Red Hart oo A second later he had I was not destined to improve my Saaisned throng the door near him into tho street, but not before 7 had Rea Matthew aenslae wit Loria i tee ayficld. I would give a good Ceal |. ercepted a furtive glance cast for a quict half-hour's interview myself, and had reco; - out of the window ; but on th cured ¢ passage in the Wirxeia, eventful day I was ungrateful cn- pea ee: according to hig own |statement, ought to have Hage ho ¥ soothing the last moments of iy- Ot ee eee Sane : even hane te ing seaman at the further side of the y- Z: = a of : FE person. am afraid I "ecniaed him rather too lightly as n means to an end, and though within limits I was right, I came nigh to paying dearly for my disrespect. crepancy 'Uetected. I cannot The note wus as follow away to visit a dying seaman--poor fellow, I fear he is unrepentant--at therefore not be able to give myself | leasure of waiting upon you. i eat | the eanehile I have |Cupant of the distant table seen Captain iticey of the Miranda, | Still ard he wiil bo willing to oblige you Wine on the terms inentioned. 'The yen ' is lying off tne Little Mole, and will (cern in me or in sail for Caxliari punctually at ae -- _ finding the Queen of Night still off what is known as the port. Wishing you a speedy pas- tomer." Not much was to " be soge and a happy reunion with learned from his shabby, ill-fitting | your friends, also agsuring you of jsuit of blue serge, and from the un-} the privilege which I fecl it to have lbraided cheese-cutter cap on the boen of service to you. adjacent chair, except that he was a /j "T rem farer of not very exalted rank, "*Yours obedient! and I ticked him off as the engine:r | "MATTHEW MAYF ELD. or mate of a tramp stenimer. Having | outstayed Mr. Matthew Maytield by jin me five minutes, he slouched keav- | lily through the further doors and | "P.S.=-Captuin Dicey is an oxcel- lent fellow, and as honest as the day, but of course, as ~ age of ® small itiaaucacht, ma of much culture and refi popes and relincinent io hanged, | 80 lo e ns me across _Cagliari 'before the Queen leaves the island," I cried, and I hurried off to the hotel bureau to mere a ac- count and give. up my Ol. baggage did not .trouble 4 since I} lb had nothing but a few,articles I had y a ' disappeare aboard. The sailors had knocked of na handbag. Having made my |e? small preparations, 7 found that by rang still three hours: to kill before ly manned and much-worn 'yacht."' not know what was before me when I should ongain stand face to face with Zavertal and Vizard ops on the rada after providing myself with a very jhatch that caused me somthing a goo:l weapon. strolled along to the | ' » | o far she a: the |See, was es ot pall furniture save | " equa A ' eck, The reason was thi Little Mole to have a look at the |}, "ad belonged ~-- to = rough-anil- AHrandn. With my saat capabili- | ttembie ingividual whom I had ser fics for asking my ¥, 1 had some tary to. hour. before in the restaur- | ercen anmnenity in min jug her among lant tete-a-tete with Mayfield. I ie the crowds of shipping, and when H did I can't say that I thought much | J I of her, She was very small. being with 'he, Mayiield,"" 1 replica, under a hundred tons, an er p- is peorance did not suggest that the He turned and put his head back | refit she had been undergoing had into the companion-hatch for two on very extensive. A couple of 5 omis, the right out on swarthy Snilors, certainly not I£ng- deck and invited me to step aboard. lishmen, were busy furbishing up her |_/\ YOu Won't find no luxuries on dingy brass-work, and a stream of | 'his 'ere steam-yacht,"" he se us smoke from a black and rather | crossed the plunk, "but »s a rusty funnel showed that the 4ires jae tL to go. were alight and steam In process of | "You are Captain Dicey, T sue being got up. After all, the cnopa- Pose 7" I said, as he recewel me bilities of her engineroom were what with a rough handshake Was inost interested in, and though "That's me--likewise not much to | the boat was anything but the small look at, t a devil to go = craft I had expected, there was no- his reply, 'You're prepared thing to show that she was not hand ever 'the dibs, 'cording to con- | fast. tract By a frequent repetition of the I pu ut the stipulated umount In