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The Clinton News-Record, 1910-06-16, Page 7June loth 1910 Q. D. IlLeTAGIGAHT IL. D. MoTA0OART McTaggart Bross ee-.-BA.NKERS-ee-' 0.0.1101m••10 GENERAL !BANKING SUSI+ lifESS TRANSACTED. NOTES DISCOUNTED. DRAFTS ISSUED INTELEST ALLOWED ON DE- PORTS. SALE NOTES PURR'. ASED. MI" 41MO, H. T. RANCE. - NOTARY PUBLIC, CONVEY- ANCER, FINANCIAL. REAL ESTATE AND FIRE INSUR- ANCE AGENT. REPRESEN- TING 14 FIRE INSURANCE COMPANIES. DIVISION COURT OFFICE, CLINTON. W. BRYDOINE, BARRISTER, SOLICITOR. NOTARY, PUBLIC. ETC. OFFICE -Sloane Bleck-CI MON. •••••••••,61•1=110/01•111=011% OHARLES B. HALE REAL ESTATE and INSURANCE OFFICE - - - HURON ST. DR. W. GUNN L. R. C. P., L. R. C. S. Edinburg Office -Ontario street, Clinton. Ntght calls at front door of office or at residence on Rattenbury street. P—Dlt. J. W. SHAW— e-OFFICE- RATTENBURY ST. EAST, -CLINTON.- DR. C. W. THOMPSON. 44114-• PHYSICIAL, SURGEON, ETC. Special attention given to dis- eases of the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat. 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'Advertising rates--Translent Advet- tisenhents, 10 cents per nonparlel line for first insertion and 8 cents Per line for ea.th subsequent insert ion. Small adVertisemetits hoe to exceed one inch, such ae "Lost." "Strayed," of ''Stolen,'' etc., iIt serted once for 85 cents and %Mb subseouent insertion. 10 tents, ommunfeations into:vied for ptiblieg- tion must, as a guarantee of good faith, be accempanied by be name of the writer., W. J. MITCHnLL, Velitor and Proprietot. ...Bp... BASIL KINk "hat Net lqatt Pet leo.. • • Allender." 'We Stier rtt,. • •I Honor,„ Etc. • )::::•1 Copyright. 1900, by • ' Harper et Drothera. Sang • sold to herself WA. -"No' man 'who kuew this (void." That was in July. She had picked_ up the current number of the New York Magazine quite casually at a news stand, not suspeeting that It could contain anything of special interest to herself. She learned from it that the articles had been appearing since the preelous March and ordered alt the immbers to be sent to ben The first Installment dealt, among other things, with the origin of the Trafford femily and contained many Lietails of which Paula herself had' lit* tle kuowiedge. It informed her that in the early eighteen hundreds Wil- ; ham Trafford had been a Wearer at Cannock Chase, In Staffordshire. He married a girl named Sarab NM. by whom be bad a large family, several of their descendants being miners at Cannot* Chase today. John Trafford, their secoud son, emigrated to Amere ea about the year 1833.. He settled as it farmer near Cumberland, Vt., where he married Jennie O'Mara. it pretty Irish girl, servant in the blouse of Ju- lius setirray, a coal merchant In the neighboring town. Joie) and Jennie Trafford were thrifty. industrious people, with that Instinct te rise in the world tvhich dis- tinguished the earlier emigrants front tbe Ilritish isles. Unable themselves to read or write, they were eager to 'give tbeir children the best educational adveutages the neighborhood afforded. These were exhausted apparentty wileu Andrew was • fourteen and Paul was twelve. Tben both lads went to work: Andrew remaining with Ins fa- ther �u the farm, Willie Paul found enployment as office boy with Julius 'Murray in the thwu. - Prom that point the blogrephy dealt ch:etlY with the younger of the two. It recernited in detail .Paul's first bit of busluess inspiration, in whieh the boy showed himself as fatherto the man. A letter from Peter O'Mara, his mother's brother, who worked In the Dundee mines in Pennsylvania, had hinted at (Me of these early difficulties. between' Miner and enrployee which Were afterward organized into strikes. Julius Murray told during all the rest of his life how Paul had rushed into MS office breathless with the news. Ile was fond of describing the led as he stood there, straight and erect, in all the' dignity Of his thirteen years, Itis hands behiadbis back and' his blue eyes flasbing. "Wouldn't it be well, Mr. Murray, to buy up all the Dundee coal you cart get betiveen today and • tomorrow? • By the day after that evs • erybody else will knew the news as Well as