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OHAP',1ER
It was late in the afternoou when the
refueled Beetheroft, and Theirfield remark()
that they had still three mien to walk
ri'de'cL. et us ride," Bald Lord Ronald impa
tiently. "I feel as though every moment
we epend upon the rood stands between me
find my nseeting with Kate."
Fairfield looked at his companion in
etartled surprise, and he Said with a sigh :
"You are anticipating too muoh, toy
lord. You must prepare yourself for some-
thing the revere() of happy. What made
my hair turn white in a single 'week, ean
bring you no comfort or satisfaction,"
" Was Kate the came of your white
hair ?" asked Lord Roland in unfeigned
urpr is e.
" Yes ; last Christmas evening I was as
free from gray hairs as you are. Now look
at me."
"But how did it happen? Why are you
so mysterious? Why doia't you deal frankly
with mei"
" My mother will tell you all that you
need to know," was the answer. "1 only
warn you to anticipate evil rather than
good."
Lord Roland felt a chill come over him.
It was not the keen air of early Spring that
made him shiyer, but the cold feeling of
dread and anxiety that Fairfield's words
caused him.
For,despite all reasoning to the contrary
he cherished the hope that when he reached
Mrs. Fairfield's cottage he would clasp
Kate Lilburne to his heart.
When he glanced at the white hair of his
companion, however, and heard what was
the cause assigned for it, he felt only too
well convinced that some dark tragedy had
linked itself with the fate of his beloved.
For the rest of the journey the two men
were silent; one was too and and the other
was too nervously anxious to talk
11was a large, handsome cottage at the
gate of which they drew up, and as they
walked towards the door it was opened by
Mrs, Fairfield herself.
She was a tall, fine-looking woman, com-
paratively young lobking still, and very
like her son, though her dark brown hair as
yet showed no sign of approaching age.
There was deference ratherthan humility
in her manner as she gravely invited his
thee, this mond Ohrietinee DV at Silver.
ton Caselo nniet certeinly Yd haveput all other ievents of the kind eompletely n the shade.
The servants, and tenantry were not so
well oared for ea le the pest, it is tree, for
race had given orders: that they Would
_ put off their merryinaking until after ehe
was married, when they could eat and
drink, dance and sing, to their hearts' con-
tet1 the guest °heathens in the castle were
full, and the eight bridesmaids who were
to attend the bride on the comiag day
were here with their mothers( or downs or
chaperone, each ono of the eight 'nuking
forward to the time when she hereelf
seehroeututyal.re the leading part in a similar
Grace Lilburne had not been very judi-
cioua.in the selection of her bridesmaids.
The petty desire to triumph over her
friends and to create envy and jealousy in
the hearts of other girls having prompted
her in her choice rather than any kinder
feelings.
For instance, there were the two Gaul.
burne girls, poor as church mice,the daugh-
ters of a clergyman who was a distant
cousin of the Lilburnese
Their bridesmaids dresses are to be given
them by Grace, but to -day their attire is
painfully plain, and their gowns bear traces
of having been homeenade to begin with,
and afterward renovated and altered for
the present occasion.
And yet tbey are proud, handsome girls,
and they know full well that they would
look as elegant as any of their oompanions
if they were only able to wear such fine
clothing.
Then there was Miriam Hindman, a bril-
liant brunette, who rumor whispered hed
won Sir Victor Gayherd'a heart, and he
was only saved from marrying her by her
father losing the greater part of his for-
tune.
lordship to enter, while she herself led the
way into a comfortably turnished sitting -
room.
The young nobleman eagerly glanced
around the apartment, as though he hoped
to see some one, but if so he was disappoint-
ed; there was not a single sign of Anybody
having been in the room save the woman
to whom it belonged.
"1 have told Lord Roland Ayre thatyou
could probably help him in tracing Mies
Kate," said Fairfield when they were all
seated; "but perhaps it will be as well if he
tens you firth how Kate disappeared and
what steps have been taken to find her; you
will then be better able to connect his part
of the story with the little you know."
Lord Roland almost fumed with impa-
tience. He did not want to go over the old
ground again•, he wanted to know without
delay what they could tell him.
But Mrs. Fairfield, though very polite,
was likewise very firm,
Moreover, she was suspicious.
Yes, she was auspicious even of her own
son, and as Lord Roland, finding no escape,
began to tell the story of that Christmas
night over again, she more than once inter-
rupted him with questions.
