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BY WFATEHERBY Ct1ESNEY
possible they might effect a surprise,
and by coming on the cleric and Mrs.
Carrington suddenly, win the secret
of the stolen plan from them. .But
the waters of the Blue Lake lay quiet
and mirror-like in the evening calm.
"There is no one working near
e Dripping Well,' said Scarboreta
t "You go down, Scott, and find out
n the village if they have been here
day, Neither of the pair knows y
bso even if they are there now, and
you, possibly they won't think you
after them. We will wait for
here.'
Scott went off down the rugged p
which lecl to the lower ground, a
when he was out of earshot, Scarb
ough said to Elsa:—
"Would you like to read my uncl
letter for yourself?"
"No," she said. "You have told
what he says."
"Most of it," said Scarborough, "b
not all. He says that if there is 1
nothing else matters. You said
same thing yourself this morning."
Elsa did not answer; and present
Scarborough asked in a low voice:
1 "Elsa, is there love?"
"Yes."
The answer was lower than a whi
per, hardly more than a movement
the lips; but she had turned her fa
to him, and was looking into his eye
He heard it.
"My darling!" he whispered, an
bent towards her to take her in h
arms. But even now she drew bac
from him.
"It is true that I love you, Horace
she said, "but—"
"But nothing else matters, dea
You said so yourself."
She shook her head, saying softly:
"There is one thing that matters
disgrace."
"It wil 1 not come near you, h
cried. "You are not disgraced. Th
crimes of others do not touch you."
"The crime was my father's," sh
answered steadily.
"But not yours l"
Not mine, but the disgrace of i
must be mine. And my mother i
committing the crime over again won,
perhaps has already committed it. My
name is dishonored, and I should dis-
honor yours if I took it."
Scarborough took three steps away
from her, and then turned, and be-
fore she knew what he was going to
do she was in his arms, and his
kisses were on her lips.
"You love me," he said passionate-
ly; "you have confessed it! Do you
think that after hearing you say that
I will take any answer from you but
'yes ?' "
She did not resist. She had not ex-
pected his outburst, but she loved him
for it the more. She returned his
kiss, and was content.
Presently she looked up into his
face, and asked:—
"Horace, do you really mean that
nothing matters except love—nothing
—not even disgrace? You say so now.
but will you say so always?"
"Always, sweetheart."
She nestled closer to him, saying
softly:—
"Then tell me again that you love
me, and in listening to you I will try
o forget the rest."
He told her, and told her again, and
t seemed that she would never tire
f hearing the words, or he of saying
CHAPTER XXV,—(Cont'd).
"There, that's my philosophy. Hor-
ace. Probably you have skipped it to
get to the practical part; but read it
through again, when you have nothing
to do; or better, let the girl read it
and see whether she doesn't agre
with every ward I say. I did not ac
on it myself, and that is why I an
anxious that you should not repeat in
mistake. I was just about as ololda
you when I let my chance go. Don'
cies as I did.
""1 say all this to you because you
seem to suggest a doubt whether you
can manage on what you have got
You inquire whether my former offer
is sti11 open, and you hint that if it
isn't, you have xio right to ask the
girl to marry you. My boy, if you
Iove her, and have reason to believe
that she loves you, you have no right
to keep ;,lent. Of course the offer is
still open—two offers, in point of
fact --but if I refused to help you by
so much as a shilling that would not
altar your obligation. I've preached
enoughNnow for the practical part.
"You can have a place at my city
office at three hundred a year, with
the prospect of rapid promotion if you
earn it; that is the offer which I hope
you will accept. The other is, possi-
bly, more to year taste. I have been
investing largely in land lately, and I
want a land agent to represent me,
The salary in this case is £500 a year,
because the position requires that you
should make a certain amount of show
amongst my tenants, and you couldn't
do it on less. But it is a stationary
salary. Make your own choice.
"There is one thing more. When I
die, you will be mentioned in my will,
but not as my sole heir. The condi-
tions will be somewhat pecular, and
the amount which you inherit will de-
pend upon yourself. If you can prove
to my executors that on the day of
my death you were worth ten pounds,
you will receive something; if you can
prove a thousand, you will receive a
great deal more. As you know, I
preach the doctrine that nothing suc-
ceeds like success, and my will is to be
my last sermon to you on that theme.
The proportion of my property which
comes to you is, therefore, a matter
which is in your own hands; the sur-
plus will go towards founding a chari-
table institution of some sort, whose
nature I have not yet decided. Proba-
bly it will be an Ambler Home for
consistent Failures amongst 'Varsity
Men the most melancholy class on
earth, Horace!