we." ,Jultus Murray, nnaccuss touted to Wiedens from the enionth- of •eabes and sucklings, laughed at the boy's ardor and poolipoohed his ad- vice.. When he awoke next day t� the fact that be was letting a great OPPor-_ unity sl iP by he.had.Only twenty•;rour .ours in whieh to do the work of for- peight The moneybe Made when, in he following winter, futidee coal went tp' to the price. unheard of in those days. of $11 a ton was that which gave Miss. Julia. Murray the claim to ti considered an heiress when els teen with Pant Traffor4 in .1870. le subsequent 'manners Pattie read the history of' the Trafford rise step by etep, scheme by scheine, million by million,. lawsuit by lewSuit, fight by fight -a great, sordia.epic of finance 'in which reputations. were ruined,. homes wrecked, lives blasted, and wheie country's commercial, legal, Utical and.moral honor brought pain- fully into qtiestion. • ' Paula read with no more than: a vague comprehension. There were so many emeetioes involeed-legal, legiss kitten geological and economical -that her Simple. Intelligence reeled in the effort to understand. ' Where there were dramatic personal events she grasped the subject more fully. She could follow the stdry of' the ruin of the Winships trots) begin- ning to end. She could do the same with those of the Marshalls of Turton- rifle. of the Brewers of Albany and of poor Jackson of Ohio. • But whether 41kalls were clear to her or not one .great fact surged up out 'of Allis wel- tering mass of testinsOuy-that the fa- ther she adored had fought his way to euccess by means which made her shudder. Nothing she had guessed at, nothing she had feared. Could equal this heaping up of testimony from every teener of the land. Nothing she had ever imagined of Russian .tyranny m. Turkish misrule could be mere Wer- cl)ess than the despotism . with which lier father and his associates in 4 eountry considered free had been able to club and crush and gag and grind Into helplessness whatever lifted itself agaiust.them. And he was her father: She was his child! She Was bone of ins belie and fiegh of his flesh! She multi no More dissociate herself front hint and bis work than she could from the line of laborers and servants from whom she sprang. Howeter confused she might be about facts, she bad no doubt as to her duty here. It was to stand by the man who depended upon het, to stand by him nil the more now when in his old age the Storm of popu- lar wrath was gathering and breaking about All through .loiy. August and Sep - Unlike -4r she had been reading these ar- ticles secretly, That her father was rending them, too. she knew from sees Mg in New York papers an occasional statement from his legal representas dyes in which title or that nectisation waS dinned, 110117 deeply he resented this history of himself sbe could see from his increased depression as each neW nuMber Of' the Series appeared. NoW, ou obe ief the last days of Sep- tember, the 'inctirber issue was in her Minds. Sbe had just finisbed reading It in ber favorite cornet' of the English gar- den. It had been Opecially pitiless to her father in the piling up of charges agninSt him. She closed the voluted and With bands elasped upon it gazed itiees, eee▪ s.: •weggyfieslise."*...wego.rAise'44ane eenfinledlY, Elting WM St frightenie glance. "There so muchof it, and it wilt ell twee to we. I obelt have to take it. It would kill papa if be thought 1 wouldn't, 1 don't Want it I hate it. If I could only find a way to give It haelee- "Peula, let me say something. I know your trouble, and 1 understand It. I don't believe that anybody lo the world could feel with you more thoroughly than I. It's my trouble too. it coulte't be more any own if 1 was -your father's son," Paula gave a little start. Tne words were so exactly the utterance of her • own thought Mut they sounded to her like tire slinnuous of destiny. While . Fite sat outwardly composed. pale. still, with hands clasped and eyes downcast, her heart Was calling its last drowning farewells before going clown Into the sea of sacrifice. "It's coming now,” she was saying to berself. ean't help it. I awl 'cling any bouger, 1 must let go. Oh Roger, goodbyr "And Slate the trouble is not only 3y•tomutr7s; but mine," Wiltshire went 'On tenderly, "why couldn't I bear it with "I don't think anybody could." "Nobody could but I. I could. I cotild take you and shelter you and hedge, you all round with so much pro- teetion that this great question so in. sistent in your WO 110W, would pass into, the second plane." She lifted her eyes in interrogation. "This is whet I mean," he pursued quietly. "TO My wife even such a great acquisition of wealth as you might receive from your father could make no exteenal difference. You won't think that I'm speaking in vul- gar boastfulness" - "Oh, Mr!" 