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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1910-09-01, Page 6,Saved From the Sea Ttaliey is to 11AVV a huge Dread- , naught built by i. Britielt ship-huildiag eigw intensely stin it wise as eyery firm. joint Bull is still g,etting 'the con- rapid step left the little town farther beizind her! how madly her poor heart tracts, Halley's Yunet his now again passed into. the owning sky, mid is visible only to observers through the telescope. Iliet it performanee wee se much tauter than ite promise that few .care to get up early to watch it. IIonduras has another revolution .ou its handl,It ought to be skillel in dealing with such outhrtaks, as it has lute six of them before the present one in the last fifteen yeers. Short waits be- tween acts. The new cotton merger being formed in the Ignited States will liave a nominal Capital of Se0e100,000. It will grow cot- ton as well as tnanufacture it. There does appear to be a Ceed far devoting attention to securing, a larger supply of the raw material. A French woman has left an estate of $0,000,000 to be divided according to in. structions in 32 separate wills. A Wash- ington paper predicts that the heirs will receive about $1.10 each when the law. years are through with it. The western wheat crop is Promising better things than were hoped for it fortnight ago. Saskaeehewan farmers have hopes of an average crop. W. G. White, immigration inspector, who has been touring the west, looks for a hun- dred million bushel crop. Tha United States Government has just completed the tabulation of the re - terns of its national Walks. The net deposits subjeet to reserve requirements at the end of the fiscal year was $(1,- 190,1513,487. The cash reserve held was $1,315,987,018, or 21.22 per cent. The Sultan of Sulu is coming to San Francisco with $25,000 and a desire to secure a California, girl for his fifteenth helpmeet. If the cost of living should in- crease in Sulu proportionately with the increase here, the Sultan's salery of $125 a month might prove insufficient for harem requirements. leett as elle hunted on at headlong speed, scarcely conseioute of any but the one absorbing fear for the man he loved— hie danger, not her own—the woman'e whole being, physical and mental, wee strung up to too high a tension for that; ohe Was living a lifetime of fierce agony in that half hour. Were those men liehina her—or not even astir yet—or—before her? Xerelini heaven! was she too late? Hal—at leet1 a paling skirting, the road as it took a sharp turn. "You will see the park paling before you reach the lodge gates," Ralunnee bad aid, "end, from that paint it is a shorter cut across if you cou got over. The lodge -keeper will be fast aeleep, and 'Itard to wake.' "I will cross the pelings!" the lute an- swered. And now, with breath coming in heavy throbs'almost sobth s, e paused for a mo- ment, listening intently. The Christian Endeavorers, of Fair- bury, Neb., have unanimously requested Mrs, Nicholas Longworth, nee Roose- velt, to give up cigarette smoking, and thus set a good example to the younger generation. It would be interesting to have "Princess Alice's" private opinion of the ladies and genelenaen who pre- sented the request. ' The cost' of living• continues to. rise. The United States bureau of statistics notes that whereas last year the 'United States people bought from foreigners diamonds to the amount of $24,100,000, this year the total was $30,800,000. For Works of Art they paidf$21,100,000, in- stead of the $3,800,000 last year. And so it goes. When you feel inclined to grumble at the increased cost of meats and .other plain necessaries, spare a lit- tle sorrow for the troubles of the weal- thy. stand a fair siege, and give them a taste of lead for oupper. And now, if you. can, tell me all. Alt, my darling, my one treasure!" He threw himself on the seat beside her, took her into hie arms, and passionately kiseed her lips again and again, "1 have so ltuugered and thirsted for you that I feel half afraid this ecs- tasy of happiness is (mil a nista dream from which I must awake, No, no 1 whatever strange irony of fate has brought you here, through a peril I dare not titink of, this precious form in loy arms, these doer lips under mine, are real, and. in safety with me; for the norst that can come is death. Tell tele all now'resting here." And then Christine toll the story; haw the little pointer pup, whose- life he himself had saved,had destroyed Helen's lace, thus calming her own ex- pedition to Gorst; how she had met Rahmnee after he had. posted, the letter, and then overheard the woncues story of the body of locked -out men who had planned to attack this house to -night, with the iutention of forcing St. Maur —as being really the moving spirit in "Silence, silence everywhere, the refusal of their demands—to sur. On the earth, and In the