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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1908-04-09, Page 61. • Nothing Lost. (J. W. )oley, tun., in Hart.le Tribune.) Not eVety ghstening peed a dew Like ilea set jewel, finds A. rest 1:pon a wee, or, nestling, dowa, Shrinks, modest, on its velv..i breast. Not eVel y songster's swelling Wog Pomo forth ite wealth of song to Wee teer ears, but tountles:i carols float enheard in the jeep wilderness. Not every arrow finds its mirk, But, sped all Nigel trout the bow, . Too deftly feathered, floats too lugh, Too lightly Mire; fallbelow. Not every effort finds smears, Bii faits, as falls the areiterse dart. Not every eanheam glide the gloom, Nor every song may melt the beat, Yet, though I fail, mine effort Were, And somewhere on a scroll eagroesed The glory of any striving is, For nothing fruitless, nothing loeit That like a. seed sown of the soul, 'May fal,1 and die in desert hot, But would hove Menem(' and borne fruit lf fallen in some fertile spot. '— Prayer. Holy and most merciful _God, we seek Thy face with humble grotitude.ana ofe fer our tribute of odoration anti praise, We thank Thee for our creation, for these bodies so fearfully and wonder- fully made, for the light of reason and of conscience and our capacity of commun- ion with Thyself. Save us, we beseech Thee, from all unworthy uses of the powers with which we have been endow- ed. Help us to regard our whole being as an instrument for the execution of God's holy will. Ana grana us strength and wisdom that we may reontend in Thy name against the evil forces which oppose Thy sway and harm our breth- ren. Arise, 0 God, in Thy diVille plight and overthrow the kingdom of daekneee, and let the kingdom of light be estab- lished. Let temperance, purity, truth and love prevail throughout the world. 'Amen. A Marked Contrast. How mighty is God and how helpless is man!Before the Infinite the might - lest humeri power dwindles into noth- ingness. When God arises to shake terribly the earth, how impotent is man! 'With all his goeatness of intel- lect, with all his wonderful graspon the forces of nature, he stands as of in paralysis More the Almightiness. of God, He hurls the sea against coast- wise cities, and their great fielder walls are erashea as eggshells. He makes the billows clop their hands and in the impact great ships are crushedlike glass in the tempest. H. sends the cyclone across the fields and nothing can stand before it. Villages are but playthings iu his path, and the century - old monarchs of the forest are over- thrown. When he sends his tidal wave against the beaches of the seas, men made in the image of God, with domin- ion over earth and sea, are drowned like rats' in their dwellings and all .the greatness of their hands is as dust in the whirlwind or turned into a dwell- ing place for fishes .and slimy things. When the trumpeting of the velcano is heard, and God calls from the depths of the -earth in fire and ashes and lava slime, burying rithevorchards, vineyards, homes and cities beneath rivers of mol- ten rock, one might well cry out, "Lord wlute is man Gilt thou art mindful ol hhu!"-United Presbyterian Fare. Jonah went down to Joppa and took ship for Tarshish. He paid • the fair, doubtless the money evag his own, law- fully gotten. But it proved a snare, as it often does now. Had. his pocket been empty, Nineveh might have heard her evangel a little earlier and in a better fashion. Oh the inspiration of an empty pocket! "When I sent you out without purse a scrip, lacked ye anything? they say unto him nothing." Faith is oasy when the cupboard is full, but the frue mission of faith is in the face of an empty cupboard. Who is tired of study- ing the power of mbney, and reaching after the prize! Oh, fever that has scorched and cursed the world' The Pope gave •the western world to the Icing of Spain, from the 'north pole to Cape Horn. Generous raan, but not wise. Vaunting ambition cloth o'erleap itself. Gold is yellow, and. yellow predominates in the Spanish flag; hateful -color, em- blem of contagions disease, corruption and death. Let us he thankful that the Stars and Stripes contains no yellotie nor the Union Jack. "Three cheers for the red. white and blue." Spain, through pride and p Very and gold has, gone down to the lowest. Low in purse and reverence. Her flag has been hauled prestige, and none so poor he do her down with a mixture of malediction and delight. In the most lasting nation there is a splendid postal service, and tele- grAms and telephones are exeelled, Hero we find first and second -elites matter. The work represented hy geld is rated second class. The highest service, that evidelt cannot be paid for in gold, is rated firstmlass. He who was_ born in another man's stable, and buried in an- other man's grtive, and was sustained in publie ministry by ohne, is the king of this nation. The coin of his realm is • .stamped with a nobler image and soper- seription than that of Caesar. Let mil - deceived, for the loudest laugh of liell lionaires take care that they be not is the pride of dying rich. IL T. Miller. Notes. Our Con-eiCnce an1 Owl, and our own immortal souls must always have the benefit of the doubt; and never once our supposed interests, or our aifections, or our appetites. -])r. Alex. 'Whyte. I believe that the free 'development of conviction is, upoo the whole, the sys- tem most in favor both of truth wird of cherity.-W. P. Gladstone. What does the character of a citizen involve/ That he will deliberate ttbout nothing As if ite wered ete.ehed from the eommun i ty...