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ho â€" He igedy on dleport. U1 ROIXER Christ mas s Home From ame Back and vrersian _ rug, me for & girl ton Tiger. BURCLAR. rant county re«l the carpet alrs o 8y @DBg S NAs Supâ€" tragedy is beo= famiAly s, had r+ o for x nwd W a Cu vith Ds hes Tb W 1€ MWt Ni® ali ret te I" '- who aige mwc_?'g/ “ Z"’Z “f" y ever, they refrained fr a anammity which mig Msastrous to his reput: known evening papéer h him a goo«l berth as : spector oi moral nuais: which the clever y filled with all the req Ind@iscretion. As for N had done well for hims and uow leased a s his own. While Edgar frtend and chum, had { the prosperous ranks . married. and was now by political ambition t I aseured Mrs. Elimer that was not the case, but she paid little heed to my contradiction. She had reheved her feelings, that was the great thing, and it was with reâ€" covered _ calmness that _ she inâ€" quired after _ the _ friends who had _ made â€" my _ yearly shootâ€" ing party in the old times. 1 knew little more of them than she did ; for that last gathoring, when Fainan won my pretty witech‘s heart, ho. indeed been the farewell meeling predicted by Maurice Brown. That young sasuthor naving shocked the public with an exceedingly nasty novel, had followed it up by another which would have shocked them still more if they had read it ; this, howâ€" ever, they refrained from doing with a anammity which might have proved Msastrous to his reputation i a wellâ€" known evening papér had not offered him a goo«l berth as a sort of inâ€" "And so you‘ve mad a quarrel! Well, roaly, Mr. Mande, as am old friend, you must allow me to tako this opâ€" portunity â€" hbefore you make it _ up again, _ you know _â€" to lell you that realiy I think you are thlrowimg yoursell away." tho superceilious seorn with which that wellâ€"informed young lady had treated her. I protested, but very midly ; for, indeed, to hear a littie gentle disapprobation of my â€" late too mattorâ€"ol fact love gave me n0 acuteo pain. "I wouldn‘t for the world have said anything before, you know, for if, of course, a person‘s love afâ€" Tairs are nol his own â€" business, whoso are they ? But, haviag known yuo so loug, 1 reaily must say, now thait 1 can open my lips without inâ€" discretion, that the moment I saw that stuekâ€"up pisce fo affection I said to myself;: ‘She must have asked him!‘* The truth was that the poor litâ€" tle woman had been smarting, ever mm« Miss Farington‘s visit, from irreaponst lue it bon Tea C wral nuisances, a post clever young Irishman the requisite zeal and As for Mr. Fussell, he | _A very serious addition to the \cgares I felt on behalf of my old | pupil came upon me in the shape of a rumor, communicated by Ferâ€" :mw»n in a mystcorious manner, that | & strange figure had been seen by . the keopers in the course of _ the | past week, wandocring about the hills in the daytime and hovering in the | vicinity of the Hall towards evening. | I spoke with one of the men who ;‘ had soen him, and from what he ! eaid I could have no doubt that the | wanderer was the unlucky _ Ellimer i who, as 1 found by sending of{ a teleâ€" lgrum to the lunatic asylum where ; he had been for some time confined, lhnd been missing for four days and | was supposed to be dangerous. I at ionco gave orders for a search to be ‘ made for him,. be‘ing much alarmed | by the possibility of his presenting ' himself sauddenly to cither of the two | poor ladies, who woere not even aware | of his condition. . The first day‘s ’ scouring of the hills and of the forest | proved fruitless, however, while Baâ€" biole was much surprised at the perâ€" itinncit_\' with which I insisted that the wind was too keen for her to go lourt. On the second day I think she t began to have suspicions that someâ€" lthing was being kept from her, for on my suggesting that she had betâ€" <ter stay indoors again, as tha keepâ€" ers were out shooting near the Hall, she gave me a shy apprehensive glance, but made no remonstrance. As I started to "make a round with the keeper," as I truly told her, though I did not explain with what object, she came to the door with i me, making a beautiful picture unâ€" | der the ivy of the portico, her white throat rising out of her dark gown like a lily, and the pink color which | the mouwntain air had brought back ; again flushing and fading in her face. | **Well," said I, looking at her with t & groeat yearning over the fairness | and brightmess which were so soon |to disappear