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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1909-12-30, Page 61 , CViksiti ci The Sugar Tinst iramleein the 1-811141 Ntates (I0V111111tent tpi to itt• 1 hat mugar as well as "greaee" plae's an ha- peetant eole in politiee, The Globe hae a learned atthee on "Why Stale ISggea" Pertnipe, If 081 NM. tonseaary euquiree lL11L1I ly. it may distils a that mid eggs beeaum over -ripe beetmee they were held up for the per- poee of kiting ricee in the nealset. Pl'he resin ne from forty fie • (nen al State.; railway cainpanit s AlinW t 11.1 t total tarnisge for the elm en ineneae er the year hare hien over e thetheeteee year lima wae iscare in • lugs (eleven monthe) , :Semite:Nem. „The labor situation in (lawny le Mowing slight improvement, hat the uumber of idle workinen iA still very greet. ' Official reterne for Oetober show that the number tif applieante for eada out atudred vacant positione wee 43, ate eomparca with Hid in Oetober41 year Roo. The damage Anita brought by the suffragettes agaluet the tioverumeut for Sowed feeding during their "Integer strike" have been dismiesed, the collet properly holding Viet the offieiale but elid their duty. Ilow wouril it do to lotve the jail matron spank 1L1itrnute when they refuse to obey the rulee1 Childish evils deserve ebildisat tree -timed. si‘coording to Chinese law a foreigner eawnot become 1 itiwn of that country unless he has resided ten ynr hi the empire anti can give proof that he is of good moral character. A Chinese is not allowed. to alimulon his nationality if he 1ih1 un officeal poeition, or if lie Ines not paid his tuxes, es • es Frank .Gould is being sued by an ac- eress for breach of promise. The plain- tiff alleges that -while still married to his former wife, he became engaged to her, She asks 8200,000 damages for his failure to implement his promise. Aud some people thought Gould was a bus& neis man! Ile might have bought a whole chorus for half that money. Japan is becoming quite an import- ant consumer of Canadian wheat and flour. For the year 1908, Japan took from Canada 2,930,874 pounds of wheat, and 4,444,430 pounds of flour. The Jap- anese duty on wheat is 21 eents a cwt. and on flour 55e a cwt. Evidently the Japanese market is worth cultivating. William Watson is reported as telling Nev ,Yoekers that his poerree."The Wo- man With the Serpent's Tongue," was "physically inspired" by Mrs. Asquith. Whet will strike inen of honor is that the author of such an attack should be "pity:de:illy inspired" from behind with the toe of a good heavy boot, propelled by a. manly leg, to titre iihnself (nit of the society of decent men. The Attorney-Oeneral of the State of New York has taken action against the V13,000,000 Milk Trust that is taxing the people of the State and holding up the milk producers. The Trust pays far- mers about 31/2 cents a quart for milk which it sells at 9 tiente and upwards. It is proposed to liring criminal action a 'wit 90 known members of the Trust eels ee enalties amounting to 8450,000. Notwithstanding that it is not held in very high esteem by Europeen or Amer- ican medieal authorities, the Chinese place such a high value upon ginselig as to render it an important article of commerce. It ei said to be geld at al to 85 a pound, in Chili% grotesquely shaped roots bringing as high ae $50, they be- ing reputed to be of speeial eney. Th. eultivation of ginseng in the ITaitsel Statee is a growing industry. Jepan exports over tp00,000 worth annually: In floeea the giaseng induetty is a Gov- ernment monopoly. 4** * Lawyers are made the butt of so many jokes about rapacity that it is pleasant to be able to show that there is another view of the profession. The other day in New York an eminent member of the profession, Mr. Untenneyer, was assign- ed by. the court to defend a penniless Italian woman charged with murder. The Woman was acquitted, the jury be- ing convinced that she fieed the fatal allot in defence of her otvn life. The court allows Mr. Untenneyer a fee of $500, and it is known that he spent at least 61,000 in preparing the rime. On the woman being discharged, Mr. Das termeyer, it has leaked out, turned his $500 fee over to her. True charity and generosity have not yet ceased to be inanifeeted by mankind. A recent inquiry into the consumption of commodities in Great Britain shows that there has since 1885 been a large jeerer:get in the per capita eonsumption of raw cotton, coal, wool, pig iron and Wheat. The inereaee has been specially marked in the first, four items, Comments ing on it, the London Economist says; 'l'Itfs table affoide evidence that the coneumption of the four leading indus- trial materials used in tide -country has at least kept pace with the Inereasing population, and in two eases line gansn even more rapidly. The discovery ant development of vaet iron and mat re. sourcee in Germany awl the United States has; been the ellief hulled rial fee - titre of the cloeing yeare of the nines tomtit century, bur iu epite Of these t•ompeting eoureee leo have inaiatained the smellier, vide!' we avgnited when England monopelieed the vateld'e iton sled rend ilea's." L Sweet Norine "Veer absented !Caine never dream, ing what her unfortunate answer would lead to. Her companion had learned ell be eared tv know. Be had intended linger- ing by :donee's Ride until ha Was oblig- ed by the lateness of the hour to tear himself away front ha delightful pres owe; tillineenty he ehaimatt his mind. "it is too cold to permit you to re. main longer with me'great as tile joy of being near you Is to me, little girl,' he murmured. "Say that you will meet me here to -morrow at the same hour, Norine." 'L ant very much ;amid I shall not be able to come to -morrow," she answers set, "for to -morrow is grandme.'s hirtlo day, and all the neighbors; will be corn- ing to the cottage ell day long to see her. For that reason it would be diffi- cult to get away." 'Even for it few moments?" be asked, holding the little hands closer and draw- ing the slender, girlish form nearer to him. Norine shook her golden curls. ''It is best not to make a promise, and then be obliged to break it," she saki, thinking to herself he little knew what it hardship it would be to her to let a whole day pass without seeing "Then I shall surely see you the day after, Norine r. he questioned. "Yes," she replied, "I will be here," Oliffod Carlisle suddenly bent down and totiehed the lips that had never known a lover' kiss before; and. that kiss burned Norine's lips long after she bad left him. "Cold," she murmured, "How could any one think it cold? Why, my heart and every nerve in my body are on fire, throbbing as though the blood in my vales wore euddenlei tnirned to hot, strong wine." Meanwhile Clifford Co.rlisle had walk- ed rapidly in the direction of the Barri- son home. "Thirty thousand in cash!" he mut- tered. "Now, who will not say that the devil does not help his own?" Miss Austin was passing through the corrider as he entered. "Mrs. Benison was just asking for you," she remarked. "I was about to send up to your rooxn for you, thinking you were there. He did not look any too pleased at the intelligence. Clifford Carlisle liad not been under that roof a week as yet, still he had told himself long sine.e that the 'hardest work he had ever done was to dance attend - once on this querulous old woman. He could. not endure it much longer, even with the Benison millions in sight; CHAPTER 'VIII. "Have you any what, Mrs. Bar- rison wazts of me?" asked Carlisle, throwing off his sealskin coat, impa- tiently. "That is what I hear every hour in the day, it seems to me." Miss Austin laughted it sweet littlo musical laugh. "I should not wonder if it was to showeyou her new backgammon set that arrived an hour since. I—I may as well tell you a little tiny secret—the dear 'old lady is intensely fond of the gazne. In playing backgannnon she never real- izes the flight of time. She would play from itOW until midnight, ceaselessly, even forgetting that there is such a thing as meal time for herself or any one else." Carlisle groaned. "I see my finish if she were ever to find out that I understood the game, which, by the way, I have a great horror of," he declared, adding, eagerly: "Will you not come to my rescue in this affair, my dear Miss Austin? Say that I have gone to my room with it raging head- ache. Indeed, that would not be an un- truth, you know, for the very thought of spending half an hour over that most stupid of games renders me in that con- dition. Witco her to look for a martyr elsewhere." "If I play on the guitar for her that will cause he to drop to steep at once, and that would depnve you of her so- ciety the entire evening," she murmured, artfully, "Never mind me; do not consider me in the matter, 1 beg of you," he An- swered quickly, "To my mind, sleep is better than medicine for the indisposed. Play your guitar byall means, for this one evening, at least, and I shalt appre- ciate It, I assure you." Miss Austin blushed deeply. He had not said it in so many words, but she understood front his remarks that he hoped old Mrs. Benison would fall asleep that they might have a. quiet evening to themselves in the parlor. It is strange on what it light remark, falling from a man's lips, a woman who 15 desperately in love witit him will build her hopes. "I will try to have it AR you desire," murmured Floriee, and her heart beat with feverish triumph. She told herself that the hour was not far distant wheu he would declare him- self. Already she could see herself in fancy the wife of this handsome, debonair young man, the heir of the vast Benison Wealth, In. Clifford Carlisle she had raet her match—the one man on earth whom she could have loved molly, passionately, for hinotelf, if he had not had a dollar on earth—and while he seemed to admire her as all other men whom she had met did, he seemed in no great hurry to make love to her; and this annoyed her visibly. They dined together, alone in the big, bleak dining -room, as they had been aceustomea to do. But instead of Clifford Carlisle saun- tering to Mrs. Benison's boudoir, immo- lating lihnself upon the &Hay of duty bypassing the evening there, he went In- stead quiekly to his own apartment. Miss Austin lost no time in gathering her musk together; not bright, tunefttl, spiriting musk, but instead nrowse, dragging melodiee, that would have the soporifie effect of puttiug a persoit to sleep if anything could. But for the firet time sines the young girl had, been beneath that roof the old lady proved perverse. "Put down your guitav and talk to Me, Fierier," she exelaimed, petulantly. "I ani riot in the mood for Mtge ti- nted." Miss .Austin bit her lip, and a Attempt angry gleam came into her sharp, green - blue eyes that the long yellow lashes heel shaded AO well. "Shall 1 read the lateet magazine to you, ore -or would you prefer Hutt I should ring for Mr. dnilisle?" "Don't trouble youreelf to do so just. I let; he will some to me directly. You ' may rem' until he conies." Mies Austin read mail her throat ached. Mrs. Bateleon was slightly deaf, and she had to pitelt her voice in a very high key. -Read niere distinctly, fio that T fart fuels eetaset seen, IL'OU mumble your *Ode all together. 