air." render; and if not—well, las life was at the least in deadly 'peril if they got hold of him. "If!" said Fale, with a smile; "and if I surrender! Why, the idiots, don't \they know me better yet? I'll shoot down like jackals the firet that got inl Well, dearest i" The rest was soon told. She had sent Raluunee to Lynton, to Frank Addison, and made her way by train, and then the terrible walk across country to warn him, to be with him in his peril, to die with him if murder were the end. "Christine, Christine, what have I ever done for you, and) what ia there that you have not done for me, even to this last hour?" With that bitter cry of self-accusation he got up abruptly and paced the room for minutes, struggling against the tem- pest of wild emotions that racked him; and yet through all, like a golden chord, ran that one deep joy—she was here with him, her priceless love, herself, all his own; •the worst barrier between them, of his own building, broken clown. He caught ber wistful, troubled gaze fol- lowing him, and turning suddenly, he knelt beside her and clasped his arms about her waist,. as he had done that night fa his chambers months age. "Do you remember all you said when we parted last?" he said, hoarsely. "Every burning tvord go terribly true, BO more than deserved., that 1 went from you desperate, maddened With the agony of the.wound. What! did I then really love a base, despicable vice better than you? My heart cried out no—a thou- sand times not I had fought to keep both passions, love and sin, and you sent the high-handed sinner from you to choose between the two, face to face with the stern truth he had shunned to ' meet—a gambler, you a gambler's mis- erable wife—'loved less than the wretch- ed passion for play,' you said. And, oh, wife, it was so- bitter l'—he hid his face in her bosom. now—"because I knew in my inmost soul that you alone were first, only 1 wanted both -1 wanted both. I was half mad all that time at Monte Carlo. The last month I wanted gold—gold, to pay old debts and claim you back without breath of honor to Morley, I played as I had never yet done, I tell you, and I lost—lost night after night, till everything was gambled away but a hundred or two, and nearly all that went the last night. Suddenly I saw before me your words; yes, I did as plainly as I see you now. rsaw your hand writing it. I felt that you, never absent from my thoughts, were there with me, saving me. My heart cried out to you in answer to those Words spoken and written." "I know it all, my husband," Chris- tine ,said, softly, stooping to kiss the bowed head. "I saw, I heard, I was with you—whether in a dream or not, I know not, but I was there," "Christine! oh, Christine! it wasnot my fevered fancy, then!" he cried, pas- sionately. "You knew ail through, then, that you were first; you know that miserable vice is dead forever, that you are no more a gambler's wife, and never shall be again.' "/ know it, my love, my husband!" With one accord their lips met as he locked her still eloser, and it wag min- utes before either moved or spoke. It was a forecast of peradise that came to each throbbing heart in those mo- ments—to the man's above al!, an in- tense sense of restfulness and peace that was all new and strange to him. "My guardian angel!" he whispered at last, and only changing to his former place beside her. "It is your strength that has won the battle, not mine. And, oh, it was so hard a fight,. dear -wife the wrench Was so great, the roots so deep! But it was for your sake. I left at once to get to you. I was in dark - nese; everything was chaos till 1 had you in my arms, heard your voice, look - id into your eyes once more, And there is the future to be met—a debt in which honor is involved, and the means of clearing it cut off. But that part of the future must be faced out later, if we escape the threatened attack; The other part your own noble courage this night, my darling, has solved to me, come what may. Hal hark!" At the sount of tramping feet St. Maur sprang ire his feet, with an litter change of manner and faee. "Theyre coming at last, these minerse" CHAPTER Xesteebe. b waich had lain there all the, evening, put still now, listentes Husband arid wife oth stood quite iptetrtly as the it in his breast -pocket, and went to tno. heavy, irregulat traeap, tramp of many feet came on nearer and nearer—the matt with flashing eyes, and stern, ruth- less face that told its own tale oe no quarter given or taken; the woman as tool and resolute as he was himself— as gm had been in many a danger before thIddenly there evea a halt, then a hoarse Murmur of angry surprise through the mph. "151, ha!" said Falconer, with a half laugh. "Yeti etpeeted to find the law* oPeo, and an easy vittory and you quiet make out bow the •warning has been given." "They are Very' qUitt, raleoner," "The lull before the storm," aaid he. "/ guess they are omitted at pre- sent, and are iending scouts round the holm in %march of some unguarded en- try or laden." "Are there any. Peek?" "Neither, so far as they are eeiteerti., ed. I've bored tip every Miter twang of entry, ma locked meaty iuside door, so thet if they do break in they Must mit every itep of their way aftet us. time her ear Vas on the need for the There ate a feer lathier!, but they would dreaaed tonna of the mob. not rettoh the floor roar this, which is in ten minutes St. Maur oride Mere echutteeed Mete is & fitemeeoatee, ...nue bat. 