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The Clinton News Record, 1913-01-23, Page 3For cal or for Woe; Or, A Dark Temptation CIIAPe2ER XIV.-7(Cont'cl) Greco Leighton elowly quitted her fliS; tEr'n boudoir, and a few moments late • had entered tho sieleroom with a cluster of freehly-eut roses in her liande. "How ia she ehis morning, etre. Burke?" she asked, gazing aneiously at the beau- tiful, dusk, gypeyish face nestling againet the enowy. "Pretty bad, Miss Grece," said tho house- keeper slowly; "she's been out of her . head ever since she was brought up to thie room." While Gracie Leighton stood there e Gay's dark, Wight, feverish eyes slowly *Ilene& and her lovely rosy lips "meted in a• pite- ous moan. "You will not let them part me from my love!" she sobbed. "I em all alone in the world but for him; it I lose hini, I would pray to Heaven to lot me die. The world is ,so dreary -so drettrY!" "You must not, listen to what she le eaying, Mies Grace," said the housekeeper quickly; "sick people have all sorts of strange ,fancies, you know. Why, at one time she imagines hereelf standing alone in the midst of a dark, roering river, with the waterrising higher and higher around her, and that some fair-haired lover 'is etretehing out his strong arms to save her; then again, he is orying out that some one mast prevent some imagin- are, duel; then she lielievee herself stand- ing ,belore the altar in a dim old church, with strange, dark, shadows infolding her," '• "Oh, Mrs. Burke, do you think ehe is married?" broke in Gram eligerly, "why, she can't be a day older than 1 am." "Of course elle% not married," returned elle honeekeeper, promptly, "if she were wife there would be a, wedding.ring up- on her poor little burning -loot hand. These things she talks about are only the fan- ciful ravings the fever produces -you mut pay no attention to what she soya." "I wonder where her friends serer said Grace, tenderly putting back Gay's eoft datk curls." • "It's my opinion -judging from the Way ehe was found -that she hasn't any," re- turned Tees. Burke, laconically. Per dreary weeks Gay lay at the point of death in the,elegaut mansion home of the Leightous, / The raging fever reached its. height, broke, and then the tedious hours of con- valescence began. Little Gayl arose from that slok-coneh ,00 changed that her best friends would have found difficulty in recognizing her - her glorious velvety eyes were as dark and starry as of yore, but the soft, black hair that had clustered round her head • in glee:tee curling locks, had fallen a peer to the havoc, a disease; and in ite place fair golden hair grew -it Wati the nature of tbe fever. This difference in the color of her hair made a marvelous change in Gay. The dusky face had whitened like the pearly, velvety petal of a lily -tinted in cheek and lip with the tender Pink of the mit blush -rose. Gay Wa0 pretty before, now she wae as dazzling beautiful as a poetee dreaxe, with her great, dark, velvety eyes and lovely golden hair, that clustered about her head in shining rings. Grace Leighton was delighted with her. • /one looked on in the bitterest envy that ever rankled in a girl's heart. "If men were to see her they would rave over her beauty," she thought. "Ole dear, why was that girl ever brought 10 Leighton Hall?" With Gay's first conscious breath, elm had pleaded with the housekeeper for pen and paper, and proppe11 up with pillows, wrote along, loving letter to Percy Gran. ville-a' letter in which she poured out ell the loving, passionate longing in her young heart -begging him to some to her as soon as he received it, for elle could not endure another week's soparetion from him -and live. Poor Little Gayhow she laid her ten- der cheek againet the white page and kissed it because it would lie in her dar- ling Percy's hands, and his bonny blue eyes would rest on every line that her little weak lingers hail fluttered over so unsteadily. • She loved her handsome young husband with all the strength of her girlish heart. She would have laid down her sweet young • life for his dear sake. She had never been the same since he kissed her that night in the old gray. stone church. Her heart had left her then and had gone out to Mm. The whole world would have been no. thing to her without Percy's love. She idolized him after an idolatrous fashion of her own. She gave her letter to the housekeeper tO mail for her -and by noon that day the letter was speeding on its way to Percy Granville, When Squire Leighton had cheerily asked Gay her name, she had auswered eimply, "Nell," giving but the last portion • of her name, and the name Nell clung to