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a tenderfoots wooing by clive phill1pps voluey author of gold gold in cariboo etc chapter xx contd most of the events to which we look forward in life and probably in death either with desire or dread arc curiously unlike our forecasts of them a battle upon either a large or small scale is no exception to this rule men laugh in the crisis of a life and death struggle and in the lost i that hai sheltered in it was as del i as julius caesar dut beuig tiaas i they elected to run no risks wlun the firing ceased a sourd ehop- i ping began and rolt w should have j known better imagined that the cold blooded brutes were going to fied be fore picking up their bird- but he misjudged them an indian is s-lffi- ciently coldblooded iit not on the j i hunting trail or the war path then he thinks a great deal leas of his belly than does a white man under similar south african war a volunteer told dont let the beggars get away and off as one of the escort of a big gun he emp the magazine of his re- only of spion kopthat it with wfiicli wouid redit to a machine gun remembers only of spion kop that t with was fought on a jolly day that the hlve done c slones j denly burst upon the cherry patch c cutting the feeble brush into ribbons before a trce erasneti and tatters aiyi making the defenders l and before thc soum of hg fa crouch in tieir lairs like frightened had died away thiy aav t top of ra i another lean slowly over hang for a moment and then isappear in a i spray of shattered boughs and pine- needles i three fell in allvuul still the chop ping went on then for the firs time rolt noticed what looked like a great saw log just outside the line of the pine tree lying parallel with that line and as he noticed it two more came to join it there was no doubt that they carne he saw them emerge slowly like some footles i monsters moving sideways firea good many shots for fifteen injuns growled al liker fifty its the hull chilcoten tribe blank em and then rising recklessly to his knees he roared turn it loose boys u five minutes earlier the boss had weather and the smooth grass suggested pink parasols and picnic th qf vatcning the mo sage hampers that there was funny little brus ovel the hawk had suv balloonlike puffs rising at intervals from ym uat coyate from the ridge opposite to that on i sq tl an1 now whilst v which he lay that the sun was warm he am fte of and comforting an that some con- der tainted the air there were a founded fellow woke him up with the i f dnshing f it toe of a service boot when the battle for ne et was over and tf was time to take the 0ny twoof am onc of gun home these got to his feet again and was it was with rot as it was with that look for this emblem in ihs dealers window sign no purchase papers that do not bear tks guaranty emblem veoman i after als departure he worked fev- j yerishly at the making of his burj row expecting every moment to hear the hum of bullets through the scrub j over head but no bullets came and at last even with his jack knife he had managed to scrape cut a hollow- ample enough to contain his body then he lay in it and watched un- til the minutes grew into an hour and j the dawn into young day without any sign of life showing itself upon the landscape except a coyote shadowy hauled into cover by his fellows blanked bad shootin say boss ah here they come theyre get- tin down to business at last thats more like cree fightin i wouldnt have thought that they knowed so much muttered al but at first rot- who had not als experience did not underst the sight of those three and and rcat7uiie that shot of yours turned on the hul creeiinjr down abreast apparenk bloomm orchestra how many did b theil own volitioi verv you git j horrible i m afraid i did not touch one of from time to ume them guess youre better at sitters didnt you spot any of em before i told you to shoot at that brush lord ive been watching that fellow over there for nigh on to an hour its lucky as i didnt wait for him to come in range or my old shootin iron i why what difference would it and utterly noiseless who came steal- fc made ing down from thc hills until he was rifle spat redly from the timber but for the most part the slow progress of the logs down the sloping prairie was made in ab solute silence the sun creeping across the heavens seemed to move faster than they did weve got to get them other two over this side said al we cant stop them pointing to the logs ami 1 nearly midway between the pines and the cherry patch there he checked sharply his nose went up and his brush dropped and wheeling in his tracks he vent back at a lope to the nearest rising ground on which he stood awhile reconnoit ring something in the country displeased him for after a prolonged survey he loped back the way he had come the coyotes behavior was sugges tive of suspicion but a little broad- winged hawk which poised in the clear air or swung noiselessly overhead with a keen eye for mice or beetles contradicted the habitually suspici ous vagabond rolt found it impossible to remain