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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1916-04-20, Page 6rEnsiqvim.A.Nen. Ut Who would endiese Mery rms. Muet here the word of patience 1. ,e• wneea gores, the eye to tet, That word 'Hie glorious. harvest yet to be. The huebandumn, his eeed who eowe, Must wait with - patience ;Nigh! it to. owe; ' And he who. would the oak vproar Must cherish hope from year to year; The architect who lays the uhile The basement of a lofty pile, By slow laborious toil alone Can reach the turret's tolnuoet stone. Meek pilgrim ZionwardIf thou Hest put thy hand unto the plew, 0 look not back, nor droop dIsmay'd At thought of vietory delay'd. Doubt not that thou, in season nue Shalt own His gracioui promise true, And thou shalt share their &Hew lot Whom doing Steil hath wearied not. --Bernard Barton. THROUGH ALL THE AGES. Through all the eve men nave re- garded themselves as being born only that they might die. That has always been the great melancholy plaint of life; that has been the distrees whice has always lain on the soul, even lu its moments .of happiness. This bo:ng so, is there not something great and Stirring in the fact that Jesus takes up this word of death and tune it into an assurance of victory? le els takes the dirge and turns it into a Peen; makes it the very assertion of the glory of hie existence on earth. "I was born," wc. hear him say, "for a great, a noble', and a splendid purpose, that 1 might through death deetroy him who bath the power of death— that the.devil." There is something noble in the Way in which Christ thus takes these words, "We are born to die," so Tull of distress and pain on our lips, and turns them into the psalms that ring through the - ages and glorify the world; in the way inwhich he takes the very tears and lamentations of our human life, and Sinews how at the very heart of them are victory and jou—Phillips Brooks. PRAYER. It i difficult, says Richard Baxter, to ,distinguish between natural and supernatural grace; but it was to be done, for "Ye muet be born again." It' is as natural for a man to pray as It is to breathe, but the supernatural gift of prayer "iv rare, it belongs to the regenerate, it is the atmosphere in which it lives. It is a distinct personal gift, and is never given in the bulk, but•to each ludiVidual. It contains the elements of companionship, mutual ownership, and communion. It is not 'a aeed or . germ, it is a coMpleted whole (holy), and as Adam never was an infant, so this breathing personality le like the second Adam, the Lord from Heaven, not a flag ment, but a whole being. First It e. conscious of emptiness, then of ft- ness, "I was brought low, and He helped me." The fulness of the Godhead dwelt In Christ bodily, and all that fulness Is for the believer, for He gave Him- self_ altogether for ue. I live, not I, but Chriet liveth 11 me, it is my joy to walk before the Lord in the light of the living. He Is my companion in the path of life, we walk together, be- cause we are reconciled, ana He is not austere. Do I tell Him all, get help in all. Give Him all and let not the shadow:, of an imagination come between us? "Shall I hide from Abra- ham the thing that I do?" The secret of the Lord is with them that fear Him. When a well -tuned harp is touched by the hand of the okillful, there is music in the heart, and joy on the face, and beauty in thh life, mule.% great re- ward in heaven, "I loVe the Lord be- cause He hath heard the voice or my supplication." "Walk about Zion, mark ye' well her bulwarks." Ties she ever been nee tured. Is there any chance that she shall be destroyed? -1 the Lord do keep her day and night! When eyes are anointed with eye salve the choeen see, the want and the supply are in close proecimity. We do not wait for months of harveet, but we reap and gather into barns. The river of God is full of water. His trees are full of sap. His hand is never empty. His peo- ple never see a Door day. The doctrine of •prayeris full of mystery, only a email part is re -- N epic& The secret of the Lord is with them that fear Hinn and He will show them His covenant, but they tannot • ehow much of that very covenant, they often sail under sealed orders, and it Is His delight to hide Himself. The experiences of the sainte are like seine money orders, not transfETable. No twa souls are alike, and no two experiences are alike. Some hearts are opened gently in the dark—others are blinded by the light above the bright- ness of the attn. Now He eonses as the dew, at other times on the wings of the storm. e A praying soul learns to stand still and see the salvation of God, learnt to be client before God. In the hoesee of the tempest the vole° is heard, "Peace, be still." "Spirit of light Thou heavenly ray, • '0 come! Thou touchest with Thy glory all we see Till. common things are quick -with mystery, And nothing is too mean to be divine. Good is in all; eYes touehed with love can see More than Wasdreamed of in the world before, The undiscovered goodness of our life, The =petitioned blessings of our wey." H. T. Miller. to, oo—rooa-4.4.410....