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The Wingham Advance, 1915-08-12, Page 6IN COLLEGE. (Pitt Penierr) The Iligh-Junteer-•1. have estalillelod vieJfloe retold. Mole Qttinitie• -Yes. and an awful reptl- ta Bon. TIME To QUIT, (Judge) 0,1(4 -Mho tlitl liurgaleor reform? Tioxf-The it raft, he drillet and blow open on13,* contained a pleture pestcard of the state prleon. NOT AVORDUPOIS. ethisgow Record) Ifirman writes that the first Week he was in London he lost 112." "Heavens! What an utthettIthful Idttee London must be!' AT TH SHORE, (Life) The Widow -Well, whY don't you kiss me? , Bashful Youth -I would, only I have tome oand In my mouth. "Swallow it, young man. You need. It in your eyetem." .40-1-•-- — THEY DON'T COUNT, (Life) "Have you twee let any other mau idea you?" he demanded, Jellouldr• "Never, Henry, never," she replied, de- murely, "Only a few college boys.' . THE. REASON. (Pitt Panther) The lauffraget-Women, you muot think cleaner thoughts than men. The Grouch -It they do its beeuume Wry change their minds so often. AFTER THE SERVICE. (Judge) Wife -I auppone you heard discouree. Hueband-Not ro tbe film would notice it. a moving exchanges NOT TELLING, (Lim) Ted -What du you do when a man trice to hiss you? Mai jorle• -Oh, that's something you'll have to find eut for yourself. TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING. (Florida Times -Union) Ntd-Why did you leave your new Private boarding house? 1. thought you were pleased at first. lered-W was to religious. Ned -What do you mean? Fred -They had a phonograph they Played mailing but Menne on and a ear - jot that repeated the Lord's prayer. CULINARY TEST. (New York Sun) Knieker-The optimistic sees the dough- nut. Becker -And the pessimist sees the doc- tor. POOR BUSINESS. (Judge) Knicker-The optimistic sees the dough- teet of his own fortune. "I predict a terrible stagnation In the building line. FIRST AID FOR GOLFERS. (Judge) "What would you do if you had etymie?" -Call a doctor at 'once." a EXPLAINED. (Life) Friend -Why Is the editor of your pa- per howling so insistently for war? He must be very patriotic, Reporter -No; he has a lot of jokes left over from the Spanish-American war that he wants a chance to work off. HIS LACK. (Baltimore American) "There is one thing I don't like about young Staylate, Ethel." "What's that, Pa " like it better if he had more 1101 - up -and -go about him." - A MEAN •SUGGESTION. ((Baltimore American.) , "I can't think of any way of killing time." "Why, I often hear you playing on the piano." A POSSIBLE SOLUTION. (Judge.) . "How can a- man be as stupid as that fellow and live?" "Some of the tnen at the club have a theory that he was raised on a vacu- um bottle." *4••••• .4* THE GREAT NEED, (Life.) Agnes -Marion has become an effici- ency expert.. She goee ;about, 1011.'54 women how to live within their Incomes. Oladys-Nothing doing here! Pin look- ing for some one 'to teach me how to live beyond mine. M EA NI NG. (New Haven Register.) Designing Widow -Speaking 04 f:Jona unrdunts, can you tell nit, wliy tne let- ter "d" Is like the marriage service? Slewhoy-Pin no good at conundrums. Widow -Because "we" can't lie "wed" without It. ----• SMITH'S GOOD LUCK. (Lite) She -Dancing is fine for ./,eople, don't you think? He -Yes; it exhausted Smith's wife ea that she's gone into a sanitarioum for a year. PROMPT ATTENTION, (13althnore American) "I can't watt a second. Can you give me a light fruit lunch at once?" "Certainly, sir, I'll turn on the etee- trie currents." WE NEVER DID. (Philadelphia Ledger) "Why do you spend so much care on the crease of your trousers eb?" "It is important, dad, not to wear Mor- ey trousers," "Important, is It? Why, you young eub, look here. Did you ever tJen teethe to a, man who didn't wetir baggy - trousers?" TESTED, (Judge) "Them was nice folks you waited on, ain't they?" "No, no, dear! Appearance Is dl-TPIt. ful. They didn't have no charge an - count. Paid eash for everything." CURIOUS. (Pitt Panther) A Chinaman had just pure/timed a pair of socks. "Well, I declare," remarked the by- stander, "I have often bought a washer fet• liese but never hove for It 8v:teller." CAMPUS INVITATIONS. (Chaparral) Female Vole Over the Telephone-I/el- le, 'George, Can you 'come to a Intle party this evening? George (absent-minded)y).-rd lite to, but I'm 00 the wagon. INDIA'S sHARE I.N THE FIGHT. (The Times- of India) -World power or downfall" Is the al - tentative which Beruitardi holds out to his eountrynten, there are Dr Ode In India cr elsewhere who are lukewarm in preLenee of German threats, they ought to aok what it would mean to them if world teiwer fell into the hande of a notion of whotie methods we have hail 0011 appeding InnnIfestatlunn. What in- fluenees wind(' be exercised 1i1. ID the elvilleatIon of the 4,rIontal 1'8C0.f; if n ea. 'Bon fio shamelees and eruel In warfare were to bave even momentary eontroi of the destiny of any A.Alatie Peolde? it impoesible 10 ottfront the mere Idiot of Sitieh n. esittingehey Without realizing that In Lining' with the rest or the Um - vire 10. )'441h!1 91100 to German predemin- *nee the pent& of India ere 1,11,tioe. for their own liberty. • CHAPTER I. "I did renolince the world; Palace, farm, villa, skein Its pride and greed, Trash-sech as these polor devfl� Have given their hearts to, All at eight yeare old." Brether Jocelia smiled as he traced the letters of the Mega he WAS Il- lumining, and softly sang King Knutni song - "Merrily sang the Menke, While merrily rowed the King, And all the birds did also sing, Aud tell their loves 'Twas spring-'twas spring" He was low of stature, and dark of eye, with clear-cut features of singu- lar.beauty, and 1118 hands were white and effernivate, for Brother 'Jocelin, as a limner, was free from. those men. - lad tasks which fell to the lot of the uneducated monk. He wore the usual dress of the Benedictines -the loose blace robe with its obtuse, oval hood and plain scapular; and, as the sun- light streamed upon him through the earrow casement, he eeenied to ab- sorb ail its brightness; his Picturesque figure strangely at variance with its bare enviroament; for the Scriptorium, of St. Eduaund's Abbey was scantily furnished with a earved desk and stool and naught else, save a great ebony crucifix on the wall, inscribed, "Be- liolde my meekness, chylde, and leave thy pryde." As if this monk stood in need of warning against tile pride of life, and the rush of warm bleed in his young veins. It was spring, and he was but twenty. When the spring sun shines, and tee Mule burst forth as if called into being by the birds' songs thee hearts of earth's young creatures everywhere eepancl and throb, 'and glow in the. stir and warmth of Na- ture's revival. Jocelin was weary of the dim cloisters, of the drone of Prayer and chant, and to -day a mad Impulse urged him to fling aside his black robe and go forth into the bright world of camp .and court; to do deeds of great emprise, to win fame, and the love of some pink- cheeked maid; and to live a man's life in a man's world. His song died away, and he sat idly gazing through the open casement, 'The pear trees were blooming in the Abbey garden, and the sunshine seemed 'wooing each blossom's white breast from. beneath its vernal zone. The apple trees spread their lacy boughs beside the delicate pink trac- ery of the Olen. A white -throat chirp.. ed her nestlings to sleep in a gnarled oak which stood at the end of the long pleached walk; and the light, filtering through the tender green of young leaves, gold -flecked the stone pave- ment. Beyond .the walk stretched a colonnade extending the Abbey's en- tire length, and through the arched openings white and black robed monks hurried to and fro, unmindful of the beauty so near. Above all, tosvered the grim, gray walls of- Bury SL Ed- munds, with many an arch, rounded belfry, deep-set svindow and grim gar- goyle, massive, stern and strong -a testament in stone of the power of Rome in England. The Abbey lay along the eastern slope of the town of St. Edmunds, a town. of no, mean size in itself. Its embattled walls, with four grand gate- ways, enclosed fully sixty acres, con- taining many buildings and courtyards besides gardens and cemeteries. The buildings, including three chapels, the Chapter house, the Ambulatory and the Infirmary, huddled about the church, like small children at a mo- ther's knee. Behind these; to the west was the ,smpty house of the Master of Horse; for once the Abbey had main- tained several score of fighting horse- men, The humble cots of Cellarer, Seneschal and Clerk were near by, in front of the long, low line of stables along the southern wall; and enclos- ing a spacious courtyard was Brad- field, "A 'certain solemn mansion," the residence of the Abbott, and often used by the King himself. This completed the Abbey settle- ment, save for a high tower 'which stood fax aqwn by the northern svall, overlooking a forest. It stood there grim and mysterious, with its low, iron -spiked door, widely placed ollietts and deep-set, narrow windows high up toward its conical roof, This was the Abbey prison, and (some said) torture house. Dark tales were whispered of it