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v p???i n | x C i i "MY GOD!" Synopsis.?Dyck Calhoun, gifted young Irish gentleman of the time of the French and American revolutions, meets Sheila Llyn. seventeen-year-old girl visiting in the neighborhood. They are mutually attracted. Sheila never knew her dissipated iaxner, arris ..t. | mother having divorced him. In Dublin Leonard Mallow and Dyck tight with swords and Dyck is victor. Erris Boyne. secretly in French employ, gets Dyck drunk and tries to persuade him to Join in revolt against England. They quarrel. Wiiile Dyck is overcome with drugged wine. Boyne's second wife enters the room and stabs her faithless husband to the heart. Dyck is arrested on a charge of murder. He does not know if he killed Boyne or not. Sheila begs her mother to go to Dublin with her to help Dyck. Mrs. Llyn opposes the idea. A letter from Mrs. Llyn's wealthy brother in America decides them to go and live with him. Dyck refuses to enter any plea except "So Defense." He might have escaped by revealing Boyne's treachery but refuses on Sheila's account. He is sent to prison for eight years. Sheila writes Dyck, assuring him of her belief in his lnnoocence. Released after serving four years. Dyck finds himself destitute, his father dead. In London Dyck receives a letter from Sheila inviting him to come to America and sending money for the voyage. He feels he cannot in honor go to her. Dyck Joins the British navy as an enlisted man. Bad conditions in the fleet result in mutiny. Dyck. Joining the mutineers, Is chosen by them to command the ship, the Ariadne. Dissatisfied with the conduct of the other ships' crews. Dyck breaks with them and sails the Ariadne to the West Indies. He arrives in time to turn the tide of victory In a battle between the French and Knglish fleets. Calhoun is arrested for his part in the mutiny but thanked by the admiral for his work in the battle "The British government gives Dyck the freedom of the Island of Jamaica, of which his old enemy, Lord Mallow, is governor. With a companion. Dyck secures treasure worth ?40,000 from a sunken Spanish ship, and becomes a wealthy and respected planter. Sheila comes to Jamaica. Dyck and Sheila's mother decide that the girl must be told all the truth about her father's death. Dyck tells Sheila that the man for whose murder he was convicted was her father. o o (CHAPTER XV?Continued.) ?10? Mrs. Ll.vn was playing n bold, Indeed. a reckless game. She wanted to show I>yok there were others who j would Interest themselves in Sheila ! even if he. Dyck. were blotted from the equation; that the girl could look if Hni* ntltwl tiirnuil tnvvuptl mnr. riage. Also slie felt that Dyck should know the facts before any one else, so that he would not be shocked in the future. If anything happened. Yet In her deepest heart she wished him well. She liked him as she had never liked any of Sheila's admirers, and If the problem of Erris Ro.vne bad been solved, sh'e would gladly have seen him wedded to Sheila. 1 "What has the governor to do with It?" he declared. "It is your daughter's own property, and she is free to ! hold or to part with it. There is no crown consent to ask, no vice-regal .approval needed." Suddenly be became angry, almost excited. His blood pounded in his veins. Was this man. Mallow, to come between his and her fate always, come into his problem at the most critical J moment? "God in heaven!" he said in a burst of passion, "is this a land of the British empire or ,1s it not? Why should that man break in on every crisis? Why should he do this or that?say yea or nay, give or take away? He Is the king's representative, but he is bound by laws as rigid as any that bind you or me. What has he to do with your daughter or what concerns Iter? Is there not enough trouble in the wo.hi without I bringing iti I.onl Mallow? If he?" He stopped short, for he jaw coming froto the summer-house, .sheila with liis paper in Iter hand. She walked slowly and with dignity. Hut in her fare there was no summer, there was only autumn and winter, only the bright frost of purpose. As she mute. Iter mother turned as though to leave I>yok Calhoun. Site called to her to wait, and Mrs. l.lyn stood still, anxious. As Sheila eante near sla* kept her eyes fixed on Ityck. When she reached them she