—*Too• To Ways to Put It. This is how Johnny wrote his corn - 'Position in the public school class: "Th'e cow is a good animal. She has tWo horns and two eyes and gives milk, 'which is good to drink. She has four legs and eats gross and ;bay. some of ti ere ate red, and they have long tolls. And this is how the teacher says he cught 1..) have written it: 'The fenetle of the bovine genus is tenement inainned. This ruminant Quadrupedle pess.listel of corneous pro- tuberame. prop -eking from the °coiner. Iter vision is binoeular end she yields at. edible and nutritious lacteal exuda- tion sbe is a ouralrupedal and her- blvorous. assimilating her food in both • the succulent and exiccated Estates. Rome of item throniatleally correspond to the seventh eoler of the spretrum, and they ore endowed with meted eependages of exe !there:Led longitudinality, She—You it'll, Mr. 301100, I thought you much older than you are. lie — Oh, no: noted Mt, I assure ton Tratiecript. ....TWIXT LOVE .........1014.1mhatiii4.14/11*16•1.1•01041.01.1."3.1. 111.111.0.1.1*.1410441.00.1.1.1.1.0.1sri.iseree...W1 IslimM▪ O▪ MP • J▪ .1 •OornooasToo.woovomovalrooloToot "You have been aitting here preeise. les fifty minutes." :Ail lier Companion, in a slightly grieved tone. "It- is net 0. pleasant thing to he told by rtay one that they are heartily eick of your so- ciety after a trial of only one Short half hour and twenty minutes. I am 401TY Mt have found the titne so ted - !Otte, but I suppose Mr, Blount was nnaccountably detained, Can I „do enything for yol? Order your boree, "The master la Just mming across the lawn now, 'hi," interrupted the Polite Mason, the gray-haired servitor st Blount Grange, Putting his head round the. door at this Juncture, "Thought I'd let yon know, 'lair after you'd waited so long." "Very geed; I will come and meet hinnh Mabel said, hastily, anxious to avoid arty greeting that might lead to the usual "naming of names" before this questioning stranger. "Please go and let Mr. Blount know that I am here." After which she gathered up her rid- ing skirts once more, took her dog n her arms, and. her whip in her hand aud, finally turning, made a haughty tittle bow to the tall young man in "•Good-morifing," she said, coldly, al- beit gracefully. "Good morning, . Mies—Mativers," he returned, with an equally panctil- ious inclination af the head, and. a covert smile that was half satirical and wholly amused, while he follow- ed her to the door, opened it, and bestowed upon ber there a-nother bow that must have somewhat resembled the ancient dignified salutation with which thiC"magnificent" Louis was In the habit of dismissing his attend. ant ceurtiers. "Now what was he singing at, I wonder, in such a hatefully sarcastic ,ort of way?" pondered Mabel, slow - v. as he went down the, stairs to- ward the open •hall door to greet the seecer of the Grange. "Oh, if by any possibility he should be personally acquainted with those Manvers, what In .the world will he not think of me? How stupid that this idea should neveh have° occurred to Inc before. Put, no, itis impossible; I believe that under such circumstances it would not be in human nature to re- eist betraying the knowledge and en- joying the adversary's confusion for the moment, no matter how .consoling and lenient one might prove the next instant. How curious he was! How determined to make me repeat my an- swers! I don't remember ever before -meeting so unpleasant and altogether detestable a young man, and hope I never shall again, Catch me mixing myself up. with any fellow's gambling debts frim this day forth, once I getout of this dilemma., which has been considerably more troublesome than I ever bargained for, and rather Mere than Eddie himself is worth. How oddly he stared trt me—so rude of him—and what a very handsome mustache he has!" But here she came up with Dick Blount, and therefore it must forever remain a mystery as to whether it was Eddie's or the stranger's mus- tache she censidered so worthy of commendation. Still, as Edward Tre- vanion's hirsute ornaments .consisted at this time Of about twenty-two low- spirited and wandering hairs, situat- ed in the region of his upper lip, it was hardly probable that it could have been his. "Ain how d'ye do, Mr. Blount?" Mabel said, with a, sudden sense of relief and protection, as she :Seld out herhand to tho fresh, handsome gentleman advancing so rapidly to meet her. • Dick Blount, or "old Dick," as he was more tommonly called by his friends and acquaintances—whose name was legion— was a 'man some- what in the "fifties," tall, strong; athletic, and the master of an income cloee upon six or eight thousand a year". The Grange was one of the loveliest estates in the county situ- ated about two miles or so .from King's Abbott, and why the owner of it had never taken to himself a wife was a question often asked in Clis.ton, but never satisfactorily answered. No woman's name had ever been connect, ed with his—in the matrimonial line atleast—since, on his uncle's death, he had teme to take possession of the' property. How and where' he had.. lived nreviously • was littleknown to anyone, beyond the certainty that he had spent much of leis time abroad, wandering in a desultory pleasureeeeking fashion from city to city, with probably no ulterior reasons, except those of enjoying the present hour to the uttermost. • Had he ever loved and lost? 01' wooed and ridden away unmindful of the tear -stained face that watched with paesiOnate despair his gay defec- tion? Or had lie through his young dhYs escaped scatheless from the fire of bright eyes and honeyed. veices that mut here and there have tempt- ed him during life's journey? None could say in