his word "capitano I managed to griiny hand, and was proceeding to make one of the sailors understand essure him that he should have the that IT wanted the captain, and be- other twenty pounds on landing, Ing informed by gesture that he was provided I caught the Queen of on shore, I decided to take a walk Night, when he cut me short with fn the neighborhood till he should the remark that he wade no bloom, put in an appearance. Turning into in? Coubt about hooking the bal- @ by-street in the crowded part at ance it was as good as in) his the back of the harbor, I was re- pockel already. minded by the sight of 'a small res- "And now, secing os the cargo's taurant that .I had been too oc- aboard, there's nothing to binder us tupied to think of food since break- getting under weigh,' he added fast. and I went in and sat down at | '"You just amuse yourself! while 1 do one of the small tables. "the oe and when we're clear of The room was a long one, with a port I'll show you your bunk and , door at the far end forming a sec- the swingin ond entrance from another strect, and at that hour was unoccupicd _crew in Italinn, and when they were save by the waiters. and by a couple at their posts the inooring rope was of customers seated together over ;cast off and we were soon steaming - a -- of wine at a distant table. 'across the Bay towards the dpclin- | e pair being separated from me Ly oimy san Dicey himselgastecred froin | the length of the room, [ did not on 'the smatl erection, iv@lly he mtering pay any attention to them. called a bride, for'ara of the fun- but after giving my order, and while | nel, and scatin myself in the stern ~Saiting to be served, I allowed my lt Ree critical attention to t ies fo stray their way. One of ts teaming capacity of the vessel. The them had risen, and was hurrietly |opirion I formed, as soon ns we --EEE The Broken Health of School Life ® Close Confinement, over Exertion at Study and Worry over Fxamina- tions too great a strain {cr the Norvés-- Dr. Chase's Nervo Food. So many school girls and school using this preparation we are more boys, too, are pale, languid and run | than pleased wi the iinprovement down in health, subject to weak which has been made in ber health. spells and nervovs headache, and! She looks one hundred per cent. bet- victims of sleeplessn that we no/ter, her nerves ore steadier, she is longer realize the folly 'of developing | not bothered with headeenes and 'the mind at the expense of the body. | gradu ally increasipy im Sesh and' It is on the mothers and fathers | weiht.' that falls the responsibility of look- Mes. WR. Wareham, 207 hovel aad ing after the health of theit children, jetreet, Pete. Lora' Ont., state and to them we suggest the wisdom! "One of ny children hus ciecad a of having the health of their = chi i great deal " with nervous headaches, dren kept at the high water Cizziness and slecplessness, and, using Dr. Chase's Nerve Food. fact, was ell run down, pale and food cure is so gentle |languid. These es were at- and natural in action as to ad-|tributed to over-study and co to the requirements | ment at school. She began using Dr, The benefits to be de-|Chase's Nerve Food, and I wives i use om Psechages and | that : --t found this treatment ng. as goes to fo new exceed hel; It reHeved jcorpuscles in the blood, and create | her head oa a 5 ahd built up her system T. Dalzell, 21 Charles » | We see a gruat change in her, as hy suffered gr Berea 4 pon Eero = ng tg da' ter mm ww an 3 . caused mo doubt from it. it ed i, @ run down coi . Chase's Nerve F 50 cents dition of the nervous system. & box, 6 podly ne el all were very dealers, or Edmanson,' Bates & Co., i &* ge oe a3 4 : of the fea Black Ar [OW Rolling Wave ct Sole ete Sanna CHAPTER XVI. putting on his hat previous to de- mistresses oF A td term of years, ! ized in restaurant, and really, now that fugitive Mr. Matthew Mayficld, the came to think of it, had his account of himself been yong thore were long 40 1620, gots "the will ofa ing faithfulness and. firiclity among i Fted. If ey marry belore: the I attributed his hasty flight and evident desire to avoid me to a not Nanaraeal dislike to have the dis- i the "Miranda and her opencd up a wide field of conmataee that was not very reassuring. ery year a aum of moncy is