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A Daughter
Of The Ranch

A Story of Romance and Adventure
of Western Pioneer Days
— BY —
ALEXANDER D. McLEOD
(Published by Special Arrangement
with the Author)

(Continued)

“Often I think it wrong of me to
think and feel this way and imagine
things as I do, but I cannot help it. I
think, sometimes, that it is wrong of
me, but, at other times, I think it

_ floes me good to let iny imagination
thus wander away with my thoughts.
It relieves the aching loneliness, Oh,
Mr. MacRae, it may seem sentimental
and silly of me to talk in this way, to
say these things to you, but somehow
I cannot help ft. I feel as though I
must yield to the urge and the im-
pulse to speak about it. Do you
think it is wrong of me, Mr. MacRae?
But, really, it {s so intensely lonely
not to have anyone to talk to when
you feel depressed.”

Inwardly feeling flattered that she
should confide in him, he said: “On
the contrary, Miss Fraser, you are
perfectly right in talking it over with
someone. One should let one’s im-
agination wander away. and carry
one’s thoughts from brooding over
troubles. It diverts one’s attention
from the depressing moods with which
most people are at odd times afflicted.
¥or, here you are, often alone and un-
able to talk ard associate with people
when you often feel the most need of
it. At your age, and with your tem-
perament, you cannot help but feel the
need of and crave the society of peo-
ple. I can see it is an advantage
denied You here to a very large ex-
tent.

“Our moods of depression are very
often dispelled by allowing our im-
aginations thus to run away with our
thoughts. Sometimes the visions of
the imaginatior may seem light and
frivolous and childish, but the happiest
moments of life are often the product
of frivolous imagining, a truth that is
very well exemplified in childhood
days. I think that our fancies should
be indulged and encouraged. They
relieve the tedium of the monotonous
hours of life. They are not wrong;
they are nature's antidote to gloomy
thoughts. What you have said just

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. R. 2, Woodbridge, Ont.

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now both interested and pleased me.
It comes as a tonic to my own
thoughts and mood at the present
time.” ‘

Mary, feeling relieved and encour-
aged by the thoughts to which Ronald
had just given expression, and acting
on the of the encour t
given, said: “It 1s, indeed, nice to
know that the feelings that sometimes
take possession of me, and which are
so depressing, and the thoughts that
accompany them are not pecullar to
myself, nor, as one might imagine, due
to an odd streak in my own make-up.
I suppore that most people feel the
same way at odd times. But, during
the last few days I felt particularly
downcast, and wondered if there was
something about me that was dis-
pleasing to people and caused them
annoyance. Since the night of the
dance I felt that you, Mr. MacRae,
were annoyed at me, and I have been
wondering what could have been the
cause of it. When you came back to
the dance at daylight, after your long
absence, you looked worrled and
downcast. I wondered whether I
were to blame, whether I had done any-
thing to annoy you. You are going away
morrow, and it has worrled me a great
deal to think that you might leave
feeling annoyed at me after all you
haye done for ts—and—for me. I
hope, Mr. MacRae, I have not given
you cause for offence. If I have it
Was unknown to me and guite unin-
tentional.”

Taken aback by the ingenuousness of
her pointed suggestion, with respect
to the meaning she had taken from his
attitude towards her since he heard of
her engagement to Sergt. Melvin, Ron-
ald was for a time unable to frame a
reply. Af if tongue tied and unable
to speak, he arose and began pacing
up and down the beach in silence. She
sat and watched him with a puzzled
and quizzical expression depicted on
her face. He finally composed him-
self, and, coming up and standing be-
side her, he said: “Miss Fraser, you
have suggested a question that {fs hard
for me to answer or explain. It would
not be fair to you. I can assure you
though. that I was not annoyed at
you; my feelings were not due to an-
noyance.”

With a_ strained questioning look
she arose from where she was sitting
on the grass, and, turning towards
him, said: “Mr. MacRae, I do not un-
derstand; please explain what it is all
about.”

