had been standin in the heated, si esta baking pastry, and now, when ped into a chair, it was because she keep her feet longer. 'Near fon, fram which he "down inte 'the dingy sid "Along this street.a man was with that unevenness and Jassi- 0! it which marks the "failure." if was a failure she. did not it. Forihe was her son. She rd him coming up the stairs. te ho a smile ready for him when he d th 4 door. ered, Legrand?" "He 4 about the shabby room with a sigh, "No dinner today® he asked, "Iu half a minute, dear. "1 thought Td rest & mite first. 1 just got home and I was a bit winded." "Confound that staurant," he said, " wish you woud give it up" She did notariewer: She wits won: dering how hey would live if she did Hive % up, for he boy, he was always commensurate with his ability, and, course, never found it. ritated him, "I say mother. 1's no place woman -(o be in." "They pay me well; Legrand." rose and stirred up the fire. she had arranged food on the table she' called fim gently. She waited upon him before she' 3dt "down to her own din- ler. Indeed, she bad no appetite for anything save strong, cheap tea. here was a distinct contrast between the mother and son. old woman with streaked light hair, shriveled skin, and large, pale which had long since shed all their tears and dould only stare with piteon wander into the void called the future The one thing that kept her alive wa love for her son. And he did not de serve her love. He was a small man #ood looking, with 4 weak mouth and brooding dark eyes. His clothes, though | cheap, were neat, and he wore a blue pin it his fed four-in-hand. To ordinary folks he was a selfish, worthless little foafer, but to her he was the ha some replica of his dead father. "Where you been all morning, dear?' fhe asked. "Where I shall be all afternoon pro- bably." She'knew where that was. she wished he would not spend so much time at Phil Norton's bowling alley. She poured another cup of tem for herself. her today. Mg her son took with a mere out. She left the table standing and crept to the old couch near the stove. She was very tired. Each day, she had obsérved fearfully of late, she came home in worse condition. from her work than she had done the day before. And when she had given out what would they do? " Sleep overtook her mercifully while she was pondering the question. on was awakened by a step in the room. Her son had returned. She rose stiffly. "You're home early, dear. It's three o'clock." e was silent. He had sunk into : chair and sat huddled, his head on his hand, in an attitude of such dejection |? that she exclaimed in terror: "Legrand. What is the matter?" She knelt he- de. n'm her arm about him. ve been insuited, mother, by a wo- man." And then the confession came i petulant, sobbing outburst. "It's Hortense Lacey, mother. I knew she'd home from work this aftérnoon and 1 went to see her. I asked her to marry me. And she said=she said----. No, 1 won't tell you what she said. Darn her, 1, never forgive her--never!" She soothed him tenderly. *Y ou see, it was this way," he went on. "A man came in and offered me a job. But when he found ont | wasw't married he backed out. . Said he wouldn't hire any but a : married man. I thought not being mar- ried was against me, and [ made up my mind to go right down and ask Hortense, I've had a notion this good while that she'd have me if ¥'d speak. But some- thing's come over her--I don't know ler a decent his mother," down "So long, No use. His fot ask him to. She 1 to find out from Hortense's ywi lips what she had said and to re- AlGke her.for it. All the mother. in her fas, atpused against the girl that had fo-take such a liberty. She had 'own hy a long time that he, was thinking of the girl and she had been that Ne should x Hortense Jf he eloi, jon Honeute. d a little motiey sides ng 'a Othe, and Legrand would be a Sic vined were he her husband. - And now she had refused him. The gate oi that hope for his happiness was shyt forever. Presently she put on her things and dlipped away. It was not far. to the Lacey's: As she knocked at og door she heard Hortense yunning the sewing machine. The girl made shirt "waists when