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=>\ JEMIMA JANE; OR, THE DEPUTY HOUSEMAID. "I am sorry," says Tremaine, un- truthfully, and straig-htway banishes the Countess and hor headache from his thoughtF. He is in radiant spirits, and looks it. LK)rd Georgp, he dis- covers presently, is out of townj so the morning is all his own. (Iwen- Uoline is in her sweetest humor, and for .some time conver.sation flows briskly. Thon "a change comes o'er the spirit of his dream." The door opens and a footman advances noisely; he bears I with him a marvel of a bouquet, com- j posed of palest blossomR only, and] presents it to I-axiy Gwendoline. "With Lord George MiUef leurs's ' compliments," he says, solemnly, and departs. I Sir Hilary lapses into eloquent silence; all his radiancy has deserted him, while in ita plac« an expression half sullen, wholly miserable, has set- tled upon his countenance. LaJy Gwendoline has gone into rap- tures over her snowy bouquet. "How deliciousl" she says, with a pleased smile. "I do .so love white | flowers! It was quite too good of! Lord George to remember that; but he j is very thoughtful. And how sweet I they are, how fresh, like a little breath I straight from the country! Are theyj not so? Seeâ€"" Stooping forward,! she holdti the obnoxious bouquet with a charming grace right under his nose, j "Very," returns he, in a freezing' tone, recoiling a little. | "Don't you like flowers?" â€" withl innocent surprise. I "Some flowers," â€" in a marked tone, j "Anything the matter with you. Sir Hilary?" demands she, with touching concern. "Do you know you really do look very badly? Of late I have often noticed how fitful your spirits are at times. A minute ago you' teemed quite cheerful, and now Is ! it toothache? neuralgia? Do tell me if I cuii help you in any way?" \ "Vou can," exclaims he, rising, "if; you wll. I shall be cheerful again, i directly, if you will otily pitch those flowers out of the window!" I "Throw my lovely flowers to the London gamins! Dear Sir Hilary, why?" "Because," â€" desperately, and get- ting as close to her as circumstances will permit, considering how she is hemmed in by a gypsy table, the fend- er, and the huge footstool on which her feet are resting â€" "because â€" I love you! And to see you accept flowers from any man except myself renders me nbsolutely wretched. Gwendoline," stretching out his hand, "let me dis- pose of them for you." "I will,"~aweetly Ignoring the first part of his speech altogether. "Bring me over that Venetian vase on the cabinet, and I will let you arrange them with me. No? you won't help me? How uncivil of you! Well, never mind, then. I xhall do them myself, and, just to let you see I bear no malice, I shall give you one whole flower all for yourself !"â€" holding one out to him. "No, thank you,"â€" icily. "Not when I give it to you?" with arched brows of astonishment. "No, thank you,"â€" with increa.sed coldness. "But indeed you must have it," says Beauty, her temper charmingly unruf- fled; and, as .she always gains the day, he pro.sently finds himself the richer by one detestc<l sprig of stephanotia. "Now," exclaims she, a few minutes later, hiiving arranged the flowers to her satisfaction, "sit down over there, and put that ugly little frown In your pocket, and let us be pleasant. Tell me .something more about that odd Irish village with the funny name, and your mysterious beauty." "I told you something a few mo- ments ago which you take no heed," â€" reproachfully. "Did you?" -blushing faintly. "Are you sure? I though you had been tingularly .stupid â€" taciturn, I meanâ€" Bince your entrance. f'erhiips I was not attending." "No,"-- bitterly; "you were too much taken up with Millefleur.s's offering." "Then suppose you tell it to me igain now." ".May I?"â€" eagerly. "(iweiidoline, { tobi you I loved you." "Oh! Sir Hilary!" in tones of the liveliest reproach; "what Is it you are laying? You! who have given every »tom of heart you possess into the keeping of that perplexing Irish maid- in! No, it U no UHO your denying it; It is only too palpable." "Nonsense! I never spoke to her 'Ji my life!" "Not once?" "No, At least nothing 1 can remein- ber." "Then she must have spoken to you, which- forgive me was surely a lit- tle forward of her, the worst possi- ble taste, I think. I do not beilevo â- he could have been n voiy nice girl. What did she say?" "How could she speak to me, when I tell you I (lid not speak to her?" "Sir Hilary, don't prevaricate; that !