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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Blyth Standard, 1908-06-11, Page 311•0•01.1.1/1, nliorkiWIL 1•11$11a9.0. SI/, strotdQt„i0.4dl,lstt'"SRaeittO •eq�,1l ,, 10"1110•41( the fetor tell els 1 nuts one would go to Arcady for n mtr- lI hat a pial you would no go, 1.01- a t ,.gt, 11 l 11 PAUL VANE'S WIFE e toil take her dicer, it is so nine. I1 was rich, 1 eau tell your erlod 0 telt nearer" than the rectory, until she nl ]huin.11:, merrily.1 think the I I i- have E, iS IS 110 t nt calm 1 gypsies 1 I u. them to learn all alheat the huust ig; at Abooty, for is 00A0 1\0ule'f al ,1111,' much they t.aew about us. "1 don't think they Ia1cw uiythin ills. Atiluey observed, sourly and flet 1"rr t}41i�.to9'�rtt"�.t©1®1Y'�►i}'Ort0 Jou !t ill, Schu 4,01,,,,iso satup'une t1) t "1'm glad you've 1."III over it so easily, upon a i,110' V log: ee lie paired off with 1)e uutst have heard of .001)10 very 11: 1)l • dear,” she said patting Loraine's t.i1101 }nava 1;1, might 1rr the side of Carbine indeed, observed, inuhUuuly1 yI 6,111111 with lacing touches as sdw held \liar A u Ivz. ,111;1 Loraine was soars 1)'[t Mts. Aubrey is put out 111111111. a it in her one. "1t wits ail your fancy, 10lone, ns Mie wished to dal,p the light, pert, thele-cycd.piece told her that she of 10)1)))01', 'There never was a great 111 deco it fill smile from her writhing lips would succeed better in her design 01 .Aready, 1 ought. 10 know, for 1 have and let them earl disdainfully with the getting married if she did not let the ,11011 set !Mr ,anxiety so plainly," ;Mrs. Aubrey th1shed high 111 thea 1,111 kry,. and retorted: " "Son aro very smart, Gordy Hall. Bot 1 wasn't buying love•powders, any- way, on. the sly, as you did, Beware, Loraine, how you accept a glass of water from lir. Hall, or your doom is sealed." This turned the laugh on Mr. hall, who looked daggers at the audacious widow, and Miss Thornton, who was the best -natured gill in the world, turned the Subject by saying that Miss Mee. down had been told that she would mar- ry n poet, and herself a lover of fine horses, This set several members oftha party to blushing furiously, and Caused Colonel Fairlie to demand how long the gypsies had been in the,neh;llbo'hood, "Almost a week," said Frank Barrett. "I have seen theta every day 1111011 I took my morning canter 'o>i•Morgan," • "'.Chen that explains their familiarity with the Fates, They h0c`e been taking notes," said the colonel, laughing, Then ho went ores to Laraine,; Whb had risen and stood listening wit1) a Cares lesssmile, "1 ant sorry you missed' all the fun," he said. "But perhaps you did not care for it. I1 was amusing to ane, though to see how well they knew us. (Gordy Hail MIS quite in 0 rage at some ridiculous things they told him, I myself 10110 p00111. ised a beautiful bride, fair and golden• haired—naturally, because 1 au rather dark myself—the light lady for the dark g'ntlelnorn r t , of course, as Miss Thornton says." Ile broke off with a quizzical glance int othe flashing eyes, and she said, curtly: "1 can't sec how you endured their nonsense!:" "Why, I saw you, .hiss Lisle, in close conversation with the love -powder man. Not that I suspect you of buying any, for where would be the use? Men go down in battalions before one glance of your eyes," ha Laughed, and hummed softly: ''From li the glance of her eye S1flln danger and fly, For flatal's the glance of Kate 1Near- neyl',, spent nay life here," "Do not let u, talk of it any more. 1'nr sack of the foolish sensation I ,. matter Lora me exclaimed, curtly, and drawing her hand Impatiently away, she mingled freely with the guests, try ing to make them forget the little ex- citement. Whether they did or not, thy saw that the subject woo distasteful to their yoeng hostess and forbore to al- lude to it. But, after all, the,novel con- tretemps had a charm of its own, end the lawn -party was voted a brillialt success by everybody. Indeed, every- thing that Loraine planned for the plea• sure of her guests proved successful, The fairy wand of wealth was hers, and she had, in addition, youth, beauty, and intellect. With these gifts she had con quered everything she had ever tender• taken, except Eugene Fairlio's heart, Even of that site had never de:pafred 01 until now; for though he did not love her, he loved no one else, But now she had lost her pyoid con- fidence in herself. Her