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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1915-5-20, Page 2THE FATE OF AZ V 1 IA; Or, The South African Millionaire.. MAPPER XL It had been a feeling of fear of the man whioh had prompted Judith to manoeuvre with nor brother's aseietunoe to get away, and hear what he had to KAY Silo had knawn bis di,posittat very well once, a loose time ago it eeomed now, but in truth not so long• ago, and to -night the knowledge had seemed suddenly illumin- ated Once, rn a netnews fashion, eho had been fond of him; now tr ni„ht the w.1ted to d:ecn:.ct. very tact that she had been made her I surnmee that nobody knows,” ho hair fully. aware of charntttsutn•a wbiclt whispered, and the sense of a secret be. ger. Who wad she,.tO speak to him like that? , 01r anal, if It comes to that, Lady Ju- dith your .brother asked me, cud , . . "Of source be doesn't know," The words escaped her, and were intended to convey that if her brother had known, be would have, of course, been the lost Denson in. sited even for a ulght to Gleycourt. But, it brcugbt him quickly to the Point he Might tell for evil on her Path, Once she Mad admires his recklesenees, his disre• garb of consequen0es, his impulsiveness, even hie jealousy. 'To -night, some i lot<00t told her that the latter had been atom=ed in him by the mr8aence of Doneto. 0t the desperate state of hie flnaneel, of the Glow docadence of his mins wbkh had been braced up, so to sneak, by he way s existence, by the diseiphnc and neve t.ity path, and bout, by Molt consent, turned of at Meat contorming tv the Inner tan<0< into the rhodondron grove, wale of sooiety, those Eliot are enforced to ll.;orge, this is exquisite," ' by human laws, firmed o; 1:1118 d'e- ••i Will you would make haste and toll trued of man's stnbillty 00 purmase and me -what you "99111 anted to day, Irir. Glover.' high endeavor, she know nettling. I+ld •lir. 41over—i' Welt, women pre ." she known she might perhalte have caro• here he brnke off. •'Where does that ed lois impetuosity by money. It might le+td 'to?" have done more harm, who can tell, if "To another path like this one." she had dealt with him differently, tweeu them, the implied bond of a tom mon knowledge, unahared by the world, made her first end her soul recoil- She did not allover. "0f coarse, you'll have to tell Dan. Yen, • As he spoke he looked ep at the eky. leaving 11.'<3 worths to oink into her mind. They had reached the and of the gravel More than half a Century of Quality is behind every package of ENSON'S Corn tarch lag w,1,811101a tbJS PREPARED CORN rr -'y 54 Always order by the name BENSON'S in order to get what you want Practically every grocer in Canada has BENSON'S. had caught her beauty away from him, bestowed i' elsewhere. that, aea star have detaches itcell alter thousands and thou - laid up for the future- a foundation for She answered impatiently, At any mo• ands of yea:9 at last, 'front the influence repeated annoyance and drrad• bat it meta Danvori might come and look for of another star which has impeded its would have ,presented the rapid cr's`e her, and ehe didnt want him to find her ,progress, or hampered .its individuality, whisk cusped. Whether it would havehere ivith Hugh Glover: Yet, something and sails untrammelled, disdainful on a been 3< 13.0 or tro:ae for Ler, that as one neemed to warn her that what had to be plane of its own, gathering its satellites can tell, for the better and the worse uttered, had better be said as gar from that happens to us are not to be under. the house au possible She turned down stood by •the outward "Fpe'r•[ of el/Cala the side path, and lie followed her. Hero and efreumstanics. There are eatasiro• a little square had been cut in the forest mhes which brine ,joy, and pleasures and of buoltes, and a fountain placed, with ucoer:ses which bring shame inwardly: a seat opposite. It formed a resting and in the data, t.t come Itseemed to Ju• Place between two paths, and was asses dith as if Pate had perhaps intended to elated with many things in Lady Judith's spare her the livingof a daily lie. Yet, too, as the years came end went, mould- ing, as they do the mind and heart, and Seemingly e soul, aao. a 1 th l h told hers. if that mind. Here she bad often come us a child to cry when oho had been punished. Here too site hod beard more than one de- claration of love, and here. of late, she of only she had :been loved, she 1 «sat often spent a quiet hour reading, when have been a different woman. Yrs, love elle had not understood what was lime - have full and forgiveness, tbose are the great 001'' tng itteranrcehea Shewas �gglaet e it tonight that <60080118 of power over the minds of our she had never brought Sir Hubert or Dale fellow men and women, whose uce8 we vete here. It seemed to set them. apart. are the leant aoqua luted nada, which are •.The old boylooks Hold, doesn't he?" weld= used In the duets of mind withthe small space between himself and the mind, of temperament with temperament. She radsed her eyes for Otte instant to the smell tain, now and een imselfnag erect "Doesn't this remind you?" he asked, follow the direction of his ayes. The old against the background of dark leaves, as they stepped out into the moonlight, boy," riue was Taconame f seemeor a d faun.ronze to be grat— eful the tweet to the past, to the eel,. n- nine at them from the foliage around, ousto whtelt man so often sacriiices the wh:le a ,pale reflection from the moon pure emotions nature intends to evoke made a bald patch on hie head, and by ler phenomena of eweetneee—tae-•Lon caught the dzone of water falling from. err.,: orting to the silent murmuring of his mouth, as if it fain would castanet stunt' Ind Intoxication of the senses to their pure crystal Whi0011008 away from the ',Hume of guileless flowers, aroused I it. Glover could see that she was lemm- a new p eiion in her being, the passion tient to go, and it pleased him to make of rebellion, of hate, a nauseating re. I her wad vu',Jon of feeling against the man and the memories he evoked, nelepondently on ata way, regardless of the shining mesmerism before which it once bowed, at whose beck and call it once moved power1oe<, acquiescent, unre- sisting. Wrought 'up, a little eztited per. -haps by the brandy and soda followed by the wane she had taken at dinner, but more than all under the influence of her sudden awakening to the enormity of it all, awakes to the risk aha was running in leaving her betrothed on the last night before he left inorder to meet this man at 01118 hour, in this lonely oornor alone, with a fearful feeling of her own dm'pot- enee against fate, she was for a moment like a wild animal. A wild animal peeing stealthily with subdued snarls and con- trolled snarling, before it finally makes up its mind to spriag. And as ehe paced the moonlight outlining now a leaf, now some feature, now a fold of the sheen of Iter evening dress, giving something an. dilating to her appearance, as if ehe moved in waves, which caught now the light, then sunk again into furrows of shadow, the hour, the mysterious quiet the Thole scene, as she lashed him with her tongue, a very Maenaed, something arose within him which was like the 'fur of n lion with his mate, something which invited to dominate ker. capture ber, rend her if need be, but to control. "Yon are Infamous, infamoue," she re- peated, "00 woman, no mean, ought ever to speak to von again, to touch your band, you ought to 'bo hounded from every club, abased from aoclety, branded the bully, the infamous coward that you are.' And putty because We situation who so nearly what she described, becauee did rot recognize the daunted, divan• pointed, yearning motherhood that shone in ber eyes, he took her fury for the ter• ror of dismay at his interference, for a recognition of the feet that all the cards were in his bands. "Mat•ry you --I would rather the whole world knew." she told him, holding ber head high, "than r'arry you." Ho bad not completely mapped out hie up hiemmind to spoihe lahernggame, toy ruien her life, but 310 had intended to come to some arrangement with her. It would be blackmail, but because she would never dare to tell about herself, she also would never be agile to tell about him, never. Only to reach a compromise she would have needed to be in a calmer spirit, to meet him with suggestion, with patience, at least• to have appealed to Iliabetter self, instead of arousing his worst. Tn• stead ebe had net a fuse to all that was most evil, most reckless, most daring, .and tie was a man to whom nothing mattered, who had no one to consider but himself, and who, when ho ovneidered himself, saw grimly that soon there would bo very little loft to consider. His complete downfall 'v06 imminent, and he knew that he had not enough friends for tho world not to rejoice. The hate, the loath.. ing of Judith was but -the replica of the hate and loathingofother women, who, while they bold their 'tongues now, would laugh over bis fall, and meg triumphant• ly because horse and alder had been thrown rots the seta. More than all, by her challenge, she had awakened the fighting epirit which lies inalmost every man, She dared frim, and he accepted the challenge. She had declared war. It wee too late to sugge<b a