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The Brussels Post, 1914-1-8, Page 2lawagam THE TRIALS OF THE TRAPHR HARDSHIPS END -1[11111 IsOR kLY LADIES' FURS, The Animate Will Tear Their Lags OR to Escape Frons the Trades. . With the extreme cold of the Can. out tags to facilitate slupptng adieu winter comes the desire of O These dealers handle hundreds of that: warmest atering of all—furs; thousands of dollars' -worth of raw fur -and lined the (coat , wether aor of a skins annually and have offices all sur -lined coat, whether ft be of mink;, meows ur• muskrat, will ap- preciate its comfort. Dainty ladies, closely enwrapped in their costly furs scarcely ever give a thought as to ,the herdships that have to be borne to meet her whims and fan- cies, and very likely the actual stole that she wears may have cost a hu man life, In fact, it is to be doubt- ed if any of us fully realize what Actual effort is expended before a fur -lined coat or stole ora muff, is. placed upon the retail market. vary from fifty cents for a•muskrat to possibly $800 or even $1,000 for the fortunate trapper of a silver fox. Mink from $4 to $12. Fisher anything about $35, and :skunks from one to four dollars, So if the of Abdul Iiarmid, the ex -Sultan of work is dangerous the reward is good, and yet, taking cine month 'Turkey, and his court, The follow- ing, however, came from a reliable will only average between $^35 to toupee, writes a contributor to $30 per week during the ,season, Charnbors's Journal, and once, and one is forced to wonder if it is when I told the ,story in company, worth it. one of my listeners told mo that he The big fur dealers sometimes personally knew it to be true. It is employ trappers, and always send worthy of a plaice among oSclreltera- ttadC sfemme taloa. Not far from the •sultan's palace lived a certain Ahmed R•nshdi Ef- fendi, f thehundreds f lerks •A TRUE TURKISH STORY. Ahmed Rnshili Effendi and Tlta Ma - moth Peaches. Menu fantastic stories are related Red Man Pioneer'. Moat of the furs worn .throughout the country are ehtained in the first ',lace by the hardy and - intelligent Canadian trappers. Although,. of course, the Indians were the pion- eers of the trapping of fur -bearing animals, the lonely trail of the red man has slowly but surely given away, through years of civilization to the invasion of the white man, and the Hudson. Bav 'Company bas handled anilines of dollars as the results of the labors of the red man. At the present time much of the trapping is done by farmers' sons, who find it a very profitable game during the slack time of the winter • months, and also by men who trap during the season and fill in the summer menthe by helping farmers or gathering, herbs. Best 'Buie.The trapping season commences during November and extends gen- erally to the month of April, al- though the best furs are those ob- tained during the more rigorous part of the winter. The pelts at other times. are considered of sec- ond grade or inferior quality. Be - ever the world. DREAM OF HOME. (An Old English Ballad). It is ten weary years since I left. England's shore, ra In a far distant country to am, How I long to return to any awn native lend— To my friends and the old folks ab home; Last night, as I slumbered,I had a strange dream, One that seemed to bring dietant friends arrear, -- I dreamt of old England, the land of any birth, To the heart of her sons ever dear. Refrain, I saw the olcl homestead and faces I leve— 1 saw Iingland's valleys and dells; I listened with joy, as I did when a boy, To the sound of •the old village bells. The log was burning brightly-- 'Twas a night that should banish all sin. For the bells were ringing the Old Year out, And the New Year in. While the joyous bells rang, swift I wended my way To the cot where I lived when a boy ; And I looked in the window -yes; there by the fire, Sat my parents; me heart filled fore the snowfall, during fine �vrtlt 3o, - weather, location for sets are The tears triokled fast down my sought, that is, the best place for bronzed, furrowed cheek, the setting of traps, and this is As I gazed on my mother so dear, enmity m swampy ground, as most . I knew in my heart she was raising fur -bearing animals are to be found in these locations. ]Meat Profitable. a prayer For the boy whom she dreamt not was near. The mink is the animal most At the door of the cottage wo met sought after b, the trapper on ac- face to face— oount of its costly fur, yet this ss 'Twits the first time Inc ten weary • the most difficult to catch. It in- rears; habits the muslin stream almost S exclusively and its chief diet is fish, oon the past was forgotten—we stood hand -in -hand -- it is fish that is used to entice him Father, Mother, andV'and'rer in and this bait is suspended by a Liars, piece of string over the trap, which Once more in the fire. -place