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SpA Rr BB of Trade and, Commerce is the legal! She exclaimed. "A plain clue! One unit of measurement of length in Can- | that's plain enough to me, anyway. ada as established by the Weights and | Now look here: This letter has been Measures Act. The standard rules of the Topo- graphical Survey for calibrating mea- sures of length are kept at the Physi- cal Testing Laboratory. There is équipment here for determining lengths to the finest of accuracy, While typed on a half-sheet of notepaper. Hold the half-sheet up to the light-- what do you see? name and address of the stationer who supplied it, in watermark. that one half?" Mr. Carless held the paper to the light and saw on the top line, . . . One half of the What is swered Viner. He pointed to a police. man slowly patrolling the sidewalk. "Ask him," he said. "He'll know." The policeman, duly questioned, | seemed surprised. "Mirrapoor- Street" he said. "Oh, yes! Second to your left, third to the right. Pretty low quarter down there, sir. If you've business that way, I should advise you to look after your- The eplc stones risen bleak.solftide, |; gore British journalist, A. M. Hunt, ~~ Each one retounting ite own _trage- dies Often with latitude and longitude. . 'Diéssed for the Part. : A movie director was rehearsing a crowd scene for a new thriller. . After he had directed the men who had been selected for the scene, he told them to report at the lot late that afternogp. Hunt had read "Ben Bolt™ in an Fng-~ lish newspaper, gave It to Kneass fiom memory and. filled in from 'his imagination when his memory failed: .-- Kneass thereupon adapted the Garman nielody to the words and subsequently the completed song was introduced In the new play, "The Battle of Buena Vista." The drama died, but the song survived. A music publisher obtained |"Thie scene we've rehearsed," sald he, | the copyright: and reaped a fortune." | 'takes place In Russia, and I want all} Bverybody haa adopted ~ "Sweet you guys in fur overcoats." "« | Alice" as thelr pet. The grace of the "But, Of us ain't got any fur lines and the repetition of "Ben Bolt" overcoats," protested one of the ex-|made it highly effective. The ballad tras. i = " |itselt voices a universal theme. It "That's none of my business," re-|echoe. the vain regrets of a man who plied .the. director, - ""If you're not' looks back upon & youth that is gone co SSL ing down here the single unit may be made fo an ac- curacy of ome fifty-thousandth of an inch. Dominion Land Surveyors forth--we get our stationery from him. Now, Bigglesforth has not such a very big business in really expensive | : 3 are re-| notepaper like this--the other half of | 80 back and wait. alone, sir?" asked the chauffeur. "It's a bit as that policeman said." "I'm all right," rep.ied Viner. "You I may "he some quired by statute to have a steel band the sheet, of "course, would have a time. I mayn't be long." tape, of which the length has been de- finely engraved address on it andi i > : i % 3 3 Li can trace the owner of this paper | and in spite of his declaration, he felt termined. A certificate is supplied by Hé turged' away down the street 3 Tey Tdressed for Ru ja "don't let you on." The mza tarried. "I tell you I won't let you. on unless you are dressed for Russia!" shouted the director, "But I've got on two suits of under. wear!" protested the extra. spt lo il forever. So much so that Du Maurier in 1895 utilized this unsophisticated little song as the pivotal point in his famous "Trilby," tully fifty-two years * after its appearance in America. pb Dr English was fond of relating that after the song was pirated a ship, a - (steamboat and a racehorse were Minard's Liniment for burns, 1 ¥ Stent Se ess named after it, adding: "The ship was Alter Cases, wrecked, the steamboat exploded and 4 became of your: watch, my | the horse never won a race'-- some: LL ¥ my what densistent with hiseown luck in "Here it is, father." never receiving any royalty, His sole "What! The watch I gave you hud: (Ombensation was in watching "Ben DR. MARTINCOLE A gold 'And this is Ee 4 | Bolt" g!lding safely through the sing- In fancy I can hear.again The Alpine torrent's roar, The mule-bells on the hills of Spain, The sea at Elsinore, I journey on by park and spire, Beneath centennial trees, Through fields with poppies all on fire, And gleams of distant seas. CHAPTER XXV. "This gentleman met Mr. Ashton | Gu some three months ago