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Exeter Times, 1912-10-24, Page 617,17 r L A Gleam of Hope; Or The Changed Plans, ....._,, 011APTE3 II.-taloat'd) s '9.111)0B:e returus Mass CisSY, res neetatillY, and izietantly turning frein leine addreeses her partner, as though. weal a persen Hallsett were Ise 1ougo tuex- igence. Indeed. when after D uar:tee of an heir he finds her io the conservator/ and elairee the fulfillment of aer promise, it it welt the utmost had graee she plaeee the very ties of aer ringers upon his arm and lealie impatiently 1,owerii the ball. worn. tiou't mean davestug just yet: I have something particular to eay to to filet," stays Halkett, hastily, and elmoet com- mandingly., standixes :suite still. "It is hardly presa.e here. 's,Vouldyou find it too cool to oome with Tee into the gar- den?" glaneing at the open door of the coneervatory. Oiesy hesitatee, then, fearful of seem- ing. reluctant, says, "No. If you will go to the libraTy for Jew' shawl (you will find It on the sofa), I will go with Yom" "You will tittle here until I return?" says Ilalltett, reg,ardine her intently, Cissy stares in turn. "Of course I will," sne answers, rather haughtily; and he goes. "Did. he enagitte I wottld run away when nie back was turned?" sista solilie (tutees, angrily. "Does he suppose I am afraid? One would thiuk it was I who was in the wreng, not he. His conduct altogether is downright mysterious. I oannot underetand him." And. for the first time it dawns apon her that there nueS Possibly be some flaw in the interpTeta, tem she has put upon his conduct, Returning with the shawl, Ilallsett plac- es it gently round her shoulders, and. they ease Into the quiet night. 'What a beautiful moon!" exclaims Cissy, preseutly, hardly knowing what to ble yourself to leitura with nate Xlre ipoing in alenne" When Oissy and Helkett appear at beealtfast the following morning they take care to seat themselves as far as possible from eaoh other, and preseetly it be - *an" PalPnblo to every one that they are coneiderably out of sorts, Iluele Charlie auggeets that Mine CiaeY ha B over' (lanced herself, or .given the wrong man his eonge-n tee:mirk thee bee sufficient truth in it to bring the hot blood into her cheeks: while Captain lialkett; ha,v- Jaw rurt 'through his lettere, deolaxest he meet return to town by the afternoon train; at whieh afre. Leyton looks un. eases and. Nista a ()overt glare* at CiesY Mordstunt, That young lady stande fire pretty well, but with all her hardihood cannot keep her uuder-lip from trembling ever so lit. tle. This sign of weakness, be assured, does not escape the widow's tutored eYe; end she instantly challeeges Major 33lake to a game of billiards after breakfast. "My dear Prank, you can't go to -day" says 'Uncle Charlie, decidedly, "Tomor- row they have promised us the best run we have had yet 1 will not hear of your leaving. Write and tell her you have WIaned your enkle, and send her your uadsriug love. She Will forgive you when she sees you.' "I wish I could stay," says Halkett, laughing, "but unfertunately tny reoaU Is from my solieitor, not from My lady- love."' "I don't believe a word • of it!" says Uncle Charlie, "A susiden recall always means a woman. Why, when I was a young man, I thought nothing of-" "Ily dear!" says Aunt Isabel, with a gentle uplifting of the right hand. , 'Quite so., my good Belle," returns Uncle Charlee, patting the eon white fin. gene "But seriously, Prank, she will do very well without you. "I have no doubt o that. " says 314- kett, and, raisiug his eyes, meets Miss Mordaunt's full. Half an hour later, Oisss, feelthg mourn- ful and guilty, steals round to ;the stables to take a last look at -the Baby, as she is afraid to leek at the Baby's master. Just as she is patting her and rubbing down the soft muzzle, the door opens and Halkett enters. "I am glad to see She is so much bet- ter," says Miss Mordaunt, promptly but nervously, pointing to the injured. limb. "If you go to -day, you will not take her with you. I suppose?" "No; I suppose not." "Must you go?" nalkete glances at her repTeaolafully. "Yes; of course I must. There is no other course left open to me. After what you told me last night, it would be simple madness to remain." "What did / tell ,you? I don't think I told you anything." "Well, whet you ledmeto infer." "You ehould not infer things, I never meant you to do so." As Miss Mordannt says this in a very low tone, she turns her head aside and recedes a step or two. A dark nusla rises to Halkett's brow, col- oring all his faoe, even through the bronze of an Indian sun has laid upon it. A sud- den gleam of something akin to nope i shines in his eyes for an instant, but s as speedily suppressed, "Do you know what yon are doing?" he says, in a tone sufficiently unsteady to betray the agitation he is feeling. 