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in the air-tigh Jakans than any an or ALADA. Insist upon CHAPTER X.-- (Cont'd) "What mean ye hy the like o' that, luddie?" she cried, catching at her breast as jf she felt a sudden s pas] of pain there. "How dare ye?" ~~" Then she saw the wonder leip into the boy's face and the color from hig lips. For Kit has never seen his mother moved to anger before, "Wi' mither," he faltered, "it's nocht but a sprig o white heather that 1 gat ower there by the dyke- back! There's plenty mair. Come and see it growing sae blithely." But the water in the caverns of the woman's heart had now risen surging up, and all her will could not keep the wells in her blue eyes from over- brimming. She sat down on a tussock of yellow bent-grass, which like an sland rose deflantly in the midst of the red heather. Then she put her head into her hands and sobbed aloud in the hill silence of that great blue empty September day. Kit "was deadly afraid. He had never before seen his mother thus give way. Indeed, sorrow was not connect- ed in Kit's mind with anything less concrete than a hungry stomach, a tumble from a tree higher than those which he usually selected for the pur- pose of falling off--or, at the worst, with a crack on the side of the head from the nearest of his uncles when he was caught in some unusually out- rageous piece of mischief. These, as it seemed to Kit, were all provided for in the scheme of life, But that his mother--who was too old to get a "cuff on the lug," and too staid to elimb trees and fall off them--shorid ery was a disp tion table and mysterious--like those decrees of Providence of which he had heard in the Catechism. The matter must cer- tainly be looked into at once, Lilias bent her head further upon her breast and sobbed--the sob of a woman who tastes the bitterness of once-sweet memories which time and circumstances have turned to gall. | "Oh, how could he do it?" she wail- ed, half to herself. Kit went forward to his mother. "Mither, mither, hearken to me!" be said wistfully; "dinna greet, mith- er! Are yo hungry? Tak' a bit o' my . sugar piece. It's in your black basket . there under your hand. And I would fain hae a bite mysel'." But his mother did not answer, or even respond in the least to the invi- tation, which in Kit's opinion was the worst symptom of all. So with the fear of a child In the presence of an unknown sorrow, he clutched at her arm and tried to pull the hand away from her face. "Minnie," he cried, using the name that he would have sunk into the earth with shame rather than let any ene else hear him utter, "Minnie, wails ye? What garred ye greet? | your ain Kit." len, finding that he could neither Away the hand nor still his moth- fl , the boy gave way utterly. into a howl of childish suf- let a lassie bairn wi' petticoats flappin' aboot her shanks beat us." But as Lilias Mac Walter passed fon after the boy, her eyes went back to the spray of white heather crushed by her own heel into the black crumbly peat. She glanced once after her son. He was in full career, with his bonnet in his hand, chasing a gay yellow butterfly which had come flirt- ing and prancing along the path, and, being greeted with a shout, had de | flected across the moor with irrelevant infirmity of purpose. The woman hastily stooped and took up the tattered spray of white heather in her hand. With her eye on Kit she dusted it tenderly und placed it in her basket. Then, apparently recollecting that Kit would before long explore the basket for the "sugar piece," she fur- tively withdrew the sprig again, and unbuttoning the top fastenings of her faded black merino bodice she thrust the battered and broken twigs within, and refastened the buttons with fin- gers that trembled with eager haste. | Then she looked again at the distant | figure of her boy as he leaped high into the air in his eagerness to pre- vent the butterfly from escaping him. Lilias sighed, and a sweet half-satisfied look rose in her eyes. Something like {@ smile passed over her features. She | went demurely over the heather with | her eyes once more orr the vague blur- | red blue, which was all she saw of the | sparkling lake beneath. Her shoul | ders were still a little bent, but the | burden seemed to be partly lifted from | Presently Kit and his mother over. | took Titty Cameron. That young lady was nothing loath, to accept their com- pany. She would indeed have prefer- red to travel with Kit alone, But even with the escort of the swain's mother, much may be done. Friendship of the most intimate kind was soon establish- ed between Kit and Titty. The lady put out her tongue at the gentleman, and the gentleman dropped a sharp stone down the lady's back when she was not looking. What more was nec- essary to immediate marriage? : They also talked a little in whispers, and pulled each other's hair when they could, but the only time they were really caught was when Kit said to Titty, "Stand wide, and I'll buzz a stane between your legs." Then Lilias, whose hearing was acute, heard the "buzz" as the rough-edged piece of whinstone took the hard road between Titty Cameron's feet and boomed away at a new angle. * "Kit," she said, turning reproach- fully, "can ye no be douce and behave? Come