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CHAPTER TX.
Continued.

Janet stood in the hall when she
had managed to twist out of heI
mothers hold. Her eyes had a wild
sparkle in them, dazzled from the
night; her hair was hanging dank
about her shoulders; her. hat tied on
with Mr.. Blackmore's handkerchief
She looked dazed, speeches., guilty,
with fear in her face and in her soul,
She looked as If she might behave
had the habit of being-struck and
beaten, standing trembling before
her mother, who had never harmed a
fly in all her gentle life.
Mother, we went too far; and
then the-woman came out-the-
the lady, and said I was too tired. He
was to drive me home"
We'll, and that was all? God be
thanked there has been no accident.
But where is Tom?"
"Mr. Tom is just coming up the
avenue, my lady," said one of the
men.
@Then all is right, and there was
really nothing to be afraid off," said
Lady Car with an agitated laugh.
Was Janet to be let off so easily?
She stood watching her mother with
uneasy suspicion, while all attention
was diverted to Tom, who jumped of
his horse in a similar pale suspicion
and fear, but with brows lowering
and eyes half Swallowed by the eye
lids. Tom had made up his mind as
he came along what he vas to do.
He did not wait for the fury which
he felt sure was ready to pour forth.
ut wasn't my fault" he said, with a
CLEAN of his Swallowed eyes to where
Beaufort was coming in behind him.
"She had made up her mind she
would see the mare, and I had to take
her. / knew it was too far"
Janet stood aghast with her mouth
open, taking in every word. A cry
of protest rose up in her breast, which
she had just comprehension enough
to stife. Never mind just now, my
boy" said Beaufort; "all's well that
ends well, but you have given your
mother a great fright. You can tell
me after how it was"
"I'd better tell you at once" Tom
repeated. @She had set her heart on
seeing the mare There was no harm,
I suppose, in telling her about the
mare. And I thought she was more
game than she is. That's all about It.
I thought we could have gone into the
stables without seeing-the people
you made me promise about, Beau.
But l couldn't help it when I saw how
tired she was. And Charlie drove her
home-that's ALL
The cry Of protest in Janet's throat
did not get utterance, but it produced
a gasp of horror and establishment as
she stood staring in her mothers face.
She could not look at Tom. Lady
Car was looking at him unsuspecting
with her faint smile-that smile
which Janet felt meant something
more than any one thought. And
there was no more said.
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Getting Ready to Pray.

We would take care so to manage
ourselves all day, especially when it
draws toward night, that we may not
he disfitted and put out of frame for
u evening devotions; that u
hearts may not be overcharged, either
on one hand by %surfeiting and drunk
enness, as theirs often are who r
men of pleasure; or on the other
hand, with the cares of this life, as
theirs often are who are men of bust
ness; but that we have command
both of our thoughts and of our time,
that we may finish our work we'll;
which will be an earnest of our finish
ing our life's work well.-Matthew
Henry.
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Memories OF the Past,

Some of our friends suggest that
we run a Twenty Years Ago" COL
umn in the paper. All right. How
is this for a startero Twenty years
ago John Dobbins promised to pay
his subscription when he sold his
wheat. Now the question is, Did
John lie, or is he still holding his
wheat?'"-From the Louisiana
Press.
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influence.

Men are living to-day VINO were in.
duced to sign the pledge by Abraham
Lincoln's convincing arguments
That he thoroughly appreciated the
menace of liquor evils is evidenced
by his declaration on the very day
of his tragic death, that "the next
snarl we have got to straighten out
Is the liquor question. &C. A
Phelps, in Broadway Magazine.
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Change Your Doctor.

In the thlatre Of the Crystal Pal
ace, Londc1, Cardinal Manning wa;
addressing a great meeting OF the
members of a temperance organiza'
ton. II will confess to YOU" he said
that I do not practice what I preach
I am not a total abstainer myself.
because NJ. doctor won't let me be
une." Thererpon a voice came f":u.
the topmost gallery, Change ycul
doctor" Thank YOU for the hint.
said the Cardinal, Il will" And re
d d, becoming from that time a total
abstaiuer.
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Ten TO One.

