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the ,finest japa0.1,-Irditing
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out
the Howe
white voile and linen blouses whose'
style had "become obsolete many sea -
80118 ago;; Some, were woe. ttround•.th'
firsralioles, some had frayed edge,.
others had mended collars:;
However, the fronts, 'backs, and
parts of the sleeves vv ere good.
Beginning by pulling a thread to
get a straight edge, S cut a ten -inch
square from each of the fronts. In
some cases 'these had bits of drawee
work and in ,others •small fragments
ofembroidery.
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I bought a.s o o l of No. 8p
white
rte
e h two
red r a ' s ac of
thread a•. six a' rd , 1
n" t lace edgin T
patterns o� 'the tY res r •• he
at n g g Crimeron tabbed by t c.
p Mike made a slceteny attempt to Gon-
equabuy. ,,I rolled the ,edges of the first man who blocked his path; and
s retires 1 had cut from the old sent him reeling -among . his comrades. tinue the dance; then he surrendered
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fashioned blouses and whipped in the ' g g to certain pugilistic .desires always
There was a mad moment of con- clamo•ring for expression;
I3Y EUGINE
JONES.
PART III.
, of
la
1
Catching
ng O'Grady by
the
he shoulders,
lie
•oblivious of odes, bent eceoY upon shoved him toward the
improvised
• the led' feein his'positicnio`prominence
,
reaching he bunk house and denter1cdder.As found. himself praPel-
narrow edges, and found myself the
possessor of several dainty handker-
chiefs of which I am quite proud.
—J, p . H. •
fusion, of swirling figures, • during
which the music continued and also
O'Grady's dance. Then those nearest
the bunk house fell back as Cameron
emerged from the melee, his •pajama
SAVE YOUR HANDS. emerged
• in shreds. He turned, facing
Cheap white crepe paper napkins them:`
cut into squares a quarter the she of "Shut up!" he commanded-'
a napkin and hung on a hook neer : They obeyed'out of curiosity. With
the stove will save your hands if used
LIVEZY PICNIC GAMES. ing' to make it so terrific
that ti e to grease pans. They can oe burned
..
after using.
The games and contests ata picnic
•hould include not only the olcl regu 3
a
lags, but a lot of mind and body re-
MY ENAMELED VASE.
laits of fun Arrange the pro -
contestants must turn away from its
force. If a player falls or turns J
about, the judge blows owsawhistleand
he is out of the contest.It will
dwindle down to two, andas these
take their last stand it s boundto
e'' hilarious.
After some tub races for the chil-
dren, e game of prisoner's base --- a
lollypop Bunt -the candy being wrap-
rushthat': will liven things<up-a peanut
as clean and good as anything.
is
Buy `these by the bushel and they will
terribly expensive. If the
not be so to y p
picnic is large—for'' church or school
—have several people in different
places throw the peanuts' while the
children run. This makes the.scramble
a'` little more difficult and therefore
more interesting.
1 I had in my possession an, old
v t hrown-and-white vase with very good
n so that everyone Is interested,
gt az Y" i
riot only the Youngs r)eople, but also
tines, but it had an absolutely II -epos -
the middle-aged fathers 'and b hz sibie red' rose painted on one side.
the
grandmothers too. I knew .nothing of.china painting,
mothers and the e Yzo , d
som ` sort of scramble a
Start with e
Then try these games and contests
Cookie Chase -String lines between
the trees and hang round, hard.cook-
les' from them by short pieces of
string.
Then with hands behind them and
blindfolded, ' watch the contestants
"chase" their cookies. The string be-
ing pliable certainly makes the cookie
jump, and once lost from the teeth it
is mighty hard to find again. The
one who first succeeds in eating his
cookie wins the prize.
Picnicp Hopscotch.—This should be
played in pairs—a man and woman,'
or girl and boy, taking the hops into
the different squares together, arm
in arm, hopping one ho in on the right foot,
the other on the left. If' it is a beach
picnic, mark out the squares on the
sand; if in 'the woods, ` outline them
with small stones on 'a smooth piece
of grass.
Play it like. the old-fashioned game,
throwing the he flat Debbie first into num-
ber one and hopping after it and out
of the square again. The first couple
to go through all nine without falling
or pulling each other down wins, of
course .
