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BY.. WEATri.JRBY,. cii.eNEY
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CHAPTER XXL—(Cont'd). , :
Mona. became • suddenly' graye, and
the' moonlight .flashed in her eyes.
"I'es," she said simply.
"I mean," said Scarborough, 'would
it be safe.to tell hint, not what you
suggest, but the simple truth ? Can
we make, him one of us in this mat-
ter ?"
`It's safe to trust Val B. Montague
in •inyl:hing," said Mona. She drew
herself up, and it seemed 'almost that
she said it proudly. "Hale eccentric,
Perhaps, but he is the truest -hearted
gentlemen I have ever met."
"Then I think I prefer to tell him
the'truth." w
Mona hesitated, and then held out
her hand. "You are right," she said
With a straight look from her hazel
eyes.. "I am sorry I suggested that
you should play upon one of his weak-
nesses. From me he doesn't deserve
that. • Elsa, shall We go back now.
"You zdill come back for us at half -
past five, Horace;' said Elsa.
•The, giris went back, and Scarbor-
;ough rode ,on to the Cable Station. He
found Montague in the billiard room,
playing snooker pool:with Scott and
another man. The Yankee circus-
-an welcomed him characteristical -
..
1y.
"Mr. Scarborough; ;sir," said he, "I
would say I was glad to meet you if
I dared. I told you I Was not a sup-
erstitious man, but what is the crisis
enemy, affairs this time? You and I.
,r xif�vereenieet except when fate has
1men shaking something into . nay
,I,a.p MA,' of her bag of worries. Wha i
,tis it, sit, this time? Any misfgrtun-
abe $a pened to my schooner, or to
''`any 1i%dren of Val' B. Moiitague's
Conib}'nation? Or does your 'appear-
' ance. merely pertend that I am about
to miss this easy shot that snooker?"
"Try the shot and see," said Scar-
borough.
"Is your game nearly ':over?"
Scarborough asked Scott.
"Yes. Want to join
"No, thanks e": but will you' bring
Montague to tiny room *hen you've
finished? - There's something I want
to tell you both." • •
Val. B. Montag`ae looked -Up quickly.
.'.There •'is a .crisis!" he said: "I
Was sure ef.it."
"Yes," said Scarborough, "there is a
crisis. But not in your affairs this
time, MoMntague. I'm going to ask
for your help, that's all; and Miss de
la Mar told me I should find you
would give it. But finish your game
first."
Montague had thrown down his cue.
"No," he said "If Miss de la Mar
promised that I should help you, I
opine that she did nob calculate that I
should let a game of snooker delay me.
Lead the way to your room, sir! Mr.
Scott and I will follow."
"Very well, if you prefer it."
"I do, sir."
Scarborough kept nothing back in
what.he bold these two; he gave them
the whole tale simply, and did not fear
that he was violating confidences • in
so doing. He guessed that he prob-
ably hada clever adversary in Gillies,
and he was quite sure that he had an
extremely clever one in Mrs. Carring-
ton; and he judged with a cool pru-
dence that was characteristic, that the
heavier the battalions which he could
bring to bear against them, the more
likely was he to win in the end. He
would have liked, of course, to win
without the heavy battalions, but it
was safer if less glorious, to be as
strong as possible. The best general
is not he who brings off forlorn hopes
by gallant fighting, but he who con-
centrates all available forces, leaves
the leading of forlorn hopes to the l
enemy, and never requires to lead one
himself. Scarborough did not despise
the glory which is won by making a
gallant fight against odds, but he was
a good enough general to prefer safe-
ty to glory. Had he been fighting
for his own hand, he would probably
have reasoned differently; bat just
now he was fighting for Elsa.
These two, then, would be staunch
recruits. Scott he could vouch for
himself, and Mona had vouched for
Montague. It was all right.
When he had finished Montague
said:
"That's all right; sonny. Of course
well chip in and help you to beat the
widow. You're boss in this show.
Just tell us what you want us to do,
and we'll do it. Is that right, Mr.
Scott?"
"b1, yes," said Scott, laughing.
"'"But 1 see the part I'm cast for with
out being told. Extra spells in front
Of the siphon -recorder, while Searbor
ough goes treasure -hunting. That's
the form of excitement I'm billed for,
isn't it, Horace?"
'1 do want you to relieve me to-
morrow morning ab five, if you will,'
said Searborough.l "I'm :a eei4 it's a
deadly slow part for you,•odd nian," .