strung up to concert pitch for even in such an atmosphere of peaceful beau ty just as the half alarmed lrack does when they get here therell be a blank- all the difference between living e hot time in thc chen pau and dying theyd have rushed us in j we spare them won the another ten minutes and shooting as indians sneak round from behind we did they would have got in but likov and if thcy do wc i reckon they wont try that game t to risk it j j theyll wipe us out this time with which cheering any more for awhile rolt sincerely hoped that they i remark he t awa returnink with would not or that if they did old als j p eyes would keep watch for them in jve icfahe other galloot where his own eyes he haltl lost all confi dence for a long time silence fell again between the pines and the cherry trees there was no sound but for the crack of an occasional twig as one of the defenders moved uneasily in his narrow shelter no movement ex cept from that twisted figure by thc sage brush it was a long time before that be came quite still and rolt was thank ful when that time came at the request of the leading manufacturers jlsa and dealers of the dominion the guaranty jl jl securities corporation has established its canadian office in the national trust building montreal the guaranty plan provides a private dignified and standardized system of credit fully safeguarding the banking proprieties and offers accommodation to responsible and worthy persons who can afford to own and maintain cars but desire credit in their purchase the guaranty plan is free from annoyingred tape a direct and simple business transaction giving- time for i he bayer cash for the seller safety for all see the local dealer in the car in which you are in- terested he should be fully equipped with full instructions and the simple form of purchase contract which you will sign if by any chance your dealer is not equipped with this information write us giving his name and address and the make of car that he handles also ask him to write us without delay we will see that your requirements are taken care of promptly the guaranty plan is applicable in the purchase of a number of the best known cars produced by permanently established concerns who maintain canadian service organi zations adequate to meet the demands of canadian owners a description of the guaranty plan and a list of the cars reconized will be sent upon request but see your local dealer first guaranty securities corporation national trust building montreal remove the male birds from he flock leaving the mala birds with the i flock after thc breeding season is over causes a yearly loss of many thousands of dollars to poultrymen of this country this loss could easily be prevented fertile eggs deterior- i ate very quickly when subjected to a j temperature of around 100 legrees f j a few hours of this temperature eith- er in the nest or in a basket is suffi- i cient to start the germ developing and i make the egg unfit for human con sumption it is natural for hero to hide their nests and frequently a i week or more may elapse before the nest is found and th eggs gathered j such eggs ate spoiled for table use if they are fertile if thcy are infertile j they are little injured although they i cannot grade firsts during the sura- i mcr months when poultry run t j large on the farm it is very difficult to find all the every any before the attempted rush the sage when pitted against the everlasting bnjgh ha been and the patience of his hunter and was act- l of that fact so worried rolt ually dozing when a voice behind hnr began tq imaffine enemes aske1 in the most ridiculous grass patches 73 y22s2t- was beginning to lose his sense of with you today boss proportion and imagination magnified rolt started but though only half most absurd trifles awake had sense enough to lie still j k was a reief when a sink sho yes he said without turning the strain of long wait the its good for long shooting aint buuet dropped about a couple of hun- i dred yards from the cherry patch aiv he was he explained he aint any account as a rifle shot but hes so plum scared that hell make a prctty snart looking man hulloh whats got that log the centre log had reached the spot where als hat lay and as it pasned over it possibly one of the hands which propelled the log reached for the derelict stetson which had been the old mans prie at the same time the slope of the prairie increased sud denly and this particular log hab been trimmed absolutely round it was a white pine and young and therefore smooth and heavy and the men which had trimmed it had taken all the limbs off close to the trunk the result was that though it had crawled as slowly as its companions up to this point as soon as it left the sharper incline it began to turn over more freely each revolution giving additional impetus until it was obvi- 1 ously rolling j already it was twenty feet ahead of i its companions and then for a moi ment a brown hand showed above itj of sage brush the biggest in sight j dropptog thistime a hundred yards als rifle came to his shoulder