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"I was sent away wittxout u w. rv1, >
saki Chris bitterly. "Would she bate
s to cater of The Wiling operattons anal
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two shafts are bent; sunk.
Typical high grade ore, anti by this lh
meant high-grade ore typ.cal .t Cobalt
Icamp, hiss been enrowltered ul tllose
The Chambers -Fenland Mining Co ,ed let amp, depth and hfts by cross -cuts and
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CIIAVIER X\'IIl. mewed, and who wee !oohing down at
the hand site held
With that new independence lull ufx,u "Ile was bright and good to kok up -
tier, the little old \winos' seemed to take cu," said Aunt Phipps, in a whisper,
pcsses-ion of the place—seemed to and with a little sigh at the rinie►n-
donunato No. 3 Greenways' Gardens trance. "God help mel—I burnt some
conrp.l •kIy. hie was no lenges• Aunt oto flowers he gave one; not so long
Ph pps with rho fear of disonvery knock- ago, when ! burnt some other things
trig at her heart, and with the know -
not half so valu;tbte. l was to have
ledge that so ho must presently be married him—and it was all as fa'r and
bearer of evil tdngs; sho was simply a rght as night be. Then some fool—tl
friend—a nonentity—who might say and l:& po he'll be krgiven. when all these
da 1pbut she liked with absolute free' (bongs cone to be put right in God's
deo. And she took full advantage of geed taue} -s ane foul said that I'd said
It heaven knows whal--and that Id meant
With a whispered word or hvo she sramolhing olio. And the b y tuna to
get from Olive the address of young me, and asked me—was it true? And
Chrestopher Bayne, and stored it away I. not knowing what a twit, tender thing
in her memory for future use. She this love is, laughed at him, and sent
lain el upon the demoralizel Victor Kel- Lem away will an aching heart."
man, 'mil sharply told him that there Lucy Ewing's head was bent lower; a
were some people who never knew, with bright drop er two had fallen on the
real certainty, when they were in the shabby black gloves. After a pause,
way; That gentleman stammeied, spult- Atm!, Phiprs went on again,
Vexed, swore softly to himself under his "1 only saw hirrt once again — when
A Broken Vow
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BETTER THAN REVENGE.
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done that if she had loved rue, Aunt
PhiJ,ps?'
"She diJn't do it," said O1.ve. "can't
you understand that there are in -blies
made every day—mistakes that only
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want a word to put lliern right. Sho
Capitalization of $2,500,000'00—
kves you; eo back to her. \\'o:k hard
far hoe; you're lound to succeed, if yawl Par Value of Shares $1.00--
300,000 Share3 in Treasury.
Of all the Col• It !l-ar tier's, past and
breath, and went out. he roto past my %vin.iew with his men,
"It's what I've always said,' he mur- on his way to the front. I wouldn't
mured pathetically to the iron railings look out, and he was loo proud to look
of Greenways' Gardens. "1 should (rave up And they shot him in a skirmish
done much better in the world if 1 at n:g:,t, somewhere among same hills
hadn't trusted to women. ]fere you and fo it was all over. And
have one, in an emotional moment, 1 grew up, and married—someone else,
sending me off on a wild-goose chase to who wanted my money. Such a pity—
Father Time, to flnd a certain Aunt such an awful pity!
Phipps. I go. inspired by the emotional Saence again, save that Lucy's head
moment and the woman; f take a lot of was bent down until her face almost
trouble, and I walk with unseemly haste touched the hands of the old woman.
through tee streets of London with a AuntPhipl`s made a sign with her lips
lady who might -had sho teen feriae which Olive seemed to understand; she
nate—have almost been my mother. 1 went softly out of the room. Aunt
arrive; 1 spring into the midst of the Phipps went on speaking.
sauaticei—and the old dotard says I "Love knows no pride, my dear; it is
dont know what I'm talking atout, and such a wonderful 0111g—the (try thing
denies that she is Aunt Phipps et all. in ilio world, in fact—that we should be
That's the way of the world; the list grateful to snatch it when %e can. It
of us are _simply made playthings of— is like the ilowers, my dear; God .ends
tossed about irom ono woman to an- them into the world, but a breath may
other for cher amusement. I feel quite wither them, or a rough touch kill thorn.
hot when 1 think that, in all probabil- And yet they grow up in the stoniest
icy, both Olive and the weeping female places. You're not offended with me,
art laugh'ng at me behind niy back. 1 my dear, for saying all this to you—are
wonder if my chance will ever come to you?" sire added.
gel even with them. Come to think of IL was a changed Olive Varney who
it 'm sure, it will; they'll want a man hurried through the streets in search o[
in this bus'ness—a mean of tho world.
