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Toronto's- hospital expenditure last
year was $930449. Dr. •Sheard expeete
timil tide ;year's bill will be $15(1,580.
Australia has uow 55,219 old (toe yen-
eimeera. It is enacted that on the first
of January, 4,500,000 will be required
to pay pensions.
The British Post -office savings banks
have
an hand 460,048,214 due &psi -
tors. Nearly eighteen and, a half million
dollars was paid out last year in inter-
est to depositors.
The world's total production of Buser
in the season of 1908-09 is placed at. 15,-
711,000 tons, of which Europe conlea but.
ed 7,151,000. The amount of sugar con-
aumed constantly increases.
.*- •
Uncle Saul has dismissed. the Meant-
Va. Charge d'Affaires, and intimated
that Zelaya, is a violator of solemn in-
ternational conventions, fuel that all
partes will be held accountable for ac-
tions affecting United States interests.
This will not strengthen Zelaya's hands.
o • 0
In Upper Michigan and Wiseanein so
far this year twenty-eight hunters have
been fatally shot "in mistake for deer,"
and twenty-seven have been reported
wounded. A good many people are al-
lowed to go into the woods with rifle
who ought never to be allowed to handle
firearms.
New York city officials have been
talkinga good deal about how much
the Consolidated Gas Company owed tbe
city. The other day they set out to col-
lect the bil1—$11,500,000. The gas com-
pany admitted the debt, and then pre-
sented a contra account for over $12,-
500,000, The city is now scaring up the
little balance.
There are m Washington 23,947 en.
ployees of Uncle Sam, and their reinut:
eration amounts to a total of $.31,541
225 a year. This will be increased b.
3,000 to be added to the census for
with about .$5,000,000 more in salarie
Uncle Sam now employs a total of 37C
005 perscons in connection with the a,
ministration of federal government.
As an agricultural country France
makes an excellent showing. Her crops
yielded this year e Wheat 16,236,000
acres, 860,208,000 bushels; maslin
(mixed grain) 355,600 acres, 7,117,000
bushels; rye, 3,068,000 acres, 60,580,000
bushels. The correspotding final figures
for 1908 were: Wheat 16,221,000 acres,
316,687,006 bushels, maelin 353,000 acres,
8,416,000 bushels, rye, 3,075,000 acres,
51,692,000 bushels. France is a country
in which. peasant proprietorship shows
its effect in the crop statistics. •
Chief Justice Baldwin, of Connecticut,
in a recent lecture touched on some of
the problems likely to be presented to
the courts by the navigation of the air.
Many of these will suggest themselves
to the reader, and legislatures will be
called upon to make new laws defining
and regulating rights and privileges in
the air.
Suppose that we pass over the use of
the airship by smugglers and criminals,
there remains to be decided a very im-
portant class of questions affecting their
operation. What are the rights Of the
owners of the land over which airships
must pass? The old doctrine that the
owner of the land owns "all above to
heaven and all below to hell," would
seem to leave no airway for the aviator,
without trespass; unless, indeed, his
ship canal could he steered directly over
highways or bodies of water. If the
owner of the land cannot maintain pre-
tensions to this ownership, how high
doee his control exteed? And how is it
to be settled when an airship Is high
enough not to be trespassing? If the
Government con restrict the owner of
the soil to 50 feet in height, would he
be trespassing if his buildingtowered
aloft. 60 feet? And if he can be re-
stricted to 50, feet, why not to 5 feet,
or one?
The right to navigate the air is held
by Chief Juste. Baldwin not to be a
natural right. It must, therefore, bo
conferred by legislation, and be 'exercised
with due regard to the personal and pro-
perty rights of others. The air naviga-
tor must pear all the risks. Let us ttup-
pose that, "rules of the road" have been
agreea upon, and that the proprietory
rightsof the owners of the land defined.
It follows that there must yet be eller.
noon' difficulty in dealing with eases
arising. it may be very Mud to prove
whether an aviator ie to be bela for
damages bemuse he flew at 49 feet in-
stead of 50. Suppose ite airship at a
height of a 0611140.W, or five thousand,
feet Orme out a bag of ballast or jetti-
moos pert of her eargo, whieh eraslu•s
through a farmer's home or kills a man
in the street, what then? how is blame
to be proven',"rhe Barton murder mys-
tery. or "Who struck Billy Patterson'?"
might be simple questions beside it. (if
eourse in the ease of an airehip hemm-
ing umnanageable and crashing into a
house, culpability might1 to proven:" but
if the culprit, were pulverized in the
emelt, it might do little towel(' compel'.
enting the house -owner.
Then the risks to be assumed by pas-
sengers and "carriers" by airships are to
be settled. I/ethers tlic• afeet way oill
be to let melt bear hie own. leven then
diffieuit questions will curio. What will
ireerrinve eompaniee do about aviation?
Will policyholders be allowed to fly, or
will indulgence in 'that sort of travel'
void their polities? These are but a few
.of •the prebleme whieh sugg,•st, them.
Selves. The sueceee .of the' aviator will
einient scores of afore,
CTIAPTER IV.
•
When Clifford Carlisle lett the black-
smith shop he rode along in utter eileneo
lor some little distance, then falling into
on old linbit, he gAve vent to his
thoughts in low, muttered words, quite
forgetful of Sabo, who trudged angrily
ou bebincl.