held out j the paper to him. "It is wonderful," she said quietly, "that which you have written, but It not ti.ll till * it .lues not s:iv flint vuii diil not kill my father. You are punished for the crime, and we must abide by it. even though you did not k'J! Krris ltoyne. It is the law that lias done it. and we cannot abash the law." "\\\? shall meet no more, then!" said 1 i.vek with decision. Her lips tightened, her face paled. "There are some things one may not do, and one of them is to lie openly i your friend?at present." He put the letter carefully away In Ills pocket, his hand shaking, then Kicking an insect from the collar of his coat, he said gently, yet with an ait of warning: "I have been telling Mrs. Llyn about the Maroons up there"?he pointed toward Trelawney ?"and 1 have advised your going back to Virginia. The Maroons may rise at any moment, and no care is being taken by Lord Mallow to meet the danger. If they rise. you. here, would he in their way. and I could not guarantee your safety. Ilesldes. Virginia Is a better place?a safer place than this." he added with meaning. "You wish to frighten me out of jRiiiHlcfl," she replied with pain in her vc ce. "Well, I will not go till I have r Sbm i w.v.v.v.v.v.wv.wv.v. \\\\y.;.\v.v. y.y.w.v.vv.v.v.v.*. DE By GILBER Author of "The Seats of the h X-X'X-X-XwXvXttwX-XwXvXvX^wXvX'XOvX'i'vtv; put this place In order and brought I discipline and good living here. I shall stay here in Jamaica till 1 have done niv task. As for the Maroons, when the trouble comes, I sliail not be unprepared." site smiled sadly. "The governor may not take your advice. hut I shall. And remember that I come from a land not without its dangers. We had red Indians and black men there, and I can shoot." He waved a hand abruptly and then made a gesture?such as an ascetic might make?of reflection, of submission. "I shall remember every word 1*nva ool<l o ?wl nvnrr n<kt?? nf YrtllT voice will be with me In all the lonely years to come, flood-by?but no, let me say this before I go: I did not know that Krris Royne was your father until after be was dead. So, If I killed him. it was In complete Ignorance. I did not know. But we have outlived our friendship, and v.e must put strangeness in its place, flood-by?God protect you!" lie added, looking Into Sheila's eyes. She looked at him with sorrow. Her lips opened, but no words came forth. He passed on out of the garden, nnd presently they heard his horse's hoofs on the sand. "He is a great gentleman," said Mrs. Llyn. Her daughter's eyes were dry nnd fevered. Her lips were drawn. "We must hegin the world again," she said brokenly. Then suddenly she collapsed and sank upon the ground. ' My God?oh, my God!" she said. CHAPTER XVI. Lord Mallow Intervenes. Two months went by. In that time Sheila and Pyck did not meet, though Dyck saw her more than once in the distance at Kingston. Yet they had never met since that wonderful day at Salem, when they had parted, ns it might seem, forever. Dyck had had news of her. however, for Darius Roland had come ami gone between the two plantations, and had won Michael Clones' confidence. He knew more, perhaps, than he ever conveyed to Dyck, who saw him and talked .with him, gave him advice ns to the customs of Jamaica, and let him see the details In the management of Enniskillen. One day Roland brought word that tlm I'ftvppiuir had more than once. I visited Salem with his suite; that he had sat in judgment on a case in Kingston concerning the estate of Salem, and had given decision in its favor; and that Mrs. Llvn and Sheila visited him at Spanish Town and were entertained at King's house at second breakfast and dinner?in short, that Lord Mallow was making hay in Salem limitation. Tills was no surprise to Dyck. He had full intuition of the foray the governor would make on Sheila, her estate and wealth. Lord Mallow had acted with discretion, and yet with sutlicient passion to warrant some success. He was trying to make for himself a future which might mean tlie control of a greater colony even. If lie had wealth, that would he almost a certainty. and he counted Sheila's gold as a guarantee of power. So, steadily and happily, he pressed his suit. At ids dinner-parties lie gave her first place nearly always, and even broke the cod? controlling precedence