and walk by me. Ye will hurt Pet | the bairn wi' your stanes." "Mither," said Kit, "I' am no a lassie. '1 just couldna miss. It was as easy a shot as hittin' a barn door, and Tittle can stand stride legs frae yae side o' the road to the ither if she tries, though she is but a lassie in coats to her knees." So in good time they arrived at the school, Titty going in Mafely under the escort of the p t of a new scholar, though she was nearly one hour late-- whole sixty precious minutes snatched from the Infernal gods. CHAPTER XI. KIT KENNEDY'S FIRST FIGHT. Dominie Duncanson--grey, self-opinionated, with s& realy kind flatling corn in a barn, black yett (gate) the noo. We'll no, heart overlaid with habitual erusti-|' by exertions tops Tike (To be continued.) A Promising Prescription. Fm sure," sald the business man as he and the minister sat waiting on the hotel veranda for news concerning a threatened strike. "The world seems to be crazy these days, and no one 'seems to know the cure for our trou: bles." ad "I ran across something the other day that sounded good to me," the minister sald. . i "What was 1t7" "Just this simple sentence, 'Ye must be born again.' " ' "Humph! That's from the Bible, isn't it? It's a mystical sort of thing that no one hae ever fully understood, seems to me, I fear it is too difficult to understand." = "Prescriptions," the minister re plied, "are usually a-bit difficult to in- térpret, - But it is seldom necessary that the patient shall understand the doctor's Latin, Why do I think this prescription promising? Well, for one thing because it goes to the root of the trouble, Men are blaming the ills of the world to various secondary causes--ignorance, wrong laws, wrong distribution of wealth, wrong sur- roundings, wrong social customs, and 80 forth. Now none of these things lie at the root of the matter, At bottom what 18 wrong is man himself. If laws and social customs are wrong, man made them so. If there is ignor- ance, if there Is injustice, man makes it. 1f there are surroundings in which man cannov thrive, they are surround- ings that man has made. Fundamen- tally man himself is wrong, and this prescription in its very first word strikes at the root of the trouble." "You believe then that the problem is a religious one?" "Fundamentally it {s. It is man's nature, his disposition, that is wrong. Bducation will not cure our ills, We do not sin through ignorance alone. What is needed is a new spirit, and a new spirit is just what this prescrip- i tion proposes to give us." "But will it work?" "It does work.. Take Jerry McAun- ley, river pirate, thief, probably a mur: derer. You have heard, that he was transformed into a valuable citizen who went out to save other human wrecks, What did it? This prescrip- tion, = Valentine Burke, the burglar, through trying this prescription be- came a trusted deputy of the law he had once flouted. These are only two out.of countless instances." "Granted that it works in the cases of individuals, that does not prove that it will cure the ills of wociety." "Doesn't it? What is society but an aggregation of individuals? . How can you change society except by changing the individuals? The Pro.| cess is slow, I grant, bu it is sure. And do you know any other proposed reme- dy as promising ws this?" "To be frank with you," said the business map, "I do not." i es Tea Supply Inadequate --Prices Higher Tea prices are going up mainly be- cause tea is being demanded by mil- lions more people. Tea is.the cheap- est and certainly one of the most palat- able and" satisfying beverages known. But the tea-growers have been unable to meet the tremendous demand. It takes three years for a 'ea bush to ma- ture to theplucking stage. night? OVERNIGHT SALAD DRESSING. - 1% taps. flour, % tsp. mustard, % "I don't know what we're coming to, x 1 3 why He--"Golng to the petting party to- She--"Can't, 1 gotta cracked lip." ay parents consider mes essary evil of chi This is a great The older & child | en tracts measles the better the chance he will have of recovery, the younger he is the greater. the danger. The death rate of children having measles at two years of age may be five times as high as it is among those who post- pone the disease until the tenth year of life. - = Measles is spread by the secretions of the nose and throat, especially in the tiny droplets sprayed out in cough- ing, sneezing and loud talking. The danger of catching the disease is greatest during the period from five days before the rash appears and for five days thereafter. Before the rash appears the child may seem to have only a cold, but in reality this cold may be the beginning of measles. From the time of ten days to two weeks elapses before the child is taken ill. The illness is much less likely to be dangerous if taken in hand at an early stage. The first symptoms are a rise in body tem- perature and redness of the eyes. Therefore, when a child has been ex- posed to measles; 'the temperature should be taken on the eighth, ninth and tenth days after exposure. If the body temperature has risen or the eyes are reddened, put the child to bed and keep him there. Bed is the one safe place-to fight measles, and the earlier in the disease the child is put to bed, the less will be the danger of