"13y Jove: she was indeed a magnifi.
cent little Amazon," llama Carlisle. "If
should tell the Toys at the club in
New York of to -day's callusing adven-
tare, they would scarcely creait it; and
there's not ope of them who would not
have fallen desperately in love with the
glorious Northe on the spa, and I half
imagine that I run somewhat in that
condition myself. If I had plenty of
money, I could afford to marry that
girl. By George, wouldn't She create a
stunning sensation in New York if she
were dressed like other young women.
Well, 1 nither guess yes.'"
Then suddenly his thoughts drifted
into another channel; his dark brows
contracted into a deep and ugly frown
as he exclaimed fiercely:
"I wonder how moch longer the old
woman will last? These invalids Whose
death you are looking forward to, to
comi
e nto a fortune, seem to lastfor-
ever; they have a dozen lives. Now the
question is, will she part with any. more
money on that gold mine scheme or
not? If she should take it into
her head to write to that Arizona
address to inquire into it, my cake
would be all dough when she learned
that the brilliant gold mine was only a
myth.
"She's. put up more liberally than I
thought she would, so far. How gullible
these women are!
"But pshew. She might as well spend
her money on me as on anybody else.
I don't know of anybody who could use
it up for her more sumptuously," and
then he threw back his head with a cy-
nical laugh.
"She says in her last letter that she
has picked out a wife for me, and that
she hopes it will be a case of mutual
love at first sight, ending with the ter-
rifying annotmcement that if it had not
been for me she would have made this
girl her heiress. That alarming sentence
was the cause of bringing inc on here
posthaste, to put a veto on anything
of that sort.
"PR flatter the young woman right up
to the queen's taste; I've the reputa-
tion of being a veriiable Don Jean at
that sport. I cannot show my hand just
yet, and enust seem to fall in with any
seheme the old lady may choose to pro-
pose. One thing is eminently certain -
1 must have her money, and have it
soon, by fair means or foul."
His ruminations were suddenly out
short by Sambo, who called lustily to
him from behind, and in an excited
voice: "YouSse passin by the place, I'm
pretty nigh shu, Morse Carlisle. See
dein windows all lighted. They'ee 'spec -
tin' somebody, fer sartin."
"Likely enough," returned Carlisle, im-
patiently. "Most every one expects
his friends on Christmas, Eve. Ms
storm is eci terific, we may as well stop
here and inquire the way, taking time
to warm up a little."
Sa,mbo was thankful enough to hear
this order, for the mile he had travers-
ed on foot had told wonderfully upon
his strength. Even Ladybird seemed
pleased to be turned toward a *tee of
shelter.
"I guess you are quite right, Samba,"
Carlisle said, briefly, as he reined his
horse close up to the porch. "This is
the place described. We are at our
journey's •end."
The words were scarcely uttered ere
the door was thrown quickly open and
an old servant appeared upon the thres-
hold, holding a flaring Lamp above his
head, as though to view the coming
guest; better.
"I welcome you in Mistress Barrison's
name, Master Carlisee," he said, with a
low, obsequious bow. Then his eyes fell
upon Solace at whom he gazed with
epeeohleas amazement. Me. Clifford Car-
lisle had been expecte1 to arrive alone.
"You aie old Ned, I presume?" said
Carlisle, flinging him the reins, adding:
"I have brought along my- valet—my
servant."
"Please walk right in air," responded.
old. Ned, but he looked helplessly at
Sambre as if in a quandary as to how
he was to dispose of him. But, nothing
daimted, Sambo followed his master in-
to the warm hallway.
°Mimi Carlisle had scaroely divested
himself of his short top coat, hat and
gloves, ere his quick ear caught the
sound of the swish of silken . skirts
from the stairway toward the right.
"It's either the old lady or the girl
I'm expected to fall in love with at first
sight," was his mental comment, as he
wheoied suddenly about, to behold a
tail, slim, young womae, in deep, lustre-
less black—all save the cluster of yel-
low toses tucked in at her belt, which
matched perfectly in color the yellow
hair waved. back from a flawless face in
a way whicsh suggested a very thorough
knowledge of up-to-date styles.
All this Cliflord Carlisle took in at a
single, rapid glance, as he good hesi-
tatingly facing this beautiful apparition.
"I echo old. Ned's words to you, Mr.
Carlisle, I welcome you in Mrs. Barri-
sen'e name; she is fairly beside herself
with impatience to see you, and bode
ine to ask you to come to her at once."
He stoped short, munnuring
".And you ere---"
"Mrs. Barrison's companion — Miss
Aastin'" she replied.
She heard him mutter something
under ids breath, but just what it wits
she could not tell. She had said to ber-
self: "I shall know at once whether the
handsome heir admires me or note'
There was eertainly admiration in the
keen goze of the brilliant blaek eyee fix-
ed upon her so piercingly; there was
something else in that glance. Just
what it was She meld not quite heathen
Miss Austin led the way up the broad
stairease, and by the time they reached
the end of the corridor of the door above
they were chatting away as though they
were the °Meet and best of frienas, ie -
stead of total strangers but a few min.
u toe before.
Miss Austin pointed to the open door,
"She is in there," she said, turnieg
away and gliding swiftly back in the
direction from ohenee they hod None,
to hurry up the dinner.
Clifford Carlisle had prepared himself
to make a conquest of the heart of airs.
