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"|ts [)elicious Qrawing Qualities" Are msnlfeeted In millions of Teapois dally THE TEA OF STERLING WORTH tr GREEM-SeaM P.cfcetn 0ly 03 &ALADA," ONLY A MONTH; OR, A CURIOUS MYSTERY EXPLAINED. CHAITKR XXVII.-(Cont'd). "I should like to C o," said (V cil, quickly. "But it is no us be- ing there before seven, for Madame Lechortier hu her classes to much later in thi hot weather." '"Well, go up at seven, thn, and hav a good talk with her ; make her understand that we none of us think a bit the worse of him for it and that ar vexed with Cousin Jarnee tor having been no disagree- able and harsh. You might, if you lik., go to meet Itoy ; h comes back at half-past right, and h will bring you home again." Cecil cheered up a good doal at this idea ; .she took Laiioe round the garden with her, that ho might help o?r to gather flowers for Sigrid, and vea smiled a little whn of his own a-ccord the little, fellow brought her a beautiful passion-flower which he had gathered from the- house-wall. "This one'i for my dear Herr Frithiof 1" Ue exclaimed, panting a little with the exertions ho had mado to reooh it. "It's all for his own self, aud I picked it for him, 'cause it's hi* very favorite." "You know, Cecil," Mid her mo- ther, as she. return**! to the seat under the veranda and began to ar- range the flowers in a basket, "I have another theory as to this af lair. It happened exactly a wek after that day at the sea-fide when we all had such a terrible fright about Roy and Sigrid. Frithiof had a l"n run in the inn, which you re- irwinber wan very hot that day; then he had all th<* excitement of rowing and rescuing them, and though at t)ie time it seemed no train on him at all, yet I think it is quite pooaihJe that the shock may have brought ba-ck a slight touch of the old trouble." "And yet it seemed to do him gond nt the time," said Cecil. "He looked o bright and froth whnn he came back. Ik>ides, to a man ao- custorned ai he once was to a very active life, the rescue was, after all, Bo such great exertion." Mrs. Boniface eighcd. "It would grieve me to think that it was really caused by that, but if it is so, there ui all tho more rea- son that they should clearly under- stand that ih affair makes no dif- ference at all in our opinion of him. It is just possible that it may be his meeting with Lady Romiaux which it the cause. Sigrid told me they had accidentally come across her again, and that it had triad him very mnh." Cecil turned away to gather gome ferns from the rockery ; she could not hear to discuss tli.it last sug- gestion. Later on in the afternoon it was with a very heavy heart that ehe re;ichd the model lodgings and kn.-'lo-l at the door that hiwl now bocnme to familiar to her. Swanhild flew to greet her with her usual warmth. It was eaay to see that the child knew nothing of the trouble hanging over th houe. "What lordly flowers! How good of you !" she cried. But Sigrid ooold nut speak ; sho only kiKxed her, then turned to Bwanhild and the flowers once more. "They are beautiful," sh said. "Don't you think we might spare- some for Mrs. Hal li fie Id 1 Run and take her aome, dear." When the child ran off, sh drew Cecil into their bedroom. The two girls sat down together on the bed, but Higrid, usually the one to do roost of the talking, wai silent and dejected. Cecil saw at once that she must take the iniative. "I Irive been longing to come and tv you," she said. "But yesterday wa so filled up. Father and mo- ther are so sorry for all this trou- ble, and are very much vexed that Mr. Homer hae behaved badly about It." "They are very kind," said Sig- rid, wearily. "Of course moflt em- ployers would have prosecuted Frithiof, or, at any rate, dis- charged him." "But, Sigrid, what onn be the ex- planation ofitl Oh, surely we can manage to find out somehow. Who can have put th noto in his pock- et I" "What!" cried SigrM. "Do not you, too, hold Mr. Boniface's opin- ion, and think that he himself did it unintentionally V "I!" cried Cecil, passionately. "Never ! never I I am quite sure h had nothing whatever to do with it." Sigrid flung her arms round her. "Oh, how I Jove you for saying that!" she exclaimed. She was recallod from her thoughts by Cecil's voice; it was sweat and gentle again now, and no longer vehement. They went back to the sitting- room and began to prepare the evening meal; and when, presently, Frithiof returned from, his work, the ii I-M, thing l.o caught sight of on entering the room was Cecil's sweet open-looking faco. She was standing by the table arranging flownrs, but came fonvard quickly to greet him. Her color was a little doeper than usual, her hand-clasp a Jilfle closer, but otherwise she bo- haved exactly as if nothing unusual had happeued. "I have* moat unceremoniously asked myself to supper," she said, "f< r I have to moot Roy at half- pat eight." "It is very good of you to come," said Frithiof, gratefully. His interview with Carlo Donati had done much for him, and had helped him through a very trying day at tho shop, but though he had made a good Mart, and li.