"Give my love to the girl. Tell her
there are no family diamonds, but
there will be a cheque to help in the
furnishings."
By the time that Scarborough had
finished reading this characteristic
letter Elsa returned.
"I am ready, Horace," she said,
"Shall we start?"
"Yes," said Scarborough, and as
they passed out of the room, he whisp-
eyed to Scott:—
"Ride a little in front, or behind,
old man, will you?''
Scott answered with a grin.
"Uncle Croesus turned up trumps?
Are you going to win, as he cabled to
you ?"
"I hope to win," Scarborough whis- !t
pered back. "Anyway, I am going to
follow Phil's example, and try."
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irking the prescription Thiele"°roeslns
sent you? He was .in rather a bad
way you know, Miss Careington, and
so he cabled to England- for advice.
Glad to see it has done Trim. good!"
"This," said Scarborough, turning to
Elsa with a laugh, "is my fellow .cab-..
leman's uncouth way of congratulates
ing me on winning the sweetest girl
in the world for' my wife. I hope you
gather that, Elsa! Now, Scott, what
about Mrs. Carrington?"'
"She's at a little yenta in the vil-
lage. I think there has been trouble."
"Have you seen her ? "'
"No, w. but I asa dress hanging on
a line to dry, which didn't look like a
native, garment, and I asked a roan
whether anyone had been upset ori the
lake. He said that an English San-
hor and Senhora had gone out in a:
boat, and that the Seuhora hed been
found on the shore later, dripping wet
and unconscious. She was at the yenta
now, but the Senhor had gone. I
didn't wait to hear more, but teleg-
raphed with a bib of glass to you.
Better go to the yenta, hadn't we?"
They went to the. little inn, and
found Mrs. Carrington sitting in a
rough wooden rocking' chair, clothed
grotesquely in . country garments
which she had borrowed froth the
padrona, and . with a white bandage
wrapped about her head. There was
a hot flush on her cheeks, she looked
very ill, but she received them' with a
Iaugh.
"You are too late," she cried mock-
ingly; "but of course I am glad to see
you. Is Our Mr. Montague with. you.?
Charming man! I was sorry to have
to part with hire so rudely this morn-
ing."
orn-
in "Mother, are you hurt?" asked Elsa
anxiously.,
"Don't be silly, child. Of coarse I
am hurt," was the ungracious answer.
"Do you suppose I wear this thing
around my head as an ornament?"
"What has happened? And where
is Gillies?" asked Scarborough.
"I haven't the faintest idea where
Gillies is," said the widow, "and my
knowledge of what happened is vague.
The only thing I am sure about is
that we had a difference of opinion in
the boat, and that he struck me. I
on't remember any more. But as I.
vas afterwards found lying on the
ank, wet to the skin, and with a'
leeding cut on my head, I think the.
robability is that I fell out of :. the
g
oat and stmuck my head rrirtst
e.
Important to Wheat Growers
This is important to you because
means dollars to you. In a sho
time you will be preparing for th
seeding of your fall wheat, and ite
necessary to. keep in mind the dung
of loss from Smut. Especially la
year, Smut was very general in 0n
tario. Grain dealers advise Me tha
that it has meant a difference of a
:much as 10c. per bushel for the grai
delivered at elevators, aside altogeth
er from making soma of the whea
unmarketable. This means a loss
$3 to $5 per acre, while the cost o
treating to prevent smut and preven
this loss is only a few cents per acre
Be sure this year and treat your seed
for smumt.
The ethod usually adopted is s
follows:—Mix one pint of formali
with 40 gallons of water, or two table
spoonfuls to one pail of water. Flee
the grain to be treated in a heap on
clean canvas or floor. Sprinkle- the
formalin solution over the grain, then
shovel. Repeat this until every
grain is moistened by the 'solution;
then cover the pile with sacking and
leave for three or four hours. At the
end of this time spread the grain out
thinly to dry; shovelling it over three
or four times will hasten the drying.
Forty gallons of the formalin solution
is sufficient to spf•inkle thirty or for-
ty bushels of grain; smaller amounts
in proportion. Bags, machinery, or
anything with which grain conies in
contact before being put in the ground
should be thoroughly treated.
Immersing the grain in a bag is
sometimes practised and is equally ef-
fective.
• Of course smut is not as prevalent
some years as others, being influenced
to some extent by weather conditions,
Treatment, however, is a form of in-
surance. You do not expect to have
your barn burned down every year be-
cause you pay the insurance every
year, and it is equally important to
keep up your insurance on your wheat
rop. This is important at the pres-
the Holsteins $81.80, the difference
it being due to the larger animals eat-
ing more feed. They were charged
e 30 cents a month for pasture the first
is year, and 90 cents the second. The
er pasture had to be supplementer! with
se grain in order to keep the heifers
- growing properly.
t The heifers were bred bo calves at
s twenty-six and one-half month of age,
n and at calving time the cost averaged
$91.39.
t The high cost of heifers as brought
of out, by these different studies, clearly
f shows the folly of raising inferior in-
t dividuals. It costs just as much to
, feed a heifer sired by an inferior
bull as one sired by a high class bull.
The figures also show why dairymen
are justified in asking good prices for
n well-bred dairy stock.. As a dairy
- farmer recently stated, they cannot
e afford to sell really good heifers for
$60 or $70. The dairymen who insist
on buying only cheap stock will get
only culls, anandwould bo better; off
without them. They must expect to
pay good prices for well-bred heifers
that have been properly grown and
developed.
The economical thing for the dairy-
man who is just getting a start, is to
give the most careful attention to the
feeding of his heifer calves, saving
only those having the right kind of
parents. Even though the cost of
bringing a heifer up to calving time
does seem high, it is the safest and
most reliable way of adding to the
herd and is cheaper in the long run
than to depend on buying. 'Those
who are just making a start must of
course buy their foundation stock,
and it is important that these be sel-
ected with care. A bunch of culls is
not every good start. in the building
up of a dairy herd.
This Ohio report also shows that
fall calves can be raised more cheap-
ly than can spring calves. This
should fit in well with dairying on the
general farm, for there is always
more time to devote to the cows and
calves during the fall and winter
months than during the busy season
when the crops are demanding a
great deal of labor.
Pure Milk For Butter -Making.
It is most essential to use only pure
uncontaminated milk for the produc-
tion of butter when the finished pro-
duct is to be of prime quality. In a
great many cases where butter has an
objectionable flavor it is due to the
milk employed being badly contam-
inated with undesirable bacteria.
Cream is ripened by bacteria, and
it is only when the right species of
germs predominate in the cream that
it will ripen. properly. The germs
which produce lactic acid, and thus
ripen cream, have the power of over -
corning other species of bacteria un-
less the cream is very badly contam-
inated, in which case the cream -
ripening organisms could not perform
their functions.
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something on the way.. He seems to.;
have taken the trouble to pull me out
b of the water; which is surprising,
s because he was in a great hurry."
"Had you found the diamonds?'
(To be continued).
them. They forgot all about Scott
nd his errand to the Blue Lake; for
they were living through the supreme
oment of existence, the moment
when the first kiss has been given and
eturned, when Love has put the old
uestion, and.has been answered by a
hispered 'Yes.'
But presently Scarborough jumped
to his feet with an exclamation.
"Scott is signalling something with
glass!"
Down in the valley a point of light
as flashing against the setting sun.
Cott had a piece of broken mirror in
s hand and was using it as a helio-
theplongwinking
shortashes
ss fle to them
of the
Morse code.
"What does he say?" asked Elsa..
"'Are you asleep up there?'" Scar-
borough read the message to her.
'Mrs. Carrington is in one of the
houses, but Gillies has gone.' "
He took out his handkerchief, and
waving it like a flag, signalled back by
the same code "01.," the telegraph-
ist's sign that the message has been
read and understood.
"I'm going down," he said to Elsa.
"Will you come or stay here?"
"I will come, of course. Together in
ail 'things now, Horace!" she said
with a happy smile.
They clambered down the rough
path hand in hand, and Scott, met
them at the bottom.
"Hullo," he said with a grin, "you
look uncommonly cheerful. Scarbor-
ough! Anything happened? Been
CHAPTER XXVI. a
Sete Cidades, the Seven Cities, are
seven small craters *Bich lie in the
deep bowl of another and far vaster , S
crater. They are round ponds of r
tinted water now, or shallow cups q
w
filled with a crowding vegetation;
once they were volcanoes; but their
rage is spent, their furnaces have long
been cold, and on their ashes flowers
grow, Nature by giving a rich fer- a
lility to the soil which their emblers
made, has covered with a garment of W
beauty the scars of her former S
wounds. hi
The sides of the main crater are gr
steep, and difficult of descent, except
in one place where the flowing lava
found an exit. At the bottom of the
great cup there are two lakes, the
Lago Verde. filled with brilliant green
Water Band the Lago Azul, of an equal-
ly brilliant blue. On one of the many
tongues of land which stretch into
these lakes there is a tiny village of
white houses, nestling amid the trees.
