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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News-Record, 1908-01-09, Page 74 Januar) 90, b19D8 rewt- AVM „4- 0. D. MeTaggart, M. R. MOTaleEett McTaggart Bros e -BANE A GENERAL BANKING Wieell • NESS TRANSA.OTED. NOTES , DISCOUNTED. DRAFTS ISSUED INTEREST ALLOWED ON DE- POSITS. SALE NOTES PURCH- ASED. W. Blq,DONE, BARRISTER, SOLICITOR NOTARY, PUBLIC. ETO. OFFICE -Sloane Block -dr INTON. -......... RIDOUT & HALE .. Conveyancers, CommissionerS, Real Estate and Insurance Agency. Money to loan. ...... ... C. B. HALE - JOHN RID011T - ..---- DRS. GUNN & McRAE. Dr. W. Gunn, L.R.C.P., L.R.C.S., Edin. . Office -Ontario street, Clinton. Night calls at front door of office or resi- dence, Rattenbury street. Di. T. T. McRae, • University of Toronto. Office hours at hospital :- 1 to .3 p. m. ; 7 to 9 p. m. - .-DR. .,T. W. SHAW----: -OFFICE- RATTENBURY ST. EAST, . -CLINTON.- _ --.... ,...---. DR. C. W. THOMPSON PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON •. Special attention given to diseases of the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat.- -Office and -Residence - HURON ST. SOUTH. CLINTON 3 doors west of the Commercial' hotel. -DR. F. A. AXON. - (Successor to Dr. Holmeri.) Specialist in Crown and pridge work. . Graduate of the RoyalCollege of Dental Surgeons of Ontario. Honor graduate of University of Toronto Dental Department. Graduate of the Chicago College • of Dental Surgery. Chicago. Will be at the Commercial hotel Bayfield, every Monday from. 10 a. m. to 5 p. m. ' J. LEWIS THOMAS. • Civil Engineer, Architect, etc: (late Dominion Department Public Walks.) • . Consulting Engineer for Mun- icipal and County Work, El- ectric Railroads, Sewerage and Waterworks Systems, Wharves, Bridges and Re-enfarced con- crete. ' Phone 2220 LONDON, ONT. AUCTIONEER -JAMES SMITH Li- censed Auctioneer for the County of Huron. All orders ehtrusted to me will receive prompt attention. Will sell either by percentage or per sale. 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Is entirely unlike any other hair prepare, tion ever offered for sale. • • * A, good, reliable Canadian preparatioa. , Unsolicited Testimonials. Edith A. Burke, Missionary H.M. Church: Akhimim, Egypt, and friends, greatly pleased with results after two years' anus'. L. A. Hopes, Wilmer, Montana. My 'hair • and whisketa restored to natural color, dark brown, by using Canadian Hair Restorer • M. Orum,Burgessville, pnt. Canadian Hair . Restorer is the best I have ever used. ' John G. Hill, New Aberdeen', Cape Breton. Canadian Hair Restorer hag worked Wond et s. My head is nearly all covered with thick growth black hair, original color. Bold by all wholesale and retail druggists. Mailed to any address in the civilized world on receipt of price, 500. Manufactured by THE nEnNVI! Co.,. Windsor. Ont.,: Canada. For sate by W. 8. Re Holmes, J. E. Hovey and .W. ' A. • McConnell, drug- gists, Clinton. GRA TRUNK RAILWA -I "SYSTEM' CALIFORNIA 'MEXICO FLORIDA. are the favorite WINTER RESORTS. Round trip tickets are. issued by the Grand Trunk Railway System giving choice of all the' eart routes, going ' one way ' and returning are other; Full information may be obtained from • InSulange::, Cotimpi4:: -Farne and isolated Town k'reperty- -Only Insured -- -OFFICERS- • J. B. McLean President, Seaforth o. ; Thos. Fraser, Vice -President • Brucefield P. O. ; T. E. Hays, Sec. Treasurer, Sealorth P. 0. -Direetors- William Shesney, SeafOrth ; Joh, Grieve, WinthrOp ; George Dab, See forth;' John Watt, Harlock ; etohn Bennewiee, Brodhagan ; Jamea Evan Beechwood • James Connolly, . • --AGENTS- Robert Smith, Harlock ; E. Ilin- chley, SeafOrth ; James Cummings Egmondville ; J. W. Yeo. Holmesville. Parties desirrnis to effect ins:name or transact other business will • be promptly attended to on applieatio to any of the above officers addreseed to their respectiVe postoffices. Leese inspected by the director Who' live' nearest the secne. GRAND TRUNK Ittrem -TIME TABLE-, Trains will • arrive 'at end eep Alt Bunn Clinton station as follow BUFFALO .AND GODERICH DIV. Going East 1. ;I it $1 'Going West it it it it it it 41* LONDON, HURON & 11..eU0E DIV Going $011th 7.30 It. M. 4.23 p, Going North • 11.0a. in • 41 I, ••�e•� • • rON0 • n. . • • Orphan • • • • • Author ot Ill • • the tlitt)s°9 `411‘ • • • ”The Homestead on 41 "A and Sunshine," Etc. • (41110••••••••••aleo .04••••••••••••••••••••••• Herndon, who had accordPanied him from New Orleans to visit her aunt. Mrs, Russell. "Ile says she's an heiress, and very beautiful," rejoined Ida, seating her- self at the piano. Instantly catching at the words, "heiress" and "beautiful," Henry started' up, asking "if it would be aseainst all the rules of propriety for him to call upon her thus early." "I think it .would" was George's brief answer, while •Mary's eyes -whorl scornfully upon the young ' in, who, rather crestfallen, an- . •uncecl himself ready to listen to ,:la, whom he secretly styled "an old Maid," because since his first remem- brance she had treated him with per- fect indifference. That night before retiring the three girls sat down by the cheerful •fire -in Mary's room to talk over the events of the day, when. Mary . suddenly asked Ida to tell her truly if it were not George who had, paid her bine at Mount Holyoke. ' "What bills?" said Jenny, to whom the idea was new, while Ida replied: "And •suppose it was?" "I am sorry," •answered Mary, lay- ing • her bead uixne the table. • • ."What,a silly girl," Said Ida. "He was perfectly, able and .more than willing, so why do you care?' "I do not like being so much in - 'bled to any one,". was Mary's re - and yet in her Secret heart there as a strange feeling of pleasure in the idea that George had thus cared •for her, for would he have done so ife-She dared not finish that question 'even to .herself -dared not ask if she hoped that George Moreland loved her one-half as well as she began to think shehad always loved him. WhY should, he. With his handsome person and prieeely fortune, love one so no worthy, and so much beneath him?. And then, for the first time, she thought of her changed position since last they met. Then she wasa poor,' obscure schoolmistress -now flattered, caressed, and an heiress. • Years be- fore, when a little pauper at Chicopee, -she. had telt 'unwilling that, George should know hew destitute she..was, and now in the time of her.prospey- ity she was equally desirous that .he should, for a time at least, reinain ignorant of her present condition. said She, lifting her head from the table, "does George know that I am Mrs. Campbell's niece?" "NO,". answered Ida, "I wanted to toll : him; but Aunt Martha said I'd better. not."1-' - • ' . _ : "Doe't; then," returned Mary, :and, resuming her former position, she fell into. a :deep reverie, from 'which she was at last aroused by Jenny's tak- ing "it .she intended to sit upall night?" . . • ' The news that George Moreland had, returned, and bought Rose Lin- coln's piano, besides severalother articles, spread rapidly., and the day following, hie snivel Mary and Ida Were stripped in the street by a group of their Companions, who were eager to know how George bore the news that his betrothed was so ill, and if it Was not that which brought him home so soon; and then the conver- sation turned Mem' Miss Herndon; the New Orleans lady who had that morning appeared in the street; "And don't you think," said one of the girls, "that Henry Lincoln was danc- ing attendance upon her? If I were you," turning to Mary, "I'd caution my :sister to be it little wary of him. But let', rile see, their Marriage is to take place soon" Mary, replied that the •marriage was pestponedindefinitely, whereupon the• girls exchanged meaning glances and. passed on. In less than twenty-four hours half of Ella's acquaintances! were talking of her discarding Henry on account of his father's failure, and saying "that they expected, it, 'twas Like her." • • Ere long, 141C, rrit^,q4, in the shape of it • ,;^ Henry, who Party:. - • • mita= was as- siantat , ‘• 1' engagement, so that lie ; • •• . of it, assumed a mneleireee•-•• but said "he reck- oned he stu..n.id manage to .survive;'! thee pulling Freeze:pointed collar up another story, and brushing his pet mustache, wherein lay most of his mind; he Walkedup street, and ringing at Mrs. Russell's door, asked for Miss Herndon,. Who, Vain as beau- tiful, suffered his attentions, not be- cause she liked him in the least,' but because she was fond of flattery, and there was something exceedingly gra- tifying in the fact that at the North, where she fancied the gentlemen to be icicles, she had so soon made a conquest. It 'mattered not that .