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% CHAPTER XXXIY. (Coad ) Meysie Mac Walter, the gest daughter: of the house, now a tall slip of a girl, broug PL ne porridge. Thie was,' ne usudl, fom, osed of the scraps and bottomin w.s which had been left unfl » the rest of the household. But when the mother's back was turned Meysie, | ® wie had her own views as to Kiel ured over all a "aw" Pof new milk not unming! with So that Kit fared for that night like a prince--indeed, than many princes. And the fact that his: ear aa! in rom the hard palm of Mistress alter was no more regarded by him! "than the buffet of he storm he left behind him. Kit was of the bright nature which takes the universe as it rolls. And he was not unwilling to deed oh verbs, regular' iti f Fo) The "Orra Man" did 'not hear him. He wag shaking his head over a doubt-| wind made err; ful note in an editign of Suetonius, ey p "It 'will not do--clever--undoubted-| rotten branches struck the sheds "at x clever. But it. will not do!" ' x winna-do, will it'mot?" said the d man; "then maybe you will find Ee Br oe Plaster img h "tupo" in: ail i Spoke PEW Oper a1) po » ghosts {oud vith voor dn ad iis combines the methods of Brittany and |. upon on row Lpon row of ¢ ical books were disclosed. "There," cried the old man, laugh- pave Kit a. better idea of the Greek. original and®make delfeions coffee with ing senilely, "if you set up for a learn- ed man, there's somethin to, bite on. he bocht them at the sale o' a dom-| not come, | fee peculiarly his: own. Ground coffee' nie that ran awa frae Cairn Edward flittin', that is, on the boards, And the "Ores, Man," nearest volume with a queer constric-|ceptqr came not. loose - clap-board knocked «1 Smelting there mair to your taste, gomandinig admission. a lang while since--made a munelicht' in vain {n the Hngling frost which had n', You'll see his name!succeeded the rain, ti He was just desperate Blue 'and his fingers frees, 3 ts his | Brastl, Chile, and Paraguay. thy like | for debt, they say!" opening the ow of his toes, But still ad pre- their coffée black gnd---often. = The Sheds--verta f wood on the pas line-of both! Farms. "Here, wrapped in old "sacks, | * ned DF the feeble: shine of a 3 Slow stable laniern, ae-| nag, ised -his way id pal fire In a : Bld re kettle; aie made fresh of small sips. Russia, Bwitze: tervals, as if some one unseen were gil follow 1 ating the roof with a stick ash trees overh Kits hair ai | ho. housewife things no coffee: worth o! drinking' unless made from beans she on end, but he conjured the, =o ooh ue The Italian 106s] tation was perfectly - effective, and, France... The Austrians re 'more anguage than he had ever had before. milk topped with whipped cream.' But after all the "Orra Man" did "Thé Mexican drinks a Yrand of cof- The next hight the boy again waited 'is °placed fn a cloth bag, which: is" im: | - mersed in boiling. milk and water |. his sose yas) sweetened with brown stick sugar. In palms, Long before nine he ha Kit tried, "luo" on| Cuban pours' and'repours cold water the tall and consumed, grounds {ncluded, In ; De out. , Thigutansey "diaper rash." Ee "To save baby's okitl ne "Lux for g all "his clothes. It is 'the mik purest, gentlest cléanscr the wot! Hg contains no WE: Gale : y's garments safc) soft, clean, cortabi and | oth alt aight tong." Ve [morning and its treshue; oT The shadows, olen Fis We find this to be &0 as we listen io 'talk. You gay to.a business ¥ owe, how'sgbusiness?' He. ; oe 1.ean't grumble," or ms 7 | platy; as" though 'grumbling and coms be Blan: were ti be the outstanding .. '| things of his career. Why should he or "IL RC | expect to. grumble and tomplain? Who is he, who {s_anyone; to assume that Tight? * Life is a sweeter, bigger thin than 'that. 