.
aited,
to write' (In Turkey the Mobarnmedan bode bis
One night, however, Kit w
long, listening in vain for his co/ripen-' coffee over a charcoal Are In a small
ion. The storm beat outside, anti the' brass kettle; each cup is made fresh
wind made erry noises among the tale and consumed, grounds included, in
ash trees overbear]. Stray pieces et; small sips.
rotten branches struck the sheds at; Russia, Switzerland, and Denmark
Intervals, as if :tome one unseen were all follow the French fashlon, Bulgaria
beating the roof with a stick. Al prefers Turklalx methods. In Brittany
loose elap-board. knocked Incessantlylthe housewife things no coffee worth
demanding admission. Kit's hair al-, drinking unless made from beans she
most stood on end, but he conjured the has roasted herself. The Italian idea
moods, tenses, and voices. The in
ghosts aloud with tupo in incan-1 I combines the methods of Brittany and
tation was perfectly effective, and France, The Austrians are more
gave I{it a better Idea of the Greek original and make delicious coffee with
language than he had ever had before 1 milk topped with whipped cream.
But after all the "Orra Man" did. The Mexjean drinks a brand of not
no t come.
The next night the Jx,y again waitedi fee peculiarly las own. Ground coffee
in vain in the tingling frost which had is placed in a cloth bag, which is int,
succeeded the rain,' till his nose was
messed in boiling milk and water
blue and his fingers frozen to hie sweetened with brown stick sugar, In
palms, Long before nine he had lost` Brazil. Chile, and Paraguay they like
traok of his toes, But still the pree! their Cottee black and --often. The
ceptor came not. Kit tried, "leo' on Cuban pours and repours hold water
the cold, but .Greek, though exce;4ent' overfluoly-ground coffee contained In
against the spirits that roans in tho'a flannel bag and uses the extract ob-
dark, was but a feeble protection tabled for making cafe au Jait or cafe
against the bitterness of a Scottish noje.
winter, when the frost -curls the very The native of Algeria takes strong
;leaves of the evergreens' Inward, and! black coffee 14 the street, purchasing
the stars sparkle alas in the seven
prismatic colors- the beverage from venders who boil it
j
On the third night the "Orra Man"I over portable stoves. Coffee from Ye -
I appeared. His face was strange andmen has an especially fine flavor, due,
'drawn, his voice hoarse and whistled' it is said, to the tact that the Arabian
a little as he spoke. Fie had lost that waits until the ripened pods fall to the
istraightforwardnese of eye which had ground before, gathering the fruit. The
• begun to distinguish him. Ho could choicest products of Yemen are re-
• not lookhis pupil in the eye. What's been the emitter?" cried Shserveahdet forPtie exclusive use of'the
Kit, anxiously, as soon an he heard his: ersia.
footon the threshold. "Hae ye been) • 1
in, Moister Smith?" i Australia Pear No Longer
"I have not been ill," said the "Orra
Man" a Pest.
Hae ye gotten your leave frae• One of the worst pests that .Aus
Cairnharrow?' I trails. has to deal with is a ,cactus
1 The absentee did not answer, and known os the prickly pear. It has been
Kit, with the quick lightness of youth,l found inpossible to destroy the pear
accepted silence as a negative, and by uprooting, and the only- known
;darted on to what he had been eager
to tell. method is by means of a parasite
"I hae learned a' the rules we gied which lives on the outside of the pear
Ime and six pages main Will ye and, if it can be introduced into the
hearken me?" 1 cellular formation below the tough
I The "Orra Man" reached his hand" skin, kills the plant. -
automatically for the grammar, and' It has been known for years that
Kit rattled his lesson off. But the i power alcohol could be distilled from
teacher shut the book without remark,]
Ito the great disappointment of Kite
t who had expected wonder and delight
instead of this chilling silence.
1 "Is it no weal learned? .Are ye no
pleased?" he demanded, anxiously.' would be quite Incommensurate with
the expense.
Now a method has been discovered
of distilling power alcohol from the
crushed pear to give a yield of four-
teen gallons to the tan, and thus it will
be possible not only to clear the enor-
mous acreage at present abandoned
and free it for migrants, but to ,pro-
vide power alcobol for Australia from
illimitable and local sources.
the pear, but the cost of cutting,
crushing, and distilling has been esti-
mated to be so enortndi1s that the re-
turn of one and a half gallons per ton
The classical master did not answer,
i His head was bowed upon his hands,
and when Kit looked closer tears were,
trickling between his wasted fingers.'
"Diana--dinna do that!" cried the'
boy, with the pained consternation of
youth amazed before an elder's tears,,
"What gars ye do the like o' that?",
Tho "Orra Man" stilled his slow,'
`painful sobs,
"Kit," he said, speaking with Eft-.
clay, "I am not fit to sit beside you'
- I -I -I have been drinking again, I. Minarii's Liniment for ,raekachs
was drunk the night before last, and
was brought home in t: cart- And
Mr. Rogerson overlooked it, for the
good fellows at the farm had done my•
work. They are all better men than
I. If your grandfather knew the man-
ner of man who was teaching you, be
would never let me come near you
again."
