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SS58? yjWV • c -7' v itl54»^r:^'-> : r:'*'vStütKSU.« ;■' 1,1 ./ V j($ sÆ J g jfc The E \à& Stf >" -. pnt ifc- V., 5 r H "What's the matter ?" demanded Henry Barnet jerkily. _. _ His wifC,'~p àîé~affd" agitated, had met him in the cottage doorway. Sjbg rested her hands on h:s shoulders. shoulders. "It isn't--isn't anything wrong with the boy, Emily ?" She bent her head. "It only I could say r No' ! But Jack's been .hurt--knocked down in the road, poor little chap 1" "Emily !" He gripped her wrist. "I sent for the doctor. He's here now'." Henry Barnet drew a quick "breath. "And what does he say I' "The cut on the head's the worst part. That's--dangerous !" "How did it happen ?" * "It seems they w r ere walking - along past Garrick's farm, Ja-ck and little Rosie Webber, and a big motor-car motor-car came round the bend all of a sudden on the wrong side of the fcor-cars ; and, if there's any accident, accident, it's all our fault for not keeping our children off the road. I x Suddenly he rose. "I'm off--straight up to the house to talk to Welmont ! That was his grey car ! No ; and I won't keep quiet, Emily ! Nothing'll make me I'll stand-up to him, never tear ! Tin not afraid: " BeTs" got to prove that he. wasn't driving over in this, direction. I'll tëll him in this direction "You're angry, Henry, Mrs. Barnet -anxiously. What he intended to do must be done in secret. y . The garage where the grey car was kept stood apart from; the main building nearer to the hedge which circled the grounds. Henry Barnet climbed the railing unobserved, unobserved, and tiptoed -stealthily forward. forward. He wandered whether he would be'able to fôkce an; entrance. The padlock, however, to.his .surprise .surprise and delight, proved to be unpleaded unpleaded I fastened. * Softly he opened the "You'd door, and, closing it behind him* wmmm m : : WJS3 mmmm IIF road. Rosie was by she wasn't touched. Jack " . the hedge ; But our Did they Her voice broke. "Ah, a motor-car ! Bring him back in it 1 ?" 'You'll hardly believe this, Hen ry ; but--they just w*cnt straight on !" A spot of red showed on • his -cheeks. "Never even stopped to see what • they'd done ?" he demanded incredulously. incredulously. "No. I do think it's shameful !' "People like that ought to go to prison ! If only I could lay my hands on 'em " "H'sh, Henry ! You might disturb disturb the boy!" "Rich folks can fly about in their motors," he continued bitterly, "but we--we're not supposed to complain ! Any idea whose car it was "Rosie Webber says it was a grey color." "The Welmont s' !" "Now, don't you get that idea into your head, Henry, before there's any proper proof." "I bet it was the ^Velmonts ! You know, yourself that they're always always rushing somewhere or other through the village. Besides, who else has got a grey car about Eerel" He choked. "That's another another debt I've got against Welmont, Welmont, then !" "One can't be sure, Henry, remember." remember." "Not content-.with trying to turn me out of house and home, a month ago for a bit of rent that was ow-. ing he must needs run over Jack, my'little son ! I'll settle accounts soon, though, I promise you!" His wife silenced him with uplifted uplifted finger. They heard footsteps footsteps descending the stairs, and hurried out. "His condition's very grave, 1 won't deny ; but you mustn't give up hope, by any means. He has a lot in his favor, a healthy lad like vours. He's asleep now--that's ex- cedent ' Just do exactly what I've told you, Mrs. Barnet, and expect me early to-morrow morning." When "the doctor had gone, Henry Barnet sat down by the fireplace, elbows ôn knees. Refusing supper, lie continued to rail against _ the Welmont' family, who lived in a mansion on their estate, half a mile from the village. "Said the money must be paid, his agent did, or out I should gome. gome. that's never been behind-hand with my rent before ! say " things that perhaps you'd be sorry for latér on. Let ipe go. You stop and watch the boy." It was difficult' to persuade her husband, but at last he agreed. In, half an hour she came back again. "Well ?" he queried thickly. "Mr. Welmont was out. I saw the man who drives the motor-- Crickner, his name is. He vows and declares it didn't- home this way." 