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Or, Married to a Fairy.
CHAPTER XX1I.-(Continued).
As well as I could 1 soothed her, but
,j Woe suffering keenly, too,
Yu awe Perfastly safe, now, darling,"
Whispered."80 tiling told me You
0
9
—11
"We shall soon be oat of it, my dart.
Inge I whispered, - clasping her close to
sty ni'me As seat ❑e IVO are utarrled
we will take the tall171to Plymouth. where
melure Lady Margaret?" in trouble, �aatd led mo to you. "It isn't coiled that now, I have had
Thank Godl I ewes in time, flat why did
se. nil alta name painted out and the Marsh
Fairy put over it."
"The Maa'ah Dairy. What a pretty
na.mo," elle exoiaitned. "lou were drink-
ing of Lythinge, weren't you Alt, Dim.
Hervey, why didn't you uutery mo then?"
"1 couldn't maray a child of siwteen.
And if you call ane Mr. Hervey again I
shall keep your month shut with kisses
for the rest of the day:
"I wonder you take mo when 1 showed
00 plainly that I didn't want yon."
lb tell you the 'truth, so do II But I
ate so certain, dean', that 1 0aa make you
happy. aett• f id youtwilt trunlove
aw y athat
ain
when once you are my wife."
Adrian," elle said, with her little
hands on my shoulders, looking with pa-
thetic earnestness down into my 0740,
"if you marry me you wilt be making
the greatest mistake of your life."
Something in her unwonted earnestness
chilled me.
"Do you love any one eloe?" 1 asked.
'No, no!'
"Is there any one ease you would like
to marry?"
"No one in the world! I would nautili
rather riot starry at all."
That was all I could get out of her, but
I would not be discouraged. 1 Mel al-
ready arranged for Mite ceremony to take
plana e.1 h0)11)0st twelve in the old
church on the )mulIt stud-ttnd there
hg re
was nasals hurrying
e
be done. unaided by old 1i'renehaw, who
sent down by my landlady a request that
I would dispense with his services that
day, as he was "laid up with rbouma-
tuom:
On the way to the church we had to
make a digression into .a linen•draeeses
to buy, for Lllith a black jersey -bodice to
'wear instead of 'airs. Morlaud'0 capacious
garments, and a pretty hat instead of the
elderly looking jet bonnet, also belong-
ing to that lady, which Lilitlt had appro-
priated.
Then caste the dimly lit church, and
Lllith trembled like a leaf before the
wind as the almoot Inaudibly murmured
the words of the service. The fog was s0
thick we could scarcely see each other's
face0; and both the clergyman, an aab-
seut-minded man with gray, -wispy hair
and whiskers, who coughed and blinked
behind his spectacles, and the aid 0110,
loudevoithe whole Z fairover as speedily as p00med anxious to -
Bible.
There was no one to give the bride
away, clerk
hastily
eo1soto
perform that od nddauxita
did he seem to get us all safely out of
the fog -eiders building, and himself home
to his early dinner, that I am convinced
lie would have drawn the line at nothing
save marrying the bride himself.
When we rot into a four -wheeled cab
to drive to Victoria Station, Tallith broke
down altogether and buret into a 110161011
of tears.
"I1 seems such a dreadful, drearyil-
ginning t" oho sobbed. "And, oh,
how it all end?'
I folded her in my arms and covered
her face with soft, lingering kitties. tato
was mine now, and no one could take her
from one. With latish as may wife I could
well afford to laugh at fortune.
"There is no one 111 this world so happy
as I at this moment," I said. "011 the
dreams of joy I ever lied" meant only
this—to hold close to m7 heart the one
woman in the world I love with all my
heart and soul, and to know that the 13
ed
mine,
Why should the don't
of belong-
ing wholly to ate make you cry, when I
would die to save you the least pain? No
one can see us in this kindly fog. (Heels
Your arms once round my neck, and tell
me you will try to love me just a very
little."
She obeyed. with her usual docility,
looking up at me at first with blue eyes,
blurred with teams, Bat gradually her
erovel
d
dimpling smile broke through,
17 blush stole over her cheeks.
something
"After all," lee 0aid, on wanted
between a laugh and a. sigh, "y
me more than anything in the world, and
1100 you have me. Se that ono of us at
least is happy:
CHAPTI1R XXIV.
