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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1926-12-30, Page 5Dna— enieg'3eliee :SONALITY BY, WILLIAM MERRIAM ROO 1.11. ea, PART 11, Leblanc fand Mine. Larocque both theruglit that he had gone inte the mountains to remain until Saturday, the day of the signing of the contract. No one knew his last-merrtent decision to make a short preliminary trip. Yesterday had been MondaY, and it would be the fallowing Monday before his wife even woufel worry, knovsring as she did the unexpected delays that a man in the forest often meets. He had, then, a half pail of water and riot a morsel of food for a week. Even in the full power of his usual strength it would have been hard to extht for a week on, such ratione. Of cours'e, given strength, he woul'd have charged out of the cabin at an opportune moment, as he had planned the night before, and it would have been steange if ,Albert Dinelle's finger upon the trigger had not been par- \ &tried with. fear. The cunning devil must know that the prisoner was rannfled-how elbe account for hie temerity in attemp•ting the window? All through that day Gedeon La- rocque inaented and neirected Plans for getting Dinedle into hie'. etutcheree- e ;Within reach of his bads. FO3', al- ooeno. ',down. to ierege though greatly weaned and enable bulk, area, seneeteunune to stand, lie believed that lie could master his enemy if once he could many other outward hald upon hen. altS004111t oomeated Tluatzgh the day Gedeon Intel gnown lne and indefinahle thing eonievrliat stronger, lie had washed 183ity. „That is vrhy Sack his 'wound with a ,dampened cleth, and ore labeireetIng than the he had permitted hintself to delnk freely because of hist. thirst; but antkeritY ware Invert, he realized that on the next day he leaded, stuand, Stow fn 'leek wee• quickailver; ie f pereonaBty. He oozed ee ne a bean thane the ! a elide nook had parr- viant only had "peneon." . triumpk of nersonality It is not confined to . Dogs and hawseshave Mains and rivers have acenething abeat there 3 distiaction aline from a a. pimple compare but itis the teat of the ount of Olives le sacred *area, though B would, foothill of the Alps. he famous rivers of the a eivuletto compared with or the lintesIsistipl, but that the Thainea eras 7," and people erase on Avon, Ayr, and Yale est Imams river In the oeden, a, mere taatineale in the Dead Sea, -- ad Rome and Athena Inni eong the worlds /eighth . their .peesanality done reet. , what I arn driving at? I are that comets. 'The man is not the tiepin ot et the *opacity of his ender of his cam -meter, heart, the Pewee of hie le depth of hie tattle 1 eereonel 117. It 5 like ra amating front life ikes the eye shines, the are known /merle wham e lung WIVI, an nefergen e, They lien the eft a ee turret that a mon a his generation,. He a Urger space than Words he says, even e listeneel to ae though Wordit ,OL a prophet. ay cotnee dawn to pee - fannies alinen" under the prete ng,. rt was the same in its teeny voluminous auth- .refargetten. Gray Put onality Into that poem, and thereby, it is he aft everlasting tliteg. mer -e bulk, is apt to a In the gement at Unie, awato future one* fund aleraftemen ittut th.elr thele work, That le a their mentelpinces, their oheire, anneet as ire their ocitheenals, tho Midst amid the poet lit of penmen/14y, It �f1 The man at hes It. The mat with ale has !antennae the Impeasihle he would have exiled it if thtonstield yeoes served lie had deigned to put.his *Melon Into in as a eturpenten It worde. lee of cultivation. We But before night of that 'third daY enrese the best eee he Was not so sure, for the etemach, week us, nee inlet, allepowernel ornan; had compelled his to the idea. The longing "The utmost far the 'attantl" for food possessed him so that, he would lutee given all that he owned, to the last eent, for a regime -made by of Dreams. the skilla,ul. heinde of his wife. More: - lever, be was of a rnind to consider as ea shlp of are -eras food anything that could be eaten. - beauty hi 1M hold. ' "Why not eat the dog?" with wine; IM seame Thee WAS the question that beat in his limit ae his weakness seowly but pmeep•tibly grew, and as the devils of hunger pinched arid prodded and jabbed, for a hundred reasons he re: jected the thought; ana yet it came back always stronger and mote per- sistent then -before, crowlieg into his mind like a snake. • ed thee of clanams By nightf.ali of that day he was SO anceNterl seas; torn between his ravenieg desire for Y. wandering gleams; food and em „repugnance at the means hither by the breeze. of obtaining it that he did not even lift hie head when the last of Dirtelleis e nee el &mine bulets splintered its way through ehe t ht on ,ibo ewe atld glanks over the window. Ordinarily a shouted defiance alter emit shot sdt that Dineiee weeld tenant he lived and ; leg -glen eerea therefore fear to force an entrance. ' climbieg stars, lie had grown feverish, aml that night he did not sleep. All through n bele of nreems: the hones of darkness he deemed t =nee 41,id 1,1„ go)d: tfilOpg dreams, of the hialeolis eneees enee hennas • " by itiajch be might int -a the aiTe of the bating ia ine hold, vt'ag iflwe leta nwin fth N1431$ VA3at it 9i1aid Campbell afacfie, FAVV4,,, f,i?r ktilennth 1.4.1-41 geildeitt Weeld 'Brf:e1C, e.3.. siv-'7 ci_xi -t iiitel"t3e1/11 g t- In, d en Returns Home, b.00d of %Ms ay inceming Siecteen azocqtre, neenlY saYte- draZIA.41.,hit tit/eagles? of the knetla SaPlee night, with a firm determinatioe to the "W,Iterltj'e none- speee the hie ef 'his dog, even at tile' vetUeeed to hie home eost hie own: Bottle's restlessness rectified inn)) tette had disuppeared and, as themornieg ease the beet &ntrying ware en, with TIO incideets save the af tennee seen Ilona entrance ef one of Dleene's benne, he 0 v,eis,,e3, 1)104,..0 ,,,an remelted close to his master, • Twice lie laid Isis great, yellow- • ° 'vas brown heel aganist the linee 'of La., 'to decque. Frarel his clumsy puppyhood d had this einee:e devotion. It Must -begin to spare the water, for, in spite of the hopenssnes.s of the outlook, he had no thought of giving P1. • Be would do hie utmost to keep life in his body until the last, and he would fight -if le bon Diet gave him the opportunity. In 'this inind he lay down upon the bunk at nightfall, 'which came early in the cabin, and hoped for sleep, He had dozed once, and -wee half awake again when hie ear caught a slight scraping' outside the ival-it Was as if sone light object moved over tho bark of the logs. Instaetly his thoughts flashed to the wound that had been inflieted le his side the night benore. Ile sat ap. His hand reached into his pocket -for a matelx as he moved to the edge of the bunk and waited. The scraping sound- became MOTO peb- nouneed. • In Wt. a hie steady nerves the hair at -the back of his neck prickled, for be would have sworn that some- thing wee mo-Ving in his bed, and at the piece where his bleon had wet the blankets. He scratched the match. The light struck from the gleaming Weide one heavy hunting lenfe. Sed - dimly th•e knife atabbed "viciouele oat front the caught the /old of a inatiket end stabbed again before it vanished. FOT an indent Larocque send marcely believe his oyes; then he guessed that the blade had been in- serted, probabirbound to the end of a thin stiek, between two logs *where the chinking had either fallen out or been removed. So tlutt was the cause of his Faye- terlous weinid! As quickly as his cone dition would p•errnit' he Ifeelt beside the bunk and ripped may the hoard that served as a side piece, This he rilaiced along the eraek thnougli mina the knife had appeared, and afMr- ward he lighted a candle and inane*, ed the waffle in the neighborhood-nif his sleeping pkiet. Then proved to be sound as to dhink- tuff, and after a few moeeents La - Jacque retired tor the aecond tinfe-to Atop until dawn awakened him, Thiada eras like, and yet long menet.