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ONLY A MONTH; OR, A CURIOUS MYSTERY EXPLAINED. CHAPTER XX. (Cont'd) She glanced at Frithiof and saw quite plainly that be shrunk from the idea, and that it would go hard nature to accept with his such an offer. She glanced at Sig- rid, and saw that the sister was ready to sacrifice anything for the ake of getting the little girl to England. Then, liaving as much tact as kindness, she rose to go. "Von will talk it over between you and let me know your de- cision," she said, pleasantly. "Con- , *ult Mr. and Mrs. Boniface, and j f nd let me know in a day or two. Why should you not eom in to after- noon tra with me to-morrow, for I thall be at home for once, and can show you my canaries? Cecil will bring you. friends.' 1 would be about 150. Frithiof's work for Ilerr Siverstcn, and what- ever they might earn by evening engagements eon Id be laid anide to- ward the fund for paying off the debts, and she thought that they might perhaps manage to live on the rest. Mrs. Boniface seeined ra- ther aghast at the notion, and said fihe thought it impossible.' "I don't suppose that wo shall spend as little on food as Frithiof did when he was alone," said Big- rid, "for he nearly starved himself; lon't mean to allow him to try that again. 1 sec that the great She aud I are old When she was gone Sigrid return- ed to the room with dancing eyes. "Is she not delightful, 1 ' she cried. "For myself, Frithiof, 1 can't hesitate for a moment. The work will be easy, and she will be thoroughly kind." "She has a bad temper," said Frithiof. "How do you know?" "Because no swet-tenipered wo- man ever had uch a straight, thin- lipl>ed mouth." "I think you are very horrid to pick holes in her when she has been so kind to us. accept. But hild t" For myself I must how about Swan- "I hate the thought for either of you," said Frithiof, moodily. "Now, Frithiof, don't go and be a g>oose about it," said Sigrid, car- essingly. "If we are ever to have a nice cozy little home together we must certainly work at something, arid we are not likely to get lighter, or more congenial, or better paid work than this. Come, dear, you have got, as Lance would Bay, to 'grin and bear it.' " "In any case, we must give Swan- hild herself a voice in the matter," he said at length. "Accept the of- fer if you like, provisionally, and let us write to her aod tell her about it." "Very well, we will write a joint letter and give her all sorts of guardlanly advice. But, all the same, you know as well as I do that Swanhild will not hesitate for a mo- ment. She is dying to come to Eng- land, and she is never BO happy as when she is dancing." When Roy came home that even- ing the m -.tter was practically dc- cid<-d. 1'rithiof arid Sigrid luid had a long talk in the library with Mr. and Mrs. Boniface, and by and by in the garden, Sigrid told him glee- fully what she called the "good news." "I can afford to laugh now at my aluminum pencil)) and the embroi- dery patterns, and tho . poodle- shaving," she said, gayly. "Was it not lucky that we happened to go to Mrs. Homer's partr and that everything happened just as it did?" "Do you really like the pros- pect?" asked Roy. "Indeed I do. I haven't felt so happy for months. For now we need never again be parted from Frithiof. It, will be tho best thing in UK- world for him to have a com- fortable little home ; and I shall take good care that he doesn't work too hard. Mr. Boniface hoe been o good. He says that Frithiof can have some extra work to do if ho likes ; he can attend some of your concerts, and arrange the platform between the pieces; and this will add nicely to his salary. And then, too, when he heard that I hail quite decided on accepting Madame Le- chertier's offer, he proposed some- thing else for us too." "What was that?" said poor Roy. "Why he thinks that he might get us engagements to play at chil- dren's parties or small dancon. Fri- thiof's violin-playing is quite good enough, he nays. And don't you ever think it would be much bet- ter for him than poring so long over that hateful work of Herr Sivertsen's?" Hoy was obliged to assent. "Frithiof is rather down in tho depths about it," said Sigrid. "And I do hope you will cheer him difficulty will be rent, for that seems so high in