Six menthe later, Mr. and lire. Adrian
Hervey returned to London, after a pro-
longed cruets in Itelisn waters, and tools
tip their abode in a pretty, detached rod
briok house and etudto in the near vicin-
ity of Holland Park.
I had no wish to come Boum. but L11it11
confided to mu one day that ram w,ee tired
of the tea. and tired of traveling, and
1wanted1 01,10 h all readoytfoeeher her
ao
atchhe ing, and -could nud t bo bothered wit11
Canada College and Toronto Unl-
atching,
fur -
engaging servants.
tin at her urgent request, trough sorely versify, has spent the best part hos
you 11111 away' from me like R•l1a
day I and etre. Mrland and Nleholns
Vs10ay have been searching fur you every-
--Whre.,'
"lits. Mrland? And Mr. Wiray?"
"Yea. 1111100 you 111011 not to like him,
but he has been mast kind, searching for
you everywhere."
"What done 110 oay-1 want to know,
because be 1s an old Friend of yours—
about this idea of your maerying (1100"
"lie says it le the lest, the only thing
fo be dove, If I am able to wire you, since
I dove yea. 00 dearly,"
She was silent for some minutes,
'Listen," the seed, then, in a very Rev
voles, "I tee it's no good struggling. And
now you've saved my life in addition to
all the other ihiltgs you've done for me
=for it was you that pulled me teem the.
tiva11, wasn't it?"
"Yea, my dearest, it was I."
"I suppcse my life is yours, But I eats.*
love 7011 :as you want, mod you mustn 1
rep0aach me and bo diseappodnted. If
aotbing bub mo3rying me will make you
• happy, I 0111)11000 7011. must marry mo.
But marry 111e at 01100 and take me away
to now places. Don't give me time to
think about it or I shall run off again.
!Ilhe 'impulse name upon me early this
morning, and I. couldn't reshot it. I anode
a plan that I would come to London, and
cat off my hair and get boy's clothes, and
take a boy's situation somewhere and
never be found by you or any one. But
I hadn't the pluck to carry it tsh ough. I
had a little money left out of what you
gave- me last time you saw me. .And 1
*lipped off from 31orland House at night,
and cut off my ltair in the train, and
bought some boy's elotbes in an old
clothes' shop as soon as the shops were
opened, and changed my things in a four-
-wheeled cab in the fog. But once I'd got
them I felt evcr7 one was looking at
ane, send I got frightened; and when I
'went to a restaurant to get something
to eat, I hardly dared to leave the place,
and I hid and waited about, and at dank
I ]oat my way and got robbed—and, ohl
I am so tired! You won't ask me any more
questions to -night, 1vi11 you?"
"No. dear,"
"And where aro yon taking me?"
This wee a question, indeed. I could
not risk lTrens1aw seeing Lilitlt in this
travesty, and yet I was intensely anxious
•to place her in Mae. Morland'e care as
speedily 00 possible.. It was out of the
question to leave her at any hotel in her
boy's clothes, and is: too late to Hope to
purc11as0 *them. The notion of Male.
Jack,on at Battersea war. not to be en-
tertained for a moment; consey,q'uently,
tbo studio and Mrs. Morland stere my
only hope,
At my doer I had to leave Lllith in the
cab, dreadfully afraid lest even now she
mak-
ing heriprotethe
ontIioroboner to Orema n
In the cab until my return.
"I am too tired and .sleepy to run away
again," whimpered With. 'Beeidea, I
knew 'it's no good now. lie I Promise."
In the ,audio I fouhd lits. Morland,
looking pale, tired, and flabby. I cut
Short the plaintive record of her expert-
- ences by telling her that Lllith was wait,
ing below .in Sae cab.
"Thank goodness!" she exclaimed. "And
now that you have found her, Dir. Her-
vey, you must put her in my care. To.
night we will sleep at a hotel, and to-
morrow we will go back to Bristol."
