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CHAPTER XXVIII.—(Continued.) “Vermin may be plucky and die game, as you say; but in all countries there are good and bad.” “Oh, I am quite prepared for that. But I do like the gravity, the absence of fuss, the easy grace, the politeness that is never obtrusive. It all comes to me as something sweet and refresh- ing. Out West the men are all push and snarl to each other, and then they try to make up for it by grovelling to the women.” “And do the women like it?” “Don’t they just! You see, the ‘American woman—though she is @ very much finer animal than the man —is intensely selfish. All she cares about is having what she calls a ‘good time.’ You hear ‘the same thing ev- erywhere. And if the man will turn himself intoaslave for her she is quite willing he should. Oh, the American woman has conquered the American man effectually, He waits on , her hand and foot. Whether down in*her heart she really admires him or not is doubtful.” “But you don’t.” “I wonder how we got talking on this subject?” she questioned, naively. “You began it.” “Then I’d better end it. You are not angry with me for coming to see you, are you?” “Angry? I feel heaps ready. It’s rather dolorous here day after day all alone. you would come again.” “J fear I can’t. You see, I am going away tomorrow. But Miss Mawgan might come. May I ask her?” “No, I think you had better not,” he said, with averted eyes. “Does she know you have come?” “Oh, dear, uo. I had to come just straight away while I had the courage. If I had begun to talk about it, oh, dear! nobody knows what would have happened.” “And won’t you be coming back again?” “Some day, perhaps. I am like a bird in a storm, and don’t know where I may be driven. I’ve no home or habitation. Before I can setle any- where I shall have to go to America again. What is going to happen to me in the long run I don’t know.” “T hope you will not let money and position spoil you,” he said, seriously. “Permit a word of exhortation from a minister.” “I am grateful to anybody who will give me good advice,” shesaid, with a sudden lowering of her eyes. “You cannot imagine how terribly lonely I am. Much as I admire Englishmen, you see I have made no friends yet. I do not seem to have a man friend in the world.” “No, no. It is not so bad as that,” he answered, cheerfully. “We are all your friends. I am your friend. So are Dr. Bell and Mr. Bice. And then there is Clement Mawgan.” “Mr. Mawgan is absorbed in his own affairs,” she answered, quickly. “But he would help you in an emer- gency, and his advice is always worth considering.” “I admire him very much, but he is too busy to be worried with my con- cerns. Now read to me your little exhortation.” “Oh! but I’ve done that already.” “Already? Why, I thought you had heaps of good things you wanted to say to me.” “Perhaps I have,” he laughed, “but not just now. You know there is a time for everything.” “And you think that that one little warning is all I need for the present?” “It is all the warning I feel justi- fied in giving.” “Then you think I’m in real peril?” and she lifted her glorious eyes frank- ly to his face. “T am told that you are certain to be very rich, and I have seen again and again that the possession of wealth is a terrible snare, and, be- lieve me, I should not like to live to regret anything I have done.” “I understand,” she said, after a pause, and she turned her -.eyes toward the window. “You will not think me presump- tuous?” he questioned at length, see- ing she continued to keep her eyes from him. “Presumptuous?. Indeed, no. From my heart I thank you, and [ will try never forget your little sermon,” and when she turned her eyes toward him he saw they were full of tears. For seyeral moments there was si- lence. Grayton wanted to ask Marion about Esther, and about Mr. Jackson, who had made such a lengthened stay. The gossips had been talking again. They could hardly help themselves. There was so very little to keep them interested in a place like St. Chloe. Moreover, Esther was always an ob- ject of interest, and to see her flying hither and thither in a magnificent motor car by the side of Mr. Jackson was bound to excite remark. Miss Ladda, the postmistress, began to make inquiries, and discovered to her great satisfaction that Mr. Jack- son was a widower, and that he had money enough to buy up Mawgan Chase ten times over. She also learned from Eliza,@the housemaid, that he was in great favor with Mrs. Maw- better al- lying I wish “The Shadow Between” ee SILAS K. HOCKING. gan, and that it was she who urged him to lengthen his visit. In further conversation with Eliza she gathered that Mr. Jackson was quite in his prime, and that when he was dressed for dinner he looked almost young, and that he was not at all bad looking. Eliza was flattered by Miss Ladda’s friendliness, and enlarged on the theme on several occasions. She fold Miss Ladda that Miss Mawgan had cultivated her. music a good deal of late, and that every evening during Mr. Jackson’s visit she sang in the drawing room after dinner. She also told the postmistress that the curate’s name was rarely mentioned, and she finished up by expressing the opinion that her young mistress would never throw herself away on poverty while a fortune lay at her feet for the ask- ing. Miss Ladda felt greatly relieved. If Miss .Mawgan were out of the way