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unanimously decide l th,.r, • iy ,.ta.i ,t <.
wai tyro H11't 1411,"•+!,•,,
""Phat i19i,+ r ,•" tflt•,t, htrh f pe you
-ou't dispute, we had another long
3a1L as to what was the right thief; fa
' 1o. Finally we agreed that we'cl own(
out here in a body and offer our apogee- ,
glee, and here we area"
Ana Dungan again bowed 'ow, (J 1
Walters imitating him to some extent,
"Have you it in your heart, Ur. Kam
more, to let uta on us?"
' "You were rather impulsive hist,'
night and made things somewhat unr
pleasant, but you have done the honor•
i able thing, and I. cordially accept your
apology."
t Dungan turned BO as TO facie the
crowd, and, raising his. hand, said In a
commanding voioo:
"Cents, prooeedl"
• And then came the startling discov-
ery
iscov
ery that the only two men in the parte
who carried fzrearnis were be and Welt
tern. The others were provided with a
bass chum and brass instruments, for,
1 strange as it may seem, Aldine and itt
immediate neighborhood had after long.
labor evolved a brass band whose '
1 efforts were probably one of the reasons
`• why no stranger had settled in that
part of the country for several years.
The musicians were waiting for the
signal, and instantly the crash acme,
The racket was deafening, and . the
worst of it was that while several were
trying to play ""Dixie" two others
were splitting their cheeks with "Su,
wanee River," and the cornetist, prob-
ably in compliment to me, was going
Wight and main on `•'Yankee Boodle,"
While the bass drum tried to keep time
with all. As soon as Dungan could
• znako his shouts heard ho stopped the
racket.
"Gents, I'm 'stonished and grieved.
It was. agreed on the read that you woe'
to play them three tunes, but not at the
same tithe, Try ag'in, but fig on the enc
r that you want, so that the sweet music
may befit the occasion."
The mistake was quickly rectified,
and the lively notes of "Dixie" rang
t• ont on the night air, followed in tarn
t by the two`that have been mentioned..
Berhaps it was because of the happy
oiroumstances, but I am free to confess
t that never before or since that night
A, have the melodies impressed me so fa-
t vorably.
Colonel Mansley promptly accepted
the situation, He compelled all to en -
..ter his hospitable mansion, where the
1 servants were summoned and kept busy
• t furnishing wine and. lunch, and good
wishes were profuse all round. I was
toasted again and again until 1 began
to ask myself whether it was not worth
all. I had passed through for the sake
of learning what good fellows those
men were. .And yet there were some
phases of those 24 hours front which. I
am sure 1 should have shrunk.
* •' • _. w• * * •
Last GhristmasColon el elansley carne
north" to spend the holidays, as is his
custom, with his daughter and rue. Aft-
er his departure my wife and 1 wore sit-
ting alone, when I said:
""Bather, there has been a question in
zny mind that I have long wished to
ask you."'
"And why, nzy dear husband, have
you waited to do ciof"
"Perhaps because 1 feared the an-
swer, and yet wliy should I? It is this.
u, ,:a; ' ` .o-- ..s'.-'c,.,- -ate•
eaetie
"Ciente, procstct'"
On that bight, several years ago, when
you canto to the inn at Aldine and raised
tho window for nie,were you surprised?"
"Surprised, by. what'"
, '"At finding the prisoner was 1 in-
titead of I-Ienry Beyer?"
She smiled as she replied:
"I had heard of the other charges
against, hin), but lie pleaded so ego.
$Ifeetiy mid denied so strenuously that
/utmost—not c rite --believed him, I
n
thongbt he•was abused toed sympathized
With him, Still there were tunes When,
RICAN +s'+r'f ' eiA A a QN
5.5
aQW)t2 woula 4oritO TO rile 251 spite Or z1:
alk.. Vather never liked hien. We were
never engaged, though he often begged
ale to become so, When news reaobed
our home of your arrest, of your danger, •
of the bele that ypu were. he and of
your earnest denials, I knew you, spoke -
the truth, end 1 determined, if it was:
in my power, to save you. Perhaps lti
should have taken a different inothod,
but I was terrified by the immtnenee of
your. danger, 1 dzc1 what I did know-
t:Ig from the moment I stole from the
,kouso ander the escort of Brutus that
you were what you claimed to be—your
own .self and the best busband that ever
lived in all the wide world."
