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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1925-08-20, Page 6erd ct BY.FRANCIS' MORTON HOWARD. PART E he fire ,in the grate ws crinkling a into dull embers, and the eramp-• little living 1,00.P.2 of the cottage institmt wij the lateness .of the r, when the gato-at tbe end a the den meal -tea back on its hinges and fooli,ste-,...s began to scroPe for- a Crr'er the narrow, paved path 'to doer. `he old -man, nodding in his chair the flrebitle, blinked Ante 4:eel:Ill- s attliCaed vigilantfy: The -We - sewing within the closer zone of lamplighai, glancel in surprise at clock and stayed the plucking of needle to listen. . earer drew the 'footsteps. An an- t, 11,1-Z.1f-blind dog, sprawled' along - the fender, raised•his head. Then, he beat upon the floor with his 'It is him!" whispered the old man, at. come back!" he woman had risen from her Lir, one hand pressed tight to her " - hen she drewelerself erect and ssed to the door to open it. - °fore -even she had laid lier palm n the upper bolt old Jaeob,Lawe's ughts had leaped baek across the les to the day when: he who now lied at the threshold had turned ay- from that very -door and gone , so menacing and siriiSter." e stared through the wall of the tage and saw 'a ennlit morning 'in e spring, _ - he heme whiCh he shared with his ghter and her husband lay isolat- some half -mile or so .from the vitt, e, but, on. that particular morning, work had ordained thatehe should s through the pittee on ine way k to dinner. here was ag constrained hush at when old Jacob Lawe trudged nderingly to the scene, but this soon Wed place.to a sorrof tacit joke, a ng' of 'nudges and tightelipped iles, which implied a sardonic droll.- to.which all but he were elive„ here was to 1M "rough music"; that 'comprehended. He knew what the ass coeveyed. Ther e had been ugh,music" several times before his ep.erieriee, when the„women of vilIage, to nutric their sense of disa ewers at ramie connubial irregular - 'had congeegated outside the ales Of the guilty. Who are they goin' tofi, asked Ja- , But again his neighbor only grin - at him., nd now, euddenly,the women pre - ed to move off in execution df their ject. ' ut -there was no pause at either tage, and the tumult passed on and til the village was left behind, and n, at the fork in the highway, the er lane was unhesitatingly chosen. rid, for' a full mile, Jacob's was only hone that stood beside the `Ye don't mean to say—?" isa cried: conaternation. - 'Tumbled to it, have ye,, at last?" d the fellow et his side. "Yes, 'tis to your'place.they're going! The gh music is for Alf I3urchl" 'But.—but—but he'll nigh kill Es - for it," protested 'Jacob vehe- ntly. "- A. twist in the road brought the cot- ge into sight, and at Once the wo- m'a din took on n' more provocatiVe te. Burch had heard the tumult' ap- eaching up Nis valley, and he was aiding at his gate. As the crowd Same to it ,stop he ng up his hand, and the masterful ering of him compelled a compar- ve Silence. 'So you've come to give me rough sic, eh?" he asked. "You want me alter my ways with Esthei; do you? lit you a minute, and Inl show yolz w I'm altered." , He swung his back contemptuously them and went to the open door - !Esther!" he called, "Here, you--- therl Come here. I want your' 6he came hesitantly to the door at summons. He gripped her by the it and led her 4 litble WaY doWn, path, and there he raised his stick 1 slashed her, twice across the face It. He flung her froin hins and i'etunibled to her knees, but she the r cried' out nor moaned, but red straight before her. 'There's the , payment • for your sieeel. said -Sin -eh to the ceowd, Chey stood staring at him, inondu. that such a thing could have hap- md. He dashed his stick to ,.the Rind and strode to. the gate. The ong eddied beak at his advent, all re decrepit old gelte Spas -stow." 