The Wingham Advance, 1907-11-07, Page 6A THANKSGIVINC3 FEAST.
Iva two are the laet, pay daughter !
To eet the table for two
Where Mica we had plebe, tor twenty,
Ls loneseate thing te do.
But my boye end girle aro seatteree
To the eatt and west afar,
And eae dearer thee et-eu the children
lies peace through the 1;atee ajar.
I'm wanting My lairee fer Than !
I thohjOit lust night as 1 laY
Awake in my bed and watebing
Fee tee breaking of the dey,
Alew my heart would leep la gladaess
if a letter ehould come this mere
Te ow' that they could net leave Ile here
To keep the feast federal.
Banluel, My eon, in Dakota,
Is a rich man, eo I hoar,
And he'll never let want approach us.
e.ave the wanting ot him near;
While Jack la San Francisee,
Anti Edward over the eea,
And only my little Jessie
Is biding at hoMe with me.
Oh tlie happy time. fer a inotlier
.. Ie. wizen beredietrati ere mean,
Aud into the nursery bode at night
She tucks 'her darlinse OIL
When the wee °nee are about ber,
With gleeful noise and cry,
And she haaeos the tumult with a stulle,
Her brood beneath her eye.
But 1110tber must boar her burden
When her babes are bearded nien;
On 'change, or In the army
Or scratching vrith a pen
In some haueer's dusty °Him -
As Martin is, no doubt -
A mother must bear her eurtio..
A.nd learn to do wheelie
I know the Scripture teaching,
To balt and help the blind,
it tad the homeeick rine the desolate
At the foetal hour in mind.
of the fat and the toweet a portion
fiend to tee poor man'a door,
ilut I'm wearying tor my children
To eit at my board once more.
teU you, 3 ass te, me darling,
This Living for mosey and pelf,
It takee the heart !rem life, dear,
It robe a man ot himself'.
This old bleak hillside Ininelet,
That eenda Xs boya away,
Ilas a right to elann them back, dear,
Ou this Thanksgiving Day.
Sbame on my foolish fretting° !
Here are letters, a perfeet eheaf !
Open them quickly, dearest ;
Ali, me ; 'Tie beyond belief.
By ship and by train they're hosting,
Rushing elong on the 'way,
Tell the neighbors that all my ehildren
W11: be hete Thanksgiving Day.
-.Margaret Sangster, in The Standard,
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REMEMBER ETERNITY.
If eternity is simply tmie indefinite-
ly prolonged into the future, how ean
any one remember it? We can't re-
member the future. Memory bas to do,
with the past, with something that ha
already touched our life. If we are if°
remember eternity accordingly, it n Sat
be past as well as future and mu
ready be near our life, as indee
For eternity is no indefinite ti
is above all time. It is ti
the life that is above cha
cay, above all evil and
eternal life," said J
might know Thee, t
and Jesus Christ w
Of course, we
al-
it is.
0. It
ess life,
and de -
m. "This is
, "that they
only true God,
thou hest sent."
only think in terms
a times seed sp , because these ideas
condition alt -Our life. But in God there
is mo space and there is no time. All is
ahvaye .present to Him. And the life
that is in Him is aleo above all the limi-
tations of -this earthly life. To be sure
we must, while we are here, live the life
• of God and have the knowledge of God
in our bodies and under the conditions
of space and time, And, aceording,ly,
we cannot talk of the eternal life and of
eternity witheut using ideas aud words
which belong to time and space. But
we need to remind ourselves that these
• are only figures of speecheand that thi3
reolity is far and beyond them.
The language of John in his epistle,
is very careful language. Ilia distinc-
tion is not primarily 'between what is
preeent and future, but between the
J. • bee
tween the'present and the future, but it
is that because it le much more. It is
the choice between the unworthy and
the worthy,. the Iow and the high, the
traneient and the enduring, between the
fatal choice of the world's fleeting joys,
-and that living connection with God in
the doing of His will, which relates men
to the abiding.
We do entirely right, however, when,
after guarding ourselves in them ways
against wrong ideas, we think of the
future and of our duty to prepare for the
future. Beyond our life here there ie
an entratce waiting for us into the eter-
nal life, which we live here under many
limitations, and. shall live there in per-
fect freedtim. And our loved ones who
have gone before are waiting for us there
in what Jesus himself called His rath-
er's 'douse of many mansions. In that life
and peo-ee we shall work wall God and
serve Him. That life there is the whole
of which this life is a part and those
who reject what it offered them. of it
here have rejeetetd the poasibility of it
there, so far as we may know or can
judge of -the issues of life.
Wir are waiting here until that larger
life ean begin, but we -ease -not ."only
waiting -hare?! In eXue sense we are,
egrthat is our Feirn life, and this is only
preparation for it. But the preparation
consists in present duty and work, and
faithful devotion to our tasks, within the
limitations of this present life, Th
best spirit in which to fulfil those task
is the apirit of waiting for Christ and fo
the everlasting life. To those who wet
for Him and rt, they will come.
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Ellen O'Leary, After the eareg storms, if his rest. Both are changed in these
3 deep Cahll had settled upon the lives ot years. Augusta's pale cheek is paler
Ellen aral Ler little family. Tbey than ever. and. her countenance has a
lived at the rook -bound cottage on 5i 1' 'alma and profounder beauty. But the
hange that has passett civet' Daniel Hun-
ter speaks of the fierce strife of polititeil
factions. His face is thlimer and darker
than before, and his great, ponderous
Forehead is -or seeme-greater than ever
hy reason of the growing baldness of the
ipper portion, for nis raven hair is fell.
off, and bete end there a silver
'hread shines meld its dart:wee. Yet the
muntenanee, if 5adder, graver and stele
eels is also move majestic than ever be-
fore.