dis- tributed, and only joat year, out of " | Curious Ginitons te in the North of : that the sight of him hobnobhing sums varying "Dear Sir,--l hare Teas called |there in a restaurant, so far from : his supposed sphere of duty, caused me actual uneasiness, but it certain- far end of the Bay, and shall ; ly made me look at his companion acted " | with an interest I should not other- Tht oniy quauncation for this gift , or must havo ee the age dis- | age Londoner is quite ry etalayh of in} days. At the age of 180 Isaac gave She Pec me aan the impression ne | wise have ne The now solitary oc- she hed been hurriedly prepurcd for the exception of the skipper, és te 3 thoes in the.san i oe 'grr be o guch | 1S een paeatans any 'in air forvice a Oe re months previously ani which |that the Old Testament writers do lhave left fas the bat distribution ese distributions (gon Tit-Dits. What is thie myst i seg "fulness an-| It de-| mer inust naturally ri a a pur- | ually at a parish court house of known statistiiian that in York-!clares it to have been the now lost | of the- latter, Here is S ia Gee Was a heavy, squat-built man this- evening. You should be 41/of the bull-dog type, and though he board in plenty of time, as Dicey | Was too far off for me to note more | gays he can't wait. The run "will than the outline of his ieatures = or | take about twenty-five hours, and to judge of his expression, he gave | you thus" stund a great chance of me the genere] idea of his being | i been | | to sucessful cicheunte are Gu 'ford ee another wa in wh ich! than three millions ste'ling is every " Genrertal, charged though the comions under With the duty of luring me into an- These unpleasant pier ag Ss. var of the. 'Tand, bare the lights came we aft, a figure ia muore | liy the time I had finished my hinge uri and paid the score it as five o-clock, and I made my way | Pend to the Mole in the hope -- that | 'the master of the Miranda had con ie | tou afe r - than "of a pectilennn" s sailing. | ' is "the tewn of "Guildfore had : a right | i Now, Cap'n, ite you 'd like t ' he "which | was not to be av ile - My work -- aoe aon gro oe Sa stewurd is on eel hale bows, oon they a n joinec s on lea: ve. So tbere's | ird man, also an italian, with, the chacity. fand, Piahiod is greasy, smoke-begrim- | y. q jed clothes, probably the combined engineer and fireman of this curious- | I should rather think there Mo table-cloths and finger-al: Asses | On this occasion my appearance at geu into the Bighest number. decided that | the gang-plank seem to excite | some interest amoog the crew, und most before I sang out my werd lef inquiry, "Capitano ?"" one of | 'them rose and shouted through a \skylight, the others cyeing me streugely the while. The wee "8 suin- mons 'net with an answering hail from "below, and immediatety a head | Was protruded from the companion- nti 'ac | tee of the wi.l throw more than on row, eo ae Seino ran straight li jin a years cd to win the gift four times un- | vither side leche "al source of a light -- er a filtered thrush | again This quaint custom bas been Le ist desolation of 'the hanes Was * visinto. sai while I fight | the cuddy erer ° | "Ca oath Forrester ?'* he sang out. | ® am here by arrangement | rhere was a certain tremor, FOR ovr. R FIFTY YEARS. i "This year the winner was a ser-| That Will Be New to Most Peo- ' the effect fd making ine follow » 1901, so that ¢ the oe of Gufld-' mich of a cul-de-sac for & meats | ford, ¥ to got the "feeling that I wanted thanks fo what is known there h falling as it did full across my face nd ave | one-half limes as great an arca as | Senarians eing forward, he shouts! to his le re tion of the seta suburb of Yuli, and there Is ne lack of duly qualified | aE Feil » While my eyes were still strug- This year there 39 niles of single tracy and were thinty-tour ¢ domestics who were a "8 o ¢ | Presented --_ gifts; one successful ; Henne quickly "back from me, and o the mast told me that ¢ the crisis hed ie Shope by the Canadian Northern ~ and }an inducement to omnes tls you sec--in spite of your clumsy of- in a si it. a | im / yey gr { the | tond to the change of light. at last poe miles. "tiv ; bia ' controlled oy the railway companies Matter "dd bimecit neeciat the wall to ie cr at least eight years. | 'les: C = Saami ;100 wiles; Canadian Northern, 47; ay claim the gift, need pag per 100 miles; Eakerecnnaten, USiare divided "between the rival com- which number is said to a ard over, three~ awards om rf Siete cits unomvce «o'6i5 |SERUMS 70 STOP DEOAY "In Bristol the municipal authori-| wry 3c te ae be srustem of various |" gare aT 140 YEARS. a Marringe ? The worthy citizen who originated Preparations of Ht Human Y ottas this charity in 1622 bequeathed suf- jected Into Animals ficient money to' provide four mar-|-- ©. Serums Obtained. to each A'correspondent of the Chicago annua Owing to the de- spd |preclation tana wahien; however: np tee writing from Paris, sci a, PThose are awarded too por | At last the Pastour Institute |maidens of honest fame and ashen Loses the greiys otc ae Cu eetoee rat whes have accrued some bank, and who have lived the ong: Buiaes iene period in "one service. Each 58% Elie Metchnikof has fixed the , {minimum limit of man's natural life > and. the y it. At last the fear ond agony of death is promised to f these gifts sted hiishand: Js: both Indastrious 'and be done away with for Maes willing Bete 1% chante re jof good moral character. When the to live by the rules of a scientific ggo tecisions are announced as to whom | >¥siene. Risoat = dowrics will be paid, the four In an epoch-making book of what ervants are at liberty tp @et mer- Tr Metchnikoff Professo: describes 7k | Stundies vhilosophy" and entitled udies in ft feit. th Y | tory,"" fear of death is promised to oF - € become desire for death when man : on reaching his one hunsired and for- MILLIONS a CLOTHES. tieth year shall begin to feel him- Bel **full of days, 'Why-do old men shrink from death?' -asks the Pasteur Institute savant. "Because they are not full There are some phases of life con-/of days." Abraham, having lived nected with the opening of spring |175 years, died im a good old age, and suimmer seasons that the aver-/an o man and full of years or England. comparison with his fello in the}up the ghost, being old and full of jdomestic: servant in the 'oplaztnen gent teenzing towns of the sietretnten days. Job lived 120 years after his ,and one of these in the North of }trial and died, old and full of anys. gre is the greet annucl paying; 'That full of days is not a , com ut sums which have beer' saved|mon formula is proved by tKe fact ere destined aljnost solely f6r the = Rg tied it when --. occurred purchasing of new clothes, says Lob- Tr the age of 140 ye s been declured by a well-! of daya? Professor Metchnikoff and Lenacashire alone no less |"tinstinct of death' which WOMAN'S AGE HER SECRET AND 25 1s A Goon AGE aT WHICH TO STICK. Statistics Prove' That a Great Many Do Not Pass That Period. Is it necessary for a woman to tell her age? A varicty of opinions ex convinced everybody that you are ayite cue, 'os dear, atur- ed f y you _-- then just three' years fs So what is sa use of kéeping the th back? is 50 and glad of it. Don't do it, don't think you are old. °o one ee is old. It ig unfash- ionab! The 'favorite sticking age for a woman is 25. This is proved by the ought to but sy rarely attained be- | fou intricate mazes of a rh Ss, 'year saved up by wo orking people in |cause of certain disharmonies of his | woman's vanity connection with clothing and other nature juherited from his fir: ra- | The present King of England, when clubs, aH this money going in com 'tional ancestor, who was the freak | Prince of Wales, once asked a pratty ere 13 plete rew outfits for husband, wife, child of an anthropoid ape. !boys, and girls. The prying out be- | cane ureviacs to Hester, ett i bet POLICE OF THE BODY. crelly reaches its height just before [ All over our bodies are myriads of | Wuiteuntide. In Leeds plone cloth- | very independent. cells, capable of | ing clubs account for more than | moving about, endowed with a kind | £100,600 between the twe seasons Of sense of taste or smell and capa-| referred to, and of the money al- | ble of choice. Ceaselessly they de-'- ; ways saved -- distributed for the | Frome all sorts of solid disturbances. "wakes -- annual fair time -- | Henc they are called * 'phagocy- | ,at Oldham, "in Lancas shire, which | tes," or voracious cells. They re! occur kiter in thé yeer, quite £80,-;0ur protectors against i case ;COO is