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By CHARLES ROMOND$ WALK less to lift it."
The hand holding the pencil was
raised to the desk and I saw that it
trembled. I was hanging upon ha
narrative with eager intentneee; but
I did not want to harass he by ens
„imaging her to talk upon a eubject
Anthor of "The Silver Blade," "The Paternoster Ruby,"
"The Time Lock," ete.
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CHAPTER IV.
That Wareing Monday, I can not re-
frain from repeating, had a demoral-
izing effect upon me and My affairs.
Warms excitement breaks in upon one's
aeenstoMed habits of life One is.speeds
ily keeyed up ,to anticipate yet more
exciteiment; one is upon a qui vivo of
expaetancy, like a boy with a box of
strange Are -works; and when nothing
else „a -nal ensues there follows a
let -down, a nervous relaxation, that
leaves one „maw and restless.
so it was with ine, I don't
know wisat I expected. In the state
of mind t had been worked up to, no-
thing much short of death and de -
Attraction could have produced any-
thiseg except a sense of anti -climax,
My dreallie were disturbed by the ter-
sible figure of a miniatory Steve Wil -
lets brandishing pistols and, in a fero-
Moon manner, demanding the dia-
mond ors any life and derisively tak-
ing both. I scarcely would have
been surprised if, at any moment, he
had irrupted into the quiet of my of -
Sifts in some such violent fashion as
that of my dreams, or with Heaven
alone knows what other dire intent.
That I should have been in the,least
regatdful of Steve Willets is, of
course, ridiculous; I knew it at the
time. Had it not been for Miss Fox
I would not have given the scoundrel
a second thought. It was no more
than a coincidence that he happened to
be at large right at a time when some
perverse chance made me the dia-
not many days elapsed until, instead
of dictating the bulls of my norm-
sporneeldnfnealeiattigl twheorldlabottr oof
re general tenor 3 a letter, leaving
to her the performance of composing
It in appropriate language; as for the
preparation of minor pleadings—des "No, nolb. remonstrated, "don't
murrers, motions, and the like—I had say that! You've come to view the
only to call her attention to the
matter philoaophically, perhaps, as a
of -
s
flee docket, Her work was a model of „risible personshould accept any
so grievous, and told her so.
"'You might us well know every-
thing," she returned listlessly. "It is
all strange and horrible, but I have
become so used to. contemplating the
sickening truth that I can do so now
with a measure of hardness—almost
d'ff • 1 '"
condition that can not be avoided; n
exactness, concisenese, clarity, and
tesaosearlisesstoarasessafriasarrigeattssera
On the Farm
easessa,eseavaieessereetressta
Common Sensesin the Bog Lot,
The question of which breed of
swine to selat .ror the economic pros
duction of park is perhaps of less
un-
portane� to -day than in the past. The
leading swine -breeders have begun to
recognize the feet that they muat
shape their favorite .breeds to meet
„whet demands. As a natural re-
sult, the type of all the leading breeda
now conforms to a fixed standard that
meets the demands of the Pathing"
housee, The hog that beet mets the
demand of the present time is a well- to solid food almost the moment it
suseled hog, that will •supply a fair enters the pig's stoniath and Is there -
mount of lard, and fat meat well
marbled with lean, and be ready for
narket at any desired age,
Practical plgsowners, and feeders
of market hogs look for good quality,
depth, length and width of form, and
uniformity of type, regardless of the
breed, color and characteristic mark-
ings. However, it is essential that
we select our breeding animals from
some well established breed, for pre-
rniscuous mating of swine of various
types has a tendency to destroy the
types of all breeds eniployed in the
crosses and to throw away the result
of years of systematic selecting and
, mating and perpetuate a certain fixed
type in the breed. This point has been
A Delightful Garden
Freshness
characterizes the Flavor of
t,M4 3E1 aiSs 13 age,
Quality Unchallenged 3orlrwenty-three Years.
neatness. but, hard—you ? no Miss Fox; I a
As she entered and cloeed the door In my excitement I sprang up and ,
behind her,. I studied her intently in commenced pacing the floor. Miss
' the light of my fresh idea. In mo- h'ox spoke in a bitter tone.
ment I realized that mY inipolite sera -
tiny was discoteerting her.
