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pigs" do not appear to neve
any influence in depreseing the vaulting,
rive of pork.
Two Mere oviatore injured, one prob.
ably fatally. The percentage of doethe
among the profeesion dees not tend to
snake it one that will be attractive to
insurance men,
Rubber i now quoted att tt;:l a pound.
-Al rubber is the most importane eseistit-
'tient of eutomobile tires. that neceentry
of life, a touring ear, ie rapidly been
lug a luxury for the poor man.
ea..: population. of Alberta, now ex-
ceeds 300,000, and it is expeeted teat
evhen the census is taken in dune next
it will have reeched 405,000, ea greet is
the ruell of settlers. Canada has no need
to worry isbout fiiling up the country,
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With good crepe it ei expected that the
consumers may soon profit by a general
cheepening of the necesearies of life. But
will they? it would be just like—the
combines and gamblers in staples to
get in early and leave us nothing cheap
but the air, which, fortunately, they
have not yet learned, how to meathre
and tax.
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A few years ago we were told that
the .49,y3 of the horse were numbered
and that he was to be supplanted by the
?automobile. In the United States,
where the growth of the automobile in-
dustry has been very large, the number
of horses increased from 20,640,000 in
1908 to 21,040,000 in 1909, while the aver-
age value increased from $95.64 to
$108.19. The home is yet a, factor.
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After five or six years of law, the
marriage of W. .Agnew to Agnes M.
Gober, principal of the Kingston Ladies'
College, has been annulled by the Monte
reel courts, it being held that at the
time of the ceremony he was a minor
and acted without the consent of his
rpareInts. Moral: Girls, be sure that
your bridegroom is of legal age, or that
mother-in-law or papa -in-law are willing.
Carl Kantsky, the scientific socialist
of Berlin, declaree that there is an ex-
cellent prospect of the socialists doub-
ling their total vote, in which case they
will probably have an absolute majority
of the aggregate vothe polled in Ger-
many. That would indeed be a' set -back
for the Kaiser. The existing system of
government in Germany is &dined to
receive a shaking np ere long, unless its
policy is greatly changed. The burdens
of militarism and naval ambition have
taxed the peeTle almost to the limit of
their endurance.
Thaw's lawyer, Clifford W. Hartridge,
who has been paid $50,000 by Mrs. Thaw
for his services, has been defeated in his
suit for $93,000 more fees and disburse-
ments in his fight to save the cowardly
inurderer's life. Nor is that all. Hart -
ridge is likely to be prosecuted on
charges of perjury, bribing witnesses,
and obstsrueting justice. The court has
already directed that disbarment pro-
ceedings should be entered against the
lawyer. Justice as she is known in New
York is a very strange thing.
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Patients continue to come in to be
treated for mad dog bites, and the To-
ronto Pasteur Institute is not to be
closed for a time. Indeed, Dr. Hodgetts,
of the Provincial Board of Health, says
the muzzling order is not likely to be
rescinded soon, It will probably have
to be continued far longer than other-
wise, because of it being ignored by so
many, thus spreading the infection. The
latest to apply for the Pasteur treat-
ment are the wife and daughter of a
Middlesex farmer. Up in Kent a num-
ber of cattle have recently developed
rabies. It is a good, safe plan to muz-
zle the dogs, and keep them muzzled
effectively. It will shorten the evil
period.
Some of our United States ceintempo-
raries are very much exercised over the
decline in marriege, and wonder much
to, what it is to be attributed. Per.
baps the investigations of Miss Inez
Weed into the expense of dressing the
girls in the fashionable schoola of New
York city may furnish a. useful hint.
She says that she foond the girls in
those wealthy drain spend an average
of $900 a year on dress, and would like
to apend $3,500. Of eourse the girl
whose demands for dress call for more
than the average melee earnings is
hardly well fitted to the average house.
hold menage. It may be a wise- dispen-
sation of Providence that smell a race is
not to be perpetuated.
That eensational story publielied in
Che New York Herald, in Which it is de
-
felled that HO ehildren inmates of Phila-
delphia orphans* homes have beeit cal -
lonely used for purposes of scientific re-
search would create a great deal more
interest were it not known that the NOV
York Herald, for some putpoee of its
own, has been condueting a most unrea-
01011161e campaign /spinet ell forms of
medical seietitific inquiry, even doing its
utmost to east diaeredit upon the proles -
siert of medicine for the animal experi-
mentation whiell lute given us stieli reme-
dies as diphtherie antitoein and the 'axi-
om other merinos whieh have led to the
etiving of so many Monsen& of human
lives. Beadere would do well to take
this Heald story with a liberal *Boer -
*nee of salt. The publieetion of the
flues in the cite evill probahlt show it to
he but a pert of its War upon medieal
belence.
Saved From the Sea
QUA ellt VU.
'Bow rapidly time does fly!" *aid Dr.
Clifford, the next morning, after bitek-
fast, half lightly, half with that kind of
egret whirh emnee naturally when the
mer.dien of life le passed, and eeeli year
must be more or leee minted oft the
"three-seore years ant ten" of nten'e
van of mental vigor. 'Sere is actually
April upon us—six monthe since you
came to eel, my dear," turedeg to Mrs.
arington.
