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All diseases of domestic animals treated by the most modern principles. Charges reasonable. Day or night calls promptly attended to: Office on Main Street, Hensall, opposite Town Hall. Phone 116. Breeder- of Scot- tish • Terriers, Inverness Kennels, Hensall. MEDICAL DR. GILBERT C. JARROTT Graduate of Faculty of Medicine. University of Weetern Ontario. Mem- ber of College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario, Office,. 43 Gode- rich Street, West. Phone 37. Successor to Dr. Charles Mackay. DR. W. C. SPROAT Physician - Surgeon Phone 90-W. Office John St., Sealorth. BY G. M. ATTENSOROUPH (Continued from_last week) "Rachael, have, you get a 'Fanny Burney'?" " ' • eI think so, dear. All the Journals are in that bookcase in the little re- cess." - "Oh, yes -here It is," said Sainela. "Oh, -poor Fanny, you've put her next to - Pepys. How she will bless me for rescuing her!" j She ran back and perched upon the arm of Roy's chair, leaniug against his shoulder. "Bagg--Bagg-page 16. Now: Roy, give me your eerie." He looked up at her, more eyes and heart than ears. '"We have just had a wedding -a :public wedding-arie very fine it was, I assure you. The bride is Miss Case with a great fortune -the bridegroom Mr. Bagga -and the affair has long been in agitation on account of Mr. Bagg's inferiority of fortune. Our reuse is in the churchyard -fancy al) that Burney music,. Roy, in a churcle yard -but people would have to be musical who ..'live in churchyards, wouldn't they? 'Oharles,' I can, hear Mrs. Burney saying, 'I think I can. see a ghost. Just take out your dou- ble -bass, will you?'" "Samela, with you everything that makes a darling is just exactly in its right place," Roy cried. She shook her head. "A mathemat- ical darling is a very grievous person. There are only about three really beautiful cordpliments, Roy, and I'm afraid you'll never add to them." "Which do you like best?" • "I thin -k 'to love her was a libertil education.' I like the idea of a wo- man beating Oxford and Cambridge at th-eir own game. But you and, I Will be just like me and Mr. Twig - we read three words in the straight, and then we are round three comers in a digression." "Let's have the loveliest digression of -ali"-and he kissed her on the lips, "'Our house is in the cherchyard.- Samela resumer, "'so that we had a very good view of the -procession. The walk that leads up to the Church was crowded almost incredibly, a prodi- gious niet indeed; I'm sure I trem- bled for the bride. 0 what a gaunt-, let for any woman of delicacy to run! And 0, how short a time does it take to put an end to a woman's liberty! But I declare my heart achedto think how terrible the poor bride's feelings must be to walk by such crowds of peepIe, the occasion in itself so aw- ful. How little does it need the addi- tion of a mob! I .don't suppose any- thing can be so dreadful as a public wedding -my stars! I should never be able to support it. At breakfast we had a long conversation on Matte - money. EVerybady spoke against a public weddingas the most shocking thing in the world. Papa said he would not have gone through those people for £5000 a year. And Mr. Bewby said that when lie was mar - reed his leder and self stole into the Crairch as privately as possible, and ashamed of every step they took.' I never thought of shame, Roy, but I did think we should steal. But if the Bishop marries us it will be a Bagg wedding -a Bishop makes everything Bagg. What shall I say?" "Darling, it will bave. to be Bishop and Bagg. I always .knew Carwick would insist upon the Bagg." With het' sharp eyes Samela saw that Bagg appealed to Roy too. "Oh, Roy." she cried. "you men have been, good at the game of Let's Pretend. Let's pretend we all want to be mar- ried in invisible coats, you've Isaide gust to appear humble, and unosten- tetious, and not as women are. And in reality nearly all the bridegrooms have yearned for visibility good." Roy pinched her chin. "It all de- pends:" 'he "told her. "Men who mar- ry Xantippes don't want to go to St. Paul's to let people see them do it. But can you really complain, when a man knows he is