4 SEVEN. Faun Ee n-- P00000 In OW Bile's Camp. § I's Camp, $7. WOPP00000000000000000¢ | vod and progited 10 find + ne He Sava he Old Bills comp nestled down on the years, edge of a lake in the heart of thei The Maine woods, It was built of logs and had been, originally, men's camp. Alter all the 1 not arote be strong. 1 h time m & post otis irc i ¢ Yr has known grandfather,' old guide sodded repeatedly as gE to a a lumber at had taken place, desirable | child had come to five timber had been cut and- the camp | daughter Bolles child 1 abandoned, Old Bll had found it and | eredible - bug made application to ite owners for it. Being granted permission to live in it, hel bad taken up his solitary abode in "she woods, and lor five years, winter and summer, he had small log house, Old. Bill was a guide and in his if wh JUST Com) realization of Hix onan grand with dim kis It soem mn od, a Bving like there she st proot of the tiuthefop-| {her dead mother, "Well, well, let's get jand eelebrate? the old lived within the | turning to the others A {too full for girls abel was BOMYIE Supper Fide began, Hix heart was further words 'with the there would be time enough for or lt younger daye no guide of the Maine! woods had been wore popular, was fully six feet in height knew the and mountgine like a bool, there had come a time when he no longer tramp from Hi and cook their meals ut time came he found that he could not leave the woods. He loved theses ery foot of them whether they sirewn carpeted with the snows of winter, The old guide from the United States. were monthly sum, small though it was, was suflicient for his wants, together with what he was able to find for his table iu the woods and lakes, In sum- mer he lived off fish and the berries that grew wild all about biz camp. In winter he fared well; vension and game were plentiful, It was Decomber--early BPecember-- but the winter was well under way in the north of Maine. Old Bill sat bs the stove in his cook house,' re rvling a six" months" old wagazine, when he heard the unfamiliar jungle of sleigh bells on the orisp air, » He took his feet from the stove a sat upright, sounds came nd listening. The iingling closer, had found the way the isolated log camp and Bill mad® haste to throw on hig great, fur cont and step out of doors, Some one to In the distance, picking their way slowly beiween the bows that ¢ the trail across. the frdizen lake, came two horses drawing a sled. The road was well marked by the green branches Old Bill bimkelf had helped to place in the 'ice, but a heavy of the night before made gleighing henvy. pd the ea%in door nd walked the narrow foot- ia the 1 He had a few friends #0 he village, six miles away, Bot he" Hitle thought of their coming on a day like this "Hello, Bill 1" came acrosg the cold air fo him. Rill waved his great hand, As he could soe nothing but the sled and some muffled eroatures within "We've got a surprise for vou, Old Bill," anid one of the men as the sled drew up, Snow path to the "You sure have, replied the guide, helping to hold the horses while fous pebsons erawled cut fram beneath the fuf peg Waderatopped Suto the deep Anow. "You sure" hie 1 haven't seen a liviug soul for three weeks nor used my voice for as long. Put the houses up in (he shad and binnket them 'well: | Have cou got feed 7 Frank Alen, for it ed to the wnimals and then made his way with the others to the warm lit the cook shanty of the camp. J "Now, Old Bill." he began, putting his afm on a litte figure all wrapped in a great coat, fur cap, veil and mit- tens, "hero is the surprise |" Ie took off, the heavy garments and a lovely girl stood before his. "This, Old Bill, is your granddaughter, lsabel Rogers. ~from Omaha, Nebraska" Old Bill vubbed his eves--he did not wear glassew. "Not-pnot mv daugh ter Belle's giel 7 he eried, looking closely at her, The girl nodded. "Yes, grandfath: of; your daughter Belle was my moth- or," she said. «The old wan put oui a hand trembled. "11 have not board her for yedsrs-not sifve she married that ranchman Rogers and went out west to live," he said. ~The others had stepped aside, see ing the old man's emotion. "My mother has--has gone," the girl faltered, "and it was her last re quest--she made me ' promises to find you and live with vou. She was "afeard of my heaith and she knew the cold mountain air and the out-oi-door life would be good for nie. Oh, net that I'm