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OSIERY that will stand up and look well-- that's what a man wants. It's an to be. Sresiastingly poiine lor, and weight for every _ Simply say Penmans insurance. THE LAPSE OF ENOCH WENTWORTH By ISABEL GORDON CURTIS, Author of * The Woman from Wolvertons" CHAPTER XV.--(Cont'd). "Who was George?" asked Merry. "George took care of me on the way over on the big ship. I slepb in a little bed over his. I hope I will never see George again." "Wasn't he kind to you?" Dorcas. "Not--very kind." The child paus- ed a moment. "I don't believe George understands little boys--blind boys, I means," "Was George a relative?" - "No, He came to the home to take me to America. That was what Father Shannon said." "What home 7" "The home for little blind boys. There were handreds of little blind boys there." "Haven't you any relatives?" ask- ed Merry. "Why, yes, I have my mother. 'A mother is quite a close relative, isn't she?" "She certainly is," agreed the actor hastily. "I mean, haven't you any other relative in England 7" >» "There is Aunt Fannie. She is not a real aunt, though. She used to know mother, and sometimes she came to See me at the home." Dorcas lifted him into a chair be- side the table. Mrs, Volk set a plate in front of him. She had cut the chicken and potato into small pieces. "Can you feed yourself, dear?" she asked hesitatingly, "Why, yes." There was atone of grown-up dignity in Robin's voice, "I have fed myself ever since I was a little boy." There were tears in the girl's eyes while she watched him eat. He was still such a little boy! He had dainty, . well-bred ways, Once he apologized as he accepted a second helping of meat. "I could not eat on the ship to-day," he explained. "Things were nasty. Besides, I could not think of anything but meeting mother. Do you think ~ she will be in soon?" Merry pulled out his watch. "Julie, . it is half-past six. Run upstairs again and see if Miss Paget has come in Remember, n not a word about the sur- asked watching them. The child returned in a few minutes. "She has just come in." "Oh," cried Julie, "there's ice cream. You have not had any ice cream." "I am nob hungry. I want to go to my mother. You see I have been thinking about my mother for years and years." "Do you remember .her?" asked Merry. Robin hesitated. "Aunt Fannie says Ican because I was alittle baby when she went away. I think--I re- member her." "Come with me," said Merry. "Don't you believe that I had better take him?" said Dorcas, "Miss Paget may have beglan to dress." Merry nodded. "Am I spick and span?" asked Rob- in anxiously. "Aunt Fannie said mother is beautiful and elegant and famous, I want her to see that I am nice enough to be her little boy." Dorcas dropped on her knees be- side him. She untied the small bow at his collar and made it into a fresh knot, "Why, you will be her pride and joy." There wag a look of tense anxiety in the child's face. "Do you think so really? I am more trouble than lit- tle boys who--can see, I can't dress myself all oven, and I can't part my hair straight. 1'can't always find things. Sometimes," Robin's voice dropped to a whisper, "sometimes I'm ncdred when I'm alone; I get afraid on the streets if they are noisy." Dorcas laid her face against the soft-cheek and whispered something in the child's ear. Robin's face shone with joy. "I am glad you think so. There is just one thing," his voice had a regretful tone in ib, "I wish you had been my mother, I like you." The girl held him out at arm's length for a moment, "I am wishing the same thing. I like you!" He took her hand and they climbed the stair which led to the upstairs dressing-room. Dorcas felt' an un- spoken terror. She looked back from the head of the stairs. Merry stood She beckoned him, and he followed with a few, springing steps. They paused for a moment outside the door of Miss Paget's room. | When Dorcas tapped, Robin was cling- ing to her hand with a grip which al- most hurt. Zilla Paget stared at them with still curiosity. She sat in front of the and Ted 'him' downstairs. "Dor } entered the dressing-room. Miss Paget elt wii Shim; Boi 'how 1 % Sis ; him! I suppose you and your saintly | Hd Mr. Ocwsld are bent on ruining my 0 7 he Sine A d the woman' shrill abuse.. He took Robin by the hand reas re- pine Lage was tossing through a heap of posal' which lay on her table as if in of something. She picked up a sheet | of paper and