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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExter Times, 1910-08-11, Page 2i Tl�c biainond Crescent Or, A MODERN ROMANCE. PART 111. CHAPTER II.—(C'utt'd) ' My word, Middleton!" said Charles, coming to meet tee. ''I thought 1 had seen the last of you when I left you reclining on George in the drift. I do believe you have got yours.•lf into this state of fever - heat purely to bo of use to us two; u'Id I treated you very cavalierly, I cut :tire. Let bygones be bygones, and let us shako hands while you are in this melting mood." I could not speak. but wo shook bands cordially, and I hurried off to get my ticket. "You can only book to Tarbor- ough," he called after tee, "where wo change, and catch the London express." The station -master gave ale my ticket• and then approached Charles, arid touched his cap. "Might any of you gentlemen be going to London, sir 1" he inquir- ed "A11 three of us." "I don't think you will get on, sir. The news cause down this me•reing that the evening express f►une 'Yarborough last night was thrown off the rails by a driftand got knocked about, and I don't ex- pect the line is clear yei. There seili bo no trains cooling till later it the day. I ani afraid." "The night express said 11311)11 suddenly. "Do you mean the 9 train, which you catch by the 8.2 ft< n► here "Yes, sir." "She was in it!" said Ralph in a hoarse voice, as the man walked away. -How late the train is :" said Charles. -Quarter of an hour a1 - r( lily. 1 say, Jervis"-- calling af- ter him—"any particulars about the accident ? Serious?" "Oh dear no, sir, not to my knowle}e'. Never heard of any- t'l:nhr but that the train had been t , -• t and had stopped the traffic." \..t many people travelling in f•, h weather at any rate. I dare there was not a creature who t • :.t from hero by the last train 1,l r night." -Only two, sir. One of the young gent!. men frurn the I(ectury, and a young !ads. who was very near late. poor Items, and all wet with anew. Ah. there she is, at last :„ as the train came in sight ; and he went through the certnnmy of ring- ing the bell, although we were the yule travellers on the platform. It was uuh- au hour's run to Tar - waiting -room fire, keeping a sharp look -out for the arrival of the train. When 1 cane out some time 1r.t•or, wondering if it were ever go- ing to arrive at all, 1 found Charles and the man in black walking up ar'J down together, evidently in earnest conversation. When I join- t) thou they ceased talking (I nev- et can imagine why people general- ly do when I come up). and the lat- ter said that he would make in- quiry at the booking -office, and left, its. "Who is that man?" 1 asked. "flow should 1 know 1" said Charles absently. "He says he has been a London detective till just lately, but he is an inspector of po- lice now. Weill" as the man re- turned. "Buoking-clerk can't remember it, sir; but the clerk at t•he tele- graph .nice remembers a young lady leaving a telegram last night, to 1,1' sent on first thing this morn- ing." "Has it. been sent yet 1" "Yes. sir; some tune." "Where was it sent to?" "THE DEAD HAS COME TO UP" 1 "HIM "d -TIMES" MOUE Mets. JAMES FtNWICN Enterprise, Ont., October 1st, 1908. "1 sutTered tortures for seven long rears from a water Turner. I was forced to take morphia constately to relieve the awful pains, and I wanted to die to get relief. The doctors gave uta up and my friend!: hourly expected my death. Then 1 was induced to take "Fruit -a -tires" and this wonderful fruit tnedicine has complete!, curet tee. when 1 appeared on the street again my friends exclaimed 'The dead has come to life.' The cure was a positive Miracle." MRS. JAMES IrEN\ICK. soc a box —6 for $r. %o --o: trial box, sic. At dealers or trout Fruit -a -lives Limited, Ottawa. HOME OF SiitTLAND PONY 11.1RiIEN ISLANDS 1\ 111111'll 111:1111S 01' '1111'9 RUN 1111.11. !lase a Fondness for Children and fhrile ruder I•ufavorable l'oudltious. Away to the north of Scotland lies tr• group of islands in which the diminutive