'"Tbeu'k God," -was my fervent re-
epoaso as I family kissed her, "the fly
ab 1aet is removed from the ointment 1"
Tins 7; ID, ,
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By J, I'. 1IOSE»SOLEY,
[Copyright, 1314, ba" the Author.]
The copra helm was down on the root
bound beach, some 6.0 yards away front
the store,' a stretch of 'moven, stony sone
with greet: patches here and there and
great black rocks showing cut from the
surface, separating the two places where
the trader diel bis business. ',file old
man's weary feet had worn a deep trace
uoress the plot; up aucl down be went
znaay times:} clay.Tics copra house
talo title is'n misnomer, but it is n1wayl
used in Sat;?oa—was but •a were flimsy
erection of rough boards, though iron
roofed and water tight. Further, the
door was provided with a very substau-
tial padlock, which the trader was al
real tains to tact; earl uniocli ovary
time he visited the shed, for the place
held the only, laerollandise the country
meld produce -all that there was td
trade for. The little bits of oily, brown,
evil smelling copra must be kept: dry of
else they would rot long before the time
calve for shipping then to Europe: dud
they must be protected from theft; es
else the euulling natives would thine
nothing of taking a few basketfuls al
night and reselling them to the trades
next dag. Therefore every time a Samoan
came, perbaps with but a few baskets
of the copra, the old' trader, with a
wweeey sigh, woulcl take a key down,
front its accustomed pail and pied down
to the stied,. It was quite a solemn stud
serious business, this purchase cLf s foW
shillings': worth of produce, and both
sides went about it with becoming gray.
its. The first question that had to be
decided was whether the cora was
green—that is to day, whether it bad
been merely warmed iu the sun ea
whether it had been properly dried by.
several days' exposure.
As the copra is bought by weight, it
is, of course, to the, native sollcr'a in-
terest to dry it as little its. passible,
while the trader, on' the 'other band,
does net want to lose 20 or 30 per cent
by s=hrinkage. So the two argce the
point out: together; while I sit on this
wire inclosed veranda and watch from
afar the wordy conflict.
Silei, the industrious girl, has got her
''sewing machin° Ont, She does not put
it on a table, as the white lady would,
but rests it on a kerosene case on the
floor and squats cross legged before it.
Of course it ie, a battle machine; natives
do not take readily. to 'the use of the
treadle. She is fashioning really gar-
geotls lava -lavas out of the brightest
prints ltiauchester can ptcduce, and
when they are made they will be hong
up in the store and said for half a dollar
each, perhaps in exchange for the very
basket of copra the native is,nrguinl;
about. He swears with a fluency of
.
Fllb.latil
expression which only long
ini ` 'rendered p o st-
mibs'onary tza ng hasp s
bio that the copra has boen'three days in
the sun, evhereas the trader, judging
asserts that at th
hisexperience,A
from
outside it cannot have been more than
one, and fn cloudy weather too,
.At Inst the trader, grumbling some-
what, purohases the copra, for he knows
if he does not it will go to his rival
close by. He is consoled byy the reflec-
tion- that his balances ate 12 pounds
out in every 100; also he is an expert
at weighing and by doxterocsly mtauiptt-
luting the scales Can make the copra ap-
pear several pounds. lighter than it real-
ly is, and so under the waving palms
by the tide of the rippling lagoon, ua•
tore smiling on them with her most iii-
nocent expression, the two complete
their ingenious transaction. Both are
cheating, Mud boli know it. So perhapr!
it /,toes not matter very much. The .ha.
