OR, A SERVICE TO THE STATE CHAPTER. IV.--(Cont'd) "Jump off," cried Carne, catch- Ing at the horse's head, "and re- move the saddle. Now be quick _ with those cloths; we must rub him down or he'll catch cold." When the horse was comparative- _ ly dry he was led into the van which was to be his stable for the next few hours, and, in spite of his pro- tests, slung in such a fashion that hie feet did not touch the floor. This business completed, -Carne bade the frightened boy get in with him, and take care that he did not, on any account, neigh. After that the mask of furniture was replaced, and the daors closed ocked. The men moun to their places on the box and roof, and the van continued its journey along the high-road towards the Junction. But satisfactory as their attempt had so far proved, the dan- ger was by no means over. Scarcely had they proceeded three miles on their way before Carne distingu- ished the sound of hoofs upon the road behind him. A moment later a young man, mounted on a well- bred horse, came into view, rede up alongside, and signalled to the driver to stop. '"'What's the matter?' inquired the latter, as he brought his horses to a standstill. "Have we dropped anything?' '(Have you seen anything of a boy on a horse?" asked the man, who was so much out of breath that he could scarcely| get his words out. "What sort of\a boy, and what seat of a horse?"\asked the man on the van. sandy 'air, ridin' of a\thorough- = ht," bred 'orse seven stone \Wwelg said Carne. "What's 'e been an' done ?"' "The horse has bolted witl off the Downs, back yonder," a swered the man. "The guv'nor has sent us out in all directions to look for him.'"' "Sorry we can't oblige you,"' said the driver as he prepared to start his team again. "Good-day to you.' "Much obliged," said the horse- man, and, when he had turned off into a side road, the van continued its journey till it reached the rail- way station. A quarter of an hour later it caught the eleven o'clock goods train and set off for the small seaside town of Barworth, on the south coast, where it was shipped on board a steamer which had ar- rived that morning from London. Once it was safely transferred from the railway truck to the deck, Carne was accosted by a tall, swarthy individual, who, from his importance, seemed to be both the owner and the skipper of the ves- sel. They went down into the sa- loon together, and a few moments later an observer, had one beea there, might have seen a cheque for a considerable sum of money change hands. An hour later the Jessie Branker was steaming out to sea, and a mili- tary-looking individual], not at all to be compared with the industrious mechanic who had shipped the fur- niture van on board the vesse} bound for Spain, stvued on the plat- form of the station waiting for the express train to London. On reach- ing the metropolis he discovered it surging beneath the weight of a great excitement. The streets re- echoed with the raucous cries of the newsvenders: "The Derby favorite stolen--Vul- canite missing from his stable !" Next morning an advertisement appeared in every paper of conse- quence, offering "A reward of Five Hundred Pounds for any informa- tion that might lead to the convic- tion of the person or persons who on the morning of May 28th had stolen, or caused to be stolen, from the Pitman Training Stables, the Derby favorite, Vulcanite, the pro- perty of the Right Honorable vhe Ear] of Calingforth."' The week following, Knight of Malta, owned by 'Simon Carne, Esq., of Porchester House, Park Lane, won the Derby by a neck in a scene of intense excitement, the Mandarin being second, and e Filibuster third. It is a strange fact that to this day not 2 member of the racing world has been able to solve the mystery surrounding the 'disappearance of one of the greatest horses that ever set foot on an English racecourse. To-day, if Simon Carne thinks of that momentous occasion when, amid the shouting crowd of Epsom, he led his horse back a winner, he smiles softly to himself and mur- murs beneath his breath: , "Valued at twenty. thousand unds,' and beaten in the Derby te a: furniture van." CHAPTER VY. It was the day following that up- oh which Simon Carne, presented by the Earl of Amberley, had made his bow before the Heir Apparent at the second levee of the season, that Klimo entered upon one of the most interesting cases which had so far come into his experience. The clock in his consulting-room had just struck one when his elderly housekeeper entered and handed him a card, bearing the name of Mrs. George Jeffreys, 14 Bellamer Street, Bloomsbury. The detective immediately bade his servant admit the visitor, and, almost before he had given the order, the lady ia question stood before him. She was young, not more than twenty-four at most, a frail wisp of a girl, with light brown hair and eyes that spoke for her nationnlity as