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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1910-02-03, Page 6When the new boarder went Otto the dining room and eat down, there was only One other person at the table. The new boarder had a kind heart' nd thought he would affable. t4 On you've hoarded acre lor home time?" he said to the other man. "Yes; quite a while." "flow is it? Any good?'' "Yes.pretty fair. I have no com- plaint to make." "Ieuldlady treat you decent?" "Well, perhaps • 1 ought to"—and then he hesitated. • "Oh, never mind, old man." said the new boarder. "That's all right. I'm on. But, say, whim you never tried chucking her under the chin once in a while. That's the way to get on with 'em. I never had a land- ladythat didn't treat nu) At yet. It's i all n the way you handle 'mu. Seel. 1'11 bet I can live here for a month on end without being asked for a shilling. Watch me banter her when she comes in. Before this time to- morrow she'll be telling me her fain- ily history. Poor old girl! She looks as if she'd had her troubles. Prob- ably got tied up to some John Henry, who was about idihan enough to shoo chickens out of the yard, and that's all. My names Smith. Let's see, I haven't heard yours, have I?" "No—no, I believe uot. But it doesn't matter. I'm just the land- lady's husband." The Queen of Denmark once paid a visit to the Danish colony of Ice- land, where the good old bishop ex- erted himself to the utmost to show her everything that was worth see- ing. The queen paid many compli- ments to her host, and, having learn- ed that he was a family man, grac- iously inquired how many children he had. It happene that the Danish word for "children' is almost iden- tical in sound with the Icelandic word for "sheep," and the worthy bishop promptly answered, "Two hundred." "Two hundred children !" cried the queen. "How can you pos- sibly maintain such a number's" "Easily enough, please your Majesty," replied the prelate, with a cheerful - smile. "In the summer I turn them out upon the hill to grass, and when the winter comes I kill and eat them." Awedding was recently held in To- peka :which was of the fashionable kind„ and there were all Borth of prep - stations and frills. Among the "feat- ures" VAR a song by a baritone singer of considerable local renown, and just what lie was to warble was a matter of considerable discussion. A. little sister, 0 years old, of the bride, took much interest in the pro- gramme. "Sis," she said, "I want to sing at your wedding," "Nee dear, you can't sing," was the eejoiner "But I can, and I want to," she pleaded. "What would you sing?" her father asked her. . "'Heaven, Look With Pity,' " was her rejoinew and her father hasn't got over it yet.—Kansas City Journal. ========g„ Sweet Norine "Oh, grandma, you are hard and cruel in your judgment of my toyer," sobbed the girl, great tears starting to her eyes and rolling down her cheeks. "Stop!" thundered her gratelfether, excited as she had never seen him be- fore. "She is right in her opinion of this fellow. 1 have seen him, and I Can judge bine carefully and well, with the ripe judgment of my seventy odd years, and I repeat, he is 4 rascal; His every feature proclaims that, and nature makes no mistake in her handwriting upon a human face "You did wrong in meeting this etraoger again and again without our knowledge, Norine, but you sinned in ignorance; romance clouded the right front the wrong from your young, inex- perienced, girlish mind. The villainy of It lies at hie door, Us knew better. Tell me, Norine!" he eried„ "think well, and, answer me truthfully: When he spoke to you of love, did he ever men- tion marriage?" - CHAPTER • Yes, it was the first time that Norine, the darling of their 'mares, the child who was the solace of then'. old, age, had ever left them hi auger. Quite as soon as the door had closed upon her, poor old Grandma Qordou broke into a passion of tears, a sight which moved old Daniel to the heart's core, "Ali, husband, you were hard with the lass," she sobbed, rocking herself to and fro. "She cannot help loving, no one can help loving the one God sends to her to love." "It was never God, it was the devil who sent hint, Betsey," exclaimed the old man, rising hastily and pacing the narrow little kitchen to and fro, "You do not know what you say; your we - man's heart has got the better of your judgment. He is not a man worthy of any pure young girl's love." "Hush, hush, Daniel!" cried his old • 1 " It le Cellrillrina NOrillati 1 DIDIker4 ' PITy vut i r .-.N1( yr HER imekily, ii, would know your—your be • tentions regarding tee, sir.' elle laughed the loudest, bareitseist, IF St1H IS FRAIL OR WLIAK, most moekingsidood•eurdling laugh thet . ever fell from e• amide lips. A laagit The heroie eide of life le moot often that out In,. through the heart worse found in the struggle between ditty to. • w..........sr......vigosoiewpoomopoopswomossssomomps. " 'So that. whet Mingo you to lien rieou Bail on. this terrible oight, and et thie unecomly hour!" eried, again giv- ing vent to laughter as. mocking Ati it WAR her& "'Yee,' I autreserea, controlling my Pooto PO e most miehty Meet. 