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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1925-07-23, Page 6t)}. • a:mes Ctirwaoci A LOVE ePIO OF Tfrif: FWQ, NATURE MADE FIRST AIRSI-IIPS CHAPT1,11 few se:Cantle he had. forgotten Ba:reo, • awed almost to, stupefaction by tbst Even at that distance Baree cou.a,laie coi.cfou of death that see him grinning affaY; heihmed them ,M. Ther l'vere fifty- redoutretchd hand, and the voice s„,,,..'1,f,,iperloaps a hundred wolves -out there, new seasa/ions in It w""'n afraid of nothing in all this savage not like Pierrot'a voice. ,He had nev°,:c, world but fire. They had come up loved Pierrot. Neither was it s°"-1,` without the Sound of a padded foot or and sweet like the -Willow!s. He ha" known only a few men,andall of a broken twig. • If 'it had been later, - : - them he had regarded with distrust.thn med oaun'td had. b2 -an askiP' and 91° 1'9 But this was a voice t eee 'sliuddereY, and for a moment the ' It was lureful in dis aPpea'; wanted to answer it. Tie was filled thought got the better of his nerves. • follow He had not intended to shoot excspt cloSe at the heel ofthis stranger. with a dBsirc''an' 1111 °nee' t°' from neeessity, but all at once his ri ' came to his sfilder and he Sent a For:the iir.st time in his life a craving for 'the friendship of man Pes'esed stream of fire out' where the eves were thickest. Baree knew what' the shots him. 'He did not move until Jim Car- vel ,etered the spruce. Then he fob. meant and filled with a mad desire to get',,t the throat of one of his ene- lowed.' mid, , he dashed in their direction. That night they were eamPed in a Carvel gave a Startled yell as he went. dense growth of cedars and balsa -ems He saw the flash of -Baree's body, ea* ten miles north of Bush MeTaggart 5 it swallowed up in the gloom, and in ' trap line. For two hours it load snow- that same instant heard the deadly ed, and their trail was covered. It was still snowing, Mit not. a fiake pf the white deluge sifted down through the -thick canopy of boughs. Carvel ` had put 'up his -'small silk tent, and had built a fire; their- supperwas over, and Baree la3r on his belly fac- ing the outlaw, almost' within reach of his hand. With his laelc- to a free Curvet was smoking luxuriously. He had thrown "off his cap and his coat, and in the wenn fireglow he. looked almost boyishly young. But ,even in that glow his jaws lost none of ,their squareness, nor •his eyes their clear alertness. impact of bodies. A wild thrill shot through him. The dog had charged alone—and the wolves had waited. There could be bet one end, He four. looted comrade had gone straight into the jaws Of death! He could hear the ravening snap ef :those jaws out.in the. derkness. 'It -was sickening. His hand went to the Colt ,45 at his belt, and he thrust his empty rifle butt doWnward into the snow. With the big automatic before hie eyes he plueged out into"the dark- ness and from his lips there lesued a wild yelling,that could have been heard a mile away. • With the yelling a ,steady ,serearts of fire spat' into the mass of fighting beasts,. .There were eight shots in the authmatic, and not until the plunger clicked with metal- lic emptiness did Carve- cease his yelling and retreat,in to the firelight. He listened, breathing deeply. He no longer saw eyes in the atkness, nor did he bear the movement of bodies. The suddenness and ferocity of his attack had driven back the wolf-hoyde. But the dog! He caught his 'breath and strained his eyes. A shadow was dragging itself into the circle of light. It was Baree. Carve' ran to him, put hie arms ebout his shoulders, . and .brought him to the fire. For a long time after that there was a question- ing.' light in Carvers eyes: He re- loaded his 'guns, put fresh fuel on the fire, and from hit pack dug out strips of cloth with which he bandaged -three or four of the deepest cuts in Baree's legs. And a dozen time he asked, in a wondering sort of way: a bad one, .old chap," he chuck- led. "You haven't got it- on me --not a bit. Want to know what happened?" He waited a moment, ard Bares look- ed at him steadily. Then Carvel went on, as if speaking to a human, "Letes see—it Was five years ago, five years this December," just before Christmas time. Had e dad. Pine old chap, my dad was. No mother—just the