"Yes, the months go tea fast, don't
they?" she said, smiling rather sorrowfully; but Blanche eritel mit gayly;
"What doee that matted—there are
plenty more to comer
"Plenty more at your age—yes, my
child; "hut not at mine; there is a gap
between fifty and tlie twentiee, islet
there? and we cannot go over time again,
you know, little maid."
"And would not, if we could," said
Celestine, quiekly.
"Wouldn't you?" exclaimed Mimes Clif-
ford, in surprise'. "Oh, I wouldn't mind.—
and you are quite yoeng."
Mrs. Errington set her lips, crushing
the bitter mental answer;
'Yes, in years, anti years only. You
here not lived my life—your trust be-
trayed, your heart broken before you
were eighteen, and yet etiR loving, living
or dead, the man who hes broken it."
Clifford ;same to her rescue, as he took
up the Times, in his eomical, abrupt way,:
"Your young bentlings crow loudly
over what is beyond their ken. Instead
of that, suppose we think of running off
somewhere for a week this lovely spring
weather; it makes c-ne long fora whiff
of the flowers—oh, girlen—eill three, I
mean. Easter fell too early and cold to
leave town, se what say you?"
"Say? It's jolly!" cried daughter and
niece, in duet.
Then Mimie exclaimed:
"What fun it would be to go to some
regular farm house for a week, and see
butter made and cows milked, and drive
them to water, and—"
"Fatten up Mrs. Ellington into some
approach to a matronly appearance,"
said the doctor, gravely, looking over
his Times at the tall, girlish figure be-
fore him.
The girls burst into merrydaughter, in
which Christine was fain to join.
"I don't think anything would fatten
poor me, doctor," she said; "but 1V1imie's
suggestion is capital, only personally I
think some of her visions best left to
the dairymaids or cowherds. Why, you
goosey, you would run away if an old
cow wagged her tail."
"And I don't- believe you would run
away," said the doctor, "if Satan himself,
faced you!",
"I hope not, Dr. Clifford. Well, then,
it is to be a farm and ruralizing, I sup-
pose; but where?"
"'Ah, dat um question!' as the nigger
said," remarked IN/Ernie.
"I used, years ago," said Clifford, med-
itating, "to attend an old Norfolk farm-
er, near Carleham, one of the prettiest
parts of the coast, and when your dear
mother was ill I took her there once to
recruit. I'll wire at once and see what
can be done, at least. I'll read the pa-
per first; and here is. a sheet for you.
Now, what have I here? Oh, Newmar-
ket first spring meeting—the TWO
Thousand. Bahd'on't care for that
stuff; but do you feel interested, Mrs.
Errington?" he was laughing.
"I? No, I hate it!" said the woman,
with quick—a-most, it seemed, undue
force. "I hate all gambling!" Then she
added, withoi half laugh and more care-
less manner: "I suppose I am rather
prejudiced; I have been so niuch abroad,
and, nt Monte Carlo especially, I have
seen such ruin at the gaming tables."
"Ah! that is enough to set one against
it, certainly. Well, I shall not ruin my-
self by backing horses at Newmarket,
that's certain—not even Kingfisher, evil°,
it seems from this, is heavily backed."
"Were you ever at a race, Mrs. Er-
rington?" Blanche asked.
"Yes. my dear, several."
"We never have yet. Uncle Rolo, you
must take us all to the Derby this year
--won't you?"
"We'll see when the time comes, mis-
sy. What are you ladies to do this
morning?"
"Whatever the girls please," said
Christine, to whom the doctor looked,
thereby bringing a slight frown to
Blanche's pretty face.
"I want to go out to the Row" she
said, "and see everybody. Town Is fill-
ing, and we're sure to meet some one we
know."
Mimie assented; but, with a caressing
hand on Christine's shoulder, as she
added:
"That is, if our chere madame likes
"Nay, dear Mbnie, I am at your ser-
vice. Go and dress, both of you; I shall
be ready before you."
In half an hour the three were in the
park, and presently reached the Row,
which was fairly alive with riders end
pedestrians, and many were the admir-
ing looks directed to the trio, especially
to beautiful Christine.
"There is Mrs. Addison," she said, as
a fine, dathing looking woman, about
thirty, approached, accompanied by a
handsome young fellow of perhaps five
or eix••and-twenty, "1 wonder if that
ie the brother the doctor mentioned the
other day as being on his grand tour?"
Mrs. Addison was a lady whose ac-
quaintance the Cliffords had made at
Brighton last autumn' be it said.
A few moments, andthose two partied
met.
. "How do you do?" cried Mrs, Addison,
evith empressement. "So glad to see you
all in town! Allow me to present my
brother. Archer Northcote, Mrs. Er-
rington—Miss Clifford—Miss Leroy."
Bows and usual courtsies exchanged;
then Mrs. Addison, leavieg her brother
to the two girls, asked: -
"And how is the doctor? Have you
been in town long?"
"Oh, Dr. Clifford neVer ails, you
know," fetid Mrs, Erringtot; "and we
have been in town all winter,"
"Yes," truck in lelireie, joyously.
"But isn't it NIL Mrs. Addieon? We re
all going for a week or ten days to rur-
alize at farni house. So jolly!"
"Ohl" said the lady, "are you'? 'Yes,
that is very nice. When -do you all go,
then, Miss Clifford?"
