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They were sitting in chairs hidden
away among the palms and flowers on
the roof of the houseboat Sunshine, A
silver moon topped the pine-clad hilla
above Wargrave,
The hush of the bright July night
was broken only by a rich baritone
voice singing a Southern love song to
a banjo accompaniment on one of the
nearby houseboats.
From the room below there came
every now and then the jarring sound
of “No trumps.” “May I play?” “Hav-
ing none?”
The girl turned to her companion.
“I really believe that when mama dies
ghe will turn into a bridge marker.”
The man gave a short laugh. “Yes,
it's almost sacrilege to play bridge on
a night like this. ‘In such a night
Medea gathered the enchanted
herbs’
“Oh, Bob, don't get poetical; besides,
I hate Kipling.”
“I can't help being poetical, and I
was quoting Shakespeare, not Kipling,”
he remarked.
“Oh, well, it does not matter, they
are so much alike. But seriously, Bob,
I don't think mama has an idea in life
beyond bridge and getting me married.”
“H'm, I suppose not,” he answered,
obviously thinking of something else,
Silence followed and the man began
to fidget.
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I is° LORDSHIP’S
= "CHAUFFEUR
By Cyril K. Twyford
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much and a title as well.
must snub Langley well
The other two talked commonplaces
in a desultory sort of way, neither re-
forring to their conversation of the pre-
vious evening,
As Langley handed them into their
earriage at Paddington he made a seem
ingly pointless remark, “By the way,
T don't know if I told you that Reggie
Daventry can not drive his own motor,
I think he is afraid of it,” Then bow-
ing he hastened away,
* +
Yes, she
* *
up in bed and
He was feeling
Tord Daventry sat
began his breakfast,
pleased with life, Things were going
right. His supper party the night be-
tore at the Savoy had been successful,
bis eplgrams more brilliant than usual;
moreover, his new pink silk dress
waistecoast had created quite a sensa
tion even among chosen companions
who were more or leas accustomed to
bask in the sunshine of his genius
Even the coming of his man Jackson
with a blank sheet of paper in his hand
failed to upset his good humor.
“What! no eplgrams again this morn
Ing?’ he exclahued. **Why, you only
had three for me yesterday.”
“Yery sorry, mlilord,” sald Jackson,
“TI have been turning out on.an aver |
age six epigrams a day for your lord-
After & minute or two the pace had
become somewhat slower, and the
chauffeur seemed able to steer with
ense,
Just as she was going to ask him if
he eonld not turn back and find the
others the car gave a sudden swerve
and pulled up—itside the gates of
Ranelagh,
The chauffeur calmly got down and
handed her out. Taking off his cap
and mask he cooly remarked:
“I gave you due warning that Daven:
try should not drive you down here to-
day.”
“Bob!” she exclaimed, Then, sud:
denly remembering how indignant she
ought to be, she turned to him. “How
dare you! This is nothing more nor
Never speak to me again.
Oh, it's disgraceful
once, sir.”
“Where to?” he asked.
“Where you left mama, of course.”
“My dear girl, you don't imagine
that your respected parent is still sit
ting In the middle of the road at
Shepherd's Bush waiting for a runaway
motor to come back and pick her up.”
“I don't belleve the motor ever did
run away,” she remarked.
“Of course it didn't,” he observed.
“And I think we had better have sou
tea.”
“I shall do no such thing. Besides
it would not be proper with you alone,”
she added.
“Oh, yes you will” he answered,
“and it will be quite proper, as we are
engaged,”
“What do you mean, Bob? After
vour disgraceful behavior do you think
'h I" ’
nat
Mama will
Drive we back at
H
and kissed Ler.
A quarter of an hour after when they
were sipping ir tea on the lawn shi
ked: “How did you manage 10
less than a gross plece of impertinence, |
BE or ———————— = rg reren ened
acre as syrup, and the latter conld be
made still more profitable by replacing
its manufacture by the usual erude
| methods with the tmproved mill, after
the style of the ereamery and custom
flouring mill in the North,
The farm mill with insufficient ap
paratus gets hardly more than half the
Jee, and still the farmer realizes from
$0 to $150 an acre, double the amount
cotton brings.
