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"Wait a minute; there's a luau out-
side there I- don't. like."
T•oan loolkeei out and saw .a handsome
geatlemau standing beside a cab. It was
the man who had come em to her yeeter-
tray in the park. Instinctively she
shrank back into the dark passage.
"It's Miss Mazurka's young man,,,
raid Emily, in a low voice. "He is wait-
ing. for her. Handsome, isn't he? And
;yet, Fomehow I don't like him. I always
think he's sneering even when he's try-
ing two be pleasant.,,
Al this moment Miss Mazurka passed
sheen.
".&h, Royce!" she said, laughing;
wt'.aiting?"
"Tee, he said, with a smile which
curved his lips. "But I can only put you
in your cab. I've got important buci-
ness :his morning.'
"You always have got some business
other," she said.
"Batt never more important than
this," ho retorted. "Don't keep me,
here's a good girl," and he put her in
the eat?. "I will canto and see you later."
The cab drove off and Royce stood for
a emend, and then. calling another eab,
bot in and seated himself.
".thews to Scotland Yard," he said.
"Come along," said Emily; "he's gone
Shank goodness -=-why, how very pale
you are!"
''Am I?" said Joan, with a little wan
"'les! Do yon know him "
"'No," she answered. "I have seen him
ono, yesterday, but—but everything re-
n:inds me of yesterday—" She paused
and smiled a wan little smile. "But I
ori going to forget -everything up to to-
day—everything, '
o-
day—everything,"
C ETA.PTEIt XX.
ere: once in his lifer Royce looked
greave and ill at ease. He had boasted to
old Craddock that whenever he wanted
'o do anything he succeeded in doing it;
and in twenty-four hours he had dis-
•.'overed that for once he had made a
vain boast.
He had left Chain Court fully resolv-
ed on finding Joan, and, by some means
or other, en getting her into his power.
p'ieet he went to the park; to the spot
where he bad seen Joan, and worked
from there into the streets; he went to
the lodgings in Pall Mall, and hang
about out of sight on the chance of
,loan's weary feet bringing her back;
''lien ho ,wont to Paddington, and in-
quired about the station as Lord
liars had done, and at. last Ire went to
the workhouse' and i*-ttervietved the mat-
ron and the roaster. But Joan was not
to
be found, she seemed to have disap-
near'ecl as suddenly and completely as
they earth had opened and swallowed
her up.
Ho drove to Scotland Yard, his hand-
wnra face grimmer axed sterner than it
had ever possibly been before,
Royce found himself in the presence
of ai quiet -looking, gentlemanly man,
dressed in gray trousers and a frock coat
who gianced up front a ledger, and ask -
"d Royce his business as calmly and se-
dately as if Tic—the inspector —were a
'hanker's clerk.
•'I am looking for a young lady who
massing," said Royce, sadly.
The inspector nodded, andin a bus-
inesslike fashion handed hini a form
containing blank places for the minute
des•e iption of mtseing persons.
• `Ieill ,,+at in, please," he said.
tets.tce filled in the form, writing a
rooked and disguised hand, and passed
:i• hassle.
"Sign it, please," said the inspector.
Eoyc.e took up the pen again and sign-
ed. "George Ormsby!"
"I traced her to .Ifydo Park yesterday
at'tesnc,ou," said Royce, describing the
r.pot.
The inspector gazed on the form as if
],e were looking through it, then Tang
a ell. A. gentlemanly looking clerk
':arae in, and the inspector, having hand-
ed Iran the form without a word. with-
drew in silence.
'Seise a seat," said the inspector. "1
bears rd:nt to make inquiries."
Royce sat down on a hard chair, ;end
stared at the ground as if he were lost
in easdness and despair, and after the
lapse 4,f ten minutes or so, the clerk re-
' ux heti and placed a paper before his
superior.
"'Hem!" said the inspector. "There
nntvs of the lady. She was seen on
ilte 'Embankment last night."
"The Embankment!" exclaimed
Retina..
vie;: by one of the Thanes pollee.
;;he was standing on the edge of the
,toping looking down at the river."
Royer rose, pale and eager.
"The Thames policeman, thinking she
was .r•,,itnut le throw herself in, warned
her off.''
]t`ha'nk heaven ! My pont sister !"
murruneed Royce, tasting up his eyes.
"V•nu•'aaro certain about the cloak she
vowel' said the inspector.
Quito, quite !"