Harrison, to Whom 'he owed so much,
rind from whom lie had such high expec-
tations. re
Ite had rehearsed to himeelt What he
Should do at this meeting score(' et titneti
or More, so now it eaMO easy enough to
him to spring over the threehold,
ing and crying, apparently, in One and
the Salim breath, seize the figure of the
Woman whose hands 'mete held out to
him, and toyer her faoe and hands ar.41
hair with most possionate kis-ses, kneel-
ing nt lier feet and murmuring lowlier-
rently that she was the good angel of his
Ufa,
the suashine of his existertett,
lodcetar—leye, the alpha, mut omega, of
]ds future; all tbot lie was, or ever
would be, he owed to her, and. much
male in the mime strain. He did not
pause an instant in his well-trained lee.
son to observe her. Indeed, it 'mattered
little enough to him what sbe looked
like; he would have the same perform -
awe to go through that he had marked
out for lemeelf.
No wonder Mrs. Barispn was charmed
by hien He always exerted that infhe-
enee upon every woman with whom he
acne: in eontact, and by the time Ito had
talloal with her half an hour, there was
little hope for any one else who might
lawe striven to come between him and
hor foetaine.
"By the way, my dear Clifford," ale
sad, "how do you like Miss Austin?"
"She is a most adorable girl," It mur-
mured, adding, curiously: "Where iigthe
world, did you over find her, Aunt
Frances?" and he listened inteutly as
she informed liirn that it had urine
about through an advertisement which
she had caused to be inserted in a San
Francieco paper.
"Do you know, it struck me When I
first looked at her that I hati seen that
face before in New York, but of course
I was mistaken."
"You were, indeed," she replied. "Flor-
ice was it farniee's daughter, and lost
both parents within a few days of eltell
other, and came directly from the farm
to me. She is, as yo. utherefore see, it
simple, guileless child of nature, unused
to the world's wiles and its arta."
Carlisle looked down at its boot heel
thoughtfully, Miss Austin did not ap-
pear to him like such an unsophisticat-
ed girl, Indeed, she struck him as being
an exceedingly clever, not to say
shrewd, 'young wointun not at all abash-
ed at meeting a strange young man,
and holding her own in conversation,
which certainly betokened anything but
a novice. The very notion of her being
a fanner% daughter somewhat amused
him. By degrees he got around the
quest/ion nearest his heart. "Who was
was the little Amazon, in the blacksmieh
shop at the other end. of the village?"
He aim at once that he had made
some kind of a mistake by the sudden
change that came over Mrs. Barrison'e
face. The .small greenish blue eyes shot
a lurid fire, the thin, straight lips con-
tracted slightly together, and her
face bore an unmistakable expression of
the most intense hatred.
"We will not discuss this girl, who, I
am told, goes into the blacksmith shop
and shoes a horse equal to her father in
his- time—ay, and the old grandfather
before him. Faugh! my blood runs
cold with horror at the bare mention of
it," she cried, hoarsely, and with bitter
sarcasm. "Clifford." she added, bending
forward breathlessly, "never cross that
young person's path again, if you value
my god opinion and my wishee—ay, my
command!'
• She could not have taken a more un-
wise course -than to command this self-
willed young man not to see the lovely
maid again. This very opposition which
she threw in his way caused him to
make Op his mind that he would see the
bright, vivacious little Norine again, in
spite of anything and everything on
earth.
Mrs. Harrison was on the point of tell-
ing him who the girl was, when she
reconsidered the matter. No, she had
kept from him the knowledge that she
had any living relative so long now that
she might as well keep it a secret to
the very end. Besides, he might refuse
to accept her fortune if he knew of a
granddaughter's existence, and she told
herself she would rather burn her money
than leave one penny of it to Norine, the
daughter—ay, and the granddaughter of
the village blacksmith.
CHAPTER V.
The chances were if Miss Florice Aus-
tin had -not been thrown so deliberately
at his head, as it were, he might have
fallen desperately in love with her. She
was just the sort of person to captivate
a man like Clifford Carlisle.
He was not what might be termed
exactly fancy free. Norine's lovely,
piquant face haunted him' do what he
would, and he resolved, letthe price be
what it may, to see her again—ay, and
as often as he could while he remained
in Hadley.
He took the first occasion to put this
resolve into practice by riding over to the
blacksmith shop again.
But instead of the beautiful Norine
he encountered, the grimy old smith
standing in the doorway.
"Good afternoon to you," said Car-
lisle, springing lightly from the saddle
and leading Ladybird into the ship. "I
thought I'd stop and have you look at
the mare's other feet, and tiughten up the
shoes on her a bit."
"Excuse me, sir," said old Daniel
Gordon, gravely, "hut are you the young
man who had your horse shod here two
days ago by my Nor—by my little
granddaughter ?"
"I am so fortainate as to be the man,"
returned Clifton" Carlisle, with a very
low and ceremonious bow, adding, eager-
ly, "and it was the finest sight I ever;
witnessed, being—well, a decided novelty,
you see."
"1 have something for you Sir," re-
turned the ohl blacksmith, quite ignoring
the last portion of his visitors' enthus-
iastic remark. "I would have hunted you
up before, but I didn't know where you
might be etopping, and the roads were
too bad to start out to look."
As he spoke he took a small package
from his breast pocket, which was care-
fully done up in a bit of tissue paper,
unwinding it slowly. The brand-new
crisp fifty -dollar bill which he had hand-
ed Norine Was soon disclosed to Carlisle's
curious eyes,
"You must take it back, sir," said the
old blaelcsinith, handing it to his sur-
prised visitor. "I wouldn't let my
little gal keep it. Honest pay for honest
Work is my motto, and no Irian has a
right to (wept more; nor has woman
or child, for that miatter. Hero is your
fifty -dollar note, I'll take for Norine's
work a dollar and a half, please."
"As you like, of course," returned Ctir-
lisle, nonchalaatly, as he pocketed the
bill and handed out the lesser sum named.
"Butlet me say that every man is en-
titled to hi% own opinion as to evitat
anything is worth to him, and should
have the right to pay aecordingly. Your
granddaughter was weleinne to the
looney; it Was not too high a price to
witness such a novel sight."
"My gaj, istorine, oughtn't to hey done
it," 'exclaimed the aged blacksmith, irri-
tably. "She didn't know that there wa
anything nticelittiMit hi it, belie' that i'Ve
irnittOred her ill lettiea her shoe her little
Shetland pony."
"t hope the young lady did not stiffer
any ineorivenienee in reaching home that
pion." said tsartnde, anxious to talk
of the girl.
The old blacksmith isia down bis ham-
mer and ease, and turned to look at the
handsome stranger.
"aly gal isn't; a young lady yet, by
any manner of means. Norine is only
a. child, grown up putty tall," he an-
swered. Then recollecting tile question
that bad prompted. the remark, he added,
"Yes, she got home, thanks to Joe, all
right, tho' a terrible night it was."
t,,arlisle's curiosity was at such a pitch
that he ventured the question broadeast,
"Who is Joe?"
"He's the chap that my Urine will
marry Mlle day, when she is older and
more of a woman, Joe's the village
schoolmastereeruns the village express
office, and he's postmaster now, tooeand
a likelier lad never lived, reckon,"
"You mean that it is your desire that
your granddaughter shall marry this
man?" exclaimed Clifford Carlisle, with
harsheess in his voice which he could
illy conceal, adding, cynically; "Perhaps
her wishes may go in quite 0 different
directiou, what then?"
"My will is law to Norine," replied the
old man, slowly, "She knows no other:
I know what is best for my little gal.
Joe is honest, as true as steel and aS
good aa gold. NIThat more can any young
woman want in a husband?"
"The man whom she chooses to fall in
love with of her own accord," returned
Clifford Carlisle, boldly.
The keen eyo of the blacksmith met
and held the (lark, glittering eye of the
handsome stranger for it moment. Then
the old man answered, slowly:
"The young do not—cannot—know
allus what is wisest and hest for 'em' as
we old uns do. Left to herself, with her
romantic nature, she might fall in love
with a scamp, It white-haoded
an' I'd rather see Norine dead en' in
her grave, lyin' in the same mound that
holds her father an' her poor young
mother, than wedded to one like that—
ay, a thousand times rather."
Clifford Carlisle bit his lip in vexa-
tion,as though the names, scamp and
whit -handed villain, had struck unpleas-
antly near home. He said no more on
the subject to the old blacksmith, but
he made up his mind to surmount all
and every obstacle that they might put
In his path to see the beautiftil Norine
again.
Slowly mounting his horse, and nod-
ding to the old blacksmith, Carlisle
plunged down the snow -beaten road in
quite the opposite direction drom the
Barrison home. Ite wanted quiet, but an
opportunity to think.
Although Mrs. Harrison had received
him wormier, not to say enthusiastieelly,
'she had not fallen in with his plan of
advancing more money at once for the
gold mine.
"My money is so invested that 1 shall
not be able to lay my hands on a single
dollar in ready cash for at least six
weeks," she explained. "Your plans
must be put off for that length of time,
Clifford,"
Six weeks! Before half that time he
would be a ruined man unless he could
raise money. He scarcely dared think
of it. Before leaving New York be had
been living a very fast life. The large
remittances Mrs. Barrison net bim for
the gold mine 'were swallowed up almost
as soon as they were received. A pair
of feat horses, life at the Waldorf-As-
toria, champagne sappers and a -bevy of
.beauties of stage fame, bad helped him
to squander it; and in a reckless hour,
when funds had run low, lie had fallen
into a terrible temptation, just such a
pitfall as the end of such a path is usu-
ally filled with—he had. forged a note
for a large athount. That note would
fall due in exactly three weeks, and theo
there would he a frightful expose. The
officers of the law would be placed upon
his track, and he would be hunted'down.
To let Mrs. Harrison know of his dilem.
ma., the terrible crime which be had de,
liberately committed, would be to lost a
cool million of money. No, it mast be
kept from her at all hazards.
The questioo which confronted him
was, bow Was be to raise the money?
11 -o -w?
So deeply engrossed was he in this
subject, he did not see a small, dark fig-
ure approaching up the white road until
his horse suddenly stopped short with a
little whinny, of apparent welcome, and
suddenly raising his eyes, he beheld
Norine,
In an instant he was standing knee
deep in the snow beside her, hat in
hand.
"Fate is kind to me, Norine—Miss
Gordon, I mean. My ardent wish has
been granted. I have met you once
more. Have zou thought, since last we
met, whether or not you should ever
see me again?"
The ardent glance in those brilliant,
flashing eyes caused the blood to mount
to the pretty Norine's red cheeks, mak-
ing them more really red then before,
and. seemed to compel the wort "Yes" to
fall shyly from her ruby lips.
"I imagine you are going to the shop,
to escort your old grandfather home. I
remember you told me that was your
daily custom. You see how I recollect
every word that fell from your lips.