not all right," the girl hast: ened to explain, "but mother was _ afraid after fathér died that I might was he, that from vel | attend Frank and hg [gether in front of (he woods and "trails, the lakes | basket morning till | These boys are starved night with young, enthusiastic tigher- j them if they'd drive men 'or hufiters, and caréy their Packs | should have suc Allen rubbed his th a dinner when that [never had in camp bef { Old Bill's eves twinkled. them sor make ve with fragrant pine needles or {Pl make | bread," in If yon Ww made piled hig out the shudder not brave mother, Old Bil giv a pretty we he Vis { The wi |way nex her gran girl took and. helped comtartat marked Igreat fire for her in the that night as the five sat resl-covered table cooking and welcomed t ne venison HUT we good of the guide added some had a small pension he went about the cook He had gery- ,90Wn pots and ed his time in the civil war and this [Rave to stay right here pans. the ill stay, "that's from this minute." Isabel looked out of 'the at the adjoining cabin of logs, h with snow old, they told her. passed evidenen she nd had I's camp rang with and anddnug not | wtorn g Hors we t+ morning lather were readily to the make Fhe to her He wurde to ha stove, there is enough plain Then ia week and with the could 1son, Old Bill, a8 they've ds them Old Bill's i I get a fire little aamp out Vou tiny She pronived merriment afound ite of the guide's » the camp the ter on their before Isabel and mt making fos paths in the snow and exploring litt had stove steaks that yonder, home window It was banks--to keep If a little through her at thought of sleeping out there of | it had unpacked the few homelike shé had "Do many asked the girl, hearing shots. in woods {a "Yeu 1s And eve night they room door, "Come | rising, woods, plenty," with her hunters brought r off, n as they sat at heard a knock in 1" \ lone man, blue and cold flung ope into a ¢h | Old him. Riil "Lost Phe asked, unbuttoning nthe great doo: air exhausted. rose hastily the man's fur coat. | "Yess 1 | mormng A lugk got lost from my I have been {rapping sver wo voir Tight.' y hight for you, he said supper that the surprised, at ome this the cook many a lost hunter." and tived, {le cabin that night it He pi yy said Old Bill, in Kindly tones. over and have supper with wre and my ~granddaughtor"' And after a while when the man wa | warmed and had become rested, way ri aid of your ven I guess we'll make out and I promised us out here. they I sho ar oor > Vou The cold weather le cabin de nd sh things replied the guide, id 118 a good season for deer." | roared Old Bill, without the This was the hospitality of the | fee and went fe thi boy," 2 amp $0 "In that food for will 1 | laughing, as getting the she did was her the wr the sank he night. w red i BRIDE'S GOwNs Even the afternoon frock now has its teailing skirt; cah, the long skirt is really brown crepe de chine--a very bordered *with fringe bodice of brown chiffon is laid ov collar of shadow 1 With smart afternoon of satin are worn, --_-- a & costumes ---- joined them, 'This often happens, Isabel, my girl, explained the old man, "so don'y Pve a refuge tl been for mine, indeed," added grateful man as he drank the cof Isabel had heated for him. When [Isabel : pl to Her lonely lit did not ses dense "You've heen In lonely. In all covered forest ) Something told never feel lonely Iwan ¢ year later that great she did not feel one her that she would again and though it that realized pst s what had taken place on that night, sho felt at peace with all the world, just now, and' slept. * pooAnd Old Bill still has his campy but it is enlivened dufing fizhitig 'and hunt ing memson by visits from his grand {daughter and the husband he | sheltee one cold SNOW Lavy to on December The pa done for Ind., say d4 to Vi of tion. "We without saying th 3 ly fe iron why Vin or, tario. little son. tried soveral ant gives them Says. le, wistiul faces such children, ing: "1 believe | nol cough amd any result, then using Vinol, and I take hat he is the health now, due to the 1.7 children need builds, them a fine ol and for 'the health He had a severe whooping which affected his lungs amd constitu' other 3 the ening cod liver elements and that Vinol remedies a give him but $5,000 in cash, the commenced rest of the pleasure in picture « use of. Vi- ' strength- the ton contains--that up It ie pleasant. to take ---- -- . guarantee that the results will satis every dollar of cash, fy you--money back if they 3 k Mahood's Drug Store, Kingston, On- | Creek that ho bore his losses do net. to PUNY LITTLE BOY 'Now Picture of Health," Ils Fathe i thi spindling limbs. of "'delicate children" | Leatherwood, of tell 'plainly engugh the story of poor- New Holland. ly nourished Fonlies. Wo know just what wughi Hero letter from Richard Rush, Columbus, am indebt- of attack measios 18 m » n is quickly healthy col and we | " Lost Fortune in Two Days. J : I "To mun through a fortune of $70, Win two days.is a feat of prodig ity that is not often performed, and | 0 } bvet that is just what a Creek Indian did in spite «of all my efforts to stop nl Kim" remarked Captain Silas Tusla, Okla.; at the | © ""Aeting for some oiheg people I had bought wome vil leases from this hali- breed fellow, to the exfgnt of $70,000, Like all redskins be had a penchant. for gambling, and knowing his weak- ness I hired a man to guard him, an- ticipating that a junta of card sharps wold be on his trail with a view of (divorcing him from fortune. Tn {order to farther "protect" him | did v his payment being in eertifi- eates, which I hoped he would not be quite so likely to utilize as a poker stake, "But the most philanthropic ~ plans miscarry; my guard went off to get a tbite to est and the sharpers who Rad been on thie watch got their victim, carried him to a gambling joint and lore: they let. him go had relieved him ot as well as for the with istoicism; not # whimpet did he utter, {and when on the day following his undoing be came to me to ask the loan of a #10 bill he |howed no vise ible signs of unhappiness. "Sines then [ have let him the certificates. 1 will sav have bit on ho occasion have I ever heard him make the least allusion to the kg catastrophe."'--Baltimors Sun. Being Hunted Down. Lisbon, Dec. 9.-The revolutionary "Carbénarios' are creating a verit- able reign of terror. Commissioned by {the republican government to maine tain order, they are seiting about their business hy putting royalist sus pects in priéon. People who are sus pected of royalist sympathies, dre ar rested on the thrown, without trial, into the al- ready crowded jails of Lisbon and Oporto. No one is sale froin the at tentions of this armed rabble, whiven- ter houses at dead of night, ransack their etintents on the plea that they are ssarching for compromising doeu ments, and end by carrying of the in piaced red cloth over OFTEN MADE WITH T Jit is and when one may travel via limousine or taxi charming, fashionable and a fringe-edged drapery at the back. ace also being set over now [It was in fact a revelation to me slightest pretext and]. RAINS THIS SEASON. of a semi-formal nature, of dark has a tunic The 'er flesh tinted chiffon, the yoke and this flesh colored lining. not slippefs but buttoned boots This bridge frock fabric now, A COMFORTABLE BOAD. Travellers Give Unsolicited FPra'se| to New Railway A world-wide traveller having just returned from a visit to Western Can- ada, has written to one of the chief of the Grand Trunk system hig unsolicited opinion of the Grand Prank Pacific failway, and how it serves the travelling public. He sags "I had the pleasure 'of travelling from Edmonton to Winnipeg on the new line of the Grand Trunk Pacifie, and | would like to say that of the seven thousand miles teavelled on rail ways during my last journey the tigo I spent on the Grand Trunk Pacific was the most somfortable of my entire trip. "The road-bed evidently 'a fine piece of work, the cars clean and com- officialy Is today. of quality.' ~~ Zo ~ Day--AtYAl ' Compelling' Great Respect the kind one feels for a worthy foe--is what the "Black Cat'Zis doing on every cigarette field-of-honor ~ Black Cat * Cigarettes--10 for '10 Cents Not an enemy, however, is this popular. brand to any cigarette The "Black Cat" heads the first rank simply because iz is made Jrom the choicest Virginia tobacco that grows. And the tim®, care and skill lavished on the making give | cigarette an undisputed leadership.' 