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THE FATE OF © Or, Tho Sonth African Millionaire, again, the old Judith grown. becatise of her security; old Judith who could not be content with. love alone or even passion, who must needs throw down the gauntlet to adventure. ", er equal in birth. And because she félt the power of the man, some- ng within her arose to defy him, insidious voices, which had been her undoing when quite a you girl whispered that it was amusing to play. with fire. ere had been more than one scene during the last : two months. Once he had taken her away from a dance, and once he had threatened to shut up the house in Park Lane, and take her to South Africa. "You wouldn't dare," she had said to him, with that indomitable cour- age which le could not help admir- ing the while he tried to dominate her I. "All London would talk of it, they would say I had left you because of that Kaffir woman." And he had laughed. But he was not laughing this morn- ing, but he was sad, and when he left the house Azuma had noted the grow-| ing gloomy expression of his face. He was not happy, her "Baas," was the fault of his wife, this beauti- *ful white woman who was the daugh- ter of 4 great English chief, but who: had no heart. is-morning she had | been more than usually -cold, and laughed at his idea of a faniily din- ner. "Are we to be as German as all that?" she had said, that what she meant was that it was not only German, but burgeois, mid- dle-class. "Do you mind if I want the world to know that I am glad 1 married ou ?" he had asked her with his usual nderness, and she had given expres- sion to the lurking jealousy by the taunting words: "Are you quite sure that you aren't sorry you didn't Jarry Azuma?" es, this morning he was aware that there was an atmosphere strained moods in his beautiful home, strained, principally because Judith' refused. to be happy, and he had no- "'ticed with a species of 'anxiéty, that there was a tacit feud between the two women, that Judith treated Azuma with unveiled ° dislike, while Azuma's face changed whenever she caught sight of Judith or even heard her voice in the distance. And he| knew that this was all that Judith could build her attacks upon him, her | irritated phases, her ever-increasing | coldness. He had lavished costly gifts upon her this morning, gifts not only which had cost thousands of pounds, but which each of them denoted the wa he thought of her, the trouble he took! to please her, the way he anticipated her wishes. But he had own to realize that he was paying the penalty of unlimited wealth, that he had giv- en her all that a woman could want, r even dream about, that it was no Pa by gifts that he could win her, that the tussle. now, was between his mind and hers, his pride and hers, his 'temperament and hers, a clashing of wills in which he would come out the conquerer by force, if" necessary, but only when 'he had exhausted 'every method of love, Even to-day, their wedding day, this morning, standing within sight of all he had given her, with his kisses on her lips still warm, she had almost quarrelled with him. He had purchased a little gift for Ju- dith to give to Azuma, "I wish you would give her this yourself," he had said:: "She will ap- _ preciate it so much, and I want her to remember our first wedding day." "Oh, my dear Adolphe, for heaven's sake give it to her yourself, she posi- tively hates me, I know, and as for you, why she adores you; for heaven's sake don't ask me to do anything so distasteful. You know that' I can't bear the woman." § Now in his office he asked himself whether it was his duty to send her away, his "Hagar," as Judith-ealled her sometimes when she was in a good temper, asked himself this, giv- en over to petplexity and doubt, the while he told himself that the cruelty {ing so would in ilself work his , even if there was nothing in the 'luck she brought him. Had he tried too much, asked too much? that f a seul revealed. believe 'that "Judith is she had said to in the "those loyely smetale and all e the man, toi er and for the first time it occurred to Lady G! urt that the [an and the emeralds were indivis- e. They had all an gown na 80 8sing- tumbling about it which been considered almost a sin to stitel upon a wedding gown. For once 'she had done as he wanted, and given up going. out anywhere, thou; h she was idden to quite a dozen places. "No, this night is mine," he "had said, in that strangely moving way of his, which was half ' domineering, half caressing, but which rarely failed of effect, although she would never have owned it. How strange it was that as she sat there' and waited, knowing that he would come presently and smoke a cigar on the terrace and be, oh so tender, because it was their wedding night, the anniversary of it, her heart should beat so. Why was that she always felt like this about him, anxious for him to come to her, now, and Judith er terrace wra 'with goo would have and it| Yet angry with herself because it was | satis so, venting on him the irritation she felt at having to go through London as the wife of a Jew millionaire, ra- ther than the wife of a man of her own world. i Presently the soft cool evening be- an to do its work of soothing the