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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1913-03-13, Page 9q' The Oftener You ITse Better Yen , A •- Like it POSITIVELYLADOEST SALE:la CANADA THE NEWS -RECORD'S CLUB-- BING LIST FO ll 1912-13 WEEKLIES. ews-Itoeoril and Mall and Empire. $1.50 almvs-Reeord and Globe 1.60 Newartecord and Family Remit and Star with Premium .„ 1.76 News -Record and Witness .,..,....••• 1.77 Nows-Record and, Sun 1.76 \Nowa-Racer& and Free Press • 1.75 News-R000rd and Advertiser ..... •• • lag News.Record• andToronto Saturday Night , 3.26 , News -Record and Parxner's Advocate 2.25 News.Record and Farm and Dairy0.75 4 ewe -Record and Canadian Farm.,1.75 News -Record and Youth's Companion 6.26 News -Record and Canadian County. . ' 1.25 News -Record and The' Fruit Grower and Faymor Newe-Record and The Canadian Sportsman 3.00 DAILIES. News -Record land Mail and Empire., 4.28 News -Record and Globe .. 4.25 News -Record and News .... 2.30 Newe-Record and Star2.50 News-Reeord and World*' . 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Entry by proxy may be made at any agency, on cer- tain conditions by father. mother, son, daughter, brother or sister of intending homesteader. nionths' residence 'upon and cultivation of the land in each of three years. A homestead,' er may live within nine miles Of .. his homeatead on a farm of at least 80 acres solely owned and oc- cupied by him or by his, father, mother, son, daughter, brother or sister. • In certain districts a homestead- er. in good standing may pre-empb . a quarter -section alongside his homestead: Price, 3.00 per acre. • Duties.-Must--resido upon • the homestead or • pre-emption six months in each of six years from date of homestead entry (including the time required to earn home- stead patent) and cultivate fifty acres, extra. ' A homesteader who has exhausted his homestead right and cannot ob- tain a pre-emption may enter for apurchased homestead in certain districts. Price, 83.00. Duties. -Must reside' six months' in each of three years, cultivate fifty acres and erect a house 'worth $300.(0. W. V. CORY, Deputy of the Minister of the In- terior. N.B.--Unauthorized publication of this ad-fertisement will not be paid for. .s•• P UR E-3BRE D RIJIL SALE. Buyers From the United States and the Canadian West. A despatch ,froxit Guelph says : Spirited bidding featured the an- nual pure-bred bull sale under the auspices of the Guelph...Fat Stock Brown & McCullough, cattle inchers at Great Falls, Montana, weie the principal buyers. W. CI. Edwards- & Company of Rockland wore the largeet_sellers, with ten extra fine bulls. A roan two-year- old; "Clipper Prince," was the highest, at $328, a record, being purehased by...G. R. Rankin & Son, flamieta, Manitoba. The Montana ranch paid 'up to $240, taking six- teen in all. The average was as against $98 last; year. sPs1( Newfoundland has opened lieu,. tie,tions. with the Imperial Govern- ment.in regard to partieipaiting 101 Einpi:re 'defenee. 'The local dnties on tea, sugar arid salted' meats are also' to be removed. Becatiee they act so, gently (no purging or griping) yet so thoroughly are beet for the childree as well as the; grown-ups, 25c, e box' at your druggist's, . National Drita.nod 01001110121, It Wade, Reeled 112 AstIttentet Catarrla . • • waeopuic 00110113 SP45211§..1Crt,'DUP, , 11RONtiETIS COWES ‘X. ESTABLiestan 1870 A simple, 00000110 effective treatment for ehial troubles, wftbout dosing the etoroaol, with drugs. Used with oucceosfor thirtY VenrS. The air carrying the eatIteptlo vapor, Inoplrod t'vith every breath, maims breathing easy, soothes the sore throat, and stops theCough, apiaries ...et( ei nights. Creoolene Is ieveluniao to plothera with young eighteen and a BOoN to sufferers from Asthma. Send es 'Wandler deocripthrobooldet. ALL DRUGGISTS. '- Try CRESOLRNE ANTiSEPTIO THROAT , TABLETSfor the irritated throat. They aro oirople, effective and antiseptic. Of your dradigot or from • '80.100,00 otamps. Vopo Crosoleno Co. 02 C‘rtlandi 51N.Y. Lsonees mass mammal. Cee. 4 t. a-tbur MONTREAL - riTHE STANDARD, Is