she was not employed in a local telephone office. The sewing machine stopped and Hortense called: "Come ini". Hortense was a big, solid girl with the bloom of perfect health on her full cheeks. "How -do, Mrs. she said, *Sit there." The ald woman sat down He choked. Pettis?" "My son's earned nothing, Poor want to know what you said to make looking for a job ¢him feel the way he doks." Her silence ir- (thought he wouldn' } ed. confound that restaurant, | Pett She: did nothing but sit in Wher 1} shebang She was a tall {could do to ef eyes, that, } { RE y Sometimes | ¢ mse said. Somehow tea failed to refresh Now When he had finished ecat- fx wu aren't hat "and. | but went | And because J've got it and you need been telling me-- she began. "I "Oh, he didn't tl you! 1 Hortense smil- guess you nitlit to know, Mrs. and so I'm going to teli you, Legrand won't. 1 told him that of his age and strength who Phil Norton's day after day wanting for somebody to come along and offer him a gold mine wasn't worth a decent wo: man's consideration. 1 told him 4f he'd let his old mother work herself to death for him it: was plain to see how he'd use his wife. | fold him | had all } take care of myself with- out taking care of hi m. 1 told him all Mrs, Pettis, and | meant it. paused and looked the old wo- in the eyes, challenging refutation truths she had uttered. Le- grand's mother looked as #3 she had been struck in the face. Her shamed glance sauk andl she picked at the fray: led fringes of her shawl, "It's hard to hear such things about one you love," "she said at last "And Legrand isn't to blame | Hortense. He's exactly Jike his father and 1 never found fanlt with bis father Only I'm giving out now. + ofter wondered what would ae 2 Le grand if I couldn't look out for him. Her throat 'was choked with sobs. "St you've had two of 'em." Hor "It's easy to see what kind of life you've led." She studied the ey miserable old face opposite her a moment. can tell you right u've got my sympathy. Maybe acquainted with the article something you need mightily. just a man She any it' lit we're going to start a little supply | and demand business of our own right | here." The old woman looked up. "1 understand," she said. Hortense patted the workworn hand | with her plump one, "No, of course, yott don't. I'm going to marry 'that shiftless, mo-account son of yours, not because I can't live without him, for can, although I'm fond enough of him. It seems ridiculous that a strapping gir | like me should care for-a none nity hike him, but I do. Aad I'm sorry for you } It's because 1'm sorry for you that I'm going to marry him. . I'm going to see that you have. a little: show fer your- self the rest of your days. No mother- in-law is going to support my husband He is going to support himself. Le- grand"s going to work. [I've got t | finish this before supper. You can go home if you please. Mother Pettis, and tell Legrand what 1 say. He's got over being mad at me by this tine, There's one thing more you, can tell him for me. If he goes ; iw to Phil Norton's place again I'll he after him. I won't have the man I'm giong to marry hang- ing around that low-lived critter. Not by a long shot. No, sir, Goodby!" Mrs. Mary Gamble, mother of Messrs, George P., Robert H. and Thomas Gamble, Brockville, on Fri- | day celebrated her eighty-ninth birth. | day. It finds ber enjoying a good measure of health with faculties un- impaired. Mrs. Gamble has been a | continnong resident of Brockville since 1819 don't | { four. | other Bas, Heartburn and Dyspepsia is Gone. Sour, gassy, upset stomach, indig estion, heartburn, dyspepsia; wher the food you eat ferments into gase: had aud. stubborn. lumps; your head aches and you feel sick and miser able hats When you realize the ma n Pape's Diapepsin. It makes all stomach misery vanish in five mintites; If your stomach is in a continuens revolt----If you can't get it regulated please, for your sake, try Pape's Diapepsin, It's so needless to havi & bad stomach--make your nex: meal a favorite food meal, then. take a little Diapepsin. There will no be any distress--eat without fear I's because Pape's Diapepsin 'really does" regulate weak, out-of-order stomachs that gives it its millions of sales annnally. 'Get a large §0-cent case of Pape' lapepsin from any drug store. I is the quickest, surest stomach re lief and cure known. It acts almos: ke magic--it is a scientific harm less and pleasant stomach prepara tion whith truly belongs in ever: home, $ VELVET ORCHIDS rr crc arana Adele pinned another bunch of gr velvet eens to the dopa by twisted ; length of gawdy and ex pensive vier thraugh them, put the hat on her head and turned slowly around =o that the a large axiddle- aged "and very florid woman, might the effect. From under drooping eyelids enviously looked at the woman on whom she was waiting. Overdressed, but not handsome, her fat red hands and wrists blazed with expensive stones. Adele came from a home whose = entire furniture could have been purchased with the least expen sive of these stones. The velvet orchids were $12 a bunch, and thea bunches trimmed a hat sparsely. On a further table were cotton imita- tions at 50c. a bunch. Adele had been trying with bitter ecomomy for three weeks to get two bunches of the cheap flowers. Her present hat was two years old. She fancied that Jim--he worked in the auditing de partment of the same store--had beer ashamed of it the last time that he took her the theatre. Saturday ev ening he would take her again, and they were to sit in a box with fom jof his friends. She simply couldn' wear it with that"faded quill, "Yes--I like it," said the customer languidly, eying critically the mauve velvet brim that drooped about Adele's white oval face. "Only ---- Another bmnch; don't you think ¥ Three are rather skimpy. Yes, put on And have it trinymed by even: ing. No, you needn't send it. I wish to wear it this eveming.- So Tl stop for it at 5.45. The store is open until 9, isn't it ? Amd, any way, I'll want to try the hat on. Iwish," discont- edly, "that the mauve were a trifle lighter." "Tt is the lightest we have, dam," Adelp said mechanically least the twentieth time in the last two hours. She scribbled the "items ~hat $24 (that velvet was imported panne); flowers, $48; ribbon, a yard and three-fourths, at $4 a yard; a jewelled pim----. Adele pressed the pencil so hard that the point broke. All that for ome homely, middle-aged wonran, whose looks couldn't be made charming by all the flowers and vel vet in the world! And she, young, and aching for pretiy things, had sixty cents to keep Jim from being ashamed of her. "It isn't fair," she | muttered, as she 'took the hat and the "adornments into the trimmidg room. Then she came back to an of .the crowd of customers. It customer, see she ma- for at ul A Custom Thousands of persons who know the advantage of pure, digestible food have a dish of Grape-Nuts and cream for breakfast. A UNIVERSAL FOOD Following Nature's Footsteps "I have a hoy, two years old, in perfect health. who has beel raised on Grape-Nuts and milk. "This is.an ideal food and evident- 1y furnishes 'the 'elements necessary for a baby as well as for adults. 'We have used Grape-Nuts in large quin- tities and greatly to our advantage." One advantage about Grape-Nuts food is that it is partially preé-digest- ed in the process of manufacture that is, the starch contained in the wheat and barley is transformed into a form of sugar By the same method as this process is carried otit in the humaft body. This is ac- complished by the use of moisture long exposure to moderate ritith," which grows the diastase in the grains and makes the remark- able change from starch to sugar. Therefore, the most delicate stom- can handle Grape-Nuts and the 1s quickly absorbed into the blood and tissue, certain pants of it directly for bulldisg and nour- hing the tissue cells of body, brain and nerves. Madé at the pire fopd factories of the Canadian ogtum Cereal Co., 14d. Windsor, d the I tittle nook, "The Road to Wellville," found in pkes. "There's a Reason" for Grape-Nuts Made by canidind Postum Cereal Co., Ltd., Windsor, Ont. 2 ~~ The World Over wholesome, easily Grape-Nuts food, made of whole wheat and malted barley, is ready to eat direct from the pack- age. It comes to your table in the: formif golden- brown granules--erisp and et delicate sweet taste due entirely to grape-sugar developed by the processes of manufacture. _ Every year tens of thousands visit the Pure Food Factories of the Postum Cereal Co., Ltd. and see for themselves every step in the making of this famous food. First the milling of wheat and barley; the mixing and kneading into a sort of dough--form- ed, for éonvenience in handling, into huge 10- pound loaves; then the baking, slicing, rebaking and grinding; and finally the filling, sealing and packing of the well-known, air-tight, yellow pack- --all accomplished without the food being touched hy hand. Yes, visitors are taken all over the place--up- stairs and down. There is considerable to see, and + gold hy pe eterywjere, a a hp op. ae aa e less new stuff Eo handing |" older and dingir than it was. oe wasn't, fair," she repeated, in a resenritful whisper, She wouldn't care "if it ware mot for Jim. . Last time at the" theatre a girl had swept down the aisle and he yo nudged Adele to look at her Bat, a gorgequs affair of royal blue plumes that lng to her blue velvet sovered shoulders. Adele, miserably ¢omscious of the brown dinginess resting in her lap, had managed to smile admiringly--had managed To join maturally in Jim's enthusiasm. Bs he Ind Jot Meaty 5 word of the first act. And on the way home, when he told her of this box party to which his friend had asked him, be had remarked : "The girl Tom will bring is a stunner. Hep father owns Sve grocery stores, And does she dress !"" Jim whistled the enthusiasm which words could not effect. "Whew ! Well, vou can bet she does!" li was 'hen that Adele oviied to have in- Tuenza Saturday ni . Afterward she Night a her mind. Jhe' was wild to see the play, hat or 20 hat. But now she wearily fell sack on the influenza. Jim would be whamed. Oh, he would! He couldn't help it! At 5.20 the florid overdressed ens- omer came for the hat trimmed with the velvet orchids, With her was a good looking, well dressed nan about the same age. But, be- ng a man he looked ten years rounger. And there was a mean ex- yression on his thin, harfdsome face. The hat was not quite finished. They 1ad to wait five minutes: "l hope ow'll like it," the woman said twice '1 got it as nedr like that mauve hat hat 1 had once before that you liked 0. Do you remember He yawned, "No " frritably, "1 do wt remember. How in thunder would I remember a hat you wore ifteen years ago?" The woman bit her lip, And just hen an errand girl from the trim- ning room handed the hat to Adele. 30th the woman and Adele' drew a ong involuntary breath of admira- ion. The woman pulled her hat off wastily. Her eyes glowed, She put he other on and turned to the man wer husband. And he laughed. 'Good Lord!" he cried. "Youn look lke an overgrowm poster. Why sou're a freak!" "Don't you like the hat?" ered. "The hat? Yes!" he snapped. "On \ girl---a young woman! But--on ou!" He laughed again. 'Lord! Nomen never know when they get ld!" The woamn hastily unpinned the at. Adele saw that her hands were rembling and her eyes were full nf ears. She almost pushed it at Adele's outstretched hands. The man urned away in a bored fashion. There was a charge for trimming. which must be paid whether she ac- 'epted the hat or net. Adele had to all a head saleswoman to arrange he affair. The man frowned angrily wer the delay. And then the woman vent away with him, Her florid, niddleaged face guivered. She was finding it hard work te keep back «he tears. The hands that held the expensive rings were clinched. ( Adele told Jim that night, won- dering while she told if he would {understand all. He didn't, Adele Jj laughed afterward softly over' his ybtuseness,* "Well," 'he commented. unfeeling- y, "what does an old woman want o hang a bushel basket of rainbow mn her head for? Why don't they all wear stylish little hats like you do? Just a nifty quitl--that's what i like. Now, that girl of Tom's, she puts on a dry goods store, and that's what she looks like, 'Believe me, ('m: glad you aren't crazy about sothes, Adele. And, say, Adele if | get the same raise next year that i'm going to get this year, don't you chink----" "Of