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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1925-06-04, Page 6FACTS ABOUT TEA SERIES -:-No. ion o e Tea. as a beverage is 'used, in nearly every ,counrrY in the world. It is estimated over 200 billion cups are consumed •annum/1y. Australia leads in tea, drinking with an annual per Capita con.sumPtlon of about nine pounds, which means that every Aus- tralian consumes from six to eight cups of tea every day. The corisumption per capita • in England is ig lbs., and in Canada nearly. 5 lbs. In the United States it is less than 1 lb., but this is largely because Americans • have not been, able to get fine teas until comparatively recently. •'SALADA." is COT1. siclered one of the choicest blends on the market, 'an& is the largest sellihg tea either Unithd States or Canada. &hake joi lb ), 510IART MISSES' ENSEMBLE Green Ottoinan silk Is the teediutti in which the coat of this fimert Misses' • ensemble expresses itself. 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TintSf cision, the pack had formed hOrS4, LOVE EIViC OF 1111: adieitlY and swift th.-deadlY pre - SY NOPS IS ivith 'that fat whIch batl. been seek-. Phoe cordon langs froin which there It . • , a. was but One Oeuese of .4light--stl•alglit Pkrrot, t.hC tiv,pper, and Nepol,08e, ?nhg'. wAs 0nr a.0 by aile^a.d; , „ . his (iiii,khti,.imado. ;he rounda t Lair t e co d clawn-,-fi tiny anlphitl(ioapro' . . frapa to sae ,ichot anvincas hat ed fleri'd-6 'Over -left thii otid •Ololn; for he was. fearful of lifc,Taf- gait. 04,8 UMIC111MCIOVA f aCtON, -who was' datchniined to nutrry her, Baree, the wolf,tiog, 'aluhrffs eitttomi*ntied Otani." ,Nepecse ?wide pot o the dog, but Ptorrot occaslonalty struck thc aOe• • 7`.1.1 1 artalcsisititi hate 4ne,, he tail/ hate all men," he b;Splaihect. Tho /atla waa toolotAg into the futurcL,,,Idr Nepcose, CHAPTER XVII.—(Gont'd.) serelfi A Poern You Ought to Know. • To a Skylark. Shelley's ode addressed .a skylark 15 too long to quote M full; but here are Its, four concluding stattette. Tao skylark, of all tritish bindey is the poet's favorite. , . We look beforo and aftei., And pine' for what is not: ' Our sincerest latighter ,With some pale is Iran ht Our sweetest Bongo are those that tell of saddeee thought - Yet U we cauld scorn - Hate, an.d ,pride, anti fear; If we were things born - , Not to shed a tear, ' I knew not how thy Joy we ever should come near. - Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Better 'than all treasure That in books' are found, Thy skill to part. *ere, thou scome of tlae ground: NolY the tonic -filled days and cold, f taste nights of the Red Moon 'brought about the big change M Baree. It was Pierrot hnew that it would Oahe, and the first,night that Baree settled hack oh his hatinclieA. and howled up at the Red Moon, Pier - rob prepared Nepeese for it, "He Is a' wild dog,, Nepoess," he said to her. "He is half wolf, and the Call will come th 11115 strong. He will go Into the fOrests. '-He will clis- aPPear ab times, 13ut wo must not fatten ,him. He will come back. Ka, he will come haeltl" And he rubbed his hand e in the moon -glow until his lmucldes cracked. , The Call canto to Baree like a thief entering -slowly and cautiously Into forbidden ,place. Ile did• ea undeie stand at first. It made Min mervoto and uneaey., so aestlese that Nepeese frequently heard himewhine.eoftly in his sleep. He was waiting for some- thing, What era; it? Pierre knew, aed Smiled in hie anscrutable way. And then it come. It was a night, aaglorious night. filled with moon and state, under which the earth was whitening with a film Of frost, when they heard the first hunt -call of the' wolves.' Now and than during the summer there had *come the lone -wolf - howl, but this was the 'tonguing of the peek; and' as it floated through the vast silence and mystety of the night, a song of savagery, that had come with each Red Moon down through unending