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SILENT RECITATION..
(Now York Teicerana)
"What is your favorite recitation?"
"Cortew Shall Nut Ring Tu -night."
"but no mi e reeltes that nowt.°
"TIuit' vhy 2. jiit it."
SOLD HER HAT.
Mullett) New.)
"Nilott's the matter you.' ?
Silt a! ell broken up lately."
"She got zt terrible Jar."
"What lots happencd?"
"Why, File. WaS asiSist,1111: at a reminage
eale, twit oil her new hat, and romebody
sold it for thirty-five cents."
EXPLAINING HIS DISFIGUREMENT
(Philadelphia Rivera.)
Sem-Bill looked all battered tip to -clay.
thing happen?
sh(itild say so. Ile yellee nut
"hepoy" when a suffragiet eteetker aelta
cat "What would man be tvittimit
CATTY,
tiVeggendorfer Mau tor.)
Jane --You should have eeen the hahl-
Home chap wao threw in a Wee front the
car WitinOW.
liessie--4xpress or local?
"Exprees. Why?"
"1 understand."
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STAIN OF TH,F. AGES.
(Philadelphia ntesord.)
Willie -Has jaelt a goua reason fur be-
ing ashamed uf his ancestors?
should etty ou. His grandfather
siouck Out four times in a world's euriee.
A GOOD TIME.
(London Opinion.)
Tommy -I bet you didn't have a good
time at your birthday perty yesterday; -
Kitty -I bet I did!
Tommy -Then why aren't you ill to-
day?
THE WINNER.
(London Opinion.)
Waiter -Thank you very much, sir.
Old Gent -What the deuce do you mean?
I haven't given you anything.
Waiter -No, sir. But I bet No. 10 half
a crown you wouldn't tip me.
LUCK.
(Detroit Free Press.)
"I understand his wife came into con-
siderable property a few months ago."
"She did."
"'What a lucky dog he Is."
"Lucky, eh? He's been humping him-
self ever since trying to raise money to
Pay tbe taxes,"
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HIS MISTAKE.
(Vancouver Saturday Sunset.)
A man, arrested for murder, bribed an
Irishman on the jury with $100 to hang
out for a verdict of manslaughter. The
man rushed up to the Irish juror and said:
"I'm obliged to you, my friend. Did you
have a hard time?" "Yes," said the Ir-
ishman, "an awful time. The other el-
even wanted to acquit yez."
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IN THE FAR EAST.
(Judge.)
Fair Voyager -Why are we sailing
along here with the flags at half mast?
Captain -Out of respect for the Dead
Sea, ma'am.
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MAKES THE MOST OF IT.
Philadelphia Record.)
Ginkse-Doesn't your wife worry be -
case she's losing her hair?
Dink-Oh, no. She learned to make the
most of it.
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WHAT CHANCE HAD HE?
(Lite.)
Gillet -So you consider that your last
employers treated you nufairly?
Perry - Worse than that. I was an
agent for their bottled water and they
gave mo Kentucky for my district.
TAKING NO CHANCES.
(Detroit Free Press.)
"Why don't you put a 'wet paint' sign
on your porch?"
"Not much. I did that last year and
all who paseed rubbed their fingers over
It to see if it really was. This year l'm
taking no chances."
FEELING FOR THE KEY.
(Philadelphia. Record.)
Visitor -Your ,daughter, el. -doesn't
seem quite sure which note to strike.
Blutfem-Oh, my, no. She plays
With a great deal of feeling.
NOTHING DISPARAGING.
(Life.)
Agnes -And did he say I looked Intel-
lectual?
Gladys -Oh, no, indeed: I assure
hc said nothing disparaging.
you
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MATTER OF ENTREE.
(The Delineator.)
At the colored ball the doorkeeper was
asked what "not transferable" ue the
ticket meant.
"It means dat no gentleman an aa-
mitied, he comes hisself."
TO TRAIN NURSE.
(Buffalo Express)
"I thought you had a trained nurse
to wait on your wife?"
"So I have."
"And now you're looking for Moro
11010"
"Yes, I find I have to have three or
four maids to wait on the trained nuree."
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A TRAP FOR HER.
(Judge.)
"I Pee your wife has her hand in a
bondage. What is the matter?
"1 set a mousetrap and put it In my
picket last night."
HAD SOUND SIGHT.
(Exchange.)
Wife (dining at restaurant)-.Toi.n,dear,
can you see what those people at the
tv.,xt table are eating?
Iiusba.nd-Can't see at all,but it sounds
like celery.
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THE WAY -r0 DO IT.
(Detroit Free Press.)
"To what do you attribute your 811C.
Cef.8 as a saleeamn?"
"in never no:sting any time on a busy
mita who didn't want to buy, and spend-
ing till my effort finding people who were
really interested In mse proposition."
NOT OVERPAID.
(Boston Transcript.)
Vaelly-Ten yOur sister 1 am here, Ito
man. And there's a dime for your
trouble.
liobby-Yes, sis sr id there'd be trounie
If 1. let you know she was in.
CORRECT DIAGNOSIS.
(Catho)ic, Sat:metal and Tintee.)
T ,"(P8.--41(aily, wa,-. a love motel,.
