The Story of the Soil; from the Basis of Absolute Science and Real Life,

y table, with Mr. West at the

met the glance of Adelaide sitting opposite. Certain he wa

grandmother was still so active and so interested in all phases of homemaking that she seemed mother to them all. Adelaide's two older sisters were married and her brother Charles, also older than herself, by three years, was a senior in college. Adelaide had just finished her course in the Academy where the long

ater importance to follow. A musicale in the near-by country church had been in preparation and Percy heartily accepted an invitation to accompany the family to th

te quality in the musical world. Consequently he was not a little surprised and greatly pleased to sit and listen to a class of music that he had never before heard rendered

age. "If our land was only like it used to be! but it's become so mighty poor our children can't have many advantage

intained by the return of the essential materials removed in crops or destroyed by cultivation. Surely land need not become poor; b

lied. "Just put on plenty of ordinary farm fertilizer, but

gnized some of the names they mentioned as belonging to persons to whom he had been presented at the church. It gradually dawned upon him that he had spent the

need not have been, "and then he wondered if these were not

people came from, Mrs.

she repeated, "I don

ettled with people from all sections of the East, and many from Europe and from Canada, and I thought your ancestor

e advise you never to ask a Virginian if he was born in Pennsylvania. That's more than most Virginians can stand. Once a Virginian, always a Virginian,-both now, hereafter, and hith

ntion of the other members in the carriage and a hearty laugh followed

he Second, of England, and to David the First, of Scotland; and my granddaughter is the great-granddaughter of Patrick Henry. So now you know where _we _came from," and she laughed again like a girl. "Yes," she a

heard in the rear; for Mr. West had been living over again his younger