she might still stand a chance with the curate. There was no one else in St. Chloe that she could regard as a possible rival. With a clear coast, and a nature rendered sensitive to feminine charms by a serious illness, she saw no reason why she might not carry Mr. Grayton’s heart by storm. The postoffice, as we have already pointed out, was the rendezvous of most of the village, gossips. There was nothing malicious in the talk as a general rule. Jt was impossible to meet without scussing something or somebody, and it was equally im- possible not to meet. No woman could be expected to remain in her cottage from morning till night with- out speaking to anybody. Life was | dull enough at the best of times. But if they were to be shut up to them- selves and all neighborly intercourse to cease, they might as well be buried at once and have done with it. So the hint was dropped that there was more in the visit of Mr. Jackson at the Chase than appeared on the sur- face. The hint grew and spread. One friendly and imaginative woman after another trimmed it &d embroidered it, and with the best intentions. The conviction grew and deepened that Mr. Grayton’s chance was gone— that is, supposing he ever had a chance, which many doubted. Eliza’s view appeared to be the common- sense one. Women rarely take asen- timental view of things matrimonial. Marriage is a profession. A woman has to do the best she can for herself and make the best match possible. When the question of marriage is approached the practical man and the sentimental woman appear to change places. He becomes the sentimental- ist; she opens her business eye. The women of St, Chloe were not sentimentalists—that is, takingsthem in bulk. There were a few exceptions there, as everywhere, or the world would be too intolerably sordid to live in. But the majority believed in what they called the common-sense view. A woman could not afford to be squeamish. If she had the choice be- tween an elderly man who was rich and a young man who was poor—why, she would be a fool if she did not take the man with the money. If Mr. Jackson meant business, the women were quite prepared to stake all they had on his chance. The men —particularly the younger men—took a different view. -They cherished their illusions still. Romance to some of them was still the sweetest thing out of heaven. Esther Mawgan stood to them for all that was fairest and noblest in womanhood. That she would sell herself body and soul for money and position was a thought too horrible to be entertained. It would destroy their faith in womanhood at a blow. That these rumors should reach Grayton in a more or less diluted form was inevitable, and with his im- agination sensitized by love he saw all the possibilities in a moment. That Mr. Jackson should fall in love with Esther was the most natural thing in the world—perhaps the most inevitable. He could not understand how any man—thrown for any length of time in her company—could help falling in love with her. She was so Sweet, so gracious, and withal so fair to look upon. ‘ He saw, too, the temptation that would be placed in ‘Esther’s way. He knew how poor the Mawgans were, the struggle they had to keep up ap- pearances and make both ends meet; and if the chance were given her of putting an end to the daily fret and struggle and stepping out of the mirk and gloom of petty and miean econo- meis into the bright sunshine of af- fluence and luxury, it would be almost more than ought to be expected of human’ nature: that it should resist such a temptation. He had not seen this Mr. Jackson, of course, but he was spoken of as a well-preserved man. Moreover, he was Clement’s employer, and to a cer- tain extent his benefactor. That was a point that was bound to tell in his favor. If Esther were heart-whole— and he sighed unconsciously at the thought—if she had respect for the man, and believed that he would be kind to her, would she deem that suf- ficient? Would she—as so many appeared to do—treat mar riage as a profession and let romance and sentiment go by the board? He g@rew cold at the, thought. He was still young enough to cherish ideals, and yet old enough to know that the idols men set up and worshiped had too often not only feet of clay, but hearts of clay also. .. “I presume Mrs. and Miss Mawgan are well?” he said to Marion when she turned to go. “Very well indeed. In fact, I never saw Miss Mawgan look so well.” “She has been out of doors a good deal, I hear?” i “Every day, as long as Mr. Jackson remained. You should see his motor car; it is a beauty.” “So I’ve been told. I suppose Mr, Jackson himself is very nice?” “T shouldn’t apply the word ‘nice to him exactly,” she said, with 4 laugh. “He’s a big, kind-hearted man A little bit rough in some things, bul very likeable.” “He seems to have enjoyed himsel{ at Mawgan Chase.” “So much so that he is again.” “Is that so?” he questioned, with a slight catch in his breath. “He appears to be interested ix shipping and lighthouses, and I don’! know what else. Anyhow, from 4 hint he dropped, business may bring him down frequently during the nexi month or two.” “I see. Thank you so very muck for calling. I hope you will get safe ly through all your difficulties, and'b¢ very happy.” “And I hope you will soon be as well and strong as ever. Goodby.’ And with a radiant smile she was gone. coming CHAPTER XXIX. , Preparing the Way. Mr. Bice was taking Marion to Lon- don to’see her relatives. He had de- voted’ himself to her interests with an enthusiasm that was almost touching. No mere professional interest could have equaled the zeal which he threw into the case. It was not for gold or kudos that he spent sleepless nights and anxious and laborious days. It was the rare and sweet personality: of his client that appealed to him. Had his own little daughter lived she would have been about Marion’s age, and he pictured his own little Ruth thrown motherless and _ fatherless upon an unfriendly world. Not for a dozen years had his lonely heart been so touched. Had she been a few years younger he would have adopted her without more ado. His first step was to get a paragraph inserted in all the London papers! con- tradicting the report of Marion’s death which had appeared previously. He had a shrewd suspicion who had inserted that report, but, being a cau- tious man, he kept his own counsel and waited. When three or four days had elapsed and there was no sign from any one, he took a journey to London and hunt- ed up the address of Lord Richard Grovely. The marquess of Fowey did hot concern him for a moment. Lord Richard was the interested party. His brother Edward’s English estate would come to him if he died without issue. -Moreover, as next of kin he would get his share of the American property, which was reported to be considerable. Mr. Bice argued that the marquess of Fowey, being sufficiently rich al- ready, would not worry himself about his brother’s property. Moreover, the marquess had the reputation of being a very. high-minded man—a man who would not stoop to a meanness of any kind. (To Be Continued.} BUSY LOT OF BEAVERS, Build Twenty-five Dams and Hold Up a City Water Supply. Superintendent Retallic of Mar- quette’s municipal lighting station, who took several men to the Rainey Creek country to open beaver dams in order to release some of the water held up by them so that the supply in Dead river could be replenished, is of the opinion that the busiest lot of beavers to be found anywhere are at home in the district. In Rainey creek they have dams about every 200 feet. About half a dozen dams were opened, with the re sult that the level of water in Dead river has appreciably raised, and at that Mr. Retallic has now learned that he missed the largest dams, located higher up the stream. There are twenty-five or more dis- tinct dams in the creek. As showing the capacity of beavers: for woodwork- ing, the superintendent relates the fol- lowing incident: Close to the power station a family of beavers recently es- tablished themselves in the river and| constructed a roomy house. One morn- ing the past week the men found five trees that. the beavers had cut down. The stump of the largest was nine inches through and the others were not much smaller. The next morning these trees had been cut up, branches and all, and used by the beavers in the construction of their house. The trunks had been cut accurately in four foot lengths. Beavers are protected by law, and of late years they have been rapidly increasing in numbers. There are hun- dreds of them in the colonies estab lished in the Dead river district. A man stops hoping to be rewarded as he grows older, and prays that he will not be punished. WHY NOT OWN LAND? ONE OF THE BEST WAYS TO MAKE MONEY I8 TO INVEST IN WESTERN CANADA. “Deep down in the nature of every properly constituted man is the desire to own some land.” A writer in the Iowa State Register thus tersely ex- presses a well-known truth. The ques- tion is where is the best land to be had at the lowest prices, and this the same writer points out in the same ar- ticle. The fact is not disguised that the writer has a personal interest in the statement of his case, and there is no hidden meaning when he refers to Western Canada as presenting great- er possibilities than any other part of the American Continent, to the man who is inclined to till the soil for a livelihood and possible competence. What interests one are the arguments advanced by this writer, and when fairly analyzed the conclusion is reached that no matter what personal interest the writer may have had, his reasons appear to have the quality of great soundness. The climatic condi- tions of Western Canada are fully as good as those of Minnesota, the Dako- tas-or Iowa, the productiveness of the soil is as great, the social conditions are on a parity, the laws are as well established and as carefully observed. In addition to these the price of land is much less, easier to secure. So, with these advantages, why shouldn’t this —the offer of Western Canada—be embraced. The hundreds of thousands of settlers now there, whose homes were originally in the United States, appear to be—are satisfied. Once in awhile complaints are heard, but the Canadians have never spoken of the country as an Eldorado no matter what they may have thought. The writer happened to have at hand a few letters, written by former residents of the United States, from which one or two extracts are submitted. These go to prove that the writer in the Regis- ter has a good basis of fact in support of his statements regarding the excel- lency of the grain growing area of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta. On the 29th of April of this year W. R. Conley, of Lougheed, Alberta, wrote a friend in