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Roberts & Hunt The very sudden dei

High River

jwidespread sorrow

ylerien church CAYLEY

Sunday school at fo.15 a.m.

Public worship, la,m..and 7.30p.m. M&apoOWBANK

Sunday school at 2.30 o'clock Public worship at 3.15 .

~ Metheatst church

ewan CAYLPFY

Service every Sunday at 7:30 o'clock.

Sunday school Adult class at 3 p.m.

Prayer service every Wednesday even-

Presb

‘classes of politicians.

in politics are an are unstinted in their him as a man,

' | Janticipated until within |time of his death, | lc Malcolm Mclkwenz

|sustained a genuine | late

The Cayley Hustler. Published avery Wednesday Subscription price, $1.00 a year

ath

among Even those

praise lor some the health of the deceased states- tnan has been the cause of

anxiety, but nothing serious

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THE CAYLEY HUSTLER

| 1 nae . ) * ‘ ma | fireman Ulley of the south bound); > y heress; the homestead. regu-

CURRENT COMMENTS 4, body being mang

DEATH OF MR. McKENZIE of the | | provincial treasurer has caused a} a

iwho were greatly opposed to him | _ rongst those who} *)

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CaYLEy, ALTA. MARCH 19, 1913 SUBSCRIPTION 81,00 A VRAR

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Railway Wreck near Stavely Of Interest to Homesteaders

Perhaps one of the worst tail-! The Associated Boards of Trade |way wrecks that fas -occurred i) of Southern Alberta have sent | Alberta, took place on Sunday | the following bulletin to the sec- morning last, about six o'clock, | yetaries of all the boards of tra de atile or two south of Stavelyi | in Albetta, urging that an en- Two engines and twelve freight | dorsement ot it to be sent to the lears were badly smashed up, and | ininister of agriculture :

SHIP YOUR GRAIN

JOHN BILLINGS & CO.

LICENSED AND BONDED GRAIN COMMISSION MERCHANTS

WINNIPEG. LIBERAL ADVANCES. PROMPT RETURNS

FAJR TREATMENT

\freight train was instantly killed, {ations prior to February 1, 1908,

ea ‘ led beyond) provided that the homesteader epee thle, being the result, be) siight apply and recetve his patent sides tying uP the traffic, but not | by keeping upon his land during so much as if the accident had it ' became necessary on Sunday to

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his residential term 20 head of

; jeccurred on any other day, cattle ; and ; j Whereas, under the new regy- lations this clause was abandoned

and the breaking of 30

bring passenger train No. $37 to ; Calgary via Kipp, over the Alder- H i. bea ae ‘de braneh, the train being! P : a i . 8} strictly adhered to, which, while ral hours late. The engineer ‘ {not burdensome, involves the

}and fireman of the north-bound | : e| of moneys which

| | might be used by the homesteacd- the

| cost of breaking, seed, seeding,

acres

| Seve

expenditure

EYE SIGHT

freight saw the other train coming jin time to reverse the engine and

h, i their

| take ler in a different

manner, as

good escape.

| brakeman belonging to the south- | 2 ; : t] G | fencing, implements, is 'bound treight was afterward found | |

_| burried up to his neck in coal)

etc, no

YOUR EYES==———

will appreciate the ease and comfort derived from wearing ‘ proper

inconsiderable sum, and is repert- ed to be 75 per cent, of the cases done on credit

€ x j in practically ‘ dumped from the tender of the | none

engine, which probably saved his}

ing at 8.00 p.m. {good fighter, and however much

FORKS one might disagree with him and

Preaching every Sunday at 11.00 a.m! the politics that he supported, one |

ZEPHER SCHOOL

Sunday School at 2 p.m. j great ability and e Preaching service at 3 p.m. } ; i ; . the brought to the To each and all services the public! are urged to attend, i

Rev. Ouiver E. MANN, Pastor.

Cayley Hotel W. A. BOURDON, Prop.

Rates, $1.50 per day

could not fail to acknowledge the arnestness that

discharge oi

his duties. The body of the late Mr. Mc-

} i

|Sunday evening for Macleod, |

ou} |

jwhere the funeral took place | Monday. Sifton | several members of the legislature |

Premier and

were in attendance at the funeral. |

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Special Table for Farmers

campbell REAL ESTATE | house on Monday. According to|

NSU NCE, LOANS, }

ENSUR AN : _ ithe plan the Nanton and High COMMISSIONER, VALUATOR River constituencies are not alter The |

Dowelas: di.

| vided into fitty-six constituencies,

The Redistribution Bill

Lhe map of the province

'was placed upon the table of the |

Commission Merchant led at all, or but very little.

|part that most concerns this dis-

trict we give below : {Little Bow is bounded on the Alta. | east by Lethbridge District to the

Grain and Coal Dealer

Cayley,

a -- latter's northerly limit and then

a liye the dividing line between town-

Cc C CHU MLEY ships nineteen and twenty, on the} Livery, Feed & Exchange Stables

DRAYING Licensed Auctioncer.

north by the dividing line between ranges cighteen and nineteen, on the line

townships

the west by dividing

between twenty-four | land twenty-five, and on the south |

between |

JEWELERY

It will pay you to drop a line te

D. E. BLACK, Calgary

and get our new Catalogue

by the dividing line

lranges ten and eleven,

Clareshulm is bounded on the east by the dividing line between

| townsbips twenty-four and twenty- ‘five and a small part of the Old | Man river, on the south by the i dividing line between ranges nine |

It makes Gift giving easy, an

contains suggestions for all your | between townships twenty-seven

Flendé ‘and twenty-eight, and then the riends. > ; ‘dividing line between ranges eight

D. E. Black | viding line between townghips one

Wig. Jeweler and Optician land two west of the filth for one 116A 8th Ave. E.. CALGARY 10 of townships, then one town

ship further west for two rows and

A. A. BALLACHEY

BARRISTER SOLICITOR NOTARY PUBLIC od Solicitor for--The Union Bank ; The! by the Little Bow riding, on the

Canadian Bank of Commerce ; The | south by Claresholm, on the north Dominion Bank ; and the Town of by the line dividing ranges sixteen cma ewe The Manufacturers | and seventeen, on the west by the Life Ins Co; The Royal Loan and line dividing townships three and errr] ae ce Great West Per- ‘four west of the fifth. Private Funds to Loan High River is bonnded on the

e fone row further west for two morc townships; on the nerth by the

idividing line between ranges

thirteen and fourteen, Nanton is bounded on the east

, least by the Little Bow, on the

i i Iberta, Canada|“! °° High River, Al 40 : jsouth by Nanton, on the north lby the dividing jine between

ranges eighteen and nineteen, On

Caylev's Market lthe west by the dividing line bet-

Kutter - 25 ween townships four aud five west Eggs Sm Me 82 ghee ahh,

j Kenzie passed through here on)

| their contents, consisting of hains,

lton, fruit of all kinds,

‘and strange to say, some of the

| scene of the wreck was visited by

| Che remains

d and ten as far west as the division |

and nine; ow the west by the di-| | .| neans

ae i lwith life trom the scalding steam issu- | secu

| jing from the boiler of the engine | | pern

jon the pile ofcoal. The wrecked

the prospects for a crop as fitting glasses." If you have not had your “ Eyes” attended to, rity, while with live stock WHY PUT IT OFF? lissable the initial expense, Our Representative will be at

linvolving much indebtedness and

jengines and smashed-up

}

| were a mass

ears | heavy of debris and con- | {fusion that begyars description. | | One or two of the wrecked cars| yinter

| were refrigerators, which had been bursted open by the impact, and

lard tins, carcasses of hog

candies, | Sout ible tain

tobacco, barrels of beer, &c, &ei, together with machinery of all kinds, were scattered all over the track and sides in every direction bungs inthe beer barrels, in fatt- alten ing, struck some sharp stones and knocked and the contents wasted——not on your life! The empty barrels were safely gather- Much of the candies

in,

ed in later, gove

and tobacco were thrown into the|® tion

bank

many jaws, so

mud and rescued, and}

itvie

ever since,

said, have | RC lip The chan Neen wagging Ts

i large crowd all day on Sunday.

of what was left ot

tireman Ulley were put in a box}

: pak (ae lengineer of the north-bound train | asset

: | “ having read his orders wrong, | the l

which read he

Pulteney, a siding between Clares- |

4 | Quebec, has discovered what he Z asserts to be a simple but certain | Cy of attacks

trom military airships, He

4

hess pie 17) |not divulge his discovery except) S$ ito Col. Sain Hughes, He is cer- et

‘tain he can convince all military | 4 fauthorities, and he wants his 7) | method to be employed for the | #76, | British Minpire | \y alone, ‘My method is so simple IR that a child could use it, an] yet) \y I can prove that it will result WLS

height, \y

withstanding

will

jdefense of the

\destroying auships at any

tos A Par) wi ty visible or invisible,in any weather” | ( 2 Selander was a former officer in) R the Swedish army, 8ecame to “) Bid ON, Canada six years ago, 1 | (\\\ : --- ms Now is the time to see about T\ that new spring harness. Don't) : x

leave it to the very last minute, |) and then be disappointed, Leave |‘o* ; fas -e with \V 4% your order at once with, J. Wo) (os

Bradley.

» -eliminated, therefore, be it

| prairie provinces, and especially jin Southern Stik | opinion of the executive

Associate Boards of Trade of

an alternate, as D ominion land regulations, said homestea&der, provided a designat- ed yalue of improvements in live stock shall be considered, and we respectiully bring this matter to; the attention

gested and recommended by such

conform.

At the Conservative convention

argest ever held in that con-

was to go on to|Stituency,

y interest charges, could be

Cayley Every Two Months

Resolved, that in furthering the

est in mixed farming in the Make it a point to Consult him Make f s

ALL WORK FULLY GUARANTEED

The Taube Optical Company

709 First Street West ‘CALGARY, ALBERTA Established 1871

the the

Alberta, is

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hern Alberta, that more tang- results of prosperity will ob- through having provision tor

under the old

nate to be optional with the

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of the mment and urge considera- sug-

COUNTS

We need the room, and are obliged to reduce our stock of

Heaters, Fireplaces and Cooking Stoves

Get in line for the

of the remedy herein

ges of the regulations as will

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and shipped to-Calgary where he| held in Claresholm on Tuesday BIG DISCOUNTS at the Cayley Hardware ‘resided, The cause of the wreck | Dr. McMillan of Granum_ was ; appears to have been due to the| nominated for the — legislature Formerly MCMEEKIN & SCRAGG

nbly. The convention was

C. STEEN, Mer.

lholm and Stavely, and wait there | 5 : |for the south-bound train to pass, (ES GAG BASLE GS SOAS GAS ALAS Ss instead he which he mistook the |) % (; word Pulteney for Parkland, and Key %, went through at top speed, i) e )

aca as ee 19

io us ecely Antoun Selander, a naturalized |) | Swede, of St. Gabriel de Brandon, | x

Our new stock of

GENTS’ SPRING HATS | in all the latest styles, has just arrived

We have also a complete stock of

GENTS’ FURNISHINGS

Call and see these goods

F. F. MCDONALD, Cayley

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BRONCHITIS

TONSILITIS LARYNGITIS Se one.

Scott’s Emulsion is nature’s nourishing, curative-food; prompt, sure. and permanent.

: Rely on SCOTT’S and insist:on SCOTT'S.

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aS THIS CAT CAN TALK

Sings in Tune Melody of Three Ger man Popular Songs

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Hamburg Peter a cat, who is said to talk i sing, 1s the latest s tion in | iburg. The cat is the pre ty of Doctor Sutoris, a woman de who found it when quite young starving on one of the docks She has trained it in such a re- markable degree that the animal shows almost human intelligence. A umber of witnesses confirm Doctor ris tem Peter dis- ti the Ge an words for more Helena, no,

it is declared

e monosy- in t the melod- in popular songs.

and tat the rds she utters are spoken with marvelous appropriate- ness to the occasion,

Is Clara going to serve he church social tonight

No. She didn’t get her cap and}

apron done in time to have her nails manicured.

can’t ha

The girl who faith

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MEN SOLD AS SLAVES

Human Beings Auctioned, as of Old in Market Towns of Morocco

Paris.—A most revolling picture is painted by a correspondent of the Matin of the slave traffic in Morocea

Although the nefarious trade in hu- man merchandise, as practiced by the corsairs and dhow masters of the African seas has long been stamped out, it still appears to flourish in the land of Moors.

Writing from Marrakesh, which_ts stated to be the center of this traffic, the correspondent, a French woman doctor, says

The slaves conveyed from the Sus and Tafilet quickly sold, either publicly

by caravans regions are in the

market at Marrakesh or clandestine- ly.

Sales take place in broad daylight. Penned in boxes running around a

covered gallery, which serves as a market square in rainy weather, the unfortunate human cattle are exposed for sale three times a week.

Little by little the square fills with potential purchasers. When all ts ready the dellals, or auctioneers, ar- rive on the scene, and with solemn prayer, open the market.

Prayers over, each dellal proceeds to sort out his proper lot of slaves. He then replaces their miserable rags by a more decent attire, and followed

close at his heels by the groups of men, women and children, he walks around the market place crying the

value of his wares.

Intending »urchasers now and again stop the perambulation and leisurely examine the teeth, the hair and the skin and limbs of the human animal which may have attracted their atten- tion.

The bargain being closed, the sale is duly attested before the adouts notaries, The price varies according to the and qualities of the slave

I have seen a man, 24 years old, sold

sex, age

for $17. Girls from 10 to 12 years | old bring from $75 to $100 The j highest price is paid for a woman who | can cook. |

It frequently happens that when a | woman with a baby at the breast, or accompaniea by a little child, 18} brought into the market tl buyer wishes to buy the woman oz

It is then that the most he: ending scen are witnessed, as the weeping mothe are sep ted from their off- |

with brutal violence.

PALE ANAEMIC GIRLS

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Find New Health Through Dr.} Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People

There must be No guess treatment of pale, anaem

in| your daughter

is languid,

has a pale, |

three men at the same time has no|sallow complexion, is short of breath,

business trying to be a summer girl.

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especially on going upstairs; if she has palpitation of the heart, poor ap-

You never saw a Man wear his new | petite, or a tendency to faint, she has

suit in order to make another man

jealous.

One of the commonest complaints of infants is worms, and the most effect- application for the: ves’ Worm Exterminator.

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A Sure Sign The minister was coming to dinne and the u

1al preparations had been | made to insure the good man a pleas. | gnt time Dishes that would make |

the mouth water were in the open, | and the best silverware was on the table,

At last the visitor came. He was greeted by the daughter of the house,

a small girl but one big enough to know better

I knew you were coming, she said.

And how did you know I was com- Ing?

A little bird told me.

What sort of a little bird?

A chicken,

How He Did it

How did you vote, Uncle George?

How did I vet*? responded the old southern dark™

Yes, sir.

Ii my mind, sah,

PARROT PREVENTS MURDER Assassin Mistakes His Voice for That of Man and Skips

Brussels.—A pet parrot recently played an important part in a tragedy in a suburb of Brussels recently.

An old woman named Koettingen, reputed to be a miser, was strangled by a burglar who entered her lodg- ings for the purpose of robbing her.

