— “ONEAST STREET Women “Farmerettes” Make Money in Western Canada. Many Are Taking Advantage of the Opportunity Offered by the Fer- tile Land and Fine Climate, of Western Canada owning and In many are to be found women running farms for themselves, and what is more, making them pay. May Hazlett, an English girl, who lived on f farm in the Touchwood hills, in Sas- katchewan, for the past four years, looking after her stock and cultivating her land, is one of these. The farm was originally her brother's homestead, at which time Miss Hazlett was a stenographer. Hef brother killed while fighting with the Canadian forces at Vimy Ridge. Neighbors, advised Miss Hazlett to sell farm, but decided that was tired of “eternal pounding erette, Mrs. part = was she the and became a farms- the she ” Blackburn, a ploneer Alberta, has just her farm near Hardisty. Coming from Eastern Can. ada, Mrs. Blackburn homesteaded a quarter section Mm 1002. She had two Holstein heifers, a bull, and 317 In cash, She lived In a tent the first summer and in a sod shack in the winter. Her first crop put her, as she tells the story, “on Easy street.” In ten she had a herd of 60 pure-bred Holstein cattle and was op- erating a dairy. A fine residence has supplanted the sod hut. “l milked my cows, raised my cattle, cut hay and stacked It all by myself” sald Mrs. Blackburn. "I started on Mary J. woman farmer of added 160 acres to years prosperous good. 1 worked hard, but the experi- ance wonderful.” It has generally been conceded that farming is a man's job. It has been considered that a woman's on the farm was in the few attendant duties, looking after the chickens and the garden. are changing. Demonstrative of nine ladies farming good profit t Some vears ago a acre farn Manitoba, was 1 "ne long house, with But times femi the are present initiative, there two 00 to take to work While the hol 1 old dut the hou WAS never acre place, cattle, whiecl have a 1,121 head dred head of of heavy horses an ‘heir farm well-kept pride to th Their been profitable have They are girls, and have all of womanhood tion has not character or the generations Their gallant nifies the maxim of Western Canada, “A assistance and , with its al richness and God's sunshine soon pay for the land itself.” If you wish to learn more of Western Canada can do, write copy of "Canada West” which mailed to free hy your Canadian agent.—Adver- tisement. aeeom enjoyed two older struggle for success si iy the truth in th oft-repea the soll what for a you nearest government Foolish and Untimely. “Mary,” said Mrs. Gadder to her maid, “who was that man at the door just now ”™ “I don’t know, ma'am, was an agent or a preacher. He sald he had a for you from the hereafter and wanted to know if you were thinking about your immortal soul.” “Dear me,” “What a whether he message exclaimed Mrs, foolish question to Gadder, ask a Age-Herald, important to Mothers Examine carefully every Bears the Signature of 77 In Use for Over 30 Years, Children Cry for Fletcher's Castoria Where It Went, Jack Spratt could eat no fat; his wife could eat no lean, You see thes spent their money for the Jitney's gaso Hoe. ~—Fresno, Cal, Republican, Dr. Prery's “Dead Shot” not only expels Pin Worms, Round Worms and Tapeworm, but the mucus in the intestines which forms their nesting-place Is thoroughly cleaned out also One dose proves Its ofcacy.~— Advertisement, Unchecked. “How did Teller get his cold?” “All the drafts in the bank go through hig cage.”"—DBoston Transcript Poetry of love is transformed prose when matrimony reaches paregorie stage. —— Smiles being cloudy weather, Inte the sunshine, frowns are Xill—Continued, woe Gp you're here, young man,” snarled. “Well, muddling in this busl- ness won't do you any good, Didn't 1 tel} you yesterday what 1 do; and had the nerve my wife about it. You're yourself the laughing stock of whole town! Now you'd you don't want to comedy that'll stick in " CHAPTER “So you to upset the witness a your memory for many a long day. The speaker turned to Pollyop. “Where's that boy?” he den Involuntarily wmnded Polly looked the cot where Wee Jerry lay asleep. “You mean the baby mean Jerry?" she questioned dully. Oh, vou don't 0 ter girl f stupor, she had up. printed on {t, hand took as | She held it what dropped her side. With an exclamation went to her and clutched the paper. “Polly,” he “you'll have to give Jerry up for a little a little while—" She document was her hopelessly to f pity, Robert fingers that 1 r « took the sald swiftly, while, Just her hand fluttering snatched Polly Struggied Madly, and the Child Shrieked and Clung to His Sister With All the Puny Strength He Had. he had pie and strained I'm Daddy comes home : scoot.” pitched Jerry Is, till 12 well all In ti broke, the