subtL instinct hod divined the fact that the proud, cold soldier had found his id',nl 0)011,1111 in arch, sweet, reticent Vivito Vane, Deny' it even to himself as lac would and did, Colo el Fairlie was strangely interested in the rector's lovely, pure young wife, and jealous for her of Lor- •tiln'e's subtly exerted influence over Paul Vane. If anything had been scanting to drive the beautiful, reckless coquette to ut- ter madness it wound have been this knowledge of the soldier's interest in another woman, Loraine did not paws(' �.h to ,'ease,' with herself that Vivian was utterly innocent and ignorant in the matter, and that Colonel 1'airlie's ad- miration of the lovely girl was as hop -e less .and silent as it was respectful and profound; she allotted unreasoning Jeal- ousy' to drive her to madness, CHAPTER XII. "There are gypsies in the woods, and I think we ou111 to go down to the camp and have our fortunes told," ex- claimed Mrs. Aubrey at breakfast One morning about a week after the lawn party. "The very thing!" cried Freda Nor- dyz, gayly; and every one hastened to express themselves in favor of the lira, although Graindmere Lisle told then that the gypsies were a thieving, vaga. bond set who could not really foretell anything of the future, and ought not to be encouraged in their pretenses. "0f course not!" cried Josephine Thornton, the bright Chicago girl. "I know their whole jargon—a light man corning to woo the dark lady, and a dark gentleman for the light lady, and a not of gold and a mysterious stranger, a letter, a marriage, a death—same old things every time—std ,still I wont to go and hear their tales as much as I ever did." "So do I," murmured Beryl Meadows, a pretty, blue-eyed fairy of a girl wh0s,: daily food was poetry; consegtumsly she looked on the poet of the parse as a hero. Perhaps there w05 sante thought of him in her mind as she. added her .'sliy petition to Mrs. Aubrey's, that they should all go down to the woods to the gypsy camp: • Within an hour the gay house party Was on its way to the woods to the gyp- sy camp, a anile (may, Loraine leading with Gordon Hall, who by this triumph' incurred the enmity of all the other men in 1110 party. "Not that I mean to have my fortune told. It's nonsense, believing that those ignorant creatures nett tell yon anything true," said Loraine, "01), but it's such fun!" cried the oth- ers, and all were full of the most pleas. unable excitement, Mrs. Aubrey gayest of all, and anxious to hear her fate, for she cherished a secret penchant for Colonel Fairlie, and was eager to know if she would succeed in her designs up - passion at her heart, She was furiously angry because the vivacious lvidow had seemed Colonel Fairlie o' her escort. By tacit consent every 0110 had seemed to leave the sol- dier as Loraine's especial property until lately, when Mrs. Aubrey had begun to angle boldly for his favor. Her success to -day had filled the heiress with rage, and she longed to be alone with her bit- ter envious thoughts. But she was not to enjoy her solitude long, for presently from among the shtb- by-flock Of gypsies that s0rrotundcd'the curious party from Arcady a man dis- eug0ged himself and came lumbering with shambling footsteps toward Loraine --a 91111)31, lump -backed crenttnre with shack of grizzled hair and beard • his keen eyes hidden funder smoke -colored glassus. ' As. he came close 0131 to her the proud heiress recoiled with a sco•nf,11 exclamation, "Be gone!" CIIAPTER X1II. The gypsy stood still: He leered with 11 sort of 601110nric grin at the ion uloid beauty, and began to whine ti remit to be allowed to tell her fortune. tor:lien thing hint 0 silver pie•"e,.and tit:gaily commanded him to go. "You gypsies are all miserable Wipes. tors, rand a.,')W no more of toe future than t dol" sate cried, sharply, pled of an excuse for venting her anger 011 semc one, The man stood still, eagerly 10ittug the silver piece by biting it with his strong white teeth, Apparently satisfied of its value, be dropped it in his pocket and edged nearer to the donor. ' I'm "Lady, thetiglt only a poor' gypsy, not 10 beggar, he muttered. 