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Toronte'e lees by fire le 1911 wile
tr about, l',217-2,43:2 mole tail
in 1OLO.
The value of the mineral products of
BMW), Celumbia last year exeed
l'00,0011,
44•4 II' '3-
11`:VaJ1gti3 railwaye are abandoning
fieeond-elaee fares, teed reetricting ae-
commodation to first and third class.
fiecond.class travelling is not in demand.
The miler towel should have no place
in a PLlee of public entertainmeet. The
public should be edueated to demand its
withdrawal; a law should not be
04*Sary.
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fillione of people in Chlaa are said
to be euffering from starvation,
added to the civil war, eauses a
tion of affairs hardly dreamed
this happy land.
This,
of in
The fact that the Moroe,ean settlement
is said to be satiefactory to neither the
French no German people probably in-
dicates that the terms of the agreement
were reasonable.
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The .111aneatt pritiees liare
sigaified
their willlinpoless to :wept the epubli-
cae terina If the c,onditolus propcsed cu
be carried out, it would seem to be au
exceeddugly wise decision.
Butter has reached 42 cents in New
York, 47 in Chicago and 00 cents was
expected to be reached in the latter
place, Trust inethode are said to ac-
count for the exorbitant price.
King Alfonso's exeretee of the prerog
give of pardon has made him happy,
aud his dissatisfied premier will retain
his offiee. A merciful king's errors will
be eaelly overlooked by his panic.
Peaee celebrations come hign, it teems
Here is a proposel to spend 47,500,000 to
celebrate the 100th anniversary of the
Treaty of Ghent. But then if the Un-
ited State e Congrese is to furnian the
money why should we complain.
Fifty-three members of the New York
Gas Workers' Union met the other day,
and, by a majority of 1, voted to eall
out on strike 32,000 raen. Doesn't that
Rem a little high-handed? Such strikes
should not be lightly entered into.
A. New York physician extols the vir-
tues of bran as a food for human beluga
as well as for horses, evening that bran
mash is as good for mon and women as
for horses, and that by avoiding it we
throw away a great health promoter.
The battleship -cruiser Lion ,made her
311/2 knots the other day with coal fuel,
under eerviee conditions. The German
oruiser Moltke made her 30 knobs, but
it was only over a measured mile. The
Moltke's engines devoloped 50,000 horse-
power; the Lion's 70,000.
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There were 1,307 persons killed on the 14
railways of Pemesylvania, last year and
12,201 injured. Of the 1,114 killed on
the steam roads 641 wei4 trespassers.
Only 33 of the killed were tres.paseers
and six of them were killed in jumping
off engines or ears.
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The report of the Minh -icor of Crown
Lands of Quebec shows that that Pro-
vince still holde the record for big fam-
ilies. During the year the sum of $105,-
S00 was paid out to fathers of famil-
ies of more than 12 children, indieating
that there are more than .2,000 such.
The three Chinese assaesins who at-
tempted to kill Yuan SM Kai were
strangled by the public executioner.
They got off easily. China is becoming
civilized,, or they might havo been kill-
ed by the slicing process of other process
of torture, euch as marked the execution
of famous assassins, that of Ravaillac,
the murderer of Henry IV, of France,
for inetance.
its experience in the Equitable build -
leg fire hes led the New York fire de-
part:mut to adopt a new syatein of aut.
ting metal such as steel and iron bare
and »haters. The procces employe ()zee
gen and acetylene gas. The test showed
that a etcel plate seveit-eighths of an
Lech thick and twelve inches Wide, was
sett through in four munitee and 60 seee
(nide; while leinch eteei hare were sever.
ed in. 14 eeconds.
The probere in the investigation of
the Packers' Trust in Chicago are find-
ing out things. A systematic hidieg
aWay of profit e wao followed. Only
few hundred dollarsa month WM elate.. -
.0d AS tredit for „hidee, the actual pro-
fit being about 60,000 per cent. hig,ter
than the ansounte credited, For inatance,
When $278,000 wee received only $215.02
was entered, Many by-products eere
eireilerly dealt with.
With a population of 7,000,000,
London has but nineteeta (flees of mur-
der during the past year, awarding to
the report of lion. Chariee A. de Couroy.,
chairman of the eoznntittee on criminal
Ameriertn Prison Aseociation. Five
of the murderer* corranitted tozieide
and four were never apprehended. The
others were either eonvitted and execut.
ed tommitted to the ineette rtaylum.
Chleago with a much ?outlier population
tnakter a very remelt different *honing.
It had 230 hotnieldee. Only one of the
Offtntitdr$va tno1, fifteert were sent
to the petitentiery, and the Woe!
*exonerated by the grerel ies„, zweeittesi,
dieeliarged, or otherwise eel; frees
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But all the while there was a ptiez
expression in her face, alt the while
leept lip a furtive, ecaeoleee watch el
Trevanion, pausing in the mi
hi her gay reparteeto lieten while
ipoke, to note his every movement
Gradually she turned from. Charley
to him, asking adroit queetion$ about;
India, and Russia, and South Ameriett,
and receiving the briefest and least eat-
isfactory of answers.