= , but the incidents Were tiomewhart diftorenb. Bottle 'emery, whined and paced restlessly; pausing. to sniff et the door or to nose hie mestere liands in itympa,tille In Larooque the longing for food grew greater, and the Wain &Tell Stella drillke winch he allowed hirretelf were less thaednough„ The tobaceo in his pouch began to run kw, Dinelle fired three times, at enix- eted moments, but without damage. For the first time in his life Gedeon Lerocque knew the suffering of hue, ger grime into pain. It was on'the third day, Wednesday, the he pex•ceived his single opportun- ity foe life.- When the thought first occurred to hien he put it away with a iihrug, as znivit&rtlee of considenation, to redly. sunset gold, roily dreams, lichee with its freight, siteaathly aromas es of Time amd, Fate. would ba no worse to eat one's bro- ther, thought Gedeon, That night the water -pail was empty. By morning the fever of La- rooque'a wound had increased and he found difficulty itt getting up. ,He looked at the small lamenting store of kindling arid firewood ---that Stare which he had cherished, enduring cold, despite his retolution not to rave his own life With that of the dog. In the depths of his mind the thought had lurked, and it had held back his hand from making use of the wood for heat. There rernaine.d enough to cook with -a bed af eoals and a grilled bit of meat. He shuddered and closed his eyeo to ehut 'out the sight of Boutle. Lifel' HeW he wanted inore of It! The final -great rebellion againat death was raging Within Man, and he was shaken as, with a, shill. He drew his bunting-lcialle and con- templated it. What, after all, was a deg? The world veas fell iif theme He would not have hesitated ,te shoot a dog that attacked him or one that Wiled his thickens. . A- dog waa not a man. Why, then, should he hesitate to xnake Boyle rein der him a last sereke-when that ser- Yiee meant the difference between life and death? ' The oog had left him and laiu down near the .door. Larocque Mak pain- fully to hit hands and kneee„ with the knife between ins teeth: -Another day and he wouid he too weak to save his life by ed.) method -even now- it would take his last Ounce of strength to do what he had to do. Arel after the thing was done theta would be a tire to make. -,,, • Ile dragged hirnealf toward l3oule, Raving his eyes to look into those of the dog., They did not waver-La- rocque imagined that the animal knew his purpose,. It would have been easy for Houle to kill him. He reached out a hand arid grasped the dog by the scruff of the neck, ron•ing him unresisting on to his aide. Gedeon called upon hie resolution and poised the knife. Bonk looked up once, and dozed hit eyes. With a cry that Wee half a sob, Ge- deon Larocque flung his knife acres% the room. Weakness posseesed him in every nerve and -muscle and he sank down with his face buriedin the great neck of the dog. He knew that ea- eonselousness -was ho'vering close to a.nd yet he was at peace. Better to die thus and eow than to do the thing...which he had lifted his hand to do. So he lay, contiant with thiegs as they Were, while mists swept before his eyes and noises that had no existence in face bounded in hie' ears. .After what seemed a long time, Boole moved, gently, and Laeocque's head ley upon the bare floor. He felt the rasp of a tongue against his cheek. Tate the far regions where his soul had retired came sounds that were real. They drew him back to con- sciousness and he turned hit head (0 - war, the source. Hazily he saw the door of the cabin shivering ender the impatt of blows. . The bar deuced le its sockets. Hope coursed in the vans of Gedeon, and he drew himself to an elbow, believing that a rescue had come. Then a socket beace and the