Olive will hind she can't play fast and
lease like this. But, quite apart from
that, 1 atm very seriously annoyed—very
anroyod indeed.'
let her guide you. lin sure of that.
"I've been a f<ol," said Chris, w.th his
face averted. "I've been cooing nothing
exempt spend money—and 1-1----
"I'll
-1—"1'Il put that right; trust to me for 1 resent, none has excited greater pub -
that," broke in Olive eagerly, "Only go be interest than that of the Chambers -
leek to her; that's the 'list step. You ierland Min ng Co.
w.,n't nerd to expla'n to each other, Surroundeu as 1t is by or ndjncent to
you two—tare's a better way then tdtut, Inch famous producers as the I.a Rose,
Chu s. Nrplsaing rind O'Brien, and (raving an
He wrung her hand, and .et off nt let/meat at formal o., w.th these proper.
once for Greenways' Gardens. And Iles the` future of the Chambers-Fcrlantr
Oiivo Varney, left alone, sat down to Is awned.
wonder it it would alt be right, and If The 1.1. Immo, its rt flnnc° at the e.e-
she herself could drop out ti tl:o mutter oo.mpanybr,' Mill will ditilcs!', 41( CS !rot
ea easily as she had once thought 101 Iur n•un l the Chareb••rs-Ierlan I, but
de There so and to be dillicultite 11115-
ing.
At No. 3 Greenways' Gardens, there
was ore ir=on who w•atchel 11:e ,.lreet,
and l stei. 1 for every soun.l w tit dread
and anxiety; and that pairs .11 WILS Od-
1. y. She len• w that dement ng was hap-
py nine, becnu:e the mycete rsous MIs.
Phipps had come again, ant lind been
waiting to s e 1.ucy. Alter that, other
polite had cone; Mr. Victor Kelman,
wham she distrusted, and n little thin
olu woman in black. Tho :e.remtty of
No. 3 was shaken, and O.II* y was shak-
en with it. Sho began to have dread-
ful doubts for her own safety; she re -
met -Moved how she had flung herself
into that matter of the expulsion of Mr.
Cl.ristopher Dayne, and how heroically
he had lieJ over the affair. Lucy did
mol knew that; was it p oi-s ble that Yonne•
thing had leen discovered, aid that
these people had come to denounce her?
She waited at an upper window, and
:Meanwhile, in the little moo gnat No.
3. Luck Ewing found herself standing
in some perplexity, looking from the
(enc woman to the other, and with her
hand still closely Leld by the stranger
wt.o had announced herself as the friend
of Aunt Phipps. And she heard the
calm voice of Olive .peaking.
"This is—an old friend of mine," sald
o:Ivo slowly. "You have no particular
mason, Miss Ewing, to think well of me,
or to like me; 1 camp into your lite, and
perhaps spoilt it a little. Fin sorry"—
tht calm voice broke a little, despite her
effort to kelp it stotdy—"rind 1 would
like to do something to straighten out
whit 1 may havo helped to tangle.
Theme dens not seem to be very much
love in this word,' she went on, "and
1 would like—if only for the sake of my
—of Ch'hs--to put things right."
"1t is guile unnecessary, Mrs. Phipps,"
said Lucv coldly. "Absve all things, it
fs not wt rth while referring to a matter
lice this bef:,ro—before th.s stranger.'
"Not a stranger, my dear—don't think
that, I leg.' Bald the old woman quick-
ly. "I've seen n deal of trouble in niy
time. and it might have sourel ninny;
bul it hasn't soured me. Think of me
are Aunt 1 hipi's frknd—and as one wlio
knows Chris."