-11pietetus. If 1 nave made one weary life the brighter, If 1 have mused Another's toil nnet pain, If I him made some Pemracle's burden lighter - 7 have not lived in vain. --Norman Cole. We forget that there„mity be tunny dutiee, but that among them all there is a firet and a last, and that we must not fulfil the last before fulfilling the first, just AA one must not torrow with. out ploughing.---.Toletoi. Pert of the very nobility of the devotion of the true workman te his work c.,nsiets in the feet that a man is not flaunted by finding that drudgery must be done; and vo man can really tweeted in Any walk of life without a good deal of what is relied pinek.---Ph. thonerton. ow.s.s.o.ewootoolalKnOrae..04s,wollagOn: llonsssa*. A.sess~eeea...***a 110411111.40,04ktiel$0,411111104,4111101104 *11,111104* 1 reeifieseeigigettlaiwitrtquitealratellebeet eel/APTER, I. Neville Lynste leaned back on his pick, and, wiping the perspiration from his face, mixed in a ruminative, not to say melaneholy, fashien across the plain. It was not a particularly plea:ant view; in fat, it was as hideous ati on be imagined, and would have given a seem in our own English black country points, and beaten it easily. For it was an Australiau gold field; an erid, dusty plain, which would have been ugly at any time, but was rendered eirnply ape paillog by the dirt, confusion, squalor and poverty of .a digger's camp, The sun had been glaring down upon tide theerful prospect during the whole of what bad Bemired 04 endless day, and W88 now' sinking iu a bed of fire, to stoke up for the net day's scorching. There were a few trees in the valley, but not a parched leaf of them moved. A bird or two flew listleeely across the waste, but dropped, with heavy wings On to the scorching rooks et the cranking tent poles. If they had clopped into the tents themselves no roan would have molested' them, for every man was too tired, too dead beat and utterly ex- hausted even to Muerte down A bird. A group of horses, whose bones stood out under their skiets like the lines a a Gothic eathedrol, stood, sleepily in what remained of the river, and the only Sounds that breice the no -twat stillness of this .aggratating, souherushing heat were the dick of a pick in some claim, the lidless bark of a dog, and now and again a feeble shout from Sandy Mao- gregor's grog tent, where some men were drowning care, and peisoning themselves with the liquid which Mr. Maregregor, with a facetiousness which was beyond all poen, called "whiskey," Lolee Hope Cann) was ver g much dower on its luolc. There was gold in the ravine, everybody believed, or said be did, but for some weeks past no man had succeeded in finding it, and lent tor the heat what remained of Lorn Hope Camp veered have up sticks and departed for Ono other Hope leas forlorn; but the heat had burned up the energy, melted the pierpose, sapped the perseverance of nearly all, and the men of Lorn Hope Camp still clung on, digging occasionally, eloping often, quarrelling tit times and drinking whiskey always. Neville Lynne's "claim" was at the end a the ravine, half an hour or more from the camp at which he gazed. A. rough but of planks and canvas stood at a little distance, and in this Neville and his partner and an old woman -110 old that the "boys" had. christened her Mrs. Meth, as short for Methuselah -had lived, "Had," for the evening before Neville's partner, disgusted by the run of bad luck, had cleared out and do- . parted. Why Neville Lynes had not gone, too, he oould not have told. His belief in the cremee of this hidden gold was certainly no nronger than that of the other dig - ears, and as certainly he had not grown to love the hider:me, sandy,' dusty, sun - stricken plain; but something, some feel- ing he could not have defined if his life had depended upon his doing so, had made him reluctant to leave the Lan trope, and there he stood, penniless, mili- tate and most utterly bored, on the edge of his barren claim, with the last rays of thesun spitefully smiting him on the head, and the fifes buzzing round his ears. There were two reasons why Neville Lynne's claim was at a dista'nee from the camp- The first was because he lielieved In the upper meet of the ravine; the sec- ond, because he was different from the rest of the men who composed Lan Hope. To put it shortly, the young fellow ‘-he' WM very young, younger than he looked, a mere lad just under twenty - was a gentleman, and the rest of the canap were not. Now, the one gentleman in a society of blacklegs, lags, roughs and ruffians .is always regarded by them with a certain amount of envy,'malice and uneharitable- ness. It is very painful and 21isadvan- tageous to be the only honest and well- bred man in a party, whether it is a picnic party or a party of gold diggers, and it was very much to the relief of the majority that Neville pitched his tent a ini e and a half frone the main body. ' • And yet, though they regarded him with a groundless dislike, and a not alto- gether groundless envy, they respected him. There was not a reckless, desper- ate, dare -devil among them who possessed more pluck than the young 'un, as he eons called. He was, in their expressive language, "all grit," and they knew that he was as ready with his revolver and his fists as any of them, and though slow at beginning a fight, was slower still at leaving off. On his first jolting the camp Bully Swanger- a regular desperado -had "gone for him" with the altogether un - looked for result of laying the bully On his back for rather more then e. fort- night, and since then the young 'un had been severely let alone. There were soma the best, of the ere% who would have been friendly with tho lad Who had so effectively shown that he