Gay's letter reached Recletone Hall juet as the golden sun was setting hi crimson glory in the weeterti sky, rind was placed upon Perey'e desk in the library with numerous other letters that elm arrived by the same mail. Wee it the evil hand Of fate mord oruel that eaused Evelyn St. Claire to call tet Redstone Hall that afternoon? and '45'aU it fate that cannei1 the servant toethow her into the library? She had not been at Redstone Hall for long weeks before; the had come now en a very peculiar mission, and her fare paled slightly an sbe gent up her card. She paced up and clown the floor eery. mealy a •moment, then her keen, eteel- blue eyes rell upon the letters lying' on Percy's desk and hor face paled to a ghaetly gray BB her gaze encountered the mall, square, white envelope among the many buff ones, which was turned face ap, revealing the delicate chirography in, o pretty girlish hand. "Heavens! what if it should, be from Gaynell Eeterbrook!" she thought with P. guilty start of terror. "The little fool nasty not have been burned up in that Rio Is Harold TremeAno WrOtO 1110, alter "Tf• sbe has escaped, she would be sure to write to Percy sooner or later,, then all that I have schemed and toiled, yes, steep. ed my very seed in the blackest creme, to accompliah, would have 110011 done in vain. "1 must, I will know who this leiter le from. 11 it should prove to be from thie Goy, 1 think I know a way to effectually silence her forever, I am playing, m dos - iterate, eeckless game -all for love's sake -and I will win in the end or die!" Steps enuncled in the corridor without, and like a 'flash the beautiful, guilty heir- ess seized Gayle letter in her Jeweled flii. ors a,nd transferred it to her bosom, just (10 1110 door opened and Percy Gran- ville entered the library. With many girlish blushes and coe he- eitancet Evelyn,81, 'Glair° made known bee errand. elm had received an invitation from one el her schoolenatee of 0011250 to 0110011 O masked ball at Leighton Hall. eir Hme friend bad written ber that Percy • Granville was to attend it ale(); could she eel if he would mind estiorting her there? el - "We are such' Y0.173, old friends, I hope you v,•111 not be surprised at such a re. queet, Pereg," she said. flushing hotly, -. shall be very pleased to escort you, Evelyn," he said. "Yon did quite eight in epeaking of tbe matter, of course." al/ an expectant, beating heart. She never left her seat by the window; her itnxiou face W1000 pressed wistfully against- the cool pane until the woman returned. at ,lttot elle saw the weleome envelope In her hand. Percy had Deviled to her letter at lege, ,The poor little bride who had been so cruelly separated from Iter yomig hue - band 'by the hand of Pate, ok rather threugh the foulest and darkest of eon- epiracies. almost flew down the long cor- ridor and out into the ,garden to uteet her. She took the letter frm othe housakeep- . or's hand with the blithest, happiest laugh that ever fell from girlish lips. "I hope it will bring you good news, my clear'st ," aid MBur rs. ke. Gay flitted on toward the rosea,rbor, holding. Peroyet preeiouri missive closte 10 her heart. The housekeeper turned in the path and vvatebed her with troubled eYee. "I hope it will be all right," she mut. torod, but if signs eorae teue, and onie mean anything, the letter will bring be, news, ler twice on my way home whi rabbit 0010001 my path and a raven fe dead at taw [050 ae et was flying by o the wing. I -I almost felt like throwin the letter in the creek as T rem over 11 bridge, I felt eo frightened." Breathless with excitement Gay ruche the rose.arbor and flung -herself down on a matte beech, covering the seal with Pate stellate kisses ere elle opened it All sweet lips that were grossed to the moot cruel death -warrant evee written. The bright sunlight fell through the lattioe-work of crimson roses upon the curly, golden head, the lovely flushed lase and dark bright eyes, with an alrecett pitying light, as though it knew and could uteleestand that soon it must wit- ness the breaking of a human heart. Gay opened her letter with smiling lips and hands that trembled in her great happinees, and those were the lines she Iteett555, IT SATISFIES MILLIONS OF PEOPLE Worth your while to tesi it 1 TO 'S T:. A Sustains and Cheer. flifitiitlaaer--`-aaatiiiiaratatearet from the lace -draped window, but neither of the sisters heard it. Poor Gay Was blind and stmeeflecl. She groped rather than walked down the long porilli tne corridor. Who oared that her heart 5711143 broken? Wile cared thet the cruel stab had gone home to her tender, bleeding heart that the sweet young face wee whiter then the petals of the star -belle tossing their white Plumee against the easement? SlowlY, blindlY, with one hand grasplug the banisters. Gay went up the broad t to Iter own goom. - 1110 151 the door was (dosed ehe Good 1 motionless, trying to understand and rea. te flee tele heaid. 