when ills secretary could he overruled. Thus Sheila was given honor when she did not covet it, and so It was that one One Day Boland Brought Word. day at Salem when the governor entne to court her she was able to help I).vek Calhoun. "Then you go t?? Enniskillen?" Lord Mallow said to Ihirius Boland, as he entered the plantation, being; uiet by the usttlte Atnerieun. "Sometimes, your honor," was the careful reply. "I suppose you know what Mr. Calhoun's career lias been, eb?" "Is it true you beJieveil he'<J strike a man that wasn't armed, sir?" The governor winced, but showed nothing;. "He'd been drinking;?be is a heavy drinker. l>o you never drink witli him7" Darius Roland's face took on a stranee look. Here was an intended insult to Dyck Calhoun. RIg;ht well the grovcrnor knew their relative social positions. Darius pulled at the hair on his chin reflectively. "Yes, I've drunk his liquor, but not as you mean, your hoiior. He'd drink with any man at J ;fe> T PARKER lighty," "The Right of Way" WXwXvXwXwX'&'&X-X'X'X'X-X'X'XwXvX'XvXvXv all; he has no nasty pride. But he doesn't drink with me." "Modest enougii he Is to be u good republican, eh. Roland?" "Since your honor puts it so, It must stand. I'll not dispute it, me being what I am and employed by whom I am." Darius Roland had a gift of saying tiie right tiling in the right way, and lie had said it now. The governor was not so dense as to put this man against him, lor women were curious folk. They often attach importance to the opinion of n faithful servant and let It weigh against great men. He nau once iosi a pusmuic lunuur spurning a little terrier of the daughter of the earl of Shallow, and the lesson had sunk deep into his mind. "Ah, well, lie has drunk with worse men thun republicans, Boland. He was a common sailor. He drunk what was given him with whom it chanced in the fo'castle." Darius sniffed a little, and kept Ids head. "But he changed all that, your honor, and gave suilormen better drink than they ever had, I hear. In Jamaica he treats his slaves as though they were men and not Mohicans." "Well, he'll have less freedom in future, Boland, for word has come from London that he's to keep to his estate and never leave It." Darius looked concerned, and his dry face wrinkled still more. "Ah. j j and when was this word come, your ' honor?" "But yesterday, Boland, and he'll do well to obey, for I have no choice hut to take him in hand if lie goes gallivanting." "Gnlllvuntiug?here, in Jamaica! Does your honor remember where we are? Galivanting?where should he gallivant?" The governor waved a contemptuous hand. "It doesn't need ingenuity to find a place, for some do it on their own nsDifo I hare seen it." Darius spoke sharply. "Your honor, there's naught on Mr. Calhoun's estate that's got the taint, and he's not the inan to go hunting for it. Drink?well, suppose a gentleman does take his quantern, is it a crime? I ask your honor, is that a crime in Jamaica?" "It's no crime, Bolnnd; nevertheless. your Mr. Calhoun will have to take ids till on his own land from the day I send him the command of the London government." "And what day wUl that be, your honor?" To he questioned by one who had been a revolutionary was worse than distasteful to the governor. "That day will be when I find the occasion opportune, my brave Boland," he said sourly. "Why 'brave,' your honor?" There was an ominous light in Darius' eye. "Did you not fight with George Washington against the king of England?against King George? And if you did, was that not brave?" "It was true, your honor," came the firm reply. "It was the one right good thing to do, as we proved it by the victory we had. We did what we set out to do. But see, If you will let a poor man speak ids mind, if I were you I'd not impose the command on Mr. Calhoun." "Why, Boland?" Darius spoke courageously. "Your honor, lie lias many friends in Jamaica, and they won't stand It. Besides, he won't stand it. And if he contests your honor, the island will be with him." The governor winced, but he said: "It's what I am ordered to do, my man. I'm a servant of the crown, and the crown lias ordained it." Darius grew stronger in speech. "But why do you have pleasure in it? Is nothing left to your judgment? Do you say to me that if he keeps the freedom such as he has enjoyed you'd