'Out of zny way!" shouted Burch. tit of my way, do ye hear?" he ,uted again, and drove his fist be- .t sen old Sparstow'8 eyes and sent to the ground. ' and, with that, he Marched off vn, the road: Not once did he turn head, and in utter quiet' they tched him go:- It was only when he I rounded the bend in the,lane that vement came slowly back to them, ?, people waking from a trance. 'Gone—he's .gone!" she was sob g. "Thank god—oh,"sthank. God!' 's gone—gone' folever!" ' ;ix, seven years ago that had hap -- Md, and no word ef Burch had they .r 'had in all that time. And now had come back again and was wait - on the ether side that door for re- ry to his home. . 'Don't let him in! Don't!" called Jacob, moyecl to a sweating terror the clarity, of his last memory of / mil, but Esther had Withdrawn both ts and now swung the door open i stood back, rigid. Esther," said Burch' e voice. There was no emotion. of any sore t It. It was siMply a stateteent of i ihe stood silent, waiting, le glanced n't Esther as though sliiiig helipat-raission to enter. She le ' motion of hos arm and he came thsr into ihe room. Still, without ord, sba 0'd:ea the deer lrt'ltiod L Jacob," css Seid. ''.raeoh," g Old Leave nodded,and grunted; too watchful and- suspicious of thi strange change in his son -In -hew to snare thought faiwords. "Have—have you,come far?" sake , Jacob at length, to break the uncaam quietude. "Yee, I've OCOMO far," answcre Eurch, "Where from?" "From—frora--" Burch began t reply, but stopped and shook his head helplessly. "Are you hungry?" asked Esther, corning elbSer. "Yes, In hungry." He ath ravenously, and there was no talking. When he had finished, hgthe e sat pattin, and stroking e dOg's head absently and. murmuring th him- self in little snatches. the table, pushed it back unexpectedly with a laud, resonant scraping upon the stone floor, And, at that sudden noise, Burch -screamed out, covering his,eyes with his hands and whinny- ing with fear. - He soon quieted dewn again, but for some while after, he _sat erect; me. ehanically picking A hie cheek with his forefinger and continually starting with little tremors. "I've, been in the army," he said presently, "Been in the army, out yonder, across the sea. 'Twits hell by day arid hell by night, and great fires burning—and an—J' He shudder- ed and broke off. Old Lawe tried to draw him out, and Esther struck in. with here and there a question, but Burch could onity shake his head and say that he for- got.• . "He's a broken man!" declared 'Ja- cob exultantly. "He's broke for good and. all., body and spirit of him. 'Tis this here shell -shock. That's what it le, wager ye. "'Tie hard on you," said Jacob. "Cruel hard on you." He shot a fur- tive glance at her, "On you—and on ke- Lula/11er, too," he added pointedly. • In the days that. followed, J„ticob's surmise proved correct as to the cattle a Burch's condition. Shell -shock it was:that had 10.1d hold of Eether's hus- band, aPd eorrietiznes he would be so under- the spell -of it aiii'sto be little bettOr ;thin a terrified child., In. no mood did the invalid ever de- part from a certain wietful subaerv- ienfr, ee to Esther and to other lib bear- ing was scarcely leis humble. It seem - as if the irony of jhstiee had de- creed that he should atone for the past by now, in his turn, cringing and shrinking back at a quick .word or an impatient glance. And Esther, to help support her stricken husbando weat daily to work in the kitchen of 130arcombe Farm, and old Sacob Leave; though he grum- bled in privaey, somehow made up the rest of Burch's keep. So things went on, and one day jacols spoke again Of Luke Miller to his daughter. "T've scarcely seen hith since Alf same back," said Esther. , "Hes talking of going away—leav- ing here for good." "Is he?" asked Esther, and Was quiet for a little while. "So much the better for both of us!" she deaared squarely. • sCalne a rough night when the Wind buffeted over the hilltops and sveent. roaring down am valleys, and the rain beat in paasionate gusts upon the win- dow panes. Old Jacob Lawe, sacking at his empty pipe, was crouching be- side the