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The Clinton News Record, 1924-07-17, Page 20 D. HeTAGGART it'leTAGQ.A.1:111 GcTGAFT B OLIN1-8.14 'T Ft 0 BAN -KERS of Subscription -$.2.60 per year In advance.. to Canadian addresses; 22.00 to the U.S. or other foreign A general 13anicing Business transact- coimirien, paper discontinued ed. Notes Discounted, -Drafts ISsued, until all arrears are paid unless ,at Interest allowed OM D .ts Sale the eiltleu at the Publisher. The ete purchased, , ate to, which. eyery subscription ib paid is denoted ou the label: ' Adverts, R --T 1 t d H. T. RANCt • Notary Public Conveyancer. Pthano'ial, Real Estate and Fire In- entance Agent, Representing Fire InSnrance Companies. ' Division Court Office, Clinton. - W. BRYDONE r, Solicitor, Notary Public, etc, Office: . OAN BLOCK CLINTON' DR. J. C. GANDIER Office Hours; -1.3e to 3.30 p.in„ 7.30 to 9.00 -p.m. Sundays, 12:30 to 1-30 Other hours by appointment only. , Office and Resicenoe. •Vfctorla St. DR: METCALF 'MAYFdELD, ONT. ' Office liours-2 to 4,1 to 8. , Other hours by appointment. H. S. ROWN, Office Hours ' .10 to 3.30 'p.m. 7.30 to 9,00.p.m. Sundays 1.00 to 2.00 p.m. Other hours by appointment. • Phones Oflice,218W Residence, 218J DR.' PERCIVAL-HEARN Moo and Residence: Huron Street , Clinton, Ont. Phone 69 (Formerly occupied by- the late 'Ur. C. W. Thompson). Eyes xanotneci and .Glasses Fitted. Dk: A Newton 'Brady, .Bayfield Gra.duate Dublin 'University; Ireland, Late Extern Assistant Master, Ro- tunda, Heepital for Women and Claild. ren, °face at residence lately occupied by Mrs. Parsons. Hours: -9 to 10 a.m. 6 to 7 Pm. Sundays -1 to '2 p.m. DR. 'A. M. HEIST , Osteopathetle Physician., Licentiate Iowa and Miohigan State Hoards of Medictil Examiners, Acute apd clironic 'diseases treated. Spinal adjustments given to remove the cense of dieeate. At the Graham House, Clintori, every Tuesday foienoon. a 50-8MP. S. ATKINSON L.D.S. Graduatte Royal College of Dental Sur. , goons and Toronto University, DENTAL SURGEON Hat,' office hours at' 13ayfield In old Poet Office Buildfug, MendaYi Ysrel- nesday, PrIday and Saturday Preen 1 t0.5:30 rem. ' ' , DR. NIMMO CH iR6PliAOTiC SPECIALIST Clintoti-1,Resi4:ential i3eaforthe-Monday, Wednesday, Fri- . • • , , , .daY-.P..tiaiSatliocike--- a. • - „ Mitcheit-l'oesdaY and Saturday alter- 'nodn. teens. Phone 49 'Seaforth, Ont. DR. McINNES Chlropraoter Of Winghain, Will be at the Rotten- : bury House, CIOitot, en Monday and Thursday -forenoons from 9 to 12 each week, ' • • Disemes 'of all kinds suecesefully handled. 6.22.'24 CHARLES B. HALE. Conveyancer, Notary Public, Commits- . sioner, etc. - -,4tEA.I., ESTATE AND INSURANCE " HURON STREET • '- CLINTON T.-CORLESS CLINTON, ONT. - District. Agent The Ontario aud Equitable Life and Accident Insurance Co. West VVawanosb Mutual Piro Insurance CO. Established 1878.. Preeident, J-ohn A. Kincar- dine; Vice -President, L. Salkeld, Goderichi Secretery, Thoe. G. Allen, Dungannon. Total /Mount of insur- ance nearly e1e,000,000, In ton years number - of policies have iecreased from 2,700 to 4,500, Piet rate of be per $1.000. Cash on hand IVAN. H. L. Salkeld - • eioderkm, Ont. .1. Turner, _Clinton, Local Agent. GEORGE ELLIOTT Licensed Auctioneer for the County of, H uron. Correeponclence promptly answered. Immediate arrangemeats on he made foe Sales Date at me News -Record, Clintote-or by calling' Phone'. 