'Did you ask him that before you told him about Jack or afterwards afterwards ?' ' "Before. He answered a bit confused, confused, though. At first he made out the motor hadn't been used at all. Henry Barnet gave an exclamation exclamation of angry triumph. "Thatr shows you can't believe a word he said. It was their car did. it--I'm dead sure' now ! Move out of the way ! I'll go up there myself, myself, and I won't be put off with any excuses either ! If Welmont s not back, I'll wait !" t His face was flushed, and his eyes bloodshot. His ^vife trembled a little as she regarded him. "Henry," she pleaded desperately, desperately, "you won't leave me alone ? I'm not myself. I'm nervous. Stop with me-, Henry. I want you here." He muttered below his. breath, but finally swung round again. "To-morrow, then !" he declared gruffly. "I'll wait till to-morrow !" Next morning the child's condition condition was unchanged. Henry Barnet would not have gone to his work, but his wife reminded him that he could not afford to lose a day's pay. She promised to send for him, if necessary. By the evening they were both worn out with anxiety. "There's nothing to be donef, Henry. Sit down arid smoke your pipe, won't you ?" "I can't!" he flashed. "Better stay quiet than walk up and down like that." "How should I rest a minute when I'm out of my mind almost about the boy ? Talk sense,' Emily Emily !" She drew back, with quivering lips. "T^iere, there ! I didn't mean to speak so sharp. But, what with thinking about Jack upstairs, while those Welmonts have got off scot- free .. --" , ^ "I know, dear--I know," returned returned his wife brokenly. "Doctor says there'll have to be an operation, mm mm W& mm® paused in the darkness. t A Here for the first time hb hesitated, hesitated, deliberating whether,: after: all, he should.carry out his plan. " Minutes passed, and he still stood motionless, half inclined .to return. Then he remembered his little son, now no longer able to run and welcome welcome him home, lying in bed with bandaged forehead. With an abrupt movement he felt in his pocket, struck a match, and held it before him. But the garage was empty. The grey car was not there-. He stifled a cry "of disappointment-, disappointment-, staring forward until the flame burnt his fingers. At the same instant he heard the sound of a motor-horn. Before he could escape-, however, the door of the motor-house was pushed open. Flaring headlights showed up his figure plainly. The chauffeur seized him. In a dazed fashion h-e realized that he was fac ing Welmont and his wife, who were, seated; in the grey car; "Who-is it, Crickner?" "A fellow named Barnet, I believe, believe, sir."; ".Oh, yes, of course ! I recognize him now.". Mr. , Welmont turned. "What are you doing here?" Henry Barnet, • taken at a disadvantage, disadvantage, struggled for speech, wrenching himself free. "I came to--to see if anyone was about, sir, because " He broke off. The glowing VOCATIONAL EDUCATION. Ten Million Dollars to be Spent by Dominion Government lor Agricultural Agricultural Instruction in Canadian Schools. ' . mmi mi 1 mi mm mmi mm i SIR JOHN FRENCH, who has been appointed Inspector- General of the British army. Barnet echoed Huskily Henry the words. "You see, our child was ill, too, so we sympathized with you. Besides, Besides, I wanted to do you a good turn if I could. A while ago you were told you'd have to leave your cottage." „ ' "I owed rent 5' ^ "But you'd have paid lateri o|î. I knew that. My agent ough-Mc- I was match, falling on some oily cotton- waste, had ignited the _rags, which were smouldering, upon them ver to have bothered such à tenant as you. A few. .weeks b l tried to stop you to say .. sorry, but you passed right »y-; fecit sore about. it, .eh l i "That's true, sir.' " 1 "Well, let bygones be bygones ; and I'm 'going to pay all ^expenses till your son's quite well again. Our children are spared to us both, thank heaven !" i He held out his hand, but Henry Barnet drew back. * I can't take it. I v$ [Summary of a speech by- the Minister of Agriculture for Canada explanatory of the Agricultural Im struction Act, which was presented to Public School teachers at the Rural Teachers' Conference, at Ontario Ontario Agricultural College, Guelph,' August 3, 1914 :] Hon Martin Burrell, Federal Minister of Agriculture, in discussing discussing in the House of Commons -his - Bill to provide $10,000,009 to be ; spent in ten years for aiding and | advancing the farming industry by , instruction in agriculture in schools, and which was agreed to, j said among other wise things that it is not necessary in this day to | justify generous-assistance to. agri- I culture, for we all recognize the soundness of such a doctrine. Ho increase the farmer's output ; to improve improve the conditions of rural life; to swell the numbers of those who till the fields; to do these things, even in the very attempting of them; we are doing ...something to solve the greatest