11 POVGY, her Perey, Wes Coaling tee the 71 grand masked ball; he would be beneath the same roof with her oh the morrow. 10 Then she remembered the cruel letter which she had Just received from hiln, d which bad crashed her heart awl blight- ed hor life. Tier fleet Jimmie° was to fly at 01100 from Leighton Hall. Then another impale° 5100115 as life it- self swept over her heavt. She' could not go away until she had looked upon his face -looked upon It for Just one little minute -then it • did not matter much what became of her -where she went after that. Gay never remembered how the hours that followed paesea. Late that afternoon Ione Leighton rapped impatiently at her door. "I came to ask you to please help sew on my bsill-dreee," she said buperativelY; "11 ie not cluite finithed, and the seed - pearls. must be stitched in betore I can wear it." "Sew on a- ball-drese which this haughty benney was to wear, hoping to attract Percy in 11-ali1 how emild she do it," was the thought that welled up into the breaking heart of the poor, deserted little bride; but she followed Ione to her bou- doir, making no remonetrancee. C4ay sat up toiling fE51(.11 the shimmering eatin and miety lace for long heurs-many n a tear 1111.5 buried °mope, the glistening pastels. It was long after mideight before Gay finished it and laid it aside with a bitter sigh. The while pillow 010which that golden curly head rested that night was wet with bitter team. The eun was ahining into her room ere Gay opened her tired, tear swollen dark eyes, and the finst thought that flashed through her heart and brain was, ere that golden Ball should set she wonld have looked onee more upon the face of Percy Grnnville. (To he continued.) "Miss Esterbrook,-I read the letter you wrote me with much surprise-surPriee that you should expresh yourself so freely in regard to myself. It is nty duty to be frank with you -you can never be ally - thing to me. It was but a paseing fancy which I entertained for you. If we should ever meet, it must be as etrangers; cia not force me to repeat verbally what I 1 written here. My respect for you on the day you left the village 1 company with Harold Tremaine. I lova another, therefore do not hope to ever hold a place in my heart. Signed "PERCY GRANVILLE." Slowly the dark, horror-strielten, velretet eyes had traversed every line of the cruel letter. She eta quite son—no statue, carved in stone or marble, was ever more silent or motionless -then she rose from the garden smut fleeing from the arbor, through the pleasure -grounds, through the coppiee, and into the deepegreen heart of the lonely wood. No human being was near, but the birds were soon startled by the passionate cries of a broken heart; cries that fell freely and clearly on the soft, sweet air, and seemed to rise to the very face of the blue heavene-gbitter, paseionate cries, that took with them the burden of a wrecked soul. "I cannot bear it," elm said to herself. "011, God, why did I not die -die believ ing my love loved me -die with niy faith in him unshaken -rather than live to suf- fer this?" She lay sobbing on the ground. W110110 she had flung herself in the frenzy of boot' Teats fell like rain down the lovely young face lying in the long gran, and buried themselves deep iu the golden hearte of the velvet pansies. "OIL lay Inc 'my love, it would have been better had you left me to die in the cold, dark water -rather than saved me and taught me to love you, only to break my heart in the endl" wailed Little Gay. piteously. Even Evelyn St. Claire might have been moved to eomething like remorse if the oauld but ham gazed on the fruits of her evil work at that moment. How long Gay lay there in the deep heart of the lonely wool e with. the fatal letter clinched tightly in her white hand, she never know. The kind old. housekeeper, feeling anxi- ous over hor long absence, started out to 50000011 for her at length -on througb, the roac-arbor, the pleasure -grounds the went, her face full of keen alarm When 6110 ronellea the 101111100 sho saw Gay lying like one dead in the long genes. "011, knew 1t --I knew it!" oho oriel, hurrying toward her, her face paling with r; terro"the poor ehild has heard bad -r newsavens are ravens,• and omens are omens" Gay was not in a swoon, as she bad at first tau -mooed; the dark eyes, glazed with anguish, wove wide open, over the