"Never mind,,I'11 do it. I've just laid
in a fresh stock of modern French fic-
tion in paper -backs, so',I'll yawn
through an extra spell all right with
their help. Give me a chance of being
in ab the death, .as. a revuaee, if.; you
get any real fighting." -
"Now, Mr. Scarborough, your ord-
ers to me!!" said'Montageie. "I gath-
er that I'm to look after the widow.
Any partieular way of doing ib?"
"The most effective you can think,
of, please," said Scarborough. "I leave
it to you to decide. ,Better wait till
you -see to -morrow what she means
to do." -
"No, sir," said the circus -man.
"That's nob my way of doing business.
It I' put my finger into this pie, it's
•going to be my pie. I shall arrange
the programme, not the Widows Car-
rington. You give me a freehand?"
"Oh, yes; short of actual violence.
We may come to -that in ;the end, but
I don't want our side to begin it."
"Then get up and go to that writing,
table, . and, write ale a letter of intro-
duction to her."
"What's; the good of that?" asked
Scarborough laughing. "She will
laugh at you." '
"Maybe she will, but that's the way
I'm going to do it You said I could
have a free"hand, and I .said 'it was
going to be my pie. Don't know how
to word it, don't you? I'll dictate.
'Dear Madam, -During my unavoid-
able absence en a picnic with your
daughter aid :'Mademoiselle Mona de
la Mar,.our Mr; Val. B. Montague. of
Val B. Moait'agire's American Circus
Combination, is fully empowered to
represent me, and to make any ar-
rangements that may be necessary for
your comfort. He is a man in whose
ability I have perfect confidence, and
I have given him a free hand in the
matter. He requests me to inform
you that this is his pie, and though
the metaphor is not very clear to me,
he promises that you shall understand '
it before the day is over. Horace
Scarborough,Cable Station, Ribiera
Grande,'ign it!"
'•.; Scarborough threw down his pen,
and hear Scott burst- into a roar of
laughter. . Val B. Montague gravely
picked up the paper, blotted it, and
put it into his pocket -book.. -
"Now tell us what you really mean
to do," said Scott.
Montague turned to him solemnly.
"Mr. Scotb," he said, 'you don't
show the intelligence which I have
gathered, from your conversation on
other 'subjects, that you possess. I
amgoing to call at the Chinelas to-
morrow morning early, and present
this admirably wozyded letter of in-
troduction to the widow of the labe
Richmond Carrington,"
"Oh, nonsense, man!•'
"I am sir. And I anticipate that
as a result I shall enjoy a very pleas-
ant day. It may be a somewhat
strenuous one, thought, so I will wish
you good -night. My room' is two
doors away, I think."
"By jove!" said Scott, when Monta-
gue had bowed himself out of the
room, 'he really means it! I don't
think all the fan will be at Furna to-
morrow, Horace!"
CHAPTER XXII.
Phil Varney, lying on his back un-
der a golden roof formed by toldas of
maize cobs, found the morning very
pleasant. The dying maize, strung
in bundles on three poles stacked in a
tripod, whispered safely as the breeze -
crept through the air -spaces between
the cobs. The sun was not yet hot
enough to be unpleasant, and the view
in front of him was perhaps the most
beautiful in all the insland. He found
nature's morning mood restful, his
pipe was drawing well, and Muriel
Davis had • promised last night that
she would ride over the coulese of the
day. Everything, therefore, was
peace; he indulged himself indreams,
and sentry though he was, he show-
ed unmistakeable signs of a tendency
to sleep at his post.
Beneath him in the valley lay the
lake of Las Furnas, three miles in
circumference; and the roofs of the
long straggling village, half hidden
by the trees which grew everywhere
on the lower ground, made dots of
darker color on the landscape. The
village is situated in the bottom of a
vast crater, and the steep pointed hills
once active volcanoes, but clother now
with a dense,garinent of pines,: form
a complete ring round. it. Down bhe
flanks of the great Peak of the Ced-
ars, and its twin mountain the Peak
of the Locust, waterfalls flashed iii -
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white spray; and the Ribeira Qtiente,
the "Hot River," wouiid through the
valley, . changing 'color continually as
it received the tinted waters of the
many vocanic 'springs by which it is
fed.
Nature was beautiful, but somno-
lent; and Phil. Varneyy, feeling quite
contented with his lot Hast now, was
inclined to be sonenelent''boo.
