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In.mid-| | ocean, while the ship lay becalmed | | the wife gave birth to a girl On the third day after the baby's birth the captain described through his telescope, a mast-head on the-hori- zon. To the voyagers throfifing the deck there slowly appeared an ap- proaching vessel; she was graceful, and her masts were tall, The captain of the emigrant ship gave orders to slacken speed. Nearer and nearer drew the mysterious craft. - A puff of smoke appeared. -A cannon roared, and a shot flashed across the ship's bow. The craft was a pirate. : The awe-stricken passengers stood and watched while the pirate ship hove to. A boat dropped from her eide, and down a rope ladder climbed the pirate captain and his villainous crew. Un! der powerful oars the boat shot across the intervening space. The captain and the crew of the defenceless vessel were soon in irons. The pirates pre- pared to scuttle the ship. In the course of his sinister work the pirate captain came to the stateroom of the mother. Rudely entering, he heard the-cry of-a child. His countenance swiftly changed. Then, swiftly recovering his composure, he inquired how old the child was and whether it was a boy or| on 'strange oaths doonby in the slachan. (Ce Tauntily in, a girl "Have you given her a name?" he asked. The mother, trembling, sald she had not. ; "Permit me to name her and promise to retain that name and I will release your captain and crew and leave your ship unharmed." { The woman quickly promised. | "I name her Ocean Mary," said the pirate. CHAPTER XXXIII.-- (Cont'd) gir Bags 0 as inie of St. John ; other- | been dom- 's Town for more than ait two generations, and he did not de- Spar of yet. living to tickle the his earliest pupils' grandeh! He Yd th Pe of a 'z r"'--he "brocht Bn they said. She She 'wenng a | wee sair on them at times. But he's ms an auld man, and 1is temper no juist ough what it was. my thas sind the bairns! yom guid peet or a mair empered, wn auld runt there wasna in braid Scotland." This was John Rogerson's "I am glad I hae nae weans," would declare, "but gin I had fort' I wad send them a' oot o' the palrisi before I wad pit 'them at the meney o' sic a vicious auld curmudgeon. declare ye canna gang within a Sab- bath day's journey o' Peter's schule but Je will see a bairn #' forgrut haudin' its hand below its oxter, an the pels o' anither comin' frae the schule itself like to tak' thé roof aff. "Ye are a great miss in a barn," I said to Peter yince. "'And what for that? says he, glowerin' at me. "Ye wad do for flail and fanners too,' says I, 'for 2. on like two threshers on a sheaf, and gar the opinions. stour flee like a pair o' blue fanners| new coft oot 0' Andro Dobie's shop!' "The dominie wadna like that, I'se warrant,' said his neighbor at the kirk door, where they were waiting for the minister. For in the parish of Saint John's it was considered that lightning would immediately fall upon any head of a household or other responsible person who would venture to take his seat before the minister had gone into the vestry, "Peter has a great name for { bringin' on backward laddies, though," said Groeer-- Candlish; "there's Jock Mac Walter. I declare a stupider nowt than him ye wadna find between here and the back-shore o' Leswait. He disna ken a turnip frae a patawtie except juist by the taste, and he has nae natural way wi' horse beasts ava'. But he can: leather at the Latin til ye wad think somebody was sweerin" "Oh, he's a terrible weel-learn craiter the maister," said the herd of Knockman, a hill farm at the root of Cairnsmore. "I hear he's gun to send Jock forrit for the next Gallowa' Bursary. His faither is to mak' a minister oot o' him, I hear. Weel, I seen mony. queer-lookin' and -un- faceable ministers, but gin they mak' yin oot o' that _callant, I'll say that the day o' miracles is no bygane!" "And what's the matter wi' Jock it's wauf than it was in|of her he eling on te motherly senior among her chicken. AKit, Kit," she say warning- ly, ie a) with Er he. ther. He will 1 , Did ony- body ever see sicean a callant?" But it was when were all gath- ered in the little room, and the ve window flowers seemed to turn inwar to listen to their happy talk, that Kit's "headtime," as he called it him- seif, arrived. + Then he 'took from his pocket a | purse which the "Orra Man" had given him, sad fromiit he oxtracted is wages in dirty nd notes, | pounds in the half yaar was the figure. e carried them across to his grand- I mother with careless grace but inward swelling pride. "Here, granny," he would say, cheerfully, "this is~to help to pay the rent. 2 : Then the same thing happened every time. First Kit became conscious of a pve beamy look answering his on is mother's face, Then the Elder would bow his head and give silent thanks. Thereafter the tears would well up into his grandmother's eyes, her lips quiver, and she would say, "I canna take it, Kit. 'Deed, I canna be takin' it frae le laddie!" Mostly, while she was thus holding it in her shaking fingers-and her hands were gripping her apron, with the lad tears "happin' " like rabbits down r. black dress and white 'mutch strings, Betty Landsborough 'would | "What's this, what's this?" "she iwould cry. "Never mair siller! I de- clare ye maun rob the bank. Faith, ye micht spare a note or two for me to buy me a new , Kit--me that has aye been sae fond o' ye!" | For Betty thought that there had been enough of the jo; that brings down the tear, and wit {her rustic outspokenness, which in ' Whinnyliggate passed for a day, would indulge in some sury| "Kit, paseing Ly 1d Indulge your grands! the 'worse of drink Six! 1 Foe ind 1 say a pray: 'Aye, of course! But what nesd ye speak o sic i | might hear ye. And the hoose will be {three 'storeys, and there will be-can- aries in every window----" ye never see ony tramp folk up your way, do ye" ~ SN fither . What for do & 8 re's nae TT say so, T, tha x oo, 1 maun in that Til ple to in time for the 'Orra Man' 'His mother asked one other tion with an anxious face, « | "Oh, juist a kind man at a neigh- bor farm," Kit answered; "he is' to | meet me at the clachan--a ceevil man and greatly thocht o' by his malster." [ui uid-nicht, - mither; mind and no I greet. And think on the clean ga day, and the.twa serv an the canaries in every window." . So Kit would off with his feet! mov fast in the diréctibn of Loch derie, but his face looking back over his shoulder. And he never ¢ a tear all the time--that is, not till he {was too far from his mother for her to: sco whether he cried or not. CHAPTER XXXIV. KITS RIVAL. It was a great strain for Kit to keep the secret of the "Orra Man's" lessons ito himself, and only the urgent re- monstrances of his teacher, and the ; wonderful surprise it would be to ,every one if 'he s h Joont him from 'telling his mother each time he} bade her good-bye. She had so little [in life to make 'to have sufferéd fi | wrong-doin, up wanted to give her all the joy he could. But 'the "QOrra. Man" represented to him what it would be when they saw. | his name in the pagers. pe 1 And then Jock Mac Walter--and Jock Mac Walter's mother! Kit could not forego that revenge, | and what he suffered at Loch Spellan- na? said Grocer Candlish; "he's a Wit, she soon brought the'smiles back in his desire for hard work and the Then he left her cabin, released his | rael ceevil lad and eident at his les. again to all the faces., prisoners and ordered his men to the boat. They rowed slowly back across | the water and went aboard the ship. ! Soon it disappeared over the horizon. | Three days passed--days filled with sons;" ; "What's the maitter wi' ceevil. I wad like to see him scoorin' the hilis lichtfit. like a wild goat; bare- fit apd bareleggit. Boy callants are Ah, simple moods of simple folk, him--a humor broad as the harvest moon that | ceevil callant, says you. Aye, far ower Smi'es in the September sky, pathos it into" Kit after her fashion. of the working field and kitchen, of the home-returning feet; the labor- weary body, the ageing , the un- | acquisition of knowledge as every- thing eise put together. For Mistress Mac Walter oTybbed informed him a thousand times that John was to bp a minister, and that he, . TKit Ke y, was to be an out-worker thanksgiving at the providential es: po. cteerin'. But yon laddie, he creeps ageing heart--with the love so retic- about a farm, who might indeed rise cape. Ocean Mary became the object! of everyone's adoration. On the third | day the mast of the pidate ship again and greets when he gets a cuff, and rose on the horizon. Again a cannon, boomed across the waters and a boat the maister. Oh, I hae been watchin', was lowered. This time the piraie|that laddie Ww! | T've been aboot the may captain came aboard alone. Under his.arm he carried. a packet. | To the captain he said, "I now come ' on a peaceful errand. Take me to the cabin of Ocean Mary." Descending; he | entered and laid his parcel on the bed. ! "I leave this gift for the child. It is' a web of India silk for her trousseau when she marries. I bid you farewell." He passed through a mute throng to his boat. A few minutes later a gun boomed a parting salute, and not-long alterwards the pirate vessel vanished. Another month passed, and the emi. grant ship dropped anchor in Massa. chusetts Bay. The young settlers fin- ally made their home In Londonderry, New Hampshire. At the age of twenty Ocena Mary married, and her wedding dress was of India silk. Mother of many children, she lived to an ad- vanced age. The wedding dress pass- od as a cherished heirloom from one nerstion to enother and wes finally and distributed among surviv- fog heirs. Qne large section is mow tn possession of the Mack family of Londonderry. I first heard the story of Ocean Mary while seated before the blazing hearth of the Mack home: stead. My interest in it was rewarded. A small piece of the India silk lies be- fore me. mime feta Boat of All Trees. hule, and he sits at the desk, ently shut within mostly, so suddenly to handle a {0 he ns for fear he's lickit, revealed some day when the clouds be trusted with a printed book. ft--ye are precious" every whit to] tells tales on the rest to sook in wi' clachan. Ye mak' a minister o' him, t will aloo, for the grace o' God is al- michty. But thae sort should be push- joned when they're young, and that's my thocht ot!" a . y MX 5 2 Every three months Kit got a day off, and went through to the little house of Crae to see those whom he had left behind. By the care of Betty Landsborough (or some one of her many-admirers) it was always a day when Walter Mac Walter was absent on some of the mysterious business which about this time more and more began to occupy him. Lilias came over early, passing on her way the grady- grown courtyard and cl doors, and rding wistfully the barricaded ndows of the litte farm of Black Dornanl; then, sighing a little she crossed the. high-backed bridge of Crae beneath which the water for ever rustles brown and cool, striving with the green leaves and the jubilant birds which shall have the meed melody. - ; : .at the end of the little walk, which leads to the left amon trees to the eottage in the of Crae, Kit would fling himself into his mother's. arms with a little cry of Joy. "Oh mither--mither!" But I am that glad to see ye!" And each time he would search her face to see if it had gr weary, 'and. her abundant s to' pull out as And of the commandment wi me, but perhaps over-common for many others! Your manifestations be unrefined, your words are often coarse, but the sin and the pain ang ihe Darden ye reveal are those which each recurring ration has known since first hs Sail of Eden | was broken down, and man set to earn {his daily bread in the sweat of his brow. Then when Kit stood beside his grandmother, and Lilias still had that glorified look on her face, - with & grandly simple gesture the Elder would rise to his feet. ! "let us pray!" I can hear him say. Then- all rose as they did when the minister came to visit. At the Book night and morning they kneeled. But now they stood. For it was a family thanksgiving, and with a hand laid on the boy's shoulder the Ruling E rayed that the bl : eaven.y Father might rest o lad who had no father on the earth, 'and that he who honored his forbears, , and the voice of his. mother, "might receive tenfold the blessing o the This was the time i cars food up from his aun > Bs eyes. mother "nearer him; he bent his head breast. | Somehow, the roof of the hn ; «went off, and thay ing in a large place of & {a8 in "cottage ir the Crae wood Beauty; and the Elder's a ne sion" it dori fo thera tol "her father preacnts ber with a hining deed we:l they might. ; For the 4 become h, but who could not (To be continued.) --------p | Taking and Retaking a Ship. | The London Graphic in a reminis- ' cent article concerning the war tells of {a British collier * that was going to" | Hamburg when war was imminent. The Germans were counting on her coming in with coal for ome of their , men-of-war. The captain was averse {10 sailing, but tho owner, who was to get a high price for the coal, urged him to go. So he sailed, and at the river. mouth a German pllot came on board. : : On "taking charge of the ship he seid: "Now this is German property; war began yesterday." . __"Did_it!" exclaimed the captain. "Then take that". And'he.downed the pilot with a fearful hang on the head | with his telescope. 1 "Then he turned the ship round.and; with his Germans prisoner .on board steamed off for England as hard as he could steam. $d HEA Reing eer for Daughters, | Lapland, when a daughter is born, rein- is Fates | . deer.. The pI : progeny of this animal own more An -antechamber cf the court of - hair for Heaven the if he had re a the poor 'human fact' it was the ora. "J ques- | i mae | The other evening at a dinner at the £> 'Smiles Will Follow You. Let gladness carry you along 'The stubborn road to fame, And set you high among the strong 'Who seek a lustrous name. Keep doing good from day to day," For that's the thing to do, Let friendliness illume your way, And smiles will follow youl ~~ When you can helps tidn in nesd, = Or shift his heavy pack," Run to his aid with loving speed And ease his aching back. Heap coals upon a fireless grate, Till flames flare up anew, Place food upon an empty plate, And amiles will follow you. It is affirmed of Nature's plan That Jike doth like beget, And also, for the good of man, He shall not this forget. 12 happiness you want.to find. . As you the world go through, - Goodwill bestow upon your kind; And smiles. will follow you. the patient and content, 0 never rancour show, " Appland the man in his ascent "Of hills that-valour know. Pralse him who rises from a fall, Give honor where it's dus, Incline the ear to Duty's eall, And smiles will follow youl- merle Rise of the Cigarette. Cigarettes were practieally unknown in Bnogland until after the middle of last century. Among the first to usé them was the Prince of Wales, after ward Edward VIL rie snipe Billy--"Mom, I don't see why the very well for derie.was perhaps as great a factor toads go to the trouble of buildin' all these stools--=they never sit on 'em." Esau squandered his Lirthright and bankrupted himseif in the Bank of Life. 3 : : » INECTO I RAPID : The world's" best rt at minutes... .... . _ gmail size, $3.30 by mail Double size, $56.50 by mail The W. T. Pember Stores Limited ; Toronto 129 Yonge St. "| audience by describing his rec * | loyesyr.good story, especially it. The famous playwright was describ. Prince Henry on Bables. used his con! to the Jutauts Hospital, : abies "I learned a good about. bab of which I was ignorant before" he _. sald. "For one thing, I never reali {Tae For one thing. | ser vated I thought one gave them an occasfonal bottle, and the chief object was to stop them from howling!" 5 i Thats, bly, the chief masculing object, ; happily for «tle babies, - there are feminine folk with opher less selfish notions. 4 Very Much Spotted. "That famous sportswoman, the Duchess of Somerset, who in company with her husband has shot big game in. various parts of the world, dearly ft had a sporting flavor. = One of her favorites concerns a go- as-you please race betweem a stout "lgentieman' afid a Jeopard. Two dusky natives watched the race with obvious interest. "Can you spot the winner?" asked one of them excitedly. other. It Sounded Too Fanciful. _A quaint story concern -Shaw was told by ing Gearge- Bernard a friend of ing to some children, in thefr mosher's presence, how it appened "that a cer' tain pet cat became ite mi ¢ porter," or, in other words, the weight that one places against a door to keep it open. ir "The lady's hobby," sald G.B.8., "was plaster modeling. One day she left a dish containing liquid plaster on her table, and returhed to find her cat lapping up the last of what it no doubt regarded as a new kind of milk. Later, while the cat sat by the fire, the plas- ,| ter, as plaster will, set. Thereafter the lady, combining economy with affec- tion, employed her -petrified pet to keep open the door on warm summer days--" x At this point the mother interrupted. "Mr." Shaw," she said gravely, "I-he- lieve you are telling those children ee fibs." I= - = = A -- v -- wi - Who Qwik the North Pole? The North Pole has been much i the néws lately but few people know that it may be regarded as part of t British Empire. - 2 , During a discussion in the + Parliament recently, Mr. Stewart, ister of the Interior, expressed th | the hinterland of the North-West Ter-. ritories must obtain a permit from the Canadian Government, he said: 2 "We are getting after men who g0 in, presumably for exploration pu poses, but possibly there may arise a question of sovereignty over some is land' that they may discover in the ; of Cennda, ani we 'dog ¥ "The winner is spotted," replied the = . Federal . Mins eh view thet the whole Northern Archi- pelago belonged to Canada. Referring. to a proposal that partfes going into tel