white lips law si mone were breaking. Gaynell strugeled hurriedly to her feet at the sound of approuching rootstoes. "Ohs, bore you nre, me dear," cried the housekeeper, pretending not to notice the death -white fen and teat...swollen eyes. "I have been looking everywhere for you. Mee Idne sent ine for you; elle is in the morning -room; am meets yea to help trim the baliroore with -roses and smilax." "I will go to her at once, Mies Burke," replied Gay, end she MIR startled at the sound of hor OW11 voice, as she turned abruptly BMX. "P0017 child, I'm afraid the's grieviug herself to death over seine feithlete, fool- ish lover,'' thought the old housekeeper, as she walked quickly batk to the house. "Ten sure that letter was in a. inan's hand. writing -there's not one of 'eni this slide of Ohristendom worth shedding a tear for, They bring. nothing but trouble to e. ung g r It ever a woman lived who hada limed opinion of men in general, it was Dere. Burke. She wae always expecting no end of ralechief where they wore concerned. Gay sought the Hall by another path, taking tho precaution to bathe her tear - swollen face the ceol water of the foun- tain, ore she made her almesteenee in the morning -mom where Ione Leighton awaited her, Gag was just about to step femn the porch through the open French window into the room, when the menu of her own 1111111C, spoken in a shrill, angry voice, caused her to pause voluntarily, then ehrink baelc, sta,nding as if spellbound. lietening to the angry dispute the two eislers were baying over leer. "Poe 1110500, Ione," Graee woe exeitedly, "that you have prevailed upon both papa and mamma not to 110,vite poor Noll to the maslted-bell; you are mean anti selfish; it wouldn't have detracted one wbit from your pleaeuee to have let the 11000 girl come in foe one beief hour and enjoy herself." Ione Leighton laid clown the Nile -green silk she was decoratieg, with an angry flush flying up into her cheeIce. "Will you be Icincl enough to attend to your own again?" the retorted. "Do you think I Mal goine, to have a Miss Nobody at a ball of mine? No, indeedl 5 011011 talc() good care, to let heti knew that if she keeps her own room on that particle- ar amebae it will meet with my appro. yal decidedly.' "ele you are afraid she might catch handsome Percy Granville, the lion of the evening, for her beau, and that lie might fall desperately in love with her when the time . Tor unmasking came and he caught sight of her pretty fare," said Grace, saucily. Perhaps the arrow 13110t 11070110 with tel- ling effect, for Ione's .face flushed as scar- let as the great elueter of passion flow- ers in the tau, silver Wise beside her. "'You can depend upon it, he shall never see , hee," said Ione Leighton, decidedly. 'I would be a fool to throw I/Tette' girl In Percy GranvIlle'e way. eHts is heir to a million, I am going to make the gnat - est eteort of me, life to attract and win hint, she ,deolared "Oh, I'm iso tired of lie/being eon talk of lovers and riches," cried (Irace, stamp - 115 her little elippered foot impatiently. '0) hate to heat love weighed against :001110 no if it were a purchasable ar- ,icle. According, to your iciea,, if a fel- ow was worth hundred thousand. you night cleign to love him moderately, but 1 he was a handsome youne millionaire, ou eould afford to. adore him." "That's, 515000 the way, of it," &wonted one, ' "Per femme I" anewered her -younger 010 - boa', in a hot fury. "If a really -nice young Ian- loves you and you love Ilia, you ught to marry him t, im if he hadn'a dollar n 'his Oooket.", ' "I would rather have just what I have laneed out for myself," retorted Ione, mh maliciously; "endsome Percy Granville or my husbane, and be a millienaire'e ride." There 3005 a low, gasping piteous Inc CHAPTER XV. when Evelyn ..St, Claire r‘eatilied home, she hurried at, once to her OW71 boudoir, And securing the door to prevent Meru. sion, drew forth the letter ,frorn her bee= and stink down on a cushioned di- van by tbe lace -draped window te, read it. With eyes fairly glowing with ram el, breathlessly perused every line 011 the pink -tinted pogo, Strangely enough, Gay bad refrained from making any augegen to the fact that she was bie wile In her letter to Percy. , ghe. wrote him on 'ever ' y line almost, i how dearly 5110 loved him withall ' eeert, en:tiers the missive in these ,words; nom° to me, Percy, da,rling, an 000a 017 you receive this, or write me evhen you, I will be here: Your loving Gey," The letter had been mailed at a way. 1 ration a mile distant from, teighten Hall, Y and there the housekeeper eallecl each day for the rlv eplY GaY ae exPeeting. I