"i"ve, having been well. taught by the
'l,tissionaries, will go to church tbrei
tinges next Sunday and say his seagoing
eye evening prayers more fervttultly Heart
ever:, so that be Will halve ills oeuv fence.
Ala* the godless trailer, he has n9
-cotzsefwoe. lie has long since lost even
the memory of the mute°. So we need
tlot cloacern ourselvoa about taint.
At Let, after another half hour'shag-
gling in the stcro, the dative goes away
with the goods which he has boo ,per-
euadcd to Wee in exabarlgefor the copra,
and tbe trader conies out of the: house .t
and seats himself wearily beside me,
mopping ,his face the while,
As anal he harks backs to the Old.
tunes.
'"'hinge were sliifereut in those
days," he eaid, "",Chen we could do as
we lilted with the natives, Now they•
can do as they like with us, We hove to
cut things fue to make a living at alk."
And to console lainlself be took a long
drink of kava, emptying the cocoanut
shell,' which hold about a pint, at ape
draft.
;allot laughed the musical little laugh
of the Samoan maiden, The viz of
the sewing znaciiiue ceased and she look-
ed nmilingiy at the nearly empty howl.
who know elewoukl soon have to fcibri-
°ate more kava, an occupation which
she particularly enjoyed, I suppose,, be-
cause it gratified her znaide?a vanity by
enabling her to exhibit herself in the
most graceful of attitudes.
"Yes, yes, girl, you can make some
more," said the trader. "It'll keep you.
from the readable, and we don't want
that infernal -thing eliciting away while
we are talking.
"The oil days were the times," be
began, "before any one invented this
cora earl we used to tehe oil from the
naives in Payment for everything..
Why, even the missionaries.tteed to have
a big tank outside the church door and
would take,up tbe collection iu ail. ;it
was gallons of oil instead of dollars
then, but they got the money just the
the end and
pered."
His face clouded as he made this last. ,
remark Perhaps the undoubted pros- ,
parity of mission work in liamoa brought
him no consolation. Perhaps he would
have preferred the natives in their orig- 1
iizal Lrrbario state rather than oivflfced
and chri ,tianized and. educated up to (f
standpoint .of keen bargaining which
rendered itclieecult for even the superi-
or ieteileot of a white man to overreach.
theta.
He did not say this, though. "I've
made more money in A week then than
.1 can do hi a year now," he went ou.
"Forty years ago, when I was ' bat a
young fellow, 1 started trading on ..the
southern `side of tlpolte There was not
a white man within 20 miles of me, aua
I could get any pr;ce 1 liked for an old
uniform coat, especially if it had bran
buttons on it, but aTowwertnnskot—.that
was the thing, "`and his rugged old face
lit up at the pleasant reminiscence.
"1 had the place to myself for three
Years, and you may be sure I made.a
pretty good thing out of it. With T had
sono of 'tele money left now, Then old
d'aok Wilkinson came along and settled
down near ine."
"But who was Jack Wilkinson?" 1
asked
"Never hear of Jack `Gyilkine.on—old
Jack, as he .was always called? Why, 1
thought everybody in Samoa knew of
Urn, but be was getting to bo an old
zil..u.then, and he's been dead long since,
and I suppose you young people have
forgotten all about the old fogies.
"Well, X'11 tell you about Jack. He
was a bard ease, one of the regular old
style beaeh coulbers. He had bevel don't
bpow how many years in the group and
bad grown to be almost like a native.
He used to wear a lava -lava instead of
trousers, just like a Samoan, and be
could go about barefoot anywhere, even
on a coral reef, and that's a thing few
white men can menage without cutting
their feet to pieces.
9"Tbey did say," and be lowered his
voice unconsciously, "that he was one
of a party of convicts who had escaped
from Australia when'it was a penal set.
tieinent They stole a boat and somebQw
found their way here and made them-
selves at home among the natives, but
the story was only whispered between
white mete and it would '?ave been as
much es one's kite was worth to even
hint at the thing to old Jack. He was a
bandy pian with his knife, and there
were no police about to call` him to ao-
catlnt for gds actions.
