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beardingsbouse greeted hie neetrile
the doer, he Wee ea:Ise/GUS of 4 snd
den whiff of almost oserwhelusing die
guea
Ail the etairs of the New Yorl
boarding-hoeses---eveh those of ti:
merit descriptionmare heavily eser
peted, No male Or woman ever be
holds. these carpets lifted for cleanin
purpose% Of course, it mar be don
in the dead of night, but mot certten
le they look ae if _they had lain thee
from primeval 'dime, and had obsMr
ed the dirt end the odor e of centuries;
Ia was a very tall heese with in
numerable etairs, .A.fferr,farnilia
with it, 4nd appareat•Iy.glad to beer
that 'Mrs, Isaacstein was still in eos
eteersi,erw, iilieart*K.ecl Rankine inside to in
She received them iu a, front par
lor of most dimensions furnished in
red plesh. Heavy curtains were drap-
ed across the vrindows, arid there wits
or- no suggestion of aie of any kind in
the place. Mrs. Isaaestein was elder-
ly, shieirig, and fat. She had glessy
bleelc hair, crimped and brushed
smoothly ebout her eke's, where it met
some large esar-rings composed of
coral and gold. An. immense medals
lion-lerboch containing a portrait of,
pretumably, the late Mr. Ieeecstein,
aderned her arniele boeome her dress
was of black satin, which has advan-
tages over most materials' in that it
de4 not show the dirt, and can be
freely sponged without detriment. Her
fat and not overcIean hands had many
, rings on them, and When she saw Af-
fery she smiled an expansive smile of
t Artery wee perfeet4 at Isome; but
al that night Renkine had no chime° of
-Lmaltiug the accesaintenee of bis tellQw's
. lodgere; for AtTery took him ont to see
New "i„'ork d tl ti I not eeture-
e , ri lee
till the small hours.
They Slept late next dey, then At -
g fery had to reeke sone purchases, and -
e thee stood loseether About half-
- paSt seVen in the evening in the main
e track of the Central Ratway, frozr.
whielfthe train departed -for the West
Rarildne was rather eurprieed that
Affery had not agaia referred td the
r
Yukon iecident, andr,eurmising that
. he had perhaps wounded more, tender
eiesceptibilities than' he knew by his
refusal, he rrersetire,d to, bring the sub-
- jeet up- again. Mere" was filling a
very fat cigarette -case from a paste-
board box -he had bought on .Broad-
way, when Rankine said somewhat
diffidently: , '
• '"I don't know how to thank you,
Artery, for all youe good fellow -
"Oh, rstow it!" ansivered Affery, as
if the rriatter was of the least pessible
interest -to him, -
waa Welting very lean and hag-
gard at then/leer:met, and had an odd,
detached e4ression on his face as if
-he wee scarcely tifdenizeri of the ordi-
nary world of men,• ,
(To be continued.)
ove Gives Itself
THE STORY OF A BLOOD FEUD
BY ANNIE S. SWAN.
"Love atm itself arid is not neught."—Longellerw.
CHAPTER XIX,— (Cont'd.)
"Not tifl to -day,,. think. Mrs.
Somebody, calling at The Lees told
them. I believe Sillars was the name.
The Professor has gone, and I follow
to -morrow. I'm gOing to sl at the
Station Hotel to -night, after get all
the stua out. Your mother was very
kind—she asked roe up to The Lees
to sleep, Pet—I mean Garvock."
"Pleasii call- me Peter," he •said
gruffly. "I like it. And I hope you
'will come up to The Lees, If you -will
tell me when yoU will be ready to
leave the Clock House, I'll send a car-
fiage from the hotel."
"Oh, how very good of you! Weal,
I think I will come," i'aid Mrs. Car-
ly,on, pleased with the little attention,
and not at all concerned as to whe-
ther she ought to decline it in the cir-
cumstanees. 'Tin not fond of hotels.