'Do you know what your manner, your words seem to me to mean? Do not, 1 in:100re you, raise within me again the hope I have surrendered, unless- Oh, Gassy, you will never know how cruel a thing it is to love without return!" say. ")es," -absently. "And, tor this time of year, how wore derfully mesa it it Not in the least cold, as one might expect," "Yes -no -is it not?" "I really don't knew what you think about it," says Miss Mordaunt, impati- ently. "I, for my part, find it almost warm; but of course I cannot answer for you. Probably all this thIllit you are feel- ing desperately cold." This little petulant outburst romies Halkett. "Nol" he s,ys, with sudden energy and warmth. "I am not, It is not in saY nature to be cold DI any way. I feel meet things keenly -more espeoialls slights from those I love. AU in -conceal- ed disdain, unkind speeelies, flokleness, toueh me closely." "I can vrapathize with you," says CiSS3r. calmly. 1 alb:1k nothing ean be so bad 58 inconstancy --except perhaps deceit." This retort, being- unexpected as it is evideutly meant, puzzles Halkett to such a degree that he becomes absolutely si- lent. Mise Merdannt, with her white shawl drawn closely round her slight, black -robed figure, walks quietly beside him with the air of an offended queen, her head held rather higher than usual, a pretty look of scorn upon her lips. After awhile Ilalkett Pulls up abruptly and faces her in the narrow pathway. "What is the reason of your changed be- liaVier toward me to -day and. yesterday?" he says, shortly. "I think I have a. right 10 ask that?" "Rave 1 changed?" "Have you? Must you ask the ques- tion? The whole world can see it. You treat me with the most studied cold. aess." "I thought I was treating you with as inuoh 0;purtesy as I give to all my unele's guests"I don't care for courtesy," says Hal- kett, passionately: "your 'hatred would be "But -are you sure -your love -has better than your indifference. Yesterdsy gained no return?" demands Miss Oiss7, nd immediately al - morning I believed we were friends -nay, in faltering acoents, a more than that: yesterday evening you ignored rae altogether. at is either heart- less ecemetry on your part or else you hex° a reason for your conduct. Let me hear it." "You are forgetting yourself," says. Miss Morelannt, coldly. "You are tbe first per- son who hats ever accused me of coquetry; (PIE DYEestAil. KINDS'arnss es the CLgaNEST, SOISLEST,,arsi BEST MOMS OYU, oas eau buy.o.Why Yen don't *von have to know what Fawn or Cloth your•Coode aro made Mistakee urn Impossible. Send for Eree Color Card, Story Booklet, and Booklet giving results of Dyeing Over other color*. The TOVINSON-RICHARDSON CO, Limited, Aloottnal, Canada. loomaakereal.MatatmOtaFtstevv Osaosaeseaseassaassassseaesesassadaeseas On the Faun terward feels she has lint one desire on earth, and. that is for the ground to open and swallow her ail TiBBY. °IMF!" cries Ilalkett "tell me you. do not care for that fellow Blake!" "Not a bit, not a bit!" says Oissy, and. in another -moment finds herself in Hal- kett's arms, her tears running mot over the break. of his coat. "Oh, say that you You shall not do it again. I was foolish tve me!" she sobs. "It was most hete- * come here with -on, but X treated you. forgiof fnl rae-abeut that bedroont candle - I wish to return to the house." re.„ stick the other night, and everything. "Nav. hear me!" cries Halkett, But I misunderstood it all. I thought you. morsefully, following, as she makes catching her kvd Mrs. Leyton. Say that you forgive marement to leave him. and e, hand to detain her. "Your avoidance has "I vsill not hear a word about forgive- s° perplexed and maddened me that / said ness now," says Ifalkett, who has been aosiduously employed in kissing her tsar, brow, and. any other part of her face that is visible. "It is taking a mean advant- age of me; I am so happy this moment, I would forgive my bitterest enemy with- out hesitation. By and by we will discuss the question, and I shall grant you par- don en my own terms.' Some time before luncleeon there comes a knock, low but decided, at 'Uncle Char- lie's library door. "Come in," all out the owner of the apartment; and the door openine edmits Prank Halkett