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Love Kept Or, The Girl With: the Nut Brown Hair and Dreamy Eyes. Its Faith CHAPTER XXIV. Head rigidly erect, hands tight- Jy clasped behind him, anid the tangle of the bows, an in eee sought with agony of tout for ages father he a ine of fidelity—and he was here on the High seas, a prisoner en his rads shi p Ma nesty he re troth—and now he was as a moral renegade e sea ung itself around him on every han Uneanly. he looked about re of his Bounds and shared his watel, & To plihted eated but halted when the skipper hastily in fro n't Tet ee go. "there, sir.” eated— Sore ? m sorry, but— 8 “T ma: “phere,” he rep: nt, however, David tal abandoned his design on the cabin. The issue now was not one of accommodation but of ee hO EY ¢ skippe man on whom ap rye hear me, Ned Blain? Come her Blair dug his hands deep into his id rollea away forward. Lifted, not,» foot. stirred. “Dye hear, met” David cried again, be mped furiously upon ck, ‘You, Blair, and you, This Has can oanly tak’ ¢ captain’s order ¥ To must take mine. ‘Casson’s dismissed and I’m captain now.’ Btill they stood their ground. One after sonics he appealed to them by n in each case the response is flung at him with straight ahead, David paced | Gq bid tundeh n|ed, chilling sameness. “They could “oanly tak’ t? captain’s orders.’ ad them rewards; they “oanly tak’ t’ captain’s or- penalties a the law, but agai sheltered behind in they Goliath’s Anns r= Reuben Tickle declared that he'd given his word to stand by Goli- ath. Thereafter David struggled no had ve t a sign from the skipper, Jack Caote wishes and witl d to the verge of col- lapse, exhausted too by hunger, David offered no further resistance | ;, and scrambled down ae Tadelebs. is, ‘too, was part e Fact Hot from the galley aie Tae brought him a pannikin of strong tea with a Ute and utter. He rai i lips, sipped and eked “What is it, Jack?” “Tt’s 186 Master David.” See oked again into the panni- in ; ihe stuff was is color of Binds He pat ie Ae lown and took Jack; “By, it 8 bate ae flannel bread, an’ as it’s color, it’s like t’ tea How ? we've got aboard hunger helped him to a few morsels just pee to take the edge off his. appe' etter Meet hat happened to the ship—the fo’ etter fare than that— Jack say—lie down—yes, certain- guess you'll like a bunk bet- ter’n a hammock,’’ as he spread ‘a rough blanket over him; ‘‘a bunk’s easier to man. ’ a lot warmer "8 wu nerful hoe much heat these wooden walls e to store up. Nat peetincied iron “ships for Wooden C th derin’, r bit bairn’s rare awriddy That morning the crew of the Daniel were granted a maior holi- day. But for the sake of David’s the po ing occupations the ship became than the irrepressible sea. til the noontide s were suspen r more silent Not un- b were at Sine were g: imsel ing, he cast a curi- ous glance into the smoking tubs, wondered why the potatoes should He threatened the sternest | h@" in to his] gone b. second cousin to black, but — it’s|* _ififth day out she was. still beat: slumber, all discordant, echo-rais- |t ed, {self on @ be so deeply colored, and remarked see in the ete of OORT the ad q jogany tel like that, of salt junk when kept too lon: this must be fresh meat, for the Daniel was not yet portion of m all away into the refuse pocket: Wide awake now, ig him- self over the ledge and ieciod 0} of the is garments—he brig—were creased and frowsy, his mien eine “What is that stuff?’ he demand- ed; penne uy the tub of meat Yhat!?—Jack Currie could al- emergen' that’s nk.’ cents full MGgll bien: yh lust Nave teoste meat, that T order it. How far is all t fooling to be carried?’ “Tf we get fresh Beet dtl have to be cut off a sea cow,” Barney Rigg broke i reshness aboot Graham boats noo. we An’ even the junk's ad afore it was shown the brine tub.” “What Barney says is gospel,’ Jack Currie assured him;. “you'd 1a word fra any bit onli rede your manager tween, or you te have kenned it aw lang sin. thinkin’ we fared be pon your moneys pai stuff, bit ah ae an’ map- r decenter fed. afloat _ice oe ing to ae that? 8 oor best st. Your oan te wadn’t eat it.’ One fleeting, horrified tok into the excited, expectant faces crowd- ing about tle light. from his fingers the eee Up the ladder a file of jerseyed tars awiftly Se pint: ate Da alone. abomination. The man and his rk! CHAPTER XXY. winds on Daniel way, r-stretel mii: cinerea and when ng he Ris iagohed the about the narrows of the homeland None | 8¢4: iy its owner away S them, Goliath was struck by pid fact, the aie papante of self Pluming fie y, he forthwit! Sthennced 4 wy Saake Currie, who was taking his trick at the tiller, and ere ntly atom of vain 'y was brushed away. your pardon, Cap “but IT can’t ae Jess you, men chunner aboot Number Yan, bit wid most fwolk panies Yan’s nivver mnie tentit wid itse z you make that out, Goliath had learned ned ° How Jack?’ than one lesson from the queer ar. “Weel, v royals mains’l. Cap’ a you can begin at an till 7 iaietee himself were - | share. group. Hi had slept just as he boarded thet tossed in rank disorder, his} ashore.” ild. ways be depended on for a word) le: o-be- | you en you've. beenjat his j nk “tell you Honest ¢ that |an’ ats platisted on “fp d his side a wooden vessel of | por eel Slanting eee the unfr: Beg mort © ting , bey tion. S)three days varra ill content wid t? New Jern- salem till He’d med ate. ihe aw v poor, sin wracked, h laden men an’ women dooa here ae have a-chance 0” sharin it w: ‘im. There you’re on t’ come doon till t’ tops’ls; fadders an’ mudders nivver enjy owt un- less their childer have t?’ lion’s An’ after them you come till t’ bairns. who mun haye their eneuf on ’em for us, an’ we've at shully to manifacter mair. Pnat’s why we’ve aw furgitten oor oan consarns an’ are watchin’ Mais avid, an’ wonderin’ whether weather ¢’ point or run “An’ which is it going to be Jack; what a’. oe oe how is the cruise going t: “What you mind what epnenen when 9] laddie found o him aw res; an’ after that you had to tell him hoo Jang this had gone on, an’ what w s happenin’ an aw t’ other Geatial am boats. Weel, when he left you, Lheerd him say till himself, ‘They wantit to tell me an’ wees follow e of that aot any questions—he’ 8 5] raed se, an’ last neet I heerd him VaR ern tll himself away yonder, ayin’, “They wantit to tell me an? ik t listen,’ an’ after that, ‘I wonder—I wonder—I wonder, oh, if I only knew. Abrupt! helmsman ceased. Impatiently the skipper waited the bade him oe r to say, doggedly: repli of Ml se Sse as old Anyhow, what that opinion I asked you for? Per- u'll say that much.”’ “I think, Cap’n that we'll have a bit. mair wind an’ watter, an’ a bit less canvas Ae afwore nin’ .’? ee an expletive, the skipper bounced away to his cabin. sank braced himself to the. swing of the tiller. inion,” he grunted; ‘‘fash, reckon nowt on. cheap an’ the varra i ” wrangness, —I w ” wonder an’ e that tatetul moment back; we Nenee s mental atis now that miserably mean acts have been wrought in his name, and, in the yes of the world, with his sane- But beyond that point, there clearness of vision. For i soul have groped for illumination, and now, instead of light, the gloom is be- ing piled about him, fold upon fold, terror instea percepti Pausing in ke since he was forbidden the after age he has never allowed himself pass the forward hatch — he iceae upon the yin ane gazes from sea to sky and all around, ee be. nee ed. is no ” Jack N bout} stock is estimated at STANDARD. OIL COMPANY ALL ABOUT THE GREAT AMERICAN OCTUPUS. Charges of Dishonest and Unscru- pulous Business Methods Have _ Not Been Proved. So eure ie ago, the