""I got along well enough with Jack,
though I. mast say he bad ways of deal-
ing with the natives which I hardly ap-
proved afraid of hire,
f. They were
roved o e
hough; and fedhimtin the hest the
land could furnish, Jack Hever dill say
thing for them is return. He spent bit
days lying oil a mat in the shade of one
ra n
of their big cool houses, open allround;
through
so that the l;reeze could pass t fl
and Jack could sae r,li that was going
on without even moving. Somctiines,
when be was particularly energctie, he
would go fishing on the reef at low tide,
When • coral shower'! 'up high above the.
water, end iP ects easy enough to epear
nu halt with long three peouged native
spears,
"Still, I soots found it was to my in-,
terest to keep in with old Jack. ,Z~ Ie got
twice as 'much oil as I could for the
game trinount of trade, and, though he
wee ulwaysebusingand ill treating the
Samoans, strangely enough they would
take their oil to baro rather than tome,
and 1 waste -smooth ;es butter to the
n tivds, tnikizig kindly to thent:and al-
waysY;lvin,g them little,ptesentse I gent
?cola begirt a lot of
wiee men finish,
Hope is LI dreaui a .Man has when
tta is awaliet, i.
The beauty of a tattooed ptetu e
is' only shin deep.
It ie a great roh,for'tune not to he
able to bear tzlisforta,ne.
The truth that prevails in a bc.rse i
rade: is indeed iitighty,
Always expect less of people than
you expect them to give you,
thin
Every time a hattla is t 12gilt SA -
other scrap of history is made,
is
Don't judge a man by the dt of
his coati it may be a borrowed one. 'UMW, tTlddla Aro' d 1C Old Mein
NERVOUS/ 431,.Q0
PRIYATT IGr $FX JAL.
EASES, MEN 8d WomeN,
0 ONE
A small boy's- ideas of greatness is )I' you are suffering far • any eoniplica-
y : flair of the ;Sexual ste Badder,
t trot i
to play baseball in a uniform,.
eeefe
Kldltevns Blood ori ryes, consult us
at once. `wve clue ;133 wFattness Nervous tib
r e ,.r, Cry for ;ii Waster Secret bosses, Nightly Drains, Se --
.3 : h ►,~! 1 Lr A F t .y S t u i1 Decline, and maim arr ge posstUle,
trch or Poor,M(?he Doha,
r'y e y ti' r 011 '
r i l! ► w Ei3O G 9CGD.RARLE CASES TAKEN,
•• We guarantee nit: to c e --V r i 1; i
The derkeet cloud,, financially /,o91011. Strratpre, Gleot. rpt,iilar rmpotetiCY,
Unnatural gi31 harges r rivate. Nervous and
speaking, is one that has no silver ,g Delicate Diseltsea of 1 :i and Sgotuen. Con•
linin oultatian Free, Ques't.::7 t,lzt for Sons Trettt-
meet Free—Books Fret:).
Toe world does not spend much nniinp Don 47 M1c reit Avenue'
time in watching a man's good act3. UUr, 11 U V ,
When a mart is out of a job be l '4eie a ew6 eee. "rs c
can keep himself busy looking for
work.
Any dealer in firearms will furnish
you an empty gun free of charge,
Laugh a little more at a our own
troubles and a little less at your
neighbor's.
When a man loses a .120 gold
piece is isn't a ease of ""out of sight,
out of mind."
The man who has no little vices
may make up for it by having one
g tt a e ' ur - is icese e, ' m S -
big one,
.A. False Scant.
"I received a tip the other day,"
said a life insurance agent, "that
there was a man staying at one of
our prominent hotels who was a pro.
wising .candidate • for some of wy
unexcelled, life insurance, The tip
was very vegue, and I did not know
his nitrile, but I went to the hotel
where I was told. he Was staying with
the hope thatl might run across him
by accident.