the nal: Inc this animal is set in about two log burns bright, inches of waiter and carefully con- And 1 promised no more would I e alecl by water -soaked leaves, The mink is a very shy and sensitive ani-roam; mal and can scent where a man or As T sat in the old vacant chess by other animal has been even for the hearth, days after they have left. and will .And I sang the clear song -- carefully avoid the place. On this "Heine, sweet, Home." account the trapper has to exercise and has to -take every possible pre- LISTEIING TO 'l`fI:UNDLR. caution: The method is for the — trapper to wade some considerable HOW 'Yon May Judge of the Clara - 'distance in the stream before the ter of a Lightning Flash, extreme c THOUGHTS ON 1 I) UCATION. The iNeiv Rural Life. 31y Rev, James Anthony, Agin- court, Ontario, There is a new rural life. The day has gone when anyone regards it as a reproach to live in the coun- try. The telephone, the railway, rural free delivery, the newspaper and the library, togother with the enterprise of country people who have had faith in the possibilities: of rural, life have had their Mlles once in bringing to rural Outwits)en r, ono o u c the best in the pity and town with - employed at the Sublime Porte, mit the corresponding clisad;ran- Ahmed'e duties consisted of writing Cages of urban existence, Not that ornate official communications to those who believe. in .the country provincial governors. For this he regard their work as done. No, for was supposed to receive a salary of country people the best is yet to two hundred piesters (about eight donors) per month. If, however, he received his salary six times a year he thought himself lucky. Compared to many of his col- leagues in •the government offices, -,Ahmed was in comfortable einem- stances. He owned his own house, so lie had no rent to pay, and he gave him leisure time to cultivating the tiny garden with !reit and vege- tables the whole year round. Ah- med Effendi, not being ambitious, was a contented man. In his peaceful household there was only one discordant note. The emetic was a dwarf peachtree in Ah- med's garden, that bore every year aix or eight mammoth peaches..Eec- 1y in his married life his wife dreamed that her husband would one day attain eminence, and that the peaches wore connected with his fortune. Fifty times each year she urged him to take the peaches as an offer- ing to the sultan. "We are simple people," she would say; "such magnificent peaches are not for us. Carry them, I pray thee, to the pal- ace and present them to the Bene- factor of the World." But Ahmed would reply: are hew he makes his sets sets are made. The Raccoon. Lightning is the glare of a prodig- ious electric spark that is turned loose from some plata no longer strong There is another little animal enough to hold it, caul forms a ties much sought after by the indus- mendous blazing are as it leaps from trious trapper. ft makes its den in cloud to cloud, or from cloud to earth. hollow trees and is often caught by The little spark of a laboratory riza- placiug,the trap at the feet of the chine makes a orackliug noise, and the trunk, or by chopping the tree gigantic one in the sky makes a nor• - down and eltootiug it when dialodg- ed Of this class, too, should be mentioned the skunk, weasel, mar- ten, fisher and wolverine, all of which make valuable catches for the trapper. *Hard Life.. Many may grumble •at the high prices •that genuine furs demand, respond ing great one as it tears through the air, and sets up vibrations of tremendous intensity. But it is noticeable in a thunder- storm that the thunder -claps aro of very different loudness and quality of sound. The length and strength Of. a thunder -peal, as a meteorologist points out in Knowledge, depend main- ly on the size of the accompanying lightning discharge, but the loudness and sharpness of the crack that comes be" 1 The struggle has just begun, and the leaders, in bringing about the end desired, mast be the press, the pulpit, and the public school teacher. "Wife, no good comes to those who have relations with the palace. I, who have always been discreet, do notwish to fall under sus- picion," But at last, after twenty years, Ahmed yielded to his wife's impor- tunity, and carried the' beautiful fruit to the palace. There he en- trusted the peaches to the grand ohamberlain, who, knowing the sultan's fondness Inc fruit, prompt- ly carried them into the presence of the Illuminator of the Universe. The sultan graciously accepted the gift, and commanded Ahmed to wait until he was at liberty, in or- der that he night himself, thank the grower of such splendid fruit. It happened that the reception- roomwhere the scribe awaited the pleasure of tho sovereign was filled with a band of suspected bomb - throwers, and Ahmed was present- ly hustled away to prison with the supposed' revolutionaries. Ile