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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1909-8-12, Page 7CHAPTER kill, _ (Cont'd) "Hove you children of your own, ie('r.. Lyman V' questioned Lady _Bromley. "None at home, I asst sorry to •.say,madam, though I have two married sons living to the far West, -and I confess I shall sadly miss my present gentle little . companion when she is taken from me," said -the gentleman, with a suspicious huskiness in his tones, "Every fine .day," he'eontinued, . quickly recov- ering himself, "since she became well enough, I have wheeled her out in the open air, and we often spend hours together in this way. I un- ,derstood you to say that her name is Allison Brewster?" he conclud- ed inquiringly. ' `yqs i, Then I think it will be well to .address her so hereafter," lvXr,. Ly- man remarked. "We will do every- thing in ourpower to arouse the memory which has so long lain dor- mant." "Yes, yes; that will be well," -said Lady Bromley eagerly, and ;fust then her companion paused he - ;ore the imposing entrance to ex- tensive grounds. "This is our home, Mrs. Brom- .ley," he quietly observed. "Will 'you come in with us? ' I shallbe happy to introduce you to Mrs. Ly- -.man, and then we will all talk fur- -ther about our plans for our pro- -tcgee." Lady Bromley glaneed up as he ,spoke, to find herself standing be - 'fore an elegant. residence. The mouse, was built of brownstone, and was surrounded by beautiful .grounds, laid out and ornamented in the " most tasteful manner, the whole estate indica-rig unlimited means. "Thank you, sir, but I think not now. I am too agitated over this unexpected denouement to converse .connectedly with any one," her ladyship replied, with a tremulous 'smile, "I will, however, if agree- -able to you, call later in. the day, for there are still many questions which I would like to ask about this -dear girl.". She bent, down as she ceased .speaking, and earnestly studied the invalid's face. Again the maiden looked up anti =smiled confidingly at iter, and it was all she could do to refrain from -sobbing aloud, "Allison," she said, when she -could control her voice, "where is 'Gerald 7" The fair face clouded at the ques- tion ; a perplexed, wondering ex- pression 'crept into the innocent blue eyes, but no intelligence, Then she put ont one small hand and laid it caressingly upon the jeweled one resting on the arm of her chair. "Good-bye," she .said sweetly. "I'm tirednow, and I'm' going home." Lady Bromley bent lower still, and pressed her lips almost pas- sionately to the white, upturned brow. "God grentthat you may soon go home, and in your right mind," she murmured brokenly; then, turning abruptly away, she walked swiftly back to the house of her friend. She went directly to Mrs. Bry- ant's boudoir, where that lady was impatiently awaiting her return, and throweng herself into a chair, bowed her face upon her hands and wept as she had not since those first hopeless days attic]; her hus- band's death. Mrs. Bryant regareled her won- cleringly, but seeing that she was too much agitated to converse up- on any topic, considerately loft her to herself for a while,' and went be- low to give some orders regarding household matters. Upon her, return she, found her guest more composed, whereupon Lady' Bromley related all that had oeourre'd in connection with the dis- covery of Allison. "What a wonderful story !" said Mrs. Bryant, ae she concluded, and 1 think, Mabel, you have shown rare wisdom' in advising Mr. Ly- man to allow the surgeons to carry out .their plans, rather than arouse the anxiety and fears .of Winches- ter, and thus, perhaps, delay the operation indefinitely. Of course, if the result should not:prove to be all they hope, you could telegraph him, and he could tome en immedi- ately; Bub if, on the other hand, she does recover her reason, he will never fully realize what her condition has been, and that, ac- eorcding to niy way of thinking, will be a practical illustration of the cid adage regarding the 'bliss' of ignorance." "Still, it almost seemed like pre- sumption on my part to assume any authority in the matter," Lady Bromley replied, and flushing sen- sitively; "and yet I am sure that Gerald, of whom I, am very fond, will feel that I was actuated only by the best of motives:" "Certainty ,be will realize that, What et/ the outcome is," said hoe friend, "Besides, your discovery of her to -day was the merest aeoident. But for Ellen, you would have known nothing about her, and then the operation would have been per- formed and the die cast, The Ly - mane are fine' people, and ,very wealthy. I have never happened to meet them. I do not believe they go out much. But .I have friends who know there, andthey speak very highly of them. 