1"Good » Tobacconists CARRERAS & MARCIANUS CIGARETTES, Limited---Montreal, Que, o TRAGEDY OF THE CENTURY. Are Not Blame, Winnipeg Free I'ress Sit in Heforrina to the conférsion'" 'of "the M¢Namara brothers in Los Angelps; Rev. Dr. Eber Crummy, in Lirace church last night, declared it to be the Labor Men Alone to fortable, the men in charge were most polite 'and obliging, apd any question | the century. asked of them was answered in most gentlemanly manner. "I would VHke to refer specially the dining cap ment, which is a to service and its equip the best 1 have seen. af- ter having travelled far on other roads--the meals being specially good, combined with pleasant surroundings and beautifully served. "I bog to say that if It gives you as much pleasure to read this letter as it gives me to write you, you will per- hips pardon. liberty 1 have taken in addressing vou." Ibis is but a specimen of the many letters that are being received bv the Grand Trunk Pacific officials, praising the exceptionally fife road and service that is now being operated in Western Canada. ! 80 7 ---- Wants to Get Name. [he Canaithipn Free Library Blind, with headtuarters at nette street, Toronto; to reach ghd benefit all Canada, but is in most urgent need of "the "sinews of war," and appeals to the generous Canadian public for funds. All contributions should be sent to E. W. Hermon, 37 Balmute Foronto. The board of man- agement also requests any one know- ing blind persons not new enjoying the benefits of the library to send winch names and addresses to S. C. Swift, M.A, 8 Washington Avenue, Toronto, "It is the desire of the man- agement to establish a printing de partment for the purpose of printing for the 105 An is attempting the blind of street, quite a few bills as a pure donation, } ¢ anadian texts in embossed type for the use of the Canadian blind, Thirty thousand dollars are refpiired for this purpose, 3 FOLKS PAST FIFTY MUST USE CASCARETS What glasses are to weak eyes, Cas- carets are to weak bowels--a 10-cent box will truly amaze you. Most old people must give to the bowels some regulgr help, 'else they sufiér from constipation. = The eondi- tion is' perfectly natural.' It is fust as natural as it is for old people to walk slowly. For age is never so ac five as youth. The muscles are less elastic. And he bowels m! old i So all le need Casearsts. their hearts in order to take better is a lash can't oF i iz IH] ih i : | enlmination of one of the tragedies of After reviewing briefly the faqts of the case, Dr. Crummy de | clared that the crimes had been com mitted under circumstance that made them of unusual importance. The Me Namaras have not been standing alone, but they have had at their back a considerable section of the la- bor world. s "I do not wonder," said Pr. Crum my, "that the organized labor world bows before this crime with the sens: that it has been sorely humiliated, Bui this is not the first crime that has been committed ip this same etruggle, and the greater dumber of these bave been committed hy others than union Laborers have often fought un wisely, but there have been other greater cries than theirs along the | pathway of progress." Dr. Crummy reminded his hearers that within™ century laborers' in Eng fand received less than a living wage This state has been improved, but not through the work of the church. 1% {tablished Christianity has been uni- versally opposed to any movement for the betterment of the common people of England. Dr. Crummy 'then recited the poem by Mrs. Brownimg, begin. ning, "Bo you hear the children weep- ing, O my brother 7', and containing the line, "It is good, say the children, when we die before our time," which he declared was a monument Yo the conditions in Englahd at the time. Dr. Crummy urged his hearers as » matter of justice, not of mercy; to favor every legitimate mote whereby the laboring man may better his con dition. "Shall we press otir laborers to justify crimes, as sometities they Kave done ¥' he demanded. Those who have driven laborers to madness are pattpers in the crimes which they have committed. : "We must recognize," skid Dr. Crummy, "the fact that the Tavis. ment of lives is equal with tHe invest- ment of money before we can do much to. help humanity to solve its pro- blem." He made an a tian men to fight the battle of labor, and to laboring men not to make the struggle their own, but ta make it their fellows' and their God's, . In conclusion, Dr. Crummy Issdared that for this tragedy all are in gome degree responsible, and that itis one of the~many which have sometimes delayed progress but which have alse marked its pathway. ---------- Sword in Heart of a Tree. London Rtandard. \ d in the heart of '8 plank of wood taken from a rail sta tion