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late wee overcaet. gloemy awl foreleellitg. f• MOTHEws suit=
sought ta hype off the shadou
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aelelllertieilaweleommallealaneisms
ter Creek, and. were supported by the
produce ef the fraetionel farm, Ellett
O'Leitiy was a very bad manager, or
rather 80 manager at all. Site knew lit-
tle, beeause she cartel little, about farm-
ing. Here \yea the lifelong listlesness of
a lone -lost hope. So that the days flow -
ea on aml Ler children did not suffer;
she did not care. She never took the
trouble to inform herself of anything
ettenected with the interests of the
farm, if she could, tell a field, of wheat
from a petell of potatoes, it wait tee ex-
ttnt (1. flier agricultural knowledge, See
C.P1 tainly could not tell a field of wheat
from a field of rye.
But for the invaluable preeenee and
services of Big Len, tbe farm, and every-
thing upon it, would probably have
goer to the auctioneer's hammer! But
Pig Len was fidelity end skill combined.
And, assisted by his strapping son, Little
Len, faithfully worked the farma-such
as it was, with a fractional field here,
there ann everywhere, broken up among
rocks, wberevar in some little glen or
hollow the depo.sit front the mountains
had made a patch of arable soil,
Old Abishag was the cook, house -ser-
vant, spinner and knitter to the little es-
tablislunent, And ehe, too, trequently
added,by the works of her hands,e half-
deeen pairs feoarse yarn socks, to be
exchanged at the village shop for "two
pounds of wear, a pound of coffee and a
quarter of a poised of tea," or else. for
"it pair of number seven girl's shoes, and
it pair of number ten boy's."
Ellen's only epistolary correspondence
was with Mrs. Hunter, with whom she
exchanged a letter every month, and
from whom she continually heard tho
most satisfactory accounts of Honoria-
satisfactory, except in one respect- that
jionoria seemed to have forgotten that
,the had ever bad any oiieer permits that
and Nes. Hunter. Mr. Hunter had
•legally fent regularly adopted her. And
she was known only as Miss Hunter, the
only daughter and heiress of the great
Daniel Hunter. And she was the beauty,
the pride, and the boast of all the sing-
ing and dancing' schools, and all the
juvenile balls and parties, and "always
Queen of the May." But in consenting
thus to Honoria's premature entrance
into vanities, rivalries and selfishness of
juvenile fashionable world, 'Mrs. Hunt-
er wrote that She had acted against her
own better judgment, and that now, hav-
ing seen the. effect of these amusements
upon the mind and manners of Honoria
to be anything but desirable, sbe should
put a stop to.
Ellen had no neighbors -in fact, that
regged mountainous district was very
sparsely settled, and tne roads weee so
intelerably bad as to amount to a posi-
tige embargo upon social inteecourse.
The tax -gatherer, Mr. Ipsy, was her only
visitor, and be came but once a year.
Ellen's children, nurtured under the se-
vere bet 'salutary discipline of poverty,
seclusion and self-denial, were good and
intelligent, as they were beautiful.
Her son, Falcon O'Leary, was a fine,
manly boy of thirteen yeaes of age. He
Was tall and slender for his' years, yet
of firm, elastic frame, with nerves and
sinews well strung for strength, agility
and grace. He inherited the gypsy skin,
black hair, and eagle eye of Norah. No
step upon the mountain was like his-
eds. Ilitshieg glance, quick, clear tones,
and agile -spring were in perfect unison.
It was his delight to rise in the morn-
ing before the sun, and. with his light
fowling-pieeo to range the mountains,
and return with a well-filled bag of
game before the family were ready to
sit down to breakfast. Or at noon to sit
The ludy sat by bis side, with her
hand clasped in hie, watehilig the pro-
fouud thoughtfulness of that noble
sounteuance„ and then she bemired, soft-
ly:
"Now, what le it -the French question,
the Sub -Treasury bill -what is it that
tills pursued you even to this place, and
will not let you rest."
He paused in his thoughts. and looe-mT
at her in the moat perplexed, amused
way, and then said:
"Why, you are mixing up past ques-
tions and present queetions in the most
unecountable manner, my love -bills
that are dead and buried, and bills that
are scarcely born. It was the Preech
question that occupied then. I con-
fess I cannot at present see any treey
;through the difficulty."
"You know that nothing can be done.
in this matter before the next meetiee
of Congress; then why harass your mina
with it? A problem tbat has reeked the
powers of Congress and the Cabinet for
three months is not likely to find its so-
lution in the present exhaueted state of
your mind. Do not labor with it, Rest -
rest -recover, and then iu some health ful,
hopeful, strong moment, the answer will
come to you like a sudden inspiration."
As .she said this she was passing her
fingers lightly through his hair, and her
eyes uncoescioesly lived upon the silv-
ery threads. Fe saw, or felt her look,
and he smiled and said:
"No matter, lovet-so that yours is
not gray, it is no matter. Yon are my
beautiful portion, Augnsta., sed youv
beaety I heve indeed wished to seo pre-
served.'
She eought his eyes, and her own
eye.; filled with tears. Again le smiled;
But Aueusta raised the lock and press-
ed it to'"her lips instead, murmari
"Not for the world. I would not remote
one of them for the world. love those.
few grey hairs. Daniel, they are eloquent
of your life's greatness -they ars, sicre6 '
and again she bowed her face and mfes•
ed the lock to her lips.
"I shall see them come with more plii-
osophy than heretofore, dear," he nes-
wered, smiling,
Elleu received an invitation from Mrs.
Hunter and prepared to make her a visit
She went by the shortest re ate, the
bridlepath and therefore took neither af
the children with her, but wily Itittle
Len, mounted on a plough horse, as her
attendant. Ellen employed herself der-
ine the whole ride in trying to steady
anta strengthen her nerveo for the inter-,
view with her daughter, lest her agita-
tion might excite the surprise and curl -
wits, of the latter, and lead to. embar-
rassing inquiries. A brisk ride of two
hours brought her. to Howlett Hall, where
she was received most affectionately by
Mns. Hunter, who took her at once into
the sitting -room, where Mies Honoria, in
her meriting -dress of white muslin, set
at the piano practicing her Italian music.
The young lady arose with her usual
dignity to receive a new visitor. Ellen
looked at her, a 'dainty. delicate, digni-
fied little lady, and a strange pang shot
through her heart.