and MSS Mordaunt-the latter keeping well behind, and onle eom- Palled by the strong clasp of her corn- Panion's hand to advance at all. "I have come, Sir," says Halkett, ly, "to tell you I have, after all, decided on delaying my departure until next week, as T at first intended -if srou do not object," "Indeed, indeed! I am glad of that," says Uncle Charlie, just 8 wee bit puz- zled. "I need not say bow welc,ome you are. Brit what about the business letter, eh, and your hot haste to reach town? What has changed your plans, eh?" "Miss Mordannt," says Halkett, evitb a rnieebevious glance at Mew, vvbo ie hope- Iesely confused and horribly shamefaced, in the background. "Miss Merdaunt has induced me to alter my mind." "Bb? what, what?" says 'Uncle Charlie, rising from Lis cheir as the truth dawns tipon him, and instantly sinking back in- to it again. "You don't mean it! And all this time 1 roala have sworn it was that fellow Blake!" THE BND. ELECTRIC RATES REDUCED. more than I meant or intended. Porglve me, and at least let rae know how I have offended. may, answer me!" Per a moment Miss Mordaunt hesitates; then, endeavoring to speak lightly "I did not intend to perplex you," she SaYS "one cannot speak to every one at the same time. i'm sense if I appeared rude or neglectful; but you eel not look 'very miserable, and surely Mrs. Leyton was an eacellent substitute for me." Site smiles as she says this. but pales a little too beneath the brillient moon that is be- traying her. "Mrs. Leyton is my very oldest and dear- est friend,' replies Ifalkett; "but no one on earth could tonsole me for -your loss. Why wi.,11 you not confess the truth Cissy, and-- "Yet you once toted her, if report speaks truly." interrupts Miss Mordaunt'still speaking carelessly though her heart- tngobs can almost be counted. "In India, vse hear, there was a time when you would gladly have called her your wife. Is it not so?" drop p her hand. "Has that nueerable bit of gossip taken root ever; here?" he says, with a faint sneer. "Etas Blake been making his cause good by such rubbishing tales? PXarLOCIS Loyton and I arew up together. I would as soon think of making love to ray nearest of kin as; to her. The idea of any romantic attachment existing between us Is more than absurd! Besides, She is to be married to Geoffrey Hyde early in the, coming spring." Miss Mordanut severs a 'little twig from one of the brubs, aua takes it to pieces "Then she did not give you your fox. orite mare?" she says, quietly, detesting herself as she asks the question, yet feel- ing eompelled to solve all her doubts at once. "No: she did not." A pause. "Shall I tell you who gave her to me! It was my only sister, Lady Harley. She loved the Batley dearly, and on her death -bed told roe to take good care of the crea- ture, for her sake." The twig falls from Oissy's fingers. Surely, surely it eannot be true!' Oh, how he must hate end despise her for all she has said and done( it Is too late to make reparation. She reels she would rather die a thousand cleaffis than give in and oonfoss to all the ;vretched sespicions and jealousies She has been ca,refally harbor- ing in her heart daring these tsvo past days. "However, all thin is beside the WHO - tion," goea on Itaikett; "you have not yet told me what I so much want 10 IMIOW. 11as Blake anything to do with your coldness to reeP Tell me, Cissy-are You engaged to him?' Clisay has not expected tbis, and grow- ing sudderily orthison, 'tete her head droop sorn ewb ab euepieimiely. lIalltett's oyes are on her fate. ' of couree not; 1 azu not indeed." There is a fatitt stammer in her speech as she saYs this, and Tfallteti's fears be. wino tertainties, "But ivon tare tor him!" oselahrl, vtheroontly. ''The very taettiOn of his narao has brought a flush into your cheeks. You hiedtate, And turn your head aside. Thisthen, lice:Mots for your sudden change elf benavier toward nt01 Having gained your point, you Sotita your first victim in the, way,mud, hardly knowing how to get rid or an troublesome an are estaasee had recourse to- Bred you told tee Point blank my attentions were un- vaileorue, it would base beast more wse manly, more Jitab--" 'Tray de not luty another word," gtSYdr Mi* s Mordautin wise dente, thonge tort,Ce ere in her voice and eyed; "this Im the second time o.night you have Spok- en words tlitilbult to forget. Oo not ttett- To Feed Hens Properly. It takes eonsiderable studying and experimenting to limd out just what the hens need, and how much they ought to have, but we must learn as