Gay had made up her Mind not to no- eept the hoepitality of ,tho kind old.squire one day lenger than was absolutely nee. n essary, anti had taken this precaution in 0 eireolentrher leteer in oase she shotildenot be at Leighton Hall when histreply came. The old squire 'would not hoar to OW, nail's letteing the Hall in her weak state. Thus another fortnight passed slowly byph , f daY 1:11141 had watched tho houee- b keeper depart on Iter kindly orrand with HUGH MARK'S :TORE. Hugh Clark is known as a very funny man. As editor of the Kincardine Re- view, the genia.1 member of the Commons representing South Bruce is never at a loss for a dry and hu- morous reply to any old kind of question. Hugh is the colonel of the 32nd Bruce, and as suet: is some enter- tainer. During a recent camp he was host to Hon. W. J. Hanna, Provincial Secretary for Ontario. There were big times around the Col, Hugh Claris. colonel's quarters between the guests, and the newspaper men and the P.S. hael a fine time sleeping out and telling stories. One morning about two o'clock several privates onelate leave, who had been clown city celebrating, got past the guards anel wandered about the streets of the white vil- lage singing "The Holy City" with a vengeance on the chorus, mid be - fere long the crewel was aagmented by a couple dozen from the varieets regiments. Mr, Hanna heard the noise and turned over on his cot. Next morn- ing he aeked Colonel °leek what She rumpus was. "Oh," said Hugh, and lm never cracked a smile, "I'll find out." He wont out and gathered a coberie of newspaper Teen and officers back to hie guest's tent for the fun, When all wore conneetable Hugh sbarted. "Did you know that Hanna, was given a 'tremendous' ovation by this camp last night?" he said, and all listened for the news. "Yes," he continued, "it was an immense ovation for him. During the night there esere throngs pass- ing and repaesing his tent crying `Whole Harina? 'Who's Hanna? Who's Hanna to the King.'" Tonere' Meagre Diet. Complaints arc heerel on all sides in Paris that tomatoes, melons, cu- cumbers, equaehes—nearly every- thing except potatoes—have be- come ueuues beyond the reach of the vast multitude of working peo- ple whose daily earninas do net ex- ceed 80 cents os' $1, • MNINIMOMMINailia AND Don't iss This lyt's the- "Best Ever" Send Post Card to -clay for particulars. 74 St. Antoine St., Montreal, Can. 1 R.04418.01 48.4.419.11.114.41.11.4613 .04/48‘4,48, NOM taaseasessacaceasseevereaine Selected Recipes. Simmered Sausages. — Select plump sauseges, prick with a fork and place in a frying pan, with barely enough water to cover the bottom. Cook gently till browned all over, turning constantly, and serre with is gravy made from the drippings in the pan. Chicken Italian.—One fowl, six green peppers, two onions, two cups toniato pulp, salt and pepper, three tableepoons olive oil. Boil the fowl till tender, then disjoint and skin it. %red the peppee,s and in- ions and cook till 'softened in the .olive oil. Adel to the tomato pulp, season highly, and pour very leot over the chicken. Baked. Cheese.—One-half pound theese, salt, pepper, mustaed, milk, butter, Slice the cheese thin'place in a ehallow baking dish, barely cover with dust with salt, pepper and a bit of mustard, dot with butter and bake in a hot oven until the cheese is melted. Serve on toasted croakers. Soft Ginger tkolties.—One cup molasees, one and three-quarters teaspoons- soda, one cup sour milk, on -e -half cup melted buttee or lard, two teaspoons ginger, one teaspoon salt, four or five cups of pastry flour. Add eerie to molasses aacl beat. Add milk, ginger, Salt and flour until niixture is so stiff it will just drop frorn spoon. Then add melted 'shortenings; set aide to ohill for a few hours. Then divide miosture, roll lightly to. quarter inch thickness, shape with round cutter and bake on but4red sheet about eighb to ten minutes. Sponge Bread Puilding.—Two cups soft bread crumbs, one quert milk, three-fourths cup sugar -dash salt, two eggs, one-fourth tea- spoon soda dissolved in one -table- spoon warm water'one-half tea- spoon flavoring. Scald ertnnles in milk. Separate egg's, beat yolks and whites separately, and add the former to the milk mixture, with She salt, sugar, soda azid flavoring. F,old in the egg whites, pour into a buttered pudding dish, set in a pan of hot water, -a,nd bake gently until a knife, when inserted, will come out clean. Serve with melted jelly, Old -Fashioned. Pork Pie.