dad, an' isrhen yen added ua up We made 'just One. Understand? And along came a white -striped skunk named Hardy and shot hire one day -because dad had worked' against him in poli- tics. One an' out raurder. An' they didn't hang that skunk! No, sir, they didn't hang him. He had too much money, an' too many friends in eoli- ties, an' they let nm off with two years in the penitentiary. But he didn't get ' there. No— s'elp me God, he didn't get there!" Carvel was twisting his hands Until his knuckles cracked. An exultant smile lighted up his face, and his eyes flashed back the firelight. Baree drew a deepbreath—a mere eoincidence; • but` it -was a tense Moment for all "NO, he'didn't get to the peniten- tiary," went- on • Carvell Melting straight at Bane again. "Yours truly knew 'what thatxneant,cold chap. Red hay& been pardoned ineule a year, An' there at -as my Dad, the biggest half . of me, in his grave.. So X just went tip • to that , sylnte-striped Skunk right there before the judge's eyes, an' the lawyers' eyes, an' the eyes of allehis dear relatives and friends—and I Idli- ed him! And I got away. Was out through a window before they woke - up, hit for the bush courstry, and have beers eating up the trails ever alms. An' I guess God was with me, Boy, For He did a queer.thing to help me out summer before last, jest when the Mounties were after' me hardest an' It looked pretty black. Man was found drowned down in the Reindeer Coun- try, right where they thought I was cornered; air + the good Lord Made the Man look so much like me 'filet he was burled utder my name. So I'm offi- cially dead, old chap. I don't need to be afraid any more so long as I don't get too *Millar with people for a e year or so longer, mid' Vey down in- side me Pve liked te believe, -God fixed it up in' that way to help ale Out of a bad hole. What's your opinion/ Eh?" CHAPTEIt' XXIX. Barco was on his feet,. rigid as hewn reek, when Carve' came out of the telit, and for a few moments. Oar - vet steed in silence, watching hint closely. Would the deg reepond to "Now what the deuce made you do that, cold Map? What have you ght against wol•ves?" All that night he did not-hleep, but watched. Their experiente ewith the wolves broke down the.last bit of uncertalutY that might have.existed 'between the man and.the deg. For days after that as they •travelled slowly north and west, Carvel nursed Baree as he might have cared for, a- sick child. Be- cause of the dog's hurts; he made only eew miles a day. Baree underetood, and in him there grew stronger and stronger a great love for the man whose hands were as gentle as the Willowes and whose voice warned him with the thrill of an immeasurable comradeship. He -no longer 'feared him or had a suspicion of hints And Car- ve', on his part, was observing things. The vaat emptiness of the world about theme'end thefr aloneness, gave him the opportunity of pondering over un- important details and he found him- self each day watching Baree a little More closely. He made at 'est a die - revery which interested him deepi,v. Always, when they halted on the trail, tame would turn his face to the e.outh; when they were immerse it was from the south that he nosed the wind most frequently. This was quite na- tural, Carvel thought, /or his bid hunting-grounde were back there. But as the days passed he began to notice other thinga. .Now and then, looking off Into the far oeuntry from which they had come, Baree would whine softly, and on Hint day he would he filled with a great restlessness. lie gave no evidence of wanting to leave Carvel, but more and Snore Carvel came to understasid that some tayater- Miss Mary Alien, comniandent of the English, women's auxiliary eervice, Who accepted the offer of the German authorities to place a special airplane at hoe disposal during the internationte police exhibftion kerieruhe. . , and hugged it. They lived in the the Woods cabin until -May. buds 'were swell- ing then,' and the smeil of growing The bobolink slugs at tho 'dawn of day, things had begun to rise up outs -of The willeeeorwill tenets et night, the earth. The chickadee chirps, and the branch. Then Carvel found the first of the es sway, early Blue .Flowers. And the songs aro bright anti the songs That night he Peeked ' • are'gay, "It's time to - travel," he announced, AAnd shadows are