London. We were talking about it this morning, and Frithiof had a bright idea. He says there are some very cheap flats workmen's model lodgings that might perhaps do for UK; only of course we must make sure that they are quite healthy before we take Swanhild there." "Clean and healthy they are pret- ty sure to be," said Mrs. Boniface, "but I fancy they have strict rules which might be rather irksome to you. Still, we can go and make in- brushes and . AIRSHIP IN BRITISH ARMV MANOEUVRES ' ABOUT TO ALIGHT ATKNEESWOETH . , - . , there were in a house that one can't do well without. Now that rnuet surelv be all. butter for early fall prices, because it will not keep. W. D. FARM NOTES. Turn the scrub bull into bologna ' and fill his place with a sire that will add dollars to the value of the herd through his progeny. Eggs that cost 25 cents per dozen will brink $7 or $S when hatched and sold as broilers. Cattle on farrr. do not need horns. Dehorn your young calves. Can you tell just how much it costs to feed a cow a year? Ever see the man who works like a bee every place but at home t A storage place for eggs should be free from any bad odors. Sour slops have no place on the well regulated farm. Dipping hogs is cheaper than , feeding lice. Cheap meat can be made only from young pige. DYOLA tf. th. CLEANEST. SIMPLEST, >n4 BEST HOME DVF.. no can huT-Why joy don't oven lure to kaowwtut t NDo( Clack your Good. >r. m^. (.'So MUtokM ar fapMibl. S.nd for Fr. Coin Card. Story BooUtt. .ad Bool:.! 4<rt*z r-.il. < Dretes orer oticr colon. Til. JOH.NSOX-fUCHAKOSON CO., VTU.11..I. C.U>dl. No, I have forgotten brooms V fl;sd such quiries. After all, you would in! things. Now, then, for thi- adding some ways be better off than in or- j up. You check me, Cecil, for fear I make it too little this is a ter- rible moment." "Twenty-eight pounds!" ex- claimed both girls in a breath. "You can surely never do it on that?" said Cecil." "It seems a groat d";il to me," said Sigrid; "still I have more than that over from uncle's fifty- pound check, even after Doctor Morris is paid. No, on the whole, I think we need not worry, but may spend as much as that with a clear conscience. The thing I am anxi- ous about is my weekly bill. Look here, we must somehow manage to live on l-ljj u year, that will leave five pounds in case of illness or any great need. For charity it leaves nothing, but we can't give while wo dinary lodgings, where you arc at the mercy of the landlady." So that afternoon they went to an office where they could get in- formation as to model dwellings, and found that four rooms could be obtained in some of them at the rate of seven and sixpence a week. To outward view the model dwel- lings were certainly not attractive. The great high houses with their uniform ugly color, the endless rows of windows, all precisely alike, the asphalt court-yard in the cen- ter, though tidy and clean, had a desolate look. "At present we have no rooms to let, sir," was the answer of the superintendent to Frithiof's in- quiry. "I think, though, we are almost certain to have a set vacant before long." "Could we see over them?" they uked. "Well, the set that will most likely be vacant belongs to a north- country family, and I dare say they would let you look in. There is one of the children. Here, Jessie, ask your mother if she would mind just showing her rooms, will you?" The child, glancing curiously at the visitors, led the way up flight after flight of clean stone stairs. A pleasant-looking woman came for- ward and asked them to step in. "You'll excuse the place being a bit untidy," she said. "My man ha* just got fresh work, and lie has but now told mo we shall have to be flitting in a week's time. We are going to Compton Buildings in the Goswell Road." "I wonder," K.