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15533 lam. Business strictly confidfifltr us. O.HAKILL,lot57. 00'1- . radon, Inky P. 0.4141. an I .1 mm. month-stun“ ' '0 MOVERSâ€"W0 Ir. Reduction In Prices .‘ “119312-138 M No. ”a ”It Wt Artificial Teeth 56 t0 Dr. Day: Dentist Woaho many manna: PAGE EIGHT graduat- 91 Toronto .I-.; Nun V». vâ€""â€" '" ’ Honey to low It 9‘ O’Connor. Ifnlmdty l. Jmklol. ‘ A lady of very noble birth and of ; considerable wealth was giving a mu- ; sical partyâ€"it was the first time she E had invited friends to her house that [season The entertainment began at i2 1). m. and lasted till 7. No refresh- } ments were provided for the guests, but at halt past 4 a servant appeared and solemnly presented a cup of choco- late to the hostess and one to her moth. A £0.80! In Hospitality. A curious instance of provincial hoo- pitality in a small Tuscan town is re- corded by Luigi Villari in “Italian Life In Town and Country.” Care In Choosing Gigs-es. mosaic:- in optical instruments de- ehn'edthatitgavohimreslpalnto Wane careless manner in which halt -th0persons in New York wear glasses. “It is a wonder to me,” he said, “that they don’t bring on blindness. In the first place, the frames should always be fitted to individual faces instead of being picked up indiscriminately with- out regard for facial peculiarities. The size of the lenses is another important consideration. Most of the glasses I see on the street are too small. They should be as large as the face of the wearer will permit, for a lens of good size not only aflords better protection to the eye, but is more becoming than a smaller one. Another tribulation ot the weak eyed is due to the reflection from the edges of unframed glasses. The eyelashes should be attended to in order to get the best results from a pair of spectacles. Many lashes are worn so long that they brush against the glass This is decidedly injurious. to any extensive employment of a rural free delivery system. Free city delivery is defended on the score that as much is charged for a letter which is not carried on the railways at all as for one that is carried hundreds, perhaps thousands, of miles before reaching the addresses. Some per- sons point out that there is a spe- cial stamp by which one can have a letter delivered by a spaniel messenâ€" ger. A further application, they say; might be. made of that principle, which would entitle a letter to be de- livered to an address in the country, The difficulties to be solved in con- nection with this proposal are not small, although perhape .not insuper- able. Increased population in the best solution, even though it may be a slow oneâ€"Toronto Globe. In Canada the distribution of popâ€" ulation may not as yet be favorable In view of these figures, it is cer- tain not only that rural deliveries render a material service to farmers. of which hitherto they have been deâ€" prived, but also that such deliveries tend to become self-supporting. Last year, although the rural deliveries had been in operation on a continâ€" ually increasing scale since 1898, the postal deficit had shrunk from $11,- 000,000 in 1897 to a little over 32,- 000,000. It is calculated that no fewer than 20,000,000 inhabitants of the United States are interested in the extension of free deliveries to the rural districts. Summing Up of the Situation As It Ap- pears to the Globe. Rural delivery of postal matter has proved so much of a success in the United States that it is being stead- ily extended. The first year but $50,000 was appropriated for the service. For the current fiscal year $7,000,000 has been appropriated. During the interval the number of rural delivery routes has been ex- panded from 148 to 11.650. The area covered by rural delivery car- riers now comprehends 300,000 square miles and contains 7,000,000 inhabitants. The whole area to which the Postofliee Department in- tends ultimately to give rural de- livery embraces a million square miles. and the cost of such service is computed at $24,000,000. ‘From that cost, ‘however, must be deduct- ed the additional revenue. IIow con- siderable an income may be counted upon from this source will be evi- dent when it is pointed out that last year, while the increase 01 receipts in the rural regions generally was only 2.4 per cent. there was, on the oth- er hand, in those sections which en- joyed a full rural delivery service an increase of receipts amoun. g to 10 per cent. Neither is the i mt de- rivtm‘bler Mm the sale of maney or- ders and “the registration of letters by‘rural delivery carriers to be over- looked. LaSt year nearly 115,000 letters and packages were registered by carriers in isolated farming com-w munitieS. ' { 0! r latch String to: it. un- duun; And prompt Iot- uomcnts; dno the NORTH BRITISH AND mom sud ‘othor nu- sblo compute. OFFICE, mt of Dominion Bank Buildings, when I will b‘o MOM-11! prcunt on‘yodm and Saturday bio-[ch LIFE and FIRE INSURANCE style, and all an upâ€"toâ€"date.