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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1914-10-15, Page 614oricy )lakcs Yloficy, Or, A Strange Stipulation. CHAPTER I. , jullen Bryan t strove to the eity in a Jnotormate Re th knew at it was a lury.xu but it was SO difficult for him to sever binseelf inimeellately from the delight -til aesoeiatious of the last few weeks. • inaaginatiou svae still alive with ploturea of the varied scenes n131'01101 Which he had !reseed, his mind still un- der the lutieenee of new and enchanting experiences, Even now, as he at luta in the blew little "taxi," 'winch was speed - leg hinx through the clatter and confu- sion of the London streets, and he clotsed his eyee, he could. imagine himself in Ven. tw Me ease again Venice at night, 'Venice under the eoft glory of a May moon! • eould feelthe clasp of Buid's little hand in his as they had eat (epee to - gather, while their gondola had been ease ried Away from the moonlight and the elittee and the movement of the Grand Canal, away from the yokes of the sing &e whose beige was nightie rammed in front of the Dege's Balaee, away from, all that was Teal to those silent pathwaYs that meandered in teed out of the state- ly dark palaces, so silent, mystmeens, so full of that dignity wheels was ee tn tunably their neeulier ,heritage. In the quiet night hours, Venice, the real Venice, Time superbly above the de- al:mill/1g hand ot modeeniem; the maga- * tee Of antiquity, the glass works, the n oisy useful steemboaes, all tea meaner- eial elements of the new Venice, are ehrouded and silenced, only the music of the lapping water on the walls and only the melancholy, the beautiful sense of age and mystery: remain—a world set apart from every -day things, a world of dreams! Julian Bryant was back in that world of dreams nowl Re opened hie eyes and closed them again nowagein, to dream on. They were away from the shadows now, swiftly crossing frora under the Pointe dei Soaperi to the Gimlet:ea, where the big Englieh yacht had been anchored for so many weeks; met the flotilla of Dal- matian fiehing boat, with their curiously decorated sails and the -eye of God" set in the prow of each—on and on in the brilliant moonlight till the singing and the lights faded out, and may the lagune stretched before them apoleseent with shimmering phosphorus reaching into the far dietanee till it touched the sem be- yond; the • restless, bhe ineomparable Adria t ic. The man in the cab moved and eaught hie breath. He eould artually feel the soft breezes stirringthe pink and purple wisteria on the high wall that bordered the lagune; he could ste the jewelled radiance dame- ing like fireflies. even about the blade of Giuseppeee oar as it nieved gently in and out of the water . .. and then lie - opened hie eyes with a jerk.. Venice, city of ronaa,nce, of tragedy, Of love, of poetry.. Venice had vanished . . . this was, real life, the heart of the great, the ugly, working world! Just for an instant he puckered his brows as he alighted, and a shado-w fell on the uncons,Tions happiness of hie face. Then as the early eummer sunshine fell on him and the summer air stirred his pulses, he smiled.. Veuice lay behind, but Enid was with him always. Enid and -Love! Enid and home. Enid and all those countless joys that snerriage means to the newlY- wed. He tipped leis cabman liberally and slipped a. coininto the hand of the lift mass who took him up to the office. "Been doing yourself well, Mr. Bryant, From the look of you? Ah! holidaese greet thing, isn't it?" And Bryant bugled. "Yes, a holiday is a greet thing." The lift man looked after him with a nod as he paesed rapidly down the pass- age. "Might have been on his honeymoon," he said to himself. There was something certainly bright and attractiee about Julian Bryant. Everybody seemed pleased to see him; he brougat a new element into the office; his ha,ppinees was iraparted unconscious- ly to his fellow -workers, and ae he sat down in his accustomed place and started on his aceuetomed -work, he stopped every now and then to seiff the white rose in his button -hole, the rose wheels his wife had pinned in when they had Pelted. Just about half an hour before lunch time, one of his clerks came to him with a metseage. 'You're wanted,- Bryant; the 'head' has asked for you." Julian Bryant -put down his pen and walked through the long office till he reached the door at the farther end. He stopped on this way to shake hands with two of the girl tepiste, all ignorant that one of sthmn cherished e secret and ardent admiration for him. The fact was hardly to be wondered at, for the young man -was very good to look .at. He had been in a. Huzzar regiment for nearly *even years before he had taken to eity work, and his military education was clearly discernible in the line way with -which he held himself, and in- his smart, well-groomed look. As he passed through the door he entered a little, ante -room, and from the room beyond there Game out a middle-aged man, with his hands full of papers. "AM. Mr. Bryant, tbere you are. I was east coming to fetch you. Will you please go in?" He etood on one side and elosed -the door as Bryant passed into the other room. This seas a small ehabby apartment, yet it contained two handsome pieces of fur- nitere, one all inlaid satinwood bueee,n, a piece ef French workmanship exquisite- ly decorated, and the other a high -beaked, carved old oak chair. In this chair was seated the heed of the firm which em- ployed .7-alian Bryant. The "head" was a woman. A thin, tall, dark wOrean, with an unmietaeable look in her. features, and in the quick yet furtive expreseion of her eyes. e S•he wao rather extravagantly dreesed, anti wore argreat deal of iewellery The pearls round her threat were supposeel to be matehless, 'and Julian had often heard it staid in the office that "the chief" a earned about on her person something like thirty thousand pearls vrhen she wore these pearls. The matter did not interest him, however; he was far more attracted by the extraordinary brain - power of this woman, by the strength of her will, by ner shrewneee and het' wit. She turned as the young men came In, and stretched out both her bands in greet- ing to him, . 'eater she flea, "We geed to (tee Yell, Julian, You ,seem to have been away a long time." Julian Bryant pressed the byre hands, and his Pule Meshed. This -vselcome -was surpree to him, for as a rule Mee Mar. neck had a few words to spare, and was curtness iteeif in her nutnner. Slie. bad no time for graciousnees of bearing; her motto was to get the most out of every- body who worked for her, and the best of everybody with whoni she did business. "Sit down,' she said, "and toll me what you've been doing. You look another man." 's "Ohl I'nt awfully fit, thanlee to You," Bryant answered brightly, "Mrs. Mar nock, it was eeitily too good of ,you, to lee Me sie MOW holiday instead of a eeth. The wonian at the desk mined; and 'when she smiled *no saw how old ehe woult have seemed almostezeeseleptafous have done so.' be said; 'and Yet,' ne added the next niOinent, it was cf course eeterally yotir marriage with met ense tiler% step-beether thee gave me me cbance hese. "Yee." said Airs. 'ger/melt, "it Vnle that itt tile beginning; but you bays yourself to thank, julian, for all the rest. When I iiret. heard -of you, and say late hue - need asked me to give you a amuse here, I must confess I 'wee a little prejudiced ageiust you. I esed to myself, 'A boy who has been in. e 'Smart, cavaixy lege =exit will be the lest dolt of nersen to be worth hie ealt in tele office.' The mo- ment I saw you, however, I knew that I hed made a mistake. I'm pretty good ,a,t reeding' characters, and I knew there was etaff in yam That's wbse I took YOU OM any why I mean - to gyve you all the chanee I can." Once again the color flamed into the Young anan's face. "I don't know how to thank you, he said. "I'll leave to let you realize MY gratitude by faces and degree/3." Mrs. Marnock smiled at him, "1 seat for yon now to tell you I am go- ing to make some ehanges here. You know that Hodson is leaving? Yes, he is going abroad. Well, 1 peopose that you should eaka his piece, "Hodson's week!" Bryant echoed quiek- lye '"That—that is a -big step upt" His heart was beating wildly. 11- 18 true that be had not es yet set himself out to eort eut and arrange end, caleulate hole Enid and be -were going to live on the very little ineeme which he earneele but at the back of his mind there had lurked the unconefeetable conviction that it Was not going to be is very etleY matter. And now in thesv most onderful, most unex- peeted Ivey he was nominated toe post, that would mean certainly four times the value of wbat, ale bs,d been earning hitherto. He, etood so long in silence that the woanan at the desk laughed. , "Well." she asked, "do I unametand that you svill aecept this new office?", He looked at her for anenetent. "Accept!" he seed. "Oh! you kiwis I will! The only thing is, am 1! quite up to the 'Work? Hodson nae, been with yout so long; he is such a smart chap-. Of course I'd do my, utmeet to—" - Aire. Marnock interrupted him. . have taken your measure; I knose -what you can do, that's quite sufficient,' she said in her curt -way. ''You, etart your new duties next week. If there is anything yoit don't feel quite sure about, team to me. Don't go to the °them. Come to me." Her sallow 1! ace had e tinge of color. "I am very ambitious for you, Julian. . This is only a beginning." -The young man stammered. lie felt it well-nigh imposeible to express his grati- tude. Her kindness, her belief in him _meant so much-eso eery mueh! "I wieh I could thank you" , he said; "but I can't, honestly I can't," "I don't went thanks" salcl Mrs. Max - neck. "I know I can trust, you You. -will have to eee me very frequently at the be- ginning; • .fact, there is a good deal that I ought to talk over with you at once. Dine with ane tomight.", &Wien Bryant bit his lip. . "Ohl I'm so very sorry," he said. "I'm afraid I can't dine to -night." You are already engaged?' He laughed a little shyly. "Yes," he paused an instant, and thee he said, eMy wife expects me," Mrs. Marnock sat very edit, and there was silence for a moment, then ehe re- peated— "Your -wife? You are married—when?" She spoke jerkily. "1 married the fleet day of My holiday. Wb ha.ve been spending our honeymoon abroad.' Again the woman was silent, and then ehe queried— "Whom have you married?" "My wife is a Canadian—that is to say," Bryant added eagerly, "she really is English, but she has lived the last few years of her life with an aunt in Canada; her parents are dead. She came over to study mimic here. She plays most beautifuldy." "And ehe has money?" queried Mrs. Marnock, her -voice dry and hard. He laughed. • "Oh, no, not a farthing- Some lady in Toronto interested herself in Enid and sent her over to England to study. We met for the first, thee this winteT. We were staying 3.11 the same boarding- honeee Mrs. Marnock was tra.eing some lines on the blotting -paper with a pen. Her hand trembled—that long, thin, brown - skinned hend overburdened with rings. "Why did. you eot tell me?" she aeked suddenly. He looked surprised. "I did not think about it. Of course, any mother knows." "Your mother!" Mrs. Marnock repeat- ed. the words almeet contemptuouely. "And natuTally your mother would ap- prove of each supreme folly!" "Folly!" The young Mittil repeated the word with it little note of quick anger in, his voice. Mrs. Disamock threw down the pen. "Yes, foUy What ale you? Twenty-six or seven? Well, -whatever -you are, you are a boy just beginning to crawl in busi- ness, assereclly not able to hold yourself upright, mueh less to support another person. Why. didn't you come and tell me what you had in your mind? Why didn't you come to me and ask my ad- vice?" He answered her straightforwardly. "I don't think I wanted .advice. vent- ed happiness." The woman laughed a mirthlees laugh. "And you suppose YOU can buy your bappinese in this way? Well, you are not the first fool Who hae dreamed such a dream." Her tone changed. "I am dis- appointed in settle' she said hershly. "I had certain ambitions for von Ais 1 told yeti just now, I believe you had the ettiff in you to achieve big things, but to get them you must be independent; you want to stand alone. For goodness, sake, Ju- lian. why did you do this thing?" Julian Bryant answered her proudly. "Because I love my wife with all my cart; because she is. alone in the world nd has need of me; and because she loves e 66 .1 IOVO her." And Mrs. Marnock answered him with a shrill laugh. "/ understand," Fee said. She got up lowly from Iter ebair, and moved about the room. There was a. strained silence for a moment, s, slierme whieli she broke. "So," she said, -with a eneer in her voice —"so for the second time yea have sacri- ficed your life for a woman! In 'the be- ginning it was yorm m,other -who destroy- ed your career, forced you to leave the army weee your father died, and landed you with responsibilities that robbed you of all you had. When she =tried and took berself out of your hands 1 thenght I saw the way clear for you, and now you have taken, on another woman—it wife." She turned and looked at him with her sharp, accusative eyes. "My friend, you -were lucky enough to loSe your mother; I am afraid a wife will be less easily elite "%lees ' ioitug man shnt leis lips firmly, Angry words, words be knew that he would regret efter thee had been epoken, trembled on three lips. He turned to. wards the door, am sorry I levee slieappointed you." 0 said, and with that ihe would have asoed out, but, Ilfr,e, Marnock istopped wenttIii out and tried to ea eetste lunch. But his interview with the wo- man whom he Served had taken away hie appetite. Ile felt uneasy, denressett, t. moat, unhappy., When he went back to his work this feeling lingered, He was Tonging to be away from 'the office, long; ing torejOin bia wife, It wds the tlret time they had been separated for so many hours. Ile wondered what she had been doing with herself. To him she was a child. a care. a, Precious reeponsibility,' One by ono the other clerks finished vele, one staw, too, as the slicer entiehine streamed upon her, how pathetic were .0 tile efforts to induce the belief that she Por,sessed even a remnant of youth. *ot write," she said, and bee a +.4 oiCe %Va.% aoft, ,„ 4U11.11k1 i31',9" alit colored. Ile WUR leanirig on the eltair with both hands, but he did rot alt down. Her remark eurprised hlin "Olt! I don't think --X Xiseari-st hardly liked to ele that." "That was foolieh of you," said Atrs. ltarnopli. 'Von know I am interested fit you. Thoides, though 100 worli for me, vemembor we are connected." 'els young men lattgbecl Iron Es ily, X never remembered that. You are each is big peeler, You know; it most give you a wedding present. on't leav,s till you hear from me 'tins fterecon. ) '17.3 le:. 14: ' " Wit g 4144 iii;1414gli 1.414.741441/1p.144, *".,4,`,1041/1414141.4. k Lill" 41:14WILlif :2111:4k1311-11144:71 illetainevei li, tare gereseih- - • ; re-". " 11 , eVP.IT.Nr1Orl A. LA, BERLIN. A cartoon from the New York Evening Telegram, which shows the view ' taken in the United States of German militarism. • their 'work and aeht, but he stayed on, wetting, and at last Mrs. Mernock'e secre- tary came to hen bearing a letter. There was a carious look on the man'e face as he handed this letter to Bryant eaused an insta,nt as though he -would heve spoken, and then, with a little shrug of his ehoulders, he walked away Julian Bryant slipped the letter into an ineide eooket of his coat, and then made Inc way quickly out of the office. Al- though Mrs. Marnock had spoken 'of a wedding menet he had a presentiment this letter would give him very little -pleasure. He -was, however, waolly un- prepared for the contents of it. Not un- til he was well away from the office did he open it. Inside he found a cheque for $1,250 and a, very short letter:— "An hour or so ago," wrote Mrs. Max - neck. "I told you that I had great am- bitious for you. By Your own folly .yon have destroyed these ambitions. You have not only done a, very bad thing 1! ox' yoneself, but you have deceived me as I 43,11. no longer trust you, and as your marriage alienatets entirely all any sym- pathy, and the interest I have felt in your career, it will be fail° for You to remain- on in this office. I therefore write to tell you that I shall have no feeblest' use for your services; and I en- elose you one year's salaxy.' just for a little -While the young man felt dazed; then -the hemlines's, the cruelty •of athie treatment,. awakened his , ateseet ecnieeions of 'where he was going, he walked ontelling himself passionate- ly that he would immediately return thas ill-omened wedding gift. Phrase after phrase flaehed into the young man's mind of the letter he would write when he re- turned, this cheque; but after a while there came a change in the current Of his thoughts. Anger gave way to the inevit- able reaction, and with it there came an uncomfortably cleax perception of what lay immediately its front of him. The expenses of his marriage and his honeymoon had exhausted what little money he had in the bank. There remain- ed indeed barely enough to pay bis bill at the modest hotel -where for the moment be and his wife 'were staying. If he sent back this 31,250, -what could ihe do? lifacl be been absolutely alone the position would have been so different, besides the money was justly his; he had been turn- ed away, out off from his only means of existence; hateful thought it was to feel that he 'was obliged to use this money he dared not act on impulse. "After ell, I shall get some sort of work." he told Wessell. But there stole over his heart even ste he said this to him- self a cold, dull feeling. It would not be his 'first experience of trying to get em- ployment: he knew now that, he had been extraordinarily lucky to have been given an opening m the nrin of Marnock end Marnook. Influence had helped him to tele poeition; there was nothing of the sort available now. He had planned to get back to Enidas quieirly as poeeible; but he let 'bus after 'bus Pass ame: he wanted to be calm, he -wanted to have driven trouble •out of his •eyes before he met his wife. That =peeing they eats sighed as they- usA kiseed and parted for a few hours. "Horrid, horrid work," Enid had said; and Julian ha& -repeated the words; and now the "horrid work" was taken away from him! Julian Bryant trembled a -little as he faced the full significance of thist- (To be contintied.) TREE WORLD '8 SALT SUPPLY. Comes Front Salt Lakes, Behring Sea and From Salt Mines. That the salt industry in Great Britain is one of considerable mag- nitude is evident from the fact that the United Kingdom produces 'near- ly one-eighth of tile world's supply. According to the latest availa,ble figures, the world's output for twelve Months is 16,558,676 tons. The British,Empire supplied 3,545,- 150 tons, of which 1,873,550 camie from the United Kingdom and 1,- 300,477 from India. Salt, by the way, is still taxed in British India. Indeed, the revenue from the salt duty comes next in value to that from land and opium. In modern Italy, salt ,aawell- as to. bacco, is it Government monopoly. .,,There a.rd three prineipal'eourees 'from wiliOli salt is obtained, i.e., salt lakes, the sea, and salt -mines. The greats Salt Lake in Utah,. Amer- ica, provides a very' good quality of salt, byt`it has to be purified be- fore it is suitable fcr the table,. The world depends fee its chief Supply on tlie beds of , salt rack under- arT°tIli:4}irgsgeet salt mines' are in Po- laerl and Austria-Hungary, eeMe ef which have been Worked for hun- dreds of years, and contain dining- reoixis, ballrooms, mid chn,pels hewn out of the solid salt rock, Within the last generation a new method luxe been found of minieg ' • the salt. Instead of, as formerly, making shafts, down which the men are swung, and up which the 'salt is raised •aither being hewn or blasted, the followieg method is adopted. Holes are bored. in the ground, sometimes from 50,0 feet to 1,00 feet in depth, until* the salt beds are reached. Tubes are thenr.in- sertecl from 9 'to 12 inches in dia- meter, and water is sent down to the bottom, where it disselvels, the salt rock, fornaing strong brine. This eventually rises up the tube, whence it is pumped to the surfa,oe.• If quite saturated it then eontadias 26 per cent. of salt, the remainder be- ing water, generaaly colored -with clay or other *purity. The brine is then run into salt pans for evaporation. For 209 years at least, until' quite recently only one method was, employed for this evaporation. The iron salt pans are from 60 to 80 feet long, 30 feet' broad, and 2Y, feet -deepliege fire's are lighted at one end of the pans, and flees brought under- neath. The brine is boiled, and.the water evaporated until the salt falls down to the bottom of the pan. It is then raked out and laid -in heaps to drain, and is then, for ma,ny"puse poses, ready ter the market. The temperature at which the brine is evaporatet determines the quality of the salt crystals. When fine table salt is wanted the boiling is conducted more rapidly, and this makes a finer erystal. A second type of evaporation pain is what is known as the vacuum pan. The brine, .instearT of being poured into open pans, is run through pipes into large closed box- es, from which the air.* in a great measure, removed by pumps. By this means the water is remeved naueh more eheeply. , Formerly the great objection to table 'salt was that it became damp when exposed to the air. In order to prevent this, salt manufacturers have added a little of something and placed what is known as; prepared salt on the market. The best-known of this prepared salt, perhaps, is Cerebos table salt, which was introduced about, twenty "years ago by George Weddell, of NeWeestle-on-Tene. ' While experimenting with salt .for his own family, he discovered means of removing the damp - causing particles by converting them into phosphates without alter- ing the salt itself. Phosphates, of course, enter in one form or another into every organ of the body, in - eluding the brain, and for its sup- ply of these the body depends upon the food. The phosphates naturally present in food, however, •are mostly lost in the process of cooking and preparing, aerl by adding this preL pared .salt they are in a, measure re- stoeed to the food, while at the same time improving its flavor. , • - Charity may cover a multitude of .esoiniisne„reba,dut,btulisierireessarme una- en's elub in Western town there sprang up two .factions, one which eriticized the steward because he did not provide the members with gqoti Meads,. and one which defended him hotly. The ,esi,spute got fiercer and fiercer. Half the club wanted to fire the Steward at once. The otherhalf said he was .effielent. Then, 'Without waite ing, the stewaed himself decided the momentous question, One day at lunch time a member of She club asked a waiter : "Where's the gsewerd "He ain't here,"' re- plied the waiter. "He said he was going down the street to get seine - thing good -to eat," DUEL AN PRANOE, 1 A.40ITT AUTIO u01141), ts Still Om Frettehmon'ti Favorit Sport. while other nation-ad:Wes %pea virtuouely of the duel 43 it relic of barbarism, it remains tho French nean's favorite entdoor sport. Ivey heeenee eathuSieetie over foot ball, go in thousands to see a "coin bat debox," but 'there is only on event that will essuse him to figh for a; place in front of a newspepo bullet -4p boaaal or argee passionately fer the privilege of a look at One 0 the extras distributed in his favorite cafe—the latest duel. That the pub lie is excluded from these affairs of honor is a surprising concession to tate proprieties; the principals could rake down a tidy little sum by charging an admission fee. But they see to it that their deeds do not go unrecerded. The newspaper report- ers and the moving-piture men are allowed among these present. 'The American baseball writer has noth- ing on the Parisian journalist who specializes on duel stories, and every einema theatre in the capital features the films of a sensational duel within two days after its oc- currence. There is a. law on the books against dueling, but it is a dead letter. •Teehnieally M. Cailleaux, when he crossed swords with poli- tioal , opponent not long ago, was guilty ...of an assault, with deadly weapons: with intent to kill. And M. Caillaux, a former Minister of Finance, should have been r the last to set an example of law-bre,aking. But he would have been the most as- tonished man on 'earth had anyone attempte.d to pat hirn under arrest. Should a participant in one of these combats be killed (which never ha,p- pens, by the way), his opponent would not be tried for murder. It is peobable that no notice would be ba.ken of the affair beyond. the hold- ing of a formal inquest on the body. The un -written law countenancin.g the resort to arms is part of the Orei- lle tempera.ment. „It is more power- ful than a, hundred statutes. o illisc000eptiToonisu,vel7atiulereggaril to the Thero is a. common belief,. writes Captx YilhaJmtrStefansson in the Bulletin of the Anrerican Geogra- e phieal Society, that Arctic travel'- , lers are the best authoritie,s on tha effects. 04 :extreme CA:+id. That idea has its origin in a hazy understand- ing pf the physical truth that, other things being„,eq4al, the :farther you, go toward the pole'the lower be-, f Comes the average temperatnre, But altitude and the presence or absence of large bodies of water are about aft important factors as lati- tude in determining temperature, All of u; know that, but -the think- ing habite of ancestors who did not. kwe do not make actual use of that knn,o0wwitledeger,,e ect.'strong upon us that The Meteorological Service of Canada ,has-' regular observe's', among other place's, in Manitoba, and at Herschel Island. Manitoba is an agricultural province, whose largest cityhae a, population of nearly two hundred thousand, and with a climate that allows euecessful grain farming wherever the soil is suitable. Herschel Island is a