" And when the searoh was being made
you heard nothing about any false floor in
the west) turret, did you ?" asked lel re. Fair-
field with a searching glance.
" Certainly not; is there such a thing?"
he asked eagerly.
"There was formerly—at least, so I hear
from my son—though I never heard of it in
all the years I lived at the castle, and I
don't think Lord Lilburne himself knew of
it; but Frank asserts that Miss Grace did."
"Grace 1" exclaimed his lordship in
sudden dismay; "are you sure she knew of
it?"
"I am quite sure," here interposed the
young engineer, "for I once showed it to
her, and threatened to throw her into the
shaft below. Of course I only meant to
frighten her,, but she was always getting me
into serapes with her deceitful tongue, and
I thought I would pub a stop to it."
Lord Roland pressed his hands over his
burning brows.
He remembered now how Grace had in-
duced her sister to hide, and how she had
afterwards denied all knowledge of her
whereabouts.
Yes'it all came back to his memory now,
even to the dust and dirt which he had
noticed on her white satin dress, and to
which he had called attention.
At length he started to his feet exclaim-
iug
"Let us go to Silverton Castle at once ;
there is not a moment to be lost, That in-
famous girl may be starving her sister to
death ; quick—quick, or we may be too
late I"
But Mrs. Fairfield said calmly as the also
rose to her feet :
"We will go in good time my lord; but if
I help you, you must help ruse and I have a
matter here that troubles( me as much as
Kate Litherne's disappearance troubles you.
Will you mime this way my lord and tell
me what it is best for me to do?"
And she was leading the way to a door
that opened into another room when his
lordship exclaimed:
".1 will do anything you. require when
Kate is found ; but I waist go to Silverton
Castle without delay."
And he was turning toward the opposite
door, the one by vviiioh he had entered,
when he was arrested by Ma. Fairfield's
calm voice saying:
"It is useless your going to Silverton
Castle withont me, and you must give trio
your advice at once, Come,"
Then she led the way into the further
rocen,and he, after a monaentary hesitatiom
followed her.
CHAPTER V,
"Better be With the dead
Whom we, to gain our place, have sent
to peace,
Than on the torture of the mind to lie
rooklese eestaey."
If lavieh profusion, reekleseness of that
and carefully planned emuthinente could
make any oodal entertainment a groat sue*
The baronet had objected to Miriam be-
ing invited, and had suggested a cousin of
his own in her stead; but Grace was obsti-
nate ; she had made up her mind to invite
Miriam, and Sir Victor could only hope
that the invitation would not be accepted.
But here again he was disappointed, and
Mirisen came, looking seductive and brile
bent as a humming -bird, gorgeous with
jewels and costly dressee and giving con-
firmation to the report that her father had
retrieved his fortune, and was now a richer
man than ever.
I am afraid that Graoe regretted her
obstinacy when she saw how fascinatingly
beautiful Miriam was, and certainly she
was genuinely jealous when she observed
how Sir Viotor's eyes followed the girl who
had still the power to make him forget
everybody eke when she was present.
Miriam knew that Grace had not invited
her out of affection, and that she had no
nobler aim than a desire to mortify and
humiliate her, and she determined that the
pain should not be all on one aide.
Besidea being a beauty and an heiress,
Miriam was a wit, and wherever she might
be she was quite certain to have a small
group of eager admirers about her.
On her arrival at the castle Miriam per-
sistently attached herself to Lord Lilburne.
She gave him her sympathy with such
witching tenderness, she condoled with him
at being about to lose his second daughter,
and then she began to talk of dear Kate,
who had been her most intimate friend.
"I am quite sure that Kate is alive," she
said, saddenly raising her voice so that all
the others in the small tearoom could bear
her. .
Grace frowned.
She had distinctly warned every person
in the house that her sister's name and her.
sister's mysterious fate were not to he al-
luded to, partioularly in her father's
preeenee.
But Miriam paid no heed to the frown,as
she continued:
• "Yes, I am quite sure she is alive. I
dreamed of her lath night, and my dreams
always come true. We shall see her soon;
I have no doubt about it."
"If you have nothing more eubstantial
than a dream to:found your aresertion:upon,
I think it is a pity you should make it."
said Grace with cold severity.
"I don't see why. My dreams have a
strange faculty for being fulfilled. But, by
the way, isn't thefe atom° mysterious pas-
sage or chamber in the old part of the
castle'or was it destroyed when most of
the place was rebuilt V'
She looked at Grace when she spoke, hut
it was Lord Lilburne who replied:
"I never heard of anything of the kind.