'Men only murmur when they live amongst the shadows. hr} light would make all the differenceif these fellows wonld but go Mito it: A LE Es BE RE EE Tol rt Si one ais] em LV ey pe a Be 0d ot complain, Ho could = ko Christopher Kennedy, M.A. dark, Jas bEt a feeble protection] tained for making cafe au lait or cate WOT i ie ee. disttectant: the ors : afterwards. And besides; was on a neat, blue-edged oblong, and on {against when iiterness aris the. very nolr. (Knows, It can cure' anaemia in all' not his new amulet of safety--"Pen-|a flyleaf a Greek ode to Lilias Arm-|jeaves 'of the evergreens inward, and| The mative of Aigerta takes stron things and make the blood supply pure nae, pemnarim, pennis, pennas, pen- ours eyes, which he had scribbled inthe stars sparkle aloft in the seven| Diack coffep in the street, purchasing and lfegiving. A sun bath is one of maid has nae, pennis"? Mistress Mac Walter thought that Kit did not ere 70 for reading, or she would have locked up every book about the house of Loch Spellandgrie. And Kit, we may be sure, with suc privation before him, did not flaunt his sccomplishments in her presence. * * * * * The proceedings of the "Orra Man" on the day after the snowy night with Kit were very peculiar: It ket day at the town, and he went down with his master from Cairnharrow. He wanted to buy some winter things, be said. And indeed his wardrobe was somewhat scanty. Mr, Rogerson ad- vanced his "ora" man some money on the strength of work yet to be done, a dangerous thing in the cage of many "orra" men, who have mostly not been fn regular places before," and roots are therefore not 'set very deep in the soil. "Dinna be drinkin' it a'," said his ~ master. 'Better buy your winter gear frst!" He knew the nature of bo men. But John Smith did not at once procesd to buy winter clothing. He skirmished this way and that t rough' the. lanes about y etnel jill he lighted u an old dingy shop, in ! of which were several books, a batter- ed brass fender, Some unmatched cups and saucers, a L le of dingy sarpets, and id 8 pararfn amp without a globe. he "Orra Man" entered and spoke the to the owner of all these. "Have you any Latin dictionaries or gram- mars?" he shabby old man in list slippers, who had come stumbling and snuffl- 4ng out of a back room, shook his head. © "What ken I?" he said; "she's away , frae hame the day. Ye-can look for * With this permission the "Orra w" keenly Lbon by the ancient ba "coated guardian of the sho, B over the dusty books whic of a over, blowin The old BL him for a then "Yo are a queer ploichms to be , Sod Lain' dic. 1" . was mar- | window Sires), a r pencil as he lay waiting for her one prismatic colors. day high up onthe Dornal moor, Are ye a buyer or are ye not? lla neared. His face was strange and, men has an especially fine, flavor; dus, | canna bide a' day frae the fire onljrawh, his voice hoarse and whistled! it is said)to the faet that the Arabian siccan a cauld mornin' as' this, so I'm altellin' yo!" The creakin man awaken cannot buy them all," he said; "I have not the money. But T want t6 buy OE a a them one by one if you will keep them it, SUXious]y, 8a. Sut amhehesrdchis > ill; Maister Smith?" for me." "Dinna fret; they'll keep themsel's easy eneuch in the toon o utries, Man." There's nae run on the dead langu, in Dumfries. Bibles are drug sf cs Cairaharrow? and even Shakespearc---man, dinna think we Hae selled yin o' him for|git with the quick lightness of youth Twenty year, xcept a big bound copy acchpted "ierico" ie Regu, ind by uprooting to keep his letters doon on his desk, daried on to what he had been eager and to throw at the dogs that comel snuffin aboot the wicks o' his ¢hop yo and six pages mair. , Will ye:2nd, if it can be intreduced into the door. hearken me?" This being the state of the literary market in the neighborhood, the "Orta | 5 utomatically for the grammar, and Man', carried away on easy terms Rid- git rattled Ns lesson of. But dle's Latin Dictionary, Lexicon, a couple © demy's Rudiments led schoolbooks), Caesar, Licy, and (what was a sacrifice to his own de- y little Elzevir Horace d often seen in his dreams during the oy sad years. But John Smith went