HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1912-01-11, Page 6A MASCULINE SURMISE.
Waiver's Baear.)
Hodson...Um would slat explain the
Insetutable Mona Lisa smile?
Judeon-alame one has told a funny
cora and the noels woman iN 4.1
the svrosig place.
NATU RA4 RESULT.
iliaitlinore Ameri(an.)
1heeareet manufacturer wee at anis-
tainti divadvantege In the delattime clase
ite
"Wire tier"
"Ileteettee every time they bad et dieeee-
eion, he was floored."
BOTH WAYS,
(Baltimore .Aanerlean.)
"Plgieeley has a paradoxical nhotoeraleh
mania,"
"Good gracious, what alight tliat be?"
"He giveea photograpeer a L1flfldi1ij
(trees for hie eitting."
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THE LESS THE MORE.
(Boston Transcript.)
Natal (throwing down app1e)-1)4111
Devon it Make you sick to find a wore)
in eernethiog you are eating?
Joek-Not only when I find half a
worm.
LOOKING FORWARD.
(Punch.)
Voice (from bed) -Isn't he asleep yet?
Papa (hopefully) -No; but he Yawned
atettt, 0, enarter of an hour ago.
ogeo.t.*
THE FASHION.
(Harper's Bazar.)
Stella -Is it a one-piece frock?
Bella -Isle, she told me herself that it
ale:tides three pieces of her husband's
minO,
TIME LIMIT EXPIRED.
(Boston Transcript.)
Mrs. Knagg-Perb.ape you recall It was
on et train that we first net.
Mr, lanegg-Yes, but it's too late new
to sou the company for damages.
it -tee
STUNG.
• (Waehington Star.)
"You call that cake angel food?" sadi
the harsh husband.
"Yes, dear," said the timid wife, "but
If the diet doesn't see mexactly what you
wait, here are sonie deviled crabs."
-_••••
WILLING TO PAY-BUT-
Womates Home Companion.)
"Your wife is very nervous, and she
must be kept quiet at any cost."
"Yes. doetor. 1 an wiling, to pay all
right --- but --"
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HE WAS MISTAKEN.
(loustori Post.)
"I asked your husband last evening if
be had his life to live over again if he
would, marry you. and he eaid lie certain-
ly would."
"He certainly wipit41,n't,"
AN EXPENSIVE LUXURY.
(Harper's Bazar.)
"Yes," said the literary man, with a
s.Igh. "style is a fine thing for a writer
to have; but when his wife's got it, too,
It takes all the Profit sway."
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A SLIGHT JAR.
(Toledo Blade.)
Motormaniac-What do yo uthink is
the most difficult thing for a beginner to
learn about an automobile?
Vrankenstem-To keep from talking
about it an the tiroe.
INDISPUTABLE,
(London Chronicle.)
"If you stand with your back to the
seeuth, what have you on your left hand?"
flaked the teaelier during thq'geography
lesson. The small boy thought.consid-
ered his hands. and give the right an -
ewer. "Fingers, sir," he replied,
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SKILLED.
(New York Sun,)
First Politiciaa-Don't you admire San-
ta Claus?
Second Politician -Yes, be seldom gets
caught with the goods on hisn.
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THE LIMIT.
(Harper's Bazar.)
Louise -Is your new cook troublesome?
Jolla -Troublesome: She couldn't act
'worse a she wete a near relative,
ONE ON THE COCO.
(Boston Transcript.)
He -So Alice said I had a thick head of
hair.
She -Oh. eha didn't mentioh the hair.
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A FRIENDLESS PROPHET.
".',Nlew York Sun.)
Jonah entered the whale.
"I. suppose I am now a middleman," he
cried.
Herewith he feared he would be hated,
•••••
NO USE FOR THEM.
(Excharige.)
"Please, ma'am' eald a servant.
"thereae a Door man at the door with
wot den leas."
"Why. Bridget," answered the mtg.
treski, in a reproving tone, "What can we
do with woody -is logs Tell him we do
not want anY.'
aeask
THE EXPLANATION.
(Harper ts Bazar.)
Mary - And they found her walking
the streets in her underwear.
Alice -A someambullst, Of course.
Mary -sale; simply a wornan with no
one In the house to button her ttla
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THE PROFESSOR'S WIFE.
(1siarlem Life.)
—rho professor is in the laboratory
conductibg some chemical experiments.
The professor expects to go down to
Poets:ray.
(From the laboraterY> "13r-rer, Bang."
'rise Visitor -I hopa the professor has.
n't gone.
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ONE WAY.
(Melte
aellils--ahon You think it is possible to
don the divorce evil,
011114-Certa1nIy. Merely let it become
common enough tti be unfashionable.
e4 -e.
UNFINISHED PHOTO.
(The Smart Set.)
Wise Wry -.I have a picture in iny mind
es my future husband.
ii Ouy-I bet it will enever he de-
velotied.
Ilioomorig
ALL ON A SUNDAY MORNING.
(Exchange.)
:Sfrs, Style -Marie, I shell take one
of the children to churell with me.
Tbe Malds-Yeetee
aire,re Style-Witieh elm will go best
V.th hIYnee,' MIMI° geWtil
or..gAJA*0 A,411.4p4p....***a.
EFFECTIVE.
(tire.)
Pence leanernieoloner-tf you wer
sei to disperse a mob, wliat would you
do?
Arrollearit-lczes nrottnd the hat eirl
(eottroiseloner-That'll dr), You're
eraeaged.
PRODIGIES.
ttattliolic
Sonetadnee, etre tent boy of millet Is et
.01.Ane-nlaser. %Vbshe can tday with hie
13rotri--itow old is im
,:ft;nes--Piftenir.
Brown -I've got a boy at Lome
tom nissr with h;f4 toes, and he`e
one year old.
APPEN D! ITIS.
trihiettgo TrIloine.)
Pctel.1 of armies. Irritation.
pen bases!. Inflammation
vhster ell Irk double domea
Von Ise right aide. Diftettosis,
otribuitir.ce. htiib. Ananthetle.
Memel blank. nifeet (Anent..
14130,-riad nureee. C'harge of dr .
