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THE EXETER ADVOCATE.
THURSDAY, JUNE 17, 1897.
The Neeh's Commercial: Summary..
Commercial failures in the Dominion
this week number 87 against 20 a year
ago.
The stooks of 'wheat at Toronto are
112,793 bushels as against 119,876 bushels
last week and 68,531 bushels a year ago.
The visible supply of wheat in the
United States and Canada decreased 1,-
830,000 bushels last week, while cora
increased over 1,000,000 bushels.
The statement of the Canadian X'aoifio
Railway for the month of April, 1897,
says; Gress earnings, $1,017,559; work-
ing expenses, 5900,742; net profits,
$627,117.
The amount of wheat on passage to
Europe decreased 1,440,000 bushels last
week, and the total is only 18,560,000
bushels as comparedwith 80,400,000
bushels a year ago.
The Government has issued a regula-
tion in connection with customs packages
which is important to business men.
Hereafter packages valued under fifty
cents will not be dutiable, and such
packages will be delivered by the post-
offiee,
It is generally conceded that the
French wheat crop is 61,000,000 bushels
short, but as France has an import duty
of 36,8o, per bushel, prices there will have
to advance about 7c. to make it profitable
to import foreign wheat. France is the
largest oonsumer outside of England, in
Europe.
There is a better feeling in wholesale
circles at Toronto, but as yet there is no
perceptible increase in the volume of
business. Grain orops are said to be look-
ing well, and the damage to fruit trees
by the late frost is favorable, and on the
adjournment of Parliament inoreased
activity is expected. Money is cheap.
Over a million and a half dollars were
paid to shareholders by banks this week,
the profits of the past six months. and a
good share of this sum will be reiaveated.
The annual meeting of the Bank of
Montreal was held on Monday, Mr. E.
S. Clouson, the general manager, while
not over-sanugine, declared that there
was hope in the situation, but the ut-
most caution was needed. On account of
existing conditions in the United States
and Canada, they could hardly expect to
see the end of their troubles in the im
mediate future. He also said there was
nothing more dangerous to a country's
financial stability than frequent changes
in its fiscal policy,
Reports from all parts of the Montreal
district, as well as from the Province of
Quebec generally, indicate a continuance
of cold, backward weather conditions.
The roads in some sections are reported
well-nigh impassable for any heavy
traffic, owing to the continued rains of
the past several weeks; from the same
cause little spring work has been ac-
complished on low -laying lands, and in
the ease of potatoes a good deal of re-
planting will probably be necessary. In
some districts a good deal of grass has
been winter -killed, owing to the light
snow fall of last winter, but =the whole
indioations at present are favorable for
an average crop of hay.
The United States Congress having
announced its intention of putting a tax
on Canadian lumber, is now looking
about for reasons to justify this action.
Mr. Carroll D. Wright, the United States
Commissioner of Labor, has been asked
to give a statement of the relative cost
of producing white pine lumber in Can-
ada and the United States. It was evi-
dently the intention of the exponents of
a high duty to show that by the cheap
labor of Canada, the United States lum-
bermen were placed at a disadvantage in
the competition with the manufacturers
of this country. Mr. Wright's statistics
were, however, not entirely satisfactory
to the high protectionists. In his report
Mr. Wright admits that he has no data
upon which to base an answer to the
question, that is, upon which to estimate
the cost of production of one thousand
feet of white pine lumber, but submits a
report saying that the cost of labor in
the United States is 91 cents, and of
logging $4 2734, as against 51 28 for
labor and 55.57% for logging in Canada.
Odds and Ends.
In all countries the rate of suicides is
increasing,
The people of the United States have
over 5350,000,000 invested in church
property.
The bones or tombs of more than 200
giants have been found in various parts
of Europe.
The oldest flute in the world is made
of the thighbone of a sheep, and was
found in a tomb on the Nile.
The torpedo fish sometimes weighs
eighty pounds, and a single shook from
this fish will kill the strongest horse.
One 64 -year-old resident of Pettis, Mo.,
says that he has never worn a pair of
overshoes, a watch or a paper collar.
An absolutely fireproof chimney, fifty
feet high. has been built of paper in
Breslau. It is the only one of the kind.
Large numbers of rural farms in Nor-
thern New England, abandoned by Yan-
kee farmers, have been occupied and re-
claimed by French Canadians.
Brooklyn became a oity in 1834, when
its inhabitants numbered 4,500, and it is.
about to end its separate history as a
.municipality with a population of 1,140,-
000.
,140,000.
In the neighborhood of Easton, Md., a
new colony of Hollanders has discovered
growing wild in the woods the sponge
mushroom, an edible species highly es-
teemed in Europe.
Aluminum helmets have not proved
entirely successful in the Geran Ar
ny;
the saving in weight being more than.
offset by the metal's storing heat, even
foreheads blistering the o reh
cads of'thewearore
That Breach Again.
Jack—Why did you refuse his invita-
tion for a cruise on his yacht?
Mack—Sh-hl I'm told he steers with
a '95 wheel::
TOPICS OF 1'116 WEEK
HER;-:. IS THE NEWS IN SHORT
ORDER,
Tidings from all Parts of the Globe, Con-
dex,ed and Arranged for Busy Readers.
ceeetaanetee
Lieut. -Col. Peters, of London, is dead.
Laundrymeu of 'Wiuuipeg are talking
of fanning a union.
The barbers of Winnipeg have organ-
ized a strong union..
By-laws carried in Renfrew to establish
waterworks and sewerage srsteuis,
Mr. Cowan has succeeded in steering
his alien labor bill past a third reading.
in the I -louse. .
The steamer Diana, with the Hudson
Bay expedition, sailed froin I3alirax at
1 oelock Friday,
Elizabeth Doyle, convicted of arson at
Goderich, was sentenced to three years
in tae penitentiary.
The Ottawa eeparate School Board
prof}uses to re -em ploy the Christian
13ruthers es teachers.
Elizabeth Doyle, found guilty of arson
at troderich,'was sentenced to three years
in Kingston at hard labor.
The Winnipeg Board of Trade passed a
resolution objecting to curtain features
of the Crow's Nest agreement.
Mfrs. Walter Edmonds, of Port Rowan,
in a fit of despondency shot herself in the
breast and died shortly afterwards.
Mr, W. Molson Macpherson has been
eleeted President of the Molsons leanlc,to
succeed the late Mr. J. H. R. Molson.
The counties of Victoria and Halibur-
ton will erect a hospital at Lindsay in
commemoration of the Queen's Jubilee.
Sir Hither(' Cartwright has expressed
the belief that an adjournment of the
House will be reached in a couple of
weeks.
The officers of the Governor -General's
Foot Guards have ready a fine oak side-
board, their gift to the Canadian cottega
at Bisley.
Winnipeg has made a grant of 510,000
towards a fund for the erection of a wing
of the hospital to be known as the Vic-
toria wing.
An Indian boy met death in Jasper
Pass by falling from a tree which over-
hung a precipice to the rocks and ice 200
feet below.
Commissioner Eva Booth, of the. Sal-
vation Army, accompanied by the bi-
cycle brigade, visited Hamilton and is
holding special services.
Caps. Duncan MaoEaohren, who had
been a resident of Algoma since the early
fifties, and was one of the few old-timers
left, died at Port Arthur Friday.
Tho sixth anniversary of the death of
Sir John Macdonald was observed at
Kingston, the late chieftain's grave be-
ing decorated with much ceremony.
The apostolic delegate, Mgr. Merry del
Val, reached Winnipeg on Saturday and
received a warm welcome from the Cath-
olics of Winnipeg and St. Boniface.
Mr. Casey's bicycle bill was put
through committee at Ottawa without
amendment, and received its third read-
ing, and will now go to the Senate,
While Dr. E. C. Engels and Dr. N. R.
Engels, of Chicago, were out sailing on
Lake Nipissing their boat was upset in
a squall. Dr. E. C. Engels was drowned.
The will of the late Harriet Holman,
head of the once famous Holman Opera
Company, was filed for probate Satur-
day. The estate is worth about 58,000.
The Winnipeg City Council has made
a grant of $10,000 towards a fund to be
raised for the erection of a wing to the
hospital to be known as the Viotoria wing.
s Thieves stole some of the money col-
lected by the children of Simcoe street
school. London, for the Queen's Jubilee
hospital.
Six months ago labor was unorganized
in Sault Ste. Marie and Sudbury, Ont.
Now both places are thoroughly organized
with a membership of 1,000 and still
growing.
The departure of the Canadian jubilee
contingent from Quebec by the steamer
Vancouver was witnessed by thousands
of people, and the gallant soldiers were
warmly cheered.
Joseph Maloney, of Grantham Town-
ship, is in the St. Catharines hospital
suffering from a gunshot wound inflicted
by his father in a quarrel. The father
has been arrested.
The Council of the London Board of
Trade has passed a resolution opposing
the Bell Telephone Company's applica-
tion to the Government for permission
to increase their sates.
Conrad Gimbel, a painter, jumped off
a moving train near Alvinston, Ont., on
Saturday. His head struck the rail or
ties, and was crushed in, the injuries
proving fatal two hours afterwards.
John IliIne, an assistant engineer, at
the American Rattan Company's factory
in Toronto, was fatally scalded and
choked Sunday morning, by allowing in
mistake some cold water to run on hot
ashes.
In the Dominion House of Commons
Mr. Davies stated that the Government
had decided to take part in the Paris
Exposition of 1900, and the Minister of
the Interior was making arrangements
for space.
William Delaney, one of the Melano-
thon fire -bugs, was found guilty of set-
ting fire to his own house and barns in
the hope of securing the insurance, and
was sentenced at Orangevilletofive years
inthe penitentiary.
Mr. J. H. R. Molson's will was pro-
bated at Montreal, and disposes of an
estate of about 52,000,000, divided among
relatives and friends, also a number of
bequests' to public institutions, includ-
ing $100,000 to McGill University.
Mr. Davies, who was spokesman for
the Governinent in the absence of Sir
Richard Cartwright, made the announce-
ment that the Government intended to
drop the franchise and plebiscite bills in
the compulsory absence of the Prime
Minister.
Lady Aberdeen has received a cable-
gram from Sir Donald Smith, donating
$5,000 to the fund for the Victorian
Order of Nurses, and offering another
55,000 assoon as 5100,000 have been, con-
tributed in donations of , from 51,000 to
e5,000 each.
Dr. James Martineauh
wet other
o her
'day celebrated his ninety-second' birth-
day, is one of the very few living authors
whose literary activity elates from the
beginning of the. Victorian reign. Dr.
Martineau published his first book, "The
ationalc of Religious Enquiry," in 1837.
At the seventh auuual meeting of the
Ontario Medical Association, held in
Toronto last week, a resolution was
passed expressing unqualified disapproval
of the scheme for the founding of 'a
Viotoriau Order of Nurses. 'The reason
given was "the . dangers which must
neossarily :' follow to the publie should
such an 'order be established."
UNITED STATES.
'Wages of some Fall River brewers
have been increased $2 a week.
Pittsburg constables have struck
against serving subpoenas for 15 cents.
Plasterers and engineers at Washington
have withdrawn from the K. of L. and
joined the A. F. of L.
Henry White, 20 years old, was hanged
at Columbus, Ga., for his share in the
murder of three policemen.
Utica, N.Y., was touched bya cyclone.
Two deaths are reported from the county,
where it raged with great force.
A mud scow in tow of a tug at Chi-
cago was blown to atoms by an explo-
sion of gases. One loan was killed.
Five American bishops of the Episco-
pal Church left New York on . Saturday
for London, to attend" the Lambeth Con-
ference.
It is reported at Springfield, Ill., that
ex -Governor Altgold assisted in the plot
against the treasury of the University of
Illinois.
The Ohio Supreme Court has declared
the law unconstitutional which last win-
ter accepted the Torrens system of record-
ing land titles.
William N. Boggs, paying teller; of the
First National Bank of Dover, Del., is
cbarged with being u defaulter to the
amount of $88,000.
The National Medical Society at Phila-
delphia, voted a protest against the pass-
age of the anti -vivisection bill pending
before the U. S. Senate.
' There are 100,000 Chinamen working
in California,and it is estimated that the
number of white laborers employed does
not much more than equal this.
FOREIGN.
M. Rancho, the French Minister to
Siam, is dead, at Bangkok.
Rumors are current in Paris of seri-
ous dissensions in the Meline Cabinet.
President Faure will leave Paris on the
25th of July to visit the Czar in St.
Petersburg.
The sea armistice was signed in
Athens on Saturday by the Turkish and
Greek delegates.
The Liverpool cotton exchange will
close June 21 and 22 to celebrate the
Queen's Jubilee.
The Chigneoto Ship Canal Company
re-elected its board of directors in Lon-
don on Wednesday.
The Queen Regent of Spain is being
urged to retain Senor Canovas del Cas-
tillo, the retiring Premier.
The King of Siam, who is now in
Rome, is on his way to England to at-
tend the jubilee ceremonies.
A, ten -year-old boy in Berlin committed
suicide because his sister was given a
larger piece of cake than he got.
Prof. Schiller, of Cornell University,
has been appointed a tutor In philosophy
at Corpus Christi College, Oxford,
The Cape Legislative Assembly has
unanimously adopted a proposal to con-
tribute towards the maintenance of the
Imperial navy. •
King f;hulalongkorn, of Sura, arrived
on Friday in Rome, and was met by
King Humbert, whose guest he is, He
will visit the Pope.
The President of the Spanish Senate
strongly recommends the Queen Regent
to retain the services of retiring Premier
Canovas del Castillo.
Japan has ordered a battleship of
eloveu thousand tons burden to be built
on the Clyde. She will be a duplicate of
the British ship Jupiter.
It is likely that the Spanish Cabinet
crisis will be arranged by recalling Gen-
eral Weyler from Cuba and Senor Cas-
tillo remaining in office.
Herr Von Tansch, former chief of the
Berlin secret political police, who has
been on trial for perjury, high treason
and forgery, was acquitted.
It is reported that the Dublin alder-
men at their coining meeting will elect
Mr. John Redmond, the Parnellite
leader, Lord Mayor of Dublin.
A requiem mass was celebrated in the
Catholic church in Athens for the repose
of the souls of foreign volunteers killed
during the war with Turkey.
Among the jubilee proposals the re;
naming of Great Britain has been sug-
gested. The two names offered as,sub-
stitaates are Wiseland and Enwiscolia.
The Berlin public were excluded from
the great spring parade on the Temple -
hof, on Tuesday, and in consequence the
Emperor was booted on his way to the
parade.
The Cbignecto Ship Canal Company
held its statutory meeting in London on
Wednesday. The only business transacted
was the re-election of the Board of
Directors.
The acquittal of Herr von Tausoh,
the former chief of the Berlin secret
political police, amounts to the defeat of
Baron von Bieberstein, the Minister for
Foreign Affairs.
The Queen's abstention from visiting
Ireland is said to be the result of the re-
fusal of Dublin in the sixties to grant a
site in Phoenix park for a monumentto
the late Prince Consort.
Before the Parliamentary Committee.
of Enquiry the Earl of Selborne, the
Parliamentary Secretary for the Colonial
Office, testified that the . Colonial Office
had absolutely no hint of the Jameson
raid.
A resolution calling upon the Irish to
abstain from taking part in- tho Diamond
Jubilee of Queen Victoria was carried at
the annual meeting of, the Irish National
League of Great Britain, held at Man-
chester.
Mr. Stead makes: a very bitter attack
upon Mr. Chamberlain for withholding,"
as he asserts, information from the Com-
mittee of Enquiry that would have
shown an anticipatory knowledge of the
Jameson raid.
The son of the Rev. George Brooks,
otherwise known as'the ' "Prince ' of
Begging Letter Writers," whose doings
were exposed in the columns of Truth,
attempted to horsewhip Mr. Labouchere,
M.P., the editor, in London.
A cable message from m L ondon, through
a New York channel, says that, the rea-
son certain despatches are not asked for
by the Transvaal Parliamentary Com
mitten of Enquiry is because they would
show that the Prince of Wales hada
knowledge of the intended Jameson raid.
THE FERN COLD MINING AND MILLING COMPANY;:
LIMITED LIABILITY.
HEAD OFFICE: VANCOUVER, B.C.
CAPITAL $200.000 In 800,000 Shares of 25c. each.
DIRECTORS
O. INNES, Prejdent and Managing Director.
ROBT. G. TATI1OW. Vice -President.
S. 0. RICHARDS, Director.
0. 0. BENNETT, Secretary.
THE FERN is a well developed Mine WITH ENOUGH ORE NOW IN SIGHT TO SUPPLY A 10.
STAMP MILL FOR TWO YEARS.
The value of this ore has been ascertained by milling and smelting quantities in a practical manner, and it runs
from 810.00 to 5300 per ton.
FIVE TONS, taken from an open cut on the surface, and Milled at the Poorman Mill near NELSON, GA.V
A RETURN OF $61.00 PER TON IN FREE GOL*, AND SHOWED A VALUE OF $50.00 .