from my sight, to be swallowed up in the fogs and the lrovor of London life. "well, I shall | call at the postâ€"office and see if I | can‘t charm out of the postm‘stress‘ | fingers a letter from Fabian." ery at that age, when the demon Reason throws his weight into the scale on the side of Evil, and tells you that the years are flitting by, carâ€" rying Away the time for happiness, and that the beauty which steeps you to the sonml in Jonging has been left unheeded by its possessor like a withered flower. But Babiole‘s perâ€" fect conlidence was her safeguard and mine, and like the wind _ among the pines, I kept my tumults within dive bounds. I was, however, occaâ€" slonally distressed by a consideraâ€" tion for which I had nevor cared a straw, beforeâ€"what the â€" neighbors would say. _ If I, an indifferent honâ€" est man, really had some trowble in keeping unworthy thoughts and imâ€" pulses down within me, what sort of _ conduact these carrionâ€"hunting idiots would ascribe to a man, whom they loouked upon as an importer of foreign vices and the type of all that was godless and lawless, was pretty evident. They would all, in a commonplace chorus, take the part of the commonplace Miss Farington, and unite in condemnation of poor Babiols. Now, no man likes to let the reputation of his queen of the earth be pulled to pieces by a cackâ€" ling crew of ‘4Aiots, and, therefore, though I hs. not enough strength of mind to suggest giving up those treasured walks, I began, torn by my struggling feelings, to look forâ€" ward feverishiy to the letter which Fabian had promised to send off as soon as he knew on what date he would be iree to come north. _ His wile herself showed no eagerness. "He is the very worst of correâ€" rpondents," she said. "He will proâ€" bably write a letter to say he is coming just before starting, post it at one of the last statioqns he passes through, and arrivo here before it." It tiid not comfart me to learsn thus that he might come at _ any moment. _ My conscience was protty clear, but I wanted to have a fair notice of his arrival, that I might roceive him in such a manner as to propare the peccant husband for the desperately earnest sermon I had mado up my mind to preach him on what his wife called neglect, but what I felt sure was infidelity. "Noâ€"0," said I, looking down at my gaiters. "Not so particularly." Then we neither of us said any more, but stood without looking at each other. I don‘t know what she was thinking about, but I know I began to grow blind and deaf even to the sight of her and the sound of the tapping of her little foot upon the step ; the roar of the rainâ€"swollen Muick in the valley below seemed to have come suddenly nearer, louder, to be thundering close to my ears, raising to tempest height the pasâ€" sionate excitement within me, and shrieking out forebodings of the desoâ€" lation which would fall upon me when my poor witch should have fled away. L was thank{ful to be brought back to commonplace by the shrill tones# of Mrs. Elimer, who had folâ€" lowed her daughter to the doorâ€"step, and who encouraged me with much banter about my shooting powers as "Abh, you want to get rid of us,‘ said she, hall smiling, half reproach ful. It was a cold and gloomy day. The chilling, penetrating Scotch mist shrouded the whole landscape with a mournful gray vell, and gave place as the day wore on and the leaden clouds grew heavier, to a thin, but steady snowfall. I left Jock, as the time drew near for the arrival of the train that brought the London letters, to return to the Hall withâ€" out ime, and got to Ballater postâ€" office just as the mailâ€" bag was being garried across from the little station, which is just opposite. In a few minâ€" utes I had got my papers, and a letâ€" ter for Bablole in her husband‘s handwriting. The snow was falling faster by this time and already driftâ€" ing before the rising wind into little heaps and riiges by the wayside and on the exposed stretch of somewhat bure anrd barren land which lies beâ€" tween Ballater and the winding Dee. "A mon wi‘ a bee in‘s bounet‘s nae aa daft but a‘ can mak‘ the canny ones look saft if a‘ wiil," said he with a wige look. And his opinon, which IL apâ€" ’)rchenslvel_v shared, was that the ugitive would not be secured until hbe had given us some trouble. _ I walked back at a quick pace, scanâ€" ning the small â€" snowdrifts _ narâ€" rowly measuring with _ my eyes the progress the _ soft white covering was making, and wondering with the, foolish