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lilaf0p0fp9pl9 tfaat oid mrs btore tkousht she would fl jti never find it again jill of thefjdsti a romance by kennaway james sixopsls motherlvss jill merrldew beconus on the death ot hr father owntr i a farm she counts mi mark hanson head man to assist 1 er in the manajrcinent mark regents remarks mailc ty lhillii jiartour who professes to he investigat ing the history of old county families on returning to london harbour meets two foreigners the reason for har bours interest proves to be a chemical fertilizer discovered by jills father which he had not made known to jill on returning to the farm harbour finds jill upset over mark hanson who had declared his love tor her barbour comforts jill and old jeorke teils mark of barbours attentions mark quarrels with jill the body of a man is found in one of the fields and a lighter found under the body proves to be old georges harbour returns to the farm and rushes jiu lino an engagement she receives a letter from mark but is afraid to read it chapter ix to diagnose jills feelings and the remedy for them would have taken average wellbalanced petsons but a short time they would have said jill you need a holiday from this place your nerves are at the break ingpoint go away and look at things in retrospect and then come back and ffee them anew but jill was not seeking the advice of wellbalanced persons unless it were that of herbert norgrove who was coming to see her on the morrow jill had become unbalanced un- pwares and like most unbalanced people claimed a monopoly of balance she decided to postpone opening marks letter until she went to bed she would be alone then and free from the fear that yet another news paper man might call her one con soling thought was that the police would soon solve the tragic mystery of the scarecrow and that eventually she would settle down to her work- tday life onthefafm with this differ ence that she would soon have the help of phillip barbour whose sanity nd commonsense had already been so great a comfort to her a little later having spoken to mrs blore about various domestic details of stone town jill departed to her beloved ladyes room it was one of her joys to undress in this marvellous old room with its great roughhewn isfters often would she smile at the difference between it and the elegant slender rooms which were being built leday for modern ladyes she changed into a suit of orange and black pyjamas approved of her- self in the mirror against the black rnd white scheme of the room then crept into bed and tore open the en- relope of marks letter it was well that she approved of herself for marks note was going to kurt her even more than she antici pated my dearest jill it ran i vns in two minds about this letter first i meant to give you formal notice and leave it at that then i thought our association had been too sweet for such a sud den break so now i have told you that i am going i am writing you a slightly longer letter i have told you that i love you and you have told me you love barbour which i dont believe still you are under that impres sion and i leave you to enjoy it as long as you can i can see now that i have played the part of a rather gloomy lover and in a way i feel myself to blame for losing you but you see jill i have been so fond of you that i have not been able to put on cheerfulness in the face of your cool reception of my love if i am not mistaken there are going to be many more strange happenings here and if i can help you i will but i would like to go at once if i may i can always come back and give you a hand if you want help very much as you know 1 have always rented my cottage from your fam ily on a lease i shall continue to pay the tent but shall hand the cottage to old george for reasons which he may tell you that is about all so goodbye jill yours always mark jill read the letter twice then lay brck upon her pillow to think it over it was just the simple kind of letter which a man like mark would write no attempt at embellishment no thought of playing 01 her emotions mark had conveyed all he wished to say with but a mere handful of words carrying more than one syllabic all the others were of that short kind which men of the earth have used for eenttiries and found good i have told yoj that i love you if i can help you i will but i would like to go at once if i may i can always come back and give you a hand if you want help of forty words thirtynine of one syllable so like mark forty simple words bieathing the unqualified devo tion of a straight yeoman it was strange that jill should find heiself analyzing the details of a let ter which meant so much to her per haps subconsciously she was taking refuge in this way from its greater import the expected blow is not robbed of its force by anticipation in the same way marks resignation lost none of its sting because jill knew that it was coming and as the realization of it became stronger jills power of re sistance lessened mark was the very stones of the barns even the animals would miss him thought jill and why was he going that was a question which was as difficult to answer as t was easy he was going obviously because he loved her possibly he was going because of phillip barbour more directly he was probably going as a result of her treatment of him that day yet she could not bring herself to the point of selfblame he had in ordinary words asked for it and not only