soon es we can, or we will find our poultry is not so profitable as it ought to be. The feeding question is one of the most import- ant in the whole poultry business, writes Mr. K. A. Grimes. Experts tell us that a hen needs about six ounces of food per day. A flock of ten, then, will need about 3% pounds per day, OT a trifle over 26 pounds a week. Of this amount, two-thirds by weight should consist of grains. The grain should be a mixture of equal parts wheat, cracked corn and oats. A few handfuls of sunflower -seed, cane -seed or buckwheat should be added for variety. They are to the hen what pie is to the boy, and you know what that is. , The other third should be mash, a. mixture ef bran a,ncl other finely ground feeds, usually fed dry. Some poultrymen moisten the mash, but the majority claim that it is better to feed it dry and let the hen moisten it in her crop by drinking what water she wants. If fed dry there is less clanger from -certain kinds of disease. A good formula for a mash is as follows: One-half bushel of bran, four quarts of alfalfa meal, two quarts each of ground oats and cornmeal, one tablespoonful of salt and one tablespoonful of pepper. A good way to give green food for a change is to hang a head of cab- bage by a string so the fowls etsn just reach it. The exercise is good for theni, and they will thoroughly enjoy the feast. Or a„ large beet, carrot or turnip may be stuck on a nail driven about a foot from the ground, for them to pick at. Such food should never be thrown down in the dirt. Now, as to the time of feeding_ Early in the morning a light feed of grain should be scattered in the litter on the floor of the 000p. The hens get off the roost hungry, and should find something ready for them. Some scatter the grain in the straw after the fowls have gone to roost at night, se it will be there early in the morning. In the middle of the forenoon, the green food, if it is in the forte of vegetables, should be given. At noon it is a good plan to throw-in' a few handsful of table -scraps to keep them busy. Late in the afternoon, so that they will have plenty of time befere dark, the heavy grain feed of the day should be given. There should be all they will clean up of this, enough so they will go to bed with full crops. Water, lots of it, clean and fresh, is a great item in the hen's diet. An egg is 60 per oent water. If they are stinted in this respect it will tell in the egg -basket in a hurry. Just one day's neglect to furnish plenty of water has been known to cut off the egg -yield near- ly half. Grit arid lime, usually given in the form of oyster-shelle, are two ether necessary elements. They should be kept before the fowls all the time. MOROCCO S SLAVE MARKE VIVID DESCRIPTION OP Lill MARA.RESII. knelions °petted With "A 'Word o' Prayer" -French Will Stop Train°. S. L. BenellSan writing to, th) oat:Ion Daily Mirror, regaading tht -)lave trade in Monne°, says As soon as the 'tricolor is hoisted permanently over Mara/keel], ido xouthera capital of the Moorisl Empire, the French will put an end so the operations of the, elave mar ket, which is to -day the largest ir kf rice , It has been fed for centuries les the caravan traffic that eame, fair Timbuctoo and the banks of the Ni• ger across the Sahara rleeert. These caravans used to leave Mare. kesh and go foe a, considerablc journey through the Sahara to place wh:ere there are geeat eat de- posits. There the camels used to be loaded with ealb, and the jeur- ney would be rasumedsacross •tha desert to. Timbuctoo and the lesser towns along- the Niger, where there is an enormous demand for salt. It was paid for in gold dust, ostrich feathees, and slaves, aed these un- fortunate human beings, many of them of tender years, were carried back on camels across the Sahara under conditions that frequentla- resulted in the death of 30 or 40 per cent. DRESSED FOR AUCTION. Since, the French occupied Tim- buctoo the value of the, slave traf- fic haNdwindled very considerably, but to this day a few caravans manage to struggle threugh. In the great southern capital there are many Raids who own a great mam- ba of slaves and sell those they do not want; and I hoard when I was ix) 1Vlarakesh essme years ago that one Or two men. ran institutions on the lines of stud farms and steed to rear child slaves for the market. The business is in the hands of a group of auctioneers called dilals. They receive the sla-ves either from their owners oe from the masters of the caravans, in which case they are given two or three days' rest