. lowered her eyes from the faraway October, and the sun, ---- re yellow br S, in golden ripples gate quarrelled over a bectle. In the doorway of the farmhouse stood Mary ful, radiant with perfect heal lovely with the untarnished fresh- ness of eightcen. With head bent forward and eyes fixed on the dis- tant poplar, et which the lark's notes seomed to emanate, shé lis« tened, salts her lips parted as if she were drinking deeply of the wondrous melody. Finally the songbird ceased to trill its joyous notes, and the girl, lifting her head high, sang an answering song. The swect, appealing voice, freighted with a profound love and reverence of nature, floated to the ears of Sid- ney Grayson, a celebrated artist in water colors, who sat sketchjpg.on the hillside. Immediately laying aside his pencil; he started in search of the singer, for his heart was attuned to the same key and, though he could not sing, it' vibrat- ed in answering chords. Straight across the walked, finally stood before the girl. fields he She horizon and met the frank gaze of the man with unwavering lids. "Tt was you who sang," he said simply. 'Yes,' she answered shivly. "T want to thank you for that song. kt have never heard anything &0 wonderful. Do you always sing!' "Not always--only when my heart is so full of the nature-beauty I cannot help singing."' '"'Who wrote that song? Pardon my abrupt curiosity, but my sister sings, and I have never heard it before.' She regarded him with embar- raesed amusement, answering, "No one has written it; the song is mine."' "Do you mean to say that you are a composer? Tell me all about yourself.. Can't you see that I am completely carried away--that your song has awakenéd a new world to me }" The girl retreated within the rway; unaccustomed to the in- 'terest of strangers, she knew not, how to reply. ~ "You are very young and hil: like;" he added, "but do not hesi- tate to talk to me of the things that lie deep in that sou] of yours and which are undreamed of by others. For instance, what were you think- ing about when I came here?" "You would not understand,"' she faltered; "it would sound wary foolish to another.' "Try me and see. T am 80 dense as you may think. What is your name? "'Mary Ann Evans." "Mine is Sidney Grayson, and I am an artist. You are a singer, and that places us on 2 plane of! sate already.' artist," she repeated. "Ww ee were you doing here this morning ?" "Sketching the valley from the hillside, yonder. It is perfect in the early morning, when the sun tips the hills on the western side."' "You do know!" she exclaimed joyfully. "And I can tell you how ove every tree, every blade of grass in this country. All my life I have longed for a little house on! the top of that hill, up above the! tree-tops on the lower edges, where I could stand on the porch and look far, far down the valley his morning I imagined myself there-- that is why I sang--and everything was so beautiful, and the lark's song made me want to'tell her that T was happy, too. Can you under-! stand? The song just came to me | they always do when the days are simply had te euns shiny-- and I sing. "y knew that as soon as the first note floated over the hills. A few of us are privileged to understand the heart dreams of others, and | thank the gods for "endowing me with this, the greatest sense. Now, answer mea a questions.~ Have you ever longed to study music, to interpret the great masters?' She answered frankly that had not. "Such a marvellous gift as yours mist not be'denied the world. Will you come with me toe my sister" 8 some tinge #60n. She lives in the bungalow. 'pear Oakm« ont. she ring | Tilden having invited a select few t-| singing one of the operatic airs she vaulted » two fences, and} 'eater enjoys is Not a deception like | the gist' s progress with eager inter-[1 d Bias . Sid Grayson dex chad for} ies of aaies there career, When two years. elapsed he returned on the eve of Mary Ann's first appearance, Mrs. of her intimate friends to hear her "Giscovery He Pitased the drawing-room where Mary Ann sat at the was to render the following night. He remained quiet, so that she was unaware of his presence, listening with all the power of his being to the clear, agi tones. Then he ame conscio of 'something which clutched his heartstrings un- til they ached. His illusions were shattered ; her voice no longer held that compelling: sympathetic qual- ity--the freshness and sweetness had departed. It sounded tired} and one or two notes wailed harsh- ly against his sensitive music-loving sense. When the song had ceased, he crossed over to the girl, who sat with her head bowed on the ivory races, and the number of "O and "Me? s"" and 'Jean Baptiste's in the ranks is quoted as evidea Whether the fact is so'or not, of must admit that the evidence is not always conclusive. An example of this misleading srndees is x pre- sent Deputy Minister