'I have often seen Mr. Lyman Wheeling that pret- ty girl by the house, but, of course, I never dreamed but that she was his own daughter, or that such aro- mance was associated with her," "It isa very sad romance, in some respects," said her ladyship, with a sigh. "By the way, Helen, where is our little maid?" "I don't know. I. haven't seen her since' you went out. She was terribly excited over the discovery of Miss Brewster'. How did she happen to know anything about her?" Lady Bromley related the story of Allison's kindness to the poor, downtrodden girl, after which she went in seareli of 'her. Shefound her in her own room lying upon her bed, her face .swollen and discolor- ed, her eyes bloodshot from long- continued weeping. She had been smitten to the soul upon realizing that 'the beautiful girl -e whose image she had so en- shrined in her heart was a sense- less creature, albeit so gentle and sweet a one. Her first emotion up- on' beholding her in the wheel -chair had been one of wildest joy; but when she fully comprehended the. meaning of that vacant stare which greeted her expressions of delight- when she heard the childish bab- bling which' flowed from her smiling lips, the shock of horror and els- pulsion which went through her was one which she never forgot, and which almost broke her heart then and there. Lady Bromley, pitying her grief, sat down beside her and- tried to comfort her. She talked long and kindly to her, and encouraged her to hope that all might yet be well with the fair girl whom she so loved. When she had succeeded in calm- ing her somewhat, she told her to go to sleep and have a long rest, for she saw that she was almost prostrated by excessive grief. Then she went away to her own room, where she wrote a long let- ter to her brother, confiding to him all that had occurred, and asking him if she had done -right in allow - leg the operation upon Allison 'to proceed without • first consulting Gerald. She cautioned him not to betray anything to Gerald until after he should bear from here again. If he thought welt of what was being' done, or otherwise, she. wished him .to telegraph her im- mediately upon receiving her let- ter. She would receive the mes- sage in season to communicate with Mr. Lyman and. stop the work of the surgeons if he thought it best to delay their experiment. Her letter written and posted, she rested a while, then repaired to the home of the Lymans, as she had promised, ' She spent an hour or more with tie gentleman' and his stately but charming -wife, between herself and whom there immediately sprang up a. strong feeling of ,friendship, and which lateron ripened into an en- during affection. As she was on the point of leaving she turned ap- pealingly to Mrs. Lyman and, with starting tears, tremulously inquir- ed : "May I come to stay with you to- morrow while the surgeons are here 7" "Certainly you may, Mrs. Brom- ley" --they hadnot learned of her title yet. "I shall he very glad to have you with me; it, will be a great oomfort," Mrs. Lymanheartily re - spondee. "Of course,.I know," she added, "how anxious.you must feel ou Mr. Winehester's.account; but something seems to whisper to my heart that great things willresult from to -morrow's experiment." And with her own heart feeding upon those comforting words, Lady Bromley went' back to her friend and tried to possess her soul in pati- ence until the following day at twelve, which was the hour set for the momentous test of surgieal skill, Ten o'clock the next ,Horning brought her the anxiously looked - for message .from her brother, and his hearty approval of the course whish she had pursued did much -toward bracing lher nerves for the coming ordeal, It read thus: "Wonderful news! Let thein go ahead, by all means, Telegraph result immediately, G. must not, know until crisis is passed.