'but," said t. Mater, grltnly, tottchiug eeentv I aitt teecciy far these vtinsee letnest, "they are welcome to try the onir true eouree of tuture happle le :said, with 'gine quietness, "We men be use, 1 Aosta simply go on to the ness,-11budon. Then, nerved as only the desperate can') be, she put her two hands on the top of tbe highpalings, and drew herself up— how, she never °could have told, but that she did it, and got over and. dropped on the other side into bushes, struggled through the foliage, and got on to a gressy glade. Where lay the house itself? She hurried forwa•rd—on---on through a wooded glen—still on. Alit what was that gleam? Was it her fancy, or tho flash of some light she had caught through the wood—the light, perhaps, from an open window? There it was again, glinting ahead in the dis- tance. Was it the beacon of life, or—' was the mob there before her? . *4 • The report of the Deputy Registrar - General of the Province upon • births, marriages and deaths, covering the year 1907, has been issued. The popula- tion of the Province is placed at 2,220,- 430; but it is pointed out that these figures must be markedly erroneous, and that being so will affect many of the computations. The number of births foe the year was 53,584; marriages, 21,016, and. the deaths 33,502. The increase over those of 1906 was: Births, 1,874; marriages 2,067, deaths, 720. An examination of the returns of births in the 18 cities of the Provinee shows a birth rate of 27.9, or 28.4 of the totat. In the fifteen tOwns the rate was 25.3 per thousand, or 65 per cent. of the total. The lowest birth rates were those in Dufferin, 15.8; Prescott and Russell, 16.0, and Lennox and Adding- ton, 17,0 per thousand. Of the births, 27,506 were males and 20,078 females, the males preponderating in the propor- tion of 105.4 to 100 females. The max. hum nunaher of births woe in the month of March. In 1007, 1,102 twins teem born and 24 teiplets. There were 21.915 marriages register. ed in 1907, 2,007 mere than in the preced- ing year. Windsor holds the palm aa ham ing a marriage rate of 36.2 per thous- and. This is, of course, an abnormal rate, due to its proximity to Detroit. &eluding marriages of nononsidents, Windsor's rate is below that of the provincial average. Marriage by banns has int detlined, as many people suppose. In 1808 the number of marriage by banns was 1,- 637. In 1007, ten years after, the num- ber was 2,446. The number of deaths registeree. ht 1907 was 33,602, a death rate of 15.0 per thonsand of the eatimatecl population of the Province. This is a rate of 1.0 Per thousand in excess of the aver- age for the decade. A table is given showing the number Of deaths from tuberculosis in each year since 1870. The total number of eileh deaths registered :since filet thee is 87,- 654. The ratio per thousand of the po- pulation, whieh was, in 1881, 1.27, had 10 years later decreased to 1.12, and in 1001 had further decreatta to 1.04. The pereentage of the -total number of deaths misled by tuberculosie remained at 11 per cent. during each renalla per- iod, nith the exeeption of 1891, when it Was plated. at IS per tent. It is gratify- ing to find that the ravages of the "Whate Plague" do not, ot least, ap- pear to be on the inereme. CHAPTER XXXVIII. And more than once in those long dreary hours it was almost despair that swept over that solitary man, so recent- ly the brilliant and well-nigh most reek- leee gambler in gay, excited Monte Car- lo, where the Waning passion had made its last most desperate effort for the mastery, and been beaten down forever by the mastery of love, and the sudden trausi• tion from wild Monte Carlo to the dead level of this place and grim waiting, was surely a. severe test of the strength of that love, and the depth of the rnan's nobler nature in which it had its roots. There was not one regretful looking back for itself to the glittering vice left behind, though it left the past a waste, a howling wilderness, and the preeeut and future a chaos, save for the one wor- shipped light of his better life—ay, of this whole existence. He tried to beguile time and. thought by. reading, then with music; but all in vain, The restless, unsatisfied longing would not be assuaged, nor the wound healed, save be, his darling's touch. He must pour out his whole soul at her feet —his hope, his misery, his