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Or, Married to a Fairy, : portant-looking legal envelope I One an of my icitor, and a man "Just a little unofficial hint of eome- greatly to your advantage, my dear ," Camworth . Now that the news of your god-father and great uncle, Admiral Blakiston's death--whioh reached us two days ago--is officially con. firmed, I may tell you that immediately before leaving England he made a fr will, b Which you are benefited to the tune o assist in - interval--he left -- 1 shall soon have to heartily te ou on this nice little wind. which 1 know you are totally un- Camworth spoke truly. I had deemed it within the realms of poesibility that my elderly relative might leave me a few hun. , but a sum ae this exceeded my wildest expectations. Truth to tell, I had not epecu much about the mat. ter, and at this particular moment of my life this addition to my modest in- come appeared such a paltry trifie when wel against the alldimportant and absorbing subject of Lilith and her deci- sion, that Camworth's news failed 0 pro- luce the impression he had intended. "You look thoughtful," observed Wray, watching me closely over his pipe as I put the letter down and paused to con- sider . its effects. "Have you had bad news?" "I tossed him the letter, and he read it through and returned it with a mutter- ed imprecation. "What great luck some fellows have!" he exclaimed. "Now, suppose, you'll chuck painting altogether?" 'What oould possibly induce you to think so?" "Oh, I suppose you'll settle down now, marry, and grow fat. By the way, how did your wooing speed today? I suppose that | ted little girl "On the blank." "Refused you?" Wray rose from his chair in evident in- terest, and leaned with folded arms over the table before which I was seated scan- ning my face closely. "Do I hear aright?" he inqmired. "And ie it really possible that you were refused by this little schoolgirl? Try her again, now that you have two thousand a year more, and see what her answer will be. "My money is nothing to her," I was beginning, when he cut me short with a harsh laugh. "Money nothing to her!" he cried. "Bhow me the human being to. whom money is nothing. Exhibit her for she will be the greatest wonder the age! Money is better worth having than geni- us, or beauty, or virtue, or love--than any- thing. in short, for money will buy every one of those things! With money you can be a knight, a baronet, an earl, even an R.A, and, of course, we all know R.A's are geniuses--ergo, you can buy genius. As to love, if I. had money enough I weuld gurround myself with a harem of the most perfectly beautiful creatures in the world, and they would eat eweets, and smoke cigarettes, and quarrel like wildcats, and kies and caress me, and love me very much indeed. Any woman will love a man who gives her plenty of money and shows he doesn't care for her, "With your fortune and your marvelous luck in pictureselling, I should chuck London and Yoggy, dirty, narrow-minded England altogether, and spend half the Fear in Venice and half in Rome or Paris, 0 more murky ekies, no more caviling remarks, no more social laws, no more work! Nothing but ease and eunshine, and the smiles of comfortable, well-fed, well-paid beauty! There, Hervey! There's good counsel as to how to enjoy yourself, from a man eight years older than you. and who knows the world. You are wel- come to it, and it is quite worth this to- bacco!" He was stretching his long arme and pointed white hands above his head in one of his charactéristically picturesque attitudes, for the man was intensely vain, and perpetually posing. Mentally, he ae perpetually posing, also, and I knew him too well to take his mouthings seriously, or to be shocked by their startlingly un- conventional nature. "Your advice has fallen on stony ground," I said, laughing. "I have not the slightest wish to possess a hurem, and if I can only induce the one woman I love to marry me, I don't care if I ever look at another." "What an extraordinary hallucination!" he muttered, as he marched up and down the room. Then, suddenly stopping im- Hnediately in front of me, he asked, curi- ously : "Are you really so infatuated about this little Saxon girl, Hervey? Bo hard hit, I mean, that you 'won't be happy, till you Ret her,' like the child in the advertise- ment?" "She is the one thought dn my mind," 1 aswered. "There is y anything I would not sacrifice to win her." He looked me full in the eyes for se veral eeconds in silence, Then he laugh- ed SRain, Rel "Heaven help you in that case!" he said, "And the woret thing I can wish you ie . But you needn't fret your. n as she hears of your extra she'll 'take you like a bird. I men! Good night!" After Wray had removed his jarring presence I wrote to Lilith, a long, pas- sionate, foolish lover's letter. In