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A It has the reputation of of a century behind every packet sold=------ Black--Green--or PRISONERS TWO THE TALE OF A LOCKED DOOR "Shall I go in first?" whispers Saxon, as he sees his companion's face of woe. "Oh, no, no! T would far rather go in mlone. It will be better," says Krin, who feels there is unpleasant. ness in store for her, and cannot bear that he should witness her disgrace. So they leave the balcony, and, reach- ing the hall door, which they find open, Corinna enters the house alone. As she opens the drawing-room door, Mrs. Crofton looks up quickly, and seeing Krin, draws a deep brea of relief. Then, fear having abandon- ed her heart, woman-like she permits anger to enter it. , ; "Where have you been, Corinna?" she cries, rising. "Wiat do you mean by frightening us all to death like this? Do you know it is nearly ten o'clock? With whom have you been?" "With Saxon," returns Corinna, fearfully. ; "What 7" says Rhoda, with flashing eyes, her voice a little shrill. 3 "With Saxon. We did not mean it; we did not know. We went into the old tower, only for a moment, but the door closed behind us, we could not get out until Saxon flung himself from the windows She pauses breathless. "Very nice, upon my word," says Rhoda, her tone a little shriller; "a charming story indeed! Locked up with Lord Rowden in an old ruin un- til ten o'clock. IL wonder what the county will say?" 4 "We could not help it," says Krin, looking at her mother with imploring eyes; "it was nobody's fault; we would have been there now but for Saxon." "And pray, if it was easy to leap from the window, why was it not done sooner ?" : "But it was not easy. He might have killed himself; and we hoped un- til the last that some one would come to release us. Mamma, why don't you speak to me?" "It is most unfortunate," says Mrs, Crofton, fretfully. "I don't know, I am sure, what is to be done. All the servants of course know of it, and Thompson has been out looking for you for the last two hours, It wi be known far and near." "It is more than unfortunate; it is disgraceful!" declares Rhoda. "From the beginning I have noticed your art- ful endeavors to entrap Saxon, but this is indeed the climax. You will not win your game, however, let me tell you that. No gentleman was ever yet gained by immodest and for- ward behavior." "'Immodest!" Mamma, do you hear that ?--do you hear what she says?" cries poor Krin, paling and trembling beneath the chandelier. "I tell you it was a mistake; it could not be help- ed. Mamma, speak to me," "You had better go to your room, Corinna, while I try and think calmly of this unhappy business," says her mother, coldly, though in her heart she does not condemn her. Krin, with quivering lips, and one small shaking hand laid upon her bosom, turns, and makes her way, not to her room, but into the still night air. | What has she done? What horrible things have been said to her! Can Saxon think as they do? Has she been immodest,--forward? How un- just, how unbearable it all is! Oh! what shall she do? For the second time this evening she breaks into a storm of tears. Somebody lays his hand upon her arm... x "Darling, have they been so ver bad to you?" sqys Saxon's low caress- jug voice. g ; rin's effort to reply is lost amid ~ her sob . "You first, ; "Oh, particu g. should have let me face them What did they say to you?" nothing, that is, nothing in lar. i soutea Jatama Yaa very angry; she was frightened, too, and she said so. = That is all." "I am sure something more than that must have been said to make you ery so bitterly. Tell me, Corinna; I have the right to know. What did your mother say?" "Jt wasn't mamma. It was Rhoda." "Oh!" says Saxon, angrily, and then mentions Rhoda's name, and puts a th| guess what it is I want to say? 1|{ she weeps for many, many months. nearly word before it that is not compli- mentary to Rhoda. "Don't cry like that," he goes on, presently, in a very tender tone, putting his urm round her, and pressing her head down upon his breast; "don't, my Jet: you are mak- ing me awfully unhappy. Corinna, be sensible, darling, and listen to what I am going to say. I want to ask you a question." "What question ?"