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: " ay you?" my head I'm throu cious hea "Lois! counsel 2" ther." eal ¢ mon' Cm and le "No, no--don't forget. gidered 'that? entered my: head! getting it so constantly that it is as if it weren't so." "I know. Your attitude is that of the. one seeking advice. put yourgelf in the adyisor's place. ,Come--be honest now--what would the advisor say? What would be his deep-laid pu reveal, e S----pir Have 10st tone. Mother Seigél's Syrup is made from the curative extracts of certain roots, barks, markable tonic and strengthen- ing effect on all the orgens of The distri fi ages bottle to-day, but be sure pensively beside me. It} . piled ible, {UPON top of the night's whirlwind of 2 not as once soslize souk excitement, I never felt loss tke ed idly with my hair. _. "Do you realize what a came upon us to-night?" ! glanced up quickly, alarmed by a Watched it progress through all the! portentous note in her 'voice, She stages, from the brooding silence of 'went on, her lovely eyes meeting mine est glimmer of an idea about held me back. .' gh." d of yours. you advise him?" This time I was upon my feet before | Strang would not be dilatory. 'she could.stay me. I was frightened. Do you imagine I even con- God knows it never I have been for- "I don't care a hang what he'd say. Your question is unfair to me and un- worthy of yourself. answer it'or discuss the subject fur- di Her eyes searched my face, then her lips gurved in a secret little smile. "Very 'Well,* she said quietly. "Well never mehtipn it again." In 'an unaf- fected way, that set my pulses gallop-. ing, she held up her mouth to mie. "Kiss me 'onté"triore. . . "Until I see you at the office, you mean," I amended. She didn't say what she meant; the cryptic expression remained upon her countenance." When I left I carried with me a vivid memory of it--baf- fling, inscthtable, the reflection of a rpose, she meant not to longer I thought about it FOR =m : : 1 ® " I" Indigestion os pa Fi and : _' Biliousness | | TndigestibH, biliousness, héad- ached "flatulence, pains afl ter tion, are all com- of stomach and liver, tipubles. 'And the more Lyon églect them the more you fled Wake Mother Seigel's if your stomach, liver, or are slightly deranged or MOTHER FIGELS 4 SYRUP aves, which have a re- Buy a 2 ine Moth 's up. There are many imita- 5, but not one that gives the omg eo ©1018 inutes later I was seated in Mrs. Fleming's 'state chairs: as being mine, I felt her ] We L ANC es Bo : Her ¢arded the ruined evening clothes for | upon my head; Her ia soft hat to! I replace the lost opera-hat, and then, ! she said, "you promised to started to walk my nerves into a de- ow, then--keep your word!" a always shall to you," I assured But try to I simply shan't « Good-by." Wark. gan to torment me. a With this fresh annoyance p 'sleep; so I went to my |a business. suit, cent state of calmness, CHAPTER XXVIL 'That morning I saw the city wake slumber, I tried to rise, but the hand upon only a few minutes later--at 'six- ! thirty, say--I would have been too Wait till late, and this story would have had rooms and dis- before the sparrows renew | ; their quarrels and - matings, to noisy: . "In referring to a life crisis so un- activity; from darkness, through the surpassably splendid and intense that pink opening bud of dawn, to the full mere words can not give the faint- White flower of broad day; and a few AT 1 minutes before six some benign provi- have heard you call it-a 'supreme mo- dence guided my wandering feet to : ment. Idike that phrase, It is so mY office building. . i with meaning. It has stayed with | : me. Well, this been my ons ous, unseen influence operated to Modest, 3 what, is ca moment." , She paused, her eyes dark- urge me there at so unprecedented an amon 8 nea gear goes, bus still be- ening and deepening until they were hour? From half-past eight to nine § "smart' and, of course, | wonderful. Her voice dropped. "But, as my Sustomary Hime for arriving Boy, do you think I would evef marry but six o'clock--I had never done suc wis y a : ; pushed up. I could not see: much a thing before! And if T had arrived of hereface, being nearly directly be- hind her, and some seconds passed be- fore I gathered the sighificance of her On this day of days what mysteri- Instantaneously I took in of her appearance. Since Fleming's she' | stylish tailored' i seen her in; she'had on a her. |an ending so different from the one &ttitude. , "I knew," I nevertheless said, "you it has that I shudder even now tol had som idiotic quirk in