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er SE "THE JUDGE By SAMUEL A. DERIBUX. i IIL It was several days later that Caw- thorn came to her. said, ; . They galloped rather silently to- ward the roll of distant mountains. On top of a hill they drew up their horses, frankly facing one another. The words-did not come easily to Caw- thorn, In fact, there wasn't much to say. He loved her--that was all.- She drew her horse back and shook her head slowly. . > #"l.don't know, Mr, Cawthorn." He smiled his grim, boyish smile. "Anyway I'm glad you didn't say this was sudden." "But really it is, isn't it2" "Perhaps--as time goes. But.you' see I'm leaving to-morrow for South America." | "Oh,--then of course you had to--I --1 like you," she confessed flushing' scarlet. "But the other--you want me, to be frank, don't you? I'm very: gorry. I can't give you any answer." "Nor hope?" She was looking him straight in the face now. She saw his jaw harden.! , She thought she had for a moment a glimpse of the face that commanded! men, Then he smiled. "Very well," he said gently, and! added as if to, himself, "South Am- eriea's not so far off." i They rodé back side by side in con-, strained silence. He had not the as- surance to chat as Burlingame had chatted. The sunset faded. The house! of her father's came into view, twinkl- ing with lights, the columns and chim-' neys painted white by the rising moon... They loitered up the avenue, For some reason she was sorry this ride was over, No negro had come to take out the horses. Standing in the shadow of otie of the portico columns she saw, Cawthorn lead them around toward the barn. She had to smother a quick' impulse to go help him unsaddle. Steve Earle met her in the ' hall Steve's eyes were twinkling. 'Stella,' he whispered. " if you can't choose between them you might do as' your father would have done--let Frank decide." She ran upstairs and dressed hur- riedly. "Who are you?" she asked her re- flection in the mirror. "I never saw. you before!" At supper a strange ex-| citement seized her. Without her con- scious volition she was chatting mean- inglessly and continuously, and every- body was listening. They all had di- vining eyes to-night. She knew her "eheeks were burning as she danced in the parlor--with Burlingame most of the t:me. She hurried into the hall to tell the departing guests good-by.' Most hem were leaving on the mid- hight train. Cawthorn was there in 'his overcoat. ' "You're not going, are you?" she asked breathlessly. "No, you're not rid of me yet," he "Let's make it a ride this time," hep | house grew oppressively silent. cry. 1 think maybe I will anyhow." smiled. other." She returned to find the house strangely vacant. - | Marian was dis- appearing upstairs with a college friend who would leave in the morn- ing, The hall was dimly lighted. The fires burned deserted .in the rooms. Burlingame came -out of the parlor and met her at the foot of the stair- case. - Before she could resist he ha taken both her hands. " "What about my answer?" She drew back. Burlingame's eyes were taking too mutch for granted. But his next speech made amends. "I want you, Stella. I can make you happy. 1 can give you everything that's your due." His eyes were searching her face. "I must leave to- morrow. I'm going abroad. I can't come back for a while. Stella, I must have you!" "To-morrow?" she interrupted. "There'll be time then, won't there?" "That depends. - Come, I'm used to settling things for people. Let me settle--" ¥ Her head went proudly up. Then she softened at the disappointment on his face. Things had always gone his way. She had no right to put him off. "I'll tell you to-morrow," she smiled. She ran upstairs and closed her door with a sigh of relief. There was no light but the lurching fireglow. She smiled when Frank, dozing before the fire, lifted his head and looked at her, He seemed so selid, so wise, so sym- pathetic, so judicially grave and solemn. His presence steadied her. She sat down, the points of her white slippers touching his back. She leaned over his body and stirred the fire. She heard Marian go downstairs. The Time had 'come to think soberly. They were both going to-morrow. 'She had al- ways thought it would be a simple question, and now-- "Positively," she frowned, "I can't gay yes to both of them!" Frank tapped the floor with his tail. "You may think it's funny, old man; but I don't!" She sat silent for a long time, her hands clasped over her knees her eyes on the glowing knob of one of the brass andirons, 4 "I must be in love,"--ghe shook her head slowly--*"I have the leading symptoms, Oh, if Dad were only here!" Frank rose to his feet and looked earnestly into her flushed face. He knew it wasn't funny. He knew she was worried--he saw the wistfulness in her eyes. He must let her know he understood. He laid his silken red head like an offering on her silken white lap. "I could help a man" she mused, with a rush of generous blood to her heart. "Oh, with the right one I would go to the ends of the world!" She looked into Frank's eloquent eyes, J "If you weren't here, old man, I'd "Steve takes one party, I an- F------ oo r---- . Fi . When humas beings first ventured fo cast loose from the earth and swim in the gea or air, they were content to float. 