back to the vard where he had: yor Up his pete 2nd When Kit loaled Sloser tears were| of' distilling power alcohol from the "ni 3 "4 t hostler, and naturally withot, having boy mas dinna, do tiat fh eried thet teen gallons to the ton, ant thus 1c win 5 a without a farthing even to pay the added one stitch to h clothing. Yet the. "Orra Man" was thrice wrapped in joy. It was an unthought-of chance, stock of winet lv though of course natural enough, that culty. the old "general dealer" of Dumfries should have pic books which no one else wanted, and ever since in a dusty cupboard of his tones of te old guraightiorwardnass of eye which had! ground before gathering the fruit. The . shop- P gun istin | the "Orra Man." "Ilyop ook his pupil in the eye. Dunbar's Greek | taacher shut the book without remark, "Edinburgh Aca- arid but Sndqi te So Je, Sreat disappointment of Kit, up the classical py drunk: the night before last, and that he should have preserved 'them Me Ragereen overlooked it, for the But to the classical mas- Bo the beverage from venders who bofl it On the third night the "Orra Man" Over portable stoves. Coffee from Ye a little as he spoke. He had lost that! waits until the ripened pods fall to the ish him. He pould) cholcest products of Yemen are. te- "What's been the maltter?" cried iby or Pera Liss of the "Hae ye been "I have not been ill," said the "Orra Australia lia Pear No Longer a Pest. ! ' One of the worst pests that Aus. tralia has to deal with 1s a cactus = The dbsentee did not answer, and|ynown asthe prickly pear. It has been found impossible to destroy the pear and the only 'known method js by medns "of a parasite, I hae learned .u' the rules we gied | Which lives on the outside of the pear "Hae ye fotten: Your leave frae cellular formation below. the tough The "Orra. Man" reached his hand! skin, kills the plant. It has been known for years that the! power alcohol could be distilfea from the pear, but the cost of cutting, crushing, and distilling has been esti mated to be so enormous that the re- turn of one and a half gallons per ton ted wonder and delight instead of this chilling silencer "Is it no weel learned? Are ye no sed?" he - demanded; anxjously. he classical master did not answer. | thé expense. His head 'was bo upon his ha Now & method Las: Deer discovered 5 wasted fingers.| crushed pear to give a yield of fours ained consterntition of . out amazed before an Slders tears. be possible not only to elear the enor on IOUS acreage at present abandoned 'What gars. ye do the like o' that? The ¢ an" etilled his slow, '@nd free it for migrants, but to pro- « {vide power alcohol for Australia from "Kit," he paid, s peaking with aiff, llimitable and local sources. "I am not fib to sit beside yo ee Qe, --I--I-~I have been drinking ain. n. 1] Minard's Liniment for n Sackachs. 3 painful sobs. home in'u cart. And good fellows at the farm had done m would be quite incommensurate with dB "tof printed m 'land 14 years. Size 8 yours Yequires | For First Ald; Min pockets in her dress al. Sizes 6, 8, 10, 12 '8% yards of 27-inch, or 25 yards of 86-inch material for the waist 'and| skirt, with 8 yard of 36-inch material | for the underwaist. Price 20 cents. Home sewing brings nice clothes 'within the reach of all, and to follow. the mi0dé is. delightful when it.can.be done so "and economically, by following the styles pietired in our new Fashion Book. A chart aecom- penying. 'each pattern shows the: ma- | terial as it! appears. when cut 'out. Every ¢~*-i. is explained, so that the inexperienced 'sewer can. make' with- out difficu;ty an - attractive dress. Price of the 10 cents' the copy. Each 'copy inclirdes 'one coupon' for five cents irithe. 