penitence; and bitter self-reproach, all his passionate yearning for her presence, to tell her the truth, and hear ber dear lips take back the words, whose stern bitterness of truth still burned his heart like fire—"I am a gambler's wife!" He was too restless to keep still, and paced the long drawing -room, passing and repassing the open French windows, trying once more to unravel the tangled -web of his position and think out -the future, and again in vain. The hard injustice of his uncle's en- mity to the dead Mrs. DerengSr's un- known child stood out more f weibly than ever. It was unbearable, now that the real barrier was gone. It was jus- tice that his own sins shoudl have part- ed him from his wife, but not this blind prejudice. "It shall not bel" "the man muttered, fiercely. "It is maddening—maddening!' Then he suddenly stopped at the man- tel -piece, as he saw that the ormolu clock pointed the quarter to eleven. How late Pealimnee was! Had he lost his way, or been waylaid perhaps by some of those ruffians, far more of rub- bers than sturdy beggars, who some- times rove the country. At that moment, standing faeingthe immense ehimney-glass, he caught sight of a figure entering by the opeo window. —a woman's figure—a womanis face ut ghastly beauty, and wild, wide-open eyes of deadly fear. The man swung roand, and, with OItg step forward, throw open his arms, "Great heavenst what does this mean My wife—my preeloue wile! Heavens! are you unharmed?" For she literally flung herself upon his breast, clinging to Min in it pasaiou of terror and. relief, each breath dragged up in it deep, heavy sob, quivering from head to foot like some poor, hunted creature, even in that Wong, slheltering embrace, wrapped so closely to a hu - band's heat. "itly darlingl my lifel nothing shell part us again, come what may!" he said, se Christine struggled for the power ot speech, "tar the windows—the house!" she gasped, "The miners are out against you! I sent Rahmnee for help! Quiekl ask nothing yeti But bar up! Keep them out for a timel" He put her on to the sofa at once, without a question yet of the mystery, took from the mantel -piece his revolcer, leatle awl pick them off like itic0s4 in detail, after fair warning; 1 elickou they won't be game to try that, Bey deer. They'll go for the hall; door, 04 one of theme lower wiutlows, with lateen tam" "I vender if they have I got fire- arms?" said his wife. "Therotitre shety or seventy, the woman table" "I think that probably theifellowe--- the deniagognea Who have *seri the wind front the first—have got 'firearms. (Inc of them, ,To Snaith, is tour° to have some for my specie' behoof„ because I told bein, when I locked the yard -gate, that it was too late; hees the worst of 'the whole lot. Do yon boar?—titat is 'hoarse yoke now—their leader, as I thought." "Come on, metes!" orieel the voice outside. "The tyrent is caged, if he has got the tip. We'll give him n eltanee ceefumra.' anted the "tyrant" within. 'If it Very gracious, I'm sure I" eatirically were not for your peril, my darling, this would be eater a lark. There is the hall bell." It pealed furiously, resounding all through the spacious hall again and again. St, Maur stepped into the hall, Chrias tine following; and when the bell ceas- ed, there was n harsh., triumphant chuckle outaide from the mob. "That'll fetch hint out—must ha' hcarn that there noise." Not a Krung'. "They're packed before the door," eaid Falconer, 'with his soft, scornful laugh, "I'll gain time, if I eau, to give Frank a chance. Jove! I hope my poor Rahmuee is safe." "I say, mister—hallo 1" cried the rough, hoarse voice outside, heard plainly through a small irou vent -grat- ing in the top of the massive. door. 'Be you there, Mr, St. Maur?" Clear and true as a bell came the high -bred, musical tones and delicate aeeeut of the well-boru man: "I am here. What do you want at this hour?" "Two or three on us just wants a word with you, sir," "The idiots! To think they can tree me like a 'possum," said Fake ' Thou aloud: "Very well, Joe Smith! I am all at- tention. Speak on." you like, but so am eve can hear each otz::n the door, sir; on tho chain. it "We can hear fast enough with this door between us. (Inc to seventy isn't quite even odds, I fancy." Again there came that indescribable wave of sound, the fierce outcries of an enrageldoued: rowd, awl 0110 voice said sav- agely' gCluie1 ssthe aristocrat! Hear to his ton T ouSgth. IMorauhhii.enilvfklesel da°tIl'teelngood en- hissetife and laughed, theu stopped and kissed her, tenderly, "My dearest, how deathly pale you Are, yet how steadfast and fearless." Then he turned as some one struck the door a blow. "What have you got to say, Joe Smith?" "Open the door, sir, on the chain." "Not if 1 know it, my very gentle friends. I am nob suck a fool. Speak up, if you have anything to say, or 1 shall decline to listen at all." "Look ye hero, them