'J. know what your intentions to my little Nor- inc mean, You have emiken of love to tier; now 1 ask the question, man to man, do you intend to muke the girl your wife' S "The question was almost life or death kr me, for knew but too well that the happiness of our darling helot& iteou his answer for ell time te ootod lIe looked into my fete end burst inte ouch A loud, brutal, tantalizing letedl that the blood fairly boiled in my veine, "Oen a man not, admire 4 pretty girl without .heing suppoised to he on mania age intent?' be muswered, wrens- tleally, mating: 'So little Norma beo eethibed on me, it appears, despite her protestation* to the contrary. give her credit for e iseeee: " 'Do understand you to say you do not love the girl, unit do not intend, to make her your nide?' oeied, hooneely. "'That is precisely what I would have you infer. 1 an sorry that you have come so far in the cold to hear it.' " 'Then you liave deceived the girl!' I cried, hotly, ecarcely able to control my- self, 'and we men out here in Washing- ton punish touch tee:eatery with death,' "'Softly, softly, my good man,' he re- torted„ adding, more insolently 'let me udelee you that it is unwise to threaten a man in hie own domiciled "I (mule endure no more. sprang at bite with all the ipent-U) rage of a ma- & tiger, clutching his OM in 4 send - like grasp that made him wince with pains though must add that he had too much grit to cry out. ''Yee are wrong there, Clifford Car- lisle,' I mita, hotereely. 'This place is not yours, nor is the wealth of the Derma sons! "'A madman as wed his a fool!' "'I am neither a madman nor a fool,' I retorted. am sane enough, as you shall soon Bee and I know what I am saying, and shall force you to know it. You cannot, you shalt not, inherit the than the thrust of a dagger. Banieen wealth, for there is a living heiress, a blood tie, which cute off 'the bold attempts of a struager to 14/Urp her rights. The heiress of this fortune, and the only living deeeentlant Fame cos Benison, i$ my granclaeunhter, Nor. "A low, mellow, tantalizing laugh an- swered me, though I could see beneath his air of bravado his haughty face turn pale, " I see, pair have been imbibing in the flowing bowl on this bitter cold night,' he exclaimed, tauntingly, 'And did your wild flight 'of hitagination also soggeet to you to make your way into this house to tell me this fairy .stery?' "Without noticing the sneering inter. ruption I told the story of Nosinen Uteri's -14 her child's birth, and haw the daughter of the Wealthy woman had been disinherited because she preferred love to wealth; of the young mother's death, and how Norine had been reared without the knowledge that the wealthy old recluse was her grandmother, who must one day make the girl her heiress, as elm was in duty bound to do, I not- iced., although the encoring smile never for an Instant left his hips, that lie did not ineerrupt me. Indeed, be seemed anxious to hear all I had to say, and by degrees the ugly light left his eyes, lefty. lug in Its' plain a seared one. "He seemed to look eppealingly loomed the door. I turned gemmed in that direction, too, and beheld standing on the threshold the young woman solo MA admitted me, and had usheeed, me Into Clifford Carlisle's presence. "How long she had. been standing there, or if it had been the entire time that I had been within that room, I had no means of knowing; bat its turned and saw her, he made a sign to her to leave us, and she quickly vanished from sight. "I felt, even though she had -closed the door alter her, that she was listening at the keyhole, and I knew that my com- panion was of the sante opinion from the nervousness of his manner and the furtivd glance he cast in that direction. "Aa he made no attempt to answer me, I went on: 'Though Frances Den- nison left MI the wills in (ohriateedoin, I shall see that Norine has her due. She Ain be heiress to the Darrison or my name is not Daniel Gordon. That is all there is about it.' Mon, and if this stranger lime Norine." She did not wait for him to reach teeth for the latch, but flung open the deer (middy. The moment slat 110:W her husband's face elle cried out in the wildest alarm. It. VAS AS pale as it would ever be in death. "Daniel!" she cried, a great fear com- ing aver her 08 he staggered into the room, oinking down into the nearest chair, "What has happeued?" "Let we help you off with your coat aunt hat, and then you ighall tell me. I will it patiently by and ask no ques- tions until you are ready to speak:" Indeed it seemed to her that he would lower speak Again he was so agitated. Little by little 'lie l'ecovered himself, and. then toping suddenly to his old wife, lie cried. 