-iid Sigrid, "if we took them, whether I could pay one of the neighbors to do my share of sweeping and scrubbing the stairs, and whether I could get them to scrub out these rooms once a week. You see, I don't think 1 could man- age the scrubbing very well." L On the Farm HAY RACK. rack A practical and cheap hay may be made very simply. The bed frame is fifteen feet long, j the rear end is three feet six inches wide, and the front one foot eight inches wide. Leing narrow in front permits of the wagon being turned in a smaller place. There is a bolster made on the frame. When the rack is to be used on the wagon, remove the bolster j from the wagon and let the one | made on the frame take its place. The side raile are made of 2% by six-inch stuff The cross-pieces are I two by six inches and six feet sin- ; inches long. The two boards that form the bows that protect the are in debt. Two pounds, fifteen hilling! a week for three of us! [wheels are made of one by eight- Why, j)oor people live on far less." "With a clever manager it will be possible," Frithiof said, "and you are no novice, Sigrid, but have been keeping house for the last eleven years." "After a fashion," she*rep!ied, "but old Gro really managed things. However, I know that I shall really enjoy trying my hand at anything so novel, and you will have to come and see me very of- ten, Cecil, to prevent my turning into a regular housekeeping drudge." At length the day came when they were to leave Rowan Tree House. They each tried to nay something suitable to Mr. and Mrs. Boniface, but not very suc- cessfully, for Sigrid broke down and cried, and Frithiof felt that to put very deep gratitude into words is a task which might well baffle the readiest speaker. "And when you want change or rest," said Mrs. Boniface, shaking hi* hand warmly, "you have only got to lock up your rooms and come ,,r\\ * 11 i P n -*** vv ""-'* l I 1 > ^' ** * i vmiun i\ JIM vutuc Oh, mms there would Iw no d.f- ( , (>wn he ,. t . to |ls Thcre wi! , , nculty in that, said the woman. "There's many that would be thankful to earn a little that way, and the same with laundry work." "Do you know, I begin to like this great court -yard," nhe said to Co- <;il - At first looked to mo bllt " ow ifc !<)oks to me like ! a great, orderly human hivo; tin-re is something about it that makes one feel industrious." then," will settle down here, said Frithiof, smiling; "and you filial] be queen bee.' 1 "You think it would not hurt Swanhild?" asked Sigrid, turning to Mrs. Boniface. "The place seems to me beautifully airy." "Indeed," said Mm. Boniface, "I think in many ways the place is most comfortable, and certainly you could not do better, unless you gave a very much higher rent." As for Sigrid, she wo*i now in her element. A true woman, she do- be 11 welcome, ready for the three of you. Don't forget that." "Let it be your second homo," said Mr. Boniface. Cecil, who was tho one to feel most, said least. She merely shook hands with him, made some trilling remark about tho time of Swan- hild's train, and wished him good- bye ; then, with a sore heart, watch- ed the brother and sister as they stepped into the carriage and drove away. (To bo continued.) .IF.IU'SALKM WILL BE MODERN Electricity, Tramways and Water Works Soon Complete. A Syrian journal give-s some in- teresting details of the industrial development of Jerusalem, which, lighted in tho thought of having noeording to tho paper, will before rooms of her own to furninh and long bo one of tho most up-to-date and comfortable towns in tho near east. A larpte. number of companies, financed by European capital, have, arrange.. "Beds are ruinously dear," she snid, after making elaborate cal- culations. "Wo must have three to live in dependence on relation* for 50 long, you would understand how happy I am to-night. I, too, liall be ahln to help in paying off the debts I" "In her life alo to be .given up to that deHperato attempt?" thought Roy, despondently. CHAPTER XXI. Purim; the noxt few days Siirrid wax ill's >i-lied in deep Uilcultttioll*. Blie found that, rxrlusive of Kwan really comfortable ones since we ' it is stated, recently been applying ,th a view to or- public services on a up. If" you had known" wha'tTit w w ! monn to work hflrd ftl1 <ln -. v - and I for tnust "t" ll .V e tho three of them with all the'r belong- ings will not leave very much out of twelve pounds, 1 fear. But then as to chairs and table.* they might well be nd-hand, and we won't gnni/.ing the modern basis. An English company which is erecting a large power xt-ation will soon supply electric current all over t-hn city. Even the eacird hill will l>rf->ro long be lighted with eleotri- go in for a tingle luxury; it will look rather biux-, but then there, ', will lie !