---- to en . As he stepped Spinner and His Web. Som-- By M. J. PRILLIPS, "Mr. Spinner, this is my friend, Miss Brooks," said John Aldrich, "She's the postmistress of -Holly- wood." Spinner bSowed, courtierlike. wondered why they had a lady postmaster here--till . now," he tered, Miss Brooks seemed made for flat tery; she was little and blonde and very pretty, but just now her dim- ples were under stern control, end she appraised Spinner with a swift, keen glance. : "Yes," smiled Spinner easily, "from the big, wicked city. Fifty cents' worth of twos, please." I was no haste in his speech, yet one might gain the impression that he, did not care to have Aldrich discuss himself and his visit with the postmistress, But Alhrich, great, good-natured, honest John, had discussed things too long with Ruth Brooks to change now. Disregarding the hint in the other's manner, he went on: "Mr. Spinner is president of the Udn- dor Crude Rubber company, I'm go- ing to invest some money with him." "You are," asked Ruth quickly. "Mow much, John." = ¥ "Oh, about a thousand doMars," re plied John, trivial sum. It represented, pected his entire savi "Yes," inl , in the same easy manner, before Ruth could comment, "Me. Aldrich is one of the many in ireum atti that rebar inte this weetth that ris pouring inte thi count We are not asking the big capital to come fn : "What dividend do you pay?" in- terrupted, Ruth. ¥ "On a thousand dollars? Twenty dollars a month," Spinner's promin- ent gray eyes, which had the trick of looking at one either too much or not enough, narrowed, watchfully, His wide, slack, mouth, the mouth of a ready talker, tightened under his dyed moustache. The tmistress smiled frostily, "Good mterest, John," she comment ed; "twenty-four per cent. a year !" "Ian't it ?" said John, heartily. He saw that his old friend and his new did not seen especially cordial, and he wanted things harmonious. "That's more than a farm, or even a store, would pay me. The money is in Ha- garsville bank. Mr. Spinner is going to drive over with me to-morrow." Spinner, sure of his man, despite the girl's disapproval, grew guardedly insolent. 'Do you care to invest, Miss Brooks ?"* he asked, with a smile. Before she could answer the door was opened briskly. A stranger stiode in and without ceremony took the prosperous-looking Spinner aside. They conversed in an undertone for a few moments. Then Spinner turned back. "Where does Zébulon Cole live, Al- drick "Fifteen miles onst." Spinner frowned thoughtfully. "And Hagarstown is west 1" "Yeu; ei miles." "Then I'm afraid 1 can't go over with you to-morrow. Mr. Cole has sent for me; be wants to invest with us, We couldn't make the two trips in the shape the roads will be." He nodded towards the outdoors, where the first heavy snowfall of the winter was filling the ruts and blanketing the walks, He glanced calculatingly from John to the mutinous face of the postmis- tress. "Tell you what, though, we could go the next day." Aldrich looked up in surprise. "Why, you told me you had a directors' meeting in Chicago !" Spinner's start of recollection was well done. "That's so; I'd forgotten all about it." He took a heavy envelope from his pocket. Across the face of it was printed, in staring black type, the ad- dress of the Condor company. He af fixed a half-dozen of the stamps he had just purchased to the upper right- hand corner, wrote "Special delivery" beneath them, and handed it to Al drich. "You:can send the money in that," he said. 'Don't buy a draft. Get hundred dollar bills, pin them to a sheet of heavy paper and send them along. And be sure to get the letter away to-mdrrow. All stock subserip- tions must be in ten days before the first of the month in order to partici- pate in the regularly mont * You oan mail it at Hagars- town." John shook his head. "We patron- post office," he replied, with a smile. "The salary of. king as if it were a she 'sus eireum- going to shate in the|}i 4 ' 2 in, a letter in his band, Ruth slipped out the back door. Robbie, whistling, sorted and tied the mail. John drop- ped the long envelope into the letter: slot and harried out, almost guiltily. Robbie, engrossed in his task, did not turn around. Two days later Aldrich came to the i indow, a worried look on a telegram from Mr. he sawl. "My money there yet. What do you imagine's wrong. I mailed the letter here night before last. "Fhe mail went out as usual," plied Ruth. "Koblie tied it We'll send a tracer." The next afternoon Aldrich came back again. His face usually ruddy, was white as chalk. "Did you see