was thnrenghly confused by the rough treatment of the guards, and could only stammer, "I am the man who brought the peaches ! I am the man who brought the peaches!" In prison he soon became known as "the man of the peaches," and was looked upon as a harmless lunatic. After many months the suspeeted bomb -throwers, includ- ing Ahmed, were brought before the criminal . court. Ho told his story to the ;edge, send asked that the grand chamberlain be called to confirm his words„ The judge granted the request, and was great- ly surprised when the dignitary told of the arrival of Ahmed at the palace some months ago, and of his mysterious disappearance. The ohamherlaiu tools the afflicted scribe to his own1311110 in the pal- ace, and wont to explain matters to the sultan. sorry for The sultan, sincerely the unlucky mistake, commanded the chamberlain to promise Ahmed that any wish of his should be ful- but the life of the trapper rs one before the peal depend chiefly on the el the hard set, and it may safely be said, that he earns all he gets. Many a man has started off into the wilds and never returned. Illness or accident in some shape has over- taken him. If he does return its only after terrible hardehips. He has, of ener0e, to be out in all hinds of weather, no matter if it is 30 below zero. His bait very often is stolen by the wolviisine; in fact, it is no uncommon thing for this wily animal toeat the bait time and again and then get of£ scot free. His direction taken by the electric current relative to the hearer. The first crack, or rending notes, conies from the flash itself; the peal that follows consists of echoes from the clouds or from mountaheetdes, when hills are near. leurtJtormore, Cho noise of the actual flash comes to us frons all along the lightning's path; we hear first that atthe beginning of the flash, and later the noise made toward the end of its path. When this ds short, and we are so situated with reference to it that the whole report reaches our ears almost simultaneous- ly, say ill a quarter of a, second, it sets may get 'snowed up, and sails a sounds like one terrific' i:hump or 2egrdar 14apper knows arliail; t+his Crash. Dill if the electric arc is long, May moan. 'Very 011011 he, pets and the noise takes two or three soc- siioti+041. up himself` end frozen to ends to teeth us completely, it trans death before be is ,formed. Another pates itself into a long, tearing roar. thing Ise has to chance is the pea- Thus yon may judge of the character sibility of lupi toeing the animals, even after they are trapped, es it. very often happens that an animal Will eat its leg off to get clear of the trap and get away. A little kg hist, often, busied in the snow, is Inc. hems during the season, Solidity near the scene of his operations, where the skins are ,streiehed on hoards as soon as the animals are skinned. Hfils i ', its vasa, Anil what are his rewards for fac. ing (loath in every teem during thcise cruel usenthel They are of a very wide eharaotor, and Chit prices Ile ol,k,ise for the fruits of his bihor There are perils to be faced. The first of these is the blinding power of the .present material prosperity. Teethis the menacing blight of the cares of the world and the deceit- fulness of riches. The days were in Ontario when a, man regarded his farm as his home. Now hie re- gards it as his mine. He was proud of his place es a freeman in the commonwealth; Now his pursuit is money. He was glad to take part in the healthy activities of the neighborhood. Now the bend of union that he regards as of supreme importance is the cash nexus. He was proud when his bey became s dootor, a lawyer, a farmer. His heart now swells when his child amasses mono'. This peril that, if unchecked, will eat out this best of our national life, can be best combatted by showing the boys and girls of On- tario that• no man is revered in his- tory because he was a millionaire. Riches have ruined men and na- tions. They never made either a man or a nation great. Who asks if Mackenzie or Macdonald were wealthy? Who cares whether Bor- den or Laurier aro millionaires? No, these men are of worth and they command the esteem of Cana- dians in proportion to their integ- rity and their power to serve. Hee Shakespeare's poverty or wealth anything to do with the fact that he is the teacher and inspirer of men of every 'country and of every clime? History and biography de- monstrate that a country's jewels are its boys and girls. It is the teacher's opportunity to demon- strate this. The spirit of the new rural life, as it is interpreted by its highest prophets, is a fine combination of reverence and free inquiry. There is a new .sense of power. Electri- city has made the country a new place to work in. Pests are new understood, and the means of their conquest ,are in the termer s hands. No man who knows his