"Ohin a few &lye, I suppose. f ether
has Wired to the people."
"And where is it, if I may leek?" addee
Mrs. Addison.
A dark Eget*, hovering unseen behind
the tree, stole a step or two nearer,
listening intently.
"Some farm near Carlehteni, in or -
folk," CAMS Mirnee's sweet, aleir treble.
"Do you know the part at all?"
"Not at all,"
"I think / hive been In that port of
Norfolk, is Clifford," sold yeMeg
Noetheote; "and Ws very pretty oefiete
wooditig, you know, 'but still trothiher
keep arty one there for long. W. ,rere
going down to Newmarket tesenortoW
tor the eerier. rates, Itelen end 1 iterd
1
1 the gate she stepped forward, and,
a smile, owning it beck for num mat bore-
ei to pus a into the °pea road, followed
them, and let Urn big gate shut behind
her.
"1 ens going for a welkr she *aid, 0.$
they now mounted. 'Which is the h0lIt
way to etart off, Mr. KnowLeal"
"Why, nut'aie," KW be, and Ms
etong, resonent voice iniget have been
heard half a mile off, 'if you hem). to-
ward the beach till you (mese to the stile
on your left, end then eroile it—"
Major Aciclieou. A very brilliant meetings
is expected."
"Oh, all the bigwigs will be there, I
believe," added Mrs. Addison; "you
shoUld all go there first; my husband
has a horse eutered for the Two Thous-
and."
"Does he _keep a ruin stud, then,
Mrs. Addison? asked Christine.
"Oh, no, only one or two; and I'm
Atm I don't want either him or my bro-
ther to go hi heavily for the turf; peo-
ple get SO awfully bitteu sometimes,
don't they?"
"Yes, they de indeed. Mr. letorthcote
have you leen long abroad?"
"Neerly two years, Mrs. Errington;
I am ouly just back. I was in Cairo this
day three weeks—in the fashiou, you
see. I suppose you don't know that pat
of the world at all?"
$he smiled, rather amused,
"Very well indeed," she said, quietly.
Mimie laughed out.
"1 den't think there are many places
Mrs, Errington does not know," she
said, "she has done nothing but travel
and wander for eight years, I fancy."
"Indeed. Theu I sing small," said
Archer, bowing, and wondering who
could be the handsome Mrs. Errington.
"And have you been, then, in India?"
"Yes, often; not for long at a time,
except *nee for four months."
At that point the daek figure that had
been like an unseen shadow in their
wake struck off at right angles, and
stole swiftly away over the grass to-
ward the end of the Serpentine,
That afternoon Falconer St, Maur,
when he came in to start for Newmark-
et, with his Indian fidus Achates, was
plaoed in full possession of Clifford's
projected to the Norfolk farm, near
Carleham.
Falconer's eyes glowed.
"Fortune favors me," he said. "After
Newmarket, then, Snowball, we go to
this Carleham. Remember."
"Yes, sahib."
"She shall see me I" muttered St,
Maur, turning .away, his right hand
clinched. "She shall confess that I am
not quite unloved; and vow to me, in
my arms, with my lips pressed to hers,
that no other man's have dared to
touch them as mine do—my darling—
mine !"
His! ay !—but how wronged, how
terribly sinned against! She might love
still; but could she forgive or forget?
* * * •
One morning Mr. Morley found among
his letters one dated from Newmarket,
and well he knew that small but bold,
clear hand:
"Dear Morley,—You will see by the
papers that Kingfisher won the Two
Thousand, and as I had backed him
heavily, I have won—a good pile, too.
Also, I had taken Major Addison and
others against his own Hercules—which
was second—so again I won. The upshot
is that when I return to town I'll take
up that bill you renewed last month. I
go from here into Norfolk on a private
matter, but I shall be up shortly, I
hope.
Yours faithfully,
"Falconer St. Maur."
"H'm!" said the money -lender, med-
itatively; "now, I wonder what mis-
chief that handsome sinner is after in
Norfolk. I hope not the marriage iusi-
ness I suggested only to get at the
key -note of him. I wouldn't like to see
him do tha—it would he the out-and-
out ruin of thefellow—cut away his
only chance of reform. What evil fairy
came and crossed his birth with that
passion for play, I wonder?"
And that very evening the object of
his thoughts was standing in a private
room of an inn at Carleham and saying
to Rahninee:
,"The Nun's Farm, do they call it
where these Cliffords have arrived? The
game is mine, for I shall easily find
some hidden vantage -place near it to
watch, hour by hour, day by day—and
if she goes out alone, follow her—if not
before they leave then"—the ruthless
lines about the handsome mouth deep-
ened—"I will take other means to gain
my end, for by Heaven I will gain it!"
CHAPTER VIII.
"Well, girls, what are you
going to do this afternoon?"
said • Roland Clifford, a few
days after their arrival at the
Nun's Farm. "1 am going to ride over
the farm with Farmer Knowles, and you
Three Graces will, I suppose, go to the
beach again and explore the country-
side,"
"Blanche and 1," said Mimie, "are go-
ing to stay in and see Mrs. Knowles and
till maid make butter; else we sha'n't
have another chance, as she only makes
It once 8 week."
"And you, Mrs. Errington, butter -mak-
ing, too?—not you?"