"To -morrow," I said, "I shall get a
special license, and marry Lllith,"
Marry 110r!" almost shrieked Mrs. Mor -
lend. "On the top of all this mad eon*
duct? Mr. Hervey, you cannot be in your
right tensa l"
Ify mind is made up, all the same," I
said "and I will net trouble you with the
caro of L^lttb after to -night"
firs. Mco'land clutched her traveling•
cloak and small portmanteau.
No!" the said, in most determined
toners. "If you really mean to marry
Ldldth Saxon, Mr. Hervey, I wash ma'
hands. of her entirely, and from this
moment I dzc:line to see her. I consider
oho has treated both you and me above
inal]ly, I ,am not complaining over the
hundred and seventy-five pounds I shall
lose by bee flight, ;although I am much
is 'need of it---"
"Stop!" I 04id. "'I will sit down now
and write Tan a check for a hundred and
seventy-five pounds, to take away with
you, on one condition—that is, that you
will for that am0tant evil me the contents
of your little traveling valise, and also
that long du_t-cloak you carry over your
arm."
Her bright, catlike, greenielegray eyes
delated and glistened,
"What, can you Pos0111) want them
fes?" rhe raked.
For Leath, le it a bargain?"
She only lweitat.ed a second or two.
"If you will let me take out my trin-
kets and ono or two little things, I agree
the. said. then.
And a few minutes later I accompanied
hes' to tee door, eine saw her disappear
in. the. fog,. wanting "rapidly, and not even
once glancing in the direction of the
oab in waiting before the doom,
Then I sought With, not without some
dread of finding lacy flown. But oho wre
feet asleep do a corner of the llaneom,
and I bad to awaken her to tell her to
slip Mrs, Marinade; sill -enveloping travel-
in.g cloak round her before eke entered
the house, Up to the, studio I led her,
and showed hes where Mins. Morland bad
neatly .placed a divulge of dress, and the
other contents of her traveling bag on a
.:lyadr and emend a copy of an evening
paper over thein.
3,teio is some feminine attire, dear," I
said, "and :here 4110 plenty of cushions
and the meet comfortable of sofas for a
goad edcep. And bore ds the bell which
conlmuntioates with my man Wronobaw's
room, and here is another atria will
easalten my landlady, a. very Mud old wo-
man who will come alt to you when you
have changed your dress, tf you want
her, To.uight, -I shall stay et a. ]hotel in
the nest street, but tto-martaw early I will
call and no ]tow you ore. And this time
rip -morrow, demtr. I hope we shall bo men
Med wife,
"You arse very, very goad," she said,
looking 1111 at mo with tearful eyes, and
sitar �extsaoting otfother solemn pronslse
that the would not 0111 away, I kissed
).ler.fordioed and, left hoo,
And thus missed the eve of my wedding -
It was not that she woe coin—as well
call a chile] cold that clips-, off enters knee
to these a butterfly. She was always glad
30.000 m0 alwtly0 ()lensed to be with ince
and cube bitted above ell things to be left
,alone. It was strangely d'1aoult to pafut
with her in he raom, Not only calci toy
eves irettnutivoly turn to hes bright pea
setae, but, truth to tell, she waa a ter-
rible fidget. She touhd vet read, site could
not tarp still. She would paaotiso dames
steps and ballet tsviels we had 00011 at
theatres, for the beaded un frequenting
any and every plate of amuestnent w11eve
there* won any dancing to be seen. Site
would ettnm on ate piano, or pretend to
wde. drawers mid boxes, a Provos, 'that
involved upsetting glove,,, ribbons, leeeS•
bows, and shorn all over the floor of my
temporary studio, where In all itlobabil•
ity they would remain until 1 •trod them
out of shape, or the chambermaid stole
them, for Litith was constitutionally us -
tidy, no well as extravagant, In greet
thilme as in small,
Lilit�h itltornataly laughter and wonder.
ed at 100 met,hexllcal, or, as else called
than, "cld•bachelor" habits. To please
me, else would slow and .then melte a de-
sperate attempt at being erde11(0 on the
yacht—tbo livingTowns of which sho
speedily reduced •to ehacs--or in the ho-
tels at which we stayed: Her method was
to make small heaps of the various .ar-
astes the had tossed on the .door; h1 one
]reap, 'two or three odd gloves, eevera1 lets
teas and programmes, u, list and cloth,
same ribbons, notepaper, fancy work,
,shoats of inutile, and ono volume of a 110-
vol;
o-
vol; eft another, 01010 heterogeneous fe-
minine belongings, none of which were
ever to be totted when wanted.