-Mrs. Russell told her his vows were plight, - ed to another. She cared nothing for that. Her life had been one long eeries of conquests, instil now .at twenty-five there was not in the whole world a more finished or heartless coquette than Evron Herndon, • Days passed .on, and at last rumors reached Ella that Henry was constant in his attendance upon the proud Southern beauty whose fortune was valued by hundreds of thousands. At first she refused to believe it, but when Mary and Jenny both assured her it was true, and when she her- • self had °coulee demonstration of the fact, she gave wayto ono long fit of weeping; and there drying her eyes, declared that Henry Lincoln should see "that she would not die for him." Stilla minute observer could easily have soon that her gayety was feign- ed, for she had loved Henry Lineoln as sincerely ' as she was capable of loving, and not even George Moreland, who treated her with his old boyish familiarity, could make her for a moment forget one who now pearled her coldly by, or listened passively while the sareaatie Evron Herndon likened her to a waxen image, fit Only for a glass case! with her more than she would prob. ably have done bad it been Ella. 0 Mary had partially engaged to teach the school in Rice Corner, but George, assuming a kind of authority over her, declared she should not, "I don't want your eyes to grow dim - and your cheeks pale, in that little pent-up room," said he. "You know I've been there and seen for myself." Mary colored, for George's 'manner of • late had puzzled her, and Jenny had more than once whispered in her ear, I know George heves you, for he looks at you just as William does at me, only a little more so !" Ida, too, had once mischievously ad- dressed her as "Cousin, adding that there was no one among her acquaint- ances whom she would as willingly call by that name. "When I was a little girl," said she, "they used to tease me aboet George, but I'd as soon think of Marrying my brother. e You never saw Mr. Elwood, George classmate, -for he's in Europe now. Between You and me. I like him and" A • loud call from Aunt Martha pre- vented' Ida from • finishing,and the conversation was not again resumed. The fleet morning Mary was to leave; and as she stood in the parjor talk- ing with .Ida., George came in with ;a travelint, satchel in his hand, and a shawl thrown carelessly over his arm. ",Where are you going?" asked Ida. ' To Springfield_ I have business there," said GeOree. "And when will you return" con- tinued Ida. feeling that it would be doubly lonely at, home„ • "That d-pende on cireurestancee;" said he. "T shall stop at Chicopee on my way back, provided Mary is Will- ing." • MarY answered that she was always glad to see her friends,' and as the carriage just then drove up, they start- ed together for the depot. Mary never remembered of having had ti mbre pleasant ride than that from Boston to Chicopee. George Was a meet agree- able companion; and with him et her side she seemed to discover new beauties in every 'abject which they passed, and feltrather sorry when the winding river and the bite waters of Pordimk • Pend warned her that • Chicopee Station .was near it hand. "T shall see !you next Week," Said . George, sat he handed her. from •the cars; which the next moment rolled - over the long meadow, and disappear- ed through the deep cut in the •sandy ' hillside. For a week More Judith had been at Mrs. Mason's house putting things to rights, and when the travel- ers arrived : they 'found everything in order. A cheerful fire Was blazing in. the little parlor, and before it stood :the tea -table nicely arranged, while two beautiful Malta kittens which , during the winter had been Itielith'z special epee, •Iny upon the hearthrug asleep, with their soft velvet Paws lovingly around each other's necks. "Oh! hew pleasant to be at • home or 7'3 more, and alone," said Mrs. Mai - :son; but Mary did not reply. Her thoughts were elsewhere, and ' Unich as. she liked being alone, the preeence ! of a certain individual would not probabry, have marred her happiness to any great extent, ,But he was corn- ing soon, and with that in anticipa- : tion,, she appeared cheerful and gay as -usual. , Among the first to call .upon them was Mrs. Perkins, Whocame early in ehe morning; bringing, her knitting work and staying all day. She had • . taken to dressmaking, she :said, and thought maybe