it 1 os mentioned the réported legacy, but 4 did not dwell upon it, for I knew she no more store by such things than I And on Saturday night b; game a lite Totter in that Sill g of hers, sent uy heart th jumped at you? . contrary, she refused me point. ff and pr , the eight of which like ast last st | 39 "Is Lilith with you? She left Bristol secretly by the twelye-forty-five train last isi, Absence urs discovered. Very anx- 8. re . A Py few seconds 1 seemed stunned by the neve. Then I hastily scribbled on the orm : "I have seen nothing of Lilith. Greatly alarmed by your wire. Come up at 'once. my toilet in a few a) Hales ras pend off my answer. more x a" igious hurry, Nicholas Wra: od and 'mounted two stepe at a studio. Bursting open thé door, he thrust a telegram under my eyes. "For Heaven's sake set detectives to find Lilith Saxon. Give her appearance at offices. She muet have arri at Paddington at four this morning. Adrian Satvey wires that he has not seen her." him." me to "What in the world does this mean?" asked Wray.. "The despatch is cousin, Katé Morland. 'Hae she go her head, do Fou suite What uld. I know of on P** "I have already been te Paddington Station," I eaid. "A passenger, a Ys huddled in a shawl, which hid her feat ures, arrived alone in a third-class com: partment from Bristol by the twelve-forty- five train, and on leaving the station hailed a passenger four-wheeler. I have already called at McRae's detective agency, and have just hurried back here in case she should have called in my ab- sence." "But what can be the girl's motive for running away?' asked Wray, with knit brows. "You were to go down to-day, were you not, to ask her to marry you? "She accepted me by letter®last Bat. urday, and spoke of looking forward to seeing me to-day," "Js she quite right in her head, do you think?" "Lilith is as sane as you or IL I can't bear to have to tell you, Wray, but I can't wholly trust your cousin or get rid of the idea that she is somehow at bottom of all this. She has been from the beginning very strongly against the match," "So was I, you remember. But. now that I see you're so set upon it, I hope ein- cerely you'll pull it through. Depend up- on it, this is some girlish freak. I re- member. now she followed you up to town a year ago in just the eame hare-brai manner.' No doubt she wants to ged alone, instead of seeing you under Kate's surveillance. Kate was a tremendous fliry in her young days, and I dare eay that makes her extra strict with her pupils. Take my word for it, Hervey, if you wait, this little girl will find her way here, After an all-night journey she may have taken a room in a hotel to rest herself, or she may even be shopping. You never know what a girl like that will do." Despite hie reassuring talk, Wray look: ed pale and anxious, and I felt grateful to him for hie unexpected sympathy. Be: tween him and his cusin, Ka ine Mor- land, who presently arrived upon the scene, there appeared t: ist some wot of etrained feeling, for she barely no- ticed him, and reserved all her eloquence for me. She had been totally unprepared for this extraordinary conduct on the part of Lil- ith, ehe said. The girl had retited to rest at her usual time, and nothing was known of her flight until her non-appear- ance at the breakfast-table led to the ex- amination of her room, which was found to be empty, while her bed had not been slept in. "1 can't tell you the trouble that girl has given me from first to last," Mrs. Morland complained. "She ie eo erratic, 80 irresponsible, and so completely dead to all notions of conventional vior and ordinary decorum that I am certain the care of her has ehortened my. life." "But we 11 find her," I ventured to prophesy soothingly. "She will come 0 to me; and when she is my wife, she will have so much change that she will forget to be erratic." "Lilith's disappearance would be a bless- ing in disguise, dear Mr. Hervey," o Morland assured me, "if you could be in- duced to give mp all thoughts of marry: ing her." "I have remonstrated with Mr. Hervey on that head, Kate," put "in Nicholas Wray. "But his mind is made up. What we have to do now is to find the girl." Throughout the long hours of that most miserably wet and foggy autumm day we three sought for Lilith, patrolling the streets in the neighborhood of Padding. ton and that of Chelsea, calling at sta. tions, hotels, cabstands, and detéctive of. fices, but .all to no purpose, One of the ee, we go arranged, Tre mained always at my studio, to welcome the i anderer should ehe find her way er. As' 'the day passed from evening into night, my anxiety grew more and more ilith knew nothing of London, and was unused to streets and crossings; might. she not be knocked down and kill ed vehicle? 