at Marsei.es, 2 AY ; ' y % \ : papers which you have cently de- Why be content with inferior tea. posited with Mr. Met Jey } re--which ---- . - . papers, Ashton al , were rusied i" : kx y to him by Lord Marketstoke on his FINER THAN A SPLIT HAR lmao Cia AV SEEAIY 12 VA Mr. Cave appeared to be-much-exer-{ down to the City on some, | : i : "Ot what class was this Ashton?" |do so want somebody's help, Can you hailed it; and sprang in: Was a mere i LAREALS : ory. Ts Is the Accuracy Possible When Measuring Steel Band Tapes. he soled, Slats was | 8 run down at once and join us? 0 detail to charter ths next 4 to give| ISS cae C8 e. A surveyor's steel band tape 100 feet throughout the' ages, from country to a rer : shayffeur, 12D iL op B amietis was nowhere in-sh until O%r mot exceeding one one-thousandth | even from one village to a neighboring | who had risen from a somewhat hum-| Certainly!" responded Viner. "I'll n ame | Bi re: Degan.to. give; Win : of an inch. This Is an intéresting fact | village. 2 'wrote. the lin Jo rtioned in a recent report of the | made to select a standard not depend: | his hands were the hands of a man | You? wy o.1nb Une: 'hysical Testing Laboratory of the |ent on a recognized physical measure who at some period had done hard| "Come to 23 Mirrapore Street, off F weet Alice, B "the Interior, at Ottawa. « years in determining the length of the | "Mr Cave smiled knowingly. Killenhall, "There is some one here| «All right, Millwaters!" said the Then followed a poem of five stans. How Is this done and what is the |metresand even then failed to obtain "There you are!" he said. "He had|Who knew Mr. Ashton, and I should % tor 8 ! ti : ! h gt I'm after the same bird. Well go| ~ tier. - oF |1ast line is there any reference: to the ments, the layman may ask. The ques- | rant to the accuracy desired. Others to believe that he was most likely one, _"T'll be there in half an hour, Mrs. | together." : : 7 Against the sed. The mén are much} when 'suddenly the hero's occu =» ton can best be answered by consider- | have attempted to relate measures of of the men who stole my papers thirty. | Killenhall,". Viner said. knew Perkwite very well the women who get in the hay o£: ' : years. ago." ce. swomen:wio ge. oir hug. | 268 Ble It 'was this. Inst line thet . ..- of length of the past and imagining the | of the length of a pendulum vibrating | « here oa be something in this," |8n to the nearest ecab-stand "and| Tt geemed to Per] y . Working in sea-boots and their *hus- strengthened the. ballad and ful! 4 Uifficulties that would result were sur- [seconds thus establishing a measure. remarked Mr. Pawle, glancing uneas- | beckoned to a chauffeur who often took | panion kept rio particular observation | Ri nde g "when 'the 'weather's. a y him about, "I want to get along t0|on the car in front but Millwaters| Devs vegtn early When the Weather| iors" editor friends. Off i went 8 city. lots with the statutory units of | to the time of revolution of the earth, "Just let me look at: that typewrit- | Mirrapore Street, Whitechapel Road," woke to action as their own car pro- Put. whea the fog arifts inshore, wet| 28 duly published on September length of earlier times. : Canadian Standard. and gray, - g i ffeur did the run to White- | suddenly he art on the ' the * to music, but w no sue woman," begged Miss Penkridge,| ~The chau ¥| succenly he gave a.smart (ap They work at hooked rugs and thetr| = _BOS™ l old standards was the inch tn the reign chapel Road in unusually good time, r driver, car). oY: WO + But the tune which carried "Bes of Henry III. of Bugland. In 1224 the |&1d of measure in Canada 18 a bronze| YOU Say there was nothing on the pel Bo! window behind the ¥ The car: quilts all day, ' 1 . : of the road to the other, from the end! wafers, sii out, twisted Perkwite speaking world was an old Germs pol RIL (corns equal one inch, The barleycorns [Yard legalized in 1835. "Three copiesq Mr. Cave opened his pocketbook of High Street to the beginning of | round Siping 99 othe mouth o a steer. melody: * It 'came throtgh" tha ols" TTT were to be dry and were to be taken | Were sent to Canada in 1874 but two | 2&ain. With. so. wel wind. there 1 Small el ; i ; he stopped and looked in at his pas- tinued. singer. While appearing at a--Pj E end to end. The rule continued that {the Parliament Bulidings at Ottawa |ho said. 3 i Seppe : P (To be con ) chance for, trees, burgh theatre Kneass was told by the 12 Inches equal