"Come in," I said. "Sit clown,
please, I did not call you for a dicta-
tion; if you don't mind there's some-
thing I want to speak about,"
She sank wonderingly into her ac-
customed place on the opposite side
But, Mr. Ferris, what have I clone
to deeerve such a misfortune?—to
be weighted down—cruehed—ander
such a load? Surely I am not so
wicked that I have earned a punish-
ment like this! It is horrible—cruel
—unendurable!"
There was not the slightest use try -
of my desk, facing me, while all at i
once I discovered that I didn't know ang to deceive her with empty phrases
d I knew it. Yet she needed some -
just how to begin what I wanted to 11
thing to stimulate her out of her pre -
say. At last, however— sent black, embittered mood, so I
"Pardon rne, Miss Pox," essayed, halted beside her chair and spoke with
"if I bring up a subject painful to you; some sternnesa.
I have an excellent reason for doing "Look here, Miss Fox. I don't
so."
She was quick to anticipate that the
burden. of our talk was to touch upon
some phase of her unfortunate his-
tory, and her expressive face instantly
grew troubled and anxious.
She asked apprehensively: "Hav
mond's custodian. What could he pos-
sibly know about the diamond? No- i
thing whatever. Miss Fox, poor girl, h
afforded a wholly inadequate cause t
for me to be adding him to my veil- M
ous imaginary sources of apprehen- q
Bien; and, as if to make fun of my m
fears, things settled back into their s
normal humdrum condition and I was s
not disturbed—that is to say, not for w
ou heard anything?"
"Don't worry," I admonished, try -
ng to be cheerful. "I was just sitting
ere thinking, not particularly of any-
hing concerning you, but of last
onday's events in general, when a
uestion. suddenly popped into my
ind, one that perhaps you may an-
wer. I all at once realized that your
tory left much to be filled in, and I
ondered—Have I your permission to
e personal?" I broke off to ask.
He curiosity was aroused, hut she
Id not reply at once. She sat for
orae time thoughtfully putting one
f her pencils through a series of
ow somersaults upon the unopened
know very many women, but I have
at least some knowledge of the world
mid its ways. And one of its ways 15,1
that in one fashion or another all of Iv'
us have to suffer; it is the tempering, P1
the trying -out process' the ordeal re
e every human being has to go s
through to prove either his worth or w
014)
e of
h
im
m
Pi
gu
bo
of
ke
wi
th
fore, not a substitute for water. It
costs nothing to soak hard grain in
warm water, and when fed to Pigs
its digestibility is increased.
There are „ores of theories about
watering Animals but our experience
is that the best judge'of the matter is
the animal itself. If it can alwaya
reach water when it needs 11, it will
take care of its own wants.
A STOREHOUSE OF WORK.
Tremendous Labors of Sir James Mur-
ray on New English Dictionary.
Sie james • A. IL Murray may be
!lino and half Chester White sow ianai(tihtaat havaprodigiousred achievement eavweaminenataaofinglet
lustratecl by mating a half Potand
th a pure-bred Berkshire boar. The lexicographer's art, the New Englith
gs resulting from the cross were Dictionary, the last vblume of which
d, spotted, speckled, and striped, slevnasonaulnie odsite d,
ready Autsok goof tvoa
hewing that the cross was lost, and stthear scope
in all the long history
ith it the improvements in color and words was surely of the cult of
arkings. The result was the return never undertaken,
the offspring by the principle of says The Boston Herald. Here was a
eredity to the original scrub type. years of his life to the search for
richly endowed scholar who gave 86
All of our swine, particularly the spellings, meanings, derivations and
proved breeds, which are but a pronunciations that ran back to the
edified form of the original, will not beginnings of English literature. He
•oduce themselves perfectly unless had his volunteer assistants in every
ided by the hand of man. Whatever Anglo-Saxon country—several thou -
ed .
