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Office over 0. m Solicitor. ctc. )Iclntyres HM! Town. Collection and "In" attended to. Searches ma do U?! Mice. J. P. MILFORD. DENTIST. .chellaneOIIS at the Commercial} Hotel. first Wednesday 13 each a] Dirccmry. Bank of Canada Durham . Durham, Land Vt!“ Dxrham, Licensed the Lounty of Grey xi 0! the 2nd Division Jer matters promptly refexences furninhod Hotel, Lambtun Office hours from 81 Batsun, BEST POLICY of the Dur- parties “A ine public house.” said Blan- co Watson, the humorist. “Yes,” I replied, looking at the buildings we were approaching, “but a strange positionâ€"away from- the high road, and surrounded by villas.” Ihe Burgular And Ihe Public Home. “A very strange position. We will rest in the public-house, and I will tell you how it came to be built in such! a strange position.” I: smiled, and followed him into the saloon' her. We sat at one of the tab- les. and were silent for a time, he thinking! and I watching him. “The story begins,” he said, present- ly. “with a burglary committed by a. certain Bill Jones. one night long ago. “Bill was p young member of the profession. Hitherto he had not at- tempted anything very big. but eon- tinned success in small things had made him bold. On this night he broke into the house of awell-known actress. in the hope of carrying oft her__jewels. “He succeeded in getting the jewels and was leaving with them when he found that the slight noise he had made had attracted attention. A ser- vant girl met him at a turn of the stairway and began to shriek. ’He rushed by her and to the window through which he had entered. As he passed through it again he heard doors being Opened, and knew that the house was fully aroused.” “I understand,” I said. “Bill escap- ed. The actress employed a detec- tive. The detective built this public house. in an out-of-the-way place, hop- ing that Bill, as an out-of-the-way young man, would call in one day for a, drink. Curiously enough, Bill did.” Blanco \Vatson frowned. “This is an intellectual story.” he said; “i enoes. "I will continue. Bill avoided the first pursuit by a {long run across country, and then walked toward his home, not daring to use the railwaY- He kept to the by-roads as much as possible, and at the close of the next day had reached the neighborth of London. "A spade lying inside a field gate suggested to him the advisability of hiding the jewels until he had arrang- ed for their sale. After making sure that he was not observed. he enter- ed. the field and picked up the spade. A tree of peculiar growth stood just beyond him. In the manner of fiction be counted twenty steps due north from the tree. and then dug a deep hole, placed the jewels in it, and filled it up again. "He arrived home safely that night but was arrested in the morning. The servant ‘girl had given an accurate de- scription of him to the police, and they had recognized it. “In due course he was tried. The evidence against him was very strong. The wrvant girl swore that he was the man she met on the stairs; some of the villagers swore that they had seen him near the house previously to the burglary, He was found guilty and sentenced to seven years’ penal ser- vitnde. “Bill behaved very well in prison. and at the end of five years was re- leased on a tieket-of-leave. He de- cidedrto wait until the ticket had ex- Pu'ed. and then get the jewels and leave the country. But a day or! two after his release he walked out td look at the field. . "There was no field. During the five Years ’he had been in prison the estate of which the field was part had been built upon. He wandered about the houses in despair. But... as he turned _L:-k an" I 9 WV”. “‘1 Vvuuv-vâ€" houses in despair. But. as he turned a corner, he saw something which .803- gested hope. Behind some railings was a tree of curious growth. "It was the tree twenty steps .dne north) of which he had buried the Jew- e13. He recognized it immediately. and ran toward it. Again he was In de- spair. A yard or two north of the tree was a chapel. and the jewels were under the chapel. . :He leaned ~ â€"‘ ‘â€":n tum with his hands. “It happened presently that the head deacon of the chapel, a kindly old man. came down the road. He saw Bill standing like one in trouble. and 5‘0? and 3*“! what was the mat- ter an whether he could help. “For a few moments Bill did not know what t9 reply. but than he spoke râ€" does not depend on coincid- raid that once he had been but that he