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CHAPTER L—(Continued).
As she spoke she toek the lamb,
which was bleating like mad, laid it on
the .ground and holding it still, firmly
but geelly, with her knee, examined it
with all the confidence and coolness of
a vet.
"You'll make yourself•Most frightful-
ly wet." said Stafford.
Site glanced up at him with only faint
surprise.
"P011' are a Londoner," she said, "or
You would know that here, 111 111000
phrts, we are so often more wet than
,dey that it makes 110 matter. Ye5,
thought so; there Is a thorn in its foot.
May I trouble you to bold him a minute.
Stafford hold the lamb, which wns tO-
tenthly quiet non.; and she slowly took
off lier gauntlets, produced a, little flea:
titer wallet from the saddle—the horse
coming at nee, call 00 11! he were a 1010
. —took out a serviceable pair of tweezers,
and: with Professional neatness, ex,
traeted an extremely ugly thorn. Staf-
ford stood and watched her; the collie
"and the fox -terrier , upright on their
- haunches watching her also; the collie
gave her an approving bark as, with a
pat, she Ilberatea the lamb, which went
. bleating on its way to loin its distracted
mother, the fox -terrier leapt round her
with yetis of excited admiration; and
there was adrairatiOn in Stafford's eyes
also. 'The whole tiling had been clone
With a calm, almost eavage grace and
self-posseeelote and she seemed to be
ubeolutely uneonselous of his presence,
and only remembered it when tbo lamb
and ite mother had Joined the pack,
"eehank yott again," she Bald. "It
WaS VerY kind of you. 0 ant afraid you
a!
'q
As 'Stafford had gone cOmpletely 1111 -
dor the water, thie was a feet he could
not 00113', but he 00111 with a laugh:
"Though 1 arn a Londoner In a 501100,
O 110111 1111 111 a wetting—in n good cause;
and I shall be dry, or as good es dry, be -
.fare I geteen the inn. 'You Must have
03'tO like it hawk to have eeen, irom the
top of the hill, that that lamb was
lame," he added, rather with the desire
to keep her titan to express Ms aemita-
1 o s g •
"I have good eyes," she said, indiffer-
ently. "One has to have, But I saw
thue tile lamb was lame from the way
it kept beside its mother and tbe 01100
she made over 11; and 1 knew, too, bY
Donald's bark, that somethillg W115
wrong% run sorry you are wet, Will
y011—" She glaneed towards the
opening In tbe hill, paused, and for the
first time eeemed slightly embarrassed;
Stalfoed fancied that a faint touch oe
dolor came to the clear pallor of the
lovely yoUng faee. She did not finish
the sentence, the invitation, but with
anotber "Thank you," and el should not
have lilcecl 10 11030 lost tee Iamb," went
totvards her horSe.
Stafford advanced to put her in the
,saddle; but with a little shake of the
head end a "Don't trouble," she sprang
into her place and rode off.
Stafford iooltea after her, as lie had
-done before; then he said, "Well, by
JeVel"
lTe felt for his pouch, filled his pipe,
and lit it, aril in doing so his eyes fell
vpon the little wallet feorn which sho
bad taken her tweezers. Fie picked it
up and quickly shouted to her; but the
dogs Were barking with furious delight,
she was cracking lier whip, and she had
ridden too far tor her to hear Iiiin
through the 11011e. !It would have been
sheer roily to have run after her; eo,
with a shrlig of his shoulders, Stafford
put the 111 110 wallet in Ms pocket, waded
e. the stream, and, after a moment or ORO
of consideration, made for the inn by
the nearest way, to wit, across the hill.