• not a strai(fht-forwHrd answer to my question. Tell me what she said." "It WB.s nothing to <<ignify." "But it does signify, and I insist on knowing"â€" with an adorable pout. "Must I tell?" "You must,"- -imperiously. "Well, then," -n<».h a calmness of despair, â€" "she sal<), 'Champagne, sir?' " "She saidâ€" what P- -riling slowly. " 'Champagne, sir?' "â€"doggedly. "Why, then, she must have been- sh« wasâ€" a " f autumn. I cannot l>e mistaken. Is it I not so?" I "You are so positive I do not dare ' to contradict you." I "But how was it? It Is the most amazing thing! What induced you to , take up such a part in real earnest?" "Mind, I do not commit myself, but I will suppose a caee for you. Per- haps Georgia was in despair, because she had people coming to dinner and j her own maid had deserted her; per "Parlor-maid," returns he, with all },aps she hod a good friend given to the desperate determination of a man private theatricals, who undertook to who has made up his mind to say his I g^ve her from social extinction; per- worst and be done with it "And you have dared to compare me with a parlor-maid!" says Gwendoline; and then she turns her back upon him, and, walking over to the window, leaves him standing on the hearth haps the good friend helped a certain gentleman to all she had of the best and" â€" archly â€" "got cruelly stared at for her pains! Oh! Sir Hilary, how badly you did behave!" Turning to a side-table, she takes rug, In a frame of mind impossible to ' up an open bottle of champagne, sal describe. His eyes are fixed miser- 1 ver, and a glass, and, having filled the ably upon his offended idol, and as he • latter, presents it to him in due form, looks he can see that a slight agitation I "Champagne, air?" she says, de- shakes her slender frame. It may murely. be grief; it may be anger; it may be! "How it recalls everything!" ex- laughter: who shall say what it is? j claims he. Then in a properly mat- Sir Hilary, feeling thoroughly un- j ter-of-fact tone, taking the glass from When you pay the price of first quality sugar, why not be sure that you get it ? There is one brand in Canada which has no second qualityâ€" that's the old reliable Redpath. "Let Redpath Sweeten it. " 3 icIoTso^il^d^ooTBag.. Made in one grade only â€" the highest ! happy, inclines toward the second be- lief. "Gwendoline, you are angry with me," he says, speaking from a re- spei-tful distance, but with all his heart in his tones. her, he says, "Thank you, I will drink â€" if you will allow me to pledge you." "Under what name?' â€" smiling. "Jemima Jane, or Lady Gwendoline Primrose?" "Neither." He had grown very "I am, "â€"faintly; "andâ€" you should grave, and somewhat pale and anxious Touching the wine with his lips, he says, "I here pledge the future Lady Tremaine!" ' Gwendoline blushes generously and involuntarily moves a few steps from him; and yet, in spite of her evident i emotion, a slight smile still hovers not call me by my Christian name, without premisKion: I am not a par- lor-maid!" This is u cruel stab. Tremaine winces, but wisely refrains from .speech. "She cannot have been like me," j says Gwendoline, presently, still In aKO""*! ^^^ ''!"â-  subdued voice. "Do say she wasnt." | "Are you sure you know to whom "I can't,"â€" despairingly, but still I V" «"â- Â« proposing?" she says with an truo to his colors, for which she »""">?' "^ ^«'" °^^ msouciance, secretly admires him. "I don't know 1 "Without this cap and apron I shall whether she was reaJly a servant, or 'cease to be the heroine of Ballykillrud- a princess In disguise. I only know ' dereen. Is it Mrs. Wyndham's maid she was the loveliest woman I ever I ^u love, or indeed myself?" saw, and that you and .she are so alike! "How can I tell? They are both so I should not know one from the other. ' blended in my brain. For the future But that you have led me to believe ('°'' yo""" »«'^«>> "" parior-maids shall you have never been "I do not care to be like- -that sort of person," interrupts she, hastily. "If you had seen her, you would forgive me," â€" softly â€" "she was so beautiful, â€" so