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r â- *>• '♦♦♦♦♦♦♦4-f-f4^*-f'f-f-f^4*+-fi»-4if4-H-*-f-f<f4-f'H'4^-H-M* â- f 4- â- f OR, A LOOK INTO THE PAST *•-'*= ^ ' C CHAPTEll IV.-(Cont'd) Derrick Darnloy ha<I been abroad ever since March. Neither Doro- thy, Lord Mcreficld nor Sir Huniph- r\v luul the smallest idea where, biit by long custom they were never surprised at atiything he did; and when they were all out on the lawn having tea in the afternoon, and the omnibus from Ripstonc dis- gorged the guests, no one â€" except Nancyâ€" was at all astonished to sec Mr. Darnlcy's tall, well-built form Haunter across the lawn, chatting lightly to Mrs. Fairfax; also newly arrived. Dorothy was supremely delighted at his coming, ar I showed it. Nancy, too, was striingcly pleased, though why, she hardly knew her- «elf, but her face wore nothing but the ordinary smile and expression of everyday greeting. Ixjrd Merefield looked rather ghim ; lovers' senses arc keen, and ho knew that Dorothy Leicester thouglit far more of Darnlcy than idic did of himself. Sir Humphrey was loiul in his â-  demonstrations of i)lcasure at wel- coming his sister's son back to the Hall. "Here is some one you knew, Derry," he said, turning to Nancy. "How d'ye dol" inquired Mr. Darnlcy, leisurely. And after he had shaken Miss Hamilton's hand, he dropi)od into a chair and eommeuced t:;lking busily to Dorothy. "A cup of tea for Derry, Nancy, darling," cried Dolly. Nancy bent over the tray. She felt disappointed and angry. Disappointed at Mr. Darnlcy's cold manner, and angry with her- self for being disappointed. What did it matter to lier what he said or how he looked 7 Dorothy's eyes were glowing, her firetty cheeks were flushed with dc- ight, and she hung on her cousin's every word; while he in his turn was feasting his eyes on that girl- iBh form by the tea tabic. "She is magnificent," he said to himself; "she eclipses Dorothy with all her dainty loveliness. I would far sooner look at that irregular lace with those wonderful eyes, that cohered hair, than at the most per- lect feautres possible. How these few months have changed hcrl" His admiration was uiiivcrsa'lly •hared- more, fw^rhaps, by the men guests than the women. There was a dangerous attraction about this protegee of Sir Humph- rey's, the fair sex declared at once, and with grcot determination. As the conversation became^ gen- eral, the name of Mr. t'rawshaw, the new tenant of the manor, arose. "(."an you tell us anything about him, Mrs. Fairfax 1" asked Doro- thy, still sitting by Darnley's side. "I met him only the other day. The maii is a boor." "But we must make allowances for l)im," interpo..ed I-iidy Hurlon. She had two unmarried daughters, 'fully. have had a sister, long since dead, and it was to the son of tliis sister that Mrs. (Jrawshaw resolved to bc- f|ueath all her fortune. She plac- ed the matter in the liands of a good firm of solicitors; her nephew was sought for, was found, and be- hold him now the fccmix)rary owner of the manor, and the friend of that most delightful being, Lady Lorri- mer." There was a supreme touch of sarcasm in Mr. Darnley's voice at the last; but Lady Burton did not seem to notice it. "Ah!" she said, blandly; "brew- ers arc (luite the rage just now. Look at Sir Mulberry Hopkins ! No doubt Mr. Crawshaw will be knighted before the year is out." Darnley's eyes met Nancy's, and they both smiled; both, for some indefinite reason, felt pleased the next moment; but they had no chance of becoming more friendly then, for the dressing g<mg sound- ed, and there was a general dis- persing of the party to the house. CHArXER V. ' ' On the following day the Hon Ella and Maude Chester, daughters of the Lady Burton, arrived at the Hall. They were two good-natured, plain girls, with any amount of freckles, lung power and healthy vigor. They had a reckless habit of pouncing on their unwary friends, and submitting them to