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"•"*"1"--ene-en".en BYJHAVITA WITTMAN.
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R.Plionsis of nreyieuri Chanters, letter which he carried in his hand.
Reosem end Erithe Haverton,
Modern seldiere of fortune, have been
gambling with Hubert Baxentere
)lroSperous ettorney, in his London
apartments, After their dePariMre Past winch it contained. It Sennett to
lete ae night Renton returns to the him that someone was writing to Mm
woes the age, and, involuntarill,Me
raised his eyes to the painting by
HOPiener of the founder of the firm
which hung • en the gray -green ex
-
ranee of 'wall 'facing • the windows.
P1'en1 it they 'returned to the papers
of one. of Beeenter s encestors by a on his desk, vesting, fin.ally upon a
Preneh nobleman, the Marquis do portrait of a lovely girl, who, from
.Dartignef, of the Cluitflau Cbauville, her silver fvarne,seemed to sinile"upoe
The chest hes been banded demi from the young solicitor,
one generation of Baxeeters to an- Robert Brocentee crossed to his
other .and earefully guarded in the 'chair and sat there in o reverie toll -
II found it amen hi s coerce..
Pendence when, he returned front hie
knelt, . and he heel veed WW1 enrioue
sensations the echoes of the longedead
house, mueciers idexenter end bides
the body on the lea While welting
e'er' night to come again in order in
make, hie ,es -cape, bofloakin a eleele a
eurlobs old yeleowed doeunient.telllag
of a mysterious chezt lef in the enre
hope than nom arty its rightful. owner
will' be found. Renton decides to pose.
as the mis.sing. heir aed claim the
oheet, He goes to France to make
some needful intent:Au about the Dar-
tiguy family, The story of the myster-
ous chest, goes bock to the troubled
days of the lareneh.Revolution and the
escape of the Marquis end little gra nd7.
daughter to England,' where the cnest
and derennent Were grnn to the Bax -
enters for safe keeping: .Now; more
than we hundred years Inter'Hubert
Baxenter's body. is found, hut the
pollee find no clue. Mearevhile, Rens
ton changes his name to Baptiste Dar -
tin, grows a beard and passes himself
off as o noriehmen. He visits the old
Chateau.
CHAPTER VIL—(Cont'd.)
A _stone bridge :spanned the half -
froze. surface of the Met And led
'th 'the meal entieenie of the. chateau,
a maesive gatewayflanked by little
'White flowere, •• Abo'e it, on a block
.f stone, were the remains of e• Cary -
ed -6eouteheen, battered and defaced
ahnat out e'en recegnition. The ear- and Oantle entered,
baker, who lea.d-been eodding over hie .Itobert Bircenter looked up ftem the
'flee -in the Iletle gateroinee Weleotned aapeee an aes desk,
tho•lanalordeof the. "Three Lilies" and. "Ah, Cantle.," • he 'paid; "shut the
-hie guest effusively.- To sho15. a dem:, will you, and coma eight Me Pull
ret1gor ot'or: t10,9 great .hease of pp a chair—that's it. -I .am going to
which he the keys was to him. a read you e letter whih Came alneng
these when I was out. I want yea to
lietee carefully and not hrterruat flie
entil I leave finished,"
The Old 151011 15115 ell -ettention 015
notepaper, :is dated,"' he Went
of :peeves before aim a sheet of thin
the solipitoe picked .out from a. Utter
on, "the and of this month, and is
headed 'The Dominion.Hotel, Quebec.'
Listen.
"'])car Mr. Baxenter—I hardly
know how to address you ni this let -
alter the donth of his son. Ah! which at best is hut an arreW
W1.1011_zatl time, that ef the Revolution." islet into the air. It relates to a tre-
es he reeoutted the history.
The del caretaker shoolc his head,
dition, very
which has survived in our family for
-ague -and nebulous, but
"No, nunnsieur, there are no Dar- a hundred years and incaein fat
Ligreys loft now. Thorn was one who
altreared as a claimant in the early
emit of 1,800.. He Write am emigre,
motsieur, and he had no money ime
cease not fight hie claim. Ile dis:ap-
pored at last, monsieur, and went
teith hod 05 time 'other ruined nebles
to Ottewe to liegie, life again!'
The chates.u, the visitor learned,
ing himself that it 15011 .18 this very
room end sitting% in this very cheir
that his encesbor had listened to the
romantic story of the IVIargnis de Dm:-
tigny. In hie mind he pictured the
old n.oblem an aes he leaned forWarel,
eagerly telling of bis hopes and fear;
saw the canelleeligat upon bis face and
upon the ruffles of lace et his throat,
and imagined the professional ate of
old Adam Baxenter nodding sagely
over his stock at Ms vieitor.
As he gazed at the portrait on the
wall he could almost swear that a
new look had come into the painted
eyes; that the old on -an seemed to
smile clown upon this descendent who
was taking on the -work begun so
Fong ago. Perhaps there was some-
thing atter all id the theory that spir-
its of tbe dead returned to the scenes
of their earthly strivings.
Then the young man nulled himself
together and, turning 'to his desk,
elan* twice on a bell: There was a
little interval—easily understood by
enycniii who corad -peep inbo the life
of tbe outer office—a tap on the dear
001.1550 of never-ending delight.
, As he led them through the coarte
%Med: his tongeire woe busy recounting
'Sae:echo of the vemantic 'history of
the,Dartignyea Th,e old fellow seem -
• 'to live, in the :glories df the paet.
Here, frcre the doorway, the Marquis
end ea MDDWiCiir Peeatteou*et totek their
_departtire,.dieggieed 83 e wine, -mer-
chant and his eerie Yes:, they reach-
ed England; but the nobleman re-
turned. end he Was not seen again
ever since my aricestor Armand, son
of Yvette de Dartigny, landed, togeth-
er with other emigrant French nobles,
In Ottawa, in 1801. The shoey—I can
imagine it to be nothieg more—is,
that sleatild a membee of the house of
Dattigny, (Poor, Mael corrtipted into
Dartin) be in London, he Should call
upon one Baxentem a notary in that
had been attacked by -EV mob of rie- city, using as his. introduction the
triela led by a Mead of Carrier, the Imotte of our ill-fated house,
infamous butcher of Nantes. This "Referring to a London directory,
ientlenran,•with ?eye; no doubt, to T can find no -trate of a sancta= of
that mune, but then:ins, I see, a Bax -
enter. I'venture, therefove, sir, to ac-
quaint you with the fact that, business
taking me to En:gland, 1 willedo my-
self the honor of Waiting upon you at
eleven on the morning of the 18th
Met.
" 'With my respects, 1 am, my dear
sir, yours very faithfully, •
" "BAPTISTE DARTIN! "
As the solicitor pet down the letter
Cantle half rose to his feet, but sank
back onto the choir as Robert Bax -
enter held up a silencing hand.
"There is a rough drawing,". the
solicitor went on, "below the sig -nature
--some heraldic device—and the met -
to, 'Clierchez avec Pepee: What dio
you make of it, Cantle?"
"Make of it, sir?" the old clerk%
eyes were round with wonder, "on-ly
one thing, Mr. Rolm% that the chine -
ant has emne at lot." As his master
had deace Gentle raised his eyes to the
eortratt on the wail. ',It is very
'Three Lilies" lir WU. 5: abk to fill two strange, all the same, sir—urucannye
reg'.' i of his neictieek with eseful I Robert Batt:enter placed the letter
e r the 1.)v rtignys, Mho gen ±10±101801) who
date pertaining te the encie'nt family lee eeene,pei
It is, Cantle; but, to me, it looks
bed gone le Canada r.erliculatly in- .
straight. You see, Mr. Dartin dries
treated him, uted reference to the I
seem to know that there is
which he h11aceumulated in n°± °yen
r0;1.. cently located him as the only . a ebest; you see, he puts forward no
eeild1 1 rertain Yvette: sistev of theidefiwite• elabel—he is evi deo y taking
Mat -et -de. Tele leey. Vivian netcd with 18 aP°"Un'g chance', on Bane vague tra''
1.1 C 1 1SCenderl tia. :ea -field in dition. The 17th, why, that's to -mer-
lin (airmen; gene cane in ale eieye 'row. We'll know more them I'm go-
ef Terrcr, ling le put it out of my mind ti11 to-
ile tract himself thee it Ivo through morrow. Now, we'll leek into that
matter oe the alters:len settlenient,
11.11 emigrant to the New•Werld thee
w ele„e„e repeeeeg le The' Mackinnon affair is postponed
Lee etirc?„er0i81i 0. the en, Bax,.! until Mrs. Mackinnon veturne feem
oilteTt ,Frw 0..1eve day ei ho 1W,ecred in 8eetland,"
the meighborhood the..chateau, then vs'fis 111el150t11p Plan 011 some
relenmeil to Pails.
thirty years of lige' who' entered the
'
. „
On the 2fithof Febrosey the 1,40.001 .ottfees p1111111101113lly at eleven o'clock the
•
ship Domaine', reft Havre ftn• Merit- "l1W raotaing• lis W04 dressed in a
reel, en, et, peeserige), list 117558511 tee wela-fitting suit ef light gray tweed
memo ef leeptjeto Inman,
and he carried himself ethleticalef,
• aeard 1559 neatly Mirnmed to a
• —
• CHAPTER VIII. eleort point, end his breezed Wain and
'
• • the low cut of his collee giv'ehim the
um/nisi:tie-ethic leek of. a Coloniitl, In
The smi of mid-Jurie beat fiancely one hand be alga a soft felt hat, the
down from a betmen sky, and strilciog other he stretched out to the .solieitor.
the big polished refiebeers outsiele 11e. greeted Mb. Baxenter with a
widows, mede the ritrnaphere in the sraile'lhat had something. of nervous -
°fates of Meesee. B,axenter well nigh nese in it and that lent a twinkle to
insuppnutahle, At his (leek fit a elev hie rather grave eyes.. In his speech
cern= -Cottle nodded .ove a epomee was a euggesti.oft of a Canadian se,
cation, a aage oe whiph he had not cent. At the ealicitair's invitation he
teamed 'for the Met half-hour, took a chair beside the desk, and be-
Tbe second clerk, a young Man math the 'Viet he plead Ins gloves
lapse attire showed a continhal eons ntid the soft felt hat
lei 'list:wail law and VDOtt, 15115 "Well, Mr, Baxeneer, here I ani—a,
ineryningevith e permit the finale in an mighty hunter oa wild acese-e-oh?
e eventn•g paper, which, (iota -tied tep peva= befeete.you, Alt Balm; ana
emell, proteroded from under Ms lean aay, 'Caerehee levee Pepee' --presto!"
ler( leahnireibtfare youth, whoa deek "Meening---?" Oki the ;lonelier,
faced the winelkeeVe, had sletaluny (bee with a smile,
eamed ebbenwIdo, Sereell, thereby "Literally, T. think it 1)1013115 'Seek
pdelaibla' to catch ravlehiag with the sword,' Yet I pomil to yett
glanees of the little aeeroseee tripping unarmed. -What it cent:eye boyend
eilzeiMY eiete ebseigeeMsbehee.ted shoes thOt I cannot, gise.a. Nothing, AV'
„ daiiorn4, ifelong the /The solieitor's face WaS 8e8-00101-
gteillifrt01'vditIhei retielia
The Be.xentor M, ,1111Tjtbsto froin "I dictra say so, Mr. Deetin."
ferereet,of ariong,Ofabliateediltaleitedned "Well, Well, it's no good fenting,
fronteoutegeseegeptyeffnue gnetp, It anyway; either there is eolnethin,g le
witte YerYReaoodltl. very ,soninelent it Or these isn't. Shell I tell you nty
• 'fiiittiiiVi'y''SleirtFirtba'lleiiiifiti Of, the seory 1"
,fititi &Whale,- .1 ' • -Rolayet Baxentet bowed eisseet, The
'Bat upon the inundeonietfute Of. the lean teate.el egposite him cleared his
o ...seresitei,boodeef,,the heelee,there Wa"1 thredfAtillti prelYared fOr the effort ef.
look erneep nifileit'ae he pieced rote tlis,lifes -
lisseer to and fro 'dill theeCnel;i „ ‘‘,Y6i1*Pjmtve had ray lett& " he
ttialMiltitaM0019),11411S*4111:).0 and , you wag know wArc
wood elop rod am out rforOlhe taltlettitti,Nitl What I have called on
"gteleaellialfiiiiiatiefli oh 1.,6 the stafftff 4(ki511 bete in Winnipeg
gale etreet, tlum would turn -to the Wail -nem yeats ego. My father, et
persenel plunder, restrained the fery
of the atteckets, who, oft& demolish-
ing the chapel and the carving and
arneorinl -beeeings orier ,the .reates and
fireplaces and finding no' living being
on which to gratify. their blood -lust,
paseed on to mare exalting. game. The
ceetle ultimately fell into the posses -
elm of n preraMent Jacobin, who,
shoetly after the fall of Robespierre,
fellowed hl,e illustrioes leeder to the
teaffeld.
The estate after thab-had fallen into
• state bordering_ on d.ecay, until? in
1810, it, was restore -d by .a. MerteleUZ
lo 13"Irrell, a iin.aneier, in wheseipos-
oirion it D.OW.TenTained. The build,
hed ebetaged but little in etyle
sir,ae the days el the last Marquis,
'cad the new 0151105 had so far respect-
ed hietory that he had left the hat -
Mind eectitcheons anal restored only
what ems quite r.eassory to cora:feet
The travelle.' from Blois was a good
listener, and 0.11 hit return...to the
The ClaiTil t.
See
.simPla 01140,O,nfleWehalt anthitioue man,
lied amele eitieere ert4110 and seernee
vorY well 001004 With hie modest
pleaeures. „
"Opr family, Mr. gtOcentertt had
been settled in Canada 'three the early
Pert of 1801, Whorl a certain Armand
de Dartignyeafter a vain fight te re -
over the estates and position loet to
the. Pamily during. the Revelution,
silg‘Olt the duet Of his *Mary from hie
feet and, :together with i small party
of ranted suarbace, sefseut to make 11
new heme over gene., end swearing
never to set foot again in France."
The narrator paused He had re-
bearsed his tale until there Was no
1)011111 01) Wtddl lee eensiderecl he could
be tripped, yet he found it difficult to
hoe) 0001 'ender the keeu eyes
listener. He took a eigarette from his
case an,d, having asked permission, lit
it; than he went on:
' (To he continued.)
Holding On.
"If you mie force your heart and nerve
and since,-
•
To serve your turn Wag after they
IWO gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing
Ili you
Ihecept the 'Will which; says to them
'1 -1 -old on!'
The man who keeps his will has
kept his fortune. Ile lute kept some-
thing that none alive can take from
Min, All other thing e fall away, but
he is not poor while the will abide,
At timee there isn't much that one
can do except held on. To .walt, and
labor while we watt, and hope and.
carry a stout heart to each new day is
a mares part in life. If we do this,
there Is no adversity that can stand
before a quiet, inflexible determina-
tion.
Seine of us expect to storm the
heights in a quick, fierce insh. We
are not willing to takethe ascent step
by step. Breathless—witte our souls
deflated as well as, our lungs—we
sink in our tracks forlorn, dispirited,
calling on the mountain to cover us.
Doubt and despondency aro surest
to assail us when. the physical vitality
is at the lowest ebb. What you laugh
off in the sunlight is an incubus on a
dark day. The soul, like the body,
shakes off all mean and malignant
ma:robes when it is M prime condi-
tion.
The strong natures—those that are
looked to for comfort and inspiration
—are those that stand firm whatever
comes and goes areund them. "Come
oae, come all, this rock 9ha11 fly from
its firm base as soon as I!" The little
timorous folk meanwhile are running
about in circles crying that the end
of the. world has coma
The leaders of men are like those
who in shipwreck assuage the fears
of the otb,er passengers. '
Our faith Is weak. 'We take come
sel of our appetites and our anxieties,
We pamper our senses anal cherisb
our symptoms and ask ourselves if
WC are not tired, instead of inquiring
what work is yet to do.
We htunans are a pretty poor lot,
as seen from the skies, and yet eve
have been given a beautiful world for
a home and an eternal lite to live.
!Why do we live M the first so selfish-
ly anal lay bold of the second so feeb-
ly?
Our wills were giveo us for our self-
control and not for our self-indulgence.
They were meant.to supply a motive
power to keep us going and doing to
the end of our clays. .It is no harder
for us to live than it is for millions of
others; end we have only to walk n
few hundred feet in an direction to
ilnd that we are blissfully tortunate
compared with others that we see.
The Worlds Highest
Bridges.
Work has been started on the
world's biggest .bridge. It will span
the Hudson River from New York to
Jersey City, and its total. length will
he 8,300 ft.
The central span will be 1,000 yards,
suspended from two steel towers, each
300 ft. high, by tel cables 5 It. thick.
The bridge will carry eight railway
lines and two footpaths, and its con-
struction will cost something like
,e 40,000;000.
Although, when completed, it will be
the biggest and most s,olidly-construct-
eal bridge in the world, it will not be
by any nweleis the longest. This dis.
Unction belongs to the one built by
British engineers over the river Ganges
at. Sera., M the Bengal Presidency of
India. Covering a distance of about
fifteen Milos, this bridge cost 820,000,-
000,
Next to tt, to point of length, comes
the Geruavorla Bridge; oven the
Danube, which is nearly twelve miles
long, about the dietenee between
Waberloo and Stmlitton. It was de-
signed by a Frenchman, built by an
Englishman, end bought by the Rou-
manian Government in 1882,
The world's leftiest bridge is ink
spanning the Zambesi River, In South
Africa, close to the Vietoria Falls. It
is 400 ft. above the river.bed,
Here's the Answer.
lathe Clirl(looking over newspaper
advertisemenee)—"Mamma, why do
all these boarding houses object to
ch Ilal ren 7"
Pored Maleina—"I'm sure .1 don't
know. Oo and see what the baby IS
howling about, and tell aohnn.y ea step
throwing things at people in tho
street; and make George and ICate
step fighting, and tell Dick 11 110 does
net stop banging that drum so hard
511 take it away from bine"
What's the Use.
Dols (aged seven, just going to Mar
.11101510 lesson)—"lehimmy, they only
play hared le Heaven, doe't they?"
Mother—"Yes, dome% only harps.''
Dorfs—"Then what'the use of my
learning LO play tile piano?"
le le
U -Se ' :utos
tretokkEY ertrele THEM; USaln
earn et en tepee; ell 1150 aolci sub -
A01 00 delivery tor to 000 ranee, oe tern
run ot same dietetic° 10 roll wish, 101 aa
Of?, Order as Ourehased, or purchake
rive roeuedod,
0e1N7i tnecheate or your oWti eholot*
to look them Oyer, ,,,or melt tfil to,
loke 0,1137 oaf 85 alty repreeentetIvo for'
immediate --Very go 5±0510 ItIWZVe 00
hand,
Siefikey's Used Cee. Markel
teg Vend° atreoti Wegoide
, Pitfalls For
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Foreigners
Sir Tan Hanelltoa ±elIs al froca story
wattiwh
i tiewn, toteneitilyfomi
ttistattingittieler
Russoeleparreee War, A. geisha, whoa°
name in English would have been
Miss Sparrow, slang to the company,
and he proceeded to omplintent 4/10
on her ekill,
Proud of the little .1ei00111e5e 110
latew, he trlea te erey 110 her In the
florid Eastern style that be would itire
to keep leer always with him in cage -
that she might eing to lani, He told
lier se—or thoeght he clid—and she
went twee, Cillite crestfallen,
Whet he had really paid ter the girl
was 'MY Vied alPareow, 1 wadi you
would rebut youreelf up in a box!"
Daring the war Om ,followIng adver-
tisement appeared le. the "Times".
"Tack 0,,-11 you are not in khaki
shall eat you dead.--
Eby1°0
tli(M.2aBerlin11I Orre pond wet of the
"Cologne Gazette" was so 'greatly
struck, by this terrible threat ceming
from en. English maiden net he tele-
graphed it te his paper as an example
of the brutal method of English re-
uniting. But he inanagea tee trans-
late it helm: "le you are not in khaki
by the 20th I' shall baelc yoo to death!"
That is the result of trylog to trans-
late the peculiar idtom of one' lan-
guage Into anothee, and it is not the
only instance. There is the old's-tory
of the Frenchman who said he had "a.
oo•W in his boy," when he meant a
cough on hde chest.
DurIngthe war a well-known French
general, who was trying to pay a well-
deserved compliMent to the British
Army, made just as bad a blunder, He
compared. the Army with a vast ma:
chine. He said the privates were the
wheels and that the officers -were the
cogs wfe put the wheels in =teen as
long as they were "well oiled." He
little knew that to be well Oiled, in
Slang English, Meens nothing LIM of
Lees the» to be Intancleated.
Misfilonarlee haVe felted the trallkl"
letlen 00 hylnee 'Into herbaria tan;
gliages a Veiy Ilokilob teak. "Go, Tete.
leer On" in the dieleet of the Congo
beeflale to them, "Go Blonder On";
bit it Old not Interfere- itt the lestrit
With the gusto with which the Macke
ming' it. ,
lehyeleal and WO:eel MOO are a
geed deal mixed up in the ease of tlie
Cannibal islands, anal fowl and 1110 are
interchangeable term, meaning ex-
actly "the s.aine thing. So .whan the
naesiOnary set anent the teak of trane-
latiog the hymn Whieli says "Sing
them over again to me,. wonderful
words of life," he thought the naives
am; it with particular appreolation.
He learned later that they were really
singing "Wonderful woeds of stein-
aeh."
Another missionary found that the
dosing hymn: "Lord, dismiss us with
Thy blessing" was sung very`Mharily,
with a little ohirphig voice, whereas
any other hymn they sang with might
and main, He found presently that his
translation meant to them, "Lord, kick
us out softly, softly,"
Once 'the gveat Sli. Walter Scott
made e wilful and very witty mis-
translation of a Latin sentence or
motto which appeared over the gate-
way of an old baronial menet= which
had been taken over by the Edinburgh
Law Society as their headquarters.
The motto carved in stone was, "GLIM
MARTE, NUNC ARTE," which amens
"Once by war, neer by skill."
When George TV. v is ited thv city Sir
Walter acted as showman. The king
-observed the Motto and inquired its
meaning. Sir Walter said: "It means,
your Majesty, 'Once robbers, now
thieves.' "
"Glad You're Alive?"
Marly would have to do a bit of
thinking before they replied to the
question at the head of this -pare,
graph. Yet the answer caa be easily
found. It depeeds on whether you are
a "fit" or a "misfit" in life.
Each .01 us has certain gifts ana
qualities which were Intended to flt
us into the scheme of life, so that we
might live happily, contentedly, and
profitably, and by' Justifying our exist-
ence be glad that we were born. But
if we have missed our niche, been
pushed into the wrong 0110, or Persist
in putting ourselves into the wrong
one, then we can't be really glad that
we were born.
The misfit in life might as well have
nassed lite. The miefit is one who
doesn't know what his gift Is, or know-
ing, doesn't use R. Many, too, persist
in trying to live literally on a hale or
quarter gift, instead of using their
talents to the full.
A real-life example of that is pro-
vided by a num whose full natural gift
Is that of teaching, But he has a
third of a gift for painting anal he per-
sists, in struggling with thet third.
Struggles, literally, to make a living.
He will never be lime° than a third-
class painter, and. he could be, if he
would, a super.first-class teacher, So
he's e misfit, and wishes he had never
been born!
You have a gift for something—a
talent that should settle your place in
life. A freakish Providence may have
given you subgifts. Don't, like the
painter, choose the minor instead of
the major!
Be glad you're alive, by using your
"gift," For sure you have one! How
shall you find out what it is? Well,
Just as a sunflower is pulled by the
sun, so your girt will pull you. .A fam-
ous artist was ono a clerk, His gift
Pulled his pen—to sketch on the firm's
paper. He followed the "pull." Now
he is rich and famous, and very glad
that he was born.
Find your gift, make full use of it,
and you will be glad too.
She Must Have.
Ralph, aged 5, who bad just been
punished' by his mother for bad con -
dace said: "Mamma, you've just got
the baddest memory- I ever saw."
"Why, what makes you think I have
a bad memory, Ralph?" ehe asked.
"Because," was the reply, "you re-
member all the ba,c:1 things I does."
Montreal. Has 758,045 People.
The population of Mentre.al last
year, according to an estimate made
by the city aseess,ors, was 763,045
peoPle, of whom 475,803 were French.
Canadians, 101,271 Englislt, 65,173
Irish, 81,724 Scotch, and 04.075 of
other natiouallties,
The,Rust Record,
The greatest waster in the whole
World is rust. It costs Britain alone
160,000,000 yearly!
When the oxygen of most air coin=
bines with the sensitive surface ol
metal it produces an oxide. This is
rust and nothing else.
Aluminium is the only metal that
will not rust. Gold is generally takeu
to be a restless instal, tend it is true
that it will not combine with oxygen
00 itselt---without air, that is: Given
the aid, it will rust.
Ornamental steel—that wItli a pur-
plish or lithe color—is the worst ruet.
er, because the color tinge has been
produced by part -oxidisation, end the
process begun artificially is continued
naturally.
Dry air will cause rust, but the
metal has to be at e high temperature.
A poker which has been !uncle red-hot
will, rust when it cools. Grate -bars do
the same. The flakes that come from
red-hot iron when it is hammered are
butr
Thetie.
best
Preventive of rust is fat -oil
varnish (one part) mixed with recti-
fied spirits of turpentiue (five parts),
anal applied with a sponge. The high.
est steel, polish on mathetnatical in.
struments remains absolutely- unaf-
fected 10 ±1110 solution is applied.
Tinweere is rendered practically im-
mune from the rust fiend if, when new,
the ware is smeared with pure lerd
and baked in a hot oven.
0.
Don't Go Back!
How many people would be willing
to acknowledge that they believe 1± 15
bad luck to return, after leaving the
house, for something they have for-.
gotten?
Some popular superstitions eau be
explained psychologically—and this is
one of them.
The psychologists agree as to the
bad luck pert oE it, but say that the
bad luelc consists not so ettlicle in the
going back for the article as in the
forgettMg of it in the first place. This
shows that you do not keep your nand
sufficiently upon the details of what
you aro about. Having to go back for
that letter or package you were to
take with you is a symptom of lack of
concentratien of the mind on immedi-
ate matters.
Lack of concentration on "the in-
stant need of things" Is "uulucky."
Things will appear to go wrong all
day, and you will attribute At to the
fact that you went hack after your
umbrella; whereas the truth is that
your mind is not functioning- properly.
Germany le said to be exporting
geode into England marked "Made in
Birm Ingham."
Penniless Millionaires
Moak Twain once wrote a delightful
story, called "The $5,000,000 Back -
note," in which he docribed the
miserable lot of a man who wandered
abcut a big city, starving aud home-
less, though all the ttme he had in his
Pocket the biggest banknote ever
printed, one fer five 011111011 dollars. ,
You see, the poor fellow had no'
other money, and no one who could
do an Would change the big net%
It has often been said that noveliste
are prophets. In tIlis lastance, 5± tiny
rateralark Twain proved to be one, for
years atter ho wroto that tale, a mil-
lionaire, a countryman ot his awn,
actually got into a similat trouble.
Ralph Bran:Meth, a young American
millionaire, Wes staying at an hotel in
Brussels, when he found that he had
run ehoet of cash, and had nothing but
a cheque foe a very large sum.
The hotel -keeper asked him to Pas
tip or leave, but tamed to have any-
thlog to do with the °lemma Mr.
Brendreth thereupon left the hotel to
Otto! a friend who, Ile knew, coald
leentify 1olu, On the way he managed
lo W,Se hie identification papers, and
when Ise got to his JOurtleY's end It
was only- ±0 find that hi (Heed bad
. Comaig back to )3ruesels, Mr. tran-
(troth speke of bas dilemma to ihe
entire, but since he haul no papers,
11)037 10(8110'! to 1151 1050 him, end 371 115011
lam in the Sie 0111e -s Prison, on a
rhatge rif vagrancy. And lleore lie
103r1 for three loua weelue, until
tellies from Now "York released Ithe,
"Millionaire- in these days Is a very
elastic term. There are heaps . cif
people who live in expensive flats or
hotels, -who dress perfectly, and do
themselves extremely well, men who
have the reputation al being immense-
ly wealthy, fund who yet coeld hardly
hope to get a cheque for five hundred
dollars cashed at their
There was stack a case recorded in
the daily papers quite lately. A cer-
Min Irish -American Inlander had to
admit to a meetieg of his cralltors
that his only' cosh neeets were $10 in
the brink,
Yet -this man went eo England a few
years ago with a bigifortune, and has
since put through dale, literally in
millions. One trading company which
he organized bad a capital of five
111111101)5,
The debtor httneelf declared that he
wee only temporarily embarrassed,
and, if given time, could pay in fall.