-id begun his ne-.v life bravely, and borne many disagreeables patiently, yet he wa now misrably tired and de- pressed, just in th mood which craves most for human sympathy. "Lanc aont you this," she said, handing him the passion-flower and making him smile by repeating tho child's words. He seemed touched and pleaded. Then, while Sigrid and Swanhild were busy in the kitchen, she told him what she knew of Donuti's pre- vious life, and how it wan that he had gained this extraordinary pow- er of sympathy and insight. "I never met anyone like him," said Frithiof. "He i a hero and a saint, if ever there was one, yet without one touch of the asceticism which annoys one in most good peo- ple. That the idol of the operatic Ki H. > should be such a man aa that seems to me wonderful. "You mean because the life is a trying one t" "Yea; because such very great popularity might he supposed to mako a man conceited, and such an ut-of-the-wy voice might make lim selfish and heedless of others, and to bo so much run after might make, him consider himonlf above ordinary mortals, instead of being ready, as he evidently 'is, to be the r rind of any one who is in need." "I an so glad you like him, and that you saw sn much of him," said Cecil. "I wonder if you would just see me into a cab now, for I oug!.t to be going." He was plejwrd that sho had ask- ed him to do this ; and when she had said good-bye to Sigrid and Swan- hild, and was onoo morn alone with him. walking through the big court- yard, he could not resist alluding to it. "It is good of you," he said, 'to treat me as though I were under no loud. You have cheered me won- derfully." "Oh," she said, "it is not good of m you must not think that I helievfl you under a cloud at all. Nothing would ever make me be- lieve that you had anything what- ever to do with that five-pound not*. It is a mystery that will some, day be cleared up." "That is what Signer Donati said. He, too, believed in me in spite of appearance* being against mo. And fiigrid says the, snmn. With throe peoplo f>n my side I din wait more patiently." Cecil had apokon very quietly, and quite without the pansionatA vehemence, which had be-trayed hor secret to Sigrid, for now she was on her guard ; hut her tone conveyed to Fritlii.f just the trust and friendli- ness which sho wished it to convey ; and he went home airnin with a fresh stock of hope nnd courage in his heart. Meanwhile CVci! pnoed gravely up nnd down tho arrival platform at r 'haring Cross. Perhaps the aaxi- ty had already left it* trace* OB her face, for Roy at ono* notia+di a change in h*r. "Why, Ccil. what has oom over you? You are not looking w**ll," he said, * they got into a hanom and set off on their long drive. "Father has not beeu well," sh enid. in explanation. "And I think we have all been rather upset by something that happened on Mon- day afternoon in the shop." Then she told him exactly what had passed, and waited hopefully for his comments on the story. He knitted his brows in perplexity. "I wish I had been at home," he said. "If only Jamea Homer had not gone ferreting into it all this would never have happened. Frith- iof would have discovered his mis- take, and all would have been well." "But you don't imagine that Frithiof put the not* in hi pock- et?" said Cecil. "Why, who else could have put it there t Of course he must have done it in absence of mind. Proba- bly tho excitement and strain of that unlucky afternoon at Britling Gap affected his brain in come way." "I can not think that," she said. "And even if it were so, that is the last sort of thing he would do." "But that is just the way when people's brains are affected, they do the most unnatural things; it is a known fact that young innocent girls will often in delirium us the most horrible language such a in real life they can not possibly have heard. Your honet man is quite likely under the circumstances to become a thief. Is not this the view that my father takes V "Yes," said Cecil. "But some- howI thought I hoped that you would have trusted him." "It doesn't in the lea/at affect my opinion of his character. He was' simply not himself when he did it. But one can't doubt such evidence as that. The thing wa* missed from the till and found pinned into his pocket, how can any reasonable be- ing doubt that he himself put it there?" "It may be unreasonable to re- fuse to believe it I can not help that," said Cecil. "But how can it possibly be ex- plained on any other supposition?" he urged. "I don't know," said Cecil; "at present it is a mystery. But I am as sure that he did not put it there as that I did not put it there." "Women believe what they wish to believe, and utterly disregard logic," maid Roy. "It is not only women