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THE CABLE1MAN
1
AN EXCITING PRESENT-DAY ROMANCE
BY WHAT HERBY CHESNEY
gcsted how the dear: man met his
death?"
"I don't suspect you," said Scarbor-
ough, rather impatiently. "I only
want to know what you saw. You say
you saw nothing?"
A gleam cattle into the man's eve.
Ile hesitated a moment, and then he
said cunningly:
"lam a poor man, Senhor. A poor
man cannot afford to keep his eyes so
wide open as richer men may. .I say
that I saw nothing."
Scarborough put his hand in his
pocket and pulled out a milreis .tote.
"Think again," he said quietly.
"Were your eyes quite shut?"
"No, Senhor, not quite," said the
Azorean.
"What did you see ?"
"I saw that the fingers of the dead
man's right hand were tightly closed.
There was something in the hand. I
opened the fingers gently. It was
only a flat stone with some scratches
on it."
"Have you got the stone?"
"Sim, Senhor, It is a thing of no
value. I keep it to remind me ofthe
tragic affair in which I assisted this
morning. A poor bean -seller's life is
uneventful, Senhor."
"I will buy it from you," said Scar-
borough. "Two milreis."
1 The man put his hand into his
pocket.
"Five," he said insinuatingly.
"Very well, five."
The bean -seller produced the stone
and gave it to Scarborough. It was
as he said, a small flat stone, about
three inches square. It was covered
with the white incrustation caused by
the Calderia water, and there were
marks on it where something had been
written in pencil. But half a day's
rubbing in the pocket of a peasant's
blouse had obliterated most of them,.
and those that were still legible owed
their preservation to the fact that they
were in the hollows of the stone's
surface.
"What is it?" said Varney.
"It was a message, but this fool has
rubbed most of it out. Can you make
sense of it ?"
Varney examined the stone closely.
"ache . . blue . N. drip"
was all that remained of the writing.
"It isn't much," he said. "But it'
may be the clue we want."
"To the murderer?"
"No, to the diamonds, `ache' looks
uncommonly like the end of the word
cache, and the rest tells where the
cache is."
"Or did tell, before this idiot's
blouse rubbed it out."
"Stay, though 1 There is another
possibility," said Varney. "Mrs. Car-
rington's name is Rachel: Perhaps it
is not a C that has gone, but an R and
an L. This stone may have carried a
dying man's Iast message to his wife. ---
CHAPTER VIII.---(Cont'dh the donkey': back, and seated himself;
on e op o
and wet one but he seemed to find it;
comfortable. Ile relit his cigarette!
and urged his beast towards the nar-1
row entrance between the walls of
pumice.
Scarborough. approached him and;
the man, with the real politeness of
the Islanders, jumped to the groundi
and took his hat off.
"Bongs dias, senhorse," he said.
Scarborough returned his greeting,
and asked whether he had heard any-
thing of a dead pian having been
found there this morning.
"Sim, senhor," was the answer. "It
was I who found him."
Then he went on to describe the
episode with voluble earnestness and
a wealth of dramatic gesture. The
finding of a dead man was an event in j
his life, and he had the histrionic
ability to make the most of his share I
in the occurrence. He entered into:
the explanations not only of what he'
done in this alarming crisis, but!
also, minutely and comprehensively,'
of what he had thought. He explain- I
ed that his first impulse had been to.
carry the news to the Corregidor atI
Ribelra Grande; for few Portuguese,
will touch a dead man, or help a dying;
man, until officialdom has given the
word, for fear lest, in foul play has'
been done, they may be summoned as
accomplices. The peasantry have a'
.After about fifty yards this gully,
ended in the shallow cup of the crater.
A ring of jagged teeth of basalt made
a complete circle, a quarter of a mile
in diameter, broken only at the place
where the two young men had entered. I
Below this black rampart the slopest
were clothed with a green mantle of ,
health and whortleberries; lower down
there was a thick carpet of stag-horn
moss; and lower still, barrenness, bare
earth and tones, with a scurfy incrus-
tation of white upon them. The Cal-
deira itself was hardly more than ten
yards across it now, but the white;
desolation round it marked the limits;
to which its waters sometimes rose.!