truce, and when her voice ceased its low passionate mut• muning, iia whioh she had Foamed like a hissing serpent, otriking athim with poisoned fangs, hesaid, with a ea1m, which seemed the culminating wrong of all: I don't mean you to merry that Lady Judith, if you don't marry me, you shan't marry him. You'll.have to come off your high horse, my lady.' Now when it was too late, when, with- out ending in disnvtcr, the hour itself proclaimed that there was no time to en- ter upon a dismission of compromise, she saw that she had used blunt edged tool8, blundered with methods to which this mnn wag accustomed, and sailed to deal a fatal blow. • Hoty are you going to prevent me?" Still she dared Itnrn 'with retort, wbile something within her died away, So had her ancestors defied death, while it star.. ed them between the eyes, hold crusaders, and knights of old, and brave soldiers, who had built up the name of her house, the while they had faitt already the axe of the enemy at their roots, and laughed him to scorn with their dying breath. The game was lost, no doubt, but thank God, there was no compromise. 'Then it wile that be uttered the words which edho• e4 on the night's stillueoe, and convoyed so notch. as they reached the ears of her brother and betrothed. You'll have to marry me, my lady, when that fellow Danvers knows!' (To be continued) Bad Luck. A third marriage is considered unlucky in certain part's of India. A fourth marriage is not. 5o when a man wishes to become a benedict after two previous trials and still evade superstition he evokes a, very clever scheme, Mr, Man of India goes through i bor animal wh a bird nb a ceremonial Ur fiweres thebride in order' that Q his next wife will be the fourth and not the third venture. Though this may 'sound ridiculous to many of our American people is it any more so than the lengths to which per- sons in this country will go to avoid the number 13 or "unlucky days" and other household bogies? Playing It Safe. "George, I will promise to obey. on one condition.," "What is that, my dearl" "That before the ceremony takes place you will promise mo never to command." He had thought to appeal to the worst in her which had formed the link with the 'worst in him. He might have been more many successful if ho had chosen other methods. She turned on him cold- ly; "If all you wanted to say, was to re- mind me of what I try hourly, and daily, conetantly, toforget I think we might as well go back to the house:" She spoke flaringly, trusting to the fragile honor of the man. He would not dare to speak to others than herself, therefore to -night, the laet night on which she would ever speak to him alone, she could dare to have her fling of in- ventive, of expression of hate. Blindly. she omight to -night to break, not only from the enchaining folly of her past acts, but from that subtle restraining fetter of faraway emotions, which seem- ed to form a link between his past and hers n secret link which was even more dire to ful, more nauseating than the event neer. because that was so indeli- bly engraveu and enhanced with so mucb pain. But he could not read the mind of the dangerous for a through him that it ,was don woman who had never roneerned himself' g with anything but the beauty of the woman to be as beautiful as ehe wae, body, and only noted emotion in the wo- that it ceased to be 'beauty, and became men he had pretended or thought to love, 1 enetaes of signal of destruction like it pleased his own. Had it in r+o Par a;; that of some contour of magnificent rocks not been for the anxiety which seemed dreaded by ceafurers, or that of the siren to wring her mind and to have easarased herself, alluring, einging to men, and 'teen' of her whole being, paralysing 1t combing her golden heir, to the sound of with doubt and agony, had alio not felt stIlting water, garotting sighs. 'A wo- tb,tt her future happineee hung by a man revelling, not so much in her beauty, hair, might at any moment be dashed to the grouted. shivered to atoms like a crv,t:e1 goblet, from which one had hoped to drinlc, she might have spoken to him more , ,tmly, defied him lees, have ap- pea'ed to the faint remaining shreds of manhood and chivalry, which thought rtrs'ed and warped, lingered perhaps 1n sol'nteru, in what had once been at least the outward presentment of a gentleman. they haven't, when they are entirely un - As it was, from the very stat moment scrupulous, entirely calculating, then they are not entirely women. Women prefer to be good. Often Judith had moaned to herself: Here, far away from human sound, her beauty brought aback some of the dewire. which had wrought her woe. He changed completely in tone. "Look here, Judith," he -began confi- dentially, tbrowing one term over the back of the atone seat, and linking it with the other by clasping his two hands together, "you know you can't marry him without telling him, and you know that when you do it will be all up; you had much better send him away while it's still all in your hands, and marry me. You know it's tbo right thing, anyway. My wife is dead. and I am free now, don't cher know, and well—I suppose we shall both feel much batter for doing the right thing. I al- ways meant to, but I wasn't free till the other .day." She wee looking away from him, as he "poke, watching the little, spray of water falling into the basin, then jumping up• wards, a sifted fine spray, touched with moonlight, here and there, ironical, deli• care, seeming to mock at solitude, full of vitality in contrast with the sleepiness of the night; and at his words, even in the moonlight, he could see how every ,muscle of her fade contracted. How pale eho had Brown. The thought flashed as in the disaster it worked. But he ex• aggerated her dewire to destroy, her wish to allure. Just now, if ehe and he had ,known It, she pined for virtue, dor the re. cord of purity. When a woman's beauti• fel and not particularly good, men al. ways think that she must be supremely wicked. Nobody Is supremely -wicked, and women have always, to the end, some of the inconsequence of children. When she antagonized him, defied him, and de- fying lest her enuse. He was at least in. telligent enough to read between the lints of her assumed superciliousness, the eigrs of a desperate fear, "Van wo ever forget?" Ite answered, teit<tively. "One <•an at least try to.". "I don't try,' he &powered. laughing, "I try to remember." The remark irritated her, exasperated her, It is hardly a memory to do you cre- dit.' Well, what harm las it done? epee - ropily none, seeing the very brilliant. and «ltogetbur eligible person, who grates o,n.yrou t. toot ghc no your Bance.' '01 powerlessncee of argument seemed to a n over her, No, apparently outw,rily, no harm had been dune, since ehr was coshing a brilliant marriage, in keepins with her position, her beauty, even her we•xlth, for ,,he would have a gotta sum settled upon her by her fa• thee, Of the inward harm, of the «Hanle, even the remorse, which, if it were not in ,.roportion with the event, was yet the drrpeot feeling she had ever expttert- eneed the turning of ber 'brief girlhood into weals matronhoodt the matronhood on old' trtdit'nns, which are perhaps w•itt a the <'ompenaatiant the lie 1'ved,' palee, on the reading of novels, recount• in enin meaonre through life; the eubter- S Ing of ancient chivalry, which probably, OM trawl, if etre married without I like the chivalt'y of old Virginia, existed canis saint ea ; ehr 1 run of the one man she mor? in eho mind Of the novelwrlter than had really salad tor; the nowpt•oeUpu•1 in the pen le of old•faohioned days. She Men, is h r•ttoi ,ecauc<e committed with shill imagined that he would never, never the to tion of the Ohureb, 10 ehe married+ emelt; and tonight her one ambition this mnn whom ehe liked but did not tune to show him once and for all time, love the bitterness of her heart; the that alts bad no more use for him in this andd b anng r C her <Tfe ll wition the mEstrust world. that if she had once seemed to care rt :'f her fellow mon and women, for him, it had been because she had not the Leroy 1 Carden f n place. Of the lightI understood life, bemuse she had 'been al. narnir < n., . of girlhood, all this he cauls not know most a child. In her anger, an anger I been gathering Porro 11 .those which had t t g g •a ll t had Me told him, he would have months, she Qct up From ber coat, and in toured her, and told her maybe that she her deep, muelonl voice, which, became) weir. ,f th s.n made for rankle, not for it was restrained by the passion of ago0• wren waters, and that the eommonpince l iced fury within, the ,fury of having mire. saver turn• rf maiden life would not have ed the mveetnese of 1100 through this man suited her, that alto herself had chat- which made her mind almost Ince that of longed fate, and that pretending to re. one speaking from the deptbe of hell, who grit woe to play, the part of hypocrite. realize the rapture of heaven, the lost Yrs, he woe right, outwardly ehe was joys bartered for a few moments of pleas• unimense f, talon what did ehe complain urs, of p:lemon, fleeting 01108 in any 01.0.0, 1 were ? e lose, it sounded n if it w o of not worth th s 0 e would teak her Yet euro more she essayed Po show de• throbbing, as if it w d b Y t g, o h weeds tell cent fiance, d throat the. whit the o s fluent, "T don't suppose that it wail to distpss W011•thosen, yenned, even though the im• a very diotreostng and regrettable duet- port of them was insult. Elbe wanton t0 dent, fn which you played a part meet insult him; if stn didn't tonight, eho men would have regretted all their livc0, would, never be 'happy. If she bad been thatYentold me you wanted to speak to a woman of mother cleat, another race, me, Please -tell me what ,you hove to eay she would have etaibbecl him; this man ne quickly .a0 poc011110. Mr. Danvers Ls .going away to -morrow morning, and I want to velum to the hones as eo011 as pre,bble," "So am I going away tomorrow morn- ing." She 1000 silent. The elmilnrity of what thetwo menwere going to do, did not. 80008 to havo any referents to the seblect, Then anddenly lie changed hie tone I oupe to that you are glad that I am going away to -morrow Lorly Judith," Site looped away from him as ehe- an- swered, shrugging her shoulders n. little: "1 wonder at your having had the im. pertinence in roue. The. word importinonce ionised his an "If I could only be loved, how bumpy and good Iwould bo." American women aro no 'bettor inatinet- ively than other womon.'but they are bet- ter wives 'because they are more 'beloved by their husbands than. ,the women of other countries, To night it, seemed to him that 310 and she were tarred with the came brush, that together they could govern the world; that apart, each would feel that one side of hie or her advantages was not being brought intowse. She, the wo• mnn, haw n uah better for her to marry a man wlto knew, who could never re - preach her. And for him, lie could not begin to count up the advantages for himself. "Marry you—" She gave a little mock- ing laegh, which emphasized the soorn in her voice. "If you 'were the only man In the world I wouldn't marry you. 1(dm nay tate you.' She had i of CPOrt the importance of tem. norizing with him to -night, of all nights. She still clt'n.g to the fallacy of women of the present century, which is built up who had gabbed her of her purity, and who ono Cama, she bolt l0, not from dense of right, hat because, through big own gpaili00 of her, he hoped to win on the rebound; a bride, who given another de. stiny 'would havo been as far above him as the moon, stalling beyond those fleet white elands tonight, scenting to touch only the tip' of the treo<toilo the creta Of mnntaine the meaka et hide, and not to dwell on, those witll anything like abatadonmont or oven intimacy. Dut beettene (dabbing him through the heart woo out of the question, tonight it wa< delightful to stab hie uensibilitloe, d:o thrust poisoned arrows of the tongue at him, to stand there, conedoes that she A. 'Side -Tragedy of the War in Serbia. A wounded Serbian soldier attacked by typhus fever and unable to proceed further on his journey. This is not an unusual sight under the existing circumstances in Serbia. How to Prevent Mold in Butter. The important losses in butter through the growth of mold upon the tub lining, wrapper, or in the butter itself, which injures the saleability of the produce, have led experts to investigate this subject. Mold in butter is usually found in three forms: (1) Orange -yellow areas with some growth of myce- lium under the . surface. (2) Smudge or dirty green areas, either entirely inside the 'butter or with some surface growth. . (3) Green -surface colonies, either upon the butter, causing decomposition, or upon the container or wrappings whioh will injure the appearance of the butter. Experiments in producing molds artificially in samples, of butter in- dicate that a growth of mold in or about butter is favored by exces- sive curd, by "leaky" butter, or by wet surfaces, wet wrappings or highly moist air. If butter molds readily, it is an indication of in- sufficient salting, as salt up to 2.5 to 3 per cent. is sufficient to pre- vent mold or reduce it to a negli- gible amount. The growth of molds; moreover, is largely reduced by keeping the butter at low tempera- tures. Improper storage tempera- tures, accompanied as they ire- quently are with moist conditions, are favorable to mold in butter. Unsalted 'butter is more subject to deterioration from microorganisms than salted butter. Successful storage of such butter is therefore dependent upon scrupulously clean, dry refrigeration. Cellars and ice refrigeration rarely furnish conditions which will prevent mold in unsalted or slightly salted but- ter, although it may be delayed or reduced. Butter properly made and normally salted (up to 2.5 to 3 per cent., equivalent to the use of a 12 to 15 per cent. brine)., will not show -mold under reasonably careful handling, Investigators in summarizing re- sults emphasize the fact that well - washed butter is less subject to mold than that with an excess of curd, bub the essential factor in molding seems to be water, not protein. "Leaky" , butter from which milky water exudes and collects in the wrapper or container furnishes the best conditions for the begin- ning of mold growth. From these wet areas colonies may spread to the butter itself. Mold, the investigators find, will not grow upon the surface of a piece of butter exposed to air at ordinary humidities. The water in the 'butter is not suffioiently avail- able to the mold to support the de- velopment of a colony unless evap- oration is reduced by a high -mois- ture content of the surrounding air. In closed packages, web or damp Cellars, or carelessly packed masses with cracks or fissures in which moisture collects, mold may seriously injure the appearance of the packages or acually induce great ohanges in the butter itself. Green molds may damage nor- mally salted :butter if cracks and open spaces are left by bad pack- ing. Other investigators have found that paraffining the tubs or boxes prevents mold on the con- tainer and the liner by preventing the escape of water which would not leave the air space necessary for mold growth. Very moderate .salting prevents the appearance of the orange -yel- low patches and the smudges. The green molds affect normally salted butter only when it is held under conditions of temperature or moist- ure that are favorable to mold growth, Alfalfa Hay for Hogs. A trial in feeding hogs on alfalfa hay was carried on at the North Dakota Experiment Station by W. H. Peters, Animal Husbandman. The alfalfa hay was out into half- inch lengths and was fed 'both dry and steamed. The 'hogs were also fed a grain ration of barley shorts and tankage. One lot was fed only the grain feed, while with other lots the grain ration was reduced and alfalfa supplied in its place, Barn 1 Fire, ltidhtnIind Rust and Storm Proof Durable and Ornamental Let us know the size of any roof you are thinking of covering and we Will make you an interesting offer. Metallic Roofing Co. Limited MANUFACTURERS TORONTO and WINNIPEG we the aim being to make the alfalfa: fed hogs to gain as much as the all - grain lot. With young pigs the saving in cost duo to the alfalfa was 506 per 100 pounds ,gain on the d'r'y alfalfa, and 40o when the alfal- fa was steamed. With the fatten- ing hogs, the saving was $1,70 per 100 pounds gain for lot fed the dry alfalfa, and $2.70 when the alfalfa was steamed. Brood sows were also fed alfalfa bay. When the alfalfa was fed the grain ration (ibariley end oats) could be reduced one-third to one- fourth, and the sows did well on it. No difference was noticeable between their litters and those Eroan "the sows fed all grain. The growing pigs were fed one- fifth to one-sixth as much alfalfa as grain, this 'being the amount that they would readily eat and keep making as good gains as the all -grain tot. Of the dry alfalfa the Battening hogs eat one-sevenh as much as of grain ration, and of the (steamed al- falfa one-sixth as much. The hogs did not eat as large a proportion of the alfalfa as was expected. It, however, reduced the cost of mak- ing'the gains so that it was well worth while. The price put on the feeds was one cent per pound for the grains, two cents for tankage, and the alfalfa $10 per ton. The observations of the trial in- dicate: First, that in order to get hogs started to eating alfalfa hay in winter it is necessary to limit the grain to such an extent that the hogs must eat bay or go hun- gry. Second, that, when handled in this way, they will very readily take to the hay, and a limited amount of hay can be fed very eat- isfactorily, securing just as gogd results, just as good gains, and at less cost than where grain alone is fed. Third, that the greatest ad- vantage to be gained in feeding hay in the winter is the saving of grain. and lowering of the cost of feeding. Bix—Does your wife ever go to theclubfor you when you are out lame 1 Dix—No ; but she goes for me when I get home. WORMS "Wormy," that's what's the matter of 'em, Stomach and intestinal worms. Nearly as 'bad as distermper. Oast you too much to feed 'em. Look bad—ane bad. Don't physio 'em to death. Spohn's Cure will remove the 'worms, tmpr yo 'tits appetite, and tone 'om up ell) round, and donut p}iveto." Acte on glands and (blood. Pull directions with each bottle, and cold by all druggists, SPONN MEDICAL 00., Chemists. Goshen, Ind., U.S.A 1915 SOW IF F ou-want sugar that is abso- lutelypure,and as clean as 1 when it left the refinery, you can depend on getting it in -1" Packes ,7. J• 1.. t:. 2.1b. and 5-1b. Sealed Cartons. 10, 20, 50 and 100.1b. Cloth Bags. "Canada's favorite Sugar for three Generations" CANADA SUGAR REPINING CO., LIMITED, • M'ONT'REAL., 123 NEWS OF THE MIDDLE WEST BETWEEN ONTA.ItIO AND 111MI. CISH-OLLMBIA, Itenm From Provinces Where Many Ontario Boys and Girls Are Living. The population of Selkirk,' Man., is now 3,602. Winnipeg wanted five young lady librarians and 100 applied, Winnipeg's school board this year had estimates of $1,200,00Q. Harry Wlbitla, LO., of Winnipeg, bought a ,residence in' IC.ingsway< Winnipeg, for $30,000. At Beresford, 'Man., 3, Mtwnby' was the first fanner to gab out with a seeder. He was out Aipril 1, Regina's estimates attll fg10 an ex- penditure of $1,286,895 this year, The tax rate will the 21.1 mills. At Dauphin, Man., the school' board has passed an order prohibit - Mg dancing in schoolbuildings, The I,O,D,F. of Brandon shipped 3,320 ;pairs of six and 16 scarfs to England or Canadian soldiers. At Brandon the body of the late Senator Kirkhoffe was removed from the vault and laid in, the cemetery, At Portage la Prairie, Man,, the ice went out of the essiniboine on April 1, A year ago it stayed till April 16. Neptune Lodge, S.O.E., Winni- peg, unveiled a beautiful tablet in honor of its 36 members who have enlisted for the war, In Winnipeg it is said that de- pression in trade makes for larger school attendance. Boys cannot. get positions, so go to school. Near Rapid Oity, (Man., the house of Stanley Puller, a farmer, wee burned to the ground, and two of his children were burned to death. Nurse IS. P. Johnson, assistant lady superintendent at the general hospital, Brandon, has left for Ot- tawa to report for duty in France. A. 'Saegert, a farmer from Horse Hills, died suddenly in an Edmon- ton restaurant, while eating sup- per. Heart failure is said to have been the cause. At Le Pas, Man., there was an epidemic of cholera infantum ag- gravated by canned milk. Dr. Rob- ertson says there are only six milk- ing caws in town. Joe Hamel, assistant ferryman on the Saskatchewan, eight miles north of Paynton, was drowned, when the boat capsized while he was performing his duties. The Calgary city :assessment will be reduced half a million dollars as the result of judgments handed down in the assessment appeal oases by Judge Carpenter. Grant Hall, general manager of the C.P.R.'s Western -lines, says conditions in the west are very good, and that the farmers are pre- paring fora big prop. Clarence Orton, living near Cart- wright, Man., has confessed to 11. murder that ho committed some sixteen months ago, when John peSteen, of Hansboro, N.D., disap- ared• There is p, famine of formalins at Swift Current. The local stores are all,sold out and unless more sr rives very soon there mill'be a good many farmers in the outlying dis- tricts further delayed in 'their seed- ing. Work for 400 minors in Crow's Nest Pass coal camps is assured for the summer as a decision of the C.P.R. to use coal from this district on the Manitoba division instead of stocking the eastern product ae formerly. In consequence of the deorease in wages amounting to approximately $1,000 per month, and the return to the straight five oent fare, the Sas- katoon street railway showed a de- ficit for March of only $2,898.95 as against $4,828 in. February. William Wilson, a citizen promin- ent; in the life of Indian Head dur- ing the past 17 years, is dead, He went to Jn:dian Head from L,ter- pool in 1806 and built the Indian Head flour mills whioh he oon- tinaied to run successfully until his death, Herbert Turner, a discharged soldier from one of the infantry battalions stationed in Calgary, was picked qt,p on the main lino of the C.P.R. at Piapot with both legs out off, He •was taken to the hos- pital at Swift Current, but died. George Clark, a farmer near Est - lin, on the G.T.P. Railway, was found dead on a strawstaok. He went out to fright a stubble fire, .and failing to return., search was made, with the discovery of the body, Heart failure is believed to have been the cause. The body of Yee Jack a Moose Jaw Chinaman, who disappeared i p ea red on Easter Monday, was found in the high pressure dam in the east end of the city, It is believed to be a deliberate case of suicide, as he had told another Chinaman 'he }would lutnip into the river, d< Suggestive. r"I have aL new bl'Ga'kfas,kk loeti and I want some wut'tl to advertise int --:something that is pertinent and will imply quality and new - nese. Can you. suggest anything?" Litems—How would "Excelsior" dog