marrying positively fee only kir] in the world, that he should be anxious that his exquisite discrimination should, not pass unob- served." Samela smiled at him deliciously. "You can't discriminate when there's only one, dear noodle. But Very well; ell cede you Bagg," she said. "Only well try to keep, it at just two g's." letRJ F. J. BURROWS Office and residence, Goderich St., east of the United Churoh, Seaforta Phone 46. Coroner for the County of Huron. DR. HUGH H. ROSS Graduate of University of Toronto le'acelty of Medicine, member of Col- lege of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario; pass graduate course in Chicago Clinical School of Chicago ; Royal Opthalmie Hospital, London. England; University Hospital, Lon- don, England. Office -Back of Do- minion Bank, Seaforth. Phone No. 5.• Night calls answered from residence, Victoria Street, Seaforth. DR. E. A. McMASTER Graduate of the University of Toron- to, Faculty of Medicine Members of College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario; graduate of New York Post Graduate School and Lying-in Jlospital, New York. of- fice on High Street, Seaforth, Phone 27. Office fully equipped for X-ray diagnosis and ultra short wave elec- tric treatment, Ultra Violet Sun Lamp treatments, and Infra Red electric treatments. Nurse in, attetrance. OR. F. J. R. FORSTER Eye, Ear, Nose and•Throat Graduate in Medicine, University of Torento. Late assistant New York Opthal- mei and Aural Institute, Moorefield's Eye and Golden Square Throat Hos- pitals, London, Eng. At Commercial Hotel, Seaforth, third Wednesday in eaoh month, from 1.30 p.m. t 04.30 p.m. 58 Waterloo Street, South, Stmt. ford. • DR. DONALD G. STEER Graduate of Faculty of Medicine. University of Western Ontario. Mem- ber' of College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario. Full equip- ment, including an ultra short wave set. Office King Street, Hensall. Phone Bengali 56. DENTAI4, DR. J. A. McTAGGART Graduate Royal College of Dental • Surgeons, Toronto. Office at Hensall, Out. Phone 106. AUCTIONEERS HAROLD DALE Licensed Auctioneer Specialist in farni and household sales.. Prices reasonable:' Por dates and information, 'Write or phone Ilar- old Dale, • Phone 149, Seaforth, or apply at The' EXpositor Office. el lu sentithent, andin sentiment what eau approaeh a wedding in which nothing is . involved but a young maul's heart and a young. girl's loveliness? As Roy waited for. his bride, all the heads of the Carwick women nodded: at him with an apprev, ing jerk which said, as plainly as words, that even for their Miss Sam ela he'd do, and when the Bishop, cloaked in. all the ceremonial of Bish- opry, made his impressive presence felt, -the nods of approval directed at him, asiented, beyond the adequacy of the bridegroom, to the. excellent dispositioris of life itself, since mar- riage is in it and -in the person. of Bishops -great marry-ers. Isabel, in: a most elegant grey dress sat en the front pew. She had never wooed Carwick, but had rather mov- ed through its lovely old streets as a remote chilly perak"dand in return the Carwick folk had never even attempt- ed to climb her. "I think," said Ruskin, "that no- body but duchesses should- be allowed to wear diamonds, and that a vintner should be known L from a fishmonger by the cut of his jerkin." There was no need of a diamond or a cut to de- note Isabel's avocation. The higher branches of education was written all over her as plainly as Horrockses on a selvedge edge. In the porch six tiny Oarwick•hoys dressed as buttercup, and six tinier Carwick girls arrayed as claieriee- that had been Sylvia Dew's idea of a bridal Primavera -waited for the bride, and at last the news was pass - ea from pew to pew, with as little omission as.the passing of the collec- tion plate, that "Ste's.a-coming." And she came -en her white 'dress and silver shoes, and on her hair a little Juliet cap not of pearls but of violets. Most brides assume a Socratic de- tachment -as they go to make their vows. Samela, as she process -ed with her little retinue through the heart of her simple Carwick folk, could no more have practised shy aloofness than she would willingly