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••â-  I Time Heals Most Wounds A Tale of Love and Disappointment 3» â- oa6 W » â€" M >o c ««« w « tt 3» a « â€" oâ€" e« CHAPTEK IV.â€" {Continued). "I am afraid we must defer this t'lKcussic'i, Cyril ; but I warn you tiiat nothing will move me from the position that I have taken up. Think ever what 1 have said, and prepare to make a sacrifice." Harecastle stared perplexedly at his father, wr.s about to speak, but changed bis mind and left the lib- rary. In the hal! he was greeted. , . ,. n.ost effusively by Joel, ^ho shook "^ ""derstanding l-ira warmly by the hand. "Glad to see you have managed â- t intefresting, and I really am ex- tiemely bu«y. I am sorry to cut short our interview." The Earl rose from his seat, but his knees trembled, and he was forced to reseat himself. Ackroyd looked at him steadily, and a faint smile twitched his mouth. "I regret to have to cause you inconvenience, but I am unable to leave you until we have arrived at I say this in Lord Wolver- with ominous I'our own interest, holme," he said, to got down at last. Your father , •"''t"''^-. J.as been very anxious for your ,, Indecision was « n./..o>w.o " li'.-arl 8 face. He longed to turn the Indecision was depicted on the pioaence. , ^ i ^ l i i ^ j They moved aside to tllow Ack-I'"^" ""l^' b"t he dared not do so. rowd to pass. Marecastle greeted biiu with a surprised nod, as he recognized his fellow-traveller. "I know that man," said Joel, M'hon he had passed out of hearing. "Who is he?" "I've not the least idea. Wei A dread fear clutched him that his tin had found him out ; his heart throbbed wildly, and ho pressed his hand to his heart. For a year or two after his trea- son, he had lived in dread of the world gaining knowledge of his travelled from town together. That i ^.***-*r"^' ?^},^ .^'^ his country, but is all I know of him, .save that he i ^'""^ "^^^ '"'l*^^ ^^'^ '"'^^ security, gave me an excellent cigar." ["â- ^'^ '."^ «=*s ""'y »*, 'â- '^'"o intervals "1 shall place him soon," Joer that 'le ever thought of the black Baid confidently. "His face leaves f'^ed of his life. He gasped for rather an unpleasant impression i ''reath, and rising unsteadily, half upon ray mind. But come along, ^'''e'' "â-  t"mblcr with neat spirit and ;ny daughter and sister will be de-lS"'^''*^ ',t ^*^^^"- lighted to see you." ^ really do not understand you, Joel would take no refusal, but «•"'' ^ »'" ^^^ "'«" enough to pro- Jinked his arm in that of the joun-|l<"'8 this interview," he managed ger man and led him on to the tor race. Ilebekah was looking her Jbes-t. The walk had given her a folor, or was it the pressure of say at last "I see that your lordship is in- disposed, and I can well under- stand it." Ackroyd rose with a Ihink that this is an attempt to blackmail me. But you will not succeed ; the whole story is a fig- ment of your imagination." Ackroyd smiled pleasantly. "I speak of what I know to be the truth," he answered quietly. The Earl laughed scornfully. He had decided to fight ; for he felt it e-xtremely improbable that the Prime Minister could have left evi- dence to convict him, and what else had he to fear? "I think it unnecessary to pro- long this interview," he said with an effort at calmness. "Just as you please. It is a mat- ter of perfect indifference to me ; there are those who will receive it with welcome arms. Good after- noon, my lord." As he rose, he took the letters from his pocket. "What have you there?" the Earl demanded eagerly. ".•\t the outset of this interview, J told you that I had found certain letters. I did not lie, here they are." He held them forth, and the Earl eagerly stretched forth his hand. "I am afraid 1 cannot part with them, even for a moment, they are of value to me. You may look at them if you wish, but I thought your lordship declared that the whole affair was a figment of my imagination," Ackroyd said jeer- ingly. But his face wore a triumphant expression. He felt that he held the whip hand, and the the Earl would eventually pay. "But they are gibberish," the Earl cried as he looked at the let- ters which were held up to his view. "Merely a cipher." He took another paper from his pocket, which he handed over. "I have carefully decoded the let- ters, and hero is an accurate copy. J can make you a present of it if you like, but stay. !;and pounds," he said desperately. "I have named my priqe, which is a moderate one, when you think what I am selling. It means your good nameâ€" more than that. Your son, too, would be ostracized if this were know^. There would be a public outcry, for the last thing that the British public will endure i3 treason. You will be hounded fiom the country, and the name of Lord Wolverholme would be ayn- onymous with everything contemp- tible. You would not have a friend ii: the world. Salvation from this if surely cheap at the price I ask you to pay." (To be Continued.) ON M FJIll Harecastle's hand? He eeemed un- iT'easant smile, and walked slowly feiguedly pleased to see her. towards the