and some special feeding, and be- fore the sales they are dressed in bright and attractive garraents, generally of ealieo whieli are only worn during the able, and must be returned to the auctioneers by the purchasers. „. When I sva,s in Mar•akesh about ten or tWelve of these men were' engaged in the sale of saves, and each had his own enclosnre itt which the sla.ves he proposed to sell were herded. The markets are held two or three times a week. The Hydro Commission Publish the Old Bates and the New. At Sub -stations. Old Rate New Rate Toronto - Guelph .. Seaforth St. Thomas Ingersoll .. Norwich Berlin .. New Hamburg . Preston Hespeler • Dundas Wate,rdeven Weston Mimic° London .... Stratford .. Mitchel) Woodstock .. Tillsoriburg . Waterloo .. Baden .. ss. 'Galt .4 1,44 St, Masada Hamilten Port Cleulit 1 $18.50 $16.50 25.00 23.50 ' 41.00 Unchanged 39,, 00 Unchanged 28.00 27.00 30.00 Unchanged 25,00 24.00 32.00 Unchanged 25,00 .23.00 26.00 25.0() 17.00 16.00 37.50 30.00 30.00 Unchanged 30,74 30.00 28.00 27.00 32.00 Unehaaged 38.00 Unchanged 26.00 24.00 32.00 Unchanged 83.89 32,00 26.00 25.00 87.00 Urn:hanged 25.00 24.00 38,00 35.00 17,00 16450 . 86./9 32.00 29.00 Uneheanged Brampton os ri • Tie world's standard Of glove perfection. Style Fit See that the trado mark is Durability, n every. glove. ;rito slavery for the first, time, and weta eonscquently indifferent. o'ine of the younger ones were ob- viously keenly interested, doubt- 'ess wondering whether fate would send them a, good or a bad master, The Chiktren were eleaely frighten- ed, some ef them clinging pasaion- ately to their 'mothers and needing fame before they oould he sepas rated, while a few who were sus- pected ef ha,ving an untreatable clis- poaition were led through the mar- ket with their arms tied behind their backs. Sometimes two un- ruly slaves are tied together. The strong men and the ettractive women and girls are always acid first, and the prices in some cases rise to hundreds of dollars, though Fnever aaw more than the equiva- lent of £60 in English money paid for anybody, and this was sexcep- ti•onal. 4' INVENTOR OP. GOOD ROADS. OFFER UP A PRAYER. Before the sale the auctioneers ranged themselves in line, and on behalf of all of them th.e serdor auctioneer offered up a prayer aloud. He called upon the patron saint of the city to bless those who bought and those who sold the slaves, and his utteraames, which did not err on. the side of brevity, were met with a frequent response, not only from his brother auction- eers but from the assembled buy- ers. As soon as the prayer was over each auctioneer hurriedto his pen, sorted out his slaves, and led them slowly round the market while the intending buyers seamed the slaves as they passed and lis- tersacleter the 1, extravagantpraise each auctioneer gave to the mecm- hers of his company. ALL BLA.CKS. The slaves, without exception black, were of all ages and phy- sique, from old men and women who could conama•nd only a few dol - leas, down to little children, who were sometimes offered with their mothers, but could be •separated if necessary. This separation led from tinae to time to ecenes too painful for deseription. here. . When a purchaser had seleeted the slave likely to suit his requires xnents there would be eaxneexami- nation, consisting generally of feel- ing tlae muscle's and examining the teeth, for the Moore attach great importance to the condition of a slave's teeth, and one whose mouth is in a bad plight cam find no.purs chaser save at a very low figure. FRIGEITENED CHILDREN. The middle-aged and the young would probably be purchased) for work in the fields, while the young girls were bought for the harem, and the boys were often .bought to be companions to the sons of the buyer, it being the custom in Moe- recco to give a lad a alave-eorapazo ion about his own age who grows up with hira and becomes his confi- dential servant, often reaching A position of importanee in the house- hold. • When a buyer had telected his :slave he would make an offer for him, and the dill would then re- sume his tramp aound the market- place, leading the slave or 'slaves selected and natnieg the price that had been offered. If after two or threepromenades nobody bettered this priee the sale would t be eon. - eluded • HIGHEST Orchard Notes. A well selected apple orchard of fifteen acres in a good location next to a big market will, in ten yetErs produce a large, permanent in - CO Yll e. It is a mistaketo cultivate an orchard on a hillside. Nothing but the sod will