Detroit. He says: “The weather has been just fine ever since I came here in March, and I believe one could find if he wanted to some small bunches of snow around the edge of the lake. There is a frost near- ly every morning: at sunrise it begins to fade away, then those blue flow- ers open and look as fresh as if there had been no frost for a week. ... There is no reason why this country should not become a garden of Eden; the wealth is in the ground and only needs a little encouragement from the government to induce capital in here. There is everything here to build with: good clay for brick; coal under- neath, plenty of water in the spring lakes, and good springs coming out of the banks.” Mabel’s Wish. Small Mabel—Mamma, they cream at a creamery, don’t they? Mamma—Yes, dear. Small Mabel—If I were to buy some tan at a tannery, mamma, do you think they would throw in a few freckles? sell Neurotic Jelly. Little Wilbur was eating luncheon with his mother. Presently she no- ticed that he was eating his jelly with his spoon. “Wilbur, dear,” she said to him, “you must not eat your jelly’ with your spoon.” “I have to, mother,” he replied. “No, dear, you don’t have to. Put your jelly on your bread.” “I did put it on my bread, mother,” said Wilbur, “but it wouldn’t stay there; it’s too nervous.” A Domesticaed Princess. The kaiser’s new daughter-in-law, who is a sister of the duchess of Saxe-Coburg and a niece of the kai- serin, is a very domesticated girl. She is not specially good looking nor is she very smart, but she is exceed- ingly amiable and capable. She has all her imperial aunt’s love of home and has been carefully trained by her in all her views. Like her sister, the grand duchess of Saxe-Coburg, the Princess August is typically German, and prefers German fashions, Ger- man literature, music and food. As a matter of fact, she has never been out of her native land and cannot speak any English. It is the kaiser’s wish that all his sons should choose German wives, and so far they have done so.—Lady’s Pictorial. ROSY AND PLUMP Good Health from Right Food. “It’s not a new food to me,” re marked a Va. man, in speaking of Grape-Nuts. “About twelve months ago my wife was in very bad health, could not keep anything on her stomach. The Doctor recommended milk half water but it was not sufficiently nourishing. “A friend of mine told mé one day to try Grape-Nuts and cream. The re- sult was really marvelous. My wife soon regained her usual strength and to-day is as rosy and plump as when a girl of sixteen. “These are plain facts and nothing I could say in praise of Grape-Nuts would exaggerate in the least the value of this great food.” Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Read “The Road to Well- ville,” in pkgs. “There’s a Reason.” Ever read the above letter? A new ippears from time to time. They are genuine, ‘true, and full of human interest. 1 Then Cook It After Tom Murrey’s Recipe and Rejoice. “Tom Murrey, who could cook any- , thing and cook it a little better thal almost any chef I ever new,” said an epicurean New Yorker, “used to say that if you don’t know how to cook a coon about all you'll get out of it if you try to ceok one will be a big lot of grease and a bad smell. “Tom Murrey’s recipe insists that you first catch your coon. The coon is a roving, reckless, rollicking free- booter, whose range covers miles of woods and thicket and swamp and eld. There is excitement and toil and trouble, skill against skill, cunning endurance against endurance, when you have caught him you will be in proper mood to eat him. “One mistake that the _ordinary cook makes is assuming that the more of the coon’s fat is left upon it the better, and that the coon should be reasted whole in the oven. As a coon in good condition is covered an inch or more thick with fat, the greasiest kind of fat, the result of such a man- ner fo cooking may be imagined. “When Tom Murrey cooked a coon he cut off all the fat he could. Then you cut the coon into pieces, cover- ing them with cold water, made strong with salt. This is to draw out the blood, which is hot and super- abundant in all hibernating anfmals. “When the blood has been extracted pour off the water and cover the parts with fresh water to which a handful of saleratus has been added. Let the meat remain in this water not less than one hour nor more than two hours, then remove it to fresh water and boil it until the meat is well cook- ed through. “Have ready a frying pan, with plen- ty of butter melted fn it, flavored with onion. Fry the coon in that until it is nicely browned. It is then ready to serve, and it is almost as good cold as it is hot. “That’s the way to cook a coon. And when this misJadged provider of something more than good to eat is thus prepared the eater of it will have a regular Oliver Twist look of eager expectancy on his face as he passes up his platé for more. Even the still more despised woodchuck, treated ac- cording to this same recipe may be transformed into a dish that no fried chicken that ever was, will be asham- ed to have mistaken for itself.” CENTER OF OUR POPULATION. Its Migration Westward Remarkably Uniform in Rate and Direction. The Center of population in 1900 was in the State of Indiana In 1790 the center was twenty-three miles east of Baltimore, in the State of Maryland, or virtually on the Atlantic shore line. Its migration has been slow