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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1910-08-11, Page 6Threw who do not fool around the Steels Exchange rat trap are in no dan- ger of having their fingers pleated, Along. the Athabaecte River imported &cowries of asphalt have been made. 'We do not yet begin to know the extent of Canada's natural tesourcee. A Connectieut pastor has lost hie clench because he wore antiquated. neek- ties. Ministers must take care not to offend the withetie. 'Lades of tlieir par. lehouers. emports of wheat into. China aro steadily luerenaing. The markets of Mien, witieh took only 25,000 ewes. ten years ago, took 250,000 ewts, last year. Greater Londou har, tin estimated pap ulation of 7,537,46. In such a coups - tion of settlement it is natural to ex- peet a goose deal of poverty mid suffer- ing. The marvel is that there ie not more. —eh In one one week forest fires la British Col- unibia caused a timber loss of over el, - 500,000, ln various other parts of can. ad a this has been greatly added to. A. great unenswered, problem ie how to save our timber from slestrection, 4 • • The death of Sir :thinly Tiehborne announced. Ilia name was rendered fainous by the attempt of .Arthur Orton to possess hinmelf of the Tichborne es- tates, the trials of 'which suit attracted the Attention of the world. Orton WW1 exposed as a fraud and punished, 4 fr fle China has forbidden the inarriage of her subjects with foreigners, pointing out that such unions rarely tern out happily. The prohibition is aimed at the male Chinese, there being very few instances of female Ceinese marrying with foreigners. • The United States cotton mills are curtailieg their output by reducing their operative capecity from 50 to 65 per cent, The South Caroline Mills alone have 3,600;000 spindles idle. The object of the combine is to keep up prices; the operatives go idle. of 01 Already the liability insurance com- panies of the United States are getting together with the object of increasing the rates for this class of insurance con- sequent upon the new Workmen's Com- pensation Law of the Striae of Nev York. It is not iinprobable that the rhtes may be increased 100 per cent. 4.1 • Captain Bernier is to try th find the Northwest paesage, and. en route will claim for Caneda any land. lying abput loose. The captain may yet chart a short summer resort route via McClure' Straits around the northern end of the continent, and have the laugh on those who refuse to take him seriously. .o.. The first new wheat in Manitoba has been sold set $1.01 a bushel from the farmer's wagon. At that price the three prairie provinces will probably receive $100,000,000 for the year's wheat crop, besides a very large acreage of oats, barley, flax, etc. The New York Journal of Commerce wants to know why the United States Government should make any objection to surrendering Charlton, the wife-mure derer, to the Italian Government, to be tried for his crime. The answer to that is simple. Tho friends of the murderer have money, and wish to prevent him from being punished for the murder. The estirnated values of Australia's tion -of sheep is $220,04,400, and the annual gross output is estimated at 75 per cent of their value. The number of sheep in the leading sheep -raising countries of the world is given as fol- lows: Australia, 87,043,266; Argentine, 77,581,10; Russia, 58,510,523; United States, 54,031,000; United Kingdom, 30,011,833. The use , of motor necks instead of teams is rapidly inereasing in the great eentres of the United States. The Holy- oke Thread Cd. says that it has used two three -ton trucks instead of nine bones, with a saving during the year of $3,000 or about 331-3 per cent, over the cost of horse truckage. This does not include depredation in either ease, but the company thinks so much of the motor trucks that it is going to continue therm Ito sr Fifteen ,years ago, says Bishop Lod - den, of Syracuse, there Were something like 2,000 homicides a year in the United States. Now the ember is about 20,- 000 a year. Only ht very nee easel; are Murderers inside to answer for their erimes with their lives. Something like 70 per cent. capital eonvietione were etenred last year. Life sentences hwe. becenie a fame; tlie average Ai:nitrating like seveit years, There is tea little re- epeet for life and property in the ritited States and the escape of criminals le Made too easy. The trepan Mail ettys that Chinese of - Petals are to make War upon the guerilla, and that the State Affairs Department i'iUeaon order officiale, soldiers and pp. lice to eut off their "pigtails" and wear the hair short. It says the 'pique Nette introdueed into China by the Manchu dynasty tietirly three centurion ago. It ie said to have been originally suggest- ed to the Manchus by their sense of gratitude to the home, that animal Im.v. ing pleated a great pert in the Tartrir conqueetos. In short, 'the "pigtail" Was n method of eatabliehing a relationehip be. Often human briar; and hersee. Saved From .the Sea "Oh, that's right enoixah with Fele.", siaid the uncle, set:10'41y; "it'e.only reckety ways-AI:es Buell a fevorite, yon Ittiew, and has .knoelied abetittae world 00. much. Ile knows that it le my greats eat wish time he should settle; and only this tin, before he left me, I told him again, that if he would marry a ledy I Approved, 1 wouhl da even more than 1 said before. 