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T. RANCE '
Notary Pubilc,' Conveyancer.
Fluancial, Real Estate and Fire In-
eurrince Agent. Representing 14 Fire
Insurance Companies...
Division court,Officee Clinton,
BRYDONE
Sarrlater, solicitor. Notary Public, etc.
SLOAN BLOCK - CLINTON
..DR.J.C.GANDER -
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DR. FRED G. THOMPSON
()Mee and Residence:
'enteric, Street - Cliuton, Ont.
One door west of Anglican Church.
Phone 172.
.....52es examined and glasses fitted.
DR: PERCIVAL HEARN
Office and Residence:
Iluron Street» Clinton, Ont.
• • Phone 69
eFormerier occupied by the late Or,
O W, Tbompsoni,
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DR. H. A.. MCINTYRE
• DENTIST
Office hours 9' to 12 AM. and 1 to
5 P.111., except Teestlays and Wednes-
days. Office over Canadian National
„Esti:mese,' Clinton, Ont.
Phone 21.
DR. F. A. AXON
DENTIST
Clinton, Out. '
Graduate of C.C.D.S., Chicago, and
12,(1.le,S„ Toronto.
Crowe and Plate Work a specialty
D. H. McINNES
Chleopractor--Electrical Treatment.
Of wjiighoin, eat be at the Quintets
Mal Ian, Olinton, on Monday, Wedaes-
day and Friday forenoons of each
week. ,
Diseases of all Uncle succeeafully
handled. •
GEORGE ELLIOTT
Licensed Auctioneer for the County
Of Huron.
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Irnuaedtate arrangements cat be made
for Sales Date at The NeWs-Record.
Clintbn, or by calling Phone 203.
Chaeges ModerilleThand Satiefaction
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Honor Graduate Care) Jones' National
Sclabol of Auctioneering, Chicago. Spe.'
Mal course taken in Pure Bred Live
Stock, •Real heetate, Merchandise and
Fenn Sales.' Rates, in keeping with
_prevailing maliket. Satisfaction as -
tiered. Wrtte or wire,'Zurich, One
Mime. 1,843.
• & 'R.. HIGGINS
cirntt.'n, ont.
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General' Fire and Life ineuranceeAgent
for'Ilartfedel Windstorm, Live Stock.
Automobile and Sicksinee and Accident
Insurance. Huron and Erie and Cana.
• da Trust -needs. „Appointineats niade
• to, inset parties at nrucetielci, Verne'
sod fle-ydeld..Plaoneh7,
TIMETABLE,
Trains will aerivo at and depart from
• Clinton ,as follows:
r•Suffalo and Gedericii Dee,
Going East, depart 0.25 .a.m.
Going West; or. " " 11.10 a.m.
sir. 6.0e de. 6.53 p.m.
" " • 'Cr. 1104, pen.
London,' Huron 8,- Bruce Div.
Goma South, are 7.66 sip, 7.16.a.sn.
4.10 p.m.
Gofer North, depart 6.50 pip.
11.013 11,15 am.
The ilic1411, Mutual..
Fire Insurance Company.
Head einitP Seafortie 'Ont.
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DIREeTOSY:
President, Za :es Counoity,‘Coderloh;
Vice, James Evans, Beechwood; see,.
Treasurer, 'flies. E. Hays, Setitortie
Directors: George McCartney, Sea.
forth; D. le McGregor,' Seaforth; S. G.
Orestes, -Walton; Wm. Ring, Seaforte;
ee, meEwen, Clinton; Robert Ferrieee
/-Iarlock; Jobn,lieurieweb•, Orodhagen;
Jae. Connolly, Godericb. ,
Agents: Alex. Leitch, Clinton; .1. W.
Yee, Goderiehe Ed. Ilinchray, Sea.
fertile W, Chesney, legnaondville; et.
G. Jarmuth, Brodbagen.
Any money to he paid le may be
paid to Mono -lois Clothing Ca., Clinton,
or at, Outt'a Grocery, Goderich.
Parties ,desirlag to affect Insurance
or transace °thee busitess will be
promptly attended to on apnlicatIon to
any of 'the above officers addressed to
their respectiVo post office. Loese• e
inepected by'the Director who flees
nearest the euene.