writer inter- vie? 8. C. T. Dodd, the soli- citor of the Standard Oil Congas, Dodd’s chief point was that the company succeeds because. it pays for ass “That is our best asset,” he said. “It is more valu- ale than is capital, pipe-lines, and vast tank ee SS ar RAE ways been in the tates for brains; it pays the top spree for them, says London Answe: “The most Gaui progress cf our concern was mi the years between 1870, whens tho Standard Oil pomeay of Ohio pro- uced four per cent. of the refined cil output, and 1877, when it pro- duced ninety-five ber cent. “We looked far a statesmanlike aa of the Ppossi- bilities of a new trade. The men whe Byatt up the Biendatdenls fee Ri r, |the rest— in They established their network of refineries “in geographical” situa- tions from which t could cas and cheaply atpoly the large ets. Whenever a new oil fapee was opened, they were ready to develop ae WILL BE ON TOP!" The late William H. Vanderbilt, ily had s over freight rates when Ti “chntrolled: the Newson Gor, . He was asked by-a Govern- ment Commission to name the sec- ret of the Standard's success. “You can’ down,’’ he repl lieve it can e by any legis- 2 2 sy Bal bers “Rockefeller formed'|t the Btondard ( Oil Com well over $700,000,000, Mr. Rockefeller’s Hatin him by ve been rivals have the very meth cost of transportation structed its allied pipeline to “gell oil in the Standard any price whatev ar after a crushed this mn by superior organization, nd cigesied terms of ace, which gave it a practical monopoly of the production and dis- tribution in the United States. tbs allowed the Pennsyl- vania, aten supa to carry two Tales bases aye m re- turn, the on all its freight. ered the s concession to all shippers of oil, but hedged round by conditions which only the Stand- | 4! ard could fulfil. REBATES ILLEGAL. This was the practice of other or gael abe Interstate Com- le rebates allege}, hee the ie Bead has Gea c ie fovald INGUEN Guar coe. ship of terminal facilities at. the seaboard, wning or leas- ractically all the oil- lau cars © railways, the great storage- Mt is true it of- ing ahead; we took|&ltl i tank oy on head of the great millionaire fam-|ic ights with the! j, ¢.|of emissaries all Fancy lamps, that delighted the | j soe of pipe-lines supersede the crude oil from tl the si finery. The. enterprise of the Standard ga ys "MeDonald rush” in 1881, of that year the district produced the trifle of 3,000 eal a day, an ization. ber, more tha; Stand: oil-wells. ing. it tak lucer’s well—for wi advanced money to enable the pro: ducer to sink it, at any time draw payment for his in stor age at the market price Ot the da; her in money, or ia certificates,” in the open market, A JOB FOR LIFE. After leaving the is distributed by pipe-lines, the railways, a tank-w: For focsiE trade, the a oe is borne to the seaboard by lines hundreds of miles in Songth; an into is an enormous fleet of them, sail. Standard employer. a aprenmenl with 14,000 produc e oil regicns to limit production, ‘ices. jured th drilling eae. a million barrels of crude oil — worth tw: for thoir nalef, end made 4hespeo: user bive aietuetecialat 8|proved to be good policy. workmen are levotes to tandard’s interests now. almost Standard is a job for WHERE THERE'S A WILL. In levoted i fediae its Tarstea onecee te H. M. Flagler, one of t his yacht. his yes ts, ahd e he ~ Flagler, ‘Pll see they burn it ee great puissioghey oan; Standen o Pee eka anne erusad nogroes’ barbarian taste, given away, and oil supplied free seniee had been captured. yy MAKING HIMSELF AT HOME. “‘Now,’’ said the genial host, want you to make yourself at home “ALL right all guest.