The waters themselves were white,
like milk, and they were in constant!
curling, bubbling movement, like milk
gently boiling. A cloud of steamrose'
from them in a dense column, evpand- I
ing into a canopy, and twisted in
ever thinning wreaths out over the,
toothed edge of the crater.
"It reminds me of the picture of ther
genie in the Arabian Nights, rising in
a cloud from the Braden jar;" said.
Varney. "What's the smell ?"
"Sulphuretted hydrogen," and Scar-:
borough. "There generally is a little.
though the amount varies. The vas,
porn are mostly carbon dioxide, I be-'
lieve; but after an earthquake any...,
where in the island, the sulphur fumes
are in sufficient quantity to be dan-:
gerous."
"Does this often happen ?"
"Yes, pretty often; but I haven't'
heard of any earthquake lately."
They were not the only visitors to
the crater. A man was standing by
the edge of the water, a blouse -clad
Azorean peasant, with a wide hat on
his head and a cigarette of maize -husk
between his lips. A donkey quietly
browzing on the herbage at the edge
of the whitened circle was evidently
his property. Presently the man bent
down and lifted a dripping, steaming
tack from the water.
••What's he doing ?" Varney asked.
"Ckokiing," said Scarborough. "That'
sack is full of red Iupin beans. They
are a popular food here; you'll see
sacks of them in every provision shop'
in Ponta Deigada."
"And they cook them in the Cal-
deira :" said Varney. "Is it hot en -
'.ugh for that."
"A few degrees below boiling point.,
Put your hand in and see."
"No, thanks, I'll take your word
for it. That's the cheapest kind of
wholesale cooking I ever heard of."
"I+ood needs to be cheap in a eoun
try where sixpence is a good day's
wage." said Scarborough. "Fortun-
ately, it is cheep. The lupin grows
like a weed; steeping in the sea pick-'
les the beans; and the Caltleira cooks
• tlum. Our friend there probably
comes here every day. It's his trade."
"Then he may have seen something
of what happened yesterday," sug-
gested Varney. "Ask him. You
speak Portuguese."
The man had slung his sack across=
thtf it. His seat was a hot
firm belief that the last hand which'
touches a dying man, is by the law of What next, Horace ?" , ,t,ca s,,,e,v & ® •5,Ab, rL a ;
the land presumed to be the handl "We'll go and see Davis."
EVERYTHING NEW
FRESI-I--PURE
RELIABLE
Ask your dole, or Write
RENNIE'S ,... TORONTO
tain on the other side, tool" he added
chuckling.
"Have you any reason for thinking
that there is a woman in this case?"
said Scarborough. He knew the enn-
dency of all discussion at the Casa
Davis, and experience told him that, if
lie was to get any useful information,
both father and daughter would have
to be kept to the point.
"Yes," said Mr. Davis.
"Father means that he has the same
reason that he usually has," opined 1
Muriel. "You know how prejudiced'
he is,"
Scarborough made a slight move -1
ment of'impatience, and Mr. Davis'
noted it. He became grave at once.
"You are quite right," he said, an-
swering Scarborough's glance. "Mur- i
iel, our levity is rebuked, and I think 1
we deserve it. I say that there is al
woman in this case, because I saw I
her."
He went on to explain that last
night, when Muriel came in to say that
she had met Mr. Page, and that he
seemed to have recovered from his
gout, the news surprised him; for he
had called at the Chinelas a few hours
before, and had been told that the,
gout was very bad. He went out,,
therefore, to see the phenomenon for
himself, and if possible to persuade
Mr. Page to come back to supper. He;
did not succeed in giving this invite- ,
tion, because, though he caught sight,
of Mr. Page in the distance, he could I
not get near to him. He shouted,:
and was heard, for he gut a wave of ,
the hand in reply; but that was all. 1
(To be Continued).
which gave him death; and it is a be -
CHAPTER I_K.
"If you want my opinion," said Mr. s
Davis, when he had heard what Scar-
borough had to tell him, "there is al
woman in it "
His daughter, who was standing be-,
hind him, exchanged a quiet glans• I
with the two young men, and shrug-,
ged her shoulders slightly. She was'
a dainty little blonde, with big eyes
which tried to look earnest, and man- i
aged to look dreamy.
"That's what you always say, fa-'
ther," she said.
"Well, yes, Muriel," be admitted,
smiling. "I believe it is a somewhat
frequent remark of mine. Generally
true, too."