she could get some new ideas from Mary's dresses, which she very coolly asked to see. With the utmost good humor, Mater opened her ••• entire . wardrobe to the inspection of the widow, who, having recently for- saken the Unitarian faith, had gone over to the new Methodist Church in River street, turned Conscientiously away from the gay party dresses, won- dering how Sensible people; tee say no- thing of Christian people, could find pleasure! • , "Bet then," said 1311E3, "I hear you've joined the Episcopals, and that ac- counts for it, for they allow of 'most anything, • and in my opinion ain't4a whit better than the Catholics." "Why :we are Catholic. Ain't you?" asked 'Mary. , ; The knitting work dropped, and • With a short ejaculatory prayer of ' "Good • Lord I" Mrs. Perkins exclaim- ed, 'Well! I'm glad You've owned up. , Half on 'em deny it -but there 'tis in black and whits in the prayer - hook, 'I believe in the Holy Catholic Chitero • twli.as' in ;vain 01,t7, miry referred, her to the dictionary for a definition • of the word "Catholic." "She know 11 he wanted to know, and h Shouldn't wonder, bein' Awes Friday, if Miss Mated didn't have no meat for dinner." The appearance of a nicely roasted bit of •veal quieted her fears on. that subject; and as the effects ' of the strong green tea became apparent, she , said, 'Like enough she'd been too hard • on the •Episcopale, for, to tell the truth, she never felt so Solemn in her . life as she did the time she went to one of their rneetin's; but," she added. • "I do object to them two geWill3, and I -Can't help it!" At last the day was 'crier, and with it the Visit of the widow, who had gathered enough gogeiping materials to last her until the Monday folloW- big, when the arrival in the neighbor- hood of Goon° Moreland threw her 'Upon a fresh theme, cadging her to wonder "if 't -Wasn't Marie beau, and if he hadn't been kinder „courtin' heft ever since the time he visited her Beh°:301.j fl1elt sure of it when, toward ; evening, sho EIS* them . enter the sehoolhouee, and nothing but the pres- i ence of a visitor prevented her from stealing across the rottd, and listening [ under the window. She would' un- doubtedly have been highly edified could she have heard their emeeersa- don. The interest which George had felt in Mary when a little ehild was , greatly increased When he visited her school in Rice Corner, and saw how mnch r,he wtts improvod in her mari- ners and appeatatee; and it was then that he conceived the idea of eclueat. frig her, determining( to marry her if she proved to be all he hoped she I"Arne' she did meet tations • was evident from the fact tnat his oh. feet in doping at Chicopee WAS to „. settle a question whieh she alone conioN • CHAPTER XXX/. Toward the last of April Mrs. Ma- son and Mary returned to their old home in the denary. On Ella's ac•,, count Mre. Carri bell had deeided to remain in the city during. a part of the simuner, and she labored hard to keep Mary also, offering as a last in. ducement to give Mrs. •Mason a home too But Mrs. Meson preferred her tnvit home in Ohieopee, and thither Mary aeeomparded her, promising, however, to spend the next *inter with her aunt, who wept at parting p. 1. • • .• decide. Re had asked. her to accont pany hira to the schoolhowie, becanoe it was there his resolution had been formed, and it was there lie would make it known. Mary, too, had Borne. thing which she wished to Bay to him. kilie would thank hina for his kindnese to her and her parents' memory; but the moment she commenced talking upon the subject George stopped her, and for the 'first time since they were children, placed his arm l'around her waist, and. kissing her smooth white brow, said, "Shall I tell you, Mary, how You can repay raeP" She did not reply and he continued, "Give me a husband's right to care for you, and I shall be repaid a thous- andfold." Whatever Mary's answer might have been, and indeed we are not sure that she answered at all, George was satisfied; and when he told her how dear she wee to him, how long he had. loved her, and asked if he might not hope that he, too, had been remem- bered, the little golden locket which she placed in his hand was a suffi- Went reply. Without Ida's aid he had heard of the relationship existing be- tween Mrs. Campbell and Mary, but it made no difference with him. His mind had long been made Up. and in taking Mary for his wife, he felt that he was receiving the best of heaven's blessings. Until the shadows of evening fell around them they sat there, talking of the future, which George said should be all one bright dream of happiness JO the young girl at his side, who from the very fullness of her • joy wept as she thought how strange it was that she should be the Wife of George A/foreland, whom many a dashing belle had tried in vain to win. The next morning George went' back to Boston, promising to returri,,, in a week or two,•wherelie should ex- pect Mary to accompany -him to Glen. wood, as he wished to see.Roscence more. before she. died, • • • CHAPTER XXXII. The windows of „ Rose Lincoln's chamber were open, and the balmy air of May came in, kissing the white brow of the sick girl,•andwhiepering to her Of swelling buds and fair young blessonte, whigh his breath had wak- ened into life, and 'which she would. • never sea • . "'Hes Henry come?" she asked of her father: and in the tones of her voice there Was an unusual gentle- ness, for just as she was "dying •Rose was learning to live, _ • 'For a time she had seemed so in- different and ohstimite that Mrs: How- land had almost 'despaired. But eight after' niget, when her daughter thought she slept, she prayed for the , young girl, that she might not die until she had first learned :the way Of eternal life. And, as if in answer to her'pray- '. era, .Rose gradually. began •to :end as' she listened, she wept. Won- dering, though, why her grandmother :thought her so Much more :pricked than anyone else. :Again'in 'a sudden burse of Passion, she would send her •from therooni, saying. "She ,harl heard preaching enough, -for she wasn't go- ing to .die-Lelie Wouldn't die anyway.' - But at last. such feelings passed • eaway,e-and areethe_eun of her short' . life was 'setting, ann. of Righteous-, ness shone rnore: and more •brightly over her pathway, lighting her through the dark valley of death: She' no ! longer asked to be taken' home; for she knew that. could not be; but she- wondered...why her brother. striyed so • long lreni Glenvrood when he knew.. •that she was dying. On her return from the city Jenny had told her as gently as possible of his conduct toward Ella,, and of her fears that he. was becoming more dis- sipated than • ever; • For. a tin:te Rose lay :perfectly [AM, and Jenny, think- ing she WaSi-lialeep, was :Maoist to leave the room, when her sister called her back; and bidding her sit clown , by her side, said, 'Tell me, Jemir,, do you think Henry has any lore for •rae?",. ' • ' "He would be an unnatural brother, iofwria,heeiaelit py:at,,rriiapansweinirdre teJnendeinyi,y.bteo.r ward her, sister, whoste gentle man- ner stio: could not 'understand. , "Then," resumed Rose, "if he loves rae; he' will be sorry when Mil dead, .raunidn•.Perhaps it may save hiria 'frern • The tears dropped sheerly from .her ' long •eyeleshes, while Jenny,: laying her round rosy cheek against the thin* • pale tace near her; sobbed out, "You must not die --dear Bose. You must . not die, and leave us." From that time the failure was .vis- ible and rapid.. and 'though letters 'went frequently to Henry, tellingihira 'of his sietees danger, he still lrriger- ed by the side of the brilliant beau- ty, while each morning Rose asked, "Will he come t-dri.yr and each night she •wept that he was not there'. Calmly and without a murmur she had heard the story of their ruin from their father; who , not let her 'die without undeseiving her. Before •that time she had asked to be .taken back to • Mount Aubrirn, designating the spelt where she would be buried, but, novi:Ohe insisted upon.being laid bk the running brook at the foot e of her,' grandmother's gine:len, and , hear 6. green Mersey. bank where the tinting blossom were earliest found, and where the flowers of autunm lingered longest. The music of the falling ewater, she: said, WoUld seethe her as . she slept, and its cool Moisture keep the grass green and fresh upon her eerier grave. One day, when Mrs. Lincoln was sitting by ,her danghter and, as she . frequently did, uttering invectives against Mount Holyoke, , eto. , Rose said, "Don't talk so, mother. 