â€" heartâ€" quiver and miracleâ€"hunger of a schoolâ€"boy on the last day of the holidays, whetner _ that _ snowâ€"fall would have the courage and strength of mind to go on bravely as it had begun, and snow us up ! If only the train would stop â€" runningâ€"it did sometimes in the depths of a severe winterâ€"and cut off all possibility of my witch being taken from me for another month. I had worshipped her so loyally, I had been so "good," as she used to sayâ€"I couldn‘t resist giving mywelf this little pat on the backâ€"that surely Providence might trust me with my wistful but wellâ€" conducted happiness a little longer. And alt the time I knew that my solicitous questionings of sky and snow were futile and foolish, that I was carrying the deathâ€"warrant of my dangerous felicity in my pocket, and that if I had a spark of sense of manliness left in my woolâ€"gatherâ€" ing old head, I ought to be heartily glad of it. The notion of the deathâ€" The giliie who accompanied me was a long, tank, weedy young Highâ€" lander, silent and shrewd, who was alreamiiy a valuable servant, and who promised to develop into a fine speciâ€" men of stalwart. Gaelic humanity beâ€" fore many years» were over. We made the cireuit of that part of the foreat near the Hall which had been apâ€" pointed our beat for the day, but failed to find any trace of the fugiâ€" tive. Jock was not surprised at this. The notion of the _ deathâ€" warrant disturbed me, howâ€" ever,. and when I burst into the drawing â€" room, where Mr#. Elimer was darning a handsome old tapestry curtain, and looking, with her wers delicate face, pink with inâ€" terest, rather pretty over it, L felt rervous as I asked for Babiole. She entered behind me before the question was out of my mouth, and I put the letter into her hands withâ€" out arother word, and retreated to one of the windows while she openâ€" ed and read it. She was moved too, and her little fingers shook as they tore the envelope. I felt so guiltily anxious to know whether she was pleased that I was afraid if I gianced in her direction she would look up suddenly and detect my meanness. So 1 looked out of the window _ and watched the asnow collecting on the branches of the firs outside, while Mrs. Ellimer, without pausing in her work, wondered volubly whether Faâ€" bian wasn‘t ashamed of himsel{ â€" for having left his wife so long without a lettrer, and would like to know what he had got to say for himself now he had written. Then suddenâ€" 1y the mother gave a little piercing ery, â€" and turning _ at once saw â€" that Babiole, standing _ on the same spot _ where I had seen hbher last aud holkding her husâ€" band‘s _ letter tightly clenched in her hands, seemed _ to _ have chkanrged in a momeut from A youug, sweet, aul beautiful . woâ€" man into a livid and haggard o.d one. She had lost all command of the musclos of her face, and while her eyes, from which the dewey biue had faded, stared out before her in a meaningless gaze, the pallid lips of her opeh mouth twitched convulâ€" sively, although she did not atâ€" tempt to utter a word. _ _ Hor mother was by her side in a moment, while I stood looking stuâ€" pidly on, articulating hoarsely and with difficultyâ€" "Tho letter‘! Is it the letter!" Mrs. Ellmer snatched the papetr out of her daughter‘s hands so vioâ€" lently that she tore it, and _ supâ€" poriing Babiole with one arm, read the letter through to the end, while [ kcpt my eyes fixed upon her io a tumult of feelings I did nrot dare to analyze. _ As she read the last word shoe tossed it over to me with her light eyaa flashing like steel. "Read it, read it!" she cried, as the paper fell at my feet. "Soe what sort of a husband you have given my poor child !" The words and the action roused Babiole, who had scarcely moved exâ€" cept to shiver in ker mother‘s arms. She drew herself{ away as if stung back to life and a painful rush of blood flowed to her face and neck as she made two staggering steps forward, picked up the letter, and walked quietly, noiselessly, with her head bent and her whole frame drooping with shame, out of the room. Mrs. Elimer would have followâ€" ed, but I stopped her. The Invincible Country Boy. A glance at a list of the great men of the big cities of the United Atates will prove beyond a doubt that the country bred boy is far supâ€" erior to his city born cousin in point of business and professional ability and general capacity. Many reasons are advanced for the success of the country boy in the large