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n- ., u . m per cent., although the company claim- ed to have lost one hundred and twenty thousand pounds during the decade by French marauding. Thirty years later the capital was trebled again. By this time the company had its posts spread all over the western wilderness, and, international amity prevailing. was compelled to meet the commercial com- petition oi rival concerns which took (lilo in the piping times of peace. John Jacob Astor, the founder of the New York family of that name, laid the foundation 0! his fortune by the estab- lishment of the Astoria Company for way at first; but so enormous were tts profits that within twenty years it nominally trebled its capital. so as to make its annual dividends appear smaller. Yet in 1684 the dividend paid was fifty per cent. and in 1689 thirty The first governor of the company was.Prince Rupert. and its second John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough. Its original capital was only ten thousand pounds, and it operated in only a small For two centuries the Hudson Bay Company had ruled its vast bailiwick as despotically as the Czars ruled Rus- sia. Only its store-ships, bringing in supplies and munitions, articles of barter and platoons oi servitors, and conveying out the years accumulation or peltries and fish. could cruise in Hud- son Bay. Only its factors. clerks, and trappers could venture into its inland areas, save at the risk of death. Over the northern plains the company’s word was law, its tokens were currency, its [actors exercised the powers of life and death. liberty and lordship. In its earliest days it had a desperate strug- gle to maintain, its existence; (or the, French repudiated its charter, ignored its authority, and did actual battle to crush it out. In 1686 Troyes and Iber- ville captured the company’s Forts Rupert and Albany and in 1697 Iber- ville with a small squadron invaded Hudson Bay. met and defeated the company's ships, and captured Fort Nelson. In 1772 La Perouse also cap- tured Fort Prince of Wales, an impor- tant stronghold which had been forty years in building, and high and thick walls of masonry, and would have reâ€" quired four hundred men for its de- tense. \ As it had only thirty-nine, the chief factor, Samuel Hearne, the “Mun- Par ” 0! Canada, surrendered it without firing a shot, presenting its keys to the victorious Frenchman on a. silver salver; lor which his memory has been execrated by the company's people ever since. tn‘cts, the western boundary ending where the pioneer warred with the savage. The Province of Manitoba has al- ready been created out of Ruperts Land. and westward it extended be- yond the Rocky Mountains, the com- pany holding sway over what is now British Columbia. Washington and Oregon States, and even the NOrth Pacific Islands. while, after the new Provinces of Saskatchewan and Alberta were taken from it in 1905, there still remain the unorganized territories of Ungava, Keewattn, Mackenzie, Atha- baska, and Franklin, to form the nu- cleus of future provinces. UNDISPUTED SOVEREIGNTY. . There is in the history of commercial exploitation of oversea possessions scarcely any more fascinating chapter1 than that which treats of this Hudson Bay Company: how it resisted nations, overcame rivals, outwitted Parliaments, subjugated natives. and made itself sovereign ot a region which embraced substantially half of the continent of North America. At the zenith of its power, seventy years ago, it enjoyed dominion over a territory larger than Western Europe, with an area exceed- ing four million square miles, peopled by more than fifty different Indian tribes, and yielding a yearly tribute in tin, fur and- feather the enormous value Of which fairly staggers belief. Canada, fearful of a repetition in Hudson Bay and adjacent waters at the Alaskan boundary dispute. is now vigorously e in asserting its .sovereignty ere by maintaining Federal cruisers and establishing police posts in the region with the idea of making impossible the assertion of any claims by the American whalemen who have been frequenting those waters for seventy years. The bay itself gives _ access to the great Canadian North- West. the vast territory once known as Rupert’s Land. It. was named from the dashing Stuart prince who was the first governor of the Hudson Bay Com- pany. which in 1670 acquired from King Charles II. the wilderness west and south of the bay not then occupied by other governments. \ The Hudson Bay Company was form- ed by a number of men interested in the Newfoundland trade. nobles and favorites of the “Merry Monarch." who had obtained from him extensive plan- tations on the coast of that and the neighboring islands. Great annual harvests of fishes. seals. and peltries were reaped; but. they were fired to dreams of immensely greater riches by the stories of two French ex- plorers, Rudisson and Groseilier, who had penetrated the wilderness from Lake Superior through to Hudson Bay. and had brought to London (being re- buiied at Quebec and Paris) accounts of a country filled with fur-bearing ani- mals and an ocean teeming with fish. They proposed to reach both by taking ships through Hudson Strait and es- tablishing posts on the sham or the bay, thence piercing the interior and so1 avoiding quarrels with the French in; “Canada.' which. as at that time under-‘ stood, meant virtually the present Pro- vince oi Quebec, and the eastern dis~ FIRST GOVERNOR. Don’t worry so. It’s sad of course, But you and I and all Must with the better take the worse, And jump up when we fall- 0h,/ never mind what’s going to be, Toâ€"day’s enough for you and met Don’t hurry so. There’s time my friend, To get the work all done; .3 1 Before the world coma to its and Just take some time for fun. =33:- What‘s all our living worth unless .4 ‘ We’ve time enough for happiness 1' Don't flurry so. Just wait, keep cool! Your plans are all upset? Ah, well, the world whirls on by rule. And things will straighten yet. Your flurry and your fret and fuss Just make things hard tor all of us. The flavor of romance still lingers round Hudson Bay from the remark- able story of the present governor of the company, Lord Strathcona and Mount Royal. He began his career when a‘ boy of sixteen at Mingan. a post in‘ farthest Labrador, and remained in that, icy inferno for thirty-five years, leaving? his post only once in that time to. walk to Montreal, a journey of over three thousand miles each way, to consult an oculist. He was reprimanded for this, and ordered back. and on the return: trip his two hall-breed companions perished in a terrible storm, While he barely escaped. He amassed "axiom-t iortable fortune, as each factor; 13A}! mitted into a partnership afl'arftltteep years’ service. and being suddenly‘ ole; vated to authority, proved his execu- tive qualities, joined in the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway, and is now a peer of Great Britain; and. ,so many times a millionaire that he could allord to raise, equip and pay a regi- ment of Canadian cavalry, known as “Strathcona’s Horse,” six hundred strong, for service in the Boer W .. The company has now about two hundred and flIteen posts. stretching tirom the Atlantic seaboard of Labrador Lto the remotest section of the Mackenzie idelta, on the confines o! the polar ocean {at the inner boundary of Alaska, and being represented likewise at all cen- tres of importance in the North-West, whether‘ reached by rail, trail, or tra- vois. The company owns a dozen river steamboats plying on lake and stream to reach outlying posts, carrying large cargoes at stores now for the settlers daily striking north through the wheat belt, and conveying back the pelt-fies obtained from the Indians and Eskimos still further beyond. The total annual realization from the fur trade is about two million dollars. even now. despite the settling of much of the country, and the profit on this branch of the business is about twenty-five per cent.‘ ROMANCE STILL LINGERS. 4 This latter concession has proved im- mensely productive to the company, because of the boom in farm lands in recent. years, and its sales have been enormous and at constantly enhancing rates. When the Canadian Pacific chose Winnipeg as its western headquarters twenty years ago, the company realized over two million dollars on the sale of a portion of its realty within the city and suburbs. which being applied to the reduction of the capital stock, brought it down to six million five hun- dred thousand dollars. Since then fur- ther accretions from similar sources have enabled it to be reduced to an even one million pounds, in one hundred thousand shares of ten pounds each. But every share is now worth twice its face value, and it is next to impossible to procure any in the open market, so jealously are they held by those tortu- nate enough to possess them. This step became necessary because the autocratic rule of the Company was not compatible with the modern theories of personal and commercial liberty. 'The French-Canadians and halt-breeds who formed the main element in the companys couriers and trappers had formed a settlement. on the Red River. Their compatriots were bent on making it a second Quebec. Scotch and English immigrants also located there; and the company sought to impose on them its gelling yoke and rule them with its antiquated laws. The result was the first Riel rebellion. the intervention of Canada, and the inevitable disappear- ance of the company as a governing power. Hencetorth it was to restrict itself to a commercial corporation. giv- ing up all claims to administrative authority, or to possession of the soil save a certain area round each of if trading posts. and to one-twentieth of the area oi the so-called “Fertile Belt,” the best wheat-growing area. These rivals disposed of. the com- pany was able to devote its undivided energies to extending its commercial progress. until 1840. when the discovery that silk could be used instead of beaver skins in the manufacture of hats proved a disastrous blow to its leading branch of trade. After the War of 1812 the American Government excluded it from the westem country then claimed by the United States. But it still maintained itself in the wilds of the Rockies and the Pacific slope; it flourished in Van- couver Island, now part of British Col- umbia; it invaded the Yukon country; ‘and for many years previous to the pur- chase or Alaska by the United States that whole territory was leased by the company from the Russians. ~ When the Oregon boundary diSpute was settled in 1871 by Secretary Seward and Lord Lyons. the United States Government paid the Hudson Bay Company four hundred and fifty thousand dollars for the relinquishment of its territorial rights in the region transferred to the American flag. while the same year Canada extinguished its overlordship in‘ the North-West by a payment of onel and a half million dollars and some} trading and landlord privileges not in- consistent with the paramountcy oi the Dominion. in 1821, after a. bloody battle between their rival forces of trappers and voy- ageurs at. J‘ort Garry (now Winnipeg), in which Governor Semple, of the latter, was killed. is told in Washington Irving's “Astor- ia.” The X. Y. Z. Company was another rival. But the most dangerous of all was the North-West Company. which waé got rid of only by being amalga- mated with the Hudson Bay Company the western fur trade, the story ofnwhich AUTOCRACY T00 SEVERE. KEEP COOL. New Departure in the Peoria. Illinois. Insane Asylum. An interesting experiment is being 1 titled in the Illinois Asylum tor the ln- curable Insane at Peoria, that of sub- stit g women nurses for male at- tén ts. There are sixteen hundred pa his in the institution and already sci; hundred and seventy-five men are cared ior by female nurses. Pub- lié: opinion has been undergoing rapid changes with regard to the insane. It isgnot so very long ago since men were selected to guard and tend this class because of their physical strength and ability to “control" these unfortunate: by brute force. The padded cell, the straight jacket and other devices for subduing refractory patients were con- sidered the proper thing Now ’these methods are rapidly passing away, Insanity is recognized as a disease, and the humane principle of ruling by love ;is found- to be more efficacious than 1hrutality. As a nurse woman is in the position for which God and nature spe- cially qualified and designed her and man can never hope to rival her in this. sphere. Formerly the insane asylum was. looked upon as a custodial insti- tution where the chief idea was- re- strains; now it is given its rightful place as an hospital where these sad- dest of all afflicted human beings should be tenderly and humanly cared for. In lllinois the plan of Substituting women for men has worked well. Dr. Mitchell in writing of the advantage, says ' “in placing women in the male wards you restore as near as possible to the patient homelike surroundings. She takes more of a personal interest in her charges than a man. and looks after the many little things that go to Diarrhoea. dysentry. cholera infantum and stomach troubles are alarmingly frequent during the hot weather months. Too often these troubles become acute and a precious little life is lost after only a few hours illness. During the hot weather season every wise mother should keep a box of Baby's Own Tab- lets in the house to check these ills it they come suddenly. Better still. an occasional dose of this medicine will keep the stomach and bowels clean and prevent these dangerous ailments com- ing. Mrs. John Lancaster. North Por- tal, Sask., says: “My baby was attacked with diarrhoea and severe v0miting. l at once gave Baby's Own Tablets and next day she was as well as ever. i find the Tablets are the only medicine in. little one needs." Sold by all medicine dealers or by mail at 25 cents a box from The Dr. Williams' Medicine C0,, Brockville. Ont. are scattered over this part of the de- sert and specimens of finely worked and polished stone have been carried as curiosities to other Saharan towns. The French expedition may throw more light on this region. Lenz found abundant evidence that this region, some time or other. gave support to people of a culture differing from that of the present inhabitants. He found the ruins of ancient walls, objects of ornament, tools and other articles such as are no longer in use. He learned that many of these relics They exact a camel from every caravan replenishing its water skins at their wells. and the animals thus acquired are kept as a food resource. It was be- cause Lenz could not spare a camel that he replenished his water supply at Wady Teli. outside the settlement,.and went on without seeing a native. Salt mining is the only industry. The heat is so intense that at times the miners are compelled to quit work and take refuge in caves. 7 Taudeni is described by the people of Timbuktu as one of the most wretched of desert settlements. The natives are of mixed Arab and negro blood. They have had no government. Every man is a law unto himself. Often the miners suffer from lack of food, as they are dependent on imports [or supplies of all kinds It is the centre of the largest salt in- dustry in Africa. Here are apparently inexhaustible beds‘ of pure rock salt, which the natives hew out in blocks three feet long. weighing seventy pounds. Four of these make a camel load. The salt is taken to Timbuktu and distributed throughout The whole western Soudan. It is sold to the Tim- buktu merchants for a pittance, but in- creases in value with every day's jour- ney of their camels to the south. Isolated and miserable as Taudcni is. the place has long been one of the mast notable in the Sahara. It occu- pies a depression only about 400 feet above sea. level. The waters come near the surface here-and many wells are possible. This has made the settle- ment the converging point for all the caravan routes between Morocco and Timbuktu. HE DID NOT DARE '10 ENTER IT. Capt. Cauvin attached Taudeni to the Government or Timbuktu and his party returned to the Niger. They had met no opposition. but were much fatigued by the heat and the hardships of a de- sert march nearly as long as the dis- tance between New York and Chicago. Starling from Timbuktu they marched north and northward about 350 miles to Taudeni, arriving there May 8. Capt. Cauvin and his men camped in the town for eight days. The natives had never seen a white man before. Their fathers saw one specimen seventy- eight years ago. when Rene Caille crossed the desert. Lenz was in that neighborhood about twenty-five years ago. but passed around the place be« cause jFamous Camel Cavalry the Means ol_ Reaching the Wild and Law- ‘. less People. France is constantly giving proofs of her mastery over the Sahara. She has won it by her new methods of desert travel. which were adopted only three years ago. and proved successful from the first. Her meharistes travel wher- ever they are sent. At irregular but frequent intervals they raiSe their flag over some new territory and attach it. to one of their organized districtse. The meharistes are small troops of camel cavalry mounted on animals specially trained for fast travel, so that they may go lightly laden. Thcy depend on the oases to replenish supplies. Their latest journey is one of the most not- able ot their achievements. FRANCE RECLA1MS ARI!) AFRICA T0 CIVILIZATION. ' ' CONQUERING THE SAHKRW WOMEN NURSES FOR INSANE. EXCEPT \VATER AND SALT. CHILDHOOD DANGERS. It you have not met with success you think your efforts merit, do not sit down to groan and rail against Fate, but just quietly cast about tor the disagreeable parts of your work from which you have shrunk. There you will find your point of weakness. You may not attach much importance to these things you shrink from. but you can never know how your neglect oglhem has changed the current or 'your life. He who deters an unpleasant duty does it twice. Anticipation o! it may be- come a continued torture. It is wise to be done with it in the first place. and then contemplation of it becomes a pleasure. .The undone task. resting upâ€" on your head. weighs you down and“ holds you back. The well-finished one. beneath your feet, raises you up, and helps you forward. Somehow or other it seems that the hard things are the important things. Maybe it is because they are hard and sometimes Ieit un- done that their importance is realized} Every printed line reminds you of the days long since departed; Here a. boyhood chum is mentioned, there a schoomate's name appears; And the eye grows moist in reading, while the soul grows heavy hearted O'er the changes Time has wrought throughout the swiftly passing years. Memory's scroll has deep impressions stamped upon Its face forever. 0! sweet pleasures which the busy city life can never give; And. in fancy. you are roaming through the quiet town whenever You peruse the country paper, printed where you used to live. â€"-Sunset Magazine. And you seem to leave the city, with its rush and roar and clamor. With its busy, bustling atmosphere of turmoil and of strife; Leave the multitude of surging, eager workers, and the glamor, For the quiet, soothing 'blandishment ot restful country life. And you note a vine-clad cottage with the roses nestling round it; Hear the voice of mother calling [or the long-gone fugitive, While the echolof her pleading, mem- ories repeat, and sound it Through the little country paper, printed where you used tcklive. How the heart grows soft and tender, while its columns you’re perusing; Every item is familiar, every name you know full well. And a flood of recollections passes o’er you as you’re musing 0n the past. and weaves about you an imaginative spell. You can see the old home village, once again in fancy, seeming To be clasping hand of neighbor, and or treind and relative; . And their faces rise before you. as you're idly fondly dreaming 0! the little country paper, printed where you used to live. Tisn't filled with cuts and pictures, nor the latest news despatches; And the paper's olten dampened, and the print is sometimes blurred. There is only one edition, and. the eye quite often catches Traces of a missing letter, and at times a. miSSpelled word. No cablegrams nor “specials” any- where the eye engage; The make-up is, maybe, a trifle crude and primitive. But an atmosphere of home life fills and permeates the pages Of the little country paper printed where you used to live. Mr. Preston is a Canadian, almost a Torontonian. living as he does near Oakvllle. “On Common Ground" is his second lengthy work. His first book, “The Abandoned Farmer." received high praise from all sources. Canadians should be proud of this successful Can- adian author. Both these books s-are published by the Copp, Clarke Company, Toronto. On Common Ground by Sydney H. Preston is a book of which one can speak with unstinted ,pralse. It is not often that one finds oneself longing '0 get back any book, but one has this sensation with regard to this volume. It is a book difficult to drop from the first moment it is taken in hand and one to which the reader returns with real delight. It is ‘partly, one must ad- mit, because there is much fascination in the subject, but it is also because the narrative is so simple, lucid, satisfying. The book is full of pure, spontaneous. hearty humor. with no trace of coarse- ness or boisterousness. Every page is unpretentious. lively. racy. It is the most pleasant book of its kind we have seen for many a day. make life pleasant and smooth. By doing so she eliminates a source of irritation to an already irritated brain. The conduct of the men improves. They become more tidy in their appearance. The violent become-less violent and the profane less profane. Men who did nothing before began to brighten up and do little errands for the nurses, were praised for their efforts and found something to live for and some enjoy- ment in life." Undoubtedly the new system will do away with the abuse and cruelty so often charged against male attendants. and it will comfort distressed relalives who have been ac- customed to regard with horror the average asylum tor the insane. Here is one of the true vocations for women! And may we not hope that the example of Illinois in this matter will soon be followed. by similar institutions every- where lâ€"J. J. Kelso, Toronto. ;Soap and follow directions Sunlight Soap DO THE HARD THING FIRST. AN INTERESTING BOOK BY A CANADIAN. better: I other. Soaps but is beganhen used in the “’1‘ Inlight way.'~ Buy Sunlight 15p and follow directions THE HOME PAPER. As they passed an open gateway, a. dog within the enclosure growled and bristled up very perceptibly, whereupon one of the paljty panama:â€" d:No doubt about his being a watch- 8" “How can you tell?" ,“Why. didn't you see the hair spring." Many other hairy caterpillars are al- most as bad as the “palmer worm." and as a general rule the less you handle any hairy caterpillar the better. As the barbed hairs work their way into the palm. the child feels the irrita- tion, and scratches the palm with the other hand, thus transferring some hairs to the finger tips. Presently he touches his face, and the hairs or fragments or them begin to irritate there. But the more he rubs and scratches the more he disturbs the cause of the trouble and the worse it grows. The best procedure when the first irritation is felt is to wash the hands or tub them with dry sand or dust, and after that to resist all temptation to scratch the irritated surface or to touch the face. ‘ The preventive is {or the nature class to leave hairy caterpillars alone. As the “palmer worm," the hairy caterpillar o! the gold-tail moth. one of the common- est and most beautiful objects of the country at midsummer, passes from hand to hand, it leaves on every palm a few of its loosely-attached hairs, and these hairs are possessed. tor the pro- tection of the caterpillar against birds and browsing animals, of what scien- tists call “urticating properties." “Urtl- ca" is the Latin for “nettle." The symptoms of the ailment, well- known to doctors-es “caterpillar rash," are intense irritation on the palms, and sometimes on the .tace, accompanied by a number or blister-like swellings. which when they occur around the eyes, some- times have the effect of obstructing vis- inn ion. Nature Study at Close Range Has Its Disadvantages. Zeal for nature study, not tempered by experience, explains why so many country doctors have been called in to diagnose an epidemic of rash which has affected whole classes in some rural and Rib-‘1‘“ schools, says The London Daily at “Did you show that. account to Ardup again to-day ?" “Yes. sir." “Did you tell him it had been on the slate long enough. and I'd like to rub it out?" “Yes, sir." “What did he say ?" “He said it looked as if you were trying to rub it in." Some persons have periodical attacks of Canadian cholera. dysentery or diar- rhoea, and have to use great precau- tions to avoid the disease. Change of water, cooking. and green fruit, is sure to bring on the attacks. To such per- sons we would recommend Dr. J. D. Kellogg’s Dysentery Cordial as being the best medicine in the market for all summer complaints. I! a few drops are taken in water when the symptoms are noticed no further trouble will be experienced. Minister: “So you saw some boys fishing on the Sabbath, my young man. Did you do anything to discour- age them ‘1‘" Small Boy: “Yes, sir; I stole their bait." A Cure for Fever and Ague.-â€"Parme- lee's Vegetable Pills are compounded for use in any climate and they will be found to preserve their powers in any latitude. In lever and ague they act upon the secretions and neutralize the poison which has found its way into the blood. They correct the impurities which find entrance into the system through drinking water or food and it used as a preventive fevers are avoided. Fred: “56 you are really going to marry that young widow. eh?" Joe: “Yes." Fred: “She tells me you have promised to give up smoking." Joe: “Yes. sort of mulual'sacrifice. as it. were. She agreed to give up her weeds it I would give up mine." Do not glve up In Cup-Ir. on who snler. [tom obstinate disfigurement: of t elkin. Annoint nae sores 1:: with Weaver's Comte and purify the blo with Weavers Syrup. All druggisc'a hoop than. Mother Graves' Worm Exterminator has no equair for destroying worms in children and adults. See that you get the genuine ,when purchasing. Jones: “I've stopped my wife going through my pockets when i'm asleep." Robinson: “Is that so? How did you manage it ?" Jones: “I bought one If those mechanical mice the-other day and put it in my pocket. Since then she has lost all interest in the financial quest-ion." Up to the present time, all the proven properties are located in Coteman Township, and, though the work has been carried on in the crudest way. many millions of ore have already been shipped and large dividends have been paid, in some cases as high as 200 per cent. To the investor, the Co- balt Mining Camp should prove parti- cularly interesting for, so far, no mine has been sunk to a depth of 30 feet without finding shipping ore, and the Mining Laws of Ontario are so strict that no “wildcat" schemes can flourish there. Captain Harris, a man of world wide experience as a mining engineer, says: “lf you had asked me what I thought 01 Cobalt a year ago, I would have told you that it was altogether beyond pre- cedent - that such enormously rich values as we find here at Cobalt could last to any depth. To-day every indica- tion from the entire section points to the strong probability of generally in- creasing values in depth throughout the field. I came here very much of a pos- simist, but to-day I am an optimistâ€" made so by close observation of actual conditions. Cobalt will last [or years and make many fortunes." â€"â€"‘-.-v. “The ores of Cdbalt. are justly claim- ed to-be the richest in the world and consists mainly of Silver and Cobalt, with arsenic, nickel and, occasionally, gold. Think of shipping 100 car loads of ore averaging over $300,000 per car. and all this ore taken from a depth of not over 50 feet! Selected car lets have gone as high as $60,000 to $129,000 per car and the average ore runs from $1.- 000 to $8,000 per ton. Geologists. ex- perts and mining men generally were loath to accept Cobalt as a permanency, but to-duy no class of men are more enthusiastic, for it is now proven that the deeper the shafts are sunk, the richer the ore becomes." The following is part. of an article written by Alexander Dallas in “Busi- ness and Finance." a most reliable New York financial‘journal It gives some idea of what the- people of the United States think of the Canadian Cobalt country KNOWN BY "ms‘ Wo'fik's. CATERPILLAR FEVER. COBALT \VILL LAST. Au Dealers or The Wilson-Pyle 00.. Limited. Niagara. Falls. Ont. 602 Kingston Man Tells How He Suflered and How He Was Released. “For years 8 mar- tyr." is how Chas H. Powell, of 105 Rag- lan Street. Kingston, begins his story. “A martyr to chronic constipation. but now I am free (rem it and all through the use of Dr. Leon- hardt's Ann-Pill. “I was induced to try Anti- Pill by leading the testimony of some one who had been cured sdof consti ation by it. 1 had suffered for eighteen gears and Kai taken tons of stuff recommended as cures but which made me worse rather than better.‘ Doctors told me there was no cure tor' me. Dr. Leonhardt's Anti- Pil! cured me." Chas. 8. Powell Ella: “Bella told me that you told ' 1'33" 53%?fi‘fi'i‘fih’é‘f3‘fifi’éifl‘m‘“: her that secret I told you not to tell‘ ”1%? mfimmm her.” Stella: “She’s a mean thing; I W: 1-50WM’0. 'gwdxmwemam told her not to tell you I told hen"; mnzmmmh“am’fi"m‘f"°“" Ella: “Well. I told her I wouldn't tell , fl" hunu-Wlmm 00-10mm. x you she told me; so don't tell her I a N did." $ ‘“ “‘ "“ A Soothing Oil.â€"To throw oil upon the troubled waters means to subdue to calmness the most. boisterous sea . 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