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The Snowshoe Trail
By EDISON MARSHALL
CHAPTER .XII.— (Cont'd.)
The same rifle shots -that brought
bad dre-;ms to Bill had a much more
lucid meaning for Joe Robinson and
CHARLES B. HALE
Conveyancer, Notary Public,
Commissioner, etc.
(Office over J. E. Hovey's Drug Store)
—J
still glowingin the ashes. Then he
fumbled about the door for snob rue
as,Harold had provided.
He found a piece as last, and soon
Pete the Breed, the two Indians that, a cheery crackle told him that' it had
Harold's .cabin, ignited He grinned with delight.
were occupying But his joywas a trifle remature:l.t
"Four shots," Pete said at lett.
p'
"Lounsbury's signal." that instant he tripped over a piece
"That means -big doin's," Joe pro= of firewood ,and his hands crashed
nounced gravely. "We go." ( against the logs.
Then they put on their .snowshoes "Oh, Llast my clumsiness!" he whir-
and mashed away..
There was no nervous waiting at
the appointed meot agplace—a spring
a half -mile frbm Bill's cabin. Harold
Lounsbury was already. there.
A stranger to this land might have
.thought that Harold was drunk, Un-
familiar little fires glittered and. glow-
ed 'in his eyes, his 'features were
drown.
The breeds waited' patiently for
him to speak.
"Where's Sindy?" he 'asked at last,
"Over Buckshot Dan's—just where
you said," Joe replied.,
"Of course Buckshot took her
bciek?" The Indians nodded. "Well,.
I m '';ging to let 1 lin keep her. I've,
got a white squaw now --and soon I'm
going 'out with her to the 'Outside.
But there's things to do first. Bill
has found the mine."
The others nodded gravely.
"And Bill is as blind as a mole—
got caught in a cabin full of green-
wood smoke. He'll be able to see again
in a day or two. So I sent •for you
right .way."
The breeds nodded again, a trifle
less phlegmati'ally.
"The mine's worth millions—more
money than you can dream of. Each
of you get a sixth—one-third divided
between you. As soon as we've finish-
ed what I've planned, we'll tear down
his claim notices and put up our own,
then go down to the recorder and re-
cord the claim,"' Harold went on.
"Then it's ours. No one will .ever
guess. No one'll make any trouble. '
"Both of you are to come to the
cabin, just about dark. You'll tell
me you have been over Bald Peak w.ty
and are hitting back toward the Yuga
village.
"Bring along a quart of booze—
maybe two quarts would be better.
And sometime in the early evening
give Bill what's coming to him."
"Do hint off-" Joe asked stolidly.
"Make it look like a fight," Harold
went on. "Insult hint—beter .=till, get
in a quarrel among yourselves. he'll
tell you to shut up; and one of you
flame up at him. Then strike the life
out of hint before he knows what
he's about. He's blind aril he can't
fight."
."What do you want us to use?"
Pete asked. "This?" He indicated
the thin blade at his thigh. "Itraybe
use rifle?"
Harold's eyes looked drowsy when
he answered. Something like a lust
swept over him; this question of
Pete's moved him hi dark and evil
ways. lis father's blood was in the
full ascendancy at last.
"There's an old pick in the cabin—
Bill had it prospecting," he said.
CHAPTER XXIII,
Bill's eyes were considerably better
when he wakened—full in the day-
light.' The warns wet cloths had taken
part of the inflammation out of them,
and when he strained to open the lids,
he was aware of a little, dim gleam of
ifgh .
He couldn't make out objects, how-
wer, and except for a fleeting shadow
he could not discern the hand that he
swept before his face. Several days
and perhaps weeks would pass before
the'full strength of his sight returned,
His `greatest hope at present was
that he could grope his way about the
cabin and build a fire for Virginia..
.Building the fire, however, was a
grievous task. He felt it incumbent
t pon him to mon with utmost caution
so that Virginia would not waken. By
groping about the walls he encounter-
ed the stove.
b'eeling told him that hot coals were
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Ono door west of Anglican Church,
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DENTIST
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days. Office over Canadian National
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Phone 21
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Clinton, Ont.
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pered. Virginia stirred behind her
curtain.
"Is that you, Harold?"she asked. •
She,was wide awake.
"No. It's Bill."
"Well, what:are you doing up? Did
Harold—do you meant() say you built
the fire yourself?"
"That's me, lady—"
"Then you must have your sight
again—" The girl snatched aside the
curtain and peered into his face.
"No•snch lusts. Coals were still glow-
ing; all I had to do was to main a
piece of firewood. But I'm all well
otherwise, as far as I can tell. 'How
about you?" •
The girl stretched up her arms. "A
little stiff—and now—I want you w
tell me just how this blindness of
yours—is going to affect our getting
out."
It was a serious question. "I don't
see how it can elect us a great deal,"
he answered. "I realize you don't
know one step of the way. down to
Bradleyburg and 1 can't seethe way;
but Harold-itnows it. perfectly."
As if the invocation of his name
were a magic'sumruons, Harold open-
ed the door, and entered. He carried
Bill's loud -mouthed rifle in the hollow
of his arm.
"You've been hunt'ng?" Virginia
cried.
"Of course. I figured we needed
meat. I carried Bill's rifle because I
don't trust the sights of mine: They
were a yard otl th'tt day I shot at the
caribou."
"Did you see any game?"
Harold's ey, met hers and nar-
rowed, ever so slightly. But his an-
swer was apt. "1 saw a caribou—
about two miles away. There didn't
seem a chance in the world to hit it,
but considering our scarcity of meat,
I took that chance. Of course, I didn't
hit within ten feet of him; Bill's gun
isn't built for such long ranges. I
shot—four times."
Bill did not reply. He was thinking
about those same four shots. It was
incomprehensible .hat they should
have made such 'an impression upon
hint.
"And for ail that Bill hasn't got
his sight back yet, we're going to start
down tomorrow," Virginia went on in
a gay voice. She glanced once at Bill,
but she did not see the world of de-
spair that cams into his face at the
delight with which she spoke: "You
and I will take turns pulling the sled;
Bill will hang on to the gee -pole. And
Bill says you know the way. We're
going to dash right through -camp
out ony two nights."
That afternoon bout Bill and Vir-
ginia started with amazement at the
tomtd of tapping knuckles on the door
Harold's eyes were gleaming.
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-afraid. She lo: ked at Bill, forgetting
for the moment that in his blindness
he .could not see what was occurring
and that in his helplessness she could
not depend upon him in a crisis. She
turned to }Iatola, hoping that he
would defuse this offering ata word.
And her leer ,increased when she saw
the craving on his face,
i'liave a drink!" Joe invited,
Bill started then:, 'out he 'made no
response. Harold moved toward the
table.
"You're a lifesaver, Wolfpaw," he
replied, genially. ".It's a cold night,
and 'I :don't care if I' do. Virginia,
pass down the -ups."
(To be continued.)
What New York
Is Wearing
BY ANNA]3ELLE WORTIIINGTON
Illustrated Dressmaking Lesson k'ur-
4ahed With Every Pattern
'B. R. HIGGINS
- Clinton, Ont.
General Fire and Life Insurance Agent
for Hartford Windstorm, Live Stock;
Automobile and Sickness and Accident
Insurance. Huron and Erie and Cana-
da Trust Bonds. Appointments' made
to meet parties at Brucefleld, Varna
and Bayfield. 'Phone 57.
THE McKILLOP MUTUAL
Fire Insurance Company
Head Office, Seaforth, Ont.
President, James :Evans, Beechwood.
Vice-president JamesConnolly,Hoderieh.
DL•ectors: JJames' Shouldice, Walton;
Wni, !Zinn, i•Tullett; Robt. Perris, .,Elul -
lett; James Benneweis, Broadhagen;
John Pepper, - Brueofield; A, Broadfoot,
Seaforth; G. F. McCartney, Seaforth,
Agents: W. J. Yeo R.R.. No. 2, Clinton'
John Murray Seaforth; James Watt
Myth; Ed,' Illnohley, Seaforth.
Secretary and Treasurer: D{ F. Mc-
Gregor, Seaforth.
Any moneyto be paid may beepaid
to Motrleh Clothing Co.,, Clinton,
Calvin Cutt'e Grdeery, Gederich.
Parties desiring to effect insurance dr
transact other business .will be promptly
att.ndod to en application to any of the
above' officers addressed to their respec-
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Hot Weather
Dishes
Vegetable Cutlets
_'I`hose may bo made- from left -over
vegetables:' Cut into small 'squares'
one medium-sized beetroot, one fair-
sized carrot, and half a small- turnip..
Mix two heaped tablespoons of flour to
a smooth paste with a little stock,
then put a little more stock in a sauce-
pan and bring 'to•the boil. Pour this
slowly into the flour paste, stirring:
well,':then return to the saucepan and
allow to simmer for a few minutes,
Put 10 the cut vegetables and: add
one. cupful mashed•potatoes,one ounce
cooked peas, a little finely -chopped
parsley, one blespoonful mixed
herbs, and a pinch each of salt and
,pepper. Turn on to a plate;; and when
quite cold shape, into cutlets, brush
with milk, and sprinkle with bread -
crumbs or oatmeal. Place in a greased
tin and bake in a hot oven for twenty
minutes.
• Swiss Pie
Silas some cold 'potatoes and ar-
range a thin layer in a greased pie -
dish. • Sprinkie with se- and pepper,
minced onion, and a' little grated
cheese. ° • Pour . over. a little white
sat -m, then repeat the layers until the
pie-dish;ls full and cover with gener•
acus quantities of the sauce and grated
cheese. Bake in a moderate oven un-
Ail the pie is a golden brown on top.
Green Pea Soup
Boil some green peas in water in
which 'pinch .of washing soda and a
.tablespoonful of sugar have been dis-
solved: When, quite soft strain and
put through a wire sieve. Return to
the saucepan, add a piece of butte
the size: of a walnut and a little milk
thickened with flour, and allow to sim-
mer, gently for a few minutes. When
the soup is ready to serve add a piece
of beetroot out into small squares and
one or two finely -chopped spring oni-
ons.
Vegetable Roll
Concentrated flared fulness at left -
side front of the skirt, distinguishes
this slenderizing model of printed
crepe silk.
The surplice bodice contributes fur-
ther slimming effect by detracting
from breadth.
A flat girdle encircles the hips. It
creates a swathed movement caught
with decorative buckle.
The vestee has becoming rolled col-
lar.
Style No. 2533 can be had in sizes
36, 38, 40, 44, 45 and 48, inches bust.
It is very pretty and wearable in
printed chiffon cotton voile.
Shangtung, crepe de chine and
printed dimity make up lovely. •
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Home Preserved
Memorial Tablet Marking
"Old 'Shore House” is
Unveiled
CHAPTER XXIV.
Harold saw fit to answer the door
himself. IIe threw it wide open; Vir-
ginia's startled glance could just make
out two swarthy faces, singularly
dark and unprepossessing.
"We—we mushin' over :o Yuga-
been over Bald Peak way," Joe said
stumblingly. "Didn't know no one
was here. Want a bunk here tonight."
"You've got your own blankets?"
"Yes. We got blankets."
"On your way home, eh? Well, I'll
have to ask this lady."
Harold seemed strangely nervous as
he turned to Virginia.
"A couple of Indians, going home
toward the settlement on the Yuga,"
he explained quickly. "They've come
from over toward Bald Peak and were
counting on putting up here tonight.
That's the woods custom, you know—
to stay at anybody's cabin. Do you
think we can put 'em up?"
"Good heavens, we can't send them
on, on a night like this. It is awkward,
though—about food—"
"They've likely got their own food,"
"0f course they can stay: Bill can
sleep on the floor in here—you can
take the two of them with you into
the little cabin: It wil be pretty tight
anything
work, but we can't de else.
Bring them, in?"
Harold turned again to the door,
and in a moment the Indians strode•
blinking, into the candlelight
Virginia shot them a swift glance
and was instinctively repelled: but at
once she ascribed the evil savagery of
their faces to racial traits.
Bill, sitting against the cabin wall,
tried to make sense out of a confused
jumble of thoughts and impressions
and memories that flooded in one wave
to his mind,
He had .assumed at ,once that the
two breeds were Joe and Pete, whom
he had encountered when he first
found Harold. Why, then, had the
latter made no sign of recognition?
He resolved to know the truth.
"It's Joe and Pete, isn't it?" he
asked abruptly in the silence.
"Pete—Joe?" Joe answered at last,
in a bewildered tone. "Don't know
'em. I'm Wolfpay Black—he's Jimmy
Jinimy Dubois."
Except for a little lingering uneasi-
ness, Bill, was satisfied.
Virginia went, on with her supper
preparations, and at last the three of
them drew chairs around their crude
little table.
The two breeds took their lunch
from theirpacks and munched it, sit-
ting beside the stove.
All at .once Joe grunted in the still-
ness, and all except Bill whirled to
look at him He went to his pack and
TIME TABLE
aine will arive at and depart from
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Buffalo and Goderlch Div.
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2.50 p.m,
ing West, ar, 11.50 a.m..
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" ar. 10.31 p.m.
London, HUron & Bruce
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" 4,08 p.m.
log North,' depart 6.42' p.m.
ar. 11,40 dp. 11.53 a.m.
ISSUE No. 30—'30
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41' the .";t9t.est
705
Northcliffe Left
On Fleet Str:-,et For All Time
RS
ark
- All newspapers, certainlyon the pro-'
duction side, bear testimony to the
late Lord Nert)tclii'fe. They may differ
in their methods•of presenting policy,
but with regard to make-up and gen-
eral appearance,, from the "Times"—
Lord Northcliffe was its proprietor
when .he died—to the smallest daily
or evening paper, his methods of pro-
duction hold the field. Mr. Hamilton I
'Fyfe, in his book; -"Northcliffe: An In -i
timate Biography" (Allen & Unwin) i
brings this fact out. He writes:
"We can say for certain that if
James Watt had not discoveredbow
to use -steam power, if Stevenson had
not applied that . power to a locomo-
tive, if Cooke and Wheatstone.had not
invented the electric telegraph, if Mar-
coni had not transmitted the 'first
message by wireless, someone else
would have done thee things.
"They bad to be done. Many were
working along the same lines. The
time had come for advances in man's
mastery of the elements. Most great
inventors have'thus been agents for
their age. They happened' to be the
first to put in practical working ideas
that were in many.ntinds,
' "But there was in the, nature of
things no reason whatever why Bri-
tish newspapers should not have re-
mained very much as they were to-
wards the end of the nineteenth cen-
tury. German and French newspapers
have altered little. It could not be
said that a revolution 10 journalism
Soak 2 lb. lentils in cold water for
twelve hours, then cook till tender.
Cook and wash one medium-sized tur-
nip, then mix in the lentils, two cup-
fuls breadcrumbs, half a cup grated
cheese, and a pinch each of salt and
pepper. Press into a well -greased pie -
dish and bake in a moderate oven for
halt an hour. Garnish with fried to-
matoes and serve with mashed pota-
toes.
Tested • ecipes
Raisin Ginger Cake
Cream 3 oz, butter and 3 oz. sugar
and beat in one egg. Adel and blend
ye, breakfast -cupful treacle. Sift to-
gether i,f Ib. plain flour, 1 teaspoonful
each of baiting powder, ground cinna-
mon and ground ginger, and 7,ta tea-
spoonful each salt and bicarbonate of
soda. Beat rih cupful sour milk, Add
the dry ingredients and the milk al-
ternately to the other mixture, then
add 1 cupful floured raisins. Place in
a. greased flat tin and bake 3n o mod-
erate oven for 30' to 40 minutes, or in
a loaf tin for ten minter longer.
Almonds may be sprinkled onthe
top and, for a richer cake, stem gin-
ger, cup up finely, may be added.
Spice Drop Cakes
Simple to make and delicious for
afternoon tea, tennis parties, etc.—
Two cupfuls soft brown sugar, e/s cup-
ful butter 01' margarine, 21/2 cupfuls
wholemeal flour, 1 cupful raisins, 1
cupful sour mills, 2 cupfuls chopped
walnuts, 2 eggs, 2 teaspoonfuls cinna-
mon, 1 teaspoonful nntmeg,,one ten -
spoonful allspice, 1 teaspoonful bicar-
bonate of soda, ?<-, teaspoonful salt.
Cream butter and sugar, and beat in,.
one at a time, the eggs. Have ready
all the dry ingredients, including the
nuts and raisins, well mixed. Add to
the sugar and butter mixture, then add
the well -beaten sour mills. Drop spoon-
fuls from a spoon on to a greased bak-
ing sheet and bake in a moderate oven
until ready.
Soda Cake
Delicious, light, and very simple to
make. Required: One pound of flolir,
quarter of a pound O. butter, half a
pound -of sugar, our ounces of sultanas
(or currants), two eggs, about a gill
of milk, one level teaspoonful of car-
bonate of socia, one ounce of candied
peel. Wel butter two cake -tins, Mix
together the flour, sugar, and salt:
Rub the butter lightly into theist,
clean and stalk the fruit, chop the
peel, add these to the butter. Beat up
the eggs and acid them also. Lastly
add the soda, which has been mixed
With a little milk, add enough sweet
milk, or, better still, buttermilk, to
mix the whole 'to a stiff dough.
Half fill the this with the mixture
and bake in a moderate oven for about
three-quarters of an hour.
Steamed Brown Bread
One cupful breakfast bran, 1 cupful
wholemeal flour, 2 cupfuls plain 'white
floor, 14 .cupfuls thick .sour• milk,
cupful 'sultana raisins, 1 tablespoonful
black treacle, -1 tablespoonful sugar,
lh teaspoonful salt, 1 teaspoonful.bi-
carbonate of soda.
Mix the'. dry ingredients together.
Beat the•sour milk (having equal pro-
portions of curd and whey) ,and add
the•treacle, mixing Wall.`. Stir in the
dry ingredients and, lastly, the sul-
tanas. Pour into greased tins, two-
thirds full, and steam (or boil) for
three hours.
Marmalade jars, even all the way
up, are excellent co;tainet,,'a for this.
bread. , Whsn steamed in these :jars
the little cylinder -shaped loaves can
be cut into dainty rounds to be spread
with butter for afternoon tea.
Indian corn meal,'rye flour, oatmeal
or any favorite coarse flour can be
substituted for the bran. Even por-
ridge leftover from breakfast can be
utilized.
The cup measurements given above
are really quite simple. By. "cup," an
ordinary breakfast -cup is understood.
Brailles#,
Fredericton, N,B. —The - boyhood
home of Bliss Carman has been pre-
served for posterity through the ac-
tion of the provincial chapter of the
Imperial Order of Daughters of the
Empire.
A bronze memorial tablet marking
the "0Id Shore House" in Shore
street where the poet spent his youth
was unveiled recently,
The province whose natural beau-
ties he immortalized in verse, the
I.O.D.El., and the _professi u which
brought him fame were represented
at the. 'ceremony.
Hon. 0. D. Richards,' Minister of
Lands and Mines for New Brunswick,
delivered the chief address and un-
veiled the simple , but impressive
plaque. •
The tablet is the first memorial
erected to Bliss Carman, who spent
the latter part 'of his life in the Uni-
ted States and died a year 'ago in
Connecticut. His ashes were brought
to Fredericton and interred at a
state funeral in Forest Hill Ceme-
tery here. A movement is under
way to erect a statue to pm in Fred-
ericton.
It's Worth While!
It's worth while to give a smile
However poor I be,
Some troubled spirit to beguile
To new serenity;
For sympathetic looks may prove
An index of a helpful love.
It's worth my while to make a pile
Of treasure beyond price,
To hoard and docket, keep and file .
Records of sacrifice,
For nothing that is kindly meant
Can fail of being permanent.
Its' worth my while to go a mile,
Or two, if there be need,
To aid the pure and check the vile,
To sow the pregnant seed
Of all that may, with time's increase,
Produce the golden grain of peace.
—A. B. Cooper.
was in the air. Northcliffe was not
one among many who were planning
to improve it.. "He stood alone; his notions were
scoffed at. He had to convert all who
worked with him to faith in his re-
velation; he had to teach them the
new technique. Thus he revolution-
ized journalism. He created a new
type of newspaper. In no editorial
Particular of any moment has tbat
type been altered since he died.
"Lord Northcliffe in his youth fought
and won a gallant fight against ad-
versity. He quickly attained a pre-
dominant position in the Press and
beyond, and hie influence was largely,
to 'ameliorate the position of his fel-
low -workers by shortening hours and
increasing rewards.
"In quality of power, valour, and
I imagination, he was i t the line of the
great adventurers. He cleared new
ways.
"In some direction- the energy that
he breathed into journalism has no -
1 ticeably, slackened. Newspapers have
settled down to doing mechanically
what he did with vigour and euthusi-
Iasm. IIe left a mark on his age which
cannot be overlooked, whicl never will
I be. For the newspaper was among that
age's most prominent and powerful in-
stitutions—powerful, that is to say, in
Its influence on the public mind, the
national character; and the news-
paper as we know it was the creation
' of this one man.
Contrary Mary
You ask wily Mary was called con-
trary?
Well, this is why, my clear:
She planted the most outlandish
things
In her garden every yam;
She was always sott'int:, the queerest
seed.
And when advised 16 stop,
Iler answer was merely, "No, indeed—
Just wait till you seethe crop:"
And here are some of the crops, my
child
(Although not nearly all):
Bananarcissus and cucumberrles,
And violettuce small;
Potatamatoes, meionions rare,
And rhubarberrfes round,
With porcupineapples pricklyrough
On a little bush close to the ground.
She gathered the stuff in micl•July
And sent it away to sell—
And now you'll see how site earned
her name,
And how she earned it well.
Were the crops hauled al in a farm-
er's cart?
No, not by any means,
But in little Jnne-buggies and automo-
beetles
And clragonflying machines!
—Nancy Byrd Turner, in "Zodiac
Town."
Scots Will Restore
i brei
Beauty n c
Lives Forever
A musician who was discussing the
other day, a scheme of performances
of old music, said something to this
effect: "We don't put this music for-
ward because it is old; we put it for-
ward because it 3s beautiful."
That is really the essence of the
matter. Music's first and last claim
-upon us is the claim of its beauty.
Compared with that, every other,
claim on behalf of music is of small
account. Other claims are made.
They are being made all around us.
Some music is urged upon us because
it is new music. Music is insisted
upon because it is British, or French,
or German, or Russian, or Italian—
even because It Is exotic music of
some musically unknown country.
Performance of music, similarly, is
recommended to us for this and that
reason. The famous name et a con-
ductor is ore of the talismans used to
charm from our ears' their critical
faculty. Another is the reputed pos-
session by a soloist of this or that
compelling attribute— a violinist's
dazzling technique, a pianist's power
of tone, a singer's range of voice. And
all these things—the magnetism of
the conductor, the technique of the
violinist, the pianist's power, the sing-
er's capacity for vocal feats—are no-
thing, or next to nothing, unless the
result is musical beauty.
Historic Old House The quest of beauty has been the
inspiration of composers since eom-
Ectinbargh.—Plots Gere Passed re- posers began 10 utter to the world
cantly by the Dean of Guild Court for the speech of music --and malty a
tho restoration of Iluntly House, one composer ]las found that which ire
of the Canongate's most historic build- sought. At the same time and even
Ings. It is to be used as part of the allowing that what is beauty to once
neW city museum, listener may not be beauty 10 anoth-
The scheme includes the restoration er, it must be admitted that those is
of the wing behind Huntiy Rouse that much music in widest there is but a
contained the Canongate Hammer- "ha' -porch of bread to an intolerable
men's convening room. Later, it Is ileal of sack." That, of tourer, is
hoped' to take into the. scheme Ache- natural since beauty is the composer's
eon's House, a potable seventeenth ultimate aehievonient, the high, far
century mansion, and other buildings goal he reaches only by an unflagging
adjoining, wing of inspiration. Among ire
The present exterior, which is detect multitude of flights toward 1t are
1570, stands some seven feet forward many which cannot succeed. And
from the older front, which is believed not all the skill, the musical science,
to date front the time of Flodden. the technical ingenuity so wonder -
v fully developed through the centuriee
"The Biggest Dam" of music's history, can avail to create
The clergyman who always said "As- for the composer the beauty of nmsic
suan" when things went wrong on the when his inspiration droops, or to
stimulate it when his inspiration Is
golf course, because Assuan was "tele lacking. We have not to go tar to
hear music, and performance of music,
in which even the highest musical
scholarship, and the most admirable
biggest' dam in the world," will have
to change his "swear -word."
A great dam has just been com-
pleted on the Gatineau River, Quebec, technical equipment, fail to produce
which has a capacity nearly double musical beauty—Canadian Bureau
that of the Assuan Dam on the Nile. I for the Advancement of Music (To-
rt has been built to ensure sufficient ronto).
water -power for industrial purposes
seasons.
even 3 n dry
The Assuan. Dam was constructed in ! Owing to the anticipated reduction
order to retain water for irrigation. It In the number of American tourists
is interesting to note that, when it ( this year .the' Genuine Antique Manu -
was opened in 1902, he capacity of the featuring Company are reducing their
reservoir was less than half what it is factory staff.—linglsit paper.
to -day. Since then the dam has been = --'-- -
made higher, thus increasing the ca-
pacity.—Answers.
•
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What happens when a person gets
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attack of this ailment, if you ever
have it, stop and analyse the symp-
toms. You will find a noticeable eb-
sonce of cheerfulness, laughter and
good humor.. You will see that you
have entirely forgotten that yon have
a lotofthings for which to be thank-
ful, it number . of advantages which
othere do not possess, and that you
are thinking only of your disadvan-
tages and magnifying them into sev-
eral times their true size. Why not
Brainwork seems to tend to long turn squarely around and ignore the
life, T. A. Edison, the famous In- disadvantages and taste a square look
's wife thinks the
world of }ter venter, is 83 years old; Sir Oliver at some of your advantages?
fumbled among the blankets. Then, a Smith
greedy light in his eyes, he p:1 two 'husband." "Does elle?" "Yes; she Lodge, scientist, is :79; Bernard Shaw
tale. even believes the parrot taught him Is 74; Sir Jame Barrio is 70; and, She: "I've changed my mind." He:.
dark Virginia
-u as the b to swear." Well, does it work any better?"
Virginia was suddenly deeply t Sir Hall Caine le 7.7. i
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