ages, Pterrot knew that at -last had cane that for which restlessness a youth and its desires, Baree had been waiting. •• • In an instant Bare.e has sensed it The snow grew deeper under their His muselea grew taut as pieces feet. In the °Peri spaces they waded they' went or., , stretched rope as he stood up in the through it to their knees, and it con - moonlight, facing the direction from timed to fall in a vast white cloud Which Ratted the mYsterY and thrill that descended' steadily out of the of the sound. They could heee oky. It was near midnight when it whining softly; and Pierrot, beading Stopps4. The elouds drifted away 1,,je, _ming •o hi:4 place in the the east. With her head .1 leiVer bf the orseslibe, en' that and writing for him AS he earne out ,h,„e of the sh,adows, his scent strong in hey 'ne Cun.""'" e'L"e" rf nog., i.00ef mah,,egun, the yotmg sudden clip. traig it ahead was the wolf, g1oton vvaters-ratr shirninering - Ear aL 1P4'.11h37 ore A10JL other, b' On'''`h/ Ye3:13"- 0a, .'qq0" 811:4 • 3.,0it will not iet.hi. your CAI'S. • All over the,,-13,Loadstlie ane false UPOroiltion prevails ant the',WaSie of cotton has always been enormbus,. At -the gr,catest bitthihg resell in; the I Atlantic 01ty US, there are 100000frquenUy (143,.,bolirttlieherst 1,int G01.1110 1177 ittotieel ttrIng 0110 half stud cotton 111 their ears to' pre - Vont Water tram entering. ' Ono pound of cotton worth .forty enerpelteitn.e, ttLaisr nacigte ugiflodr,ttnitghi\ti'Sa4dtlairpil:',1 8c vri ti sail 01 le attf. ffi4Ve •-• 50t110 :0d et lagr ten °ePaocilll' 1 deiroO was nitiCh the staa;ller of the two; her pereons body Was es , long; but, she w -t18 tAim: thousand.° mer; she :Stood, dfx SIsmier legs that rattY aadari'da alaat aPart 11'4''' P°1;1'ts' "1:" , cotton wero ,ahnost like the legs of ,a lox of -4 4al tretuend°uS elf°510 1'9 °sear v'r 1 a °"eicl(a*able oim and ote. cufte hep hack r,hat oi deathl- Bares felt the eudaen thr Ent thee is „tor only one -day and at Unes almoet equal t, ttit,eigvi,,iirio(f. swift- .0,,fitthlietsh%.111,°111:1,1,181nalltdhalltelle"yirrgeilaraitallettof haullglye lo)ahtohiQnfg it'lGseornit:1,ny th°u8ands ot the horseelme one of the leading The it ath ,is that water can not pos- When the Sun rose, half an hour later, it found 0110011 still in tlie small wb,lveq made a lunge for tile Young sIbly enter the ear froni. the outside., ' theid , a bAUll's l'ana.--atr4ng* 50 was, a alna,ialtikal?,', Hers are avtight and watertight and deep fringe of ferest under t ens, and second 'w°1"arted ' beyond that 4 wide, timbered' pleati ' when water starts, into thp ear It is like water trying to get through the which looked like s gliatly shroud M ii8 'mantle of frost, smaLf end of a thimble., The ear drum Maheegen, to, hal sought the hunt- stops the oar up tight. pack, and like .Raree had -failed to It is a very 00111111011 sight to see one also missed. • There was no time for °there to take their plade. From the basken end,of the -horseehoe -Bane heard the cart- -bou's heatrY, lunge into water. When Baree joine the pack, a madderfed, catoh it. alley' wete tired, a little. mouth' -frothing,, anarlige horde,' Na- disetetitaged for the time. end .hungry pamoos the yoling bull, was well out —but atill alive 'With the fine thrill °f in the 'river and owienning steadily for the opposite Chore. The restless movenicnts of the waters ceased now. A new and won- dering inMtesit held thent rigid. Fangs clohed sharply, A littio in the open Baree dew Malmegun, with a big gray wolf standing near her. He went M her again, and this time E411e. remained with flatteerd ears imill he was (miff- ing her sleek. thea, with a 'vicious snarl, she ortapped at him. Her teeth eank deep in the soft flesh of his anticipation, and' restlessly sensitive to the TuOW and mysterious conscious- ness of 'companionship. To the flesh -eating wild things of the forests, clavvecl and winged, the Big $now was the beginning of the WinMr