platform at Oakley, ire, there has heen found a sword measur ing over two feet long. had been in use for at sas . years. The weapon, which was of an old-fashioned 1yp¥, a short cross ists. ¥ 8 to Chris aki maternity and also for nursing mothers, long as directions are followed, You can safeguard the children Wilson's Invalids' Port at hand, are of proven value for throat and the of the children, three bottles, severe Grippe cases, [TELS an injurions nature and can be used with against croup and colds by alwa It is pleasant to the taste and its lung troubles, _ prevention of croup, whooping cough and other fatal diseases (A la Quina du Pérou) possesses wonderful reconstrixctive qualities as a tonic and tissue Many physicians strongly urge its use for the debility which follows builder, It is positively free from auyehin of perfect safety even for 4 small child as keeping gredients It is wonderfully successful in » Always have Wilson's Invalids' Port in the house. In the hour of emergency, when coughs and colds seize your child, you will be glad you have followed this advice, Dr. J. F. MACAULAY, C.M,, Grand Manan, N. B., says t ** I used "Wilson's Invalide' Port" being very weak and anaemic 1 maternity, and was highly pleased with 1 have since prescribed it in a cases. Especially beneficial is \ a my wife flow! a, in my seni, her § with so appetite results. 1 . wine, mild and palatable." THE HIGHEST PAID SINGER. Patti the Shrewdest Stage Celebrity of Her Day. \ Robert Gray in Lippincott's Adelina: Patti, who at the age of seventy-ome is Yo snr in London again, and even is expected to make another American tour, always was the tightest paid singer in the world. To this day no-one has been: able "to oblain anything like her honorarium, which was four thavegod dellars » night, and upon her lasy tour of this country the present writer ymid the iva five thousand dollars a wight to sing two wo , with one sooere for each. In Mion, Patti recived a large pllowanece for hwsell and suite and was granted a private car for her exclusive use while an tour. On the evening of Nov. Wh, 1904, Patti sang in Philadelphia to an audience representing thirtedn = {how sand eight, hundred dollars, and, al though ber voice was but a shadow of its former quality, thousands of Women stood in line for + hors sees iog the privilege of standing room. It is worthy of record that on this evening Patti pot for her share aight 'houspnd one hundred and #ty dal lars, fcr besides. five thousand dollirs a night the diva was given fifty tent. of the gross receipts tn ee of seven thousand dollars on ach Thi is more than double i ing the handle, was in fremvagion: ad 3c booed hd been picked up by the tree at an' ear- ly period of ifs existence and 'encirel- od with the growth. : rt Co Ried tofay as by far the largest sum ever paid to any singer in tha worlds kis tory. ¢ Patti was ever the shrewdest stage celebrity of ber day. Tn all ber on Test Bo impresgrio has ever been able to inipose eon her, and she: would ze- mm main drewsing room wt 'the four & ¥ cash (Patii tabgpoed her hand. Once the old-time minstrel magnate, Colonel Haverly, had the ambition to become an impresario. He called om Vatti at her hotel in New York, sat in_his card, and was graciously re ceived. - - "Madame," maid Haverly, "1 should fike to secure you for a tour of this country if we can arfange terms." "For concert or for opera t' asked the diva. "For concert," Haverly responded. "Well, for how many nights do you want me 7 Patti asked: Hixty at Jeast." "1 will sing for you for #Waty nights for two 'hundred snd fosty thousand dollars and the usual allowanes fox expensrs--one halt of amount to be deposited with the schilds on the signing of agreements," was Fate ti's uitimatum. Haverly was r pid showman in hs time, checks) was in rded as sn imire- but the "But, my desr madam,' he spid, Uthat in nearly five times asm as we pay our prewident for an en tire year," "Well," said Patti, "why do yom not enghge the président to siog for "" you o and stands | Haverly fled. Henry Syracuse, N.Y., last vear went 'ible partnership with his anele in real tate business in Rosetown and Begins, Sask. He made so much money that Jw is Lo be married, on Dezember 27th, to Wises Edith Andrews, fis is a believer in_fhe Canadian North-West, thousand dolled in A pretty girl never envies the brains of a homely girl, et " BR. Manchester, u Inwyer, of