"honestly and frankly, Miss Ewing,'
went on Olive, "1 want to help Chris. 1
can"l do it alone; some pxrver e Fate
put my heart in the wrong place, 1 fear,
she added, with a half smile. 'This
boy Las money—lie has in him the pow-
er to work, an(1 work well; and he will
throw it all away. I speak the truth
v.hen I say that that hand my friend
there is holding has a greater power
than anything else in all the w ;rid. The
toy want•; you—he loves you—you can
retake his lite what it should be."
"Ile went away from me—with never
a word of expklnalion. 1 loved him—
yes, 1 did, and Im not ashamed lo sa7
it—but 1 wouldn't take his hand now,
if he stout! before Hie. i want you to
let the ,natter alone, Mrs. Phipps; you
mean well, but it Ls nothing to do with
you. Please (kin's think I mean to say
anything unkind or ungenerous; but 1
nn: n wurnan, and 1 must fight out these
things for myself.°
"No—we ain't always do that, my
deur," said the old lady. "Fin an old
woman—trend of Aunt I'hipps, you
know•—ana 1 we seen quite a let of the
vv( rkl. I'm fend of the boy. teen, from
n', I've heard of hits; eseryono must he
fond of him. \Ven't you listen ti what
1 hive to MO; Aunt Phipps' (tient], you
k' -ow. my dear --nothing at all wrong
with her."
Lucy sent d her: elf on the .shabby sofa
which stood nt one sale of the remit, and
Aunt Phipps sat down testae her. For
sonre stranger rt ason the old woman
scorned to find pleasure in fielding the
:oft young tient in her binck-glowed
onus, and the girl did not nese;,t It. The
Light young eye's laked into the faded
old erica.
"1't► a ref 115 my dear, wh have mado
n.'slak(s In this wor:d would be so
gnarl sem •l:nos to show the young (nes,
who Inc coming ,ling lt.e same road,
where' the holes are, and where the rocky
Lits might be eroded. 1 never had any-
one to point them out lo m•',' she added
whlmtt'ally---"oto-I of the }eople I rne
Lathed me info $he holes and ngninst
the rock=. But years ego—such a long
Brno back That it seems nes it the grass
tad grnwn green over it all, I Waft
Ti arly lucky --nearly d d wall."
Olive Vnr•ni y was stand ng at the win-
dow. with her back t., it. ws/Iling the
Christopher Dayne; a new Olive Var-
ney
ar like that for anyother ,u c Odley
y indeed, who could knew, at a mein 1 rc''s '
dropped into a chair, and covered her
face with her hands.
watched Greenways' Gardens anxious-
ly. First of all, she saw Mr. Vich:r Kel-
man go out, evidently in a very bad
tamper, for he kicked at inoffensive
s'o:ies and ac:wled round about hhn in
a manner quite fercign to his ordinary
(kmeanour. After that carte Mrs.
Phipps, burying away at a great rate;
Then a silence over all lho.house. Od-
ley ventured downstairs, and listened at
the door of the little silting -r' om. Sho
heard low votes, and stole away again,
to watch on:e more from that upstairs
window.
And then the horrible thing happen-
ed into Greenways' Gardens wad sud-
denly flung a hurrying figure, making
straight for No. 3; Caney fell her knees
knock together as she r.00gnized Chr:s-
t'pher Dayne, evidently bent on vesnge-
anc:; no young man woul 1 huiry along
glance from the eyes of Aunt Phipps.
what was the only thing to be ('.one. All
her life long Ibis woman had stifled
every emotion she posses=ei; now, in a
moment, she was swept along on a very
sea of emelons. A week ago she would
have been contemptuous of the mere
suggestion that she could stir out of
her to help anyone; yet now all her
schemes for vengeance were at an end,
and her one trembling hope was that
the might find the bay, and ,night bring
Ium back again.
Only once did rho falter; and that was
who n the memory of what she had prom-
ised ler dead father swept over her.
For one moment she stopped, and some-
thing of the old hard look carne into
her eyes; but only for a moment. in
that in-tant there had been the halt de-
k•rminat -in to step aside, at least, and
ti do nothing—to leave them to fight out
their lives for themselves. The next,
she remembered Aunt, Phipps, end was
off owns' on hi r errand.
By get at good fortune she discovered
Chris at tt:e hold. A changed Chris in
close tlmrs. from the (tact that 1 fe hnd
in some curious fashion lost it favour.