• "While ,there I made' the acquaint-
ance of a pleasant spoken gentleman,
and I immediately jumped at the
conclusion that he was the man I
was after. I sounded him a little on
life insurance, and be nibbled enough
at the bait to excite me to further
cudeavl,rs. Hassid he wvas a strang-
e; land was ,spending a few days in
the city on a vacation. I kindly
volunteered, seeing that he was a
stranger, to show hien about the
town, and he accepted. with many;
expressions of thanks,
'For the next week I hardly al-
lowed that man to get out of my
sighs for fear that some other agent
might get' his claws on hint. Every
time I led. the question .around to life
insurance $25,000 seemed to be the
figare he was the most interested in,
and that fact kept me screwed up to
tbe highest pitch of enthusiasm. I
kept'tbat"fellow at my expense for a
week. Everything that the city
boasted in the line of eatables and
drink was his. is net rly drove my
horse to death driving about the
city, while he Lolled back and smoked
expensive cigars at my expense.
'One day he got away'from me
and disappeared, r and I have just
discovered that T have been grossly
imposed upon. That fellow was a
rival agent from another town in
pursuit•of' the same Man that I was
after. He kept me busy on a false
scent, using the few minutes when I
was away to stat -k the game. He got
"him too. Twenty-five thousand dol•
Mrs was the amount." ,
Liver Compa1n t..
"For the peat year I "have suffered
more or lees with 1,iver complaint, but
by aside three bottles of Burdock Blood
W. P.
Bitters 1
welts datYz tete! cured."
Wood, Revelstoke Station, . C.
Sinee.1841. the cultivated :area of
down from
Ireland hasdwindled
abotat 4•,000,000 acres • to 2,000,000.
Ur..Tames Ferguson, 'on con, 7,
West Wawat:iosh, sold .a roan horse
e forth
lately to :IZr, bI`.cAfianti; of S a >•
for Hitt handsome sum of $iGO.
Of Porto Rico's 91.6,895 people,
2.91,089 are indigent and 11,853 are
tick. The number Of deaths from
the recent hurrieatre was 2,019.
M&Whirred, who 'was serving a
Ilf'eeteru?i for the murder. of . the
couple, near 13rampton,died
in Kingston penitentiary on Friday.
itat itS WANTED-•- Felt ""1`1it+` Thi'; Aft
Arhievemontt, ut Admiral nawvov ", the world's
i f C+ti t 'naval hero. fly Murat rialetead, rho life•
lona friend Ubd adirirer of the nitiari'a tdn1. ilia•
best MA beet baek oflr 500 paste, saio'tni hse ;
• ,,.arty i00 polies hnitt6n0 Ittuatratintie. O,ih' 55.80.
unnrniouA demand. Iiia cominteeiens. Odtftt ft°ee:
11i1afiee titA li ahle6., ;Wrier Weir. The Dotatnien
Company, gid 1'lesedtttau *1dirw t7etbaaa.
same inthe 'Murcia pros -
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D`3 n
RETURNED ON TIME.
Carefully washed, properly ironed,
correctly finished and fai-ly priced- -
that's the history of 3 our linen when
brought here. Not a thiug in our
washing preparations to injure the
fibre of the goods and not a thing
unhealthy about our work rooms,
J. D. LONG
Leave (Were at Carr's Feed Store,
ON GIVES RELIEF.
for
Ca
Dollar
e tome
until you have tried
You can ouy them in the paper 5 -cent cartons
Ten Tabules for Five Cels.
fife sort is put up eheepiy to groats, the universal present demand for - low Drill,
If you don't find this sort of
T&1s'
t the r
StIS
Send Five Cents to TUE Rtraws Cllgulc
Spruce St„ New. York, and they will be s:•.
la cartons will be mailed for .43 cents. T.