punish him? Must the governor be as ruthless as his master? Look, your honor, I wouldn't Impose that command?not till I'd taken his advice about the Maroons, anyway. There's j trouble brewing. ami Mr. Calhoun I knows it. lie has warned you through tin* provost-marshal. I'd heed Ids warning, your honor, or If nmy injure your reputation as a ruler. No, I'd see myself in nethermost h?1 before I'd I meddle with Mr. Calhoun. He's a dangerous man when he's moved." "I'.oland, you'll succeed as a schoolmaster, when all else fails. You teach persistently." "Your honor is clever enough to know what's what, hut I'd like to see the Maroons dealt with. This is not my country, hut I've got interests here, or my mistress has, and that's the same to me. . . . Does your honor travel often without a suite?" The governor waved u hand behind him. "I left them at the last planta- ; tion and rode on alone. I felt safe enough till I saw you, Itolnnd." He smiled grimly, and a grimmer smile stole to the lean lips of the man- | ager of Salem. "Fear is a good thing for forward minds, your honor," lie I said with respect in the tone of his j voice and challenge in tin* words. "I'll sny this, Belaud, your mistress | has heen fortunate in her staff. You I have a ready tongue." Darius' looks quickened, and he jerked his chin up. "So, your honor, so. Hut might I ask that you weigh carefully the warning of Mr. Calhoun? There's trouble at Trelawney. I have it from good sources, and Mr. Calhoun lias made preparations against the sure risings. I'd take heed of what he says. He knows." The governor touched up his horse. "Hnluml, I'll think over what you've said about the Maroons and Mr. Calhoun. lie's doing no harm as he is. I that's sure. So why shouldn't he go on as he isV That's your argument, isn't it?" [ Boluml nodded. "It's part of my J ISEj Copyright by Sir Gilbert Parker argument, not nil of it. Of course, lie's doing no harm; lie's doing good every day. He's got a stiff hand for the shirker and the wanton, hut lie's n man that knows ids mind and that's u good thing for Jamaica." "Does he come here?ever?" "lie has been here only once since our arrival. There nre reasons why lie does not come, as your honor kens, knowing the history of Krris Boyne." A quarter of an hour later Darius Roland said to Sheila: "He's got an order from England to keep Mr. Calhoun to ids estate and to punish him. if lie infringes the order." Sheila started, "lie win lnrriuge the order if it's made, Roland. Rut the governor will he unwise to try to impose it. I will tell him so." Sheila had changed since she saw Dyck Calhoun last. Iler face was thinner, hut her form was even fuller than it was when she bade him good-by, as it seemed to him, forever, and as It at first seemed to her. Through anxious days and nights she had fought with the old passion; and at last it seemed the only way to escape from the torture was by making ull thought of him impossible. How could this be done? Well, Lord Mallow would offer a way. Lord Mallow was a man of ancient Irish family, was a governor, had ability, was distinguished looking in a ? f, UL -| V Uttmtvn III ^ I ^ "He Will Infringe the Order If It's Made, Boland." curious, lean way; and he had a real Rift with his tongue. He stood high in the opinion of the big folk at Westminster, and had a future. He had a winning way with women?a subtle, perniciously attractive way with her sex, and to' herself he had been delicately persuasive. He had the ancient gift of picturesqueness without ornamentation. He had a strong will and a healthy imagination. He was a man of mettle and decision. Of all who hud entered her field outside of Dyck Calhoun he was the most attractive; he was the nearest to the possible husband which she must one day take. And If ut any day at all, why not now when she needed a man as she had never done?when she needed to forget? She was deluding herself to believe that what she was doing was all for the best; that the clouds were rising; that her fate had fairer aspects than had seemed possible when Dyck Cal houn told lier the terrible tale of tlie death of her father, Errls Boyne. Yet memory gave a touch of misery and bitterness to all she thought and did. For twenty-five years she had lived in Ignorance as to her paternity. It surely was futile that