--very drearily. "I could not ask it if you speak in that tone. Krin, can you not love you, darling, with all my heart; I want to hear that you love me too." Krin raises her head, and makes a desperate effort to escape; but he holds her fast, and continues rapidly: "Listen to me, Krin, It maddens me to see i made miserable, as you are now; I cannot' bear it. Give me the right to look upon you as my promised wife, and I will protect you against the world. No one shall dare to say a crugl word to you. Some- tines,--I don't know why---but some- times I have Shought of late that you --care for me. h, love, do not tell me I am presumptuous." There is no answer to this tender appeal, but he fancies (is it fancy) that she nestles a little closer to him. He tightens his arm around her, and whispers softly-- "Say one word, Corinna,--only one, to make me happy." But Corinna is a woman, and finds it impossible to express herself in so soypack a form. "Are you quite sure that you love me ?" she asks, with anxious emphasis, lifting her eyes to his for a moment. "Quite sure. Must you ask that, darling? Don't you kn® it? There is nothing in this wide world I would compare with you." "That is how I feel toward you," says Krin, innocently, with a little contented sigh. It is needless to relate what follows, Everyone possessed of even a grain of sentiment will understand for them- selves. Of course they are perfectly happy, and of course Corinna sheds a few more tears. They are the last » "Come," says Saxon, with a laugh, "if you cry any more I shall think you are regretting your decision. so must stop now, or I sha'n't answer for the consequences. It is very hard lines, both for me and my coat. | might as well be under a shower-bath, If it continues I shall certainly catch cold and be laid up with severe in- fluenza." Krin laughs too, though rather hysterically, and Saxon, putting his hand under her chin, turns her face up to his. "You are better now," he says, "so we will go in together, and make our peace with your mother." Hand in hand they enter the draw- ing-room and find the atmosphere de- cidedly cloudly. For the first time in her life Mrs. Crofton regards her kinsinan with unsmiling eyes. "Oh, Saxon, you have returned," she says, coldly. "Yes, I have returned to ask a great favor of you,--the greatest fav- or you can bestow." : "A favor of me?"--with consider- able dignity, while Rhoda in the back- ground comprehends fully, and whit- ens with rage and disappointment. "Yes, indeed, so great that I hard- ly know how to ask it," He quits Krin's side, and, going to her mother, takes her unresisting hand eagerly. "Mrs. Crofton, will you make me a present of Corinna?" There is a short pause, during which Mrs. Crofton draws breath and reviews the position. How utter] mistaken she has been all Along. Well, if not Rhoda, it is at least Corinna. If blind to the charms of one daugh- ter, it is because he is so infatuated by the graces of the other. The fact that he will be her son-in-law remains undisturbed, and if Mrs. Crofton bears a deeper affection for one of her chil- dren it is undoubtedly for Corinna. thin he pare SE EE io ecto is," she says, at length, with perfect truthfulness. = "I hardly, know what to say, Saxon, but I hope with all hy heart you will both be happy." Her pine -------------- Fang | © "I'suppose I must forgive you now," returns her mother, cheek; "but you are a pair of chil , and su me more than I care to Saxon, may I tower for the fu morrow," says Saxon, and then he turns to Rhoda. us joy," he exclaims, cheerfully. "T do, most sincerely. ' I wish you joy--of each other," replies Rhoda, with the faintest possible pause. "Of course I saw from the very first how it would end, so I cannot imitate mamma's surprise." i There is a certain flavor about this speech that, to say the least of it, is unpleasant. Every one seems to k it will be wisdom to refrain from ad- dressing her again. "Corinna, you are looking vey pale," says her mother, hgstily; the excitement and fatigué has been too much for you, Bid us good night, dear, and go to bed." "Good night," says Krin, obediently; and as Saxon follows her into the hall under pretense of getting her a candle, he whispers fondly: "Are ou perfect- ly happy now, Corinna?" But Corinna oes not get time to answer that ques- tion--in words. The End. Masai aap-- THE YARN OF 8S. "TOOTHPICK." Captains of Freighters Often En- counter Submarines. The mobilization of the timber sup- plies of the Allies to erect the great hut cities in Great. Britain and in France is_the subject of this month's instalment in The World's Work of the articles Mr. Frederick A. Talbot is writing on "How Britain Went to War." Here we, learn all about how the British Government went into the timber business, about the appoint- ment of Mr, Meyer and the efficient assistance rendered to the War Office by the Board of Works. Mr. Talbot enlivens his chronicle with many amusing anecdotes. He says the captains who bring timber in freighters to this country can nar- rate many a stirring tale of struggles with the enemy, One of these vessels, which I will call the s.s. Toothpick, although Lloyd's register will offer no confirm- ation of any such name, was coming south. Her holds were packed chock- a-block with railway sleepers. Sud- denly a submarine came