HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1909-09-16, Page 6The asseesnient of the city of New
York is $7,250,500,559. Of this sum,
.$0,807.170,704 represents real eetates
Greet BritautS.311:1$23,880,S95 of goode
to Aegentina; Germany about half ise
laueli, and the Unit ea ;states a little
Osier one-thirti as much.
The spvitee boil worm is; Baia to be at
waik mi. the Oatineate River, and eome
apprehension is felt lest it invade the
Ontario forests, and destroy a greet
source a Provincial wealth,
How many yeti e will it be till the
deuizeus of the cities will blew to sueok
Same the alleyways and give lip the
streets to electric railways and .automo-
biles?
A Windsor rates track man aasuiSs
stealing a, winning ticket from a bettor,
but preeents the plea that betting Laing
inaanuaeles, lt.eannot be eenrietel
flf a mime in aning so. This would mem
to Le a real ease of relying upon a tech -
The Canadian Bente of Commerce
estbnate of the wheat most of the tbree
Prairie Provinces is 113,979,336 bushels;
oats, 157,537,750; barley, 24,324,048.
That will bring to the ,Northwest farm-
ers considerably over $100,000,000 after
providing for home wants.
It might interest some of our United
States exchanges which announce pella-
gra at "a newdisease" to grapple with,
to krow that it is fully dealt with in
Wood's Practice of Medicine, printed in
1808, and is known to every student of
medicine for thirty years... It le not a
"plagete" to terrify.
Chieago has placed, a eroman at the
head of her public school affairs. And
why not? At least 95 per cent' of the
pupils are •of the elementary grades,
and 60 per cent. eleven years aud under.
Moreover, 5,600 of the 6,100 teachers are
women. There is something to be said
for tha female superintendent of such
an organization.
Marie .Corelli indignantly denies that
she has joined the ranks of the suffra-
gettes. She says: "I should be a poor
creature if I were a convert to the emi-
nently foolish course which is unsexing
so inauy women to -day. Mario uses
a finer weapon than brick -bats; hut the
sometimes touches the sore spots.
THE WOOING
OF ERNA
"You are cruel!" he cried, vehemently.
"No," she replied, "I tau trying to be
lust to you anii to myself. There is a
peat gulf between us, Lord Aubrey.
Yaws wife lives. She bus the first claim.
upon you. Mter her, Lady Gertrude
has a eleim, which her angry words of
just now do not absolve you from. You
asked her to be your wife, not loviug
her. If you are all honorable man, you
must, wave the time comes, give her ta,e
opportunity to be the cauutess of .Aub-
rey. .As for me, I am A widow, whose
husband yet lies unburied. Can you, ask
me to listen to weeds of love from you?"
There was something so inexpressibly
noble in her words and, dem,eanor that
the earl was silenced. Ho had indeed
forgotten all the things she spoke of.
"Porgy's me, Erna!" he said. "The
'only thing I knew was that I loved you.
It is a madness. All that you my is
true -' and yet I must aak one little ray
of hope. When I have fulfillea all my
duties, may I then, if I am free to do so,
come to yqu, and be sure that I ellen
find you heart -free?"
She emiled sadly.
"The future must take care of Hula"
she answered. "I will not promise."
She would. have given her right hand
then to have spoken freely the feeling
that made her heart throb; 'but
she held steadfast to her idea of duty.
Sae felt that the present draty was to
loop every tie betsteen them.
"At least say tbat you love me, Erna,'
he pleaded.
cannot say that; and it is wrong
of you. to ask me/' she replied.
"Have I been mistaken?" lie exelaino
ed, in anguish. "Do you not love sae,
then. Oh, that is not possible. My heart
could. not have told me a falsehood.
Erna, can there be any harm in saying:
just the three little words, 1 love you."
"There would. be harm f or me to say
there. Yes."
"Dare you say that you do not love
me?" he suddenly demanded.
The color rushed to her face in a tide.
He believed he had entrapped her, She
drew herself up proudly..
"I say nothing, Lord Aubrey, and you
have 130 right to put your own construc-
tion on my silence."
How magnificent she leaked then!
Never had she seemed so worthy a, true
man's love. The earl could not but honor
in her the' resolution Which kept her
faithful to her ideal in the face of his
pleading.
The Chicago Inter -Ocean very pertin-
ently says: •
"Egurdity of all men before the law
is e worthy and possible aim of homen
endeavor. Equality of men in ability to
perform the tasks of a particular occu-
pation is something that has never ex-
isted ind never will." No dead level in
capacity can be enforced by any law or
any organization. It would be conceiv-
able only by supposing the standard to
be fixed at the level of the lowest. The
ides of a dead level society is socialistic.