put to flight. , to Baree. "And I've sort of chUngcl For it's singing' among the swinging My mind. We're going back—theree And he pointed eolith. boughs, - It's singing among the gems, CHAPTER XXX. And It's one Isings high; and It's one A strange humor possessed Carve' sings - as he began the soethward journey. And It's tele sings fast, and another He did not believe in omens, good or slow, bad. Superstition had played a email 'With a. thrill and a rush of eager notes part in his life, but he possessed beech That thrill as they pour front their tiny curiosity and a love for adventure, arid throats!, his years of lonely wandering had As the hours of summer pass. developed in hini a wonderfully clear mental vision of things which in other worde might be called' singularly ees The boboling builds in a lonely . live imagmetion. He knew that some The Whippoorwill makes no not, irresistible force was drawing Ranee The chickadee bulide in a hollow tree, back into the eouth—that it was pull- And he thinks his home elle best. ing him not Only along a given eine And it's Blueing among the swinging of the compass, but to an exact point bough, In that Tine. For no reason in par- ticular the situation began to interest It's singing tueong-the grass, ions call was coming to him from out the call orthe peck? Did he belong to them? Would Ile go_hovii? Tho of the south. wolves were drawing nearer. They were not circling, as tr cittibott or a deer would have Circled, bid 'were travelling seraight—klead straight for their Camp. The significance of this fact was easily Understood by Carved. All that afterneen -Tierce's feet had left a blood -smell -it their trail, axid . the wolves had struck the trail in the deep forest, where ,the failing • enoW had not novered it. Carve' was mot alarmed: More than once in his five, years of wandering beteeeen the An- tic and the Height of „Land he had played the game with the welves. Once he had almost lost, but that was out in the open Barren. Tosnight he had a lire, and in the event ofliis firewood miming oub he hadateees he could climb. His anxiety just now was centred in Baree: So he said, making, his voice quite- casual: "You aren't going, are you, old chap?".., ' ' Baree beard him lie gave no evi- dence of it. But Carve], still watch, ing him closely, :saw that the hair along his spihe had risenslike a brsish, and then he heard --growling slowly in Baree's throat—a snarl of fess:i- ce:me hatred. It was the sort of snarl that had held back the Factor Elkins Lac Bain, 'and Carvel, opening the breech of Isis gun to see that all was right, chuckled _happily. Baree may have heard the chucicle. Perhaps it Ping 00 his own "Mint' meant something to hirn, for he turned This was two hundred Miles north his head. suddenly and with flattened and west of the Gtay Leon, and soon ears looked at his companion. - Carvel obeerved that Bane did not face eirectly south in those moments .when the strange call came to hirn, but south and Oast. And now, with each daY that passed, the sun -rose higher in the sky; it gfew warmer), the snow softened underfoot, and in the air. was the tremnions and grow- Indsolos seemed, to s..114,,,, /.10, spval ing throb of spring. With 'these things . It was the wanderer's intention to awing ever into the country of lim Great Slave, a good eight hundred miles to the north and west, before the Mesh -snows came. Front there, whee the waters opened* in spring- time; •he planned to travel by canoe' westwsird to the Mackenzie and elle. mately to the mountains,. of Britieh Ooluelbias- These plans -were ehaneed in. February, ,They were caught In a great „storm in the Wholdnia Lake country and when their fortunes look- ed:darkest Oarvel stumbled on a cabin iri" the heart of a deep spruce forest, and this cabin there was a dead man. Be had been dbad fdr many days, and . was frozen stiff. Carve' clioneed a hdle ie the earth and beefed And it's ene sings here, and it's one him more and more, and as his time was valueless, and he had no fixed • sings there, destination in view, he began to ex- While a moss -grown rock has a &erre periment. For the filet two days he pair, raarked the dog's course by compass. With some in the grass, and some on It seas due southeast, On the third the -trees, - morning Carvel purposely struck a And a trill and a