Bubble Race -Don't forget the kid
dies. Give them all the laughter they
want in a soap -bubble race, encourag-
ing them to blow as large ones as
possible and giving prize for .the
vi g a
one which blows highest in the air
before bursting.
Blind and Halt Race—This race
must be in pairs also. One is 'blind-
folded,; the other must lean upon the
blind, walking only on one foot, drag-
ging the other or hopping.
Line the couples up, give the word
and see which couple reaches the goal
first. The poor blind one naturally
goes slowly in caution and they do
not make any great headway—unless
recklessly with such dragging
weight. However, it is their privilege old•should be given the bottle. He
to take any chances they wish and should be taught to drink from a cup.
they usually do, making the race ex-
- it is just as important to have
the milk` clean and sweet as when he
took it bye the nipple route. The pos-
sibilities for damage by impure milk
are not all put away when the bottle
is abolished.
It is neither necessary nor
advis-
ing each other. Then give the or'd
1 tomaintain an exclusive ` milk
and watch the battle. With the hands
able ,
diet in the second year. The' baby
only; each side splashes the other, try-
may have well -cooked cereals; 'oat-
meal, ,cornmeal, rice, prepared wheat.
He may have some bread after it is
twenty hours stale, and graham
crackers are allowed in reasonable
amount. Gravies that are not too
rich are allowed on bread; and
chicken, mutton, or beef broth with
well cooked ripe may be served.
As he reaches the later months of
the year, he may be allowed an egg,
poached or soft boiled, and a small
portion of baked potato. To add to
the joy of living, you may give him
puddings of cornstarch, custard, ride,
tapioca, and he may also at stewed
prunes,: apple ,sauce' and sweet
oranges. No, ; I • said ,nothing . about
candy.
ped securely in waxed paper and hid-
den in trees for the children to find—
gather your picnic crowd around a,
fire in the eveningand while marsh-
mallows toast, hold a whopper con-
test, a prize going to the one who can
tell the biggest story of wild life on
something which has happened on the
farm.
USING THE WILD FRUITS.
Wild Plum, Conserve-5=lbs. pitted
plums, 2 lbs. seeded raisins, ;5 lbs.
sugar, oranges, gar 3 ora. es, J 'uice of 2 lemons.
Slice the oranges in thifi slices,
crosswise, reniovin
g seeds. .Grind
in- meat' cho er. ' Put.fruit,
raisinspP
sugar and lemon .juice in kettle with
just enough water to keep -fruit from Lomond near on!"
tito point and Peau brown trout In loch right, come
sticking, bring boiling first eggs for this pur Nobodystirred. It was' the old
1 until the fruit is clear St. John. The gg
simmer gently truth—mob strength, individual weak -
and thick and of the :consistency of pose were obtained in January, 1921;
from the United States Bureau of Hess. t
glasses or jars, cotsup d seal. retained insettled., r• • twinkled. "'Tis " th' most painful.
Wild Plum Catsup -5 qts. ', wild at and in theRobertson; I drunk Oi was .ever on, sor; hist the
1 the ponds the hatchery, I dtd not discharge Mr.
plums, 4 lbs. sugar, 1 pt. vinegar,23 whenthe fiu'h were a !
autumn of 19 did. t ask for his position.: I admire flag', Moike- O'Grady's yournl"
larger his" that'sthe case,go down to the
as for sauce jobp "If m fir
ing incubation. The eggs of t ,him, and send me up here in his place you
Boil - vinegar, sugar, water -; in Ameri- � •" out missing;conic over to• my tent."
and spices, then a pitted plums, r ca and in continuation of the stocking sure you, now that Pm here I'm going, After awhile—quite a while—Mike
bring 'to boiling point. and simmer
I have arrived at the tent,: the lower por-
nor was the vase valuable enough to
justify spending even a small .amount
of money. However, I had some. blue
enamel, bought at'the ten -cent• store
for xray oil stove.