"Then you had better go down to the
'1'hanc•e Pollee Station, at Blackfriars,"
geed tae inspector, calunly, ,"They will
...how :t' you there."
"Do you meau—that her cloak •has
neem found ?"
"Nee; pieked up by the Thames police
riff PIe,ekfriars Pier," sat.! the inspector:
EShiXo/is
n
ff
y
Royce stood pale and speechless.
`If you wish to discover anything fur-
ther, .I should advise you to go down
to Blackfriars and see tho cloak. If
anything else has been., found they will
know it there.. will send a man with
you, if you like."
Royce accepted the offer, • and thank-
ing the inspector, who received his ac-
knowledgment with a short nod, accom-
panied the officer in plain clothes to
the Blackfriars Police Station.
Royce told his tale there; he had in-
vented it as he drove in the cab, and
had got it glib and pat.
The offieial went into an inner room,
and returned with a cloak upon his
arm.
Royce recognized it in a moment. His
keen eyes had noticed it on Joau the
preceding day. It was her cloak, and it
was still wet
"It is hers--Iny sister's!" he said, al-
most inaudibly.
"I am sorry, .sir," said the man,
gravely. "It was picked up by one of
the police boats just outside here. The
body—"
In spite of himself Royce Could not
help shuddering.
"Must have gone farther down the
river. You'd better enquire'down Lime-
house way. The tide was running out
last evening, and you'll find her there
as sure as eggs is eggs."
• "Can I have the cloak?" asked Royce,
sorrowfully.
It night be against the rules, but "the
gentleman" looked such a gentleman
that the man gave him the cloak. taking
a receipt for it, and Royce, accompanied
by the officer in plain clothes, pursued
his pilgrimage.
They reached a dismal, squalid re:
gion far east of the great city, and stood
in the damp office of the riverside police
station. The inspector in charge was
as civil but as >•alm and impassive as
his brethren.
He led Royce and the officer to the
mortuary, and 'unlocked the door. The
dim outline of a human figure lay on
a board covered by a cloth. The officer
raised the cloth in a businesslike fash
ion, and yet, not irreverently, and turn-
ed up the gas jet above it.
Royce bent down and looked at the
corpse keenly.
The faee was •that of a young girl
about Joan's age. but the water and ex-
posure had rendered it allnost unrecog-
nizable. It was not ,lona Ormsby, not
the owner of Lord Arrowfield's fortune,
• but Royce covered his face . with his
hands And groaned.
"My poor sister!" he, cried, quite sora
rowftilly.
"Very sorry, sir." snid the 1111111. re-
spectfully. "\'4'e see a deal o' this sort
of thing, and we get tiled to it; but
it's very sad, common as it is. What
instructions ?"
Royce seemed quite overcitme•by grief
for a moment, while he was thinkhtng
hard,
"She must r'emaiu here for a few
hours," he said. "I will tering others to
sec her. 1--I don't know whether it is
a nsual request. or one you can accede
to; 1,ut I should be o`r ;grid if you would
keep her—her identity secret, or at any
rate say as little about it as possible."
"Don't be afraid, sir." said the inspec-
tor. "'Clterewill he an inquest, of course,
hut these inquests are never reported—
too common by far, sir.• Nobody takes
any notice; end if you want her name
kept out of the papers, why—"
Royce put his hand in his pocket and
drew out his purse.
"You will have sone trouble—clave
already had some," he saki in a subdued
tone; "you , most let me give you this.
I will come down in the Morning and-
and—make arrangements. May I put
this, her cloak, round her, poor thing?"
"Certainly, sir," said the inspector.
Royce, still very much overcome, beg
sed• that a cub might be called. and had
himself driven to the 'West End.
He knew that the girl whom he had
ola.inted was not. Jean 'Ormsby; would he
be able to eonvinee others that she was?
If he could succeed in doing so he would
have the path cleared for him; and if
Joan Ormsby should be alive ---and some-
thing seemed to whisper to him that she
was—there should be net one to interfere
with him,
Royce ate his dinner et his club, spent
a pleasant evening and went home to
bed, and not until he had had a comfort-
able breakfast did he start for Chain
Court.
Mr, Craddock Irur'ried to the door door
at the first sound of his peculiar knock,
and letting him in, carefully fastened
the door after him.
"Any news, Royer'" he demanded
eagerly, his eyes scanning the handsome,
inpenetrahle face. "iiave you' found
Tres?"
"Yes, I have found her," said Royce,
quietly. "Joan Ormsby lies cold and
dead at the. mortuary at Limehouse."
lila'. Craddock fell back..
