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Love Gives Itself
THE STORY OF A BLOOD FEUD
13Y ANNIE S. SWAN.
*Lon gives Itself and is not bought."—Longfellow.
CIiAPTER XXVII.—(Cont'd.) I Carlotta, with an infinite patienee,
Judy had got some of the patter i crossed the room and knelt by Judy's
of the stage at her finger -ends, and side, laying her kind, compelling
had learned a great many things hands on her arms, and _forcing the
about the private life of its devotees dark, rebellious eyes to meet hers.
which had astonished her not a little.1 "Listen, dearest. I've been watch -
Perhaps the greatest eye-opener bad' ing You all these weeks, and I knew
been the colossal nature of the tvork,fthat it must cotne. When we agreed
its arduous exactions, its auaterity. to take this trip together, everything
Theie could not be even a moment's.was different. We
expected ond haved
slackening, and sometimes she won- Manhe and Y
doled how Carlotta could stand it,
and be invariably so cheerful and
bright.
tho same flowers in England •or Scot- a"
land!" ' •
. Jean nodded, and- drawing up the
most..comfortable-chair, asked Judy to
sit down, and said she wou:d make the
coffee.
Every visitor to Jean Dempster's
sitting -room- knew that cunning little,
coffee-maohine, 'which she manipulate 1
ed with her own clever fingers, 'there-
by„troducing a nectar fit for the gods.
"You look ever so much brighter
than when I saw you last Saturday. •
Had 'any good news?”
"I'm going home on Saturday,"
answered Judy unekpectedly.
' `Oh!" said Jean interestedly, "But.
Miss Tenterden's season isn't over—"
"Not for ,another month. Bet she's
sending ine home. I didn't know h'ow,
desperately I wanted to go until we
were et the steamship officb to -day.
And I never—no, I never knew a
more understanding person than she
is. Her intuition is uncanny some-
times." -
"The artistic temperament, -mur-
mured Jean, on thespurof the mo -
hien "But she'll miss you fright-
fully!"
"I don't know'. I've been rather a
pig just lately. Fact is, Miss Demp-
ster,
em -
ster, Scotch women can't lead an idle,
purposeless life. If .I were busy like
you or Miss Tenderden, I think I
should like New York quite well.
What I'm mortally afraid of is that
she marries Graham Madox in the
end! Don't you see it would be a
splendid arrangement? They .seem
made for one another, and of course
he is very good-looking—and nice as
well,"
A curious look flitted across Jean's
Mace, and she suddenly' found the
coffee -machine more than usually in-
teresting.
"I don't think that will ever hap-
pen. They've had plenty of chances
before they ever came here. I
Ran -
his companionship and all the con wouldn't worry about that, Miss Ran -
P kine, I dont think she will ever for-
cern& of his life to interest you. We eget your brother."
have been disappointed= and here "But he isn't her and4t's the• man
It may be said here that there was a little catch broke her voice for are on the spot who has the chance," ob-
one flawthefriendship . between i instant, but she made a gallant effort served. Judydismally. "It's all a
o f in frt ds P n
t
these ttva Carlotta, out of a mis-ito recover herself. It as cruel to horrid tangle from first to last, and
taken idea.of sparing Judy's feelings, l keep you here and unnecessary be I've lived a thousand years in the lust
and perhaps making the Futuro more sides, Don't Took at me like that, one. Are you all right? • I thought
bright and complete, had withheld Judy. We can't afford to drift away yo,tt'd been crying when I came' •sa
from her a full confidence.