the papers 7' he asked. "The police have closed up the Candor Crude Rub- ber company. And they're looking for Spinner. They say he's--he"s a awitidler." ith trembli , re- wp. hands he unfolded the newspaper ich he held. Here's a partial list of the losers. Zebulon Cole is in for four thousand dollars. My name isn't there, Ruth. Do you think he didn't get my money ? "Or was he trying to fool me in to sending 9 and more "I didn't like that Spinner," replied Ruth, irrelevantly. "I dide't like his mouth or bis eyes. And he i , John hair. aybe Robbie overlooked it, Come in and we'll look She opened the door in the searched very' thoroughly for half jan hour, but the little workroom i nothing. The were about ta give] up in despair when John. kicked, tenthtively, the receptucle for out i i "Po you ever move that If it was out a little bit from the slot would drop be "» yes I' answered Ruth, exeit- sweep behind it. 1 moved For Jobn ig upright against bottom of the partition, was his lot ter. He seized it eagerly and tore it open. Yikes; his ten one-hundred-ol- lar bills were insidd just as he had sealed them up. "Ruth," he said, huskily, with shin- ing eyes, "I need a guardian! But for you I'd have lost; this, every cent of it. I guess I'm too easy. will you marry me, dear ? I want youy Tre always wanted vou." Whom John went happily home that night, of a sudden an idea came to him, and he chuckled to himself : "The little rascal ! I believe she lot that box out from the wall on pur- pose." George Ham Fallure. You know George Ham, of course, and the report that for once he has failed in the art in which he is sup- reme grand master, will be received 'with astonishment. But this seems to be the case, and the blame is all on the political campaign. The host-at- large of the C. P.R. has been taking the latest travelling conti t of British journalists through the West. Every day of the tics grew louder an rity proceeded, and tly the vis- tors could think of nothing else. They longed to attend some political meetings, and see how such affairs are conducted in this country. But Mr. Ham continued to show them model farms and other niarvels of western progress instead, as was his duty. The newspaper men didn't like louder as . the {to admit that their desire for infor- mation was lost and that only their curiosity was alive. But they began to look bored, and even the genial George's wit could not cheer them up. Finally, the journalists held a cau- cus at the Royal Alexandra Hotel in Winnipeg, and a deputation waited on their host. "Ham," said the spokes- mah, "we will have to go through with this civic welcome affair. We sup- pose there is no way out of it. But for heaven's sake don't show us anv more experimental farms. If you do there may be murder, Take us to a political meeting." Everybody laughed and the was done. thing A Little Short. An ingenious young man once took his fiancee to church in a small coun- try village, and when the time for "eollection"" came around he ruther ostentatiously displayed a silver dol- lar. Presuming upon their engagement the young waman placed a restrain ing hand upon the arm of her fiancee. "Don't be extravagant, George," she divi- | exclaimed "Oh, that's nothing," he replied. "I always make a point of giving a dol- far when I go to a strange church." Just then the deacon came with the plate and George dropped a coin, And be magnanimous. now I must make arran; early start to-morrow." off his silk hat and bowed "" = T fF | § F o i La TH ' * i fe 3 I; i i fol h iF ts Everything seemed favorable, and the young man beamed with a sense of | y the minister gave out 'the notices for the week, and con- cluded with the wholly unexpected an- said he, "amounted to ninety-five cents." hadn't much to say all the home way to his financee"s The Harder Task. Senator Rooi, at a luncheon at the THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1911. side only with a puff of velvet, at tree aigrette of ostrich: spirals, PRODUCE AND PRICES. The Market is Well Supplied and "Prices Good, Kingston, Oct. 21. --The market clerk reports as follows : Carrots, 40c. to 50c. doz. bunches; turnips, 060c. to 60c. per bag; new potatoes, $1.15 to $1.25 bush.: beans, 3c, qt.; new cabbage, tte. doz.; new cel- ery, Te. per head; tomatoes, 75¢c. to $1 bush.; green corm, 8c. to 10e. doz; onions, $1 a bush.; radishes, Je. bunch; lettuce, Se. bunch; apples, 20e. to 25¢. peck. J. A. MacFarlane, Brock street, re- ports grain, flour and feed selling as follows : Oats, 43c.; local wheat, $I; buckwheat, 75c.; seed