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CHAPTER I,
"Pear your blushing honors meekly
old fellow. You are the hero of tine
hour."
"Let 00 get away somewhere out of
the crowd, away from everybody;" said
the other man quietly, but with some
impslienee in his particularly sweet and
oeutle voice.
"Not so easy in town on a May af-
ternoon! Let us go to the pails; and
there, if the sight of your baking fellow-
.1!oaturos does not tempt you to join
the solemn throng, w'e'll go and hide
ourselves among the trees and moral -
'The park! That is just the place to
.nl eet-everybody "
"Then why not meet them all at once
end get the ordeal over? Face the con-
gratulations of your defeated rivals like
u man,'; One would think you were
ashamed of your victory."
"So I am rather,"
"Ashamed of carrying oft the pret-
tiest, wittiest, richest girl in London, the
•only good-looking heiress that ever was
Born, whom all the penniless bachelors
1 know worshipped from afr, and all
those who were running through their
own money looked upon as the hoped
to: support of their declining years!"
"That is just where it is; itisrather
awkward to bo marrying a girl so much,
better off than one's self. It is not as
if I had expectations, or any ]nope of
malting money myself some day. 1
ought to have been content to worship
her from afar like the rest."
"But, my dear fellow, she wouldn't
• let you. You are unreasonable; you let
strained sentiment carry you too far.
Let us get into a hansom and argue tine
pint."
They both got into the hansom, and,
00 they were slowly driven in the block
of vehicles of all kinds along crowded
Piccadilly, the younger man continued
hi argument:
"1 look upon you as the one solitary
(MO of merit rewarded, which restores
ins faith in a discriminating Providence.
The very first time Miss Edgecombe saw
you, two months ago, on your return
from India, she seemed pleased when
some one told ler you admired her, and
she asked me several questions about
vont which shows that 01( inter-
ested
er-
d fait sit ,s rt
ested in you. Well, you 000 guess that
the girl has been used to attention and
admiration from every ratan she has met
sine; she left the school room, and is a
pretty shrewd judge of the merits of
her admirers. And I never thought so
highly of her judgment as I do now."
lout then you are the most generous-
Irenrted fellow in the world. Why you
haven't married for yourself long before
this is the most perplexing conundrum
I ever ask myself."
"I? 011, I never asked her! We've
been chums—Doris and I; and I am her
adviser and counselor in all matters of
difficulty. Of course I give up my of-
fice now to you; but it has been a great
thing for her to have at nand a man on
whose experience and discretion she
could rely, surrounded as she is by a
thing to do, if one gets n tete-a-tete
The young fellow said tltis with all
solemnity; but his friend interrupted
hni with a laugh.
That's rough on other flutterers,
Charlie."
"Other flutterers! I assure you I
never flutter where Miss Edgecombe is
concerned. I ani her Mentor, I tell you;
her pilot among the quicksands of a cor-
rupt and venal society; and, if it had
not
been for myinfluence exerted in
your favor, 1V110 knows but she might
have bestowed her hand, not to speak
of her fortune, in quite a different guar -
ter?"
Charlie Papillon twirled his golden
moustache with ferocity as he finished
this menacing speech; but the other man
laughed again.
'It is lucky for me I did not know
before that my fate hong in your uu-•
compromising lands. 1 should never
have had the courage to propose."
"But then it is so easy to propose
, to an heiress. It .scents the natural
giddy unwd of Idle flutterers."
with her. She expects it, and is so well
used to refusing offers that she knows
how to dismiss one kindly with the
least possible pain to one's feelings. I
think Doris roust have refused 1111 the
single men she knows except me."
"Whey didn't you try? You would have
had a better 0.111111(.0 than anybody" 1
should think."
"Horsy could 1? I haven't any money,
\Vhat could 1 have said to her? How.
could 1 neatly disguise my willingness to
share nine thousand a year and expecte.
tions with 0 potty girl? :My heart and
two hundred a year could have no pos-
sible attraction for he'."
"Take core—consider me feelings. Yoe
are putting nay own case.?
"Oh, no, that is quite a different
thing! If Altos Edgecotnb lull accepted
me of
any •o
of those other fellows—flut-
terers; as you call theta—all the rest of
us would have called out in chorus, What
on earth can site See ill him'!' while now
he all meta
,1
hor'� -
1 rally stop bulk and bow
ourselves out, and make way quit,'
cheerfully for 'old Glyn.' It is just the
right man and the tight woman for once
and everybody acknowledges it and says,
"Bless you, my children!' 1 always felt
myself tint a beneficent Providence had
Something nice in stere for Loth of you,
and Providence has fulfilled my highest
hopes in giving you each other,"
Charlie Papillon spoke enthraratic-
ally; but he was hardly overstating the
case either ns regarded his own devo-
tion to his two friends, or the estima-
tion in which they were generally held.
Iliss Edgeco011 was an exceptional wom-
an, not only in the fact that she was
young, wealthy, and handsonIe but in
baring such well-balanced hind that,
in spite of the flattery and hinnage, she
had now for six or seven years been ac-
customed to receive, she had lived to the
age of twenty-four with head unturned
and, so it was said, heart untouched,
Even her best friends could not success.
fully defend her from the charge of
coldness; but, just in time to save our
self from the confirmation of this re-
proach, she -had encouraged the otter.
toms and accepted the hand of David
Olyn; and frienis.tuu! acquaintances
agreed that she had chosen well,
.David (Aye had passed the age of 30
without realizing any of the brilliant
prophecies his _friends. had freely made
concerning hint in his early youth. per-
haps
erhaps there had never been anypartic]dar
ground for believing that these pro-
phecies would bre realized. The exact
foundation on which the esteem in which
he was held was built it won})d have been
difficult to discover, A hafdsome, high.
spirited lad, with a generou§ disposition
and sweet temper, he had occupied, even
in his Eton days, a high position among
his companions, independently of ids at.
tainmetts either in study or in sport;
which were respectable, but not extraor-
dinary. A certain natural reserve, with
which neither haughtiness nor sulkiness
had anything to do, gave dim itv to;the
sweetness of his disposition, tad.perhaps
did more to 00eure the respect lit which
he w110 hell than his more undeniable
merits. The reputation of the boy be-
et) 1110 that of the amu; he passed
through life making fete enemies and
many friends; drifting from the army
to the bor, from the bar to a clerkship in
a Calcutta bank, from the bank to a
Government office in London alwarys
stc
ads, always reserved, always looked
up to us it good mann as well as a good
fellow, Ilis.lundsome figure and beau-
tiful, grave -face had always attracted
great deal of attention from wo!,cn of
all ranks and ages, and, together with
the fact that he rather avoided their
society, had caused him to be 1101
sought lifter by them. The dinI4 10
this wide•'nreadadmiration, of Which bo
had 11.0...o. w'
bees in the ]test vain, was
the in,erest he excited in beautiful 11105
Erigeombe. who frankly eneouagcd bid
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The girl tato takes Scoff's Enna-, 0
atoll has plenty of rich, red blood; she is I,
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attentions; without any coquetry, from
the first evening of his introduction to
her—when site had boos prepared to rc
ceive hint graciously—by _Charlie Papil-
lon, who mingled with enthusiastic
praises of his friend a glowing account
of the impression her beauty had node
upon hint. After that, it had been plain:
sailing for Glyn, and in At fete weeks;
obicther 11t hio initiative or hers neither
quite knew, he had proposed and been
,it (men accepted.
The person who rejoiced the most de-
monstratively over this happy consum-
mation was Charlie Papillon, who con-
sidered that lie was the prime. 100000 fn
the matter, and took a more than pa-
ternal interest in sot11 the ypling'peoplo.'
lie felt quite as much exoitenlent over
their love affair as be did over any of
his own, which ;were many and varied,
ranging from the purely Platonic
through all the degrees of light•comedy
flirtation, sentimental Interest, serious
at-taeluuent, and hopeless pinssinn.- Ile
%vile very good 111 111! tilt the last, 10001
lvhicli; in : the ('000)0 of a fete
(lays, either" the '>hopelessnes:ir or
tire" pesefon would inVarinbby'
drop out, 3lothei'slonll chaperons feared
him; but unattached oil ladies and
matrons without daughtetts to marry
petted and tried to convert him, For
1'harlie was an infidel and a heretic "or
many points of social and moral ortho-
doxy, 0 blue-eyed cynic, a golden -haired
philosopher, ''0 most dangerous man, my
learn quite an improper companion for
young people!';
But there w11', no hand in Charlie, ex-
cept that his desperately ineligible caress-
ing white hand and affectionate blue eyes
would cone in the way of most excellent
hatches between pretty girls and nen
with big red hands and uninteresting
faces, and fortunes' which made poor
Charlie's two hundred' a year seen' n
poor pittance indeed. But when mar-
riage mala a grip in the circle of his
loves, Papillon replaced the defaulting
fair one 'by another, or he entered the
bride afresh on the register' of his
heart ipnder the heading "Platonic," and
1111 went -011 ns happily ns over, No 1'us•
band seriously feared him, moi' had any
husband serious reason to do so; thought
ptrluips, had the master of the horse
always dcuovn'whntit much more spon-
taneous
purtaneous smile his wife had for the sunny
faced guest than for his less unvaryingly
sweet self, he would have wished that
young gentleman bark at the office
where' ho placed his valuable services,
for six placid hours e0ch city, at the lis•
posnl of an unexacting government.
Papillon wens not a drone, though ht
rather encouraged the thought that he
was; he lilted to think that lie war
quietly husbanding his strength to do
great things in that "semi dray" which
was to bring 11011 his opportunity. In
the meantime mere wailing had its con-
solations, and at five -and -twenty he could
still afford to let things slide for awhile.
To be able to debate each afternoon or
vening with himself on which of half a
dozen ,pleasant places he should shed the
light of his presence, with the certainty
that at any one of them he would he
warmly welcomed, was in itself it thing
to mance life worth living. What he
would be at forty 11e did not ask himself,
nor did anyone else cohkider; at twenty-
five ,he was a social sunbeam, which of
itself was not a bad destiny,
He had been a small boy at Eton
when David Glyn was in the 'sixth form;
but they had scarcely 'met since until
the return of the, latter from India,
since when ,the old ,boyhood acquaint-
ance had 000010 friendship, and Papillon
had hoisted this friend on to a pinnacle
and worshipped hint sung his praises with
great enthusiasm.
The two men got out of the hansom
et Hyde Park corner, and strolled
through the gates together. Papillon
liked the people, Glyn liked the trees.
]tut the philosopher, the cynic, had an
idea that the influence of trees was bad,
unless you were with a girl—girls having
the power ,to charm away all noxious
influences that even' tllreateaed his seren-
ity. So he.Iiuked his arnrin>his friend's
and, keeping„fhe thoughtstof the latter
diverted by a flow of brig - tatter, led
hien into the stream of well (essed men
and variously dressed women;.:: t throng
the m the 110118011. 'Cli' ' h
park � had got
to tine end of the path whe•ee crowd
111)0 thinnest, when n gentleman w11000
dress proclaimed that he was net'a Lon -
dater no' cane up to Glyn and greeted him
very warmly.
"1 found out your address, nod was
coating to call upon you this afte`¢noou,"
said he. "I met Barrett last night, and
b0, gold 100 you had 'conte book from
indin and wee• going to be married. So,
as 1 min going back to Yorkshire in a
day 1,1. two, 1 thought I oust find yon
out and give you my good wishes fist.
I wish you joy, Glyn!"
"Yon (know who tic lady is?"
"Oh, I can guess, of coarse! 11 Can
only the ohne
Which one asked (,lye, in surprise.'
"Why, Mrs. Hodson, of • coti(se! I
didn't even know her husband was dead;
Int I know yon are not the sort to
change. owl, its soon.as I heard you were
goo„ to be. •nmrt•!ed, 1 guessed who the
he mysteriously, ally arts" said v
You a.ro wean,;, though," said David,
ni umg."Mr, Hodson is olive and in
ca} good health; 1111 cyan if 'lies. ll. 1
on VaiIre 11 widow and wnlhn ! to have
le, which Is supposing good. deal, 1
on't think 1 could quite reconcile myself
0 becoming the property •of a lady so
loch:older than myself. Why, !n a year
r two I night have proposed myself as
son fn-brw
011, well T beg your pardon!" said
the country gentleman,, rather, discon-
certed. "Of course I didn't know. When
1 knew you there at llinlruond two
eats ago, you seemed -to be always at
the house, and people talked, and, until
young Taunton turned up there, you
seemed to be generally about, and—.13u'.
oh, 1 beg 30111) pardon! Er—who is the
lady, then °' •
Miss Ed tromp, of: Ambleside, I wish •
you were going to stay in town
should like to introduce yon to her, She'
is a great'dell younger and hnui;,soinCr
plump, active and energetic.
The reason is that at a period when P. girl's
digesi:ion is a','iak, a.. -off s Em gl sion op
provides her with powerful nourishment in
easily, digested form.
dr•
It is a food that builds and keeps up a__", °
girl's strerlgth.
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thou the impossible bride you 1vanted
to give ale"'
"1'01 very glad to hear i!:" said the
ptltei.m11m energetically. "Then 1 can con-
gratulate you with a free' eons(nnce."
Aml,.11fl,lr.a few more remarks, show-
ing -mord -kindliness than tact he went
on hie, way and left the young sten to•
310(1(0' .
('Intrlle Papillon did rot as usual break
Ont at 1(0e into cheerful prattle, but
raped for' Ins friend to speak first,
Good fellow that—"
• "In spite of the cut of his coat. Where
(101 you pick hint up."
"1' used to meet hint very often at
Melon—mid before I went to India, at the
Ilodaums'. lou know ]Hodson, the stock-
broker, don't you?"
"Yes. Gives very good dinners and
rides very good horses, and—Do you like
him?"
"Not particularly but he has n very
nice wife. I think people go more to the
Lawns for the sake of his wines and his
Wife than because they find any great
attraction in }Jettison himself."
Charlie glanced at his friend's calor
face, but there w110 ne change 01 its
somew•het languid expression; it was
clear that the indifference in his voice
was not n.swnned.
"Yes. ifo(3001(s stolid enjoyment of his
own -dinners is amusing at first; but it
is a diversion which polls in course of
time. I'm rather fond of Mrs. Hodson;
she is the pleasantest spceinen of the
mature coquette I know,"
"That is rather severe, Charlie. She
is on awfully kindhearted woman, and
I never saw any coquetry about her.
She spoke of herself in the frankest
manner as an old marled woman still
young enough to enjoy the world."
"Oh, I don't say anything against her
manner; 1111(1 she is a charming woman,
I admit at once!"
"1 thick so, too, A little unrefined,
perhaps, but so genial, so—so jolly. Then
she is so ready to show kindness to any
one who feels rather stranded, as it were,
and badly off for relaxation or pleasure.
For some time before I went to India,
1 got most of the enjoyment 1 had in
life at the Ietwns. Instead of giving
ala a stiff invitation now and then, am
showing me that ryas de trop if
made my appearance unexpectedly. she
nb;olutely encouraged ale to conte w9iei
1. liked and stay as long as I liked, am
do just as I liked. There is a sort o
cosy-goilouess about 1110 1011010 house
lydd, without any stiffness or any wan
of order, that makes it quite the pleas
tiniest I over was in in England"
"I wonder whether itio quite as easy
"Well, you had your beaux yens. And
you admit you were not so often at
the Lawns after Taunton's appearance
there "
"Have you seen anything of the Hod -
sons since your return?"
"Yes; i met 110(10011 in the Strand
the oilier day, and hr asked me down
to dance, and I went. It tray tiro seven-
1ce11i1 of lost month, I think."
"Oh, he asked nue to 110 that; but I
had another engagement! What sort of
affair was if?"
"The old style there—not too many
people, rooms cool, capital supper. Ma -
d:11110 was as charming as ever; but I
scarcely spoke to hes )Hissed fay -two
print little fronds, Nellie and Ethel—
gone to school."
"\\ as Miss Edgecombe there?"
"No: it was before I even dared to
hope Iliad an outside chance with her."
"Why, I knew holt things were going
(woo thee! Doris is above encouraging
n nun; for her own amusement."
"Tam save known her longer than I,
you see. Besides, her striking beauty,'
and her brilliant manner fairly, dazzled
me; I cant express the effect she had on
me in any other way. Se that I had
neither judgment nor power of criticism
Mime she was concerned."
"1 can understand that. If she were
not generally a little cold, we should all
be off her hearts about her; when she
wishes to please she is irresistible."
"Co1d! I should not have called her
cold
ere be Continued(
ECCENTRIC ALFRED NOBEL.
How He Got New Pictures for His
Walls,
Alfred Nobel, whose memory receives
its an
anal revival in the award o4 his
munificent prizes, had little personal
knowledge of England, says the London
Graphic. He disliked our climate and
cooking—in all London he found only
one hotel and one restaurant where din-
ner w•ae to pussibilit and he qualified
even this praise by describing their
cuisine as "the least disagre0able" in
England,
I 'A disappointment thq, he never got
I over was that he was' not sleeted a
member of the Royal Society, while his
lifelong weakness and nervous disposi•
I tion and winter bronchitis made first
f Paris and then San Remo his chosen
• abode on his attainment of wealth.
t Only twice did Nobel ever visit the
• great high explosive factory which he
established in Scotland. In Paris he
- was to be keen daily huddled up in his
rugs in his carriage, driving to his lab-
oratory outside the city. He had an
extraordinary knowledge of languages,
a distrust of lawyers --he made his own
will ---and when heart disease came upon
him he wore a sphygmograph to trace
the irregularities of his pulse.
Tiring of the pictures on his walls one
arranged with an art dealer to have his
rooms hung with pictures on hire, re.
turning them and receiving others in ex-
change as often as he liked. He tools
Out 120 patents in England, and the in-
vention to which he attached most im-
portance wee his artificial India rubber,
of which few people have ever heard,
because his dynamite speaks so loudly
for itself,
MODERN MEDICINES.
31going, for 111000 two little girls."
"Nellie and !Ethel. One sees so little of
(diem; they are always in the. school -
'room. Yet, even they add to the citip 1 of
the place. They have such print, dei6`ure,
pretty little manners, t 1111) one does see
then, and have such 0 quaint, old-fash-
ioned look, one wonders 101101 they will
grow up into. By the bye, they were
looking rather tall for their short frocks
When 1 trent ,away; 1 suppose they uw0t
be almost grown up by this tinier.
"Oh, 110, they won't grow tip for a
long time yet!" said Clarlie, dryly.
"Pretty women's daughters develop very
slowly."
'"They ought not to 11000 to delay
Hutch on that account," said Olpn, inugh•
ably, "10 don't consider their mother
such a very, pretty woman. If you catch
her unprepared and she doesn't seem
to mind being caught—site really isn't
pretty at all."
"Now, I don't agree with you. Ithink
her Very pretty, especially in evening:
dress,"
"But her taste in dies is atrocious;
she likes barbaric colors,"
"Yes; but they don't look so ill on
her as they would on another woman.
And there are gleams of a better nature
in her fondness for old lace 8101 Indian
muslin. :1 woman who call afford to
title herself down with old point and
diau,"onds may pass muster ass well dress-
ed, however fur astray her individual
freaks of taste may sometimes carry
bier
"A very good defence, Charlie said
Odyn, laughing again. "I1owever, one
forgave her bad taste for the sake of
her good od nature."
"I believe lithe is awfully good-natured
to yot;ng people at a los to know what
to do 1(1111 th(ir time or their money.
I know two pi three fellows she has
been a nmthcriit 0,"
"Ye Het you cynical tongue carry you
too 1':u', Cham}*, But I don't suppose
ye,.tcan unclmwtand such a thing as
to ieaolshi l with any woman without flit
I ttiou.''
"\1' ell. we wcnl't discuss it; because to
twain with, we should not define flir-
tation in the sante way. 001 you ever
meet 30nl1g Taunton at the Lawns."
'"(lie young fellow whose losses on
the Derby, made such a sensation last
year? Fes he 111)11) 0110111 of Hodson's.
1� didn't care l IllilC'hb
a out him, 1111(1 when
he begun to corse I left off going there
so much."
:Un, he was very trill off 01011! : He
Was a great favorite of Mrs. 1lodeon's,
wasn't, 0? Ills just been through the
uptoy Court"
-Don't be unfair, Chanties You omit
saw be was kind to nicome oceauso I was
well off."
No sane mother would wish herself
treated under the conditions of medicine
or surgery of half a century ago. Wiry
then should she give her little one the
old-fashioned medicines of half a Dar
ttury ago, which more likely than not
contain poisonous opiates that cannot
cure 1110 child, but merely drugs it into
temporary insensibility. Baby's Own
Tablets is a m011000 medicine prepared
with all the care and skill of modern
medical science. And the mother who
gives this medicine to her child has the
1111010rtee of a Government analyst that
it docs not contain one particle of epi-
=
me o• poisonous soothing stuff. This
medicine cures all the minor ailments
of little ones, and makes baby 0 healthy,
laughing, happy child. Sold by all medi-
cine dealers or by nihil at 25 cents a box
from the Dr. Williams' Medicine Co„
Brockville, Ont.
.►8 •
THE CRAZE.
•
Some Facts About the Rise of the
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bale been retuned (0 a leve Noris, la lack,
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over the tide turned, and, whom mauuf3(-
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fu picture post -cards (0:0110 Irian «0000
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land fromNowy t n point some-
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between Salt bake City and the loelfm
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the oyster will tat*:j in water
;Which contains less than parts of salt
to every thousajb,
PINK PILLS
WILL CURE
RHEUMATISM.
Every Form of the Disease Yields
to This Blood Building
Remedy.
II is easy to make the statement that
,t medicine will cure rheumatism, but
the rheumatic sufferer nest have more
than mere statements—he must have
both reasons and proof. Dr. Williams
Pink Pills cure all forms of rheumatism.
Here is the reason: Rheumatism is a
disease of the blood. Every dose of 1)r.
Williams' fink fills actually make new,
rich, red blood—This new blood drives
out the poisonous acid, loosens the ach-
ing joints, and rheumatism is banished.
Thousands have testified to the truth
of these statements, and here is further
n
fresh proof. Mr. Raoel Mo ttii g y, of
St. Jerome, Que., .rays: "For ninny, years
I was a victim of rheumatism and was
almost a cripple. 31y work made it ne-
cessary for me to be on fay feet a good
bit of the day, but my limbs became so
swollen and the pain so agonizing that
I was forced to stop work, I tried rem•
edy after remedy, but nothing gave 100
relief, and I begat to think I would
never get better. At last 1 was per-
suaded to try Dr. Williams' Pink fills.
In less than a month I noted a slight
change in my condition. I continued the
].'ills for three months and at 1110 end
of this time the swelling had disappear-
ed, every pain and ache had left me and
I felt better in every way. I was con-
pletely cured and once more able to go
about my work with ease, Dr. li'illiarns'
Pink fills are certainly worthy of all
the praise I can give them"
Thousands write giving just as strong
proof of the value of Dr, Williams' Pink
Pills—not only as a cure for rheuma-
tism, but 05 a cure for all the ailments
finding their root in bad blood, such as
anaem!L;Cheart palpitation, indigestion,
kidney trouble, headache and backache,
disordergd neves, etc. Dr, Williams'
Pink Pills are sold by medicine dealers
or by mail at 50 cents a 110x or six
boxes for $2.50 from the. Dr. Williams'
Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont.
•
ThE QUEEN VICTORIA .MEhiCP-
IAL, LONDON.
The wrought iron gates 1vhi'b forst
Canada's contribution to the Queen VIa
thrill Memorial in front of Buckingham
Palace, London, and which were placed
in position some time since, have 'now
been practically completed. , -,?rte gilding,
which 11110 taken some th14,I,I has added
muck to rhe beauty of tbis'',i(esig11, and
the appearance of the whole work is
now most artistic.
The memorial entbr�, cos, -an elaborate
.
scheme of decorative nrehltecture in the
open' space in front of tlfe'Iiing's Lon-
don residence. !'nus design 'consists of
a semi -cheater terrace of stone,' relieved
at the point at which it is interd0eted
by roadways by pillars, upon which the
names of the Dominions and colonies of
the Empire are inscribed, ae;coriligng to ,
their share of the gift. In the centre of
the space thus obtained a statue; of the
late Queen, by Mr. T. ]3rock R. "A::,"will
be erected. Another part of the memor-
ial has been the continuation of theMall
from the Duke of York's steps to Char-
ing Cross immediately opposite the Can-
adian Government offices-whiell wilt
open up a magnificent thoroughfare from
the Strand direct to the palace, -and the
cutting of a road throhgh the Green
Park from the Mall to 1'iccad110'. It is
at this latter outlet at which the Cana-
dian gates have been placed. The space
in the memorial that is now occupied
by masonry is laid out with grass plots
and flower beds.
Sir Aston Webb, 11. A., who designed
Canada's gift, L, tinss describes '
es bit: The
gates were made by the Bromsgrove
Guild, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, the
work being' done entirely 111 England.
On the centre gates the complete arms
of Canada are designed. On the gates
of either side the arms of Ontario, Qum-
hoe, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick -
ppea•; on the pedestrian gates those
of Manitoba and Prince Edward island,
The outer stone piers will carry two
huge symbolical groups, by 31r. henry
Pegram, A. R. A., which will shortly be
fixed ! in position."
1 _.
LISTENING TIMES.
'That we need above all things in
these crowded
Y
n da s is the
setting aI0ut
of many listening tines times of quiet.
10311011 we eon hear the heavenly sones
that Ball. to us..unregaubed in the busy
day. ,God has something to ,stry, to us
whipin, in the whirl of our 000101) ambi-
tions, we carrot hear andsl-W1M,Sakes
the noises of the outer world' to cease
that Ile may
a : to the
soul.
Some-
times
y speak
tines Ile "tries us in the night." -inn'.
tines. lie "given songs in the Melt."
sometimes Ile gives us a 11_i0n nt their',
night;" but all of these we will i teal v `
miss if there is no quiet time
He cru cone very near to es. 'acre
are many, ways of preparing to r, (els
blessingfrom on high but on" of" th
most essontal is' this. ( :0e awn'
your 0,prthear't, and he sfill.
Canadian winter sports ar' rbw in full
$Vying; and wo are again re011(8 110 the
.World that winter, so far from snowing us In,
nuts n new vigor in our blood which sndit
us out to tbo av !lust ocltoltlta of the veal'•
Winter is our season for doing. (1111,01'to
Canaria If we lnoe an(thele u,0'0(1n^. 50
hihernntio 1, le mc, ton t e ll nilly enough
—In the summer when ala eln,keo nut of -
forts, both in bu0oees and In piny,
ll eek In a summer
C1ls find In1c Tinier torpor,
ll