c, shoulde kept pure, sands of therri—and 8,000 authors of
id only the best used for breeding, all periods were consulted to supply
The man who makes a specialty of him with material. At the time his
educing pork, should grasp every work had tcrbe left for completion to
portunity to improve his breeding others the stock of quotations emu-
ock the mulcted numbered 6,000,000, all writ-
.
eeding registered swine. who Is
ten on slips of paper that turned the
Uniformity of type is an important scale at six tons. And out of this in -
dusty and this scholarship comes a
dictionary of about 300,000 words.
breeding -hogs, especially near mar-
t time, for a uniform bunch of hogs How much of it will fit into every -
11 bring more money on any market dayuse? A good many of the 300, -
an a mixed lot. A pure-bred lot 000 are long obsolete; even of those
a time.
Willets seemed successfully to have ,
eluded all pursuit. Days went by;
the newspapers bristled with sense- s
tiona.1. accounts of the man -hunt, but o
reading between the lines, it was easy sl
to make out that the officers were n
completely at sea. That he had m
firewood in the bay; that he had slip- s
ped aboard some outgoing vessel bound el
for the Orient; that he had made his o
way southward to Mexico or north'.'
ward to Alaska, like sugested them- m
selves ffording promising avenues la
of escape. Each in turn was persever- c
lngly followed up, but fruitlessly. 1m
otebook in her lap, and I was once
ore impressed by her steadiness and
elf -control. In a moment her face
elided and she met my regard with
disturbed look.
"Of course," she said, quietly, "you
ay ask me anything you like; I
now you would not do so out of idle
uriosity. What is it you want to
Though one by one his four compan-
ions asere gat ered in from widely
different point, no trace at all was
found of the fugitive whom the law
was most eager to recapture.
Witt the apprehending of his com-
ardsma it transpired that the quintet
had separted immediately upon win-
ning the shore of Contra Costa county,
somewhere near Sobrante, each going
a diffstemt way. This plan had been
adopted, it appeared, not only to baf-
fle pursuit, but also because Willets
would have none of his associates. He
left tbes-si and went on his way alone.
The arch -criminal, however, had
vanished as utterly as if the waters
of the bay had in very truth closed
over his head for good and all.
As kr the diamond, it remained
upon my person all of Monday night—
a vercenhed period of mental distress.
Bright and early Tuesday morning I
might &eve been seen impatiently
counting the minutes until the banks
opened, and thereupon consigning it
to my safe-deposit box with eagerness
that must have seemed to an onlooker,
had ane been about, like spurning a had ever come to me before. At first
thing aosUrsed. Not until then did I I .thought Mr. Hardwick must be
draw a breath of relief. drunk or crazy; but my mind was
The gem, for all its resplendency quickly disabused of that idea. I
and irrastimable value might have didn't know what to think. I had a
been the very personification of rays- good position;.I knew I had been giv-
tery which deepened and intensified ing satisfaction; I knew his first in -
when the passing days brought me no definite reasons really were not the
intelligence respecting it. This to me, true ones for getting rid of me. Na -
at the t'rne, was the most marvellous turally I insisted on knowing what his
aspect of the entire episode. real reason was, and at last he was
What extreme of emergency had obliged to tell me.
driven the unknown sender to make "He declared the information had
so mad 44 disposition of an object of come to him from a source so reliable
such incalculable value? And then, that he could not doubt it, and while
to neglect it; to remain silent, to say he sympathized with me personally, if
the least, were of a nature to make the knowledge became generally
ray lot an exceedingly unhappy one. known that I was Steve—was a con -
1 tool. no one into my confidence. vict's daughter, it would be harmful
I was afraid to, to put it candidly. I to his company."
shrank Pearl the very thought of any- "Inhuman ass!" I growled.
body discovering that I even had "Well, as soon as overcame my
knowledge of the thing, for I knew stupefaction I laughed at the absurd -
not what _fresh dire complications I ity of the thing. Next I grew angry
might he plunged into. when I realized he was dead in earn -
Yet aseszled cogitation over the est and not to be moved by anything
diamond did not occupy my mind to I might say or do; but the dismissal
the exclusion of all things else. Per- was final, and Mr. Hardwick was not
haps beuse the circumstances fell disposed to waste much time over
so closely together, and because me,"
everythises connected with both was "It is incredible," I marvelled, "that
so unusual, the divulgence of Miss a man of Hardwick's standing and ac-
ro:e's astounding secret was more or cepted common sense could be guilty
less mingled with it. And one day, as of a thing like that."