To set the pace for the Southern
syrup maker, the Department of Agri-
culture has established an experimental |
mill at Waycross, Ga., where a syrup |
of high market quality and uniform |
eolor and grade is being manufactured. |
Dr. Wiley favors the dark colored
| syrup for the reason that it contains
{ more caramel and flavor than the light |
varieties. Artificial makes of syrup |
are usually light and while perhaps
not injurious, they lack the flavor and
tone of the real article,
Diversity Is making gains in the
agricultural methods of the South as it
i3 In the North and West, and when
this improved system becomes an es-
tablished fact in our Southern States
a prosperity unknown since early days
will take hold of the country,
Experiments are being made in va
rious parts of the South to utilize the
For answer he took her in his arms | ES
COFFEE
That's the only way to find out.
DOES
HURT
Make the trial yourself—Ileave
Coffee 10 days and use
OSTUM
FOOD COFFEE
in its place,
Postum is a sure rebuilder and when you cut out the
coffee and use Postum instead, you get a taste of
health, for the aches and ails begin to leave.
y yr
You may THINK you know, but you don’t ~
until after the trial
ship for the last two years, and I am
The girl turned to him. “Bob, dear, | beginning to ‘dry up,’ if you will pardon
please spare me the trouble of saying the expression.”
I will be a sister to you.” | “Jackson, it is absolutely necessary |’ ka
“Why, what do you mean?” he asked. | that I should make epigrams.” he trick,
“Well, you see I know the symptoms. “I know, milord. The only
When you are going to propose yon lean think of this morning is tha
take your handkerchief out of your |lordship might bring in a travesty of a
pocket, put it back with the utmost proverb such as ‘Where there's a will -
care, then find your cigarette case and there's a ~legacy.'"” WE PAY $150,000,000 A YEAR using it as an absorbent to make the |
suddenly remember that you can not] “That's not up to your usual form, . . . molasses avallable as dry stock feed
decently ask permission to smoke while | Jackson, and beside is m or less FOR SUGAR MADE ABROAD. uting on these experimer
proposing.” n, and you know I hate puns.” Agricultural Department recently
“Oh, come, Madge, you're a bit hard| “I am afraid it's the best I can do | Millions of Acres Adapted to Cane yi. that the time will come
on a fellow.” this morning. milord.” and Beets in the South and West. “ J
“Do you know,” she contineed, “that I, pever mind. Telephone to the Ihe Maple Sugar Industry.
if 1 had not stopped you thix would ables that I shall want the car at the
have been the seventeenth time that club al t 3:80.
you have proposed to me?”
“Why won't you marry me?” Will wi : fve you
“Really, 1 don't see why I should.” “You know very well that I
“But surely I'm as good as most 6"
other fellows?" |
“That's just it. You are exactly like | moh's lessons
other fellows. There is nothing to dis Itakom
tinguish any of you except your waist- “That will do, Jackson.
coats.” It
“That's rather cruel,” he observed.
“Becanse it's true?” she sald.
change places with the chauffeur?”
“Oh, a ten-pound note and a promise
to take him on if he got discharged did
' he
answered.
SUGARS AND SYRUPS, | cxooe scoun cose rama
&®
Remember
CRUDE SUGAR CANE PRESS,
“There’s a Reason.”
re
its the |
pre
whan Got the litle book, "The Road to Wellsville, * in sach she.
t the sugar
won feed for
of sugar manu
fo IIs success as
farm
tos in ane worl 11 fad in mola
THE RACYCLE SPROCKETS
Like No.2 Grindstone are Hung Between the Bearings
rg Sh
ree]
ta. We use more than jis the feds f cattle and horses t
tons gar annually, or | lleries in th
the | one-fifth of the entire product of the jl of the large sugar re
has | world, and of this we produce only ’ has been mix
about one-third. ed for its tru
It is estimated by the Department of | horses, and finds 1t not only sucg
Agriculture that pot less than 140,000 § but : r cent
{ country in the Guill
also about 25 p
square miles of than oats and hay, When
and South Atlantic Biates will growip
2KHLINK) of
thought,
perhaps,
Jour
after
lordship fineries in Brooklyn, N.
wlasses with the f«
Telephone.”
was a sore point with Daventry
that ® hough he possessed one of the
largest \grs in town and a motor coat
ssfn
cheaper
yroperly pre
i Vi
rel, the molascult, as the bagasse
“But WITit on earth do you want me
which Wyld have aroused the envy of
eT 1
to do?” he asked. “You say I ought |a rhinocerty he had never yet had the
good sugar canes, a region sufficient to
make all the sugar we need. it ! rf
been termed, carries
table flavor to stock
to be different. Well, if it will please |
you I will put on a froek coat and silk
hat to-morrow and punt you down to
courage to Ore himself,
He rose leidyrely, dressed with the
utmost care ai jynched at his club
Cotton, a product of the States in
question, is our largest agricultural ex-
port, and excepting it no two other
additional value of Im
g the flavor of any other food
with which It Is mixed
roving
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Ret (Bigies Nez (W Raye)
Which Stone will Turn Easier?
