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MY find appeintment, write Rev.
Henry Wing, was te a big circuit
eautheaetern love, svitix licalguare
tore .4 naU halnlitt. As I had left
my family tempararly la the wet, I
Wait le room in the iVillage tavern..A.n
immediete prectleal *iced wae a !levee i
to "ride the circeit."
Learning that a Mr. Willi:re I had
brought in 4atring et limed frtal hao
seuthweet, I strolled out to his ranch S.
telte a look at them. One of them
wa,Sheelighed, and the sigh was echoed
e, to me, en entirelw y neepeelmou
the maid who had come to drew*
--a Texae broacho. De was eerie:41Y
OZ' it ie a difficult thiug to affix
not at all like "the "mount" df the
typicat pioneer Methodist preacher, 8"" awl arrange the nail' if
the homeliest creature
airy wile hangs her head when he
end sea en
four legs, that I ever saw, with eo8hould Mt it up, end ;sighs at lier fate
I when she shoula be casting Belt.
"form" te• week of and of a coler
•
admiriug glances at the mirror,
that the -eleener he was the dirlaer
looked.. But he wee "all hoiee," and 1 'Mould, you mind sitting a Tittle
I took quita fency for bine around, Mise Montague?" said the
e
As aeon. 011ie owner saw that I was patient dresser, and Miss IVIoutague,,
inteaeeted in bine be was diseevered with a reproachful start, did ari
to be a very choice animal that Mr, 1 was recpaested, saying:
"HMV,
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Willietne tad. Parahased ai agjft t" "I am giviug you a deel of trouble,
hie little dirughter, But I pereuaded Mies Morris, but I will sit till now.
him to put a price ole the colt, and be 1 WM that do?"
namer,1416, ie met this with an offer "Thank you, miss, don't you men,
of 15 cents. -With this a,"dicker" be- tioti it," -said the dreeeer. "'Won't
gen, participated' in by about a hun- you have any powder, miss?"
about dusk with a deal at al(:•nd. So truth, she was (mite pate entergh.
saia Mary, and in
drea inteteeted enectators and culling I "Ne, no. away,"
I mate a partial payment to bind the 1 Away went tb.e clreseer; and Mary,
bargain and sent for my old army out- • wand in hand, sat waiting her call.
tit. I Presently a tap Varna to the door,
About a fortnight afterward. early , and, epening it, she saw her father
In eashaa.oesage,,,betere meny were dreesed as the pirate, sta.ncliingttgelin'e,
tikely to 4 m
about, with my- good "Mary, Y dear," he saci,w
bridle int my etre and my trusty sad- his brow and looking anxious, "what
del many. shoulder, I 43111)1)0 ouletlY has happened in the greenroom? I
out tartlik ranch. He necked lett as Mr, Andertion .came in, and—
broncho tad' the border of a
and --and somethiug seems to have put
him oiet•"
She colored faintly.
"Don't look so anxious, dear," elle
said, laying her hand upon his arm.
"It was nothing to trouble about,
Mr, Tubbs and he wore—were quar-
reling, and he -well, I parted them. Oh,
papa, Is t not a- Shame?" and the
tears were ready to all again.
"Er—er--" He hesitated, coloring
with her, "Oh, my Mary, Mary, this
Is no place for yqu."
"Hush," gale said, hurriedly. elige
are never to think of that any more,
dear. But how tired you look, Ali,
there is something else. What clid you
come to Say, dear?"
'I—nothing—that is, Mary, that gen-
tleman is at the wings again."
"Well?" he said, stooping to ar-
range the folds of her dress. • ,
"Well," he said, then. stopped. Her
face was bent (loam, and did not, as
grove Ory.oung =plea He then strap-
ped athe brtincho'e) hind fetlocks
to tweeeaplings about sixteen inches
aPart eensh,tlea hie head With a ehort
halter to a tree in front, Theses:emir-
ed the frantic creature could neither
rear uor Ile dowu, and without much
alfficulty I got the bridle end caddie
on,
My attentioa had been so engrossed
in these preparationa that I had not
noticed, the crowd that had gathered
to see the "Yankee preacher" give—or,
rather, make—an exhibition at "bron-
cho busting." Tills Was what I had
tried to avoid, l'or, while I had perfect
contidenee in My ability to mount and
ride the animal, I did.' uot care to
make a, "swagger" ot my beton-mu-
sh/P. Fat their presence now stirred
my ambition to make eomething et a
show a,uly proficiency.
Mr. Williams suggeated that I mount
and get a firm seat berere he released
the toil, but I declined, .and as the It usually did, help him,
freed hem sprang foriverd I leaped "Mary," he said,' eueldealy, "don't
to hie back and found the Stireups. go on from this side to -night, my dar-
The crewed gave a little exclamation ling; it doesn't, matter, pass around,"
of surprise, and ;then rewarded the "Yes, dear," she eaid, obediently,
feat with a rousing cheer, I was eat- "But"vsbys-- '
ed now and full of confidence. I had "I can't stop," he said, hurriedly.
had *all sorts- ofierserformances under aTheress the call. Mind, the other
me in flat same ,eaddle and knew all side,"
the tricks and capere of the species. She looked atter him and signed,
All? All but one. Leaping ottt train Poor, weak, loving heart! he could
among the trees,. he lit with his four not even trust her, the life of his life,
feet close together,qual• his back in a and the stay of his existence,
bump, with me penehed on the phina- With a tiny little feeling of dime-
ele. Then 'with a ,series of marvelous pointment at. her heart. when her
contortions he ketiame bumping, every name was called, she passed around
blow producing as conCuselon at the and entered the stage from the oppo-
base of the brain, I kept My 'balance site side. • .
with my feet fir in int he straight stir- But circumstances are capricious
rups mad my etneas premed tight sometimes, and it happened that Mr.
against his sides.. But, that repeated 1 Montague'e precautions were thrown
pounding stunnecItme: My head began away. Five minutes before the fairy's
to Elwin*, and realized that a few , entrance the gentleman, who was so
more such jolts would -unhorse me, i Inuel to be ahunned, had an attack
And then I prayed —just a. guile et love,nervouenese; and ' he crossed
Wit lithe breath in, whicli thet prayer around from the aide which she us -
was uttered the deft *took a notion to ualiy paesed and so was actually
run away. Appatehtly seized with a brushed by her drew at the opposite
sudden fit of horhasickness, he etarted, wino,
*for Texas, 1,000 *flee away. Through 1 His eyes brightened and he smiled.
the open gate ;tad doWn the south Not so those of the • Spirit of the
oad he flew, while I leaned forward Deep, for, as the Fairy Queen ae-
on his neck and'-eelaxed my strained preached him, hie face darkened, and
At hest we deseenderia.over the rim ; iiieyes sparkled angrily.
el the prairie to a steam • bordered J "What did you come from that side
with trees, and I turned him out into ter?" he muttered under his *breath,
a thieleeIump of bue,hes. Then I pracs rand Mary faltered a moment in her
tieed a Method suggested to me yeare open epaeoh, backed back toward the
before, the same rule es for handling Wing, and, seeing tor the fire time
a boy—, -"first teach him that you are the hiuvlseene face there, colored
his master, and then ahow- him that brightly.
YOU are his beat friend, but do not let At this fresh eign Andereon's face
him ever forget for a single minute darkened still more, and his jealousy
that Yea are his enaeter.
disnlounterl and spent aa hour pet-'
ting and caring for the hot and di&
ouraged creature. Be Was too used
U p at first to resent MY advances had
be beeninclined to, and be soon seem-
ed to realize that my intentions were
friendly., I patted hbal and talked to a little away, and, when her part was
him in ;kindly tones and led him about done, ran with e scared look to her
to broWse. Finally I Metered him, room. Anderson atrod e off mid wanted
mounted him and rode back home. etraigbt up to the place where Jaak
samosa gel:Ted hie utterance.
"Speak up!" shouted the gallery,
"Speak up!"
He uttered an oath and did speak
tip, with such a passionate, savage
torte that the pit applauded noisily,
and the young girl at his ;aide phrank
And I have always ;mounted thee as
my real debut into tie "traveling cm-
neetion,"—asTeW York Sigail.
BeSt "Natural keesure,"
had beep. etanding.
"I'll have no hangers about here,"
he muttered, wrathfully. "If elle wante
any of her fine gentlemen let • her
dangle them at her apron strings out-
side or at home."
Perhaps the best-known "natural But though thoroughly fired up With
nicaeure" Ls "the hand," four inches, angry Sealousy, when he found him -
to determlue the heiglat of horses. This self fame to face with the -high-bred
Measure is, of course, derived from the aristocrat, he quailed and quieted be -
breadth ot the palm, arid it has be- neath hie calm, trancetill gaze, and
-come sb well fixed la popular geteem / muttering a surly "Good -evening" to
that it le unlikely it will soon be on- .Tack's pleasant, open-hearted salute-
persedea. Another popularnaturel tion. Munk off, bullying the eerP011-
measure is the- "pace," and probably tere and the Imps as he svent.
every eountryman who Ilas had to do
with lasud gas used it.
The Usual method, le to stride off,
taking aa long steps ae .possible, ealliug
each pace a yard. la netural measure
employed by dressmakers is the
"yard," . as deternlined by stretching
the material to be measured between
the chin and the 'outstretched hone, If
it to 4 matter a itlehos, the dram -
maker Will foln the Vended upper joint -
of her thumb blong the cloth. These ftSea eme sensation oven in the
„
natural meAsures are generally eose Las
West," end with modest ough the
enough to serve all practical purpows.
For many centueleetheramae used the Prate looked up mildly et the priVete
ox With the closed eurtaine,
measure cif the foment*, from valet ot auk turned and, held out hie hand.
elbow to tip a Middle finger, nig
- "Good -evening," he said, "I ani here
was the cubit of the Bible. in the mimic world again, YOU see."
"Yes sir," seid Montague, but cold -
The lif.leff TAid,
Jaek mingled with the 11=Y -color-
ed crowd, and moving with them,
found himself at the other side again
and looking a' the house.
Preeently a voice—Mr, alontague'e—
sPeke eust at his,ear. in answer to a
question of one of the actors.
"I do not know, I am mire. Mr. Ana-
creon could tell you, perhaps: Feat
the cartains carefully closed, eh? Ah,
just $0; person of distincttop, ttO
doubt. I hear the 'Pirate's 'Gorge' hag
Tae, deriVee fretn soapstone found
in varietal quartet* a the nor.d
A general thing marketed ae rouge
ream which are Manufactured vari-
ous ebiecte, oc it le, groand into pow.
der, A great deal of the ground Lae!
• id emDloYed in the ritenufaetere of pa-
per. It aim0 entere eftto the triaitaite
of *Welder rubber forms and tollildry
'arenas and pints, but the ferns iu
which it Is meat familiar :a the toilet
"Wade r.
Not oily 13 lateen), dilated into
glovea and ell0e3 to olenete friction,
tut it ie aleo blown; into tondulte to
eaae the Introduetien •cf electric wire
or other coriaitetore, Sealutone 18
largely employee in the manure/teem
Of laundry tubs and similar uric:ea.
'rhe very bent graSte of tale, free froin
fiawo, are sawed up to rake penelai
er erayone. Ces tipt are ale.° nale
frem tale.
Art is diecoVery; hence it appeals to
tho thitid.
see the occupant of that box. Did you
notice her whee you came in?"
"1 moue In," mid Jack, by the sten
entrance. I want to return to lYfies
"Mr. Itheutague," ealled Some one,
"Miss Montague wishes to speak to
yen," and Mr. Montague, with a bur -
Med excuse, hastened away.
Jack Mated.
"This lieutikereldef has a fatality
with it. It seems we are not to part
unless I break the hharm by returning
it to tho hands ofAhe rightful owner."
Presently the riglitful owner came
tripping along. He stepped back to
let her pass, and bowed with as nitwit
respect as that with whieh he would
have saluted a duchess.
The fairy shot a glance at him and
just inclined her head,
An imp raehecl Ily and keockedher
wand from leer hand.
jack stooped, recovered it and hand-
ed it te her.
"I have something else belonging to
you," ho said. "May I return it when
You come hack?"
"yes," she said, faintly, and with a
blush, rate on the stage,
Jack turned, his heart beating, but
his face calm, and confronted Mr. An-
derson.
"I hove, I am not in your way," be
said.
"No, oh no," replied Anderson,
meaning "Yes," very much," and fol-
lowed the Feisty Queen on.
Jack took up his position at the
wing again, and waited impatiently
till Miss Montague came off, which she
die presently, and looking timidly- be-
fore her and stopping at his side for
that possession of her he had men-
tioned.
Jack took the handkerchief from his
pocket and held it out half reluctaut-
ly,
"That is it," hegiaid, "not very val-
uable, but he who steals e pin corn.
mite a sin, you know, and--!! •
!'Thank you," she said, taking it
with evident embarrassment. "I misse-
ed 11, but did not know I had dropped
it in the theatre. It was very kinn Pt
yon to come on purpose te return lt."
"And yet," said Jack, "you are ang-
ry with rhe for coming." °
. Fe spoke so respectfung, with such
a touch of earnestness in his voice,
that was dangerously musical also,
that Mary Montague felt she must an-
swer.
"No, not angry," she said, keeping.
her eyes down, "hut—no, not angry."
"You make me almost happy," said
Sack. tWiti you not take the 'but'
away? You avoided me the other
night. .Are you amid of me?"
"t---" she stopped and looked
around. .
"You have cause," said Jack, hurrg-
ing nri and feeling the embarrassment,
of her position. "Miss Montague, yei1
will forgive me, If I seem presumptu-
our.. oven rude, but 2 have for you
nottifna but good will and respect. If
1 solight to do him you love best its
the World a service would you refuse
to help me because you know nothing
of me rapre than that I am a stranger
and lerward. enough to speak to you
thus?'
It was a strange speech, but to
Mary, spoken in the gentle, musical
and reverential voice, it was sweet.
She raised her fine, thoughtful eyes
and examined his face.
"You would help my father?" she
asked, gently. "How?"
"By placing him in a position where
his talents would be recognized," said
Sack, eagerly. "Miss Montague, I
have some influence. I can eaert it
in his behalf, but I cannot, do so =-
less rou van help and trust me."
ly, "I eert you are. I have noticed you
le the front several timed lately,'"
Jackdd d and1d1y,
"Yes," he said, with soinethieg like
a sign. "I eni fond of the theatree."
"Of me theatre," corrected Mia
Montague, eyeing hint auopiciouSIY,
"Well, of one,' eat(' Jack, pained at
the old man's suspicione, yet ready
to acknowledge that, though unfound-
ed, they were exciteAble, "Yes, I am
fond of the Signet. 2 could tee the ez.
tra,voganee, a hundred tithes, and the
1P1rW's Gorge,' too. But I ant here
to-hight for a double purporae; to make
restitution--"
"Indeed!" said 'Mr, alontaguo. "Ah,
;ones, that la lady in the box yon-
der, I thought it would be, 2 sew the
edge of her draft."
"Indeed, sir?" said Jones, eagerly.
"Don't know who elle ie. The duchess,
perhaps, or Lady Twittleton, Signet%
looking up, Mr, Montrieue."
'leek handed the lorgnette to the
!grate
"Thank you," *aid Mr. Montague,
with ehtitge bow, "I am curious to
sir? Forgive me, bat It seenee
otrangee eo Untrue, that yeti. "
"A etrangere" ie at&
otranger," she oontinned, 'ishOt114
be so kind. I Cannot underetten(1
"No r I," ttheaaId, ahnost Wgefully,
"Do net let tie try, Entntala that feel
that coulti go to the owl ot the
world for, you—you believe; Me, I 'knew
and that you will let me WSW how
Intalltucelir.yuou trust me by heti/Aug YOur
She looked at Ulla and eighed•
"Ara I doing wrOrkg?" oho (Aid, half
"4'1%1,1'4
4he said, stoutly. "And now
tell me, where is your borne?"
She leOlted stream" at liar father,
sitting in a chair, with his tired,
weary fear turned inward the fire in
thoterenroom, and rePlied. In B• 1°w
v
"In
zacklirploortikhd eteeagae'
"I ehall not forget it," he eaid;
"and *tow will you show your trust in
Ine gall further?"
"In what WaYr she ed, tlndly
"By allowing me to ...e4 YOU home
Ip my cab. I can walk," e°math:Med,
eagerly, • as she shook ber head, "I
all1 meteor, stream than he ha Pray
let me, it is not much to grant, and it
would make me so haPPY."
Befor4e ha Mild reply the callboy
cried her name, She started We4
turned from him to the triumphal
ear, In which ehe ascended to the
realm of bliss.
ak Welkea over to Mr. 1Vienta,gne
and laid his aret on his shoulder. The
old mara started and turned. his face
up, and Jack saw that the daughter
had •spoken truly when, she- called it
a weary, tired one.
"I have taken, the liberty of placing
my gab at your disposal tonight, sir;
you are tired, I can see, arid no won-
vvd
der,, r,fat, refuseyour nIer
art ieheavY eneaTat,,ku
' Mr. Montague looked at him. a mo-
ment in silence.
The tired blue 0Yee met his unflinch-
ingly. The face looked hicapable of
falephood.
"I thaak you, sir," he said, simply.
"I do not know why you should put
yourself out of the way fer me ared
PIZ'," said jack, as simply, "raY
father taught me to respect age,"
.A -t this speech, surely as unsophis-
ticated a one as was ever heard be.
hind the scenes of a theatre, Mr. Mon--
tague started. But, strange to oar.
net so much at the speech as at the
voice.
"Er—er," he said, in his nervoue
way, scanning the young men's face
keenly,1 aceept oh; and thank you,
Er—will yea tell pae your name?"
"lily name le flamiltore John,
Omagh ne orte palls me so—Jaelt
Hamlin:me!
Mr. Montagge nodded wtth an air
elneoet of disappointment,
"Hemiltoa," lie repeated, timagist,
fully, "No, t Itgow no one by the name
4Tlihr last burst rat of aPplause for the
night announced that the curtrtin'was
down, and Mr. Moratague ran with a•
ef •interest to meet his daughter,
elle came Oft With the Spirit of the
Deep at ter side, and blushed aft she
saw Jack standing beside'. her father.
Anderson Meshed forward. . •
"Clear the way, you Wicket's," he
said, not with a Octet shew ot polit&
hes, "make way for Mary to go to
hex- dresting-room."
. 'Phan be returned and stood hover-
ing about Jack, who, it, not uncon-
scious et his preseuce, lboked, eo.
Jack stood talking to Mr. Montague
aaringethe few minutes 'taken 'up by
Mary in changing her costurae for
One more suitable to the'lelimate, and
when she reaPpeared dressed In the
utmost simplicity, fairy still, --in dark
brown and gray, he steel bdek and
'did not offer his arm, wifich he knew
beloved one of the old Man, but he
wOeild have been refused for the well-
folleivecl them, and when. they reach-
ed the stage door called his cab.
"Snowing," he said. arid with quiet
self-possession put up an umbrella
to shield them from the flickering
flakes,
Mary, still clinging to her father's
arm, gave him her right hand, and
he helped her into the •brougham witt
his head uncoyered,
Then, giving the direction to .the
coachman, he lifted his hat and
watched it as it rolled off noiseless-
ly, for thee-snew was -thick.
She looked at him again and sighed.
"I will trust you;" the said. "Your
face looks kind, your voice sounds
true, and you say you can help my
dear father. Oh, sir---'
She atopped, and Jack, his 'whole at-
titude one of reverential attention,
turriecleto.follow her glance toward the
greearoona
"He is so tired, so weary of this life;
it hurts him, is killing him. If you
can help hint to get away froni it, to
rest galetly," „
She stopped suddenly and put , her
hand to her bosom.
There was a sob choking there.
Jack's laps tremble&
He was unused to femiuine emotion.
The creed of his set was, "Die and
speak not." The stifled outburst
moved him,
"Hush," he said. ai4 very
sorry—I did not ine,an to—pray do not
cry', 2 shall never forgive MYself. But
you, yourself, do not dislike this life?
Are you weary and tired of it, and
do you not long for quiet and rest?"
Asavistful smile croseed her fair fake
for a motnent, but it had melted into
a ealra one of resignation as she
looked up into his.
"I do not meld for myself," she
replied, "only fOr hint—only for him.
But you do trot know him. Why----"
Ile caught up the thread with a
hightened color. •
"liVhy do I interest myself? you
would ask, May I reply truthfully?"
"Yee, if at all," she replied ,in a low
voice.
"Then, bemuse he la your father,
Mies Montague, Do not look eo
alarmed, I implore you. You said I
Was to speak truthfully, and indeed 1
should have done so In any ease. Yoe
think I aril Wrong in Coming berq
night after night to get a word with.
yell, but YOU do net think it wicked
tor love the flowers, / saw you Mos
them the other night,"
She looked up in her startled era.
barraesment, anti oaid quickly;
"Your floWere. How could you be
so deceitful, sir?"
"Decease / sveuld not offend Yon,"
Ito said, boldly, "You would not hare
picked it up if I had thrown theM,
but you kissed thern when they came
from a chikl."
She nodded,
"You must never throw me any
mere," Mal said, quiehlY, but with a
touch ot sadness.
"SV1ty not?" he Mad, but added
gulekly: "1 will not if you do not wish
It, if you will otaly eay you forgive trie
for sending those."
"I forgive you," she lurid "if there
is Anything to forgive. And fatheta-
eou will help him? Cart 1 truet you,
When Ise turned lee saw that an-
other brougham had been lingering
be -the street, and that Andersees,'Sho
ittege manager, was standing In the
entrance watching , him with angry
and agilicious eyes. -
He Apt glanced at him, buttoner' up
his bag and walked With long etridee
homeward.
-01.401y his back was turned the
Yohng actor's face went
livid, his
'clinched fist was ratted and retaken
fitter him, and a loud and audible
curse bust from the jealous, writhing
lips.
The ugly expression might have
been seen very plainly by the owe -
pant of the loitering broUghata—pere
haps it it was, for the vehicle crossed
suddenly and stopped exactly opposite
the stage door.
Anderson, who Wail about to' re-en-
ter the theatre, boived angrily.
"Another coefoutuled ewell," he
snarled; "the place is alive With
thHeme.:
tapped suddenly as the window
was dropped and a voice, a lady's,
said, le highbred accents:
"May I speak with you?"
Anderson came up to the carriage
and raised hie, hat tullenlY.
"Be good enough to walk to the end
of the street," said the voice, 'MY
coachman shall drive the down there."
(Ter lesacottetaue4.)
Worth Knowing.
String any spare buttons you ItlaY
have on a Ord, that they may be ecteY
to go when you want theme
You can have onion tops green all
winter, ready for salads, oups, ate
by putting an. onion into top (Only
touching the -water a little) of a 'vase
filled with water.
Wheh baking potatoes, grease them
first '4th a little butter, And When
cooked they will be beaatifully brown
and crisp, with the glazed njepearance
tiled makes them so appetizing,
It the bourse is letteated with ants,
dip ea eponge, into Wet -honed water
and lay it where, they tan get at it.
They vAll. soon eleetet %ten it and the
sponge can then be dipped in hot wee
ter.
Protect 4des ovci rnvzoos •
'Mica Axle Orease
al
imperi,
--keepo traces and harnese
Eureka Hamm Oil
strapit pliable, soft and strong.
Weatherproofs leather and keeps
It from drying rest and cracking.
Seid in convetlient eine.
litnperlal
Eureka Harness Oiler
tMho4rkoeusghha.rnegisailliliengiequi0epa
kerantde
and saVeti work.
--esmoethe the axle spindle
and hub eocket shy filling the
tiny outface pores with powdered
MiCe. The acithfree grease de.
feats friction. Makes axles, lot
longereend loads easier to haul.
Sold in sizes from 1 lb. to barrels,
‘irtvedeforyer,oy-14,
Jhr
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ilk/
IMPERIAL OtL LIMITED'
Pc, vv er t-ftseit „ I ail i e-Yri
lirtelece (tic...-
Tot FRIITT MURDER
(Philadeilehle, Record.)
'Nothing could rio comprehensively
disclose the siouosities of ,German
pserahologY as the proceedings ins re-
gent to Captain Fryatt. The oaptain
was shot by order of a court-martial
ein the ground that he had tried to
an a submarine, 1-10 got away at
the time, but after more than a year
the Germane get him and killed him.
This was only of a piece with most
of Germany's conduct during the war,
end there was no obvious reason why
it should have lain more heavily than
'many other things on the German con.
acience. The Provisional Government
raight have disclaime&all responsibilt-
tY tor what the imperial Government
did, But the Fryatt murder seems
have disquieted Germany more than
Mies Cavell's murder, or the deporta-
tion of 12/5,000 Belgians, 6,001) of wimps
perished, or the sinking 'Of the Lute,
tania.
e Gerraahy seems to have been affrights
ed by Captain Fryatt's ghost, and hi
an effort to lay it a national court -
Martial was created to review the proe
e(*(lings. On that court was Prefixes
ger Schuechking, repotted to be a greet
euthority on international law, Who.
explained to his associates that it wag
a principle of the law of nations that
eivilian committing an act of war
matte himself liable to the deeth pen-
elty,
This is true enough, but if only
smell part of the truth involved in the
irryett case. The German pundit pros
duces as much international law as
Before applyleg !Week lead as a Pole
ish make a pad of old eloth and tab
soot ertart the baek of the grate or
frorn the flue on all the greasy pads.
The grate win thee. take the peliele
with Muck INA later than metal.
Magginse-What has become Of the
svelt-IMOWn horn of pleistyf Bug-
gine—Oh, I suppose t has been biotin*.
ine long ago."
Minard's Liniment Co., Limited. '
Gentlemen,—I had my log badly hurt,
the pain was very soyere and a large
swelling came above the knee. I expected
it would be serious—I ruitibed it with
111/NARD'S LINIMENT, which stopped
the pain and reduced the swelling very
quickly. I cannot speak too highly of
MINARD'S LINIMENT.-
AMOS T. SMITH.
Port Hood Island.' . I
will vindicate /Germany, and ignores
the rest, and his countrymen stand
awe-struck at the vastness' of his era-
dition. The law of nations provides
that a naval vessel in war may sum-
mon a mewl:taut vessel to atop and
submit to search and seizure. If he
refuses it is at his own peril. It he
tries flight it is lawful to sink him.
If he fights he is outside of the law of
nations, and in the event of capture
-may be shot,.
Bat ther essential fact in such a case
is that be refused a lawful command
to atop and be searched. ,The worst
that Mild, happen to hien if he were an
enemar would be capture. But the
German subinarines did not summon
Vessels to surrender, They did not
call on thento Subinit to Nardi $111d
seizuee. The captain of the Lusitania
had no opportunity to save the Wes
of his passengers aied crew by seinen.:
d.erin.g; the vessel was simply blown
hp without 'warning. In. nearly- all
eaSeEt the submarines proceeded in thie
manner. Every m,erchant captain
knew whenshe saw a submarine what
Slate in store for kint The Belmar;
tee would only sink him if it could,
end it might or might not affordany
epportenity for the persons on board
to escape. In Most cases no Opportuni-
ty was given; the vessel *as aunk with
all an board unless the crew managed
to flee 'whIle their vessel was going
down, and they might be hundreds of
miles from shore and the weather be
stormy.
Profasaor Schueeking and the na-
tional court-martial justify the killing
of Captain FrYett by an tenpeal to that
international taw which the German
subtaarines treated with contempt from
the beginning of the war to the erd.
The law is made for foreigners; Ger-
mane are always above lame
4 4 •
narA Liniment Cures Dandruff.
Remember this—that there is tt
proper dignity attd Proportion to be
observed in the performanee of every
at of life—Marcus Aurelius.
11014"41( GANZ.
Zrere's Something. Pretty Good for
Sweet -Tooth People.
Three-quarters cup of honey, halt
cup sugar, 21/2 cups flour, 1 egg, %,
teaepoon ginger, 1 teaspoon einnaMon,
% teaspoon ground cardamon 8ee,„1/2
teaepoon cloves, speck while pepper,
Speck of salt, 1/2 teaspoon eode, 1
tahlespoon water, 2 ounces blenched
almonds cut into small pieces or chop-
ped, Sift together the flour and spices,
dtwolve the soda in the water, beat
the egg ,and combine all the ingredi-
ent. Beat or knead the mixture thor-
mighty. Cook a small simple. If it
does not rioe eufficiently, add aalittle
mere soda, and honey; if it fails, add
a little more' flour, Roll out the dougli
to thedhickneas of about three-fourths
of all "filch ead bake in a hot oven,.
Wiaeu the eake 1 done, glaze it with
thielt sirup of sugar apd water, and
allow it to dry In a glow oven or in
some other warm place. While It is
Still warm cut It into long stripe, or
It may be left in one large cake te bet
gilt into thin slices when served, This
Cake will become very hard on cool-
ing and will not be soft enougim to eat
-for eeverea weeks, but keep in good
coaditioa for an indefinite lengtn of
time,
Minard's Liniment Relieves Neuralgia
WORTH IKNOWING.
To make a faded dreele white, boll
it In two, gallons af water in which
a half cupful ot °ream of tarter is
tsfailved.
Mahe your piece -bags of mosquito
netting, You can thett find the leca-
tion of any piece without duraping out
the entire contents of the beg.
Eesence of peppermint, applied
with a soft cloth, and rubbed vigor-
ously, will remove white spots fram
highly polished steam; on furtilture.
When washing and rinsing colored
material add a tableipoonful of Ep-
som -Gaits to each gallon of water, and
even the most delicate shaded will nei-
ther fade nor run.
When working a pattern in crochet
Which requires a chain on which, to •
work, first make the chain ahd whip
it to a piece of muslin. This is a greet
COIN COthinAtOot, Compood,
Assisi ratable reguiatifto
inCttiouta. sola in three do,
woes of strength—No. 1, $1;
No. 2, $3; No. 3. $5 Per box.
sole IT all druogt, gists, or sent
i of rieo.
PrcO PaogprialCt.P Adiressi
vin cook MEDICINE CO
TOROirro, mit (Formerly Whiter.)
help, as one can work much faster and
more easily tthan. on the chain by it-
self,- After starting the work it can
be ripped from the muelin.
When you wish to embroider gluier
wisteria' baste it pri heeyy waxed pa-
ptr. You will find thio more convent -
eat than to use a. hoop. The needle
Mazes readily through the geode, bat
slides over the paper,' and the work
can be bent into any shape and not
Wrinkle, &nee the paper is very
Strong and flexible.
Rust can be removed from steel by
covering It with sweet oil for a day;
then rub it with a lump of fresh lime
and pond's in the ordinary way.
To glate linen, add a teaspoonful of
salt and one of finely scraped soap to
each pint of starch in whrch it is dip-
ped.
To Imre the bluing being evehly
distributed in malting blue rings!
Water for clothes add a, little salt to it.
• .10,
Ituthenians.
Ruthenian is the name given to
Christian inhabitants of what was for-
merly known as "Little Russia," living
in what is eastern Austria, and also in
southeastern Poland. They use the
ancient Greek liturgy translated into
the old Slavonic tongue, though Ro-
man Catholics professing obedience to
the See of Rome. They have a mar-
:ried secular clergy, following what is
kriown as the use of St. Basil. It
should, however, be noted that the
"'Mune is sometiraes loosely applied in
Canada to several Ituesian sects living
in the West.
-hiker's 'Wig Do Itlifilr2
By cleaning or .dyeing—re atoms any aetioles to their
renew. appearance 4n4 return them to you, fietid
new,
Send anything from household drapeeleo down to` the
finest of ,delleete fabrics. We pay postage oe eaptess
thatoes one way.
WHEN YOU THINK OF
CLEANING OR DYEING
THINK OF' PAI KCPPS
Our booklet en houeehold sumps -Bons that alive you
money will be sent free of charge. Write to -day to
PARKER'S DYE WORKS
ILIMITED
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Yong o Set Toronto
tiL
The et.latantiele 40 Gotha, Annually
"made GertuauY," was well kuown
before the war as the oocial register
of Aimee., a kind of "linrke's Peer-
age" a the ventinent. Naturtelly it
baa been ostracized for some Were freM
the beet allied, irociety, and now it is
entirely ettpermeled by the Almanach
de Bruxelles, which, in a first editien,
has recently anet a warla weleome in
'Prance. The German publication, it
*peeve hee been a powerful channel
of espionage. Officials ot eVerY coun.
try in the world nave innocently sup-
plied it with information about promi-
nent people, family trees, annies„ na-
vteas anti what not. Some of this in.
fornaation Was oatentatiouelY Paraded
on the pages of the Almeauteh, but one
would like to know howranch of It
went privately into, the files of the
German latelligence department,
,
00et1y Law Proceedings,
The folly Of rushing to the law to
settle very little dispute kr demon.
trated by aa action between two pot-
ters for a sum of 42. After being in
court for eleven years, it was put an
end to by being referred to arbitratore,
who decided in favor of the defendant
in the case, and ortlered the plaintift
to pay all the costs incurred in the
proceedings, which were assessed, at
ie1,000,—London Tit -Bits,
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FINE FOR COUGHS OR COLDS
It was their inabiliti to reach the
real source of catarrh and bronchitis
that caused the medical profession to
drop liquid ough medicines and adopt
"Catarrhozone" instead. Thia won-
derful inhaler provides a method of
breathing into the lungs certain rare
medieinal vapors which are so heal
in and coMforting as to entirely ban-
ish coughs, catarrh and throat trouble
in a very short time.
The most wonderful thing about
Catarrhowne is, that no matter Where
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Get the large size, lasts months, is
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size, 500; sample or trial size, 25c. All
deelera,
Axi Old.English Custom.
In the northern ounties of England
there was practiced at Easter up to
at least half a century ago the curious
cut= of "lifting." It 'mat still ex-
ist. I have before me, writes a cor-
respondent, a newspaper cutting 'Of
1860 giving an account of an indignant
commercial traveler of the ritual to
-Which he was subjected On Easter
Tuesday by the maids of a hotel at
Crewe. He was placed in a chair,
lifted three times and kissed by the
merry revelers. It appeared that a
like ,privilege might have been his for
the exercising on Easter Monday ---'
a Privilegas which absence made impos-
sible. There is a remonstrance of a
century earlier by a man who was
treated by the maids of the Talbot
Intl, Shrewsbury. in a similar fashion,
but who in addition had te pay a tee,
—London Chronicle.
Mlflailfs'i-lriltnent for sale everywhere
_. • • .1.".
Fooled the Reporter.
A good story coneerning De Valera,
the Sinn Fein leader, is going' the
tentacle ef London. ,
It appears that recently a certain
Leaden newspaper sent a reporter over
to Ireihnd to take shorthand notes of
oobn j
secotefd,hbisutsppeoecvhaelee,r4 was
se all
lusteinlcoes F Opreez80AL, ont—e125 40u-trgt. POLAR
ane erbarilty,
WANTED.
WANTIeD—POTATOgie, IN OA
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• era-mr---rwerereeer
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ae min. Apply to I1e14 noes., atom -
Wei 1, Ont.
ea/ANTED-ea:et EXPEItIESTOttlfe stAN
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Frank Utter. Freeman, Ont.
irmusen.orsimprommommalirmunmearm............"
Mi8c41,t,ANEDO.
B criums OF QUALM**
Single COMO White Leghornit, front
bigh eigim otuck; bred to lay. Order
neW and get the early layers. Price
(25) six dr/liars, (61)) eleven atilIttra, (100)
twenty dollars safe arrival -guaranteed;
aiao eight-weeke old pullets, eine dollar
each. Walout Glen Poultry Ferro, lieet,
No, 4, Chatham, Ont.
EUD CORN—FINEST GRADE (4.41
„White Cup. .Quality guaranteed. 'kg'
per bushel, f.oh, hero (smoke frel:,/, nit
trona a farmer aro save the Iddle-
man's. profit. write S. J. XoLonon. 111.18,
No. 4, south Woedelee. Ont.
pAY YOUR otyr-ob-vrowrt AC,
counts by Dominion Exprege 'Money
Order. Five dellara costa three omit.
BRED TO SHOW LAYING EARREO
Rock. Tobacco and Garden Planta,
Write :on atalogu4 Chas. Halliard,
Leamington, Ont.
'WHITE LEGHORN EC4CIS, , FOR
hatching from bred to lay Male, the
kind that lay in winter. Big htuoky
Barrow stock eggs, $2,00 per fifteen,
Indian Runner Ducks living egg
machines. Eggs, e2.0O per set. E. kJ.
Perrin, Newinarket, Ont,
SEED CORN
White Cap Wiscon.sin No. I, carefully
grown selected and tested. Eiret-elass
strong', Viggrous seed. GerMination
guaranteed. $2.50 to $3.00 per :bushel.
Freight prepaid.
A GRANT FOX, RUTI-IVEN, ONT.
FARMS
FOR SALE.
PARIXIS AND RANCIIE'S FOR S.A.1-44.
in Alberta. Write for our New't C, ,a(4-
logue. J. C. Leslie & CO., 301 Beterloge
Block, Calgary, Alta.
rarm For Sale. .
In the fifth concession. of Spence
Township, Parry Sound district, In
Orange Valley; 40Q acres, 80 awes *leer-
ed. rnixeil soil, .well watered„ river..run•
ning through, good ranching Iticalit.Y,
kits of pasture. Good house andbarn;
other outer banding:3. For further infer -
madam write ALEX. -FARROW, North
Seguin, Ont. ,
viomat......romearma•
BUSINESS ohlieNcEs 7
r_ROCERY FOR eAl..M--COBDURC1—
`41 sacrifice; reason, death la WWII,. J.
II. Rooney, Box' 471, Cobourg.
rORNWALL SASH AND DOOR:FAO.-
`-` tory, saVr.. planing and 'shingle mills
for sale. Dimensions; Planing; :mill,
50x70, two-sterey brick; sawmill, • 39x84;
boiler hoose, 20x64, storehouse.
50x100, two-storey; ample yard room:
modern machinery; no similar 'business
within radius of 20 miles;, ("Icing large
anti prosperous business; -.1,Setteerts tor
selling made known. to prciapeetive pUr-
.chttsers to whom books will be Open for
inepecdon; rare business onp,ortanity.
Address' Aitchison & Co., COrtiWall,
I .
p on SALE—BILLIARD PARLOR ,AND
A cigar store. Equipment, flvd Brans-
wick-Balke tables, 20 wire chair/I, one
ceiling fan, one 10 -foot oak tobeeeti ease
and grill, two show cases: electrid fix-:
tures, etc. National Cash Register.
large size,. nearly new; cost' over $W;
all' for $650.,Now in storage atHearnsville.
Ont. An excellent chance for a returir-
ed soldier. Frank J. Dixon, 18 William
street. St. Catharines, Ont.
$2,000 CASIt BALANCE' LIXFI
RENT. secures a small, flour -
tithing steam laundry, fully modern.
Seven -monied house on same lot. Estbd.
1908. Write for particulars. `Itelvin
Laundry, Norwood, Winnipeg.
NURSING.
MURSING—NERSES EARN sts TO $28
" a week, Learn without leaving
home. Send for free booklet. rt0Yrti
College of Science, Dept 124, Torontb,
Canada.
FOR SALE.
"Lee ehe gentleman remain," he said.
nSo far as and concerned, he is at lib-
erty to report my ',speech verbatisaa,
tit Dite pleases
ahdLilval'nced to the front of
the iplatform. Eyes glistened, ears
were all attention, and the reporter'e
pbnall was poised tile air. De Val-
era besowed one more benignant smile
on the nevsspaper man, winked wick-
edly at his audience, and began his
asPolaGe'sallh—Tain
ektihYe, G4eite Itt114."agee—P°84‘-
WELL SATISW.:0 WITH
BABY'S OWN TABLETS
Mrs. Edmond Gagne, Tikualm, Que.,
writes: "I am well satisfied -with
Baby's Own Tablet% They are abso-
lutely necessary in homes where there
are -little children. They cured my
baby of constipation, and I would not
be without them," Thousands of
mothers always keep a box of Baby's
Own Tablets on hand as a safeguard
agalast eonstination, colic, colds,
simple fevers or any other of the
minor ills of little Ones. The Tablets
are sold by medicine dealers or by
mail at 25 cents a box from The Dr,
'Williams Medicine Co„ Brookville,
Ont.
ME NORTH ATLANTIC
(Winnipeg Free Press.)
That sea -power depends on, some-
thing else besides armor -plate and
17 -inch gems Is quite unobstruslvely
mentioned by Admiral Beatty in his
remarks and the Brittsh equadrees
which blockaded the German porta.
"Stretched across the waste et
waters troln west of the Hebrides to
the Motto icefields, these ships kept
their watch and ward in weather that
had to be experienced to be alder -
stood,"
The streteh of sea the beocitaders
had to petrel le well described by the
admiral aa a "waste of waters." The
Atlantic, which surges against the
fanged coasts of the Western Islands,
is the hotne of TemPesta. It spreads,
lenesetne and Millen, into the frozen
eenee e)f the ite•cap, dotted by a few
bare reeks, overhung by steely, 'un-
friendly skies, the air too heavily laden
with brine, the whole region storm -
haunted and alien to man,
1 In the course of the centuries this
wild northern sea has preserved all
ite charaeterlittlea; the blasts of the
burricane filled the sMis of the
Norsemett's long ships, the ley spray
lashed the oarsmen, the black teeth
hidden in the nettle Mane ripped.
the timbers' and etreteed the witeree
With tei'peee. This bleak *war Vats
ene of the ItighWays down will&
passed tlio great migrationa *Web
eezer an Ice
cream tubs and cariw all sizes; e, bar.
gain. 34 Hunter street, Toronto.
,
peopled northern France and founded
the Norman dynasty.
It was a people compounded Of the
races who long ago made a highway
of this savage sea -track thatgttarded
the British Isles during the War. -It
is se idle figure of speech to deecribe
the modern Briton as a descendreat of
the sea -rovers. That, preciseW, is
what a great many Britons are,' and
that makes them the wardens of the
North Atlantic to -day Just as their
Pirate fathers were its wardens cen.
turies ago, they in their swan-proWed
longboats, and the modern Brit.= in
his destroyer.
Battleships are easy of e.onstruetion,
bravo men are common to all yaws,
but the spirit that can thrive on the
waters which the blockading rieeta
had to guard is the spirit on Widen
British sea -power tests. It is not the
se,a fights, tbe winning or losiag oh
battles, that will determine the cOhtrot
of the sea. It is the actual ruling et the
waves themselves. A chance shot may
siek a dreadnought, but the povear to.
dominate by senmanslitn the wastes
of water stretching from the outer
Hebrides to the Arctic Ocean—this
008 to the foundation of haval
supremacy.
4
Minard's Llnlment Cures Burns, tte•
A man is known by hie deeds, es-
pecially if he happens to own any real
estaeo.
CUTICURA HEALS
r RASH ON CHILD
tdizteeramt 1.• irroHOM*ime...11
On Rodiand Face. Red and itchy.
Mded For Hours. Lasted a Year.
"A rash Started all over my little
gliVo body, and shehad some on het
fece. It stArted in A Oimple
that was full of water, and
it got red arid itchy. She
etiedfor hours. This trotible
lasted a year.
"Thee/ etartedwIth a lito
*ample of Cuticura aoag
and ointment. I bought mote, thal
I toed tour cakte cf Soap and three
botesofOleunentwitichheated him"
e(S1gned) Vire. bora Lately, 1032
Gertrude Et., Verdun., Que., August
11,1018. 1.
Claktir it Valet TAO
Cobeititing of Botip, Ointneerit eta
Takum to art indispensable duct
tbri daily toilet in mean
akin purity *rid akin health.
ciPA eitt414
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