that pre-- think of it. But whatever it is, you are mine just the same." good deal to expect from her powers happened she must not be allowed to miss the culmination of our adven- tures, the denouement of the mys- tery that had intruded into our lives. y What had she meant by that secret smile? portend? The maggot of disquiet still gnawed at my brain, An elevator boy, only half awake, contemplated my unseasonable ap- pearance with surprise: ' "Gee, Mr. Ferris," he saluted me, "this must be your busy day!" "I expect it to be," I told him. "A few seconds later I was startled at finding my office door not only un- locked, but a trifle ajar--barely enough to emit a thread of light. TThe discovery gave me a distinct shock. The circumstance, whatever the cause was irregular. Rarely if ever of a morning. What fresh viliaincy was afoot? Prudence suggested that I would bet- ter not undertake an .investigation without, the supporting presence of someone else; but this recommenda- tion of timidity was promptly dismiss- 'ed. Besides, except a - possible ele- vator boy, it was more than likely I could find nobody in the entire build- ing above the street floor. Iwas not, moreover, proud of the figure I had so far cut in every crisis. However, with the memory 'of what had recently happened beyond this same door fresh in mind, candor obliges me to confess that I did not, at oncé enter. 'I had to summon all my resolution before I pushed = open the door and sent an apprehensive look skirting round the room. There were just two things I no- ticed 'as being out of place or un- usual: a fresh-looking traveling:bag stood upon Lois's typewriter desk, and the communicating door between the two rodbms was also partially open. & Again I had to muster up courage "I'before I could tiptoe half the room's| length and peep in at the aperture. I halted upon the threshold, prey to a mixture of emotions that ranged all the way from astonishment to ten- derness. Ro There was a shabby old leather- which my stenograplicrs had alvwiys used when taking dictations. It stood facing my own swivel ir across the wide table-desk, and until Lois's ad- vent had been something of an "eye- 'Sore. But it had been consecrated by her use of it, and I would not have And at this very instant she was seated in it. Her right arm was ex- Eve Bhs ii hat ote ttle gl 'la my blot- | ting-pad. The other arm rested upon the desk, and with that was the door unlocked before eight, seated chair, remarkably comfortable,! up; nothing can discarded it now for worlds. So much| had hap; since first she sat in that old chair. 3 closed suddenly and convulsively and of endurance; but after all that had quivered with the abnormal tension of the muscles. | crying. Sr She was crying softly, for hers was an undemonstrative nature; but the | spasmodic clenching of the hand the blotting-pad was eloquently Then 1 knew she was that raged in her heart. -I knew it must be truly terrible to evercome her habitual poise and self-control even Ito this extent. Involuntarily I started forward. ' "Lois," I called softly. And as shé started up quickly it was to find her- self encircled by my arms. "My darling girl--what does this mean?" But even while asking the question I knew what it meant. All at once I divined the origin of everything in her conduct of the earlier hours that "had been inexpuicable fight between her inclination and a noble, if mistaken notion of duty to me; the impulsive abandonment of herself to tite passion that burned in her own heart; the infinite tenderness with which she had said good-by, all were now accounted for--she had re- solved to run away, to take herself out of my life. My heart was over- flowing. \ She was scarcely startled. She re- garded me with tear-dimmed eyes. "Brice," she said in a voice list- less with -despondency and = discour- agement, "of all mornings, why did you have to choose this one to in- trude upon me here?" I 'tried to #nswer lightly, holding her close to me and smiling -into her 'distressed eyes. "Have you made a practice of com- ing, here so early and crying on my desk?" I asked, At' once, though, I soberly added: you mean sweetheart; I understand a good 'deal at this moment that has puzzled and grieved me." Thank God for having brought me here in time to prevent you from doing anything 80 foolish as you have been contem- plating." : 7 1 My glance went back to the blot- tin-pad. Where her hand had been {lay an envelope addressed to me, up- {on top it her key to the office door, ~ "But. you-can't prevent me," she protested with sudden intensity, "you can't--you can't! 