'rare
Ever.y. cup is u 21%eur deliffint. Ask ircor
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lariLvinux _Dints6ox_Roati
THE FORTUNE TELLER.
, It was an ancient diary in a faded
leather rover.' The writing Was fill0
end delicateaand -the ink yellow with.
age. Monsieur Jonquelle turned the
pages raloWly and with Mete, ler the
paper was fragile. We had dined
eaely _and -cense in letter 'to his house
on the Faubourg St. Germain in
- He wished to show -me this old
diary that had come down to him,
from a branch of his mother's fare-
ily in. Virginia—a branch that he
gone out with a Iting's Grant when
Virginia was a crown colony. , The
collateral ancestor Pendleton had been
a Jesetice of the Peace in Virginia, and
a spinster daughter had written down
some of the strange cases with which
her father bad been concerned. Mon-
sieur jonquelle believed that these
ceses in their tragic details, and their
inspirational dedeetive • handling
equaled any of modern times. „The
great library overlocking the Fau-
bourg St. Germain Was curtained off
from Paris. Moneleur Jengaelle read
by the fire; and Plistened, returned
as by some recession of time to the
Virginia of' mi vanished decade. The
narrative of the diary follows:
It was a big sunny room. The long
windows looked out on a formal gar-
den, great beech trees and the bow
of the river. Within it was a sort of
library, There weie book-cdses built
into the wall, to the height (-E a man's
head, and at intervals between them,
rising from the floor to the cornice of
the shelves, were rows .of mahogany
drawers with glass knobs. There was
also a flat writing table. •
It *as the room of a trafeler, a
man of letters, a dreamer. On the
teed° were an imkpot of carved jade,
a paperknife of ivory with gold but-
terflies see_ in; theee bronze storks,
with their baelcs together, held am -ex-
quisite ,Teraivise crystal.
The room Was in disorder—the
drawers pulled out and the contents
Day father 'stood leaning against
the casement of the wienew, looking
out. The lawyer, leir. I.ewis, set in a
chair beside the table, his, eyes on
the violated room.
"Pendleton," he said, "I don't like
Shia Englishman Gosford,"
• The words seemed to arouso my
father out of the depths of souse re-
flection, and he turned to the lawyer,
Mn- Lewis. •
"Goeford!" he echoed.
"Ile is behind'this business, Pen-
dleton," the lawyer, Mr. Lewis, went
on. "Mark my Word! He conies here
when Marshall is dying; he forces his
way to the man's bed: he puts, the
servants out; he locks the door. Now,
what bushiest had this Eneeislemart
with Marshall on' Ins deathbed? What
business of a sbcrecy so close that
lefershall's son is barred out by a
locked door?"
He pane.ed and twisted the seal
ring on his fieger, Arp
"When you and I came to visit the
sick Irian, Gosforul was always here.
s though he kept a watch on us, and
when we left, he went always te-his
ream to write his letters, as he said,
"And snore than this. Pendleton;
Marshall is hardly in his gravel be-
fore Gee -feed writes me to inquire by
what legal process the dead man's
papers may be examined for a will,
And it is Gosfoed who sends a negro ,
riding, as if the devil were on the!
crupper, to summen me in the name
of the Confraonevealth of Virginia, to!
appear and exansine into the circum -
eta-nces of this burglary. .
"I mistrust the man. 11,, used to
hang about Marshall in his life, upon;
;onne enterprise of secrecy; and now
he takes possession and leadership in
hie affairs and sets the man's soli!
aside, In what right, Pendeeton, does
this etelventurous Englishman feel
himself. sconce?"
My father did not reply to Levels's
discourse._ His' comment was .in an-
other quarter.
"Hove is young Marshall and
Goeki," 1m said.
-- The lawyer rose and came over to
the window.
Two persons were advancing from
the direction of the stablet—a tall,
delicate boy, and a strange old man.