-it.L," Sp, a little before noon, with a sense of restfulness and a calm though grave face, Lady Bromley: proceeded to the residence of the Lyinens. • Mrs, layman received her very graciously, anti with apparently the utmost eompoeuro, 4ltheugh an unM natural paleness betrayed that she seas by no means free from anxiety. A few momenta betore the clock struck the fateful hour, she con• ducted her guest to a conservatory at the rear of the house, where, sur. rounded by rare and beautiful plants, with birds singing joyously u their glided cages, and the musa- cal splashing of a fountain as an aceompanineent, sbo kept her talk- ing busily upon various subjects, She was =armies, in her delicate tactfulness, and did not allow the conversation to flag for a moment. There was always some rare exo- ttc or 4 profusion of bloom to call her attention to it there was the slightest pause, while she occupied herself by mulling here and there a bud and blossom, whieh she ar- ranged into a tasteful bouquet for Lady Bromley to take to Brs. Bry- ant when she returned. Thus more than an hour passed, and then a step sounded upon the marble floor et the entrance to the conservatory, when Mrs. Lyman, with a start, turned abruptly and went to meet her husband, He was very pale, but a look of indesoribable joy and triumph il- lumined his face. "Mother," he said, laying a fond hand upon the shoulder of his wife, all is well over, and the very best results are looked for." Then it became apparent what a strainthe woman had been labor- ing under—what a curb she had put upon herself. She sank weakly up- on 4 chair which stood near, She spoke no word, but herlips tremb- led, while her oyes still eagerly searched her husband's face, as he continuer]: "It was exactly as Doctor Lati- men thought—there was a fragment cf bone pressing upon the brain, and the moment it was removed, Allison cried out, as if from sudden fear : `Gerald, save me !' " CHAPTER XIV. There was a profound silence for a moment, Then Lady Bromley eagerly exclaimed: "Ab ! that shoes that the portion of her brain which has so long re - emitted inactive has resumed its normal condition.'' "Yes, or, as the surgeons explain it, thosewords formed part of a sentence which was probably in her mind at the time of that terrible railroad crash," Mr. Lyman return- ed. "They think that she may, per- haps, have had a momentary rea- lization of her danger, and her first thought was naturally of her lover and a desire for his presence to protect her." "That certainly'seems 'a reason- able conclusion," said her ladyship. "But !sow did she appear when she recovered from the influence of the ether 7" "She was very quiet. She did not speak, but looked curiously and inquiringly into the faces about her, A sleeping -potion was admin- istered to .her, and they are now putting her to bed." "And Doctor Latimer is really hopeful that all will be well7" queried Lady Bromley anxiously. "Very hopeful, There is a tiny spot that has to be trepanned, but it will in ne way disfigure our dear girl, for the hair can easily be ar- ranged over it," said the gentle man, smiling cheerfully into the white faces looking up at him. Mother," he added, with visible emotion, "we have lost 'our baby'— she has seemed such to us," he ex- plained to their guest, "but I am very sure that we have helped to give back a beautiful and lov- able little woman to her friends and to the world." "For which I give most hearty thanks," said Mrs. Lyman rever- ently. Then, rising, she put the flowers which she had gathered into Lady Bromley's hand, "Let every blossom bear .a sweet message of hope to your heart," she said, with a smile; "and jest ar soon as Allison is able to see you, you must come to tell her of the one whom you both love so well;" Feeling weak and almost exhaust- ed from the reaction of suspense t•o hpe, her Ladyship bade her new friends adieu, and returned to Mrs, Bryant's, when she despatched a telegram to her brother, reading, thus: -"`Everything is well over. Case pronounced very promising," She then wrote him a letter, to follow the telegram, giving details regarding the operation, and prom- ising to write every day, that he might know exactly Allison's con- dition, and ho could use his own judgment about revealing the truth to Gerald. . (To be continued.) A SLAM, "Would youbelieve it, my wife is jealous of me?" "No, I'd hardly believe it," "Which do yen prefer," said the artistic young woman, "music or poetry 4" "Poetry," answered Miss Cayenne, "Yost can keep poetry shut up in -a book. Yang don't have to listen to it unless you choose. 