Christine looked out .at etne bright
sunshine and waving trees, rich in their
fresh spring dress of green, and shook
her head, smiling.
"No, indeed, thanks, if the girls win
excuse me. 1 am not interested in but-
ter -making when warra sunahhie and
tree< tempt me to 'wander. I will go
out and•explore."
"Very good, my dear, only don't lose
yonrself. Here Comes the farmer and
horse; I hear them at the front door,
so teeta."
"I will thine and see you off at the
gate, then, as an honor," said Mrs. Er-
rington, taking up her hat and throwing
a crimson scarf carelessly about her
as she followed the doctor through telt
open window on to the path.
A flower garden with a fine carriage
sweep lay between the quaint old house
and the road, and it evts on this drive
before the verandah that they found. the
farmer and two handsome roadsters.
"At your service, sir," said the old
Man, heartily. "Ah, good -day, Mrs. Er-
rington. Ws a good sight always to see
the Almighty's beet handiwork, 1 say—
and that's youth and beauty, my dear,"
"Youth will plies and beauty fade,
though, Mr. Knowles," she said, half
lightly, half sadly. "And what then?"
"What then! We've got the tiairie
'heart, child! Me and my old !Meets Mel
changed in here, and it's forty years
since the parson made us one; and smolt
as you won't never be changed In some-
body's eyes, 1 expect, either," he added,
preparing to mount.
"I have lost my husband years ago,"
mid Christine, with resolute quietness.
"Oh, ma'am, 1 ata so sorry/ 1 didn't
Icnow," began the old farmer, mueh dis-
tressed!. "1 thought he was just in Lon-
don. only—dear, oh, dear."
"Never mind. leleise don't think
owed it, her. lettowlee. Now mount, Nen
of yciu, end I will walk to the gate NMI
you."
"Well mount there, then," sala Dr,
Clifford, ensiling. "We couldn't ride end
a lady walk, tould we, Knowles?"
"Sure iso, SO. WS all honor, for the
lady to eome me Ur. to Pa we go—
youth sentl ire
Of Weft walking at Ms side; but near
I t yes.*
"Follow .the tow path and go over the
11111 you'll see. It's lonesome, but lovely
wooding and view—quite wild, and like a
picture, you'll say, Pin sure. It's all on
my land, and you're safe euough .hat's
your way," pointing eastward with hie
wnip. "Good -day, ma'am."
"Take care of yourself, iny dear," re-
turned Clifford, lifting Ns. hat,
She laughed, kissed her Mont and
started off on her explorations.
But her heart was heavy as she went
on so light of foot. When was it not
heavy? When did the memory ef the
past ever slumber, or the "restless, un-
satisfied longing" cease? The tarn:wee
inadvertent words had only brought the
aching heart -pain into the foreground.
She went on and on, now in the open
with a fell view of the wide sea, lying a
mile or more away to her right—a vast
grave of buried hopes and lives, moan-
ing forever in its grand monotony of
woo for the dead it meet yield up . at
the, last great day.
There was her awesome thought as
she paused at length on the hill to will&
the foot -track an4 winding green lanes
had brought her; and she turned from it
at last with a kind of,wreneh, niul pass-
ed slowly iota the wood, on the verge of
which she had paused.
H'ow beautiful it wes'this wood, with
nue tangled lindergrowtle she lied to put
aside to advance! the trees, all loaded
with yeteng leaves, arching high over her
heed, letting the glorious sunshine flick-
er in between them as the light breeze
etiteed them, and making music, with
the ,eweet '.croo-croo of the wood -pigeon's
note, and the song tend twitter of many
birds chantug their praises to heaven;
no sound, no sign of lumen life oe throb-
bhag human heart save her own, for
miles perhaps; the utter solitude of
nature that should have soothed this
human soul alone in its midst.
But did it? Why, then, the restless
impatience of the action with which the
woman's slender hands pushed aside a
droop'eng bough, and so gave herself
passage into a little epen space, whero
Some winter storm had wrenched the
huge bough from a noble tree and tossed
it at its parent's foot for the dryads to
weep over? Why did she fling her bat
upon the ground as if even that were a
weight on her brow, and stand with
hands locked upon her breast and head
drooping, so beautiful, so paetetie, mo-
tionless. without repose—still, without
peace of rest?
"I am so weary," she muttered., "so
tired of life—when life is gone Hal
what is that!"
Christine started, and stood listening
intently to tile unmistakable crush of
the brushwood where she herself had
passed; all her inaeculine courage could
not stay the thrill of woman -terror as
she remembered how utterly lonely the
place was.
The next minute a tall man came into
the open space and stopped a couple of
paces before her.
That form, that face, it might have
come from the other side of the world,
or the grave itself; it might have been
a hundred years or a thousand, instead
of six, and she would have known it at
once.
She staggered like one blinded, dazed.
"Falconer!" she whispered under her
breath. ."Faleener!"
His heart Wasbeating madly, his
blood was like five, as with one step
forward he had her in his arms, locked
in a restless embrace—passion, remorse,
shame, yet wild joy and triumph, as he
felt her .heart give back throb for throb
against him own—felt the slight form
yield in utter abandonment to him for
those first moments of delirious bap-
piness in which for her the years rolled
back, and she was a girl again on her
lover's breast.
