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GREW UP good clothes, It °eerie lieverel years
after the heartbroken words that told
of his vvife's death,
"I am thirty-five yearold to -day,"
it said, "end I have Just worn evening
clothes ear the first tinie. I admit I
wss happy, and yet it brought back
the time when Mariou saved money to
buy me suit. When I 'caught eight
of myself in the glass I could have
.broken down and cried from lonell-
nees, Lilith saw me, but did not no-
tice that my clothes were different
from those 1 ba.ve been wearing, It
seems very slow sometimes, waiting
or her to grow up. But the years
will pass, I intend that we shall be
commies." I
Lilith closed the book and sat star -
Ing into *vacancy. The loneliness and
the gentleness •a her father's life
seemed almost inure than she could
bear. , When at last she heard the fa
-
miller step an the verandah, and -the
professer came in, she ran and threw
herself into his arms. He held ber,
close and kissed her, •but could not
say a word. It was she that spoke.'
"Father," she said, "1 know you now,
and I love you more than ever. I
have grown up."—Youthat Companien.
The professoe's study and, indeed,
the praeoSor hirnself had been cap-
tured and held all the afteraoon
four callers. To Lilitle, the professor's
daugatela it 'W 4% a novel and not alto-
gether agreeable experience. Since
her mailer's death the quiet, kindly
faced man had seemed so wrapped up
in his books and his flowers and in her
that she had never supposed there was
any other side of life that could in-
terest him deeply.
Yet, since Ills book had appeared, he
had turned more and more to what she
regarded as frivolities. He had been
making* and receiving teals and ac-
cepting numerous invitations to dine,
Above all, he had seemed to take an
almost childish delight and pride in
the new clothes that he had bought
with a part of the money from his
book.
• Lilith was proud of course that peo-
ple bad learned at last how great a
botanist -her father Was; but what
troubled her was the belief that many
of his new acquaintanoes had sought
him out only in the desire to pose as
friends' of a noted man.
She felt the more deeply hurt now
because she had expected to have at
least the evening with her father; but
when tile callers had gone he had said
that 'he was going to dine out that
night. Then, he had gone upstairs to
dress and had left her so busy with
unhappy thoughts that she had not
noticed the curiously tender look that
be bent upon her as he left the room.
His voice roused her. She looked up
and, found him standing by her side,
holding out a neatly tied pasteboard
box. There was an embarrassed look
on his f Ete O.
• "My dear," he said, "we do not al-
wayknow thoroughly even those who
are dearest to us.. There are some
things in this box that I have never
shown to anyone; but I am going to
leave them with you this evening,
' You need never mention them after-
wards unless you wish." Then he
bent and kissed her and was gone.
Lilith carried the box wonderingly
over to the study lamp and sat down.
Her hand trembled aa she untied the
wrappings and took •out several little
books in manuscript, some of them
In her father's well-kno.wn handwrit-
ing, some in a round boyish scrawl—
diaries, as she saw at a glance. •
The first record was dated thirty-
flve years ago. "Pickedparple-and-
white lady's slippers in the swamp
this morning," it read. "They look as
If they always have their best close
on.t don't have any best close. I
-don't see, why God trimmed lip the
birds and flowers so beautiful, and left
• boys to wear anything folks, give
them."• •
Lelith read the entry a second time,
and it remained in her memory as she
glanced ahead. Now and again he
dame upon the note of complaint or of
longing as she 'skimmed through the'
other passages. • She turned•from one
voluine to another, coming here
and there min notes like this:
• 'Albert'sparty came off last night.
Everybody seemed to have a good
time. I was the only fellow who had
to wear his school atilt, and my shoes
clumped like thunder on the floor. I'll
be hanged if I'll go to another party
until I can dress like other fellows.
• Lavender -and -white lady's, slippers, out
to -day. Wish they grew big enough so
• a fellow could wear them."
A year later was this entry:
"I've won the natural history prize,
but I shall have to go up and face the
Whole school in my shiny old •coat to
receive It."
A. little farther was another entry!
"A new thought 'has come to me. It
Is rather comforting. I have always
Considered my liking for .appearances
as
n» Mean, sIllynralt, but perhaps, it is
ip�t altogether mean and silly. I can't
help thinking thateperhaps the same
aove of beauty that made God create
the flowers made him give nie this de -
are to appear well in the eyes of
other people. • Curiously enough, it
takes, some of the sting out of having
be wear poor things. I suppose I shall
be the only fellow at the receptioa to-
night without a swallow -tail."
Lilith paused a moment, smiling tre-
mulously. Then she turned the page.
Aboutthis time her mother came in-
to the narraive--a beautiful, girlish
When Racehorses Travel.
A "palace on wheels" is the latest
luxury for racehorsee. The fades of
the two stalls are lined with canvas
pneumatic pads to prevent injury to
the homes while speeding over the e.
•highways. The Soar is made of sani-
tary cork coraposition. The space
—AND THE WORST IS NET TO COME
above the rear wheels. is used for car-
rying feed, and on a partition at the
back of the driver are watering
troughs and hay racks. •
Drinking water for the horses is car-
ried in a large tank under the body
of the car. Four lights give good il-
lumination to the interior at night,
While space is provided for a groom
The horses are loaded at the rear
and taken off at the front, because
backing racehorses is seed to retard
their gait.
Europeans Like Codfish.
It is a somewhat strange coinci-
dence that no codfish swim nearer the
Mediterranean Sea than the banks of
Newfoundland or Iceland. The dwell-
ers in that part of the world, however,
eat cod, salted, and cooked in many
and varied forma. New England for
many years got its salt from Italy and
paid for it with codfish, sometimes
with Old Medford rum. • Those days
are past. The French explorers who
followed close upon the heels of Co-
lumbas discovered the virtues of New -1
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CAROLS OLD ANI) NEW
We ere /nude familiar with ettrols in
many and various, ways at this season
of the year.
Yet, although the word has been for
a long period particularly associated
lith Chrietrnas, it was not alway$ so.
Authorities differ as to its derivation,
opietions varying between Lain, Celtic
and French, In regard to the latter
the ward "ottrole," is undeubtedly old
,French, and it is still used in the
• Marne to signify dance, fete, etc.
In olden cleys a carol was a ring
dance with song accompaniment—a
ring of men and women heading handle
and moving round in dancing step,
singing as they went. There are many
references to the word "carol" fix old
English literature, as, for instance,
the following from Chaucer's "The
Dethe of Blaunclie the Duchesse"
(1869).
"I saw her flounce so eomely,
Carel and sing so sweetly."
And this from Shakeepeare:
"This carol they began that hour,
With a hey, and a ho, and a hey
nonino."
As to the association with the word
Christmas, Bishop Jeremy Taylor
says: "The eldest carol was that sung
t, by the heavenly hash when the birth of
' the Saviour was announced to the
shepherds en the plains of Bethle-
tem."
The earliest Christmas carol was
written in the fourth century by Aure-
lius Prudentius. The oldest English
gar1 carol is the "Angelus ad Virginem,"
contained in a Church manuscript of
the thirteenth or fourteenth century.
The first English collection of enrols
was published by Wynkyn de Worde,
in 1521.
Mutiny.
That blazing galleon the sun,
This, dusky coracle I guide, ,
Both under secret orders salt
And swim upon the selfsame lid*.
The fleet of stars, my boat of soul, , •
I By perilous magic mountains pass,
Or lie where no horizons gleam
Fainting iipon a sea of glass.
I Come, break the seals, and tell us now
Upon what enterprise we roam',
To storm what city of the gods,
Or—sail for the green fields of home!
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•
Theft.
Somehow you took so many things
• That were a part of me,
• I cannot yet quite understand
I This new passivity.
foundland cod. Lately curing plants
have been established on the Mediter-
ranean shores of France—to save one
handling since the Mediterranean peo-
ples eat so flinch of it, also because the
salt Is conveniently dried out from the
very salty water of the Mediterranean.
An Invariable Rule.
Customer—"Eight dollars is too
much for a pair of silk suspenders to
hold up a pair of six dollar pants."
Salesman ---"That's the way it al-
ways is; the cheaper the initial cost,
the greater the upkeep,"
• --•
• Queen Lover of Cherries.
The lea and ruddy cherries for
which. England is famous, were ne
traduced into that country tram Flea -
dere in the year 1540. The establish-
ment of their popularity was due in no
small measure to Queen Elizabeth,
who had a great liking for cherries
ripe. Whereby hangs. the tale of Sir
Franc! a Carew, who delayed the ripen -
Ing of his cherry tree until a month
after the end of the season in order
that the cherries might attain matua
ity when her majesty stayed with him,
This he accomplished by erecting a
tent over the tree, and on the queen's
arrival the fruit was at perfection,'
•
If you don't like work it may be due
to imperfect glands, A London lec-
turer stated recently that chronic
lazieess should in many cases be re -
ded as a
gar
figure whom the professor had loved
• at itestesight. Although she was poor, I,
according to his account her dresses
ware always beautiful, i
For a year ea two the entries in Wel
diary grew farther apart. One told of
bit. engagement, an and 'another of his
• Marriage. They were supremely hap -
DT records, with no mention of Clothes
ealtywhere in thele. But later came a
pathetic) little passage
"Marion heal a surprise for me to-
• day. I have been declining a good
many invitations because I had no
evening clothes; and I have gone to
ileeveral places and found niereelf in the
Ud feneiliar predicament--tho only
mail unsuitably dressed. I neve]; said
• selything about it, but she reads me so
eaellt She has been denying letreelf
*Inge an Caving ineney to deck Me
OW, poor tittle soul!"
Soon atterwarde taint) the record of
tailitlete birth ad thee entry' "It gives
IV a Strange feeling of respeasibtlity.
Itere are at many things we wish to
o for her so Melly tjags We with to
*Weld her Prete. To begin With, 1' am
determined that elle Wien never know
the poverty that lute made my life
I hate tbis strange, quiescent roe
Who never more glen run
Across the dusk -nor -dark -nor -dawn
To meet the high, white sun. •
You touched this slim, young, flaming
i • soul •
• Gallant, eager, proud,
' And left no thing by which to know
Me from the motley crowd,
—Ellinor Lehnherr Norcross.
A Land Without • Laws.
In North Greenland, which is situ-
ated within twelve miles •of the North
i Pole, there are practically no laws,
and there are certainly none with re,
gard to property,- for all that the men
. possess are their hunting 'knives,
, while the women have' only their
household utensils. •
The stone houses in walch the na-
tives live belong to nobody in par-
ticular. If an Eskimo family find an
empty one, they simply move into it
and it becomes theirs until they va-
cate it.
Polygamy Is permitted and "mar-
riages" are arranged entirely by par-
ents, Wheu a couple tire of each
other they simply take other nlates.
There- is bathing that correspende to
, "courtship."
In such circumstances it seems
strange that the Eskimos are among
the most devoted parent,s IJI the world.
It a separation ,00curs, the children al-
ways go with the motber. This ar-
rangement, as maybe expected, leads
• to interminable complications, ban
t. i
spite of it all, everyone smile' very
happy.
The Only Way.
) There was a terrible noise, in the
I nursery, where the new nursemaid,
fresh from distant Connemara, was in
sole charge.
"Really, nurse," said her mistress,
as she entered the rosin "can't you
keep the children quieter than this'?"
I "Faith, mum," was the reply, "and
bow can 1 keeee them quiet if I don't
I let them make a noise?"
'atea
Mere,Good Nature.
Often it seems as though the world
had a surfeit of genius and an insuf-
ficiency of mere good nature. A noted
English jurist was fond of saying that
in many persons there is a sheer
power of sympathy that makes them
more welcorue and more belovedthan
the most brilliant and scintillating in-
tellects. They thought it worth while
to put on the tombstone of an amiable
Massachusetts woman: "She was so
pleasant." One imagines her, in the
annuls of a quiet neighborhood. She
had no serpent tongue or ticker with
malicious. innuendo. She repeated
kind and gentle words or held her
peace. She diffused serenity and con-
tentment. To make, friends every-
where, like Mowgil in the jungle, is a
career not to be despised; it does not
imply a. contemptible softness and
want of character.
Sooner or later some one punctures
the bluff of the man who talks like a
%ear, who envelops. himself in a
mantle at sham dignity and asperity.
Most of the truly great are simple -
I mended, simple -mannered and gentle.
those best detectives—are
nte. afraid of them; animals come up
to 'them. But the small-minded folk
intend to impose on the rest of us by
vainglorious bluster. A loud noise
comes from their trivial instrument.
They rant and scold and, make them-
selves intolerable. They never over-
aook, they never forgive. A household
deeads them; they are not those of
whom Stevenson would say that they
make a family happier by their pres-
ence.
In ordinary business contacts, as in
domestic life, what a relief it is to
deal with those who are not eccentric,
ultra -sensitive or morbidly tempera,
mental. The work of the world most-
ly goes on by the plain, undecorative,
unadmired, everyday performance of
norinal,-average people. Linooln was
Mate sure that the Lord knew what
He was about when He made so ninny
of them. Our earth would be unbear-
able if the other sort predominated.
Let none be discouraged whose
social asset is neither beauty nor
brains, but an amiable disposition.
Sonia of those endowed with such a
hature are homely as the proverbial
hedge levee, yet liked and wanted uni-
versally. There are 'captains of indus-
try who have gone far on the way
they smiled, shook hands and affably
mingled with others. Merely to be
surly ancl'ao roar sententiously is no
wonderful th• in Yon can see it in
he bear -pit at the zoo. There is no
preMium en the frozen face in busi-
ness or the glacial heart in society.
But the natural disposition to be
friendly has its welcome everywhere
tied Its reward,
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Apple -Core Philanthropy.
The backyard of a little St. Louis
boy adjoined an orphanage, from
.-- which at was separated by a high wall.
One day the boy's mother disoovered
• hiei out by the apple tree eating one
apple after another and tossing the
cores over the wall. Fearing that he
would have a stomach ache, she order.
• ed'bitn not to eat any more, but he
toiled back ,earnestly:
Meet mother. IVA for the or-
phans! They're waiting for the
'coreel"'
A Pith Story.
Proof of the antileity o many Iflnge
list carols' is to be found ie the aunt-
ber of times the source of origin IS
simply given as, "Traelltionalfr This
applies to Ouch famous eyearnplee As
"Gad lewd You Merry, Gentlemen,"
and 'The Cherry Tree,'
The tiret-nentea bate been, and sail!
is, frequently distortea by a paloplacal
comma, making It read: "God rest you,
Merry Gentlemen." Even, in DSC -kens',
Classic, "The Christmts Carol," Ole
*meet version appears, The, dense
intended is "God rest (or keel)) you
merry" at this time of the year,
Another famous "Traditional" le
"The Lord At First Did Adani Make,"
with its refrain: "For this is Christ -
Dias Eve." This is always aung on tho
last-mentioned day in $t. Paul's Cathe-
dral.
No account of carols, however brief,'
would be complete without mention of
"Good King Wenceslas." Another
very ancient carol specially popular
among children is "I Saw Three Ships
Come Sailing In." The youngsters
are also fond of "The Filed Nowell.",
A.nd a very fine old carol, "Cradled in
Bethlehem," composed by Orlando
Gibbons, was unearthed by Sir Fred
erick Bridge a few years ago' from the`
archives of Weetminster Abbey.
Some very- beautiful carols are of
French origba, such as "The Holly anct
the Ivy," Now Sing We All Pall Sweet"
ly," and "The Carol of the Flowers."
Many modern English Church oom,
posers have written carols, especially
J. B. Dykes, Sir J. Barnby, fate 3.1
Stainer, and Sir F. Bridge. Typtcal
specimens of their work are "It Was
in the Winter Cold," and "Sleep, Holy
Babe."
Colored Pictures by Wire.
A few months ago considerable in-
terest was aroused in the scientific
world when engineers demonstrated a
method of transmitting picture e by
wire. Now, by the same process, pic-
tures in eight -colors are transmitted
and reproduced within an hour.
The transmission of colored pictures
is effected by a method resembling
that used in printing pictures in col -
ore. Three pictures are -sent over the
wire. From one all colors except red
have been screened out; from the
second, all oolors except bine; from
the third, all colors except yellow.
The pictures are transmitted and re-
ceived in black and white by the usual
process. Then, when received, the or-
iginal colors are restored, and the re-
su1t is a picture that oontains not only
the three primary colors transmitted,
but live other intermediate tones, just
as iu color printing one color plate IS
superiniposed on the printing 01 the
other color plate.
The transmission of colored pio-
tures was under taken merely as a
laboratory experiment, but the engin-
eers who developed the process. say
that it is fraught with practical possi-
bilities such as the identiftcation of
"Them That Honor Me."
In the Olympic Games at Paris Iasi
Eummer Eric Liddell won the four
hundred metres race, in "record" time,
and the press proclalined him the
king of sprinters. But there was more
in the victory than just winning the
race. Mr. Eric Liddell is the son of
the Rev. J. D. Liddell of the London
Missionary Society, and when the
young athlete, chosen to represent his
country at the Olympic Games, found
that his race was called to he run on
Sunday he refused to compete, saying,
"I object to Sunday sport in toto," ana'
thus countecl'himself out.
The sporting press of Europe de.
rided him; he was gibed at and crita
oised an all sides, even by the papers.
of his own country. But the stand
taken by such a nottd athlete had its
effect, and the race was not run until
later in the week. • When young Li&
dell won, the public that ' had con-
demned lairn changed its tiniaion, an(
gave hili great applause. •
!• On his return to Edinburgh he ret
ceived triple honors—from the unia
•versity, from the city fathers and from
the Christian church. At a complai
rnentary dinner given ,by the Edin-
burgh churchmen in his honor the
menu card bore the following inscrip,
tion: "Complimentary dinner in honor
of Eric Henry Liddell, B.Sc., in ad-
miration of his remarkable athletic
achievement and of his devotion to
principle in that connection as a re-
verent upholder of the Christian Sab-
bath"
Aanother gathering of representa-
tive citizens, including the Lord Pro-
vost of Edinburgh, ministers, knights,
bankers, doctors and others, the guest
of honor with the utmost simplicity of
manner related this incident: "I re-
member," he said, "that when I \was
about to run in the final of the four,
hundred metres race in Paris last
Saturday the trainer handed me a
little note. I opened it and read the
words, 'Them that honor me I will
honor.' It was God's promise. Ile
helped me, and I won,"
Mr. Liddell's parents and elder
brother are missionaries in China, and
next year be intends to follow them
into the same mission flelcl.
In meeting the need for winter feed,
for the buffalo and other animals in
the park of Wainwright, Alta., the
Canadian National Parks Branch of
the Dept. of the Interior is 'experi-
menting with the growing of sunflow-
ers. Good results have been obtained
so far and it is likely that the tests
will be extended.
criminals or stolen property.
Power From the Air.
A well-known .scientist proposes to
obtain power from the air by having a
number of thin metal gas-alled bal-
loons anchored by conducting wires at
a height of ',500 feet from the ground,
thus making use •of the static dis-
charge from the atmosphere,
first dis-
oovered by Benjamin Franklin in his
famous kite experiment.
The great difficulty, however, with
such apparatus, is to control and regu-
late the energy received, as at times
the -discharges are of great violence.
Many wireless amateurs who have ex-
perimented with vertical aerials have
found that atmospherics are more
violent and more continuous with such
aerials than with horizontal ones.
More Easily Said Than Done,
Enthusiasm for music is good, but
sometimes when it is mixed up with I
ignorance of music it is apt to become
emaarrassing to otker people. A '
teacher of singing records that he
once was considerably embarrassed
by a fond mother who sent her boy to
him for singing lessons. The boy was
about twelve years old—and the i
nibther's stipulation was that her son
should be provided with a tenor voice!
! "Now, ,children," said the teacher,
ou ,Will generally fled birds where
, there are trees and worms :‘7,11ere there
arth. Can 'anyone tell me what,..you
exr,act to find. whete there are fish'?"
The clam seemed lost ter a few
econ'd$, and then 011 jumped little
Tommy," asked the teaeher,
"what would, yoe'expect to find?"
aChips," came the innocent reply.
. • What cad She Mean 7
• Miss de aluirea"Paea always gives
eeetfte '1 i 111 of black foxr cce rely se .1 th.oJ1., •;n1r, inc a book fm, my birthday)).T bis was a fairly big tree wheu Willi -eat the. Coneue.ot eneaat d englaede
it grew on ViteicouVer Island and this slice is DOW as object; of lutoreet to
deetined ter varicue points in France and Switzerland. Tile anietele were in
lytIos de. Meanor---"Whal.. a fine Ilb-
°barge of the foreign deaartinent of tae Caediee Netionea Express, .,i'ir you Must haVel," ' i 'visitors at Victoria