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The Wingham Advance, 1911-08-31, Page 6,t4 re' THEY DON'T BELONG TOGETHER. aleltimore Sun.) A,drolral Togo is) no talker. \Vats there ever a tighter that was? NEW VERSION. , (Baton Transcript.) He -A, man is as old as he feels: Ube -But how alma woman? liee-Oh, she le generally as old its otle- er people feel she is. A MATTER OF HABIT. (Lioeincotthe Magazine.) (nervouelY)-What will yeur tathet 'say whets I tell him we're engage*? stheeeeleen be delighted, deer. He al. waYe hes been. a** GOOD, (Youngetown Telegrain.) Teeeher.-Tonuny, what le the meaning et the word tutilitY'?" Tonemy-/ don't know exactly, but an exantole of it would be trying to tickle a turtle's) back with a cheicken feather. 4' BUT THINK THEY HAVE. (Boston Transcript.) Teeing Doetor-What lcinO of endients do you find. It hardest to eure? Old Doctor -Those who have nothing the matter with them. BAD ENOUGH AS IT IS. (Boston, Tramzeriptd Jack -Would you like ta live your life over again? Tom -And owe twice ae much as 1 do now. No, air. A FISHIONABLE WIFE, (Washington Herald.) "Met your wite lately?" "NO. but I see by the society papers ebat she will be home M September." AND APROPOS OF HEAT, (fletrelt News) Little drops' ar water Beaded on my brow, Makes ma wish vacation Were not then, but now. MAMMA'S JOKE. (Yonkers Statesman.) ooh, mamma, the hen Is sitting on the Yam= cleaner," •"Farhat:0e she is only trying to lay the duet. dear." COMPLIMENT T ODAD. (Buffalo News.) "flow much the baby locks lilte its father!" "It's only the warm weather. The child is -ustiallY bright. theerful and band - RIGHT OF AIR. (Winnipeg Tribune.) Miss Goingap-How far did you go M -Your alrehip? Molly Dropper -Not far; I got into trouble. A relieve had me arrested for erespasgaing on his ale. se• REFUTED. (Judge.) "Jones grumbles that his wife can't take a Joke." "That's tunny, seems to tile." "How so?" "Slia took Jones." s* JIMMY'S HEALTH IMPROVING. (Toledo Blade.) 'brother -What did yau do with that dime I gave you for taking your medt- cine? Tornmy-I gave Jimmy halt ot it to take the meeleine, for me. LOOKING AHEAD. '(Cleveland Plain Dealer.) The Author -Would you advise me to get out a. small edition? • , The Publisher -Yes; the smaller the better. The more scarce a book is at the end of four or five centuries the more money you realize froni It. • THE GROUND OF THEIR LOVE. (Sacred Heart Review.) "La us have peaee," said the white invader. "Can you not see that the White tztrangers love the redmen?" "Ah, yes," replied the intelligent In - diem. "theyhive the very ground we walk expels,.' AN UP:TO-DATE GIRL. (Puck.) "I asked her to Marry me, and she gave me a ,Supreme court answer." "What kind of an answer is that?" "Said she would give me six months to, seadJust myself so as to be acceptable.' JUST CLASSICS. (Life.) B0okWorm-XeS 1 have about 3,000 -Volumes. These In this corner are the enes I read. Visitor -But what are all the others? •Bookwerm-011, these are the books no Dinar yis complete Without. GRI EVANCE. (Flick.) Tilditor-WO are sorry to lose your Aube sCription„ Mr. Jackson. What's the mat- ter? Don't you like our politics? alistah Jackson-"rain't dat, sah; 'tain't dat. Male wife Je' been an, dun landed a Job o' Wuk fome by advertisin' in yottah darned old papal! AND MANY THERE BE, • Sweet Miss Margery "Ma ke ?Margery in w your wife i" The earl .atarted. and h eolor deep- !med. "if site coneents," h teeewreed, .after 4, moment's pause, ht will." "Site is SO good --ah, Negeet, you do - out }mow non gcsetlf I have grown to love her as iuy Otter._ She will wand* giver you for my 'sake witene-T em gone!" She lay back Silent for a minute, then turned her eyes on ha tuald. "AO; Mies, Dew to come now" The earl moved away and buried his No in his folded avme on the mantel- piece. Morgery ciente In eoftly, then, with 011e deep sigh, crouched beside 'the bed and put her lips to- the thin hanas. "leforgery,” .whispered Lady Fenta--"my dear- Margery!" (Puele.) Flubdub-Well, 1 suppose you were up bright and earlY this morning? Reeindabout-No, %Ir. I am never up Might and early. • If I am up early 1 am not bright, and if 1ane up bright I am not eerlY. ee• • MOTOR I NG. (Washington Star.) "Why are we stopping?" asked the nervous womah. "To Immo up a tire," replied her hus- band. "You would orobably do well to change your chauffeur. I an afraid you have got boldest one of these fresh air fiends" al * THE LOGICAL LUNATIC. (Letter in the Spectator.) A. lunatic was ILt the habit of catehing imaginary files. When asked to explain her strange action she pointed muter het cloak and replied; "The files are to feed the mongoose." "But there is ho mongoose:, -"Well, there are no ties." so** SOM E • GAM P. (Suecess Magazine.) A western, mining prospector was pay- ing his first visit to Next York. "What do.you think of it?" staked the orcud GothamIte as he pointed out the shelters's:Ira. ll "Wa,' replied the other, "It looks like termarteht cramp, ail right." OFF AGAIN, 'ON AGMN, (Buffalo Netvs.) "Yea t had tee elildrein They all grew uo and married off." suppose it is lonesome now at !mine?" "Oh no! Ievery once in a 'while one ef them gene divorce and wandere epee." LEGISLATIVELY EXPRESSED. ehleasillngton -Some oNe one enn wrong If he renews the Ten Conurrandments," said the sin- cere *Risen. "Yee," replied Senator Sorghum, "the only trouble :timid the Ten Commend. Meets ariteen from the amendment's Mt try to tack to thorn." "You are better -oh, toll me you are better. Enid!" falterea Margery. "Dating, listen to me. I am dying. My •poor hiergery, he brave, 1 stave known it a long time; the