three' that stir the course straight west. He noted quick- • breeze • • , ly the change in Baree—.his- restless - is full blooming ignorance Ma prides himself upon the fact that hd., an fiY In thc air like a birdHo has ealled to his aid the things of Nature and he fides -v. -not for any avecial and eternal „ reason--merelY to get from ialate to place His scheme Is good but es the great strugglea- tor the xistenee of the species itemises as a destroyer rather than benefit, The airsbiP' takes man up and it Wangs him down for artificial purposes but not to assist him .in multinlying and creating. Not so with theorIgInators of air- ships for they had and still have an un -mistakable purpose, In Making bal- loons, flying machines and guns. Balloon!: Plant,life is an enormous factepy turning out balloons that Pall for miles and.Miles and do not depend UP0,11 gas or engines, The most common. balloon in plant lite le the., yellow dandelion, next the thistle, the so-called milkweed and 50'0iT6 -of other, thousands In fact, The cotton plant does not make a large bunch of beautiful cotton far the Mere purpose, of providing Man with clothing. It makes its fluffy material With the temple idea of raleing an °norm:141,0111111y, net Oily at home; but fat abroad: ' • Me (melt little bunch .of cotton is at- tached ti.seed; an egg., The plent holds these egga anal 'a strong wind Camels alone. Whiela thetaout of the pod, and Mirth Wein 'sailing Just like the air- ships they really are. ' All thia is true of the dandelion and •kindred plants. Their great deaire is to aeatter their young to the four quar- ters of the globe. The original Scotch thistle has sent its children across alt the oceans. and acme a4d to -day its children live and thrive In almost . - every country on the globe -alid this inwpiteef the efforts cd Man to slaugh- 'ter them. .„ As the holies of minister pass. nese at first, and after that the de- jected manner in which he followed ' at his heels. .Towaed poen Carvel swung sharply to the south and east again, and almost immediately Berm regained his old eagerness, and ran Royalty's Horne. This year witnesSes the centenery ahead of his mestere' of Buckingham Palace, perhaps the A week laterl3aree answered Gase best krsoWn. of till the Royal reoidenceb. vel'e miestion by swinging westward It was in 1826 that building operations to give wide berth to Post Lac Bain. were eomnaenced to convert Bucking - sons mid-afternoon when they cross- ham House into a hems "fit for a king," ed the trail along which Bush McTag.. garts traps and deadfalls had been The site has a somewhat varied his- tory ts.nd is intimately connected -with set. Baree did not even pause. He • an Industry whiels has been well in the limelight Delete—silk. In the edge of James I., where Buckingham Palace now stands were the Mulberry Gar- dens, which had been Mid' out to pro- vide English raw material for our silk manufacturers. The experiment failed however, and the gardens were con - vetted into a pleasure resort—a sort of seveettienth century Wembley on a small scale. Later, A seleeten House was built on the site of the gardens, and then, in its The cabin was a treasure trove to Harvel encl, l3aree, and especially to the man. It evidently posseseed no other owner -than the one who had died; it was cdinfortable and stocked with provisions; and more than that its owner had macie a splendid eateh of fur befOre the froet bit his lenge, and he died. Carvell went over them carefully and joyously. They were worth a thousand dollas•s at any post, and he could see no reason why they did not belong to hirn now. Within g week he had blitzed out the dead manes snow-covered'trap-line and was trap - headed due south, travelling so fast that at times liewas 'stet to Carvel's sight. A suppressed but intense ex- citement possessed him, and he whined whenever Carvel stopped to rest—al- ways with his nose sniffing the wind out of the eolith. Springtime, the flowers, earth turning green, the sing- ing of birds, and the sweet breaths in the air were bringing him back to that great Yesterday when he had be- longed to blepeese. In his unreason- ing mind there existed no longer a winter. The long months of cold and The wolves were silent now. Carve] know what that Meant, and be was tensely alert. •In the stillhess the click of the safety