cities, but the one that seems to hit the nail on the head is that the youngster of the provinces is taught to work, and by this is meant a good honest day‘s work, one of twelve hours. He is a sticker, too, who is willing to start in at the bottom, and when you find & country boy who is a worker and a sticker he is invincible. You can‘t keep him downâ€"Salt Lake Teleâ€" (To be Continued.) Wherever a farmer is building new barns or changing hbis stables, the question of the use of concrete for tloors and walls is a live one. In a country where lumber is comâ€" paratively cheap concrete is not likely to come into general use for making walls of barns, but for floorâ€" ing it is without question the best and cheapest substance that can be employed. Its first great quality is its durability. Properly gt:t down it is practicailly indGestructible. Then it is water tight, and will help in sayâ€" ing all the liquid voidings of the animais, and this in farm practice toâ€" day is a most important matter. Fully 50 per cent. of the fertilizing vafue of the manure is in the liquid portion. By having concrete floors and using plenty of absorbents this can all ve saved and put on the 4and where it will do the most good. What Concrete is. Concrete is a mixture of clean gravel or pure samnd and cement. There are several kinds of cement, In Ontario they have natural rock cement, whicu is manufactured at Queenston and Thorold, and this, while not as strong as the Portâ€" land cement, is cheaper â€" and does very well. In some sections the Portâ€" land cement will be the bast to use. Laying concrete floors does not reâ€" quire skill which an intelligent farâ€" mer cannot supply. First make a solid, smooth floor, 12 feet square, 2â€"inch lumber preéferred. Then a box without a bottom should be made in which io mix the gravel and ceâ€" ment. This can be made of such a size as to accurately measure the gravel or sind. The gravel and ceâ€" ment are then put into this box in the proportion required, the box taken of{, and the mixing o{ cement and gravel or sand thoroughly done with a shovel. It should be shovelled over twice at any rate, while it is adry, and shovelled up into a cone; then betore applying the water the cone should be pullsl down, making the mixture in the form of a ring, leaving a hollow in the centre, bare to the floor. In this water should be poured, and dry gravel and cement turned from the outside of the ring to the centre. This will be pulled out again from the centre and more waâ€" ter added until the mixture becomes oi the Mules From the Mines Were Puzzled by the Earth‘s Brightness. At the ting of the recent strike of the mine firemen in the antHrap cite coal fields hundreds of mules from the various mines were brought to the surface. Most of the animals had not seen daylight for many years and some of them hadl quite forgotten all they ever knew about pure air, green grass and blue sky. Consistency of Thick Porridge, so it will run down, but not be soft. The proportions in which grayâ€" el or cement can be uwsed depends somewhat on the strength of the cement. With good Portland cement, one part of cement to six or seven of gravel could be used for the lower part of the floor, but this It was a pathetic as well as an amusing sight to see these animals iurned loose to graze in the fields. The daylight dazed them, and it was with difficulty that they could be forced from the cage and driven to the frelds, and there their antics were â€" pitifully humorous. _ Crowds lined the fences each day. The mules, free from the driver and the whip, stood for a long tiime seemingly afraid to move. To them the soit, epringy ground, so differâ€" ent,from the ties and rails and rocks of file mines, was insecure. The air, the grass, the space, the unbounded room â€" to move. bewildered ~them. They walked siowly, and with hoofs tapping the ground many times beâ€" fore a step was‘attempted, and it was hours and sometimes days beâ€" fore they gained sufficient confiâ€" dence to run and tumble and roll. But when thoy realized that the strange surroundings were harmâ€" less and actuaily enjoyable, they reâ€" veled in «their â€" newâ€"found freedom, heehawed, kicked up their heels and gamboled, very much in the manner of the schoolboy, set free, after a long and arduous senool term. The grass was the jgreatest mysâ€" tery to them. Instinect doubtless told them it was good to wat, it smelled inviting, but it was so strange, so new that it was long before they gained courage