Muriel frowned.
"I don't se why you should suppose
that a woman had anything to do with
it," she insisted.
"No ? But you will find that, as
usual, I shall turn out to be right"
Mr. Davis backed this confident
judgment with the ghost of a wink to
Varney, and laughed. This discussion
which threatened was one which fre-
quently arose in this household; for
Muriel, having spent the thinking
years of her life—not, as yet, a very
long one—in the seclusion of a lonely.
pine -apple quint.a, was an aggressive.
disputant, and made up by the violence
of her views on the wrongs of her sex
for her total lack of practical know-
ledge of her subject. Her daily life
l from the time she was fourteen had
been almost convntual in its simpli-.
i. city; she had had no opportunity of
verifying by the observation of ac-
tualities the opinions which she held
• so strongly; therefore she was never
I troubled with doubts. If there was
!another side to the question, her fav-
orite novels did not teach it, and no
one bad ever made her see it. To be
I perfectly frank, no one had ever seri-
,ously tried, except her father, and his
, efforts were chiefly aimed at drawing
her out. He opposed her for the sake
1 of seeing her eyes lose tut ,r -•dreamy
!look in a flash of temper, and • her
calor rise with indignation; and when
he had enticed her into saying some-
thing sufficiently cutting about ..the
folly and brutality of men, he usually
the good deeds that are done in the
was right. He Lvas almost absurdly
i proud of his fanatical little daughter.
i Varney did not know' that this ex
' ercise was part of the daily routine. at
.."� I 1 the pine -apple (chute, and was:enjoy-
ed by both father .and daughter; con-
sequently
on-
„.
cit nt ,y he � t •} luted tobe 'angry
at that wink. Fur' Muriel Davis was
Ivery pretty.
I "If you meati," he said,."that there
f:r a woman •at t.he.buttom o1 itost of
, the gurus dee&; that are done' inthe
i world 1 em ready to agree witi''t you."
1 "And Siurinl wlll agree with you,
I and 1 hank you ar a vele? • sensible
fellow" eii(1 • 'Mr. Davis, Iau.ghing.
i "But 1 meant there is a women in
• (leery piece of mischief that is done,
marc always will lreeethis side. of the
Golder,.
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the sanne state of things •rneyn't o
lief which in one well authenticated
instance left a man who had been in-!
jured on the railway, a few miles
from Coimbra, the intellectual capital
of Portugal, to lie unaided through the;
heat of a long summer's day. He was
conscious, and able to beg for water.
But on one dared to give him any, for
and nothing could be done till he came
and nothing could be done till he came.
And .this is not an isolated ease.:
But this Azorean peasant explained, •
and took pride in explaining, that he
had risen superior to this fear.
"I helped to carry him," he said
proudly.
"You helped ? Then you were not
alone ?"
"I was alone at first, hut I went to'
the Casa Davis, which is near here,
and summoned the Senhor Davis. We
carried the dead man' to Senhor Davis'.
cart, which waited at the end of the'
gorge, and Senhor Davis drove him to
the house which is called As Chinelas.'
I did not go with him. I had done en-
ough; for, Senhores, the Corregclior
had not said that the body was to be,
moved."
! "What is he saying?" asked Varney, I
` in English.
"He is claiming to be a hero be-
cause he dared to touch a corpse,"I
said Scarborough; and to the man ad •
-
ded: "Was that all?"
"What does the Senhor mean ?"
"Did you see anything which sug-
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hairnen
,drresi.5 Inflammation.
Prevents severe carrfPli-
rations. ,Inst pert a few
drops on the main ctt
prrt and, the Ircafn ilrs-
appears.
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To Make First -Class Butter.
Begin by having the milking done
in a cleanly way and in a clean
stable. Keep the separator in con-
dition by washing and scalding thor-
1 oughly after each using. Cool the
cream immediately to 50 degrees or ,
lower, in a tub of ice and water and
keep cool and sweet until the churn-
ing is gathered. Keep the cream
covered securly, but not air -tight. Let
the temperature rise to 60 degrees or
therabouts, and add 'a good starter.:
1 There •is nothing better for this pur
pose than well flavoured butter milk. •
Stir frequently until the cream is
'thick, sour and has a glossy appear-
ance, when it is ready fol =the churn. I
' Scald the churn and rin'Oe with cold
water before putting in the cream.