1 want particularly to hear OA review on Dewey's work at onnuenets that page ever lumen, Alla read slowly Juni very distinctly, please." Another page with quite tlui eame re - atilt, Bow could she reaa the tiresome old reviewe calmly, with her thoughte elsewhere? "You nuty ae, well stop right where you are," exelaimed Mrs. 1rrietui "You murder the king's Eughtsli itt a most shocking manner to -night. Are you tieedt" "No, detre. Berrien," she inurituMed, "but to toll the .truth, I hay° it very Annoying headache I had hoped it would pass away, but I find 1 ata doomed to disapPointinent." "You had better lay (IOWA your book and rest it while," mid Mrs. Barrison. "If Clifford doe e not come to me soon, you may ring for Esther to Ammon him here." Again Miss Awitin's lieert beet with silent rage, ' That meant that the quiet evening elle had promised herself with Cliffora Carlisle would begin and end tin her devastated hopes, A sudden thought .ettizie to her, One would force 'tide tantalizing old women to go to sleep, whether ahe would or not, She wondered that this way out of her difficulty had not occurred to her an hour before, Of eouree Clifford Carlisle was wait- ing for her down in the parlor, wonder- ing with all a man's impatience why she did not put in an appearance. Width the noiseless, gliding motion peculiar to her, Miss Austin crossed over to the cabinet: at the other end of the room where the medicines and liquors were kept. "Let me pour yon out it glass of wine, my dear Mrs. Benison," she murmured, "The night is so cold, it is even percep- tible in this warm room; I think it will do you good." ".As you wiliony clear Ploriee," replied the old lady; "I think myself somothiug stimulating would not come Andes. "Perhaps I had better give you it lit- tle brandy," suggested Miss Austin. "No, the wine will do. The brandy might make nae drowsy, and I do not wi41 to sleep; I have so mita to talk with Clifford about." "You shall sleep, and that epeedily, too, if I can haee my way about it," muttered Miss Austin, between her tightly shut teeth. She poured out the wine and the wo- man at the other end of the room did not see her add a few drops of dark, greenish liquid to it; but she did no- tice as she raised it to her lips that it bad a very bitter, brackish taste to it. "That is only your fancy, my dear Mrs. Barrien," murmured Florice. "The taste is in your mouth after the bit of bird you have just eaten." "Nonsenser exclaimed the other, sharply; "I say it is the wine. Pleese do not euggest that I could make it mita take about liquors.' "Certainly not. I hope you will par- don me for intimating such it possibil- Pet," Ate remarked, with apparent inii0- enee; but old Esther, who happened to enter at that moment, detected un- derneath her words a covert sneer. "I think I will take advantage of Bather's presence to retire to my room to rest a little while, as you advised it few moments ago, dear Mrs, Benison," •she said, gliding toward the door. Esther did not tell her mistress that instead of going to her room, she had distinctly heard Miss Austin going down the stairs, for they creaked audibly even under her cat -like tread. A moment litter she heard her turn the knob of the parlor door, "A liar is the last person on earth to be trusted," thought old Esther, who by this time had a most cordial dislike for the strange young woman, who seemed to do pretty much as she liked with her mistress. "What brings you here at this hour, Bather,' asked Mrs. Bunion, wondering- ly, for the methodical old servant's ba - bits were like clockwork. She had never been known to finish her supper dishes thus early and repair to her room "I thought perhaps you saw the fire, reendwo.uld like to know about it," she plied "There has been many e. fire in Had- ley during the last twenty years, and have I ever had enough interest in them to Inquire about them?" she asked, curtly. "No, ma'am—no " responded Esther, "but I happened to see this one its I was returning from the post -office with the mall," Old Mrs. Benison saw at °nee that Esther wished to talk with her of the conflagration. Perhaps it was the wine she had just drunk which prompted. ber to humor the old servant, "Was it much of a firer she asked, "and what was, it, a house, or a shoed" "It eva.s the pretty little cottage that you always admire so muelt from your window. The house where the young mo. ther lived who was teaching her little baby to walk." "Alit" exclaimed Mrs, Benison, her euriosity getting the better of her deep resolve not to allow any of the village happenings to interest her, "the mother and infant escaped of course." "Their lives were saved by almost a miracle, ma'am," said Esther, solemnly, "It appears that the young Mother was subject to fainting spells. One of these song same on suddenly its she was putting loge on the kitchen fire and she fell unconseiout, ith the dear little baby in her arms. Iler elothing caught fire and—and the place would have been 'burned to the ground, And she in it with the baby, if the dense Islamise had not been noticed by it g1—person who ehaneed to be passing; and at the. risk of this petsonni life, an enteetee was made through the blinding simoke, and the poor young mother and little in: fent dragged out itt the nick of thne, "I happened along just then and deed guard over the two while this person went into the burning building and ex- tinguished the flainee by numerous pails of water, though I called loudly upon the person to come out." "That was indeed heroism!" exclaim- ed Mrs. Barri:Kin, greatly excited over old. Father's graphie aces:mit of the oteurrence. "You meet fled out tvho the man With. I have a notion to reward suelt bravery. If I was burning in eh% 4?00111, Ether, who on earth -would risk his life to save int?" "Tide same person woeld, if—if the potion knew who you were." "Who is this, of whom you speak so mysteriously as that person?" "Meer I dare to tell you, ma'am?" tried the old servant, trembling WIth excite- ment. "('ertainly, 14:ether, spek right oat; r 11111 1131X10118 to biller: "TUN person was your discarded granddetighter, Neale*, nudaim" white gored Esther, 100 tAR I TO SPFAK For it moment hire. liarristm Motel) An Ai:00,404o Doctor Tells of tho •Grand Rcsuits Achieved tSli A rpHit fairly petritied, "Wise 1 done Wrong in telling you ma'am, Om you expresely forbade 1114, 101ig yews ego to miter mention the girrs Pam lit your pregencet" disked 11;8*1 11%itti fdrgotteu her very (Wet:num until it few ((aye ego, whoa her ileum Watt spoken in lay presence. Since that hour, do whet I would, I. .have not been able to benish her front my thoughts. 'The ace—es inIgine it nt mit 'look • —batten; Me, /Settler,' ' "Uod knows it ehould," thought Es -t ther, but she aired not give vent to this thotnelt in words, but said i» - 'stead et know it is an attlpossibtlity, but ohl how 1 wish you could see the young enehune it wetild do yoer heart good. The lass is so blithe and honey; site looks the picture of you when yell were a hies, 1 remember you well; your Itair was as bright as goldtheta. end your elieeks red es lily *taught" gut in her mistrees, sharply'', "I cannot, I will not, listen to another ward ou this forbidden selajeet- 'Hew dure you make so bold ae to purine it," el had hoped time might have soften. ed your Wert,. xiiiVans? replied old Fsdner, sedly, "tvlieu you come to res member • in yonr lonely moments that the girl, Norine, le the only human tie you , have on. earth—I must bare eay out, even though you turn ma frone your door this day- for etteringlt. Yon Itartioe strangers arounl you, who do votearea seep of their fingera for you, and are but to ttexkuis far you to die to ice what you .have left there; and tine young 'girl, your own flesh and blood, whe should love you if anybody on, earth would, hes never been Allowed to darken your door, I say it is it burn. lug shame, fria'aln, and yon ought te realize It. "Now I have sai4 all that has hen on my mind to say this many it year, and you ean do with lee as you like, A women who would turn her own child and her helpless little beby out into the, hardships of a, bitter cold night to live or die as God saw fit, could have little compassion for an old servant like me," • "Stop, Bather—stop. I cannot hear it; not another word. Leave me. I would be alone. I—I am not angry with you for uttering the convictions of an honest heart, I will ring for you If I want you. But stay, pour me out another glass of wine ere you leave me; my head throbs strangely, 118--118 40e8 my heart," Esther din as she was bidden; poured out the wine, but the moment bet' mis- tress put it to her lips she set it down quickly again, mutteringi "This does not taste bitter like the last. I knew there was something the matter with that; last glass of wine and I told Envies so, Ba- ther," she milled sharply, "I have taken' something that does not agree with me. - Give me RD antidote, quickly." Old Esther hastened to obey. Her prompt action saved tier mistress. She called no one to her aid, though Mrs. Benison grew steangely ill dur- ing the next few minutes, but in half an hour's time she was so relieved that she was her old self again. "Leave me now, Esther," she com- manded again. "I-1 want to think. As you pass afliss Austin's door, and that of be diyt:etuelribeeciw,,ntell them that I have retired. forthe night and do not wish to Esther never knew what promptee her to pause on the threshold anti look back at her mistress; ana as she saw her then, elle remembered ner all the after years of her life. Mrs. Barrison l4a4 smiled berself itt an armchair by the fire, and was lean - lag her head dejeettaly on her hands) gazing abstractedly Into the glowing sea coal fire, "Goodnight, and may God bless you, =fano" murmured Esther below her breath. "You have your faults, but be- neath it all you have a tender heart. I ean sure." Long after the door had closed upon old Esther's bent, retreating forte, Mrs. Barrison sat in the same position, gaz- ing into the fire—gazing fixedly, with- outseeing, "It is eighteen years ago tonight," she muttered, "I --I would give every • time drop of my heart' s blood to tom me back to that liever-to-be-forgotten night and live that one hour (which darkened all my after life) over again. I was mad. Yes mad I "I have ever since hated even the Die- ttiory of the man who took my treasure from me. It did not occur to me until old Esther spoke no plainly to -night that I slioeld not have let my hatred descend totroccalitr illdr,et4v.ho was not responsible for wha "I was the last, but for my child, of a proud old raee, who valued blue blood above gold; ana when site, niy idol, for- got the pride of her forefathers so en- tirely as to wed the village blacksmith, no wonder I almost lost my reason. "But years mellow all griefs, level all pride. What good are the ancestry to me now, of whom I was so prouds None whatever. If I sent for the girl whom I have neglected so long, they would not la her come to me. Indeed, she would not wish to come. 'What interest can she have in an aged grandmother who held herself aloof from her all these years, though in the same village? "No, they would not let Norine cross 4117 thre.shold. It is too late to make overtures of friendship now. But there is elle Way that I could retrieve the er- ror 01 the past, and that is by changing my Will—leaving half my fortune to -Cliffore, and the other half to the neg- lected Norine," Rising suddenly to her feet, Mee. Bar - risen crossed quickly to her writing desk, and, drawing a long, thin key from her bosom, fitted it to the compartment that was seemly* discernible to even a sertitittizing, searching gaze, this time revealing , as it opened to her touch e email steret dreeveas in which lay a fold- ed paper, upon which was printed, "The last will and testament of Frames Bar- tisoe," "Here it has lain for neatly eighteen years," the muttered, "all duly signed and witnessed—made out to my child or her heir; that would mean this Norine, How strange it. is that all these long years I have never had the courage to destroy this document, strong ns my in- dination •Wits t� do so?" Taking it over by the fire, ihe sat down. in her rocker and read it DVOr slowly. earefully, twiee—ay, and a, third time—to fully refresh her memory as to its contents. "The will I made yesterday, leaving everything to dear Clifford, would make thle one null and void," she tutnineted. "All filet it needs is the signature of the lawyer gad WittleaSell. It IS not WO late to give luilf of my fortune in the lad oue to the child nty daughter left., Alit if I could but see thisbrave little Norine, My ?matt cries out so yearn- ingly to look upon her nice that I cannot till its pleadings. 1 must, 1 will, gratify it. Ay, and title very night. 4TO be tol(tltriled.) Ile **At, etood on the bridge it tviIig1it .,o the game tirew neer its clinic Ili tri- umphant mood he Steadfastly stood ott the bridtm ef the ltaitImekle Bete ICallage city ,raurnai. Wfth "INcrvitine." "I bad 14 patieut ivith Quinsy tied 1 found great diffieulty 111 minims" etatee Dr. Wilson. "Every time he eattglit cold or got chilled be suffered inteiteely front sore throat; .14 n4d14eze3, throat and eliesit sureness, After ivery atsaek his Olivet end chest :teemed Rune tienel- Live. This petient lived in the ehllittre's and emilda't eolue to the eity for treat - 1110411, 1, etincluiled athat the best iem edy 1I'ou211 be en honest liniment, and treatise of ite enonuout sale and Well-known • merit, NERVILINCURESt .QuiNsty al Selervi aloretug, emus ed 'lieu:14111:A (INPerlvPiliSitilkeltI7dadsucreldittWitfliay°‘47- lilted with water ft was Ivied es is gar- e4ale, el it iduttipyroovreitit)Yeout.utty, anzaktnizt,yrepeoot tinning the ,treatilmut With NervIllne he Witacured. I can recommend Nervi - line 'for breaking un 410148, for:chest tightness, throat inflanunation; quieed, tonellitie and similet eonatione," Not 4 drill/gist or doctor Who lee ambled the forma e ult. Nervilille- Who won't tell you how ,good et. lee -why it - eontains the best medicament* know* ttt, Selenee 'and fee genaal family use bee est equal• p, vAT, cc al. Ki. • What It Mearie'to the 'IndiVidual end to theRa, Private hygleneit Is even Import-; aut, and meene 14 revolution in our habits of living, It means fresh, Ailepere peteally flowing - threagh helistIe ahdi mom of our, lives spent:MI.0km, rt meant; CelliniOn- 501150 iit diet—the avoidance of bolting -food, -frOzn wbleh dyspepsia springs, and the re*education Of normal food instincts, the avoidance of &WU-1y on the one side, and ,body starvation on the other, the avoidance of alcohol, the most potent of the pre- disposing eauees of tuberculosis, and the avoidance of dirty, infected milk and meat, It means the "simple life," free front over-exertion an the one hand, end Indolence on the other; the habit of normal sleep, and the emancipation front worry, In giving this prescription Dr. Tru - dealt once said to me: "It is as shnple as bathing in the waters of Jordan, and that is why people are so slow to fol- low it," Bet toelay people are following, and following rapidly. When they see a man, Who only a few years ago was so ill of tuberculosis that lie could scarcely drag himself out upon a porch, now run twenty-five miles for pure love of exer- cise, or when they see nive college men inside of half a year double their endur- ance through rational diet alone, or when they learn that ex -President Roosevelt developed from te weak and timid boy into the personification strength and courage, and that Camaro, about to die at thirty-seven, abjured all unhygienic: habits and prolonged his life to one hundred and three, they begin to realize the practical value of personal hyglene.—From Professor Irving Fish - We -rho War Upon the (-treat White Plague" in the September Century. - We &Have MINARD'S 1,rNim4NT is the best: Mathias Foley, Oil City, Oat, :Joseph Snow, Norway, Me. Charles 'Wheaten, Mulgrave, N.S. Rev. R. 0, Armstrong, Mulgrave, N. 8, Pierre Landers, sen., Pokemortche, N. B. Thomas Wasson, Sheffield, N.B, 11•104.1., 4.444.144•44400 OVERS'.120CleEla, • Madge, as the eldest of a family of girls, has evidently heard an4 taken to chart the disappointment of her permits over the excessive femininity allotted by the fates of the family quiver. - hen recently the fifth little da Wughtea was born, Madge was playing In the gar! den with one of her sisters, and es neighbor considered was decidedly rough wiIllttghee,c1401 11411 Aadt treat your little ;deter so," remonstrated the neighbor, ',You might kill her," "Well, it 1 did," was the cool response, "there's plenty more in the house.' 4 • Only One "13130M0 QUININE" Thal is LAX____„ TIVD B QUININ. Look for the signature of B. W. GROVID. tised the World over to Cure a Cohl In One Day. Mc. Shifting the Loss. Dittersdorte-Here come two evil -look- ing rascals. I shouldn't wonder11we were held up. Efeinz—I'm rth•itid sO. By the bye, here's that dollar yeti lent me this mon. ing.—Meggendorfer I31aetter. • et • • Minaed's Liniment %Sures Garget in COWS. 4 • SAILOR'S THRIFTY WIFF,, (NBW YORK s(rX.) Noah was takixtg the animals abroad, "Be sure the lamb is Persian," caw tioned bis wife. Herewith he realized elm was the More foresighted. Willman,' Soap Is denghtfuny refreshing fel bath Or toilet. Vor 47.hIng und,orelothing it Is Uneetialled, Cleanses and )urifiero • THE REAL LURE, (The Wasp.) English Girl --You American girls have not such healthy complexions as we littve, I cannot understand why our no. blemen take a fauey to your white feces. .Anterican Girl—It isn't our white faces that Attract -them, my dear; It's our greenbaeks. DRAGON TREES OF TENVIIFFIX, Giant Aspareette Said to las Thou*. antle of Years Olds The dragon trees of Teneriffe aro really a titmice of gigantic asparagus. tree, situated at Laguiue, the re- eltelastleal capitet of the tillahdo it &dad to he Emmett thoueend yeere Tb4 growth of these dragon trees is very olow and they throw out no brevets Os Until thee iteve bloeeeineds whirls sel- dein take* Owes nefore their fifteenth • Year and. soltietnnee not until their thir- tieth. Thee oldeet dragon tree known ia the islandewen that at Oroteva, 'which was et least 6,040 yeavs 94—m0 boteniste say 10,000... It Was about ably feet high, with a 'trunk forty-eight foot in -drown- ferentee.at Dui base. The ancient WINK- • tants of the !eland, the Guanchos, per. • formed their religious rites in its, hollow truuk. • • Iu 1667 the upper part of the tree was broken off during a dorm, and though every effort was made to preeerve the re- minder it gradually decayed therede new no trece a it lat. The sap of the tree, a resinous seb- .stanee like. thuds treaole„ is vatted drag- • Men; hloo& t btoomes brittle aud ram- bling when dry. and is !Mt 'Article of eoinnuiree used in medielue. There are •other kinds cif 'dragon trees itt different Mitts of the, %oriel, but sale particular • spetiee ie peculiar to the Oenaty and • Cape Verde Islioads.—Frote. the Wide World Magazines FARMER TELLS INTERESTING STORY P.•••••F•••••,• • Whether SW( or Waite in Good • Weather or In Stormy, He is -Obliged to Work Always. • Market people complain about prices they have to pay for farm produce. They foreset that rain or shine, warm or eold, the farmer must keep at it or else the narrow profit, hie bare living, will be lost for him, A well-known Hahlimand farmer., Mr. d, P. Pelletier, writes: "For near- ly three veers I was in poor health, A drenohkg storm eaught me in the fields ana wet me to the skin. I got home only to find I was threatened with inflammation of the. bowele, I never got over it and felt weak and heavy and by system never worked quite right, But a farmer has to work—and. I found myself going down hill with stomach, liver and kidney troubles. Failure eeerned to follow everything. I remained wretched and sick until advised to use Dr. Hamilton's Pills. It is not easy to describe the sort of feeling it sick man gets wheu he strikes a medicine that he °en see is doing him a lot of good. I was overjoyed—Hamilton's Pills put new life into me and everything work- ed right. Since cured with Dr. Ham- ilton's Pills I baven't had a single symptom of stomach, liver or kidney trouble. I am free from headaches, languor and weakness, as strong, ro- bust as a man could be." No better medicine for general family use than Dr. Hamilton's Pills. They are mild, healthful and certain to cure. Sold In yellow 25c boxes, all dealers, or The Catarrhozone Co„ Kingston, Ont, 4 SPURIOUS QUOTATION, In concluding a disquisition on plaglar- an English writer mentions as some- thiug worse the fabrieatiou of spurious quotatioes, He quotes In illustration it story of Samuel Warren, who once took paet in a debate during which Roebuck boasted that he was not it party man. "Warren rose and said that 'my learned friend's boast reminds me painfully of the words of Cicero. "Be who belongs to no party is presumably too vile fOr any." At the conclueion of the debate Roebuck came over to compliment his adversary on having made a successful his, adcliug: et am fairiy well up in Ci- cero, but 1 have no idea wheve I can find the passage you quoted.'Neither have 1/ said Warren, 'Good -night." • 4 • * - BETTER THAN SPANKING. Spanking does not cure children ol 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 sueeessful home treatment, ,with full instrutions. Send 310 11101185', but write her to -day if your children trouble you in this way. Don't blame the child, the chance* are it can't help it. This treatmerit also cures adults and aged people troubled with urine din fieulties by day or eight. REVISION IN ROME. (New York dun.) Ceesar was revising the °mender. "So the janitor still know when to be- gin being polite," lie explained. Titus be filled a long felt want. seta, • • All." 1110h6 -C. Lire voi.orrraci„:naou,!,iso.cu.ro.s colds, checnatiz et • • He Would Get Away. Wife—Dewed if you And I were thrown on it desert island, what wottld you do? Husband—Thank heaven, I can swine —Fliegende Matter. fled, Weak, Wears., watery Eyes. Relieved BY Murine Eye Remedy. Try luturitte For Your Eye Troubles. You WiltL1ke Murine. It Soothes. 60O At Your Druggists, Write Icor Eye Books. sPree, Mitring ItlYe Remedy Co., Toronto, ••• THE WICKED CADDIE, Among Mr. Carnegie's innnineraele Scotch stories is one About a online of St. Andrew's. This eaddie's wife—so Mr. Carnegie's story runs—Was much troubled by her busband's loose way of life, Ho could never have it good day ou the links but he must end it with a wet eight at the Went. So, to cure him, the wontan lay Itt Wait on the road one evening dressed in a white sheet. Whee her Inteband appented she roe° front behind a hedge, en awful white fig- ure, with outspread arms, "Who the dent are your asked the in- temperate eeddie. "Pm Auld I•lickie," mild the figure, In a hollow voice,. "Gle's a shake ot yet hand, then," said the tipey coddle. len Married tite 44 sister o' pima, She'll be wattle' for tie Hp at the hoose, an' nee doot abed' mak' ye Weleome."--St. Louis Globe -Demo - nett. DEMORALIZATION. (114ce11enge,) "What Inakte that parrot so profane?" "Well, mum," anewatid the stillot man, "I &pose It's part my Wilt. ItIvety time t hear hint Speak a bad *writ, it makes me 50 etWul that lie gets a atilbee to- learn lot of hew ortee," • NO. ti2, itiii , • 11 41411.4011 11411/A1IO is coinwiga rmre -11-14. -.440 7.401104.11 lots 'while they ars Building lett- x 100 tor 111 sad eederdw Terins..45 :Sown aeo 51 per MOik. Write for 140100 A. --Burke Ca., 204 Iftzts street east, nftscal,—Asitgous. ser HOUSE CLEANING inStead of being •a MOo-. tenons drtulgerY becomes e labour of love when Sunlight helps you Remember—Sun- light does all the WOrts, at half the oeSt and in • half the time of other • Seeps. tr. 41.101.4•••••.,1,...6•00•1 .M.••••• • MUSHROOM roisoNING. •Symptoms and Treatment—Flute to Obeerve ' in Gathering Edible Fungi. Considering the frightful •ronaequences of gatheriug and eating poisonous mush. rooms lo mistake for the edible variety it in little shoot of marvellous that a pereoe without knowledge should dare to go into the fields and woods and pick - and eatany of the fungi growing there. If you are thoroughly familiar with som eparticuler variety of edible mueln room ane can distinguish it at sight from ell others, itoWeVer dinner ba celor and form, it Is safe ta eat that particu- lar variety; hut you must beware of other kinds that resembie it, for bew- are)slight the difference in appearance one may be edible and the other poi- solu; T e is no absolute rule for distill - es guishing the edible front the poisonous kinds, and 114 ±8 better therefore to give no general rules, but to follow only one. Suspect every mushroom which you do not know positively to be edible. To this rule perhaps may be add.ed a sec- ond: Learn to distinguish the white spored agaries and avoid thein all, for altliouoli there ta an edible species it re- quires an expert to tell it, and the poi - eon of another species is deadly and there is no known antidote for it. • The chief poisen itt mushronia are two in number-- musearin and phallin. The first of these produces symptoms re- sembling those of alcoholic intoxication, followed by convulsions or paralysis, collapse aed death from heart failure. These symptoms come on soon after the mushrooms have been eaten. In poisoning by phallin the symptoms do not appear until several hours after the meal. They resemble cholera., be - glinting with severe abdominal pain, soon followed by vomiting, purging and collapse. In all cases of mushroom poisoning vomiting should be induced as soon as possible, and a large dose of castor oil may he given to hasten the eliminatiou of any as yet unabsorbed portions of the mushroom. Stimulantare needed to support the heart, anti milk containing an abund- ance of magnesia or bicarbonate of sodium may be given. Injections of a salt solution into the veins and—in ease of musearin poisoning —hypodermic injections of atropin are often employed by physicians, with bene- fit. ---Youth's Companion. , 4 Minard's Liniment Cures Colds, etc. The record price of in75 has been paid for a butterfly at an auction iu London. BOYS and GIRLS . 'Vile Snap Shot Camera, complete, for . 10114 photos 21.4n.2144‘ tri'a 1141 selliag 311 of our 101. Pacliage.o of beautiful post carai. fiend ue your • name one ederese end we will until you the cards to oell. OlionSpecialiy&o.,Der,(1,114milton,Oni, 101a) Poi?, 011,7,E. :Dorset Horn Sheep AND rolled Anos Cattie .nreedine Sudo atut liwe Lames for sate Mao Two Young Balls Write formless Forster 'arm, Oakvine, Out. WHAT A YACHT eti. Cornelitut Vanderbilt, at a :limier at. Bar Rarbor, In honor of his sloop Aur. Ore.'s victory in the equadron run from Portland. to Rockland, said aptly: "Yaelite like these, teen, don't come under the cynical definition .I. once hearea Camden lobstermau give, "What, exaetly, is it yacht?' a. lady said to this old lobsterinan. "Ile plugged it lobster's claws and an- sweerd mockingly: "What's a yacht? Oh, ye lost take au' old tub or craft, an' fill her up with whiskey an' chicken an' cigars, ale git yer friends all on board, an' her a high old time—an' that's a yacht.'" - &- PILES CURED IN 6 TO 14 DAYS PAW) OINTMDIIT Is guaranteed to cure any ease of Itching. Blind. Bleeding or Protruding Piles in 0 to 14 days or money refunded. GOc -3,, Straining Her Eyes. The maiden dropped her lovely eyes-. Later she cast her eyes far down the reeky slope of the mountainside. After she had rested them upon the topmost branches of a near -by tree she itt them fall upon the waters of a placid lake. Then a visit to an oculist was impera- tive.—Judge. Do you trap or buy Furs? 1 am Canada's largest dealer, 1 pay highest prices, Your shipments solicited. I pay mail and ex- press charges' remit promptly. Also largest dealer in Becfhides, Sheepskins, etc. Quotations and shipping toga sent tree. JOHN HALLAM, TORONTO In Her Own Way. "Would you like to marry a. widower, Elea 1" "Itether not. When I m4bn7 1 mutat to train my husband myself,"—Pliegene.e aetter. M inard'm Liniment Cures Distemper. -• • The Young idea. Papa—Don't be afraid of that dog, Eddie. Haven't you heard that a bark- ing dog seldom bites? Little Eddie—Yes papa; but perhaps the dog ).11811't hearh it,—Chicago News., Minaret's Liniment Cures Diphtheria. • - "Women as 14. rule," remarked the moralizer, "have poi' heads for mathe- matics." "Trite," replied the demoral- izer• "but they try awfully hard to xnalcit their own figures countl"—Chica- FREE TO BOYS.. T1114 FINIS AIR RIFLE, nickeled steel barrel, peep eights, polished walnut stock. shooting 1311 shot or darts with sufficient force to kill birds, squirrels, ete. Boys, this is the best Air Ri5e. made, and wo give It to you FEES tor selling 8 boxes, only, of Dr. Maturin'a Famous Vegetable Pills, at 25c. a box. These Pills are the best remedy known in all cases of weak and impure blood, indigestion, stomath troubles, constipation, nervous diseases, themes, tism, etc. Just and your name and 6.0dress plainly written, and we will send yon 8 boxes of our Pitts and 8 Fanny Pins to give away, sa a premium, with each box sold, When you have sold the boxes, send us the money WOO and w• will, immediately, send you this handsome Air 11,111e. We c10 not auk anymoney Ware the Pills are sold and we tako back what you oannotoll. \ Address—THE 00. MAIM MEDICINE CO., Dept, FL Toronto, Ont. „..Seee • eldeeee nes e aleieeseideas t".4r-41; Everybody Who Eats Bread Should avoid danger of impurities in delivery from the oven to the home. Insist on your baker wrapping his bread in EDDY'S BREAD WRAPPER5 We are the original manufacturers of bread wrappers now used by leading bakers of Ottawa, Montreal, Toronto and other cities. The E. B. EDDY COMPANY, Limited, Hull, Canada IMITS.111TC91..,=* %I.A.W:4..M.V4', • !..1,-?!, •stMtato,16,0aZi3MML •••••••••••••••.... •••••=ro••••••••••••••••••••• 16417•1 &Awl lams V - This is Nene han dame ,ticgl:afiltroonotsgdu Tiglit.,Tgelezn rItlionMolcaldrocnololt.eut I I 5. ancillit113:411nlxilltVita It? in (2 1 yrotiti. nn a st OGIant(11 'Ile:API:1i a saE°,t 3 epeurspli only 8 boxes of Dr. Maturin a Palliate Vegetable eine, et es806. 14 bar. A. grand remedy endear° for weak and impure conditions of the blood, Judi. gostion, stomach troubles, constipation, nervous disorders, diseases of the liver and kidneys, rheumatism, and Female troubles. A mild laxative, Grand Tonic and Lite Builder. %bee are easy to Bello oath customer buying a, box of pills, from you, receives, at thE,I3AMO LIMO, CI, nice fancy Pin, which We send you with the Pills. Do not miss the chance el 7011? 1110, ., DOit't send any meetly—may yOtt 113:010 end address, at once, ana we win promptly seta yeti by malt, postpaid, the 8 boxes of Pills and the Pins. When sold, tomit to as tho $2.00 6.04 wo will Send yen this handsome Violin, etc. juet at represented. Write to.day, AcIdrest t rii,E DA MATUP1N IVEDICINZ CO., Dot. 166. TORONTO. °Pm ' SIP HANDSOME WATCH FREE. A Geri* ow Liedles Send Gold Welch ma; Utnit 425 tt *401 Do Rol threw your money away. If you desire to secure A WAt011 wit1011 to keep tame end last Well Will be equal to any Send Gold Weiss, send as year hArao and ivddrese Immediate- ly and agree to ,11 lo boxes only, of Dr. Melsrlu'a voimeb4 Pule, at 25c. a box, They $.111 the greatest remedy on earth for the Clue of poOr and impute blood, incligisstien, beadathek cOnsth Wien, nerrotut troubles, liven bladder tuld 514. 2 ney disease", aini an isnotle westasssest they are oz. the Great Bleed Purifier end Invigorator, Grand 1.4014, and We Builder. With the ring *6 send 18 Amaliethis atekes theut easy to Senth . Thle le e chaste Of Jewelry to give sway With the el is SO misit S. 860(1 Mt your ordor When yen are sodd Wan, send us the Money 42.50 add WS Send you the 10 beset, post paid. • and We wIll tend yett A GENTS, ot Lows wren tuesame gay toe teensy 111 VgCOVINA, Wtr are giving these irsatitif.d IV:tithes to "Meth* otrt Itelnediec Mt J. 4 grand opportunity 40 too ettte 8 isillableWittoh withoett5 hatthato "pinta a cent. And out Wsese Is 8, titita what end dem Oth and het tit. °heats bank Wind 041610 Iliketala girth tionsitraff. sold for earenv. 44110.Y. adarees tan Dit. 14.yro1Wi CO,. Wino Dog. 20 Terns* Delo