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Her Grandmother'$ Portrait
THE STORY OF A LOST WiLL
Monica, , having thrown„ aside her
huge white hat, is sitting on a little
mound, with her back against a beech -
tree. She has taken her knees into
her embrace, and just now is looking
at her -cousin from under heavily lash-
ed lids, that seem barely able to sup-
port theinselves,,so languorous is the
hour, and so contented her spirit. Her
companion can scarcely be said to be
looking as free from care as she is;
there is a slight suspicion of wear-
iness in his eyes his manner is some-
what tinged with a c1epression very
foreign to it, which as a rule is of
the debonair order.
"Anything the matter with you ?"
asks Monica at last
"Yes any amount of things."
"Well—go on—say them all over—
it will do you good," suggests she
sympathetically"
"Not far worlds—at least, not for
many reasons. It would bore you;
it wouldn't cure my case, and besides,"
with a half laugh, "my worries are of
the kind difficult to put into speech."
"That means they are nothing but
fancies."
"Does it?" Thrill leaning back, and
placing his hands behind his head, he
turns his eyes slowly upon hers. "I
wish I had never come down here,"
he says deliberately.
"What!" cries she, leaning toward
him, "Has Julia proved unkind? or
is it kind— Won't she marry you? Or
will she?"
Nonsense!" said Mr. Norwood,
gruffly, "1 won't thinking of Julia."
"No?" Then why are you sorry you
came to the Court?"
Norwood at this regards her fixedly.
"I wonder," he says, in a curious tone,
"whether you really don't know, or
whether you are an accomplished
coquette!"
"Don't know what?" asks Monica,
opening her large, earnest eyes to
their fullest, anti -looking at him with
such sweet and honest surprise as
awakes within his breast the deepest
self-contempt. How could .he have
doubted her, for even one short mo-
ment? "To be a soquette," she says.
in a little dignified tone, "requires, I
believe, practice. There is nobody
down here except the rector and Sir
John Frere."
"Sir John Frere?" apprehensively.
"Yes. He is toothless and seventy-
five. The rector is hairless, and sixty-
one!" With 'this she very properly
turns ]ler hack upon him",•
"Thank goodness!" says Mr. Nor-
wood devoutly. He feels "aaffoe-
tioiipte toward both these old men—in
spite of their abbreviations, and in
spite of the fact that he has never
seen either of them. "I .beg your
pardon very humbly," he says, after
a pause, full of eloquence,
No reply.
"Monica—speak to me,"
"I will not," says Monica, giving
herself the lie direct,
"Oh! but you are speaking," de-
clares he, "I'm awfully sorry 1 said
that, because it was as absurd as it
was unpardonable.'
"As 'you acknowledge it_ to be un-
pardonable, you can't well look for my
forgiveness."
"Nevertheless, I do," exclaims he,
boldly.
"Well, then, say at once, I am not
a coquette."
"Certainly you are not. You are
an ang— Youare all you ought to be.
You ere—"
"That will do," says Miss Monica,
with a mischievous glance; "you will
overdo it if you go 'bn any further.
And now don't let us quarrel any more.
Tell me what you were doing all the
morning."
"Lounging after Julia." - --
"Happy
"Happy man! I do so love that old
Court, and I suppose she took you
through the gardens. If only my
grandfather had behaved properly,
and left it to papa! Instead of which
here we are, playing second where we
should be: first"
"Well, it's nearly as had for me,"
says the young man, moodily; ' I
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was brought up in the belief that, ash
your father was not in it, I was to be
the hair, And sec now where I am."
"You will be all right' when you
marry Julia," says Monica, with the
friendliestencouragement,
"Oh! I baro say," says Mr. Nor-
wood, ungratefully, and with increas-
ing' gloom,
"But you can't be badly off. You ` "' ". sae -
must have money now, too," says his
cousin, with a swat glance at his 'lite Best hours for Winter Feeding,
clothes, whieh tn'e irreproachable. Considerable has been written re,
"Not enough to keep me decently, garding the feeding of horses in so far
My mother left me $700• a year," are concerned,
"Seven hundred a year!" said Miss as hours of feeding
Norwood, severely. "I think no young Some would feed twice a day, some
man could possibly require more than three times daily,,others would give
that. You have on)y yourself to the regular daily allowance in four
think of—no other expenses -no grown different lots, We must, in horse
up daughters to dress and keep.' ',feeding, always remember that the
"Well, I could hai•clly have that, you horse's stomach is rather a small af-
know," says George .Norwood, 1111010-: fair and that the horse's digestive
getically. "I won't be twenty -
5 -x• system is not equipped to handle
until next month.'' e
"I was thinking op papa—if l
he had quantities in a short time suf.