'Mount Holyoke Seminary had nothing to do • with hastening my death. I have done it myself by my own careless - nese"; , and then idle confessed how many • times she had I/deceived her rnother, and thoughtlesely exposed het health, even when her lungs ami side were throbbing with' pain. "I know you will 'forgive me," said she, "for Most severely have. I been punished." Then, as she heard Jenny's voice in the teem below, she added, "Them is one Other thing which would say to you. Ere die, you must promise that jenny shall marry Williarn Bon- der. He is poor, X know, and so are we, but he. has a noble heart, and now for my sake, mother, take back the bitter words you once spoke .to Jenny, "411dC". OfiliVTibiNairt EshDt InINVNtweXdT Su L.. LIEShe THE PEERAGE. --- Curtoui Peints About the Nobility, of •• Great Britain. It will doubtlaes I. the ma- jority or people thi,A • the power of the Pair's!) ; • , de - wive. a peer of rut' • only h, floue• larva ,....ts of publie• pewee and stall aroceeding Is naturally .,f exceptional char- acter. As a matter of fact, there is only. one instance to be found On rec- ord of a deprivation of this Itiud. In the reign of Edward IV, George Nei villa, duke of Bedford, was stripped of his title and dignity on the grounds of poverty. mid he died a commoner in 1483. Tbe existing dukedom. of Bed- ford was not ereated until more than a couple of centuries later. • The many people who,* le, te years have breught forward chilms to titles generally regarded as extiect and the lands which go with them may take courage Ow the' fact that peerages die hard, In Hastings ease; for 1. - stance,, the peerrige was clalmed and the title thereto established 1841 aft- er remaining unclaimed. •450 years. while in 1830 the •Camoys title was • successfully claimed after the peerage had. been in abeyance for 420 years. There are at the preseut day five de- grees of peerage -namely, duke, mar - earl., viscount and - baron -al- though for nearly 300 years from the tone of the Conqueror :to the reign of Edward W. there were only two;".earl and baron. The latter degree is the most ancleut dating from the con- quest; whileit is. a' singular: fact that :no new ,degree Of pet.rage has been in- troduced since .the reign of Ifenry VI., °who', ereated. the -title of. Viscount in 1440. :, • Regarding the marriage' Of peers, there are 'one or tWopointayvhich may • lie 'interesting. Maine peer marries a 06nm:toner, the, latter becomes a peer- ess and -fully entitled to the priVileges of peerage Other that) the right to sit in parliartaent Pitrthertnere, ehe re-, mains. noble, notwithstanding the death • ef her heal -wet If, hov,"ever, during her witlowlv.oti she marries a common- er then :!eases to lie a peeress...On the oteet hand, a peeress In her own right who ,is married to .a coinmoner htiIl reniains .peeress, but does net inipart her. nobility to her husband., A Well'.•knoWn example of this law, or course, vas .turnished by the Marriage of' 13aroneas Berdett-Coutts to William Ashmead Bartlett, who Simply adopted the name 01' 'Mr. Burdett -,Coutts. Much has been written at one thne • or anther concerting. tbe rights, duties and -privfieges• of. 'peerage. :Here are. one or two poin rs.'. howeve re which are „not conifoon knowledge. An.. English, •peer 'has, the right •to : h •suminons in • parliament,- but. he$1s not permitted to .sit the house unitl be twenty-one , years of age. Neither.ean a peer do eo. •-who is an .undischarged hankrept. . „ • HOW ARABS, FIGHT. Their Aim le to Wound en Emmet Net to Kill Him, "A striking point 11; the s char- acter," writes a traveler of' what' he saw in Mesopotamia. "is acieee dislike of bloodebed and savagery, • Tbe tribes of the laziralt are eontinied. ly at war, and, as I have had ple evidence to the contrary, 1 ilt7ea It would be absurd to • Cowardice, but no- ono them or talked to them can tall n t-- etruck with their extraordinary led.. vindictiveuess and their evondertnee • merciful way of .fighting. An Ara.,. never fights to Ills objects are to capture, to incapacitate or to frightem. into subrulssion, Ile will, It is tree, do a great amount Or material damage - burn villeges and ruin crops -but be • Will never take life unnecessarily or refuse treader and never, as far as. II know, beat or ill use a prisoner. On the other baud, a desert Arab will re!) and tyrannize ever hi a weaker neig,he hors ia it peculiarly ruthless way and always do Ills best to make agricnIture impossible. "Their teethed of fighting, is elmost entirely conilhed to the •use , of the lance is carried javelinwise, the • lance itself being a tight bamboo some eighteen or tv.:enty feet inlength, ;with, a long knifelike bead. • A band Or horsemen front 200 to 300 M. 