—Three pounds blade pork, one-fourth oup sliced onioir, bit of bay leaf, one pint sliced potatoes, short biecuit cruet! salt and pepper. Cut pork in pieces suitable for serving. Brown with the onions, add bay leaf and water to barely cover, and simmer till nearly ,tender, about thirty minutes. Butter a baking dish, add potatoes and seasonings to the meat, and thicken to desired consistency with a little flour dis- solved in cold water. Cover with biscuit paste cut into rounds, and bake in a moderate oven till the crust is browned. Baked Veal Chops.—Two jxmacis veal chops, one-fourth pound baeon, bit of bay leaf, crumbs, one-half teaspoen Worcestershire sauce. Boil chops gently for five minutes in water containing a little sugar and the bay leaf. Drain 'thorough- ly, dip in melted buttee, sprinkle with the Worcestershire and salt. and spread with the crumbs, set in a baking pan and place it small piece ef bacon. on ca.oli chop. Bake in a hob oven until the baoon be- gins to crisp, then add a little water to the pan and cook more slowly till the chops are -bender. This will take about twenty-five minutes. Banana CakesOne oup auger, three tablespoons melted butter, one egg, one-half tettepoon orange extract, ono -half cup Milk, Oae and one-half cups flour, one and one- half teaspoons baking powder, few grains salt Beat the sugar, but- ter, egg, extract and salt together. Mix the baking powder with the flour, and add alternately with milk to first mixture. Beat thor- oughly. Balm M two layers and put together with banana filling. Ice with plain Lasting. Bane n a Filling.—Four banana,s, two tablespeons sugar, few grains salt. Pet the banana pula threeigh the potato rice'', and scald with the sugar and -salt. Cool, add the le- mon juke, and use as a cake or eancluech filling. -Useful Hie Es. A good and simple avenge salad is made of sliced 'oranges on let - t -Lice leaves, covered with French dressing. Don't set leaky vessels on the range, or spill cold water on it. Never let ashes accumulate in the ash pan of the cooking range. They absorb the heat before it reaches the oven. In planning the winter break - dente be sure to have fruits to bal- once the heayy meals, such 'as salt- ea•ge and scrapple. To boil firsan haddie soak it for a little while before Putting it over the coals, and pat plenty of buttee on it afterward. Apples baked with very different seasonings — cinnamon, cloves, maple sugar, lenion Or orange, make a delicious change. When you spill tea op the tains: cloth °eater the stain with common salt, When the cloth is washed the stain will be gone. A hoesekeeper can save time by using casseroles of attractive ear- ehenware, in which food may be both cooked and served. A pie -crust marker is another handy thing te save the piemaker's time when ehe wishes to mark the edges of her pies. Grease sweet, potatoes before they are put into the ()Vela to bake; they will bake in half the time and the ekins will be soft. Toughness of angel cake is often clue eo the factIhat the eggs are not ,beaten properly. They should be beaten so stiff thae 'they will stand al•one." Medicine stains can almost al- ways be dissolved by akehol. Use paper bags for covering pitchers with feed in them. When breakfast muffins are- left over split lead toast them for lunch Chocolate steins Carl be removed by washing in soap said tepid water. Water the fern cash ab night in the bathtub and leave it there to drain. The pereal left from one break- fast should be fried inslices for the next. Worn table napkins should' be saved to , dry lettuce in when pre- paring the salad. . Extrit deep pudding pane, pie plates and the like are preferable to shallow °nee. A measuring cup and flour sifter should be kept in the flour barrel to seve time. Sortie coffee needs -boiling and some ekes not—one must experi- ment to find oub. Loaf pans for breed should, be narrow to insure thorough baleing of the bread. Don't let a octal store get red hot suddenly if you want it to last. It should got hot gractually. 05• NO LONDEIt FOB POOR MAN. But Still Many Yukon Sections Not • Yet Prospected. Henry Pinkiert, who used to, be a merchant in San Eranoisco and went to the Klondike in 1897, and has been in busin-ess in or around Dawson City ever since, says there are no mining opportunities in the immediate. neighborhood <A Dawson except fer men and 'companies with big capital. "Dawson is net growing," said Mr. Pinkiert. "In the early days there were all kinds of mining right there on the ground fot the indivi- dual, but now, for a radius of about fifty miles around the town the territory is SO WOrked Out alall;:011ly big corporations can make money, working it, and these have taken up a great deal of the land. The big- gest operations in the neighborhecal are being camied on by a South African aompany, which