I mixed a, little black: paint with it
to soften, it into a pretty gray and
rface of ..the after school. And always you've man --suffered; but Cameron knew how to thim shelfs in a cliff after -a blast, not
flowed it onto the su
me in the wrong, to make box—thank to lessons at college and , • 'whin th'path's coin' ter drop
vase. It dried quickly, covered all aged to put b, knowin fl
time wonder what was the matter with practice in Mexico. He was actually from under 'em? Who sets the fuses,
the inartistic properties of the vase
like the new me. But this time you've gone too far• sorry for the charging windmill which
lights 'em rides th' tie bearers whin a
and left an object not un g
high -lustre vases' sold in art shops.
The pair stumbled across the roof,
locked in each other's . anything but
friendly embrace. They hurtled to
the ground, , a distance,. of ;possibly
seven feet. • Providence had arranged
the remains of a sand pile where they
landed, else neither would have been
hi a condition to continue the battle:
Cameron got to his feet and jerked
the cessation• of the music only ';the the befuddled foreman upright.
dull thump of feet from the roof broke "Put up Your hands!" .he warned.
the silence.
Cap eron's face was set,• his voice
metallic. For the first time the .Yen
felt his presence. They ,:had ignored
his orders and his threats, his state-
ments
"Ooo!" gurgled Mike around ; a
mouthful of sand; but he put up 'his
hands with a dramatic flourish.
The engineer's fist ca.ughtthe, other
on the point of his chin, sending him
spinning backward. But ., the blow,
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The engineer nodded, controlling
his sudden flare of anger. "Go on."
"Because the b'ys 'ave been sweatin'st.
a' and his inromises; but now, an' workin' their whole domned loives.
his ripped '. e C. & W. can hire a
ending there PP jacket sufficient 'force and Because, sor; th
with the'blood dripping from his' delivered withhundred such as the bikes av : ye
accuracy to knock out the average ,
knuckles where they` had come into , thot's studied th' books, easier than
merely sobered O'Grady.
violent contact with somebody's teeth,
man,
they can foind the men `ter do th'
Hegathered himself,then came inlkin'
he spoke a language they understood doily work. Look here, sor, yer to
"Since I' e' been u here" he began; with a rush. Had -he penetrated
Sic v b p ,
"you men have lain down on your job. Cameron's guard, had he -managed to
•
y ' possible.find a satisfactory target for his flay -
You've
done as little work as Y g
You've acted like a lot of kids 'kept in ing -arms, the engineer ..,would' have
about bein' rewarded. Are. ye av a
ORIG!N•O "T :?i;
'EI:..LQ' HE Ai
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In the 18th Report of the Geogr "uric.
Board of Canada which is now in 'the -
press, in addition to the decisions of
the Board since its - conunenoem�ent,
there is given in brief form the origin
of the names ruled upon where this is'
known. In inany cases more detailed
ofthe
ecoids
n
is i
the x
rnratia n
i11fU pE
r oi,k
'ie'.d^t )e s
rl a )1 o
nIU 1
' adx ^ tip r,a, pI
4B4 is an h ,.. �
n ar- ,
of v
meaning a
'intorestedin the p
ocular name.
One of the most interesting place-
names is Yellowhead Pass, one of the
most famous of all Rooky Mountain
passes.
The pass takes its name from a spot
at. its western- entrance, where the
Robson river coming south from. Mount
Robson , jolns the Fraser. Here was
Tete Janne cache, or in English, Yel-
lowhead cache. Front being applied'
to the cache, the name spread to' the
pass, the earliest name of which was
the Leather pass,' so called' because
supplies of dressed noose and cariboo
skins for mo'cassins, ropes, etc., were
taken west by the fur -traders through
this gateway to New Caledonia, where
Leather was scarce.
Tete Jeune cache was known by this -
name in 1827, but the first clue to the
meaning of the name is in',;,Tlie North-
west Passage by Land,"a book pub-
lished in 1865, `describing tbe=adven-
turous journey of two English Uni-
versity students,(Milton and Cheadle)
across Canada to the Pacific via the
Yellowhead :pass. The author of this
book states- that Tete Jaime cache was
"so-called: from being the spot chosen
by an. Iroquois `Capper,;kn�own by the
sobriquet of the Tete Jaime or Yeliow-
n
head, to hide the furs he obtained on
the western side,"
moind thot the wages we'draw pays
'us fer riskin' our necks Avery day,
year in an' year out? Who walks on
Rare Variety of Game Fish
Being' Introduced Into;'' New
Brunswick.