a rough and hearty embrace. Nancy was in the garden, culling flowers, when they arrived, so she missed the sight of Dorothy being enveloped in this bcarlike hug. She was humming to herself a lit- tle French song she had just learn- ed, and was sauntering away from the house, when she came upon Derrick Darnlcy, in a cool and com- fortable array, lying full length on a grass plot, smoking like a fur- nace. Nancy colored and h-sitated; but B«cing that his eyes were closed, she resolved to steal past and leave him undisturbed. As she put this reRolvc into ac- tion, however, the handsome gray eyes opened to their fullest. "May I not have a rose, Miss XaiicyV' She turned. "Twenty, if you will." She threw him a cluster as she Hpoke. "Ah I" sighed Mr. Darnlcy, in- haling the sweet perfume. "How delicious! Oh, by Jove!" "What is it I" asked Nancy. "Only a thorn Iâ€" a very spiteful one!" "I>et me look," she said, drop- ping her basket, and kneeling elown he side him. "l{oineniV)er 1 am a nurse, and know all about these things." j The young man relinquisheel his! wcll-BharK><l hand to Iht soft liii- j pers, and Xancy examined it care- \ who were to follow next day. and «o she spoke diplomatically. "Dear Lady Lorrimer met him in Paris the other day and thought him most original." Darnley's lip curled, and Doro- thy n<jticed this at once. "Do you know him, Derry?" she asked. "Yes," he replied, quietly. "I know him. I, too, had tlw misfor- tune to meet him in Paris. The fellow is a low, vulgar brute. Ho Cfinies from the gutt(!r. Kven his thousandsâ€" and he has nianv thou- Bands. my pretty cousin â€" will never be able to gil<l him, or make his soviety palatable [or an hour." "He made his money with patent pills, didn't he?" This from Lord Merclield, in a gloomy tone. "No; varnish," from Capt. Fair- fax. "I heard, from dear Lady Lor- rimer, that it was not in trade at ail." "Quite right. Lady Burton; trade had nothing to do with it. Criiw- ehaw has only just come int<i his money, by the merest duke ; he has literally hod no hand in amassing it." "Oh! tell U8 all about it, Darn- ley :•• Mr. Darnley smiled at Donithy, but his eves still lingered on Nancy at the tea table. "Once upon a time," he began, \r\ the most approved fnshi«in. "th»re was a publican in the Fast End of f/ondon, who married a wife 1 in due course of time flour- ished, bought another public house, st'.Vl another, an<I then an- other ; ii' fact, developed into a purvey ih» publican, if I can use such n Wind: lhr>n he die<l, leaving '••'s \V:-;'.-iw ch'Idless, and vorth at ' â-  ' ;-.v"-'"-fivc ••! thirty tl;.>tiRnnd i-. - Tir'.'i widow hai>pewd to "Where docs it hurt you J" she askcl. "Nowhere, now," was his an- swer, given quietly. Niincv blushed, but still bent her hea<l <'V<'r the hand. "I <Iiin't see any scratch." "And 1 don't feel one," confess- ed Mr. Darnley, coolly. "It was an aitiliee to lure you to sit here. I knew I had only to rouse your womanly sympathy, and I should get my way." Nancy dropped his hand, and would have risen , but his fingers cloKc<l on her wrist, and lie drew her gently on to the grass again. "I)(m't go!" he sold, pleadingly. "I want lo talk to you. J want to know all about yourself. If you reiioiit your iiroinipc to me? If you are happy ?" "Happy? T never knew the real ineiiiiing <.>f the word till now; my life is so beautiful !" "F am so gla<l!"