sweet, â€" go like your- self!" Gwendoline smiles. Turning to him, she extends a forgiving hand. "As she was so lovely, I pardon you," .she says graciously, and Tre- maine, bending over the white fingers, presses upon them a grateful caress. Just before he takes his leave she says, â€" "By the bye, are you going to the theatricals at Mrs. Gore â€" Palliser's next week?" "Are you?" â€" cautiously. "I am going to act. I have only got a minor part, but I should like you to come and give me some slight ap- plause." "I shall surely be there," â€" with con- siderable warmth. "And, Sir Hilary," calling to him mischievously as he reaches the door, "you may bring a bouquet to throw at me; and remember how I adore white flowers!" When he iw gone she raises her hands to her head, and falls into an attitude expressive of the deepest in- ward reseiuch. "I wonder," murmurs she, anxiously, "where Hamper could have put that linen dress and that memorable cap and ajtron!" The curtain has risen; the guests are all seated; every one is on the lookout for the first break-down. Mrs. Gore-Palliser, with her face wreathwl in smiles, is .secretly battling with a growing fear, and is in an agony of apprehension lest the eldest Miss Gore shall forget her part. All Miss (lore's woman-friends are in an agony lest she shouldn't. .She does not, however, and the cur- tain falls upon a very successful first act in a drawing-room comedy. Uni- versal applause folhtws; though Sir Hilary's, who is disappointed at Gwen- doline's non-appearance, can scarcely bo called animal jnI. Five minutes pass away, music, that (ills up the inlerva ceased. Funs grow once more as the second act commenctv-f rhe has be preciou.s in my sight." "Oh, no, I hope not," says Gwendo- line. Then, very softly, and with a channing smile. "Think how jealous, how wretchetl that would make me." "Then you accept me? â€" you do, in- deed, love me?" exclaims he, eagerly, slipping his arm round her, and Gwen- doline, with a glance half shy, half tender, lays her hand in his. [The End]. Paying for Milk and Cream on a men would intentionally injure the in- Quality Basis. I dustry which means so much to them, Many phases of dairying have in- 1 ^ut so long as good butter was mana- croased by leaps and bounds during ^actured and a fair price paid for the past few years, but none has been butter-fat, they did not concern them- more marked than the butter industry. «*'^'*s particulariy about the condi- This growth is attended with new pro- *'°" ^^^ cream was in when it left blems which must be solved if '***•â- â-  ''ands ho long as it v.us accept- Canadian cheese and butter are to bo *d. When cream is bought on a held in as high esteem in the future graded basis, every dairyman will en- aa they have been in the past. In Jeavor to have his product in the first 1907 about 6,000,000 pounds of cream- erade. It will pay him to care for ery butter were manufactured in West- ^^'^ cream in the most approved man- em OnUrio. The home market con- ^^^- First-grade cream will make sumed the major portion of it, but in '"^^ first-grade butter, which will 1915 20,000,000 pounds were manufact- *«"'' *° change the verdict on the On- ured and the home demand was lessen- ta"° Product from "good" to "extra ed by the Western Provinces being able Kood", thus keeping it m demand on to supply their local trade. Ontario **'* ^'^^ exclusive markets. It is butter must cater to a foreign market anticipated that the producers will do in competition with butter from oth- ^^^" P*""* towards facilitating the er countries, and these markets will working out of the grading system in be a little more exacting as to flavor, Ontario. It has proved a good texture, etc., than our own people. I **""*f ^*"" ^^'^ ^^^''^ Provinces and will TV- „.»,.. n , 1- T^ • I 'lo likewise for Ontario dairymen. The other Provinces of ihe Domin- ! /"">»•. ion have led Ontario in the matter of | Quality at Cheese Pactorie.q. crearn grading. In 1915, 9t> per cent, j Evidence shows that the average of butter manufactured in Alberta t,uality of milk delivered at the cheese was made from graded cream and 59 factories has decrease,! rather than per cent, graded specials, with only increased during the past twenty 7 per cent, seconds, which is a tribute years. In the report of