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through the dark shadows or the sunlight of love chapter i i and shelton with a muttered exclama- it was a cold night in early spring i tion ot ils ordered dinner to be newcomeri one was a darkhaired mistake with the colt and the london streets were nearly served before he opened it as ho dh man ot about iorty years of age the great shuters of the a ran his e over contents he frowned 1 dryly hes fool enough for any- its no light thing to sit through a thing the place runs him into eight bad play but how is that jasper thousand a year as it is not including you said it would run i ada lester the lady managerhsc he i protested vermont with a i might just as well hand it over to her pleasant smile no adrien not so altogether i wish to goodness the certainly as that i said i thought tho j wretched building would burn down play well written and that in my pon my word i shall set it alight opinion it ought to run well a very myself one fine night i different thing eh shelton hush hero he is said lord ah replied shelton who had been standon adding quickly with ver- watching him keenly so you were mont of course j out in your reckoning for once it is the others looked round towards the to be hoped you didnt make the same i think you his were also favorably inclined to that deserted shops were being drawn down with a dull rumble and every moment the paveinensts grew more dreary looking the glories ot tho plategla3s win dow were hidden tired workers with haggard faces were making their way homeward to them the day was at an end hut to the occupants of the whirring taxis and smart motors as they sped west ward the round of their day was but halfway through for them the great ones of the earth tho allimportant hour of dinner was at hand at the entranco of one ot the most usurious clubs in pall- mall two men i j immaculate evening dresm stood pa le frowning just listen to this he said irri tably my dear mortimer a letter from jasper takes me down to the castle i will return in time to join your little party and with your leave bring jasper along too but dont wait on our account yours adrien leroy jasper always jasper comment ed standon id like to know by what means jasper vermont has ob tained such inuenco over leroy ah thats tho mystery i said face was pale with an almost un- werent you healthy pallor from which his small j yes admitted vermont leaning dark eyes glitered restlessly his thin back with an admirable air of content lips tightly closed were set in an al- i laid my usual little bet and lost- most straight lino cleanshaven j of course sleek ot hatr ho wore an expression you should have hedged said of cautious slyness that implied a men- shelton who knew as a positive fact tal attitude ever on guard against that vermont had done so canadas finest laundry starch three generations of co5an housewives have used silver gloss for all their home laundry work they know that silver gloss always gives the best results at your grocers the canada starch co limited koctral cjrttal braahui fnhrataa xoltrt of crwen bratr end li muf 234 from erins green isle news by mail from lands shores ire- rumi some sudden exposure of his real feel ings such was jasper vermont his companion was of a different calibre still apparently in the early r care the hurrying carelessly surveying throngs of people seven said one as tho hour struck from the nearest church i thought standon said seven yes and like a woman meant halfpast returned the other hiding a yawn stans too young to value his din ner properly but leroy ought to have been punctual oh here is stan as a slight welldressed man sprang hastily from a smart motor and came towards them hello said the newcomer shak ing hands you two fellows first i hope im not late shelton of course youre late growled shelton with characteristic pessimism you always are and leroy is worse come along we may as well wait in side as in this beastly draught in the great dininghall the snowy- covered tables were being taken ra pidly by members about to dine silent footed waiters were hurrying to and fro carrying out their various duties whilo intermittently the sound of opening champagne bottles mingled with the bi zz of conversation and the ripple ot laughter the three men mortimer shelton lord standon and frank parselle sealed themselves at a table in a com fortable recess and took stock of the rwdin responding to numerous nods fll smiles ot recognition while grum bling at the unpunctuality of their friend ten past seven groaned shelton looking at his watch i might have jcnown that leroy would be late shall we wait oh yes said parselle adrien might not like it you know it is a pore though i the soup will be as thick as mud by jove id forgotten