in St. Ed- mund's Wile and the solitary herds- man passing on his way home at twi- light, shuddered and crossed himself, thinking its shadow' crept ever the Wall to follow bine. The revenues of the Abbey were great, and her holdings 'formed a whole county in themselves, yet, in- satiable, she etretched her fingers into other Hundreds, and her scattered carueates of land Were many, while fifty advocates, or feudal knights with ,their hundreds of vassals, did her homage, headed by the renowned Adam de Cokefield. But it was not of the wealth. or greatness, of the Abbey, nor of the fair scene before him, that Brother Jocelin thought,- He had forgotten it and his monastic life in remembering his early childhood, in Ste Edmund's town. The ow raftered house of his father, 'Meg- ster Withal/re in the narrow tittle ane of Brakelond, just outside the bbey Wall, and he saw the long, bare •oom where his father taught. alagister Wilhelm, was master of the chools, with few of. the Abbey - vassals' sons for Mils, but the tehool was Mostly filled With youug indigent clergy, unattached to any monastery, Who cane hither for the learning for which they wore unable to pay. Sueli being the general, finaneial stinus of his whole" And his allow - nem from the Abbey being emali, it was not to be wondered at that eragis- ter Wilhelm's faintly were left desti- tute. When little Jeceith had vainly pulled his father's toat one wintere twilight, and vainly called him to teeir scanty doper, till the frightened wife bad come hurrying in, to find the scholar dead and cold over his OViding Ntiso, Thus the evidoet Of tile Meter Of the gr.:hone; found herself and her small claldren iii poverty, scarcely res limit by a daily dole from the Abbey, \Then Joeellit WaWaiteight years old, being accustomed to running in end out of the Abbny kitchen for the tem) and bread on which they existed; What With having lived among wandering Mare, inferior clergy, and the beelike of Duty, his head was fall of Icgteide of tingele and SAWS. And ORO laitalt. 1 1 .A • lying on bis little pallaisee, he dream- ed that aten; with black wings apread wide, descendett before a groat tone building to fly oft with him,' Then he cried to St. Edmund for 'help, erel the good saint appeared ana took him by the hand; whereupon the devil flew away, His cries awoke nis 'nether, aad she pondered 011 the awful dream tbrotigh the night. On the morrow, being a devout woman, she tOok him to St. Edmund's shrine, Unit elle might pray over bira and ask guidance of the monks. "It was just here that St. Edmund towhee uee, mother," said Jocelin, as they passed through the Abbey gate. After sortie talk with the Prior, the child Was admitted into the Abbey and left by his mother, as was youeg Samuel of old; thus, at the age of eight renouncing the 'svorld, the ele:311 and the devil, "Ah,",, mused Brother Jocelin, lean- ing Ids head on his hand, "such a dream was easily Interpreted by the monks. Otherwise, I might now bays) been bearing arms under Sir Adana a right valiant squire, instead ot dreaming over an antiphonary, and who knows if fortune and St. Edmund liad not interfered with my fate, but I might have borne my grandsire's crest upon a knightly shield?" "But" (hastily creeping Ininself as he glanced at the crucifix' with its warning text), "doubtlees the brethren were right, Diabolus, with outspread a lugs, was the pride of life, the please tires of this vain world, Toluptates, hujuiit soeculie which would have borne me -who knows whence, if SL Edmund and the Prior had not :nade a monk of mei" And Ise, sighing, laid ley his went, tor the shadows had length- ened, and ere he had set his painting tray to rights the refectory bell suna- moned him to the evening ellaali CHAPTER II, The refectory was a noble wains- cotted hall, lighted from above, with a atone bench around two sides, Th front of the arched door, above the Wainieoting, Was a pictured Christ, to which, on entering, Jocelin made obeisance. At the left- of the hall was the ambry, where stood the mas- sive golden grace -cup, and nearie3' was the niche, wherein were kept the ewer and basin in which the novices levee the brethren's hands. A, great table stood in the ceetre of the room, with a smaller one near the window, through which food was passed from the kitchen. On one side was the Bible -stand where, as Jocelin moved to his place near the head of the table, a blushing young novice was reading the evening less son in very bad Latin. Lent was over, and the table was bountifully spread with oaten cakes, wine and huge trenchers full of a smoking stew. "Made of my pet calf," mumbled John (Mice, as he shook his white head over the portion served him in a burnished platter. "By our Lady, the Sub -Prior has a most infidel spite at me, Brother Tristian" (this to a little weazened monk, with sallow face and red wisps 'of hair bristling around his tonsure), "never was spec- ial favorite of mine in the cattle' pen but that he sendeth it to Richard of Hennan to butcher, an' right glad Ric seems to do. it" (scowling at the burly Richard, who sat farther down the board wielding his knife as if it had been a cleaver). Pale, sneering - faced Walter broke in peevishly, "Now, now, John O'Dice, thou'rt ever grumbling at naught. Por what dost thou tend the Abbey herd save for the very end which befell thy calf? It Makes a savory mess, indeed, and me- thinks I Would scold less or eat less." These eemarks were covered by thee drone of the reader's voice, being 1 subdu.ed in fear of . reprimand for speaking while the lesson was under way, Jocelin (because he was the Prior's favorite, sat at the Sub Priori right hand, and though that worthy saw fit to reprove the young monk for tardinest several special dishes were, sent him; and indeed there was s much passing of food from the Sub Prior's end of the table to the eaters t farther down the board. • 1 the Scriptorium, and the 09406011010a* 01 buttery, kitchen and refractOry, shared in common with palsied ole Hugh, tha third Prier. "Hal Brother terinesen nottyet reterli- ed?" aokee eeeelin. Yea, the Norfolk Barrator! HO lies in the tower where our Lord Abbot bath met him. Debit not know that Ito lalled 13. hie inlet:don to Rome, and tbat Geoffrey Wel bath been given, the Woolpit Chtirch. He tiara there in foot gyvea awaiting the Abbott'a pleas- ure, and there are Whispers of banish- Inent to Acres" Tlie Sub Prier eletailea this news with peculiar relish, for Brother Sent- soe was unpopular a ith Mast of the easy-going, careless monks, aele,a an a,Ustere, taciturn person, Wile exhorted them to less eslf-indulgence, aral =- donned openly, as many «id in aecret, the ruinons policy of the Abbot. Hugo had tried in vain to overawe this stern critic, punishing hiM more than once to subduo'his haughty spir- it, Then, to placate him, he made hint Sacristan, aud finally Librarian, but Sturman, perfect in the perform - Mice of these functions, neither thank- ed him, nor ceased denouncing the bankruptcy of the Abbey, "A doubtful man," querulously said the infirm old Abbot to the Prier, "Severity cannot break, nor kindness soften him." So they Bent Idyl to Rome, and having failed in his mis- sion, he was punished in the arbi- trary manner of the times. But what- ever he might be to Abbot and monks, he was ,Tocolin's eeloved, master, and he received the Sub Primes new with lowering brow, eating no more of his goodly food. As soon as the meal was over, and the monks bad marched from the refectory, singing a. psalm, he seized his unemptied cup, and pour- ed the wine, into.his flask; then plac- ing it with sense food in his wallet, he went ego the garden, Taking his way furtively in the flower-sceeteri twilight falling about the great build- ings (where bats flitter in and ou,t of the turrets, and owns hooted softly from far -oft' bell towers), Tomlin walked for some time, and then climb, Ins cautiously, mounted the Abbey wall, and, some yards farther, came to the prison. The vesper bell had be- gun to tole as he swung himself light- ly against the tower, by getting a peri- lous foothold on projecting stonee, aided by a sturdy .creeper whien wreathed itsfront, and he at length raised himself to the level of a deop- set, grated windew. "Brother Samson," ho called, but there was no answer, save thedeep breathing of a sleeper, which told that the worn-out traveller bad thus for- gotten failure and punishment. Tak- ing the food and wine from his wal- let, Jocelin pushed them through the grating, and scrambling down, was soon back in the Abbey. chapel, lead- ing the droning vesper chant; his mellow notes rising high and clear above the rougher tones of the breth- ren in the "Ave Maria." e CHAPTER III. • The inmates of the Abbey, roused from their slumbers by the tolling of bells, wore assembled in their varioes chapels ,of the Nocturnal service. The rain wee falling heaylly, drearily, out- side, and the drone ofthe sleepy chanters mingled with the low rumble of thunder. As the last "Kyrie" was sung in the chapel of our Lady, the big Abbey bell boomed out solemn and deep. The praying monks rose from their knees, aria stood looking at one another with whitening faces. It was not an alarm, nor a call to the church. Slowly, slowly, it tolled, ringing sad- ness to eitery heart, and they knew by its sound that in the stately mane sion of Bradfield, the soul of their father Abbot had passed out intethe stormy night. Tc. one man, far off in the cold darkness bf the prison tower, the Ab- -bot's death kneel brought many and varied thoughts.