Liattid diet. ('onvelettaina..
'Visitors et (*retain bourse
teernrisitioa eioees, flee a" 7 P'"owft'a•
1r.vetYth;nx t'i'n Involv en iirktil
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she was akin° with WM tine general
turned. Upon her ebeaply,
" "Sybil, who is that everenniling, hOney.
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xxx aypii s Doom stgx
eeille from? And svItere ill that felloev
legram, or was there ever ouch a fellow
at all?"
"Dear uncle" Sybil geld, mailing, yet
w quite itif
Melt Omit her es 1 do, *She is manmade
oepecial pet and friend, And," with a
light laugh, The solace of her aeon -fling
years. 'That fellow Ingram' was a D:ler.
chant captain -dead, yore ago-peate
to his esliee. Further than that, E know,
and seek to know, no more,"
"Xeep her out of this room," said the
generals sharply. "1 don't like her, and
I wool have her here. She is like
sugar-cendy, Sybil -too sweet to be
wholesome. If you told her black wee
white, she would simper and seer, 'Yes,
dcar 1 know it,'" raimickin.g the wid-
ow's dulcet tones. "I like peopie like
you, Sybil, who stand up stoutly, and
tell me, 'No, it is not!' Don't let her
come here again; I don't like her,"
Sybil promised dutifully, of eouree;
"but the best -laid plans of mice and men
gang aft oglee."
The widow was destined -to come'egain,
and yet again, and to deepen the dark
ieyetery so soon to electrify them all.
Whether in the removal he had caught
cold, whether the "Adam and Eve" rooln
WAS still unaired, whether :secret trouble
over the prolonged absence of his son
Cyril had done it, no one knew; but the
geenral fell suddenly and dangerously
ill. Inflammation, set in; entreat physi-
cian from London was eizinteiened; a
telegram despatched to the tardy heir,
and all was dismay and contusion at
Monkswood Waste,
A lawyer was summoned, and the
will then left ell -every stiver-to Cyril
Trevanion, was made. Sybil insisted
upon this. It was all Cyril's by right,
and to Cyril it should go. •
"He doesn't deserve it, Sybil," Cyril'a
father said, bitterly. "See how he lin-
gess, while they count my life by hours.
But he will come, and yon. my darling,
will be his wife; so it will and in the
same, after all."
The great London doctor shook his
head portentously, and looked very
grave. He might last a week; but the
titormy old lion's life was very near ita
ending now.
They never left him. Sybil, in sorrow,
pale and tearless, watched by his bed-
side night and day. He was delirious
very often, almost always at night. Ile
was not to be left for an instant alone.
"You will wear yourself out, deareee
Serbile. Mrs. Ingram said, mournfully,
kilning the girl's pale cheek. "You must
not -you really must not—..sit up so
much as you do. Let me take your
place to -night."
"Thanks," Sybil said, wearily. "It
will not be necessary, 1SIrs. Telfer
watches, with cleante."
"Then I will assist Mrs. Teller and
Oleante. Ala dearest Miss Trevanion,
you are very cruel, You will not let
me be of the slightest use, and I long
so much to do something. Let me sit up
this onee--Tray do."
She clasped her little hands, and. look-
ed piteously up at Sybil, groat tears
standing in the velvet-Win:le eyes -a pic-
ture of prettiness and innocence. And
SybiPs heart relented. The general dis-
liked her; but the poor general was far
beyond the power of liking or disliking
anyone now.
"You are very good," Miss Trevanion
made answer. "Sit up, if you will, Mrs.
Ingram. Good Mrs. Telfer is fat and
fifty, ancl extremely apt to fall asleep
Wore midnight; and. Cleante, who has
no uaore brains than a cat, is very likely to
follow her example. But you are not,
like them, and I shall rest the quieter
for knowing you are beside him."
`‘..& thousand thanks, dearest, sweet-
est Sybil!" cried the gushing widow,
kissing her impetuously "I had begun
to fear of late I had offended. you. You
have grown so sadly cold and formal.
But now I know you will trust your
poor Edith, who would die to serve you,
darling Sybil."
Sybil'e superb upper lip curled a lit-
tle. She did not like all this effusion,
and never distrusted the widow half so
much as in her gushing moods. But she
had promised. There was really no rea-
son why Mrs. Ingram should not waist
the housekeeper and valet in their
watch, since the general, in his delir-
ium, knew no loeger friend from foe.
Very sleepy, and unutterably fatigued
in mind and body, Sybil retired early on
that eventful, that never -to -be -forgot-
ten night.
Charley had driven the widow over
in the gray of the summer evening, and
returned to the park. Cleante was to
occupy the dressing -room adjoining the
"Adam and Eve," and Mrs. Telfter and
the little widow enscorteed themselves in
the easy chairs, trimmed the night laanp
and began thet' vigil.
Sybil retired to her chamber, half
undressed, and threw herself upon the
bed. Almost instantaneously she fell
asleep, and slept for three hours, deep•
ly dreamlessly. Then, without noise, or
cause of any kind, precisely at 'midnight
she suddenly and fully awoke.
A bell was tolling, solemti, slow, faint,
afar off, but unmistakably tallim.
Through the deep stillness of the warm
July night the low, steady tone fell a -
one -two -three -a longer and longer
pause betweeri each vibration --a hell,
the deepest, the sweetest, the saddest,
that ever Sybil Trevanion had heard.
She sat up in bed, listening. Morally
and physically the girl Was brave; but
now the cold drops started on her bra*,
and her heart stood still. And slowly)
slowly clanged that passingibell, fainter
every moment, and further off.
She sprung up, drew the curtain, and
looked out into the night. The untold
glory of the full July moon flooded the
chamber with heavenly lustre. Count-
ies s eters sparkled; the oft, abundant
radiance seemed clear a tithe light Of
day. The dark woodland, the deep plan-
tations, tangled and wild, the waving
grove a of fern, looked mysteriottely
beautiful in that snooty splendor; but
no living Oleg, far or near, was to be
seen, The slipping of it soake the light
crash of it dry twig, the faint twitter
of a bird in its net, all thee sounds of
solence eitme to her ear; and still, above
them, still dear, dill mournful and
slow, sounded that riming bell.
Sybilee dressing gown' lay near. She
threw it on, thrust her feet into slip -
pets, hasten ed from the ehamber
ettaight to that of the general. She
had to pass through the dreesing-roont
on her way; the Frenchman, Oleente,
lay $101111dly 118100p on a coueh. Another
eceoed, and she stood on the iliteehohl
of the eiekiroom.
There he palmed.
Whitt was Moo Ingram doing? The
siek man lay very gill, and the widow
was hotlines over hiin, her white hands
beav among the pillowe, tinder those
piliowe the new will, tbe will Vitt left
hit to 'Cyril, isy. It had been the sielt
man's whim to keep it there, 4tia no
one had gaineitiel him. But Mild, Mrs.
Ingram be seeking for that?
While she steod, breathless, the Old
man, with a eudden shrin cry, Ater -Led
up in bed, end seized the widoW by this
Wrist.
(TO be Contirinetd.1
gmeggszzgxgalnintarnatWaltit a trifle shoel:ed, "you knO
\Vlutt el" Lay Leniox evied, Wo wilt doTetj(?elerr,tiloiioti40
tolerably ve
y s11,k1eQpeti,
ail.'0
s
ttioulously eentiniental, Made him wife earmei,Ithe putl,er, fowlinore. :11Yoobt;
re. nio eau vie e viei 'ors of stet°
ler, torimotin A great deal you know when you condemeend to comeover and
about the life ,such men ad he, better look in opon woe
men, than bp, leed. Much time he has "And when is thie preeimis will to be
had for suffering -fighting Sepoye aihd elude?" luquired ber ladyship, testily.
Ituetilause-playing 41 on' tuuctig too i -oh, maven hop you, Sybil Loam t
ehaumiere belles of the Quarter Latin, Wiatt a little fool you are!"
grisettes and balletidantere, welt as his "Thank you, my lady," with a merry
wife Wae-his gambling, his horse-reeingh little laugh, and a liousemeld'e courteey,
and all the rest of it. He would langii "The will he to be made as soon as we
in your faee if he heard your sentimen- are safely settled et the Priory, Colouei
tal rubbish," Trevanion, in All likelihood, will he neve
"My cousin wa a gentleman!" Sybil lihnself long before that."
said, eheeks hot, eyes flashing, queen*? The rosy radiance that always lighted
and proud, "He 'svould never laugh at her face et the bare mention of her hero
me, mainnut, Will you kindly permit me dawned softly there again, and the die -
to go? On this subieet you aao 1 will inherited heiress left the room, singlpg
never agree,"a gay ehaneon. Mre. Ingram looked af-
"You m '
may go certainly-0DV first ter her, with a carelese leugh, but with
promise me not to fetch Ude ruined lion a look of bitter hetred and envy in her
of the fastest Parisian society here. You glittering eyee,
are absurd enough, I fancy, even for "How nice it must be to feel young
that." and sentimental, and quixotic like that.
"Quite absurd enough," said Sybil, I have seen so much of life, partly in my
standing very erect, and with that boy husband's lifetime, partly since, that at
of sternness and decision characteristic times I feel as though 1 were a hundred,
of the "stiff-necked Trevanion.s" ertore But if your daughter had been born a
marked than over. "I will fetch him here kitchen maid, her sweet simplicity
moat surely, niaminto if I ean, and yield could not be more refreshing."
every sou that was to be mine, every . It was very seldom indeed the pie
broad acre, to their erightful lord, This quanta widow alluded to the late la-
veryday I will beg General Trevanion assented Mr. Ingraip. He had been a
for justice to his discarded sone -on my merchant captain, it appeared, ond lus
knees, if neeessary. I would go forth a devoted wife had gone with hint pretty
beggar to -morrow to see Cyril Trevain Well over the world.
ion reinstated in his rights?',
She had tried Baden aden and Hom-
Lady Lemox gave ene gasp, one fell burg, and all the charming little Bads
back. Words were powerless here, and of Germany, on her own responsibility
her feelings were too many for her. She. /since playing eearte, vingt-etiun, etc..
had recourse to her smelling salts and like any old soldier of fortune, but this
her pocket -handkerchief. was sib roeit.
"And I will succeed, mamma," Mise It had been rather a vitganbondish
Trevanion continued; moving toward the life, she frankly admitted, with a strong
door. "His father loves him still. It will 'flavor a Bohemianism, aud she had re -
be no hard task to persuade him to do eignen It and her liberty to dance at -
simple justice to his only son. I am sot- tendance upon the Duchess of tStrath-
ry if I grieve you, dear mamma," more bane -a vicious 'old Scotch woman.
gently; "but right is right the wide , Since the death of that patroness and
world over. -Until we meet at dinner, RU her espousal by "dear, dear Lady Lemox"
revoir," she had. gone upon velvet, her rose
She glided with queenly grate from leaves had been without a thorn or a
the apartment, a sublimated look on her wrinkle, and life wae one long dream.
face that made it actually glorious. As a blise. So at least she said, and my
she passed down the long corridor, she lady very complacently believed it.
caeght sight of her brother stretched The refitting of the Priory went rap -
an the grass, under the trees, amok.. idly on, The seigneur had all the hu -
in -the pieture of indolent content. Patienee, of a petted iovalid And the
Two minutes later, and she swooped
down upon him -an impetuous young
whirlwind in petticoats.
"Charley, is it true -really, really
true -that Cyril Trevanion has come
back?"
"Eh?" said Charley, lifting his head.
"How muelt? Make that remark over
again, my beloved sister, and please
don't be so energetic. My head aches
this morning -that's the worst of the
'sparkling cup of aleasure'-the lees are
bitter, bitter. The port, last night, was
thick and meet; but even old port has
ite drawback, it. an unfortunate tend-
eitcy t� concentrate itself in a man's
nose; and the Cliguot champagne was
heavenly -there is no other wordfor it
-but sparkling Cliquot is only bottled
headache and sour stomach, after all.
"'Fill the bumper fair; -
Every drop we sprinkle
O'er the brew of care
Smooths away a wrinkle,'
sounds Very pretty, but tee wriaines
come next day. when' remorse and soda
water set in. 'Last night 1.was happy;
this morning mv worst enemies (the tai-
lor and boot -maker) could' wish meeno
more wretched. What did you say, Sybil?
The world is a hollow xnockery, and life
lath lost its charms, but 11 try te an-
swer you -ere I die."
"For pity's sake, Charley, stop that
nonsense! Is asked you if it were true
that Cyril Trevanion had really return-
ed?'
"Hawksley said so, at least. Met him
in London -seedy and sad, out of sorts,
ahd otii, of pocket. Here's his address -
1 took it down for your especial benefit home.
--so you can fly to him on the wings of - There had chine a letter -a letter
love as fast as you please." which had given impetuous Sybil a chill,
He tore a leaf out of les note -book Go brief, tido cold, so formal was it -say -
and, handed it to her. Sybil took it; ing, they might loolc for him shortly,
then, without a word, turned and hur- that business of a pressing nature de-
ried into the house. Charley looked af- tained him in London.
ter her, with a sigh of gentle reproach. The old general read it throuugh his
Ilene old centurion used to play despot
over his brigade.
Sybil walked or rode over every day
to superintend in person; and under
the trees, grand and majestic in the
leafy splendor of early July, the wrink-
led crone, Hester, sat, watching the heir-
ess with malignant old eyes. Sybil
heeded little those weird, baleful` glances.
With the princely spirit nature ancl
custom had given her, she never passed
the witch -like figure without careleasly
flinging her a handful of shillings. And
old Hester gathered them up avaricious-
ly, and erooned still her ominous dog-
gerel:
"The Doom shall fall on Monkewood
Hall,
Our Lady send her grace!
Dark falls the Doom upon the last
Fair daughter of the race!
The bat shall flit, the owls shall hoot,
Grim Ruin stalks with haste;
The Doom shall fall when Monkswood
Hall
le changed to MonkswOod Waste!"
And Sybil, fearless, like a true Tre-
vanion, listened and laughed, and' swept
along, princess -like, to issue her sov-
ereign behests, and rule liege lady of
all around her.
Before the fortnight had expired the
preparations came to an end, and Gen-
eral Trevanion and his ward, and a small
staff of servants,leftthe Park for the
Priory. And Cyril Trevanion, eontrary
to all expectations, had not yet appear-
ed to elaim hie own, to take his old, his -
rightful place in his father's house and
"Gratitude, thy name is woman! Not gold -rimmed eyeglo.sa, propped up in o,
one word of thanks, not one exprsesion drife of pillows, with sad, wistful eyes.
of condolence for my unhappy state. "It does not sound like '0yril," he
''Twas ever thus from childhood's hour. said -like my breve, impulsive Want -
Perhaps 1 bad better go to sleep." hearted boy, ever ready to forgive and.
Charley sunk into balmy aluniber ac- forget at the first pleading word. The
cordingly, until the June Sun reached very writing le changed. Ah, well! he
the ineridian, and beat strongly upon was -niueteen then, he is thirty-eight ,
him, He awoke in a etate a talamander now; and time changes us all, and rare -
might have envied, got up, yawned, id- for the better. He will come, Sybil;
stretched himself, and sauntered into and that is something. I will see him
the house. eCit again before I died -
As he passed into the eataaaaa hall, There was one room at the Priory -
his sister came flying down the stairs, the "Adam and Eve chamber" they call -
her face flushed, her eyes spareling, a ed it -where many Trevanions had been
folded letter in her hand. With an im- born and slept away their wedded lives,
petuout outburst she flung her Arms and this apartment the general had par -
around Charley and kissed. hint on the ticularly desired to be get in readinese
spet. for him. It WaS a vast and lofty and
"I have succeedeet" she exclaimed. spacious room, with it great oak door, a
"Oh, Charley, I have won the victory. slippery oaken floor and wainscot, a
The general hoe relented, I have write yawning gulf of a fire oleo, where a
ten to Cyril to come home. All is for wood fire blazed sow night and day,
gotten and forgiven! See, here ie the despite the sultry July weather; for
letter V'. these great rooms were always draughty
She dropped it into the post -bag; then and the invalid ever chill,
flew bitek Again upstairs, leasin Char. On either side of the great stone
ley standing petrified. chimoey piece, evonderfully earved with
"And they call women responsible be. serails and legende, Were two life -length
Ings," the Etonian paurinuren. vaguely. figures of the "grand old gardener and.
"Good gradous! there's a victory to win his wife," wrought with inarvelour skill
-a victory that line cost the conquereee in the shining oak. And the walls were
her kingdomCHAPTER IX. • cut end carved tvith representAtione
.'
of fourifooted thietis - of fiebee
"Go back to Monkswoodi oar pity's that swim and birds that ilyie-pasiiug in
sake, Sybil, do / hoar you Aright?" review before their earthly king to be
Miss Trevanion laughed at her um- Darned,
ther's horrified Mee. Deep in their mullioned ea Piemonte were
"Yesa certainly do, mamma. The gen- set the dim, diamondipaned windows,
eral wishes to return to ltIonkswood, half blind with climbing ivy and wild
and the general's wishes are to Inc like roses. The furniture Wtt5 ,qttaint, and
the Moi le Rol of Xing Louis. He wish'- old, and spindle -legged, atui in the entre
es to go beck, and Nery netural indeed of the floor stood the bed -a huge foute
the wish is, under the eiremnstances." poster, that centuries ago had come
"An invalid's p:ek fancy," murmured from Belgium, and itt wince ladles of the
sympathetieally, hire. legram. "Of blood royal had slumbered before now.
ecatrse it must be indelited. But is the Min 1ngresn, going over thie ehamber
poor old Man in a fitting state, dearest with Sybil, fell into rapture.
..nyhil? The amp–the vats -the rook. "How elotniungl Ilow bountiful1 rioW
infeeted eldianeysa-the-" quaiuti Such a marvel of ancient art!
"We will see to all nett, Charley has Such a dear, romantic old room! Really,
gone to Mr. Reedworth, the land stew- now, if there were eliding panels in the
aid, to issue lincle Trevonion's orders, Iniory, One would look for the secret
The piece will be in fitting ordeito re- eprings Romewhere arnid ell thee Sautes -
Neve us in A fortnight at most." tie wink- swouldn't they, Sybil, dearest?
ei'll never go!" Lady Leinox exelaina nue this wee the =nestle end of the
ed, indigeattly. 'I in very tioinfortable PI iory, too, where ell eath deli htfully
letat hetes. T bke a modern vill,t, etteb as this, tuysterioue plats aerie mote IiTely to
ewtI iv -finitely better, tiny- day, than a ruined tes found,"
oh( pil& like that. It in the home, the General Tresemore lying back in A
lerthilteet of ail the Trove:Mons, it is reat eteepy-hollow of at arnachair,
true, bat still- There, Se!dinf than not darted it ken, emery, surprieed look at
go, so dotet look at inceo mmoflnty. tie, widow ea she said this. But the
Y should expeet to ;tee the prior's Omit pretty, sinfling fete,. alli. MreatlieSS itud
*eery inotntlight 'tight tinder the trees, tihnplat,IooLed intuit:mit and tineonsefetts
tine heer the goblin bell in every sough ae ft babe's, iiewiliorre
of the wind in the turret. 1 shall key "('alt elearte, Sybil," he meld, sliarpIy
where I' atri-that'a dacitictl. ,And so* ".1 am told end tired. I \emit to go to
5,h;i'd slay too, Edith." bed"
"Very. wen, inatillia„" Sybil staid, quite Mies Trevenien rang for the etelet,
ruPignedly• "it mart be AS yen pIteesta seed heft the room; hitt the next tine*
Poisons Weal Protection Against
Canned Goods Wogs of Catarrh
The only(llaoilluittlY;Icieetlill.t'a)in evey of
avoiding soseelled ptomaine poisoniDg
ie to -eat no canned food, For there
ar some such poineone that can't be de-
tected by ordinary meanie However.
in this day and age people can't very
well get along without eating some tin-
ned foods, so the next beet thing is to
gexpeoraes.ise great caution in chooeing such
hrough the most earefid
deaIniertoh.e Ent *Me, -never buy caullea
goods except t
Never buy the can that appears bulged
as though by gee.
Never buy a can that shows two eoli
dered lip holes he ite lid. That in ens
that it contains material that hies aeon -
ed and been recooked to kill the germs
that caused the fermentation.
And never ana cireumetancee
eat any calmed goods that, upon open
-
Ing, gives off any questionable odor.
,...
ELEOTRICAI-LY•OURED MEAT.
BM° time ago we deaeribed in these
oolumns an cleotrieat snethed of cur-
ing hones, which was diseevered by
a oincinnati. packer. 1 -le found that
by introducing. an alternating current
through the pickling brine the hams
could be cured in from 30 to 35 days,
aa against 90 to 100 of the ordinary
Method. A large plant in Cleveland,
Ohio, is nitiw curing meat by this
lerocees. Ten 5,000 -pound vats pee in
Service. The current is furnished, by
a 10Q-kilewatt generating plant. The
pianit generate:0 &Met current for
We in various eapaeities, and a pare
tion of it is oonvected into alternat-
ing current by meatus of a rotary con -
'eaters to proetde the energy need in
the ouring vats.
le
THE UNION BANK
A RECORD YEAR
Head Office to be Moved to
Winnipeg.
The Wort Bank Of Canada held 1t4
47th annual meeting at the Head °Mee
in Quebec on Monday, Dowdier 18th,
1911. 'The meeting was a Memorable onet
for several reaeonS4 In the first place,
the reports presented by the Preiddent
and General Manager were fhe best in
the Bankse "Watery, and revealed the
fact that several progressive steps had
been taken during the year. At the
ineating it was also decided to remove
the Plead Office from Quebeo to Witold -
peg. This wite deemed a Td.Se move'
owing to the feet that out of its total
of 242 branehes the Bank has 156 west
of Lake Superior and 76 In Ontario, leav-
ing only a comparatively few in the Pro-
vince o/ Quebec and the Eastern Pro.
vinoes. This deolsibn on the part of the
directors and itharaholders to move the
Head Office to Winnipeg is a recognition
of the growing impertance of the west.
The net profits for the year, after
deducting expenses of management and
making provision for all bad and doubt-
ful debts, amounted to $G02,137, as com-
pared with $151,020 for the previous
year. earning for 1011 vere at the rate
of 14 per cent.' on the bank's average
paM-up capital for the year. The pre-
mium on new stock issued amounted to
$457,000, while the balance at credit of
account on November 30 amounted to
$80,000. These sums with the net earn-
ings for the year made a total of $1,199,-
000 available for distribution, Of this
large etun dividends absorbed $301,000,
the sum of $200,000 was transferred to
the rest account, as well as $457,&00
transferred to the ettme acnotint from
premium on. new Meek, inakieg it total
transferred to the reest aceount of $657,-
000. The Gum of $100,000 was written
off bank promises account, and the offi-
cer& pension fund received $10,000, leav-
Inge% balance carried forward of $71,975.
A further examination of the report
shows that the lealik is making rapid
progress in every department. The
amount of notee in circulation increased
during the year by $1,300,000, the total
deposits by over $7,800,000, whieli now
stands at $45,232,000. The paid-up capi-
tal increased by $ei4,000, and the rest
aecount by nearly $000,000. The total
assets of the bank now stand at $58,-
484,000) as compared with $46,555,000 for
the previous year. The inerease in the
bank's capital, deposits and assets puts
It in a position to do a larger business
during the eoming year. These increases
also show a, gain in the confidenee of
the publie.
During the year the Union Bank ob-
sorbed the Unitect Earipire Bank of To-
ronto,. whielt had twelve branehee in
Ontario and a paid up capital of $550,-
000. Later in the year it est dished
brawl du London, England, being ono of
the four Canadian banke having branehes
in Great 13riteti.
Altogether the bank has been showing
marked progress, and enters upon the
new year equipped to do even better
work,
JUST REFORMING POLLY.
(atew brit Tribune.)
Willicon Dealt tIowelis is a .stout met'
'portent of those novelists who, under the
'Drava Of reforrning their readers, write
boelte about vies,
"Stich Writers." eald Mr Howells, at
luritheon at leittery Petra, Me.,ere.
mied me of a lad whose mother saia to
,TohnnY, 1 do belleste You're
teitening the parrot to swear!'
" WO, I'm not, mother,' the boy re -
salient I'm ;lust telling it what it must-,
nit ear
By BreathIne the Rich, Balsamic V•ie
Por Of Oatarrhoeone You Prevent
and Cure All Head, Nese and
Throat Dieelose,
Remember this; You don't take
drugs when using Catarrhozone; you
airaply inhale a healing vapor that cures
every type of oatarrie bronchitie,
ma, throat and nose tioreneite and irri-
tation.
No medieine brings emit prompt re-
lief, exerts etieli an invigorating Witt-
enee, or so thoroughly and speedily
cures throat troubletue "Ciatarrho-
zone." Doctors, hospitals, sonitariums,
all say that for those who Buffer from
changeable weather, for those who are
predisposed to catarrh, lung treatMentr
deafness, or bronchitis, no treatment is
eo indispeusable tut "Catarrhozone,"
Victim of Chronic Catarrh Cured.
I contracted a severe cold while fol-
lowing my occupation of furniture tra-
velling, and eventually it developed
Into Catarrh, The desultory mode of
life I was following gave me very lit-
tle chance to attend to the Catarrh
condition, and at last I became a vic-
tim of Chronic Catarrh. I bought a ,
large package of Catarrhozone, used it 1
as per directions, and have never been
bothered ;ince. I will be only too glad
to give any Information I possess to -
any person suffering from the disease
that was the bane of my life two
years,
A. H. SW.A.RTZ, Brockville, Ont.
For certain cure, for relief in an hour,
nee Catarrhozone, the only direct breath-
able medicine. Two menthe' treatment
guaranteed, price $1.00; smaller size,
50o.; at all druggists., or the Catarrh-
,
ozone Company, Xingsitone Ont,, and
Buffalo, N.Y., U.S.A.
TRACK WALKERS' RECORDS.
One Has Covered 177,000 Wee in His
Long Service.
George A. Burns, the oldest traok
walker in point of service on the Penn-
orylvenia Railroad, has just put his 177, -
000th mile betind him. In keeping vigil
over the track in his care he heti walk-
ed equivalent of seven and one-third
tii.feiysearyostsuirds. the world in the last thir-
tynJourneying fur tirnes a day between
Greensburg, Pat, and Youngwood yard,
0, distance cif 3,53 milee, he hite beeped-
ee 6,725,800 splice plates on ,luelf that
many rail jointe.
Other Pennsylvania track watehmen
who bane di.stanee records are William
Young, of Franklin, Pa., with 154,144
miles in 22 years and 1,1 months; Dennis
Wafters, IN:Tertistown, Pa., with 111,624
miles in 24 year; imoo Owens, Wash-
ington, D. 0,, with 135,628 miles in 25
years and 4 monthe, ond Julius Hein,
of Feegewood, Md., who has covered 101,-
100 miles in 23 years and 3 months,
Track inspection is reduced to an ex-
act science. A patrolman registers in
the tower at the end of his beat the
hour and minute of his arrival; &parte.
on his journey and registers similarly
In the tower et the other end. Be car-
ries a registering dock by which his
trips can be °harked to the minutes. His
route usually covers about four miles,
but is law than half this. on ,stretehea
whern special watchfaincns is needed.
At night the Inspeetor has only the
light of his lantern to work by, but he
must seenaltat every .frog, switeli and
. signal is in, good order.
If a nearby tree looko dangerous be
must report so that it epi be chopped
down.. An, overhanging rock may be-
come loose -the track walker must
know about it in time to avert a pas-
sible, aceident, The wash of waters must
- he look.'ed after. Road crossings niuAt be
examined for danger to teams no Well
ItstOt0het11:atils'
lliinEss that demand. his Vigil
are outlying water sta,tionA, overhead
wires and even the cattle loose in the
; fields. Some of thee pedestrians are on
• the job every hour in tlie twenty-four
• to smooth the path for the hurrying
milliongliding over the rail. -Froin
the Pittsburg D7s.....4_patels
HOW TO DO IT,
There was a man in our town
Whe stole a loaf of bread,
Apo, on the street
1Te stopped to at
And a), tney got him dead.
They found him guilty In it trice
Mat put him in it cell
Six feet by four,
Wnth an iron door
And a cold clamp floor as well.
And it window mall
That scarce at all
Let in the light
To cheer his sight;
And as for meals,
Despite his squeals,
They fed him stuff
Both old arul tough
And made lihn work
Like some old Turk,
Attd by the time theY let him go,
Heal, hatched a pretty scheme, oho!
A great trust company he formed
And got deposits quick;
Antci ttilahads
n hnenigeeecied
The e ,
Theugh he was captured slick.
They Jailed him, but he only smiled,
For he obtained a cell
And a
it,:l 0
Persian rug as well:
Both ell,‘).teigsr yaontddalyiglitght,
IT.3.107 rbrie'osi)ilgaiitricja giro:tea;
Chuck full of food,
.And to rnake hire, taugb
A phonograph
Played tune and song
The whole day long;
And every night
• With antics droll;
Tc cheer his soul
Cattle actors bright
The differettee? It may make you smile.
• If you must steal. go steal a pile!
They gave hirn there.
Much kindly care
-paul Weet.
Shiloh's
STOPS COUGHS IkVanrawg
RARE AZTEC MANUSCRIPTS,
The American Museuiri of Nittional
IIistory hat receutly Adquire4 an ieteri
esting eolleetion of fragrneete of aneient
•Alexleau initneearipte. These relies were
taken from the wane of a chnrelt at
Tailquitenaiigo, Morelos, and are about a
hundred ha timelier. They repretent parts
of eleven' manttseripts and magney
paper, And probably date froin soon after
the Arrival of the Spitelarde. The chureli
at Tialquiltetiatigo Was conipleted in the
year 1540, and the inenuteripte had are
parently been colleted by the prieets
and petted fete down on the wane of
the eloistere instead of being deetroyed
outright es WAS ihk MUSA etuitono
ontvtion is eonsidered of peetiliafe alto
beettetee the point of origin is 40 011.'411Y
1100$ fea.--33tilIotin Bureau American
Popnblic.
TIGHT COOKRAGE MANUFACTUIV
ED -1910..
Tight cooperage barrens are used lu
tha anipipng ofwines, whisitey, Peer,
ale. oils and tither liquids, Awl the stock
used Is reuulred to be (Saar and ,of 0.
soeciea whit% will not.impart its resinous
or other taint to the contents, For
these reasona oak. Preferably white, ie.
Lite prineipal wood wiled- by the trade,
and tte species caratiet be obtained
In Canada, the large shinnera import
either as staves or in the lot, from the
United Statee. In the latter country,
however, gum and basewooa are rapidly
taking the place of oak in sawed tight
cooptirage, so that in a ehort time a
ebanete may be looked for in the woods,
the Dominion rereetry Branch at Ot-
used in Canada. kitatistics compiled by
twee, show that the tight cooperage in -
Canada during linO amuonted,
In_ value to three hundred and fortrefIve
thimeand dollars, aleerly fouretiftns Ot
the total value was composed of staves,
while heading to the value of $72,000 made
UD the balance. The *kayo production
Wats aS follows; 7,137.000 sawed etayea,
worth eleasiS; 02300 ale and beer, worth
$44,814; and 34,00 bucked and spilt, worth
$72,240 teak farmed nearly three-quar-
ters of the sawed staves, all the .8,1e and
beer stavee, and all the buekeel and split.
Cium, a species of wood, not hitherto re-
Pc,ried. width eheuld prove Remit very
eatiefaetory on account of its durability
and freedom from flavor, etude third in
the sawed stave table. In one year,
with a production of 437,000 staves, it
surparsed all the native species, except
spruc,.. Tea fill the demand for tight
coevarage in Canada, imports as reports
ed by the Department of Trade and
Commerce were as follows for 1910: 70
220.06 oak etetves, valued at $200,072; stave
bolts to the value of $81,88S and 03;811
empty barrels, worth $112,120. -(Forestry
Pres Bulletin, No. 43.)
5.'
HOW IT GOES.
(Puck.)
He came across) a field of snow,
His heart was filled with rippling song;
For in tbe firelight's pleasant glesv
Ileknew she'd waited for him toeg.
His thoughts were running "Home
again!"
Hie visage wore a happy grin:
Full Noon he reached the gate and then
He reached the door and entered in.
A FASHIONABLE AILMENT.
The "hobble hip" is tin'l vere Motet dise
ease, It is it eetetesarelyeat of the Wee
toe lags nue to the unnatural tompreta
*ten of tight altirtS,
And dal she fly to feel his arm,
'With hapay sighs and manner sweet?
Ate not She cried in wild alarm;
"Go baelta-Go back and wipe year
feet."
litINARD'S LINIMENT CO., LIMITED,
Sirs, -I have used MINA.RD'S IjINI
MUT for the past 25 years and whilet
I have oceiteionally used other liniments
can safely say that 1 have never used
any equal to yours.
If eabbee 'between the hands and in-
haled frequently, it will never fail to
cure 0, cold in the head in twenty-four
hours.
It is also the Best for bruises, sprains,
ete. Your truly,
J. G, LSELIE,
Dartmouth.
ANOTHER BLOW TO DIVORCE.
Married women itt., North Dakota can-
not have everything their own way.
Their huisbande have righte which meet
be reepeeted.
For example, if a, woman sues for di -
yore° in that state her husband- may
claim alimony as well as money for his
support daring the trial of the ease. Tho
Snpreine Court of North Dakota holds
thet when a woman has means and has
not been deserted her husband, if infirm
or destitute, may sue to compel her to
support and maintain inin. The effect
of that decieion may he to eleeourage
divorce litigation in North Dakota. -
Nevi' Yeri- Evening Mail.
Minarcits Liniment Curiae Diphtheria.
c e
ONLY ATYPOGRAPHICAL ERROR,
BUT-
(Lippincott's Magazine.)
The druggist In a small toWa disci, and
ble widow continued the business,. A
month later she- .arranged the Window
display so that it was very attractive.
That week the town paper contained this
item of news
" Mr, Artlitir Edwards, a protninent
diupgist af Higginsville, took in the
sights of our city yesterday He was
v,a‘y much Interested in our druggist's
atractive
When YourEyes Need -Car
ine
Try MUre Eye Rome.: y. No Smartin.g-Feels
Pine -Acts Quieltly. Try it for Rea, Weak,
Watery Eyes and Granulated Eyelids. Illus-
trated Book in each Package. Murine is
compounded by ,(mr Ocullsis-not a "Patent Med-
icine -but used 1;1 sueses1u1 Physleinpsi Prac-
tice for Ma.Dy years. Now dettleataa h) the Pub.-
lio and sold by urnggists 7.5c and LOG per Bottle.
Ittnino Eye ally() in alseplle Tubes, 20c and We.
iliturIne Eye Remedy Co., Chicago
BOY IN A TREADMILL.
James Whippany, ten years old, of
Belleville, N. J., while visiting the ruins
of the Moffat rolling mills in Glen Ridge
with a number of companions, had a
practical experience of the treadmill for-
merly used for the employment of eon-
viets in European prisons.
The boy climbed up on the old mill
wheel, which, motionless for years, be -
gee to turn. In order to save himself
the lad was compelled to step up to
each blade as it turned slowly around.
:it seemed amusing at .first, but as the
motion of tile wheel increased, Whippany
began' t tire and he ealled for aid from
his companions. They procured two
planks with which they blocked the
wilt el. -New York Ameriean.
= -
Ninny Women Ate Not Attractive
because of repulsive looking Warts on
the hands. They can be painlessly re-
moved one day by Putnam's Corn
and Wart Extractor. Putnam's is the
Corn and Wart cure made. Try it, Priee
25c per bottle.
e
SKIPPING TO THE LAST CHAPTER
"Have yett read the Illble1" asked the
e,ericue young man.
"Well,"
, replied the frank young W01111141
"./ can't ray that I have read all of
"1 see; but yeu have reed Genesis and
Revelations."
"How did yeti know?"
mrhatta the way a WOrlian always, reads
anY book."
Minerd's Liniment Cures Distemper.
"
AS IT APPEARED TO HIM.
Diek, aged fotir, while paying hls first
visit at his grandfather's farm, enjoyed
nettling sO much as watching the mon 00
the milking. one evening his grazed -
Moller, finding him with teer-svet face,
anticline et the windoW, said in surprise:
"Why. Dick, what Is the matter?
Whit's hapnened?"
" 'Cause It rains just a littler!' answer -
ea Dick, "my umvver won't let me go
to the bares end see Jim and Henry
amtav the eowtt.,,
NUB
.00•041/0/Cif:..
A
.41iflNS
44 CI rale•
without waekbear
Makes °lanes aa
them and will not in
latiton's and Sintateen'lli
Stxbiey Mills CO., and
0000431Y. Of
land. 8524 Queen stkeet beet, Termite,
agent for the Dominion.
ogoriAggroollikie.,_ ,g
Without Oangee & Almost Painless, .
A nowt to Prospective Mothers,
Nurse MIATIRIXI NIS rforoOlfaothe '
Perils of Ohildboaring *Strengthens
Motherend Child. Malted withlovotto
able Information., $0 or+ thrzefor$12m '
Tha Eatectinos Rented,y
sa ADELAIDE ST, EAst ranoNro,-
TAMMERERS
The Arnolt institute treads the CAUSE,
not the HABIT, ;and perrramently cures
the most hopeless looting neva in four to
eight wadies, Write for proofs, roferencos
sad Information to 12
Ift(ANNOTT IIISTIIIITE, BERLIN, MIL Csie
BERLIN'S WILD PARROTS.
In additiou to sparrows, pigeons and
other bird it usually seen in a great city
Berlin has now a colony of wild parrot'.
Since the early months of the year a
small group of common gray parrots
have been observed in the streets of
the extrema northern quarter of the
town, *here there is still a good deal
of unbuilt land and garden vegetation,
and have been a constant source of in-
terest to observant nature lovers. The
little strangers, to the number of twelve
or sixteen, who are supposed to have
escaped from the cages of some bird
fancier, have successfully foraged for
themselves al lthrough the eummer
months, and if they succeed in over-
coming the rigors of the approaching
winter and reach the brocading season
next spring there seems some possibility
that Berlin will in a year or two have a
regular population of wild parrots in its
streeta-London Evening Standard.
Minard's Liniment Cures Colds, Etc.
Advance of Grand Trunk Pacific
Tile blast of the Grand. Trunk Peallie
Railway contractors is echoing against
the rocky wails of Tete Janne Cache to
make way for civilization and the s;arill
echoes of the locomotive whistle later
on.
Going westward from Edeneuton
along the Grand Trunk Pacific route,
the traveller sees the trail of the second
comer already strongly nfarked, .and
Tete Janne Cache is the objective point
at present for the end of steel by the
spring of 1912, At present the Grand
Trunk Pacific 'steel is beyond the Great
Divide, all (I. over the summit of the
Yellowhead Pass.
Historically, Tete ;Mune is a centre
of interest in Western Canada, as this
point Was the site of one of the Hudson
Bay posts one hundred years ago,' when
the route from the Pine, the Peace and
the Fraser Rivers brought the furs and
merchandise through this gateway. At
the present time there is onlya band of
Shuswap Indians tamped on the south.
3Ide of the Pra,.ler, and as soon as the
stool reaches this locality and, civiliza-
tion, with its kodaks and pocketbooks,
will effeet the establishment of a per-
untuent order of things.
4
FILPPANCIES,
(Boston Transcript.)
Sometimes when it man buys that wool-
ly underwear he gets fleeced.
Calci that it is the story without any
point that bores us.
Odd also that when a man is "down
and ant" be is up against it.
It is better to swallow your wrath than
to have to eat your words.
NU matter how entertaining he may he
the dentist is an awful bore.
We are all looking for a good opening
b it we don't want to get in a hole.
-ANAMIPOVel • _I
ALCM JIM
1111,12,1.1
• LAIIIMI s. g
•
Write for particulars.
THIO SIMINiass utlivnitarrr
of Canada,
Correspondence Dept.
Xing's Montreal:P. Q.
77:177
A VALUABLE FIND.
Withie a very short, time Prince Re-
vell, the Pacific eoast terminus of the
Grand Trenk Pacific Railway, will not
have any occasion to import its supply
of cement from England, Germany,
China or even Victoria. During the past
int/inner there was located near Shames
a imp deposit of limestone, that is eon.
sidered perfect for the manufacture of
cement. Acordingly, the locators stak-
ed the property, awaiting an examine -
Hoe by an experieuced raining engineer.
, 41,-1 1-
holleaed's Liniment Cure Garget in
Cows,
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
(New York Press.)
'What makes a, person popular IS to tell
other people they are.
Going through tunnels in elm electric
lighted tretin is Wasted oppoprtunity for
a girl.
woman hes just as much right to lie
about her age,,,as Isiah has about his
eoPer bands.
what makes the baby look WI much like
its mother is He father knows it looks
like hint.
A than would rather have the eountrY
reintd by les political party than saved
tbe other fellow's.
THE BEST SECURITY prINDs
FOR YOUR MONEY IS 4.1hm,
411 There are, broadly speaking, two classes of investments: speculative invest.
meats, 'which may or may no t pay interest and may appreci ate or depreciate in value.
49 And there are Bonds—Bonds are 'mortgages split up into denominations of
Sto0 or upwards. We continually have Bonds, the security of which Is beyond
question, which pay as high as 6 per cent. interest. They are theitandard form
of investment. They are purchas,:d by Banks, Insurance Companies and chart. -
ered institutions, because the,t0ovIroment recognizes that they offer the
maximum of safety with a profitable rate of interest.
Send us your name and address and we will send you literature
from time to time giving particulars of new and Old Iwo,
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