Where the saloon exists it damns
ten souls for every Z that all the
churches save. 1t cannot be right
and nothing ian make it right, that
all these forces of love and pity and
philanthropy, the life-forces Of any
nation, should be perverted and rem
dered barren by tic wanton selfish.
hess of the careless. She ignorant, the
Indifferent and the bad.-Dr. Charles
F. Aked, in Appleton'S.
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Caribou Herd of 100000.

What is probably the largest herd
of caribou on earth, numbering, &C
cording to Chris WilliamE and other
arrivals at Dawson from Ladue Val
ley, half a million, is trekking in the
course of a sudden change of winter
quarters from Sixty-Mile Creek to the
Tanana River, the line of march
being from eighteen to twenty miles
in width
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Distinguished and Redeemed.

Whatever may be the defeats OF
this age, it is distinguished and re
deemed by its deep interest in for
eign MISSIONS; in the far future this
feature of u generation will be rec
ognized as its chief glory.-Eev. w.
L. Watkinson.
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Owner of Historical Mantel.

William Hemstreet, of Brooklyn,
y. Y, is the owner Of the mantel be-
fore which Edgar Allan Poe sat when
he wrote his masterpiece, THE Ra-
ven." He will shortly, it is said, pre-
sent it to the Columbia University,
where it willhave a conspicuous place
in the library.
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New Torks Varied Restaurants.

New York City has more restau-
rants than any other city in the
world, and they represent the en-
tremes of the good and the bad, with
fewer Of the middle grade than either
Paris or London.
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New Worlds Bowling Record.

The worlds bowling record for
tournament scores was broken at the
State Bowling Tournament, Column
bus, Ohio, the Krollman fve-man
team from Cincinnati scoring a total
of 1881 in three games, beating the
record of the Bonds fve-man team
of Columbus, made at the tournament
at Cincinnati last year, by four
noinrS-
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BE Ever Mindful.

A Christ about whom you do not
think is as good as a dead Christ, as.
far as you are concerned.-ReY. DR..
McLaren.
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Increase i'm Horses,

The number of horses in the
United States is given at 2~0,640,0O0,
an increase over last year Of 64S.000.
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The inventor of the roller skate
was a Dutchman named Merlin, who
came to England in 1850. Eight
years later he exhibited a pair Of
skates contrived to run on wheels" az
a museum in Spring Gardens, Lon
don.
Paris is experimenting with what
is called steel pavement. 1t is really
a concrete pavement reinforced with
a steel framework. The metal part
of the pavement is q plate Of perfor-
ated steel, with strong bolts of steel
running through it between the per-
f%orations. Each section has some re-
semblance to a steel harrow, only the
prongs project equally on each side
and they are square and blunt. It
will be superior to asphalt in ulti-
mate economy and to wood in the
better footing thatit affords to horses.
The elasticity and hardness of rub
Der are now determined by an appar-
atus akin to the s~chleroscope, which
shows the hardness OF steel by the re.
bound of a pointed steel hammer. A
sharp point is forced into the rubber,
and the force exerted and the depth
of penetration are automatically re-
corded on graduated circles, a COM
bination Of these indications giving
the degree Of hardness. The elastic
ity is shown by the height of rebound
Of a steel ball when dropped upon
the rubber from a measured height.
The apparatus is simple, and easily
and rapidly tests the relative value Of
different specimens of rubber.
The electric fish of the Nile, of
which the Egyptians made pictures
thousands Of years ago, still inhabit
the waters of that river. They are
provided with an electrical organ
which incloses the whole body. 1t is
situated in the skin, and under a mi
croscope is seen to be composed Of
millions of beautifully formed little
disks, superimposed upon connected
rows of minute compartments, in
which are the terminals of nerves.
The shock is produced by an intense
current thai ~traverses the entire or
gan from the head to the tail of the
fish. 1t stuns small fish. The cleo
tro-motive force in a fish eight inches
long can attain a maximum of 200
volts. A single giant nerve cell at
the head Of the spinal column is the
source of the impulses.
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PIT I'm Whisky Against Bibles.

"If the ~so-called reformers of Des
Moiues insist on interfering with oul
business as we conduct it under the
law. or try to drive us out of bust.
ness, we will see which will go the
farthest in the fght-a barrel OF
whisky or a bus,lel of Bibles" said
George Judd. who was recently
elected president of the Des Moines
Retail Liquor Dealers Association.
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E2F1oNPPTEE4kE


The value Of red light in prevent
ing the sufferers being marked ry
smallpox was scientifically discovered
anew a few years ago by Finsen oi
the violet light rays fame.
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Boston has apparently v:ted for
license by from 5000 to 10000 votes.
a reduction of about one-hnlf f"Or
the majority of last year.
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Lightning Helps Convict Escape.

When a flash of lightning put out
the lights in the county Jail at Spring
field, Mo-, Oscar Rowe escaped to
freedom through a coal chute.
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Great Crops in
Western Canada
Canadian Correspondence

Canadian Correspondence:
During the early days In the growth
OF the crop in Western Canada, as well
as throughout the ripening and garner
ing period, there is yearly growing an
increasing interest throughout the Uni
ted States, as to the probable results
when harvest is completed. These
mean much to the thousands of Ameri-
cans who have made their home in
some one of the three Provinces that
form that vast agricultural domain, and
Is OF considerable interest TO the
friends they have left behind them.
The ear 1909 is no disappointment;
1t will bring comfort and happiness,
wealth and luxury to those who are
following agriculture as a pursuit in
the country now occupying so much of
the attention of the worId-of this con-
tinent in particular. Reports from the
grain fields warrant the note of opti-
mism that has been so prominent DUR
Ing the past few months. The crops OF
wheat, oats and barley have been har-
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from $40 to $50 per acre. Already the
homestead and presumption lands are
being we'll filled.
In the district of Calgary and In Cen
trail Alberta, since the report Of a year
ago was made, the increased acreage
In crop has been remarkable. The new
ly-arrived settler has got to work and
with the steam-plow and ordinary
methods of farming a large amount Of
new land is contributing to the wealth
of the country. Railroads have pro-
jected and built branches which reach
out l~aterally from the main line, and
1t is now possible to reach parts rich
in agricultural possibilities that were
not accessible a year ago. Towns have
come into existence during that time
that will soon become cities; schools
and churches have been erected
throughout the country districts; tele-
phone lines have been constructed, and
en- air of prosperity is everywhere APP
carent. There are to be found those
who speak of a pioneering life in
western Canada, but as man said.
III this is pioneering ! don't for the
ufe Of me see what our forefathers had
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seem a reflection on the intelligence OF
the reading public to repeat ii, 1t Is
not proposed to do so. Its Topographic
cal characteristics are divergent. There
Is the level prairie with its rich deep
loan and underlying subsoil, the high
er and rolling lands with their groves
of timber, the wooded lands rich In
soil. The wants of all can be supplied;
some a one kind and some another
and they can all be suited, The man
who ant to put in his steam plow
and force the energies Of h soil Into
immediate production al be suited,
and 20 can the man who wishes large
tracts for the same purposes, and az
the same time enjoy the companion
ship of the timber. In many parts II
Is possible to have a hundred mile
square of wheat, without a break. A
writer says: I'VE were driven west and
north OF Moose Jaw through 20 miles
Of dead ripe wheat, acres Of stocks and
well-worked summer -fallows. One OF
these fields would yield 40 bushels to
the acre, and another man had oats
that would yield 80 or 100 bushels to
the acre. In this district wheat will
average 30 to 30 bushels. the conul-
tions were never better and through
out the district the people are assured
of a most prosperous year" In b
Melfort district, three hundred miles
in another direction, we hear of a far
mer whose yield of oats will run from
IS to 100 bushels per acre; then tray-
el;2g over another stretch Of three
hundred miles the Pipestone district in
Manitoba is reached and we learn Of
more 30 and 40 bushels to the acre