her mother should have suffered all those years, with little to cheer her, while her daughter should he radiant in health and with a mind free from care or sadness. Yet the bitterest thing of all was the thought thatdier father was a traitor and had died sacrificing another man. When I)yck had told her first, she had shivered with anger and shame?hut I anger and shame had gone. Only one ! thing gave her any comfort?the man > who knew Krris Boyne was a traitor, and could profit by telling it, held his tongue for her own sake. Kept his own counsel, and went to prison for four years as the price of his own silence. He was now her neighbor and he loved her. and, if the shadow of a grave was not between mem, wouui (hut iiuuseii j in marriage to her. This slie knew | beyond ail doubt. He had given all a I man can give?had saved her and j killed her father; in love had saved herself. What was to he done? In a striinge spirit Sheila entered the room where the governor sat with her mother. She had reached the limit of her powers of suffering. Soon after her mother had left the room, the gov- I ernor said: "Why do you think I have come here today?" He added to the words a nopof sympathy, even of passion In his voice. "It was to visit my mother and myself, and to see how Salem looked after our stay on it, was it not?" "Yes, to see your mother and yourself, hut chiefly the hitter. As for Sa- | lent, it looks as though a master-mind had been at work; I see It in everything. The slaves are singing. If you look out on those who are singing, you'll see they are resting from their labors; that they are fighting the ennui which most of us feel when we rest from our labors. I.et us look at them." The governor stood up and came to lin- open French windows that faced the fields of sugar-cane. In the near distance were clumps of fruit trees, of j Ledges of lime and flowering shrubs, | rows of orange trees, mangoes, red and ; I purple, fochidden-fruit ami grapefruit, the large Scarlet fruit of the acqui, the avocado-pear, the feathering bamboo, and the Jack-fruit tree, with its enormous fruit-like pumpkins. Around the negro huts were small. Individual plantations kept by the slaves, for which they laid one day a fortnight, besides Sundays, free to work on their own account. Here and there also were patches of "ground-fruit," us the underground vegetables were called, while there passed by on their way to the open road lending to Kingston wains loat|ed with sugar-casks, drawn by oxen, and in two cases by sumpter mules. "Is there anything finer than that in Virginia?" asked the governor. "I have never been in Virginia, but I take tills to lie in some ways lllve that state. Is it?" "In some ways only. We have not the same profusion of wild fruits and trees, but we liuve our share?and it is not so hot as here. It is a better country. though." "in what way is it better?" tne governor asked almost acidly. "It is better governed." "What do you mean by that? Isn't Tamalca well governed?" "Not so well thut it eburan't be improved." was Sheila's reply. "What improvements would you suggest?" Lord Mallow asked urbanely, for be was set to ploy his cards curefully today. "More wisdom In the governor," was the cheerful and bright reply. "He is Indifferent to good advice. He has been told of trouble among the Maroons, that they mean to rise; he has been adviesd to make preparations, and be makes none, and he Is deceived by a show of loyalty on the part of the slaves. Lord Mallow, if the free Maroons rise, why should not the black slaves rise at the same time? Why do, you not act?" "Is everybody whose good opinion Is worth having mad?" answered the governor. "I have sent my inspectors to Trelawney. I have had reports from them. I have used every care?what would you have me do?" "t'sed every care? Why don't you insure the Maroons' peaceableness by advancing on them? Why don't you take them prisoners? They are enraged that two of their herdsmen should 1>? whipped by a negro slave under the order of one of your captains. They are angry and disturbed and have ambushed the roads to Trelawney, so I'm told." "Did Mr. Calhoun tell you that when he was here?" "It was not that which Mr. Calhoun told me the only time he came here. But who Erris Boyne was. I never knew who my father was till he told