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THOS. NOBLE So many people are settling in this country that. in a short time it will be difficult to ob- tain land along the line of z-nilWay. Anyone wishing to Law a homescead here will do “'0'“ r0 have ucz select and enter in for him as soon as it is surveyed. We can locate you in any part of Saskatche- wan. For full particulars! wzite at once to g FULL LINE 0% gazeszQMAkzsvesm GEORGE WHITMORE. ONTARIO All the Ennénfltls “:59 she happily married?” ' Vm" . 1 Why. her transseau alone cost a .‘v r \‘43. 000!”â€"Judge. / promerity leads often and axiibifion to disappom The Pan-of- None. A small child. having been peeked on the finger while trying to stroke a. par- rot exclaimed: “Oh. dear; oh, dear! I' thought it was going to be a nose, and it’s a tooth!” - “Yes. sir,” refilledâ€"“Elie coachman,‘ “that’s what I tell ’em. I say: ‘Look at me. I go twice every Sunday. and what harm does it do me?’ ”â€"Stray Stories. ' Nothing Dangerous About It. A gentleman complained to his coach. man of the grooms’ scarcity of attend- ance at church. ,He thought they might go at least once in a day. “The fact that it’s a‘gred deal easier to l’ave off than it wor to begin. If it worn’t fur that beautiful provision in nature we‘d all be dead wid indus- Nature’l Kindness. “There’s wan lucky thing work.” said Mr. Dolan. ' “What’s that?” inquired Mr. 'â€"“QA “Aubul- U her company” sat still through the long dinner in silent torture. A hornet got caught under her cape and traveled about searching for an outlet, stinging as it went. When coffee was served in the drawing room she had to “retire.” Fever came on, and she was really ill, but the force of etiquette and hospi- tality combined had made it an occa- sion to die at one’s postâ€"Good House- keeping. Dangeronm Smoking. Natives of Central America are in- veterate users of pimento tobacco, which they make from dried pimento berries. or allspice. It invariably gives the smoker a sore throat and often causes cancer of the tongue. The na- tives of South Africa are affected in a ‘peculiar manner by the smoke from the dried leaves of the camphor plant. The smoker trembles with fright at nothing. weeps bitterly and uses all sorts of words which do not in the least express his meaning. The Wild dagga, another South African plant. poisons slowly those who use it. King James’ Lust Straw. The stodgy faced boy at the last ta- ble in the public library reading room is having a struggle most serious. He has covered both sides of a foolscap sheet with a vague smudge over which he still labors. His twisted mouth fol- lows the motion of his creaking pencil. Before him Greene's “Shorter History of the English People" lies open at the year 1688. Of all the two pages only so much is decipherable: “The Abdica- sion of Jams II. The cnglish people had born a grate deal from flames 2nd but when at last he gave birth to a son they said this thing must end.”â€" Adele Marie Shaw in World’s “'ork. Desert Gems. In 1889 a hunter in the northwest of New South Wfles wounded a kanga' too. The animal went off through the mulga and the salt bush at a pace too fast for the hunter to follow and was soon out of sight. The hunter was a bushman and did not despair. He fol‘ lowed the blood trail, hopeful of a short search and a speedy bag. At one point of the pursuit it may be that the trail grew faint and necessitated a closer inspection. Anyway the hunter stooped and picked up a piece of stone. This he examined. The red spot was not on it. It was in it. It was not blood that he saw; it was opal. Such was the beginning of the White Cliffs ‘ opal fields. “What do you do with magnets here?” a woman who was being fitted asked. “We find needles with them.” “How do you mean?” “Every day it naturally happens that my forty-five assistants drop a great many needles on the floor. To stop and look for these needles would take time. They are all left lying, therefore. till the day’s end, when a cleaner goes over the room with a magnet, holding it close to the floor. Every lost needle in- stantly, then, jumps up on the steel and in that way all are recovered in a few minutes. To recover them by any other means would take at least an hour.” . Magnet Finds Needles. “John, buy a magnet while you’re out. Ruth has lost the old one.” said the head of a big dressmaking estab- lishment to_ her errand boy. Another palace of waters was the stately Palace of Ice which was built in 1739 at the command of Anne, em- press of Russia, to honor the nuptials of the Prince Gallitzin and a simple peasant girl. In this novel palace bride and bridegroom were housed, in rooms of which the walls and furni- ture and bed were constructed wholly of frozen water. __,_ â€"'vâ€" â€". â€"'â€"â€"â€"vâ€"â€" .