7 by some passing At 'nine o'clock I 'was left alone at the studio in my turn of the duty of watch- ing and waiting for the m g girl. All day 1 been g from pillar "to , on foot or in cabs, and all day long had fasted, being too anxious and miser- able to eat. ? ? Footsore, and with heavy, 'rainsoaked clothes, I was insensibly_ dnto a tier fatigue; before | comfort laze of the first of the season, eat up 2th a start, awake, _ "Dear Mr. Hervey," Lilith wrote. "Since y Ihave been thinking over | offer, and although I- feel my own in matter of education ly, 1 have decifled to ask you look them, and 46 become - your 'always beet, so Rind tome. See ; me. you next: Monday afternoon. 1 yours, 5 "Lilith Saxon." ret rm W og dar pon i ie kiss a voice 5 * and hurry down hr I finished Slipping this in my pocket, I al bride $ bl 1 ard, in. bromo le-looking hote - | recollection, she rested i offering to ? Want tm Lp kat, oe tn WE was we a-chivying of 'im? Well dnd of §t and 1. 1 stopped and ut some a few dr i I contrived to pour down a e " eyes. $ Where am IP" she asked, in a terei- whisper, fied her, I got into cab beside her, and elip- ved my arm around her. "You are safe in a oab, dear, with me, an Hervey. A Bhe fixed her troubled gaze upon me. "Why, 1 ran away from Bristol and came up to London, and dressed as just to avoid you," she said. * my way, and got my pocket picked, and then those dreadful creatures chased me, and I thought they wanted to murder me, and I tried to jump into the river. Oh! It was horrible, horrible!" Trembling in every limb at the mere her head against my shoulder and wept bitterly, (To be continued.) -- A NOTED BLACKFOOT SCOUT. Eddie Spring-in-the<Crowd Is a Strange' Character. Wherever a North-West Mounted Police has patrol work on an In- dian Reserve, he must have an In: dian scout-to assist him. This offi- cer is employed by the Mounted Police, lives at the barracks, and wears a uniform provided for him by the department. He must be able to understand and speak Eng- lish, for he is the medium betweeén the Red Man and the officer of the law in the Indian territory. Usually the scout becomes a very: important personage among the In- dians, and is not much loved by YE Hddie Spring-inthe-Orowd, i ME them. While they are not sually averse to police eontrol, yet they cannot overcome the old idea that the Medicine Man and chief of tha| She choked and sighed, then pi the | glass away with her hand, opened her blue one-fourth of Canada's total of $195,000,000, § y SUP Great as these sources of wealth are, yet the greatest instrument for moneymaking, the 'greatest power toward national prosperity, is the machinery in the factories and mills of Canada. The table that follows may dissipate a popu- lar impression fostered by those who have endeavored to bring only the agricultural possibilities of Canada into prominence. Canada's Production, 1913. Manufactured goods. .$1,600,000,000 Farm products gral, live stock, dairy, and all other farm products) Forests ...... Mines Fisheries ...iveivivues teesiseses 853,000,000 195,000,000 144,000,000 sessse $2,825,000,000 These figures indicate that manu- facturing has a greater capital in- vested in it than any other form of national energy; that it must .| employ. . many more people than ricylture ; that industrialism is hi 3 largest force in the wellbeing and prosperity of the country. The railways of Canada, in which $2,500,000,000 has been invested, propose no restriction to the ex- pansion demanded by the growing necessities of the country. Tt is interesting to observe that four billions of dollars have been invested in the capital of companies promoting the manufacturing, financial and transportation inter- est, of Canada, and that the aggre- gate export and import trade for the year 1013 was $1,147,648,243. The trade balance against Canada, which has been freely commented qupon, was materially reduced, the exports being $474,413,664, as com- pared with $378,003,800 for the pre- vious year, the imports being $673,- '984;578, as against $645,547,512 the ear before. . To the year's increase = Canadian exports manufactured goods contributed a gain of 20 per cent. ' rie rie - POPULATING THE SEAS. Will Soon Be 40,000 Merchant : Ships Afloat. , Never since the world began have there been so many 'merchant ships on the seas as now. There has been in shipbuilding a tremendous boom, which, though declining, still con- tinues. By the end of 1914 it is esti- mated that the total number of | | merchant ships afloat upon 'the oceans of the world will exceed 40,- 000, and 'that their total tonnage will be more than 55,000,000. Three- fourths of these are steamers, and the rest are sailing éraft. The tonn 'only r J In the number and tonnage of its merchant ships Great Britain is far ahead of any other country. Nearly half the vessels afloat are British. mines of Canada| the list of sources of | sible for a ous TEACH MANY 33,000,000 Senate of the latter, however, is ut one-seventh of the total. © | SAFETY DEVICES. a a duced Precautions Formerly. 