to nibble and to eat it. a thing of mystery, and that they felt better by breathing and could soe better after the novelty _ had worr off than they ever could see in the dark and narrow passages of the mines. The extegrt of the fields, too, was a source If great wonderment to them. Here they did not knock their heads â€" against the roof, for there was no roof ; nor graze their sides against the rib, for there was mo rib; only space above and _ about them. â€" uflimited, _ incomprehensible space, a pnew, strange thing, with Air and light made mavy, of the mules study for lhours before they kaew that the novel world into which they had been raised was not Tickling in the Throat. Throat Irritation, Hoarseness and Sore Throat as well as the Most Severe Chest Colds are Promptly Relieved and Cured by Dr. Chase‘s Syrup of Linseed and Turpentine. "Tickling in the throat," may not of itseli seem serious, but this is the critical point at which a cold in the head works its way Into the bronchial tubes and develops into bronchitis, pneumonia or consumpâ€" tion. # This is the point where a few doses of Dr. Chase‘s Syrup of Linâ€" seed and: Turpentine will prove sufâ€" cient to bring about a thorough and prompt cure. While this great medicine is undoubtedly the most effective treatment for severe chest colds, bronchitig and even asthma, wisdom suggests the usa of it when FIRST SIGHT OF THE SUN. THE USE OF CONCRETE ON THE FARM: Synopsis of an Address Given by T. G. Raynor, Roul‘hll‘ Ont., Before the St. John, N.B., Parmers‘ Institute. ONTARIO ARCHIVES TORONTO ‘ _ By the use of corrugated sleepers i made like railway rails, it is auite | practicable to make a good floor iwhich would form the ceiling of | the story â€" below. The sleepers ‘ should preferably be made of iroa, | and laid sufficiently close to make 'the structure solid. Such a floor | preverts any leakage through to | the space beneath. should be covered with a veneer of one part of cement to two of clean sand. If an extra fine hard finish is required use equal parts of ceâ€" ment and eand. food foundation should be prepared. t should be made firm and solid by the addition of gravel or small stones, thoroughly pounded down. and the floor shaped as is required for the Ita.btle It is best to have a slight slope from the manger to the guiter. ‘The Blan of cow stable, which is generaily preferred has a square gutter two feet wide and eight inches below the level of the stall floor. This gutter is first made and the coment laid in it. Then a board mould is put up, and the oeâ€" ment â€"put in behind the boards, and the boards left there until the ceâ€" ment gets firm. bee which most of them had to get acâ€" quainted by degrees. Those who had enjoyed t*xe freeâ€" dom for a day, as they met the newâ€" comers, bumped into them, to see them lose their halance on the yieldâ€" ing ground, rolled under their noses, kicked up their lheels and played with them much as a boy swimmer will play. with a younger one. In the days which the strike lastâ€" ed nmost of the mules experienced new sensations which they _ may never repeat, for they were hustled after their brief freedom down into the dark depths and narrow ironâ€" paveg passages where their only light is the faint flicker of the minâ€" er‘s lamp, thoir air the gas and smokeâ€"stained heaviness of the mine, their food the hay and oats and much which tagtes like the green, fres} grass, and their gamboling conâ€" fined to the narrow space of a fiveâ€" foot stall.â€"Philadelphia Press. She Also Dabbles in Literature and Strenuousness. "I am * hard proposition ! "They don‘t know ma in this flat! "Third place in a week, and toâ€"day I‘ve broken only one cutâ€"glass sugar bowl and two china cups! "The woman said she expected me to work! Me! And my wages only $32 a month! "I love to hurt dogs! I suppose that is the devil in my natureâ€"or the beer ! "Bah! My hands are getting too steady ! "I wonder where wine ! "There! I have dropped _ tha meat dish! I‘ll tell the mistress. Perhaps she will want to save the picces! The ecrash of broken china is music to my ears! "Wish the mistress would leave her writing desk open. Then ILcould spill the ink on the piano keys. f "I wonder why she loves her husâ€" band! He has made gooâ€"goo eyes at me only once! â€" Think T‘ll look for another place! _ No, not toâ€"day! The parior curtains are real lace; I‘ll tear them before I go. "I was not born for joy! I could not smile when they choked on the coffee. I had pat red pepper in