I got a, pretty good dose a them in
my touring -days; though these, of
course, were not very classy ones. I
suppose you have heard the reason
why we are leaving Ayr?"
Peter shook his head. .
"Carlotta has gone on the stage!"
,vaid Mrz. Carlyon hastily; and. at the
same time narrowly observing him, to
see how he would take the news. "She
has gone on as leading lady, with our
old friend, Graham Madox. And If
you ask Ina Mr. Garvock, I Should say
that's good-bye to matrimony. The
kind of actress Carlotta is going to
be has not time for that sort of thing
in her life."
Peter Garvock's face flushed some-
what painfully, and, though intensely
interested, he did riot seek to pursue
the subject, but turned it off by ask-
ing .again when he might order the
carriage from the Station Hotel.
So that night the fend between Stair
and The Lees had another precious
little bit added to it.
It was told with great gusto how
Mrs. Carlyon had epent her last night
in Scotland under the roof -tree, of The
Lees, and, further, had been driven
to the station next morning in the
brougham, company with Peter
Garvock, who showed her as much
• solicitous attention as if nothing had
happened and she was going to be
his mother-in-law after an!
• CHAPTER XX.
AN OASIS IN THE DESERT.
In due course the great steamer ar-
• rived at New York Harbor.
As time was than. no object to the
particular duple of passengers in
whom we are interested they had
leisure and opportunity of watching
the frantic efforts of those less for-
•' tunatety situated to get out of the
clutches of the Customs. For some
dark and mysterious reason, there had
euddealy been an access of great ac-
• .tivity and watohfulness in the Cus-
toms Department, and examinations
which aforetime were conducted more
or less perfunctorily were now gone
into thoroughly, to the confusion of a
' considerable sprinkling- of the saloon
, passengers.
The delinquents were principally
women; and Rankine and Affery,
standin,g by, had the felicity of behold -
ling coarsest &tacks of female apparel
held up by inexorable. Customs offi-
cers.
Affery had a way with the officeas,
: and their own luggaiee was passed
' tactically untouched. 'This whole at -
1 air e peered to Rankine largely a
• isseess , Weill els an unnecessary
exhibition.
„
A
;
„Miter eatina or Steloking
,Wrieleyls :freshens the mouth
arid tweetens the breath.
Oeteet art soothed. throat is
refreshed mid di estiort aide&
So iediny to easel tierlittte peeled
• ee • 9
iSaUE No, 25—'25,
"A country ,that has to eretect i
ve genuine welcome. •
• "Ache Mr. Affery, how do you do?
It is defely•to see you again hIthought
you eves- dead, Where, haf youbeen
dis limes time? Come, now—erhein,
tariff -with such measures," he obser
ed chsguit, as he turned from t
spectacle of a fashionably -dressed w
'man in tears of mertification over h
humiliation, "is badly in need of
new admarastration.. Come on, an
let's get along; Affery. Pm fed up
"Take it easy. She's got her d
serts. I happen to know who the lad
is. She's been, defrauding the Spree
Eagle steadily for at least ten year
Shourdn't wonder if this particula
little show was arranged for her ben
fit. You eee„ she's really only a g
between. She sells the stuff after six
gets here. But she's been copped thi
time, and ne, mistake. Well, we'd be
ter be moving."
He beckoned a cabby, made a bar
gainewith him with the air of a ma
who knew the ropes, and they drov
off from the gesticulating crowd..
Itwas a beautiful day, the air sof
and balmy, the sky deliciously blue
and Rankiae's spirits were uncommon
ly good.
he
o-
er
." She put her massive head on, one
e- side, posing like some ridiculous bird.