"Christine—wife—come back to me—
forgive!"
Then the whole tide of memory, with.
all its cruel weight of wrong, swept over
the woman's proud soul and broken, yet
still loving heart, and she started from
his arms, freeing herself with a desper-
ate movement, and stepped back.
"Forgive? Oh, it is so easy to plead
for that *hen you have taken full
licenee of sin, and grown perhaps weary
of the worthless companion for whom
you left —abandoned—a, young wife
scarcely eighteen, never thieking or car-
ing for the frightful temptations and
dangers to which you es. -posed her in
her despair, and that, too, after you had
already strained her love almost to the
uttermost, If I had dishonoredeyou as
you have me—if I had hue as faithfless
to you as you had been to me—and
knelt to you for pardon, you would have
stabbed me to the heart in your mad-
ness, and killed your rival; and yet I
---the woman—must clasp my hands in
meek thankfulness that at last—beeause
the fancy is spent—the base companion
ia in her turn left, and you come back
—t� be forgiven till—the next tempta-
tion. Heaven above, do you think wo-
men have no passions, .but only hearts
to be tranapkd on and broken, forgotten,
unioned!"
"Christine! No, not that—not that!"
Falconer cried, flinging himself itt Ler
feet in his passion of anguish end
shame. "I deserve your sternest re-
proaehea, your .bitterest words; but hot
that—never forgotten, never uniclv !d,
threugh all ahat miserable Fin and
wrong. In pity, hear me, and beim.:
that onlY you alone, from first lei last,
have held my heart; ay, even during
those few short mouths of madnees, of
wild, insane infatuation, that made me
the slave of a very Circe! I broke with
her soort"—he rose to his feet now,
the red blood deepening on the bronze
cheek, as for one moment, he met hie
wife's gaze—"and then—then, in the bit-
terness of shame and remorse, I dared
not return to you, whom. I had se be
-
bayed. I knew you would have gone
back to your aunt and be Sale, and
kept away till the wilt yearning to see
you, to sue for pardon, to get you hack,
took possession of my soul, and over.
mastered eliarne and dread itself. I
came back to England, to your aunt,
and, merciful Heavent she was deed
months before, and you, my -wife, my
dtirling gone! I think my very brain
reeled that day before the dark work
I had wrought, Then I sought you
everywhere, by every possible means
open to int, and month after month, in
vain. Oh, Christine, Christine, have
little, only a little pity; for, etuelly as
have made you suffer, I have suffered
teo; and even when, a week ago, I save
you suddenly at the Veudeville--"
eto be Continued-)
•
"The dream of my life is about to be
retailed." "Whet WAS that dream?" "Te
tee Teddy and the Itsnparor Willeana sno,
cheep pulpits,"--rettsbarg Poet,
FIGHT REMOVAL. TO QAPITAL.
Commies lo nor Orals Reserve* Oe.
clsion in Minket Ohop OW.
ReiliaY14 tO Watibillitt011 to mower to
the charge of ceneplracy to evade the
einti-bueket shop law* of the District of
Columbia was strenuously opposed yes-
terday by the six men who were gethe
end in a raid of the Consolidated
Exchange 4 week ago by the United
Statepostal inspectors. They were
brought before United States Cowls:tie,
sionee Craig for a further hearing, and
in the end that official reeereed hie de-
elsion until next Friday,
Special Agent Scarborough, of the De-
partment of Juetiee, and Chief 'Foetal
In:vector Cortelyou 'offend evidence
which showed to the satiefaetion r,i1 the
authorities present that the six num
were members of various firms in this
city which had telegraph wiree running
into the Dietrict of Columbia, but Attor-
ney Ruby Vale, who appeared for the
men, made such a stout argument in
their behalf that the Commissioner Was
compelled to reserve his deeisiott in or-
der to delve into the laws on the sub-
ject.
Mr, Vale argued that the Supreme
Court was the only body that had any
jurisdiction over his eliente and denied
all the charges made against them. He
Said they had never had corninunication
with Washington by telegraph or any
other means, but said that even if they
had been eonneeted with a bucket shop
in the District of Columbia the crime
was a local one against the laws of that
district, and not against those of the
United States. -
BABY'S OWN TABLETS
KEEP CHILDREN WELL.
In thousands of homes throughout
Canada there are bright, thriving chil-
dren who have been made well and are
kept well by the use of Baby's Own
Tablets, This medicine cures all stomach
and bowel troubles, makes teething easy,
and destroys worms, It ia guaranteed
absolutely safe and free from poisonous
opiates. Mrs. John LaplantC., Bon-Coun-
seil, Que., Says: "1 consider Baby's Own
Tablets worth their weight in gold, and
advise all mothers of young children to
keep them always on hand." Sold by
medicine d.ealers or by mail at 25 cents
a box from The Dr, Williams' Medicine
Co., Brockville, Ont.
• • •
The Annual Garden Statement.
$10 worth of garden seeds;
10 days of good hard toil.
1 mammoth pile of noxious weedse
1 sq. rod of good soil.
1 hoe,
1 spade,
1 rake, •
best grade;
1 baby hareow.
2 days of hire;
7 yds. chick wire;
1 large wheelbarrow.
Subtract what you would have to pay
For vegetables you raised
Prom the total of The cost
And you will be amazed.