but he j away there to the right jest perfor- nearer ws screen j wils t0 slow the hand disappeared ite it will you jest so muttered al rolt raised his rifle and looked n rou t questiomngly at old al whose head nex wj1 be nearer sti thcy i out his long life of more than a thou sand years burned one 5 25 note j the family seats their estates and have not included e family seats one of the recent sales which ex it its sdiiis i guess thats good tmough sighted for five hundred ric through the highest do i branches of it there was a slight second shot from fe t i pause and then you see that yallerish looking bunch same spot in the t the bul was now alongside his own the old man nodded and rolt ad justing his sights to the five hundred yards range cuddled down on his rifle high or low he asked i guess its most solid near the bottom chuckled al then rolt drew a long breath for a moment there was absolute silence and then a little puff of dust fifty yards beyond the sage brush record ed the fact that the foresight had been taken too full a few sprigs of the yellow weed fell but otherwise there was no sign from the bush sits stiller nor a fool hen com mented al try her lower still boss rolt took the same bead again but i was too slow who had before he could press the trigger and the to he continued are a cettingr our range now had ought to have done that the first go off ij huge cost of present war guess therell be no room here for two now lie low boys its goin to storm opes conflicts from 1801 to 1914 again and he crawled back to his cost only half own position just as it began again to hail bullets wars cost europe from the begin ning of the nineteenth century up to august 1914 about 05 billion francs owners forced to dispose of their holdings bought by iten who have grown rich in supplying armies with goods country life in england will un- dergoand is undergoing a revolution such as england has not witnessed since the norman conquest in these words frank hirst editor of the london economist and one of the leading authorities on economic subjects in england summed up onc of the most striking effects of the war what he means is that the country gentlemen of the old school are dis appearing squeezed out by the high taxation the death duties and killed off in many instances in the service of their country- their places are be ing taken by men who have grown rich in supplying goods that are need ed by englands immense armies or who are making tremendous profits out of the necessities of the people by taking advantage of the conditins created by the war what will happen to the stately mansions of england after the war answered his of the day and night he would not have destroyed as much money as mr mckenna is adding every fortnight to the national debt selling their estates and i every egg in which the germ starts to j develop is spoiled for commercial pur- j poses and is a direct loss the fre- j quency of a few buri eggs occuringin i crates has had the effect of lowering j the market for all eggs now that i buying on a quality basis is being generally practiced the careless poul- tryman is the only loser in the nest is not the only place where the fertile eggs become unfit for us too fre quently the egg basket is left in the pantry window where the temperature is sufficient during the day to incub- ae the eggs but the cool nights cause the germ to die and the eggs phl many eggs become unfit for use after they reach the local mer chant if they remain long beside any disagreeable odor they have a tendency to take on that odor hav ing had bad eggs served them several times has prejudiced many people against eating eggs during the sum- mtr months a stale egg is very un inviting food in the average flock the male birils are only kept one season they are disposed of some time during the fall j or winter it costs ten or twelve cents per month to feed a bird and as a rule it is no fatter in october than it was in june there are four months feeding with no returns ex cept that more care must be taken in cited considerable attention was that gat and storing eggs in order of the amesbury abbey estate which to kcep them a marketabe condi includes the famous stonehenge ruins t there is noth to ose but it has been the seat of the antrobus considerable to gain by getting rid of 1 0- estate mr hirsts view is fully borne out by the men who are in close touch with the landed gentry a member t c t- of outlying lands by great noblemen of a famous firm of estate agents through whose hands most of the 7f s of e of sales of property of this description i aberdeenshire and kincardineshire family for centuries it included 6- the head of the flock in june if the 400acres another historic estate bird is to be kept for uge tho nex which recently came under the ham- seasorj he shoui be penned off from mer was the stisted hall estate in the main flock dliring the hot summer essex while an example of the sale mon farmers advocate pass told me that hardly a week goes by that he is not called on to arrange the sale of some large country estate and