While the assassin was searching for her hoard of money and jewels, Mme, Koettingen’s pet parrot uttered

several words which it had learned from its mistress, Thinking that he heard a human

volee, the assassin fled, leaving large sum of money untouched.

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Any Man can buy~ tickets to the show, but it takes other qualities to get the right>kind of girl to help him look at it.

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anaemia—which means poverty of the blood. Any delay in treatment

may leave her weak and sickly for the |

rest of her life—delay may even re-

sult in consumption, that most hope- | Mother | lose |

When the blood there is only one Dr. Williams’ | with nourishing |

ss of is poor and watery, certain cure-—that Pink Pills, coupled

diseases.

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!food and gentle out-of-door exercise. |

Dr. Villiams’ Pink Pil actually make new blood, which flowing |

hrough the veins stimulate the nerves, increases the appetite, give brightness to the eye, a glow of health to the} cheek, and makes weak, despondent girls full of healthy activity, The case of Miss J. H. Lassalle, Sorel, Que., is typical of the cures made by Dr, Williams’ Pink Pills. She :ays: | “T was weak and all run down. My} face was pale and covered with p- les. My lips were pale. T suffered

from pains in all my limbs, would at times be swollen.

hardly ever free from headaches and I found werk about the house a

burden, as the least effort left me fa

tigued and breathless. I had no ap-,

I was

petite, and notwithstanding that I was |

seemed to be time. One she thought I

constantly- doctoring. I growing worse all the day mother said ‘at ought to try Dr. and I decided to do so. TI soon dis- covered that I had found the right medicine, and after using nine boxes I was once more enjoying the best of health, and T have not been unwell a day since.”

You can get Dr.

Williams’ Pink

Pills from any medicine dealer or by }

mail at 50 cents a box or six. boxes for $2.50 from The Dr.

Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont,

Room for Improvement

Mr. Seymour Hicks, who with Miss

Ellaline Terris, is at the London Col- |

iseum in a sketch over the holiday sea- son, has been telling this story of one of his early stage experiences.

The heroine, whose acting was very, very bad, was supposed to be an in- valid, and Mr. Hicks played the part of the doctor attending her. In one of the scenes another character,, re- ferring to the heroine, asked him, ‘Doctor, is there any hope?”

To which Mr. Hicks replied: will be better in the spring.

She

We ‘ope to ‘eaven she will, guy’- nor! came a dismal voice from the gallery.

Some men will tell the time of day by the sun, and some women tell the time of night by the gon.

In Retrospect We kick about the modern days And put them on the rack, But these will be the good old times When we are looking back.

— Prehistoric human footprints have been discovered in slabs of sandstone in a quarry at Warrhambool, Australia, Their age is estimated at 50,000 years.

Melbourne,

The only time some persons enjoy doing their duty is when it is an "n- pleasant one for the other fellow.

Nobody loves a grouch, but that fact doesn't cure him.

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TUE WUSTLER, CAYT

A Marriage of Convenience

One of Mrs. Hugh Fraser's stories {relates to a peasant at Lesjahn, the home of Mrs. Fraser's sister, Frau von Rabe, The man’s wife had died. She was buried with every mark of sym- pathy, and nothing was left undone to comfort the disconsolaite widower. On the evening of the day of the funeral he presented himself at the house and asked to see Frau von Rabe, saying that he had a favor to ask. Instantly he was ushered in. begged him to state his wishes. Was there anything she could co to lessen his affliction?

turning his hat nervously round in his | fingers, I have come to ask lec-re to get married again. You see—

But, good gracious! exclaimed his mistress. Of course you may when the time comes,

Yes, but—but I want to marry now, tonight, stammered the man. It is like this—

What on earth do you mean? gasped his mistress. Why, your wife was only buried this morning! Surely you cannot be serious?

Indeed I am, gracious lady! was the | earnest reply. I have spoken to the lady, and she is willing to marry me at } once, this minute, if only you will give us permission. It’s like this: How jam I to go to bed with my boots oi? i and I can’t pull them off myself, he ever hard I try. So unless I marry ; who is to pull them off for me.

Clergyman (lately come to perish) —Your neighbor Smith says my serm- }ons are rubbish.

Farmer—Ah, ye needn't mind him, | ir; he’s merely a mouthpiece for other | folks.

Frau von Rabe |

Gracious lady, the truth is, he began, |

—pointing to his tight-fitting top-boots |

KY, ALBERTA.

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gently but firmly com- pel a lazy liver to do its duty Cures Con- ae Indiges- tion, Sick Headache, and Distress after Eating. | Small Pill, Small Dose, Small Price. |

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A Freak of Lightning Lightning plays some peculiar tricks at times but we have never heard of anything to come up to the following,

lwhich the “Melbourne Age” properly

labels “Extraordinary Incident.” A young man while riding through

lthe timber country at Willung during

a recent storm had a remarkable es- cape from death in peculiar circum- stances, A large tree directly in front of him was struck by lightning and splitin halves. The horse he was riding, becoming terrified, started to plunge through the gap between the halves of the tree. At that moment the halves came together with a snap like @ rabbit trap, and crushed off a length of the horse's tail, which can still be seen protruding from the tree, The young man receivéd a_ severe shaking, but otherwise came through the ordeal safely.

Cutting

Mr. J. L. Toole had a great antl: | pathy to street music of any kind. About this there is a story told of him, The waits, one Christmas .vening, played under his windows, greatly to his annoyance, and on the next day |they paid him a visit.

We played under your window last night, said the spokesman cf the party

ence. | Well, and what do you want? quoth the comedian, | We've come for or little gratuity. Come for a gratuity have you? ex- claimed Mr. Toole. less me! I thought you had come to apologise. |

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Hare Hunt Through a Town ondon,—A are, which made its appearance in the town of Baldock, jicrts, was chasea through High street,

| Norton street and Orchard street be-

tere getting sarely away. The small boy

watched the classic

barefooted poses. Where are the

the audience dancer in her

in

lady's stockings,

mamma? he asked in a Clear little voice. Hush dear, I don't know, the em-

; barrassed mother replied, ’! when they were shown into his pres: |

Maybe she hung ’em up for Christ- said the small boy in a louder voice,

The Amateur (enthuslastically)— 1

still }

ea, |

ruiress ‘0! ot

The One Ideal Gift

for all the family

for all the year

around is a rademark Columbia Grafonola

Ask your nearest Columbia dealer to play you the specia Xmas Columbia Records. (Fit any machine.)

suppose art is your whole ambition? |

The Prof but otherwise it is not so filling.

NEW C.P.R. TERMINAL ST. TION AT VANCOUVER The above iilustration shows the magnificent terminal station of the Canadian Pacific Railway Co. at Van-

couver. | fore the work is completed. $2,750,000.00.

No Wonder He Was Interestcd

Mr. G. J. Widdicombe, who in 1872, was appointed by Lord Hannen to be Clerk of the Rules. and Orders of the Probate and Divorce Division, has just retired.

One of his stories relates to the only occasion on which Lord Hannen was known to have been hoaxed,

Among the jury called to hear certain case was a man dressed deep mourning. Before the case be-

a

j}gan he rose in his place and begged |}

Lord Hannen that he might be excused frém service on the jury as he was deeply interested in a gentleman’s funeral and specially desired to be present,

The judge was touched by the man’s

evident grief. Certainly, he said, you may go!

After the man had left the court, Mr. Widdicombe whispered to his

lordship: Do you know who that man

o, replied the judge, a little sur- prised.

He the undertaker! ecombe explained.

Mr. Widdi-

is

Corns are caused by the pressure of tight boots, but no one need be troubled with them fong when so sim- ple a remedy as Holloway’s Corn Cure jis available.

Not a Complement

1 know that I am ugly, and that, as a general thing, the girls do not ad mire me, said Gus de Smith; but, he added, M Birdie MeGinis paid me a very high compliment last evening at the ball

How did she come to do that? asked Pennybunker cynically. | | don’t know how it came about. |She usually puts me fifth or sixth on her list of dane but last night she |put me down for the very first dance }of all.

I know she did, replied Pennybunker. I asked her what she meant by such }eccentricity, and she said , danced the first dance with you to get you off her mind, so that she zould enjoy herself for the rest of the even- jing.

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This story was being told at one jof the recent agricultural shows, | A rather jolly-looking coster “was }wandering round the pig section. | Pointing to one of the animals he re- |marked to a farmer standing near:— Nice pig that!

| The farmer looked at him scorn- | fully. | Much you know’ about pigs! he} commented.

Garn! retorted the coster. Bet yer

five bob I can guess ‘is welght as near as you can.

Done, said the farmer promptly.

Well, what do you say ‘e weighs? the coster asked. f

Twenty stone, replied the farmer with confidence, P

The coster grinned. I say twenty stone, too, an’ that’s as Near as you, so I win,

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Anybody can wear a Campaign but- | ton, but it fs the vote that counts.

Mee’ | in

that si.’

terminal station an

Getting ‘em for the Kernel

Some time back a certain colonel’s gardener was going through the woods belonging to his employer, when he saw a man busy gathering nuts.

As the colonel had given strict ord- | ers that no one was to be allowed to jpick the nuts that year, as had hitherto been the case, the gardener said to the }man:

You'll have to clear out of this; I've got orders to keep all those nuts for the colonel. He wants them for Christmas. |

It’s all right, replied the man; that’s what I'm getting ’em for. |

Satisfied by the answer, ener passed on.

Meeting the same man a week after |the occurrence he said: | Look here; you were not getting those nuts for the colonel at all, |

I tell you I was, was the emphatic ! reply.

But I know better. The colonel told me that he gave neither you nor anybody else any authority.

Well, I know jolly welll was getting them for the kernel; I .idn’t want the shells,

the gard-

Funny that a boy will tell his sister all about his love affairs, while a girl always tells another girl.

' : Divorees ought to come along with} | the titles that American men of money

| buy for their ambitious daughters,

It is noticeable that the present craze for old time things doesn’t lead jany girl into running tallc.v candles and making soft soap.

Mrs. Casey—Yisterday was Mrs. Maloney’s birthday, and her husband gave her a silver teapot.

Mrs. Murphy-—Solid?

Mrs. Casey—Sure, you're joking, How could she put tea in it if it were solid?

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Then the Fun Started

It was not an important but when at last there into the box a diminutive, out-at-the elbows youth, the pleader thought his chance had come’

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In recalling war time humors, a vet- eran ‘recently remarked that enlisted men stood by one another :oost. hand- somely, ;

Very ingeniously, too, he went on. I remember one day our captain—a

| regular—asked Sergeant Porter about

his target practice. How. are your men coming along,

| sergeant? he asked,

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Three Old Maids And a Widow

And the Prize They Set Out to Capture.

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By c, B. LEWIS.

There are few towns of 1,500 popu- fation that can boast of three old maids and a widow living on the same street, but that was the case with Clifton. Miss Vinton was an old maid because she never had met with a man good enough for her. Miss Hop- Kins was an old maid because the young man she would have married at eighteen was sawed in two in a saw- mili, and she had vowed to be true to his memory. Mfss Warner was an old maid because she was determined to marry none but a minister, and all the miuisters who came were already pro- vided for. The Widow Carter was a widow because part of a house had fallen on her husband,

The old maids and the widow were

on visiting terms—in fact, they rather — Where there are no-

liked each other. male candidates for matrimony con- cerned old maids and widows can sit down together on the same veranda without quarreling. had solemnly assured the old maids that nothing on the face of this earth could induce her to be false to the memory of her crushed the quartet loved each otber even more.

One day one of the merchants in the town sold out, and a stranger came to take his place. If he had been a mar- ried man the dove of peace would have continued to hover over Rose street, but as he was single, only thirty and

ahead. The widow let no grass grow under her feet in calling at the store and tn-

cidentally mentioning her name and or- |

dering four pounées of sugar all at once. She was one of the Four Hun- dred of the town, and on tbe part of the other 899 she bade Mr. Strong wel- come to their midst. When he

After the widow |

bad |

thanked ber she ordered two nutmegs | and a paper of starch, in addition to,

the sugar, to let him understand that she wasn't obliged to pinch pennies, and then departed.

An hour later ber reprehensible con- duct was known to the three old maids,

and up went three pairs of hands; six |

eyes were turned upward in horror and

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three mouths opened to exclaim in cho- |

rus, “How shocking!” Then, during the next two days, each

of the old maids made an excuse to

call at the store and follow the pro- gram carried ont by the widow. Ench thought she was sly and slick, but they found each otber out, and from that moment the bond of friendship snap- ped asunder like an old clothesline left out in the storins of # year.

When women make war on each oth- |

er they don’t use fence rails to ponnd each other on the head, In most cases they go right on treating each other as nicely as they can to their faces, but using daggers and the darkness to as- sassinate. ‘The three old maids and the widow gathered together as of yore, but the dagger was used whenever there was the least show.

Mr. Strong proved a social success. The widow give a little dinner and brought him out, but the old maids really monopolized bim for the even- ing. Then Miss Warner guve an exhi- bition of her own paintings, which con-

sisted of a cow apparently thirty-six |

long and of a river running up| es f | It seemed to three old muids and a

stream instead of down, and the wid- ow held Mr, Strong's attention for av hour while she talked about her crush- ed and departed.

At the end of six weeks the man who ran the sawmill and bad a mortgage on the mill dam figured !t out to his

wife:

“There are three old maids to one |

widow, but if the widow gets left she'll be the first one I ever beard of.”

Even the small boys around town no- ticed how girly the old maids were be- coming. They wiggled; they uttered cute little screams when they turned a corner and found themselves face to face with a cow; they tittered when they asked for gumdrops at the gro- cery. As for the widow, she set ber jaw and walked into the store two or three times a week to ask the®mer- chant if he thought the Seventy-sev- enth National bank of Boston was per- fectly sound and to sigh with relief when he assured her of bis confidence iv the institution, Sly reports were soon ufloat that Mr, Strong was paying his attentions to this or that one of the four. ‘hen the other three would re- ply as one:

“Well, may be he ts, but what on earth be can sée in her is more than 1 can make out, She grows more home- ly and dowdified every day. Of course I'm telling you this in confidence, and, of course, it won't go further.”

One fata) evening tragedy after trag- |

edy happened, and the light went ont.

of several bappy households. Strong boarded with a family living half a mile from thestore, Ie wanted

over the river and ascend a bill cov- ered with woods, and there wasn't a house between his boarding place and the town.

The three old malds and the widow had bad their eyes on this road from the first. They bad soon begun walk- ing for exercise. ‘They didn’t walk at the hours the merebaut might be ex- pected, nud if they encountered each other they made all manner of ex-

Mr. |

| vate library, which was one of the best

Academy of Medicine.

the walk. [e had to cross the bridge ‘surgery, as he was later called.

' cuses, but ench one understood what | the other was at and determined to; baffle her in the end,

Mr. Strong had been given three months in which to declare his inten- | tions, and he hadn't declared, Time was too valuable to be wasted. His habit was to return to his store after a 6 o'clock supper and remain there until

| 8 Just before 8 o'clock, then, on this

awful night four human figures might have been seen stealing out of the totvn and over the bridge.

Each and every one of them would have paused on the bridge to listen to the musical plash of the river if they hadn’t seen each other, The first, sec: , ond and third were obliged to go on to, avoid the last one. She was the wid: | ow. She knew the value of a bridge. and a river and a musical plash, aud— she determined to stick.