JCSS-N01113011110: 110'S ola tiug tO
lier grandfganer. She simply married
hie monee.
Tese-Of (entre, hut veil don't (IOWA
t -at rho 10‘ PSI money, do you?
IF YOU HAVE THE MUN.
(Philadelphia Re(.'ord.)
"Sny, pep, tvhat monev?"
"Money, nee soe, ie the rooz et all evil.
Thee. ie to tty., with it you can buy a
wire oz keep eepeneive 1r:wieder antra.
mentr. No Matter which one 3,.ou ehoo0
wl5•1i you had the ether."
BEINt.; PHILOSOPHICAL.
(Wit:-birot":rat
-so 3 oit didn't f.nd the ot
Pt!'netta:1 17,110,0"
"No," replb d Pohee, (1. Loon, "hut 1
d• n't eare. A nix. hit 'hi 10 Lef tiver
veeerilig eolltore hetet gold i-e.int
(.0fl1etin-ie in L.,
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"Ile passed through, still holding the
extinguished candle; tbe door slid. back,
ttedefl wee alone in the siea-room.
Ttlfer slept and snored; General Tre-
vanion and the will had disappeared in
the black gulf, and -that ie all."
Despite her devilish audacity and
eourage. the Weinall'i Fele(' Shook AS she
fieished her terrible recital. .1..'or the man
beside her, he gave a gaping cry of
utter horror.
"Good God!" he said. "And he never
eame baek?"
"He never (tame back," breathleesly-
"eo,"
"..kral you never told?"
"I eever told."
Cyril T revanion convulsively loosened
his necktie, with n strangling feeling 111
Iii s throat.
"It is enough to make one's hair rise!
My heaven1 what a heart of stone you
have, Edith Ingram. I eould not nave
done that."
"No, I dare say not!" Edith Ingram
retorted, scornfully. "You don't need
to tell me how far your courage would
cnrry you, I won't see that I am so
much to blame in this matter. It was
his own doing. He would have died in
a day or two, in any ease, 1 had no
hand in the matter. But that is beside
our affair. What you are to do is to
drive to Monkswood this very night,
seek out the 'Adam and Eve' room, find
the secret spring, enter, and bear away
the will."
"And face that? Not for ten thousand
wills!"
"Coward! poltroon, craven! cur! Oh,
words are poor and weak to tea my
contempt for you! Go, then, white-iiv-
ered upstart that you are, and die a
beggar as you deservel I shall marry Sir
Rupert Chudleigh; Sybil Trevanion will
marry Macgregor, and endow him with
the noble inheritance that your base
cowardice will not let you grasp. Go!
and never let me see your miserable,
craven face again;"
The passionate words broke from her
in a torrent. She flung him off in her
fury, and turned to go; but he grasped
her arms and held her fast.
"Stay, woman, or devil, and do with
me as you like! I will go, but you hall
go also. From this hour I claim you, by
one compact of guilt. Together, as you
said, we will find the will, and before
yonder August moon wanes you shall be
my wife. Fiend though you be, your
beauty has driven me mad. 1 am ready
to risk anything, to face anything, to
secure you and foil them. Come!"
"IT tiny; her forcibly with him. She
could hear the convulsive clicking of his
set teeth. She never said a word. She
drew the long mantle she wore cloaer
around her, and followed him like a
lamb,
it was an eerie scene -an eerie hour.
The moon, angry and red, rent her way
up through piles of jagged, black cloud,
and cast fantastic shadows on the
earth. The trees rocked in the railing
gale. There in the long avenue the very
"blackness of darknes reigned." A weird
and ghostly night for the terrible errand
of this man and woman.
If Edith Ingram's heart failed her, she
was too "plucky' to show it; and she
had goaded the craven beside her into
that reckless madness that stands Cow-
ards in good stead sometimes for cour-
age.
Not a word was spoken as he hurried
her down the avenue, and into the
chaise. Ile took his seat beside her,
seized the reins, and drove away rapidly
toward Monkswood Waste.
"You can find the secret siprinv" he
asked, sullenly, after a time.
"I can find it -yes."
"Do you know where the hidden. TOOM
leads to 7"
"I asked Lady Lemox carelessly once.
She told me those secret passages. did
exist, she believed, in the Priory, and
had been used often in the troubled days
of Henry and his daughters'to conceal
fugitives. She knew nothing of their
whereabouts, however; and during all
the search no one thought of this, or of
that, or of the possibility of the dying
man rising from his bed and walking
unaided and alone. The great entrance
gates will be closed; you must drive
round to the west gate,
"And pass the Retreat, and run the
risk of being seen by the cursed Mac-
gregor?"
"We run more risks than that. There
is no alternative. By the bye, when
you find the will, as we shall, of course,
you must not reveal the fact for a little
while. On the whole, you had best not
find it at all -that is, openly. We will
see some obscure drawer or escritoire,
and. place it in that; some of your work-
men will stumble accidentally on the
spot, guided by you, and he shall bring
the will to light. Thus suspicion will be
avoided; and there are many very ready
to suspect both you and ine."