"You—you--'may be mistaken, he
gasped•.
Ir oyoe shook his head.
"There is'•no mistake, there is no time
to lose;' Stuart Villiars '.nosy be here
at any ynotpent,' and 'you will have to
take hire there to identify her. Listen
to me; there is no mistake. She wears
the, elothes:Nan9sQering to the descrip-
tlotl: The cloak is still round her: Of
course she is altered, but there is no
getting over the cloak.
Take him
thee
e
and show her to hint. They will telt
yon that I passed as her brother, It
r shot a seises% t:ouslh5., ceras colds. heal++ , t,s r
iRie dR:r•,ranl earl Weds. w a 13;.9 estate. wall necessary. flues, fel. 1\tr-. ✓rad-
5hihh?
auicklar atop eoudb6, curet colds. heals
the throat sod funds. ., a 25 tents.
dock was clawing:at the air and utter-
ing groans ane« maledictions. •
"There is no ,help far it. The girl is
dead, but we May, yet be able to make
something out of tlie. business, What
we want is to hush the affair up. Por
his own sake he will have her buried
quietly;. I have taken means to keep
it out of the papers. Persuade him
to leave the whole of the arrangements
in your hands and I will see
to it all. You caar charge him
up to the hilt; that is one
consolation for our disappointment. All
you have to do is tocarry out my in-
structions. 1. .am going now. There ie
the address,' and he handed it to old
Craddock. "Take Villiers down there
as soon as he comes, and keep the thing
quiet," .and with a nod, as Cool as if he
had sauntered in to have a simple morn•
ing's chat, he passed out.
CHAPTER XXI,
Lord Stuart t'.i.Iars was almost mad
with suspense and despair. Hoar and
hour, by daylight and through the
night, he had continued his search, and
every' hour which passed him—Farther.
as it seemed; front success --itis agony
and despair•, increased,Ile had neither
slept nor eaten sauce :.fit..,.n disappeac'rd,
and his appearance Viet, that of u nnui
who had been 'sndtte by some bad
news told to him witb'tclt preparation.
Weary,: his brain On fire, his iimbe
aching, for he haat been. evallcine the
whole night, and got wet through, and
dry again, and net through sigain, half
a dozen times, he 01.1111. himself once
more at Chain Coast; an.i knou]:ing et
Mr. Craddock's door.
"Rave you hefted• eiPaaingT he de-
manded, hoarsely.'n.t have:" he
sad, sternly, as he tam,' the old man's
face. "Quick! quidtel'fur heaven's sake,
muni" and he put hie '4;444 to his bre-x;
but the next moment h' recovered hit:
self -command. "Whet i.. it?" he said;
"tell me at mice—good or bad!"
"My lord, it—it's bad." said the old
man, half frightened by the drawn white
face, with its hollow; piercing eyes.
Lord Villiers seized him by the arra
and swung hila around.
"'rdl] me'." he shouted. "Tell me!"
"My lord," gasped the old man,
`we've found her—else's dead!"
Lord Villiers' cold hand loosened it;
grasp, and he turned his back and cov-
ered Lis face with his hands.
A minute or two migle have paes"d,
and then, still with his Liee averted, he
said, in so ehauged- .' wage, so broken
and weak that it might have belonged
to old Craddoek himself:
"Tell i- ke
me all; then t • s. me to icer.!"
Craddock repeated 's lesson in fear
and trembling, and 1 ,d t idler:; ntter-
erl uo sound, .Meade a anovemcnt is til
it was finiehel..
Then he turned r r;t 1 ht , f his
face old Craddock si r!1< beak. It was
white to the lips, n.• like the of a
men crushed to the teeth and utterly
wrecked.
"Now take me tc i:er," hs sail, n!t,
most inaudibly.
.They reached tl„' dismal spot at last,
and found themselves in the police sta-
tion. Even here Lard Viliars uttered
no word. but eteucl like -a elan deaf and
dumb, white old Craddock croaked out
their errand.
There was brit little light in the sell,
but Lord \'iliiar : did, not roped much
light. His eyes tell upon the Cloak with
its antique clasp, and a shudder ran
through his strong irome: It was the
cloak his darling had worn :when he had
first seen her on the terrace at the
Wold.
And here it wee wrapped romsd his
darling. Dead! dead! ;sleadl.