crops Of wheat. So it will be seen that
the splendid crops are not confined to
one district. but are general throughout
the entire country.
Speaking Of his experiences while
travelling through the Canadian West,
Thomas c.. ShotwelI, financial Editor
Of the New York American. said that
heretofore he had entertained optimis-
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to complain Of" He 6sdn't n1cw.
though, for the pioneering or his
~forefathers was discomfort n hard
ship. The opening up and development
OF western Canada, with its railroad
lines to carry one to almost the utter
most part of 1t, the telegraph line TO
Hash the news to the other outside
world. the telephone 10 talk to ones
neighbor, the daily and weekly mail
service which brings and carries letters
to the friends In distant parts; the
schools headed by college-bred and
highly : certihcated teachers; the
churches manned by brilliant divines;
the clubs; the social and festive life;
what is there about any of this to give
to the man who goes there to make
his home the credit Of being q pioneer?
Nothing! He might as well be in any
Of the old middle west states.
A few years ago when this country
was not as well known as to-day there
was some Justification in long-winded
attempts to educate the reader on con-
ditions there, 70 tell him OF its geo.
graphical relation with the United
States, but with about 400,000 Ameri-
cans now there writing back to their
friends, with the mass Of literature
that has been placed in the homes OF
farmers In every State OF the Union
and the thousands of columns descrip-
tive of the country that have appeared
in newspapers and magazines, it would
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tic views regarding the Canadian rail-
roads and lands, but his trip has con-
Vinced him, not only of the ~soundness
OF his views, but 1t also has established
he conviction that the great expan-
sion OF the next few years will be In
Canada's western areas. II have never
seen such wheat" said he.
1t takes an army OF men TO handle
he Western Canada crop, and Ii is
estimated that 10000 people have been
brought In this year to assist In the
great undertaking; there being excur-
sions from the outside world nearly
every day for the past six weeks.
In this article no attention has been
given to the growth OF fax which has
had great attention paid to 1t in some
districts. 1t is safe to say that In addi-
ton to the 12o million bushels of
wheat, the ITO million bushels OF oats
and the 30 million bushels of barley,
there will be over two million bushels
Of fax. The approximate value or all
these crops may safely be put at One
Hundred and Sixty Million Dollars, as
against a total OF lis million dollars
In 1908,
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vested and it is now safe to speak Of
results. Throughout the entire grain
growing area of 10000 square miles
there a been a uniform production
and a high average. Careful estimates
place the yield of spring wheat at 80
ush pei acre, winter wheat at over
40 bushels and oats exceed so bushels
per acre. Barley also has proved an
abundant yield. What will attract the
reading public more than volumes Of
hgures will be the fact that those who
have been induced through the inlu-
ence or the Government to accept Of
1Se acres Of free grant land, or, by the
persuasion Of friends to leave their
home State of Dakota, Minnesota,
Iowa, Illinois, Michigan, Indiana, Ohio,
Nebraska or the otner States from
which people have gone, have done
well. Financially, they are in a better
position than many Of them ever x
pected to be, and in the matter OF
health, in social conditions, they have
lost nothing.
The columns of Canadian newspa-
pers are filled with accounts Of this
years harvest, writers vying with each
other in giving the proper coloring to
their reports. These make ex%hilarating
reading to the man who has interests
In that country. Lethbridge people
claim it to be the keystone of Southern
Alberta, while Calgary people claim
the same for their district. 1t was In
this district that the growing Of win
ter wheat in western Canada o~riginat-
ed. Its success there led the farmers
east and west of it to experiment and
what can now be said of one part may
well be said of the whole. In a few
years from now these great plains over
whose breadth for years roved hun
dreds of thousands of heads of cattle,
following the millions Of buffalo that
once grazed their grasses, will be a
solid grain field covering a territory Of
over $4,000 square miles, and very lit
tie OF 1t but what will yet be worth
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STUDYING INSECTS
TO SAVE THE NATION

