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That FoFeipeF at lathfop's BY ROSE WILDER LANE. '•m. And it keeps 'em, too. That's where Jim Lathrop made hLs mistalie. If he'd 'v« ifiven her a little more of that Idnd of thung, fiih'2 wouldn't be los- ing her head now, and liice enough What'* the Um? "U l8 ?ain to serve Ood; and what prom la It thai we hare kopt hl» or- dinance?" Th«'»e are the worde that the prophet Malacht pats in tb* PART UL In anv caM>, BVA Morton -vculd n t haw heaid <-f it thai iiiKht H© was at hc-'iK-, very mu."h disturbad about his own affaiif.. June and Jeff Roger* throwin.j? away on that foreignt>r ^ ^^^^^^ ^^ ^f ^^^ ^^^^ ^ut of dJ«- everything Jim woiKed so hard tolcouragod gooj people. They had be«i leave her. Convj riRht down to it, I|,rj.,ng hard lo do right, and things grueas ha'd 'vo given his right amj fori^.^^j wronR. They had been oourage- thjit woirvan. But I bet he never told i ^yg ^ut their courage »e«nied of no jh^r fo." I avail. They thought they had been twenty acres of corn that needed culti- | George Matliers and old Jeff RoRers , mlualng a great deal of pleasure, that vatinK, Bill Morton (fot in the flivver looked at Jim Gordon, kind of startled. | ([,ey had "walked In funeral garments he went out to smoke his pipe. The more he thought of going to baching the more ho disliked it. It before the Lord." The complaint that religion Is a kill-joy Is not as modera as peoplii suppose. What If righteousness doe« not pay, in the senee In which some people think of pay? What If a good man has to give as many doUars a ton for coal 88 a bad man, and his bread and cakeM and went to town. Mendoza had not But then Mendoza came back in, smW checked out at the StHlwater House, ing all over his face. They all saw and Bill went around to see George there was nothing more they could do; Mathers the constable. George agreed Ellio Lathrop had made her bed and had ju.it toid him they were going to ^j^^^ something should bo done. But must He in it. tr«t ni.Trried â€" in June, Julio thought, ^^^j^^^ sentiment was one thing and â-  Then h3 said. "Gentlemen, now I That meant that he would be left j^^^ unother, and he didn't know ex- ' understand. It is very good, I Wke It. slonc in the old hoj-«. After supper ^^^^j^ „herc he'd ivtand if he arrested So, if you please " the man. | H*-' ^f*^^ » bankbook out of his I cost Just as much whether he loves hl» "I tell you what I'll do," he said pocket and handed it to George Math- neighbor a.s himsolf or not? What If fin«;ry. "I'll telephone Old Jeff Rog- ers, with a motion for them oil to look righteousness Is sometimes expensive, had been all right when he was a'^s and the Gordon boys and maybe |at it. They all saw that he had a baW >x)ung fellow, first come to the farm;^ome other.s, and if they'll stand by ance of $51,000 in that New York but he was old now and UKe<l to women „,<. ^e';i just have him in here and bank. around the place. He thought of all i^;^ ^o him. 1 guess you'll find that j "Also â€" " he said, and he showed the milk to take care of. And he had ^jil 8er\'e as well as actually arresting , them a letter of credit for ?10,000. never been much of a hand with chick- },in, i^o'i; c'ear yut soon enough when i "If you wish to see more of my ens or gardening. 'he finds W3 mean business." So he money," he said, "1 have put in the He liked the big, swospingjcinds of telephoned. Mendoza was across the safe, in the bank of Mr. Kennedy here- But thoy said no, that was enough. "Gentlemen," he said, "I am sorry I have not at first understood. I see now work on a farm â€" cultivating, thresh- street in the barber shop. ing, getting in the hay. He could boat "jt isn't as if she had any menfolks any man in the valley at such jobs, ' of her own to stand hy her." George even yet. He had a good farm, a good Mathers .said, ringing and ringing on homo, money in the bank. His th© country line. "I figure it's up to, how you arc right to ask me. So first, thoughts kept circling around E'iie j,er friends to show that fellow that j who I am. I am John Mendoza, the Lathrop. 