have' sneez- ed; and when she was at the -chancel steps, and gave her smiling, shining eyes in a great frankness to Roy, with a catch at bis heart he could think of •nothingebut the cry of the great husband -lover, "Stars, stars, and all' eyes else dead coals!" "Dearly beloved ' Brethren," began, the Vicar, and the congregation used the rattle of their rising to their feet as the expression of the emotion clamouring alike at their hearts effd eyes and lips. For those who are touched by a wedding -well, there is nothing like a wedding to touch them and for those who are not -well, -there is nothing like a wedding as a detec- tive of the veins of steel. Now the Bishop was beginning his liale address, •and once more the im- pact of the sturdy Carwick bodies a- gainst the hard seats of the eighteenth century pews was the res,onanr•bump cf their enjoyment. "She that is loved is safe," the Bishop proclaimed, "and he that loves is joyful" -the joy la loving, that was the treeme he always preached when he joined 'man and wife. A very fam- ous Frenchman, "who was by no paeans a good man" inserted the Bish- op in a ead parenthesis, had once•said -He produced a piece of paper from a pocket "at the very end of the world." Samela told herself, and con- e eyed her conception of its geogra- phy with an enchanting' smile to her bridegroom. Then ,she listened. with all her ears -"I have often thought that. if only one could prolong the joy of love in Marriage we s-hould have paradise on earth. That is the thing which has never been Seen hith- erto." "I don't think Mr. Twig kn-ew that," said Samela to herself. ?"I believe," Said the Bishop, handing the piece of paper to Samela, "that in the marriage which is beiag sol- emnized here to -day we shall see it, that this bride has the gift of pro- longing the joy of love into marriage, of keeping' her bridegroom. joyful." All the heads in the pews in their new Paris-atte-Bowe spring millinery nodded. and the nod expressed as plain as a pikestaff, "I lay a penny she bas." "At any rate she is going to make the experiment, while the :bridegroom is embarking upon the experiment, equally rare, of an. inverted progress. Re is proceeding by olioice, and not of necessity, from luxury to suffi- ciency, from idlenes-s to industry. He is going to fill his own purse rather than betake +himself to a purse that has been filled for ben, and I do not khow a healthier gesture that can be offered to our social life." And then, the sun shone with an Antenser scintillation, and in it the daffodils glowed, and the frail anem- ones raised their drooping 'heads, and the bells pealed, and as Samela, es- pou.sed, smiled' and flashed her king- fisher blue bridal ,radiance, the happi- ness of the simple Carwick folk swept up to its great cliniketeric. A wedding is a touching thing: In the Great Hall of the Castle tbe cake was cut and the •healths were .drunk, and the Bishop permitted him- self to be more a man than a Bishop, while the Earl moved about less as the Earl than as the Little Father of Carwick. Presently, in the erilble,sure of the great win-dow, theatveo collid- ed. "Well," said the Earl, "it is a very enthusiastic scenea-charmingly, in- fectiously enthusiastic." . The Bishop assented. "Indeed yes. It makes me try with Stevenson, and even more urgently, 'why -oh why, can't we all be happy?" Just now les affaires were too urg- ent to permit more than half a. lune de miel. Samela and Roy had had no !hesitation as to where it should, be spent. They were oh their way to blue Bourget -the lake of love arid Mem- ories. CHAPTER XX Samela speedily found that her wed- ding was to be taken out of her own hands altogether. It wee Carwick's affair, and Carwick set about it as London plunges Idto a eoronation. Roy, in these spring'deys, was great- ly' occupied with affixing his signature to an incredible number ,of legal doc- uments committing his monies to the Melincourt endowments, while Sam- ela, whose story, hyperbolised almost beyond recognition, had bubbled and swirled in the waters of the Amerioan press, was almost distracted with or- ders for a souvenir of a etepeetaight on -fairy-tale from tourists who were just about tee