- Tlien there was a slight pause. "And you forgive me for those <lis«iaeeful words I said lo Mcrc- Peld before I " "I have frrgotten a'l about them," she nnRwer('<l, trullifiilly. There, was another pause, and a Umger, this time. Mr. Darnley h.Kl thrown oway his cigarette, and puslieel himself on his elbow, ^'o thftt he could s â- " into \\\v. girl'^ face. "I have Thought about you so often," he sBi<(, after a while. "Of me!" Nancy exclaimed, just lifting those, blue eyes of hers, and then dropping them again. "How â€" how tunnv !" "Wasn't "it?" very drylv. "I wonder if you have ever bestowed a single thought on me?" "Dorothy is always talking of vou," Nancy replic<L evasively; "and, of course, I " The broken sentence waR most eloquent tu the man. Ho looked ns if ho would say more, and then he checked himself. "I met some relations of yours in Paris the other day," ho said, in- stead. Nancy turned a puzzled face to- ward him. "Sir John Hamilton and his fam- ily." She grew a shade paler. "You have made a mistake; they are not ray relations, Mr. Darnley; nor do I desire to claim them as such." "Arc you so proud and unfor- giving, Nancy?" "1 don't knov.\ But I carmot forget that they disowned both my mother and myself. You did not tell them I " "Do you think Iâ€" I mean we â€" are in such a hurry lo lose you?" She looked at him questioning- "Of course they would want you lo leave us." "And you think I would go?" she asked, with quiet reproach. Darnley drew a shade closer. "I don't know what I think. I only know what I wish, Nancy." "Hero comes Dolly!" Nancy cried, hurriedly. With deeply flushed cheeks she rose to her feet, accidentally kick- ing her basket over as she did so. "With the two tabs," Darnley observed, lazily, pulling himself in- to a sitting position, so as to pick up the scattered roses, and wishing vaguely that he could banish every- body and everything from the world except this girl, with her wondrous eyes and splendid (ace. It was a face to die for, he too himself in that moment, he had never met its equal. "Please don't bother, Mr. Darn- ley," Nancy said, hurriedly, her cheeks still glowino', like the inner- most heart of the exquisite flowers she was engaged in replacing in their basket; "you loeik so comfor- table, and I can manage quite easily ;" then, with a shy, nervous laugh, as if she were eager to get on to another topic; "Why do you call them cubs? It is very rude; they look very nice from here." "Yes, from here," Mr. Darnley agree<l, languidly ; then he shiver- ed with mock dismay. "Heavens! do listen to their voices. What lungs! what chest notes! Nancy, you are not going (" "I must set the flowers, and " But before she got any further Dorothy came round the corner with a Miss Chester hanging af- fectionately on either arm. Miss Leicester's lovely face flush- ed as she beheld her cousin, and then she smiled iu response to his comical glance. "Don't go, Nancy," she said, af- fectionately ; and then, after Darn- ley had greeted Lady Burton's daughters. Miss Leicester introduc- ed her new friend and companion to them with an air of pride and love. The Hon. F.Ua and Maude were by no means jealous girls, yet they could not prevent a distinct feel- ing of dejircssion and disappoint- ment from stealing into their breasts as they reali/ed the full strength of Miss Hamilton's fascin- ation. Dorothy Leicester, single-handed, was a formidable rival enough, Viut these two faces together would m.-ike things a hundredfold worse. However, thev shook Nancy's small hand in their vigorous man- ner; and as Lor<l Merefifld came up attired in tennis garments, they forgotj their momentary discomfi- ture in the prospects of an exciting and immediate game. Nancv could not resist a he.irty fit of laughter at poor Merefield's miserable face, as he saw his dainty lady-love comfortably ensconced on the grass with Mr. Darnley, while he himself was forcibly carried away to the tennis court by the Misses Chester. "Won't von come, Dnrnlev?" he cried, feebly, as he went; but his invitation was drowned in a chorus of "Oh, Capt. Fairf;ix is going to join us; come along;" and so, like a lamb to the slaughter, he was borne away. (To be continued.) On the Farm AMOUNTS TO FEED. Every cow has two limits with re- gard to feeding. First, there is a limit o.f capacity; that is the totul amount of feed the cow can pos- sibly eat. Second, there is a lim-t to the amount of feed eaten that can be made use of in keeping up the energies of