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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1925-06-18, Page 6the Peals C eefelliee u, 11636 is revealed., The flatfor is pure, fr sh and fr grartt. Try it. 111c.ten, Mined .or Green 31114tnds. How to EXagaine 'YoUreelf., I If you would tost yourself on vari- ous ..imPortant lineS,' the teachers of Itansag City have sttewn the They have prepared series, ot 1O Points, 'with questions on each, by whimb. one maY Judge one's own fitnes, in regard to appearance, ability and, relationship to others. It is a penetrating lot of questions• : 1. Neatties—Are my habits of par - 101171 cleanliness the beat?, Do I dredle suitably? Do I keep my personal 4 - feels orderlY? 2, l3roadmindednera I ready to recognize worth .in °thaw? Have 1 res.pect for the opinions and beliefs (2: others? Have I the ability to eon-, sider both eidee ef ti question? • .3. Courteey—Do I try to manifest reatepit'it et, thougeffel, eindly help, feleesze Do I avoid praetices that mete eie conspicuouse 4. Dependability—Am I •ntinetual in meeting aa engagements and agree- ments? Am I trustworthy about meet , ing oblikations to the best of my) ability? , ,5. Loyalty—Have a, Sense of re- eponsibility for the welfare of fee beef - 0.0343 Wtal IF10-011 aneeennected? leo I make lay personal intetests second- ary to me business interests? Have I a real respeet tor my occupation.? 6. doiegeration--Have I an. ability aead willingness, to work with. otheee? Have a real desire _to be helpful in all situations"? ' '7. Leadership-41ex° I the ability to plan eng earry out projects of various sorts? !teave I the ability to Win tee tliegianee,and co-operation of ethers? 8. Honesty and. Sincerity—Have I the streegth to be honest under cal eie. eumstancesti Am I straightforleard • and uneffeotede - • • 3. Perseverance --Have I the ability to stay with a task until it is finished?. Have ra tenacite of 'eurpose, even a gainse great odds? . 10, SeleContrel—eleve I the ability to held the mastery of mysele uttder trying circuinstanees? Have I the ability to be pleasant and considerate, even though others are Unfair and he enable? The Blessing of' Delay. "0 elot,her, why didn't nett come home (sooner?" cried a yteing girl as the threw her arms round her mother's, tech and broke into a. storm of sobs, "I've bad suoh a tirael Nothing's gone right since you lett, The leandretia got , sick Ana Oat word she eouldn't come. Something went wrong with the elee. trio iron, and 1 coulantt use it Tee earn Items from the store with a bee • tooth wee _had to beewaited on. Oh, It's been terrible! I ',vented you to have your vacation, but—I—I—thmiglit you would surely corue sight lame When 1 sent for you, Didn't you get my telegram?" "Yes, dear, I got it,". W0.8 the mdet reply, "but I thetiglit I ought not to come at once. You know, Helen, you expect to bave it horde et your own mime day, and I felt that Xt syould be better ter you to haste the discipline of the problems you have had to Meet. SoneistImee le good tor us to have to vrait for the things. we want raise. 3 telt sure that, if I didn't tienis rigb.t home, 1011 wettkl fled 001110 Way to • meet yeur difeoulties," 14 there not a lesson here for all ot ne? As we ea upon the 'way of ilfe we Ana otteselves isomer or la,tet teas to faee with problems? that aeon too in- triattei ter Xiamen sehition. We ory eaelsestly be God awl perhage are hurt thet He does tot come at ones to our assistance. Did He not say, "Ask ad it shall be ,given you?" Wey (lees He not confirm, Ms wore? We should remember that God's love may be seown delay as Well as proMpt selector. The pareat Who loves ins eited doss- not alWaYe re- SPond at once to ite call for help, kin knows that delay may prove a blessed thieg for las child. When the sistere af Lazarus sentsto Jesus and informed hen that bit triettd was sick we read, • "lee abode two days still in the sumo plaoe where he WAS." What days ot anxiety for those Asters! Rat when et last Thane came, did their faith not behold more tvandettui things/ Ile who has learned to wait in faitia the Father's own time 'will never have cause to eoniplain that be bee waited in vein. ' S utwod A LOVE EPIC OF TIC FAR ;WM s to the snirlt of her mother that he WIflew called in.the Imur of death'''. With the call. on .her lips she 'plunged,. , . , , , , I to .the . abyeS,' her' win d-whiPPedlair. ,',11, ' ' ' Turner GlilVianc ,, .ta linging.to be- in a"gli 1 -11 1 • 'you-fife.'head CHAPTER XXeOhl il. r•by. "Leta 'Preuty lonn ac - ' Paetdr' 'roin caniinacit;xicu " "IgiOoto seems A. moment' dater the , Lac Bain 'stood at the edge of.: the "to onjoy loteline thitiee and doing • SYNOPSIS. , hene2 dowit, otide '' hind. -le'...dra, chnsm. His voice had 'called out in a i'thunk.yea` jOhth, IN.p.t18 it 1.1tOte bletlg- . . „,... . , , of tia‘bell° e o give than to receive, 1 ed,Pliuse., z, resPcmso to a reque3i, f rcon, tilo- . (teem. hearse belieW---a wild Cry Taggart, the factor, Putgrot, the'tttep- How .long Noneese lay there, how and horror' that had fer,Ted the Wil- / like 1.,cm: EverYouo who knows him peV, left his cAhin and q,uent to -the long she waited ,fGr, Pierrot to move, low's name AS the disappeared. FTel does., .,sometimee, th.o.ush, 3 think it,8 a few dugs. But ItidTaggat't did l.ot "Ver 11110}Y, In that time MoTaggart hands and staring in i;initly susPenSe a Pity that Pall' 011: tern''''' heaYt didn't pont to help in the gev.crat 'store for to (Tsai his eyes,,tobreathe, she woUld looked down, clutching' his huge red I, go on a buziness trip as he had said, rose tO his feet- and stood ,leaning at the boiling water and black recite i grow to head. Diewife- has to, bend but to Pisrret!,s babin, 24)10e1e he found against *the wall, tho pistol in his far below, ' There WP.,1,i nothing there 'r 0Yer 11101'tva"chlicarol. and pinch 'and Nopeese, the , trapper's daughter, hand, his brain clearing itself as he hoW—no sign of her, no last"flash of I skimp and save aid do without things clone. Baree, the leelf-dog, .jzonpecl saw his final triunI *hi His work ' 11+111 pale f ice and streaniin hair in) becausti,Lern is too goodhearted io re, up to attaok ' the Pkii,09', 'but 'wittl,`a not t'ightell: him. ' .' yen in that' tra- 'the -white fem.', And she ad done kte'cash checks ,for,Stranders: an hot front 211dTa9gart's autoniatio the gic TACTnent as he stood against the "that -4.o 'save herself from bind , . ....,„ I lend money' to his friends, Other' vvo- dog f ell iiie a heap.. Then the tactor wall, his defencez--if it ever canon to 1 . The soul .of , the man -beast tuned 1 men who,zo uee, an , o ds draw the same ggthered .Nepeese 'in -Ma arms +/while 4 delenee—framed itsel in his mind. siolcivithin him, so sick' that he stag- - el t L :`,(1 ' 'tl '- i t,' ern, oes have , lei,. 0 OC 11C uhe 'struggled desper'atc4. Pierrot had -murderously assaulted gered back, hie vision blinded and his , PaY, v." bad known ...Ile shock -1 m,ai.xied the first fellow that canto In his aims mite she wae faeing hirn. P , • SI ' tild rio longer see. . She was before that ef tills girl? His brain crueitY that ' ' lea ed with the old. exeltatkn. It nothing lilte this 'that overwhelmed I along, just to get aWs.y tram the pinch dee him Ile bl& washers and othor household convent- ` him—without cause, In self-defence legs fettering un . cHAp'TE-E, XX,—(eont'd.)• he had killed him. he not the killed Pierrot, and it had been a tri -1, ences. 'd t theemelt. all his life he had played the 1 "You remember Lem's daughter, And Nepeoie fought. e'lle twisted cern Factor rlloYf ainadeth33enlanw? boddlvhe kb word part Of the brute with a stoicism and Bugle'? Pretty girl she trith ; bat she him now, numbin to the marrow of poverty that had gripped her all her face and breast and body, euffocateng twould neVer come to tbet,-to a be- ' trayal of this strugee and death in smothered in her hair. It covered lier . otruggle the cabin—after he had finished with eer, entangling lea, hand and arms— _ and still she fought. In the her! She would not in known for all McTaggart stumbled over the body of time as La Bete Noir. No, they would Baree, and they went down. Nepeese bury Pierrot, arid she would return to , was*peffelY_tflevele"celned: 'teeh:eaed'eoef ttehee LaieraBesasinbwefiothre,hen. If she had been door. But again it was her hair. Sh she was ten times paused to fling back the thick Muses in°00 helPl'eBs now' Sh° wbuld "'ter tell of what happened in' the cebin, - He forgot the presence of death as of it so that she could Lae, and Mc 1 Taggart was at the door nhead el her. he looked ot her, bovved over her fa - He did not lock it again. but stood thee' so that het hair covered him like facing her. HM f dee was scratched a silken shroud. Ile replaced the pis - and bleeding. , He was go lor,ger a tol in its holster and, drew a deep man but a devil. Nepoeso was erokee, breath into eiclungs. He WAS Still pantieg—a low sobbing came with her a little nS uteady on his feet, but his breath. She bent down and picked up face was again the face of ,a devil, ja piece of firewood. IVIeTaggart could He took a step, and it was then there see that her strength -was almost gone. calne a eound' to rouse the girt, in She clutched the etiek as he ap- tin shstarduogwg_oee the farther wall Berea had lost all thought 'of fear or eau- 01010 he growled. i a to his hatinches, and preached her again. 13ut liecTeggart h time He sprang upon her like an ani- Slowly Nepeesa lifted her head. A mai, The stick of firewood fell. And tower which she could not resist dreW again fate played against the girl. In er eyes up mail she•wttslooldng into her terrer and hopelessness she had the face of Bush McTaggart.' She caught up the first stick her hand had had ale -Lost bit consciousnees of his esence; eouched—a lighe one. With her last her senses were cold and strength she struck at Mr cTaggart adened—it was as if her own' heart with it, and as it fell melee head, he .stopped beating along with Pier- hr:tcls etaggamd back Ba it did not make of his bones unt 1 he atood 1100 paralyzed. Ile did not see Baree. the edge Of the C re,' a few did not hear the dowhining cries at moments the worldturned black for him' and. then, dragging himself out of his stupor, he ran frantically along the edge of the goKge, looking down wherever his eyes could reach the water, striving for a, glimpse of her. At last it grew too deep. There was no hope. • She -was gone—and she had faced that to escape Weal He 'mumbled that fact over and over again, stupidly, thicklY, thOligh his brain could grasp ,noteing imyond it. She was dead:- And Pier - rot was dead. And he, ip a few mins utes, had accomplished it all. He turned back tovvard the cabin— not by. _the trail over -which he had a Ne eese but sttai ht through him loose his hold, What she saw in the Factor's lime Vainly she was fighting now, not d """'°'" her out of tee numbness of •ey 011 n,9 to strike him or to escape, but to get her breath. She tried to cry out again, but this time no aound came from between her gasping lips. Again he laughed, and as he laugh- ed; he heard the door open. 'Was it the wind? He turned, still holding her in his arms. In the open door stood Pierrot. young life. Worthlede s.ort of a fel- low he turned aut to be, About the only Money he ever had Was what he borrowed from Lem, and Susie' got Very little of that. Too bad Lem's vvife waSn't wise, enough to borrow his nioney,,every pay day before some one else beat her to it. 'There'esuch thing as being intern, perate in .generosaty the same as 14 anything else. Bob, though -I will ad- mit that it's a form. of dissipation in which. few people indulge. If Lem Preety had been -good to, himself and his family aa he is to every Torn, Diok and Harry that comes along, it hare been; better all around. Good-heartednese is all right in its place, but it ie intended only so a sort a "tor luotionhtnh, tu ni 6",pPolleouO und AMod 1;ohn1toin, Yonli,:01Pi offer' a throo you,' Conoco trohnlifo'• to, .YOuni/ 'hminu tho rnnotirod echloitlon, anq doorroon .91 hnoonCho nur,to, .'thle Hanntn! no, atlopted tho oloht. hour, nyttorn. Tho paphs..r000lva unmn tlora the flohooh. a =monthlY allowanho.and t%00 0011011101 Nov/ itnrit. 1101‘ further inform'ntinn .pply to than Suporintendont, oo,o,o,,0000000000000, Seietiors Speiled Seven Ways.' Marit. Twain was, ' nattitul4unn speller," bet riot so his wife and his sistO'r,in-la'w; they, poor creatures, had their own trouhlea, with writted wordd. On spelling, and the difficulties it got the two women into Mark has this to • f511,Y in his autobfetranhy: The ability to spoil is a natural gift. The'person not born with it camneyet become perfect in it. I was always able to spell correctly. My wife and hw'sister, Mrs. Crane, were always bad spellers,. Once when Clara was a little chap her mother was away Prom borne for a few daYg, and cl,ara vv rote her a small letter every day. When her mother ;returned she praised Clara's getters. Teen she said, "But hi one of them, Clara, yen ,spelle,d a'word the thick busk Greet flakes of snow, ot trimming for a mans character. had begun to fall. He looked' at the isn't sultehle for the totthdatioe." sky, where banks of dark clouds were • rolling up from the south and easte The eun went out. Soon there would!,_ • be a storm—a heavy snowstorm. The An hisk Salmon- „ big flakes falling on his naked hands 1 What a fly fleheienari eatchee on lee and face set his Mind to week. It was back cast is often as interesting as any cover everything --the fresh trails,' 1-17 ex be could .eeke. feem_ fee water. lucky for hime this storm, It would i „eel. e he would dig for Pier- 701 some Unice. writes; Maj. W. Long in Irish Sport of Yeetereate I had watched; Charles coding out line rhea X was startled by Robert's, say- ing in a lew voice, "The next east, and he's in her.” On looking at him I sate -teat his eyes wore directed, not at the lkol, but ba- bied Charles' at a small black m00311 - thin eow standing "neacetully *hewing the cue.. Charleas next east was ;so near the tew that Robert gospel& I miseed, arid we waitee intently for his next Mad wore again disappointed. The fol- lowing ease, liowever, Charles, let the top of his •rod back just a little far- ther, the line refused to cenie forware, the real started to ecreare, and Robert, jumping up, ,exciteclig Yellee out: . "Sure, yer stuck fast in Mom Regime's auld cowl" ,, -The old cow started to run, and Charles, who was not fond of 83)00(1- lbg on fishing tackle, and who hated more than anything else to ham a good fly, gave, therm as best he oould, followed by jeck with the land-ing imt and the gaff. And a great sight they made. First the old cow, bellowing in any other country, reparts Sir lebilip• -with pain and rage and carrying hen Gibbs ia Adventures In Journalism. tail high over her back; then Charles 0 least he ivritee, they happened to with, an agOnized expreseion, keeping the point of the rod watt up and fall- ing every ten yarcei; and lastly Jack, cantering along in hi. 016 pantaloons and waving the net end gag over his INTERESTING ENSEMBLE FOR THE JUNIOR "MISS. . Young fashionables select styles that reflect the grown-up mode, and the neW front flare is shown to advan- tage in this straight frock of figured flat crepe, havitig collar, cuffs and godets of plain color crepe for trim- ming. The sketch sheers edges of collate and slashes for godets bound with material of the same color as the simple ceat--just the right length —Whic1i completes this version of the ensemble. • The coat, No, 1081, With folding or roll coaveetible ogler, is ctit lit sizes 8 8, 10, 12 anti 14 years. Size 10 years requires 8% yards of Winch materiel, or 2% yards of 54- itsth, with 2% yards for lifting. The dress, No. 1070, is mit in sizes 8, 10, 12 and 14 years, and requires yds. of 864nch Material for the 10 -year size. Price 20 etuts. CHAPTER XXI. et"' During that •teri•ible space which followed an eternity a time rolled slowly through the little cabin on the A Pair of Queer Kings. • Among the gossipy reminiseencee 02 Maj. Gen. Sir Francis Howard, whose •tether was once Britise minister et Munich, axe seine etrauge tales ot tb,e various "queer" kings et Bavaeia, .Their queernerfs ranged all the way 270111 111070 oddity to 'Outright insanity. The mad King Ludwig, he writes, passed most 02 11181 time at Hoheneelg yreagau, one Of hie nunierous pekoes on the mountains, driving about et a furlong pace -by night only and iu the wetter seated in a sleigh lit by elec. trieite. ats companiene were mostly stablemen e no sorvants waited on lam at meals; the table came through a trap door in the floor ansl disappeared ht the i5aMe maener when. done whh. After he ha& been °facially deposed because of his madness he Was pat un- der the charge et a 'brain epecialist, an old man naniad Mitten. They Were alWays attended by two gendarmes, but one day the king perthadett Gutten to difspease with them, When he and Gutten were talking amicable on a bench ()lose to the Lake et Staremberg the king, who was a goodeswiraraer, seedenly jumped up an(1 rushed into the water, Gutten, who thoueht he 1050 tritns to coMmit intiOlde, ran a2. ter him. So far asethe incident could be deconettuotee in the absence of any witness they (sweet- to have aiesed with each other. Gutten had not mime of a thence; the king BeiSed him by the throat, strangled him and held him under the water until life Was extinct, Then be started to swim round the Doiet, where according to rumor the empreas of Austria hadient a carriage to wait for him and drive him civet the tenitier, but the icy water brought on cramp, and he was drew -zed. • Another -King of Bavaria, tlie sen ot Preto° Ludwig, Wore atraciously-fit- ting clothes. Ile eotad constantly be met etroiling unattended round the town with One Of his daughters. II° generally acknowledged a „greeting by etting his hat by the book of the brim enateati of by the front. By that means he kept tee eat lookbig quite lases? in front; unless you staree at him trona' behind you could not'observe the di- lapidated conditioe of it. • Grey 'Loon -A -tat eternity whieh eies somewhere between life and death and winch is sometimes meted out to a human life M seconds instead'of eone In those seconds Pierrot did ra move from where be stood in the door- way. eicTaggart, huddled over, -with the weight in his arms, and staring at Piorrot, did not move. -But the 'Wil- low's eyes were opening, • Ana a con- y -el -sive quiver eau through the hody of Baree, where he 11571 10151' the wall. There was not the sound of a breath. And then, in that silence, a great gasping sob came from Nepeesie. Then Pierrot stirred to life. Like IVIcTaggart, he had left his coat and Mittens outside. He spoke, and his 'oice was not like Pierrotat It was a strange voiee. "The great God has eet me back in time, melee," he said. "I, too, travelled by wey of theeast, end saw your trail where it tuxttect this way." No, that was not like Piervot's voice! ./I: elite ean through Mang - goat now, end slowly hes let 50 031 Ne- peese. She /oil to the floor, Slowle he streightened. The eyes of niacin= met the eyes of madman now. Between them Wa% death. Both saw it. Bete thouele that they 'saw the direction in winch its bony finger pointed. IRA were certath. • Mereggerta- nand did not go to the pistol in his, holster, and Pierrot did not touch the knife in las tale 'When they came together, le was throat-•twe beasts now, instene of ope, for Pierrot had in elm the fury and strength of the wole, the cat, and the panther. McTaggart- Vas the bigger end ieavier nian, a giant in strength; yet in the fate of Plena's fury he lurch- ed back over the table and went down with a crash. Many times in his life he had fought, but he had never felt O grip at his throat like the grip of Pierrota hands. They almost crush- ed; the life ftom hint at once. His fleck snapped—a little more, and it weirld have broken. He etreek out blindly from his back, anti twisted himself to throw off the weight of the halibreed's body. Bat Pierrot was fastened there, as Selcoosew the er- mine had faatened its1f at the jugular of the eaartridge, and Besh IleeTag- garb's jaws slowly swung ("Men, and hiS eaee began to turn from red to purple. Cold air reshing through the door, Pierrot's voice and :the sound of bat- tle roused ,Nepeese quickly to con- sciousness arid the povver to taise her- self /tom the floor, ethe bad fallen near Baree, and as she lifted het Imad, her eyes rested for a Mori -Lela on the dog,before they went to the fight- ing men. Baree was alive! His body was twitching; his e:ees were open; he made an effort to eaise his hea- d she was looking et hem Then she dragged herself to- her icnees and turned to the Men, and. ',lemma even in the blood -red fury of his clesim to kill, must have heard the sharp cry 02 301 that came from. Iver when she saw that it was the Factor from Lad Heel who was underneath. With a tremendous effoet She stag- gered to her feet, and Tor a fevr reo- mente .she steed swaying unsteedily as her brain and her'body readjusted themselves. Even.aS she looked down upon the blackening face from which Pierrot's fingets were .thoking the life, Buse MeTaggart's hand was groping blindly7 for his pistol. He foiled it. Unseen by Pierrot, he dragged it from its holster. It was one of the Neck devils of chance that favored hi111 again, for in 'his excitement he had not snapped the safety shut after shoottrig 33aree. Now be had only strength kit to pull the trigger. Twice his forefinger closed. Twice there came deadened explosions clime tte Pierrot's body. In. Pierrot's face Nepcese saw what bad happened. Her heart died in her breast as she looked upon the swiet ane terrible change wrought by sud- den death. Slowly Piet-ot straight- ened. ' His eyes were wide, for a mo- ment—wide and staring. He made no sound. She could not see his'llps ndive. • And than, he fell toward her, go that lirtcTaggart's body was free. Blindly and with an agony that gave 710 012(101 11" in eyy or Ward she flung her grief haelc to tbe abyss of her own peril. He Was etanding over Ilea In his I ace there was no pity, nettling of horror at what he had done—only an insane exultation as he looked— not at Pierrot's dead bodyt but at her. He put out a hand, and it rested on her head. She felt his thick fingers crumpling her hair, and his eyes blaz- ed like embers of fire behind watery films. She struggled to rise, bet with his hands at her hair he held her down. "Great God!" she breathed. She uttered no other words, no plea for mercy, no other sound but a dry, hopeless sob. In that moment neither of them 'ward or eaw Berea Twice in crossing the cebin his hind- quarters had sagged te the floor. Now be was close to MeTagagrt. He want- ed to give st single luego to the man - brute's back,and snap his thiek neck as he would have broken a caribou - bone. But he hadeno etrength, Ile was still partially paralyzed from his fore-seoulder back. But his jaws Were like iron, and they closed savagely on liecTe,ggeres With a yell of pain the Factor ea- limeed his hold on the Willow, and she staggeted to her feet, Fer a pre- cious half -minute she, was free, and as the Factor kicked and struck to looSe Betree's hold, she ran to the Cabin door arid out into the day. The cold air struck her face; it filled her lungs with new strength; and without thought of where hope Might lie she Tan theough the snow into the forest. 4141" " 111 " gal er ePery wear Actrehts,.. enetewroJe, the !thin ib cke:re for ffeetrteathli 11 .t1jt W t peruves toad ato the teeth. tp sZtoyit.„ l, theas, c *pia ,,cos21pts_acj_43 ''1444144iIfl 1 .101111r Pl" 8111411134e rot. It does not- bake such a man as the Factor long to reeover from a. moral concussion. By the time he came in sight of the cabin his mind was again at work on physical things—on the neeessitiesiof the sithation. The ape palling thing, after all, was not that both Pierrot and Nepeese were dead, but that his dream was shattered. 32 was not that Nepeese was dead, but that he had lost her. This was his vital disappointment. The other thing —his crime—it wee easy to cover. (To be continued.) Hearing by Han& To teach the totally -dee to hem through the palms ot their bands is the purees* of an instrument invented by Dr. Robert Gault. The instrument resembles• tele- phone rat:elver arta operates on a simi- lar prineiple to the telephone, except that, instead of carrying sound vibra- tions to the ear, it co.uses them • to eeaoh the hand or some other sensitive part of the body. et is necessary for the person using the- apparatus to recognize what speech soma's' caused the Particular vibra.tion he detects tlitough 0118 sense of touch.' With the -aid et tbe instru- ment Dr. Gault has succeeded in teach- ing live deet minions to identify fie teen seritences cottaining ninety one- eyileble words. IVIeTaggart appeoxed at the door just in time, to see her disappear. His leg WaS torn where Baree had fasten- ed his eangs, but he felt no pain as he rap in menet of the girl. She could not go far. An eetiltate cry, inhuman as the cry of a ieast, came m a grebe breath from his gaping mouth as he saw that she was staggering weakly as she fled. He was halfway to the edge of the forest -when Baree drag- ged himeelf over the threshold, His jaws were bleeding where MeTeggart had kicked him again and agate lie - fore his fangs gave way. Halfway between his ears was a seared spot, hs if -a red-hot poker had, been laid there for an instant. This was where IVIcTaggares bullet had gone. A quarter of an ineh deeper and it would have meant death. Aa it was, it rad been like the blow of a heavy club, paralysing his senses and sending him limp and unconscious against the wall. • He could move on Inc feet now with- out falling, and slowly he Sollowed in the tracks of the man and the girl: As she rose Nepeese's mind became all at once clear and reasonine. She turned into the narrow trail 0007 which McTaggart had followed her once before, but just before reaching the deaths, she swung sharply 10 the right. She emild sea McTaggaet" He was not running fast, bet Was pin- ing steadily, as if enjoying the sight of her helplessness, as he had eejoyed it another way that day. Two hun- dred yards below the deep pool into white she had • pethed the Factor -- just beyond tee shallows out of which he, had dragged himself te safety -- was the- begineing of Buie Feather's Gorge. Ail appalling thing was shap- ing asele in her mind arehe ran to it —a thing that with each gasping lateatie she drew became more and more a great and glotious hope. At last she reached it and looked down. And as sheelooked, there Whiseered up out of her soul and trembled on her lips the swan -song of her mother's people. Our Fathers—come! Conle from out of the valley. Guide us—for to -day we die, And the Nein& whisper of death! She raised her arms. Against the white wilderness beyond, the chasm she stood, tall and slim. Fifty yards behind her the Factor from Lac Bain seePPea suddenly in his tracks. • he mumbled. "Is she not wonderful 1" And behind MoTaggart, coming fast- er and fasthr, wee -Btu -ca. Again the Wilene looeed• down. She was -at the edge, for she -had no fear in this hour. Many times she had clung to Pierrot's hand as she looked over. Down there -no one could /all and live. Fifty feet below her the water tvhich never froze was smash- ing itself into froth aniong the rocks. It was deep and black and terrible, for betvsten the narrow rock walls the sun did not reach it. The roar of it filled the Willow's ears. She turned and faced MeTaggatt, Even then he did not guesa, but came to,,vard her again, his arrn8 stretched out ahead of him, Fifty yardsl It was not much, and short- ening swiftly. Once more tho Willow's lips moved, After all, it 11 i he mother soul that gives 00 faith to meet eternity—and wrong," • ,- Clara said with quite unconscious brutality,' "Whi, mama,' how did you' More, than a quarter.of a. century haa elapsed, and Mn3... Crane is under our roof here in IsTen.v.'York Cor,a.few days, Her head is white, now, but the is as ' pretty and winning' and sweet aa sho. was in teeee ancient times at her . Quarry Faren, *Were ahe ytae an idot„ and the rest of 118 10000 the akrelliper,s, Waived at the Altar. Nevei-vred—"Don't you believe that life, liberty and the pursuit of happle nese are inalienable rights of mon?" ed—"it depends on whether Her gift of .thaperfect orthogroaay re - maitre unimpaired. She writes a, great many letters. That waa always a Vase sloe. et here Yesterday the asked me liow to spell New Jersey, and I knew by her iook atter she got the informa- tem that she wee regretting the hadn't asked somebody years age. The miracles that the and lier 'sister, Mrs. Clemens, were able to peeforne without help of dictionary or spelling book are incredible. During the ,year of my engagement, 1869, while I was out oil the lecture platform the daily letter that came tor me geneially brought ree new from the front—by which exeression X refer to the interne- cinetwar that wee always 50105 .00. be a friendly way between these two or- thograelaste about the spasing Of -words. One a these words was eels - sox's. They never seented to consult O dictionary; they always wanted - 5030015.200 ar somebody that was mere reliable!' I3etwee11 them they had spelled ecissere Is; seven. different ways—a feat that I am awe no person new living, educated or uneducated, on mech. I remember only one or the instances, offered ---the six ()there Mote Deemed trent thy memory. That one was, "sieisiors." Lucky it Wasn't His Fee. Stranger Mingo happen to an Eng- lish lecturer in the United States than head, ' The cow made a bee line for henie, bue bane in too great ,a hurry, got badlyebegged half -way ih au Old drain end then -Started, to rose -in earnest. Charles' now co.refelly reeled ep his line wiitie a view to oetehing the coves Winne extricating las fly, bat at that point old Mre, Hughes- appeared and, uaturally thinkleg that Charles, alili • trying te kill her eeeeloue me. I shall never torget, 107 'nal:aisle, that la the middle of a speech to the City Club of New York, I Wag thrust into e taxicab, hurried off to the 44th Street theatre, reoeived with a tre. men.doue explosion (a flashlight pheto) In the dreileing 10011 .,of Al 3010011, the flume man, thrust into the middle of a, stage (Tecate and told to make a speech en behalf of wounded eeldiers while the audielia raffled for the originie ;copy of a teeter from Lloyd George to the Araerlcan nation, , Astordelied at my rapid- tranemigra- tion from; the City Club and by my presence on an unknotve .stage, very 51010, started to abuse the two at the hot, rather flustered; and pat knowing top of her 110106. -wleat to do with my hands, X kept Charges (lid hie best to end out from Seek *hat the woman wanted; but all Jack would mutter was: "And she to be so small wad to leave so long a ongue 011 0181'." In the eud the fly was retrieved, but it coat Charles MOTO than the peke of the fly to stop NM. the manes maneed or singes." I Hughes's "gong tongue. tereysing up a bit '01 eaper which ha been given to me at the wings, and by the time I had fittithed my three -mita etes? speech it WaS a 1)12 01 Neat, mushy pep, Whine I tett the stage, a white- -teeed man in the whige who had beau makbag_ Uzbek signs, to me informed me coldly that I had utterly deetroyed Lloyd George's letter to the American nation that had just been raffled for many hundreds, of dollars. Atter that 3. werit back te -finish my speech at the City Club! Cracking a Whip in Church, In sows English madras singular practices ere atill observed. For ex- ample says Dr. ar, C. Williamson in his 'book, Cerioue Survivals, at Castor in Liticoinehire, a most perculiar service was retained until the middle of the nineteenth century. Tthe owner, of the estate known. as Brigg held certain lands aubject to the performance on Palm Sunday of every year of the cerernouy of cracking a whip in the church.; while the elergy- man was reeding the first lesson the tenant- cracked the whip tree distinct times in the church porch and then folded it up. As thou as the second You Can't Stand There. Did you know that thete ie a ratme On the floor of every roem where You caunot stand? Teti that to a friend Lula when he laughs at you prove that you are right. Take your triend ever to the side of the room, turn him sidewise to the ,all, put his tete feet together and place the foot that is nearest the wall up egainse the wainseoing. So long ae Itis shoulder Is touching the wall he cannot stand. iPin medals on that follows coat, • Speaking of Courage. TIte boy, who never is afraid; Who meshs. at clahger, calm mid cool May' sometimes do a useful turn, Al other times be jest a fool; • Bet when a chap collies searp upon A, (teary' job thatmust be cloite, Done quick, although 1110 hands. are Aral both his Imeee distinctly (malty,— Hops fo and &Melt, all the same, and takes the palate and plays the What it las heart was in his throat? MY SIXTY YE ARS OF SONG By Madame Albani, the World -Famous Singer. I was born near Montreal on Nevem- the only •ilaughter et the Czar. We bet at. 862, and Whett I was eight yeeril vrere in a gallery facing tee ImPerial table in the Great White Hali of the Pekee. Tile scene was magnificent The mettle took place during the bare quet. Daze toast was preceded by a flourish of trumpete, without any TCP most before I could read voids, an geed to the singers,. Some 02 2310 so of ege could plea the harp as well as tthhaetptiiateneN annsdedsltnogel0asg -ItoPeelaTea,81:1'8.1leAlt- ences in the fine Ooneert hall at Mont- real, I could sing difilcult MIMIC al- could sing before -I Could speakwere marred anti the clatter of plates - Playing and singing, and reading difficut music at sight; caine te nie' as naturally as play and laughter and tears. When I Went 20 8011001 at the Convent ot the Sacred at Mont- tival at the Crystal Palace. ea real, the nuns were Amazed. y thought me it wonder -child. Knowing thittel was sa artietic they refrained from pressing me, but upon great oc- casions I sang for the glory of mY schOof and ter loye of my teachers. At a Royal Wedding. To -day I eeniember the songs I esed Lo sing and thing them still the best. 'elle- new sones are eievee but net Melodioes. in the old days we eang the sante songs ever and over again, World, to audiences of millions, by became audiences elameured for theill. -means of wir.eless. How I should have fine kniVes, and forks did not help the harmony*. It is nearly fifty years since I made 1317 firet appearance at the Handel Fes - [8571 eel ;Jot be beard in so and executants tu band and. ehorne, but I was told atteriverds that the softest notes in "Angels, Ever Bright and Fair" had been heard distinctly by an eedience ot twenty:one thous - That, of course, was a wonderful audience in those days. To -day great 4 tb s.ngere• are privileged to sing .0 e vast an auditorium, with three thoua Steles like "The Lest Rose of ,Sura - mer," Annie Laurie," and "Within a Dille of Eel-neer& Toon," Man), times I sang these songs in private for my -deer friend of Inane years, Queen Victoria, eornetheee when the coiled not rectal the name of a song. or air she week hum it over to recite it tO lily memory. I possess g loved to brotiecas-t, to sing to an re visible audietmer I must tee you one story 50100.2 Bal- , , moral, whor ere f -years I Ong at least twice every seecion. I sat tfown.t4 the piatio to egoompienyenyself, 'weal) one ce the 'lees 'of 'tee ,etgoa 1)10130 (11141 3. , relied epee -the geouee 9.t the Queen's rect. She ,was (goateed at first, but amonmY troasums, seVeral memen- • perieflCO le (Spare heel taught me toes b't our friendelthe and -in my bed- how to Sall witheet risk of injury. 1200111 there are, halea-601011 peoto- When the Queen Saw -me pick myself graphs of the Otio,en whicit she gave up ,Sale laughed heartily. to ine with her evtil hands. She lave the =Sic of Mendesseohntie and Lablacho had been her Intlfiie incieters In the early years of her imam? mar- rietI 1t2 - I sang, with others., in 8 Petersburg —as it 10410 called then --on the 0007, 000 of the marriage of tho Deke Cf. Edieburgli, Queen viotolle'fi poi, to Jenny Liad wag a great 21 en o mine, though I hovel' ,heard her Sing in Public. Bet Adelina Patti and I wove 'often associated in opera -eoyeat Gardee. Sheteang w11s tier soul as well as her -voice. 'We both sang "Home, Sweet Dome" times without number; and tee people lovee, IL then as they love it lestion wits -commenced; tie went up to tee clergyman, eeeeentee the Wel,p to ' •heid: it °veleta' had and' waved it three tieseseltelding it in- that. pose,' 'tion durtngthe, reading of See imeroe.." The whip lied enurse tiee at the end .of lt, which Wes aupeosed to -eantaiM thirty pieces. 00 8120831 it had also totue ptecere of oino attaehed to it, represent', 11,g tbe Gott -poise '. The ter,eo macho, W'ere tybical ot.St. Peter's dental of bit Leese nett ate Wailag et the whip ,oven tee elergyeadees heal Warr pposed to e01211 stet of .horacige to the Blessed; . - Ted eresiu qt the oeremonial gem, emelt 50exceedingly reonotottnteo . to eaid to'have boon .conneete4 with, al , venairco tavosed on some 'tenant for an act of murder, Cat Reniembered 101 Will, A :wealth?, end eecentsio ficettiali lane eveter wile died some time ogol left 3.14001111 his Will fOr. the erection oo (c Mentiocnt to the memory of a tenors' ite eate ' ; In Laeland, when g daughter ie born, lier fatlier presm}ts her with al re-.:micer. 'rile progeny of tido anin rnal is her only fortune'. ,)