the quiet little neintry-side where he had .elected to spend his later years. One thing was 4i•ver known—that when, a long time after this, the neW owner was having eama furniture in .one of the Grange rooms reettoved, he found behind a bed, gunk deep within the wall, a exeull framed picture, its ihme turned fu in the light, It proved to be an oil painting of a bright, fair, yellow hairei girl, small of feature but ex- quidtely lovely, who 'coked nut from the canvas with large, mocking ereS, that perhaps were just a litt'e too th,sely set to be, strictly speaking. perfect. Immediately below the portrait was written, in a man's hand, the two words: "Aged eighteen," bett whether at that early period et her existenee this blue-eyed lady had proved fair and false, or been car- ried to a ,elay-co!d wave, there re. mined no clew to :totem:hie. Blount himself made no mention of hiaden piciere, either when living ee in the act of dying; ana certainly ter:I.:thing less like a dieappeintc d lover leen he always 'appeared it weuld bo eard to find. Though Seid0111 induced gh) anywhere himeelf, he was par- te.h.tirly addicted to hespitalify of all 1,i,eia given in his own domain, sty:11 • bachelors' partirs, Morn - fit.; eutertitinra.n.ts of every tleeerip- tion, and usually two or throe hails Lt the, year—which letter were eon. clueted on it magnif!cent scaler_ and to which the claire county was in- vited. and went. rar and near there was. no man more universally beloved and respected by alt elases. Young men adored hint for his genial kindly advice, al- ways eo gently given, and liis ready assistance, while every child in the neighborhood had reason to rollout- pheloruutie good nature of old Dick • ( - "Deer me, l',liss Mabel," he Said, "how am' Pever to gain your pardoa for keeping you -such a time in, dui' - 01108 vile? The fact: is, I never heard a, wordabout your being here until two minutes ago, .when Mason caMe Oat In a frenzy .of excitement to. tell me you had been waiting at least au hour." "Scarcely so long as that, I -think; bnt"—with her eyes bout oa Hoskin; dusky head—"Mr, Blount, 1 went to speak to you •in priVate, please, for O mblute or so," ' * "So you shall: Come in here," 2airl Dick Blount, and.he led the way into his library, the cloor of which Ite closed carefully behind her, "Now, what can I do for you?" "I ani. going to ask something very dreadtul," began Mabel, tater a pause, during which she had felt her courage oozing rapidly away— "some- thing that I feel sure no woman. should ask; but you must promise not tatt.11"ink too hard1S, of me for all "I promise you." "'Well, then"—desperately—"I want you to give me three hundred pounds." Blount laughed. "le that all?" he said, "Why, I theught you. were about to confess to half a dozen murders at least, Sit down, Mies Mabel, and tell me all that Is on your mind." And Mabel, sitting down, told him all her trouble—all about Elddie's evil behavior, and her father's ignorance of it, together with his inability to lay so much ready money just then, end her own determination to come over to .him, as the only person she could think of likely to help her in her calamity. When she had finished, she looked up 0.1 11101 wistfully out of her beautiful hazel eyes. "I know .1 have done, a very •wrong thing," she said, with quivertng Bite— "a hateful, unfeminine thing that wilt make you despise me forever. But tehat could I do? You were the only one I could think of to help me, and so I came." "I consider you have clone ole„a very great honor," answered old Dick, 'Promptly, "and I feel proud and glad of R. To whom indeed should you come,if not to your oldest friend? I'll tell you what, Miss Mabel—I'll write you out the cheque now on the &pot, and you can take it at once to your naughty brother with your love; and we will never tellanyone-•you add I—one word about It" Mabel's eyes filled with tears, She stooped suddenly and kiesed the kindly large brown hand that lay on the table near her. • "Nonsense, child," said Blount, has- tily; "what did you do that for? Why, the money is lying idle at my banker's, not doing the slightest good to anyone, and I am only too pleased to be able to oblige you so easisy. And now what shall I get you after your ride anti long solitary confinement in the drawing -room?" . "Nothing, thank you—especially as it wasn't solitary confinement by any meaus," Mabel declared—•."quite the contrary. There was a stranger there' the entire time, a Mr. Roy, I think his name was. And that is another thing I want to speak to you about. Please do not tell that gentleman'who I am, as he might let some of the other officers at Bilton know all about my visit here, and it would certainly come to papa's ears in the long run," "What did you say his name was?" ."Roy—at least so Mason told 010." • "And who told you he wa,s an offi- cer stationed at Bilton?" . "He looked like if," Mabel., said, simply. "And, besides, I know all the men at Broughton. Am I not right?. Is he not an officer?" "Quito right," returned Bleunt; but lie seemed strongly inclined 'to laugh. ".And so he spoke to you, I suppose; and you called him Mr. Roy, eh?' "Just so," answered "tho queen.'' "And it Was very wrong ,of me, yen know. Dut when, in -some way or otleer,' he asked'ine my natne, I said it was Manvers, bcrethse., the Menverses Leing your cousins, people would not think about it if Mr. Roy evoke of his meeting