The Clinton News Record, 1925-08-06, Page 6BY ASHLEY MILNER,
.7ealcusy is a canker which. eats
bote'i.hx.vOT Onl g love to ,
I.s 0- and diqortimy ilto vision
ant,11 tat, best becomes -the worst '
ancr tke worst bdceities "the Wats
Its malignant' VOWS'S iS like a
creeping siek,aes,i afivicii /caves the
tyl'a61 numb to all ilion3hts save,
Or../fr ilto men dark poridcriiigS.,
PART I.
Lambert, with iltO bronze of a long
sea voyage still on hi's face, came to a-
etandstill as he readied the top of the
etairs'i The upper floor of the cafe
was half filled, but he began a patient
Scrutiny of the faces at. the tables.
He missed the -old men and the young,
he ignored the elderly ladies and the
waitresses. Hie gaze leaped Irani otie merry you, Ivor, if you -ask it. But
table to another; then, of a sudden; never till the very end will I tell you
"At last!" said Lambert. ivliere I was OT what I was doiegethoge
He threaded a path between tables lost two years: Would you
and chairs until he reached the table marry me with that unexplained gap
where m. dark-haired, slender girl of in my life?"
five -and -twenty wee eancieg up from "Yes, I'd marry you, no matter what
her meal. There was a lash of ree-, the tWo years hide," he declared, In a
Ognition in her gray 'eyes, a quiver on savage abandon of hie reason to, his
her lips, and a tiny -shrinking from mad craving for her. .
him as he held out his hand. ' - "You promise that? It is ^ YOSt
' "I've been looking: all over London word of honor to nae, Ivor? You'il
P3ITy011, 3Itirittn,i' Said Lambert, -who never ask Ine'where 1 Wits, iier whom
had noticed nothing unusual in her I lived with, .nor anything that hap -
manner and WAS cheerfully content pened? You'll think of ma ae if the
that ' she smiled and gave him her two years had .never.been?"
hand. "I tracked you through an old "The two years never happened,"
acquaintance of ours, at the finish; he vowed, with. his arms round her
she said „she often saw You having tea 'and his breath upon her brow. "You
here. But no one else seems to know are the girl who loved me before I
what has been happening to you these left England tw,0 .years . age.. J'ust the
last two or three, yeart." saine girl, andmot a day older. What -
To finish abruptlY at -that remark ever, happened in the lost year's I for:.
Was to ask the question almost point- give." g -
'• isnk.But the girl, with that nary- "Forgive!" she breathed,
ous quiver stiliAoitchini her lips, hesi- , But his line were upon her own,
tated an instant and then evaded it. crushing out speech until the long
"No one knows very much about Moment of ecstasy was gore. Then
yourself, either, for nearly four as, she released herself. with.a .tromu-
,yelirs," she countered lightly. "You've bus smilerthe straieng tension Mack'
been out of reaeli ef eivilezation most med.. He knew that he possessed her,
el the time, latv.en't you?" that he would marry him, -that -he
He laughed the,admission. His -firm had won. .
were big people in horticalture ilnd lie felt. dimly afraid, like one who
he had been exploeing,the South Seas st.arts e.t.a. shadow, Ikive, which lied
for new or rare exot ce.., I came back Played the laugiring Cupid a moment
last .weel;;" said Lainbert.- "It's 5 ago, loonietrup vaguely es a possible
fact' that I was eutside, the: world, at monster, a devourer, , a pitilets tor-
one_time, -for' ten consecutive mentlis. mentor.
They don't have dairy Posts nor news-, It was an article of their betrothal
papers' lir the Crozets! .It Was "after that the unexplained gap in her life
leh, the -Crozete .that I firet heard should never.be sOeltexli?f.' Yet it be, -
how .rxiy own little Worid,had ehanged. came an invisible -something that made
7
Angelica dead, and my:mother gone to a third petty wl.th :them when they
South' .America. I coulehi't belieVe were alonelogether. It flickered, arid
that little "Angelica was genet when danced, and made its sluts mockery of.
the 'Met time 1 saw her she * *" their fo-ws. But it was always a
There was pity in the gra'y eyes of silence..'
the girl as he broke, off' arid -steeled It was at the aka; with them, like
himself against .the , anguish that spine imp of evil, when -they were
bieught a sudden quiver. thhis Voice. made man and wife. That blank, that
. Angelica had- been .his slater 'and he nothingness, that two years of life
had_ crane pear.-toworshipping her. belted away in the woman't heart. -It
Iler-'death was like a part of, himself became, by plow degrees, more real to
dying. him than Marian herself. It, obsessed
"Angelica was wonderful, wesnt him, ,bringing the yery sweat of pain
'eberr he added softly, at last, With to his brow when he was fool enough
' Marian keeping thatcompassionate to let kb imagination chase after .it.
silence. 'One of those 'eroatin':en- Un If ,he could have loved IVIarlan legs,
bright and good for human nature's the Pain would have tormented him
daily food•' There aVitia sn'ulething less. Oankerons jealousy may at least
ethereal about her',' she seemed to live be cured by cutting away the love it
with her head in the skies and only feeds upon. But he could not flee
her feet on efirth, 1 felt that even himself of his love for. her.. Despite
when she was alive. NOW that -she is himtelf...she held him. The 'yerY
dead -1 hardly believe She was ever gentleness with which she tried to
. portal... But it hes changed my own compensate him for the wound; she
Hee pretty thoroughly, especially with knew he suffered made her dotthly arid
,ray mother now settled in South Am-, trebly dear to. hint. Her womanly
eriea. The end of the' Old order of beeuty bewitched. him afresh; the
things, Marian. Here is the begin-- 'wholesome- sweetness of her care for
Ping of the new." , hint made him wince with pain afresh.
"Where?" ' If he -could have belied- that ,the
, "I said here. In this tearooni, if
wheitt truth ebotit Malian was all that
• you insist on being so painfully lit-
he needed to give him back his peace
brat" His own lighter rammer had
of mina, he might have broken kb
answered the levity of her interrup-
tion. "Shall I beat about the bo promise to her by questioning her. But
• sh,
he was afraid. If the lost two years
Marian? You were never a„,girl: who contained nothing abhorrent, lVfaritin
evaded the truth. Must I remind you would surely . have explained them.
in Pretty words that you were my pal Yet the tiny element of doubt was his
Nellie you were Angelica's; and that
tiny meed of comfort; his one resource
our friendship—" The voice trailed
when the leaping imagination of his
off into a queetioning silence. brain -brought him near to madeess.
"Ivor!, Stop!". She had made a
gesture as if she flinched from the He beetene More end more silent,
obeppkee me,eroe _ ego, pity's 'sale, sitting for minutes together with his
don't go on. .i.on.ddon,t eneemeemee, half-closed eyes inteet upon her face.
"Don't understand what?"
He She hid begged that she might be to
,
glanced at her rin.gless ha-nd and was hlm just the girl she had been when
frankly puzzled. he left England almost four years be -
foe°. She had exacted his promise
"We were pals, thee; let'S be satis-
the.t he would -not ask where she had
fled by rementering that," elle said,
event these years—nor with whom. she
ahnost curtly. But thewhite inteneity
heti -spent • them. With whom? He
of her lips betrayed her, making Meek -
felt his neves drawing taut and bit
ery of , her affected hidifference, He
bent forward with the. big rooin his liPs. to 'mep hilsAself from .erYinig
aronnd them, now becoming a *wilder -
nese of empty chairs. , Love that: could hate; bate which
"I'm not satisfied with old ' merner- cmild love. He worshipped her 'for,
maTian J.,isa :,.,„:,hi,perea peeeioe!„ the speaking tenderness of her, gray
ateli.- "And itb,impossible to pretend h If t
eyesel en askedlime, NV 10. o er
pee not said everything that needs man had tat and gezeci at her hi rapt
, swing; already. Why should I search delight as he- did now. Ile' 'felt' the
Londe, for you if It wasn't that/ soft caress of her hand - uponhis
_ .
watt you? Why are you fraid?"
shoulder and -thrilled to feel it; then
a
She flashed denial. he flinched and shook it from him,
egat you are afraid, MartaNe h.9 knowing that. some ether man had
cried hotly. "You're fencing with me shared that nnme rapture.
new, or with love itself. 'And not , gWhere was ' he now—that Other
only now, but you've been doing it man? Lambert pictured him as some
these last two yeare7." When I went swaggering gallant' whir had turned
out the South Sea?, three years ago, the girl's head, laughed at her trust
it wan' .almoit 'understood that you in him and had left her.. How -far
v,rould marry IAA when I eeme 'back. had Marianherself forgotten. him?
For a year wrote to fife whenever leinnert lay sometimes and, lietened
I Could be found. Then Yew' letters to her regular breathing; was she
. stepped az,e, you dteaming, perhaps, of. him?,
"Something happened.," 'she' said And, front that 'Lambert arrived
dropping .her vet beneath his gradually at a certainty which was.
gaF.e. "Something tha± changed every- still'. no more then imagination; e
thing. -Something that meane we are wearied suspicion' which must gein
beat apart, you and I." , itself to something definite at last.
Soblething tb.athappetied dur- Hh knew that he himself was no Mei,
ing the two years.When nog -even y0.111' t an a punnet in her life; a sae an,d
old /igen:de 'knew where you, were?" . ependablo huahand Who served his
;t Was a. chall,bettire that brought a Plague In- her life now that the wild,
eparkling• reseatmenteinfe her eyes. glamour of romance had faded out of
thia brink of tgretert, she hesitated. it. Ito held hut' the of her; that
fot a single instant. enteu. she shrug- other NIT .had, -been spent when she
ged her shoulders. ' Came back to lift) again after the two
"Yes," she confessed. eNe one- 1st ee „
knows where I was during those two , He began to treat her with a scoim-
years. -He one ever wili know it.* ful coldness, which left het' pitifully
going 51055; Ivor. I've told you eager to dem-leo-her love for him ancl
that we are best apart. „Good-bye." 116T. care Of him, no that Ale might
iiut he hang, eg Inc side, foliowed rephir the brsmeli Which was growing
her into the str,i,et, kept a dogged 1:,etween. them, ...A n d at loot, in a mood
escort until slid' bit the quiet suburban which, he mistook for tolisi dalibers-
station as darkness was ,taltlog tha. lion hut which was actually the des -
color out ab the world aml ooly, the mration to essape` Tomas lie
ro2,Coided to lcav't.„
guessed, It seemed strange that she
- la .1'2'71adered'i VA' 48tY; 'whether ',she
. .
*Quid loop 'het'. tte warn t hands .*'...
lorig 4eif his glouldegn Wii-on she,galte
him earewell "thea morning of hiede-•
elelen, He-loolted dawn into herShin-
ing 4-e0 til:e begged him th believe
-----,,,,./ In hep,, tp tAmet her,. to l;ake her, love A ,DEVELORMENT GREAT.
"I've Ilearehod for a v,reelt for You, agam' 'Ij ll'i.t 1"rian her'°f who L'ir TO BE DESIRED.
,
Marian," he said, almost Menacingly, P1'e25d the elA 1Pss 'which changed a
when the sound of their footstep S "41,1S abnPle Patthig into a new Pledge - a
. _
hushed by the common ever which he Capacity
Pa.,r1°hal:e .Jove. - . ,.
'e t
they were walking, "I'll not be shekett ,,allahert ealleol,:to sae Ilis lawyer and
Ex- tirOPeanHalret ,
oft' now that I'Ve found ymu Will. was surprirse. d that the matter could foEnjoying That Unique
you marry me when, 1 telt you that be "'ranged Eq> easily, supposing_that
i've,been working and 'living let th a Malm heraeit was a aollCbgene Pbeeeeeeel byeeting
A sep
making Palnereg; , yes"; Marian ,coelcl hardly refuse evellaili';'
Moment"? I',(1- I.;; a tm'i„ .,,,,il -' k,}t, aeatioe by mutual con-
yol.,. you're this, Muoi to me,,, Marian, 'tiling, when it wee her owe sitehce that , The recent: OeS44* bf- the Canadian
.worde if: I just, told Yon' that' I., love
that you Mot ,ont the 'rest of tln worl 1," had dawdled their rinetriage. • And Parliament ha,a brieught up for serious
The craving for you all these yerg Lambert- Would be gerielaus to her, coesideration, a matter which quite
I've, been away hasn't been love. it splendidly generous. In his disorder- -Pertinently' demanes- attention at ,the
been my very self, body and soul And ed mind he found himself anxious to present time—the desirability and poo -
you loved me?" ' - ' be laviehly generous in the settlement sibilfty of Canada's developIng a tour-
, "How could I promise to marry you, eo that oie, eateet anew the measure 'ist treed° from Ifurclie. Teo question
when two years .of my life are a blank of Msloge for her. ' , hie been,brought sharply to a head by
to You?" she said quiveringly, ellil Every mare knows that there me the report .of -the Wembley Ilheibition
odd momente in his life 'when he tor- Commissioners., who apperentlyfeel
gets thQ ratocires of honor which oedi- strongly On the subject and make sffille
. ,
harily lind' hire As if honor itself actual and peetinernt re- cointheretle oils.
has its blind spot. Thus Lagebert The report ',reads
acted the cad thet, efternoon with a "Canadags participation in the Bra
elerlous detached inclInation to bo de- ash Empire Exhibition, instgar as it
liberately caddish. • affecte tourist traffic, bas been fully
He saw Marian by chance in the instilled,. It Is a lveleettablished. fact
West Erid. And he -followed her. . thatemmigratlan and e;ommeree follow
She opine from a big shop and hired the tourist, and we believe fully that
4 'tairl -from , a rank, in the centre of an intensive develeement of the tour -
the road, Lambert, inaliat. same de- let business for Canada Would, mean
liberate intention to act outside his not only Inimodietebeaeflts, that-Woild
'neenrial self, Instantly hired the next accrue from that travel, but would al -
taxi and told' the man to follow shhe the means of interesting the
Magian's. ' • right kind of inveeler and oettler. to
They reached a -notthwestern sub_. one country. ,
.• . . . , .
urb ' before lgarian's taxi stopped. - 'Canada poeSeasee preetitiallY all at -
Lambert waited and Watched her from tractions that, toakiste -can desire.. She
the window -of his own cab. Re noted has the mountainseantr lakes of S wit -
the house she entered; then he paid zerlane; ,the halt, valleys and lakes of
his man and kept a, eireless watch Scotland; cast resorts • on both At -
upon the 'house until - Marian came lactic and Papifle, -the' equal of aily on
away and ,drove home again. the. coat:Merit of Ehrdpe or 'in the
,,(To be concluded.) United States; and; in addition,wen,
—: -'-'-'-- _ derful forests and prairie lands to an
extent which, no other elligle country
pespesses." -'
Need of Greater Advertising. .
troika
, , .ea.M gather the some
inapeurs arm develop so rapidly Mid
,benelicialQ.y. •CO.TVZO1S Sad Calla{liall
holiday aitrantlim require simply to'be
IthoWn to 'bring' th' le about, and, en-
f-ortunately, Europeans kno* too little
oL tlio Dominion's possibilities in this
regard, As nekin.ently cited hy tee
Exhibition Commissioners, Canada has
in
one realm greater and teero diversi-
fied holiday possibilities tiniMproliably
sony,eounity. Te-ilay the oontinends
are, with the great developmentstsi
si,loanashin travel, drawn very close. So
many people in Europe Dave not only
able them (0 holiday nt Cisaula, but a
eaDaolty for. enjoying that
unique "plume olio Domnalon'posnesSes:
Could but suincient people, be,
brought to know the rlrgin freshnesi
of tlie great Canadian openspac'es, the
glories of the 1,7Jesetern Rockies, the
magic_ lure of. the great lakes, ' the
stiencee. of the untanied. ivOode, , the.
saperb.araritine , rind s p len did fish in g
the coantry affords In every- section,
and advertiSe these to others, there is
ad doubt a -movement would. . start
which, ',011,C0 under way, would gather
force, as that from the Baited States'
has done; and result la -a vast revenue
A Good Stroke.
"13y, way of encouraging, George,
wouldn't It be well to ask him to teach
mallow to swim?"
"It would be a good stroke, I think."
"With the exception of some work
done by the Canadian railways, little
has been done in Canada in the way of
developing a wonld-wide tourist busi-
ness. Switzerland and Italy practically
live' on tale revenue derived from tour-
ists, and France and several other
countries in Europe look upon them as
one of the largest sources of revenue.
This exhibition his aroused a keen in-
terest among the leisured class.of But-
ope as to opportunities afforded in
Canada to sportsmen, hunters, and
those desiring travel, and h.undrede -of
inquieles have been made by people
who pave never looked on. Canada as
a country for holiday -making, and we
are sure that next summer travel froin
'Europe to Canad-a wi1l inereese con-
siderably. •
Theemere idea opens up tremendous
possibilitiem It is only of comperatiee-
lygecent yeere that Canadians- in gen-
eral have been brought to anything
like an adequate realization of the
etormously valuable resource and po-
tential mega of revenue dormant in
the -Dominion's toenery and holiday at-
traction, auti this, to some extent, Was
forced upon thene Whilet Canatla has
been exerting ottolii ettort to enhance
her revenue along industrial and agri-
cultural lines, Amerie,ans, ln Bearch of
diversion, have, with considerably less
inducement, insisted in erostsing the
border in ever increasing numbers and
incidentally leaving much wealth be-
hind them. . ,
'Heroes of the Ice Lands.
The belated return of Captain Roald
Aniundeen from his aeroplane, trip to
the. North Polar regions, recalls many
dramas of the Arotic turd the Antaretle.
Sir John Franklin's expedition in
1847 might be regarded as, the great-
est of these. Eveey member °Pelle ex-
pedition.periehed, and altheugh fifteen
search pestles' were eent out, itwas
not- until two yettes later that a ne-
cord of Eranklints diteovery of the
North-Weet revenge wee 'found in a
tin box.
In 1912 Captain Scott planted the
Caton Jack at the --Sough. Pole, but
perished on 'the homeward journey,
when within eleven miles, tit One Ton liberatieg power. In the. wake of some
Camp and safety. "These Tough notes ment. Regarded retro,spectively; there
and our
dead bodies must tell the tale," was acareely and essentially holiday disaster beautiful things come to birth;
he wrote In his dirRY. He left the poje traffic front the United States to 'Can-
and the barren place becomes a frult-
only p. few days after Captain Aniunn- ada in the days before the war. 11 18 a tul field. The Reg has grown a forest.
sea, Who, it will be remembered, start- very difficult matter to pin down with
figures the volume and accruing re -
Venue from: thia resource, but a good
idea of the general trend inay be
gleaned from the number of touring'
s A Fire That Grew a Forest:
An explorer tells of a party of SOlors
who
landed o,n ea island in ;the far
north. end .by mischance -sat fire to' the
situated yegetation'of the place. They
left the isaand a bare 'and blackened
desolation.
Some 'years Later enother party of
explorers landed there and- found. bhe
Pla,ce covered -with silver -birch trees,
bit all theirlovelinesi of bark and -loaf.
But for the fire, it le suggested; there
would have been no birches. 'Pile seeds,
,
were • there in the ground, had, been
there perhaps -for malty years. Olrounr-
stances, however, had afforded tlieni
no chance of growth ..before the ilre
destroyed the stronger competitive
grewthe, whichuntil thes had crowded
'them out.
These -dormant steeds in that lonely
island are typical of millions of simi-
larly dorinant seeds In -every land, Si
every field and prairie and desert. Cir-
cumstances are against- them. T -be
climate is too cold, or too hot. There
are -stronger, hardier growths against
which they cannot successfully' com-
pete. So they wait until there Is a tide
in their affairs that gives thins their
chance.
John Burroughs once said that he
had newer seen earth taken from so
groat a depth that it would not before
the end of the season be clothed with
a crop of some sort. He 'tells in one
of Isle essays of a New England farmer
who, "digging a well, oame at a great
depth upon sand like that upon the sea
'shore. It was thrown ont,. and in due
time there sprang frorn it a species of
marine plant." It is probable, as the
naturalists • suggest, that beneath the
soil in temperate climates lie seeds of
tropitel plantsthat would spring into
life if the climate changed to a hotter
one. '11lie flora is •the -re, unseen, un -
gathered, often unsuspected, waiting
for the day of its opportunity.
Lives in this respect resemble fields.
In them also awe dormant seeds, love-
ly thipps, in thilikely places, which
have never coma to birth. They wile
their 'chance They may have been
choked out by stronger-grbwing weeds.
They may have found no sufficient
quickening, no suitable enviren.ment.
There -were dormaut thi-ngs in Mat-
thew the publican and in Mary -Magda-
lene, discovered by Oke who saw deep-
ealthen others, and who brolight the
right titillate with Him. '
aSometimes the troubles end ealenel,
ties of life are found to have similar
Development of U.S. Traffic Great.
The great poseibillty to Canada in
tourist and holiday traffic is well Mute
trated in this 'United States develop-
la
The vo
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Accountability.
ed at the stune time buttook a differ-
ent route.
The fate of the Swedish explorer,
Andre, has remained a mystery since
1897. In July of that year he and two automobiles crossing the border, of
companions set out on the bold von- which record is taken by the Cuttoms'
tura of an Arctic exploration by bal. DepartMent. The traffic began to de -
loon, but excrO, ear the diecovery of 'velop in the war years when holiday -
certain wept -age ,and a vaghe Bake. ing in Europe -was seriously affected,
nue story of "a, house that fell from the -
skies," no particulaes are known.
Disastrous also was the litissien ear-
pedition of 1900, when Baron Edward
Toll ansi every tu.enilier of hie party
perishet. Many lives, too, were lost
In the 1881 eapedltioe headed by Lieu-
tenant Greely, an,,Ameriean. The lead-
er himself returned solely after having
reached a Doha wLIlnbi 455 miles ei
the Pole—a record et that date.
Altogether nearly one thOusand lives
have been sacrificed in the cause of
Aretie and Antarctic expleration.
Quite True.
"I go through my week," reprovingly
said the needle to the idle boy,
"But uot till you're pushed through,"
triumphantly replied the boy to tho
needle.
What le "Waste"?
An impressive lessen on the possible
value to others of what one person
may regard as waste can be draivn
teem the annual, report of the Morgan
Memorial, a religious -philanthropic in-
stitution of Boston. The Memorial col-
lects at its °Wu expeese whatever any -
ate -is willing to give it—old clothes,
-That Link With the Unseen.
Some -people act, think angspeak
though nothing mattered het just malt,
tug 'a living—and a hit more, --and then
retillug -from service-Mle euty. It 10
. .
a mistaken p�llcy. -
. Every man should prepare far :age
and his dependents; but no Men has
the right to de this at the oxpens'e of
his trueSt selg. All- of us need to learn '
that, after ail, the tillage' seen are
temporal. The eternal things are in,
visible but very reai, and go to make
bur truest life- '•
These ,unseen po‘vers axe every.
where-. " Take. Art as, an iliustratfon,
Sir Edward Baradsjones said: "There%
a lump of greasy pigment at the 6.a. of
mac:1.cl .Angoies- bnksh of hog bristle,
ana by the time it has, been laid on the
stuoco, there is something there that
'
alLmen with eyes recognize as divine.""
Think of it! Greasy nIgment, hog -
bristle brush'. anti 00'10c -tee -but they do '
not makeittie- pietute! Semethiag.else'
is there that cannot Inc 'caught irt telt
tubes or weighed in s-cales. Michael
Angelo's- need was as 'real as his,
brush. -
There es a table that belongs to Den.
mark,, n spider that' slid down a
tangle filament of web .fro -m the lofty,
rafters i barn and establisted
blm-
saib upon -a lower level. There he
`hpread lee web, caught files, grew •
sleek, and prospered. One day, wan -
daring about his Premises-, he saw the
thread that etretehed up into the un-
seen 'above him. "What is that tor?"
'he said, and snapped it—and ali. his
web collapsed. - -
OUT gains have a habit of breaking'
our connections With the Unseen. No
loss Is se great es -to lose sight of the
highest eeletionshiPe or to lose tonell
with the Divine.
One of our poets has writent—
Diving and „finding no pearls in the sea,
Blame not, the ocean, the fault fa in
alctindowCAnowilnarire
aueeecianninderomeasienisy otioam
bee 'recAttui:eatee(1 fIntrillitatusre'
evebarict-hfaraeinbgrutandin
of travellers- annually. 'In 1919, after goonatotrdo ear---shungde thenuirnebbaYrgoiVredaeeimeraivlineYi:
the traille had been -growing for five me
years the total number of 'United Peeple--and then sells the goods.
States ears entering. Co:lied-a to tour
Was 273,953, In 1924 the number vias
1,899,210, or nearly eight times as
great. At a conservative estinutte last
year' 5 totel of more -than 7,600,000
United States' citizens visited Canada,
In thia nieneer leaving $143,600,000 be-
hind them. It can 'safely be said that
at beat as 'many came to Canada by
train, placing. total visitors in the
neighborhood Of 15,000,000, and the re,
venue accruing from them about $300,-
000,000.
Europe Knows Little of Canada.
There is no -.reason te euppose but
From that source last year its taconite
all of WillOh VMS spent for ()heritable
purposes, was nearly $300,000. 'Sun's Temperature.
The of the sun's pheto-
- m
te
Sphere, the pert that gives the'.most
light, is about,12;000 dement PATS'S'.
holt. .
e--
Huge Old -Pottery Jars.
Gigantic pottery Jars, havine a eta
cumferenee of: more than six feet, have -
been discoeered in the prehistoric
rules of a city of clifedwellers Unearth -
that a •tonrist movement once started ed near Globe, Arizona. -
Locametive No. 1, built by .0 eOr $tspaoncan 55. it is to -slay cal elle." Catenary ,o
tho-DsrlingtomStocklon. It difil:ts it getet tleallroui,the,znetlern monateea.
' the first railway in' Eng -
One can always:tell a man's, quality
by noting the things he likes. People
reveal their tank by their reseonsibile
ties. If they prefer 41 cheap tinMe to
teal mimic; if the inspiring places out
of doors awaken no reeponse, but they
are keen on the excitement of the gar-
ish and artificial; lathe great ifooka to
them are dull, and they are amused by
the last unwholesome joke—then it
may be concluded that they are dead
to the best in life. Responsiveness to
the Unseen about us is the great driv-
ing force for strong living. We all
need to kaow and oultivate acduaint-
anceselp with the lofty Hutt uplifts us.
It is a power that never fails and its
efficiency is.never out of date.
Sometimes 'lien Wile betake them,-
sOlves to what ere styled the open
spates assume that no -leer holds, where
they now choose tO be and,that what
Francis Thompson called the hound of
Hetieen comet folkev them so Inc. It
la a convenient theory for these TOD
seek their own pleasure tmd belleite
that in eeleindelgence they will find it.
They heve given an opiate to ton -
science, and over the distance there
will carry no accusing voices of their
friende who cared for them end wished
thsai well, and were coneerned for
their mistottune or felicity. They are
out oft from any reaponsibility for..busi-
nets. None shall cell theni to account.
None &all present them with a,demn-
ing tally of expeetations unfulfilled.
Reneeforth they are carefree; theirs is
the, true end eerfeet libe-rty that even
saints and anigels—sinee these wre
bound to goodnese—never knew. -
But only in the myth created by
their own imaginations are they utter'
ly einem:ciliate& to follow heedlessly
their own devices. They still live un -
she became as elle drew on toweed old
der the law, 11 or the law 1,6 not so eaueli ,
age once More intensely BPSTriSli. RInd
a statute operative iss a given place as
se there -were occasional lively 'noel:onto
it is, an enveloping atmloophere. ein.e
when, SA sometimes, happened, persons
law goes everywhere, like' the air we .
with whom she -conversed. forgot that
'breathe; it 'enters like the light,' bv
-. the Empress of the Freuegi lied belong -
the minutest erevice. In fact, no man's
ed ih her girlhoo,d to the nobility of
life, for all his effort,. can exclude it.
,, SiAit &ed. was no lees proud of ber
He call inira nlileage b -between hirrtse,- blue blood than. of the honors- that
and any place, any Deleon; he cannot wane to hei.by marriage. With much
separatellniself from the operation al humor and epirlt slie told her Englieb
meitelplee that SATS universally dna int -I trionee bow. soon after the United
pertstably true, no ' matter who puts.
his lingers, in hie ears and rune, away; States lied victerlotisly conclutled the.
from thene as . gannet's 'hero in -that i lene .
Spanish war an,d acquired the Philip-
s her yacht Chanced to ha moored
Illit epte °e'''''The °t "Pilgrim 's I'l*g're"" i in the haelxir oi Harpies between two
rune from the City o/ Des-truction,
The first end the loot aim 6f human eau eantaim
American men -of -wax. The two Amer'.
courteously invited the
able. The'avill Of the people 4).s.17y 10 risk theie Ships. She put
government is to hold men aecouut-
0Yal lad
translated' by the highhanded seaf- them tiff with polite but vane excuses,
but
sufficiency of In absolute autoeracy, they' reptetted their invitations
The will of an overruling, Power for
tiro finite lifetimegof is man is not carried
. care
The SPanish Empress of the
French.
The old ei-Empress Eugenie, driven
out by 'Prance, for so maay years an
exile in Etgland, died at last in Smile
the land- of her birth. "Her love of
England and the English was deep and
intelligent," in English friend has m-
et/hod in a recant volume of .reminta
canoes. "She would even insigt that
our improvidence Is the trait of a
strong race, confident In its power to
face the futuse—an aspect slit3
greatly a,danned, but need to joke about
sometimes,.
"It a man were failing from ehe top
oefta,a,h; monument," she once said. "you
would hear ifim exclaiming as he tuim-
ed in midair, all cones right in the
•
There was another trait of her Bra
eielt friends- thp..t she liked topoke fun
et—their mu -oh -lauded domeatitity. She
pobsted but that no nation travels more
antfis less given to prolonged sojourn
beside te tloinestic hearth then the
English. "'You are alwaye soinewhere
else," she declared with point, "and yet
behold the people that are never tired
of singing on -all possible cocaelons
"OmaSweet 'Oruel' "
Although her, Poe Of tlie lend that
had elven her refuge never faltered,
r
with such: ugeneyeethey weae at the.
moment .calling upon her in the saloort
„of the yacht—that at last she pointed
out by one who,saye lea' does not'
wiart any one' 11110110, what anr. ono t'°'"thWeelraillyeorua4,9,1cee,gaLd1c
' s‘l'cre1614.11 onlY go en
tuffees, se:Jong ash° lute mil'4 ISa 0551110 board With. •thesel"
a good time, Aepublee efllee or -a Pads Thtgoaptaine looked profoundly puz-
vate' life, w -haver its -tenure, must 44e:then ono of them eiclairned,
conform to lam, and in thee confermity have it! I guese you're a Spaniard!"
will diseover not a harsh eonsitrant And, clirasvIng herself evect, the amp
but7-the gen-ere-Lie latitude -of the Spiela press said, "Yee, I. tian a Spaniard!"
that finds his J.:byte', freedom in olieda
ence. Age of Earth's Crust.
e.arth's west is, 1,600,000,000 ,
yams old, accordisig to Professor Al
mixed. Enough. fred C. Laze of Tufts College, ;U.S.A.
took bhe 011 vsrlior 00 tosk at ee hc7o °LI lof bus- mosaing atsvlad oTtIf ,,ttlet:Intdiets:in:teseetglii,sileti,7nootnos
'You told me they had n `mixed' year, he Sia'Ye, for a given quentity_ of „;
hhole here. Why. they're all Malee.", r.adlum, to become ;mit lead.
"Yee, „sir, , I know that. But it's.
.thixed4111 the ''`elhe' tl°ree"nf em SanCairo Egypt,has adopted the aute-:&"
sing an'i• soma 'a 'am esti' t." Mutic telenliono. system.