had he asked for it but had asked for it at a time when he was most likely to get it how on earth could he expect a girl to be normal when her farm was providing sensational headlines for the daily newspapers she fell asleep from sheer exhaus tion thinking of these things marks letter had even put phillip barbour out of her mind further trouble awaited her early next day when she found her engage ment to barbour on the front page of the popular daily to which mr his- sop contributed with such alacrity hissop had not done his work by halves and jill was at a loss to think how he had gained so much informa tion there was a pen picture of phillip describing him minutely also hissop had gleaned a little informa tion from inspector norton concern ing the reason for phillips presence in the district which meant that phil lips socalled literary activities were mentioned elaborately he had become in a light a well known writer on an tiquities an expert on heraldry and was descended from one of the noblest of french families jills anger had no limit it was rare that she lost her temper but on this occasion she lost it so thoroughly loo here mrs gbrj she blazed of this have you bee talking to any of these news paper men the old lady took the paper gasped and subsided into the nearest chair well i never she exclaimed and do you mean to say youre going to marry mr barbour im not so sure about if myself now until i find out who has been babbling to those newspaper men as though i havent got enough trouble already tell me now did you do it i- miss jiu how could i tell them when i didnt know myself bless my soul and so were going to have a master here are we well i always knew wed have one some time but i t ought it would be oh be quiet snapped jill who knew quite well that the name of mark hanson was on the tip of the old ladys lips tel me now what did you say to them tell me at once v well 1 only told one of them that yvu couldnt be troubled with him be cause mr barbour was with you honestly miss jill id swear to that if the last day had come very well then i believe you said jill beginning to feel sorry for the old lady bat who on earth could have done it why we only became engaged yesterday evening and we hadnt told a soul then it looks as if mr barbour must have told the newspaper man said the old lady timidly it had not occurred that phillip might be the culprit but she suddenly remembered that he went to see his sop himself heaven help him if he did she exclaimed as mrs blore made a sur reptitious escape yes mi- hissop had made a good piece of work out of it for not only was jill amazed but mark hanson also vho opened his paper in his cot tage at breakfast time well im damned he exclaimed aloud i really am so hes got as far as being engaged to jill has he well perhaps theres time to stop him even yet what a pair of fools to put it in a newspaper ill tell jill what i think about it whatever happens a few minutes later he strode ang rily across to the farm wheres miss merridew he ask ed of mrs blore tell her i want to see her mrs blore returned after a little time due to jill wondering whether she should sec mark or not and in vited him in he found jill looking frightened as she stood there a pic ture of grace in her wellcut riding breeches and opennecked shirt marks anger increased as he thought of that lovely creature belonging to phillip barbour to be continued orange pekoe jl blend til fresh from the gardens woe to him who takos himself sen timent lyoswald spengler honey banishing family sugar bowl manitoba housewives experi ment wth home pro duct as sweetener honey is in the news this spring in much the jamo way that tomatoes were last fall when the beekeepers convention was held in winnipeg iho importance of honey to manitoba housewives was- amply set forth women in the country and in the city have proved that honoy is a manitoba product whose uses have only begun to bo explored canning preserving pickling and baking are now being done with honey instead of sugar sugar furthermore has to bo bought but the honey may he homeproduced mrs victor phillips of dauphin whoso husband is a honey producer on large scale was one of the speakers mrs phillips has experi mented with honey in her own home for making and preserving and for general use until she has practically banished the sugar bowl from her familys table during this last yearj for a family of four mrs phillips litis used 600 pounds of honey in the city there is another woman who jias experimented vith honey for the past two years until a high degree of its usefulness in preserv ing has been developed this is mrs r f mcwilliaros winnipegs wo man alderman who has another side to her life than that apparent on the platform and the council chamber nicotine releases sugar in blood doctors find heavy smoker accumulates less carbon monoxide than nonsmoker study made at yale xew haven conn a discovery that eople like to smoke mainly be- cruso nicotine releases sugar in their blood is published from the yale lab oratory of applied physiology tho nicotine gives a little kick to the adrenals the tlrs which supply energy they in turn open the body faucets which releatx r little storcd- up sugar the bodys normal muscle fuel the body proceeds forthwith to enjoy this sugar under various sen sations the studies were made upon cigar ette smoke by howard w haggard and leon a grcenberg the details are published in science the official journal for