,ne that Ripens Tabules are the very 3n
Rev. J. F. Snowden, of Kincardine,
and ' Miss Henrietta Heinirecks,
daughter of P. F. Heinirecks, of Ot-
tawa, were quietly married in St.
George's Church, Ottawa, on Wed-
nesday, by Rev, J'. M. Snowden,
brother of the groom.
Ten years ago Miss Mary Martin,
of Paris, Ont.. had a'needle break in
her right hand. No trouble was 6
experienced from the mishap, and
the incident w:N foestotten until 11 ,
few week: ago, When the band
became painful and continued to
grow worse, O'n Saturday the 1
doctor extracted the .broken needle,
which, strange to sayi, was in three
pieces.
C;,34PANY, Nee 'ea
to you by mail; •4r
elances are ten to
you need.
AST O R
For Inferno and Children.
Tho fac-
simile
Signature
of
Wo give this beautiful r- Heavy Gold or Silver
e Main Bracelet selling
fiat a ra0a for aonl one tI
y
d on
ane Let n t0Doylies,at ten conte each. tett 5
La d prettiest
destgna t no two alllce, Write,11thend WO will sand the fo3w*Doylies,
postpaid selltbem,return the Money. and we at ontofurward
1ron3 8r6Celet, nl1 charges 'pa14. zinc* 14°1'e',(' to.•
OZ n..1 •m'ozblato. Otho
kers
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COPYttlOHTS &c.
AnrI 10 sending a pithtelt and description alar
qutakiyy nae0rtni•l our oolninn•eree ingather fin
in o:MIMI lir gran ittfi,' Patentable. Comrnuntcnr
tl0nt strictlYr'tglfi0Ential. Ilion -Monk On P144041444
sent free. °Most arcenby for 3 915(nit_ DT5t911tb.
PntchttK taken tnrnurh i<Iu1nl 7r c;a. teethes
creat stottce, Valiant charge-, id t110
Stittiltitv.Tiantcatto
/i iftllSQeonlf!t13 itiltrrratwt trrntrle, Y.rtcest
ciliation of our n.•itsvit:n lrnlr•tn1. Terme, IP,1
5 0*31 Our sold eeoii newsdealer..
UN* . wit t l3roatirrrY.-Ytlik
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8ratdelx UiL'rc, t: ;i i; Eh. Washington. i7: C.
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GOLD PLATED. aand *radent thre ono to us 'with'withonr Mille and Aachen,. ,
and wewlil forward this watch to yon
by e]"prese for examination. It is se
snapback andbowldust•preor
open ises, atom wind and Rote
Gold plated handaen:cir ea.
gravel. It,00lo like a 9014
7 -
gold
a' American aiohdsr
a
Movement' hat we warrant fa
glSe Cnod Cntiafaction, and iq
1001th0watchr careful
exam.
PPose*, 55 afterrcaheful exam.
b etloa you as nd represented,
wateb.ted, pats
b0 exactly as roprceented, ppaay r,
the engraft agent 32.55 ane
charges, audit is yenrs.
TerryWatchCo„ Toronto, Crit,
Two Stratford Ladies
Tell Now Ilitherifs Heart and Nerve
Pill Make Weak Peopleton
i
MRS. ELIZAnaTii BARTOI•i, Brittania St.,
r/
says . i speak a good ward for Mil.
brn' ear Nerve Heart e tand Ne ve Pills withlea are
They proved to ins a most excellent
remedy for nervousness, nervous debility,
and exhaustion, and I can heartily retool
mend them.'
teles. POLAND, Brunawvictc Street, Says
"" i4fy husband suffered greatly with rier-
vousness, complicated by heart troubles.
Milburn's heart andNerve Pills have.
cured him, and he now is well and
Strong."
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AXA LIVER 'Pette bad at night bee..
'fore retiring. Twin
PILLS, work while you sleep
without a grip or
gr1per.cuting• Bitiousness, Sick Headache,
Censtipation rind Dyspepsia, and niakeyeti
feel better In this meriting%