spent oa away 'in at- {With which they fight terrible bat. ltractive raiment tles in the, most intimate recesses The Yorkshire lad or tass our orgonism, They heal wounds, wishes to emerge in all 'the glory : id other hiemate out o ee new clothes at Easter -- after [an regularly paying in some amount | They are the soldiers, ga tee since the previons year -- must » Oo use the local phrase, "cll cf~a piece"; that is to suy, every article the honors ao to Veter: we oy + +] ic 4 the body; and if their story ended ad must be wholly new. | There must | | De no new c and ast yenr's hat | 'shows, they are soldiers who can- or ts; everything must 'be new. |not resist the opportunity to a foley it comes. ime It may well be understood what A | uhose three millions, saved by thrif- | Yolt against -- their brethren, the | ty poopie, mean to the tradespeople | Higher cells, and cht them! And as el t great counties in_ question. eon higher cells are caten up, the sotse of the great takes their place. cine mills, emplos in from two 'to mal thousand "hands," all the wo-} me workers gre allowed gh pone up ghelr savings and to buy inost cost price whole pieces of am | a i ic gg Ay it jorder to enable these higher ccils to is that there are no better & ;continue = resisting tind phagocytes, ocle a the twenticth century, says Professor Metchrikoff, is to strength- working gitls in the world than at jand so fight off old : Bradford and Leeds. PRINCIPLES OF SERUMS.~ --f -The task ts facilitated by tho dis- 'FACTS ABOUT OUR COUNTRY. covery of serums octleg wpestenhy on the different elements. e prin- ( ad first announced). Fake th tho red | From Quebec to Yokohama, via! blood globules. We injéct the cell plo--Figures of Interest. i as | ---- Ser- North Bay and Port Simpson, the | element into an animal of a different distance by way of the proposed | species, After a few such injections new Grand Trunk VDacife will be ™ serum of this animal becomes a ood Was 6,835 miles, as compared with 7,- ific poison for the red bl ,413 niles by the present route, via giobiiei of the former species of ani- Vancouver. -- Montreal the new /imal, while little of it (in analogy ne | TOUtO propos © shorten the dis-/ with digitalis ard o er poisons) jtange by B90 "talles, strengthen the specific elements -- in- ere, popula} of } stead of killing or dissolving them. represented by 45 citles!So they. 'are called cytotoxic -- ser- for ed along the.G. T. It., numbers 4,-}Bordet, of the Pasteur' Institute, | £ 0,940, or 18.7 per cent. af the / they have been yore and confirm- h ey |of throwing higher than the winners | total population of the country. ed by scientists all over the world, © And they reabserl blood need jand ithe house-cleaning servants of | 'here the phagocytes would merit ell | heapratiy as Prolessor Metchnikott | hi | active remedy, the mir- ne ape of the DECOMEREIGE: wale these ser- woman her age. She replied: "Just 25." Five years later he met a again and asked the same questio , "Just 25," she again varied. "Five years ago you made the rt? Your Highness,""* was the paging '"'surely you don't think I 'day and another thing to-morrow!"' She was quite right. Twenty-five | a a very proper age at which to re- There is no reason why o woman should be ig to tell her age in court. If she wise, she will not. "And what is your a am?"* was the attorney's question "My own,' she answered prompt- ey understand that, madam; I mean how old are you?' "I am not old, sir," with indigna- tion mr beg" your peor madam, I mean how many ara have you assed!" "None, the ' years have passed "How mafy of them have passed you? "All: I have never heard of their ek stop on you quite I want to Soaw ms mee "I don't know that the ae ther side.'" es said the attorney, coaxingly. "I am sure I would tell you how old I was if I were asked.' "But nobody would ask you, for everybody knows you are old en to khow Beers than ta be asking a Woman her age."" And Ay attorney passed on to the next question The objection made by women to eee their age be known is appro by the ladies of J who actually ciety gare cycle of years the way hich they tt Bs their hair. Girls from 9 to 15 wear their hair jpterlaced with red crepe in a semi- circle aro the head, forehead being left free with a curl at each side. From the