Once he bent as if to kiss hrr, but,
he drew back. No! has last kiss should
be the one he had given her when he
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I had nearly all the symptoms' of Lum-
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Dropsy and Bright's Disease," Mr, Mur-
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"Then 1 broke out .in a terrible rash
that spread al} ,over my body and leapt
ate hi tortures. I tried all sorts of
liniments and ointments • and teak sun
phur enough to siert, ci kettle hides of
1 s•ll r,
my own, But t wee no use, Then
I tried l)odrl's Iiidnev Pills, and all I
can say is they cnnde e new mall of
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left her happy,. trusting, and hopeful in
their lodgings.
It tree so he would strive to remem-
ber and bear her in his memory, and
not as now, not as she lay dead arta
cold!
"Cone away, my lord, come an'ny!"
croaked Craddock, hoarsely, and Lord
'Villiers suffered thorn to lead Mtn into
the daylight. •
But the long hours of exposure, the
awful suspense, the agony of the dis-
covery had doth their worlc, anti before
an.hoar lead elapsed Stuart, Earl of VII -
liars, was lying helpless and raving in a
delirious fever.
For weeks he Lay hovering on the.
brink of the gulf across which he
thought that• Jotin had passed, longing
for the death that Comes so seldom
when prayed- for; but after a while he
grew strong eiiottgbto form some
desire, some distinct plait. And
it was this• — to get away
from England, to put utiles of. land and
sea between •him and the spot where,he
had seen and learned to love her:
Lord \illiars sent for Mr. Craddock,
who cane cringing and rubbing .his hands
before the gaunt figure of the, earl lying
back in his chair before the fire, with
his •thin, pale fare and sorrow -laden
eyes, and Lox•cl Villiers gave him his
final instrutt'iuns. They were short and
Rill!})le.. U1'[tddoek was to shut up the
\Vold and the other Rouges in town and•
country, and was to manage the vast
estate during Lord Villiers' absence.
Half an hour afterwards, while Lw'd
\ illiar valet was peeking the portman-
teau, a footman aenlotrnrrd' Colonel U1i
nen'.
At sight. of tin` thin toasted figure,
and the white, wan fact, with the dark
eyes which met him with at stern stead-
fastness, the colonel started slightly and
his eye-gl to Tell oat; but he plucked up
his eoerage and confronted 1lte invalid.
'1'nl sorry to have to force myself
upon you, \ illiare," he said, wagging his
head; •'but ui course you expected use,
'Ves, 1 c':.peett'tl von," was the cold,
sad reply, the dart: eyes seeming to
pierce to the '_olunet':t veru son].
"Of course. r Could do n•, lea than --
than request un interview."
'.end 1. have ,rental it," said 'Lord
t-illiars. "What. is your business with
ole?"
''What else could 1 ;nave come about,
but that poor girl?" eeelt+in+ed the col-
onel. Stuart 'Villiers did not u'inee, but
an ominous light flashed. for a moment,
in his .sunken eyes. T finest do my
duty, you knots. \'illi;ir., and—and—er
--1 have tenw.to tell you that you
treated hta••_._-"
Stuait \ illiare held tap one thin hand.
'Stop!" he said, not loudly, but whir
a low -tonere stern:wee that etrucic the
little ,.'alone} dumb. "If that is the ob-
ject of ;your visit, say not one word
more. Think that T treated--" he tried
to speak her carne, batt hit bps could
not utter it- -"thin}. that 1 treated her
i badly, if you will. It tuatters- nothing
to the. IL is enuuuit for me to known
the trent mac t she bora at yolk• Bands.
I ton,; girt from n yeti to make her my
Wife. 1 ivotaki have came to yon and
asked you, ms a m; n e4ks, a lather for
his daughter. but the?. T knew you had
plenned to take her bc'v,,ntl lav reueh.
11 1.as that knowledge witieh lel ui' to
take her front you ee 1 did. It. was
ti,rnag'o son— " and ite li•:utt forward—
" th
orward"th ron h ''oa,r itnsitt"t. rinil th,i1 of
your daughters, that ab" un, last to
nue! heaven, ttu,l ]leave;' r'nly, knows
the key to the mystery of her flight and
death. Let it rest with heaven! But
els ht r Yon, It ?Vit atet:il a'epuration at
my har.d•t, it shalt be ren-leretl to y0(1.
1 leave Eugl:ut,l tn-morrt,u'. In ,t few
weeks I trust that 1 may he able to
sleet you, auywilere and at any time you
ma,r appoint. We axe both sol,liers,
Colonel O]ever, and need say no more.