plain as any words. e was neatly but by no feans expensively ressed, and showed evident signs of being oppressed by a weight of trouble. Klimo looked at her, and in that glance took in everything. In spite of the fact that he was re- puted to possess a heart as hard as any flint, it was noticeable that his voice, when he spoke to her, was not as gruff as that in which he usually addressed his visitors. "Pray sit down,' he said, "and tell me in as few words as possible what it is you desire that I should do for you. peak as clearly as you can, and, if you want my help, don't hesitate to tell me every- thing."' The girl sat down as ordered, and immediately commenced her tale. "My name is Eileen Jeffreys,'"' she said. "I am the wife of an English Bank Inspector, and the daughter of Septimus O'Grady, of Chicago, U. 8. A." "T shal] remember,"' replied Kli- mo. "And how long have you been married ?"' 'Two years,"? answered the girl. "Two years next September. My husband and I met in America, and then came to England to settle."' "In saying good-bye to your old home, you left your father behind, 1 presume ?" "Yes, he preferred to remain in | America." 'May I ask his profession?" "That, I'm afraid, foolish as it may seem to say so, I cannot tell you,"'? answered the girl, with a slightly heightened color. "His means of earning a living were al- ways kept a secret from me." "That was rather strange, was it not?' said Klimo. "Had he pri- vate resources!' "None that I ever heard of," re- plied the girl. "Did no business men ever come to see him?" "But very few people came to us at all. ye had scarcely any friends."' "Of what nationality were friends who did come?' "Mostly Irish, like ourselves,"' answered Mrs. Jeffreys. "Was there ever any quarre] be- tween your father and your hus- band, prior to your leaving Am- erica?' "Never any downright quarrel," said the girl. "But I am sorry to say they were not always the best of friends. In those days my fa- ther was a very difficult man to get on with," "Indeed {" said Klimo. "Now, perhaps you had better proceed with your story." "To do that, I must explain that at the end of January of this pre- sent year, my father, who was then in Chicago, sent us a cablegram to say he was leaving for England that, very day, and that, upon his the objection, he would like to take up his residence with us. He was to sail from New York on the Satur- ay following, and, as you know, the passage takes six days or there- abouts. Arriving in England he came (vo London and put up at our house in Bellamer Street, Blooms- ury. That was during the first week in February last, and off and on he has been living with us ever since." 'Have you any idea wliat brought him to England ?"' "'Not the7 least,' she answered deliberately, after a few seconds' pause, which Klimo did not fail to notice. ; 'Did he do business that you are aware of "T cannot say. On several oc- casions he went away for a week at a time into the Midlands, but what took him there I have no pos- sible idea. On the last occasion he left us on the fifteenth of Jast month and returned on the ninth of this, the same day that my husband was called away to Marseilles on impor- tant banking business. It was easy to see that he was not well. He was feverish, and within a 'short time of my getting him to bed be- gan to wander in his mind, declar- with any one 3 arrival in England, if we had no4 he so far vered as to récognize me once more... The day that he did. so I took in at the door this cable- me to you. She took a paper from her pocket and handed it to Klimo, who glanc- ed af it, examined the post-mark and the date, and then "placed 'it upon the desk before him. It was from Chicago, and ran as follows: O' Grady, ae 14 Bellamer Street, London, England. Why no answer? Reply chances of doing business. $ NERO. "Of course, it was impossible for me to tell what this meant. I was not in my. father's confidence, and I had no notion who his mysterious correspondent might be. _ But as the doctor had distinctly stated that to allow him to consider any busi- ness at all would bring on a relapse and probably kill him, I placed the message in a drawer, and deter- mined to let it remain there uatil he should be well enough to attend to it without danger to himself. The week following he was not quite so well, and fortunately there was complete silence on the part of his correspondents. Ten this second message arrived. As you will see it is also from Chicago and from the same person. Reply immediately, or remember consequences. Time presses, if do not realize at present price, mar- ket will be lost. NERO. 