me here." Dick Blount burst into a perfect roar of laughter. "By Jove," said 110, "that is the beet thing •I have ever heard! . I wonder which he thought you were—Jano or Martha? He must have considered you grown young and wondereully Oretty since last he had the pleasure of seeing you, some fifteen years ago." "011, Mr. ,I31ount, you don't mean to my lee knows the Manverseal" cried Mabel, in real dietress, her cheeks the colter of two soft summer roses. "I should rather think so, consider- ing you were speaking to my nephew, Roy Blount, who is also a cousin of the Manverses," said Blount, with an- other .heartiess explosion of mirth. "And so you told him you were Jane —eh? His face must have been a pic- ture when he compared poor' gene's light blue orbs with your dark eyes, 'too young wiech!" "And I leave been calling hien bY his Christian name all this time!" declared' Mabel, who was almost comi- cal hi her despair. "Oh. !Mr. Illouitt, what on earth shall I do? When is 1 he going away? You know I can never look Iiitt in the face again, so do say he will be leaving shortly." "He isn't dreaming of guing," said Illount--"not for a full month, at ali • taente—not until his leave exph.ee, and • then he goes to Dublin to join his. regiment. So, you see, you will have . to dance with him at my ball the night after next, Miss Mabel, and be sure you are cousinly in e your behavior, AO met:vete happens," "Dance- with himt" exclaimed Mabel, indignantly. "How can you go on like tint when you know I ean never 'speak fo bint .again? WIIY, what =St he think of my coming here on nrivate besiness to you, and telling him -such a horrid, horrid Ile? Mr. Diount''— imploringly--"will you Just explain I' things a ifttle to him, without betray- ing laddle—will you? Oh, if you Will : only be ao kind:" "Of coUree I Will," said HIOunt, TO "Yee, MiseMi1i1oc1, IleaVen be praise ed for iti" maid the wortlan, stop - Ping oppooite to ber with team atande Ing in her dark blue Irish eyee, if it nadn't beea for you, where'd he have been now? 'Twee the good word ye had Inc him with the equire that got him off, I'm tould; an' it the pray - ere and blessin'e of Kitty Dempsey can do ye good, ye have them. Olt, astbore, 'tis little ye know of the sore heart 1 bad yesterday—an' may the heavene above ever keel) Ye from knowin'i Pat - 0 stulden and utter Wattage or tone—"t1e throublith the .lady ye are, Ye spalpeea of the 'world, come down off her lap this minit, tellin' Yel" "Ab, pleace, ma" interceded tired's soft voice as she .pressed her arra round the boy. to hold him clooer. "I like him here very much, and he likes being here, don't you, Patsey?" "I should rather think he did," 50111. oquized Denzil, at the open entrance. Hut the child said nothing; he only glaneed up M his proteetress' face with rougish, sparkling eyes, and laid his head epaulet her shoulder, He was a remarkably handsome led of about four years old, very dark and brightecomplexioned, indeed almost foreign in his .style of beauty, "Tell Me Miss Mildred," began the woman agMn,wlti tiie respectful free- dom peculiar to her countrywomen, "is it thrue what I've been hearlue about ye, time ye're going to be mar - rind? le It Wren, alanua? An' to the young lord that's sta,yin' at King's Abbott?" "It may be so," said Miss Trevan- ion, laughing, "Stranger things nave happened before now. But I, for my part, have heard nothing about it." She paused, blushed a little at the woman's earnest, kindly g1ance4, and then Denzil bethought himself that it was high time he should: cease to be a listener to this dialogue, Up to .this he had been, almost unconsciously, feasting himself .upon the girl's sweet, uncommon beauty; but the latter part of the conversation startled him, and betrayed his position to himself as an eavesdropper. He advanced, placed his gun against the lintel of the door, valaindict. eld out hie hand to Miss Tre- "Good morning," he said, "It seems late in the day for that salutation, does it not; ,but you know we had not the pleasure of your company at breakfast this morning," "No. Papa, you see, was not going shooting; and, really, all the rest of soyou 011050 c1,1050 to get up at .such a ridicu- lously early hour! Have you had good "Pratty fair; the others hart done rather better, I faitcy. But all the shooting here is capital. I have lost my way a little, I think; at least.1 have got completely separated from my companions, and just came. in tO ask permission to light' my pipe, which accounts for niy being here." He turned as he mentioned the pipe, and bowed 'courteously to Mrs, Demp- sey, who, courtesying in return, told "his honor" he was very welcome. "Never fear; I will make it all right for you before Thursday night, Miss Mabel; and, as for him thinkineany- thing bad of you, why, he is the best lad in the world, and is, I'll be bound, at this very moment thinking of noth- ing but the beauty of a certain young lady who claimed kinship with him a little time ago." "Thank you," returned 'Mab, feeling slightly better as she listened to his hearty way of putting things; "thank you again and again, Alr. Blount, for all your goodness to me," "I have, done nothing for you," pro- te,ted old Dick; "and I shall be eeri- cusly angry, Miss Mabel, if you ever ment.ion my 'goodness' to me again." They were crossing tho hall at this time, and presently gained the outer porch, where he put her on her 'horse