She sieves- remerbereci whether bills had
cr had net been paid, Old usually curled
her locks with the receipts. She •contiuu-
•a11y emptied my puree into her owe. poc-
ket, forgettinv that •there vac a hole in
it, 00 ;that we frequently found otweelve0
far from our betel or from the yacht,
without a franc to take tee bade r to buy.
food. She could no more resist bright
any pretty things in the shops than a
savage fresh to civilisation; everything
she caw she wanted to buy. She caused
ate agonies of jealousy by what I con-
sidered her quite unueceeeary friendliness
with strangers, to whom she would talk
freely on the slightest provocation. In
Paris, where by her special request we
stayed while I superintended the ar-
rangements of our new London home, the
attention she. attma0ted by her beauty,
her pretty and extravagant frocks, and
her that I couldtnot]]endureltoeave her even
for a few §tours in. the hotel without m0,
and I engaged a perfect Gorgon of au -el-
derly French maid, named Hese-lie, to
look after her.
I could not even lay the flattering une-.
tion to my soul that my wife would miss
me in my •absence. Some rich Americans,
a another and her son and daughter, visit-
ors at the hotel, were so enormously tak-
en with Edith's beauty and brightness
that they offered to bake entire charge of
Slew' during my temporary abeence0, au
offer I was only too glad to •tecept.
(To be continued,)
MOPES ARMAMENT HOE
day,
CHAPTEIL XTIII,
Newt day, a terxible. day, tog anal, black
and blinding, and drizzling rain, 1 arrive
ea et MY studio before mdddaay,- oaary'ing
in 01y pocket a special.lioeneo for the
eateedtate maerd1ge of Lillith Saxon,
'spinster.,aged... seventeen, 'daughter of
)Ionate Saxon, actor, and Miriam Blakis-
ton lie4'voy, Bachelor, aged twon't'Y-eight,
son of Colosiol Ravel,
1 found Lilitlt in *'he big armchair, look.
Ing very e11e1t1 and pale sod fragile, do
a bluelt silk gown of hide. liesee.nd'a, rax
sista
, ad,bC aropped3l0)a00 ,oulto and small,
utl1111 ll•fgoo seemed arltogothrr lomb.
1 ]melt before 1s- and Mit•any tante
about' Styr 0101.. She kissed mno in Viso
t-oadtenb an 'moot: friend y Baehion, told
int gat )e , 016311 beautiflitt7 upon the
onoluloa10 eft the sofa, and asked ane if I
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8b dreed1111 Dodos i e "meaeet d tea the
GRE -1'1' BRITAIN Mt' ST KEEP
PACE 011 SUFFER.
A Writer Paints Out the Martial
]'reparation of Other
Potters.
The military correspondent of t11e
London Tinges, examining the
growth of Europe as an armed
camp, draws the deduction that
England must join France, Ger-
many, Russia. and the lesser Euro-
pean states in the increase of her
army and navy, or else lose her
position as one of the leading pow-
ers of the world.
He predicts, indeed, that unless
England does increase her armed
forces she will cease to be consider-
ed by Franoe and Russia as a de-
sirable member of the triple en-
tente, and will be left to shift for
herself in the game of European
diplomacy, His final conclusion is
that "the time is at hand when we
shall have to call India, and the
Dominions to our councils to survey
the whole field of imperial strategy
and to establish a defensive system
adequate to the needs of an Oceanic -
Empire." In his survey of the
growth of European armament, he
says;
What Germany is Doing.
SIR J. A. M. 11.1K NS, K.B.
New Knight Spent Most of His Life
in Manitoba.
Sir James A. M. Aikins, M.P.,
who was the recipient of a knight
bachelorhood this week, is the Hon.