"You are a match for the whole of
them," Cyril Trevanion burst out, in ir-
repressible admiration. "I never saw
your equal. What they say of Maria
Theresa they ought to say of your 'The
heart of a woman, and the intellect of
a man.'"
Mrs. Ingram smiled in the darkness.
"The heart of a woman. I hope not.
- Women with that inconvenient append-
age are very apt to make idiots of
themselves sooner or later. 1 suppose
ain that terrible modern innovation, a,
'strong-minded. women;' and my wits
being my only fortune, I must keep
them sharpened. Histnot a word
more. Here is the west gate, and lights
burn still in the windows of the Re-
treat. Better hav a blood -hound on
our track than Angoe Macgregor."
CHAPTER XXIV.
The night had grown more and 1110Te
overcast during their drive. The wind
had rieea to a shrieking gale; the bloods
ted disk of the moon had dropped en-
tirely out of sight. Only one bar of
lurid red. in the east showed where she
had hid her face. Torn and black, the
Jagged elands rent their angry way
neross the sky, end the roar of the sea
down there on the Sussex coast Was as
the firet roar of a beast of prey. The
storm was very near now,
Clinging to Cyril Trevanion's arm,
Mrs, Ingram flitked by the Retreat. He
was more afraid, in all probability,
than she; but the feminine instinct
still made the weak woman cling to the
strong, man.
She looked tip at the lighted windows
of that hidden hermitage with a strange,
,Atrong feat. What was be doing -this
man who held her in the hollow of his
70and-writhe!, sleeping or plotting her
11,417 oh, Co know who he wasi to
sound the depths of his knowledge of
the tcrrible past! And that other! She
t,,auldeied as she thought of him, the
poor servant lad she had so mereilessly
horsewhipped for telling the truth! Yes,
i%e titAli, end the woman knew it. It
was her own face over again, with
enough of his dead father to thrill her
with hatred and terror to the core of
La adamant heart,
"Let us find the will -let me be this
craven upstart's wife, and share the
wealth of the Trevanions-and 1 ean
defy them both. I can humble her, the
queenly Sybil; I can laugh in his face,
this self-reliant Macgregor; and I neecl
never again look upon that other. Let
us find the will and the triumph will
be ours, the victory won!"
It was pitch dark in Prior's Walk,
and the roar of the wind in the trees
was tremendone. As they neared the
mansion, the great bell of the turret -
clock began pealing sonorouely the mid-
night hour. Solemnly the clanging
strokee rang out over the wind and
storm, as though calling on the dead
prior of Monkswood aud his sleeping
Dominieans to arise from their graves
and repel these escriligious intruders,
The teeth of Cyril Trevanion abso-
lutely clatter iu his head with super-
stitious fear.
"Afraid, colonel?" Mrs. Ingram
asked; and her low, melting silvery
Laugh rang out. If she were afraid -
and. it was extremely likely -she would.
have died sooner than show it. "It
is a grewsome place at midnight, I allow.
Hark to the owls how they hoot! It
minds one of the weird prophecy old
Hester croons after the heiress of Tre-
vanion:
"'The bat shall flit the owl shall hoot,
Grim ruin stalks with haste;
The doom shall fall when Monkswood
Hall
Is changed to Monkswood Waste!'"
"What doom?" Cyril asked.
"Goodness knows. The dismal ditty
is Hester's own I fancy. Perhaps she
is among the trophets, ancl the doom
will fall when you find the will, and
take from here every rood of land,
every sou of money, and turn her ig-
ominously out of doors. This way,
Cyril; we enter by a little win-
dow on this side, hall hidden by the
ivy and wild roses. How well I
remember the first morning I came here
and. Sybil Trevanion found me. Little
more than two months ago, and it
seems a life -time. Light your lantern
now; this is the place."
Cyril Trevanion struck a fusee and
lighted the candle inside his dark lan-
tern, As he held it up, the only leen)
speck of light shone on the narrow ease-
ment Mrs .Ingram had epoken of, all
overgrown with clinging vines.
"Do you enter first," she said;
Will hold the light."
He was ashamed to refuse -afraid to
refuse. He lifted the sash easily en-
ough, and squeezed himself through the
narrow aperture with some diffieulty.
"Safe?" the widow whispered.
"Yes. Hand me the lantern; and now
make haste. Let me help you."
He drew her through, and the man
and woman atod together, in the
stormy uproar of the summer night, in
the echoing loneliness of the deserted
Priory -the old man's living tomb. The
feeble light flickering on their faces
showed both ghastly with an awe too
great for words.
"Come!" It was the woman who
spoke, sharply and imperiously. "What
must be done were best done quickly.
Give me your hand; hold. up the light.
Now, this way."
Mrs. Ingram led him on. Through
drafty corridors, through suites of dusty
deserted rooms, up black, yawning gulfs
of stairway, and into the "Adam and
Eve" chamber at last .
On the threshold both paused, moved
by the same implse, and gazed fearfully
around. The room was precisely as the
widow had seen it first, There stood
the vast, old-fashioned bed; there the
easy-ehair in which ehe had sat that
fatal night; there the dormeuse where-
on Mrs. Telfer had. curled herself up to
sleep. A great blinking owl flapped its
wings in their faces and sailed hooting
away over their heads, and a whole bri-
gade of rats, holding night carnival,
seampevred along the polished oaken
floor, startled by the midnight intrud-
ere. To say that Cyril Trevanion's hair
rose might not be strictly true, for his
Glengarry cap held it down; but the
cold drops stood out like peas on his
white face.