inter rupted standon suddenly i met leroy yesterday and he asked me to tell you he might be late as he was ff to barmlster castle last night vve were not to wait ho gavo me a iiote and if i havent loft it in my 6ther coat he fumbled in his pocket no hero it is ho pro duced tho note with an air of triumph its as plain as a pikestaff growl ed mortimer shelton leroy saved vermonts life years ago at oxford i think thats enough for adrien if a cat or dog or even a oneeyed monkey placed itself under his protec tion adrian leroy would stick to it through thick and thin you know his little way and this vermont is no fool he intends to make full use ot his friend and yet leroy is not easily taken in remarked parselle thoughtfully every man has his weak point retorted shelton with a shrug and jasper is leroys one vulnerable spot he will believe nothing against him hes a lucky chap vermont said standon pensively no one really knows what he is or where he springs from yet he always seems to have plenty of money and apparently the whole of leroys pases through his hands thirties tall and with clearcut aris tocratic features ha was decidedly good to look upon his face fair as that of a woman was perhaps slight ly marred by the expression of weak ness which lurked round tho finely- moulded lips but for all that it was stamped with tho latent nobility which characterised his race the hon adrien leroy only son of baron barmtnster was one of the most noted figures in fashionable society his father who since tho death of lady barmlnster had lived almost as a recluse spent his days in the old castle and had practically abdlcted in favor of his son so that to be continued the form grow your own fertilizer the fact that the yield of wheat was greatly increased when it followed a crop of clover was known to fanners even in the time of the romans it has not been however until compara tively recently that we have known just why clover increases the- yield of the j tn6 crop comln after it or that any colossal income accruing from the coal mines of wales the rentals of the leroy estates in the southern counties and the groundrents of a considerable acreage in one of the most fashionable parts of london all passed through the hands of adrien who in his turn spent it like water leaving jasper vermont his onetime college friend and now his confidential steward to watch over his affairs leroy with a genial smile of greet- ing for all but a grave almost weary something near a million put in expression in his blue eyes parried pile pnrinnslv nnrt with th run the numerous questions and invitations that beset him on all sides and tak ing vermonts arm drew him towards the table where his three friends a- the castles all right he said wa him parselle enviously and with the run of a castlo like a palace no ver monts no fool i mortimer shelton nodded accurate experiments were carried on to determine just how much clover could enrich the soil if one pulls up a clover or alfalfa plant he will notice that it has little fleshcolored incrustations on the roots these incrustations or nodules are tho living and breeding places of little microscopic organisms which un- 1 had been grown on the land which ments carried on at the rathamsted xeperlment station well show in theso experiments roots barley clover and wheat have been grown in rotation for tho last sixty years on one set of plots however instead of growing clover the laud has been allowed to lie fallow so that wo are able to see what effect clover has had in increasing the yield of wheat tak ing the average of the yield for the last five courses we find that when j wheat followed bare fallow it yielded 329 bushels to the acre but when it i followed a crop of clover which yield ed very nearly two tons to the acre its yield was 411 bushels per acre that is the clover increased tho yield of wheat by 82 bushels per acre a still more striking example of how clover will increase the yield of tho succeeding crop especially on land that is somewhat run down is shown by another rothamsted experiment a piece of land was divided and one part was cropped with barley and the other part with clover the nitro gen was determined in the two crops and it was found that there was 37 lbs of nitrogen per acre in the barley and 151 lbs per acre in the clover the following year tho whole of the land was sown to barley the nitro gen contained in the barley which so that nearly all the plants on the lime sulphur rows were dead several days before very many had died on the check rows while the plants sprayed with bordeaux showed little of tho trouble at any time dwarfing of the plants treated with lime sulphur was noticed by august 20 and tho difference in size grew moro pronounced as the season advanced