who believe in him. Carlo Donati has gone most carefully into every detail, and h* beJinves in him." "Then I wish he would give me his recipe," said Roy, with a sigh. "I am out a matter-of-fact, pro- saic man of business, and can not make myself believe that block is white, however much I wish it. H*v you teen Mise Falckt Is she very much troubled about it?" "Yes, she is so afraid that he will worry himself ill; but, of course, she, too, believes in him. I think she suspects the other man in the shop Darnell ; but I don't sec how he can have anything to do with it, I must own." There waa a silence. Cecil looked sadly at the passers-by, lovers strolling along happily in the cool of the evening, workers just set free from the long day's toil, chil- dren reveling in the fresh sweet air. How very brief was the happi- ness and rest compared to the hard, wearying drudgery of most of those lives! (To be continued). PERRIN GLOVES The best for all occasions. Always suitable. Always stylish. SM that tha Kide mark l en vry glove. J On the Farm CHRISTMAS APPEAL TOTHB PEOPLE OF ONTARIO FOR The Hespital for Sick Chite Dear Mr. Kdum.- It would take more space than 701: can spare to tell of the good work done by the Hospital for Sick Chll dren, Toronto, (or the sick ami de- formed children of this Province. Let me, iu a few words, tell you of the steady growth of this Hospital In the year 1I7S there were only six cots and beds, one nurse, 44 In-patients and 87 out-patleats. In 1912 there wer 260 cots and beds, 64 nurses, 1,294 Inpatients and 17.SC2 out- patients. lulling the ST years of the Hos- pital's existence, 1M70 In-patients have beeu admitted, and 133,724 out- patients have IJ..HH treated, a total of 163,014, or an average of 4.151 per year. Of the lt,370 tn-patlents, (.495 were from places outalde of Toronto. 9,644 of itu. total in-patients were cured, and 6,711 wero improved. This Is a great record. Of the 1,294 In patients last year, 341 came from 218 places ou'.aids of Tor- onto, so that the Ilnxpltal it not a local, but a Provincial Institution. In the Orthopsdlo Department In 17 rears, nearly 700 bnya and girls have been treated for clubfeet, and about 800 were corrected. Half of these came from places outside of Toronto, so surely we have a fair claim for help from the people of this Province. The Corporation of Toroato grants $25,000, not only for the city children, but towards Hie maintenance of all patients In the Hospital, and the cltl- seni of Toronto donate an average of $16,090 annually to the funds of the Hospital. Will yo, kind reader, think of what your money will do? It helps to re- store health and strength, and gives sound limbs and straight feet to crippled boys and girls. Remember that your pooket-book must be the Hospital's friend, If the Hospital is to be the children's friend. Remember that Christmas calls you to opnn the purse of your kindness to the Hospital, o that tha Hospital may open the heart of Its help to the children. Remember that your money can help the Hospital build a bridge over which the feet of little children may travel on the journey from sorrow to Joy, from sickness to health aye, from death to lift. Please send a dollar, or more If you ean spare it. to Douglas Davidson, the S.-oreUry-TreRgurer of the Hospital, or J. Itoss Kobertiion, Chairman of the t'ruHtees. Toronto, Raising Calves. Several systems of raising calves are in voguo among different stock- men. The calves may be allowed to run with the cows and suck at will. They may be confined and al- lowed to suck two or three times per day. In this system one calf may be allowed to suck one or two cows, or two calves may be allowed to suck the same cow, according to the flow of milk and size of the calves. Calves may be confined and fed fresh whole milk from the pail. Again, they may be fed on fresh, sweet skim milk or separa- tor milk or on sour skim milk, or even buttermilk or whey. On the western ranges and in other localities where beef is the chief object and where tho milk is not desired for other purposes, the calf is allowed to run with ibs mo- ther. Under range conditions this is the only possible economic way of raising calves. The suck:ng calf develops into a more promising yearling than the skim milk calf, especially if the latter is fed in a careless or irregular manner. With- out proper caro skim milk calves make small pot-bellied yearlings. Whatever oattlo are raised on a small scale and there is a good mar- ket for milk, it does not pay to let calves suck the cows. Onlv calves which will bring fancy prices for breeding purposes can profitably be allowed to run with the mother. Milk will bring a larger prico as butter than ordinary calves can make from it. The results of numerous experi- ments in the United States and Canada are in substantial agree- ment with regard to the most eco- nomic method of raising calves. They should be allowed to