One old tramp and a dog were re sponsible for most of what follow: ed. The tramp came humping along. through the town, bent on finding a) country straw stack as soon as possible, and as the widow on the bridge beard his footsteps she began to look artless and coy. |

It was labor thrown away. The tramp was nearsighted and bumped up against her, and in her fright she went over the low railing and down into the water. If she couldn't swim ke a duck she could at least scramble

| like a cat, and she managed to get

ashore. Her condition was dripping, also drooping, also indignant. She re- alized that no dripping, drooping wo- man stood the slightest show in that contest, and she dragged herself bome- ward and was not improved in looks or temper by haviug to wade through a couple of mud puddles. |

Miss Vinton came next. She was sauntering up the hill wondering how “that widow” dared be sv bold and brassy when the tramp, who was now on the run for bis life, overtook her, In his nearsightedness he took her for a horse and wagon and tried to shy out. She shied to the right at the same time and was sent sprawling by the collision, She got out of tite roadside

a “catch” the dove saw a hot time | ditch to run into a pateh of briers and

scream for help, but there was no help. She had to extricate herself and follow the bedraggled widow.

The dog alone was responsible for What bappened to the other two old maids. Miss Warner had discovered one woman abead and two behind her, and, suspecting their fiendish tuten-. tiuns, she had almost made up ler inind to abandon her object when the dog, who had been calling on his broth- er out in tbe country, came along and set up a barking and growling. ‘rag: - edy was the result. ‘Che old msid ney-) er bad evecountered a big bobtailed dog | at night on a hill, and she at once scrumbled over the fence into the weeds and ran for ber life. She fell down und rolled over, and she pose up again and struggled on, and when she reached bome two hours Inter she tm-,

THE HUSTLER,

HIS FIRST CASE.

The Young Lawyer Made the Court Sit Up and Take Notice.

Several prominent attorneys

discussing the pecyliar and rather hu-

morous questions put to witnesses by

young attorneys entering upon their

legal work, and one of the number |

vouched for the authenticity of this in- cident:

“IT went up to the superior civil court one day to hear a young friend of mine try his first case. All his relatives aud friends were there, and the nuvice wore & most serious expression as be started to question a witness. He did nicely until be asked the man;

*'Did you bave a contract with the plaintif?’

“Yes, replied the witness.

“What kind of a contract was it?

“*An oral one,’ replied the witness.

“Will you please produce it?

“The witness stood stock still staring at the attorney and then looked at the judge inquiringly. ‘There was a ripple of laughter throughout the courtruom, but still the young attorney did not ‘catch on, and, looking toward the judge, remarked:

“*Your honor, I ask you to give the witness until 2 o’clock to produce that contract,

“The court could not longer withhold and joined in the laughter. ‘Then the young lawyer saw his mistake aud with reddened face also bad a good laugh.”—Boston Record.

PLAYING THE PIANO.

Present Day Methods From the Views point of a Cynic.

The piano is one of our best known musica! instrumeuts. It was invented several bundred years ago and in its earlier incarnations was known as the spinet or the barpsichord and afforded eminent artists many opportunities to portray Janguisbing ladies seated be- fore it, says the Chicago Post.

The piano comes either as an up- right or a grand. The grand is a large, flat proposition that takes up several hundred dolars' worth of room,

| while the upright bas a nice smooth

top on which bric-a-brac may be placed.

Tbe piano Is usnally played by young ladies until the young man proposes. It is also played by young meu in tin pan song shops. In those places the youth, who bas flowing bair and a discouraged necktie, allows a cigarette to bang from one corner of his mouth while he shouts a song from the other corner and uses the loud pedal exclu- sively.

In the old days, before women be- came advanced as they are now, it was considered quite some doings to play a piece on the piano which re- quired the hands to be crossed. Now- days the plano ts fitted with a self

mediately went into hysterics, and Dr.| Playing attachment, and the young Seatin got bis first night call for fours; Man caller feeds a porvus plaster teen years. | Into It.

The dog had met with such snecess | that he was encouraged to persevere. He came upon Miss Hopkins out of the) shadows like a frisking naystack, aud), as she screamed out aud spread het wings to fly she tripped and went, down. The fall might bave fojured het | but for the fact that she fell upon sort mud. She couldn't go back to town, looking like the mortar mixer for a skyscraper, and she continued on to

| the merchant's bdarding house to get

the use of hoes and scrapers. ‘They were furnished, but while sbe was using them she heard the ten-year-old daughter whispering to her mother that} she’d bet a cent that Miss Hopkins bad come out there to giggle for Mr.| Strong. |

That was an awful night in Clifton, though only four feminine herts knew | just how awful it was. Morning) dawned with a murky sky overheud. | | widow as if something more wis still} to lappen. bey were right. When} the bntcher boy ealled for his orders | he repeated the same words at every) house on his route:

“Say, you heard the news? Mr, Strong has gone to Vhillipsville to git married today, and be’s goin’ to briug| the bride bome tonight Haln't 16 great?’

Turkish Landscapes.

Sir Charles Eliot gives a dreamy Im- pression of the regious on W hich the | world’s eyes are now fixed. “Whether one goes through Adrianople to Salone iki, the sides of the railways look des- | olute and lifeless, Hills overgrown with dwarf onk alternate with plains whose bureness is half covered with scrubby grass. here are few signs of cultivation and fewer of human habitations. Oriental railways have a way of only skirting the edge of cities, and stations are sometimes sev- | eral wiles from tbe places whose — Dames they bear, The deserted ap- pearance of the land is intensitied by the Turkish babit of constructing | towns in depressious of the undulating plains, where they are invisible at @ short distauce.”—Chicago News.

An Old New York Landmark.

other New York landmark is pass- ing-the Mott Memorial Surgical avd Medical library property, It will be altered for business purposes, The |i- brary was established in 1866 by Dr, Valentine Mott, father of American At that period he was one of the foremost surgeons, ‘There were no medical It braries in New York then, and to belp along students Dr, Mott gave his pri

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in the country. Besides his books, medical fustruments of the different periods were on exhibition there. ‘he books and the instruments of Dr, Mott have now been taken by the New York

Four Great Sauces.

A Frenchman has declared that “man bas created the culinary art He does not eat like an animal—he breakfasts, dines and sups.”

The French are particularly eloquent Among

on the subject of sauces. their famous chefs are recognized

four great sauces—Spanish, Veloute, Bechamel and German. ‘The Spanish and Veloute were known as far back as the seventeenth century. In the eighteenth they were modilied by the masters of cookery, particularily by Careme, who was called “the Raphael

| of the kitchen.”

The Spanish sauce {s composed of juices extracted from a wisture of ham, veal, chicken and, pheasant, Ve- loute is similar, but is not colored.

| Bechamel is Veloute to which cream

has been added, and the German sauce is Veloute plus the yolks of eggs.— Harper's,

What Hurt Him,

“Did you bear about the accident to Bjinks?”

“Why, no. What bappened?"

“Ob, the darned foo! was seriously burt this afternoon.”

“In his automobile, 1 suppose?”

“No, that’s the trouble.”

“What do you mean? I know he'sa& reckless driver, and’—

“And you think he was hurt in bis ear, Well, be wasn't. He was burt by a tree about ten feet ahead of the car, If he’d been able to stay in the car be’d never bave been burt.’ Cleveland Plain Dealer.

East Indian Thoaters.

Many East Indian theaters keep their performances going until 4 or 5 o'clock in the morning, ‘These dramatic orgies nre not, says the ‘Times of In- din, bowever, due to the length of the plays, ak in Chinese theaters, but to the fuct that the tramcars do not be- gin running till 5 o'clock, As the spectators gather from distant villages and have strong objectious to paying harry hire, they expect tu be enter talued until the traits start.

Pleasant Punishment. Pastor—I hear that the struck your house, Moheubauer, ‘Phat {s a punishment for your wickedness, Peasant—Well, sir, it’s a punishment € wouldn't mind baving again, for | got

| 4,000 toarks Insurance from It.—Lustigea

Blatter,

Its Class,

“Unborsing a rivai in the old days of chivalry was very much like a moderp holiday in a busy life.”

“How sot”

“It was faking a kulght off."~Baltl

, more Amerlean,

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tomember this-that a very Mttle te Needed to make a bappy Ilfe.—Marcua Atiroling,

were |

yand see how tired you will be! 'your hand on the table, the palm on |

lightning |

CAYLEY, ALBERTA. |

_-:.lC OOo eee ef

| OPEN OUT YOUR HAND. —

Then Note the Effort It Requires te | Keep It From Closing.

Many thousands of years have elaps- ed since the ancestors of man lived in trees. (It is never to be forgotten that though ape-like forms, they were not apes.) Yet, in spite of these tens of tenturies that have passed by, man has not yet forgotten the instinct of self preservation In the forest. As he was a tailless creature he was compelled to depend for his safety on the grasp- Ing power of his hands and feet. For many ages, ‘however, he bad gradually _been going on the ground more and More and in the trees less and less so _that his feet became more adapted for walking and his hands exclusively for grasping, with the result that the grip and muscular strength of his hands be- | came immense. This is still most pow-

erfully evidenced in a young baby, which, without muscular development, can witbin a few days of birth hang by both hands to a stick for as nuch ag five minutes at a time and by one hand only for two or three, a task beyond the power of any adult except an ath- lete and gymnast.

But a fact which fs still more re- markable is that to the present day there is not one of us that can hold his band open without discomfort and absolutely no one whose hand will stay open at all unless the will is exerted to (hat end. Try it! Hold your hand open for three minutes by the watch Lay

' the wood, the fingers over the edge, and see how, in spite of yourself, they will curve round and grasp it. Look at the band of a sleeping person and think if the fingers are ever shown to be out straight.

When the anatomy of the hand fs taken up it will be found that on the palm and on the under side of the fingers are numbers of nerves sensi- tive to touch which respond as read- lly as the nerves of the eye do to color or the nerves of the ear drum to sound, These were the principal pro- tection of our tree living ancestors, for

an immediate clutch at a branch was |

necessary in rapid travel in the lower branches of great forest trees. The sensitiveness is being lost, but it is being lost slowly. Yet even today we can Do more prevent responding to the stimulation of the sense of touch in our hands than to the sensation of light in the eye or sound in the ear. Disregarding the thumb, the human hand is really nothing more than an adjustable hook,

when tn the position of a hook. When |

any one loses a band the best substi- tute is a stout metal hook.—New York

American, Pk TN Deter a

EGYPT’S GREEN SUN.

A Phenomenon That Was Commented | Upon by the Ancients,

The appearance of a green light at sunset was noticed and commented upon by the ancient Egyptians and more particularly so because in the clear air of Egypt the tints of sunset are peculiarly distinct.

As the sun there descends nearer and nearer to the horizon and is im- mensely enlarged and taming it sud- denly becomes for an instant a bril- liantly green color, and immediately a series of green rays suffuses the sky in

many directions, well night to the ze- |

nith. ‘he same phenonienon appears at

sunrise, but to a smaller extent. Some- |

times, just as the last part of the sun's disk vanishes, its color changes from green to blue, and so also after it has

disappeared the sky near the horizon |

often is green, while toward the zenith it is blue.

This was alluded to in Egyptian writings. Day was the emblem of life and night that of death, and the noc- turnal sun, being identified with Osiris,

| thus rendered Osiris king of the dead. | The setting sun was green; therefore Osiris, as the nocturnal! deity of the , dead, was painted greeu. The splendid | coflins of the bigh priests of Ammon frequently depict the green sun, and | the funeral deities are all colored | green, | There are innumerable Instances in

the Egyptian relics of representations |

relative to death being colored green. Yhe practice undoubtedly arose from the green tints of sunrise and sunset. The green sun disk is referred to 5,000 years ago in Egypt. ‘This ts the earll- est known buiman record of {ronoimica! phenomenon,

| Horse Butchers In France.

| French borse butchers are obliged to display a signboard showing the kind of meat they sell and are not al- lowed to trade in any other sort of meat except that of mules and don- keys. ‘They sometimes try to pass off

horsefiesh as that of dopkey’s on un- |

wary customers, because the latter is

considered to be more delicate in fla- |

| yor and therefore more choice, — &x- change.

Rather One Sided.

Mr. Pifle—What's your Idea of the | {nitiative and referendum? Mr. Pee- wee—It's the rule of our househald. Everything that's done must originate with my wife, and everything that oc- curs to me must be referred to ber for disapproval.—Chicago News.

| Indefinitely Postponed,

| “Pop, what's the millennium?”

| “It's a ttme coming, my son, when j there will be jobs enough tn every ad- ministration to go around among those who want ‘em.”~Baltimore American,

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Knew It by Heart. Klark—80 your wife read you a lee- i thre when you got home iast tight. Klubman~Read it? No, it was quite tmpromptu.<Boston Trauscript

It is at rest only |

an as- |

FUN FOR THE ROWDIES.

Revelries of the Mohocks In London In the Old Days. | Some curious particulars of the dan- | | cers of London streets in the old days are given in an article on “The Scow- }rers and the Mohocks” in a British ;magazine. The favorite practice of the | Scowrers was to inyade some tavern ~ jin the evening, drive out the cus- | tomers, ill treat the proprietor and bis | attendants, wreck the premises and, |nbove all, “roar.” Steele tells of the | | Mohocks, one of whose pastimes was to “inclose women in casks and roll them down the street.” In 1712 a roy- ‘al proclamation was issued offering a | reward of £100 for the apprebension of any Mohock. | | Soon after the accession of George | lV. to the throne in 1820 there was a — recrudescence, though in a milder | form, of Mohock rowdyism, and at- | tacks on the watch—"boxing the Char- | lies,” as the phrase went—once more | {became fashionable among the wilder | spirits of London. These revelries, | | however, were rudely disturbed by the \establishment in 1829 by Sir Robert | Peéf of an efficient body of police. | Yet again in early Victorian days | there was another Mohock outburst | ,under the auspices of the Marquis of | | Waterford, and once more knockers !and bell handles were wrenched off, | publie monuments injured, lights ex- | tinguished and crockery smashed. This |form of humor, however, was quite | wasted upon the local authorities, the marquis being promptly knocked down by a watchman and taken up halt | dead. The same authority tells us that | {n the following year he and some oth- ‘er men of fashion were convicted at | Derby assizes of trying to overturn a | caravan, screwing up a toll barkeeper }and painting houses and people red. | For these recreations they were fined | £100 apiece.

SHADOW OF THE MOON.

Its Rapidity of Motion as Shown In a Solar Eclipse.

Probably the fastest motion that man can perceive with his eyes is that of | the shadow of the moon across the

earth fn a solar eclipse. This rate ts | practically that of the moon in its or- | bit, which is about 2,000 miles an hour. | This is roughly half a mile a second. | Now, if a person were to be stationed /on a mountain whence he could see

for some miles he could actually watch | the approach of the shadow and keep | his eye on its edge. Of course the | shade would coyer the whole landscape |

| for any one person. From the testimony of many men | who have witnessed the phenomenon |

in such circumstances it is a terrible | \ power, if they possess uny, to prevent

and awe inspiring spectacle. Thus Forbes of Turin: “1 confess it was the most terrifying sight 1 ever saw. As always happens in the case of sudden, | silent, unexpected movements, | spectator confounds real and relative motion. I felt almost giddy for a mo- ment, as though the mussive building under me bowed on tbe side of the coming eclipse.” Another view fs de- scribed by Langley: “The brigbt cloud J] saw distinctly put out like a candle.

