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Exeter Times, 1906-05-03, Page 2MAAAMAAAAAJAAAAMMAAAAAAAAMAAAWANAAAAinstant up went hta ball. but instead of sIfiIiug lite bird, on its flight to rhe hole. it went wide of its rrutrk, gee- ing the temple of John Rockledge and tutting Gordon Barlow, who stood di- rectly buck of him. With a wild cry the young than threw up his kends and sunk at Roekledg e's feet: the greensward covered with his lifeblood where he fell. In an instant the greatest of confus- ton reigned, and In lees time than 't takes to tall it they made an examina- tion of the young man, finding that t:e had been curare frightened than actually hurt; for, though it bled profusely, it was but a fleet' wound. A bitter imprecation was ground mut between Gilbert Forrester's clenched teeth below his breath. "I have failed, though my atm was but a hale"s breadth out of the way. and hit the wising one. 1 shouldn't care much if 1 had put the two of them out of the way—killing two birds with ono stone, as it were. My aim shall he truer the next time, confound Me luck 1" And again there was the same glitter in his black eyes. Aloud, hie prole. cion of grief was great; ho declared If either his dear chum Gordon or Mr. Rockledge had been fatally hurt he would have blown his ewn brains out. u. Gordon was carried home, and a A!;rgreon hastily sunnnoned to dress the 'practice. 11 sho likes golf I will throw Penni man's wound; though he per. :my heart and soul into the game and si=ted in making light of it, as we have roaster It for her sake. Ah! what will slated, the outcome of it was that Mr, not a man do for one smile of approval Barlow denounced the further maim'- : from the Ups of the girl who has wiled taco of the game for that season at his heart from him. Ay, and ! will I('ft4l, ;learn music, and dancing. and all tlee Knowing that nothing nn earth cold !amusements so dear to the hearts f induce her falher to retract his words young girls. "This fellow Forrester can niter he had once given a command, laugh and danec, fish and golf, and Coterie was obliged to abide by his de- fl:rt, and that Is the kind of a man it cision, much to her intense grief— fer seems, despite his worthlessne_se, who `hu was an enthusiastic golfer, loving Cnds favor in feminine eyes;' and s et- the sport denriy — and Mr. John Bock- tlo smile flitted over his grave face ea ledge's intense relief. be pictured himself doing all of these i do not know what we nre to do Chines to please s sixteen -year-old girl. to ninuse ourselves now,' said Corine, "Oh, Corine„ Corine!" he murmured; ruefully. the next day; "with lnwu par - 4I would do more than that for you. 1 would give every drop of my heart's blond to save you one moment's pain. i never dreamed that there wns roam for such an Intense love in my breast!' declare it is getting so dreadfully me - That night the poor fellow sat up half notonott.s at Linden Rail that I shell he the night studying a golf book which tempted to run away from It some gine he had purchased on his way home, en- Oily and see what pleasure and brlght- ing to rest when the night was well- 'less can be found elsewhere." nigh spent; but not to rest even then, John Rockledge, by the merest chance, for his brain was cudecling over the heard the girl's plaint, and the words uses for "brassies, mashies, sleeks. t►az. si'inehow struck a cold chill to his heart. aids, bunkers, teeing," and the like. "1 roust intercede with her father to Even the next day he found himself retract :.te ho thought. "No Inserting} sorne of those terms in a brief auuht it is getting dull for bright, bon- " and he cy little Corine." Love Came Too Latc; OR A MAN'S FALSE HL=ART. 1 CIIAI'TER IV. No ono at the dinner table heard the annoteicertent that Mr. Gilbert Forres- ter was to remain with there another month with afore regret than did Alice V arrett, for in her gentle heart sho dis- I:ked the young ratan as much as ,o kind a girl could dislike any one. She had caught him cheating upon more than one occasion on the golf Uulcs, end lied detected him in several untruths; therefore she felt That he was not once to be trusted. He,:ides, he was loo easy of speech and manner, to say nothing of dressing ton flashily, to command her respect and friendship. Alice bud nnticed before anyone