stood reading it. A sav- age smile convulsed her -handsomé face. "J know now who 'did it," she cried. "That was the revenge he meant, the bally old rotter! I'll get even with him!" "You don't want your little boy, then?" asked Dorcas. She turned on the girl in blank life! | amazement. "Want that blooming, batty, imbe- cile Rob Tully's child? Not on your He goes back to the asylum where he came from. I can get the law on them for giving him up with- out his mother's consent." "His mother!"" cried Dorcas. "You do not act the part of 'Mrs. Ester- brook'!" There was an ugly tone in Zilla Paget's laugh. "I have heard that before. Mr. Oswald was once so com- plimentary as to tell me something of the sort. Now, perhaps you will be polite enough to clear out. And be- fore you go, let me give you a bit of advice; my lady; keep your nose out of my business if you have any re- gard for your own happiness!" Dorcas turned to the door. The woman laughed as she closed ib be- hind her. She pauced for a minute in the empty hall trying to think of wha could be said to the child downstairs, If the woman had struck him in the face, it would have been easier to re- cover from such a blow. Dick came dashing mp the stairs. "First call," he shouted hoarsely. She ran down to her own room. Mrs. Volk sat in a low chair with Robin.' in her arms, cuddling "him against _her breast and crooning to him as if he were a baby. : She look- ed up at Dorcan with pitiful eyes. "Let me take him, Alice. I have plenty of time to dress after Julie goes outs She needs you to button her frock and fix her hair." Robin did not speak when Alice laid him in her arms. His slender body was limp and quiet. Dorcas had nev- er known any little boy intimately, and she did not know. exactly how to Abo éomfort him. It occurred to her that if she were in Robin's place she would not want anybody to speak of what had happened; She. bent down and touched his face with her-lips. When the door' closed and Mrs. Volk went out with Julie, he asked in a whisper, "I don't belong then--to the--lady --upstairs, do I?" are the most valued outside, where he | could not [her "No, dear," there: was athrill of ' voice, "no, you 'have' belonged to y ns 'made a mistake--an lawful mistake." : . "Then--do you know--who I do be- Tong to?" "Robin," asked' Dorcas gently; "do you still wish that I were your woth- er?" "His arm clasped onvulsively about "neck, and 'the body shook would like--to elons to some- " 3 5 assurance in I "Well," said the girl decisively, "I 'want you---forever--as my own little boy. Shall we shake hands on it?" The small fingers were thrust into her own with a clinging grip. That night at the close of the see- ond act the audience sat breathless for a few moments. "Cordelia," with her face glowing beneath the rouge, turned in response to "Mrs. Estérbrook's" last plea. - "Stay with you because you are my mother? How dare you take the word 'mother' upon. your lips? Do you know what that word stands for? I wonder if it would be possible to make you understand. It means loye-self-denying, strong, tender de- votion; it means faithful wifehood: Have you ever given that? The wo- man who-is a good wife and mother forgives and forgets and loves. Be- hind it all stands love, simply love, un- gelfish love. I believe in God, bud to-day I cannot understand why he should have allowed a woman such as you aré to have become a wife and a mother--my mother!" The curtdin fell, Dorcas had reach- ed her dressing-room when she had to. turn and fly black to the stage. The applaiase had grown to a tumult. Zilla' Paget stood by'her gide When the cur- tain rose. She was smiling a stage smile. upon .the< audience, but. the. glance she turned upon Dorcas. was on of malignant hatred, (To be continued). Little Disturbance in the Capture of od Chinese: Town. "rhe province of Chékiang, 'where 1 Was "Interndd" for four weeks, writes a correspondent of the Christian. Her , gives a good illustration of the volutionary spirit all over China, ut 4 o'clock one April. morning we were awakened by'the' fing of three or four guns. I lazily said to myself as I turned over to go to sleep again, #The revolution is on," but I did not redlly belleve that with so little dis- turbance anything serious could have happened. But in a "tow hours I found that, 1 had guessed right; military Governor, had been called out of bed by the leading revolutionists and had been given his choice