'she isn't unprotected, not by a whole; only living grandson of Mr. Horace She was a good sensible woman; lot 1" And he kept fihauting into the James, who once lived in Green Val- "<>' *®" ^° strees that fact unduly. Aa they could settle down together for a phone, "Who's that? No, 1 want Jeff You Can Try "SAUDA" GREEN TEA ,. Write 'Salad A*. Toronto, for free sample. an actual disadvantage? Still which of us Is wining to raeaure profit and 1 loss in that way ? Maybe the three j hundred men who fought with Leomi- 1 das sometlmea growled that their ra- j tlona were bad. Maybe the immortal i six hundred at naJaclave sometlmies I stormed and blustered because their pay was small. But which of th&m, looking ba«k on the recoa-d, would now | say that the (Inal estimate of reward i was so be made In that fashion? It would be easy to show, and has ' often been shown, that in the long run righteousness Is profitable; but It la | con»fovtnble old age and be company Rogorses." for each other. She couldn't be taking When he got him, Old Jeff Rogers seriously that foreign fellow who was gajd he'd leave his work and come in, hanging .iround. Still, yoii never could stopping on the way lo get Jim Gor- tell. Maybe rhe fe'.t lonesome, too, in do,,, and while they were waiting Ed that big house of hers. Hullinger came by and joined in with It would do no harm to clinch the them. So when Mendoza came out of matter, and to-night was as good a the barber shop George Mathers step- time as any. ! ped a''ro.s.s tlie street and asked him On th? way h? made up his mind to' to come over to the office. ask Henry Kennedy again about that | -Why is this?" Mendoza asked, and woodland; if the courts didn't settle (j.t.„i-gy Mathers said, tapping the .star whom it belonged to it might be sold on his lapel, "I'm lh<; ."onstable here, for taxes. In that casa he would buy. Will you coim' (luictly or .^liall I take it and join up tha two farms. | you?" He was thinking of this when hej II<. came quietly enough thi-r., and came out of the shadows of the wvA>dR | stoc>d looking at the live men, who and saw the Lathrop place. .S<imething !ook',(l at him. .Now they had him ht range about it struck him; in a mill I there, Georgi; Mather.-' hardly kne^v uto he made out what it was. There how to begin, but he cleared hi.s throat was no light in the dining room <ir in ^nd said, "We undir.-^land you're pay- tho kitchen. The big whit-J hou.st' jng attentions to a certain lady in stood gaunt and still in the moon- 1 Gi-een Valley, i.s that so?" light; or.'.y the shadows of the wis- taria trembled against it, and one cur- tain at an open up.<!tairs window mov- ed slightly in the breeze. "Is it a miittcr for the police?" Mcri^loza .=aid, ns cool as a cucumber. Old Jetf Rogers l>rought his titt dowrk on George Mathers' tabb and Bill stopped to think. Even in the gaid. Maybe it i."- and maybe it i.sn't! spring, when a'll hands were tir;'d, it ; But you can understand right now, was too early for bedtime. Bill came ,,he's got a lot of good friends in this on, tramping down the soft dust of valley and she isn't cdining to any the road. In a monvent he saw that, harm if wc can prevent it!" the gate wjis open in the paling fence, Medozii asked (Jeorge Mathers, and then he saw a man furtively mov- "What is it the police wish to know ing in the shadow of the lilac bush. lle| (,f pw, sir?" did not need to be told that nobody I ••Well, for one thing," George Math- was up to any good, skulking around L.rs said, "you'vt- b?en passing yourself a house nt night like that. off around here a>-- having a lot of Bill had aimed to lay the fellow out I „^„„<.y." with one hard punch and ask for ex- 1 '-Have I?" said .Mendoza, acting planations afterward. But the stran- surprised. Then he .>-aid, "And you, ger squinned aside with incredible! jj,-^ u,, ofticer of the law, you inquire swiftness; the blow landed on his (,<,\v much money I have. Is that it?" shoulder and he went down. HSl! I -i wouldn't put it just that way," heard a loud crack and a kind of zing- ' ,:.,j,i (;(.<, rgi' Matht-rs. "Butâ€" well â€" " ing whine, and without waiting for a| "VVhat we want to know is, are you second shot he rushed in. It would ! traveling under false pret-.nsc.^ or have been a good light if it had lasted, Lifii'l you?" .lini (Innlnn put in. "Who but as scon as the two men rollwl , j,,.,. yoii, anyway, and where do you into the moonlight Bil! say that the (.nnve from, and what do you mean, fellow under hini was Mendoza, and | pr,.i^.,i(iing to \>e rich and trying to at the same instant he heard Ellie La- swindle out oi" house and home as throp's voice calling, "Who's there? ^o(t<.