PAGE SIX. on on HOTEL -- gS DESERONTO. the. BWART HOUSE, Leading 9 gent Hotel: Kates, $1.59 per |. % Fe JAS, STEWART, Prop. oi ------ TRAVELLING. ND TRUN RS LY SIRF NG SYSTEM Montreal, P.Q., Sept. 27th to Oct. Ist. 4 Trip Tickets will be issued Cw y. Sept. 28th, at $5.80. Including one admiesion to the Horse Show; good to return until Oct. 8rd. Lo Cnt, Rae Paci Cat DAILY, SEPT, 15th to OCT. 15th, EG $5.10 DAILY, OCT. 1st to 15th. ES $47.05 Ana, other points at rates in propor- ; "full information ig : " HANLEY, Agen Carver onsen ahd tan Btreets. roNé PEMBROK ALLWAY n Coapection Wi CANALIAS PACIFIC RAILWAY. LOW COLONIST RATES PACIFIC COAST Datly, Sept. 15th to Oct. 15th, Yen 8 Fallen se | $45.10 Dally, Oct, 1st to 15th. Francisco, Cdl. BE) $47.05 ang other points J rates in propor. tion. Kingston-Ottawa leave Kingston 1201 pm, rive Ottawa 5 p.m. Leave Ottawa 10.456 a.m. = Kingston 3.56 p.m. Full particulars at K. & P. and CPR Ticket Office, Ontario Street. Fe CONWAY, Gen. 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Susall Pill, Small Dose, Small Price igonulipe wast boat dgpasuret © POUTTPTEI ELECTRIC IRON" TOASTERS By the way have yon every tried. toast -m: «le on an Electric Toastor, if not you have ne\¢) eaten toast. Let us send Send you one Longest Belated Ele 1 Firm in the City. } i : ; Frelght Agents. Ticket Agent, | TO ; ORTHOPEDIC HOSPIT." 100 VEST BLOOR STREET, TORONTO, 17. Miollowed, he read SRR RRR Me. For Fall Wer g 2 Ladies' Buttoned with Kid or Cloth Te The Newéss: The Neatent, and d The i Marshall Dexter took the rusty tle key cay & preserve | | | package. ysee it when {at the comet i Thompson, In The Tail OF The. Comet By DOROTHY BLACKMORE. lit- from its ring and inserted if in the equally rusty lock of the old- fashioned portmantesu on the floor at its side, "It's a sirangé instruction--this," he said, looking at the document in his 'hand. "And when mother died and left it to me, nearly thirty years ago, '1 doubted | would ever live to carry it out." He laughed to himself as his eye wanderad, almost with unconscious pride, to the mirror on the wall of his room. He did not look his seventy-six venrs, He was tall and his shoulders wore broad, Hl stooped a ghing through so many "tight plac: he always said; He had never missed nn day -in his office, and there was not a elark nor underling in his emplo who had" his wits move keenly wit him. He reread the clause in the docu- ment in his hand. * * To my son, Marshall, my old 'portmantesn' with tha key. It is not to be unlocked until! his 'seventy-sixth birthday--if he lives so long." "Apd I'm seventy-six to-day," peated the old man, He turned the key and opened the faded old bag an: his features ex- pressed the "gleeful nnticipation of a pd opening his Chrisiras box. In the pocket insii- there was a He untied he faded ribbon apd found a book. oars filled his eyes as be read acro.i the fiyleaf, "Baby's book. Ma:h.'l Dexter, born May 18th, 1909, Pooucolarly interest. ing because of an <casion when he was one year old--t is book is pre served for. him by |. mother, Mary Dexter." The man turned '1: pages quickly, passing hastily ove. everything relat- ing to his first tooth, his first party, his first little mock | roscod between pages, his curl, his way other baby , belongings that hai! fen dear to the mother. : day. "On thi, bi: first birthday, baby saw Halléy's et. Papa and I held the 'glasses to is eyes and tried to make Link umder-t 1 what it was, There was & wonder'. view of it from the bedyoom baleon. und baby saw it. He will be the (iv one of our little family of thre ho can live to it vis io us weventy-five With + on our balcony part: 'were our dear friends and - neighbo <, Mr. and Mrs. and {Lv baby, Muriel, nine months old, 1! my baby reads this on his seventy « th birthday, as it i= my intention (cv ave it for him to read, 1 want his '0 learn whether or not Muriel Thom} « is still living. It may be difficult, i+ rirls marry and love 'their names, bol he is my son and nothing will be : o difficult for him." The old man rend 1 through the baby record his mo: had so fondly and fanhfully kept [+ him, Then he laid it aside. Halley's comet « time--~May, 1085 conversation. Obe : r ation airships were everywhere to '» found. He had seen it only the + ht before. It was old-it was alot ancient his sory to the man, | this book-+this record of his having «en it on a pre- vious visit made it « th while. He leaned back in his -' », the old port- manfeau at his feét, 'ie book on the table beside him, ai sought in the recesses of his men for traces of Muriel Thompson. li went back over his own married Tile of forty years. He thought f his son out west and his son's {aiily; he lingered for a4 moment on thr emory of a daughter now with ther in an- other world, but he ould recall no Muriel Thompson. |" memory failed him when be tried ecall incidents of his childhood. ZY rom time to time. 