lato blight appear ed very lato in this field the attack not being noticeable until most of the plants on the lime sulphur rows woro dead from dwarfing and tipburu so umt tho subsequent rot did less harm on these rows than on the check rows owing to the few living blighted plants to serve as centres of rot infection tho chock rows yielded at tho rate of 240 bushels to the acre of which only 165 bushels were marketable ow ing to the large amount of rot the limesulphur rows gavo 39 bushels less of total yield than tho checks but be- causo rot had not spread so fast gave a slight increase 6 bushels in mar ketable tubers and the bordeaux- sprayed rows outylolded tho checks by 48 bushels in total product and 111 bushels in marketable potatoes curtly you can trust the leroys to have the best of everything they treat money like dirt and bow before nothing but royalty and women yet with it all theres no stauncher friend than a leroy as vermont knows only too well muttered standon dryly by the way i saw ada lester in tho park this morning jove 1 such furs in that quarter adrien certainly treats his money like dust said parselle with a short laugh i cant think what he sees in her to me she seemsan insatiate animal and about as difficult to satisfy its a jolly good job for leroy that thanks to his fathers generosity his income runs into five figures nothing else would stand the strain do you know someone told me at the casket tho other night that loroy had made tho theatro over to ada en tirely and settled a thousand a year on her into the bargain said stnndon leaning forward i daresay mortimer commented is the bssfc py and tho best vay is the iporowojc wwt jellies and preserves that are seale4 with rtjbb rbjtjned pabaffinb keep thfiir luscious flavor they never mold or forijjipnt tfeey are as good when you want to ip- ujein as they were the day you scaled hq jars ijust pour rselted parowax oyer the tops of jelly tujnbjerj it keeps out all dust and germs it keep the preservos airtight jp8 tjie laundry sec directions on pnrowax labels for it pse in valuable service in washing at dkaleps evebtwiiebie the imperial oil company fetefi branches in all cities im sorry were late ho said in his pleasant voice which was clear and unaffected in strong contrast to the chater which buzzed round him at their entry blamo jasper who if he is as hungry as i am is punished already his goodhumoured laugh as he seated himself drew echoos from his friends leroys popularity was never more apparent than in a gathering of this sort composed exclusively of his own sex so you have just come up from barminster said shelton presently how is the castle looking adrien busily satisfying a vigorous appetite merely nodded and smiled in reply but jasper vermont answered for him beautiful ho said with a smile which showed his white even teeth beautiful its a charming view but wo saw little of it this visit ah shelton you aro really an opicure i we dont get clear turtle like this at the pallodeon eh adrien no replied tho young man look ing up we ought to have shelton on the committee no wonder they love you here shelton and so the colt has lost tho steeplechase saw tho news as i camo along and you have lost how much- two thousand queried parselle five said vermont not quickly but just before adrien could speak is it five 1 asked leroy indif ferently i thought id backed ven us for mora i backed her mysolf for a couple ot hundred put in lord standon ruo- fully shes a beautiful creature though and id liko to buy her you can have her my doar stan for a moro song said loroy cordially im afraid thats impossible in terposed jasper with suavity shos sold adrien looked up in surprise sold to whom 7 he asked to tho knacker was tho calm reply dont you remember adrien that she throw fording and broko her leg over tho last hurdlo leroys face resumed its usual air of bored indifference ah yos- so you told mo my dear stan im awfully sorry i had com pletely forgoten rje looked round tho table any of you seen the papers he inquired last night was tho first of tho now comedy at tho casket how did it go frank parselle laughed i was there he admlttod ada played fine ly but they hissed onco or twice lost on my iforse and on my new play that is bad luok 1 exclaimed adrien looking howoyer very little disturbed by tho news it must bo withdrawn derlaihly agreed vermont amiably cerjainiy by joyef what did you tell me the mounting oost f asked parsolle ad dressing ygrfflonti pt glancing slg- nlflonntly at ho others throe thousand pounds answered vermont glibly frnjlo adrieriato his fiau wjth the most oonsumato indif ference three tliousand for four nights thats abpuf ft the public ought o bo gratofut tq you said sheton wlti a tjdgp of sarcasm in hs voice as ho podded