course,' aly. she fal- said Adele, content: "High Church" in England 'Presbyter" In London Spectator. Recently © two persons,- to my smowledge, were told it was wrong wor them to drop in to worship ina Presbyterian church because the min- isters. were 'not ordained," and in one of these cases the warning was snveyed by a dignitary of the church. The idea filters down. 1 happened to be conducting service at a Pres: ovterian church in thé Highlands, re- mote from any other place of ' wor- ship, and a lady, an' Episcopalian, asked if I thought it would be a "min"' if she came. She was manifest. ¥ sincere, 'Well, T have often wor- hipped in an Episcopalian church have never felt 1 committed any an sin." She came, and, thanking me after- wards, innocently remarked, as if sur- prised, "Do you know you said a | Seat many things quite like what my says ?" What had she been to take us for ?" vicar tanght A Dry Town Landmark Sesrs... A wirest in Atlante; Oa, a» prohibition state. Time : Sunday noon. Enter two men carrying grips acd other accoutrements of the traveller They approach a uniformed police man who ia on duty, First Traveller--Officer, we are two strgngers from New York, We've just got. off the train and we are tired and dey--awinl dry. Now we don't want to get you into any trouble: all 'we've looking for.is a drink, and we thought you might tip ue off an to where we can get ona Policeman--Do you see that build- ing down the street awngs--the one with two spires on it; and that a crowd of people is coming out of ? Traveller--Why, ves, we can sce it, but it's a church. Voliceman--Well, that is the only olace in town where Sou can't get a driok. You will mever regret using White 'Rose flour. i Mrs. Henry Cole, Marlbank, died re- «cently from. a stomach flection. § She , AN is was a well-known survived by a husband one son. le, Marl imsville, Also two Stn Xe bank, and Mrs, ¥ Fortunate ix Fork win who doesn't °F Ala is doming to him, : xs EMPL FD BY NAT OF EARTH, Methods Used byf Anclents to Tell Time of Day and Night -- No Im- portant Inventions in Clocks and Watches in Two Centuries. What time is it? Asked the question nowadays" you simply reich in your pocket and pull out your watch. If you are not fortunate cnough to be the possessor of a watch you glance up at a friendly tower or mto window. at a clock, incidentally, vou think that you tell time by the figures on the dial of the watch or cock, but yon don't. 'You merely get a mental impression from the position of the hands. It was figured out long ago that public clocks are not read by figures. Tre Philadelphia' people know that the Philadelphia city = hall clock has vo numerals on ts dial. There 1s not even a clock in thé tower, the hands being moved every minute by air pressure, which is regulated by a clock far below. It's a far simpler proposition, finding a nearby your rupture from any way---then it .single cent. The Onl botheping ar You ORL cost fou a Thing Good Ewougn (and Such a Test a8 well as we can't tell aryining about a anything else for rupture ig trying it on. That's the w ing to a drugstore ar loc Ler A "ross may seem on, and that vou or allr so-called right when yan afterwards prov: appliance Sirst put utterly out what time it is nowadays, compared with what it was when the world was younger. Primitive men nsed to set up a stick and mark its shadows, a parly coming behind might estimate the distance of those ahead by the sha- dow's altered position. When a man's saadow shortened uatil it seemed to hel axed, it was thén known that it was Y when it hegan to lengthen it was just past noon. The sun: dial was far ahead man's shadow method, but sug were only available during the hours the day when the sun was shining. In ancient times sun dials were ely muse. The circular rows of t s used by the Druids, it 18 thought, were used ta mark the sun's path.' tarceks were perfectly acquainted method of ny king sun dials i ed "styles, or "gnomons," oblisks are supposed to have been 1 to cast. sim. shadows, In the ruins of Pompei has found, inoue of the gardens, a dial which looks as if the position of the | earth's axis and the plane of the equa- tor must have