Loading...
HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1912-02-15, Page 6AS SOMETIMES HAPPENS. (Puck Xerilei Are ea 4 eon with ole kainsey, theib.1,a era .Ka.'-iitenovraelici•-Very Maio. We are rearriva now. Vcti knew, 4 ; ; NOT IN HER FAMILY. (Luse ,11rfro. !!!eelcille--.1"ovr son Is one of t. advaneva thialzere !stet hea Mre ecoltus-sretz, !lee an id -a he do, etimied troni a uonitey, hat 1tee, ;Ina se he dM it rnu 1vQ bee ti on his fate ex's side, • 4 - $ CUT-OFF IN THE BUD. Memos Indestrialista Pablo Moreno died a Jew daYs ago le Senora aged le7 years, 140 had "Betoken eigerettee tor 115 years and lived on ;entree 'food." according to tile nowt) de- enatches. But it was the eigarettem that hitrt in the opinion of .Professor W. d. UrXeever. . s. LOOKING AFTER FIDO. (Detroit Free Frees.) "No eggs ,thie morning, Mary?" "No, sir, there's only two left, and tee missus left strict orders to give them to Vida for his brea.efast." THE STAGE. (,Tudze.) Stelia-Ie her marriage announced? ilell-Tee, now it only needs to be de- nounced ane renounced. •-•-• A LONG FELT WANT, (New York Sun,) lieicker-Is Jones a mechanical gerilue? 13ocker-Yes; he is tryiig. to invent a furnace that will heat the Janitor _last. - GETTING OFF EASY. (Puma) Adam in the Garden of Wen had Just named the animals. pretty big Job," he announced, "but Jrnit think of the fellow who will have to nttme ale the difieases." Herewith he pitied his posterity. A GREAT IDEA. (Boston Transcript.) "Heard about the latest insurance scheme?" "No; what lee ite" "Why, the company agrees to pay ali- rOOnY to both partlefs 1i caee the mar. rlage turns out a failure." „rip -4 WILLING TO COMPROMISE, (London Opinion.) Unties (who had been bit with a golf vIll bat you in the law courts for Ills. I vill Sue you for 25 datnages! OcIfee-But surely you heard me shout "fere?" Iesites-Right1 vill take it t THE WORST HANDICAP. (Philadelphia Record.) aVigwag-What do you find the gteatest drawback to a literary career? *Scribaler-Return postage. t COMFORT, (Puck.) air. Flubdub-You women are mighty elow. During the time it took you to se- lect that hat I wentout and made $20e. ;gm Flubdub-I'm so glad, clear. You'll need it. _CHANGED CIRCUMSTANCES. (Washington St aro "I can't remember' when you had to work eight hours a day," sped the old- time friend. "Yes," repliee Mr. Dustin Stax; "things are different. Now 1 have to worry 16 hours h day." r f HELPING HIM OUT. (Boston Transcript.) airs,. Gotham -Your cousin's legal pract tice. I suppose, doesn't amount to much vete Zit's. Lakeside -No, I'm sorry to say, We relatives cto all we can, but, of course, we can't be getting divoreee all the time. eesee*— THE INTREPIDITY OF DAMOCLES (New York Sun.) Damocles explaiaed his fearlessness. "I knew the sword wasn't sharp, be- en -4s° his wife had used it to "Sharpen a pencle," he cried. 4 ; DEEP-SEA VERSION. (Puck.) Tonaray Cod -what is it they call a. pesairnist, Pa? Pa Cod -A pessimist, my son, is a, fish who thinks there is a hook in every sv oral. • a 3 ANOTHER FORM OF EXPRESSION (Philadelphia, Record.) Tommy -Pop, 'what do the dramatic critics mean by spontaneous applause? Ternrny's Pop -It is tnerely another way of saying the ushers are earning their salaries, my son. s A BURDEN ON HIS SHOULDERS. (Cleveland Plain Dealer.) "What caused Griggsby's rapid down- fall?" "Why, an alleged friend gave him a furlined overcoat and he couldn't live al) to it." OOLLEGE RHYMES. (Lippincott's Magazine.) A young Vassar student named Jean Was the fattest young chap ever Sven, But she caught a bad cough, That motet carried her off. And now she is called Vassar -lean. e 7 1 TOO LONG A TARGET. (Boston Transcript.) Istattatve.y-I'm going to leave the Stage. Friend -You'll be miseed if you do, old ma. Rattaway-That's Just the reason rm going to retire. I'm tired of being hit. A HELP TO PROMPTNESS. (Lippincott's Magazine.) .erotious vole over the phone -Doctor, please hurry over to our houee. One of the eternity Ms suddenly been stricken with a fainting fit. Is there atiything Yon want ready when you get here, so that there will Wm) time lost? Doetora-Yee-er-you May aave ray fee ready. ass- a • WHAT IT IS CALLED. (New York Sun.) Welles-Is Mabel trying to cath Jack? Bella -Well, elle is working up a spon- tfr,t)60%18 demand for herself, PREDICTION, (New YorinSunn Stella-Dld ho put on your Sitate? 1.101113-..Y0P, Net year be will be hook - me up the back. ON FARMING. (13altitaore Sun.) "Vather„" asked Johnny, "what is the deffereece between farming and agrieul- ture?" "Well, tny eon, for faimi.ng you need a plow and a harrow and other linpie. monte, and for agritulture all you need hs A penell And t ,plects ot paper." THE TICKET DIDN'T TICK, (Banton Transeript. Moore --My sense of hearing is the keeilest everbo you know 1 ean hear your Wrath ticking although you are sIX fiN't AVIV. prAirben you ar* n. worakr. aty v.aitch Is at the tialtnbtoker's six blocks ettetlee ARGUMENT -UM AD HOMINEM, 4C'h1ssgo TrIbmie.) Doetor--`atest of tits sieknere (tellies from what wo oat and drink. People are not Ittelf nartieniar ersough litmus what thsv salt into their mouth'. TIrf, Profeesor (snilliet..--•••!), they're tett, fro ou often sn. ..(3 t'1 a (agar sze t!tnt? tn _ 0 RIMZIOZIZZOISOMMOZIMUMOtt ma Sybil's, Doornazz X224122222913ZSIWZIMEMZUSIZMUZ But Colonel Trevanion, did not nuswer. 