‘ Let your next job; Is always hanging on the out- side 6f the door; for any who want anything in the printing line. Printing like Clothing or Millinery changes its style so of- ten, and we follow the latest ntvle- and all our PRINTING is RURAL MAIL DELIVERY. JOHN P. CUNNING us estimate on "We swam to the opposite shore, and dismounted. The pack on the other side, after a. little hesitation, also took the stream. Then we brought our carbines into use, and killed eight of them almost as soon as they got into the water. The others slunk back from the river, end [have never seen a wild dog since. But. if it hadn't been for the friendâ€" ly river, my hm would now be whitening on the Saskatchewan plains, like may mother titan at those M mug." -. top. The horses were bitten in sev- eral places, but We reached the river bank at last, and plunged in without. allowing the heroes to slacken their swinging gallop. “Before half the race was run the pursuing beasts Were by our sides. The ponies never (altered, and we beat the dogs away with our whips when they att pted to leap at their heads. I remember well their shag- gy sides,ani1 particularly a big black and white cur that: growled viciously at me when I cut him with the whip as he scampere'd along at my stir- “A small river ran through the plain. about tWO miles aWay. Sykes told me to ride for the stream, and make it ahead 0! the dogs, or I was a'dead man. .We both started. and if ever there was a ride for me, that was one. Talk about your military heroes 'doing exciting equestrian stunts! If they failed, they would at least fall into the hands of human beings. and perhaps be treated fairly well. But here was a different pro- position. When wild dogs take prio soners it is so much the worse for the prisoners. “That ride will live with me .1- ways. Here we were, two men, near- ly a thousand miles irom civiliza- tion, no human help at hand. riding a race with life as the stake. The first few stars peeping out in the sky were the only witnesses as we strained for the goal and listened to the galloping feet of the dogs behind. If the horses lagged or stumbled. it was all over, and a horrible death was the penal- ty. And yet I do not remember of being greatly afraid. “Instinctively I picked up M cur- bine, and Was about to take a. Shot at the disappearing game, when my companion called out to me to get my horse, at the same time making a. break for his own, and jumping into the saddle. I follOWed suit, and in a moment we were both mounted. Without saying a. word. he headed for the open prairie, a. quarter of a. mile .Way. I did not ask any ques- tions. but followed. After we gained the open, I asked him what he meant by his sudden flight, and he told me that a. pack of wild dogs was close upon‘us, and that the deer which had just passed us was fleeing from them. We were a few hundred yards from the brush, and he had scarcely fin- ished the sentence, before the dogs broke cover. They were on the deer's trail, but as soon as they saw us they divided in two packs. One fol- lowed the deer. which was more than “A year ago this fall I had an exâ€" perjence with a rack that; I will not soon forget. I was on patrol duty with another man namEd Sykes, and both of us were fully 40 miles from our station. We picketed the horses eargv in the evening and were preâ€" panng to camp beside a fire which we had built in a little valley in the woods. The weather Was beautiful. and we were enjoying it immensely. stretched out by the blazing faggot a mile away, and the other, much the larger, came directly_ {or us. no such warning of approach as is furnished by the bowling of the wolf. “These dogs were first discovered in the vicinity of the town where I live, and were known as the wild dogs of Calgary. The advance of settlement around them drove them deeper into the wilderness. and now they are all well north in the Sas- katchewan Valley. on the grass, smoking our pipes, when a deer dashed out of the brush and went past us as only“ deer can run when winged with terror. “They are faster than the latter, howeVer. and a pack of them will run areindeer down after a chase of a. mile or less. Their victim is torn to pieces almost as soon as captured. They are of the large mongrel vari- ety, and of nearly every color found among the domestic dogs. They have lost one of the attributes of their ancestors, and never bark. Their voice is a low snarl, except when hurt. Then they yelp lik‘e the ordi- nary cur. Their silence makes them all the more dangerous, {or they give an awful menace to single travelers passing through the lonely wastes which they inhabit. Unlike the Wolf, they will attack a person whether they are hungry or not. They are al- most as large as the big- timber well, stronger and haVe all the tenacity of the domestic dog when once they make an attaok‘. The presence of two or three people has no terror for them. Difl'ering from the wolf, they do not wait until they are in over- powering numbers, but will attack singly, after the manner of a vicious dog. They live exclusively on the animals they pull down in the chase, and this food has the same eflect on them that it. would haVe on the or- dinary caninebit makes them power- ful, Savage and bloodthirsty. “Their ofl'spx'ing and 'dwcendante have not known the rule of man for five or six generations. They run wild, in packs of 10 to 50. and are “Do you know," said MacKenzie, in convemaflion recently, “that the fiercest wild animal on the American continent, and pexhaps in the world, is found in the Saskatchewan valley? And, what is more, he is not proper- 1y. wild animal at all. I have lie- ference to the common dog. whose ancestors were brought in by trapâ€" pers, hunters and adventurers and abandoned. of Not-thorn Salutation According to Thomas MacKcnzie 0! Calgary. the Saskatchewan Valley is infested by the fiercest; wild animals in the vorld, and the most. danger- ous. MacKenzie has been a member of the Dominion Mounted Police for anumbcx; of years, serving almost exclusively on the Northwestern plains. I once:- Describes a Thrilling Ride for Life From Wild Dog. on the Plain. CHASED THE . Ever since the battle 0! Waterlootho