Work there might be in the world, but
there was time enough in which to do
it; and even when it came to be tone.
there was no necessity for any speciai
striving. For the present ho could
drift. There was ono consolaton at
least, enough a le!llsh one—the fortune
was his, and no thought in regard to
the future could trouble him.
The change had been so sudden—that
change which meant money in his poc-
kets, and tt:e promise of 'more to come
In the long future which should in the
ordinary course stretch before Min -
that he had not been careful as regard •1
ex[endlture. Ile huid no very (tenn:t.'
not on as 1, wl:al les ino me would be;
he r'enenibered. however, that it had
niways been understood that he would
have plenty. Aunt Phlpes had ensured
him that everything was right, and had,
given him That suhcskrntinl sum as a
foretaste of what was to a,me. So ho
had gone on, dny by day, in idleness,
bemuse he told himself that there was
ncth ng to woik for.
In all probability he would have re-
fused to listen to anyone but Aunt
Phipps at that Zine; but Aunt Phipps,
in the peron of Olive Varney, ens an
elogtvnt pleader, because she lead much
to gain. Even she did not quite know
yet what was to happen, or how this
bey was to IP enlricnkd horn the tangle
Into which to.he hnd drawn hint; sho
could only go on slop by slop, and this
was the first necessary step to ink•'. She
was wise enough to see that Lucy held s
peewee no one else could hold--wiso
enough to understand that that mysteri-
ous t1•"ng Love, which she herself hnd
never really been allow• d to undo rebind,
multi step :n here, and !chaos woik a
miracle. Behind her, loop, was that pow-
er she was Supp •sed to hold by reason
of the fact That she was Aunt Phipps,
and That the boy was to an extent do-
t-enacnt upon her.
Had she thought about the matter for
a m merit, sho might hnv.' wondered to
fund bitse'lf in this pos tion --lo hear her-
self pleed ng for the happiness of the
girl she had meant to ruin. But she
c'Il not etpp to lh nk; the tent' had gone
I est for That. Instead, she threw her-
s'If into the business with an energy
that was remarknbte; and Wendel with
an eloquence that seemed quite apart
from heis-lf.
"You mud—you shalt g e bnck le her,'
'she &aid at last. "Yeti don't u,irdersland
re (that has happened—you never will.
But other lives than yours are re/teem-
ed in this; other hopes than those of
y :r e'It and hie girl. H for no ether
la surrounded by 1h•• Chaml>er<-Fcr-
hind. It IA known it,ot 1h' 1.11 hose
bas an cnortuou i ore•botly I,lo.•kwl out.
ipile !.a Inose vans aro In the henrt of
the (:hautbers.Fertund and have been
picked tat In tits company's workings.
The Nlplssing Ls one of the camps
greata_t pno(lueers and the 0fJrien
Eh►pp.d Inst year over one million dol-
lars' well* of ore. The Province of On-
tario rrodvrd rt quarter of a rrtlllten
dallies c.1 lits by r• -n -em of Its royalty.
In expo. triton of receiving similar re-
turns and by reason of the kn•.wn rich -
ss of the 124 acres of the ('hambers-
l'erlanet.tat,, the government of Ontario
retains n 25 per cent. Interest in the
property.
In considering the properly under re-
v.ew in tins article, It must le remem-
bered that this is the balance of the
acreage that was stalked In the early
days, when the entire Cobalt district was
"She'll never sro:ik to me again—not
es long ns 1 live," she wailed softly to
hereolf. "1111 all Gene out—and they'll
know all the dreadful !Mega. 1 said afoul
him—every word. if she gives me up
for it, I don't know but what I ,night
get something heavy for taking away
characters. 1 wish I could hide eomo•
whore; I wish 1'd never been lean."