'They •wcre crossing some fields within a, quarter of a mile of Monkswoetl, and the Indian ()Weer was looking before him with, for s. hero, rather a startled expres- sion of face. Sybil followed bie gaze, Red turned pale; Gvendol:n looked and uttered a shriek. ?or there, straight in their path, between them and the boundary wall. stend .4 huge white bull, with every hair and every horn bristling with fiery rage. The searlet feather in Mise Chudleigh's• pork -pie hat, and the seerlet saeh, she wore picturesquely over her shoulder and knotted under her' arm had caught his lordship's eyes and eet his back ap di once.. The huge head was lowered, the eye -balls, glared, and a, long, low ominous bellow warned them of the wrath to come. Lord! Oh, good gracious!" gasped. Gwendoliae, clutching Syhil's arlint,"Oh, Colonel Trevanion! ol,, Her ejaculations ended in a long, wild shriek of affright, for the ball, with a second terrific bellow, was making straight toward the ret: plume and scarf. And Colonel Trevanion, hero of se handred Indian victories, invincible in Russian trenches and Balaaclava, heights, turned ingloriously and -fled! Yes, fled! in half a dozen bounds he wa sover the stone waR and safe, and the girls were left in the middle of the field to face their doom alone. But the guardian angels of the two. heiresses were surely on the lookout that day, for ere Taurus, foaming and enraged, could reach them, a wild halloo Tong through the field -a man leaped the stone wall and planted himself full in his path -au impromptu matador. The angry animal etopped, attracted by his new foe'who armed with a huge stick, stood between him and the scar- let plume. "For God's sake, fly! run for your lives! Charley! Charley! take them away - face the bull!" called a boars breathles voiee-the voice of Mac- gregor, the tenant of the Retreat. Stunned, bewildered, half blind, Sybil and. Gwendoline wound themselves .hur- ried along by Charlie, who appeared be- fore theta as if he, too, had arisen out of the bowels of the earth. They reach- ed the boundary wall, they were over it, arel the instant Miss Chudleigh found herself in safety, of course, her first act was to go off into a dead faint. • But Sybil never looked at her, Yele, breathless, terrified, her • sole thought • was for the man who had saved her • life. HOW he managed it she never could tell; but in two minutes he had leaped the wall, and stood in safety by _ her side. "Sharp work, eh, Charley?" with a - slight laugh. "Good. evening, Miss Tre- vanion," bowing with as easy courtesy as though the late skirmish had been a , contest with an excited turkey gobbler. 'I hope hi sangry lordship in the field yonder did not frighten you very much? Ali, how's this? Miss Chudie.gh faint- ing!" "Don't distress ythirself," said Charley, who was plentifully sprinkling poor - Gwen with water; "I'm bringing her to.. And when I've brought her to, rm go- ing to hunt up the gallant Colonel Vanion, and. bring him too, also, find him in a death -like swoon, sworn, behind the nearest hedge. lie ought to eeter himself as the favorite for the Derby. There isn't a racer in all England can beat his time, making for the boundary wall." Again Macgregor laughed. , "He who fights and runs away, May live to tight another day.' Thezai's Miss Chudleigh opening her eyes. Really, Charley, you ought to take out your diploma. Your skill in bringing . round swot:mires females isn't to be sur- passed. My ''d.ear Miss Gwendoline," bending over her, as that young lady hasn't quite drowned. you? Ile didn't lady, with rather a wild expression of countenance, sat up, "I hope Charley hasn't quite drowned you? He didn't spareseold water -P11 say that fer him." "The bull!" eaaped Gwendoline. 'Oh, good good gracious, that horrid brute! Waere are eve? He can't get us, can her' "No, he can't," said Charley; "and if he could, Gwen, here's Macgregor and 1 -a match for a, whole herd. You're as right as a trivet, and righter, if possible." "Were you going to head him off with that bamboo switch, Charley?" asked Macgregor. It would have been a novel sort of bull -fight, certainly." Charley held up the switch in ques- tion, and snapped Alin two. "'My loss has paid my folly's tax, I've broken my trusty battle-axe.' Oh, by Jovel here comes the hero of a hundred fights, and as chap -fallen a hero as I've sen this month of Sundays. Mace- gregor, you paint -here's a subject for your next pieture, Coeur de Lion run- ning, like mad, from an excited bull, end leaving two young ladies to face him alone. Ab., colonel!" with mock polite- ness, "J. trust I see you none the worse for your recent little-aheml-frigltt. We were going to hunt you up --thought you might be in a faintitg fit some- where, and egadt you don't look unlike it this moment." * Truly he did not. His dark face had turned of an ashen white, and his fierce black eyes had a wild, vengeful glare as he turned them upon the speakers rle Muttered something:, hoarsely and Weo. berently-no one knew what -and Chars ley looked with a cynica, lease, and listen- ed with it pitiless face. 'The Trevitnion blood never breede cowards, eh, my colonel? So eve'll call it eonstitutional caetion. Gracious! though the constitutional eantion would have been unf,irtunate f)r the girls, if Mae- gregir hadn't chanced along. Sybil, I never knew you ungrateful before. Isn't it worth a 'thistle you' to save your life':" She had been standing, white as a sta- tue of stow, with 'many conflicting em- otions, and quite unable to speak. At her brother's rebuke she turned to her pre,server, and held out her hand. "I am not ongrateful," she seid, in Ve!'y low voice, "Mr, :Macgregor will not think so badly of me as that." "I. call never think otherwise thap Well of Mi ee Trenanien," he said, with grave courtesy, hie eye e litgering on that pure white hand with its one Spail.ling solitaire, "Ae for you, my dear Charley, I think you had much better hold yowl' tongue, and give your aria to Mise anidleigh. Who looks fit to drop. Make sure there are no wit. quadiupeds,. for the