Dukes of Wellington have renewed a. yearly sum of money from Belgium. An infinitesimal parâ€" r‘n‘w'iy’ km. with the remit tho Dukedon at Wellington of 8 Mi“, (7‘ can) hum Tho Duke of Wellington. who has no occasion to worry as to whether his income will be sufficient for his needs, has just been omcially inform- ed that his revenues have been in- In the course of his remarks he mentioned that the Astronomical De- partment at Ottawa is about to in- etall a new fifteen-inch equatorial tel- escope. OQuipped with a large spec- trometer and eight-inch photographic doublet, besides the usual micornetic means of making accurate measure- ments, and a meridian circle of good size with the accompanying instru- ments tor meteorological and geo- detic observations. It is prOposed to open the Observatory at Ottawa to the public once a week. (d) The refined reduction nnd prompt publication of the results of observation, this implying a “101* ough mathematical study of the the- orics involved and invstigation of their corrections. (0.) Continuous abut-Vulcan of the positions of the sun, moon and planets, partly by the meridian cir- cle, pug-fly by photography. (a) Certain at: physical investm- tions, especially in tha line of stellar spectrocopy. (b) The detrmimtion o! the ebsoâ€" luto positions 0! e. reesonebly large list. of fundamental state. and of such othet stern u ere needed {or relmnce points by observers of planets or coach, or by those en. gaged in geodetic vocations. A national observatory. maintained by the Governmt, should aim chiei- 1y at kinds 0! work not easily within the reach of private and education- ai obea'vatories. extended series of observations which require pmistmt prosecution without intermission or material clung. of plan. such, (or instance. as: Puporhylr. 1'. 1.813;. Dominio- Ao- trononorâ€"An hm Add"... Mr. W. F. King, Dominion Astron- omer. read a paper rocontly before the Astronomical Society,- Toronto, on “Astronomy in Canada." Mr. King explained first the conditions which had caused the chief line of practice in astronomy in Canada to be with reierenco to its direct prac- tical applications, in surveying eo- pecinlly. the detcmination of the meridian line, and of latitudes and longtitudes. and 0! time. Owing to the necessity 0! our otudonta earning their own livinga. they naturally turned to the branches of science from which they could dcivo prac- tical results, and thmiore astron- omy had not made as great progress here as in older and more ‘wealthy countries. Speaking of the equip- ment and aims at the Government observatory, which is now in course 0! erection at Ottawa. Hr. King gave this statement * the object- which a public oboervatory should have in mind:â€" The easiest Way {or 3 person into whose possession any of then mut- ilated or defaced coins hove come. to get rid 0! them, in to sell them to a jeweler for old gold or silver, 476. Every one who utters any coin defaced by hnving stamped thereon any names or words, is guilty of an offence. and liable, on summary conviction More two 11181.4 ice: 0! the peace. to n penalty not. exceeding ten dollars. 475. Everyone is guilty of an in- dictablo offence and liable to three years' imprisonment who utters. as being current, and gold or silver coin of loss than its lawful weight, know- ing sdch coin to have been impaired, diminished or lightened, otherwise than by lawful wear. 469. Everyone is guilty oi an in- dictable 0001108 and liable to one year's imprisonment who deiaces any current gold, silver or copper coin by stamping thereon any names or words, whether such coin is or is not. thereby diminished or lightened, and afterward tenders the same. years’ imprisonment who imparts, diminishes or lightens any current. gold or silver coin. with intent that. the coin so impaired, diminished or lightened may pass {or current gold or silver coin. 468. Everyone is guilty of an in- dictable oflence and liable to 14 days. most people regard their pos- session merely as a nuisance. rather than as a jeopardizing of personal liberty. But now Mr. Creighton, at One fell stroke. destroys our cherishâ€" ed sense of security by clearly point- ing out that we have all offended against the criminal Code, probably, time and time again, and that we are likely any day to repeat the crime. In short. few have not brok- en section 475 of the Code, and by “uttering gold or silver coin of less than its lawful weight." become liable to titres years' imprisonment. Because of the startling information contained in it, Mr. Creighton's let- ter is appended in full: Some one, through the Toronto press, has been enquiring what to do with mutilated and defaced coins. It is a notorious fact that many such coins remain in circulation, but I be- lieve their circulation would soon be stopped it people were aware what severe penalties they made themselves liable to by passing them. For pubâ€" lic information, publish the following sections of the Criminal Code: Conld You nun-n uldlfâ€"Wflo- oolW'flm;Wm I” (but luv “val. 'In ‘ tha‘ (allowing letter to the press 01 Toronto, Mr. David Creighton. t' 1 Assistant Receiver- Gcneral, give me average citizen an attack 01 the shivers. if he does not, in tact, subject the reader to nervaus mostration. Though punched and mutilated coins are common, nowa- ASTRONOMY IN CANADA. Profit From Waterloo. M UTILATED COINS- GEO. A. LITTLE 51"". Fin: n in” (likun’illc Sink, You Canada. Chm. will soon he the order of the day. You areindouhtu to what you will give {our friend for Christmas. 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