“It is nothing, at least nothing very
serious, Miss Fraser, but I feel I have
no right to tell you the real reason. It
might cause yo\. unhappiness in the
future, I am sure {t would not in-
terest you. As it is only a personal
matter with me, I would rather it re-
main a secret.”

“Much as I would wish to know, I
still do not understand, Mr. MacRae.”
After a pause she added: “Don’t you
think we had better go home now?”
With that she commenced to gather
up the things, put them into the bas-
ket, which she carried to the boat.
While she did so, he stood by in stupi-
fied inaction, amazed at the reception
she had accorded his blundering an-
swers. Ina short time, however, he
recovered sufficient poise to approach
her as she was placing the things
down in the stern of tie boat. He
felt now that his only alternative to a
clear understanding between them was
to explain all, and make a full confes-
sion of his sentiments and his love of
her.

“Miss Fraser, I hope you will ‘for-
give me if I appear to you to have been
crude in my refusal to reply to your
questions. I did not mean to be so.
A while agogwe were talking about be-
ing oppressed by depressing feelings
of lonelines As those feelings are
often caused bg great disappointments,
an understanding of my feelings may
help to explain all, and, perhaps, fur-
nish an answer to your questions.

“The secret of the whole matter fs,
Mary, that I love you with all the in-
tensity that it is possible for the soul
of man to love a woman. From the
time I first met you on the trail, I loy-
ed you. From that time on my ac-
tions were controlled by my love for
} you My depressing moods of the
past few days have been caused by
disappointed love. The night of the
dance I learned for the first time of
| your engagement to Sergt. Melvin, and
|that you were to be married to him
oon. I felt so disappointed and de-

t the news that I took a long

| matters out, and to try and reconcifé
myself to my disappointment and also
decide on the better course to follow.

“Your father had made a proposi-
tion to me to stay with him, take up
a homestead, and go in with him in
the ranching business. I haye decid-
ed that it would not be right for me to
stay around here in yiew of my love
of you, and in view of the fact that
you are going to marry another man.
I thought that it would not be fair as
it might be distressing to you, should
you at any time learn of my love of
you. I accordingly decided to bury
the secret of my love and leave you
happy in’ the choice you have made.
Sergt. Melvin is a splendid man and
worthy of the love and hand of any
woman. Bitter as my disappoint-
ments are, I cannot but wish you all
the joys of a happy life. I love you
with all the intensity of which my
soul is capable of loving. As I do
love you, I do not wish to stand in the
way of your future happiness. I
think that it is better for us both that
T should leave, but in the depths of my
heart the secret of my love of you
shall ever remain fresh and unalloy-
ed. All I ask is the assurance that
in future years I shall have your good
wishes and esteem.

“T did net wish to distress you by
telling you all this. While in a cer-
tain sense it is a pleasure to me to
have you know the secret of my love,
yet I do hope that that knowledge will
not cause you future unhappiness. As
I love you, I shali think of you always.
My recollections of the all but too
brief time of our acquaintance shail be
the happlest memories of my life. For-
give me, Mary, if in any way, I have
caused you distress. But now that I
haye. confessed my love, I have begun
already to feel the relief of which you
spoke a While ago.”

When Ronald had made this, his
first confession of love, he stood with
head uncoyered in an attitude of true
deyotion. The background of the
setting sun-tinged his features all
with gold. With a wild surge Mary
had never experienced before, she felt
that all at once her golden dreams
had come true, that here stood her
Fairy Prince of whom she had dream-
ed, and with whom she had in dreams
conversed. At tirst she listened with
downcast looks and averted eyes to
the outpourings of Ronald’s heart as
he told her the story of his love and
disappointment. Then with deep feel-
ings of ineffable joy, she marked the
true ring of the note of sincerity in
his voice as every word sank deep
into her heart.