From the Philadelphia North American.
Miss Evelyn Mitchell, one of the
youngest, yet one OF the most promt-
nent. women scientists I'm the employ
OF the United States government, has
had q busy summer. 1t has not been
an idle season. spent at some seaside
or mountain resort, for this widely
known expert on life in" the insect
world.
Miss Mitchell loves the important
work which she Is doing for the gov
eminent at the Smithsonian institute,
yet, ~exacting as her duties are there,
she has found time to deliver lectures
on nature study n sanitation at a
summer school for teachers in Vir-
ginia. .-a ....
Scientists know her because of her
studies OF insects and her useful book
on mosquito life. They are awaiting
with interest the appearance or a
volume which she Is preparing on
gnats, t..
This talented and studious young
woman Is a native of East Orange, N.
J., and a graduate Of Cornell univer-
sity. Miss Mitchell went to h ma
tional capital In 1904, and since then
the government.
She partly worked her way through
college, and attracted SO much atten-
ton by her earnestness Of purpose n
success as a student that she was made
an instructor OF field zoology at the
Cornell summer camp.
At that time the late DIR. j. w. Du-
pree, & general of Louisiana,
was engaged in a determined campaign
against the mosquito. and he applied
20 Cornell for a first class man" to be
sent, as field and laboratory assistant
in MOSQUITO Investigations to the
State university, of Louisiana. +
DIR. Dupree vas considerably aston
lshed when he found his first class
man to be a fair faced girl just out
of college, but he soon had reason to
congratulate himself upon the selection
that had been made for him, Miss
Mitchells work compelling his warm
est admiration.
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SHOWED IT.
Effect of Their Warm Drink I'm the
Morning.

Effect of Their Warm Drink I'm the
Morning.
"A year ago / was a wreck from
coffee drinking and was on the point
of giving up my position In the school
room because OF nervousness.
II was telling a friend about 1t and
she said, We drink nothing at meal
time but Postum, and it is such a
comfort to have something we can
snjoy drinking with the children
II was astonished that she would
allow the children to drink any kind
of coffee, but she said Postum was the
most healthful drink In the world for
children as well as for older ones, and
that the condition of both the chill
dren and adults showed that to be a
fact.
my first trial was a failure. The
cook boiled It four or Ave minutes and
II tasted 80 nat that l was in despair
but determined to give 1t n more
trial. This time we followed the d.
rections and boiled it fifteen minutes
hII0T Luo wiling oc6oh. was W.
cided success and I was completely
won by It's rich. delicious flavor. In q
short time I noticed q decided Inn
proyement In my condition and kept
growing better and better month after
month, until now I am perfectly
healthy, and do my work in the school
room with ease and pleasure. I would
not return to the nerve-destroying
regular coffee for any money"
Read the famous little Health Clas-
sic" 'The Road to MELVILLE" in pkgs.
There's a Reason"
Ever read the above letter? A
new one appears from time to time.
They are genuine, true. and full OF
human interest.
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CHAPTER VIII.
AN AFTER DINNER A


Easiness. the falling of the old
world Irlshman, had been Uncle Ulick's
bane through life. 1t was easiness,
which had induced him to condone a
b~aseness In his nephew which he would
have been the first to condemn in a
stranger. Again, it was easiness which
had beguiled him into standing idle
while the brothers influence was creep
ing like strangling ivy yer the girls
generous nature. But, above all, 1t was
easiness which had induced Uncle
Ulick to countenance in Flavia those
romantic notions, now fast developing
into full blown plans, which he, who
knew the strength Of England and the
weakness OF Ireland, should have been
the 1lrst to nip in the bud.
He had not nipped them. Instead, he
had allowed the reckless patriotism or
the young O'Beirnes, and the simulat-
ed enthusiasm-for simulated he knew
it to be-of the young McMurrough to
guide the politics of the house and to
bring 1t to the verge of e crisis. For
he, too, was Irish! He, too, felt his
heart too large for his bosom when he
dwelt on his country's wrongs. On
him, too, though he knew that sue
cessful rebellion was out of the ques-
ton, Flavia's generous Indignation,
her youth, her enthusiasm, wrought
powerfully.
AT this point arrived John Sullivan,
q man Of experience. His very aspect
sobered Uncle Ulick's mind. The latter
saw hat only a blacker anc more hope
less night could follow the day of
vengeance of which he dreamed: and
he sat this evening-while Asgill talked
on the hill with The McMurrough-
and was sore troubled. Was II, or was
it not, too late? Meanwhile Flavia
sat on a stool on the farther side OF
the blaze, brooding bitterly over the
loss of her mare: and he knew that