one foot: 3 feet equal (10 1916. The distance between two| Miss Penkridge examined them "crude, 8 on either side, Mr. Viner," he said. j t ; be produced he-would be-added to the perch; 40 perches long and 4 in Custody of the Weights and Measures Carles. ny tri ! : 45d in thie STATEyards near the pound: ouer'of thelnest play schotuiod. He breadth equal one acre. The measure- | Standards Branch of the Department There is a clue in these things! "That's the name. given me," an- BE sens the fundamental unit of a barleycorn. One can readily see the multiplication surement of land and the trouble it would cause in this age where city eral thousand dollars a foot. A Peculiar Method. distance from the print of his nose to | Under observation the. rules are kept |, 5 = 20 : : ng | self." the end of his thumb. It is not record-|i 8 bath of distilled water to ensure TL an the middle Wn i on a The car swung out of Whitechapel the surveyors of that day to render | D160ts are made with the ald of special 4 » : rd «jg | shabbiness of which increased the fur- the necessary assistance in graduating | 1i8hpower microscopes: In order to RL Front on Mis Peniridge, °¥ ther the main thoroughfare: was left ard or what ambiguitiss may have re- | nding the unit medsure over the and Stationer, Craven Hill! Eve Viner got down. ) . Very- 1 id sulted from this pecullar method of [length of 100 feet, measurements of body in this district knows Bigglos- Not afraid of derivation of the rood in Germany in the sixteenth century. Kosbel's work length of a rood in the right and law- ful way, and according to scientific at the door of a church on Sunday and the Physical Testing Laboratory for : : : | that this was certainly the most doubt- bid sixteen men to stop, tall ones and {each tape tested. This tape must, in through him, + with patience andy place he had ever been _ in. when the service is finished, then |no account used for fleld work for fear ; i let In it, the|--Was just like all the other houses. C make them put thelr left feet one be of altering its length by getting bent 3 this Wpenriugh r-- "Now.fon the door was a brass plate, across tained shall be a right and lawful rood | veyor checks his field tapes from time . 1 rurve hs to survey the land with and the six. to time. It is therefore necessary in focks the op sithand diy hue Degen " mem n chipped off. 0 you mea Attendapes: 3 8 pam. ; ET ing watere of song." lawful foot." We are not told what [that his fundamental unit of length bel 0 1ionee you can't find 'out. to. whom Saturdays, 5 to 0.30pm, | ber circumstances altar cases." Jali mre vale authority there was to compel these |known with a high degree of accuracy that ; , ? i i py 7 or oi} machine belongs? . Taking' _the CrhrG FROCKS EMPLOY " No, Mystery There. ST 7s Killarney's T. < iT i FRE f fn he penalty would be In case of refusal. |one of the Important functions of the come from: Bigglesforth's, of Craven failed to notice anything in her air or Yo - kL PROCH lor Standards of length have 'varied laboratory, Hill," concluded Miss Penkridge with; manner that denoted uneasiness. She i i sit < rack of thoun- To be thoroughly sure of its smart- he heard a hor! tain bog, one of the most. lmprovable tment--so important--came from some- | shutting the door after him as he, ness, this frock has elected to be fash- behind him.. i Sc i I read whatever bards have sung Reginald Heber, Bishop of Calcutta; | hody who doesn't live a million miles stepped into the narrow entrance hall. ioned of printed sik, and wears two | the wildest and most romantic conptry, Of lands beyond the sea, wrote two hymns that have become fa- | from here!" "So very good of you to come, Mr. | jabots of plain materia. rippling down! ja region of steep, racks.and mountains, Come thronging baek to me. Almighty," and the missionary hymn, ridge with admiring attention, and he found your way all right?' | back remains entirely plain, and al | From one of these hais ponies for- "From Greenland's Icy Mountains." He now rose to his feet. "Yes, but I'm a good deal surprised narrow string belt ties effectively ward. to the lake of Kil nrney; and at his wife during his voyage to India In notion of having you to join our coun-| neighborhood," answered Viner.-"This effect, The sleeves are long ahd loose 1822 then a long #nd tirekome one, 'to il. hi i 130 Jon I'l have;is a queer piace, Mrs, Killenhall. ' I! at the wrists. No, 1216 is for the miss lew of a small part of the Upper Lake cil has pro a' spotted with islands. and surrounded If thou, my love, wert by my side, my _ "Oh, we're all right!" said Mrs.