X700 a year, how happy we should both fiarcg ient to last for many hours there•
bel„ after. The nature of the horses
"No—you would instantly want; digestive tract is such as to indicate ,
more." ; thet smaller feeds and more frequent, j
"I am sure not. That would give but always given with regularity,
him all he requires—'a house full of would be more desirable at more wide.
books and a garden of flowers,'" 'She; ly separated intervals. On the aver.
makes her quotation with a sweet, i age farm during the winter season
wistful smile that goes to his' heart. I the feeder does not rise very early,
And you—what would it give and it is safe to saythat the horses
you?"he'asks earnestly.
"Me! Oh, I should be happy en- in the average farm stable ,do not get
ough inlhis happiness," replied she, their first feed before seven o'clock
lightly. The garden of flowers, in the morning; get their second feet
you see, would be as much mine as his. around about twelve, and either ani
Now," she says, with a little irrepres-. oe two other feeds later in the day.'
sihle sigh, "he hasn't enough money to Where three feeds a day are relied
buy some of the books 01 which his upon, we would favor giving one-half
soul delights." the hayin two feeds; one somewhere
"What are they?—I mean, their
names?" apka he eagerly, too eagerly! around six or seven o'clock in' the
She 'raises her soft eyes to his; there morning, the other at noon, the other
is gratitude in them, buts. tern resolve half of the hay to be fed when choring
too.
"No, no," she says, "Remember
what you said a moment since—your
income is not sufficient for yourself.
You shall not waste it upon us."
"I don't think it quite a civil thing
to remember every word a fellow
says" returns George, reproachfully.
Well, we won't go into that," re-
plies she quickly. Then as though
some hidden force compels, her to re-
turn to the subject, she says, "Tell
me how you get on with Julia!"
"Very well!" impatiently. "She
will look all that is satisfactory -at the
head of one's table. There is consola-
tion, on doubht, in that thought, as,"
bitterly, "I suppose I must marry her."
"Oh, why say must?" ,gently, and
with a glance at him front• under her
long lashes. "It is not a hardship,
surely ?" ,
"Perhaps I shouldn't have thought
it so a month ago."
"She is young, handsome: that is
all one requires, is it not?"
"Not quite! There is something else,
I think—many other things: but above
and beyond all, the essential grace,
that makes life—that is, -married life
—sweet; I mean sympathy." ,/
"She hardly knows you yet," says
Monicae deep but ei�up�pressed pity in
her eyes. "By amit may be dif-
ferent \�
"In six months more it must all be
settllessly.
ed,"says the young man, rest -
"You are sure she will accept you?"
"I am afraid—I meals," coloring hot-
ly at his mistake "I think she will do
me the honor to ire my wife."
"You think rightly. She will not
resign the. property. Only yester-
day she told me she could not live
without it, In six months, then, she
will still have evet'ything, and—you
into the bargain!TM-" '
"I ani not so sure of that," says Nor-
wood, unsteadily.. "Monica, look at
me. Nay, you must," trying to com-
pel her to return his gaze, which has
grown impassioned.
He has taken one of het hands in
his, and is trying to d:i'aw her nearer
to him,
"Release my hand," says says in a
low tone, yet with so much authority
that he at once obeys her. There is
a strange flash in her beautiful eyes
that warns him to darn nothing fur
then and yet makes his pulse throb
madly.
"I ant tired," says the girl, wearily.
"I will go hone—yes, you may come
with tae, but for the future"—she
pauses, and resolutely, but with evid-
ent difficulty, forces herself to look at
him—"for the future you must prom-
ise me never again to forget—"
"I promise you faithfully," interrupts
he, quickly,' I shall never forget!"
She sighs,
Presently, turning to her almost sa
they reach the cottage, he says, "Are
you going to the ball at the Grange
to -morrow evening?"
"No"
"But you told me you were asked."
"So I was. But I am not going."
"Why?" There is terrible disap-
pointment in his tone.
"If you must know," she says, gent-
ly, "it is because I have not got a
gown good enough."
"That dress you wore at the Court
last evening—"
"Is a fossil—almost an heirloom,
The whole county knows it by heart by
this time. Nn! pride forbids my ex-
hibiting myself in it again."
"If you asked your father*"
"I should have one at once—at the
expense of his being oven duller than
usual for a month afterward. lie
would give mo every penny he
1
osses-
res, would probably son some of his
dearest possessions--books—to get me
a few yards of muslin, in which to en-
joy myself Inc an hour or two. Do
you think 1 should enjoy these two
hours, knowing that? What purga-
tory they • t e would mean!"
"They Would, indeed!" ha says, rev-
erently gazilig at het' fair, loving face
with unaffected admiration, Ile does
her full justice, and understands per-
fectly the loyal affection that could
011d 110 happiness in a pleasure seal
cured at the expense of heloved ob-
jecr.
"You must conic to see me the ility
after the ball, and tell Inc all about
it," she sayer lightly. "Second-hand
to hear of it will be better than no-
llurlg."
Yes, 1 will cone," he save, absent -
it is plain his thoughts are
t'oulninfr, end that he is thinking of
something far removed front tri,' ::oft
evening 00011e that surroull+is lila.
(TO be continued).
d'i 1 3
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they have been drifted over, knows
!fully the satisfaction afforder by hav-
ing his work up-to-date every evening.
If more than one man is to work
on the pruning job let it be decided
beforehand which one is to be the boss;
this saves time, and goes some way
toward ensuring an even appearance
of the orchard when the work is
finished. With three ar more men it
pays to have the boss on the ground
all the time, so that he can see that
no mistaken ideas are introduced by
the workmen.
A reasonably fine saw, in good shape
and of the regular carpenter style,
with a handle that will nit cramp the
band of the worker, is about the only
tool needed, except the small pruning
shears, which can be carried in a
pocket, A long -handled pruner may
prove useful and can be used all the
time by a man on the ground, but the
saw and shears are sufficient on a
one-man job where a ladder has to
be moved about anyhow.
The good condition of the saw -
teeth is the most important matter in
regard to the pruning tools, and a
elan who can file iris saw properly is
worth as much more than another, as
it will cost to have the saw filed every
day.
A green hand can be put to work
on the remove! of dead branches until
he begins to understand the practice
of a more experienced worker; the
points to be emphasized in giving him
first instruction being the making of
clean cuts and the avoiding of leaving
•stubs, Where heavy branches have
to be taken out because of their being
dead or having received severe injury
it is better to make two cuts rather
than run the risk of the heavy branch
splitting and carrying the spilt down
up Inc the night, which may be done
some time between six and eight
o'clock,. The grain ration could very
well be divided into two feeds; one
in the morning after watering, and the
other at night, after watering. At
noon a turnip, a couple of carrots, or
a rnangel might be given to good ad-
vantage.
But we believe there is a better
method of feeding than this. 'Where
the horses get their morning feed
about seven o'clock and a noon feed
about twelve, both representing fair-
ly small quantitiesof hay, and where
they are watered in the afternoon
around 'four or five o'clock, as is
usual on these short days, we believe,
they would do better to have a very
small allowance of hay just after thidn
evening watering and sufficient to
keep them quiet until seven or eight
o'clock at night, when they can he
very well fed a regular night feed of
hay, composing• the bulk of the hay
ration for the day and their oats, and
be bedded down for the night. The
horse is a restless animal, and the
quieter he can be kept the better. We
would favor this latter system of feed-
ing, with the roots at noon as. pre-
viously mentioned. We would water
twice a day, and the late feeding at
night takes the attendant to the barn
where he can see that everything is
all right, and tends to keep the horses
quiet until morning.—Farmer's Advo-
cate.
Start Pruning Now.
It is necessary to start the pruning
of the apple orchard some time in
February at the latest. There are
some other jobs for which the farmer
wishes to pick good days about this
time of the year, such es drawing
the ice, sawing up the woodpile and
killing hogs, and with all these attend-
ed to there is not too much time left
for pruning before Spring's work be-
gins to crowd in.
No matter what the system of prun-
ing, or whether the cutting be heavy
or light, one thing should always bo
remembered when pruning in Winter
in a country where snow is to be ex-
pected frequently, that is, to pick up
the 'brush as you go; only a person
who has had to straighten out and
burn tangled branches and twigs after
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beyond the point of cutting; this trou-
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cutting from above is started.
The fellow who chases after popu-
larity is apt to win few real friends.
A good reputation is the product of
self-respect.
i
Phenomenal Strides Made
By Canadian Northern
Railway System In First
Year As Transcontinental
New System in the Past Year Carrried Approximately 131,000,000
Bushels of Wheat, an Increase of 125 Per Cent. Over Previous
• Year. Company's New Mileage on Pacific Coast and Northern
Ontario Makes Astonishing Showing Right from Commence-
ment of Operation. Company's Lines Most Favorably Located.
From Our Own Correspondent,such important centres as Vancou-
Toronto, February 9th. I ver in the West, and 14lontreal in
The phenomenal gains that the; the East.
