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The Wingham Advance, 1909-12-23, Page 6orine CHAPTER 1 1. Daidel Gordon, the old blacksmith, was juet beeinuing to wonder what de- tained Notizie, when the girl put in an appearstime. For the first time in her life she did not enter with A gay laugh or a burst of eong ori her lips, though he notietel that she looked very happy in a. thoughtful Sho way. same up to lain and. timei itini on the weather-beaten cheek, as she had been wont to do ever since she bad been a little child, but the red, laughing, girlish lips soanewbat lacked their usual warmth and fervency. se, iseeorine is tryiug her best to look happy," he thought, "diet see itt secretly worrying over the heavy :told poor Joe contraeted on the night be brougat her home, riskIng hie own. life to save hers. He kept up until he heartt my velem and knew assistance was at betutle then he knew' no more until be opened his eyes and found himself safe iri the warrn lit- tle satting-room of our cottage. His first thought on returniug to conscious- ness was of Norine. `Is she eafe'e he whispered, in awful terror, I shall never foiget the joy that overspread his white, anxious face When I answered, 'Yes, my lad, and she owes her life to youem Norine's usually vendekt tongue was silent for the first time as they walked Jong the snowy xoad homeward to- gether. There was nothing to warn him that the girl by his side, whom he loved bet- ter by ear than the apple of his eye, wee keeping her firet secret from him. Clifford Carlisle had exacted a prone ese from her that she would, not mention to her grandfather, or indeed. any one dee, that they had met that afternoon, or intended seeing each other the fol- lowing day. Norine was eo much of a child, so unsophisticated in the ways of the world, that she quite believed it the jolly lark that he represented it to be -to beereme well. Acquainted, and then opting that fact upon her old grand:pax- ants, who always deelexed most em- phatioally that she :should never knew any young man but Joe. "It would be the richest kind of a joke," Carlisle declared, gayly, and, looking at the matter itt the light in which he pietured it so laughingly to her, it was no wonder artless little Nor- ine fell into the trap set so cunningly for her thoughtless, unwary feet. Even the old grandmother noticed how proemed Norine was during the fru- gal evening meal, "Grendpa, what cart be the matter with Norine?" she exelairaed, thought - aa the old people sat by the kit - :ohm fire long after the girl had picked '1'eseeseandle and gone to her little der the eaves. "She talked so y that I had. to lay down my ese and look •at her itt wonder." old blacksmith looked at his wife a innile of amusement. "Norine is ya eleild," he murmured, softly., them after looking meditatively into the glowing coals for a spell, he asked slid- . clenly: "What was the little gal talk - in' about that gave you that notion, Betsey?" "She wanted the Woks let out of her lesel-diettee that it might oeme -down to the floor, instead.of to her shoe tops, as it does now; and I've bean svortderin' and evonderne what, could, have put sueb a thought into Norine's heed." After knitting a few momenta silently and energetically, she went on: Inc remlnd.ed me that she was quite sev- enteen, so you See, grandpa, she is not so much of a obilic1 as you think. I was just N,orine'e age when I saw and. fell in lcive with you, Daniel." "Why, 'bless xay soul, I believe you are right, Betsey. It was so very long ago I e'enamoet forgot about it -we've been growhe old together so long. Lit. tie Norine seventeen! I cannot com- prehend it; she seems no more than a Bttle tot of seven to her old grandad. Aye, it teems only yesterday that our only son put her into any arms as he lay askin' me to allus look after theande-and,---" The rest of the sentence was drowned in a heavy sob, "Don't recall that scene, Daniel- donet," 'whispered Betey, huskily. "Let us talk of something else. Is there any news in the village? 1 don't hear ane sinee Joe has been laid up tet home with that heavy eokl," &lm exe,laimed, anxi- ous to divert hie mind quickly into an- other channel. "Yes," he answered, "there's a good bit of travel over the new stage line t'hat runs from the Black Beer Mine through here to Spokane; it's emended °eery night. There's some pretty rich camitalists going up to look at the new nei•ne. Oh, yes, and there's *another bit of information. I saw th.e stranger 'who gave Norinethe.fiftysdollar bill for shoe - Ii 7g his horse, and 1 inside him take it back and give an honest worker'e price. The straaager that Norine has been 'Temkin' so much about in her sleep." "He asked about Norine, and I gave him to understand that I wasn't pleas- ed at his Inquirin' for her, I don't like his Igoe, nor his ways, nor his sneerin' tongue fer that matter," "What is he like?" asked, the good wife eareleeely. She was not in the least interested in the stranger, but it was better to lead, him on to talk of, think of, atything else than their dead only boy. "Look like?" repeated Daniel, thoughtfully; "that is just what 1 have been tryieg to settle in my own mind ever einem I laid eyes on him to -day, and, by gracious, it just comes to me now. He is dark and handsome, like - well, do yon remember that handsome villain that held up the stageeoaches hereabotite and robbed 'ern $o audacious. Iy smne twenty. odd years op? They afterward caught the elinp and trong him up to the limb of a tree.; that end - M hia career. We heard the report af- terward that he had. left a little boy, and that the lad had been adolfat by zone weal -to-do people, or something of that kind. 