The old, man walked with a quick,
jeryk stride, It was the old country
doctor Gaelti. And, unlike any other
man of his profession, he would work,
as long and as carefully on the body
of a horee as he would on the'body of
a Sian,.snappingout Ins quaint oaths
mid in a etrees of effort, as though he
etruggled with some Invimble creature
for its prey. The negroes used 'to say
that the devil was afraid of Gaeki,
and he might have been, if te disable
a man or his horse were the devil's
will. But I think, rather, the negroee
imagined the devil to fear what, they
feared themselves.
ACCOUNTANTS AND AUDITORS
W. MacMillan and Company
Union Bank Building, gait. Phone III
Alao_Teronto and :Kitchener
W. MACMILLAN, L.A. '
"Now, what could bring Gaeki
here?" said Lewis.
"It was 'the horse .that eGoeford
overheated in his race to you," replied
my father. „"I sew him stop in the
road -wiser.° the,negro boy Was leading
the horse, about, and then call young
Marshall."
"It was no fault Of young Mar-
-shall,. Pendleton," said the ,lawyer.
"But, also'he is no match for Gosford.
He is a dilettante. He -paints little
pictures after the fashion he learned
in Puree, and he has no force or vigor
in him. His father wits a dreamer, a
wanderer, one who loved the world
and its frivolities; and the son takes
• that temperament, softened by his
mother. He ought to have a guar-
dian."
He has one," replied my' father.,
"A guardian!" repeated Lewis.
"Whit court has appointed a guar-
dian for young Marshall?"
"A court," replied nay father, "that
'does not sit under the authority of
Virginia. The helpless, Lewis, in
their youth and inexperience, are not
wholly given over to the sailer."
The boy they talked about was very
young—under twenty, one would say.
lie was blue-eyed and fair-haired,
with thie, delicate features', which
-showed good blood long inbred to the
loss of vigor. He lied the fine, open,
generous face of one who takes the
world as in a fairy story. Bet now
thee* was care And anxiety in, it anii
a furtive shadow, as though the lad's
dream of life had ,got some rude
awakening.
At this moment the door' behind
my father and Lewis was thrown
violently open, and a*man entered.
He was a person with the manner of
a barrister, precise and dapper; he
had a Ideg, pink face, pale eyes, and
a -close-cropped beard that brought
The room was in dirsorder—draw-
ars pulled out end contents ransacked.
out the hard lines of his mouth, He
bustled to the table, put down aysoet
of portfolio that held an inkpot, a
writing -pad and pens, and drew nP
a chair like one about to take the
minutes of a meeting, ' And -all the
while he apologized for his delay. He
had important' hatters to get_ off irt
•the post, and to make sure, had car-
ried them to the taVern himself.
"And now, sirs, let us 'get about
this., leesine'ss," he fireshed, like -one
Who calls his aesietants to a labor.
My father turned about and looked
"Is your name Gosford?" he said in
his cold, -level voieend
"It is sir", repliee the Englishman,
"—Anthony Gosforell"
"Well, Mr. -Antheny Gesford," re-
plied my father, "kinelly close that
door that you have opened."
Ilewie plucked but his enieffbox ani
trumpeted in his many -colored band-
kerchief to, hide his laughter.
The Englishman thrown 'off his
patronizing manner, hesitated, closed
the deer as he wee biddeti—and ;could
net regairi his fine air. •
"Now, Mn, Gosford," my father
went on, "why was this room violated
as we see rt.
"It Was searched' for Peyton Mar-
shall's 'will sir,", replied the man
"HoW did you know that Marshall
had a will?" said my father.
saw hitrt write it," rammed the
Englishman "here in this very ;Toni,
on the, eighteenth- day of Oetober,
18,54."
"That 'Was two years ago," said nay
Tether. "Was he will here at Mar -
h 11' death?"
"It was, ke told some on his tenths -
"And
it is gone now?"
It is," replied the EngliShman,
father, "Aot14ilrvv do.
Mr. ,oeford," said my
\ soo yo knew this will is
gone Unlese you also know precisely
where it was?"
do know precisely where it, was,
sir,' returned the scan. "It was in
a row of drawers on the right of the
windoW where you stand—the second
drawer fieem the top. Mr. Marshall
put it there when he wrote it; and he
told sue' on his deathbed that it re-
,
mathed there. 'You can see, sir, that
the drawer has been rifled."