roister; we wants to know if yell guy us a promise to end the lock -out, and we'll all start work. We all knows it's you as' as done that job so sharp to the clock Vother day,', "On the authority of your master— yes," returned St. Maur, deliberately. "And you had full, fair notice. Sharp to time, and my word kept—that's my way." "Will you end it, mister?" "Cin what terms?" "What you offered two days back— 4 per cent. advance." "Your memory seems bad," said St. Maur, coolly. "I offered that up till four o'clock; after that, a lock -out on the old wages. That was plain English, anyhow, and those are our terms—none gther." "Is that your answer to us?" Titewa e s a yell of fury, and above eyels..e it Joe Smith's stentorian roar, garnish- ed with oaths: "Is it? Then we'll smash in, and make ye sing another song for yer life!" Haughty Falconer's contempbuoms laugh Tang out clear. "I am ready for you with good pow- der and shot, and the first man that shows, t'll use it!" Another outbursb of execratiou, then a pause, as if the mob were gathering breath or debating their next move. Then the murmurs swelled to a Babel of voiees, evidently not all d'accord for an Attack after such a detertnirzed recep- tion where a "walk -over" had. been e- rected; but the' arch -scoundrel of all —the demagogue, Joe Smith—had got a certain sway, and Ms loud voice was soon heard: "What! afeaved o' one an, and ft little popping. More, ye say? In course some rat's prayed sneak and split on us, but we'll smash tho pair. No fear but my fine gentleman'll cave in when there's a pistol at 'is 'eadl Come on for them winders; the thetters'll crash afore this 'ere hoak door!" "The first sensible words the fel- low has uttered," remarked St. Maur, sareastically. "Now, Frank, Frank, ride fast—ride fast—for my darling's sake! Sweetest musk now would be the tramp of Donley's troop!" As he said that, 5 shower of blows from, doubtless, pickaxes and hammers, rained 'upon the solid, iron -girded shut. ters of the drawing-rooni with a heavy, thudding sound that senb the blood back in Christine's heart, bold as she was. She trembled for her lover—his fear wasfor her. "We must retreat upstairs," he mad. "In twenty minutes they'll break itt there." "Pak," exclaimed his wife, suddenly, "is there much wine in that dining. room?" (Te beedittiniterl.e windawe here first, All the lower windows, and those on She floor above, were fitted with very strong abutters, iron -damped and iron. barred; not folding, shutters, but, in feet, it solid, thick door, made to run back into it space in the wall, the glass window being on the inside of the room. These shutters St. Maur now pulled out and berred teems. "Stay there, my darling, for it few minutes end rest, whilst 1 bar up every aoor and window still not done. 1 dozed up all but this and a few others as.) soon as the people left." "I fear nothing near you, she an• swered. "Yott are still alive; that is all to me." It went out, leaving the door open, end she hoard him itt some other rooms, glutting and 'boring evindOws and. dO0f2. Then he retuned with wine arta food frein the tamper -table in the diningeromo, and bid her take that whilst he went' to make all safe upeteirs. Mrietints obeyed, for she teedea it after her terrible jouruey; Imb all the sj eu, Cures Sprano Tendon, Cellar and Saddle Gnus Isf alutaobaAva.,)VlunIPer. October Mb. 199%. "I bay, used your Stavin Cure On burtiog -Tendon with good reentte and i tau recommelitt it forcouar anis Saddle Uallaft j, lierlett. er§. all s SpavIn Cure " Naming to &mere sad stock:sou Is the pet 40 resrs, geuditil's aravis Ours ha* tawny sars4 millions of dollar; tor bons owniPrk 1: 1, the ono reinodY Omt cn ',ways be depended, • Upon to abeolutely cure Opevin, Itingbono, (Ant, Splint, Swelling' and luntenees. Never blietete, stare or torus tile bah. erbtte. .6g good tor man as for beast, KreP Keutlaii'M always bandy, "1, 0 for 5.5, Mon you buy at YoUr dealer's, got copy ottr boog "A Treatbe Ou The noree",--Ire tna -or Naito us 57 OR. B. J. BENDA 1.1. CO., Enofbnrg FgIs,VI. 4.1 • ir First Breach of Promise Case In A The fleet brealui scotrii;rotnise case has just been decided in Austria. It was brought by Fraulein Helen von Suss- mendl, the well-known operis singer, against aBron von Frankenstein. Some months ago 0. marriage was ar- ranged between them. The banns were published, the date of the eveddirig fixed, when suddenly the Baron declared the engagement at an end. Praulein von Sussmarull brought an netion of breach of promise. claiming 30,- 000 kronen damages. Before judgment was given an arrangement was -come to, the opera singer receiving 13,000 kronen 98 solution.