'repellently and vehemen- tly: • "It was as I foretold, Betsey. The villain who has robbed Norine of her innocent heart does not love lien, tie 1 will prove to you, and to her." Betsey did not interrupt him, great AA her Anxiety was, for she eaw'that lie WES ilaboring under great excitement. In- deed, she never remembered baying semi him in swat 4 state before, and elle real- ized something quite terrible most hive occurred. It Was some momenta ere be spoke, 'and then a bitter imprecation burst from his ashen "The fellow is as I thought—a, scoun- drel of the deepest dye," he cried. "But to my story. Let me tell it to you, Betsey, while I can command my- self' to do so, for each moment my eage seems to grow more furious against him, "I—I went to Barriaon Betiiey,, and asked the young woman who res- ponded. to my knock, and whom had had never seen before, for an audience with Mr. Clifford Carlisle. "'My business with him is of the ut- most importance,' said, 'or I should not have ventured hither on a night like this, and at such an unseasonable hour.' "'I do not believe he will *lie you,' she answered, pertly, 'for he has just sat down over his wine and cigars, He will not care to be disturbed.' "Say to him that I, Daniel Gordon, must see him,' I answered. 'He will re. cognize in the name the grandfather of Norine: "'And pray who is Norine?' queried the young woman, eying me curiously. "'The girl whom Mr. Clifford Car- lisle has been making love to,' I ans- wered-, taking mud' mire not to utter the words rudely, or with anger. "An exclamation which I could not quite catch broke frone her lips, the color rose quickly into her face, and a sudden ugly expression sprang into her eyes, making them hard and old as blue, polished steel, "She repeated my words as though to make sure that she had heard aright. For an instant iihe hesitated as though uncertain as to what course she should pursue; then said, sharply: "`Mr. Clifford Carlisle shall see you. Step this way.' "I followed her across the threshold of that house, that I bad sworn never to enter, asking the Lord to forgive me as I did so, for breaking my vow. At the end of the corridor elle threw open a door, and the sight that met my gaze will be burned into my brain forever- more. "In a red velvet armchair before the blazing grate sat the »ian whom I had come there to see. On the table before him stood a decanter half filled with what seemed more like strong brandy than wine and his face was but barely visible through a blue (amid of smoke. "The young woman pushed me for- ward into the room, screening herself, as it appeared to me, behind me. When the young man caught sight of me standing there lie sprang to his feet with a fierce oath. "'Who are you, and what do you want in this house?" lie cried. But as he uttered the words he recognized me,' ejaculating: 'The old village black- smith!' and almost under his breath, though my quick ears caught It: aNerine Gordon's grandfather! What in the world brings him here?" CHAPTER XX. "'Yes, I am the grandfather of Nor - ins Gordon,' I exclaimed, stepping for- ward toward him, 'and it is in her in- terest that am here tomight. Rest assured, nothing else in the whole world would have tempted, me to leave the warmth of my own fireside on a night like this.' "He sprang to his feet, flushed and angry, his black eyes blazing furiously. 'I have no wish to see you, sir,' he cried. 'How dare the servant disobey my orders so explicitly given, to admit no one, no matter what his business with me might be. It's a pretty thing when a man cannot have his instructions obey- ed in his owe house, I refuse to see you, sir. Kindly oblige me by at once taking leave fie et the house into which you have intruded.' "'Not so, my fine Mr. Clifford Car- lisle' I cried, losing at last my temper, which I had tried so hard to control. AM here for a talk with you, and you will hear me whether you will or no.' "'You are insolent!' cried the young man, raising his arm as though to fell me to the floor, his features fairly qui- vering with convulsed passion, "'Attempt to strike me at your peril, you scoundrel!' I cried, giving my fury loose .rein, 'and you shall see that this strong right arm of mine has not swung a siliedge hammer those forty years or more for nothing. I am an old nein in years compared to you, lint Daniel GordoTe will take an insult from no man!" "And as I muttered the weeds out flew strong right am, and in Ices time than it takee to tell it, the hand- some villain me:enured his full length at my feet. He p1 -eked hint self up with filiverity, and whirling About, fated nie squarely, and If ever a hundred devile looked out of a inaida eyes, they looked out of hia, lint in that instant he evened to think better of having a heas&to-hand mallet with me. " cannot resent the intuit just givi en in -c, because you are it Than many yore older than rayeelf,' he mid, eheetingly, ,a0a. therefore shall he cam - pelted to listen to what you have come here to eay to ine. But I warn you to be Wed Proceed!' "I /stood quite ailene for the moment, at a loth for words eeneerniug whet 1 had come there' to Say. Our deilitig's happiness lay in that nutria heads. I meet riot wreck it by any word or ac- tion of mine, tun *erre that was so hasty, Mr. Clifford Citir4eivia I muttered, haul. Mr. meant to have a peteetible.