'member - comes swooping, down on the herds or the enemy, some. driving oft succor while ethers. carry away the booty. The defense of the herds against these attacks. Is similar, a swift pursuit and an endeavor to draw off the marauders: being the usual. method. Generally•the advantage Iles with the ettackinge forge as the defenders Usually look to receuping thettlselvea by a shriller at- tack rather than to recepeuring the lost • herds Immediately. The reason is that Oe marauding party hard preseerr !gbt hustle the captered animals. un- • dnly and rnade them almost -worthless.. ',The rifled. of 'war in the Jailreb. are lip strictly and decently • observed among Arabs as hi :the White. and red knights in '111,1ce•In•'Wenderlend.'. To - kill an enemy battle is discreditable and savage.' To.- wound slightly IS what is aimed at, and tie wound a man: slightly with a bamboo lance ttwenty feet long is no. small feat of skill. To surrender is not discreditable.. Plight' has justifiable. ae attack. To carry on warfare at night would ho smadatotus, and itiametul oe; if we choose to take - a' cynical Prodective of. incen- ' venient reprisals. damps, as far ste I CoUid ascertain are practically out or : bounds for similar melon. Warfare - in the Jezirah is an elaborate form :01: I ..S• II`olIr.t..have yet to beer 'a. Bednnin. speak ill of his enemy, even though be may. • have had the eyelet of it himself. In- deed,as :far as entild See, there wi* aS 'little Personal .animus • between he- reclitery, foes as exists betyveen tame • elevens-of-ericketers course at et.imeS 'regrettable things fife done, , het • BLOW TO THE RAriOnES. Pavers • • Winter •Has Meant; Heavy Loss In the West. .: • . 'The winter has been an exception.: ally hard one on the ranches of West- • ern Canada, and of the. Northwestern; States-- The many reports of losses on the range. from storms have not been exaggerated. Almost whole herds and flocks hat% been decimated. One rancher.: says that • the less will be 'about 75'per cent; Out Of 3,060 cattle rounded up last fall by a prominent Alberta inan..only 400 Can be count- ed this spring: Others are hit even worse. ' , Where the ranchers had made bet- ter provision than the others, by a good stipplY of MI5", and some' shel-. tering shed, the losses are big enough with. all. their care. Now is the tithe, that the destructive work of the past winter is getting ,in.its fullest. ehow.- ing. The weakened animals are dy- ing new in large numbers. Ranchers are Seeing their herds slowly- awl.pdi- i0g. from ..them, and the • vision of wealth are fading away AO rapidly as they come. The Whole Canadian' ranch' country is. suffering' a depres- • [don almost equal to the celebrated year of 1902. among the New Mexican ranchers. ' Effect' on Trade. What effect will this have upon our West; and upon the cattle trade of Canada? This is a question not eas- ily answered because Of several sub- sidiary situation. Kansas cattle nev- er came through in better shape; the sugat-beet factories are , successfully feeding their thousands. There is a big supply in Ontario --ef' feeders. Against this we have the dearth of good butchers' stuff in Ontario. The •prevalling disposition to go ,into dairy- ing in many sections, owing to ,the good outlook outioak 'for cheese. has had its effect in the Supplies of good cattle. Sheep ere. more plentiful throughout , the country, and hogs are •increasing in members aim although the latter have not made the ratio of gain that the recent good •• prices. would war- rant. . Demand For Gatti& , Many people ,say that the demand for elatitla -1 breeding stock' in it few month a will take a joyous turn, and those who have laid in the goodbreed- ing type will have their innings. It is tree that the Angus and Herefords have' Obtained 'quite a hold on the West, bet there *ill be a tendency in the • future, in all probability, to , go in for snialler herds with better care. These smaller holdings will de- rnand more shorthorne than -before, and it is because of this prospect that many base their 'predictions. Beef cattle ought to rise in valtte tis the season advances, but this is an uncertain question. Butchers' cattle will tend to be fairly