'Leek here, Vale,' I said, 'if you do thiss I'll maae over to you by deed all my property, except the old hoede a couple of thousauds year, which I'll settle on myself for life, and to you when I'm gorse.' 'What more eould I say, now?" "Nothina indeed, Mr. Orde. What dia he say to your generous offer? aeleed Dr. Clifford, knowing exactly to whet young lady this pointed, "Tlianked me; was grieved he could not promise to meet my wishes; was were I did not wish bim to man"y anY woman he did not love; and, in feet, got his own way, as he always does, thn scamp!" eenoluded Mr, Orde, vexed. Yet proud of the very determination that defeated hie wishes. "Yea, a great deal too muds for hia own good!" tleought the astute ahysi- elan ; then aloud, suggestively: "Perhaps—pardon me—there is some entanglemeut, Mr. Orde." "Exactly what 1 thought last May doctor; and I asked him pat and plaio that question; but Ise gave me his word of honor there was none." well, that settles that point!" rejoined Clifford; "but it is not any ordinary girl, mind you, whe could pos- sibly win or hold your oeplieva" Mr. Orde turned full to the speaker at that, and came abruptly to his point, like a smart schooner coming sharp up into the wind's eye. "I know that, Doctor Clifford; and to tell you the truth the -wife I should wish IBiimtochoose is your charming niece, Blanche." "My dear Mr. Orde, I was aWare of your wish long ago," said the doctor, smiling. 'And, since you have now spok- en se plainly, I will he equally- candid, even ia the expense of my niece; but whet an illusion is likely to lead to ser- ious. results, it is a duty to (Repel it. You are quite ihistaken in 131anehe Le- roy, of whom you naturally have only 'seen the pretty, charming surface." "Really, sir! Doctor Clifford, this is very extraordinary la—" "Not at all," said the doctor, com- p:sadly, but his eyes twinkling at the humorous side of the pesition. "I am not going to make a startling distill:we ere of youthful depravity, hut ooly make a few remark e apropos to our mu- tual agreement that Falconer's , wife should be no mereecordinaly girl. Now, Blanche is siinply a very ordinary girl indeed, despite the pretty ways, sweet- ness and harm she evinces in society, but she would make the worst possible wife for such a man as Falls St. Maur, to prove which I need not go beyond a fesv radical unsuitabilities in her. She could not underatand him one bit. She is shallow, frivolous, and vain, a des- perate flirt, and very jealous -tempered and selfish. 1 may add that I am tol- erably sure your nephew is fully alive to the truth of what I have said, pain- fully enough, I admit, but as a duty in your boys best interests and your own in his behalf." All that Falconer had said of Blanche in that drive home from Helen's ball came back tci Mr. Orde's xaind, and stod side by si i3 with her own uncle's words. If this were true—and surely he must know her well—Blanche was in- deed not the wife for hia beloved boy. The old man sat dumfounded for sev- eral minutes as his house of cards; was thus demolished before his eyes; and latterly, with the tenacity of years, the idea had quite taken a hold, which had lately promised to become -rather overt- ly troublesome to St. Maur, in -positive, not negative, interference with his free- dom which, even if he had not been al- ready marded, must have ended in a rupture more or leo selectee:. And per- haps the keen, good-hearted doctor fore- saw this' . "Well," said -poor Mr.. Orde at last —and elderly people are often as keen- ly disappointed as eleleeet—"I am ipore obliged to you than I can say for your frank speaking, and 1 will admit that Pale did see as you dolong ago, but I believed he was wrong and I right. Dear, dear, how perverse is human nature! If I hadn't wanted that fellow to marry, he would have gone and done It at once, Fve no doubt." "Poor Falc!" said the dodo; smilings aux afraid he is in your bad books." 'No, no, he isn't! My bonny boy, Is never that; ably he is so self-will- a.bout not marrying—'likes his free -1 11 he ed dont,' he says." • "Maybe!" thought the doctor: "but if there is not, preseet or past, a wo- man at the bottora of all that in some way, Mr. Fide, Pre a Dutchman." "Well," he said, "I dare say he'll sing another song some day, when he finds the right lady. Ah! I hear my young folks' voices. I don't think, either, that Archer Northcote at all shares your boy's cynleal predilection for freedom this afternoon_" Up they came, the lover beaming as he held Micnie's hand, though she needed no such lied; she shy and flushed like a blush rose as Mr: Orde greeted them with a rather wicked little smile as the doctor geld, with perfect gravity: "1 sup -pose you have quite settled the affairs of the nation down there/" "Were thrown cmt the separatist bill," said Archer, -With petted, gravity, "without one dissentient vote, and pees - ed a resolution that unity is strength." "Hal hal that is good?' cried the doctor, laughing. VII play advereign, and give it my royal assent. Mr. Orde, tome bads with us to high tee, and well have.a nice evening, .Archie, ger and. find Blenches" The teat day Mrs. Errington got a letter from The Cliffotd, and another from alirelia both of whiels fillea het with &amnia. Bet how diffeeeet froi this bad been t her oevrt 'betrothal arid marriage! Whe eirmidee that her "hetet atima sorely—the gambler's treeenied wifel CRAPtit TXX= Monte Catlel the panelist of gam - bier... if 'melt it moral peredox et ex- preesial b permisiale, where &tat plays mess for his soul. Tire eteloen was fell enough to -night egaIe with he motley mow& of all tie, sil Moro er lees welling the ildasic of terolete gayety, 'whatever might he beneath the light surfuer the flesh of it tboaemed lights, that gave beek tha giram of diamonds and iihimittet of sat- in the strains* of made that floated from the concert room and mingled with the iota of many WACO of gay laugh. ter, with. the 'whiz of the fatal roulette wheel as an intermittent stomp/Wean* Mg the monotonous chant of the tirattil4 ler dropping AMA ding as the chances weet "Triette-six) Rouge: Pair et poscet" "Le jeu et fait! lelen Va i"," .'