bar leaped half -way across the room. The door swung inward Albert Dieene staid upon the threshold, poised liko a cat for flight or attaele The rifle that he held swung sloivly until it pointed at the body of Laroeque, • Gedeon looked tithing the barrel and into the triumph -mit eyes of his, enemy. So 'the coward, encouraged by long silence, had itt last mustered courage to attack like a man. Larecque knew that death was a matter of Seconds away, and yet he did not regret his rejection of the one means which would have given hien ateength to meet this, knife in hand. While Larocque looked and waited, the face of Dittelle changed,, In one on those little fragments of time which the semen catinot measure he *meg his rifle to the left, fired and then sank out of sight behind) the puff of smoke with Boule's weight upon his chest: The thud end heave of straining bo- dies came to Laramie. He heard the rare battle snarm of Bottle, and once, juet before they ended, a cry 'that Meld leave come otile from a , human throat. , He tried to drag himself to the doer, fei raise his voice to a shout, mid failed in both. • Through the quiet moments that followed the end of the battle he struggled to gather again hte forces. Then Bane hacked into the- cabin', dragging after him the ,pack of Die - elle as he had been taught to fetch the peek of his master. His white teeth worried the canvas until it ripped and the coetents spilled upon the floor -bread and old pork; it flask and a tin. of molasses. But before Gideon Laramie laid hands upon the life-giving food 'he flung his -arms-about the neck of his dog arid wept unashamed -not with joy that he had escaped death, but with' thanksgiving that he hen not paid the prim hit life had seemed to demand. The Ehd.) PrOgreSSiVe Sentences. -- Here are some culotte sentences In which each wont seentains 011a more letter than the preceding word. Ind° -not care about garaeis parties, although reeelving numberless. Invite. lone perlodically., , I. "1 go," was that hero's answer, desti- ne farwarde, Napoleon's hattalione immediately surrenderieg. I ani not very sorry Walter tumbled eadiong, ecreaming alarmieg)y mud: eaable maledictions. Igo ten miles every 'Monday, through tieasant, woodlands, oftentimee judict- usly accompanying excureiofilsts nee nteineerieg. alll sad wine 'teeny beings mock - ,memories returning; detestably I 3tt1l'tUt10I3, Occasionally d it appoin t - ng, uneuestionnely Streentharrassing, „3 ateeeennablenese, c 011 eien t loue nese. ' I do not feel alarm, bevies. heel) fly vereonth jaundiced prejndice'e traduccthente, daterininetely un- esera ab I n 0 twithe La ding unextin- lithe b I e iSill &r.tirt atien; cherae- erie Ural ly Leer ()Mina t toe 'e eine rel. en elb:en 11 ' AN ATTRACTIVE FROCK. Par(ieutimay graceful is this mar s e frock ,ttictiirecl here. The font open in a deep V end the ttunabaek halite form revers displaying a ves/tee, whil the colter may be worn buttoned atth throat as 'Rusts:abed, or left open. The skirt is plain et the front and back and fulness is echieved by means a graceful flared side -sections, The long dart -fitted sleeves have flared. cuff int'aced a sheet distance alfente, the :lower edge. No. 1439 Is foisimites and misees anct is in sizes 16, 18 yearee86 38;40, 42 and 44 inches bust. Sizn 36 itsquirea 3% yards 39 -inch, material Width at lower edge about 76 lethal. 29 cent& . The secret n of distinctive dress lies in, good taste rather than) ti 'lavish ex immature of nuaney. Every woman should want to make her own clothes end the home deessinalcer will find the designs illustratedf in ger new ashion Beek to ne practical and eimple, yet marntaining the spirit of the mode of the moment. Prim of the beak 10 cents the copy. HOW TO ORDER PATTERNS. Write your name and addresa plane' V, giving number ti,nd size of such patterns as you want. Enclose 20e in Mamie, or coin (coin preferred; wrap Ib carefully) for each number and address your order to Pattern Dept., Wilson Painiehieg Co., 78 West Ade- laide Se, Toronto. 