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Exeter Times, 1912-3-28, Page 7sia IR/IIIRSIDA14 NC4.B441 h912 X .F.T-E. 4. • • .7." .S ÷t+ti-a-i-t,i-i-s-i.÷,te++.2-s-ets+++++++++.14+4-Pti•+.2-k+tot•i-t.i. TI -1 E MARKET" mo sons Bank , ....i. i 1 I 4: Record of Progress for Five Years loci6-49ri 1.` 1906 lieu 3: ti• * CAPITAL $ 3,000,000 $ 4,000,000 + RESERVE .. 3,000,000 401)0,000 t i DEPOSITS ' LOANS AND INVESTMIDNTS 23,077.730 35,042 314 4, 27,457.090 38,854,801 1: A+ TOTAL ASSETS 1133,090,192 ' 48,237,281 ate Ras 83 branches in Canada, and Agents and Correspondents hi all 4' the principal Cities in the World. 0' 1: 't A General Banking Basiness Transacted * i...4: Savings Bank Department - t 4 se a. At all Branches. Interest allow d at ellegbest Ourrene Rae. .*t I: Dickson & Carling, Solicitors. N. D. HURDON manager 4' alt + 4. ateee+++++++++++++++++++++++ ++++++++++++++++++++÷e-eneeee er 44 Liverpool and Chicago Wheat Futures Close Higher-atave Stook -- Latest Quotations. Incorporated 180 • -THE CANADIAN BAN OF COMMERCE SIR EDMUND WALKER, C.V.0, LLD, D.C.L., PRESIDENT ALEXANDER LAIRD, GENERAL. MANAGER CAPITAL, - $10,000,000 REST, - $8,000,000 TRAVELLERS' CHEQUES issued by The Canadian Bank of Commerce are the most convenient form in which to carry money, when travelling. They are negotiable everywhere, self -identifying, and the exact amount payable in the prin- tipal foreign countries is printed on the face of every cheque. The iiegueS are isstied in denominations of $10, $20, $50, $100 and $200. 4235 and may be obtained on application at the Bank. In connection with its Travellers' Cheques The Canadian Bank of Commerce has issued a booklet entitled "Information of Interest to those about to travel", Which will be sent free to anyone applying for it. • Exeter Branch -W. H. Collins Manager • BRANCH ALSO AT, CREDITON BULL RING ANTIC Mexican "Sport" as Viewed Through American Spectacles TACTICS OF THE TOREROS. _ hey Were Better Runners Than Fighters and Displayed Moro Cow- ardice Than Bravery --Mirth That the Natives Couldn't Appreciate. "Thank you, 'Aguirre, but 1 h tbink I want to sets one of your b - eghte. I have heard enough about - them to make me sick a the thought.", 1 had seen every other kind of fight, Aroma messenger boys up to bull moose rand buffalo, and Aguirre felt that 1 1 .would forever regret it if I let Mexico twithout at least =ee. witnessing the national sport. s I reluctantly consented to accompany .1firct, and after our dinaer, instead of taking the usual siesta, we went to the ring. I had often read the stories pf such fights, and after the series of stairee had been finished I wondered if Amy writer had ever taken the trouble to describe the ridiculous and funny stunts that crop out during the course .bf the fights. ' The first bull that was released went Abrough the ordinary course of sprouts, tst goring a broken down race horse avhich had seen service on many of the tracks in the States and was used in • the bull ring only because he was a thoroughbred. Finally the bull was put to death by a stab between the shoulders, which paralyzed his spine. The second entrant was a little black fellow full of fire, which had been especially raised on the big ranch of Governor 'Mezzos. Between the toril :Oen) and the ring there was a short alley, just wide enough to allow the (bulls to get through without rubbing ,.the hair from their flanks. Leaning Over the boards which formed the aiIdes of the passageway was a Mexe ?gen negro, who, when the little bull •"{was shoved out of the toril, jabbed a eshhook "barbo" into his left shoul- der, which maddened the animal to 'tench an extent that he hardly knew twhich way to turn, so eager was he to lima) his enemy. . The crowd at this time was going -Mad and from all sides could be heard •frantic cries of "Cobardo, podrido, , putrefaccion" (coward, rotten, rotten - (nesse and "Entoro es muerto" (the bull es dead). On the contrary, ha was ;very much alive and showed it a few Moments later. After he was chased Into the toril the torero, ;whose name Jrcts Albertis, appeared before the . failure is made, to explain himself resident's box, as is the custona when . end ask .or another chance before he twas condemned. The opportunity was 'Oven, and