and gathered up the reins for her hand "Well, good-bye, and take care of yourself; and be sure you look your Nery loveliest on Thursday evening, or Roy will certatnly mistake you for Jane." "Good-bye," Mabel cried, and laugh- ed in sptte of hereelf at the absurdity or her position, as she rode oa beneath the elms once more to the highroad on her way home to King's Abbott. When she reached it she found the house deserted—the two elder ladies, accompanied by Miss Young°, having gone a distance of five milesto return some visits, while the gentlemen had been shooting since early dawn. "And Miss Mildred—where is she?" "Miss Trevanion has just gone down by the copse way, toward Grant's farm to see Kate Dempsey, whose 'man' has 'been in trouble,' " Jenkins, the foot- man, informed her. And so there was nothing left for Mabel but to wait patiently until such time as any of the members of the household should take it into their heads to return. -- CHAPTER VIII, Mildred was finding her way leis- urely along toward Mrs. Dempsey's dwelling -place, enjoying thoroughly the fresh crispness of the wintery air as she went while the distant sound of the sportsmen's guns came now and then with startling distinctness to the ear. "People say, 'Who'd be a dog?'" she thoeght to herself, gayly, as she walk - e61 along; "but I say, 'Who'd be a bird --for at least nine months out of the twelve?' Poor little wretches, how unhappy the') must be to -day, hoW terrified, And yet-----" 'Here she was going to add, "And yet 'what a capital thing cold grouse is!" when her arriv. val at Mrs. Dempsey's door checked the unseatimentel reflection. Amoriget the slaughterers of the birds 00 that particular morning was Denzil Younge, who having wandered from his convenient in mote am- bitious search of game', found himself presently opposite a certain cottage door, with no assured knowledge et hie Whereabouts, and without a Ilea for his pipe. Ho decided in enter, and ask the good woman or the house permission to light his pipe et her glowiag eine bers, as well as gain Some information respecting his petition; uo he went up to the door, which lie found open, and bowed his bead to enter. And this Was What he saw—Mildred TrevaniOn —no longer the unapproachable. Mil- dred ar hie everyday life, but a being soft smiling, lovable—with a little boy upon her knees, Whose bare feet kicked triumphantly amonget the lanraersisy. flounces and fur4elows of her "And so .IIM is , safely Mit of hie trouble, Mrs Dempsey," she was Say- ing, a pleased glow of eatisfaction On her fair fade as Are Watched the little led in her arms. eomplaeently Muneh- ing the bleculte elm had 'brought hhal, (To be continued.) TREAT EVERY CHILD'S COLD EXTERNALLY RUB ON "NERVIUNE"--A SAFE CORE A Miracle of Healing Power in Every Bottle. Little children cannot be exPeCted to roan, day in ana day out, with- out Some time coming to grief. Some of their games and rough and tuotble, eause undue fatigue, end not infra - fluently the kiddies are breteed, have Strains, swellings and tteheS jest like their elders, When Children, come in tired and sore, see theY ere well rubbed with Nerviiine, it does wondere in break. ing up a ,cold, has an amazing effect on any sort of muscular pain. The wise mother always keeps. trusty old Nerviline on hand. It has 0, wonderful list of OM Mid a bottle handy on the bearoora shelf often eaves calling* in the doctor. Young and ola alike can safely uso Nervilioe—there's no harm in it•—Just a heap' of curative power when you rub it 00. Whenever there is a pain or Sick - n 0813, Nerviline shoUld be close by. It is 0 true 81)0011 be. for riammationa lum- bago, sciatica or neuralgia. As for' eareelie, toothache, sore back, sprains oe strains, nothing else Will cure so fast as good old Nerviline, ,In use about fifty yeare—sold by dealere everywhere. The large 60e !unity size bottle is'the most econom- ical; trial size 25c, all dealers, or the Catarrhozone Co., Kingston, Ont. Sir john Lubbock's Ant. In the -biography of Sir John Lubs bocit, later Lout Avebury, is au amus- ing story of the notice accorded to en odd pet in the Lubbock family, Ono of two illustrious queen ants, sovereigil of ono or the colonies upon which Sir John based his famous etudial of the ways of the little ereateres, attained tlie lenemble age of fourteen years and Mon died. Several ecientifie Jour- nals spelt° of her decease, mut the news penetrated to Prance, where a distinguished French. Journalist, In whose mind, insufficiently aecittainted with the possibilittee of English ortho- graphy, ants and aunts were evidently confused, offered profuse condolences to Sir Sohn "on the loss of his aged 7,nd valued relative." Better Than Spanking Spanking does not cure children of bed- wetting. Thore Is a constitutional cause for this trouble, Mrs, M. Summers, 'Box W. 8, Windsor, Ont., will send free to any mother her successful homa treat- ment, with full instructions. send no money but write her to -day If your child- ren trouble you in this way. Don't blame the chi10, tho chances are it can't help It This treatinent also cures adults and aged people troubled with urine dif- ficulties by da Y or night. r SAVED BY POETRY. Plaintive Plea ,That Moved Ly- sander to Spare Athens, When, 13. C, 404, after a heroic strug- gle, ...Wiens, the "City of the Violet Crown," was captured by Lysander there were not wanting clamorous voices to urge