across at leroy fjricn laughed or i to them he said cheerfully like most other bacteria are able to use the nitrogen of the air for food just exactlyhow tho little creatures are able to do this is not known but it is known that energy is required to do so and they get ftfe required ener gy by feeding on and using part of the carbonaceous tissue of the plant on whose roots they are living some of the nitrogen which the little germs have gathered from the air is used up dlan countryman by the plant for its own use there is thus a kind of reciprocal arrange ment between the plant and the germs whicli live on its roots whereby the plant furnishes the germs with car bonaceous food and the germs furnish the plant wltunitroienous food this had been in barley the year before contained 39 lbs ot nitrogen per acre and the nitrogen contained in the barley which was grown on the clo ver sod contained 69 lbs of nitrogen per acre this means that on the land where barley followed barley the yield was 32 bushels per acre but where the barley followed clover the yield was 5g bushels per acre cana- dont use lime sulphur on potatoes from experiments carried on at the cornell experiment station the con clusion was reached that lime sul phur cannot replace bordeaux mixture sort of union is called by scientists as a preventive of potato diseases ymbiosis that give and take reciprocity co operation or whatever one wants to call it not onlybenefitsthose immed iately interested but often others as well is a wellknown fact and is well illustrated in this particular case the little nodule germs or bacteria and the clover plant by pulling togeth er add thousands of dollars worth of fertility to our canadian soils every year a twoton crop of clover contains 100 pounds of nitrogen this is as much as is contained in 10 tons of farmyard manure and if it were pos sible to plow such a crop under we would have added about 15 worth of fertility per acre to the soil the best and most practical way to enrich the soil with clover is not to plow it under but to feed it to the stock it is not necessary to plow clover i under or even to feed it on the land for it to enrich the soil as oxperl- the lime sulphur treatments caused dwajji pla did not repress but 6eenuiiglfcdejdaiiuige from tipburn draw keep off flea- beetles apparently did not check late blight and rot and resulted in greatly decreased yields as compared with rows sprayed with bordeaux mixture the rows under test were arranged in sections as in other potato spraying work at the station the first row in each of tho five sections was sprayed with bordeaux mixture g 4 50 the second row with concentrated lime sulphur solution diluted to give the standard strength for foliage 1 to 40 and the third row was left untreated potato beetles were combated by the use of arsenate of lead and were well controlled on all rows fleabeetle injury was slight but decidedly least on bordeaux sprayed rows tipburn appeared in august and affected the checks and lime sulphur rows badly the latter much tho worst farm notes home buttermaking is not a lost art but still it might be more exten sively practised than it is a good deal is said about the hog as a mortgage lifter but it is up to tho man behind the hog to do his part fat as a hog is likely to take on a new meaning the porkeating public is demanding less fat and more lean meat in many parts of tho country dogs seem to have more friends than sheep and yet the dog belongs in the non- producing class there is an everincreasing convic tion that there is a close relation be tween filthy quarters and hog cholera and this conviction is sound the wild pigeon and the labrador duck have become extinct in our day but there is no danger that the horse wll entirely disappear in our time cows producing over half a ton of butter per year are so common that 4byarsii w a suojectfor spec- ial comment but there still remain several millions of the other kind s high building i high buildings sir remarked an american contemptuously why in england you dont know what height is last time i was in new york it was a blazing hot day and i saw a man coming out of a lift wrapped from top to toe in bearskins and i said to him why are you muffled broiling hot day like this waal said he you see i live at the top of the building and its so high that its covered with snow all the year- round up an a happenings in the emerald isle of interest to irish- a successful flag day was recently held in dublin in aid of irish disabled soldiers and sailors ten policemen have been injured trying to stop a cattle drive near bal- linasloe county roscommon in many parts of south kildare first crop meadows have been sold at prices averaging 50 an acre pte w crowley royal dublin fusiliers of