the result was only a repe- ption of the former ,attempt, except abet the bull was prevented' from atehing him by helpers who were arm- ed with long pikes and prevented the lbeast from scaling the fence. Springing ten or a dozen yards IteWard the center of the ring, the ; frenzied creature stopped short, spread• his front feet out as far, as he could . . mid madly pawed the ground. • In. his aihoulder the Wicked barb still stick, . end to It were fastened a big ,yeaose • rosette and a half dozen red stream- , . afe trailing the ground. Presently a volunteer novice torero kbellfighter ori. foot) jumped over the feriae on the notth side of the ring and eanced a few. feet toward the defiant all. Orie flatlet of the torero's red Madera (banner) and the; bull became ' dataala Vitt( wild don heart:died; at the novice, who meanwnne naa lost his nerve, for he stood quaking with fear when be should have been advancing to meet the onrusteing ani- mal. When the latter was only twenty yards away the volunteer dropped the bandera and °spade (sword) and put for the fence as fast as he could go. The fence was about four feet high, and the torero cleared it in a straight- way dive. The poor bull was not so fortunate, although Ile, was game enough to at- tempt the fence in his mad effort to catch his tormentor. He landed on top of the boards and stuck there, with his hind legs in the air. until he was reteased by some attendanti who ventured from the other side of the ring. I took a heap of fur out of the antics of my little hero. the bull, and 6'814 having a good laugh all to myself while the mob was going wild with disgust at the cowardice of Albertis when Aguirre advised me to suppress My mirth or there would be trouble for both of us. When order was restored the little black bunch of muscle, brawn and grit was brouglat into the inclosure for the third time. but it took the efforts of two toreadors (bullfighters on horse- back) and a professional foot •fighter to beat him, and his defeat was then due oray to the fact that he was exbausted. Aguirre told me that it was bad form in Mexico to laugh at anything in a bullfight but the death of the bull, but I remarked to aim that in all America he would not find a gringo who would not instantly grasp the funny side of that particular bullfight and carry it home so that others might laugh too. -Denver Republican. The Reluctant Request. Edgar -Ethel, I've left my umbrella downtown. Bthel-Well? Edgar -I'm afraid you'll have to lend me the gold handled umbrella you gave me on my birtiaday.-Detrolt Free Press. Commonly we say a judgment fall upon a man for something in him wa cannot abideSelden. enxcAGo, March 21.--EXpOrt Sales On both the Pacific coast and the At-. I 'antic. strengtbenen the =reel; to -day for wheat. Closing" prices were at an advance of a shade (e 140 net. All °titer leading• staples showed n, deeiine as • compared With last night, Corn wad lower by %c to y2c, ()ate a2e to %c, and ; bog products 6c to 121/2c. Liverpool wheat closed %d to 7,gd high. er than yesterday and corn 1/2.d higher. Paris wheat closed Vic to 15ic higher; Antwerp %c higher, Berlin Vic lower ana Buda -Pest %c higher. Winrirne, Options. Op. High. Low. Close. Close. Wheat - May, old -101% 102 101% 102U 101% do. new 101% 101% 101% 101%1 enag July 102% 103% 102% 108% 102% To -day. 'Tester. May 44% 44% July ' ..... 44% 44% 'Toronto Grain Market, Wheat, fall, bushel . . 50 96 to 50 fi Wheat goose, bushel 0 93 .... Rye, bushel 1 10 Oats, bushel .. 0 60 052 Barley, bushel 0 . Barley, for feed o 65 5 Peas, bushel ... ..... 1 15 1 20 Buckwheat, bushel ...... 0 03 0 65 1--,•^-sto Dairy Market. CURE MAT COLD ThIS is Quickly and Pleas. •.antly AcComplished • II Yost Use atarrhozone Catarrhozone will relieve colds al- . most instentiy and in a few hours will cure completely. If it is old -standing Butter, creamery, lb- rolls0 37 0 35 Butter, store lots Butter, separator, dairy, lb0 34 0 35 Butter, creamery, solids • 0 35 ,(cil Pk, 3 11 • • . • Cheese, new, lb Honeycombs, dozen 2 60 300 Honey, extracted, lb 0 13 Eggs, new -laid 0 24 .45.2.5 ryie.,ti-i1 Grain and Produce: MONTREAL, March 21. -There con. tinues to be a fairly good demand from European sources for all grades of Mani4 toba spring wheat, but the volume el business doing from here is comparative4 The Obliging, Friend. small. The demand for ocean grain room; "You know that Griggs and I both is fairly good and engagements for 1,000a ,. 