american scientific an nouncements smoking we find produces a defi nite although temporary increase in tho concentration of blood sugar and a corresponding increase in tho rate of sugar combustion in the body these effects certainly are due to the nico tine of the tobacco and they arise from the action of this alkaloid on the adrenals there can be little doubt that this is the source of at least a consider able part of the gratification from smoking the power that s supported by force alone will have cause often to tremble kossuth stxkaxmore i atlantic city e preeminent hotel achievement the modern cow the development of ibe dairy cow to its present state of perfectlou is an accomplishment for many years of patient intelligent oudeavor it has transiormed the cow which or iginally was required to produce only sufficient milk to support her young to an animal yielding enough milk to supply a small community ol people the present dav cigh-produc- iig cow ia an artificial animal pro ducing milk beyond all natural bound and the care and feed which sufficed for the cow in the more natural state has beeu found quite inadequate ex perience has shown that in order to maintain health the materials deriv ed from the tissues of the body to produce offspring milk and butterfat must bo regularly replaced in the feed as otherwise they are supplied at the expense of the animal body the feed must consequently be select ed and regulated with a view to pre venting tho general state of nutrition suffering from the continuous drain to which tho body is subjected in vestigators have shown that sub stances of unknown composition named vltamines are essential to normal nutrition and growth and that these vitamines have a definite rela tion to the assimilation of nutritious material it has further been demon strated that animals fed upon im properly balanced rations with insuffi cient vitamine content develop de ficiency diseases veterinary direc tor a smoke owl draper va when mrs robert baker tried to kindle a fire in her kitchen stove smoke poured into the room instead of up the chimney her husband took down the stovepipeand found a screech owl squatting in the elbow genius is the god in the mine tal ent ia the miner who works and brings it out lady blessington wage war on warble fly during march april and may oxford huron and middlesex counties plan wholesale cleanup on costly little pest they show good taste dont experiment when you entertain always serve christies soda wafers fresh and flaky they make the best meals just a little better soda wafers on the farm it docs seem strange to be thinking of the heel fly that causes such panic among our herds in the summer months during these cold days and yet in many parts of rural ontario farmers were discussing this very subject during the past month the heel fly and his cousin the warble fly are costing ontario farmers a huge sum of money it is hard to even make a fair estimate of what they do cost us we know that the fly has been particularly bad we know that fattening stock docs not gain so well when the fly chases them round the field every once in a while we know there is a terrific loss in the punctured hides caused by these two pests in one stage of their life cycle what wc do not know is the loss that one can well imagine must result from the suffering of animals whose btcks are literally plastered with grubs in spring there is a cer tain amount of pus in each grub hole the system must absorb this poison and one can well imagine that there must be a considerable loss of gain or prjduction from this cause alone tho heel fly nd the slightly differ ent warble fly have a strange life his tory they lay their eggs on the hair of the cattle in early summer and the resultant tiny worm works his way into the hide and upwards toward the gullet later on it begins another pilgrimage this time upward from the digestive tract to the animals back eating through the tissues when it reaches the hide it punctures a hole and then develops into a grub of considerable size lumps will be found on the cattles back back larger than thimbles we have seen animals with upwards of a hundred grubs in their backs when these are ripe the grub can be squeezed out and eventually they will come out anyway they fall on tho ground and develop into the heel or warblo fly ready to mate and lay another lot of eggs the warblo fly ii not a new comer he has been with us a long time but tho heel fly is a comparatively new settler whcr tho latter gets near to n herd of grazing cattle there is a wild stampede round the field careful ob servers tell us that the heel fly does not bite or sting the cattle then why the fear what peculiar instinct is it that prompts i herd of calves that have never pastured with older cattle to act in the very same way as the older ones cattle when driven fast by a dog for instance do not raise their tails but when the heel fly comes tle tails go straight up in the air there is only one reason why the heal fly continues to plague our cat tle and thit is indifference on the part of the- farmer the danish fann er has practically exterminated this pest coming closer home fanners on manitoulin islan 1 have greatly reduc ed its numbers there is a solution on the market which if properly ap plied in march april and may will kill the grubs in the cattles back and there is no excuse for not using it five cents worth will suffice for the three treatment per animal