‘ y fold my Genki —They’ bout a mile of hedge | Daw hse and old Denia the cardener. has to nia “all of it: nthe Jones place, NEDGE TRIMMER GEARED TOTRIM SIDE OF HEDGE. eLiDInG’ SLEEVE, YES Insuovse + BDSG! SM ras It’s such slow work chat Jokinay snd ¥ built a mechine like this to help Dennis out. i, JONES Jt did the work in (Aad {sll 081 “Phe shearg snipped a piece of Me. Jones’ coat and ran wild, Ae all bad aa exciting time, but nobody got hurt, tanks at the oilfelds, and the vast -which now he railways in carrying oil-well to eaboard, or from well to re- Contrary to eves belief, me refining, transporting, and retail- es the oil from the pro- ich it-has. elton The quantity received from each producer is carefully recorded, and’ he aahee he may iY “pipe-line which are negotiable refinery, the and tank-steamers specially built for the trade, ae? le has served on two oil-tank steamers, and can give the | ¢y good aracter as an With the rank and file of its men, also, it adonts the policy n ce Paving liberally, and expecting a ‘eer the Standard made an ers in This The Standa: a HN oil enty-nine pene a barrel— This Ate “ any position, a jb with the recent years the Standard has|i attention mainly to ex- rg e heads of the Selon visited Jaca in wain was one of he genial humor- e ieee pits that the Eienats sie In a few months the mar- oy j as you would if you # right,” said the remember to| ¢ i rates ast : About the Farm: a Sesto oes 7 GET OUT THE MANURE. There is.a difference of opinion! among’farmers as. to how saneht waste. of tersslity occurs when 'o manhniee this loss, some th ‘arme ers deposit the manure on the field, piles, convenient for! spreadin, e spring, others) aah out and stack in deep ‘piles, tc be distributed with the manure) not always permit, 2 of leaving 1 choes is open; to the objection 4 that ake hold the other paluvatics ee the land. Thon, oo the spot ectly under the heap is liable ior ‘be unduly favor-\_ the remain- i Cah: this, perhaps, is better its oa have the dissolv- ed fertilized carried away to tho river. sting ar il te ai spring-plowed for corn, the will be minimized, i las ars incline to favor and distributing with the sp er, where a spreader is iettabins aenn ise dateit in small heaps, whic! after ecomin; frozen through will be proof agtinst seri- fermentation and leaching un- til they thaw out, whic! most sections will seldom occur until appie: r the manure is tandled, these: mite be some waste. en left in an open y: to Bb and leach, the waste of fertilizer ik Sbnetdetal ls; and the waste 0! The problem is serving, so far as possible, the total! content of fertilizing elements. To this en t least and in man; ing. as well, will be “found Ere ‘est ty toado pt. —Farmer’s Advoe: FARM NOTES. Deep pits for storing manure’ esd well in ps ratath hee oan: { actice, for it i such re 1 most seriously and the most sly able parts are lost. itewash Ze interior: of the: poultr; a liberal amount of | ‘disinfectant, ae crude! will de>, mites with useful thing; but a poor one ne is a nuisance and a death, e Geueeally speaking, the value of foodstuffs is not well un- and far thee low- nicest tod tufts, ans a el are the mR costly feed $ in tl Foodstu! ave value ae be sweet.and clean, and product. may the pier having to digest a material that they have e old saying eB, put into a thing that you take out.’ pays #2": GOT WORK. Kind Old ear a ahs you ever gee an effort to get work?” mm “Yes, mae: nth L got work for two cles at ie usally: but neither of them, would take it. HIS 5 PRICE. Jones (very cross)" Throw that thing away, do,” Brown ey happy) — “Look here, I don often give ten CPA oR a cigars. but when ‘ones—"* Bek live oct eae STUDIOUS, are some. thin ean ube Me reeaiog ta,” ‘or ins anco J te tee so lope.’ THE PRICE OF PEACE. “T see that. Mrs. Brown has had angther qvarrel with her husband. ext ‘How do you know?! “She’ s got a now Seek! 188. & man) According igs Lakonee people eat} twenty per cent. more bread in cola, eather than in mild.