Judy was as yet . unaware of the
fact which Carlotta, in a moment of
emotional abandon, had communicat-
ed to Jean Dempster; and had lmme-
diately thereafter repented of doing
so and had laid a vow of secrecy upon
Jean, better—far better!—just to accept
Judy did not know that Alan and fate, You are great on the fate -line,
Carlotta had been married at a Lon- anyway! I am esure that Graham
don Registry Office on the morning Madox is' your fate,"
of the day that he left London, and She spoke hardly, but her heart
thaSt Carlotta considered that she and was melting in her breast, for the
all her earnings belonged to Stair. lovely face so near her own bad a
Had Judy been aware that that ob- haunting, pathetic look, which it was
jective of Carlotta's life was to do her not in Judy's nature to resist.
part in the redemption of Stair, she.
would have understood the practice
of the small econmies, which some-
times
ometimes both puzzled and irritated her,
Carlotta smiled her far -away and
most provoking smile as Judy reeled
off her arguments in favor of a closer „ l
alliance between Madox and his lead- But Alan is dead. There can be know it must be serious before mother
ing lady. She understood that Judy nothing surer than that! He never would let int know anything about it
went that Calgary ranch. He to C a ch. has
had much to tryher,and thus forgave
g y at nit-
a c
g
1 since,
never been h � rd e#and worse ev e
the pin -pricks of the everyday life than all,he has made no attempt to I wish 1 could heap, or. send youk
which both were beginning to feelP home in my place! Couldn't I take
just a trifle trying and irksome, send back Fordyce's money—because your place ,at the School of Steno -
It was Jean Dempster who was Jean Dempster told me—arid that graphy, and give you my passage?"
Judy's stand-by in those days. The proves beyond all doubt that he is The idea pleased Judy. To do some
acquaintanceship had made great lend 2 know him better than you, thing for somebody was certainly
strides, and often while Carlotta wasiand that his pride is as high as the what gave her the most happiness in
heavens.
at rho theatre, Judy would slip down the world, and calved out all that was
to Mrs. Isaacstein's fer a chat with Carlotta rose slowly to her feet, finest in her nature. The forced in -
the countryweman who understood i Her face had whitened a little, but activity of body and soul had bean bad
her, apparently, better than Carlotta, [her eyes never lost their serene and for her in every way.
New York is a levelling place, and !steadfast look. Jean's eyes incontinently filled.
Judy, amid all the strange new whirl1 "Judy, if Alan were dead I should "It is dear and'good of you to think
of her life, had almost forgotten the•know! Do you hear? I should know! of it, and I shall always remember it.
trammels of the old days, when she, He is alive. He will come back to us No—I shall just have to go on. Ae-
had known just this one or that, and l and things will right themselves at othirabor will open somewhere. It
had had her social list marked down' Stair. Don't. ask me Low I knew, be- always does. I have found that, even
.--vettelleaablue pencil, in a county where- cause I can't tell you; only it is here in the darkest hour of my Iife, when
in Stair''„ eld.'1ot eonly hold its own, —deep down—the only thing that I was wanting to tumble out of it in
but might lead, had -it been so minded. keeps me going," she said, pressing the very quickest way I could find."
Carlota understood Judy far bet= afar hand to her heart. "Try to hold That very night—nay, that very
ter than Judy imagined, and with the on for a t'ittic longer, And now go moment, her words seemed to be ver!-
• unerring intuition of the born stn- and get your hat and well do the, fled, for the sitting -room door opened,
dent of human nature, laid her finger steamship offices. It is a crowded.-
a+�
brr,
�.o
from one another—we daren't, do you "Well, I had ,een," admitted Jean,
hear? And for that reason you are glad to get oil the eubject of .stage
going home. love -affairs, 1 had a letter from my
"And when I am gone Graham Ma- mother this, morning, and she says
dox will have you all to himself, and Mamie is going down the hill, and
the inevitable will happen! Nothing that it isn't likely she'll ever see
can prevent it, Carlotta. It must be Hunter's Quay. Think of that! After
all my hard work and scraping, and
only on Sunday I had a good count-
up,.
ount
up, and I thought I might manage
it m two years instead of three! A
kind man I know in business put me
on to a rather good investment just
lately, and I've made a bit
"Oh, I am sorry! Has she had the
best advice and everything?"