Not counting all the work you've done,
The aches and pains you caught,
Like every other year before,
The Saving will be o.
—D. C. Shafer, in May Smart Set.
• • •
Minard's Liniment Co,.i.,aLniiint
loiutedil,
N. S.
Gentlemen,—In January last, Francis
Leckie, one of the men eniployed by me,
working in the lumber woods, had a tree
fall ou laim'crushing him fearfully. Ile
was, when found, placed on a sled and
taken home, where grave teeth were en-
tertained for his recovery, his hips being
badly bruised, and his body turned black
from his ribs to his feet. We used MIN-
ARD'S LINIMENT on him freely to
deaden the pain and with the use of
three bottles he was completely cured
and able to return to his work.
SA U VE U It DUVAL.
Elgin Road, .L'Islet Co., Que.
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THE DOG PINES
(Nlagara-Falls, N.Y., Gazette.)
The Canadian way ,of enforcing the dog
Quarantine is the only effective way—
best for the dog and best for the public.
It means a more effective, and hereto-
fore a briefer period of quarantine. On
Saturday several dog owners were hauled
into court and fined eme each for letting
their dogs run at large unmuzzled, and
several were fined s5 each for allowing
their doge to .run at large even though
they were muzzled. With such severe
Penalties imposed for infractions, it Is
ratite likely Hamiltonians will have a fine
respect for the law.
as
Ask for Minard's and take no other.
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DIRTY BILLS.
(Ottawa Free Frees.)
If there is nay doubter, let him take
out of his packet the roll of bills he has
there and examine it. In tho roll he will
find the name of the Dominion of Canada
reeking in filth, and the business signs
of reputable banking institutions emblaz-
oned in dirt. Let him put. one of these
pieces of dirty paper to his nose and
note the violence' that is done to his 01 -
factory nerves.
BETTER THAN SPANKING.
Spanking does not cure children 01
bed-wetting, There is constitutional
cause for this trouble, Mrs. M. Sum-
mers, Box W. 8, Windsor, Ont., will send
free to tiny mother her successful home
treatment, with full instrutions. Send
no money, but write her to -day if your
children.trouble you in this way. Don't
blame the child, the ammo are it can't
help it. This treatment also cures adults
and aged people troubled with urine dif-
ficulties by day or night.
IIAD TOO MANY STRINGS.
(Buffalo Express.) .
"You have string on both thumbs and
all your fingers," the other fellows in
the office noted.
"My wife wants me to be sure to
bring heene an umbrella," he explain-
ed,
Then, noticing hoer suepieiously the
other e looked at him, he cut off 4'11 the
strings and threw them angrily on the
floor, wife or no wife.—
HO SE BOLTED!
Mau and Wife Thrown Out
Both were picked up and found to
be suffering, as might be expected,
from fright .and shock.
Thousands of men and women will
find the experience of Mr. and Mrs.
Chris. D. Norton corresponds to some
shock they experienced, perhaps years
ago, and which was the primary cause
of a long 'Sickness that clung to them
month after month.
We quote Mrs. Norton's statement:
"My husband has always taken
pride in driving spirited horses. About
two years ago we were in Buffalo just
after a fall of snow. The railway
sweeper came along and our team
bolted, upset our sleigh, and threw us
both out on the pavexnent. My doc-
tor explained the great weakness, Pal-
pitation and loss of color was due
to shock. He told me that fires, ac-
cidents, sudden death of a friend, etc.,
influences unfavorably the health of
many, and only the naost persistent
treatment Can overcome the deadly
effects of the shock. I did not, when
I began to take Ferrozone, expect it
would act so quickly upon my nerves.
and blood. My family were delighted
to see increasing signs of returning
health. This induced me to continue
to use Ferrozone—tvvo tablets with
every meal. I am now well, and you
wouldn't believe the good Ferrozone
has done rne."
Dated Niagara Falls, September ist.
If you need nerve and blood tone,
Ferrozone is your remedy; try it.
Fifty cents a box, six for $2.50, at
all dealers, or The Catarrhozone Co,;
Kingston, Canada.
Burning Up Wealth.
The manager of a big power house
recently made an analysis of the am-
ount of fuel energy in one pound of coal
which was actually converted into elec.
trical energy useful for work. One
pound of coal may be taken to have
Inherently 10,000 work unit. Of tbese
10,000 possible work units this manager
found tht 300 were wasted in the ash
pit, 1,900 in the stack, 560 in banking
fires, 800 in radiation and miseellaneous
losses. In other words, in the boiler
room 3,020 work units were lost by
radiation of heat from the pipes, and
4,810 work units were sacrificed in the
condenser, so that the total engine room
loss was 5,180 work units. In other
words, only 1,200 work units weer actu-
ally usable out of the possible 10,000
work units in a pound of coal. One-
fifth of the eoal bill was paid simply to
produce a draught in the smokestack.
Means
Perfect
Results
You don't even have to know what kind of cloth
your goods are made of. SAME Dye for ALL
Mistakes are IMPOSSIBLE. Fast and Beautiful
Colors, la cents. Don't fall to try IL Semple Card
and Booklet Free.
The Johnson -Richardson Co., Limited, MontreaL
11•1=1
Accounting of Stock.
Come here, little girl, come here!