The rapidity of the shadow and the in-

| tensity produced a feeling that some-

thing material was sweeping over the

earth at a speed perfectly frightful. f

inyoluntarily listened for the rushing

noise of a mighty wind.”

There are, of course, many velocities greater than this that occur on the ‘earth, which, too, are measurable, such as the speed of light, which 1s 186,000 miles a second, and the speed of mole- H cules of hot gases, but they are not dl- | rectly perceptible to the human vision. | —Lawrence Hodges in Chicago Record- | Herald.

Transit of Venus,

| he transits of Venus came in pairs, with an interval of eight years be- tween them. A pair occurred in 1761 | and 1769 and again in 1874 and 1882. The whole of the twentieth century will pass without another transit. Not

| until the years 2004 and 2012 will pos- terity have the opportunity of witness- jing it. It was long supposed that transits of Venus over the sun's disk | afforded the only accurate method of | | determining the distance of the sun, | but latterly the speed of light has be-

| come the more favored method for that | | purpose.-New York American,

}

How He Lost His Dog. “I've lost me mine dachshund,” said la German resident of Brooklyn. | “Those dog catchers got bim.”

“Meybe dey have got him by der pound. How did they come to took him?’ asked his friend. | They took him by der yard,” re- plied the loser sadly.—New York Press. | | — Perhaps She Was Skeptical. | “Just my luck.”

“What's the matter now?". | “J promised my wife I'd be home at 10 o'clock last night.” |

“And couldn't make it, I suppose?”

“No; | got in at just 9:45, but she was sound asleep, and I failed to get | credit for it."—Detroit Free Press. {

The Other Way.

“If J were younger,” said the rich | old man, “I belleve 1 might win you for my wife.” i | “Yes,” replied the cold beanty, dreamily considering his sixty years, | | “or, say, fifteen or twenty years old: | | or."—Philadelphia Press.

peste BA is RO Continuous Performance, | Wigwag—My wife js a suffragette, | ®he Is going on the lecture platform, enpeckke-Hnuh! My wife doesn't need ny platform,—Phiiade!phia Record,

wale This world belongs to the energetic. ~ Emerson,

| the

the |

Problems For Parents to Decide.

Few questions perplex the conscien- tious parent more than the one pre- sented when a son or daughter reaches

marriageable age. In some in- stances, of course, there is no room for perplexity, because the choice suits all parties, but in the majority of cuses the parents have much to think about, Probably the mother is more perturbed than the father, but all parents who have the welfare of their children at heart must feel some anxiety when they arrive at a marriageable age.

The first anxious feelings arise over the choice which the son or daughter may make. Then comes the selection, and the parents wonder whether the future partner is or will prove suitable in the best sense of the word.

Suppose that the child be a daughter. The future husband is subjected to the mental process often called “taking stock of him’ and certain questions arise.

The parents, not blinded by love, as they are inclined to think their daugh-

ter is, are not altogether satisfied. Loving thelr daughter, they set up

ideals, and this young man is not quite what they expected; they are not able to explain exactly why, but somehow he falls short. His income is smaller than they think it should be, or he is very fond of sports, and they fear he will neglect his wife in favor of ath- letic pastimes; he is, perbaps, clever, but (like so many clever persons) rath- er erratic, and that means coming home to dinner at any time and mak- ing his wife unbappy by a constant series of little vexations. ‘They may object to his avocation, and they may also fancy that he is not really in love with the girl or that she herself ts sim- ply infatuated and will regret it quickly,

So they endeavor to exercise their right, as they say. The girl disputes their right, saying that she is the best judge; they cannot know as much about her sentiments as she does. It is she who has to take the consequences, good or bad; she believes that she will be happy with bim and that she has the right to decide.

Who shall decide? Can the parents do more than endeavor to reason calm- ly with her, or have they any right to exert their influence or their autocratic

| the marriage? If we examine similar \ instances we shall find that the par- ; ents have been right at times and that they have spoiled the girl's life at others.

Surely the situation is disturbing enough to make both sides ponder gravely. “The trouble is that the girl is not old or experienced enough to be able to reflect properly,” the parents would retort.

What is to be done? The best sug: gestion that can be made is that the young people should be asked to wait awhile before thinking of marringe or even of a fixed engagement, if that can be managed, and then let the girl see more of other men. If it is mere ine fatuation it will wear off.

The School Headache, The brain js such a delicate organ, 80 easily hampered in development, that

| when headache, which is, in a sense,

pain in the brain, is complained of it should receive immediate attention.

It may result from defective sight It may be adenoids. In such a case the growths in the nose and throat pre- vent the child from breathing in a suf- ficient quantity of oxygen, and the brain is irritated by the defective qual- ity of the blood. The adenoids should be treated or removed, Overstrain or brain fag can be counteracted by regu- lating lessons and providing more rest and sleep.

Hendache due to digestive disorders or anaemia is treated by careful diet, exercise and plenty of fresh air, Sweets, rich dishes, fatty, greasy foods, tea und coffee should be given up, at least till the child’s health equilibrium is re-established, Meals should be light and easily digested. It may be neces- sary to put the child on a milk diet for a time, in which case a tumblerful of milk should be given at each meal, with such a simple dish as custard, soft boiled eggs, a litUle fish with thin bread and butter, until the digestive system is restored to its norma! working tone,

The teeth should not be overlooked in investigating the cause of ill health in the schoo! child, Not only should they be carefully examined and attended to, but care should be taken that the child thoroughly chews every bite of food,

Exercise For Children. Children should be encouraged to play games that exercise every mus- ele. They should have jumping ropes,

| geesaws, swings, battledore and shut-

tlecock, tennis and basketball, Par- evts and purses should play with them. Fathers who form ball teams

or football elevens among the boys of the neighborhood will have healthier

children apd will feel better them-

| selves.

Awateur track meets under the pa

' rental eye, even in a back yard, are

good ways of helping children to exer- cise. There can be jumping contests, weight lifting, trapeze and swings and punching bag.

Children can be formed into walking clubs, and even small boys and girla may be encouraged to do a cera g@wmount of daily sprinting.

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THE HUSTLER. CAYLEY, ALBERTA.

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HEADS HARBOR BOARD..,.."°

W. G. ROSS IS AN OUTSTANDING

FIGURE IN MONTREAL,

New Chief of Commissioa

In Come

BESSEMER CENTENARY.

A DISAPPOINTED SHAH,

son aoeea s wcovwe) AUTH ABOUT BENNETT |." Anniversary. | Lae English Royal Garden. January 13 was the centenary of the / ENGLISH AUTHOR HAS HAD A tn his book of memories Major-Gen, birth of Sir Henry Bessemer, com: | REMARKABLE CAREER, ,8ir Owen Tudor Burns tells a story monly referred to as the inventor of | ‘of the first visit of a shah to Great tiie Bessemer process of making steel, | i

by which process steel is produced 80, cheaply that it can be used for

mercial Metropolis Used to Be a) rails, bridges, skyscrapers, warships, Star Bicycle Rider Before He Went) cars and many other purposes. Into Business — Passed Through

Street Railway Offices Till

Reached the Top.

He

Greatest interest in the recent ap- pointment of a new harbor commis.

sion for Montreal chairman, Mr. W. G. Ross. commonly as ‘Willie’ Ross, which title, as his position became more more prominent, was dropped for the more formal “W. G.”

I Lave a_ recollection of seeing photographs of W. G. Ross with enough medals on his chest to drown a man, says a writer in Toronto Sat. urday Night. These emblems of 6uperiority related to the athletic field, more especially, I think, to bicycle riding and perhaps running, At any rate, Le was a star bicvele

w. G. rider, and, some of the rest of his family could run, all of them being athletes One brother held the record on everything up to a mile and re- tired with it. I think they were, and are all members of the M.A.A.A.

G. got some of his early experi- ence in his father’s office, he having associated himself with him long about 1880. Some eight years later he became secretary-treasurer of the Windsor Hote!. Mr. George Iles, a well known literary character, was then manager, and associated was also Mr. George Swett, who, they say

ROSS,

could call all the guests by their first |

names, After some four years with

the Windsor, he got Mr. James Ross—of

another family

altogether—who was interesting him- |

self in the street railway system of the city of Montreal, and ere long was in the employ of the company In the street railway there was no end of opportunity to employ his

capacities, and he rose from one post to another until he became chief executive officer. He became comp-

troller of the system in 1895 and later an suceeedal to the position of secre- tary-treasurer. Mr, F. L. was then general manager, and ere very long retired to accept another appointment. Mr, Ross then succeed-

into touch with |

Wanklyn |

centred in the Until a few years ago he was known quite

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| | |

ed to this vacancy and became, as al- |

ready stated, the head of the system

It was along about this time that control of the railway passed out of the lands of James Ross and _ into the hands of Senator Forget and his friends. W. G. Ross remained at the head of the concern throughout Sen- ator Forget’s regime as_ pres#ent, and only retired about the close of 1910, shortly after the Robert-McCon-

nell interests, which had just put through the Canadian Light and Power deal, swept control of the

Montreal Street Railway out of the hands of Senator Forget and about the work of reorganization of the present Montreal Tramways Co., or the Montreal Tramways and Power.

After resigning his position, Mr. Ross took a trip abroad, remaining away many months, i he lias not taken a very prominent part in any of the business deals be-

ing effected in Montreal, save that |

when the Amalgamated Asbestos fiasco got to its worst and a reorgan- ization became necessary, he was

asked to accept the presidency of the new eoncern, known as the Asbestos Corporation of Canada, Ltd. To this hie consented, and has been paying clore attention to the affairs of the company in the hope of bringing it safely through after its many musad- ventures,

When the question of the new harbor board began to be discussed in Montreal circles, it was not long

til! the name of W. G. Ross was men- |

tioned, It must have been no small satisfaction to him to note the man- ner in which the suggestion was re- ceived, He is said to be a first-class accountant, which involves the pos- seasion of powers of analysis, and in addition thereto to be possessed of first-rate executive ability, For all of these he will have much use dur- ing the coming few years’ work on the harbor board, Mr. Ross is in the prime of life, being now just fifty

years of age.

Destiny of the Stuarts.

The figures 88” play a weird part in the rise and fall of the Stuarts. James IU, was killed in flight near P.unnockburn in 1488, Mary Stuart was beheaded in 1588, James II. of Eng- land was dethroned in 1688, Charles Edward died in 1788 and James Stuart, the ‘Old Pretender,” was born in 1688, the very year that his father abdicated,

Islands of Leisure.

Between the Island of Madagascar and the coast of India there are 16,000 is!ands, only 600 of which are inhabit- ed. In most of these islands a man can live and support his family in luxury without working more than tw:..ty-five days in the year, or at all, @ nature provides the food, and no clothes are required,

| regards elephants, are most

went |

Since his return, |

Henry Bessemer was English born, the son of a French artist, and he re- the type foundry of his father. At 18 he went up to London, a raw country youth, to make his fortune. His first invention was an improved method of | stamping deeds, or a process for copy-

ing bas-reliefs on cardboard, by which

| he could produce embossed copies of and such works in thousands at a small

expense. “The process was so simple that in ten minutes a person without skill could produce a die from an em- bossed stamp at a cost of one penny.” It was a process by which any office boy with average intelligence could forge almost all the expensive stamps affixed to documents, and it was from the sale of these stamps that the English Government obtained an im- portant part of its revenue, the stamps often selling for $25. A large busi- ness was then being carried on in the sale of second hand stemps, by which the Government was losing about half a million dollars a year. After several months’ experiments Bessemer pro- duced a stamp which could neither be forged nor removed from the docu- ment. He had an interview with the

| chief of the stamp office, and, owing

to the perforation feature of Besse-

|} mer’s stamp, which did away with

forgery and removal, the commission- er agreed to adopt it, offering the young man a sum of money, or an office for life at $4,000 a year.

Then young Bessemer went on his way rejoicing. He was engaged to he married, and gleefully he told his fiancee his good fortune, and explain- ed to her the merits of his invention, how it was impossible with it to use a stamp a second time.

“Yes, I understand that; but, sure- ly, if all stamps had a date put upon them they could not at a future time be used again without detection.”

When he communicated the new idea to the chief of the stamp depart- ment, it was accepted, and Bessemer lost his job, and according to James Parton, he never received compensa- tion for the service, an injustice which embittered his whole life, and caused him to be henceforth most ag gressive in protecting his rights

Parton classifies Bessemer among his “captains of industry’’; Sarah K. Bolton, among “poor boys who be- came famous’’; Andrew Carnegie, as one of the 21 ‘world movers,” who have done things that have improved

the conditions of mankind. There is

) doubt that he was one of the great- est inventive geniuses that the world has ever known, having 120 patents to his credit, among them machine, a bronze powder process, a sugar making process, a glass polish- er, a ventilator, a telephone improve- ment, improvement in machinery, a revolving projectile, a method of compressing into a solid block the graphite from which lead pencils are made, a system of rollers for embossing and

and a ship with stationary cabin,

which latter is the only notable fail- |

ure in his long list of achievements.

African Ivory Smugglers.

Ivory smuggling is looked upo as a very serious crime in British East Africa, and this is only as it should be, for in order to secure the ivory the traders have to kill great numbers of elephants, The game preservation laws, particularly as severe, and woe betide the man who is caug’t breaking the game regulations or in possession of illicit spoils of the chase. The smuggling of ivory therefore is treated in the same man- ner as emugging gems and clothing into the United States, illicit diamond buying in South Africa, or other forms of smuggling in England. The rigid laws, however, do not prevent the \rabs and Indians from indulging in an illegal trade in ivory on a large scale.—Wid2 World,

When Tea Was Not Popular.

A description of a model country |

rector’s household in a journal of 1753 shows that tea drinking was then far from general:

“His only article of luxury is tea, but the doctor says he would forbid that, if his wife could forget her Lon- don education, However, they seldom offer it but to the best company, and

less than a pound will last them a |

twelvemonth.”

A few years prior to this the Female Spectator declared that the tea table “cost more to support than would maintain two children at nurse. the utter destruction of all economy,

the bane of good housewifery, and the |

source of idleness,”’—London Chron-

licle,

Matter of Fact Lovemaking.

