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CHAPTER. XXU .-(Oont'd) With a word of explanation to her
Herr ISivertsen found himself partner she hastily crossed over to
drinking tela before lie knew what the piano. But when she met Fri -
he was about and the novelty of thief's eyes her heart began to beat
the little household quite ehuek him painfully, and once more the feel-
out of hisruff surliness. Strange ing of fear returned to her.
g
by -gone memories Cama floating "Will you tell me the name of the
back to him as he listened to the last waltz l" she asked.
two girls' merry, talk, watched tjiem He bowed,, and began to turn
as suddenly they broke into an im- over the pile of music to find the
promptu danoe, and begged them piece.
to sing to him the old tunes which '`Frithiof," she whispered,
for so many years he had not heard. "have you forgotten me 1 Have
"I am sorry to say," observed you nothing to say to mel"
Sigrid, laughing, "that our next- But he made as though he did not
•door neighbor, Mrs. Hallifield, tells hear her, gravely handed her the
me the general belief m the house music, then, turning away, took
is that we belong to the Christy up his violin and signed to Sigrid
Minstrele. English people don't to begin the next dance.
seem to understand that one can Poor Blanche was eagerly claim -
dance and sing at home for pure ed by her next partner, and with
pleasure and not professionally." burning cheeks and eyes bright
After that the old author often with unshed tears, was whirled off,
paid them a visit, and they learned though her feet seemed weighted
to like him very much and to en- and almost refused to keep time
joy his tirades against the degen- with that violin whose tones seemed
crate modern race, And thus with to tear her heart,
hard .work, enlivened now and then The thought of the possibility of
by a visit to Rowan Tree House, or stopping the dismal mockery of en -
by a call from the Bonifaces, the joyrnent came to her again, and she
winter slipped by, and the trees eagerly seized the first opportunity
grew green once more, and they of departure; but when once the
were obliged to own that oven this
smoky London had a beauty all its
:own.
"Did you ever see anything so
lovely as all this pink may and yel-
low laburnum 1" cried Sigrid, as
:one spring evening sho and Frithiof
walked westward to fulfill one of
the evening engagements to which
they had now become pretty well
accustomed.
"No ; wn had nothing equal to
this at Bergen," he admitted, and
in very good spirits they walked
on, past the great wealthy houses;
he with his violin -case, and she with
a big roll of music, well content
with the success they had worked
hard to win, and not at all dispos-
ed to envy the West End people.
It was indeed a great treat to Sig-
rid to have a glimpse of so different
a life. This evening he happened
to be particularly cheerful; things
had gone well lately at the shop;
his strength was' increasing every
day, and the home atmosphere had
done a great deal to banish the
haunting thoughts of the past which
in solitude had so preyed on his
mind, They discussed the people in
Norwegian during the intervals,
and in a quiet way were contriving
to get a good deal of fun out of the
evening, when suddenly their peace
was invaded by the unexpected
sight of the very face which Frithiof
had so strenuously tried to exile
from his thoughts. They had just
finished a waltz. Sigrid looked up
from her music and saw, only a few
yards distant from her, the pretty
willowy figure, the glowing face and
dark eyee and siren -like smile of
Lady Rominaux. For a moment her
heart seemed to stop beating, than
with a wild hope that possibly Fri-
thiof `night not have noticed her,
the turned to him • with intense
anxiety.
"Frithiof," she said in Norweg-
ian, "you are faint. Go out into
the cool and get some water before
the next dance."
How she longed to get up and
rush .from the house! How she
loathed that woman who stood
flirting with the empty-headed man
standing at her side! If it had not
been for her perfidy how different
all might now be I
"1 can't help hating her !"
thought poor Sigrid. "She has
ruined Frithiof's life, and now in
one moment has undone the work
of months. She brought about my
father's failure; it she had been
'true we should not now be toiling
to pay off these terrible debts -
hundreds of homes in Bergen would
have been saved from a cruel loss
-and he -my father -he might
have been alive and well! How
can I help hating her?"