death or a serious result, such as p ia, tuberculosis, eye or ear trouble. There is all the difference in the world between an attack of measles developing in a child exposed to body chill, and in a child safe- guarded by warmth and rest. Measles requires good nursing and the care of a phytician. The patient) should be kept away from other peo- ple until the rash has quite gone, and should remain in beds long as there is fever or a cough: Do mot let the child be uncovered and chilled as this may lead to pneumonia. A somewhat darkened, comfortably warm rdom is the best and the air should be kept moist and soothing to the air passages by means of pans of water or by wet sheets, which may be hung across the doorway. MAKE PARLOR IN OLD- FASHIONED HOME SERVE A PURPOSE." If you have never tried using the largest, pleasantest room in the house] for the family bedroom, you don't know how much more you will enjoy it in that city, than as a parlor, used only occasionally, i I live in one of those old-fashioned houses in which a parlor was added to an already larger number of rooms than is needed by the average family. This company room was the hild be allowed nd tha 4] child may be allo to catch | ed € and have it "over and done with."] fle my parlor never afforded fme the pleasure and satisfaction that my big, sunny bedroom does with its 'accommodation i ter and plenty of fresh and and sun-' for a fire in the win- | shine during the summer.--Mrs, E. M. | A PRACTICAL TOAST] : ! Famous for vy Single rooms from $5.00 Double rooms from $8.00 New Hydriatric and Electro - fherapeutic en _ Another 3 is ua; quarterly ays, tiv or | year, tthis of $18.70. partisulgt gains largely through this peculiarity. Pay 1s also affected by the calendar - in a different manner. We sometimes have fifty-three Saturdays in a year, and consequently most workers re- celve an extra week's pay In it, This makes a great difference to big cor j porations, as well as to the State. Old- age pensioners, too, get an. extra week's: moriey. o Coincidence and Prophecy: GUSTAVE TOTT, Manager Oil-Burning Steamers : "FORT VICTORIA" . 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XS Small, 34-36; Medium, 38-40; Large,' © Am I rested, till I ; 8 vest and "step-in" drawers The, 1 ord, rest mo f Moan Who_is kind to Tom my daughter. --Elisabeth Morrie, . - FRUIT SALAD. Half" pound "English walnuts, half pound marshmallows, scigsors, and ries. . Mix date Fall and Winter 1924-1925 Book | left side nor mo the right. pple, 2 cups Chop or break the nut meats, the marshmallows in quarters with 1 eapple and cher- 'with dressing, an. ad Pattern mailed fo any address on|"Went¥-four hours before serving. receipt of 16c in silver, by the Wilson) Minard's Linlment for the Grippe. ~~ Rupning Sik 'Loads on running up-to- | exténd beyond 'the On the other hand, millfons of peo- 'ple have 'to pay fifty-three premiums on policies In such: a year---an enor- mous gain to the great industrial in- gh | surance offices, which do not suffffer a j | corresponding loss either in the pre- | | ceding or the following year. A further peculiarity of the calendar {1s that occasionally two great ann versaries of the Church fall on the same day. Thus, in 1921 the Annucia- ton was on Good Friday, apd it will be again in 1932. This coincidence is .| generally supposed to be referred to in the prophecy Bd "When out Lord shall Ife in our Lady's lap . | England will meet with a strange mis- » " - hap. Some . authorities, however, "con: - sider that the coincidence meant is that between the Annunsciation and Raster Day, as in 1894. Easter in that year fell on March 25th, the Feast of the Annunciatfon. _. In connection with miscellaneous anniversaries, also, 'there are many curiosities, ~ Some people; for In: + po ble to: il the 'date of -a birth with some other- date. - This may be due to failure to allow for the difference between our former calendar and the présent calendar. A Fixed Date for Easter. 'Let'us take a single illustration. The anniversary of George III's birth is given as June 4th, whereas in many books he is said to have been born on May 24th, 1788. Bo, in fact, he. was. But when the calendar was altered in 1762 birthdays of all. lying persons mit, © "were post-dated by eleven days as far boards should not hub cap. on the re than six Inches on "|'Baster has often been raised. The as the law was Spuceruef "After 1752, therelqre, George IIi's birthday : celebrated on June 4th. = 'The question of a fixed date for - west indows and sash door opening the east upon the end of a south ver- andah. So delightfully situated it was a. shame to use it so little. Such an abundance of sunshine went to waste in it and the finest view we had was from its seldom-used windows. : 1 tried using it as a Hving-room, but it was too remote from the kitchen | and dining-room, and an air of made- to- be- used- only- on- state- .occasions clung to it so persistently that the man invanably s in the "mid- dle" room to lounge and read, leaving in the date of Easter canse a great deal more inconvenience and" } gation in the community than Is generally realized. School, univer. sity, and law terms 'have to be aitered in accordance with the change in the 'date of Easter, while the date of Whit-.