Silverton is singularly free from romance:
We have not even the distinction of pos-
sessing a family ghost."
"There is, or there was, some mysterious
menses of getting in and out of the castle."
said Miriam, shaking her pretty little head
like a wise birdslaying down the law to its
feathered friends. 'I found out something
about it from an old manuscript that papa
has in his library. I wish I had brought
it with me, but I'll send for it. Did you
never hear of the secret, Grace ?"
was the curt reply. .
But Grace Lilburne's face becam
white, her head swam, and it was only by
the most supreme effort that she could keep
herself from fainting.
As soon as she could do without being
observed the guilty woman escaped to her
own room.
Here she threw off all restraint, and
gave way to the terrible agony of fear and
remorse that consumed her.
"The secret of the turret floor is known,"
ahe muttered dispairingly, "and that crea-
ture will discover where it is. I saw the
threat in her eyes when she looked at me."
"But what could she mean about its be -
nig a way in and out of the castle ?" I
thought there was nothing between the floor
of the turret chamber and the foundation of
the tower.
"If there was a way out, Kate may have
escaped—she may be alive ; and if she is,
then I am lost—lost forever I"
She groaned and hid her face in her
hands.
Any the looking at her might have felt
with the poetess :
"If this then be success, 'tis clismaller than any
failure."
After a time she roused herself, hnd
look of resolution came into her fair,
innocent -looking face.
"I will open the floor tomight," and her
eyes: lookesi cold and cruel as the words
hiseed between her teeth. "Anti I will
lower a lamp into the shaft and see what
lies there. I have been afraid hitherto, but
I would rather meet Katert Esightless eyes
tied look upon her dead face than endure
the grin of that mocking witch whom 1 was
need enough to invite here,"
Having made this resolutiou, she manag-
ed before nightfall to proetre a covered
lentetn and a long (lord, arid to hide them
in the room the floor of which hid such a
ghastly secret,
Thi e hid been easy enough, because the
great hall was la the same part of the
building, and aeveral times during the day
she had considered it neeeesaryto go said
personally inspect and superintend the
decorations of holly, mistletoe and hot-
house flowers.
She made & pretence of criticising the
arrangement of the tables, and the order in
which the guests were to be placed, and she
stood over the servarita while everything
was altered and rearranged according to her
orders'
"One would think that to -morrow was
somebody eisti's wedding day instead of her
own," grumbled one old servant.
a pillow of theme that her husband
will have when he gets) her, I'm thinking,"
"The huaband that is to be looks as
though he'd like somebody else for a wife,
and small blame to him, says I," observed
another.
Arid the Inall jerked his head toward a
small gallery at one end of the hall, in
whith the band was usually placed when
there was a dance.
The first gruinbler glanced in the direc-
tion indicated, and grinned, for there in
dim twilight could just be distinguiehed
Sir Victor Glayherd and Miss Miriam Hind-
man, with two or three other ladies and
gentlemen.
Grace had not seen them, or she would
have been alarmed as well as angry, for
Miriam had kept a cloth watch upon her
movements,ankhad seen that she had gone
to one of the chambers ha the old tower,
though to which of them the visit had been
paid the could not tell.
Her keen eyes were on the alerehowever;
if anything was to be discovered, she was
pretty aura to come upon it.
"Do you expect many guests to -night
besides those staying in the house ?" she
asked Lord Lilburne some time later as the
oom any was about to disperse and dress
for dinner.
"Yea, a great "limber," was the reply.
"I3y the way, Grath," he added, turning to
his daughter, "did tell you that Lord
Roland Ayre wrote to me to say that he
was coming to -night ?"
"Lord Roland 1" repeated Grace in dis-
may.
"Yes; I wrote to invite him to dinner.
He says he cannot come till later in the
evening, but he will come."
"Did he say nothing else ?" asked the
daughter hoarsely.
"Yes lie said something else, but it's of
no eoneequence—at least no consequence to
you," and hie lordship turned away.
race asked no more. She was beginning
to feel like a creature at bay, hunted on
every side, with no avenue of escape open
to her.
Why did her father invite Lord Roland
Ayre, and why, above all things, had the
invitation been accepted?
After a time,however, consternation gave
place to mirth, and she laughed bitterly as
the remarked to Sir Viotor :
"Your cousin gives a striking proof of
masculine constancy. Last year when he
went away he said he would never enter
Silverton Castle again unless he brought
Kate with him, or came to meet her."