carnival of slaughter and feasting, of wild adventore in the long nights, ofoanerelless warfare on the frozen trallo. • The days of ereeding, of motherhood—the peace of spring and summer—were 'over e out of the sky cone the wakening of the Nerthe. shoulder, and at the 'unexpectedness lend, the caa of tal, flesh -eating erea- end pain of her attack, he let out a tures to the long hunt, and ie the first yeir thrill of it living things were moving .. The 4ext instant the big gray wo t was at idrn. but little this night, and that watch - Again caught unexpectedly, Berea fully and with suspicion. Youth made it all new to Bare°. and meheegati; went down with the wolf's fangs at his throat.' But in him was the blood their blood ran swiftly; their feet fell of laazen, the fleah and bone and sinew softly; etheir ,eara were atmied to catch the slightest sounds. ef Kazan, and for the first time in his In this . first 9f the Big, Snow the7 life he -fought as Kazan fought on felt the exciting pulse gf life. that Mrrible day at the top of . the It lured them -on. It irtviMadneehwem—Me. adventure into the weite mystery of Sun Rock. , .... That fight, if it had been 'lair, the silent storm; and inspired by that „ward have bane a victory for Baree, even in his youth -and. laexperienee. In_fairness the pack should have wait- ed; it was 4 law of -the pack to Wait —until one was done for. But Baree was black; he was a stranger, an in- terloper, a creature woboin they notic- ed now in tt moment when their blood was lot with the edge' and diseppoint- ment of killers' who hed missed their prey. A. second wolf eprapg in, strik- ing Berea treacherouslY, from the flank; and while he was in the seat?, upon a weaderful world. - first foe, the peck was . on him en hmisassjea.ws crushing the foreleg .c.if his An helm after they entered the Such an attack me the -young earl - plain there came suddenly out mf the boil bull would have meant death in West the ainguing of the Wolf -Pack -It` len than. a minute. Eveiy fang would was not far distant, probably notanore , have found its hold. Baree, by the than a mile 'eking the foot of the ridge, 1 fortunate circumstance that he was and the sharp, quick yapping that fol -i i tinder his first tWo assailants arid pro. lowed the first outburst was evidence Mated by their bodies, was saved from that the long -fanged hunters had put being tern inatantle y Oto pieces. He up ,sudden. game, A caribou or young 6 knew that he Was fighting for his life. moose, and were close at its heels. Over -him theehorde of beltste rolled At the voiee of he own people Ma") and twisted and snarled; he felt the hes un laid her ears close to her head' burning pain et teeth sinking Into his and -was ar like an arrow from a bow.. fleah; he was smothered; a hundred The tmexpeetedness of her move- knives seented cuttleg him Into'eleoesi ment ands -the 'swiftness hO her fliaht ' yet no. sound—not a whimper or a cry put Bane well behind her in the race , __came from hen now in the horror over the„ plain: She was running and lumelassness of- it all. blindly, favored by luck. For an inter -1 1 It would heed ended in another half - tad of perhaps five) minutes the pack minute had the struggle not been at mweardee silo() nseoeurnatp antliedirthgeameheasethastwtulinei mined by the erosion a the spring the very edge of ths bank. Under - full into the face of Maheegun an floods -a section of this bank suddenly Barge. The latter' was not half a dozen lengths behina the young wolf gave way, and with it went Baree and alf the pack. In a flash Baree when a crashing in the brush airectly thought of the yrater and the escaping ahead stopped them so sharP1V that - caribou. Fa a bare inetent the cave - braced forefeet - and squat haunches. in that space he gave they tote up the RAM vet% their in had set him free of the pack, and a single leap Ten seconds latex' a caribou burst eve, the gray backs of hie enemies through and flashed