—Froin the Magdeburger Zeitung, Making tho Wireless Compulsoty.. A bill has been introduced into the House of Commons by Sir Edward Sas- soon, Lord Charles Beresford, Walter Guinness, Sir Seymour Xing, Mr. Stew- art and Mr. Gwyene, proposing to, make it unlawful foie any ocean-going vessel, British, Irish or foreigmowned, eatrying 60 or more persons (Including passeng- ers and crew), to attempt to leave any Itritieh or Irish port unless equipped .with an efficient, appetatus for wireless communication, in gooa working order, in elutrge of it skillea person, the Appar- atus to be capable of transmitting ami reteiving ineleoges over it elietance at least 100 miles, by night or by day. These provielone will tot apply to ves- sels plying between British and Irish ports lesii than 200 miles nparteo-Eright- ter. 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Front 42 to X4 is meationed, by the president of the Aerial, League as the probable cost of s trip of. thirty miles only, • it is tree that airship sheds dor docks, to be more consistent) coat notslese than 42,000, and may cod well on. to e16,000, and Met an airship itself costa from. 410,000 to X111,000, and may very like. ly soon have aa accident which will cost much more to put right. Bub railway stations and railway trans, ana ospee- laliy lines, emit much more than this to build. We were all thinking that Lucerne was to have the first airship service connected with a German town, but now it seems that France is to have this lionor, The Lucerne -Germany service is not promised until next summer, while the Paris to Fontalubleau, Rouen, Lyons, Bordeaux, Pau or Nancy services are promieed, at any rate, some et them —by September next. There will be fire steerable airships of the Patric type, which will awry from eight to twenty passengers each, besidee crew. Paris will be their port and the docks will be at Issy. There will be four lines, oat toward the met, vie Reline (three of the stations on which are said to be prectically reedy), one toward the southeast (the stations On which are not yet begun), a third to- ward the southwest to Orleans Tours, Bordeaux and Pau, and is fourti to the west of Rouen via Sartrouville, width has a station aiready. The first airship Is ready and hes been teemed the Ville de Nancy,—The Queen, NmONNAIIMMENOMIONNIIMPAIIME•1•11001, A. POINT IN LAW. (National Monthly.) A prominent lawyer of Miami re - coney received a can from a colored woman. "What's the trouble?" inquired the lawyer. "It's about mall *le man. He's °ally - in' on high wit' a lot no -count gals, he is, an' sumfin's got to be done!' "Do you want a divorce?" "Go 'long, man. Divorce nuffin Think Pee gwine to gin him dee what lie -wants, an' low him to go sky-shoote in' round wif dem gals? Not on you' lifo, mister lawyer, I don't want to di- voree; what 1 wants is it 'junction." $11.00 Atlantic City and Return Via Lehigh Valley R. R., from Sus- pension Bridge, Friday, Sept. 2iid. Tick- ets good to return within 16 days, and stop -over at Philadelphia. Particulars 8 Xing street east, Toronto. What Women Are Saying. "Ono true heat, on which to rest, is worth all the fame in tho No one can live without love. Faith- fulriete to one person through life is possible, =mai and eight. If you cermet get the person von most want, it is better to take the person yOu can get than to live a, lonely life."— Laura jean Libbev, authoress and vaudeville monologist. "Beautiful gowns should Only- be Worn by beautiful Women. Stout o.nd rnicidle-aged women shordd never dress in the height of fashion. They should Create fashions of their own, which suit themselves. Then they Illantiov;always be attractiVe 'and charm- ing."—Lady Duff -Gordon (Mme. Lu. Still Room for Doubt. A western editor of national repute who had a sincere love fov real art was talking to a crowd of newspaper men at 011e of the New York clubs the other evening on what lie classed as "scamped" work—so-called impressionistic pictures Shat were merely rough and hurried sketches, and so-called portraits that bore no true likeness to their originals. "As an instance," said he, "I know a /nen here in New York who had his por- trait painted, last year. It cost him $4,000, and he was very proud of it. When it came he showed it to the cook. "SYcti, Mary,' said he, 'how do you like this portrait?' "'Sure, sore beamed the cook, with true Irish loyalty, 'it's lovely. It's eer- teenly beautiful. It's more than that, sor, it's divine.' "'And, of course,' said the man. 'you know who it is.' "Oh, of course I do, sore quickly re- sponded the cook. 