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CHAPTER VII,-(COont'd) neighbor's wife, down you go for-
l�f SECREi Of f
It is 3 o'clock, there is a faint,
suggestive light which mealis the
dawn, young birds are twitting,
there is a delicious scent of green
leaves, of ialleblown roses, of dewy
masses; the air is damp and warm
he can hear the feet of blackbirds
' scraping and turning over the mold
and the . grass; it is dark, yet he
can distinguish the masses, of the
great woods beyond the gardens
the outline of the trees near his
easement, the shape of the clouds
as they move slowly southward. He
wonders in what part of the old
house, whose fantastic roofs and
turrets; and gargoyles and ivy -col-
ored buttresses -are hidden in the
dusk of the summer night, they have
.given the Princess Sabaroff her
chamber, He remains some time at
the open window, and goes .to itis
bed as the dawn grows rosy.
"bore] Blanford is in a very bad
temper," says Mr, Wootton, when
the smoking -room door has closed
on the object of his detestation.;
when he pauses, and adds eignifi-
caatly : ' `The Blauf. - rds, you know,
wore always a little -just a little -
clever family, .very clever, but WO
all know to what great wits are
sadly often, allied, And this man
bas never done anything with his
talent and opportunities; never
done anything at all!"
"He has written first-rate.
books !" Bays Usk, angrily, always
ready to defend a friend in absence.
ever. And yet," continues Mr.
Wootton pensively, "people do ad-
mire their neighbor's wife in Eng-
land, and it seems a venial offence
when one compares it; with the de-
sertion of txorzton, or the encour-
agement of a hydra needed greed
for the rich man's goods."
With whioh Mr, Wootton yawns
rises, and also declares his inten-
tion to go to bed.
The young duke follows him and.
walks by his side down the oorri-
'dor. He is not at. all like Disra-
eli's .young duke; he is awkward,
shy, and dull; he is neither ami-
able nor distinguished; but he has
a painstaking wish in him to do well
by his country, which is almost
noble in a person who has been
toadied, indulged, and' tempted in
all ways and on all sides ever since
his cradle days. It is the disinter-
ested patriotism which has been so
hugely the excellence and honor of
the. English nobility, and whioh is.
miry possible in men of position so
high that they are raised by it from
birth alione all vulgar covetous
nese or pecuniary needs.
"Do you really think?" says the
duke, timidly, for he is very afraid
of Henry Wootton. "Do you real-
ly think that to have any influence
on English public life it is .neees-
eary-necessary-to keep so very
straight, as regards women I mean,
you know?"
"It is most necessary to appeer.
to keep very straight," replies Mr.
iOli. books !" says Mr. Wootton, Wootton. The two things are ohvi-
with bland but unutterable disdain. ously different to the meanest ea
Mr.: Wootton is a critic of books pacity, .
and therefore naturally despises The young man sighs.
them, "And to have that - that-ap-
"What world you have him do?" pearance one must be married1"
growls Usk, pugnaciously. 'Indisputably, Marriage is as
Mr. Wootton stretches his legs necessary to respectability in any
out and gazes with abstracted air great position as a brougham to a
at the ceiling. "Public life," he doctor, or a butler to a bishop,"
murmurs. "Public life is the only replies tbe elder,; compas-
possible career of an Englishman sionately at the wick of his candle.
of position. 'But it demands sacri- He does not care a straw about tbe
flees, it demands sacrifices." duke, he has no daughters to mar
"Yon mean that one has to mar- ry, and Mr. Wootton's social em-
ry1" says tho young duke of inence is far beyond the power of
Queenstown, timidly, dukes or princes to make or mend.
Mr. Mniotton smiles on him loft- They are words of wisdom so pro -
By. "Marry, , yes, undoubtedly, found that they sink deep into the
and avoid scandals - afterward; ;soul of his pupil and fill him 'with
avoid, beyond all, those connections a consternated sadness and perplex
which lend .such a charm to exist- ity, The temper of Lady Dawlish
ecce, but are so apt to get into the is a known quantity, and the
newspapers l," quality of it is alarming, Lacly
There is a general laugh. 'Dawlish is not young, she is good -
Mr, Wootton ]las not intended to looking, and she has debts. Lord
'make thein laugh, and he resumes 'Dawlish has indeed hitherto let
With stateliness; as though they had her pay her debts in any way she
'snot interrupted him: "The country' chose, being occupied enough in'
expects those sacrifices; no man "paying such of his own as he eon-
.pucceeds in public life in England not by any dexterity avoid; but
r,'make does net i ake them." there is no knowing what be may
3
"Melbourne, Palmerston, Sydney do any day out of caprice or ill-
H.crbert ," murmnrs one rebellious nature, and although he will never
hearer. obtain a divorce, IM may try for,
Mr, Wootton waves him aside as one, which will equally effectually'
be would an importunate fly: "Not convulse the duke's county and the
to touch on living persons, I would cathedral city which is situated in
`le • Lord Althrop as the model ite center. His own affair with
'� ge ct p is
of the public leader most suited to Lady 7'---" h is he firmly believes
this semen -no' It would not suit
lord Blanford to leadthe blame -
is life ea Lord Althrop. It would
1t suit him even to,pretend to lead
t
1
doubt if he could even look
e pail: if he tried. The English
a. Peculiar people; they always
,ix public and private life to -
Other, Lord Beaconsfield .remark-
ed to once-^"
And Mr. Wootton tells a story of
Disraeli, a very good' story, only
lie has taken it out,of the journals
lathe Prosiden des Brosses and
thered _ it on to Disraeli. But
w i l)e Brosses is an author seldom
an now, and nobody knows; if
cy did, nobody would care,
Mr. Woolton here knocks a little
h oft his cigar and smiles like a
an thio has said something
natiy.
r.": It is the first time I ever heard
ytin compliment genius," murmurs
' win nee Hamilton,
,"1n Italy, ' pursues Mr, Woot-
titin, not eery ling ago a minister.
Was 00en0051 of buying a piano ant
A .of the public funds •for his lois-
- tress. .Neither the piano nor the
Mistress hurt the gentleman in pub -
lie estnualion in that soft and ac-
cotttmoaathng clime, But that
puu10', through lie might have pried
'for it with his own mpney, week./
" hay.e ruined an English- politician.
Thou li it hail been the very.smal-
last cottage piano conceisable, itJ,
eWould have buries hint forever un-
Ale e ilk it if it had gob talked, about;
lie would never have exltfi.ned it
0,vay, or made it even contingently
endurable to the nation. You may,
ji you are a public man in Eng-',
land,,, commit: every ceneeivable
L lttticler, acid millions to the nation
al debt,' eat, your own words every
evening 1n dehate, acid plunge the
country into an abyss of u)nilee--
P11rah10 nem lit tion, and ,they will
still have confidence in ,you if you
gcaci the lessons la eluu•ch and walk
home with your wife; but if it it
aver rnrner'1d tba-0, you admire your
THE HORHOS Of.
STaMACH JORTIJRE
rN»XGTSTION 01-e A LXFM. 'l:AUE
X'ROM\LGTEIG CUBED 1.Y
I IiU]IT-A=TIVLr6."
'Airs. 3, R, block. of pondon, Ont,,.
far years-reoeived the beat' medical
attention that. Canada afforded.
hIer husband was a prominent.p1iY-
stelan, yet his skill and. that .of his
colleagues, was of no avail in helping
Airs. Flock.
She writes, "I was a constant mar-
tyr to Stomach 'Weakness all my life
and no physician could euro me, but
'Fruit-a-tives' Save me entire relief.
and 0 ooriliallyrecommend this fam-
ous fruit medicine to the public."
"Fruit-a-tives" corrects all cum,
tiers of digestion, and is a positive
and speedy cure for Indigestion. Dys-
pepsia and Constipation,
"Fruit-a-tives" are sold by all deal-
ers at 50e a box, 6 for $2.50, or trial
box, 210, or may be obtained from'
Frust-a-tives, Limited, Ottawa.
:e ,0,114 ,and even there we dlffer-
he is the toryism of feel, mine is
the toryism of the late Lord Derby
-there are leageee, between the
two,"
(Ta be continued.)
s.
'WIGS AND BEARDS. 11-I
Bordered on the Grotesque In England
In Queen Anne's Time.
At the restoration wigs began to be
more generally worn, and In Queen
Anne's reign- they became the most
costly item of geotlelnen's wardrobes.
Sir- Richard Steele's ":Cull buttoned
blaolc wig," cost 50 guineas (about
$255), and the fashion became so euro.
brows that Colley' Cibber when play-
ing "The Foot 0f Fashion" to satirize
the 'styles introduced a wig of pas se
large that it was brought on 1110 stage
in a sedan chair. As a matter of fact,
the stagecoach lines were compelled to
restrict the length of wig boxes to
three feet.