horses commonly called til eitics have their home. The Seet•8:1415 are not all inhabited, settle of the smaller islands being toed merely as pasturage fur a few siirep. !'here is littlo to attract e tiler the agriculturist or tho mer- chant, so progress is slow ; the is- landers till their land by old fash- iened methods, and many of thein APLEII AXLE GREASE is the turning -point to economy In war and tear of wagons. Try a box. Every dca:er everywhere. The Imperial 011 Co.,Ltd. Ontario *puts: The Queen City 0 1 Cs., Ltd. A devoting used the sense es kmda er saVic. b thne1vlas grsantattd sugsr fu ,rater .r. f ■ I±:ca Yepletxa, a archives syrup to a-.ac...J x syrup batter tbaaen.p e. May Blue is..ld t. pr'xera. It 11,1 seed site rcr 7 us. Wile r recipe boa►. Cr.sre„t Mfg. Co., Seattle. 1.4. Scotland, showed a marked fancy could be touched, they were as for the Shetland pony. e10 ely guarded as the rest of the 4 rt gala in the strong rooms of the A DARING RESCUE. Tewer of London. "Tile stones are of the finest qua- Ilon' English Sailors Saved an .1u- lily we have ever handled," said striae Ship, a member of the firm of Messrs. C'urra:Kton. They have been set The rescue of the Austrian steam- in aluminum in such a way that, although most securely held, you can scarcely see that there is any setting at all. "It would be impossible to match these gems anywhere—they are be- yond price." er 'Trieste by the British steamer still have recourse to barter as a Lowther Range, commanded by a means of obtaining necessaries. Ne,rth Shields than, Captain Mat - To the lover of the beautiful anti thews, and owned by the Neptune to the artist there is much to charm. 1..111•, of Newcastle, England, is the Some, perhaps, would describe the subject of most appreciative coin - islands as barren ----but what bar- tient in the Vienna press. rrnness! Tho country, though des-, The Neues Wiener Ta blatt tituto of trees, is so varied in the sats;_ '''fho Hain. of Lowther nature of It., sceeery that their ab- Runge will not be forgotten in Au - scare in no tray detracts from the stria -Hungary. It stands on the igeneral beauty of the landscape. I p:oudest page of history, where Countless tarns, streams and these aro inscribed who risked their rel platform. I spoke to hint mice' lochs all serve to make the coloring own existence in order to save their or twice, but he hardly answered ; of the heather covered hills and the fellow -when from danger, those for atm! after a time I gave it, up, and gloome tints of the moors stand out whore all cultivated nations should we paced in silence. . in p'.ea-ing contrasts, while near institute a special sign of honor, .1t last Charles returned. Itis the •sea .,old cliffs tower over the those to whom the Nobel Prize teeuest for an engine had been re- b.u' wlhtcrs, whosewaves dash ought to be given." Noel, but a further relay of work-. neaet't their rocky sides. Over- The !Nue Freie Press says: ins- was being sent down the line had numerous sea birds circle on "'Twelve lung, anxious days we had in a couple of hours' time, and he their way to their nests on the+ been in the dark about the fate of had obtained leave for himself and ledges. 4: 1':1it1S '1'0 SPEND $1s1L090.000. Will Beautify ('ity and Fight Mate Plague. The greatest single scheme of mu- nicipal improvement, that the world 14..s ever known, involving an ex- penditure of $150,000,000, has been decided upon by the authorities of Paris, the enormous cost of the plan to be provided, during a period of fifteen to eighteen years, by the is - 11.4e Trieste, when,- along with the sere of municipal loan stock. Of Oar immense Ellin $18,000,000 will us to go with them. After two lung; Till':LAItG EST ISLAND j •yfol news of the sato arrival of devoted to new schools, 825,000,- fllnt is against rules, sir. The it.terminable huurs of that ever- tau India merchantman, carte the 000 to flew water works and iut- c'er•k has no right to give infornia- la:ting pacing we found ourselves. is known as the mainland, with a report that she owed her escape