For downright prose, Dr. Johnson's offer of hand and heart to his second wife would be hard to beat. “My dear woman,” said Johnson, “I am a hard- working man and withal something of » philosopher. I am, as you know, very poor. I have always been re- spectable myself, but I grieve to tell you that one of my uncles was hang- od.” “I have less money than you, loctor,” demurely answered the lady “but I shall. try to be philosophica too. None of my relatives has ever been hanged, but I have several who ught to be.” ‘Providence and phil- »sophy have evidently mated us, my vood woman,” said the doctor as he sressed a chaste salute upon the lady’s OW,

Lord Bacon’s Dream,

Lord Bacon, the wisest of mankind, was superstitious and had firm faith on “signs and tokens.” When in Paris le dreamed that he saw the family home in England covered with blac mortar, and he insisted that it was a sign of death, In due time he received the announcement of the death of his fathe~, who had passed away the night of the dream,

ceived his mechanical instruction in |

a velvet |

type-casting |

printing paper, |

It is |

Britain. His First Literary Success Was the | tag repeat 8 ave “ ran A with , r much anxious | oka” Me ante In a Popular thought and consultation with Lord eekly ompetition and Since Queensberry an innocent glove fight Theat Time He Has Gone on Stead- was arranged in the Buckingham ily Winning Laurels In Every Palace stables, to take place quietly Branch of His Art. half an hour before the shah was to jreceive Lord Shaftesbury and the About twenty-three years ago Lon- | archbishops and bishops with a me- don was invaded by a young, unso- morial asking him to protect the in- phisticated provincial, who could not terests of the Christians in Persia. make up his mind what particular! But the shah slept late. The prize- nice in the world he could most con- | fighters overlapped the prelates, A veniently fill, He had tried decora. | footman made a mistake in opening tive art, but did not make much pro- the door. Archbishops and_ bishops gress beyond reducing to speechless- | following the shah in a moment found ness professional house-decorators who themselves more or less in a ring inspected his designs for friezes and round the two prizefighters. The dadoes. He had dabbled in literature bishops hustled back to the reception for local papers; wrote startling ser- roori, the fight w.s stopped, the shah ials which no one would print, and was angry and disappointed, and paragraphs and articles which editors Lord Shaftesbury +was heard shout were pleased to publish, but not to ing: “A prizefight in the garden of the

pay for. He had also endeavored to queen’s palace forsooth! I will de- follow in the footsteps of his father,

‘nounce you all over the kingdom!” | Mutual explanations followed, the matter was set right, we sent special messages to the reporters to keep it out of the press, and I was later on privileged to explain it all to the Queen, who took the matter much more calmly than her Lord Chamber- lain, Once back, however, inside Buckingham Palace, we all smoothed our ruffled feathers and listened to a most gloomy oration from Lord ' Shaftesbury.

_The shah, angry at the interrup- tion of his prizefight, turned round to Sir Henry Rawlinson and growled in Persian: “Hang the Christians in | Persia! Tell them they’re all right!” Rawlinson translated that into a long, eloquent, beautiful reply to the depu- tation, while doubtless the disappoint- ed boxers were having a consolation scrap im the stables. Lord Shaftes- bury did not denounce them, though the shah’s bear leaders lived in ter- ror for some days. | The Lord Chamberlain blamed me, I blamed the shah, the shah *lamed the equerry, the equerry blamed the footman, the footman blamed every oy one all round, and we gave the a Hanley solicitor, Legal work brought | prizefighters $25 a piece, with a reso-

ARNOLD BENNETT,

him in enough to live on, so he de- | Jution written in blood that never cided to stick to the law, and at would: any of us again arrange a

twenty-one was earning a modest com- petence of $6.25 a week as a short- hand clerk in a London solicitor’s office.

A natural aptitude for phases of legal work, ‘‘and an equally natural gift for advancing my own interests,” as this young man has

| prizefight, even for a shah of shahs, in a royal palace garden,

ae Fortune's Darling. certain'} .,. ; : | This is how they style the Right | Hon, George Wyndham, one of the |most virile of the Opposition Front-

: r | benchers i se ’ 3 since confessed, ere long increased enchers in the House of Commons. Handsome and conspicuously smart--

that salary to $1,000 a year. ’

He again, however, in spite of this | thoug’. he has by no means been able admittedly good salary for the work eet A own way in public ie he was. doing, became jnfected with |*“'. Wyndham possesses, @ periedt the literary germ, and that germ de- pmaste ry of the grand manner, and he veloped into a disease when “the most | '8.'"' step-father of the Duke of West. | popular of all popular weeklies’ of- minster, Onee he dar oh Biiogt’s

fered a prize of twenty guineas for the ye nny every the Ww ti On, bay 4

best humorous condensation, in 2,000 A) "e's SOresary BY ee. Svar aren

, J Chief Secretary for Ireland,

words, of a serial which had been Whilst holding the latter thorny post jPublished in. its columns. he piloted the Land Act of 1903 Reig story bitin Rd Ah through the Commons, and_ boldly mo tl i Dine nar ak . iat’s Bred jade Sir Anthony MacDonnell, a | in the Bone,” and the young man (stholic Home Ruler, his Permanent

who tried for and eventually carried Under-Secretary. He has been in the

| off the twenty-guinea prize, was Mr. Arnold Bennett, now one of the world’s most famous dramatists, | whose brilliant novels, plays, and es- | says have placed him among the most influential writers of the day. On both | sides of the Atlantic his work has achieved a popularity which is all the | more amazing when one considers that | it is only twelve years ago since he | began to devote himself exclusively | to literature. | That twenty guineas was Mr. Ben- nett’s first pen money, and the prize

Coldstreams, rides regularly to hounds and is a profound Shakespearian scholar. Still under fifty, Mr. George Wyndham married the Countess Grosvenor and got himself elected for Dover in 1889, and everybody expects that he will come into high offiee again when the Unionists revert to power. He has a seat on the board of the Chatham and Dover Railway, and holds the burgesses of the chief of the Cinque Ports, so to speak, in the hol- low of his elegant hand.

brought to him visions of literary shoe | fame, although it is safe to affirm Jersey Lily’s Mascot.

Lady De Bathe has a perfect pas- sion for turquoises, and among her many jewels the charming actress- sportswoman possesses one particular gem which has a very peculiar history indeed,

Some years ago—she was Lillie Langtry then—Lady De Bathe was staying in Venice, Always particularly fond of swimming, she was enjoying a dip one morning in the Lido when she saw something at her feet through the clear depths of the blue water.

Down she dived deftly, and brought immediately thereafter to the surface an exquisite specimen of a Persian turquoise. Thereupon she engraved an amatory message in the language of the sunny Eastern Jand.

She had it set, and has ever since worn the stone round her neck sus- pended by a thin golden chain, What- ever luck has fallen to her in the theatre, on the turf, or otherwise, its fuir owner attributes to her strangely found mascot,

that even in his wildest flights of | fancy he never pictured himself at- | taining the reputation he possesses | to-day. The prize whetted his appe- tite for literary work. After some time in journalism, Mr. Bennett wrote his | first novel, ““A Man From the North,” | which brought in very little money. By no means discouraged, however, he wrote, during the next eight years, | a series of novels, among which were | his masterpieces, “Anna of the Five | Towns,” ‘‘The Old Wives’ Tale,” and

|

| “Clayhanger.” | The only objection some people have to Mr. Bennett's novels is that they are somewhat too long, and some of his admirers chaffed him unmerciful- , ly when they entertained him at din-| | ner recently. A hundred or more | literary clebrities and others sat down to dinner, and afterwards one of them got up and said: lave enjoyed trying to read | your books, Mr. Bennett. I year ago I started ‘Clayhanger,’ and I propose | to finish it.” | While yet another literary celebrity | spoke of the feelings in one’s heart on | finishing a “sprightly little novelette

Curious Perquisites of Royalty.

of the realm the King of Great Britain

Story of a Prizefight In an Scene of Oriemat Splendor Puts All

It appears that by a curious statute |

of 700,000 words, only to be informed at the close of the volume that this | is but a preliminary canter towards | another novelette somewhat larger, | that would dea] with the descendants of the first book’s characters.” And | there was no one in the gathering who | enjoyed the chaff more than Mr, Ben- nett himself,

Miss, Mrs. and Mistress.

“Miss” is an abbreviation of ‘‘mis- | tress,” which, as an English law dic- | tionary explains is the proper style of | th wife of an esquire or a gentleman, | By Dr. Johnson's time it had become | “the term of honor to a young girl.” | In the earliest part of the eighteenth / century, however, it was used respect- ‘fully of girls below the age of ten |alone, After that age “miss” was rude, implying giddiness of behavior, In Smollett’s writings an unmarried woman of mature years and her maid ! are both “Mrs.” It is certain that ' “miss” has grown older, so to speak, | while “master” has become confined _ to boys,

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/ India’s Rice Crop. | About 35 | acreage in |The average crop exceeds 23,000,000 | tons,

r cent. of the cultivated Dunshaughlin, Ireland, recentl ritish India is under rice,‘ age of 116, He drank heavily

i

and Ireland is entitled to every stur- | geon landed in the United Kingdom, |

The King has also the right to the head of every whale caught off the coasts of his kingdom,

The tail of the whale is the Queen's

perquisite, the object of this curious | division being that her majesty shall | always be well supplied with whale- |

hone, although singularly enough, the whalebone is the King’s half.

Among other strange perquisites of England’s rulers are a pair of white doves, a pound of cumin seed, a pair of searlet hose and a silver needle from his tail

Like a St. Bernard. One of the happiest compliments ever paid to Gladstone was Lord Houghton’s.

“T haven't seen you for ages. I live |

the life of a dog.” said the hard worked statesman.

“Yes,” St. Bernard, the savior of men,”—

London Chronicle,

Broke All the Rules, Too, Mickey Smith, a basket maker and cattle drover, died in the poorhouse at at the and smoked constantly, He was married three times,

said Lord Houghton, “of a |

ARABIAW NIGHTS BAD,

Previous Evforts In Shade,

The Arabian Nights Ball, held not ag She at the Royal Opera House, in London, proved a magnificent spec- tacular entertainment, Fat meeting West in the barbaric splendor of rich Oriental robes, and in the overwhelm. ing mad Carnival of the Farandole, danced for the first time in London, sented in the kaleidosecpie scene.

Ladies of the harem, fair beauties

from Kashmir, contemporary belles of Bagdad, mingled with ancient warriors of the Samurai, Maharajahs,

Caliphs, Grand Viziers, numerous Mikados, Siamese merchants, and | princes of old Japan,

It was established beyond a doubt that Englishwomen look well in any guise, for although. well-known Lon- {don beauties baffled identification in many cases, it was generally admitted that they wore Turkish dress with especial charm and elegance, and the , fascinations of the yashmak never ap- peared so tantalizing.

Moorish dress was the most popular 'and a glance from the high boxes | showed the fine effects of the judicious | mingling of gold and black among bizarre colorings.

Some of the London-manufactured | Eastern Princes were not altogether RAN in the shade by the real Mahara- | jah of Jhalawar, who wore his finest | state robes encrusted with gems worth ja king’s ransom, the very brocaded underdress being identical with that {which he wore at the Imperial Dur- | bar a year ago. Turbans covered the

heads of all but a few of the men,

and, with the long robes, gave an

| appearance of increased height to the

| dancers, Shortly after

y midnight the even- ing’s entertainment culminated in the much-talked-of ‘‘Farandole,” a rollicking old Spanish dance. To the tune of a thirteenth century air of Province a procession of eight gor- geously attired Eastern maids and men Jed the way round the bal] room headed by Espinosa, the sprightly Spanish dancer, who encouraged his followers by waving a ribbon-hung baton.

Arriving at a second group of dan- cers they invited them to join the chain and so on, til] everyone on fhe | dancing floor became so infected with | the spirit of jollity inspired by the gay tune that, willy-nilly, they joined in the romp.

For romp indeed it was—around the promeniors, among the boxes, up and down the perilous staircases, the dan- cers wound their way—the pace in- creasing as the tunes changed—now more leisurely to the simple measured beats of the familiar old nursery rhyme, “Sur le Point d’Avignon,” and furiously fast as the endless pro- cession returned to the ballroom to

t Every quarter of Asia was repre- |

the singing of ‘‘Everybody’s doing it,” the rag-time melody of the mo- ment,

Exhausted and breathless, the chain broken in many places, the Farandole terminated in a graceful tableau, all | the men dancers prostrating themsel- ves on the ground at the feet of their | fuir partners. |

Wandering Indian Acrobats.

The wandering acrobats of India are recruited from a low caste of people called Dombaranos, who live by this profession alone. The child- ren are trained from their earliest | childhood and do not receive any edueation in schools.

They travel from village to town and give their performances, which are really wonderful, in the open air be- fere crowds of onlookers. Their} tricks are quaint and sometimes | | astonishingly clever,

Supported by one another, these |} men will balance themselves in a | crazy kind of pyramid rising 15 or 20 | feet from the ground, and one of | their number will then climb this} | living pyramid with a heavy weight im | his teeth,

Babies not yet able to walk are} often seen being made use of in the| most dangerous manner during these performances. Rajahs and rich In-| dians are very fond of the acrobatic | displays, and engage the best of the | men to perform before their guests at. | entertainments.

Winston's Joke.

| The First Lord of the Admiralty , was apprised that a very dear friend was down with appendicitis. Mr. Churchill was about to write a note of sympathy for despatch by messen- ger -traightaway, when word came that the attack had proved to be one of a ute indigestion only,

| of Embassy at

Greatly relieved, the ‘‘ruler of the | King’s Navee”’ worded his letter thus: |

‘‘Dear——, I am very sorry to learn | that you are ill; that the trouble is | with the table of contents rather than with the appendix,” |

Mr, Churehill’s friend, who dabbled in literature, simply roared on treading this, and having been properly dosed | up by his doctor was quickly all right | again,

Great Auk’s Eggs Down,

The price of eggs of the Great Auk, | despite their scarcity—there are but! 73 in existence, and the Great Auk is | | extinet—is going down along with that | | of the barnyard product. Two Great Auk’s eggs were recently sold in Lon- don. One went for about $800 and | the other for 10 guineas less, The | first one was sold in 1894 for consider. | ably over $900,

The best price record ever made dy an Auk egg appears to have been in| | 1888 by one belonging to Sir J. H. | Greville Smyth, and now in the| | Bristol) Museum. Some fanatic paid | $1,125 for it.—

Longest Straight Railroad,

The longest stretch of rai.way in the world without a curve is in New Zealand, where there is a line of rail- way, a part of which stretches for a distance of 136 miles in a perfectly straight line. This fact is remarkable | when it is taken into consideration ' that New Zealand is one of the most | difficult countries in the world for |

railwa,, construction, as it is very | mountainous, necessitating sharp

curves and very Beavy grades,

|STORY OF THE VICEROY

| LorD HARDINGE WAS KING ED.

WARD'S OWN DIPLOMAT,

The Ruler of India, Who Was Wounds ed In Delhi Recently, Accompan- fed the Peacemaker on His Cele. brated Tour and Later Did Imes portant Work In St. Petersburg— _ Entcred the Service In 1880.

The steady improvement in the health of Lord Hardinge, Viceroy of. India, who was wounded by a mal- content while entering Delhi in state recently, is a matter of congratulation, beg b> eds the British rage

Lord Hardinge became Viceroy of India in 1910 in succession to d Minto. As Sir Charles Hardinge, he had already made for himself a great reputation in diplomacy. He was the Minister chosen to accompany the late King Edward on his famous peacemaking tour of Europe in 1903, and later, as Ambassador at St. Pet- ersburg, he played an important part in the settlement of Anglo-Russian disputes and the creation of the exist- ing entente between the two coun- ries.

Son of the second Viscount Har- dinge, brother of the present holder of the title, and grandson of a former Governor-General of the great Depen- dency, Charles Hardinge was born in June, 1858, and is, therefore, in his fifty-fifth year. After a brilliant career at Cambridge he entered the diplomatic service in 1880, his first appointment being to Constantinople, where he had the good fortune to serve as private secretary to Lord Dufferin, then Amabssador. Berlin in 1884, Washington in the following year, and Sofia in 1887 were his next steps, and as Charge d’Affaires he negotiated treaties at Bucharest. Af- ter three years in Paris he became Secretary of Legation in Teheran, where he added to his mastery of the Turkish language a knowledge of Persian. From the post of Secretary

VICEROY OF INDIA

St. Petersburg, to which he was appointed in 1898, he was recalled in 1903 to take up the position of Assistant-Secretary for For- eign Affairs.