unfortunately there- is not much gained by the individual farmer treat ing his stock a whole community must undertake im work if worth while results are to be obtained and that it why fanners in many portions of ontario have been discussing the heel fly on below zero february days sixty thousand head arc to be treated in oxford county this spring eighty thousand head in huron and five townships ii middlesex plan a cleanup it is also said that two townships in perth will make a start we cannot too highly recommend this effort the heel fly is a costly little pest much as we dislike government regu lations which in tho past few years have been increasing too fast the time seems to have come when it should- be made compulsory to treat all cattle in the province rgainst the heel and warblo fly this is one of the most useful cam paigns the department of agriculture lias ever undertaken dr stevenson has been at it for quite a few years now and it is gratifying to sec that his efforts are bcginniig to have results it is to be sincerely hoped that the campaign will not bo dropped just when results will be beginning to show that is what has happened to several good schemes sponsored by the department of agriculture edward5burg the economical and delicious table syrup a nourishing sweet for the whole family c8 the canada starch co limited montreal high school boards and boards of education are authorized by law to establish industrial technical and art schools with the approval of the minister of education day and evening classes may be conducted in accordance with the regulations issued by the department of education theoretical and practical instruction is given in various trades the schools and classes are under the direc tion of an advisory committee application for attendance should be made to the principal of the school- commercial subjects manual training household science and agriculture and horticulture are provided for in the courses of study in public separate continuation and high schools collegiate institutes vocational schools and departments copies of the regulations issued by the minister of education may be obtained from the deputy minister parliament buildings toronto how to stop a cold quick as you caught it chinamen in canada are selfrespecting the st thomas timesjournal calls attention to the fact that no chinaman has ever applied to the local relief officer in that city for financial aid even during the depression chinese cafes and laundries in that city today employ more hands than they reason ably need just in order to assist their fellowcountrymen as our contem porary says the chinese are a very proud people if one of them is out of a job his compatriots combine to maintain him or to pass him on to some place where he may find work cases have occurred where a chinaman has had his fare paid by his own people all the way from vancouver to hali fax all this is burely highly credit able to the chinanen within canadas holders they arc independent well behaved and animated by a marvelous race spirit they seldom ever get into trouble except when they congregate to play fan tan or to engage in some other gambling game and after all that is not a very serious crime on a continent which indulges in horse- racing and tremendous speculative stock market orgies toronto mail empire new varieties fruit and flowera the following applications for the recording of new varities were order ed to be recorded at the recent meet ing of the plant registration and or namental horticultural committee of the canadian horticultural 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ask your doctor about this and when you buy sec that you get as pirin tablets aspirin doei not harm in tfeorf is the trademark ol the bayer company limited and the name bayer in the iorm ot a cross is on each tablet they dissolve almost instantly and thus work almost instantly when you take them and for a gargle aspirin tablets dissolve so completely they leave no irritating parti cles get a box of 12 tablets or bottle ol 24 or looatanydrugstorc mrmm fabtetsajlc hafic in canada ohenrys home is moved to new site austin texas the home to which ohenry brought his bride and in which they spent their honeymoon is being moved to brush park at the citys expense it is tho property of the rotary club which purchased it some time ago in order to save it from destruction henceforth it will be a shrine to the shortstory writer who lived in texas longer than anywhere else ex cept his native city ot greensboro nc various patriotic organizations including the daughters of the ameri can revolution tho daughters of 1812 and the daughters of the republic of texas have pledged themselves to gather 0 henry relics to be installed in this one of william sidney porters many homes shavian gems balboa cz george bernard shaw on his way to new zealand favored the work with two more gems of shavian thought of president roosevelt he is do ing very well the whole united states is a racketeering association but roosevelt is trying to lift the country out of it and the people will probably hang him for it of general augustino sandino murdered niwaguan rebel leader well its all in the days work isnt it but i dont mean to slight him its the other generals who should be shot not the rebels there has been a growug cri-recla- tion of fe necessity of finding ground for a rational compromise between in dividual rights anil public welfare charles e hughes