owns toe practically -controls all the claims within that fifty -mile radius that the Guggenheims do not control. "In the days of the gold rush a man would .stake his clainal which would run 500 feet:. The moment he got that worked down to low grade he 1V&S up against a proposi- tion that required dredges ancl hy- draulic machinery to work on a profitable basis. The majority of small claimholders sold out, and some gave options. A few are gin holding out for their prices. The Government gives a man the right bo hold his claim so long as $200 worth of work is dona on it in a year. "But the %situation at Dawson dos not strid the Klondike for the prospector by any means. I should say that part of Yukon territory is still in its infancy as a gold pro- ducer, in .spite •of the millions that have beeu taken out. The great difficulty ha,s been flatting into, the interior. Small bTiabs go up the 'streams new for hundreds of ,miles, but still there are regions practi- cally unpeotected. In the past few years the Canadian Government has helped transportation by glib- sidizing these emit, and this makes - it possible for miners to carry up their grub in tho fall and -continuo their work in the winter. In my opinion, one of these days we shall hear of discoveries up there that will make the Klondike finds seem insignificant. Prom Dawson to White Horse ±5 ±8 410 miles, .,and there aro numerous regions on both ,sides of the way that never have been prospected." "Captain," said a wealthy pas- senger who as about to teke his first trip across the 00eall, If un- derstand this ship has got sevexal water -tight eompartments ?" "Yes, was the reply. "Captain," the passenger went on decidedly, "I want one o' them compartments - 1 d'an't care what it costs!" reel 40elico oF ALL,TEAS IS CEYLON 'TEA -BECAUSE OF ITS UNVARYING GOOD QUALITY 111611S9T AWARD -8Z 1.01188. 1904. Sold only ln lend Pooketa By all Grocer& e AWAKENING IN CIIINA. Great Changes Aboilt to Take Placa in That Conntry. Chum has always been a moral rather than a religious nation, which means that the family rather Shan the individual sense thee been developed., This may militate against the rapid growth of free- dom for woman in public life, but in the enel will give her a secure and honored poeition. Perhaps the greatest problem in that country at present is the struggle which is on between family loyalty and in- dividualism. It is hoped that this agitaeion will not so ehake the mor- al foundations of the people that it will bring on a demoralization be- fore 15 has had time to adjust iteelf to 'that broad socialism which is founded individualism eather than is oppotted to it. In the trying time that is coming we believe that the women may hold the power to regulate the pece of the change which is inevitable. For the wo- men of China are strongly moral, and the power of women ie moral things has been recognized by thc: Chinese. Oise writer says: "Puri- fication of morals, from the time of creation until now, has always come from woman." A. rich gentleman, having ongae- ed a new coachman, event to the yard to inetruct him as to 1the treat- ment of the horses. After 'clang this he met the coachman's seven- year-old son. "Well, my little man, do you know who I am '1" inquired the gentleman. "Oh, yes," replied the bey. "You're the man as rides in father's carriage 1" HOW EARTH IS DRYING. Number of Lakes in Zurich 200 Tears Ago, 149, Now 76. When water is recomposed by radium or by ultra -violet rays it produces hydrogen a,nd peroxide of hydrogen, and it &me not form oxygen. Electrolytic clecomposie time farms oxygen. A German investigator leases a new theory relatingeto the drying of the earth on the fact that one form of decomposition pie:dm:es 'oxygen, while the ether 30ZIII does not, Part of the water vapor emit- ted by the -seas is elecomposed by the ultraviolet rays eV -the sun; the hydrogen farmed rises toward the high atmospheric strata, and all She water does not return to, the surface. Therefore, the quantity of water on the face of the globe is always diminishing, and the earth is Momently, if gradually, drying. To cite one example: On the north eicle of the Alps there is a continual felling off in the depth of the lakes and a gradual forma- tion of swamps. Two hundred and fifty yews ago there were 149 lakes in the canton of Zurich ; to-daY there are 76. The destruction of the forests a,ne1 the cultivation of the land partially explain this, but the loss -of hydrogen is an impor- tant fecter. The hydrogen accumu- lated in the 'higher atmosphere is diffused in interetellar space. 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