'My mind is made stop me now. I know--" She broke off and hid her face upon my shoulder. you have to come!" "My way was best. You would not listen to me last night. ' This only makes is 80 much harder--so bitter, sn TR, : pressed her head neither coming, like everything. else about She wore a veil, which just now My regard wandered back to the | hand upon the blotting-pad. It is re- I had been walking ever since part- markable how expressive the human ing from Lois, in the vain hope that hand may be. Lois's was a beautiful "Supposing, Brice, your brother--if the chill air of morning would: cool hand, the long, ; you'd ever had one--or your closest the fever in my veins. 1 was tired, sort that is said to denote an artistic' friend, say should come to you and jaded, haggard; but interest in the temperament. At first it lay listless- inform ,you he was going to marry day's promised developments had re- ly half open, conveying to me an im- Steve Willets's daughter: how would vived in a measure, and already I was pression of infinite weariness, both of beginning impatiently to hope that the flesh and the spirit; but in the | brief time I stood watching it, trying And Lois--would she be on hand at to make up my mind how to announce | her usual hour? It was indeed a my presence without startling her, it delicately tapering sep What "hidden purpose did it pressive of the tempest of emotion to me. The] "But I know what' to me and gently to carry away wi Id 'support me, to i ] that are to: ire m worthy of it, "And still you's Think dear heart---think! mockery of love it soon will become Ashes--mould--mildew--it's than death!" I'm not! am not putting you out of my life that would be impossible. ing myself away from. you. Listen, Brice. your ambitions are. ) conditio Heals tives to ang to stre - en me in the effort to live up to them." | n deliberately go away from me" --I was pleading des- perately--"thrust me out of your life. t Stop and consider what a cold, starved, hollow ¢ !| per cent. stated that they were fol-| Dairy. worse | 10W "Oh, Boy, don't helieve: I am cold, harsh, unfeeling; for indeed. indeed, My heart aches for you. I I am tak- I have always been a pretty level-headed sort of person, not much given to dreaming dreams are seeing visions. But I know what for Mine would be cent. of a poor weak mockery of a love in very ves to keep the 'peaple - on the farms are to a great , 88. may be seen from the fol- lowing report of the survey. i a per cent. of the farmers visit- the city. Seven per cent. have sons married who are farming. Nineteen some form of book-keeping, '|but only one man was following a complete method. Sixty-seven per cent, take agricultural papers, seven- teen per cent. take story maggzines, ;|and seventy-seven per cent. take a daily paper. : 3 In 58 per cent. of the families visit- ed there were young people over 14 years of age while 81 per cent. had | a horse and buggy or an automobile for the young people. Sixty-one per } truth if I couldn't divine them. And during the past year, chiefly church 1 'have looked #head into<the future.|8o¢ials and picnics. and 'cruel." A (To be continued.) tr tee SOLDIERS SING IN TRENCHES Explosions. - quarters in France writes: * Some pepper castors in shape, have been built in places along the enemy front. They naturally get the attention they ticed a cupola had been constructed, parent. One of our howitzers was asked to try his weight at the object, and put over some shells with excell- ent aim. One went through the targ- et, throw bish. * When cleared the turtle back was seen to be smashed, . showing twisted - iron girders within: and a mass of wire, which looked like uncolled springs, ridently the reinforcement of the concrete. : & : Possibly the nervousness of the Germans also accounts for their in- dustry in mining towards whatever salient gives us some vantage. These mines are peculiarly horrible, for one never knows now, when interested in a corner of a fire trench, whether or not there is a volcano underfoot. The unconcern of our men, who ¢annob al- development of trench warfare h (reached them, is astonishing. ! " Recetly a colonel informed me with 'a grim smile that when, many hours | after the German mine had xplode lows our The British Are Undistarbed By Mine "A correspondent at British' Head- curious structures of concrete, like deserve. "At 'ohe spot our men no- of rather a turtle back; not very ap throwing up indistinguishable rub-. "the . smoke and dust' ways be sure that such an unpleasant |" as | PON The