'y the day that Pe ges from the Baby book, and the in lowing night he viewed the strange "1 the heavens with a renewed int . He sat for long moments on t's» porch of his home, looking at the cat tailed star, He tried to picture | anit as a small TF baby being forced iv hold unseeing eyes to a pair of gio in order to see this same heave! body eeventy- five years ago. 4 Even as he sat th: 1 man servant in his home sought ii:-. ' "There's a Indy 1 see vou, wir, in the drawing Poor" said the ser- vant. Although Marshall feminine visitors he «7 vears hence. * at that very ole topic of to ey well, pr 3 caving the "ha hi Inok at the comet + und which so much romance had po. been woven for him, the mam myc his way to the drawing room. > To one bas sn alt young gracdson te help find him. Yon ~yui-ay mothe; too, kept & baby book and when} looked at it fo see if she bad recorde the visit of thas comit for pe 1 foun 'hot | bad leon ub the cqmet party © vue Marshall Dexter--one year old back in Keokuk." "Is it possible !" exclaimed Doster too astonished yet to make fur ihe conversation. "This is indeed a. sur prise. L 'was seyventyeix yesterday and, In my mother's stebnge will | was to have my baby book on that date--if 1 lived." "And it was only & short time ago. when 1 became mterested in this hes venly stranger, that I learned of you. I wrote Thompson, here, to see if hi could get trace of you. Jt was only a else in my life-1"ve wen" : After that, there were réminiscences for the greater part of an hour wher Gorkins entered to announce a sur prise for the host; "Mr. and Mes. Arthur Dexter am Miss Angels Dexter, sir," he said with important dignity. In an instant the old man was clasp ed in the arms of his son, his daugh ter-in-law and his pretty granddaugh- ter, while the two strangers sab 16 gether in silence viewing them. "Father--we tried to get heré for ¢ surprise on your birthida¥," the so; explained, "but the train was delaye by the flood near Chiciigo and we hac to 'tome by air the remainder of the way. Had a rough passage.' "On account of the comet, I. suppose grandfather," added the young girl, And then, strangely- and yet not s strangely, either-- Dexter and his son with the little old lady, became inter ested in the wonderful romance of their Hves--the toming together of old time neighbors by means of the record: of two fond 'young mothers seventy five years ago. "Grandmother, it seems," the young man 'was saying, by way of making conversation with « the pretty young woman, "kpew your grandiather whet they 'were one yedr old." "How lovely 1" "And though, of course, they never really knew 'each other, 'their mother: our great. grandmothars-~wers chums" he went oun, And then, being young, they fell to discussing . something besides the' ro- mances of theie forefathers, 'And to Jook a Jittle farther into, the future~they 'discussed; 'to a 'profitable and happy result; their own romance, and thereby 'begun another generation to watch for the coming of the comet. a ---------------------- HUDSON BAY. (Continued from Page 7.) = most congenial activity and at the ut. most tension of their powers. Some tines the party disembarked and the canoes with. the baggage. still fi them were steered | dexterously down the ticklish places, at other points They were lightened of their: entire load, and again had to be carried bodily. Where the rapids were most dangeroug only the most skilful of the Indians were entrusted with the perilous task so that the sane men hal sometimes to repeat their feat several times over They never made a single mis among all those sharp rocks. Their tense faces strained to Sharp look out, they seemed fo khow instinetively where and just how much to give the needful turn to the swift paddle. Tt was preity to see how. much more smoothly they managed alter they had once gone down. The first time the éanoe might at moments abruptly and somewhat ominously bob and rock and sway but the next one steered by the mame two men who knew their channel now, would rise lazily with an indolent frace to the waves--the "gush. ing impulse" and easy spontaneous movement of A swan. In the morning of the 18th Rock Portalie the best of all 'Was passed, Everything had gone as smoothly as if the rough river had been a