- Brother Samson had small aespectfor his superior, fer the Abbot was aeiyeak man, of little learn- ing, who owed hie Abbotehip to the favorite= of King Henry, and who who for many years had governed most inefficiently. Samson hrld oo love for weaklings; of Norfolk breed, le was posseased of a sturdy strength of character that no cowl .1001 sub- due, Early entering St. Edmunds as a novice, on becoming a monk he had departed to the great schools of Paris, and from .thence to Rome, in both !entree of teeming Winning fame for his Abbey and commendation for him - elf. At the age of fOrty-five he had re - limed, to find (Ingo in the place of tis friend and master. Abbot Gaunar- Us, and the Abbey sunk into a slough of debt; deserted by the learned mallets e'llad 'known, and filled with idle, ig- !meant men. The buildings wore out f repair. many valuables 0.101031or lost 8(1 only hall of the edvotatee trite to heir allegea.nce. The monks reader' nd caroused; eating natal and break - lig other rules of the order. Rents .erealned uncollect: eteno horaemen vere maintained; the whole estate 'Menthes the direst meted and bnse. While the Abbot, like a Hghtened hen In charge of ducklings-, lied vainly to rule his idle, rebellioue 'tonics finally retiring to Bradfield, vhence be held lair sway over the dis- rganizee Abbey. 'Deeply in debt to lie Jews, who Were clamoring far their ights at the very_ gates, the Abbot aud Prior signed paper after paper, retitle- d the Mine, fund of the Abbey, and sorrowed more and more ee.cle sueceeds ng year. So while the bell tolled, tee Norfolk monk thouelit bitterly epon tlieee tangs. "Roger. the Prior, will make lush nhotber Abbot at lingo, and 1 oiled not it is on him the ehole.e will all; an' were I out of this vile prl- on. wherein I am so unjustly eonfin- d!-But of the Opel naugbt but one!" he marmite& and eheeltc.d his ngry Mitshige With it Drayer for the enose of die Hugo's gout. leovieg his Abbey, and jealong of its time, of egeressiee eattire with great Neeutiee ability, Sititison was feared rid iticknrimed "Thirrator," or, "Quer- elet." The reenke lenue g slhed eached the eoriclueion, by arguing tone occitslohal Mph' storgaclig, and nowledge of the increaeing Abbey ebt, that If things were allowed to mitintie on the salne benie, ne red 'oult1 lie left to cover them, and, fore. d to become friars, they Weald eave O Wandet over the country, prom!. (tinily living Ori alms: and the most of them realized that It 'Werad take a ne strorig baand elear brain to set Thing Mii tight. Anil se already the tide was ternirig in Sarnson'e favor, wiles.' Prior Rom summoned the tib Prier, Seeelill, tad smile of the Other bretl) • ren te the Abbot's 'hue bean% Not:- WM.41. witn the net's that the Prolate WAS dyieg, feletintsa03 lee ATI! ATI!• . 4* Hetet-4 wonder whet Makes Seieb- bier ItletraYil seem to serione. Jeax--• He'll the editor Of a &Mile weekly, soitte--W4311, that & no mae The meal eves presided over by an eged monk, directing the novices in their serving, and when they had 11 passed the. trenchers and filled the cups, seated at their own table they supped a what reniained in the a dishes, . The Sub Prior, a pretentious Ignorfl - amus, conversed with Jocelin about 1 the flowers he was painting, frequent- 1 ly confusing* their botanical name% and Jocelin answered him absently. But the Sub -Prior was satisfied a ,with displayeag his own erudition, and 1 did not notice the inattention. When he had concluded, Jocelia roused him- n self to inquire about Abbot Hugo, I who, grown blind and old, kept his ° 'chamber itt Bradfield house. "My young frere, he rows no bet- r ter," answered the Sub Prior, "and I fear in things fall 'worse and Worse for OUT house. Debt increases. The , 1 Jews refute to advance more moneys 3 (save at eipincets rates), and alas, it seemeth to me that those of the Father's household are but flattering titne-servers, who beguileth him with ° lies, profit by his infirmities." In a lower voice he •contimied: "We f lose our power in St. Edmondsbury0. - our own Stotve. 2(t', by our Lady, v stsvas Onle yesterLiorn When our Cel- g termites, trying theinly to celled the !It repselver, was forced to selee through- r out all the town stools, kettles, dr „ household wares, in lieu of the refused reaping penny, And beshrow me an' e he waschased, yea, My brOther. chased through the streets by a crowd r of yelling beldames, Who belabored r him meet soundly With their , dig- r taffs, Ora pro nob's! We are coin- 1(.1 Ing upon bad times. Twenty years agent' their hag heads would have graced the town Walls for such re- v• sietance of our Lord's authority. The e, fieldshusbandry 'are short ih their " rents to the Rave, the dyers and weavers pay but a small tithe of their allotted tax, and even the fund for lightirig our holy sitintei Shrine (crossing himself ris he 'melte) "bele thort of that of last year. Yea, we are tensing upon bad times, as thou niay'st see; though certes oil thy young slietilders falls little of the bur- den whin testetil en mince And the Sub Prior nodded his head, and Mitered his shoulders Pompously, though, in fact, he had nothing what - deer .to do with the adMitthitration �f the Abbey affaite; his duties being lireitea ter a 'nertain gtiardialishlp Of t tr. • le wooer od0e. tt;ter.,4* $14,' (IT'S A FOOD) 41 1' The consumption of Cit y Dairy Ice Cream is In. lie creasing every season. The local dealer has not the facilities, besides he mak es so little that he cannot turn out a uniform Ice Cream. Discriminating shop keepers everywhere are selling City Dairy Ice Cream instead of their own make, and their patron- age is increasing because City Dairy Ice Cream is better and the quality is uniform. los - Look for the Sign, TORONTO. We want an Agent in every town. •••••••.•••••••••*noll ..mmi.ouna•layou...•••.• mmisimNyam•simml••••10••••11,11.... . Hints of Housekeepers. In case you have guests and they engage in a heated political contro- versy, start up the plemograph. Burning a largo mien on it red hot shovel will do away with the odor of tobacco in year drawing -room, Don't throw your coffee-grounds away, Dry them and keep them for tho use of borrowing aeighbors. Letting tho children run barefoot in summer win save money in ships, but It makes the soap bill larger. KEEP CHILDREN WELL DURING HOT WEATHER Every mother keows how fatal the hot euzinner month:" aro to email chil- dren. Cholera infanum, diarritoea, dysentery and stomach - troubles are rife at thin time and often a precious little life is loft after oely a few hours. illness. Tin mother who neeps Baby's Own Tablets in the house feels safe. The occasioual use ef the Tab- lets prevents stomach and Newel trou- t -les, 'or if trouble 00131a3 eutidettly.- . as it goilorally does-tha Tablets will bring the baby safely. througlr. Tney aro sold by medicine dealers or by mall at 25 cents a. box front' The. fir. Williams: idedicine Coe 13rockville, (SOIL 44 44 Thome's Aqueducts. The eight aquedlicis 02 ancient Rome brbeght 40000,000 gallons of water a day. into the city, Had the Romans been aware that water always lee is to its own level these huge erections on arches seventy feet nigh need never have been built.. Minartes Liniment Curea Distemper. The Gypsies. The origin of the people known as gyassies remains largely a mystery. Egypt, India, Persia and Arabia have in turn been 'pointed out as their origi- nal tountry, but there is little definite knowledge on the subject. The 'weight of evidence is in favorof their having originated in India. They first appear- ed in Europe about 1400 and from the Danube region spread all over the ton - thin% appearing in .England about 1520. As tige advances the blood gets thin, the nerves exhausted an d vitality runs low. By building up tbe nerve force Of body and mind Dr. Chase's Nen* Food is an un- bounded lgessing to people of ad- vanced years. CO crate a box, all dealer. g.louak ft GLARING INJUSTICE, (11x.ehtinge) Barbers' rates unquestionably require revision. what is needed, however, 10 not a horizonttU cnange, but an adjust- mont 111 aecordaece with tho iservicee rendered. Every bald-headed man, for Instance, feels & burning sense of Injuat when he rays it cents for a hair -out, end sem tne tousled poet or ntuslielati In the adJellling chair, witueet head is cov- ered with an almost Impenetrable Auntie, lay down a quarter as the reward OP the boid and persevering explorer who had lopped nIf the tops of the dense under- growth. It Is oonzervatively estimated that ten bald Mori Mtn be trItturied 18 13 torieorial parlor in the time it takes to cut the hair of one football player. If bee -bete' rated 'Were adjuitted adentift. etillY, 'each eustomot 'Would pay for his httir out In accordance with the hUmber of .equare inches of productive Surface 00. lo Molgs ex u6selve elA8 11 :L*4 bald -heads fir Vices rendered to other peoplo• A Chilly Spot. "You'll have to change my place on the bill,"edeclared the lady acrobat. "I find the•andienes too cold. "Hew will a shift he1l? you any?" demanded the vaudeville manager. "Why, I come on just after a fellow who is lecturing on the aratio."