May 1 bo permitted to walk as far as,
the turn in the road with you? Lady-
bird will follow."
"Certainly, if you like," murmured
Norine, feeling a strange, new, delicious
spell stealing over her.
"Like? Ah, that is a poor word for
it, Norine," he whisphered. "Pray, let
me call you that. I shall be delighted,
honored beyond expression."
Clifford. Carlisle was but five and
twenty, as far as years went, but he
was twice ae old as that in the ways of
the world, itc follies, vices and all the
methods used of winning woolen's heerts.
Scores of beautiful girls bad already fall-
en madly in love with himsand more
than one wrecked life lay athis door.
He chatted on so gayly, so carelessly,
that little Norine quite forgot that he
Was a stranger. She forgot, too, the
old grandmother's warning at home—to
always beware of strangers, and chat-
tered thoughtlessly enough to hint of
the old folks at home, and how lonely
it would be of an evenhig if Joe did not
happen in to read the daily paper to
her grandfather, or to have a little talk
with her grandmother about the way
the village school.- ehildten Were pro-
gressing.
"And see Miss Notizie," commented
"Oh, no," laughed the girl. "Joe does
notdaore to see inc.What a tunny
i
"Not at all," declared Clifford Car-
lisle, frowning a little. "You may dc'
pond upon it, you are the magnet that
draws him there so constantly."
He did not tell her of the eonversa-
tion he had bad With her grandfather
eoncerniog this Joe. He would leave that
Until later on.
At the bena hi the road they petted,
but he would nob release Norine s little
band until she had promised to meet him
at the same place the following day.
Clifford Carlisle stood quite still io
the road, watching the girl until she dis.
appeared from sight. "A rare little
beauty? he ninttered. "nut what it fool
1 ant to be lingering here, for her sake,
when 1 can never marry her. Marry
her'? What an absurd idea.
When Clifford Carlisle marries, it must
be for the glittering gold, and heaps of
it."
tTo he Continue.
Publish My Letter
The- World Over
The Words of Harold- P-4. %ashy,
Who Was Permanently Cured.
of Chronlotrnmmbagb by "Nor -
:141111:1:•; "
ars ago discovered 'that a
men oubjest to lumbago might jaet As
well be dead is alive, These Words
.0pen the sincere, '14t1'aightforWar4 letter
of 1.1. la Bunke, a well-known men in
the plumbing ahd tinsmithing business
in Portthed.
"One attack .caine latex' another and
lumbago, got to be a chronic thing eitli
me. I could scarcely get in a day's work
before -that keifieg, entel pain would A-
ttlee: my beck I used a gallonat
meets; not one of
them .seemed pone-
tratitig enough to get
at the core of the
pnin. 1 read in The
'Afoot real Witness
about Nerviline, and
got rive bottles. It is
a wonderful inedieine-1 could. feel its
soothing, pain -relieving action every
time it was applied. When I got the
disease tinder eontrol with Nervillne,
built up my strength, and fortified my
blood by taking Fen -ozone at MOAB.
This treatment eurea me permanentiy,
and 1 urge everyone to give up the
thick, white, oily liniments they are us-
ing. and try an up-to-date, penetrating,
pain -destroyer like Nerviliee.
"Please publish my letter the world'
over. I want all to hear of Nerviline."
Do»'t be cajoled into 1.eceiving any-
thing from your dealer but "N'erviline,"
Large bottles 25c.; live for $1.00. Sala
evele,,where or The (lAtarrhozone Co.,
Eingston, Ont,
Shoe Helps.
The changing of a bow or a heel on a
shoe makes a great difference in the
appearance, and many a pair Bola at a
she sale because of being a little old.
fashioned can be turned into' something
thoroughly up to date by these slight
alterations.
For instance, where a fiat bow has
trimmed at instep and a tied bow weuld
bring the desired change. The shoe can
be taken to any boot -repairer and eye-
lets put in to accommodate the ribbon.
Heels, too'can be replaced by others,
but too muchh difference in height spoils
the general effect as well as the cone,
forteble feeling; in other words, the
shoe is unbalanced when the heel is cut
down too much, mid will always chafe
the foot and give pain under the anti,
LETTER
NO.
4311
lintud's Liniment Co., "awl ted
Gentlemen, -1 itave used MINARD'S
LINIMENT oe mer vessel end in my -
family for years, and for tee every day
ills and accidents of life I eonsicler it
has no equal.
"I would not start on a voyage with-
out it, if -it cost a. dollar a bottle.
CAPT. R. F. DESJARDIN,
Sehr. "Strokee," it. Andre, Kamourasita.
Ancient and Modern Surgery,
In the way of medicine and surgery
there is little new under the sun. Many
of the surgical instruments figuring in
the latest catalogues of our best instru-
ment makers as new inventions by prase
tieing hospital surgeons are, says the
Medical Times, practically ditplieates of
those used by surgeons In the days of
the ancient Greeks and Romans, as de-
moostrated by Mice recoveied from the
ruins of Pempeir and other buried ()Wee.
Prof. Walsh, of New York, 111 a paper
published in the Johns Hopkins Hospital
Bulletin, refers to a law of the Emperor
Ferederick II. of the year 1241, which
commanded, as the eurriculmn of study
for a young physician, three years spent
in the study of logic, followed by four
of medical study. At the end of that
time the graduate was to apend a year
in practice, "with advice and under the
direction of an experienced physician,"
before venturing to practise indepen-
dently.