to pieven:ents in the water supply, Lon- :Anyhow, it is as good as cer- in an open truck full of workmen length of fifty-four miles and a the help of an English ship. The ;.; .000,600 00 to tt.o construction, ilia frufromwhat you say that the steaming slowly out of the station. width of twenty-one. The islands saving of the Trieste by the Low- Lreyemand repair of public hos- paity was in the train, an41 at all At the last moment the num iii have a singularly maid and equable. tier Range will have to be regis- I " ntale, and $8,000,000 to the recu- e•tc 11t$ you will not 1)e kept in doubt black jumped in and accompanied climate considering their exposed tered in the history of Austrian notch lunger;" and Ito pointed to u:. e.tuation and compose one of the shipping. To tow a great vessel its struction of abattoirs. tier. long -expected puff of white 'rho pace may have been great, retest healthful districts in Scotland; a high, stone beaten sea a ship) More than 89.000,000 will be re- Om in the direction in which all but to its it seemed exasperatingly but, even the most adventurous that, almost a helpless wreck, drops �t° sdand r►nvements improvement o had been so anxiously turned. stow, and in the open truck tlee tourists seldom visit them. because t►oa1 house -high wave mountains, I pub - eyes The train came slowly round a cold was piercing. The workmen, n doubtful sea trip in a small *oat.foaming wave depths • to do' tic lighting and street cleaning.• broad curve, and crawled into the station. Ralph had come up, and his eyes were fixed intently upon it. The hand he laid on Charles's arm shook a little as he whispered in a hoarse voice: "I tout speak 10 her alone he - fere anything is said." "You shall," replied ('har!.•- and he moved forward a little, will waited for the passengers to alight. I felt that any chance of escape s'iitch lay in eluding those keen light eyes would be small indeed. Then ensued a scene of e 'nfus- le- , a Babel of tongues, as the passengers poured out upon the platform. ''!What is the meaning of it. all '" hotly demanded an infuri- ated little pian before he was well our of the carriage. Why had a traits been allowed to start if it was to be overturned by' a stoat -drift What had the company been about v.ho laughed and talked among! sic anter is necessary before they tine amidst the raging of the ele-' 1 ares deserves the tenor of heng themselves, appeared to take no t1„- I (1111 1x reaped, Inerts means neither snore nor less the first municipality in the world tee of it; but, I saw that Charles Of the entire area of 55) square than to play with one's own fate. to devote a large aunt of money to v. as shivering, and presently he miles scarcely one-sixth i.e under OP(' wrong manoeuvre and both the definite purpose of fighting the made his brother Tight his pipe and cultivation, yet the $hetlac►ders' tcssels collide, and their wrecks white scourge•.'' For this purpose liege-. to smoke hard himself, menace to maintain something like are covered b} the high waves. Six th• urn (f 80.000,000 has been at - Ralph's pipe, however, went out 100.000 sheep, 20,000 cattle and 5, c nes lasted the battle, a battle of tutted, half of which will be used u'.te•ded in his fingers. Ile at 000 of the famous ponies. The in- nerve -exhausting strength, during :n the demolition of unsanitary ,'.ite still, with his back against habitants are of Norse origin and which an officer of the l(ritish ship clwellings. barge sole., will also by ti,;• side of the truck, his eyes fixed in their speech and customs retain:met with his death. sl cut on the improvement of exist- itupun the gray horizon. Once he !`tart`' of the characteristics of their. The English sailors have secur-11'eg promenades and open spaces. turned suddenly to his brother, and refathers. Tiley supp,rt thele-' ed for themselves a lasting rnonu-1 The great bulk of the appropria- laid, as if unable to keep silence on s''!rc 4 chicly by the herring and mint in the memory of all scalar- , (len, ober expended me 0,00sa 0 — ether fishing industries. 