Canadian Northern Railway reports! Company's Earning Power.
for its year as a transcontinental. The development that is sure to be
line makes the statement one of the most favorably received by every -
most important hat has ever been body who is following tha growth of
issued by any railway in Canada. the larger Canadian railways will
It is even doubtful whether: the comefrom the fact that the Canadian
tremendous increases in business Northern Railway has come within
handled have ever been duplicated hailing distance of earning its total
by any system in the world. There fixed charges, the deficit for the
are many features to the report year being brought down to less
that make it of special import to than a quarter of a million dollars,
every Canadian, owing to the in- a reduction from the previous year
terest the country has in the build- of almost $1,400,000. As was to be
ing up of this important transcon-expected, a great proportion of the
tinentalline anti the attractive ter -i increased revenues come from the
?Rory that has been developed large crop gathered in the Canadian
through the completion of the syn -1 West in the fall of 19151 but since
tem. The feature of the report' that time there has been a marked
that is likely to be especially gtati=; increase in the general freight
fying is that which shows the pro -traffic handled over the lines, and
minent part the Canadian Northern,; during the first four menthe of the
with its transcontinental system; current, fiscal year gross earnings
has been able to play in handling have continued to . show large in -
such a large proportion of the grain creases over the corresponding per -
requirements of the Mother Coun- rods of the year now under review.
try. +?whites the most: striking develop -
Right alone; it has been the con-, ment in this connection is that it as
tention of Sir William Mackenzie in the month of October that the
and his associates that it was only heaviest grail; movement occurs,
a matter of a very short period be- and yet in October, 1916, the gross
fore Canada and the Empire would earnings showed a gain over those
enjoy the benefits of the big sys-i of the same month in the previous
tem that had been built up across. year. As the grain crop was very
the Dominion, and the showing much lighter, this evidently in-
-made in the.repo-t indicates that dicates that the growth in the traf-
these hopes have been realized fie in other commodities has more
much earlier than it would have than offset the lighter grain move -
been thought possible when the went of the year now being report -
transcontinental system was set in ed on.
operation a little over a year ago. Some of the interesting features
Important Gains of Year. of the Board of Directors report as
A few of the outstanding fen- indicating the position' of the line
tures of the report are as follows and the progress it has made in -
An increase in freight traffic dur- elude the followhng :
ing the year of $8,852,412, equiv. An agreement of great import-
alent to as much as 45.87 per cent,; ante in the development of the
increase in passenger traffic, $717,- System's freight and passenger
246, of a gain of 18.25 per cent.; traffic was made with the Cunard
an increase in total operating Steamship Co. In future the Cut -
revenue of $9,564,168, or 36.91 per and Line and the Canadian North -
cent, over the previous year. That ern Railway will be, in fact, a single
the company's lines handled over transportation unit. between Europe
131,000,000 bushels of grain is and Canada.
proof positive that the railway has The possession of such favorable
been located in the best grain grades as those on the System's
growing areas of the West. lines has given the Canadian
The exact grain traffic, handled Northern an already important ad -
amounted to 131,978,809 bushels ae vantage in the economy of opera -
compared nom aced �n h bush 1
e s flanparticularly i •r
n cat to ha
, t
pcarrying
in 1915,anor inceasof 7
.8,408,- two commodities offering in largest
289, equivalent to an increase of as volume, viz.: lumber andrain,
much as 125.81 per cent. The main line of the Canadian
That theompany has been. able Northern Railway from Quebec to
to make such striking galas in the Vancouver 15 superior to any lino
amount of traffic handled over its crossing the continent of America
lines will undoubtedly be store in points of grade and curvatures
readily appreciated when it is re- favoring traffic.
membered that it wait only operated The lines of the Company's sys-
as a transcontinental system dur- kun are ttoW set't'ing 75 per cent.
ing the last seven of the twelve of the aggregatepopulation of the
months of the fiscal year, and when cities and towns of all Canada, ltav-
it is recalled that last winter the ing 8,000 inhabipante and ov� r.
weather conditions in the Western The present situation entpitasizes
mai/Math, and more ptirtretrlarly in the last that the RaIlwfy is not es
Britten Columbia, were 't a Moat dependent upon grain crap move -
severe that had ;,eon expeHonew(1 In merit ag in the pest, and in be-
e great many yearn, in feet, In a u'11ng traitgceltthIiental lion aequir-
Sente inntancee, were the most dif- ad a highly diversified truffle, The
fietrlt that Cauaclian railways itad at•j 0V@loptttsnts of the pear confirm
ever to meet in that part of the the Oi •oeto's to the belief that rha7
cquntry. 1t should else he points strongly hold, that the ultimate
eel out that the Cotttpany had the prosperity d the Canadian North-
dlsadvantage, owing to the condi. 6i'n Railway System is maftsurabie
Bons arising from the wary of he.. Ohly 1, r tin prosperity of (he Dom-
ing without Its own terminals in itdest of Canada,
FROM OLD SCOTLAND
NATES OP INTEREST PROM HER
BANKS AND BRAES,
What is Going On in the Highlands
and Lowlands of Auld
Scotia.