Do you trap or buy
Furst I am Canada
'e
largest dealer, I pay
highest prices. Your
shipments solicited,
I pay mail and ex.
press charges; remit
promptly. Also largest dealer in Beefhides,
Sheepskins, etc. Quotations and shipping tags
sent free. 9
JOHN HALLAM, TORONTO
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Settled an Old Score.
This one comes from Missouri, where
one editor "showed" them why: "An
evangelist asked all the men present
who were honest and paid their debts to
&tend up. All arose but one. He said
ie was the load editor and couldn't pay
his debts because the men standing were
his delinquent subscribers.— Atlanta
Constitution.
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Rod, Weak, 'Weary, Watery Eyes,.
Relieved By Murine EYe Remedy. Try
Murillo For Your Eye TrOubles. You
WM 'Like Murine. It Soothes, 600 At
Your Druggists, Write For Eye Books.
Free. Murine Eye Reme,ly Co., Toronto,
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New xplosive for Canal.
A, new explosive, of British inventioh,
which is said to possess possibilities of
eevolutionizing the blasting work hi
connection with the construction of the
Panama Canal, has been tested on the
Isthmus of Panama recently, and as a
rnsult the Cnnal Commission has order-
ed 20 tons of it for trial.
Minard's Liniment Cures Distemper.
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1•11011 LIFE.
On Fifth avenue it is quite a science
to keep track of the wives of million-
aires in gorgeous mansions who were
formerly the wives of other millietimiree
in umnsiolis nearby. It is a tremoodous
relief -when one tea& of a Harriman
leavieg all his wealth to his wife. It
seems to sigitify that they were some.
thing more than limited partners la ita
enterprise based on the need of exchang-
ing entertainment with their neighbors.
ABABS AT THEIR BATH,
gathering Placa fer the Women—
ViatiVe Qfferings by the Religious.
n(loemul1mtin.t.iiitifihottf, s8Itt,te,ittattil):Tal.
tereSting aceeuut of the Araios who. come
in .ceolvais to take thebaths at that sta.
tioo. Their number every year eau he
estimated at more than 20,000.
Of thee(' bathers about two.thirds arc
women, Besides the medical effect the
baths are .tor tee Areb woman 0 meeting
piece where she eneettnterS her friends,
as they remain a long, time in the bathe
threeonnerters of ,an hoar or more. They
dip themselves in. tho water from time
to tirne; then, •sitting on the curb, they
chat, laugh and sing.
Sometimes one of them eddreasea011
invocotion to the Sultan Slinian (Solo.
mill), patron of the epringa hidden in
the mountain. The more believing some-
timee receive their reeompense in seeing
the eteam rise from the waters. After
the bath the native rolls himself in his
clawaok qatilid, lies in the sun,
eneh the burning thirst which
the very warm bath gives Arabs suck
the juice of lemone or oranges or they
go to the "cafe maure" attaoh.ed, to the
bathe to chink a tiny cup of coffee.
Many Arabs, instead of doming to the
establishment, prefer to take the bath in
the open tetr. On the side of the bill a
spring flows from the rock and the na-
tives come to bathe in the natural basin
where the water gualues out.
As a votive offering the women hang
portions of their veils on the neighbor.
ing hushee. The childles,s come there
piously to plunge in their small stuff
dolls, it is there that the prayer is
above all agreeable to Sidi Sliman, They
saerifice fowl e to him, they burn incense
and spices in the earthen braziers, and
it is in his honor that the little many-
eolored wax tapers stuck in the ground
barn 50 often At night,—From the Lon-
don Globe.
INIMII••••••=1•••••11•11.
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FURS
WANTED
SHIPMENTS SOLICITED
WRITE FOR PRICE LIST
AND SHiPPING TAGS
W. C. GOFFATT
ORILLIA, ONT.
Established 1803
An Orchestra of Dor.tors.
The value of carnivorous mammals and
the larger birds of prey in destroying
nits should be more fully recognized, es-
pecially by the farmer and the genie
preserver, Rats actually destroy more
poultry and game, both eggs and young
chicks, than all the birds and wild mam-
mals combined, yet some of our most
useful birds of prey and carnivorous
mannuale are persecuted almost to the
point of extinction, An enlightened
public! Sentiment should collie the re-
peal of all bounties On thees animlas and
afford protection to the majority of
them.
Rata are wild beasts, and are among
man's worst enemies .There should be
incessant and uncompromising war
against them,—New Orleans Picayune.
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PILES CURED AT HOME BY
NEW ABSORPTION METHOD
If you suffer from bleeding, itching,
blind or protruding Piles, send ind your
address, and I will tell you how to cure
yourself at home by the new absorption
treatment; arid will also send. some of
this home treatment free for trial, with
references from your own locality if
requested. Immediate relief and per-
manent cure assured. Send no money,
but tell others of this offer. Write to-
day to Mrs, M. Summers, Box P. 8,
Windsor, Ont.
Rough Suitings.
The two-tone rough serges and the zib-
elines are seep in some of the best mod-
els of the kind from abroad. The
coarse goods need little furbishing and
most such costumes are 'severely tailored
with only, possibly, a black moire or ot-
toman collar and revers to finish it. The
'tawny colors—khaki brown, mustard
yellow and coppery shades—are popular
for all street toilets, and the two-tone
serges with a tawny yellow as a founda-
tion are particularly smart.
ii•ee
i/Oh CUM
Quickly stops coughs, cures colds, heals
the throat and lungs. • - 25 cents.