I sat alone, a clear, luminous idea at And do you know, she could find it
last penearated the haze of my futile, in her heart to put forward an ex-
beooding, and on the spur of the mo- tenuationf
went / pressed the buzzer button+ "It was the firm's good name, I sup-
twicv—the signal that Miss Fox's pose," she exclaimed, "that he was
'services were required. jealous of' reputable business housei
She appeared promptly, carrying her can not afford to take chances. Bat
notebook and a battery of pencils, 1 that doesn't soften the awful injus-
It was remarkable the ease with tice of the act to me."
whieh she had slipped into her new; "Farm's good name—rubbishl"
position, :a:coming at once, as it were,. again interrupted. "Hardwick's an
nart eany Office fiatnres—lin, no, unfeeling idiot! Am I to understand
can notwith accuracy say that. Ra- that his brutality is the first inkling
ther, into the midst of a dullness that you ever had of your parentage?"
was at times depressing even to "No -o -on came the slow reaiy;
Stub's 'bithe nature she had brought "but it was the first inkling I ever had
light and sunshine and cheer. Her' that anybody else knew about it. It
corning had been more" like a bright, was the first time I ever had it
spirit returning to and reentering ,hroaght home to me whets being Steve
its mortal shell after a temporary oh- iVillete'a daughter meant.
5ence. I "I went straight to Aunt Lois with
At a'l rate, within a day or two, the news—you know, it amounted to
it was as 02 she had been with me al- that because the subject was taboo
ways; and was beginning to realize: between us, even, The effect upon
that regardless of the mystery sar-' her was so startling that for a while
forgot my own trouble in solicitude
for her. She looked like a woman
suddenly stricken,
"Suddenly she burst out: 'God help
you, child, that this thing should has%
ow 9'
his unfitness. Sometimes we lose ou
fortitude; but those of us that ar
worth a pinch of salt recover it again
and we face Old Lady Fate bravely—
snap our fingers under her nose.
"I need not resort to platitudes or
banalities to comfort you, because
you know in your heart that as long
as you yourself entertain only proper
ideals and try to follow them, that as
long as you stick to what is right, ex-
ternals don't matter a darn. That's
the truth, anyway, whether you know
it or not." pr
"But everybody is not as charitable op
as you, Mr. Ferris," she said with at
feeling, "People can't, or won't,
overlook the stain on my name. Such
things are infinitely harder for a wo-
man to bear. At best so few ways
are open to her; she has to he so care-
ful not to invite criticism, always to
move circumspectly, that for her
wage-earning is indeed a struggle.
u r normalconditions wou
of hogs are much more to rn t
apt
"Wen," I pursued "I must confess not raise a word in complaint; T
-. together and please discriminating
a ure
eould—I would—be happy, or at least, buyers,
that curiosity has a good deal to do content,
with it; but I am curious only be- "Think, though, of what I have to In selecting a breed we should give
cause I am interested in your welfare.
In going over in mind our last Mon- face! Even 11I could forget the mor- particular attention to its adaptability
al stigma in the less worthy concern' to the environments under which it is
hnplied ignorance on your part of
day's conversation, I recalled that you of fighting for a living, nevertheless 1 to be placed. Some are good rustlers,
much of your family's history; have to earn a living some way. And some are more quiet and better adapt -
in how, in Heaven's name, veith every
point of fact, you said your aunt re- a
fused to talk about it—about your asthma / said. "You know we've
door closed against ole—
parents. Just how, then, did you
come to know that Steve Willets is
your father?"
She flushed and her lips tightened,
and I knew that I had called up a
painful memory. She replied without
pause, however.
"Do you know Mr. Meyer Hardwick,
of the Kenton -Hardwick Company?"
she asked, and when I nodded affirma-
tively, proceeded: "When he discharg-
ed me something like four months
ago, he told me that because my fa-
ther was a convict serving a life sen-
tence, his company could not keep me
any longer."