etioelt ecedey lies-has-enly-leastened it. Bue I went you to 40 something for me. Maraery, do not premiee till you have heard whet it is. Nugent!" The earl carne to nor with slow steps. You Shall not be left alone, Margery, when I an gone. Mar- gery, you have loved me -you know all; I want you to be my brother's wife!" Margery -drew beek for an inatant, end stood with her beetle preveed. against her 14080111, her mind distracted, the words just uttered ringing in her ears. Could she link herself to one whom she could never love, though she deeply re. ejected him? Could.slie give heraelf to anothee while she believed herself pledged to Stuart Crosbie forever? Her eyes met the sweet brown (Ines, already dim with pain, tarnd wistfully upon 'her- A flood of pity, filled her; she dropped ueon her knee, and breathed; el will!" Lady Enid waited a mouteot, then, graeping Margery'e hand, iliehelti. it to- ward the earl, and aoross her bed the compact was sealed. "There is ons -thing more," the wide - pored, with difficulty; "the -the end may be soon. I mild die -happier i* it -you were made man -and wife now." the earl was 'silent; but Margery rais- ed her head, her cheeks as pale as those leung On the pillow. mit shall be so," she said. clearly; elle comforted." The earl stooped, and pressed his lips to his sieter's; a sigh /dust fr One las overcharged heart. "As Margery says, I say; . we -will be Married here in the morning. I will ar- range it." •Then, adthoue another word, he passed Got of the room,' Margery hardly moved all through the, fon, terrible night that followed. Lady Enid held her hand. within her own, Rod, fearful of disturbing her few moments of slumber, Margery did not. stir, though she grew faint and stiff aa the hour* -pawed. What were her thoughts during die interval. She could not have told; but the -dominant feeling was one of bit- ter grief, an agony of regret and :sorrow ets she looked at the pale young Mee with the seal of death already °um The promise she had given diti not coma home to her in those silent moments; she was striving to gauge the depthe of Eind'e great and nobie nature. How brave, how strong she had been, with the knowledge that site was doomed ever prteent in her tneast! What courage had filled that poor, fragile Irame, what an infinity of Jove that feebly beating heart! Ah, What a lesson was it to the girl crouched in t•hat sick -room to bury self and live for others! • Toward ,early dawn -the girlwas worn out with fatigue and sorrow- Margery's eyes closed; anti, with her wealth of red -gold curl e• spread over the coverlet, she slumbered peacefully. Lady Enid woke early. She was faint, even weaker than the night had left her; yet, es she saw the daylight creep into the room, her heart ahnoet 'leaped with joy -her mind was at rest. Her eyes linger- ed with tenderness on Margery's tired -head; and, as the first rays of the morn- ing sun touched the luxuriant treses of hair, .making them as a ruddy -golden halo, she murniured, "Nugent will be con- tent by and by," and lay back, waiting tin her maid or Margery should awake. The sun was well up before Margery raised her heavily fringed •eyelide,• but, once itemised, shewas angry with herself for sleeping, "My sWeet Margery," vvliispered Lady Enid, "my poor tired darling!" "Forgive me," murmured Margery. "Forgive you! You were worn out, Lis- ten, darling! Nugent will be her soon. Go to your room, and put on a white gown. She smiled faintly. "T -I wish it; you shall have no bad omens, at "your wedding, Margery. Paulette, attend mache moiselle." Margery hesitated. and then obeyed silently. "Heaven give me strength 1" prayed Enid. as she felt herself growing faint. 'Sat. this otte thing, this marriage over, alid 1 shall die centent.". Margery went to her room, end list- lessly allowed the maid to wave her hair and adjust the simple white cambric dress; but her hands were trembling and her senses numb. A wedding! It seented like a dream. Tbe prayer -book the maid handed iter recalled her to the reality; anet with faltering steps she went back to the dying woman. Three men were in the room as elm entered, but she wag scarcely eonseiotts of their pi.esenet. She went ttraight to Lady Enid, and sat down beside ter, her heed elaaped itt hers, her head bowed. Than she felt hereelf raked to her feet, she saw Dr. Fothergill bend aid put a vial to reties rigid Bps, nud the eteet minute a solentn. eolee amended through the room, and the nuerriage-ser- viee began. hfargery felt her hand 'desp- ot'. in a firm hold; she uttered her rite- poneee rovoiee thot sounded far away, but her eyes Over left the pale ftiee ly- ing back on the pillows, with a gleam of joy in the sweet . eyes. The tere.mony Walt nt,et, the blessing wae Spoken, and together 'Lord Couri at; his wife knelt heeide lertid'e bed re estell the feint widepers that fell -form lar pallid lips; they eaw her eyes gate into theirg with a glow of heavenly ran• home, they tete her hand move feebly to- ward them. they teemed to bear the prityer uttered for their heppinette; and then the dying &Pe dronpee, it retttering sigh tamest Iter 1lp, her leatd fell forwent, and -Memory Ishew no- mere. Nowa, taxi et rourt. met the *or - waste bear hie wife from the room: twit temained kneeling by his Order's leedy ;meow cot the Wm, IstagbielThe firm, the 44111 fosme trf aor lesd loved so Wel MISS POROE'S LOVE. (helteleitta rang, N. hea Gazette). 