Mr. Craddoek shall have any address and
it shell be forwarded to you. Are you
satisfied?"
The colonel grew hot anal red.
"Von --•you take the affair pretty enol-
ly, 'Villiers." he stnttersd. "If you say
it's not your fault, and that you didn't
mean the poor girl any harm----"
Stuart Villiers laughed, a ]larch, grim
laugh, as he stretched out his hand and
rang the bel}.
"Shaer the gentleman out," inc said,
coldly and sternly, and the colonel,
funfaling at his eveglasei, angrily With-
drew,'
The following morning Lord Villiers
started for the: continent, As the, packet.
steamed. heavily away from the white
cliffs, be stood on deck, }tis eyes fixed on
the fast vauialci.ug land. and stretched
out his hands.
"Gond-hyhe :murmured.
"Clood•by, ,loan! r here lost you now;
shall we ever meet egain? .loan, Joan,
any doe n 1"
11 he had but known, if ?le could but
have guessed, that the :loan he called
upon was eating her heart out in silent,
uncomplaining grief, in the Loudon he
had left behind, deeming he was all that
tens bass: and cruel, taking leis silence
evert as a lornof of his guilt, tvita1 would
he have: frit, what ;nisei?, world have
been spared hies! ilaw quickly he would
hate boon at, her girt":
But Att.! }:kis to play at cross pur-
poses with her puppets, which she calls
"men and women;' autl velli]r, Stuart
Villiers wee flying from the sor-
row of Ids supposed loss, 'Joan was hid-
den i;l i.u` ;n'rat cit -t', patiently trying
t , eeteet ,ill: pa ul,ci paint!rai pant 1'
mina, Itrua'. • for ]ler dai°y bread.
^c rely :Fate must h`v•, a h:`.an aecise
of humor. and her puppets meat t,altae
het much laughter, So rue the world
a Way,
:i'w Be Continued,)
TH-ili BRIGHT SIDE,
'Nebuchadnezzar was lunching in his
accustomed stylti,
"All flesh beim; grans," he reflected,
"this must be beet' a lo mowed."
And chuckling hoarsely,' he took tan -
other ehaw.-
•
AT CAM I
DO '011 MY SKIN--
TORTURED
KIN--
TO TO ED BABY?
:lathe Despairing Cry of Thousands o4'
Mothers. A Scotchwoua,an 'T'ells
How Her Child was .Cared.
"what can I do for my ah n_ metered
issb r" flow neat;; worried It,re out
tnrs!Iert, whose children are suffering
,eadma, tetter or outer tottering dale;;,u•ln„
humor, have asked themselves this q',:r'ctieso
Through neglect or improper ir,aatatent,
fj 0 MO :tlhtor erupttorl lias developed lino w
list vlSttrg and it iSit'.il1y
treatments fail, and arrougt'r ones ere ;riot,
sometimes so harsh that the $1.ffoi iteg le
iurrt•a�ed rather than. allayed 1 •aa oro-
le:csivae' aid has pro••err owls f,ncl'the
fear it ever-present .hat The .1,,1I disease
will becorne (throttle, turning the• ,'hild's
lettere into a nightmare cf physical tired mental
Setell mothers, who have •sviines,ed their
olilldrea'a suffering and 'who That a undergone
the long. sleepless u?glus and dt,traetiny
anxiety which they alone can realize, will
understand the gratit ude that prompted this
Setter from sirs John Ewan, 5, Victoria St.,
Irtyerarie, Scotland, and till read it with
• keenest Intermit:
:No Cu:!ctnaSoap itcattily for mybaby's
tkiet Site had the vezetres when sir: was three
months old. See was In an awful mess all
over her body. We never thought the would
arlt. i6ehiclr
shougeoar rra rnontia -xnat p .'ti,itngilernea slygbianminutedayto sefot
het' dle. eats doctor „ave rite an ointment
to rut, nor with but it• did her no good. My
mintier was dorms from America and she, told
me to try iluthint odutmerit and to x eh her
with C tieura Stoat,. 'l here was a great
difference when 1 r,+eel the I';t..t b x. it
leve el to soothe her and elte siert. 1 used
three bevel of Cloth -qua ninr:nttnt and she
w.i' suite cured. tilts liras the pere:t elan
an,f is the fattest babe next She sea mirztete,
1
altDrs,t abt1octorttidt ec1l'.''
are'. I :. ill clad to telt any -
And that the mi's's of the `unsure
Itern clvs3 14 not rnrthoetl iu the treatment
01 e,.' aa, is a,npty nroreu t:;; :its.