«' that tall. vrry eamileorne man near the roulette table, irty dear?" Beal an Leglieluttaa to Ins W' ile high only on-looLers d in the crowdesalle. "He has just playea and lost for the third time heavily, aud he takes it with the ceelest indifference; . ana now he tune melting from the table to that pretty, diatieguee looking wonian—e, comae of rank, I was told yesterday, just before you joined inc "Who is he, George? Ile doesn't look exactly Engliah, but he'd do for IV 'I don't know lee name but I think he'a beep in India, amongst' other places, for lu• bee an Hunan servant with hini. passee t hem out together, as well 32 here, a„nd beard them both talking Ilindoostance, Ile -that geotlemanes-haa been bere three sveeks, and seema very n ell known. l've 5: -en him here night after night too, mostly at the trente eb quarante table; and he wins as welly as be loses—outwardly, at any rate. By jingo! he goes in for high stakes, tool' added the speaker. 'What a pity!" said the wife. "Such a nandsome fellow, and young, too— about thirty, and a gambler. It's to be hoped he's not married. Is he alone here—no lady with him, I mean?" "I've seen none at all. Ale look; be is croesing to the trente et quarade table!' Outwardly cool ---yes, so is the vol- Vano; but all the same, the fierce fires are burning beneath the fair, viee-clad surface. Cool within—no; not once in all these three terrible weeks. Heart and brain were indeed as if on fire -day and night; waking or in fitful sleep, those burning words were Over surging in his ears, in hie heart and soul, tossed on such a tempest of conflicting passions. Ife was maddened with misery and remorse, and well-nigh despair, and he Hang himself into the wild vortex of gambling seeth- ing around him, with an utter reckless- ness and desperation that seemed to reek of nothing but the mad excitement that strove in vain to drown thought, and the fierce desire to win the gold that should free Wm to claim his own—bis darling) He most play, he had said, in the reaction of the partial self -victory gained, and for the time the demon was nutking one last infuriate effort to keep its victim, from whom it felt its hold to be slipping before the invisible force of a woman's wonderful love—slipping the faster each night the man who loved her gambled so recklessly, lost so heav- ily. For Falconer lost—iost—loet, and this night, with glittering eyes and set teeth, he passed to the trente et, quarante ta- ble, to Shag his la.st chance at the feet of frowning Fortune. She smiled it little at first on the handsome sinter who wooed her favor-- only at first, then she grew fitful. He lost—he gained --then she scowled. Higher grew, the stakes more reckless the play. He last; threw down more gold with a careless laugh on his lips and a deadly dread in his soul. "When the fever of excitement is at its worst, and the mad play, whether for gain or lass, is at its highest, remem- ber that a woman waits in this great city for her prodigal, writing in letters ell blood,. `A gambler's wife, loved less than the reaster-vise.'" Suddenly, startlingly distinet those words stood out before the gambler's mental vision. All else was it blineieg mist—all sight dazed mere those blood - red lettere, all hearing deafened save to the wild, passionate outcry of his strick- en heart's bitter agony. • "Not less, oh, wife—not less, but it thousand tiraes more; and from this hour never more a gambler's wife!" St. Maur threw down blindly what he held. Ina brain almost reeled; the laces were at 1nd/0th:et confusion; the Lights a garfish blaze. 'My last stake—I have lost again," he said, with intense quiet in the low, soft tones, and rose as twelve struck. laying his delicate hand for a moment on the back of his chair. "Adieux, roes antis" "Non, non, you surely will not leave yutl" cried several. Last night—ten minutes ago perhaps —he Would have drawn the flashing aka Mond ring frOm his finger and staked that, but now he only laughed careless- ly: • "No, thanks; I have had. enough to- night, -a,nd the'roome are hot. Adletil" He bowed, and pased slowly out into the roulette smile, ehivering slightly as the croupier's toneless monotone fell on hie ear: "Make yout game, gentlemen—make year game," "Trenteesixl Rouge!' Falconer pased out on the terrace and stood Still, dizzy, quivering in every nerve and fibre under the Ilene con- flict hi had just pasted through, scarcely conscious yet whether the foe lay van- quished forever'or only driven back for tbe time. Hie blood was at fever neat, his face ghastly and haggard, as he turn- ed it instinctively te the cool breeze that farmed the silky leeks on his brow, but could not calm. the wild emotions in hie hearts He could not realize yet that the des- perate battle raging for so long between the good and the evil—the latter forted slowly back step by step—had some sud- denly at last to it death -grapple with the ghastly foe, in which each had