'Of course. of course: As she said, this ehe draw closer and closer to the picture, studying it more intently, 'Of course, sore she added, 'it's you—or the mistress!'" e - * Snakes are unpleasant reptiles and most ladies would get very much excited if they knew there were three or four in the house. Yet snakes are cleanly and most kinds are harmless, but the house flies you allow to live in your kitchen and dining rooms are probably loaded with germs of in- fections and deadly disease. The remedy is found in the constant use of WilsoiftrIly-nds during the summer months. No other fly killer compares with them. - All Around the .Home. (By Cynthia, Grey.) The grape fruit for breakfast should. be cut in half the night before, the seeds all carefully removed, and sugar sprin- kled over the fruit. which should then be placed in the refrigerator over night. The result is a delicious fruit for break- fast, sans all: bitterness. To clean a straw hat, cut it lemon. in half and rub the eut surface over the soiled straw, squeezing the juice out while rubbing. The straw will soon be as bright as when new; then rub dry cornmeal over the straw with it sponge or rag to remove any particles of lemon. Or strain lemon juice through afino fabric and dip an old toothbrush into the juice and. scour the straw. Or dis- solve tartaric acid in water to make what is practicelly lemon juice. To get rid. of the red water svhieli is frequently founa at the bottom of tho kitchen boiler, empty it entirely and wipe dry. Then cement wash it, just as you would whitewash anythihg, and let It dry. before you put water into it. By so doing you will have no more dirty red water. Medi 'Weak. wears-, watery kilyes. Relieved By Murine Bye Itemedy. Try Murlrio For Your Bye Troubles, You Will Like Murine. It Soothes. 60e At Your Druggists. Write For Bye Books. h'ree. Murine Eya Remedy Co., Toronto. ••••••••••• Chapel With 70 Funerals a Day. The most remarkable mortuary chapel in A.morica is located in Calvary ceme- tery, Long Island, New York, and cost $180,000. The crypts or catacombs are for the burial of priests of the diocese of New York, tinder the charge of which the cemetery is maintained. At presenb but oe seal° nof the catacombs has been completed with accommorations for 24 bodies in, the concrete niches. But the section can be extended underground in four directions, and at any tittle an addition for 72 more bodies eau bo made. For a cryptal burial there is a lift set lute the floor of the chapel to lower the body to the level of the crypts. The record for burials at Calvary indicates that the mortuary chapel will be in almost constant use. The burials aver- age 70 a day awl often run as high as 120.-4'opular Mechanics. FAMOUS Say Ingle "The ttemer ten."--Xathaniel P. Willis. The expremeion, "Tao Upper Ten," mine to have originated. with Wobarbai P. Willie, the Ainericon poet oriel writer on varied subjects. Iu s coutribetion on "Noceseity for a Promenade Drive" Willis wrote "at preeent there la no distinction among the upper ten thou - and of the city." The idea /Remo to have impreened, James Foul -more Cooper, for In Ide "'rho Ways of the Hour,' published la 1850, he says: "lime families' you know, are our upper crust—notupper- ten thousand. The quoted Huesi appearfirst. in the Now York Mirror, which Willis aselet- od in establishing, and in which Moot of his work appeared during the twenty ;Twill he Was coneeeted with the poper, As a prose writer, of ease And elegance/ Willis was juetly admired. Ile was an observing traveller, and he knew how to present his adventures in glowing goners. However, his writings .were mar. roil by frivolousconceits one; he made merchandise of facts and opinions that he ;geared in private intercourse. These lase transgressions eventually led to quarrels and pen:Iona' encounters. Lockheed gave him a severe castigation in the Quarterly Review, and, with Capt. Marryat, then editor of the Met- ropolitan Magazine, he fought a blood less duel. Minard's Linimettt Cures Dandruff. 4 , Earliest Use of Mineral Ink, itt ancient times Indian ink, made from lampblack and glue, was used for writing en papyri; but inspection of the earliest MSS. on vellum or parchment shows that iron -gall inks were introduc- ed not later than the ninth century. The reason for the change, says the University Coresponetentwas that, al- though it carbon ink is more pennaneet, lb bag MO penetrating power and ecin be sponged front the vellum, whereas the iron ink bites into the fibre, ana resists the motion of air itild light. To fledute Erosion. The eresion of reservoir hanke by weve action may be reduced greatly, eteorcl- irig to a bulletin of 'the 'United Statee Department of Agrieulture by P E. Ful- ler, 'by locating it boom, of ola railroed aleepert or other timber Around the it - tier banks. The sleepers Istatita ba helit together by &eta eectirdy nailed, and the attire boom Anchored in it line three feet front the banks. This preeatiti011 Is euggsstecl in conteetiost with latiall earth reservoirs for irrigating small areas. .