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IN A GLASS HOUSE.
(Boston Troneeripte
Tom --Doesn't your girl.* rather cod
eaU dealt for staying Fe late?
Jr:eh-Wen, no. You see I generally'
meet him at the gate connive mime
treyn the club.
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NOT WORTH MUCH.
(Detroit ii`ree Prese.e
"Le that dog of yours valuable?
guess t)0I. I've only lost lent once
ftit wo yea'
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WOULD BE BETTER.
(Satire.)
• "'The bridegroom isa pleasarit mare,
he lute that eertain soznething-
"I'd rather have a man with some-
thing certain,"
ENOUGH FOR WILLIE.
(Puck.)
a:earlier-Wane, ghee three proofs that
the world actually is Loma
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AN OBJECTION.
(Life.)
"Doe't you think the coal mines ought
te ae controlled by tile government?"
"I might if I didn't Tema, wee) agate -ale
el tar novernment."
THE DIFFERENCE.
(Galveston Newe,'
The old-rishioned woman who used to
(atria' aags to town end buy sillier mea-
l:zee' a daughter who is up to tnut' f tend
buys eggs.
STAGE TALK.
(Life.)
"walla says she bad ber audience in
tears last night."
believe it, They were crying for
their money back, poor things."
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THE REST EASY.
(Boston Transcript.)
She -I'm weary of being a bachelor
wire
- er-do you know rm a bit
eielt or being a spinster man,
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VELOCITY.
(Pathfinder.)
Teacher -What is veloeity, Johnnie?
Jelinnie-Velocity is what a. fellow Jets
go 6f a wasp with.
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FROM HIS PERSONAL FRIEND. •
(Punch.)
"I can't 'alp smillif when I looks at
yam, Sam. You're such a ugly blighter.
Aven't yer kids never told yer of it?"
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HOW IT WAS DONE. •
HOME EXPLANATIONS.
(EXchange,)
Mr, NeWlywed-When I married you
I didn't know yoUr salary was so ((Intl%
Mr. Newiywed-Neither did I. It looked
big to me then.
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SOCIAL SCALE.
CHIPS OF THE OLD BLOCK.
atioutreal eleralda
"Muriel," said the mother, to her ethall
daughter. "Why is it that you and your
small brother aro always quarreling?"
"I don't know, replied aluriel, "unless
he takes after you, and 1 after Papa."
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A CHEERFUL JOKE.
(Cincinnati Tnquirer.)
He -Why did Peckley suicide?
She -He clairned that his wife nagged
nine into it.
He -So he junePed trite the jaws of
death to escape tite jaws of life.
ADVANTAGE OF ADVOIRDUPOIS.
(Boston Transcript.)
Ticket Agent -I can't give you a lower
berth, sir; they are all taken.
Mr. Islatleigh-TizaiSs all right, give
me an upper. When the man who has
the lower notices my size and -weight
he'll be glad to exchange,
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A NEW OULT.
(eacOoll's Magazine.)
"ICitty," said her mother, rebukinglY,
"you must sit still when you are at the '
table."
4'I can't, mamma," protested the. little
girl. "I'm a fidgetarian."
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EXEMPTIONS.
(Clevela,nd Ple.in Dealer.)
Prometheus was growing reminiscent.
"It is true," he said, "that I stole fire
from heaven, but I'm hanged if they can
blame me for the smouldering cigarette
and the carelessly thrown match."
And he resumed reading the statistics
of the fire waste in 1911,
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ON THE WRONG END.
(Judge.)
Teacher-Don't'say, "How it is rainin'i
Pronounce your "g.
Little girl -I know, teacher, Let me
say it, .
Tertcher-Say it,
Little girl -Gr, .416'v it is rainhel
-SLIM BANQUET.
(Boston Transcript.)
Street Urehin-Where yer goina Mag -
gee?
:NTaggle-Goin' ter de butcher far I'S
cent' wort' uv liver.
Urchin-Chee! Yer gain' ter have
company fer dinner, ain't yer?
GOOD LITTLE JIMMIE,
(Montreal Herald.)
Pastor -Do you ever play with bati
little boys, Jimmie?
,Timmie-Yes, sir.
Pazdor-Prn surprised, Jimmie. Why
don't you play with good idttIe boys?
Jimmie -Their muvvers won't let thein,
HE SIMPLY HAD TO STEAL.
(New York Sun.)
Prometheus stole the fire from heaven.
"My last match went out," he ex-
plained.
(Exchange.)
"Jack proposed to me while turning -
the music for me at the piano."
"eV'
+ see. You Played right into his
hands. '
(Exchange.)
"Papa, what is the eocial scale?" asked.
Dolly.
"Usually speaking," 1'010 pa, "it's a
phice whore they w•eigh money."
HER PLACE.
(Lotesvine Courier -a -minutia
"1 11011't IcIlOW what those suffragettes
;my women hae no business
monkeying with politiee " "Inst what I
say. Woman's place is the bridge ehtb.-
DISCOVERY OF IRON.
(Pathfinder.)
Telteherealimmie, Cam you tell how iron
NVLIS first aitgovered?
anemia -4 heard my father say that
they smelt it.
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CHAPTER L ases.Wer ciente to hie greeting.
Darkness was felling over the earth. He glanced et the feats beside him and
The air was still cool, though vying saw there trite)* of tears, but a greet
flower) were peepiug through the cre- tote !shone in her eye!). He arose zit mum
vices, on mosey banks and in ferny hole and weld to here
Iowa "Tell rue, what liens Arleen te dietrese
The great towets of Castte Royal (met' you?" he malte&
sombre alradowa across the groat °mixt, Lady Wedderburn could never tell
aud the heavy dark buildiug made a how islic lied the eougage to resist hie
grotesque silhouette agalust the horizon, eat, Pleading tones, end to act ea he
ea grand old home was Castle Royal! did; but without, a reply elm handed lihn
For years it had been the pride of all the letter that lay beelde 1ker. I'ae read
those silenti sleepers that lay under the it through carefully. He seemed, to
stone chancel of the pariah church, and realize, ire a moment, all the pain his
in the geat veldts of the Wedderburn. mother had experteneed-her evonaded.
Their great weelth was now in pesos* priele--and the color mounted to hie
sion of one young man, Reginald Home, face.
Lord Wedderburu the only child of ef`I am somewhat rprised that Aleut
Emily should have taken so much patio
to write thtue," lie etas:ewe:red.
"Your .Aunt Emily realizee my great
danger/' she eaid. Then, ea if eager to
hear a denial, she .aelcled;
"Thou there is no truth in it?"
For a mortient Lord Regmald seemed
confused, He hod Rover deeeived her
in, his life, and the hesitation was the
only a -newer neeessary. The eagerness
all fled from the fate of Lady Weddete
burn. In its stead eame the gold,
haughty manner she had assumed.
"You do not know what I Buffer.
Those vulgar peorile are nearly at their
wits' end for money, and they would
swine() you to their own ends. The
very idea of those people scheming to
usurp my on is utterly loathsome to
me. Yon have no idea how I live with
this great danger hanging over my head.
Th ie sword, that may fall at any 1/la-
ment; and the result would be a thou -
send times worse than death to me. If
any accident happened you I must give
up Castle Royal, our beautiful home,
and go out like a, discharged esrvant."
Lady Wedderburn here burst into
tears -Lord Reginald felt that every
word was true, and the force of the
words fell upon him as it had never done
before. He took her in his etrong hrmse
"There is time enough, mother -let me
'hat). yon as my idol a while longer, then
I may follove your advice). Am I not
young enough yet? Am I not strong
and healthy a.£1 a young birch tree!'"
Theee words had the desired offeet.
Lady Wedderburn dried h.er tears, but
the words "there is time enough"
brought so little eomfort-she had
beard them so often, and they did not
lessen her danger one whit, still he had
taken her words to heart -eh e was quite
sure of this, from his face, as he left
the IVOile.
Lady Wedderburn arose and drew
herself up proudly once more.
"How could I have ever said all that
to him, I wonder," she thought, "and he
so noble and true. 1 Meat 1E110W him
that I am not angry withhhim, by being
doubly tender towards him, poor, wound-
ed boy."
Lord Reginald stepped through an
open window, and lighted his cigar.
There before him lay a sea of fair land
-great old trees that had weathered
the storms of oenturies-ea,eh one seem-
ed an old. friend. Rich fields and fertile
Meadows, and on the uorth the *sea
whence dune the cool evening breeze.
The moonlight fell softly over etlie
castle, The great towers acaste'deep
shadows on the swardebelOW,
"A fair inheritandb," he murmured,
"and mother is eiiht. It would kill lier
eeve it up.')
Just then a gleam of light stole tint.
idly through the trees. It came from
old Lenthill, a part of Lord Reginald%
estate. The hoiree was of stone, but
was now almost in ruins, An undanny
place it looked, and every place about
it seemed. desolate enough. There were
only a few acres that were let with the
old house,and these were barren and
almost uselees to its present occupant.
The house had beep occupied by an aged
woman, who had been a pensioner of
the late Lord Wedderburn.
Why Dania Wynter had been permit-
ted to live there free of charge during
all those years, none eould tell, It had
long since been given up as one of
those mysteries that no one but the late
lord and the mysterious dame could an -
Mel', and when death, claimed the one
and the other refueled to tell, the
Wedderburn agents ceteeed troubling
over the matter. It was the late lord's
wishes that Dame Wynter should have
such matt odds and ends of work as
she could manage, and be paid a small
sum therefor. The Castle housekeeper
- had always kept the daine'e deft fingers
well eupplied, but now she was growing
very infirm, and there were two to be
kept, since there was Dorothy, her
grandchild. A. wild weed truly was
• Dorothy, with her strange, nymph -like
face, great, liquid, brown eyes, and a
mese of tangled, sunny hair.. Everything
about Dorothy seemed to be at war am-
ong themselves. She looked like a mass
of odds and era% of humanity hitched
together, regardless ox coloring, eta she
had strangely beautiful eyes that did not
In the least mateh her hair. Her coin-
- plexion VMS obe that vied with the new -
the deceased Lord Wla
edderburn and. A
cia, the daughter of the Earl cri
The old Lord had for years slept in the
Weaderhurn vaulte, and Lady Alicia awl
her P.011 dwelt in the proud old home,
surrounded by hoets of servants.
The. spring evening was drawing to a
elose. An early dinner had been eerved
for my Le.d.y, sinee the young Lord had
riot yet retained. from town. A bright
fire gleamed on the beadle and heavy
silken midair's were drawn over the
window. The apartment was one whose
exceeding elegance .would, have delight-
ed the most fastidious eye.
Luxurious silken lounges were here
and there, and over the heavy Persian
carpet were spread fur robes that were
as costly as beautiful. On a small table
there burned dizialy a fairy lamp, shed-
ding roseats hues. over the room, whose
Alicia, Lady Wedder
burn.
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sole Oeellpallt was
Impatience was strongly marked on
her face -a face that with its years had
grown cold, proud and was yet beautiful.
Her hair was slightly gray; but the
!tree was one of those that absence of
eare had left unlieed. Her form was
still rounded and beautiful, but the poets
of the head was the characteristic that
so plainly betokened her great pride.
Lady Wedderburn arose from her silken
couch and impatiently rang for lights.
"Tell Marston to ask Lard Wedder-
burn to come to me immediately on. his
return," she said ,to the ieervant, and
despite the anger or impatience writ-
ten on her face when she uttered the
name of Lord Wedderburn, there was
a soft intonation of the voice that be-
spoke the great love of this grand. wo-
man. for her son. To her he was a god
to be worshipped. Each year, as he
grew to manhood, had. augmented her
fear that she might hose some of her
great influence over him.
Lady Wadderburn threw herself in an
an easy chair beside a table on which
lay an open letter, which she .once more
read.
"The Weston Homes are still here.
They certainly are the moet vulgar peo-
ple that it has ever been -lny ill -fortune
to meet, How Weston Home could
]lave allied himself to that coarse wo-
man is beyond me, and those daugh-
ters! When I mention the 50111I am
filled with unutterable shame, for few
have the audacity to s -peak his name.
I am told that Reginald led an exceed-
ingly gay life laat season, being seen
conetantly in the company of that ob-
jectionable person, his eousin, and his
followers. I was told yesterday that
Reginald had certainly great talent, that
he could. lead two lives so directly op-,
posite to each other:. one n4.4
Seited at ,Lady Elemere'sg the next
he is with Weston Home iti company
with the gayest of the gay. In this
double life he has been leading be is in
great danger. One may do this success-
fully for a time; but the time most
surely will come when the heavy weight
of evil companionship will drag him
down to their level. If I were in your
place, Alicia, 1 would -use every in-
fluence to get Reginald to marryeend
settle down to respectability, as that
would probably be the very calamity
retest feared by those Weston Homes.
It would deprive them of unbounded.
wealth in expectation, and I am sure
they stand in great need of it, despite
their loud vulgarity and show."
Lady Wedderburn's face was as white
as her robe, and angry fear was:plain-
ly weitten on every feature, Litle, idle,
gossipy stories had frequently reached
her ears, but were soon dispelled by one
glance at her son's handsome face. He
was her son, and was beyond reproach;
but the !stories nettled her -they stung
her pride. The letter before her, writ-
ten by her aunt, the Countees of Mania
mont, filled her with consternation:
Great bare fads confronted. her. Regi-
nald, Lord Wedderburn, who now in his
thirtieth year, had not shOwn the least
inclination for the society of young
ladies, notwithstanding 'the feet that
Lady Alicia had been almost eonstantly
surrounded by them. It was the worm
in her heart's bud: that, under that
"idiotic ehould her son die before
her, and unraarried, the property should
pass to the Weston Homes., and ray
.Lady Alicia would then have to epair
to an ancient, poor and dilapidated
country place of her own, havirigstarce
enough means to surround herself with . ly blown rosea, and this was at outs wake
plenty, much less with luxury. To give the calor of her eyes. leer hair fell in
up Castle Royal! The very thought of a shower of tatigled masses down her
it made her sick. To have the Weston shodders and looked innoeent of ever
Homes parading over the marble hall, having been combed. Often she ran her
standing gawking In their vulgarity at fingers through thee tangled curls,
the fine old portraits, not knowing a stralghteping them °Nit as beet she eould.
Van Dyck from a, Reynold!) or a, Lelyi For fifteen years she had grown wild as
It was almost beyond human endurance; the gulls that flew with greet, white
but what was she to do? She could wings oeeanward-wildae the very thOrn
not say to a many of thirty "you must treethat grew on the cliffs. lint Doro.
merry," espeeially sinee that nian of thy had a charm of her own, Despite
thirty had. reeeived thirty yeara of the rags that fell from her shoulders, her
training itt family pride and strength of emit were beautifully rotind.ed. lIer feet,
will, besides his great natural inherit- that eeldora knew shoe, were as beauti.
Knee of it. fully (itched as those of a duchess.
Besides, Lady Wedderburn had aut., NO one know anything about Dorothy,
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girls, and through all mingtung 1)0 came fifteen vette ago by Dame Wynter, and
out uninterested. - the neighbor') eurinieed she was the
It was simply unbearable. She would grandchild of Dame Wynter; but thnt
merve herself to a grand effort, and do dame earried herself at Such's distiteee,
something she bad seldom done, speak no °lie darea questions but when the
plait -4 to her son, and tell hint her liateli yoke of the old dame caned mit
mind.
ad • Wedderburn dried her took - to her angrily, and shortly after Doro.
it few turne around the room, and as
roundedherse f wit hosts of tee faireet
save the fact that she Was brought there
.eyes,
thy came. ont, with teax-stained eyes and
ARITHMETicALLY. she heard her eon's footeteee, seated bruises on her fair In, it was half
(Lifts) herself in. an uneertaiti light to hide her gueesed that Dorothy` wile an unwilling
"How long did H take you tri eyes, that were red with weeping. reminder of totnething deddedly unplea-
"alma twiee as long rie it took ramie Ife entered the rooln as he elwaye eats(' to the dame.
Reiner
lienee Dorothy, with her strangely
VI do 11H." ids face beemilig tvith davotion to his
mother. She was his all. beautiful fare and hey high -bred hair,
NOT RIPE YET.
(Denver Republic:met
an old gentleman who mei ens! rinieh-
ea shaving, himself eitia to his little
ggiteleon: "(aline here. Charlie, and
oleve you two."
"Viet can't 'have me, graiulpa," rtpued
tee bay; "(4111fAl niy Whiekers are zee ripe
yet.
ACTOR OF TALENT.
(argonaut.)
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Hie great love for her precluded till WAS a 00111111(ltalm to ell W110 Sale her.
• love kr another. Hie thirty yeare left .
no iriteee on him. Ills was yet, the The eloek in the great teWar stritek
boyish, handsome faeo of hr 1 overnms. 1 eit end aroused Lord Wobberhurie from
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bend. There was the Sante dark heir his thought'''. ..k light front the ld ruin -
and great, sOltiftel, hOtteet Pyre. ' ed houtse stole fitintly through the trees
MI lier teger melted away instantly; iinet filially fliekered not.
but the great fear still lingared, Lord Wedderburn arose end threw
'How cozy!" he exelainied, as lie en- away his cigar. it wee ee yet early,
tered arid elaeped her in his etrorig :trineand, not beteg eleepy. he walked. down
"tt is a downright pleiteure to get bowie the pathway that led to Leritidil. The
!titter being in toWn it few hotteS. You graveled. Welke were well kept, and the
are different from any other women, lawn was like velvet. The Vent treee
'Mother, you carry your radiatiee with gently stirred their leaves, end the air
0 1 . . If Mons tool itind invigorating froni the ogee.
ire icninged before the warm Pre, but "What if anything should hAppeit
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On lerever ;you ttre.
me?" he thought; "it would kill poor
mother. I must arrange mettere lue
wishee, I Owe her that intich; ottl1
will not be hurried."
Thie wee the Witted entliaa: At Mg
thought.
The light earne threughthe trees
faintly and flickering, end, ere he was
aware he etood near the ruined house,
lie stOod in the (shadow of an old tower.
Ile had net intended coming, but his
thoughts led lam thither, Jim heard
Voice calling louder and louder;
"Dorothy! Dorothy
Thorn was no enewtr savo the whisper-
ing of the leaves awl the 'beating of hie
own heart.
Mile pall came more and more angrily.
Lord Wedderborn stood in the sha49Ay1
but he could pleinly see the inside of the
room throtath the eurtainiefis windows.
The door opened, and Dame Wynter
mono into the room, the <sleek of her
walking atOade resounding on the bit0110
floor,
"You miserable beggar!" fele exclaim-
ed. "how dere you burn the wood ouch
a uight ite this?"
Lord Wedderburn could not Iwo Doro-
thy, but be knew from the dame's tones
"the MUSt be there. He took a few sopa
nearer the window, artd. there Me eyes
fell on the eubjeet of the dame's wrath,
for there lying asleep, on the bare floor,
lay Dorothy. How cold those stones
looked. against the !snowy white arma
that were half eovered by the rags fete
wore. Lord Wedderburn was riveted to
the spot, In all his life he could. never
forget the scene where Dorothy lay
asleep as sweetly as though in a downy
bed, her fair heir streaming over her
like a veil of gold ankher Mee resting
on an OM Old:41'0010a en the cold
*stone floor, Dame WAter article her
several thn,es with her cane to arou.le
her, then weed to the fire and pawed
the half -burned fagots on one side of the
hearth, that she might prevent eheir
burning, thou after more angry worde
she tune' to go.
"Don't you dare to burn the wood on
such a, night, you beggar! Don't you
I know that the lord will not let you burn
his wood? You will have them co -mint°
me for rent next -and much good It will
do them to come." The dame laughed
shrilly, then shook her cane again at the
unoffeuding Dorothy.
"I dare them to come. I (hire thent to
ask me for money. I ask them why old
Sir Robert • let me live here all these
years without pay? Let them ans-wer
that!"
Dorothy eat there rubbing Iter eyes,
half asleep still.
"Do you hear?" shrieked the dame.
"You are not to burn ,another fagot of
this wood."
"The'stone floer W9,9 be Gold, granny,"
she. said, eoftly.
"Cold, is it? Then set up -freeze, you
beggar brat, and VIP have one less
mouth to feed. Do you know
if there is one reason why I should be
burdened with you," she screamed.
"I don't know, Granny," replied Dor-
othy, fearfully.
"You are nothing to me, you beggar,
do you know that?"
"You are all I have, Granny," she re-
plied softly.
The dame, finding no excuse for a
longer stay, hobbled out, the ?lacks of
her sounding as it struck the hard
floor.
For a moment Dorothy seemed dazed
--then mat tears rolled down her
cheeks, and she caught a few rags that
fell froni. le leetteetrieteturet wiped them
eteitii3.Sire lay down again, and ever
and anon a, sob escaped her until she
fell asleep.
Lord Wedderburn stood es if trans-
fixed. Ile was brought face to face with
a state of affairs that etaggered him.
He had never dreamed that such 'mis-
erable poverty as he luul just 'leen was
SO nearly within sound of his boundless
weal th,
instead of the rugged ebild be bad
known, there was the quaintly, beautiful
girlish face.
The words of the dame came slowly to
his memory:
"Let them dare ask for rents from,
me." Who was Dame Wynter that she
should talk thus? Instead of the moth*
erly old dame he had thought her, there
was We cruel virago. The dame then
liad led dual lives. One was that of the
good motherly woman that, despite her
harsh voice and cruel eyes, had said plea-
sant things to him and had pretended to
like him since his earliest boyhood,
This then was the true Dame Wynter.
What was the mystery about this girl
Dorothy? If she was not Dame Wyn-
ter's grandchild, as report said, then who
was Dorothy Wynter?
Lord Wedderburn gazed once more in-
to the room mid on the sleeping °eat -
pant; then he stepped from the shadow
of the tower and took the path toward
IntaoNvtucld
h.Home to strange fate that led Lord Regi -
never think.
That night he fell Asleep dreaming
over the whole scene; but in the dream
the old ruined Lenthill had changed to
a, fairy palace and Dorothy was a queen,
and he was a lover, but to all his eh -
treaties she eves cold and proud, and his
hopeless Ieve for her made hint so mis-
erable that he awoke and tossed about
restlessly ,on his bed, exceedingly happy
when the clock in the towel told him
that it was nearly sunrise, and almost
tinse to be up and ready to take the
early train for London. Even when the
elm had fairly gilded the tops of the
eaistern hills, his valet was astonished
to find him up, elijoying the early
morning; but there was a worn look
on his face for he was worried from
uloseityssof bleep and he was restless and
n
As soon as he returned he must see
that something be done for Dorothy -
something to make life more bearable - to
her; but women folkwere better in
that kind of business, and. had Lady
Home been up so early he would have
told her; but my lady slept. bay, herice
that must wait awhile -until his return
-poor Dorothy.
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CHAPTER TT.
Immediately on his arrival in London,
Lord Wedderburn repaired to his elub.
There he found letters awaiting him, and
among them was one from his aunt,
Lady Emily lefarchinont, that eoncluded
with the following request:
e"If yott cativo in town on Thursday
come to the Hareourts' bell. I have
Leidy Leith with me now, aecompanied
by her nSece, a 'Wes Stanton, an Ameri
eau, but a lovely girl, I would teke it
tie 8 favor if you woeld pay them sortit
attention. You need not leave at once
for Castle Royal, as 1 ean aasure yot
thet you will find Miss Staunton an ex,.
ceedingly 'lovely young person.'"
"GAM 'Lady Marehmont is growing
derneerittie. 1 can remember when my
lady was bittelly opposed to all Anted-
eans, oh general prineiplee. Wonder
What's the eauee if it anylvity?"
Lord Reginald smiled grimly to hinb
tell while he pondered over it aWbile,
then gave it up as one Of the berate -lee.
He °perked another letter, which toad
Unlit
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LAWN MOWER
adds to the pleseure Of Poesceilag uotwell
kept lama",
You'll notice the difference in time
Maxwell X‘awn. Mower the int time r>11
eut tiSe tram with it.
Cruclble Steel Cutter Knives Out cleera
444 cloac, taall held their edge. Cold rolled
steel shafts mean easy running. The.,
mower Jo so cotopect, 04 strong 604
perfectly balenced, that cutting the Awe,
is a light, pleasant exert:bat that you will
really enjoy.
Made in 4 styles
sizes from 8" to sow lit
width erlth and
without grass -catch-
ing sttgehment.'
Tour hardware
malt probably lums all
sires in Maxwell's
pawn, Mowers -if
not he can get
It for you.
insist on
Maxwell.
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I'M Martell
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IL Nuys;
RUSSIA'S NEW NAVAL BASE.
Reval, wbich Russia proposes to make
into one of her strongest naval bases,
Ince under a variety of ownera been a
fortified town for many' centuries. The
-Danee were the first to occupy and
strengthen it la the thirteenth century.
Then mine the Hanseatic League, whieh
made it one of its leading ports'and
then 1661 it became Swedish. terri-
tory, Bombardments by the Danes and
Russians failed to reduce it, and It was
still an important fortress. when it sena
rendered to Peter the Great in 1710,
, and since then it has been greatly
strengthened by Russia.
Perched on a hill withiu a hugp cir-
cling harbor, Revel still retains memor-
ies of its checkered hietory, A year or
two a.go I found about half a doeen
droshkies On the stand. in the quiet
market -place. Between thent the driv-
ers chaffered in German, Swedish, Rus-
sian, French -and one of them could
bargain only in the language of Lithe
uania.-From the London Chronicle.
- ARTS,
EDUCATION,
THEOLOGY,
MEDICINE.
SCIENCE,
- including
ENGINEERING
Arts Summer.
Session
July3 to Aug. 17
1
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may be taken by
correspondence,
but students desk-
ing- to graduate
must attend one
session,
Short Course for
Teachers and gen-
eral students July
roth to 3rst.
For calendars writ.
the Registrar
G. Y. CHOWN
Kingston, Out
NIVERSI
KINGSTON • • • O14TAB,112.
HIS SAVINGS.
"How much you got in the savings
bank?"
I asked Hi Hicks one day -
"Well, now." says RI, "rny pile's so big
I can't exactly say."
"T got a wife and three fine lads
That thinks the world of me,
A little cottage that was home,
And one good apple tree.
"Agarden grows beside my door
• To cheer the summer sun,
And 1 can sit at evening
And watch the shadows run.
"1 have a little road to walk
With flowers on each side.
There's rivers here and forests
And stars at eventide,
"I have a lovely wad of spring,
The dandelion's gold,
The heavenly orchestra of birds,
The sun -kissed hills unrolled.
"I have. the splendors of the ,clown -
The solitudes of night -
1 have a eat, I have a pipe
Ana I've my appetite."
1
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LAWYER FOR THE APACHES.
One Paris lawyer has had his name
struck off the rolls because it was dia.
- covered that he acted as the regular
legal advieer to the "apaehe" fraternity,
• from which he drew 86,000 annually in
fees. One day he was engaged, to defend
an apache in a suburban court.
His client was not aatisfied with the
lawyer's procedure in the ease, mid after
a heated argument outside the court the
client threw the lawyer into the River
Marna -From Case and Comment.
Minard'a Liniment used by Physicians
PARENTAL TESTIMONY,
(Washington Star.)
"t don't blame young people for being
rather self-confikent ased aggressive,"
saki the conservative eitieen.
"You think the rising generation is en-
- titled to consider itself superior?"
"Beyond question. You are constantly
- hearing parents telling what ernart
things their children tay, but you never
hear children repeating apy clever obser.
Vations /bye their parents,"
NECIPLO rARMeRS.
(Victoria Colonist.)
'me negro pepulation of the 'United
States is rapidly taking to agrieulture,
The negroes occupy million* of acres
either as owners or tenants, and the area
In their Wends is increasing with remark-
able rapidity. That the whiteman
should be forced out Of the ownership of
large and valuabae pert of the nation
by the deseenciants of former slaves is
one Of the ironies of history.
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FORESTS, WATER
Benefits of Manitoba Forest
Reserves to Country.
The Water Supply Of a district Is
always considerably Influenced by the
foreeto at or near the head -waters of
ite streams, Thle 18 one of the rea-
sons why large districts have been,
set aside by the government of the
Dominion 01 Canada and many other
governments, te be kept, permanently
lie forests.
The soil within the fret, largely
cemposed as It is of decaying and
decsod leaves, twIge and other vege-
table matter, acts muola like a sponge
In, soaking up the moisture that fails,
On the other hand, the absence of
high winds within. the forest dew;
much to prevent or loom exapora-
tIon. ,
The Riding mountain and Turtle
mountain forest reserves in Manitoba
are good exampleu of this fact. In
the Riding Mountain, reserve are the
headwaters of the Minnedoea (Little
Saskatchewan or Rapid) River, one of
the important tributaries of the As-
siniboine from which, by the way, the
town of Ilinnedosa is now deriving
power, On the other side of the re-
serve home many riven, among whicli
are the Vermilion, Valley and Ochre
Rivers and Edwards Creek. The last
named Is a source of "Water euPPIY
for the town of Dauphin.
Dr. Morse's '
Indkon, Root Pills
owe their singular effectiveness in
curing Rheumatism, Lumbago and
Sciatica to their power of stimulating
and strengthening the kidneys. They
enable these organa to thoroughly
filter from the blood the uric acid
(the product of waste matter) which
gets into the joints and muscles and
causes these painful diseases. Over
half a century' of constant use has
proved conclusively that Dr. relorsete
Indian Root Pills strengthen weak
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Cure Rheumatism
HE UNDERSTOOD THE LANGUAGE
An Indianapolis public school teach-
er some time ago, she relates, received
In her room a small boy from the Ken-
tucky -Tennessee borderland, and* she
set about teaching him the intricacies
of addition. She found he could run up
down a column of figures readily, but
she could not make him understand
how to "eafry" from one eolumn to an-
other when the total was more than
nine,
Finally the teacher called on one of
the little girls in the class and told her
she would give her a dime if elle could
tnake the newcomer understand the pro*
use. Next day the little girl called te
claim the money.
"How did you make hint eee it so
quickly?" inquired the teacher.
"Oh, t told him when he got a nura*
ber of two figures to put down the one
on the right and tote the other across,
and he knew what I meant right away."
--From the Indianapolis News.
Minard's Liniment Co., Limited,
Yarmouth, N. S.
Gentlemen, -In .Tannary last Francis
Lecture, one of the inen employed by me
working in the lumaer woode, had a tree
fall on him, crushing him tearfully He
was when feund placed on 0 teed and
taken home, wheregrave tears were en-
tertained for his recovery, his hips being
badiv eruis.ed and his body turned black
from hie ribs to his feet. We used MT-
NARD'S LINIMENT on him freely to
deaden the pain and with the use of
three bottles he was completely eured
end able to return to, his work.
S ATIVE U Et DUVAL.
Elgin Road, L'Islet Co., Que.
LABBY'S PREDICAMENT.
Zile worst mess that I ever got into
was at a dinner in a coentry town
where I took the chair. Having got
through all the usual _toasts eorne
friend prompted me to propose the
health of the Mayor's wife, 1 drew a
picture of a sort of modern eornellia:
I dwelt upon the matron's domestic vir-
tues, and prayed heaven that I might
find such a wife. Carried away by my
subject, 1 had. forgotten my audience,
Suddenly 1 perceived that some were
looking 410W11, ()tilers staring at me as
though their eyes would come out of
their heads, others funning in a curious
manner, while the Mayor himself was
glaring at me like a wild beast, I dis-
covered afterward that the Mayoress
bad fled from the domestic hearth a
few weeks previously with a Don Juan
of a grocer. 1 have never been asked
since to take the chair at a dinner in
that town.--Labby Reprinted" in Truth.
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BETTER THAN SPANKING
Spanking does not cure children of bed -
Wetting. There is a constitutional cause
for this trouble. Mrs. M. Stimmers, Bo*
W. 8, Windsor, Ont., will send tree to
any mother her successful home treat-
ment. With full instructions. Send no
yaoney, but write ber to‘day if Your chi+
ren trouble you in this way. Don t
Warne the child, the chances are it Can't
help it. Timis treatment also auras adUlts
and aged people troUbled with urine dif-
ficulties by day or night.
HE WAS CAUTIOUS.
(Vancouver Province.)
An old farmer at Durnfrieshire was the
guest of a fine lady in that country.
When the afternoon tea was served the
hostess observed that the old man gulped
doevn his before they could serve the
other guests. Again and again the
farmer passed his cup to be refilled. At
the ninth cup, the lady, becoming Un.
easy as to the suppiy on hand, vehtured
tO ask: "How many Mips of tea do you
take, John?" "How mazy do you gler
Wilted John, warily.
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Keep Minerd's Liniment in the house.
KNEW HER AGAIN,
(Vancoover Province.)
adary met Emily On the street. Whey
had not seen ettolt other for many year&
"Wile, how do you dor eXelaimed -Merle
effeeively, topping off the salutation
with a teW vague pecks a.tErniiyog face,
"NoW, this is delightful,', said tale lily,
who was older than Mary, "You have-
n't seen inc for eleven years, and yet
you kneW rag' at once, 1 couldn't have
chanted so dryadfullY in all that time.
It flatters me. Said Mary, "X recognized
vow aonnet,"
HE KNEW.
(Wathingtort Poet.)
44PiOnt" queried little Lola, who wits
$00it1ug through a eataloguse 'of agrieul4
tural implements, "what is a chilled
plow?"
"1 know," exclaimed ber il-year.old
brother. "IVO rA, plow that hal stood out.
side in the eOlci all winter."
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THE SCHEDULE.
(Cleveland Plain Dealer.)
"Willett week in Stine shall we be mar -
idea, dime"
"Wait minute, deer, look at tile
edlendar.'
"WhY, din?, timt ain't a valendar,thstVit
a schedule.'
"Did 1 say calendar? Of eourse, I
Meant schedule. looking% for dates
'when the teem plays at home.'
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ANIMALS PREDIOT WAXES,
00ga 0011Orted a Chilean Town -
Crocodiles Leave the Orinoco.
Doineetie an n415 aeon to be esPeelallY
sueeeptible to the npproseb, of the intake.
Itt IR25 in Chile every dog fled from the
city before the Inhabitante perceived that
faintest hint of the impending catas-
trophe. In 1867 in Java unmediatsly be-
fore the earthquake every rooster crow-
ed shrilly and left the (loomed town, In
1808 in, the city of Iquique the terrific
(Hanker was announced many hour* be-
forehand by great swarraa of =earning
gulls end other birds which flew Mend.
On the Orinoco erocedilea invariably
lexhquako.
theriver on the imminence of
e
Five day e before the earthipmke that
destroyed lillike in 373 B. C. is said to
have driven to the surface of the earth
mice, moles, weasels and eereents that
nest underground, Before the Sicilian
earthquake of 1783 aniinale came to the
euriae°, as well as various creatures of
the sea, especially field in stupendous
numbere, among them albeo ,s1leh as are
found only ire the greatest depths of the
water. The unrest of the animals sago
heralded the coming of the recent Sieilly
and C'elahrie, selemic disaster.
The best% of this remarkable instinct
of animals, reptiles, birds aud fish is
held by many observers to he respoessible
for their early perception. °there attri-
bute to thdse creatures an unknown
&Alt sense, in its way as enigmatic es
the sense of locality in many animals.'
Others say .it is the sense of heating
or their sensibility to agitation that en-
ables animals to notice the effect of the
occurrences in the interior of the 'earth
long before mankind with coarser settees
ean perceive -it.
But la thie case has arisen the objec-
tion that the delicacy of the enimal
.senses exceeds that of the finestesseismo-
gra,phic apparatus. The animals can
foretell earthquakes with a probability
that approaches certainty, and we by 210
means have satisfactorily explained their
superiority to mankind in this regard. -
Chicago Ted:bona •
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A THIRTY POUND MUSHROOM.
An interesting thing in the mushroom
line came to light recently when a giant
specimen weighing over thirty pounds
was found near Pittsburg by one of the
professors in the Carnegie school. The
mushroom was edible, it was found,and
though it rimy not have been the growth
of a hight, it certainly grew in leea than
forty-eight Lours, ,eince a search of its
locality made the day. previous to that
on whielt it was fouled disclosed no evi-
dence of it. If mushroom growers could
attange to cultivate this particular spec-
ies more than one mushroom fortune
might be the result.-Frora the Epicure.
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FIRE WASTE.
(The Bulletin.)
Property is burning up at the rate of
$80,000 per hour on this continent. In-
surance companies only distribute the
fire losses, and must colleet in premi-
ums the amount necessary. The greater
the fire loesee the more fhey must •col.
led, The more the people are assessed
to pay for the fire lch:s, the less they
lutye to spend for other things. Just
ae eliaterer is wasted in the home
makes the struggle of the family hard-
er, so whatever is wasted in a nation
maks it harder for its people to live.
These homely truths are emphasized itt
a circular sent out by the National Fire
Protection Association of the United
States, which is doing a. great work in
fighting the fire waste.
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(Exchange.)
"Aunt Liz had a. hard time having her
picture taken to -day," said her nepheW,
who had just opened a photographic
studio and Med very eourteously asked
his eunt to come and pose for a. new
picture.
"Why, what Was the trouble?" asked
his brother.
"Well. 'when 1 told her to look pleas -
out, she didn't look natural, and when
told her to leek natural she didn't look
Pleasant."
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THE NAVAL COMPETITION.,
(New York sun.)
The crews of all the big gun shIpst were
raieed to full strength, flotillas of tor-
pedo craft were assembled and constant-
ly exercised, stores were collected, coal'
accumulated, and the "fighting strength
of the navy in home waters wee at lettet
doebled"•'and the day came when Lord.
'Fisher said that Englishmen eoula steel)
securely in their beds, for the navy W1404
prepared for any emergency. But that
was before the order issued in December
last, to increase the German personnel
to 80,000 mete and commission a. third
squadron of ten Dreadnoughts and six
smell cruisers for reconnaissance to reen-
force the ovo battle squadrons of the,
High Sea Fleet. "When the new schema
Is completed," says Mr. Hurd, "the Ger-
man Empire will have always in coin-
nof.elon twenty-five battleshipe of the
elower Dreadnought type, six battleships
of the swifter Invincible type, together
with eighteen protected cruisers," Ac-:
eording to Ills information, "the Pan -
Germans make no secret of the belief"
!that we shall be unable to take the ne-
cessary steps to neutralize this move-
ment.' Why? Bemuse England Is near
the end of her resources in recruiting'.
which Mr. Hurd denies effectively, and,
because England buys her naval labor in,
the dearest market in IturoPe, and can-
not afford the extra expense. But can
Germany go on indefinitely meeting her
fixed charges for naval expansion?
England's ahswer to the challenge has
already taken the form of a plan to re-
organize the home fleet on such a scaler
as to checkmate the German dispositions.
13ut in future the competition will ba.
more in personnel than in ;ships. Bag -
land must have a superior standing fleet
ready for active service, with Coal in the
bunkers and oil 111 the tanks, and every.
officer and man in his place or within
call, the magazines full, and stores ott.
board for a short and decisive campaign..
MInard'a Liniment Lumbermatfo
Friend.
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WORLD'S SEVEN WONDERS..
(Bliffelo Express.)
Cornell professors have decided on the
following in the seven modern wonders
of the world: Wireless, synthetic chem-
istry, radium, antitoxins, aeroplanes,
Panama Canal and telephone.
No doubt these are great achievements
but the seven wonders tor which the
world is anxiously waiting are as fol-
lows:
A traehine that will button women's
ralsts down the bank,
A. wind shield that can he worn on the
shoulders to keep hats from blowing oft.
A speed regulator that will automati-
cally slow down an automobilh yvhen N.
cop is near.
An electric door -trier to enable police-
men to ascertain whether stores on their
beats are locked witnout having to go
around to see.
A cigar that is made of tobaceo
throughout without the euetomary
chunk of ttebestos in the middle,
A job that will pay a lazy man a living
without requiring him to work.
A politician who knows what truth•fix
and dares to tell it.
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EMPEROR WILLIAM'S THIRD SON
Prince Adalbert, third son of Kais-
er William, is an °Meer in the Ger-
man navy. He ie twenty-eight yew*
old and is not yet married, To the I
despair of his father and Mother he
insists onremaining a bachelor. The
truth Is that he is crazed with 10Yet
of a pretty actress, Mlle, Paula Frie-
den, whom he has installed in a villa
at Kiel.
Some time- ago there was given at
Kiel, at the reeldence of the Printte,
• eostume ball. The beautiful PV.I11-4
a was preeetit. All at once
It appeared la the roore. He had
come express from Derlin and was
In eostume of the grand eleetor of
Brandenburg. He showed his dise
satisfaction by frowning horribly.
This made great tante in the navy,
but the rapture the EmPeror expeet-
ed to produce did not come. He thei..
decided to send the obstinate Prince
to New Yotk, where the nieces or
Uncle 88111 navalt him with Secret
hope. In this was to be expleine&
thie journey to whieli has been given
• diplomatic sttoxiticanot.
It WKS the Prineett little friend who
rdeeveraorleri.dithis etcret, loretti Le ed.
a