across an open into the eep water of the stream. net more than twenty yea& from Close behind him half a dozen jaws where thee stood. They could hear its snapped seat at Srapty sir. As it swift panting as it disappeared. And hatletaved the caribou, so this strip of then eame the Pada watet shinunming hi the glow of the At sight of those sttrifUy 'Moving moon and stars had sayed Berea gray bodies Baree's heart leaped fot Taa stream was not More than a an instant•into his throat. Ile forgot hundred eeet in width, but it cost .lefahsegun, and that she had run away Baree close to a losing struggle to get from him. The moon and the stars across it. Thalia he dragged himself went out of existence for him. He no out on the opposite shore, the extent loiager sawed the chill of the snow of his itijuries WAS not anpressed upon under his feet. He was wolf—all him fully. One hind leg', for the thee, wolf': With the warm scent of the was useless; his forward left shoulder caribou in his nostrils, end the pas- was laid open te :the bone; his' head sion to kill sweeping through him like and body were -Men and cut; eat he fire, lie darted after the emelt. . dragged aimeelf slowly away from the It was as if Da.ree had belonged to stream, the trail he left in the enow the pack always. He had joined it105s a ved path of blood. It tricklea naturally, as othee stray wolves had ftonehio panting Jaws, between which joinedattfroin out of the bush; there hills 'longue was bleeding; it ran down and flanks and belly, and -it had been no ostentation, no welcome - le egs _ h. , h. etich as Malmegun had given hint in dripped from, Is ears, one of w ich the open, and P.0 hostility. He belong- was slit elea1,1 0P-''etCveie.ohnee,nacs though eded with these slim, favifafooted out- cut With a mu: • Hiswnicetsle otvetIved laws of the old fdreste, and his owe dazeteifhhis pent tion of things clou - veil) cira - 1 • his ' happed and his blood ran hot etl'as Y a , laas7sthse smell of the' caeibou grew, eyes. heavier, end the sound of its crashing! (To be continued.) r down so that he caught the light of from under the stars and the anoon, the night properly, could see hirn end for bong. an,. Bate, end Me - trembling. ' . heegun stood 'without Moving, looking "It is Mee-Koo I" he said in A wins- down from the bald orest of a ridge per M Nepeese, • That was it, the &II- of the blood that was running swift in Beree's veins ---not alone the tall of his- spe- cies, but the call ot Kazeit and Gray Wolf and o1hisforebears for /genera- tions innennbered. It was the woke of his people. Se, Pierrot had whis- pered, and he was riglit. the gol- den night the Willow wee waiting, for 10- vas she who had gambled most, and it was ehe who must loge or win. She uttered no bouna, replied riot to the low voice of Pzerrot, hut held her breath and watched Baree as he slow- ly faded away, step by, step, M the shadows. In a few moments more he Was gone. It was then that she stood straight, and Rung back her head, with ors that glowed in rivalry with the "Banal" she ealled. "Bares! Mame! Bareel" - He must halal been neat. the: edge of the forest, fot she hadadrawn a slew, waiting breath, or two before he was back itto her side, But he had cotne, straight as an arrow, 'and he whined up into her face. Nepeese put her haidO to his head. "You are tight, WWI pere," she said. "He will go to the wolves, but he will eonee back. He will ilever leave me far long." With one hand still on Baree's head, she pointed' wieh the other into the pit -like blacknese of the •aerest. "Go M Mein, Banes fate whispered, "But you rnust come bask. You must. Chearnao I" • Teach ma half the gladness That thy brain must know, • Such il.Ar111011101113 .ntadziesa , Front my Alpe would flew . The. world shpuld listen thon---as lam lista:tier now. Secrets of the Earth's Core. With all our kuowledge of the Min moon, planets, and eters; we are still totally ig-noraht, except by Inferenotio weitth arneunt to little, more then guesses, oO the state a composition of the alleles interior. The deepest coal -mine ever sunk is to the Maas Of the globe, much lees than the akin of an apple in relation Mahe apple itself. Neaertheless, it is heed Id (mama the conclusion that the eertest core. niust be mall hotter then anything ever he,atea artilicially by man, although eery higa temperatures have been produced under Pressure. , Evea if we take it that, according to the experience of mine -sinking, the 4eat increases one degree for every hutidred feet bored, the -teinperature a the earth's' centre would reach 211,- 2-00 degrees Paerenhela We can form some ides. of -what this mean o when we remember that the boiling point ot water at isealetiel is no more Matt 212. degrees pehreeheit so that the earaga mare woad be al moat exactly a thousand time* hotter than the water with which: Yeru -make agile tea. Museurn•Ceinetery PaSsing. Up at the head of the At:trial° Sea and four hours by boat Own Vanke 15 the quaintest war tarnetery in Europe. Atethe closeSof 'tete 'war, the battling erme around • Trictrac buried.. their Italian dead on ea enamour:is •round hill, Redepiglia, Willing -hands gath- ered- up all the ecilles. of the battlefield a.hd island them reverently over the graves ot the boya. who half 000ne. - The Whole hal la one enornioue mu- seum of the -war, contaluing as it does eyery form of ehell end. weapon, any- thing and everything used arouud Trieste by the warriors, 'Phis cemetery has drawn hardes of sightseers lol•Trieste,from !which. the cemetery is reached by a- short drive or ea aour by one o_f the small steam - ere. ' But Just now Olie people of Trieste awe beguh to worry. because they realize for the first time that rain mad heat will soon ritet-eway mast oe thembjects used Me ,matitinents. Many of the metal` 'race laave been painted and repainted, but experts say this method will net 'keep them for a very tong periods although it Is pos- sible tbat the legal -fine eye, seohefeinge may, tvith limper 'care, lase for can - tinted. Tolle thousands of made di barbed wital are alefiade beginning to go tatioegh. oration and It Is -feared that many of the etuallee metal' relics will ' aeon .pass away. Things That Count. Not witat we have, out what WO use, Not what tve Bee, but•tvhat we ehoose— Therm are the Misers thet nter oe bleee The sum of human happiness. The things near by, not things, afar, Net what we seem, but iyhat'Wh'are— These er'd the things that ihake on break, . That give the heart ito joy or ache. .Not what seems fair, bat what is. true, Not what we dream, but what we do- Ths5e are the things. that Shille 11110 Like stare in fortune's diadems, Not as we take, bat, as wo give, Not as we pray, but as, wc live— These are the things that mako -for Both now and after time shall COEIS•0. • CHAPTER XVIII. • No longer, as- in the days of old, did the darkness of the forests hold a fear for Baree. This night his hunt -ay had risen to the Out end the moon, and in ehat cry he had, for the arst time, sent forth his ,defiance of night end space, his warning to all the wild, end his acceptance of the Brotherhood. , • I -le ran straight into- the darkness to the north and west, slinking low under the hushes, his tail drooping, his ears asiant—the wolf. as the Wolf runs on the night trail. Tao pack had swung due north, and was travelling faster than he, so that at the end of half an hour ha could no longer hear it. But the lone ,wolf -howl to the west was nearer, and throe times Baree gave answer to it. ' At the end of an hout bo herd the peek again owinging southward. Pier - rot • *duke easily h'avo underetood. Their quarry had foiled safety be- yond waMe, or in e lake, and the muheauns were ott a flash trail, By this time not more then a quarter of a mile of the forest separated Hume from the lone • wolf, but the lobe wolf was also an old wolf, and with the directness and preelsion of long ex p0004000, he svvervecl 0 the direction of the, hunters, compassing his trail so that he was heading for a point half or three-quarters of a mile in advance of the pack. TMs was a trick of the l3rotherhooci Which Baree had yet to learn; and the result of his ignerance, and lack of wap thet twice within the next half-hour he found himself near to the pack without being able to join it. Then came a long and final silence. The pack had pulled down its kill, and in their feasting they mado no soUnd. Dame had. not forgotten Nepeese. A dozen times he turned his head' bad: end whit:led, and always he pick- ed out accurately the direction in which the'cabin lay, But he did not turn balt. As the eight lengthened, his search for. that mysterious some- thing which he had not found contin- ued. His hunger, oven With the .facl- ing,out, of the moon and the coming of the gray dawn, was net sufficiently keen to make him hunt for food. It wes_cold, and it seemed colder when the glow of the moon and stars died out, Under, his padded Ceet, especially in the open tpaces, was a thick white frost in which he left clearly at LirrWs the imprint of his I toss and claws. Ile had travelled steadily for hours, a gree L many miles, in all, and he was tired when the. dolt lig,ht Lin day came. At 1 tu, 10 hnd, coms--tha msetino.' body nearer. i —4----4....-_--. . It seemed to him they were alinestl sav;,/ movies le the Ale • a stretch of barren without at its Saab when they swept into an open plain,' • • at a high oeed 1,500 - feat et • Sitting M a -darkened ealoon, and a tree or a shrub, brilliant in the light , inciving of the stars and moon. Across its above the earth, a party of aeroplane' unbroken 'carpet of :new sped the' pas's-engem flying above Kent, -neg. daribou a spare hundred yards aheed: land, 'watched the fiest kinemrt ohotv in of the pack. Now the two leading the ,air. . hunters no longer followed directly , .....*.e. M the trail, but shat -out 'at an angle, ' Largest Motor ghip. .' one to the eight and the other to the • left of the petaled, and like well, The worlde largest raptor ship was trained soldiers the ,pack split in recently launched in Enaland. Sahl to date hack., to the 1.fith oeutory, this, frame sl 1 alIors at ,Sillery, Qaebee, is desdribed 15 Me "oldest house in 05:110.1l5," Acquired by the 1)o- niou Historical Society, it will be'asod fol. exhibition, purposes. bathers •woriting tho 'palms of their hands over theirear to worlt out water that is not there. But new and then the bather, feels water give way to the exertions, and .thinke he has at last gotten the water' out As a matter of fact he has gotten the water., out but the 'water WU In- side his ear and reached there by go- in'g through ,the nose and into, what is known as the eustaelan tube, a„little drain ,pibe which leads from thease 'When water is snuffed up the nose with the energy' used in trying to event it goes straight up that Hate tube un- til stopsoa She inside of the ear erum, fooling the bather into the belief that, water has entered from the dua pale. If the -Water otaye in the ear it. le Very likely to castee inflammation end result In deaf/seas. TIM beet. way to get water out of the inside ear iathie. Open your mouth wide,close one nostril by putting your anger againta it, then blow your nose, the sIde of the rtose on this tied° side as the affected ear. This method will create a vacutun in the eustacian tube and tbe water will come out through the nose. Be sure to keep your mouth open, otherwise You will siniply force the water harder against the ear drum. When you ate bathing try elwaya to keep your mouth open' and if -you, do that water c.aa not enter the' nose with suflicient fore to go through the eue- taciae, tube. - Age No Handicap. r .6.-little•While ago the my, "Toe old at fortn!' sounded like the -knell of doom M the, ettra of aluese whosereee past their first eouth.. Now, howayer, age' 10 having its tevenge and the newspapees redently Nam. been full Of the activities of the "old folk." • ' Por instance, an Ira/mien of mootr• eight hat juet emigrated to IA United States, there to otart life a Oa again. That is pretty good going; but pales before the plane of ttoWeymalith, Eng- land, grandmother veto,. it ha been an- nounced„ inteeds to'swiiiethe Channel. Women have -been 'rather more ac- tive- then the mete. but Mr. Thoneiff .Harde, -who is• eigthYlour, recently ad- dreseed tee Dorcbester Debating and Dramatio 'Societe," and 4- man seven- teen years older wrote a letter to The Times." ' Age, of course,_ is ,not taivaats the handiottp We 'are* apt to anaglite it. Glitastone woe over levelity- at the time of the Midlotliiite taid was Prime MinIster ,of Beattie ween over eigety. • ' . ' ' We have Mgt, beck a few centuries howeyen, to find a parallel to the te- cent °flee of the Mexican woman. Who was seat to Jail at Loa Angeles at the age of 102. Then we 10)111 it In British history—Old .Parr was obliged to do Pennance for his sins, at the door of the parish church in Alberbury when he was,10,5" years old. Tile picture of another vetierable l3riton, veto looks lively enough des- pite hie years, hangs in the Royal' Hos, setae Sholsea.- The- original, a Chel- sea 1,4;16161er, married 0.'100, Rad Ino , portrait, painted.- when lie waft 110, shows him hendling a eword- in quite a businesslike way. ' An Original Hymn Tune. Mo ainnaing story of a quaint hap, Oenino in the Church at 'Arest End, near Southairipton, England, is told by Mrs. A. M. W. Stirling in her newly - Published tied most interesting took, "Lffe's Little Doty.", There uted to be an instrumental Choir, and the arches- tra consisted of three, or four old mee alio played, the felde, flute and double bass, They oleo Performed dance musie et evening parties ihi the via toga One Christams, time there chanced to 'be an uttusu,a1 number Of these festivities, arid 57 Sunday the MusicianWere en tired out that they all fell asleep clUring the serMon. At the end of his discourse,' the parso11 gave aut the hymn. Dead silence fol- lowed, He gave it out again, wheee- upon the leader of the orchestra awoke with a hortlfled. atart, audged hie fel- low muoielang, mid, still half Delete), all struck up "Sir Roger de Coveriey." Up jumped the Shire in his peW, turn- ed round, and wralitully • wavieg the luckless musicians to silence, ex- claimed: "For this insult to trie, to myfamily'and Almighty God, you shall no longer play in this Church, I wlfl give an organ," And ho did. • Sonic DIfferonc, TypograRbioal errors aro one of the chief banes of a newsPaper man's existence, states tin,h2Fo1ange. 111 the ritsh ot daily newspaper making, tha "gro2fr are read haryledly or Some-, tithe; not at all and occaspully the result in the i3riiiTed P'redrict Is 61-1 tonishing. For instanee, the story is told oil an editor wbo'reeette, wrote a ' "pair for the belle of the ball, saying: I "Her dainty feet were 'ipeasod in shoos, that might have been taken for fairy boots," bat the 01011 daring compositor made it rsad--"Her dirty foot WCTO 110135 elin shoes that might have been taken tsr felrY boats." ' a naS At last—a way to wash dishes that won't chap hands. Juse uso Lux in your dishpan instead of hatsh, drying kitchen soap. Lux contains no free alkali, nothing to roughen or reddeu your hands. It 'is as easy on them as fine toilet soap. ICe'els the big new package on your kitchethelf. LYse it for the dishes always, Uver Brothers Litniced, Toronfo,- •5-521 The Next Thing. He has not loarn,ed -' to live neight who cermet turn 'from a dead and beried; irreyeceble incident to faoe the riext_erowded honr in the calender. It is not given us, to lift the veil 5.115 look into the far •future; All We Can do is to brace ourselves and meet with valor what comes next. We are 1080 fruitful in service to the raeo, Iee$ setisfaotory to ourselves; less efficient for the task that engagest mind and hand, if we eau over from what has happened- any sureival of unaveiling regret into what we are about to do. The only torn/ 00 penitenee that counts ie the renewed attempt of our fix•ea determination to tie better. - Prom the day- Of Lot's -svife or of Orpheus; people have lost, ' packets thinge 1)7 160king back instead or go- ing. On. -Few of us can afford the superb confideuee of Nurral, who now and then turns, rhis head to see how far behind alui a rival Is wearily chugging along. 'The best rule for the average mortal in Me's rape is to face forward and make tile best speed lie ean and not be auxione lest he be overtaken and passed. We must ;trees en te that. which le before. Many 'a Man: of ness'seems aggrieved because so mulch confronts bim that he does not knOW what- he- shall turn to .next. But, • PrivilY, he Mae be gra:tilled that Mete • is such abundant preoccupation,. It es a sign that he Is00value. The reason so ranch is letrusted to him a that ho has shown a rare ability to get things done. Affairs of moment are intrust. ed to the exceedingly buoy people, not the 'drones. Those' who eat idle, though prole to offer the plea that they aro too busy, aro not asked to do things because whatever is assigned to them. la fairly certain to be left undone or so tardily aecompliehed as to be futile. _ The strong man is not lietd baok a 'detaining band of yesteryear or of twenty minutes ago. Suilleient unto iteelf is the past happening. Radiata with prim/Ise is Me future, into which the current moment is for him an open door. but he -will not fix hie. eyes on a far horizen, and Bernal() on the' Mreshold under his feet. He will go step b7 step, in Antillean', unarraid, to meet whatever may come neatened tui he goes he will help entailer to be a good courage, (lime01 the impediraeata of the bygone and march on. - Where OidMcer. Rest hi Peace. 00 the entity intereeeiug sights In the City of Algiers, on the North Afri- can coast, ono of the moat strarieg is the great hordea a old Arabs eating - eareleosly around in coffee houses and the pretty parks. When tbe tourist step ir el the steamer and enters the totia the Met thing. that Detracts bit atteetioil is, of coarse, Me strange dreseie of the native women -and the' flowing manteligand heedgette of the more . • The second thing that attracts the attention, of the euriotis tourist it the fact that the whole Arabian city seems to be filled with old men, none under flay, and mane so Old that the creases In their faces are half an inch deep. These .oldemen never work, their . flays of labor. are ett an end. Just as soon ad en Algerian has raised Me Malty to the...pee:a Where that Maine ban tvork the old man le 'told to take a rept, lee children sylil eepport bine So Ile gees a few peokages .61 clear- . ettee, Some money for coffee, mid goes down town to spend the days le goalie argument, and eicatic Unlese serriething terrible happens the old man eever egaile takes up the burden -cif hard labor, but sits around and offere sago adviee• and the strange fact is that the children are actually, delighted that -they are ttble to keep the father. in luxury and. ease; while` inside the house the routine 'itt haido; led by the mother, while the daughters , either sit in the s.hade or go oht to goa, elp with the nelpaibors: , Holiday for swiss w.omeai In Switzerlenol, einployers of teem% who have household clutiese Mese et . . the request of a woman worker towi grant a half holiday Saturday after' 000115,011etliir%oth),.and• .fQfOo8a o) °°tlan'dhle' aeschanged:- hone& through the real estate market' in the last siX years. 1 NURSES Oho, Termite Ho‘pltol for Ineurntdoe, onlintlort wIti, Sollbroo nod ASIA NOY `i'ortr 0113 efiers 10'three ye5ra',',00uri6 et ,fr10lolo0 to yotosi worded, 11.05Irle OIII toquIrod oduontIon, 81111 dttlrous ot hodomlig 000t.50, 0111r Ihrgoltol 100 adootod the 0100),, both. iyatem. 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