'Patterns sent by return Larks. MS day in exquisite air The eong -Month an stair, Flight on night, story on story, , Tete the dazzling glerY. There was no bird, glen aingleg, Up in the glom climbing and ringing, Like it smelt golden oloudeit even, Trembling nwlitt eartb and beaveu. I saw no staircase winding, welding, tip in the &mete, eapplilre and 'blind- . Ing, • Yet round by round, In 'exquisite eir, The Song went up the stair. --Katharine Tynan Ies"The Flower of Peate." , . . No Man is Iriteresting---- 1 -Who has nothing to talk about but himself. -Who seee nothing that It dght with the woeld. ' -Who is, intereated e only, bi thos who can do him favors. --Who resents the time that other people bake in the conveesation. -Who has'nethieg to say and /1231$1:8 at saying it. -Who bite net learned to appreciate other e peopl's. jokes, • --Who idway-s agrees with you. 4 ' Jan eratiano Thut mn I 50I ntcrown eel lig, form er pre rase and kelt the Inoet powerful ma in the country, lee teed Guecii bit 'Se have eometimee-ero,seed sevortle, Ilte Sy-, however,he that treturn or nrince Carol 1S, a dead issue Tiger Takes 125 elves, A mateeating tiger was shot recent - y In the., Madras PresidencyT of uclia tter it had terrorized a vitlane, ter e,ven years 'and had been reeponeible or the loss, of more thee lea Imes, Children and Colors. Childnen do not develop oSti- 11)31! eenee. einet 1 two yeeee, a psYchtelegist e de. Sleacleing sugar. Sugar is bleeched by 'Mole g-oitnd The best I:1w: The. Golden Rule: careon. New Arr vat There mane to pert leet,-Sunday nigh The quec,,reet little craft, 'Without anehteh, Of rigging on; looked dud loolieel and laughed. It seemed sO melons. that She Should cross the ijay710W11 wistgi And moor herself -right /it oar room, My daughter, 0, my daug,hterf by thes,e presents witeees all, She's welcome fifty times, And comes, consigned 'to Hope ansi And commoneneter rhymes, She has a° 31h71.i1e..St 511.1 till% No ftag Boats, o'ee the water, She's teo new for the British L4oye1a---,- My daughter, 0, my daughter! , Ring out, wild belle,, ancl Jame on Ring out the lover' -s moon! ' Ring in the:little woreted SOCk.S! Ring in the bit and almoul Ring out the inhse! Rine in the nure.el Ring in the mOk and water AwInts— mayy wdaitiugaireter7.0, a!erniayandead -George W. Cable. A Duck at the Tiller. was standing on the edge of tee hound Pondin Kensingtoe Gerdes.' It W100 one of those blowy days on which the Round nion,d is a -tumultuous, oemen whipped by the storm into Ilene roll ere eix inthee, IJgh. Ati the little model yachts) Ploughed their. way (tomes the pond trimly of them heeled over till their mainsails 'dipped Into the tete. Two of teem 'had their vale so heavily weighted .with wales that they were unable to right theineelvat sandeslay helelefie and nriftieg. on their id The ordietive7 duce, when It seen a yacht bearing dqwn ea it scuttles mit of the waY at' hinnanbeings de alten g,etung out of the way of a motor bus. . Thle duck, however, was dif- ferent. A beautiful green yacht with bellying white sails bore nevem ou 51 while it was not looking, and the duck, on turning ite heed round after a. vigor- ous preening of its breast feathera, eatildeney Intend the de•elc leaning over toward fined, almoat Meanie its tali, as thouge Menthe It to etep aboard. Whether ft wad startled Into its next action 1 do not knew, but, gelck as it wheeled round and, to the amazement of the assembled spec- tatom, scrambled on to the deck and took up its pesitiou at the tiller. The yacht wobbled for a moment under the unexpected Weight, but the duck wob- bled too,- ancl so kept its place. In so heavy a See a heavy duck was an ltd. vantage to the yacht, winch no longer 100Y afer at a dangerous angle, hut be- gan to move in stately isneeid, 041.