2purchase of 'any pattern. "Power From the Air. A well-known scientist, proposes. to obtain power fromthe dir by having a number. of thin nietal gas-filled bal: _ found that "a height of 1500 feet from the ground, | thus making use of e static dis- charge from the atmosphere, first dis- "feo svered by Benjamin Franklin in his | ' famous kite experiment. | The great difficulty, , however, "wit | such apparatus, is to control 4400 "late the energy received, as at. times the discharges are of great: violence.' Many wiréless taal 8 who have ex: perimented 'aerials have, tories' are not vio- | lent and more' continuous. with such. faerie thus th. horizontal ones. | "es So th | brought Mm, in his own esteem th sasurable dis is old fo tion, and he co seclsh on of his "stable laft" before ony ahd end pope ning is finger dy he which had been ack-shop. They are all better men thai ter it seemed of the best omen. "It! Ie your oinarathes Knew the mans! oo of hi ner of man who 'was teaching you, be. : d hardly wait FE would, never let Tne Lome near, you. "Maister Stith, » said the boy, af to his favorite passages, and yince heard the Doctor say that ye g the exactness of corals dinna get better a' at yince, o' a! trouble. that hae had for a long! gold to him in the dark ways of the! iin, OMarbe ve bas had. this orb. GIRLS' AND' JUNIORS" PRACTE: No.Dem. ; . = CAL FROCGKS. . +1 "My husband. certainly Pre enfoy | Tig of skirts gives the freedom a ml. den. Has your hus. that lik Tpuestal o es cela one Other She--"No, he growls il over mode. All in trim for a sora ays ne howe Len sehool ora Pienicoa are the: tw 7 ; . | i "twas this «Yet in Gndervoria mewhat shy and reserved man was the new "Orra Man" among his fellows, "a weel learnit it man they ing at Ki told. each other when wn' harrow, 'But he was quick to learn--fail ihere's little. that he canna set his | to pool" On the exceedingly well liked a , and I will keep. ut farm wark when he cam' prom And then: porhaps The cured. i a Jang time, and are no fairly better "Well," said the "Orra Man," look-| t for the first time; "let ua | on with our work. I have prom- Till I op Jou alloway bursar--I---I"ll © "Mabel is 80 wwtally ressrved:" : whole \ was the "Orra Man," but accounted to {3 Would Fever be where 'such apart of i) held in -have a bee in his bonnet or such. a learn he tRe88 ; Tho plaited ii gerne. 'of collars are isin bod one _~ tion sailor' collar, and the c "Well, she's e's sugared three men." piiie round collar. The long and short, and Heavens best gifts oi . If instead 'of deliberately selecting ple would walk where the shadows fall at their feet, they would be better in every way. ar In lite generally, *and our associa tions particularly, we. need - toute every. ray-of sunlight. If a man. is-go-- ing to Took Ti and & man need not be a genius to find "and he will soon qualify for tault-inding. Br the sun a man has little: disposition to find error; ha is, overwhelmed with the brilliance of the moment. He will there learn t6 throw: light: on life in general: - Unless wer, can do this we shall 'miss our way, » Ag a rule, we find what we look: for. The most beautiful or devilish thing in this world is human nature. If is | all according to" where we 106k and what 'we look for. That is the differ world, but not in_.the same way. There are beauty, love, truth, and honer everywhere, and they are: life's sun- shine. We shail never find them if we retire to the shades when they ap pear. - Brightness is contagious, Wath people on a Talny day and then note the same people on a fine, sunny day 'and the e reflection is everywhere. We. shall only come to know ourselves, "our comrades, -and our. God as we deter: 'minedly live our life in fellowship with the graceful, _.Bealth-giving, and" ene lightening glory of the sunshine bid the natural and spiritual" words, if eam - Why Sixty Minutes. the decimal systém of 'measures still cling to fhe ed method of dividing the hour sixty minutes and the minute sixty seconds, Th _ | bas: survived the thing that is drab-and sombre, peo- - : ver the flaws he need not. 'There are many of them, ° them. Let him but live amongst the ~~ * ence between the optimist' and the pessimist. "They both look atthe same Even countries that are adopt '