• vote Ye/Motion with you. I sua not think to wife. "You have no warrant to say anything like that," "But I have!" exclaimed the old black. smith fiercely. "Every one in the via lage is talking about the scamp—how he gambles and makes love to every pretty lass he meets. Ay, and even the comely young wives come in for a share of his admiration. Only to -day I heard this tale, Betsey. One of the clerks in the village stores parted from his young wife because of him and his attentions . to, her. The wife openly declared her infatuetion for the handsome stranger, Clifford Carlisle, and defied her frantic husband to do ,anything about it. The result of the matter was, the distracted fellow shot himself at her feet, "The villagers were so incensed over the matter that they would have raised a mob to rid the place of this rascally fellow had it not been for the excite- ment over the grave difficulty hovering over the village in the expected swoop - Ing down of the Indians upon Iladlesa Now that I have told you the man's character, do you say, Betsey, that we should give our beautiful, innocent Nor - the to him, even .though he wanted to marry her? which I doubt from the bottom of my soul; for such a man never knows love's refining influence in his heart. If he is in love with any one, it Is himself, and no one else." The poor old wife was fairly stricken dumb by this intelligence. She knew not what answer to make. "I ern going to prove this fellow's so- called love for little Norine for her sat- isfaction and yours," exclaimed Daniel Gordon, reaching for his hat and coat. "What would you do?" cried Betsey, springing to her feet and laying a de- taining hand on his arm as she looked up aneiously into his. weather-beaten face. "I. am going te se Mlle Clifford Car- tels within the hour. and test for my- self beyond all viesuon of doubt how stiong -and deep his love is for that in- nocent girl upstairs." "But how!" murmured his wife, anx- iously, eagerly. , al ain going to see this Clifford Car - teeth, unfold to him the secret that we have kept even from Norine all these years—that she Is Mrs. Barrison's grand- daughter, the last and only living rela- tive the. evemaii has on earth, and se such Is entitled to the great fortune lett by the woman If lie is truly in love with Norine, the child devoutly believes him to be, he will relinquish every penny of that money which was left to him by her will, giving it to IsTor- ine, the rightful owner. That will be a crucial test. 1.60, that will be the crucial test. Do you not agree with me, old wife?" "It is hard to weigh love against mousy, Daniel," ehe responded, her lips quivering, her wrinkled old hands trem- bling. "It is the greatest teat in the world," be repeated, adding in a quivering, husky Mods -Du not Norineh mother leave all the Unitise wealth to marry our boy, be- cause love outweighed the power of gold? Ay, ay, and it always will. "I shall find out if this man truly loves Norine. If I find that he does, bitterly as detest him, / shall offer no opposition if our little girl chooses to wed him and follow his fortunes, even though it takes her from its, leaves us desolate in our old age; There were never truer words than the poet uttered when he said: "Thus it is our children leave us— Those we love and those who love us; • Just when they have learned to help us, When we are old and 'lean upon them, Conies youth with flaunting feathers With his pipe of reeds, a stranger, Wanders singing through the village, Beckons to the fairest maiden, And she follows where he leads her, Leaving all things for the stranger!" "You are right. Daniel," she answer- ed, slowly. "If this stranger loves Not' Ins lie will give up. to her—her own." She followed him to the door and Mined good -by, as she had been wont to do during all the long years in velleth they lied tollea. through life's pathway together. She had a great horror of thelaindsome stranger, if .his reputatioe WAR as bleat as it was paint- ed, and her heart grew heavy at the thought of little Norine's great lave for She would not go to bed. She could ontent herself nowhere stye by the kitchen fire, saying to herself that site would watch and wait there, alone, un- til Daniel returned to her. She bad it dant tuition that perhaps the hand - emu mug stranger might return With hies. An hour 'pined, two, three, and then she beard Dallier* erurching footstep, on the herd snow outeide. "II* to alone," she murmurea to her - ..t she made haste to open the door I had been waging war on gum - chewing. for over a month, and the store gale didn't- 'dare move their jaws. One day I put this little item into my report: "It's toe, bad that after all we've done to prevent the chewing of gum, the head of a department sheet(' him- self set the example. But yesterday I passed Mr. Spoopoudyke, and, beside him was standing a stout, red-haired man of about fifty, chewing gain with all his might." Of course the head, and the secre- tary, and everyone else knew that I meant dam Lane, head of the notion department. Next day, therefore, Sam Late had to answer the charge, which lie did in this wise: "I was not chewing gum. I was chewing a cough lozenger for my throat. I annex a sample of same." And there it was stuck to. the sheet he had written his answer on 1—Gelett Burgess, in Collier's. rm.* • He tiptoed into our office and made several mysterious signs before we Were aware of his presence. "Sir," he said, when he was sure no- body else was listening. "Sir, I wish to give you the opportunity of inter- viewing the wizard of the age! "Ten years ago, a tempetance lec- turer mewed me that if I would save the price of my daily drinks, I -would soon be able, to own that brick block across the street. Ile also said that if every day I should deposit my cigar money, in ten years I should have saved enough to buy the department store at the other end of the block." ."Yes," we interrupted, wearily, "we've heard it before. You followed his advice and today you'll like to bor- row—a" "To borrow nothing!" cried the stranger. "To -day I own these two buildings and the whole block in be- tween them. And I'm sole local agent for Xillunisoon whiskey. Can I sell you a case, eheap?"—Clevelaed Leader. On the first Sunday of timir visit in Chicago the successful merchant escort - 'RI his parents to•a, fashionable (hurt+. Some of the hymns were familiar, and in. their rendition the visiting pair con- tributed heavily, with the credit for vol. tune in favor of the father. Although not always in correct time and sometimeig in discord, yet the joy of the good couple leaped forth in joyous praise, and they did not see • the glowering looks of nearby wor- shippers or the , flushed face of their devoted son. , "Father," observed the *weehatl' that afternoon, while hie mother was taking • her accustomed nap, "in our churches the congregation does very little singing; it is left 'entirely to the choir." "I know, el boy," said the old gee - Oman, as he lovingle placed A baud on his ROWS shoulder, "that it was very embarrassing to you this morning, but, if I hadn't sung as loudly AS I did the people would have heard your mother." Matthew Mime Wilks, the son-in-law of Mrs. natty Green, has eneraeed hint' self to the groat woman financier by his simple tastes. "Mr. Astor Wilke," said a Wel keep- er of New York, "sneers at ostentation. I remember when we opened our new p- ermit dining room. It was, I admit, ra- ther empty the first week -or no. Mr. Wilke, during. that empty season, drop - pod in one night for supper after the play. "I apprearhed him, eager for a com- pliment mu oar bright new splendor. lie aedifettl :earthy and said: *"Truly magnificent. Thirty tables for every customer.' " Itarti4 the family, ane the motdeda in- ability through ill -health to perform Ma% ditty. "Words isometimee coda pour things La express tine's feelinge," writes Mee .1, P. Merritt. "I have a family of use, el! pretty close Mgether. After baby was born my strength didn't come back. The child pulled me down a lot, end I couldn't won. hint in the hot weather, my other children needed so much to be done for them. My q•leeni did ein come right -----my color wall pallid, ami morning and night end all On. Unit, I was livid. My druggist told me id how. well his customers spoke of Verrozone, ami I got six boxes right away. You I wouldn't believe . PERROZONE . how woll it built CURIES me up. It !weals WEAKNESS. . quite strange now for end she edilea below lier eirossnee to taloa as I bays bital, breath: "I shall know when I look int* "'Your business ‚with MeV he de. Wit Sec* If he is satistiel with kis refs. naiseash h&nl 'Cin to it at ones.' to, be real well again, to feel hike' my old tell once more. was really hopelessly in despair and too completely worn mit to feel like living Oefore I tried Ferrozone, se you can Imagine how highly 1 prize such. a good medicine. My edildren now say 'Mother isn't th•ea any more,' and for my children's sake I am so glad to be well enough' to give them et the care and attention that every good neither feels she must bestow upon tier' family." Yon nre sure to be Invigorated, cer- tain to be built up and kept always at your best—you are bound to enjoy all 'the happiness of lasting good health of you use Ferrozone. Try it, one of two tablets along with your meets. Fifty cents a box, six for $2.50, all dealers,. or The Catarrhozone Company, Kingston, Canada. • Won't Stand for a War, A structure known as Stoodley Pike, which stands 00 yards high and is situ- ated near liebden Bridge, England, hits a :remarkable story. It was built in 1814 to commemorate the peace of Ghent. Singular to relate, however, it fell on the very day that the Russian ambassa. dor left England prior to the -Crimean war. Rebuilt by public subscription, it withstood etorm and rain for half a century, but on the same day that the British Government issued its ultimatum to the Boers it was struck by lightning and badly damaged. These coincidences have strangely perplexed local people,— The Strand, AFRICAN SCENERY. T,RIN•E",411.- Mr. Romvoit's tine Doscrip Con of Nairobi Falh. 