wholemeal' s rendezvous about a thousand' miles farther north; its only permanent inhabitants are Es- kimes; it lies On the northern coast of ouecolitinent, fax out of the way ofany warm current from either the Atlantic or the Pacifre; and yet for ten years its temperature has never fallen as low as the laweet re- eeed 111 Manitoba,•—and this mea- sured with instruments of the 'same sort, 'made by the same maker, asad testerlesael.earefully compared with the same •standard in Torontarsesi Up to May, 1908, the loivest re- corded temperature for Herschel WaS —54 deg. Fahrenheit, for Manitoba., —55 deg. Fahren.eit. Aad yet the Manitoba eold seldom pre- vents the young people of the farms . from riding in singing sledfale to dances sixor ten miles away—clad, too, in clothing that is not nearly so thick and wean as that which the poorest Eskimo wears m similar temperatures. and -under similar dn itions. 11 it, true that a tourist often writes more interestingly about a, place than its oldest inhabitant can. Arctie literature is interesting enough; the trouble with it is its inaccuracy and exaggeration. An. Eskimo reporter on a New York daily might possibly write an ainau,s- ing a,ccount of a sultry July after,-,, noon in the tenement 'district, but would it be likely to be accurate It would give a reader in Paris no very clear idea of the summer cli- mate of New York; neither do some of the documents of the Franklin Search givo a. strictly nnima,ginative account of -the climate at sea, level in the regions about 70 degnorth latitude. Here and there it the book you read of therterrible cold and the suffeiing it caused; turn to the tabulated temperatures in the appendix, and you may. And "-36 deg." corresponding to your day of . horrors. No doubt it was horribly eolds to a, man" who had grown to middle life. in southern England, where the skating on small ponds, is safe only in a. "hard" winter. A Manitoban might forget to make a weather entry in his diary on a day that exhausted. the Englishman's vocabulary. THE JUBILEE STA1LP ROOM. An English Ina Is Covered With Postage Stamps. Within easy walking distance of the old cathedral town of Chiches- ter England, is the "Rising Sun,' in North Bersted—a, house of inter- est to all boys and girls who collect itanaps. For the little innscentai•ns a room that is covered, every inch of it, with postage stamps. Ceilings, walls, dome, chairs, ta- bles, picture frames, every part of the room sx.cept the floor, are thiek- ly covered, while from the ceiling hang long festoons and ropes, made of bundles of stamps for which there was no other room. There are fully two Million stamps pasted up, and a million more in these festocins, while great bundles, one of _which holds sixty thousand stamps, hang among the heavy:. looPs. But it is not only the amazing number of stamps that attraets, the visitor's attention. There is evi- dence on all sides of great ingenu- ity. The pictures inside the„Stamp- covered frames are of stamps them- selves; the ceiling is ornamented with a great star; the arms of the neighboring town of Bognor are over the fireplace, and the table- cloth shows the Eiffel Tower I Queen Victoria" is surprisingly lifelike in carefully chosen stamps of different colors. The Prince. of Wales's fea- thers and the crown are also repre• sented. Most of the stamps are penny English stamps, but there are others from all over bhe world. One door is a, bright yellow, covered entirely with. the Swan River stamps of Western Australia. It is all the werk of the landlord, Mr. Richard Sharpe, who, 'already a stamp colleetor, thought- of this as an, amusing way of disposing of duplicates: He finished the room in celebration of the queen's jubilee. Er. Hans Friedenthad, a, famous German prefes,s,o,r, says -that the new woman will have a beard and will also become bald. " MuelhallSell'S Treasure. Muelhausen in ancient times was known to fanne•se the seat: of the A•naba,ptiste. Now it is a city of 85,000, with a forest of smoke- stacks rising from the faotories. 111 the older part ere many- art trea- sures, including a famous house of th,e Knights of St,. John beautiful Schw,arzenberg Place, with its hub - ling fountain' -its notable. old eatbedral witha, oared deer, the admiration of experts,, and many other evidences of it gilded past. 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