"You don't believe that in. your "Well, of course, mother has done
innermost heart, Judy. You may what she could; but she's poor. What
have ceased to love me, perhaps I've Mamie wants is fresh air, and the
been trying, but you believe in me
yet, I hope and trust, or I couldn't
go on--"
best food, and rest, and—and happi-
ness. If only I could afford to take a
run home, I would see for myself just
what is the true state of affairs, I
and black Saralee, with the flourish
on the sore spot. Instead of making
any answer to the jibe about Graham
Madox, she leaned her elbows on her
knees and looked across the floor-
space of the ]hotel sitting -room of
which they were both so heartily sick.
"Judy, darling, the matter with you least as well as the greatest woman had much to say to her over the
is that you want to go home," in the world! How flare you treat a 'phone at odd times, this was his first
"But I can't," she answered dis- little beast like me so nobly! Why visit to Mrs. Jsaacsteie's. But she
malty, rot even trying to refute the ! don't you knock me down and trample was pleased, •ani looked it as sheintro-
• suggestion. "You won't finish for ion me? It's what I deserve! I won't duced him to Miss Rankine, not with -
another month, at least; and I heard
Mr. Madox saying on Sunday that
he only wished he could add another
month on that! As likely as not he "You are getting a little mixed in
season, but perhaps we shall be lucky of wage', with which he invariably
enough to get you a berth in Satur- Served Miss IJeri pater,r eeeeed
day's boat.' "Mister Fordyce."
Judy looked for a moment at Car- Jean was undoubtedly surprised,
lotta's face, and her own was a study. for though Fordyce had called many
"Carlotta, I do believe you're the times at the Dormer House, and had
go! I'll see it through- I'd be a out a certain diffidence. She was not
'vonn of the deepest dye if I took you surprised, however, when Judy im-
at your word!" mediately took her leave.
It was Judy's first opportunity of
will add it, and thenwhereshall I' your metaphors, my precious! But. seeing Fordyce, and the thought of
be?" the Atlantic breezes will clear your^ the money be had given AIan, and
"At Cambridge, my dear, I hope," brain," said Carlota, with a slsght, the silence which had ensued, caused
said Carlottafirmer. wavering smile. "It is all right, isn'ther pride such acute discomfort that
"Then you want to get rid of nae!"' it? And you won't drag in Graham she was glad to escape. Jean, with a
cried Judy, in hot rebellion, "Of l Madox again, will you? • His p.ace'in murmured word of apology to For
-
course I quite understand." my life is what it always has been, dyce,- went down to the door with
and ever will be I hope—that of good Judy.
friend and faithful comrade. He is This gave hint an oppottunity of
perfectly safe, Judy, and so am I." looking round the fitting -room in
With that Judy professed herself which Miss Dempster spent her let -
content, and they sallied forth to- sure time, and he did not fail to make
gother to the steamship office and use of it. He was accustomed to ger-
, got a berth on a steamer sailing on geous rooms, filled with the things
the fallowing Saturday. for which the rich mans purse tan
1 "Alan's boat," said Judy, with a Pay, but here he found the things
strange note in her voico. And for which, fortunately for humanity,
i his sake I ought to go second cease."' money is powerless to buy—the es-
But Carlotta would not hear of sena) of home!
that, and a comfortable outside "So that is Rankine's sister?" he
stateroom was duty engaged and paid observed, when Jean, a trifle breath -
for that teary day. less from her haste on the stairs,
lipan the connaetion of that trans- re-entered the room. She doesn't
!action, Judy's spirits visibly rose and leek much like hint. He seems to have
that evening about eight o'clock, after annexed most of the looks of the
' Carlotta had gone• -to the theatre she family'
Pass it around
after every xneal.
Give the family
the benefit of its
aid to digestion.
Cleans teeth too.
Keep it always
in the , Hoarse. 821
Costs little -helps much"
ISSUE No 35—'25.