A voice hailing him from the lower
level broke the reverie into which he
was drifting. , He raised himself on
his elbow and sa:w Scarborough push-
ing a bicycle up the rough • ground of
the hillside. .
—"Any sign` of Gillies yet?" .asked
Scarborough, when he reached _ the
maize stack.
"No. Where is Muriel? She, said
she would ride over with you."
'She and the other two girls are
behind. I left them at the Casa Davis,.
packing luncheon baskets,,iand ;came
on first.'
"The other two girls?" gtierried
Varney. "Mona and Miss Carring-
ton? They coming toe? You've turn-
ed it into a regular picnic!" ,
"That is the idea," said Scarbor-
ough. "And Mrs. Carrington and
Val B. will join. us later, I fariey,"
"Here, hold hard!" Varne yexclaim-
ed. "I don't understand this. Whatis
Mrs. Carrington coming for ? ii epTii
please!"
"All right, but give me some break-
fast first. Got anything?" -
"Frogs' legs," said Varney with a
grin: "I'll heat you a panful in no
time. Ever tasted them?"
"No," said Scarborough, and added
doubtfully: "Nob sure that I want to
now."
"Oh, they're capital! Wait till you
taste! It was Davis who put me up
to the idea. The place swarms with
them, and they're the real edible kind,
though the natives haven't found that
out. Davis is thinking of starting a
pickle factory and exporting theta to
Paris. By the way, ,slid you show him
the scratched stone?'
"Yes."
"Well? What's his idea ?"
"He fancies .thab he can make some
more of it ]ogible. He's going to
dust lycopodium powder over it, and
then photograph it, and he thinks the
powder may show up in the photo-
graph where the pencil marks were.
He's working at it now.'
(To be continued).
PUT IN LAYER OF MAGGOTS.
German Baker Also Mixed Ants and ,
Bugs in His Cakes.
'The Berlin Vorwaerts says:—The
unscrupulous manner in which the
preparation of various articles of food
is being carried on has again been
strikingly exemplified in Leipzig.
A master baker, C. A. Rabitz, the
owner of one of the foremost fashion-
able establishments in - Leipzig, has
been found guilty of the most shame-
less transgression of all exieting laws
and regulations. His' worst practice
of all was to bake live maggots in
his cakes.
On an assistant showing him that
the dough was full of these vermin,
Rabitz contented himself with cover-
ing them up beneath a layer of dough.
"No need to remove - the maggots,"
he observed, "people will eat the
cakes all the same." The maggot
paste was thereupon duly baked into
cakes.
Itabitz had also prepared another
kind of confection, styled "dessert
cake," from ground wood and potato
flour, in which quantities of ants and
even bugs were present.
This infamous specimen of the
baker tribe received five months' im-
prisonment besides being condemned.
to.pay a fine ..of £31
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A smile is eooler in summer and
warmer in winter than a frown.
•
The Cream Separator. •
Ib is wonderful to reflect upon the
progress that the cream separator hae.
inade during the last few years. There
are now very few farms where dairy-
ing is carried on that have not their
separator, even though' the people
running' them may be antiquated in
regard to their methods . in other re-
spects.
It requires very little demonstrating
.to convince anyone that a cream se-
parator is a great saving over the old
pan method of sacaring cream. A sea
pastor takes up much less room in
the dairy than the setting pans, and it
obtains a. greater yield of butter from
the milk used. Moreover, the cream
front the separator is quite sweet, and
therefore the ripening of it is more
easily controlled than where pans are
employed, which develop a certain
amount of acidity or other ferments
due to bacterial activity while the
cream is rising.
When the cream separator is care-
fully managed the skim milk should
not contain more than 0.1 per cent. of
butter fat, and thus the butter yield is
increased by 10 to 12 per cent. as com-
pared with the old pan setting system.
This makes a considerable, difference
in the course of a year where good
dairy cows are employed, and would
soon pay for the separator.
With care a separator will last for
many years an, l it Is generally
through carelessness or ignorance
that it breaks down. It is import-
ant that the separator bearings be
well oiled in order to avoid friction
and wearing out of parts. Before
starting to separate all the sight feed
lubricators should be full, and tested
to see that the yare in working order.
The separated should always be start-
ed -very slowly, and the speed work-
ed up gradually, and no milk let into
the bowl until it is running at full
speed. .