- Louisville CouriereJournal. Minard's Liniment Cures Garget In • Cows, •!: CHURCH IN VACATION TIME. (Pittsburg Gazette -Times.) There are two theories as to the ecen icy of the church in the vacation seen' son. One is to shut up shop on the ex- cuse that people won't flock to church In Bummer anyway. The other Is to keeP Open and make the servioe so attractive that It is bound to brin,r a congrega- tion. Many fallacious Ideas have grown up with 'vacation time. Ono is that "everybody is out of town." The fact is that the vast majority of the people are hero at home, right on the Job i throughout July and August, as well as the other ton, 8300019 of the year. Another is. that "it's, too hot to go to church." Church .attendance in summer Is. ou the wholb,1 much more comforta- ble and convenient than in winter, when after wading thuough snow and slush one too often ha n to sit for an hour and a half in an ill -ventilated auditorium swapping grip and cold in the head sserms with one's neighbors. A Ille'rd fallacy is that religion is a good deal like an overceatz to be put away care- fully for the enmmer and brought out again in the fral. if it hasn't 'been eat- en up in the meantime by moths. .0M I bought a horse with a supluillecily iteuvable ringbone for $30 Cured him with fie1.00 'worth of MlNARD'S tiNI- MENT and sold him for e85; Profit Liniment, 0.4, • MOIST!: DEROSCle; HotelkeePer, St. Phillippe, Que. V • 'I A Shot That Made Trouble. 's I An odd intident happened in the) then Danish WescIndies in the Iset1 /wintry that. nearly caused serious in- ternational•oonnoreations. An Amere" can marksman; paying a visit to Char- lotte Amalie, amused 'the governor by an exhibition of his skin with thei rifle. Sitting on the verandah of ,the I Government House, he eaid that ete), could cut with a bullet the signal hale yards on the flagstaff of •the fort -and; lower the Danisai etandard to the) ground, As the lines were almost in- visible in the distanee ,-the governor was Willing to bet thatlhe could not do it. The allot rang out, and the ',flag fell, Presently a horsemen dashed lite Me:trailing the governor that some one had fired on the flag J There was great excitelneitt. The(governor, none too popular, it seems, with the mili- tary, ruined his pol1tled future by ad- mitting that the ffair /Was a joke in which he eonnived. Benoit teeing sent to Copenhagen, highly. eolored, of tourse, by the commandant, his excel- lency was semmarily remo'v'ed. • • I• 41; ' 4:11J BTL E. (Life). or paint things as' z ace them," said /)obbster, cornidaeentlY, as the oritio in- spected his "Moonlight on the Iludecni." "Intereetingl" said the critic. "Have you ever thought of CA:insulting an octdo let, Dobbster? niatilmerm h.. ion mslarmag imoniimmormintenriminlh 1 Issue is10, ;32, 1915 . ._--,-----.—rrr-------___,. HELP WANTED, .....-,"------ w ANTED-EXPBRIBNODD WOW. " Or* and. anarentleve. Wages pale to anerenticOP White learning. Apply to the $illigshlr Mfg*, Co- Brantford. 4 MIME TYPEWRITER, Has Only Three Keye But Can. Write 50,000 Oharacters, Stenographers may be intereeted in learning that there is a new Alert ef typewriter welch has Just been in- vented be a Youog ancient in the en- gineering department ot New York University, The Amelia:le is tliffereut from the tyPeveriters familiar to the average operator in several respects. For Matinee, the "standard'. keebtird ba e twenty-eix letters and In most cages about a flOsen key e devoted to figures and punctuation marks, while the new machine bas 44200 characters in all end Only three keys. One of the three keys is a back spacer, another the sPace key ,and the third is the innr with which the 4,200 cbaractere are struck. It is poseible, according to the inventor, to make more than 4,200 Characters by com- binations of "radicals" or base char- acters, About 50,0110 chalneters can be made by the reachiee, the inventor says. That stenograpeers ambitious to Ioperate the new typewriter will find their task a little difficult at first, at least, was indicated by the fact that It required two hours to write the first letter tamed by the machine. Thls letter contained approximately 100 words, but the operator was un- familiar with the 4,200 kens. The machine is said to be the first Chinese typewriter ever invented. Heuen Chi, the student 'venter con- ceived the idea that a typewriter could be made to write Chinese while he was at his home in Southern China three years ago, he said, He went to the United States as a Government student and, on the prompting of Chinese officials who lute become in- terested in hie scheme, took up the study of engineering at New Yark 'University and continued to work on the invention. He completed the Model a short time ago, and has pa- tented it in China and Japan, for it also. writes Japanese, eatiche he said, is quite similar to Chinese, . - 4 • 4. ' ' ' The Dining. Table4 Suppose the,clote is me, . Next comes .the service Plate. The knivee arena the eiglie ' The keife blades are always turned in. The dessert knife is neareet the Dlate. Next comes the meat knife, then the fish knife. .And next the soup spo.on. Then the oyster fork, crossed over the knives,' ilf you like. , At the left of the plate is the des- . etert fork. Next it is the salad fork, Then comes the meat fork, then a small fork for the entree, and, last, a iish fork. Then the napkin., These silver knives, spoons and forks are naturally used from tlie out- side. si. 4 • e.. How Sickly Women , May Get Health • If they could only be niade to sea !that half their ills ere caused by iin-• pure blood, it wouldn't take long to euro them with Dr. iterailtoits Truly a wonderful. medicine that in- vigorates, etrengtnens; renewn elvery tired, wern-out, woman teat tris Dr. Hamilton's -Pills will improve rapidly, will have better color, inercasvd ae- petite and better digestion. No better rebuilding tonic can be found than Dr. Hamiltoa's Pills, which are safe, mild and ilealth For 'forty years Dr. Hainilton's 'Pills ',nee been, America's most val- I ued family medicine, 25c per box, at I all d eaters. • • • Scattered. Pat was. employed on an _engineer - ;lug job a few miles out of the citY and was carried to his work by an express train, which accommodating- ly slowed up near the scene of his la- bors. Otto morning, however, the train rushed through the cut without reduc- the job looked in Vain for • Pat, At speed, and the superintendent 'of ;last he saw- a much battered Irishman limping back down the ties and called to him: "Hello, Pat! Where did you get off?" Pat turned stiffly and, waving his hand toward the steep embankment, sighed: • "Oh, all along here!" -Life, r ---- LIQUOR -A—ND I MORPHINE HABITS JI Aro diseases, not vices, and there., fore curable. Patlenta aro under my personal care and receive ti.e.r lea bunt in c.rd(nary hospitals as ordinary medical cases. D. H. ARNOTT, M.' D. e 226 Queen's Ave., Londen, Ont. CONCENTRATE THE FIGHTING. (Rocheste)' Times) . wouldn't It be a good plan to. eond the Mexicans over to Europe. They would fine enough- to keep them busy for some time to dome. • • GREAT SALE or ORGANS AND PIANOS r Ye Oldo rime of Heintzman Coe corner iting and John streota, Hamil- ton, Ont., are offering 50 organs at a great rnduction hi price. Instruments bearing the names ot Melt well- known makers as Bell, Doherty, Kern, rominioh and Uxbridge are . being sold 817 low as $15 to M. Geed practite Mame treat $50 to 101). Write for complete list 01 (prices aiid terms. Twisted Trousers. A party ..of Soldiers beund for sisolnewhere in Prance" were waiting for their train tit a rural station in Wiltshire. Among the lookers-on were an old elhintryman and hie wife. \Venting eloWly peat the warriors, tho wonual eyed them carefully, her attention being mainly paid to their puttee elad lege. "I say, (large," she Whispered, when out of eartihot, "there's soiliethin' I Can't understand abOut thee tOlgers." "What be it, lass?" asked her good Man, With a eitperior air. ean't thing how they get their laiirs into they twisted trousers," said the old woman, in wonder. :•11.9LOWI 41 PUT th4-4p 01 two seasons ago, and see, 'it is just as good as if 5. 1 sealed it. only' p yesterday, h is because! use Pat- el •11 5PAne641/1"Pore Refined Pataffine 'Discard those bother. some, • unreliable ttA strings and papers.' `.1 The Parowax way is much easier and quicker, and you are never disappointed by moldy, fermented -j preserves. , Simply melt the Par, owax and pour over. jelly glasses. Dip; tops of jars in.Par9-3 wax. Put up in handy\ one - pound cartons con- taining four cakes.' At grocery 834 de- partment stores eV- , erywhere.' THE.IMPERIAL OIL OMPANY . Emited BRANCHES IN ALL CITIES O.