3olen Taylor, one of the Englisb mi-
nor poets, thus depicts the beards of
his day:
Some seem as they were starched and
line,
Like to the bristles of an angry swine,
And some, to set their loves desire on
edge,
Are cut and pruned lice a quick set
hedge;
as I :said before, all depends on the some like a spade, some rise a toric some
lady's tem er • no woman who has square,
y p , .some round, some mowed like stubble,
a bad temper is ever truly discreet. some quite bare,
Soma sharp stiletto fashioned, dagger -
Good -night to your grace;" and
s candle That may In whispering a man's eye out-
Pyke.
Some like a hammer cut or Roman T;
These beards extravagant reformed must
•
Mr. Wootton with hi dis-
1155
appears within his doorway.
CHAPTER VIII.
"Alan is really coming t0-day1" some will, the quadrate, some triangle
says Dorothy Usk to her lord with fashion,
pleasure a few days later,some circular, some oval In tranalatton;
p y looking some perpendicular in longitude,
up from a telegram. Bome like a thicket for' their craesltude;
"How you excite yourself l" says Thus height, depth,
ep h, breadth. trlform,
Usk, with a rude disdain. • "What Arid rules
square, geoovmetrical in beards abound.
can you see to care .alemetl He is _National )\iagazine
a pretentious humbug, if ever there _
was one:'
"George l" She regards him with GREAT ON STATISTICS.
horror and amaze. 'Is he wholly But He Found His Wife Knew a Thing
out of his mind'? Her cousin is or Two About Them Also.
Lady Usk's ideal of what an Eng-
lish gentleman should be. He does Mr. Ewing was "greaton statistics,"
not keep black women down in as his enthusiastic, son put it. He
Warwickshire. read religiously and memorized all the
„ little statistical items at the bottoms
"A pretentious humbug, 1e- of the newspaper columns and was in
peats Usk. He likes to ticket his the habit of referring to one of the
relations and connections with well- well-known year books whenever a
chosen descriptions. "All good question arose as to the exact amount
looks and soft 'salvder; women like of wool imports or the population of
much pride.
that. sort of thing—" a certain town, In this habit he took
„
Of course we like good man- m'Now, you," he said to his wife one
ners, though they are not your day"re like most women, my dear,
weakness," interrupts' his wife with} fn that,a
you have no head for figures.
acerbity, "Alan has the manners I dare say, for example, that you don't
8f a man who respects women; know how many negroes there are in
that may seem very tame to you
and your friend Bianforcl, but in
these days it has at least the charm
of novelty,"
"Respects women 1" Usk is un-
able to restrain his hilarity. "My
dear Dolly, you're not a chicken ;
you can't mean that you don't know
that Gervase—"
"I know that he is well-bred.
You were so once, but it is a very 1 What is the matter, my dear P" he
long time ago," replies his wife 1 asked as he, noticed bit wife's eager-
with cutting sententiousness, and I near to speak.
with that unkind reply site leaves , "Oh, nothing in particular, only I
him As if she did not understand
AXLE GREASE
15 the turning -point to economy
in wear and tear of wagons. Try
a box. Every dealer everywhere,
The !Imperial 0 11 Qo., Ltd.
OaterIs AtenlsI The Oueen Clty 011 Co„ V$,
AStew-legg used the pint ps tem a er raaitle,
by dies lving azangl.,tel ruaar �n wetq es
edd es apishet,, a eeodonr r p ie gid d
a syrap b sag i5' mmpk, a ]stn i gQi
growrre, 11 t seed Sec .fat 0 o0. !MVO
redpt hiook. s.lreseg l,i rKe., Soattfa,
On the Farm
tD is wv as as w t�"a�s t9
SWINE ON DAIRY FARMS.
On dairy farme where the skim-
med milk carr be retained for use,
the feeding of it tb pigs can be made
very profitable where the farmer
has arrangements that are suited
to the purpose all the year around.
There should be shitable accommo
datious for gold weather, as with
these and a fair supply of milk and
grain and proper care the business
can. be made as profitable in win-
ter as in summer,and often more
so. And first there sliouid be the
selection of the breed thought to be
best,, all things considered, for the
locality, paying particular attention
to that of the sow for breeding pur-
poses. These should be of the best
type and form, docile and quiet,
that will make good mothers, then
keep them several years. This will
be found more satisfactory than
making fregaent changes.
There should be at least two
good litters of pigs in a year. The
sows should have suitable quarters
in winter, ample, comfortable and
kept dry and well bedded. In sum-
mer she may run in a yard or small
field where it will be better for sow
and pigs than in a pen. The sows
should bo well cared for at all
times, not fat, but in a thrifty,
healthy condition. -
A farmer with an average -sized
dairy should have at least one good
brood sow or more where needed.
One will usually furnish enough
pigs to grow up and fatten on the
farm, at least, and this means quite
a saving when otherwise they would
have to be purchased. From the
returns from this one sow it good
sum should be realized either from
pigs sold at weaning time, or as
fattened on the farm.
My attention was lately called to
this town, a thrifty;good-looking Berkshire
No, I don't,"replied the lady andthat t•he owner stated had
was going to say more, but he inter. reareow,d 21 out of 28 pigs for the first
rupted her.
And I don't suppose you know the year. These had either been sold
rate of the tariff on silk goods," he or were valued at $69 at four to
continued triumphantly, "and me in five weeks old at going prices. This
the business, too," he added. would more than equal the aver -
"No, I don't," said his wife again, age product -of the dairy cow, while
"but"- the cost of keeping world be con -
All these things," went on the man, p g
"have their bearing on our daily liven siderably less.
This is certainly e goon record for
the first of any year, and at usual
prices,
On 20 -cow farms there should be
an income of from $100 to $150 from
pigs grown and fattened on the
farm. There should be two broods
of these and each should be grown
and fattened in six months' time.
This will require some grain along
with the milk, but the process
should be continuous from weaning
to slaughtering time, and this will
with a sensation of amusement; "it ! socks?" require some attention and care.
would be too funny after running so "why -why -you always buy them The prices for meats are now
straight all these years, and just as for me, my dear," replied her hus ; proportionally higher than for
known to no human being. save her slaughters are growing up -but band, smiling, and I'in sure I can't i grain, so it will pay to feed as liber -
themselves and their confidential -they are often like that, say'i ally as seems to be necessary,
servants; lee little dreams that it He is nob sure whether the idea �\'1iat size are my. stoe]:fnga?" And then thate is another thing
has been the gossip of all London, diverted or irritated him, but he MWh Eb sureba e Mary'seordTommy's? jthat. should be considered in eon -
until London grew tired of it; ho knows that he has always detested What sire shoes do they wear? How • nection with this business. and that
it h a we need for lis the snakin of quite a large
n and s e- t do
is' indeed aware that everybody in-. Gervase, such n coxcoi b many pounds of meag 1
vited' them in the kindest manner humbug as .the fellow is 1 1 dinner? what is the .measurement of !
together, but he attributed this "Respect women, good grad amount of excellent manure, that- Tommy's waist? What"- 1is so much needed on about every
coincidence to her tact in the man- ous 1" ejaculated Usk, in his soli- • "Oh, f give it up," said Mr, Ewing farm.
aagement of her set and choice of tuck, in citegust. What should I know of 1The crops grown from the use of
her own engagements. "To be sure," adds that honest those ft Ings? 1 wits talking about real this manure should *go a long tray
Arrived at his bedroom door,
Mr. Wootton is touched vaguely
with a kind feeling toward his hum-
ble interrogator, or with some other
sentiment less kindly, it may be.
He pauses, looks straight before
him at the wick of his candle, and
speaks with that oracular air so
becoming to him. which many un -
'grateful tteoplo are known to
loathe.
"That kind of connections are
invariably dangerous ; invariably,"
he remarks. "They have their
uses, I admit, they have their
uses; they mold a:'inanis manners
when is is young, they •enable hien
to acquire great insight into fe-
male character, they keep him out
of the lower sorts of entanglement's,
and they are useful in restraining
him from premature marriage, But
they are perilous if allowed to last
too long. .IF. permitted to claim
privileges, rights, usurpations, they
are apt 10 become irksome and com-
promising, especially if the lady be
no longer young. When a woman
is 00 longer young, there is a des-
perate acharnement in her tenacity
about a last •passion which is like
that of a mariner aliiiging to a spar
in the midst of a gusty sea, It 18
not easy for the spar to.disengage.
itself. On the whole, therefore.., wo-
men of rank are perhaps best avoid-
ed in this sense, PaSSIOns are saf-
est which can be terminated by the
eheek.book. Tho check -book is not
always, indeed, refused by great
lacljes--whop they aro in debt ---blit
a check -book Is an ttnypleasant reit
nese it, this law courn& BLOWelttrl
do wish you'd let me ask you some
men better than he, she thinks, 1, questions about statistics.'
contemptuously. He may under-' Certainly, my dear," replied Mr,
Ewfm "Anything that I don't hap -
stand dogs and horses, and deer
and partridges, but about human
nature he knows no more than the
old man at the lodge gates.
"Surely she can't be soft on Ger-
vase herself ?" her husband reflects
pen to know out of my head I can
easily look up in this almanac here."
And he placed his hand lovingly on
the volume.
"Your speaking of useful statistics; '
said the woman, "made me think.
What, for instance, is the size of your
gentleman in his own mind.
"There are very few of 'em who
would thank you to respect 'em
now -a -days."
"Gervase will be here by din-
ner," he says in the course of the
day to Princess Sabaroff.
"Indeed," 'site replies, with in-
difference. "Who is 1101"
"A friend of my wife's; at least
a cousin. I thought you might
know him; be was sonic time to
Russia."
"No," there is a coldness in the
negative disproportioned to so
simple a denial, "I do not think
so, I ,da not remember such. a
naive. Who is he?"
"A person who is expected to
be great in foreign affairs some
day or another," says Blanford.
"He will have one' qualification
rare in an .English foreign minis-
ter ; daily growing rarer, thanks to
the imbecilities of examinations; he
knows how lb bow and ho knows
what to say."
"A friend of young"
"Oh, no; an acquaintance, He
thiliks ill of mo,"
"Why!".
"Because I do nothing for my
oouutry. He thinks he does a great
deal when fro Inas fomented a quar-
rel or received a decoration."
"That, is not gorgeous. The
world owes much to diplomats; it
will know how much in a few years',
when it will bo governed by clerks
Controlled by telephones,
"That is true; I stand corrected.
But t�ervaso and I have low sym-
pathies; none,,ihdeod, except poli-
• b lb S.
"But cyou said," returned iris wife, lin furnishing or growing the graiiii
"that women had no head for figures•" that will be needed in fattening the
pigs. This is something that should
Trees to Rent. be well considered,
"When I read on the Business card Farmers should raise more pigs.
of a decorator the legend, 'Trees to Go into the business understand -
rent,' S was curious to know more ingly, give it all needed attention,
about it and, made inquiries," said and see if the results are not satis-
an inquisitive man. factory, as the writer has found
"I learned that one could rent trema them to be, --E. 11. Towle, in
in this city at e20 a tree for an men- Hoard's Dairying.
sten. The kind most in demand is the
bay laurel. which in ancient times was
held sacred to Apollo. These trees are
raised in a. large transportable bo:i
and stand about Lein feet high. A Wheat, corn and other crops are
pleasant aromatic odor is given oft no more improved by rotation than
the leaves. *The tree is symbolic of ]lay. The Minnesota Experiment
victory in the arts of peace as well as Station shows that a plot continu-
victory in war. One plan in this city
bas found a good business in main•
taining a nursery of these scented
haven
MANURE FOR HAY LAND.
onsly cut for hay the past fifteen
years has given all average yield of
1.73 tons per acre, while on a plot
under a three -years rotation of
wheat, clover and corn, hay has
Leigh Hunt's Grave. yielded, the past ten years, an av-
in the serene silence of Emmet erase of 2.9 tons per acre. In a
Green cemetery, Loudon, Leigh Bonne five, -year rotation of wheat, timothy
body Iles of rest. A visitor, reaching
over the iron feriae to part the fro•
greet sbrnbs that siiedow the tomb-
stone. reads these words:
"Write me as onewho loves ills fel.
low men."
It was his own cheerful philosophy
of lite that Leigh Hunt expressed
through the lips his Abou nen Ad•
hem. atld the sentiment Is very touch -
come Ween in this Way,
and clover, pasture,oats and corn,
the hay has yielded an average of
3,9 tons per acre, since 1900. Eight
tons of manure per acre were ap-
plied once in five years on the five-
year rotation plots. There is money
in manure.
"No," snapped the sharp -fated
woman at the door, "I ain't got
no foot] for you, an' 1 ain't got no
old clothes, Now go 1 Lady,
replied Cambridge Clarence, "1
could repay you \yell. Give the a
t� ole heal* square heal and 111 ive you tt
Bib ty Mop ow 'OW sorsa o , q r
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,�0 Mt*" aa"diaai�e 1• r. r fe\v lessons in grammar."'
Home
DYEING
Is the way to
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and
Dress Wed
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Simple asWashing
with
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The Jobnoun•Ieohordeon Co., Limited, Montreal,
PLANT CIRCULATION.
Comparable With the Circulation of
Blood In Anim ars.
It is generally known )that plants
have a circulation comparable with
the circulation of blood in animals,
but it is not so well known that their
force of liquid propulsion is vastly
greater than any animal's blood pres-
sure, even the elephant's. The force
of an animal's blood as it circulates
through the largest arteries is incap-
able of raising a column of water over
seven feet high, whereas the force of
a plant's sap, even of a small vine,
can raise a column of water from forty
to eighty feet high, exerting a pressure
of over two atmospheres.
The way this is shown in the labora-
tory is to tear off a small branch of a
tree and fix it air tight into a rather
large short tube filled with water. To
the bottom end of the thick tube is
attached a small thin tube filled with
colored water and having its lower
end immersed in a vessel of colored !
water. This experiment simply shows
the rate of absorption of fluid by a
plant. The colored water is seen to
rise in the small tube at a compara-
tively rapid rate, an inch or so a min-
ute. To show the height to which. the
pressure can force water, a tube has
to be fitted into the bark of a plant
and the root supplied with water. '
Hales first showed this with a small
vine, which he severed and to which
he applied a tube. The fluid rose to
over forty feet. De Candolle tried
other planta and in one instance se-
cured a height of eighty feet or over
two atmospheres' pressure. The cause
of this force was long considered due
to capillary attraction caused by the
hairlike tubes in plants. This failing
to account for the enormous force de-
veloped, a microscopic examination
showed that these -vessels had a pro-
gressive contracting motion similar to
that in the arteries of animals and that
tine explanation in each case was the
same.
Thus the vitality or principle of life
that allows this motion is in all ease.S
the direet cause.
HER QCQlIWATIOAL
She Made the Bank Cinten Realize- 11
Wee of Some lmpdrtanee.
Although she bad beats ;landing in
line nearly an hour to staranew AC-
count in a savings bank, elle wee 11ot
at all subdued by the formality of the
proceedings and had freeneently in'
formed those standing near her just
what she thought of the delay.
When at length she reached the win -
dew she answered the colonel -le that
the clerk asked in a loud, self-reliant
voi,00 She told her age in tones thtrt
Would be heard four desks beyond; she
who quite willing that every one
;should know ller full name, her hes-
bend's name, her mother's name, her
father's name and just where each one
of thein lived,
"Hove you any occultation?" asked
the clerk carelessly,
"I have," aha replied firmly. "1
keep house."
Well,that's nothing," he answered
blithely, writing 'Nona" in the space
on the line.
"Nothing!" gasped the new deposi-
tor. "You call that nothing? And me
with thirteen in the family and two
of the .boys working nights, to that
there's four extra meals a day beside!
the regular ones, and two girls at the
courting age, with extra white skirts
and petticoats every week, till I'm
ironing along until 8 o'clock ,Phurs-
daysl
Yon, sitting here on that little
chair, doing nothing but a little bit of
talking and writing from 9 until 3
o'clock -you say my occupation is 'no-
thing!' See here, young man, you put
clown my occupation as housekeeper
for thirteen or I'll go and put my
money in some other bank! 'Nothing!'
Say, if you call what I do 'nothing"
you must have to keep a separate page
for the doings of other folks!"'
"But it's a mere formality," gasped
the clerk when she paused for breath
and gave Mini a chance,
"You can make it as formal as you
want to;" she responded with dignity,'
"but I'm not going to stand here and
see such a lie as that 'nothing' put
down onany legal book. No, air 1
You write the truth down there,
'Housekeeper for thirteen in the fam-
ily l ,
The Great Condo.
The great military genius Conde was
a precocious boy. At eight he under-
stood Latin, and at eleven he gave out
a treatise on rhetoric. When fourteen
he had become thoroughy conversant
with the principles of warfare and of
all military tactics.
It's surprising how many things
a girl can learn at a• boarding
school that will never be of any use
to iter.
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Winners In lite
OMEGA OoUntteet
We huve pleasure in announcing
the names of those tortenete in
winning the Omega Watcb.s ah•en
as prises 1 n our rgcen t not Content.
Lady Winnet's
Int Prise -31m U. T. Wetmore, Hamp-
ton Station, King's Co., 0,13,
tad Prixe--Miss Alma Porteous, al
Marga ret Ave., Berlin, Ont.
Ord Prise --Miss Anabelle Walsh, Bel.
monk, Mart,
CI Prise—Mrs. Rebt. Hasleton. Tod-
morden, Ont;-
511, P ire—'Mrs. Chis Ryall, Chauvin,
Atte,
Gentlemen WInners
let Prize—Jos, Chrysler, Cotheart.Ont.
2nd Prise—Prod. C. McLellan, NosI,
Hants Co., 0,5.
Ord Prteo—Pioyd Kirkendall, Cypress,
Se ale
dth Prize—Willie Young, Colophon's
Ray. Que. •
014, Prise--Jaelt Isherwood, lOsetla,o,
B.C, Box 05,
IELLIS
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Toronto
The Eskimo Dog.
The lot of an Eskimo dog is a hard
one. In the first place he !ma to earn
his living by drawing sledges. In the
next place food is so scarce that a
dog is usually hungry, often Hungry
enough to eat his harness, or, indeed,
any bits of skin and leather he can
find. To prevent this the men rub
the leather cords with tar, But in
order to live at all an Eskimo dog
has to fight his way. Whenever a pack
of dogs get together they fight: The
weak ones are driven away or lulled.
The strongest and fiercest one, who
can thrash any or all of the others,.
is known as the king dog. 7.3e has
the'best place to lie on and his Choice
of the food. A single growl from him
is like a growl from an emperor whom
all are ready to obey.
Why Trees KM Grass.
It is a matter at oe.,imon observa-
tion that grass does not grow so well
close to trees as in the open. The,
same is true of grains. Experiments
in this country and in England have
shown that the deleterious effects up-
on one another of grass and trees are
mutual. The trees suffer as well as
the grass and. grain. This is especial-
ly true of fruit trees. The cause is
ascribed to the excretion by the trees,
on the one hand, of substances poison-
ous to the grass, and by the grass, on.
the other hand, of substances poison-
ous to the trees. It thus appears that
the failure of grass to grow well near
trees should not be ascribed to too
much shade, nor to the exhaustion of
the tree roots of the food needed by
the grass. ,
Why Sixty Minutes Mede an Hour.
The hour is divided into sixty min-
utes because in old Babylon there ex•
isted, by the side of the decimal syn;_
tent of notation, another system tbie
sexagesimal, which counted by sixties. aj
There is no number which has so
many divisors as sixty. The Babylon-
ians divided the sun's daily journey
into twenty-four parnsangs, each para-
aing, or hour, being divided into
sixty
minutes. The parasang is about equal
to a German mile, and the llabylou-
ians compared the progress made by
the sure during one hour to the pro -
grew, ;Wade by a good walker during
the same time.
Historical Fragment.
Steadying himself with. difficulty,
Lord Byron made his way to the rail
of the vessel, for the sea was very
rough.
At short intervals as he leanedeover
the rail be apostrophized the inighty
deep in the jerky, staccato, emphatic
manner of a man intensely in earnest
and pressed for time in which fully to
convey his sentiments.
"There!" be said feebly; "I feel a
trifle better. Still, I oughtn't to kick.
I once wrote 'Roll on, thou deep and
dark blue ocean, troll !'-and she's roll-
ing, all right!"
Penalty, of Wisdom.
"I am beginning to understand Ger-
man a little." said she, "hearing it
spoken so much by my Bavarian
neighbors. len sorry."
"WhyP" he asked. "It's a nice Ian-
guage, German."
"I'm afraid," she exclaimed, "that
when 1: understand everything they
say about me 1 won't be as happy as
I was before and minnow,"
A New Humiliation.
"Did you have any trouble with
the eustome people when you carne
]wine?"
"Yes," replied Mrs. Cumrox. "Ti, -t
horrid appraising person tnsinu .ti+d
that some of the things we brought
over weren't worth as much as We
paid for them !"
Tough.
Hebo--Madaul, you muster mall-
anderstood me. Die here piece o
meat ain't what I est far,
Lady --Didn't you beg for somettenea
to tat?
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