that .the city whose lust for em- pire Mk brought such woes on Orocce ought to be laid level with the ground, be Spal tan general at first lent a will- ing ear to his powerful allies, but while the council was still debating this mom- entous issue a plaintive voice was heard fibm the city walls matting those noble lines from the "Electra" a Euripidea, that most human of the poets of C41'eece, In which the heroine contracts her fall- en lot with the splendid exploits of her father, who had dismantled the towers of Troy, Lystander bent his head and pondered .on. fortune's cruel reverses. Triumphant s Agamemnon, who °Quid tell but that he might be reserved for a fate as cruel? The lesson of moderation was accented. A netthse:ns was saved. hm Milton as immortalized this dramat- ic event In one of his best known son- I The repeated air Of sad Electra's poet had the power To saarvee. the Athenian walls from ruin b • Brief M• ention. The negro pc:imitation of the United States is approximately 12,000,000, the larger part (probably 10,000,000) being in the Southern States. Middle names —— were once regarded as illegal in England. Theetverage adult inhales about one gallon of pure ale per minute. The Lakes of Killarney are thought to have been once the site of a large and — populous city. Hammers were fashioned originally after the outstretched human hand and • ▪ - $having a Pleasure .-Not an Operation. "WIT' the wonderful new skin food and wrinkle chaser, la a boon to inen with heavy, wiry beards and ten- der skins. A man who has used it for a eliort time said recently': "Shaving is a plea- sure now, I used to consider it 'almcGt all operation," rt in only necessary to rub a few drops Of Usit into the beard, before lathering to enjoy an eeey, quick. shave; 17sit penetrates into the pores, Got - tens the beard and gives a clean, close shave. The beard peels right off, with- out pulling a ,hair. "(Nit is kind to tender skin. There is no smarting or catene,ss after shav- ing, Gives the face a fine feeling of sMoothneea and freshness. "IPS1T" prevents dryneds of the akin caused by exposure of egccasive winds. Accept no substitute. I. !Send 500 to -clay for a trial bottle— sufficient for over six weeks' use. "USIT" MANUFACTURING comPy. 475 Rencesvallet • Ave,, Torohto. • ' • • ato How to Measure an Ounce. An OttliCe of granulated finger equals two level tablespoons. An ounce of flour, four level table- spoonfule. An ounce of batter, two level tables- poonfule, An ounce of ground coffee, five level tablespoenfule. An ounce of cornstarch, three level tablespoon fuls. An ounce of thyme, eight level table- spoonfuls, An oenee or grated chocolate, throe level tablespoonfuls. An ounce of pepper, four level table- epoonfuls. An ounce of mustard, four level tablespoonfuls. An bona of salt, two level tables- poonfals,--"Exeharige. • * • ee Minarchs Liniment • Lumberman'a Fr!enti, roor a dark neck or colter marks, apply a lotion made of equal quanti- ties of lernou Juke, hydrogen perox- ides and water. ^,-^ -.•- -•- Professional Pawners. In many of the mean streets of London there are professional pawns ers—women mell-known to the pawn- brokers, who, for small payments, take clothes and houeeliold goodie to pawn for their neighbors. It .is staten that the function of the prOfessional pawn- er is two -fold.. The "woman who pawne through recognized intermediai gets a larger lean than she would if She dhl the basiness herself. For the pawnbroker the professional pawner guarantee's, the good faith of the Own- er and will be able to exercise pressure in case of default,'—London Express. —. Keep Minard's Liniment in the house o - woo. Dutch B'arges in the Thames. For more than two centuries there have always been some big, broad- sternecl Dutch boats lying M the Thames River, with baggy trousered Dutchmen smoking on board, quite calmly, It is the reminiscence of a Dutch conquest. Those boats have moored there, with their eels for Lon- don ever since William III gave them the right or traffic. And if there wasn't a Dutch boat for a single sec- ond just below London bridge the an- cient rights would be lost. But you will always find the calm Dutchman emoking. on his "pitch."—Westminster Gazette. SPRING iiiiiaEns OF RHEUMATISM Raw, Damp Weather...Starts the Pains, But the Trovble Lies in the Blood. ,Spring weather is bad for rheumatic sufferers, The changee from mild to cold, the raw, damp winds start the ache e and twinges, or in the more ex- treme cases, the torturea of the trou- ble going. But it must be bmae in mind that it is not the weather that causce rheumatism, The trouble Is rooted in the blood—the changeable weather merely starts the pains. The only way to reach the troteble and to cure it Is through the blood. The pone °nous rheumatic acids must he driv- en out. Liniments and rubbing may give temporary relief!, but cannot pee - Bibby cure the trouble. The sufferer is only wasting time and money with this kind of treatment and all the time the trouble is becoming mare deeply rooted—harder to cure. There is just one speedy eure .for rheumatism—Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, They act directly on the impure, acid -tainted blood. They purify and strength it and thus root out the cause of the rheumatism. Here is strong proof of the above statement. Mr, Michael Peraonage, Fenton, Man., says: "My mother suf- fered several years with rheumatism. We tried a number of remedies but they all failed to cure. Then we got Dr. Williams Pink Pills, and after using them for Genie time she was complete- ly cured and has had no sign of the trouble since." Sold by all medicine dealer,; or by mail at 50 cents a box or six boxes for $2.60 front The Dr. 