"Honoria, this is Mrs. °Terry, a deer
Kind and °mile an hie initeners, he , VIZ NAUTC11 GIRL,
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his brow and HpiritS, but in vain; and ReSety mother keitswe how fretful the
aftee dinner • he relptested an interview nttle 01108 4re when they develop Munn*
with Mr. Hunter. His host eonducted hint endethe many nights reet elm oalled
into the Binary and they sat down on on to eaerifices
opposite sides of a small writing -table, 1 Mee, s, A, siammene, melee, Avis
the hishop will( an oluinotei sigh 011,1 t "My three •eltildree .have hnd the
groan. Daniel tinnier in quiet (tepee and I weed Zem-Buk for all of them
with excellent rotas. Zola -Bilk did my
) • Metnory ste've you tti re. Children a world of good, and I will al -
the 10si Oveasion Up011 11111C11 We WOO keep It halltty tut a, houbehold re.
met, Mr. Hunter?" inquired Bishop See medy, I would recemmend it to all me -
then answered;
Daniel Heeler refleeted a moment. ;1:1(1 them, and think that no home ehould
eCertaitily, r. 1 t woe upon the oe-
easion of your callinge
.11 company with
eeveral other gentlemen, at the 'Exeete
the Chamber in A----, with a petition
for the reprieve of William O'Leary. cote
vieted of the murder of Burke,"
"Yes, sir; and. 'ells Hunter. it is eleven
years to -night 'dime you refused to grant
mir petition for the• reprieve ef that
what mei. reverend sir, is that
painful event recalled?"
`To the entl. Mr. Hunter, I fear, that
yoe nuty regret your refusal more than
you ever regretted any act of your life,"
"Be good enough to explain yourself.
Bishop
"Heaven be pitiful. Daniel Hunter, so
will, But wben you have herird-listen.
them It is not two weeke Sillee I was
called to the deathbed of a men of the
highest social poeition, who eonfes.sed,
in the preeenee of myself and the Mayor
of A----, that lie was guilty of the mur-
der of Burke, and the. he wee dying of
remorse. He had killed Burke to avenge
an iesult offered to his sister; he had
escaped and gone abroad instantly after
the deed and, alter eemaining in From,
eeverel years, had only reeently retureed
to find out that an innocent man had
been executed for his crime. His deposi-
tion was taken down, and he died in ten
minutea after signing IL"
Daniel Hunter was not a man to start
or ejaculate. He hefted this tetrible an-
nunciation, and lifted up his bend., and
his strong, massive face seemed turned to
marble -and;
"God be merciful to human error!" he
exelaimed; "for if the convict had been
my own son, I would have done as T
did,"
CHAPTER xvrt.
In the meantime, at the Silver Creek
farmhouse, little Maud lay ill. Ellen,
on returning from Howlet lied
found her in a high fever, and had sent
off to the Summit for the doctor. Her
.iliness was pronounced to be a conges-
tive fever, threatening the brain. And.
all the family vied with each other in
devoted, though profoundly quiet at-
tentions to the gentle little patient. El-
len watched by her bedside day and
night, scarcely allowing herself Ito
bottr's needful rest in the twenty-four.
Old Abishag forgot to swear, and prayed
instead. And Falconer learned a lighter
step and softer tone when be entered
her sick room.
steal Maud, in her fevered dreams,
babbled sweetly of a beautiful lady,
that led her by the hand through green
and shady woods and lawns and who
gat -enter cold, sparkling water'from fresh
fbuntains when she was thirsty, and
sat down and took her upon her lap,
and laid her tired head upon her soft
bosom when she was exhausted. And
sometitnee this lady was her mother,
come from heaven to visit her -and
sometimes she •was Mrs. Hunter, whose
portrait hung above the mantelpiece at
Howlet Hall.
As Ellen watched, alone, beside her,
in the darkness of the night, and saw
her stretch her feeble arms, and her
countenence irradiate with joy, to wel-
come the vision of the sweet lady -so
real seemed this vision to the sick child,
that Ellen cowered iu nwe, and crossed
herself, and uttered the Ave Maria, for
she thought it was an apperition of the
blessed 'Madonna.
And . Falconer, wben Ile heard the
child babbling in the daytime of the,
lovely lady's smiles and tones-under-
stooa her visions -but somehow, even
to bine they were invested with a sacred
mystery that awed him into silence.
At last' the crisis of Maud's illness
passed. The fever waned, and with it
faded the bright vision of the lady. And
nittud's thoughts returned to healthful,
ordinary life.
Mr. Bill 'Ipsy came over to see the
little convalescent, and brought her some
oranges and some fine apples, and sat
down by her bed ana told her of the
beautiful new church that was all ready
for dedicatign at Easter, and the new
Sunday school that was to be opened
the same day. He himself was to be
the superintendent, he said; and Mrs.
Daniel Hunter and Mrs. Lovel, the pee-
ty wife of the young minister, and one
or Iwo other ladies of the county, were
to be the teachers of the classes.
In the course of the next week, Mr.
Ipsy called at the cottage to know if
the children were not to be allowea to
go to Sunday school. The children were
very anxious to go -and their entreat-
ies, joieed to Mr. Ipsy's arguments, aml
Ellen's secret inclination to oblige Mrs.
Hunter, prevailed over her scruples, aed
she consented, saying to herself (though
she afterward confessed it RR a sin, for
ehe was a Catholic), that there was no
other ehurelt or sehool in the neighbor-
hood -that the Protestant Church wee
better than none at all, and that the
sect which had produced Mrs. Hunter
meld not be so very far wrong.
So the next Sunday, very early in the
morning, Falconer and Maud got ready,
ate a slight, hasty breakfast, and set
out together to walk to the Summit.
By the footpath the distance was short.
It was a lovely May morning, and Fel-
eoner and Maud had 0 deliglitful walk.
They reached the Summit and entered
the church. The sexton conducted them
upstaire into the spacious gallery, in
which the Sunday.sehool was kept. Here,
dispersed about in the gallery pews,
were about a half dozen of teachers, gach
with some eight or twelve pupila` col-
lected around her. Among the teachers
were Mrs. Daniel Hunter and Mrs.