'Following my previous line of action, I placed this communication also in the drawer, and determined to let Nero wait for a reply. By doing so, however, I was incurring greater trouble than I dreamt of. Within forty-eight hours I received the following message, and upon that I made up my mind and came off at once to you. What it means I do not know, but that it bodes ill to my father I feel certain. I had heard of your fame, and as my husband is away from home, my fa- ther unable to protect himself, and I am without friends at all in Eug- land. I thought the wisest course I could pursue would be to consult you." "Let me look at the last cable- ram,'? said Klimo,. putting his hand from the box, and taking the slip of paper.- The first and second message were simplicity itself; this, how- ever, was a complete enigma. It was worded as folfows: Uneasy--Alpha--Omega -- Nine- teen -- Twelve -- to-day--five--lacs --arrange--seventy --cight -- Bra- zils--one--twenty--nine. NERO. Klimo read it through, and the girl noticed that he shook his head ever it. "My dear young lady," he said, "YT am afraid that it would be saf- er for you not to tell me any fur- ther; for I fear it is not in my pow- er to help you." "You will not help me now that I have told you my miserable po- sition? Then there is nothing be- fore me but despair. Oh, sir, is your decision quite irrevocable? You cannot think how I have count- ed on your assistance." "I regret exceedingly that I am compelled to disappoint you,'"' he answered, "But my time is more than oceupied as it is, and I could not give your case my attention, even if I would." His decisign had been too much for her fortitude, and fore he | could prevent it, her head was down upon her hands and she ha begun to weep bitterly. He at- tempted to comfort her. but 'n yain; and when she left him, tears were still coursing duwn her cheeks. It was not until she had been gone 'about ten minutes, and he had jn- | formed his housekeeper that he i would sce no more clients that day, that he discovered that she had left cablegrams behind j her precious her. (To be continued.) whe. HOW CLOVES GROW. Cloves are the unexpanded flow- er-buds of a beautiful evergreen- tree which grows only in tropical countries. The buds are at first a pale color, and gradually become sreen, after which they develop in- to a bright red, when they are ready for collecting. During the drying process they are exposed to the smoke of a wood-fire, and then to the action of the sun, which ac- counts for their dark-brown color when- ready for the market. The clove-tree, which attains a height of 30 feet, is a native of a small group of islands in the Indian Archipelago, called the Spice Is- lands, but in the last few centuries it has been carried to all the warm- er parts of the world. Cloves were one of the principal Oriental spices which early excited the cupidity of Western commercial communities, having been the basis of a rich and lucrative trade since the early part of the Christian era. Even the watch a man keegs on ing over and over again that he bit- terly repented some action he had his tongue will run down ecca- sionally. gram, from which I may. perhaps|-- date the business that has brought). wuwe "If pigs farrowed early in March do not reach 275 pounds by the first week of November there is some- thing wrong about the feeding. _ Oregon... Experiment _. Station shows that one acre of good clover ae growing hogs represents a value ° Too much corn for the brood sow means smal] litters. Too many farmers kill their good brood sows because of the tempta- tion to sell. for the high prices. This is a mistake. While there is considerable in- vestment in the brood sows, still it. pays better to keep the good ones because they will produce more uniform pigs, more of them and will raise them metter. It is a good plah to soak shelled corn for the hogs and if it is ground before it is soaked so much the bet- ter. Oats for the brood sow will pro- duce better muscle for the pigs. The ultimate end of the hog is ork and the quicker the growth to market maturity the more pro- fit there is in it for the feeder. COWS MUST HAVE A REST. Too many farmers milk their cows from calf to calf. In some states the law forbids the selling of milk of cows within two weeks of calv- ing or five days after. This rest is none too long and in fact young heifers would do better if they were given a longer rest before calving. We once heard a farmer at Coun- ty Institute defend his practice of milking his cows up to the last mo- ment on the ground that he worked every day and wanted his cows to o the same. . A woman asked him if he did not rest on Sunday and he_ rather shamefacedly replied that he worked every day in the week, par- ticularly during the summer months. Not much use arguing with a man like that, but experience shows that it is much better for the health and usefulness of the cow, especi- ally heifers, to give her at least a month's rest during the year. A cow is a milk machine it is true and we want to get all we can out of her, but like machines made of steel and wood, she must be giv- en time for