U there on the roof is a drunken was O'Grady. He side-stepped, sent derrick swings 'em accost a river? The only other printed reference to
Up , ' home a stunning blow with his left.: , the origin of the name is in a letter to
fool : I'll tend to him later: gBeggm yes pardon, sor, not you but
"I've . • ' Mike folded neatly in the noddle and,avus! And the Montreal Gazette in 1574 from
tried being decent to you; I'veus—every mt hers son
it'snet once,more sought the sand.Sure Oi'll be after 4Ialcolm IcLeod "whose father, Toizn.
tried bribing; you, and now ifwhy do we do it
' i to try m fists. I : But he was not done. • Oh, no, such ' e• because, bedad,- we want McLeod, was a figure of some note in
essary I m going y y tellrn y
as his goaded by whiskey ter see' the blanked trains as much -as
the fur trade in' the third decade of
hall dock every man en the pay roll strength,
At the request of a number of pub- for this. Anyone deciding they want and the thought that a man of lighter
lig bodies of St John New Brunswick, satisfaction can step forward •'There's weight was whipping him, droye him
Marine and Fish -enough for think on. Eventually,' Mike did'not get up.
the Department of plenty o£ you husky
eries undertook to establish the Euro- you can take it out of my hide. All "Begorrah, 'tis done Oi am!" " C'm
on, b'ys, bury.th' corpse!"
Cameron;. stood above ;him. "Sure
you've had enough?"
Y
In spite"of the terrible punishment
marmalade. Put in hot, sterilized mall number of the fry "Verywell,"went on Camera. he, had received O'Grady's eyes
Fisheries A s we ,
been one more thin
have b Now
e� e eggs that's A
from these g
qt. boiled water, 1r/2 tbsp, cinnamon, little' aver two years old, a few of the him. And above all, I .wish he had "All right,".agreed the engineer.
1 tbsp. allspice, 1 tbsp.` cloves. and better developed yielded back this articular ob I
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Prepare theu plums some 5,000 eggs, which are undergo- , Why the<railroad saw fit to retire cook shanty and get some coffee. When
first boiling up with soda and thenhe'brown care count up 'to a hundred with-
pitting. trout are not easily obtained is the railroad's affair. But I can as-
dd tt d 1
.Put to build this tight of way if v
se hot, sterilized jars or o es bated to the brawn trout, were obtain trousers. His face was swollen, his
bunch of greasers to help me."
s
of Fisheries g housed "Beat it! Turn in! The
tember the high -bush cranberries be- Leven trout `of the chairs lit his pipe.
of loch Lomond, some 200,000 Loch
gently for about thirty minutes, n trout eggs, a variety closely re nall the wayto Mexico for a tion of his red flannels conceealed; by
bottles and Leve gb , to send Y11
cal. ed through the United States` Bureau ; ' Cameron motioned toward the. bunk right eyes closed.
Higiz Bush, Cranberries—In Sep_i) in exohan e for Atlantic rest The engineer, directing hint to one
salmon eggs. The Loch of the party's private..
m to ripen. picked e s were securedThe crowd hesitated, stili more;
en. These should
the nineteenth century His diaries,
, and papers were in the posses -
Mike 'his fist down. on .his
letters p I I
Mike: _ brought •
soon of the son.: McLeod states: that
knee. "You and. th' other .gentlemen
ion is ullin enough
Z etc Jeune cache commemorates a
av th'profess lr ., ,
old woman N month Canadian named Decoigne who
salary a month to keep rely his furs here. The statement
r. But You ain't chancin' cached
for a yea y readsas follows: "Tete Jaime was so
He paused, suddenly em-
nothin'."P called from the color of the hair—not
barrassed, infrequent amongst French Canadians
(To be concluded.),of Breton and Norman French origin
g
�... —of a enterprising French trapper, of
the name of Decoigne, who used this
singularly appropriate Locality—an im-
mense hollow, but comparatively level,
of soiree 70 square miles in' area,
amongst•the'^mountains there --for his
"cache" or, entrepot in hfs line of .•
work."