else had seemed to observe it. how interested her little madcap cousin, Corine, was tecorning In lent, even had not Corine fallen Into the habit of maidens to gen- pal who are desperately in love rat talking about thin to her girl compan- ions ns long as sho could chain a list- ener to her side. Corine and Alice shnred the same apartment and the same bed, and Car - Inc wneld keep her cousin awake fnr into "e wee sma' hours of .the night talking upon the subject which so filled her heart—handsome Gilbert Forrester Alice would often fall asleep with his name ringing in her ears. though she die' her test to keen Awake and listen as long as Corine desired her to do :o; end more than once Alice had said to herself that she would be glad when ue went away. Corine would soon forget him, and would be her old, bright, bonny, merry self again. No wonder she looked up in dismay as the words fell upon her startled ear that he was not to be gotten rid cf se easily. Alice read aright the expressions on the face of her uncle and Mr. Reek- - _dodge. and _she knew that the former's 1John thanked him earucslly for beek- mg so kindly upon his suit and giving horn such encouragement and ho and 6 hope .and eiili n few more words took his leave. "I will do everything under (leaven to win her love," he ruminated, as Le walked slowly home under the star- light that night. "1 have been too quiet n man; my whole thought, aside from Corine, was to succeed in my protes- t sion. helleveing that a man should lay !the foundation Inc a fortune ere he cree- 1 In think of love and marriage. "I will devote to Corine every moment I of the time that I can sparefrom my Ilea scratched off papa's books, mid golf tnbnoed, 1 think he has forgotten what it Is to be yo!ng, ns we are, and look forward to each day's sport. I in disgust first les - ch to the 1 and rest," she sighed. "1 have a torte- i anus headache, and I can go up to my room. draw the blinds, and niche ut cool and dark. and lie down; and there 1 can sleep until it is almost time for lura to return from Ashton; then 1 unast make a hurried toilet and be on guard again." Suiting the action to the thou1Iut, Alice %Vas 50011 in her riven. declining, no her way there, Corute'3 invitation 'o go down to the brook --a picturesque spot at the farthest end of tl ' '01 links—to sketch and while t ours of the torrid forenoon broad, shading Lindens that stream. "As you like," reti inc, rather annoyed, for she ',any, detesting being alone 00 not chose to conic 1 can go 1•robahly 1 shall find as muc meat:" (his maliciously and t Rut she was repentant instant when she saw big 1 ing in Alice's loving gray t were looking so reproving! And when Alice replied: "1 have a severe heodeehe, Is why 1 sought quiet insten ink to go with you." "Forgive ale. Alice. dear: 1 r.1 anyone but myself. Oh. 1: selfish 1 nm, to be sure; 1 with you." "I prey That you will not. Alice, earnestly. "(.o a0(1 rah sketches, love: if either Nelly or Dora Howard comes ov have word to have them J! "Thanks, Alice;" and with deluging her cousin with n pe er of kisses, ('ovine skipp away—and the sante Ilghl-hea less Corine never returned again. Tying her sun hat over h curl.( and catching up her no Irirl was soon flying over the studded path to the land brook. When she reached it she f one silting under her favoril second glance revealed that 1 bent Forrester. (To be C.onjinuod.) FORCED TO EAT People Who in This Way Ila buted to Destruction of Ut Among the causes that co the destruction of books, says writer, Americo Scarlulll, the very curious one that may bibliophagia. No reference to the mice that once destroy There was a grim smile on Lawyer land an entire edition of Cast P.nrlow's face when he laid the matter Econ Heptaglolton;' but to h tefore him the next day. mun beings who have literally "There is method in my madness, books. ]oho," he y doctored, "and 1 mn as will thIn 1370 Barnabo Visconti film; when that.. he c(•nfido to you that my object is to make two papal delegates fall, erect it as dreary as possible in this vicinity communication whito eat the Inch they ha sappeared for a little while, that our unwelconie him, together with its silken Pim guest, Mr. Forrester, may take it into leaden seal. As the bull w shod with hit plead that it Is too monotonous here on