In the following year the young diplomatist was created K.C.M.G. and K.C.V.O., and returned to St. Peters- burg as Ambassador to the Russian court. His appointment to a position of such importance at the age of forty- five was probably unique. But his qualifications for the post were also exceptional, They were referable to his previous experience of the Rus- sian capital and of Paris and Tehe- ran, as well as to his intimate asso- ciation with the master diplomat, King Edward. The sequel to his Am-

| bassadorship was the agreement con-

three years later, by which Great Britain and Russia composed ancient and dangerous differences concerning their respective spheres of influence in Asia.

In February, 1906, Sir Charles sue- ceeded Sir Thomas (now Lord) San- derson as Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. In the same year he accompanied King Ed- ward on the visits to Athens and Friedrichshof, and was also his Ma- jesty’s Minister in attendance in 1907 at Wilhe'mshohe and Ischl; in 1908 at Copenhagen, Stockholm, Chris- tiania, Friedrichshof, and Ischl; while in February, 1909, he was again called upon to attend the King dur- ing his visit to the German Emperor in Berlin. On his appointment to be Viceroy of India, Sir Charles, who has been the recipient of a great many titular distinctions, was raised to the peerage as Baron Hardinge of Pens- hurst,

There is only one case on record of the actua] assassination of a Viceroy of Iidia—the Karl of Mayo being fat- ally stabbed by @ prisoner in 1872 during a visit to a convict settlement. The murder had no political motive, but during recent years, as a result of

cluded

‘the unrest which followed the parti-

tion of Bengal, the life of a Viceroy has been aimed at on more than one occasion, :

In Noveinber, 1909, an outrage oc- curred which presents a remarkable parallel to the recent attempt. Lord Minto was making a tour of India, and during a procession through Ah- jmedabad two bombs were thrown at his carriage. One was cleverly in- tercepted by the sabre of a sergeant of the Tnniskilling Dragoons; the other hit the umbrella which was being heid over Lady Minto and fell harm- less to the ground, The culprits were never discovered, although “ped men was sent to penal servitude for giving false information to the police.

Lord Minto’s predecessor, Lord Cur- wou, it appears was also once in peril. our men were deputed to kill Lord Curzon as he was passing in the Deihi Durbar of 1891, t the courage of the conspirators failed at the last moment,

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_ AN OUTLAWED CANINE,

Timid by Day, Coyote Can Fight Well When Cornered.

~Skulking along the hillside, pose ng J throu the canyon, the coyote is a lonely, rather a fig- ure in the light of day, hated and humiliated, despised and despoiled hunted and shot at, with a price upon his head, an outlaw without redress. But when the darkness of night has settled over the land, then s he ather courage as he prowls along

the trails or through the brush. Tak- ing bie station on a hilltop, he yelps and howls defiance at. the ranchman’s ng dogs, at the tr an

fhimself and his men, and all whom |

in the light of day he has so feared, but whom he now challenges and

he in the safety of the dark night tilts. Bo vociferous, so multifarious, #0 penetrating is his clamor that the listener is to believe that there is dozen or more of him voicing his dndependence, his contempt and his resentment, instead of one lone, soli- tary animal who but a few hours. be- fore feared to raise his voice ab ve e@ whisper.

The coyote is a species of wolf, evi- |

dently a link between the wolf and the . He has the cunning of the wolf, the intelligence of the dog, and

in spite of his reputation of a coward he has the co trage int up & good

t when cornered. He is exceed- ingly fleet of foot and seems to real- ize a..d appreciate the fact. On it he depends for safety, and pursued by dogs, knowing his superior pedal ad- vantages, he seems to take pleasure in tolling them on. He will lead them a merry chase through the brush and over the hills, and when weary—or likely long before— will stop in some spot where the view of the chase is good, and wait and watch his pur- suers with a smile of contempt and derision on his face. The time comes for some of his pack, however, when the dogs get him at a disadvantage, but thus cornered he will make a gal- Jant fight with teeth and claws, and some, if not al!, of the dogs will learn that they have no mean adversary to «contend with.

At one time, some years ago, the coyote was hunted by horsemen and hounds, as the fox is hunted in other places. Packs of fine grayhounds were kept for that purpose, though foxhounds were also used, -years the cutting up of a great deal of territory into small ranches, and the ‘building of towns and villages has put an end to organized coyote hunts with horses. Near the towns the coyote stays well back in the hills during the daytime and only descends into the valleys when darkness has obscured the land and he may in its friendly shelter enter the precincts of man un- noticed. Then is he stealthy, making no noise, for he realizes his danger, and knows that if he would be safe the must be quiet,

A Storm From Above the Clouds.

The view of a stormcloud from above is one of the most interesting sights ever beheld Pe pus stins man, A bieuss viewed from above th ; appearance of ebaititiok Phe eae r surface of the cloud is b»lged upward sand outward and has the resemblance

of a vast sea of boiling, upheaving |

snow. Immediately above the storm- cloud the air is not so cold as it is in the clearer atmosphere above or in the cloud itself. The falling of the rain ean be distinctly heard, making

noise like a waterfall over a precipice. |

‘The thunder heard above a storm- «loud is not loud, and the flashes of lightning appear like streaks of in- ‘tensely white light on the gray color- ed vapor,

A Banknote 4,009 Years Old, Banknotes have been current in Europe only within the last three centuries, but the Chinese have used them for over 4,000 years, The Asiatic museum at St. Petersburg has ac-

quired a banknote issued in Pekin in|

the year 2800 B.C., in many respects similar to those now in use. It is of thick white paper, inscribed in blue

ink, with the number of the note, the,

name of the bank and the date of ‘issue, the cashier's signature and the -value in words as well as in figures. In addition the following sage coun- sel is engraved round the border: “However much you may possess, #trive to be thrifty.”

Agreed With Her.

After an all night session with the ‘boys, a husband wended his way home, arriving there at about 5 a.m. He found his wife waiting for him in

the ening room, the confusion of furniture indicated that she had been hav an unhappy time.

coming home!’ snapped the wife.

“Yes,” admitted the erring hus- band; “‘it’s a lovely morning.”

“I haven’t slept a wink this blessed night!” with a severe look,

“Neither have I,’’ said the husband.

Why a Cat’s Eyes Shine In the Dark.

A cat’s eyes shine in the dark not because they produce light, but be- cause they reflect all the light that may reach them. If the cat is in a totally dark room one cannot see its eyes; it is only when there is at least

The cat’s eyes is a powerful lens with a reflector behind. This gathers the rays and concentrates them in a hori- zontal beam. It is possible that these ebiping eyes exercise a sort of hyp- motic fascination over mice and rats.

Properly Situated. “They may say what they

like

defender,

right place. "Yes,” assented the other, “and so fa the rest of him for a few years,”

“but his heart is in the

The Primer of Love.

In recent |

“This is a nice time for you to be _ of greater or less importance scienti-| the Servian army is the manner in once, I know a little of German my-

' forty.

| a against him,” said the convicted one’s | }am,” retorted the exasperated atten-

HAREM SY3TEM OF morocco, |

i Public Libraries Have Done Away Her Great Natural Resources Await Louis XIV., @ Grasping Doctor a

Cruelty and Oppression Almost Be- yond Human Imagination.

Remarkable revelations of the ex- tent of the Moorish slave trade and of harem life were made recently by Mme. Legey, a French doctor, who lives at Marrakesh, Morocco. That place is the centre of Morocco slavery and there is a great slave market au- thorized and controlled by the Makh- zen, the Moorish parliament, thou- sands of men, women and children are bought and so!d like cattle. Ba- bies are frequently torn from the arms of sobbing mothers, who never see them again.

“None can form an idea of the Moor- ish harem and the number of women concealed behind the walls,” says Mme Legey. “' have seen a sing harem of more than 500 women. Mono- gamy, in Morocco, is non-existent, even men of small means possessing sometimes more than 20 wives.

“The Sultan’s harem surpasses the imagination. Besides the women he posecsers at Fez, he has at Marrakesh n reserve more than 3,000 females, The royal harem at Marrakesh has a special organization of its own, Each town and each tribe has its debt to pay in women to this modern Mino- taur. The women are classed accord- ing to their place of origin. They live in groups in separate pavilions under the control of female wardens, This enormous female gags is is con- stantly added to by the contributions from Kaids who have offended the Sultan and wish to propitiate him.

“T can personally testify to the si- lent misery of the poor creatures who swarm in the Moorish harems and the revoltingly cruel treatment they un- dergo for the smallest offences. They have absolutely no real protection | from the most savage treatment. They ‘ have no work to do except in the case ‘of domestic servants, and in accord- | ance with Moorish traditions, receive | no education. There lives are one long

‘from, to my knowledge, they suffer | cruelly. It is the duty of France as | soon as possible to abolish slavery in Moroceo. Then the harems will be de- | prived of the supply of women and will disappear gradually, as was the case in Algeria.” ;

Better Than the ‘Verses.” -

Children, as a rule, have a natural | sense of courtesy too often misunder- | stood or depreciated by the unthinking | adult. For some strange and incom- prehensible reason the child who is brusque and blunt is apt to be dubbed “natural,’’ while the budding man or | woman of gentle tact and sweet polite- | ness sometimes is discouraged by the | prevailing belief that such conduct

must be insincere. Yet the simplest

“little citizens’? not infrequently rise

to an unexpected or trying situation

with surprising, but quite untutored, gifts and grace, A pretty little tale | 's told, for instance, of the time when | the present Dowager Queen Margher- ita of Italy was the lovely young bride of the youthful crown prince. Her majesty, passing through one pot the hill towns, was accorded the

usual reception by the residents. A | little boy was to present the usual | bouquet, and he, coming of fine liter-

poem offering graceful praise of the’

| princess. But when the moment came | for delivering flowers and verses the

little fellow, overcome by nervousness |

; or some similar emotion, stood mute-

| ly gazing at the great lady, saying

| never a word, After a few moments the sympathetic princess, seeking to re- lieve the situation, extended her hand for the flowers.

The little fellow, waking to life sud- | denly, yielded them gracefully, ex- plaining confidentially the while:

“There were verses to be said, but you are so beautiful that I can’t re- member a line!’’

Greedy Dogfish.

four anglers were occupied with one fish, a big mackerel. It took the bait of one of them and then proceeded to entangle the four lines, so that it seemed there were four fish. I dare say it came in for some hard sayings when the truth was made manifest. ' But it is not uncommon for fish to ' take two different baits, IT have known | it to happen with both perch and | pike. Dogfish, of course, will often | do it. In fact, I doubt if there is a

‘limit to the number of baits a dog-

fish would take if you only gave him the baits and the time and the oppor- tu‘nity.-London Telegraph.

A Rapid Heart Beat. Along with many other discoveries

fie r - have proved the law that the rapidity of the heart beat is in_in-

| verse ratio to an animal’s size, Thus

THE HUSTLER, CAYLEY, ALBERTA.

BULGARIA’S FUTURE,

_ SACRED MOUNT ATHOS

NO LONGER OWN BOOKS, | BLEEDING A KING,

| round of unbroken monotony, where- |

ary family, had been taught a brief.

Completely With Old-time Custom.

While the last decade has witnessed, an extraordinary growth in the nume ber of public libraries throughout the dag and while no one denies that these libraries confer many benefits they are no such unmitigated bless- \ings as many would have us believe, ‘argues a western publication. In the first place they are undermining the good old habit of owning books. Not, (of course, among the well-to-do; but _the well-to-do make relatively small use of public libraries. The usual plea is that most people cannot afford to buy books. This is flatly untrue, the fact is that the ubiquitous library has hilled the demand in this country

for editions of standard books at brett | :

opular prices. In France splendi

iterature volumes are sold at a uni- form rate of 25 centimes (four and'a | half cents.) In this edition one can

aay Homer complete for 27 cents, Milton’s Paradise Lost for 9, Descar- , tes’ Discourse on Method for 4 1-2, ‘and the works of over 100 other auth- ors at corresponding rates. In Ger- many one may buy nicely bound vol- umes of every conceivable of science and art at the rate of 19 cents a book. When a man can buy _the works of ‘a great philosopher for the 1 -ice of a glass of beer it is arrant ,1 -nsense to say that the public can- not afford books.

We are simply doing our best to ‘pauperize readers. They know that | they do rot need to buy books; a ben- | evolent fate will provide them gratis;

and so they go without. Our publish- ers find no real demand for editions at prices within the reach of every one, and naturally the editions are not forthcoming. The resulting evil is obvious. A man knows his own books as he can never know those of a lib- rary. The books he owns have

| double value to him; he has paid for.

them, which creates the pride of own- ership; and he has them always about | him which breeds familiarity. No im-

| pending fine compels him to hurry,

; when he wants to read slowly, | This pauperizing of readers is the

branch |

Proper Development.

The principal wealth of Bulgaria | to-day is in agriculture. The produc- tion of grain during the past twenty | years has assumed such proportions that Bulgaria, small as it is, is eighth

in the world’s cereal producing coun- | American machinery is in great |

tries. demand for farms, and one sees every- where American harvesters, mowers, windmills, traction engines and umps, They ure becoming as famil- ar as American sewing machines, The greatest wealth of Bulgaria is

_in its forests and wines, but these |

ih be ited. = TE nA ag le ede ilk | put money in his purse and sought

are there such forests oak, walnut and

where in Eur of pine, hemlock, birch. Manufacturing is still in its infancy, Not more than $10,000,000 is as yet in- vested in nianufactures, and the great- er part of this capital is employed in

j the making of Bulgaria’s one famous

export — attar of roses, which comes from the region of Kazanlik. Only one-fourth of one per cent. of the

‘population of ‘Bulgaria is engaged all

year round in factory work.

S fia and Varna are the only cities with tramways; but many cities are illuminated with electricity. Owing to its mountains, Bulgaria is possessed of tremendous water power, which is go- ing to count in the future industrial and traction development, Except for her railways, the country is not de- pendent upon coal, Even these are be- ginning to use oil. Petroleum, coming

|from the adjacent oil fields of Rou-

mania and by boat from Batoum, is

| plentiful and cheap.

The Bulgarians are noted for their industry, their ability to save and their foresight. Although naturally possessing many of the characteristics

a of the Turk, acquired through cen- ‘turies of subjection

ard not to be shaken off in one generation, they have not his proverbial laziness. In working capacity they are like the German peasant, while in saving they are like the French, The wealth in the hands of the peasantry is an un-

greatest, but not the only evil con- !known quantity, for they have no

nected with the indiscriminate use of libraries. We seem to think that if

people read anything they are neces- | | standard of living is still very much | like that in Turkey, but education is | spreading and | If the Bulgarians secure an outlet to ‘the Aegean Sea, the nation is bound | to become one of the most important

sarily better off than if they do not. | The main business of libraries, especi- all of small ones, has come to be the circulation of ‘‘popular’”’ fiction. Even in the large cities the demand for | books of this class is demonstrated

faith in banks, but it must be con-

| siderable.