\ a woman as evtr drew breath? .Stop it, Hill Morton!" from the up- That'? what wo want to know." stairs window. 1 .lust then Mik, Lathrop's car came "Give UK that gunl" Bill said grim- j-ushing up in front of the office and ly, and .Mendoza squiimed out from stopped, and Ellie Lathrop got out under him like u snake. IJi'l got up m,d slummed the door. lUi- eyes were ley, and I am the son of John Men-JKO**" »» *"o convince ourselves that ^ doza, of Barceliona, Spain. "honesty Is the best policy" we ore In j "I come from New York, where I ' danger of being only so far honest as | have had for nine years an importing' 1^'*=^ require*. No, it Is better toj business. I am retired. When a man '"^'"^ ^^^ '" f"a«ral garments and , has earned enough for Comfortâ€" is it ""« ^ !">''««'' "^^ "' bondage to duty , not .so?â€" he l(K)ks about to find a quiet "'«« »« l^ave no higher standard of re- and lovely place in the country inl^'^'^'l '*'^" the conrimercial which to enjoy his life. B"* ^^^*- '» "«' ''^^ ^'^V ">« Pr<i9bi,t "I came here, because unexpectedly «"<^« "'^ matter. Even those disoour- I was told that I am heir to a small >»^ P'^P'* who someUmes doubt country estate left by my grandfather ' ^^^^f '"«';, '^ ^""^^ '° "« ^°^,^ ''^^ "<" \« -that beautiful woodland beyond I ^^J""''^}^ ,Tf '^^' ' "' °. J'^'^'^T^ 1 "They shall be mine, salth the Lord, i in that day when I make up my I Jewels." That is high reward promised I to people who are almost discouraged I In pursuit of righteousness. It Is Mrs. Lathrop's farm. And I have not pretended to have money or land," he said, "becau.'O 1 greatly wished my future wife to think only of me, my- self. "I find it very hard, still, to undcr- stund all the customs of your coun- try," he went on, "but I hope in lime we will all be friends together, in this beautiful Green Valley. I thank you, gentlemen, from my heart, for your kindly interest in my future wife's happiness.' With llial he left them and went cut lo the car. (The end.) worth stri\ing for. Two Years is Cheapest Age. The averngf cost of maiuteiuince of a human being Is at the lowe«-t point at the age of 2 years, says a statlstU:- lan. In Its second ye>ar of existence a chl!<t consuiiw^s lefs fixnl, weors out fewer clothes and has less sickness tbiin In any other i>eriod In Its exist- ence. Krom that age until 20 years the nialntenancf! cost gnidiially Increases. It is at Its peak during the adult period I'rinii 20 lo fid yoars of agi*. afti-r wliifh It begins to decline. TliH avenige adult has a nviiliitcn- ance cost of .fRhG a year. For those over 80 years tli'j cost is appro.ximat v- Iv $zmt. 4000 B.C. Tomb. Wonderful discovt«le« are reveaU?J by Dr. R&isuer, the Egyptologist, In a I deport of his discovery in the pyra- mids of Gliiza of a slx-thousand-year- old tomb. It is that of Queen Hetephercs, mother of th^ Egyptian King Cheops and wife of King Seuefru, who reigned two thousand years before King Tut- ankhamen was born. The framework of the canopy of the sarcophagus, says Dr. Relsner, Is an asitonlshinf? piece of construction. All thy tenons and morlloes axe sliwuhi :1 in coiiper and look like those !' a modern bed. The upright ple«ea ill the corners are cla.sped together by a copper bar with a slot and tie-pUis and attachments for curtains or doors fonne.l by copper staples driven Into the l>eams. Other pieces of gold-cased fumltiu"e consist of a large l>ed, a carrying chair, two arm-chairs with jiapynis flowers under the arms, and a lie^ad-rest. lu a gold'Cnsed Jewel Ikix bejuing the name of tha queen wore twenty silvfr ank- l'i?tH. ten for each ankle. A Contrast. Although Shakespe«ire and Mtlton aT« famill'iarly 1 Inked together In oor ordinary speech as the two greaiteet poe<t8 of Fiig'land, in the whole spirit and nature of their work they have hardly anything in common. It Is not merely that theiy wp&, for the most part, distinguished tn sepaxate pro- vinces of poeitry; that Shelcespeare Is above aid the diramatic, and Milton the epdc poet of the literature; th« differ- enoe llee much deeper, and declares itself unmistakably at almost every point. Now, tiiie is not entirety due to an Inborn, jyersonal differenoe In the genius of these two r©pir€«eintative poets; It is due also to the dilffe(pence In the spirit of the times they repre- sent. For la a semse even Shake- speare was "of an age," as we'll as "for all time." So far