There is one person' named Decoigne:
in fur, trade annals. This is Francois'
Decoigne, whom John McDonald (one
of the early' fur traders, called to dis-
tinguish him from others of the name
"John McDonald of 'Garth") in his
autobiography styles "a young Cana-
dian gentleman from Berthier,' M. De- -
coigne, a clever young man." He was
employed in the fur trade in 1795 and
we find. hint as a clerk in the North
west, Company at Fort George op the
North Saskatchewan river September
18, 1.798, and in the same region in
1799. In 1804 he was in the Athabas-
ka Department. In May, 1814, li ~–'•
in charge of Jasper House, Brule,
when-Frapchere, the first man to des-
cribe in a, book the Jasper Park,re-
gion, came east from the Pacific coast.
Later Decoigne transferred to the'
Hudson's Bay Company but continued
to operate in the same district; name-
ly,
ame-
lythe Athabaska.
eencouraged, "you can
g I? from wild trout. "Go on,"he
under -ripe as they then ,make' better- captured in the streams of 141ontana'
1i curious than angry. They -wanted smoke if you want to.
and are the result of small distribu ver much to see what was -:
going to 1 O'Grady produced a corncob of..ob
of such fry made some years 'Grad solemnl- :., vious age. "'Tis a wicked pair av
tions happen to Mike -0 y,
equal .number -'of Loch Leven
*continuing "buck -and -wing. dance.' fists ye swing, Mister.Cameron;'' he
ago. An ;his
g incubationobserved. "But if Oi'd been sober
trout eggs'are undergoing The engineer took a forward step.
iOi az no' "George used to kiss- my Mand, but
in the Banff hatcheryand the result nearest man one- -in direct enough ter know,w. drunk,
R The re, , I„
that was. when he first knew me. He
distributed in selected fi htm. would 0' ave done.
ant fry will beranee"of Cameron's fists moved hast g
b « i ht now." :..
kisses me right a sl
l erh I
h Prairie Provinces. ,. , companions. .The eng>:neer smiled. Wel , p ,P -
waters of the ily back among his co_npanions f 'hand to mouth' eh?
I had a slight • advantage. Anyway, A case o
�� Others .finding : themselves at '-the. g..
jelly. Carefully wash and pick over
the berries and put in a kettle with
just enough water to cover. Cook
i
gently until the fruit is tender. Strain
through jelly bag. Add an equal am-
ount ount of sugar to the strained juice,
bring to the boiling point and sim-
mer gently until it jellies. Pour in
hot, ste•ilized glasses and cool and
seal.
PREVENT SUMMER COMPLAINT.
Young mothers must remember that
milk must continue to be the staple
article of diet for a child in his sec-
ond year; in fact, it remains so for
long afterward. No .child over a year
tremely funny.
Water Battle—Most picnics - are
held near some place where bathing is
possible, so there should be some sort
of .water contests. Choose sides and
line, up hi the water, knee deep, fac-
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In spite of - all these precautions
your baby may develop symptoms of
the dreaded summer complaint. Give
him enough castor oil' to, clear the
bowels thoroughly. Depending some-
what upon conditions this may be
from one to two tablespoonfuls; don't
overdo it. Stop • all food, and give
barley water for twenty-four hours.
Nova and then, I find a very sick baby
who frets himself into a worse state
because not allowed to eat. In such
eases, I compromise on .unflavored
gelatin, which is .usually relished. If
the baby is better at the end' of one
day, you may begin giving a mixture
of barley water and milk.' Yf he is
not markedly better you have'. waited
long enough. Get the best doctor
within reach.
Against a Mellon Taxa
Republican
Yo' ain't goin' t' votep
no more?"
"No—ain't yo' read'nufiin' yit 'bout
dat Mellon rax?" '
a
a woman is
The greatest forcalling,
to be `a homemaker.—Mrs. Wintring-
ham, M.P.
For. Sore' Feet—Minard's Liniment
front, followed suit, until the entire it's not your scrapping, ability or: your
gang had developed a backward im- clog dancing I wish to disduss. I•want
petus little better than retreat. In. a. to''explain' some things to you, Mike."