Among the bulk of the people the

prosperity increasing.

| by the fact that most of them are | agriculturally in the whole world.

‘listed as “five day” or “‘seven day”’ | books, It is hard to see what good is accomplished by emptying this

mass of rubbish on the heads of people | dates back to about 1818, The Greeks /in the fourth century before Christ , had a false eye which was practically

for the most part unable to distinguish real literature from false. Were the libraries less active in discriminating

useless and often demoralizing fiction, |

| standard’ works would be far more widely read; but so long as

library in the land feels called upon

Artificial Eyes. The use of glass for artificial eyes

a thin band of iron which passed around the head and held in place a

every thin sheet of metal, covered with a

fine skin, on which was painted an

to have the latest work, and often | eye with its eyelids and lashes. About

several copies of it, by the

latest | 300 years before Christ‘a metal shell

! writer of trashy fiction, such books somewhat like the half of a walnut

will continue

to come out in their

shell, on which were painted the iris,

| thousands and tens of thousands, and the pupil and the white of an eye,

| their betters will rest unread.

Chaplains for French Navy.

was forced into the cavity and held | very much as our glass eyes are held. | The trouble with this older method

' feel the first touches of age, his physi- , , month, That ed 14

| was difficult, but he knew that the

an Ambitious Surgeon. In 1693, when Lou's XIV, began to

cians ordered him to be bled once a was of course in-

trusted to Marechal, his Irish sur-

geon.

There was at the time in Paris, says the British Medical Journal, a you brother of the craft who con. ceived the idea of making his fortune by bleeding the king. The enterprise

most solid doors can vften be opened with a golden key. Following the advice of Tago, he |

an introduction to Antoine Daquvin, | the king’s chief physician. The ne. gotiation was conducted on a strict business footing. Daquin, who was kno yn to love money, was told that 10,000 crowns were deposited with a notary who had instructions to trans- {. the sum to him ag soon as the surgeon had got the job.

It was not an easy thing to manage, as Marechal never left the king. One day, however, he asked permission to leave Versailles for three days. Da- quin seized the opportunity to intro. | duce his protege, whom he had ready at hand for the purpose, Feeling the king’s pulse one morning, as usual, he pretended to be alarmed at its atrenc-h and volume and ordered the illustrious patient to be bled forth- with. As Marechal was away, the | king hesitated, but fear soon made | him yield to his physician’s proposal. The young surgeon bled the king, and | Daquin got his money. }

In the meantime a message had been dispatched for Marechal, who was not far off. He returned to Ver- | sailles in haste and was much sur- prised to find that the king, whom he | had left in the best of health, had been bled. He was not on friendly terms with Daquin, and he quickly grasped the situation. He went to see the young surgeon and forced him to disclose ts whole plot. j

When the king learned the truth, he flew into a terrible rage, ordered Daquin to be arrested and placed the matter in the hands of the council of state. That obsequious body, after a very short deliberation, unanimously voted that the physician who had) trafficked in the blood of the king | deserved death. The royal wrath, however, subsided to some_ extent, | and he graciously spared Daquin’s | lif, but deprieved him of his office | and exiled him from the court to Quimper-Corentin. The too greedy physician did not long survive his disgrace.—London Standard.

All the Vowels In One Word.

Theré are but six words in the Eng- |

lish language which contain all the

| womeN ARE BARRED OUT OF

THIS CURIOUS SPOT.

Historic Retreat of Seven Thousand Lonely Monks Is a Place of Ex- quisite Beauty and Is Full of Mys- tery and Charm—The Existence of the Celibate Inmates Would Not Appeal to Most Persons.

Among the possessions of disrupted Turkey in Europe there is none to which the Greeks have greater claim than the holy Mount of Athos, the most easterly prong of nature’s trident

the three similarly shaped peninsu- las that extend into the Aegean Sea a few miles east of Salonica. Among the inhabitants of the sacred mount, some 7,000 in all, the greater part are Greeks, men who have withdrawn, most of them voluntarily, from life to

| eke out a lonely existence among

rocky defiles of the peninsula, divid-

ing their time between the cultiva- tion of heaven and earth, Mount Athos, situated at the ex-

treme southern point of the peninsula, rears its snowcapped summit 6,350 feet above sea level, It looks for all the world like one of the pyramids of Lgypt transplanted to a colder clime, and its history is replete with as much mystery and charm, Stand on the plain of old Troy—to-day swallow. ed up in the name Anatolia—and you may see the hoary peak cof Athos against the setting sun Or climb to the heights of Olympus, in old Thes- saly, and there, among the once sa- cred groves which to-day are infested with bands of thieves who fear neither God nor man, you again see Athos, These two peaks, one famed as the

abode of gods who are to-day but myths, and t..: other the abode of holy men, are soon to become Greek again, if Greek diplomacy can so turn

the wheel of fortune.

Nothing perhaps is more interesting of the many peculiarities of Mount Athos than the fact that women and even female animals are barred from setting foot upon it by a decree issued about the middle of the lith century, although now the rule has been modified to permit the Queen of Greece to visit the place, which prob- ably will be ceded by Turkey to the Kingdom of the Hellenes. Lonely man lives there his miserable exist- ence—for miserable it must be where no woman has a part—and dying dis- appears. Young monks come from the outside world to take the places

| of those who in their own belief are

merely “translated,” but the name of this or that monk remains but a mem- ory. Life there is the downhill stum-

vowels in regular order—viz, abstemi- ous, arsenious, anenious, facetious, materious and tragedious. There is but one word which contains them in regular reverse order, and that word is duoliteral. Besides the above there

are 149 English words which contain |

all the vowels in irregular order.

Twelve of these begin with the letter | a, seven with b, twenty-three with c, |

sixteen with d, fourteen with e, four with f, seven with g, one with h, six

ble to old age and the grave. Never a gay laugh and seldom a smile, 30 | that the sun shines on this God chos- | en spot in vain.

| There are twenty monasteries on | Mount Athos, all belonging to the or- der of St. Basil and twelve affiliated monastic communities where live the lay brothers. Others of these religious devotees occupy hermitages far dis- tant from each other, their goings and | their comings guided by the ascetic

Tt will be news to most persons W&8 the tremendous weight of the that the French navy has no chap- metal, and, of course, the painting 2 * ; lains afloat, although a moment’s con. Ws necessarily more or less ghastly. | one with q, five with r, nine with 5, ! Russian, there are two Serbo-Bulgar- sideration would bring to remem- Yet, 60 far as there is any record to two with t, fifteen with u and mai fan and the rest are Greek, so that

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brance the fact of the complete di-| Show, there ggg toe Be mieeeee Paes with v. Dee | the latter race is largely in the ma-

with i, two with j, two with m, two] | ing; ; ; : 1 ' . A ; | principles of St. Athanasius. with n, two with o, thirteen with p,| “ Of the monasteries the largest is

| voree between church and state in Provement in I , = | jority, and thus dominates the com- _ France, The subject is brougiit painted eyes until within the last A Curious Church. | Tannity and the e) Assembly which [ pecentpannly int> notice by a petition century. The most singular church in the , governs it. To this Assembly each es y a great number of the | world is probably St. John’s, at Davos | monastery sends one representative. EAE EES OE ie ag of the sailors who Sulphur Bottom Whales. Platz, in Switzerland. Davos Platz is; The monastery libraries are vast were victims of the accident on th: over 5,000 feet about sea level and is | storehouses of information, contain-

Probably the largest of the whales,

Gloire or the Liberte. The petitioners

' ~ A story is going the rounds in which

| are to be found in the Midi, ‘tany, Var and Finistrre, and

| ment of chaplains on warships.— | London Globe,

She Understood.

A young iaan who had a strong lik. ing for poetry, but a rather mediocre talent for writing it, deluded himself into the belief ‘hat the world was de- termined to keep him down, He con- tinued writing for years, confident that he would win fame in the end. Once in conversation with a clever | girl he started in on his pet theme. “Like the rest of the world,’

, leet, for I’m writing for posterity.” “Oh, I understand you now,” | plied the girl. | your | your lifetime !”

Servian Army Drums. ' A curious custom connected with

| which most of the regiments carry rat > big drum. It is not, as in most countries, slung in front of the man

Brit- they | pray the Senate for the reappoint-

he said, “you don’t understand me. But T can afford to laugh at present neg-

re- “So that’s the reason ms are not published during | fused to tell me. He seemed, for some | reason, to be offended at the ques- | tion, Another native I met told me | he spoke seven languages; to me it

as well as the most gigantic of all living oreatures, is the sulphur bot- tom. It attains a length of nearly or quite 100 feet and a weight of 150 tons. One individual measured 95 feet in length, 39 feet in girth, with a jawbone 21 feet long; baleen _(whale- bone), 4 feet long; weight of 300 pounds; weight of entire whale, ns, and it yielded 110 barrels of oil. The sulphur bottom seldom bolts, as the whalers term the action of leap- ing diagonally from the sea, or breaches, as perpendicular springs

are called, but when it does perform |

in this manner it presents a truly wonderful sight.

Swiss as They Talk. Many of the Swiss regard themselves as great linguists. I asked one gen- tleman the reason for this, but he re-

seemed as if he spoke them all at

self and was quite interested in lis- tening to him. For some reason he put me in mind of a patchwork quilt

in a man it is about seventy-two to} who plays it, but is placed upon a trying to talk—one of those crazy the minute, whereas in the elephant) sma!l two wheeled cart drawn by & ones,—Wide World Magazine.

it is only thirty, and in the horse The dog’s pulse, on the other hand, counts about ninety beats to the minute, and the rabbit's over 150.

ulsations of a mouse have recently een counted and recorded by an ingenious machine and found to num-

| ber nearly 700 every minute, a glimmer of light that these glow. | ee

Easy Way. An attendant at a certain institute

(fr the deaf and dumb was undergoing

a pointless rapid fire inquisition at

| the hands of a female visitor.

“But how do you summon these

poor mutes to ~church?”

by. “By ringing the dumb bells, mad-

dant,—London Answers, }

Corrected, Teacher—What are parallel lines?

Bee the young woman. Is the young Micky Mulberry, what are you grin-

woman being suddenly and unexpect- edly kissed? Ah, yes! And does the toa woman raise a hue and cry?

young woman raises a slight hue, but bo cry.

Its Motive Power, “Human speech is a mighty en-

ne. ‘Unless it * run by het air.”

| bars, don’t yer? | ‘remember your first quarrel,” said fired with enthusiasm?” asked

\

|

ning at? breed

Micky Mulberry—'Scuse me, Miss Sharpe, but any loidy might make de same mistake. Yer means parallel

The Word “Cab.” | The Word “cab,”’ which is a contrac- tion of “cabriolet,” was not used until 1823.

she ask d| | finally, with what was meant to be pitying glance at the inmates near | « (in

large dog, which has been so trained | that it keeps its place even through | the longest and = most_ tedious | marches, The drummer takes up a

| Most remarkable of all, the heart) position behind the cart and performs

on the instrument ag it moves along.

—London Answers.

j A Bride on the Minute.

It was a most ludicrous mistake.

| She imagined her wedding day was

| Wednesday, when in truth it wasn’t to take place till the day after. “Just like a woman, And every- thing went awry, and the bridegroom enashed his teeth, I P”’

sup a “Well, hardly. In fact, everything

turned out beautifully, By making the error unconsciously she was dressed time, and the ceremonies were pulled off according to schedule.”

Learning.

Learning, like money, may be of so base a coin us to be utterly void of use or, if sterling, may require good management to make it serve the pur- pose slone,

Enduring. “T suppose you and your wife can

the meddlesome

“Remember it! cher, yet,”

rson, returned Mr, Grow-

‘unconscious humor is well

of sense and happiness,—Shen- | wok

Ifade For Concealment,

Stick insects, which are so called because of their resemblance to dry sticks, have two forelegs, which they fold over their eyes when disturbed and evidently think that in so doing they are lost to view. The eggs of these insects take over six months to hatch They are only one-tenth of an inch in their widest part, yet an in- sect which at hatching is three-quar- ters of an inch in length is packed into them. The stick insects destroy the weaklings by eating their legs.

He Admitted It.

“English as She is Japped,” is the title of an article in a recent num ber of the Oriental Review.

The oriental capacity for using our mother tongue with strange twists of | known, but few examples are equal to this delicious sign on a Japanese baker's shop;

“A, Karinura, Biggest Loafer In| yo. |

Fired With Enthusiasm,

the

evangelist. “Yes; my last

sufir,

psec, aoe all showed unmistakable | “I should say so! It isn’t over enthusiasm in firing me,” replied the fy) places for workmen { female stenographer.

aleen, |

‘instruments of may trade, though.”

|ments?”’ “It is scarcely worth while, | You don’t understand their nature or use.”” Probably not, but T insist |

give me what information you have | and not make any fuss,”’

dignant inquiry.

the house next door that somebody here was murdering Richard Strauss, and the chief sent me down to work up the ease.”"—London Mail,

janitor’s wife that her mistress, who is old and feeble, has promised to re- member her in her will if she takes |} good care

janitor’s wife shrugs her shoulders

that the

the longer you’ll have to wait for your legacy.”

A Royal Trousseau, The tmost expensive trousseau ‘on

|r cord is that of the late Empress of China “Do you know what it means to be 000,000.

electricity emploved.

famous as a winter resort for con-

sumptives on account of its great pur- |

ity of air and protection from high winds. §8t. John’s Church is a very

ing until comparatively recent times many priceless relics which the monks, their intellectual development having been left to its own devices,

small building, but nevertheless it has | cared little or nothing for. Many of

two steeples. One of these is much larger than the other, towering high above the church and presenting a | most singular appearance, being twist- } ed after the manner of a corkscrew.

| The steeples contain some fine chimes, |

which in ancient times were used to sound the alarm when there was a threatened invasion of wild animals. |

Not In His Line.

“T presume, my good fellow, you're a laborer?” said a lawyer toa plainly dressed witness. ‘‘You are right—I’m a workman, sir,” replied the witness, who was a civil engineer. ‘Familiar with the use of the pick, shovel and spade, I presume?” ‘To some ex- tent. Those are not the principal

“Perhaps you will condescend to en- | lighten me as to your principal imple-

on knowing what they are,” ‘‘Brains,” | stows wah sa |

~_ |

A Murder Tip. |

“Excuse me,’’ said the detective as he presented himself at the door of the music academy, “but I hope you'll |

“What do you mean,” was the in-

“Why, that little affair, you know.” | “T don’t understand.” “Why, you see, we got a tip from

The Drawback, |

Mile. Victorine confides to the

of her till she dies. The

“The worst of that is, my dear,

better you take care of her

The trousseau cost over §1,-

Healthful Work.

Auto factories are said to be health. because of

| strangers,

these documents tell in the language of Xenophon of the glories of a@ Greece that was, Indeed much of the history of the east is locked up in these dust-filled coffreforts in which from time to time this or that wan- derer has come across a priceless relic to carry off to the museums of Europe. y

One of the most notable finds was & papyrus containing the fables of Aesop in Coliatnbie verse. But so many curio collectors, attracted by the fabulous tales of voyagers, have taken passage for Mount Athos that the monks have become suspicious and now refuse entrance to nearly all The larger part of the mo- nastic valuables, however, are in safe and more worthy hands.