--t•-•••,• 4 • * TOUT HEALS. (Montreal Star.) In an Article entitled "The Faith that Heals," published in the British Medi cal Journal, D. Osier says: "Faith has always been an essential factor in the praotise of medicine. One good result of the recent dwrelopment of mental healing has been to call at- tention to its great value as a measure to be carefully and seientifically sp- 'plied in suitable eases. "My experience has been that of the unconscious rather than the deliberate faith healer. Phenomenal, even -what could be called miraculous, aures are snot very uncommon. Like others. I have had cases, any ono of -which un- der suitable conditions could have been !worthy of it ehrine or made tho germ of a. pilgrimage," Minard's Liniment for sale every- where, Worth Knowing. The skewers that come in meat, or the orange wood sticks, are very useful to clean out corners of windows, otherwise inaccessible places along shelves and baseboards and any crevice. One finds them indispensible after once using. All cooking teachers recommend, the frothing of chocolate. It should be beaten with a patent egg beater before Bonding it to the table, whether whip- ped cream is to be served with it or not. An English chocolate pot is sure to be provided with its long paddle whose handle goes through the ral the pot. As each cupful is served the paddle is turned briskly two or three time before the chocolate is poured off, the process being known over there as "ni,TrIldielidngehicken is easily prepared, and making an attractive dish, especially if there are stoned olives served with it, or quartered eggs around the mould, or chopped aspic jelly. Cold lamb, sliced Shin, is improved by a border of broiled tomatoes, and cold roast beef is ren- dered more appetizing by them also. •41, W There's nothing like ekit. Getting in training is easy. Loose, comfortable clothing is neces- Saryo. T begin with, one may walk a quar- ter -mile. The following day half a mile should be walked. Then edel a quarter of a mile every day until the four -mile point. Soma may find it an advantage to go up tho scale a bit more slowly. It may be mill in many cases to taker the half -mile, one -mile, two-mile and three mile walks SVM611 days bOtOTEe itt- temptlng an increase. Minard's Liniment Relieves Neural- gia. *SS. Indiana's Walking Saloons. He Walks along the streets on Sunday, it covered basket on his arm, a brazen gaze for all "coppers" and a sly wink for all dry drinkers. He is the "walking saloon,"brought into being by Mayor Shank's Sunday closing order. The po- lice are looking for him, but thus far have found only two of him. Two hun- dred mote of hint are .ttid to be tramp- ing the streets on Sunday. ) The walking saloon (lees not confine its efforts to Indianemolis. Ile may be found in any dry territory in Indiana at any and all times, ana more than three. fourths of the State is dry. The walking &anion does not carry it license; his only incumbrance is a big basket. He gets it on Saturday and peddles it On Sunday in the highways and byways of the city and the State. He is a puzzle to the police, for all bas- ket carriers are not walking saloons, al- though all walking saloons are basket carriers.—From the Indlanttpolis Sun. AT THE GAME. (New York Sun.) Xnieker—The cost of food has gone up. Bocker—But it doesn't coat arty more to pile the home plate with 200 pounds of beef, Minard's Liniment Cures BUMS, Etc. Sweeping. It's a bugehoo. And it's no wonder. Wath some persons sweep, They sitnply disperse clouds of dust. One women wipes up her carpets with it damp cloth. This eloth is wrung from water in which there is it little ammonia, Or tOrn•ttp newspapers, wrueg from clean water, may be scattered about. When swepb up they carry the dust. (Inc wont= dusts her furniture clad woodwork by wiping with it eloth moist. abed with turpentine. ISSUE NO. 85, 11,10 A, AGENTS WANTED. W.Evnno.".."ov..^• la ,ANVASFRORS WANTED. wrizici•T salary paid. Alfred TYlar, 51s,i vbto- ence street, London, Ont. Dr. ?darters Female Pills SEVENTEEN YEARS TM: sTANDA40 Preecrihed and recommended for wo- Men's ailments, a scientifically pre* pared remedy of proven worth. lfli result from their use is quick and per. manent. 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King street east, Hamilton, Ont. AN TINITSIIAL 000I1RENCE. Catholie Standard and Times.) Owlett—I had an awful time thinking up an mama to give my wife when r got home from the club last night. Asouni—Did sho demand one? Owlett—Of course; I got home so ear- ly it piqued "THE DEAD HAS DOME BUFF' "FRUIT-MIVES" MIRACLE MRS. JAMES FalsIWICK Enterprise, Ont., October est, e9o8. "I suffered tortures for seven long years from a Water Tumor. I was forced to take morphia constantly, to relieve the awful pains, and I wanted to die to get relief. The doctors gave me up and ray frieods hourly expected my death. Then I was induced to take "Fruit-a-tives" and this wonderful fruit medicine has completely cured me. When I appeared on the street again my friends exclaimed 'The dead has come to life.' The cure was a positive miracle." MRS. JAMES VEN'WIC.X. soc a box -6 for $2.so—or trial box, ese. At dealers or from Fruit-a-tives Limited, Ottawa. THE BETTER WAY. (Life.) 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