"Good gracious!" I interjected.
"No hint of anything of the kind
rounding her life, and its possible in-
Anence owl& her, I had in truth ac-
quired an extraordinarily oompateet
aid. The degree of my confidence in
her may gauged by the fact that
settled that, don't you ?"
"Yes," she returned with suppress-
ed vehemence, "I suppose so. Every
added kindness of yours snakes me
feel the more keenly that I am selfish
and disregarding; that I am impos-
ing—"
Once more I cut in:
(To be continued.)
That Uncomfortable Peeling.
Ilelter—Do you think severe re-
ligious training really preveets a
person from wrongdoing?
Skelter—Well, it doesn't exactly
prevent it, but it certainly detracts
from the pleasure one gets from sin-
ning.
Blame the Elephant
Customer (antioyed)—"I wish to
return this paper cutter. It is not
ivory, as represented."
Clerk—"Not ivory, madam? I
can't understand that, unless the ele-
phant had false teeth."
About four million steel pens are
consumed daily in the world.
Frenarionmander
At the Dardanelles
GENERAL bAILLOOD.
was the General second in command
of the French 14xperlitionary Arink
sent to the Dardanelles under Gen.
Gouraud. On that officer befq
wounded, he succeeded to the
command, Within three nuniths,
throe Toreneh OfilMi's bare ireia
the command to colleague to Sir
/an Hamilton. Tire two former
were: Gen, d'Auntele and Gou.
Gomettuds
still in good standing how many do
we really need? Shakespeare cap-
tured his world audience with about
15,000, and Milton wrote himself into
fame with 8,000. It is estimated that
the average literary man of to -day
uses 4,000, and the "man in the
street" not over 2,000. The English
country yokels of "slow, bovine gaze"
ed to small feed lots. whom. George Eliot describes have
The breeds that have proved best
sprobably 800 to their credit; the pea=
uited to our climate and conditions
gents in certain sections of contirien-
in the hands of farmers and feeders
are the safest breeds to invest in. We
all have our preferences, our likes and
dislikes, our favorite color markings
and our: hobbies, but from the view-
point of dollars arid cents there is no
best breed. All breeds possess many
good qualities, and some less desir-
able ones, and the man who makes a
failure with one breed can hardly
hope to succeed with another. Judi-
cious care will bring success withany
breed.
All practical hog -growers agree
that crossing the breeds is a danger -
QM practice, and that the best re-
eults are attained
tel Europe are known to live the bu-
colic life on a vocabulary- of about
100 words by actual count.
And •yet the people who will nibble
thus sparingly at Sir Jamas Murray's
great encyclopedia of our language
are the very people who dictate dic-
tionaries and supersede them by
usage even while they are in the mak-
ing. It is they who have rendered
possible this priceless record of our
Anglo-Saxon tongue; it is they, too,
who in the years to come will call for
fresh surveys of our everliving and
"evercluinging speech. We shall need
a New English Dictionary long be -
by sticking to one
fore Americans have begun to spell
breed. Still, some men still cling to
phonetically and dub themselves
the idea that it is possible to incor-
"U"nialls."
porate all the good qualities of the
different breeds into a cross -bred ani-
mal. It is a disastrous belief if put
into practice. There.may be certain
instances when crossing will give
good results, as in the production of
pig pork,
The man who is experimenting with
the various breeds and crosses,
in
search of something better than has
yet been found, may have a mission,
but such line of investigation is not
practical for the man who must de-
pend upon the return from his swine -
feeding for his farm profits. He is
on safer ground if he confines bis
taste and skill to improving one well
established breed arid leaves the ex-
pmeerime„ting to the man of leisure and
an
Oats make a fine ration for hogs but
as a aule they are too expensive. Fed
to sows just after farrowing, oats
cannot be surpassed for keeping them
in good condition. A feeding floor
will save itself in feed and manure in
a single year, provided it is made of
waste material around the farm.