cross the herring -pond ad who would come for it them- selves. Yet when her wedding .tlay actually arrived, eveeything, with very AittIo help from her, had been arranged with the meticulousness of a quite royal marriage. There were no flot- ers left in the woods, because they had all betel wreathed into chains to decorgte the great pillars of Carwick's inhemonious, partearchitectured par- ish church, while at the Castle, where the Bishop Was a guest, all the love- liest blooms had been carried in from the greenhouses to the Great Hall, where the Earl and Countess' bad ex- pressed a gracious wish that 'th-e mete should be cut. It had been, ire deed, tia a breathless crescendo of preparation and excitement that the little people of Carwick Moved to Samela's wedding day. Perhaps it is only eliniple souls who cad really rev- . . L. telfeeeeligiefeeeleteer 'oCef larblit 1e soul en l'on puisse faire une centldence de coeur a coeur., On y pense 'et on y alme. Ce lieu jette dans I'amour je us sale quot de grave, de recueilli, qui rend la pa - Sion plus profonde, plus pure. lin baiser s'y agrandit. Mals c'est sur - tout le lac des souvenirs." CHAPTER XXI The first year of marriage 'seemed to Samela a mere lightning flash of busy happiness -gone almost before she realizedit had begun. With an ecstasy of delight she saw that Roy was going to be not quite, but very nearly, another Mr. Twig. The auth- orities who had consulted Mr. Twig were turning to his successor; the lovely old rooms at Carwick were fuller than ever of treasure, for Roy bought with infinitediscrimination ands worked with' increasing Skill etathe intricacies Of restoration, delige,ITng in the salvage of loveliness. More than anything Samela loved to hear him say, "Being busy is so amus- ing." He was approached by a fam- ous society actress for the setting of a bedroom and a boudoir scene. Sam- ela read the scen,es and screwed (her nose. "Lavatory tiles that can be washed are the only things you could use for that miasmic stuff" -and her husband agreed with her. But he was delighted when his Oxford College consulted him for the staging of a Commemoration play, and his decor for an Early Victorian Parlour was re- produced in all the art and craft jour- nals. To celebrate the first anniversary of their wedding -day they planned a little scampering tour in France ---to the Morvan, that undiscovered ground of rugged grandeur and immense hor- izons alr. Twig had so loved, starred with little towns that keep intact and untarnished their long inheritance of towers and gates and ramparts and supremely pure cturch'es. Samela had revelled in lovely little Avallon and the remote monastery of La Pierre Qui Vine, in the ro-mantic chateau of the Due de Chastellux,' and the im- mense basilica of Vezelay, crowning its sheer hill -top like a.n Acropolis, and now, en retour, they were once more back in Auxerre, the Morvan gateway, and the prettiest tow in France according to Pater, whose judgment upon towns remains for ac- ceptance :rather than argument. 'Yes, ,darling?" "There's a young man ner over there who has exeiting about him. I can distinctly all this long wa want to knew what it is. ner do ,go and ask 'him, if he doesue think it a divine spring 'evening." "And after that?" "Bring him into the courtyard where. I am thaving my coffee." Roy turned nonchalanty round. "Well, what do you think of him?" Samela asked insistently. "You're right, of course. He bas a very arresting face." "He hasn't the slightest idea that he's crumbleig all that bread," said Samela. "He's in a dream. Oa Roy, be very clever with him. Don't wake. him. Bring him to me while he's still d reaming." She got up, and, standing fora sec- ond quite still in her vivid, happy beauty, let her smiling violet eyes travel across the long room to where the y,oung man was sitting. He looked up and met 'her glance. She seemed to bow. That, too; he told himself,' was amazing. But not more amazing than everything el -se. Roy waited ,at the door of the salle a' manger, and when the young man at last emerged offeeed hien his Eng- lish paper. It waspleasant, he said, to meet an Englistinan at Auxerre so early in the year, and