"Come!" again ordered his inflexible
little commander-in-chief. "Set down the
light, and when I press the spring, do
you be ready to enter."
She crossed the room, counted the
clusters of carved roses from the figure
of Eve, found that for which she looked,
pressed hard in the heart of the centre
cluster, and a sliding door moved noise-
lessly back on its grooves. A cold rush
of damp, noisome air swept out, and
an opening, dark ae Hades yawned be-
fore them.
"Enter!" the woman said, in a. fierce,
breathless whisper. "The will that leaves
you all -an! is within there. Go!"
But Cyril Trevanion recoiled with an
awful face.
"And that is there! Oh, God! 1 can-
not -I cannoe enter there!"
She uttered a cry --a fierce, passion-
ate cry of rage.
"Keep this back, then," she exclaimed.
"You coward, you idiot! you disgrace
the name of man! I will go!"
She seized the lantern, and with set
teeth, flashing eyes, and ghastly face
darted forward into the darkness. The
passage .was long and narrow -a sort of
oak coffin -and at the further extrem-
ity, a tiny room -the Prior's Cell. Oa
,the threshold of this hidden chamber
she stood still a second and held up the
light. Oak floor, oak walls, oak ceil-
ing -black as death; a pallet in one cor-
ner, a tiny table, a quaint old chair
its sole contents. And beside the table
a skeleton figure sat in the ehair, the
flesh and the garments gnawed off his
bones by the rats -a eight to haunt
one's dreams. And on the table lay
the will for which this terrible IVOIllatt
had dared and done so mud.
She seized it as a vulture swoops
down on its prey. Another instant and
she was back beside Cyril Trevanion,
with a fete of Buell _awful ghastliness as
no words can describe.
"For God's :sake, close that horrible
placel I feel as though I were going
inadl"
On the table, among the xnedieine bot-
tles and liquors, stood a brandy -flask
half full of strongest eognae. She seized
it, raised it to her lips, and -set it
down empty.
"Yon have got the will?" Cyril .Tre-
vanion whispered, trembling from head
to foot.
She flung it from her in a fury of
fear and, horror ansi rage.
"Take it, you craven cur! You would
sell your soul for its posseseion, but
your eowardly heart would not let you
- face*"
She stopped, shuddering from hear to
foot at the recollection of the horrible
sight she bad Seen.
"Let us go," he said, looking fear-
fully about him; "let 114 leave +his aw-
ful c1larne1711ouse. QnieL 1 eome I "
He picked up the parehment, thrust
'
it into his brettet, and half dragged her
out of the room. They made their way
down stairs along the vast apartments
and con:niers,: and reached in three min-
utes the little open widow.
Cyril got out first, then assisted the
widow. tie had extinguished the light,
and was in the get Pt closing the C0811.
mut, when a heavy Atop, clashing
through the undergrowth close at hand,
made him drop it and recoil, With a
scream of alarm. A second later and,
with the speed of a hunted stag, he had
bounded away into the night, and left
the woman to her fate.
An iron grasp, icy cold, clutched her
wrist as she turned wildly to fly, and a
deep, stern voice out of the darkness
spoke.
"Come with. me," the deep voice said,
"and let me see who you are!"
CHAPTER XXV,
If Mme. Fodith Ingram were a model
of all week -day virtues and Sunday at-
tendance at divine service, that godless
gentleman, the tenant of the Retreat,
was not, We none or us grow more
devout by wandering; and Mr. Angus
Macgregor, in the course of his pere-
grinations, had fallen into the heathen-
ieh habit of 'strolling through the woods
or along the seashore, with Tennyson in
his pocket, and his eternal Mathew, be.
tween his lips, listening dreamily to the
forest murmurs, and the•endless wash of
the waves on the shore. His church was
the vast, sunlit vault of heaven; his
choir, the jubilant summer birds; his in-
cense, the odor of rose and sweet -brier;
and his sermon, the whispers of the
mighty sea. It was heathenish, cen-
tainly; and yet in this worldly wander-
er'is heart there was an uauttered rever-
ence and. awe akain to that of the red
Indian for his Geat Spirit- a venera-
tion deeper and truer than many of those
saintly, church -going Pharisees, with
their long prayers on the house -tops,
and their hearts full of pride and guile.
The sun was setting in billows of rose
and translucent gold over the boundless
sea, as Mr. Angus Macgregor, with his
wolfhound, at lus heels, and "In Memor-
iam" open in his hand, strolled along the
shingly beach.
Far and faint, beyond the monastic
woods of Cyril Trevanion's home, came
the sweet chiming of the Sunday -bells.