that the smaller estates are being i placed in his hands for disposal by the score writes a london corre- spondent j the country gentlemen of eng land he said simply cannot live un der the new conditions most of them aro dependent absolutely on their rents for their income a man has a couple of thousand acres which have been in his family for centuries he lets the land out to farmers many of whom have been on the land as long estates comprising 25000 acres and a rent roll of 110000 a year for a gord quarter of an hour the indians in the timber kept up a steady no half of what the belligerent mr hirst asks he stream of independent firing as i powers i already expended during question as follows they would fill up that little hollow the prcsent con according to statl in individual cases the answer de- with lead or reap the thin cover in it j istic3 compied by edmund thery the pends on the investments of the own- with their concentrated fire dut french economist and published in an ers a man who has invested in bra- though their bullets cut down the articie wr to indicate the progres i zil or mexico is in a specially sad standing brush as if it had been slash- sion of the cost of war wav wni the man who has put his leader did not move from his post but sent pyrame back to warn a bat- as himself the rents were fixed i talion which was coming up this cd riddled it and left it in flying tat ters the men under ground remained untouched neither did they attempt to reply dont stir boys and dont shoot years ago when agriculture was de pressed and although times are good for the farmers now it is too soon to raise rents no one knows whether the present high prices for agricultural produce will last and at any rafte the farmers have had a good many bad years to make up the squire simply cannot raise the rents and ho cannot live on his income in the old style the taxes now take more than a quarter of it and the death duties if the property should happen to change hands two or three times in quick succession as dog has an inscription about his deed attached to his collar the fifteen years of war waged by j money in ships or coal is very fortune i may well happen and as has happened this time he took it upon the very j back commanded al when they base of his target at his second shot think theyve killtd every insect in the bush which he hal watched for an hour became alive a horrid scream followed the impact of his bul let and in place of the little fountain of golden dust a mans body sprang high into the air and then pitched headlong on the near side of the bush writhing and tying itself into knots amongst the branches of the withered sage brush must be quite a holler ther amost as good as this onc of ourn i seed him coming from the time he started holy smoke als ejaculation was the result of n perfect blizzard of bullets which sud- this bloomin brush patch theyll maybe try some other racket then well get our work in chapter xxi the indians were very thorough in their work of destruction and thanks to the looting of rolts storehouse thcy had plenty of ammunition to spare but at best even they were sat isfied tho cherry patch looked like a field after a mnnitoban hail storm and thero could have been little doubt in napoleon increased the public debt of france by 538000000 francs while tho crimean war alone cost the re public 1660000000 according to thery great britain spent 1550000- 000 in the crimean while that war cost austri 343000000 and turkey and sardinia together 642000000 francs france spent 650000000 francs on the mexican war he says and 853000000 in the conflict against austria for the liberation of italy prussia in her wars against den mark and austria spent about two billion francs while the german states and france together spent about 15 billion on the war of 1870 including five billion francs indemnity paid by france to germany the war of 187778 against turkey cost rus sia about 2700000000 francs while ate indeed but on the wholcahc fate recently in many cases in these days for thc laundry t the chilcotcns minds that anything she spent 6800000000 in the war i with japan as against 4500000000 spent by japan of the landed gentry and of the coun try seats depends on taxes savings swept away taxes have already risen high enough to make it certain that most large houses will be to let or for sale for most country people before the war had places which fitted their in come with a comfortable margin for savings or special expenditure most j have made money out of thc war and of them will have to move into smaller the englishman who makes a fortune houses if they can find tenants or pur- is always in a hurry to acquire a chasers the doubling and trebling country seat there have been a good of tho income tax has swept away the many american inquiries too and margin and tho higher the flood of j some purchases by americans but of war eat up the capital what is the man to do but try to get rid of the property which instead of a source of income has become a bur den to him rind ready purchasers so far there has not been