door. He had not mis- He would have given anything to | calculated, for as soon as his hand b • alone to his thoughts, but he did i touched the knob, the Earl called not care to be guilty of rudeness, [to him perempf-rily. BO be did his best to be pleasant. "Perlisps I had better hear you," But even Joel seemed to notice his ''C said feebly, waving hiui once ol'sent-mindednoss, and locked at | "'"/e to the chair, him curiously. "Is there any truth in Hare- fastle's engagement to Eth^l Feth- erston?" Joel asked himself, but he found that ho could not make Ackroyd was in no haste to be- gin. He leant back comfortably. "Would your lordship mind if I smoke? I can think so much bet- ter with a cigar in my mouth, and up his mind as to the answer to j 1 am desirous of d-^aling with you the question. ai gently as possible." After a while HarooaBtle excused Tlie Earl motioned to the cigars, h.mself and retired to his own and with dry lips and strained eye room. He was utterly bewildered I watched his visitor slowly light ut his father's action in refusing to ' one. consent to so suitable an engage- ment, and he wracked his brain to think what could be aniinatirg him in his opposition, but without suc- cess. CHAPTER V. The Earl was thankful to have l)een able to put an end to the in- terview with his son, for he rea- lized that the attitude that he had taken up must appear inexplicable. .He flecided to consult with Joel. }]<• did not ip'end to bo absolutely frank with him, but merely to hint that there was a difEculty with re- gard to tlie projected marriage. He had quite forgotten the an- r.outicement of a visitor, when Ack- royd was ushor.'d into his presence. He looked at him with indifference, and decided to get rid of him at the earliest possible moment, for he felt sorely in need of a rest after the 'Strain of the recent strenuous conflict with his son. "I am very busy this afternoon Mr. â€" Mr. â€" ah â€" Ackroyd, and I hope that you will make your business at! short a« possible!" "That is my intention, my lord. But I fear that I shall have to de- tain you for some little time. May I take a seat?" Ackroyd asked suavely. "Certainly. \ ery remisw not to have asked you. Now tell me what 1 ran do f<jr you," ho asked with cold couftesy. "I must first trouble you with a lit'.le of my private history. Quite r( cently I have been engaged by Mr. Felix Shelby to assist him in norting the private papers of the late Prime Minister." Ackrovd carefully watched his victim, but the Earl had not whol- ly lost the self-control given to him by his diplomatic training, and he looked calmly and coldly at his visitor. "Among theflo papers I have found certain lettera, vhich I think jour lordship will f^nd iatsrsjt you personally." "In what way, Mr. Ackroyd?" "These letters refer to a matter which took place »ome thirty years "Rather ancient liistory, is it not?" the Earl interrupted. His manner was calm, but his face had ,»uddenly grown very white, and his eyes were strained with anxiety. "I am afraid that I shall not find t( a base calumny, and I can only DAIRY FARMING IN HOLLAND. President J. H. Worst, of the North Dakota Agricultural Col- lege, who recently made a tour of the dairy countries of Europe, re- ports that in Holland the most re- markable of all dairy countries, the farmers support an astonishing number of cows on a very small area. In some cases the land is made to carry two or three cows to the acre. For the entire country the land will carry a half to whole cow to the acre. The ordinary 20 acre farm carries 10 to 20 cows, with the horses necessary to do the farm work, and three sheep to each cow. On the best soil the 20 acre farm will carry 20 cows, -three to four horses and 60 sheep, with the usual flocks of poultry. This mean3 pas- turage and soiling for the animals in the summer and grains, roots. You knew the I hay and roughage in the winter. Prime Minister's handwriting; you The cows are the gigantic "black hod better satisfy yourself that the ' and white," known there as Fries- originals were written by him." I iun -••nd here as Holstein-Friesian A fear that was pitiful had seiz-'cows, and their average production ed hold of the Earl, and it was for the country is over 9,000 pounds w ith difficulty that ho read the pa- ! ol fine milk per head. Evidently the per, owing to the violent trembling i Hollanders must practice intensive if bis hands. The document flut-j farming and gilt edge of the most tered to the floor, and the Earl fell 1 intense stripe. At all events such back into his chair. His face was: farming figures as those quoted ashen white, and his breast heaved cast a lurid light on the American spasmodically "Quick," he gasped, "in that drawerâ€" get the bottle." Ackroyd ran to the drawer. "Pour out ... a dose ... or I shall die ... my heart!" 