of ricul- ture, Mr. George Finley 'OHaln an. On the basis of names he would certainly go dence for the prosecution. a plain matter of fact he is a mem- ber of the Church of England. Behind this paradox lies-a piece of interesting family history. Mr. O'Halloran hails from the eastern townships, which stand for Protes-| tantism in the Province of Quebec. oe family, however, is not one of the original settlers. The father of the Deputy Mimister was born in Cork and came out to Canada for. Missisquoi, and took an active wn as evi- keys, and, placing his hand gently ever hers, said, "What has gone wrong, chi'd? Tell me all about it. ; pag Pong is not a joyous one this) tim "You know--you must "feel it; somehow I felt sure that you would, | and ¢ longed for your return. The} rest all think my voice wonderful, but you must realize as I do that it is lifeless. I have tried so hard to retain the old quality for your sake, but each day, bit by bit, I felt it leave me. Tell me that you under- -- and that you-do not blame Yes, dear child, I understand. It is because you long for the touch of Nature's hand, the inspiration of a sunrise over the valley and the song of a lark. You cannot abide the sham and insincerity of a workaday world. No more can I; so we will return to the trees and the birds. On the top of the east- ern hill I shall build a house, from which you can watch the happy, sun-kissed valley. Will you dwell forever' there with me, my own heart-song 1" "'Forever," she joyfully echoed. a NEED MORE MEAT. Brain Workers Should Eat Much If They Would Feel Energetic. _ Eat plenty of meat if Ro want to eel warm and energetic SS apeartty labor,' says Professor aed a German Privy Councillor. Those engaged in arduous: brain- work must have appetizing food, he explains, and vegetables are seldom as appetizing as meat. But, apart from this, meat is stimulating as well as warming. The meat eater, says Dr. Rubner, commonly eats a large proportion of nitrogenous carbohydrates (flesh formers) in the other two. e ; it has been scientifically noted, a specific burst of energy after the meat meal. The vegetarian balances his' ni- trogenous food and carbohydrates at each, of his three meals, and therefore has no such burst of en- ergy, which is a comfort and plea- sure in itself, stimulating the meat eater to his best work. As for warmth, the meat cater is comfortable in a temperature of 18 degrees (Fahr.) lower than the per- son fed on carbohydrates can stand. "The feeling of warmth the meat rT that. produced by aleohol, but pro- coeds from an actual increase of heat,' adds the pre fessor. FIRE-FIGHTING \PPLIANCES. A Novel Apparatus for the Berlin Fire Brigade. Many foreign notables were the guests at the Kaiser's castle re- cently during the review of the Berlin (Germany) Tiro Brigade, arranged for the purpese of show- ing his Majesty some of the new apparatus. The novelty which attracted most attention was the equipment of ex- tension ladders, which can be raised to a height of eighty-five feet instantaneously by power generated from carbonic acid. A couple of old-fashioned ladders, raised by a reel, also were exhibited, to show the superiority of the power-raised trpe. Another feature new to Berliners was a water mast, which hoists a nozzle and 'throws a stream into places which cannot conveniently The girt promised, and the artist reluctantly retracett Nis footeteps to his deserted sketch. Within the three months fojlow the heel "of fortune toch xpeeted) turn for Mary vars, fo or the artist and his 4 r ' Gibett Tilden, wea hg FGF allow , their ialented | ! ptiuidly for grand opera T iden proved to-bo a veri- | % "fairy godmother, for she se- } cured the services of a teacher re -| commented by an opera singer of international fame, and followed ! | play consisted of sending a fireman, |elad in diver-like fireproof clothing, be reached by water thrown by men on @xtension ladders. Ardéther dis- into a Maene pile of petroleum conked we All thé new aperatus was shown in action in a "fire" which wa¢ sup- posed to have started in the Royal Cathedral, across the way from the castle. The Kaiser was delighted at the review, and .congratulated the bri- jade on, its spick-and-span show- People who 7; lives, 'i require more meat "per- forming active + F; el into this part in the deliberations of that bedy. Theologically he described himself as of 'no religion"; but te was.a member of_the Protestant {group in the Assembly, At the 1e of Confederation he promul- gated a plan for separating the eastern townships from the rest of Quebec, and so rescuing them from what he feared as "French domina- ion. " But as] his eerctis, By his © is respected for his fairness. In the wet ° Lot. Langevin Block he is an unas- suming citizen: He is a member of temperament ag BB aay credit for health under the burdens of office. In social life he is a club- man, but a home