parchment, not puper, it t tach end for him and bid adieu. To make it gny more difficult to digest s fiushc d and attractive would mean to prolong A similar anecdote was one de- his visit, 1 fancy." Oeirich, in his "Disserlatio de the young i had not thought of the matter in camel et Librorum Falls" (1 pretended that light." said John. Australian generul, who had to nohien Meanwhile, quite an interesting af- note for 9.000 florins, and w wham he fair was transpiring. sub rose, in the duo compelled his creditors to very heart of the horno Lawyer Bar- The Talars, when books low imaginedhe was guarding so zeal- their possession, cat them, cusly. A love romance had begun; may acquire the knowledge only !leaven could have foretold how in them. m 1 not. it was to end. A Scandinavian writer, the nd seeing The commencement of fl ihad been a political book, was co him, he That memnrehln dance as the first net; choose between being behead ber that the second came about In n way which ing his manuscript boiled In Corine thought, ns most foolish meld- Isaac Volmar, "'he wrote nine her ens of her age. extreniely romantic; satires against Bernard, •Duk She h d whereto. II was the result of the most ony, was not allowed the c spy and skilful. ndrnit drsigning on the nam't .1 tate kitchen. but was forced t she hail ('nn of the cleverest of adventurers. them uncooked. that ho Never stare that day in the grave had Still worso was the fate the vig;itnnee of fnitiful Alice Warren Oldenburger, a jurist of gree who was condemned not onl pamphlet of his writings, but flogged during his repast, wi that the flogging should not c he had swallowed the lust cru d Philtra t o n e ti i n n. n nngry Alice for horering so constantly by her side. and more than once (luring that evening In the drawing -mem Alice felt herself severely snubbed by the Irate cousin: het she .1141 not pretend to n1e serve it, end thus the first evening f.assrtl amt the declaration hovering ..n Gilbert Fnrreater's lips remained', femme( Intek of opportunity, unuttered. More than ranee he wondered. vaguely, hew it was flint nn this particular ev- enine the lawyer bed not followed his timed e:nalnm of Joining them in the dining -mem, to net as n check, As it were. In too much exuberance on Vie !set of the ynirng people. Ile did not teem That John Rnekiedgn hail r eniru d to his study with him af- ter• they hail left the dining -room, nor fie ninsl intorr sling Interview which had taken nlnee between the twn men. John Rneklealge, who was Audi a brtl- Itr+nt plonder nt the Inc. never after - earl fully retneintorol hew he made hi: peen In ('nrtne's father for her dent little hand. iln never dreamed IDM the clever old lawyer nrlunlly helped him cling by a word in Ili" right place hers amt a noel of arnrot•nl there. it Is meatless to env that ht. eiet met with Richn►d ILu! utv's heartiest approval. "1f you rnn win her. my boy, and hone to Ilenven nothing will arise M pievent 0. van will have tnv heartiest ar.provnl to your suit," he snl.f, lieek• fly, ad.lntt• "1 wnnld miller give her Ir. you what she Is n!rl enntrvh—•mind, snv ellen she Is old enough—than to env ether man In (lad's world, "She le very romnnfic -- her mother was before her -- but she will 1* sure to recngntze the true worth of a noble reert, 1 feel cure. She will never mar - r• without love --see that you wln that, env boy. A tt.'ar•t :each as Corine's is well worth trying for." "You do not think she hes already herein to fancy your sen Gerdnn's col- lege chum. Mr. Forrester, do you"" ask- ed hiocklu dge, Anxiously. lawyer Berinw pooh-hneeul the Glen as twine Ino ridiculous to he enterinine.t for a single moment. though deep dawn In his own heart he was quite as un - envy nisei! U, ea John Rockledge wee. "Forrester l.a only s hird of passage, 117 i4Y. • he &elated. "When he !eaves be well vanlsR, Iltv a rainbow, from ter MItld, settler fer . nt. and her ante head and orrester. or. She k, which between e on the t Gilbert at him rah In his "i think 1 might es well make it a rnint to settle you before this, your first game. Is over. Mr. John Rock- ledge." he niminnted: for you are bound to make me no end of trouble in my wooing of the little heiress. and 11 Is dangerous to meddle with a man like myself. "1 shall not let you atop fn and win the game from me; 1 nm after the Rnr- lov millinns that Corine will inherit, end. by Ilonven, no man on earth shell cutwit me In gelling them." CiiAPTFR V. To Glltcrt Forr•e'ster's vexation the young Inwyer had a tolerably well-de- fined idea of the game—terms, positions. rules end all. Ile took his position with an nir et conndence which fairly staggered his rival. The match was to be n foursnme -- (brine and John Rnckledge playing against Forrester and Dorn !toward. 