000 bushels have been made so far thi1 rove you. Can't you r!.2alid a choice to - week at firm rates. An easy feeling pre - The Drug Clerk's Caller. na: mail came yesterday and want, ed somethiug didiat have, ale bad been looking Lite the window, and he Must have dioUght Otis was a beela store laSt beeause we were advertising some novels and stationery* and clic- tioParies ana a let of that left over junk. Well, anyhow, he came to Me and he save eays he, Want Lincoln's Gettysburg address.' "'Look for it yourself, sir,' says politely, like we're taught to do. 'Dare's a directory over there in the corner. But don't think you'll find it. These directories only have the subscribers' city addresses,' "Well, say, that fellow Was So mad he wouldn't wait. Called me ignorant and all kinds of things. But that just Shows you what us drug clerks have got to put up with." -Cleveland Plain Dealer. Coal Bin Measurements. 'A solid cubic foot of anthracite coal weighs ninety-three younds. When bro- ken for use it weighs about fifty-four pounds. Bituminous coal when broken up for use weighs about fifty pounds. The consequent rule for the approxi- mate measurement of coal in a bin or box is to multiply the length in feet by th.e height in feet and again by the breadth in feet and this result by fifty- four for anthracite coal or by fifty for bituminous coal. The result will equal the number of pounds, and to end the number of tons divide by 2,000.--Popu- iar Mechanics. day?" valls in the inarket for oats, owing te "A choice, indeed! Wben I do make a choice you can rest assured that it svill not interest you!" "Thanks! I'll tell Griggs:* - Ex- change. increased receipts and prices for some grades have been reduced another %a per bushel. Owing to the temporary scar• city of butter on spot, priees have ad- vanced 3,4e to le per lb. Cheese is quiet and firm. Eggs, fairly active. The de- mand for lard is good and prices have advanced %c per lb. Hogs firm and fair- ly active. Corn -American No. 2. yellow,. 7814c. Oats -Canadian western, No. 2.52%c to 61c; do., No. 3, 50c to 504/20;. extra No. 3 feed, 51e to 51%c; No. 2. local white, 50e to 5034c; No. 3 local white, 49c tco49%c; No. 4 local white. 48c to 48%c-, Barley -Malting, $L05 to 811O Buckwheat -No. 2. 72c to73c:, Flour -Manitoba spring wheat patents, firsts, $5.70; seconds. $5.20; strong bakers'. 55.: winter patents, choice;. $6.1(r to $5.351 straight rollers. $9.65 to $405; do:, bags, 12.16 to 12.25, Rolled oats -Barrels, $5.05; bag of 94 lbs.. $2.40. Millfeed-Bran, 525: shorts, $27a int& 529; mouillie, $30 to 5341. Play -No. 2; per ton. car lots. 215 td $15.50. Cheese -Finest westerns, 1514c to 16%.,cf finest easterns, 1414c to 15c. Butter-Cheicest creamery, 34%O• to 35% seconds, 13e to 334c. Eggs -Fresh, 25c to 27r. Potatoes -Per bag, cirrlots, 51.55' to $1.70. Dressed hogs -Abattoir killed, 212.25 to 511.50; country, $10.25 to $10.60. Pork -Heavy Canada short cat mess, barrels. 85 to 45 pieces, $22.50; doa. backs, barrels, 45 to 65 pieces, $22. Lard -Compound tierces, 375 11J, Mei wood pails. 20 lbs. net, 814c; pureetlereee 375 lbs., 11%0: pure. Wood pails,. 20 Ibis net, 12%c. Beef -Plate, barrels, 200 lbs., $14.601, do., Plate, tierces, 300 tbs., 521.50. Liverpool Grain Prices. LIVERPOOL, Meh. 21.-Closing.-whes.1 -.Spot, nominal; futures, very. firm, March, nominal; May, 7s 8%cl; Jnly, 71 6%d. Corn -Spot, steady; new, Gs 3da 6$ Ild; American mixed, new, kiln dried, ds 750; futures, firm; May, Gs 45; Sept.,. 61 Flour -Whiter patents, 29s 91. Hops -In London (Pacific Coast)). 