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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1921-11-24, Page 7THE MYSTERY OF THE GREEN RAY By William Le Quem Si CHAPTER ' "I will. indeed," I promised read- ily, "Mid Ill Wire -Yee the train I'm coming back by. I should like you to Meet it, and we can, spend the few remaining dela I haat!together. if you don't get past the doctor should like you to keep your eye en one ox two things for me while I'm away.' "Of COOTS°, nnyttleg you like, The more the weveiee," be answered roe& ily; Med the pone fellow brightend visa* at the thought of being able to do something fee a pal. We taxied rend the cornet, •svith my kit' and joined the others at the grill room, They were both in the highest of. spirati, Joeic, of •eours-e, in Particular. lie had been told that lila i'ntinmee knewledge'of motors and .11mo1;May-dee would be of great edema - Sega to WO], and lee had been advised on all hands to join as a they -ate -In riaer, In imagination he already saw himself up to the moat weird pranks of his machine; many of whicb, much to She gratification of lois friends, and Wet as men to lois own' astonish - meat, were proved later to have a solid foundation in feet. Over din - nee we discussed the question of ap- plying for coramisaions. "Oh, dash it, no," said Jack; "I'm going to Berlin on the old snorter." "Commie-0one are off. -quite out of the question " Tommy agreed with emphasis. "To beginwith, it means waiting, which al absurd; and in the wend place I abject to any attempt to travel first -chess. ' It's silly and snobbish, to put the kindest ens -ten - tin on it. If I've got to join this excursion I'm willing • to go where they like to tout nee, and if necessary Mahan' on behind," arecoed this remark because it WOO the: bet. that 'I ever ljeged poor Tom- my! Beane make in this' connection; and I think the ender will agree it wait just what .one• would have ex - Opted of bine We said aoodebyes after. diner. They: all 'Wanted' to come tothesta- tion` to see me elf., but I wataanxious to he elate with Dennis. a The others . in oaf' case lied plenty to do,. atiii•I:.coniti scarcely .let them sacrifice their "last few liceire of lib- erty- eo -cern andeft fee off. I rather expected that the 'excitement of the war would have prevetted a Let Of people traveliteg, but the re- veree was the race. There seemed to' be more people than eves on the plat- form, and I could not get a corner at even ir the Fort William enah. I butraed me Mier, into a carriage nod took up as much room as I could, mend then Denis aced I strolled about the pi:alarm until the train was due to start. "Strange of haninnity you see on a railway platform," Den- nis presently. "Very," 3. agreed. "I daresay there 'ere conic very curious professions represented here," "Thee chau for inettmeaa said Den- nis, indieeting a youth in a tweed jacket and flannel trousers. "He might be anything from on M.P.'s orivoto secretary to an artist's model, for ziil we know. I should say boa a journalist; he knows his Way- through me crowd as •only, journalists do." "A typical Yates:alive cattle -dealer in his Sunday best," I suggested. as we passed anothet passenger. And so we wont the length of the plat - farm making rough guesses as to the almfesvons of my feame travellers. Suddenly I noticed a tall man, wear- ing a tweed cap and a long covert - teat, his hands in his pockets., among cigar stuck in the corner of his mouth. His hale wee &aye and hie face bore eigns of a tough stems - ale in early youth. his complexion was of that curious gray -yellow ono secs frequently in America .anti oc- casionally in Demmerk-soniething quite distinct from the bronzeegray• of many colonials. I nudged Dennis. "What do you make of that?" asked him after we had passed. "I should be much more interested te anew what 'that' merle of us," he replied. "Nothing, I should think," I ans- wered carelessly. "Why, the man's eyes were nearly cloned, he was half asleep. I bet he hasn't taken the elighteet notice of anyone for the past ten ntheites, You could commit a murdor -under his torso and he wouldn't nee it." "I think not," said Dennis quietly. "I fancy that if you tookout a eigarette-cme as you passed him he ,.vould be able to tell you afterwards how