At that moment Blanche hap-
pened to catch sight of them. The
color deepened in her cheeks.
"Have they come to that?" she
thought. "Oh, poor things I How
sorry 1 am for them ! Papa told
me Herr ,
era .0 it but to
alek had failed '
have sunk so low I Well, since they
lost all their money it was a mercy
that all was ever between us. And
yet, if I had been true to him-"
Her companion wondered what
made her so silent all at once.
"Row extraordinary. that 1
should chance to meet my Viking
here! she thought to herself,
"How very much older he looke I
How very much his face has alter-
ed ! One would have thought that
to come down in the world would.
have cowed him a little; but it
:scents somehow to have given him
.dignity, i, positively feel afraid of
him, After all, I could soon get
my old power over hint if I diose
to try, I will `go and speak to
them; it would be rude not to DO.'
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Now Swanhild was a very ima-
ginative child, and she was just
at the age when girls form extra-
vagant adorations for women.
'How was she looking 1" she
asked, turning away her blushing
face with the most comical parody
of a woman's innate tendency to
hide her love.
"Oh, she was looking juet as usu-
al -as pretty, and as siren -like as
ever, wretched woman!" Then,
remembering that Swanhild was too
young to hear all the truth, she
suddenly drew up. "But there,
don't speak of her any more. I
never wisp to hear her name
again."
Frithiof came to breakfast only
a few minutes before the time when
he had to start for business. His
strain of the excitement was over eyes looked very neavy, and his
her strength all at once evaporat- face had a pale, set look which Sig-
rid had learned to interpret only
too well.
"You don't look- well this morn-
ing, Mr. Falek," said the foreman,
a cheerful, bright-eyed, good-heart-
ed old man, who had managed to
bring up a large family on his sal-
ary, and to whom Frithiof had of-
ten applied for advice on the sub-
ject of domestic economy.
"We were up late last night,"
said Frithiof, by way of explana-
tion, But the old man was shrewd
and quick -sighted, and happening
later on to be in Mr. Boniface's
private room, he seized the oppor-
tunity to remark:
"We shall have Mr. Feick knock-
ing out again, sir, if I'm not mis-
taken ; he is looking very 111 to-
ed. Feeling sick and faint, she lay
back in a cushioned chair in the
cloak -room; her gold plush mantle
and the lace mantilla which she
wore on her head made her look
ghastly pale, and the maid came up
to her with anxious inquiries.
"It is nothing but neuralgia,"
she replied, wearily. "Let them
call my carriage," •
And then came a confused sound
of wheels.outside in the street and
shouts echoing through the night,
while from above came the sound
of the dancers, and tai resolute.
indefatigable violin still going on
with the monotonous ai: of "Sir
Roger de Coverley," as though it
were played by a machine rathar
than by a man with a weary bead
and a heavy heart. da
"Lady Romiaux's carriage is at "I'm sorry to hear that," said
the door," said a voice, and she Mr. Boniface. 'You were quite
hastily gat up, made her way right to tell me, Foster. We will
through the brightly lighted hall,
and with a sense of relief stepped
into her brougham.
It was quite possible for Lady
Romiaux to go, but the dance was
not yet over, and Frithiof and Sig-
rid had, of course, to stay to the
bitter end.
And at length the programme had
been toiled through. She hurried
down -stairs to put on her cloak and
hat, rejoining Frithiof' in a few
minutes in the crowded hall, where
he stood looking, to her fond fancy,
a thousand times nobler and gran-
der than any of the other men
about him,
"You are very tired 1" asked Sig-
rid, lipping her arm into his.
"Yes, tired to death," he said.
"It is humiliating for a fellow to
be knocked out by so little." ELECTRIC RATES REDUCED.