heen known to the r ; made of the of been two ly the parts--the edge of a parallel! to the iting toward the , which may he ick Ons Ww ctec d to ¢ occupy. The ntal dial when the hi! the plane of the horizon; a verti- al dial when pérpendi r to that plane. A dial whose plane 1s parallel to the equator is called an equinoctial dial, also north dials, south dials; dials, polar dials, de- plane west y dials, etc, desire to mark the night, as well as those of day, led to the tion of hi water clock, or psy dra," which measured time hy the amount or water which escaped from.a small hole in a level of water. Such clocks are said * have been in ase it win 1100 B. C. Two Kinds ot er clocks have heh in use. In one kind the warer was allowed to gs- cape from one vessel into another. It was used in the courts of Athens, where speaker was allowed a certain am: ra of water. for his arguments; the 1 ity depending on 'the of the debate at hand. have invemted the more form, while others, gave the honor to s of Alexandria. The water wed to run at a uniform rate, , HILO a _receptac te. on which a scale of hours. Both idely used in the 1, China, is to be what is known by the natives ac "the clock of the street arch." It con- | Your Copper jars built in mason a stairlike structure ater neces at the top ps down until it faaches the lowest . which has a solid bottom. In the er jar is' placed a pamboo stick indicates the heighth of the water and thus the time of day. It takes twelve hours for the water ir the top jar to drop into the bottom j and the clock set again by merely Femiptying the cc nts of the hottom jar into the top jar. This clock is Said to he over 3000 vears old Sand glasses - 'for measuring time "were made as soon as the art of blow- ing glass had been perfected . by the people of Byzantium: = These gla were used for all sorts of purposes for cooking and for making speeches, hut their most important use was at seq Iu order that one's position at might be figured it was important those days to know fhe. vessel's speed The carltest method was fo thfow over a heavy piece of wood of a shape that resisted bei dragged through the sea and with a string tied to it. Ti hours of k Plato 1s said to was nm forms vn In Car old seen' to which is sca Cold Air, Rough Winds, Strong Soaps Often Bring on Chronic Eczema, More beautiful than the rose is baby's skin when in bealth, and so delicate that it is susceptible to any- son, baby's skin troubles are many and frequently chronic itching ec- zema is developea. Nothibg can be better for baby's in, when irritated, than Dr. Chase's Ointment, and when eczema is developed you can apply this pre- paration with the knowledge that iis wonderful 1ecord as a healer of the skin is due to the success it has proven in the cure. of eczewa. The intense itching of eczema of the face and scalp is very hard tog. the little one to bear, and is. source of worry and anxiety to ihe mother. The itching at are scratched, and assy and colored scars are formed ema naturally basemen Wenig and y. You "an eczema cure it Chase's Ointment. ill is to use this ointment 07 4 ng and Irritation of skin and prevent eczema from getth so, that | dials | sun | importance | complicated | ¢ jar and | worthless, i he vul" w * warld y« gmake Sure ot xar ¥ what you're get- ing is hy un # yo trinl--an Aay-after-day test. tharangt i And our ranteed ruptar ~--the famons athe Autowa | aging Truss--i: tne only thin | kind whatever for rupture tha can get on siXty days' trial, the onl thing goed cnough to wstamd such a long and thorough test. holder | , Cluthe Automatic Massaging i is so utterly different from any- t alse for rupture that it has re ceived eighteen separate patents, It provides the only way ever dincoy- ered © (or overes the weakness which is the res ruptur in Just how it does that--entirely n is all explained"in the 'Ill Save Jou Li Onerdlion, ut Trt has so thoroug aperat very No More Rupture Troubles|, 60 Days' Trial To Prove It. To Don't Have to Risk = Penny ¢ is some thing bsolutely gune- antesa to keep rupfire from coming out And you can try it 1 thorough prove aut having to ri it doesn't hoil- sixty days--make to-yoiu test --with. penny f it doesn't keep Products ey reasonable a a in cement made to Sym Corner of Charles nd Patrick * Phone 1304 had kuéts in Jt and. the hiack of wood was called a log. The knots were so arranged that when of them ran throngh one's gers in, half a minute a sand glass it indicated 1 was going at the speed ! mile in an hour ss is made of glass ar msists of two bulbs anited by a nar neck. One of the bt ulbs is. nearly fill with dry sand,. fine enotgh to run through the orifice in the neck, and, the quantity of sand is just as much as ran run through the orifi a one ud No Belt or Leg Straps te Annoy Get 1 our free you want to know print. Clot arate An End To The Curse Of Wearing Worthless Trusses You That's why people who try this truss say Kis as cemiontable as their cloth- ing t is water-proof---will hold (a the bath. Easily kept clean World's Greatest Rupture Rook on't send any money--just write tor book and find out everythir Full of facts never before put in h-bound---4% pagoes---20 sep articles and 23 photographic il ations. , Will save you from being and save you from wasting why plains and spring elasth < why they h, and wh ell from the to Keep t the Cluthe ind ho tnd how AL Ek tells things by gor t Simply uke the postal, "S prmmnmesmene THIS BRINGS IT s-- Box 274---CLUTHE COMPANY 125 East 23rd St,, NEW YORK CITY Send me your Free Book and Triad Name Address the instrument is tc mi { are the effects of he: or expan nding t { 1 the dryr for the proper') the whose hands were action of falling weights, ress | se the hour | construction | Furniture! Furniture! 15 to 20% off all Xmas and Fancy Goods aes NYY Mold Hh |) Si A aad 3 LAA thing which irritates. For this rea: 7 of falling witer. When s step was taken and the first true nstruction is uncertain, ick clock, made about 1364, was a good piece, of work. Inf fact, since ithe vear 1700 o important invention has been added to clocks and watches. This me a good deal when -it is reahzed that the last 200 years have given us more inventions than - all previously known history I'he De Vick cle 1 the tower of s constructed R. J. REID Leading Undertaker Phone S77 1 ¢, which was set up arles. V of for the lated by 1 the power store t or ¢ ed to a train of wheels set revolving, and that the motion shall be cut up into f mute | equal impulses tig a rofary into a vibratory The last and the quickest shall have the teeth sc are caught and dd hence the wheel is cape wheel, and from its Fr tO a cree: the 'crown wheel! The bar and staff, which with its projections, catch id release the. teeth. termed the 'e ement," and SPECIAL SALE OF sered nto the phat the rons <M BOOTS AND SHOES forward motion Now how long will it be before the today w vilt be considered crude lous as a method for measur- --Chicago Tribune COAL! The kind you are looking isthe kind we sell Scranton Coal Is good coal and we guaraniee prompt delivery Booth & Co. resem! 15 it is FOR 15 DAYS. All our fall and winter stock must be cleared at prices that will greatly astonish you. That we can save you 25 to 0 per cent. on every pair. Men's Box Calf fiaeher ing time At Portsmouth's Docks, Portsmquth dockyard, where a ser- ious 'Gre has recently occurred, can boast of a good long history. For it was established as long ago as 1540, and eyen e than it was an im- portant station for the King's ships. Men's extra coarse fine Blucher Portéfnouth's convenience as a land- Roots, really worth $2. 50, aun ing place was soon realized, for there , ud in 1101 Robert, Duke of Normaudy, (f] Womens Fine Vici Kid Blucher laitdeg te Sapte {ie irons with Women's Fine Viet Kia Blacher enry \ 1 ter in & Same cen- wor our price ... o tury the Empress Maud. chese it. as Womens Siipners, | worth we the spot at which to begin opera- this lot: "oe tions. This Is by no means the dock- yard's first fire, In 1776, for in- | stance, it wis fed by due Jack the Ch B. WA Painter, who, being captured, and | sentenced to death, obligingly point- 838 KING STREET Phone 1372 leather linad, worth our price . 50. Men's stron working worth $2 90, our price ed out to the authorities several ex- cellent fire preventive ideas, / ~~ 7