Are. Burch, in the armchair, was fidgeting with length of string, tying end untying it.' , The howling of the wind and the drumming of the rain Upon the 'win- dows held sway again for some min- utes. Then Burch looked up, puzzled. "Esther," he said. "Where's Eether?" "Outl" shouted Jacob in reply. "Gone out! Oone,down to the shop!" There ceane a rush of, feet toward the, door and a hurried knocking, "CaaMe in!" called Jacob, and -the door opened. , " ,"What, you Luke?' tried Jacob. • 1"Aye;me! Evening, all. I just step - Ped down for a word with ,Esther. packed. I'm away off next week. morrow I go to Painswick to stay with my brother till I go. I thought I'd just step down and see Esther. Is she about? "NO, I won't be stopping. I've net much thne. I must look in and say good-bye to Duxsey, down below. I'll come back again, later on." "Well, 'tome you out by the back door this time," urged ,Jacoll quickly as Mil:sr' put bis hand ',again on the latch.' "The wind does blew inte ale- house So hard- by there." They passed througheto the tiny atall,ery. Burch watched them go without the lest interest. But next his hands began to chithh convulsively, and .after that he began fo fill out his clmst, drawing the air deeper and deeper into his lungs till his breath panted and hissed through his c:ese- Set teeth, At 'last hehrose and•flung wide his arms. „ "The _rough music!" IM whispered. 'The -,rough. music!' -• He stood there staring, staring be- fore him, with every muscle aquiver. "I can rernernber! can remember, now! I can remornber everything now!" - He dreg himself erect as ever he had been, and gredually the dull amazement crept out of his face and al the evil brutality came flowing back he Tlines about bis eyes and nouth folded and drooped themselves back to the old snarling savagery. "Aye, the, rough inusic, of course! I remember nowl" A moment later old Jacob returned o the living room: Burch was ,statici- ng by the fire, and Jacob saw at once how it was with him. (To be concluded.) ci o A !Hone.. . • It is' to be lloPO that all those -who hrow'pubbish by the wayside centleue aeir cerry1ng home reat Imuclees poleonasy, , STRIPES ARE SMART, - There is no deviation from ,the straight line to be observed in this' little sports frOck, of apricot -and. White striped washable silk, that is •simplicity itself to make. The model is of the kimeno type, showing it few tucks at the A befrilled jabot emphasiz,ee the front closing, • and the short e'.eeves and round neck add chic. The 'diagram shown at the side will give an idea of the construc- tion of,the frocki and the pattern pre - vides long sleeves. The jabot is a tri- angular-shaped piece of materialrand is not included in the pattern. Sizes 16, 18 and 20 years. Size 18 years requires 31/2 yards of 36 -inch material for the dress with long sleeves., Price 20 cents. Many styles of smart apparel may, be found in our Fashion Hook. Our designers originate their patterns in the heart of "the style centres, and their creations are those of tested PoPttle.riti; brought within .the means of the average woman. Price of the book 10centstlie copy. Each copy includes one coupon good for five cents in the purchase of any pattern. HOW TO ORDER PATTERNS. Write your name and address plain- ly, giving numbs and. size of such patterns as yeu went. _Enclose 20c in stamps or coin (coin preferred; :wrap It caxefully). for each number, and address your order to ,Pattern Dept., Wilson Publieliing „Co., 73 West Ade- laide St., Toronto. Patterns sent by return mail. 