the body, and in producing milk. All food sujiplies between these two limits are worse than wasted ; because they net only give no return whatever, but of^^ce in the stomach it requires extra work for the cow to rid herself of the excess, thus using time when she could otherwise be at rest. On the other hand when we con- sider that about sixty per cent, of the food eaten goes to carry on the workings of the uifferent parts of the animal body, and that only the remaining forty per cent, is avail- able for milk production, we see how necessary it is, in order that the cow should do her best work, that the food should be just enough to reach the limit where economical production stops. This limit varies with every cow ; for no two cows fed the same amount v.ill both give the most economical returns. One of the cows, if fed a few I more pounds a day. will giv:; I.^/^'e'' I returns, but this might not be the case with the other cow. Suppose I you are feeding each cow 25 I pounds a day, one cow giving two land one-half gallv.ns of milk, and the others two gallons; you may find that if you give 30 pounds of feed to the first cow, she will then produce three and a half gallcms, while if you increase the amount of food given the other the fl<jw of milk will not be increased. Hence, there may be a considerable waste in feeding for milk. This brings us to an important point. The dairyman should keep a complete record of each cow in his herd, including both a feed re- cord and a milk record. Then only is he in position to find the stand- ing of each cow and tell which cows are profitable and which arc un- profitable. Then only can he know how much feed he can afford to give each cow to make the highest pro- fit. There's a whole lot in know- ing what we're doing. COW A BENEFACTOR. As population grows, more food is required to sustain it, of which a considerable portion will always consist of animal products of some kind. Tlie.'je would include milk, butter and ve~''tables as a meat substitute. One pound of nutri- ment from milk, can be produced more cheaply than one pound of nutriment in meat. The pound of nutriment from milk, however, re- quires an expenditure of more la- bor. Somewhere in the history of man there was formed a lasting friend- ship bctwetn man and the cow. She has ever since been lus faithful friend and benefactor. That man was early impressed with the value of the cow is indicated by a dis- Shipping Fever Jiiniifii:ut, ptiik ^ye, epizootic, <ll.^ir>tuper and al: i\^f^b anfl th^-^ ff^ It* raues <!tirra, and all otbera, no mutt^*- how ' i-xpoKeil, ' kr'iit from L&'ffs^ any of these Ul.Hea.seH wiili.itruU.N S IIOL'ID niSTCMPF.K CURK. Three to Mix doHert often cur* .-i rat^e. One j(/-cenl bottle |fu;vrjkt}tecu t4 do so. Be»t tiling for brood tnare^t. A''':* tn the blno^l. ^'Jc -«»i(l ft a bottle. 16 aiid fll a dozen bottlea. Drurcrl.'^ts and harness abopa, Dialribntom-AI 1. WHOLBSALK DKUGOI.STS. SPOIIN ftlLiitCAt CO.. CbemUts, Oo«kca. ladlaaa. U. S. A* A ftcfwivff «lod ttie â- â- ms a* Waiid or TttniUa Br •UmUiu g^aatUoU^ v>$fi >n wMu uu addiac MwlaM. â-  eU-iironi %j~tr i> mxlf aM a tynn Imr« (kao at^\> Uuiciae U tcld || maim*. U I't ttA Kt t^a 2 rz Inttk u« Mdv«Ua, Q«H»(M(&C9:tJ«t<tU;W» covery of a recent date of a perfect- ly preserved shrine of the ancient Egyptian goddess Hathor. This shrine d^tcd probably 1500 or 2000 year B. L. History also tells us of ancient Egyptians placing gold leaf on the horns of their cows; and this agrees with the fact that the cow was a great wealth-producer at that early date and has always been man's best friend, feeding motherless children and rewarding her owner. Is this not a truthful representation of the modern cow in her relation to man ? Man has developed the cow by a system of seleetLon, feeding and training for a special purpose. It is the law of nature for all .unimals to revert to their original type and characteristics, and as