150 acre farm that carries at a loss Ifi to 20 cows, several horses and no sheep or poultry. The Holland land sells at $000 to $2,000 per acre, while the Ameri- can land is rated at $5 to $30 per Ackroyd did as he was bade, and acre. The tenant farmer in Hol- "A» I was sayini;', some forty â€" or thirty, I believe, is correctâ€" some thirty years ago your lordship was intrusted by the British Qovern- n)ent with the charge of an import- ant negotiat^jn at St. Petersburg. -Am I right?" Ackroyd asked cheer- fully. A nod of his head was his only answer, for he was incapable of speech. "You carried out your work suc- cessfully, that is from the Russian point of view. It appears that about this time you were engaged to be married to a lady of wealth. Your own affairs wore very much involv- ed ; and you found that it would be quite impossible to carry through this marriage without a very large sum of money. Your estates were entailed, and you could not raise the money in any direction ; even the Jews failed you. Accordingly ic became necessary to smother your conscience, and you decided to accept an offer made to you by the Russians. " Ackroyd ceased speaking, and looked gravely at the Eearl. There was menace in his voice as he con- tinued : "That offer was nothing more or loss than the sale of your country.' The Earl shrank back as though struck b / a blow. His color came and went; his fingers clutched the palm of his hand, and his body tromlilod violently. His tormentor waited for him to speak, but in vain. "How do you know this?" he at last managed to utter, but his voice quavered, and he appeared to have aged suddenly by years. "You received the price of your treason, your affairs were arranged and the marriage took place. But Nemesis was on your track ; the transaction came to the knowledge of our Russian Ambassador. It was confided by him solely to the late Prime Minister. He sent for you, and I can well believe that the interview must have been painful to you." The Karl shuddered, and clutched the arm of his chair. "You were allowed to retire, and since then you have lived and en- joyed the respect of your many friends." The Earl summed up all his cour- age and rose from his seat. "T have listened with calmness his victim drank the medicine He anxiously gazed at the Earl, but there was no pity in his con- cern, for he only thought of the money that he was to gain. Death, or even a serious illness, would ruin his plans, and ho would have to go empty away. He watched the effect of the drug, and the color gradually returned to the Earl's face, but his lips were grey. "I am beaten," the Earl said, noticing. "What is your price?" "I am sorry to have caused you all this distress. I would that I could have entirely avoided the necessity of this interview. I am a poor man, my lord; my life has been full of vicissitudes, and I am on my beam ends." "For God's sake, cut the cackle. How much, man?" the Earl said fiercely. "I want fifty thousand pounds," the other said with deliberation. "You are madâ€" mad," the Earl shrieked shrilly; "1 am a poor man." "That is my price," he said firm- ly "You low blackmailer! Get out of my house ! I will send for the police. You are only fit for gaol, you coward I" "Softly, my lord, you are not one who should throw stones," Ackroyd said in a silken voice. "If you had said a thousand pounds, I might have been able to manage it," the Earl said more calmly. "I am sorry to have called you names, but you drove me to it. I will give you a thousand pounds." Ackroyd rose to his feet and laughed contemptuously, as the Earl produced a cheque book. "It is more than I can afford. I am in debt, and have had to bor- row money myself." "That sum would not last mo pix months, and I have made up my mind to get from you a suffici- ently large sum to keep me in com- fort for tke rest of my life. You must really be more generous, Lord Wolvarholme. I am not ask- ing for a tithe of the sum that you received for your treachery, and you have had the use of that for more than thirty years. They did not make you diegorge, you know. You must really be raoro gener- ous." "I cannot sustain this interview much longer. I have had an agi- tating day, and I am far from strong. I will give you five thou- land pays a rent of $50 to $100 per acre, and by intensive culture and great yield of cows ho makes a liv- ing, clears the heavy rental, main- tains or increases the fertility of his soil and lays up some money. President Worst reports his visit to the Leeuwarden co-operative creamery. That creamery receives milk from 2,000 cows and makes cheese and butter and sells milk. In the year ending May 12, 1906, the creamery made 373,554 pounds of butter that was sold for $35,726, with 257,251 pounds of cheese that sold for $25,512, a total of $161,446 for the year. The farmers, who are the shareholders of the creamery received $143,228 for their milk. That means an inct>me of $7.16 per cow for milk, while the fertilizer produced by the cows, and the value of their calves either to sell or rear, swelled the average earn- ings of their cows considerably. THE BUTTER MAKING. The oily flower that is found in so much of the cream-gathered butter is due to keeping the cream too long at, and churning at a high