14Ise Pore* Is to receive a evettletelent of ttellet,660 in her own right when she haverste. the aefe of John Je e -,,e Attet. eenelderatieze of teee 'tee entivee her dewer rights. *o reezave atil Insight into the true sentiment wet teed th "love" it frseir. Any near rift* cOmnstriersieten en a battle of my* Isaitteetialet sti to pellieft et reretranetry tea la t� menu** IS forte frielsietiote te seer. eertion, sla had made regarding Mar- gery's vomit to Australia in commute - with Robert Bright and her sowelled fa- ther was absolutely confirmed -by fact. Nothiug Mild have been xnore tune, no • mere satisfactory dele011onleTit to the whole Affair tout& have teleen place had. ale arranged it herself. Rhea ueeded only jealousy to finish what She had begun; and its poison now rankled in Stuart Crosbie's hearts He Was stun- ned, almoet overwhelmed by. Margeryht atmarent treachery and heartlessness. lie did not know, he had never fethomed till now how greatly he bad loved, what a flood of pinion had overtaken hint, Margery had been the men of his •ex- letenee, and she was gone -worse titan gone --she 'Was faithless! Vaguely he repehted the worth over and over again, tte he sat lietleesly in ohair looking out over the fair, -land-. agape, but seeing it net. Paithlessi The girl who had kindled the glow . of all 'earthly Nisi, the girl who had seemed a very angel of purity and beauty, was fable! While he bel n her clapped, in his arms and. breathed. Itis earnest sacred vows. of lov, she was false! As she mil - ed in radiant tenderness and. whispered back her own, she was falsel Threeigh It all she had been false! It was ineen- .ceivable; it was maddening! A fortnight wore away, but Stuart's Mood -did not alter; he sat silent and Morbid, trying to understand it all, to get at the truth. Vane grew a little troubled in manner -she had not imag- ined the wound would have been so deep. Her own shallow 'nature could not com- prehend the depths,. the intensity, the passioneof love. To. her it had appeared that Stuart would of course be angry. As a terotul man, that was but natural, and -she bad expected to See hint defiant, hard, reckless. This strange silence this quiet misery amazed and annoyed' her. But she was outwardly at her best all this time. She never spoke to her cousin • respecting their former confidences, She made him feel 'rather than know the -depths of her 'womanly sympathy, thus .1 -tusking her worldly teat appear as in- nate refiuement and tender deliestey. 'She moved about as in harmony with h gloeiny ,thoughts; her laughtex never larred; ber voice often soothed him; and, last,' but not least, she warded off: ,any atteeka from Mo. Crosbie, whos,e brow contracted in many an ominous frown hecauee of what she termed her. son's folly and ,want of dignity. It was tedious wOrie sometimes, and Vane often grew vexed and weary; but this gloom could not last, she told her - .self; there would. come a day when Stu- art -would rouse- himself and este aside all thought of nis dead love, trampl:ng on the memories' of it as on a vile and , worthless thing. She must not fail new, seeing that she' had succeeded so well hitherto: But a -little patience; ,and she would win-she•must win, not only for her lovees sake, but for her ambee time News'had reached her of the mar- riage of one of her most detested rivals, a girl younger than herself. She could net face the world again without some weapon in her baud to erush the Woman 'she hart hated and bring back her lost . Pew* r . It wa s, es' Stuart ()reside's wife that elm cietere ined her triumph should. come. :Ile tore no title; but his mune t as meter tr , as any in the land, wealth a-4 t lit be untold, and, • as Chatelaine of C. rebie's Custle and.Beech- ton :earls. bee social position would be wedeniable. Even Mrs. Crosbie did not guess the fire that. burned beneath Vane's taint te+crior; but her desire for tie neuriage wee certainly as great eue way ae her niece'e. Lady Char- teris, who 1 fel by this time recovered 'event her st 'rise at her .-daughter's Ori net 'ersak in staying so long at the slundtered nway her days plaeidly en- ough, content to know that Vane was happy. • Sir Doueles Gerant had .disappeared as Strangely and as suddenly as he had arrived. Two 'days after the eventful drive to Chesterham he took his depart- ure, greatly to Miss Charteris' and Mrs. Crosbie's satisfaction, There was eome- thing in his dry cynical .materrer which made them singularly 'uncomfortable, and their stria ideas of etiquette were greatly disturbed by his many unortho- dox . acts. Stuart at any other time would have regretted his cousin's de- parture; but now it made but little im- pression on itim, and. while he exerted himself to bid him frireweil, his mind Was without his trouble, and as Sir Douglas walked away, he griye himself up again to his unhappy thoughts. • A fortnight 'passed uneventfelly, and then Sir flatiginet reappeared as Midden- ly ashe had left. Mrs. Crosbie met itim with profuse but iniecere words of wel- tonic. She was just enough to recog- nize how nnteb he had (lone forBtuart. Sir Douglas. put aside all her gracious speeches. "It is only e flying visit," he said tersely. "I want to have a few words with Stuart." "Oh, I an so sorry you will not stay," Mrs. Crosbie respouded, "I had hoped you had Conte done fer the shooting; Sholto expects a hem guns down, We should have haita _parry for the twelfth of August but for Stuart's steeldent. Can I pergola& you?" "1 ehOuld yield to your persuasion, cousin," answered Sir Douglas, with an old-feshioned bow and a gleam of mer- riment in bis keen gray eyee-he knew right well he Wee no favorite with maaanic-"but unfortunately time and tide welt for no man. and I Anil for the antipodes at alte.end of this week." "The antipodes!" eritd Mrs. Crosbie; and she would liteve questioned him fur- ther but that he elided the interview ley walking away in meareli of Stuart. Ile found the young man strolling listlessly abort the grouude itttended by all hie canine pet& There Was no doubt OS to the eineerity of the }demure on Stuart's face when he eaw his k multi; but Sir Douglas was Welt to liotiee the won* look tual the gloom that almost immediately settled again en his ft:a- ttires. "How is the arm?" he asked quietly. "Mewling eepidly," Stuart answered. "I shell have it tole of the splinte an - ether fortnight." •• "Don't hurry it." staid Sir Deuglitti. • as he turned and etrolltel beside the youog Mani "it was a nasty fracture, eou know." , . They welked on in eilente aulii they rertehed it cadet spot, end then Sir Doug- las halted. "Rtuert." Ite fetid. 