Lovel.
, Aire. Hunter had a 4Arge.sized equare
pew beside the great organ. There were
aboet doeen little gale aroand her.
The black lace veil was thrown back,
and the lady's beautiful face was un-
ohoeled, save by the drooping Week
ringlets.
Mr. Ipsy, as superintendent, etood be-
fore e large desk in the corner, doitig
something with pen and ink, and lightly
kicking his neat boot toes together, and
twinkling his CVOS and eyebrows, and
every little While sticking the pen be -
bind hie ear, and flying off at it tangent
to hand a book to 80100 or to
ell' from Moir journey, end comfortably 1 Apeak a word to sollin teItCher.
installed ie the parlor. The young eoupie Om girl and boy were evidently rather
were a pretty, immeentdooking pair of late. The morning prnyers were over,
turtle-deves enough, a very mee match, and the eeereittee of the sebnol
some people mid, because, forsooth, both inenced. So Mr. Ipsy told them when
were fait -haired and fainskinned, Feleoner walked hip to his deek, made
both -about the satne height, Mr. T.ovel Ids bow, and presented his little sister.
having the advantage of only en ineh or I Neverthelets, Mr. Ipsy took New Tee.
SO ill thiA respeet; though in every Lemeet out of his desk, and opened it
other respectuf morel, mental end Chris- and handed it to 'Metid, And told her to
tian woeth, Mr. 'Level Was greatly the , read for hini, teat Ito lieges test lier
superior of his prettY, gerttle, friVelotte nbilities. and kuow in whet elaes
wifeeeelee bad not Daniel' Hunter ealled tenet, her.
him to the pastorel rare of his flew (To be ctontinual
ehurell.
On Thursday befere Eester Bishop 5 A FAMILY JAR.
---- Arrived at the Hall to solemniee the "So you want te be nty
righte -of dedientiOn, end Writs received "00.11'1 may that I de, brit Went te
friend of ours," said Mrs. 'Meter.
under the broad, spreading chn, or up -
And before the little belle could make
on some projecting point of rock, receiv.
her formal courtesy, Ellen clasped her
ing into his expanceng soul the be.auty
in hee arms andebnret into tears. Mrs.
and the glory ot natftre; Or simply
Hunter sat down, calmly waiting the is-
chormed with some individual effect of sue. But Miss Hororia withdrew' herself
light and shade upon mountain,. valley
or ferest-trying to reproduce. it upon twat, Mrs. Hunter instantly arose again,
with an offended. air, and resumed her
paper, often throwing down Ms pencil took Ellen's hand and, pressing it ef-
with a tyro's disgust at 111.5 own awk- fectionately. led her to a teat upon the
wardness and failure, but ottener work- sofa. Ellen ' recovered herself and wee
ing On, inspired with .the.young artist's the first to speak, albeit in a broken,
exquisite Bense of .gemus, and the thaell- faltering voice:.
pue munr eartun to . etiatunnosoad feet "You must please to excuse me, Miss
power. Honoria. I knew your father well and
loved him. I love Mrs. Hunter elso-and
-When I saw you, I-"
"Pray, do not mention it, madam. You
are very good, and I am very meth eat -
toted, I am sure," said Miss Honwia,
haughtily, as she adjueted her slightly
disordered dress.
Ellen was cut to the Itse.i. Poor Filen
did not recollect that at :Comma e out
she herself was just such 011 1118dC.111
affected piece of egotism and conceit.
'Mrs. Hunter raug tbe bell mid ordeled
cake and wine brought, red when Ito'
guest had taken some Teta tatinont, the
33ut Maud, "sweet Maud," sweeter
now itt ten years old than ever before -
how shall I paint f or you her exquisite
loveliness? The child of Daniel Hunter
and Augusta Percival -the chilcl of gen-
ious and love, beauty and goodnesa, un-
ited and Weeded in perfect harmony -
what shall she be but divinely beauti-
ful? But it was the heavenly beauty of
the soul within that gave the wondrous
charm to Maud's lovely face. She wae
not a child of quick impulses or strong
passions. I ter affections wete quiet, pro-
found and eternal. In self-reliance she
seemed rather diffident, and in self-
defense timid; but in the cnuse anr ser.
vice of her friends, her regolution am-
. minted to a totel forgetfulness or disre-
PRAYER. 1 gard of consequences, end her courage
would have scented rashness but for her
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passionleeo, deliberate menner of pro -
Holy and moat merciful :Father, we I
thank Thee fof the care that has guided 1 "Tetglittle family was startled out of
us through life's journey and has kept its quietude by the .visit of Mr. Ipsy, who
us even to tbisehour. Forsake us not,
0 God, but send. us Thy light and truth,
and lead us even to the tourney's end.
We know not what Thy will for Its may
be, whether Thou wilt spare us to old
age or shortly call us hence. If the stun -
mons should come soon, natty it find
ready to appear before Thee and render
our account. If Thou shouldst give ue
many years of life, grant that as they
pass they may leave with us gifts of
Knee, that We may grow rieh ix virtue
and may accumulate the incorruptible
treasure of holy ellaratter. May onr
latest days be filled with peace fled over-
flow with bleesing. Amen,
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annotneed tliftt Daniel Hunter was retar-
leg from publie life aml coming to settle
permanently at Howlet Hall; also that
be was going to bnild a church end
school at the Senunit.
CHAP,TER XVI.
"Will you rest now2 Will you restei
Will you let this overwrought, toil -worn
brain repose a. little while?" murmured
Augusta, softly passing her fingers over
the great politisian's corrugated brow.
It wits the first evening after their
arrival at Malta Hall, and they mete
pied their favorite, wainscoted sitting -
room. The furniture o fthis apartnient
A Spider rectory. had been purposely left uncliatiged, and
the room preserved its old-fashioned,
It is said that in the foreste of New sober. slumberous air. It tees cool,.