liehw.rru 87-1 `iprinev,ells .tv:., I;ctroi1,
Mich., .who wr+t ,:
"W:ten ;ret little t'i'tian was lar el:11J rix
ntanth:e old. neer papa had a toil o,1 his :'ore-
head. At that tune tate eh11d was .overed
with prickly heat and i A,ppoae in scratching
it her net head became. infected, for it hroko
out 1 i '10 14, one after another. She had about
slaty tar alt and 1 navel Cuticula ,loss and
Crt;tenra ointment ;which ,i'rul err of them
entirely We do not :i.init any 41.0 ta;t
praise t:uttcttra ltemedl•w t,.o Meetly."
That mothers gray t ilea cftitety and
situate of the Cutknra Remedies for them-
selves, the ?otter Dray and Cl:e:m. Corp.. 121
Columbus Avg Boston. Mass. .. will =end free
a
oapplittatirin, a g,erierotts trlat box r,t Cutieure
otttttnent, stflteieut to afford Insult
in the most distress -Mr forms of eceemas
rashes,, itching' and ! endings of the ;;ldn and
scats• L'r,le' tete, intinstrcr of (britaura otnt-
nsnnt. the itching and nursing atop. the child
faits fulo a refreshing sleep, the mother ;eats.
and for the first time, perhat,s, in math'. weeks.
mese fails on a disnaeted truuQe'otd.. The
Cusic•urrts Remedies are solo by chu;: 1sta
wary duets.
Corded Handkerchiefs.
A p?easant.ehange from the herns ,:eli-
ed easel laee or c.mbroidea•y-edged hand-
kerchiefs are the new little squares from
Franyee which have an altogether differ-
ent tr nisi.
'Instead of the ordinary .gem there is a
tiny cord. sometimes white and sone -
limes of a dainty color, which is Lased as
a sort 01 binding. - This is very small,
not arty thicker than the white string
used for tying up parcels. It is finer in
quality, llnswever, and dainty enough to
finish these little accessories.
Bad Roads and the High Cost
- of Living.
A[. fleet sight it semis rattler a
1 etretelt of the imaginati'n to find any
close t•nnueetion between t\e cost CA liv-
ing runt the condition of eu;t'ttry roads.
but repent investigations have led the
trail in this direction with u,imistakabie
clearness. The two chief difficulties the
farmer has to face to -day.- are the scar-
city of faint labor and the cost of haul-
ing, and these have combined to raise
the prices for all the .staple food stuffs -
without are yof the inoretuse adding to
the profit of the farmer.
A recent report of an agricultural
committee of the United States Senate
is authority for the statement that -
during' the worst of the hauling season
in America a team is able to transport
on an average only SOO or 900 pounds a
day, while in Trance a team draws 3,03Ei
pounds it day a distance of ISt/, miles
any day in the year. There is ail too
little reason to heliege that the Cana-
dian farmer is any better off in this re-
spect than the American, and thus it sap,
pears that the farmer•. here Inas to spend
,three . or: foto' .times as long as the
F ronelintan in hauling his camps and sup-
plies; and as he obviously has to choose
those days when the roads 'are in good
condition, the chances are he has to take
the extra file a.nd tabor from work is
the fields.
For much of the relief desired in the
direction of better roads, the farmer
must wait on others; but there its one
point making for easier hauling, larger
loads, fewer trips and far less expense
that rests with the farmer himself. '1'Ilis
is the proper lubrication of the axles of
his wagOns, drays and carriages. Greas-
es that grim and Abel.; or run off and
leers the axles to grind, are a waste of
mune}'.
The, Queen Cly Oil C'omptny, Limit-.
,
eel, of Toronto, is offering in Mica Axte
(:rea.se a lubricant. of high efficiency
that is giving a great deal of satisfate'
tion. it forms a cushion between axle
and box that does away with friction al-
most 'entirely and lessens both labor and
wear. Its clurabilit,y is a strong factor
in favor of economy. Handicapped as he
iq by bad roads, the wide -:awake farmer
const insist on getting everything he can
out of his team and Wagons. 11 he isnot
already using a ittbric,rnt of tho effict-
ei`cy, and economy of Mice Axle Grease.
he will hardly delay to at least give it a
trial
THE MEASURE v` SILENCE,
LEdv=,
Iauicker---Ts n't it stili?
]Soaker- -73o uniet you can halt that
price of meat drop. •