4`41 Met route down here on purpose te set you. wen' •yet( to give me a promise." "le hi already given." Stuart Amster - ted, roused frowt abaself for a while, and etreteethig ont his land. "Yam letterer thee leave merle yont my C . . that I have willed all I "lessees Yeast Clearterie ewes atreoldssated Ito- to _goo Itt etertelm randiticom. rood *onto %If% ski Maga then ttie lop .rros, know.* Stuart mareeed, ada face fluellirt little. i'Do not think me t ..eityel wish it were not ra. I do not want your property; I ---* ri MU *were of that," hetarneptsig Mr Deugles dryly. hit eetrit had wanted it, iyotteleoalelmot have had it. But it ati not Of OMIT Wet to *peek; It to ot thO een• ditione.„They ate more to me titan Any qortune Yeu could tome "Whatever they are, I accept them willingly, with all nay /mere, and, if 3 he in my power they ihall be folfille I." Stuart epoke 'firmly, his eyes as at as hie words, "Thank you. •Setiart," responded Sir Douglas gmetly, "1: sfelt-I knew you would answer me So." He paused. a lit. tle, then went on slowly. "I leave Eng- land again at the end a the week sot a Remit that has lasted my Ilfe-thile" hopelees, alas, in the years' -that are gone, but touched tow with the bleeeett- neSvaa a Of iglit1„ opi:1Yes, thank IteaVell. ha Stuart looked in Wonder at his cep - thee feeet, it Was illumined with toiler, and there was an unusual glow in elte eyes, "I cannot bring.myself to opera:, -to yea now, Stuart, on this subject; but if I, ant successful, I will open my heart to you -if not, and anything sbonld happen to elm, this letter"-toking, an envelope froot an loner poeleet-'will tell you all -will give you the seceet of my, life, Guard it well, and„ If the thne should came soon, meat- to do what ha,ve asked you in„it." . "I wear,' said Stuart, eolemuly, his hand elosing over . the letter. e• "Now I start with a lighter heart than I have had for years, The •dap, will pass quickly,, and. when 1 roach Anstralia, who knows -:P. • . "Auetialla!" broke in Stuart, his face drawn and pale. "You are going to Aus- tralia?" "I said at the end. o'f this week. What is ite Stuart?" - "Oh, that I were free to go with you," muttered Stuart. Like a flame of fire, the word "Aus- tralia," had set the passion of jealously running through his veins, .WIMR isp the 'dormant loogieg for revenge that had 10Und e resting .phtee la his heart. Could lie not leave all that distressed and op.presoed him, and rosh away to 'that distant land, te face him, who had stolen ,the most precious jewel of his life ,to bring shame on, her who had de- ceived and tricked him? The pleteire of Margeres loveliness rose before him and mhian.die his heart beet avildly with the rush. of wroth and love that came over , "Stuart," Sir Douglas said.quietly, al- moat- tenderly, "I would ask, yoa to go with Me gladly but for one thing - you are not free -your father needs you. He could not live without 'you; go from him, and lite- will sink before your re- turn. He Is not strong; this summer, he has told erie inany time, lea Vied him t.errilell, and your accident was a shook." "Yes, yon are right," respended Stuart gloomily, after a. moment's pause.. ."I will stay here. And yet It is -herd." words. SirDouglasdid not catch the laat • "I have 'always loved •Sholto," he said, "and to rob hira of you would be cruet No, Stuart, your place is here." They moved on and approached the house; but before they entered Sir Douglas stretched out his hand. "Heaven bless you, lad!" he -said ten- ' derly. 'We may never meet again. limy you have ell the happiness and sunshine in your life that a man such as you Ought to expect! Remember your prom- ise." . • "I have 'sworn, and -I will keep .it." They returned to the east's; and, 00011 after that, Sir Douglas Gerald left for London: Ills cousin's visit broke the spell of Stuart's morbid inactivity. The mono- tonous quiet of ,Hurstley seemed to appall him. He could no longer sit and nurse himself; lie was restless, alzuost feverish in his movements. He wet out early in the morning , and did not re- turn till the day was spent; and, al- though he tried to banish every mem- ory of Ids brief dreani from his • mind, Vine detected the nervous restlessness still in his fare. In her heart site re, joieed at these signs of awakening; they were but the forerunners of that proud contemptuous mood which she longed to see reveal itself. Life Was dull itt the castle, but, though she yawned and was inexpressibly bored, she did not intend to give way; and at lase had the satis- faction of feeling that seccess was hers Where her .anne announced that Stuart Wished the whole' party to leave Ceoebie and go to London.: . If he remained ntuelielonger at Hunt- ley, Stuart said to himself, the mono- tony and inactivity wonld drive him mad. So, to Vane's and his mother'e•tle- light, he proposed a fortnight's* stny in town, and is round of the theatree„ and