"1 do not call it 'little,' " she -
said, eagerly. "You know quite The Hydro Commission Publish the
well it was neither the heat nor the Old Rates and the New.
work which tired you, Oh, Frithiof,
how could that woman dare to At Sub -stations.
speak to yeu!" Old Rate New Rate
"Hush! he said, sadly. "Talk- Toronto .. . , .. $18.50 $16.50
ing only snakes it worse. I wish Guelph .. , . ... 25.00 23.50
you would drive the thought out of Seaforth .. .... 41.00 Unchanged.
my head with something else." St. Thomas ..:, 32.00 Unchanged
The cline, dreary streets through Ingersoll .. .. , . 28.00 27.00
Which they walked. and the grade- •Norwich ,...... 30.00 Unchanged
ally inereasing light in the oast, Berlin .. .... 25.00 24.00
seemed like a picture of his own New Hamburg . 32.00 Unchanged
life, for there dawned for him in Preston . , , , .. 25.00 23.00
his sadness a clearer revelation of Hespeler .... 26.00 25.00
the Unseen than had even before Dundas .. .. ., 17.00 16.00
been granted him. Waterdown 37.50 30.00
Weston .. . , .. 30.00 Unchanged
CHAPTER XXIII. Mimico .. .. .,, 80.74 30,00
It seemed to Sigrid that she had London . , ... , .. 28.00 27.00
Stratford , . ... 32.00 Unchanged
hardly gone to bed before it was Mitchel] , . .... 38.00 Unchanged
time to get up again; she sleepily Woodstock .. 26.00_ 24.00
wished that Londoners would give Tillsonburg .. . 82.00 Unchanged
dances at more reasonable hours, Beachville .. .. 33.89 32.00
then, remembering all that had
happened, she forgot her own Waterloo ,. 26,00 25.00
weariness and turned with awn eager Baden .. 37.00 Unchanged
question to Swanhild. It was the Galt .. 25.00 24.00
little sister's daily duty to go in ,St. Marys 38.00 35,00
and wake Frithiof up. a task of Hamilton......17.00 16.50
some difficulty, for either his bad Port Credit .... 36.79 32.00
29.00 Unchangedhabit cit working at night during Bram en
his lonely year in town, or else her 'p
illness, had left him with a ten-
dency to be wide awake between
twelve and two and sound asleep A German shoemaker left the
between six and seven. gas turned on in his shop one night,
and upon arriving in the morning
struck a, match to light it. There
was a terrible explosion, and the
shoemaker was blown out through
the door ahnost to the middle of
the street.
A passer-by rushed to his assist-
ance and after helping him to rise,
inquired if he was,injtii•ed,
The little German gazed in at his
place of business, which was now
burning quite briekly, and said :
"No, I ain't .hurt. But I got out
sliest in time, eh i"
Ear better the naked truth than
an overdressed lie.,
see what can be done."
.And the foreman knew that there
was no favoritism in this speech,
for Mr. Boniface considered the
health of his employes as a matter
of the very highest importance, and
being a.Cliristian first and a trades-
man afterward, did not consider
money -making to be the' great ob-
ject of life. Many a time good old
Foster himself had been sent down
for a few days at the sea -side with
his family, and it was perhaps a
vivid remembrance of the delights
of West Cordington that made him
add, as he left tlit'fbom ; ,
"He looks to me, sir, as if he
needed. bracing .up."
(To be continued.)
•
Just in Time.
"You haven't called him 'yet,
have you 1" asked Sigrid, rubbing
her eyes.
"No, but it is quite time, " said
Swanhild, shutting np her atlas
and rearing up in the bed where
she had been luxuriously learning
geography.
"Oh, leave him a little longer,"
said Sigrid. "We were so late last
night, and hie head was so bad,
that 1 don't suppose he has had
much sheep, And, Swenhild, what-
ever you do, don't speak of the
dance to him or ask him any ques-
tions. As ill -Irick would have it,
Lady laumiaisx was there,"
MOROCCO'S SLAVE MARKET
VIVID DESCRIPTION O1' LIVE
AT SIARAiil'1S1I.