'The Nairobi Falls, will& were on Bentley's Renck, were singularly Orate eleatley and 1 visited them one evening after sunset, coming home from it day's hunt. It was a ride I shall long remcniben We left our men, and let the horses gallop. As the sun. Het be- hind us, the long lights changed the oak of the ornery end gave It a beau- ty that bed in it an element of the mys- terious and the meal. The mountable loomed both larger and more vague than they had* been hi the bright sem ligOt, amid the plains lost their look of pander desolation , as the afterglow eanie and went, We were galloping through a world of dint shade and dy- ing color; and, iii this world, our horsee suddenly haltea on the brink of a deep ravine from out of which came the tinincler of cataract. We reined in on a jutting point. The snowy masses of the fall foamed over a ledge on our right, and below at bur feet Was a, great pool of swirling water. Thick toll- -aged trees, of etrauge shape and, fee - twined with creepers, climbed the sheer sides of the ravine. A black and white eagle perched in a blasted tree -top in femit; and, the bleached skull of a long - dead rhinoceros glimmered white near the brink to one side. On anther occasion we took our lunch at the foot of Rower() Falls. These are not as high as the falls of the Nairobi, but they are almost as beautiful. We clambered down Otto the ravine a little distance below and made our way toward them, beside the Mewling, rook -choked torrent. Great trees towered overhead, and among their tops the monkeys chattered and screeched. The fall itself wee broken in two parts like a miniature Niagara, and the spray cm thin shifted to one fro as the wind blew,—From "African Genie • Trails," by Theodore Roosevelt, in the February Scribner. .4.4, - 4 • CURED HER KIDNEYS. Mrs. John Pettigrew, of Central Economy, N. S., was practically helpless from rheum- atism. She could not stoop, and her limbs ached so that if WS torture for her to be up and around the house, As Mrs. Pettigrew put It, "I was all crip- pled up. I saw Gin Pills advertised and sent for some, and after taking only two beam, ern a different woman. Gin Pills are the only things that helped me, and I cannot say too much for them." If you have that dreadful pain In the back —If you are tortured with rheumathon—get Gin Pills at once. Write National Drug & Chemical Ca, (Dept. ILL.), Toronto, for free sample. Re- gular size at dealers, Stte a box, 6 for UM. "He leaned towarci me breathlessly and caught nue by the mbrial." "Suppose I marry Norine," he whis- pered, shrilly-. 'Would not that settle the matter to your satisfaction?' "13y thunder, no!" I shouted, almost beside myself with anger. 'I would not give her to you now. I would rather a thousand times see her lying dead at my feet. You would marry her for her money, eh, after acknowledging that you did not love her, after fairly sneering at her because her heart had gone out to you? A man who would marry a girl without loving her is a dastardly scoundrel, a rascal of the deepest dye. "'As you please,' he retorted, scorn. fully, adding: 'But wrest from ate the Benison mhllloSs you cannot. Despite all you can do, all the khifolk that might come forward, the Barrisoit will stand good. Every dollar is be- queathed to me. Help yourself or your Norine if you can. I defy you. Good- night, Mn, Daniel Gordon, blacksmith of Hadley village. I wish you a. very good. evening. Kindly consider our interview it an end.' "I do not know how I got out of the house and got home, Betsey, and, now the question is, how shall we tell Nor - There was little -need. A ellin figure, with a death -white face, hied crept qui- etly into the room. It was Norine, and she had heard all. (To be continued.) - Hadn't a String. 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The Em- ployers' (unlimited) Liability act and the Old Age Pension act were largely of his making; his projected bill to create a National Employment Ex- change, which is to be a sort of clearing house for men out of work, Is in com- mittee; and now he promises to intro- duce an ITnerapligraent Insurance bill, with provisions for compulsory contribu- tions by employers as well as by the employees and the Government to the insurance fund. PSCHYIC SCIENCE. When the latest -victim of a psychics spell heard that the man she was tag- ging around the country had said to hue wife, have the right pig by the tail at last," she realized that he was not her true soul -mate, bet a base counter- feit, and she promptly emancipated her- self from ,psychic influences and settled the alienation suit which the wife had Instituted. It looks as though the psychic influences were of a very com- monplace character, and that the soul. mon business were not distinguishable from ordinary forms of sentimentality. The fact that the girl has $3,000,000 ex- plains the efforts to hypnotize her. r. uvi 0 1^EtlieSa gracile' r• FS allot Foill are made according to a formula hi use nearly a century ago among the Indians, and learned from them by Dr. Morse. Though re- peated attempts have been made, by physicians and chemists, it has been fund impossible to improve the formulb, or the pills, Dr. Morseha Indian Root Pills are a household remedy throughout the world for Constipation and all Kidney and Liver troubles. They act promptly and effectively, and C# *am nes e• *him Sy, aster rrs • • * A Philistine. "Would you advise time to write for money or for posterity?" asked the budding poet. "Write for money,- by all means, if the folks at home will stand for it," replied the hardened man.