with as much skill as if he were roundin-g a corner in a piece of carving Roy piloted him to the little table in the pebbled courtyard of the gracious Hotel Tour- ing where Samela was sipping her coffee. "Have you just arrived or, like us, are you just leaving?" "I've been here three days," he told her. "I'm going on to Vezelay:h, "Ah, that is where we have just come from," sail Samela. "Do you know it already?" He shook his head, "This is the first time 1 have been abroad at all, and it is proving so wonderful that some- times I think I ought never to have embarked upon it." ' "Why?" •"To have the first time behind you -never again -is so tragic. The dif- ference in anything between a second and a first -well, it is my definition of cruelty." Samela shook her head. "It is my definition of kindness," she said. "Perhaps I shall never get to a sec- ond, so the fillat wilt remain =spoilt. I am at rat -her an amazing moment,' Samela bent towards hittee"i' saie that vOU were. That was why I sig - ;tailed to you. I couldn't help it." "Does It show as much as that?" "It seders beautifully. Please don't mind it." "Perhaps," hesaid! hopefully, "it shows only to you?" "NO, it showed a little to my hus- band -Is' it very private?" "It's 'rather public. You see - but perhaps You •don't know about them -I've just won one of the awards in the first distribution 'of the Melte- court Monies." 4 Samela held ,out her -hand. "How splendid! We have both bear of them -haven't we,• Roy? And it means a tremendous lot to you? 'Which award was. it?" "The one for the best Piece of ideal- istic fiction by .somebody Under twen- ty-five." - • "Do tell us about it," said Samela, ir'ery softly. "Well, I suppose What 1 am telling n the cor- something el it quite away. I After din - t40,,,: tii w .. Q. ,,,,s,..,44:,..4.,,,,,,,!„.... :ottli,,,,,y.. 4:::t:: •4,ITIVOIrty:i(Altf,P' e. , „: , ' •• . o> 'Wit e'Veek or two ago I -weal in a Cern Ste.' • ... 403r tilreadeehaelllY riMed4a.e900' Mae' to 444 is Cigarette away from the wind 4.44, raMailled Wide Me beak haltearaidee ' "A Cora Storeet"- Samela reiteated, The boy ocedelerde'el get a sahelar- ship to amendeipal school, but ting were so bad at leellee, lathe' Weber Hrebleardi„ teat I Ilad to qua to buy merely the bone as seem as I could- So- at: sixteen.- Twent • iter 'ireeCeen Stares. I started at.eighteen shillings a week and I got up to two pounds. It was such a bell to me that I got out -of it by writing -just for excite- ment.•I 'began a fantastic little tale about the Corn Stores being, in re - piety, one of the Egyptian warehous- es in which Joseph gathered corn as the sand of the sea, ',and theta the fantasy just ran away with meg and spun itself, and wan the Melincourt Money. I'm spending fifty pounds out of the blaous,and on a little bit of tray - el, so that I can do ' betteranother time with some real experience to draw upon." Roy turned round and „rather abruptly held out this hued. "I congratulate you on your luck," he said. "We're leaving in the morn- ing, eo good-bye. I hope yerell havea jolly tour." His voice was a bit husky -which .told Samela how deep- ly moved he was by the tale. She had the impulse to -follow him, but guessed that he would like to 'have a little while to himself without even her. So ste lighted another cigarette and sat on. She hoped the boy would talk a little more of himself, but be bad, ap- parently said all that there was to say about time subject.. So they spoke in- stead, a little disjointedly, of Auxer- re's lovely thirteenth :century cathe- dral .poised Thigh above the Yonne, where on Easter Day, in its early years; the- Canons, after Vespers, plae- ed like children at ball in symbolic revulsion from Good Friday gloom, an dl then. of the derelict church of St. German. Never, they. agreed, would they forget how, with the great key, the concierge had given them match- es and a little lamp -what a pity it had been on different days! - and their descent from the white stillness of the dead church to the black ninth: century crypt, where they Mud fres- coes, still lingering in the hollows of the vaultinge and. where, after many windings, and caught in a chain of ghostly