0-04Q+04-91.04-940-4-01*ca On t1t Farm ' offal DAIRY WISDOM. Do not neglect to use some good ily repellant in the days of ily tor- mtsrit. The fly pl,agu.o costs a greater; sum than ere, dairymen can afford. The shrinkage will amount to ten per cent, or more every day. Not only is there a loss in milk and butter fats, but the cows shrink in weigbb, causing still further loss. Give the cows comfort in the stable and pasture, and Lite profits of the dairy svi11 be doubled, • Keep the stable and yards abso- lutely clean and spray or sprinkle with a good disinfectant so there will he no breeding places for flies. A good formula for spraying the cows is the following: To one quart of kerosene add a tablespoon- ful each of oil tar,' fish oil, carbolic acid and oil of pennyroyal. This mixture, thrown in a fine spray on a cow, is death to dies and mosqui- toes. See that the cows have access to pure water at all times. Arid a pure-bred Jersey or Guern- sey or two to the herd, It will improve the butter. Keep rock salt in all the mangers and in a box in the pastures. Clover is pastures in good while it lasts, but it is soon crowded out or dies out itself. If the grass in the pasture is tall and plentiful, do not lot the cows stay in it all day when they are first turned out. A few hours will be enough for ono time. Where the cows are kept all the time in the same field, they tread down the grass ao that there is much they will not eat. By having a new field to turn them into each week, you will give the grass a chance to straighten up and be washed clean ' by the dew and shower. Then the cows will eat it and do much better on it. Set the cans and other dairy things so that the sun can pour right down into them. ' Then the germs and things will scramble to get to some other farm. If your cows ever get to breath- ing hard, look up their nostrils and see if a stick is lodged there. LIVE STOCK NOTES. A good dust bath does more to keep the chickens free from lice than does the occasional dosing with louse powder, and for this reason should always be a port of the poul- try fixtures. Skim milk and grass fed together make a valuable ration, and in the case of growing pigs the milk is sold at a good profit. Carefully con- ducted experiments prove that such milk is "worth twenty to forty-five cents per hundred weight when so f ed. At this time of year horses suffer a great ,deal from hard, dry hoofs. A good soaking does them good Just to drive through a bit of water once in a while is better than nothing. During the hot months a small lot near the stables with a good, smooth, firm sod where the workhorses can be turned loose for the night, after the even- ing meal and grooming, is ideal, and will prolong their usefulness. In the days of our grandfathers it wasalways a disputed point whether the slightest benefit could be gained by causing ewes to rear two lambs instead of one. Nowa- days, the utility is held to be un- questionable, very much in conse- quence of ewes end lambs being subjected to more liberal feeding. In the old days, farmers employed auxiliary feeding substances only sparingly, If the lambs had to be fattened off early, the advantage of giving a little special food was seen, but, as a rule, was restricted to fattening sheep, hence the almost universal opinion that it was better to have one strong lusty lamb than. two weak ones. FARM NOTES. It is a good idea to cut off the corners of a field surrounded by wire fence with a heavy pole. This will keep the stook from crowding into the corners and being injured. The future happiness, welfare and existence of the country depends. upon the cultivation of the soil. Any country that depends upon any other source as a chief depend. eat has failed, The cultivation of the land is the first and greatest. element of success and permanent prosperity. Nearly everybody knows that milk in a jar or bottle can bo kept cool on a warm day by covering -the ves- sel with a wet cloth, but not every- body knows how to keep the cloth wet, This can be done by setting the vessel .in a shallow dish of water, which will be taken up by capillary attraction.. Buckwheat is one of the few grain crops which may be planted about the middle of July with a prospect.of a good yield, the crop maturing about the middle of Sep- tember, A good point of the crop s its ease of growth, not being at all particular about rich land or ertilizing. In fact, buckwheat will grow almost anywhere en land that at good for any commercial oi'ap, Seeds should be put in with the seed drill, using about .one bushel to the aero, A NIGHT -BLOOMING CACTUS, Matthew 0: e8, Where interest in nature Was earnest' and keen A night-hloonaing oaotus In blossom wee seen, That blossom was fashioned With infinite ears: Withsweetness of ineense It scented the air. Unique in its structure And strange in its plea, it wholly discarded Inventions of plan; For while it was lacking In branches and stein, It bore as its blossom This beautiful gem. Before its possession Of beauty so prized For long it waited And oft been despised. Then name its fair blossom This truth to melee plain:— The life of sweet patience Is never in vain. It never was noticed To murmur and sigh That mortals were careless And dark was the sky : It sought not a summer Long-lastingand bright: It bloomed in its beauty I' or scarcely a night. ]ts beauty reflected That Eye which surveys With equal precision Our nights and our days. It told of that wisdom And patience sublime Which brightens with beauty Each moment of time. It echoed the teachings Of nature's great King :— "Receive from the blossoms The message they bring;" For those who are patient In seasons of pain In glory immortal With Jesus shall reign, T. WATSON. Granthurst, Ont., 1009. MONARCHS AS SMORLRS. Some Like Cigars and Cigarettes, Others .Fond of a Plain Pipe. During the last few days the Sul- tan of Turkey was shut up in the Yildiz Kiosh he is said to have smoked over thirty cigarettes ever hour to "cool his nerves." leer. years Abdul Hamid has smoked doz- ens of strong cigarettes every day, and it can be said without fear of contradiction that he has been the most ardent devotee of the free rant weed that was ever seated up- on a throne, says London Tit -Bits. King Edward likes cigars, cigar ettes and a pipe. He, however, has no liking for American made cigar- ettes, his favorites being mild Tur- kish. In his young days his Ma jesty smoked cigarettes and nothi.,g else, but now he is more loud of a good cigar than "tobacco wrapped io paper." His everyday cigar is specially made for him in Cuba of the finest tobacco. The German Emperor smokes cigars and cigarettes oat of doors, but when in the privacy of his study he puffs at .a small wooden pipe of the type favored by the average smoker and costing about half a dollar, The Kaiser consumes vari- *us kinds of tobacco, sometimes a mixture, and his cigars, which come from Cuba, cost about fifty cents each. The King of Spain keeps strictly to the cigarette. This is rolled in paper ungummed and requires very careful smoking to keep whole. Al- fonso's cigarette is about as pecu- liar as the cigar which the Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria used to smoke. The latter was fitted with. a straw tube and lia.d to be held in a candle flame for a minute or two before it could be made to draw. The Czar of Russia and the Prince of Wales favor the pipe when in private, but their smoking imple- ments are of little value. A small pipe of tho "bulldog" type is af- fected by each and the tobacco they consume is of the common, inexpen- sive kind. Bismarck was an ardent devotee of the weed and it was his boast that he consumed over 100,000 ci-. gars in fifty years. Thomas Alva Edison probably holds the record for the number of cigars smoked daily by one man, for he has con- fessed that while ten cigars are hie normal allosvance he consumes don- hie that number when deeply ab- sorbed in work. Edwin Booth, the tragedian, often smoked twenty- five cigars a day and his dresses used to stand in the wing with a lighted cigat in his hand ready for the great actor when he made his exit, Dr. Norman Macleod, a fam- ous Scottish preacher, used to keep a box of eigars in his vestry and after service would regale himself with a "puff," much to the horror '1 his elders, Tennyson', love for his pipe was proverbial, It was the great poet's boon companion and an Irish clay was his favorite, Baskets of clay pipes ready for use were stacked arena the walls of his study and as many as 200 were to be found lying loose en tho floor. ABOUT MALAY PIRATES