G. G. Pub- to the high-quality cream delivered by ,o,^.'s „.ork twenty years ago, as the producer. In Saskatchewan 98 chief Dairy Instructors for Eastern automobile and the tractor. It will take some time before the tractor wlD take the place of a good horse. The farmer can always produce his mo- tive power on his own farm by breed- ing good horses. I am speaking of mixed farming in Ontario, and I do not want to be misunderstood, but this certainly applies to the Province of Ontario. The winter of the first year of the calf or colt's life is generally the hard- est one on it. Many farmers seem to think that straw and roots is about all these young animals should re- ceive. This is a sad mi.stake, for at no period of their life should they receive better care or better food. I per cent, was graded and in Manitoba ' 61 per cent. In Quebec cream grad- , ing is compulsory, and dairymen in the Maritime Provinces are strong Ontario the average per cent, of fat contained in 0,800 samples of milk, g.Hthered in several counties is given as 4.2. In 1914 the report from the supporters of the system. Ontario 6„n,e territory shows the average test lags behind, and the effect was noticed to be 3.5 per cent., or a decrease of by the failure to win prizes with but- ; over .5 per cent, in twenty vears. As ter when in competition with other ,he fat decreases in the " mUk, the Provinces However, the new Dairy quantity of cheese per 100 pounds of Act which comes into force in March n^jik becomes let^s. The system of provides for the grading of .n'l cream, "pooling" the milk, so commonly Such legislation should be welcomed practiced, put a premium on poor by producer and manufacturer alike. ,niiij_ or at least encouraged dairy- I'lrst-quality butter cannot be made n,pn to increase the quantity at the from second-grude cream, nor can the expense of qualitv and is largely re- best butter be made from the mixture ' sponsible for the decrease in quality. French I'oilu Ready for Winter Cam- paign. This typical "poilu" as the French private is known among his country- men, is shown in full winter equip- ment. The photograph was made on the Verdun front where thousands and thousands of this type are bat- tling with the Germans despite the inclement weather. of a first and second-grade cream. The dairyman who through carele. s- ness in handling his cream, delivers a second uuality, not only hurts his neighbor, who endeavors to keep his cream in the most approved manner, but he tends to cripple the whole in- dustry for the Province. On the market one pound of low-grade but- ter will disparage 100 pounds of the finest quality. More free advertis- When payment is made on a quality basis, it will be an incentive to select and breed the herd to improve the test, which in turn will give more of a richer cheese from 100 pounds of mlik than is secured at present. Grading of cream at creameries and paying for milk at cheese factories according to quality would have been to the best interest of Ontario dairy (il<;.\NTlC OHDKRS. UusNia Takes F.leveii Hundred Miles of Khaki for Uniform*. Kussia recently placed an order with the manufacturers of the West Riding for two million yards, or over ileiit j eleven hundred miles, of khaki cloth Tho. for uniforms. The goods are to be de- heroine (Miss Gore) Is in her dressing- ' livered next .Spring, says London Tit- room, looking almost handsome in a Bits. priceless nioiiiing robe. .\ gentle Russia is never niggardly in the solilo(iuy follows; and then, from the way of Government orders. During I men years ago. The loss caused by ing, is given the poor stuff than the lack of these systems for so long a good. It is the case with every- ; time can be partly retrieved, by every thing; consequently, as competition producer of dairy products aiding in becomes keener, more care must he their working out now thai they are taken to manufacture goods of tho best quality. Cream Grading. Horses Will Be In Demand. Speiiking at one of the Winter Fair wing, a maid, dressed in a quiet linen gown, a faultless cap, an irroproach- ablc apron, glides slowly on the stage. Sir Hihiry'.