tram- way of polished«steel rails run over by well-oiled wheels. No wonder it hard for the Indian to take to farm- ing. It is difleult to conceive of men capahle of the brilliant bursts of en- ergy as well ap of the wary tension chance, but--as in almost every thing' rs wal ting trnips and menkind the stow clods wad with towing Sorraly {9 soe ny potatoes grow. Thank Heaven, APE 1IvVeR slg to irive her pring for a dom: Ope Tor the exer ihalities of mankood nem. From red-siinned time vei abundant oof the splencid she has Dred OW in Reek Portalre we had before wm ane !updred and ten miles of even broad and rapid water through high clay banks covered with scrubly sprues and abounding in all manner of bee ries including ret and lack wild cur rants. It was hore we saw the single all; and that one of very moderate slevation, which we met on the whole sourse of the journey frome Wisndper 0 the ses. At 7 pan, August 19th, we regehed York Factory. That was the one dev we had travelled in rain, It came down ior the last hour in large drops dimp- ing the water. As his excellency's ance, with the other's followmg abreget in good order a little way be- hind, rounded the last point our ears ong unaceustomed to such sounds were startled by the roar of cannon a salute of twenty-one runs Degg an Himirable fusiade of quick Tackling nusketry. We stopped out of anves woich had carted us for aundred niles witho it ever, one Dig almost say, so much ds barely plash- ng us with sOrav. Hecnived by Mr. Satz of the Hudson's Bay Co, and the Kev, Mr. Furies, ngland ani Mrs, Faries, who left withing undone to male onr stay of wenty four at York Factory a right spat in our memotics, we walk- detip the wooden pavement of the vharf slippery with the rain and no loubt with the blubber of many Fen aations of whales and seals, to efter the first indoor yuarters we had know ince we left Winnipeg. At York Factory there was much to remind us of the anvient glories of the tudson Bay company. Spatious wire- houses in which lay innumerable sking of them literally worth their weight in gold, mostly tied up in bales waiting for the Pelican, the com pany's ship, to carry then to Eng fand, large stores and an © exeellont fibrary containing much valudble his torical material. fact that" we in Polar latitudes' was brought vividly home an incident of the day before arrival. A Polar bear had strayed within (he paligade and had beeridshot, Ite flesh 'had dis- appeared within the capatiois maws of the husky dogs kept by the settle ment for sleighing; weé saw the skin irving on a fence. In the morning af- ter Lhe arrival at York Factory, his exvellency accompanied by most of the party, visited the mouth of the Nel- son river, which enters Hudson's Bay miles of where the Some 350 miles hours some Fhe were to use by our within two or three Haves disembouches., hack we had left the waters of the Nelson, crossed the watershed, and em- barked in the Hayes only to find him- self, after these long wanderings back in the inevitable Nelson once more. Both here and at Fort Churchill, the two rival harbors for the proposed Hudson's Bay steamer service, 1t Canadian government have commis sionad survey parties to make careful investigations so aw to establish the question of priority between them be yond ' all doubt. To the eye of the casual travellers, 1 must say, the mouth of the Nelson with its shallow water and extensive sand banks and the two great rivers to keep them con- stantly, supplied with fresh silt does not look very promising. One would think g tremendous amount of dredg- ing would have to be done there and constantly kept up. (To be continued.) A pretty wedding was celebrated at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Sanmel Nuttall, South Lake, on Septembér 19th, when their eldest daughter, Miss Edna Frances, was united in marriage to Hiram Carpenter, Leeds, E. Marsh, Napanee, leaving for Cals gary, was presented with a gold watch and fob by friends. The Welsh ladies' choir have sailed for Canada on the S88. Tunisian. renpiived Tor (his exciting kind of work, there | and forests enotrh an Can | off of the Church of | In the frozen regions of the North of in the hot countries of the South, a pure high grade Coffee like Seal Brand - offee is the friend of mankind, bringing comfort and cheer wherever used. ' Sold in 1 and 2 1b. Cans only. 115 CHASE & SANBORN, MONTREAL. aR Headaches ~-- nausea -- indigestion---muddy complexion--pimples-- bad breath--these are some of the effects of con stipation. = The mild, sensible. 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