ages of 15 to 30 In Manitoba there are 41,002,240) the latest publication: bel that of} the hair is qetherve ve at the back Rewards to fathst Sommers ser- acres of land, and in the 'Territories | Belonov sky at St. Petersburg. Here | Ya ar very | 345,600,C00, cf which 298,002,240] is the rational way to a bate e hum is uninhabited. In British Columbia! the higher elements of-t jthere are 200,000,000 acres unocecu- | body and prevent it graning old," oe Ss it does now, at 60, 70, and 80 This uest There are fivecighths as much / years of age was left by an : on resident of the land unoccupied in the Northwest as : r ew Turner 'the total acreage of all the farms in CLING TO LIFP. , means of this the Uvited States, which cover $41,-| Professor Metchnikoff is sure, over a. 500 is distributed | 200,000 acres. any cnse, that the instinct to die a the Canadian west the extent of! cannot develop in man before - his .six and / 100th year, bocause present-day non- and centenarians notori- covered by all Ontario. ously cling, to Jife. 2 In Canada there are 18,867 miles| "The task seems easy,'" says Pro- f single track railway and 646 | fessor Metchnikoff. "We have only imiles of amos track. inject into horses (or other pro- Sixteen per cent. of the stngle and | Per animals) certain human organs 3 per cent. of the second track /finely mashed--such as tho brain, | rail ¥ f ting pectively | heart, liver, kidneys and so fort | 8,157 and 468 miles, is operated by | to obtain, a few weeks later, can ;the Grahd mk. acting on those organs 'y The alge Pacific operates ' Bat, miles o second track railway i Canada, or 3Y and 5 per cent. re extent of Canadian railway ounts to 1,248 and 1,302 miles Two hundred and forty-four en- ~\gines are owned by all the railways Canada, or an average of 12 per , numbers of engines 21 per 100 m A total of 2,604 anemia bag- | gege vail cars roll over the jroutes in Canada, making on aver- | age of ts -- to each 100 miles. cars of the country T aéé B51 onch, being an average mile. an railways rejoice in the on of 68,875 freight cars, Vverage reight cars of Canada are} "I hear you go to Burope "quite rand . "The freig! divided thusly: G Trunk, 24,-/ frequently. Do you er. the voy- ages ss the ocean : ic, 21,342, or 291 per 100 "No. 'Seathing "always comes '| leasure."" ; Canadéan Northern and Inter-| up to mar my p! colonial, each 1.760 and 9,689, on 141 and 744 per 100 miles.- THE DIFFICULT PART. + 'Well, 'Thornton: has thrown up Customer (entering, poultry shop)-- | the ."* announced Bork Darley. YE should like to see "Sass fat | "Why, on earth did he man- gocse."" Small Boy--"'¥es, sir, moth-| age to swallow it?" asked the literal or will be im direstly."" Mrs, Darley, « in the pe of a but or rea with twistings of silver cord, perhaps a decoration of colored balls. nesoul the milestone of 30, a wo- man twists her hair around a shell pin, placed eee erate at the back the head. Quite differently, again, a widow arranges her coif- fure, and the initiated are able to tell at a glance whether or not she desires to again. --_+----_ -- A GOOD REASON, Cyclist (to driver of waggon which is blocking the road)--"Hullo, there, ° by 1' Oh, I dunno ez I'm in y hu ! Cyclist (angrily)--"You scemed in a hurry to let that other fellow's carriage get past." Farmer--"'That's 'cause 'his horse wuz eatin' my hay. ar hain't no danger o° yew eatin' it, though."" Rarer Cameltoe THE JOYS OF FATHERHOOD. Policeman--"Iook here, my _ are you doing ? You u*ve been hanging round and looking = that- shop for tho Jast hour, and it' looks very suspicious.' Shy Patertamilias (who has -- the last few De one in the shop before I go in to get th thing? te an A BIG DAIRY FARM. A company has been organized at Winnipeg to conduct wh t will, it is said, be one of the largest dai farms in America. 750 acres' of land on the south bark of the hed just one-balf mile from the city } its have been secured. This iad a7 pany to keep 600 cows, a per- centage of which will be Hblsteins. The next largest farm to this is. said to be in New Jersey, where 500 cows are kept. ie Raging Paris, May 12.--Wheat, tone ae 25! 20c¢; ri Soe ber and cember, 22f 90c. Flour, Gos quiet May, S4t 'd0c: Soptember and cember 31f 45c. Tub! ang (bashfully, and removing ) sen Tubbley (who et ae ee ee