- Made_ In _ e0e, Canada • . PES,SIMILTB REBUKED, (Ottawa Evening journal) "The art of Motherhood is lost," la- ments a noted American woman-oduca4. !tionist to the International Purity Con- gress being held at San Francisca. We fear the good lady belongs to the ever- growing class of invincible pessimists. The art. of itfotherhood is not lost, in feat we know that it' e being improved. Despite thy 'United States with its divorce record, despite the quacet moralist groc- ers of a so-called new but in fact age- old philosoPhy of society that is vicious, there are more good men and true women to -day than ever before, and Motherhood is as sacred as at any time in nineteen hundred years. And the boys and girls, being reared by the present generation of mothers are as strong„ mentally morally and physically; as the boys and girls of a decade -or a century ago -perhaps stronger. ' If the pdssitnistic !tidy who believes that we have loot the art of Motherhood thinks differently, let her study statis- tics of health and infant mortalayi You will find relief in Zam-Buk I It eases the burning, stinging 1" pain, stops bleeding and brings 1 oase.Perseverance, with Zant- St*, ea. - cure: Why not prove this? .eill Drugoigabcad iStorec,-. What He Had Better Do. Macpbore021 in talking t� his min- istee told the reverend gentleman epee he was goiiig to take it. trip to Troly land, "And whiles I'm there.," he said en- thusiastically. "I'll read the Ten Com- mandments alood free the top of Mount Sinai.' "Nae, Macpherson," said the minis- ter, gravely, "tak' my advice. Dinna reel' them alood. Bide at ham and keep them." leinard's Liniment Cures Colds, the A POSSIBLE EXCEPTION, (Judge) "The more a man has, the more he wants," quoth the parlor philosopher, "Do you think that applies to the fath- et' of seven children?" asked the mere man, who hapPened to have that many. I MInard'e Liniment Cures Diphtheria. .4 • 6. SANITARY PRECAUTIONS. (Gargoyle) "Hey, Moike, and pwhat do ye Pink of these new sanitary drinkin' eupS?" "Sure, Pat, and Soen we'll have to spit on our hands wid an eye dropper:" "Carle' said the teacher, "can you tell me what an inebriate is?" "Yes, ma'am," repliel Carl. "It is int ani- mal Unit does not have a backbote." .01k,C1e6TEC.,41.1i4dieitiweameeirombiolusr*".... ,AeLogii...1.1471.•••.40•••••,ft DRS. SOPER & WHITE SPECIALISTS Piles,lesema, arthnid, Ceterrh, Pimple*, DYIPe011te, Cpflepsy, Rheumatism, Skin, Kid- ney, Snood, Nerve and lisladdee Disease*, t all et setut hitter, for foe 6.1.1o. Itiedklie Webbed itt tablet Ione, lieen-10 ctn. to 1 p.te. and 2 to 6 p,nt, 8enclays-e10 km. kelpie. Cooteliatioa tree DIOS, F'I 4 wutritt P. Tomato St., Tama°, Oid. WMWrttL Atkpuot..ndiLemol,, ii.limilmllaimiummilinumilummilummum Ant: litaisi g Jocelin's Penance i owe m suminw.........iiimmitimumoinummia CHAPTER I. "I did renolince the world; Palace, farm, villa, skein Its pride and greed, Trash-sech as these polor devfl� Have given their hearts to, All at eight yeare old." Brether Jocelia smiled as he traced the letters of the Mega he WAS Il- lumining, and softly sang King Knutni song - "Merrily sang the Menke, While merrily rowed the King, And all the birds did also sing, Aud tell their loves 'Twas spring-'twas spring" He was low of stature, and dark of eye, with clear-cut features of singu- lar.beauty, and 1118 hands were white and effernivate, for Brother 'Jocelin, as a limner, was free from. those men. - lad tasks which fell to the lot of the uneducated monk. He wore the usual dress of the Benedictines -the loose blace robe with its obtuse, oval hood and plain scapular; and, as the sun- light streamed upon him through the earrow casement, he eeenied to ab- sorb ail its brightness; his Picturesque figure strangely at variance with its bare enviroament; for the Scriptorium, of St. Eduaund's Abbey was scantily furnished with a earved desk and stool and naught else, save a great ebony crucifix on the wall, inscribed, "Be- liolde my meekness, chylde, and leave thy pryde." As if this monk stood in need of warning against tile pride of life, and the rush of warm bleed in his young veins. It was spring, and he was but twenty. When the spring sun shines, and tee Mule burst forth as if called into being by the birds' songs thee hearts of earth's young creatures everywhere eepancl and throb, 'and glow in the. stir and warmth of Na- ture's revival. Jocelin was weary of the dim cloisters, of the drone of Prayer and chant, and to -day a mad Impulse urged him to fling aside his black robe and go forth into the bright world of camp .and court; to do deeds of great emprise, to win fame, and the love of some pink- cheeked maid; and to live a man's life in a man's world. His song died away, and he sat idly gazing through the open casement, 'The pear trees were blooming in the Abbey garden, and the sunshine seemed 'wooing each blossom's white breast from. beneath its vernal zone. The apple trees spread their lacy boughs beside the delicate pink trac- ery of the Olen. A white -throat chirp.. ed her nestlings to sleep in a gnarled oak which stood at the end of the long pleached walk; and the light, filtering through the tender green of young leaves, gold -flecked the stone pave- ment. Beyond .the walk stretched a colonnade extending the Abbey's en- tire length, and through the arched openings white and black robed monks hurried to and fro, unmindful of the beauty so near. Above all, tosvered the grim, gray walls of- Bury SL Ed- munds, with many an arch, rounded belfry, deep-set svindow and grim gar- goyle, massive, stern and strong -a testament in stone of the power of Rome in England. The Abbey lay along the eastern slope of the town of St. Edmunds, a town. of no, mean size in itself. Its embattled walls, with four grand gate- ways, enclosed fully sixty acres, con- taining many buildings and courtyards besides gardens and cemeteries. The buildings, including three chapels, the Chapter house, the Ambulatory and the Infirmary, huddled about the church, like small children at a mo- ther's knee. Behind these; to the west was the ,smpty house of the Master of Horse; for once the Abbey had main- tained several score of fighting horse- men, The humble cots of Cellarer, Seneschal and Clerk were near by, in front of the long, low line of stables along the southern wall; and enclos- ing a spacious courtyard was Brad- field, "A 'certain solemn mansion," the residence of the Abbott, and often used by the King himself. This completed the Abbey settle- ment, save for a high tower 'which stood fax aqwn by the northern svall, overlooking a forest. It stood there grim and mysterious, with its low, iron -spiked door, widely placed ollietts and deep-set, narrow windows high up toward its conical roof, This was the Abbey prison, and (some said) torture house. Dark tales were whispered of it in St. Ed- mund's Wile and the solitary herds- man passing on his way home at twi- light, shuddered and crossed himself, thinking its shadow' crept ever the Wall to follow bine. The revenues of the Abbey were great, and her holdings 'formed a whole county in themselves, yet, in- satiable, she etretched her fingers into other Hundreds, and her scattered carueates of land Were many, while fifty advocates, or feudal knights with ,their hundreds of vassals, did her homage, headed by the renowned Adam de Cokefield. But it was not of the wealth. or greatness, of the Abbey, nor of the fair scene before him, that Brother Jocelin thought,- He had forgotten it and his monastic life in remembering his early childhood, in Ste Edmund's town. The ow raftered house of his father, 'Meg- ster Withal/re in the narrow tittle ane of Brakelond, just outside the bbey Wall, and he saw the long, bare •oom where his father taught. alagister Wilhelm, was master of the chools, with few of. the Abbey - vassals' sons for Mils, but the tehool was Mostly filled With youug indigent clergy, unattached to any monastery, Who cane hither for the learning for which they wore unable to pay. Sueli being the general, finaneial stinus of his whole" And his allow - nem from the Abbey being emali, it was not to be wondered at that eragis- ter Wilhelm's faintly were left desti- tute. When little Jeceith had vainly pulled his father's toat one wintere twilight, and vainly called him to teeir scanty doper, till the frightened wife bad come hurrying in, to find the scholar dead and cold over his OViding Ntiso, Thus the evidoet Of tile Meter Of the gr.:hone; found herself and her small claldren iii poverty, scarcely res limit by a daily dole from the Abbey, \Then Joeellit WaWaiteight years old, being accustomed to running in end out of the Abbny kitchen for the tem) and bread on which they existed; What With having lived among wandering Mare, inferior clergy, and the beelike of Duty, his head was fall of Icgteide of tingele and SAWS. And ORO laitalt. 