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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1913-5-29, Page 2Ci4t•+�'�r'lb�•rit�b•b�p►�ves,gv�.9►� , 011c of tiic G I Or, A Clyster9calus Affair. dittAc . • 011APTkllt X,-(0ont'd) "Gabriel 8ay8 that she bee -explained to Volt that the governor is alwaysa changed wan after thio parte*Mier date, on which his Pears reach a oriels. Ile apparentlY Iles more reason than usual thin 7080 to anticipate that trouble to brewing for this unfortunate family, for, I have never known him to take so many elaborate precauttons +,r appear 00 thoroughly un. nerved, Who would ever think, to see Ills Meet form and shaking hands, 411gt he is the same matt who used bone few short year'a 4441 to ehcot Vora on foot among the Jungles of .the Berea. and would laugh at the more timid 8401.40, men who. 8n041lt the protection of their elephant's howdah? You knew that be. has: the victoria Oroes, which he won in the streets of Delhi, and yet here he is shivering with terror and startling a4 every noise, in the most peaceful corner of the world. Ob, the pity of 11, West' Remember what I have already told You •that. it' is no fanciful or imaginary peril, but one whioli we have every roe - eon • to suppose eo be most real. It is, however, of such a nature that it can neither be averted nor can it profitebly beexpressed in words. If all goes well, You will sed us - at Branksome cm the 6th, With our fondest love to both of you,. I ant ever, my dear friends, your attached ffiondaunt" This letter was a great relief to ue as letting lie know that the brother and sis- ter are under no phyeioal restraint; but our pOwerleeeneSs and inability even to. comprehoud what the -danger was whop threatened those whom we had Como to love better than ourselves was little sbort of maddening. Fifty times a day we ask- ed ouoeelvee :and asked each, other .from what pcesible quarter this peril was to be expected; but the more we thought - of it the more hopeless did any solution mppear, In vain we combined our experi- ences and pieced together every word which had fallen from the lips of any in - mote of Cloomber which might be sum posed to bear directly or indirectly Up. on the subject. At last. weary with fruitless epeculati011, we were fain to try and drive the matter from our thoughts consoling oureelvee with the reflootion that in a few more days all restrictions would be removed, and we should be able to learn from our friends' own lips. Those few intervening days, however, would, we feared, be dreary long ones. And so they would, had it not been for a new and mostunexpected incident, which di- verted oar minds from our own troublee and gave them something fresh with: 'which to occupy themselves..• CHAPTER XI. Ootober had broken auepirioue]y with a. bright suit and a cloudless Sky. There had in the morniug been a slight breeze, and a few little white wreathe of vapor drifted hero and there like the seattored feathers. of some gigantic bird: but as the day wore on, such wind as there was 1011 completely away and the air be- came close and stagnant. The sun blazed down with a degree of heat which was remarkable so late in the sensor, and a shimmering haze lay upon the upland moors and concealed the Diet mountains on the other side of the Channel. The 607, itself rose and fell in a long, beavy, oily roll, sweeping elowly landward, and breaking sullenly with a dull, monoton- ous booming upon the rock -girt shore. To the inexperienced all seemed- calm and peaceful, but to those who are aconstomed to read nature's warnings there was e dark menace in air and sky and sea. My eietor and I walked out in the after- noon, sauntering slowly along the mar- gin of the great sandy spit which shoots out into the Irish Sea, flanking upon One side the magnificent Bay of Luce, and on the other -the more obscure inlet of Kirk - maiden, on the shores of which the Braukaome property is situated. It was too sultry to go far; so we 60011 seated ourselves upon one of the sandy hillocks, overgrown with faded grasetufte, which extended along the coast lino, and which from nature's dykes against the en- croachment of the ocean, Our rest wee soon interrupted by the scrunching of heavy boots- upon the shingle: and ;ramie. son, the old man•*"war's-man whom I have already had occasion 10 mention,. made his appearance, with the Bat Cir. cular net upon his baok which he loved for shrimp catching. lie came toward us upon seeing ue, and said in hie rough, kindly way that he hoped we would not take it amiss if he sent us up a Melt cf shrimps for our tea at Branksome. I aye make a good catch before a storm," be remarked. • "You think there is going to be a•starm, then?" I asked. . "Why, even a marine could 800 that," he answered. sticking a great wedge of tobacco into hie Cheek. "The moors over near Cloomber are just white wi' guile and kittiewakes. What d'ye think they come ashore for except to escape having all the feathers blown out o' them? I mind a day like this wheu I was wi' Charlie Napier off Cronstadt. It wellnigh blew us under the guns othe forte, for all our engines and propellers." "Have you ever known a wreck in these parts?' I asked. "Lord love ye, sir, it's a famous place for wrecks. Why, in that very bay down there two o' Bing Philip's best -rates thine dored 1)i' all hands in the days 0' the 8paniab war, If that sheet o' mates and the Bay o' Luce round the corner Could tell their ane tale tbey'd have it gey lot to speak of. When the Jedgment Day tomes round that water will be just bubbling wi' the number o' Polka tbat will be coming up frau the bottom." "I trust that there will be no wrecks while we aro bere," said Esther earneet- 1 The old man shook his grizzled head and looked distrustfully at the hazy horizon. If it blows from the went," he said, "some o' these sailing ships may and it no joke to be caught without sea room in the Nortb Channel. There's that bark out there—.I daresay her maieter would' be glad enough to find himsel' eaf0 in the ()leas." "She seems to be absolutely motion. lose," I remarked, looking at the veoeel in question, whose black hull and gleam- ing sails roes and fell slowly with the throbbing of the giant pulse beneath her. Perhaps. Jamieson, we are wrong, and • there will be no storm after all." The old eviler chuckled to himself with en air of superior knowledge, and Aut fled away With Ills shrimp net while my slater and I walked- slowly homeward. through the hot andstagnant air. I went up to my 14tber'e study to eco if the. old .gentleman had any ine1reetione as 4o the *state, for he had become .engro0e*d in a mew work upon Oriental literature, and the praotieal management of the pro. perty had in consequence devolved entire. ly u4on me, - I found hint seated at his econ re lib - Outing Shoes For Everybotty THE PERFECT SHOE. FOR SUMMER SPORTS ASB YOUR DEALtak. : 1 racy table, whioli was so heaped 1011)1 books and papers that 'nothing of him Wee visible from the door exempt a tuft' of white hair, "Aly dear eon" he said to , lee as I entered, it 1e a great grief to I me that you are not More couver est with Sanecrit, when I was Your age 1 eo111d converse not only in that noble language, but also in the Tumuli°, Loltitio, Gauge - lie, Vale, 110(1 N:alalo dialects, which aro all offshoots from the Turanian branch." "I regret extrcmene, sir," 1 aas4ered, "that I have not inherited your wonder-, ful taIe as a polyglot" "I have set myself a •took;" he captained, "which if it could only bo continued from generation to geueratiou in 031r Ova fam- ily until it Iran completed, would make the' name o4 \Peat immortal. Tbie is no- thing less than to publish au Euglfell translation of the Buddhist Ddarmus with a preface giving an idea of the position of Brahminism before the doming of lIa. kymmuni. With diligence it is pooeiblol that I might be able myself to complete part of the preface. before I die;' "And .pray, air," I asked, "how long would the wholes -work be whey. it was flniehed?" "The abridged edition In the 'amorist Library of Pekin," said my father, rub- bing his hands together, "consists of 325 volumes of an 400rage weight of five .pounds. Then the preface, which must embrace some account of the Rig-veda, the -llama-vola, the Yagnr-vada and the Atharva-veda, with the Brellmanaa, could hardly -be completed in less than ten vol- umes. Now if we apportion ane volume to each year there le every preepeot of the family coming to an end of its task about the date 2760, the twelfth goners'• tion completing the work, while the thir- teenthmight occupy itself upon the in. dex." "And how are our descendants to live, sir," .I asked with a spills, "during the progress of this great undertaking?" "That's the worst of you. Jack," my fa- ther cried petulantly. "There is nothing practical about you. Instead ofconfining your attention to the working out of my noble scheme, you begin raieing all sorts of absurd obiectione, It is a mere matter of detail. bow our descendants live, so long as they stick to the Djttrmaa. Now I want Mc- Donald co. up see the the fthatch, and \vlllie Fullerton has written to say that his m11k.cow ]e batt. You alight look in upon your way and ask after it" I started off neon my errands, but bo - fore doing so I took a look at the baro- meter upon the wall. The mercury had sunk to the phenomenal point of twenty- eight inches. Clearly the old sailor had not been wrong 111 his interpretation of nature's signs. As I returned over the moors in the evening the wind was blow• ing in short angry puffs, and the western horizon was heaped with sombre clouds. which stretched their long ragged ten- tacles right y.4 to the zenith. Againot their dark background one or two livid sulpbur colored splotches showed up ma- lignant and menacing, while the surface of the sea had changed from the appear- ance of bureiohed quicksilver to that of ground glees. A low moaning sound rose up from the ocean as if it knew that trouble wee in More for it. Far out in the Channel I saw a single panting, eager steam vee0el making its way to Belfast Lough, and the large bark which I had observed in the morning still beating about in the offing, endeavoring to pass to tho northward. At nine o'clock a sharp breeze was blowing; at ton it had fresh- ened into a gale: and betore midnight the most furious storm was raging which I can remember upon the weather beaten coast, I sat for some time in our small oak - paneled sitting -room listening to the aoreeobing and bowling of the .blast and to the rattle of the gravel and pebbles as they pattered against the window. Na- ture's grim orchestra was playing its norldeed piece with a compass which rntlged from the deep diapason of the thundering-• surge to the titin shriek of the scattered shingle and the keau pip- ing of frightened sea birds. Once for an instant I opened the lattice window, but a gust 01 wind and rain came bluster- ing through, bearing with it a great skeet of ecu. -weed, which flapped -down upon the table. It was all I oollld do to close it again lu She face of the blast. B1y sister and my father had retired to their romne, but my thoughts were too active for sloop, so I continued to sit and smoke by the smoldering fire. What was going on in the hall now, I wondered? what did Gabriel think of the sterna and how did it effect the old man who wandered about in the night? Did he welcome these dread forces of nature as being of the 001110 or- der of things as hie own tumultuous thoughts? It was only four days now from the date which I bad been assured was to mark a crisis in hie fortune. Would he regard this sudden tempest es being in any way connected with the mysterious fate which threatened him? Over all these things and many more T pondered as I oat by the glowing emboro until they died gradually out, and the chili eight air warned mo that it was ' time to retire. I may have slept a eouplo of .hours when I was awoke by some one tugging furiouo- ly at my shoulder. Sitting up 111 bed, I saw by the dim light that my father ' was standing halt clad by any bedside, and that it was ilia grasp which I felt on • inn' nightshirt. flet up, Jack, got np I" he wee crying excitedly. 'There's a great ship ashore in the bay, and the poor folk will all be drowned. Come down, my boy, and let UR see what we can do." The good old Ulan seemed to be nearly beside himself • with excitement 8311 impatience. I sprang from my bed, and wee huddling on a few clothe*, When a dull booming sound made itself heard above the howl- ing of the wind and the thunder Of the immature -. "There it is again!" cried my father. "It lo their signal gun, poor 0reetnres1 Jamieson and the flollormen are below. Put your nilekin cont On and the Glengarry bat, Come, come, every almond maY mean a human lifer" We hurried down to- gotber -and made our way to the beach, accompanied by a dozen or eo of the in- habitants of Branksomo. Tho gale had increased rather than mod- erated, and the wend screamed all round us with am infernal clamor. So great wee its force that we •had to pat our (11001dere egain81 it, a114 bore Our 1)47 through it, while the sand and gravel tingled up `against our Woe. There weft snot light enough to make out the scudding (needs and the white- gleam of the breaker*, but beyond that all was absolute enriches's. We stead an111e deep in the ebnglo and Seaweed, e1ading our eyes with our hands and peering out into the" inky ebeourit0. It seemed to me as 1'iistened that I weld hear human voieee 101x1 in entreaty and terror, but amid the wild „turmoil of mar tare it wee (lifermit st,o atetlnswtah ere; sound from an,.,,,1 1 ud 8 ^, 1,0 A. 'light glimm6rod in 1.116 hen n° the S d 1 however, lei The °r' ry of Stovassang Last year its Sales increased over those of time ISeael�dOOLIS year by almost i 6rbr ildecsa and n Quarter Appreciation is they final nest of merit. ' 001 Sint+ 0 Finned and Green. petulant tuft et foam here and there up00 their *rests. Each as it reached the broad circle of unnatural light appeared to ga- ther etrongth and volume and to hurry on more Impetuously until with a roar and a jarring crash it sprang upon its vie. tim, Clinging to the weather eiuoude we could distinctly see ten or a dozen fright- ened seamen, who when the light revealed our presence turned their white faces to- ward ue and waved their hands implor- ingly. The poor wretches had evidently taken fresh 11040. from our presence, though it wee clear that their own boats bad either been washed away or so dam- aged ae t render them useless. The 001101)0 who clung to tbo rigging were not, however, the only unfortunates aboard. On'thobreakfng poop there stood three men who appeared to be both of a different -thee and nature from the cow. ering wretches who implored our assist- ance. Leaning upon the shattered tall- rail they Beamed to be conversing together as quietly and unconcernedly ae though they were unconscious of the deadly peril which surrounded them. As the signal light flickered over them we could see from tho shore that these immutable elrangere wore rod fazes, and that their facee were all of a swarthy, large featured type, which proclaimed an, Eastern origin. Thorn was little time, however, for us to take note of ascii details. The ship was breaking rapidly, and some effort must be made to save the poor sodden group of humanity who implored our assistance. Tiro nearest lifeboat was in the Bay of Luce, ten miles away, but here wee, our own broad, roomy craft upon the ebiugle, and plenty of bravo ileher lade to form a crew. Six of 116 sprang to the oars, the others pushed us off, and 1)o fought our Way through the swirling, raging waters, etaggering and recoiling before the great sweeping billows, but still steadily do - creasing the distance between the bask and ourselves. Iu seemed, however, that our efforts were fated to bo in vain. As we mounted upon a surge I saw a giant wave, topping all the others, and coming after them like a driver following a Rook, sweep down up. onthe vessel, curling her great green arch over the breaking dook. With a rending, riving sound the ship aplit in two where the terrible eerr eted back of the Hansel reef was 0awieg into her keel, The after - the hree Orientals sank backward into rt with the brolten mizzen ddeep water and vanished, while the forehaif oscillated helplessly about, retaining its precious balance upon the recite. A wail of fear went up from the wreck ,and wan echoed from, the beach, but by the bless- ing of Providence she kept afloat until we made our way under her bowsprit and rescued every man of the crew. We had not got half way upon Our return, bow - ever, when another great wave swept the shattered forecastle off the reef, and ex- tinguishing the signal light, hid the wild denouement from our view. Our friends• upon the shore were loud in congratulating and praise, nor were they backward in welcoming and comfort, ing the ()getaways. They were thirteen in all, as cold and cowed a sot of mortale as ever slipped through death's fingers, save indeed their captain, who was a hardy, robust man, who made light of the affair. Some were taken off to this cottage and some to that, but the greater part came back to Branksome with -us, where we gave them such dry Clothes ae we Could lay our hands on, and served them with beef and beer by the kitchen fire. Tho captain, whose name was Mea- dows, compressed his bulky form into a suit of my own, and came down to the parlor, where he mixed himself some grog and gave my father and myself an ac - mint of the disaeter. 'If 11 hadn't been for you, rir, and your brave fellowe," he said, smiling tierces at me, "we slimed. bo ten fathom. deep by this time. As to the Belinda,' elm was ft leaky old tell and well insured, eo neither the owners nm' -I oro likely to break our beerte over her." "I am afraid," said my father sadly, "that we shall; never see yam three pas - at, gene again, I have loft men upon the beach in epee they should be melted un, but '4 fear it ie. hopeless. I saw them go down when the vetted split, and no men could have lived fora moment among that terrible surge." (To be continued. Unreasonable Turkey. Not long ago, in a western mar- ket town, an Irishman Was observ- ed with a live turkey under ills arm. The turkey was squawking and gobbling in a 'distressed way, a ra•eket to which the Irishman dicl not at first pay any particular no- tice. Finally, however, the disturb- ance got on the nerves. Giving the bird a poke in the side he exclaim- ed: "Be quiet, you 1 What's the mat- ter wid ye, anyhow'? 'Why should yez want to walk whin I'm willin' to carry Y ye I" Shorter engagements, if followed by longer marriages, would help same. The Order of Merit, designated by the letters 0.M., was instituted by King Edward VII, in 1002; and the man on whom it is conferred may deem it 0110 of the highest com- pliments the Sovereign can bestow, tempest, and next inatant Shu beech end! sea end wide tossing NY 7trn bril'iert- le illuminated by the wild glare et e eienal Itght lino ley on 11et 0r boson elide right in the centre of the teerlhle llanae1 reef, hurler! near to Ana), nl nng10 that 10, 71d 141`ft011 the 4lauking of her Bonk I recegnieed her at etre RP being tate name llrateneet• est bark Which 1 had oh8eteed in the Channel in the Morning, end the l'oien ,Teel( which .won nailed upside c,nwn to the Jngeed ofump of nor teazel, pat claimed nor notion/lute.' teary spar anci repo and writhing piece oP anrdnen otorr0,1 un hard and clear unser the livid l'rht evh'eh sputtered nod flinkated Prem tie aleaoa4 penioe of the Inreenetle. Tleve.+,i the doomed shin Ant +'%f lbs „reef nese nese came inn )mar ral)inv Thera of' *twee, never ending, 1101Yor thing, with a flzmentatmumessurso Because they net so gently (no putting or griping) yet so thoroughly, NA.,1,4 Urge spp�yy �r �1 S�,��py, aBVai�F�, ����.4•� are best for the °bedrast as wolf as 'r the grown-ups, 26o. el box at your druggist's, Kassel owe ate Chemical lo• of ttMads,llmflAd 1(4 IT viwlowtil�a�<m,t On the Farm The Adulteration of Seeds. As e, rule, aticeessful seed Adul- teration is made possible by the similarity existing between the in- ferior seed and that of the crop seed with which it is used, says 1Nr. F. 11. Hillmans; It often happens, therefore, that the adulterant used is the seed of some plant very Close- ly related to the adulterated crop seed. The dealer who adulterates his seed bases ills faith in the suo- cess o£ the deception upon the -very careless examination 1n'ade of the absence of any examination of the seed by the average purchaser, in- cluding the majority of retail deal- ers. If, before purchasing, a care- ful examination of the seed offered for sale wee made by all buyers guided by a knowledge of the vari. ons adulterants used, seed adulter- ation would soon cease. The combination of seeds of stan- dard farm crops commanding uni- formly different prices in the seed market constitutes adulteration when the mixture is sold at the price of the more expensive seed. This is illustrated by the combine - tion of redtop and timothy offered as redtop. Another form` of adulteration is the use of dead seed of the kind of- fered for sale.. Such dead seed may have lost its vitality frons advanced age or from unfavorable conditions of harvesting or of storage, or it may consist of light• screenings in which the seed germs never devel- oped. Old seed having very low vitality, or none at all, doubtless is often offered for sale. Consid- erable worthless shriveled red clo- ver and alfalfa screenings are im- ported each year 'for use in adul- terating these seeds. One of the commonest and moat objectionable forms of adulterations is the use of low grade screenings, consisting chiefly of miscellaneous weed seeds. In many instances such adulterants have been pur- chased urchased in foreign countries. The statement, often made, that low grade weedy screenings are im- ported' for the purpose of reclean- ing before being marketed is with- out foundation because the quan- tity of good seed to be secured would cost the dealer more, usual- ly very much more than the same quantity of good seed produced in this country. Such low grade seed, therefore, is unquestionably Im- ported exclusively for use either In competition with or as an adulter- ant of higher grade seed. Cow Drags Boy to Death. Don't tie the rope around your waist or wrist when leading an ani- mal. Should it become frightened and unmanageable, serious injuries might result, unless the hold could be released at once. An instance of this has been re- cently reported. With one end of the rope tied to his wrist and the other end to a runaway cow, a fourteen -year-old boy was dragged over sharp rocks for one-fourth of a mile and so badly injured that he died within a half hour. Becoming frightened at a pass- ing automobile, the cow started suddenly on a dash down a rocky lane. The boy's attention was at- tracted to the auto, and he was not prepared for the sudden jerk given by _the cow. A loop in the rope was around his wrist, and he could not get loose. Ho fell en 'his face, and as the cow tore down the lane his face, head and body were dashed against the sharp rocks. His cloth- ing was stripped from his body, and even his shoes were torn off. Mixed Stock ](''arming: As a rule, on the average farm at least, it will be better to have a few cattle, some horses, a score of swine and small flock of sheep, than to have the same amount of money invested in either' cattle or hogs alone. There is greater safety in such distribution of capital, inas- much as the different kinds of stock subsist somewhat on different kinds of food, and if on account of drouth or for some other reason one kind of food fails, others may be made available to carry through ia•.good condition at least one or more of the classes of animals kept. They Own Britain's Land. Britain's landed dukes and earls were in the lianeligbt in the, House of 0on'lmons recently when Mr. Outhwaite, during the debate on the motion for the second raiding of the„RuralCotttages Bill, gave an interesting tehle of the little patch- es of land hold by members of the Hoose of. Lords. Hero is i,8:' 28 Dukes hobs 4,000,000 acres; 31 Mar, quosses hold 1,500,000 lteres; 194 Earle hold 5,862,000 acres; 270 Vises counts and Barone hold 8,'784,000 acres;' 525 Nobles hold 15,000,000. scree, - A soft emewer may not turn away wrath, but it saves a lot of useless talk. Why doesn't she take NAaDRU CO, eadac Ee Wafers . They stop a headache promptly, yet do not contain any of the dangerous drugs 00015000 to beadaohe tablets, Ask your Druggist about them, 28c, a box. (NATIONAL Dana ANO CH6t11004. CO. or CANADA, 1.1!61060. 122 THE CAPLI3 FISH. It Is Very Prolific and is Food for Larger Fish, Tlhat great things may depend upon small is strikingly proved by the Caplin, the little fish that, so to speak, underwrites the great cod - fisheries. The oaaplin or capelin is a small,slender, silvery sea fish, aloin to the anve1t, - rt inhabits the &retic seas, e,specia.]dy on the Ailandie side of tate globe. It spends the winters in. quiet depths, where it feeds on minute. ]marine ereaturee, and forms the s atple food of larger deep-sea Ashes. In late spring the capilli rise in hordes to the surface, and, guided by incompeehem;sible instincts, has- ten toward the land to -fulfil the duty of propagation. The Wheels arc preyed upon as they go by every creature beneath and above the tumbling rollers, and are awaited with cruel impatience by foes on share. Thus only the strongest reach the strand—hut in countless nuanbers 1 Nearing the shallows, they rash in reckless haste toward the sand where their yellow eggs must be de- posited; and their coming to the shores of Newfoundland, Labrador, Greenland, and all along the Sean dinavian coast, is awaited with eager anxiety. It means the pros- perity of ,the fulling season, upon which the life of the people de- pends, Sonie halt on suitable bot- tom fifteen or twenty fathoms deep ; but most press on to the strand, and fleeing before their pursuers, orowd up into the surf to its highest verge. The hosts that scra,mblo to high-water mark aro amazing; each falling ' tide leaves thousands stranded, - "You can take up with n shove - net as plentiful as you da wheats in a shovel',” wrote Parkhurst in 1578, "sufficient in three or four hours for a, whole oiitie." Soon the dropped eggs appear in incredible numbers; "tile beach becomes a quivering mass of eggs and sand." People collect at favorable places to gather the harvest. They go out in boats and scoop up•raplin by the barrelful, to be eaten, to be used ,as bait, to be dried for winter dog food, and in Newfoundland to be salted anti dried for the Engiish market: Formerly they were gath- ered by the wagun-load in that col- ony for manuring the land, but this waste> is now prohibited. Evan the ocean is not inexhaustible in ,its treasures, Who that has read Bipling's "Captains Courageous" door not recall the vivid scene when -the Banks fleet, clustered about the Virgin Islets, seethes with excite- ment as tare Caplin arrive, and the men, in a mob of jostling dories, dip tlhe,m up in feverish histo to bait their trawls, knowing that now the big fish will throng the waters? With the first arrival of the Cap- lin, the bays are filled with pur- suing fish of every Isom. bile" this is only the beginning, for cod anti halibut and other food fishes stay to devonr the fry as they hatch, and linger at the feast, exposing them - 'selves. to hook and net, until cold weather drives their prey to the depths, fund the fishermen to their flresides, STRANGERS JIIIING SICKNESS. Datives of 5t. Kildrl Call It the "Strangers' Cold." The inhabitants of St. Kilda (Scotland) regard the landing of strangers as fraught with clanger to their health. 301111 Sands, who thirty ye.1ra .ago spent some months in St, Kilda, writes that "the most extraordinary complaint that visits Cthoeld, - island is called the strangers' "The natives firmly" believe that the arrival of a boat communicates this disease. They say that the ill- ness is more severe when the ship. or boat comes from Harris, and that they suffer less when the vessel comes from Glasgow or Loudon. It ie ourious that every 0118 caught the distemper when an Austrian vessel visited the island during my stay there. Not one St. Nildan es- caped. The symptoms are a ,severe headache and pain and s1tiffeess in the muscles of the jaw, a deep rough cough and rapid pulse." K One may have the courage of his convictions and yet not amount to much. IsMppfttANI and. aS Stie�Bt-LE-as "A. B. C." NO chance of MISTAKES if you use The Guaranteed "ONE DYE for All Kinds of Cloth," TRY 1T nd Pe tot for youreeltl Bend for Free Colorr ord,,Stem, Booklet, and Book- hee-ton.,Aitee-011he lonitchardoCo1med 0(0,eo }TATS, IIONE STUD EDUCATION, ' The Arts course MEDICINE, may be by SCIENCE, correspondence Including but students desk.' g Ing to graduate ENGINEERING most attend one Arts Summer seesiun. Session For calendars write ' G. Y. CROWN July 2 to Aug, 16 Kingston, Ont. 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Ino anti Sheep in 84 dal'sfete time anti save grain—anti that it w iI1 Inaba your 04Ioh-Cows gain from (mete fear quarts of m,lle a tlnv,, It purifies ,the blood, stretigth0) s the mitre &yslceo,ravanto many forme at disea&o in X11171,40 of live Moak and only ugete you 8 fade for I cent. Wepaoitive)y'guatantoe roau]to or your purchase price will be promptly refunded Poe sale by 'hurlers eoorwbree or i//tout• dealer room, 80¢177:1 yea, *rife 448 direct, - halta11NAT1ONAL STOCK FOOD CO., LIMITED . Toronto. Ont. ,1040644 VA NEWS FROM SUNSET COAST W11:1.'1' 1'IIE WESTERN PEOP.I4b ARE 1) OIN G. Progress of the Great nest Told in It Feu' Pointed Paragraphs, Thero is a real estate boom in Revelstoke. A wagun road is being built across the Rats at ,Argenta. 311118es in Seattle are lower than they are in Revelstoke, Dr, Mackenzie has bought a 200 - acre fruit ranch at Lil]000t. Back o8 Silverton the Hewitt mill has resumed operations. There are 140 men working in the shipyard at Whitehorse. There are about 820 names upon the voters' list in the Slocan. The voters' list in the'Chilliwaok riding contains 1,985 names; In March there were 18 cases tried in the police oou.`rt at Merritt:- A stage carrying 17 passengers recently left Whitehorse for Dale - son. It is reported that the smelter att Ladysmith will soon resume opo4- &tions. The Mayor of Blairmore was fined $4.60 for running an auto without a number, The Queen Charlotte News says that local fishermen will average $12 to $15 a day this year. The population of New Wostmin- eter is reported ae 20,000. It has doubled within two years. The gold dredge at Goldhill on the Lardo River is being put in readiness for the summer work. The Menet brass band has a new set of instruments. Many members of the band are Indians. Hay, milk, potatoes and cotto"n- wood are being shipped every day from Chilliwack to Vancouver. Last month there was a big de- mand for sleigh dogs in Hazleton. The average price was $25 each. A Creston rancher advises farm ers to plant white potatoes, as they are the best for commercial pur- poses, Frank Whepley captured 12 sil- ver grey foxes in Alaska this win- ter, and shipped them. to his,. fox farm in New Bruuswick. Foley, Welch & Stewart will use three steam shovels on the P. (3. 1E. east- of Lillooet. The shovels cost $10,000 each. The first carload of ore shipped from the Harris mines -near Hazle- ton to the Trail smelter gave a net return of $73 a ton. In Tenakee, Alaska, Clyde Ayers was fined $600 for selling liquor without a license, and $250 for run- ning a blackjack game. In Queen Charlotte during March Mrs. W. J. Smith received 1,750 eggs from a Rock of 110 hens. She sold the eggs for $70.08. ' Through . extensive advertising more than $500,000 worth of lots have already been sold in the -town - site' of :Port Edward, near. Prince R,npert. A Seattle company has put up a new gold dredge to work on the Fraser River near Yale. It will dredge the river bottom to a depth of 43 feet. The recent death of Mark Wheel- er leaves George Bell the only sur- vivor of the band of settlers who took up land on Fairfield Island over 40 years ago. The provincial hatcheries ab Sar- dis have recently been stocked with Mongolian pheasants from Eng- land. n - land. Only three of the 28 birds were lost on the journey across the sea. Tho Canadian Northern Railway will operate its trains between New Westminster and Vancouver by electricity. A tunnel 24,000 feet long will be driven between the two points. It will take two years to drive and will cost $3,400,000. Good Weather for a right. . There is no lack of shrewdness in the English peasants,. says Mr. A. J. Swinburne in "Memories of a School Inspector," but their know- ledge of the things beyond their own villages is often surprisingly small. AJ; the time when the struggle be- tween Russia and 74 811 had reach- ed its climax; and become the ab- sorbing topic of the whole ,world, a Suffolk laborer, off work, accosted a friend engaged in digging:. "Bad newel from the iwer." "Who's a-1iightin', then 4" "Why, them Rocshans and lap- meso." t ' `Oh, they're a-figlltin ,, ar'e' they'1" (Pausing from his work.) "Cllr, yes, they're a-44l11)11i like Billy -o ,"° "Are they, though "'Yens] that they are." "Well," after placidly scanning the horizon anti resuming his work, 'rthey'vc get a nice day for it, any - "1)14 01071 r]cii :tlno1e mention you in his will 1", 'rises." "l'40uelty dog 1'"Vol at all, He spccilleal- ly ffientionetl ;the fact that I was not to he' given is dollar of his money.)''