Clifford Sifton's successor in the
representation of Brandon. He is
a son of the late Hon. James Cox
Aikins, who was appointed a Sena-
tor by Royal Proclamation at Con-
federation, and who, from 1882 until
1886, was Lieutenant -Governor of
Manitoba. Mr. Aikins, while born
in Ontario and educated at Upper
Sir J. L. Al. Atkins, M B,
Wanted New
rotions
Manufacturers "aro 'constantly Welting, 118 foe new ]cions, .$4 6,Om0 ) old fur one
lnven,1(011 1st atentedi and sold by us. $1.0,000 otrmoil tot another. Send for
complete list. 'et ns turn your ideas into money. One geed invention anti
Year 'fortune is made. Tdeas developed; Inventions perfected. Send sketch
and. desolh;tton of your idea for Free Patent (Melee search,, PATENT* SOLA.
NAn04) O. SHIPMAN a c0., nom, W,, .Patent Solicitors, ottawe, Canada.
lvh'io11 training encounters owing to Alexander 11., Czar of Russia,
climatic and other causes, But Mhrch 13,1881,
even with all due deductions made, James A, Garfield, President of
ilio Russian reply to Germany is the United States, July 2, 1881.
next door to a mobilization in time
of peace."
There are Others. '
"The growth of a1'illaments has
not been restricted to the leading
military states. Austria steadily
adds to 11e1- effectives on land, and
is committed to an ambitious and
costly naval programme, which is
already paralleled and will proba-
bly be surpassed by that of Italy.
P130 Turko-Greek rivalry adds to
the number of accountable battle-
ships in the eastern Mediterranean,
and there 11as been one more reform
of the Turkish army. The Balkan
Statues are borrowing as much as
they can get and are organizing
fresh forces—for example, the
twelve divisions of Servia—as fast
as their state of exhaustion permits.
- "Spain has plans for an army of
450,000 men and a field army of
215,000 strong. Sweden is develop.
ing 11er defensive .preparations. The
Netherlands, hankering after
Dreadnoughts, are also busy with
their coast defences, and anticipate
higher ax-penditure upon their field
army. Finally, Belgium is working
up to a field array of 178,000 men.
Look where, we will armaments are
growing and there is no symptoms
anywhere of a change."
!Y of RULERS.
ASSASSINATION
The Number Who ]rove Been Killed
In Recent Years.
Following is a list of rulers and
Ministers assassinated since 1865 :
Abraham Lincoln, Presiclent of
the United States, April 14, 1865:
The Earl of Mayo, Governor,
General of India, February 8, 1872.
Abdul Aziz, Sultan of Turkey,
June 4, 1876.
"We naturally take stock in Ger-
many first because this power is al-
ways forward in armament, and on
the whole sets the pace which other
powers have to live with if they
can. There has been no slackening
of German preparation for war, but
quite the contrary. Now, as al-
ways, the aim of Germany is to
obtain the largest possible numeri-
cal values consistent with quality
and to acquire the utmost fighting
efficiency at -the shortest notice. The
personnel of the German navy has
been doubled in the last ten years
and continues to expand. Three
new German ships of Dreadnought
type aro to be commissioned this
year, and -by the autumn Germany
will have in full commission a. great
fleet of battleships and battle cruis-
ers of which only a few will not be-
long to the Dreadnought type.
Commerce raiding in war has been
much discussed in. Germany of late,
and the retention of the battle
cruiser type is probably not un-
eonneeted with this discussion.
will, I left Iter 111 a ketol 111 his life in Manitoba, where he a
Paris, white London agam••G my
ian x melt and rnuin Lo the
successfully practiced law in the
i uyi nal, and furnishing
my time in n
d f u•nlching a house which I City of Winnipeg. At the present
wanted to i time he is the senior barrister at
wanted to make in every way worthy of
its J h
Until this point in ha unreel From 1879 until 1896 he. was Man1-
eltland always been d even i kinin p .
ohango of etndios, nuc. even !n the. pun. toba Counsel for the Department of
cline or alteration of the filenituro of my Justice, and in 1880 he was one of
In my wore,
for she lint] very a y
t t tin a'cery vlotnre I nndertoolc. Ir, ligate and report on the administra-
level• mistress.