1 1 .A • lying on bis little pallaisee, he dream- ed that aten; with black wings apread wide, descendett before a groat tone building to fly oft with him,' Then he cried to St. Edmund for 'help, erel the good saint appeared ana took him by the hand; whereupon the devil flew away, His cries awoke nis 'nether, aad she pondered 011 the awful dream tbrotigh the night. On the morrow, being a devout woman, she tOok him to St. Edmund's shrine, Unit elle might pray over bira and ask guidance of the monks. "It was just here that St. Edmund towhee uee, mother," said Jocelin, as they passed through the Abbey gate. After sortie talk with the Prior, the child Was admitted into the Abbey and left by his mother, as was youeg Samuel of old; thus, at the age of eight renouncing the 'svorld, the ele:311 and the devil, "Ah,",, mused Brother Jocelin, lean- ing Ids head on his hand, "such a dream was easily Interpreted by the monks. Otherwise, I might now bays) been bearing arms under Sir Adana a right valiant squire, instead ot dreaming over an antiphonary, and who knows if fortune and St. Edmund liad not interfered with my fate, but I might have borne my grandsire's crest upon a knightly shield?" "But" (hastily creeping Ininself as he glanced at the crucifix' with its warning text), "doubtlees the brethren were right, Diabolus, with outspread a lugs, was the pride of life, the please tires of this vain world, Toluptates, hujuiit soeculie which would have borne me -who knows whence, if SL Edmund and the Prior had not :nade a monk of mei" And Ise, sighing, laid ley his went, tor the shadows had length- ened, and ere he had set his painting tray to rights the refectory bell suna- moned him to the evening ellaali CHAPTER II, The refectory was a noble wains- cotted hall, lighted from above, with a atone bench around two sides, Th front of the arched door, above the Wainieoting, Was a pictured Christ, to which, on entering, Jocelin made obeisance. At the left- of the hall was the ambry, where stood the mas- sive golden grace -cup, and nearie3' was the niche, wherein were kept the ewer and basin in which the novices levee the brethren's hands. A, great table stood in the ceetre of the room, with a smaller one near the window, through which food was passed from the kitchen. On one side was the Bible -stand where, as Jocelin moved to his place near the head of the table, a blushing young novice was reading the evening less son in very bad Latin. Lent was over, and the table was bountifully spread with oaten cakes, wine and huge trenchers full of a smoking stew. "Made of my pet calf," mumbled John (Mice, as he shook his white head over the portion served him in a burnished platter. "By our Lady, the Sub -Prior has a most infidel spite at me, Brother Tristian" (this to a little weazened monk, with sallow face and red wisps 'of hair bristling around his tonsure), "never was spec- ial favorite of mine in the cattle' pen but that he sendeth it to Richard of Hennan to butcher, an' right glad Ric seems to do. it" (scowling at the burly Richard, who sat farther down the board wielding his knife as if it had been a cleaver). Pale, sneering - faced Walter broke in peevishly, "Now, now, John O'Dice, thou'rt ever grumbling at naught. Por what dost thou tend the Abbey herd save for the very end which befell thy calf? It Makes a savory mess, indeed, and me- thinks I Would scold less or eat less." These eemarks were covered by thee drone of the reader's voice, being 1 subdu.ed in fear of . reprimand for speaking while the lesson was under way, Jocelin (because he was the Prior's favorite, sat at the Sub Priori right hand, and though that worthy saw fit to reprove the young monk for tardinest several special dishes were, sent him; and indeed there was s much passing of food from the Sub Prior's end of the table to the eaters t farther down the board. • 1 the Scriptorium, and the 09406011010a* 01 buttery, kitchen and refractOry, shared in common with palsied ole Hugh, tha third Prier. "Hal Brother terinesen nottyet reterli- ed?" aokee eeeelin. Yea, the Norfolk Barrator! HO lies in the tower where our Lord Abbot bath met him. Debit not know that Ito lalled 13. hie inlet:don to Rome, and tbat Geoffrey Wel bath been given, the Woolpit Chtirch. He tiara there in foot gyvea awaiting the Abbott'a pleas- ure, and there are Whispers of banish- Inent to Acres" Tlie Sub Prier eletailea this news with peculiar relish, for Brother Sent- soe was unpopular a ith Mast of the easy-going, careless monks, aele,a an a,Ustere, taciturn person, Wile exhorted them to less eslf-indulgence, aral =- donned openly, as many «id in aecret, the ruinons policy of the Abbot. Hugo had tried in vain to overawe this stern critic, punishing hiM more than once to subduo'his haughty spir- it, Then, to placate him, he made hint Sacristan, aud finally Librarian, but Sturman, perfect in the perform - Mice of these functions, neither thank- ed him, nor ceased denouncing the bankruptcy of the Abbey, "A doubtful man," querulously said the infirm old Abbot to the Prier, "Severity cannot break, nor kindness soften him." So they Bent Idyl to Rome, and having failed in his mis- sion, he was punished in the arbi- trary manner of the times. But what- ever he might be to Abbot and monks, he was ,Tocolin's eeloved, master, and he received the Sub Primes new with lowering brow, eating no more of his goodly food. As soon as the meal was over, and the monks bad marched from the refectory, singing a. psalm, he seized his unemptied cup, and pour- ed the wine, into.his flask; then plac- ing it with sense food in his wallet, he went ego the garden, Taking his way furtively in the flower-sceeteri twilight falling about the great build- ings (where bats flitter in and ou,t of the turrets, and owns hooted softly from far -oft' bell towers), Tomlin walked for some time, and then climb, Ins cautiously, mounted the Abbey wall, and, some yards farther, came to the prison. The vesper bell had be- gun to tole as he swung himself light- ly against the tower, by getting a peri- lous foothold on projecting stonee, aided by a sturdy .creeper whien wreathed itsfront, and he at length raised himself to the level of a deop- set, grated windew. "Brother Samson," ho called, but there was no answer, save thedeep breathing of a sleeper, which told that the worn-out traveller bad thus for- gotten failure and punishment. Tak- ing the food and wine from his wal- let, Jocelin pushed them through the grating, and scrambling down, was soon back in the Abbey. chapel, lead- ing the droning vesper chant; his mellow notes rising high and clear above the rougher tones of the breth- ren in the "Ave Maria." e CHAPTER III. • The inmates of the Abbey, roused from their slumbers by the tolling of bells, wore assembled in their varioes chapels ,of the Nocturnal service. The rain wee falling heaylly, drearily, out- side, and the drone ofthe sleepy chanters mingled with the low rumble of thunder. As the last "Kyrie" was sung in the chapel of our Lady, the big Abbey bell boomed out solemn and deep. The praying monks rose from their knees, aria stood looking at one another with whitening faces. It was not an alarm, nor a call to the church. Slowly, slowly, it tolled, ringing sad- ness to eitery heart, and they knew by its sound that in the stately mane sion of Bradfield, the soul of their father Abbot had passed out intethe stormy night. Tc. one man, far off in the cold darkness bf the prison tower, the Ab- -bot's death kneel brought many and varied thoughts.- Brother Samson had small aespectfor his superior, fer the Abbot was aeiyeak man, of little learn- ing, who owed hie Abbotehip to the favorite= of King Henry, and who who for many years had governed most inefficiently. Samson hrld oo love for weaklings; of Norfolk breed, le was posseased of a sturdy strength of character that no cowl .1001 sub- due, Early entering St. Edmunds as a novice, on becoming a monk he had departed to the great schools of Paris, and from .thence to Rome, in both !entree of teeming Winning fame for his Abbey and commendation for him - elf. At the age of fOrty-five he had re - limed, to find (Ingo in the place of tis friend and master. Abbot Gaunar- Us, and the Abbey sunk into a slough of debt; deserted by the learned mallets e'llad 'known, and filled with idle, ig- !meant men. The buildings wore out f repair. many valuables 0.101031or lost 8(1 only hall of the edvotatee trite to heir allegea.nce. The monks reader' nd caroused; eating natal and break - lig other rules of the order. Rents .erealned uncollect: eteno horaemen vere maintained; the whole estate 'Menthes the direst meted and bnse. While the Abbot, like a Hghtened hen In charge of ducklings-, lied vainly to rule his idle, rebellioue 'tonics finally retiring to Bradfield, vhence be held lair sway over the dis- rganizee Abbey. 'Deeply in debt to lie Jews, who Were clamoring far their ights at the very_ gates, the Abbot aud Prior signed paper after paper, retitle- d the Mine, fund of the Abbey, and sorrowed more and more ee.cle sueceeds ng year. So while the bell tolled, tee Norfolk monk thouelit bitterly epon tlieee tangs. "Roger. the Prior, will make lush nhotber Abbot at lingo, and 1 oiled not it is on him the ehole.e will all; an' were I out of this vile prl- on. wherein I am so unjustly eonfin- d!