'Let tris tell your torture, or else give y ou a love -philter to pay for the silver:' Loraimc shook her head, but the man persisted, end finally dreww from his breast a small tin eigarett0 box 'which, on his opens Mg it, proved to be packed full of very small packages of powder inclosed o pale -blue paper. Taking ant thee( these between his thumb and finger, he held then out to Loraine, "We men of the East are Icgeainted with many strange mysteries, Lady:" be said, in a low, deep, uupressiv0 video, strangely at variance with his diareput able appeo ance. "By aur potent arts we rend the future, and, better still, we influence the future." "Nosensel" Loraine replied, with an angry gesture; but ha persevered: "With subtle skill we compound these powders by whieh the passions of the human heart are manipulated like the strings of a harp in skillful bands. Lady, you are beautiful enough to command' the worship of all hearts, but in your sombre eyes 1 read a strange story of baffled passion. He, your loved one, has turned from you to another. You has her; you yearn for vengeance. See, the depised gypsy gives you the desire of your heart." Ile leaned., forward and dropped on her listless, palm the three tiny pale -blue packets, whispering eager- ly; "One is a,love-philter: Give it .to him in at glass of water, wino, o• any- 'thing, ny'thing, arid he will be yonur,lo\'er forever. Next, you' Would punish your rival who hall caused you so much suffering. Good, "'Tire sweetest thing upon this earth is lore, ; And, next to love, the sweetest thing is hate." So, lady, by my skill you gratify both your love and hate. These two powders you can use at your will. One means death—swift, palalesss, without leaving a trace to guide medical skill to the cause: the other, loss of beauty. Life will remain, but bloom, beauty and fresh- ness will fade from your victim with the suddenness of the roses fading when the first sharp autumn frost chills their ten- der leaves. Victory—victory and re - on him,' She had succeeded in securing venge are in your hands, lady." hint for her escort on this occasion, and Bending suddenly down, he closed her . was wildly elated over her victory Beryl little fingers over the packets and, leer - Meadows was happy, too, for the dreamy ing at her with strange (001101 for a nto- eyed poet was by her side, awhile manly meat, turned and shambled away as Frank Barrett walked between ,Hiss '.Thornton and .'hiss Na'dyz, until Lot, nine, pausing on the outskirts of the camp, cried, in her pretty, imperious way: "Mr, Ball, you can go on with hiss Nardyz, and I will stay here and wait until you all have your fortunes told," Mr. hall looked decidedly rueful at abruptly as he had come, Loraine stared like one in. a ejream at the small folded papers lying on her rosy 1)111111. Was it true, could it be true, that they held such wondrous power for good and evil'! "It is a lie. Yet—Ts—will—keep—them: it can be no harm to try," she muttered, with a feeble laugh, and hid theta away this summary dismissal, but nothing ,just as her friends 01(1111' back, laughing could myrve proud Loraine, who had and jesting lith nuc another 0000 the Bung herself down with a queenly air ridhulous tales they hail 1>ree told !>y Try a Seasonable Diet and Give Your System a Chance. Shredded Wheat with strawberries will be found wholesome, appetizing and much more nutritious than meat; also with raspberries, peaches and other fresh fruits. It Will Tone Up Your Liver and Stomach. Sold by all grocers. Ail She flashed hint a glance that might have been fatal to any other 01)10 06110012 heart 1110 not steeled ae"1iln,1. hu' charms, like Eugene Falt'(i 's, and he started and put up one hand, as ;f to shield his eyes from the lignutulg's flash, "Spare awl" 'he cried, and moved aside for Mr. Hall, who jealously, took his place at her side, They moved of then down the shady woodland path, (batting merrily and happily over their adventures justt,now, little dreaming of the terrible danger lurking near them, But suddenly the gay voices and mem' laughter came to a terrible pause, for over all rang a woman's shriek of fear. Again and again it was repeated in a wild succession of blood -curdling sounds that came nearer and hearer, until there dated across the path the flying form of a white-rob3s; w00101), followed by a horrible mad dog, with which grana„ dyes and olienf'katt s, from dripped frothy saliva, 1'he shrieks of frightened 'niomm and the exclamation of appalled Men iib 1d the soft air of the woodland, 'hid a rout's forst darted f0)101(d to the ree- ette--swiftly, swiftly, for the nnimafs open jaws were almost upon the wbite garments of the flying victim, One per- ilous moment, and Colonel Fairlie c,ut'c between