1l exasperated Forrester to see, tt hen It came flnckledge's turn to play, with what precteinn he arranged his pat r.f sand nn the teeing ground, placed his ball upon it, And with n care hity men- surecl stroke sent it flying. like an an - mw from n haw, n distance not emitted cheers front the enthusinstie enlnnkers. and whnt was sweeter then :ell to John ItoclaMge, n few words ;t cr•mntendntinn frons Collie', who de- clnred that he had little in learn, ea lie seemed lo grasp the silence of putting the halli from the very start. The game had proceeded scarcely half an hour, lensing along et the liveliest of paces, when an event happened :thich practically put an end to golf - Ing on that particular link for the rest 3f the scoson, and It came About in this way: Just ns Gilbert Forrester was about rddressing his ball, the Attention cut t verte nn on the links • s n s w e for a mo- ment. diverted by the appearance of a tuge hawk flying dtreetly overhead, carrying In its clown one of the little white fluffy bantam chtckens which were Corine's pets. "Save til Sava ttr cried the girl. wringing her tends and appealing tui Foreteller. this was his opportunity; fate .eeened ti aid Llai to tail schemes. la WS waned in the slightest decree. She find told herself that 9 was the Cuts, Henvcn had sent to her to nrntoct her bright. frivo!ons. madcap little ens. sin from the wiles of Um man whom Corine's father an dietrutsle 1, and whom she disliked and distrusted as well. Try as he would, (intra Forrester was never able to find himself mane with Corine even fnr n element. Aline wee ever ho•erine! Allred liken rtnrdinn nnrel Ihnttah Forrester likened her to iF THE CZAREVITCH L Magnificent Ls the only wot describe the present state of son and heir, the Cunrevitch his future prospects. Ile has envihin,, Mat that in his nnerry thotiehle the scorn, the very meanest Ile determined 10 outwit her in sante 13 studded with jewels; his t wnv or another. and that, tan. before ties are of gold, and his lapel many hnurs nestled over her head. Ile scribed as mere dainty and c was getting desnerately tow In funds. and he had told Minaelf flint the heat wily of r'nlenlshlnrr his &Meted pock- etbook was In wed rnrine forthwith and rain ne ems 1n the fortune which ho so Innerd In raises. Clever ns he was. he found the Inno- cent Alice ever on the alert; she seem• ed In see through his every ruse, and cireunivent titin by clinging the closer to Corine. who was too guileless to even Imagine such manoeuvring was being praeliseul. Again tale seemed to old the adven• Dir r. iI wn.s quite by chance ono morning that Alien overheard one of the ser- vants of Linden Ifni! telling Gilbert Forrester that there was n package In the express office In the village of Ashton, some ten Wed distont, for him; and Ihnt he -- the servant --would beim brought it over, but that the ex- ;.ress cleric refused to deliver it to hint, crying that Mr. Forrester must conte himself for 11 and duly receipt for the package, seeing that it was a sum ! f moy. 'Thanenks for the lnforrnntton," re- turned Forrester cnrcles4ly; "I was just about to write over and rnnko inquiry n+ to whether it had arrived yet. i shall have to go myself;" and he added in the next breath: "Can you nrrnngge to get a saddle I horse ready fnr me ns soon as poslble' i have some other business mutters to r.tton' to in Ashton. end if 1 start now i shall he bark berely in limo for dhh• nee to -night; it is an Intensely het June any, and one nmst ride stotvly if one has nny pity on horseflesh." "Quite right, sh•,' responded the ser- vant. "1 can hove a horse at the door ter yell anyn .. i r ni timeyou mune." nm. "Le' it be in three-quarters of nn hour from now," said Forrester. He het noILeoul Alice lVnr•ren stand- tng in the emhresure o1 the bay win- i'.ov, and knew full well !lint she had Nerd the eonversstion. end a cunning anile erept up under the curling. t1lky meateche. Allee watr:he.t him depart with great eatlsfnetiun. "For a few hours f the trousseau of rnany a qu lie lives to ascend his Fath lie will have more titles ilia remember. lie will be a Czar over, and in addition will than twenty ducal titles, besld arable other dignities. He wi of a hundred palaces. with 30,000 sorvnnts, and his priv will cover 2,000,000 acres, yle annual revenue of over 110, Throat Cou A tickling in the thr hoarseness at times; a breath irritates it;—t are features of a th cough. 