'My husband thinks this, is the dead- est place he ever -visited. "Why- doesn't he come dawn alone sortie time and try it?" . Sleep Secrete. What is probably a world's reeord for continued waketainess was estab- lished reCently by two experimenter who remained awake for fivo (lags and four nights -116 hours—In order to study the effeits of long lack of Bleep on the human bOdy. Two aeslstante attended the astib- jects of the test' to keep them awake. Both of the experimenters were tested periodically while they remained awake and after they had begun to make up their lest sleep. Blood pres- sure, raspiration, the reflexes, and tem- perature were some of the thinge test- ed, and the, results of these observe. tions have been summarized by Dr. Kleliman as followei--- Sleep comes as a result of complete muacular, relaxatioe. You ean help to bring on Bleep by relaxing the mueclea, you can ward it off by muscular Con- traction. But after you reach your • limit of fatigue your Muscles will re. Inc a-utomatically, and sleep will coma whether you wish it or not. efervoue fatigtie produces muscular contrac- tions that prevent. sleep. Complete "thoughtless" relaxation, then, is the goal to be sought by those who suffer froM nervous insomnia, A La Silhouette. . • The_ oldest Silhouettes. that 'have been preserved dae6 from Corinth in 700, but was known, tebe of much ear- lier...origin. The name, however, was, not applied to them ttntil 1750, when - one Btienne 'de' Silhouette was French Minister of' Finance, • l•Var had just 'left Tratice.in a,state of great financial exhaustion and Silhouette insisteml that - dos people remedy -',some of the finan- cial evils of war by rigid economy. During this period all Parisian fas- hions took the form of. parsimony. Lace and ribbons were under, tha .ban and CO'S'es without fold* heenne the _ • rags:- la plane of begemmed golden snuff boxes hikli and law used boxes made from the plainest a Woods.- IM geed of having groat artlite paint their Portraits they •pOrtrayl ecl'• the fel- tures by drawing only, the outlines in India Ink. .In that day' all "fashions. were spoken of as "a la Silhouette" but the picture is the only_thing that has since retained the name. ,Must be a Ventriloquist. "Listen to this, pa!" exclaimed Mrs. Clancy, who WRS reading a letter from their, son in college. Our Dennis sez he won the interschoolastie debate." 'Good for ill' bye!' exulted the proud father. "Dia he say lioW far bo threw MA" SECRETS OF THE HUMAN SKIN Most personsbathe tram habit or for t 10 conifert or pleasur'e they get fron , and comparatively few jrnew the relationship that exists between bath, Mg and petional health,' sitld Dr. Mat thias Nicoll in'a re.cenf addrees. ' , The skin, in, relation to being a pro- tective covering, iti:the great heat -re- gulating' organ.of the body.. ;When in health tbe tomPerature of the human body remains practically the same in heat Or cold, in summer pr in winter, whether a persotrweare rio clothes or. iews himself intelmany garrnents. The akin throug11 its pores and' the ntarty little vessels and nerves with which it FarIlaelfss.t. rmers grow', kindred to the soil they .' till, One -tadtid the OW.e.retjii.,V7 ere their ocamlande ieac' , Granite is in their gaze continued and And, tho' slow:pulse of rivers In 'their They have' their silences like thote 0 • Iowa - In winter, obdurate, end Indifferent. -They tread the" land 'Anta,eue-like; •wt, Fed from the turf, indomitable, content. , cannot: think of farmer•folk apart From the long acres where their sloW shares creep., , They Truitt be PrivY to the-Pantbla dark - , • • heart; ,• •" is supplied 'automatically. takes carelArtieulsaletein ,ber councils even their of the body tempdrature.' ep A Network of Nepyas.• Is like the' sleep of frozen, falieW A, person, !Imo, or ir out In tho hot Warming to dim, great dreams of birth network of iirtiO nerVeri reports the and 001. --Ted Olson sun. Heat of the body follogm- The fact to the,slcin. Its mesh of,capillary blood vessels dilates, Whter oozes out; evaporation of the water cools' the blood at the surface, and it returns 'to the interior to stabilize the' general body temperature, At another time the.sturie Doreen; zits still la a cold room: -.His body radi- ate:9 some of its, heat tito the stureund- ing atmosphereeand were It not for the heat -regulating power of the skin hie, tempeeatiere would drop? ,But the nerves report the fact to the skin; and 'the small bloodevessele there