on 'his eille sounded' seith metallic sharpness. For many minutes they heard nothing but the crack of the fire. Suddenly Beeies's hunger were gonee in the neve vision- turn, gave Ivey to Buckingham House, ings that tilled hid' brain they were cited by the Duke of Buckingham' forgotten. The 'birds and flowers and ere in 1703: It was this house 11171110. was the. blue skies had come baek, and with rebuilt, one hundred years ago, to there the Wililow must surely have re- turned, tied she was waiting for him meke the palace we now know, ,now, jug. over there beyond that rim The rebuilding, which cost about of green forest. . $2,500,000, was commenced under (To be concluded.) George IV. but It was not until Queen ---q,------ Victoria% reign that the new palace Origin•of Gospel Hymns. was occupied by Royalty. Plant I3alloon Crosses Ocean. It Is no trouble for a plant balloon to cross the ocean, only three thous- -and miles. ;Ocean travelers on trans- Atlantia liners frequently see these balloons heating in the air in mid- , Trees of the maple type have such heavy eggs that to attach them to a fluffy balloon eufflciently large enough to tarry them far away 'would be most laborious. . So the maple has Invetited an air: ship, probably the first *.alielaip ever known, in: the 'world, or fit least aimless the" earliest:the first of ail heavier- than-air machines.. ' • S At the end'. of a queer, feathery- ehaped wing the maple -lays its egg, When the seed ripens the wing dries ao as to beeeme' light yet Stiff end, with a fair Wind, breaks away from the stem. . Spinning around in a most amazing manner, this tiny airship sails away to try to become a mother maple, going as far as Poesible, lands on soil itevaits' until the next spring and, then sends out little feelers to attach itself and grows roots. Throw'one of these maple airships into- the air and you will aoe an in- teresting sight. Watce the witig whirl like the propeller 01 a man-made ohip. Drop one from a MO building, or even throw it in the air when there Is a good wind, and me it sail' gracefully ' hack, and faced the quarter 'beliie came, the old yearning to Baree; the Carvel, his head level with Ins shoul- ders, his . inch -long fangs gleaming as, he snarled into the bkqcit caverns of the forest beyond the rirn of fire- light, Carrel had turned like a ehot. It was almost frightening•—svhat he Saw. A pair of eyes burning with greening lire, and then another pair, and after that so many of them that he could 'slot have counted them He t2: ave 'a sudden gasp, They were like cat.eyes, only mhoh larger. S.orne ol them, Oatching the, firelight fully; were heart-thrillmg, call of the lonely graemi beek on Gray Loon, of the ourne'd, Cabin, the abandoned tepee beyond the pool --and of Nepeese, In les sleep he eaw visions of -Shines Tee heard agam the low, sweet voice of Ihe felt' the touch of her hand, was at play With her once more tis the ,darit.elkaclos Of the forest—and Cereal would dit and watch him 'es he dreamed, trying to read the mean- ing of what lie saw' and heard, 'In April'CarVel, shouldered his: Airs red' TO-a1S, .nthere,fiathed owe and' uP- the,Hudson,,Bay Company.s, pest „ .011'001..11.e tool; 'in 'the thei: nortillIIctreenaceonspanied For a long period ot the treadle ages It was this circumstance which In - For "The Times," Possibly ter the the onlY Darticipatiois that the congres first and only time in its career, to a gation was entitledsto have in the Sing - conundrum "Why , Buckingham Ing ot the church service. was in the ' 4eirson‘,„ Palace the cheapest ever builteleesked sheet responses, "Iryele Charlemagne even went so far as to forbid by law the singing of ,secular soegs in the streets, Bo that the only musical expression Of many people was tee "Kyrie .Eleison." The adoption of Lowell .Macion's IlYMlis Was very widespread. In Seetce hymnals Of the Menet time some thirty-four are said to appear. • The Gospel Song was not originaied 'by Ira D. Sankey, ae massy pewee have aasumed, /meg betorec Sankey'a trip -to England, where he met svitle great Then ,dishes from the royal kitchens success-, there were -songs of rt,similar type itn :woe epreeeey.. They game! had to be earried-throngh endless cot- rtddrs 'before they were•serred, so tlat from the activiyes of such Men' ea they steely arrived at fable -1e perfect Kirepatrice, Philip Peillips and W. condition.' • • , Howard Doane, but, principally P. MostP,ttlis ar o , it seemed pos. Blies: Sankey was the eeriest amateur aible for anyeee to enter theepeslace. le his musicianship, while Bliss was al Shortly after `Queen Victoria's tnar- real misician. Thus Bliss became the senior editor of "Gospel. Hymns" and i riage' 4re.at sensatlell was caused bY a boy named Jones; wIM claimed to Sankey his asSistant. 