and re- markably uniform, both in rate and in direction It has hovered for 110 years along the 39th parallel of lati- tude, and its total variation in lati- tude has been less than one-third of one degree. The westward movement has aver- aged less than a degree in a decade, notwithstanding the incredibly swift occupation of a vacant continent by a movement of population westward, The easterly position of the center of population is in part due to the fact that the eastern part of the continent was first settled and was settled from the east The easterly position of the center of population is also due to the more evenly distributed and more abundant resources of the eastern half of the United States. It should not be forgotten that the geographical center of the United States lies some hundreds of miles west of the Mississippi river. The eastern half of the country therefore embraces the Atlantic lowlands, the prairies and Great Lake plains, the Gulf lowlands and the forests and minerals of the Appalachian Moun- tains and Appalachian plateaux. Over against these are the arid and moun- tainous areas of the West. Certain areas will be reclaimed to FIRST CATCH YOUR COON, | \") Evwirs Sema Cieanses the System Eifectual ; Dispels colds and faushe Aneto Constipation; Acts naturally, acts truly 08 a Loxoltwe. Best for Mon Women andi Cit ren—Youns and Old. Wi meficiar effec’ ease ae aon, manufactured by the CALIFORNIA Fic Syrup Co. SOLD BY ALL LEADING DRUGGISTS one size only, regular price 50* per bottle. Wise Woman. He—Will you share my lot? She—Yes, when you have a house on it that is paid for. DREADFUL DANDRUFF. Girl’s Head Encrusted—Feared Loss of All Her Hair—Baby Had Milk- Crust— Missionary’s Wife Made Two Perfect Cures by Cuticura. “For several years my husband was a missionary in the Southwest. Every one in that high and dry at- mosphere has more or less _ trouble with dandruff and my daughter’s scalp became so encrusted with it that I was alarmed for fear she would lose all her hair. After trying various rem- edies, in desperation I bought a cake of Cuticura Soap and a box of Cuti- cura Ointment. They left the scalp beautifully clean and free from dandruff, and I am happy to say that the Cuticura Remedies were a com- plete success. I have also used suc- cessfully the Cuticura Remedies for so-called ‘milk-crust’ on baby’s head. Cuticura is a blessing. Mrs. J. A. Darling, 310 Fifth St., Carthage, Ohio, Jan. 20, 1908.” Potter Drug & Chem. Corp., Sole Props., Boston, A Victim of Fate. Williams—I understand that your son has married a widow? Walters—Well—yes—but I should not put it that way. 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Examine carefully every bottle of CASTORIA a safe and sure remedy for infants and children, and see that it Bears the Nida z Signature of, incredible productiveness, and the mineral wealth is vast; but the cen- ter of population may be expected to remain permanently to the eastward of the geographical center of the land. _— Mink Farm in Oregon. Tom Staten has established a farm for the raising of mink at Rattlesnake Point, on the upper Klamath lake. About a hundred of the animals are housed in cages or cabinets, and seem to do well, and thrive in captivity, as they are all fat and sleek looking. The animals are so tame that they will take food from the hand, although one has to be careful in handling them, as the mink is treacherous and has very’ sharp teeth. As mink in this county increase about five fold, Mr. Staten expects to have something over 500 in his cages next year. The value of thein fur alone will aggre- gate about $3,000, but live female minks sell for a much higher figure ‘han their hide alone is worth. Crocodiles Along the Nile. At the sound of the shot the whole of this bank of the river, over the ex- tent of at least a quarter of a mile, sprang into hideous life, and my com- panions and I saw hundreds of croco- diles, of all sorts and sizes, rushing madly into the Nile, whose waters along the line of the shore were lash- ed into white foam, exactly as though a heavy wave had broken. It could be no exaggeration to say that at least a thousand of these saurians had been disturbed ata single shots In Use For Over 30 Years, The Kind You Have Always Bought Too Much, “The Lord told us to love our ene- mies,” said Mrs. Taukaway, “but even He didn’t ask us to love our deceit- ful friends.” Deafness Cannot Be Cured Dy local applications, they cannot reach the dis eased portion of the ear. re is only one way to cure deafness, and t! is by constitutional remedies. Deafness is caused by an inflamed condition of the mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube. When this tube {s inflamed you haves rumbling sound or im- perfect hearing, and when {t is entirely closed, Deat- ness {a the resuit, and unless the inflammation can be taken out and this tube restored tO its normal condi- tion, hearing will be destroyed forever; nine cases put Of ten are caused by Caterrh, which 1s nothing but an inflamed condition of the mucous surfaces. ‘We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of boon iMoaneod by catarrhy shat cannot cured "a Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars, free. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, & ¥, J.. The man with a “yellow streak” is the one who gets the “blues” quick- est. VEE DODDS 7 ups pigs » —t-