'They're ve ceptive and a cough ture won't cure th You want something will heal the infla membranes, enrich blood and tone up system .. .•. Scott's Emu/ is just such a Mlle it has wonderful heal and nourishing po Removes the cause the cough and the whole system is given new strength and vigor .•, e,1 pr file 4 ,, SCOTT & BOrc'NE, (.h.M;,rf T»erre, ')sr. ,.d jr.ar. Are Jri gtsf• For Absolute Purity LA AL GREEN TEA IS SUPER- EST JAPAN TEA GROWN. soc and 6oc per Ib. At all Orocers AWARD ST. LOt'IS. 19(4. ICKS. ckens by 'our first II. I'ar- ws many by close teen p er- e wholly evinced ruing the least fair sun who brooder chick peraturo, to chick - here are a•titiciul orougghly chicks 1 od. Ile - ural or favor of ding in- ks to he over 400 es maty hod you the eggs igomes, n dins, he nests likely to arkened, ly clean, , be sure reason - ter ihnr- love her ing care lace two I's under 's before ed. Dur- no accus- e shaped you cnn- The concentrated foods are the d,'au- foods. They are growing steadily dearer and further advance is likely to follow as The country gels older. The Item of purchasing foods is corning to be so large that it cuts in severely 011 the profits of the dairyman. If, therefore, the dairyman can grow substitutes on the fame, ho should nim to do so. Where the corn will grow reel Then the aim should o f n d o togrow Y, clover and alfalfa to feed along with the corn, rather than to buy bran or shorts. if oats, barley and wheat can be grown successfully, but not corn for the grain, then grow these foods in combination and grind them for the cows. f.iVE STOCK NOTES. Do no''t feed too much hay to your horses. Beller to give a little more grain than to overload your horses with coarse stuff. In the matter of allowing the horse water, no mistake will he made if the animal is allowed wetter frequently enoigh to prevent excessive thirst. Three lines a day is not often enough for the hard -worked animal on a toot day. Six to eight quarts will not pro- duce any evil results, no mailer how warm the animal may he; if the thirst is not satisfied give another drink of like amount after about a watt of hulf 811 hour. When chickens gut a true case of roup, with the swelling of the eyes, ranker in the throat and an offensive odor from their mouths, it is always best to hill them and burn tho body. When the weather Ls damp or chickens roost In poultry houses badly ventilated on ac- count of drafts, they often lake cold. The best cure for this Ls to take a piece of guns camphor, Ile it In n piece of cloth, tarlelan or white muslin. with a pebble stone, and drop it into the drink- ing water, at the same time using ten drops of tincture of nceuurio to each quart of water. Use this for n (lay or two. Do not use it tong, for the cam- phor is apt to taint the flavor of the eggs. 11ORNs AND iiOOFS. Don't overfeed the horse. 1l may pro- duce black wager or indigestion. Bran mashes fed once or Mico a week have a canting effect upon the horse's she will system. 1t before a Wheat straw makes the very best !possible bedding for the dairy barn. at every See that a supply is always on (land. n, but If ; Ilorses were never more In demand the third than Just now—good horses. Better ere food then to raise some colts ales coating tin nest- season, but be careful and choose cd 10 a (ho sire or sires carefully. Tho law of 011 must heredity prevails. ktothe remove hen she see that CHOWN ting INCREASES CAPITAL. g to the hero aro Progressive and Prosperous coops ickss can Company—Low Premien' Rates and during Canadian Liberal l'olicies. although Steady and substantial progress is d c"1 shown by the Annual Relent (11 the ar►y which raybroeven bas Just been published. Tho Crown old will Grown Life insurance Couhp without