repairs or she will wear out all too quickly. NOTES OF THE SHEEPFOLD. Sheep are comfort lovers and the man who neglects to provide them with good, dry shelter makes a costly error. Many a bunch of promising feed- ers go to the country and retura with indication of being half starved. It is the gains that the lambs make during the fall that deter- mine the feeder's profits. Hothouse lamb is now as popular as baby-beef and an_ up-to-date flockman does not keep his lambs until they are fully matured unless for breeding purposes. o female can expect to trans- mit to her offspring better quali- ties than she possesses herself un- less she is mated with a sire with greater prepotency. ° Do not go into sheep breeding. Grow into it. Begin in a smal! way. You will find many unexpected problems constantly coining up and if you go into it largely at first you will find a great deal of trouble and disappointment. There is much that has to be learned by long and thoughtful experience. ; ote. A. LADY LECTURER Feeds "erves and Brains Scicntifi- cally. A lady lecturer writes from Phila- delphia concerning the use of right food and how she is enabled te without the strain and wear and tear of her arduous occupation. She says: "Though improper food, imper- fectly digested, my health was com- pletely wrecked, and I attribute my recovery entirely to the regular use of Grape-Nuts food. It has, I assure you, proved an inestim- able boon to me. 'Almost immediately after be- ginning the use of Grape-Nuts I found a gratifying change in my condition. The terrible weakness that formerly prostrated me after a few hours of work,.was percep- tibly lessened and is now only a memory--it never returns. "Ten days after beginning on Grape-Nuts I experienced a won- derful increase in mental vigor and physical energy, and continued use has entirely freed me from the mis- erable insomnia and nervousness from which I used to suffer so much. "'T find Grape-Nuts very palatable ; and would: not be without the: crisp, delicious food for even a day on any consideration. Indeed, I always carry it with me on my lec- ture tours."'. : Read the little book, "The Road to Wellville," in pkgs. _"There's , tay eee ahove tntter™ A new nme Eve trom time *> wha ase genuine, true, and full of 5 'FOR THE HOG RAISER.' | uman interest. fi They tone up the Pe and clear the brain. a A new, aa U-CO" Laxatives liver, move the bowels gently but freely, Asanse the 1 in. =w, pleasant and r P prepared... reliable firm, and worthy of the NA-DRU-CO Tale Mak ane 25c. a box. if your druggist has not yet stocked them, send 25c. and © we will mail them. NATIONAL DRUG & CHEMICAL COMPANY | Bsc OF CANADA, LIMITED, MONTREAL. 21 ae cliable lax LETTERS OF : A SON IN THE MAKING ¥ TO HIS DAD. --By REX McEVOY _ [Mr. McEvoy will write for this paper a s2ries of letters from the west.- They will appear from time to time un- der the above heading, and will give a picture of the great Canadian west from the standpoint of-a young Ontario man going out there to make hisway. 'Tliese let- +ters should be full of inte: est for every Ontario father.] No. 4. Calgary, Sept. 4th, 1911. My dear Dad:-- You will see I am still in Calgary. It is not that I am particularly taken "with the town, but I have been knocking about with Mr. Renwick and finding out something about the country. You know I told you in my first letter that he and his three song were on their way out to take up some of the C. P. R. irrigated lands. I was out to his place last Fri- day and stayed overnight with them. lt is what is called a ready-made farm. The Canadian Pacific will break, harrow, seed and fence from 50 acres up, will put up buildings, and bore a well, so that you can go right on the farm with the crop growing and move right into your house. Of course they don't do it for nothing, nual instalments along with the ten in- stalments for the land, it is spread over pretty well. Mr. Renwick reckons the farm will carry itself after the first year. He is all enthusiastic over the district. The company has demonstration farme close by, and they have pure bred sires of first rate breeds of live-stock, which are free for settlers' use. Mr. Renwick knew some people who have located here, and that is why he came out. They say that the irrigation is like insurance against the loss of the crop through lack of moisture at the growing time. In 1908 oats were over 100 bushels to the acre, wheat 60 bush- ele and barley 91. Strathmore, says that 1910 was the dri- est season for many years, yet all the crop even without irrigation. rigation in the fall they are sure of good crops. People differ as to when the water should be let in from the irrigation ca- nale. P. J. Umbrite, who has ao place near Gleichen, says some people don't believe in putting the water on newly sown land, but he never cut finer oats than where he did this. He says that the