nerves, of calming her, the while and he knew | thought revolved like the tunes of a' barrel organ, now sad, now lively, now and then seeming to touch some- thing within which brought' physical pain, -hideous remembrances like that of the little child who had died in the convent at Paris, hideous yet pathetic remembrances of agony and shame. The sounds, the sullen roar which had seemed to: her so significant in the morning, reached her now as if grown soft beneath the velvet touch of the night, carriages wheeled by in the lane belowy and not-ifar away where a party was going on at a did not regret that she was not with the throng. i Always, theré was something of ter- ror mingled with her excursions into society. Now and theh she - would come across Sir Hubert Gresham, and his stiff bow would give her a feeling of discomfort for the whole evening. Once she had met George Danvers and wondered how he had interpreted her silence, whether hé knew. Now and then suddenly, she would ask her- self how many of the crowd which surrounded her knew; whether every- one knew and laughed 'at her pride, at her insolent manner, at her exclu- siveness, J Now to-night, she felt a return of her terror, lest one day Adolphe should hear, and the while shé longed to have the courage to tell him, and she told herself that because she was she, and he was he, she would "never tell; an intense doubt of 'what he would .do if he found out that he had been duped. And with the doubt, a feeling of Zeljance, of comfort, which seem emphasized. . and express now and then. by comfortable little sounds issuing from the cages. o sleeping birds, as they drew closer to each other on their perches, And 'while "The Day about to yield his breath, : : Utters the stars unto the listening Night" - husband tell ek something ~~ w] prove his love, something w put her mind at rest he it ever, and whieh she ought to 'which he would like to tell night, while the mood of X was Epon her, lest one. day she shi try his patience too much, should be led to tell her in a fit of governable rage. And she, because | women are created in that way, be- | cause they can never leave well i] hor rest content till they have to the core of things, torn I 0) leaf of the rose to see what pi i a core lies within, pulled the sawdust out of the doll, even if the destruction of the doll brings sorrow and despair and bitter grieving tears, because she of 'all women morbidly $njoyed p y- ting 'around truths 'she dared' not ut- ter, hurried what he had to tell her what 'he had not even made up his | mind-t-tell her, much as he wanted, to know. He had 'exhausted now the fulness of his vocabulary of love, re ed her of the days which seemed so dis- tant and yet so close when he had her, and 'yet felt that if she did not m him no other woman would ever y him.. He had reminded her of nights like this in South Africa, when the still moon had been the only wit- ness of his passion, when he had play- ed to her upon their wide veran and the voice of 'the jackal far away, had seemed to answer with a wailing call, He was her lover to-night, an ardent, picturesque, poetic lover, and his voice thrilled her. Here, far away from everybody, with the conscious- ness of revels going on in this and that where she was € would not appear, with a hot bre , almost like that of the desert raising here and there a leaf from a plant, or| the laces from the 'wris 1 Jay | so-close to his lips, she allowed hers to glide along the stream whose mur- muring fascinated her at night, wh in the broad daylight she Tepudiated it, afraid almost of whither it might Yes, it was her own voice 'and lead to. *{ house in Park Lane, she could hear i % the strains of music, Yet to-night she | which invited him. to tell "And then, when, when did": you feel that you could speak to ri led you to propose that day? Was it { Azuma who told you that I would ' bring you luck?" ~ A faint jealousy, a touch of cynicism pierced again, and he shrugged his shoulders impa- tiently. ' "Oh, Azuma," he didn't want to talk about Azuma, she never could i understand the part Azuma played in his life, or pretended not to.' : "It was a coincidence, a chain of thought, perhaps." | "Something I said then, you hadn't meant to propose that day, not. the day we came to tea, the day you play- ed the violin to us," { She gave a little inward laugh , the idea of how certain she ha that day that he would propose, how | little' after all one could read what ; was going on around one; guess at the thoughts of others. She might after , all have come and gone and he sai nothing... . . "I had not intended to. do so unless i | 1 at} been! something occurred to make me think] ti that you would josept me, 1 shouldnt, have liked to have n refused you know." : "And what made you think I would accept you?" - "Something someone told me." "Someone told you?" clutch at her Why did somethin , heart as he spoke, why did the vision ee even, only must keep quiet, kee; et silence Must keep quiet, p qui ; And he too hesitated, hoping that she would tell him herself, surrender all her past to him, as. se had sur-| rendered her future, so that she could live anew, rest on his love, Yet she did not do =o did not surprise im, it 'was na that any wom fed terrible is ride shou .