the National Weekly Newspaper a the Dominion ef Canada. It is national in all its alms. It uses thd meet expensive -engrav- ings, proenring the photographs frons all over 1.11 world. ( Its articles are carefully selected and its editorial policy- is thoroughly Indapendont,. A subscription to" The Standard costs p.m per•year to any address ha Ganada or Great Britain. _ • TRY IT FOR 1912' montreal Standard Publishing Cd.s. Limited. Publishers. FOR COLD IN THE HEAD. London 'Meters Take Old Winter Enemy More Serionaly. The common c•old is at last being taken seriously, says the London Daily Mirror, Despite the fact that the cold claims more victims yearly, proba- bly, than any other disease, doc- tors have frequently regarded it as of minor importance. Now they ate beginning to attempt to grapple with the aggravating i.nfection, The ,current number of the Hospi- tal devotes a column article to "Treatment of Acute Coryza." -in other wrods, treatment of a cold in the head. The oommon cold in the head is one of the minor ills of life to which most people are liable (the writer says). • Garel advises that at the commencement such general treat- ment as is productive of sweating should be employed, as, for exam- ple, mustard kot-baths, tincture of aconite, Dover's powder, • or Min- deru.s' spirit; and to arrest its pro- gress he ,advises inhalation& of hot water for five minutes at a time, three or four times a day, after painting the nasal mucous mem- brane with two or three drops. of -1 in 1,000 solution of adrenalin. In the adult 1,-2,000 grain of atro- pine sulphate, morning and even- ing, will Check the excessive nasal secretion. Hayein advises that a few drops of the following mixture be poured on Wetting - paper and the vapor in- haled for a few seconds :- 0a.rbolic acid pure . 1 part , , . • Liquid ammonia, 1 part Alcohol ......... . .... 2 parts Distilled water 3 parts Such inhalation should not be a,bused, Vocalise they .May be pro- ductive of aural eomplications. A well-known London ,physicia$, ;discussing this sarticle, agreed that eolds now 'receive more attention'. "As- the article referred to states," he said, "to treat a cold successfully _it must be taken at the very beginning. - "I myself, believe in frequent douching with salt water, or water ivith which a little .glyc.othymeline 02 SOITIS similar light disinfectant Is mixed. B,ubbing the nose between the thumb and forefingel• and ,the use of a, .s.nuff,consisting of equal parts of camph.or and bismuth subnitrate is also recommended ; I only used such a snuff once, and did not caro ,"For tho purposes of the orcli- ,,nary,clotiche ti teaspo.onful of salt, -with a'hottt five deeps of •enealyptu,s, shoeld'be added too a pint Of water. "If a more oulpIicate'1 remedy„is nooessary, • ,bhe, following alkaline lotion is useful :--Soditon biearbo-, boraeic aid, eoinino01 salt and some light antiseptic," hT.s VO/lowing the Receipt. Urs, Walsh .took a bite ,of the cake, and laid it clown hastily, "Womb?" she said, "did yon fol- low the receipt, or do as you usu- 'ally do and guess 7" • (iSure, noun, I followed the re- ceipt, only I put in six eggs in- stead of lour, because two was had, and I "Wanted to even 'cm up," 'art ernptat ion Hvelin o'reteinied to demur a little, but ended by oa»t1ug. 31 wait 'wellher white, Ede drooped .over her eyes, veiling their . When she, found heigelf, Alit up in, the\ olitudo and .seelinoion oO ler own them- ber,', the- gave full -vent to atho teriable •thge and despair that waged Rath dead:- ly war hi her heart. "Fate ifl graligir amtinet ma,". the atoemed, "but I 'will defY fate and ceuelttitle girL "Gaynell in the, ofty and Percy Gran- ville coming here' to' call upon the -girl thorn . he rescued 01t the park-neyer :deeanting it M the. ,Was there oyer such an unamthuntable attraction' in fate be- foreP They 'are Ilable to meet any day ---anY moment; explanations would fol- low, and the old qove..would sway the .heaats of . both, and-effid-he would break with • me to wed hie old lora • "Oh, no,. ,not" she , cried ' out wildly, Proimiug her hands tightly over her tillT0)3- Wog heart. and rocking herself to and fro. "I will kill them first, love him -I love Mini" she cried •fiercely, "and she shall hot take him from me now, when 2 have every chanceof winning him. I am not safe while 'this Gay leeee." That thought brought still another and darker to her brain, so dazed with the conflicting tortures of intense jealouey. 