^ heart stops beating. He half rises from his seal: is it Mr. her war with Japan she gave one Chi- cago firm a contract for six million pounds of beef. On another occasion, when there was a coal strike in this country, and lUi.ssia could not get her Wyndham'.s servant, or Lady (iwen- ; accustomed supplies of steam coal for (Icdine Primrose? H(! grows very pale, his eyes meet hers, all at once he knows. When the act is over and the cur- tain falls, he leaves the room, and, go- ing through an outer apartment, her navy, she cabled to a firm in the and then 1 United StateK an order for three mil- lion tons. This was tho lorgest ex- poit order ever received. Comparetl with such mammoth de- mands as these, tho Australian order pushes-his way into the impromptu "f ''•"•' ^^r three hundred and seven | greenroom. Finding (Iwcndolino there, "illes of cloth for military uniforms^ with a slightly embnrrnssed Pxpression '^f''"" " "mall matter. Yet, consider- upon her u.sually riante face, ho draws »"« the comparative populations of the her unresistingly Into an adjoining t«" countries, it was not so bud. room, and deliberately shuts tho door. I After the South African War the "It was you, then, all through," his British Government contracted for face white with agitation. "You wern (""rty miles of ribbon for South Af- in Ireland the Inst time I was there, 'icno War Medals. These were issued Oh! how I persecuted Wvndhnm about *« about 300,000 men, each getting a vou, and went half mad because I nine-inch strip. could learn nothing! My Darling,' One wonders how many hundred why di<l you not tell m<» before?" 'ni'c^ will be required for the Empire "Tell you what?" withdrawing her troops at the end of the present ap- hand with a rather nervous laugh, pullin^r struggle. "That I have been lo Ireland in my time? .\nd pray. Sir Hilary, who I gave you permission to call me your ; 'darling,'- you, a young man nddicte<t ! to par ^ A Crouch. "lie's a chronic grouch."- "Nothing suits him, eh?" ".'Vo, He's never as well as he might "Do not jest now," enlreatiiigly. be,. ami his neighbors are never as sick "You were at Mrs, Wyndham's last as they ought to be." to be adopted throughout the Pro- vince. There is no question but that the Daity Act to be enforced this coming spring is to the best interests Cream grading was started when of the man behind the cow, as well creameries were first established in as of the whole industry.â€" Farmer's the West, so ttiat dairymen were not Advocate. familiar with any other ; >tem. The' high quality product manufactured has given them an enviable position. In Ontario it has been dift'erent. For years creamerymen havo taken the luncheons Dominion Live Stwk Com cream whether it was of the best missioner John Bright, had tho fol- quality or not. It they didn't take lowing to say regarding ihe future of it they know their noartiy competitor the horse market: ".-Mlhv^ugh horse would; the dairyman also knew it, question differs a little from other and was aware that the same price lines of .>;tock, yet it is relathely in would be paid if it had a good flavor, the same position as far us future Pa.steurizing tho cream at the cream- pro:<pects are concerned. Good ery overcame much of the difficulty horses ai'e absolutely scarce in and gives a uniformity of quality of Canada to-day. I doubt whether butter, but that quality cannot lie so real good draft horses were ever as good as if made from only first-grade scarce as they are now. cream. Besides, the careful dairy- "Horses differ from other lines of man suffered by the carelessness of stock in that they cannot be convert- his neighbor. The point has been ed into beef and they, therefore, do reached where something has to be not find the same ready sale as beef done to hold the best markets of On- cattle. Depend on it, gentlemen, tario butter. Seconfl-grade cream that there is no live stock that you is not worth as much as first-grade can keep on your farm with more pro- for butter making. To pay the same fit for the future market or that you price puts a premium on carelessness, can breed to give better returns than and discourages the careful man. The a good horse. You will not have to Legislature has put an Act on the wait very long to find that out. statute books, which comes into force ! Horses are going to be alarmingly in March, compelling cream grading, scarce in the near future. This will offset tho competition for "We have a number of horses in cream