A cement feeding floor is a joy to
any lover of swine. It is rather ex-
pensive to commence with, but. its
durability makes it a paying invest-
ment in the long run. Brick makes a
fairly good feeding floor, but to be ef,
fective requires a deep foundation of
broken stone, sand and cinders, mid
this is expensive.
A field of rye sown in the early fall
will help out the grain supply won-
derfully in the late spring.
It is a prevalent notion that hogs
cannot thrive except they have a' mud
hole in which to wallow. Nonsensei
Pigs thrive better on clam pasture,
dean floors and clean water tfl
they do in dirty surroundings. In tbe
tlieV/%1112 the hog 00010 the in
nr er to cool himself an
e
rid himself of the flies, not betatilie
o e or d
naturally likes mud better than dea
wator,
Many people imagine that if they
give the pigs plenty of skimmed
they do not need Water, Milk, &MVO!
4*--- —
The word "brat," now a term of
contempt, was once an ordinary ex-
pression for a small child.
FROM SUNSET COAST
WHAT THE WESTERN PEOPLE
ARE DOING.
Progress of the Great West Told
In a Few Pointed
Paragraphs.
0Peotn cratesictonshipped. season ran to
7,o
croPpirantisairiaahColuniia.
re good
bfara fair haney
A big run of red fish is looked for
on the Kaslo Streams this season.
Lumbermen at Cranbroth decided to
put up the price a dollar a thousand.
umObvia.
Over a thousand enemy aliene are
interned in six camps in British Col-
T
pwase sohlihg.oho-lwoof
rf Vancouverattendanin
ceat3otohee
South Vancouver wants only mar-
reeiederesidents employed on its new
wework.
The canning factory at Brilliant
tpeuptmuepettrireo et.ons of- fruit daily at its
North Vancouver civic ferry for the
first six months of this year showed
a deficit of over $8,000.
The casaba, a cross between the
watermelon and muskmelon,. has be-
come popular in Vancouver.
Xamloops has rejected volunteers
for war service wearing badges to
show they offered their services.
New Westminster decided it could
not afford to send its fire chief to the
Ottawa convention this year.
For striking an interned alien a
military guard at Fernie was fined $10
and dismissed from the ranks.
After cutting Vancouver civic esti-
mates over $250,000, a new cut must
be made if the tax rate is kept at 22
mills,
Prohibition is looming larger in the
mind of British Columbia now that
sister provinces have legalized liquor
reform.
New Westminster bakers were sur-
prised to be- summoned for selling
loave'weight.sof bread less than a pound in
'weight.
Premier McBride sent Col. Theodore
Roosevelt a souvenir view book of
British Columbia to recall his recent
visit.
Otto Becker sold his coffee factory
in New Westminster and was getting
out of the country when caught as a
spy and interned.
Some of the interned aliens at
Brandon, Man., are now at a camp in
Revelstoke Park, where views are said
to be delightful.
New Westminster Council, after
much trouble, got a local engineering
plant ready for munition orders for
the war and never secured one.
A man who refused his name, after
doing two years for theft at New
Westminster, got $500 cash back from
the police; it was on him at the ar-
rest.
The current of the River Amazon
is felt 150 miles out at sea.
When you pay for good fruit, and speed a lot of time over
tt, you naturally want to be surd that your jellies and
preserves will turn out just right. You can be, if you use
Aga Sugar.
Absolutely pure, and always the same, REDPATH Sugar
has ictr sixty years proved most dependable for 'preserving,
canning and ieliy-making.
Itis just as easy to get the beit--:and,
well worth while. So tell your grocer
ft must be REDPATH Sugar, in one
of the packages originated for
REDPATH-
2 aii(l 5 lb. Sealed Cartons.
20, 20, 50 ana 100 lb. Cloth Bags.
142 Sweeten It"
CANADA SUGAR REFINING
CO.. LIMITED. MONTREAL.
What to Weir tend Vow To Wea* 0.