The little church, just outside the gates
of Monkswood, was famous for the
sweetness of its bells. It had been an
addition to the monastery in the by-
gone time, and the "Adeste Fidelis" and
"Te Deum Lttudamus" chimed forth as
sweetly now as in those far-off days. The
white -robed Dominieians slept under the
turf, and this Sabbath evening there
floated to the lazy listener the unutter-
able sweetness of the "Ave Maria Stella,"
as he lay on the tranquil shore. In
fancy he might have heard those cowled
and hooded friars chantieg the. mourn-
ful tenderness of their vesper
Gentle Star of Ocean, Portal of the sky,
Ever Virgin -Mother
Of the Lord Most High!"
He might, I say, but he did net. For
all his dreams, all hie thonght, were of
an object more fah. than ad the euetere
monks dead and gone, and. in his sight,
no less holy -Miss Sybil 1Prevenion. And
looking up, at the sudden bark of his
dog, he saw her. There, on the cliff,
twenty feet over his head, bethed in the
rosy light of the setting Atood the
lovely heiress of Trevanion. Her back
was toward him, as she stood gazing on
the glory of the west, her heart in her
eyes; but there was no mistaking that
tall, slender figure, with its indescrib-
able high -bred air, the floating dark
ringlets, the haughty poise of the noble
and lovely head.
Angus Macgregor rose to his feet, a
startled exclamation dying upon his lips.
For the lofty cliff whieli she stood
ran out on a little grasi:y plateau, too
frail to bear the weight of the little lion
dog frisk ng ,ut. One step further
out, and -the L,trone• man Wilted white
as he thought, of he terrikle fait on
se m o•ciless crags.
The little lion dog dancing about. all
his silver bells ajinele, caught sight of
the big Livonian below, and set up a
tiny yelp of defiance. Ilis mistress turn-
ed round, glanced downward, and started,
as she beheld Macgregor.
"Miss Trevanione-Sybil! for God's
sake, take care! Go back, for pity's
sake! Oh, (Treat Heaven!"
He leaped up the rocks like n madman.
for, startled and not understanding. she
had drawn near the treacherous edge.
The frail bed of turf crumbled beneath
her, and she came flying downward to
certain death.
Certain death, but for Macgregor.
Half -way up, he had twined hi .e left arm
around a strong sapling, set his teeth,
braced himself, and caught the falling
fcrm in his mighty grasp. The sturdy
sapling creaked and bent, he swayed
himself from the shock; but he held
her as in a vice, and for the second time
he had saved the life of her he loved.
"Thank God!" he said, releasing his
bold. "A little more, and-- Don't look
so white, and don't scream. You are
safe now."
She looked up --pale, frightened, be-
wildered -then down. In one glance she
saw what the danger had been, and how
she had been saved. She caught her
bieath in a gasping sob.
"But for you," she said, "but for you,
what would have become of me? And
it is the second time you have save
my life. Oh, Mr. Macgregor, what shall
I say to you? how shall I thank you?"
The eloquent violet oyes looked up at
him full of impassioned tears, the white
hands clasped in irresistible appeal. It
was unutterably sweet to owe her life
to him.
.Angus Macgregor's dark face glowed;
his great black eyes lighted vividly up.
"Shall I tell you?" he said, taking
both white hands between his own. "I3y
glance, and -by letting inc say to you
how I love yon.'
Up, over the pearly cheek and brow,
the rosy light flew, and the exquisite
face drooped lower and lower, and the
elasped hands were not withdrawn. The
haughty patrician heiress stood blushring
and drooping before this tall, dark
stranger, in the shabby shooting jacket;
one of the toilers of the earth, all her
pride of birth and blood and beauty
gone.
"Sybil, my love! my darling! You
listen; you do not rebuke my mad pre-
sumption, Is it only your gratitude? or
--oh, my darling., is it love?"
She lifted the roseate face. a smile
daavnine' on the fluttering lips. The
eaptivAands were withdrawn from his,
then given suddenly back. It was Sybil's
answer; and, as he caught her in a
transport of love and joy to his heart.
the fair face hid its maiden bloshes on
the collar of the shabby shooting jacket.
La Princesse laid down her crown and
her sceptre at the feet of her master
and lord.
And the August sun dropped lower
and lower, and AIM, in in aix oriflamme
of crimson glory, ought of sip,bt. .And
the Avery moon sailed up, and the
crystal stars eatne out, and the plaint -
hie evening wind arose, and Doctor
Faustus, down .on the sands, streteh-
ed himself out at his shabby length, and
regarded these ehildisit proceedings of
hie grave master with eynical eye, and
the Impertinent yelping of the frisky
little lion dog With grand, majestie con-
tempt.
(To be "Continued.)
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HIS PROFESSION.
"Now Robert, what do you intend to
do when you become a man?" questioned
Aunt Ellen, as she looked approvingly
upon her small nephew.
"Pm goin' to be a soldier," replied the
boy, promptly, "'cause then I can fight
whenever I want to without being spank-
ed for it." ---Youth's Companion.
Marion Bridge, C. B., May 30, '02.
I have handled MINARD'S LINIMENT
during the past year. It is always the
first Liniment asked for here, and un-
questionably the best seller of all the
different kinds of Liniment I handle.
NEIL FERGUSON.
CONCRETE HOUSE IN HOLLAND.