When he had ceased speaking, and
she beheld him now as she bad nev-
er done before, she slowly arose, and,
with the lovelight shining through
tear-dimmed eyes, she approached)
and gaye her answer in a clear voice:
“Oh, Ronald; It is not true that I
am engaged to Sergt. Melvin; it is
not true that I ever thought of marry-
ing him. I could not marry a man
whom I do not love; I do not love him,
therefore, I could never marry him.
You say that you love me, Ronald,
then d6 not go away; do not leave me.
I, too, love you, my Ronald!”

The late June twilight was descend-
ing over lake, hills and valleys; mir-
rored on the placid, unrippled surface
of the waters were the trees, the hills,
the rocks, and the heavy follage of
the shore line; on the smooth surface
of the water flocks of aquatic birds
swam past on their course, undisturb-
ed and unafraid; the peaceful calm of
evening was falling over surrounding
nature undisturbed, save by the occa-
sional high pitched wail of the loon,
whose notes re-echoed from hill to hill
and died away in the distance when,
at last, these plighted lovers, after re-
peating over and over again the old,
old story, rowed without haste in the
direction of their home.

The End.

Water Supply In Deserts

Animal Life Found Under Sahara Has
Scientific Interest

Australia’s success in finding huge
and apparently limitless supplies of
water beneath the arid surface in the
Mterior of the island continent no
doubt prompted the search for similar
reseryoirs beneath the sands of the
African Sahara. French engineers
have been astonished at the frequent
discoveries of water at a depth of from
200 to 300 feet, and no less at the fact
that live fish, crabs and crayfish have
been brought up by the artesian wells.
These proved to be of species similar
to those found in the Palestine lakes,
and haye provided their own interest-
ing scientific problems, In the same
way salamanders have been brought
up by well borers from underground
&treams in Texas. But the varied
animal life under the Sahara has a so-
cial as well as a scientific interest. It
suggests the existence of continuous
bodies of water, bearing out the de-
claration of explorers and geologfsts
that while the surface of the desert is
dry, there is a water supply available
for modern settlers over large terri-
tories.

When Truth Hurt
Singer.—It was a very
concert, My voice filled
didn’t it?
Candid Friend.—Indeed {it did. And
I saw several people leaying to make
room for it,

successful
the hall,

Bang!
He.—“I always carry this reyolver.
It saved my life once.”
She.—‘How thrilling! Tell me about
it.”
He—"I was starving and I pawned
Ate

Out of every hundred American men,
it is said that 86 resort to money-
lenders,

Grafters often break in where burg-

fasr to trod

FOR BOYS AND GIRLS

“LITTLE FOXES”

By E. A. Henry, D.D.
Interesting Stories For Young Folks

Published By Permission
Thomas Allen, Publisher

(Continued)
If you were a girl you would be

nurse, or perhaps drive a car; if you
were a young boy, you would hit your
toy drum harder and step out more
briskly and tell all the other boys you
thought you could get the job of a
drummer,

Oh, the uniform does help to deepen
our sense of loyalty.

Now, girls and boys, I am telling you
all this for a purpose. You know
there is another army all over the
world called the Salvation Army, made
up of people who wear uniforms and
play bands and go to war against the
worst of all enemies, the one called
Sin. And they do a wonderful lot of
good in the world and deserve our re-
spect and support. They have won
by their loyalty even homage from
kings.

But did you know your father and
mother, who are members of the
church, belong to an army too, and
wear a uniform too? It is the great
army of Jesus Christ, those who have
sworn to be His seryants and to do
His work, and the uniform is just their
Christian life.

I know some church members do not
look or act any different from those
who are not. But the real member
tries to and when he joins he puts on
the uniform of a Christ-like life which
works for Christ-like ends.

When the Christians first began to
live it all out, the world used to say,
“See how these Christians love one
another.” Their Christlan member-
ship was like a badge. Everybody
knew where they belonged.

I want to ask you to join up there,
and put on the uniform of church
membership. I will tell you why.