•
sue risingly'short time each man was He paused, looked the other between
slouching off r his knew,
y fixed and pleasingcoarse of study,'
had theyobeyed? Nobody'knew, least � some things to me."
y
Minard's. Liniment Heats Cuts.
disappointment,
When soured by
i P " ' the eyes."And "I want' you to eeplaui we must endeavor to pursue some
t� - d bunk. Wh
of all Cameorn. I "Yis, sor," agreed the foreman. that there be. no blank leaf in our.
fixed' "First," continued Cameron "under- book of life. Painful and disagree
th
i", down!" ` wages; I am workingfor the ,sates- can fix its 'attention upon any sub=
"Won't!" said Mike. - "Oi'm—dab:-' faction of but" -""s •a railroad. en Jec . -
chin' I" 11 see trains corning over the divide,
The coast clear, e engineer xe ,
his eyes 'on O'Grady stand this. You are working for your able ideas vanish from the mind that
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Come he ordered. g
When
t —Zimmermann
Ver rim about the jay', :the en- t then I' shall be paid. • Mike O'Grady, ' Self -complacency means that a man
Y g
gmoor followed in O'Grady's footsteps the day you and the other men learn is either too proud of his merits or
over the eaves via a'packing case and to lookfarther ahead than your
work on the C. & W. unawaro of his defects,
on to the; roof. Crossing to the soli- wages, that day
tary dancer, Cameron halted in front
of him.
Stop that,
,
OGrady.
Mike did a double shuffle,
"'Tisa foine, large avenin', sor,"
he 'grinned
will boom. The company hands out
my salary—that is the direct result
of my efforts; but I am after some-
thing else—son:ething I am afraid
you will never appreciate.
"Now, feeling this way, how do you
The engineer waited for no more. suppose the attitude of the men im-!
presses me? I want to put this thing
The party of Scotch editors, who are,riiiaking' a coast-te-coast toter of
HANDKERCHIEFS, I MADE. ; Canada to investigate the opportunities here for ininiigrants, are shown dur-
I had in my possession several ing their stay in :Toronto on their way to the -Western provinces.
through, but I can't do it without you;
nor apparently can 'I find a way to
make you turn to and help. Put your-
self in my position. How would you
feel?„
O -
'Grady did not answer for a mo-
ment.
"Mister Cameron, if it's me fair an'
honest opinion ye want, no harm in-
tended, Oi'll tell •ye the b'ys are worth
a dozen` of ye!"
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- Mirror Magic.
The cult of the mirror is easily one
of the oldest in the world. We can
:hardly believe that there was ever a
time icharming face went whol-
ly
a n
.enmirrored, however primitive the
mediunl of reflection had to be.
Eye gazed entranced at her own
image reflected in a glassy pool; and
we know how, long before the inven-
tion of glass, the women of old Egypt,
Greece, and Ronie had their hand -mile
rors of polished metal—burnished
discs of bronze or silver set in a more
or lens decorated frame.
Some of those ancientmirrors, em-
p;'=oyecl as they were in the service of
beauty, were things of beauty In them•
selves. They had a, kind of sacred
character, too, as symbols of the god-
dess of beauty, Venus Aphrodite, to
whom their fair owners often dedi-
cate'd them in the native hope that the
goddess would impart to the faces
they reflected something of her owns',
matchless loveliness ' and 'fadeless
youth;
We neecl'be in•no doubt that the wo-
men of those clays `valued their person-
al charm, and spent as much care on
preserving it as ever women do now!
Every old mirror is a thing of mem-
ories. . What, a throng of shadowy
ghosts we 'might see,in the metal
mirrors taken from Egyptian tombs,
or in the palace mirrors at Holyrood
and Versailles, or in that curious old
looking -glass shown fn the museum at
Brighton and said to have bel nged, to
Nell Gwynne! ' Vis.
Perhaps the old superstitioli+ that It
is unlucky to break a mirror is not so
very ridietrlotis after .all. So much of
ourselves seems to pass into a mirror.
Cable Laid 57 Years Ago.
The laying of the first' successful
Atlantic telegraph cable ,-wastcom-
pletetl fifty-seYE?l • Yoars ;ago.
The menu who ha'e rendered the
' the world **asked
nothing and gave eves talitig.
greatest service to