—Philin delphia Record. 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For I was far front mother. "Tie such a thing," she said to me, "As I'd do for my brother." She looked so pretty sitting there, I quickly stooped and kissed her. "Tis such a thnig," I said to her, "As I'd do to my Sister !" —Olive Balfour, in Fberuary Smart Set. Future of Calcium. It has been pointed out that, although calcium is the metal next to iron in natural abundance, chemists and metal- lurgists are only just beginning to ap- preciate its possibilities. The ore costs but a few cents a ton for quarrying, since it occurs in inexhaustible quan- tity, as pure calcium carbonate in lime- stone, chalk, and marble, and the pro - Auction of the metal is the specie task , of the electroohemist. At temperatures above red heat cal- cium is the strongest metallic base, and It is believed by ninny that by its use many problems may find their solution, such as the complete deoxidation of melted metals and the reduction of rare elements. The metal calcium may also, as aluminium has done, find many uses in the arts. Minard's Liniment Cures Garget in Cows. # The Art of 'the Cartoonist. One thing is certain; in order to obtain a successful result very careful observation is necessary, whether draw- ing from Nature or memory. In study- ing a. subject, weakness or strength of character should be grasped first; but almost equally important is to note ev- ery detail of dress—the shape and pitch of a hat, for instance—for these aro es- sential to the caricature. Self-conscious- neos, and sometimes nervousness, shows itself in various ways. The faot is that few men know what they appear to be to others. I have known a peer express an objection to being drawn with spats, because he did not consider they lcioked well in a picture, although he always wore them. Another, who had been spl- endidly caricatured by Pellegrini, said to mite: "I get the shivers when I am in the room with that man over since he so grossly libelled me. If there is one thing upon which I pride myself it is ray physique, and he has made me bent and stooping." And yet his lordship's -stoop was the first thing one eoticca about him.—"Spy" in the February Strand. Do you trap or buy Furs/ lain Canada's largest dealer, Spay highestprices. Your shipments solicited. I pay mail and ex- press charges,- remit promptly. Also largest dealer in 13 eefhides, Sheepskins, etc. Quotations and shipping tags sent free. a JOHN HALLAM, TORONTO ass.wwwaranoesNaranoss.a...• wo..06.0.0."...."er.o., IIAMILTON, ONITABIO, IS 0110 -WING .. fast. Buy suburban lots in time path et development while they are low; thee arc bound to increase rapidly In value. Cholec lots, 2.) a tett, ter #C0.75 to $itta per lotsot.' ciai offer for one Montb—r, down and si eor whet buys two tots. Write for free booklet, 4014 main. Burke ea Co., mei King street vast. PERS.ONAL, Dr. Marters Female Pills iiVENTEEN YEARS THE -ANDARD Proscribed and recommended for wo- men's ailments, a scientifically pre- pared remedy of proven worth. ins result from their use is quick and per- manent. For sale at all drug stores. Maine Checker Makers. It seems inconceivable that two men can be kept steadily employed- the year round making checkers. Yet that is what is done in a mill at Bethel. The average output of checkers from this mill is 800 barrels, it has been as high as 1,000 and down to NM but 800 is the average. This does not sound very large, but when the figures are worked out it is found to bet a lot. Li every barrel shipped there are 30,000 checkers of the ordinary size, while in 800 bar- rels there are 28,800,000, or 1,200,000 sets of 24 checkers each. That is to say, with the output of this Maine mill 2,400,000 persons could be playing check- ers at the same time.—Kennebee Jour- nal. *in Minard's Liniment Cures Distemper. TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY Take LAXATIVE BROM° Quinine Tablets. Druggists refund money If It fails to cure. II. W. GROVE'S signature Is on each box. 26c. s 0 A. SURPRISE. (Washington Star.) "Did I uuderstaud you to say your automobile is behaving very strange- ly?" "Yee," answered Mr. Chuggins. "It has run for three days without any kind of an accident." 