me. My mother had kept It from me all my life." Sheila spoke without agitation of any kind; her face was firm and calm, her manner composed, her voice even. As she talked, she seemed to be probing the center of a Hower which she had caught from a basket at the window, and her whole personality was alight and vivifying, her good temper and spirit complete. As Mallow looked at her, he had an overmastering desire to make her his own?his wife. She was worth hundreds of thousands of pounds; she had beauty, ability and authority. She was the acme of charm and good bearing. With her lie could climb high on the ladder of life. He might be a really great figure in the British world?if she gave her will to help him, to hold up his hands. It had never occurred to him that Dyek Calhoun could be a rival, till he had heard of Dyck's visit to Sheila and her mother, till he had henrd Sheila praise him at the first dinner he had given to the two ladies on Christmas day. On that day it was clear Sheila did" not know who her father was; but stranger things hud happened than tliut she should be taking up with, and even marry, a man Imprisoned for killing another, even one who had been condemned as a mutineer, and hud won freedom by saving the king's navy. But now that Sheila knew the truth there could be no danger! Dyck Calhoun would he releguted to his proper place in the scheme of things. Who was there to stand between him and his desire? What was there to stay the great event? lie got to his feet and came nenr to her. His eyes were inflamed with passion, his manner was Impressive. lie had a distinguished face, become more distinguished since his assumption of governorship, and authority hud Increased his personality. "Let me tell you I have an order from the British government to confine Calhoun to his estate; not to permit him to leave it; and. If lie does, to arrest him. That is my commanded duty. Vou approve, do you not? Or are you like most women soft at heart to bold i criminals?" Sheila did not reply at once. The news was no news to her, for Darius ! Roland had lohl her; hut she thought It well to let the governor think he hntl made a new, sensational statement. "No," she said at Inst, looking him calmly in the eyes. "I have no soft feelings for criminals as criminals, none at all. And there is every reason why I should he adamant to this man, I?yck Calhoun. Rut, Lord Mallow. I would go carefully about this, if 1 were you. Suppose he resists, what wiJI yon do?" "If lie resists 1 will attack him with due force." "You mean you will send your military and police to attack him?" The gibe was covered, but it found the I Kl'ieisi I 111 L'llilU* U'loit . lot i ii"i ,i ??? *** % *?? n nui nilC was meaning. "You would not export nie to do police work, would you? Is that what your President does? What your great (ieorge Washington does? Does he i ihake the state arrests with his own j hand?" "I have no doubt he would If the circumstances were such as to war- > rant it. He lias no small vices and no false feelings. He has proved himself," she answered boldly. "Well, In that case," responded Lord Mallow irritably, "the event will he as is due. The man is condemned by mv masters, and lie must submit to mv authority. He is twice a criminal, and?" "And yet a hero and a good swordsman, and us honest as men are mude in a dishonest world. Your admiralty and. your government first pardoned I lie man, and then gave him freedom on the island?which you tried to prevent; and now they turn round and confine him to Ills acres. Is that pardon in a real sense? Phi you write to the government and say lie ought not to he free to roam, lest lie should discover more treasure-chests .ml buy another estate? Was It you?" The governor shook his head. "No. not I. I told the government in careful and unrhetorical language the incident of his coming here, and what I did, and my reason for doing it?that was all." "And you being governor they took your advice. See, my lord, if this thing is done to 11itn It will he to your own discomfiture. It will hurt you In tinpublic service." "Why, to hear you speak, mistress, It would almost seem you had a fofld "He Is Twice a Criminal, and?" ness for the man who killed your father, who went to jail for it, and?" "And became a mutineer," Intervened the