It helps to make you a better Chris-
tian. It is taking your stand on His
side, and you can't do that, if you
mean it, without being made deeper
and stronger.

I do not think anyone can be as
good outside the church as in it, and I
am stre we should be
inside than out of it. Those who are
good without ‘going to church are good
because the church has made {t pos-
sible. Just as all who were not in
the army were safe because the great
army and nayy were protecting them.
But {t is not fair to borrow other peo-
ple’s money.to live on. You should
have your own. And {t is not fair
to get the good the church brings us
without coming in and helping her.
It is not fair to give no return for ser-
vice received.

So 1 ask you to join God’s church
because it helps you, and it helps the
church and it tells everybody where
you stand.

Then it expresses your loyalty.
Jesus gives us His church and if
everybody refused to come in, it would
die, and Hi: work would perish.

Announce your loyalty now! Fight
the fight now!

“He is counting on you!

On a love that will share

In His burden of prayer,

For the souls He has bought
With His life blood and sought,
Through His sorrow and pain
To win ‘home’ yet again.

He is counting on you;

If you fail Him—what then?”

It is very hard to be a citizen-at-
large, that is, a citizen of the world.
You have to be a citizen of some coun-
try.
A great Scotch poet said:
“Breathes there a man with soul so

dea
Who never to himself hath sald,
This is my own, my native land.”

To love the world you have to know
how to love your own part of it.

And 0 in order to tell the world of
our loyalty to Christ, we need to fast-
en down to the church that stands for
Christ.

To have a sort of general love for
God without helping to spread His
cause will soon result in the loss of
your love for God.

Take away the church for ten years,
and you-would not want to live in your
town after. .

And then it {s a fine thing to put the
church uniform on as early as pos-
sible. It Js not falr to live your life
for yourself and your own pleasures
until you get too old for them, and
then bring what fs left and offer it to
God,

In the Old Testament days it was
the unblemished lamb that was asked
for; and, dear girls and boys, God
wants you now, in the days of your
youth. The church needs your fresh,
bright young lives. The future so big
with promise needs strength and yig-

{CUTICURA HEALS]
SKIN. TROUBLE

Face Broke Out In: Pim-
ples, Were Disfiguring.
Extremely Sore. ~

“My face broke out in a mass of
{ pimples that were very annoying
as well as disfiguring. The pim-
ples were small, hard, red lumps at
first, but increased in size and
came toa head. The pimples were
extremely sore and tender, and I
was very much discouraged.

**T read an advertisement for Cu-
ticura Soap and Ointment and sent
for a free sample, I purchased
more, and after using two cakes of
Cuticura Soap, together with the
Cuticura Ointment, I was healed.”
(Signed) Miss Alberta Moore, Salt
Springs Sta., Nova Scotia.

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St. John Lady Was Nervous
And Had Severe Indiges-
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Pain.

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Nervousness caused me such agony it
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and finally became so weak and thin
I was almost a shadow.

“But Tanlac gave me a splendid ap-
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that is simply perfect. I sleep the
whole night through and have gained
such weight, strength and energy that
I always feel at my best.”

Tanlac ts for sale by all good drug-
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MRS. KNOX SUFFERED
FOR OVER THREE YEARS

Tanlac Vegetable Pills
For Constipation.
and Recommended by
Manufacturers of Tanlac.

Made the

our, and you have {t. Therefore, do
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then you will have a long life of ser-
vice, and not a poor little meagre
piece at the end. -

The sooner you become an out-and-
out worker for Jesus, the more you
will be able to help Him. There is
no life sadder than to have to go out
at the end with no record of service.

A young man, dying, had given him-
self to God but seemed sad and trou-
bled, and they asked him what was
the matter, had he lost bis trust? “Oh,
no,” he said, “not that, but I have to
go and meet Jesus with empty hands!”