The Racycle Rides Further with one-quarter less work
Henley in a canoe”
“Don’t be flippant,” the girl re
At 3:30 his ear vgs announced. He
staples exported by us equal the value
got into his enorme motor coat, put
of the sugar imported. All the lve |m
The waple tree now furnishes but a
all per cent. of the commercial maple
marked, half laughing. half annoyed.
i “Look here,” he said, “what do you
really want me to do? I have dabbled
fu most things and“—
“Dabbled! That's it" she cried
“You read for the bar; you stand for
Parliament; the war breaks out, and
you electrify every one by enlisting
and going to the front—{for six months
You write half a play—you-you—obh,
you just dabble, Bob. There's nothing
to go to 267 Rrook
The car shot forware +Jarted In and
out of the traffic, and dor whizzing
round the corner Into Bre
a pace that made his lordshiy
the side of his seat, pulled
with a Jerk.
“What the devil are you ul ¢,9
Haven't T told you over and over akg,
that I will not be driven at that beas
| ly pace?
on his goggles, and Nd the chauffeur
gireet at
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determined or permanent about you"
Then, laughingly she continued, “No, 1
really don’t see why 1 should marry |
you, and, as n |
try i a much better match.” cold
“What!” he exclaimed. “You don't
seriously mean to tell me that you are
going to marry that young ass, Daven-
try?
“I fail to see why I shouldn't,” she | #
answered, concealing her amusement. ||
!
The chauffeur remained silent
“Why dor man ™
“Because, milord, I have a very bad
voloe,” replied
1t You speax,
and have lost my
the chaulfeur in a hoarse whisper.
“Oh, all right then, Get out and
ring." \
Mrs. and Miss Heathmere promptly
ippeared, and as the latier came out
her dainty motor suit he thought
¢ had never seen such a charming ple
o
Bn
“You are much alike” (here she nearly
laughed outright “and he has the ad- ture. Fhe hesitated, tooking up and
vantage of being a viscount and a (down the street, though she hardly
future earl, while you are merely Mr. | knew what she expected to see. Dob
Robert Langley.” lLangley's words were ringing in her
“Yes; but you ean not be in earnest head. “You shall drive down to Rane
about marrying him. You shall not lagh with me and not with Daventry.
marry him, 1 say you shan't,” he ex- | You shall take tea th me and not
clalmed, and getting up, began to pace with Daventry,” and though she had
the deck. not confessed it to herself she had half
“Be careful, Bob™ she answered hoped that he would succeed in making
“You are going just the right way to good his words, Greeting thelr host
work to make me want to marry him.” | they entered the car
“Look here,” he said, coming back| “Ranelagh " his
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lagh, lordship sald, and
and standing In front of her, “at the | With a jerk the huge machine started
risk of becoming tedious I have to re- | again. They tore down Brook street
peat, Miss Heathmere, that you shall shot across Park lane and Sashed round
never marry Daventry.” { luto the park,
Looking up at him the gir! suddenly “Drive slower!" screamed his lord
realized that she loved him. It had ship. : .
needed just this touch of masterfulness | “Can t-—=the—engine got —out-—of— |
on his part to bring the long-suspected | control panted the chauffeur, as the
fact clearly before her. car dashed along,
“Lord Daventry has invited mama | “Tut the brakes on!” yelled his lord:
and me to tea at Ranelagh on Tuesday ship. a
pest. He is going to drive us down in| "I'm trying. They won't act”
bis new car.” | Just as they were nearing Shepherd's
“Well, of course you will mot go Bush the brakes seemed suddenly to
" " od. grip.