the cow is subject to this law, we can keep her up to the .standard and stead- ily improve her offspring only by the must careful selection, feeding ac/d training for higher develop- ment. No other animal known to )man responds so quickly to his ef- forts as does the cow, and no ani- mal will record bad treatment like the cow, for she is naturally, and will always remain nervous, as she is never idle in trying to produce for her owner. ShiJshh Cum qalckly atopa coaiiba. cnraa «<>'«'»• keala Iba Ibroat aad lua^a • • • S3 ccata. SACK FULL OF MONEY. An aged Ulster (Ireland) farmer staggered into a Belfast bank the other day under ihe weight of a burden contained in an tld potato sack slung over his shouWers. He said that he wanted to lodge some money in the bank. The amazed officials on opening the sack found that it contained 1,200 sovereigns which the old man said were a por- tion of his life savings he had kept hidden under the floor of his cot- tage. He has been t<.ild by a Law- yer when getting his will made, that the money would be far safer in the banks, and that he would get interest on it. The old man also said that he had $2,500 more which he would lodge later. LONDON'S MILK SHORTAGE. Owing to a shortage in the pro- duce of milk, English dairy farmers are finding it hard at present to meet London's huge daily consump- tion. As a result, milk is coining each day from Ireland to help to satisfy the demand of the metro- polis. Every night from 250 to 300 churns, each containing about sev- enty quarts, are being shipped from Ireland by the F'ishguard route, and brought by the Great Western Railway to Paddington for distri- bution in London the following day. Mrs. Artlessâ€" "The Billoughbys have a grandfather clock that's been in the family for more than 150 years." Mr. Artlessâ€" "Humph ! They didn't have it a year age." Mrs. Artlessâ€" "Oh, no; but, you see, it was stolen nearly fifty years ago, an*l Mrs. Billoughby tells me t was by the merest chance they dlactverej it last week in a second- hai::! shon." PRAYING ALWAYS. Ephesians 6: 18, 10. Father, we come with one accord And breathe in faith our earnesi plea, While we according to Thy word Commit Thy messengers to Theai We ple.id in our Eedesmer's nam» For all who do Thy tri^th proclaiia reveal that gracf meets the law'i Through them supreme. Which more than demand : May "Jesus only' be their theme Which they proclaim in everj land : In His most precious name we pra,j For all who preach Thy word thii day. When dangers threaten make then bold ; Discernment to their spirits give; And may Thy peace their lives en- fold While in Thy cause they work an^ live : With grace and strength and wis- dom gird All those who preach the living word. The heights and depths of truth di- vine Enable them to clearly see ; If foes against their work combine Give them the strength to stand for Thee; And let Thy saving grace be shown Through those who make Thy mes- sage known. Coworkers with their risen Head May all Thy ransomed childreD be; May all Thy hosts on earth be led To join in one unceasing plea : • Inspire in every heart a prayer For all who do Thy truth declare Those who to cultured thousand* preach. And those who for the needy care ; Those who in distant regions teach The way of life in faith and prayer ; For such may this request be heard : â€" Bless all who preach Thy gracious Word. T. W.\TSON.. Granthurst, Ont., ICIO. FRUIT TREE BEARING. « Some one has estimated front statistics that fruit trees and bush- es will bear for the following pcr- ioels ; Apples, for 25 to 40 years;, hlackberry, for 6 to It years; cur- rant, for 20 years : gooseuerry, for 8 to 12 years ; pear, for 50 to 75- years ; plum, for 20 to 25 years ; and raspberry, for 6 to It years. A WONDEUFUL FLOOD. The French country stntionmas- ter was walking up ami tlowii the platform with the air uf a director. 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