WII.A.T TREY ACTUALLY WERE IN T]IEIR GREAT :P ML .', Recorded That the Worst Malay Pirates Were Not Mafaya at All. About 186o Rajah Brooke put the number of those w1;1r swept the coasts of Borneo alone, going and returning with the monsoons, at Ave thousand, When Consul at Bruui, somewhat latter, St. John estimated the population which lived, as one may say, by piracy, at sixty thousand, And if "casu- als" had been included, with their. women and children, it would have been vastly larger. writes Freder- ick Boyle in the Pall Mall Gazette, The judicious reader instantly replies that trade must have come to an end promptly under this in- fliction, But the ruffians did not depend on plunder. It was wee come, but they sought slaves—and blood, Inexplicable as it semis to us, the parompaks, though most- ly Mohammedans, regarded their employment as a callinlg or profes- sion to which they were born, With no thought of wrongdoing, appar- ently, they murdered harmless fish- ermen, sailors or peasants dwelling on the shore, if too old or feeble to be worth transport, and tortured those whom they carried off. Among the most dreaded pirates also were the Seribas and Sakarien Dyaks, Rajah Brooke's future sttb- jects, who wanted heads and no thing more; all plunder they sur- rendered to the Malay chief, who provided the praus and navigated them. But these were A LOCAL SCOURGE. It is not very surprising to learn that the worst Malay pirates were not Malays at all; that unfortu- nate race bears a good many im- putations which it does not deserve. The Lanuns, or Illanuns, dwelt ori- ginally in Mindanao, a great island of the Philippines, where Damp - ler found them peaceable enough, working gold. They were not a seafaring people then, though the chiefs had their gorgeous barges. The Balinini came from S1ul ; in feet, that was apiratical name for the islanders, otherwise, called Su- lus. Perhaps it was they who 'start- ed the abominable practice, for the Spaniards were provoked into send- ing an expedition against them as early as 1889. It failed, as did many another, "and from that time," says the old historian Zuni- ga, "it is incredible what a num- ber of Indians (Filipinos) have been made prisoners, what villages have been destroyed, and what vessels have been captured." But the Spaniards succeeded at length in making Mindano too hot to hold the Lanun freebooters, who dispers- ed, forming settlements up and down the China Sea, each of which became A CENTRE OF PIRACY. One can understand that this way of life fosters courage and enter- prise as well as seamanship, The daring of these two peoples especi- ally was superb. In their praus cf fifty to a hundred tons burden they started every year with the moonsoon for a cruise of six or twelve or even eighteen months. Nothing daunted them until the treacherous European invented steam. Once the Lanuns sent a for- mal challenge to Batavia, inviting the Dutch fleet to a duel en regle; they did not turn up at the rendez- vous, but experts believe that the cartel was delivered in good faith. The length of their cruises is scarce- Iy credible. Wallace says the Sulus not infrequently reached Ceram and New Guinea. They were brave to madness, full of life and energy. Some boys were taken in the fight between the Rainbow and a squad- ron of Lanuns in 1362, of which Bishop MacDougal wrote a fam- ous account in the Times. Carried to Sarawak, these urchins instant- ly put themselves at the head of the native youth, and organized it for mischief. I once heard the coin- niandant say to Rajah Brooke : "We shall never have good order ir, the town again until you send those Lunan brats away!" It is a question whether these races took to piracy because they were more intelligent, of STRONGER CHAR/ICTER, than their neighbors, or whether piracy developed their faeulties; but certainly they were the most vigorous and hopeful of the peo- ples called Malay. Crawfurd ad- mits that the Sulus had attained a "considerable civilization" of their own ; in fact, Hunt's report on the main island, drawn up for Sir Stamford Raffles, pictures it a gar- den, admirably cultivated by a free and happy people, Doubtless the pirates were law-abiding and in- dustrious when at home. But the high prosperity represented by ear- ly travelers carne to an end under the repeated .attacks of Spanish, Dutch and British