[18 and 20 years (or 34, 36 and 88 bythe 'most, tremendous mountaing babies at my knee, © Killenha'l, with a reagsuring smile. {inches b jon). Size 18 years (36 ean be or SE . q % y ~ scens of. .wild 'magnificence; o'er Gunga's mimic sea! THROUGH THE JELEBHONE. . hsked Viner. "Whereis he?" ed, and 1% yards plain contrasting a "broke at upon, all the beauties of 1 miss thee at the dawning grey, when,| As his visitors were leaving, Viner "uj, Moin SUD bring him in," material for jabots, collar and bet; Mt-- Re Killprney. 5 EE E Ca ; : p the lake you comma WO, or, three' I its Supiems pointed to Mr, Pork) ™o and Mr. Ashton then. showed him the "Mr, Viger can you be so very kind? deathbed," ¢ ; y hal 1) J he ~ cised in thought on Hearing this. connected with Mr. Ashton, and we Hotel that Cave found an empty "I should say," answered Methley, | 50rT¥ to trouble you, but we really do' | When he to write the divine in length can be measured with an er | country, from county. to county, and "from his speech and manners, a man | Want Many attempts have been ble position of life. 1 remember that|Come to you at once. But where are g "jot. his boyhaod, Mechanica Ty Topographical Survey, Department of [ing rod, French engineers spent seven manual labor." Whitechapel Road," answered Mrs. ; . "I know what you're after! | The Jsland makes a sort of land fron 228 of eight lines each. Not until the purpose of such accurate measure |the millionth part of the arth's quad- probably been & miner! I am: inclined | lke you to see him." : " ators away. pation is given as "Ben Bolt of the salt- Ing the origin of some of the standards length to time by the determination two Letting himself out of the house, he and was not disturbed by his p g the pj e of a sea poem to the ay ~ veyors in Canada to survey valuable {ment of length fundameritally related ily at Mr. Carless. he said, as he sprang into the car. gressed up Whitechapel Road, and 1843. The author then essayed to f Perhaps the most curious of these tan letter you wers given by the velled ; re But the fact remains that the stand- 1 P : : MN / , Bolt to English rule was laid down that three barley- [Par similar to the Imperial standard | ®hYelope but your name, Mr. Cave?" | But the man had gone from one end came ¢o a halt by the curb; and Mill- Hearing the cope horn bellowing like t to every corner of the from the middle of the ear and laid [Were lost in the fire which destroyed | "There are the envelope and letter," Mile End Road, without success, when | street which they had just passed. of Nelson Kneass, a roving minstrel The houses stand out, shelteriese and 8 i" "® f th management that if a new song could one ell or ulna; 5% ulna equal one |fine lines on the surviving bar in the | carefully, then suddenly turns? to Mr. 00, Joystreet of thal name 5 "Have you got it right, sir?" ; ! : i you g ght, Al colisulted a Ranger-on at the theatre, ~-- ment of land therefore depended on of error which must result in the mea- frontage often reaches a value of sev- ®ienry I. established the yard as the ed How often he was called upon by |Uniform temperature and measure bottom Hite. Road into a long, dismal street, the thelr meagures with the legal stand. avOld multiplication of error in ex- it would be 'Bigglesforth, Bookseller | behind. Suddenly the car stopped, and measurement. Equally curious was the on surveying relates that "to find the usage, you shall do as follows: Stand small ones, as they happen to pass out each case, be handled with care and on . "But here's a still better clue! Loic) The house he wanted--Number 28 hind the other, and the length thus ob- or twisted. 'With this tape the sur- notice--the letter is broken, imper- which ran three lines in black: teenth part of it shall be a right and | these days of very high land values tell me that with time and trouble and|_ : The door was opened by Mrs. Kil 1218 a re men to stop and line up or what the [and the testing of tapes {s therefore fact that this half-sheet of notepaper |enhall herself, and Viner's quick eye a. i on de a And while, the little] Rising the mountain regian 'toward he x chair a \ ri! came to ae RT . TE emphasis, "I should say that this docu-| smiled and motioned him to enter, : : Songs of Sea and Lands. "To My Wife." P Ihave anywhere seen, Soon entered And the bright days when IT