echoes; they came at last to the traditional tomb of St. German himself, over which, in the heart of the 'darkness, a red, lamp still burnt inextinguishably to the saint, thougla all else of his memorial Abbey was now, in the poignant French phrase, d,esaffectee .. "In that little dark chapel," said the boy,. very confidingly, "I thought of something for my next book." Sainela smiled on him, and for the first time in his life lid was aware of a woman's loveliness in sympathy. "Isn't it extraordinary how ideas come?" she eaidee'There was nothing, and. then, all in a minute, one's bead holds a book. That was the 'sort -of way in which I saw you. We have had such a perfect little holiday. It has been the celebration of the first anni- versary of our wedding, and at the end of it we have caught you in your amazing moment. It is a beautiful ending. Good-bye." They pressed hands and the young man sat down again by himself'under the ,fast darkening sky. More than ev- er was' he in a dream. His only con- scioesne s now was. to know that there w;s a little palpitation at his heart. Sarnele went up to:the bedroom and found Roy leaning in .his greet eoat over the halcony, for the spring night air had grown:chilly. She put her arm in his and nestled against him. "Wasn't it a heavenly encounter?' she w,hispered. He nedded. "An extraordinary coin- cidence." "Now, Roy, you have. seen -what it means." 'He bent down and kissed her. Don't e letatalk about it." he said. "All right. Roy." Samelad .lookeup at the stars. How superb yeas the reticence of:a. good Englishman! The stars could shine in their own light -so, too, could some Latin men, But rot the Anglo-Saxon Englishman. With :him even the spark of faith was distressful if it showed. With infinite tact Sannela drove her husband round one of her whimsical tracks, and in laughter the discom- fort of a good deed was •deadened. In the m,orning, after bis o petit de- jeuner, the young man approached the girl at the bureau who had a splendid stock of broken English or he recognized very sadly, it would have been no use his approaching her at all.' Could she tell him the name of th-e two young English people who had just left? • "Ah oui.:Madame-very jeune -with les beaux yeux vio-let. Monsieur et Madame Melincourt." "Melincourt!" the young man re- peated. "Melincouete" The amazing moment was more amazing still. A year later Samela was on tho threshold of supreme happiness. Her swift impetuous spirit had been very prone to carp et :the long delay, and if she had had to brace herself for a epublick" Bagg wedding a publick Bagg baby called for still more en- duran-ce. The- loquacious , concern of Carwick, though precious, proeed, in its very :pronounced forme, more than a little painful. Samela had fortetold it wine a 'good many misgivings to her ,husband in the very early days of the approach of the event.. "I dame across a story to -day, Roy," she .had said, "that, when Browning appeared before h•is wife without a be,aed-of course he had acted in that :provoking way of selfis,hly 'consulting only himself which you gentlemen call self -she stamped her little foot and said, 'Robert, grow it again ties minute! Go out of this room and don't come back till yciu've got it a- gain.' That's how I feel, I want our wee thing to come along this very minute just to stop all this solicitude." She shook her head. "Alas, babies are much' more difficult to manage than beards." The precise nature of the management for a moment rather scared her. "Oh Roy, you'll help me about it-worie you? If you were go - leg to have it -Heavens what a state I eihfould be in! If the ,husband had tbe baby the wife vrould have lost her reason with concern at hie plight long before the day of the ace-Weller/tent. it C001401$ .0, .1, ACR, btait. 1,010P•1041,:;.. -811e WW1* fAit' 41440* I VW • " 14, t,44 she-rodized;'•eveu wo.!4:#9.,xLq tine cenainetift was, : 111,044Sati, • "r.Vhat is AO tt , a little twinkle herehle, "Father will like to ISfee'd eraelde father," _babel yen,tpre(Le,ftw,a_twpw "Oh," dried %Miele feriteitte, "seilere- how I have never thought of r Melee being its gratalfithere Ji belly, be brought'up in the eh:retire and ad- monition of elee.