110 td Ell Ss. • Buffalo Grain Markets.. BUFFALO; Meh. 21. -Spring wheat, steady; No. 1 northern, carloads store, 51.1614; winter, steady; No. 2 red, $1.02%. Corn, steady; No. 3 yellow, 73140; No. 4 yellow, 7014c, all on track, thru Oats -No. 2, 57e; No. 3, 5614%: No. 65%c. CATTLE MARKETS. Tot -nets Live Stock. TORONTO, March 21. -The, rail' ways reported 49 carloads of Hee stoat at the City Market, comprising 454 cat- tle, 654 hogs, 75 sheep and, 90 calves. Butchers. Two loads of heavy butchers, 1190 and 12501bs., each, sold by Dunn, & Levaek, and Maybee & Wilson brought 56.90 per cwt.; prime picked lots, 1000 to 1100 lbs., sold at 16.25 to 56.70; good, to 56.25; me- dium, 55.40 to $5,90; common, $5 to $5.50: inferior, $4.25 to 54.75; cows, 53 to ate; canners, 52 t� 52.75; bulls, $4,, to16.26. Feeders,, .A. few lots of steers, SOO to 900 lbs., sold from $5 to 55.20. Milkers and Singers Trade dull, market slow, with priceS ra.nging from 530 to 560 each. "Veal Calves, Veal calves .of good quality sold at 54 'to $8.50; medium, $4 ta 50 per cwt.; "bobs," $2.75 each. Sheep and Lambs Sheep, ewes, 54.50 to $5.50 per 'cwt.; rams, 53.60 to 54.50; lambs, 56 to 53 per cwt. Hogs. • The hog market was firmer at $7475 to .$7.80 for selects fed and watered, • and $7.40 to $7.45 fade at country points. Eist Buffalo Coale Market. EAST BUFFALO, March 21.-Catt3e-. Receipts, 50 head. Market,. trade • light, Steady. Prime steers, 57.50 to $8; butcher grades, $8.50 to $6.75. Calves -Receipts, 250 head; market, ac- tive, steady; cull to choice, 56 to $10. Sheep and Lambs -Receipts, 8000; mar- ket slow; lambs, 25c lower; choice lambs, 57.75 to $7.90; cull to fair, $6.60 to 57.50; asthma or bronchitis its quick and Yearlings, 56 to $7; sheep, 52 to 56.25. curative results will astonish you. Hogs -Receipts, zoo: market, active, Catarrhozone is little drops of heal- ' 2.5c to 35c higher; yorkers, $8.15 to $8.25: Ong medicine carried by air to the Piga, $7.25; mixed, $8 to $8.25; heavy, 57.75 sore and diseased parts. _You breathe to $8; roughs, $7 to 57,25; stags, $5.50 to 56, them through the Catarrhozone Inhale Chicago Live Stock, I CHICAGO, Mch. 21.-Cattle-Beceipts, air passages. 40(10; market, steady to strong; beeves, It is sense as well as healing, be- $5.15 to $8.80; Texas steers, 54.50 to 55.85; cause Catarrhozone is a gene, killer, a vvestern steers, $5 to 56.85; stockers and healer and restorer of weak tissue% feeders, $4.25 to NA; cows and heifer, becauSe it IS se prompt and certain 52,50 to 56.150; calves, $5.50 to 58.50. In its results, better than ally other trOgs-Receipts, mate market, easy remedy for -diseases of the throat, lungs but 20e to 25c up; light, e7.30 to 57.65; mix, 6 • 1 v $7 30 to er .and they spread throughout all the and brorichial tubes, and it is neither eroue. nul of gales, 7.50 to $7. . contains tie nareotio f t haneful drugs Mr. Wallace was the defeated Con. aheep-Iteeelp s 14,00o; markeestrong to d I 1 1 1,1 .' 1 f I ' . I ' ' , 55 50 tO $6 90 ItlOSt SuccossiX11 re, e de for fornalo iAls electiot and ie said to be the !esti. Good 'Little Bow Mts. Scant -Will you have another slice of cake. Robbie? Robbie -No, thank you; mother said* 1 must re- fuse a second piece, 'eause you mightn't have it to spare -Judge. Better Days. Ethel (of her fiancet-Poor Fred had seen better days. Eitty-Yes; be used to be engaged to me. -Boston Tran- script. The Maiden's Prayer.. The prayer of a 'damsel of. 'Babylon which she chanteth on tier- wedding day: Angels and ministers of grace, oh, hear me! Bestow upon me, I pray thee - The smile of a seraph. The voice of a dove. The silence of the sphinx. The eyes of a houri. The blindness et a bat. The figure of a cloak model.. The wisdom ot Solomon. The ways of a kitten. The self control of a tin soldier; The pliability of a sofa cush4on; The capriciousness of an automobile, The sensitiveness of a suet pudding. The sweetness of a cream puff. The ambition of a potato. The genius of Oscar. The meekness of a doormat - The opinions of an echo. The illusiveteess of a chortuegIrl. The patience of Griselda, The mystery of the catacombs. The faith of a poodle dog. And the endurance of Atlate These things I ask in order that I may be all things unto one mall t1124 taat he shall not say in Ilia:heart: Lo, I have been stung!, Selahl-Roeeleaf. GETS SECOND READING Minimum Wage Bill Is Opposed • by the Unionists. Rt, Hon, A. J. Balfour Moves Rejec- tion of the Relief Measure and In- dicates That Tories Only Wish to Wash Their Hands of Responsibil- ity For the Serious Sep That Is Being Taken. London Mareh 22. --Arthur J. Bal - four's motion for the rejection of the minimum wage bill was defeated, aed. the Government bill passed its se- oond reading in the House a Com- mons last night