future, in the iiel.ie you CVOS& With Scarlet mettle and fecs,:iere, my dear Miss 6%tendo31tie. Yea've 'heroine, bend a doubt, but bet Where angrybu1 are concerned. You fainted in the most upproVed faiths ion, in the 'ArillS of your preserver!' aa the Radcliffe romances have ite-tnean- ing Charley, of course. It was quite a tableau. Miss Trevanion, we are very near the Retreat. You will do me the honor of eoining in and resting for a few moments, I trust," ne offered her his arm, and Sybil took it at once. Had he not saved her life, and wt e there not a subtle charm about the nun iliat bent them all to his will "You, too, eolonel," Ito said, courte- ously, "We have to settle about those repairs, you know. It will be altogether a charitable net, Miss Trevanton,' , with one of his light laughs, "for visitors at my humble wigwam are like angels, few and far between," Macgregor's pretty dwelling, with its clustering roses, its climbing ivy, its sweetbrier and honeysuckle, came in sight even while he spoke. The red glory of the sunset blazed on its diamond - paned casements, and turned the water - pools in the misty woodland into pools of blood. The deaf old woman who. "did" for Mr. Macgregor stood in the vine -wreath- ed door -way, like an ancient Venus framed in sweets, and dipped a conr- teey to her master and his guests. "Welcome to the Retreat, Miss Tre- vanion," he said, throwing open a door to the right of the spacious entrance - hall. "This Is my drawing -room, atelier, smoking -room, study -all in one. You'll overlook the general topayeturvyness of things I trust. Mrs. Dobson, here, does her best; but really I never could be brought to `see the beauty of order. Throw off those books and papers, Char- ley. They can't be in a worse muddle than they are now," Sybil and Gwendoline dropped into seats, and looked about them with con- siderable curiosity. Certainly it was a scene of "meet admired disorder," yet' fastidiously elean, and possessing a cers tain element of the picturesque through all the confusion. The bare walls were literally covered with pictures -many of them prieeless gems -all beautiful in their way. In oi e corner stood an eattel, with a covered canvas; in another a writing -desk, strewn with MSS., proofs, books, and all the paraphernalia of au- thorship. Aad there were pistols and sabers, and fencing -foils, and tobacco - boxes, and dice -boxes and meerschaums, and lorgnons, statuettes, and parrots, and cockatoos, and canaries in cages, and geraniums in pots, a piano, a violin, rio end of fishing -rods and the novels of Paul de liotle-all the unsanctified thousand and one things of a bachelor's apartment. The old woman who "did" for the owner of this apartment, vanished, and presently reappeared with Mr. Fran - eels, the valet, laden with wine and cake and grapes and peaches, for the ladies. And Gwendoline, who had regained all her brusque insouciance, partook of the fruit and fluttered about the room, looking at everything and lost in ad- miration. . "Just -hear this lovely green parrot chattering Wench, Sybil! I wonder if Mrs. Ingram would approve of his ac- cent. Do yont play the violin and piano both, and paint pictures and write books, too, Mr. Macgregor'? Dear me, you're distressingly clever! It really makes my poor'head spin to think of it! And we may look at the pictures, may- n't we. And I may take this cover off, mayn't I? Oh, Sybil, how sweet! Just come here." She had whipped the screen from the painting on the easel, and stood wrapped in admiration before it. The artist had made a slight motion as though to pre- vent her, then checked himself and etood a little aside, his lips compressed under his dark beard. Sybil arose and, went over. A moment she looked; then she uttered ar faint ejaeulation, and her eyes turned full upon the artist in mute inquiry. It was an evening scene -an avenue with waving trees -park gates in the foreground, and the turrents of a state- ly mansion rising in the distance. A tall, slender young man stood holding a little girl - a mere child - in his arms„ his tall form bent over her. You could see neither fuse distinctly, but he was in the act of placing a ring upon her finger. And under the trees erouelied a weird figure gypsy -faced old erones-Tglaring upon the youthful pair with malign old eyes l3eneath was written: "Until we meet again." "Very pretty, indeed," said Charley„ with his eustomary drawl; "only why won't they let us eee their countenances, and what's tbe elderly party under the trees making faces for? She's not in love with that slim young man, and jealous of the little one, is she? By George! the ancient dame isn't unlike old Crazy Hester." "And the place looks like Monks - wood," added Owendoline. "Couldn't they have faced the company, Mr, Mac- gaegor, as well as not? Nice, isn't it? Sybil! Why don't you say something? I never knew you tongue-tied before.' And then, without waiting for a reply, the volatile baronet's daughter darted off at a new tangent, and pounced upon a portfolio of sketches upon the table. "Charley, eotne and untie the etringe I -adore pictures, you know. How Mr lfacregox finds time to (16 all these things, and lie under the trees and smoke the way he does, is a mystery to me." Mr. Macgregor paid no heed to the compliment. He was standing, a half smile on his face, looking at Sybil's puzzled, wistful inquiring countenance. One or twice elle looked at him. with a half -formed question on her lips, and each time noting those etear dark eyes; her own fell and her eolor rose. The inquiry she would bave made died OB her lips. She turned away abruptly and walked over to the table' where Gwendoline and Charley animatedly dieetteeed the contents of the portfolio. "Crosseings a brook with pitchers.' They're always erossing brooks with pitelsers and always in their bare feet. 'Heron drinking out of a eolitary pool.' How thirsty the heroiat invariably are in water color's! 'Speiring fortunes.' Oh, of course, the everlasting red *leak and gyro face, and she'charmingly pretty, and the gentlemen's a perfect love. And --elt? why, good gracious me if there isn't 3.1Irs. Ingram!" Gwendoline jerked out a sketeli in a violent, hurry and held it up to general view. It tral3a water-eolor-a woman's head„ with long, almond eyes and melt- ing smile. And beneath, ixt peneil, "A Roo Full of Thorne." "It is Mrs. Ingram, by Jupiter!" ex- claimed. Charley. "I say, Macgregor, where did you ever cee the little WittOW Alla /10W 110 you come to be so deuced uneomplimentary? 'A rose full of thorns'. it you hear that, tolonell Be warned In time." Sybil looked Swiftly over her shoulder at the artist, lie was *tending behind her brother, and the darkly handsome face had turned a dead white. "The original of that pleture Is &ad," Ito said, lwareely. "I don't kaow your .1N1'14itialttl'a4tlit.e"ti, you've painted ter!" said Chariey, "the original may be dead ten times over, but that's 2Mrs. Ingram to a elear certainty, and a capital like- ness, too, If' be doesn't believe us he can step over to Chudleigh Chase -Ob, Gwen? --and eatiefy himself es soon as he pleaece," "I think we had better go,".said Sybil, rising hurriedly; "mamma will fancy I am lost. It will be quito dark before we reach borne, and there is no moot to -night," "With Colonel Trevanion to protect you, what need you fear?" said Charley, firing a, parting shot at the Indian of. fieer. "Come, Miss Chudleigh, you met tear yourself away from Macgregcyr and Ido manifold, attractions. Time in on thci'hlevilltrgi" odeparted-their host made no attempt to detain them. The dead white - MSS that had settled on his face Wa6 there still when he bid them good even- ing -there still, 'when, an hour later, he leaned over his garden gate, watching the summer eters come out and glimmer In their golden beauty on the till black pools. "And I thought her dead," he said, between his teeth; "and once more she rises before me where I had hoped even to: forget her memory. Oh, my God. am 1 never to be free?" OHA.PTER XIV. The pretty Iii(tle widow who bad Conte to "form" that fast young lady, Miss Gwendoline Chudleigh, made het. self entirely at home at ChIldleigItChase. It was a very pleasant house -the rooms large, lightsome, elegant -Sir Rupert's French cook was an artist, and the dainty little widow was it gourmande itt her way, and liked her sparkling Moselle, her hock, and her Cliquot. It was a very pleasant house, and the hospitable baronet entertained some very pleasant people; and if his daughter's governess and companion had been A duchess, he could hardly have treated her with more courtly Grandisonian respect, It was every eo much nicer than at Trevan- ion Park, with only fidgety Lady Lemox, and her high stepping, proud eyed daughter, and aothing better to flirt with than a flippant Eton boy. For Mrs. Ingram dearly loved flirting -she was a coquette, and, as Miss Trevanion had said of her, would make eyes at the stable lads, if no better game was to be had. But better game was abundant at Chudleigh Chase. First of all, there was the baronet himself, upon whom old point and floating draperies, and plump shoulders and, perfumed tresses, and long, ahnond eyes were never thrown away. And there were the officers of the rifle brigade, very heavy swells, in- deed, from the colonel, who wrote his name high in the peerage, to the dashing young subs,- with the green down yet callow on their military chins, and who invariably lost their heads at the first sight of the gorgeous widow. Arid there were the county magnates, ponderous young quires in top boots and pink coats, with mutton -chop whiskers, and an everfed look, like their own Durham cows, who stared at the brilliant little lady in speechless admiration, and whis- pered clunssy compliments in her pretty pink ear after dinnir in the drawing- room.- And lastly, there was Cyril Tre- vanion-hero and knight -errant -a mod- ern corsair as to his mysterious moodi- ness, who lived but in, her divine pres- ence, and who glared ferociously upon everything masculine that dared ap- proach her. Sir Rupert Chudleigh had been one of the first to call upon the returned heir of,Monkswood-his old friend's son -and welcome him heartily ,back to England. But the returned. heir 'had met the bar- onet's courteous advances with that si- lent sulkiness that appeared his normal state. .0 ' "Your cousin is very much changed, my dear Miss Trevtinion," Sir Rupert had said to Sybil, stroking his beard thoughtfully; "changed out of all knowledge, and not for the better, I re- gret to say. The Trevanions were al- ways gentlemen -thorough -bred; but your cousiu-I give you my word -he is as rude as the most uncouth boor in Sussex. And I remember him sixteen years ago, with the polished manners of a prince regent himself." Nevertheless, Sir Rupert invited the ex -colonel to Chudleigh Chase, and the ex -colonel, finding his Circe an inmate of the house, aecepted at once, and haunted the manor as a ghost. The elderly, elegant baronet frowned a little at these too assiduous attentions. "The fellow is a fool as well as a boor. He's after that little woman like a ferret after a rabbit, a terrier after a eat, or a hound after a fox. He'll want her to marry him next -the super- human idiot, and. he'll fetch her to Monkswood, and shut her up with the prior's ghost, and feed her on greens and bacon, and shoot any man who so much looks at her. And to think that that scowling, sullen, ill-mannered lout - for he is a lout -should be Ewes Tre- vanion's son, with the best blood of the kingdom in his veins. And yet why need. 1 talk -there's Gwendoline-no milkmaid in the country was ever more rustic than she. It must be that the old blood degenerates-more's the pity! I only hope Mrs. Ingram won't be a fool and. listen to Trevanion. He's as poor as a rat, and the little Edith is ambitious. I dare say she would like to become my Lady Chudleigh, and dis- play the family diamonds on that su- perb neck of hers, and reign Lady Para- mount at the county balls. She's capi- tal style, past mistress of the art of dress -looks like one of Leln's woolen, with their ripe figures and smilinglips and scented curls; or Reynold's brights eyed, laughing girls, who bewitch you from the canvas. I admire her immense- ly, and like to look at her exceedingly - but as to marrying her ---no, My dear Mrs. Ingram -I'll do anything for you but that. Pll pay you any reasonable yearly salary you like -I'll listen te your delicious little chansons and bal. lads -I'll play eeatte with you -4'11 ad- mire your exquisite toilets -I'll pay you high-flown compliments. but as for mak- ing you Lady Chudleig'h, no, madam, I never will." But Mrs. Ingrain could not read, clever as she was, the baronet's eons- placent thoughts, and. her motto WO still "hope ort." She spent two or three hours a day over her toilets, and came down to dinner as elaborately dressed as though the baronet entertained a perpetual dinner•party. She had diamonds, and opals and cmeraldjr, whose radiance made you wink again; moires and bro. eades stiff enough in their richness to stand aloe°, They were rather sus. pieious, those eplendid jewels, seeing that governesses, poor things, as it rale, don't sport such splendor; but Mrs, lngram looked up at you with tears in the Soft, luminous dark eyes, and told you how "poor, darling Harry" -the late lameeted ingrain -had given her •the diamonds and opals, and her grate of Strathbane, the emeralds; tend how could you be monster enough to doubt t6yheetotroth of those itinocettt, tearful (To be Continued.) It takes twice as long to figure out how to avOld doing it thing as it dOsit to do it. Witaltingtott Voet, 'MARVELOUS' CUBES OF SKIN ERUPTION Four Children Constantly Scratching. Nearly Tore Limbs Offs Cured in a Month by Cutioura Soap • and Ointment "Two ot rnv daughters and two of my sons were suffering from very bad heads, the doe - tor ordering my daughters to have all their, 9 hair cut oti so se to prevent it from *reading all over their heads, and to et tot 1:03 etirlreot ouS ebbaloot In ^ able to r u b 4 601114 0 -in t - § Le gave them, ment, which "lita w„eerie'3,in' thehesa sores ssntalratsidt / 111 blOtellea larger and larger and then' burrthaienhd spgrecladt all over their heads, and in some cases down their backs and bodies. The doctor eakt it Was eczema, Out they seemed to be daily getting worse. The sores formed like little boils, then filled with matter, and looked like abscesses. They became an inflamed and irritated, calling them to be constantly scratching themselves. This made the sores burst, and the matter flowed all over their heads. We had to cut their finger nails and at times to put gloves on their hands, the irritation was so bad, to keep thezn from digging into the flesh, and at eight they would nearly tear their limbs off. The bolsters would be literally covered with blood. "The teachers would not let them attend school for fear of infection spreading among the other children, so I resolved to try the Cuticure. Remedies, which I found to benefit my children greatly I continued with, the Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment for one month, and the result is a marvelous cure." (Signed) George Arthur Robinson, 37, Fitzwilliam St. Hovland common, w.Barnsley, Yorks., inn.. .an. 8, 1911, Although Cuticura Soap and Ointment are mold throughout the world, a liberal sample of each, with 32-p. book on the skin will be sent free, on application to Potter D. es C. Corp., 40 Columbus Ave., Boston, IL S. A. THE WAIL OF BUSINESS. We don't ask favore or charity; We're not the sort who are standiag pat. We're merely asking where we are at. One Court says "Ila!" and the other "Hum!" Another "Tweedle," another "Dum!" Meantime we're getting a deal that's raw - We want to be lawful -but what% the law? We awnt to be lawful -but what's the use With all this opinion running looset To -day we're right and to -morrow wrong; Now, how the detwe ean we get along When the law's a 4atter of hide-and- seek That shifts and changes from week to week? What comfort or moral can be draw We want to be lawful -but what's the la.vs? We want to be lawful, and will be, too, If you'll tell us certainly what to do; Federal license, or what you please, Only -give us some sense of ease; Leave tis somewhere but up in the air (We're horribly insecure up there); We're weary of legal phrase and flaw - We want to be lawful -but what's the' law? -Berton Braley, in Puck. IIINARD'S LINIMENT CO., LIMITED. Some time -ago 1 had it bad attack of Quinsy which laid me up for two weeks and eost a lot of money. Finding the lump again forming in my throat, 1 bathed freely with MLNARD'S LINIMENT, and saturating a cloth with liniment left it on all night. Next morning the swelling tvets gone and I attributed the warding off of an attack of Quinsy to the free use of asTNARD'S LINIMENT. G. P. WORDEN. St. John. ALL HIS WEALTH IN ONE BAS- KET. • (Chicago Tribune.) '‘Officer, would you mind walking a. block or two with me? I have to Pasts a, dark alley a little way ahead." "Got too much money wid ye " "Money nothing. I've got a pound of butter, four eggs and six slices ee bacon. When Your Eves Need Care Try furine Eye Bente y. No Smarting--Feele Fine -Acts Quickly. Try it for Red, Weak, Watery Eyes and Granulated Syelids. illus- trated took In each Package. Murine is conwunded by our Oculists -not a "Patent Med- icine -bnt used in successful Physicians' Prac- tice for many years. Nov dedicated to the Pub- lic and aold by Druggists at 25e and 50c per Bottle. Muerte Bye bin,lve in Aseptic Tubes, 260 and 60e. Murine Eye Remedy Co., Chicago VOICES OF THE NIGHT. (Chicago Tribune.) "Maria, you're going to be late for the Iopera again, as ueual." "Well, good night Mrs. Jipee. We've lutd a splendid tt,rne. Good night!" I Go oeovdernytig.g ? Well, ggaoionci night.'eto1night, "God night. You must come and see us soon. Good night." "We will. Isn't this your umbrella? Well good night., • "No; we didn't bring any. Good night." "Good night. WeenJoyed your call ev- er so much. Good night." "Good night." "Good night." 41-04. Minard's *Liniment Cure Garget in Cows. PARAFFIN. A few drops of paraffin applied to it eut or gash, will give instant relief and completely heal it in a few henna A small quantity added to the water for bollitig while clothes will make them a beautiful color. Two tablespoonfuls mixed with it bucket of boiling water in which tables or boards are to be scrubbed will render them beautifully white and smooth. With the addition of a small lump of lard paraffin mane an exeellent subeti- tute for cycle lamp oil, and gives a steady, clear light. WHEN THE SLEEPER AWAKES, .8lte-What did you naeari by kissing me when I was asleep in the hammock this Morring? Only tobit, one little one. She -You didn't. I counted at leest seven before 1 awoke. A 4‘ FARMERS DO NOT PRODUCE ENOUGH". To the Editor ef The Globe: The above Is the heading of all editorial in The Globe of Saturday, the ath and. the first senteixec eentaitni the fol. lowing: "One came of the high coet of living is the failure of farmers to raise on their farms as Mileh as they might do with profit to themselves and improvement to their farms." 'fad you finished the sentenee at the word "do" you eurely would have uttered it tru- nun, The latter part of the sentence, however, robs it of that virture, and leaves it open to a good deal ofdisous sion. Farmers, no doubt, make many itnd quite serious mistakes, but I think it will curely be admitted that they are the best judges itS to the amount ofr production that produces the greatest profit. Even so good an authority as Dr, Rutherford, who in Tueeday's Globe points out the decline of the beef in- dustry, would find it very difficult did he attempt to pomade the farmer that the production of two dozen eggs at fifteen cents it 'dozen is mare profitable than the production of one dozen at thirty cents. Farmers, not only once; but on two or three occasions during the past fifteen years, made the mis- take of overproducing in the hog line, and The Globe is quite familiar with the results. The election returns (Lillie de- monstrated the fact that the great weight of opposition to larger mark- ets came from the urban eenti•es. Then 'why not allow the farmer quietly to enjoy the satisfaction he gets from watching the cost of living soar up- wards? Without wishing to be at all resent- ful, permit the thought that, should the cost of living reach to an intolerable height, the farmer will still be found producing for himself and family an abundance esf the necessities of life. The farmer will hardly be excused of being a trifle selfish, since that is a charac- teristic common to all men. J. W. HAY. Troy, Ont. Sickness is usually caused by the accu- mulation of waste matter and impurities within the body. Dr. Morse's Indian Root Pills, enable the bowels, the kidneys, the lungs and the pares of the skin to throw off these impurities. Thus they prevent or cure dits. ease. 25c. a box. •1•111•0•110....aormommoromarm WARMER HOUSES. (Stratford Beacon.) Build warmerhouses and save fuel is a lesson which the Peterborough Exam- iner draws from the recent cold snap, It points to the fact that it would also rave plumbers' bills and the houses which wouia he tvarmer in winter would be coder in summer. This hi good advice if people in preparing the houses to re. thin the heat would also not forget that if the air Is entirely oi• almost entirely shut out the house Is unhealthy, There does not seem to be any syetem of venti- lation yet invented which is perfect laid does away with the necessity of opening, windows. Of eout•se, if the notils of a house are so constructed flti to keep out the cold or rather retain the heat, when windows are opened it can afterwards be more easily brought up to the requisi- ite temperature than if they allowed tne heat to eseape, and the Beacon agrees with the Examiner that for the trifling difference in the entire cost a house should, like a , street, be bulit perma- nently. Minard's Liniment Cures Distemper. , A FIRE PREVENTION PLAN. (Pittsburg Galsette-Tirries.) New York City's fire loss in 3911 ac- cording to Commissioner Johnson's re- port, Just issued, was $S,C00,000, London's was about a third of that, New York has COO fires a year for every 10,000 inhabi- tants, Berlin has 07, London 81, Paris 74, St. Petersburg, 73, and Vienna 50, Coin- missioner Johnson eaye New York is speading $8,000,000 it year on its fire de- partment, which Is concerned solely with the extinguishing of fires, and he sug- gests that a little ofthis money might be invested advantageously in the ounce of prevention that proverbially is worth a ton of cure. ITis idea is that there should be a bureau of experts devoting their entire time to eliminating danger- ous conditions and educating householders and others in protective measures. Warts Rentoved Without Pain, Putnani's Painless Wart and Corn Ex- tractor never fails to remove Warts, Corns or Bunions, without pain, in a few h,ours. Give Putnam's a trial, price 25e. - Canadian PO Wood in the United States. (Forestry Press Bulletiu No. 53.) In a pulpwood forest precincts bulletin shortly to be published by the Dominion Forestry Branch, statistics are given of the amount of pulpwood exported from Canada into the United Statee (Wittig 1910. Nine hundred and forty-three thousand cords of palpwood ((3O per tent. of the total Canadian pulp log cut), worth $0,210,000, were shipped acmes the border in a raw state, without t der - going at' form of manufaeture. This Pulpwood expert was cut from the vari- otis provinces in the following amounts and values: 770,000, corde, worth $5,090,) 000, from the timber limits of Quebec; 90,000 cords, worth $047,000, from Now Brunewick, and 74,000 eords, worth $473,- 000, front Ontario. It is interesting to note to what extent provincial industry would. have been inereased if the pulp- wood exported to the United States had been converted into pulpwood on Cana- dian soil. The 770,000 eorde exported from Quebec would have supplied ma- terial for a year to fifty.six pulp mills Of the average size operating in Quebec. in Ontario five mills of the average size could have been kept running with the Pulp logs exported from tide province. 'The 00,000 cords shipped from the ports of New Brunswiek would have produeed the most startling results if the amount had beet domestically mannfectured itto pulp. The alpotint exported was suffi- cient to slimily with wood twenty-four mine of the average kite, with the resift that five times the number of mills oper- ating would have been at work if Cana. dials in New Brunewiek hed been far, Seeing onotigh to manufacture their Own raw products. MODERN EDUCATION. Meet 'reek Sun.) Noieker-la Jones well cilticated? Docker-,fle can read a etteedonteten and write 0 (boom\ I TO Submit to A headachet to wast el etIONYt time and comfort. To stop it at onoe simply take NA-DR.U•CO Headache iiiiraters Your Druggist will confirm our statement that they do not oOtttain anything that can harm heart or nervous system. Zia, a box, NATIONAL, DFILIQ eases esHEMICAL, CO, OF CANADA, elesiTCO. 124 e • • • .11.1011141111 Guillotine for Soldier Murderers, The Senate yesterday passed it bill under which somfer6 or willow tientene- ed to death by it court-martial will henceforth be guillotined instead of be- ing shot, exeept itt eesee where the of- fenee is one which comes directly under military law, 'This bill was brought in after the murder some months ago of Mine, Gniiin by soldiers, one of whoun Oraby, WaS sentenced to death. His seu. tee was eventually commuted to one of life imprisonment ,it being deemed inadvion.blo to ask men doing compul- sory military solarise to form a firin party. The Chamber of Deputies paesed the bill, -From Petit Parisien, A WINDSOR LADY'S APP[AL To Ail Women; I will send free with full instruotions. MY home treatment wbich positively cures Leueorrhoett, Ulceration, Displacements, Falling of the Womb, Painful or irregular Periods, *Uterine and Ovarian Tumors or Growths, able elot Flushes, Nervouseess, Melan- phely Paine in tbe Head. Beek or liow- else Kidney and Bladoer Troublee, where cased by weakness peculiar to our sex. You can continue treatment at home at a cost Of Only about 12 cents a week. MY book, Woman's Own Medical Ad- viser.' also sent repo on request, Write to -day. Address Mrs. an Summers, Box H. S. Windsor, Out. MISTOOK THE DUCHESS. Andrew Carnegie, who was invitcd to Whitelaw Reicrs the other night to meet the Duke and Duchess of Connaught, did not recognize Her Royal Highnees wieen later in the evening she approached hina "Oh, Mr. Carnegie," %Lid the Duchess, "I want to meet you; 1 have heard BO much about you.' The laird looked at the lady doubtful- ly. "I don't believe yonu koow really who I am'" the latter said, after they had talk- ed for some time. "Oh, yes, I do," protested Mr. Carne- gie, "you are Mrs, Lawrence." The Duchess did not deny it, but later Mr. Carnegie found out his mistake, and when he went to the° Dueliess to say good -night, he apologized. "Oh, I'll always be Mrs. Lawrence to you," laughed the Duchess. 1-4-* HAVE YOU PAID YOUR DOCTOR'S BILL? (Asylum Report, Iowa County, Wis.) Health and disease are parts of the plan of creation, the former is found among earth's children in every clime and the latter is busy from pole to pole. Fear of disease and dread of death are Parts of human nature and cause man- kind everywhere to appeal to the phy- sician; the prince itt his palace; the peas- ant in his cottage, and the outcast in his hovel; the citizen in his mansion; the laborer in his shanty and the felon in Ins dungeon; the man with Ills millions and the man with his hoe; the conquer- or and tile captive; the lord and the serf; the sailor and the soldier. All clesses et men and wernen imploringly tura to the physician for relief. 7 IP WOMEN NEED GIN PILLS Port .Dufferin, N. Se "I was troeblcd with kidney ,Diseases for several years. Arty bacit was weak. laid terrible headaeheaend was so restIegs that 1 could not sleep al night. Ac last a friend told me about C -In Pills. 1. at once, got a box and after taking them 1 telt bettor -after taking three boxes, 1 'was cured. 1TiU14 nAr,00\IIIE. Write ns for free :sample of (Jin Pills to try. Then get the regular size boxes nt yonr dealer's, or direct from us-nic 4 box, 6 for $2.50. Money retunaed if Gin Pills fail to cure. National Drug ee Chemical Co., of Canada, Limited, Dern.. HL., Toronto. 4 r. NO SMOKING. (Montrone Gazette.) Thirty-five thousand placards reading "Smoking prohibited on these premises under penalty oe the law," are being posted in places et business in New York by the Fire Commissioners, The careless smoker has had a long day and Me left a trail of clestruction in his wake. There will be few who will ,sym- pathize with him when his pleasure is curealletl. Ile has earned the punish- ment. Minard's Liniment Cures' Colds,- Etc. - WHERE WAS JOHN? A San Francisco woman, whose hus- band had been dead some years, went to a medium who produced to her satis- faction the spirit of her dead husband. "My dear John," said the widow to the spirit, "are you happy now?" "I am very happy," John replied, "Happier than you were on earth with 1116"cessi,71'e Narsaisced. the answer. "I am far happier now than I was on earth with you.' "Tell me, John, what is it like in heaven?" "Heaven!" John replied, "Pris not in heaven."-rNational Monthly. ••. ~91 INN 'WY Wgrp.ory,,eas-ft, •• eq ISSUE NO. 6. 1912 AGENTS WANTED, eve..,00.404,~1."Ailk COLORS ONE CANNOT SEE. Perhaps you, know that there is no such thing as color in the objects 'you look at. Some proeess in the brain trans forma the waves of light that come from different things into what are call- ed colors. 'When there is no light you S2 e no -colors and a red rose is the same ehade me a green tree. At present people can distinguish seven eolors in the minium but scient- ists say there are others beyond those we see which the human eye cannot ace yet. They have proved that some in- eeeth, such as ants, can see rays of light beyoud the violet, just as it hale been shown that there aro animals that can hear sounds which aro too fine for hum- an ears to detect. THIS hala I OMIERNsE hAeElf.; I dyed ALL these ' —1 : of Goods .--:\wipthififiFEeRSEANMTEKIDN,D: "r3 -''ma II used s se, • . , ^4.1141'1E, ; ONE DYEfoRALL KINDS OF GOODS ; OLEAN and SIMPLE to Use. ' NO chance of using the WRONG Dye for the Good s I ono hns to color. All cd!ors trona .your Druggist or - Dealer. FREE, Color Card and S1 ORY Bootztot 10, ; Tee Johnson -Richardson Co., LIinIted, frionmul, _ THE FIRST CHRISTMAS CARD. The exchange of greeting cards, al- though now sueli a recognized part of Christmas tide ceremonial, is a eastom of quite reeent The honor of its invention is claimed for three men, all famous in other con- nections, the Rev. Edward Bradley (bet- ter known as Cuthbert Bede, author of "Verdant Green"); 3, C. Horsley, R. A., and tbe late NV. C. T. Dobson, R. A. Cuthbert Bede had a card printed from Ma own design for circulation in 1845, and two years later his printers, it New- castlefirm, put ft number of earde on the inatket. About the same time, itt 1840, tr. 0. Horsley designed a card for !sir liarry •Cobe. of Summerly's Print- inMouse, Old Bond. street. The subject was it typical scene of feasting and jaity. One thousand cop- ies were printed and one of the few sur- vivors sold a few years since for £50 Aecording to some authorities Mr. Dob - eon was really the first in the field. - From the Westminster Gazette. tire STOPS COUGAS YMErY5EMIT: TOO GREAT A STRAIN. (McCall's Magazine) Theatre Manager -You say you ()West to havins: real food on the table in the banutiet scene Mr. GreesePaYnt. Why. the rest lee the company are delighted with it! Mr. Greenservant-Yes. but My Dart re - ewes me to rise from the table after CO111)10 of mouthfuls and say "I cannot eel to -night -a strange dread comes over nic. I wilt seek the oulet of vonder a- nartment for it time." ; • • • • Minard's Liniment Cures Diphtheria. t r JOURNALISM. (Puck.) Editor -See here! You didn't send us in it single ward on the burning of the city of Wangdoodle one of the biggest stor- ies of the war. War Correspondent -Of course .1 didn't. Didn't I set it myself he order to attract the atention of the other correspondents so I could beat them to the telegraph office and give you the "scoop" in that skirmish by the Tzegang River? *e.sataigetietteealifigeteateatialen 11(1,a1C4Xja Tird4""u COUNT THE Xs AND Ts , Pit fts rtsip X fr pAiriv:11: TN 46 Pr VitA.: xx *2* pf41° X 1912 CONTEST And many, other prizes according to the Simple eons ditions ofthoCorstest (which will besot** This is a thence for.clever persoes to win Cash and other Prized) with a little effort. Count tho Xs end Ts in the Square, and write the number of each that you count meetly on n piece of paper or post card and mail to us, And we will write you At MCC, telling you all about% You tray win a valuable prize. Try at one°. • SPEARMINT On & PREMIUM CO., Montreal, P.O. Dept.. sete ' PROFITABLE POWER BONDS Many of Canada's shrewdest and best informed investors have bought Western Canada Power Co. Bonds. At their present price of 90 they pay over 5V)1,. The plant is located 35 miles from the growing cities of Vancouver and New Westminster, B.C. and has secured perpetual water rights from government. Can develop 100,000 H.P. as demand increases and should earn this year three - times bond interest. Engineer irt charge, R. F. Haywardsuccessfully constructed Mexican Light Heat & Power Co, In addition to high rate of interest bonds should appreciate considerably itt next year. Direetorate includes Sir Max - Aitken; C. H. Cahan ; A. R. Doble, Secretary flank of Montreal; Pio. Hendry; - Wm. McNeill, Vancouver; Mr. Campbell Sweeney, Manager Bank of Montreal, Vancouver, This is an exceptional investment opportunity from standpoint of both security and intercst4 Write us for full'particuIars. SECURITIES R 0 YAL CORPORATION LIMITCD 1tAN1 OF MONTAtAl. BUILOING • * YON= ANipoitoouotTEN0 stattrs g. M. W141111 flentcor nonteceetouetseran ALI ItAXtqlltAWA 1.0110011/41 (een.) stelefeseetoialseese eseeeoameopeoeseseei