My 'father looked casually at- the
row of pmahogsisoyaraWOrSnf,."
aloag he end of the hookcaec, The
second ono and die one above were
Oren; the others below were closed.
"lily. Coif ord," ho said, "you would
have some interest in this will, to
new !Mout it so preeisely,"-
"And so I have," re d the scan,
"it left rue a sons of money."
"A large stun?" .
"A, very large sum, sir."
"Mn, Anthony Gosferd," Said my
father; '‘f or what, purpose did Peyton
Marshall bequerCth you a large stun
of money? 'You Ore no kin; nor was
ho in your debt,"
'The Englishman sat down ansi nue
hie fingers tog -ether with us jisdicial
air. ,
"Sir," he began, "I am not adv:sed.
that the purpose of a bequest is 'rele-
vant, when the' bequest is direct arid
unencurshered by the teetator with
any indicatory words of trot or uses,
This, will bequeathes use a sum Of
money. I am not required by any
provision of 'the law to shoev'the 'rea-
sons moving the tee,tator. Doubtlest,
Mr. Peyton Maeshall had reasons
which he 'deemed excellent for this'
course, but they are, sir, entombed in
the grave with him." •
My father looked steadily at the
-man, but he did not seernto consider
'his explanation, nor to go any further
on that line.
• "Is there another who would know
aboet, this -will ?",t heosaid.
"This effeminate 5071 W01114 knoW,"
'replied Gesford, a 'sneer in theaepi-
thet, "but no other. Marshall wrote
the testament in•his 'own -hand with -
Out 'witnesses; as he had the legal
right to de under the laws a Vir-,
Lrinin. 'The' lawyer," he added, "Mr..
Lewis, will confirm me in the legality
of that,"
(Te be 'continued..)
IlettiOlt safe front
relief
peinfulcallousee °tithe feet,
Ate!! area and shoe scdres
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The Roadside
1Y14rket
The Growing Importance of
This Type of Merchandise
Startles the LIS.
CANADA FOLLOWS
A recent article on Roadside Mar-
keting written by the President of the
A.A.A'. should be of laterest to Gana.
dians.• At present this' form of
merchandising farm products lien its
infancy In our country but we must
keep abreast of the time and profit
by the knowledge gained in the comm.
try- to the south of us, -
' The U.S. Situation
W'reehington—The rosidafile farmer
will do $100,000,000 worth of business
in 192 according to an, estimate pre-
sented by Thomas P. Hour. president
of the Amerioan Automobile Associa-
tion. • .'
This'estimate coesiderel Conserve.
tire, based on reporte' from members
of t asiociatIon and from many in.
dividual clubs of the Nattenal -Motor
Federation. These reports show that
while roadside umeketing has been
more Intensely developed in some
states than in others, the growth of
the movement is essentially on a na.
tIonai scale.
"At the present rate of groeftli It
should become 8500,000,000 business
within it few years,". seys Mr,
who also calls attention to the fact
that In 'order for the farmer and his
customers to reap full benefit, certain
abuscewill have to he
"The farmers, as far Ise our reports
Indicate," he said, "deal honestly With
their clients and ills not their fault
if unscrupulous zaders from the eitY
rent corners at country crossroads and
sell to unsuspecting moterists pro -
'duce purchased in city markets. This
can easily be eliminated if all the
states follow the example of NOW Jer-
sey; Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and
others, in which roadside marketing
associations tave been organized.
"Tho motorist is to -day one of the
'farmer's best eash customers. For
one thieg servicing the motorist at the
roadside is the only way he has ever
found of eliminating the middleman
of whom he has se bitterly complain -
"This is not all by any means,
There is geed reason to believe that
the farmers would greatly inereese the
'potential market for their land if they
Maintained their Penns reit eXITIbiti011,
Dr. A, eV. Gilbert, eIeneachlisetts Coin. •
missioner of s e, s dOise ex-
actly this, She went Ont and Perellad-
ed the farmers with show places to
permit him to print a pamphlet givirrr
the names and :locatIond of -model
farms and inviting tire motorists to
I call. The beginning made bb Dr. Cell-
! bort is capable' of enormoud expan-
slo11W.