could hold Itis . own, but oil ani vinegar will not mix easily, and though Neville Lynne was civil and courteous to all, he was not "sociable." Even with his partner, the least dis- honest man in the camp, Neville had been reserved and reticent. and the man had worked with hint, slept in the hut betide him, shared his meals and hopes and disappointments, without learning his real name o' anything About him. There were two or three women in the eamp, mostly old and battered, who eyed the, young man curiously end admiringly, but not even the youngest and least ill - looking of therei had ever received more than a smile or a civil "Good malting" from him. "The young on's as full of pride as Mac's whiskey is of fusel nil," remarked the wit of the camp; 'that's' what's the matter with him. Shoulan't be surprised If he was a young dook in disguise. Sortie of these they* he'll skip around with a coronet on his head mia then flop up to heavee. That, is, if some of the boys don't get too much of his pride and bore a hole through him." But though many, doubtless, would have likeil to have perforated the young me, no one had yet attempted it; the reilettion that he WAS a very guide hand at the perferating process himself de- terred the desperadoes. The. ?tun in et last, and Neville, WI if he ha.d been waiting for its ditcappeeraltee, dropped into the hole and resumed Work. lint there wee not melt heart in his istroltes, and he iteleed the appearance of it ttolitery figure terming elowly Ames the pinin tow.sra hint as an teepee for 'Stopping alibi, era owe, more leaning Upon his Melt, welted end peed, 'Phe fhailt ramup with a lagging gait mid Ow hirnielf flown on the edge of Vit 0140.1111* . i he Lore ileee •don't, as a, Yule, bring ) Alters Of lecommendetion with 'eau, or ' d 11 around dropping visiting, cards, end E USURPER f 04 r4°00.004114901104111111111.4 the hole. Lie was inexpensively attired in a pair of tremors made out of meal sacks, a shirt frayed and torn and rather blacker than a Linker's hoots, which on sel f-reepecting trantp in Eugland or America would have deigned to leek up. and a chimney -pot hat Ati battered and ttamose unit meatless as to eouvey the idea that the man who would weer it, could only have insanity as an excuse for doing so. He was the doctor of Lan Hope -there is always a doctor, a barrister, not un. frequently a baronet and occasionally a clergyman in a diggers' etimp-and he, too, like Neville, was nameless, answer - log alwaye to the 'abbreviated cognomen of "Doe," "Weil, young un," he said, mopping Ids Mee, Beamed and hollowed by a long and uninterrupted course of camp whis- key. 'Still liangin° ow?" hanging on, Doe," said Neville, with as cheerful a nod as could be eV• peoted under the eircumstonces. The dootor stared. at the handsome. stuobrowned face with its short, crisp hair looking almost yellow against the darkened skin and the clear blue eyes that met him squarely, and then let his own blinking, undecided ones drop into the pit. • "Seems as if there weren't any more luck for this yere camp, -don't it?" "Tel, it Seem so," assented listlessly, ELS he took out his pipe. The doctor's eyes glistened, "Ain't get any.'liaect to 'spare, I sup. pose?" he remarked. • "Oh, yes," said Neville, and he tossed his -pouch. The doctor caught it with eager, shak- ing hands, crammed a blackened briar as full AS it would hold, bid another pipe- ful inthe palm of his hand with salami- ing dexterity, and tossed the pouch - with just half a pipeful remaining -back to its owner. "Partner's cleared out, ain't. he?" ' ' Neville nodded as he lit his pipe. "Tired out at laat, eh? Ali, well, I'm not surprised. Why on earth the rest of the boys don't up eticks, and out it, 1 Wet make out, Appears to me Lorn Hope is clean played out. Why don't you go, young lin?" Neville Lynne leaned against the side of the pit and looked absently some the plain. "I don't know," he replied at last. el suppose I shell presently." "That's what most of 'em says," re- marked the doctor, squatting.col Inc haunches and puffing away with pro- found and sleepy satisfaction in the eleemosynary tobaeco. "Seems to me there won't- be many of us left to go, if we don't look sharp about it, Two 'more waiting,. for the undertaker this morning-esunstroke; and there's three lying low besides. Guess we'd 'better weft and bury 'eniall together; We a saying of time, though time don't appear tebe money inthis yere oamp now.' The dootor wail not an American -no one knew -exactly what country could rightly claim the honor of his birth; but he had been in the California gold fields and had caught the tone a that country and half a dozen others. as Well. "Sickness always follows other .111 - luck," said Neville. "Not much sickness about you yeang un," remarked tho doctor, eyeing the slim but well -knit frame approvingly. "No I'm all right enough," escorted Neville "I trouble the baker more then your profession,. Doe." "Kind of a teetotaller, ain't you?" saM the doctor. "Don't see you cotton at the poison shop." Neville smiled absently. "No, but I'm not a teetotaller," he The doctor -smoked min silence for a minute or so'then, without any move- ,ic nt remared: "Well, I must be going. Anti so you mean to stick on here, then?" "For the present -yes," said Neville, "It ain't DO good. There'a nothieg at the bottom of that, young itn." "I aoret think there is," tessenten Nev- ille,. looking down at the hole. "I shall stiek to it for -say two days longer' and then—'! The dootor nodded, "Well, here's lack to you," and be raised an imaginary glass. "I must be going." He half rose, then sank down again. • "There., now! Hang it all, if I -haven't clean gone and forgotten what I'd come for," and he smote his leg feebly, coos., ing a great cloud of dust to rise. "You ain't got a drop of brandy -real brandy -Cognac, you know -not old Mac's - hove yeu, young un?" Neville hesitated and glanced at him. "Oh, it ain't for me, don't you mis- take!" said the deetor, as promptly as the heat and his jelly -fish condition would permit, "Mac's poison is good enough for me; I want it for the strane ger "rhe what" asked Neville. "What, ain't you heard?" rejoined the doctor, stretching himself. "Poe not been down to the eninp for the last three days." "No? You ain't very •sociable, young un. Well, last night, or yesterday even- , ing, the Seidner" (the gentleman so called was one of the idle vagabonds of the camp, who was always ready for a fight a a drink, but showed a marked dfsinclinatioii for anything in the shape of work) "the Souffler conies down to my digginei and says he's got company as Waited me, wanted nie bad. I thought at first the &Rifler had been on one of his sprees and was a bib wan- dering, but lie took his oath that he hadn't had more than half a pint of Whiskey the Whole blessed day, and I went along with him. And it was gos- pel truth, for theto was a lieW churn lying theta tohancling in his checks as fan as he could. &rafter said he'd found him and the gal----" "'What girl?" asked Neville. "Didn't 1 say as there was a child?" said the doctor. "Weil, there was, a hit of a girl, like a young. eolt. And -whore am I now? Oh, ah, yes, the Seuffler found the old gent -for he's a reef gent, young un, or I've forgotten in this God- forsekon hole how to tell a gentleman -- lying in the toad, and &after, doing the good Samaritan, helped Min into his shanty, nnd .not having eny nil or a penny to bless himself with, deed the next beat thing he eoeld, and went for 1"49 1vno is he?" asked Neville not eal- lously, but with that leek of ileen inter. est which beeomee natural to a man who hits spent 'matty months in a dIggeed eatnp, ettpeelelly when th,t camp hop- tpens to be one like the Lorn Hopesin witleh tickneett and death are aiwitys present or very near. The doctor carefully etoppe& his pips, using his begrimed finger RS the stopper, iiria eli•ook hI# hena. "Not knowing, ettn't say. Visitors to he etratiger Abet no exception. But he's t gent, VII isweer, end it occurred to me that you, belug ale° a gent, might feel inelined to patt with a drop of the real old stuff-thAt is, it you'd get it." "There /4 no resisting such a cot -twit - meta as that, Doe," !Aid Neville. "I thilik there le a little thignao left; if so, rint are weleoine to it." lle put his strong hand on one side of the pit, awl leaping lightly to the top, went toward the hut. Tice doctor fol. hint and stood leaning against the etiology for a door, while .Neville un - Melted a strong box, anti, after Immo litunmeging about, found a bottle WU* Wiring a small quantity of homely. "There you are," he amid, tossing it to the dotage who caught it as dexterously 411 he nail caught the tobacco pouch. "Is there anything else I can de, Dore?" "No, not As I knows on, and thiek. • ing no ono else eau de anything." Then hiding the bottle under his tattered shirt, he patted it meaningly. "Don't yon be areal.4. lee ;tenure, young un, and I've mom eating yam. gospel truth. Every drop the etrAnger don't drink hand back," and confirm- • ing the asertioa with an emphatic digger oath, he shuffled off. It took him some time, notwithetand. • Ing the distauce was so short, to resole the camp, and, paning right through it, Ito stopped at s shanty rather more ruinous and turnble-down than the rest, and after a kn.00k by way of Announce- ment, pulled aside the tittered canvas that served AS a door and entered. A roan wos lying upon three upturned empty boxes covered with saoks, and as the doctor had said, he wae dying. The doctor had called him old, but though the man's hair was grey, almost white, and his face thin and warted, he was this tilde of fifty. There was that unrais- talcoble look of refinement about the face which denotes the gentleman; the hands clutching the ragged blanket Were thin and small and Bold° him knelt a young girl, a thin slip -of a child, with great grey corn and a wealth of dor* hair that wept over her pale little face. She was not crying, but there was a world of mute anguieh in the big grey eyes ae she turned then' from the dying man's face to the whiskey -sodden one of the doctor, , • "Hullo, here we are again!" remarked ilhat gentleman, 'with a gbastly at- tempt at cheerfulnees, "And how are we getting on now? Is there mu& a thing as a glass about/ Ali, no, the Souffler don't go in for such luxuries." He held the bottle to the mares lips and, a few drops passed them. "That's better, Now, made, juat raise your father-. he Is your father, or , grandfather, which?"' "Father," said the girl. As if her yOiC6 were more effectual than the spirit in rousing him, the dy- ing man raised his head and looked from one to the other. Then he made a mo- tion which the dootor accepted as a sign of dismissal. "Went to be alone a bit, eh?" he said, "All eight. You give me a call if you want me , VII go and take a hand at beggar -my -neighbor with the Scuffler. Just call out 'Doc,' miesie, and Pm with you hi a crick." The dying man waited until the canon curtain had flapped to upon the dootor's book, then he signed to the girl to come nearer. She laid her head upon the pil- low, a sack stuffed With grass, and vegund her arm round his neck. -"I'm going to leave you, Syl," he ;mid, feebly. "My poor child! My poor, poor child! lt is hard. But God's will be done. Don't cry, Syl. It's I who should cry, for -for when I think of you all alone in the world, without tien rue to help and protect you----" He drew a long sigh, and the tears filled his eyes. "But listen, Syl. I am going to give you something. it is something very pre- cious, and I 'want you to guard it as if it were your very life. Don't lose it or let any one take it from you. Hide it next your heart, aild-and when you are eighteen, opon it, and—" His voice failed hun. He touched his breast and signed to her to take some- thing erom his pocket, and she drew out a 'small, flat package. It was covered with parchnient stained and creased, but securely sealed at each end. "Take it," he whispered. "Put it in the bosom of your dress and -and keey it there. Some day—" His voice faltered and broke aud his head fell back, but he seemed to indicate by a gesture that she was not to tall out and she remained silent, bolding him against her sob -shaken little. breast. While she waited with her anguished eyes fixed: upon hint a man's head ap. pawed in the space between two of the boards whith formed the side of the hut. It was a long, unpleasant -looking coun- tenance'rendered all the more unprepos- sessing by .e slight cast in the left eye. It was not only ugly, but a mean and villainous -looking face, and the express, sion of eagerness and craft in the eyes as they glared watchfully at the dying nihn and the girl would have provided a -very nice model for a painterwho wished to paint -say, Judea just before the act of treachery. And it would have been a very low type of jocks at that, "Are -are you there still, Syl?" asked the dying man, "trove you 'hidden the packet? Remember -hide it! keep guard it! It is the secret of your life, Syl-the secret of your life! Ilow-ohow old are you, Syl?" Her lips fernier "fifteen." "Three years, then!" he muritturea. "Ah, my dear, my dear, if I could only stay with you. All alone in the World. All alonel and sueh a. child. But God's will—" He stopped, his fade working, his eyes fixed an her with pitying love and tenderness. "Good -by, Syl, The doctor came in with a hand of greasy curds in his *laws at her cry, and the uncouth duet -defiled figure of the &trifler stood at the hut door. "All over, Doe?" he asked. The doctor nodded with it gravity which would not have discredited his flourishing profes•sioal days. "All over, Scuffler," he said. "Fetch one of the women; the child's fainted." Tli'eSeuffler turned, and. in turning, nearly stumbled over tt third person; it was the owner of the face Which had been thrust between the boards, "Hullo, Umiak," he naid. "re that yout'Out oo the way." "What't on, Scuffled:VI asked the in- dividual addreseed. "I've only just tome up. .Anybody bad." "Yes, bad and. Wore!" retorted the Setiffler, with a ehuelde of surprise at his oven wit, "Dear rthea" *said Lavariek, "Pli go in and see if I can be of any assistance.° And softly tubbing hie Ilan& together; he entered tha hut. (To be 'continued.) its Like of the Iron Shutters. .798848-tne you half put iron shot. tete on till der vintioure of your ne* building. Abrantre-Yes----in ease of fire. lows -But dere are no lotilaings next doov to keep dor fire out from. Abrittne-.Alt, in OW of fire in My building der iron ehttiters vill keep der rite itie-Frout the April Bohemian. in Every Dose .••• .r..• -•••/m Mnlia speak too highly of Psy- ching, fox u the great/est roolloine ever ulvel,, 1 waw just atbout. 'all in? when began the treatment, and in 3 tnouthe wal as WO 45 ever, kt o great tonie for weak and run down peoele. There Is new life hi every dose. "JAS. STOLIKER." Ridgetown, Ont., Dee, 19th, 1990. It is a 4in not to tell your sick Mends about alit Wand erf Al ;prescript ion. Throat, Meg and etomath trouble., aud all run darn condition; quiekly mired by its own use. At ell druggists, Dee. and $1,00, or De. T. A. Slam, Limited, Toronto. • PI Defending the Animate. Vigorous efforts to preserve the more remarkable animals of Africa continue, At a resent meeting of the National Preservation Society at Cape Town the Chief Justice, while urging the need of stronger measures to preserve tba lure flora and fauna of that country from extinction, *touted that tho gnu, the gemsbok, the mountain zebra, the elond and tho giraffe aro now nearly all ex- tinct. • 0 a Minard's Liniment Relieves Neuralgia, venezussit's Railroads. Venezuela has 13 railroad, the long - eat 111 miles long, and no ether aa much no 50, They aro for the mon part lint -a whioh climb 'hills foam the sea toward. the interior, and leave etemi gradients. On one line for tiro and te half miles there is a grade of 449 feet per utile, worked by the cogovbeel sye- tem, an there are other grades of 218 feet, 185 feet and 158 feet. Few •of the lines, connect with others, and there is a nuraber of different gaugee. About half the mileage is of 42 -inch gauge, nearly a, quorter 01 36 inch, a fifth of 24 ine.h, and a little of metre gouge and one of 25 inch, The longest line is a Gerznan enterprise. Almost all the roll- ing stock was built in the United States. The aggregate length June 30th, 1906, was 523 miles. HORSEMEN, READ THIS, I have used KINARD'S. LINIMENT in my stables for over a year, and oonatder it the VERY BEST for le4se ;flesh I can get, And would ebrongly recommend it to ell, horeemen, G100, HOUGH. Livery Stables, Quebec, 95 to 103'nn Steeet. A Good Substitute. Jimmy had his weak ppints, as an ex- ample of the result of modern education- al methods, but his brain was of exce1. lent quality. When the teacher looked at him and inquired coldly: "What is a synonym, jeanee?" he was ready with his answer. "It's a word that you can use when you don't know how to spell the one you thought of first," he replied, cheerfully, -The Monitor. 4 • • Preoh tea is aii-important. Ten weeka Ober being piekea in the tea gardens of the Island of Ceylon (the finest tea- produeing country in the world) "Sal- aam" reaches you. The flavor of tea con- sists in an esential oil, which deterior- ates YarpRitly with age. In order to pre- serve the delicious flovor of "Saluda!' Tea, it is pocked in sealed: aead packets (never sold; an bulk), guartinteebag you a superior tea, in flavor, quality, purity and economy In use. -• • •- Systematic. Lawyer -Here are your divorce papers, madam. I advise you to take good care of them. Charming Soubrette --Why, Certainly, Mr. Leesem. I shall put them in my safety deposit box, where all the others are. FACTS FOR SICK OMEN Win& E. PINKH No other medicine Las been so successful in relieving the suffering of women or received so many gen- bine testimonials as has Lydia E. PinklustresVegetable Compound. In every community you will find women who have been restored to healtb. by lvdia B. Pinkham's 'Veg- etable Compound. Almost every one you meet has either been bene- fited by it, Or has friends who have. In the Pinkluim Laboratory at Lynn,l1lass., any woman.anydaymay see the illes-containing over one mil- lion one hundred thousand letters - from 'women seeking health, and hem are the letters in which they openly state over their own signa- tures that they were oured by lordia E. Pinkharn's Vegetable Compound. Lydia B. Pinkhain's Vegetable Compound. has saved many women from surgical operations. Lydia E. Pinkhant's Vegetable Compound is made from roots and herbs, 'without drugs, and is whole. some and harmless. The reason why Lydia E. ham's Vegetable Compound. is 'so successful is bemuse it contains in- gredients which act directly upon the feminine organism, restoring it to 9, healthy normal condition. Vironten who are suffering from those distressing ills peculiar to their sex should not lose sight of these fads or doubt the ability of Lydia E. Ilnkham's Vegetable tmpound to restore their health. 90,1. "THIS WORDS IN CI." A Curious Oomposition by Profeasor f3keat involving That Letter. Profenor Skeet hasapparently eerve4 as pelf -appointed laureate to that Icing of lex- mogrsemere, in. Murray. Teo Pertiesteat ones prinkti Ids lines "en 006100104 A..",N01103 and titteriee now recalla two previous coln- mentorative Downs: TO DR. 141.111RAY ON COMPIATING ram i41,..,Trvit winuvv9r nicr uosiwn *melt Is spread, And the Union Jai* tiles free, The news will be gratefully, proudly read, That You've conquered your' A, 13, el But I tear lt win voina Ito a neck to some That the and result will be That you're taking to dabble and dawdle and doze, To dolour and dumps, and worse titan those - To danger and drink, And -shocking te think - To words that heL,In with d-, TIIE WORDS IN D. Thatio words In DI A dismal, dreary (Mee: Dere dilatory dandies dangling doze, Dull datmea dog our steps and dreadful duns. Dolour e and dragons, doultoya, Oita ane dupes Devils and demenee and "the dreaded name Of DemogoronE" Dirks and daggers haunt, lAnk Dandelions flourish, daemon daunts, .Bopreesion and dejection drag U9 dAWth Areal' Desolation dwells, and etre delaY. Ineaster, meapoolininont, disarray, Thereat, Mc:integration woe Disease, decay, delirium, darkness, death! yet through tlie darkest done of dimmest doubt Dogged determination drives ito way, Men:ulnae yield to diligence at laat, Deliberation dissipates dispum, Disnray Di dashed with erangote of dear de- light, Deft dainty dances, and delicious dreams! The power to do one's duty still survives, Still downe the day, divine dominion rules, SHIL IL44.444410111/00114,444,m1.41/1/1 Quick ease for the worst cough -quick relief to the heaviest cold -turd SAFE take, eves for a child.ures T%--1 hat is Shiloh's Cure, Sold under' a cguarantee Coughs to cure colds and coughs leo e•-• I a quicker than any other oa k-0131,118 medichie-or your money back. 34 years of success commend Shiloh's Cure. 25c., 50c.,$1. 318 QUICKLY! Recent Excavations in Greece. .The excavations reoently =Tied on by Messrs. Wace and. Droop at Th.eo.toklos, in Thessoly, have been productive of very _interesting results. During the ex - cremation some Doric columns were brought to light, evidently having form- ed part of the facade of a temple, which, however, had entirely disa,ppeared and given place to an early basilica dating pgobably from the sixth century. The incerak floor of this building, which re- presented various Christian symbols, was fund to be in te very good state or pre- servation. Among the minor antiquities disoovered were some coins of Justin II., A. D. 570, which were found at about the same depth as the pavement. Send us your name and address for re pleoes of .7pwe1ry to sell at 10oents each. When sold send us the ,910 and we wIllsend you these TWO SOLID DOLD d RINGS. We trust you with the Jewelry and wIllsend t all charges wild. Send us your name and addressnow. STAR MM. CO.,26 Boy 8t.,PIOVIDZI108,11.1.,11.0.4. Soft Disc Cuts Hard Steel. The curious phenomenon of a sofe steel disc revolving at a high speed cutting hard eteel, has attracted the attention of numerous observers, and F. W. Har- bord has endeavored to throw light on the subject by publishing in -the En- gineer the regatta of a microscopic ex- amination of the revolving disc and of the material subjected. to its action. He Slide that the material acted upon is heated at the point of eontoct to a tem- perature approaching, if not equal to, the 'melting point of steel, and that this high temperature is confined practically to the surface in contact with the disc. • a- Minard's Liniment for sale everywhere. Their Life Is No Joke. Norma.ndy and Brittany together are the land of legends and romance, but there is a noticeable difference in the people. The 13reton is atalevait in sta- ture and stern and lierious in disposi- tion. He has hewed his life out amid the serious things and along the rocky roads. His bronzed face looks austere, but beneath his blue blouse beats a heart warm and true, The primitive eimplielty of his life and the intenseness of hie religion gives the Breton short view of the frivolities of existence. He carries his religion into his daily life and work, ana along all the roads are gaudy oriel - fixes which the peasants never pass without kneeling • and crossing them- selves. It is characteristic) of all these Brit- tany folk that they mind their own busi- ness. 7 don't know what the result would be if you were to try a joke on them. I should. be afraid to undertake It. Life is a serious problem to the Breton. It IP homespun for him even though the rest of France may, be a- ltered in silks, He has worked old an existence against great odds, and it has given him a character and physicite which makes Itim notable among his fellow-countrynten.-From "An Intimate Excursion," by Frank Presbery, in the Outing Magazine for February. 4... The French Tramp. The vagabond who is kin to the wolf is a special proauet of ',Min civilize: tion. You do not meet him in England or Germany, though something like him exists among the half -yellow Slays of Russia. He is eminently Latin. In every some of the word he is a rebel against society. He has had some edu- cation -few French men can eecape it; he has read a little perhaps, enoug'h to kindle his brain of 'a wolf; and he has tWo aline in life -to live tho free. life of the wolf on the bill, and to injure as much an he can that great, monstrous law -driven machine, civilization, The lonely farm houees are defenceless against him. Vhen all are busy afield he creeps in and pillages. If need be he kills. He has a distinct hatred for those who work mid garner. As he passes he fires the Itay.rieks-barns and buildings go up in smoke. That is where the Lat. eitows in him. Once out of the law he is an Anarch. So long ea ho is cross. tied in innumerable acts of parliament, the Latin is merry and amiable; when the ropes are off he makes revolution - or fires hay.rielte-Froto "The Vamp bonds of Frame," by Vance Thompson, in The Outing Magazine for April. Why Paper Decays, The brownish 'spots which appear in Old books are really due to the ravage* of bacteria, says Popular Mechanics, The tiny destroyer is empeelaily /owl of atarehy material and its propagation is promoted by clamp. It has been well un. derstood that damp produced diseolora- tiort and deeay, but the glum of the mi- crobe in the operation has not hitherto been suspeeted. Tiny fungus or mold is respontible for gray arta black miteks upon old papers. In spotting the sur - (nee dee fungus hdpe loreak down the fabrie arta hasten the proem of in de. ritructfoti. ( _ AGONIZING PUS, IssuB No, i 4••••••••,•44011 CURED BY ZiABUK, 0.14.1••••••4..... Mr. Jr. Astrldge,. of 3 tit. reel -Street, 81. et:doublet, Ont., solo: "Per five pears 1 sUffered untold agony with protruding piles. No one know, the aufferine one has te en- dure only thee°who are so unfortunate as to have num. The pain wao so great it times 1 would alinwt scream. I went down In weight and had no appetite1 tried every- thing I heard of for piles, but got no re- lief, I went to several doctors, but they would give me little hope of ever getting rid of then) and I finally gave up in despair. Ono day D friend gave me A sample of Zon:1-13Uk salve and told toe of someone who had teen cured. I decided to try it and the relict I cot was eucOuragigg. li4uolit a box and the .ptiea hent on donheleelug and the Pain was ,getting lets. I toed three •boxce and am now completely cured. 1 wioh I could have got Zatn-Buk years ago, it would hove saved 10.0 e great 'deal of misery. One thousand dollars would ha.vo been none too small tut amount to give for such a sure as mine. whit I could convince every aufferer 01 the value of Zam-Buk.'" Zapt-Iluk euros mite, burns, chopped hands, cold scow, Itch, ulcers, eczema, rtnininX eort3, catarrh, piles, bad legs, allecsteen, 1no sera:, spring eruptions, and all ride die:macs. It is alto good f or raeunranin, eziatica. etc., when rubbed in. Of all druggists and etores, me., or from Sant-Buk On., Terehte. • Put Something. On. Dean Stanley was once driving with a friend from Monreale to Palermo. Iletat linen were reading. Stanley sud- denly diseovered that he was shivering with a cold. He mentioned the matter to his friend. "Well, hadn't you better put some. Mug oe?" said the latter, pointing to the deanet bag, Whialt WAS dose at hand. Stanley thought it rather a good idea and t•lie friend went on reading. Al they entered Potato° there were shouto of .astonisitment. Stanley was placidly reading. His friend found that the dis- tinguished churchman had absentmind- edly drawn out A nightshirt from his bag and put it on over his other cloth- ing, and thus arrayed was riding trium. pliantly into the city. - London Sketch. eoleierdeoeserenta er. t re. • ; TRA. SKIN SOAP Contains the famous healing principles of Mira Ointment, combined with the purest vegetable oils. It Is really a inedicinal soap and a toilet soap in one. Invaluable for all skin troubles. Ideal for the bath on account of its elegant perfume. 25C a sake -at druggists or sent on receipt of price. The Chemists' Co. of Canada, United, Hamilton. 35 A Catastrophe. Mother had put the mutton stew on to cook and got ready for church. "Now, Tommy," she said, before she started, "I want you to stay at home and see that title 'stew boils continuously ufitil I come back." Half an hour later Tommy came rushing breathless into church, exclaim- ing; "Mother, come. home, quick!, The sheep is butting all the dumplings out of the kettle." • • • PILES CURED IN 6 TO 14 DAYS PAW OINTMENT is guaranteed to eon any cage of Itching, Blind, Bleeding or Protrud- ing Piles in 0 to 14 days or money refunded. 50,2 Who Started Whipping? Tommy awl been punished. o • "Manuna," he sobbed ,"did your mane - ma whip you when you were 'fetter "Yes, when I was naughty." "And did her mamma whip her when she was little?" "Yes, Tommy." "And was she whipped when .he was little 4" td3tes.11 • "Well," inquired the child, his brain cleared by the position he had just occupied, "who started it, anyway?" - Unknown: 4. te Minard's Liniment Cures Burns, etc. 4 • • A Preserver of Forests. "Are .you willing to chop sortie wood for your &parer?" ."Lady," answered Plodding Pete, "Pin interested in de preservation of the for - este, an' it would be ag'in' me principles to put an axe into one of de monarchs of de forest, even though he lay pros- trate at me feet." -Washington (D. C.) Star, yr Mange, Prairie Scratches and every form et contagious Itch on human or animals oared la 80 minutes by Woltord's Souniaer Dale& It nevee Salle. sold br druggists. Drawing Quick. "You don't use the same slang you used in Chicago." said the visitor in the Nevada lunchroom. "Well, I should say not," cautiously evlispered the waiter in the green swea- ter. "It is too dangerous." "Why, the other day I yelled, 'draw onel' meaning a cup of black coffee, and every Man pulled his gun. They thought I meant draw one of those new black revolvers."-Chioago News. - Arithat. • SAtioVrN oclIAN,Tipp;.areli.!818, 4 *.•• oresied air; eutomatio amerai WI. I. • era Bros, Balt, Ont. , Werth Knowing. You might obtain the deeired Meg through the aid of cayenne When thrown into the creeks Where a 11, eougregate It will drive WM, natty. Tht same remedy IS atogeod for Mee. When webbing a wooden floor put two toblespooteiful of ;Amain oil lath son:. deem, soapy water, as hot as you tree -elite, bear your hands in. It will also dr- stroy alt ineeets. When polishing your stove mix the atove blacking with vinegar. ',this will Make the blacking stick better, And els,/ gives a better polish. Pie plates, dishes and cups, marked with brown stain from being used Itt. baking. nifty be dekneed by applyiao powdered whiting on et, damp flannel or by cemmon seat. .11 lemons are kept in oold water tb.eir freshmen will remain unimpaired for several weeke. 4'.1.`o get the greatest poi - allele value out of it lemon, heat it thor- oughly before squeezing. and you will obtain. nearly double the quantity of juice. 1.0111,0,maM11.11••••••,•,•••••, e • •oe P. tee. - Meu should look for this Tag on Chewing Tobacco. It guarantees thehik quality of Black Watch 'De Big Black Plug. 2271•1 At One Pell Swoop. "Have you got any of those prepara- tions for removing superfluous hair?" asks the man who enters the drug store with a firm tread aud a set counten- ance. "Yes, sir," answered the druggist. "Give me a pint, I want to use lc en ray head." ''But man, you haven't got any super- fluous hair on your head. You're nearly bald now." el know it. And I've got so aggravated and tired watching the confounded hair leaking off day by day, that I want to remove the rest of it at one.sweep and have the agony over." -Success Maga- 4 • * ENGLISH SPAVIN LINIMENT re- moves all hard, soft and calloused lumps and blemishes from horses, blood spawn, curbs, splints, ringbone, sweeney, stifles, sprains sore and swollen throat, coughs, etc. gave $50 by use of one bottle. Warranted the most wonderful blemish Cure ever known. Sold by druggists, The Court Crier. Vihen an Irish 'County Court was about to open its session recently, the discovery was made that the court orier was absent. A substitute was provided, and the court had barely taken up acne when a breathless messenger boy dashed in with a telegram signed by the absent crier. The missive was handed to the Judge, who read: "Wifo's mother died. last night. Will not be able to cry to -day." -Home Her- ald. WHAT CAUSES HEADACHE r,•X2,14137et°2r:- Ma, °Toe. areIATIV11131631 01.RINIII remora cause. • Weyig Grove on box, en. Cups and Couples. The silversmith and the furniture dealer mat. "How is businen?" asked the furniture dealer. "Oh, pretty fair," replied the silver- smith. "I am interested in loving imps at present." "How funnyl L am interested in lov- ing eouples." "Loving couples?" "Yes, I am placing a new pastor sofa on the market."-Ohioaga News. Minard's Liniment Cures Dandruff. - - e Out of the Dim Past. Alexander the Great had just ,subdued Bucephalus. "Anybody can bust st bronehol! he said, "but it takes a man to put the snaffles on a big four -legged devil like this one." Being ehrewd, politic followe, the cow- boys of that age allowed the impression to go out that they were afraid to try to ride the savage beast, and tho sub- servient historians hastened to confirm that impression. Relieving the Monotony. Nan -He proposed to you while the train was going around the elevated loop? How oddl Fan -Yes, and the engagement lasted till vie got oletio around. You don'tg know how it relieved the tedium of the."'" ride. Thera Is Only 02,0 dig:Immo Quinine" That 10 Laxative 113romo Quinine USED THE WORLD OVER TO CURE A OOLO IN ONE smr. ell Always remember the full name. Leek tor this signattue on every bcot. 280. EDDY'S "SILENT" PARLOR MATCHES Silent as the Sphinx!