business talks of luck; he does nob regard his let as being imposed upon him. In other words, he has caught the scientific spirit. This same epirit has taught him his limitations and hie dependence upon world forces and spiritual entities. kM tl icJt •:':aI'ri istosydesifiaseTeisess The Standard Lie of Canada. Has lluaallut hnIt81tQonS but no equal CLEANS AND D1SLNFECMWO r fir- . It°�''+,�•' % PURE /jilt) IUIlimp es 1.1ei irei'.; ?O:Siidled:e'ds,iz ; ,s;Velem..or ra'1i+ FROM YiERRY OLD EIICLA3 NEWS BY MAIL ABOUT JOHN BULL AND HIS PEOPLE. Occurrences in The Land That Reigns Supreme in the Com - menial World. In London there were 1,997 births and 1,159 deaths registered last week. H. M. the Queen recently visited the aged miners' hones at Middle - stone, near Durham. . It is oomputed that a day of se- vere fog in London cost the inhabi- tants $95,000 for gas. Tho speed limit for motor cars at Hyde Park Corner has been fixed at 10 mules an hour. Caesar and Washington were the names of two mon fined at Willes- den for being intoxioated. The whole of Cho British lake only occupy one sixteenth• -herr- dreclth part of the surface of 'the globe. Mise gnawing matches aro sup- posed to have caused a fire which burned out a grocer's shop at Lowestoft. The Duke of Wellington bee be- come a life member of the Pure Food and Health Society of Great llritain, • At the Driffield Hiring Fair farm- ers had to meet a demand of $15 above last year's wages for yearly indoor workers. As the result of a compromise, the strike of 360 girls at Messrs. Couttanld's artificial sills mills, Braintree, has been ended. The death has taken place at Folkestone of Mr. Vincent Hill, formerly general manq er of the South -Eastern and C iathain Rail- way. Whilst cycling te Br Croydon, a young Oharles French, of Cielyden, was run over by a motor bus had killed:. The Cliamher of Comane`toe of Liverpool and Birkenhead have re- eent]y had before thorn the project of a transport bridge across the, Mersey. For blasphemy in open-air lec- tures at Wolverhampton,, Thos. Wm. Stewart was sentenced to four months' hard labor at Staffordshire assizes. It has been arranged that; Lady Scott shall bo the sculptor of the memorial to Captain E. J. Smith of the ill-fated Titanic, to' be erect- ed at Lichfield. It is stated. that more steel and iron are used annually in tree manu- facture of typewriters ' and pens than in the manufacture of arms and erase -toe. A proposal in fever of the amal- gamation of the three towns of Plymouth., Devonport and Stone- house has been carried by the Ply - a south Borough Caunoil. It late been definitely stated that the new departure of advertising the advantages of 'service in His Majesty's service is to be "made by the War Office. A fatory operative named Tho- mas Harwood, aged about forty, of Heywood, was knocked down by a motor lorry near the Heywood Cemetery and killed. YJrider a threat of being shot, a woman earned Allele Smith, was sobbed of a purse by a. youth who afterwards escaped in Rectory Fields, Bedworth, Werwiolcshire, Samuel Odart, of Whittaker Reed, Upton Park, recently cele- brated hips: hundredth birthday by a meeleal evening -at total ,hall, Where he, had oysters, gin and we - The ,new rural life is intensely ;practical. It has no use for dream- ers. Dreamers give - the world nothing but empty. dreams. Nature study must load in the direction of better ,control of nature. The cul- tivated field is as interesting ae the wilderness any day. The oroherd requires attention as well as the unbroken forest. Poets must, if they would be heard, interpret life as it is to -day. The church must filled. Abused replied that he fit men to live an Ontario as well as in New Jemusalem. A man's worth would aceept not one, but three gifts, and that he must name them to the sultan personally. The sul- tan was much concerned, and or- dered the scribe -ushered into his private. study. "Sire," said .Ahmed, "I melt for a hatchet, the sum of two hundred piasters, and a copy of the'Koran." "Your desire is granted," an - of a lightning Slash from Its own ro• port of proceedings. Money --Making. The man absorbed in money- making, wile subordinates every- thing in life to this one end, con- demns many of his faculties to iit- ter inanition. He gives himself no time to he a father to his family, a feiestd to his ueigh:boi's, an influ- ence nfl u-ence in the community. The facul- ties that have thus been Balled forth andstrengthened wither up and de case and, of couree, the happiness they would have yielded is Jost to hien, to the commonwealth is considere to be in proportion to his power to serve. It is the teadlter's high pri- vilege to. make all this clear to the boys and girls that are soon to make our laws. THE PRICE Ott A MAN. swered the sultan, "on condition i No One Can Set the Value But that ;vett explain the meaning