put earth his utmost strength, said the man, with one concentrated blowe had struck down laice under his feet; but In the first, diz- z,e• elle:au:doe of the hard-won vietory, he reeled back mentally and morally; he eottld only feel otte mad desire to flieg himself at the feet of the one who had surely beim with him that night—it whoect strength he had °nuked her rival —who waited for her ruined prodigal to come back and blot out forever those blood -red Ietters—only felt the one in- eeneible heart -hunger for her--ottly to be.ar her to& her, lay his aching, penitent head on her bosom, and ding to her. He had staked the last of his ill -got - tee gold, and lost—loet the games—lost the gold --but risen up, the winner et human Sera and. a future underlying the ruin, perhaps utter wreck, ho Might have mule fortune. A light etep behina him nutde the strong men for ode 'Ault like a trinrian and tutu sharply. "Aii, yen, Ithinumel" he eald, with guide relief the haggard eye* that met the Indian's affectionately antintill leek, arid. he Uhl his hard on B.s.heilitete 'shoulder. "Where were you?" the outer sidle, tahlie, %eking on at the play. and when saw you go I followed. I thought you ittiticht want the, WA.* "hi th at all?`e semeehlag iterpelled his inneter to eels, gently. Tho lehtek eyee &singe, the eves:W.1y theek flushed, teNti, velar uot ell." "What. then. Bailin -neer "Nity his 'servant be fingiven—the Sa- hib, looked Mn troubled in Ita1nines.4 e)eo," said the Iiludoo., very low, tet lieve lost everythiig. to -night, lialnunee--all the gold, except jot en. (nigh to telse us back to tenseon." "Sahib! Oh, but gee—see!" whisper- ed the Uindoo, eagerly. "Tao sahib has peen so generoua limeys te. lila poor liethinnee. Ile has goat—some jewele. Take Ib ail, sahibs and win beck 0111" allueb, my dear boy:" interrepted St. Maar, deeply touched, "Do you Mid; I Ismael gamble awey your money or. few t..easuree? I could !vivo stakeil this ring of mine, this breaet-pin, titcse jew- eled trifles at 'my wa.te1egeard,1*-----he ttopped, then stooped, ana added, under his breath —"If I had ever lucent to gamble again. Como back to the Hotel des Anges now, for toonorrow we leave Monte Carlo." Still resting lila heed on the indlau'e shoulder, he moved on, striking aerose so as to avoid those who weraleaving the casino, but he did net speak on the W5; and When they reached the hotel and their oWil apartnients, all Bellunnee Milted was if the elthib would have a glees of wine. 'Wine, boy/ neaven, no Therets fever euough in my veins tonight! (live me something to cool it, not madden me!" ltainunce brought a goblet of iced lemonade, and. as he received it back empty, said, with the Persuasive freedom of a, privileged favorite: • "The sahib is weary; he will try to sleep „now, for the sake of the one he loves.' "Bahmeee—Itahranee, you are as artful as a ivonuail Go, sleep in peace, my holt; for me there is no rest rt, try as I may!" 'Hew could there be to -night( in the strong excitentent and restless, unsatis- fied longing that meae his heart beat to agony, and his temples throb as if the blood in the blue veins were ao much liquid fire? He tried to think; he tried not to think—still more impoosible tit*, Past, • present, future, woula not be disenfan- gled or be freed; it all revolvea in a chaos around the one master -passion, the one hope in, all the darkness, the one name writtenin letters of gold—(atris- tine. CHAPTER KateellL Par away in the mighty empire citne where life is so dense and iolittide so boundless woman sat alone in that same midnight hoar. A book lay open on the table beside lier, but her hand had turned no page; her eyes, heavy with unshed tears, bad read no Iine; for hours her whole heart and soul were absorbedein one never - absent thought—one central figure, wreathed round with hopes and leers end deadly suspense for the end of the desperate step she had taken. Three Weeks had passed, that might have been three times seven years for all this load of misery and dread and constant im- pish and patience. She had daringly, at last, worked upon Lis love for herself • knowing it to be in zeal truth stronger than the passion for play, and sent hins from her half mad, with that very love wonaded, humiliated, burning with uns confessed shame and agony; she had, in fact, thrown the whole fortune of war on, it coup de main, tho perilous teat of extremes, and now what wonder time the poor heart, so torn in wounding where it loved, trembled for the result of it own temerity! More than onenshe had 'been almost tempted to write even to fly to him, but bad held back In time. Somehow to -night she was thinking of him, picturing him and his surrounding -a more vividly than ever, if that were pos- sible, and .with what grim fidelity she %mold see the whole picture of mad gem. Wing! Had she not been there with him, seen 1t all, known it all? She leaned back and shut her tired eyes with the ion name on her lips. "My lover, my husband, oh, come back to me, or mg heart will break!" Worn out, she lay still; the troubled breathing grew more regular and quiet. Was she sleeping or waking, or hovering on 'the mysyc border.lanthetween the two wherem, who shall say, whether we two, or the spirit from; itself front Its mortaftrammels?