It waw strange ow mtteh in •nil 111e0o the Manitoba Bar and Was in 1912
transactions I missed Nudge's any advice and president of the Bar Association.
n1tsistanee, u
ro s ie ton I int keenest, her,
invariably taken the keenest the Royal Commissioners to inves-
t ares
was not to be every that 0 girl so. tion of justice in the North-West
young and inexperienced a my Lilige
could nemesia intuitively that knowledge Territories. Ho has been counsel
and judgment in alt ntatterd ••which. for the Government of Manitoba
nudge 4w110 waa •eight ye000 her sanies-, remarks on
had Baine through rr0gaenting Eri e2-- 1900ar o gin elle House
e uc y Selfish
same. sn111611 as meet mon are, I wanted were regarded e.9 San expression Of
in Madge a enensol01., a friend, •and sis-
ter, all I whetted for was the views of that Government. Sir
did 1 e bn the Snore madly, 1884, long before most of the pre -
1] ltd t wholly understand hes. Rho sent members of the Manitoba liar
was a Nays a
ed toren, tight- omusetl, and easily mos•
light-hearted Bohamian gaiety, solicited in Winnipeg of the Cana-
e. '1 b
e4 happy in my moiety, she took my , gan•• zatlon o• f. the company until he
eartelee sweetly, and elle accosted, my- p y
devotion with e, dainty graoefrdre ns and withdrew.to contest the Brandon
charm. And yet, son,0ho0, the notion constituency at the last general
would come tato tiny head that I was
mnrmied to e, •fairy, and fabs reatumo of eleetioms,
Wax loveliness, *those forgobrite-not blue The new knight is a mean of wide
t r i 1411 the -aietule-gnllolies of the boundary question
Mario Francois Sacli-Carnot,
President of France, June 24, 1894.
Nazr-ed-Din, Shah of Persia,
May I, 1896,
Stanislaus Stambouloff, Premier
of Bulgaria, July 23, 1896.
Canvas del Castillo, Prime Min-
ister of Spain, August 8, 1897.
Juan Icliarte Borda, President of
Uruguay, August 25, 1897,
Jose Maria Reyna Barrios, Presi-
dent of Guatemala, Feb. 18, 1898.
B,mpress Elizabeth of Austria,
Sept. 10, 1898 -
Humbert, King of Italy, July 29,
1900.
William McKinley, President of
the United States, Sept. 6, 1901.
Alexander, King of Sends, and
Queen Drage., June 11, 1903.
Governor-General Bobrikoff, of
Finland, Juno 16, 1904. of
Von Plehve, Russian Minister
the Interior, July 28, 1904.
Carlos, King of Portugal, Feb. 1,
1908.
Prince Ito, of Japan, Oct. 26,
1909.
Yi Wan Yung, Premier of Korea,
Dec. 21, 1909.
Ramon Caceres, President of
Santo Domingo, Nov. 19, 1911.
Peter Stolypin, Premier of Rus-
sia, Sept. 14, 1911: 1
Jose Canalejas, Primo Minister
of Spain, Nov. 12, 1912.
Francis I. Madero, President of
Mexico, Feb. 23, 1913.
Jose Pino Suarez, Vice -President
of Mexico, Feb. 23, 1913.
George L, King of Greece, March
18, 1913.t Pasha,Grand
1Clahmoud Shewl.e
Vizier of Turkey, June 11, 1913.
Franz Ferdinand, Crown Prince
of Austria, June 28, 1914.
N
Put a man on his feet and he will
sometimes turn round and kick you.
Army Increases.
"If we turn to the German army
we note that the schemes of 1913
are in course of successful execti-
tion. Between Jt11y and ()etcher
last the German administration had
to take steps to receive over 60,000
more men and 21,000 more horses
than in 1912, and this was no light
task. The difficulties were over-
come and the new law begins to
bear fruit. The army is still short
of 3,000 officers, but it is expected
that this deficit will be made good
in two years. By the spring of
1915, when the second increased an-
nual contingent will be not only
incorporated but mobilizable, the
German peace establishment will
nearly have reached the figure of,
510,000 of all ranks, and "the law
should have received complete ap-
plication by the end of the same
year. The reserves will grow an-
nually until they ultimately num-
ber 5,400,000 fully trained men. A
large increase in the number of re-
servists called up for training this
year enables ranks to be well filled
at any moment' of danger.