of•Himself.your singular request," pr7net eau has his p "Bice," replied our hero, "with y the two hundred piasters I shall ()b- eidea from om my wife, the ii rice " says the cynic. We should not like' to admit. And yet it may be true in the sense that there is some point 1n every original cause of ail my trouble ; human character where, if temptation with the hatchet I intend to cuttasselled it with sufficient etrength, a e ; and a ion the breaking limit could bo. found. If tate Reranwiellli down my t { t e o swear ann oath were the meaning, then for ourselves .T t never in enter the place gates again so long as I live," Ready for Coe verstIiort. i Little 'Bertha, was invited out to tlinner with herr 'father and ine- titer. Before she went, her parents made her understand that she must not speak unless spoken to, Ali went smoothly at; first, but when, after tame time, n0 stoic Was tak- 011 of her, Bertha began to be est - ;Finally, easy, +' the beetess, seeing that something was wrong, asked her what she would lilce next, i.. slsould like to have you begin to elk rise question's,"' was the ' piss lite reply, and for all our frail brethren, let CCS sadly admit, we ail have our price, Yet, let us be thankful for this, that as for, most rightmindedmen they have not sot that price. They aro not marked down and offered on the couni ter, Temptation may fled them all too soon, and they may go at a piti- fully small figure, but they are not carrying that price in mind and waft- ing for an offer. Let us be thanitful once agate that no one can set prise upon any man butt himself. Other meats can wrong ua in many ways, but no roan can ecu his even character below cost, l'1 has east much; it has cost the man himself something, and 1510 ip not the only cost, No man can set a prism on his aoui but himself; fire! area, ivitateror the commodity t gained for, it is the man Ukelele who" is sold, Ito'is.tbe soitor and the using transferred, and he daternibieM, lot' no one oleo can do so, the value of him - Self,. ;liton Road, ran narnexd Bridge House Estate Committee proposed to invite British archi- tects to send in designs for it, new ia, Paul's bridge. Robert Michael Hall, solicitor, formerly mayor of Salisbury, and a member of the Wilts County Coun- cil. was oharged with misappropri- ating sums sanontiting to $4,985 en- trusted to hien by clients. At the quarterly meeting of ;l.lro North ,Sta•fferdshire Provident As- sociation it was reported that a member had died who had received $4,000 in sick benefits•. He has been a member sixty-three years. FROM BONNIE SCOTLAND NOTES OF INTEREST FRO el 11E11 TUNES AND BRRAFIS, What le iloing 011 In the Highlands and Lon -hods of Auld Scotia, The Millers' less -whiten of ,Edin- burgh have advaneedthe price of dour 12 cents per esaek. Of the thirteen mentbees of Gliut- gow .Clorporatinn who :sought re- election only five were successful, • Diphtheria is still prevalent in Aberdecu, ]!righty -two comes have been reported In one week. A sanatorium with 70 beds fait the united area of Dumfries .and Gallo way, has been decided upon. The old metal bridge over the Esk at Annan is in danger' of de- molition, and a new one is prepuce ed. The election expenses of a candi- data for an Ayrshire Town Council have been returned as two cents. A man named John Lister receiv- ed fearful injuries by felling e die- tance of 40 feet. at Port Glasgow Graving Dock, A young lady teacher, Miss Fran- ces Stout, of Lerwick, was instant- ly killed in a seeding accident in the ,Sound Brae. The death has occurred of Con- stable James Noble, an officer •who was well known and respected in the Western Division of the Glas- gow police. The collector of Customs and ex- cise has reoeived $5,000 in con- science money from some one who has been dodging the revenue de- partment. The trustees of the Clyde Naviga- lion have approved of :r proposal for the erection of a fixed bridge between Oswald street ail Common street, Glasgow. Female polies are demanded for Glasgow by the National Vigilance Association, and a, lecture on the subject will be delivered there by Mrs. Leathes, of Toronto. Mr. George R. Ure, Hopepark, Bonnybridge, :has retired from Stirling County -Council after re- presenting Denny East Ward for the long period of 24 years, There has passed away at Glen- deiek village one of the oldest resi- dents in the parish of Errol, in the person of Mrs. James .Miller, who had reached the ago of 91 years. It is understood that the historic -- Berwickshire estate of PIarchrnont has been bought. privately by Mr. McEwen of Edinburgh, The lands e.xteud to about 6,000 acres. While a crowd was leaving a foot- ball field at Tranant, East Lothian a horse attached to a coal cart bolted, and the driver, an old man • own named John Al:Neill, was thrown . out and killed. Abergrange sawmills, Grange- mouth, belonging