Meister Smith," said the boy, "t
yince heard the Doctor say that ye,
dinna get better a' at yince, o' a
trouble that ye hae had for a long
time. Maybe ye hae had this trouble
n long time, and are no fairly better;
yet,"
It
CFIAPTER XXXIII.
xrr nos BONE.
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There was one goal which his in-
erector alloys kept before Kit. No-
j ing was eV pee which did not lead
a a pail/amity education, And the
"Orra `gene had ifs own 'ideas as to
hove the matter was to ba accomplish-
ed, Ile Igtew well that every three
years there was a bursary open to tine
'i 11 pie 'ofGallows- thirty peunda a
s tor four years was the amount.
with the economy inherenbut Scottish
"Well," said the "Orra Man," look very Reserved,
ing at Kit for the first time, "let us'
go on with our work. I have pram -i . "Mabel Is ao awfully reserve•],"
iced d I will I 'Till I I "Well she's engage,] to three men."
Do this' ' nd keep
his clothing soft,
pure and comfort
able
Nothing is so sensitive as
baby's skin I Even the slight-
est roughness in his diapers,
shirts and bandswill inflame
and irritate it.
Much trouble is directly due
to washing diapers with
harsh sonp--sone contain-
ing free alkali. The alkali.
clings to the little garments
in the form of a fine, white
powder -almost impossible
to rinse out. 'This causes
"diaper rash."
To save baby's skin, use
Lux for washing all his
clothes. It is the mildest,
purest, gentlest cleanser in
the world.Lux contains no
free alkali, and the pure
suds rinse out completely.
Lux keeps baby's garments
soft, clean, comfortable and
safe!
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Remove solid matter at once
and soak diapers is cold
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spoonfuls of Lux into thick
suds in a tui) of very hot
water. Let diapers soak afcw
moments, .then dip up and
down, pressing suds repeat.
Idly through them. Rinse
thoroughly in three waters:
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Fulness of skirta gives the freedom
that girls like, in these graceful ane-
iece rocks •
p frocks, r,fmu atmg the two-piece
mode. All in trim for a sports day at
school or a picnic are the two maids
pictured above. The plaited skirts aro
attached to plain bodices. Two styles
of co: -ars are shown, one the regula-
tion sailor collar, and the other°n trim
little round collar, The elosves are
bath fang and short, and one little
1086 aerials than with horizontal ones.
Power From the Air.
A well-known scientist proposes to
obtain power from the air by having
a tlunlber of thin metal gns•filied bal-
,loons antlered by,coeducting wires at
• a height of 1500 feet from the ground,
thus making use of the static din-
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covered by Benjamin Franklin in his
famous kite experhnent.
1 The great difficulty, however, with
such apparatus, Is to control and rego-
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the discharges are of great violence,
Many wireless rmateurs who have ex.
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found that atmospherics are not vio-
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eo Wi seep. x see you. -. I
Galloway bursar-I-I'IJ keep toy:
promise. And then pe,4laps I shell be;
cured." •
From this time forward I{it had,
long days of work and short nights
of learning and sleep. Little by little;
he escaped frram the domains of Mis-
tress Mac Walter into the larger
erty of the work on the farm. And
that made a great avenge In his Cir-'
cuinatauces, for John Mac . Walter,
thouh of no i;ow ger or authority
withign doors, could make Kit's life in-'
finitely easier without. He slat now.
in the stable loft, and es that opened:
above tb.a horses fn tbs stable Mistress,
Mae Walter dared not go in there to;.
find out whether he was in bed or not,
a habit which had embittered the first'
menthe of his scholastic career in the;
university of the Bleak Sheds, I
Then Kit was growing raperei and.,
being of a sturdy frame at a year's'
end he did almost a man': work. And, i
tor his own salte, John Mac Walter]
insisted that Kit should have his mettle!
full and regular. Pven his mistress!
was quite, alive to the advantages of;
getting a man's work for a boy's wage, I
and now mostly took it out of ]Cit•
With her tongue. So that he had no
more to share his breakfast with the
dogs 'nut of tate three-legged pot.
It was one of Mistrdss Mac Wal -I
tors pet projects "to mak a minister,
out o Jock,' Ale° it was about this
time that she began to call her eldest
Children of older fathers are stated
to have a better chance of malt/lig!
names for themselves than those
whose parents are younger, Bach,t
Beethoven, Goethe, Shakespeare, Ra
phaol, and Rembrandt, were til till-;
siren of fathers betwt:n thirty -ane
and forty.