The temperature should not be above
58 degrees in summer and 62 ie winter
' and the butter should "come" in from
20 minutes to half an hour. Stop
churning when, the butter is in gran-
ules about the size of • small wheat,
draw off the butter -milk, and rinse
•
with cold water until no trace of milk
remains. Care in this matter has
much to do with the keeping qualities
of the butter. ' i
Remove the butter, (which should
still be in grains) to a vessel in which
it can be weighed, I use a shallow
' candy pail, weigh, turn out on the but-
; ter worker, and apply salt, from one
pound to one and one-half ounces to a
pound of butter. You will have to re-
gulate the amount to suit the taste
KILLS PAIN
•
of your customers. Much of mine is
sold unsalted. Work very gently, be-
ing careful not to spoil the texture of
the butter by unnecessary pressure.
Let stand half an hour, work again,
and print or pack. In printing, make
the prints full weight, perfectly shap-
ed and wrap neatly with a good qual-
ity of parchment, bearing your name
and address, or farm name. Keep in
a cool place until wanted for market -
in g,
arket-ing, then place in a clean box or bas-
ket, having a clean white cloth around
and over the butter, and paper over
-that and under the box lid. Never let
' cream or butter stand when there is
!Mg. odor of any kind.
,:When you go to market be cure
your butter is good and say so. Iave
it ]oohing. neat end clean, yourself (or
isalesman) ditto, and you'll :have .no
trc;uble in making good safes,'
pieces of large seed potatoes was 28
per cent. higher than from pieces of
small seed potatoes. A more recent
bulletin is now to hand from South
Dakota, giving a series of experi-
ments designed to determine the re-
lative influence of the mere size of
tuber and the strain of tuber in the
increased yield obtained by planting
pieces of larger tubers. Five series
were arranged as follows :-
1. Seed pieces of a given size from
selected tubers.
2. Seed pieces of this same size
from small tubers or culls.
3. Small seed pieces from tubers of
a given size.
4, Medium seed pieces from tubers
of a given size.
5. Large seed pieces from tubers of
a given size.
These series of plots were carried
out with two varieties of potatoes
Early Ohio and Carman No. 3.
With regard to the first two series,
out of a total of nine pairs of rows,
six gave differences in favor of the
selected tubers, though the seed
pieces were equal in size in all cases.
This superiority for the two varieties
averaged 5.53 bushels per acre.
In the series 3, 4 and 5 the size of
the seed pieces was the only variable
factor, each piece being reduced to
one eye, only. In every instance there
was a pronounced difference in favor
of the large seed pieces and the in-
crease in production varied with the
increase in size of the seed pieces.
The average results of the two varie-
ties (8 plots) were :—
Bushels per Acre Per cent.
Snail seed pieces ..174.73 100
Medium seed pieces.271.71 155.5
Large seed pieces .298.59 170.9
In order to determine the effect of
strain of tuber on quality of crop, the!
crops of potatoes obtained in series,
1 and 2 were weighed individually and
from small seed 64.8 per cent. weigh- I
ed 2 ounces or more, whilst the per-
centage
ercentage from large seed was 67.5 thus
showing a slight superiority in the
quality of the crop from selected
tubers.
Warm Water for Cows.
Care and attention to the little
things pay. Often, little improve-
ments in our system of methods ac-
complish surprising results.
Milk is nearly 90 per cent. water,
To make large quantities of milk a
cow requires a large amount of water.
In summer she usually has access to
water at all times and helps herself
at will, but when winter comes she
is in the barn most of the time and is
offered water only once, or possibly
twice, a day. To make matters
worse, the water 'is often at or near
freezing temperature, the cold water
chills he entire digestive system. The
water must be warmed by some means
and a considerable amount of heat
energy is required to clo it. This can
be supplied either by feeding the cow.
plentifully and letting her warm the
water, or by heating it with fire.
The question of warming water,
then, resolves itself into which
method is cheaper, Corn is a gr"''.
heat -supplying food. It is not profit-
able, however, to burn it in a stove
to heat a house, because coal accom-
plishes the same result at a small
fraction of the cost. Then why use
corn to warm water for the cow ?