--for who shall dare to set a limit to the power of the A/ - mighty, and define the line between the men and the unseen which He hits chosen leve ondefined? She saw him, her hoeband, at a table in the genet blaze and glitter of that old, too familiar room. There 'were oth- ers there, hut she had only eyes for one; and somehme, as he played, the kilesv that he had lost all but that pile of gold near him. and saw the reckleaa deepair and misery in liis soul as he played on and on; and in a very passioti of love and angnieh she fancied she (saw before .her. the words with which she had sent him from her. She seemed to heat a passionate cry from his very heart: "Not less oh, wife—not Ids, but a thousand times more; and from this hour never More a gambler's wife 1" The clock struck twelve, and Chris- tine sprung to her feet with wide-open eyes and heaving bosom, lifting her lock- ed hands above her head in passionate joy and gratitude. "My love oh, my love, it "was not all a dream ---ft cottld not bel Heaven's mercy has surely heard a wife's prayers and answered them. Saved! eaved at last! Sly husbandl my life's iovel" WAFTER XXXIV. One night it had struck eleven by the nearest church clock, and Kenton Morley instinctively glanced up at the little clock on his own mantel -piece to time it, then dropped his gaze again on the fire, and fell back into a revetie. Ire had been readiug, and he at by the cheery fire in his sittiog rootrie—it wag stateely a drawing room—Above the office below; but somehow he, in the lest hour. found himself thinking per- tinecioutly of his "handsome sinner.* "I wonder if he's thinking of cid leen," he said to himeelf as that chime rang out. "Not likely, though. At this hour he is probably gambling madly at that detestable ionto Cede, and brak- ing his melt heart and his pixie Mil what's that/ A dab stepped here —and a /leg! Who la the world can Ib be, unless it's a mistake S" Ile got up gidekly, though, for hie old housekeeper had long einee retired, awl llobineon lived out, ef course, and recut (town to the street door, tutning the passage gas up first; there he Opened ill..6"GdOo. odorheavets you, St. Mem!" Ile stood on the attp, tall and hag. gard enough, under the glare of the. gm - to startle the money -leader, and he g..ripped his hand and drew him in - "You look—I don't know whatl What Is Me matter? Who le that In the hastens i" "Etalimnee, Give me ton rainutee." "Ten hours, if you like. Come In liege ITo 1* sioefirusaL) ,owls vl, 04141N4 tgy cyaulta Orey.l There Is just as little ieeetilie for a frewn on a WOniales pretty face as there is for the Mari 111 the moo, to think he tate frighteu the people on earth by froweiso A sicovi on milady's face is fully as distressing es would be a scowl on the Nina in the moo'a fere, too! No nom with a spark of life in his veins but thaws' at the sight of a pretty wonnot. We are all cheered by the pleasant -faced man iii the Moon. There is no, more justification in a woinan'e frown than there is in it mild little house cat trying to roar like a 11°. 11is absolute idiocy for anybody to try to impress others with their import- ance or learning by frowning—and many toufiayv tIvieeirnplueakseoVheir pretty brows for One ean Conceive of only one person- age who has anything like a legitimate right to frown; the very old philosopher who has earned his place, in the world Qf knowledge. At that, genuine philoso- PlIeut rst ureunaylloY8gminileal Bus er the young wo- man, or the pretty girl, or the teeby, cherishes a fond delusion if any of them bope to impress the world with their portanee or intelligence by copy-catting the hoary -headed old philosopher whose labors have soured him. • Frowns do not pay. Smile% win friends and conduce to good blood cireulation. No More Sour Catsup PARKES' Catsup Flavor and Preserver concentrated extract of spices that avers catsup and preserves it for all time. • many people hey° given up the malting of catsup because it alwayS goolied. Yell cen now make hotter and nicer looking catsup than yen ever made before if you insist on getting Parke's Catsup Flavor from your grocer. It leaves the natural red color of the tome. to and imparts tho most delicious tiavor. Sent post paiki on receipt of 80 cants, PARICE & PARICE HAMILTON DRUGGISTS CANADA ,•••• Change in English Prayerbook. The accession ,of a new sovereign, in Great Britain brings about many changes,, but none, perhaps, so full of sentiment as the changes necessary in the Book ef Common Prayer. The name Edward, wherever it appears, roust now be changed to read George, in the lit- any is a prayer for the welfare of the royal personages close to the sovereign. Thls:now reads "our gracious Queen Alex- andra, George Prince of Wales, the Prin- cess of Wales, and all the royal family." The pietas frona which the book is print- ed are being altered, and the following will appear: "Our gracious Queen Mares, Alexandra the Queen Mother, Edward Duke of Cornwall, and all the royal family." With every change of sorer - Cigna an alteration similar to thee is necessary. Minard's Liniment Co., Limited. Gentlemere—I have used AUNARD'S LINDIMN'T on my vessel and in my family for years, and for the every day ills and accidents of life I consider it has no equal. I could: not start on it voyage without it, if it cost a dollar a bottle. CAPT, le R. DES,PARDEsT. Behr. "Storke," St. Andre, Kamouraska, milmiliti....••••pmems•••••••mk The Country Weekers. Jerome S. -lifeWade, addressing a dal, drones country week association, of MA: 'nth,. says the Washington Star, cited many striking similies and metaphors in unaccuetomed pastoral surroundings. "A boy," he said, "had his attention called to the sunset. "'Look!' said the missionary. the sunset beautiful—the round, yellow sun sinking in the midst of white clouds?' , "'It's fine,' the boy agreed. 