girl, flushing. "Why not say nil? Why not catalogue his offenses? Fondness for the man who killed my father, you say! Yes. I had a deep and sincere fondness l'or him ever since I met him at I'laymore over seven years ago. Yes, a fondness which only his crime makes impossible. Hut in all that really matters I am still his friend. He did not know he was killing my father, who had no claims upon me, none at all, Except that through him I have life and being; but it is enough to separate us forever in the eyes of the world, and in my eyes. Not morally, of course, but legally and actually', lie and I are as far apart as winter and summer; we are parted forever and ever and ever." Lord Mallow saw his opportunity, and did not hesitate. "No, you are wrong, wholly wrong." he said. "I did not bias what I said in my report?a report I was hound to make?by any covert prejudice against Mr. CaJhoun. I guarded myself especially"?there he lied, but be was an Incomparable liar?"lest it should be used against him. It would appear, however, that *? * n.lttvUoi'a Hunrvef n? I f h n\(no lilt? IIl'? iidiiiii at a irjivi i nun iiuuc were laid together, nnd the government came to Its conclusion accordingly. So I am bound to do m.%dutyi" "If you?oh. If you did your duty, you would not obey the command ,of the government. Are there not times when to obey is a crime, and is not this one of them? Lord Mallow, you would he doing as great a crime as Mr. Dyek Calhoun ever committed, or could commit, If you put this order into actual fact. You are governor here, and your judgment would be accepted?remember It Is an eight weeks' journey to London at the least, and what might not happen In that time! Are you not given discretion?" "I want you?beloved, I want you for my wife." (TO EE CONTINUED.) DEALS BLOW TO OLD THEORY Writer Points Out Fallacy of Supposition That Prehistoric Men Were All Savages. The notion that all prehistoric men wore brutes and savages dies hard, a notion which has been spread by poets, painters and sculptors as well as by many thoughtless prehistorlans. A theoretic rebuttal is afforded In the simple consideration that any tribe In which brutal and savage elements pre dominated would have undergone a retrogressive social and racial development and would never have attained the superb qualities which we discover in many of the Euraslatlc races immediately on their emergence from the so-called savage state. Man is not a savage because he dresses in skins and uses stone and wooden weapons; lie may lie savage while riding in an automobile and using a ritie. "The New Stone Age in Northern Europe," by John M. Tyler, is refreshing for those who desire to bury the primitive savage theory once for all and to give our prehistoric ancestors credit for our fundamental virtues, both mental and spiritual, as well as to excuse them for certain customs which have only recently disappeared front our own civilization. Altogether, the new Stone age covered not only a very long period of time, but one of great culi,. nniru>tithnnoim > 111 hut more largely introduced from the East. The varied Industries of the era, the valuable implements, the trade in salt, Bold, copper and amber, the minim; for Hint, indicate people equal. If not superior, to the average inhabitants of the same regions of Europe at the present time.? Henry Fairfield Osborn in the Literary Iteview. Cramped, Nervous Man?"What's the matter with you? You keep trying to run this elevator through the roof." Elevator [toy (fresh from New York)?"Sorry, sir. You see, I'm not used to those little fourteen-story buildings." 1? tcrrcHH CAiNiKf Copyright, 1921, Wentern Newspaper Union. Be diligent and faithful, patient and hopeful, one and all of you: and may we all know, at all times that verily the Eternal rules above us. and that * nothing finally wrong has happened or can happen.?Thomas Carole. WARM WEATHER DISHES. Crisp vegetables, cool drinks and all kinds of iee.s and sherbets, toagether with the luscious fruits and melons that are so plentiful, will help t to make the warm days of late summer more Cucumber S a I a d.? # Slice three cticumbers, three hard-eooked eggs, one cupful of olives, chopped, three-fourths of a 'cupful of nutmeats; serve with mayonnaise in tomato cups ! or on crisp lettuce leaves. Combination Salad.