-0Sa the pond. Eor a time the thick looked about it ae though a puzzled bY the motion and by the seascape that swept past h. at so incredible a speed. . . As it kept ite footing on 'ita inagnificently gat feet, Re eelf-midi- deuce seemed •to grew, and- it gazed round at the .other ducks with an ele even of boastfulness% . At last, as though to suggest that I1 had been tenting fox. years, it ceased even to look roenil at the others and begun to alt. ble vigorously at its breast, feathers Hire a ditok land; . By the time the yacht WIWI dralViag 11.501' the opposite sbore the duck ap- Peered to be settling down to sleep, Ma, owlooking up, it saw a. coowd of men, women tied children laughing up- roariously at it, whereupon It $11(1 hastily off lido the water aud floated off toward the middle of the mild with it ruffled air of contempt for to ill mennered a race. . . That, I think, is the most -exciting event that has happened In Kensington Oatelens ittra. cent years. 111111 sine that no one who Was present mi that blue end billoivy day and who save the duck ping for it sail will ever forget it -Prone "Solo- mon in Alt Hie Glory," by Robert Lyne. • The, Reaeon He Conde Beat. Ta many of the storleS abont caddies It is not easy to distieguieh where truth terminates mid burlesque begins. The following, however, Is vouelied for by a werleknewn While playing on a ceitein eourse ihi Scotland he remarked to his caddie: 'By the way, I PlaYed a round with Toth McGregor the last tinue I was here.- Grand player, McGregOrl" "Aye," said the addle, "but ye could heat McGregor noo," "boyou think so?" exolalmed the player, gratified with latch a compli. meet, • (trawled tlie middle; "elcGra ger's d.eael." Watch the Car Ahead. The glass window in the back cur. tate of the, Car ahead me be quite utse- tul, 'Through it a lot of dangers' can be seen in advance, leech to the ad- vantege, of the men wile is in the rear. Where ears are being &riven. In Such a. wan that the road cannot beeseen looking around the car eheatl, it , 31 beet to dvive just far enough behind to leek thrreoge Its windoeys. When a (111.16k 61:01.). 10 neceSeary lie baiting of the car abead will not be uneXPact- ed, nor so dangerous, e Fair Warning. Bobby bail devoured three large slice* Of. cake med atiK -It did not tip. pear that his appetite wes appeased, eAew, juet another piece, Please," 'Bobby begged. 'Tf you eat auother piece ol' take YOU certainly will buret," hie greed - in et her d eche ' "Then paSs thee sake and etand baelt," WAS Bobby's dtcisioS, - How: It elapeoned. 'Now, boys," said the teneeer, "can any or.,yeu tell me liow even was .11rst cliscoV'ered?" A hand shot up. "Yes, eir!", cried T110111310,00, ' . "Well, Thompson, in,st tee Lilo claim what your informdtion it oil that point." ' "Please, sir," TGaiNsl the scholar, "I heard fathee say yesterday that they enicit it!".. 5 12eats the Sun for Light. ‘Sitiiis, the' dog ster, gives elf about art y-eigli 1 times as mssh Het t. -a OUr , d Tsi That is why people ingdat on Saluda. DOORMAT' MOTHERS Chikken Who Trample Their Parents: By Dorothy Dix. A mother who lens always, nettle her- ;meet) they are intentionally unkind,. solf a decemat ter her children cern- but beoanee they have always. done SO, Oeine becauso, figusatieely smeeking, and they 0.1`0, ueing hso Nat exectly ae they wipe then" feet on Itee, she has taught therm tolose leer, . lerorn the time they were born Otte It hunis thie =oaten that her child: (volute its been les' ,children's slave, ran never ask her advice or consult If there eas been any hard job to do, her about anything they are going to mother hes done it. If anyone haft do, But why Owed they? What wie-' had Wile without new elothen It has dem has elle ehowti in the Manage; been- /neaten It., has always beee meta at 'her own affairs thet shoul4 mother who, hat been left tet home make her ehiltieen respect