to the surface and-peremptorily yelled a halt. But the captain of the timber-carrier was not to be intimidated. He kept his head and his course. The Toothpick kept going. The commander of the hostile submarine, infuriated at the "utter disregard manifested towards his challenge by the captain of the freighter, let fly a torpedo. There was a crash and a huge col- umn of water-spurted into the air. The timber-carrier had been stung in the forward hold. A big hole was blown in her side and the wooden cargo burst into flames from the ex- plosion. But the water poured in and swamped the conflagration. Meanwhile the Toothpick waddled on. The submarine. was being left astern, but, the first blow proving un- successful, she crowded on speed to draw up on the port side. She let go anather missile. It caught the tim- ber-carrier in the after-ribs, inflicting another grievous wound and once again setting fire to the cargo. Dense clouds of smoke rolled forward. Verily things were getting decidedly un- healthy for those on board. But again the waters of the North Sea proved friendly by rushing in and quenching the fire ere it had got a grip. Maddened beyond conception, the submarine again came tearing after the freighter, which was still driving forward as if there were no such en- emy as German under-water assassins in existence. This time the latter buzzed around the starboard side of her quarry and presently away went another torpedo. : Again the Toothpick received & disconcerting punch, also in the after-hold but on the opposite side. Another hole, another fire, and another inrush of water to put out the flames. 3 But the Toothpick was sturdily built, and though sorely wounded in three places she kept afloat and main- tained her gait. Had the commander of that submarine reflected for a mo- ment he would have realized that he had about as much chance of sending that timber-earrier to Davy Jonés's locker with a torpedo as a man machine-gun has of pulverizing a "tank." As for the captain of the - Toothpick, he merely chuckled at the| 'his enemy, who had cceeded in terrifying] beg ou to avoid that] til this wild iufure at all svents un s ongs to you en- tirely 7" i "I will get a new lock put on to-| "Now you must wish | f your good You'll like | Baked Apples. you can use, for Have your husband get a tin, the next time he 1s in town 2 5, 10 or 20 pound tin--or a 3 pound glass jar, THE CANADA STAR EAL, So--let them have it on porridge if they want it, . it, too, on Griddle Cakes--on Blanc kies, Gingerbread and Pies. | CARDINAL, BRANTFORD, Mange Audyor] py Bimal puis CH CO. LIMITED , FORT wil it Ournew recipe! 3 and Candies", make How Farmers May Save. The value of food and fuel, also the rent saved by the use of the farm house are matters overlooked by many in their farm bookkeeping, and some farms are really yielding a small pro- fit when the figures made, show them to be a losing proposition. Food is nowadays the chief item of expense with the city dwellers, and even in small villages the supply of products of the surounding country are only j obtainable at a price that is a heavy drag on the pocket of the consumer, yet farmers are in a position to escape much of this great expense if they {only take advantage of their opportuni- ties by means of good housekeeping, added to a little work on the part of the farmer himself, Time is not so precious on the farm in Winter but that home butchering of {a"beef and some hogs may be man- |aged, and there are great opportuni- ties for economy in the home con- sumption of poultry raised on the farm. The advice, so frequently given, to keep a really useful garden on every farm, should be followed in these days, and the proper stocking of the farm cellar with the best of potatoss, vegetables and roots should be well, attended to. An account of the saving made by these practices, should be kept, and credit given to the farm, 4 k The opportunity to save money by means of the use of fuel produced on the farm, is rapidly disappearing in the older districts, yet many chances in this direction are let slip with a resulting loss in two directions. Too often are unremunerative erchards allowed to encumber good land breed- ing disease that is carried to more promising fruit plantations, when by a little labor the tree could be turned into fuel that would take the place of the coal which is being purchased at a high price. This work would na- turally be done during the Winter, when other farm operations are not pressing. The matter of saving of house rent is one that should give the farmer great cause of thankfulness in these times of high values of urban real estate, as he would quickly realize if forced to maintain himself and family on double his present cash income we he removed to the city. it