'For an hour or mere she• gazed out el the open window at the starlit BUY; gazed' without seeing aught but the beau - 'Will girlish face of Little GUY. • The night deepened and darkened, spreading its sable winga over the great city. , Ola cruel city -dark, jnyaterthue city - where crime peepe forth with the setting mu and, Stalks boldly abroa01 under the dim. flickering light of the stars. ' "Anything could be done in a great wicked city like thie," the voice Of the deadly tempter,awhispered to Evelyn fit., love him the beat," tali) muttered; hardening her heart. "Let nto think what life would be worth to me without him, and let that thought decide mg." An hour, later, Evelyn, wrapped in a Ionia, dark circular and heavily veiled, stole quietly out of .the house, quite um She.liaiIetl the nearest cab, .and, With' a few' hurriedly whispered....words of direc- tion to the drivet,, was soon whirling ram idly over the streets of the city on her total rrands • "I will be bath before they hA ave nne to miss me," shemuttered, sinking •biielt emptier the enthione. The eab st,opped before one of the great leading daillee, and Else St. Claire enter- ed the office. The ,panere were on file for a month back, and toward these the beau- tiful. guilty girl made Iler Way. She had read the account in that verp eerier only a few days back, of a lovely ,Spanieh girl who had killed hor faithleqs lover on the eve that he was to have been wedded to 'another, by the use of a subtle poisonous drug, whose power was almont unknown to the modioal fraternity, aa its presence in the human eystem could not be traced. How this lover had met his death OV011 experts could not define, until this girl came to die, and confessed all On her death -hod. Long and diligently Evelyn searched the file. Was fate conepiring against her again? It was not there. "Perhaps I can help you find the paper you are xearchlug for„" said a keen -eyed, leueant-faccel. .gentleman 'Rending ne,ar • ."Thatilt You. I was lookipg for the paper bearing date of the twentieth in- stant; lt oontained a few society notes I should have lilted to have soon," The accornmodating getitleman stopped up to the clerkdesk. Have you a paper of the twentieth?" he said earelessly. "It seems to be miss. Mg from the file." As he 'make he exchanged a meamftig look with the clerk, and immediately the paper was named out. Ole handed it to Evelyn with a low bow. ' "Thank you, sir," eho replied. Although the gentleman etopped around to the other side of tho room, he noted with keen eyes whielp whiten oho was searching. The trail° that 0 ithered a moment' round her lips ahowea him that the had found what, she wanted. "I shall be sure to remember the name of the ilrug now," she told herself, paseing out of tho office. The next Student, the gentleman, who wits none other than the famous detective peeent Granville had at onee time en- gaged to search for 'Little Gay, wag bend. ing over the columns which hadattracted the stylith young lady. "Society notes. There's nothing of the kind here." he muttered. "Ahha! he has torn a bit from the paper, 3 nee." Hastily securing another paper of the same date, he turned to that partioulat, column and found the article miaaing; the had torn the name of a deadly drug from the paper, together with a full derierip- Mon of its effects on the hirman system. Quick as thought the experienced detec- tive whipped out his note -book and jotted down the incident, together With a full description of the datntY ,blonde. "I wonder what mystery I've run afoul of now," he soliloquized, haetily °Olin a cab and ordering the driver to follow closely the cab which had just turned the corner. . While the coach duelled on in pursuit of the ono occupied by Evelyn, the Panama detective, who wee alwa,ye prepared for mime of emergency, hastily transformed himself into quite a difeerent pereonage from the reepeetable looking gentleman who had entered the -coach, Meanwhile, the .heire.se woe whirling swiftly lip Broadway. The cab . Mopped once more, this time before a large drug -store, and Evelyn alighted; with a firm seep she walked up th tho counter sind called for the drug, but here_ a etartling dilemma confronted her; the clerk would not let her have it without a written order from thine re- eponsible physician. , The shock wag 'so great, the disappoint. tnent eio keen. 