The girl rode along the strip of level
moorland beside 1110 ViVer 11111.1 1 she came
• t0, a narrow and not particularly well -
kept ronel welch led through the opening
, of the hills toward); which she had mo-
tioned her Whip. Once or twice a smile
crossed her fate, and once she laughed
as she' thought of the 00011001 picture
which the young man had made as he
struggled to dry land with the.wet lamb
In WS arms; and the smile 0111 her
laugh Made het. face scent strangely girl-
becanse it was usually so calm, eo
gravely trelf-relient. Some girls would
haen been quick to detect the romantic
,side of, the incident, and would have
dwelt' with a certain sense of satisfac-
tion Upon the feet that the yoeng.ipaq
>11115 till and bands:03Mo and dleting.einhad
• lookme 'Blot are' had scarcely, no-
ticed it; at any rate, it had not affect -
'11(1' her 'in any Way. .She had too retell
, to do; there wee too nmeh unee her well -
formed antlegracefel ehoulderS' to permit
her , to indulge le etemance; Diana 11e1' -
5e100 Was not more free from sentiment
than this young girt whterede her horse
like a Mexiean, who was eeet, enough. to
Ver.E0r1r1. a eurgicat operation on a lamb.
and who 'knew litiw Many bushele
wheat should run to an aerc, and tee
best dressing for permanent mistimes, It,
clid occur 'to her tbat she might, at 1111)
rate after 110 bacl rescued the iamb,. lieve
)riven him permissiou to go on netting;
but she was not very sorry for having
fe11e1,,10,10; 001, ittter all, lie had been
poaching, and, as she had said, poaching
- I 1 ,•011110,
She went.down the road at 0 swift
-trot, and presently it was blocked by
a pair .of wrOught-tron gates, so ee-
quinite In their antique eonScientiat10-
ness thee Melly a, mushrooin peer would
hove given ahnost their iv6ight in gold
10 -plasm them at the .begenling 1)0 1)10
newly -made peek; -but nolonecollie to
open them; they ward' closed by ' a
The. Dye that .eolors ANY KIND
of Cloth Perfect y, with the
Sititqg
N. Chine, of biaiak,o, on.and Sifted,
Alt yrsur 1.34tetS141 0.11.'01 Bend for Boole....
T1(01ehm0n.10e1:3:4140,1 .tented,11/00treAl
ij
heavily -padlocked' chain, and the lodge
beside thent was empty and 'dilapidated;
and the girl rode beside the lichen -
covered wall 111 Whieh theY St0011 1.1011'
5110 came to an opening leading to en
old arch evliich faced a broad and spaci-
ous court -yard. As she rode beneath the
arch a number of dogs yelped a weltome
from kennels or, behind stable half-doore,
end a beet old man, dressed something
between a stableman and 0 butler, came
forward, touching his foreheadeto take
her horee, She slipped IV= the saddle,
Patted the horse, and murmured a Word
or tWo of' endearment; but her bright
eyes flashed round the court -Yard with
a glanee of responsibility.
"Have you brought the colt ie, 3a-
0015?" she asked.
Jason touched his forehead noun.
'`YeS, Miss Ida. It took me three-
quarters of an hour; it won't eorne to
me like it does to you./ It's in a loose
box."
,"Sittlelle it to -morrow morning," she
said, "and -I will come and try 11.' The
brindle cow has got into the corn, and
the fence wants mewling down by the
pool; you must get William to help yOU,
and do 11 at once. Ole hes taken the
steers to market, I suppose? I didn't
.see them in the three-nore. Oh, and, Ja-
son, I found someone fishing, in tile
dale; you must get a notice -board and
put it up where the road runs neee the
river; the tourists' thne is coining on,
:Ind though they don't often come tide
side of the Lake, some ot them maY,
and we can't afford to heve the rtver
Poached. Anti, Jason, look to Rupert's
Off -hind shoe; I thinit it's loose; and
----" She stopped short with a short
laugh. "But that's enough for one
time, isn't it 0 011, 340011, 11! I were only
a man, how much better it would be!"
"Yes, miss," assented Jason, simply,
With another toueh of his forehead.
She sighed rind laughed ageln, runt
gethering up her babit—she hadn't to
raise it much—she went through an
open door -way into a wnet but pretty
garden,. and NO 10 the hack e1!'Ono of ihe
niost pictdresque• houses in 11110 land of
el t..11 .1 .
It' wee built of Vey stone which ege
bad colored with a tender and ith appre-
ciative hand; a, rich growth ot ivy and
clematis clung lovingly over 0 greater
portien of it so that the mullioned Win-
dows were .framed by the dark leaves
and the purple flower. The house was
long and rambling and had once been
flourishing and Important. but 11 was
now eloquent of decay and pathetic Witll
the signs of "better timed" that had
vanished long ago. A eight of worn
steps 1011 Lo 10 broad glass :door, and
opening the latter, the girl 1)1)90et1 un-
der rt cavvocl wooden , gallery into a
broad hall. 11 was dimly lit by an oriel
window of stained glaem, over which
the ivy and clematie had ben) allowed
to fall; there WaS that faint odor which
°militates from old wood and leather an13
damask; the furniture Wee antique end
oe Lhe neutral tint which comes from
age; the weapons and the ornaments or
Dress, the gilding of the gnat picturea
were all dim and lackeuetre for want
of the Cleaning and polishing which re-
quite many servants. ltt tlie huge fire-
place some big logo were burning, and
1)011011and lees)) threw themselves down
before it with 0 sigh of eatisfactiou The
girl looked round her, just as she had
looked round the stable -yard; then, toss-
ing her eoft hat and whip on the old oak
table, she ,.vent to one or the large heavy
doors, and knocking, Said in her clear
"Father, are you there?"
en side the room an old man sat et a
table. It Was littered with books, some
ot them Open 110 if he had beert consult-
ing them; but before him lay an (men
deed, and at his elbow were' several
others lying on an open deetl-box, Ilo
was tbin end as Taded-looking and ae
Worn with age as the bouse and the
room, lined with dusty volumes and yel-
lov.,, surface -cracked mane and pictures.
lie 'woren, long dresaing,gown which
Was huddled round him as if be were
cold, theugh a nro of loge almoet as
large as the one in the hall was bUrning
In the open fire-plabe.
At the sound of the kneek he raised
11114 head, au expreasion which WaS rh
1111001110 01! fear and senile cunning came
into his lined and pallid face, -his dull
eyed peered from under their lids 'with a'
flash of eudden alertness, and with one
Motion of his long hands he hurriedly
foided the deed before 11.1m, cramtned
it, with the others, into the box, locked
it with a hurried and trembling hand,
and placed it in a. cepboard, wilieh he
aiao locked; then he drew one 01! the
large books into the place Where . the
deed had been, and evith a, eaulious
glance roinul the 1'00111, 511Uff19d to 111e
door, and opened it ' .
dee the girl entered,' ote,'. would have'
noticed the resemblance between her and
the old man, and have seen that they
'were father and daughier; for Godfrey
Heron bad been one Of the handsomest
men of his time, and enough she had
got her dark eves arid' the firm, delleete
lipe from 1101' mother, the clear deal
Of her face and its expression of aristo-
cratic pride had come 01041 the Rerone.
"- you le , a, iel . .
"It is nearly dinner -time, andyou are
note:tressed, You 11(01111551 1110 that you
would go out; tipsy wicked of yqu not to
luive done eol" .
Tee shuffled beck to the table anclmade
• great business Or closing the book.
"r*Vcibeen leneW—readllig, Ida," he
maid. "1 did..not knew ft was so late.
Pou have been out, I see; I hope you
alit,370entItljooyedi 00111' ride. T.11-Ve Y011 Met
"1',10," sill replied; then she smiled, (06
ehe nelderl:en,OnlY p0ae1>e1.", -
The old Men l'aised his head, e faint
flesh 09,1110 on Ills fane and his \eyed
gash ed. 9l10) llaUglity reeentnient.
"A pogieliettl' • What ere the keeperd
T forget; there are nokeep-
ern 11001'; 11.11Y ve51'11,111.15 free to trespaee
andponele on nerentiale!"
esorry,' father!" she said, laying
her" lidinf eni hOs acrn snothingw. "11
wa,e 1101 an ordinary poneher, only a
gentleman who had mietaken tee Ideron
water Tor the A.voryer. (knee new, fa-
ther, you haVe barely time to dress."
"Yes, 3'00 T will 001110 In a Moment -
—
e moment," he said. ,
But after ,she had left the room, 110
Still lingered, and when at last he got
'Io the cloOr, Ile closed it end went back.
lo the cupboard and tried it, to see if;
31 were .loolced, muttering, sylsolo.losslY!
"Did she hear me? 'She might have
heard •••1/10 Nestle of the parchrlient; the
turn ol! the leek: idernetimes 0 think she
stispects,-- Rut, no; 10), 011.0114 a ehild
still, 11 stie'a say something, Snk
ea
nut 11 0>10 allepeeted. NO, no; 1 IN 'all
rich 1, 'Yes, yes, Tel comma., lant." he
said aloud, ad the Kiel Called 1.0 hinl, on
lief' way up 1.110 0
(111.10l<01011 00..
Ae Staffo)'d climbed the b 111 apt/AMY,
1 OL,1111'. 111111.-..,11la.1; she might 'be the
he wondered Who the girl was, It did not
,daughter 01 ,:the Mr. Heron to whom the
'streambelonged: and from whose fam-
ily .naine the whole dale had taken its
own; tor, thaugh she had looked and
Spokei . like a lady; the habit the gaunt-
lets, the ,sOft felt Mit were old and Wei-
ther stained,: and .her familiarity with
the. proper treatment of a eneep In
flaulty.lndicated rain& • the fai•iner's
daughter than that of the squire,
She was not by' any diehno:'.the first
Pretty girl Stafford 'had eeme--he • had
'very large acquaintance ,in London,
and (me or tWo women whose beauty
rati been blazoned' ,by the ;world were
more than friendly', With the popular
StaffOrd Orme—but he thought as he
' went, no the, hill, which seemed to have
no' end, that he .had never seen a more
,beautiful face than this eertathly
.176 had" never seen one.,Whieh had 1:77-.
pressed him more deeply. Perhaps 11
was tile character , theitoveginees
which haunted him so persistently:11
was .00 unlike the conventional drawing -
'room type with .whieh he was so fam-
iliar. •
As he thought of her It seerried to
him that she was 11110 a wild and'grace-
fill deer—one of the 'deer whichha' had
seen,comIng down to a mountaln.strearn
to ,drinic on his father's Scoteit mador;
her's' was a wild,- ahnost savage 1OVelee
nesh—o.nd yet not savage, for there had
,lieen the refinement the .dignity of high
race in the exintisite grey,eyes; 1110 011100
ok the .finely out lips. •Iler manner, OM
,preVehted him fromforgetting, her, Ile
had paver met with anything like it she
had been as' taint- aralself-poeseesed as
a woman of forty; and yet' her attitude
as she leaet.forWard In the saddle, her
directness of opeech, all her Movements,
had the abandon of an unconseletis
Child; -indeed, the abeenee .of • eell-cOn-
selousness, her absolute freedom from
anything like shyness, eombined with a
'dignity, a touch of hauteur and pride,
struck him as extraordinary,almost
weird.
Stafford *as not one of your suscep,-
tibleyoung men; fti ,fact, therewas a
touch of troldnees, of indifference to the
ether ebx which often troubled hth we -
men friends; and he wes rather surprie-
ed Itt himeelf for ,the interest which the
.gto.,aroueed in hint. He wondered if he
should meet her again, and was con -
Scions of a strong, almost a very strong,
desire to do so which, he admitted 10
himself, was strange: for he did not at
that moment remember any girl whom,
at his first meeting with her, lie had
hankered to see again. Ole got to the
top of the hill at last anOl began to drop
down; there was nothing but a wander-
ing sheep -path' here and there, and the
mountain was by no means as easy to
descend as the classic Avernus; 00
that vhen he got to the bottom and
came in sight of the little Inn 111 a crook
of the valley he WaS both tired and hun-
gry.
leowerd, bergtlful in evening dress,
came sauntering to 'the door with eis
long white bands in his. pocket and
plaintive reproach_ on ilia Vandyke face.