Guinea, there are faetories whose work- spring weather, 01111 0 fine wood fire
Men are spiders. These hideous SpiderS, 'wag burning in tin' fireFla"'
nith bodies es big as saucers, make fish Hunter sat before it in A large, S4 tuffea,
nets for the cannibal natives, The nat. leather ehair that might have, belonged
ivee set ep in the foreet long poles to. the eighteenth century, Augusto eto
with wooden rings at the upper end- tereit, and eame softly behind lits chide,
net frames, The spiders, aecing these auti was etooping over Itini until her
tegittivenetts, inn to them joyfully.. rieglets lay upon Ids cheek, As with
"Here. they think, "is it fine net 'Already sweet, grave teedernese 8111nothed hie
etartid. The, outeenetst circle is already brow, tied muttered:
mettle." And they weave their coeree, "Wilt you rest 0010"
strong webs within the wooden rings, .ire smiled gravely, put his hand he.
awl when the nets are (Mite finittheet hirld. 111111, 4011 dreW her around to tt !wet
the natives eome, drive away with curs- hy his side, and toyeil with her ringlets.
ihe inStet workmen, fed, taking up but in thoughtful., abstracted manner:
thmir snider made nets, set. off gravoly his Weft 'fel' away. Th# lady efglied
with the utmost reopeet and corehohty. marry your donghter T suppose
an fishing exeurtion.---Los Angmles and wondeled what entest Ott" a
lowed him to his bortoltugo to cheat him tut the countenance of .the vetiereble pre- there'e no -it ;ire el wasia it."
lady bade Honoria eit down to the piano
and sing for them, And the young lady,
never unwilling to displey her mueical
powers, complied. very graefutty, (I
Meg several sweet Hongs, •:0 the dsivoit
of Ellen. Soon after this -dinner was an-
nounced, At the dinner table Ellen met
Daniel Hunter and Miss Letitia, both
of whom received her with • great
Early in the afternoon Ellen pre-
pared to take leave, resisting all Mrs.
Ifunter'e perena.sions tO stay by teying
that the little girl, Sylvia, Wee tiot (mite
well and that she feared. to leave iser
alone 111 night. Therefore Ellen bade
them all good -by, imprinted a, passion-
ate kiss upon the haughty, unwilling lips
of Mies Thmoria, received a warm, affec-
tionate one from Mrs. Hunter, and so
departed.
* * * * * *
The family were preparing to receive
I newly married pnir-Mr. and Mrs. Lo -
vet. And one lovely Afternoon in April
the bride and groom arrivcd, and there
were kisses, and eongratulations. and
ingeiriee, and gentle attentione, and nurse
tier tenderness. entil they were refrettle
be without it."
Zam-Buk curers Cuts, Berea, ChnPPed
Hands, Ringworm, Spains, Bad Legs,
Bone, Ulcers, Running Sores, Scalp Irris
Wien, Poisoned Virounds, Piles (blind
and bleeding) Absent:ties, Eczema, etc.
Of all stores and druggists 5-0 cents a
box, or Zanelluk ea., Toronto, on re-
ceipt of price. 3 boxes for $1.20.
BOTTOM pF SAN FRANCISCO BAY
What a melancholy sight the bottom
of San Francisco Bay must present? A
diver recently told me of ping down to
the City of Chester, sunk many yeetrs
ago at the mouth of the harbor by one
of the large Clhina steamera. He de-
scended with a stout heart and a mind
inured to the It agedies of the sea, but
wben be saw two slaters of charity
sleeping quietly in their berths, and,
near by, a man on his knees, swa,yin,g
back and forth with the motion of the
tide, and a dim mysterious light over all
the sombre objecth, his heart failed him,
and he gave the signal to be hauled
above. The San Rafael lies there, too.
She went down in 1901, sent to the bot-
tom by a collision with another 'Wainer
in a fog. The relentless tide runs over
her oozy cabins and beautiful etairway,
dank with the passage of time.
And there lie also, caught in the sea-
weed, the City of Rio Janeiro, the Es-
eambia, the May Flint, and the Caleb
Curtis, the last a pilot boat, sunk in a
blinding fog. Truly the bottom of the
bay is paved with memories. -.San Fran-
cisco Clan
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11•••••••••••••
QueStion of tier Peeitlen in Social Sy*,
tem Troubling India.
The position of tlie nautch girl le no long-
er what It W114 In the finnan soclel toottene
Not merely Eurepeans, but tenue of the best
among the earterce feel teat in view of the
eradual meting et the tone of soidety the
evils aseeelated with her profession should
cease to tenor tee toleration ecceeled to them
In the peat,
Tbis vletv, however, is by no 13109419 111:11.
versal, e.nd the conflict of opinion is etrik-
ingly Illustrated by tbe experience of Gan -
Mir Jan, a well known nautela girl of Cal-
cutta and one ot the fieeet uative elngers
im India. A rich Marwari. faxellY of Bom-
bay recently engaged her to perform at a
marriage ceremony, paying her a fee of 03
IP,000 (SI,000). Litter oho visited the Lady
Northcoto Hindu Orphanage anti consented
to eine In Its ale gratis in the town hall. The
citizens et Bombay, male and female, !looked
in largo nurabere to 'erten to her, a; the
gramophone hue made her name a household
word in India. The handsome sum of 2400
wm collected on the spot for the OrPhanage.
At the close of the essenibly Um Hon. Sir
et Perozeahat Mehta pinned ea medal on
ber brettet.
Hearing this, Mr. Justice Chandravarkar,
of Bombay, a well known social retormer
and Brabmin leader, mused his connectiou
with the managing commItese. A hot news-
paper dlecumion hae followed. Mr. Tilak
and ethers have written in defence of Sir
M. Mebta, while other eorrespondente a re
against him. On another oceasion Gautier
Jett sang in aid of the Mohammedan. College
of Aligarh, but Nawab Mohsen-ul-IVIulk re -
head to receive any profit from that mace.
-London Telegraph.
WISE AND OTHERWISE.
When anger epreade through the breast,
guard tby tongue from barking idlye-Sap-
pho,
"Pa. why do they call these the melan-
choly days ?" "Bemuse so many people
haven't saved the money they will need to
buy the winter coal."-Chicaso Record -Her-
ald.