The Turks destroyed much of the valuable papyri in the monasteries in making cartridges during the war of the Greek independence in 1820-29. Other valuable documents were torn up b ythe monks themselves for fish- ing bait. Such is the value of histori- cal documents to these monks who

spend their time apart from their religious devotions in fishing and tilling the land.

In 1749 an attempt was made to es- tablish an academy on the mount, For a time it flourished, drawing the flower of the youth of the east, but the teaching was so primitive that the academy became deserted and to-day is a mass of ruins, over which tangled vines, lizards and other crawling things hold sway. When the star of the Byzantine empire was at its zenith Mount Athos was a chosen re- treat for those in court disfavor. Many others, wealthy and noble, had their fling at life and then banished themselves to Mount Athos.

Viewed from the sea in the fall of the year Athos is a mountain of ex- quisite beauty, with its shades and tints of dying foliage. High up on the mountain the monasteries can be

seen clustering in the niches scooped

out by nature. They are all strongly

fortified and with the exception of Rossikson, the Russian monastery, their architecture is a quaint repre- sentation of the Byzantine period which had so much influence on the sacred mount on its inhabitants, On the isthmus which separates the

mount from the mainland traces can still be seen of the canal dug before the invasion of Greece in 480 B.C, It is the story that Xerxes dug the canak because he feared lest he lose hig

j ships in doubling the cape.

PD ct OO hy i LI tan et a ee Mt Poth

© mew « Pe 2

Do I please you? she whispered. I hope I’m not overdreased; it’s so long since I—

For answer he took hor in his arms, jand kissed her. The blood stirred in ‘his veins, and even at that moment he felt vaguely grateful that she was {not lacking in charm and beauty, She

was his wife, and he wanted to keep that fact vividly before his mind. A wonderful word, a great possession ‘even though love was lacking,

Come, we are dining in the restaur- fant; I thought it might be more amus- ‘ing for you than a tetea-tete meal, Then we're going to the Opera.

The crowded _ salle-a-m aoe the brilliant lights. the flowers, the beau-

(Continued) tiful women, were a relief to Jimmy No—only that he wished me to mar- | Francks. Surrounded by people he She hesitated a moment, her | found it easier to talk, and to keep

Injustice

By Arthur Applin

Ward, Lock & Co., Limited London, Melbourne & Toronto.

y you

cheeks growing alternately white and | Ella amused. He knew his secret

red. It's rather a horrible thing | was safe. It was when he was alone

to say, but, as I told you, we must have | with her that he felt almost shy,

no secrets, One's parents don't /haunted by a curious sense of shame,

seem to understand love, and father} dreading lest she read his inmost

only looked upon it as a good match. | thoughts.

But when I knew you still loved me, It was almost midnight when they

I would have married you if you had-| returned from the Opera. Ella was world. You know | sleepy but very happy It all seems

n’t a penny in the aud palleve it, don’t you? like fairy-land, she whispered; you put don’t | See it’s all so new and wonderful to Listen, I’!1| me. 1 wonder why you chose little ; linsignificant me out of the world of

women. I ought to be very proud,

Yes, yes, he said quickly iet’s ‘talk about that now. ribe the places we're going to s2e the tour

THE NUSTLER. CAYLEY, ALBERTA

60,000 OUT OF WO:.K

Packers of Brittany Declare They Are Unable to Compete With Packers Outside

Paris, France.—One hundred and sixteen sardine packing establish- ments in Brittany definitely closed down at the end of the year, throwing 50,000 people out of employment,

Some fifty factories in which other small fish are packed still remain open in the region around Concareau and Douarnénez, but will also We closed down on March 1.

The closing down was @ecided «pon

A Bad Guess A worthy old Edinburgh professor

the house of a lady of fashion.

When the company rose from tho able the professor noticed, to his great consternation, that he was unsteady on his feet. +

In his anxiety to\save appearances, he repaired to the drawing-room where the lady of the house yielded |to the wishes of her lady friends, and |ordered the nurse to bring in the baby |twins, In due course the little dears reached the professor.

The latter gazed intently at them

some time ago by the syndicate of | fora while, as if deciding whether or sardine packers, who declare that the | not there were two or one, and then

present situation is ruinous.

The fishermen asked for an increase in the price paid per 1000 for the raw sardines. This increase the packers were unable to grant. They say they are completely crushed by the cost of | labor and their general expenses and | are unably to’ compete with the Span- ish and Portuguese packers.

The French packers further declare that instead of demanding higher wages per 1000 raw sardines the fish- ermen should have endeavored to se- | cure the authorization to use revoly-|

| reach the

said, huskily: Really, what a bonny litle child,

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ing nets in territorial waters, and thus increase their catch. Of the 50,000 men, women and chil- |

. it: “ater pa But | ousht 1° dren who find their occupation gone | frie, "k me silly, do you; I|. He had ordered refreshments t> be | by the closing of the packing estab- | A dell . Ona are. They love | left in their sitting-room, and while /lishments, many, it is expected, will ag ahs i "Gt “they are loved, they | la was taking off her cloak he went |have to leave their homes and seek | can't hear it too often. She foread;into his dressing room and changed | Work elsewhere. It is feared that | wri i though it’s our wed-|into a smoking jacket. From one|much distress will result from the

ie y was aven't sald yet—I lova| of its pockets he took a leather case. crisis. aie ‘ jand just inside it he found Reuben Reid SONS SEILER ROU

Fy ado that saab Brentlh The | de, Fontaigne s letter. He gianced

W a ‘ he lov eA. Pin it m every in- - : guiltily . 7 ree l a ul —_ | jae od, and from every init, he was afraid to do so. e dic i stant he was being carried further and | 16 know what it contained, possibly Finding Quest Vain, They Leave |

further away, prompted the white lie.

a message from Iris.

Throwing it on the table he opened the pocket-book, and took out of ita small crumpled, unmounted photo- graph, and holding it between his

, : ae they | hands he gazed at it. he listened like a hap-

1g her tightly in his | vy vivid pictures of the.r describing the places the journeys

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How about that steamer?

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No, Lionel; can you afford to keap about to marry a poet.

a motor-car? No, dear. So they did not marry, and they liv- |

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the tomb of Count Ludwig Rhedey and his wife has been rifled, and the po-

The picture of the woman he loved. |lice are unable to discover the rob- , seeing no cloud on} 4 long time he looked trying to make | bers,

unconscious of the dan-/ 14) his mind to destroy it. Duty| Count Rhedey, who died in 1831, | gers that threatened her. . warned him that he had no right to|was distantly connected by marriage But Francks gave a sigh of relief | possess even this now, that in justice | with the Teck family. He was bur- when Dover was rea The 8€2 +t, his wife he must tear from his |ied in a handsome mausoleum in the wa s calm as a |: ot a breath heart every link connected with the | grounds of a park which now belongs of tirred its surface. They past. to the town, and it was believed local. ; tramped arm and arm up and down But it was so difficult. That small/ly that the count ordered an English the boat until Calais was sighted. | crumpled photograph was all that was | ducal crown of great value and family

The is train was crowded and their | jart to him now. | jewels to be buried with him. compartment filled up. Francks He heard the door of his wife’s| This probably tempted the robbers

bur

ied himself in one of the iHustrat-

I mut though he looked at the itions an dread the letterpress, conveyed anything to his

the sitting-room. Hastily

he dropped it on to the table

1e day was dying as the train drew jacket he joined Ella at the supper aris. The bustle and excite-)taple. She placed a little packet ment, the interesting crowd, the) py her side which she glanced at ever strange language, all interested Ella, | anq again as if trying to make up her and Francks found relief in action. mind to open it

W: ‘i stay two or three nights here | When they had finished the meal

first t to do all the theatres anl|Prancks rose and moved towards the the principal restaurants, Francks! goor,

said as they drove through the pictur-| 1m just going to run downstairs and esque stre and Ella marvelled at | choose a cigar. I can’t do without a

the open-air cafes, the crowds of pe9-| fnal smoke before turning in. I ple sitting out on the pavements, the )}5 6 you don’t mind my bachelor hab- noise, the light, the laughter. its, he said. forcing a smile. Francks had engaged a suite of| She shook her head and Francks rooms at the Ritz Hotel. Directly he | yoert the room quickly. He was ab- had changed and ordered dinner, he | gant gq long time. ” Ellg waited pa- booked two seats for the opera, where | tjently, then as if struck by a sudden a series of ballets and Russian dances | inspiration she untied the parcel and were being given. Then he waited taxing out a gold cigar case on which

room open, he heard her footsteps in |to commit the crime. slipping | to penetrate the park, break down the photograph into the pocket-book | the door of the mausoleum and burst with | open | the letter and putting on his smoking | count

They mareged

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Two opulent members of the fair | = ——

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Oh, they are, said the second.

Shall you call?

Oh, yes, decidedly.

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for his wife in the little sitting-room

which united the bed and dressing room. ¥ | Woman-like she was a long time

making her toilet, but when at last she appeared, Francks again realised the metamorphosis that had taken

place. Mrs. Saintsbury had evident- ly made up her mind that her daugh- ter should start her new life well-

equipped, and no expense had been spared for her trousseau. She wore

some initials and the date had been engraved, she crept quietly into the| dressing-room and searched for a place to put it where it would be found when he undressed.

It was her wedding gift to him, one that was to bein the nature of a sur- | prise. She chose the dressing table, | and as she made room, she uninten- tionally swept the pocket-book to tha ground and with it Reuben’s letter. | Stooping, she picked them up, and

It is not your truest friend. +| If you settle with the grocer And can pay the butcher's scoro <f 4 With a little left for pleasure, | old gent—Constable, didn’t What can any one do more? ety see that boy hit me with a snow- whic 4 i | ball? | Policeman—Oi did, sorr. | derful how straight them |mints can throw, begorra!

The Rising Generation Angry

For the man who has a millicn ; It’s won- | Only has one pair of eyes young var. } To behold the wondrous picture

As old earth before him lies. He can only eat one breakfast,

Only occupy one bed,

IF YOUR BABY IS SICK

a blue gown of mouseline de ¢ quite plain, but exquisitely cut, eith- er her new found happiness or the art of the dressmaker suggested soft wo- manly curves instead of the thin a les her homely dress had exagger He hair was charmingly dressed, and a diamond and turquoise comb nest-

as she did so the pocket-book opened, a photograph fell out—and she saw staring at her, Iris de Fontaigne! The woman in the photograph seem- ed to be staring straight into Ella's eyes. The full red lips were pa ed in a smile, smile, it seemed to Ella;

there was

led in the fashionable plaits. Her | writing faded and blurred at th» foot | shoes and stockings matched her | of the photograph, and she could only

robe. She seeped 0 Preveks shyly, | decipher two words: Loye—Iris. the color mantling her cheeks, giving | ghe stood holding the t h | back the youth of which the city had | petween her tarderetaasae irae | robbed her. |dazed way as if she were fascinated

Then she felt a strange warm glow stealing over her whole body, a sense | (of passionate resentment. It was a| |new sensation, jealousy, she had never |

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Now she had a right to be jealous, | |} she told herself—then she hesitated, |

mocking triumphant |

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looked at the queer, crooked hand- writing. She had spoken of abso- lute faith and trust, and already ot a sudden doubt was in her heart fed by the fierce flames of jealousy. Hardly knowing what she was doing, compelled a7 a power stronger than her own will, stronger than her sense , vhé

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44 Men Scared Away say you have no love, You are a coward, but you shall answer to me | for the wrong you have done our fam- ily. You are warned, so be prepared, —Reuben De Fontaigne,

(To be Continued)

Wonder why the Blacks moved into a house this winter?

To save gym fees.

How is that?

They figure Tommy can develop his muscle just as well carrying out ashes and shovelling snow as he can in a

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After the Christmas party they both | felt very pleased with themselves and things in general.

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Darling, he lisped, what—

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Of the many strange stories told in connection with the exploits of the smuggling fraternity on the Bast Coast one of the most singular is perhaps one which is connected with Lowes: toft, and. the substance of which is told in the following narrative:—

About September, 1805, the then Rector of Lowestoft was visited late at night by a sailor, who informed the good man that he came from a vessel lying in the harbor, to request his ministration fér ae comrade who way dying on board.

So earnest was the visitor in his en- treaties that, notwithstanding the lateness of the hour, the Rector pro- ceeded thither, and found a man to all appearance at the point of death, to whom he administered all the com- fort within his power.

On the following evening the visit- or again appeared at the Rectory, and stated that his partner had died dur- ing the day and that his last wish was that he should be interred In Lowestoft Churchyard, adding further that as the vessel was obliged to leave at a special time of the tide on the following morning, it was ne- cessary that the funeral should take place at eight o'clock, The Rector acquiesced, and so on the following morning the coffin was brought ashore and deposited with the usual rites in the parish churchyard,

The consternation of the Rector can be imagined when, some twenty-four hours afterwards, a member of the local authority called, upon him with the information that the newly-made grave had been opened, and the cof fin abstracted, the funeral itself turn ing out to be a skilfully-laid plan to run a cargo of valuable lace, over which had been read the service of the Church,

He Might be, Though

Mrs. Hugh Fraser, in her latest book of reminiscence, has many amusing stories to tell.

One of them is about the Crown Prince of Germany. His Royal Highness had just taken into his ser- vice a new manservant, but the over- done ceremonial obsequiousness of the man soon began to jar on his master. The Crown Prince became so irritat- ed at last that the servant received an intimation to the effect that the Crown Prince would prefer to be treated with more simplicity.

The next day, when the Crown Prince was seated writing at his table he suddenty felt himself tapped on the shoulder, Thinking it was his wife, the Crown Princess, he turned quickly, smiling, only to behold the servant standing beside him and re- garding him with a friendly smile, Be- fore the astonished heir to the Throne could find suitable words with which to rebuke the man’s presumption, the latter jerked his thumb behind him in the direction of the door.

Pappchen has come to see you! he announced.

Now. the Crown Prince was expect- ing his father, the Emperor, and as Pappchen literally means Little papa, his Royal Highness nearly fainted with horror.

Pappchen! he gasped. Then, think- ing the servant must have been drink-

\ing to talk of the Emperor in such a

way, he muttered to himself, his eyes fixed in amazed inquiry on the man: Is he drunk?

The servant apparently thought the whispered remark was a confidential request for information as to the vis- itor’s condition, for, after scratching his head in some perplexity, he whis- pered back softly:

Drunk? Well, no; I didn’t notice any- thing.

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Much Worse Losses

There was an amusing incident alft- er the recent first night at the Criter- ion Theatre, when Mr, Beriard Par- ry’s play “Where There's & Will-— was very well received by the aud- lence. 4

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Look for Better Times in Spain Nautical Madrid.—Governmental reforms «!-|She sang of the fishers far away, tr.ost revolutionary in their character} To the fisher’s little boy. have been promised by King Alfonso,|She sang of the mornings, cold and and Republicans are jubilant. It was learned that Azearate ‘he

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Care and system are the half-way houses to happiness, and if Mrs. Mc Quill was anything, she was careful and systematic. A little while ago she had occasion to go out and leave the house to take care of itself. But the grocer was expected, and unless

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She found her note on the dinine- A well-known clergyman describés | table.

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I'll never smile again, replied youth, sadly.

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There ain't no rubbish about i exclaimed the other heatedly. I through smiling at another fellow’s girl that I'm here now.

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