Auctions Opened With "A Word of
Prayer"--Preneh Will Stop
• Prefile.
S. L, Benensan writing to the
ondon Daily Mirror, regarding the
slave trade in Mcroceo says :-
As soon as the tricolor is hoisted
permanently over Marakesh, the
southern capital of the Moorish
Empire, the French will put an end
to the operations of the slave mar-
ket, which is to -day the largest in
Africa.
It has been fed for centuries by
the caravan traffic that came from
Timbuctoo and thebanksof the Ni-
ger across the Sahara desert.
These caravans used to leave Mara-
kesh and go for a considerable
journey through the Sahara to a
place where there are great salt de-
posits. There the camels used to
be loaded with salt, and the jour-
ney would be resumed across the
desert to Timbuctoo and the lesser
towns along the Niger, where there
is an enormous demand for salt.
It was paid for in gold dust, ostrich
feathers, and slaves, and these un-
fortunate human beings, many of
them of tender years, were carried
back on carpels across the Sahara
under conditions that frequently
resulted in the death of 30 or 40 per
cent.
DRESSED FOR AUCTION.
Since the French occupied Tim-
buctoo the value of the slave traf-
fic has dwindled very considerably,
but to this day a few caravans
manage to struggle through, In the
great southern capital there are
many Raids who own a great num-
ber of slaves and sell those they do
not want; and I heard when I was
in Marakesh some years ago that
one or two men ran institutions en
the lines of stud farms and used to
rear child slaves for the, market.
The business is in the hands of a
group of auctioneers called dilals.
They receive the slaves either from
their owners or from the masters
of the caravans, in which case they
are given two or three days' rest
and some special feeding, and be-
fore the sales they are dressed in
bright and attractive garments,
generally of calico, which are only
worn during the sale, and must be
returned to the auctioneers by the
purchasers,
When I was in Marakesh about
ten or twelve of these men were
engaged in the sale of slaves, and
each had his own enclosure in
which the slaves he proposed to sell
were herded. The markets are held
two or three times a week.
OFFER UP A PRAYER.
Before the sale the auctioneers
ranged themselves in line, and on
behalf of all of them the senior
auctioneer offered up a prayer
aloud. He called upon the patron
saint of the city to bless those who
bought and those who' sold the
slaves, and his utterances, which
did not err on the side of brevity,
were met with a frequent response,
not only from his brother auction-
eers but from the assembled buy-
ers. As soon es the prayer was
over each auctioneer hurried to his
pen, "orted out his slaves, and led
then`' slowly round the market
while the intending buyers scanned
the slaves as they passed and lis-
tened to the extravagant praise
each auctioneer gave to the mem-
bers of his company.
ALL BLACKS.
The slaves, without exception
black, were of all ages and phy-
sique, from old men and women
who could command only a few dol-
lars, down to .little children, who
were sometimes offered with their
mothers, but could be separated if
necessary. This separation led from
time to time to scenes too painful
for description here,
When a purchaser had selected
the slave likely to snit his require-
ments there would be • some exami-
nation, consisting generally of feel-
ing '• the muscles and examining the
teeth, for the Moore attach great
importance to the condition of a
Slave's teeth, and one whose mouth
is in a bad plight can find no pur-
chaser save at a very low figure.
FRIGHTENED CHILDREN.
The middle-aged and the young
would probably be purchased for
work in the fields, while the young
girls v bought for the harem
g s t e re g ,
and the bo s often bought to
.y wore oo g
be companions to the on of the
buyer, it being the custom in Mar-
rocce to give a lad a slave-compan-.
ion about his own age who grows
up with him and becomes his confi-
dential servant, often reaching a
position of importance in the house-
hold.