bee (mint when all tb,e other' raembens of the on? Why should Joan consult a shab- family went oft on a pleasuce Jamie, by little woman about what to bay and whose hap -Mavis no one bes ever when she goat to get a new dress? stopped to consider. Why should Sobel talk over the prob. Don't Blame the Children, leme-of his life with the one who has And it ie not because these children always, beeu the ,kumbleet member ot are selfish and lacking In feeling, It the household?. Is because they hav'w never really When. Villareal gee selfish to tbeir thought of, their mother as a human mother,whee they fail to show her beteg, Therheve only considered her peeper impact, ehe lam nobody bet as an adjunct GO their Comfort ,aucl hereelf to Maine, they zubconsoleusly bracket her with •-• If from the time they are old. enough the gee make. to know. anything at Al she teaches It Weald give the youngsters quite a them to look up to her, to admen her,' torn to find eut that their moth.ir had M think that she is 'the fonetelneefe detiree and impulses like their owe, wisdom; If she teachen them to honor, Thay'have never theueht of Imr intern a,ad obey het' and respect hes', thee tices for them in the light of seerlfices, will believe that mother is the most ' They have always -thought that they wonderful 16'0113aa in the world. were jut manifestations of her pe- This is not theory. Yon can see lime oullar tastes, it works out in the householde or your Now this mothei., and her name te a.equatntanees. You ecu see the 0111(1- )11re. Legion, tar there are thoneands ten mato gene tie then pettniee to buY fit her, has expected to get iier tweed mother a present, who help mother when her childeen mew up aria were with -whatever -work is to be done, who old enough to appreciate all that slie consult mother about everything, and laid done for them. Slit has thought who make Mother the dominant factor that they would emelt her and put her le their lives, And you see the child - upon a Dedestail and worehip at her ren of other hoeseholds, .wbo let moth. feet, but te her amazement they do er do all the work, whe never consider nothing of the kind. On the contrary, her in anY waY• they -continue to walk over her, net be- Tt's up to you, mothers! Wt. Sun Vat Sen INTIM is to be first president of be NatIonallet slates It is mid, accord ng to the plans of tbe Cantonese govern- ment, In memory Of her husband, the 1051003e1 'and Met presideut of the re- public. Reve n g a. They had beau married just loug euougli far hem to realize ,that bel' cooking did not equal ids inotherhe One morning he happened eo mention this. ' Bat his Wife teas' 11 111otbettl woman, and, Instead of weeping. she made a fresh take alleged to be equal to any- thing he'd ever had before. "Angel!" he orled epee isetteg it, "this is superb-juet like mother's! What it lucky man I am to have mar' ried such a. wonderful girl! Tell me how- you happened to bit on the reetpe.' "It's no great secret," anewe.red his angel wife, a gather Miler eyes. "I used margarine iest•ead of better, watered the milk, and dropped a chunk of alum In the flour!" • Oyster Shell Spoke. There are books in the Ilritish ?descent instribea on oyster shells, bricks, ince, bones, ivory, lead, Mon, coppee, eheepskin, wood and palm leavee. "Ten taking 1im census, -lallyn "All night. And there's some okl cans and rubber tires oaten the yard.. r.rafte.theni leo pleeee." . Let the Dog's Ears Alone. The memo of hearing la highly deli" • cats, and the. ear Itself very sensitive to pain Tee hearing and the health of many dogs lave been injured by owners who Were. over...zealous for alearaillaaa or eppeerance. A doge -emote need very little wash- ing, and then only the aeriele. Let the Miter ear entirely Leone, utiese symptoms at &settee appear. Men call a veterinarian. That la not a mat- ter fer amateur &Waring, Do not eilp your (log's, eine, 'Tide entel prattke