'Williams' Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. THE WORD OF A GER AN. Yourbiterlog was broken two the trumpets In the light with unclean hands you rote; Your spurs were sullied and the sword Y:sitadlir Boreof outrage done to honor's c And you have played your game as you began. th Wite •white flag ralseI by shat- tered ranks, The cry for mercy, answered, man to man— And the swift stroke of traitor steel for mines. Once 'bitten we are twice a. little shy, And then forget; out with the mount - Our lrtgood-nature, oo -nature, tried a, shade too high. Stifteris its lip, and means to stand protest with bleating no more. throat, .A.nd., brotder round your 'mond a So now, when 3,-ou Urginvgnetehuesnte.eule. tral, Ones to take a note That We have int4sed outside the htunan Pale: pleadings go un - The world (no fool) know where lies otur grace you've lost your ToIf anf leetsch1 v ya claim— We'vo grown too wise to trust a —0. S. in Punch. Bosch's word. I • 0 *CHILDHOOD CONSTIPATION Mrs, Andrew G. Lund, Hughetden, Alta., Writes: "Two of my babies were Very much troubled with con- stipation and I tried several remedies without success. A neighbor advised me to try Baby's Own Tablets end they were so satisfactory that now 1 would use nothing else." The Tablets never fail to cure constipation and they may be given to the youngest ehild with perfect eafety. They aro sold by Medicine dealers or by mall at 25 cents a box from The Dr, Williams Medicine Co., Drockville, Ont. 4.0 -- Norway Hotel System. There is it capital hotel system in vogue in, certaiui parts or Norway, in villages where no liotel exists one or the More prominent inhabitants is Gab- sidieed by the NOrwegian government and In rottirti is bound to provide tut- coMmodation for not fewer than four travellers. He May take in more if he chooetee, but four is the mInimunt, The atcommodation and food supplied are excellent and the charges Moderate. oloikanwoomoo****.Lourioo .IN Fit N 7At'Ink Eye, Fstypeprino Fever, Epizootic Arid all de:eases, of the horse :Wetting his throat speedily eured,• eolts arid horses 111 55.1115 stable keet from having' them by tieing 8P0 1/IV'S DISTEMPER COMPor'ND, 3 to (loses often cure; one bottle guaranteed to cure (1115 east% Safe for brood mares, baby colts, 3181110101, all ages and eonditiotet. Most skillful melentlfic compound. Any drug. gist or delivered by manufacturere. SPOHN MEOIOAL CO., Goshen, Ind. Immortality, TIM/ are not dead, the eoldier and the sailor, Fallen for Freedom's sake; They merely sleep with faces that are Paler 'Until they wake. They will not weep, the mothers, Imi the years 'rhe rutare will decree; For they have died that the battles and the tears Should certoe to be. They will not Ole, the victorious and the slain, Sleeping in foreign 8011, They gave their lives, but to the world is the gain Of their sad toil. They are not dead, the soldier and the sailor Fallen for Freedom's sake; They merely sleep with faces that are paler Until they wake. --Arthur 1,. I3ourinot, ISSUE Isr0. 16 191 • HEL.P. WANTEP, tar A NTED —COAT PliTENT T T eral. Vantily of three( Uu04 1..ttgee. State ago end experieper. Ad- itreee,' I'. 1.). Ilox 05, I/wanton, Ont. zriLs WILLING TO WORK ON ses 13ritie1 Army Orden, knitted under- wear, Seal:ore. ulain 'hitchers and learn. ere. .urieht, nealtby employment, ciood wages. Vaturnerman Mfg, Co., 1.44:, 'Aberdeen and carth streets, Itamiltea, teat. • FOR SALE F OR SALE—RUFUS BED BELGIAN 'Hares and &Ivey Ieleinish giant*: zullY pedigreed, .D. 0, Wateris, 170 Jack - eon street west, Ifamilton, Ont. F°'.OR RSA/M—PANOY VIGINONS AND flying homers; prices reasonable. 3. /folton. OS Oarollne street south, uana. ((ton. One MISCELLANEOUS, 4TaoNsoso.ohow000kow, WANTelD—oereLs OP 000D 111)1761.4 TV Lion to train for nurses. ApelY, Wellandra Ilospltal, St. Catharines, — You can't beat utch ..sor.ctasusiemi=mcomoyozoyour..SUGUGG=451.10 for taking rust and stains off knives 4 Seville Nights, In all the principal nieces and gar. dens or Seville Moving picture screens are erected and smell tables and chairs set out, the exhibitors either malting their profits from the drinks sold or by rental of chairs at 2 cents each. Thousands of people go nightly to the different plazas and gardens, and the entire life of the city for about four months centres around .theee moving picture shows. Making the Insects Speak. In the biographies of the s world there is no passage more human and motto inemorcius than the account by M. Fabre of hie first interview with I-asteur, who had never 80011 11 cocoon a,m1 was astonished that there was anything in ,it. lie concludes the account thus ":Encouraged b y the magnificent example of the cocoons rattling in Pasteur's astonished ears, I have made it my rule to adopt the method of ignorance in my investiga- acne. into insects, 1 read very little. Instead of turning the pages of book, au expensive proceediug ,quito beyond my means, instead of consulting other People, f persist obstinately in inter- viewing my subject until I succeed in making him speak." --London ;Specta- tor. o Minard's Liniment