"And how do you know that he won't
bring Kate with him ?" asked Miriam Hind-
man boldly.
Grace looked at her for one moment with a
scornful scowl, then turned away without
deigning to utter one word of reply.
"Surely papa does not think of marrying
that horrid girl," Grace exclaimed, as she
watched het father and Miriam talking
together in a confidential and affectionate
manner.
"I shouldn't think he'd have the chance,"
returned Sir Victor ; "she's an uncommonly
nice girl."
"Oh, yes'I know you think there is no-
body like her," sneered Grace.
"At any rate, I didn't invite her here,"
retorted the young man, angrily.
"Well, no ; you couldn't very well, as it
is my father's housle," she replied : "but I
wonder, sinoe you admire her so much, you
don't marry her."
"1 am like your father in that respeot—
I haven't the chance," he said, ooldly.
Then he crossed the room and joined the
couple of whom they had been talking.
Graoe was very angry, but she did not
follow him, and soon after this the first
gong sounded—a hint that it was time to
dress for dinner.
Miriam Hindman, instead of going up-
stairs like the other girls, sauntered into
a little study she knew of, where a bright
are burned in the polished grate, and the
lamp was turned lo*.
Despite her assumption of cheerfulness
and high spirits, her heart vsas sad and
heavy.
Sir Victor Gayhard had been the one
love of her life, and though they had parted
in pique and anger more than a year ago,
and just before her father had lost the
greater part of his fortune, she had always
expected her truant lover to return to her.
But this hope had died out now, for he
was pledged to become the husband of an-
other before twenty-four hours had passed.
She had seated herself on a hassock be.
fore the fire, her hands clasping her head,
and her elbows resting on her knees, and
she was thinking sorrowfully of the man
whom she still loved so well.
"Ile will have a very miserable life,"
ahe muffed, "particularly so if Grace does
not get the large fortune she anticipates;
and he will, no doubt, often think of me e.nd
wish he had not taken meat my word when
I told him to go and find a richer wife. Ah
me 1 people think me bright and witty, the
men admire me, and the girls envy me, and
yet 1 am the most miserable woman in
this house to-night—yes, quite the most
miserable."
Her meditations were here interrupted
by an arm being clasped round her waist,
and by some member of the opposite sex
very energetically kissed her.
She looked up, struggled to her feet,and,
recognizing her companion, she exclaimed,
passionately :
"Victor, how dare you insult me like
this l'
"1 only kissed you under the mistletoe,'
he pleaded, with mock humility, bolding
up a spray of the white -berried plant.
• "Under the mistletoe 1" she exclaimed,
with increasing anger. "I wonder you
are not ashamed to look me in the face. I
wonder you dare to come into a room where
I atria
"Well, l e. ib ''
is a risky thing to do," he re-
plied, recklessly; "but I wanted to speak
to you, and I May not have smother
oh sct,r11';
is highly probable. What have
you to say?"
"I want to know why you came here ?"
"1mime because
I was invited," was the
heughty reply,
"You had some other rethon ?" he per.
doted.
"I had two of three other reasons," she
replied, with a short laugh.
"One of them Was to make ine feel what
a fool ra been to think of marrying that
waxen -feted doll while you are free."
"Oh, dear, aol I am not so vain ; besides,
you don't know that I am free, But, since
you are so ourions. I don't mind telling
you that I :mine here with the hope o
meeting Kate Lilburne to -night."
liAte Lilburno r lie repeated, ineredn.
lously, "Are you out of your Mind? There
is no seat person living as Kate Ifeilburne.',
"Well, perhaps the is married anti has
changed her name, still she won't have lost
Iter identity,"
And you really came here hoping to
meet Kate and riot Me 9' ho asked, earnest-
ly, as he stepped olose to her aide.
"Why (Mould I went to the you ?" she
asked, defiantly. "You are nothing to me,"
"And yet you ere all the world to me,
Miriam —nay love my life. Only etty the
word and we wid fly together, end I will
break the hateful boade that bind ma to
Grace, whom I have never loved."
He caught her in his arms, and strained
her to his heart ; but she gently though
firmly releaeed herself from his embrace, as
she laid
"It iS too late, Victor; too late, I have
no pity for Grace, but I cannot bring snob
pain and humiliation upon her fathers No ;
you must keep your word mad marry her ;
but 1 am sorry for you and—and—so sorry
for myself."