Jealousy is the proof a little man gives of
his recognition of a bigger owe -Florida
Times-linion.
Since we are in the airship age,
And folks go sailing. to and fro
Across the sky, on pleasure bent -
Man wants but little Imre below.
-New York Sun.
Open the door in a little vice and a big
ono will crawl in at the Window.--Chicage
Neva.
A fifty -dollar hat is a conceit. A thirty -
dollar hat is a confection. A two -dollar hat
Is a sin and a shame, and a perfect justi-
fication for going home to mother.-LoUls-
vine Courier Jturnal.
He that Is down needs fear no fall. -Bun -
yam
"Is Henpeck in the theatrical businees t"
"No; why ?" "He eol•ted that lady over
there out as his leading lady." "Oh, theta
his wife." -Houston Post.
Minard's Liniment Cures Garget in Cows.
THE SCORCHER.
I am monarch of all I survey,
My right I let no one dispute;
Let people get emit of my way
When I warn them by giving a toot,
feI frighten the teams from the fermi,
With goggles I cover my face,
Ignoring the countryside's charms
I go ae if ehot into space.
01.11M.M.M=0111N,
I'm out of the constable'e reach
Before hie autherity's_eleown;
With a whidz and a rush and a scratch
pus ere my number is known.
I frighten the °baste of the field;
If children too tardily flee
T can't pick them up to be healed,
Their agony's nothing to me.
leave crippled poultry behind
And swerve not to left nor to right;
Men curse me, but I never mind,
In a moment I pass from their de*
I scatter dust over the land,
And leave a foul stench in the air;
There's nothing on earth that's ae grand
As to go it•like mad, and rot care.
-Chicago Rocord-fferlad.
•
London's Tipple is Beer.
(London Advertiser.)
'The rise in the price ot witiekey hae no to.
tercet for a city which btu such spring water
ea London's.
"The ralhaads are on the blink, It's
hard on the poor subordinate." "How sot"
"Has to carry his life in his hands in
addition to his other packages." -Wash.
inept' Herald.
SIIILOWS
Quick ease for the worst cough -quick
relief to the heaviest cold -and SAFE
to take, even for a child.
That is Shiloh's Cure. Cures
Sold under a guarantee Coughs
to cure colds and coughs ("olds
quicker than any other 4'0'4
ntedicine-or your money back, 34years
of success commend Shiloh'e Cure. 25c.,
50c., $1.
QUICKLY !
British Coal Mines.
Consul Frank W. Mahin reports that
new coal mines have recently been open-
ed and others very muoh developed in
the Nottingham district. Improved
methods and apparatus are also being
applied to mining. Among these is the
substitution of modern screens to dean
and sort the coal, saving much time,
while doing the work more thoroughly.
Electric power and compressed air are
also supplanting primitive methods of
hauling coal out of the pits, and ingeni-
ous methods of carrying miners to their
work, saving the strength they would
lose in walking, are being used.
Mechanical appliances are now used
for cleaning colliery tubs, which soon
beeome caked with fine coal and dirt
and have hitherto been cleaned by hand.
The most expeditious device is a cir-
cular scraping tool worlcd by an electric
meter, which cleans a, tub in a minute.
It is estimated that the total capital
employed in British coal mines is fully
$500,000,000, and that the present wages
annually paid amount to $300,000,000.
1115.00
P.bove illustration fails
to show the beauty of
this Sugar Bowl and Cream
Jug, which we sek at $5.00.
THEY are of ordinary size,
' and the plating is very
durable—the finest that Can be
manufactured.
A SPECIAL FINISH, which
will not tarnish, is a
special feature of this set.
Our Costobsoue wilt tus atri$ upon
receipt of your name sant
address,
aids4oaravervaireloi
RYRIE Enos.,
Limited
1344363 Vormie St.
TORONTO
stallagemeammeaeasee......
A druggnst can obtain an imitation of
MINARD'S LINIMENT from a Toronto
house at a very low price, and. have it
labeled his own product.
This greasy imitation is the poorest
one we have yet seen of the many that
every Toni, Dick and Harrry has tried
to introduce.
Ask for MINARD'S and you will get
it.
LEARN DRE8B.MAKING BY MAIL
in your owe tines et home, or
Take a Personal Course at Bebop'.
Are We Civilized?
Some say rio.
They judge by our clothes.
They liken us to sewage.
They declare we like beads like Afri-
cans.
They insist that Indians always wore
feathers.
They add hides and skins as additional
proof.
They dubiously indicate the heads,
paws, claws and fangs as sartorially
adapted.
To enable all to learn we teach en
gash or instalment plan, We also teach a
pereonel Cia25 at school Ono* thenth.
Class cominencing last Tuesday of each
month. 'Nese lessons teaches how to cut,
fa and pia together any garment from tbe ,
plainest shirt waist suit, to the most elabor. '
ate dress, The whole family can learn from
one course. We have taught over Seven
thousand dress -malting, and guarentee to
give five hundred dollars to any one that
cannot learn between the age of 14 and
ao. You cannot learn dress -making as '
1
thorough as this course teaches if you
work in shops for years, Beware of loath. !
(ions as we employ no one outside the I
school, This Is the only experienced Dress
Cuttily Sehool in Canada end excelled by
none in any other country. Write at once
lor particulars, as Wei have cut our rate one,
third for a short time. Address c -
SANDERS' DRESS -CUTTING SCHOOL,
31 Erie St., Stratford. Ont. Canada.
Teething Babies_
are saved suffering -and mothers
given rest -when one uses
Nurses' and Mothers' Treasure
Quickly relieves- reguhttes the
bowels -prevents convulsions.
Used 50 years. Absolutely safe.
At drug-eteres, 26e. 6 bottles el.25,
National Drug & Chemical Co.,
Limited,
Solo Proprietors, Montreal. 41
1.1•IiMPIONMIY
OLDEST BANK IN THE WORLD.
There was a kind of public reeord of-
fice attached to the palace and temple
at Nineveh, in which it was customary
to deposit important legal and other doe.
untenta, such as contracts and agree-
ments for the purchase and sale of pro-
perty, merriage settlements, wills, eta,
Among these there ware discovered offi-
ciel statements as to the history and
transactions of the eminent banking
house of Egidu at Nineveh. Assyrian
chronology proves that these refer to e.
data about 2,300 years before the Chris-
tian era, when Abraham. dwelt at Lir of
the Chaldees, as is stated in Genesis. We
may, therefore, claim for this firm the
reputation of being the oldest bank in
the world, at least, of which we have any
record, or are likely to have. The ao
coents are very voluminous, and cover
the transactions of five generations of
the house from father to son. The firm
grew rapidly in importance during this
period, during which they attained great
wealth; for they had sueceeded in secur-
ing from the King the appointment of!
collectors of taxes, a position which in
the east always leads to fortune. They
afterwards framed the revenue for eev-t
eral of the Assyrian Provinces, with s try
great gain to the firm. -T. Pla London
Weekly.
Appraised at Full Value.
"Miserly gave the fireman who saved
his life when his house was on fire 50
cents for carrying him down the ladder."
"Did the fireman take- it?"
"Partly. He gave Miserly 20 cents
change." -Baltimore American.
• • •
Minard's Liniment Cures Diphtheria.
*5 •
He Was Sitting Down.
The late James A. Bailey, lemon* as
;the successor of P. T. Barnum, once ae.
icepted an invitation to a dinner tender.
jed to a bride and groom among the
}"freaks" of his circus. He WS late in
!arriving and found the company' polite-
!
ly, awaiting lam, says the Suceeth Mag.
lagme. There were living skeletons,
!dwarfs, Circassians, snake charmers, the
rgirl that spoke seven languages and had
!two heads, which made 14 languages in
1 allr the "dog -faced boy" and others.
!Beaming upon them with paternal air,
;the happy manager acknowledged the
agenial "Hallo, imp," that went around
lthe festal board.
"I am gluey I kept you waiting," he
} said, taking his place at the table. "/
;believe there are several new additions
!to the company. Is this the groom?"
"No," replied a deep voloo from the
ifull beard addressed, "I am the bride."
I "T beg your pardon," said Mr, Bailey,
1"I did not recognize the bearded lady.
Mut, tell me, which is the groom."
; "I am," proelahned a very thin yoke.
in astenishnicet Mr. Bailey glanced up
:at the figure towering near his elbow*.
i "I eongattulate you, my man," said
1the man. "Sit down, let us on with the
feast -sit down."
' The gue.st addressed at once began to
;ascend eeemingly until his head was in
j the neighborhood of the canvas roof, from
t'which height Ito looked down and said:
; "1 watt sittin' down, pop -4 was satin'
down 1"
! Mrs. Brow 1 o
tonsi--0-6-e—etsinaiTter ties_yos.
I Urs. J next door
is the n o knowl
1 \lily, only yesterday she e01110 over to
, inquire if she (timid borrow my hushand
for an Lour to mow Ler lawn, thrash a
`a uteri Who liad ineithiel her, Ana dis-
charge her cool:,
Kendall's Spavia Cure scril,
Here is Jest one case
oat of tbousands-
ELtarnere, MA11„
March 13,
"This is to testify to
the value of Kendall's
Spavin Cure as a
Spavin Remedy and
Liniment for gannet
use. I used it for
Spavins on a colt two
years ago, and found it a complete cure...
Wm. Juergeos.
Save your horse with Koodaire—the
sure cure for all 13Qny Gropths,SwellitIVII
and Lameness. $1 a bottle -6 for es. Oar
great book -"Treatise on the Home" -
free front dealers or so
or. 1, J. Kettle toe beams Vermoseale.
MEN AND WOMEN.
Among Men and Women there are
Thorns and Roses. No IvIon likes to be
called a Rose.
Among Men and Women there are
Bea,uties and Beaets. No Man likea to
bo called a Beauty,
Among Men and Women there are
those who are too sweet for anythiug,
and those who are the reverse. No Man
likes to be called too sweet for anything.
Among Men and Women there are
strong-minded and weak. No Woman
likes to be called stron,g-minded.
Among Men and Women there are
Bosse and Bossed. No Woman likes to
be called a Boss.
Among Men and Women there are
Cate and Mice. No Woman likas to be
called a Monee.-W. J. Lampton, in
Lippineott's Magazine.
- • ‘v•
ISSUE NO. .1,1 !tm7.
What the Lord Mayor Cost,i.
The Beaten:tete of the pride, e
and eireinustance of title stete teats
Corporation of London a yearly 5unt (it
(dose epee 1:18.000. The laird Mayer 1 1, -
eaves 410,000, and the Mourne tax 1,11
that sum is paid nor 111111, while he is al-
lowed ;000 for the supply of new fetid-
ture, and his robes eost eloe) mem tenet.
line the rates, titees and tithss p1,70140
08 Matision House total upward. 1;f
43,000; the lighting involves an outlay
of upward of ;e570; the water supply
costs :CM, and fire and boiler instil,
ance absorbs ,n,135. Next; struetural and
other repaire represent an expenditure
closely approaching 42,000, and periodi-
cally there is a heavy "call" for special
redecoration the (amount apent last
year, for inslance, on the Egyptian Hell
being ;000. Quaint item are: "Fees
I TG1•1
Mange. Prairie Swatches and every form ot
contegious Itch on human or animals owed
In 20 minutes by Wolterd's Sanitary Lotion.
It never fails. Sold by druggiets.
on presenting the Lord Mayor to the
! Lord Chancellor, SO7 Inso mei expeeeets
of Lord Mayor's "vestry," e:,3 Os, Ws-
, London Standard.
• le
THE GRAVE OP HANNIBAL.
Aceording to the Frankfutter Zeitung,
the well-knOwn German archaeologist,
Theodor 'Wiegand, claims to have dis-
covered the grase of Hannibal in the
neighborhood •of the ancient Bithynian.
town et Libyeea, on a hill called Hand-
sehir.
The fragments of fine marble cohunns
and ancient walls, evidently the remains
of 0 large monument, in the midst of ths
ruins of a Byzantine monaetery, have led.
him to this conclusion.