regardless of quality and ' every province, and a very large nura- cream will be paid for on a quality â-  ber In some provinces that are ill- basis, thus giving an incentive to bred and poorly fed. These horses dairymen to take prec«utions to look , are of no use for anything. They after the cream properly. It is in are not good enough for the purposes the dairymen's Interests to aid In | of the war. We cannot blame the facilitating the working out of the | French and British buyers for not tak- new regulations . If cream is graa- 1 ing these horses, ed No. 2, there is a cause for it^ and i "The farmer Is safe in breeding a the cause is usually to be found in the ' good heavy carriage horse and a fair handling of tho cream from the time sized roadster. There will always it leaves the separator until it is dc- be a sale in Canada for a good horse Uvered at the creamery. Few da>?y-.of that breed, notwithstanding the CHILDREN IN WARTIME. Drawings by German Children Full of Blood and Slaughter. As illustrative of the evil influence of the great war on the minds of even very yotmg children, the Vienna Ar- belter-Zeitung recently printed ex- cerpts from a book called "Children and the War," by Floerke, and from Rothe't work, with a similar title. The following passages are from the ex- ercises of children between 8 and 13 years old attending elementary schools: "Should the Kaiser send me to the front, I would take a rifle and ham- mer the Russians to a pulp. I would kill many of them, and stab many." "Soldiers at the front roust bear many privations, but all is forgotten when the order for storming comes. Cut them down! Wherever Germans go, only blows. The French know this, and run like hares." "The Russians built mighty fort- resses, and then we fell on them with hearty cannon thunder, which was our greeting." "In the west the French and the British grocers are In a desperate sit- uation, the remnants of the Belgian army have broken down, and in a short time German armies will be in England." A seven-year-old girl wrote: "Shoot dead many wicked French for me." A nine-year-old boy wrote: "All we boys say it would be splendid if the French, English, Russians and Serbs came. We would give them a dress- ing. I have a sword and helmet al- ready â€" all I want now is a rifle." A boy writes to Hindenhurg: "Dear, good Hindenburg. knock the Russians hard and drive them again into the lakes. They will then yell and im- plore mercy. Drive them Into the mud that the Czar may be miserable." A child from the Palatinate wrote: "O dear Hindenburg, beat the Rus- sians until the bits fly and we get an- other holiday." Referring to the war drawings ot German children, one of the authors declares that the children know no limits in their goriness. The draw- ings, so to say, dripped blood. It is not battle they depict, but slaughter. One of the writers states, according to the London Chronicle's translation, that he visited a school where he no- ticed a boy at a war picture. It was an obscure work, all lines and broken fragmentary things. The author could make nothing of it, and asked the boy for an explanation. The an- swer was, "A Russian hacked to pieces." The author's comment is: "It is nonsense to say that the child who drew this did it with childish spontaneity. It had been suggested to him by the moral atmosphere in which he lived." ^ Work for Russian Army. The Department of Rural Economy and Statistics of the Russian Ministry of Agriculture has compiled from Zemstvo reports a statement of the activities of the koustar or peasant workers in the making of products for the use of the army. Thus there were made in tho Government of Vlatka alone 167,467 short fur coats, costing 1,568,890 rubles; 92,615 pairs of felt boots, at 428,684 rubles; 11.030 pairs of stockings, at 5,294 rubles; knitted gloves, socks and mittens to the value of 1,952 rubles; 57,400 earth-carrying bags. Large quanti- ties of material are being vvnt from all the Covernments of the empire, and the nature of the produ.^t varies with the local Industry. Thus in the sections where shoes are manufaetur.s ed almo.st the entire output is being devoted to military purposes. \ Debtor; "I want to pay that little bill of yours." Creditor: "Thank you, sir; thank youl" Debtor: "But I , can't I" * 1 * i s.