He is only elle of many. Some aro
men of stale, who pose as millionaires
without ever having owned a hun-
dredth of Ott eme, They merry on
simply by brag and Waft 13qt there
are others, good if, bold businesa men,
whose whole capital le constantly
itt-
vctetl in all 501te of enterprises. Ie
any check occurs, if there is a titan -
cad 1i01l11e, and the Millionaire is mid-
denly called 1111011 to pay big sums in
cob, then 001110,5 the Crash,
A mon may be a millionalee oe
paper, yet 150 eel:treeing Ills soul bete
to tiny the Ittottlh's rent, 05 the do-
mande -of the income-tax oollecter,
thaareao
Getting un Education at Home,
There are, unforbunate.ly, a number
of women who :have a eenee of lefer-
lority beef01450 they leek en education,
Thee Weidei like to bake, pare is the
eopiui /ife and the glab work of the
.Ornervunity, but are efitted to do ee
for fear of malting mistakes. Their
ideas may be just as geed a the Ideas
Of the winlien who "do things," but
they do not kruow hew to express
:S:el-Chi women can not enter into a
d aeoesu nor prepare g club paper,
and they have not tbecourage neees-
s.ary for taking part in a program.
They are forced to eeknowledge their
inability by their in -Activity, and SD
must sit by, Teeing that they itTe "'out
el it ale." I know the feeling, for I
oeee belonged to that elaes; end I
want to tell how 1 overawe) my
inadequacy and thus possibly help
others bo overcome their difficulties.
My edneation, in .90 ALL' 4.1E1 'Wheel-
ing is concerned, endeel before I had
finished the seventh grade, 11 neaeried
mid for several' years wee 50 busy
with my 'violet and with the "briog-
ing up" of a geed -sized family that
I took libble part in neighborhood af-
fairs. Later, however, I had more
time. I attended the Parent-Teacbees
meetings; 'but aside from "honoring
the 'meetings with my presence" and
paying my dues, 1 might as well have'
stayed at home far all the good 1 yeas
4bli0t(17.5 .
became iso seneltare con-
.
Fhilily,
caning my men.bal lameness. that I
determined to do something about it.
I had two eyes and a mind, and there
were books. With such st combination,
why remain igno.rant?
There was not num10 time for study;
but the housewife performs a number
of duties that do not require emistant
application of thought, and I could at
'least use the time given to those
duties for thinking to some purpose.
I wrote on paper the particular
thing I ',listed to learn, and kept it
before me when Nveshing dishes, doing
other kitchen work, and when Mowing.
When on the move, I carried my "les-
son" around in my apron pocket,
glancing*at it when I could.
I began to study my old schoel die-
tionaey to find the meaning of words I
was using but could not define.
studied words alone and in theie re -
lotion to other words, tried to Com
ideas on chosen subjects, and sought
the proper words to express the ideas,
When I read I endeavored to get th
meaning of each sentence or para-
graph before going on to the next,
By doing thig I was able to fix in my
mind what I had read and to remem-
ber it. I had my children bring their
language and rhetoric boolcs home so
thatt.I could study them at night.
I kept, and still do keeP, a paper
and pencil at hand, and any original
thought is welcomea as a fortune
would be and is quickly written down.
Many times I have taken my hands
out of dish -water to do this; I have
even jumped out of bed to write down
a thought which I feared would be
gone by morning,
The more I thought and studied, the
better became my understanding; the
more I used my mind, the more useful
it became. I do 'not think I possess
greater intelligence than the aveaage
woman, but I cansaywithout any- in-
tention of boasting that the result
bars been truly amazing. "My min -d"
has come to life and grows constantly
more lively, foe I have acquired a
hearty appetite for learning, and I
find the mane of nouriehment :is
where.
T_Teeful
A eereen deer for the outside cellar
entrance wiN kap out tiles, eats arid
Other intruders when you epen the
hatchway in order to ventilate the •
▪ The unsightly marks made by strik-
ing matches op the wall ewe be re-
moved by ;ebbing the anot WW1 a
piece of ler4on, To prevent a rt peti-
tion of the offline% apply a little ouse-
l:Me and rub the epot with a cloth,
ReMos iron ruet by rubbing the
epot with to piece eg 51101)e51) until the
juice of the ehubarb has thoroughly
eaturated the cloth, Allow the article
to dry, thee wash it out in eold water.
when the spot will have entirely dis-
appeared. '
To clean a Paula, hat, take off
bands and linings and prepare a warm.
(not hot) suds, made with Castile
soap, To each quart of soap -suds, add
one teaepoonful of ammonia. Use a
nail-hrueh toescrub the hat with this
mixeure, not neglecting the under side
of the brim, Rinse off with ere=
water anal scrub again with the soap-
suds. Rinse again in clear water, 'then
rinee with a combination of one quart
of water, a tablespoonful of glycerine
and a fetv drops of bluing. Rinse well,
using the bruslo to work well :into the
straw. The glycerine prevents the
hat from getting hard and out of
shape.. Pat the hat: with clean, dry
cloths, then lay it in the sun on a
flat surface which has been overeat
-with a demi towel. When the hat
beetle to dry, ehape it as deeiroa,
than let it alone for tWo or three hours
and it wilt be as Mee and fresh as
whea new. Straw hats enn be elenned
by rubbing them tvith cornmeal
dampened with peroxide.
Our Children's Fyn.
What of our children's eyes? Re-
cent investigations into the condition
of Canadian school ehilelven reveal
that about one-fifth—twenty per 'cont.
—are handieapped by defective visin,
anti in .e considerable number of cases
these defects are serious.
The first essential is to insure the
roundest poesible health at birth.
This depends in a eerlain measure
upon the health and diet of the mother
beferre the betty is born. Prooer food
and eare for the baby throughout in.
fancy and ehildhood when the steec-
tuves of the -body are growing at the
i most vapiat rate are neceeeery. Im-
proper or intufficient food, neglect
rand illnees are among the , cause;
!which interfere with growth and
healthy development of the body- is
every peat and no doubt eine!, the
growing eyes in the seme way.
But even when the fundamentai
laws of good health have.been obscro.
ed and when the eyes are sArong end
healthy to begin with, they shouti
have very special care from the me.
ment of birth. Directions for this
are found in The Canadian Mother'
Book by Dr. Helen MeeMurehy, sup.
plied free on application to Depart-
ment of Health, Ottawa.
Babies are often allowed to lie is
their carriages with tbe sun Alining
directily intoetheir eyes, or are eer-
initted to look straight into a beghl
artificial light, thus working harm to
the delicate nerves of the eye. Ai
children grow they often trein this
eyes by reading or other ,clese wozi
in a poor light, (yr too soon after ill-
ness, when the eyes are particrOatOs
subject to injury.
Some Weather Superstitions
Three days of frost, then,raln.
If the wiehbone of the goose be dark
blue or black the coming winter will
be very cold.
Spiders weaving their webs meaner
O spell of lair weather.
Wh.en the husk of the corn grows
tight to the ear *expect u cold winter;
when loose, a mild winter.
When leaves hang to tee trees late
in the fall there wilt be plenty of
snow.
Heavy coats- of fur on fur bearing
animals show Utat the winter will be
severe.
Apples falling in quantities Prom the
trees Is an Indication of a mild %vilifier.
If corn husks are thicic the winter
will be cold; it thin, the winter will
be mild.
if the rabbit sits erect tt means a
mild winter. •
It swine be restless and grunt loudly
th-ere will be much
Coro ache previous to ralis becauee
the feet swell on account of the less
dense atmosphere.
You can tell by two what an going
to do;
Rain before oven, shine . beecne
eleven.
IC Cand-lemas be fair ahal bright.,
Winted will take another flight;
If Camellemas Day be dark anti drear,
Winter is gone for all that year.
Halos around the moon or sari are
precursors of wet weather.
The number of stars in the halo, the
number of days before rain.
The pale appearance Is probable
due to the upper regions of the atmoe-
phere being covered with a tbiu yell
of cirrus clouds. being Corertinnere ot
a 's tor m.
The halo indicates rain nr enow be-
cause It shows the upper atniosphe.to
to eentain eeneitlernble moisture.
A pale moon hulleates rain.
If tun moon rlse.s red look fur wind.
Haze around the sun or moon indi-.
cales excessive muieture end rain or
snow.
11 there is n thaw between Christ.
nuts and New Yeare a thaw in all the
winter -months is to be expectel,
Who snelces remain in rifght. in the
late fall it is a sign of an open Win-
ter: snakes take to their holes four
weelts before winter eets in.
A green Christmee a fet grevoYard.
When. 'weeps build their no.sts close
to the ground It ie 5, eigli 01 a mild
whitey.
Muskrats ShOW universal activity In
building their nests wheti a severe
winter Is at bend.
The valuenof elleW coveted ground
hie long been recognized. The snow,
as a bad conductot ofheat, profents
the gruund from cooling during the
entiteeime that the temperature ((11 1110
air nod the surfaee ofthe snow Is be-
low. the freezina point,
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