suck the cows for thre* or four days. They will thus get the colostrum or first milk and exercise a favorable in- fluence in preventing inflammation of the udder. About the fourth day the calves should be separated from the cows and fed on whole milk by means of an artificial feeder, or taught to drink whole milk from a pail. As soon as they have learned to drink the whole milk should be gradually replaood with warm sweet skim milk so that the calves are receiv- ing nothing but skim milk at the end of four weeks. The skim milk should be fed sweet and warm (05 to 100 degrees P.). The change from whole milk to nkimniilk should cover a period of about two weeks. The skiramilk ration may begin at ten pounds per day and increase to fifteen pounds at four weeks of age, after which it may range from eighteen to twenty-four pounds. It is best to teach calve* to drink by using the fingers as artificial feeders are not very satisfactory. Scouring in calves is usually due to feeding too much milk, or sour, I cold or unclean milk. Careful at- tention should >>o given to those < details. If scouring persists the calves may be fed small quantities of wheat bran or rye bran or a lit- tle lime may be added. For their best development calves require milk for four or five months. After that timo milk may be omit- ted from the ration. Small quan- tities of grain should be fed from the time the calves are two or three weeks old. Corn meal, kaffir corn meal, oatmeal and ground tlaxseed or linseed meal are best for this purpose. Calves may bn taught to eat by placing a handful of dry meal in the inouth. Calves which come in the fall are less subject to scouring than spring and summer calves, and there are many other excallent reasons why fall calving should be practiced. Concerning Your Tongup. As a matter of fact there are only four distinct tasrp,s swwt, bitter, salty and acid. All tho others are a mixture of the sensations of ernell and touch. Nor are all parts of the tongue equally sensitive to all tho tastes. For oxampJe, tho tip of the tonctue tastes sweet things ^best, whilo tho base of the tongue can best detect' the presence of bitter substances. Salty material is most easily tasted at the side of the. j tontju". Sour or arid tastes, how- ever, are fo.lt on all sides. So close- ly linked is tho sense, of taste with those of odor and vision that with eyos shut and nostrils cloned it is; hard to distinguish between an ap- i pie and an onion. Try it and see ! WAY ROYALTY 18 GUARDED. Spocial Soldiers or Attendants Watch Over Sleeping King. Every night the palace at which King George is sleeping is patroled by night-watchmen, who pass along the corridors throughout the night inspecting doors and windows. These watchmen wear carpet slip- pers to deaden the sounds of their footfall*, and are specially trained to know exactly what to do in case of fire. In addition to the night pa- trol, there is always a sentry on duty outside th chamber in which the King sleeps. King Alfonso of Spain is guarded at night by specially selected sol- diers, who take charge of the keys of all the palace doors each night. Thes men pledge themselvee that the doors shall not be unlocked un til daybreak, and no cne is allowed to enter ot leave the palace until the night is over. The guards sleep outside the royal bedchamber, so that no one may enter during the night. King Albert of Belgium is an- other carefully guarded monarch whom no one may disturb once night has set in. Soldiers patrol the corridors of the king's palace, and his special valet locks himself in the king's ante-chamber, which no other parson is allowed to enter. Th valet is forbidden to opa either door until morning under penalty of death. The Czar of Russia, the closest guarded of any monarch, is protect- ed at night by several companies of soldiers, including Englishmen, members of the secret police, and a body of Cossacks. The various com- panies work independently of one another. The Sultan of Turkey is nightly watched over by a very large num- ber of soldiers and councillors, who remain within the neighborhood o* his bedroom until morning. Th Sultan changes his sleeping apart- ment oftener than any other mon- arch. He has the choice of two score bedchambers, and he visit* many of these in turn throughout the year. His Holiness the Pope is guarded by an attendant who is able to watch the welfare of his master t!i rough a spyhole in the wall of hi bedchamber, so that the Pope is al- ways under observation. Boys and Girls Send Post Card to- day for, how to make "Easy Pocket Money" 'MI , , one* bfore thr r* II gnn. A.I ' n P.O. Bog m*. Montreal, Can. IASY) &0&PEMDERS 50c. or tent popid lot Me. nt KM SOSKHft Help Yourself to Health Get rid of that outside closet on your farm it is the cause of most of th sickness in your family because it is a breeding place for disease. 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