such gayeties its a deck Season, offered, and then a return to the castle with a 'age party for the shooting. It was then that Vane began to reap ' her reward. Stuart seemed- to have remembered all she had done for him, all her thoughtfulnessgentleness. womanly kindness; and it was to her lie turned in a frank friendly fashion whielt nh ones, esedelighted her and deceived her by its ring of apparent genuine forgetful n * TO •London they all went, save the squire, andle leaving him. Stuart thought of his itheent cousin'a words; but it was only for it...fortnight, and then he would be brick agaies brave in foreed courage, steady in his pride, to walk over the very ground, whale: his whole love lay buried. It was it delightful time to Vane; elle rode, walked, went tight teeing, with Stuart atoll:vs in elese atteedauce, apd, though few of her aequaintantes were in town, she. 'talent With pleas - lire that some' of her "dear . friends" were pastime through London 'on their way from the -Continent to the eountry, and site left them to draw their owe eoeclusions no to her relationehip with Stuart Crosbie. As for Stoat, he lived for the -moment in .0 whirl of foreed exeitereent and plea -a -twee He determined with reckleete swifthess to give way 1:0 eorrow nit more; he buried the memory of liatgery end tiet Ido Toot as be thought, firmly on the grave of his love; lie eVen thrust reeelleetien front him; he laughed. reale. ARUM with Vaneend araduelly her influence made itself felt. If, in the night. visions of is lost love • floated through his dream, pride in the 'morning. diepelIed his weakness by re - falling her faleeneas; and he tented, to Vane tut fl WOMitfl Wh011t. though he Paula never love, 10 tql111t1 rtliPe#4, 1114 trust, To the world hie delgotion hied • but one name. that Of it mitten end. keedlees of eekooltet tongues. heedlete of • Vallee tfituespherit twee. Rtuare went on his way, %rime for 4, Valk in a•elfeant reeklees exeltement that -would wet end leave him Seeped itt aiS atoof, nt abyss of &loatIr as beetle (To be Owritintata.‘ An WENT INSANE, Eoho of the Assassin" tion of Lincoln. (Ottawa Citizen.) The news bars been received that Ala - or Rathbone has died in an asylum for the etirninally Weans itt Germany. This eoncludee one of the most sombre tragedies in history, Major Rathbone end his fiencee, Misfit Harris, were guests ef President and 'airs. 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Not long, afterwards he went mad and murdered his wiles and for nearly forty years had been an inmate of an asylum for the aiminally insane. Wilkes Booth was pursued and, ultimate- ly eurrounded :by a troop of cevaleY, while concealed in a barn. Striek orders were iesued that lie was to be taken alive. Notwithstendlug this a corporal put his carbine through an opening and. shot the assaeein deed. The corporal later en became insene and also died in it lunatic asylum. 'What is the hardreet thixeg to 1.es 41i) fertnieigr itasyditried the euellIte Dt*$er. Gettin" hp at IS &Olt& th lle rarillfer Ctesinifeete, FIVE POINTS IN BOND INVESTMENTS 41 A desirable investment has in it these. essentials— the safety of the principal —the certainty of income --a fair and fixed rate of income—probable appre- ciation in value—and saleability. Bonds, carefully select- ed, ensure to the investor all these desirable ele., ments and are invariably secured— principal and interest—by. the total as- sets,of the company that issue's them. 11 Write us to dayfor our litera- ture on Bond Investments and a list of those we recommend. ROYAL SECURITIES CORPORATION • Litierere BANK OF MONTREAL BUILDING YONGE AND QUEEN STS. TORONTO #INEMINIONININIrrnintMacilinos, rARm el? TELLS IN I ERESTING STORY wo."11 Whethar Kok or Well, in °owl Wea- ther or in Sternly, lis le * to Work Always-. 1arkee people complain abut prices, they have tv pee La fat 41 prtnillee. They foiget that 114111 ter Seine, warm or cold, the farmer %Men keep -at it or ebse the uarvow profit, hie bare living, wia be lost to him. well-knewn Haldintand fanner, Air. J. P. Peiletitr, writes: "Ifor neerly three years 1 Was in poor health. 43 drenehing ;tom caught me in the beide an'i wet me to the elein. 1 got home only to find. I was tlileatenee With in- flannnation of the bowels. J. sever get over it end felt weak and Iteevy aud oiy syetein never worked quite right, But e lamer late to Work -and I Mend my- eelf going down hill with Ocoee:mit, liver ' and kiduca troubles. Failure seemed to, fellow everything.I remained tvretchea Ann siek uneil dvi-ed to use Dr, Hamit- ton's Pills. It is 110i: easy to describe the sort of feeling a sick num gets when hti _strikes a medicine thet he eitn see Is tieing hint a lot of good. I Was over- joyecle-litindleones Pitts put new life into nm and everythieg worked right.' Since cured with Dr. Hamilton'e Pills J. haven't had it single' symptom of atom- neh, liver or kidney trouble. J am free trent headaehes, languor aud weakness, as strong, robust as a mett pould No better medicine for general family use than Dr. Hamilton's Pilfi. They are hea,lthfol and certain to cure. Kola in yellow ate boxes, all dea.lere, or The Catarrhozone Co,. leingetan, Ont. THE CONTENTED ARTIST. "Stock taking.; and yearly state- ments should be conservative. In taking an aocount of etoek it is it grave error to be, like the Cape May sculotor, oversanguine." The speaker was Senator Boles Penrose, of Philadelphia. He re- settig;s seulptor, calculating like cer- tain financiers I've known, said to a friend ort the Cape May beach: • " 'You- krtow that terra totta, statu- ette of mine, The Bathers? Well, I got 'more for. it than I