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: Ail is bis ae Ee as he Jity of @ dey point etch. 'allen upon us---"" lip's lack: brows con- tra tnding beneath a tree oan 2 | philip, a j §rove of Nvensk heck 31 "Come, come, madam! How often portico overlooked a rank green Must {request Jou not io vex Ze with L 1 'your, superstitions, What. Beyond the house, and across YCOL of the name would it him- permit | self to be turned aside by shadows?" Sophia remained silent for an in- stant, then said in a low voice, "For- give 'me; Philip; T know that it was only a foolish fancy." p Her voice with its quaint precision of phrase and | reassuri 1 i He took a bright extent of flower garden, wed the slave guariare, an exten- sive cluster of buildings in which lived | some two hundred blacks, nor counted | their lot an ynhappy one; for they were: the property 'of a man who con- | sidered that harshness to an inferior | was as unbecoming the tenets of a gentleman as servility to an equal. In the distance, as far as the eye could see, extended the h and orange groves, the broad fields of Sugag-cane, of indigo, of cotton--all belonging to Colonel Philip Gardiner, ex-soldier of 'the Seminole wats and the lordliest planter in northern Flor- da, whose five thousand acres stretch- ed for 'miles along the river-front; | whose houge was filledwith mahogany |, furniture, oil paintings, fine linen and - rare. silver fetched from 'England by former Gardiners, and whose youthful Spanish wife was the most beautiful woman dn the country, © One would have said that here was a man doomed to a veritable monotony bf good for- charm of accent fell upon the colonel's ears. is wife's hand in his and hat as he did so. Then he turned and walked at a leisurely gait to the landing-float, Stepped into the waiting dugout and took his place in the stern sheets. The canoe drifted out into tiller-rope and leaiied forwar "Give way!" he Said gently, and the at, at the word, leaped half its length through the water. The. gix negroes, each wielding a twelve-foot ash oar arranged upon an outrigger, fell easily into a long swinging] stroke, their half-naked black bodies. swaying back and forth like 80 many, rkin chine; tune; for there is no drama in mes. 12 ofa smoothly we g a nes 8" rowed the ng: nificérice. But Colonel 'Philip had a| "0 °° hey rowed they sang weakness, He loved the hazard of the | "Pat-rallers standin' by de co't-house gaming table with the ardor of one iin ; 5 whose véins flowed the blood of adven- Aurers and pioneers. Periodically, he * would betake himself to town, and, in company with divers congenial spir- its, would indulge in a poker game! whose proportions were nothing short of 'epic. On the Afternoon mentioned, in the shadow of the dock that reach:d from | Long came a nigger, en stub he toe, Whar dat niggef now?" Colonel Philip, his broad-brimmed | to various reflections. His thoughts were chiefly of his 'beautiful young | in a fro X Een \ that is not unlikely, since we are! | wag not a shadow of the tree, bowed low over it, sweeping off his| i the stream. The colonel gra the |. i isd . Plants Used For Tanning. The: essential feature in tanning is|- the precipitation: of gelatine by. the chemical substance to which the gen- éral term. "tannin" is applied, as the The tarinins ate of very wide oceur- rence. in the vegetable kingdom and occur in almost all parts of the plant, but not always in sufficient quantity to be of commercial importance, In is found in the root; in many trees "the lawn's edge to the clear water, floated the colonel's private dagout-- a craft hewn from a single cypress log, seme thirty-five feet long 'by three feet wide. Seated in the dugout and lolling on thelr 'ears were six gigantic negroes; three to a side, who laughed and conversed in lazy, musi- cal voices, while keeping ain expectant watch upon the shore. One who had been chewing a piece of seed-cane spat out the white pith, displaying a set of teeth whiter still,.and in a deep, bass voice sang: "Yalligator sunnin' ina cypress bog, Long come a nigger en fell off de log. ar dat nigger now?" And the five others, in a doleful chant, repeated the refrain: "Whar dat nigger now?" Suddenly, however, the inquiry con- cerning the fate of the incautious nig- ! ger ceased, and decorum settled upon the boat's crew. Down the 'steps of the house' and across the lawn came, with his lady on his arm, the lord of this terrestrial paradise. Tall, slender, areet, with deep-set black eyes, lo . arooping mustaches a nose, Colomel Philip To Be was a figure typical of old Florida, a living! example of the gentleman planter of fifties. He was clad in immacu- ite linen--the colonels suits urn "exclusive employment for one stout negro laundress--and wore ' Jow, turn-over collar with a black sto At his side, and almost as tall as: he, walked his wife, the beautiful Sophia. She, too, was dressed in white,| but had thrown over her head and. shoulders a black lace mantilla that! gaye infinite grace to the movements «of hex lithe, willowy body. The soft ame. of this mantilla accentuated fhe pure oval of her Tuee, with is, ax! sity n lor, i e dar] ri 8 ih heavy lashes, is! - delieate; sensitive nose and red mouth! 