squadrons. le 1878 the: Spanish were able to con- quer Sulu. That inoubsis has been removed, happily, and see may hope that the former pirates will show their capacity as leaders in the march of progress, under Am- ericen rule. • seelleceeseeegeseete0Cletteettettelsrasto011 YOUNG FOLKS WREN ROBIN TALKED. Felix came in with a troubled little faro, "Mother," be cried, "do you think Robin 18 going to he deaf and .dumb ;" "Deaf and dumb ," mother re- peated, looki t;, puzzled. "What- ever put that into ,your head7" "Why, the t;tauleys all sayhe is going to be deaf u:.d dumb, boause he is almost two years old and hasn't talked yeti" '`Dear mei" •laughed mother. "Don't you worry one mite about Robin, Two years• isn't so eery old 'not to talk. He'll chatter fast enough pretty soon. Some chil- dren learn to talk a great deal younger than others," When the little 'brother waked up, Felix took him to the window to see the children coming home , from school. "Thera is Herbert Grant," Felix amid. "Can't Robin say, 'Her- bert' Herbert' 7 " But Robiu only wriggled joyful- ly on Felix's knees, and waved his fat little hand. "There's Paul s banley 1" Felix pointed to the boy going into the yard across the street. "Robin, say "Paul Stanley.' " "Oo -oo—o 1" was Robin's hap-, ey answer. "I wish you would try to talk, Robin, dear," coaxed Felix, "I don't want folks to think you can't," "I wouldn't bother about it," mother said, overhearing his plea, "I love to!" cried Felix. But although' Felix continued his lessons day after day, Robin said not a single word. One noon the brothers were at the window, as usual, when Felix's attention was taken up by the cap- ers of a boy down the street, and he quite forgot to watch for the Stanley children. Then suddenly there was a glad cry of "P -a u -I!' right in his ears. He turned and stared at Robin, too amazed for a word, "P -a -u-11" exclaimed Robin again, waving his hand excitedly. "0 you darling !" cried Felix. He threw open the window. "Pauli" he called. "Iitbin said 'Paul' 1" "Oh, I don't b'lieve it!" he laughed. - "P -a -u-1 !" cried the little voice. "Hurrah!" shouted the boy, and came darting across the street, ' want to hear that nearer." he said. Robin was saying his first word to his mother when Paul reachel them. Felix was ,afraid the baby would not say it,,again. "Now say it once more for Paul Stanley," Felix urged. "P -a -u-1," patiently repeated the little one, and then, while they were exclaiming and ,praising, he euded, with it mighty effort, "! -a-n- n-e-y 1" Felix nearly went wild. Paul shouted with ,glee, and darted away home to tell the news. In a minute or two the whole Stanley family was in the Taylor kitchen, hearing Robin say "Paul," which he did again and again,— Youth's Companion. RESTOREDIS SIGHT. Blind for a Year, but Operation was Successful. How the skill of a London surgeon has brought back sight to a man who had been blind for more than a year was told by Mr. B. Cahi, rec- ently treated at the Royal London Ophthalmic hospital. The injury which caused total blindness in both eyes was the re- sult of an explosion in a gold mine at Johannesburg in March, 1908. "After the explosion," . Mr. Call stated, "I called out in the dark- ness for some of the boys to bring a, candle. When one of them final - !y insisted he was holding a light- ed candle before my face I knew I was blind. I was in hospital in Johannesburg under several elec- tors for the next three months, and then in July came to London and was treated at the London Ophthai- mis Hospital. "Becoming inpatient I went to Vienna, where I consulted two die iferent specialists. Both told me there was absolutely no hope of my ever regaining my sight, and ad- vised me to enter a home for the blind. I returned to the London Ophthalmic Hospital, and in Feb- rwuary of this year an operation as performed on my left eye (the right having been totally destroy- ed), anti now, by means of glasses,: I can see fairly well and oven road fine print," '8 Soenc-Grammar Claes. Dialogue between teacher and Johunio. Teacher --"What is ilia futm'e of `he drinks'' 1" Johnuio--''Ha 1s drunk," When the police get', a mite's Ojai he can't conceal himself among the branches of his family tree,, a Some men are homeless and some 1'; aon't souse enough to go home, /At pian who talks to himself hears at lot of silly remorks, -