higher you tise, the more honored| = Here it may be stated that the ru- your position, just that much more in- tolerable will our. relationship grow "to be. I shall be more severely ecriti- cised; my antecedents will be dragged out into the open: and"the spotlight kept constantly upon them. Your ad- vancement will correspondingly in- crease the humiliation and emarrass- ment of having your wife the daugh- ter of a murderer, a thief, a creature whose very name is synonymous with all this is base, ignoble, mean, wicked ral churches have a great opportun~ ity to develop the social side of their tivities, to reach more of the young people in' the country and interest them in clean amusemerits, sports and recreations, The local fairs also are prominent among the community events attended' by the farmer, In Dundas and Carleton counties no or- ganized clubs for games were mef with, while in Waterloo, 18 reported (a football club, and in Northumber-' land, six. reported baseball clubs. Only one of the 400 farmers visited mentioned attending a literary so- ciety. Twenty-five per cent. of the homes had no musical instrument of any kind; 89 per cent. had pianos.-- F.CN. in Conservation, Systematic Farming. A Poor health drove Morris H. Crock- ett from the city to a little five-acre fruit and poultry farm in California. try, Mr. Crockett had been a success: ful business man, For' the first three years he lost: money. He had fancy and utility poultry, early and lata apples, Logan. berries, strawberries | and rhibarb.! Just why he was losing money, de did not know. :: The fourth year he decid-! ed to apply to his business of farm. ing the same principles that he had applied to the city business of which | he had been manager. Thix involyed ia bookkeeping System, and during all of that yedr he kept accurate ' iac- extent neg- | have had boys leave and go' to|8nd farmers attended some kind of community event or events' Previous to his removal to the cotin-- lar, keep books. There is no bettér time to start than the present. --Farm and v , » Growing Potatoes Without Potash. , Potato growers in past years," at least those who have made use of commercial f 8, 'have always favored a fertilizer with a large pro- portion of available potash. The closing off of the German supply of potash 'has : rendered. this. fertilizing constituent extremely expensive and potato growers are now face to face {with the proposition of growing .po- tatoes with nitrogen 08] {ous only. "In this connection, an ex- pe; nt conducted at the Maine Ex, ritental' station will be of interest. the ex énts as fo "Throughout the growing season the vines on. both the no potash plots £8 were a distinctly brighter green and'. had a thriftier Took than o joining plots. The 'difference w. s 'marked that it attricted much at- tention from visitors at the farm. Although some slight sgularities occurred in the yield from the differ- ent plots, the average figures show fairly 'consistent increases with the increase in potash. The plots without potash yielded 110 barrels, or 302 bushels of merchantable potatoes. The plots with two and five per cent. potash gave practically ' the same yields of 116 barrels, or 820 bughels per acre, The eight per cent. potash plots averaged to yield 120 barrels, or 33( bushels per. acre. This is an increase of 10 barrels from the eight. per cent. plots over the no potash Plots. This amount is undoubtedly 8 enough to be significant, and to cate that the potash increases - 3 | the yield of potatoes in Aroostook gounty. On. the other: kind, 110 bar- 4 rels (302 bushels) per acré is a good yield--considerably above | the aver- age, and netitly double the average in the county in 1915. So far as the re- Z sults -of this 'one yea» are congerned, ° they indicate' that a profitable Jyied ws. of potatoes can be obtained on Ak stook seil without the addition pf potash for at least one year" ot What is true of these soils applies in no less degree to our soils in Can. counts for every department of his ada, There are few soils indeed in little farm: At the end of the year {he did away with fancy poultry, 'plowed up his rhubarb and -straw- berries, and specialized on early 'ap- ples and utility poultry. "These his ooks revealed, were the money. mak- which there are. not thousands of pounds of potash in the first few inches. = This® potash can be rendered - available by incorporating Hamas into the soil and through cultivation, con- 33 a | serving ithe moisture, ce How is rheumatism recognized? Some hav said-- 1 «Rheumatism is a dull pain. * SEA