IN CONCENTRATES, MAKING A TOTAL VALUE OF $111.00 PER TON. PI+3R TO
The .tunnel at main level, which is in 4Q0 FEET, on ledge, cut this same rich ore
°r' � at . a depth of &boutQ..
FEET below the surface,. and now SUOWS CONTINUOUS RICH ORE FOR ONE' HUNDRED + xx
runs from. 582.00 TO OVER 5800.00 per ton. FLET, whit
THE MINE IS PROVEN TO A DEPTH OF OVER 225 FEET.
THE PROFIT ON ORE NOW IN SIGH. SHOULD BE SUFFICIENT TO PAY TWICE THE OAPs.
TAL OF THE COMPANY.
AJOHNmEongHARD
the reports on this property, embodied in the Prospectus, is one from the well-known Mining Engineer,
S. B., who speaks most highly of the company's prospects.
800,000 shares of the stock have been subscribed for by an underwritingsyndicate, which
equired by the Company,. and arrangements are now y w 1 guarantees all theh ca
g being made to equip the Nine with a 10 -Stamp Mill, which it 31st
glt
required
will be in running order in August.
ONLY 100,000 SHARES WILL BE OFFERED TO THE PUBLIC at par, and a large number of these
have already been applied for.
The Pros,'' -lotus contains full information, and will be furnished on application to the Brokers.
BROKERS
F. C. INNES, GEO. W. HAMILTON & SON, -
Vancouver, B. C. 24 San Sacramento St., Montreal, P. Q
HE STAID AND STAID.
But a Conundrum FInally Made Philip
. Get a :Move On.
The beautiful Miss Lydia Coverton
yawned for the third cousecutive time.
Not counting them consecutively, it
was the two huudred and twenty eighth
time.
Still Philip do Smalpate stayed on.
The maid (who would shortly—at
least, on the morrow -be better dead
than alive) had admitted him by mis-
take for Jack Lightburn, and he was
enjoying himself immensely.
The fair Miss Lydia was getting well
nigh desperate.; She threw out hint aft-
er hint and tapped the floor with her
pointed shue till she thought she must
be nearly through the sole of it.
"Why," suddenly exclaimed her fond
adorer, after one of those terrible pauses
in the conversation that nearly kill ev-
ery one but the one they ought to kill,'
"why are youlike the moon?"
Miss Lydia saw her chance. Once
successfully launched on conundrums,
she felt sure that she dould get rid of
even Mr. de Smalpate. She therefore
thought deeply for a moment or two,
and then exclaimed witb innocent sur-
prise:
"Because any jackanapes that likes
can sit and look at' me all night."
"No, no," laughed Mr. de Smalpate
uproariously. "Let me catch him!"
"Perhaps, then, it is because there is
not much chance for inc to get any rest
before dawn?"
"How absurd I What do you suppose
will happen to those beautiful roses in
your checks if you keep such hours?"
Miss Lydia bit her lip with sufficient
vigor to Suggest that possibly she
thought it was her too fond adorer she
bad got hold of.
"Ah, I see I'll have to tell you,"
went on the infatuated De Smalpate
softly. "You're like the moon because
the earth's too"—
But Miss Lydia Coverton bad risen
tragically to her feet,
"Mr. de Smalpate," she exclaimed,
"do you know why your head's like a
broken clock?
"No—well, or—that is," stammered
he.
"It's because it's got wheels in it,
but won't go."
And the next thing that Philip de
Smalpate can remember after that is
being out on the cold, colt] street and
looking for about five minutes at a very
bright electrics light. --H. 0. Boultbee
in Truth.
An Impression.
"Did that lawyer get a clear view 01
the case?" inquired the litigant's friend.
"No, I'm afraid lie didn't. I told .him
that my trouble was about money, and
he seemed to be proceeding on the the-
ory that by relieving me of my money
he would cause the trouble to disap-
pear, "—Washington Star.
Roofs on -American Buildings.
We are all affected in different ways
by color and form, harmony and discord,
the beautiful and the ugly. Experiments
have proved that certain colors have the
power to induce a temporary insanity,
from which relief is only obtained by the
use of another color—as, an instance,
green, the mostreposeful of all the colors
in nature. Discord in music excites
irritability. Bad proportions in architec-
ture depress the spirits, although no
scientific experiments have been made to
prove the fact, none, perhaps, being
thought necessary, for a depression of
spirits has assailed us all of late in look-
ing at certain new buildings recently
erected among us.