In France.
As to ' France, the writer says:
"The covering troops on the Ger-
man frontier are now sufficient to
meet any. type of attaque brusquee,
and the peace strength of the
French army as a whole no longer
presents that dangerous inferiority
to the German figure which former-
ly caused such serious anxiety. At
the same time, France is stili much
inferior to Germany in peace
strength and has considerable
forces tied up in North Africa, She
is also beaten•in the battle of re-
serves, for the French system will
eventually result in 1,200,000. fewer
reserves than the German.
"France has done all that is hu-
manly, possible to maintain her mili-
tary position in the world and looks
confidently to her allies and friends
to support her in preserving the
balance of power, not only on land,
but at sea,. . She possesses n very
marked superiority over tiho Austro -
Italian navies ^ in the Mediterran-
ean, and the permanent presence of
a strong British fleet in :this sea is,
one of the necessities of the time,
Ilussia'6 Preparation.
As to Russidfr-"In view of the fact
that color •service in Russia is from
three to four years, according to
arms, the total peace establishment
will bo raised within that period by.
about 450,000 men, making a total,
peace strength n�f akogsk 1,700 000,
Or approxffnabely double tiia of
Germany, It appears also to he the
intention to recall yearly for train-
jna tWo cTas1es' of the ?cisme for
six weeks, and this year the 1007
and 1909 classes will join. the colors
fol.' the porion n'am'ed,
"Rlgssian figures have to be chis•
counted to • some extent On ace0ltnt
of ,he size of the Russian Pmpire,
the comparative poverty. of ram-
lnunications and certain difficulties
ter, w11110 to 'elite. a.. oinited C. in
a woman .o adore. James, who was 'apP Q'
And I 41 at or
erhaps. that 1501211 be10100 convinced
no
1 11 t:0n,t1 a]*ays her.
had been admitted to practice ,was
ed to l - s - dist Pacific Railway, from the or-.
bo It delightful and i•nfe0tdous. She stwm•
egos geile("d while ,ahoy did not return general knowledge, and.. 1't is not
nichisne I should wake to rules ]ler gold• yeas interest In editaatlonal meat
on Sierra and to know that. clho Mal flown tees being honorary bursar and a
back to fairyhand,
Botta lilies of Bre rilufea that z: oaene member of the council of 1Vfanitoba
across In Vonloo on our travels seemed Univet:4itq, and director of the
avaa�assionm,te Soveo4 my gaze wns 130:0
llve 4vomon at' •a�tl, but,tlfatt aloRno surprising to hear that the takes a'
no mac and (meant for 1,1dit11 that bholx Manitoba Agricultural
truth hurt ane:
Oollege Or
,James is popnla?ly Tcnowi'1 among
"That fawn•slnn114, dappled hair of Slee, his numerous friends as Jam, by
And the blue eve,
near and t1f1W, reason of the initials of his names.
And that :inf"'tino fresh (11' '1 horn]" Ills oratory is of the perfervid Ben-
no mon vat* wrote diose mama 1111Rht net type, Some have called him a
have had my wife before. him sp to ln•s-0 1Vlrid-jamgner,"
ltim, ]tut 111* bitterest, part et •tlso DIM -
Mee came in the (dells sette10:
of doe --"What is the easiest way to
„lint for loving-•Wlty, You Would net,
tweet, drive 11 11011 without smashing 1317
TViolis t tvo craved You.
finger , iaaep11in0 "llcild the
ram Pori, 74)10 d ycu
In a mortar for you could not, awaotl' -Rammer ill both hands,"
is put
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of these original packages you
are sure of getting the genuine
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It's worth while to insist on
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Building Up a Good Beef Breed.
To build up a herd of good cat-
tle, select pure bred sires of the
type and breed desired, Mato
these with comnicn cows, if bettor
cows of )sigh grade 00 pure breed-
ing are not available. Save the
female calves which most closely
conform to the desired type. Con-
tinue to ]nate these with good pule
bred bulls and save the best female
offspring ae before, Although total
purity of blood will never be at-
tained in case only common or
grade cows were available for
foundation stock, the desired type
earl be obtained and a world of good
along the lino of improvement can
be accomplished,
In selecting bulls for breeding
purposes, choose from the so-called
special beef breeds, viz,, Short-
horn, Hereford, Aberdeen -Angus
and Galloway. The West Highland
breed is also classed with beef cat-
tle. The Polled Durhams may be
glassed with the Shorthorns and
the Polled Herefords with the Here-
fords.