expected.' "But,' said his friend, 'I thought your landlady just took it for board.' " 'Yes, very true,' isaid the sculp- tor,' but you mutet remember that the ptice of board has gone up.' "- Waehington Star. ••-• • THELEMON. It's so useful! ilext'st:rnoaoldlye'iVtel•bYealuvtaiYfies.. Internally ft satisfies. It Makes prodigiously for heitlat. Lemonade is good and every tine of year. The eice of a lemon renders a glass of suspicions water innocuous. Lelnen juice whitene the skin in the Most astonishing manner. After bathing the fate, shoulders, the arms and hande it is well to apply a • mixture composed ofethe jaice of a le- nient, one ounce of pure glycerine tind two bailees of rosewater, Soil and many stains auay,be removed • front the fingers with the end of A le- mon. Fine rub it over the flesh, then dig and tevist eeeli of the fingers in it. Mirsard's Liniment Cure ir 'Distemper .• GOOD I DEA. • Jones Was et the ilieltre., says the New York American, and behind hint sat re lady with a child en her lap, which Wait crying uneeesingly, linable to stand it any longer,' Jones turned emiliegly to the Indy awl Asked: "Has that infant of yourse been derive- ened yet, ma'am t" o • "No, sir," replied the lad,'. "If I were you I would eall it 'Good Hen,' said Jones. "Aid why 'Good Idea'?" eitid the lady indignantly. "Becittiee," said Jones, "it should be • cerried out." • It Was Jones who ball to he carried OUt. tioDu, K Eta .44, pi I. I. \\wee tel 0,g 1C!1,"44104g4; bleeRCT RAILROAD FIREWORKS. Torpedoes and Ptlectes aswsiris to •, the • Ear and Eye. share end unmet, Hee that OL 0, alma "'PO, Pole' or Perhaps a Single 'pop.' firecracker, nea,rd not only oii the emir - to a July, but every day in the year, Sundays included -wait Old it mean?" writes n, correspondent et 51.Nicholas. And on almost any night as I took out O f my wInciew I see the edge of the wood. 91 the fields lighted up by red or Yellow fireworks, "retie this strange Ile lentinittion? "As all these queer 'happenings • took Place on the railroad a few rods from mY house I made inquiries of the rail- way officials, and here are. some inter- esting Meta about the use of these 0111' - bus 'fireworks.' teener:el Superintend- ent R. B. Pollock, ot the New York, Npre.winagd aavsenfoitetill: lettere Railroad, ex - "Our rules provide for the use of de- tonators (commonly known as torped- oes) as audible signals and of fusees as yleible gigots, These torpedoes are attached to the top of the rail on the engineer's side of the treck by two small flexible metal straps, which are easIlY ben: around the hall of the rail and hold eine atorpadoee seeurely It piece until exploded by tlie fleet train passing over this treck. "Thu explosion of one torpedo le nal to stop: the explosion or two not more than 2e0 feet apart 10 a signal to reduce speed and look out /or it stop signal. The fusees are of similar conetruetion to the well known lecanan eandie used for firewerke celebration, exe.ept .that they burn a steady nine without expio- stone. 4 eherp iron spike 0.1 the bot- tom end will usually stick In the ground or in the cresetie when thrown from the rear of a train and holds the ftssee in an upright position, where it 14 more olelnly visible. " 'A fusee must be lighted and left bY the Veltman whenever -a train is run- ning on the time 01' another train or be- hind its own time, and under the cir- cumstances whirls call tor such protee- time A. fusee on or near the track inaY proceed with caution when the way is seen and known to be eleer. Standard fusees burn red for three minotes and yellow for seven minutes and can be seen for Quite a cljetance. "'You will gather from the above ex- plenations that the red glare of a nam- ing fusee on or near the track warm; the approaching engineer that a preced- ing train has passed over his track lees titan three minutes ahead of him, and 'smiler no circuinstanees must he ease a fusewhile it is burning red. When the flame sturns to yellow lie e may proceed with catition, ohly al the way is seen and known to be clear, keeping in mind that when the fusee „changed from red to Yellow he was exactly tbree minutes oehlnd 'a preceding train which may have stopped within a ,ehort distance, or may be proceeding at a nunusually slow rate or spade Woodward, of the Shore Line division, gives the additional detail re- gTeling torpedoes: 'When a train stops upon the main line and requires .protection against a fells wing' train, the flaginan goes back a sreciflea distence and places one tor- pedo. Ile then continues, a farther dis- tance back. placing twb torpedoes. As soon as the train he Is protecting is reedy to startthe engineer blows a see- eified .whistle Signal, which is a motive to the flagman to return to his train. On the way back he picks up the one torpedo,leaving two 'on the rail to warn the engineer of im approaching train !that another train is a short distance ahead. And to give the flagmart time to rue ba.ck and get aboard, of his own train." POSITIVE PURITY It is we' 1 -known -and proved by Government Analyst -that the Sugar of Superior purity is And at the 'Salle time has double the eweeteurng strength of other Su ears. ST. LAWRENCE SUGAR I.EFIN. !NG CO., LIMITED, MONTREAL. FOUR RECIPES FOR TOMATOES To txr0 ItAUXALAINtl, One quart of ripe teme.toes eldtme and sliced. Put on stove watt bait a cupful of eider viaegar, onatitird of cup of *tiger, one teaspoonful (knit., 44ar teaspoonful of mixed spice; roe': slowly end et:r often with a wooden speoh. When reduced to one-half it le done, Put in tumblers Ana cover with brandied paper. TOMATO SA14AD. Waah and cut in small pieces, hut do :not •Chop, one large, ripe tomato, one. binlIll 0111011, atul 0110 green pepperhWhen ready to serve, pour over Wad eue-halt tetp of good vinegar, one teaepoonful Sugar, one-quarter sp000nd sett, and dash of pepper. ESCALLOPED TOMATOE3. nie a small baking dieh. Skin and slige two ripe tomatoes, ley them in the dish with alternate Myers of flue ereeker erundis, pepper, salt, and bite of •butter. Sprinkle witiz eracker eruntlia and boke half hour in a het oven. Serve in the heleing dish, SPICED TOMATO SAUCE. Melt a lump o/ butter SiZe cit a hut- xnege and pour in one cupful of tome - tots, Add salt to a pineh of cayenne, slice cif onion, a duet of flour; and a pinch of ground cloves and cinnamon, • Stew slowly one hour, then strain and add a teeepoonful of vineger. This is delicious, on meats. ROW TO REMOVE WARTS • BY A pAINLESS REMEDY. EXCELSIOR. neve you thouglit: of it? nave yOu risked whence it comes? et. goes Into*the nre, as we all know. Article atter Article Is delivered In piles of excelsior. It Is also used in uplioistery and for filling mattresses. Thrr eneytIOligteditt AtiYS Ma excelsior Is 1111 American Invention. 'The first eteo I, its, manufacture is dividing logs of weed into 13 -Inch blocks. These huge blocks etre the ehredded into the 'different degrees of tinenees. • Then thtnfarlous grades or thee produtit are Peeked Into bales weighing 250 pounds each. The annual output amounts to about, 45.0 tons, arid large quantitlei are ex- ported. The name of the stuff •le but a beide tieme. and has nothing to au with Long- fellolv't hero. Minot:Ere Liniment Curea Colds, Etc. THE DIFIF:EfliNCE. There wai an, tiered Scotehman who by native eltremaluesese envie a fortune, and he elid itewithout-the -,lightest bit of education. Otte day lit' and anae- mtaintanro wera eelkinte, wheu the latter eald to old Duneau "Say, Duttean, you don't know enough to go ill when it reins. Why, you can't hven spe,l I bird." "B -u -r -d,' eaid Dolman. "I tell you, yott (1o11s1 know onye thing. Why, if yen had to *pelt to make lt living You'd have been (lead years ago. II/ bet you a hundred you can't 0)611 hint" tak' ye," quickly replied Dun - earl. thetee the money wee put up Dune can said, "11444" "That ain't the way you spelled it the fire time." "1 !tuna bettin' then." ---Argonaut. • le* as ' The rest of matrimony seems to otter treat imlucernents to the fool who rocas the heat. • Don't allow then unsightly exerea- eeneee to expoil the beauty of your handle Or arm& Remove them pain- ieeely and for all time by applyiog Putnam's Painless Corn and Wart •Extractor, • Failure impossible, re- - suite always sure with Putnam's Coen and Wart Extractor. Refuse any eubetitute for Putream'e, it doe* the • trick in one night. Price 25e at drug- gists. • • a WHAT OF THAT? Tired, Well, what of that? Dids't fancy Ilfe was spent on Mode of east. Fluttering the rose leaves scattered by Come, rouse thee! Work while it is to- day,: Coward, arise! Go fertn upon thy way! Lonely! And what of that? . some must be lonely; 'tie not given to all To feel a heart responsive, rise and fall, To blend another life unto its own. Work may bedone in loneliness. Work on! Dark!' well, what of that? Dat'st fondly dream the sun would never set? Dhl'st fear to lose thy way? Take cour- age vet! Learn teen to walk by faith, and not isy sight ; Thy s.cps will guided be, ,and gelded rig ht. Hard! Weil. whet of that? Did'st fancy life one summer botiday. With lessons none to learn, ene naught bid tlaY? Ua, get thee to thy task! Cenquer or Ole! It must be teemed. Learn itthen, pa- tiently watt. • -Anonymoue. This is to. certify that I have used MLNARD'S Liniment in my family for years, and eonsider it the best linimeht on the market, I have found it excel- lent for horseflesh. • (Signed) W. S. PIN'EO. "Woodlauds," Middleton, N. S. Doan of London Bar 100 Years Old. 'A. Gordon Hake, the dean of the Lore don bar celebrated his one hundredth birthday recently at his home at 13righ- ton, Mr. Hake is a master of five lan- guages -creek, Latin, Preneh, ltalian end Spanish -and reads Horace, Virgil and. Montaigne. Ile attributes his long and healthy life to plenty of riding -he had for years a favorite horse named Deisy-and to walking and to abstendotee living. He has never eared muck for Modern vari- eties of -dress. The Rev. T. G. Hake tells a good story of his father's rough awl ready toilet. Dr. Charles Hanson once called on him at his -chambers Rod asked permission to put on his herrister's wig and gown. "Now,' 'he said, "lend me a looking - glass.' Ife was handed it razor -the nearest approaelt to •a mirror possessed by his friend. -Prom Law Notes., • • - THE UNNAMED LAKE, It _sleeps among the thousand hills Where no man ever trod, • And only Nature's music fills eitenees of God. Great mountain's towers above lts shore, Green lushes fringe its brim, And o'er the Menet for eveimore The wanton breezes shim. &SUE NO. 8 1.911 WA f.w.o....4••••••••"••••##•—se-#4######.4.#.4......~.~.44e4"4, W 1tl".011 TO Uhl TO -DAT roll Ol*ft outlity reeceteenry. Tey are revaggr-zeee- ee *hake Use et nents' oupplise elo ere, Apply Se C'. Co., farnitisi, heart iiereet. Ottaisii, Out. AGENTS WANTED. VITANTUD SMART YOUTHS ell vy agents for our specialties luscverY locality. 