problems .and avert many of the manifest evils that face us in modern life. Two problems especially confront us to-day, as they confront o the lunations lunations ; the ever-increasing living, with its heavy burdens, and the increase of urban a,s against rural population. To analyze their cause is not- less difficult than to provide their remedy. Free trade England is net less -afflicted in this 1 respect than countries with protec "No, sir He stamped I teld you a lie. I came here on purpose purpose "to set light to your car, sir-- "Not quite out yet 1 I happened U 0 burn it up 1 I'd made sure ^ to be walking along th eroad, sir, a ma de sure that this was the one few minutes, ago, and I thought 11 "The one that had injured your tive tariffs. 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NEW YOAK CITY, sequence in the added cost of living, the g r€at ' multitude who to-day till in the increase of squalor, hunger I fc ^ e fields in Canada. Too often the and crime, and--in à country to speotac ] e j B witnessed, pathetic which thousands of immigrants and p i fc if u l, of ceaseless, honest, la- come--in the concentration of large j borious toil, bringing distress of -smelt something burning, so got over the rails I--I sir. Mr. Welmont was regarding him with a disconcerting stare. "Well, never mind about that just now. I should get off home if boy?" •. V-rv "I've done you a wrong, I've thought badly of you, when all the time you were feeling sorry fori And now- me A lump rose in his-throat. Mr. masses of the foreign-born, who, when unassimilated and unrelated t-o our national life, constitute both a political and social difficulty. In the United States the urban, population has risen froip twelve pert cent, prior to the civil war un- I were you. Your wife wants you. Welmont patted him on the shoul- She has some news." . der. . ; . ' T . Henry Barnet strove to put a "That's all right. I U torget l question, but the words would not &aw you here this evening. Now, come. hurry off." ' , -, "Good news. Your boy will re- "But I'd like^to try and thank cover. It's only a matter of time., you, sir, for " r We've just called there, my wife "That's not/ necessary. Good- and I. Yesterday we heard about n ight ! I see my wants me; his accident." land you,rs s is wa^ta®&lor y° u - mind and body, and, even after long years, bringing no reward, solely and simply from lack of knowledge and misdirected energy. It has been finely -said that : "Where mind co-operates with muscle we get a new kind of man, til to-day it stands at the ominous l-a we take a natural pnoe m our great and, ^ death without an should be , . .. , „ . , T ^ j riH-as compared with the empirical figure of 46%. In Canada we take | , -, , i maybe." " . "How are we to pay, then?" "There's things we can sell, perhaps, perhaps, if the worst comes to % the worst." Presently he sank into a chair, watching his wife ironing at the table table ; biit even then he stirred apprehensively apprehensively at frequent intervals'. Finally, he covered his face with his hands, thinking. The boy was in serious danger. Welmont, who was responsible, should be punished. Always there recurred to Henry Barnet a vision of the grey car knocking the child to the ground, and then disappearing disappearing swiftly into the distance. Yes ; he must- get his revenge on Welmont. "Where are you going, Henry ?" "Not far," he answered, evasively. evasively. "Out in the air for a bit. , My But I raised j head's bad. I won't be long. "Emily came here "Exactly. It wasn't this car of mine that injured the lad, I'm pleased to say, although my man, C rickne r ■' ' "Why, wouldn't he give a London Answers. She Gave Her Answer. straight answer, then?" Mr. Welmont paused. The chauf A widow posted in her front yard , a rudely-painted sign, '"For Sail. A party of students from a near-by college strolled past, and laughed from idea to redeem his labor and without a hope to realize the solvency of his life. The soil is a great educator. Let men know the reason governing their effort upon it, and every morning breaks brighter ; a new motive-power enlightens life, and the community moves to a higher £eur was busy in the garage^ | uproariously"at the little sign. One louno, naa oeeu U. f.Vm widow v rk- -•Crickner we rouna, nan Dee " ! boldly called out to the widow wo using it while we were away to bolddy ca den _„ Hello , 0 i d wo- give sonie of his own friends a ride ; I m rie g ,, . , _~;i i'> when does this house sail? . . , ' drudge who digs and digs natural pride m our great and j ^ Aonth without i growing cities, but we poor citizens if we did not try to mitigate