had learned in t bush-r! i8 "0““ that .s tryinl' to 1i" “1 “Mt 3-; .. In had no friends, future we must refer to him as .Mr.! J ones, and not as Bill “Mr. Jones Was a most energetic deacon. He introduced new members and he persuaded old ones to attend more regularly. He started a young man’s literary society and a series of Saturday entertainments. He made the chapel the most popular in the dis- trict;? and then, at a New Year’s busi- ness meeting. he struck boldly for the jewels. “The chapel was too small, he said in the course of an eloquent speech. They must erect another on alarger site. There was but one such site in the neighborhood. They must secure it. before others did. He himself would undertake the building Operations, charging; only what they cost him. He would also purchase the old chapel. The ;net expenditure peed not be very i great. “The proposal was well received and a4 committee, with’ Mr. Jones as chair- man, was appointed to consider the de- tails. Their report was very favor- able. and at another buainess meet- ing it was decided to carry out the “The necessary funds were subscrib- ed or guaranteed. Contracts were made with Mr. Jones. In the spring of that year the building Operations were commenced, and by the autumn they were finished. The congregation removed to the new chapel. Mr. Jones purchased the old one at a high price and entered into possession. proposal. “And then.” I said, “I suppose he got the jewels f” Blanco Watson laughed. "No,” he said, “he did not. He broke up the floor himself, counted the steps due north from the tree again. and dug. He did not find the jewels. He counted the steps again and dug deep- er. He did not find them. Then he tried other places, but, although he kept on until he had tried everywhere beneath' the floor, he never found the jewels." - "Why. What had become of them?” “I cannot say. It is possible that when the foundation was being laid a workman had discovered and apâ€" propriated them. Again, it is possible that. ithere were two trees of similarly curious growth, and that the one out- side the chapel was not the one Mr. Jones first saw. Againâ€"” “And, what has the story to do with the public-house? But I can guess.” “Of course you can. Mr. Jones was very angry with the chapel members. He considered that by false pretenses. they had led him into buylng the old chapel dearly and building . the new one .cheaply. He resigned his deacon- ship; and then sought a way to be re- venged on them. He foundpne. On the site of the old chapel he built a public- houseâ€"this public-house in “711101! we Would Steal Sheep for Ills June.- arm Drive Them to a Secluded Place. The Collie is a wonderful dog, the most intelligent and. faithful of the race. I will tell you an anecdote illus- trating the sagacity of this friend of the shepherd and his flockâ€"thorough- ly authentic, but marvelous beyond be- lief. It was long the custom in the Scottish Highlands, says Sheep Breeder. to mark the sheep by inipressing with a hot iron a certain letter upon their lamb from beyond the river. with the letter O burned iover the T that was her owner's brand. «A farmer living in a wild and secluded glen. shut in by in, where the mist have sat Years AN INTELLIGENT SHEDP DOG. fur Ills Master and Caesars brought captive to the Eter- nal City. Princes and pobeutates of their conquered outposts. The lot of the captives are not always a happy or contented one, though some of them, it is recorded, established relao tions in Rome, which advanced them to high positions of honor about the Caesars. Some such idea or a develop- ment would appear to apply to the Hindoo attendants of the Empress of India. and our Gracious Queen. 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Nothing gave the Indian cavalry officers who form- ed a guard of honor to the Queen in the diamond jubilee procession last year more pleasure than the fact that they received their jubilee medals from her own hands. form to him. ‘Ymmsg Poppertonâ€"Wife has gone shopping and letft mefin charge of the baby, and I am regularly put to it to know 'how to keep the little fellow quiet. Grimshaw, after regarding the bowl- ing and contorting juvenile critically, â€"I should think you could easily. keep him quiet, both in a vocal and physical way, by gagging him carefully. tying his hands behind his back, binding his feet together. nailing his clothes to the floor, and then administering chloro- EASILY ADOOIMZPLISH‘ED- Ennon AND Paarmuon.