Thg war is furnishing /Reny ne
color terms, "Blau de draVeau" ,or
flag blue is the brilliant blue Of Cid
French tei-sefor, It is a trying color,
but sometimes a woman can wear it,
and when she can it is very stunzilne
Grays are named for big wins or
ammunitions. There are the c‘rnitrail-
louse," the "` "Tr and the "Obus.c4,Lau-
rel green, the symbol of victory, is
called Italian green, though it is many
tones darker than the green et the
Italian flag,
Bead workers are going to have
their hands full this coming season
—their hands full of beads rind their
notkets full of money. Combinations
of colors, a distinctive feature of the
Griming styles, are most effective in
bead work. One single little narrow
hat band shows the clever use of sin
colors. Bands, buckles and ball -like
ornaments in beadwork are on the,
best imported millinery. Steel bead-
ing is In special good favor with the
ruling spirits of fashion.
One year ago the French wernen
adopted the braided coats and email
hats suggestive of military life, but
now they have returned to more fem-
inine attire, and are keeping strictly
to plain modes and rather sombre eels
ors. The English girls, however, are
going in for clothes: so suggestive of
belligerency that some of the gar-
ments nee extreme beyond the point
of good sense.
If you are an individual of middle
age you will remember the mini dt
the shirt waist which put in an up-,
pearance about twenty years ago.
There was a terrible howl, as there
is about everything new. The lemon-
ated critics said it would rob women
of their charm and that they would
become mannish and impossible. Be-
hold, the shirt waist is still with us—
and, behold! how charming we remain.
The wise woman wears a little fancy
wash chemisette with her taffeta
frocks, Her attire is always fresh and
fine; furtheemore, the chemisette pro-
tects the gown from soil and wear and
tear about the neck.
Picot edging and hem -stitching sim-
ply will not down and they are used
particularly lavishly on thernisettes
and "dickies" of the stiff whtte or-
gandy that works up so well for high -
standing, wing -cut collars. White
linen is a bit heavy, but is used, nspe-
daily for tke `low mind Puritan' neck
fixings. Some of the vestees ale made
of eluny lace, while insets, fine treks,
hand embroidery and beading of srhite
crystals all appear.
Some of the unique neckwear is
made up of striped voile in col ors, the
stripes going ziggy and straieit, bias
or round and round, the poss,bitities
for the unusual designs being beyond
the counting. Pearl buttons finiela up
little spaces, but, as a general rule,
the buttons are fabric -covered.
THE BIG BY-PRODUCT LEAK.
According to recent statistic; rhere
are in Canada, in round „niters,
8,000,000 horses, 8,000,000 cattle,
8,500,000 hogs, and 2,000,000 sheep.
Experiments indicate that the approx-
imate value of the fertilizing consti-
tuents of the manure, both solid and
liquid, produced by each horse. would
be $27, by each head of cattle VA by
each hog $8, and by each sheep $2.
This would make the total value of
the manure produced in one year by
the different classes of farm animals
in Canada amount to $283,6A0,000.
The importance of this by-product of
the farm may be better realized if we
compare it with some of the other
principal products of the Canadian in-
dustries. The following table Shows
the value of some of the leading pro-
ducts:
Total wheat crop, 1914.. $19600,000
Total oats crop, 151,0011,000
Total forest products;
1911 . . ........ 180,066,000
Totali913.mineral products,
145,000,900
Farmyard manure (aver-
age five years) 283,000,000
The figures given in the above labia
are for the years in which the value
of each product mentioned re Phed
the highest point on record, whita the
figures for the manure represeaa the
average annual production for the
past five years.
Easier to SidU.
Young Arthur, the 'pride of the
family, had been attending school all
of six weeks, and his devoted parent
thought it was high time he rrhould'
find out how things were running, So
•he asked one afternoon:
"And what did my little sort learn
about this morning?"
"Oh, a mouse. Miss Wilcox told
us all about mouses."
"That's the boy! Now, how do you
spell mouse?"
It was then Arthur gave promise
of being an artful dodger. He p iased
Meditatively for a moment, then mai&
"Father, I guess I was wronsg. 'It
wasn't a mouse teseher was tell12.g133
about, It was a rot."
4trietly itsdc1ag, the word
"Yankee" mot' applied to residents in
the New I0.v0and States of America.
It la derivt6 from a currupt pritinum,
ciallon of the ward "Phiglish" bp In-
dians.
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