Lifo has now nearly 11,000.00 of high cluss insurance in force upon its books is sharp, and the total surplus to policyholders, I be fed including the insurance reserve fund d for 48 maintained in accordance with the Gov- t boiled ointment Standard, amounted, on De - shed up cember 3Ist last, to S8:4,479.60. ar a day The financial position of the Crown tee days 1 Ire is now being further strengthened in milk by the introduction of a large amount eed and of additional cash capital, which will pry good enable the management to materially Ing of branches as the elphants tnurch ling the Improve the Company's business with el on and 1n utter desperation. one orn and rlotlt to all concerned. The object of hind rushed between two elephant' o chicks the Directors from the first has been to near me and the iest of the herd rolluw nd pick make the Company a success from the ell her. The postage of those thole' cteature was quite enough to slimy 'us whet ticklish cattle elephants are. number of them bnckeel nut of glue lin• and sereamtel. as ranch as if these poo• seared deer lied teen so many fernoin, r tigers; and if it tiger hnd Luken udv141 - tnge of the momentary break in the ,ei • cle he might hove got off scot free. The deer, however. tied soon all les - ed, and the ring was agtln cnntieuveI:. At this time a slim was heard. could not see the Prince en ae count n' acme intervening underwexod, but it wu - of coarse, ho who had need. crime Iwo shots In raP lel sue and the *heeling of the mahouts red•+•:- bled; and the noise WAS indeed so shah• ing end stepefying to the birds wiltiie the circle thnl n blaek partridge ache ally flew and shunned itself (ignited au elephant's hen.!. 'MIEN CAME A F(•►I111Ti1 SI1(YI'. Ile. NIEMEN/Mose A TIGER DRIVE IN NEPAL CLOSE COl(IM»i 01' tot &Lf:P11.t\TS !low the Great Itino of Big Brutes Wu Pressed 'Cunard a •tactual Point. 0 Wishing to see something of Jung's faututi5 method of tiger (fret' ! went with three gent'ar ••.:, of (uir11u- stone's party to the ueighh.'rhub.l of the jungle. which was to be beaten :in hour ar su before the time fixed for the 1'i inee's start from camp. Before we had gone half a mile, says a con...spoil. rent of the Indian Pioneer. . we got s r.!nupse of the scale on which Mahar - 'poli cenudects his operetiyts. For the purpose of this single beat upwards of forty flute had been con- slrucle'd, only of boughs and loaves, ;l es truo, but still huts quite as substan- elal as those %Odell the 'Panus in the Ti rai consider good enough for perman- ent habitation. These huts are built in it perfectly straight line nhjut twenty . t ori: apart, this line beingin tart n hthe chord of arc, the arc itself formed by a close cordon of elephants. fly day for several previous days these touts open towards' the tire, haul teen occupied by groups of soldi.,rs and shiknries who by the noise of their (Sett- ler and the clatter of their cooking and wood cutting quite deprived the tigers in the forest in front of them of any f;.ncy for strolling that way, mid by right these sentries had inain!ained !'ug(e fires between each tut, which r.311 fad tate same result of barring the way tiering the dark hours. In front of this Inc;of huts a path about ben yards wide had been cleared of limber so as et permit the convenient approach et the Prince's elephants to TIIE SCENE OF ACTION. By this time the Prince and his party were beginning to arrive, so the Main nrajal' pushed leeward to meet him, end we joined in behind. Now the plan rf the operations, which is indeed et the utmost simplicity, began to develop Weir. 1'leo cordon of thirty or forte elephants which I formerly meu!toned and which marked one end of lite are or semi-cinclo of elephants, now ex- tended themselves in line. directly the Prince's party had passed, so es `.o feral the chord of the 'co. as .rat' es their number permitted, in the mean- while the Prince and Mnhnr'njalt, with their followers, proceeded along tate line of huts until they crone to the Inst, where was the other enteemity of the arc. The elephants of our party (also per• haps thirty or forty In number) wero Il:en extended backward so as to join hands with the pad elephants which 1=nd sufficed to furnish. s�em�p.. hall the chord. std the ring of elephatrts around the doomed tiger was comnlehs. Three