'It's just like a fried egg,' "In the same party was a little girl. She rose at dawn one morning, and her eye was caught by the sparkle of the dew on the grass, hotter'n I thought,' she said. 'The gra: is all c.ovzed with presspirea teen.'" Minard's Liniment Cures Garget in Cows. 4** Philosophy of Work. MANNING. Labor is discovered to be the great, the grand conqueror, enriching and building up nations more sure than, the proudest battles. CICERO. What is there that is illustrions that is not also attended by labor. EPICIIARMUS. The gods sell everything good for la bor, JOIIIIEBT. aeniillt beginn great works; labor alone finielies them. (.. • 1,117Y. • Toil and pleasure, in their trades op- posite, are yet linked together in it kind of necessary connection. MAZZINI. Labor is the divine leW of our exists ace; repose is deesertion end suicide. I'm mitt NZVElt STOPS. (Boston Transcript,) Ingg—Talidng a,bOut pugifient and state lams, did you ever notice it? Fogg—tver notice what? jigg—That there's no law to prohibit fighting in the state of nsatritiolly. IMISERAOLE WITH DYSPEPSIA Another Wonderful Caro TlY That Wonderful Iorult Medicine -aetit ea.' Mr. Mathias" Dery, of e'20 Cburch street, Ottawa, Ont„ wee treated tor pyceparosia.by upehys.svleenhtnssot no fue7.12nntouni any Ls r - doctor's medicines without getting much roller that Ile had about m0(10. up Ilia ;ulna that his 04eo was hope- less. Seeing "Fruit -a -elves" advertised, however, Mr. Dery thought he would invest 50c in A box ot the wonderful tr4Ainillsine t lutleheIaftibletTis fruit medicine eta for Mr. Dory whet all the (lectern eould not do—et cured him. IIe writes:—"Fruit-a-tives" positive- ly cured me of severe Dyspepsia when physician8 tailed to relieve me." , • "Isrult-aetives" makes the stonuzeli awed and clean, ineoree Sound diges- tion and rag:11140e bOWOIS, kidneys and skin. Soo a box, 6 for ;2.50, or trial box, 25e—et all dealers, or from leruit-a- Oyes, Limited, Ottawa. a. Lord Kelvin's Religious Views, The scientific man in looking lit matter, wondering what it will clei, thinkiug over the results of certain combinations which he ean impose upon it, declares that there is something be. pond a Imes, of (lead. matter. His very thought is in itself a contradiction to the idea that there io nothing but (lead matter, &lexica ca,n show that. what we see in the world of dead matter and of life is not a result of fortuitous atoms. St. Peter speaks of seoffers aim said that "all things condone as they were sftrrOolphysical edema absolutely (lemon- leth0 beginning of the creation," but ciffirms hinaself that "all these things shall be dissolved." It seems to me that even s the scientifie truth of these wbrds, In science, as in morals and poli- tics, there is no periodicity. Whatever we prophesy of the future et will be unlike the past. Everything is in a state of evolution and progress. The science of dead. matter, which has been my chief life study, is strenuous on the point that the age of the world is definite. A PIANO FOR 50 CENTS A WEEK This 's a golden opportunity for any. one to own an instrument. We have a large stock of used pianos, taken sn ex- ehange on Heintzatan & Co. pianos. These instruments are emit well-known makes as Weber, Chickering, Haines Bros., Thomas and Dominion'and the price is from $60 to $125. Each on( guaranteed for five years, and will be taken back in exchange with full am- ount allowed any time in three years. Do not letsthis chatlee slip by you. A post card will bring full particulars, Heintzman & Co., 71 King street east, Hamilton, Ont. se. le Road History Illustrated. A novelty at the Brussels Interna- tional Exposition is a graphic history of roads from the Roman road to the most perfected modern form. An aver- age about a third of a mile in length leads up to the, pavilion of civil engin- eering, and is divided into sections, eaeh two meters long, representing all the different types of roads that have been employed by civilized nations. Thus the visitor is enabled to make a direct Comparison showing the peculiarities and advantages of all the various kinds of highways that man has devised to en. able him to snove about easily on the surface of his planet, on foot, on horse- baek and in earriages and wagons. If every housekeeper would use Wilson's Ply Pads freely during the summer months, the house fly peril would soon be greatly dim- inished. A Diplomatic Rebuke. A neat turn ot phraseis• that quoted of Lord Palmerston in a, recent book. It seems that some young gentlemen in the foreign office amused themselves quite frequently by flashing the rays of the sun by Means of a mirror into the eyes of some young ladies who lived across the street. The father of the belies complained to Palmerston, who thereupon issued this order: "The Secretary of State desires that the gentlemen of his department wil not east disagreeable reflections on the la - ales opposite."