ma goin’ t Emin x nx her voice impressed with through. tobert had never in a person could go so white ¢ With an ejaculation, deflant, he sprang to her sid “My Listen to agined ali alive ioarse and “Polly,” he cried. look that way! me” “Can he take the baby?" fell monot- “That's Hopkins.” SAvYs Miss “The just what he ean do in MacKenzie child can’t You'd thrust stay HHke this have seen Put some wraps on the child, Polly stood with Jerry gripped tight. her; and, frightened, the “I want op,” he Polly moment my Daddy Hopkins, whimpered brokenly, looked so dreadful that MacKenzie an expression of deadly singular brown depths that ment he held his breath. “If you take him,” she spoke at last, why, d=—n you, I'll kill you!” At first MacKenzie eyed temptuonsly, What did such a threats mean to him? Then he laughed. And that laugh stung the sensitive girl more than if he had struck her, “You took our Daddy Hopking,” she fold him, drooping a little at the tell ing, “but Jerry-- He's my baby, an’ 1 keep him in the shanty till his pappy comes home. You hear, the hull of you, don’t you? Her eyes were roving from one to another, but her voice lowered on each word, because in the steady gaze of Old Mare and his deputies she saw no relenting. “I'd rather he'd die” “I'd rather he'd be Hope in the here, I say.” The scene was even more nerves racking than MacKenzie had expected, “Take him away from her, Bowers” he ordered, turning to one of the men, The man spoken to stepped forward in evident unwillingness ; but a shout from MacKenzie made him grab for Polly- was silent. eyes had such determination in their for a mo- she screamed, next to Graney graveyard Get out of the child beat With one hand the frenzied girl at him with all her energy, but he struck down her slim young fingers as If they had twigs. Thrusting arm around her, he caught Wee Jerry by the shoulders But to disengage the boy's clutch from the chestnut curls called forth all Polly been one struggled and the nadly, shrieked and clung to “Keep away, Percival,” snapped Robert take the girl al To the mg to jail” girl he loved, Robert while save stand by one of the blanket from the bed and Jerry. Saw men drag a quickly eluded his her grasp. How awfully eves glowed, and how her before she Marcus, as “Get with him cuts out more,’ growled any Polly bounded forward or to be met by the speaker's outstretched nake anoth His thres nothing to "y word law’ she 0s MacKenzie was standing besid '31 1 nen orse, and on beyond in the » was rolling away screams from Jerry, entreated Robert had b and the hor » shrieked at MacKenzie hrndg'll wither off; I'm wm love'll die before an’ every day I'll be askin® Gran ny Hope's lovin’ God to d—n you you drop rottin' In y« " 3 ur grave Marcus had halted with the stirrup. He had heard every word winded from him t your his foot In she had uttered; cold and sweat gathered iis drops of Brow, oath into the sad with an he vaulted dle, put the spurs to his horse and gal hill after the loped up the retreating Robert leaning against the side of the shanty Polly Hopkins turned swiftly back. He spoke was imply when to her; and Then she laughed again, directly and the young man, almost as distraught as she, tried to take hold of her. “Nou scoot, too” “get out, an’ stay out; your lily<ivered cousin, his face; said an'-— 1 say, she an’ I hope no eyes to see ‘er with, to kiss ‘er with-1 hope— “Oh, God!” groaned Robert, Before he could get back bis wits, had rushed past him into the shack, slammed the door and barred it against him. For more than two hours Polly Hop- kins lay face down on her cot. During that time her loving heart had broken and died within her, 8he had no longer an incentive to live, no more a desire to look forward to Daddy's home-com- ing. When at length she erawled to the floor, all signs of tears had disap- peared, leaving the once glowing eyes dull and expressionless, There was no one left to love save the billy goat, and to him she gave no heed, In her aimless wandering about the shanty she paused before the re- production of “The Greatest Mother in the World,” Polly did not care for her any more either. Deliberately she she took an old coat and hung ig carefully over the glorious solemn never wanted to Never——Never! Then, the ax, and, as dellberately as she from view the picture, so did the the face, She upon it i ke 100K taking she went out had hidden she hack from above door sign, When It lay at her feet, be partly she muttered heart right in. If it broken, words, “If kind come iy off. your She had learned her lesson at Hearts were not loving and kind all. Then, with powerful stro) she spl nable de swallow 18 was done CHAPTER XIV, “God-Almig! Jal tHe unsteady re woman rose nearthiy eyes mntom ex- ap- i gun, glanced bach But the