It is opposed to nature.
o
At the shorthand speed contest at
Lake George, N. Y., a. few days age,
Willard It. Bottome, official stenograph-
er of the United. States Supreme Court,
accomplished 262 words a minufe. He
took, also, a. Juage's charge at the rate
of 207 words a minute with only 1 2-10
per cent. of errors in ,his transcript,
thereby establishing a sword. The
speed record ie still held by Mies Wood,
of Boston, with 264 words.
ReV. Father Phelan, of St. Louis, hes
a franchise scheme that hits at one and
the same time the bachelor and race
suicide, He would enfranchise both male
and female heads of a family and give
an additional vote for each child in it.
If husaand and wife differed on politi-
cal questions he would give the mother
all the daughters' votes, but if they
agreed the husband should cast the bal-
lot for the family. .A. difficulty inigiit
arise in dividing the house, however.
Germany has compulsory military ser-
vice. Prom 600,000 to '700,000 able-bod-
ied men are kept frol useful employ-
ment and maintained as a burden on
the -workers of the country. It costs
an immenee sum of meney to support
this many of the idle. Military pay,
even at 8 cents a day, and board and
elothes, for such a body is quite a bur -
deo, Then the. waste of effort—the 'loss
of, say, 50 cents a day from production
—would alone amount to well over
$100,000,000 a year. As Puck has it:
"What fools these mortals bel"
••••••••sege
anaiously than be wished to betray,
"Lady Gertrude will not be induced by
the unpleasant eimumetances to change
her mind,"
"You may depend upon ie r constancy,
my lord," said her father, iu a tone of
convietion.
The earl had hoped for at different an-
swer. But what elee could he expect of
a father? Perhaps the daughter would
not be so easily disposed of now as be-
fore, Certainly it would, be awkward to
DIMITY a woman who had been betrayed
iuto such language ea she had that
awning used.
"Very well,", he saki, "you may use
my name with perfeet assurance. 1 obeli
go now to eee my unfortunate wiles but
I shall retarnoto see Lady Gertrude as
arson as circumstances will permit."
"Quite right. I will tell her what you
say, be will be glaatly Boogied, no
doubt."
"You will make my excuses to every-
body?"
"Ceratinly," and. Lord, Moreham bade
good-bye to the earl in far better spirits
than he had deemed possible but a few
minutes earlier. •
.••••-•
bint no hope in that quarter. 't;'sortainly
if Lady tierttude had any intiention of
refusing him, it was entirely wItheut the
knowledge of tier parent,
"Lady Gertrude WM be delighted to
eee you," lie said, when Aubrey mention-
ed the purpose of his viait. "Slut has felt
your trouble very MU011; and hit8-011—
endeavored. to invest her mind by the—
er—geyeties of the --of society."
A faint smile passed over Aubreyas
face at this easy explanation el lattly
Gertrude's deep plunge into dissipation.
It wars quite plain that he must be pre-
pared, to carry out tile original pro-
gramme,
Lady Gertrude mune down after he
had been waiting nearly half an hour,
showing, as the earl thought, a studied
intentiou of making hini uuderstaud
that else was not placated. The loner
he was made to wait, the higher hie
hopes OS% It makes so much (Utterance
what one's desires are At another time,
and =ler the other circumstances, he
would have been indignant.
He smiled with something like eel
pleasure whoa at last Gertrude sailed in-
to the rout. Ile was quick to note the
change in her. Her blonde, statuesque
beauty lent itself very reedily to an Ina
parlous carriage; and the earl noted that
there was potting in Lady Gertrude now
of the unformed girl.
It was as if she had passed completely
through the fiaishing process, ahe was
a proud, imperious Inman of the world;
and, however fascinating, and soft she
might be when she pleased, it was plain
that she mild be leiness
She returned his greeting coallY•
though with perfect courtesy; and his
hopes rose higher and higher. She had
not forgiven him and she was hardly like
CHAPTER XL. not forgiven him, and she was hardly
nicely to accept him as a husbaitd, Re
The unfortunate Countess of Aubrey
e s
lingered. several days In lunged at Micinto hibusine$ with unconsciousness, Ker.
her bed" "Lady Gertrude," he Sala. as she seats'
after the arrival of the earl br
side, She never roused suff dently ars ed herself, "you have doubtless hear of
even reeognize him; and the earl could the death of my wifea'
not bring himself to feel tlust he would
have had it otherwise.
He fully and freely forgave her for all
she had done to injure him; but he
could not even respect her, and he would
not have pretended to do so.
After her death—before it, indeed—
he gave the utmost publicity to the story
of his wretched. marelage. He acknowl-
edged her as his wife; and., when she
was dead, treated her in all reepecte as
he would have done a beloved wife.
This he dia in order that Lady Ger-
trude might be eet right before a gos-
siping world; and he fottnd his reward
Isin doing so in the certainty that Erna
was seeretly applauding him for it,
There was no difficulty in having the
story spread. The daily papers were
but too eager for such a sensational tale
to spare any space in the telling. The
earl refrained from narrating the part
played by his false Mende; but in some
way the papers gained a knowledge ot
it; and that, too, came out.
This led to more talk of the earl, and,
little by little, the story of his sacrifice
for An unworthy prince leaked out. In
the end his character was not merely
clear of the stain upon it, but there was
danger, as he sardonically said himselas
that he would be prematurely converted
into a saint.
He did his duty religiously by his wife,
and retired Irani the public gaze for a
short time afterwaed. He made no pre-
tense of mourniog, feeling that it would
be hypocrisy to do so; but he was glad
of the chance to bury himself at Aubtey,
in. order that he might compose himself
for the further task eat upon him by
Erne' and aamitted by himself to be the
rightcourse.
"And must I, to please you, do as you
have bidden me?" he asked.
"You must do it to satisfy your own
honor, my lord," she replied. "How long
since is it that the Earl of Aubrey's
honor needed a mentor?"
"Since my brain was bewildered by
your witcheries," he replied.
She shook her head.
"A love that would drive out honor
could be no love at all," she said.
He looked at her as he would have
gazed at a deity.
"It shall be as you say," he said. "I
will follow your orders, though to do so
were to carry me to my grave in unhap-
piness. You are rigat, Erna. I will ad. -
mit that I believed you to be. But I
warn you that should my deliverance
come to me, I will seek you, and nothing
shall keep us apart. Why, should I ask
you to speak the word,e' when I can read
theta on your heart? Erna, my dear
one! You shall bo my angel for good."
He eaugat her hand before the could
draw it away, nod carried it to his Bps.
He held it there a moment, and. then
turned and left her, She watched him
until he turned again; then she waved
her hand, as if to bid him farewell; and
resumed her own way.
The earl returned to the Castle and
was met by a servant, who informea him
that Lord Moreham awaited. hini in the
liarary. He was rejoiced. Somethtng
must be done at once, and Lord More -
ham was the pmson to consult with.
His Lordship had evidently been he
formed of the important fact which had
just been imparted to the earl, for he
was marching up and down the library
in a state of great exciteraent. Indeed,
he was so perturbed that he lost for the
time his asve of his prospective son -in -
"Aubrey, Aubrey!" he cried, "what
is this Gertrude tells me?"
Aubrey became cool in proaortion as
the other wita excited. It often happens
AS • 411,
Otto Kiessig, a journeyman plumber,
of Great Falls, 'Monte out of the pro-
fits of his businees purchased an auto-
mobile! When he took to riding to and
front his Work, just like a bloated aris-
tocrat, there ensued. trouble With Ids
union. Otto thrashed the secretary, and
offered to do the same service for any
others 'doming forward. The Plumbers'
Union, however, fined Otto $a5, and now
Otto walks to and from the scenes of
his toil, lt will be interesting to tote
how the ethical question of a member
owning and using an automobile is dis-
posed of by the union.
The President of tbo Leah, Fag,.
Health .Congreee stated the other dey
that the deaths from taberealads
England plat Wa1e.4 in 1007 numbered
42,000. Great as that is it h not entea
osar terie-thitti of what it was; in .1851.
Where there were 100 deethe from the
diessee in 3d13 there were now only 45.
That 14 tirvini. Om, Of the swat:,
deplored the leek ef intereet in remits -
tam. It was lamentetble, ho saia, "to sc
ehildren in a filthy Wed even verminous
eoudition 'Wang Ought Tennyeon ana
i'•hakeRpeere instead of liew to kcep
themseivee -clean"!
At Aubrey he spent his time in riding
Selim, and In haunting the places made
dear to him now by Erna's love for
them. He found it easy enough to draw
many things from his housekeeper; and
he sometimes smiled sadly as he found
himself rejoicing in the doinao of the
madcap giri,es
He remembered the time. when he eon-
demnea sueli .things,.and when he repell-
ed the siveet,. girlish confidence which
Ita,d been so franIsbe .offered to him. lf
he had not been such a self-satisfied dolt
at thatliine. he told hialself, Erna might
now be la, las sidealielping him plan the
many reforms in the ornadition of his ten.
ants, which he now saw-. were sorely
needed:"
eas '
His repugnance acs returning to Lady
Gertrude grew with his sosourn at
Aubrey, .where all the aseociations
renainded him of Erna; but
when the time fixed for his
return came, he did not hesitate, Some-
how it seined to make it easier to- think
of Erna; and he often wondered at the
great change which had come over her,
and which had transferred her from a
wayward, willful hoiden into a woman
BO calm and self-contained that she
could command his violent passion by
her very silenc,e.
Erna had not entered. the *gay world
of London at the opening of the season,
btit had taken advantage of the formal
period. of mourning to remain in retire-
ment at Rotnley.
Lady Gertrude, howaver, had thrown
herself headlong into the swirl, and was
already, in the absence of her more be-
witching rival, the reigning beauty. Her
romantically interrupted wedding with
the earl had served only to make her an
object of greater interest; and even at
far away Aubrey the earl heard of her
social triumphs.
Down in his heart he hoped, when he
heard of the eager attentions of the inen,
that she would find some one of them so
superior to him that ho would give him
his release. But no word of such a thing
came to hint; and at last he was fain to
set out for London, to once more lay hls
name at her service.
At another time he would have con -
dewed her conduct as that of a co-
quette, but in las eagernees to have her
find another mate, he overlooked that
now; and when at the club the first day
of his return to town'young Montague
said to hint that he had just come in
time to save his bride, he only asked,
with hardly concealed eagerness
"Why do you say that?"
'Oh,' answered young Montague, with
a laugh, "the Earl of Rockingham is
making .despeaate love In thaa quarter;
and it is said he his made a bet o± tWO
to three in hundreds that he will got her
from you,"
It should have mortally offended him
that any man should dare to make such
a bet; but lie outwardly. shrugged his
shoulders, and inwardly hoped the earl
might win his bet.
In other ways, now, he began to hear
of how Lady Gertrutle was exertieg all
her powers of fascination. to keep the
most eligible men at her feet; and 'his
heart leaped with the joy of the hope
that she was making ready to refuse
hint,
"1 was foolish," he said to himself, "to
have come' to teem. Perhaps if I thad
given her more thee she might have
forestalled my renewal of the of fer of
my Inane."
Then it occurred to hint that Mie might
merely wielt the pleasure of rejecting
him with such a ittornt of scornful Words
as he now knew she was capable of. It
was With snch a hope in his brag, that
he Went to the Morelia:A mansion in the
afternoon of his arrival in town,
Ile MI Lord Morehatn, arid was reel, -
ed With en .effusive eerdittlity that gave
"If Lady Gertrude told you that the
unfortunate woman to whom I was mar-
ried, and. whom I believe ddead, is alive,
eke .has told you no more than the,
truth," he answered, neither lightly nor,
flippantly, but indifferently.
• "It is an awful thing, Aubrey I awful!"
Lord Morelisem groaned, "You should
have guarded against such ft. thing."
"It would have been better," admit-
ted Aubrey, rather bnpatiently. "But
the only thing I could have done to be
snore sure than. I was, would have been
to kill her myself."
"Of course," said his lordship, "I don't
lnean to reproach you. But.coulder my
position! Everything ready for the
Wedding, and the announcement must
be made that it is off."
It occurred. to Lord. Aubrey that Lord
Moreham, was treating the matter as if
it was something akin to a horserace;
but it WAS•110t beenUSe he did not feel
;seriously enough about it.
"Loth Moreharn," lie said, "1 eau see
but one proper way out of the affair.
It must be made clear that Lady Ger-
trude is in no nutorier compromised by
the turn affairs have taken.'
"But how? How? If you could see the
state she is in. Nobody can do anything
with her,"
"My suggestion would be," said Au-
brey, with no very good grace internally,
but externally without a sign of die.
favor, "that you should say frankly to
the guests thitt I had been martied
abroad, and lata Supposed my wife dead.
But that she has unexpectedly appear-
ed in time to prevent the wedding.'
"Well," said Lord llortbam, who hal
been thinking of the sanae thing, but
had not had the courage to propose it,
"11 you say so."
"Certainly. It does not matter to me
What thsi gossips see fit to make of the
story."
"Of course not, But ebout C4ertrude2"
It WAS that that Most troubled his
lordship. His daughter had let fall .some
very trouble -provoking words tenant.
ing the future intentions of the earl.
"Well," the earl rubbed his chin. "it
-*tents to Inc that under the &emit -
'stances it will uot be improper to say
that my ltrife is dying; and that, after
deeent itderval, 1 shall tome to Maim
Lady Gertrude."
"1 suppose," said the (tri, a little ift6r
She bowed aer head, but did not
speak.
"When we last net there was' some
heat of anger on your part, and you at
that time, laboring under a misuaprehen-
sten, I think, gave me My dismissal."
Again she merely acquiesced. Her face
was absolutely a closed book.
"Had. it not been for your words, still
the fact must have remained that in the
existence of my wife, there was a barrier
between us"
Once more a bow of acquiescence.
"It was a situation I greatly de.
plored," he went on. "For myself, I cared
nothing. I have borne the misrepresen-
tation of the world in silence for a leng
time; but for you I felt a respohsibility
which caused me to say to your father
that I deemedit my duty to hold snyself
bound to you."
"He told me so at the time," she said,
briefly.
"In order to keep your right before
the world, I afterward gave my whole
wretched story to the world."
"That, too, I know. I understood why
you did it."
"Now I have come to renew to you
my offer of marriage, a sufficient time
having elapsed to render such an action
not unseemly. Will it please you. to
become the Countess of Aubrey?'
A Bowel Medicine
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Two. Remarkable CaSe3 Described
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He asked the qaution, and waited
anxiously for the question. Lady Ger-
trude seemed in no haste to give it. For
a moment she cast her eyes down, as if
to hide some expression she could not
control: Then sho loolced up at him
out of her cold, blue eyes, and ans*ered,
slowly:
"Lord Aubrey, I have listened to all
you wished .to say. In your turn listen
to me; but first let me ask you o ques-
tion to which I request a frank and
full answer. Do you make me thia offer
in good faith? Do you intend to abide
by my answer?"
"Your question is surely needless," he
replied, as icily as herself. "I offer you
my name in good faith, intending to
abide by your answer,"
(To be continued.)
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e Pills three times a
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The Fly on Mr. Gladstone's Nose.
NO GOLDEN SPIKES IN THIS.
Yet it Was a Record Breaking Piece
of Railroading All the Same.
, just forty years had elapsed on May
10 since the rails of the Union Pacific
moving westward met the rails of the
Central Pacific moving eastward at Pro-
montory Point near Ogden, Utah, t rd
the first transcontinental railway ars
completed.
When Thomas Durant of the Union
Pacific, and Gov. Leland Stanford, cf
California, drove the last spikes in the
first continent girdling line on May
10, 1869, es whole country, says Les-
lie's Weekly, was metaphorically look.
Ing 0ng
Things were very different forty
years later when, without any golden
spike, without the presence of any of
the principal officers of the company,
the last rail on the Paoifie Coast ex-
tension of the Chicago, Milwaukee and
St: Paul railway, now known as the
Chioago, Milwaukee and Puget Sound
Railway, was laid at a point two miles
east of Missoula, Monte just before the
5 o'clock whistle blew on March 81 last.
There was no celebration of any kind,
and the only speech was the remark of
the contractor to the foreman, "Bill,
that's a good job." The length of the
extension just completed from the
Missouri River to Seattle and Tacoma
1 remember once, says Harry Furniss, is a trifle over 1,400 miles and brings
the total mileage of the Chicago, Mil-
waukee und St. Paul Railway up to 9,-
000 miles. The completion of the new
line was turned April 15, 1906. No Paci-
fic Coast line of any railway and no
line of equal length orossing three moun-
tain ranges has ever been constructed
'within the short period of three years.
During this period 60,000,000 cubic
yards of material have been excavated,
260,000 yards of tunnel driven, twenty
miles of bridges erected, and 200,000
tons of eighty-five pound rails laid at
a total cost of $85,000,000. The ballast-
ing of the new transcontinental line
will be completed about June 1, 1909,
and regular freight and local passenger
Service will be established thereafter.
The new line as far west as the city, of
Butte, Mom, has been in regular opera-
tion since ,September, 1908.
4••
Minard's Liniment Cures Dandruff.
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OHURCH FROM OW BOAT.
Home for Sellers on the Nellie Coast
—How It Wait Fitted Up.
It would be difficult to find greater
oddity in church architecture then the
Smetana Bethel, ou ltattleenake
close to the port of San Pedro, off the
coast of taalifernia. 14 le the deeayea
and weather beaten hulk of airuld ship
that ueed to ply the oath seas. Becoming
unseaworthy, it was beacaed, made fast
with cables and traneforined into a
church,
The Seraneras Bethel is 8 MISSiOn
ehurch maintained for the benefit of the
sailors that come into San :Pedro harbor
and of the fishermen of Rattlesnake Is-
land. All the machinery and seagoing
fixturee have been removed front the old
hulk and the rooms anadthips that used
to open into the englae eooin have been
umbined into the assembly hell,
The after deck late been boarded in
and transformed into a reading room.
Tables and chairs, with many beaks,
magazines end newspapers, give the
place a homelike appearance, and here
the sailors of the Seven Seas, with hu-
man derelicts from many lands, °owe -
gate in the afternoons and evenings to
and out what is going on in the great
world.
Really the Seaman's Bethel is a eort
of institutional churea. The after part,
of the hold hes been fitted up as fl,
autosium. Here Also Is a bowling al-
ley, and in another corner are bathtubs
and a water heater, Another part of the
hold is fitted up with bunks, waere the
sailor who finds himself "broke be,
tween voyages is made welcome to spend
the night—or as many nights as he
pleases.—Prom the Kansas City Star.
in the .Strand Magazine, when I was
giving a lecture on "Portraiture, Past
and Present," and illusteating the por-
traits on ntlals with the aid of a lan-
tern, I came to some near the bottom
of the screen. "Here," said I, "we have
the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress of
London, 1300 A. D." At that moment,
the Mayor and Mayoress of the town,
who, for effect, I suppose, had come in
O quarter of an hour late to .the seats
reserved for them in the centre of the
hall, walked past the rays of the lantern,
and were, of coarse, shown on the
screen, and, as can be supposed, caused
an effect that had not been anticipated.
On another occasion a fly woe an of-
fender whilst I was giving a lecture,
with the aid of a lantern. I was show-
ing some portraits of Mr. Gladstone in
my entertainment, "The Humors of Par -
1 seas telling my audience,
as 1 pointed to the pictures on the
screen, that one moment he looks Ake
this, and set another he looks like that,
when, there was a, great burst of laugh-
ter. I proceeded to speak about Glad -
stone's flashing eye and. noble brow, and
by the time I mentioned something
about his aquiline nose my andienee
seemed in hystmics. Thiliking that by
some mischance the wrong picture was
being thrown on the screen, I turned
round, and was at first horrified to see
a gigantic fly apparently walking about
on the nose of the Grand. Old Man. It
appears that the fly had got into the
lantern, had been caught between and
was being rea.gnified a hundredfold on
the seteen.
The Cook's Fault.
One of the most' annoying things
about awana is that they live to an ex-
tremely great age, and that it is im-
possible for the ordinary- observer to
guess what their years may be. elsresi-
derit Grover Cleveland Otte had all
amusing experience 'With some swans,
according to a writer in the itatierican
Magazine. Ito had been in the SOlith,,
shooting, and brought home a number
of wild awans," tine of which he sent to
each member of his Wallet, arta to
.some other assoeiateg,
"All the boys," said Mr, Cleveland,
"thanked me politely for having remem-
bered them, but, none .of them seamed
to have much to say about how they en-
joyed. the birds,
"Carlisle, I fomind, heti- his cooked on
a night when he was dining out. Ati-
other, when I asked him, said. he hoped
I wouldn't mind, but he had. sett MS
home to his old mother. Thurber Malt
Mention his bird at all for two days.
Finally I asked hint about it.
1 'Thurber, alit you get that sWan all
right?"
"'Yes, tit, oh, yes, I got the mean ail
right, Murk you,' and he bent over hie
desk and gushed Very busy.
"'Vine bird; I said.
"'Yes, sir, line bird,' and he %lint On
""r'llilifo'y eating him, Thurber?' •
"Ile waited a minute, and then he
Bald, 'Well, sir, I guess they didn't ccok
hint right at my house, They only took -
en him two days,' and he went oft Work-
ing Withotit erackieg amile."
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How Sparrows Cattle to New Zealand.
Tho Register publishes the following
paragraph quoted from its issue of
June 23rd, 1859: "It appears from the
New Zealand papers that the country at
particular season is invaded by armies
of caterpillars, which clean off the grain
crops as completely as if mowed by a
scythe. With a view of counteracting
thie +plague a novel importation has
been made. Mr. Brodie bas shipped 300
sparrows on board the Swordfish, care-
fully selected. from the best hedgerows
in Ragland. The fooa alone, he informs
us, put on board for them cost al8.
This sparrow question has been a long
standing joke in Auckland, but the ne-
cessity to farmers of small birds to keep
down the grubs is admitted on all sides.
Mr. Brodie has already acclimatized the
pheasant, which is abundant in the
north,"—Adelaide Register.
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"TRE MAPLE LEAP FOREVER."
1.
In days of yore, front Briton's shore,
Wolfe, the dauntless hero came,
And patented firm Britannia's flag,
On Canada's fair domain.
Bare may it wave, our boasa our pride,
And joined in love together,
The Thistle, Shamrock, Rose entwine
The Maple Leaf forever!
Chorus.
The Maple Leaf. or emblem dear,
Tile Maple Leaf forever!
God save our Ring and heaven bless
The Maple Leaf forever!
2,
At Queenston Heights and Landy's
Lane.
Our brave fathers. side by side.
For freedom, homes, andL loved ones
dear.
Firmly stooil and nobly died;
And those dear rights which they maintained,
We swear to yield them never!
Our watchword ever more shall be,
The Maple Loaf forever!
Our fair Dominion now extends
YT0711 Cape Race to Nootka Sound;
May peace forever be our lot.
And 'plenteous store abound;
And may those ties of love be ours
Which discord cannot sever,
And flourish green o'er Freedom's home,
' The Maple Leaf forever!
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Impure, weak blood is the cause of the
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She had no energy, was very pale
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As the usual remedies given in such
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neighlmr began givlag her Dr. Wil-
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WHY NOT SPLIT THE DIFFERENCE?
A cook informed her Boston mistress
that she was apt to be married. The
mistress was genuinely sorry, says
Judge, as the woman was a good cook
and steady. Time passed, however, with-
out further wora of leaving, though the
happy -mast -to -be was a frequent caller
in the kitchen. The other day the mis-
tress was moved, by curiosity to ask:
"When ore you to be martied, Nora?"
"Indade, an' it's niver at all, I'll be
thiekina mum," was the sad reply.
"Really? What is the trouble?"
"'Tis thus, mum. I won't meaty Mike
wben he's drunk, an' vhen he's sober he
won't marry mei"
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"I wish you svotadn't interrupt me,
Mamma. Re proposed that we start in
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"Think of the glories of anciebt Rothe."
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At the beginning of the present yeat
the population of Australia Vas 4,216,-
009,
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These Pills are sold by all medicine
dealers or will be "sent by mail at 50
cents a box or six boxes for $2.50 by ad-
dressing The Dr. Williams' aledicine
Co., Brockville, Ont.
The Greedy Post Office.
Some idea of the quantity of tpatericl
used by the postal service ma be
gained. says the National Magazine,
when ie is stated that during last year
the division furnished 925,000,000 yards
f twine, 3,260,000 pens, 283,000 pen-
holders, 650,000 pencils and 2,600,000
blank ear& To wrap the bundles 5,-
400,000 shoots of wrapping paper were
used; Blank forms are furnished by
the millions. Of the form "'Application
for Domestic Money Order," which is
seen in the lobby of every post office,
there were 161,770,000 used last year,
and during the same period 69,034 rub -
bel stamps were manufactured and sup-
plied to post offices.
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Swedish Peat Bogs.
According to the latest stetisties, the
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capable of producing 10,000 millions at
tons of air-dried peat, suitable for fuel.
This quantity, its eompared with the
firma import of coal, wotial be Suf.
ficient for a period *20,500 yeita.s. More
exact examinations aof the geological
eharacter of the peat bogs will soon be
stertea by the Swedish Geologioal So-
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ISSUE No, 87 1909
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laridges in the Way,
The development of the traffic of the
Allegheny River is eahl to be serleuelY
interfered with by the character of the
bridges spanning the streane. It ap-
pears that the several bridges between
Pittsburg and Allegheny have different
clearances above water and most of
them are too low for the full develop-
znent of navigation, now that the regu-
lation of the Allegbeny River has;
reaohed an advaneed stage. An effort
is now being made to have the Govern-
ment take oome action with the object
of remedying the conditions, and the at.
tention of tate Seeretaxy of War lues
been called to the matter with the hop,e
of uouring some relief, The situation
is somewhat complicated by reason of
the fact that sal the etrueturea are own-
ed by private corporations.
On merry England's far-famed land
May kind. heaven sweetly smile;
God bless old Scotland evermore,
And Ireland's Emerald Tile!
Tben swell the song both loud and lond,,
Till rocks and forests quiver,
God bless our King and heaven bless
The Maple Leaf forever!
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SENTENCE SERMONS.
Ifoping far much in others is helping
them to it.
Every shadow in life is evidence of a
sun somewhere..
Lifting little loads helps a lot more
then describing big ones.
The only powers that know enjoyment
are those that find eraployment.
The only way to move a mountain to-
morrow is to take a pielca,xe to -day.
Your faith is not measured by your
appreciation of the fatate of others.
Good intentions in sowing tares will
not make them come up es wheat.
Big words in the meeting do not make
up fa short weight in the market.
The home is never brightened by the
roseate hues on the end of a nose.
The straightest roan to heaven is that
one. on which you can do most good.
Tite more man you put into religion
the snore religion you will give men.
Too many think they are saints be-
cause it makes them sod to see a ebad
happy.
He who does not preach with what he
is will never prosecute with what he
says.
The dead saints are the only good ones
according to the canon of negative vir-
tues.
No man WhO ever knows anyhhisig
about heaven except as he tries to make
some One happy.
Some have a hard time picking out a
car to heaven because the lower berths
seem all to be taken.
There is no such a possibility as find-
ing righteousness for yourself while ig-
noring the righte of others.
You can usually tell where a snanas
sceuples will break out when he wages
his conscience in his pocket.
Henry P. Cape.
Litelmoy Soap is delightfelly rofresmag for
bath ot Tonot in hot weather. For Washing
Underclothing it is unequalled. Clesuises and
purifies. 1.,
ICEEP THEIVI AT ROME,
(Goldwin Smith.)
Wk are muh obliged to the English
journal which proposes to get rid of all
the pnuper infante byseuding them
here. The remark might sound rather
malthusian; otherwise we might say
that the best way of getting rid of
pauper infants would be to abstain from
bringing them into the world. A man
surely has no right to bring into the
world beings whom he cannot support
and throat them on the community.
Malthus ttuty have been rough in the ex-
ratssion of his views, though the blame
for this rests, it is believed, mainly on
his disciples, but it is difficult to deny
that he is right.
Doetoe—It isn't :settle tO go to sloop
on an ezepty stomach. Patient —1 dee't.
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BAD laEWS PQR OUR DOCT6RS.
"Ana now that you are through eol,
lege what are you going to do "
shall study mealeine."
"Rather crowded profession already,
'mit it?"
"Can't help that. / shall study medi-
cine and those who are already in the
professoin will have to take their
chalices, that's all,'—Boston Transcript.
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He Answered It.
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.A. party of young men were camping,
and to avert annoying questions they
made it a rule that the one who asked a.
question that he could not answer him-
self had to do the cooking.
One evening, while sitting raund the
fire, one of the boys asked, "Why is it
that a ground -mune -el never leaves any
dirt at the mouth of its burrow?"
They all guessed and missed. So he
was asked to answer himself.
"Why," he said, "because they always
begin to dig at the other end of the
hole."
"But' one asked, "how does he get
to the other end of the hole?"
"Well," was the reply, "that's your
question."
BETTER THAN SPANKING.
Spanking does not cure ohilorai of
bed-wetting. There is a constitutional
cause for this trouble. Mrs. M. Sum-
mers, Box W. 8, Windsor, Ont., will send
free to any mother her successful home
treatmont, with full instrutions. Send
no money, but write her to -day if your
children trouble you in this way. Don't
blame the child, the chances are it can't
help it. This treatraent also cures adulta
and aged people troubled with urine dif-
ficulties by day or night.
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DEFINITION OF A DIOCESE.
When the Right Rev, Ethelbert Tal-
bot, Bishop of Central Pennsylvania, was
in London not long ago his fame as the
"cowboy bishop" brought thousands of
young boys and girls to hear him speak
wherever he went. In one of his talks
to the youngsters, he held them spell-
bound by telling them of his diocese in •
Wyoming, which was more thickly pop-
ulated in the old days with bears and.
Indians than with Christians.
When he was finished with his descrip-
tion, he asked the children if anyone
knew what a diocese was. One bey
promptly raised his hand.
"What is it, my lad?"
"A diocese, my lord, is a body of land
with a bishop on top and the clergy un-
derneath," was the answer."—Philadel-
phia Ledger. %
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GETTING BACK.
"Captain, what time does this boat
start?"
"It starts, madam, When I give tam
word."
"Then I've always had the wrong idea.
1 thougat it started oaten the engineer
pulled a lever or did something. Thank
you ever so lima,"
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A FRENCH CRITICISM,
Sir Charles Wyndham, at a dinner,
discussed the leanness of actresses.
"It is odd," said he, "but the thinner
an actress is the greater she is likely to
become. To be thin, somehow, is to be
artistic. Look at Mande Adams, Ethel
Barrymore and divine Sara!'
Sir Charles laughed.
"Once, at a reception that Mme. Sara
Bernhardt gave in Paris," he said, "sho
led us all up to admire a new portrait
of herself. It was a beautiful work.
'Very thin—she hardly weighed five
stone in those days—the actress in it.
gold -colored gown, posed sinuously, a
huge white dog beside her.
"A Freue*„.h critic steit.._led us all, as we
were .grouped about the picture by ex-
elaimmg with A loud. rude laugh:
"'AM A dog and a bone!""
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alike McGinu(SistleNeVeaSSS.) being examined
for jury duty Its a murder trial.
"Mt.- McGinuis," asked 'the" jildga
"have you formed or expressed an *pins
ion as to tile guilt or innocence of the
prieoner at the bar?
"No, sir," replied Mike,
"Have you any conscientious ticraplee
against eapitel punislunentr
"Not in this case, your honor," Mike
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