She slipped away from bins as the said
this, and ran epstame, but oa her way to
her own room to dress she thought, aft a
species of self -mortification, she would go
into Grace's room with the other girls and
try to be civil to her young hostese.
Many of the bridesmaids had clustered
round the expectant bride, and took a great
interest in the dress she was going to wear
on this the last evening when she would
sit at the head of her father's table as the
mistrees of his household, and they admired
over and over again the very handsome
trousseau with which she was provided.
"You don't seem to have much jewellry,"
remarked Miriam Hindmaio. "'wish I had
known it before, for 1 would hare given you
a bracelet as a wedding present instead of
the silver dishes I brought with me.
But I suppose your father will give you
Kate's jewels ; she had a splendid collec-
tion, I know,"
"Kate's jewels will go with her money to
her mother's family, when there in proof
that she is really dead, but if people talk
ouch stuff to my father as you did this
afternoon it is not likely that anything
reasonable will convince him," replied
Grace severely.
"I don't know why you should WI ib
stuff," returned Miriam, quietly; "people
don't disappear as your sister did unless
they go away to return at seine time or
other, or unless they are murdered. There-
fore until it is proved. the t she is dead we
may reasonably hope she is alive."
Grace shrugged her shoulders.
She would not discuss the matter, but in-
timated that it was time they should begin
to dress, and her maid came forwacd to
attend to her while the girls all went off to
their own rooms.
"How very horrid Miriam is in her man.
ner to Grace !" remarked Lizzie Goulburne
to her sister, as they were dressing, with-
out the help of any maid ; "she seems to
do all she can to vex her."
" Yes," replied Amy ; " but I don't
wonder at all ; I am only surprised at her
being here at ale"
"Why r
"Iwonder she oared to come to the wedding
of the man she wee engaged to herself, and
I am not suprised at her constant reference
to poor Kate Lilburne, for Kate and she
were bosom friends, and you must admit
that the way in which Grace tries to assume
that Kate is dead is irritating to those who
hope, if they do not believe, otherwise."
"Yes, perhaps you are right ; and I
don't think it would take much to win Sir
Viotor back to hie old love."1
"So little that I would not risk a pair of
new gloves on the chance of our wearing
those costly gowns to -morrow."
And she pointed to the two bridesmaids'
oostumes that lay on the shelves of the
opened wardrobe.
" We shall keep them, in any case,"
laughed Lizzie ; " and they will serve us
for evening dresses for the rest of the Win-
ter. After fill, lookers-on see most of the
fun."
"They see tt, but they don't take part
in it,"sighed her sister; "and girls like you
and me seem to have no chance of ever
being anything but lookers-on."
"Ohl our turn will come," was the hope-
ful rejoinder. "And there goes the second
gong; do make haste, or we shall be late,
said that will be dreadful,"
"I don't see anything dreadful about it ;
but I am nearly ready."
They hurried so much after this that
when they entered the drawing -room they
found the room quite empty.
Other people soon trooped in, however,
e,nd very soon the Goulburne girls found
themselves sufficiently well sought after,
despite their plain attire.
The rivals of the evening, however, were
the bride -elect and her chief bridesmaid,
Miriam Hindman.
Grace was dressed in pale blue, exquis-
itely trimmed with oream lace and blush.
roses, while her golden hair, her gold
ornaments and her bright blue eyes made
her look bewitching in the extreme.
But her beauty was quite eclipsed when
Miriam appeared.
The brunette wore rosemolored satin,
half -covered with costly black lace, looped
with lilies.of the -valley, while pearls and
diamonds were clasped round her throat,
end lilies and diamonds shone in her
black hair.
Independent of ornament, Miriam was
wonderfully beautiful, but rich colors and
sparking gems added greatly to her natural
charms, and she ueed laughingly to say that
she was Lhankful she had been born too late
to be expected to wear white muslin gowns,
short in the waith and tied round with a
sash, until the time when she should be
married.
"It was almost enough to drive a girl to
marry the first man who asked her, if only
to obtain the privilege of wearing silk and
satin," she wouid say, laughingly. "Hap-
pily no our days we clan wear what we like,
without oaring for the opinion of the male
sex or for that of Mrs. Grundy."
She :teemed to care for the good opinion
of one member of the male sex this evening,
however, and he for hers, and though his
marriage with his host's daughter was fixed
for the following morning, Sir Victor seem-
ed to be tillable to resist the attraction of
Miriam's black eyes.