"In Feurbpe, for my sine', • Ms.
d Isaacstein. May I introdace. pael?--
s• Mr. Rankine, from Scotland. He is
r going to stop in New York, it may be
e- for good I want you to tak him in
ee and de for him 4rith your npual
ficence. As fer nee, I'm off to-
,
s morrow."
t- "Away back to the ice and snow,
Mister Affery?" she said, sla0eing her -
head as she essayed to take in his
a companion with one of her most com-
e prehensive glances. Apparentlyeshe
was satisfied, for she nodded to him
t With much kindliness, and said she
; hoped he would not mind a sixth -floor
room, as it was all she had.
Rankine was on the point of say-
ing he would try elseW'here, but a look
from Affery deterred him. After-
wards, when he had gone through
some of the lower grades of boardihg-
house life in New York city, he owned
that Affery was entirely right about
the kind-hearted Jewess. Her house
had points unknown and unshared by
any others he struck.
But it was so different from any-
thing in the way of' a public hostlery
They had not again alluded to the
•conversation on the moonlit deck.
Once -or twice in the last,hotrs they
•had spent together on the ship, Ran-
kine wondered whether he had dream -
ell it all, or whether Affery had been
romancing first and last. "
Suddenly, as if divining his thought,
Affery flashed one of his side -glances
at him.
"We're „going to a decent boarding-
house' I used to know on Forty-aecond
Street. It's central, respectable, and
cheap. Kept by a daughter of Israel.
When they're good, they're very good.
I shell stop till to -morrow night, then
take the West -bound express. • You'll
stop, I suppose, indefinitely. -
"1, suppose so. Or, at aeast, until
I have got a look round."
"And trot. out your intros—then
you'll see how much good their are
wen meettater on, I expect, and com-
pare New York notes. But you'd bet-
ter not stop -as long as I did, nor try
as many berths. It's better, on the
whole, to have a line and to stiffr to
it. .What's yours going to be?"
Rankine dre* out his rather fat
pocket -book which he had been study-
ing off and on with considerable aux:
iety during the closing hours of the
voyage, It .contained the 'usual type
of letters of introduction: one frora
M e lawyer to a firm of equal stand-
ing in New York; one from David Sil-
lars, written m pencil, in the train,
where he had met Rankine journeying
up to Glasgow for the last time; and
two from other Ayrshire friends more
or less vaguely expressed. One of
them, considerably to Rankine's dis-
gust, had been sealed; for which rea-
son, and acting, on Affery's instruc-
tions, he had tossed it into the sear
As it happened eventually, he had. in
a moment of pique, thrown away the
only thingthat, in New York city,
would have been of the smallest use to
Letters of introduetion are of var-
ious kinds, but there are very few
worth the paper they are written on.
Most persons who have been reduced
to making use of them have proved
them hurniliatirig, in some oases dam-
aging to any particular cause they
had at heart. Why the custom of ask-
ing them and "writing them has not
fallen, into desuetude it is riot possible
to understand. There is nothing in
this world to, be had without payment,
and- very often the person who writes
the letter of introductIon knows per-
ectly well the futitlity of what he
s doing. It creates., in the mind of
he persdn to whom it is pr4:entect, a
teehreg of ,irritation --which it is hardly
ossible to put into words. Mostly the
ecipient is powerless to offer the kind
f peemanent help or service desired
ncl expected and the utmost he can
o is to speak a word of casual kind -
ss, offer a meal, or some other half-
eartect hospitality.
Affery, who knew the ropes a city
fe and all the tortuous ways of the
face -seeker, felt a profound pity for
is fellow -traveller. But; realizing
hat he must find hie own feet, and
rive at 'his level in common. with
ie rest of humanity, he now proposed
o leave him severely toehis own -re-
Ouroes.
"Leave 'ern in their ccsy corner till
fl
ater I've cleared," he said, with a
ance of good-natured Storit at the
t pocket -book. `Just for four-and-
usenty hours you and, Me will do our-.