And someone wrote a hymn which
Bays:

“Must I go and empty hadned,

Thus my dear Redeemer meet,

Not one day of service give Him,

Lay no trophies at His feet?”
You, girls and boys, put the Ghris-
tian uniforn: on now; join up soon.
Then think of the long and splendid
record of service that will be yours
if you stand loyal to the army of Jesus
Christ.

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and DIZZY SPELLS
Since She Used
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Miss Bertha Charrette, Regina,
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My doctor advised a complete rest
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I became interested in Milburn’s
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mailed direct on receipt of price by
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Ont.

Successful Women Trappers

U.S. Government Employs Four to
Destroy Wild Animals

Four officially-appointed women
trappers—women whose duty it is to
seek out and destroy mountain Hons,
wolves, coyotes and other creatures
that prey upon stock, are in the employ
of the United States Government.

It was in 1915 that the government
undertook a campaign to destroy these
noxious animals, and experienced
trappers were engaged for the work.
Then war came, and the men were
called to the colors. Alas, many ney-
erreturned. This led the authorities
to break their rule of only employing
men for this perilous calling, and since
1918 four women—wives and daugh-
ters of former government trappers—
haye entered Uncle Sam’s service as
hunters and destroyers of wild crea-
tures that give the stockmen and
ranchers so much trouble.

The more famous and daring of
these fair hunters Is Mrs. Anna New-
man, and her daughter, Miss Anna
Schneider, whose hunting headquart-
ers are at the little settlement of
Benton on the Nevada side of the
Sierra Nevada range of mountains.
Here they trap their animals—for they
are taken in steel traps—oyer wild
and mountainous country far from the
haunts of man.

Since they started, in 1918, they
haye accounted for 400 coyotes, moun-
tain lions, lynxes and bob-cats, the
principal pests in their: large district.

Probably Worth It

Rastus—"“Wanna buy
Sam?”

Sam.—‘Wot ails de mule?”

Rastus.—"‘Nothin’.”

Sam. en what yo’ want to sell
him for?”

Rastus-

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a mule,

“Nothin’.”

With The _
Boy Scouts

Includes Respect
Another necessary element of cour-
tesy is respect—respect for the rights,
feelings and opinions of others. This
also means a readi-
ness to acknowledge
the good qualities of
others, and to think
of these good quali-
ties which you dis-
“ like. It was said of ©
\ a certain greatly loy-
ed pastor that he was never known to
say anything to another's disadvant-
age. This meant that he had culti-
vated the habit of never thinking of
anything that was to another’s disad-
vantage.
The published diary of the Duchess
of Teck contains this quotation from —
Queen Victoria: “God has been s0

dislikes.” | s

A Scout Leader’s Example
One of our leaders in Canadian
Scouting was once invited to address

of another's boys’ work programme, —

meeting, and spoke first. On then
being called to the platform the Scout
leader complimented the audience and
the previous speaker on one of the fin-
est boys’ work addresses he had ever
heard, and asked to be excused from
saying anything regarding the parti-
cular programme in which he himself
was interested.
would do nothing to take from the
success of fanother man’s address.

She Knew 5
There is no use trying to joke with
a woman.

good conundrum and decided to try it
on his wife.
“Do you know why I am like
mule?” he asked her when he went
home. Pa:
The wife did not even stop to think.
“No,” she replied promptly. a
know you are, but I don’t know why
you are.” .

MRS. MARY GRAY

CANADIAN Morners, You
SHOULD BE HEALTHY

scription,

of one bo
in time I_was com
health. Have had
children since. Hac

Plerce’s Favorite Prescription

know what I would have done.”"—Mrs.
Mary Gray, 732 Homer Street. ~
What Doctor Pierce’s Favorite Pre=
ie for other mokbens it
ih

i is very
~ drngeist,

a gathering of boys’ work. Unknown ~
to him another speaker, the advocate

In other words, he —

Wgo0d to me that now, in my old age, —
I want to confess that I have not any ~

had also been invited to address the a

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The other day Jones heard a pretty at: