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• Tames Oliver Cutwood
A LOVE EPIC Or THE FAR Islowrii
r
SYNOPSIS.
It was in lite rtei st es that a hag-
hneed found in, the 8)2, 16 00tprintao
Bar ee, the wolf -dog. LL repT.ted to
MeTasigart, the factor, that, he had'
seen prints larger than those of a,
ex, and the factor's suspiaians 3/307/3
Baree had been hio' enemy.,
*4"•3:1-1e had tried to kill the (log and the
had inflicted mfrands.,' 0'11. 111‘rn.
11/10repl I Cr .11.1oT,appart hod hot Per -
the (.1.4ph3a. who' iarta 'Baree'S
Master, and canoed the anirnal to be
.aepetrated,from Nopeess, the trapper's
ilaughtsr, • • .
...CHAPTER' XXV.—(Cont'd)
- . The next day saw the beginning of
, the struggle,that was to follow be-
tween the•Wits of manand beast. To
.
Barco the encroachment of Bush Mc-
' -T,aggart's 'trap -line was not 'war; it
was existence. It was to furnish him'
food, as Pieiret's line had furnished
him rsoci for many , weeks., But he
sensed the fact that in this instance
he was law -breaker and had an enemy
to outwit. , Had it been good hunting
weather_he might,. have , gone on, for
tilt unseen hand that was guiding his
wanderings Were drawing him slowly
' but surel Sr back to the old beaver -pond
antl the Gray Joon. As it was, with
the snow deep and soft under him--
.
so deep thatin places he plunged into
• it over his ears—MeTaggart's trap -
line was like a trail of manna Made
for his, special use. He followed •in
the Factor's snowshoe tracks, and in
the third Map killed a rabbit.. When
•:..
he had finished with it nothing but
the hair and crimson Patches of blood
. lay upon the snow. Starved for many
days,, he was filled with a wolfish
hunger, anti before the day was over
he robbed the bait from a full dozen
of .lileTaggart's daps. Three tines he
struck . poison-baits--veniscri or car-
ibou fat in the heart of which was a
• dose of strychnine, .ancl each time .his
keen nostrils detected the danger.
• Pierrot had more than once noted the
amazing fact that Baree could sense
. the presence , of . poison even when -it
was most skillfully injected into the
frozen carcass of a deer. Foxes and
wolves ate of flesh from which his
supersensitive power of detecting the
presence of deadly danger tuened him
• away. So he" passed Bush laleTag.
gart's poisoned tid-bits, sniffing them
on the way, and leaving the Fitory of
- his suspicion in the menner . of his
footprints in the snow. Where Me-
• Taggart had halted at midday to cook
his dinner Baree made these same
cautious circles with his feet.
The second day, being less hungry
• and more keenly alive to the hated
smell of his enemy, Bares ate less
but was more destrodive. MeTaggart
was not as skillful as Pierre Bustecb
in keeping the sent of his hands from
the traps and "houttioe," and every now
and then the emelt of him was strong
in Baree's nose. This wrought ip
Baree a swift and definite antagonistm
. a steadily increasing hatred where a
few days before hatred was almost
forgotten. There le, perhaps; in the
animal mind a process of simple com-
putation which does not quite achieve
the distinction of reason, and which is
• not altogether instinct, but which pro-
duces results that might be ascribed
to either, Esteedid not add two and
two together to make four; be did not
go back step by step to prove to him-
self that the man to wham this trap -
Bios belonged was the cause of all hie
griefs and troublee—but he did find
himself possessed of a deep and yeatn-
.• ing hatred. MeTaggart Was the one
• creature except the wolves that he
had ever hated; it was McTaggart who
had hurt him. MoTaggart who had
hurt Piarrot, McTaggart who had
made him loge his beloved Nepeeoe—
and McTaggart was here on this trap -
line! If he had been wandering be-
• fore,without °bled or deathly, le
was given a mission now, It eves to
keep to the traps. Th feed himself.
And to vent his hatred and hie ven-
geance as he lived. -
The second day, in the centre Of a
lake, he came upon the body of a wolf
that had died of tme of the poison --
baits. For a half-hour he mauled the
._ dead beast until its akin was torn into
ribbons. He did not taste the flesh.
It was repugnant to him. It was his
verigeance-Sh the wolf breed. He stop-
ped when, he was half a dozen miles
frorn Lac Bain, and turned back. At,
'this particular pMnt the line crossed
• 0,,, frozen stream beyond which was
'open plain, • and Over that plain came
• —when the wind was right—the
emoke and sinell of the Test. The
second night Baree lay with a full
stomach in a thicket of banItIan pine;
t
the third day he wae travel lug west-
ward over the trap -line ag,c n.
Early on this inoreing Bush Me-
Taggaet, started out to gather his
catch, and where he croslief the streeni
six miles from Lae Bain he first saw
' Bares's tracks. He stopped to examine
them with sudden' arld'unusnal inter-
estafalling at last on his. knees, whip-
ping off the glove from his right hand,
and picking up a single hair,
"The black wolf!"
Heanttered the wOrds in an odd,
hard voice, and involuntarily his eyes
,turned straight in the direction of the
• Gray Loon. After that, even more
carefully than before, ho examined
one 'of the clearly impressed tracks in
e snoW. When he rose to hia feet
ere was in his face the loth a ene
,y 0 • had made an unpleasant dis-
covery.
"A- black wolf!" he repeated, and
shrugged his shoulders. "Bahl Lerue
. is a fool. It is a dog." And then,
eitera a moment,' he muttered in a
voice scarcely louder than a whisper'
'hes dog,"
He went on travelling in the trail
of the dog. A new excitement posses-
. sed him that was More thrilling than
• the :excitement of the hunt. Being
• human, it was his privilege to add
two and two together, and out of two
and two he nutcle—Baree. There was
ittle doubt in his mind. Tao thought
d flaaihed oa him first when Lerae
?4 14tak1oned the black wolf. He
S. ahtavisiceds after his exturanation
the tracks. They were the tracks
. a dogs And the dog was black.
h. 1 4e came to the first trap that
'acipsn robbed of its bait.
, nder his breath he cursed. The
, halt was gone, and the trap was un-
SPrung, The sharpened stick that
hiitd transfixed the bit was pulled out
clean. ' -
' All that day Bush IVIcTaggatt :Col -
lowed a trail where Bares . had left
rac'eti of his. presence. Tree after
.e ispon the mangled wolf. From
iiihe found robbed. On the lake he
tbie, ArSt disturbing excitement of his
Toar-footed robbers of the trap -line,
but usually a wolf or a fox or, a dog
who had grown. .adept in thierydry
trounled ,only a few traps. But in
this case Barea was traveling straight
from trap to trap, and his footprints
in the snow showed that he stepped
at each.
At diisk he reached the shack:Pierre
Eustach•had built midway of his line,
and .took inventory, •a his fur. t
Was dot more than. a third of a Catch;
the lynx was half ruined,.a mink was
torn completely in two. The second,
day he foundstill greater ruin, still
more barr:en traps. I:le was like A
madman. When he arrived at the
second 'cabin, late in tile afternoon,
Bare' s tracks were not an hour old
in the snow. Three times _during the
When the kettle is near the boil. On the White PartridgC River, Algon-
night he heard the dog howling. ,
The third day McTaggart dill not Ile blazed himself a fresh trail
return to Lac Bain, but began a eau- through the forests parallel with his
tious hunt for Baree. An inch or trap -line but at let asfive hundred
two of fresh snow had fallen, and as yards distant from it, Wherever a
if to take even greater measure of trap or deadfall was set thie new trail
vengeance from his man -enemy Bares struck sharply in, like the point of a
had left footprints freely within a V, so that he could approach his line
radius of a hundred yards of the unobserved. By this strategy he be -
cabin. It was half an hour before Keyed that in time he was sure of
McTaggart could pick out the straight getting a shot at the dog. Again it
trail, and he followed this for two Was the man Who was reasoning, and
hours. into a thick banksian swamp. again it was the man who was de-
Baree kept with the wind. Now and feated. The firet clay that IVIcTag-
then he caught the scent of his pur- gart followed his new trairSaree also
suer; a dozen times he waited until struck that •trail. For a little while
the other was so close he could hear
the snap of brush, or the metallic
click of twigs against his rifle barrel.
And then, With a sudden itspiration
that brought the curses afresh to Mc-
Taggart's lips, he swung in a wide
circle and out straight back for the
trap -line. When the Factor reached
the line, along toward noon, „Baree
had already begun his work.. He had
killed and eaten a rabbit; lie had rob-
bed three traps in the diabetic° of a
mile, and he was headed again
straight over the trap -line for Post
Lac Bain,
It was the "fifth' day that Bush Mc-
Taggert returned to his post. He
was in an ugly snood. Only Valence
of the four Frenchmen was there, and
it was 'Valence who heard his story,
and afterward heard him cursing
Marie. She came into the store a
little later, big -eyed and frightened,
ono of her cheeks flaming red where
McTaggart had struck her. While
the storekeeper was getting her the
canned salmon MoTaggart .wented for
his dinner Valence found the oppor-
blnity to whisper softly in her ear:
"Mien Lerma' has trapped a silver
fox," he said with low triumph. "He
. .
loves you, mon atm, and he will have
a splendid catch by spring --and sends
you this inessage from his cabin UP
on The Little Black Bear With No
Tail: Be ready to fly When the soft
snows come!"
Marie did not look at him, but 'she
heard, and bee eyes shone so like stare
when the young storekeeper gave her
the salinen that he said to Valence,
when she had gene:
"Blue Death, but she is still beau.
tiful at times Valence!"
To which Valence nodded With an
odd smile.
NeW Testament Apoclegypha.
Here are the little stories, safe and
Of Child Christ, for his playmates 01 -
ter 'school,
Making from clay, a finch, a dirve,,a
'starling,
Ile that would yet heal by a troubled
'Tier° is a golden legend full of :truth,'
twflight story for the years to pope,
Of one whose three and thirty years o
it puzzled him, Three times, he cut Dreamed white high dreams along °a-
back and forth between the old and pernaum.
the new trail. Than there was no •
' - •
This is a little gate back to a garden,
Where only they with ehildlike.hearts
doubt. The new trail was the fresh
trail, and he followed.in the footsteps
of the Factor from Lac' Bain. Mc-
Taggart did not know what was'hap-
pening until his return trip, when he
save the story told in the snow. Bares
had visited each trap, and without ex-
ception he had appreaehed each time
at the point of the inverted V. After
a week Of futile hunting, of lying in
wait, of approaching at every point of
the wind—a period during which Mc-
Taggart had twenty thnes cursed him-
self into fits of madness, =other idea
came.to him. It was like =Inspira-
tion, and so simple that it seemed al-
most inconceivable that he had not
thought of it before.
He hurried back to Post Lac Bain.
The second day aftet he was on the
trail at dawn. This time he carried a
pack in which there were a dozen
strong wolf traps freshly dipped in
beaver oil, and a rabbit which he had
snared the previous night. Now and
than he looked anxiously at the sky.
It. was clear entil late in the after-
noon, when banks of dark clouds be-
gan rolling up from the east. Half
an hour later a few flakes of snow be-
gan falling. McTaggart let one of
these deep on the back of his mit-
toiled hand, and examined it closely.
It was soft and downy, and he gave
vent to his eatisfaction.. It was what
CHAPTER XXVI.
By the middle of January the war
between Bar= and _Bush MeTaggart
had become more than an, incident—
more than a passing adventure to the
beast, and. more than an irritating
happening to thesnan. It was, for the
time, the. elemental raison d'etre of
their lives. Bates hung to the trap -
line. He haunted it like a devastat-
ing spectre, and each time that he
sniffed afresh the Scent of the Factor
from Lac Bain he was impressed still
more strongly with, the inatinct that
he was terenging,himsela upon a dead-
ly enemy. Again and again he out-
witted aleTaggert; he continued to
strip his traps of their bait; the hu-
mor grew in him more strongly to de-
stroy the fur he. came aeross; his
greatest pleasure came to be—not in
eating --but in destroying. The fires
of his hatred burned fiercer as the
weeks passed, until at last he would
gimp and teal -with his long fangs at
the snow where MeTaggart's feet had
passed. And all of the time, away
back of his madaess, there was a vi-
sion of Nepeese that continued to
grow. more atel more clearly in hie
brain.. That first Great Loneliness—
the loneliness of the long days and
Langer nights of hie waiting and seek-
ing on the Gray Loon, oppeessed him
in the eaaly days" of her less. On
starry or moonlit nights he sent forth
his wailing cries for her again and
Buah IVIeTaggart, listening to thean in
the middle of the niebt, felt strange
Olive= run 'down his spine.
The man's hatred was differefit than,
the beast's, but perhaps even more im-
placable. With McTaggart it Was not,
hatred alone. There was mixed with
it tie indefinable and superstitious
fear, a thing be, laughed at, a thing
he cursed at, but which clung to him
as surely 'as the scent bf his trail.
clung, to Barrere nese. Bailee tio
longer etood for the Animal alone; he
stood for Nepeese. That was the
thought that itisisted in growieg in
MeTaggares ugly mind. Never a day
that passed now at he did not think of
the Willow; neveeetanight came and
went without a visioning of her face.
He even fancied, on a certain night of
storm, that he heard her voice out in
the wailing of the wind—and less than
zninute,lataar he heard faintly a dis-
tant howl out in the fort. That
night Ids heart was 411ed with a leaden
dread. He shook, himself. He smoked
his pipe until the cabin was blue. ,He
cursed Berea, a,nd the storm—but
there vaas no longer in him the bully-
ing courage of old.' Ho had not ceased
to hate Berea; he atilt hated lain ami
he had never hetet' a man, but he had
an even greater reason now for want-
ing to kill him. It earth to him first
in his sleep, in a restless dream, arid
after that 111-'113ed; and lived—the
thought that the spirit of Neeeese
'was raiding Bathe in the ravaging
el his brae-linel
It was in January that McTaggart
eaught his thee glimpse of Barth. Ile
had placed him rifle egaiest• a tree and
was a dozen feet away from it at the
time. It was as if Baree knew, and
had come to taunt him, for when the
Factor suddenly looked up Bares was
stending oat ,clear from the dwarf
spruce not twenty -..rards away from
him, his white fangs gleaming and
his eyes \burning like coals. For a
space MaTaggart stared as if turned
into stone. It was Baran. He recog-
nized tire white star, the white -topped
ear, and his heart Comped like it
hammer in his breast. Vella slowly
he began to creep toward his rifle.
Verdict; .
... 0* Go0d.,'.
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reparations Pan filinw' a tary`orable 1P-1- leeee•-• lopes ago stecagegth Pen saa4911i3mOgra, '
,. .
ance ,oli the Side at financial, Common •
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.aense' and sanity. ' This mtiCh is clear-
.. . . „.. ,
b,i,fildicated in the first selni-a,nnual ra-
, .
phrt .of S,eyniOur 'Parker •Gilbert,l,Jr..,
-A.:.,4ent General of ',Reparation • lay-
'inent,s. "Prophets -Of evil in German
and in:Other countries' will find little
bass for in this prelimin-
.. . .
may enter
And ,play ring games with little Christ
for centre; .
This is the long -lost, grass -grown trail
to pardon
Between the hooks 11 lies, a precious
• This, of ,course, Is all Mr. Gilbert'
report pretends to,be. What has been
aecomPlisbod ,during,.., this ,filist,,half,
year 'IS, on the ,whoie„ a means to' an,
`or' 'Gerniaii cur.,*
, ,
reacy has', been achieved; but that is,
not an'end iii, itself. 'The German bud-
get for the coming year has bean. hal-
anted;--that. also is in the nature 'of
The ultimate purpose is stabiliba
tion and Adjustment -of vast economic
-and financial 'forces, which , mune had
cOnflict as a result of the proper de-
cision o0. the part of the Allies that
Germanyshould bear the major share'
of the war's, burden. While the pre-
liminaries have been carried through
successfully, it cannot yet be said with
crtainty whether the Dawes plan will
function smoothly when the real pinch
comes,,two or three years hence,
. More has been done than simply to
staat,the machinery working. During
passion flower in bud upon its stem.
- —Isabel Fiske Conant.
Facts.
Southeastern Alaska has a climate
about like that of Washington, D.C., in
fact, it is -said, to be more equable.
Northern Alaska has a climate about
like that of Petrograd, Russia. While
there is plenty of cold and plenty of
snow, there are many redeeming tea.
tures. .
Hungarian mothers havi* a, custom of
swaddling their infants In pockets
Macle of immense pillows, which are
beautifully if not artistically embroid-
ered. The babiee live on these pillows
until they are able to 'walk.
When one Mohamniedan meets an-
other Mohammedan he must say
"Peace be unto you," the word "You"
being plurals This is because, while
1'9 wanted. Sabre nierrung* there only one man is visible, he is always
would be six inches a freshly fallen
snow covering the trails.
Ile stepped at the next trap -house
and quickly set to. avork. First he
threw away the poisoned bait in 'the
"house" and replaced it with Mid rab-
bit. Then he began Setting his wolf
traps. 'Three of these he placed close
to the "door" of the house, through
which Berea would have to toucls for
the bait. The remaining nine he scat-
tered at intervals ef a foot or sixteen
inches apart, so that when he was
done a veritable cordon of traps guard-
ed the house. He did not fasten the
chains, but let them lay loose in the
snow, If Bane got'into. one trap he
Would get into others and there would
be no use of toggles. His work done,
MeTaggart hurried on through the
thickehing twilight' of winter night to
Itis shack. He was highly elated. This
time there could pe no Fetch thing as
failure. He had sprungevery trap
on his way from Lac Bain, In none
of these traps would Baree find any-
thing to eat until he came to the
"nest" of twelve wolf traps.
(To be continued.)
Judgesof Genie.
Every time a shipment of diamonds
arrives in LoAdon from the Transvaal
two or three men spend several hours,
often a, whole daie in semadarkneas.
These matt are diamond -cutters who
specialize In large stones. They have
come to London to pick out and buy
the gems which they want, and in or-
der that they may make no mistakes
they rest their eyes by remaining in a
darkened room until the moment for
examining the stones..
The sale itself only occupies a few
minutes, but very large sums change
hands. One uncut diamond was re.
,cently bought by a cutter -buyer tor
discovery of Baree's. presence his hu.-.
.0-,efig6d .-0 erre ' on i- come^ st-ee ,a.-. 1, not ,ct b h This one to
, ,
rincioaseci -t d'ra ed 111 o fia.sh'Baree waa gone, , hohind ,
Ids gAyp. Af,IgIs,g;gart his n•ew idea, header into a canal cluriag orie of ,the recent eartlionakca,
accorapanied by his guardian -angel,
and both must be properly saluted.
'When a, horse bites he situply bites,
but when a camel bites he also giveta
his jaw a: rapid grinding motion, the
effect being like grinding grain be-
tween rotatiag stones, a grist mull
Wheela in fact. Consequently when a
camel bites a than's arm there is very
little lett of the arm, and what is left
must be amputated. Since most ef the
camel's operations are in the dthert,
far from hospitals, the bitten persona
usually die of blood poisoning before
they can be telcen to a surgeon.
Hungarian gypsies are not allowed
to dwell in towns or cities for more
than two days at a time. They are
natural born thieves and will steal any-
thing that is not .sitherely chained.
Given at opportunityethey vtill steal
the chains. Gypsy children go naked
even 10 rather cold weather, neverthe-
less there is a saying that a gypsy
ever has but one illness, and that is
at the end of his loeg life.
When Charlemagne was eroweed
Enaperor of the West in St. Pet-8es, in
800 AM., he was thus made the ruler
of Italy, France, Hungary, Germany
and Spain.. Despite his greatnees lie
was never able to learn to read or
write.
• Eisen when, at the time-ot the sale,
a diamond seems perfect, a flew may
be found in it latbr tin, In any epee,
cutingsa diamond is always an exceed.
'Ingly tricky busineas. The eepert who
has bougat one of the lane stones will
probably spend weeks examining 111 10
differeat lights before he decides
whith is the best waY to cut it.
Tlien, the actual cutting will take
some Months of very careful tind deli-
cate work. One slip may mean the
lose of thousands of pounds. *
Diamond -cutting seems to run in
families, Tile art takes years to me -
quire, and is usually handed down
from father to son. Even if an out-
sider eould learn its secrets, however,
he rnight well think twice befoee
the 81x iii_cp.ths' the' Dawes mfil has
turned, _out reparation payments, in
cash and kind, to the tune of about
$13t,e00,000. During -.the preceding
five yearsthe collections averaged
about $125,00,000 for each aix-month
period. Taken at itit loweet ternis, the
Davads plan has quietly and edam:natl.
gaily evoked payments at the Earns
rate they were collected amid the
political storm and stress and finan-
cial chaos of the halfedecade immedi-
ately following the peace.
It is true that -the smoothness -with
which payments have been made un-
aer the Dimes plan is directly attribut-
able to the internatidnal loan of $200,-
000,0110 made to Germany. It would
be strange indeed if with $200,000,000
at. a starting point Germany could not
make a turnover of $260.000,000 the
delicious blend. Try SALAI)A.
7117 ZeA.
for that reason 11E1 neve2. Ark
our ,.ercfcer ttlIS
The Chinook Talk. , •
What pidgin English is to the traf-
fickers of the Chinese ports the Chi-
nook jargon is, along the Pacific coast
of Canada and the north-western
states, .
The language„SaYS 0 writer in Ad.
ventare,, .was already in use 'when
Lewitt arid Clark visited the Oolumbla
in, 4300, -Astor's agent's along the
northwest.coast and the British trad-
era at Neotlet 'had been:handicapped
by the fact that fourteen languages, as
different from one another as English
is from Arabic, were spoken . by the
But the Dawes plan is more than
automatic. tI is (le:signed to be con-
tinuously expansive". Its 0260,000,000
first-year payment is expected to swell
by the third year to 6025,000,000. By
that time, if it woritsaGermanyAvill-be
bearing the full burden commensurate
with her capacity to pay.
TJpon this point the Gilbert report
sounds a warning note. So fir, in
apite of all efforts, Germany's balance
of trade, on. the whole, has remained
unfavorable., le her exchange of goods
and services with the rest of the
world the has received more than she
has given. This situation mist be cor-
rected.
• Got Raised the Fleet Day.
First laid--"Aw, I got raised the first
day I went to work.'
Second laid—"Yes., you did!" -
First Taid---"Sure---Ien a elevator
boy—eee?"
There are signs that the process in.
the right divection is- being energeti-
cally stimulated. During the last few
months 130 contracts have been Un -
eluded which will tend to redress the
economie balance. For instance, Ger-
many is Supplying to France 100,000
telegraph polee, two ships and 4,000
iallway trucks; German engineers and
laborers are dredging the Seine and
building a floating. dock in the Bel.
glen Congo. A. wireless transmission
station for Italy,' railway material for
Rumania, wooden refugee huts for
Greece -i -these are only a few of the
factors that will enter into the repara-
tions =count .
The protess of readjustment will be
painful, and Germany has not yet be.
gan ' to feel the real pressure. But
the Daweeplan bub) been and is worth
while. It has, for the preseet, removed
the reparationm s issue frothe field of
political controversy. It is, as Mr.
Gilbert observes, "an internetional ex-
periment in peewit'. It aimed *
to give a fair trial to metheas of pa-
tient incluiry and -quiet administra.
tion." „
In apite at what the future may hold
for it, the verdict to.day is; So far,
80 good.
TheaChinook dialect, which, wag the
simplest, furnished the grammar of.
the Jargon and also a few dozen of its
wbrds, but the language, like Topsy,
"just growed."
In its ability to assimilate -words it
rivals English. It drew terse expres-
sions -from the dialects of the tribes
that spoke it, A great number -of its
Words were formed by onomatopoeia;
that is, -by thesounde representing the
tthingsapoken of, Taus tiktik means
a welch; tem -tutu means the heart
beating; turn-watah is a rapids; wa-wa
means to talk.heehee—but you can
guess that.
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From the French Canadian voy-
a.geurs the jargon, characteristically
enougla, drew many of its expressions elaborate the tailored' blouses of to-
tf-t relate to love -making, drinking, day. One annot have too many at-
singing,..dancing and the like. Thus: tractive blouses to wear with separate.
cit
Beebee, from baiser, means to kiss; skirts, thus creating the smaetest two-
pieca frocks. The model pictured here
was made with White crepe-de-ehine
with groups of narrow tucks in the
front and back and opens all the way,
down the centre front. The round
boyish collar is becoming and the full-
length sleeves are finished with a.
tailored cuff. The pattern is perfor-
ated for short sleeves and provides an
attractive cuff. The hip -band may be.
omitted and the bloom& Welted under
the skirt -band in regulation shirt-
waist style. Sizes 34-,`" 38, 38, 40 and
42 inches bust. Size 38 bust requires
2% yards of 36 -inch, or gm, yards of
40 -inch material. Price 20 cents.
Our Fashion Book, illustrating tie -
newest. and most practical styles, will
be of interest to every home dress-
maker. Each copy includes one cou-
pon good for five cents in the par -
chase of any pattern.
HOW TO ORDER PATTERNS.
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AN aaaTRACTIVE VERSION OF
THE OVERBLOUSE.
Lace- edgings and narrow tucks:
Commencement.
On every hand Young People have
been standing to say farewell where
the brook of school or college with its
gay fleet cuerent meets the depth and
breadth of the river of life.,
' To -day a graduating clase assembles
•on a platform and the ties of dose as-
sociation through the years seem So
binding and So intimate that it is hard
to imagine any severance by time or
space. TothorroW the devoted friends
have the world's diameter bet'w'een.
Years hence the one who in the period
of tutelage wits marked for .shining
distinction has' uhaccohntably col-
lapsed into insignificance 'and failure.
The, laughing -stocks of whom little Or
nothing was .eepected, has found him-
-self; fuel those whose reminiscensts
begin "I knew him when" acre con-
founded by. the inexplica,ble.
atluc•h good advice le offered by those
alive to the force of the French adageg
"If youth knew—ii old age could."
George Herbert Palmer. defined his
university as a place where the elders
were trying to Pass oirtheir dcperience
to, their juniors. These vrhO , have
learderl that fire burns and 'water
drOwns are often pathetically' eager to
Persuade impetudis, Angenuoils' yonth
of the feet, and arc not heard willing -
117 Young 'beetle, have to learn for
thentselves. It is not an evil that thig
18 80. 'What they learn in propria pea-
R011e adheres like A burs; what they
gain by proxy as soon the limbo of
discaedecl and forgotten things, • '
But; the. graduates are 'sever goieg
to forget the influence of a pereonteity.
Who some one was to then). will in the
The Biters Bitten.
A' couple of city motorists, riding
near a fariu orchard, stopped, the tiara
got out, climbed the wall and gathered
half. a peck of rosy apples, To com-
rade the "joke" Clay' slowed clown as
they went bse the farmhouse and callecl
out to the proprietor: We helped our-.
selves to your apples, old man., We
thought we'd tell you."
"Oh, that's all right," the farmer
barking on this eareer, for the risks Galled' back. "I helped myself to yahr
involved are enormous.
tools while you, were in the orchard."
tailiaaraiiitaltaavia
erase...!
labouti, from la bouteille, means a bot-
tle or the contents thereof; malisie,
from merci, means thanka; malleh and
tense come front the French words
meaning to marry and to dance.
English furnished some peculiar ex-
pressions. Oleman, from "old man,"
means worn out; kwahta and tollah
are recognizable coins; waunesick
means fever, stick -house, a frame
dwelling; nose means promontory;
Americans are Bostonni; Englishmen
are Kinchortchi—King George.
Felten was the name of a crazy man
who Reed at Astoria. So mike Pelt=
means "You are crazy."
The Inability of the coast tribes to
pronounce r, f aad nasal n—in this re-
alaect es in others they resemble the
Chinese—gives a curious twist to some
English words, Lice and glease and
c,auppy, for rice and greede and coffee,
sound like the talk 01 an Oriental
cookee in a lumber camp.
long aeon mean more than what a text-
,
book impreseed: Thoy will argue by
a life they studied at cloSe range that
a similar performance is possible for
them, and they ,pol, care to disap-
point an affectIonate" expectation. The
toaCher wlf-t; does 'not 'care what his
pupils do. after they leave'him is mis-
caet in his calling. Those who never
look back to a. preceptor ati a vital in-
fluence have been unfcirtunate, How-
eyer many years it la one's destiny to
• ..e.s„ nut between the day of graduation aed
vaa the final goal, there should be a lively
° aaaa
aaaa. ataa arid tenacious memorY of all that in
the auvoral hour of entrance on native
sa, a life was hell to is worth the strife to
avia•
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stamps or coin (cote preferred; wrap
it carefully) for each riumber, ansi.
• address your order to Pettern Dept,
Wilson Pealishing Co., 73 West Ade-
laide St., Toronto. Pattern:4 sent by
return twill.
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Music of Color.
The sense of color is so lost to .
painters, as well as to laymen, that to
talk of color compositions as one
spealta of sound compositions is to
challenge doubt and occasion eurprise
And yet there is a music of sound, an&
there should be a delight in coler coin-
Ilesitiona; and this delight should be
fundamentally distinct front any in.
He—"Do you thinketaire Was any terest in tbe.subject of the compasa
harm in my speaking to you — a don, The subjedt may be a man, or
strange birl?" _ • a woman, or a, field, or e tee°, or it
She—"You're the fleet fellow ever waste, or a cloud, or just nothing at all
called me atrange." —mere masses or streaks of color;
— 0— the perfection Or the imperfection of
the aolor arrangethent remains the
same.
That the color sense is lost to lay.
tnen, or critics, and painters Is evi- •
danced by the ridicule that for thirty,
years was heaped upon Whistler for
calling bis pictures "harmonies," "aym•
pbonies," "noeturnes," etc.; for adopt
Ins the more or less abatract nomen.
clature of sound compositions--musla
—to describe color tompositiom
No empire has ever persisted when
era get freedom to develop into star the people at its centre forgot how to
pleyers. e till the land.— Mr. Latfibury.
Stories About Well.Known People
Tackle the Bigger Thing.
Do not be afraid of taeltling the new
and bigger thing. In Making a change
spare no pains te make sure that you
are hooking up with a boss who knows
how to pick men and knows how to
treat them, for then there will be such
growth and expansion that there will
be tote of promotions before one be-
come:4 gray-haired. Join a team watch
hnoWs how to play the business game
squarely and succeasfully, and whose
captain sees to it that his team work -
• EXhibitIon—Before-onci-After.
Cross-examining a' boy whose arm
had been injured in a tranicar-acci-
dent, Lord Birkenheatl—then la' 30.
Smith—asked Jahn: • "Would you mind
showing the Jury how high youscan
lift Your arm, eince the ,aecident?" The
boy raised it to. the ehoulder.
"Wow ,show us how high you could
life it before the accident." Up Went
the boy'a arm, well 'above the h,eadt
Lord Birkenhead's insight into the
boy's mentality had won the tramwaY
-company their caSe.
Forty-five Years of Bea Life.
One of the most Mteresaing 511 -
cent books is "Hull iSoWn," in 'wQJi
Sir Bertram 'Hayes, K.Q.m.13,.,
R,N.R,, chata about his forty-flve ydh
of sea life. .
He relye,,c1 eq ,51;14t, Y
ship--thO Majoistle;•-a'-s. end he
after consi4n,diag thit •Waliicil
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had one colalaioli. la all that tline. en
this collisien tiet written ii°%11 td
his discredit, ileYait,6 the fact that he
was respoesibleior it.
The other all* 'wee Getwi
marine, you Set, Vlilah he raWMOd
during the War. Two gar() bilP. his
D.S.0.--Downod aubtearine,safilcial
SIr 33ertram toile an =Maisie 812q
of an American packet ship, th2,,ohys
When ships and disciellee were net a'S
they are now: The sail4s did pretty
well as they liked, whioh Meant they
did nothieig at all berand makine the
Ole atel the takteteatc,, clescribing
41i0 YnYfloa, ,•Ye''''''`" es.
cu::111e,re was grass on her decks six
inches long when we arrived at Cal-
13ut the best story in Sir Bertram's
book is of a certain transport pincer
during the war, A cynical commen-
tator on war officers once observed
that their first Mee seemed to be to
get a thing done, and afterwtuals to
find out whether it was a thing -worth
doing. Sir Bertram's transport ?nicer
was of thisstype. '
A millibar of motor -cars had to be
ehipped in a steamer that was already
foilo1o:ricear4;go. The T.0, buzzod around,
'Area down one of the after -holds,
fake that thing out, o.nd there will
be plenty 017 /35901.'
1(4 0041 take that out, air, re,
P 1.0 the chief Officer. "That's the
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al bee cere what it is--talte it
bc...1911btallai t 11:eel a:r. icla'uliatthetliperospheilp:
shaft, which passed through tam
'eel, agreaa that room muet 1)0
found, aor•tho care oleewithre.
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lommy'a Test..
"wei, Tommy; what do you think of
yo Ur new httuncing brother?" :
"Something's the matter with hiM
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pa, 1 champod h. 1in as hard as I could, •
oa the floor, but he wouldn't bounce." '
Short faces with eyes far apart are
said to be the characteristic typo of.,
J01 Witil OIJ P5
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