and avert the attendant evils which follow undesirable expansion expansion in this direetion, and it should be noted that in 1901 Canada's Canada's urban population was 37.6%, and in 1911 it had risen to 45.5%. If this process goes on indefinite- . ly where will it land us ? Into what danger shall we be plunged ? Hun- Help g^en ger and want in bigGities are tra- directron wrll gic enough, but neither so tragic, farming, but better farmers n-or so pitiful as would be deserted better and happier,men and women. fields and a barren countryside. The particular form such assistance -in ,+hp. pities I may take maj \ar\ with the special needs and conditions m each province. province. It will embrace the incre-as- of the efficiency and equip- provincial organizations wdll be met in this w r ay more helpfully than by starting at- the million mark. On this side of the House and on that are many men who either know by experience the farm life of the country, or w'hose fathers or forefathers have toiled on the land. It is well for all to keep in vision that solitary figure in the distant farrow, that stooped form tending the hearth of the isolated honie-- symbols and types of our national necessities, our national virtues, and our national strength. Here, between these four walls, we sit year by year, making the laws of our country. We do it, amidst much strife, sometimes ill, some- j, in, an educational There can be no health in the cities without- corresponding health in the country. The more rapid increase in the in times well ; too often attaching îm portance and permanence to that w r hich is neither permanent nor important. important. Our laws would be better--there better--there w r ould be- less bitterness in our strife--if we were oftener moved by a sincere desire to lighten the work and brighten the- lives of those who, in the silence and solitude solitude of the fields and woods, are doing the foundation work " of our common country. ing of the week. 'Wasn't--your--car, ry Barnet blurted. "No, no, not mine. It must have been one belonging to some strangers. strangers. I intend to offer a reward to anyone who can trace it. However, I was going to speak of another matter. We'd engaged one of the lo he leaves my service at the end I man, wnen , VWL "7"alontr ban population as compared to the " - 1 "Whenever the J""» increase in rural population is in- iq>. pnn raise the wind, caimi^ ^ o-nt sir?" Hen-1 that can raise , , replied the old lady, and went on with her work. Can't Help It. "Which do you love most--your . morna î" f Thar lie-- 1 papa or your mama ? timately related -to the purposes and objects of the Bill. We, then, in this Parliament, who are making -the laws of the nation, nation, may. well ask ourselves : In what way pan we best -solve these questions of agréât national concern concern ? It will .not be denied that the TTvonev -j-ust m time, didn t -I, and paid up in full ! So Mr Wei- mont very kindly let us staj . "Forget all about- it, dear. It seemed hard. I know ; but, still "That's the sort of treatment we have to expect from our betters ! Oh, vos: and we must touch our hats when they go bv in their mo- Without a backw-ard look he left the cottage. This new scheme made him forget all his troubles for the time. He gave a- short, éxultant laugh as he hurried in the direction of the Welmont's big house, crossing crossing fields whenever possible, so that he should not meet anyone knew. he Gharl-ie - - . . I love papa most." Charlie's m ,°' ... . cleverest doctors to wisit - ,[ >ur Ufe er "Why. Charlie', I am surpris- the safe-guarding of its productive youngest daughter. ^She's very ill-- afc y<ju \ thought you loved me | classes is a matter of primary and away at a hospital." rrmst?" Charlie--"Can't hel^ it, In embarrassment Barnet walt ' mamm a ; we men have to hold- to- "We>e come from there to-night, gether. Before Dr. Woodbridge left, my , , wife remembered about your boy ; I Her Fat er fundamental importance to the nation. nation. But, in regard to the agricultural agricultural life :_ot our country, it. is not alone the- betterment of economic economic conditions that we should aim j , I j Mncr offentions to my daughter. You at, but something finer : the. créa so we stopped at your cottage^ on ^ ^ , fc pose d yet, His Lord- tion of -a rural civilization which the way to the railway-station. J s Ht>-NoF vet, sir;" Her Father -- will at once ensure a fuller and -Hc r and a Dr Trap^they exam- NoÇ let us come right down to | happier life to those in its midst, ined your son. Don't worry any -business. What will you take no more, Barnet. He'll get well." j to proposed of A French Armored Train--A Modern Battle "Ship" on Wheels to Protect Railway Modern Armored Train--Latest War Equipment to be Used by thé French Army, It is a train of armored cars and rapid-fire guns, France has i"rt«Wedto equipmen^n^^^df Tpytt^rused by any ^ftbd; jetions battleship on' wheels consists of an armoi coning towers "and fighting tops. As a death-dealing war apparatus ^"J à "^ages, atiil two armored cars' for transporting troops, con - S ' • * -f n-n n.rmnred locomotive, two ; rapid nre gun carriage « " Rising from the and The The car ranid-fire guns are mounted in such a behind the locomotive is a coning tower, from which an ,, . 