1 Pimprovements Th()v cannot nffurd to Ire much 1'1� nations. 1'hc captain d the ;c the planning of the city. K ]:;.gush steamier and his brave men 1 feeding to their ponies, so these , will ever remain in our friendly They were hers already,” he br.rdy little animals run wild inrncmory." went en. "She would have had !reds on the hills or scatholds, pick -1 - { lI.cm all. If she had had debts, I its 111' what fond they can find. it0i.11. 1)L1H(1\1)S ON VIEW.1' ould have paid thein. What could When the bleak wintry weather la (,bjcet have been 2" And seem. comes on they find their way down Piiceless ('»Ilion Genie Displayed .ugly without expectiug reply, ho tothe scashor(), where they d()riyo at Jeweller's. ceu re la ,sed into silence. '1 -entity lis ing from the seaweed I e hich grows upon the rocks or has • r1 fortune of £150,001) in precious t..tnd1()ftth•l»rl)w• nn1 shat was in his mined: -What was her object Charles shook his head. 4r ' ' " ( !•ern left by the high autumn tides`sli,nes was on view recently in one nos to make it.elf aware of the t•, re passing through a lonely coon :u,•; (rc:.hc red by melted snow ur ftsnail! glass case in a London jewel - slate of the line 1 What I did the t • He re and there a village of railway o c•ials •mean by etc., ct,• ' -t agglittg cettag(•s stet the • eye., i 1Inn. b• r, sigh, where we were to join the I'.ut he was not going to put nl, '. 1 tering round their little church. :11' THIS TIM 01' YEAR. lice glittering case, which contained, t.laill gine. such scandalous treatment. He 1 : places the hedger.•ws alone' annouq ninny other gems, filo six ''!What are we to (1') now''' said Ell"till cause an i11•tniry to 1,c i ti . rk.••1 the tic of the hidden lanes ;'too, they will gather ill groups near Charles. as the chimneys ..f TAT— :1:141e; he should write to the Time., 11,1 .•11,.•1 Men were digging out the t the homesteads and are rewarded w'hichlhave11t,(•rnume �Intc..e l( to 1: with rte occasional truss el hay. 1 ! I ..rough hove in sight and the train' he shuul41 - in short, he behaved 1,1 ••'r :Ids through drifts Of sn"w, end' In spite of this precarious exist -i ljoc.n by the pe, ;+.' of South .1: a:." k••n• O. "Ten to ,•r.•• we shall' a true Englishman in adverse , r 1. alts and horses were struggling cncc the Shelties seem happy Q'le n' t l.e' able to get on ,.• I.• ndo0." c1.nn•tanees, 81141 petrel nniufully along. In one place a lit ()roller' and they are extremely; These are only fragments from, • Nee she either'" said Ralph. ••I'rhat a like eat, r. Others f•,: i tl walking funeral was tnhoriilq hardy. Th.y possess extraordinary extremely the great stone• and are nominally Abell see her: 1 shall sc. her' -seal. an r. , m'• `ii."11t. 3 "i :Press the fi.lels from a lamely cot ! etrength for their size. being Ahle, vnlucd at !:50,000. but they could 1.ln1"4n; r.0 \ •u •..:t. :Ii 1 1•-;4` in ,t the dlr()Ctloll at the ('111,relt .., carry a mall or woman with al, net be bought or matched for twice! black. eh., la.dVi•,>.• :• f •r ,., a 1 .,h on the hill, the hell of which parent ease fur long distances. ithat stun. They were presented to; tieing child, eve w' A's :,1 ; a tolling through the quiet air. the ueen, w'h., at once sent thein (lazed than with hound up i.,',.l Mid The sound reached us as we pass The little panics, with their; Q I 1 rough, shaggy cents and flowing to ('nrrineten's shop in Regent cd, an<I sc()mcd to accompany us oil Timers and tails, seta aomehuw to street. in order that the public lery shop. :111 day It crowds p"'sc<I round Lcse There was an air of excitement ill. ret the whole stati•,n a, we drew up before the platform. Groups of f:41144 a.••• officials were clustered to- e1 t, rrlhld wile 111(8 11.011i• •'i upon t1er, talking eagerly; the bar- 1,:,ntOdiat.•1y Ly exl,c,t:1• fr:ends, �� , end borne off with vo!uh;e sena ,n- isei(U w4,1e a,l looking out ut the i r,frtelltn•'nt seem (leer; INdicenht n thy. One ur two people slightly were soviet'. 'I here nod there; and }:ort were helped out efts the ol•tstdy the iron gates "1 the statins • tiers. 