What it tan do in tho realm of
"
work -a -day things is amply proven by
the great increas,e In roadside market-'
Apple Reopes
In September and October one can
often pick up apples ,for nothing or
for so little that It seen:a a ,shame
,not to add them to, the /winter's sup-
ply of appetizing, food; 'Just a few
minutes spent in, the kitchen, in the
autumn. will mean many' pleesurable
meals a little later. '
Sweet Pickled Apples
Break into places a two-inch click
O f cinnaman and tie it
sloth bag with I teaspoonful each of
_whole cloves gad the whole allspice.
Add a pounds of light brown sugar to
quart, of vinegar; drop it in . the
spice' bag and boil It for 15' minutes.
tart, well oerl liaritivde redn
cut-
Into)Pl oquartersand
sunnierra te
therm -a' few at a time, in the sydup,
until they- Mee airaoSt -done. If the
fruit is not :delicate pink In color, add
a little ibeet juice td the syrup.- Pack
the apples, careftilly'in hot, sterilieed'
Jere and leaVe1 them ine a hot 'oven
while the ydripli d down
rapidly for about 10 minutes. Pill the
hot, jars. eyeth .syrep an3 teal: -
These are dalicione served -with pork:
Apples for Nee and Sauce ,
Fruit that Cooke up into a -mushy
consfetenny is sine' for apple -sauce and,
Dies.' 'Thoroughly cooked without
sugar and sealed securely In sterilised
jars, the apples keep well: Sugar may
be 'ridded as needed, When. It will kireb,
cap -
singas
,sbeec.ohneaper than ,during the call -
Canning of this kind IS easily done
in time oven while other baking is
going on:,. The rack from the broiler'
may be set on the bottom of the Oven
to .keep the Jars from getting too hot.
The sauce may lie Partly cooked over
the flame and 'finished by baking in
the jars -in the oven, or- the apeles
may be put into the' cans as they are
prepared, covered 'with' hot water and
set intolthe oven: The juices boll up
from beneath. 'and cook the fruit.
When done, All each -lar with either
more boiling apple sauce or hot water,
and seal as usual.
I -Apples for Salads and Dumplings
Apples that hold their shape when
cooked are beet for dumplings, -sal-
ads or— garnishing for roast porlr.
When to he used for the, twe 'latter
purposes, Unpeeled, red -skinned ap-
ples cut into halves give the prettleet
effeet, but tare must "be taken
thoroughly to cook the oldies, Baking
is the surest means of keeping the
pieces unbroken. As the trek le pre
pared, drop each piece into scalding
hot water and when there is enough
for a pint can, pack the apples Into
the hot eternized jar, pour over them
enough thin Meiling sugar syrup to
cover, lay the sterilized cap on top' and
set the can in the hot oven, A little
red vegetable eolorieg added to 'the
syrup will'make the fruit 'Very attrae-
tive In a salad or as a garnish. -When
the apples /nay be pierced' with a
straw, 'fill the jars, adjust the rubbers
and covers, and seal. Test for leaks
slut store In a dark Vac° to preserve
the dolor, Such apple cups on bads
of lettuce, filled with chopped nuts or
celery, with a dash of mayonnaise' and
a lilt of curraist Jelly au a garnish,
snake a combination as delightful to
eke taste as to the 'eye.
. Apple Butter
Wash apples, core, without Dealing,
cut tato pieces and cOok ,with eeelit-
tle watei' as possible until the fruit
Is very soft, This may best be &MO
in the oven. Put the fruit through
a slave, and to eaeh 3 cupfuls of pulp
allow 1mupful of sugar, % teaspoon-
ful of ground cinnamon and a pinch of
ginger, Simmer down to -the. desired
consistency, addling more or other
spices to suit the taste; If necessary.
Dy taking every, chalice possible to
rook hot pulp In the even Instead of
over a direet flame one can prevent
the waate eficoneederable Material and
'time. If a flame must be used, put
an asbestos Sheet under 'the kettle.
Pour the 'apple butter luta sterilized
glasses Or a,etone Creek anti Seal with
melted paraffin, •
• • • Apple Honey
For Variety, acid to 2 quarts of the
apple butter 1 capful of' honey. Heat
slowly buldo not -boil after the honey
It added, Seir,:.1 istveltiLptasurtipInil•
Wipe, core and -quarter 16 large
cooking apples, el:wet them with water
Clod simmer until they, are well cicne,
Rirb theough a sieve- and to each 4
cupfuls of pulp allow. 2 teaspoonfuls
oftellinto6o ni) !gni); eere''efoi540 cupfuls- mustard, o
f sugar,
spice, 11/3 teaspoonfuls of cinnamon,
I. -tablespoonful of/Salt, 1;large onion,
grated, an 7,s cup imls of cider vine-
gar. •Add to the -apple pulp,- bring
slowly to a boil and drama until of
the -right consleiency. about 1% bentree
Seal while' lint.
ing." This form of trading Is just in
its infancy. The extent to Which' it.
•
will grow depends largely .on mutual
'd
tresteundees amid fairiT ace
, • -
SCvect API* Pickle
Syrup from pickled peaches and, 1
pickled 'watermelon rind may be 1.,ISOd
to make delicious app,e pickle, Stearn
Sweet apples until they can he pierced
with a straw, add to the reheated
syrup, bring te a boil anl Seal in sin:01
The Child's Joy
Poetry
Sonioune has, told its that poetry
and children belong together because
they. are" the twoiri:Ovellest things' in
theiworiti. How are we going to bri,11g
taboo; Stin closer? How aro we going
to' open wide and a lii wider
The wee mall door
When'sorucono rouses Ito D ?
TILOS3 at us who have time gilt of
play, who love to do what children do,
who_feel and coo and liv with thorn,
mow that children arejusi naturally
haPPY, j'0270/13 arrd
Even tKitis their interests, seeming-
ly confined to the nursery, to the
playroom, or to the fence about the
garden, their capacity for enjoyreent
is on greatm titan outs, for theirs
is natural and sincere, free from any
Preludico cr unfortunate training.
They are capable of thinking, feeling,
acting their poetry:
It is hard for the child to under-
stand the coldly technical angle of
our educational traillia3 film( seethe
to rob him of so 'much Joy. It is
hard .for hire • to undesrtand the
mother and the leacherewho Insist
on getting at the exact meaning of
the, printed page, divulging the Tact
of the message, wheri he so much pre-
fers that everything be not explained.'
"In the unexplained lies his greatest
-e.pleasure."hechildren not :leave their own
Aholcea, their •own tastes, their own
'Mende among the poets? '4 -awe Yoll
watabed your little Child clamor for
-Mother Gooseedear old Mother Goose,
Whose- every line -saarkles with eauaint
'and queer' imaginings, whose rhymes
are as fine as any we can offer to
our children? Have you seen them
beg for more and more of
that other child, far, tar away
that in another garden playa
that' little child that Stevenson plc-
turee to us so sympathetically, his
small horizon, his tiny exquisite ,ob-
jects of fancy, his clover trees and
rainpoof sea's?
And have you quite recently heard
your children laugh and chuckle with
old Jim Jay, or live again with the
old lady who went blackberry picking,
"halfway over from ereen to Wick-
ing"? Yes, the wee -small door has
opened. Our children are reliving the
dance, re -discovering the folk lore, re-
entering the poetry kingdom. They
are learning to express themselves, to
"pull out" of their self-oonsolousness,
and to weave their awn, dreams, their
own times; their Own aspirations, their
very Selves into latterns of beauty.
We are living In a new era of charm
and joy 'tbrough our contemporary
poets. Robert Frost, Vachel Lindsay,
Carl Sandburg, Amy Lowell, Edna St.
Vincent Millay, Sara Teesdale and
all the Teat, have given to Us a new
solace, a sweet nectar to sip, have
taken us ,all into the land of "choice
colors and aeries."
And the librarlime, bless themi.—
have peeped right over -the adult World
straight into -the hearts of the chil-
dren, They have brought to the lib-
raries the poetry written not about
children, but for children, They etre
helping the children to look for that
something in poetry that they look
for in enueic or In beautiful friend-
ship.
We have let the children In --their
choice, their desires, their tastes are
all considered. We allow them to
make wee small poems. of their own,
to close their eyes and see and form
Utatr own pictures, to travel afar "up
a bill and a bill." and baok again—
for this' is their birthright-L"The word
with all its- grace of meaning and
melody. is the heritage of all of the
children of mar," ,
Military Defence Contributionl
Singapore Free -Prete: Hon. Mr.1
Bagniall has raised the, queeteen of
the Military Contribution in Legis-
lative Council. If we =foes that it
was a Tittle unexpected we admit that
it Was timely because it is very deter -
able that a careful watch should be
maintained just new in thie matter.
'The reasons for thie are, in- the lime
place the Ilosne*Goverament is con-
scious that its expenses on 'defence
generally—not military alone—are
beginning to 'take shape as far as
Singapore is concerned; in the see::
end place, the bathe taxpayer' is carry-,
ing extes,ordinarily hea,vy burdens,
and in the thIrd plate the'Home Gov-
hrnment has realized that this part
of the world has put -up some notable
stuns of money in connection with IM-
perial .• defence and may therefore,
reasonably be suspected of being cap-
able of potting up snore,
le:leasing Pareirnony.
A parsimonious laird Was at a large
party. ;On dbparting the quests gave
V.Ps to servaiite, who were drawn
up in the hall "for the purpose.. The
'gifts of those preceding the laird were
receleed gravely. but when he passed
the faces of- the sereants brightened,
up considerably.
"What did you give them, Robbie?"
asked his' friends, . '"they ,looked as
mar as vinegar till your turn came"
"'Bell a ba•iVhee' aid they get free
mei" answered the laird. "I just tick-
ed their palms.Tim.ely.
"Your doctor Prescribed a change of
climate for you. Aren't you going
abroad?"
"No: I'm just stopping in Toronto."
"Why?"
.Because the climate changes more
here than anywhere else."
sterilized Jars,
Voice is - Best 'froM 25 to 40
. ,
A .correspondent peke the Queatioa
Box Editor of Musical America, "blow
ong the life, of an average singing
eice?" and receives this reply:
liostess---"Yee, a lovely old clock '
Guest—"Ah, early American!'
An ,old 'carter In a Scottish village
hscl a rare fund of eloquence
dal" Jamb was, driving cart loaded
with sand tip a steep hill, when some v
mischievous boys, seeleg, thee: opper.1
tunity, knocked the, tail -board out of
the cart, and teen, taking a shortcut,
reached the top of the hill to hear I
what Jamie would say when he ar-
rived there, When the cart got to the t
,top, Jamie drew rein, filled his pipe, t
IL, is difficult to say OomPleto
acciiracy, nut about twenty Yee:rs,
veold be a fair average. A well -
,rained, carefullyamed voice should
bo at its nest betwoeis the ages , of
wenteelvo and forty-five. This varies
remendously ivith the individual and
curd then sauntered, round to see that f
everything was 'in order: When he
got to -the back, and' saw what had
taken place, his eyes passed frOln the
,empty cart to the expemeett childree.
"Run awe,' hame, laddies,e he said. t
"Run awn' home. Slum no, equ.al to the t
oceasion."
iso care that is taken`of the voice and
general health of 'LI ti
"John, I wish you'd bring me herae
lie of these tobloids," • "The kind you
alto with a' glass of water?" "Nei
he kind you take. , with a 'grain 'of
alt."
' A Geed Supply.
A boy was rumeng down a steep hill
with the perambulator in which a
baby`B`e\v'careful,' asleep.
"Be be careful:"
cried au/ old gentleman, "You unity
eurt the baby." .
"Oh, It's all right, sir,'' replied the
boy. "We've got another One at
Lome."
There wits a timid knock at the
door. "It yet please, kind lady," said
the beggar, "I've lost my right leg--"
"Well, it elan here!" retorted the
Weman of the hour,e, as she slammed
the'door,
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