!took the streetcar to Mrs. Isaacstein's "Oh, do you think sol Well, any-
to tell Jean Dempster the great news. way, she's got brains and a heart 1
1 She found .Tean alone in her sitting- She feels meeting you. Her pride
room, in which there was a wealth didn't like et, poor dear! Queer—
of flowers.
''You are a very extravagant wo-
man, Mies Dempster!" she said, as
she touched the sweet spring blos-
soms with tender hand, their deli-
cate perfume bringing back a swift
vision of Stair woods in April,- car-
peted
arpeted with primrose and daffodil.
"Say, rather, I have an extrava-
gant friend," answered Jean. "Bu
isn't it—that nothing has ever been
heard of him."
I'm not troubling about him. No
—I don't think anything at a-1 has
happened to him, except that he has
shunted off into some side track.
Somebody he met on the train per-
haps .offered him something better, or,.
On the face of it, more attractive.
That sort ofThing, happens in this
I think I've put a stop to it." country-especial:y out a bit—every
"Admirer?' smiled ' Judy, ",Flo:vers days'
seem tote one of Neva York's chief "I never thought, of that! She's
extray'aganoes, Miss' Tenterden gets worried to death; and thinks . a:l sorts
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Instrumental Music in Schools
is Developing.
The amazingly rapid development of
instrumental training in the public
schools represents perhaps the most
significant phrase in the evolution of
publie school musics during the last
decade.
Today, pi'hctitally every progressive
music department includes in its cur-
riculum some form of instrumental.
training. It is gradually taking its
proper place in the generalseheme of
school music. Its importance is second-
ary only to vomit training. The latter
reaching every child, must retain its
undisputed supremacy as the forembst
doctrine of school music,
The greatest development has per-
haps taken place in the highschool or-
chestra. Many of these organizations
represent a very satisfactory standard
of taste and performance. Where this
standard has not been reached the
fault often may be found in the fact
that the teachers, fired by the ambi-
tion to present an imposing program
of fine music, omitted to subject the
orchestra t0 a systematic course In en-
semble training which wouin:bave pro-
vided the necessary .tecinnical pro-
flciency for the arequare performance
of an ambitious programme. Another
failing is sometimes encountered,
namely, that teachers in their endeav-
or to avoid too difficult music, become
blind to their duties as educators and
present insignificant and mediocre
music to the trchesi'a for practice and
performance.
Gull's Transatlantic Flight. .
In the records of navigation, the feat
of the first gull to ily the Ailalntic
Ocean is an honorable one, and worthy
of record. The gull, a kittiwake, was
found in Newfoundland wearing a sa-
ver bans upon which were inscribed
the words: "Inform Witherby, High
Holborn, London," and the bird has
been identified as ane that had been
released from the coast of Northutn-
bcrlaad by a correspondent of the Lou-
don naturalist. - '
It is quite likely that this gull was
forestalled in his great achievement by
other gulls. It is a pity to have to 1,0 -
cord that the bird was shot.
_ • Have Long Limits.
Apncrmal length of forearm, and of
the leg, from the knee downward, is
characteristic of tine native savage
raee of.Australia.
wagon -loads of them. What money of things have happened to him."
they cost, too! Just twice as mach as (To be continued.) Minard's Liniment for Soros.
PloWeae11"Piol'leeree
Strong mon stave gone adventuring
j 'Since Aciana saw the sword,
:And somo 11ave dietl`.th ,servo a sling'
An(i seine t0 serve the Lord;
And souse to eche their °tinred blood
That kueW the wayward call
And answered it, and found It goad,
From 'Wrangel to Bengal.
And we have roused good songs for
Iasis
Who,whether young er ok!,
Have entered life's Olympiads
Adventuring for gold,
So have we sung the sons of war; -
And so we sing them now.
But wlo.has tivanged a ballad' for
.The heroes 01 the plow?