When a buyer had selected his
slave Ire would make an offer for
him, and the dila) would then re-
sume his tramp kennel the market-
place, leading the slave or slaves
selected and naming the price that
had been offered, 1f after two or
three promenades nobody bettered.
this price the sale would be con-
cluded,
HIGHEST BID $300,
The behavior of tine slaves varied
very considerably. The old people
for the most part were nob going
PER IN
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L 'VE S
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into slavery for the first time, and
were consequently indifferent.
Some of the younger ones were ob-
viously keenly interested, doubt-
less wondering whether fate would
send them a good or a bad master.
The children were clearly frighten-
ed, some of them clinging passion-
ately to their mothers and needing
force before they could be sepa-
rated, while a few who were sus-
pected of having untractablc dis-
position were led through the mar-
ket with their arms tied behind
their backs. Sometimes two un-
ruly slaves are tied together.
The strong men and the attractive
women and girls are always sold
first, and the. prices in some cases
rise to hundreds of dollars, though
I never saw more than the equiva-
lent of £60 in English money paid
for anybody, and this was excep-
tional.
INVENTOR OF GOOD ROADS.
John London McAdam, Who Gave
His Name to a System.
John Loudon McAdam, the road
builder, an article which appears
in the current issue of Good Roads,
is one of considerable interest to the
lay reader, as well as to the man
whose business is the building of
roade.
Tlie article was written by Maur-
ice O. Eldridge, Assoc. M. Am. Soc.
C. E., assistant in charge of road
management investigations in the
United States office of public roads.
John Loudon McAdam was born
at Ayr, Scotland, on September 21,
1756, He was the son of James Me -
Adam, a descendant of Adam Mc-
Gregor, the first baron of Water -
head and one of the Highland clan
of McGregor. When James II. of
Scotland outlawed the McGregors,
Adam settled its. the lowlands and
changed his name to McAdam.
John Loudon McAdam's mother
was Susane Cochrane, daughter of
John Cochrane of Waterhead, a rel-
ative of the Earl of Dundonald.
When John was fourteen years
old his father died and he was in-
trusted to the care of his uncle,
William McAdam, a merchant liv-
ing in New York. He received his
business training with his uncle and
accumulated a considerable fortune
during the revolutionary war as an
agent for the sale of prizes. When
the war was over, McAdam had lost
most of his property, but had
enough left to enable him to return
M Scotland in 1783, and purchase
Sambrie, an estate in Ayrshire,
where he lived for thirteen years.
He was married twice, his first
wife being the daughter of an
American by descent, named De-
Lancey. He had seven children,
four sons and three daughters, all
by his first wife,
In Ayrshire, McAdam was magis-
trate deputy lieutenant of the
county and load trustee, At that
time the roads throughout Great
Britain, especially in Scotland,
were very bad, and McAdam inter-
ested himself in investigating con-
ditions and conducting experiments
in road building.
As a result of his investigations
and experiments, he arrived at the
conclusion that roads should be
constructed of small broken stone.
He contended that the earth foun-
dation should be raised slightly
above the adjacent land and that
suitable ditches should be built at
the sides to provide drainage; that
the earth foundation should be cov-
ered by a series of thin layers of
hard stone broken into small angu-
lar fragments of a nearly cubical
shape, and so nearly as possible of
the same size. A piece to weigh
over six ounces. Tho layers of bro-
ken stone were to be consolidated
gradually by the traffic and would
ultimately form a smooth hard crust
impervious to water and durable in
proportion to the hardness of the
stone and the density of traffic. He
laid down this principle : That the
natural soil really supports the
traffic, and that while it is pre-
served in a dry stale it will sustain
any weight without sinking. The
two essential requisites, therefore,
were drainage and a waterproof
covering.
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To Feed Rena Properly.
It takes considerable studying
and experimenting to find out just
what the bens need, and how much
they ought to have, but we nxust
learn as soon as we can, or we will
fid our puultry is nut so profitable
as it ought to be. The feeding
question is one of the most import-
ant in the wliole poultry business,
writes Mr. K. A. Grimes.