-Tweg,." "Thep," said babel, after another pause, "if you don't want Father to be its grandfather I supposeeeieu don't want me to be fts aunt?" • eleene Smeta loOked at her sister: "Isa- bel!" she eried,, "Oh, Isabel, would you ie to be an aunt?" "I think - I should like it very much." Oh, Isabel, it shall like toe have year for an aunt too. I'm sure it shall: Do let roe give you a kiss." There was another pause, which le,amela found opipressive. To break it she said,- (teasingly, "You won't be able to say what you are so fond of baying to me, therveliatever is exag- gerated becomes insignificant" "I think, Samela," said, Isabel, find- ing infinite relief in the correctiao, "that that is a little vulgar." "itoyet said Samela over their ev- ening coffee, this baby will have to be very nearly Isabel's." "Very nearly Isabel's?" - eyes -she will be :quite, quite dif- ferent wheD she has a habye. so to speak, of her very own. I -think she feels it herself. Yes. I must have this baby for Isabel, and only the next one for myself. Poor Isabel. She must have it. She has nothing at all." "Nothing at all? But Isabel is Head- mistress of the Readford High School for Girls." "What's that?" said Saxaela, 'Scorn- fully. "Just authority over the chil- dren of other people. Oh, Roy -just think ----Isabel has never been kissed. I don't believe any headmistresses have. Of course it's quite wrong to have regatives 'like that in a school- room at all. Marriage is much more important than Oxford for women who teach. Marriage --is the most import- abt thieg,for everybody, isn't it, Roy? Everybody ought to marry except Mr. Twig. That was why be was so woe- derful. He was Perfect without it. But nobody elee can be." • "But your friend the Duke said there had been very 'few delicious Marriages," Roy reminded her. "The delicious marriages are too de- licious to talk about -that's what mis- led ,him. If he came to stay with us he. would have no idea, would he? .An,d • if it- wasn't delicious +he would know before he ,got into the sitting room out of the hall. Get the wine - bottle, Roy, and let us drink to the exquisite conspiracy of silence." They drank together. •eAnd now look at these things, darling," Roy bade her; "I'm going to make whichever design you like best.'' "Oh Roy," Samela cried, "lee is too thrilling. Shall we really have a. babe of our own swinging in: one of these oak cradles? And what beautiful hinges to the hood!" ff; • tY), • , ' „ 0 , 3. • 1 +I' ere Al% A A "Not oak," said Roy, "that would be much too heavy. 1 was thinking of making it in something very light and silvery; but if it's going to be Ise- bel's-" Sameis shook her head .at him. must adopt Mr, Twig's liberal attitude and say that even babies must belong to themselves. In the doctrine of in- fantile nationalism you'll make the cradle, Roy?" Samee, gave neither her husband nor herself any trouble whatever, and her son was born with very nearly the ease of the famous birth under the Bo -tree. '1 lir ease, indeed, in a whim- sical way, a little- discomfited her. "It nieens that. I am not civilized," she Mid to iiuy, 'who could hardly believe his stars that it was all over. "Wo- men with really beautiful minds suf- fer terribly.. With refiperilent of le:ought goes 'refidement of cruelty. Yes, I am very simple, a most pro- nounced member of the bourgeoisie. As Mr. Twig used to say: 'Dear God, I thank Thee." . Mrs. Crane put her head round the door. "Shop!" she called bellowingly. "Shop!" The nurse sbuddered, so, too, •did Tuscan, but with a re -assuring laugh Roy . ran after Mrs. Crane. Upstairs, in the arms of Samela, his son; and downstairs his shop -oh, he was a very rich young man. TRE END Weed Impurities Spoil Crop Report The -matter of seed ciere 'selection is now doubtless' engaging the attention of farmers who hope to obtain a cash return -from seed production. Certain crops have, of couree, been planned and seeded for this purpose. These will include cereal crops principally. Selection of seed crops made at about this time will include such lends. as timothy. red clover, alsike, alfalfa. sweet clover and other forage crops. If consideration