by a majority of 123 -a larger majority than the Minis, terialists themselves had hoped for. The vote stood 348 to 225. The Lab- orites and Nationalists voted with the Government. The Prime Minister formally moved the second reading of the bill and then immediately yielded the floor to Mr. Balfour, who, in moving its re- jection, temporarily assumed the lead- ership of the Opposition. The debate on the bill was interesting in charac- ter and served to dissipate much alarm which was created by the an- nouncement Wednesday night that the Unionists intended to oppose the pas- sage of the measure. It is now evi- dent that the Conservative leaders had iao idea of upsetting the Govern- ment, but that they merely desired to wash their hands of responsibility for the bill, and bad no wish to assume : office themselves. Mr. Balfour pointed out the gravity 1 of the crisis, which had been brought : about "by a single organization, ad- I ing within its legal powers, threaten- i ingeto paralyze the whole trade of the 1 country." He declared that the .Gov- ' ernment, in endeavoring to pass this bill was deceiving both itself and the House of C'ornmons. He complhined that the Govern- ment had sanctioned the tearing up of existing agreements without a word of protest, and declared that there was no iustifintion for attempting to force "this colossal revolution" through the Muse of Commons in less than a I/Seek: Mr. Balfour concluded. by saying that even assuming that the Govern- ment were defeated there could not be a dissolution, as it was impossible : to add the confasion of a general ; election to the horror of the strike. He intimated that although the Un- ionists intended to test the opinion of the House regarding the methods of the Government, they would after that do their best to see -that the policy of the Government hadl its chance. 1 Premier Asquith, who followed Mr. Balfour, claimed that the Govern- ment held an a„ solately even balance li ;between the dis utants. The Gevern. ment had tried y every form of per- suasion and argument to negotiate , to bring the parties' to •an agreement, but had failed, and it could not allow the population and industries of the country to starve. I , The ,Government, the Prime Min- , ister said, believed that the bill was a necessary preliminary- to any further steps "which, God forbid', should be necessary. • The debate showed that the Labor leaders were in a more reasonable mood. Although they tabled a 'num- ' ber of amendments, one, for the in- clusion of their schedule of minimum wages, it is believed tat they now will be satisfied withe and .that the Government will be willing to con- ced,e, the inelusian of the five shilling and two shilling minimum. Altogeth- er the tension has been greatly re- laxed and although the debate may be carried into next week, it would not be surprising if the, Government's original program was earried out and the bill become a law by Saturday. , The Conservatives are not likely to take any official actin in the com- mittee stage, which will be concerned • for the most part with the Labor i WOMAN SICK I amendments. During the course of yesterday's de- bate Austen Chamberlain confessed FOR .YEARS that the Opposition. was not anxious to take, office, but that it would not shirk the responsthiliy if called to office. The bill, ha said, stood for a policy of surrender. and would engen- WantsOther Women toKnow der similar demands from other trades How She was Finally Restored to Healih. Hammond, Ont., " am passing through the Change Of Life and for two years had hot flushes very had, head- aches, soreness in the loack of head, was constipated, and had weak, nervous feel- ings., The doctor who attended rne for a number of years did not help me, but I have beee entirely relieved Of the above symptcgris by Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Cempound, Blood Purifier and Liver Pills, and give you permission to publish my testimonial." - Mrs. Lbws BEAUCAGG, Hammond.Ont.,Canada. . New Brunswick, Canada. - "I can . highly recommend Lydia E. Pinkham's VeactahleCompound - l!to any suffering wo- man. I have taken it for lcmale we 1: - Packers Caee Before Jury. Chicago, March 22. -The case of the ten Chiccgo meat packers who have been on