bow he Mmarkel, whe asked. “I think I can hold her while you get
“Because I don't want you to, out,” shouted the chauffeur,
Madge ; really I don't.” Shaking with fright,
“Just now when mama nobly an.|jumped from the car, handed Mrs,
pounced ber Intention of sacrificing a | ITeathmere out, and was just turning to
whole afternoon's bridge to my inter: | Mel her daughter when with a crash
ests 1 sald I would not go, but now | the car broke away and vanished in
gince you forbid it, Master Bob, I most a clond of dust,
decidedly shall” Mra, Heathmere screamed and drop
“Please. Madge—as the first favor ped in the middle of the road
that I have ever asked-—I beg of you | “What has happened?’ she walled
pot to go. Let me drive you and your |. Oh Why did you make me risk the
mother down.” life of my only child in your terrible
“Don’t be absurd. Of course I shall | machine? What will happen to her?
go with Lord Daventry,” she answered. | Of: do you think that she will have a
“Very well, then I shall stop it.” | Pajnjess death”
“How, pray ™ A rald it has got ont of contro!
“hat will be as T may think fit. But | 288" began his jordship feebly.
be certain of ope thing, Miss Heath. Why could not the dd idiot hold the
meré, that you shall drive down to |!nfernal thing another minute?”
Ranelagh with me and not with Da- Why don't you do something,” she
ventry, and you shall take tea with cried, intend of standing there and
ma and not with Daventry." . swearing
»
By this time a crowd had collected
’ the week-end | anxious to know what had happened.
hon art Soke ap. and Bob Lang: | “1 think we had better take the Tube
ley traveled back to town with mother back and inform the police,” remarked
and daughter, much to the former's an. his lordship dolefully, “I don't me
noyance,
what else we ean do.” And so saying
Mrs. Heathmere sat in one corner
Daventry
he seized the unfortunate Mra, Heath
mere and bundled ber Into the stuffy
pation
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In the meantime the ear had eon
tinued its mad career. Mims Hoath
Brot hock, resigned herself 1 bor fate
dentally why people who w
ed coal) never take a hint
| tend the sugar product as a diversified | ¥
DU FASHIONED SYRUP BOILING
stock exporiea doe Dresent one
half the valu Ay syrup and sugar. While the demand
¢ from fol. brought in | for both these commodities has oon
Our Southern State 1 lands, . stantly Increased, the output from
face all our sugar, to Gc COUM pro-| maple trees has decreased during the
he sugar possible from pPothing of | last twenty years. he trade has been
North 2nd West. The sugar J in the | supplied only by radically adulterating
@ the | the pure goods, or by manufacturiog a
beet crop of 1004 amounted to 20
tons or 121,000 tons less than the df | Product entirely fr hw foreign materials,
It is conservatively estimated that
avery
MIAMI CYCLE & MFC. CO.
MIDDLETOWN, OHIO,
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THE CAR
THAT GOES
OLDSMOBILES
for 1905
Highest Workmanship.
Olds Motor Works
DETROIT, MICH.
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sugar produced in Louisiana alone, Ex’ .
ard n-eighths of what is sold as maple
crop to other Southern States and we | Th and sugar Is a spurious article
have achieved one more agricultural ducerdiit does not lie with the pro
telumph. duce the $e who tap the trees and re
Dr. iH. W. Wiley, Chemist of the De | with the del to syrup and sugar, but
partment of Agriculture, who has ex- | Who buy the # and so-called refiners,
haustively investigated the sugar and |ddulterate it In priicle and mix and
syrup possibilities of the Southern | for themselves, The", most profitably
States, says that the people of this| stitutes used In the it SOMMInGn sub
country are singularly {II informed con- | Other sugars and glucose’ ration ray
cerning the household value of a pure | Ings of vanilla or extracts I flavor
article of cane syrup; he always keeps | obs and stalks. Formerly thé, corn
a good deal of maple sugar producd®as
gi the South, but now Vermont, Nev
York and Ohio are the largest pro-
(ducers, Attempts have been made in
the West to produce sugar from sor:
ghum cane, but the syrup can not be
successfully granulated, and so far the
manufacture has been limited to the
waking of molasses for local use,
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A GIANT BRIDGE.
Clear Span of Third of Mile.
The Bt. Lawrence is soon to be
bridged at Quebec with a bridge hav.
Ing a span of 1.500 feet, the
largest span in the world, exceeding
the Firth bridge In Scotland, with its
1.710 feet, nnd that of the Hruoiye
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STANDING AND CUT SUGAR CANE
a supply in his own
very much whether
number of consumers in the
States have ever tasted the pure article.
All Southern cane is mixed
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