'Gospel Hymns" have gained- access to. the private are shid to ,have ,sold mere than my apartments of the 'palace, and to eave ether book with the exception Of the overheard. convetsettons -betWeen the Queen and the Prince Consort. Buckingham Palace.. has peen the scene of manY magnificent Cohfrfune- tions, and is Ease intimately essociated with the llama lite of our Royal Family. Most of Queen Victoria's children were bolas there, end It was in the palace that King Edward died, rich— tilvvree you. Tried fit? The hoy ilavorecil keevep and wee sealed FigLer theah y Japan. Gursperw 4,Lp, SALA A. The Green Mont What of ail the- colors shall I bring for your fairing Pit to laY Your fingers on, fine enough Yellow for the ripened rye, .whito for • ladies' wearing, Red for brimeroses, or the skies own blue? Nay, for paring has touched the elm, spring has found the willow, Winds that tail' the swallow home away the eleads apart; 'Green shall all my curtains be, green - shall be my pillow, Green I'll wear within my hair and green upon ray heart. --Marjorie Pickthall. about. ss The modest little vielet May be very mild and all that but, it, like several ether 'plants, terns ite pods into guns. which shoot thee"egge Inc and near. When the eggs ripen tne• pale actually, open. with a bang which may be heard distinctly. The explosions frequently scatter tlle !seeds for radins of sever- al yards, .Caught from Children. Mothee specially constructee saw You cannot etay the passage of 'the years, but -would you like to remain young—in face and feeling-? Then, If you heve children, keep them young. The peecticions Mild—the youngster -feeder than its years"—ages its par - the ' greats tied usually grave neWet ants, paper; arsd replied; "Because it wad At first, perhapsea father is proud of built for cne sloverdign and furnished a precocious child. That's because lie for another."' . mistakee precoclousnese- for clever- A.t the beginning of its career as a nese Later,, when he „sees that tee Royal reaidencee Bueltingliam Palace child is losing'its freshness and charm, was by mameans Se 'well organized as he beacnnee anxious. And anxiety ages. It is to -day. Division of labor, for in- There is another ei,de to the ques- siance; was carried 'to altogether too tion. To keep youeg one should seek great extreMes. . It was the duty ot the company of the young. It lie hard the Lord SteWard's department to lay to explain, but there is, according to the fires, but they'could only be lit• by scientists, an animalism or radiaticin. the Lord Chamberlain's department. from the young •vshich IS absorbed by .• The Apple Barrel Industry • in Nova' Scotia There is a phase of the apple indus- try InsNova Elcotia of which compara- tively little is known namely, tlfg: manuftioturing of and ettpplying the., containers in Willett the fruit, is packed for shipment. .The favorite contidner In Nova Scotia (a still the time-hoeor- ed barrel. At the bulk of the apple crop is exported tee' barrels so used are dot a.vallable for a second year, 1 O.'nd 'hence each year's crop demands pentically a corresponding production of eontainers. • The Annapolis Valley produces most of the apples grown in Nova Scotia,' which, in recent years, amounts' to nearly two million barrels annually. The barrels in which these apples are packed are also produced locally. I It is quite safe to asaume that one SMART LITTLE ONES GO SIMPLY and one-half million newaharrele were I CLAD, - used in -handling the Mop of' 1.024,1' _Discriminating • plug notestoiee,ThecoLibined uses will .