hold the veil there. We believe that no part of farm work is to thermighly misunder- stood and neglected as the raising and selling of fruit. Do not, prune year trees until the sap has gone out of them and then prune very sparingly. Negleeted fruit trees are not worth the ground they occupy, and besides they are an eyesore, te ec- erylaody and when infested with worms and iliSeCtn ,ocrigtitrit me riace to the neighborhood. There ought to be a law prohibiting and man from allowing trees of this kind to remain on thb farm John Loudon McAdam, Who Gave His Name to a System. John Loudon McAdam, the road builder, an article which appears in the current issue of Good Roads, is one of ,00nsiderable interest to the lay reader, as well as t0 the man whose business is the building of roads. The article was written by Maur- ice 0. Eldridge, Assoc. M. Am. Soo. G. E., assistant in charge of road management investigations in the United States office of public r•oads. John Loudon MeA/clatai wasborn at Ayr, Seotlaad, on Skatember 21, 1756. He was the son of jamas Mc- Adam, a deecendant of Mara Mc- Gregor, the first baron of Water - head and •one of the Highland clan of McGregor. When James II. of Se•otlancl outlawed the MeGregore, Adam settled in the lowlands and changed his name to McAdam. Sohn Loudon McAdam's mother was Susan& Cochrane, daughter of John Cochrane of Waterhead, a rel- ative of the Earl of Dunelenald. When John waz fourteen • years old his father died arid he was in- trusted to the care of his uncle, William McAdam., a, raerehamt lir- ing in New York. He received his businese training wit13 his uncle, and accumulated a considerable fel-time during the revolutionary war as an agent for the sale of prizes. When the war was over, McAdam had lost most of his property, but had enough left to enable him to return to Sootland in 1783, and purchase Sambrie, an estate in Ayrshire, where he lived for thirteen years. He was married twice, his first wife being the daughter of. an American by descent, named De- Lancey. He had seven children, four some and three daughters, all by his first wife. .111 Ayrshire McAdam was naagis- _ trate deputy Lieutenant of the county and road trustee. At that time the roads throughout Great Britain, especially in Scotland, were very bad, and Mc.A.darn inter- ested himself in investigating eon- clitions and conducting experiments in road building. As a result ,a his investigation and experiment's, he arrived at, the ecnclusion that roads should be eonstracted of small broken stone, He oonteuded that the earth foun- dation should be raised slightly above the adjacent land and that suitable ditches .should ,be built at the sides to provide drainagp ; that the earth foundation 6,1101.11d be cov- ered by a aeries of thin layers of hard stone breken Into small angu- lar fragments of a nearly cubical shape, and so nearly as possible of the same thee. A piece to weigh over six ounces. The layers of bro- ken stone were to be oonsolidated gradually by the traffic and would ultimately form a smooth hard crust impervious to water and durable in proportion to the hardness of the stone ,and the density of traffic. He laid down this principle: That the natural soil really supports the traffic, and that while it is Pre- served in,a dry state it will sustain any weight without .sinking. The two essential requisites, therefore, were drainage and a. waterproof covering. NEW FACADE V 0 it P ALA C Bs The behavior of the slaves varied eery considerably. The old people for the most part were not going ging G'eorge'S London Residence Will Bo Beautiful, Bueleinghem Palaces which hes long' been known as the uglieet roy- al residence in Europe, Is to be renovated end beautified, and next autumn its exterior will ao Imager remied one of a zubway station, Its hideous drab etneeo front is to disappear, A beautiful new facade of Portland stone, planned by Sir Aston Webb, aud costing $300,000, is to be ,substituted for ib The building has always been OM of London's architectural anoma- lies. Visitors hem all parts of ths world for generations have viewed with amazemexit the bold, saieke- grimed brick frontage of the reign- ingeovereign's residence in the .capital environment of St, Jartasse, and grams parks has only serve / to bring into bolder relief the ab- solute drea,einesa of the unbroken prosaic cottage windows and the impoverished - looking structure- Uoreover, the beautiful white rear- ble memorial of Queen Victoria, also designed by Sir Aston Webb, -which stands facing the