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The Clinton News Record, 1925-07-02, Page 6. . srNo-psis. ' narce s the, wolf -deg,' ,scareltil frantiaat'lly for las mi.,..,tre's8, 1,/,sPeeS followad the trap -line she and h( father usad to traverse. There 'Wei plenty of rabbits in -Uzi; 'trttps attalL 1 did .not go hungry., but he found 7 trace of the Or/. He gile•s a atia'sg.e Baraa. Lie i't;00 o000 than ever 111 a wolf, yet ita .fteVer gave the viol halve/tow and alwaya he suarled dee , . in lila throat (witch he heard the cr of the pack, CliAPTER XXIII.—(Cont'd.) , Again, in the heart of a fierc February storm, he pursued a bu caribou so closely that it plunged OVe il Oil and. broke its neck. He tive wall, and in, eige and strength he wa growing Swiftly into a gla t of hi ell ad: Yineaotber,eix month e woul As iarge AS Kazan, and ns jaw tool, or blood-Altn, tbat marks tbeevolf aed Ale° to an extent,the husky. ,,Ilita j awe weth 'Mae 'EamaraiiMperlseps evert InOre-i)owerful.,Through•"„all that weal: aittes Olivir Curw ci Th ° ..... of the Big' Storm' he travelled without food,e Were four days of anow, - with driving blizz'arde and. fierce ° winds, and After that, three' aays of A LOVg EPIC CE.1111: FAR NOM intense ' cold • in ,,''which .etery , living. at last, :salty in September, he I 111 tile beaVer-pond feetgood- c, For temay dims les evenderinga e ried him in no one particular aie non, He followed the hunting, liv te chiefly 01 2:abbits and that sirup to minded species of pi.Ftridge known d the "fool hen." This diet, of cow ce was given variety by other thing.s they happened to come his way. :W a currants and rasph-erries•• were rip if nig, and Baree was fond of'these. lie also liked- the bitthr berries' of the mountain 'ash, whieh, along tvith the sees balsam and spruce pitch which creature kept to its vvaran dugolit in 'eft the nnoW: Even the birde had burrow- ed themselves in. (Me might have aaM walked on the backe of caribtni and :eas numee and 1/et have guessed le Baree mg memeyed hemself during the worst of le- the sterna but did not allow the snow 88 to -gather over ,hirn. , se, Every • trapper from Hudson's Baa as to the country of the Athabasca knew lld that efter the Big Storm the famish- en- ed fur animals would be seekieg food, and that traps and deadfalls peoperly set and baited stood the biggest chalice of the year of being filled. Some of them set out over their t -rap - lines on the sixth day; some on the seventh, and others on the eighth. It was on the seventh day that Bush Ma - Taggart started over Pierre Enstach's line, which -was now his own for the season. It took hint two days to un- cover the traps, - dig the snow from them, rebuild the fallen "trap -houses," and rearrange the baits. On the third dayhe was back at Lae Bain. It .was on this day that Baree came to the cabin et the far end of Mc- Taggart's line. MeTaegart's trail watt fresh in the snow about the cabin, and the instant Bagee sniffed of it every drop of h1001 In his body seem- ed to leap - suddenly with a strange excitement. It took perhaps half a minute- for the scent that filled his nostrils to associate itself with what had gone before, and at the end of that half -minute there rumbled in Tatteree's chest a deep and sullen. growt. For many ininutes after that he atood like a, black rock in Mae snow, watch- ing the cabin. Then slowly he began circling about it, drawing nearer and nearer until at h e he meted, syith tongue now and then; were good medieine for him.- In g shallew water he occaeionelly caught, a a fish; now and thee he hazarded a s cautious battle with a porcupine, and s if he'was successful be feastedopthe d ten erfet P•48,1 0,8t 41!)01011S Of 11 the s es that ma 6 up his inmate wiee . were AIMOSt SS poWelital, even -flOW em September be killed young deer. g The bag -"burns" that he occasionally • Tho einter passed, and eerie came, and still Bare & eontinued to haunt' his old trails, even going now • and then over the old trapline as far es the first of the two Cabins. The traps were rusted and sprung now; • the thawing Snow disclosed, bones and feathers between their jaws; under the deadfalls were remnants of fur, end 0111, on the ice of the lakes were • skeletons of foxes and wolves that had taken the peison-baits. The last snow went. Theetwollen streams sang in the forests and canyons. The grass turned green, and the first flow - era came. Purely. this was the time for Ne- peese to Borne homel ,lie watched for her expectantly. 'He went still more frequently to their swimmieg pool in the forest, and he hung closely to the burned. cabin and the dog -corral. Twice he sprang into the pool and whined -asehe swam about, as though she surely must join aim an their 01 water frolic. And now, as the sprin passed and summer came, there set- tled upon him slowly the 81,tann and miseey of utter hopelessimse. The flotvers were- all out now, awl even the bakneesh vines glowed like red fir In the tvoods. Patches of green wer beginning to hide the charred heap where the cabin had aimod, and the blue -flower vines that covered the peincess mother's,. grave Were reach- ing out toward Pletrot's, ate if the menthes mother heraelf evere the aphat of them. All these things were happening, and the birda had mated and nested, and still Nepeese did not come! And at last •something broke inside' of Bathe; his last hopa perhaps, his last dream; and one day lie bade good-bye to the Gray Loon. CHAPTER XXIV. came to no longer held terrora him; in the midst of plenty he forg the dew; in which he had gone hu gry. In October he wandered as f west as the Gelkie River, and th northward tO Wollaston Lake, whi was a good hundred miles north oft Gtay The first week in Neve her he turned south again, foliowi the Canoe River for a distaece, a then twinging westward along twisting creels called the Little /3Ia Bear With No Tail. More than on during these weelss Bathe cares in touch tytth lean, but, with the execs Moe of the Cree hunter at the up end of Wollaston Lake, ho man h eeen him. Three times in followi the Geikie he lay -crouched in the bu while eaeoes passed; ball e dos times, in the atilleess of night, nosed about cabins and tepees which there- was life, and once came so 'neer to the Hudson's B Company post a wou0sthn that could hear the barkleg a dogs a the shouting of their masters. A always lie was seeking—questing f the thing that had one out of hialif o t the thresholds of the cabins e sat ed; outside of the tees he el cId ,elose, gathering the wind; t eaeoce he watched with eyes in veld there was a amaeful gleam. Once thosight the 'wind 'nought him t scent, of Nepettee, and all at dice hi legs grew weak Mader his body an his heart seemed to stop beating. was oely for a Moment or two. came Out of the thpee an Indian gi with her hands fall of willow -work and Bathe slunk away mamma It was almost December when Le - rue, a halafbreed front bac Baia. sa Baresas faMtprints in freshly faith snow, and a little- late's- caught a flas of him in the bush. • "Mon Dieu I tell you his feet as as h1d as titY 'hand, and he is ate blue as a ragen s wiag with the sun on id he eafclahned the Company's tater at Lad Hein. "A. lox? Nonl He half ea big as a bear. A wolfm-oui atlack as the devil, M'sieus." MeTaggart was elm of those vali heard. He was putting his signet= in Mk to a letter he had 'written came to line His hand stopped s the ComTny when Lerue's worda suddenly t at a drop sof ink spattere on the letter. Through him there re a ourieus Shivet as he looked over a the halfbreed. .Tust then Marie cam an, MeTaggart had besought her bad trent her tribe. Her big, dark aye heti a deft look In them, and some o 'her wild beauty had gone since a yea ago. • ' • "He was like—that!" Lerue wa saying, vrith a snap of his fingers. 11 saw Marie, alnd stepped. "Black, you say?" MeTaggart sai carelessly, without lifting his era from his writing. "Did he not boa some dog inerk?" •• Leime ahrugged his ahoulders. "He was gone like the wind, airsieu But he was a wolf. With scarcely a sound that th others- could hear Marie had whisper ed into the Factor's ear, and folding his letter, MeTaggart rose quickly. and left the :there.. ,Ele was gone an hour. Lerue and the others weft puz- zled. It was not often" that Marie came into the store; th was not often that they saw her at all. She remain- ed hidden, in the Factor's log house, and each time that he saw her Lerue thought that her face was a little thinner than the last, and her eyes bigger and hungrier looking, In his own heart there was a great yearning. Many a night he passed the little win- dow beyond whieh he knew Hutt the aqua sleeping; often he looked to catch a glipmse of her pale Pecan and he lived le the oee happiness of knowing that Marie understood, and thattanto hes. eyes there came for an ihatant a different light Whee their gleneeta met, 'No one elle:, know. The theret lay between tl'oesn—and patiently Le- rus and .eratehed. "Some day," he kept saying to shinmetf—"Some day"---apd that was all. Th a one word carried a world of Meaning aed of hope. When that day canes he would take Marie, streight to the Miss atones. over et Fort C,Marchill, and they would be married. It was a dream that made the long dammed the longer nights on the ttapsline pa- tiently endured, Now -they were both slavesato the env -freeing Power. .But —someday-- ' CHAPTER XXV. or ot n - at 00 eh he I0 - ng nd a elceL to Pt Pea ad ng oh en he in he ay he nd nd or e. he r- he eh he he It isa rl 00 17 is 0 to e 5. 0 It was eerly in August when &tree left the Gray Loon. He had no oblet- tive In view. Hut there was still left upon 'his mind, like the , delicate int- pressibe of tight end shadow on a neghtive, the methoriee .of his earlier days. -Things and happeniegs that he had:al:nose 'forgotten r.thurred to him now, as his' trail led' him farther and farther away. from the Gray Loon; and his earlier experiences became real'again, pictures thrown out afresh in his mind by the breaking of the lest ties 'that held him to the home of the Willow. Involuntarily he followed the trail of these imprealsiens—of ,these past hapPeninge,and slowly they helped to build up new' interests for hint. A year in his life was a long .time—a decade of man's earner - theca It was snore than a year ago that he had let Razan tied Gray Wolf• end the old windfall, and yet now there canoe back to him indistinct memories of those days of his earliest puppy- hood, et the stream Into which he aad taller:, and of hie fleece battle with Pepayuchlaew. It was' his later ex- perfentha that roused the older mein- oriee, • He came to the blind canyon .'up whieli Nepeese uiod Pierrot had chaeed him. That seemed but yesthr- . dew - Anti now, for the test tirrie in many weeks, a bit of the old-time eagerness put speed into Baree's feet. Memories that had been • hazy and indistinct through forgetfulness 'were becoming realties again, and as he would ahave returned to the Gray Loon had Nd - pease been there se now, with some- thing of the teeling- of a wanderer going home he returned to the old beaver -pond'. It was that most glorious hour of a summer's 'day sunset --when he readi- ed it. He stopped a huhdred yards: away, with the pond atill hidden from his sight, -and 'sniffed the tair, and listened. The pond was there. Ile caught the cool,honey steel/ of it. But Mmisle and, Bever-tooth, and all the others? Would he And them? He strained his ears to catch a fa- miliar sound, and after a nioment or • two it came—a holloW splash in the water, He weeta quietly through the aldem and stood at last•'elose to the spot where he had first -Made the am guaireancesof Umiak. The surface of the pond was undulating alightly; two or three heads popped up; he. saw . the torpedosfike wake of an old beaver towing a stick Moth, to the opposite shore—he looked toward the darn, and it was as he, hact left it almost a year ago, Ile did not show himself for a time, blit stood conceeled in the young aldete. Ile felt geowirig IA him more ad tripte a feeling of restfulness, a relalation train the long strain of the Ienely Months during which he had • waited for Nepethe. With a- long breath Ise lay dowot ernong the alders, • mug his head just enough emu:teed:to give: him a clear vleiv. As the flue • settled liewer the Pond became Out ori tam ehete whew he had saved from thetox came another gen- eration of young -beavera—Mln•ee of them, fat arid waddling. Very softly Baree whined. Alt. that night he lay in the Odom The beavar-pond became his home again.. Conditions, were clammed, of , eecturee, arid as days grew into weeks the enhaisitents ef Beater -tooth's 001- ab.940c1 nessigna of acoeptaig: the •gwoginaup Harem as they had athepted the baby Bano of long ago. He Wadi big, black, and 'welt& now—a longs fanged end tormidisble -loolfing erea- Mora and theugh are offered ISO violenee he was regarded by the beavers 'with deep-seated feeling �f fear and sus - /olden. On the other hand, Harmer no Longer Mit the old puppyish desire to PlaY with the- baby beo.veys, so their aloofness did net tvotible him as le those other days. All • theough the month of August • Bares made the beaver -pend his head- quarters. At Mimes his excursions kept him away fer tWo or three days at a time. Taese journeys Mame al- ways into the mirth, sometimets a lite Me ems:, ana saiesseeM, a Mae wee. hut dead agalif into the atouth. Alia 1St The trap -lino of Pierre Eustach ran thirty miles -straight westof Lae Bale. It was not as long a line as Plerrot's had been, but it WAS like a main arthry rutining through the heart d a rich f ut country. It had belonged to Pierre Eustach's fathet, end his grae- fether, and his great-grandfather, anti beyond that it -reached, Pierre Yrimmed, hack to the very pulse of the est blood in France. The books at McTaggartM post went back ;1y as far au, the great-grandfather end of it, the older -evidence of ownership being at Churchill. It was the finest game courthey between Reiedeer Lake- and the Barrett Leeds. -It Was in Beeein- ber that Baree came to it. m Agaie he Was travelling southward in a alo*' end wandering fashion, seeking food in the aeep snows. The Ristisew Westin, or °Meat Stierne had come earlier than uaual • this, winter, and for. a week atter it scarcely a hoof or claw was Mavjria. Bares, un- like the other treatures,.did not 'Miry himself in 'the snow mid wait for the skies to Me -armed crust to Ionia Ile Was big, '-and petverful, end restleate Less: than tWO yeag old, he weighed a good eighty pounds. His Pads were broad and wolfish. UM chest and shoragers \vele -like a melee-iv:tea, heavy and yet muscled for speed. He WAS wider between the eyes than the laste was sntflng at the threshold. No sound or &leen of life Mlle from inside, but he could smell the old smell of MeTaggart. Then he faced the wilderness—the direction in which the trap -line ran back to -Lae Bain. lie was trembling. His 'muscles twitchel. He whined. Pictures were assembling more and snore vividly in his mind—the fight in the caloie, Nepeese, the wild chase through .the snow to the chasm's edge --evert the naergovy of that age-old strugg•le when. MeTaggart had caught hint in the rabbit seam., In his w/une there was a great yearning, almost ex- pectation. • • Slowly he followed the trail and a quarter of a mile from the e abini drink the first trap on the ,line. Hunger had caved in his sides until he was like a starved wolf. In the first trap - house MeTaggart had placed as bait the hind -quarter of a snowshoe rabbit. Baree reached in cautiously, He had learned many things on Pierrot's line: Its• had learned what the snap of a lap meant; he had felt the cruel pain of steel Jaws; he Icnew better than the shrewdest fox what a deadfall tretiid do when the trigger was sprung—and Nepeese herself had taught him that he wets never to teeth a poisonsbait. So he closed his teeth gently in the rabbit flesh and drew it forth at' eleverly as MeTag- gart tatimelf could is taa done, He Visited five traps before dark and ate the five baits witheut springing a pan. The sixth. was a. deadfall. lie circled about this uutil he had 'beaten a path in the snow. - Then he went on into a warm balsam swamp and found - himself a bed for the night. (To be continuo .) sem 'My hubby says he 'couldn't' Ibo without me." ,' "What allowanee do you make him?" • 1 MEN'S, AND YOUTHS' NIGHTR073E. This comforteblealeolcing nightrobe has 'many featnres that -will appeal to thetaverage man. It nuismbe made of warm flannelette -or softhea•vy cotton, which would Insure the greatest am - mint of wears The back may be gath- ered to a deep, well -fitting yoke if extra fullness is desired, or eut The neck may be finished with 'the attached collar lauttoning to the neck, or with a slidlaed facing stitehed fiat to the low neck. The set -le sleeves ore long and finished with a cuff - stitched Ilat 'to the sleeve. .A xoosny breast pocket is the only &Manning. No. 1167 is cut in althea 34, 38, 42 and 46 inches breast. Price 20 cents. HOW TO ORDER PATTERNS. Write your naMe and address plain- ly, giving number and size of suelt patterns as you went. Enclose 20e in s miss or com (eon preferred; wrap It carefully). for each number, and address your order M Pattern Dept., Wilson Publishing Co., 73 -West Ade- laide St., Toronto. Patterns sent by return mail. ' Drawing the Crowd. "Oddity is the best pollee," seems to be the most recent slogan of the Tap enema- shopkeeper. Thi* is eseecielly true of the tainall thops that have Sprung up all ever Tokio since the, earthquake of 1923. One shop Maims to give the highest discount for cash purchases.. The elan reada "Tabe (Japanese soaks) at a hundrea yen a pair, with ninety- nine yen off for cash." t A, fruit store goes by the nalete of "Fighting House." Whim the pro - 'prides. was asked what the connection was between -Mutt and fighting he an - savored that tbe word' "fight" always attracted crosvd, • and the crowd might. as well gather in front of his shop window as anywhere else. . DM -counts are anuounced nearly everywhere; but one nem decided to be dffferetit, so he thid: "Absolutely no discount here. You aay through your nese." The results, he claims, re exceptiorially good. What Sally Was Interested' In. Tbe mayor of Mumpsville, who hal taken it neon himself to address the Sentence Sermons. aMuch laaPPiness is Due—To our ability to forget the mean things peo- ple may about us. —To our determination to And the good: In every one'wemeet- ' --To our effort to do our work un- usually well. • —To Our habit of smiling when therm isn't anything funny. - —To a willeagness to live within our means:. • a —To the fact that sonie nee is Ant to -start o„ recoeciliation. —To the fact' that, motbees don't eliarge time and. a half tor overtime. In eminary for girls on the important uestiona of the day in national and nternational polities, •was also owner of the principal dry -goods establish- ment tat the town. At the conelesibn of hie addrese he said: "Before go, has romone a question to ask?" SloWly and timidly one little girl raised her hand, "Wheels the questioxi, Sally? Don't be afraid. Speak mitt", The little girl fldgetted in her seat, Finally in a deaperate outburst she asked: "Mr. Mayor, please, how meals are those yellow glovemfor girls you have In yoer svindtew?" Quite So, Reginald. "Reginald," 'said a Sunday' Solmol teacher, during a leagion en the baptis- el covenant, "can you tell me the t A. single orange tree of average size will bear 20,000 oranges. a wo things, necessary to baptism?" "Yes, ma'am," said Reginald. "Water uci a baby.' , Vacmion Pays, Looking far backward, I filial', see the, And ahall turn nay eage steps unto the , °met Home again! Oh, how 'InY 'heart, will leap ' When I behold tlieold, familiar scenes., Oh,- I shall k1633 the s again With And, breathe the mountain air into ,MY. And trill the old-tiMe songs hieh -in And iift in3r heart to God amain' where 011is still. - Oh, t will -Mel the glory of 'the white; , , . still night, And „see the beauty of e daneing eters, . And I -shall love to stand Where „once' And sem•- the brush tires gleaming through the trees, • My heart will ,sing with morninga A.nd in the rivera, eool peels I shall The summer svied will tossemy hair and brown ma cheeks • While I ride home on wagon -leads of hay. All the beauty of those dear, bright ' days drink, • To keep 110e lovely through the, com- ing year, " Vacation days! Oh, spend them as you will, But I shall iteep mine, far out in the 'hills. —Edna, L. Morris. . Gifts From the Sea. Not a tree grows in Iceland except a aort of willow no higher than a man's head. Yet the farinede on. the south and west coatsts sit over roaring log fires. The trees from which these logs camas grew thousands of miles away, and are a present from the Gulf Stream, which has brought thera from the ,bar Caribbean. Quantities of American driftwood land upon the covets of Norwa-y. In Orkney unit the. Hebrides great treasures- of drittwood come ashore after westerly storms, and once a car- go of mahogany WAS cast ashore on the coagtad the Faroe Islands. Over two Mote -and pounds' worth of this valuable timber was collected. • But the most wonderful treesures of driftwood are those found upon the coafit of Alaska Itself. The' Black Stream, the Gelt Stream. of the Ratite, piles treasures from Asia and even from South America upon the baa -ren beaches. In some at the coves the sbinglels choked and hidden by vast trunks:which are heaped ten feet deep. Here are camphor trees frorn,Fonnosa and rare timbers from China and Ja- pan. In Some places , you, may dig dovvn for yards and lind nothing but mamas Of thither, eome rotten, some so pieltled by sea 'water -that it lases like rook. • The French Horn. ...The Wrench Lona, one of the most expressive of the instruments of the orchestra„ has developed, ont of the old' hunting -horn, 'whielt in order to be carried by the hunters- on horseback, used to be bent into ,spiral rings, so that he might Ship it over his head and be rested on one shoulder. Its old Frontal. name was ear de chasse, and the Germans still know it at tbe Wald - horn or foreet horn. 'Phe addition of valvea has made the chromatic eeale pothible to an iestrument which at %tat was only eaps,ble of the natural uotee of its tube. If the spirals of a French horn were straightened out the instrument would be 17 feet long. That Is why they and the spirals- of other brass bastrumenta remain spirals. The instruments could net be tufed othets wise. ''Shooting Match on the Menu. Three young 'women, teachers from a Western eity, were touring Europe during a summer vacation. While in, Paris they sat down at a table with an- other woman, not of - their nationality, who also was traveling. They had made her acquaintance, and they all found it agreeable to dine together. As the waiter' presented the menu one of the teachers glanCed throagh it mad reraarked, "Weli, girls, there's no mak- ing anythinmout of this, so let's order the whole shooting match." The others assenteds and they Mad an excellent dinner. • Several week e later all four were in a Gannon reatautant, As the- waitei. canoe for their order the foreign tourist , exclaimed with enthualaaint "Do Saye that military diener X liked so much ,1n 'The, shooting • match 'I think i " , 0011011, How Leif Ericsson the Norsem an, isinled on res the shoof Cape Breton nearly five cenittries before Colune ref -breed flashy, and his eyes were bus cliseeverk America .,*es clepfetecl in Canadian grains'and,grasses by the Canaaima goyernineilt et the Norse- • • „ eget, and, entmeiy diem t • u' ' • ' ' -• 's No•••••...;r. pc.rsolis a tten doa the ezte. ibition. memt wastee,..- . ea „am:same& 'fmasemst e. 0 The little leaves mad Viaaaa freM114.bih InouTatairt, tea garalleavs, that are tii,$leci than anAyDA are much finer fleettalt;Oitr. .11 SAL der or jap T MONUMENTS TO THE -GREAT To climb Great-Gable:in the English. inscribed upon it is one word,' le Lake District is regaded as, excellent name or the national here, "Host -hue Practice for ench. climbers as the mat- alto." terhorn even Everest, Anti laat year, On the peak of Majuba Hill In Solith It will be remembered, it was acquired Africa are many scattered boulders by the Fell and Rock Climbing Chile strewn abeut *II Nature's profusion, AS a memorial of the members who but there is one'which stands out from Id) in the war, and- Minded over to all the rem by reasontof its enormous the National Trust for the enjoyment built. It is the Meet boulder of the historic hill upon svhich a. battle watt fought between British arid Boers, Who are to -day associated -in the govern- ment of the Dorninion et South Africa, and it contairis'the words, "Here Col' 00 the public -forever. It -ow a tablet of bronze has 'been tlf- fixed to theacrag, the centre et which is occupied by a -relief maa of Ute Mbe aerea of mountain area now vested in the Trust and containing the names of ley bell." the twenty climbers who "fell In the war. An 'island as 0 memorial is some- thing of a novelty, bat it mity bo claim- ed that the island tat Caprera is the lovely and stately -memorial of the great Italian patriot to, whom King Victor °Wes- his throne, Givaeppe Gari- baldi, This island was purchased and presented 'to him by some of his Eng- lish Wends. Ile is buried in an olive grove on thai islaed, which lies off the coast of Sardinia. Thousandte of Italians e,nd Sictilans make pilgrinaage there. -The power of simplicity to be effec- tive is shovsn at Cracow in the mem-- meal to the G.aribaldi of Poland, The statue opposite St. Martin's -in - the -Fields, Bngland, is not the °MY memorial to Edith Cavell, for one of the bighest pealtes in the Canadia.n Rockies, in the great national reserva- tion ' °Mese Jasper Park, is eaRed Mount Cavell; • whilst Easel Living- stone, thapioneer missionary explorer, not only has his name and fame in. scribed in Westminster Abbey, but he also hes his name bestowed upon a whole range of mountains- and upon a great waterfall ou the River Congo, Mount Evans, on the fringe at the great Antarctic continent, la the mem- orial to a gallant seaman Mho went with Scott and was the first of the party to succumb, but the most ma - whose struggles and death for the lestie thing in all the frozen land is cause of his countrids freedom have the simple erase in inereoey of Lieu - at last borne fruit. Looking along a tenant Oates; the "very gallant gentle. stralgiat street one sees a grassy man" who went out to die In the bliz- mud lest he shoeld be a hlndranee to Scott and the others lighting their way beak to the base eamp. mound, e 'winding path leading to the top. On the toplies a mighty boulder Mope, hauled from the mountains, and Aspiration. - "11 you ealt dream and not make dreams your master." How often we hear a large and resonant arabition aualifled by the lame admission, "But have no time for it." The ambitious orie was content to let imagbiation soar to ft refulgent eloudland toad there attain its final destination. The throng- ing cams ot Ude world, the condaet of a butainess„ the support of a family, have held him from what he longed to do. deludes himselt into thinking that a time will come when all Is con- ducive to the aim he cherished, But it never will. There will always be a conspiracy of the unwilling spirit and the weak flesh with external circums stances to prevent, If he is to prim himideallsm, he must conquer Memel make his chances, ?Jae suParld to a things that fret and vex, be they tri ial or large, Said a fareoua writer: "Wheeever seat myself at a ta.ble and take pen I hand I feel as if all the diseeses in th world afflicted me. I seem to San sciatica, shingles, neuritis and phl bitis at the same time. The pixies an the jinxes swarm to trip my pen an make me flounder helplessly in word Only by the atern resolve of habit ca I hold myself to my" daily stint o Words di tell the story of my dreams. Ile has learned, that nothing produce itself; that the best seller of set est art is the if:molest in its armed seeming %Lao was long wears in di fashionleg, and that usually the grea virtue of the effaced toil of unlimite revision. I am glad to see s. man knew a eolIege going to wink at his dream in steal ot eey n eng about0, wrote a young publisher to a literar classmate. • He was familiar with thos who merely talk of books theY mea some, day to compose. For they cam to his °Mee and took up his time wit their fanciful Projects, swiftly forum Intel and as soon (Herniated. A HORSE TOURNA- MENT AT SEA. By G. T. Hargreaves I bad sat.down on the shingle at Brighton, Bngland, so as to rest anY legs and take a look at the regatta that was going on, when boy near me cried out: "He, :fenny! Look away out to the sea at those tWO OMB:" I knew t wasn't "Jenny," but I look- ed, and sure enough, there were the two horses, ludding up their heads as stiff as smoke -stacks, prancing aud ft dancing, and lunging at each other as 11 lively as dories in a chopping aea. 'a- PreaeutIy along tame a' boat, and out of it dived two men in swinuning. I rig and made for the horses. The tore - n most swimmer caught hold of a horse 8 by the tall, and gave a sprieg as 11 10 a leap upon ite back, but down went 8. the ream and up went Elie creature's d forelegs into the air, sticking out like bowsprits. The horses were of wood, tl• You see, and this accounts for their O stiffness. ' f Well, the, man caute Morn Ids " dueldeg spluttering and laughing, and 8 Just 11 time to see bis mate roll off the h tither horde and splash Jetta the water. °,, When. both were mounted, and t- though matters were bateinuing to go Yi well, no thlied a big, curling wave and d toppled them over together. After awhile the tome seemed to t, catch the Iteack and managed to keel:. ': seated, Then they were towed about twenty,yards, and the word wa's giveu • 10 "go!" „ o -And they went paadling gingerly n evith.hiteds and feet, As soon as theY 8 neared each other, one of the men a stretched out a hand to drag the other warrior off his horse, But number two Brozman .Alcotte ,fetaer of Louie& wanted M be endowed to talk. Why Mecause the vispoi•ings and the rhapso dizings were so much easier than any things Ilke work. There are loads o people with lovely 'ideas, who are like • They, look with a benevoien compassion' on, these who cannot un der stand how "eatable is the now o , warily sheerest away, giving number t'''orie's aorses a vigorous kick, Over 71 went horse and rider, M Number two Was balancing himself " proudly, pa shouting "Victory?" vshen f th h • ' 1 became 1 der water, and eopaled the visstor over. t I Thee the tournament went on; tome - ithe otnies her'. one bitlng ' e' mes I At length, number ane hering beak' el off 0 little, made a grand rash, and suteeeded in ranunieg Ida horse'a breast full against the other's side, a - ' cracked' and in a second more number the ruins et' his steed. That ended the atray, and the coma • affair wag -over, 1 little it, ack, of the middle. Something bataeta were taken luto theit boat again, glad eziough, no doubts that the two svaa atrugglieg in the water amid -- - — natural gas tromatedie apS. They are martyrs in ,a pervehse end pprblind t eneration, -but they trust posterity to °reprehend. Aspiriatiols worth • having seek to ranslate theniseivea into the foot no cornplished. They do not begin and e nd in vacuous and clratientenbMnt con- versation. They abhor sentiment un- related to the conduct •of life and a 'philosophy divorcee -from practice. , A. Sheaf' of Sage Sentences. The tr,oable witlt much of 'what scene folks call recreation is that it does not re:create. There is ea greater adventure pos. agile to us than that of livina, and no fiTireer discovery than the meaning of Man is 0, Child of Nature, and many of his Ms, result Own. neglecting -to ,cutivate the acquaintance 01 111S moth- er aol to"heer her admonitions. • It as -e dig back to the esiginal'iteapt ing of the word sve and that a vacation is In emptying; but 10 ought also to be a Hem with new life, and Guam, Men talk of tile open world as'tGiod's groat outdoors," but there aro lots ot them who melte free in 10 without ever PaYing their respects to lis Proprietor, Poor Doctor., "I say, 'doctor, dist 7011 ever cloctoe another doctor?" ecci,s' it aoctoe doctor a (lector, the way the doctored (Meter Wants to be doetorea, or does the amain doing the destining doeter- Sim other doctat In his etvn Weer ' . Jt,tt Wired of Married LIfe. "A. noted physician says life nifty be greatly 'prolonged by cuttlna out um neceseary noise." • 1 "Oh, that chali's jaeft tlree at ISAN riot' 11101'' ThA only Result. HoW 011 year school team come ott in the awimming match?" "Wet."