'Evelyn paled to the very ot her light gdld hair. • ;she must have the deadly drug at any cost," she told herself. ' Evelyn looked at the young olerk; If OM could but coax him to let her have it! ExperienCed mothers say Zam-Buk is best for chil- dren's injuries and skin troubles, because: It is herbal -no poisc2ous mineill coloring. ' It i antiseptic -prevents cuts and 'burns faking the wrong way. It is soothing --ends pain quickly. • It heals every time. just as good for grown - &)/d at ati ati)roa and druggfate. - 811e birnedalter blne,eyeS upon him 'say, . "Oh,' if, You would''',but ;-iol01ke att exceP. tion insthts,eeiee-forealle,, hie, I should be verst math obliged," ''persieted Evelyn, a The voice, 'I want it'' so ,Muoh., The, cleek Ni.amoi ue not Old nd moiety -keit -rt. ed-ait the„.. Inerdes% teak he ever done, refusing, thia etyliele 'young /lady. _ Ire tangled, furions'Y nfider the 100e "of her bright, es'es, and was terribly eoe- "If it wan my store, you ehould have it 111 e M11111'170," ,13.43 geld. ' "The proprietor ie More than strict. I Mind refuse you, ' • Artful tears sued the lovely blire e3'ele geeing up into hia own. • "Why need you mention to the pro- crietor, thenf' the. questioned .innoeent- y; 'he need not ,know of it. You look af0 kind and-ande•accemmodatiug, murals,' you cannot -findeit in .your heart ,to re• Inc Me. I-2 want it to touch up an old She laid one little white hand on hie in Iter intense eagerness, •and the thrilling,. magical"' touoh of those fingere ma -de the blood leap through the bashful young elerk's yeine Mr& electric fire. ' "After all, she wanted it for moll a harmless object," he told himeelf. "Please let me have it," pleaded Eve- lyn, her heart thrilling with exultatibn, as she noticed he was wavering. Ile was young and easily:influenced, as many , a man has been before him, by the alluring blandishments of , a 'beautiful ,girL He Was not proof against the beauty'e bewitthing. glancee. . 'You will let me have' the drug, won't your' persisted Evelyn, And Searoely consoions of what he was doing -white to the TOTY lipii-he obeyed. -While they were talking. a feelde old iaan had entered the atom. tottering up quite close, th the haughty heiress. 'Want your' show -cases eleanedr" he in - "I'm deaf," whined the old man; "if the' latter went Art' the eases with a will agillite,...lNigateliyiniapinocnicrzedk !Le' w I ear! lin "getvoice .0 it I've' a .wife and nine childeen to Ruppert. here quick, too." the oases really did' need pollehing, and you will give rae the job, nod your head: get rikof the old man; for as it happened The °leek nodded hes bead in assent to the old man bad eaid he was' deaf, Evelyn e-ttl not take the pre- caution to, lower h .e voice in the least. Al length. with 1,0:0 fatal drug In her poeseasion. Evelyn Mt, the etore., ,almoat think oho bow -Relied me," murmured the clerk, elleavene! what a risk I run in letting hor have that deadly drug --and by the Harry. I forgot to take her name and addrees.' too; what if any- thing ehould eome of and. a ehudder passed over his frome. "Hello," he mut- tered, with a _violent etart, "what hae be - conn of the fellow who wae cleaning she thow-caaes?" He glanced around In surprise -the old man was gone, CHAPTEH, XXVI. .Ewv,,eeldy.n St. Claire regained her own room In -the Remington mansion without being Thefootmen who admitted 'her won - dared „vaguely that Miss Gayaell's guest should have gone out alone on the street, espeoially at night, the being a, etran. ger in the