Ives proud, at my expense. Show
o
vu New York afore I quit it for
Rankine was not favorably ireprees-
cl with the boarding•house kept by
re, Isaaostein to which he was inr.
oduced ort Forty-setond Street, and
My the odd personal spell Affery eX-
cised over him in.dutted him to enter
• A god deal. its the second-class ac-
ommodatioe on tree boat had jarred
Pon his susceptibilities, though he
ad done his best to fight against his
ft -dines risin choler and disgust,
tit when the o r of Mrs. Isaadeteiti's
he had ever made use of, that it can
readily -be understood how he shrank'''.
from it. 'nee:en:anon with most men,
boarding-house life with its linaitations
and petty restrictions, its compulsory
association,with personreOne does not,
under any circumstancea desire to,
know, made 710, appeal to him. But!
realizing that for -the present he had
no choice, and that he was probably
wise in standing aside ,and allowing.
Affery to arrange matters for him,,
he said he would be glad to len at the
sixth -floor room.
He liked it. 'It -was near the roof.
CHARMINGLY SLENDERIZING.
Slenderizing and straight -lined, tbis
ing cut .off, in some considerable de- crepe gives the large woman an added' "Na," we, answered; "ewe are not Rats in India.
gree, from the4particularly breolved tonehe of youthfulness. The. wide,peotographers." A former Indian official says that
• underpanel is of contrasting color' "But how them?".they asked. "How rats are 6neof the greatest curses of
The 611117-, aaintylthings of sheerest weave and most charming
hue ---things some peo:ple never dreamed could -be waslied—
are perfectly s afe in. the plire, rich suds of Lux. .
• Just dip them up arid down in the 'abundant Lux lather. - No
rubbing, to roughen their deliCate texture. or streak arid. fade
the lovely colours. , ,
And not-ohly once, but Many times, can they be laundered:
• Each tipne-they come 4totu the gentle Dix bath as charming
as though they were new'.• •
Remember, if your pretty things are safe in pure tuat:er,
they perfec'tly safe in tbe 1,4A- suds.
• Lever 13m-di:ors Liraital, Toronto,
1Yaet ittrift,hwoollv-9,
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Phiitographsl,of the Saints. • Beginning Again.
Ignorance and unsophistiOation, are I wish that there were some woderful
plaee •
Called the Laid of Beginning Agarn,
Where all our mistakes -and all our
heart -aches .
--And all of our poor, selfish grief
Could be *dropped like a shabbr'etd
• coat ftt. the door,
And never be put on. again.
I wish we &mid eorne en it all urtaware
Like the hunter -who fines. a lost trail,
-And I wish that the one whcm our
blindness had done ')
The greatest injustice of all,
Could be at the gate, likean old friend
that waits
For ,the comrade he:_a„ gladdest to
hail.
qualities often—nay, usually—found
•amOng the -peasants of the European
countries. An e.specially curious sort
of ignorance was observed in a corner
of the peninsula by thentuthors of kis-
adventures with a Donkey in t•Spain.
The villagers there seem to have been
more familiar' with the camera than
with pictures drawn by the artist's
„hand. The book says. . •
The usual queetioning by .the- peap-,
ants revealed a depth of, simplicity in
them even -greater° than -we had met*
before. They -had reached question
eight and had replied Oda we were
pltintere, • „
•I'lrou•will.,do good trade in the -Til-
lages of •this district," said one of the
men; "there are houses to paint.- It is
the season of the year."• ,
"But," we replied, "we are not house
painters." • -
• "Not. house paiaters!" they cried,
amazed. -"But what then do you.
paint?" . •
• "We make pictures—portraits, land-
scapes, people, and so on."
•°Atha, Os," they said, satisfied, "we
U nderstand now. You work with the
Y If
• and had the cOmplete advantage of be- clever ensemble -effect frock of printed mach*
Ve worel the things we in-.
teaded ±0 40 -
• But forgot, and remembered too ]ate,
I,ittTe- praises, upspoken, little -promises
broken, .
And all Of the thousand and one
Little duties neglected that might have
•- perfected ,-
The day for one less fortunate. '
.,.,7 ---Louise Fletcher.
odors •permeating the rest of Mrs.