Anyone who expects to feed cat-
tle profitably for the market should
not try to feed an animal that is
not by conformation and other
physical characteristics naturally
adapted for fattening. In short,
only good feeders should be select-
ed.
elected.
The good feeder comes from par-
ents that are good feeders and
whose ancestry is of good feeding
stock, accustomed to consume largo
amounts of feed and deposit it up-
on their bodies as meat of good
quality. The importance of good
breeding upon the quality of ani-
mals kept for a sp•ecifio purpose
cannot be overestimated, and the
use of pure bred sires in establish-
ing good working herds cannot be
overvalued.
The mating of a common ancestor
or ono of no known breeding:with a
pure bred sire and continuing to
use a pare bred sire on the follow-
ing generations of offspring is
known as grading. Good common
cows bred to vigorous pure bred
Shorthorn, Hereford, or Aberdeen
Angus bulls show in their calves
remarkable improvement over
themselves in type and quality. It
should be remembered that the
value of the grade is clue to the
characters derived from pure bred
ancestors.
To Get Rid of Flies.
Flies breed in manure piles and
outhouses and in other filth they
can find. It is hard to get rid of
them once they are in the house,.
and the best way is to destroy their
breeding planes. Sprinkle the
manure piles with kerosene oil or
better—remove the piles to the
fields where they belong. 1f the
stables are close to the house it will
be almost impossible to prevent the
flies from troubling you: Slop
should never be thrown near the
house or allowed to stand in vas
sels, but should be removed to a
great distance and buried, Screen
all the doors, windows, and sprin-
kle all places, including the kitch-
en sink where flies ai'e plentiful
with a solution of one tablespoonful
of carbolie acid to a gallon of wa-
ter. Absolute cleanliness is about
the only way to abolish flies.
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THE most practical tanks, whether for water or
sewage, are built of concrete. They never rust,
tot, dry out or leak: They never need new hoops.
or paint. They last a lifeline and seldom require repairing,
which makes them the cheapest tanks that can be built
Clean, Sanitary Watering 't roughs
are just as necessary as the animals that drink from Chain. The
farmer'shest interests are being served when his stock isin-
sured a plentiful supply of clear, clean water from a trough
that is permanent and .sanitary,
"What the Farmer can do with Concrete" is the name of
a handsome free book that tells all about concrete tanks,,
1vatering troughs and other uses of concrete that will save
every farmer many dollars, Writefor it to -day.
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Remedy for Farcy.
I have a recipe for thecuro of
lathy that is so common to horses.'
I have tried it and have never
known it to fail. Here it is : One
pound of sulphur., one pound of
cream of tartar, one ounce salt-
petre, one ounce rosin. Mix this
together .and give a tablespoonful
in the feed once a day for three
days, then after three days give
two doses of the same. You will
find that it will bring your horses
out all right. This remedy will
remove all pin worms also, -W. By -
erten.
Not not Iger Line.
One day Mr, Smith went to buy
a bushel of Uuekwheat for sowing,
The roan who sold the wheat was
shay, but ,his wife undertook to
wait on the onstorner. She fount] a
peck measure, and they went to
the granary-..
She filled the measure twice, and
po}wing the contents into the bag,
began to tie it up.,
"Bol Mrs. Lawton,", tafd the
mall, "it takes four peeks tomake
a bushel.,,
"Oh; does ill" replied the w01
main, ,as she untied the bag.".Well,
you see I never had any experience
in measuring grain before I mar-
ried Mr. Lawton, I always' tau gltt
school."
Was Afraid of Water.
Rehr the. Great ]earthed the sight]
of water. Ile could seitreely be
persuaded to cross a bridge, and it
compelled to do so would sit in his;
carriage with closed windows,;
berthed in perspiration, rear of the•
13h'er Mosera, which flower through.
his palax:e gardens, prevented 11101,
ever seeing 'their beauty,