-But of the Opel naugbt but one!" he marmite& and eheeltc.d his ngry Mitshige With it Drayer for the enose of die Hugo's gout. leovieg his Abbey, and jealong of its time, of egeressiee eattire with great Neeutiee ability, Sititison was feared rid iticknrimed "Thirrator," or, "Quer- elet." The reenke lenue g slhed eached the eoriclueion, by arguing tone occitslohal Mph' storgaclig, and nowledge of the increaeing Abbey ebt, that If things were allowed to mitintie on the salne benie, ne red 'oult1 lie left to cover them, and, fore. d to become friars, they Weald eave O Wandet over the country, prom!. (tinily living Ori alms: and the most of them realized that It 'Werad take a ne strorig baand elear brain to set Thing Mii tight. Anil se already the tide was ternirig in Sarnson'e favor, wiles.' Prior Rom summoned the tib Prier, Seeelill, tad smile of the Other bretl) • ren te the Abbot's 'hue bean% Not:- WM.41. witn the net's that the Prolate WAS dyieg, feletintsa03 lee ATI! ATI!• . 4* Hetet-4 wonder whet Makes Seieb- bier ItletraYil seem to serione. Jeax--• He'll the editor Of a &Mile weekly, soitte--W4311, that & no mae The meal eves presided over by an eged monk, directing the novices in their serving, and when they had 11 passed the. trenchers and filled the cups, seated at their own table they supped a what reniained in the a dishes, . The Sub Prior, a pretentious Ignorfl - amus, conversed with Jocelin about 1 the flowers he was painting, frequent- 1 ly confusing* their botanical name% and Jocelin answered him absently. But the Sub -Prior was satisfied a ,with displayeag his own erudition, and 1 did not notice the inattention. When he had concluded, Jocelia roused him- n self to inquire about Abbot Hugo, I who, grown blind and old, kept his ° 'chamber itt Bradfield house. "My young frere, he rows no bet- r ter," answered the Sub Prior, "and I fear in things fall 'worse and Worse for OUT house. Debt increases. The , 1 Jews refute to advance more moneys 3 (save at eipincets rates), and alas, it seemeth to me that those of the Father's household are but flattering titne-servers, who beguileth him with ° lies, profit by his infirmities." In a lower voice he •contimied: "We f lose our power in St. Edmondsbury0. - our own Stotve. 2(t', by our Lady, v stsvas Onle yesterLiorn When our Cel- g termites, trying theinly to celled the !It repselver, was forced to selee through- r out all the town stools, kettles, dr „ household wares, in lieu of the refused reaping penny, And beshrow me an' e he waschased, yea, My brOther. chased through the streets by a crowd r of yelling beldames, Who belabored r him meet soundly With their , dig- r taffs, Ora pro nob's! We are coin- 1(.1 Ing upon bad times. Twenty years agent' their hag heads would have graced the town Walls for such re- v• sietance of our Lord's authority. The e, fieldshusbandry 'are short ih their " rents to the Rave, the dyers and weavers pay but a small tithe of their allotted tax, and even the fund for lightirig our holy sitintei Shrine (crossing himself ris he 'melte) "bele thort of that of last year. Yea, we are tensing upon bad times, as thou niay'st see; though certes oil thy young slietilders falls little of the bur- den whin testetil en mince And the Sub Prior nodded his head, and Mitered his shoulders Pompously, though, in fact, he had nothing what - deer .to do with the adMitthitration �f the Abbey affaite; his duties being lireitea ter a 'nertain gtiardialishlp Of t tr. • le wooer od0e. tt;ter.,4* $14,' (IT'S A FOOD) 41 1' The consumption of Cit y Dairy Ice Cream is In. lie creasing every season. The local dealer has not the facilities, besides he mak es so little that he cannot turn out a uniform Ice Cream. Discriminating shop keepers everywhere are selling City Dairy Ice Cream instead of their own make, and their patron- age is increasing because City Dairy Ice Cream is better and the quality is uniform. los - Look for the Sign, TORONTO. We want an Agent in every town. •••••••.•••••••••*noll ..mmi.ouna•layou...•••.• mmisimNyam•simml••••10••••11,11.... . Hints of Housekeepers. In case you have guests and they engage in a heated political contro- versy, start up the plemograph. Burning a largo mien on it red hot shovel will do away with the odor of tobacco in year drawing -room, Don't throw your coffee-grounds away, Dry them and keep them for tho use of borrowing aeighbors. Letting tho children run barefoot in summer win save money in ships, but It makes the soap bill larger. KEEP CHILDREN WELL DURING HOT WEATHER Every mother keows how fatal the hot euzinner month:" aro to email chil- dren. Cholera infanum, diarritoea, dysentery and stomach - troubles are rife at thin time and often a precious little life is loft after oely a few hours. illness. Tin mother who neeps Baby's Own Tablets in the house feels safe. The occasioual use ef the Tab- lets prevents stomach and Newel trou- t -les, 'or if trouble 00131a3 eutidettly.- . as it goilorally does-tha Tablets will bring the baby safely. througlr. Tney aro sold by medicine dealers or by mall at 25 cents a. box front' The. fir. Williams: idedicine Coe 13rockville, (SOIL 44 44 Thome's Aqueducts. The eight aquedlicis 02 ancient Rome brbeght 40000,000 gallons of water a day. into the city, Had the Romans been aware that water always lee is to its own level these huge erections on arches seventy feet nigh need never have been built.. Minartes Liniment Curea Distemper. The Gypsies. The origin of the people known as gyassies remains largely a mystery. Egypt, India, Persia and Arabia have in turn been 'pointed out as their origi- nal tountry, but there is little definite knowledge on the subject. The 'weight of evidence is in favorof their having originated in India. They first appear- ed in Europe about 1400 and from the Danube region spread all over the ton - thin% appearing in .England about 1520. As tige advances the blood gets thin, the nerves exhausted an d vitality runs low. By building up tbe nerve force Of body and mind Dr. Chase's Nen* Food is an un- bounded lgessing to people of ad- vanced years. CO crate a box, all dealer. g.louak ft GLARING INJUSTICE, (11x.ehtinge) Barbers' rates unquestionably require revision. what is needed, however, 10 not a horizonttU cnange, but an adjust- mont 111 aecordaece with tho iservicee rendered. Every bald-headed man, for Instance, feels & burning sense of Injuat when he rays it cents for a hair -out, end sem tne tousled poet or ntuslielati In the adJellling chair, witueet head is cov- ered with an almost Impenetrable Auntie, lay down a quarter as the reward OP the boid and persevering explorer who had lopped nIf the tops of the dense under- growth. It Is oonzervatively estimated that ten bald Mori Mtn be trItturied 18 13 torieorial parlor in the time it takes to cut the hair of one football player. If bee -bete' rated 'Were adjuitted adentift. etillY, 'each eustomot 'Would pay for his httir out In accordance with the hUmber of .equare inches of productive Surface 00. lo Molgs ex u6selve elA8 11 :L*4 bald -heads fir Vices rendered to other peoplo• A Chilly Spot. "You'll have to change my place on the bill,"edeclared the lady acrobat. "I find the•andienes too cold. "Hew will a shift he1l? you any?" demanded the vaudeville manager. "Why, I come on just after a fellow who is lecturing on the aratio."- Louisville CouriereJournal. Minard's Liniment Cures Garget In • Cows, •!: CHURCH IN VACATION TIME. (Pittsburg Gazette -Times.) There are two theories as to the ecen icy of the church in the vacation seen' son. One is to shut up shop on the ex- cuse that people won't flock to church In Bummer anyway. The other Is to keeP Open and make the servioe so attractive that It is bound to brin,r a congrega- tion. Many fallacious Ideas have grown up with 'vacation time. Ono is that "everybody is out of town." The fact is that the vast majority of the people are hero at home, right on the Job i throughout July and August, as well as the other ton, 8300019 of the year. Another is. that "it's, too hot to go to church." Church .attendance in summer Is. ou the wholb,1 much more comforta- ble and convenient than in winter, when after wading thuough snow and slush one too often ha n to sit for an hour and a half in an ill -ventilated auditorium swapping grip and cold in the head sserms with one's neighbors. A Ille'rd fallacy is that religion is a good deal like an overceatz to be put away care- fully for the enmmer and brought out again in the fral. if it hasn't 'been eat- en up in the meantime by moths. .0M I bought a horse with a supluillecily iteuvable ringbone for $30 Cured him with fie1.00 'worth of MlNARD'S tiNI- MENT and sold him for e85; Profit Liniment, 0.4, • MOIST!: DEROSCle; HotelkeePer, St. Phillippe, Que. V • 'I A Shot That Made Trouble. 's I An odd intident happened in the) then Danish WescIndies in the Iset1 /wintry that. nearly caused serious in- ternational•oonnoreations. An Amere" can marksman; paying a visit to Char- lotte Amalie, amused 'the governor by an exhibition of his skin with thei rifle. Sitting on the verandah of ,the I Government House, he eaid that ete), could cut with a bullet the signal hale yards on the flagstaff of •the fort -and; lower the Danisai etandard to the) ground, As the lines were almost in- visible in the distanee ,-the governor was Willing to bet thatlhe could not do it. The allot rang out, and the ',flag fell, Presently a horsemen dashed lite Me:trailing the governor that some one had fired on the flag J There was great excitelneitt. The(governor, none too popular, it seems, with the mili- tary, ruined his pol1tled future by ad- mitting that the ffair /Was a joke in which he eonnived. Benoit teeing sent to Copenhagen, highly. eolored, of tourse, by the commandant, his excel- lency was semmarily remo'v'ed. • • I• 41; ' 4:11J BTL E. (Life). or paint things as' z ace them," said /)obbster, cornidaeentlY, as the oritio in- spected his "Moonlight on the Iludecni." "Intereetingl" said the critic. "Have you ever thought of CA:insulting an octdo let, Dobbster? niatilmerm h.. ion mslarmag imoniimmormintenriminlh 1 Issue is10, ;32, 1915 . ._--,-----.