Isaacstein's establishment.
While he was contemielating the
cheap furniture and the somewhat
unsteady -looking bedstead, - Affery
made a swift bargain on the landing
outside. Finally he came ° in and
closed the door. • -
"See here, Rankine. You take my
tip, and stop here. She's la very de-
cent sort. Sherd take -.you, on myesteasting material for panel, revers
recommendation, for eeven dollars al-arici- collar. Width of dress around
week, which includes breakfast and 'bottom, about 11/2 • yards. Price 20
supper. You find your own ned-day cents.
meal at one of the C111:0C-1UriCh COU11- •HOW TO ORDER PATTERNS,
ters. You can have a good meal when
you get to know the ropes for a quar-
ter, or even for ten cents, but I hope
you won't come down to be a ten -
center. • It'll do till yo 1 strike He,' and
it's a respectable..address. I was here
once for two- years in my palmieet
days, when I was a bartender at Joe
Cassidy's, on Forty-first, Street."
"Is that the class who frequent the
house?" asked Rankine rathee'dryly,
imagining that Affery was taking re-
ther much for granted where he was
concerned,
"There are all sorts. She acccans
moclates about a score • of teachefs,
artists, and clerks of the bet -tet- sort.
You pays yo.xr money and Teti 'takes
your choice. I'm not ratan -Ong it
down rem: throat, mind, but I think
you might do worse. Will you hair
up your stuff'?" ,
Affery has left his, with the ex-
ception of a small handbag to which
he was hanging on at the moment, at
the station depot -wlaence he Vilma-
take next day the West-boinid train. He answered a friend on the phone,
Rankine decided that in the i'neart:
time he had better agree.
"I'll take the room for a week-, any-
way, Affery—paying in advance."
'So Rankine became paying guest to
Mrs. leeacstein, and often afterwarde,
loot:lite back on that day's transac-
tions, he had to smile a melancholy
senile at his own fastidious qualms.
crepe. This same color makes the can one -make pictures without the ma -
tine?" India. There are husdreez of millioes
cuffs and collar, and the full-lengthl
at them, and they cannot be externain-
revers ateachside which emphasize' We do it with tb.e hands," 77.-6. sale; ated becanse of religious beliqs. The
tbe coat effect. An alkaround belt '"ri• example, these pictures"—point-i Hindu will haiw 6'4 rat, but will not -
with novelty buckle adds to the tailor -1 ing to tb.e religious portraits that deo 1 1" him; the Mobainuattdan, who does
ed finish. No. 1101 is aut in sizes 42,' orated the whitewashed walls—"these not object to killing knows' that with -
44, 46, 48eand 50 inches bust. Size- pictures are done with hands by out help he can do nothing. And so
46 requires 3% yards of 36 Or 40-inchartists. Drawn!" -We made gesticula-
- the evil continues. It is no exaggera
tions of sketching."
"Ah, not" they replied, wagging
their heads wisely at us. "These pic-
tures are made with machines,. They
are photographs, ofthe saintly ,person-
ages:" .s
• Write your name and address /slain- s We had some difficulty in perguati-
iy, giving number ene size of such ing them that. the pictures emanated
from, theemagination of the artist, and
-material with 13/2 yards extraf
o con -
tion to say that; if the nuniber of rata"
could, be kept doWn .lo a reasonable
figure, the wealth. of India would be'in-
creased a fifth': •
"Don't worry" makes abetter mot-
to when -you •add "others."
patterns as you went. Enclose 20c in
stamps or coin (coin preferred; wrap
it carefully) for each o numbet, and
address your erder to , Pattern Dept.,
Wilson Publishing Co.,- 'S West Ade-
laide St, Toronto. Patterns.' sent by
return inail,
• Trio Toronto ,liotpffhl fctr Incurable,. "'I
nfIllfatlein with Illatiovue ant: Ailiod Nonpitob,
New York Sty offr s:fitod yowl' •Celirl,
o trablinli to Violin). Women, haring th3
tort trirdd iioatn iind datir-btii of heoliilifno
norema T113 Flo:anal has adopted- jila Mph:.