muclidif- ficulty in finding purchasers for there are many people in this country who the cruelly of justice exprisoner surely you aint go ing to turn me out of gaol in weather like this 1 for nearly 60 years edvardsburg silver gloss has been the standby in one pound packages and six pound fancy enamelled tins the canada starch co limited 236 montreal cardinal brantford fort william makers of cretan brand anj lily whit corn syrupt and btrooni com starch silver gloss starch wlm prepare im thinking of getting married pa whats it like you had a job as janitor once didnt you yes and you hud a position as watch man onco didnt you yes and you worked a while as a care taker didnt you yes well its a combination of all three jobs and then some taxation rises the fewer country seats will remain unsubmcrged evidently there will be a wholesale emigration and country life will under go a revolution such as england has not witnessed since thc norman con quest some of the finest estates i expect will be bought up by english and american contractors who have made fortunes out of the war office and thc ministry of munitions others will perhaps bo cut up by the labor ministry and parcelled out among dis banded soldiers whoso jobs are gone and for whom no other employment can be found the present public expenditure of the government is supposed to bo about equal to tho whole of the privato incomes of all tho inhabitants of tho united kingdom if alfred the great had lived until now and had through- not so many as one would have ex pected i am told however that a good many americans are likely to come into the market for english estates after the war is finished they have an idea that prices may be lower then than they are now everything that this man says is supportod by the advertising columns of the newspapers the london times this week had a full page advertise ment of country properties offered by one firm of estate agents these pro perties wore situated in many parts of england a significant feature of this page of advertisements was that many of tho properties offered were comparatively country estates some of the great land owners have been parting with land recently but these sales have been confined almost wholly to the sale of outlying portions of ten rules for better chicks here are ten cardinal points in rais ing young chickens 1 firsweed the chicks when thirty war dogs gold collars sx hours old provide them sharp gold collars as awards for special j jandbe clean grit give them dry services have been given by tho b a eet milk mixed with french society for the protection of c boiled eggs and dry bread or animals to fifteen french war dogs acker crumbs feed this onco says the journal des debats py- 1 ree hours for two or three rame especially distinguished him- j day th once a da for ten da or self he and his master were scout- 1 w w ing when he discovered germans in c r 1- glve on ambush he barked and made his what ch will eat up eagerly master understand the danger his ln a f m 1 exercise aids digestion and as similation and keeps the chickens con tented in confinement 4 give a scratch feed consisting of finely cracked grains as wellseasoned corn wheat steelcut oats millet seed etc or commerical chick food in a light litter such as hay chaff 5 feed a mash rich in protein which ontains 5 per cent beef scraps after the chicks are two weeks old and 10 per cent after they are threo weeks old or give a mash of finely ground grains corn meal oat meal or wheat bran 6 give an abundance of green food as short grass on the sod young oats or rye lettuce or cabbage leaves 7 keep the surroundings free from filth clean coops and yards fre quently to prevent droppings from contaminating the food 8 if you can get sour milk regul arly feed it do not alternate sweet and sour milk this will put the dig estive system out of order in a few days 9 keep off lice by a liberal use of insect powder grease the head slightly with cottonseed oil vaseline or lard don not over do at any one time 10 remember you can do more toward making a good fowl during the first ten days of its life than during any forty days afterward univer sity farm st paul minn jeessskisffissasssse thorough mixing is avhat makes cake delicate and tender makes thcbcstcakcbe- causcit creams quickly and thoroughly with the butter which is thc hardestpartoflhemix- ing its purity and extra fine granula tion make it dissolve at once 2 and 5lb cartons 10 and 20ib bags 4 the allpurpose sugar the kaisers fate the kaisers horoscope as well as that of the czar and king george is cast in a newbook entitled stars of destiny astrological prediction it says is almost universal in fore shadowing humiliation and defeat for the german emperor the unfor tunate sign that doublecrosses the kaisers career is said to have been present also in the natal charts of napoleon and of philip of spain armada celebrity of glass that wont splinter glass that will not wherj broken is being made in france by pressitif together under heat two sheets of gin s with a rhsrt of cellu- i lod fcctv ecu t iicm