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teiee'ree, VI:-•ceett'd) at the side of the road, As I came near -
"There would be nothing gained by lir to ham I could neo that Ter wait a
bstranger, and from his dtu+ty seethes and
Yew knowing. Indeed, �You would e,dy dilapidated appearance he seemed to have
Understand it. if I told yea, Y umdt bill come from a distance. Ilehad d a great
You , good day now, for I have stayed with bane. of bread on hie knee and a clasp
You too long. itennmber, 1 count upon knife in hie hand. but .ho had app treaty
you ae ane of the Clooniber garrison foot daiehocl his.broakfast. for he brindled
now.' the erumbe tri¢ his lap and rose to his
"One other thing; sir," I said, hurriedly, feet when he perceived nee. Noticing the
lite was turning away,; "1 hope that great height of the fellow, and the he
etill held his weapon, I kept well to the
other elle of the road, fen 1 knew that
destitutiou makes men desperate and that.
the ebain that glittered oa my waistcoat
might be Inc great -a temptation to hint
uses this lonely highway. I was eon.
firmed in my feare when 1 new him step
out into the center of the road and bar
,my progress.
Well, my lad," I said, affecting an ease
which T by no means Felt, "what van I
do for you this morning?' The fellows
face was the color of mahogany with ox.
posure to the weather, and he had a deep
of in mouth to
b
scar from tbe corner
1 improved 111
R
means e
r which byno v a
hie ea 0 is
appearance. Hihair was grizzled, but
hie figure was stalwart, and his fur eap
gun' by pointing a loaded pistol at mY woo cocked on one side ea as to give him
breast and had ended by partially ac• a rakish, semi-militsry appearance. A1-
' ]tnowledgiag the possibility of lay bacon- together, be gave use the impression of
ing his future son•in-1aw. I -hardly knew beteg cue of the most dangerous types of
whether to be easy down or elated over tramp that I had ever fallen In with.
it. On the one hand he was likely, by Instead of replying to toy question he
keeping. a cloeer watch over his dough- eyed mefor some time in slenee with
ter, to prevent us from commnniestiag sullen, yellow -shot eyes, and then closed
as freely as we bad done hitherto. Against his knife with a loud uniok. "You're not
this. there was the advantage of having a beak," he said; "tea young for that,
obtained nn implied consent to the re- I guess. They haat me. in ehokey at Pais -
newel of my suit at some future date. 00 ley and they had lee in chokey at Wig.
the whole, .I came to the conclusion as I town, but. by the living thunder if an.
worked throughLft1HY home that I had other of them lays a band on ms I'll
improved my :position by. the incident. make 'him remember Corperal Rufus
But this danger -this shadowy, =speak- Stnithl.. It's a darned fine. country this,
able danger --which appeared to Mee 0111 where they won't give a man work, and
at every teen, and to hang day and night then lay him by the heels for having n0
over the towers- of Cloomberl Rack my visible means bf subsistence."
brain as I would I could not eoniure np ••1 am sorry to see en old soldier so re -
any solution to the problem which was dnced," said L "What corps did you serve
hot puerile and inadequate. One fact in?"
struck me as being significant. Both the "H Battery, Royal Horse Artillery. Baal
father and the son had assured me, intle- -cess to the service and every one in it!
pendently of each. other, that if 1 were Here I am nigh sixty Years of age, with
told what the peril was, I would hardly a beggarly pension of thirty-eight pound
realize Ha significance. How strange and tau -not enough to keep me In beer and
bizarre must the fear be which can scarce baccy."
be expressed 01 intelligible language. I •I ehould have thought thirty-eight
bald up my hand to the darkneee before pound ten a year would have been a nice
Iturned to sleep that night, and I swore help to you in your old age," I remarked.
that no power of man or devil should "Would you, though?" ho anewered with
ever weaken my love for the woman whore a sneer, pushing Ino weather-beaten face
pure heart I bad had the good fortune forward until it was within a foot of my
to win- own. "How mn01 d'ye ebtnk that slash
with a tulwar is worth? ' And my .foot
CHAPTER VII. with all the bones rattling about like a
In making this statement I have our- bagful of dice? What's that worth, eb?
posely coughed it in bald and simple ran- And a liver like a sponge, and ague when•
lruage, for fear I should be accused of ever the hind comes round to the east-
colorinlc my narrative .for the sake of ef-
fect. If, however, I have told my story You take the lot for a dirty forty pound
with any approach to realism. the read-
ernow.' will understand me when I say that
by this time the succession of dramatic
incidents whieh bad occurred had arrest-
ed my attention and excited my imagin-
ation to the exclusion of all minor topics.
How could I plod through the dull rou-
tine of an agent's work, or interest my-
self in the thatch of this tenant's bothy
or the sails of that one's boat, when my
mind was taken up by the chain of events
which I have described, and was still buoy
seeking an explanation for them? Go
where I would over•, the countryside 1
could see the square white tower shoot-
ing nut from among the trees, and be.
Heath that tower this ill-fated family were
watching and waiting, waiting and
watching -and for what? That wns still
the question which stood like an impas-
sable barrier at the end of every train
I
you .will not be angry with your daegh-
ter for anything which I have told you,
It wits for my sake that she kept It all
secret from lyav•"
All right,: he said, with his cold, in-
ier thaehlbosoml of mytun
f mily as;yon eecm
to think. As to this marriage question,
I should advise' you as a friend to let it
drop altogether, but it that le im1Cseible
1 mast insist that it etand over complete-
ly for the present. It is 1mpoesibie to
aay what unoxpeeted turn of events 01)03
dike, . Cood-bye!" He plunge!} into the
wood and 11 •aa quickly out of eight among
ion.
c mutat
the dens p
Thus ended this extraordinary inter-
view, iu which this strange man had be -
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Unequ&iled for
Fragrance and
Wholesomeness.
Sold in
lead packets only.
130ack, Nflxed and C reen.
SIR TURMAS LIPTON,
Sportsmen the world over are
' Thomas
t
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ie t to learn thatS
c I heed
g
1 triton is desirous of making 'an-
other attempt to lift the America
Chip. This will be his fourth, and
he has already spent $2,000,000 en-
deavoring to secure the highest
honor in the yachting world If
sporting conditions can be arrang-
ed; his new yacht is to be called
Shamrock IV., and like every Irish -
than, he has great belief in the luck
of the feta• -leaf slinnlrock.
When Sir Thomas went over to
America to watch the fight put np
by Shamrock II.. an ianitlisitive re-
porter asked hint: "Is the report
correct that, in the event of Sham-
rock winning, Mr'. Watson and you
intend to get 'parriecl'1" Sir
Thomas replied that he could not
004 speak for Mr. Watson, but as for
himself he thought one big job was
"I was in Gluzuee with you when the enough to tackle at a time, and he
ev by an curt .• considered ho had quite sufficient
trouble ahead without• doing a1.ny-
thing so rash. Years have passed,
walls were all shook clown
Quake, and. when we found forty thou-
sand Afghans within gunsh01 of us, You
v'1 lie whether
142 you'll s
e about it, and Y
oak m b
I'm lying or not. We went tfiroueh n11
tbie when we were young, and now that
we are old you are to live 111 It fine bun-
galow, and I am to starve by the road..
side. It don't seem to me to be fair."
"You are an impertinent +,coundrel;"
said the general. If you had been a
for�helpdiel you
hallt not give you nea tfarth-
in Ono word more, sir," cried the tramp,
for rhe other 0050 turning away; "I've
been ill idle Terada Pass."
The old soldier sprang round as if the
words had been a pistol -shot. "What -
what d'ye mean?" be stammered.
"I've been. in the Terada Pass, air, and
I know a man there called. (hooted
Shah."
These last words were hissed out in an
undertone, and a malicious grin over-
spread the face of the speaker.
Their effect upon the general was ex•
traordinary. He fairly staggered bark
from the gateway. and his yellow mine
tenance blanched to a livid mottled gray.
lOor a moment be was too overcome to
speak. At last ha gasped out, "Ghoolab
ebahl--who are you who know Ghoolob
Shah?"
rake another look," said the tramp;
"your sight is not ae keen as it was forty
years ago."
The general took a long, earnest look at
the unkempt wanderer in front of him,
and as he gazed I saw the light of recog-
nition spring up in his eyes. "God bias
my soul!" he crled. "Why it's Corporal
Ruins Smith,"
'You've come on it at last," said the
other, chuckling to himself. "I was won-
dering how long it would be before you
knew me. And first of all just unlock
this gate, will you? It's hard to talk
year--wo yo n through a grating. It's too much like
"We are poor folk in this part of the ten minutes with a visitor in the cella."
country.' I anelvered. "You would peen The general, whose ince still bore evi•
for a rich man down here." I dances Of his agitation, undid the bolts
"They are simple folk and they have 301111 nervous, trembling fingere. The re -
simple tastes," said he, drawing a Week eogaition of Corporal Rufus Smith bad, I
pipe from his pocket and stuffing it with fancied, been a relief to him, and yet be
tobacco. "I know what good living is, and plainly showed by his manner that he
while I have a ehiliing 111 my pocket I regarded his presence as by no means an
like to 'spend it as a shilling should be unmixed blessing.
spent. I've fought for my country and my 11r1,Y, corporal," be said, as the gate
country has done darned. little for me. swung open, ' 0 have cites wandered whe-
I'll go to the Rooehians, so help mel. I ther you were dead or alive, but I never
could show them how to cross the Hteta- expected to see you again. How have
lays, so that it would puzzle either Af- you been all those long years?"
ghaus or British to stop 'em. What's that 'How have I been?" the oorporal an -
secret worth in St. Petersburg, I wooded" swered gruffly. "Wby I have been drunk
"I'm ashamed to hear an old soldier for the most part. When I draw my
epesk. so, even in jest,' said I sternly money 1 Say it out in liquor, and. as lens
"Jest, indeed!" he cried, with a great as that lasts I get some peace in life.
oath. `I'd have done it yearn ago, if the when I'm cleaned out I go upon tramp,
partly in the hope of picking up t11e price
of a dram, and partly ih order to look
for you."
You'll excuse 06 talking about theta
private matter's, West," the general said,
looking round at me, for I was beginning
to move away. "Don't leave its. You
kucw something of this matter already,
and may find yourself entirely In the
swim with us some of these days."
Corporal Rufus Smith looked round at
me in blank astonishment. "In the swim
with us!" he said. "However did he get
there?"
"Voluntarily, voluntarily," the general
explained, hurriedly sinking his voice. "Ile
is a neighbor of mine, and he has voluu•
teerod hie help in ens, I should ever
need it."
This explanation seemed, if anything,
to increase the big stranger's surprise.
"Well, if that don't lick cock -fighting!"
he exclaimed, contemplating me with at}•
miratinn, "I never heard tell of such a
thin "
:111g11 new that you have found me, Cor-
poral Smith;' said the tenant of Oloom-
ber, "what is it that you 'want of me?"
"Why, everything: I want a roof to
cover me, and clothes to wear, and food
to eat, and above all brandy to drink."
"Well, I'll tape you in and do what I
can for you," said the general slowly,
"But look here, Smith, we must have din -
Moline. I'm the general and yon are
the 001110ral; I am the master 01,11 3101,
are the man. Now, don't let me have to
remind you of that again."
The tramp drew himself up to his full
height and raised hie right hand with
tho palm forward in a ,military salute,
"I eau take you on as gardener and get
rid of the fellow I have got. As to
brandy, you 011011 have an allowance and
no more. We are not steep drinkers at
the Hall."
"Don't you take opium, or brandy, or
nothing yourself, sir?" asked Corporal
Rufus Smith,
"Nothing," the general said, flrm1Y.
"Well, all I can say, is, that you've got
more nerve and pluck than I uhnll ever
have. I don't wonder now at your win-
ding that cross in the mutiny. If I wits
10 go on listening night after night to
them things without ever taking a drop
of something to cheer my heart -why, it
would about drive me eine."
(To be continued.)
of thought. Regarded merely as an ab• Rooshians had been game to take it up.
was the beet of the bun
'tract problem, this mystery of the ekobeloif ch, but
Heat.herstone family had a lurid fascimr, he's been snuffed out. However, that's net -
tion about it, but when the woman whom they here .Dar there, What I want to ask
I loved a thousandfold betterthanI did you 1n whether you've ever heard anything
myself proved to be Ho deeply inters ted In this quarter of a Mau called Heather'•
is the solution, I felt that It was runes• stone, the same who used to be colonel of
sable tc turn my thoughts to anything else
until it had been finally cleared up.
My good father ;tad received a letter
from the laird, dated from Naples, which
told us that he had derived much benefit
from the change, .011t1 that he had no in-
tention of returning to Scotland for some
time. This was eatisfnttoey to all of us,
for my father had found Branksnme each
an excellent place fur study that it would
bare been a sore trial to him to return
to the noise and tumult of a city. As to
my dear sister and myself, there were, as
Y have shown. stronger reasons still to
make us loco the Wigtnwnshire moors.
In spite of my interview with the gen-
eral -lir perhaps I might say on account
of it --I took occasion at least twice a day
to walk toward Cloomher and satisfy my
self that all was well there. Ile had he -
gun by resenting toy intrusion. but he
had ended by taking me 11310 a sort of
half confidence, and even by asking my
assistance., so I felt that I ,:toed upon a
different footing with bins than I had
done formerly, and that 11e was leas like -
1y to he annoyed by my presence. In-
deed, I met him pacing around the in.
closure a few days afterward, and his
manner toward me was civil, though he
made no allusion to our former conver-
sation. He appeared to be still in an ex-
treme state of nervousuese starting from
time to time, and gazing furtively about
him. I hoped that his daughter was right
in naming the 5th of October as the turn-
ing -point of hie complaint, for it was
evident to me, as I looked at his gleam.
ingeyes and shivering hands, that le man
could not live long in such a state of
nervous tension."lyigiit you aro, He was always a hard
Y found on sails secureation that en had' ,tut to crack. But isn't thin 11103 coming
had the loose rails securely fastened so down the avenue?"
an to block up our fernier trflog tine whace,ole
gate and saw that
and thought crawled round the whnlo' I looked through the
long lino of fencing, I was unable to find it was indeedthe general, who having
any other place where an entrance could either seen us or been attracted by our
voices, was hurrying down toward us. hs
be els of the Hbero and there between he advanced he wottltl stop from time to
chinks of 1, and I multi saw
Intel) rough- time and peer at us through the dark aha.
sap o)' the Hall, and once 7 saw. n rough- ower floor, whom i dew thrown by the trees, as if be were.
window' at the lower looking, mtdhle•mss standing tat »•• irresolute whether to D.01110n. 0 0or n0.
sap•'
the 41st Bongalees? They told me at Wig•
town that lie lived somewhere clown this
way.,,
He lives in that house over there."
said I, pointing to C:loomber Tower.
"You'll flue the avenue gate a little way
down the road, but the general isn't over
fond of visitors."
The last part of the speech. was lost
upon Corporal Rufus Smith; for the in.
,taut that I pointed out the gate he sot
off hopping down the road. Hie mode of
pregte 01011 w•aa Otto meat. singular which
I have. ever seen, for he would only put
hieright tout to the ground once in
every half-dozen strides, while hewelled
so hard and attained such a momentum
with tits other limb that he got over tho
ground at an astonishing ,,peed. I was so
surprised that 1 stead in the roadway
gazing after his hulking figure until the
thc•ught suddenly struck me that some
serious result might came from a meet-
ing between a man of rnc)1 blunt speech
and the choler;(, hot-headed general. 1
therefore followed him as he hopped along
like come great clumsy bled; and over-
took him at the 11001100 gate, where he
stood grasping the ironwork and peering
through 111 tho dark carriage -drive be-
yond,
fte'e a sly old fox," he said, looking
round at me and nodding 1115 head 111 the
direction of the Hall. ''Olds a deep old
dog. And that's, his bungalow, Is it,
among the trees?'
"That is his house," I answered; "but I
ebould advise you to peep a more civil
tongue in your bead if you intend to
speak with the general, He le not a man
d any noneenue."
peeed to be Israel Stakes, the ooaehme0. { Iles reconnoitering!" whispered 1ny
There was no sign, however, of Gabriel' V'0 111a010n with n hoarse chuckle. "11.e's
or of ytardannt, and their absence afraid, and I know what heat afraid of.
alarmed me. 1 was convinred that, uule(1 Ile won't be ,caught in a trap if he can
they wero under some restraint, they help it, the old un!" Theta suddenly
would havo managed to communicate stand}ngen his tiptoes and waving his
with my sister or myself. My fears he. hand through the bars of the gate, he
came more and mere acute us day tot- shouted at the kip of his voice. Come
lowed day without our seeing or healing 011, '»1y gallant commandant, Como cul
anything of them, The ri11 familiarladdressohad enemy in
effect sight."
One morning -it Ivan the terd dt day ll, reassuring October -I was walking toward the haat, g tha general, for he came right
hoping .that I might be fortunate enough for 1111, though I rrontd tell by bis height.
to :learn some news of my darling, when cued Bolor that his te(0001 0.110 at boiling
7observed a man perched upon a' atcec point. "What, yon hero, Mr. Wret?" he
said, as his eye fell upon me, 'What 10
it you want, and why bare you brought
' this fellow with you?"
m s.& 'I have not brought him with one, sir,"
j I answered, feeling rather disgusted at
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h
Is CLEAN, I1nt1
not 8 iE! PLE as
being made rrxellp,iaible ler the presence
of t e f srepnta b e• oe ting vagabond 1e -
Bide me. "1 found l,im on the reed here,
tied he desired to be cliloeled 10 you, 100
I showed 11bn the way. I know nothing
of ham myself,"
"What do yon want, with me, then? the
to42.73.(/ gsttern)rahl u1eli,ek ed sternly, turning to my
. eonl
"11 yon please, air," said the cxonrpornl,
speaking to a whining voice,mut tourh-
111g his moleskin can with 11 11111101i17
whirls eo111rasted strangely with the pre.
010115 rough independence of hie bearing,
I'm en old gunner 1n the cruces'' 0ar7100,
sir,. and knowing your name 1131 hearing
it 111 India T Lltongllt, that mayteou
would tale', me ea your groomor garden..
lir, 0r (deo sue any ether place as hap-
pened to be ,(140111 ,
"I am. sorry I}s0t I sauna do anything
for you, my man," the old soldier an.
s0cr ed, impassively.
'11(0n you'll give 1130 a little .11101 to
11o1p me on my way, sir," paid the r:riug•
1ntr w1oad}eat. On won't are an old
eetnr0de go• to JAW' be,8 for the sake of a
few refpeea, T lues with Sntt'o brigade
.in fie Parte& sir, and I Was at flu sec-
. end talons ofe,1111i.'"
General lfegtheisettale Jt'ofte1, litatt Y '111
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Sir 'Tomas Lipton.
and this popular millionaire still
remains a bachelor. In fact, the
fair sex have come to class Sir
Thomas and Lord Kitchener as
"hopeless."
Beyond the fact that he hoes not
yet lifted the America Cup, there
are few ambitions which Sir Tho-
mas Lipton has been unable to gra-
tify. Beginning life as an errand
boy, he built up a vast provision
business by energy and tact, and
to -day he finds himself in the unique
position of a millionaire without
enemies. He is immensely popular
wherever he goes. He was honored
with the friendship of the late King
Edward, is a member of dozens of
clubs in Britain, and honorary
member of nearly one ll.undred in
America. He follows sport simply
for the pleasure it gives him. "I
have yet to make my first bet," he
said on one occasion, "1 race pure-
ly for pleasure of the sport, and I
would not bet on my own boat or
on any other."
Helping Sooue.
And Sam, do you do anything
toward helping to get the where-
withal to support the family?"
"'Deed I do'boss; why, only las'
week I went down n' ordered a
washin' machine for an' wife."
He—That woman I see you with
so often looks very sad. Is she un=
happily married? She—No; unhap-
pily unmarried.
Character.
Gha*ael.er is made up of small
duties faithfully performed, of de-
nial, of self-sacrifice, of kindly acts,
of love and duty. The backbone of
character is laid at home, and whe•
ther the constitutional tendeneies
be good or bad, home influences
will, as a rule, fan them into ac-
tivity. Kindness begets kindness,
and truth and trust will bear a rich
harvest of truth and trust, There
are many trival acts of kindness
which teach us more about a man's
character than many vague
phrases.
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"Nur". replied Mr. Growcher,
"Just as soon as you get the world
peaceful and harmonious, a lot of
people will arise and kick because
competition has been eliminated,"
Many a girl : who has engaging
wayf.l 'lever catches to, husband.
Tramp --4 haven't always been
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t'trriltge,- i'rienl• When'wato'that1
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Feeding the, Dairy Calf.
Tho calf may be left with the cow
for three or four days or until the
milk is fit for use. The calf should
then be taken away and placed in a
separate stable, if it is possible, as
the cow will give less trouble if site
cannot see her calf, writer Mr, J. 0.
McNutt, -
By missing one feed, the calf will
usually be hungry enough to start
to drink readily and will usually
give little trouble when it finds the
bucket contains milk. Four pounds
of milk per feed three times a day
for the first ten days' will give the
calf a •good start when a small
amount of skim milk may be substi-
tuted for a part of the whole -milk,
the amount of the skim milk being
increased, so that when the calf is
a month old it is getting skim inilk
entirely. When the calf is two
weeks old the feeds may be changed
to two per day with the amotuit of
milk increased, as the calf shows
ability to handle it. After three
weeks the calf will begin to eat a
little grain. An excellent grain
mixture for calves is made of corn-
meal, oats and wheat bran in equal
parts, with a little linseed meal ad-
ded.
To grow calves well they should
have just what they will clean up
readily at each feed. Plenty of
green grass is good for them, but
an very hot or very cold weather a
fine quality of clover hay will pro-
duce excellent results.
Calves should have milk until
they are five or six months old, for
best results. If they are forced to
subsist on coarse feeds and grain
too young they will be stunted, as
their digestive system is not de-
veloped enough to handle such
food exclusively at an early age..
(FROM MERRY OLD ENGLAND
Cotton seed meal should never be
fed to calves under twelve menthe
of age. It always proves detrimen-
tal to development of •the young
calf. This being trite, it is better
to feed such feeds as oats, bran and
corn, which are known to be satis-
factory. To secure good size the
animal should 'continue to grow
steadily until mature.
-What to Feed the Poultry.
The following is an excellent re-
ties' for fattening poultry :
'One part cornmeal, one part oat
flour, one part barley )veal, one
part beef scrap, eight parts butter-
milk or skim milk,
This ;bakes what is called slop
feed, as it is thin enough to pour.
The best feeding results are had
with crate feeding. The birds, five
or six in number, are placed in a
slat coop. The bottom is of lattice
work, and that makes it self-clean-
ing. There is plenty of room in the
coop, but the idea is to prevent
exercise.
The orate should be put in a pro-
tected place, but net in a house.
Under a tree or at the side of a
building is a good place, if it is
where other fowls cannot molest
them. They are given no food for
24 hours pr'evions to the feeding
period, which should last from two
to three weeks. The milk will be
sufficient to allay their thirst. Feed-
ing in this way has brought gains
of from 25 to 85 per cent. It costs
from five to seven cents' worth of
grain to put on a pound of gain.
But if it diel not pay from a feeding
viewpoint it would in other ways,
for the flesh of a bird fattened in
this way is far better, being much
whiter in appearance and more
juicy and much more palatable.
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Father—"Why, when I was your
age I didn't have as much money in
a month as you spend in a day."
Sens --"Well, pa, don't scold me
about it. Why don't you go for
grandfather?"
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HERE'S only one quality of Canada Cement. It is the
highest quality that can possibly be made with modern
methods equipment, scientific and rigid inspectionn' by ex-
pert chemists.
The Canada Cement you buy for a garden walls is the same
cement that is sold by the trainload for groat dams, elevators and bridges, Tho
engineers la charge of these gran*. works have ample facilities for tooting the, quality 01
cement,
Canada Cement
Comae tap to their most. rigid requirements.
The farmer has not these Facilities for tasting the quality of cement, He rust buy
n product upon !'.icer he can depend for a grade that is 0115Wtys of his/osf gnnhty, 003
that therefore does net need to be tested, -
You con place absolute reliance upon the quality of Canada Cement,
la's always the came and always the best. The large output—which enables us to
leerp fele price teem, enables us also to maintain the factory' equipment and organization
that creeps ilia quality up.
A Canada Cement label appears on. every bag and barrel of, genuine Canada
Cement, .Sae that it's on the bags and barrels of cement that you buy,
.�JltlT1 for our free book "What tho Farmer pr Do Will C
l00 6ilitiet of hou toldah "dyad 1110ussad
'5y Canadian Icemen. of the rneneysav!t s
Adana*. P.eeoo& Worn/Won bepa tmeitt-'-
Canada Cement Company Litmiled, w Montreal
There is a Canada Cement dealer in your neighbourhood.
NEWS 111 MAIL ABOUT J011N
BULL AND MIS PEOPLE.
Occurrences In Ito band That
Reigns Supreme in the Com.
811Oreipl World.
The value of the fish drawn !rem
the North Sea every -year is £20,-
000,000. -
A London firm of brokers sold
35.000 house cat skins last year for
slaking "furs."
Sixty-eight per cent. of all the
newspapers published throughout
the world are in the English lan-
guage.
Great Britain has no intention of
following the lead of Washington
111 000051111ing the Republic of
China.
The Salvation Army raised £07,-
a
•Self-denial
02 15. 842, b
0
Y its
recent
collections, which is £9,229 98. 4d.
in excess of the amount obtained
last' }•ear.
There are in London more Scots-
men than in Aberdeen, more Irish
than in Dublin, more Jews than in
Palestine, and more Roman C'atho-
lits than in ;tome.
Fire occurred on the 2nd inst, at
the shipyard of Doxford At Sons,
Pallion, Sunderland. The joiners'
shop was gutted, and the damage
is estimated at £10,000.
The Duke and Duchess of Mont-
rose are to entertain more largely
in London this season than during
the past few years. They are now
seeking a suitable town residence.
In the cotton mills manual labor
has been reduced about 50 per cent.
Now one weaver manages from two
to ten looms, where one loom was
formerly tended by one worker.
The Rev, J. E. Adderley, Bir-
mingham, advocating religious
films, says sermons are sometimes
delivered to people who really
don't know what the preacher is
talking about.
Mrs, Susan Alcock, who died at
Anderton, Norwich, Cheshire, aged
88, left no fewer than 80 descend-
ants—three sons, three daughters,
40 grandehildr'en and 20 great -
Scotland Yard, London, aroused
by the threats of women, has sent
out warnings to owners and ten-
ants of property of possible devel-
opments, and the police everywhere
are taking unusual precautions.
"Shakespeare," eaid an eigh-
teenth century writer, "was mas-
ter of two books unknown to many
of the profoundly read, which the
last conflagration only could de-
stroy :—the book of nature and of
man."
Tho Times announces the death
of Admiral John Halliday Cave,
C. 13., at Kensington, aged 88. He
was present at the siege of Sebasto-
pol as senior lieutenant of the Dia-
mond, and was honorably mention-
ed as wounded at the storming of
the Redan.
St. Paul's London, has been the
burial place of many of the great-
est soldiers, including the Duke of
Wellington. Lord Napier of Mag -
data was buried in 1890 in the
Crypt, and the Cathedral also con-
tains memorials to soldiers of sticlt
renown as General Gordon, Sir
Henry Lawrence and Sir . John
Mo
1 theprincipal
Theore, p. pt ]at]on of al p p
parts of the British Empire over-
seas has increased in the 20 years
from 1891 to 1911 as follows:—In-
dia,-287,270,000 in 1891 and 310,088,-'
000 in 1911,; Australia, 3,174,000
ttnd 4,509,000; South Africa, 2,071,-
0')'1 and .1.037,000; West Africa, 1,
899,000 and 20,177,000; Canada, 5,-
035,000 and 7,447,000,
Prof. Jordan Lloyd, senior sur-
geon at the Queen's Hospital, Bir-
mingham, and a well-known figure
in connection with medical juris-
prudence, died with tragic sudden-
ness on the 4th inst., at lildgbaston.
'1 e hospital,
After attending at th hosp ,
lvliere he performed several oper-
ations, .Mt', Jordan Lloyd walked
hence and died from angina pec-
toris a few minutes after entering
his house.
Language.
Dr, Osler toils the following to
illustrate the elasticity of the Eng-
lish
lisit language as used by the South-
ern negro.
Out day there cisme to the clink.
a tlegress with a broken jaw The
examining_ physician, intent on dis-
covering the exact nature and ex-
tent, of the injury, asked nunteroals
questions. To all of them the nog-
('efts returned. CVttsive 10119wet'0, Fin-
ally she arimitted that She was "lilt
by an object," -
"Was it, It large object or a small
objee,t1" asked the physician
"Tolle`by large,"
Waco it a hard abject or a soft
object l"
"To11'by hard." -
1tM)its .it coming rapidly or slow-
lyrftr
T'olle'by fast." -
Tht.n, her patience exhausted,,tlie
)legl'ess turned - to the physician.
"To tell the troth, doctor, I ivas
jest simply luelcrd in the face by, a ,
gen'leman friend,"
l bas of;`people *he haven't any
brains' stet' to) et 'alone all eight.-
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