208. Charges Moderate and Sa.tisfaeticin PIC! ates rans en 5 ver- tiseznents, 10 cents per nonpareil line for firist insertion and 6 cents per line for each subdequent laser; tion. Small advertkeenentS not to exceed one inch, such° as ''Lost," "St•raYea," or "Stolen," etc., ineerted once for -36 cents, and each subse- -aeuene insertion 15 cents, 'Comammications Intended for publi- cation must, as a guarantee df good fai.th, be accompanied by the name of the writer. I-IA1,14 M. a. CLARK, Proprieter. Editor. glow L TIME TASLE,„,, Trains will arrive at and depart from Olirit011 50 follows: Going- East, depart 6.25 a.m. Sof,falo ind Goderich D2lv.5.2 Going West, ar. 11.10 a.m. ar. 6.08 dp*, 6.51 p.m. " " ar., 10.04 p.m. London, Huron eBruce Div. Going South, ar. 7.66 dm 7.56 a.m. 4.15 p.m. Going North, depart, 6.50 Pm, II II " .,11.05 11.12 a.m. You should talwayalceopn bottle of Chamberlain's, Stomach end Liver Tablets on the shelf. The little folk so often need a mild and safe cathartic and tha cis appreciate Chamberlain's instead of nom:emus alb, and mixtures. For utorn c h troubles and tonstipatioo. give °nein:it before coins tdb.d. drugglets. 24c, or senate 612010186 CO., TORONTO 10 HE KNOWS' Thq 'Renee Aho is Always Right HaseFew Friends; They; Fight StlY :of His; Plow of , Ofarmation. Ide looks at you With interest, or amusement, or pity; but neVer with aespect. you are, tie hini, an inferior being a whose' highest-raiseione_es to listen to him aaid.te be insttuctild by - • - It never occure to him that he can be in the wrong. .Even if he, embraces one'of Your Own ideas hea -will speedily eIbthei ft with his own perionalitet anti massif, ofe k's hie own, Bp will even believe that it ieehie own, for it is in- conc.:dyable to -him that- he can be He luny-- heaa- m•en. }Ie./nary be a man who cares nothing for 'dralis, but rather glories in his sensible disregard of the con- ventione. He does; not belong to any speoial class or ereed, 'beyond the Ingie ca.tegory of those who know they are alwaye right. If he Is a Wettetiessed young111011 he will insiat that drese is importent, and will be.sorry for those who see no virtue In an immaculate tie. If ho -is badly dressed he will tell you that it's the man inside the 'clothes who counth, and, for the take of peace, sio. not eon - tread him. . The Only Way.' If he es rich. be will be delighted at any time to point out the sane road he bee trave/led towards his riches - quite unaided; of emirate, by OuCk. If he Is Door he wile declare that money be the root of ell evil; and thathe has never tried to amass any, • As' /Chu/gnaw; man he will defacribe his eaysteme and processes, and: pity you if- You place art ebove ;roman -erre. .As tuilet be will inform you that 'Perner, Gould or could not paint„and w4at. you think will not matter in the least. . And you, if you are wiee, Will let him nin oleitird, will not crow swords wide him, for there le no more thank - lees te7sk then that, of attempting to coevert a elan' who is always, ri.ght, Ile cannot he converted, While you are presenting your argument/0 he is hieelly listening to tb.em, but le "think- .1,ag of 'what he will say aS soon es You seep. The only way to make e 'point With hio‘ le to he rude, And a Peint that is mede, in rudeness is not worth making. • - Then how will you deel with him? There is. only one way-ey.old him. Guaranteed. When the man who Is always 'right finds himself alone Ise begins to think, ie the sane conteructive eunishuient he Call reeelVe, The Dimishment of havIng no audience, Taking Liberties. With. a , Visitor's Fate. '. The naive, frankness of 'childhood is ofteg a source 'efnbarra.seinent to adults' and especially to parents; but sometimes. it happens that the unlucky paeent, ..trying -to extricate himself from the frying pan in. which her eiff- sPriegls indiscretion" base 'placed. -her, tienbl,se. plop! -into the fire. The" Hos, ton Herald -reports finch: aasekee: .016rayman; a elan efa much arralst- elloehabettlanits; WaseiVitio his ,Wife re' calving 'a call fropiste partsiriener, The clergynian'e.arreill daughter, aged, nine; B. R. HIGGINS clinton; Ont. , , General Fire and Life Insurance. Agent for Hartford Windstorm, rave Stock, Autornobilseand Sickness and Accident Insuraece. Huron and Erie and Cane - " da Trust Bonds. Atorointments made , to meet parties at Rrncefielf1; Varna andetayfield. 'Phone 57. The IllicKillop Initial . Fire insurance Colaipan' y Head Office, Seaferth, Ont. DI RECTO i'LlY: ' , President, James Connolly, Goderielli - Viae, Janis Evans, Beechweeicle 60.- 1 Treaeureie Thee, E. '1.77 -aye, Plaakat 1. • Pire eters : George "MeCartney, ea, ° , e'll • m°02eger, Seatalstb; .7. G -a walked up te the vislt,or 'ante _gazing rieve, Wal tog ; Wm. Ring, Sea,teeth ; intently:, at rheil; 'a eid e , meDwers,,giaten; Itobor.t. 091110.6i i'O'ary.i Hutlarenie you Itomele!" ' I Harlock; John Brannireeir,"Brodhagen; • e 'so ' . • ' ' • ,com.„01)..y, Her mealier, ot -emote, was horpfleJ, Agents; Alex Leitch, Clinton; ./. W. 4°4, g6ughtl to nxIcl° ti'''' Iniehl''''f. ''''31 Too, Goderlch; Ed. Ilirichrey, 'pea. well tie sbe c6eld, "WhY, -Laura!" 81'..0 14)1th; W. 01)650BY, EgOsoltdville; It; said: '."What ,,40 yseu ht.uail 7'l C. Jarrenth, Brosibagen. ;The-tee:ea Laura' Stan -in -keyed: .Ay money to be pall In. may he only• melt -meant it for a Joke."' aaid.to aloorisb Clothing .Co., Clinteu, Which *aula have been ne foronmate or at Cuttet-Grocery, Goderiale , . -, , , .,, b 1 ., for, ,., but Partie,s desiring to egoot Insuranpe at aaaa41aa5 aailla o. • wi"..eu '' • traesaet ether beelpees will loa the !Pother lashed o'sastrousi",' °''' Itly'attended to eaa applicator/a to ward; , .. ,y ' f the abeye efeeere kddresse, ee 'aIeell, 11, wonld hgvo been. a mot elr roslosetive Pest )0�8. 1„.4ossos 1),Aper loop if you had said, "How peel, nspeetee by the /iliac Or who Ilyes t . yen erels, . staaesa t tb e- s none. - • 0 . oys .- and Trvi:, 13 en' C. 11.0)InseU .' `.T'afi'ooe(17,t9ate, kop. ornoit kuovsei Justiou ..an a says 1-rd'Od s, ap4r f it's that monkey " said thd King s0 . thee 'bottles he eats '8 heartyls you night00 we go lac,. ecause (fp In the Ottawa Kiver country one a day ' workhard and deeps ''Si1-- - a men.ke,y, AS about the oldest thing hot July day we wOre making a long ,, e„,Arneegtriyatef:e'l'e'o*mbeimeariad,. wrillIe5•; ' ‘e'lizI PAGES TWO . FIN, 1) SOMETI,IING -frroo7nh..ie'le,tetsee to tree throughthe, there is." 's, , ,, : '00'WP-streaw taff,v.e,' req'clarry0ii'gbothe ' ravrheotroolusbhle,do.obietiilutahdaut tniaorewci towere°limwehr,o, ony haTdbbeeteInvoiiiii„tivtleenptaogetsh,eTcliy 'g adieTs ' i(1•1 eo,:tiFiedl,letwhei;ge ttinhiee Sa°tU nl:Its tStoWtehl le af609tth a: 1tn] noat:i dill). e. '11•;renkl-iLayt:' Your.hron brought ,,,eobtrnYe' etlai en v ia':Y' ecia,,n ° epal8t.t-Wae• e,nswItaslotraegtebhe's'i(oIef, ''EiRt(to'n.liniut-arieciii'fildivi::1;.89981:18Z,'E1cVdaZbe'etilem1:0111,:grlie.t:0, -0.1,, the royal ' carriage and sternly thrust the mountain. There they stood in thing ne cY° has eVer - outside. They sat' tw I-rg tones disthay, for the mountain was as bare NEW. - • I b , 'I' - Tony and pad bowed low Gude more. Indian guide and I , ' , And once -your eye looks upon it no scraped the side along a dead seen before. water, when in ' some indunesrpm9e-ec Geb Hoed's, axLd way Hood's. flee laughter. They turned their pockets the it:, T ' floor, for the oceanrbed is strewn with, and looked .'shoePisrlY at°'''eaa-.'he ether' -•11.,1a- ro'clt,and almost as straight as a eY-,Are 11-1%IltehNii.eti: hseeep•ititllaedga:1•nP. rearl'at from' l'trilbItsirv'erbaelsi,d'aegglield P11. The inThtehete.ett ' the' were sorry for th9 trick they lad'Wall. !The monkey, who had run down played en the King. . , 3:, , I the trunkof a tree and dashed to their ' i- " h s pocket," cimcked it and 'held' the V2,2 -of the 'canoe. in a case of this ' two nuts in the Palm of his. hand luind the average canoeist would have , FORTUNES wArriNG It was Tony's f alt. When he had •'"ide.1 .1,3,,,e-0,-c'n.: te'' chaItel.. 1°.1-fd.IT' It ..was under' the King's nose. -. been infazied to know how to repair. cauort sight o•f, the long, end ef the plain that even he did not mow now- , thg„, were to climb ,euch a, hill All . "Did you ever see that before?" he his craft. We had absolutely nothing ' tO BE FOUND 'King's 'ermine,ro'be hangingeve , the , ' ' . ' as ce . " ,„ along vItti which to patch it. edge of th'e' throne, he had beckoned a,„,t,' °nce,. 'Tad hagan ta -lam' -11 11-1).,ande The King bent 'forward until. his But this didn't worry' the Old °jib- 7. ' . FitifZenthemillneuhtveYs iCaot,lealr,..owfh.errillocieulaitlingi a.l'il,odn'"..,-; whiipped .a.).0'...pea,i 001-: of ,bie to. Tag, and the two hdd quickly tied ""w. b' ''‘Thig.,I1_1-c.11•M•b,ing pearl 14 h 0000 "Peanuts!" il 1 nost tOc' drcileh do dthet 1 lex lnut.ne. :•,,As sure ablYgiale,ay,iiAalenzeidpd°1,.il'avigt.hir,laeth,ift:hu,ainmediniacitinal:f.°gIticleirsepila;ici. hoT1,37aaurne-eveeerl.'ejuntigiaigs faasscuinbajeticetn thfbat" neck t :TIC looked hrst at Tad and as 1 wear, 'a crown." He grabbed at , thione,;he was jerked back so hard ;then at the rae•nk,eY".‘-'N'owl" he s4i'd' snatched Ins hand back and PoPPed about the ,sts'e of an ordinary newo- m0s't cd favorite theme with the writers' of ' us, and- has' always been a started dcrtyn. ihe marble.,steps of the` - - c ' • ...- - ' the, nut, but quick as a wink Tony striPned Off a square sheet of the bark thai.liis jeweled-broviri felt off and Was Nothing at all haP-Pcned• the e• Tiln 1 ii . t e romance -perhaps Stevensoree inannr badly' dented. 'And; now the pagds 1 ' ' - 40 I ••• "What shall wo•'do?"-tho two pages , "You never saw one ' before, did m,intois own Modth'I' paper Page, is 19 •ro ed boto a , , ... cone 'the f3iZe6 and •liare 01 a maasa tal story is the inbsf encluttag and al bark tied t'1,,htly . 4 luring at all the tales that still delight Were to pay for their. foolishness. ' dried,,discouraged: Suddenly the men- 0They tire not,.to return. until they '. ''-' ' - ., ' ,....4 a . , , . keY bogan'tiri sUiluril).le Up -the side of , H did ' - And,who ie to eld to be roused /lad you?" Tad begged. • ' ocadlileiingstlri ioprno,f and fastened it with an. ehl and young. . have found something absoititdly new," the King ordered; "Perim that' ill •••• stchreammoeudetvpn.heBsuntp,paesd- bfacsotic..001:-ehe i_ ,ew. , , coldeimdi hntontt wfoarntsotmoetghoinbgaeakbsi:lu he hex. t p,re eedin .e wal: to etlai:e7tna sthiLlel,lewahebtyhearcliconuanarts.thoef ShOlad do nb.utrrieena- . keep -thern out of mischief for a PS W t611th thile hq slippedito-the ground he ''' " turned- 'on his side Theri -away he "I've read about then," said th? handful-dinwfnaict hold -of if,haspnrutlei: avuenr1- while." • . . . . .", . ' King, "but I never saw :7And now ' . sliding .up the mountain -up, he added sorrowfully, "I shall never The horn was iilled with this ' n a. in lonely tropic .isles -of bidden gul- lies, suulten-galleons, buccaneers and , : pirates, and the -walking of the Plankt even keow' how one tastes." the -canoe was turned on its side for' At that, both pages shook with guni, an Countlese -fortunes' lie on the sea- repaiis. 'Pirstrliowever, the 'old In- dia.' .split a long sliver from s', dead wreeke and treasure, and 10 6Ver We strange • something- that nobody has -gen. to move upwafd. - King's purple robe. The King irnrne- building a, small fire of birch bark and sinvee near by, ',with me camp mu., and, are able to explore tho deeps, mankind, inside out and, emptied them into the diately, begin to inunch peanuts; he will be astounded at 'the' revelation. munched far a . solid hour. The two pages and .-the monkey looked on, much pleased. . . , "The monkey showed na where the peanuts were," said Tony .and Tad, .014lay,we keep -him, please?" . .It was the King's turn to laugh. "If you'll promiee not to tie my robe to the curtain tiny more," he said. "We will, Your IVIajesty,",said Tony and Tad; and the King was so pleased that he did net stop to. ask what they meant. -Clara Peterson in Youth's , Companion. After a while Tony rose and brush- up to the very top, where he disap- ed the (hist from his green -velvet peared over the edge. - - trousers. The pages promptly lay down on We must be loolrieg for that their' sides. Instantly they, too, be - ever seen," he said. "Hold fast t the King's pearl!" "What will it be?" Tad questioned cried Tad. - sadly. , Faster and fatter they slid upward, "HOW can 1 tell? But we must rind and at last" eiset over 'the top of the it before night. Come on, vre'll, eat mountain they went. Then, faster our,lunch.as w'e go." than ever, down, down, they dashed The kinci-heartedecook had snatched en the, other side. ' half a dozen buns from the oven, pop- When they reached solid ground ped them into a paper bag and thruet they scrambled to their feet. Behind the bag into Tony'e hands as the foot- the towered the huge mountain; be - men were hurrying him into the coach. fore them aOretched acres of seraggy, After they had eaten, Tony started to level country: blow up the "bag; he was bound to ,,"There's nothing new here," Mid have fun, no matter what happened. Tony. "What's that. rattling in the bag?" "We might ,just, as well have stayed Tad asked.' on the other 'side of the mosintain," Tony turned the bag upside down said a . and shook ',out a littha wad of -white The sun had Blipped ',down behind paper. When he opened the *ad a the mountain; it Would soon be night. small dark object dropped at their They looked; ruefully at each other feet. 'Pad picked it up while Tony and wished/they had behaved them - read the meesage that was written on selves and carried the King's train the paper. courteously, as rightsminded pages "This is all I could find to help should. Their cheats heaved under you," the message ran. "It's the hill- their green -velvet tunics, but they climbing pearl that the King once would not cry. - gave me. Shut it tight in your left Seiddenly they saw that the monkey hand and wish. EiiIy Hells, .the was acting queerly. He kept ruitning Jester. s round and round with his nose to 'the "That's fine!" said Tony. "Now -we :ground. .All at once he stopped and can climb like monkeys." began. to dig. - "Big what shall we elimb?" Tad Tohy .and Tad hurried over to see. asked. The monkey was chattering io himself Tony slipped the stone into his and 'sending up a shower of dirt. He pocket. "New, See here, Tad," he said. was pulling hard on a -vine, He pull - "Yon remember what the King said, ed so hard that it came out ot the don'j you? We can't come back until ground he fell over backward, isre'sha fond something absolutely new. ,The two boys laughed bo much they Well, there's nothing new in this fiat almost fell over; too, field. But if we keep on walking, "What ie it?" cried Tony. maybe we shall And something. This Whatever it was the 'monkey began pearl may be very utieful." to eat it. The boys tasked close. Ile They buttoned" "their jackets and Was pulling eortie small pods from the Started off.' After -a while, hearing a vine and- gobblinV"thern. hungrilyi queer sound in a tree, they stopped Tony snatehed a 'pod arid opened it, shot. He was very careful, tor It might"be "I didn't -know a bird could chatter poisonous, he knew. like thati"eohy.said..... "Tad, it's peanuts!" he cried. "I "Maybe it's something absolutely read about them in a book the other new," said Tad, brightening up. They day. We never had them in our stared at the tree. At first they could kiegdore." ' see nothing, but .presently the branch- es parted and a queer, wrinkled liltis face peered down at them. "It's a monkey," whispered Tony. "What are you doing up there.?" he called. The chattering began again. Tony decided that the monkey must a began to jutnp ep and down and hout. "Thenwe have found some- thing absolutely new!" 'he said. Tad tasted one of theaneanuts arid made a wry face.. "Can't "-we cook them?" he asked. ' Fortunately, an his way out of the castle, Toy had slipped, a few match - be hungry. "Well, se are we," he es' into his pocket. Ile gathered some said, for --by that 'time they were, sticks and made a little fire, while Tad oc,eme down and travel with us 4nd gathered is pile 'of peanuts. • maybe we can lind some food." ,After that they resisted peanuts, The monkey came slowly dawn the with the reozikey %caging On, full -of tree, hend over hand -or rather, hand curiosity. Then Tng jurimed to hie under hard, lie logoked verO thin. fest, - , • . "Are_ you absoltitely never Tad "Come on," he Bald. "We'll use the asked anxiously when the monkey hill -climbing pearl and then make a reached the ground. daeh for home, I know the way." , The monkey -chatterel some more. -With the help of thci monkey they He seemed to be seeing that on the picked mhny snore 'peanute ahd Alla I tempting to capture the heazini a very contrary he Was very old, • . their pockets. After that, they set rare' epeoles of water fowl, will come "Then you won't do," said Tad in off for.the kingdene. as a surprise. ' a 'fled who. • -It was long after dark when at But the lioazin, with' its eseksto° "Well, you come with ue anyway" length. 'the three travelers came in crest and its formidably powerful beak tamarack twigs, he soon had the Rein. Riches or Death. ter .lelazing, The resin in a spruce It is probable thee many of the moat. splinter umiceat them the best wood far svonderful stories. of sunken treaSure tlids purpose, ea the flame burnt long are but legends, but one need go no farther back than the late war for }Totaing the small end of the birch reality. Enosigh substantial staff *tee berk cone over the tears. in the canvas sent belew during that long-dra.wn con- flict to make a nation prosperous for • Dabble Your Feet in the . Water. - • • ' Some to the rest meg/ and some far away To mountain and seaside, the lake or the bay; - And many, so many, just cooped tip and tired Where the cities ard 'fierce aad, the pavementa are fireds--- just louging for something they know . thee can't do - But this thing you can -s -and it's fake oft your oboe Ahd dabble your feet in the water! Why, it bringe haok ouch pictures of far, vanished things - A „brook, aad -green trees, and a myriad wino Of birds and of 1nsoots "that flash ' through the air - And ,son toss yourself baiak in your old °Moe chair, And gaze through the window, and altiee tura to bine, And 411 fanoysyou're taking off. stook - Ms and shoo TO dabble smile feet in the water; The tnintiows come peeking Yam hda and your toe, • And the meadows attach yonder, the ooft beanies blow, ' And the bees are so busy, the bias- , sem .so bright-- , ' You'ye forgotten the pity -well, may- be not quite - But sufficient to help you from feeling so blue, .4.5 7011 take'off your etooking and kick off your shoe , And dabble your feet in the water! 1Vlystery. Creatures of the Jungle. To those who imagine, as many do, that Nataire has no farther surprises In. store tor us in the elimpe of. new animal's and birds, the news that an expedition le in South America aa Tony eaid. "Mid whatever we And you can share." '. SO on they weht, with the monkey trudging along in silence between his new friends, "Do, you suppose," said Tad, "he could tell us anything that we could climb with the help of the pearl?" The monkey raised a brown finger aria pointed to a tall, bteep hill beyond a thick wood. Tho travelers ' plunged into. the underbrush, the pages much excited. After a while they cameto a clearing; there the enhiikey quickly clifirbed the trunk of a maple tree and disappear- , sight of the tallrlighted dornekof the King'is palace. They knocked loudly on the gate. The geard onened it a crack' and peered out. ' • "I tan't let oou in," he said, "un- less you've -brought back something absolutely new." • , "We hheme 'the pages replied. And it's not the men -keys It's something stranger than that." • , The gnard let them mid they hizrried into the throne room. The King Was pacing backward arid for- ward with a worried look 'on his face. Whee he saw Tad,aed Tony he' stop- ed. .The boys could hcarlum leaping . Ped short., \(-0e1A---, sisr?... NELL. aF__ Nt4it)0\6.1 F Ztie. t,INkizlE, he 3.. V'Jtl-AT E.. v R„ ricrr 11c-IPT IN 't,iok•A cAuse. pot) SA`.(5' 1)eAND oNtl 40 is by no humus the only mystery crea- ture known to extol to -day. • In the heart clf Ceetral Afriea, where the jungle in many places has tevet bean penetrated hy white men, there ie to be found a etrange leopard,like aninial strified after the resilient of a zebra, ,theta so fox has evaded cleseifi- cation by,,neteral history experts.' What ise kiown 113 the hipmeheree ie amithhe mysterions. beast that roams the -African wilds. The natiVes .havelOng apokeu 00 11 but it was not untie a- few menthe, age that a white ,than, Mr. 19. E. Lee, made its. acquaint - He saws the animal half -immersed in a peel. Its -mouth, -check, and ears Were'like those of a horse, but its head 'was like that of ahippopotamus, with two long, erect' home on its stout. The New Guinea - forests ate be- lieved to be the, home of more than ono -animal unknown to natural his, tory; while the dense Dangles of Bor- neo and 'Brazil:contain. others, among them a long Aker -alike createre that is mei to lie cap -able of flying. •The Giant.tush Pig of Kenya Colony is fincthor hong that is se rarely seen tbPc. Pc exietenee Is doubted by sonic,' :eels °ugh" ' 6eVeral reputa hlo travellers claim tc.; li,av'e observed it. , By Feeditlg Thera Cracked Corn? TWO small boys. says the Argonaut, once, halted before a, lorass plat o. on the 0 -ant of a. house whereon was in - so bbol da bold' characters the word "Chiropodist." - ' `,Chillupodist!" 'remarked one of then:, porpleXed, ','What's that?' ronlied-his companion, "a chirrumallstis a' cliop wha L tea eh eg Canaric.s to :whistle' " 1.on10n.Oldet: Than Florae. Rome As' a Modurn city compared with London. London Wag f ()gilded is 1108 B.C., while, ltome was not found- ed until 735 13,d, the guide applied the torch to it, and in a short whilef a hot stream of spruce gum wals running from the bark. With.- the, small encl he applied the hot pitch to all parts Of the tern and frayed, canvas, afterwaede preset- ing the can'vais down iirmlY in Plpee, and last Of all smearing -great masses of Idle gum aeound and in the crevices where thecanvas-failed -to meet, In. an hour's time We were ready for the river again, . " After a day's uee- this gum hardens and becomes a very 'geed *sulastitute for 'canoe cerneet.e. Care should be Somewhere in the Pacific is a little wheee thepirates atelod their Imre A party of adventurers that • went In search .ot it, belleeing they had unearthed the secret on, an old chart, was nester heard of again. " An Australian nfluir Spent part of, his life in Ake:linen-tiling to re -find a mine his partner -found and died in describing: bat he. never succeeded, and, eventuallY the buslimen %tunable& on. his siseletoa: -A, party of Freach 'seientists rie7row- used that the pa:rts treated..with tee lieruce gni are not trodden en heavilY '8IYab e:raeoliDed death front -thirst in the seeking traceseof a lest cares oar,ritincttarpartylitndueetroatttinpeertncanoe, ounthetaot van Of •Peecious stakes , that never p reaohea TImbuctoo, mid was suePesed will ptah;eern ,,b:nnioladeatngaserie0nteajae..teete;alled st4tohrraav, elebaetelntscwfrearcwiteile,liwanett'by a tho d iniseedMtubde wells. ' • .. Diamonds Mielaid. • Malty an expeditfon has sought the famed miees of 7fbng.Solemen. The wonderful platiaum mine, said to have been sliecoveratin' 1895 by a German dootor, who died of exhaustion on emerging from the Nalahari desert, has never been, traced egain, though at least two parties have some to : ririeas. rin further search and several solitary secret tracker e have never re - The, Africa/2,2er still nelieves in the "cave of gleaming gold" that Was des, ,eribed by an excited Kaffir in the Krugersdorp; and in the Orange,River couhtry a Boor.family have sought for yeara for a parcel of diamonds handed . . hastily to one elf- their ancestors by ' an Englishman flying from pursuing isuecrstted aansi letiPaP:ts-heedap hthavee elbueSr. The Boer, finding the packet. contained made with manufactured Cement. Call of the Alpine. Ten months of the year I keep delving a ter gold, With iny nose on. the grindstone, my' nerves growing -old; Like a, leech at hie dinner I atity on the job And grouch at the weather, with a croak like a -frog; But the balanee of time is one para- dise rare, , "Ns two weeks In the mountable with six to prepare, ' ' And Olsen:trill of edventUre ore, ples ray breast, Malmo me king at creation -by speoial request. Clan Alpine's Great Chief sent a mess- , age to me, • flo Pm /molting my dunnage with masterful glee; many big stones, anti -fearing the In a week Pni away on our anneal mounted police, hid it and fergot the Old -Gtouch ditapDears like the creek of a whip, • And the thought of old friends and the new ones I'll meet Has killed all emotions ,except joy S0106 wherein Western China. there Is believed to he a buried teMPle where the Manchu 0511501-019. 131 the all dynasties stored their precious stone, • milaileteripte„ and other. treasures In times..of tastable. If the Chineee knew So I'm firmly convineed, that this of its eared whereabouts, they have • elub`a atmosphere kept the secret- among theta. Will dispel all that's bad from each ;solve% though many eartiee sea:saes, o nieraber eaeli year. have 'been made by others. Fir away in the mountains where big- , . flees 'abounds ' Man's.0. i'worthpouuasis :not , .rated ,dollare The godIrtdoslour uetu„rese.is sifted from Our frienaships are .real, witheut traitish. or, gime: There we live as our Maker intended Back twheouf3ghl(Pitd' . rulybuilding for one commen gotid. Thu a while mountainel abide, or true ' love 'cloth endure - There is nothing ean equal the Alpine Chilr'e lure. D. Geddes. Wiki se, • X Strawberries. 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