city, tho. Ire told Mile to Fan- nY-Gay's maid -who had declared that she fairly hated the &Irish blonde who ordered her around as if 'slie Was nobody, and hoped for goodnesa sake shewaen't to remain long." There was th be a 'brilliant reception at the .Itemington mansien that night, but Evelyn pleaded a Geyer° headache as an excuse for not going to the drawing -room. .4 tigerieh hate swept through Evelyn'a very soul as her eyea rested upon Little Gay as she came into her room for a moment before going down to welcome her (meets. The girl's wondrousbeauty fairly took her .breath away. The, dark eyee glowed like midnight stars. The lovely, curlina hair fell' about the little head'in a aheen of shining gold; the peachy, dimpled cbeeks were flushed like the heart of a crimson flower, and the oreatuy tulle dress she wore, gambolled here end there with water -Mice, sot off the thvely arms and slender, graceful neck to their advantage. heightened by the necklace of gleaming pearls the wore. Evigetu St. Olaire bit her lip furiously under the mask of a smile as she gazed at the lovely vision before her. "I ens so sorry you aro not able to come down," said Gay, sympathetically. "I will come in when it is over; and give you a perfect account of it." "Do," replied Evelyn, again veiling the terrible -glitter in her eteel-blue eyes. She watched the elender figure -out of "Shine to.alght, IUY pretty Gay!" the cried bitterly, 'ler you have to die ere the day dawns. You wore uncommonly pretty when you were only 11 111110 100M girl in the Paosaie Cotton Mills -now you are more beautiful than an hour,! It would never do for you to meet my lover again -he loved you once -he would adore you now." and involuntarily her hand crept to the fatal package ooncealed in her bosom. , When Gay ea -me to her room that night, Evelyn feigned sleep, and Gay quitted the apartment with noiseless feet and sought bee own boudoir. '• ' She oould have told Evelyn of two ear- forent propagate she had received that evening, and of two bitterly jealous rivals, between whom a duel was Imminent, be. 010010 beautiful Little Stay had waltzed twice with the one, end suog "Kathleen Mavoureen" to the other. Of touree, Gay gently refused them both; still, each ofthem declared 'that be would win her if his rival watt gentleniari- ly enough to give him fair play and oeise foreing his 7 attentions upori her, which were certainly undesired. One of these handsome youngfollowe was Berry Ohesleigh of 2101000115, the notIalitieric :liedn.hosthiortfg tzuung military cadet -- Gay wat thinking as she sought her couch; it Wftfi of Percy Granville, and She boll asleep wondering when he would make the call he had promised, and wondering how she Would school her heart sufficiently to keep from flinging herself in hig arms and urying out, "Oh, my love, my love, / cannot meet YO11 as a stranger! it Is -breaking my heart. Love me again, I cannot live with., out you!" Fanny, Gay's maid, ilad ,been engaged in putting the pretty 'cream 'dress and all of her things away; she turned the gas. jet low, and Wt1.11 j1181, 8,B011t to quit the' boudoir, whee ' the knob of the deer turned with a low, subdued click, and ,fithLorueiglof inhowoanapeLiture' glided the white •The Maid .otood among the eliadowe of the window 'drapery and . wathlted her oariouely; muttering to herself: _ a`What ie she abbut, I wontrerf I'll eita,y here and see." For a moment Evelyn St. Claire -for it was sho-paueed In the ceiRre of the bou- doir; and caeting one quick, keen glance about her, elle deteated the faint outithes of UM elender, girlieli Mem' resting upon the lace -draped eouch... "Your, time has (mine, Gay Esterbrook, or Gay Remington, whichever you inay choose to call yourself," she muttered clinching her jeweled bands deep into the folds of her areee, se she glided owiftlY toward the tenth with a devieish gleam lu her steel -blue es'ee. _ Gay hav with her head reeting upon her arm. No warning of theawful danger that menaced her , flitted through her dreams. If it had not been for her gentle,breath- ing Litthi Gay would have looked like a beautiful statue