There was a strange smile curving her
pretty Ups, a triumphaut glitter in her
eves, when at length she quitted the
irawing room and aseepded to her own
aro tetent,
The party at Trevanion Perk met at
luncheon, and again the widow renewed
her artful wiles, again to be baffled by
the steady reticence of the hero of Bel-
alclava.
"How very unkind Colonel TreVan-
ion is!" she said, making a witching
gesture, and in a very audible "aside" to
Charley. "Ile knows we are literally
dying to hear of hie adventures among
the Turks and the turbans, the hour's
and the hashish -eaters, the awful fan-
aties of Central Asia, and the lione and
gorillas and thing's of Central Afriett,
and he won't tell us a word. The Times
chronicles his wonderful exploits under
the Indian suns and amid the Crimean
anows, but not a word he says. And
of Spanish America, with its earth-
quakes, and insurrections, and valcan-
oes, and dark -eyed donne& he is mutest
of all. Colonel Trovaniord is a hero, be.
youd a doubt; but he shows no pterey to
the curioue.
"I never did care to chronicle my ex-
ploits upon the housetops, Mrs. Ingram.
Colonel Trevanion answered, "or raale
a howl about them at the street corners.
I can not even turn them to account, in
the way of pounds and shillinge, by
elaborating them in books, drawing on
my imagination for my facts when the
real thing falls short."
Ire finishedwith a withering glanee
at Charley.That placid youth met it
with a front unmoved,
"No," he said, "your worst enemy
will never accuse you, my dear colonel,
of the crime of writing books. That's
ba.ekehanded hit at 'Macgregor, isn't
it? Don't be too hard on that poor
fellow, colonel. He doesn't chrozne/e hav-
ing e.,aved your life, remember. Apropos
of Macgrgor, Mrs. Ingram, you'll be
charmed with him, and he with you;
but that's a matter of course. And. be-
ing a constant vieitor at Sir Rupert,,
Chudleigh's, you' e likely to see a good
deal of eaeh other, As you are strong,
dearest madam.e, be merciful in this
ease. Don't break his heart ruthlescaly
as you have broken mine --I'm used to
it, a.n4 can stand it; but, like measles,
It goes hard with your man of five -and -
thirty. And as I've honored him with
my especial esteem, I dou't want his
hairs brought with eorrotv to the grave,
for a year or two, at least."
hire. Ingrani laughed, and again she
and Charley went at it full tilt, with
lance and spear. Colonel Trevanion lis-
tened and, looked, with the face of a, man
bewitched; and Sybil,after vainly endeav-
oring to draw his attention, turned. way
at length, with a scornful glitter in the
hringhty eyes, and a distainful curl of
the superb lip.
Luncheon over, Mrs. Ingram went back
to the roser3- with her dainty little bas-
ket; Sybil eat down to the piano; lay
Lemox took the latest novel, and Char-
ley eurled himself up in a dormeuse and
drifted gently into the "lovely land of
dreams!' Colonel Trevanion lingered for
a little beside the fair pianiste, but his
eyes wandered over through the open
glass door to a fearer figure in white
flitting about among the roe° trees.
He was so absent, so distrait, an-
swering so at random, that Miss Tre-
vanion took eorapaesion upon him. at
last.
"She looks like Love among the roses,
does she not, Cousin Cyril?" with a
slight laugh. "Pray, don't let me de-
tain you; join Mrs. Ingrain by all mean.
Pm going to practice this fugue of
Bach's, and you won't care to listen, I
know. See, she emiles an invitation."
And then the white halide swept over
the keys in a storm of sound that
drowned the Indian officer's reply, if he
made any. .A moment later and hie
tall figure was out beside the white fairy
helping gather roses, his face alight,
while he listened to her pretty prattle
and her sweet laugje
Miss Trevanion spent four home; et
the piano; then she went up to her room
to dress for dinner. From heed window
she could Gee the WitIOW and her victim,
still busy in the July sunehine antid the
roses and myrtles and azaleas, forget-
ful, apparently, of all the world but
themeelves.
"And that is Cyril Trevanion—the hero
of my life!" the young girl thought, a
bitter pang of wounded pride at her
heart. "Come home, after all those years
to be infatuated at first sight by the
retty, painted face of Edith Ingraml
le father's fate is nothing to him,
m less than nothing, and she bewitches
le in half an hour, as though he were
weak -witted boy of sixteen. Well,
t him got The man who can etoop
love that woman is not worth one
gret from incl"
She turned bravely away to her toilet
it the keen pain WAS at her heart still.
was hard to . give up her ideal like
is—to despist her hero, her king—to
a the last of the Trevanions twiee
oled—twiee nette& by two artful wo.
en,
"There was Sand ems° for him at
eeteen," the thought, bitterly; "there
none at four and thirty?'
The widow vent quite gorgeoue at din -
r ----shining like a star. She had not
en made a ehesv of mourning for the
neral. Blaek did not become her, and
Ito ehould elle make a fright of }wr-
it' to please n. young lady who was
oie being pleaeed by any efforts or
'es? She wore to -day a robe of
.;red silk, silk, that gleamed and twieted
tout her like a fiery serpent; and there
:To blood -red blogeoirts in her midnight
and 4 half -Shattered TOrie 211 her
gent; and it perfuming petale drifted
to the colonel's face while she talked
him. Sybil's clear eyes looked
her aerose the table — Sybil
• her deep Mack — high -necked.
.ss sleeved. devoid of erne-
ent—a nun, from the austere cloisters
St. Clare, could not have taken ex-
ption to that toilet. And yet the
ileate, high -bred face, seith its pure
rieiafl loveliness, its ehininge soulful
es, it sweet, proud lip., weet hurl-
tel..fold more beautiful than that
her.
And the siren iVotli her roec-ehatos,
.1 wreathed her gilded fetters, And
e hero of Beleklava bent; hie neck for
hieing chains, end held out his
lets for the flowery leendeuffe. he
;es fer him efter dinner. in her delie.
Is mezzo-eoprano—fiery little Spanieh
liods, mistily tender Cern= chants,
eamsioned Italian love-eouge. And the
tesii sittileiw ere rosy, and the flaeh.
led ing glances bright, and the entrancing
ehe laugh at it$ softest and tavaeteet, and
the, new Delilah was driving her Samson
det mad and blind with the delicious fever
he men eall love.
• "Clearest ease of spoons I ever Saw
in my life," observed Charley, sotto
voce, to his sister. "He's dead and dope
for this bout, Olt, my poor little Sybil!
After all the amunition you've wasted,
the Om o; you've dreamed, the hopes
you've hope, to think that the little
Ingrara should have beaten yon sky
lug% at the first, heat! Ile wee a fool
nt nieeteen, and he'5 the most out-
and-out fool in the three kingdoms at
f our- a ncl.thi rty."
Mrs. Ingram and Colonel Trevanion
shook hands affectionately that night
at parting; hut Miss Trevanion, very
pale in the glare of the wax.lights, said
her good-pight very briefly and coldlY,
and sweptpast them both. And the re-
turned chieftain went to bed to dream
of his Circe; and Circe herself, the
tvine-eolored silk flung aside, and a loose
wrapper donned, walked long hours up
and down her room—thinking—think-
ing.
"Who is her she said to herself;
who is heY—this man who claims to
be Cyril Trevanion—who looks like
Cyril Trevanion, and who is not Cyril
T'revanion? Ile does not recognize me
—that is proof in itself. There is that
story of the Chilian fever, the loss of
memory; bet—ah, bah! who believes
that? Who is be—who is he? My
lady believes in him, La Prineesse be-
lieves in him, and is sorely disappointed,
poor thing! Charley believes in him,
and 'writes him down on ass.' He is not
Cyril Trevanion, and before I'm a month
older I'll know who he really is!"
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CHAPTER
The next day was Sunday, and the
faintly at Trevanion Park drove over to
Speekhaven, through the golden glory of
the July morning, to cliureh.
Lady Lereox and Miss Trevanion sat
beside each other in the great cushioned
and curtained pew of the Trevanions.
And Mrs. Ingram in. the most delicious
little hamlet that! ever the fertile brain
of a Parision modiste imagined, the
pretty face sweetly serious, the sum-
mery toilet faultless, sat beside that
hero of a hundred fights, Colonel Cyril
,Trevanion. And if the gallant colonel's
eyes wandered away from the vested
ministers, the swing:ng censers, the wax -
light 'and the roses, who can blame
him?
They dr c ve home to lunoheon, and
still that very pronounced flirtation
went on. Sybil Trevanion took very
little notice .of them now. She was
sorry, pained, hurt, disappointed; but
she was not her cousin's keeper. He
must "gang his ain gait" to the end.
"Look .at him!" Lady Lemox cried in
vindictive triumph; "look at your cou-
sin Cyril, Sybil! Even he who can not
resist the fascinations of Mrs. Ingram.
You are the only creature alive that
dislikes her, and it proves what a pre-
judiced and unjust girl you are."
"Perhaps so, mamma,' Sybil answer-
ed, a little *wearily, "but I have done my
best, and I can not like her, I can not
trust her. I have done her no harm,
at least. She will be as well off at Sir
Rupert Chudleigh's as here."
"She will, no doubt; but I—oh, what
is to become of me,youcruel, selfish,
unkind creature! No one ever suited
me as she does, and for that very rea-
son you send her away. If it were not
that you had made up your mind about
it beiore Colonel Trevanion came, I
would say it was all your jealousy, and
no,thnhirliegnelysoeu."
would say very wrong,
Lady Lemox," Miss Trevanion answered,
throwing back her head. the violet eyes
beginning to lighten. "1 ain not in the
least jealous of your pet, Colonel Tre-
vanion is infatuated, that is clear
enough; but Edith Ingram is wise in
her generation—she would not marry
the linpoverished heir to Monkswood, if
he were at her feet to -morrow."
"Indeed!" with a sneer. "You appear
to know all about it. Why, then, does
she encourage him?"
"Why do naturalists impale butter-
flies and beetles? For their own satis-
faction. The butterflies and beetles may
die, but what does that signify? The
naturalist has had all he wants. Mrs.
Ingram flirts with Charley as she would
flirt with one of the stable boys yonder,
if no better game offered, for the in.
nate pleasure of flirting. She won't
marry Cyril Trevanion, since I hold Cyril
Trevanion's fortune; but she'll fool him
to the top of his bent. She'll marry Sir
Rupert Chudleigh, 1 dare say, if he gives
her the chance, and then—Heaven help
poor Gwen! We won't talk about it,
mamma, if you please. I am heartily
tired of the subject."
She leaned against the window with a
low, weary sign, playing idly with the
ivy sprays; and. by the strangest of all
strange w.anderines, her thoughts went
off at a tangent to the tenant of the
Retreat. Was he happy? Sybil won-
dered. His taste appeared to be simple
enough; he dwelt in a sort of bower of
roses, with his two servants and his
long, lean Livonia.n, and he wrote
charming books, ad was famous. Was
he happy? He had wonderful eyes and
a massive, powerful brow'and his grave,
haedsome, composed face told you little;
but he was a lonely wanderer over the
world, for all that—friendless and house.
Jess very likely, or he would hardly be
here. And, somehow, there was that in
his great, dark eyes, in the stern, set
meuth,that gave this dreaming girl a
strongides. of hidden trouble. •
The sunny summer morning ended in
a pouring afternoon. There was no
more church -going. Mrs. Ingrant seated
herself at the parlor organ and played
Mozart and dreamy improvisaaiotts of
her own, with the Russian hero by her
side, and Charley asleep near, under the
sophorific Influence of her solemn -sweet
melodies. And Sybil got hold of Mr.
Macgregor's book, 'Among the Turbans;
ot, '17hrough the Land of the Sun," a
fanciful title enough for a volume of
travels. But the book was altogether
bewitching—its 4ty1e perfect, its diction
faultless, fall of laughable stories* racy
eneedotes, pathetic touches, and "hair.
breadth 'seapes," The girl was etehant.
ed; she read and read, while the rainy
afternoon wore away, and. etrained her
eyes to finish by the last expiring,glim-
mer of daylight. She laid it down with
a Sort of regret, Like Sam Weller'is im-
mortal valentine, there was jost, enough
to make you wielt there saes more.
"How charming it Is How clever he
must he! And yet there is one Oleg
dielike in it --the bitter way he Speaks
of women. Ile is eareastic, almost tyni.
cal, whenever they are in queation,
whether it is the veiled wives of the
Faithful, the brilliant belleef Petit, or
the dusky damsels of Kaffir land. Ile
halds ell womankind at the same cheap
rate, no doubt."
"nave- you tiny more of Mr. NfeGreg.
or'e books, Charley" ybil Asked hoe
brother after dineer in the drawing.
room. "I like his 'Among the Turbate'
extrett ely."
-Cherley threw her a slender tolurne,
gold and, azttre perm, you knew, at
firelit
gielare.
. you are
---1A Wanderer's
Dreama? 14rett7 little idyls—sweet, as
titigar.e.antly. leou're ear?) to go into
ceetaslee over it, Sybil. full of the
most melodious abuse of the /costae sex,.
liaronesece and ballet -dancers, ducheseee
and densueees, 110 taes them 411 with the
same etiele.„ suspect .Maegregor'e like
the rest of us—been jilted in the past
tense, and turus. cynic in the present.
Beie stunningly clever, and. just the sort
of fellow I'd make a dead pet* at, if .1
were a woman."
Mrs. Ingram rose from the piano, with
a light laugh, her silk robe flashing in
the lamp -light.
"Pray, don't Charley—don't make us
fall hi love with your literary lion be-
fore we even see him. But I forgot;
you have seen him, dear NiSS TrOV1111*
1011. Pray, tell Inc if the man is as ir-
resistible as his book."
"I will leave you to form your own
opinion, irta. Ingram," Sybil answered,
with that voluntary hauteur with which
she alweys addressed the widow. "You
ere likely soon to see more of him than
I do,"
And then Miss Trevanion opened thq
anderer's Dreams," and presently for.
got everything—Mrs. Ingram and the
slave at her chariot wheels included ---in
the music of these dreamy, delicioue
verses.
Next morning the widow departed,
and she and Lady Lemox made the most
of their adieus. It was really pathetic,
that parting scene—lace handkerchiefs
and smelling bottles flourished, and
touching tears flowed.
Colonel Trevanion -looked on sym-
pathizingly; Charley, like the heartless
little monster he was, enjoyed the whole
thing hugely; and poor Sybil, feeling
very much like a female Nero, dooming
hapless victims to the stake, seized her
hat and made her escape.
Mrs. Ingram departed) and Lady Le.
inox, in a fit of sulks, kept her chamber
all day, and made the life of her French
maid a misery to her. And
late in the afternoon came gallop-
ing over Mies Gwendoliue Chudleigh, in
4 high state of excitement and indigos,-
ticin.
"She's commenced already!" burst °tit
the baronet's daughter, "she's beginning
to 'form' ;ne before She's properly in the
house. My music has been shamefully
neglected; my fingering Ts atrocious; 1
shake my elbows and joggle zny lyrists;
and the 'Fisher's Hornpipe' is only to be
endured by persons lost to all morality!
My French accent set e her nerves on
edge, end I'm to go through a course of
'Le ltrun's Telemaque' and *Noel et Chap -
set' at once. And I'm to be persecuted
through all the 'Isometrics' and 'ologies'
there are, and get the Norman Rept-
archt7 and all the Kings of France, from
Clovis L to Napoleon 111., by heart. And
P1X1 to walk and talk by line and plum-
met, and simper and dip as she does, and
become an object before high heaven.
But I wont!" cried Gwendoline, glaring
viciously into space, and clinehing one
little chubby fist. "I'll see Mrs. Ingram
boiled alive first!"
"It's a harrowing ease, certainly,"
laughed Sybil; "but if Sir 'Rupert and
Mrs. Ingram league against you, 1 great-
ly fear you'll be vanquished. And then,
you know, my darling. Gwen, you do
want a little forming; and all these
young subs from the Speckhaven mess-
room are not just the most desirable
tutors for a young lady of sixteen. But,
hush! here is Colonel Trevanion. Don't
abuse Mrs. Ingrain before him. I fancy
he rather admires her."
"I dare say he does," responded Miss
Chudleigh, sulkily. "So does papa; and
they're both donkeys for their pains! I
don't care, Sybil; I'll say it again;
they're donkeys to let that painted. ar-
tificial, simpering widow bewitch 'em!
For She is painted! Didn't I see the pink
atains on the towel already? It must
have been a happy release for Ingram --
whoever he was—when the Lord, took
him. Ile's as solemn as Minerva and
her owl, this black-a.vised eousin of
yours Sybil; but I dare say she can
wind 'him round her little finger. I
know she can papa, and to all the rest of
the world he's as stiff and unchangeable
as the laws of what.youeriay-ealh'em—
Swedes tend Prussians. I only hope she
won't fascinate Mr. Macgregor, because I
like Macgregor ever so, and I want to
marry him myself in a year or two."
"Indeed!" laughed Miss Trevanion.
"You compliment my cousin's tenant
highly. Is Mr. Macgregor aware of your
strictly honorable intentions?"
"I. haven't mentioned 'cm yet," said
Gwendoline. been waiting to sec
how he takes you. My prophetic soul—
isn't that how they put it in the novels?
—warns inc that my cake is dough once
he .2neets La Princess°. He's handsome
and he's clever and he's famous, and he's
been over every get -at -able corner of the
globe, and he tall -s like s book—ever so
much better than lots of books I know—
ala he's a deau soot and a crack rider,
and all at helve with tho gloves ca. the
. But Sybil covered the rosy lips with
two taper fingers.
"Have a little mercy, Givendonne!
Don't chant the litany of Stint Angus
Macgregor any longer! He's but one de -
move from an angel, no doubt, and I
hate your angelic men, He loolcs big
enough ond strong enough for .anything;
but the days of the Iliad and Odyssey
are gone. We don't fall down end adore
men for their physical might now. I
don't want your big Seotehman, my
dearest Gwen; so propose, and weleome,
as soon as you like. Only make sure,
first, he hasn't left a harem away in
Stamboul. There is no trasting these
great travelers."
"And hero comes another of 'em," said
Gevendoline, eyeing Colotel Trevanion,
as 1m eame slowly up, with Ito great
favor. "He's the color of mahogany, and
ae dismal to look at as the Knight of
the Woful Countenartoe. Don't you mar-
ryhim, Sybil, for pity's sake! That
grim vieage baron the brealtfe,st table
would make you strychnine yourself be-
fore the end of the honeynicion."
The eoloneI reticle= them, and rade-
ed a due presentation to the rosy heir-
s of Chudleigh Chase, but he hardly
noticed her or her brief nod of aeknowl.
eclgment before he turned to his cousin.
"Reedworth tells Inc there are ?some
repeirs necessary at the rletreat, Sybil,"
he said, "The 4h1rnneys smoke, and the
upper chambers leak, and the stairways
are deeaying. As you are walking, sup.
pose you walk in that direction? I must
see about it, and I don't want the niedi.
aevalism of the old place spoiled,"
"Yee, Sybil," cut in Gwendoline, "come.
Mr, Meegregor has promised me Alfred
tic Musset, and I suppose oven Mrs In,
gram, prudish ae she it," with a spiteful,
sidelong glance at the colonel, "couldn't
object to my calling on a solitary gen-
tleirlan, with yOtt itlohg, to play propri-
ety. And, then, I'm dying to see what
?Jolt of a. muddle he livein. A haehe.
lor's menage is always in a muddle, isn't
it, Colonel Trevanion"
(Co be Continued.)
'irSerhat Is that noleel" asked the pre.
siding Silage, when a witness' voice wai
nearly drowned by a rasping uproar
outside the court, "Ity lord,' saki tho
coungel for the defendant. "t thinK it
is the plaintiff filing affidavit**
Tit.liits.
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WALSH'S EPITAPH.
"Good Godt There goes Walehl"
That was all that was said when the
third floor of the Equitable buildi g
gave way yesterday, but it was a t
tribute to William J. Walsh, battal on
ehief of the New 'reek fire department.
He was doing his duty, regardless of
the danger which is all in the day's
work of New York firemen. No man
who flinches or shirks finds life endur-
able in that eplendid service. Battalion
Chief Walsh knew the risks and took
his chances. The time came and Walsh
was gone, while the other firemen went
on with their work, and Walter Frost,
the battalion chief's driver, stood by the
empty wagon, weeping.
"Good God! There goes Walsh!" That
Is his epitaph. --New York Herald,
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Write to -day to Mrs. M. Summers, Box
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A KENTUCKY LIFE SAVER.
(Cadiz Record.)
..4.rthur Burnett is the most complete
and all round public official on the eourt
house equare, and comes nearer knowing
juat how to do than any of Mem. Vor
instance, when he got Ids perk a few
days ago he present ed the editor uf the
Record with a fine sample et his saus-
age, and we "so" did enjoy it. It is
strange that other officials, and for that
matter'many private individuals, do not
knoW Just how to do. like Arthur, but
we hope theY will learn better the next
hog killing time at least. We want to
thank Mr. Burnett and hie good wife
foe this kindness on their part. and to
assure them that the sausage was eer-
tainiy appreciated,
WOULD YOU LIRE THIS MUSIC?
IT IS OFFERED FREE!
A fine compoetiton for tfie pianoforte,
by the famous eompuser, -T. Miehael
Walefaa has been puoii,':ied by the Zam-
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make our readere the very 10ft1 offer
of a (alley of Ve March for simply pay-
ing poetage on elven,. The composition
is not very difficult, h.; quite within the
reach of young pianoforte players, and
is a wonderney effective piece of work.
TO .obtain a eopv, forward 2 vents (mit
of postage) to TIte Zam-Buk Co., Toron-
to, asking for a eopy, and. mentioning
this paper.
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REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
(New 'rork Press.)
A woman would rather have a tailor
cn,feeekd.ay. a year than a dressmaker every
m
You can tell how most people don't care
for you by how much they tell you they
do.
Good conduct takes rears to make an
impression; but when It's bad it makes
It right away.
When a girl acquirer; the habit of liking
to be in her own rodro for reflection she
has reached the love letter stage.
An open fireplace would be fairly com-
fortable for the family if the men or the
house didn't have to sit right in front or
it, and cut off all the heat.
TAM
E
The Arnett instituto treats the CAUSE.
not the HABIT, and permanently cures
the most hopeless looking t:azes In four to
eight weeks. Write for proofs, references
and information to 12
THE ANNOTT INSTITUTE, BEMIS, ONT., Cell.
EXPLAINED.
(Harper's Weekly)
"Heigho." sighed Mrs. Stoutly. "You
used to sit with your arm around my
waist. Sohn. but you never do it any
more."
"I'm sorry, dear," replied Stoutly, "hut
there are some things that, are borond
my reach."
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Don't For4et About Your Corns
Cure them in one night, by Putnam's
Oorn Extractor. It is sure, Gale and
painless, guaranteed to cure or your
money back, priee 25e,
Malta's Valuable Sponge Beds.
There are unworked sponge beds of
Malta Which eeem capable of profitable
development. Several yeara ago an ex-
perienced Greek sponge fisherman while
passing the island notited signs that
indicated the presence of sponges. Ile
tested several spots and upon institut-
ing diving operationis found beds front
whieh he gathered in one boatload
sponges valued at $0,000. The, sponges
were large and of a fair quality,
OOLD FIRES.
(Thittel° Times.)
Many Of the "cold spell" fires are
c(ueed bY crude methods in trying to
thew frozen water pipes.
fl -
FORESTRY IN EUROPE t
Worestry Press BUlletin NO. C4)
Tho Procluctive forest area in lelie on
the Grand Duchy Ilesso in Seurope
amounted to 182,203 acres. In gencrai
tire standing timber 1 composed ee 'guy.
nine Per cent. bardwood and thirty-one
P4r cent, coniferous foreet, The fir ranks
first among the cuniferous Species, The
ton! Yoe(' of luMber in WS INAS 4,5774009
cubic feet. Refuse in so Mr as It 14 not
Stiltable for lighter timber. ouch as lathe
ot tor pulp. Is 11Sert for firewood. me
expenditures tor salaries, forettt eultiva-
tion and road building amounted to an-
nrreelmateisr $754.000, and the teal groes
income Mom lumber anti firewoo(1) Watt'
$1,161.231. The capital represented by the
forests ($52.66i54) bruoght Interest ac-
cordingly at 2.21 per cent. Where inten.
sive forestry of this kind is practised,
forest tires are unknown. Suttiolent mon-
eY anent on Canadian forest Reserves
would greatly reouee the tire danger,
maintain an aclectuate lumber eupply for
tr.0 country and In time become a source
of revenue to the Government.
A HARD WORD.
(Pitt4borgi Gazette -Tires)
Dt,. rs4t of lebiladelphia pronounces
AcetYlMethlencdtralicYlio acid a sure (lure
fur rhoutnaelem. But he probably claesn't
°ere ebetic pronouncing it any oftener
than he can Lein.
Send for free sample to Dept. H. -L., Na-
tional Drug & Chemical Co.. Toronto,
THE LADIES' AID.
(Virginia Ryder, in the Chicago Record.)
We are a tog society,
Were called the Ladies' Md,
Our treasury is heapin' full
OP money we have made.
We held our annual meetin'
There wa'nt a vacant chair,
Tho room was just a-swarmite
With wimmen everywhere.
We hold these yearly meettngs
To vote the money out,
And peaces where it orter go
We know without a doubt
The deacons want the money
To pay up some old debt.
Says I—"they'll never get it
If I know myself—not yet."
Says I, "I move a hundred
Be put into the floer.
The carpet's old and faded
In places near the door,
The choir needs new nuteic,
The organ's got a. squeak.
Let's put eume shingles overhend
Where the roof has sprung a. leak."
Says I, "They ain't no sense at all
ln payins that old debt.
Just let them deacons dig like us,
And let them stew and fret."
The chairman rose and meele:y said:
'Your plen we can't resist,
The time is up—no argument,
The meetin' Is dismissed,"
And so is e spend the earldn'e
We have worked so hard to get,
And let the deacons figure out
The payment Qf the debt.
Dui if the task l beyond them,
The bills are still unpaid
They'll find finaneial backin'
In the faithful Laclies' Aid.
et
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STDPS COUGHS MNT115EdInis
OUR LITTLE BROTHERS.
They're in fur.
They're in feathers.
Are they're suffering.
1A,11ae. 'Me' a it: 1.ns tcan ourra a e
:11)1.01:.;te.rtlis I (I! rte
hliteitt (C!st
ak; klet:tF,titel,
ta by
others.
yva 'nn see, tiLat they invariably have
ertle I LY sheuld be immedi-
ately suppressed.
What is more cruel than trapping- ani-
mols in the VatrIOUS CentriVanCeS Ill tire?
Fancy how brave ie the hunter who
kil.s an animal in a trnr)—.*Ir even who
"gives It a ehenee rer its life" he shoot-
ing, it as it is liberatotl rind Mining 'with
one foot meneled one eragell'et
"just a minute, old chap. You're jusi;
the man I want to see'." No, I'm not. T
ean't spare it cont."—Washineton Herald.
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Write for pn.rticulars.
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A PAUPER'S SILK HAT.
(London Evening Standard.)
A man discharged trem the Bexley
'Workhouse has applied to the guardiann
for 34 shillnes Denee as vomponsation
fee damage to a sick hat which he was
wearing when fire!. taken to the install-
tien. A firm of carriers has already
paid him four shilings Os compensation
damage in transit to a silk umbrella far-
warclet3 to Lewisham, the parish to which
he belonged.
Minard's Liniment Cure Garget in
Cows.
CALL OF THE NIGHT.
Dark, and the wmdeinurred pines,
Will a glimmer of light between,
Then 1, entombeel for an hourleis night
With the world of things Whitten.
Mist, the dust of flowers,
Leagues, heavy with promise of onew,
And a beckoning read 'twixt vaie and
hill,
With the lure that all mural; knew.
A light, my window's gleam,
Soft, florin it.3 equares of red --
1 lose the ea() of the wilderness
And long for the fire instead,
You too know, old fellow?
Then lift up your head and bark,
It's just the call of the 10410401110 plume
The winds and the homing dark.
e-Djuna, Chappell Barnes in Harper'
Minard's Liniment Cures Diphtheria.
UNOONVENTIONALITIES.
"I'll do the beet I can to make a mud -
elan of your boy, madam; but he'd sue.
eeed better as a window washer.
"I like the candy you bring me, Ur.
Slguallop; but your eompany bores MO
beyond measure."
"Maria, there's going to be trotible if
you don't take your cold feet away
from the small of )21 back!"
"You knew well enough, Vnele Jona-
than, that we wouldn't entertain as ills.
ogreeable a nun as you if yon weren't
rich and ehildlo:s."
1 "Rinkle, you and 1 wovld get alontz all
right if you'd move to some neighbor-
hood where I never could eee you."
"Bobby, when you go home .will you
please tell yonr mamma that I think
she ought to wash your faee at least
onee or twice tt Werle:" Chiedgo Tri.
bun.
daed tNeribb !et's new play
end? Slebbs—Disaetrettely, attaiel.
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LEGAL TENDER.
Wherever you go in the whole wide
world,
There's alwaye one language is under-
stood.
There's always one sign that will make
you known,
There's always one coin that will pass
as good;
Be it north or south, be it east or west,
On land or sea be the path you roarn,
No matter the time or the place or the
folk—
Tis the kindly 'heart that wins a
home.
That bids the world bow at your feet;
The (lumen love in the human eye
Is the thing that wins you it welcome
Sweet,
The world is wide and its tongues aro
strange,
But one is the heart of eveay land,
And every man is your brother -man
If he feels your love as he grips your
hand.
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EE TO GIRLS'
We will give this beautiful extension{
r ce et Irce of all eharge to any girl
or young lady who will sell 40 sets
of our handsome Valentine, St, Patrick,
and other Postcards at 10 cents a set.
(six, beautiful cards In each set.)
The Extension Bracelet is of rolled
gold and fits any arm.
Seetel us your name, and we send you
the cards. When sold send us the money
and we send you the bracelet. Address ,
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DIFFERENT VIEWPOINTS.
(Pour Leaf Clover.)
OM Lady—There is one thing 1 notice
particularly about that young man who
calls to see you. Ile seems to have an
inborn. instinetivo resect for s‘uman.
Ile treats ever); womaai as though she
were a being from a higher sphere, to
be anproached only with the tamest del -
lea CV and deference.
• Granddanghter (sweet IS)--i'es, he's
horridly lan.,113ful.
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Minard's Liniment Co., Limited.
Dear Sirs, ---We wish inform you
that we consider your :\TI.N.XIM'S
LIX-
AMENT a very sly! crier artiele. and we
use it ne a sure relief for sore throat
and chest. When I tell y011 I would not
be without it if the priee was one dol-
lar a bottle, I mean it,
Yours truly.
CHAS, F. TILTON.
MOVING PICTURES FOR SOL-.
DIERS. .
(Pittsburg Gazette -Times,)
When Queen 'Victoria sent a box of
clic. eolates as a Ohristmes present to
every one of her soldiers id South A Mott
a stern old warrior eouid not repress a
few heated :Titlarks on the "mollycod-
dling" of modern lighting men. What
would he say now to the Italian Gavern-
inent's sehtme for cheering and entertain-
ing its troops in Tripoli by treating them
to moving picture shows? On New
Year's DaY in all the military camps
Wins will be exhibited portraying groups
Of soldiers' families 1 aking in most of the
cities, towns and villages in Italy.
WANTED
Wanted--Ladicen to .do plain and
light sewirig at home, whole or (Tare
time, good pay, work cent any distance,
charges paid; eend stamp for full par-
ticulars, .National Manufacturing Co.,
Montreal,
SHE WON,
(Montreal kIerad)
1tebb3', how la your sister? ask-
ed the parson,
"Oh, she sick in bed: hurt herself
terribly." replied the Youth.
"rm sorry to hear that, now did it
tupn"
ee?
'we were reeving who could lean the
farthest out Of the wIndoW,--and she
won,"
ISSUE NO. 5, 1912
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THE NA.DRUNCO. ALMANAC
FOR 1912
A good almanac is ever weleorae. The
annual number of the Na-Dru-00.
manna, the 1912 edition, now out, is
if anything mere interesting and more
useful than its two predeeetesore.
Besides the usual solar and lunar
tables and dates of eelipses, the NaeDru
Co, Almanac gives much information
which it would be diffieult to find else-
where, Examplas of thie are the Map
of Altitudes, Time Tables of the World,
Figures on Area, Population, Exports
and Governom-aencral, etc.
Nearly all leading druggists have cop.
ice of the Na-Dra.Co, Almanac for their
cuetomers, or it may be had by writing
the National Drug & Chemical Co., of
Canada, Limited, Montreal.
•
NEW ROLLING STOCK
FOR GRAND TRUNK
To augment present equipment, the
Grand Trunk Syetem hasrecently plac-
ed ordeis for ON- Or four thousand cars of --
various kinds. These include 44 passen-
ger coaches, 23 baggage cars, 300 box
eors and 1,000 coal cars. In addition
to the above, 048 ears of all kinds have
been received from the manufacturers
and put into serviee during the past
three month.
Minard's Liniment Cures Colds,. Etc.
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WINTER—NOW AND THEN.
(Chicago Tribune.)
!lave we lost the stamina of our fore-
fathers, the hardihood of former genera-
i(.us which brushed 511015' off the beA
eovers when it sifted down througt
tracks in the roof, dreSsed in cold 1oolus7'.
brok€. an ineh of lee in the water bucket,:..
washed. did the chores and at heartily
of perk sausage and cakes? They ha
winters in those days. They had thern•
witheut steam heat, electrically warmed
street ears, comfortable means of loco-
motion. comfortable places of work, and
comporfable places of habitation.
They aecented winter as a winter and
did not make great fuss about it. Even
Intel. when the sirm* bad no chance to
sift through the root nnd when the hard-
wood heater or the glowing base burner
suoplied a measure of heat all night
ling. they accepted. "below zero" as a
thing of nature's ordering and thought
nothing particular of it.
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THE BEST EDITORIAL.
(Austin Statesman.)
We are going to enter that cOntest for
the Joseph Pulitzer prize tor the best
cditerial in an AMOriVall newspaper dur-
ing the year. The editorial has just
been written. There is not a Chance for
the editorial not to win. As soon as
the money is delivered we are going 11)
huy r farm and use tie office paste -pot
as a water trough for the chickens. The
editorial which is going to win the prize
follows: Come to Texas.
Minard's Liniment Cures Distemper.
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THE WHISKERS:
(Buffalo Times)
Dr Wiley warns young women against
Riese= men with whiskers. Good graelout
dector, nobody much wears whttskera
thee days except J. Ham Lewis of the
nink ones and a former gevernor 01
NeW York likened to a feather duster.
Ani the former governor has modIfied
hht now to a great extent.
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