to join them or leave Hangchow. He chose the latter horn of the dilemma. Where- upon the independence of Chekiang was declared, the civil Governor was chosen tutuh and proclamations were posted on the walls declaring the pro- | vince independent and that law and order must be preserved and looting would be punished. To be sure, during the first hour or two the old Governor's yamen or palace was looted by his former body- , who, I suppose, thought it was their legitimate booty ; but otherwise there was no disturbance, no blood: shed, only excitement and ul for a day or two. After this business went on as usual, except that the banks were naturally chary ahiout, loan: a f ----e She Had Studied the Spores. ERR that the 'tutuh, or 4 Ross in Sipping: Uncleaned Gea. : 2 comer fo reo th! trina es al Re : a M00) tous) 80 na grain : on mich the grower pave the freight, and for which he geiy of Foburs, This_ represents a loss of agi Lof. a. milli which could be. obviated if these fine seeds were re- moved before the grain is shipped. The manufacturers of threshing ma- chines are finanimous in stating that | science their machines aré or may be fitted with screens and operated to ceparate a large part of the screenings at the time of threshing. The remaining 60 per cent. of the cleanings is good feed, and if it could be retained on the farm' would mean a double saving bo the 'grain grower. At least the fine seeds should and could be removed at threshing time, re Sugar Beet Tops for Silage. Silage beet tops cut and left in piles N in the field after harvesting the beets, will make a fair grade of silage when run through a silage cutter with an equal amount of corn fodder. At the Wisconsin Station it was found that the silage had a somewhat strong odor but it was not offensive. The cows seemed to relish it, and did as well as on the regular corn silage. Chemical analysis showed that the silage had practically the same com- | position as clear corn silage. By throwing the beet he onto a pile of corn and cutting both er no difficulty was experienced in ensiling. Enough water was added: to the cut material to give it the pro- per moisture s content, and make it pack well when two men tramped it during the time of filling, silage |. "YA man Von's 'wear a thing that unp just~ because t a woman would rather look like an organ dler's {monkey than be out of style. "When aman is ldoking for trouble few of his friends are too' busy to assist' him in the search, - § be d vinces of the Dominion, : population; for the encouragement of education in culture and domestic .- In the initiatory year, 1918- '14, $700,000 was to be divided. Each year the amount was to be increased by $100,000, until 1917-18, when the 'grants under this' arrangement will have reached a total of $1,100,000, at which they are:to.remain until 1928, wher the ten million dollars will have been exhausted. 'The sums received by the different provinces for the year ending March 81st next will be as follows:. Prince Edward Tina ..$ 80,448.75 caravan 04 350,28. 301,158. 45 70,767.21 74.869. 16 Ontario; «v..oi viens Manitoba .- rs wae en Saskatchewan . ......... 61,747.22 Alberta . British Columbia. | ceveenen 68,782.50 By the aliliof these grants, agricil- tural education and domestic science knowledge hds been greatly benefited and extended all over the School buildings have been erected,' college buildings dings have been extended .|and increased in number, experienced toners Heh' Be om a ntative an 'county have' been expenses met, demonstrations in all branches of agriculture and short courses have been erally. arranged, i. been J Be has been benefited, a and ~ practice. of domestic. sei ad phe SE BE helped id initiated and school and home gardening greatly developed:' In short the beneficial influence of the Act ¢is making felt 'in every irection | that ture 'and home- "These Honest, Time-Tr ie d Ingredients-- In RAMSAY PAINT you et. th er ens. You own 200d Jutlgn i: MSs the n most accurate 'and thorough you no better aster painters will tell 550 ie, wl tell you that den 16 machine mixing * gE iinh and id for the odd jobs Youdo. urself get : local Ramsay dealer ot wri he maitacurers, a treasure on the pre- serve shelf, mirtor while the colored maid Emiline brushed her hair. It hung to her {waist in leg, shining waves. Her: | forehead wrinkled for a moment * in perplexity. She could not sce Robin's face. He was hiding behind" : th in her