<-FS trouble about Qltaniaaj and dusting," "You ill tH-flom* sue}, a domes- ,.,. , IB ,,, tic character that we hant know to hous ,, wa ter pply, A complete new system of tram- ways is under cousl ructiyn by a Fi'oncK company, while a German eoTicern is laying main* fur a house yon, Frithiof, laughing. "What do you think we can pos- |iiM'n "iniill earnings, which would i sibly fimiiah the rooniK on f" b< nli "Hied by her eduent ion and th<> few BXti i i 'nt midit be need . ... iii<-ir actual yearly a moment, an<l I'll .add up To complete tho my list," i.hc said, cheerfully. "T i<> knew before how many things inaiiagcm<!ut. ^__u. ' lm "' OI > a ' character of the modernization of Jerusalem, a serit-s f fire fUi'tins with more fire engines and ladders . tin-!i<l uiidi-r Austrian I inch elm, or some wood that is I tough and will not break in bend- ing. The frame is put together with three eight-inch bolt*, assorted lengths to suit the differnt thick- nesses of material. The knees that support the front cross-piece arc one foot tall, with- out the tenons ; these are six inches on the lower end and three on the upper. If well put together out of good materials, and painted, and well taken care of, this frame will last for 30 years. WATCH THE HORSE'S TEETH. If your horse shows difficulty in eating or loses flesh without appar- ent cause, it is time to examine the teeth. Very often elongated teeth prevent a horse from properly mas- ticating its food, thereby rendering it impossible to obtain much bene- fit from it. Ulcerated teeth also are a source of great trouble and prevent a horse from eating well. Sometimes broken teeth cut the sides of the horse's mouth and form painful sores which, of course, interfere with mastication. It is a good plan to examine the teeth of all horses two or three times a year, and in case of broken or elongated teeth, treat them with a file. If the teeth of a valuable animal are badly affected it should be treated by a veterinary surgeon. ORCHARD SUGGESTIONS. Midsummer pruning heals quickly and is being practised extensively by good orchardiets. Better ship fruit a little green than overripe because it deterior- ates quickly after being packed and placed in hot cars and warehouses. If you have a poor seedling pear or apple tre* it may be entirely made over by top grafting,,- - Peach trees make kood stock for plum grafting, as they usually have large vigorous roots. It costs but a trifle for stock for marketing fruit packages and if they are utenciled with your nairip, or the name of your farm, they will prove of a great benefit, provided the fruit is of the best quajity. THE DAIRY. The separator should never be allowed in the barn or near it. A half ikiir.en window s;ish glazed will make a rust proof box in which the dairy vessels can be sunned and kept absolutely clean. Au enterprising farmer living near a town of 5,000 or more, can sell every pound <>f liis butter at full retail prices, or little, above, the year round. For several year* we have bought- farm butter frc.m tho s.nme farmer at two cents above retail market price every month in the year and glnd to get it. I'M \, . attempt U keep summer ' MONET IN BRITISH BANKS. Unclainieil !)<>!>< -'i- Are I'scd for Various I'urposen. Two hundred millions of dollars of unclaimed money in the coffer- of Briti-'i banks derelict gold which nobody owns, and which the banks are naturally pleaded to take care of! Gold more than sufficient to pave every square foot of Cheapside with sovereigns, says London Tit-Bits. The sum total may be exaggerat- led. But make a liberaJ deduction and you ptUl have many millions : t<> which no rightful owners make a 11. There is no bank in the whole length of Great Brit.iin (or elsewhere) which ha^ not its lists of ' v bank balance*- th:it way be ?aid to go a-begging. S*-me are for trivial sums, scarcely worth the trouble of pocketing; some are for amounts nmning into thousands. Some years ago it was found that the Bank of England alone had nearly 11,000 of these dormant ac- count*. Forty of them had more than $50,000 apiece to their credit; i one balance was written in six finr- ; lire?. $907,900. The total at the bottom of the long list was $39,284,- 875. This amount was very largely mode up of unclaimed dividends on government stock. Scottish