Grace watched the couple jealously
whenever the thought: of thein ; but some-
thing more important than the temporary
defeobion of her lover filled her thoughts.
She was planning how to get away from her
guests unobserved and to stay long enough
to be able to ascertain what lay at the bet,
tom of the dark shaft into which she had
thrust her sister,
"I shall home no opportunity after to-
night," she thoughtgloomily, "for to.morrow
I shall have people about nee the whole time
until I go to thumb, and after that 1ehall
go away with Viotor,
"Yes, it must be to -night. When the
conjurors engaged come into the hall to
play their Welts I will slip away. 1 shall
be lege missed then than at any time."
She sinned as she came to this conclusion,
and turned to answer it question which a
gentlemen at her side had asked.
(TO or CONTItItill,11)
Children Cry for Piteheee Ontario)
EIGHT YOUNG GIANTS.
The Intereeeing ramllY Wite Artived
New Work the Other /nay front langlands
A Most extraordinary family of emigrants
arrived in New York one day last week,
and that night left on a through express
over the Pennsylvania Railroad for their
new home in Utah, The head of this
family was Thomas Shields, a, blade grin
of Sheffield, England, and be had with la
his wife, daughter and eight eons. W
One of the sons arose in the ear he preee
ed afigure that waa simply startling.
headrose above the bell -rope and bialys
massive shoulders made him appear to
a veritable giant. Be was fully six f
seven inches in height, and a more bey
that. Bach of his seven brothers was ev
taller than he was, and one of them lack
only it trifle of touching the aeven-fo
mark.
The father of these promising young m
was slightly above the medium height, a
the mother was slightly under it. The
was a daughter, a type of English rue
beauty, and her resemblance to Dicke
word picture of Lietle Em'ly was mo
striking. On her apparently had be
laviehed the money put aside for a red
day.
To it reporter, who was on the trai
Mr. Shieldsesaid: "Until a few years a
was a blade grinder in Sheffield, a
there my family was born. 1 am eixt
four years old and my wife is a year ni
junior. We had nine children (he ea
this with a sweep of his rugged hand) an
the good Lord has spared all of them t
us. Our eldest son is thirty-five years
age, and the youngest is nineteen. 0
daughter, Grace, is twenty-three, a.nd alt
is the pee of the family. How do I accou
for the extraordinary size of my son
Well, that is, I suppose one of the gre
mysteries of nature. It was the Lord
will and His will be done."
The family were en route to Utah, wher
they hese relatives. They are Mormons i
belief, but opposed to its polygamy.
Paris Omnibus Drivers on Strik
A despatch from Faris says:—A strike
omnibus drivers began here on Monde
morning, 5,000 men:going out to enforc
their demands for higher pay and shorte
hours. There is almost an entire cessatio
of omnibus service. A few vehicles ar
running at irregular intervals under stron
polio eprotection,but they are very scantil
patronized.
The strikers attacked. an omnibus o
Monday evening. The pollee charged wit
drawn swords, wounded two and arreste
aeventeen. The most ardent Socialists
the Municipal Council are moving to obtai
a special sitting to consider the advisabilit
of depriving the company of its concessio
The public supported the strikers in 189
but now oppose them, inasmuch as th
company has fulfilled the conditions the
imposed. ,
How to get a "Sunlight" Picture.
Send 25 "Sunlight" Soap wrappe
(wrapper bearing the words "Why Does
Woman Look Old Sooner Than a Man") t
Lever Bros., Ltd., 43 Scott St., Toront
endyou will receive by poste pretty pictur
free from advertising, and well worth frair
ing. This is an eaey way to decorate yotz
home. The soap is the best in the marke
and it will only coat lc. postage to send i
the wrappers if you leave the ends open
Write your address carefully.
Asbestos Socks.
A workman in Mcntreal is said to hay
been ostracized by his brother workme
because they believed him to be a with
having seen himtake off his stockings, hen
them in the fire for a few minutes, tak
them out and put them on again unconsum
ed. On examining into the mystery i
came out that the man, who was a Scotch
man, had worked in an asbestos mill an
made himself a peer of socks of tha
unoombustible material. He is able t
renovate them when soiled by simply hold
ing them in the fire for a few seconds
Asbestos fibre is rather heavy and uuyield
ing, however, and we fear asbestos Book
will never be very popular.
77rien Baby was sick, we ZENO her Castello -
When she was a Child, she critd for Caste:ea.
When she became Bliss, she clung to Castoria,
When she had Children, she gave th,em Castorle
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