Itnur systent. The purille reOelimItornij il
the 8ihoi, n monthly Ai:ow:Intl tntftraveirfno
oXpollset fo fectm New, Yo:k, For 1Orthor
Iiittirmation apply to 34 "Superintendent,
olelIVONWS1b0711*
And -pulled v,rh at. appeared like a bone,
."I'm -getting on fine •
'NVith tbie wine of mine—
At least I ant holding my- own."
Minard's LInlment for Saokscha •
Canada's Woods•'
that a pidture °of St. Mark dressed in
a monkieh cowl, holding in his hands
a bound volume, accompanied •by k
lion with a mak* carefully dressed
chignon, was- not a photograph from
nature. "Odo'hOt think that We left an
effective -wound in their simple fatth,1
but the diScovery • that the pictures
werenotstrictly true -did give them
something of a shock.
For First Ald--Minard's-Linimen,
Newfoundland Seal CatCh.'P •
The season's kill of the Newfound-
lahd sealing fleet amounted to approxi-
mate/7 127,040 seals, which is consid-
ered fair in comparison with other
vars. Ten vessels were engaged 111
the hunt this year. One vessel was
destroyed.
es-ea:sae "-serene sestis
• The preduction ol aluminum from
bauxite ore was carried oft in Can-
ada during 1923 at Shawinigan Falls,
Quetec. -.Nen other plants, all hi -On-
tario, fabricated aluminum preduetee
-The value of the total outPut from
these plants was $7,017,830,
There are approximately 160 arbor-
eseent species o± hardwo6As, and 31
species of conifers, or, softwOodS, in
Canada. , of these, only 23 species of
softwoods and 82 species of hardwoods
can he coesrdered as connneteially IM -
portant The conifers forni over 80
per cent. of the sitabding timber, end
05 per cent, of the lumber testi pulp-
wood produced. The haraWoods are
chiefly used for fneli but they also fur-
nish Considerable litrober for flooring,
interior finish, cooperage, turnery and,
other wood -working industries., '
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WHAT IS BLACK
-
LIGHTNING?
eeerets acientiste Oan't Selve,
Scieutists are always buoy, -delving
more and more deeply into Naturals
rsecrete. Yet almoet every day fresh
puzzles crop up which, for e time, d0fY
Solution.
s Did. you ever lar of black light -
Ping? You ivould imagiar that -the in-
tened bear Of the electrie. discharge,
must, giv e. a blaze of flame. Yet Alex-,'"
ander Larsen, the Dutch. scientist, has
.established theqact'that there such a
thing as, a lightning flaSh W
Vie' human\ eya.
These 'flashes ,were recordsed
specially-arrangecl'damera, but not by
the sight.• Larsen* suggeatsethat this
particular type of lightning -gives ,out
wave lengths much, shorter than the
• wave lengths of visible light, and so
intense teat the, human. eye is inchp-
able of seeirig them. 44
• -Fish That Wear Lamps.
How is it that the firefly produces l-
ewd light? That the fireflyThurns oxy-
gen to prodace its light seente beyond.
doubt, but with. all his resources,xnan
cannot copy this light. It has been
proved that. the firefly us,es 96.5 per
coat oe its energy foe dight; whereas
.in .a man-made glow -lame, only, ;about
haef of, ene per cent of. the _energy is
available for light, •
To-meke alight equal' in brilliance
to that•of the frreffy bY human meth -
'ads sedeld requife a temperature of?'
something, like 2000,,degrees Fahren-
heit.