8h1101441*64 .1114 quickly stops aeolghs, Mires °Olds, heals the throat and lungs. • • • 23 cents. DRY TERRITORY CACHE. The tailor—Hip pockets? The customer—Yes, The tiilor—Large or small? The customer—Half pints. se- MInard's Liniment Cures Diphtheria. FARMER'S ALMANAC. FREE. See advertisement of the NeaR. WOO, Almanac ia this issue and write to- day for a cops', of this book of vid- utile information, wage TaCtTII TIIAN POETRY. (Montreal Star.) "Eight hours work, Eight hours play, Eight hours sleep, Eight bob a week" doesn't rhyme very well, but after all rhyme is not the soul of poetry. It is related that once upon a time Dr. Johnson Was challenged by his friend Lister to make an impromptu verse, end the'challenge being aceepted, the challenger tierted with: "Sly name's Lister, • I kissed your sister," The reply was "My name's Johnson, I kissed your wife," "That's tot rhyme," protested Lie - ter contemptuously. 11 know it , admitted Johnson meeltly--"but it's I true. European Sentry Boxes. The characteristics of the art of the different countries of the Contin• eat are often exereesed in the man- ner hi which the sentry boxes ore made and painted, says Populnr Mechanics. Many of them are very picturesque, and invariably the tour- ist army makes them the object ef attack with the" omnipresent kodak. While in England the box is as simplci as possible and devoid of momenta] features, some of those which may ho seen in Italy and Greece are splendid specimens of architecture and are constructed of marble and other stems. 4,..'++.0.+÷f4'++++.0 -0,14.44,4r 4.^.- • • • DELICATE LiTTLE BASIES. — Every delicate baby starts lite with a serious handicap. Em a ' trivial illness may end fatally and the mother is kept in a state of constant . dread. Baby's Own Tablets have done more than any other medicine to make eickly busbies well and strong. They give mothers a, feeling of security es through their use elie sees her delicate child developing healthily. Mrs. Theodore Morton, Bala, Ont., says: "I can say with confidence that MAO Own Tableto envoi' my baby's life. T did not know what it was to have a good night's rest uotil we started using the Tablets, but they have made him a strong, healthy child." Sold by medicine dealers or by mail at 25 cents a box from the Dr. IWilliams' Meditina Co.. Nock - villa, Ont. •-•4•-•-0-01.4-•-5-5-•••-•-**4-**-4.4-0-4-+-44. 4 I * Unkindest Cut of All, "Yes, miss," boasted the chivalrous old colonel, "I was at the battle of Chickamauga and was shot right here on •top of the head. No one can dare say. that I was up a tree during the fighting." "Er—edhere were you, colonel," ask- ed the young hostess, innocently, "down a well?" --Chicago Daily News. 4, I il, LifebouY Soap is deughtfully refreshing for bath or toilet, For washing underclothing It Ii unequalled. Cleanses and purifies. • - el, Mistaken Identity. "You used, to tell rue," she cone. plained, "thatthere was only one girl in the world for you." "Yes," he admitted. "You didn't happen to be the one."—Chicago Rec- ord -Herald. 0 4 - Minard's Liniment Cures Colds, Etc. • -0- Good Enough. 1 The Customer—Can you recommend I these complexion powders? IThe Chemist—Well, madam, I can't say that they will wash like the nat- ural complexion, but they won't rub off on a coat sleeve I—Sketch. 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They are the greatest remedy on earth for the cure of poor and impure blood, indigestion, headaches, ecusti- pation, nervous troubles, liver, bladder mut kidney dis- eases and all female weaknesses,. they are the Great Blood ratifier and Invigorator, a Gra»d Tonle and Life Builder. With the Pills we send 10 articles of jewelry to give away with the pills—this makes them easy to sell. This is the chance of a lifetime. Do notmiss it. Send us 'neer order and we will send you the io boxes, post paid. -wben. you have sold them Send Us the money (52.50) and, we win send you A GENTS or LADIES WATCH the same day the money is received. We are giving these beautiful Watches to advertise our Remedies. This is a grand opportunity to secure a valuable Wateli Without having to spend a sent. .And our 'Watch is a stem wind and stern set and not time cheap back wind article generally gleen as premiums. send for our pills without delay. Address MEDICINE CO. watch Dept 20 TOTOIMO, one THE DR. MATURIN •••• Everybody Who Eats Bread Should avoid danger of impurities In delivery from the oven to the home. Insist on your baker wrapping his bread In EDDY'S BREAD WRAPPERS We are the original manufacturers 9f bread wrappers now used by loading bakers 91 Ottawa, IViontreal, Toronto and other cities, The E. Bo EDDY COMPANY, Limited, Hull Canada FANCY ENGRAVED WATO DECORATED TEA SET 1401,11TELY rIfER, engraved eitSeil.,FULLY GITARAliTBEb, will be sent to you Au' If you will sell only :Ahtss.:1)ergt:mtotvriatitegIbt I:hires:70 ee:00;00.111 se mem wind end scattiney bit ttOli it en entry at loc. per card ff. grade nonar buttons eard). These but. " tons aro very fast sellers. Write today and we Mu *tea you it packaeei telt mem and Munn the money atuLnlit tlmi HANDS01114 1.1T. 'MR WATCH. You eail also Win A - lovely TEA. SET PEER if you will help us enlarge Our bnelness by getting °My 6 (Mitt, Ithentft Arid Uititclit hating in ;WI Any more geode. Only Site0 Winth-e410 Mort, 110 1rss, mid you cattail). both then zpitedlil nretairette PEEL cosALT *OLD PEN CO., Button Dept. 19 Toronto, (mt.