4 i Up, swunc and directed at any point of the compass. ; Rising manner that they camjie ttn4 dlr6 cto the fire of the rapid-#re guns. B«l. run. nfng on top df the care permit trim pc of the tar,. ^ vphnlng railway oommuni^i-im, thU battWehip on wheeU ,s _ ^excelled-. ' ' and prove a. source and fount- strength to the state itself.- In so far as -this Federal Government Government is concerned, we have come to the "conclusion that we can best help on this great work by freely and generously assisting the -cause of agricultural education. If _ we are -told that thii is an innovation, we answer'that -it is the people s money, drawn from them, and that it is not only defensible but desirable desirable that such money should be spent in what we believe to be the most efficient way to. attain -the ob- | jects. referred to. In "choosing education education or instrnctiori;as a desirable line which federal expenditure should take, we arÿ; following the -best methods of the rno§t- progressive progressive countries. : y- x ; Denmark is frequently^ referred to aTs the jgabs-t progr-esèiv'e -and most- prosperous of ' purely agricultural 'countries. After being shorn -of her rich southern provinces by Prussja, the Danish people determined determined to make a supreme effort to regain their former position, and they have done so, through two allied lines of work---co-operation and education. -K * * * # * $ * It is proposed by. the ; Rill to Strengthen.all lines of instruC-ticnal and educational work, The . scientific scientific researches of the pa-s-t half century have revolutionized agriculture, agriculture, but the full benefits of fchoso researches have not reacHsd ment of our agricultural colleges ; the establishment of agricultural schools, of dairy and hort-icultui al schools, of short courses in agriculture agriculture ; the initia-ton of agricultural agricultural teaching in the public schools, and work by travelling or located qualified instructors. It might well include the valuable educa- tional work carried on by means of demonstration trains, training of teachers in nature study and tire invaluable work of domestic science concerned with the women and girls of our communities, whose influence influence will always constitute one of the most potent forces in solving" the problems we are considering. We restrict the purposes of the Bill to education because by.- so doing doing we get at the -true ba-sis of successful successful production. As any educational educational work, to be effective, must be continuous, we propose to make the policy cover a period of ten years. From thé Consolidated Revenue Fund it is proposed to set apart the sum of ten million dollars to be expended over the period mentioned! - $700,000 will be allotted allotted the first year, amd this amount will be increased by $100,000 annually annually until 1917, from which year until 1923. $1,100,000 will be provided provided yearly. The gradual expansion expansion and growing equipment of the Out West. Western Official--"Do you take this woman, whose ha^d you re a- squeezin', to be your lawful wife in flush times arid skimp?" "I reckon that's about the size of it, squire." "Do you take this man you've j'ined fists with to be your pard through thick an' thin?" "Well, you're about right for once, old man. "All right, then. Kiss in court, an' I reckon you're married about as tight as the law can j'ine you. guess four bits 'ill do, Bill, ^ don't have to kiss the bride, do it's six bits extra." as Very Precise. Boston is noted in America the place where everybody is very, very "cultured" and very precise in their use of "words. • The latest- Boston story is about a small child who fell out of a window. A kind- hearted lady came hurrying up with the anxious question, "Dear, dear ! How did you fall ?" The child looked looked up at- "the questioner and replied in a" voice choked with sobs, Ven- ticallv, ma'am." 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