"That is the Blue Lake which the
writing on the stone refers to," said
Scarborough, "and the. Dripping Well
is on the opposite shore from here.
If only Davis's photograph had told us
how far from the well, instead of leav-
ing a blank before the word 'feet,' we
could go down and begin our fishing,
I see no sign of Gillies."
The two young men and the girl
were standing near the edge, of the
great erater, looking down. They had
approached cautiously, thinking it was
ent time, not only on your own ac-
count, .but on account of the Empire,
which requires the maximum supply
of high gaality foodstuffs. The ship-
ping of smutty wheat not only gives
'his. Province a bad name but reduces
the price you receive for your wheat.
HONEYSUCKLE FROM JAPAN. Further information on the subject
may be secured for the asking, either
Fragrant Vine Was Originally from the local office of this Depart -
Japanese. rnent in your County or from th eun-
Years ago Japan sent to this coun-
ter
Jas. S. Duff, Minis-
ter of Agriculture, Toronto.
try a vigorous green vine which won
favor through its lavish display of
fragrant white flowers in late spring.
For it time the vine and flowers were
Cost of Raising Dairy Heifers.
One of the important things for the
kept within the bounds of gardens, farmer to know is the cost of the
lawns and parks. Then it ran away. thing he produces, wheher it be a crop
To -day you'll find it roaming along or an animal. Profits are governed
the roadside, climbing stumps and as much by the cost of production as
hedges. It needs no gardener, for •the price for which the product sells.
it can take care of itself. It's the One of the questions often discussed is
honeysuckle.,the cost of raising young stock. Sev-
The Japanese variety which ran, eral of the United States Experiment
away joined some of its American Stations have taken up the question
cousins, who are just as pretty and of finding out what it costs to raise a
just as fragrant. There's the coral .heifer calf. The
tion i
�l�•w s an rrxn-
honeysuckles, for example, a famous portant one and should interest Can-
porch • climber in the Southern adian dairymen. We would also be
States, with trumpet -shaped flowers, glad to have the experience of any of B
.
red outside and scarlet within. In our readers as to the cost of raising
England they have the woodbine, a• heifer calves for •the dein
cream colored, fragrant relative of y ries.
hTe Ohio station has just conclud-
the honeysuckle. ed such an investigation. The fig -
Recently there came a new variety ures given are the averages of the re -
from China, where it was found on cords kept on 51 heifers -20 Jerseys
the tops of mountains 6,000 feet and 22 Holsteins. This involves
above the sea. Its foliage is almost large enough nu b
els to merit con -
Why Milk Sours.
Bacteria cause the souring of milk.
acteria usually get into milk in dirt
and the bacteria develop fast when
the milk is warm. To keep the bac-
teria out, keep dirt out of the milk.
This means care in milking and care
to have the mills utensils clean. Keep-
ing the milk cool will retard the de-
velopment of the bacteria, that do
get into the milk. Cans or vessels
hat have had milk in them should be
insed in cool water first, as hot wat-
✓ hardens the albumen of the milk
rid makes it hard to remove.—W. C.
., North Dakota Experiment Station.
evergreen, and the flowers are a sideration.
reddish bronze. Another variety has The items obher than feed are as e
markings. Value There's no need to hunt for the
honeysuckle. Its fragrance will an-
nounce it before you're near enough
to see it.
Restitution— •i if •made would often
prevent destitution.
red flowers, with yellow and buff follows: at birth $5, labor
tools, etc., $1.50, shelter $4, interest
and taxes $4.68, or a total of $32.86.
Nine dollars is credited for manure,
leaving the net cost $23.68. To this
must be added the feed cost. • The
total cost of raising the Jersey heifers
to twe years of age was $75.19, and ti
ti
$11.50, bedding $4,50, service fee $1..50 p
Grain for the Skim -Milk Calf.
Calves are usually fed whole milk
for two to three weeks, then gradually
changed to skim -milk,. About the
me of changing, begin to feed elit-
e grain,• but do nob think that it is
necessary to use oil -ileal or any oth-
er high-priced feed high in protein or
fat, or both. Experience at the Mis-
souri Agricultural Experiment Station
shows that a mixture of two parts
corn and one part oats, by weight,
gives as good results as oil -meal and •
ready -mixed calf -meals often purcha.s-
ed at much higher prices. Bran is
not especially good for the young calf
because it is too laxative. The grain
mixture should be fed immediately
after the mill:, and neither should be
fed too liberally, or scours may result.