'Write for particelars. Huron Novelty Co. pa xi. Toronto. Every Woman 1$ 141:####ZIN, 101.4 04414 kgMll *tuna ivrthlatut Maliflir:h Win Spay 71## tOW Syttap. X‘ft -Mast saassaleas, aistiratly, l.,1t yous druggist gee sseueiteepply tee - eilemeaosept aa otar•r, 1 sone sump /0, illatenard Isaul###11•11sct It se #41# 00 park, Warsaw) dirattioua irarsiurrolo to lattimr WINDSOR, sorrxx-co., - Wiellsor. oat. Giareast Argots Or Can* 1- • BIRDS POLICE EARTH AND AIR, Birds work more Id conjunctiva with man to help eim than doe any other form of outdoor life, necording to a recent article in Succeee Magazine, Tbey police the earth nod air, auti • without their servicea the farmer would be helpless. Larka, wrens and thrushes search the ground for grubs and. bi- sects, Die food of cite meadow lark Misfits of 741 per cent. or injurious in. and 12 per cent. of weed se,ed, showing it to be it bird of great eco- , nornie value. Sparrows, finehes and quail ate a large anic-tnt of weed. seed. Practically all the 'food of the tree sparrow consists of seed. Examinations by Professor la E. L. Beal, of the Bio- logical Survey of the Department of Ag- ricnIture' show that a single tree 'spar- row willeat a quarter of an ounce of weed seed daily. In e State the size of Iowatree sparrows alone will consunie more than 800 tons of weed seed amt.- n/ly, This, with the work of other seed -- eating birds, saves the farmer an int- nienee amount of work. Nuthatches and ebielcadees scan every part of the trunks and limbs of trees for, insect eggs. In a days' time a chickadee has been known to eat hundreds of insect eggs and weans that are very harmfal to our trees and vegetables. Warblers and vir- eos hunt the leaves and buds for moths and millers. Ply-eitteliere..ewallews and night hawks are busy day and night catching flies•that bother znan and beast. filinard's Liniment Cures Garget in Cows. Dark Clouds that intercept the eun, GO there in Spring tO weep, And there, when autumn days are dens White mists he down to sleep. Sunnis and suuset creet with gold The 'peaks of ageless stone, *Where winds nave thundered team of old And storms have ett their throne. No eehoes of the world afar , Disterb it night or day, Ben sun ahd shadow, moon and star, Pass and repass for aye. rwas In the day of early dawn, whelt first the lake we spied, And fragments et a cloud were drawn Half 40021 the mountale side, Tinough tangled brush itud dewy breke, Returning 'whence we ealtlee. We passed in silettee, and tne lake We left wit...110},erte,alerlckaeneu. eorge Seat. Quebec, P. Q.. len. Every woman imagines slie, would Loire a stylish figure if she could only afford to (tree as *he would like to. dossiok SOME FLY DON'TS. . Don't allow flies in your house. Don't permit them near your food, es- pecially milk. Don't buy food where flies are toler- ated. Don't have feeding places where flies can load themselves with the dejeetions Don't allow your fruits and coulee-. tions to be exposea to swarms of flies. Don't allow flies to crawl over the baby's meutli and swarm upon the nip- ple of Its nursing bottle, Clean up your own premises. If you still have flies it is beeause your neigh- bors are harboring filth. If they won't clean up ask the Board of Health to force them to do so. Don't forget you are not safe from diseases carried by flies unless your grocer, your butchce, your baker - everyone front whom you bey foodstuffs -is as careful as you are. See that your town has a food -screening ordinance and that it is enforced. Minard's Liniment Cures Diphtheria, .*#emr##L4#."#•••••# Didn't Know Themselves Apart. Edward Collins rushed from ills home, 100 Cauidwell avenue, to the Morrison- % police station, and said to Lieut. Graham: "My twin daughters, Birdie and Mary, are lost. They are 3 years old, and they have been gone since 3 o'clock this after noon. I'm afraid they've been kid- nupped." Just then a policeman mete in with a crying ehild untler his arm. • "Found her at 161st street and Morris avenue," he said. "She's one of mine," burst out Col- lins. "She's Birdie. No, she ain't; she's Mary. Say, you ask the mother. I never could tell 'ens apart." ',What's your name?" the lieutenant asked the child. "Birdie -Mary," she replied. Two boys came with a second child, found at 1581h street and Brook avenue. "That's the other Birdie -Mary," goo limit said, Joyfully. "what's your entree?" she WAS asked. "Bird le -Mary." was the quick reply, "Ho wean X know those kids apart if WC.): don't know which is Whielt them- selves " Collins said ,as he started home. a girl int each krm. "I'll get their mother to straighten out this tengle." • - • BEES AS MESSENGERS. It is being urged as it praaleal plan that bees be used to carry messages in time of war in place of carrier pigeons. By the aid of photography it is stow pos. allele to reduce a message occupying a full sheet of paper down to the size of a pinehead. Such Ow messages could be glued to the beek, of it bee and as these insects have the :homing instinct a ear- rier servite might be established which the bullets of the minty . eould not reach. After beiug received, the tiny emesages would be enlarged by photo- graphs so its to be easily read. UTAH'S "SHRUNKEN REMNANT." • Reports tentinue that the waters of the Great *Salt Lake in Utah are grad- ually sinking. This seems to beat out • the theory of many seientists that the lake le but a "shrunken remnant" of a vastly larger body of aerid water that at one time reached out •out to the northern and wegitern borders of Unit • and beyond, forming •a veritable inland Ma. -, -mimmano--,-.Tiow.mi—miegimmsconmsorm UM'S KITCHEN -WARE Ideal in Every Wby Por the Various Needs of the Busy Housewives These utensils are Bight and durable, have no hoops to fall off or rust, will not taint water, milk or other liquids and are imper- ious to the sams. They will stand any elim- te and any fair usage. Made in rails, Tubs, Keehn, Milk Pana, Wash Basins, Rte. Theim They'll Please Vou." - ' L ISO RAPT.Le,,, urGwr, MilleleReefenifeS ahies 'ell/melees '