West over prairies, through strange
hills,
Calm pioneers •'fought on
—
What? Was it gold• that thawed their
wills
Ansi led to Oregon't
Long muskets• hooked. beneath their
arms—
A4raid of none but God— .,
They carried plows to virgin farms;
Lean soldiers of the sod
•
'These were the men who saw wild
grass
'With - creeping death gstir;
SVho fought red terror in the pass,
And braved the anasstycre.
They loved the smell of virgin soil,
The Seattle feel of loam, •
Yet mingled daring with their tori,
• And so, at last, came home.
Their furrows down the field of years.
Are straight and true and deep?'
Oaimple pllowmen pioneers,
God rest ybn in your sleep!
And we who swell with lusty breath
The ballads of the brave
Will rouse a chant for noble death,.
And sing it o'er your grave!
—S. Omar Barker.
. Modern Humanity.
Research shows thtlt what we term
humanity originated away off 3n Asia
so Many thousands and thousands' of
years ago that it is quite impossible: to
even approximate the date when men -
kind first flooded the European con-
tinent, Always, so It seems, the great
loose masses of humankind' have flew•
ed periodically through the pasees of
the Caucassions, only to find the ex-
pected new land filled with other mass-
es that had poured there cggturies and
thousands of years ago. The fact that
we date Europe from the Goths,
franks and such things means nothing
except that these peoples have left
better records of their wanderings
than the older ones. One of the great-
est outpourings of record is one 1500
B.C., when waste hordes came swarm-
ing through the passes, living in tents
and caves knowing almost nothing of
orany artex war,hav-
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o except
P
ing no laws, and evidently no aim ex-
cept to escape from Asia in the same
manner and come across the water to
what It now America, and this must
haye been many thoesauds of years
ago. •
Minard's Liniment for Dandruff.
Too Harrowing for Him.
"What did you think of that farmer's
tale of woe?"
"Too harrowing for ine."
Even After Al!.
A suspicious -looking customer was
boasting to a grocer of the cheapness
of ten pounds of sugar he had bought
at a rival -shop.
"Let me weigh the package," scald
the grocer. ..
The customer assented and the Pack -
ago was found to be two pounds short.
The pian looked perplexed for a
moment and then said: "I don't think
ho cheated me much, for while he was
getting the sugar I pinched two cans
of condensed milk."
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A new ship of .6,300 tons, the first
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as elr„tic limit steel, has Wien launch-
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A handy size pack-
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Queer Dishes.
At a luncheon given recently In Lan-
don many strange edibles appeared on
the menu, among then' being . goose
stowed in honey, chicken stuffed with
pistachio nuts and dates and ,served
with honey sauce and Cherries, and
igeons stuffed with cherries.
u Sutton-in-Aahfla, ld Nottinghani-
shire, ethere is an hotel 'where roast
hedgehog is a regular feature in the
bill of fare: livery race has its fattor-
rte dish, and whilst they shudder over
roast beef,- the Chinese .enjoy soups
froin certain kinds of birds'' nests.
Franke breeds snails specially for
the table. In' Oiinada we marvel that
anything so unclean as snails could be,
eaten by anyone, yet the lobster fends
on the refuse of the sea, and the pig is
fed on offal, whilst snails live only on
greenstui'fs such de parsley, lettuce,
and vine leaves.
Whale, camel, and elephant steaks
were served at a zoological dinner in
Paris and were greatly relished.
In India a species of ant is„dried and
made,iiito a sort of curry, nand in the
West Indies no more tasty dish has sot
been discoveredd than rats. t°
You can eat fried dragon -flies in the
Malay Archipelago, caught by boys
with branches smeared in bird -lime.
Even the octopift has its partisans
arBong the people of the Mediterranean
and in China 11 is'dried and sold cover-
ed in flour,
Tasmania.