man as well. His wife is a daughter of Sir Melbourne he i 80 of Francis A. Carman, in iin Star Weekly. NEW FISH DISCOVERED. Breton Fisherman Fishing in Deep- er Waters, How often do housewives com- plain that there are so few kinds of food to set on the family table, that it is beef-mutton, mutton-beef, and no escape from cither. No new beasts are offered them, but the central markets of Paris, or rather the Breton fishermen, have discov- ered new fish, and that is the next best thing. It appears that the Breton fisher- men are using nets that can be Mr,_G. F. O° Halloran. ji atmosphere in the for just mentioned some: five years b {fore Confederation was ooneraiti- mated. His father was a lawyer, and George Finley was desi to follow in his father's footsteps. Accordingly he was sent.to McGill University, where he took the de- gree of Bachelor of Arts at the age of 21, and added that of Bachelor of Civil Laws two years later. For a while he practised his profession with his father in his native' town, but later moved to Montreal, where he was engaged when he was cho- sen by Hon. Sydney Fisher to be- come head of the permanent ser- vice in the Department of Agricul- ture. Scarcity of Farm Produce. | That the department .over which Mr. O' Halloran presides plays a lorge part in the national life of Canada is a commonplace: Yet/ it is doubtful if it is genirally lized how large that place is. now we are all much concefned over the high cost of living, and one point that seems to be pretty generally admitted in the discus- sion is that one of the chief causés of said high cost is the scarcity, of the produce of the farm. In go far as that scarcity is due to inefficient = ming --an dl agricultural experts ell us that our farms might easily late double what they pr duce to-day tho remedy for it lies .in the hands of the Department of Agriculture. In t¥e past it -has been the centre of inspiration for a great improvement of agricul- tural methods, and it has a large opportunity ahead of it in the same field, But Mr. O'Halloran. presides not only over the agricultural destinies of the country, he controls as well the springs of intellectual and me- chanical advance. At least, if he does not control the actual Springs, he does control the protection which the State gives to those from whose fertile brains spring the new ideas of the re in literature and in industry. In short, he is also Deputy Commissioner of Pa- tente and Copyrights. Copyrights aro in great confusion, owin largely to causes beyond Canada's|* contre], and there is much. criti- cism of the patent office of Canada. But no doubt has been thrown on | the capability of Mr>O'Halloran in these is. e was, in fact, cho- sen by Mr.-Fisher for his. know- ledge of these very subjects, and it is only the pressure-of more exi- gent public business which has pre- vented reforms from being é. A'Giant in Physigqne, tim ust | h lon'any similarly protected areas dropped into deeper waters than ever before, reaching even to 600 feet below the surface of the ocean, and at the same time the fishing smacks are going further and po ther afield. he result is that some strange looking creatures are 'being offered for sale. Here is a big fish of a delicate rose pink, for which no name--no official name, that is--has as yet been found, and it is offered by the name inv ented by its fishers of the -"swallow.' however, it is beryx. Another strange looking anima] has a high eurved back and teeth as long and as powerful as those of a dog, and this is said to resemble when cooked mullet, with a smack of hali- but, but with more delicacy of tex- ture and flavor. And there are still others with Hugely distended éyes developed by straini: at great depths after rays of light. Bome of these wonders come afar, tion, buyers; at first some OY intiitatod by the mystery of th | novelties, are Sate up and the demand grows This seems to bear out the saying that there is as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it, andthe new arrivals should find a hearty wel- come from satiated gourmets. INSECT INJURIES INCREASE. Damage to Forest Exceeds That of Fire. As the result of recent scientific} investigations of insect ravages in British Columbia it was found that in some places forest insects have destroyed" twenty-five per cent. of the timber crop.