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uttin lo Ge. ows st | $75 EACH SET. Te Noch Ontario | sm to 4 see. Rooms in the Blogk, over Messrs, Forman & Sous 2 vates it very mueh, Brings it j8t's bad fISELE'S CAPRICE. t end of a shiver, Luke five o'clock when match and then ran back. owly, We ran about a yards; aud then turned r there came a hollow, 3 d with it a loud, sharp, vise Folly half the redwood blown off at the butt, and flew brty feet. The great tree shook, ud crack and broke off at , and & second later the ees came down with a exaggerats when Isay it county! Limbs flew and t trees broke acrosseach crashes. The great logs 0 One butt flew around ig vp the ground for many with great satisfaction. # at camp. Twelve or soon came running out to edused it, Van Vranken, with the others. We the trunk of the big du, fifty dollars!" Loké nd stared at the wreck. es I" cried Stosser. "Dem oppers has been 'out and oot mit. goon-powder, or e dat--so early ! Only pretty strongly around ydfr and dynamite. anger k to our neigh- fe ut evening. He was ji shanty with lis back to the ipmeet, within, was giving har mind as we June np. 3 ey angry and very ch ring it well, D Luke called out, a. apology. 'Jest yer fp minute," imaged around inside the shanty. ib!" we heard nim growl to his wife, N lew minutes out he came, with a n stone jug, stopped with a corn- Ba tin pint dipper. fa nip 'o whiskey!" said he, swing: Hug under his arm, as if to pour out lite contents. ik you," cried Luke, "but the iforbidden our taking any this year; Bf dipsoma dipsomany? What mout thet. bet" of dizziness and all-goneness in Tt runs in some families, you whiskey aggervates it?" Good night. Much d the fifty dollars to us, and we ese books with it. don was lighted by a single lamp [Bhied a soft radiance throughout the "It was simply furnished, but was | with & profusion of flowers and Three persons were if the salon-- Balny, Gisele her 'daughter, and or's betrothed, Robert de Gillis, who to be her husband. , 'who was in her eighteenth yi : ae fry beautiful. She was a natural Her smile had the double ad. 0 Rrauty teeth and two 0 ples in her cheeks. were very handsome, but their 'somewhat imperious. She was in & robe of a soft, gwhite, clingioj MBL hat set off to advantage her girl: ty avn only daughter. She® had i mt mother, her rry a lion-tamer. ¢ "Such is my intention," re "for I sm sure that Robert will not deny fiest 1 have ever made to him. i, Robers!" she added, turning to im. "What!" exclaimed Robert. "Do you wish me to enter the lions" cage?" "Yes. Does that surprise you?" a little, L gonfous. sh "You ought to bave as mucl a a viilgar Sabor of animals," ssid ively who seemed to be put out by her lover's back- wardness in bearding the lions to please her whim. 3 "But to do what you ask me to do would 'by no means be a proof of courage," an- awered Robert. "It would be a ridicalons act on my part, for I' would be exposing myself for no pu Bg "You speak lightly of the pi of being deyoured," said Langle, laughing. Langle wished to laugh Gisele out of her daprive. 'Gisele, on the other hand, did not really want her lover to enter the lion's cage, but she wanted him to seem ready to do even that for her. "Then you refuse?' shé asked Robert with an air of disdain. Langle, without giving Robert an op. portunity to reply, said : "Certainly he refuses, for the conditions are not the same for him as for Bidel, who has been long accustomed to being among wild animals and has made a careful study of their character." a "You seem to takegreat interest in a mat- ter which does not concern you," said Gisele, who was vexed by Langle's op- position. "But," replied Lanyte, gravely, "what | ou ask Robert to do is very dangerous. ecides, you forget that his mother adores him and that she will never forgive you if you make him expose himself iu this peril- ous manner," But Gisele insisted. "Very well," said Robert, coldly. *I will enter the cage, if Bidel will allow me to do 80, as soon as the spectators have de- rted. I do not wish to give a public exs ibition of my courage," he added, witha tinge of sarcasm in his tone. "Ah 11 ko on "id . ound The lions will be fed fow minutes. T will enter the cage shen with Bidel" By this time the upectators had departed. Robert, Langle snd Gisele approached the cage. Presently the lion-tamer joined them. . Hoe told Robert that he was ready to feed the lions and invited hin into the cage. **No, Robert, do not go," said Gisele. "'I do not wish you to enter the cage. I asked . you-to do so only because I wanted yom to seem ready to expose your self to any danger for my sake." "Pardon me, Gisele, for not acceding to this new caprice of yours as to the first," replied Robert. "I huve resolved to enter the cage and I shall do so." Robert turned away from Gisele, and a moment afterward he and the lion-tamer entered the cage. The lions, eight in num- ber, moved hither and thither, obedient to the command of their master, but their large golden eyes showed their astonish- ment at the presence of this intruder who accompanied him. Gisele and Langle looked on in silence and in agony. Gisele, who was very pale, was only prevented from giving voice to her _| anguish by the fear of ravating her lover's peril. Her eyes, which were big with fright, were fixed on Robert. He, on the other hand, was quite calm, at least in appearance. Like - Bidel, he was armed | and with a bat of iron and.a raw-hide. He was thus doubly prepared to repel the lions if shay same too near him. bert was in the cage about five minutes. Then he left it and rejoined 'Gisele, who radiant with joy, her hands extended, ex- claim "Oh, Robert! how T admire you! how I" Robert took one of Gisele's hands in his, and, interrupting her, said, in a calm voice: "Do not praise my 'exploit so much, for the act which you applaud was performed for my own sake rather than yours. If 1 am Urave, as now you evidently think me, I confess that I sm not without fear that I | shall mot always be able to accede to your desires, and as iv would pain me to cross so of | charming » woman, I renounce the honor of beirg your husband." Ax soon as they fetutusd to the. outage for ent are growi ~two coun! » superstition of sailors feet below the mean tide, it is fed by this paradoxical river, which is about twgp- ty-two miles in length. If you are to sleep in a strange bed, says an iy and engertain' i dampness of the sheets, ly tween them and either there is mist on the glass do not go to bed; or if gr do, sleep between the blankets, which are never damp: drummers; especially take this precaution , While ascending Pike's Peak by the new rack railway about ome person in 200 is affected by the rarity of the air av the high altitude. The indications of distress are fiching and. redness of the nose and then blackness under the syes." A woman who was dying apparently en' a trip recently was sent back on the locomotive to the foot of the mountain, where she recovered, The sumbiit is 14,400 fest above the level of the sea. Near Horn Head, County Donegal, Ire- land, there is a hole in the rocks called McSwiney's Gun. It is on the sea coast, snd is ssid to have connection with & cavern: When the north wind blows and the sta is at half flood 'the wind ind. the Waves enter the cavern and send up jets of water from the "gun" toa height of more than & hundred foot. The jets of water are accompanied by explosions which may ween the two mate- that Auphaitis « manufac: tured article made of bitumen and sand, while the reck has practically the same ele: ments naturally combined. Beton-Carr, whe has "some sum- mers exploring in Alsska and the Selkirk ranges of the Dominion has this season set out for Central Africa. He writes home from one of his camps on the er to Lake Tanganyik that some people told him in ngland that it would require at least $25,000 to fit'out a pleasure expedition to Lake Tanganyika. He says he would un- dertake to go from England to that Central African lake and back for $1,000, and that the expense could be still further reduced if there were more than one white man in the party to share the cost. To send flowers by mail cnt thems early in the morning and let them stand in water for some time before packing, so as to ab- sorb moisture enough to prevent them withering, in which case they will not need to be sprinkled aftes they are in the box, Pack in a light wooden box lined with cot+ ton batting and covered with tissue paper. Lay the flowers, not on top of emch other, but in rows side by side, the blossoms of each row on the stems of their neighbors and as close as possible; cover with paper cotton; ses that the lid of the box is securely fastened, and remember to write Ju ang serie "Cut Flowers," as. tha wit re the being ca ly quickly dt x eli Japanese on the Move. Since the Mikado of Japan permitted his subjects to te : to other countries nearly 100,000 of them have left their na- tive land. Thers are about 20,000 of them in Hawaii, and mi of them arrive there every month. is a large number of them in Australis. They are to be found in various countries of the Asiatic Contin- ent, and some of them are in Europe There are about 2,000 of thent in California, and others are constantly arriving there to work in the vineyards. In the City of New York there may be 200 Japanese, and there are a few of them in many.gther American cities. Wherever they go ti dave the reputation of industrious and inoffen- ly The ation of Japan is 40,000, me strength and flesh rapidly; p= petite became good, and I suffered no bad effects from: what I ate, I feel now like a new man, and cons sider that Awgust FHiower tirely cured me of Dysp | worst form. Jamns E. D'EDHRIC: 'Saugerties, New Vork. W. B. Utsey, St. George's, 5. 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