good sale for some time, and, taking all things in- to account, the outlook not at all pessimistic for the cattle breeder. • Banks May Unite, quebee, Dee. 27, -An official of the 'Onion Brink in this city, when asked yesterday Morning as regards the ac- curacy of the amalganlatien deal be- tween the Opebec and 'Union banks being declared off, said that the mat- ter emild not he so considered, Al- though there was ceSaation of the inerging just at present, it did not mean that negotiations were definite- ly set aside, • Son Shoots lens Father. • Buffalo, Dee, VT. -Charles Schroff, aged 44 years, proprietor of Interna- tional Hall, a saloon and howling al- ley, *as' shot and instantly killed yesterday afternomi by his son Charles, aged 20 yearo. Schroff, Sr., had been drinking heavily of late and quarrelled with his wife, and, it is said, struck her yesterday, when she called upon her son to prated her. • Fighting In Armenia. • St, Petersburg, Dec. 27.-A despatch front t/ruirdah, in Persian Armenia, which was brought out by a detaeh. ment of Miamian troops, states thet for the last eight days that town iny4 boca entirely surrounded and fen. lated by 'hands of Xurdish raiders, who have attacked earavans and driv. en hundreds of loaded eamels to the mountidu%). -the occasions are very eareeindeede• The only discreditable aspect or the intertribal warfare' is the ruthless.' . way in whieh • the Bedouins Of the shepherd ehepherd tribes plunder the poor aml-• cultural °dependents Of theft antago, ;•nitits, who, having neither arms nor •,horses, are lecapable Of, defi. awe." GRAVITATION-. The Mystery of This Wonderful Forti•er In Nature: ••' , . When Plants .ere grown le receptee, cles fastened . to tire rite et a fttptdIr" revolving wheel,the shoots and leaves - grow: toward the center and the ;rootn away . • from, the center of revO3ut7=1.,: This Is ikremarkable as flitenCO. 'of •....eentrifugat nreelen upon. • • • 00Wth.' eee • • But, the "earth,' any point in wheriel. einrtrice at the equator Passes through fifteen miles in one meemte • bus nee* • trtfugaimotion so swift •iiitd •ao: great that It is almost inconeet-vible-.. Why, *then,. reasoning on. the 'baste of •,this. wheel experiment, do , not trees . and plants grow In the direetkNIS they are ilrged' by this centrifugal force -name- ly, with }eaves And boughs toward the earth's center and rots Pointiptt •to the ' The answer is bee -.0,,•7 - force powersthe enorreens. erne • re and •practically revere.* • . -tier this overmastering twee whief-.1' we call gravitation is. electrical or .what Ise no one has yet been able to diacovei. - There ,can be rio doubt that itbe the. • greatest force we knew of.% • Toeinveil the mystery of It woulil bei• ' tobecome masters ot a„power whose, possibilities• drizzle the human mindk rt.woiilderinatilify the problem of hitild- ing,:. writer and airnavigation, projee- tiles, and many other. branches 'of me- chanics. It would revolutionize' pree, ent methods. • ' Electric Light Bulbs. • It has been remerked that the effeee tire life of incandescent eleetric lamps is much longer with clear than with ground glass bulbs. E. P. Hyde ex- plains this fact as follows: A thin. de- positof carbon is -formed on the In- • , terior surface of the bulbs, and fhb& abente a certain portion of the radia- tion from the filament. When 'the glass, is clear the light passes •straight through, suffering a definite loss from the carbon film: When the glass 1 - frosted the light undergoes many re- flections in the Interior of the bulb from the innunlerable facets, and at each- reflection it loses something On -account of the obstrutting film. The consequence is that the. total attlOttnt of loss is muchgreater with ground glass than with clear glees. hr.. Ilyder's eve •ements show that the fika- merit lakes as long in the -One kind of bulb as in the other. • A Lott Art. • A Richmond housekeeper had °eta. Won many times to eintecy a eertain odd character of the teem anew/len. Aunt Cecilia Ororawe'el. The old woman had net been Seen in; the vicinity of the house tor a long. time until recently, when the lady of the house said to he• r "Good Morning. Aunt Cecilia. Why aren't yun Washitig nowadays?" "It's 'dis way, Mies Annie," replied „ Aunt Cecilia Indulgently. "I's been out wuhk so long dat now, *hen teat wahtt, 1 fhids l's lost mah bis'e fee' te -4,1p/1ncott's.