'the train was emptied at a little crow(• f !'roll.• were Wait- 111,1. .!!!lean was net there. 1111{ in the tr. ". • • ':,,w ('herpes went (1•,x•11 tale length •'1 pw•, rad/ tlhr•"_h ' •' , tnc train, looking into each (•arri- \We got oto .1 .•1 11. 1,..•4 went ul, ?ee• and then call. heck, anseer- se a rope. t.lble ;••. l.. • mein in In.a Ralph's ghsnee with a shake of Lia:k evidently an !.Ih . I of some the head. The loan in black, who oar way. 1 heard the me,' talking end their wild, mitred surround- !'light also have the opportunity of! rco,nq thrrris")res that there heti il.gS and the greeps , f them that) minders; then!. been no snow -storm like this f••r are scattered about told OW needed Hundreds of women came to see HULLS ttcrni,he,i nom I Per t tl irty years; and as they spoke rttecnn during I (ay p etc ' i a •• to the lnndscnpe. ( K tl 0 1 A blazing ,,,,t. ,logic or completion. 'or„e. of them began shading their 1'erliap, it is a question of a sur- 'I'nntond ring hung above two 11:1. e: es. end trying to leek in the di- ,.. ,1l of the fittest that makes these r, ticent pendants --one pear -shale.••, LAUNCHES, with Engines in- r(rlien i11 which w() were going. little creatures so very small. 11,, :I1 (1 one marquise- 111 aluminumstalled, ready to run, in s!,`CI<• 11'6 bad new reached 8 low' waste }' r,ee of a larger type wouldbe Ealing'. and beneath were heart -j Send stamps for catalogue. o1 unenc1osed land, with sedge 81141 i,, l.:• un the buggy inoors er on s! ;st••I 11'Id square diamonds. gr rsc pricking up cteryw11070 fee -to•I. hillside(. They have i..nhorate precautions were taken root of n -1 e' through the snow, and with lot Y _.t,. 1U AL LAZINESS. The Little llussians---those of the south—are said to bo cleverer than tt•s• Russians of the north ; but they are lazy—just how lazy may be gathered from this quotation from Nt. Maurice Iiaring's recent, book, "Russian Essays and Stories." "The Little Russian," said a Lit- tle Russian gentleman to me. "is e ) lazy that he will say to hi w ite. i wife. say' whoa to my her: -e. ,• a Main in my tongue.' " Roberi5on MOTOI lit II.nFas 4N rims ABOUT TORONTO .11101"1' ITS SIZE, ITS F t EN'. SES, .%NI) ITS (:110W1'H. Put In a Nutshell so '!'hat 't -'Ley C,17 be Head and ka.^ly I)ii ea:rn. 'Toronto' assessment :a $269,260,- 219. The area of 'Toronto is 23 square utiles. 'Toronto is the most, beautiful city in Canada. Toronto hos seven hospitals for the care of the sick. Toronto City hail iseestimated to be worth $2,500,000. The population of Toronto un May 1st was 323,602. Toronto has 407 utiles of streets and 105 utiles of lanes. 'I'orout.o's City Hall Itas a floor t; ace of 5.40 acres. 'Toronto's Public Library bui ings are valued at $800,000. 'Toronto has 691 street fire alar Luxes and 23 tiro etations. Toronto has 50 parks and open spaces, totalling 1,591 acres. The height of the City Ball tow- er•from the sidewalk is 300 feet. Toronto has 174,675 books and pamphlets in its Public libraries. The strength of Toronto's tire department is 201 officers and men. The tutal strength of Toronto's police force is 475 officers and men. The diameter of the face of the clock in the City Hall tower is 2C feet. There were 7,839 births register. ed in Toronto last, year and 3,901 marriages. Tho 'Toronto Street. Railway Company carried 98,117,091 passen• gers last year. Toronto is governed by 25 mon, nun:el„ a mayor, four controllers tied 21 e euncillors. There were 693,096 people attend. e:1 Toronto's Exhibition last year, against 585,544 in 1903. Toronto has ten police stations, apart from the headquarters of the fume at the City' Hall. Turonto has the following num- ber of schools : Public 74, Separate 19. High 7. and Technical 1. Toronto is lighted by night by 1,- r'00 electric are lights, 90 electric ircanueecent lamps and 1,140 gas lamps. Tor nto issued 5,056 building per- mits last year, which allowed for the erection of buildings to the value of 819,139,247. —*— SOME !