is being given to the savings of any of these crops for seed, certain factors should be taken into account. Perhaps the first and most important of these is the quality of the seed likely to be produced as de- termined by freedom from weed im- purities. In order to obtain the greatest re- turn ,.from seed, production, it is portant That tIA (Panty of the seed should be the highest obtainable. Too, often seed production proves unpro- fitable, the reason being that the crop was either unsuitable or was, nret pro- perly- prepared for seed production. The seeds of certain weeds ate so Aificult to separate from grass and clover seeds that the removal of the weeds themselves from the Seed odor+ by rogueing or hand pulling, is the only means of dealing with them suc- cessfully. This May be done profit- ably sometiMes, but not always. Oth- er seeds are not only difficult of sep- aration-, but are of the noxious class and are, therefore, Objectioelable in da••de e -eer :gee seed of the laiglageteeeedeSSa daisy is one of these, gad OM*, 'Which this Weed is preeput00 be saved for -40oci, Bladder c white 'cockle, couch WOO.: de teed., nifghtttowerieg ca.telefiti-AWeee ribgrass arid wile carrot gee idea of this clue .and therefore 'geed, dedpeere alsike, alfalfa, 'red clover.: and • siveeee clover containing these weeds 'etenegrei. be expected to give profitable returneen' The Motorist's Prayer Grant me a steady hand and wetchee ful eye, That go Man shall be hurt when I pass by. -.„ Thou gayest life, and I pray no act of mine May take away or mar, that gift of Thiee. Shelter those, dear Lord, who bear me company From the evils of fire and all calamity. Teach me to use my car for others' need. Nor miss through love of speed. The beauties of thy world; that thus I :may With joy and courtesy go on my way. Healthy Spring Pigs' - The preedeetion of large numbers of healthy spring pigs is dependent woe good feeding, care, and management of the boar and sows during the win- ter. First of all, the psoblem of cor- rect Mating is one 'whCh always con- fronts the -livestock breeder. Presum- ing that the sows •are of good bacon type, it is, the responsibility of the breeder to mate them to a suitable r, so that the offspring will grow into bacon. hogs, of the right type. If the sows are not bred along bac- on lines, or have already produced poor progeny, it is now a suitable time to procure one or two gilts to • . strengthen tbe sow herd and introduce a good ,bacon strain. An early start allows two litters to be raised next year. Two litters instead of oree will . reduce the carrying charges per pig,. and this in turn, with average or bet-. ter conditions; will mean more profit to the breeder. The boar is a first oensideration. He is often impaired ,by under or ov- er -feeding, and by confinement in small quarters. He should be able to exer- cise out of doors all ethe year round, in addition to a dry clean bed free from draugets during the winter. The best advice for feeding the sows is a repetition of the old maxim -feed according to the condition of the sows. The feeding practice should be to bring the sow through the win- ter in medium flesh. The feeds used must of necessity be made up largely, if not entirely, of the feeds availa-ble on the farm. Successful feeding de- pends upon combining these' feeds in suitable pro -portion and the employ- ment of only a minimum of expensive' purehased feeds. - LONDON and WINGHAM South P.M. Wingham 1.55 Belgrave 2.11 Blyth 2.23 Londesboro 2.30 Clinton Brucefield 3.27 Kippen 3.35 Hensall 3.41 Exeter 3.55 Exeter North Hensall Kippen A.M. 10,42 10.55 11.01 Brucefield 11.09 Clinton 1L54 Londesboro 12.10 Blyth 12,19 Belgrave 12.30 Wingham 12.5e . C.N.R. TIME TABLE East A.M. P.M. Goderich 6.40 2.30 Clinton, 7.03 3.00 Seaforth 7.17 3.16 Dublin 7.28 3,29 , Mitchell 7.37 1.41' West Mitchell 11.19 9.33 Dublin 11,27 9.41. Seaforth 11.43 9.54 Clinton 12.12 10.08 Goderich 12,22 10.34,e . C.P.R. TIME TABLE East Goderich Menset McGaw Auburn, , Blyth Walton , McNaught Toronto ) • Toronto McNaught Walton Myth Auburn Meo3aw, . .• . Menset GOilerichee. West P.M. 4.20 4.24 4.83 4.42 4.52 5.15 9.0t) s et, 1 44, ii i tree eef , .r.