as we can guess from his work, he seems to have shared the orthodox politics of the Tudor times, dititrusting the actions of the popu'iace and stauncli In his support of the power of the king. In the true spirit of the Renaissance, Shakespeaire's work Is taken up chleif- ly wltli humanity In this world rather than with its relation's to »ny other; his dramas are alive with tho crowding Interests and activities which came with the Revival of Jjeaning. But the England in which Milton lived and worked was stirred by far different emotions . . . inspired by far differ- ent Ideals. -Milton interprets and ex- presses the Eng-Iand of Puritanism, as Shakespeare does the England of Elizabeth, and to understand the dif- ference in the spirit of their poetry. we must turn to history and grasp the broad distinction between the times they respectively represent.â€" Henry S. Pancoast, In "Inti-odiictlon to English I..iteiratiu-e." o on his feet, and they stood there pant- ing, -.vhile .VI rs. Lathrop looktd down at tlieni. "He'.- got a gun, K.lie," Bill said, and -Mendoza said, "Gun? I have no gun. Why do you ^ay gun? Ah, it is my banjo breaking that hu.i alarm- ed you." There it was on the ground, smash- snapping and her mouth drawn tight. .Shi- walked into the office, looked tiround at them all iind said, "George Mathers â€" and all the re,4 of you â€" I'd like to know what you mean, inter- fering in my iiffaira this way? I'd never have iielieved it!" she said "If Mandy hadn't heard you with her own ears, tattling and plotting on the tele- «d. Bill simply had nothing to say. phone, I never would in the world!" He was d'.'-gustod. Kl'ie Lathrop xhcy all looke<l at her without a laughed. Then Bill said, angry, word to say and she went <iii. "I give "What do you mean skulking around y„u n'j to understand, 1 intend to honest folks' houses at night, lugging marry anybody I want to, and I'd like a fool banjo?" i to know what you mean by arresting .Mendoza said, "Is it your busim.-s, him for it!" sir?" 1 They were all llabbergastcd except Kllie Luthroj) leaned out of the win- j;,„ Cordon, who sort of stammered, dow and said, "Now, now, none of "y«u aren't going to marry hini, Mrs. that! I won't have it." But her voice Lathrop?" And slie said, turning as waa not as angry as it might have' red as a Ix'ct, "Yes, I am!" been. ' "I've made up my mind to it," she Bill w»s silent, but Men.doza said, said. "I've worked hard and been sen- "'t is no concern of you;-, sir, if 1 sible all my life, and 1 guess if Iâ€" (hoose to serenade a- .* lady who has mij [ can take care of tny own money, my deepest respc-ct, the lady I hope too, married or not married," she said, wi'l Im- ni> wile. I kiuvv it is not the "I ,|<,n't thank aiiyl;i>,iy for trying to mm' ^' A Hard Guy. She "Vou'ro no longer with Mr. Stone, then?" Heâ€" "No, he's a hard guy." Useful Even if Dead. Clustnul ireo-s killed by blight are HI JJ ViiliiabU two. friiii ily timluT for a year or Packing a Hatbox. The writer has found it possible so lo pack a hatbox of iii'.'.dlum size i..s to luivo enough cbuhc-i for a month. In It she can place lhre<' hals. live (lre*«es. several pairs of Htockings, a llKht - weight coat, linudkeicl-iefs, clothes brush and Jewelry. She places the bats in the center, then she lays tho dre».se8 on the b.-d, stacks ibein in an orderly way, lays a roll of tissue paper along the length of the frocics and rolls them uimhi It. Then she curlfl tills biinile around tho hats. More Bill*. ".•\ny mail for me to-day, sonny?" "Yes. ilad. a letter with a baby win- dow." When the Three Met. Reggie - "So delighted to meet you this niornliig! Arc yoaiâ€" cc â€" going to walk my way, .Miss Smith?" .â- \lgleâ€" "K04- shame, Reggie, for shame! It would \-.f- a-a\s â€" physical impossibility for .Miss Smith to walk your way." Reading Aloud. When tbfre is so intich to read there is llitle time for conversation; nor Is there leisure for another pastime of the ancient firesides, calle^l reading alcud. The listeners who heard while they looked Uito the wide chlmney- placp, saw there pass in s-tately pro- (•ession the events and tho grand pw- Koiis of history, were kindled with the delights of travel, touched by the ro- mancL> «>f true love, or maxle restless by tales of atlventure; - the hearth be- came a sort of magic stone that could trnnKport those who sat by It to the most distant place.i and times, iis soon as the lK>ok was oteuej and the rr„der began, of a winter's night, -t'liaiies Dtidley Warner. A GRACEFUL MODEL. Charm and grace are adnairably' combined in the smalll frock pictured here. The bodice is slightly rounded at the llower edge in front and Is join- ed to a two-piece flared skirt. The becoming V-neck is finished with a tie collar and there are soft gathers at each shoulder. The two-pieoe sleeves may be gatbsred to wrist- bands, or worn loose. No. 1851 is in sizes 3(5, 38, 40, 42, 44 and 46 inches biist. Size 38 requires 3=?