: 3 Ne" . Hoh) grow weaker, the spr ot action, of desire, broken, and 1 know unless some stimulus is given, she will slip er fro , is Answer Vor and 38 aly can Each night at tw for hours and plays wha have . 3 . 'Ww uld it bi ) ) grea gift if on one of your ghtly wanderings you'should By MRS. HERMAN, TZSCHMAR, Author of " The Story of a Song." pass . o where your nephew Carl has lived, and should 1 ' would stop and enter, speak and give to my blind, "A Polish Fantasy," etc. gr » y J experience, coufage to bear her lot? rr *'She knows noth ny visit te r room. nor of letter, written by her mother." = AI py Again and again by the fast-fading daylight, the master read this mother's 4 At By special permission of the Ladies' Home Journal cry for help, and the written words seemed to bring before him every harsh, erry ied untoward circumstance of his own life. He saw himself a little boy, dragged " OTHER, Mother! How can I bear it, never to see®never again to read * from his bed after midnight by a drunken father, and forced to practice for hours. . ° . M the music he has written ?--blind, blind forevermore!" With a cry the 'I 'can forgive and forget that," the man muttered, 'but this is harder to 3 ristmas += girl felllupon her knees, and buried her face in her mother's lap. forgive, and forgetfulness 1s denied me," and he lifted a clumsy ear-trumpet "My baby! 'My little one!" were the only words the mother breathed, .'which hung by his side, regarding it with a melancholy smile ® : but in her heart, with David of old, she cried in anguish: "Would God I could "What demon guided my father's hand that he should always strike my 1 ime die for thee!" . ears whenever I came into his presence, and destroy the keenest sense a musician . Little by little the craves?" And restlessly he paced up and down the room. 'Oh, this ceaseless, : 3 a child---she was scarcely unavailing questioning!' And the clenched-hands showed the struggle within. i ' ) seventeen--grew calmer "The world calls me morose, irritable. What does the world know of the 4 5 Exhausted by the vehe- tortures I endure in silence? Deaf from my early boyhood, cut off from my : A N Ey Fea eA mence of her grief 'the kind;. denied love, wife, children. home. O Eternal One, Thou alone knowest When you are home visiting your ; sobbing crie§ became all, Thou alone canst read my heart!" t t . aq. . fainter, until she lay And the master, stood motionless, covering his face with his hands. With famil Il at our Tailorin Establish- A A N motionless, save for an a mighty effort the man roused himself. '*This will never do. I must go to 8 : g - . ; ha. | occasional tremulous, her with 'cheer and comfort. I must show her that these and these," and he ment an make us merry with your d i ek e. quick-catching breath touched eves and ears, 'are not.what make life worth living. I must prove to ) , J : ! The "daylight faded her that it is the divine within each ong which makes for life, and only as we order for a Pos ies. le ie ? into early twilight, and. manifest that life do we really live > : a ' $till mother and daugh- As the master closed his door and stepped into the street a sight of such ter did not move. In transcendent beauty met his gaze that he stood motionless, lost in contemplation , | those crucial moments of nature's loveliness. The leaves of the trees in the ne shboring park swayed i | 2 | they were facing the new gently to and fro in the soft summer breeze. The sKy was studded with stars, problem: of their lives, but these paled and faded before the light of the glorious full moon, which | | antl drawing from an un- seem to ride the heavens as a queen, and sent a shaft of glittering moonbeams seen power strength to before the master as he walked slowly along, his head bent and his hands clasped meet and master a seem- behind his back. . Ag ingly overwhelming sor- On and on he walked, apparently without thought of definite direction, ® . Ul | d row and yet as though the way were known and had often been traversed. After 1 ~~ @ INE FURS make choice Christmas | | For many weeks # : 3 many turnings, and just as he passed a little house set somewhat back from the s . this dark cloud had over- street, some impulse made him lift his ear-trumpet, and, as he did, soft and clear presents, and they will be all the shadowed them, but to he heard the strains of music. : : ' : day all they had feared 'Ah!" he exclaimed, "so it is here," and motionless he listened until thet : more appreciated if they have on : . had come upon them movement was completed. Then he whispered: "She has feeiing, compre- g them the "GEORGE MILLS & CO." or y Do you remem- hension; she will understand I will go in." . le " 3 tt ane - ; J ber," came in low tones, Somewhat hesitatingly .he entered and tapped gently at the door of the did' label. What the word "sterling" means | : it was this very week room from which the sounds of musi¢ had come & " i \ p 4 you were to see the mas- Almost instantly the door was opened, and in the moonlighted room 'the : on, silver the name "George Mills - . ter; and ask if he would girl stood before him, saying in low tones: 'Please tell me who it is, for I am | Co." stands for on Furs,--a guarantee - take me for his pupil?' blind." / Yercod : 0 g A pressure of the hand In equally low tones he answered "And I am deaf I also am a musician, of excellence. z . Te e was the reply. "Now and hearing music played as only one canplay who loves it | véntured to enter V7 Thirty years making and selling high- that can never be Will you pardon my intrusion? Then, as a tear dropped The color flamed in the girl's cheeks as she faltered, nérvously clasping LE i grade Furs is the record that backs up fromjher mother's cheek and unclasping her hands It is a pleasure to welcome you, sir. You are a yr 3 "THE Music OF THE TREES upofi her hand, the girl musician: Will you not enter and play to me?" i the guarantee that goes with every pur- . * started, crying almost ' Willingly,"' he replied v ; | chase made in this store. Ours is one Special Prices to joyously, "But I have seen him--nothing can ever take that from me T'hink Seating himself at the worn piano the man drew forth tones of such sweet- 5. i . what that will always mean, even if I have not spoken to Him. W hy, I can ness, such power, that the blind, girl, greatly agitated, her hand pressed over / of thel largest Fur stores in Canada and * see him now "--and excitedly the girl stood up--'*see him just as hé looked her heart to still its beating, drew nearer and nearer, crying involuntarily, i i : Christmas Buyers the day he directed the last concert. That splendid head, those deep-set eves, "Who are you? You told me you were deaf, and a musician. There is but the only one in Kingsfon holding a one instgnt filled with fury, the next with tenderness. Can you not hear it one who can play like this--you are the master!" and with fast falling tears | Dominion medal for superiority of Furs, that immortal symphony which he has never heard with outward ears? the girl bent and kissed his hand It is like some beautiful dream," the child ) 3 : 'Ah! little did [think that day how soon Fate would knock at my door, murmured, "and if I stir I shall awake." all my plans, ambitions--fondest hopes " and the gold-crowned She knew not how it was that soon 'she had unburdened her heart of all its xg 3 'No, no, I am not crying, my tears have all been shed; aspirations and lost joys . % reliable Furs and our patrons, extending y rough this affliction I.can better comprehend what he has borne' these "My child," and tenderly the master laid his hand on the bowed head, *'I er Fa literally from the Atlantic to the Pacific, many years--understand beyond others what deafness means to a musician have lived long and suffered much, and this I know, there is a compensation dd . Oh, dearest comforter," and the girl threw her arms about her mother, drawing for every trial. Our weak and finite sense too often fails to grasp life's meaning, i will find our elegant catalogue of Fur closer, "now I can tell you all, tell you what his music has meant to me but the deepest, most heartrending experiences should yield the filest, richest : 2 : : I have known what music meant; how it draws my very soul to his harvest.