2 Sights ' drawn u at the corners. The Bs un £ bein give h © appearance o g con- ly about to smile, an effect that | a habit of looking - | "He aracteristic was to far as was known, it was the only : h as Hemlock it occurs in the bark; wife, of her charm and grace, of her Sug apes 3 exquisite breeding, of her subtle mys-| in the Sumacs it is "abundant in the tery. What a (picture she had made, | leaves; while in still other plants it standing there beneath the oak, with is found in the fruits 'or in certain her face lifted to the flower. «How the pathological growths. "known . as golden tint of the orchid had matched | "galls," such as those on . various the soft glow of her flesh! She, her-| species of oak. \ self, was like Some raré plant magic- Among plants growing wild in Can- oliy Ho in his home. during | 248 which contain tannin in consider- the 2 hae et A bing a able quantities are the {following that city in the previous autumn; he, Species: The bark of hemlock (Tsuga had seen her standing tall and won- | canadensis) yields nearly 14 per cent. derful on a balcony in the Malecon| of tannin; the bark of white spruce --one of those marvelous grilled bal-| (picea canadensis), tamarack (Larix conies that the Cubans put upon their laricina)y and balsam fir (Abies bal- houses, like so much fine iron lace.! samen), contains 7 per cent to 14 per For days following he had ridden to cent.; the bark of chestnut oak (Quer- and ro beneath Her Soy nd She cus Prinus), white oak (Quercus alba), ning herself with a huge. silver fan, and red oak (Quercus rubra) yields ok ap aaanily ning Eventually, | 12 to 16 per cent.; the wood of Ams: he had sought an introduction to her) erican chestnut (Castanea dentate) father, a wealthy Spanish sot ind yields 8 to 10 per cent. of tannin, and thereupon had presented his suit; while the stems and leaves of different | in formal fashion.. He had conducted species of sumac contain 16 to 24 j his courtship arider resented diffi- | per cent. culties--wooing his in a cavern- : ous room filled with Sopnia's relatives, | The horse chestnut (Aesculus Hip who sat facing one another in two) Pocastanum) although not a native o long rows of chairs placed down the! Canada is fairly hardy at Ottawa. Its centre of the chamber and who poured | bark yields a considerable quantity of out interminable floods of Spanish--- I tannin, while analysis of the leaves Sophia alone spoke English--mean-; made in different months of the year while waving. their fans in unison, as! showed a percentage varying from 2 though to brush the air of spent 14. ! : While the barks collected in May and June are said to contain the largest amount of tannin, further in- Pun tad Sots, SP 1% twentiet! e, himself, was rand eq sanel wh rin Florida, there to establish | vestigation seems to be necessary be- her as the mistress of his estates. She' fore the point can be regarded 'as had taken her place the dignity of a queen assuming a! have throne, and in all matters had arrang- ed her tastes to conform with his. Yet, at, times, he felt that ghe was still an utter stranger to him, an exotic and unaccountable as the golden orchid that, next to Sophia herself, was the chief treasure of his existence, This orchid had bloomed for genera- tions upon the body of the great oak at the foot of the Gardiner place. So been made of some species do not seem to bear out the above stafe- nt. x Increased attention is being devoted at present to the sumacs as a source of tanning materials; in this group as the leaves and not the bark aré 'used. There are three Canadian spec- ies whose leaves furnish tannin 'in considerable quantities. Dwarf sumac (Rhus corallina) occurs in Southe Ontario, white or smooth sumae (Rhus orchid Florida" and was one of the cou that the first ore after 0 grow in that section of gt the marvels sy er, land! a : , : ritish Columbim, le staghorn Ee sumac. (Rhus hirts) Is found from .and had | Nova Scotia to Ontario," = good omien.| The best time to gath the' smili in his life with finally settled, as the analyses that|: it is not necessary to destroy the tres' on hy glabra) ' extends from Nova Scotis, 0 nd an SE a no SAA Ruling the Roost--a Fable. A hen hustled for bugs and seratch- ed for worms the greater part of each day in order 'that she might be able to lay eggs for the suburbanitel But {result of which hides become leather.