Down te'ow that impatient young
man had knocked and rung 11.1 his arra
ached; Odky !tenni it, but dared not
move. Then finally the door was open-
ed, and a tittle old woman in black
stood there smiling at him. ` inply
murmuring the name of the re,•s..n he
wanted to see, the impetuous young man
brushed past her. and looked into the
sitting-mom—which was empty. As he
carte out again, without taking the
fa'nt st notice of h'r, the little o1.1 lady
gazed after him for a momen with a
sin le; and then with a little sigh—per-
haps at the remembrance of 'mother itn-
! etuous youth of old 11ne--carne out in -
lair; the eyes of Lees Ewing ware twat T."- n. (hr.s, do it ter my take. 1
Upon the old womai, wh'$o head was hate been ali uiy lite a dupaploink'l WO -
Food
Products
Libby's
Veal Loaf
is made of the best
selected meat, Ecientific-
allYprepared and even-
ly baked by damp heat
in Libby's Great While
Kitchen. The natural
flavor is all retained.
W hen removed from the
tin it's ready to serve:
It can be quickly pre-
pared in a variety of
styles and nothing makes
a better summer meal.
In the home, at the
camp, and for the picnic
Libby's Veal Loaf is a
satisfying dish, full of
food value that brings
contentment:
Libby, McNeill & Libby,
Chicago.
e'en to the syndicate after whom this
c mpany is named. 'chis synd:cute sold
the Nipissing property. The O'Brien
Mine, as is well known, is coned by
Messrs. M. J. O'Brien and J. B. ()Brien
and the 124 acres now owned by the
Chambers-Ferland :Yining Co. remained.
In the selection of this acreage the
syndicate ccr:ainly made no mistake.
To the east, south and west lie the
rich O'Brien and Niptsseig veru and
the most valuable part of the right or
stay lies adjacent.
The O'Brien, Niptssing and La Rose
are the camp's heaviest shoppers and
are probably the highest producers of
sever in the world.
Tho La hese has undoubtedly the
largest ore reserve in the camp. The
O'Brien is extens:ve'y developed, so
rr,uch so, that the owners of this mine
have decided on the immediate cree-
t:on el a large ooncentarting ,Hill on its
ceoperly at a cost of $120.000.
A rich vein was located on one end
of the property, near the main traveled
road, leading down into Kerr Lake
section, rind rich ore was taken out and
sacked several months ago. The open
cut can be seen front (ho road. Then
fit:owe-1 differences with the govern.
anent, all of which have since been set-
t:ed.
I.nst year W. H. Linney, formerly
superintendent at the Nipissing, was se-
cured, as his farniliarlty w:th the NipLs•
sing veins would have been very valu-
able. Ile starved to work, but the min-
ers' slr.ke et last summer caused a ces-
aat on of work.
Superintendent W. I1. Jeffrey, form-
erly of the La Rose, has since Len put
diens a vast amount of uudergrtutnd
exploration work will be done, and in
this way the r.ch veins alreedy enc_un-
lerod on the surface and blind ve.ii
which abound in this section of the camp
will be ceened up and developed.
As a result the many rich veins now
being w. rked at depth on the adjoin-
ing mines named, wig which aro known
le run into this puol'erly, will he en-
(ountereci and d,vetoped. limited:ate
attention will bo paid to the veins tie -
finitely devcl.pet by the O'Brien, Nipis-
s ng, La Rose and Right of Way.
Then this company ulso has an acre-
age extending on the other side of the
T. & N. O. By., where the Nipiss ng and
Tent skaming & Hudson Bay Co. aro
working rich veins.
rhe ern hatic statement of a well-
known engineer who has exnmii ed the
pro:erty is that there is "no partialis
developed ground in the Cobalt district
Letter situated or hos greater prom se.'
McCunig Bras & Co., members of the
Montreal Stork Exchange of Montreal
are b. bend the proposition ani it •s wca
ler-:. s -n that their clientele is always of-
dered someth ng good and rte's firm's
conn.-caon with the P.otat on is a guar-
antee cf its dioses.
A camp ar:son of the capitalizaton of
Chambers•Fcriand with other Cobalt
.propos:l:oils, including the biggest di-
v:dend-payers, laking into considera-
tion tho or mpany's sun error location
end large acreage. cannot fail to im-
press the careful investigator.
On the directorate of this new com-
a any aro Messrs. \yillinm C. Chambers,
Arthur Feriand, William II. Russel. R.
1C. Russell ani ft. A. Galbraith, the or -
gnal owners of the 1 ro, erly and of the
Netie.s ng. Mr. Jeffreys rs the super,t-
tendent.
sketch of Part 4, the Rich Cob�ijt- Djstrict, Showing the Chambers. --Fenland Property and Adjoining Mince. ,
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te the street, and softly closed the door,
and went away.