Matthew Park has been appointed
chairman of the Greenock Parish
Council,
Rev. Donald McInnes, of Tlree,
Argyllshire, died recently at the age
00
fifty-five,
The Marquis of Bute has been
elected convener of the Rothesay
Town Council.
The amount realized at the last
freewill offering sale at Thornhill
Mart was 2931.
The Edinburgh Ayrshire Club are
giving a 230 bursary for 1917 ses-
sion of Edinburgh University.
At the last meeting of the Teviot-
dale Dairy Company a bonus of t}20
was granted to the employes.
Another batch of 242 parcels has
been sent to headquarters by the
Red Cross Society of Dalbeattie.
David Torrance has been appoint.
ed chairman of Menzies and Monkton
and Prestwick Parish Oouncil.
At a special meeting of the Ayr-
shire Agricultural Association it was
decided to hold the usual show this
year,
The treasurer of the Ayr Harbor
Trustees reports that the coal ship-
ments for the past year were 1,004,-
842 tone,
Ninety-five bags of potatoes were
distributed among the deserving
poor of Blairgowrie by W. C. Mac-
pherson.
The Corporation of Edinburgh has
appointed Councillors Young and
Hutchinson and the Medical Health
Officer as representatives to the
Child Welfare Conference in Glas-
gow.
John Reid and John McLamont
have been appointed Commissioners
of the Income Tax Appeal Court,
Rothesay.
•
BRITISH FOOD PRODUCTION.
Revival of Agriculture as Result of
Ravages by Submarines.
The never-ending ravages by Ger-
man submarines upon British and
neutral shipping are interfering se-
riously with food supplies to the
Motherland from overseas. In a re-
cent three months' period 470 ships
have been sunk, of which 187 were
British. Most of the neutrals were
carrying cargoes to Britain. It is.
therefore, of the highest importance
that the people of the United King-
dom take most radical measures to
grow more food at home. In 1917
there will he an immense campaign to
this end, to relieve pressure on di-
minished shipping resources, and
save on foreign purchases. The Board
of Agriculture, under Mr. Prothero,
is undertaking radical measures to
stimulate production on all sides.
The Food Controller, Lord Daven-
port, has fixed prices to farmers for
wheat, oats and potatoes, assuring
them high returns. But Mr, Prothero
proposes the forming of committees
in every county to supervise produc-
tion. In villages every possible scrap
of land is to be cultiva7.ed, pig clubs
are to be formed, and seed furnished
for garden production. The county
committees are to make surveys, and
to have the right to enter upon any
farm to inspect cultivation, and take
possession of it if not cultivated. The
speeding up of agricultural labor is
to be assisted by the War Office
through the use of German prison-
ers, of interned aliens, of -conscien-
tious objector's exempt from army
eervice, and, on special occasions, of
soldiers in training. Corps of women
are to be mobilized on a military sye-
sten, paid as soldiers and billeted as
required, to help on the land. Motor
plows, steam cultivators, steam
threshing and other machinery will
be provided by the board, with men
specially released from the army for
their operation. Special imports of
feeding stuffs have been arranged
with the shipping authorities. In fact,
almost as much attention is being
given to farm production as to regu-
lar war organization.
The British people neglected agri-
culture considerably in recent years
because with their large mercantile
marine they could import foodstuffs
from the United States, Canada,
Russia, Australia, India and other big
producing countries at a price as low
as the domestic value in these come.
tries, and by buying abroad, create
a demand for British manufactures.
But the demands of war upon the
l merchant marine, both for British
Iand Allied purposes, and the losses by
submarine have forced the British to
the colclusiou that they must pro-
duce extensively for themselves. They
grew, , Y before the war, and one-fourth
ur'th
of their food. Now the endeavor must
be to grow three-fourths of it. That.
would ensure independence of any
Submarine. campaign that might be
11atlnched by Germany, ,
1.
t The Germans have ,required two
I setu'rilous newspapers ie North china
!width have a little Overdid/el 5111n115 -
the ('hineae, Then' Oversea:, News
i rennin supplies the rekili e,lumee
daily with faneifnl war new. Much
of this is unintelligihle to the Chinese,
bill, flip service f1'egtlelltly ',ordains
alue damaging to the allies.
Gentian Propaganda lit China.