—.Youth's Companiell, 4 • • Your nen:molt Will Tell You Sfurine Eye Remedy Relieves sore Eyes, Strengthens Weak Eyes. Doesn't Smart, Soothes Eye Pain, and Sells for 50e. Try Marine in Your Eyes and lit Eaby't llyes for Scaly Eyelids and Granulation 4 se. SMOKE'S EFFECT ON BRIDGES, lestancee of Structures Which It Materially Injured. Te'hee a locomotive is making speed againat a grade with it full complement of cars and tonnage behind it the blast from the smokestack may attain ahnost explosive force. But regardless of how many eounde dead weight might be blown from the stack, its eorrosive and heat effects in passing under bridge and viaduct itructurea have been under ear°. fill study by the engineers. The "Cotton Farm" bridge in Boston was built in lad with it elearance of only fifteen feet above the line of the Boston it Maine road. The floor of the bridge was supported by hollow tie ardme, resting upon flanges of steel "I" beanie. These steel beams were protest- ed by heavy lead plates end above were rendered rust proof by eement tilos. In ten years the loeomotive blest had enten into the 'ma sheqting am into the Whig to !melt an exteet thet much of the muting fell to the ground and alt cf Ib bad to be torn out. At lenother polet in Boston is a bridge spanning the road where locomItives itt ono ablation take a heavy grade in pass. ing. The height of the elearante is eigh teen OA, while the bridge has' only wooden- etringers. On the lip grede end of the ilivti:tgerfser alde tbrioarod 1:ndilh"a6:113rairitetbste depth of it gattrtet inelis o the ornae end damage is not noticeable. The judginorit of the teevineers Is filet eigh- teen feet elearenee allows of a eheerer bridge atid a Ismer!' to it than the more eostly streetere et the minimum of fifteen feet. rretn ths Chicago Triir Una. .0101* l•••••• PISCATORIAL DON'TS. Rules for Thook Who Fieh With 4 PON and Those Who Angie With Rod. Don't walk tight up to a riff and fish itstay above it itlid let your line float down to it, and if you don't get 4 atrihe hold your pole still and reel Mu' line in and let it rue out again two or three times; then swing your pole from side to side. If using red worms don't put on a big bait. One nice worm is enough. tart about three-quarters from head and string worm on the hook, let the head stiek out So there are encle to wabble. Vali point of hos* out so the worms ean't come off, Don't jerk hard to hook a fith. Don't pull too quick. Don't let the Zine slacken, When s fish is booked don't get excit: ed.; if a big fislt is hooked give hint time. Time is golden. Don't take any intoxieeting drinks. Again, don't stand so your shadow is on the water if it is a still day and noth- ing is moving, and don't forget that time and patience make the best fisherman. Mal% swear if you lose a nice fish; no use --he is gone. Don't use lora on line when !idling for trout. Don't use A heavy line, Don't ose white lines and a good many more things too numerous to men - don here. -.—Pur News. ZAM-BUK CURES SUNBURN. Neglect of a sunburn on face, arm or neck often leads to the after groveth of skin which ,is freckled or course; and this is particularly distressing to ladies: Timely application of Zam-Buk will enevent this. Zam-Buk ia a herbal balm, which soothes and cools the burn- ed, skin, end assists nature to replace the damaged tissue with soft, velvety skin. Zam-33-uk -is also good for dines, scratches, heat sores, blisters, on hands or feet and' all skin injuries. A.pplied to these it quickly stops the smarting, and ensures quick healing. As It IS free from animal fat, and mineral color- ing matter, it is particularly suited to the delicate skin oi babies, suffering from heat rash, chafed places, ete. Sold everywhere by druggiste and store -keep- ers. Beware of harmral imitations, and see the name "Zam-33uk" on the box be- fore buying, • .• Eieyond the Reach of Law. DrsPiaou the Dean of Bristol, has for long had the reputation of being oee of the brightest humorists in the church. One of hie stories turns upon the de- ceased wife's sister. It appeare that a vicar of Dr. Pigou's acquaintance had, In ignorance, solemnized suds a marriage, and he interviewed the old verger -whose bueiness it was to look after such things. "Yes, yes," exclaimed the old man, "1 knowed the parties. I knowed them." "Then, why in the world didn't you tell me?" exclaimed the vicar, "Well, vicar, it was dee way, you see," replied the old fellow. "One of 'em par- ties was 83 and Vother was 0, Says I to meself: 'It can't hest long; bother the laws and let 'em two wecie"—From M. A. P. Minard's Liniment Cures Diphtheria. OregonMan's Insect Catcher. In the country all sorts of homely de- vices are used to catch the bugs and kill them, and an Oregon man, who pro- bably had his apple orchard overrun by some destructive species, patented a trap for the pests. A barrel .ha e pieces cut out of the upper portion, and is half filled with rotten or bruised ap- ples or some other odoriferous fruit,. On top of the barrel is placed A pan par- tially filled with water, oil or some poi- sonous liquid. From the apex of 'a tri- pod that keeps the basin from falling off the barrel hangs a lantern. In the daytime the insects will be at- tracted by the odor of the fruit, and in flying up to feast many of them are likely to fly into the water. At night the lantern is lighted and bugs will come from afar to flutter against it and meet their death in the liquid be- low.—From the Chicago Tribune. • ••• Minard's Liniment Cures Distemper. Carnegie's Business Types. Andrew Carnegie, at the luncheon to Prince Tsai Tao, in Mr, Schwab's vast ancl splendid mansion in Riverside (hive, says the Washington Star, is reported to have administhred ce smiling rebuke to the twentieth century type of busi- ness man. "In my timeit was differenke said Mr. Carnegie, "but nowadays there are too mimy business men who may be de- eeribed like this: "Positive—They get on. " 'Comparative --They get honor. "Superlative—They get honest— sometimes.' " • 1 •• Overheard at At.entic City -111013s -- That girl who came down yesterday brought the biggest trunk I ever saw. Slobbs—I saw her in the surf this morn- ing, and she didn't need it for her bath- ing suit, • ISSU NO. S2. 