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11 star
Aids dElgIIIDe$
ru humane aro really very funxY
when we think of 10! We are always
yearning for the anti and saying: "It
only the sun would shine how different
Mingo would bel"• So they mould, for
tltere'a a now world in a beant of sun•
chino: ' Bnt 00 50011 as rife sun wines
out, we put parasols up and draw down
the blinds and And the shade al the
earliest oi0nt0nt,
wet n ray of anullght spoils "Health"
In Targe letters, It 'pas a way or giv-
ing everything its propel' dimension,
and exposing all things 1n their real
colors, The shadows tend,.to discolor.
Oisr eyes aro too easily deluded by the
shade. That is" wily we always go to
the daylight when toe are in doubt
about the distinguishing calor.
•Shedowsaffect everything, They aro
unnatural•.. Wo sleep amid the shade0
of night, for they are net of primal im-
portauee .00 our labor and serviee ex-
cept to give us the opportunity for re-
cuperation. hien walk safely in the
light. Darkness is a fearsome tiling,
and we shriek from it. We rather
value "the bird of dawning that sing-
oth all night long." We thank God for
morning and its freshness and hope.
Then a new world begins. The shining
of the sun again inelces a difference to
our overnight resolves.
The shadows. too, get into our lite.
We find this to beso as we listen to
talk, You say to a business man;
"Well, bow's business?" He replies:
"Oh, I can't grumble," or "I can't com-
plain,' as though grumbling and com-
plaining were to be the outstanding
things of his career. Why should he
expect to grumble and complain? Who
is ho, who Is anyone, to assume that
right? Life is a sweeter, bigger thing
than that. 1ten only murmur whoa
they live amongst the shadows. Sun-
light would make sail the difference lf'
these fellows would bat go Into 11.
Diseasegerm$ are prolific among
the shades. It ie the sun that becomes
the finest disinfectant the world
knows. 1t can cure anaemia In all
things and snake the blood supply pure
and life-giving. A sun bath is one of
Heavens best gifts.
If, instead of deliberately selecting
the thing that is drab and sombre, peo-
ple would walk where the shadows /all
at their feet, they would be bettor in
every way.
In life generally, and our associa-
tions particularly, wo need to use
every ray of sunlight, 1f a man. 12 go-
ing to discover the Boma be need not
look long. There are many of them,,
and a man need not be a genius to find
their,- Let him but Lite amongst the
shades and the will soon qualify for
fault-finding, In the sun a man has
little disposition to find error; he 1e
overwhelmed with the brilliance of the
moment. He will there learn to throw
light on life In general, 'Unless we
oats do this we shall miss our way.
As a rule, we fled what we look for.
The most beautiful or devilish thing -
in this world is human nature. It is
all according to where wo look and
what we look. for. That Is tho differ-
ence between' the optimist and the
pessimist. They both look at the same
world, but slot in the same way. There
are beauty, love, truth, and honor
everywhere, and they are lifer sun-
shine. We shall never find them if
wo retire' to the shades wben they are
pear. ,
Brightness is contagiom ttratoh
people on a rainy day and then note
the same people on a fine, sunny day
and the reflection Is everywhere, We
shell only come to know ourselves, our
comrades, and our God as we deter-
minedly live our lite In fellowship with
the graceful, heaitb-giving, and en-
lightening glory of the sunshine both
la the natural and spiritual worlds.
47,
Why Sixty Minutes.
Even countries that bave adopted
the decimal system of weights and
measures still cling to the 01d41113111091 -
ed method of dividing the hour into
sixty minutes and the minute into
sixty seconds, This division: of time
has survived through the changes and
revolutions of thousands of years, It
appears to have etartod in ancient
Babylon. The Babylonians used the
decimal system for business purposes,
but counted time by sixties, The rea-
son may bo that u0 other number has
so many divisions,
These people divided the 504'0 daily
journoy_into twonty-tear parasangs, a
pureeing being roughly the distance a
good walker could cover in en hour,
and divided each panning, or hour,
into sixty minutes, The system was
'handed en to the Greeks and intro-
duced into Europe in the second cen-
tury B.C. Where clocks began to be
made, the dials were divided accord-
ing to tills system.
•
In the past thirty years several 1 sE-
teiupts base been made to opt a
decimal system for dividing time. The
idea 1s to divide the day into a hun-
dred unite, each called a "Him" Each.
ran would be divided into ten "demi-
run" or "mer," A. "mar" would bo 1.44
minutes and a "run" 14,4 minutes, or
almost a quarter of an hour.
Blight Have Sawed Him Off. e
A man noted throughout a wide
stretch of ceslixtre as belhg a "Ogee
wad," having lost his only brother,
wont to town to put a notice of the
death in the paper, "Ain't no charge,
Is there?" said he.
"Oh, yes, our rates are a doiter hu
incl:;" rolled the newspaperman.
Whereupon the other ejuculatedt
"fleekf bl1I teas alz.taot-twa'I"