trial since December before U. S. Districf4 Judge George Car- penter charged) with criminal violation of the Sherman law, is scheduled to go to the jury this afternoon. In closing bhe defendants' case, At, torney J. It., Payne said: "Cabinets in Europe await your verdict to de. cide whether fresh meat from the IJ. S. shall in the future be excluded from certain foreign countries. Do not send out word to the world that there is a dishonored cattle market in (Jhieago. The Goveriarnept is aking a prisop term for these defenda.nta a 'verdict of guilty is returned. If men ere to be deprived of their lib+ erty on such evidence as this, then. indeed, our institutions are on. trial, "Not a witness has testified that the price of fresh meat has been rais- ed tar the price of cattle lowered." floss and painful , Defeated Candidate te Testify. rnewitruation and it , Woodstoek, Mareli 22. -On aocount cured me. " M,rs., • of the failure of J. G. Wallace, MO., thilVERE BARBOUR, of WoOdstack to be present , at the H,Avey Bank, New --investigation into the charges of of - Brunswick, Carman. fensive partisanship against Fred. Lydia E. Pinahem's Vegetable Com- Viekeit, postmaster of Princeton, the fro?n1lviii7o :Iota end herbs, hearing was adjourned at noon yes. rou h 57.30 to $7.45; pigs, $5.15 to 57.10; pound, matle alcohol, morphia or cocaine -all dang ; t an to -day te es a o )emg t ie servatiVe candidate in the Federal Tens of thousands have used Catarrh- shaife higher...11LN°, 54 to $6; western, ozone w ou repo ng a ea .s. o ith t eti singlese 4 50 t 56.25;y coe lings . of failure tb ire diseases of the Lambs -Native, 5550 to*7.8-, throat and lungs and nasal passages. $6,25 te $S, • Remember CATARRHOZONE is - taken in air, and is little drops of Ileal'. No. Bail For Suffragettes. in for the throat, nasal Passages, ea London, Martel 22. -The suffragists, lungs. it always does cure -4s guar* Emeline Pankhurst, Mr, and tinteed- , Price 2ee„ itoe., end 51.00 at all druwg g., Mrs. iPethiiek Lewrences anis Mrs. Thee, were agflie remanded galeeeeece, stlohrebeYilna'la13°Adt f13:10; N.Y ahhi 1dfrwna Tile after a further hearing of the charge leitagstoze Cantedia Oonspiracy and inviting to (30211- P11 inalleions rlinteige to property, we know of; ansi thonsantis of voluntay testimonials on file in the ?inkhorn lab- oratory at Lynn, Vass, sem to prove this fact. ivory taferi..ig Womee °Wee it to herself to give ',pile iii.Pinkharn',, Vegetable CoMpound a. trial If you want frpoliii rAvio Write 1, tydie E. Pinkhom l'i713,11ehto =1.:'a (coal. deh1ial)14' Veil) 14,145,; rqUit' ki,ter sh be opened, reed avkfl eiSSWeted lablitalk and held In stria eouildenoe. gator of the charges against Vickert. ,• Belleville's Waiting Patriots. evi 22. ' -There members of the Belleville Veterane Association who are entited to rei • calve el.00 for services rendered dur- ing Lis Fenian Bald, Of this nunk- ber ori reside. ti 'c.f the it at e ent the muilinder are irk var- ious parts ol the country. • TEMPER AND OREEN TOLL! And a Ring That Was Thought to Be Lost. Ely SARA M'CONNELL He was busy getting the thought ot her out of his mind, sore put to It to be free and his own man again. She was capricious, inconstant, vain; she was self willed and full of wiles; she was -oh, she was Alexandra Lee. He svould not think of her. A great deal that had happened that night was blurred to him. But the bang of the carriage door as they started home reverberated in his mind like the crack of doom. It had slipped frora his hand and swung to with a crash. Aleaandra's laugh mocked him. "With any one else, George, I'd have saki the door sla.mmect" He remembered how she looked as, he turned, something strange in her eyes that matched, in impreseion, the misty multitudinous railings and bit- love/1gs of her gown -that frivolous, fluttering, elusive green tulle he had watched all evening as she danced with every other man in the room - with Herbert Hartley, a dawdling, gangling derelict, a signpost to every path but that of rectitude -of all men In the world, Herbert Hartley! From her carriage corner Alexandra sighed. "I've had such a good time, and now I suppose there's the piper to pay." "If you mean there is Hartley to settle for" - "Herbert?' You've a tone that