them. The 110unin was saved, but the huge, infuriated clog, rising sim0ltiuedus;;' up- on 1)on its hind feet, fastened fps 1011; tangs i1) the rescuer's in0uufer, ,`10 pal dear- ly for his ferocity, for 1') annthee !ris'au1 a pistol flashed in Colonel 1)0airlic'v: 111)11(., and a bullet crashed through the brute's head, the fell heavily to the ground, and yonder, not ten feet 06007'. !1)y t.Ile still ishan of the tvonatt, who, eti'hcitta 1oscutd fi'ont-laer terrible danger, had fallen in ,i 01(0011 upon tate soft grass, It was Vivian 1'000, who, on returning from an errand of mercy to some hum- ble cottage home in 'the woodland, had UCC❑ pursued and attacked by the huge dog belonging to the gypsy camp. "You are hurt, Eugene!" cried Frank Barrett, rushing to his friend's assist - tome, "Not very much. The brute encoun- tered seine resistance in the cloth of my (oat, and his fangs barely grazed the skin before 1 shot hint and he fell; bit 1 must have the \trend cauterized • di• rcetly," said Colonel Fairlie, who was very' pale and unnerved. Ile walked slavly across to where the, girls 001st' stumping o'er-nnco10)lous V1- w-ian, axl looked with a shudder at the. beautiful, white still face. "Thank trod, 1 was by to save her lifer he exclaimed, in a voice of deep emotion that pita' eed Loraine's heart like a poisoned 1)0001'. Coot Eugene, tv0 must take you to a. physician, Your wound must be cau- terized at once," Prank Barrett said, drawing him away. Gut he lingered as if fascinated, gazing down at the fair face of the woman he hail saved, "it is nothing but a swoon, C011'1ue' Fairlie. She will soon revive," said cheery Josie Thornton; land Loraine add - If one of the gentlemen will bring some water in his hat from the brook, 100 Dan son 1'01.100 her. 1 wish, too, that 14 1,011C1'," ' 1)o i the .fr emfl t o 1 ))] to du c r br l and Fronk Barrett, h vin ' slims!. C01 tt d - t0! 171' getting the colonel awn the girls alone v -ere, left huddled in it white, trembling group about Uneonoei011s 1 1.011, -1t a little distance. Lay" the huge dog, stone dead, his life -blood staining the green tin f i11 a gory pool. All the little w•ondland songsters had fled, of- frif;bted, from the scene, and it deathly silence reigned over all. "Oh, how deathly white 8110 looks! Can she be dead?" whimpered Beryl Mea- dows, with clintteruag teeth, and Josie 111111 to soothe her fears as if she were a child. Iroraine, after she had sent for the carriage to take Vivian to Arcady, spoke 0( more, but crouched shivering upon the grass, gazing with wide; burning eyes, upon the face of the girl she hated with such .jealous fury, "I wish to heaven that she were deadl" she thought, fiercely, "How his eyes clung to that white, still face of hers! Paul Vane himself could not have looked nt her with more anxious, yearning love. It is that soft, arch beauty of hers—so different from mine that I did not value its subtle power. Perhaps the very con- trast 011)0)te01 him. 1 wonder"—her ey01 gleamed fiercely ---"if there is any Bath In what that gipsy told me about the powder'! Could it indeed destroy all that: floater -like beauty with the sub- tlety of a blighting frost? Is it not worth the trial? Iler beauty gone. his heart night tarn to ma," CHAPTER XiV. Did Loraine's baleful glance have power to semmon Vivian's last conscious - 1)000 bock to the temple from which it had almost fled? She stirred slightly, and opened her heavy -lidded eyes with a vacant gaze. "She revives," ,hi90 Lisle muttered, in it strange voice, but Wh'ine's eyes closed heavily agaie, and she lay before then mute and still 0s before, \Vater was brought and the sympa- thetic young girls loved her pale face and hauls with loving touches for some little time withont avail, but at length a Iong sigh heaved 1`iviati0 breast, and she opened her dark blue eyes on the face of Josie Thornton, who was bending over her with sweet solicitude, "Dear Mrs. Ynne, you are better? You know met" cooed Josie, softly, and the pale lips smiled gently, Josie put n tender arm about her shoulder to lift het' from her recumbent position, but the movement brought Vivian's eyes directly in the range of the dead animal, and at the sight every thing rushed over her mind again, and w•ith,a piercing cry she fell back into a deeper 0100011 than at first, it was most fortunate that the car- riage front -Arcady cane just theta, for the young girls began to be very much frightened over Vivian's condition, end were nary glad to pare her removed to the house, where a physician w05 hastily summoned, When hecame,0 accompanied by the rector, he looked very grove and puzzled. "It is more than an ordinary swoon," he said, when, after some difficulty, Vivian had been restored to conse1011s• ness,aul lay pale and listless among the snowy pillows, He watched her with uneasy eyes as he counted the faint Mir throbs of h r palae. "There ere strong signs of nervous pr0str0lion, 01111 '1 think it would be as well 101 to remove her from Arcady until to -morrow," he said. So Vivian be- came perforce the guest of the beautiful heiress who hated her with spelt jealous bitterness. • But old Mrs. Lisle was very pleased to have her lovely favorite for a guest. She nursed Vivian devotedly, and she insisted that the rector, too, should re- main at Arcady until his wife was quite recovered, lie accepted the invitation gratefully, for the rectory would have been unendurable to his fond heart without his booty 1"10150, Then, too, there was another reason why Paul Vane was pleased .to be at Arcady, He was deeply interested in the beau- tiful, wilful heiress of whom such stories were told. He thought her wondrously beautiful and fascinating, and it pained him to think that so fair a body should enshrine such a soul as they said an- imated hers, Il'e was positive that these rumors had been exaggerated, for it scarcely seemed possible that an evil spirit maid hide under so fair a seething. Surely they belied her; it was but girlish coquetry and caprice that had won for her an undeserved fame. Ho was anx- ious to know more of proud Loraine-7- to oraine- to study her, as it were, and, if need be, to counsel her gently but firmly for tine future. The fact of her near kinship to old Mrs. Lisle, whom he reverenced so much, added to his interest in the girl and to his desire to see her become a gentle Christian woman. 'Let them say what they will, 1 do not despair o1' her conversion," ' he thought. "She cannot bo utterly wicked. I sea that site attends divine wvor- ship quite regularly, and her full, richt voice, so clearly heard in the responses, adds a charm to the ser- vice Perhaps my present opportunity theatricals, 1 „m sure that mere III LIS c be. plenty of talent amort us," "Abundance of talent for flirtotiona, at' least," exclaimed (.Colonel Pairlie, ,,t whom she had looked When she spoke, and be was unsevered by a pretty, 1 u- scntful moue. "1 have acted in amateur thee (dea! , and 1 like it splendidly) cried 311;.0 Snob's. "Let as have 'The American Cousin, or "Pre Cricket on the Hearth.' She had made a hit in both. ldrs. Aubrey shook her lead, and ex claimed: INDIGESTION CAN BE CURED Dr. Williams' Pink Pills Succeed After Other Remedies Fait. 'there are twenty drugs to help your digestion tor 0 time, but there is only one medicine that can positively' cure your indigestion for good, 'To any um with indigestion a half dozen boxes of Dr. Williams' Pink I'ills' are worth all the purgatives and mixtures in the country, After all these things have failed Dr. Williams' Pink fills have ear- ed the worst cases of indigestion by go- ing straight to the root of the trouble in the blood, You can take a purgative to tear through your bowels and make a clean sweep of your food, whether it is digested or not. You can take stomach bitters to create a false appetite—if you don't care what happens after you swallow your meal, You eau drug your stomach with tablets and syrups to di• gest your food for yon—if you don't care how soon you Dun your system al- together, You can do all these things— hut don't call it "curing your indiges- tion," There is oltjj-, one way to cure indigestion, and that is to give your system so much good, pure, red blood that your stomnen and liver will have strength enough to do their natural work in a healthy' and vigorous wary. That is why Dr, Williams' Pink Pills cure ildigestioo—they acthmlly 1111)1{e new blood. Here is the proof. 11r. P. Me' Corkell, St. Thomas, Ont., says, "-about 0 year age illy system becmne generally wrecked, My stomach was always in a state of nausea, The sight of any hind of food often turned my stom,ich and 1 10011111 arise frau the table without eating. Doctors advised different medi- cines which 1 took (without benefit, file ally 1 became so ren down that i had to build myself up with the aid of doe - tors, but us time wont 011 and my eoe- ditiun did not improve I became much discouraged, Then a. friend told ate Ile thought Jlt'. Williams' Pink Pills would help me, and I began their use, la three Weeks time 1 was so improved t, hat I (went bock to my wd,•11, but 1 continued using the 11111s until 1 had taken twelve boxes, and now mystomach is strung, and 1 nm ready for a good meal three tinges a tdaj', and life 1010 really scents worth living;" It is because 1)r, Williams' Pink Pills make nein, red blood that they cure sueb common ailments as anaemia, with all its headaches and backaches, rheu- matism, neuralgia, St. Vitus dance, par- tial paralysis and the secret ailments from which women and young girls suf- fer s0 much. You can get the pills from any medicine dealer or by mail at 50 cents at box or six boxes for 02.5)) from the Dr, Williams' Medicine Co„ l oek- ville, Ont. ADEPT CROOIfS OF MEXICO, Pickpockets in the Neighboring Republic Are Exceptionally Adroit. To a superse nsible degree the fine Italian hand is still to be met with tinting Mexican pickpockets, They are noted for their artistic performances in light-fingered legerdemeiu, Only a few months shwa the chief of pollee of an American city, whose name need note mentioned, was robbed of his watch twice within two days, and finally the 11010. piece awns retm'ued to 111111 by the very ALL BEARS LIKE PEATIIi £i., Favor of the Animals May Be Secured by Feeding Them With Goals c peanut 11'm;• • to like tat r i .5 1 P 1S appear 111ba 11 1 then the beasts core 100 111 ,,oith 1 1 1 glens, where the peanut grow,.1 -t 1.11 mountain; of the •frosed mach. , fur lw. pca.uat is (pule unktioc.m. tat taste for peanuts is n)1, idiphilt2,1 then Batt n'a ly they e a :i:it r.' readily, as is shown, for example, b, It grizzly and the polar beaus in the ac- nagefie ill Central Pori:. The big grizzly comes to the front of its great (age in the boat den sad tbrtrats its nose Between the bars and opens its 01001'rnous mouth, thus afford- ing to visitors an opportunity of ndulg. ing in the sport of throwing peanuts down its throat, This is a pleion 15 t1) 11 - appea1s chiefly to children, lint those who try it dont always succeed m tasting the peanut into 111,1 beau's month. There is a railing in front of the cage that keeps the people at a little distance, and the ehfldicn's fear is likely to make them nervous, 1111(1 so their aim is mneertuin. Theu'fo c the peanut any hit the grizzly's nose in. stend of gong straight into its month, of it may hit one of the bars of the cage and fall outside on the stone in which the bra's are imbedded. But when the children throw more peanuts and when they have thr(evn ,all they have and ihavc aeon the grizziy eat all it caught they have another sight, waiting for them that pleases then( 111000, if possible, than it did to see the bear catch the peanuts in its month, 11'hen no more are coming to it the grizzly lifts one of its big paws and thrusts it out between the hors as fur as it can reach on the stone ludoge and sweeps up and gathers i1) the peanuts that have fallen there and accts 1l12a1, 1'o see the ben s1. eat the peanuts 11 catches is amusing as well ns interests ing; to see it stretch out through the liars that ponderous a1w powerful pan' s 1)11110 t startling. 1'he polar bear comes up and thrusts its nose through the bars for peanuts ie hast the same way, mud it gleans those that fall outside in the same manner, with this addition, that 1(0sides thrust.: 111 "at ild hi white clad tine: 1 'tweea the bars to rake Lt stray pear ars boat as we fallen 01130de itsometimes for thio, purpose tlauats oat its touguc, ltle grizzly bear eats the kernels of Qac peiOut only and rejects the shells; the polar eats theft shells and all. Bet the grizzly has been here 111e longer time —perhaps the polar will einne to to equally fastidious, :01 beors, grizzlies and polar. is well as these from minter : climes, appear to be fond of pelu.,rt,. - ew' fort: `v111. e 0' • Government Coal Mining. The Itovinoe of Saskatchewan has made an advan(e upon 11113' of its sister Province.. throughout the Domipioi, in the matter at socialistic or commercial polities. 1t bas 1101 Only started, an 01/7 1/0si11011 telephone system, but it has also entered on a cord mining adventure. +, section of the Mariner' known as the tingle Lake e district, situated some eighty to ninety miles in a southwesterly di- rection trot; tam town of Saskatoon, is a fertile tract of country, but owing to the scarcity of wood for fuel and build- ing operations, the homesteaders avoid- ed it until loot spring, when a large number of settlors Ioonted there, most of them putting up sod houses to live in, as the east of bringing building hun• - "rato•o" who had taker. it, nor did the her from Saskot0011 1106 too Hutch for American officer have time to catch the i their scanty means. Little fuel Was need - thief, whose audacity threw him off his 1 ed while the warm weather continued, guard. \Vby the pb"kpocket look the but when frosty nights set in a grave trouble to restore the watch, for which difficulty_ arose, as wood for fuel w00 lac Yeas able to. realize a month's wages •sixty miles' distant from some parts of at the nearest "cement)," is not clear, I the settlement, 1011111 most el the set - but perhaps he head the owner talking of the smart pickpockets in his own wientn,v and the 310010011 took pride m MS 01(11 professional ability that he took occasion to rebuke the American. The 'Mexican pickpocket las all the (To ne continued.) ._o The 0o10rio Ruai way and ltonieipal Board may make a rule that passengers will not be allowed to occupy front eroi.s on open ears, cunning of the Iiinc111 and the dash of villages until the return of warm sprmg the Italian, his brethren in crime, and weather, while others returned to spend none of the pickpockets of Benares or j the winter among their old neighbors in Naples can exceed the craftiness and in- 1 the eastern Provinces or the United genuity, the sublime audacity of the States. llexictui pickpocket, and it is said they carry of regular classes in the line of their hazardous employment something like the schools in New York, but which have to "move on" constantly, due to the perspicuity of the Mexican police. But these ill-favored gentry do not find life wholly successful uov, as they did in tines past, for the police cove' and cow them, much to their disgust. The profession therefore retains its riski- tiers had 110' teams of their own to haul o'a the needed winter's supply of fuel. Un- der such unfnvblo present conditions and future prospects, many of the set- tlers abandoned their homesteads, some going to live in the nearest towns and n As it was known that a seam of s perior coal underlay a part of this dis- trict at a depth of from fifty to a hun- dred feet from the surface, the Provin- cial Government bought a part of these coal lands from the Ilominron, and to- wards the enol of November eleven wag- onloads of lumber for building purposes, provisions and so forth, left Saskatoon destined for the Engle Lake country( rts there to make preparations for extensive Hess, but hos been shorn of Pover coal mining. Two carloads of mining over the afflicted public. machinery were brought up from Winni- • • 0 peg and sent in by wagons and sleighs, Smoothing It Over. i and at last accounts the coal pit shaft Irate Individual --I'm going to sgnare 1 hod been stink more than half the ds - matters with you right now! You've 1 tance fromthe surface to the coal seam, been telling it around that I lie!" 16(1110h is at this point sixty two feet The Other flan—Nothing of the sort. from the surface of the prairie, It, is ex - A11 I have said about yon io that you peered that by the middle of the month are habit'ally mn'eraeions, of February the settlers will he able to • Irate individual (calming down) --0, I got all the fuel they r0gni(e from the don't mind that, if that's all, I nckncw•I- Government mine, As the C0110 dial/ edge 1 do get that way once ill 11 while. j Northern Railway Company is planning- But lanning]tut how can a fellow help it when ev- to build a branch railway through that crybody idsisls on treating hint! section nest summer. coal Bonn the Gov- •••-•-- (111-11 1)i 01100 0011 be shipped extensively ihthathout not only the Province of cf,t hewn, but atm through the Pre. 031)1itc' 1. 'this exit( rile eat will with the greatest interest f,lr valiant, ccormaiic and social reasons. ,c {- 1), ter ilitistr1 106 of the timeialis- ) ,ones of the wrest, so tar as pull - e, -hi, of utilities is concerned,"' llitness, He Cot lnto a Hot Game 1 -iter, lite fan hail a season tidier, lint tilt drys brought hnub)t but pain, Fir dways was nailed to the 0(01)board No game. Babir, 'Frau he died and went to lades; 1 the legend was not the ,tune, For there was nailed to the hinges 'fhe No rain.. Game, ;siiimenpolis Journal.