1t was with' them es it'is with anybody who essays to acquiré the art of swimming in water. To learn how to float is ordinarily the first step. The contrivance for floating was a spherical balloon. But when it: came to swimming, motion, another shape obviously was required far the aerostat, which must Secrets From -- om Ep useful in the construction of dirigible balloons. 4 An interesting experiment in this line was recently make at Akrom, O., where the greatest balloon factory in the United States is located. A stuffed 'wild duck was placed in a "wind tun-|. nel in which - balloon models are' wi | tested tory alr resistance to. wind, which means forward | _| places, peering out. over bright eyes. He opened "No!" she whispered. "Not" He could stand it no longer. 'ed gently up, his paws on hi bing white shoulders. He 7 help. It was in his glowing eyes, her hands. : ; "Dad would do it!" she "Dad says you know! Ib kent was clinging to his mane. be frightened? master was away his mistress istol, faced with a lamp and a of his lif. had been the proudest ni pricked his ears sternly, he slight menacing snort rattle chops. Must he rush down there He had powerful fangs. shook her hea Halfway down the sairs she sto] the living rooms the mantel. place. talking, The man they called pipe, listening. Wh it? He glanced up into her face." "Gol" the girl whispered. He understood that full" and "Dead Bird!" and "Fetch! she mean it? driven him from her? 4 ; "Gal" stairs. there--that was all. room he stalked proudly. serve of middle age had taken ti plese of the tumultuous friendliness is puppyhood. aloof. lingame's face, a stood hal the lamplight glinting on his eyes from face of the other man. Cawthorn leaning fo! , his elbows on knees. TI in a strong sunburned a word. seen in those t fore--something out of thrilled him. thorn ould fight h i tarval 8 Wi share his. eramt. Men a that alwa wou o girl ageing velocities" up to ninety-five miles an | - ) offer in its progress as. little resist- {eam ance as possible to the afr, i ~"Bxperimenters looked to nature for a model. What animal {8 the best ' , m . Therefors the fish | Tr? & jap gud, us 4 Tosult, we have Jal ditgible balloon of today, 'a fish of the oir. Just as ¢ 1poks like a bird which it ix look with | As each g rived, to given a dozen pins and reathed. eve you , Frank, don't make a mis- It was dark in the upper hall. She made him go through every room in ; REN ; TB os rotlowed white. Where my guests wete assembled --the That 'his life. - And now, in this dark, silent hall; he "looked angrily down the dim staircase, = is He could jump into a man's throat. He looked up at her Sagesly. She smiled and d. Through an open door he could see into There was a light on Fire burned in the fire- The man they called Burlin- game was leaning forward in a chair aw- thorn was sitting opposite, smoking a at now? She had told him some- thing back there:in her room. His ears drooped with dismay. What was "Come!" and "Old Frank!" and "Care: --of all human speech he understood only such words as these." But 'could' é She who hag 'never Humbly obedient he went down the elow in the hall he looked up. With a hunting gesture she wav- ed him on, into the room where sat those two men. Again she smiled and shook her head. This was not so simple a matter as jumping into a man's throat. She just wanted him to go in It was not for him to question why. Into the living "Come herel" ordered Burlingame. Frank threw his head up. The re« Now and then his heart went out to some rare being like this girl out there in he hall. Toward other - visitors he was courteously But Burlingame was a fine shot, and had a right to order him. With pricked ears he scrutinized Bur- There was command in those dark eyes and in that firm th. ® + i here!" ordered Burlingame heve a Using" v st betarg ain. . : # The dog's tall began to wag. He] 'way between the two wes, ong powerful back. He shifted his fine Burlingame's face to the The bowl of his pipe was held hand. He was| | looking straight at the dog. He was smiling whimsically, 'He said never What was it made the dog's' ears suddenly droop? Something he had] the past hat] In danger the man -| In on the tail, dozen large capital I's cut out of paper. The | jective of this game wag to get rid the letters: Every time ¢ wanted to api , this yearning a dog foréver feels, and must forever smother in his dumbness. She caught his head convulsively between by the person he had f all the guests had arrived, prize was given to the perso the most I's on his back. forty!) The prize consisted of an beater with a card attached, on wh was written, "If you can't best game, beat eggs." HEY | Then came the chief amusement: of who had was would "take" with this assorted crowd. 