"I W05 iiist about to send off the
Seareli party 111y dear Stafford," he said.
"is it possithe that you 'have just come
down that hill? Clood heaveits! 'What
folliee are committed in thy name, 0
Spoet! And of course there are no fish
—there bevel. are! The water is always
too thin or too thick, the sky too bright
oretoo dole the wind too high or too
10w.. Excuses are the badge ot 101 the
analine 1 vibe,"
Stafford took bis basket from -1(10
shoulder and made a pretence oe sling-
ing 11 at Iloward'e head; then tossed it
to the landlord, who stood by, sini lieg
obsequiously.
"Cook some' of 'eel as ecton 00 you
can," he Sala: then be followed the neat
and also smiling cheinber-Maid up to his
room, where, tor all Ids pretended in-
dolence and cynicism, llowatel had caus-
ed Ills friend's things to be 11111 out in
readiness for him. Stafford dressed
slowly, smoking a cigarette during the
operation, and still thinking ot the
strange "femora daughter:" then he
went down and joined Reward in the
room he had ordered.
Lake hotels may look the splendor to
twillch we are all growing accustomed,
and 01! which, alas! 'We 1110 ,0100 growing
rather wearied, but they ere moat of
them extremely comfortable and cosy;
and "The Woodman" at Carysford was
110 exception to the rule. Stafford looked
round the low-pitched room, -with its
old-fashioned furniture, lte white din-
ner cloth gleaming sOftly 117 the sunset
anil the firelight, and sighed with a nod
of satisfaction.
"This Is siimething like, 017, old :Mtn?"
lie seta; and even lloward deigne1 to
nod approvingly,
"Yes," he satd, "If anything. could
compensate One for the 11110oried of
travel, especially that awful drive, this
should do NO. I. confess I had looked
forward to rt, crowning discomfort in
the eliape of Is Cold 0011 draughty and
smelly room, tried chops or a. g:ory leg
of mutton and a heel ot the cheese Mode
by Noah in the Ark. T ranee that eve
are going to lia,ve a decent. dinner•,
I trust I 1)1)13' 11011 be disappoluted; for It
1s about the only 1111115 that will save
my life, Are you dry 3 -et? You leaked
05 if you had been walking through a
river instead of beside it,"
' "That's just w110.1 T have been doing,"
said Stafford, with ft laugh. "rye had
11.11 adventure--"
-1 know," interrupted 1•Towtted, with a
Sigile "You :tee goittg to tell me how
emt took a trout six toot in length, how
it dragged you a mile and a, half up the
river, how you gu
got 11; p the 13117111, arid
how, just as you were lending It, it
broke away and -it,as lost. Every man
who has been fishing has that maven. -
Stafford laughed with his usual ap-
preciation or his friend's amusing cyni-
cism; but he did not correct hire; for
nt that moment, the neat tnald-ser vent
brought in the trent, vehich proved to
be piping hot and of a golden -brown; Lula
the two men commenced a dinner which,
aS Compared with the Perilous, or 111 farri-
one one, of the London restaurant, was
Olympien. The 1)131(110rd hieurelf <nought
ln 0, bottle of cleret, which actually was
eound, rind another oe port, in a, wicker
cradle, whioll oVon Howard deigned to
101511(0 3'o of; and the two men; after 111e3'
had lingered over their dinner, got into
011,0V -C11/11 I'S beside tho fire and smoked
their cigars with that: !sweet (lenient -
meat which only tobacco can produce,
and only then when it ronnws n, really
good .711001.
(1!) be contlinted,)
CUTTING 61, A Ss.
Very Ohl Glasis—rm't lie (>u11 Wilb
a. Pair of Scissors. '
1110 commonly thought that glass
is impe.rrious to the assaults of age.
ipit this is not the case. Ola,ss, if
ekposed be the elements, will, like
'most ether sio,s'ances, decay, and
in ceurse of time heecnne ;so rotten
08 to 4e werthiess, ' • •
IVitielow glass exposed to cold,
heat; and varying winds will, after
a number of years, becOme so brit-
tle that IA can be cut with a:pair of
scissors.: Light and darkiiess, again.;
have such different effects 011 glasS
that their -alternation alone, it is
said, is enough ...to make Alm sub-
stance fragile. . • ;
Any :builder. or glazier will tell
you how trittelyettsier >11 (1 to remove
new windoltra frorn.a .building :than
old; in .fttet, if they- ar;e really .old,
it is alinest, ampessible to move them
at Without breaking 13111>00 4.11 113e
paAes. • The 'reason iS .0)41111 glasS
hti.S. feted the' wesithelt• fer 11
number of years ese ..e elaaUoiioy
unthoith.tedly i\ossesses.when now.
Itinerictit'' vendors of, Cheap. cut -
levy have often been lebown .greatlY
impreSs'Avendeling was' with
the excellence. Of their tvares. .by
elitrpping;.off striOg of glass witth soda,
Sorg. elicit, shears. Of course, :the
'glass 'Oleg use, .191' 11118 1.31.1.1!1)05. il
yery, very 014.
, Very Likely.
Peraonal in New , York pa.per :
'Genitlernan "tnho 111>1 11 pencil in hall
for . lady on train, please be on
(0.211(1 111121111 Wednesday, Or rhalte.
pointinent.'' -
'Lady in Brown t "She probably
wants Ibo pencil sharpened. ' •
TERRIBLE HAVOC IN BAIXANS
EVE -AY Fi'NESS R E/ RES 11 OA ,13
AFTER YEAR, _VC FRONT.
151103 ;Jessica Borthwiek itneese,s
. Closing Phases the
War.
Miss Jessica Borthwiek, , who has
just retuned to London tatei
a year i21 the 13011-xms
watching the closing phases of the
war,, has given tc) Ole Daily Chroni-
cle a remarkable account of her ex-
periences. 11,1iE3 BOrthWiCk is, 22)
and the daughter of the labe Geh-
iral Borth wick, who WEbs employed
in Bulgaria in the eighties to re-
organize and command the army in
Eastern liumelia. She is it, °lever
animal sculptor.
The young woman journeyed un-
attended, her outfit consisting of
manilla riding breeches, riding
boots, a flannel shirt, a sweater, a
felt hat and a, camera, with whieli
to take cinematograph ipictnres.
She had a big cape which served
111111 skirt, when she eyes in the
towns. Sho took only one revolver
with her, but was able to add to it
an arsenal from the bodies of dead
officers.
She 5o11941t the Bulgarian prem-
ier in Sofia, in January, 1913, and
told hint ,she wanted to join the, Bul-
garian army. He handed her over
to 'the minister of war, who gave
her a permit, and sho e0011 form,d
herSelf On 1.110 way to Starazagona.
Officers smuggled her to the front,
one officer taking her as, his ser -
valet.
Saw Surrender of Adrianople. •
After many wanderings and ad-
ventures, she male ,her way to
Achianople, when the garrison sur-
rendered. She gives a graphic de-
scription ,of the terrible havoc. The
open ground beforo the city was
covered with the dead bodies of
men, horses and bullocks:
She, visited the island of Saraillo
itschy, where the Turkish prison-
ers were ent.
"Dead stildierS, robbed of almost
every garment, lay theee as food for
the scavenger birds," she said, "but
the sight of the, living who waited
for death Wile, WOree. On the is-
land, which is one large swamp,
with huge trees sideking up and
Itnee-deep mad, were thousands
of starving prisoner0 herded toge-
ther for warmth and shelter. Their
faces and hands were ashen gray
and their byes sunken in their sock-
ets.