„d two, Mee by the half-dozen. Bean- motheis are maldrig adorable little dressese pet by ones while e large "number care used ie ship - account for an annual,Mmumption of tif'-'sti silks and attaactiVe- cotton ma - Two million . apple -barrels would .1 terials are to be had in all the shops elose to two reineen teterehe i..4t very little, cost, and with pattern realm quite a foriaideble showing. If I number 1047 several attractive dress - Piled along the roadside in A ,a01-alan es could be made. The little girl with ot six rows in breadth and three tiersiher eiwpph,a_repe :wean pretty ht„ Ili height, the end of the column would ese printed frock with Mort kimono present a front ten feet wide and' steam Th -e cellar is unusual in seven feet high, while its length would Shape, and straight bands trim the be nearly thirty-five miles. 1 lower edge Of the dress. Long sleeves -The apple barrel Industry is one that, make a comfortable frock for cool lends itself favorably to the small' days. Sizes 2, 4, and 6 years. Size operator. On hundreds of email farms' 4 years requires 2% yards of 22 -inch in the "back" parts of counties ad -1 or 56 -inch, or 2 yards of 40 -inch ma - lama to the apple bele—and particle- terial. Price 20 tents.. larly Lugenburg- county, which is le- habited by a thrifty people et German or dutch descent—the making bt apple barrels is a profitable sideline thi ',rural induetele • Diming tise winter months the wood is. cut and hauled to local csawmills. Second growth maple and birch is largely used, The logs are arst eavrn Into stave lengths—about the length of cordwood. 'A speciallyeconstructed cylinder saw then rips out the staves witk. the proper degtee of rouedne,se. They me then trimmed on a band -saw which automatically shapes thein to the proper width—narrow at either eed and full in the centre. The barrel "beads" are sawn from short pieces of boards of the proper thickness by Bible. • thing,s without bodies. ai Lac la Blelle, which. Was stilbios l f4r-s.1 t. ere, ee;. they were on, vo13tC111L02''sL150t.St_ 001,5 l returned to the oilhili,and touhsi Item, bet' whose Ite bad seen tbesa him' there, lie Was so overjoyed that' • h fi he caught Inc dog's head. in his arms they eme Sekes n so s t o s ."yes; I'm a pretty clips° hers." "Ilow so "She said' she'd "be a siSter to my brother " ' • The produ:ction of -vine in Cana& has steadile increasee pre-wal times. The 19.1.3 ouiput was 2,800 tons. This \vas incredscd to 17,500 t.G.Is in 1...;13 ::.!-:1--2.atzd 101)1018.1904 prediction 'odached 49;000 relative of Poland'', Hat, 66, Hotidays. There ore sixty-nine holidays on dio Polish ealendM.. ": Royal Pelaeee Forrn.Olty.. The royal palaces. of 'Bangkok form eSty le themselves.' 'They consistof• several bemired inelvidual palaces; surrounded by ,'inagnificent gardens and pagodas.- ' -Hop Scotch is a garce with a ,Very long history!li is,even said thatsome of the payern:uts,of,tric ancient forum Roninearei Marked with the same , • , diagrams as,„tliose, winch boys and . . • gos:.s,. draw cn.-tlic 'paveniems My' streets "to -day„, ' So Julius, Cmsar an'a .i7ero and the Ido'faan emperors May possibly, have played at that, tool Who knows? these who associate with thene This Is Why it is not advisafile for old people Melees), with children, The children are apt to lime vitality. But that does not apply to a parent who, with tact and gentle, unfelt guidance, heeps children young and- enters inte their 110 e. The ehildrenlose noth- ing, but he keeps ,himself 'young. ' • A Perfect Alibi. "Here, here, gentlemen!" exclaimed the train conductor, finding two- ot his smoker paesengers engaged in a brawl, "What's the tyoubie here?" "My pocketbook's gone,". 'replied .one ot the combantants whets peace had been restormi. "And I Male Ise took it He was sitting eseside---" Plies crazy!" interrupted the B.C.': cused. "I never stole a penny ln life!' 1 (TOWS have to steal, I'm pluraber." , .„ The designs illuetrated in our new Fashion Book are advance styles for - the home dressmaker; and the woinan or girl who desires to wear garments dependable for taste, simplicity and economy Will find her 'deerres fulfilled M. our patterns. Price of the book 10 cents .the copy.. Each hook includes one coupon good for five cents in the purchase of any pattern. HOW TO ORDER PATTERNS. t Write your name and address plain- ly, giving ,nutriber and sizo of Buell patterns as you wr.nt. Enclose 20c in stamps or coin (coin preferred; -wrap it carefully) for each number„ and address your order to Pattern Dipte 'Wilson Publishing Co:, 78 West Ade- laide .St., Toronto. Patterns sent by return . With his weed sawn -Into staves and heads the small operator then sets up his -essembling franies in some con- Venient had at his own honseewhere he 11115ein many an hour of "spare" time. For hoops he uses saplings' of alder, birch, willow or other growths, whieh are split ee shoved down le the required thiekness. As the hay graduallY disappears from hiS barn a' seeond, crop files up, the vacancy—a crop_ of apple barrels', which will be marketed befere, the space is again re- quired for hay. When baskets • and ledders once -more are being 'overhauled and taken. to the orchards, and iengliais apple buyers begin to register at the "val- ley" hotels, the barrel maker bestirs hiinself to dispose of his prodeee, The hay rack is placed on the. fares svag- on and piled lege, with 6 great lossCof barrels. Early in the morning he sets ' out on the Meg winding 'road that leads down train the "mountain" to the low orchard Valleys. . 1 For Motel It is a twoelee trip.' 'On fise'Chestei-Witiesor road, luet betas R strops siewn from the last rocky benen to the smiling Avon valley, there Is a elester .of smah huts where many farmers .from a dietance .are Went to snood thenight. -.Here one quiet eveze .ing' Ono 'may_ see great loads of apple barrels as well ,as Of lumber and Other prodnee, 'which eaely next Morning will be on the streets of _the 'valley Apple barrels nowsell at 10, 15 oi •50 cents each.- 'tniring the war, they soared' to 'a dollar. 'Of eoarse there Inc' many _shoes' whieh have a lacge oittput lest the. coMbinee production of the many smalloperstore, to whom such" Worlele merely a'.sideline; playa an iseportartt part eretabeizinglim" in - emery.' The 'ready cash op earned Is o weicoMe addition' to -the -limited in- eomes of these people, whoemlogation alsneis le.:tairli8; -hthetilleapPproellutneisotlle opportunity yf of.oetrheeart- swaeple industry. A two million barrel crop of apples Means that at least one 'and a half mi/lien-barrels be, pur- chased at a costof nearly three -guar, tors of a milMonidollars, Attractive,Girl. , , $110---"Hor fathe.r IS 'a Steel 'nate, of course you linOW?" F..he'S so attractive ;ose " • — Orators in cold Storage, ' Grainonhone' records at the voices of the Prince of Wales, Mr. pioya George, and Mr. 'Winston Chm-111111 are Dre,.. served in the British' Museum. • The .Fighting Pipers. The great 'wastage ot pittere daring' the wax proved that they belong, un- like the British bandsman, to the aght- . ins ranks. Some flve hundred of them fell during the roue Years' etimeaign, aiad Most et these were playing an heroic part, like the piper at Da.rgal, It IT their business to lead the an and to cheer onthe fighting men it mins even in the.thick 01 'battle- Hundreds of pihrochs exist end every regiment lis s it own special favorites, which probably are endearee to it by biss torie - association, In the ledian Mutiny, the besieged garrison at Luck - now were gladdened with new hope whet they honed thespibroch of the ' Highlandsesst.e relieving force came .) over , Purists, may„bcompisie Ilatethe hfig' Piet!. lemillY a hayearie bunch of reeds and call neyer be elassed as a gem ne ineteumenct or music. It certainly is a ' thing . apart with' ite' monotonous drones, two 'in the -case of the Irish pipes. and. tierce -in that of the Scottish; but Its elesuter or evrarblee' is capable of 'wonderful results,, cle.splie its un - 'orthodox tenieg,” in the hands of a skiltul performer, and for range of effects and stenulate„ig posver on the listeners it is unique e • A Dog With Ten Table, a certain published book there ap- peared WA an-eeample et "brilliancy" the following nrohrem and solution . , boy''who 'webted a pair of skates 'said, to Ids. father, one night, "'settler, will you. get me a pah• of isluae3 it -I can .prove to•You that a dog has ten tails?" . • , •'• , • .The father ensiled 'and -needed, and the- boy ,begaar !,\Vell, one dog has more tail's than 00 dog- hasn't he?" , "Well, then, '11 no dog has nine tails 'ead'One'ilog has, one more .tail than rea dog, then one dog most have ten tails." English' Penslon.s' bocrease. .War pensions aresnow. costing Eng, land about, B40,000,000 lees, than in 1520.21. The reenatriage of Widows and growing ' up of, children ere two great seuses of this recluttion. • • • . American brssds ef s aep sprang nem herds of Etiro.-,,