Is new prohibited la Eingleen. tyleseee menet* , thaek gaminess, will soon he Maestro' here. Don't let ally one tell you that, It does not hurt, that the dog' "enjoys it," etc. It daliset exti•eme pain -and ofteu additional suffering when the epliats come off and have to be put on again. The time is raplaly coming when there will lie no eanclioped doge even at dog shows, ensi. we seould all keel a voice at every eppottunity to hasten the arrival of that glad day. end, along with Lite caning, tet itt ebollsh the use of ati those diabolical. little Instruments used on the show dogs to make them eon -form to certain standards. I am sure If the poor cent° had a see in the matter, he would quickly eboose,not to be "faehloitable" rather than wear the nevilish little "knIfe• combs," "somewhere" eta What does he care for "tulip-shaped- eers?-all he wents. is to he happy. Really, 10 18 hare to ututeretend how atly one can subject a heloVezt pet Vino, sech torture; and the truth its thee most of the :thole dogs ere those bred for exhibition perposee and made to conform to estanderds, regaralese of the stiffening entailed. But such dogs have just as xnuch feeling et our per- seeel vete, and the stow dog melte must he abolished. As I have said, let the clog's earn alone. Marking for iclentitleatlat le; necessery; there are too neatly other, reitable ways. Let no eine intlnoe you 10 tettoo yotte mien sem. 11 may be dingeroue, It not eldiffelly done, and it pre -tithe -1y M painful. An (idled fact, worth eousideration 111 seme cases, Is that a dog tattooed with your initials or other elevate mark it somewhat less seleahle, should you ever desire to selehine There are many. rectsone ageinst tattooing and not one good argument for it. Let the dog's ears 'Mone. --L. 311, Fethaulce, THE WORLD'S SMAL ST MASTERPIECES It may- be es great a feat arid eeed as much ingenuity: axed skill to make O watch as to build a !midge, end both ere ueerti 1 products of labor; 11111 there ere many instanc.ee of Ingenuity "Wasted 'en exquisite but. eselese things. In the days of Queen Elizabeth, Mark Scallot; a blacksmith, mede iock 'consisting Of el -even pieces of brass, non eine steel,' all a Mitch, together with the key; weighted but ire grain. De also ramie a gad chain volt forty-three end when 114 had' finished it he attaelted it to the leek and key, pet, th-e chain Tomei a 1te4a, aue that nimble 1»8e03,' easily drew the lot. , • 1.,Vorld'e Smallest Picture, Another man, even inure famous for Ids niniute contrivances, 1000 OSIVada- 0.3 NarihiligEW119, )V110 01030 10 heve made 1,000 dishee 01 teemed ivory, 900. 011 eced complete to the last. detail, n nee 1115 were they thee th ey eou 1 d 11 he contained in a cup imule froni an na ry-eize.d 1te•5111e1`C0111. A 11,0111a1) 01106 paieted 1 landtveps epletang 0 ih1i1iil1'5, e re, sad a 51 horse end care mid half a vain of cern was big enough to hide the whole composition. At the museum at Salem, le New. England., there is a inetry-stnee con- taining a Owen silver spoons. The stone is of ore:nary site and the sepons eetti see small tent their nine tine dnitJi -can only be adinitee with the aed of a microseepe. Canute posse -saes one of the Lienie-st engines In the world, • It • measel.es- less than a quarter of aa inch hi eine dieection, and ha -s a- cylinder ane-, twentieth of en Inch in digestive wt -king Jewell -in in Leeds nettle a all - ver model of it beam engine an Moll in height, composed at 106 -pieces, eoee plete in every detail end WetgbilM Without the heelpiete, one and a half p ennyw agent, A Twin jeweller, fill -ding a pearl which, by its shape lent 1tseif bit Mt purpose, nmee it Intoil, tiny boat, Ite sail is or beaten gola etudded with diamonds, arid the headlight ie it pen feet lithe An .emereld eerves t .15X Yttacler, . and Its stand ie 11 teeth ei ivoty„ Ite weight is less than helf 011100 111) 11 is valued I. 11 000