- Dead Before the Fire.
SAW 101.10 00011 sitting around a
little fire, and as it W.00 the first
fire I had Seen there I went up to
them. 1 spoke to one oi them; but
there was no answer, I repeated
my question with no result, and
thee pushed his shoulder. He reel-
ed over. All four were dead.
At Adrianople Miee Borthwick
WaS stricken with cholera, and lay
unattended in an mosque three days
without food or water until she was
found and taken to the Red Cross
hospital. She returned to Sofia,
but again sot out. In the neigh-
borhood of Mustapha Pasha, ehe had
an encounter with an outpost of
Bashi Basonks, who opened fire,
wounding her in the leg and shoul-
der.
At Uskusk 'she was arrested 1011: 2111
Austrian spy- and thrown into a
filthy cell, whero-she reneeined for
nine days living on bread and wa-
ter. Finally the. Russian consul ob-
tained her relcas.e.
A Ghastly Experienett.
One of her most ghastly experi-
ences was at Perm. She was feel-
ing hungry and thirsty and was
kioking for a melon field.
"I saw what, 0001)1011 110 be a melon
field, With a lot, of round, light col-
ored objects like melons the
ground. I jumped tiff my horse, and
picked up •the nearest melon, but
dropped it in horror. It was a hu -
Man ska. '2411 .all de0 11 14 I •saw
doeens of them, with unburied bod-
ies of w,cimen and children, which
dogs were feeding. on. Lying ,among
them were beds, mattressee, cook -
ng utensils, all smashed: and strewn
where the Greek irregulars had
maseacred the Bulgarians.
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300,000 SOLDIERS IN BEVIEW.
Germany Plana Monster Military
Manoeuvres.
Count Von Moltke a nephew of
the 100110011011,0oustriet,ed,s.e daring the
Franco-Prussian War of 1870, and
the general ,staff of the army, aro
tlanning the largest military man-
omerree bhe, world has ev,pe seen in
tame of peaoe, for, next antumn. Six
army corps and :twelve divipions,
proximately , !300,000 'Officeis axed;
hen, amd 50,000 horses, will t,alee.'
part in thamanoeuvre,e. The ICa.,iser
will he theehief tirapire in.the final'
beep days"- battle. The. woOds,
and valleys of the west side of the
Rhine will reverberate With 1,,056
field gnu's- and 500mathine
•Tlielfield of opetations will cover
t large' area of'a, triangleebetween!
?rank -fore a. Gibs* anal Coblene. 'The
roblean' ie evidently to Cheek and
defeat 'a :French artily. "Peactically
he entire friilitair aerial fleet- of
ZepPe4ns and P,arsevals, With 11
wissenger .fleet; Will be utilizeki, as
'Wel:Ls:as an unpreeedentedly large
feet of aeroplanes, in order to give
oink 1,000 regular and volunteer,
hilitary pilots practleai war eXpe.ri-
ace. -This will be the first time
i110e-1870 that German officers will
lave all opportunity to liartdie such
iumberS of Men.
'We are pleased to nol'o that many
a homely woman has Invade gootl 0113
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A1110 S MINLI1AL 0 V TPUT.
Production for Year Reaches Value
of $52 000 000
The mining industry in Ontario
made a record in 1913, when L'he to-
tal output increased over last 3e10'1
t,IlelldeelVee 0. recerd
previously,by 9.6'per ceob. • -
According to a report of the Bu..
retat of Mines the. net value of
metallie production in the province
was, *37 508 955 the non-metallic
Production reaching $15,491;0o2, a
total naineraI output of $52,999,957.
The production of .gold reached
20,837 ounces, of which more than
94 net. cent. came from the POrclt-
pine 'Mines.
'lle oatptrt of eliver at Cobalt was
a little le -es than in 1912. The re-
port) points out that apparently the
.high-water mark in production was
reached in 1911 When the yield was
31,507,791 fine ounces. Last year's
,output was 29,681,957 ounces. The
process of decline is pie0Vine• more
gradual than the inerense, the fall-
ing off in two years 'being only 5.7
per cent. The price ,of silver WM'
also lower, the result being to re-
,duoe the return to the mining 001Ir-
panies by $893,934. '
111 11 11000 ten years eine° the
Ver deposite at Cobalt began" to he
worked and up to the mitt of 1913
their total yield had a value of over
$98,000,000. •
The output of nMkel was 24,838
tons, valued in r11(15 matte at $5,-
237,477, an increase of a little under
11 per cent.
The copper mines produced 12,941
tons, valued at $1,840,942, an in-
crease of 10 per cent.
There were shipped front the iron
mines of the province last year 305,-
931 tons of pig iron, valued at
$424,072..
'That the producing Capacity of
the iron mines -of Ontario has not
kept -pace with the expansion of the
blast furnace indhstry is evident
from the fact that of 1,228,289 fans
of ore gmelted into pig iron last year
in Ontario, only 1119,708 tons, or
10.8 per cent., were odomestic ori-
gin,' says the report. `"The re-
mainder was imported from the
United States.
The ontpnt of' pig iron continues
to.grow, the product of the- fur-
naces being $048,899 tong, worth
.$8,710,802, an increase 01 10 per
cent. in quantity and 8 per cent, in
value.
In the non-metallic list there was
a general increase, The largest
falling off WA S cotrunclum, quarts,
drain tile, arSelliC, and mica, Port-
land content, pressed brick, stone,
'natural gas, sewer pipe, common
brick, iron pyrites, etc., all show-
ed big increases, the total value of
the output being $15,491,002, a gain
of 14.8 per cent.
An _A tub ig nous A nswer.
Mr. and Mrs, Murphy \rere fre-
quently in court Sometimes Mur-
phy complained of his wife, at other
times Mrs. Murphy had her Ints-
band arrested for alluse, and on
still other occasions neighbors had
them both in court for disturbing
the peac0, with theirebrawl.g. The
judge was becoming rather tired of
having them before hint.
"This is the sixth time one or the
other of you has, been up before me
for fighting," ho tleclarecl, out of
patience ;now'toll too truthfully,
cannot you. two live happily without
fighting
''No,' your honor," replied 'Mrs.
'Murphy; "'net happily.''
No man OV.e3) lived long enough to
do all the. things that his wife want-
ed him to do
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A8 Long as Men are Men.
A German scientist Isays that in
3,000 yeare all men will be bead-
hcaded."
"He may be right, but my own
guese is that as long as there are
men on the earth there will be some
who think ,they can fool the public
by letting their ,lutir grow long on
0114) side and slieking it across the
top."
A Versatile G 0111118.
The Deasnatic Celtic: "That's an
old idea of Heavysides'your lead,
to use an electric flash lamp as the
head of his cane."
Tile Manager 1 "That's a clever
inven,•bien, of his own. It's12110 indi-
vidual spotlight. He turns it on 1
himself vehert he walks through the
hotel lobbies."
Breathing It Gently.
Hello 1 Sit down. I believe yet
have come to ask me—"
"You have been misinformed. 1°
haven't, come to ask you anytbing.it t
"Why, I understand you.--' ,
"I came merely because I w5s1oe45
to the first to tell er.ou a bit of good
Mews. 1, ,aan goieg to marry your
daughter."
wiz,
VOU will find that they are best
at first and cheapest in the end.
Concrete buildings cannot burn and many dol
lars are saved in lower insurance rates. They
need practiCally no repairs and never necd
painting.
Concrete barnyards make the best kind.
of a feeding -floor and save many dollars'in
fged bills, as your stock gets every particle
1 that you feed to them.
Send for this free book "What the Farmer
le, Can do With Concrete," It shows just how
to build your own concrete barn, feeding -
floor ter any ther building that you may need.
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513 Herald Building, Montreal
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