'Inn only stating the facts as they are. Don't you see, then wbat I mean? If you were my wife, all this money could come to you, and you could use It as you chose. No one would know, not even your father. that you didn't spend it on yourself, You 'could give it away to the last farthing. Yon could do more than that. I knew* that your aim would be not merely to give the money away, but as fur as possible to give It beck to the people who• used th own it I would •belp you in that, We should make it oer work. It would be- a difficult task, and I don't know how Inc we should be successful, but at least we could try et Here in these pages," he went on. tapping the cover of the magazine. "there is mention made of .11undreds of families. We could 'hunt them up and see what we could do. We should. have to. work disereetlY,ominously, se- cretly perhaps,' and safegalaid in ev- ery way the honor of your father's .name ; But eye conid do our best, and even it we only succeeded once it teould be worththe trying. Wouldn't it mean something s'to you just to be making the attempt?" . "Hew good. you are! flow well' you understan4!" : "I do understand, Paula, dear. Thee:. 'my one justification for offering you a sort of • bribe. And yet, God knows, I don't mean it as a bribe. It's only the eagerness of my love to protect you from everything that could bort you or make you unhappy: When:the gods of Old saw those they loved in tiouhle or.. danger they, threw a cloud .abqut then] . and snatched them 'away intot a piece of safety: And that's what I want to do for you, Pithia. 1. cando it if you'll let me. When I see you in the midst of this 'huge, unworthy •battle Pm id • ter- ror lest some•of its arrows may wound you. Bist .as my wifeyou'd be safe - that .is, as safe as •any earthly cOndi. • tions can make yeti. .I won't force the great question between us: I. out ask you again if you love:me"- ' "On, duke," she broke In inmelsively; do love you --in a Way." . "Then, I ..8-von't ask' you what that wiry is." he said quickly. "If yoti. op say as much as that I Shill be. con- • tent," . • .• r vitguelY ti.risfis'tlie"liiivi;.tiidiitereiit to Its sunlit spaces as well as to the maws of dahlia and cauna g,orgeous with autumn bloom. "No, no." she kept saying to self; "Roger couldn't take that Money. It's blood money, Ancl I must keep It. There's no way by which I mild give it up. If I did it would kill papa, I must go on all my life clothed in the ruin of beggared men and of hungry .Women and children. Roger said that, and it's quite true, My pearls are their tears, and ray rubles are their sweat of blood. And yet I llUllit wear them for papa's sakewhatever the world may think, whatever Roger him. self may believe of me. Ob, Roger! Oh, my lovel How can I go on all through the years without you? '0 God, help me!" she prayed, with a suds den lifting of her eyes. "0 God, help me! I'm so weak. I'm so tired. I've so little strength left tp keep the strum. gle up." • Her breath Came I hard gasps; the tears blinded ber, She bad just time to eontroi herself and dash her hand across her eyes as she saw Winshire coming toward her tbrough the trees. She WAS not surprised. She kneW he would be looking for her some- where in the grounds. During the week after their first meeting he had •come every second day to the Pavillon de • Ia Reine. During. the week after that his visits had been daily. In the third week Trafford had invited him to move out to Versailles and become their guest. To this arrangement Paula hurl giv- en the welcome. of her acquiescence. Though she was aware of what her fa- ther meant, she was sensible, too, of the relief which Wiltshire's presence brought into the tension of their•dally life, 'Whenevee be was with them there was a return to something like the old time happiness. Her father seemed to grotv'yoettger in his society, and she herself drew comfort, from the knowledge that this good man's sup- port was near. She could not beer to check •Ins gentle, tentative advances: still less could she bear to give back cold refusal to the silent pleading in • her father's eyes. . • . Little by little she began to see all that this marriage would mean to him. It would be ' raore now than anything he had said when he had first spoken of it months ago. Then the advantages of protection and position were to be for her; now she could see that he was not without need of them''himself. It gave her a feeling that the foundation', of the earth were loosened to think • that he, whern she -bad looked upon as ' almost omnipotent, should require aid. But tbere was no doubt that. his post tion in the world was shaken as much so as bis moral secierage or his bodily 'freerew The strong, resourceful. self • depeedent man had readied the mo- ment when he was beginning to hold out his hands for help. With Wiltshire as a son to him, he vsonld have' an ally 'whose strength it would be hard to overestimate.. She had no skill in cal- culation and little knowledge. :of the world, and yet she could not be unel aerare that an English duke, rich, pow- erful, highiy . placedand full of good will and sympathy,: could net be other than an able .friend to any man with needs and ambitions like het father's: So the days at Versailles were slip- ping by, With courage growing in Wilt- shire's heart and hope brightening in . -Trafford's, while in her own she was , searching forstrength to make the sac- rifice. • . As Wiltshire' drew near his increased confidence was' expressed In his eyes, his smile, his attitude and the very tones of his voice. It was not until be had drawn a wicker chair near to hers that he noticed the emotion. she bad been unable to conceal. . "You've been crying!" he exclahised. "Not quite," she said, trying to smile at Mm through the mist of her tears. "I've been reading this." ' • She held up the magazine, at which Wiltshire looked with a certain air of embarrassment. "YOu know what's:in it," she went on he said nothing. "Yotiere read it too." "I hope you don't let these things distress you," he said after a minute's hesitation. "If they were said of your father, wouldn't they distress you?" He leaned forward and drew the magazine gently from her hands. "It's always vsell to remeniben" he said In a kindly voice, "that one story is true tileanother is told. It's perfect- ly astonishing how many different ver- sione you can get of what seems like. one plain. unvarnished tale. We've one important condition to remember, and that is the imperfect conception of honor that exists In the financiai world," "I don't see why tbat 'should make any differenee," she declared. with a touch of honest Indignation, "It does in this way -that Ws very hard fOr any but the highest moral na- ture g to be superior to the surround- ings in which they live. Some of our Most respected institutions would have to be made all over again if we were to put forth any IMAM:Woe to follow the Golden /title of Christ Yoh see. Paula -S way oil you Paula, mayn't I 7'' "It you like," she murmured. lettleg her eyes drop. "You see. Paula, that you and Whose ideas are different, ought not to be surprised if ts Man like your father, who has probably hot studied the guess tion of ethic to any great extent, con- forms to the general standard around him. After all, he's only In the same Case with tbousande of other men Who on eve*, point but that of mato ing money are among the most high minded in the World." "I IttoW you want to comfort me" - 1 should like to do more than eonn feet you," he said, wItb it sudden cbabge of tone. "It's the money," thd_bureleft • When ii minute or two had passed in silence he took her band. nud raised • it to his lips. Leaning back, with eyes cMsed, she allowed iiim be repeat the caress. But she was. thinking of . the day when beneath the gnestioning eyes of. the woman in black and green VirinshiP had told her that he loved her. • CHAPTER XX. ••, HERE were several reasons for keeping the fact of Paula's en- gagement to the Duke of Wilt shire a temporary secret from the outside world. Trafford himself was recetiing only too much publicity at the tittle, and he shrank from see- ing his.daughter's name brought prom- inently irito the American press, as It Would be If the nes were known to a few-. As the 'Wedding was to take place in January, et was decided that it would be soon enough after Christmas to let the infortnation get abroad. The details were arranged between • Wiltshire and Trafford alone. Paul* acquiesced with a submission wbich barely concealed her listlessness. They were, in fact, too •busy with the sere lee of the temple to observe that their divinity grew thinner and thinner and paler and paler. day by day. Because, She. smiled at them and tonseuted to all their arrangements they failed to notice that tu the -hours they spent to- gether the.number of words she utter- ed could be counted. • It was not till they returned to Parka for Christmas and the wedding that Trafford and Wiltshire 'receired the first shtick of enlightenment. "What have 3.oul been doing to herr more • than one old friend exclaimed. "It 1 liad met her in the street, 1 don't believe should bat% known her," The impression made on the father and the lover Was one of uneasinese rather than of alarm, htstetid of their plans for London in February, with the openingof' parliament and the teresentation of the new duchess at an early court, they began to talk or Egypt, Algiers and Bisktet. Trafford hod no doubt that she would he better when she was married. Wiltehire was sin% she would regain Strength and color in the eagerness of putting Into practice the great scheme- of restitution they bed planned. it Was for this reason that he began thinking over the matter of the mil- lion to be forced upon Winship. tte had done nothing in that cense as yet. though Trafford bad referred to it once or twiee as a promise Wiltshlre had made him. The business which had been repugnant at first began te have asbeets that aonealed to WM When he 1 thougut of the pleasure his sticcess would give Paillit. Daring the three mouths since theY bed become engaged he had newt slow- ly forming hie owe theory of the situ Won between her and Witathile That there was u situation WM; clear to WM from the eoinething guarded In her words and attitude whenever hie name was mentioned. Tbe, young tun% had fallen In love With beri be thOught and had asked her to be his wife. She hod reeeuted the liberty, while. wo. manlike, she had coodoued the offense. The opportunity bad beeu taken to offer trim the mouey Trafford was so enger to get off his vonselenee, and Winship had refused the proposal as an outrage to his dignity. . The more Wiltshire reflected the inore exactly did this version eeeirs to tit the facts of the case. The elements It presented. were uot very difficult for' a Mats of the world to deal with. and • SO on a biggest afternoou in, Jainism* he set out for the studio. in the Passage de la Nativite. If be could come Welt With the news that the victory had been won. be knew that' to Paula the tidings would be more Precious se a gift thou all the jewels he could offer her. And yet when face to face with the artist in the atelier 'Wiltshire found the subject less easy to itttroduce than he ha4 expected. Like tire other actors in the drama, Winship, too, had chang• ed omen during the passage of o twelvemonth. 'With tbe exception of a few 'minutes on two occasions at Mon- te Carlo lu the previous winter. the duke had seen nothing of Winship for several years. He still thought of him as "Alice% protege," a clever, bard. working, immature young man, to whom he could speak with a certain amount of authority. It disturbed his ideas at the outset to discover that times assurance and suceees had •evolv- ea a persouage quite different from that which be bad thought to find. Winship's keen eyes and hard mouth and -determined manner were s6 mice at variance with the timid deferent* of the lad of eight or ten eeerS ago that Wiltshire found his sense of au. • wanes.deepening as the couversatlog paseee from one topic to another. He knew ot last that if the object of' his errand.were to be attaine&l it must be by divine into the subject brusquely. 'I say, Winship." beliegan sudtlett- , iy, "I've lookeil ia on you to offer you Some advice," -"That's very kind of you, duke," Winship returned easily. "Pin sure I must need it when. you put yotireelf to so inueli trofible." ' • • "I rather thilik you do. We all re- quire a friendly word at one time or another in our lives.", • : "I've wanted if many it time when I didn't get it," Winship iougbeil, ."and so Pm all the. more grateful to you now." • .. . There was a minute's hesitation. ants leg:Which Wiltshire' flicked the. mews "Pee looked in on you to eller yon some • advice." fron3 the mid of his cigar with his lit- tle finger. He seemed to be quite ab- sorbed in that operation, while Win- ship waited in not unnatural curiosity. "I believe," 'Wiltshire said at last. "that there's been' some little misun- derstanding between you and my friend, Mr. Paul Trafford." Winship% Manner changed at once. Ilis bard roolith became harden arid he sat rigidly Upright in his chain tix- ing Wiltshire With the stare of his brilliant eyes. "On the contrary," he said quietly.' "your Mead, Mr. Paul 'Trafford, and I understated each other Very. well." • The slightly ironical tone gave an additional prick to tbe duke's mild temper: ' "Now, don't be an.ass, Winship," he said impatiently, "Mr. Trafford bas been extremely magnanitnolis to you, and you've been behaving like an im- becile. Any Man of the .world would tell you (TO DE CONTINUED.) Mrs. Ruth Bastin died at Cheery, aged 102 years. 'Frank! Peake fell off a wharf at Ow- en Settled and was drowhed. The Congregational Union of Can- ada is in setsion at Cobourg. Three fatalities in • Cobalt . mines took place yesterday end the day be- fore. • The contract for the erection of a new Carnegie library at Otillia has been let. The 'General AssemBly authorized the establiehment of a Presbyterian College in Alberta. The new trade agreements with Bel- gium, Italy and the Netherlands were ratified by the Cabinet. Rev. A. M. DePeneler, formerly of Toronto, has been eleeted bishop of New Westminster. By the agrethientimade bdtween the wholesale grocers, canned geode are expected, to lie cheaper tide year. The demands of the commercial tel- egraphers of the (1.P.14. for an . in- crease of 17 per emit.. in pay will probably be taken up by a concilia- tion board. A SCENE Cr 'RENELRY. How the Northweet Tractors tiffii Their Annual Mesting. In hie "History A the NorthweSt7 NIL Alexander Begg gives a deeerip- tion of Fort William during one of the. famous annual meetings- of the 014 North:West Company. He writes: '10 a large wooden building at Fort Wil- liam was the great Outten hall of the Company, and near it the banqueting chamber. The house and vicinity swarmed with traders, voyageurs, Itt- diens, halibreeds and other like melt, who feasted sumptuously and drank deeply during the tirne the council was being held. The deliberations of the partnets were, however, eonducted with much dignity, and the business affairs of the Company were consider- ed and earefully adjusted. But when business was over and the feasting be- gan, the scene of revelry waa beyond. deseription. They were a hard -liv- ing, hard-drinkine sot of men, these old Nor' Westers; keen to take advert.. tage where a fur trade was in quests non, they were ever ready to extend the hand of friendship and hospitality to their guests. The annual meeting of the council at Fort William was, to the wintering partners, a grand holiday season, to which they alweys looked forward, as the mariner, after it long voyage, anticipates his llotat- welertine, and, while the affairs of the eempany were etrictly attended' to at the couneit board, the balance of tbe time was seent in revelry and fea,0- Theli retainers, in the shape of voyageurs, half-breeds, bunters and traders, were not sloW in following the example of their superiors, and enssn ue ilaiTe.terf v..ach ,)(1.1i.cirtelias opaosznolucii. otimpaeohutites: monis:ea. The counsel at an end, each. winterine pattner tool: hie nay, ac- companied by les 'people' to his far- off post, with full instructions how to emceed during tile next twelve mouths, and, the leaders or agents living in Matiesal embarked in their eanots for their homes on the St. Law- rence, where they lived ill lordly and eoseitable style, sittecitinded by all tire f.0111/OrtS anl luxuries of the day, while their wintering, nartners rough- ed it in the far-off North." As the years .paseed the rira/ry of Ile lIndson Bay Co, and the Nor' Westers new keener, and rivalry Op- ened into jealottey and hatred, cul- minating at length in actual hestili- ties which for a time threw a consid- erable portion of the Great West into a state of war. Put the • story ef those trouble ,e forms another chapter. ARO OF 'CONSTIPATON Mr. Andrews praises Dr. Morse's Indian Root Mlle, Mr, George Andrewsof Halifax, N.S., Writes: ' "For many years I have been troubled! With chronic Constipation. This ail- ment never comes single-handed, and I have been a victim to the many illnesses that constipation brings in its train. Medicine after medicine I have taken int order to find relief, but one and all left me in the same hopeless condition. It seemed that nothing would expel front me the one ailment that Caused so much trouble, yet at last I read about these Indian Root Pills. • 'that was indeed a lucky day for me, • for I was so impressed with the state- ments made that I determined to give them a fair trial: • They have regulated my stomach and bowels. I am cured of constipation, and I claim they have no equal as a. =di - cute." For over half a century Dr. Morse's Indian Root Pills have been curing con- stipation and clogged, inactive kidneys, with all the ailments which result from them. They cleanse the whole system gad purify the blood. Sold everywhere at 25r.. a box. •2 , • Musical Loyalists. At the present moment the House of Commons is suffering from a ser- ious attack of loyalty, an epidemic, brought about by the naval debate. It was only a few days ago that• a prominent member of the Oppositions • horrified the drowsy keepers of the Parliamentary library by shrilly whistling the air of "Rule Britannia.' but the climax came in the early hours some nights ago when during the spectacular divisions on Mr. Bor- den's Dreadnought amendment, one Well-known' Government supporter from .the Far West, who had evident- ly iust come in from a dinner where the bill of fare was not confined ex- clusively to edibles, rose in his seat and sang as a. solo "God Save the King.' Now the member in ques- tion is oot by any means a vocalist,, and it was not until he reached that portion of the National Anthem where it says something about asendinghint victorious" or words to that effect,, that the astonished Houae quite gathe ered what was being sung. The first impression was that the member int question was crooning • some Indian' refrain, as the aborigines are quite numerous in his riding. When the drift of 'the tune was finally caught the whole House rose, but not in loye alty; simply for the purpose of get- ting a clew view of the new-borrs Parliamentary Caruso from the prai- ries. The conclusion of the gong was Marked by a shower of blue books, some of which were aimed remarkably straight, and the singer collepsed itt his 'seat, covered with a miseelion- eons assortment of sessional literature' which completely hid hi$ prelet. blushes. Established 1E09 FOR IVIICOPING C011C11. CROUP. ASTHMA, COMBS, BRONCHITIS. SORE ' THROAT. CATARRR, DIPHTHERIA Vaporized Cresolena stops the oaroxvams of Whooeins Cough. Ever dreaded Croup can. not exult where Cretcoltne is ,ed, It attar directly on 0050 ud throatmaking breathing easy ut the case of wide. Boothe' the 86r8 throrit and stops the Dough. hill *bigot to sufferers of Mehra& erettotene fa Perrerfuf 'armlet:U, meting b.oth to a curative and 8 preroative 18hOntagitat* diseases. Creitoloneti best tetonatteadatiola ig ite thirty Years of &Ileums:dill-are. rot gala by Drugght. Send Postai far Pe,. scriptivo Zooldet Ceesolene Antieeptie Throat Teem*. eimPic and soothieg for tho irritated threat. 10e. teeming, Met Co. Litnited, Agentii, Mon. 0'04 Cansda. ass