At Sandport, In noiland, the first
house oftwo stores built of concrete in
the Edison system has been erected. The
builders set up molds, having the ap-
pearance of caissons, as high as the first
floor. The cement was then poured into
the molds and allowed to remain. 'etthen
time had been allowed for the cement to
herdere the mold was removed, and the
same procese, fulltmed for the second
stCreV. In one month the limes was
finished, and it is claimed that building
in that way costs about one-half of the
sum that would he expended on a house
put ee in the ordinary way, It seems
that the voncrete is made by a secret
nrocese, and the mottle ean only Oe on-
threugh the patentess ur other
nomieees. One of the largest buildings
ever constructed or 0)1e'e'ete is in Buf-
falo. It has a height of ton stories,
krigth Of r•Stf feet nud a width of feet.
GLIMPSES OF THE' PAST.
At a recent sitting of tee Aeademy of
Science in Stosklionn, Lfl, (eau toruedin
gave the reeult of his explorations ear-
ried on -within the past two years near
Alvastra, in Eastern Gothland. The doc-
tor's story Is fastenetnite although the
across in this place a lake dwelling,
which. he says, was without doubt one
of the first settlement of the Scandinav-
ians in Mese parts. The lehanhants
were petteevale tesriotel.t riots who had
ereatee it settlemese aoesss
to.the natives, 0 warlike rate, hetet; by
the caose and fishnet, with one et* their
nrieeipal towns aboui )1 kiletostres from
the lake, or just ten milis, 1.Enrs
Et 1(11?ya
):
thus nermitting the d Octur to co rry out
his e.XplOratlans.
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WISE OLD GEORGE.
(('leveland Plain Dealer)
She -And how did yuu like the meet-
ing, George?
He -rine, Eepecially the talk by that
pretty little airs. li`eatiierlse
She-)yirs. Feather's': Why, the slily
creature hasn't an Idea in iter rolltsn
head.
He -Maybe not, my dear, but ene's aw-
fully cute.
She -On second thought, George, you
needn't go AVith Me again,
Minard's Liniment Cures Dandruff.
OPTIMISTIC APHORISMS.
(Rochester Times.)
It's well to look for the tvorst. You'll
generally get it. anyway.
The egotist 18 the man who think's he
Is better than you know he is.
When the easy mark awakens, he sel-
dom slumbers.
Diplomacy will land more plums than
a kicking.
The modest man le more apt to be ad-
mired than respected.
The honest man is one of the noblest
works of God, but is least appreciated.
THE MIRACLE.
A baby seed all dressed in brown,
Fell out of its cradle, one day;
The west wind took it with loving arms
And ettrried it far away.
He laid it dowa on a bed of leaves,
And hid it with blankets white;
And there it slept like a weary child,
Through the long, dark winter night.
It woke at last, when the springtbne
came,
And stretched its arms on high,
And it grew and grew through the live-
long day,
Toward the sun and the clear, blue
oky.
It drew its food from its Mother Earth,
And it drank the cooling shower,
Till the mall, brown seed was changed
at last
To a sweet, wild, wayside flower!
Harriet il. Pierson in May St. Nielp
olitio
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DANCING WITH THE. DUMMY.
'When in Rome do as the Romans do,"
like many another prover?) has its lim.
itations. At a danee given in a local in-
stitution for the deaf and dumb recent-
ly, many outside goests, not afflicted
with the loss of hearing and speech, par-
ticipated,
The music was tuneful and inviting
and after carefully observing the mo-
tions of the hands of the mutes as they
l'equested young ladies to dance with
them, an interested young ma», a visi-
tor, approaehed one of the prettiest girls
and went through the form of manual
speech. ,
She arose and nodded acquiescence and
proved a most delightful dancer, A see -
and and third dance was solicited and
granted, and a fourth engaged on her
dance card.
During the intermiesion before the
fourth dance they sat three chairs apart.
He observed that she seemed distrait,
little interested in the actively fineer-
ed conversation around her. Just asehe
overture to the deuce began a, breezy
sort of youth rushed up to her and.
said:
"Hello'Mm
adge, give e this dance,
will you
?"
To which she answered, "It's engaged;
I promised it to that dummy sitting over
there."
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ONE ON HIS HUMOROUS DAD.
A man who writes humor tried a new
joke on his wife in the presence Of Ms
8 -year-old sort and got the worst of it.
Said he: "This afternoon three men
looking for charity came tu the door. To
the first ono I give ten cents, to the
second I gave ten cents, and to the third
I gave a nickel. Now what time wile
it?" "Where did you get all that mon-
ey?" wilted his wife. "It'e a joke, What
time was It?" he said. After it short
time bhe gave up. "Why," said the
humorist, "It WaS a quarter "to throe."
"I think you're wrong," hls .Wife told
him. "It was 25 to a Von didn't ais-
pose of a (waiter but loose change." "All
right; wity don't you W rite jaliesr he
growled. And just then the small son
"Say, I think yu're both wrong.
nearer than you are, pup, but ehe
n't just hit It. 11. wile half -pest two."
"'Well, fur the love uf Michael, how do
you make that out'."' asked the rather,
;virile the nather just seared. ".11151
Woe at your a mob and you'll see the
clock is five minutes fast," replied the
boy.
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adds to the pleasure of possessing "a well
kept laWn".