used by Physicians • An Eye for His Colors. Haiti appears to. breed a spirit or sensitive patriotism unknown- in other countries. Some years ago a general in the Haitian army ordered an arti- ficial eye. The maker did his best to execute the order satisfactorily, but the eye was returned from Port an Prince, with a letter complaining that "the eye you rorwarded me is of a tint that resembles: the Spanish flag. I am far too patriotic to wear any colors but those of my own country." After ascertaining from the ministry of Marine the coloror the Haitian standard a scarlet end green eye was dispatched, and this met with enthus- iastic approval. Minard's Liniment Co., Limited: was very sick with Quinsy and thought I would strangle. I used MINARD'S LINIMENT and it' cured me at once. I am never without it now. Yours gratefully, MRS. C., D, PRINCE, Nauwigewauk, Oct, 21st. bi••••• •••••••••••••••••••••••• •••••••••=1111 ANTIQUES 4 4-4-4.4-44-4-44-4-4-e-5-4-44-4 444-4 44-44-4. The most celebrated pottery-raaking sites of antiquity were those of Samos, Athens and Etruria, and in these eases the location of the clay beds was in all probability the location of the pot- tery. The same conditions were doubt- less associated with the vast ceramie products of the Orient, it is notso, however, with the halk of the material used in our day, and for the last cen- tury and a half, in the earthen end china wares which have found uSeful occupation for millions or workers, and scope for thousands of avtists to exercise their skill and ingenuity in produeing the almost endless variety of utilitarlah and artistic objects re- sulting from the diseoVeries of potter's elaybeds lo England, the southwestera rountiea yielding the best „materials lf,e;orrlttlitisorleitrn:posiexletenio)twnf man: lireesreyd fteltwe Years tater the discovery Of china Clay end china stona--tite Kaolin and the Petuntee—in Cornwall, the materiel found has not been used to any ex- tent in the neighborhood of tbe Mines, but is altippeti in large quantities to the pottery -making districts. in Eng- land—Mostly in Staffordshires--the Eu- ropean taxable/it and North America. It may be of interest Mao to know that this material is used largely in other industries than Pettery-Makingl as a Matter of fact, tho pottery eon- oonf JAI esnsthillemo oile1;11.1a.,1 fiat:irk tittle, 1%1 ieoI iTl1 ettr: frame kin sreItIt3ritntl. 1 facture, etc., taking the heaviest Oen of the supply, How often, when discussing the ar- tistic merits or a fine piece of poteene do we pause to consider in anyhtgdy the raw material of which the ehjeet is composed, the clay Itself-, a Ole - stance it may have taken -scorea ecif centuries of time to mature to tWeen- ditibn fiting it for use by the poitOr. Mid 1.8th century times seem.fe have been prolific in. the .disCoverY or •-pot- ter's clays. That great master potter, Josiah Wedgwood, -gave. much- time and attention to experimenting with different clays when he was seeking the best material for use in the ' de- velopment of the various mixtures lie later perfected and turned to such pro- mitable account, including the " black basalt" body, from which many ot his now well regarded "antiques" were made, Hearing' or a discovery of potteee clay 111 South Carolina, Wedgewood" despatched a special envoy to investi' gate, and used some of this'clay in ]xis experiments Again, in 1789, he produced what may now be regarded as antiques in ceramics, in the form of medallions made from a potter's clay found in. Botany Bay, Australia. This clay. was sent to Wedgwood by his friend, Sir , .7oseph Banks, President of the Royal. Society, who had accompanied Captain Cook on his first voyage round Aus- tralia. Josiah Wedgwood was a Fellow of the Royal Society, and the last paper he contributed to the society' was beaded "An Analysis of a Mineral Substance from New South Wales:" "The Hope of Sydney Cove" was the' • name given to the medallion referred to. The figure of Hope standing on it rock, with her enablem—the Anchor— at her feet, was most beautifully ren- dered. Hope appeals to Peace, Art and Labor, to unite in guiding the destinies of and assisting in the devel- opment of the newly -explored land. The Cornucopia—the emblem of Plenty —filled to overflowing with the fruits of the earth, a glimpse of the wild country yet to Bubdue and till, and thee suggestion of the vast surrounding ocean for an appropriate background to a delightfully conceisted grouping or figures, emblematic of the natural re- sources of the new colony. Ask for Minard's and take no other, Takine an Impression. The original point of view of Ste- Phen Time's, the English painter, is seen in the following fable, which was included in a letter to a friend.: The artist peeped into a window of a room where a retired merchant sat, doing a Jigsaw puzele. "Whose is that strange face?" the merchant asked anxiously. "I saw no one," his wife said. "I did. I saw a strange face dis- tint1y"—but, before he reached the window the artist was gone. "Do you think it was it burglar?" hie wile said, "We will see if he has taken any- thing." Investigation showed that nothing was missing, but the artist had taken • away an impression which he sold to • that particular merchant for it: 100. ANTI ES Oct CHINA POTTERY GLASSWARE ANTIQUE FURNITURE CORRESPONDENCE REQUEST, EO WITH VIEW To SALE OR PURCHASE RO ENJLINOR 62 King St. East HAMILTON, ONT.