e:ephants only were exempted from fermhtg link; in this chnin, those ad the Prince. the Maharajah and Gen. Prohyn. These were within the ring, and free to go wherever desired:1o, all others to keep in their places in tea circle so far as intervening trees would permit, and simple press convergently le tate centre. Strict directions were given Hint no one under any cireum- stnnce'.s was to fire except tate Prince. Even Jung Bnhndur and Gen. 1'r'obyn would not flee unless in the case of the Prince's extreme peril. Then Lite ring! 07 the elephants, every mahout pressing tcward the sane renlrnl point and the Prince and his two companies mov- ing toward the sante point, but within the ring, and n little in ndvnnce (1 our part of 11, BEGAN TO CLOSE IN. There were about 400 elephauite ern. ployel. 1 should guess that al tirst there may have ixen on the atcrage four yards between every two elephants. Al. low six fes for the breadth of tin: ele- phant itself, and the circle might l.e roughly estimated as a mile and a half round. Soon, however, the inter•tal be. tween the elephants dwindled to three yards, two yards, one yard. At lust, except where the trunk of a tree. liter - posed, the elephants were a#rtrtwt touching each other. Before it had actually come In Vile a large herd of spotted deer. with twn Cne slags among them, had shown themselves at various points; of the circle seeking where to break through. At last maddened by the shouting and cru •la• 1. 'Phis ome to ticks aro hen out ant day. policyholders' standpoint, and this in- crease In cash capital will specially pro- mote tate interests of lteo policyholders of the Company. The Crown Lifo policies are Indisput- able from data of issue and include guaranteed loan, cash surrender and paid-up values. There nrn no reslric- in cors lions in regent to residence, travel or reason eccupation. The premium rates of ilio wisely, Crown Life are lower than thoso charg- gh pale• .41 bmost other conipanle.s. I$t-class Thy e officers of the Crown Life are: igh of it ,pose 1he M.P., i'cradrnt; John Charlton, 1st i palma- Vico-Prc.sident: I1. M. Mowat, K. C., advanced 2n41 Vice -President; Rutndolph Mardon - ',ad then old, Chairman Executive Committee; ilio other Charles Hughes. A.A.S•, Managing !t- rclor and Ar•,ttinry; If. T. \lnncell, M. o sccnnd 1►., L.R.C.P.. Edin., Medina) Director; utin A. 11. Selwyn Marks, Secretary and wcith ti o Treasurer; William Wallace, Snporin• lily they e ed con - ✓ the in - en cover ✓ would enditiens r�er, Iul of fndrl•'' Thu prac- ing; meal n because er,nvenient and 1n the a.. a of other c'it food 14 a good plan to follow, but it is not thus fed to Increase the pala- ishilfiy of the silage so much as to In- sure better digestion of the meal through ruminating on the part of the animals fell. Many fceeleru cul hay and straw en torn Oaks end pulp mots. These aro mixed and then fat, thus securing a lar. r .ns taidcnt of Agencies. (READ OFFICE, TORONTO. An agency for the Crown Life in This district often a splendid opportunity for an energetic and reliable man. (IIS (MAD SAVED. In the Rouse of Commons no incident is greeted with mors hearty laughter than that of a member who, after an eloquent oraUon, plumps down on his alrni.rs, °nr,ugzh tiisr *'r" °ti •+� silk hat on the bench behind him. young member• wto had just mar e1 and rein es. ''r: se n res r maiden speech sat upon Na ^ r An '1f ein•arthu n• • P hat. Then were roars !ttt''t-s• v �r •'urlrse and to. three and tt,. Irish member Imrrgqetr . Permit me gravely saki: "bigafllot'able gentlemen to con latj Streumstanes that when upon t NO hat his head was not to he asilnj's rematlt upset the dignity (•1 (i;e House, arta the Speaker called "Ow 4 'r, Ord'r," amid rout old MOW,. Still we pressed inward. Only p•'� *ere was not room for all the e r11a to keep in tar• it places In ter °, row circle enol a Brent n' , (he 1_1"_d elephants ser,' jostled 'fn ghc x"unnd reek end lied In j;,'1 n,r r.,al:r row. Al fl lin 1 •1ovr,l. rer,gJ "HSI tiger nut, hat.,#" M:nst for an 1 raw the bo M therker �1in !gr , S as he era the '1a...t,, it MX* Were ereA mer nr �I '" � tike n .• mahout, '`‘`)Vi cosi hetwoen c,;,(Rr wag dr*, I told ti; the. ""art fund r3'e , a v nnnd3 inches in' tune lea^ a,;, had MI qtr.• oar, (1. ho,,2 a. ire £rime, ,$mitts. Icto u r.