carved in marble. lively), St. Claire gazod on the beautiful face with Ilia intense sagoo0 a fiend,in. , . •0 Yon 'lieve' arced nu; p,i4h again, ,girM' ella mattered, "Red nose you must' Slie drew the alai from ha. Ooolcet and' held it no for an blatant' thwardthe g100 - id. I1 was of slightly -greenish hue, .50d, seemed tooath a thane:tint ra.ye of, spark-; litig"L"gue' 00 111'4, 16011changing te intr- ohs and blue like the dame of a diamond.' "Take tbat,aGay leeweee,,,,a," she him& swiftly uneorking the yial and holding it close to the unconeedous elooper'S nos- trils. A pungent odor swept through the, boudoir -one -breath of which had locked ciao senses in .a etopoe •before oho could 010,005 One vein front the vial, amok' belathen those crimeop li s, would produee inetant cleettb, 1-1Y9Irlk • gla4trii las.Pl'ark harden' for her dee ard Wotte-4ge in the voice fi of jealoney urgcii her on as , she hesitat- ed-WIStie Gey'e Young life we's at etalte, , ‘Again the belliont powder fleshed in the dim light, ,but , in, that thrilling moment fl. 010.01101 arin hurled ' Evelyn fit , Mateo back, and Fanny,' the Micheal swsta, sprung between Evelyn ana her innocent w011 0* frillitY heirefor asserted itself, ' do . she 1 tt , ,that 'elie had ' planned ' what found! herself so suddenly rand 'unexpetet. , It Wa' lis ,ilutteniement'thei7IM'..elitir heaver), of she' should, do in it 'eaeoe of OrnOripilleY,;, if eh& Were detected eateripa Gay's roam., 'clulic,.n.ii-,plought elle executed her bold cheno.,- She drew baoltewith a samiressed Scream --pliYouiviiilfolantirienittnudt'..i'olpeativnpiri4.11e,r,xbotlnye.•weiydeeS.. in, • '011, . where ' flia. Af," ehe' cried,' in pre- tended bewilderment- "I'peay you' to, foe- :give"me " she.' went on,. .wringing -her Jeleelod0 'hands 'itnploringly,i together. ' 1 snuithnvO fallen into my habit .of eletp- walking, I'm in somebodye • TOOM."• , By tho time the maid had turned on a •:(71eVeelY as Evelyn had played, her.little gairim she had get succeeded. in deceive 'TM not th be duped in that way, toles," elle retorted bluntly. 'V have heard of - people walking' about in their sleep,' many a, time betore," whispered the ,girl, ."but 3 have never heard of a somnambulist doing what, you atteinpted to do to -night," she 0added. "Thy, whet ,dicl l' try th do," lot -owned Evelyn. -turning iyhtte, still pretending puzeted wonder. ' "You tried to mueder 'Mies 'OaY," re- turned,' the girl sharply, "She would have been IN corpse by now if I hadn't been 'Evelyn recoiled with a hearsecry, elt 10 001001 elle 'atanunered. "If you dareitecuse me of ouch a thing, girl, I 101111 MOAT upon my ,oath that it Whe you who attempted to deetroy your young heirese, and I Tllehed 1.1T to prevent you." The faithful maid f ably gasped at the depth and extent of this fair flend's atrocioue wiakednees. Evelyn saw lier advantage and followed it up swiftly. "Be wise, girl' make terms -with me; say nothing of what has occurred to -night; give' 100 youe written pledge you will not, and I will pay you down a thousand (let- tere cash." The maid, Who bad never been able to egrape twenty-five hard-earned dollars to. gether in her whole life,' fairly gasped at the stupendous offer of the great heir. 000. "I inean it," said Evelyn St. Claire; "write a few words which I will dictate and it , will earn for_ you a thousand dollars' thelt." There are women who B0000813 the .dead- ly, magnetic fascination of a serpent over their fellowereatures, and Evelyn was one of thenr; ,he held the girl spoll-bOund under her cool. keen eye& A thousand dollars! Was ever such a temptation offered it poor girl vvhe knew so well the true value of .irioney Who ca,n blame her that she wavered, and that at' last; dearly as she loved poor Gay, the promiee of so much gold for simply writing a few. words and holding her 'tongue, overcame her goruplee? Evelyn St. Claire rapidly .wrote out Is few lines, and the thoughtlese eriaid, too dazed and dazzled by the heap of bills on the t•able, took up the pen and signed her n•ame to the document, without stop. "ling to read it oyer. .1Ieaven help her! she