was young [ mous: "Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God| Mr. Carless had followsd Miss Penk. | Viner, and so quicky," she aid. "You either side of the panel front. The x a : chi continued for.nite tes, wrote the following beautiful lines to | "whatam» he exclaimed, "Mr, Viner's to find you and Miss Wickham in this about the hips, ereating a bloused and back- take up his bishopric: -- that clue followed up instantly!" hope--"' and. small woman, and is in sizes 16, d, From How gladly would our pinnace glide "This man who knew Mr. Ashton?" | hust) req ards 36-inch figur- on our deck reclined, was summoned to the telephone. said Mrs. Killenhall. "Come upstairs, or % yards if dies is made all from Let others {raverse sea and land, And toll through various climes, In careless eas my limbs I lay and woo| "Viner!" came Felpham's voice OVer pr Viner? / | ofie material: 'Prive 20 cents - the cooler wind. the wire. "Ig that man Cave still with Viner noticed that the house through | Fiery wor 15 desire Js 16 achieve I turn the world round with my hand [1 miss thee when by Gunga's stream you?" . TEE - which he was led was very quiet, and" that smart en appearance which | Reading these poet's rhymes. my twilight steps 1 guide; No!" answered Viner. "Why? larger than he should have d' diraws avoiahis os sf ho Longfellow. | But most beneath the: lamp's pale| "Listen carefully," responded Felp- at from the street frontage. From cbserving public. The designs ilhs- #, =P you/ beam I miss thee by my side. ham. "In spite of ail he asserted, at: what The. coud See. it wa well. fur. in our new Faghics B are : 1 spread my books, my pencil try, the | the police-court, I believe he's a rank nished, but dark and gloomy; gloomy, | originated in 'the heart: of bin lingering noon to cheer; imposter! I've just had another talk too; 'was-a back room, high up iho. centres and will help JOU To atqeire i But miss thy kind approving eye, thy | with Hyde, and he swears that the stairs, into which Misi: Kidlewhalt| that much 4 air of indi lity, % meek attentive ear. man is Nugent Starr. Do you think presently showed him;: There; looking | Price of B desired 100 the copys | LY But when at morn anc eve the star be- kk Fould be wie BE etong zen somewhat anxious, sat Miss Wickham, 9 and on the . HOW TO ORDER PATTERNS. : mA Woods and lawns of Muckross Abbey, alone. : Vines Sia an y on ~ and wrist, Na xn large promontory of thick ; ; i ere's Mr. Viner," said rs. Kill-| Writs your name and address : "| woe best to await further developments. enhall. "I'll tell Dr. Martiticole he's ly, giving numbe| 1 > holds me on my knee, deni HE I feel, though thou art distant far, th Viner replied that thought i ough thou ar: y iner: rep iE . shooting far into the lake. The most active fancy can sketch nothing prayers ascend for me. : patterns as you want, i 7 c nn AL Lavy nad ition: Islands of ¢ el + Then on! then on! where duty leads In the rush of events he had forgotten ! os my course be onward still-- that Cariess had already given in- tha He O'er broad Hindustan's sultry meads, structions for the watching of thet, She motion ee o'er bleak Almorah's hill. . "pseudo Mr. Cave. AE swung quick'y round. As the doo That course nor Delhi's kingly gates, He went away from his téephone closed, he had heard the uhmistakable : nor wild Malwah dotain, - {an4 sought Miss Penkridge, whom he click of 'a patent lock, © ir . For sweet the bliss us both awaits by found in her room, arraying hérself |" Ed yonder western main. for out of doors. : =f: ! --ie wh Where are. you. going?" he asked) CHARTER XXVI. 3 7 4 he Real Irish. : in surprise. La cath THE DISMAL STREET, "I'm 1 > ¥ = - Mrs Merby was {ustructing her Irish Tm going round 2, Bigglestorth Unknown to those who had taken maid-of-all-work regarding the proper | =r --= es {part in the conferencé at Viner' names of certain anticles. HT 3 A house, unknown even to Carless, w . "And, Bridget," she said, "these are in the multiplicity of his engagements, | - ewers---owers--don't call them jugs" || = SWI the instructions he had | § { "Sure an' I won't, ma'am," said Brid- (given his clerk, a strict watch was| get. "An' fs all' "thém little basins || 0 _ | {being kept.on a man arp 1 all mine too, ma'am?" : New ¥. three yoati" Geursd | | i1io events of that mo _ Fate, Time, Occasion, Chance, a LX Charge, to these all thi are sub- fect but Eternal Love-- Shelley. ~~ | Minard's Liniment for Backache. ns. re WRT Fai