bank- have, it is said,. $15.000.00 of this overlooked gold. English banks at least double this sum. It seems inconceivable that so much money, for all of which there must have been owners at some time or other, should be thus lost to Mght. A score or more of simple cause* account for the seeming im- possibility. A man may, for pri- vate or business reasons, have ac- counts with more banks than one. He dies, his exreutors know noth- ing of any but his usual bank" : the balance* at t.h? others remain un- claimed. He may die abroad or disappear, leaving no clew to bis banking af- fairs ; he may even forget that such and such an account is not closed. In these and many similar ways mostly the result of carelessness money is left in the hands of bank- ers to swell the dormant funds. For seven years the bankers keep the accounts open, prepared to pay over the balance to any one who can prove a title to it. This term expired, they regard the forgotten gold as their own. Five million dollars of such ownerless money wont to build I^ondon's splendid j law courts. The city, it is said, has I more than one magnificent bank building reared from the same handy material. The Bank of Eng- land, one learns, provides pensions for clerks' widows out of such a fund. No matter how much other peo- ple may run down the theatre the billposter always sticks up for it. EATING POOR MAN'S DINNER. English Newspaper Men Try It and Find It Very Coo4. A party of London (England) newspaper men recently met at th rooms of the Society of Medical Offi- cers of Health to eat a poor man's dinner. It was, of course, such a dinner as no poor man ever ea.t, but that is because he does not know how to lay his money out so as to get the best and most feeding stuffs, neither does his wife know how to cook them properly when bought. These things they could learn from the secretary of the so- ciety, a barristoc and an enthusiast on dietetics. It was interesting to learn what can be done by judicious buying at the open air markets of London, where the food is probably cheaper and of better quality than in any other capital. They started with some tasty soup made from parts of fish usually thrown away as useless by thriftless cooks, each helping costing about a fourth of a cent to make. The foreigners IB Soho are well aware of these economies. Then there were admirable cent apiece herrings, haddock and thre meat courses, any one of which would have mad* a good meal. There was roast mutton fcora Aus- tralia 9 cents a pound in the open air market; flank of Australian beef a part commonly ignored by English housewives, but good to eat all the same; steak and kidney pie, oostinsr about 6 cents a portion ; and jugged hare made from colonial hare, bought at 50 cents for nine) pounds and tasting as good as the Norfolk variety. The lemon pudding was so allur- ing that most of the newspaper men came again for more. The dessert was West Indian limes (five for a cent), pears (4 cents a poud), and so on. The meal cost much ks than the tinned meat and fruit so much pat- ronized by the poor, and was far more nourishing. ARMY SERVICE FOR GIRLS. Prof. WitzeJ o Dnsscldorf advo- cates compulsory military service for German girls. An army of nurses should, in his opinion., follow each army of male combatants not only to care for the wounded, but to attend to everything connected with food and clothing. Every healthy German girl, says the pro- fessor, should look on training for this object as a patriotic duty, and the knowledge acquired will be use- ful in the home if it is not utilized on the battlefield. Chimneys were first erected in Britain in 1200. On Pat's arrival in New York his Yankee friend began to boast of the heat and said it was so hot that it burnt the wings off the flies. I'at replied: "Oh, that's nothing to the heat in Ireland. Why, they have to feed the hens on ice cream to keep them from laying boiled eggs." You < r : afford brain-befoggiug headaches. NA-DRU-CO Headache Wafers stop them In quick time and clear your head. They do not contain either phenacetlo, acetaniltd. morphine, opium or any other dangerous drug. 2Sc. a box at your Druggist's. jjj N*TIORI. Dnu* AN* CHrmoti. Cc. op CANADA. LIHITIO. Take A Handful 01 "SI. 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