rye, $1; peas, 9c. to $1; yellow feed corn, 70c.; the din of poli-4 "have kept t fete bakers' flour, $2.50 to $2.75; farmers', $2.75; Hungarian patent, $2.80; oat- meal and rolled oats, $4.50 per bbl; cornmeal, $1.80 to $2; bran, $23 ton; shorts, $25 ton; baled straw, $7; loose, 88; hay, loose, $9 to $11. Meat--Beef (local), carcase, 7ic. tor 8ic.; prime western beef. $10 per ewt.; by carcase, cuts, 10c. vo 18ec.; Eve hogs, 6 3-5¢. Ib.; dressed hogs. 10¢." pork, 8c. to 10c., by quarter; mui- ton, lle. to 13c.; spring lamb, lie. to 16e. per lb.; veal, Se. to 10c. per Ib. ducks, $1 to $1.25 pair; turkeys, 18c. 20. Ib.; fowl, 90c. to $1 a pair; spring chickens, 75¢c. to 9c, pair; byt- ter, creamery, 30c, to 3c. lh.: rolls. 2c. to 2c. 1h.; eggs, Me. to 35¢. Dominion Fish company reports rices as follows : Whitefish, 15c. Ib.; 'pike, 10c. 1b.: hinook salmon, 30c, Ib.; kippered erring, Yarmouth bloaters, 40¢c. doz.; Atlantic salmon, 30e. b.; salt codfish, Se. Ibi; halibut, 20c.; fresh haddock, Oc. 1b; bullheads, 12ic. 1b.; mackerel, Sc, Ib.; sea bass, 12ic. Ib. George Mills & Co. quote the lowing prices for raw furs : Red fox, as to size, 3 to 86.50; skunk, as to size and length of stripe, Sle. to $1. raccoon, large, 82.60; mediom, $1.50; small, (de. mink, as to color and size, ¥2 to 86: muskrats, 25¢. to 12¢.; weasels, 20c. to fol be, | John McKay, Brock street, reports as follows : Hides, trimmed, 104. Ib.; horsehides, $1 to BIA; calfskins, veals, lde. Ib.; deacons, 31; sheepskins, 60c.: taflow, in eakes, Ge. Ib; beeswax, Ih.: ginseng, $5 Ib; wool, washed, 20¢, th.; unwashed, 13¢c. th. Raw furs: Red fox, No. 1, large, 36; No. 1, medium, 84; raccoon, No. 1, large, =2 to x3 No. 1, medium, $1 to $2; mink, No. i, large, $6 to 87; Ne. 1, medium, $2 to He, As Good as a Doctor in the House. Baby's Own Tablets should be kept in every home where there are little ones, 'hey are as good as a doctor, are absolutely safe and can always be relied upon to drive away any ma- lady ariging from derangements of sto- mach or bowels. Coneertiing them Mrs. 0. A. Wheeler, Northlands, Sask, says: "1 have found Baby's Owy Tablets are invaluable medicine. | live twenty miles from town and doe: tor, so am glad to have so reliable a medicine at hand. 1 consider the Tab- lets a real necessity in the home and shall never be .without them. baby well and have ie baby." The Tab- are sold ¢ medicine denlers or mail at . a box from The he illiams' Medicine Co., Brockvills, made him a Price a Baton. A story is told of Marsiml Lefevre, Duke of Dante that favorite of Na- . 9 ¢ of wavy and unkindness which a companion of his ehild- who mel him in his prosperity, "of his riches, titles and luxury, said in reply: "Well, now, von have it all, but at the price which I have paid for it. We will go i garden, and L'will fire » mus f%et at vou sisty times, and then i you are not killed everything shall be yours. . BLACK VELVET AND WHITE LACE FOR THEATRE HATS. Black velvet is not going to yield an atom of its cause it has enjoved unprecedented vogue laces are well to the fore, the two widely different attractively combined and especiallyin the theatre and restaurant service, The one pictured is constructed over a wire frame, and has an almost transparent brim finished at the under EERE St popularity just be- for so many months, but as materials are being case of autumn hats for the left side of the velvet crown is a 'S PROGRESS. Becoming the Railroad Centre of the West. "The Railroad City." This plication with which Moose Jaw has been decorated, and nothing more fit- ting could be suggested to aescribe the important position which Moose Jaw possesses among the cities of Western Canada. Situated midway between Winnipeg and Calgary, it is but nat- ural that Moose Jaw should have heen selected as the headquarters of the C. P. R. at Saskatchewan. $1,000,000 represents an approximate estimate of the outlay involved in the investment of the C. P. R. in Moose Jaw at present. Emploving a veritable army of men, the monthly payroll ap- proaches close to $200,000, More rail- way lines are now operated out of Moose Jaw than any other city in the two provinces of Saskatchewan and Alberta, for Moose Jaw and Winnipeg are the only two citizens in Western Canada, with direct railway connec tion to Minneapolis, St. Paul and Chi- cago, and with the numerous lines now projected into the city, Moose Jaw promises to rival Winnipeg as jthe great railroad centre of Western Canada, Jut a short distance from the stock vards is the new car repair shop, just recently erected. The need for such a building has always been felt here, in view of the great amount of traffic handled some of which is certain to need repairing. From the above some idea may be gained of the great am- want of work that the C.P.R. has done and is doing in the city. That these operations are but forerunners of greater and more elaborate ones, no one will doubt. We have the words of Sir William Whyte himself, that: 'The new system of divisional points destines Moose Jaw to be the most important city between Calgary and Winnipeg." A statement, which as time passes, is coming more and more to be fulfilled, HEROISM AT SEA. Rapidly is the ap- English Sailors® Rescue of a Dutch Crew. 21.--A stirring story uf the heroic rescue in the North Sen by Chief (Mlicer Harvey and six seamen of the steamer Cawdor Castle, of the crew of the Dutch steamer Willy, was told when the for mer vessel arrived at Middlesborough recently. On a previous Sunday morning, while a tremendous Was raaning, and during a hurricane of "wind, the Willy was seen to be flying sigmals of distress. A life boat was launch- od from the Cawdor Castle, and af ter a perilous effort got alongside the Willy, and took off her crew. Shortly afterwards the Duteh ves sel sank, the lifeboat just getting clear in time. The rescuers had the utmost difficulty in getting back to the Cawdor Castle. Their battle with the waves lasted two and a half hours, and they were completely over- come, Another good story of heroism at sea was reported at Yarmouth, When The fishing boat Martie was sixty miles from shore she was struck by the sea. The cabin "was flooded, and water gotting into a drum of earbide, an explosion ensucd. The place being in darkness a match was struck, and the escaping gas ignited, setting fire to the cabin. Captain Dye lodt the wheelhonge, and, leaping into the eabin, i the iron drum i had become hot, carried i om deck, and hurled it overboard, after which the fire: in the cabin was extinguish: Dye was terribly burned about thr face and bands, 'and is now being treated ashore. Wm di ito i XP Henry and Wilkam Day, of Belleville, were trolling iin the | bay on Tuesday afternoon, when they hooked a maskioonge, which gave them unite a time far about half hour. It measured fifty-two inches London, Oet. sen -the an, in -- EDUCATION IN CHINA. Where Students Find That Schooling is Far From a Cinch. A Chinese schoolboy sets off one fine morning when 7 or 8 years old to enter on his instructional course. He makes the most profound obeis- ance to his teacher. His parents provide ihe table at which and the stool on which he sits. They alzo supply the "four precious articles, the ink slab, the ink cake, the pen or brush for writing and the paper. He wll have no need at first of the writing materials, all his time being smployed in" memorizing the books gven him: Perhaps a dozen boys, cach a class by himself, are busy on hiz entry. Bach is shouting his task 1t the top of his voice, tie teacher sitting at h's table in all the som- nolent wakefulness of a judge. No wrong pronounciation or intonation sgeap>s his pract cal ear, and coc rection 's froquent. : It is a simnle country house, with its 'earthern floor, its unglazed win: dows and its air of utter poverty. Our young hopeful, says The Nat'anal Review, in due time is introduced to the "Trimetrical Classic" and the questionable statement which forms its very threshold, that "Men at birth ar: radically good," so set in classical form that he has no more iden-of its meaning than 'f it were in Greek. It is not meaning, how. ever, that is the objeet just now, but sound and memorizing. Then he will be introduced to the book of surnames, 400 in number, a8 another exercise in "getting by heart" after which. in some parts of the land, the "Thousand Character Classic" is set. This 's a book con- sisting of the number of characfers named, no one of which is ever used twice. Still no esplanat'on is vouch- safed. For all the learning our youth is gaining he might with equal profit memorize a number of aucton cata: logues. Ha is given in varying order according to the custom followed by his teacher, the four sacred books the "Great Learning," also known ase "The Door of Virtuz"'; the "Analects" of Confuc'us, the "Doctrine of the Mean," and the "Book of Meneiue." As early as 13 or 14, it may be, he will ave done the memory work of four books and be capable of reeling. off "yards, rods, furlongs, or miles" of learning. Then enlighten. m- nt in the form of explanation be- g'ns. Darkness is made visible, and education may be said to have begun How, Indeed? The woman who had rented a suite at an 'uptown hotel is very finicky, but the manager felt when he looked at the rooms after a complete renova- tion that there was nothing she could find fault with. But there was. She looked carefully at every piece of furniture, scrutinized the decorations and looked at the position of jhe jle- phone in the bedroom. Then went into the sitting room. "Why, vou have not put a tele hone in the parlor," she exclaimed. 