Each of these has its distinct virtues
and faults, but there is one fault none
of them miss—the fault of a bad roof
and hideous sky lines. From the park
you get a glimpse of an imposing site—of
a costly structure that ;night be a source
of inspiration. But a great white pile is
surmounted by a red roof, and that,
again, is topped by a white dome. One
is distracted, depressed and adisappointed
beyond words. A gray stone armory on
another fine site has a roof that is like a
silly impertinence. A now mausoleum,
placed as : no other building among us
has ever been placed, has sins in the way
of sky lines that are not to be described.
None of these roofs suggest anything
in the way of utility, and as part of a
decorative whole theseare failures.. Is it,
as we wondered at that dinner the other.
night, that our climate and oursocial
conditions have never made it necessary
for us to use the tops of our, houses ex-
cept t as storey
p ooms> and garrets, and that
therefore the art of architecture, which
is an adaptation of the ideal to the peace
tail, when .confronted by a roof must
fail? For we do not, like the Moham-
medan,use our roofs for our daily prayers
or our nightly recreation, nor yet, again:
is it necessary for us to retire to one for
observation of our enemies.
Utility has therefore not helped us with
a suggestion, nor yet has national custom
or the exigencies of a torrid zone given
us a hint. We are, le fact, in a difficult
place, one in which only the genius of
some young architect can save us from
monstrosity,and that genius is onewhich
will make of roofs a speoial study.—
Harper's Bazar,
LIFE ON A FARM.
Harriet Clifford sat in front of the
fire, her pretty hands lying in her lap,
and her face distinct in the firelight.
She was very pleasant to look upon,
and John Agnew, from the arm -chair
opposite, looked at her with earnest,
dreamy eyes, as one may contemplate
a pretty picture.
`To think that you should prefer a
farmer's life out west."
"You would not like to be a farmer's
wife, then?"
"I? Would 1 like to be a galley
slave ? Not I; I like to live daintily
and wear pretty dresses and French
slippers, and.—and perhaps one day a
diamond ring, and I detest work !"
Both felt that the little half -laughing
speech had settled a question that lay
deep down below the surface.
John Agnew went to his western
farm the next day, and Harriet stayed
at home with her piano and the thous-
and trifles which served to while away
her leisure hours.
But as the days crept on Harriet
Clifford became conscious of a growing
vacuum in her life. Until John Agnew
went away, slie never had. known how
she had grown to expect his visits, and
remember and treasure up his words.
And Harriet drooped a, little, she
scarcely knew why ; and Aunt Mareia
advised a month at the seashore.
Just about that time Sabrina Elton
came from the far 'est -en a visit—an
old schoolmate of Harriet's—ancl"Har-
riet asked her to tea the first week of
her stay in town.
"Is it very lonely out west ?" asked.
Harriet.
"It's splendid," said the young lady.
"Lonely, indeed 1 Why, they have the
nicest society out there in the world.
I wouldn't come back he for any -
thin"."
"ponce knew aentleman who went
to Wisconsin," said Harriet, diploma-
tically, "a 2,Ir. Agnew."
"Mr. Agnew! Why," said Sabrina,
with wide-open eyes, "he owns the next
farm to papa's, and we like him so
much! Papa says he is so thoroughly
in earnest in whatever he does. And
you used to know him?"
"Yes."
"Strange he has never spoken of
you,"
"Not at all strange," said Harriet,
biting her lip. "I dare say he has for-
gotten ine long ago."
And Harriet began to talk very fast
and discontentedly about something
else.
"Harriet doesn't look abit well," her
-said Sabrina, you let before she took leave.
"Mrs. Clifford, why won't y her
come home with me for a fewweeks?
brace
Our' western climate would her
up like a tonic." 2" as
"What do you say, Harrietasked
of ten-
derClifford, with her eyes f o -
der maternal anxiety.
said H
"I—I should like to go," ar-
riet, hanging her head. " r ,a
little while, you know, mamma.'
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Only fo
Harriet praised the beautiful west
with sufficient enthusiasm to gratify
even Sabrina.
"It's a pity Mr. Agnew has gone to
Chicago," said Sabrina, "but he'll be
back before a long time. In the mean-
time you can amuse yourself very tol-
erably with George Skyson."
For Mr. Skyson, ,a rich cattle farmer
in the neighborhood, had fallen desper-
ately in love with . therett little
eastern lassie, and made no secret
whatever of his infatuation.