The amount of water that a cow
drinks will be found to have a direct
relation to the amount of milk she
produces; in general, the more water,
the more milk. It is essential, then,
, to provide all the water that It
will drink at any season of the year.
In the winter, especially in the north-
ern states, water must be warmed in
order to produce the best results.
Probably the easiest and cheapest way
to accomplish this is by using a tank
heater.—Circular No. 21, United
States Department of Agriculture,
What Piano Would Say.
"So Miss Banger played for you.?
She claims that she can make the
piano speak."
0
sp
"Well, I'll bet if it spoke it would
say, `Woman you have played me
false.' "
1 No, I didn't forget the coloring.- •-•--•-••••••- -••-
The above describes my way of mak-
ing ing; ru4tt•it.ttrtld, never use butter" boI-
:drxing,•>-+-11Mes,eAlex. Agilary' i•IT Farm
and Dairy.
Cutting ,. t•
I bulletin t' ss t.. t'
In a c lle Int the South'
atc+d by .
llakotn A};ricultdl a1. (allege,: it'• was
shown'-ther the yield of potatoes -from
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THE KAISER'S LOST EMPIRE.
Particulars of Captured German
Colonies.
Mr. Bonar Law has furnished A
table giving the following particulars
of the German colonies captured,
and the value of their revenue:—
S.
evenue:S. W. Africa—Area, 322,450 square
miles. In 1.914 estimated revenue
£1,175,000, and expenditure £2,017,-
000, In 1913 imports valued at 43,-
000,000 marks, and exports at 70,-
300,000 marks.
Cameroons--Area, 300,000 square
utiles. In 1914 estimated revenue
£565,000, and expenditure £863,000.
In 1913 imports valued at 84,600,000
marks, and exports at 29,100,000
.narks.
Togoland -- Area, 33,700 square
miles. In 1914 estimated revenue
£175,000, and expenditure £209,000.
In 1913 imports were valued at 10,-
600,000 marks and exports at 9,100,-
000
,100;000 marks.
In the Pacific--Sanioa 650 square
miles, and Upolu 340 square miles.
In 1914 estimated revenue £595,000
and expenditure £690,000, In 1918
imports valued at, 5,700,000 marks,
and exports at 5,300,000 marks.
Kaiser Wilhelmsland and Pacific
Islands -70,000 square miles. No de-
tails of revenue.
Bismarck Archipelago — 26,640
square miles. The chief towns are
Rabaul and Herbertshoe, both in New
Pommern.
Caroline Islands, Pelew Islands,
Marianne Islands, and Marshall Is-
lands—Area, 1,000 square miles, and
estimated population, 70,459. Re-
venue estimated a 10 00
t £ b, 0, and ex-
penditure at £191,500.
Imports of Kaiser Wilhelmsland
and the Bismarck Archipelago, esti-
mated at 5,872,000 marks, and these
of Caroline and Marshall Islands at
3,335,000 marks, a total of 9,207,000
marks. Exports for the former esti-
mated at 5,041,000 marks, and for
the latter at 7,046,000 marks, n total
of 12,087,000 marks.
Kiao-Chau — Area, 200 square
miles. The principal town is Tsing-
tau. Revenue for 1914 estimated at
8,060,000 marks, and expenditure at
18,410,000 marks. In 1912, imports
valued at 121,254,000 marks, and ex-
ports at 79,640,000 marks.
Probably the best way to get rich
quick is to go slow.
1 trill. i1
PAINS AFTE
EATING
WIND IN THE STOMACH—ACIDITY,
HEADACI-(ES—CONSTIPATION
ARE SIGNS
OF INDIGESTION.
Indigestion—the complete or partial
failure of the digestive processes—fre-
quently throws out of gear the whole
machinery of the body. You can't enjoy
the vigour and vitality of good health
unless your stomach, liver and bowels
do their work regularly and efficiently.
MOTHER
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As a digestive tonic and stomachic
remedy, Mother Seigel's Syrup is
esteemed' in tens of thousands of
homes, wherever the English language
is spoken. If you suffer much or little
from disorders of the stomach, liver
or bowels, try the effect of taking 15
to 30 drops of this famous remedy
in water, after meals. for a few
days and note its beneficial . effects.
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PRIVATION AND MOURNING IX
THE I.M1'1RE,
•ix
Deep Anxiety Also Fel$ RegardinS
the Finances of the f
Kaiser's Land.