'Now, suppose I should fall uncon- scious in this room some time. Will you tell me how on earth I am going to be ablx to summon assistance?" Locomotive Puffs. The number of puffs which a loco- motive gives in a given distance: is governed entirely 'by the size of its driving wheels. For every turn of the wheels it gives four separate puffs. Therefore if the circumference of the driving wheels is twenty feet, which i= about the average, and the train is going at fifty miles an hour we get 880 pulls a minute, The cough cr puffs is due to the ibrupt emission of waste steam from the smokestack. When there are more than eighteen ouffs a second the human ear cannot distinguish them separately. --London Tit-Bits. How Spain Punished Vandals. There was a trial by court martial of forty-three medical students of the University of Havana in November, I871, for the alleged crime of seratch- ing the glass plate of a vault con- tsinng the rrmi'ns of a volunteer. Eight of the offenders were condemn. sd to death on Nov. 28 and shot the following day, while thirty-one others were sentenced 1) imprisonment and four were acquitted. An outbreak of ndignation ensued because of the severity of the penalties inflicted. The Wing of a Bird. The typical vertebrate limb, vari. ously modified in the arm of a man or the fore limb of a cat or frog or bird, has one bone in the upper arm, which gves supnort to two in the forearm, which similarly yield to four at the wrist, and from these five digits can just comfortably be ex. tended. The b'rd, however, decided tg-fly' rather than grasp with its hand, so that three and a half fingers are all it has retained of the five which its geptilian ancestors be. quéathed to it. Staving It OF. The street piano was out our way the other night, and our next door neighbor didn't like it. "Here's a nickel," he shouted to the grinder, "if you'll go away at nee. "Bes der someboda wat is seeck?" asked the grinder. "Not ye" answered our neighbor. py? Rivers In Korea. On the western coast of Korea the tides of the Yellow sea are higher than anywhere in the world outside the Bay of Fundy, and while the rivers of eastern Korea are clear streams, that run swiftly from the mountains, those on the western sida fare at brown, muddy rivers, up the thi foot ocean tides surge many, miles Earthquakes. Andaman islanders, lowest fn Bav- , think that ad by the spirits of are the dead, . who, impatient at the delay of the resurrection, shake the palm trees on which they believe the earth rest. Sale of extra strong corsets, 4 hose length, and weighed thirty-eight T daaes was Ford shunting engine in af § | 8 5 i: dm mpporters, Se. Corsets for lar w, 81.50. New York Dress oy 200 Princess st . 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THE GATLIN INSTITUTE 428 JARVIS ST. TORONTO Phone North 4338, A. HARGRAVE, Manager, Women who spend a great deal of money on clothes are particular to select perfectly fitting corsets adapted to their individual figures. Formerly, it was im- possible to secure such corsets except at very high prices. The D-& A non-rustable Corset meets the need of those who are moderate in their expenditures for clothes, yet na- turally wish to look trig and well-dressed. We illustrate the D & A non-rustable model, No. §12, which can be had for $2.00 at any good store. It is designed on the latest lines, carefully made, and the best value ever offered to Canadian women. Imported corsets of equal quality are sold in Canada at about $2.75, on account of duty. Other styles non-rustable D & A Corsets at do $1.00 to $5.00, at all dealers. DOMINION CORSET C0., QUEBEC, Que. Malar of the celebrated La Divs Corsets May Abolish Silver Coinage. coin of less aise contaifihe fhe same Bt. Petersbucg, Oct. 2L-Tt is re [relative quantify of pure silver us the ported that Rassias is about to aholish silver coinage of other tea coun her silver coinage ard replace |irvies, instead of, us now, about twice it wi nickel for the lower values, {that amount. The rolorm will probs and for rubles and hall rbles with ably fake some years io effort, '