waght shudder. that her shoulder. ran haggard minute? she if she, this very abruptly, as brat queried now, too “rod, yes > hold of hig chin to hide the tremble of is it. She seized his arm viselike, the grip “An' wouldn't you just love to see Old Mare twist an’ squirm like a stepped-on baby snake, huh?’ came in one long, sobbing breath, Again the shifty look of the tortured man came to rest on the gloom beyond. “I'd die for it, so 1 would, Pollyop,” he eried. “Out with what you got in your bean, Poll; an’ I'll listen, so help me God!” Pollyop leaned heavily against him, panting. She was making an effort to tell him her plan, With a swift up- ward motion of her head, she began to talk in broken tones; and as she pro. ceeded, Larry Bishop raised straighter in his chair, Polly's volee tralled into silence; and Larry sent one hasty look over her head. The wralth smiled sadly at him and was gone. He shook himself and struggled to his feet. Then a broad, wicked grin spread his lps apart, and he laughed aloud. Pollyop, still on the floor, laughed, too, hysterical sobs catching at her throat, and a desire to scream mouth, usual In honest forcing her hands Such awful sounds Silent City, mirth was the were the where no longer hes men and women for fear an enemy would suddenly God! thaca “Glory be to too LT She Turned to the Door but Halted With Her Mand on the Latch, lered in my hut for her man was some- thing scand’lous” “Like your Betty died a-howlin' for you, 1 s'pose, Larry.” came back the girl promptly. “An' I been thinkin’ all day how Granny Hope tucked your dead brat alongside his mammy in the coffin awful thinkin', Larry man!’ The squatter's sudden grayness and swallowing hard ag if something had stuck In his windpipe was the only evi dence he gave that he had bead the cruel words, “We got ‘er just after dark.” he con: tinned, woefully, “She's been tied up in my shack ever since.” (TO BE CONTINUED.) Nearly half of the Presidents of the United States have been of Scotch descent. Some Buttercup Seeds as Food. The nre so small that we them &8 a source of seeds of the buttercup vould scarcely fond beings: yet It is sald that the formerly gathered them for the pose, At first thought, in sufficlent quantity an almost one has seen as grain-—as% in the ferred to, for insta takes on a Times. endless thei new light. ~ How Halifax Got Its Halifax, the capital founded by Lord is named after the earl of Halifa English statesman country in the house of house of lords death in 1715 Halifax is of a8 a market town Name. of Nova Cornwallis in who served from In England CONS Bolgiano’s "VITAL-HATCH" BT cy ed, ] ef, $3 CHICKS WITH VITALITY BRED FO CONSTITUTIONAL VIGOR HEAYY EGG PRODUCTION VARIETY 25 50 Chicks £3 & R00 G00 BS 5 RSe 8 83 8B 83% Ww 3 Wie 3 NT " a8 VARIETY § 5 BE3I® 8 S.C. Whit Barred Vi ww tht a ERE NEW 192 POULTRY Tue J.BoLGiano SEED Co. ESTABLISHED 1818 - INCORPORATED 1922 AddressDept A BAITIMORE MD. The Light That Didn't Fail. From out Maryville r story ig } Tribu neg charged with a half-brick son, e COmes Was Farmer as “Fighting Man" The man i succeed at farming must be a start to finish. He mu and worms, and caterpills He must fight loss of time, depreciation of soll, flood, drought and thieves that prey om grain, and vege tables. He must fight greed and graft, wickedness In a thousand formse and the flercest battles he ever wages are those against self. —Farm Journal Diamonds Split Asunder. That diamonds sometimes spontaneously is a belief dating to the Middle ages, and widely prevalent, though probody seems to have actually witnessed this phenom- enon. Numerous broken fragments of diamonds are found in the vicinity of the Kimberley diamond mines In South Africa. who would 1 flies, ire, burst back still Molasses on the Water, During a hurricane in the West In- dies the tank steamship Philip Pub Hecker, carrying molasses in bulk, pumped overboard 280.000 galions of the liquid to smooth off the seas and break their force. The action of the molasses on the water seemed to have the same effect as oil.—Ship News. Arrangement, Qontrast is a good thing, but we must observe the laws of harmonious contrast, and unless we have space enough to secure these, it Is better to be content with unity and simplicity, which are always to be had Leigh Hunt, Driven to Extremity, Kansas Paper-—There's a giv! In our town wearing a handsome dia. mond ring and is deathly afraid of burglars. At night when she retires che slips sald ring on her little toe for safety. Boston Transcript, Weakness Too Common, “Disrespeck foh de truth” sald Uncle Eben, “often comes ffum lack of sense. A parrot keeps on saying what comes into his head simply bee cause he's too lazy to learn anything new.”
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