'On a table in each of the three rooms dining room table, the library table. in the living room, and a card table in our rather large hall--I had placed an assortment of bottles of all sizes and descriptions, "also scisgors, library paste, glue, pen and ink, colored pen- cils, pints, needles and thread, bits of lace and ribbons, parts of old hats, bits of wool and cotton, and the contents of my rag bag. Then I announced that prizes would be offered for the best dolls to be dressed from these bottles in an hour. ahs Though I had been skeptical as to the outcome, the way my guests laughingly "fell to," old and young ? was an amusemient 'all could enjoy hugely. The results were astonishing --way beyond my expectations. The judges were chosen according to; their height--the two tallest and the two shortest of the party. - The. first prize went to a man of fifty, who had ingeniously ' made a gtout-colored "Aunt Dinah" from a fat ammonia bottle, .He received a bottle of stick candy for his cleverness. The next prize went to a girl of sixteen, who had made a stylish Parisian doll from a tall olive bottle. Her work was re- warded with a bottle of grape juice. The third went to the youngest mem- ber in the group, a big bashful boy of thirteen, who had rather unwillingly submitted his effort, a baby doll in long clothes made from a long pill bottle. I told the guests they could take home their dolls if they wished, and most: of them did. The few that were left I gathered up the next day"and » neighborhood. =X . My refreshments had been the cause of some thought, because it fs" some- 'times hard to find things that appeal to people of various ages. I finally decided on ple and coffee. It made a decided hit with the men this apple 'with ice cream. Ra : I have always noticed that if folks leaving a party, they go home "a good taste in their mouths, all feeling they have had a good time. "So at ten-thirty we gathered . around: the piano, and for Shot half an hour sang songs every- : Danger of the Drug Habit. ~The majority of malnourished chil- dren need no medicine. «Altogether w : the evening, which I planned with fear rightly Could she! and trembling, not knowing how it One night when his folks alike, comivinced me that here i took to some 'sick children in the Yencti red, It thee Secomen blue and cold and feels erable for give: the rest of his life. "Her value of well-ordered family if home control, which brings: bodily functions. i established in such a way as to the child} some time after, they should the essentials of health already men- Yo tioned we may-be confident that good health will result. When a person is not well, we must look-at once for irregular and wrong habits. Regular regular rest, regular functions make, the habit of health. This habit once attaimed in childhood and youth tends 'to continue throughout life. Household Himts.: Most everybody like ice cream and it isa good food for most anyone, too. Here is a very handy way to' make without a freezer. Whip the cream, add 'sugar and flavoring. In freezing weather put 'outdoors in a covered dish. and salt. No stirring will be neces- sary. The following quantity will pro- vide dessert for four; one cup cream, three teaspoons cénfectioner's sugar, and one teaspoon flavoring. A 'lard pail is a.good dich to: useifor making and freezing. i: valgi sugar makes a delicious substitute, gives the cream a fine flavor and also causes it to remain firmly. whipped. - When frying eggs or anything else that causes hot grease to pop in every direction; especially on the hands, try sprinkling a little flour into the hot fat before beginning to fry the food. On taking pies from the oyen do you place them on a cake rack? It is a most excellent plan to allow the air to circulate under the hot pie, and : Wealth. Yo The loveligst wealth we have to pend Is gold of borrowed fancy--more Than all the shining value of The profits of our garnered store. 'The wealth of dreams--it - buys so 'much : 3 The gold of commerce cannot buy, Light fancy, with its fairy touch, The blue sea and the twilight sky, 'An hour of sure release from things That bend and burden heart and mind, The spirit of delight that sings .° ; in the heart grows Sy meals, regular: work, regular play;' | In warm weather pack in icef oii A teaspoonful -or more of strained) honey in whipped cream instead -of| | prevents a soggy undercrust. © y A aye "risnanres come with p= ©. J. CLI TORONTO SALT works | ' TORONTO O1gl pe n ays fire instantly, the source 1ch's Cream are