hints at 'thirdly and fourthly, brethren,' and poor Herbert! He's so much more of a song than a sermon." That began it. He had never meant to quarrel, only to deal with her in a firm, prompt fashion, as a man should. But he leetured her. *yea were axed, hertaS took the place 01 Wee Wet. A• jeleeme Ok • etupidiry lea bec etalratterieje te "George, Georgel" she callea allte, bet elle elItreated Only an 1 be beelr. With Ilerbett's name lips awl Ilerbert'e ring 911 her OP* ahe waft indee4 left committed to eltuation the last Of _her deffillag. * * * * * * • Alexandra Often -tad Ilerbert nartj# In alreenfiela's face. aim wavea abroad like a thinner. If the tO hummed with rumors a her, she hel ed the rumor waX, but helped it to st explanation. But with aer family there Was On topic diet, like tbe weapon used committilig a crime, seemed alwa impossible to dispose of. The green tulle -why didn't eliei Wear it And that was the one thing she collide do. ' It was their house dressmaker the In a measure vanquished her at "One, two, three," measared the tviro. man. "That's only once and, a caiartan and rn. need as much agate. The ruffles on your nile gaeen underpe coat -they're a match, Miss Alexandr and we're in a hurry." Alexendra went into her room. BIM ting tbe door behind. The tulle upon. the hooks with a kind of dell grace, tal If it still held something its oirner's quality. She took the go dawn slowly and spread it gently olli upon the bed. How happy she h been when she had worn it -the lug time she had been happy! She had meant they should havd memorable evening, she and Georgie and the gown. a And. how had it sla fallen out? Coquetry? What did Mt mean except that if it were good to bet with George it was a joy still sebtleall to dance away with some one els, knowing his eyes held her, followei her, and that for each the crosvdedl room held only the other? Provocs,e don, alluring, half a mystery to h self, it was like a fold of the silk tint shimmersal over its silk lining. She slipped down upon. the floor the bedside and began to rip flounces. What was it he said that aa made her so angry? Her vanity w as endless as her caprice. He shouldn't have said it, and yet -it was She bent down as he ended, Are enough. Well, she had warned you there, Alexandra?" she asked of He was well rid of her. He had co the floor. "Poor dear, there is nothing out of the matter vsith a better gran left to pick' up. Oh, I'm tired, tired: than she had, except about the rin I'm stifled. can't breathe. There, No doubt it had been found long a take It back!" And she tossed the ring across to. him. "Now one can draw a free breath." "Alexandra!" be begged. But he had eut, and she meant he ehould pay. And hers was a pretty gift of table turning. ing generous. If he had given her C He held hie anger down. No more , chance, half a chance - doors. should slam by chance about The scissors snipped, snipped. Id him. and it was only as they neared was thus she had laid a sharp tool On, the house that he interrupted: her happiness. She was cutting the stuff. but what did it matter? She wail "We haven't gained anything this way. Discuse me again. The point is always cutting and tearing somethinai dear to her. And the ruffles must come oft, the! said. She bent nearer. She might till! well tear and be done. What was this hard thing on which( the scissore struck and caught? Note, surely not- In her hand lay the ring. , * * * * * "Alexa!" He had eeme at her urge small:eons, but hotly rebellious. Andy Alexa, there before him -a curious ure hung about with green sills ruffie Alexa, grieved, remorseful, pouring ti heart out. How was it possible to with. stand her? "And I suppose," he said, the ring half back in its place again --"I suppose' I'll have to marry you to save sena fro al" - But she would not let him speak the' obnoxious name. "You'll have to marry nae to savetpeil from Alexandra Lee." \ I It angered. her afresh to think hoe* stubborn be had been not to have ttoli: tier. The way to make her feel ho small she was was not to tell her sated that never served -but to take the MO way and put her in tile wrong by be -1 Herbert Hartley." "Then 1 must put on my bonds again? Where is the ring?" But he hadn't the ring. "You had it last." e 't' u " But