Y01111 notice the difrerenec in the 1
Afaxweli Lawn Mower the tat thee you :
cut the grass with it.
Crucible Steel Cutter Knives eta clean
and close, and hold their edge. coal rolled ,
strel shafts incan easy running. The .',.
whole mower is so con!puct, s • htloter sod I
perfectly balanced, tlett etrieete the ittent le
-11 siees from s" TO ife ill
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ONE GOOD THIN3.
atontreal Herald.)
A elergyznan who was net aVersotoau
occasional gluts hired an lrisOotto to
elear cut 111,3 vellot. The trishman he'
eau his wcre. He La aught turtil a lot
uf empty whiekey bottlea gene a ne lift-
ed each one looked through it at the sun.
The preach cr, N1'110 Was lvalklitg on the
laWO, saw 111111 anti sad : -They are all
detail Ones, >tato"
"They are," ettel Pat. "Well, there is
one good thing about it, they all hail the
minister with them ‘visen tney were dy-
ing."
When Your EYE1S 1;ilvvez
,r4
Try Murine Eye Remedy. No Sinartii._
Fine -Acts Quickly. Try it fin, Red, Weak,
Watery Eyes and (inundated Eyelids. Mee-
trated Book iv etteli Package. :Nittrine is
compounded by our (culls --not a "Patent. Med-
icine"- but used in successful Physicians' Prac-
tice far tautly years. Now dedicated to the Pub-
lic and sold by Druggists II•li 2e rind Mc, por Bottle,
Murino Eye Salve 111 .Asoptic Tubes, 2.c itlui.eis,
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TWO CAUSES, ONE EFFECT.
a:mei:mato
One- Morning ttl break fael jute: annotin-
eLdy.that he had the miefortune 1.0 I'all
out of he bed tnig, before,
"That was Localise yon slept loo near
wlitt yoll got in," sold Ethel, who likes
to re,ason abou t things t hat happen to
'Pooh,Thai wasn't it," he retorted,
near v
xitere T fell our"
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ELECTRIC TRA,IN AS WAITER.
1 An electrical engineer of Paris gave
his little daughter a toy for Christmas
which performs actual (..I'Vice ite %yell
as being a eouree of amusement to her.
It consists of a miniature eleetrie, train.
•whieb (arrive dishes along the paesage
from the kitchen 10 the (Iloilo; room,
running to the centre ef the dining ta-
ble.
13y touching a button on a circular
ivory indicator messages are eleetricilly
transmitted to the kitchen for such ar-
ticles as bread, knives, forks, water,
napkins, ete. The cook places them in
the ear and the train k started for
the dining room. The outfit cost about
$200, and the train will easily carry a
load of 25 pounds, -From Popular Me-
chanics,
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SOLUTION SIMPLE.
A lady in the centre seat of the parlor
car heard the request of a fellow-passen.
ger direetly opposite, asking the porter
to open the window, and, scenting a
draft, she immediately drew a cloak
about her,
-Porter, if that window is opened," she
snapped, testily, "1 shall freeze to
death—"
"And if tlie window is kept closed," re-
turned the other passenger. "I shall sure-
ly suffocate."
The poor porter stood absolutely puz-
zled between the two tires.
"Say, bos.,," he finally said to a Com-
mercial traveller near by, "what would
you (1.0 ?"
"DO ?" echoed the traveller, "Why,
man, that is a very simple matter. Open
the window and freeze the lade; then
close it and suffocate the other." -'Lad -
105' Home Journel.
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Colorsi0c,black I5c,
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postpaid witlx booklet
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THE NEW GOSPEL TRAINS.
Tho Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific is
running an agricultural demonstration
train of six ears over its lines iu Arkan-
sas.
A special "good roads" train is being
operated by the St. Louis and, San Fran-
tiSe0 on an itinerary NWIIii:11 Will cover
the entire system. The train consists
of four eare carrying eehibite of models
of road construction and the lecturers
\Nilo will demonstrate them. The progress
of the train iA being widely advertised
throughout the territory served by the
Frisco, and every effort is being made to
attract largo amliencos and impress upon
them the 'input Once of good roads.
Over thr,:o honked stops have been
shoduled.
The Louisiana State University is run -
'ling, a "farmers' demonstration train"
over the railways of the State, which
consists of ten ears, the longest train of
the kind which we remember to have
heitid of. Co-operating with the univer-
sity are ti! State Agricuiurai College,
the State Beard of Health, the State
Board uf Education, and the United
States Department of Agriculture. Be-
sides the animals and farm exhibits,
there ie 0eahoul exhibit and a general
health e\hibit. This train makes com-
paratively long sto.oz., the schognie over
the Viasburee Sine vepert and Pacific
providing in most eases for only three
tewns a day.
Do net g„ive your fannly food made
with alum baking powder. Use
Magic 13:iing Powder. Costs no
mote than the ordinary kindt; and is
guarant:-.ed not to contain alum. SJ1 in-
gredient 11 tire plainly printed. on 118011
package. S,0 if tip...). are on the brand
V111 Ofro up. to -date Gro-
cers sal and recommend "Magic."
