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'> •' f ~ '•, jjrj V [ C\nus Tow?isrM> , Y Y BRADY KwjTmr/m0yfayH*/rzK? WMuwmtsr *u.ch»fm« ctnttatim cat at omah • TV &.'• V*.- •"*' 8YN^P»l».f ,, A young fomaii cast asTioiw&'Ttei *JT I6nfc- ly Islnnd, flnds a solitary inhabitant, a young white man, dressed like a savage •ad unable to speak in any known lan­ guage. She decides to educate him ana mold his mind to her own ideals.^^She fiCus evidence thai iraui l'e*L. *® that the man is John Rev ell Charnock of Virginia and that he was cast ashore When a" child. Katharine Brenton was a hlsrhiy specialised product of a leading university. Her writing on thesex Prob­ lem attracted wide attention. The son of * multi-millionaire becomes Infatuataa With lier and they d*e!de to put her theo- Htii into practicc. With no ctn«r ofre- taony than a handshake, they go away together, A few days on his yacht re- <f*cJs to her that he only professed lofty Weals to possess her. While drunk he at­ tempts to USsa her. Sh© Knocks him down Mid leaves him unconscious, escaping in the darkness in a gasoline launch. During • etorm she Is cast a«5io» on an .sland. Three v ears' teaching gives the man a splendid education. Thalr love for each Other is revealed when he rescues her from ». cave where she had been Impris­ oned by an earthquake. A ship Is sighted and they light a beacon to summon it Langford, on his yacht, sights the beacon and orders his yacht put In. Th« woman TScosjnUes the yacht and tells her com­ panion that a man on. board had injured ner in the greatest way. Langford recog­ nizes Katharine. He tells the man that •be had been his mistress, and narrowly escapes being killed. CHAPTER XVI.--(Continued.) "I appeal to you," said the woman, taming to Langford, "send back the men. A moment since I saved your lljte. At a word from me he would hare thrown you from him and broken your back, Be •fenewmn, Y"" rs.u"t. this man shall give me a' hearing. You are safe from him, 1 promise y<>u." '.What might have been the result of tills appeal can never be determined, tpr at that moment a new factor en­ tered upon the scene, a factor whose presence was as surprising and unex­ pected as it was determinative. From •tit to let) yet near at hand, came a muffled detonation, the roar of a heavy gun. Around one of the head­ lands that rose on that side of the is- land there swept the white sides of another great ship beside which the yacht, imposing though she was, was a toy. It was the woman who saw it first. "Look!" she cried. "A ship of war, a cruiser. Bee, from her staff the flag Of the United States. This land is American. I claim It by right of dis­ covery. Lay but a hand upon this XBan, and I will have you hanged for n|urder( Langford. They see us there. Their glasses have searched the shore. They have*"seen this encounter. That gun was a warning. A boat puts off. Thank God. we are saved from you!" Things had transpired even as she •aid. What the cruiser was doing In (hose, seas, how happened she to be there were things as yet unknown, but that she was there was apparent She had approached the island from the other side, and had sailed around It. Her men had observed the encoun­ ter on the shore, which seemed to be between natives and persons from the yacht, which was In plain view a little farther out to Bea, and the guiv had been fired to call attention to the power of the United States. This put an entirely new fheft on the whole affair. Matters were taken out of the hands of the parties to the quarrel. The law h«d o®e to the is­ land. The islander did not, could not lmow it, but his baffled antagonist realized it ^immediately. So did the Woman. At Langford's command, his nan, much bewildered at the scene they had witnessed, went back - to their boat. He himself presently fol­ lowed after, and stood upon the jtrand awaiting the approach, of the heavy man-of-war cutter which had teen put away from the white cruis­ er's side. "Man," she said, softly, "this Is what I had to tell you." He nodded. A hollow groan hunt from his lips. "His mistress," he muttered, bro­ kenly. / "I would not have lmd yon learn In this way, and now that you have heard so much, you must hear more," •he went on, not sparing herself, though she might have Justly resent­ ed the word. She w&» dealing with more serious things than words now, bitter though they might be. "That •hip, which is the ship of our country, stands for law as his for license. 1 was more sinned against than sin­ ning. When you have heard ail, then you shall judge. This is the test." "Would God that it had never been laid upon me," said the man, hoarse­ ly. "Would God that the beacon had pot been lighted on the hill!" "Nay," returned the woman, gently, "that's past praying for. Decision rests with you, but you must not pass it until you have heard the whole • story. The world holds me stained, polluted, it may be said, but I am not the sinner that it thinks me or he portrays." "You said it was true," doggedly cried the man. "Yes, but not all true." "And I had him in my hands, and •till he lives." "Won't you hear me?" pleaded the woman. The man shook her off and'turned away. The very Innocence which had prevented his understanding at first the charge made it the more hideous when comprehension came. He had loved this woman with a love that passed the love of man, for there had not entered into his mind the faintest possibility that she could ever be or sver have been other than what she •eemed, a daughter of the gods in truth, in sweetness and in purity. And this strange man had come from out the world and proclaimed her his mis­ tress, li is cast-off, abandoned mistress. Once the clew was given he found more hideous depths of infamy in that word than would have appeared had his been a wiser and more experi­ enced vision. Indeed, so clear and pure was the soul of this woman that a man of the world would have known flgurtanUy that there was an explanar tion, which the child oI nature could not see forthcoming. He wanted te be away from her and alone, and he turned as If to plunge into the depths ci-the forest, but with gentle force she restrained him. "You are a man, with a man's pow­ er and a man's soul and a man's heart, "ca cajuuui fiy now. Tou must stay and face the problem. The question must be pursued to the bitter end. My life and your life depends upon what we do now, .perhaps his life, too." "O ** tit A tMAtl ^p vivm) v«*vu vuw iuc»ii| < wui I inQ again to that bitter thought, "I had him in my hands and spared him!'* "But you spared him for my sake," said the woman; "think of that." "For your sake,'1 declared the man, pointedly. "I would and should have killed him." "Thou shalt not kill!" aaid the wom­ an, softly. "An eye tor an eye, aad a tooth for a tooth*" returned the man. "He and you between you slew my heart. His death would be no murder, but retribution." "But it was in part my fault," re­ turned the woman, bravely making her confession. "I will never believe ft It ean&ot be." "And yet It was, but you shall Rave the whole wretched story to-day; and you shall judge. This much I will say, that though all that he said was true, yet I hold myself blameless and Innocent. The . world judges me harshly, and it may be that you will find its judgment just. Yet I do not hold myself as on trial at this moment, but you." "I do not understand." "There are many things that you do not understand, my friend." "I would that I had been left in Ig­ norance." "Nay, that is not a man's wish, but • child's*" "Of one thing I am certain." "And what is that?" "That I should have killed him!" "Nay," said the woman again, "that la not a child's wish, but a brute's." "You said yourself," he flashed at her, "that there were some things a woman could not forgive, and this is one that a man puts In the aame class." The woman sighed. There occurred to her at the moment no answer which was adequate to the stark realism of this fact. The conversation had reached an impasse beyopd which it could not progress without the full and com­ plete explanation which now there wai neither time nor opportunity to give, for the boat from the man-of-war was approaching the shore. The woman stepped resolutely down the strand to meet it, and the man, after a slight hesitation, followed her. So soon as the boat's keel grated on the bottom in the shallow water a middle-aged officer rose from the stern sheets and stepped ashore followed by a younger companion in the uni­ form of a sergeant of marines. A little squad of privates in the bows landed and fell In line with martial celerity and precision. The officer in charge, who wore the white tropic uni­ form of a lieutenant commander, now faced the people on the island Who had instinctively divided into two groups, one on either side of him. To the "right stood the man and be­ hind him the woman, to the left Lang­ ford, back of him his crew. It was to the latter.that the officer first ad­ dressed himself. "Sir," he began, "I am the execu­ tive officer of the United States cruiser Cheyenne, detached on special service. We raised this island this morning, ran It down, circled it, saw the yacht yonder--" He paused. "It is my yacht, sir, the Southern Cross," answered the other. "My name is Langford." "Glad to meet you, Mr. Langford. Mine Is Whittaker." The lieutenant commander touched his cap as he spoke. Langford lifted his, and the two shook hands. "We saw," continued the lieutenant commander, "what appeared to be some sort of a fracas with the natives, and fired a gun to attract attention, and Capt Ashby sent this boat party ashore under my charge to do what­ ever was necessary. Perhaps you can explain how you came to be em­ broiled with the natives.** "Sir," said the woman. And the faet that she addressed him In his own language, and with the cultured ac­ cents of the well-bred and the well- educated, caused the officer to start violently--"the Island is mine." Mr. Whittaker turned and looked deliberately at her, his surprise only equaled by his admiration. The tunic that she wore was a rough garment, and shapeless, but few vestments were better calculated to set off her ex­ quisite proportions. The grace and beauty of her figure, the nobility and intelligence of her face took added luster from the contrast of the utterly simple, natural and primitive. Whit- taker's glance fell upon a well-nigh per­ fect woman. The constraining influ­ ences of civilization had been so long absent that nature had time and op­ portunity to reassert its claim. She was tall, exquisitely modeled. Her bare arms might have supplied those missing from the VenuB of Milo; her limbs, which the short tunic to her knees left exposed, were perfect in their symmetry and strength; her feet jvere such'lis those to which aucient Greece had bowed; her hands were shapely, graceful, yet strong; her dark eyes looked at him fearlessly; her dark hair rose like a Bomber, cloudy crown above her brow. The fierce sun, the open air, the wild wind had not materially altered the clear, slightly olive pallor of her face. The woman bad been beautiful before. Now that n&ture had had free sway, she was nobly lovely. She had stood a little in the rear of the man at first and the lieutenant commander had not partic­ ularly observed her. When she spoke, she stepped into the open. He stared and stared amazed. Indeed, the direct Intensity of his glance added a 'sudden new percep­ tion to the woman's faculties and for till* flnt dtUM lh years she realised that she-was standing before her fel­ lows half naked. In one swift mo­ ment convention leaped across the missing years and caught her in Its arm. The red flashed into her cheek; beneath her rude vest her bosora rose and fell. Her instinct for the moment was to ny. She wished that she had put on those treasured garments which she had kept for a scene like this in that c^EVe all thciae years. It was too late now. She summoned her cour­ age and realizing that dignity, after all, is not made of clothes or conven­ tions, once more addressed him. "Sir," she said, "my name is Kath­ arine Brenton. I am not, as you might well think, a savage, but a castaway." *1 beg year pardon," said the offi­ cer, a man of wide reading and cul­ ture; "Is it possible that you are the Katharine Brenton who wrote 'Fhte and Destiny*?" "I am that unhappy woman." "Unhappy?" "Yes," returned the other. "I--»" "Madam," eaid the lieutenant com­ mander, flushing deeply and bowing In his turn. He had taken off his cap at her first word. "I beg your pardon, I have heard something of your story." He w&s very much embarrassed. It was Langford who took up the tale. "Since you know so much. Mr. Whit­ taker, you may as well hear the rest. Indeed, I am anxious that the world should hear It. Miss Brenton and I, we--er--did not believe in marriage, and we went away--together." Every word was agony to Langforg, who was a proud man; it was worse ilittu ugO'uj to XitliirSso Breiiiou, wao was a proud woman; and it was worst woman, "to eqter upon such an under­ taking." "No, by heaven!" cried Whittaker. Now, this conversation had been carried .on with three auditors, or groups of auditors, besides those par­ ticipating; Langford's yachtsmen, the marines and seamen from the Cay­ enne, for the boat was against the shore, and the man of the island. Whittaker first awoke to the situa­ tion. "I beg your pardon," he said, '-'hut would H not be better to continue this conversation privately?" "I think so," returned Langford. "No," said the man of the Island, addressing the lteutenant commander for the first time, "you and these men are the World. I want the story told where all the world may hear." Whlttaker's surprise at this remark was scarcely less than he had expe­ rienced when the woman addressed him. Who Was this splendid, fod'.ike form Of man standing glooming by the woman's side, a ellent, eager listener to all that transpired? Whftt had he to do with the question that he as­ sumed this tone and manner of au­ thority? The officer turned toward the woman. "I think," said he quietly, "that the lady should be allowed to decide." "My wish Is my friend's wish," said the woman laying her hand softly upon the man's arm. Whittaker observed that the man shook it off nervously, but the point being settled, there was no further ap­ peal. "Pray proceed with your story, Mr. Langford," he cuuuuueu. "No, let me take up the tale," cried / J was frightfully pale, yet he went on resolutely, Whittaker stilling the tu­ mult with upraised band. "No one," he cried, "can think more hatefully of a human being than I think of myself now. I have not learned her philosophy; I have learned Mifithpr and * ter. is sozbg sort of a way atjsjaet I know that JL -yan never be happy'until I have made"her happy. I know that I lore her nom% iffi* I should ha^Aioved "Wr theji... that I hive huntwrf these seas for.tier without ceasing^ since she left me in a drunken stupo? one night." "Left you how?" asked the lieuten­ ant commander. "I am sot Quite clear. I must have descended very low," said Langford. "I remember some sort of a scene at supper, and wben I awoke in the morning, or I didn't wake for six months, they found me in the morn­ ing with a fractured skull on the cab­ in floor, and they took me back to the United States. It wa3 a year or more before I could begin the search for her." "He said things to me that night," said the woman, "that no woman could endure of forgive. He came toward me. I threw him from me with such force and violence--I am a strong wo­ man--that he lay senseless in the cabin. The motor launch had been got overboard for a trial and was trailing astern. I got In it, drifted away, started the motor and ran it until the gasoline was gone. I brought food and water from the cabin table. I lived a week in the boat, bearing southward all the time by means of a sail which I improvised from a boat cloak. One night there was a storm. At the height of It I was thrown upon this island. The--" "I hoped," said Langford, taking up the tale, "that that might be the case, and with that end in view I have searched the Pacific. I have landed upon many uncharted islands. I have explored others little, if ever, visited, praying to God that she might be alive, that I might find her and make reparation, and now I have found her at last when I had given up all hope, abandoned all expectation. And I stand here confessing my fault before men, ready to do anything and every­ thing that a man can do to* make amends for the past." "But you have a wife," said Whitta­ ker. coldly. "No, she's dead these two years, thank God. I never loved her. It was a boyish Infatuation for a de­ signing adventuress who wanted a hold upon my father's money. I am free, free to make her my wife. I ask her, I beg her to take me, to give me a chance to show that I feel what I have done, to devote my life to ex­ piation." He stopped, wiped the moisture from his forehead, stood for a moment In the silence that followed his words, his face downcast. Then he lifted it haggard, worn, sad, the humiliation of the last few moments having entered into his soul. "Kate," he Mrid, softly; swer!" Ml Know That I Love Her New." agony of all to the man of the ls-1 land. But Langford persisted. He did not care how he hurt himself. Indeed, be rather luxuriated in the conscious­ ness of his own pa{n- It was paifof his expiation. He realized that he would have to hurt Katharine, but per­ haps the very keenness of her pain would make her realize her position, and he wanted to win her, now that he had found her and seen her, more than ever. Nor was his passion a base one. Again he was ashamed of what he had already &&ld, so he spoke the more frankly. He gave no thought at all to the other man, but if he had, he would have been glad to hurt him until he killed him. "We went on my yacht yonder three years ago. I--In short--I behaved like a brute on it, 1 will admit." "I discovered that he was a mar­ ried man," said the woman swiftly at this juncture. She, too, would be frank. This grave and middle-aged of­ ficer should hear all. "He had pro­ fessed his belief in those views, which, If you have read 'Fate and Destiny,' you realize that I entertained." The officer bowed. "And have you abandoned them now?" he asked. "Absolutely," was the firm answer. "I am a Christian woman, thank God!" "Thank God, say I, too," continued Langford. "Yet I was not altogether a sham or a lie. It was true that I was a married man." The lieutenant commander flashed a contemptuous look at him at which Langford winced, but he went on. He was determined to make an absolute­ ly clean breast of the whole affair. the woman. "Believing that I was right, believing that the education and training which had made me what I was were sound, believing that this man was as free as I to choose his course and order his life, knowing nothing of his wife, I yielded to his pleadings. I thought it was a noble and splendid opportunity vouchsafed me and. In a measure, vouchsafed him to show the world that we did really believe what we said. Had I .believed in God then I should have said his meeting with me, his conversion to my theories, his paqslon for me, hi? willingness to abide by my decision were Providental. I was glad to con­ secrate my life to the truth, with his aid to take the final step in attests tlon of my belief, to convince the world that one woman at least had the courage of her convictions. It was a mistake, a frightful mistake, an ir­ reparable mistake, for which I sup­ pose that I must suffer to the end of time." "No," cried Langford, "I am here to repair the blunder." "There Is no power on earth," said the woman, passionately, "that can put me where I was; that can give me back that I have lost." "Kate, Kate!" cried Langford, "you don't understand!" "I understand too well. Why con­ tinue the sorry story? Mr. Whittaker, and you that' are men beyond, that have wives and children and sweet­ hearts, that have been taught to love God, to believe In him, and to observe his laws, that have submitted your­ selves gladly to the conventions of so­ ciety--or If any be among you who have outraged these and gone against them, taken the law into your own "It is true I was a married man, hands--you will understand sooner or but I was under the spell of Miss J later what came to me. I discovered Brenton's eloquence and of her, that there was nothing high or holy beauty." Id this man's regard for me; that he persuaded himself that he believed as "I can wed understand that," said the officer, gravely, as a matter of course. "I thought that marriage meant noth­ ing. and that the old tie might be dis­ regarded. I hated the woman who bore my name, and so as Miss Bren­ ton's disciple, as her devotee, for I loved her, I will admit," she smiled drearily, "more than her philosophy, I proposed that we should trample upon the conventions she h*d taught me to believe she despised, and go away to­ gether." t "But you were WAw*" said the I simply to get possession of me. I awoke to a dreaded realization, alone with him on that yacht. He was not kind to me. He acted according to his lights." "I will confess It," said Langford. "I was a brute to her. I drank; I ac­ knowledged that I had a wife; I said she was In my power; I called her vile names." There was a low growl, a muttered roar from the men behind Whittaker. Even Langford's own mep. In his own pay, shrank back from him. like ma* CORN PLANTING - OVER THAT CANADIAN TRIP SHQtffjr . JfOW B* TAKEN. ' ni, sir," he "I should be "your an- CHAPTER XVII. The Woman'* Plea. "Miss Brenton," said Whittaker, with the deepest gravity he could In­ fuse in voice and manner, "you have been » most unfortunate, & zscst un­ happy woman. Allow me to assure you of my sincerest commiseration, my deepest respect, my most profound admiration. Ycu have suffered, but innocently. If t may speak the voice of society, if 1 may stand for the world as your companion has said, I can only express my reverence for you and my homage to you In this way." He stepped nearer to her, he seized her hand. He was an old-fashioned humble-minded, quixotic sort of a sailor, if you will, for before anybody realized what he was about, he bent his head low over It and kissed It, And the sailors behind him and the ma­ rines in rank broke into a hearty cheer. "There, madam," said Whittaker, "yon have the approbation of society for my act. A to y turned toward Langford, untrue to manhood if I did not say what you yourself have said; that you acted not only like a brute and a coward, but, sir, when I look at the lady. I am constrained to add like a fool." Laogford stirtdd for^rsrd but the lieutenant checked him. "Having said all that. I must admit that you have conducted yourself since that time as a man of honor end as a gentleman. I have no doubt that your offer will be accepted; that the world will forgive you as It will ad­ mire and respect your wife." "No!" cried the man of the Island, suddenly. He had kept silence, resolved to hear it all out without Interruption. He had suffered as the miserable story bad been unfolded to such an extent that all that he had,gone through with before seemed like child's play. He had heard Langford's noble confession, his generous offer to repair his wrong, but without the appreciation of it which the circumstances and its Intrin­ sic quality might have evoked. He had heard the woman's defense, her splen­ did justification of her course, the bit- tor tu«il iiiiu K, but without that appreciation of what justification there was for her and the value of her remorse which the ac­ count should have brought to him. He had observed Whlttaker's prompt and touching expression of confidence and reverence, but without understanding its force and power. Indeed, be had instinctive shrewdness enough to realize that even though the sailors, touched by the act of gallantry and moved with pity for the young woman who stood there lovely In her sadness, had cheered, yet the world would be very slow to the same expression. He saw that the woman was face to face with a crisis; that she would either have to accept or de­ cline Langford's offer to marry her at once. His heart #as filled with bitter rage. He knew that he loved the woman; that he never would love any person but the woman, but nevertheless the resentment against fate which had placed him in so awful a position, of whose malign purposes he had been the blind, ignoble victim, was so great that for the time being hie love was in abeyance. He pitied himself, he loathed Langford, he was contemp­ tuously Indifferent to the world, and for the moment he almost hated the woman. The sub-consciousness that he had that this was as ungrateful as it was unwarranted added to his wretchedness and misery. "No," he cried, "before any answer Is made, let me speak!" "Your pardon," said Whittaker, "may I ask who you are?" "Bir," returned the man, "as to who I am and what I am, I do not know, nor does It greatly matter." "Your pardon again." retorted the lieutenant commander, coolly, "but it matters very much. Unless you have some right to Interfere, I do not con­ cede that any suggestion from you in this crisis which seems to concern these two people, this lady and this gentleman, is at all in order." "But it does concern me," returned the man, Impatient of this checking, "for I love this woman myself, and she has done me the honor to say that she loved me> I had Intended to make her my wife should Providence ever bring us to civilization again." "Had intended!" exclaimed the wom­ an, under her breath, but no one no­ ticed her words, and the lieutenant spoke again. "That being the case, some In­ formation as to who you are and bow you came here Is the more evidently In order." (TO BE CONTINUED.) Intelligence of the Fox Anima! Apparently Is Able to tinguish Between Real and False Dangers. Dis> The intelligence 0f the fox is often Bhown by the way he refuses to be headed when he has made up his mind as to the safe course to take, says the London Globe. The West Somerset have excellent fixture at Kilve, but it has one drawback--the sea is not tar off, and foxes naturally often make for the cliffs, a secure refuge. A fox can be easily headed at times, but that Is nearly always when to be seen would betray him to his enemies the bounds and give them an advantage; but wben. If he makes his point, the advantage is on his side, then nothing will turn him. To return to the West Somerset at Kilve; they found a fox. and the wblp- per-ln, seeing that the fox meant to go to the olifE# IT possible, started to head him off. The ground was open, and for half a mile the whipper in and fox were taking parallel lines, the fox clearly meaning to slip by and find a refuge in the cliffs. The man turned tbe fox away at last, but hi a short time the hounds lost him, and I be­ lieve he got back after all. Again the master ranged up some of tbe field to prevent another fox going back into a certain covert In vain whips were rattled against saddle flaps; the fox went right through tbe watchers and made his point. It -Is a thing I have often noticed both with stag or fox, that the quarry seems to distinguish between real and false dan­ gers. Another Napoleon Relic. An interesting addition has beeq made to the contents of the Army mu­ seum in Paris in the shape of the red and white ensign, ornamented with gold beetles, which Napoleon ijavo to the troops in the island of B\ba dur­ ing his sojourn there. A French con­ temporary informs us that the flag came into the possession of Col. Camp bell, whom the allies set to kee( watch over the emperor, when he made his sudden departure from the island, and has remained in the fam ily ever since. The gift is one which the Frepch nation will no doubt ha g**d to have in Its possession. Good Advertising. A patent medicine concern In Ham burg, Germany, is sending through the mails and publishing in the illustrated papers a picture shewing Commander Peary and Dr. Cook In arctic costume jointly planting the American flag at the north pole. The picture Is remark able for the flag, which has 80 stars and 21 stripes, eleven red and ten white, with tbe legend under the group: "America triumphs at the pole, but we have discovered " the - - " A % If you had Intended going'to Can­ ada for the purpose of purchasing land on which to establish a home accompanying some land company, whose holdings you proposed to look over or to go up on your own accnunl to Belect one hundred and sixty acres of land free, you should delay no longer. Corn-planting Is over, your wheat crop is well ahead, and ran have a few weeks' time before you ue required in the fields again. Now make your intended trip. Reports at hand show that the crop prospect* in Canada were never better thaa they are today. The cool weather haa not affected the crop, but if anything; it has been & benefit There has bewa plenty of moisture and those wh» have, had their land properly prepared look upon this year as likely to be of the best they have had. A many are going up this season who expcct to pay two or three dollar* a* acre more than they were asked t» pay last year. Others who wish homestead are prepared to go farther from the line of railway than woald have been necessary last year. Still it is worth it. So It will be with yoSu Next year lands will be higher-priced and homesteads less accessible. There Is a wonderful tide of Immigration to Central Canada now. It Is expected that one hundred and fifty thousand new settlers from the United States will be numbered by the end of tfe* present year, an increase of fifty per cent over last year. In addition to this there will be upward* of hundred thousand from the old coun­ try, which does not Include those who may come from the northern countries of the Continent. These all Intend to settle upon the land. The reader does not require an answer to the questions, "Why do they do itt* "Why are they going there In such large numbers?" Western Canada te no longer an experiment. The faet that one hundred and fifty million bushels of wheat were raised thers last year as against ninety-five mil­ lions the year previous, shows that the tiller of the soli In Central C is making money and It Is safe to that he is making more money can be made anywhere else on Qts Continent in the growing of grains. He gets good prices, he has a sure and a heavy crop, he enjoys splendid rail­ way privileges, and he has also the ! advantages of schools and churches :i;Vf and such other social life as may be , anywhere. It Is difficult to say '/'0 what district is the best. Some are - ̂ preferred to others because there era .> friends already established. The Grand Trunk Pacific, on its way across the Continent, Is opening up a ? splendid tract of land, which is belng"^-* ^ taken up rapidly. The other railway* --the Canadian Pacific and Canadian : r® Northern are extending branch line* Into parts Inaccessible a couple of years ago. With a perfect network of railways covering a large area of the agricultural lands It la not dltt* cult to seeure a location. Any agent of the Canadian Government will be pleased to render you assistance bf | advice and suggestion, and a good ^ plan Is to write or call upon him. % The Government haa located the** ,% agents at convenient points through^ out the States, and their offices a*W • well equipped with a full supply maps and literature. _ His Approach Horaldetfr ' " The pet cat. wearing a bright red ribbon around bis neck, was chatting democratically with a stray cat, on the back verandah. "I wonder what's th»» J matter with me, Maltese," said the pet cat; "I can't stalk a mouse successful ly to Bave my lives." j "No wonder," said the stray cat, dis­ dainfully, "If all your neckties are 1 loud as that you're^ wearing." TAKE A FOOT-BATH TO-NIGHT- - After dissolving one or two Allen's Foot* Tabs (Antiseptic tablets for the foot-batl® In the water. It will take out all eorene smarting and tenderness, remove f< odors and freshen the feet. Allen's Foot- Tabs instantly relieve weariness aad sweating or Inflamed feet and hot ner**- ousness of the feet at night. Then tor comfort throughout the day shake Allen"* Foot-Ease the antiseptic powder Into yaw shoes. Sold everywhere 25c. Avoid sub­ stitutes. Samples of Allen's Foot-Tab* mailed FREE or r.ur regular si»t? s»;nt bf mall for 2Sc. Address Allen 8. 0!msts4l LeRoy. N. 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