best time to irrigate igs" late in the fall when the crops are off, and the spring. Quite a few people are going in largely for growing sugar beets in this district. They grow a good quality and enn sell all they have at $5 a ton any- where in the irrigation block. This block is no small thing. It is forty miles north and south, and 150 miles east and west. There are 1,500,000 acres in it. You strike the irrigation canal on the train a couple of hours before you get to Cal- gary, and it certainly looks a big work. They say it is the largest in the weet- ern hemisphere. It cost $5,000,000," and there are 2,900 miles of ditches--imagine! If they were put end to end they would reach from Toronto to Vancouver and stick out into the ocean at that! And it ig said that the company intend to spend $12. more iu extending the irrigation system, The winters here arc quite mild--so | are wintered: out. Alberta is still anit but as you can pay for it in ten an- Mr. Charleton, who has a place near mild that they don't go in for any spa at Calgary that require anow. a cattle raising place. The cured pr: grass puts on @ finish, so they say, and the Yukon, ag well as a big export} trade. mendous rate. Ajberta has # popula' of 400,000, and when you go through it the railway you wonder where it is all stowed away. You would think thal there would be more housee along railway than there are. But when y think that Alberta is bigger than eithed France or Germany, and twice as big ad _ the British Isles with their millions, mf is easy to understand that there is ple ty of room for 400,000 without crrerond ing. But just to show how the foun fe developing--in 1900 there were not acres in the Province sown to winte wheat, while in 1909 there were 4305, acres. That's going some. Last ye 20,000 acres were settled every day, in re | berta alone. They say that 200,000 A ericans came into Canada in 1910, a ing with them in cash and settlers' ef fects as much as $250,000,000. Ther were about the same number of settle' from Great Britain and Europe. ma western provinces keep pace with tha growth of population in the matter of schools, and ths people here say ver) the rural schools are in no way behbin those in Ontario. The cities, of course, are growing just as quickly as the country. Why, ten years ago Regina had a population of only 2,000, and now it has £2,500. Regina is the centre of a district of about 6, square miles with a population of wns0a| Amongst other things the town {s the distributing point for agricultural imp) ments, threshers and engines. Last yoar the agricultural implements distributed through this town were valued at $20 000,000. In 1910, two new towns were corporated in Alberta every week. Thig city of Calgary, somotimes called the "Sandstone City," because of the amoun of building stone that is right here an is largely used in the stores and churchs es, was only founded in i882, yet it hag grown so rapidly that the ©. P. R. hag found -{t necessary to spend a quarter 'of a million on the new station. The builde ing {s a handsome one, and one that every one of the 60,000 population ¢ Calgary and its suburbs can be ee of, 'In the last ten years the city ha incrensed its population by seven tim It is six miles square, and there ts quite «x bit of real estate dealing going on ig that square, too. You can judge that when you know that there are 200 licens. ed real estate dealers in town, to say no thing of the hundreds of people who arc interested in "deals." There seems t be a real estate fever about. Three & -| tors who came out this year to practicé have caught it and are in real estate instead. | Well, it's getting late now, and I must close. up. I shall be going on to Van courer to-morrow, so that I shall be glad . if you would send the paper on to'Uncl¢ John's address. Thanks very much fog sending it; I have always been glad 'a get it. Love to everyone at home. ~ ' . - SMOKING AND CANCER. It is ascepted that cancer on the tongue is very commonly associat, ed with, and preceded By leucop, lakia, but (says the "Hospital") the, occurrence of the leucoplakia does not ecom to bear any constant res lation to indulgence in excessive, smoking. People who. smoke from morning till night often have healthy mouths,- and on the other, hand some quite mcderato smok-, ers have a white patch on that parb of their tongue where smoke has constantly impinged. Irritation caused by jagged tooth, ar by some condition of a stopping Is un- doubtedly an important factor which has to be reckoned with. |"THE SUGAR | IS ANOTHER NAME FOR EXTRA GRANULATED SUGAR This explains why it is so generally Season. a ed eF Bee that you get it from your Grocer for it means "Preserving§ Satisfaction." - The Canada Sugar Refining [So Limited, siontreal Established in 1854 by John Redpath. GF QUALITY" { = used during the Fruit 2 The country is building up at a rm fe