( SO11E FAMOUS VIOLIN. TL•cy Range in Value from $', 103 to $22.000 .tpieec. Stradivarius fashioned his best ir. t rulnents between the years 1700 aut. 1710, while the ch.rtcst were made between 1701) and 1715. Viot- t''s violin is from 17ut and is valu- ed at 816,000. On. ill the possession of Sal'asato i; elated 17I:1 and is owned by the Spanish Crown, which has loaned 1• to `'arasatc for life. The other le' owns himself and is from the :it 172.1 and is a gift from Queen I ,I: •1.1:1 of Spain. The value is not 11 111 822.0.10. 1 1► Jua:•hinl had three. The famous is the one called I , stergeige," which the master ,used most frequently. It is from un ' 1-11 and cost 820,000. An'ether ere �� the Mille year was giver) to l ..him by friends in England, paid $15,090. The third was o ,;..•.1 by Carl ilalir. It is !rum srtentcenth century and ha: A -mall but brilliant tone. Joachim loaned it to lfallir for an indeftuitu time. l.. last instrument known to i•:,, .• ! een made by the grunt Inas- , the famous one known as •:ncngc•:•l,g, dale'! 17;117. 11 1.• • ,t.z..1 to Saint l onnoch, :1110 was i• hotel 1)rouot for 815,• 4'tl. The 1:1.1rtiment has an auto- gini:;' !,y Stradivarius on which ap- p. ars •'datnni 93;" that is. the in- strunient w:1s made when Ow !bas- t, -r was ninets three years old. - 1). (01rlrlite. ALL SIZES KNOCK DOWN FRAMES Iroug 1 1 sno •, ( w•i 1 long - - - .-/tr'�3Ci't be, ce 1: (qu()ace, atNl nrke••1 what was seemed to have been watching hila, lines of pollards marking the bed Ihlltt'. ye hen told mere, du. p1 .l,as ,. th•,ugII it ale. -1 ", n,e0 as if th. HAMILTON, CANADA the matter. The man ; ;••r',:,•.1 him rano• 111). r 1 a frozen stream. Near the line 11 to th,. healthful mode of life that a special had he. r: • • t •;,•wn "Ifase all come l:ok 1,y this Das 8 de.crtc(l brick kiln surround- til ,<.}, the, were forced to adopt.1he line with eerktnen t., • 1 r the train , ('liar'.•- a 1:•-.i, ed by long uneven molds 8nd ridge s 1'', they ever born in the fields and rails and that its seinen Hilh the ".111, sir, • ';•t ,1st} }ie heli- of ice, with three poplars mount Mod and died in them. 1.1.) -gingers in the ill-fated express t•lted--"excel•t a 1, e ale d••... r :1 '! a'l:lr(l I .ser it. Flights "f r...,k h The Shelties ca1111111 be worked sea. expe'cte'd at any me tient. el.()s•(nt has het 141:1,1-',1; :11,•1111s. 1,':1:1! ' '',•r the barren grained, ant} n.•til they are three or four years -roll (Io11 t mean to say the ream says there were snit"• of the t i.e. le I 1n the air with discordant ,,'t' and do not relic)) maturity tin- e•setche,l passengers hese been passengers se badly b:ert that he r!anl.,r aµ we p•ls'trd—(he only hr- Iii they are eight or nine. Though there all night :•' 4 xcl8ime4 wt 041 not allow tern 1., be Inevc,) 1110 root ing things in the utter de- (evasion/illy employed in tho Shut - Charles. (sent the farm when the (tail) cam.. selatien o1 thy scent. A4 1 1(N1ked 11u1ds to (1raw carts, it is as From the man's areount it np- for then,. The engine (Irkcr and _Aire ea, nn exclamation from cin,• peered that the travellers had ink- one or two others wee, --'' or the woiknien, and the engine Lc A SADDLE ANIM.\1, en r'•fuge in n farm near the scene Charles made a sign to him to be gin to slacken. We were there at that the pony is most used. The na- nf the acrid, rpt. and, the sneest"n11 silt nt. last. total pate. iv soft, 1)0 foothold is c. nt.uning 5"r% heayil}, it had not "How far ie it h. neked, (Tu be continued.) su:ic, the intelligence is great, and h •en thotg!,! ..cl,edient to send a ' '1'wcnty utiles, sir." --------4, t (:aill down t• !:ne to bring theta ' Are the roads practicable!" jaltogether the Sheltie is thoroughly P TI:N.1('i(�l'R 01� i,ll'li- . reit equipped ter getting over ming till 1,1: , 'i . 