It would be difficult, however, to de-
scribe 'Mr. Agnew's astonishment, one
lovely August evening, on entering
the Elton domains, to see Harriet sit -
tin on the doorstep.
"Harriet !"
"Yes," said Harriet, laughing, "it is
1. How do you do, Mr. Agnew?"
And Mr. Agnew, instead of riding on
to the nearest post town, as he had in-
tended to do, stayed . and spent the
evening.
One September afternoon P con Mr. Agnew.
walked in with a tiny flower -pot under
his arm.
"Here is the geranium you wanted,
Miss Sabrina," he said, glancing rather
discontentedly round the room. "Where
it Harriet ?"
"She's out in thearden " said
limn crochet needlei; Sae
a, jerking her :.:..
viciously ; through a series of worsted
loops ; "and I haven't a bit of patience
left with her !
"Why not ?"
"Because I had made up my' mind to
have her for a' neighbor, and she has
just gone and demolished all my castles
121 the air."
"What do you mean?"
"She has refused George Skyson."
"A perfectly unpardonable offence,"
said Agnew gravely. I don't wonder
you are out of patience with her. "I'11
go out in the garden and see what on
earth she means by such atrocious con-
duct !"
Harriet stood iu the checkered shade
of the vines, her pretty forehead pressed
against the trellis bar and her hands.
mechanically toning with the leaves,
while her half-filled basket of purple,
fruit bore a mute witness to her idle-
ness,
"So you have 'refused Mr. Skyson?"
"Yes," answered Harriet defiantly.
"I could have told him that you did
not wish to be a farmer's wife. You
said so yourself."
"I suppose a poor girl can have the
privilege of changing her mind, can't
she?" flashed Harriet,-
And then, of course, you know wliat
followed.
And Sabrina EIton had Harriet for a
neighbor after all.
I. M. Le Van has leen appointed Prin-
cipal of the High School at Paris.
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Vocal.
The bridegroom that never came,
Davis 10
All for you .- . • • Burke 10
Don't forget your promise.... Osborne 10
He took it in a quiet,. good-
natured way (comic) David 10
There will come a time ..... Harris 10
Don't tell her you love her.... Dresser 10
Star light, star bright ..Herbert 10
You are not the only pebble on the
beaoh .......................Carter 10
Luoinda's Jubilee (negro), ..Berlinger 10
Cause ma baby loves me Wilson 10
Dar'il be a nigger missin' ,Bloom 10
Words cannot tell my love.......Stahl 10
The girl you dream about.. ...Stahl 10
Hidebehind the door when papa
comes .. Collin Coe 10
I loved you better than you knew
Carroll 10
I love you if others don't,. , Blenford 10
Don't send her away,John..Rosenfeld 10
She may have seen better days
Thornton 10
'when the girl you love is many miles
away Kipper 10
Ben Bolt, English ballad, ... , , . , . , 10'
Sweet bunch of daisies -Owen 10
The wearing of the green, Irish
national song 10
instrumental.
Royal Jubilee waltzes Imp. Musio Co. 10
'Wheeling Girl two-step Imp.Musio Co. 10
El Capitan maroh and two-step. Sousa 10
20th Century Woman two-step. . Norris 10
A story ever sweet and true.. , : Stoltz 10
Murphy on parade, the latest hit,Jansen 1p
King Cotton maroh and two-step Sousa 10
Handicap maroh and two-stepes Rosey 10
Choochi Ch000hi polka Clark 10
Yale maroh and two-step. , . Vane Baer 10
Black America maroh Ziokle 10
Belle of Chicago two-step Sousa 10(
Star Light, Star Bright waltz ,Herbert 10
Nordica waltz . Tourjee 10
Princess Bonnie waltz Spencer 10
D.K:E waltz........ .. . .. Thompson' 10
larkies' Dream caprice Lancing 10
Dance of the Brownies caprice Kam -
.man 10
Rastas on Parade two-step , Mills 16 -
Genderon two-step. , ..Imp, Music Co. 10
Narcissus (classical), . , .. , Nevin 10
In the Lead two-step Bailey 10
Semper Fidelis March .Sousa
Thunderer maroh Sousa 1018
Washington Post maroh .Sousa 10
High School Cadets maroh.....Sousa 10
Liberty Bell maroh......... "Sousa 1Q
Manhattan Beaoh maroh Sousa 10 ,-• -°
Love comes like a summer sigh.......10
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