dublin ha3 been award ed tho distinguished conduct medal irishgrown new potatoes have now made their appearance in belfast mar ket and aro being sold at 90 cents to 96 cents per stone mr william patrick wilsonlynch of belvoir park sixmilcbridge has been appointed a deputy lieutenant for the county clare tho farmers around newtownham- ilton co armagh in consequence of the high price of coal are at present cutting large tracts of bog the death has occurred at his resi dence dublin of mr harry holt bar- ristcrntlaw for many years secre tary to chief baron palles district inspector sheeley prosecut ed a man at the balling petty ses sions and who was fined 30 for hav ing a jar of potheen in his possession at the tralee quarter session mau rice m cartley sheriffs bailiff and civil bill officer was suspended from acting as bailiff for having charged double poundage after being icebound for seven months and twice afterwards running aground the holt line steamer laertes with 3000 tons of flour from russia reached belfast last week a serious fire occurred at midleton in the wool stores of messrs john cogan sons woollen manufacturers ballincureig damage to the extent of 10000 was caused amongst the nurses who have been awarded the decoration of the royal red cross in recognition of their ser vices is mrs george king daughter of the late dr andrew mcbride of newry while a number of youths wero playing near londonderry they discov ered three hundred rounds of revolver ammunition the bullets were in a crevice loosely covered with earth the stronger the butter in the tub the weaker it is in the market heres the way to succeed in jam or jelly making but not over- lo use ripe ripe fruit 2o buy st lawrence red diamond extra granulated sugar it is guaranteed pure sugar cane sugar and free from foreign substances which might prevent jellies from setting and later on cause preserves to ferment we advise purchasing the red diamond extra granulated n the 1001b bags which as a rule is the most econo mical way and assures absolutely correct weight fg2sntmt stmwrenge kvi vi 3o cook well 4o clean and then by boiling at least 10 minutes sterilize your jars perfectly before pouring in the preserves or jelly success will surely follow the use of all these hints dealers can supply the red diamond in either fine medium or coarse grain at your choice many other handy refinery sealed packages to choose from st lawrence sugar refineries limited montreal fit pike vas caught smyth culray granand whilst fishing in lough gowan the pike turned the scales at 20 lbs and when opened contained three full- sized perches the rt hon edmond archdale p c died last week at his residence castle archdale at the age of 66 he was the first landlord in ireland to sell his estate to his tenants under tho land act of 1903 tho exodus to england from mayo of harvesters has been very large they are mostly boys or men beyond middlo life tho cause is that the young men fear conscription in eng land- and scotland another addition to the regular fleet of dublin steamers engaged in crosschannel business has arrived in the liffey tho new steamer was built to tho order of tho british and irish steam packet company british cavalry will bo used in a new and startling fashion shortly the first dragoon guards one of englands crack cavalry rcgimonts wero used in a charge on german or ganizations in tho recent offensive and for tho first time since the battle of tho marno british horsemen wero in action in france great britain still believes in tbls arm of tho servico in spite of tho trench warfare sho has approximate ly 260000 cavalrymen in france and england trained to the minute and these men can take their place ix fantrymen in the troncjhsraweiias charge the enemjworihorseback the most jfltftlligtfnt and physically per- ioct men ingroat britain have been picked fpr this work they have poon taught to charge over ground pit ted with shell holes and terrain of this sort has been prepared on british moors where the cavalry has been go ing through the hardest sort of work it js estimated thatjwith the indian cavalry gaging has oyer ibooqd mounted raen in france and theso are goipg tq be jscd in a new and start ling fasrdon ip w near future if plans do pot miscarry the same old story theres a story in each of the faces you sec in tho passing throng but its pnly tho same old story the struggle of right and wrong tho battle of hate and duty the strife between love and fear its ony tho amo old story with a chapter for every year tho hope is turning to sadness tho courage beset by pan the moment pf transient gladpo33 that slijncs like the sun through raig the talc may bo told but simply for ji isnt so much to tell its only the sanio pnu story that this old world knows wclll