•
Plenty More.
"You must keep your mouth shut
when you're in the water," said the
nurse, as she gave little Tommy a bath.
"If you don't you'll swallow some of
it." •
"Well, what of that?" demanded Tom-
my. "There's plenty more in the pipes,
ain't there?"
se•
Lifebouy Soap is delightfully refreshing for
bath or toilet. For washing underclothing it
ls unequalled. Cleanses and purifies.
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Rats and Rat -Killers.
Among the natural enemiee of rats are
the larger hawks and. owls, skunks, cats
end ferrets. Probably the greatest fac-
tor in the inetease of rats'mice and oth-
er destructive rodents in the United
States has been the persistent killing
off of the birds and mammals that prey
upoe therm Animals that on the whole
are decidedly beneficial, since they sub.
sist upon harmful insects and rodents,
aro habitually destroyed by some Will-
em and sportsmen became they °coast -
°holly kill a chieken or a game bird.
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MInard's Liniment Cures Colds, etc.
The American Girl.
Many others besides Henry ,Tames
heAre remarked absurd posi-
tion held in Anteriean soolety by
young women. The ruinOes
genee of children ought at least to
be confined to the home cirele, and
not to carried into J. world where
age, intelligence and experience
should have precedence and should
form the standards. The *revered. of
SO as to Mahe the debutante
the point of interest in a soeial sea-
son instead of the accomplished mat -
ran, is as though society should have
foresworn its functions. This would
be true even were the manners of the
debutante all that they should be In
deference, suavity and. tact. The ex-
perience of Washington, where soeitty
is fairly representative, goes to show
that inueh is still to be desired in
these respeete in the general educe.-
tiou of American girls.— Century
Magazine.
THIS IS IT
The soap that saves
you work, and saves
you money 'without Injury
to hands or
article,
Sunlight Soap
turns wash.
tub drudgery
into pleasure.
Oeta bar of Sunlight
to -day and try,
11gIfV WAITTeD.
IR'. ANTED -4441)103 '10 DO PLAIN AND
8! light sewing et Immo, whole in- Para
°mai gaud Par; Work seat any dietaieee
eliargee prepaid. Send etemp far full parieu.
!are Natienal Manufacturing (Immune.
;Montreal.
REAL ESTAn,
If s.miwrON ONTARIO IS GnOWINO FAST
I. —buy suburban lots while they are low.
Building lots 2.1x 100 fat' 476 and upwaree.
Terms -41 down and 41 per week. Write tor
booklet A.—nurlte & Co., 204 Xing street east.
— SHEEP -POR -SALE,
Dorset Horn. Sheep
AND
Polled Angus cattle
Suspension Bridge of Roots.
The natives of the mare uneivilized re-
gions of the globe display considerable
ingenuity hi making use of suce things
LW are to be found in the immediate
neighborhood of their. homer'. A remark-
able suspension bridge spans ttie River
Itmeamac, ine Central _Peru, says the
Wide World Magazine. The "ropes" of
this bridge are composed of pliable roots
and vines, while the "planks" are _made
of branchesl ln the humia climate of
Peru it would be by no means extraor-
dinary if this "vegetable bridge" were
to take it into its head one day to start
growi mei
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Minard's Liniment Cures Diphtheria.
Nitrate Beds in California.
According to l'Engrais, a diecovery
has been made of an important nitrate
bed in California, and a company has
been, formed to exploit it. The quality
of the nitrate is said to be fully as good
as the Chilean product, and considerable
importance is atached to the discovery
in view of the fact that water is read-
ily obtainable near the fieldseere'eestea-
mers of moderate tonnagerne-sail to
within a vely short distance of them.
The Panama Canal will be open in a fear
years' time; this is a decided advantage.
The present yearly production of the
Chilean fields is about 1,650,000 tons,
and the new beds are estimated to con-
tain '20,000,000 tons.
"Who is the blindfolded party with
the pair of soaks r asked the stranger •
in the art gallery, "That represents Jus-
tice. "(311, I thought it was a sugar.
weigher."—Washington Star.
lereeding Ewes and.
ewe Lambs for Sale
Ale° Two Young Bulls
Write for prices
Forster Farba,
Oakville, Oat,
I SCEI-LAN EOUS,
F011packages containing (1 packages Needles,
szt,LING AT 10 CENTS EACH. 12
assorted sizes, will give PERE, A DOLLAR.
INK PENCIL. Send' 50 cents with order
and goods will be mailed at auto. W. K.
Mowat, 23 Scott St., Toronto,
Indian Law Makers.
In the constitutional convention at
Pawhuslca in the Osage Nation on Dec-
ember 31, 1881, the constitution of the
Osage Nation, by which the Great. and
Little °rages united aud became one
body politic under the style of the Os-
age Nation, was adopted. James Big -
heart was president of said conventium
All the farmers of the Osage constitu-
tion, with the exeeption of one, Cyprian
Tayrian, were full blooded Indians, he
being a mixed blood. The interpreter,
Paul Akin, and the secretary, E. M. Mat-
thews, were both mixed blood Indians.
All the Chief ,Tustices of the Supreme
Coert were mixed blood Indians, while
the Associate Justices were full bloods.
—Medico -Legal Journal,
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Minard's Liniment eures Garget in
cows.
To Preserve the Teeth.