1,..elk. It. has "X,,, sir. 11t least, they woul(i There is a plant in Jamaica called 11i •orl8nd in which larger horses 1.4''11 g'He all i,..,e, he said, look- he very uncertain once you got in- the life -plant, because it is nlrnost se old founder. Atlturntl is the it g at the cl• ck ; "and it is hardly to the lane's." inipossible to kill it. When a leaf i'' ny's happiest time in the islands, tone yet. Considering how late we "We can walk along the line," is cut off and hung up he a siring for thin it is turned loose to cnjny facets -eel notice of the accident-- for •:.id Ralph. "That must be clear. it sends out white thread-like runts, i'',ell in the fields after the harvest : the news had to travel by night, 1. t us start at once." gathers moisture from the. Air. and he' that happy fieriest is of brief anti on feel ler a considerable dis- "Could not the etatien-muster 1.1 gins to grow new leaves. Even dl ration and after this gleaning Haire I (1•.11'1 think there has been send us down en nn engine 1'• Askin when pressed andpacked awayby the Sheltie returns to its hills and rn,,ch Oe ay." ('l:8rlos. "Wo woul(I pay well fur a botanist it has been known to woofs and slakes the hest of things 11'111 all the passengers come it,,, or:tgrow the leaves of the hook in through the hard months of the back by this train?" asked Ralph. The police inspector shook his which it was placed. 'fhe only way yt•nr. '•Yes, sir." lir ad, but ('harles went off to in- to kill it is by the heat of a hot This little err Mitre has an 8bid- "We will wait"" said Ralph; and (Imre nevertheless, and be followed hr. went and paced up and down trio him. 1 thought him It very push - .must deserted part of the platform. ing, inquisitive kind 1,f person. I The roan followed hint with his ()yea. have always had n. great dislike to ".lnti(tis about friends, sir 1" he the idle curitiity which is confinu- 14k1•d Charles. all;; prying into the eoneerns of "Yes," i heard ('hurlee say a4 1 others. ltnlph and 1 walked tip and neat aft to warm m •self by;be 1, y down, u fi and d,_ 1 11 Lies now desert- .cnor:n to 8llait' the nqe of t.. •afegunrd the tree -errs. and n1. iton or of boiling water. There ere eighty • ix annual holi- days in Hos-sta. The umbrella thief believes in laying up seniething for a rainy (lay. ing fondues.' for children and it is a curious fact that b,1ys and girls ere better able to control hits than their elders. His popularity i,s nni- teisal, rising from the depths of the pit to the heights of the throne, for the late (,jueen Victoria, It ho spent much of her time in the north of Canadian Appreciation l.angham hotel, London. Oentlemen,--1 wish to express my appreciation of the 38 h.p. llainller which you have delivered to me. ilefore ship- ping the car to ('analis I made a three weeks' trial of it, cev- ering some 1,21)) miles. The car ran perfectly, and i never had the slightest trouble of any kind, and I think it quite lives up to the many claims von nlnke for it. The silence, smooth- ness of running, and power of ac:•eleretion on hills is really remarkable. My petrol con9nrnption was 16 miles to the gallon, includ- ing a great deal of driving in traffic. The tyres show no ap- preciable signs of wear, and 1 think it will prove light on tyres. I am really delighted with the ear.—Yours sincerely, (Signed) C. A. BOONE, of Toronto, Canada. "The most Successful Cllr of the Vear1909" The Daimler Motor Co., 61904) Limited, COVENTRY, ENGLAND. .t. I11' 1111:.111;1'1:!1. 1.0v1,1* Paste% l rilhtc• 0n''4 Lcte (ere SS here %I1 `lily ••c. .1 lover who tt.1, l,it,•u by sweetheart becat 0 he had ' off his beard. tried to revetig 1f in a leave! fa'hion in tss town recently. Pedestrians who passed along the main street early in the morning %yore astonished to find a Targe tennk swell toyered with letters. all .'f them in the most endearing terms. It was the work of the jilted lov- er. who 11ad spent half the night lasting all the !eve letters received by hint from his sweetheart on the ...ells adjoining her resideece. with the ,evidence above them, "heart- ier!) girl, 1 return you your let- ters." ilefore 8 gendarme renewed the letters they had ben reed by tunny townspeople. The girl now Hated - elle to paste her former lever's mis- sives on the walls of his residence. .14 Australian jewellers rent eng 1go- nlcnt-rings to thous customers,