palace, has done mach to inseam the decision to demolish the ,existing facade, whioh even patriotic Britiahers frankly admit is a, veritable eyesore. Th e• work of reeonstructionwill not be ,commeneed, however, until next fall, and in the meantime all the stone required will be prepared, so as to minimize the time during which the place caanot be oceupiecl. Ring George, himself, long ago or- dered plans to/ be prepared so as to be in readinese for a suitable mom- ent, a,nd has frankly told his inti- matee that, in , his opinion, the building was a material reproach to the country which has produced Wren and Inigo Jones. The present front was e)reateal soon after Queen Victoria's corona- tion, and cost $750,000. At the time of King Edward's accession $250,000 was spent in the renovation of the interior. George IV. never inhabi- ted the building, and William IV. offered it to Parliament when their houses were burned down in 1834. The gardens, which. cover 40 acres, are unsurpassed in London for beauty and extent. William] IV. flatly refused to Live in Buckingham Palace, and Queen Victoria resided there only a few' weeks in the year, preferring Os- borne House or Balmoral. When the Palace was built it was not in- -ben/tied for a royal residence. George IIIbought it from the Dowager Duchess of Buckingham. 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D0 NOT DELATr swwwwarwwwww Takc I Scoopful Of Each - Side By f.lde Take "St Lawrence', Oranulated lit one scoop. -arid auy other sugar itrthe other; Look at ,"St. Law- rattce" Sugar.- its perfect crystals -- its pure* white sparkle- ite even grain. Test it • asCarlatair, AMMIWINEMIMMORMSORAMINNISCOMMI.T- point by point, and you will ,see that Abisolutoly RAt Absoluttly Beist suegar PUre. is one of the cheasest sugars ever refitted --With standsed of puti.y that few sugars can boast. Try it le your 1101110, Analyses iliovm riewremse stressulatel'; to be "pp gene° io tosst sne Aispo inth to impurities whets -sir, - "Most every stealer sena 8t. Lawrence Snot." Art LAWItzpicit sutolit ille.1011401111.ES LIMEEEZIL VIONIVRIEML 65A a AN EGG 200 YEA.RS OLD. Famous Chinese General A.te It and An egg laid 200years ago in a hen -coop near Pekin and buried shortly after in four _feet of Week . raud was served on a recent evening to Gen. Lan Tien Wei, hero of their new republic of China, at a banquet given in his honor at the Amoy Far Low Cafe by 100 prominent Obenese end city officials, says the Los An- geles (California) Tins The precious egg was escorted in- tolhe brilliantly decorated banquet her by a retinue of Orientally garbed waiters and carefully placed in front of the guest of honor, who , Sled cuitously Whiie the other , diners were waiting for the fifteenth course the General proceeded to . make away with the almost price- less delicacy, while seores of Chi- nese, peeking in through the doors and windows on the unusual scene, gazed in admiration and wonder- ment: 's• ' • ' After eating the egg, which was as black as charcoal, the General leaned over to. C. F. Yin,' his secre- tau, and • whispered in his ear, While a bread' smile played over his features. The proprietor of the eafe informed. the General 'before serving the historic hen fruit that be wasn't, ialdng any chances, as it was ju,s4 as fresh as if laid yester- day. The banquet was one of the meet elaborate, as well as unesual, ever given in Los Angeles, and 'con- geniality reigned supreme frora the fast ±0 the twenty-eighth or so course of rare ancl interesting Chi- nese edibles. ,Following are a few of the viands on the menu :--Rock moss soap, sharks' fins, bundle of laded with mushrooms, duck and ban* .Shoots, bird'a nest, totes ne broiled squab, chop, sncy, siting blossom rolls, ehielren fried with al- monds, smoked oysters stinved wmbb veg-etables. - Other dishes highly prized by the Chinese epicures were served: All of the]n were prepared in tree•Chi- nose fashion, but they were served in American etyle;itt eourees, in- stead of Chinese fashion, which is for everything to be placed on the table at, once arid all be served from large bowls. • The big ban was pat on chop sticks, and knives, forks and spoons were used by the diners to make way with the good things to *eat. Rare Chinese wines of anciettt, Viti- tAge and of great valve were there in abundanee. For dessert there was .candied ginger, preserved nuts, piekled fruits and various kinds of sweetmeats, ' 'rho iiert of -the snn takes eight minutes ana eialit secondsi in its transmission throug-h. , space earth.