* yards 39- incb, or 3 yards 54-ir.ch materiaL 20c. Many styles of smart apparel may be found in otir ,Vashion Book. Our designers originate th?ir patterns in the heart of tho style centres, and th«ir creations are those of tested popuarity brought \inthin the mean-s of the average woman. Price of the book 10 cents the copy. HOW TO ORDER PATTERNl Write your oamo and address plain, ly, giving number and size of saik patterns at yon want Enclose 20e la â- tamps or coin (coin preferred; wr.tp it carefully) for c«ch number and address yoar order to Pattern Dept, Wilson Publlahlog Co., 73 West Ade- laide Bt., Toronto. Patterns tent by ratoni mail. ly. Nightmare. c'.istom heiv, liiil I beg you, niadnnie, ,j„ jt for I guess I've got enough 'cciievc that 1 meant nn disre.spe- t," he caid, looking up at Kllie. "Of all the fool nonsense!" Hill broke out. "Kllie. art? you going to marry u man like that?" Then the most .surpri>ing thine happened that hud happened that night, .^fler a minute Fll'ie Lathrop said, "I--d(ni't know," and put down the window. The laft thing that Bill Morton said to Mend');:u, out in the road in front of the hou.-e, was that if be didn't clear out of the country in twenty- four hours Bill would have him ar- rested. "We've »e<rii in. .i like you here in thii« valley before now," Hill said. "We're decent, hard-working folks here, and wo're Kllie I athrop's friends. The soorrer you get ou Ivll;- it'll bo for you." Th.- ti-,.' n<i and to spare, and money isn't every- thiii;; in lli " world anyway- Nobody had anything to say for n minutf. Th?n .Lihn Mendoza said, "If you will pardon m?, iiuulam-.'â€" just a| moment while I finish with these j gentlemen here? If y 'U will be so good- -" He <,ptiied the door for lier and went with her to ih-.^ ear, and there right before their eyes they saw Mrs. Kllie Lathrop, forty years old if a day, silting in that muddy t'dwer on the main sti-cil of Utiliwater and blushing like a schoolgirl, with that •lohn Mendoia bending over and kiss- ing her hand. Th«ir eyes ntuek out of their heads. t'The!"'" Mo""'"" ""'"'• "Well, I'll be Geoige Mathers leaned back In hi« nest afterM^ion, though it was' chair and said dryly, "That's the kind ddle of the week and ho had of thing that gels Vni. I guess every -' " j w. nmn in the vNorld'il fall for it." ISSUr. No. 61â€" '26. I -Vvs," Jim tioidon said. "It gets \\ â- Piliii Hridg.', 1)11..' of ibe ni l.;>n:;.ui Comni'sslon favi iH I ir./;;>g t heart of Kon.'n. Is dooniil. Ti:.' brIillHg and ciumot b? sttpprl. In memory of the fiimmis bittle. Thcos't luautlful br'tlges \-\ lh.> wovl;l. wh a vertaJu purt of tlie Htni^turc is slukge h not only the uio«t btMutlt'ul, bat ch Kr.:;;id :ni;,ls cut ;ie spans « ;;c! ; i th .' Thiinis In the In li:".;i)ry. It \v;ijii?.';«l (ffk-tei as It was untufe. But 1 rid? the great black horses of iny heart With reins of steel acioss their flylnc hailr; So slow are tliey to halt, so swift to start. The ston»y-brcasted staliioui* of dea- palr. Durk as the night, and fi-etfui as th« air. Fleeter than hounds that go with bet- lies thinnedâ€"- My wrists of all their stre'iiglh hav« none to spare When those black hunters lean upon the wind. What if the sud<len ihuxid«>r of tiketr feet Wakt.i like a dreHiu some farmer from his rest? Dreams hud I. too, fanner, before thes6 He<H Steels of tho night wire hrokeu from their ueet. Their weary flanks are grrcn and while with foam; Sleep, brother, sleep; 1 bring my horses hor.ie. Hoberi .\Bthan. Inspiration. It wiis a t,old';n thcugl:; to me So early in the main When all the wor!;l was slngiog high With joy of lu'ng liorn. * It Is a siher Ihoughl to lue - Now that I he day is done^- A quiet thought that lingers low And ne.stle« wlih the sun. --BIythe Sherwood. 4> Minard's Liniment for Sore Back. i 1 â- e V â- >^^ â- * I