little dreamed that she had signed a so-called confes- sion, setting forth that she herself had attempted to take thc. life of beautiful Gay, and that the had been frustrated by Miss St. Claire, a atteet in the house! "Hal" thought' Evelyn St. Claire tel..' innphantly, "hi the future, when thie girl grows weary of keeping my secret. tide will silence her 0' She threw herself down into n cuthion- ed chair by the window, and all through the weary hours of the long night thought over plots and plane against the life of hapless Gay. "The girl seems to bear a alumnae life," she muttered; "but my next attempt shall not meet with such dire failure." (To be continued.) LOW BROWS A BENEFIT. , - Nature USes Geniuses and Then . Dissolves Their Power. Talent declines to appear 2111011 it should. Robert Browning married Elizabeth Barrett and the union -predicted the birth of a supreme artist, but nature refused to take the hint, The world could not, endure the intolerable burden of a e,ontinuous line of great men. If men like Cae- sar, Napoleon and Cromwell had furnished a posterity of likepower, to remain permanent in human hie - tory, where by this time 'would be all the men of leaser breed. If every great financier were able not only to hand on his fortune but also his .a.bility ,and his rapacity to bis sons, capital punishment for busi, toss success would; be theonly safe- ty for society. We could not even endure the permanence of great men of genius. A coutini10.1.11 lino of Shakespeares would by now have •made England an intellectual desert, as the Goalies Would have desolated Germany- by genius too great to he ,endured. Nature kindly uses hcr great sons for great talks and then dissolves their . power in the .common oouioJ group in order to make secur11 the democracy of. life. Forty years hi use, 20 years the standard, prescribed and recom- mended by physicians. For We, inan's Aihnents, Dr. Martel', Female Pills, at your druggist. .CAUSE OF DEAR LUMBER. llig Firm Gives the Reason for the Increase in Price. A despatch from Quebec . says: Pi:ice Brothers, Limited, the larg- est lumber firm in Quebec, gave out the statement on Friday that the advance in the pripe of lumber has been necessitated by the curtail- ment of the cut (hie to the mild open weather this winter to the middle of ,February and to the enormous demand for dry lumber ,from -the United Kingdom, where a shortage is reported owing to the mild winter in Russia, • PARIS FASHION NOTE. Hobble Skirts So Tight Wearers Can Scarcely Walk. A despatch from London eajts : According to a London fashion ek- Pert just_ returned from Pa,ris, the dressmakers there are proposing not merely to revive the•-• hobble eltirt, but to make it tighter. This London expert, 130131.5 -1 saw skirts in Paris SO tight round the togs that the' wearers we,ec setirce/y, able to .,amearesionewam A GOO)) 1-1,A.BIT Tea when you are tired, particularly if it o YOUR GUARANTEE OF OiALTT on a sealed lead package of Ceylon Tea is your safeguard and guarantee. 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Grahame-White'e ability te execute the task. notice,'said Mr. Dartnell, "that Grahanne-White is designing a huge hydro -aeroplane in' which he purposes to install .a power plant of 1,000 honsepOwer in four' units of 250 horsepower each. • He.. states that the question of the'carriage o2 fuel' is a very important one., and he isquite right, "The distance to New York by steamer is 3,100 nautical miles, and to fly this, distance- at the rate of 100 miles an hour at average speed would take:thirty-one hours, while to prod -ilea 31,000 horsepower houra of Work in propulsion with the ex- isting types of engines would con- sume no less than 700 pounds of petrol an hour. "This means that at the .start the weight of fuel alone would amount to 9.687 plus tons, but it should be remembered that the machine would get 700 ,pounds lighter every hour on it9 voyage, so the speed fot the same engine power would rise. "As Mr. Grahame -White points out, the maid difficulty will b•e.to get the engines. 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