The archaeologists of his own eountry,
however, as well tie those oi England anti
France, eeem disposed to receive 104
daidis with extreme caution. Perhaps
when Professor Wiegand has given the
publie fuller and mere exaet date re-
garding hie diseovery hia fellow -antique -is
ies may grant him a heartier support.
In $1.00, 73,000 Microbes.
(Prom Leslie's Weekly.)
"Clean money" Is the slogan of A.
Cressy Morrison, who is endeavoring to
create a pulilie sentiment which will
render impossible the circulation of pa-
per and metal currency which is "taint-
ed" in the literal sense of the word. He
has had some bills and coins examined
by a New York bacteriologist, and has
found that. .one dirty bill, such as is
handed you in change by your grocer
or butcher, is inhabited by 78,090 bac-
teria. Coins are less populous, dirty pen-
nies averaging twenty-six and dimes
forty. each. There is no means of trac-
ing the history of this germ -laden cur-
rency; a bill may be in the pocket of
a tuberculous sweat shop tailor to -day
and in the dainty purse of a millionaire's
wife to -morrow. The number of cases of
mysterious illness due to this univereal
means of transmitting disease oan only
be guessed at, but physicians agree that
it is enormous.
Minard's Liniment Cures Colds, etc.
•• •
To Settle That Question.
In a North of England town recently
a company of local amateurs produced
"Hamlet," and the following account of
the proceedinge appeared in the local
paper next morning:
"Laet night all the fashionables and
elite of our town gathered to witness a
ricirmance of "Hamlet" at the Town
all. There has been considerable dis-
cussion as to whether tho play was writ-
ten hy Shakespeare or 13acon. All doubt
can be now set at rest. Let the graves
be opened; the one who turned over
lent night is the author."-Harper's
Weekly.
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so satisfactory, It is the rarest
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that Seleute can make.
Send for our free Coolc-Book—
full of choice new recipe.A.
National trug di chemical ere,
ti of cantide, ramited, Montreal.
Prospects for Canadian Turkeys.
Canadian Conrmercial agent at Leeds
and Hull, Eng.. writes: At the present
moment there is every indication that
Canadian turkeys will meet with fair
demand on the British market this see.-
aon. Acoording to the opinions express-
ed by well informed dealers the unseason-
able weather which has been experienced
at different periode of the year in this
country has seriously interfered with
the rearing of all kind* of game. In cer-
tain parts of the country tills is the
oaae to such an extent that, shooting on
Boole large estates has had to be aban-
doned in consequence of the shortage
of birds, the few that there are being
required for breeding purposes. Local
importers will rely largely this season
upon Canadian supplies, and it rests
with exporters in Canada to tty to meet
this deficiency and to assist them in ob-
taining the beat market prices.
BETTER THIN RANKIN.
Seeeking does not cure children of bed-
wetting. 'There le a constitutional (muse for
tele trouble. Mra. M, Summers, Box W. it,
WIndeer, Ont., trill send free to any mother
her aucoessful heme treatment, with full
instructiona. Send no -money but write her
to -day if ?our eiiildren trouble you in 5.131.
way. Don t blame the child, the •chances
are it ean't help it. This treatment also
owes adults and aged peopkt troubled vita
urine difficulties by day or night.
_
Despair.
"What do you want o' the editor!"
asked the ofice boy, blocking up the
doorway.
"I have a manuattript poem," said the
long haired caller, "which I wish to sub-
mit for his inspeotion."
The office boy oloeed the door, but
reappeared a moment Wei.
"Nothin' doin'. We ain't printin' no
poetry now," he said, slamming the door
in the caller's face.
"Bard out!" exclaimed the poet, tear-
ing his hair.
"Chestnut!" yelled the boy over tho
partition, "I've heard that 'un before."
ENGLISH SPAVIN LINIMENT
Removes all hard, soft and calloused
lumps and blemishes from horses, blood
spavin, curbs, splints, ringbone, sweeney,
stifles, sprains, sore and swollen throat,
coughs, etc. Save SSO by use of wie
bottle. Warranted the most wenderfil
Blemiiih Cure ever known. Sold by drag -
gists.
41- 41,
What Does He Do?
A teachar in one of the public schools
of Baltimore was one day instructing
her pupils in the mysteries of etymology,
when she had occasion to question a boy
pupil with reference to the word "re-
ouperate." "As an example," said the
teacher, "we will take the case of your
father. "He is, of course a hard-worldng
man." "Yes'm," assented Charley. "Ao4
when night comes, he returwt home tir-
ed and worn out, doesn't her "Yes're,"
in further assent from Charley. "Then,"
oontinued the teacher, "it being nidits
his work being over, and he being tired
and worn out, what does he dor
"That's what ma wants to know," said
Charley.
Mniard's Liniment Cures Distemper.
SUCH AWFUL RISKS.
As the young and beautiful wife atood
at the door to bid her haeband good -by,
she put her arms around his neck, while
a look of painful anxiety came over her
faoe.
"Darling," she said tenderly, "beware
of motor ears, Do not cross euly street,
or you will surely, be run over."
"Jill right, door.'
"And remember, darling, not to eat
oysters. Every oyster ceatains throe
million horrid germs, and they may all
be typhoid."
"Very well, dear.'
"And oh, darling, have you got on
your new sanitary underwear, the kind
recommended by our family physician
the day before yesterday?"
"I have."
"And while think of it, dearest,
pleaae don't use the telephone. I heard
yesterday there isn't an antiseptic% in-
strument in town."
The brave young huaband turned anti
faced his thoughtful wife,
"Darling," he mid, "do you think I
had better gedown town at all to -day,
in view of the dangers that threaten mei
It is pay-day, I know; but is it worth
while to run such awful risks for the
few paltry pounds that I shall bring
home with met"
But hie wife never faltered. •
"Yee, dearest," she said. "Oo---go and
earn our daily bread. But, oh! pletwe
don't bring that money home with yon
until it has been thoroughly sterilised."
44.
Of the numerous memorials that Were
to have been erected in honor of the lite
Sir Henry Irving not one has so far mit-