was found, by means of a sur- vey of 1,000 families representing widely separated sections in 14 states, conducted by the United States Agri- cultural Department that the average annual value of meats consumed per. $107,256; of poultry products, $55.40, and of dairy products, $98.36. The quantity of dairy products consumed per family was equal to 2,640 quarts of milk. i The total value of food consumed was found to vary directly with the per family amount of meat used. As the relative value of meat consumed ingreases, the total value of food con- sumed per family increases. - Families living on their own farms reported higher consumption of food and a larger percentage of food de- rived directly from the farm than of those' living on rented farms." The average quantity of fruit canned yan- nually per family was found to bg 122 quarts, of vegetables 82 spite of all these unquestionable sav- ings, the credit for them is too often denied the farm; and it must be ad- mitted that these savings in the of living can be increased by mined effort. ut Em I blame rests entirely with the shipper family (other than poultry) was: In. ~Nor is to him for compensation. The the small dealer to blame. and the grower. In order that such losses may be avoided and the con- sumer be in a position to secure for his good money, good potatoes_that will ki over Winter, it is necessary for the growers, on their part, to ex- ercise more care in digging, sorting and handling potatoes. Late Blight is a preventable disease; every farm- er should know this fact, since the Ex- perimntal Farms system has made every effort to demonstrate on many farms in the country the effect of spraying, with results showing the production of sound crops, and an in- crease in yield amounting to some 90 to 100 bushels per acre. : The sale of inferior potatoes is dis- honest, if not illegal at the present moment. Farmers know from their own experience that storage rots i cause great losses in their own cellars. | It seems, however, the general practice 'to dispose of an infected crop im- mediately and shift the losses from rot from the farmer to the consumer. The latter, however, has to pay the price of good potatoes. some instances, no doubt, the con: sumer is to hlame by storing potatoes (or other Winter vegetables) in too warm cellars. Potatoes and similar vegetables must be stored in a cool place. They cannot stang frost, which causes a sweetish taste in pota- toes; but the temperature should never rise above 40 degrees Fahr. Where such conditions are non-exis- tent it is better not to lay in a Win- lars supply, as losses are sure to re- sult. Farmers are cautioned that the at- titude of consumers will eventually re- sult in demanding grading of pota- toes just like apples; and the farmer who does not control diseases in the field will have all rotten or diseased potatoes thrown .on his hands. Dis- eased potatoes, when boiled, still make good stock food, it should be remem- bered. A letter or card ad-" the Department of Agriculture will bring by return mail all the required information relating to the growing of crops of potatoes free front disease. Prosperous Year Ahead. "Present conditions should be pro- mising for crop production next year," says Prof, C. A. Zavitz. "It is true the land in many parts of Ontario was very dry early in September. Along about the middle of the month, however, there were some fairly good showers in most localities, and the wheat that was sown either before or after these rains came on very well, and in most instances made a satis- factory growth before the winter set in. In some localities the rain kept off so long that a smaller amount of winter wheat was sown than there would have been had the rain appeared earlier. From what I saw through the Province in the latter part of the autumr. the land seemed to-be in very good condition, and, in most places, the plowing seemed to be well ahead. If the snow fall is normal there seems indeed for spring work. -- GOOD DIGESTION -- EE Lp oyimem and Ho ets Se Se fd anc eo ive on the th os many MDTHER SEICELSSYRUP FOR STOMACH AND LIVER TROUBLE 018 At all Drugglsts, or direct on rece; rout on rocigt of price: Bese rice, S0c. and $1.00. The arte bottle contslas three times as Lisizn, Craig t West Montreal, Men Wan Candidates must be from 18to 38yearsofage and sons of asture) bora British jeots. PAY SA IPIRIIEIIIIIILIEII ITI EI IIIS EGA I SS men from 38 to 45, IAIIRS IIIS 1 The Royal Naval Canadian Volunteer Reserve, wants men for imme- diate service Overseas, in = the Imperial Navy 10 per da: ds. Pres Kit, iorlorstep reach +4) monly. . are wagted for the CANADIAN (NAVAL FATROLS. ; dressed to the Publication Branch of . to be no real reason why the lan 4 should not be in very good condition: