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say that, mon. I hae Seen ye saved. an' though he!] the doctors hope to pull i, an' a'better sodger there Yeve elped Be a they ca' it, ut yer 's no ja they an' I hae nae patience ice wark," mean that I didna save Roderick Macpheson? : : crept voice. "Ay, I'n wud be richt gled to. see J it! her, an' wud be muckle in : "more , with a ¥ he wheeled fis chair of the ward not agree with Jock. Hel and he did for thinking. His cheeriness 8d, and the ward felt the chill eclipse. hat's wrong with you, Jock?" the nurse 30 surprise, ' the maitter wi' me sling them to no purpose, and"was angry with himself: But Jock was lucky. . Perhaps his hick consisted in sways seizing his chances, and being on the lookout for them: Two days later he was still battling with the problem on his mind, Weel, if 1! when he ovérhenrd scraps of a conver- . didna, I dinna ken wha did or cud. I'll| sation fear him. An R.A MC. man confess that I Was verra near leavin'| who 'was going to Egypt, and whose him in No Man's Land, but as I had boat had called at Malta, had come * risked sae muckle to find him; I de: ; sevmitted to to compl te. the job." 'juigh what ye hdyena "done, Jock with bis: eyes in: 'wonder... 2, 'woun worse Tuck!" "yy 1 ashore to see-a wounded friend in the next bed to Jock. He was amusing his listener by giv- 3 Ee fome. ing an account of his voyage and des- geverity, which. made the other open' cribing his fellow-passengers. p "We have a Scottish nurse, A per- : an' it cost: me this! fect brick," he was sa "Her! nam ym , vig. _does ! credit] o' yer hairy for a' the'ill he has done is Janet 'Fraser, and she im intil the trench; I ad:! to the clan." ¢ doctors to dae, voch, by ony' chance?" Jock: : " Pak had a startling way of putting on that seemed somehow yo all one's reasoning. Sandy was taken. gback.: He was 'that. some axiom, . whose 'had never doubted, was! lest day or twa. 'Is she mairrit yet?" written, to be rotten. 4] syunner if 'she's trae. Tock Dare "interrupted The visitor looked round at him with, curiosity. is 'the parish she comes from. Do you know her?" "No personally, though 1 hae been thinkin'. a great deal 'aboot 'her this "I should think not, oi 1 should not o was the response, for) "Yeu," hi ed, "th t! © Answer: oI Sandy. ' His hardened heart had been ye. Dae ye happen' she's mairrit?" "Na, she's no "mint. an'- tor al. verra guid reason," "Why 9" "She no tak' them that want Hong! 'because she didna get the ane shel wanted. She's been loyal tae ye: thee years, Sandy, though ye ne deserve it. Mind ye, it was only mind that was Wned against ye, an no her hairt." "Dae ye thipk sae, mon?" There were tears mow in ed man's eyes and a tremor in his voice. "Ay, 1 hae. tae doots aboot that," "Gang an' bring her at aince,: I'm fair reein' to see her noo," said Sandy, sitting up in bed and beginning to make himself tidy. #No sae quick, Sandy. 1hae got my terms." - "Ternis "Ye dinna expect me, surely; to dae ranks highest of all or car, 3 in the Dominion; for the production of fo stufts, 15 being dispoiled to satisty this Just tor expansion. With "our forests gone, sad our |wall marshes and low-lands drained, the water 'that shoul months' in ldnd is rush weeks to the se, wé have nothin 'expect but blights and diseases' for our orchards and crops; and drought, that | hot. winds and hard winters for ouf Tp farms, The in t few years, owing to the great war and the extreme scarcity of time, 5 farm "labor, has taught our farmers 2' this for naethin', an' the a grumblin'| More 'in regard to intensive agricul. | bi ody at best!" "What da¢ ye want, then?" asked the. other in surprise. "That ye'll write wi' yer ain "haund on piece o' paper that 'ye forgle Hod Macpherson. frae the bottom ye, an' that -ye'll. never bear "him a grudge, I'll no budge a step to get Janet until ye pit that inti] my haunds, | an' withoot me che canna find ye, for she disna ken ye're in Mal "Mon, ye hae got me Ane," laughed burst by the explosive of love, whose power Jock knew only too well. The message -of forgiveness was Roderick M n, who = could and Jock hurried with it toi. 'ture, * smalled 'acreage, and larger yields than the whole previous cen- tury. The successful farmer of to-day will no longer épread a five-acre crop over a twenty-acre field, as the net in- come "will not warrant the expense: The farmers of to-day, and more par- ticularly "the fruit' and vegetable growers, have learned several valuable: ledsons within the pat Secondly that crop. rotation. must be followed to produce suceessfully, year after year, a large, healthy and profit- able crop. Horticulture doctors canna' cre, wha) be so interested. 1 do not know why scarcely believe his eyes as he wil Tell me thut!" he demanded . Scot question "with question, "in his' | a girl lke that keeps single." "I'ken," Jock replied with emphasis; "an' the reason does her credit: But feterm determination to 'show' that he could. she'll no remain Wnmaitrit lang noo the gon of Satersenstion as, In fact; whe'll no {eave Malta withoot Yaa can" answese Jodk, unable to Testrain a smile, for he had most | then," ation He ha minating position; I astonished reply, no a doctor. ere ve some pairts of us medi-| cines canna 'reach, but words can; an' Rodenick's warst wound Hes there. He's deein' 0) remorse, an' its only : bein' engaged." "Well, it will have to be X% myself, laughed thé visitor, "The boat leaves to-morrow, and she is not com- ore, and of the men on board qk 1 stand the best chancs." prin matin' come ashore at aince. Tellher a life 18 hingin' I' the balance. Gang an' bring her this meentts, It's 1 maist imperative. 'Noo, dinna. hesi- tate. © She disna ken my 'mame; sae there's, nae use sayin' wha sent ye; eure ig forgi'eness, an' it's only you; but tell her that her ain 'future de- "'$hat can speak the message o' pardon: that'll 'pit new speerit intil him." "He can ded, then," wae the un-} ising response from the bed. sh Airmy'll hae lost i Mon, pends on it, an' the happiness o' three lives. Noo, haste ye." There was something very .com- manding about Jock on occasions, and | this was one of them. The visitor felt his 'mesmeric "power," "and'did what Blactelolty, like fire, is a valuablé turn off the ogrrent before leaving but a dangerous master. So kept in perfect control it [5 convenient and cleanly 4 "that them, 3 5 Never touch those interior live 1 parts of sockets, plugs, etc. ich are used to current. Use insulating handles which are. pro- dod" for that e. While in| athooomis, : toilet rooms, Kitchens, laundries; basements or other rooms with damp floors, stoves, heaters or pipes, ete, which may be touched: avoid touching any metal part of lamp m sockets, Axtures, or other electrical it again'and "He forgi'es me be cried with: &| soa ow : 'exuberarpe of a x é "Mon, Jock, Tom 8 it the next best A 10 'forglein vis! bein' fov- gi'en" ' When Jock: got back to. his ward Janet Fraser was there. In simple words He told her the whole tale: "It wag I who did the great wrong in ever doubting Sandy," she cried. "Take me to him that 1 may ask his}! forgiveness." "He'll gie ye that a' richt," answer- ed Jock, "He's learned the art o' it." He took her to her former lover, and then he left them alond They did not. notice him slipping away---they |. 'were too busy forgiving each other: (The End.) iy A ale That Beacon Light. In the olden days; a man who ereet- ed a lighthouse--just = as to-day he builds a theatre--hoped to make a for: tune from it.' As a matter of fact, men who gained permission to place permanent beacons on dangerous parts of our coast made thi « 'pounds profit, says an English writer. This practice of allowing private persons to bulld lighthouses became very much abused, and was eventually |, stopped. One man paid $2,225,000 as the purchase price of a barren rock on' which he built a lighthouse, Of course, the value then of owning a lighthouse lay in the money that was demanded from passing ships. = Sir "Bdward Howard, who built a light 'house on Dungeness in 1615, collected one penny per ton from Vessels pass: ing the lighthouse. From the cliffs of Dover we can Jwatah the flash of Cage Gris Nes n- ind, | Though Mee a sail, i make: By pupil 'in the 'room every question ing inflection of the voice: There were twenty-three if in attendance nd! only four or-five appeared to have work to: the teacher's 'part, or the remark; "You must put more 'time on your: work, John." No one 'was asked to work, A boys' toile room are built in site of 'the. building and Et a a chemical closet outfit. - Right here let me say that our own smal oy of six yours says it is 8o filthy in the boys' oom he will not. go-into, it Joys' a Ee whore © have to follow extremely intensive forms of culture, as in the greenhouses and on our irrigation plots. In the latter we give an ammual application of about twenty tons per acre, which is supple" mented . with commercial fertilizers. Where possible 'a cover crop is also sown in the fall which is plowed down iin .the spring. On the remainder of the land a fall ébver crop. 18 generally Etown, this 1s plowed down in' the ng ang supplemented 'with com- Crop Totation Tis the one. that re- quires, perhaps, the greater considera- 'tion, and the proper rotation, to a great extent, controls the loss from in- sect pests and plant diseases. While the majority of 'those before me, 1 pre- sume, are fruft growers, a large num: ber 'engage in- vegetable growing as well. - These two work well together in a good: many localities. fad on pro- per soll, especially. oy . give us a pation that "both profitable and easily handled. While vegetable growing is fisted ally smaller ile such a as strawberries, | 4 currants and even peaches, to a very. plums and pears, these are very. Httle grown and. +o 'which it belo: gs are mot nearly as profitable as the 'aforementioned. The peach 'are 'planted ont 'the spring-on a goil that has been previously well pre- pared. Barly ied 're then plant. t oftener than every four years, I saw. children from some "of "our 'best families" whose faces and necks ing year the ground is 'planted to onions, egg-plant or: peppers, In this rotation five profitable crops are grown in the four years, while under ordinary means of culture only three would be produced. If we had needed proof that a rota; tion of crops wes necessary "had an ample one this last, seaso) acre plot was planted to egg.plant, of this area had been #n old ston ry, patch the previous 'year and also grown a crop of jate potatoes, « or. in other words, was the fourth year of' So the rotation. meutionéd .above.. The plants were large and healthy and pro- duced over one-half bushel per plan of first-class fruit. 'The other ¢ acre had been planted with egg-plant the previous year, This 'erop 'had an; ter. A failure in reci-! tation was passed by with a frown on '{ The spe 'usual way. "Tf d | the other answered up 'to t to icp with a ris-} { farmer had the venel ein in "keeping goa - Then he he' La ower as a "hired man! "room, | Hie men "aff CA ge en side eal ang co work, the In wash od lakes of the Bre be the-storehouses for France's vast accumulation of military explosives, 'according to a recent. de claration in the chamber of deputies. fof "expla that the stuff will deteriorate quickly it kept inthe yed outright; on d," the government¥will suffer & loss of Almost a billion francs. of For Ap her Powder 0 Levon thie year de-| veloped act! mon _ to egg-plan that were not. The crop was 8 a total.failure. These two Plots ¥ wort c side by side and throughout the sea- son it was easy to tell, "even from a& distance, just the division came. We find that if a crop'is not planted is \common go it 'and the family. give very littl trouble, a probable exception to 'is the moslac disease "doubt if this is carried over but rather with the se i 'To sum. up, rich sd : tion and proper rotation, ar large. healthy, profit