'Well, this chap- has just those features. I'll never forget him as saw hint mbengivd to the old hickory tree." "13ut who is the young man, and where is he etoppire?" asked Betsey. "I don't know, au' I don't (ore. "aefeten likely he's some wealthy man go - in' along with the rest to invest in the mine. All the interest I take in hint is to keep him away from Norine "What nonsense, Daniel, to imagine thet he hoe given one thought to our Norine. Ureat gentlemen fell hi love with their own kind," "Noe aline, Betsy," he muttered, thouAlitfully, "Not allus." Then their eonversatiou drifted around to Joe (as 11 alwaye did after Norine hitel left them for the night) nd the futureeeeilviehig with melt other as to irhele they slieuleli tell their dealing of the yonng utem's devotee, patient love for her, and the hope he hat long stow tentfided to them, that one day he hoped to make little Norine bit britle, if he eould win the treasure of her love, and they were willieg that it should be so. Eiteh had taken one ol the young man's halide and kieeed it reverently, whispering to him that his desire was theirs as well, and that they count go down to the grave, which could not wait much Mager for them, alt! So hap- py, if they could but see N'orine his wife. They talked of Joe's prospects, and how hard he was strivieg to Win a, name anaa position to offer their derling. "it is so bard that he lute been taken with this heavy cold, keepinghim to his bed at this particular time,' , ivinerked the old blacksmith, anxiously. "This is the sv-eek the great sum of money comes to bis express offiee to pay off the mia- ere, and there is no on.e whom he eould tribe; to take it over to the miues-no one he would dare tell about it save you and. me, and Norine." "I did not know Nortne knew about it," said Betecy, "Yes, don't you remember him sitting hexe the night before the storm a-tellin' us about it? Norine was listening, too, fur she remarked: 'Aren't you afraid to have so much money about you, Joe?' and he answered, 1 would be, if people knew I. was to carry so much money over ou the stage to the mines a week from to -night, and, to tell the truth, I have swill a strange presenthuent about it, that I haven't been ableto sleep well nights since I was informed that it was to be shipped liere and placed in my charge. It is such a great sum -a great many thousand dollars! "Joe is far from feeling well to -night, but, Heaven bless the plucky lad, he is going to get up from his sick -bed and take the stage over to the Great Bear mine to -morrow night to deliver that money in safety to the miners, Ah, Betsey, if 1 wasu't so old, and infirm a men, l'd volunteer to go in Joe's stead, poor fellow." The fire was growing Iow in the kit- chen grate, and, finishing up his mug of home-made eider, while the old wife took her cup of tea, they chatted a few mo- ments on the one subject so dear to them -their beloved Norine-thea took up their tallow dip and sought their rest, pausing a moment at tbe girl's door as they passed it. There was not even the faintest sound from within, and the good old woman murmured: "Bless the child, she is deep in her beauty sleep, Daniel." But Norine was not asleep, though her eyes were elosed tightly, carefully reign- ing slumber in case they should, enter, as they often did, and bend. over her with their candle and kiss her. Sleep would, not some to the girl's eyes; her conscience was troubled. She had never kept the slightest thought up to this time from the dear old gond- father and grandmother who she knew loved her with such devoted love. Mr. Carlisle, the hendsome stranger, had won from her the promise that she would not tell of their meeting, and that she was to see him on the morrow. oth- erwise, how glad she would have lsen to tell her grandmother all the delightful things he had whispered into her ear, and how he had asked her if she had ever had a lover, and if she would like one. Even as she recalled his Words, and the thrilling glance that accompanied them, her cheeks burned and her heart beat tumultuously in her bosom. How different he was from Joe -awk- ward, plain Joe Brainard -and she won- dered how she could ever have thought Joe nice, and pleasant to talk toe -even missing him if he did not come to the cottage to talk to the old. folks of a winter evening. How she wished Mr, Carlisle would soon come to the house. She was more than anxious to hear what her grand- mother would say of hiin. Norine had not dared question ber grandfather as to his opinion regarding the handsome stranger. He always had something unpleasant to say of every young tnan except Joe, his favorite. Then her girlish thoughts drifted into a more pleasing channel -the longing for the golden morrow and the delight that awaited her in meeting sabdsome Mr. Carlisle again. His last words had been: "I shall dream of your sweet face again, Norine. Will you try to so fix your thoughts upon me as you drift off into dreamland, that you will dream of me?" Norine did not know what the smile on his face meant when she answered "Yes." That night was the happiest that beautiful, hapless Norine was ever to know. . se: "How am 1 to ever thank emit for veining to keep the appointmeut, Nor. Met" lie said, "X had been fearing that you regretted promising to come, one, alt! 1 wee AO ilOWII•heftrted over it, for I eauld tot hear the thought of never seeing you again! 11e pretendea not to Hott(t!. the gee confueion or the blush that metaled her pretty cheek, tallsieg on, end so geyly, that by degrees situ gained her •usual composure, and the pawer of voile blo epeecie Ile did not ask ithout her history, be. lieving times wee nothing to tell, mid in- deed there was not, for NorMe kneW nothing ot her own strange story. It had not as yet been told to ben to darken ber youthful spirits and happh mese. It bad been known only to a few pece pie in Hadley, and, etronge to say, those few hod left the village yeers before, or had died; thus there was no one Save her graml parents and Joe who knew pended almost solely eiTeell these iefhlen° that Norine was in any -Ivey related to the old recluse wile lived in the great stoue house at the end of the village. The truth had been unfolded to Joe when he had asked for Norine's hand, but lie was boundby a solemn promise not to divulge it to Norine. "L don't want the ehild's head, turned with hopes that she will inherit the Bar- rison wealth," her grandfather bad told her, "for I know she will be cut off without a cent; she will not be clisap- pointedeif she is not expecting it, bless her poor little heert, and she will live her life through without knowing what she miseed, and be the better and lum- pier for having the truth withheld. from her." Joe concurred M this view of the mat- ter. Perhaps there was a fate in this, oth- erwise Norine might have confided the story to Clifford Carlisle as they talk. ad, together oil this eventful afternoon, when she told him all that she believed there was to tell concerning her unevent- ful life. .- "Are you happy here, little Norine?" he asked. ,taking the girl's little band hi his and looking down into the depths of her blue eyes. "Do you never yearn for a brighter, gayer lifer "Some times," the answered, looking thoughtfully away over the -eirite, snow clad hills, Adding, "but whht's the use? I shall never leave Hadley. I sup- pose I shall live and. die, here. "What a dreadful future for one as young and joyous as yourself to leek forward to,' he murmured, compile- sionately. "I - I cannot bear the thought. If I were you, I should .be tempted to fly away. What do you say to marrying me, Norine, and going when I go." She looked at 'him with great, start- led eyes. "I don't ask you to decide all at once, Norine" he said. "Take plenty of me thinktoti it over; but mind, as you value my love and wishes, do not mention one word of what I have just said to any human being," "Would I have to decide -ioon?" fal- tered Fforine, treinuloidely. "You shall have a whole fortnight," he answered. "By that time you will have seen me so often that you will know whether you care that much for me or not. "As for me," he went on eagerly, "I know how much I think of you now. I loved you pmssionately, desperately, front the first moment my eyes rested upon Tow sweet faet. I felt in my heart then that I had mei my fate, the one girl on earth for me -that I must win you if I could, and. If I failed, that .there was one thing, and one onlygf or me to do." "Afid what was that?" murmured No - rine, anxiously, timorously. "Shoot myself," he answered, drama- tically, with a wave of his white hand and a very well emulated deep -drawn sigh. Norine uttered.. a scream of fright. "Oh, would you do anything so hor- rible as that?" she gasped. "Why not?" he replied, hi a voice that sounded as though it was half a sob. "What has a man to live for if he fails to win the girl he loves?" "Do you care for me so very much?" cried Norine, wringing her little hands in anguish. "You have seen me only three times." "Love is born in an instant; it is not a paint of slow growth," he answered. "You ought to know at this moment if you love rue." .He waited a moment for the words to take effect; then be went on 'softly: "If your heart has gone out to ole, you have thought of rao constantly since last we met; you have dreamed of me by night; you have 'counted the hours -ay, the moments, until we should meet again. Have you done that, Nor- ine?" "Yes," faltered the girl, trembling like one of the dying leaves above her head. He went on in words as eloquent as they were beautiful to her untutored eat's: "Then it is as it should be, Norine; our love is mutual. It is cruel to ask you to linger so. long in the bitter cold talink to me, but to other opportunity is offered me. I fear if I should go to the cottage and ask to see you, that boon would be denied me. They might even go so far as to keep you at home, aprisoner, as it were, uhtil left the vicinity, that I might not spoil Joe's chance of winning you, my peerless Nor- ine." "Indeed you are mistaken," she de- clared, earneetly. "Joe has no such thought. 'We are only friends -friends from childhood up." He laughed a little sinister laugh, "I wonder that you out really believe that," he said, slowly, adding: "I am sure lie would have been searching for you by this time, if he had, not been confined to his bed by the severe cold you told me about." "joe is siek in bed, but I have been expecting to see him pass every mon:tent, for he is obligea to go on a long journey to -night, ill as he is." z z zz "It nrust be a 'Very important matter that would cause him to get out of a siek bed on such a night as this is des- tined, by all appearmiees, to be," he de - elated, "It is important," replica Norine, and, scarcely knowing just how it bad hap- pened, she found herself unfolding to the handsome stranger the coufideritiel inissioli that was to be kept -such a Vital ederet-that he was to- have a large sum of ninety about hirri to take to the officers of the Great Bear Mine, to pay off the miners. CHAPTER VII. It was long after midnight ere Nor- ine fell asleep that night, and when she did drift off into the mystic: land of dreams, she dreamed of the handsome stranger, whose dark eyes had so thrill- ed her heart, and whose dazzled smile had so bewildered her senses. All the next morning Norine was so absent-minded that Grandma Gordon loue..ed at her more than once, won. dering what had come over the girl, and what she could be thinking about. Ahl how troubled she would have been had she but known. To Norine, the hours never seemed to drag so slowly along as they did on this particular day. They crept along leaaemfooted. Noon eame at last; then .slowly the red sun- shine driftea athwart the western win- dow. "Norine," exclaimed her grandmother, starting up front lier knitthig, "I had no idea, it was so late. It is time for you to go to fetch your grandpa, my dear." The girl turned away qtlickly, that the dear oia eyes 'might not .discern the sudden flush that arose to her face. Very quietly Norine donned her red hood and jaeket, and fairly flew from the house. For the first time in her young life she had forgotten to kiss 1:er deer .01:I grandma good -by. With palpitating heart and winged feet Norine flew swiftly to the trysting place. As she tinned the bend ie the road she NW him peeing restlessly up and down under the leafless brandies of the old eyeamere tree. I/ow handsome he looked in his great seal overcoat and the seal cap resting BO jauntily on his crisp, Clerk curling bail.. No wonder little Norine's heart beat tumultuens- ly as she beheld him. There were few girlish hearts that handsome 'Clifford Carlisle could not win if he those to talso the trouble to do so, eaught sight of Norine quite es soou as she saw him, and hastened ,for- ward to itteet her, holding out be* Of his hande to her. "Are they not afraid to truet this fel- low with so grettb a ',Mint" he queried, adding in the next breath,: "Row mirth did you say he was to take?" "No one AVOUld feiie to trust ever& life itself to Joe Brainard; he is tie honest as the sun. You inuet know how he is trusted, when he is the only one whom they will permit to take the thirty thoustud hi eaeli to the mine." Clifford Cerlisle bit his lip deeply to keep bask the expression of eurpriee as the aineuot fell from her thoughtlese lips. "01 couret he takee the a o'eloek etage overt" he remarked, with ilkonetaied eagereets, (TO be eontintted.r Lame&ck just the..Sort of Case Thet Proves to the World That the Boit .Liniment Ever Made Is .NERVILINE Whern it muss to determining the .1.1‘)J] straightforward statementof some re- liable anti well known person thet has beelt eured. For this reason we print the verbatim statement of duan le. Pow- ell, written from hie home in Carleton, "I am a strong, .powerfea mau, six feet tall, and weigh uearly two hundred. I have been accustom. e11 all miy life to lift great weiglit, but one day 1 over- did ft, and wrench- ed my back badly, gvery tendon mid, musele wan sore, To stoop or bend WAS agony. I hod e wito e bottle of Nerviline *ebbed on lit one, day, ana by uigat, I was well again. know of uu Iiniiuettt posseseing 000 - half the penetration and pain -subduing properties] of Nerviline. 1 Inge its us., Aron& as an it:vale:61e liniment and household cure for all minor aliment:a such as straine, sprains, swellings, neu- ralgia, • seletiem lumbago, rheumatism and inuscular pain," No better medicine- for euring pain was ever put in a bottle. than Nerviline -over one million bottles used every yeer-better try it yourself. 250 or five for $1. At all dealers or the Catarrho- zone Company, Kingston, Ont. se - The Pleasure of Bossing, Mr, 5-- offered a young colored men 15 cents to eut the grass about bia home. Returning a few hours later Mx. 5-- saw the darky whom he had hired lying in the shade of some trees watching another detky eut the grass. "What's the matter, Sem?" inquired Mr. 5-. eeettwthine .sah," returned the negro, placidly. 'Vim just happentel along and done offered to take the job offerirsy hands, and 1 'lowed he could do just as well as I could, sale" "Oh, it's all right, Sam. T suppose you are making something off the deal, aren't yon?" Mr. 5-- queried, amused at the lordly air of Sam. "No, sah," replied the negro. "I done tole that Jim I'd give him two bits (25 cents) to cut that thar gram" "Two bits!" exclaimed Mr. 5-, "Why, Sam, you are an awful fool. That is 10 cents more than 1 am going to pay you,, "Yes, sah," Sam reioined, amiably. "I knows dat, sail; but T. eitle'late it's wurth 10 cents for me to be boss for a whole afternoon, sah."-TTarper's Maga- zine. Letter No. 4769 BABY'S OWN TABLETS A LITTLE LIFE SAVER There is no other medicine for little ones as safe as Baby's Own Tablets, oi, so e,ure, in its beneficial effects, These Tablets speedily cure stosnach mid bowel troubles, destroy 'worries, break up colds, thus preventing deadly croup, allay sim- ple fevers, and bring the little teeth through painlessly. Mrs. 0..A. Weaver, SankateheWan Landing, Sasec., says: "I have used Baby's Own Titieets far my little pro: in eases of colds, stoma& and bowel troubles, and other minor eil- nrents, and ba.ve never known :him to fail hi speedily metering thc rbilci's health. I think there is no medieine for babies like the Tablets]," Sold by medi- eine dealers or by mall at 25 cents a, box from The Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. • * Henry Gladstone's Courtship, hfre. Gladstone is well known to be wrapped up in her husband and his car- eer. He was 47 when he first met Miss Paget He became Home Secretary soon after their marriage, and though he is in print perhaps the most abused man In the Government he has to those Who know him personally both charm and humor, a 'glad eye" and a delightful singing voice, He has an extreme rev- erence for his father's memory and gave Ip his wife for her engagement ring the sante great emerald circle that the "die 0, M.' gave to his wife when they be - cane engaged. -From the Bystander. KING, YHE GLOBE TROTTEI2. Left Montreal Oct. 23 at I p. in. to walk to Vancouver, '2,896 miles, over the C. P. R. tracks, wearing CATSPAW RUBBER HEELS. King passed Port Arthur, 091 miles, Dee, 14. When -will he reach Vancouver? 113 prizes offened nearest guessers. Contest is free to all, Each gue;ss given a number in ordrr reeeived and prize list mailed. Prizes mailed free to winner:4. Guless on a poetal eterd. Write plainly. Address, Dept, A, WALPOLE RUI3BER CO., LTD., Montreal. •4* Minard's Liniment Cures Diphtheria. Following Orders, Charlie -What have you been :Ming to your face, dear boy? Percy -I tried to shave myeelf this morning. Charlie -What on earth for? Percy -The doetor told me that I ought to take more exereisees-Illustrat. ed Bits, Mtnard's Linitnent Cures Distemper. a • *- Serves Him Right. Mae, 8. --What is the greatest punish- ment that a man can receive for big - env?" Snetrier-Two mothers-in-law. - tatted Bits. Tho ordinary price of sand Ana gravel is said to range front eight cents to $1.50 a ton. Gravel for roofing or other ape- cial purposes iney cost flei a ton and sem. cial glass sands bring front $7 to SOG a ton. / 4.1•444.."•••• fineults of a Yesee Operation of the $smuli Holdings Ac, It is offieially deeliired that the small holdiugA net of ilkd has. es:Ivey. a great stintulua to the proveiron IIf email holdlitee by private land own. ors direet. The result of the first year's; work for the voieutr,e at large since the net came into operation has been that 53,585 applieutions have beeu received by county couneils for 173,601 neres; that 13,502 applications have lwen upproved provisionally as suitable: that the :estimated quan- tity of land required far the suitable applicants is 185,098 Acres; that 21,417 acres have been purchased, and 10,071 aeree leased; that the land aequired will provide for about 1,500 of the ap. Ovations; and that of 504 of them were in actualpeetoselon of their holdings nn December 31, 1908. Out of the approved applieahts about 34 per ceut. were agricultural laborers. It 'IA estimated that at the end of September of this year not less than 00,000 acres wits obtained, but few of the applicants desire to Purehase their holdings. Out of 23,295 applicationa received during the year only 029 or 5.7 per cent. ex. pressed a desire' to purchase. No doubt considerable land has been enpplied by land owners direct, nuttier ly through the intervention of eounty eounells, stimulated hy ths provisions of the aa, !: During 1008 there were in Devon and Cornwall 722 applications for 12,271 acres. The councils purchased 440 acres and leased 120 acres. In the southwest of England there are large areas of crown lands once under cull tivation but nosy neglected that will doubtless be brought baelt in the near pftottrutra.eto euitable and profitable huss Landry by the hands of the people.- From Daily Consular and .Trede Re. 70 Years Old GRATEFUL FOR MEDICAL AID "Though 1 had passed my seventieth birthday," writes H. A. Silvera, fre111 Duman le 0., "I am pail -411y aware that one of the penalties of eld age is the slowing (lawn of the activities of the system. One of the most dangerous conditions of old age is constipation, an indirect etteee of many sudden deaths. have used many medicines, •bit none so suited to old age as Dr. Hamiltmes Pills, They are wonderful regulators - keep the etomech Mid bowels et perfect condition, .preveat indigestion, billome oese, liver complaint and constipation. 1 recommend Dr, Hamillton's Pills because they never grip nor cause distress -jut a mild tonic. laxative," By tieing Dr. Hamilton's Pille regu- larly you have a guarantee of good health; e5e. per box, at all dealers, or The Catarrhozone Cm, Kingstoe, Ont. In 1920. The aerial sergeant: ifyoo saw the oollision, did you P" The aerial monoplane cop: "Yep. Oth- er fellow was all to blame. Pull of ozone, I faney." "Did you get his number?" 'Nope. Ile flew behind a cloud and hid in a bunch of mist." "You'd know his flyer if you saw it ?gain'?" • "Sure. It's a high gear Action with six flippers and a Zephyr exhaeste" e'Any passengers?" "Three musical comedy blondes and a vaudeville brunette." "Evidently a borrowed cer?" "Evidently." "Well, find the owner. I'm going to break up this high speed cerelessuess if liave to fill the aerial pollee station so full of speeders that they drop out every time the door opens. Get hesy," -Cleveland Plain Dealer. se, A druggiet can obtain an imitation of MINARD'S LINIMENT from a Toronto house at a ,ver,y low price, and have it labeled his own product. This greasy imitation is the poorest one we have yet seen of the many .that every Tom, Deek and Harry has tried to introduce. Ask for MINARD'S and you willget it. Alliterative Aphoi;isms, Marriage makes most men meek. Happy hearts harbor highest hopes. Weeping women are oft most win. some. Man, maid and moonlight make matrimony. Pessimists picture pleasures pernic. bus plagues. Divers dark deeds drive directly to divorce decrees. Love lights the lamps that illume the line of life. Saints, unlike sinners, shun society to s,eek solitude. Alimony alievates the ailments at- tendant upon altered attachments. - Life. tio you trap �r bey Furs? I am Canada's largest dealer, 1 pay high estpricea. Your shipments solicited, ay mail and ex- press charges; remit promptly. Also largest dealer in Beefhides, Sheepskins,ete. Quotations and shipping tags Bent free, 9 JOHN HALLAM, TORONTO TROUBLES OF TIM ANCItNTS. Penelope was bewailing the protracted absenee of 'Ulysses. "I might as well be the wife of a 'com- mercial traveller," she said, "and be done with it!" Heorning to avail herself of an easy divorce, she phiegedl deeper than ever in- to the pages of the Ladies' Home jour- nal for consolation. , 1 70 C li heais trw;iralTringisis..t.."? c.olgt cflts River Brought Him a Wheat Oro, Although lie is not a fernier and owns no farming land, Dr, George P. Penning. ton, Of Missouri Poilit, 111, will toolay thresh his wheat erop. The threshing will take plate in a strip of wooded bend whish Dr. Pen- nington owns. Ire expects to get about '250 bushels. The wheat floatta down to his grove recently diaring the high water. It eame so feet and from so nitiey different di- reetion that Die Pennington could not notify the ownere, 50 lie deeided to take advantage of the 111 wind whish bitty him es melt good. As soon de the tango of water pc .mitied the hired men to untangle tato sheeks from the slitub- bery end lay it mit to dry. It weei1 to bsexeollent grain -lit. Louie Ile - (15 1 111)) /41, ftJ) Li 11 43-7 og, E HALF TM T0114 of household work Is taken away when Sunlight Soap is brought into the home, F o r thoroughly cleansing floors, metal -work. walls and WOOdworR, Sunlight is tho most economical both In time and money. ) 11111••••1111111•11, Early Fuel Consumption. When steamers first came into use very little atteution was bestowed upon the oonatimption of feel, it .win not anti( the Cunard steamers were started crossing the Atlantic in 1840 that reli- able records of fuel eonsumption began to he kept systematically. The Wien- nia, one of the early Conarriers, used to make the run from Liverpool to New York in about 14 days on a coal con- sumption of about 4.7 pounds per hall- eated horse -power an hour. The mod- ern steamere do the work on about 1 1-2 pounds of coal a horse -power an hOU1`. 4 - • ottebotie soap Is deughtrany retrassine fol bate or toilet. For wasbing underclothing It 15 MieqUalled. Cleanses; and purifies. Handling Chicago Rubbish, A disposal service for the handling of material excavated at building founda- tions, building rubbish, ashes from pow - planta, et., is being operated by the Chicago Subway Company, which, owns et system of some 40 miles of small, deep level tuunels under the city of Chicago. Spurs are run to deep basements or to shafts where the materials are loaded into cars, which are hauled by electric locomotivee to a disposal station on the west. Wolk of the Chicago River near Madison street. Here there is a shaft, ever which are the runways for two electrio trolley hoists, each operated by a man riding on the machine. When' a ear is set at the bottom of the shaft, the body is hoisted up and run out over a hump scow moored alongside the sta- tion. The car body is lowered and the bottom released. discharging the con- tents ieto the BOW. The empty body is then run back and lowered upon the car frame at the bettom of the shaft. 7enr1, Watery 'Byes. Believed Murine Eye Remedy. Try Murtne For Your Eye Troubles, You la Like Murine. It Soothes. Geo At Your Druggists, Write For Eye Books, Free. Murine Eye Remedy Co., Toronto. Provision of Providence, Hubby -The old. saying is true: "It is only fools alio get mailed." Wifie--That's how Providence takes care of thein. Hubby -How? Wific-By giving them wives to look after theme-Roselea f. Minard's Liniment Cures Colds, etc. A Man to Their Taste, "I can't quite grasp your idea that the alderman in our ward was elected by Ration votes; he's Enlsh, isnlet he?" "Yes, but his name is MacArony."-- Boston Courier. 1*31.1.E O. 51, It309 EEAL ESTATE, 01/111~0,101/101/1" J'WILTON OW1'11.1110 10 GROWING MIT . -buy subloban lots While they are low. Btaildifilf, lets 96 X 190 for tie sad tunearde Terzus-s5, down and 41 per week. Write for bOoltiet A.-BuritO * Co., 201 Xing street eaet. MISCELLANEOUS, p art szu4fta ter to ODNTS BACH, 12 .01; packages containing 6 packages Ileeelea, amorted sizes, will give 1111E49. A DOLLAR .1NB: 141311CIT, Send 10 canto with order ono goods will be mailed at once. W. K. Stowat 25 aorta St.. Toronto. saBBr r011 SALE, Dorset Parn sheep Polle4 Qua Cattle Breeding Ewes end Ewe Lambs tor Sale Also Two Young Bulls Write for prices Fornter Farm, °Ovine, Ont. Highest of Course in Europe. The highest golf course in Europe is that at Maloja,, in the Upper Engadine. Tho course of nine holes, varying from 170 to 350 yards, is between Ifitioja and the pass which leads from the Engadine to the Lake of Como and cammands lovely views of the Silser Sea and the snoweled peaks; the hazarde are chiefly depressiens between the hills. The alti- tude of these links is About 0,200 feet above sea, level. The mail course at St. Morin: is about the same altitude, while that at Samaden, one of the finest links on the continent, is about 5,500 feet, the next highest being that of Montana, ithove the Rhone valley, about 5,000 feet. alaloja is an ideal spot for those who wish to be quite off the tourist track, and in a country like Switzerland it is not easy nowadays to get away from the crowds of August. The nearest station is ten miles away, at St, Moritz, -The Queen. A WINDSOR LADY'S APPEAL To Al! liVoracm: I will send free with full instructions. my home treatment which Postively cures Leueorrhoea, "Ulceration, Displacements, Falling ot the Wiltub, Pain- ful or Irregular periods, 'Uterine and Ovar- ian Turners or Growths, also llot Flushes, Nervousnese. Melancholy, Pains in the Head, Back or l3owels, 1Cidney and Bladder troublee, wbere caused by weaknesS Peculiar to our oex. You can continue treatment at home at a cost of only 12 cents a week. My book, "Woman's Own Medical ,Adviser," aloo sent free on request. Write to -day. Address, Mrs. /4. Summers. Box XI 8, Windsor, Ont. 4 - • • ThaVe Different. "May I offer you. this little gift, Frau- lin Kate'?" "Excuse me -I never take presents front men," "But it is °Illy a copy of my book of poems." "In thatease 1 will accept. I thought it was something valuable."-Fliegend Maetter, • 1* Mlnard's Liniment tures Garget in cOWs. Bitter Cold, A South Side num claims that the pad - tor of the flat building in which he lives is the meanest janitor an earth. "He never gives us half enough steam during ',he day," said the complain:ma "end et night the conditions are simply awful. Why, 1 frequently wake up and, ltear me wife's teeth chattering on the bureau." -Chicago Recovdarderade • • Conscience •doth make cowards of u* all for fear we'll get found out. --New York Press. sr,re,eLre1.,••• FREE TO BOYS This FINE AIR RIPLE, nickeled steel barrel, peep eights, polished walnut stook, shooting BB shot or darts with sufficient force to kill birds, squirrels, etc. Boys, this is the best Air Rifle made,.and we give it to you PUB for selling g boxes, only, of Dr. Maturin's Famous Vegetable Pills, at 250. a box. These Pills are the best remedy known in all memo of weak and impure blood, indigestion, stomach troubles, constipation,nervous diseases, Thomas, t I s %est% end yam tame and address plainly written, and we will send you 8 boxes of oar Pills and &Fancy Pins to give away, as a premium, with each box sold. When you hare sold the 8 boxes, ;tend us the money 82.00 and we will, immediately, send you this handsome Air Rifle. . We do not ask geny money before the Pills are Gold and we take beck what you cannot sell._ iddress---THE OR. MAW MONNE CO., llept 57. Tonto, Ont *.r.n...•••••NL 1 11/391 -'---- - - Everybody Who, Eats Bread Should avoid danger of impurities in delivery from the oven to the home. Insist on your b aker wrapping his bread in EDDY'S BREAD WRAPPERS We are the original manufacturers of bread wrappers now used by leading bakers of Ottawa, Montreal, Toronto and other cities. The E. B. EDDY COMPANY5 I Limited Hull Canada foot;i4 66.1 mot Tulin ...3,orrtur .11,4111;1,77.00.7./17,DOSZIC"L1-.C.A11M.11,14.- This is a fine, handsome, clear toned Violin, highly polished, richly colored' complete with otring bridge, throe gut strings, ebony finishpegs, long bow of white horse hair, and box of resin. Everything complete sent securely packed in a box. Justsend us 700t name and !Ware_ ,es and agree to sell only 8 boxes of Dr. Maturin it Famoull Vegetable Pills, at zee. a box. A grand rotriody and mire for Weak and impure conditions of the blood, hull. gestion, stomach troubles, Constipation, nervous disorders, diseases of the liver and kidneys, rheumatism, axid Female troubles. A mild laxative, Grand Tonto and Life Builder. Thee are 6%83,06(111as each customer buying a box °reins, from you, receives, at the same time, a nice fanoy Pin, WM.% we Bond you with the Pills. Do not milts the chance of year life. Don't send any money -Only your name and address, at once, airs we will promptly tend you by mail, postpaid, the a boxes of Pills and the PinS. When sold, remit to nit the $2,00 and we will send you this handsowto Violin, eto. just cut repreSented. Write to -day. Aticlress: THE DR MATO'RIN MEDICINE CO., Dept. 156. toRoNro, colt ••••••••••••••••••.•••.•morrorar.1*.k. HANDSOME WATCH FREE. . A nests 41r1.01•11 Sena Gold Watch *NO bore 1126 to $501 Do art throw part money *way. It you desire to Samar* a aton which to keep time and lost w,1t wiU be equal to any Ddlid Geld iWe,:ncalt.asgreitig wet* Youourittataboxemanodniadso.dreot bred 1.1ntimmediaturbatra Yaseetie Vegeleble at 250. a box. TiloY ern the greatest remedy on earth for Umtata ot poor end implant blood, Indigo/Mon, heObes, tionsti- pation, nervous ttrottbies, Jiver, bladder and kicIA My diseases, en till temele ive:akitossest 1110Y are the Oreat BlOp od Miler and Invigorator, Brand Ton -0, end Lite Builder. With the pins we oond artlates nf jewelry to eve away with the this Make% them sely to sell. Thle le the theme ;Ida watoDonedneytorkin sitztolt.i4bIttod Ms, buYOUtroptadil When you Ilave apId thorn, send as the money ISA aba WI wt 111.141 ett er MIMS WA:11'00 sn0 tihMa day ite money is receive& We ere giving WWI mild niWst.teheil EO adrortile our Iteraedisa This 1. sgrebe torbtinitir Se. oure ValrleVa without b rings° w 114 cent. An Otir We is Satire wind end Meet end not • ehsap StioS 'Wind artiete generally even se pterolMali. deed for out p1111 wttlioU. delat MA?17IN C.O., Weft* OW. 20 Tbreillia C12% ' A I34A0011 Or 111AA111101, t."•141,,1 -1r in, the Ow Danish Town °We Lima ally- Ate .0tir Way Thrsaigo the Tem Holidey Week," the spirit of Christume cheer tt aareoli A, "Vale -tide in the Old Town," fire Chrielanas "Century's • ease. - nig article. 1.1 ineltules 0 pletille Yldokide leading: When we were not dancing or playing *ewe, we literally ate our way wimp, the twoholiday weeks. l'estry by tne elki, wt, eat, and general indigestioa brooded over the town when 11 emergai lute the wbite light of 'the New Yeer. At any rate, it ought: to have done so. it It a prime artiele of faith With tho Dane$ to thie day that for any one to go out of a friend's house, or of anybody's Wiwi, in the Uhristmas Beason Without partaking of its cheer, is to "bear away their which no one Buret do on any account. Every house was a bakery from the middle of December until Oltristmas eve, and ohl the quantities of cakes we ate, and such mikes; We were sixteen normally in out: home, and mother mixed the dough for her cakes itt a veritable horse trough kept for that exclusive purpose. As much as asneit of flour WM in, 1 gimes, and gallons of molasses, and whaterer eiie went to the mixing. Vor weeks there bad been long and anxioue speculations as to "what father wcnild do," and gloomy oilier - eaves between him and mother over the \s‘ttitt,ittn. to.8f,ertrietfri•ti)nriiluy; irtekattiborootktlewljtoity.l.; rut :message ran through the house- from attic to kitehen that the appeoprintion hail been madte "even Mr enrol)," whieh meant throwing all care to the winds, The thrill of it, when we ehildrea seood by and saw the generoue avalanche go- ing into the trough! Valet would not mine of it? Thonaict,itt'111)0(..le atnuailbeecilittotheanduilhmeplii oakes pTeer ants," which were little squares of eake lough we played eards for and -stuffed ntr pockets wetle gnash ng them Inc s- eintly. Talk, about eating between ;eels; ours wes 0 continuous per fOrm- owe for two solid weeks. The pepper tuts were the real staple of Christmae .o us children. We rolled the dough in ong strings like slender male ami then ut it a little on the bias. They were rood, those nuts, when baked brown. wish I bed some now. It all stood for the universal Oesiro hat in the joyoum season everybody be nada glad. 1 know that in the 011 ,'own no one went hungry or c.old during 11es_eilyroloitii1;it,11'‘y;10,.eionfdle\e„hOltanhyeohnLe„vitelldid..:an me was afraid of pauperizing anybody >y his gifts, for they were given gladly tnd in love, and that makes all the difs 'erenee--eid 'then ami does now. At Chrietmas it is perfectly safe to let our seientifie prineiplei go an*t just remem- ber the Lord's eummand that we lovo one another. I subeeribe to all the set- entifie principles of giving with pf.srfeet loyalty, and try to practice them till Nristmas week come+ in with its *holly mil the smell ot balsam .end fir, am! the memorice of ebildhood in the Obl town; then -well. anyway, it's only a 'Ude while. New Year's and the long cold winter comes sonu ermine]. TWO SIDES OF CHRISTMAS - THE ILARASSED IIOUSETIOLDEIT'S 5I016. 01 ",Merry Christmas' people prow. I wish they'd do away With words so wholly out of dato In this enlightened day - '0t one like me, at any rate, Whose role It is to pay. :Are I am a otruggling num and poor, io whem Dame Is,rcune send:, toree Cabil enough w make secure Too inotr.ing of otto. 1.11.4; et cry on,ea\t; hon gh‘h, coooo mustsnh look -that's sure- ABut yet wieli "Merry" 'Christmas here - 1 11 b Lan.thos LolL, bednie, Which now, with one consent, flow near Iti never ceasing tide - A hundred extra claims appear Trutt will mot be dented. For faintly and friends, of ;verse, 1. Christman gins hey: met Christie= rare and trials, perform My ebeque-Look must st*ply; While "boxers," like the luck called "horse," 01 "ready suth me dry. And then, as emptier grows my purse, And (fares my soul oppress, I'm still expected to disburse With genial cheerfulness, Ann hrigances, whom at heart I ourse„ Nius4 make believe to bless. 'tie this that aggravates the won Of my unba;:py case-- Th.at without a cent, I still must show A smiling Christmas face, And feign to bo with ilve aglow For all the human wee. 00, sir -you needn't look severe, Ana turn shocked eyes aloft; I will my naked view make clear, Of all pretences dotted ; Though Chrietinno ecalcs but ones it year, That once is °nee tr.o oft. SCHOOLBOY'S SIDE. A "Merry Chet:Amen?" Yes? Great Sera? "Merry" is the only word; Thoturh gonty fossils say 'cis not, I nwcor their views absurd; Sueh fogeys talk the silliest rot That ever fellow hoard. Oh! Yes! It is a snlendid time; That cannot be denied - The games„ the fun, the dinners prime, That makes a chap'o inside Feel what the pools call sublitne; know it, for I've tried! And then the Chili -hues gifts and tips, With n pretty coudMay, who trips AT!:elito.'ahmtthyleostlItahurgolthe snow : And -bolter sult-her lnseions llps Ilereath the into( letoe. And etnying up to any bourn, And doles what you please. Per then the high doineqtle notvors Suspend their stern decrees; No ("loud on the horizon lowers, And no re_teletiono teavo. "Merry" Christmas. Aye! That's true; Though foscils may gainsay; (Poor (haps! Their livers make 'ern blue; 11 1' the livers way) 1 wish, yeti bet I do, 'Tw era lowase ceristmas nay. - Truth KEEPING 1HE SANTA CLAUS KYTH. It i$ not Ilea and it ie not necessary to derive children in odor to let them enjoy the Seine. Clans myth. Let them be told about him exaet y ae they are told about fairies ona hobgoblins. Then they will not be deceived. Children are :peek to eerno th. "4141:v -believe," and thoy enjoy it mete as it left at tbe nen-- - nften in et]. '111.1' need n i; hi t,thl bit Santa Clams ia only imaginary -such literaluess is wholly unneeeseary, Rua woom lie n imam 114 to tell it little girl that her doll' is not alive. The sympa- thmie pal mita look oda too:‘ 0 voie.! voough; 14111d knnv,4 to, anseenee. between • make-believe" end real, and will enter into the sph•it et the myth tie telt ita if San it Were iirer;;Mt ill the flesh. MN The ihl Will be 8.11mill he tlisappoittment nild shattering, oi ronfidelleo that otherwiee in vitibly eome to some, at leest, of threw who are lied to about Santa Clam 1, Ninny a growa up tend to -day Inn teetify to tit' setrow that was here when the truth :newt a Senta Clans wee first Menne, --Sunday In hoot Times. 'the pube:sliel. of Teleteirs aelle Xing:ben ef u3,1 with:o 1%." Was "111. teneed nf en Peteleburg to a yealee an- prisonment in rt fortmA.