To preserve and beautify the teeth
use the following solution daily; Dis-
solve two ounces of borax in three pints
of water: before this is quite cold add
thereto one teaspoonful of tincture of
myrrh, and one teaspoonful of spirits
of camphor; bottle the mixture for use.
One wineglassful of the solution added
to half a pint of tepid water is sufficient
for each application. This not only pro-
duces a pearl -like whiteness, but arrests
decay, and induces a healthy action in
the gums, besides extirpating tartarous
adhesion.
This FINE AIR RIFLE, nickeled steel barrel, peep eights, polished walnut stock,
shooting BB shot or darts with sufficient force to kill birds, squirrels, ate. Boys, this ie the
beat Air Rifle made, and we give it to you FREE for selling 8 boxes, only, of Dr. als.turin's
Famous Vegetable Pills, 85 250. a box. These Pills are the best remedy known in all cases of
weak and impure blood, indigestion, stomach troubles, constipation, nervous diseases, rheuma•
your name and address plainly written, and we will send you 8 boxes of our Pills
atlisidm ja,geirstbsend
Fancy,
ecyPins to give away, as a premium, with each box sold. When you have sold tho 8
boxes, send us the money $2.00 and we will, immediately, send you this handsome Air Rifle.
We dO not ask any money before the Pills are sold and we take back what you cannot sell.
Address—THE OD. MATIIRIN MEDICINE CO., Dept. 51. Toronto, Ont,
THE BEST WOODEN PML
Can't Help But Lose its Hoops and
Fall to Pieces. YOtl Want Some.
thing Better Don't You? Then Ask
for Pails ard Tubs Made of
each One a Solid, Hardened, Lasting Moss Eddy's Mochtnn
Without a Hoop or Seam Just as Good as u al Li
• see -gee'. ese, ' ese• ' eearrer • ' se:see-ere-tee eestreseesergos.—
NO.
This is a fine, handsome, cloar-toned Violin, highly polished, richly colored,
complete with string bridge, three gut strinet, obony finishpegA, long bow
of white horse hair, and box of resin. Everything complete sent securely
packed in a box. sTuat send us your name stud address, and agree to sell
only 8 boxes of Dr, MatUrin's Panlaue Vegetable Pills, at 210. 8 box.
A grand remedy and cure for weak and impure conditiens of the blood, Ina.
gestion, stomach troubles, constipationotervous disorders, diseases of the liver and kidneys,
rheumatism, and Fetnale troubles. A: mild laxative, Grand Tonto and Life Builder. They are
easy to sell as °ash customer buying a box of pills, f rom you receives, at the same time, a nice
fancy Pin, which h th
we send you with Pills. Do not mu'ss the chance of yourlife.
Don't send any Money—Only your IMMO and address, at once, and wo will promptly send
you by mail, postpaid, the 8 boxes of Pills and the Pins. When sold, remit to us the $2.00 and
we will send you this handsome Violin, etc. just as represented. Write to -day.
Address: THE DR MA TURIN MEDICINE CO,
Dept. 166. TORONTO, ONT
eat eaasergeaee learet-W.. .ereee
fully guaranteed, will be sent to you A13$ 0 LUT ELV FR EE, if you will sell mm
ieo
T.
wertli Of Lovely Pietist.° Poet Carda,6 fOr 100. These are thm
e ost artistic bosun".
fully colered and ernbassed 0:11'6818mM this season, Views, Mottoes, Flora'1, lions
daYlas elegant evetch, ladies' or gents, size, Stem wind And set, fancy engraved oases,
&c. These aro the fastest sellers. Gather but. "%Visite to -tiny ttnd we will send
y_on a package., Sell thematic' return the num ey and win this H El n d a 0 t•re 0 Little Watch.
Yon 0811 11110 WM 0 lovely Tea Got FR EE if yen Will help 119 20 enlarge Our business by
getting only 0 other agents and without having to sell anymore goods.
A COBALT GOLD PEN 00., Card Dept, 58 Toronto, On
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HANDSOME WATCH FREE.
,se A Gents or Ladles Solid Geld Watch code !Iva
9213 to $601 Do net throw steer money away. If
you desire to sante & Watch which to keep Circle
and lasb Well Will be equal to any Solid Gold
Wata, send tie your name And address immediate.
ly and agree to sell .10 boxes only, of Dr, riiistarlies
Famous V inlittable Pills, at Mo. a boX. They ore
tbe greatest temedy on earth for the cure of poor
and impure bleed, indigestion, headeehes, consti•
potion, neteette tronblett, neer, bladder and kid,
ney dieeasea and all fettaleltAablOASOS they aro
Se the Great Blood Perkier and Invigoratot, a Grand
Ton -o, and Life Builder. With the Pille we send
10 artieles of 'meshy to Rive atvay with the Mlle—
tide makes theist tatty to sell. Title is the chance
et th Ilfeititne„ Dkaoi telse I1., Send 1111 your order
and we will eenu yen the 10 boxes, post paid.
When you have Id them, sena us the mouey42.50
Mid We wuiren You
A 0 NT . or LADIES WATCH-
he same day the mote? IA teceis•ed.
We are siring thee. beautiful Watchet 10 advettiaa
our Reltaclite. Thie in a trend opportunity to ee.
cure s ValUb.ble Width without havingte epond
cont. And our Watoh 159. attire whit* and eters wet
and Iteli the dealt beck -wind attlefe getterally
siren as Otemleatte. Betel for twtt pills WHIMS
Addraet 7:15E Mt. NUMMI MEDICI=
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