| at night 'her 'rest was disturbed: by the Justy crowing of hor lord and mas- I'ter," She stood it for a while and then | forsook him and took up her roost in a tree. ? "Why did you leave me? he asked id! i ; x , aftér-he had fooled her j-hat pulled down. over. his eyes, laid the plant known as-Canaigre (Rumex the next day, aftér-he ha L Tooled her his course for the town wharf; "some | hymenosepalus), which is really a' nto srunhing to him by chuckling and six miles away, and gave himself up! species of dock occurring in Texas, it! acting as though he had found some- thing to eat. < "Because I can not and will not be i kept awake all night by your foolish | crowing." shat MEN FE "Very well," replied the : rooster. Qur position in society is maintained i solely by my famous crowing. When I lift" up my voice an answer comes from all the roosts in the nsighbor- hood/ and T wake up our muster every morning at seven o'clock.. Since. you do not appreciate it, you may herafter do the crowing yourself." bog The hen tried and tried to crow, but a shrill cackle was all she could pro- duce. Being a bright hén she quickly: decided on a course to pursue. A day or so later, when she had «" come near enough to the rooster to be | heard she said: "The corn and scratch: feed are given to us solely because of | my ability to lay an egg a day, but since you don't appreciate it you may hereafter do the egg-laying yourself." The rooster tried with all his might to get into the habit of laying an egg a day but none could he produce. Aftér a ten-day separation and'deep thinking for the same length of tine, a reconciliation took place and the hen and. rooster are again occupying .the. same roost in contentment and affec- tion-- Or, they kept up the fight, the hen | striving to learn to , and the straining every nerve and musele to produce an egg. You may take 'your choice. PRR VUE Mirth seems to be-g result of good feeding. The underfed cannot play. They have not the power of spontane- ous expression of happiness. Recent studies of children in~Ger- many and Austria by physicians and teachers in their Public schools inform | us that as early 8s the severe Winter i of 1916 children were apt td sit {ndo- 5! zing in front of them, to be . roused only by some strong stimulus and soon relapsing into inattention Dr. Hilda Clark wrote last June that she had been in Vienna four days be- Hore. e saw a child p = m Charge the Enemy, Fear. . "Perhaps the greatest obstacle to success is fear. Many a young busi- ness girl fears ridicula of 'her asso- ciates and the criticism of her employ- 'er. She is overwhelmed by a thousand nameless terrors. Constant apprehen- sion not only destyoys her efficiency, but creates an atmobsphere that reacts to her detriment. When I find a girl of reasonable ability held back ~for| Some unaceotintable reason, ten chances to one investigation proves that it has its root in groundless ap- prehension," ! This remarkable statement by the highest salaried woman executive in America, Miss Henrietta F. H. Reid; assistant to the president of the Bush Terminal Company, appeared in a ve- cent issue of a woman's magazine, in an article addressed to girls. It seemed too good to confine to young business women who are consumed with the desire to "make good." In faet, it seemed to me that it belonged more to the farm boy and girl than'to the young woman in business, for it has been my experience that the people most liable to underrate themselves in this world are the boys and girls who ways works in one or two ways, either we grow timid end 'are afraid to. ven- ture, or we become perfectly with ourselves and when your acquaintance who 'do things," head committ n fairs and granges, and wendered how they could do it when you, better edu- cated perhaps, could never do it? It is simply because they have self-con- fidence, while (you artful, - and are 'simply 'afraid to use 3 We had a copy in school, usually once a month, which may. help yon: "We lose the by failing to attempt." If you\ have been losing out through this failure, begin your reform to-day. nl -- , Brewing Tea, ing at the time "All that che x Is to make good tea is an ienware pot, some tea. and water that is boil it is poured on the should then be allowed to infuse for a have been bred on the farms, kept|few moments, when the liquor must through force of circumstances from |be poured off, rubbing up continually against their fellows. 3 : Looking back to school teaching "That it ds all there is to it; it is astonishing how seldom this simple formula is followed out in actual practice. The days in 'the old country school, it|housewife's most common mistake da seems to me now that the majority of | to use w "at a temperature below poor marks the boys and girls got| the bol poin were given them, not use they didn't know -the lesson, able to answer-every choice the tea, : ut because | boiling temperature 'the important they were afraid to recite. Lican recall! constituents of many a stydent whom I knew must be solved. Now that everybod ry question I asked} ing économy it jig a good time to call 'but who only dumbly shook his head, | attention to the waste caused by using" leaf are not dis y is talk- - while some more, self-confident class-| Water below mate arose and rattled the lesson off. Prove Shat There was nothing to do but put down a bad mark, though, Pl Fear of making a mistake, of laughed at, held these children in school. It will probably } being ba, them 'the back through life unless they make a| determined fight to overcome it. Those "thousand nameless terrors," how well the sensitive person knows them. -And nbd one but the satisfied ; manage clubs and we' oft'might win = leaves, which easy and ; ¥