it was, not in her lap, on the geat nor in the carriage. Alexandra laughed. "ah. thrifty George, are you sure you've not taken it back for safe keeping?" Ile,stoocl along moment at her door. "And Etantley?" he said. Insistence was match to her powder. "How can, I answer unless we're en- gaged? &nil people can't be engaged without rings, can they, George? You seem to think with mine on that 1 fail to remember. Bring it back to, me and-goodeaight." After a week of wrath mingled with pain he got himself under control and wrote her. But the answer came had> the same absurd, maddening, almost insulting reiteration -the ring, always the ring. A perversity first or a pre- text, did she use it now as a wea.pon? He hadn't the ring, she knew. Life was turmoil once Alexandra en- tered; and he remembered with what perverse astuteness she bad, said her- self:: "I'm like a mustard, plaster on you e mind. You'd better take me off betare I raise a blister." I But she was in erery wind that ' blew, and without her nothing was worth while that once bad been. So for a fortnight he had gone about his accustomed ways, and, though roany a flutter of eamiliar sairts had set his heart a-jutep, yet he never had met Alexa since that night. Then a ease of some importance took him out of town with such sharp demand upon • all his faculties that he had known a sort of respite. But back in the town his work was all to do again. He went his way down to las office. Be bowed to peo- • ple who drove past with a swift hope that Alexa would uot be with them. And then unexpectedly with a group near the Hurds-there was Alexa! Yes, it was Alexandra and Evelyn Elurd and with them Herbert Hartley. The group stood until he had almost • reached them, when Hartley turned, and Evelyn went back to the house, while Alexa stopped by the Hurtle° waiting carriage. He knesv she had seen bine long be- • fore, but -it was one of ha insinceri- ties he tnost disliked -she acted oat nettle surprise. He pnt a stiffer Mad alien himself. 4 stiffer guard! She called it by another natee. She hated him when he was like that. How fettle he Made her feel, lent trivial, how' vain! Well, at least she svotild make hien feel once more and betray it. She 1W:elk). wring out of him e protest And then her mind miegave her. Was she being left wita the situation en her taildal VOuld he actept with- out protetal '• Would he never ispeaka She lot:Ikea „Ina h'thin down again tohergioedbafl"'b1.hke Order of the Garter. •, It is certainly to Edward III that$ . England owes the existence of the 0 der of the Garter with its motto. "Hod suit qui mal y pease," commonly butt l rather freely translated as "Evil • t him who evil thinks." A more liter'a reading would be, "Shamed be he Wh thinks evil of it." The order was ;64 tablisbed on April 23, 1349. This is i dubitable, but it is uncertain why the garter was selected as its name an symbol and what is the special signiffe' ance of the motto. Polydore Vergil whose history appeared in 1536, near/ 200 years after the event, is the earlie authority for the familiar story that, i the Countess of Salisbury, one of th king's favorites, dropped her garter a a ball and that Edward picked it u and handed it back with the reeler* that is now proverbial. Unfortunately% for this story, it is known that "El° scat qui mal y pense" was a 'familia proverb long before Edward's day... St Louis Republic. Caught the Crowd At • nightfall the junior pa'rtner's ez- ultat!on of tbe day changed to chagrite) and he clamored noisily for the errand boy's dismissal. "'Better think 11 over," the -settle* partuer advised. "Why waste time in thinking'," flue junior partner retorted, "When be'al got to go? Here I am, lying ainake etery night for a week planning tt effective window decoratloti, wide!' 4 turned into a laughing stook the fir day by the stupidity of that toy, teb leares tUrno, bine woolen 0'14 rag draped amend silver tankard* •and trays of 'cliernends." • "Well," Said tbe elder jeweler, "peoi ple stopped And looked, didn't they?' "Yee, bnt what at -that duet rag21 grOWleti the j111310r. "That'S VMS' 't advise .yott to freesia 'thebon," advisea, the eentor, utduity -it it kadret.heen for hint 4fun attril nobode• Would ,hene Jolted jatj4,11,461. 1`.1.0V •