to Messrs. Aber- crombie, Brisbane. and Brown, pit. - wood importers, has been cdestrcy- ed by fire. The' -damage is estimat- ed at about $5,000. A eommunicalron has been r•e- eeived from the Admiralty by the Dundee Harbor Board acceptiulc on lease eght acre's of ground on the harbor properly for the pur- poses of a hydro -plane station. While attempting to cross a ford bordering Loch Kernsary, Boss - shire, Alexander MacLean, the driver of a horse red cart, went off the track and fell into the loch. No- thing was afterwards seen either of the driver, horse or cart. A Glasgow chauffeur, driving on the Highland road, Inverness, ran into .a flock of sheep and killed eight outright, and 30 were 00 injured that they had to be destroyed. i\. fine of $100 was imposed,. and the man's licence suspends , T;IiE COUR/CESJFS 01' WAIL. Iaterestin.g Incidents of the Siege of Ladysmith. When the Boers advanced on Lady- smith in. the Transvaal War, the late Melton Prior was one of the twenty newspaper correspondents who threw in their lot with the army, instead of making the hurried retreat that was still possible. In his book, "Cam - insigne of a War Correspondent," he tells many interesting incidents of the siege. The enemy succeeded in placing thir- ty-two guns ou the heights above .the town, and kept up such an incessant fire that the troops and civilians were soon engaged in digging bomb -proof shelters. In a short time they learned to distinguish the different Boer guns by their sound, and gave them amus- ing names. Three of the large ones they called "Long Tom." Putting Billy," and "Weary Willie." Then there was "Silent Susan," ry named because the bursting of a shell was the first warning we got that it had been fired. "Bloody Mary," as you may suppose, was looked upon as a beast of a gun. In spite of. the havoc that these can- non worked, the soldiers soon grew accustomed to the shelling. One day the 20 Gordon Highlanders were play- ing football, when a shell plumped in among them. Fortunately, no one was hit, and they went on playing, The Boers were so interested, apparently, that they gave up firing, and actually sat on the edge of the hills, watching the game. Then, when it was ail over, the firing started again, But this was not the only courtesy the enemy showed. On Christmas day they saluted the happy morn by salvos of shells. The first two that fell into the camps of the Carbineers and Im- perial Light Horse did not burst. When the shells were pleked up, 1t was found that wooden plugs had been inserted in place of the fuses, and inside the shells were plum puddings. On the outside were the words, "With the. Compliments of the Season." ter. - A ,suffragette, 'who interrupted Dr. MacNamara during is spesoli at. the Old Kent Road baths, was. found tied 4:0 a chair, and both chair and woman had to be removed It was announced at the meeting together, of the City Corporation .that the REUNITED IN AFTER YEARS'. Wlutt An 01d Lady Discovered in a Welsh Coal inline. A number of years ago some min- ers in Wales, in exploring an old disused pit found the body of a young man dressed in a fashion long out of date, Tho peculiar action of the air of the mine was such as preserved the body so perfectly that it appeared asleep rather than dead, The ruiners were infested at the oircumstanoes. No one in the district had been missed within their memory, and at last it was re- solved to bring in the oldest in- habitant, an old lady over 80 years old, who had lived single in the til- lage all her He, When she was taken into the room where the dead man lay •r strange thing 'occurred, '.Che old lady fell on the corpse and kissed it, and acldressecl it by every term of endearment spoken in bygone gen- orations. He was her only love, and the had waited for him all her long life, iShe knew he had not for- saken her.- The old lady and the young man had been betrothed six- ty years before. Her lover had die - appeared mysteriously, and She had kept her feith during the long inter: val. The miners rernovecl the old lady to •hc:r house, ,wind that night her .faithful spirit rejoined that of her long -lost lover. 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Again the open fields we. roam, And, when the night is fair, 1 look up in the starry; deme . And wonder what's up there. :Coe who can speak for those who dwell Behind the curving alq'? No men has ever lived to tell ,Just what it nutans 'to div., Stitt towards -life's terminal'I trend, , The Sun seeing short to -night Only God knows what's al, the end-- I hope the lamps are white. .--Cy Waimea M National Maga. eine, "Now ,Tommy," said .Mrs. Bull, ":l want you to be good while I'm out." ":1'11 be,good for five anis,' replied Tinniest.' : "Tomnny," she said, "I want you to t'exitornber that; - you can ied be a son of mine, 01110038 , yott aro pest Cur sotlsirig.