Canadians who have visited Tas-
mania have capitulated to the Charm
of the Australian isle and its inhabit-
ants. The harbor, formed by the Der-
event River, has few equals. Not till
1353 did Bile earthly paradise cease
to be a mere limbo to which convicts
were crnei n d. A
r9at mischief aa,
con1it<iied by w to pioneers s was the
extes-u ination of the aborigines, of
whoin there were but four left in 1865
and one in 1376. These people knew
almost nothing, and did not even pos.
secs the art of building boats, being
content to use pieces of bark tied to-
gether with grass fibre. They made no
pottery; they Could not bre the boons
erang, and mentally and manually they
lived 10 the Paleozoic Age, with ire
stone implements.
Hobart has about 40,000 inhabitants
and the University of Tasmania • has
about 200 students, the number seem-
ingly depending on whether it rains or
not. The island produces tin, copper,
silver and gold,, and fruit•raIsing, es.
nodally of apples, Is of prime Indus.
trial importance.
Britain's Doles.
Great Britain has- spent -'6173,530,000
on unemployment benefits since the
armistice and £50,520,000 on out -of
work, donations.
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Establishment of Groves: Con-
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buted have been supplied to farmers,.
an endeavor has been made to interest
others, -and in this connection it is in-
teresting to note that many school
grounds have been planted with trees
supplied from nursery stations of the
Government. In Saskatchewan, 202
schools this spring were furnished
with 155,000 seedlings and cuttings,
and a smaller manlier. were assisted
in Manitoba and: Alberta.
The establishment” of these groves
and belts oof trees has dono much it-
Icrase the amount and variety of agri-
cultural
ri-
cultural and horticultural products
produced 10 the West, both by con-
serving the moisture and by stepping
soil drifting. For instance, not so
mayn years ago, fruit growing as a
practical undertaking was never con-
sidered as possible, but now one finde
farriers all aver the country growing
small fruit,;, plums, crabapple., and in
some eases even standard apples, in
quantities sufficient far home consump-
tion. But after all, perhaps the great-
est value of these trees is,the comfort
and beauty they bring to the farm,
making the prairie farm home a real
Monne in every sense of the word. -
•
The King's London Home.
During the middle of the summer of
1825 the building of Buckingham Pal-
ace oa the site of the old Buckingham
House was ooinmenced., Although the
whole of the ground floor of Bucking-
ham House was preserved, the Pa:ace
cost, half a million pounds and took
two years to complete.
William IV. never liked'the- Palace
and it was not until 1837, when Queen .
Vietoria'removed there from Ifensing-
--
ton' Palace, that Buckingham Palace
became the official home of the Sove-
reign.
The most interesting event which
over took place in Buckingham (louse
was the drinking of the first eup of tea -
ever made, in England, This took place
in 1666 when the Duke of Arlington, '
who then owned the mansion, bought
a pound of tea for 600,
Buckingham Palace max be regarded
as a lucky home, for during,_the hun-
dred rears it has been a Rnyai resi-'
dente only one member of the Royale
family has diets there—King Edward
VII: Queen Victoria died at Osborne,
Prises Albert at Windsor, and both
Pcinca John and the Duke of Clarence
at Sandringham.
During the last twenty years a num-
ber of alterations have been made to
the Palace. Icing Edward.. 'made
changes which simplified the.dome,stic
arrangements and in 1913 Ifing. George
had the whole of the front, which had
become very weather worn, refaced. . '
Radium's Rival.
Radon, a new discovery, costs 55,000,-
000 au .ounce. Although it is We most
expensive ,substance in the world; its
use will inake the treatment of cancer
cheaper. It is a gas -like -emanation of
radium and will be cheaper to use
than radium because It Is 160,000_t1mss
r.r; :
P,adoiiactiveis put up in tiny glass "s•eetis"
e thickness of a human hair. The
still sly is inexhaustible, -but it has the '
ecsadvantage of short life. It learn
heir its, activity. in about four days,
f•hile'radium ';maintains half' of
wcight.at the eaid"of 1,700 years: