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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1913-02-06, Page 6" T'."'71MTWIPrin"-r A STUDENT. ',Washington t ar. yew boY a 000d studenv."' replied Mr. Cumeoa, .sre eertain extent. The wee- Ile gets his mother and me to plat up with ids ex- Peneive ttecoonte ebows that he's a won - dean), student of human nature,' JUST AS EFFECTIVE. (Philadelphia Reeordo Wiggse-Oh. I am tired of life, Have yOU a, ptetel YOU can lend me Wag -No, but .L van let You have a hnng dish. If THE PLACE TO SPEND. (Pele Mele.) "I feel very uneasy; it's pouring rain and my wife went out without an. =- brae,' "No doubt she'll take refuge in a. shoP somewhere,' "Yes, that's Just what's worrying Me 4 SUCH A MAD WAG. (Boston Transcript.) He -Ever notice what a heavy face Mrse Strongroind has? Shop -Yee; what a thump there's be it her countenance fell, AN EXCEPTION, (Detroit Free Press.) ..110,s made a, success of everything 110'S touched." "All except me. I'rn worse off than I woe when he borrowed that ten," MUST HAVE BEEN SLOW. (Punch.) The Learned Professor -You know, Mrs. Bloogs. it Beeves a. shame to take Your boy away from school at such an early age. I, myself, didn't finish my school education. until I was 1.9. Mrs. Bloogs-Well, some children is quicker at nickin' un things than. Oh- 0,rs. arkr4r116.1•••11....10•40....................... SO LIKE, (Boston Transcript.) He -That lovely flowers! Do :eon know they remind me of you? She -They are artificial flowers, know. But it reeuires close examination to ,cletect it. AN APOLLO. (Boston Transcript.) Hub-MarY, tist look at that man over there. I don't think 1 over saw any- one so homely. Wire -Huh, dear, you forgot yourself, s - PURELY ACCIDENTAL. -(Washington Star.) "Had any accidents on this road late- ly?" asked. the traveler. "rep," replied the man who hangs around the ktation, "Three trains came in or time last week." t TIMELY MUSIC. (Sourire,) Virago -Can't 1 beat my own husband if 1 want to? Do you obieet? Musician -Net at all, madam; ,only beat him in time. INF THE NEXT SUITE. (Cleveland Plan Dealer,) `"That must have been Van Swigger who came home at two .o' clock this morn- ing. I never heard such maudlin talk." L"That was Van all right. He told me the other day that he Was a lineal de- scendant of the four -bottle philologist Who nut the 'hie' •in hiccoughs." *4. 4. • THE CHANGE. (Judge.) "What has beoome of ltlies Snooks? She was going in for theosophy -ellen I saw her last." "She married a restaurant man and is studying dishpantheisrn." 'I VICE VERSA. (New York Sun,) lanicker-It is terrible the way parents make their babies work ot night. Youngpop-And it is terilbie the way babies make their parents wort- at night. NO HERO TOTHE CONCIERGE. (Fele Mele.) "Say, didn't Victor Hugo live here onee?" "I can't remember all the people who have been tenants." "No, but Victor Hugo, the man who made books." "Then we haven't; we've never had a bookmaker here." HELPLESS. (Se. Louis Post -Dispatch.) "1 arn surprised, Ethel, that yetr-al- lowed that handsome Italian count to kiss you last eveniner "Oh, I really" could- n't help It." "Why couldn't you?" "Be- cause can't speak a word *f Italian." 4-4 POOR RUNNER. (Baltirnore American.) Friend -Is your son still pursuing his studies at college?" Father (regretfullY)-I-Ie must be, for he doesn't seem to be catching up with any of them, A PLAIN GOLD ONE. (Boston Transcript.) Heek-They Say a ring around the moon is a sign of rain. Peck -So is a ring around a woman's finger a sign of reign. 4 . THE CONTEST. (Washington Star.) "Were you invited to Mrs, Fliinglit's reception?" "No," replied Mr. Cayenne. "She pre- ferred Antibbing me hy not :tending an in- vitation to risking .my smtbing lier by teJecting jtet DOES HEAVEN KNOW? (Puck.) Mrs. elaneY-The daredevil would !eight hie polpe wid a stick rev dynamite, and - Aire. 1Iogan----1Twae jest Tonto Tim! he be dein' not SEE EUROPE FIRST. (judge.) Friend (at bookstore) --Hello, old men! 1 Other One --Yes, my wife's going to ittying a book? turope and elle Wanted nie to get her a voltnne about the famotte hiStorical places in the 'United States, so that she will be able to eleeeribe them to the foreigners she will meet. sortkoweo. "The points in blinks E;nee.cli were well takeil, I thought?" "Yes; rfinfIt of them from other Ynen."--- Buffalo Expresa BETWEEN GIRLS, aentee-Vahnt foolish thing ft ouins man CI() when bete in lege. Vtliel-Oh, Agnes! ell het .Taek's pro- p esed..-Tioston Transcript. A WRY rAct„, "Geed graeiousi what makes you look like that? tfits :(nything happened " 'Well, 1 had my portrate naintsd re- lantly by an impreesesesss elle Tee tee. lug to look like a.-- mieeende Matter. HOUSEHOLD ECONOMY. tild trt113.1te-Mtne inoeey? 'Whet have elm done with the dollar 1411 T gilVt, eek before leet? Mre. ifuriheevrarned it and hung It ui in the **pare hensonm fl rrierriento. lt's the only one I' ii‘.er sot t,ut :v0111.-- ebieago Trireme. mill.muntimuuNimmummuummmimil . Winsome Winnie 1 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 "Yes, your style of coettime prevent'e yon," the younger lady assented, with a grave, -serutinizing glance at the snowy hair, the slightly -bowed figure, the soft langaid hands burled in the warm eriruson folds of the ehaevl "When the weather gate fine, you muet come up to Tregarthen and see my improvements." Madam. 'Vivian shivered itgain-””Rf- feetedly this time. "Thank you, my dear --1 can hardly fancy that wretelied old ruin an invit- ing plae0 to explore in such weather R$ this. Listen!" She pointed on finger at the c urtained window, and then she shrugged her (shoulders, as old people very often do to convince young people of their ignorance and eimplicity on most discussed Subjects. "Yes, it rains a little," the younger lady said, hnperturbably; "but it will ntoet;.:afn for three weeks, I trust, Tre- garthen will be ready for its master h "Really," exclaimed Madam, begin- ning to turn the diamond. rings on her dimpled fingers, and smiling a little dtt- biously; "I fancied. that the house was a hopeless ruin, and that it would re- quire at least half a, year's rebuilding and renovating." "Perhaps in your opinion it ,would, Madam," her companion rejoined, coolly and indifferently as before. "I think it is safely habitable now, at least." "Oh, 1 daresay you have worked won- ders, my dear," said Madam, gracious- ly, .and. smiling still; "but it is of no use hoping to make thet most restleas person, Captain Tredenniek, settle (Town in the home of hie fathers, as he should have done long ago -ah, twenty years ego," went on Madam Vivian, more pee- vishly than the had yet spoken -"twen- ty years ago, instead of going into the navy -the Merchant navy, too -the first of his name viho ever did so! Re should have looked after his property, married some suitable girl with money and of good birth, and had a name and a place in the county, instead of being more like a waif or a stray then any- thing else." The old discord, freshly touched, jar- red yet as it had jarred for these many years. "Perhaps that most restless person, Osestain Tredennick, enjoys life," the lady suggested, coldly. "Be he a waif or stray, or whatever else the puissant po- tentates of the Cornish aristocracy choose to call him, he is envied in that ease." "don't believe he enjoys it one -bit down properly," retorted Madam Vivian, sharply. "People are never one whit happier, for being Allowed to follow their Own unconventional ideas and Whimsical fancies unopposed and un- trammeled. I thought Stephen looked exeeedingly old and. weathersbeaten, quite a staid, solid, elderly man, with frizzled hair, when he was here last - old enough /or fifty instead of forty." "And 1," said the younger lady, a pleasant, affectionate smile lighting up her cold, proud, unfathomable eyes, "thought he looked just as kind and pleasant and generous as ever." "I do not gainsay my nephew's ex- cellent qualities of head and heart in the least, I assure you," explained Madam, etiffly; "1 regretted his prematurely - aged appearanee, and his lack of all near home ttes. It grieves me to think that shall never see Stephen Tredennick'e children." "Ilow can you tell, Madam," question - eel .ber companion, with a quiical smile. "Stephen Tredennick may be bringing a wife home in the Chittoor at .this me- ment." "Some ono to maks him miserable, then, if he ,is," taid Madam, sardonical- ly, "Men of hie age are always taken in by theefirst designing girls that get tt chance of bewitching them. I have have often told him that 1 expected to see some pallid, lazy young Anglo-Indian or brown -skinned Hindoo brought home to me as Mrs. Stephen Tredennick." "C'est possible!" assented the younger lady, laughing. "Stephen Tredenniek al- ways had peculiar tastes about feminine charms; still, it would supply the dis- mal vacancy in Tregarthen House, Ma- dam, if the yell OW' young Anglo-Indian, or the swarthy Hindoo maid were in- stalled. there as mistress." Madam Vivian's chiseled lips tighten- ed after the old hanglity fashion. "1s1iould not eoneider the vacancy of the mietreees of Tregarthen's place filled if Stephen Tredonnick were unhappy enough to be deluded into a low marri- age," oho said icily; "and, so f sr from having a niece to acknowledge, I should from that time cease to have even nenliew," The proud old lady stifled the pan In her heart which her own worde h occasioned, and sat composedly turning her rinse, and warming her daintily- elippered feet, as if she did not know that the loss of him who hail been for more than thirty years as a son to her would SOnd her gray hairs with sorrow to the grave. "Poor Stephen," commiserated the younger hiely, morkingly, "he had better not meddle with matrimony, then as lie ts sure to do .something as odd and un- sxmventionsti as most of his simple, chivalroue, kindly deeds -poor old /el - low In "I am sure any nephew will never malty any olio whom 1 should be asharn. ed to owe," staid Madan", hotly. "And I are equally Sure of the same thing," returned the other lady, corn- peeedly, Madam was silent. She Was getting tbe worst of the discussion -she atweys did with We opponent -and sat fot a. long time buried in her downy Asir and her erineson Atm], gazing dreamily and sadly at the bright fire, Playine stith diamond rings, and toesting Foldehnekled shoes, however emsy and interesting an employment, is apt to pall and become wearleome. Many other employments, oecupations, and in. tereetu had palled and become weari- 401110 to Madam Vivian of at yeare. ITaralsotae, proud and stately ste elle wee, she mate an old woman, and grcnw. itig a feeble and helplese one. A. life- time ;spent in the toeiety Of downy desire, Indian, ehavals and diamond sessase badly enough, is not always 0011. dIlPtiVe to lengthened years of strength and Activity. Madam's time lied be- i to hang heavily on her hods, and tiee eleidow of the vampire wino of titivei to darken the atmosphere of the en drawing room, in spite of tinted sisex lighte and the blexhig aernith of isidiant fire*. \Vase it a promonitiou, in this agent evening hour, 'whirl' brought her lonely edvalidng yeere, leek of relatives and devoted friends, *why to her mind, Melting her delkete hen& tremble Inv may, seed ressitneliteg her Cvf elobbes strength mud vigor -making her feel, as she had often felt of late, but more keenly to -night titan ever, that she was but an old, widowed, childless woman, and that she would gladly barter all the . triumphs of her youthful belle-eblP, her middle aged fascination and eletvernese, her position, her pride, her name, to possess one real heart-eatisfying affee- tion-all her own -to cherisb and take pride in RS other women clid-a grandchild, even? Poor Madam Vivien! Drearier and drearier grew the oold lady's sed thoughts, while that eoldo stately, handsonie companion of hers eat aloof, guiding the gleaming gold fringe over her white finger -»o t from heartlessness, in spite of those nierble like, unmoved features, cold °leer eyes, and firmly moulded lip*, but from the hopeless indifferences to any attempt 44 being understood in ideas, taste*, or feelings -the hopeless indifference to !most persons and things -the hopeless* indifference to the fatiguing and unsat- isfactory effort to be loving and belov- •ed, which possessed the handsome peer- ess, Lady Xountrevor, at eix-antletyenty years of age. And so the evening passed on, as many an evening had passed between those two, in lonely luxury, irkeome eerr4P411* ionship, utiseeial relationship; mat use dam 'Vivian, etretehing out her hand to touoh the bell spring beyond her chair, felt with a weary sigh that Fate would gladly have welcomed any one or any event that might break the monotonous flow of the current of existence. But the bell brought only old. Llitnyou the butler, his snowy hair whiter than his rnistress'; and. so the only evens', likely to minx until bedtime for Madam 'Vivian was the arrival on a silver tray of a certain cordial drink which the but- ler was summoned to prepare. Madam Vivian scarcely ever paid much heed to her servants' counten- ances when addressing them; now she scarcely looked up from her languid toying with her rings, or she might have noticed that the old man's usually stolid face was excited and bright, and that he rubbed his hands quickly and me- chanically together whilst he waited, "You will be sure to remember the pineapple essence, Llanyon," madam re- minded him RS he was quitting the room. "Yes, madam, I will be sure -certain- ly," he said, hurriedly. "And bring it soon, Llanyon," his mis. tress ordered, "Certainly, madam, as soon as pos. sible " he rubbed his hands faster, and a smile seemed. struggling hard with the decorous gravity of his face. "Llanyon looks as if he had heard !some good news;" said Lady Mount- revor. She was quick to notice, if Madam Vivian WaB not, quick to notice the joy or sorrow of any one, rich or poor, to notice, to feel, to sympathize -this proud, cold, unruffled, stately peeress. In half an hour madam had calculated on being brought the luscious port wine cordial which her accommodating physi- sian had ordered her -to etrengthen her and induce sound sleep, he implied in his prescription; he did. no say, to banish for a, while by its cheerful stim- ulation the dark presence of ennui, or to drug the nnused muscles and nervous membranes, corroding, beneath the rust of half a century. of slothful ease, into drowsy quiseence-for he was a polite, white -handed, courteous physician -y et he meant it all the Same. But in twen- ty mientes came a gentle tap at the door, and madani heard -the clink of the glass and. silver, "Come in," she eaid, and never turned her head, whilst Llanyon laid the salver, claret' jug and tumbler at her elbow. HOW lightly he moved about, madam thought, as she ,glanced towards Lady Mountrevor, and saw that her work had dropped from her hand, and that she was gazing with panted interest at some ono else. Who- -who was it? "Who bs it " madam cried aloud, in surprise and Perturbation, as, in ewiftly turning, she caught a glimpse of a young lady, dreseed in mourning, standing part- ly behind her eliair-a fair, graceful, slender girl, with fat% nut -brown hair fashionably arranged in clustering masses of silky curling ends above 3:er brow, and wearing a maeeive duil-goid Iv/deli-chain ae the only ornament on her black dress. Her whole fair face whe lit up with color and excitement, her gray eyes were dark and dewy with tears. "Madame -dear madam, 2 broughb in your tray; I asked Llanyon to allow me -dear nutdamI" The girl had °leaped her little hands together in uneonsolous entreaty, and. half knelt before the old lady's chair, Her reception, was charieeterietic of Madam. Vivian. "Who is it? Who is it?" she asked, sharply and impettiouely, although elle had recognized the long -absent face in a inement,"'Who ere you to Mlle start- ling me? Is thie Winnie Caerlyon C!On'le home ago.in-Winnie?" "Yee, dear =dem." "Indeed! I should scarcely know you. I fancied you were quite settled in Amer. lea, noW are you, my dear?" and she touched the girl's cheek with her lips. "T am glad. to see you again, althoagh 1 think you could scarcely expect me to say So alter the way in which you tOok • your departure froni me without word or ineeeage"-at this juncture Lady Mounteevor resaireed her work, while a keenly sarcastic smile flickered. over her lips-Intt I'm glad to see you looking so well -quite, iinpriayed, indeed! When did you return?" "Yesterday evening, madam," said Winnie, timidly, feeling all the old, Fell - loving, half -fearing awe of her stately patrolleas; her angles and tears almost quenelied in the cool dry atinoepbere of her reception, while all the tittle, in reality, tnadalTI WWI in a fever of pleas- ure and amazement and longing hopes that she might now and heneeforth have ciompany as of old. She veoteld she met! She would make arrange- ments with that dreadful etep-mothee- pay her well -do anything -but she would have Winnie for her own pet, and protege an eompe»ion from this even- ing forward, tithe Ofterntirted on it instantlyand fain would *lie have iniperiouely eartitil her desire into execution instantly eboot end her disappointment ranee with a blow tit ehattered a whole fabric of pleaseent hopes; when she learned that Winn% Olteriyon Wa4 beyond the mad of any moray bribe that he eauld °flee her to beeome her patient little reader and eornparrion as of old. "Two hundred a yeeerI Why, you are quits a little heirees, Wionie I" 'remarked theod, lady, with a stightly pitteentising "Med what are yen going to do 1""titataith t; nester drat o retiaitiehe • inquiry, although the other listener at the work -table- eterled her haughty lip ite she went on assiduously with her gold -ringing. "Oh, there will be plenty of teee found for at madam, or three WOOS Ilf, =eh, in elicit a hone° as 01111/,'," elle remarked., tibeerfuily, "And are you going to give it ell to your etep-mother and her sevou ail- dren?" madam demanded, sharply, een going to share it all, of eourse, madam, to the laet eispextee, with taiem," replied Winnie, so quietly, .and with euch *Ample eerneetness and dignity that Madam Vivian felt deeply rebuked. "Oh, eertainlye-they are your ratlines children," madam said, lisiiitily; "you. were always extz•emely fond of thons, Winnie, I believe, Alt, there is half -peg nin"Aneadirtiliquiteng."tiiini, for me to return how," remarked Winnie, rising from the low .ottoman at madam's eitite She undeirstood the arehing of madam's eyebrowa, and the change of tone that always ineent dienziesal from her (r wes- e.° in the old days. She eccepte it . elqIiiii:etr407:1dtoniaeWgtil•eYa' t"laellnyerleilitY0 a Alfe.4)td: to tke old daye. ITer znoney mule no Vivian - her handsome, high-lered) wealthy patroness, whom she had been aitemetonted to describe with stieh loving Pride to her American friends in Win- ston us the very pereonifieation of the .blsze-lelooded EngliSh arietoeracy whom thy had never eeen. # * young girl's money, however, had glade a difiereme. Muni° Oaerlyou eaUle leaok as poor as she went, hoping and williveg to be taken up again by Madam Vivian, petted, blamed, indulged, tyrannized over, treated as a friend and as en intruder, as an equal and. se seer- vant) svhictheVem way the haughty old lody's opricions xnoode inclined 'Iter Weettid have been, at least on tilde even! lag, es dethOnstratively Welcomed fi.S if only cried, and begged madam to fergive ut this else erful, gentle, dignified young lady, with her inoneyed independence, and a, certal p.eaeant independence she were A, returned prodigal. 11. she bad her for going away without her knowl- edge or permissioe, she would have of word and manner, who needed nothing from herz put ler arms around her and kissed her; ifihrole oeuId n(A lielP 811°W - and had but come jag it. Therefore she dismiesed the girl - light on the dreary waste of her friend- :pbt 4 o)roongaiu, eanvniiiciosse dneool ...: stdr e itstahliieelir.agnuph "Come soon aagain to met 1 have missed less life, and would not even say to Or, 14 presence that wile better than sun- dainspl°ele,dsetildndalnYdrerisealup"- laid lady in her 'peevish tt Good night, my dear!" she said, extending her little, plump, satin -fair hand, with the icy brilliance of its splendid rose -diamonds restlessly scintillating, the object of Winnie's moat fervent admiration and admiring memory through nearly eleven years. There was a rustle of sweeping silken robes as she bade Winnie the coldly. polite farewell that she might have be- stowed as well after an absent* of sev- en days as seven years, and .from the depth e of the chair by the distant table where she had been partially hidden, Lady INIountrevor's tall imperial figure moved forward, and steed at the opo - site side of Madam Vivian'et chair, . \Millie had not ventsusd on more than a swift passing glance when she entered -the room; 31QW her eyes fell, and the shy color rose in her cheeks be- neath the steady iight of the proud cold gaze bent on her slender, short girlish figure. Madam glanced up inesolne surprise. "Ah -you have not met my little friend, Miss Winnie Caerlyon, before, I think, Lady Mountrevor?" "No," eaid Lady Mountrevor; and Winnie, looking up hastily, encountered the haughty penetrating eyes that had indeed once before overwhelmed her in girlieli shame and mortificatiin, The stately, handsome peeress, Lady Mountrevor, and the beautiful young lady, Mildred Tredennick, were onet "No," Lady Mountrevor repeated gravely, but with a peculiar marked courtesy whieh rather contrasted with Madam' s bearing toward her former protegee, "1 have never had. the plea- sure of meeting Miss Caerlyon --I have beard of her very Often." "I saw you, though, several times, Lady, lIountrevosr said Winnie, Smil- ing, 'before I went to America -when you were staying here eight years ago." "Oh! that was before mnie7 be- came Lady Mountrevor, 11, innie," ex - y plained Madam. "Yes -that wag before 1 beeanae Lady all:rountrevor," said Madam's Tito°, with strange sml1e, ".lefy couein Stephen Tredenniek was here then also -You ,konnes;:, Stephen Tredennick, Miss Caerl- )," A little --I met hint two or three times," answered Winnie. She turned away her head with a pretence at puShing a chair farther Oa but Lady Mountrevor detected the quick troubled change that ce.ine over the fair placid face. " "She remembers him still," she said within herself; "she can be faithful to a memory. Thee frail, -weak, gentle - looking beings have wondereful pow- ers of endurance," she mused, with the sting of bitter memories rising up with GOodnight, Mise Caerlyon," she said, in her accustomedgrave, cold voice, with, however, a slight smile of cordiality iti the proud eteady eyes that scanned the girl's pure, earnest face so closely. "I trust we shell eee you soon again -shall we not, aunt?" Niadani hacl no resource but to yield as graciously as she might. "I hope 'so," said she, unbending a little. "Will you come and dine with Lady Mountrevor and myself on Mon- day, Winifred?" OITAPTER XXII. "We an awful evening, Winnie; but of course one wouldn't lige to refuse an invitation like this, There'll be lots of grand people there, I suppose, and We very polite of Madam to ask '0 so moon to dinner after irt carnet home." Poor Mies Caerlyon, like other virul- ent derneerats5 Was easily Mobbed into cOmplaisant admiration of the aristo- era ts by a little flattering attention. "It is," assouted Winnie, quietly; but at the Same time an intuitive know- ledge posaessed her that the note - written with stented violet ink on e'er- oneted peper-dasilied off in Lady Mountrevoiee eareless flowing poirman. ship, had ale° its eole origin in Lady Mountrevor's courteolis eonelderation. The request that she would pia off her 'visit on Monday And mine, on Wed- needay inetestd. when they were to littee a few friends whoni she might lilie to meet, purported to be from ;Madam 1v3n •erteirtly; but 1Vinnie, with All her loyal love of her atately old friend, eould not quite reemeelle it to hereelf as has lug been, at all events, front her dietittion. -Though why phoitill Lady Monntre- nr take arty partial:iv naive of Shfi pondered. "She is a grand, bettutie ful, high -bred ink hut 2 should never lames eepetted her te think twit* of me,* t.To be errntinted ) .1,1`774' Catarrai Brands You An " Undesirable So Loatheome is the Disease That Few Will Associate With a Catarrhal Victim. IS YOUR TROUBLE CATARRH? Poor remedleo have given Catarrh the . Telput&tiou of being ineurable. But it is %treble, easily and quickly, if the right .enethod le employed. Snuffing a pew- eler or ointment up the nose won't mire 'Catarrh, neither will tablets, douching. 'or stomach medicines cure. These treat - vents fail beeauee they only affeet local vonditiens; they do not remove the ..eause, which is germu life esteblished in th.e lunge_ bronchial tube*, ,and naeal pas* sages. Okinary retnedies do not reach itheee remote parts, but Catarrhozone does, for at ie breathed through the an. haler into every air eoll in the hinge, In - 'to every air paseage in the head and 'throat, No matter where the 'Catarrh is ,Ce,tarrhozone will reach it. It kills the geniis, heals sore spots, clears the male and throitV instantly. 'Universally pleaeant and clean; guaranteed to sure ofmoney refunded, Don't ban object of aVerSiOU to everyone you meet -get Catarrhozone 'today and use it reoularly; it will euro 'your Catarrh, Brotaitie, Throat Trou- ble, spitting and gaping. Large. size, 60e. All dealere or''the Catarrhozone CO., Buffalo, N. Y., and Kingston, Can- ada. „ BIRDS AND FARM PESTS. (Montreal Gazette.) The fourth annual report of the Que- bec Society for the Protection of Plants from Insects and Fungus Diseases eon - tains a chapter devoted to the bird friends of the farmer and fruit grower. The attention which all that pertains to the production of food has received of late years has added much to the know- ledge of plant disease and pests, and to the means of checking them. So far as insect pests are concerned, and. there is ito orOp from them, it would appear birds are nature's ever active check. The hawk'which occasionally steals a chicken, is a great devourer of rats and mice, which live by tolling the crops. The same is true of the owl. The wood- pecker is an insect devourer; so is the ingbird, the flycatcher, the pewee, the jay, the blackbird, the native sparrow, the swallow, the robin, etc, 'Crfell the crow, vvhile• he eats what worries the. farmer, destroys beetles, grasshoppers, weevils, eutworms, etc., and earns his board . When the Wisdom begotten of the knowledge set out in the report has its effect, the cheap sport who shoots birds will be in greater disfavor than he is new even, and the farm which is chosen -as a home by many feathered flyera will have something added to Ito value. - ON Wash *Day 25 Bluing 10 cents. Makes the Clothes as White as Snow Try It ! Manufactured by The Johnson -Richardson Co Limited, Montreal. Can. THE PRIVATE DETECTIVE. (Toronto Star.) .A. private detective has no more right to butt into your affairs and cross-ex- aminer than has the village barber. The law does not compel you to trratify the curiosity of either the one or the other. The ma.n who flashes the badge of a PtiVate detective aseeney, and makes it appear that he is possessed of authority as an agent of Jostle°, is thereby impos- ing on the credulous. He is merely an agent employed by private interests. But we agree with the Advocate that the operations of private detectives phould be discouraged. They are be- coming too numerous, and too active. People are "awed" by them, and the narhe detective has an elarming sound. Ys 1 How would you. like to earn BIG MONEY .in your spare time. Send your name and address to -day, and we will tell you all about it. M.O. Dept. 74 St, Antoine Street, Montreal, Can. _ LONG SEARCH ENDED. Traveler (settling blip -Pardon my curiosity, sir but what do you staff your beds with in this hotel? Landlord (prOudly)-test straw to be had in the whole country, b'gosh. Tre,veler-Ah, that's very interest- ing; I know now where the straw came from that brokt the camel's backe-Weekly Telegraph. MInard's liniment Cures Diptherla. "Come new, John, we've seen the ele- phants and the monkeys and the birds; let us go into the aquaelum." "Buts dear Eliza,',replied the obedient husband, "/ can't swim a stroke!"- -Yonkers States. I man. TOES AND PLANTS Rules Governing tnportaw tion Into Canada, . All persons who are accustomed, or intend, to import trees, fibrillae and Plants, or other kia . of vegetation into Canada, or to ship such treea and plants from one province to an- other, sitenid make themselves thor- °uglily familiar with the regulations of the Dominion awl Provincial Gov. ernmente in this matter. If nibs is not done inconvenience and poseible coinmtopnly or loss enerr result owing to the neglect Dto,,niwiPtirlovtlimneciraelgtgloirveommenieri ntstost, which requirements are necessitated by the danger, always present, of the inniertatien of dangerous pests into Canada or their spread from one prov- Inge to Oil/Other. true regulations governing the irn- portatiOn of vegetation of various kinds into Canada and thee Dominion and Provinoial leave under which they have been passed have been. col- lected in a convenient form and pnb- Ittihad as a bulletin, with explanatory notes by the Dominion Entomologist, Dr, C. Gordon Hewitt. This bulletin, entitled "Legislation in Canada to Prevent the Introduction and Spread of Insects, Poste and Digeaees De- structive to Vegetation with Regula., thins Regarding the Importation of Vegetation Into Canasta,' is publish- : ed as Bulletin No. 11, Second poies, Of the Experimental nrms I3ranoh of the Dominion Departfuent of Ag- riculture. It also fortes. Antomologi- cal Bulletin NO, 6 of the Division of Entomology. It may be obtained free on application to the publication Branch Department of Agriculture, Otto \ a, rIV:l laws and regulations of the Donate'cn Government and Of tne loverninvets of those provindeS posseeing such legislation, namely, ErItieli Columbia, Neva Scotia, On- tario and Prinee F.siwilial Island, are eiveta A. full ante' etion is given of tho regulations which must be ob. servec1 by persons importing nursery stock, which flown -elk es trees, shrubs, plants,. vines, etc., ieto Canada and into the,. Provinces mentioned, ea. a SAVE THE BABY . Baby's Own Tablets, are the one safe medicine to make baby.- well and. keep him well. They ere ,guar- anteed. by. a government analyst to be free from all injurious (leases and stre absolutely safe to give even to the newborn babe, u- eerning th-ena Mrs. -Oeear Bedard, .1.Ianeeau, .Que., writes: "1 b /WO lased Baby's Own Tablets and. beve to thank them that my little one is living today. t know of noth- ing to equal them as a eltildren's medicine." The '.1a bit' are. 6014 by medicine dealers f.e.• by mail at 25 Nuts a box from The Dr, Earn& Medieine Co., Broakville, Ont. • ; 1 WILL THERE BE TIME? When man has harnessed lightning to his will. And spanned the ocean's breadth with bows of steel; When he has .made the universe his niill, And set the winds to work drive hill wheel; 'When he has sealed the skies whith• ghostly mirth To rob the stars of their stupendous Powers; 'When he has probed the bowels of the eartit .And gathered up the breath of all the flowers; he then nauee a whilc to count the dead Whom poverty and steel have ground to dust? witi he then heed:the children's cry for bread? Or hear the mother's wail for what is Just? WM he then scalare himself with God and man? Will he repudiate the vice and crime , That have endured snice being fb.st- be; scan? God, Ciin he (1.0 ail this? 'Will there- be time? -Bell Fliglethan in the Survey. A- WINDSOR LADY'S APPEAL To All Women: I will send free with full instructions, my home treatment which positively ,cures Leucorrhoea, Ul- ceration, Displacements, Falling of the Womb, Painful or Irregular Periods, Uter- ine and Ovarian Tumors or Growths, al- so Hot Flushes, Nervousness, Melancholy, Pains in the Head, Back or Bowels, Kid- ney and Bladder troubles, where caused by weakness peculiar to our sex. 'You can continue treatment at lio.me at a (lost Of only about 12 cents. a, Week. My book, "Women's Own Medical Adviser,' also sent free on request. Write to -day. Aaldress Mrs, M. Summers, Bux xr. Windsor, Ont. 4} 6 - SIMPLY A QUESTION OF HONOR. The charge that Senator Root i 4 speak- ing for the railroad oppositioe to the Panama Canal when he suggest- eonsid- eration of honor and faith to ti.. rnited ates &note does not at all elm. the fact that he is speaking for national honor and good faith. We have other ways of 1 rulating• railroads than by reaehing • them through the breach 'in a tree ei other ways than by giving unmerited subsi- diee at the expense of national reputa- tion V* a, carrying trade whose nim Is monopoly. • It Is not 8enator Root's good fortune to be eons antly in position where he can be greatly esteemed for other them the ability he demonstrates in that po- oaten, but in his plea of the tented States Senate to hold treaty obligations sacred lie is wholly admirable, BUNIONS NO JOKE Ifara to get rid of them, too. Two or three applications of Putnam'e Pain- less Corn EXtraCtOr Softons the thiekeet tiesue, and 1'OMOV09 it painlessly. ritt- nean's rainless Corn Extraetor reit oves cOns, warts, and eallouses quickly and painlessly. Sold by druggiets, price 25e, WIDD OPHN, Caller -"What an open eountenanee your baby has." Pop -"Yes, erspetielly about nildnight.”-Boston Traneeript. Minateee Liniment Cures, Colds, Etc. Russian Blouse Effect, They Callle 1 laet fell, - IsTow we are intereeted. There were a few in velvet. There'll be more in Wool and in eilk„ 1.3nons ate likely to be time made up. They faeten at the left in very many Buttons and loops are among the mp. proved fastenings, The buttons may be in a, row or they may be in eluetere. The Ruesian blouse coat reaches the kneel and nutv be straight around, with fronte slightly rounded or even 0. trifle eutitway in Meet. The >skirt of Awl n Keit my be Alight- ly draped and on eold &eve a fur band around the peek ie the approved Rauh of *oaf n role. hettone are et ill utoet liked foe iiftig gowns, Forty years in use, 20 years the standard, prescribed and reoom. mended by physidano. For Woman's Ailments, Dr. Alartel's Female Pills, at your druggist, 14P1 -4 - Old Sayings About January. January blossoms fill no man's eel - lar. If birds begin to whistle in .Tanuarer, frost to come. Wlue gnats a ts eswartnegignapttuary the peasant b t 4111. In jajillarY' no blessing When oak trees bend with snow in January, good erops may be expect. ed, year caoilldd Zgaiiay.tiary, a, feverish Febru- ary, a dusty Mayon, a weeping April and a windy May presage a good Wirnard's Liniment Cures Garnet In Cows. BELTED COATS. Coat belts are general. There may be a. real belt. There may he a suggested belt. A. maple of buttons may simulato a belt. Or a strap may goe across the back of the cent, A fat cord designates the belt line on Some dress coats, In feet, there is no limit to the forms the coat belt may take. SA NM. RELIABLE CURE for Gall Stones, Kidney Trou,ble, Kidney and Bladder Stones, Gravel, Lumbago, *Uric Acid. Price $1,50, Most leading -drug- gists, THE SANOL MPG. CO., LTD. Winnipeg, Man. A WARNING. (Philadelphia Record.) "A rnan," the doctors say, "Is as old as his bloodvessels." Recent investiga- tions have pretty, conclusively shown that in Anne of the great reduction in the general dect,th rate due to improved social and sanitary oonclitione, the death - rate an -wig znen between the ages of 45 and 65'is ineregelpg. This is due to the rapidly inoreasing aggregation of popu- lation, in towns and cities where, under Present industrial conditions of modern life, there is undue hustle and stress. The hustlers bring about premature degen- eration of the animal system. The Increasing number of deaths from heart disease gives startling statistical confir- me.tion or the killing pace among middle- aged, men, This is further proven by the contrary showing among women. There has been for many years past M continuing reduction .of the female death rate between the ages of 45 and 60,Among active business men anxiety, worry and overwork put a constant mechanical strain on the heart and bloodvessels. Overfeeding and wrong and irregular feeding bring on toxic poisoning. espec- ially -where there is lack of physical out- door exercise. Finally, the heart goes on a strike, and the end comes. S1,60 121GWARD For information that will lead to the discovery or whereabouts of the person or persons suffering from Nervous Debility, Fits, Skin Dis- ease, Blood Poison, Genito Urinary Troubles, and Chronic or Special Complaints that cannot be cured at The Ontario Medicallnstitute, 263-,265 Yonge Street, Toronto. t 4 LEARN FROM LOVE LETTERS Dr. Arthur Holmes, who advocates the exchange of love letters between students as a means of acquiring- the art of composition, Might point to Samuel Richardson as a proof of the efficacy of his method. Richardson began by acting as scribe for a num- ber of young women, for whose cor- respondence with their sweethearts he frequently supplied not only the words, but the sentiments. , His vela- tation for this kind of composition led a firm of printers to propose that he should prepare a "complete letter writer" for the use of "those country readers who cannot indite for them- selves." Two or three of the epistles written for this purpose suggested a separate story, "and thenee," in Rich- ardson's own phrase, "sprang 'Pamela,'" MINARD'S LINIMENT CO., LIMITED. Some time ago 1 had a bad attack of Quinsy which laid me up for two weeks and cost a lot of money, Finding the lump again. forming in my throat, I bathed freely with MIN- ARD'S LINIMENT, and saturating a eloth with the liniment left it on all Next morning the swelling was gone and I attributed the warding off of an attack of Quinsy to the free USe of MINARD'S LINIMENT. 0, P. WORDEN. St. 3 ohn The White Blouse, It has Won out. The eolors arrived, But white Was preferred. White satin is a favorite. White brocade is very modiele Crepe de chine is the most beautiful. The long ehoolder seam characterizes them. TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY. 'rake LAXATIVE Ditto= Qu1n1n6 Tab. lets. Druggists retural mottey if it fs.ile te maven. W. (TROVE'S signature is on each box, 25e. SLIPPER ADORNINGS. Buckles lead. Itosettes are seen, And how rosettes vary. Rose rosettes; are pretty. Buds aro seen in clusters. 13uda are made of Battn or chiffon. Tot or steel may trim the rosette of velvet. Liven ostrich feathers are curled up luta clever flat rosettes, AS Stated, the buckles lead, those made Of tiny rhinestones being fired choice. For HELP WANTED. WAN:Thu) - EXPlertneNeneri • ers and girls to learn weaving. Steaile"work and highest evageS. "Wale' tional holt) reoulred on aeeount or addi- dons to plant. APPlY I.:Mineeby Mfg. CO., liranttord, Ont. "WANTlilD,---VIRST-OLA.SS TINSMITfit • good wageand steady job to right man. Apply O'Gorman 8; Hemphill, (39 Geneva street, St, Catharinee, Ont, FOR SA -1....E. SPECIALre•IVOOLT,4EN MILLS A.,' for sale. Must be sold. (lood loca- tion. N'a better in Ontario, no opposition ihreorte, alAiebrrtlasUlt"(Myealit.),s' 'iljal!ormws"le:shYIPP.et(4) suit the buyer. Apply to D, Lealis, V lligh Street, Barrie, Ont. _ WISCELLANEQua., - TiA M P.; Y HANDWOIRIC: ALL1 Ladies wanted, we buy their work, and sell them all supplies even in small ouantitiee at the lowest prices. Distant Patrons especially attended to. Semi stamps to cover Postage. We take orders for designs' and stamping. Open mail 10 pan. Embroideries Supply co„ 410 Yonge Street, Toronto, Ont. r% 0 YOU' WANT TO SELL YOUR al real estate, property, or business? We can quickly dIspoSe of it for Mu through our system. We may have a client waiting who wants just euell a pro- PertY as yOurs. Do not lose valuable time by delto.dng. 'Write InernediatelY. INTERNA.TIONAL BUSINESS AGENCY P.O. Box 44, Welland, Ont. The Ganadian-1913 Model. • eald the gentleman witate tawny moustache, making those preparatory sounds by which the Briton warns the world of his intentiOn to speak, "Jolly little place. this Canada -and all that sort of rot. Kindly feelings toward all you Colon- ials too -quite so. But have you a taproom or an inn where a chap can get a pint of ale and a finale haddle?" The Canadian scratched his head. "Well, now, I dunno. Up to the Washin'ton Hotel, though, you kin git some Chicago ham. and Milwaukee beer and New York crackers, Fin from Ioway myself -just moved north last winter -but I'm glad to see you, even if you be English. Who's king over in yonr country now?" -Puck. 0712. eap ati.ne/eX211490 yne <Ars cm-zee/id Aoet.isaeb. ,ONEDYEaRA1.1. ItINDS0reess 11•11.9.11.464.46,411. IL 41 1,1. .,1 - It's the CLEANEST, SIMPLEST, and BEST 110?,IE DYE, one can buy. -Why you don't even have to know what KIND of Cloth your Goods aro made of.. -So Mistaken aro Imonasibk. _ Send for Free Color Card, Story Booklet, and _ Booklet giving resulta of Dyeing over other co/ors. The JOHNSON.RICHARESON CO., Limited, Montreal. Canada. • THE PROPER CENSOR. (Philadelphia Record.) oulgnhiet toot.thlklerhicir thee ednustoyr dlo)Ieer 0 t jaetsittl exe11.1:41Ve1Y lama the tlICAN* (1011- titItue a good deal Morn Walt half of theatrical audiences, and most or the men present are there Nvith their wives, slaters and daughters. one would nat- urally look first to tho womoi for revolt against the "dsamatieation of the stews nailnK a of Paris." Neverthe,1;sst.iekettsbuyers, both. he .i which is announced as "swift, bstoinejenn1 ;nsdrfa"v(v811)loeilillteNn0 , whose conduct is correct and whose moral standards for their reading are at least respectable. It aiight to be unprofitable to produco plays reekino of the underworld, and it would it men and women, and espeolany fathers and mothers, exeselsed the een- eorshin of the stage which Is nu( only their privilege, but their -bounden duty, - Dr. Morse's Indian Root Pills owe their singular effectiveness in curing Rheumatism, Lumbago and Sciatica to their power of stimulating and strengthening the kidneys. They enable these organs 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 centuryof conetant use has proved conclusively that Dr. Morse's Indian Root Pills strengthen weak kidneys and 41 Cure RIleuxnatisni WANTED -AN IliVENTOR. (Sarnia (anadian.) Any inVelltiVe genius who wants to confer a benefit on humanity and mei- dentally make, a million dollars or so for himself, can do it by devising and pat- enting some material ,for sitiewelk con- struction which will be as cheap anti lasting as grannolithle, but which will not transform itself 11110 a skating rink every time there is a thaw ami a sub- sequent change to freezing weather. Minard's Liniment Cures Distemper. Will Dawn Upon Him -Some Day. ooli, yes; Jack adores mel I've known It for weeks." "Then what's bothering you?" "What's bothering' met Why, I've got to wait for hini to find it out." -- Boston Transcript. POULTRY REVIEW Best tat/Jo rah. -fished on Poultry Culture. WANTED, -..1 (000 persons to...kr sample copy 4 to HERBERT HALL, 401 Mary SI 8101111ton„ Canada, CUGGLAUSSEN, The now reortlit of the pro. Toronto hockey tan. .At his own request his handle Is shortened to "Gunn." PILES CURED IN 6 TO 14 DAYS. Your drugglet will refuted money if PATO OINTMENT falls to cure any calm of Itch- !mt. mind, Bleedings ea; Protruding Pile in 6 to 14 days. Ma A Dish for the Gods. Liver and onions, artistically blended, produee a fragranee that, wafted to the aulurnit of Olympus, would cause the jovial trove kiek over the ambrosia, kettle and come thundering down the craggy steel* in quest of a new dieh for the esode.ealeetneee City Star, DISTEMPERPhlk Fye,shipona rester, and Lotarrbitil Fever. Wire cure aria po salve preventive, no matter how horses et any ago are Info cited or "exposed." T,lqutii, *iron en this tongue. acts' On thellIood and cnandA, expoie the poiennous scrum from the hody. Ousel rnefemeer Dogs era Blieeris ttnd Cholera In I'oultraa Largest selling live atoek rentestr. teireeLe 0rintie among 'human beings. Fled le a fine kidney 1111$ Ont. Keep It. tt(how it to ',4e enr droxxizet. who Nt:i; get it tor Yen. Pre* Booklet. "ilistemnar, CechVisi an r''." 11STRIBU, Tona-ALTa NVeriniirses tee 3")1ttVir ste ca.* 'NMI. Ai, CO, mimes and teacterloi ist% WWI tell A -