4 -
WOMEN DOCTORS IN SIBERIA.
m1111b,.2r of influential Siberians are
potitioniter the klint.t•tr ,yof Education
in St. l'etersburg tt itilow women to be
admit led to the medical faculty izt the
111 ,1'l of Tohee,k. The petitioners
point out that there is a wide field for
women do,:toi...4 in siburia, witer41 11 is
often difficult foe -1et1le1'4 to get med-
lea I aid.
There are many Mohammedans in the
col -1141'y, and it eXpi.lilled that Only
W0111011 iltrelo1i3 earl coin:. to their help
111 il1itces:4, tbs they do not permit, men to
:.ev their vsives and daughter'. Many
wontell have entered the in pro -
1 11 pre'dtnt, 11111 there are
a great many women praetising dentist-
ry, 0 dopartment of surgery which 11005
110t Stein 10 have aitraetions for the
English woman- :1114: -ow corer:9)0nd-
e11v0 London Standard.
PURIF100
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PROOF
CURES
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HE WAS TALKED TO DEATH.
clipt.:ghton, deepatch Youngstown
Telegram.)
"Now that you nave a chance to get a
third husband. for God's sake don't •talk
hint to death."
tt;o mad the note which 'Henry Juntun.
son, a nrosnerons Otter Lake farmer.
‘vrote to his wife just before putting a
noose about his neck and then sending
0. IINOlVer shot through his brain. The
body Was found hanging in a shed.
Jitntunson was the woman's second
husband. several children survive him.
ISSUE NO, 17, 1912
HELP WANTED.
anted
Cylinder press feeder at once. Apply
Canada Ready Print Co., Hamilton,
Ont.
WINE FED HENS LAY MORE EGGS
A French chicken farmer claims that
a small gmentity of wine increases the
egg -producing eapacity of hens to a
eonsiderable degree. He divided a flock
of twelve bees sixteen months old into
two groups of six.
Each group was fed with exactly the
same amount of grain, bread, etc., but
the bread given one group was soaked
with wine. In the four months of the
test the wine fed hens laid NS eggs
more than the other S1X.
In :mother test twelve hens of the
same breed but only eight months old
were fed in the same way, and the wine
fed hen won by eighty-seven eggs, -
From the Popular Mechanics.
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PILES CURED AT HOME BY
NEW ABSORPTION METHOD
If you suffer from bleeding, netting,
blind or protruding Mee, send me your
address, and I will tell you how to
cure yourself at home by tne new ab-
sorption treatment; and will also send
some of this home treatment free for
trial, with references from your own
lecality, if requested. Immediate relief
and permanent cure assurea. Send no
money, but tell others of this oiler.
Write to -day to Mrs. M. Simmers, Box
P. 8, 'Windsor, Ont.
Concrete Poles in New Zealaad.
Reinforced concrete telegraph poles are
being used by Inc Postal Telegraph De-
partment uf New Zealand on the line be-
tween Auckland and 'Hamilton. Over 1,200
ot the poles have been set up. They
measure 2e feet hip,h, and taper from six
by eight inches at the base to six by six
Indite at the top. The poles are claim-
ed as be only slightly heavier than the
weeden poles they have -replaced.
for sale every-
where.
GAS AND ELECTRICITY.
lat the city of Manchester the discussion
ha' been waged for sume time as
to the relative merits of gas and electric-
ity as a means of illuminating the
streets. Two very active companies have
been rivals fur the contract, and the
elaims made for their respective concerns
had the effect of embarrassing the of -
fiend having the matter in charge. As
a a ay out ef the diftleulty each if the
rieal companies was assigned to a dis-
trict, and will take charge of the matter
caas
Win themake an
n
of keeping the streets lighted for a given
Pital:ei°s(tigaTtilloettintofufatl tihe subject of cost ot
!mediation ,cost of maintenanee and the
v Of the illumination and other
noitue.asndon this hasis will arrive- at
afonewiom
Send for free sample to Dept. If. L., Na-
tional Drug & Chemical Co.. Toronto,
air
NEVER TAKES A DARE.
(Stamford, Conn., Despatch.)
Benjamin Hauler, of Stamford, has the
reputation far never taking a dare when
anybody wants to make a bet on the re -
Seine of his friends dared him to eat
eight eggs right after a hearty dinner,
aud breaking the shells he had them
down in two minutes. When they dared
hint to have his head shaved, and now
Benno hasn't a hair on his head. :lie
Lot:toted bets both times.
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Minard's Liniment Relieves Neuralgia,
JUMBO'S BAGGAGE.
"What's that loug, snaky thing he
swings around in front of Iiim?" she
wanted to know.
"That's his trunk," explained her fath-
er.
"Then I suppose that little one behind
hint is his suit -case."
Little Margaret was watching the ele-
reliant at the zoo. --Woman's Tiome Com-
..„.,
Reliable merchants everywhere display this
box and sell STEELE, BRIGGS' SEEDS.
Look for them—accept no other.
Steele, lige are the best grown. I4o
matter what you need in seeds, this name
stands for highest quality.
Behind every packet is the strongest seed
reputation in Canada. Thousands of successful
growers everywhere use STEELE, BROS' SEEDS
year after year because they are sure of what
they are buying.
Look for this box at your local store. If your
local dealer cannot supply you order direct.
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