| even without Judith's nurse f & told you? To herself her voice sounded like that of someone else far away. "He, a man told me that once you had been very unhappy, that a great wrong been done you, that you earth could anyone have it | fondly loved her and dared not tell; had had a child." ' (To be continued.) CS "" What Italy Gives the Allies | proper materials, { Indo od fowls. fete anes ion sly mes ol closely, for it does not pay to honed idlers. ; & gi 0 not attempt too muckh-to accom- plish thoroughly, |= = Re " Every insect left to mature will de- crease the profiits of the flock. F-i-1-t-h spells failure. RRs Good stock is the best foundation but it must be handled with common sense, Hens are not magicians; so cannot maunfacture eggs unless given the lence and poultry-breeding make a combination which would pt a wealthy financier. Just a little observation will prove that the I-know-it-alls never make When Italy joined the Allies an- other figure was added to the column which will ultimately disprove the lace | doctrine of force alone which the ~ --;. Kaiser adopted. In explaining what he consider the perfidy of Italy, Chancellor von Bethmann-Hollweg said in a speech before the Reichstag: "Germany's word guaranteed the Austrian concessions and there was no occasion to distrust the offer." The fact that Germany guaranteed the Austrian offers seemed to the Ger- ian « Chancellor icie ha of the rest of the wor! t - tee would not be held so. If the Teutonic allies lost, they would not be in.a position to guarantee or de- liver anything to Italy. If they won they might not be in a disposition to do so. However, the war should come out, the German guarantee of the Austrian promises was a slender reed for the Italians to lean on, par- ticularly with Belgium staring them in the face. ; A nation cannot go through ' the world invading other people's rights and breaking its own word, trusting only in the mailed fist of its land forces and fleet, without losing nearly all its friends. And no possible army and navy can recompense a nation for the loss of the friendship of the rest of the world. i But from whatever combination of | reasons Italy entered the war, its ac- nh has a great significance both: & Om military and political points of | The deciding military point in the x 2 the proure that: he Allies can 'put upon 'the German lines i France. Every man added to the Al- lies' line or every man taken from the 'German line helps the Allies, and vice To.most |. * successful poultrymen. Kindness shown to fowls pays in increased egg-supply, Lice multiply rapidly in uncleanly surroundings, g May chicks pushed to maturity, make fall layers to fill in the time hen earlier hatched g. Geof No mixed flocks can give the satis- faction of a single breed. One's favorite breed is usually the best with which to win success. Pullets should be' separsited from cockerels as soon as sex can be dis ckly kill 'the chicks 'which "are dwarfed or crippled when hatched. Rush young birds towards matur- ity if you wish large profits. Select breeders early and dispose of all other male birds. ; {and shift largely over feeding, careless * methods, Hens are Profitable Assets. Possibly no farm live stock pays as big a profit for food as do hens. Seems. strange, but true, that 'one egg will pay for the keep of a dozen hens one day. - | i he A hen if given a chance to® J will find a large part of her "feea d 'during certain seasons of the year will be able to lay a goodly num- ber of eggs without any further feed.' This fact has caused the hen in a great many instances to be neglected for - herself, Of course when thus disregarded cannot be expected to be as profit- able as 'when given good care and attention. The refuse from the kitchen can be profitably turned into ¢ rather than given to some wi 8s cats and dogs. The table scraps are excel lent diet. for fowls. 'Care must be exercised in feeding kitchen - or may gorge themselves on this salty food and great loss of fowls may. b encountered. - One who hs salted a quantity late in the s a no .J oi Try to waste no feed, either by versa. When Turkey entered the war 260,000 men were called from the Al- lies' line to take care of Turkey. This was all gain to Germany. When Italy joined the war 500,000 men left the Austrian-German lines. This was gain to the Allies. Of course, part of these men were on the Austrian frontier all the time, but they will now have to be continually reinforced and fed with ammunition. : On the sea, .too, the Italian fleet, |: which is more than a match for the Austrian fleet, will make the marine preponderance of the Allies greater than ever. - : : The Ttalian declaration of war toda half a million men from the Austrian lines against France and') Russia, and establishes a precedent for Roumania to do likewise, not to | mention releasing a portion of the Al- lied fleet which had been blockading' the Adriatic, : . ~ ~Did a Marathon. "So papa jumped from his chair when you asked him for my hand, And what did he say?" . "I'm not sure he said anything." : "Not.sure?. Didn't. you. hear--any« » Politically, the Italian declaration thing) of war set & precedent for Ro which \ EE il : bl 1 il gl a JAE] { il 7A i I ur IN I