Stark Realism.
Mother (entering the nursery)—
Children, why do you sit about look-
ing so solemn and unhappy? Why
not play a game of some sort?
One of 'Em—We are playing. We're
grown-up ladies making a call.
Wise is he who has the cage
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The Fingers of Fate -The Grip Begins to. Tighten.
—Front "Jolla Bull." ready for the bird.
THE CE4P �N
IS TOMMY'S PAL
CHRISTENED 13Y COMMON CON. •
SENT THE "PADRE."
Succouring the Soldier° Through Life
and in the Dour of
Death.
"The bravest of all were the chajl-
lains, who stuck by the side of the
boys even when the fighting was
most furious."
The above words were spoken in a .
London hospital the other day by a
wounded soldier who had left an arm
behind him, and they no doubt repre-
sent the general opinion of our Tom-
mies at the Front at the present
moment, says London Answers.
During the "piping times of peace"
—now, alas! seemingly so far distant
—Army chaplains used to be called
"sky -pilots,". Since the war broke
out he has come to be christened by
common consent the "padre," ands his
true worth is fully. recognized by the
men to whom he ministers.
They are of all classes and creeds,
these brave, quiet men in plain khaki,
distinguishable from the combatant
officers only by their black shoulder -
knots and the cross on their Service
caps.
The very first padre to be killed in
the war was the Roman Catholic
chaplain of the Dublin Fusiliers.
rigs.
yielded by
chapel or
and inci-
s good at
is at in-
ning
gate aandhaiYe pen=-'
tress of
to ,write
actually
rid post -
plains do
d official
ev. E. G.
He it was who officiated at the
obsequies of General Hamilton, the
commander of the Third Division,
who was killed in action at Ypres.
The funeral was at the dead of night,
the only light being that from the
electric flash -lamp used by Mr. Mac-
pherson to read the words of the Bur-
ial Service. Even this, however, was
sufficient to draw the fire of the ever -
watchful enemy, and rifle -bullets and
shrapnel spattered and sputtered all
round. Fortunately nobody was bit,
and General Smith-Dorrien remarked,
as he quitted the graveside: "A true
soldier's funeral, padre. We couldn't
fire a volley, but the enemy have giv-
en him the last salute for us."
Such interruptions, however, are by
no means uncommon. A short time
ago an open-air service was being
held, when a "Jack Johnson" burst in
the midst of the worshippers. The
officiating padre, describing the inci-
dent in a letter home, which was
afterwards published in the "Church
Times," says: "We were lustily sing-
ing 'Stand up, stand up, for Jesus,'
when the congregation suddenly fell
down flat like one man. I was knock-
ed down, I have never known sing-
ing to stop so unanimously."
Much of the padre's work is with
the wounded, both on the field under
fire and °in the dressing -stations and
the field hospitals. Not infrequently,.
while thus engaged, he falls a victim
to duty.
And when not. actually tending the
wounded he is helping them in 'all
sorts of odd ways. He even turns
barber on occasions, shaving the poor
disabled fellows.
If the smile won't come off it soon
becomes monotonous.
The running track at the Canadian
National Exhibition is one of the few
on the continent giving a 220 yards
course straight-away. Many retards
have been equalled or brtken on
Athletic Day in past years,
He Sings Comic So
Tremendous is the influence for
good, by the way, that is v
these Roman Catholic priests, com-
parable only with that exercised by
the,, Presbyterian chaplains of the
Highland regiments; for, when all
else fails, they need only threaten to
"post" a man's name on the
kirk door in his native village in or-
der to induce the most hardened of-
fender to amend his ways.
Threats are seldom needed, how-
ever, and still less seldom used, the
average chaplain, of whatever denom-
ination, preferring to rely on moral
suasion. He is an adept, too, at win-
ning Tommy's confidence,
dentally his gratitude.
He is frequently quite a
singing a comic song as he
toning a psalm—each, of course, in
its proper place.' He is the unofficial
letter -writer home, and the adviser -
in -chief as rega,rds all pri
domestic affairs.
In a single week a Church of Eng-
land chaplain confessed to
ned above three hundred 1oveletters
for men unable, through s
wounds, work, or worry,
themselves. Another padre
wrote in a week six thous,
cards for as many different men! '
For the most part, the chs
their work outside the limelight, but
occasionally they are accorde
recognition of a' sort. For instance,
there was the case of the R
F. Macpherson, the senior Church of
England chaplain, mentioned by name
in one of Sir John French's de-
spatches. -
Odd Jobs for the "Padre„