5 .* Thought Unnecessary. = The sinking of the Titanic on April 15, 1918, resulted in an inter- atic conference on safety of life 'at sea, meeting in London in Décember, 1913. s After drawing up a number of articles for improving the regulations for safety of life at sea, conference terminated on Jan. 20, 1014, after thie protocol had heen fourteen of the great maritime na- tions and scheduled to become law in July, 1915. , These recommendations are now pending before the United States in Washington, owing to the fight made by the steamship com-~ panies, both American and foreign, on the ground that some of the new rules contained in the protocol sign- ed by the members of the confer- ence would be injurious to the ser- vice, and in some cases impossible to carry out. 75 " Following the loss of the Titanic there have been two other great maritime disasters in which there has' been serious loss of life--the burning of he Uranium Line steam- er Volturno on Oct. 10, 1913, and the sinking of the Empress of Ire- land on Friday, May 29. . Without waiting for the new regu- lations to come into force, the At- lantic steamship. companies have taken every precaution in their power .to insure the safety of the lives of those who travel on their steamers, and in these they have been supported by the hearty co- operation of the Governments of the United States and Great Bri- tain. ox 5 * The most important. innovation so lished along the routes taken by the bergs when they float down from the north toward the steamship Janes, Timely warnings are given to captains of liners when they are approaching a dangerous zone. Two Ships Patrol. The two vessels employed on this ice patrol, the ¢ and: - the Miami, from March 1 to the end of July, are equipped. with wireless apparatus and send reports daily to the Hydrographic Bureau in New York of ice conditions. These re- ports .are sent 'to the steamship companies. In addition, individual notices are sent to the different ships at sea. > Another step 'toward protecting life at sea has been made by build- ing new ships with double divided into. compartments by transverse and longitudinal = bulk- head swhich sary right through' to the main deck, so ¥ ship's- hull is pierced by an iceberg like the Titanic was, she would not founder, at least for many hours, by crew could boats.' have been saved in the " LESSONS IN| Steamship Companies Have Intro-|! signed by the representatives of [to } far has been the ice patrol estab-|y co 'which time -her passengers and ment, which came into forde a year A i vaseels trading to that coun- eat rying Sty or more persons on must be equipped with 'an apparatus capable of sending 'messages at least 100 miles. On the larger passenger liners this dis. tance is inc to 200 miles, each liner must carry two opera- rs. "Wireless Precautions. In order that there should be sn opportunity for the operators hear distress calls sent out wi any interruption by commercial messages, the companies close down their wireless apparatus on their steamers for commercial pu. every night from 10 to 12 o'clock. A fire patrol with trained fire- men, who go around at night in-all ~ parts of the ship and-make reports at certain points, as is done in big" hotels, -is a safeguard against: Smid danger of a disaster by pr MN In addition, there are tel 5 OEY all of the vessel, incl the bridge, where there are never less than two officers on duty, and hose leads along the corridors ready to be turned on at a second's notice. The majority of the big liners now carry a staff commander whose duty it is to look after the efficiency and discipline of the ship at sea. Two big liners have heen equip- ped with large motor lifeboats with wireless apparatus, = which "has a range of 100 miles. The searchlight soon will be adopted by all lines as & precautionary measure to avoid running into ice, which is a greater danger than rupning into another ship, 'because it often lies low and Patent davits, too; have been in- stalled recently on liners of the Olympic, Vaterland, and Aquitania class, which will lower boats over the side one after another without capsizing, it is claimed, even when the deck: of the ship is listed over to a considerable 'angle on either side. Sy Ran TE ea : ~NEW MILK STERIL 'German Invention Said' Pasteurization, 3 From an investigation of the "biorisator,"' now used in' certain German dairies, W. Freund has re- ported that the harmful germs of milk are completely destroyed, without the disadvantages of pas- teurization and .other sterilization The milk undergoes no chemical or physical change, being able for ing 3 pasteurized milk, and there loss from evaporation. ;