Experts tell us that, a ben needs
about six ounces of food par day,
A flock of ten, then, will need about
3% pounds per day, or a trifle over
26 pounds a week.
Of this amount, two-thirds by
weight should consist of grains. The
grain should be a mixture of equal
parts wheat, cracked corn and oats.
A few handfuls of sunflower -seed,
cane -seed or buckwheat should be
added for variety. They are to the
hen what pie is to the boy, and you
know what that is.
The other third should be mash
which is a mixture of bran and
other finely ground fends, usually
fed dry. Some poultrymen moisten
the mash, but the majority claim
that it is better to feed it dry and
let the hen moisten it in her crop
by drinking what water she wants.
If fed dry there is less danger from
certain kinds of disease.
A good formula for a mash is as
fellows: One-half bushel of bran,
four quarts of alfalfa meal, two
quarts each of ground oats and
cornmeal, one tablespoonful of salt
and one tablespoonful of pepper.
A good way to give green food for
a change is to hang a head of cab-
bage by a string so the fowls can
just reach it. The exercise is good
for them, and they will thoroughly
enjoy the feast. Or a large beet,
carrot or turnip may be stuck on
a nail driven about a foot from the
ground. for them to pick at. Such
food should never be thrown down
in the dirt.
Now, as to the time of feeding.
Early in the morning a light feed
of grain should be scattered in the
litter on the floor of the coop. The
hens get off the roost hungry, and
should find something ready for
them. Some scatter the grain in
the straw after the fowls have gone
to roost at night, so it will be there
early in the morning.
In the middle of the forenoon,
the green food, if it is in the form
of vegetables, should be given. At
noon it is a good plan to throw in
a few handsful of table -scraps to
keep them busy,
Late in the afternoon, so that
they will have plenty of time before
dark. the heavy grain feed of the
day should be given. There should
be all they will clean up of this,
enough so they will go to bed with
full crops.
Water, lots of it, clean and fresh,
is a great item in the hen's diet.
An egg is 60 per cent water. 11
they are stinted in this respect it
will tell in the egg -basket in a
hurry. Just one day's neglect to
furnish plenty of water has been
known to cut off the egg -yield near-
ly half, •
Grit and lime, usually given in
the form of oyster -shells, are two
other necessary elements. They
should be kept before the fowls all
the time.
Orehard Notes.
A well selected apple orchard of
fifteen acres in .a good location next.
to a big market will, in ten years
produce a large, permanent in-
come.
It is a mistake to cultivate an
orchard on a hillside. Nothing but
the sod will bold the soil there.
We believe that no part, of farm
work is so thoroughly misunder-
stood and neglected a.s the raising
and selling of fruit.
Do not prune your trees until
the sap Inas gone out of them and
then prune very sparingly.
Negleeted fruit trees are not
worth the ground they occupy, and
besides they are an eyesore to ev-
erybody and when infested with
worms and insects a constant me-
nace to the neighborhood. There
ought to be a law prohibiting and
man from allowing trees of this
kind to remain on the farm.
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a.
Eleven l'hau'ieees.
"Bobby," Bo
bh' asked his Sunda
3• Y
school teacher, "do you know how
many Apostles there were 1" The
little boy promptly answered+
"Twelve." Then he went on -"And
1 know how many Pharisees there
were, too." "Indeed I„ "Ye'ni,
There was just one less than the
Apost] es," "Why, how .do ,you
know that'. Tt is nowhere stated
how many .Pharisees there were,"
"I thought everybody knew it,"
said Bobby. "The Bible says '13e -
ware of the 'levee of the Phari-
sees,' doesn't it?"
per'„
7'110 Sehedulr.
Husband (impatiently) -- "How
long be
fore Bridget will serve din -
Wife -"One mothof china, two
smells
of burnt food and three rings
At the
backdoor