it. Toâ€"morrow I‘ll put soap in the waflâ€" fles. the trouble is just beginning. Singers and speakers commend Dr. Chase‘s Syrup of Linseed and Turâ€" 1 uo {[a1 urea 4ayj, asnuoeq ‘supuod a‘beolut!l,v to relilg'e and cureI the hoarseness and throat irritation, which prove so embarrassing . to persons appearing on the public platform. |__â€"_ _ h 4s 9k "Plushâ€"covered _ furniture in a Harlem flat! Bah! TIil give them notice to change it ! \ Mr. Donald Graham, 45 Caliendar street, Toronto, says: ‘"My boy, who is six‘ years of age, was developâ€" ing all the symptoms of pneumonia when we commenced giving him Dr. Chase‘s Syrup of Linseed and Turâ€" pentine. It very quickly checked the Befor elaying the etable floor a "TI‘ll go in the parlor and kick her ANOTHER MARYV. F. W. Hod«on, Live Atock Commissioner In Laying Concrete loves her husâ€" e gooâ€"goo eyes Think TI‘ll look No, not toâ€"day! they keep the j advance of discase, and in a fes \days be was as well as evor, and is Jnow going to school regularly,. L have now great faith in this valeâ€" \able remedy, and shall recowmend it | to my friends." t 7 wxt Some of the Curious Ways Used t@ Ward Off Diseases. Lists of potions, decoctions an4 remedies resorted to not only by, Dyaks, Finns and Badagas, but by Greek philosophers such as Seraâ€" pion and Alexander of Trailles are by no means attractive. It is suf= ficient to say that they are the quaintessence of everything noxious, repulsive or nasty. Eye of newt, toe of frog and the liver of blasâ€" pheming Jew are savory and deliâ€" cate in comparison. But no one: could find fault with this ancient: prescription for a good physician t He should be truthful, of a caim temper, not peevish with an irriâ€" table patient, hopeful to the dlast day of his pationt‘s life and rigid in seeing that his orders are carâ€" ried out. "In my next place I will take the mornings out as welil as the aftor= noone. * "There is a feeling of heaviness inside me. . The cooking of this misâ€" tress does not agree with me, asd it brings on the wicked fseling. 4 "I feel that I am not long for this place ! "I cannot trust myself to write amny more!‘"â€"N. Y. Sun. ; "Tonight I shall waik under the stars. I may meet a policeman bp the door of the family entrance to Casey‘s. "I wonder why some girle @ay a must grind into their lives, But I suppose they cannot al! be Mary Mceâ€" Janet. 4 "I grow weary trying to be good. I muast break a dinner plate and spoil the set! h In China, whether the family phy= sician possesses the above qualiâ€" ties or not, his salary is stopped as soon as the householder falls sick. The difficalty of this situamâ€" tion is enhanced by the rule that after feeling the pulse and looking at the tongue the physician is not to ask any troublesome questions nor may the sick man volunteer any information. An old Roman was not above the use of what are called magis songs, but which seem= ed pure gibberish. A dislocation was to be reduced by the utterâ€" ance of the formula: "Huat, hanat, pista, ista, damniato, damnaustra.** The closing words seem more #1â€" lied to the language of the modern cabman than to that of the elder Cato, to whom it is ascribed. Not much more civilized are such Angloâ€"Saxon phrases as the followâ€" ing: To remove dust or particles: from the eye, you should spit thrice and say three times: "Tetunc, reâ€" sonco, bregan gresso"; to stanck blood, say the words, "Sisycuma, cucuma, incuma, cuma, uma, ma, a,." and to cure the toothache spit in the mouth of a frog and say, "Argidam, margidam, studdigam," For quinsy, however, you need only press the throat with the thumb and the ring and the middle finâ€" gers, cocking up the other two@, and tell the disease to be gone.â€" Saturday Review, R On account ol imitations and subâ€" stitutions, it is necessary for you to Insist on seeing the portrait and signature 0‘ Dr. A. W. Chase on the box you buy. No imitations are as good, or why should they not be sold on their own merits? 25 cents a box, family size (three times as much) 60 cents. at all Jealers, or Edmanson. Bates & (Co., Toronto, ; CHECKED AGAIN. 4 Bobbyâ€"Did God make that new baby, Pa ? : Paâ€"Yes, Bobby. Bobbyâ€"Say, pop, about what does ho charge for a kid like Jimmy? Noew York News. Berthaâ€"Sometimes _ you _ appear really manly, and sometimes yos are absolutely effeminate. How do you account for it ? Haroldâ€"1 suppose it is hereditâ€" ary. Hall my ancestors were mer and the other hall women. CHARMS FOR DISEASES. Men and Maidens. 1 2Â¥