Some part of the territory
France is occupied, to be eure,
von Bethmatm-Hollwog seems to
get that the whole of Gernieny 1
occupied, says the New 'York Tithe!
Not by an enemy; her greatest lx►i1l
tary effectiveness has prevented trial
Bub in every part of the erlapire ther
is privation, denial, want; nbt mere:;
of comforts, those may be dispenra
with, but of the con -anon and neceq
sary things of life. Actual distre.
may not as yet bo evident. but i'b
in men's thoughts as a thing foreseer
Throughout the empire there
mourning; it is a land of deep mour
ing for the unnumbered dead wh,`
neibher victory nor anything . els
could restore to friends and families '
and there is the horror and the drea
everywhere present, of new afilie:
tions. There is deep anxiety, tot,
about the finances of the empir
Plausible talk and the assurances con;
tinualIy given to the German peopltr,
cannot conceal the disorder and th8
increasing strain. 1
Power Exhausted.
Germany cannot rid herself of
them. It is the intention of her foeil
bhat she "shall not, The convictiot
grows that with her apparently cel•
tain defeat at Verdun she has ex-
hausted her power of offensive. She
is headed off in the east by Sa'lonica,
by the disillusionment and despair o
the Turks, by the _Russian thrush
toward Bagdad, by the British troops
already perhaps on the move fro
Egypt, where the removal of the peri
to the canal has released them front
what we may call guard duty. The
German navy is sealed up—it can
come forth only to its destruction,
There remains the possibility of an,
-
other drive in Russia. It would be
terribly costly, for not only is thi9
country to be traversed exceedingly
difficult, but the Russians are noW
well equipped for resistance, even foo
offence. But a successful drive X14
that quarter even for hundreds o
miles, would not free Germany front
her harrassments at home. The fur.
ther she penetrated into Russia the
worse off she would be.
4
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i
The Allies Can Wait.
This is beyond all question the view'
the allies hold of the present positiol
of Germany. Plainly pit is their re -
save that conditionst
1 in the empire
shall not change save for the worse;
Tardily it may be, but with care and
enormous expenditure, overlooking
nothing, neglecting nothing, they have
made their formidable preparations to
that end. .These are the grounds for
believing that nothing can come o
any discussion of peace upon sue
terms as those said to have been sug-
gested by the German Chancellor. The
allies have put themselves in a posi-
tion where they can afford to wait.
Germany can still defend herself
stoutly; there can be no doubt about
that. But the allies know very well
that the ring of iron must do its work
upon and in the German empire. When
the German people, thus far pretty
successfully deceived, come to under-
stand that victory is hopeless, they
must, as the only way of escape from
the unendurable suffering, put their
government in a frame of mind to dis-
cuss peace terms quite other than
those based upon the status quo and
an indemnity from France.
MANY ANIMALS IN WAIL.
Horses, Mules, Goats, Elephants and
Camels Share in Struggle.
It is doubtful if more kinds of ani-
mals have ever taken part in warfare
than in the present• European ran-
flict, says London Answers.he list
includes horses, mules, ddgs, ele-
phants, goats and last; but not least,
the never weary camel. Dogs are be-
ing used for sentry and ambulance
work, for draft purposes and as n'
car-
riers of messages and ammunition.
Goats are being employed es fodd
,'-
for the Indian troops, while the ele-
phant
.
phant has been given the task of
handling heavy timber. Of these
animals, however, the ; camel, is brie
most honored.
An Eastern legend has it that the
camel was fashioned last by the
Creator•, and so it is held in very high
esteem by the pebple of the East.
Although a somewhat unshapely and
perhaps a bad-tempered animal, the
camel is an untiring worker,
13e will travel on for hour after
hour without appearing distressed in
any way, and on this acceunt has
made a good name for himself. There
is not the least doubt that thecamel
will come up to expectations where -
ever it is employed in the present con-
flicf.
0,1
His ,IteceiPt.
Casey---Hivins, Pat ! Phwere did
yes get the black eye ?
O'Brien—Oi paid ' Clancy a grudge
e.eterday, an' thot's the resate he
govt mc.
When a man has no good reason
f'o' deiilg a thing he has aro • good
reason for lotting it alone.
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