The milk should be separated as
soon as it leaves the cow, as fat is lost.
in the skim milk when the milk is
skimmed below a temperature of 85
deg. F. If .cold milk has to be dealt
with it should be warmed up to from
100 to ,120 deg, F. just before being
-separated.+ The separator should be
washed immediately after using. If -
left for some time, a's is often done, it
gives the slime a chance to dry on the
interior of the bowl, and then more
time and trouble are required to re-
move it than if the cleaning were ef-
fected as •soon as the milk has passed
through the machine.
',Immediately after use all the parts
with which the milk comes into con-
tact should be taken apart and washed
with lukewarm water. Hot water
should not be used, as it canines part
of the• milk to cake on, and form a re-
fuge for germs which -taint milk,
After this the parts should be wash-
ed in fairly hot water containing a
Iittle soda, and then be dipped in
scalding water.
The creamy matter left tri the bowl
may be pub in the pig tub, and care
must be taken to thoroughly clean the
bowl of ali the slime present after se-
parating. The amount of slime in
the bowl is a good indication as to
whether the milk has been obtained in
a cleanly manner or not. The dirtier
the milk the more slime there will be
present in the bowl.
Iii order to secure the best results
the separator must be worked at the
correct speed, which must be main-
tained at a uniform speed until all the
bilk is separated.
Cows Need Mineral Matter.
That pigs require a considerable
amount of mineral matter in their
food is prebty ,well known but that
cows will sometimes suffer from want
bf it is not so well known. Salt, of
course, is always fed to the stock by
careful feeders all the year round.
The late Herr ICeilner estimated
that a cow giving twenty pounds of
milk per day should receive about
three and a half ounces of lime per
day, Many cases have been observed
where cows had abnormal appetlties
and developed the habit of eating
wood, etc., that when a sufficient
an'iount of lime was fed the desire to
gnaw wooi and eat filth stopped.
In sections where the water is soft
many good dairymen put lime in the
water trough so as to make sure that
the . animals will get enough of this
very important, food constituent. The
old saying that "a limestone country
is a rich .country" emphasizes the
Value of the line and it is a well
known fact that the bigest boned and
thriftiest cattle are raised where the
soil has an abundance o -t lime.
Writing in Wallace's .1.+ ermer some
tilde ego, Mr. C. 1•T.. Lei�les, ,of the
Univereiity of Missouri, wrote: "The
use of clover, alfalfa, or cowpca hay,
in the ,ration will make certain :that
this trouble (lack of lime in the feed)
will not occur. ' These foods• are the
highest in lime content of any which
we ordinarily feed.- Corn, on the
. other hand, is the most deficient in
lime .of all grains .ordinarily fed. A
pound of alfalfa hay contains practi
Cally the same
amount of lime as 100
pounds: of corn.
"We found a herd of dairy ,catty
in this state suffering from a lack of
lime—and on investigation it was
dis-
covered that the cows, which were
producing 35 pounces of milk a day,
were actually giving off more lime in
their feed. Probe:1)1p no trouble
would have resulted except for the
fact that the preceding summer had
been dry and the grass short, making
it impossible for the cows bo accumu-
late a reserve supply of lime." • •
Which of These is ;the Better ?
Two menwere leaning over the pas-
tuie bars.
"Yes, sir, that colt is. for sale, bub
he belongs to my son in the fiel;.1 yon-
der. You'll have to bargain with
him,'+' said the farmer, motioning to.
the boy. "He'll be here presently
and you can talk to him." -
"That boy!" ejaculated the strang-
er.
"Yes,' George -is seventeen ,and a
smarter boy never was raised on any
farm -if I do say it, You ought so
hear him in debate. He can' hold
his end with the best of 'em. He
raised that colt and the sale money
saving for a. course in an agricultural
college, then L'Il step down and out
he'll run the old farm. here
George, this man is looking at your
two-year-old."
The bargain was soon concluded,
but not before the buyer had learned
that the seventeen -year-old boy was
a keen judge of horse flesh :end knew
the worth of his colt. '
Two men were leaning over the pas-
ture bane,:
"Yes,
ars.-
"Yes, sir, them steers are as good
as :ever was raised in this town.
That boy over there calls 'em his, and.
hat fussed with 'em ever sines. they
were calves. _ Hey? Oh, that makes
no difference when it comes to selling.
They were fed from my mow, and I
reckon the cash goes into my pocket.
Boys are ungrateful nowadays. He
keeps talking of quitting and I can't
keep him longer than he is twenty-
one. He might take the old farm
and let me have a rest, but he will
not listen to that. Well—it can't be
helped as I see. You don't offer
quite what I consider the steers
worth, but there's no use in feeding
'em any longer. They're yours"
Which boy made a successful, con-
tented farmer, and why ?—Western
Farmer.