Your daddy has serious fears
That no one took care, when combing
your hair,
To see what became of your ears.
Why, bless me! I should have said
There was one on each side of your head!
Hut p'r'aps it is done that way for the
fun
Of hearing two secrets as easy as onel
Come here, little girl, come here!
Your daddy is axious to see
If that ose is in place on. the front of
your face
Just where It's intended to be.
Dear, dear It's too round at the endl
But that'll be easy to mend—
A little girrs nose grows Just where it
grows
So It'll be easy to pinch, 1 suppose.
Come here, little girl, come here!
Your daddy with trouble is tossed.
It's ages since he has counted to see
That none of your toes have been lost.
Thank goodness! There's ten of 'em here
There was no occasion for fear.
But every one lcnowes a little girl's toes
Should all hurry with her wherever she
goes,
Come here, lithe girl, come here!
Ad cure your poor daddy's alarms,
Hs really can't say, from so far away.
If you've got the right number of arms.
What! No more than two? Is that
right?
Let's see if they're fastened in tight.
But two isn't bad—and rm 'specialty glad
They're so well adjusted for hugging
your dad!
—Burges Johnson 1 Harper's Magazine,
Your Druggist Will Tell You
Murillo Eye Remedy Relieves Sore Eyes,
Strengthens Weak Eyes. Doesn't Smart,
Soothes Eye Pain, and Sells for 50c. Try
Murine in Your Eyes and in Baby's
Eyes( for Scaly Eyelids and Granulation,
PENNY IMPOST.
Quaint Kissing Custom In a Berk-
shire Town.
At Hungerford, in Berloaldre, on Tues-
day morning, the gold -laced town crier
sounded repeated blasts upon John oN
Gaunt'scarved brass horn to summon
the commoners to the annual liocktide
Court and to the accustomed ceremonies
and festivities therewith cinneeted.
The head of the town wider its ancient
charter is the Constaino, who by virtue
of his office is also coroner and master
of the market. To thie (ace the retir-
ing Constable, Mr. A. g, Allright, was
re-elected. There were also appointed
worthy gentlemen to serve as keepers
of the keys of the eonnnoa coffer. Be-
hind the Constable's chair stood two of.
Beers whose important Junctions are still
exercised. These were the "Tuttionen,"
When the business of the eourt had
been coiieluded Ora John o' Gaunt horn
wee once more sounded, and the two
Tutti-men, looking very serious and de-
termined, in spite of tae long stave
they catried adorned with posies of early
spring Bowen, proceeird upon a round
of honee-to-house vieite to exact from
the inhabitant e the dees to which the
court le entitled.
Prom eech heaselioldtr they were en-
titled to demand the sum of one penny
10 resect of eaeli dweller under hie roof.
From each woerian householder io de-
fault of this payment they were entitled
to exftet the forfeit of a decorous kiss.
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SERVING TIME.
(Everybody's Magazine.)
"No man can serve two mestere," said
the priest to one of his parishioners.
"I know that, yer riverenee. Mo
brother tried it, and now he's doing time
for bigamy."
4'
NO &WW1 POR XPEDINIIINT
(Smart Set.)
Stuivesant—Iiike must men, 1 have
my (Ault& 1
Gladys--Perheps; hut they are so in-
significant that no girl would feel justi-
fied In eierrying you to reform yost. «
ANIMALS IN AFRICA
Baboons Are a Dangerous Pest in
Parts of East Africa.
.„
Beboons were numerous around this
camp, living both among the rocks
and in the tree tops. They are hid-
eous creatures. They ravage the crepS
and tear open new -bora lambs to fie
at the milk ineide them; and where
the natives aro timict and unable to
harm them, they become wantonly
savage and aggressive and attack and
even kill wonlen and children, In
Uganda, Cuningliame lead once been
asked by a native chief to come to his
village and ehoot the baboons, as
they had just killed two women, bad-
ly bitten several chidlren, and caused
it reign of terror that the village would
be abandoned if they wero not killed
or inthnidated. He himself saw the
torn and mutilated bodies of the dead
women; and he stayed in the village
a week, shooting eo many baboons
that the remainder were thoroughly
cowed. Baboons and boars are the
most formidable of all foes to the
dogs that hunt them—juet as leopards
are of all wild animals those most
apt to prey on. doge.. A baboon's
teeth and hands, are far more formid-
able weapons that those of any dog,
and only ea very few wholly excep-
tional dogs of huge size, and great,
courage and intelligence, can single-
handed eontend with an old male, But
we saw a settler whose three big ter-
riers could themselves kill a full-
grown warthog boar; an. almost un-
heard-of feat. They backed one an-
other up with equal courage and
adroitneee, their aim being for two to
seize the hind legs; then the third,
watching his chance, would get one
foreleg, when the boar was speedily
thrown, and when weakened, killed
by bites in his stomach.—From "Afri-
can Game Trails," by Theodore Roose-
velt, in the May Scribner.
Minard's Liniment Lumberman's
Friend.
LA GRIPPE
Arreetett Commtion Corea
M. Colwell, of Warning, Oat.
was stricken dawn with La Grippe in 1906
riod it left hint in very bad con4ies. H.
says: I wuailrundownandbosdenngon
COUSOMpti011. I could not sleep at eights,
had awful sweats. and coughed nearly the
whole time. This is how I was whoa I
began to Ulm Psychina, in a low nervous
state; butfrom the first bottle II began to
improve. Itdid inat've4for inc Ina bought
inc back to health in no time, makings new
man of me. It fortifies the body against
the attacks of La Grippe and is a sure pre.
ventativa. I always teke l'sythine if 'feel
4 cold coining on and it puts me riot in
no time. '
NO HOMO SHOULD BE
WITHOUT FSTCHINE
For 444 fInsigtsts Rid Ocala% Stk.& $1
eler bottle.
Dr. T. A. SLOCUM
LIMITED,
TORONTO
•
BRITISH LABOR NOTES.
According to an Aldershot message, a
special reserve is to be formed of old
army men with a knowledge of railway
work.
The strike of cotton spinners employ-
ed. by Mr. Birley, at Barrowford, near
Nelson, ended on Monday, after having
lasted a month,
Over 3,000,000 spindles and 12,000
looms are either stopped or running re-
duced time in Manchester and district
owing to the high price of cotton.
A strike of 200 pit lade at Moss Col-
liery, Ashton-under-Lyne, on Wednesday,
resulted in about 1,s00 miners being
thrown idle. The lade had demanded an
iucreased scale of wages.
The joint conference between employ-
ers and employed in the Lancashire cot-
ton trade pn the question of a 5.per cent.
reduction of wages will be held in Man-
chester on Monday next.
A dispute which has Involved a firm
of Leeds woollen and worsted manufac-
turers and close on 1,000 workpeople was
settled on Tuesday. Work was resumed
on Wednesday morning.
It was decided at o meeting of the
general committee of the Federation of
Master Cotton Spinners, held in Man-
chester, that the state of the trade jus-
tified a reduction of 5 per cent. in the
wages of operatives. A conference with
the operatives was asked for.
Send for free sample to Dept. II. L., Na-
tional Drug & Chemical Co.. Toronto.
HIS CANDID OPINION.
(Exchange.)
Sertiet—Now, give me your candid
°Tinton of this picture.
Critie—It is utterly -worthless.
Artist—Yes, I know your opinion is
worthless, but I am curious to hear it
nevertheless.
Minarees Liniment used by Physicians
IN SCHOOL.
(Harper's Bazaar.)
'reacher—Who discovered the NOrth
Pole?
Pup11-4 don't dare tell you. Mother
still says it was Cook, and father says it
Was Peary.
ISSUE NO. 18. 1910
Dr. Marters Female Pills
SEVENTEEN YEARS THE STANDARD
Prescribed and recommended for we.
men's ailments, a scientifically pre.
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result from their use is quick and per.
manent. For sale at all drug stores.
3
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A specialty made of investments
in Standard Railroad and Indus-
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Call or write for full particulars
regarding plan of investment.
Room 101, 180 St. James St.,
Montreal.
THE LIGHT SUBJECT,
The government, having threatened to
proceed rigorously against those who re-
fused to pay assessed taxes, offered to
them a remission of one-fourth. "This at
least," said one sufferer, "may be called
giving them some quarter."
You can get that off in your very
next after dinner speech. You can put
a little accent on one-fourth and quar-
ter a,nd get quite as good a laugh.
Second specimen (it must be remem-
bered that the jest book was compiled
in the early part of the eighteenth
century, when there were literarians;
therefore the jests that aren't blamed
on lords are mostly charged. to writers).
4. •
Ft ea aci r I Ity.
of the bowels is an absolute neces-
sity for good health, Unless the
'waste matter from the food which
collects there is got rid of at least
once a day, it decays and poisons the
whole body, causing biliousness, indi-
gestion and sick headaches. Salts
and other harsh mineral purgatives
irritate the delicate lining of the
bowels. Dr. Morse's Indian Root
Pills—entirely vegetable — regulate
the bowels effectively without weak-
ening, sickening or griping. Use
EzZ . CO IF2
I roc:Hai in Fit csc:rt IP111:3
-
Spectacles for Soldiers.
In inauy eases the vision of third
class shot has been much improeed by
the use of spectacles. In the First Nor-
thmptonshire Regiment a, third class
shot became a first class shot. In
tho First Queen's a man who just missed
being a third class shot became a first.
In the First Oxfords one failed and two
third class shots beeame second class
and one third class became a first. In
the Firat Cameronians one improved
from non -effective to a second class
shot. In the First Royal Scots Fusiliers
one third class shot became a second
class shot. These results are due to ac-
tion taken by the medical authorities in
1907, when the eyesight of several sel-
ected regiments was carefully examin-
ed by army medical specialists in oph-
thalmology. Recoramendations based on
these examinations were made, and the
Government of India granted a free is-
sue of suitable glasses to those men re-
quiring them.—From the Lancet.
Keep Minard's Liniment in the house
HIS RESORD.
(Harper's Bazaar.)
Buyer—But Pin afraidhe wouldn't
make a good watch dog,
Dealer (with bull-terrier)—Not a good
watch dog! Why, bless your heart, it
was only last week that this very ani-
mal held a burglar down by the throat
and beat his brains out with his tail.
Until within the last ten or fifteen
years, says the World, no owner of a
house in New York City ever thought of
having his house painted on the outside.
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All first-class dealers keep them.
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HERE SINCE 1861.