-r-Take two cup- * fills nf tender green peas, cooked until tender, one cupful of finely diced celery, one-lialf cupful of rolled pea nuts, crisp and freshly roasted, onehalf cupful of olives finely chopped, a tnblespoonful of scraped onion, added to the sulad dressing which should be highly seasoned. Line a salad bowl (after rubbing It well with a cut * clove of garlic) with crisp heart leaves of lettuce and heap In the salad. Garnish with three hardcooked eggs, or add two of the eggs to the salad and use the remaining one for a top garnish. Ginger Ice Cream.?Take two cupfuls of scalded milk, one teaspoonfu! of flour, one cupful of sugar, one ? beaten egg, a dash of salt, one quart of thin cream, one tahle.spoonful of ? ! vanlllu, one-half cupful of Canton ginger cut in small pieces, and three tablespoonfuls of the ginger sirup. Scald the flour and the milk, cool . and add the other ingredients, then freeze as usual. Plain vanilla ice cream is delicious with a ginger sauce If one Is fond of that flavor. Mint Julep.?Boil one quart of water and two cupfuls of sugar together twenty minutes. Bruise twelve large ? sprigs of mint, let steep closely covered five minutes In one and onehalf cupfuls of boiling water, strain, add the liquid to sirup. Add one cupi ful of orange Juice, one cupful of strawberry juice and threefourths of a cupful of lemon Juice. Pour Into a punch bowl, add a block * of Ice and two pints of charged water. Garnish with sprigs of mint and # whole strawberries. . Muskmelort Cocktails.?Use a small ! potato scoop and arrange the balls In chilled sherbet glasses. Pour over a 1 syrup made of sugar water and orange and lemon Juice, or canton ginger syrup, with some of the chopped gin*Via no lino (a nonnol o 111* fliitlplniia ^tri in uir sniitct to u?uj uvuv?vwo. flnrnish with a sprig of mint. Serve lee cold. - 31 I deal with water and not with win?. Give me my tankard then. ?B. Jonson. Men really know not what good water's worth.?Don Juan. * GOOD THINGS TO CHERISH. The following Recipes are worth puftine Into the family cook book for y once tried they will be used again combination of J( J llclous dish may ^? be made to conform to one's taste and the season. Oranges, plums, strawberries, raspberries, small balls of watermelon, apricots and other fruits In season. The pulp and grated rind of the oranges are used. The stones from plums and apricots are removed and the fruit Is weighed, allowing an equal weight of sugar. Make layers of the fruit and sugar, having the sugar on top. Let stand over night and In the mmfnlniT Inst hrlnc fn the hrUllnir """ "'"h J""*' " ?O * " point to make sure that the sugar Is dissolved. Do not boll, however; coot and when cold freeze as for any Ice. Grape Juice Ice.?Take one pint of j sweetened grape Juice, one quart of thin cream, one tahlespoonful of lemon Julco. taste and sweeten If necessary, the* freeze. Serve In sherbet cups, top with whipped cream or a spoonful of vanUla Ice cream. Old Southern Cake.?Cream three! fourths of a pound of butter, add one i and one-half pfcunds of sugar. When I well mixed add the yolks of six eggs well beaten, then three-fourths pound of pastry flour, about three cupfuls sifted with one-halt' a prnfed nutmeg k and one teaspoonful of pround cloves. I added alternately with one pint of , rich milk. Fold in the stiffly beaten whites and one pound of sultana raisins chopped and mixed with flour. Bake In a large pan. about three Inches deep, the batter half filling the pnn. Tomato With Macaroni.?Mix two cupful* of well rooked macaroni or ! spaghetti with one cupful of white sauce, sprinkle with one-half cupful , of prated cheese. Spread this on a j deep plass pie plate. Over the fop place tomatoes cut in halves, cut side tip. Sprinkle with salt and pepper, dot with bits of butter, ami sprinkle with buttered crumbs. Bake in a hot oven until the tomatoes are soft but ! unbroken. trc Blackstrap. RV'kstrap Is a low-grade sugarcane ; molasses. At one time it was genI >rally discarded In sugar refining, but Is now used not only as un appetizer and tonic for stock feeding, but is included as a regular Ingredient of mixed rations, being a food of the carbohydrate class. For Plants. Add a few drops of ammonia to the water with which you water your house plan's and you will find them growing better.