ninny cigarettes • you had loft in the raze, whet brand they were, cued whet the monogram on the front wits. If you've any murders to commit, Reenie, I should be easeful tosee that cur American friend is some ihouaimis of miles away," "1.)ood hem•ons, you old sleuth)" I L.olnimed in astonishment. "I never saw a mote inn:scent-looking man in mit afe," '1 hate inelocent people," said Den- nis'.emphatieally;"they are usually dangerous, end telelein Itatf as inno- cent as they look," • "But what maltea you think this ran is only pretending to look like a dreaming, unit -serpent idiot, and vale de you. call him American so I" "He may or may not be Aware:ma bat NN.R have to give hire a name foe. peeeeeeeeeeeesseeeeee eeseeeasese !peep -pees of eloseitieation," Dennis I neatened, "In any case his over - 'coat was made in the States; the cut of the lapels is quite eamisteltable, I knew an American who Stied every -Where to get O. COM; cut like that over here, and failed. As to his being observant, you seem to have over- looked one impotent :lace. There the man stands, apparently half asleepa Oecnionellyhe displays. a certain amount of life -basics his papers more tightly under' his arms, aria so niece who laos best dreaming on 'a station platform and is obviously 'ping by the train would ware. up ce, Vance Toulon to see how many are travellIng, anti generally take But cmi- this man doesn't. Why? Because lme only *wakes up when his interest wan- ders and that is only when he htte SOO.O, OR he wants to see for the mo - meet. When we pass hint the second time he will probably appear- to be more -awake, unless there is someone else passing him in• the other direc- tion, simply because he has seen us and sized us up and dismissed us as of no interest; or, mon likely, stowed us away in his capaeious memory, and, having no further use for us, he forgets to appear -disinterested." "Good Lord, Lennie!" I exclaimed, "I'd no idea you ever 'noticed. things SO keenly, ' What do you think lee is -a detective?" "Either that or a criminal. They are the stun type of mind. One is positive and the other negative, theta. all. We'll turn batik and test him as We pass hint. Talk Of, or fishing, or eemethinge" . • a So we commenced' a halfehearrted conversation on trout ales, mid 'as we approached "the AMOrkOn" •I was explaining the deadly nature af Ana' Red Plainer after a spate and the ad- visability of . including Greenwellts Glory on the 'ante caet..Unfartanate- ly, as we passed our man there were three • other people coming towards -us, and ho 'was gazing over the top of the eareitege, with the sante dream- ing look that lied, neater•s Den - nes, deceived me hardly abreast ea' 'shot up in arona, newer moved at ,e e quick jerk of tie • "'You've dropped a paper, sir," he Said to Dennis, to my utter astonish- Mee-a:for I- baa seen no paper drop- ped. Dennis turned quickly, and picked up a letter which was. lying' en the platform behind hint, "I'm very Much obliged, sir; thank you," said Dennis, as he put the letter in his pocket. - "I never saw you deep that," I ex- claimed when we were safely out of earshot. "Did you?" "There you. are." my friend cried triumphantly. "You were walking beside me and you didn't spot it, and he was some distance away and he did; and you say he was half asleep." "I -say, Den,", I exclaimed, laugh- "d'you thinit' going to be safe to travel on this train? I wonder where he's going?" Then eve dismissed the man from our nerds. The train was pang in six minutes, and I joined the crowd rend the rug and pillow barrow, and prepared to make mysela condortable. Leaving everything to the last mill Tete, as mast travellers doe we had a hurried stirrup-eu.p in view of the fact that I was about to "gang awn'," and as the train glided out of the station Dennis turned to wire for my_ breakfast -basket at Crianlarriale The one thing that it is important to de when travelling an the West High- land Railway I had foegotten! We lead not passed Potter's Bar before decided that it would be impossible be sleep, so I ferreted out the attendant and bribed; him to put in into a first- class carriage. Better still, he show- ed me into a sleeper. I was dog-tired, and in ten eiinutes fell fast asleep,. I awoke for a moment or two as the train snorted into a station and drew up. I -dozed again for some time, and then the door of my. sleeper opened and who ehould look in but "the A -m- erle -an." "Say, I beg your pardon.," he ex- claimed apologetically.. "My mis- take." "Not at all," I replied. "Where are we now?" for the train was still steneliseg. "Ediulnirgli," be answered, "Just leaving, Sorry to disturb you." I Again assured him that there was no harm done, and he turned and left me, the teesels of his Jaeger dressing - gown trailing after him. Then I fell asleep again, and Woke up as we left Whistlefield. I had finished my wretohed ablutions -for an early morning wash on a train is always a Wretched business -as we reached Grienearich. I wee not Ing in claim- ing any, breakfast; and- when the pas - mangers ill the refreshment -room had finished their coffee -which seems to be the time when the train is dome to leave, aimed not vice -versa, as might be expected -the guard was standing on the platform, flag, in band, on the point of blowing. his whistle. /Sud- denly the bead of the American sleet out of the window of his carriage - no ether expression describes it. "Say, conductor," he exclaimed. angrily, "whereat hey breakfast?" Surely Dennis had 'been right about the naticinelity. "What agate might it be, sir?" asked the guard, "Hilderman-j. G. Hildennea, ordered by telegraph." - - "Pa see, sir," said the guard; dashing - into the refresament-room. It did not seem to matter when the Bain started, but, after a further heated argument, in which the official reituSed to wait while el' couple of eggs were being fried, Mr. Haderman 'wee supplied with et pot of coffee, some cold ham, and dried toast, end eve la- ne -monad omit belated journey, reached Fort William so ad changed on to the Mallaig braille as did Mr. Hadennian, on 'Whom, after the tweak - fest episode, I had begun to look with atom itifectiOnate and admiringregarst The man who can keep a brain waits leg in Groat Britian while the guard gets his beetticfaet muse be very •Itte. then after mill. Most of the way on the betedifel journey thengh Lea,. •abor I leaned wilo my head out of the window, drinking In. the peep -eons airand admiring the luxurious scen- ery -of the mouatain elate But, in view of the hilly mature of the tent( end the quality of coal cuipleyed, it is always a dangerous advanteire out the West Ilighletal Iteileettyy amid presently I anted myself with a big cindercbod.to' ho any eye. I woes teethes Sc remove the cause of my cliseoraftea Wed. at the game thee swearing -azilara TH"1, WHITEST, L3?T,1 ' jaSUE Nee l7. -JM, I and afraid, when 'Maven -um mane °X gaI'M the men you're loom' tag for,"he said, "how me." an less gine than it 'balm to tell She eafeatilina einder was removed, and I was amazed at the delieacy and cerbainty of iris tomtit, I thialted him en:vane/1y, wad indeed I wag -many grateful to bine Naturally enough, we fell into conversation -the easy, broad eonvereation of two men biro have never seesveaoh other before and' expeet never to see each other again, bet are quite wiling to be friends in the xneantline, "Terrible news, -tibia" he said Pte - gently, positing S copy af the Glasgow Herald from his pocket, "I suppose you, got it at Fort William?" "Ne,/' I said. "I didn't leave the train, I wagsit thinking of newa- papers. What is it?" "A state of war exists between Great Britain and Germany as from twelve oeloc,k lest night," (To he emanated,) The Thinker. Back of the beating hammer By which the steel is wrought, pack of the workshop's clamour The seeker may And the thought. The thought that is ever master Of iron and steam and steel, That rine above disaster And tramples it under heel! Back of the motors humming, Back of the belts that sing, Back of the hammers drumming, Back of the cranes that swing, There is the eye which scans them Watching through stress, and strain, There is the mind which Plans them, auk of the brawn, the brain! • Might of the roaring boiler, Force of the engine's thrust, Strength of the sweating toiler, -Greatly in these we tame, But bank of them stands the schemer, The thinker who drives things' • through, Beck of the job -the Dreamer Who's making the dream come true! A Short History of England. A.schoolboy was told to write a short of England. t His. efforts ned the following: s r invaded England in the year • nded at Renown and bravely MI the bridge with Hera -ties go st the German Fleet, "He teen went to Goodiso-n Park, where he made arrangements for the football match on the following day. "On the morrow the tents charged on to the field. In the first stages of the game, Cream- made a splendid run on the right wing, but finding that Ad - mind Jellicoe, flo, back, was charging him, he passed to his Inside -right, An- selm, who in turn passed to Lloyd George, a brilliant young centre for• ward, who scored a splendid goal. "The next ball Merles II, sent down the pitch, Caesar hit for six over the grand stand, "The Britons omp'letely last their tempers, and pinning the umpire and the referee to the ground with • the balls, seized the stumps and changed down upon the Romans, who, forming a testudo, were lucky to escape with their lives. "A few days later thasar happened to meet an old friend in Jack Sharp, when he was buying a cricket bat, Afar the usual greetings, Caesar asked William If there were any fresh news, and was told that the Armada had just left Constantinople. Castor rushed down to Dover and made Earl Haig sign the Idagna Gharta." -O. rfhe Wrong Color. Tick:leant was a. small and unim- portant rural railway station and the post of ticket agent was hold by Mrs. 'Amanda Gripes, an energetic woman who lived near the tracks. Travel to and from the town was light, and hav- ing little use for a separate office, Mrs. Gripes sold railway tickets when they were -called for at her own house, where she kept her stock for safety in a bureau drawer. Besides selling tickets, Mrs. Gripes "did for" si houseful of 'boarders -end a Shiftless husband. A ticket for town being required one day when the agent's hands were occupied with the mixing of biscuit dough, Mrs. Gripes requested her hasband to act as her representative, and he obligingly' com- plied. A. little later he appeared in the kitchen with a troubled counten- ance. "Mandy," he sad anxiously, "was any tethe town tickets blue?" - rods" said Mandy. "Well," continued Mr. Gripes, es he wiped .the perspiration from' his brow in a troubled way, "I sold Mrs, Jones a Mee ticket, and Shen afterward 1 noticed Some rod tickets in the totem drawer, arid'—" "Upon any Upon ray soull" waited Mrs. Crimes, "Do you mean to tell me that you have gone and said her OM of my milk tickets -the last one I had! 'You awful rnanl Now the train's gone and we can't get it back, and milk's so high, tool" Fine Points in English. The Wan had just inaormed the Pull- man agent that he wanted a Pullman berth. "Upper or lower?" askeri the agent. "What's the difference?" asked the man. "A difference of fifty cents in this case," replied the -agent. "The lower is higher thee the tipper. The higher price is for the lower, If you want the lower you'll have to go higher. We sell the upper lower than the lower, otheteweeds, the higher the lower. Most people don't like the upper,al- though it, is lower en accounzo t f it being higher. When yen o-caupy en Upper you have to get up to go to bed and get down when you get up. You can have the Jewett if yen pay higher. The upper -is lower than the !ewer because it is Wilier, if you eye Waling' to go higher, it Will lee lower," But the poor man had zasintedi Photography from the air is now possible by moans of a special tee rangemett el kites end CRISIGrAR de- signed by a Fireman -en. Time canteen travels up the Idle string lip names of nodal lifting plane, while an nth - melte timing amiee lakes picteree et any height e 'shed, 7.0pititV "====CiIl•=1:M" tere�� Chrietaws Gifts lit Minilnent Cost, How can we propane for Christmas when we have no Walley to spare foe gifts? asks a perplexed correevmdleAt Write Claisitanne letters to your distant friends. Letters axealwaye welcome anti, if made interesting ,40 newsy, will proie- almost equal to a visiP. Into eaeteletter you can tuck Something watch you know will plena or be of use. The new Apron pattern whleh you like so much, some recipes which you 'have fond worth ceoehet osi knitting pattetne, a poem, or !some flower -natio-tiny of these can be added to a letter and will stow that you have that particular friend's tastes in n•zina. Fasten the envelope flaps witheOhristmes seals., a paeaet of 'waiolo can he bought for a few pennies. When money can be spared for par- cel post, a bag of pretty pebbles for an aquarium or a 'bath bowlea box of evergreens, holly or moss, a tiny tree for the Ohrietinats dinner -table• or -a box of bittersweet or bayberry branches (which look so pretty in mesa might he sent. Get out your piece bags and see what -poosibilities they present. If you are not expert -at planning pretty things, you could aisles lea 'a package eif pretty scraps which would fill the heart of a little girl with joy, or which would be wel- comed by cones one who is interested in rag rugs or patchwork quilts. Tin containers, such as baking -powder or coffee cans snake attractive boxes for holding the staple airy groceries. Paint the cans any soft color desired, preferably to match walls or wood- work in kitehen.-The labels may be stenciled in white or in a contrasting color. Little children enjoy picture beaks and get endless pleasure out of the hame-mede kind. The leaves of these books are made of 'colored cerebric on *Aidm are pasted pictures cut from magazines and advertisements. A window garden which would -de- leglet a shut-in' friend is made 'by ar- ranging wintergreen, rn-osses, etc., in a small glass aquarium. The piece of glass pined over the top of the bowl is lifted off for a few moments daily; the bowl anal its contents need- no other care. Or you could start some seeds of the-gazipeleuit in a elm:View pot. The seeds gerrairtate slowly but develop bite little plants which have an attractive dark green foliage. Your girl frfends would appreciate hat- -boxes emceed with left -over pieces "if wall paper. Getting Acquainted at the Party. Guests usually arrive within a per- iod of twenty minutes. As the- people come in, have them take their places in a circle where they will play "Who's Your Neighbor?" in the centre of the circle stands a leader who is "it." The first half-dozen or dozen players will have had a chance to learn each other's names. Have the leader point to some one and stout: "One, two three, who's your neighbor?" If the person indicated by the index finger fails to call aloud the name of the person at his right, that player meet take the Tine in the centre. If the player answers immediately, telling the right name, the leader must point to another, and continue to be "it" until some one fails to respond -cor- rectly. As guests waive, the game can be interrupted only long enough for each guest to take a place in -the circle;' at the seem time the leader should 'announce "This is 'Miss So and So,' or 'Mr. 'So -and So.' " After fif- teen or twenty minutes of play the leader should announce that each player will be expected thereafter to tell the name of his neighbor at a moment's notice. After the guests have gotten their neighbors' names straightened out, have them play, the Senti nee Game, Have the lead -os' in the -centre of the circle call out: "Mr. Smith, make !sentence of six words, each word -be- ginning with the first letter of your name." One -minute should be allow- ed for this, and if Mr. Smith is suc- cessful, lie may respond with: "Sam Smith stole ,seven sleek sheep," or something else to that effect. If not able to respondavithin the given time, "Mr. Smith" takes his place in the circle and calls on some other! player by name. This is a further help to- ward remembering the names of those preen t, . • A Plain Cake and is Fancy Ginger- bread. rig Calce-1,0% ounces lige, 5 eggs, 10% ounces sugar, 10ai .ounces flour, 10ele !runes elmoada, 1 teaspoon bak- ing powder. Soak the figs overnight in leak, then dram and 'cut into Wens. Blench the almonds and cut them. Beet the egg yolks until light stied pale yellow. Before -beating the sem into them , fold in the egg whites, which have been beaten stiff; add the almonds,' sifted nom and baking powder and bake, the -cake About an beer- in a moderate oven (350 deg.). Fruit Giegetbreed-la package of mineerneat, ea 'cup molasece or cane syrup, 04a cup sugar, 1 cup aseeine, 1-8 cup melted- foe, la cup sour Tako cup bet toffee, 1 teespo-on soda, 1 tea- spoon gizmo:Moe, 1 teaspoon ginger, 1-8 teaspoon eloves, 1 egg, 3 cups Peva i.4 teaspoon salt. Simmer the mincemeat in ammo 'cup of water for twenty minutes, Mel to this the other ingredients in the order given, remembering to- sprinkle a little flour ever the raisins first and to diaselee the soda in the warie. coffee. The egg en be beaten with- out separating, take thie in at moderate oven (850 deg.) for an bone if the quaertiter is divided into two loaves; if baked in on loaf then give a much Inger time. Tim addition of one cup of citron will make thi s. more nearly resemble fruit rake,. • Waving Your flair, You eon have a pretty wave in vont hair if you will foliose these Mention carefully. It is called a water wave and if your hair is belated to be a bit:early, it will stay in quite amWhile, Anyway it is better than cuelina on hot irons, Brush yew! hair back na- turally from your forehead or lineage it on top in the usual fashion in which yea wear it. Slit clown in a good light in front of your mirror. Dip your comb in hot water and rue thorough your heir to moisten it slightly: Then push to the front with O. comb. Stick ii coleilo (you will need several man side combo) in your heir where you want the first wave and follow a line around your head with combs, Have the first row pointing to the right, the seoond to the left, the third to the right, and the fourth to the left, and have enough combs on theyacan .be close together bath in line and space. In the front "wave" tb-e combs must be very close together, Pin up, the long black hair and tie a veil or net over the combs quite tightly and let dry tn the sunlight or with a fan, When you, remove the combs, do not comb out at once, but let the wave "set" for -a while. What a Nuisance. The youngest son of a belted earl went out to the wild and woolly West. This. was years and years ago, when the West was really both wild aced' woolly, He took with him a negro servant he had picked up in the last big town, and after a whole day's trek they were miles and miles from the nearest set- tlement, which was "many moons away" --se a guide -book bought from an iteinerant Red Indian to'l'd theta. The first morning in their camp the young Britisher took a cold plunge in a canvas bath, gave himself a vigor- ous rubbing down, went through some physical exercises, shaved, brushed his teeth, combed his hair, manicured his nails, and put on clean undercloth• hog. The negro watched him with keen interest, not unmixed with amazed pity. "filistule you all widely are a lot of trouble t' -yoself, hain't yell?" he ex- claimed at last. Private and Confidential. Tho teacher was ,struggling with a class of six -year-olds. Sometimes the older brothers and sisters brought them to school to be admitted, and mete often the required information for the school trustees was obtained from the children them- selves. The teacher toad been patiently- try- ing to extract sonic of the missing data. "What is your father's name?" site asked dark -eyed Susan, "I don't know," answered Susan, "But you must know, SusamaThinia What name does your mother call our father?" Susan smiled proudly and affeotion- ately. "My mamma dosn't call my papa =AMOS," she answered promptly. "She likes him." 5— Summed Up. "What is the secret of success?" asked the sphinx. "Never be led," said the pencil, "Be upto-date," saich the eraser. "Rub along someleow," said the eraser. "Be sharp" said the knife. "Never lose year head" said the barrel. "Strive Sc make a good impresaion," said the seal, "Make the most of your good points.," said the compass. "Turp all things to your advantage," said the lathe. "Ch, shut up, you people!" cried the door petulantly, And thee there was silence. A New Version, The Sunday -school teacher was talking to her class about Solomon and his wisdom. "When the Queen of Reba came and laid jewels and line raiment be- fore Solomon, what did lie my?" she naked. One small girl, wife evidently had experience in such matters, replied promptly: "'Ow much fryer went for the lot?!' SugarNil Waste Yields Building Material Once more science hes turned a waste product into one of -commercial value. This new anievemeet is the melting of -building board from the re- fuse of segue cane after the juice has been pressed out at the sugar mill. The refuse, known as bagasse, is about 10 per cent, of the weight of the en- tire sugar -uses crop and amounts to 250,000 to 500,000 tons a year, Its disposal has long been a 'problem, and the anginal practice was to burn it in great piles. It is now being made into a substitute for lumber which possess- es peculiae qualities, and lot' some pur- poses is superior to wood. The first plant for manufacturing bagasse "lumber" was 'built in New Orleans, at a -cost of $500,000. The bagasse is 'baled, as it comes from the rollers of the sugar millaand chipped to the "lumber factory." s There it is first co -eked to desteoy- the (imam -re- ducing spores ami is treated with ohemicale to make it waterproof. It then passes to beating machines, whin pound it to a peilp. When thee- oughly beaten, it is paned through rollers -and a -teepees -tied into a -continu- 0115 sheet, 12 'leek wide. At this stage it is soft and must be dried. Tho drying building, is more than 1,000 feet long, Here the product le subjected to intense !mat by means of coiled steam pipes placed beneath the floor. The finiehed lumber conies out in sheets 12 feet wide and 900 feet long, sufficient material to build three or four five -roam •btengelows. It is sawed, in the some manner as ordi- nary lumber, into stardardesixe sheets, • 4 by 12 feet, though of course it may be cut into any other sizes. One tan of bagasse is ecquired to make 8,000 feet of lumber, so the total Possible production from the waste of Louisiana's cane land week!, be front 750,000,000 to 1,500;000,000feet a year, if there were sufficient manu- facturing facilites to use it all.. MASTERPIECES THAT WERE ONCE DESPISED SOME OF BRIGHTEST GEMS OF LITERATURE. Regarded So Lightly by Their Gifted Writers That Only Chance Saved Them from O We know on behlvin* the'beatauthority that load John Keats never penned that marvellous "fr5gment of an epic poem," "Hyperion-," his great con- temporary, Shelley, would never have written "Adonais,a whict, next to Mil- ton's "Lycitlas," stands as the greatest requiem in the language. Yet we know on equally -good auth- ority that Keats labored very fitfu-lly at the poem, and finally gave it up in -disgust, only including it in -his last volume under protest. The title page of this priceless volume runs: " 'Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems,' by John Keats, Author of 'Endymion,' London, Printed for Taylor & Heseey, Fleet Street, 1820." Among -the "Other Poem's." not con- sidered worthy of mention, is not only the longest poem in the book, but, in some, at least, of its qualities,' the greatest thing the poet accomplisbed. Newman thought so little of his "Dream of Gerontius" that lie is said to have condemned it to destruction, and was only deterred by the deter- mined intervention of a friend. Brown- ing, who destroyed every vestige of his "Juvenilia," medic a desperate en - leaver to include "Pauline," but, as it was published, he failed in his attempt. So scarce did it become that Ros- setti, -being unable to find -a copy else- where, spent many laborious days in the British Museum Library copying it word for words Scott threw the origami draft of "The Lay of the Last Minstrel" into the fire, and was only persuaded to re- write it by two friend's to whom he had read it. Joan Keble, too, was averse to aubliebing • his "Ohristian Year," yielding only to his father's ex- press desire to see the book in print before he died, andEdward FitzGerald was equally diffident with regard to "Omar laltaYyam." There is, more- over, -a story, which may or may not be true, that Kipling's "Recessional" ante restated feem ileo author's waste- paper basket. CarolessnelS a Fine An, „Pomo weeks after leirvhig his lodg- ings in Morningtoe Pi,oro, Itempsteed, Tennyson wrote to Coventry Patmore, from Barchurch, wilting tine to call there and see if he could find his "book. of elegies -a tang, buteher, ledger -like book." Patmore went, and, in a cup• board where Tennyson had kept ha butter and sugar, found- the book full of verses. It was the book in which Tennyson had been went to inscribe those "swallow-itights of song" which we now know as "In Merneriatra." But it was Elisabeth Barrett 13rown- ing who masks carelesenzies a fine art. It is possible that very little of her work would leave survived, Ind it not been for a devoted lover before and nn adoring hueband after enerringe. 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