Meanwhile gspecles of hunt was go-
ing on in that usually staid establish-
ment, No. 3 Greenways' Gardens. For
Lucy had no sooner heard the knocking
at the dor than, her heart telling her
who must be there, she immediately ran
cut of the room upstairs in search of
that comfortable person Odley. And Od-
ky no sooner Beard her Doming than she
darted out of the roan in w'11ich she
had been seated, and fled for safety to
the top of the hou'e.
Chris'oplier Dayne hnd but one
thought in h's m'nd--to find Lucy. Alt
the pent -tip longing of the past miser-
able dnys•—nil the remorse for ever hate
ink doubled her at all --had driven bun
along at lop speeJ to Greenways' Gar.
dons. Coning here, he Ind Leen kept
disgracefully long at the door; had got
In, and snit hnd failed to find the girl.
'then he caught the flutter nbove him
on the stairs of flying skirts, and set
off in pursuit, calling her name. And
came at last to an upeer room, once
used by him as a c.. ec:es of private
working-room—rind found the girl.
Odloy was 1n Ili' rcom,.lo)--but they
dill not neo her. She was dower] on her
knees in corner, with Ler trend thrust
Int, a cupboard she had •hurriedly pulled
ol.en--hiding herself, eslrich-like. When
n minute or Iwo later, the boy rind girl
head gone downstairs, (aJLey came forth,
will) her eyes wet.
"I wish 0ntcone hnd ever talked to
the lice that,' said alley sully.
To be ConLnu d.)
A CIIINF.SE ROBINSON CRI'SOi:.
"Wild Han of I'apaikounia nkii" Deed
. After Thirty Tears of Solitude.
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People who have not been to II lo, the
little seaport on the island of Hawaii,
may not think it a mutter of moment
Vat the "will Chinaman of I'npaikotu
mnnka" is deed. Like many worthy
folk, :\h Chow did not have his name
printed much in the neespnpers until
after let died, but that was the fault of
the papers and not of Ah Chow.
'rhe y say down in Ilii) Item Alt Chow
tante to th, islands thirty years ego as
a centred laborer on a sugar p!nnlat'on.
Ile evidently diel not like leing a con-
tract lab e'er. ter I:e fled teem Ili' plan-
tation Barn after lis air:vat rind work-
ed bks %vita. up to the alnr,sl Inaccessible
nr'un!ain crag •J Papaik•eumanka to n
little plateau tonging dizzily over a
(tiff s udge. \Vit'n Fane of lb" plane -
lion men %e:it to get lint Ah Ch - w put
up such a fight by rolling boulders
down on the only trail to his retreat
that the attempt to bring him back was
g.ven up.
Eighteen years ngo the report spread
about the country thereabouts that the
lately Chinoman was a leper and n
posse was sent up the mountain to bring
him into town fee banseortalion to Mo-
lokai, the Hawaiian leper o lony. Ah
Clow fought the pos.' oath boulders
until They pitied a foothold t n his nar-
row shelf of the mounla:n, and then
charged the tumorous Kanakas with a
spear fnsliored of hard wood and with
the point hardened in the fire.
Ile was captured finally and examin-
ed It was found that the wild China-
man did net have lepro-y and he was
alhwcd to go back to his aerie un the
mountain.
From that day until the Chinamans
bn:ly was fount n ,w nth ego, lying in
rt uric coffin of ti's own making imide
Ills hut, no man is kn:,w•n to have
s;.oke:i with him and few bud seen h:m.
The tax ns;es<or and tax eol'ect,r Ante
him a wile 1 crth; the men w•h , c,wnd1
the land which he had pr. eine. d !unde
n- at'crnpt to eject Irm. 11' n• ver came'
down off the mountain and neither
white awn nor Kenai:a cared to go up
cep see him.
His body was stumbled in by a stran-
ger who hail gone up the tmuntain
without knowing that danger was po-
pularly srppns d to wail at the nip for
al! intrutfets. When Ili + strainer re-
verted his flnul several men horn the
m nrest planlntien went up to the wild
Ch naman's hal.