—rrr-------___,. HELP WANTED, .....-,"------ w ANTED-EXPBRIBNODD WOW. " Or* and. anarentleve. Wages pale to anerenticOP White learning. Apply to the $illigshlr Mfg*, Co- Brantford. 4 MIME TYPEWRITER, Has Only Three Keye But Can. Write 50,000 Oharacters, Stenographers may be intereeted in learning that there is a new Alert ef typewriter welch has Just been in- vented be a Youog ancient in the en- gineering department ot New York University, The Amelia:le is tliffereut from the tyPeveriters familiar to the average operator in several respects. For Matinee, the "standard'. keebtird ba e twenty-eix letters and In most cages about a flOsen key e devoted to figures and punctuation marks, while the new machine bas 44200 characters in all end Only three keys. One of the three keys is a back spacer, another the sPace key ,and the third is the innr with which the 4,200 cbaractere are struck. It is poseible, according to the inventor, to make more than 4,200 Characters by com- binations of "radicals" or base char- acters, About 50,0110 chalneters can be made by the reachiee, the inventor says. That stenograpeers ambitious to Ioperate the new typewriter will find their task a little difficult at first, at least, was indicated by the fact that It required two hours to write the first letter tamed by the machine. Thls letter contained approximately 100 words, but the operator was un- familiar with the 4,200 kens. The machine is said to be the first Chinese typewriter ever invented. Heuen Chi, the student 'venter con- ceived the idea that a typewriter could be made to write Chinese while he was at his home in Southern China three years ago, he said, He went to the United States as a Government student and, on the prompting of Chinese officials who lute become in- terested in hie scheme, took up the study of engineering at New Yark 'University and continued to work on the invention. He completed the Model a short time ago, and has pa- tented it in China and Japan, for it also. writes Japanese, eatiche he said, is quite similar to Chinese, . - 4 • 4. ' ' ' The Dining. Table4 Suppose the,clote is me, . Next comes .the service Plate. The knivee arena the eiglie ' The keife blades are always turned in. The dessert knife is neareet the Dlate. Next comes the meat knife, then the fish knife. .And next the soup spo.on. Then the oyster fork, crossed over the knives,' ilf you like. , At the left of the plate is the des- . etert fork. Next it is the salad fork, Then comes the meat fork, then a small fork for the entree, and, last, a iish fork. Then the napkin., These silver knives, spoons and forks are naturally used from tlie out- side. si. 4 • e.. How Sickly Women , May Get Health • If they could only be niade to sea !that half their ills ere caused by iin-• pure blood, it wouldn't take long to euro them with Dr. iterailtoits Truly a wonderful. medicine that in- vigorates, etrengtnens; renewn elvery tired, wern-out, woman teat tris Dr. Hamilton's -Pills will improve rapidly, will have better color, inercasvd ae- petite and better digestion. No better rebuilding tonic can be found than Dr. Hamiltoa's Pills, which are safe, mild and ilealth For 'forty years Dr. Hainilton's 'Pills ',nee been, America's most val- I ued family medicine, 25c per box, at I all d eaters. • • • Scattered. Pat was. employed on an _engineer - ;lug job a few miles out of the citY and was carried to his work by an express train, which accommodating- ly slowed up near the scene of his la- bors. Otto morning, however, the train rushed through the cut without reduc- the job looked in Vain for • Pat, At speed, and the superintendent 'of ;last he saw- a much battered Irishman limping back down the ties and called to him: "Hello, Pat! Where did you get off?" Pat turned stiffly and, waving his hand toward the steep embankment, sighed: • "Oh, all along here!" -Life, r ---- LIQUOR -A—ND I MORPHINE HABITS JI Aro diseases, not vices, and there., fore curable. Patlenta aro under my personal care and receive ti.e.r lea bunt in c.rd(nary hospitals as ordinary medical cases. D. H. ARNOTT, M.' D. e 226 Queen's Ave., Londen, Ont. CONCENTRATE THE FIGHTING. (Rocheste)' Times) . wouldn't It be a good plan to. eond the Mexicans over to Europe. They would fine enough- to keep them busy for some time to dome. • • GREAT SALE or ORGANS AND PIANOS r Ye Oldo rime of Heintzman Coe corner iting and John streota, Hamil- ton, Ont., are offering 50 organs at a great rnduction hi price. Instruments bearing the names ot Melt well- known makers as Bell, Doherty, Kern, rominioh and Uxbridge are . being sold 817 low as $15 to M. Geed practite Mame treat $50 to 101). Write for complete list 01 (prices aiid terms. Twisted Trousers. A party ..of Soldiers beund for sisolnewhere in Prance" were waiting for their train tit a rural station in Wiltshire. Among the lookers-on were an old elhintryman and hie wife. \Venting eloWly peat the warriors, tho wonual eyed them carefully, her attention being mainly paid to their puttee elad lege. "I say, (large," she Whispered, when out of eartihot, "there's soiliethin' I Can't understand abOut thee tOlgers." "What be it, lass?" asked her good Man, With a eitperior air. ean't thing how they get their laiirs into they twisted trousers," said the old woman, in wonder. :•11.9LOWI 41 PUT th4-4p 01 two seasons ago, and see, 'it is just as good as if 5. 1 sealed it. only' p yesterday, h is because! use Pat- el •11 5PAne641/1"Pore Refined Pataffine 'Discard those bother. some, • unreliable ttA strings and papers.' `.1 The Parowax way is much easier and quicker, and you are never disappointed by moldy, fermented -j preserves. , Simply melt the Par, owax and pour over. jelly glasses. Dip; tops of jars in.Par9-3 wax. Put up in handy\ one - pound cartons con- taining four cakes.' At grocery 834 de- partment stores eV- , erywhere.' THE.IMPERIAL OIL OMPANY . Emited BRANCHES IN ALL CITIES O.- Made_ In _ e0e, Canada • . PES,SIMILTB REBUKED, (Ottawa Evening journal) "The art of Motherhood is lost," la- ments a noted American woman-oduca4. !tionist to the International Purity Con- gress being held at San Francisca. We fear the good lady belongs to the ever- growing class of invincible pessimists. The art. of itfotherhood is not lost, in feat we know that it' e being improved. Despite thy 'United States with its divorce record, despite the quacet moralist groc- ers of a so-called new but in fact age- old philosoPhy of society that is vicious, there are more good men and true women to -day than ever before, and Motherhood is as sacred as at any time in nineteen hundred years. And the boys and girls, being reared by the present generation of mothers are as strong„ mentally morally and physically; as the boys and girls of a decade -or a century ago -perhaps stronger. ' If the pdssitnistic !tidy who believes that we have loot the art of Motherhood thinks differently, let her study statis- tics of health and infant mortalayi You will find relief in Zam-Buk I It eases the burning, stinging 1" pain, stops bleeding and brings 1 oase.Perseverance, with Zant- St*, ea. - cure: Why not prove this? .eill Drugoigabcad iStorec,-. What He Had Better Do. Macpbore021 in talking t� his min- istee told the reverend gentleman epee he was goiiig to take it. trip to Troly land, "And whiles I'm there.," he said en- thusiastically. "I'll read the Ten Com- mandments alood free the top of Mount Sinai.' "Nae, Macpherson," said the minis- ter, gravely, "tak' my advice. Dinna reel' them alood. Bide at ham and keep them." leinard's Liniment Cures Colds, the A POSSIBLE EXCEPTION, (Judge) "The more a man has, the more he wants," quoth the parlor philosopher, "Do you think that applies to the fath- et' of seven children?" asked the mere man, who hapPened to have that many. I MInard'e Liniment Cures Diphtheria. .4 • 6. SANITARY PRECAUTIONS. (Gargoyle) "Hey, Moike, and pwhat do ye Pink of these new sanitary drinkin' eupS?" "Sure, Pat, and Soen we'll have to spit on our hands wid an eye dropper:" "Carle' said the teacher, "can you tell me what an inebriate is?" "Yes, ma'am," repliel Carl. "It is int ani- mal Unit does not have a backbote." .01k,C1e6TEC.,41.1i4dieitiweameeirombiolusr*".... ,AeLogii...1.1471.•••.40•••••,ft DRS. SOPER & WHITE SPECIALISTS Piles,lesema, arthnid, Ceterrh, Pimple*, DYIPe011te, Cpflepsy, Rheumatism, Skin, Kid- ney, Snood, Nerve and lisladdee Disease*, t all et setut hitter, for foe 6.1.1o. Itiedklie Webbed itt tablet Ione, lieen-10 ctn. to 1 p.te. and 2 to 6 p,nt, 8enclays-e10 km. kelpie. Cooteliatioa tree DIOS, F'I 4 wutritt P. Tomato St., Tama°, Oid. WMWrttL Atkpuot..ndiLemol,,