- In California, on the Sierra National Forest, the damage done by insects last sum- mer far exceeded that done by fire. In Eastern Canada the bark beetle on the pine, the bud-worm on the spruce and the saw-fly on the larch ave done so much injury to the forests that special legislation for their control has been passed by the Federal and Provincial Gov- ernments. Indeed, as a result of the continued ravages of its worst insect enemy (the large larch saw-} fly) the larch, or "tamarack" is gradual ly beco ming commercially extinct in Oanada The present plethora pests in the forests of Cana due largely to the recent ravages of forest fires which killed or weak- ened the standing timber and thus provided vast feeding grounds for these insects, It is for this reason that forest fires are so much dread- ed by timber-owners, for it is not often that the fire destroys the mer- chantable value of ie timber. Usually it is the wood- boring in- sects which -follow in the wake of such fires that make the timber un- <a wi lumber and have a large in causing the millions of ielints loss which the nation suffers annually. To attempt the wholesale control of the insects themselves would be a hopeless task, but by eliminating fire-damage, wide-spread insect- damage may also be automatically prevented, for healthy trees are not susceptible to attack. By seg- ages _| sometimes eeiglis' aa two hundred titadite generally quite unaware of i "| peared to seaward in the driving = r THE HUMANLIKE SEAL. Something Very Homan About Them, Says Dr. Townsend. Although the oo seal, which is common sok pecan g the New ngland ften more than five re- sence. Splendid fellows are igre seals, says Dr. Charles Wy. Town- very human t Such] Jarge and inteHigent eyes as they | ve! In June, 1910, continues Doobor Townsend, during a violent easter- vy rain storm, a condition that in- sures a delightful privacy on the be I saw an interesting thing near the mouth of the Essex River. On the inner side of a sand spit, connected by a narrow isthmus with the beach, ge seal lay close to a@ baby aang about one-third of its length. The old seal wriggled into the water as soon as it saw me, but presently returned, to urge its young to flee with it. The youn one was not old enough to be tfraid of a man, and simply nosed about the mother. Again the latter took to the water in trepidation, where ibe splashed violently with her hind pers. Several times she clam- bered up beside her young one, and again in terror fled > the. water; but at last, by dint of coaxing and pushing, she got the youngster into e Thereupon the old seal headed for the open ocean, from which, however, it was separated by a line of breakers. The young one follow- ed eagerly; it held its head, and neck high above the water, and splashed awkwardly with: its fore flippers in its anxiety td follow. At times its head was so close beside that of the mother that it seemed as if the baby eeal were partly sup- ported on the mother's back. Every now and then the mother would gracefully turm her head up and round, so' that her mouth appear- ed to 'touch the outstretched mouth of the little one. What the object of this movement was, whether to encourage or to kiss the infant, or to give it nourishment, I was un- able to determine, but the simul- taneous action on the part of the mother and young I could clearly see through my glasses. "Two or three times. the mother dived, but remained under water only a fraction of a minute each time; It was long enough, how- ee 3 spray and spits of rain. hs been a charming lay o ly affection and infantile 'Nelglees. ness. seals are great lovers of sport. On a raw March day there was a procession of cakes of winter ioe floating down to the sea inside the bar of the Ipswich River. The game on the part of a couple of seals seemed to be to get on the larger cakes and have a boat ride, tossing about in the waves. The clambering up proved often diffi- cult, and if a seal failed at one cake, he would try to board an- other. One seal floated contented- ly down into the bay, and I could follow him for a long distance, his dark coat contrasted so well with the white' ice. A picturesque instance of the cur- iosity of the seal, or possibly, of its fondness for music, is told by the Rev. Mr. Dunbar in Macgillivray' 8 work on British quadrupeds. "During a residence of some | | | | | { of insect} Ala 1s} } { regating forest. reserves, on which | the percentage of fire loss during, the last summer was smaller then) wh« in America, the Forestry Branch the Department of the Interior is taking. a leading part in the con- trol of insect. ravages. A pda ai Hal ties wus arrest- | years in one of the Hebrides, I had j heads above | black dogs, .ev idently delighted with many opportunities to witness this peculiarity, As I walked along the shore in the calm of a summer af- ernoon, a few notes from my flute would bring half a score pf them within a few yards of méJ and then they would swim about with their water, -like so many see sounds. For half an hour, or, , for any length of time, I chases, I could fix them to the spot; = when I moved along the wa- er's edge, 'they would follow me ike the dolphins, which, it-is said, attended Arion."' Itis related that when the bell is rung for divine ser- vice in, the church of Hoy in Ork- ney, all the seals gather about the neighboring shore, an incident, however, that illustrates. their in- quiring, rather than their