1010 AGENTS WANTED, SMUT A TEA ROUT/A TO -DAY. HIZND postal for circulere. or 10o for sam- Plea and totem, Alfred TYlef. LOwluni Ont. sZTART VOA ItOTITR TO -DAY. BEND postal fOr circulars, or lee for samples and terins. Allred Tyler, T.ou- d•m. Ont. Dr. Marters Female Pills SEVENTEEN YEARS THE STANDARD Prescribed and recommended for we, men's aliments, a eclentifically pre* pared remedy of proven worth. Ins result from their us, is quick and per* menet% For eale at all cloug Stores. Vg D SHELDON anvostantant Brokaw A specialty made of investments in Standard itallroad and Indue- trial (Rocha. Write for bull particulate regarding plan of inveetment.. Room 101, 108, $t. James St.. mon tren I . GLADSTONE'S FACE. Who can ever forget that unforgetta- ble face of Glaelstoueeethe beaked, strong and yet perfectly proportioned nese, giving with its slight aquilinnees an impression of strength of aominetion and of scorn; the face white as Ivory and yet not fragile; the large, resinous mouth, thee seemed to be ea quick to express every emotion as though it were an Aeolian harp; the ,strong, square chin; the eyes, brilliant and shins ing, and as pure black as a piece of coal shining in the darkness; and, lastly, the noelodious voice that could give every tone, every half -tone, every eemi-gfiaver of a :long gamut of perfect elocution? And then the wondrous vitality of the hum! 1 woula give 8 word of counsel to young orators, which is that their et- feetiveness in speech, as in every other pursuit of life, is largely dependent on their state of health. 1 have seen very fine speakers quite ineffective, below their ordinary level, simply beeeuse they were tired and their vitality was exhausted. To be able to vitalize others you must be vital yourself; and a part, atleast, of ,the enormous power of Glad. stone as a speaker was that inexhausti- ble strength of lung and limb and nerve which lay behind that strangely pallid and white skin.—T. O'Connor, in T. P's. Weekly. ' A WINDSOR LADY'S APPEAL 'To All Women: I win send free vitt: tnil ins(ruction% my home treatment which emotively ewes Leueorrhoea, trieerauen, Dieemements, Palling of the Womb, Pain- ful or Irregtilar Periods, tiTteiine and Ovar- ian Tumors or Growths, also Rot Plashes, Nervousness. Melancholy, Pales le the Read. Back or Bowels, Kidney and Bladder troubles, where; caused by weaknees peculiar to ow. 661.. You can continuo treatment at home at !tweak of oc;ily Sty boostc,t free on request Write to -day. ;Amu, mra. M. aummers. Box m. s. WIndoor, Oat, 4 - • Seasonable Notes. You can't keep a good thermometer down. Smite a fly on one cheek and. he re- turneth to the other. This is thirsty weather. Even the mer- cury is filling its glass higher these days. If you want a high time on your va- cation hie to the mountains. Undoubtedly many of our sweet girl graduates will make good—fudge. A hook in the jaw is apt to finish both the fish and the fighter. Henry asks what is good for mosquito bites. 'lumen cuticle is considered very good.—Henry--Boston Transcript. - - 5 Don't experiment with unsatis- factory substitutes. Wilson's Fly Pads are the best fly killers made and will kill Many times more flies than any other article. Some Truth In It. Discussing the proposed laws against scorching motorists, Raymond Hitch- cock, the actor, said to the New York r ib u e man: • "It is time to cheek these men. They are getting quite reckless, There was more truth than humor in a burlesque dialogue I read in a manuscript play the other night. "'If there's one thing more than an- other I hate to run over,' said the bur- lesque chauffeur, 'it's a baby.' "Quite right,' his companion agreed. 'Those feeding bottles do play hob with a tire, don't they?'" 9- a- Minard's Liniment Cures Cold; E.c. The Other Extreme. "Well," sighs the man with the wash tie; "now that the aeroplane ia becont- lug popular the women won't spend so much manor for automobile hats and veils." "No," growls the man with • the in- growing mustache. "But they'll blow in • just as much on silk stockings and high - heeled shoes."—Judge. .11111=111/1101•11 That Splitting Headache win vanish if you take "NA-DRU.COu Headache Wafers Give eutekkatire tenet, and we suarantite the), contlIn ntothine harmful to t • heart or nerves:sante= 25c.* bat, at an dugista. National Drug an Chemical Co. of Callaaa• Limited, Moutreed.26 '.••••••••••••••• ....••••••••••••••••eas. Photography Taught Free Your name on & post card 'will Secure for you a Free iind ComplithentarY lidetubetable in the Domitiivie camera, club, end will entitle you to all the privileges( and advantages of this club, ineludlnir free Instructions, advice ana latest In- formation as te advances made in the Art of Photography. Write to -day atid take advantage of this speCial offer. CLUB DtPARTM8NT OP Ltominfon lhoto Supply Co., Limited • V.04 Y0140311 STABIST Tonoz41.0. ••••••••sesesitemememseriaeorienia• At the Outset Young married couples should start their housekeeping careen aright. Itemember, -Mrs. Zane -Pride. that Eddy's Jndurated Ware is the 1110,ST on the market. Also that Ude* «SIIXbilt" Matches are absolutely' safe itta. hart:doss. Matches, raper of all description!, Woodertivare, l'alls, Vat* and WW1 flood*. '