The body could not be renewed. sn a
pile of wo oet was heaped about it anti
it %vas bu:n.d where it toy, w:Ih the
but which hnd for thirty gars le. n the
lonely lierin toge of \h 1:Ir,w. The
QUEER AUSTRALIAN GAME
EXCELLENT SPORT WITIA 17111
BRONZE -WINGED fits:r,\!i.
\elite Pheasants and Quails The thio.
lard Sun') of ham taro.
buil.
1t is cin the billeLungs ami treks of
the back country that tho best sport .a
to be obtained. In wet seas its ducks
and teal ate to be ehat, and .n the Hang -
es between the Murray and the Mur-
reinb.deee rivers the "native 1h-asant,''
or nudes hen, is to bo found. 'Tis .8
n lino table bird, quite equal, in my
to :Mon, to any English pheasant. 11
is very shy and not easy to obtain. I
knew a man wlto kept a few blood-
hounds for hunting ole:; es, says a writ -
0.• 10 London 1:k1 1. 11•: u.scd to go into
In. scrub where there were maltose hens,
rut the dogs t n their t:a k; and canter
aft.r therm. Tito birds would ronwtinus
Os.; in an open sputa) in the ecrub, and
I have known hon to bang down a
bra -o of them when shooting from the
suddle.
Good duck shooting might Le hnd at
ltle large water h ales if it wtlto pcssib!e
lo get near with ;ut being seen, and in
the summer evenings excellent sport is
btahnnblo by waiting for the bronze:-
wined
ronzewingd pigeons, which at sunset Ily to
oat'. There is also a small quail, like
the Egyptian, to be shot in New Sunlit
\Vales after harvest. There they strip
the wheal, d. e., lake merely the heads
el! with a stripping machine, leaving
the straw. f have known half a tiara
guns make a capital bag w•ithouf doge
The Australian gauze bird. however,
is
THE NATIVE BUSTARD. 1
or "wild turkey," as it is there called, al-
though it is now very scarce excepting
in tier extreme Lack country. At one--
tirm, it was common eno..gh in Victoria,
though now rare in that Slate, but on
the Lack blocks of Ncw South Wales it
was plentiful a few years ago.
They were, neverethc'es, difficult to
stalk on foot, but, curiously enough, wilt
olk.w ono to drive quite with'n range,
and 1 have seen many shot from a bug-
gy toward the Darling Inver. They are
capital table birds, often larger than the
biggest turkey one could buy at an
English Christmas market, The flash
of (ho breast is brown and tastes like
wild duck. Properly cooked the Au-
stralian bustard has hardly its equal.
It prefers arid plains, and 1 havo shot
them on the goldfields of Western au-
siral:a, where there is little or no water.
1'Iley must be able to fly great (liglances,
for one never Mess them about the des-
ert country of West Australia in the
hot weather.
Imported hares are very numerous in
certain parts, and the rabbit is ubiqui-
tcue. 1 remember an Australian squat-
ter, who was ruined by rabbits, saying
that he had not much lost, but ho would
be glad to subscribe a {sound toward a
monument to the idiot who introduced
rabbits and foxes into Australia! Rab-
bit shooting is to be had almost any-
where, and as they are tr'epi ed and
Foasoned by .
TIIE HUNDRED TIIOUr.AND
strange man must have known tl:o ap-
proach ofc!eath and deliberately laid
h nisch down in h's coffin to t. o alone.
Tho invcstignt•rs looked about and
d.soovcred !tow it was !fist the weld man
had lived high up on the mountain,
alone with buds. By what must have
leen tremendous and long cent nued el-
fcH4
All Ct:ow hnd cleared ate ut two
acres of lila (rented jungle lack of his
11111 on the mounta n sh'lf and 1 all (hero
planted pineapples, peanuts, mangoes
and !o!a'o's.
Iie hod even set out n few orange and
urian trees, probably from cuttings
stolen at nlahts from th plr.ntal:on
Limes Lelow hint. Tie old nee had
kept no an mals; all (l.e biller woik of
g�rubbng the jungle horn his place he
had (!one with his own hands.
ilts'des the vegetables tint had srrs-
toir:erl old Ah (:low the h• -inn t !a I not
lacked for flesh, as bird mires r n 1 nets
1 and in his but and set abut among
the nearby trees '-hme 1. It' had even
faeh!oncd out of 1 mixer a sort of sone
pilau, or blowgun, such as Ls wed by
the nnl.ves et Iho Duh_h East hulks,
which %vitt preppel a dart several hun-
dred feel.