religious, spirit oR Domesticate Wild Cranes. Found wild in the forests of Vene- zuela, the yakamiks, a kind of crane, are readily tamed, becoming valua servants, to the Indians; who d icate them. Their ] pox ,er of flight is lined, and they acl of) dom attempt any distance in the | Not only aré they intrusted } with the care .of the flocks, herds and poultry, but they are left as | sole guardians_of the babies. Cer- | tiain species of the tribe found in} adopt- orerhead on auto; send.in 'Sand Dunes and Balt! do Marehes," tele: is something |* about them Sapbacs has given English capital Z contracts to ists 4 val arsenals and dockyards pairdaremagicn ex the latest appliances known: to nad -- val construction. Leeds, the first English city toh traction Street cars, is monn mobile type eck a 80 as tn away erttenus In behalf of a recently invented) : removing conical dipper for from milk bottles, it is. contented that its shape disturbs cream | than any other utensil. To protect the interior of from oe humidity caused by of moisture on the metal walls an Italian has invented & varnish containing ground cork, For riding in winter a Boston en4 thusiast has enna a motorcycle} so surrounded with a thin metal body to protect the riders from that it resembles a submarine. | Above and below the airchamber, in a new French automobile tire are sections filled with elastic strips,' which come together and oo the tire in event of punctur If the upper half of the sans of automobile headlights be cover -- metal polish, which is allowed! to dry in a smooth coat, much ob- jectionable glare will be eliminated, In a new English fireproofing prone for timber, chemicals are polished as gee it had not 'ol ng treated. Lead pencil manufacture in ns United States is consuming 73,-! 000,000 feet of lumber annually, of, which about one half hes estimated to be wasted in ning or throwing away short ronke emetictal estimates made in! ndia of the world's production of rubber for several years to come; indicate a constant increase, pass ing 200,000 tons in 113, but reves) equaking the demand. Because of the danger of explo-| sion Hamburg forbids manufactur-! ers to keep much wool hahd unless they have ie: buildings for it, requiring them to eep it in a municipal storehouse.' 'Geographical survey esi PA ; place the productian of Po 4 cement in the United States year at the record-breakin Seue of 92,406,000 barrels, a gain of al most 10,000,000 barrels over 1912. English engineers believg they have prevented the erosion of sheds by the SIMPLE nial SUBTLE? An Extract From th the Late Li Hung] - Chang's Memoirs. Li Hung Chang found the -Ger- mans stolid and severely practical when he visited their country after, representing China at the corona, tion of the Tsar of Russia. An ex- tract from his recently published demoirs says that even their en- thusiasm is of "a hard, matter-of- fact kind." The grimness of the Krupp works at Essen, however,: did appeal to the viccroy's imagi- nation, Captain Ruffbach accompanied me ie 'by the request of Bis, marek, and I am glad he did, for| he seems to know about every- { thing, and is able to tell what he; knows. I shall ask the Kaiser 0 send him back with me. Herr Krupp presented me with e complete miniature battery of ar-| tillery, of a size for children to play with. Six little schoolgir]s, all dressed in yellow, drew the litils, cannons into my room by yellow, silk ribbons, Herr and Madame Krupp, Gen- eral Vonzberg. Count and Countess Gregg, and others were present: 1 spoke in reply to Herr Kri upp's brief speech, and Captain Ruffbachy , translated it oe ntly. But he overlooked my last sentence, and L#ylled his attention to it. He 9 ay, very red in the face, afid it was evident that he was somewhat embarrassed, but I only repeated my statement, and he in turn trans lated it. Poor fellow, he thought he should offend the party. But on the contrary, the company burst into laughter. Herr Krupp aciually slapped upon the shoulder. "You shall have one; 3 a real battery!' he said. I had told him that,I appreciated highly his com- plime nt to myself as the represen- tative of the Chines , throne and whe le: and me es, people, but I patieve va greats gun works would be bett or known in Eastern Asi a through ao batters of big. guns, ' So this morning at th 3 ix randsome guns ero paraded *be- fore m nt f Her | Krup Ip i iff worth mo: But I.do not think a. | his gencvosity, for Lord € lume instructed two..of the Germa: _ a gincers here to select: three ovisda batteries of field pieces and : el for sending in a false alarm of, Brazil farther to-the south are pro- | ten-inch: guns to. be shipped at ar He said avsveman asked. bim ing and dashing tactics. li physique Mr. O'Hallétan js fire. to. tected by law because of their re-} cognized value as snake killers. | carly date to o hina, We- shall 'ig powder and shells Rere also, > joe ee