• Remember, too, that not male- tress ,
. „
files hat glowworms, and scores of dif-
ferent sorts of'llshere able to produce.
this colas lights The moat brilliant of
the light -burner§ ,are creatures' which
live In the tremendous • abysses of ,
oceans .where the temperature is, al-
ways at. or about freezing point.
, . The Secret of Seent
Scent is *ill in many respeets an
unsblved - mystery.. We know* that al-
most every object gives out tiir par -
toles whjoui prodece the sensation . of
scent. But the siee of these particles •"
is minute beyond belief, for a gra-in of
musk will scent a drawer for venera-
tion withcnit losing any -weight. Again,
*why is it that -on one day a fox leaves,
a scent which hounds can 'follow at fuJi
speed, while on the next there is so
little.that the pack is utterly at. fault?
Scent does"not d.cpendupon the' weathh
er—that niuch we knOw‘
:What is the cause: of the earth's
magnetiam,? All navigation .depends
on the compass, which in turn depends's-
for its rusefuleees on the fact of the
earth's magnetise_ Even if,as sus-
pected, our planet's core is solid iron,
this eio,es not, explain the phenonienott,
or wilfis it that ttfo Or three metals,
Such as iron, nickel or .cobalt,; possess
magnetic •properties, while all the
dozens of others, have nothing of the
Mesterles of-"Magnetisrres •
, Again, why is it that the earth's mag-
netic phenomena depend so plainly up-
on: the sun? We ere awiet thatemag-
rietic storms are always more feequent
in eaeh eleventh year— that in which
sunspots are Most frequent -but no "
elle knows t'he reason. •
•Speakine.of magnetism, a curious ex-
periment • has had a . curious TE,+sult:
Plumb -lines over four thousand feet
long ,were 'swung in a copper mine,
which has a sheet 4,250 feet deep.
Piano wire was, usda, • with inetal bobs
weighing fifty, pounds each. First the
wire stretched fifteen' feet; •then,, when
the bobs were irnmereed in oil to pre-
vent vibration, the two lines 'shortened
twentiefive inches;
But the oddest phenoinenen Was the
attraction of the wires one for the e
other. Thie amounted to one tefith of
foot, and even when lead bobs were
substituted for iron ones the attrao
don. remained the same.
Where They Paid in Sugar.
...
In St. Kitts, or St. Christonher, an
• island in the West Indies, during the
great days of its prosperity, which ex-
tended froth the reign of William and
.._,A..
Mary -well into the reign of George IY.,
there eves little . or no handling of
money. Everything, saYs Sir Freder-
• IA Theves in the Cradle oi the Deep,
• Was paid for in. &gar, indigo or tobao
. Servants, wages were paiti in sugar. - .
, ski -He'd ,artisan, after four years ot
free servico, received four' thousand
pouncleea,yeerr Thatecurioue salary he
welled exchange for goods Sent out
from England. He runst have found it
difficult to find a bank or a strong box
for- his savings, for four thousand
- potinda of sugar take up room, and a
thrifty man who event mitchslesi in a
• year than he dulled would And himself
in a few yearsIvith enough sugar laid
by to 1111 a barn,
Sisesee were bought • and sold in .
• terms of sugar.' The purehasee of (all.•
estate could pay for it either iti indigo
or in tobacco or in sugar. The wife of
the goVernor of the island once set her
heerf upOn a piece oe'Sniyrrta carpet,
the price of erhich was seventeen him
-
tired pounds of sugar; of course she
didn't pay for it over the ‘eoteatey. A
woMan who went downtcrWn ehopping
inothos,e geod,old dares nnist have taken e
a Cleve aloiag trundling a wheelbar-
row of sugar for her insignificent intr....,
,chaseeof needles an, pins aild soaps
and perfurneS; when the Went to look
tor Easter finery elle meet have been .
ticcompanied by a tour -horse dray!
Matting can be feeslueied by wiping
it with a cloth- Trong 41.1,t at wwkiirs
te which ammerdis hat: been adatcl. '
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