begin to eontract so that less bleed ie' at the surface to be cooled. The nerves also report to. the lunacies, and they begin to tremble and shiver. This' causes the production of more heat. If the pores, of the skin are complete- ly stopped up (de they were'in. a 'his- sent. It Is hoped that' this fuel_will be toefese case a a, Geed whose body wes sold at a'price not- exceeding -$(3 per Pea' Feta, The experimental plant at Alfred, Ontario, on which the Peat Connnittee, appointed jointly by ithe Ontario an4i Dominion governments, expended $360,000 in demonstrating the <manner: Mal Possibilities• of producing peat fuel, has beemplaced on a commercial basis and is now in full operation. Dnder the new management many traprovemente have been made, inchid- ing a change from steam to electric power, with very favorable results. Operationare conducted on a 144.bour week with a prodlletiOn of 0 to 8 tons of marketable fuel per hour. • The es- timated production for 1926 Is 6000 to 8000 tons, despite a very late Start, with about 2500 tons in storage at pre - covered 'with gilt paint), the poi,son ton on the car at Alfred. will die within a short time, doe to in- In view of this Interesting developteeference with Use,, 'beatgegination meta In the oonservettion of our fuel mechanism. Perspiration goes oxt con- resource.s the following facts' about the tinually, generally eneensibly. One use of peat fuel are pointed out -by the notes it particularly if he wears a rub- Dominion,Fuel Board at Ottawa: her coat, or when heavy ehoes or gol- Peat is val-uable as an auxiliary to as01013 fare -worn, for he finds his cloth- coal in the furnace and ice general use ing or his stockings wet or damo. in eohlt stoves, grates and estmface sidue of this insensible perspiration; , —Keeping Clean and Pit. - • heaters. we Peat . So bathe (I) to remburn& treely, leaving seven per remove the re- cent. of ash, and does not clinker. It is very (Melly ignited wtth paper and kindling, requires a small draft ex- cept during the Ignition period, and furnishes an intense heat tor a com- paratively ehort time. ,Peat is there- fore particularly applicable to cooking and -baking operations, where high tem- peratures are required for short periods only. To secure best results for cook etovee ft is advisable to start (2) to keep the pores: opeue and (3) to produce rdefinite enyironment tem- perature for our comfort—a hot bath to add warmth to the body. or a cold bath to lessen the bodely heat, A warnor hot bath will often soothe. a protect the, tiny -infant from eontact with a UM IOW temperature Or front dptere:ruesrgoinhahtwietat.eryrvowilist:emffze.' A cold bath latively is its. radiating surface. So we or cold sponge often. bringe Sleep to a The smaller the body, the greater re- .. plate covering In the firebox and the a fire using small pieces to form it core - larger blocks co, to. A. good draft width very rrintlily evaipuothraeate, . eIng WeU, aflitse:d.wricthil tthheedPreaaftteines abYlirahe more, we do not bathe hint at a tem- - , the insensible • perspiration; almost 'entirely timed off and fresh • perature much lie/ow Opt or hfuel added as rteediid.is body.. Delicate perient wile make little ex -1 in - Peat stead of cannel coal or wood with ex - may be used in, fireplaces" ertion often cold:bathe upsetting 'steal results. ht burns quietly with unlezte they get a good amecularreace non by vigorous shivsrinor eetre a yellow flame, later eubsIding into 8, g clothing im.incoaely, Tise he''solter, cheerful rja glow and does not seatter sparks and soot throughout the room. athlete, however, take e his cold show- Peat is not adapted to replace coal in el', hastens the 'needed cooling of Ins furnaces during esizere winter weather body, 0.14 thus strived to be clean and because of Its free burning qualities, but 15 ,15 excellent for maintaiblng a There' is no general rule for bathing. furnace „fire during mild weather, for Sectety, however, demands that its kinellittg coal or in reViving a fire when Sense of senell net be offended by , the dried residue of perspiration, other Ayr' ,." Iin surface heaters, peat is burned wise the person drippingwith perspire • - Very much the same as coke or wood. tion might merely rub Written! dry, With stoves of the air tight type a small amount raay be kept alight for Prom the Sea Bottom. a wasiderable veria4 as a block of. until en - Some surprising things come mit peat °nee ignited will burn u of tirely commuted, even •when drafts are the sea, for it Is rich slot only in fishes, completely closed off. but in works of art. e- • i Remarkable, treasures. have been The two principal rules 10 be °beer- ved in burning pone.-are;—Do not put dredged from tha.bed ot the Bay of en tee Much (ttel at 0 . time, and allow Naples, and only -a few mouthe ago a the firh to get well startedd 'before diver sighted a drowned' city off the • North Africiste ceaet.. 1,Wriv some poor closing drafts. Greek lisherinen at IVIarattlan have I, raised a beautiful brbnze statue which! was lying twenty fathoms ander the sea. Experts say it ie'a charming Ogure. Of aeboy, andebelongs to the best period of Greek art 2,300 years.ago. It re- sembles the.work of the echool of the great Praxitelee, and is practically per- feet- Probabliait is! a relic of a ship- wreck, or was flung overboard In Storm. 1115. Clear, poet soul of, Galilee, - What truth could dim Thy radianeY1 Why must we heclgeand screen and bind . To separate Thee 'front Mankind.? ' gy, Thou, whom sad sinners made their ' could. they reach Thee on a throne? ' On Calvary Thy tortured brow No halo wore, tior ndeds one now. simple-heerted, Weary -eyed, We love Thee ntbre ' un d alit e d I --Mildred W. Stillman, The Balloon Man. How can he nnenrapthred Stand Who marvelously may coinmand Seven sung in. either hand? Turning on a twisted thread, •Constellatioes green and red Float ithove hii placid bead; And as he walks, each hollow' ball. A bobbing planet smooth and email, Must with bts motion rise and fall. He who for silver would pessees Cheaply a private world, no less, To satIsfe his happiness, Wholly hie etsin to loose or bind, May with this merchant quickly find The bubble brightest to his mind; Then, haVing bought, may watch it go Slowly to nothing, and may know, Seeing it shrink algworlde erceso. —Jean itt, Batehelor. Saved by a Pluke. This was after the krvens' quarrel. "1 ean never forgive you," he cried. "Last night you said I was a lobster." "But, my dear," she replied, coyly, "you inuet remember now crazy rani abott lobater." With it glad emr he fettled her to hie heart. eilefleakeee Earl lin ti a euell 0! the "‘vilil ;:it i flat s fitting 00111,„ the r,ment Calgary stampede. , Ile b • n the:Tea the fun, charm ramv Eine igHt. . The. ,fbsvor. is. lure, 'fropkat and fro:grant.. Tr3i. it. ,Ble.cit?' or Qr-epra, THE •MEANING OF OUR FACES A Novel Method of Judging Health. Even the tiMplest of men and, ,wo- men are never se elinple as they look. They 'are built up of so many different elgaients that their resulting bodies, Wheu they go wrong In any way. Pre - Sent difficult problems to those who seek to put them right again. ' We lime' oemeare the four chief grodpe of elements that constitute the human being with' the four "panels" of japanese screen:* These. panels. that form the Personalities of each one of tut are anatonter, physiology, miycbol- gay, an immunelogy—the `latter com- prising factorthat render us immune to certain diseases. For ages we have been in the habit of speaking of people'"constitutions" with only the vaguest knowledge of what that tern, implied, To -day, how- ever, Dr. George Draper, of the New York Presbyterian Hospital, by means of Ins "Constitution Clinic," is trying to establish scientifically the exact re- lationhip between these contatitational elements of the body and its personal peculiarities. •• , Now, selenee begins with raeasere- . ment, with which we iacludee every method of precise registration. By this system of measurements of his patients, Dr. Draper is able to deter- mine with accuracy to what race an in- dividual of pure bleed belongs. Bin besides the mere similarity of racial physical attributes., there are distinct facial characters of bodily and 'mental functions, and definite differences in the susceptibility of the various Taxes_ to disease. . In that lest consideration it may be possible to find theleey to the old and baffling problem af individual consti- tution. We might coneeive art well of a 8301re-ulcer race, a gallbladder receiver a raeningeal bacillue,auscept- ible race, BS Of the ereeent genera -BY accepted white, yellow, or black clivt alone of mankind'. The study of a inane: mental "make-up" (which large '1y influences his body), and, of the con formation of hie physical frame reirea.le as much abbut hie capacity to develop disease and ability:to Maud it'as does the steely of the external agents teat cause it, From a record of 400 gatithits Mee, mired • and etudied in this way, Dr. . DraP'er has already: obtained some ur. Anteing results. For example; among sofas of the older common beliefs now being substatitfated.aye these: A short face with, eyes . wide apart indicates musical and deareatic ability. Among those with this type 'of face are Marie Tempest, • Heather Thatcher, Blinn° Hate; and Beatrice Lillie. :Yet men with big soft harrde are usually wag- gish and. wiCty. G. 1..g. Chesterton Is an example. But it is mostly in establishing the relation between disease and the con- stitutional characteristics' of the hell- ,vklual that Dr, Drapea, has been ()tem- pled. InvestIgEttion has supported the belief that light -haired people are cidedIy in the minority .1a the -disease groups studied, except in the tuber- culosis group, In Great Britain tuber- culosis becurefenfetly aniong dark-hair- efrneoPle, One of the meet curibus feet& that emerge is that the relative position of eye and brow is significant. The risen- matie person, for hest:Inca, has an eiSt 'that is high up in relation to 'the brow. There is a distinct shape Whic11 indi- cates susceptibility to rheuraatio fever, while another 4ndicatet a tendency to gastric ulcer. • People with round eyes byes close together, and well endowed with fat are prone to gall -bladder aih. snouts, while the gastriceitleer ual has a thin, wedge-shaped, face, and is poorly nourished, , • Summer Heat on Tap at 56 Below Zeto By Pairfax Downey The Rouse that Jack Buillt was complicated piece of construction, Int at least, 41 was not put up while the thermometer was hitting 80 degrees belovt zero. There WEI& nothing in its apecificationes about a warktnan all for - horn who froze two eels on a .frosty morn or anything at that sort. Thee° zero dlfacullties -were met, however, in the case of a summer hotel built With a rueh last Winter that It inight be ready for the eummer guests wha now occupy it. In the coarse of the work there was no rail for the laborers tO freeze anYthing—at least not while on the job. ee around the entire epees to be occupied by the new wing of the hotel, which was to be 4600 feet long. This great shell was lined With tar paper, and • around and about its walls weee Us:Ste, fully draped thousand.s of feet of steam coils which hissed and sizzled frstut th• e efforts of 380 horsepower steam boli - 555. It sonnded Age the nightmare ef an apartment house dweller -dreaming O that some super-rianitor had suddenly , got on the job, but It made it just like summer Indoors. In fact, it is said to - have caused numbers of the evorkmeil to remark, "It isn't the heat; it's the humidity.' That outer shell was constructed five feet from the lines on which the walls *Lam teew wing were to rise, At each of the nine atorieS. Were pierced- win- dows, a wise preceution, for It de- prifed Of the view you get at Lake Louise there' e no telling but what the • workmen might have &truck. Strikes have been called witit far leas reason. • Throughout the intense cold of mid- winter, which really was ranch worse than it•seeme when yon read-abbut it right now, construction went forward farnottalY. Work was, carried on night and day in three shifts, the workmen 'apparently giving no heed to- the merry 1 cries of the toughened Swiss guides ; to tome oh outside and play winter tePorta. Twenty-six thotteand tons et Imaterla4 and coal eanie in through the 1 doors ,in spite of tbe complaints of the more elderly artisans against drafts, , After a wider *IOUs Cocoon cow, etruetipn theoving emerged in ...Tune in time to accommodate 700 guests, ill which service it is at present carrying on, . • About a year ago the non-nreproof halt of Chateau. Lake Louise, on 'the shore of the lake of that name in the Canadian Rockies, caught fire and awnetintilutupeinorsnmoobk,eg.. oNgoe,libvIeltstwizee was na'saving the old, wing in spite of the expanse et emerald -hued water right out front. Snow-eledi peaks eurrouid- ed, infested by Swiss guides and' St. 'Bernard dogs ois something just an good, and it did not eeent to be at all the plaee for a tire, but just the same there was one, Immediate recenstruc- WAS dot feassible, since the season was at its height. Summer guesto tua_d Icelandpoppiee flourish far only a fee, months, at Lake Louise and it would be a pity if the dust and clamor of build fn g operatione ehould arise hi the vicinity. The gueob3, partieularly the New York City guests, wouldcom- plain, "Thl$ 16 -ti much. like home." - Perforce the springing of a ‚new demi-chateau Rom the ashes of the old was put off until the winter, when no- body normally would be around but jack Prott and a few Caretaking SW1ES guides, The guides allowed that it got powerful cold around those parts In the off season. Tnersitid,therevere afraid to truet yodels, ont-in the open; -they froze beforeghey could echo, and es every yodeler knows'," it's no fun .to, Deipettste a yodel if you Can't count en nature to mimeograph It for you. Architects and builders foresaw dif- ficulty- with the concrete to 'be used, Ttneetseu s icoitxtlidngmenvaisneaue agirsscssnteinpgalatitieotchoenr: e "And now win you pour, please?" and She seCond,..though willing as any tea hostess, baying to eefuse becauee ln Oleg winter temperaturdythe belly stuff would be frozen and would not pour a '11''he gleo gtit)rl • fiing of cen'erete Was only one Of the hazards which ha to be surmotinted toward the mid of Sep- tember, when the. summer guests see Out and winter sot in. Chateae t,alco Louise is not "just five minutes' walk from the station," and never'has been .advertieed as such. There ts a three - and -a -half mile gap between hotel ana railroad, which is negotiatedby a nar- row grage tramway whieb make8 no bones about a 4 per cent, grade, This conveyance now wile devoted ta-lsacks ot concrete and other , building =- oriole instead of guests and their bag, gage, and was found to run just as vell, witlt much lees being forgotten. But the feat by which defiance Was t lori in OM teeth cf corshipti• of Lae erection of a huge woadea.s1t3d eking / I 'Most Striking Things. 1 Visitor --"What are the most. strile Ing things about this town?" Native—"I gitess I might mention 1511 clocks and atnomobilee," The Proper Term. To the consternation,,of the village, Alice Jones hadtaken up eleging les. sons, • ' Unfortunately Alice's yoke was not ner most fascinating feature; in fact, it might be described- as her one bad Nevertnelees, a sir eer she would be, One day her father mine in from the Dell unexpeetedly. He entered the house in Ms quiet manner and gazed wonderhigly teward the sitting roona. from which.`cmanated cUrious Soil/MS. At last he centrolled his eanotiOne and turned to his wire, who deed an. pea.rod fromn the cellar with her en. gers In her eare. "My deee," said Jones, "what 18 the -cause of that extraordinary -commo- tion in the sitting fame?" That, Bob," replied his -wife, "is Alice cultivating her Vales." ccimed Jouce.--"cultl• vating Le blo ed That's ha rro wing!" fdo,-e Grapefruit Wmitcd. Tirit'rh ciemvii,1 ter American grape. rut.Is on 'the Mcrcass,