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rt, combined, can Her large violet eyés are dark and deep with the excitement of the hour, her red, ripe lips are parted An a bewitching smile, her chestnut 'hair is brushed bac into a soft rich knot d. Her lis- som figures is clothed in white silk, softened with tulle, and decked here "Ballykillruddereen ?"--with a soft laugh. "What a name! Must it not fatigue the poor Irish inventing such long ones? It there really a place called Ballykillruddereen?' * : "There is. You were never there, sleek and smooth | there, then?". Even he. himself is surprised 'at his own persistency. "How oddly you ask the question!" says Lady Gwendoline, playing with and there with trailing lilies: it is a*her fan, and refusing to meet his.ear- f 'very triumph of a gown, fresh from the hands of Elise. Just now she is standing in the ball- room exactly opposite the chief en- trance door, listening good-naturedly to a ponderous compliment, leveled at her dainty shell-pink ear, by the de- voted Heavy at her side; with a Sus- | picion of coquetry she has lowered her eyes, and is pretending to examine nest gaze. "Do you suspeét me. 0 spending much of my time in rustic villages? - Now, tell me candidly, do you think I look like person who has been sojourning at Ballykill--what is it?" "No, you do not," replies he with conviction; then he sighs involuntarily, and is silent. "What a heavy sigh," murmurs her Peaied hus, _ She a sont Sire iis ively, ; as b fn 1 oh armel Sign he © rhe parting in ice that willl 1 pave often been struck. | cause disappointment--almost Sure grroneous idea that many i Be lee leas: terested fn India have formed * TIRELESS WORKER perial" and power, and out sympathy with the aspirations of | HE IS A MAN OF MOST IMPOSING APPEARANCE. « common people, they will find expectations strangely: falsified, Zeal- ous for the 'are of his subordin- ates of the lowest class, ever ready to investigate and redress the griev- ances of the humblest, resolute to @ sure justice to all India's teeming toiling millions--that was Curzon in India. "We are here," he said once, Monumental Industry and Wonderful Driving Power--His Rule vedi ed. 0 feeding can be g raising calvy depends '8° upon the sill and judgmel of the 'up to s * what an extrgordinary likeness!" | doline' » minutely the delicate figures carved ladyship, mockingly; "there is quite upon her fan, so that when Sir Hilary three volumes in that one sigh alone. Tremaine enters the room--which he! Did you lose your heart in that ec- does at this moment---she fails to| centric and very unpronotinceable lit- notice him, tle Irish town?" Leaning laxily against the wall, he| "I7--oh, no!" with a start and a lets his glance rove carelessly over the | smile; "not quite that. But I met occupants of the apartment. Lightly there once what I thought until to- it travels, scarcely Testing as it goes, night was quite the loveliest woman until in the course of. its voyage it'I ever saw. She"---an expressive reaches the smitten dragoon opposite; | pause--"was very like you!" here it lingers a moment, as though| "Was she? Thank you, Sir Hilary," amused, and then passes on to his|. with an amused 'langh. "If there companion--and then-- ; is ore thing I admire, it is a delicately : The eyeglass drops from Sir Hilary's | veiled compliment,--such as yous. But, 'eye. He is as one transfixed with to confess a secret to you, I am tired _ amaze. He grows a shade paler, and | of being told how lovely I am And sinks into a friendly seat placed in one| go your Irish beauty was like me?" of the corners. ; "I don't know whether she was Irish "I am surely going mad," he solilo-| or English, but she was very like you." quizes, still with his gaze rivetedu pon | with a steady glance, the white-robed apparition at the other| "Who was she ?"--coloring slightly. side of the room, "raging madl--| <I don't know." : clean gone out of oy senses! . For! "What was her name?" six months I have beén trying vainly| "I can't say; I never discovered." to banigh that face from my thoughts,| "A fair Incognita, in fact: What and now--here--I see its counterpart a charming adventure! It reads like in the flesh. A 'parlor-miaid disport-|a Spanish plot. I hope my fac-simile ing herself at the Duchess of Glen-| was at least a lady? livon's! Oh, impossible!' Yes, I am| Sir Hilary hestistes, and looks ~ at clearly on the verge .of lunacy; and. the floor. = It is an undeniably perfect X floor, but can hardly be said to de- Putting out his hand, he grasps the| serve the flattering attention bestow. arm of a man standing near him. ed upon it by Sir Hilary. ¥ "Brandrum," asks he faintly, "tell| "I give you my honor I don't kndw me who is the-- the young lady oppo-|that either," Be says; with an effort. site--in white?" "How Stupid! oth a little shrug. "What a tone!" returns the man]"If I were a man and had: lost m addressed, regarding him with the|heart as entirely as you have evids keenest pity. © "Epris already, dear | ently lost yours to an unknown beauty, boy? It generally takes a little long- | I should not rest until I had discovered er. ~ You are the most: case every single thing about her" = 1 have known. That is Lady Gwen-| I did not say I hag lost Primrose, *. Not to know her |to her." "to give justice, and one single act feeder. In India. It has been denistrated my heatt 3 ing beauty par excellence." Lig M] "Gwendoline Primrose!" +» "Even so.. Nothing like that in the _ Fast, I take it--eh? You seem moved, Have you so soon surrendered? I' wouldn't if I were you; for you will | nly knock yourself up for the season gain no- | thing by it. She has refused half a z ars this' year already, and on by her caprices. get an introduction," says who bas tot heard one word t 2 there dear Primrose (Primrose a - ter), she is sure he and mamma brows of disbelief. been in the East, and that he hi of injustice in India is, in my opinion, Two important announcements with 'a greater strain upon our rule than regard to Lord Curzon were made on | much larger errors of policy or judg- the same day this week: One was that ment." \ oy he had been appointed a member of | He had a genuine sympathy of the the War Council and leader in the deepest kind with the patien House of Lords of the Lloyd George humble, silent millions" of India, an Government. The other was that he his labors on their behalf were ull had become engaged to be married. | ceasing. Those who. delight to asse- He is a widower, and he will be 58 ciate his rule in India mainly with years old on the 11th of next month. the strife in which it closed are His first wife, who died in 1906, after strangely oblivious of the [11 years of married life, was the India had-never previously known a | | beantiful daughter of the late Mr. rule so benovolent, so. -humane, Levi Leiter, of Washington. 