I. ke another Rob`nton Ci i.s e. Ah
Chew had lived on his dizzy shelf of
rock high above and even %%Al n sight
of Ih! cal:linen that spread out below
bin in plantation and village.
-- 4
MORAL INS11IUCrION.
"JJolnny, cried hes mother. "are ye.
leach ng that parrot to swer,r?"
"Ni, mother. I'm leach ng lam wh .t
Inc mustn't any."
1
1
if you eat Shredded ‘Vicat. it (leets net clog the
system or tax the digestive ma_hintry. kvervp.ir-
ticle of Shree'd_d Wheat is casiiy and guicaly
digested by the most delicate storr.;:e';.
Try It with fresh fruits for a week and note
results,
Bold by all ),•racers
perhaps they too may become extinct in
t mc. No one who has not sen the rab-
bit warrens in the sandy back country
of the Darling would credit tee tierm-
ous number which exist there. 1 have
passed miles of sandhills at dusk which
seemed obs,lutely nave waih the ver-
min, as Australians call them. This re-
minds me of an Englishman engaged
t•, ocok for the shearers on a hack sta-
ton, who by way of a trent.pr.dr a rab-
bit pie for the sten. Ile was nearly
mwekmd for his pains! Australian
shearers had not come, th'y sad, to eat
vermin!
Twenty or thirty years ago the back
country squatters, in order to destroy
kangaros, use.' to dig huge pits at Iho
corners of their paddocks, running
,yards of calico along their wine fences
and then drive the kangaroos into the
pits, clubbing and shooting them. In
those dnys kangaroo skins were of no
value; now that they aro almost extinct
Vera. is a great demand for Them. The
flesh of a young kangaroo is by no
!mans to b' (les:> sed, and k' ng ire r tail
soap is a delicacy now hardly to be ob-
tained.
GI'el1DIN(; 1'111: BANK OF FRANCE.
Vaults Were Once flooded with Water
to Keep Out Thieves.
Like the Bank of England, the flank
of France Is now gmwded every night
by soldiers. But within quite recent
t me the oIlcials at the French bank
resort, d to a very novel method of pro -
brit ng th'ir bulb' n.
Tll s consisted of engag n z mrsons ter
wall up the doors of 11.0 vaults in the
celiarwill hydraulic mortar as so -•n as
the money was depod oil each day in
ese rcceplaclas. The water was lh•'n
r:ed on and kept ruining until the
1, a Cellar was flooded. A burglar
to a'd be obliged to work in a diving
suit and break clown n cement wall be-
fore he could even begin let plroger the
va+tltit.
\\'I:on the bank ameints nrriv(d next
ening the water was drawn o0, the
my kern down, and the sults
• ;cued.
0.-
_4.
SWISS 1'1'NislillE\T.
1'••ri:,11y ul Perpetual Sitert& Re Ardc•I
ns 11'orse 1 ban 1►rnlh.
pia 's • t Switzerland there is no
4.1 pulaehnent. But. niter al, the;
tr ni nnl m ght prefer death to the r. e(n•
leg:y lighter tonally. for life u the
m
t >m� granted to n murderer cot
in n S aia.s
• , n is but a living clenth. 11•' is con -
11:1I• d to s linen Ili•t c li is I n It te-
1 w the lee el (•f the 1 r•,un 1. It s ven-
t nee], of course, Litt unlighted. iN
is forbi kk n lu n Idrrss a ward—r. Shout,
Ix' do 'o he gets no snider. For thirty
minus s ,n every twenty -tour burs he
,1 taken to h gh•w a i d c-.ur rya d tar
exerci'e in t'.e presence! of ,nut', armed
j eat r': then ho rete: ria to Ili • silence
: 11 1 1 In knees of hitt c:•11. Luc( h ni, (he
n'(':'5 0 • t 11e laic Err pre a of 1u•
'len, u Ore of lt.o vict.ms of the syr
tem.
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