* Too many times with childish folly have I railed at my deafness L Fashions, with price list, a great conven- is no shame, my mother, in my telling this to you, for beirig blind I never How do I know that without it I could have shut out the world's allurements, i i dering b il. W. ill glad- > (nd 5 . > oS = a x ience in ordering by mail. € will gla ¥ ashionable '¢ e just like others girls, and you must be to me husband, children, mother = and have attained? From your blindness may blossom some marvellous flower - "ne all of beauty that will live forever ly mail a copy on request to any address. Tailor We have an international reputation for When Grief, the terrible one, enters the door the strongest are shaken, * At this moment thelmoon, witch had been clouded up to this time, came ' : y et g ' ' : : : Oy to give an exten- the bravest quail---all shrink from the unwelcome guest Days and weeks go out in full splendor, and sent a flood of light into every corner of the tiny room. Space won't allow us gl by, and still he stays, and slowly the lesson is-learned, that the intruder can " How' wondrously beautiful, how heavenly the moonlight is," the man sive description of our magnificant stock 206 PRINCESS STREET never be driven away, and only by the readjustment of one's life can power murmured; then, turning to the girl'and regarding her compassionately, he i= be gained to bear his presence continued: "1 will make you see the moonlight with your inward sense --the of Furs but we want every one who can The blow which had fallen upon her child struck to the mother's heart spiritual. I will improvise for you a Moenlight Sonata. You shall be its ie : A or " 5 ¥ ? \ show-rooms personall and pierced it as with a thousand arrows. * Only by mothers can this mother's inspiration, its motive power. ; to come to our P y: grief be measured. Every phase of passionate rebellion was hers, fought and There was a deep and pregnant silence in the.room, as the master's rugged conquered only in the midnight loneliness of her sleepless hours. Over and head sank/flown upon his breast; then softly his fingers pressed the keys, and over the woman lived the years of her child's life, murmuring: *'She was sent there flowpd forth an infinitely tender melody, which crept greatly on, even as to' buy or not. to save me from despair the time her father died, and through poverty and the moonbeams' light creeps over the earth: Filled with the sadness of-all Sa Here are a few price suggestions: struggle she was my one joy T'hen a faint smile would come and she would the ages, there was yet the calm, the dignity, which speaks of love and con-» whisper It was the summer she was seven that she could play from memory © quered sorrow. Alaska Sable sets 9 the ' Bagatelles.' Each year how tall and fair she grew, always loving, but her | "Oh, I can bear all things now!" the girl whispered, leaning forward, > 5 one de * to which she gave everything--time, thought. her very self--was to fearful to lose one magic. strain ™ : Mink sets be, worthy to interpret the master's music.' Then bitterly this poor hurman Seeing the wrought tension in the Child's face, the player saidT "Now | Isabella Fox sets heart would cry Now all is ended. Why could it not have been my faded, 'will show you how the maon sprites dance." 8 useless eyes that closed, and not hers, with all life's promises before them?' And quick to answer to his change of thought the girl cried gleefully: "QO, Black Lynx sets As the weeks went by > the exaltation of sorrow, as - « Pointed Fox sets it might. be called, faded, ti i i a a Sigh gp ? ; Ta Tre i J Persian Lairb sets FOR and left the blind girl list- Ms . g FR Fer y 5 By / VG less, weary, struggling when dt : : rT e 4 . : 3 ; % Sat Hudson Bay Sable sets with her mother for a cheer fulness which did not for 7 4 os, € 7 % 3 aad Z 3 Russian Sable sets ..... CHRISTMAS one instant deceive the eyes } A : ey y E op Bo 7 . ) y of They 8 . . ; : % a : Ld | 2 Y w-- regardless of whether they are prepared Love know "not love who say that ' Love iw blind' nay,nothing makes a MET ; a y } h ' : : 3 Do you know that we carry one of Hh vee J loung mune ge AE ur: Ee b \ : > Alaska Seal Jackets the largest and best assortments of By j= power Virtues Site ow ; i " i ; : : gy ! Mink Jackets with a resplenden ight, p. " : { } Si ) b i : and faults, while seen, are : N r o IE " ; Broadtail Jackets hidden from unfriendly cri 3 faa pd el p- 3 ticism, till love so change ; ol ; d Russian Poney Jackets Men's : thém that they become » ' . i ON ; Neat Seal Tackes. very gold of character EYL = "With sinking heart,day 4 Grey Squirrel Jackets by day, the woman marked ' 8 > ' Neckwear the eased pallor of the Muskrat Jacket girl's face; the feebleness with which she groped her 23 ¢ ; : Mufflers way, : The one hour of the ' i Men's Mink Lined Coats ....$175 day in which she seemed her 42.50 former self was-at dusk ) 3 " v ' Men's Muskrat Lined Coats ( loves when, seated at her loved . Men's Coon: Coats ' 3 1 : a -- y Persian Lamb Jackets - instrument, all her despair- ing longings were voiced in i a a] Fp "We are making a distinct specialty of 1c. In the cty "'*She cannot live and bear this long," the mother p would whisper, as she list- | = : ened AE the door i f values are not excelled in Canada, . It was. one glorious Just a few suggestions as to what evening, when the unusu- you can buy him for "Xmas ally long pause which fol- -_--------ryy lowed this most beautiful of Fur-lined garments and believe our adagios told of the struggle : ! | Write for Catalogue Neckwear (boxed), 25c.fto $1.00 being waged within. a § & Suddenly the woman Scarfs, wav wf. 50c. to 2.50 stood erect, the tears not 1 ; dried upon her cheek, but n : Gloves, . 50k. to 4.50 a new light in her eyes, and Shirts, $1 00 to 2.00 a firm rgsolve intalliating " ry i : y her face--' Yes, that wi a i | Umbrellas, . . 100to 7.50 | help, and that only; to- | x | morrow I will go to him." Fancy Vests, . 1.50 to 6.00 It was nearly the clpse : a of the following long sum- ; RQ £ Dressing Gowns, . $1 0 and $1 2 mer day, when, in answer to -- 1 ---- O. Sm : a low knock, an elderly wo- BEETHOVEN'S DREAM . By De Lemunc 3 fs i - $6.00 to $8.00 man opened the door"of one an THO EA » > . it : Makers of Fine Furs Bath Ro es, 4.00 to 8.00 of the seemingly endless : i Scar + othet ke = de -- : . ae , ' apartments which lined each side of the narrow, dark street I can see them twining their arms about each other, their pale moonbeam tresses p . 3 Arimen S Which) DE weit 2 He will soon tome,' -said the house waving fas they float' hither ¢ 1 thithe r, now singly, now in groups 126-128 Princess St. 3 - Ther darker moo » i > nn and the keys under his fingers rang 1.25 keeper as she disappeared Then a darker mood A e key ler his fingers rang * ~ . . nost timidlv: the visitor sat down in the cheerless room, near a table, out in bitter protest, in fiery re L i \ Kingston, Canada. Fancy Hosiery, | Fancy Braces, | ° 30c. to Fancy Handkerchiefs, 15¢. to $1.00 dusty disordered strewn with manuscript, on top. of which lay a slate Agitated, trembling, the rouched 1 5 side, but he was oblivious to Fall blv : z 1 3 es blir ¢ r th us. the Titan was nb and pencil As the woman's eves fell upon thig she exclain inaudibly, blin 1 y the Thea W 8 there taking ut 'P ] 2 1 t : ill te 1e battling r. T 2 of' sour urged about him, as the roar taking up the pencil This is the bettggway--I will ar ib 2 1 t hen tl irged abou 1 1€ TO All T S G 2 will ndt need my presence; it.will be easier f s both if he reads it by himsel f th oce cl 1 . 1 thy have gone over Il Ties, Scarfs, Gloves, Etc, He has known grief and appointment, and as Heart answereth to heart, 1 u ye a above tim circumstance, for I am Boxed in Fancy Boxes. , will he respond to what I ask. deathle ss . : etic hia ross 45 girl 3 to ox 1 deo 1 t e one on eart And ly ti i [ he ny we, cot faith, for I BROCK STREET dow can-Tunake you under: i you and elif? T Tes Eon : : ils the wheels ngs of delight.