Madge (reading letter from brother
at the front)—" John says a bullet
went right through his hat without
touching . him." Old Auntie—" What
a blessing he had his hat on, dear."
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HISTORIC } BATTLES
FOUGHT IN PICARDY
THE BRITISH. WON TWO GRE.ih
VICTORIES.
Ancient French Province i'roduecd.
Many Noted Names
of Chivalry.
If historical associations inspire to
brave deeds, the Britishforces in
their offensive against the Germane
along the g t o Somme River should be
heartened to extraordinary acts of
valor by the thought that they are
fighting in Picardy, says a vat geo-
graphy bulletin of the National Geo-
graphic. Society.
This ancient. province of France,
now divided int() four departments --
the Somme, Oise, pas -de -Calais, and
Aisne—has two battlefields whose -
3ery names quicken the pulse of Eng-
lishmen, for it was at Crecy that the
Black Prince won his spurs, and
Agincourt that Henry V., commanding
his yeomen - with bheir cloth -yard
bows, utterly overthrew the flower of
French chivalry.
Valiant French Soldiers.
Picardy is a treasured name in ro-
mantic 'literature and in French his-
tory, Ib had a literature of its own
in the twelfth century and its soldiers
were among the 'most valiant in
France, being known as the Gascons
of the North.
.The province was a natural battle-
ground for the French and English .
during the Hundred Years' War, for
its shores extend along- the North Sea
and the English Channel, from the
River As, above Calais, to a point be-
low Dieppe. Fifteen miles north of
Abbeville, one of the principal cities
of Picardy, is Crecy, where, until late
in the nineteenth century, there still
stood the old windmill from which
Edward. III. of England in 1348
watched his beloved son, the first
Prince of Wales, at that time only 18
years of age, triumph over Philip of
Valois. On this occasion the English
were outnumbered four to one, and
they wrought terrible havoc among
the enemy, the losses of the vanquish-
ed being variously estimated at front
10,000 to 30,000. One of those who
fell in this fight was the chivalrous
John, King of Bohemia, w116; -although •.-
blind, led aherole charge for leis
French ally. Sonne historians tracd
the Prince of Wales' crest of three os-
trich feathers and the motto "Idly
dien" (I serve), to this battle, the
Black Prince adopting then from the
fallen John in memory of the event.
Henry Fifth's Great Battle. -
Less than 20 mites north-east of
Crecy is Agincourt, where English
archers, nearly 70 years later, after
letting fly their clouds of arrows)
against the heavily armored nobletat
attacked them with hatches as they
floundered helplessly in mud. Five
thousand Frenchmen of noble births,
including their commander, d'Albert,
constable of France, fell in this bat-
tle, while the estimate of English
losses was astonishingly low, some
chroniclers giving only 13 men at
arms and 100 foot soldiers.
Several towns of Picardy—Amiens,
Soissons, and Beauvais—owe their
names to the ancient tribes which he-
habited this section, known as Belgica
Secunda; when the Romans maintain-
ed armed camps along the valley of
the Somme. In the third century
Christianity was introduced, and St.
Quentin, from whom the important
town 20 miles east of Peronne gets its
name, was martyred at that time.
Picardy was the heart of Merovingi-
an France in the fifth century, for
Clovis named Soissons as his capital.
while Charlemagne designabed Noyon
as his principal city, and the lesser
Carolingians in turn similarly honored
Loon.
By the treaty of Arras in 1485 the
royal towns of the Somme Valley were
ceded to Burgundy, but 42 years later;
after the death of Charles the Bold,
Louis 'XI regained them. During its
brief eras of peace the province thriv-
ed as a centre of the weaving industry
Flemish immigrants having introduc-
ed the art.
He Was Wise.
He had been calling on her twice as
week for six months, but had not pro-
posed. He was a wise young man.
and didn't think it necessary.
"Ethel," he said, as they were tak-
ing a stroll one evening, "I—er—ari
going to ask you an important ques-
tion."
"Oh, George," she exclaimed, "this
is so sudden. Why, I—'
"What I want to ask is this," he.
interrupted "What date have you
and your another decided upon for our
wedding ?','
When cooking tomatoes to strain
and use for tomato jelly, the flavor
will be improved by •a bay leaf and n
piece of mace added.
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