temperature, says an exchange. When the cream is cooled and churned at once this flavor is never noticed. It also helps to overcome the sour rancid fl vors due to old and over-ripe cream by getting the cream into butter as soon as pos- sible. By using the pasteurizer, the best all round satisfaction is given, especially if the cream is not too sour or over-ripe and testing over twenty-five per cent. tat. Where cream can be obtained un- der these conditions a pasteurizer certainly should be installed and used. A good culture is also essen- tial, but owing to the difficulty of getting skim or whole milk, and the extra care that a cream culture takes, few of the makers xise one continually. The cream in the vat should be stirred often to get an eveJi temperature and acidity. If left without being stirred, the cream around and next to the cold water and ice will be colder «uid thus develop less acid than tne cream in the centre of the vat, which will be of a high^^r tempera- ture, thus not giving an exhaustive churning. DAIRY NOTES. Quebec is the largest producer of creamery butter of all the provinc- es in Canada. During the seven years, 1900 to 1907, Quebec increas- ed her production of butter bv 28 per cent, and the value cf her but- ter products by 48 per cect. In tha same per'od, Quebec decreased her production of cheese by 15.37 but the value only decreased 0.87 per cent. During the year 1900 to 1907 the production of creamery butter in Canada increased 27.35 per cent. The value of the creamery butter made in 1900 was $7,240,972, as compared with $10,940,002 in 1907. In 1900 the average price per pound was 20c. and in 1907 24 cents. There were four milk condenseri- e.s in Canada in 1900 as against sev- PD in 1907. Tiie value of the pro- duct of these condenseries increased from $265,520 in 1900 to $910,842 ia 1907. In 1900 the value of condens- ed milk imported into Canada was $254,176. In 1907 the value of the imports was only $4,846. SHE KNEW. "Have you any letters for me?" inquired old Mrs. Brown, bustling breathlessly into the villcge poafc- office. "No letters," replied the post- master. "Dearie me!" said Mrs. Brown. "I was expectirg a letter or a post- card from my daughter Martha to say when she was coming." "Well, I'll see," said the post- master. Then he called to his wife in the kitchen, "Here's Mrs. Brown want- ing to know if there's a poctoard from her daughter Martha telling her when Martha's coming." "Yes, there is," replied the post- master's wife. "Martha is coming next Tuesday." WHY THE NEIGHBORS SMILE. Little Willie was a perfect "dear"; at least, so thought his mother till recently. She missed the youngester one day for some time, and when he reappeared she asked : "Where have you been, my pet?" "Playing postman," replied the pet. "I gave a letter to all the houses in our road. Real letters, too." "Where on earth did you get them?" questioned his mother, ia amusement. "They were those old ones in your wardrobe drawer, tied with ribbon," was the innocent reply. Willie now wants to know what hu was spanked for. « SCORED OFF TOMMY. A young Irish lad on a market day in an Irish town was minding an ass attached to a cart awaiting the exit of his parent from a busi- ness establishment. HiF arm was thrown around the neck of the animal when two re- cruiting sergeants passed by. One of them seeking to make fun of the youth, said: "What are you hug- ging your brother so tightly for?" " 'Cause," was the ready rejoin- der, "I was afraid he'd 'list." .J. It keeps some men busy postpon- ing things. Amber is found colored black, white, brown, and green, as well a? yellow. The film of a soap-bubble is tht> 2,5OO,000th part of aa inch in thick- ness. The total tonnage of ships now being built in t'-.e United Kingdom is the lowest since 1396. The Frieburg silver mines, in Saxony, after being worked for 700 years, are about to be closed. In some parts of Germany glass telephone-poles, reinforced by wire, are in use. Grapes are still trodden with the bare feet in many vineyards ol Italy and Spain. The crown worn by Queen Wil- helmina on Stete occasions cost about $000,000. The thickness of a razor-edge has been reckoned at about one-mii- lionth of an inch. Sometimes a man accomplishea gieat things by getting other men to do them for him. Manager â€" "My stock-in-trade is brains." Principal Girl â€" "You've got a funny-looking sample case." When a young man goes around looking as though he hadn't a friend on earth it is either a case of love or indigestion. Anxious Motherâ€" "How is it that you have so much trouble with your housekeeping ? You told me your wife could cook." Adult Sonâ€" "She can." "Then what is the mat- ter?" "She won't." Tommyâ€" "Pa, what ia an equi na.x?" Paâ€" "Why, ft. -it is-- r. hem ! For goodness' sakf Tommy, don't you know anything about rivtho- logy at all? An e^ui lox was a fab- led animal, half horse, halt ro-.v. Its name is derived from the word** 'equine' and '*,\.' It does scein as if these public schools don't tetch children anything n jw-a-'vdayal"