‘7" a of wide spanned arches supported on massive marble columns. These stand some ten feet apart. and their capitals are elaborately wrought. This marvelous building springs from an expanse of waters which un- derlies the foundations of the city for miles. Its origin and extent have been shrouded in mystery ever since its dis- covery about seventy years ago, when some of the arches gave way. All at- tempts to explore by boat this marvel of construction have been either fatal or fruitless. Palace- of Waters. The principal Palace of. Waters is an immense hall which stretches in 11138- terious grandeur far beneath the city of Constantinople. Its‘ roof is formed inquired Mr. Banter. about “But it is good to be home again. Elizabeth.” he concluded, with a satis- fied sigh. as he leaned back in his chair and surveyed the veranda and the flower garden beyond. “The mem. cry or these flowers and their owner has been with me through all the twen- ty years I have been away. Many times have I been on the point of giv- ing up and returning to them. and. in- dendfi a trace of reserve coming into his voice. “I might have done so but “It whatyou said and the look you And he told her, sitting in his old place behind the honeysuckle, with the swaying sprays sending alternate lines or sunshineand shade across his face in the same old way. And she listened With eyes full. lips half parted and With her head nodding commendation or sympathy from time to time. It was a story of heroism and triumph, told in a straightforward, matter of fact way, without egotism or self depreciatiOn. knowing it was her right to have it en- tire even as he had lived it. “Alfred!" she said as she went for- ward with extended hands. “Elizabeth!” “Come up on the veranda, Alfred,” she said. with her eyes full of frank welcome. “I want to hear all about it. 01' course I know in a fragmentary way. but it will seem new and more real from your lips.” She knew him in an instant. for the years had brought but a stronger step and nobler carriage, with perhaps a too liberal sprinkling of gray hair. She was conscious of a curious thrill of awe and tenderness as she rose from her chair. for even in that brief instant she remembered that there was not a sin- gle gray intruder among her own soft hair. and his she associated with the work which had conquered obstacles and adversity. A week later she sat on the porch with her eyes fixed on the last visible point of the street before it was shut out by the althea hedge. A firm, eager step came up the sidewalk from the Opposite direction, but she did not no- tice until her gate latch clicked; then she turned inquiringly. did it mean? And he had not even Written to her or in any way an- nounced his coming. “ALFRED!" SHE SAID AS SHE WENT FOR- WARD WITH EXTENDED HANDS. But after the girl’s departure Miss Wilbur left the flowers and hurried away to the seclusion of her own room. Bring him to her, this young girl who had been but a baby when they two had been so much to each other! What “Of course,” the strained lips forced themselves to say, “you must bring him by all means.” “We don’t have a paper. But I think Charlie was expectin’ him before next week. Mr. Gray’s goin’ to stay with him. They used to know each other. But there! I’d better get the flowers an’ be goin’. They’re all comin’ up this evenin’, an’ ma said for me to hurry back an’ get through with my fixin’ an’ fussin’. An’, say, Miss Wil- bur, it you don’t mind, I’d like to bring him up to see you ’fore he goes,” look- ing up with a shy, pleading expression on her baby face. “I thought he was hot expe next week,” she observed. that is What the paper said.” Miss Wilbur’s hand closed a little more closely upon her pruning shears, but her face was calm, even smiling. Yes, she had heard the rumor. “Here I be again, Miss â€"Wilbur,” a ‘blithe voice called, “beggin’ for flowers this time. The cows have eaten ours on? clean, an’ we must have a good Spread for our company." kling eyes. “Oh, I forgot to tell you, Miss Wilbur!” she cried roouishly. D “He’s comeâ€"Alfred Gray,’ the man I’m to marry, you know.” 'as not expected until observed. “At least sisted of a gammon of Bacon anti. _3 Ethelâ€"There, I’ve forgotten to 8t° tangy pudding to symbolize the bitter tend a function to which I was invited. herbs appropriate to the paschal feast. How “1.919531 An old rhyme commemorates these Georgeâ€"You should have an “3339‘ curious customs thus: ment calendar. At stool ball, Lucia, let us play Ethelâ€"0h: Geomev ”115 18 80 sudden! For sugar, cakes or wine. ‘ Or for a. tansyfllet us pay, 'The loss be'thin _ -mvlie. - . It thou, my dear, 2.0;:1nner be A terrible ht 0‘ money 1‘ spent on » ‘ At trundung at the ball. parlor scenery at a wedding that 1! The wager thou shalt have and mo longed tor to buy kitchen Icenery. later A. __ .4119 mymmpmqes all. . f.» anFAtnMsnn Globe. -~- --. In the fourteenth century, at Chester and at other places in England. ball playing on Easter Monday was uni- versal in every rank. Even the clergy could not forego its delights and made this game a part of the service. Bislibp or dean took the ball into the church, or a size not to be grasDed by one hand, and, at the opening of the antiphone, began to dance to its time, throwing the ball to the choiristers, who tossed it on from one to another. All present- I ly retired for refreshment, which con- 1 Ban Play In Church. Was ball playing'in church ever al- lowed? This is one of many tales told in all ages which are woven into my th and legend and differ only in local color. "“Now,” he asked of the coppersmith, “where is your new dwelling?” “I have taken that of the maker of im- ages." was the reply. “And you?” queried the quiet man of the. latter, “whither goest thou?" “To the house of the coppersmith!” According to ancient records there dwelt between these two craftsmen a quiet man whose desire was for peace and who was sadly disturbed by the noisy occupations carried on by his busy neighbors. He therefore asked each of them to say for what sum they would change their dwellings. This they did; each calculated the amount required, and he. being satisfied, paid it over to them. The Oldest Joke. It will be diflicult to discover an old- er pivicticnl joke than that of the cop- persmith and the maker of brazen im- ages for the temple of Osiris” which is embodied in Egyptian inscriptions dat- ing from the reign of Menes, founder of Memphis. who ruled over 7,000 years ago. “Well, I’ll be dadbinged!” muttered the barber. “Now, what kind of cogs has that fellow got in his conk? I was only trying to tell him that I was King Louis XIV. at the barbers’ masquerade ball last night, and look at him going after the mile record.”â€"Detroit Free Press. “Wow!” he yelled as he went. “What an escape! King Louis XIV.! Bug house! He wouldn’t have done a thing to me”â€"â€" And, with a towel streaming in the breeze and one side of his face still lathered, he loped down the street. He sat up straight in the chair with a wild look, and then made a bolt for the door. The customer blinked and breathed hard, the shaved side of his face be- ing nearly as white as the still lathered other side. “Wait a minute,” he said, placing a shaking hand on the barber’s shaving arm. “I was King Louis XIV. of France last night,” said the barber suddenly, the razor still poised about half an inch above the lean customer’s Adam’s ap- ple. Very Narrow Encape. A queer reminiscentlal gleam crept into the eyes of the barber with the long,,low, mkish forehead as he and- denly rested his razor while shaving the Adam’s apple of the lean, nervous looking man in the chair. “This is Mr. Gray, too, Susie,” Miss Wilbur said, with something in her voice which the girl could not under- stand, “and we, too, areâ€"going to be married." Then the gate clicked, and she roused herself with an eifort. A young man Whom she did not know stood before her, and with him was Susie. “I’ve brought him at last, Miss Wil- bur,” the girl cried merrily. “But I just had to drag him, he’s so bashful. Mr. Gray, this is my Sunday school teacher I told you about.” Then, dis- regarding further formality, and with bubbling gladness in her voice, “An’, oh, say, Miss Wilbur, we’ve coaxed him to stay with us for good an’ all. He’s ‘goin’ to open a grocery next the post oflice.” Here she caught sight of the gray haired, soldierly figure in the background and stopped in sudden con- fusion. “This is Mr. Gray. too. Susie.” Miss She was not looking at him now. Her heart was too full for speech, almost for thought. The dog lubbed against her, and an oriole lifted up his voice in a sudden ecstasy of song. She stroked the one tremulously and looked at the other With the tenderness of the great joy that had come to her. He looked puzzled. “I came in on the train an hour ago, Elizabeth, and would have been here before but for a complication over a telegram. It seems there is another man of the same name in town.” “But Susie?” "Never mind Susie, whoeverg may 3' be. I have gone through‘ 111 roba- tiou and have done my work with all the strength that God gave me. Now I haxe come 10, 000 miles for my reward --for you. If there is more work, bid me do it; but for charity’ s sake do not refuse your companionship in the la- bor.” I never received it.” Then, “But you have been in the place a week, Alfred, and .only just called.” gave me line: we last stood together among your honeysuckies. I knew I could only return to the sentence of a deserter who had forsaken his colors.” She was looking at him in a wonder- ing, startled way, with the color com- ing softly into her face. “Butâ€"you never wrote, Alfred.” “Yes, twice. One of the letters was lost, however, for I heard later of the ship’s going down in midocean.” “I’m sorry,” Interrupted the doctor's wife, “but the doctor isn’t at home Just now. However, there’s a physician In the next block, and it you hurry he may be able to give you relief before much harm is done.” Bevente. , The doctor’s wife went to the door. She and the woman next door were not on friendly terms, but the tramp did not know that. “De lady next door," he said, “give me a piece 0! her home- made pie and I fought”â€" Children In Somuluand. Children are regarded as a chief as- set in the belongings of a Somali na- tive. A man may have as many as four wives, and most of the patriarchs boast of tremendous families. One old chief of a tribe near Berbera was the head of a family consisting of 23 sons, ‘29 daughters and 390 grandchildren. A father sells his daughters for camels and often builds up for himself a for- tune in this way. The children are named according to the circumstances of their birth, as Wa Berri (born in the morning) or Robleh (born in the Peter the Great was so impressed by Amsterdam, perched upon the waters, * that he determined to abandon Moscow and build a new capital which should have canals for streets. In his cam~ paign against Sweden in 1702 he noted an island situated in the midstrcam of the Neva. “Here is my Russian Am~ sterdaml” he exclaimed and immedi- ater began the building of a city there. The site was a marsh in summer and a frozen morass in winter. Two mis- erable huts were the only buildings. The erecti n of the citadel, a great fort in the sha%e of a hexagon, with a tow- er 300 feet high, on the north bank of the Neva. was his first care. The cot- tage in which Peter lived While laying out the city still exists. The Russian Amsterdam. St. Petersburg is one of the few great cities which have been made and not born. During his residence in Holland One of the best places to use coal ashes is around the base of the fruit trees. Put a mound of them around each tree. Borers will not be so apt to trouble them. Nearly all cultivated fruits are liable to overhear. This is always injurious and should be prevented. One of the best preventives is thinning. Rose plants should have plenty of light and heat. Nothing will blight their buds sooner than shade and moisture. Air slaked lime sprinkled on rose- bushes when the dew is on will de- stroy insects without injuring the bushes. An overloaded grapevine will not mature Its fruit. If it bears more than it ought it will ripen its fruit late. In transplanting plants from pots in- vert the pot and rap the bottom of it sharply, and the plant will come out. If the currant worm makes its ap- pearance, dust the foliage while the dew is on with white hellebore. The pear will come as near bearing a crop of fruit every year as any other kind of fruit. The northern slope of a hillside is the best location for an apple orchard. “By this time, if you have made noise enough, the burglars. if there were any, have without doubt departed. and when you have persuaded your wife that the thing must be done you can search the house at your leisure and ever afterward pose as a genuine hero who was thwarted in his purpose at the critical moment.” “If you have acted your part correct- ly and courageously you will find your wife there before you, barring the en- trance. “Dash quickly from the bed and either reach for your rexolse1.ox if that isn’t handy take the thst thing th 1t p1esents itselfâ€"flu: tongs cmling hons oz :1 chair-and rush madly to the door. “Remember that up to this moment the formula for a husband waked up by his Wife who hears :1 noise is al- ways the same and should only be va- ried later. Now. however. is the time to act. in your throat do not betray yourself. Above all. do not vake up too soon. Begin by groaning slightly, and roll over. At the second pull on her part it will be entirely proper for you to start slightly. rub your eyes and mut- ter any unintelligible sentence. Then. as you gradually wake up and she be- comes more persistent. you may allow yourself to say, ‘Oh, nonsense? The Proper Thing to Do and the ' Proper Way to Do it. “Events that are apparently trivial in the daytime assume an immense im- portance in the dead of night. .-\ slight noise out of the ordinary. will some- times have its bearing on the married lives of two people.” says Tom Masson in Life. "When, therefore. your wife wakes you up with that intensely nervous movement that indicates a brooding horror do not lose your prese ice of mind. Keep from shaking if possible. and while secretly your heart may be FRUITS AND FLOWERS. WHEN BURGLARS CALL. Sudden. W. H. BEAN. Best“ Groceries“ at low Prices. Don’t forget us when you want o good pair of Shoes as we carry a full line of Sterling Bros’. Shoes. 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