80 progressive as his. The: 3 His bride to be is, like his first|series of reforms which he intros wife, an American. She is, moreover, a widow; being Mrs. Grace Duggan, the' government of India, the lishment of co-operative credit cieties, the promotion of scientific agriculture, all testify to the sincere] £¥ ity of his declaration that "the. ant has heen in the "backgroun every policy for which I have heen re- _ | sponsible," It is by his work for the land and the people--for the Tory in | England was the out-and-out reformer in/India---that his rule in the East will be enduringly remembered. . FRANCE ENROLLING WOMEN Bl | Many Are Now Replacing Men - Near ] Airing Line. ? 3 A woman's committee presided €] by-Mme. Emile Boutroux, wife of th . | celebrated philosopher, has been or- | ganized to enroll women volunteers in| grows this should be gradually .in-! |'the service of the country. It is ap- |' pealing to gll women to inscribe th '| names, with a statement of their a; tudes; and the time they will be' "No?" says: Gwendoline, with lifted" _And'then they! drift into other topics, and the subject | vs is: not' renewed. ¢ & Toward the close of the evening he manages. to get another. dance wi her, and begins ' to. feel .miserably happy; if I may be allowed the ex- pression, She is very sweet and kind, and lets him know directly she has thrown over two other men to give him his dances. to dis: | May he call to-morrow? Yes; she is| fered from a painful spinal mal g Turn your' sure mamma will be very glad to see but he never allowed his' ill-health a ne; she is a Siren, 'him. Does he know mamma? . No? |interfere with his devotion to work. [ha ; | Ob! then he must let her present him. 3 met the When Lady Rosemary oars, he: bas fortunate. brother of this peerless sis-| 1 be. directly ay he th willow of Alfred Duggan, of Buenos: e to enlist all the womda France in' the services of the n Aires, and daughter of the late Mr. ench women are playing a Munro Hinds, formerly American | more imrartant role in the Minister to Brazil. Lord Curzon fas} than a casual observer might no present heir to his earldom. But{ine. The activities othe (in the absence of any male heir be-| not confined to Red Cross 39 ing born to him) his. eldest daughter operating street cars and : ; they are creep ent of the na «74: Works: Like a Demon. For-it is his industry---industry 'the. cs is Jord Curzon's - outstan acteris ambition, even. of i bg . a, » 'young women X In t transcends even his amk bis 4 bis arrogan fact - that certain requirements which and | 9 it duced- into the Jand revenue policy of the calf' feed. . Ten pounds or time and again that heifer cal§s care- fully, fed on skim-milk and dme fat, substitute develop into a largeframed, | heavy producing cows Bs d& those reared on whole milk. Minimum Cost For Feed, I Dairymen shipping cream hve a splendid opportunity to raise cabes at a minimum cost for feed, but thée are met if the greatest success wolld be btained, ~ A calf should alwdis be milk of its own mother for) few zat, mills Is pot mal, stinkilate 3 tw he! i 3 milk forthe fire two ~at'least, and {then 'to skim-milk.' } The idly ever be kept in mind t whole milk i the natural feed and that the calf's shm- ach is so consti that it-oan digest it readily. = The tract gust undergo a change with the change of or four or|five quarts of new milk per day, fed intwo feeds for a strong calf, and thred for 8 weakling, is sufficient for skim-milk given a Te- bstifut- - until ithe 1 ks of age 12 pound os ~ our weeks of age 12 s - milk can be safely ger pd bau sréased {0/18 ob 16 pounds; the Inia amount is 8 ent for a fiye-mon "months- 1d calf. . ksh ; $3 Lf large. | mature animal Fa! ped should gain from 1.5 to months of age. i not be the aim, but ceep/it vigorous and Strong bone b At gix months of age the calf should be réady for weaning, and 2 lbs. daily of a mixtu of 75 Ibs. corn chop and 25 lbs. oats oF bran, together with all the cloyer hay the calf will eat should keep: it in good growing ¢ondition.- Good pas- ture without concentrates will keep it thrifty. From six to twelve months of age the gains will not be quite so rapid. : LY Good Feod Necessary. A calf born in the fall usually gets a better start in life than one born in the . spring and ' at: less cost: By spring: it is large enough to-turn on pasture with the rest of the stock. The spring calf will require very ; the same treatment as ol fall calf. To get: the best it must be kept in a paddock or throughout the summer where it has [ protgction from the sun and flies. It is not advisable to turn it with the old- jer stock. The first winter it will re- quire some high-priced feed in the stable, ~The calf must be fed well 'and kept growing Il times. A : poorly-fed calf will "a cow, as it would have, led proj attention. sutiad caves from the eff life; itis ect practi {calves 'on _a limited amount of feed. i The second year the heifer is able to {rough it, and can be brought through the winter in gdod condition on a lib- eral supply of ¢lover hay and silage or roots. The first year'is the most critical time of the ecalf's life and the time which exerts the greatest in- fluence oft the size and capacity of the = vocate, "Fond of Them. Those along us who believe that _{ the cigarette is one of those factors ul. that lead a man perdition, will Ae edit Topas