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COSTS $350,000. Of Firing Warsbips n Onee 14.â€"â€"Th> enormoursy uds Cil ciscuarge t of £09,600. But ibins 1e Laâ€"ODiLligt, an incessz8l lire. gunst throw some 100 los. weight 14 id mst Nir Lh« 0 O NO Ri W U U D Mon )K of â€" His murâ€" b NP (UNT iÂ¥ ilt \y rrG U WiiSs vis _ disâ€" 1 _ would » be corâ€" p h b» ‘). D» & 4O b 5t of are nas _ recent ceriain is have 4 each. it uns Lwoeut in Un L1 t ha BJ n A WO and 10 UI , the Miâ€" inch £6.â€" 100 11€ 2 C t 1 ean what y« so beautiful c Iing so fair co us forget it, it all, for 1 kn to you. Vioxwt wretchedl weok Aagainâ€"you wi Le, I with my ® in youâ€"faith tever varied, you listen to "I gan mesk 19 a uU to Iy ne dri o th nor flows bloom an« til then 3 "Listen again, Violet," he conâ€" tinued, in the «ame grave, dispassionâ€" slonate voico. "You seem to ‘think it a mere matter of changing your mind. Look at it now from my point ol view â€" forget yourself for one minute _ and think of me. I harso loved jyou all nmy life â€"ab, my Garling, ‘you will never know how dearly nor how well. You aro my life itself ; my heart and love and soml are centeresdl in you, my bop havre grown round you. I have always thought of you as my wifeâ€" as ti1e chogon companion of my life. Ah, my darling, if I stood here till tho cun gyone agzain, I could not tell you howy I love you. I have never thought of lifo without youâ€"never. I coukl as goon live without air, without food, as without my hops ol youâ€"my love of you. My life will end when you leave me. Think of my claim. Violet. You promiscd me, and I havo lived on your promise. What is to become of me if you change your ming ?" it a mero mind. Loo of view â€" minute ; I haro â€"ah, my know how aro my lif "Nay, 1 am but telling you the truth â€" the solemn, unvarnished truth. Il you do give me up _ and marry even a title, never «<lream that you will have the respect or the estoom _ of your fellowâ€"creatures ; you would be always spoken of as the womsn who filted her true lover to marry a weaithier man." * But, in the prids of her youth and her beauty, in the pride of the fuâ€" turo that seemed so brilliant to her she would not believe that ; she did not believe it ; although she did not will you get this coveted wealth, Viokt, oven if you persist in refusâ€" Ing to keep your word to xe *" Eut sho did not answer him ; there weore limits to what she dare do, and she dared not tell him that she was going to marry Sir Owen. says sheo will yo Violet, . Ing to k »No," she answered him, again. "That lying ilips are an abcminaâ€" tion. Whoxe lips lie so cruelly, so folsely, as the lips of a woman who broaks hor plighted word and oath of lilel.tyâ€"who lures a man on to love her with sweet words and sweet emllosâ€"who promises to love him forever. awml then tnrng@ wnuni â€"ana HM "You are vex:y' bard on me, Felix," he said. tte worlkl is Do you Ligher Power than the »No," she answered P "That lying lins are nerseil ‘ilt â€"that she with wom "Yos, 1 krow now, amd I can not do without _ them. I would rather have had love with them ; as I can 10t have both, 1 choose them. You ean rol cali it a great sin, Felix, to echange w y mimd when I did not know what my misd was." "Violet," he said, gravely, "do you ksow what even the world says of o woman who deliberately jilts hesr lover ?° "No," she replied. "It says some hard things. It asys that the woman who could be {alse to her plighted lover woald be falss to her husband and to heaven ; It says that such a woman brands herscif ‘liar‘ before the whole worid â€"~that she loses the claim to rank with women of honor. That is what "Violet, know wh. s woman _ And you know ghe paused. She shrunk back from him with a pale, scared face ; he smiled one of the swidest, bitterest smiles she had ever seen on a human face. "Have no fear, Violet ; I ke without reailection. You can not mnk I meant to threaten you â€"you, every hair of whose head is dearer to me than my own life. Love would not content you, Violet 2" "No. I may as well tell you the truth. I was ignorant of many things when I promised to marry you. I did not know what riches meant â€"what luxury or magnificence wasâ€"what luxury or pleasure comâ€" prised." "Hush!" he cried again. "Do not say such words; many a man has taken the life of the woman â€" ‘he loved for less than that." "No, it wou@l not conte ne, aho replied. "You deem :::"fnf?:'” wiser, and nobler than 1 am. The re are hundreds of good and noi)le W: men in the world who ask |oui and al;(! tlontent with it (;er g:: oi those, Felix ; t ) [ Thad L hey a.re worthier so 10 nim was spoaking. Your parents persuaul«â€"i you. They have told i 1 canzsot give you a home t« you ; but I can, my darling .. On‘y tramst mp®, It ig a strange , thisâ€"a dream that will soon T:ey have persuaded â€" you Â¥ what you did. It was not lio‘ct who spoke, from whose those worldiy thoughts and Â¥ suyings cams. . They have «led you, and talked to you, your thoughts and ideas are nfusod. _ Violet, sweet, forget cÂ¥ have advised, forget this ied interview. _ You can not what you have said. Nothing utifu! could be so false; nothâ€" _ {fair could be so cruel. Let zet it, my darling. I forgive lor 1 know it has been taught Viout, let us bury the past id weeks. Let us begin over h sâ€"who promises to love him er. awdl then turns round and sho loves wealth better ? Where ,will forget me soon, Felix,;" d, gontly. doar, when the sun ceases to whon tho tide neither ebbs wi«, when flowers cease to iixl birds to sing, but not unâ€" i. Violetâ€"not until then, my Ii‘s roiee took its oll sweetâ€" is face its old light, as he earer to ber. "My darling," â€" "lit was not your real self u with ronewed faith in now ?" he said when you know what a «yso worlkd says?" "You will not bo young and beauâ€" tiful always, Vioist. The time must come when your lhmir will have lost its goiden gheen and your eyes their light. â€" What will wealth do for you then? â€"If sickm#s comes to yo, wil all the wealin of the whole world purchage you the tender touch ol a loving hand or tho tender words of a loving voice? You will li~, my dar‘ing, through long hours of pain thinking of me, longing for me, wondering how you could have been so mad as to arnd me from you, crying out my 2me, Her tears foll while she listenced gilently to wor‘s that hauntod her forever. â€" His voice soitensl as lhe went on 3 "It would not havo made me bappy," she ansgwered, in a â€" low roice. "so you think, dear, in the pride ot youth aml bsauty ; but, bolieve me, though you may win the wealth you prize so highly, the time will come when you will bo ready to surrender it ail for love amd you shall not fiml it. Romember my words: you will long for the love you now throw awayâ€"you will live to curss your own folly in giving up tho substanc» tar the ahadow.". . .â€" .. ;.( . â€" 4 "xo, I am not hard," ho said. "To my mind there is but one kind of love, and tho soul of it is truth. I do not understand such love as yours. Oh, Violst, iet me once more appeal to and warn you! Deoar, you are all wroug, all wrong, and you will find it out too late. Believe me, Hceaven has so made woman that to her the chief good is loveâ€"to her love is reâ€" ligion and life. . Are you of a differâ€" ent nature that you can Espense with love" 9 "You are not worth a man‘s thought ; you ara not worth a man‘s love," he cried,; "you, who have slain the truest of love! Do not touch me. It is such women as you who luro men on to deathâ€"who take a man‘s beart and crush it like a rose leal. No, do not touch me, Violet," for she clung to him, woeping, and crying out that ho was too hard upon herâ€"too Foiix‘s coespair frigotened her ; she «row noarer to him, and tried to sooths him, but ho would not let her hands touch him. "*You have slain the best part of me ; you have slain my love, my hope, and4 bofore the great Judge I shall accuse you of my murder, Violet Hayeâ€"I shall ask for the hope, the love, the life you have taken. I shall point to you, and I shall ery out that you élew me, because you loved the gold J could not givo you. Heaven, you have «lain me ! HMoe put her from him with a bitter eryâ€"z ery that haunted her for long yearns. me. . Vio‘et Hayne, do you know what the law of Goxd calls such.a sin? Do you think your werk subterfuge of calling this crime o( your ‘changing your mind‘ will hold good when you aro ju«lged for your actions and the just award ig given to you? â€" What is murder, Violet Haye? If that whito hand of yours bad thrust a swor!l into my heart you would hays slain me less cruelly than you have killed me now." "You lovo ms, ami I am what you call _poor. You send me away, and a ricker man comes. â€" You will marry him .for his monmey, while you love "You love. me, ~yet you willfully break your promise to marry me. You soud me away olf your own frea will, not because you do not love me, but because I have nrot money, crough. Is that it, Violet?" Sho did not deny it it; it was the exact truth. Ho continued "Vioiet, you puzzle me," he eaid. "Let me unrderstand; you love me, you say? Rho sobbed out that she could not kelp it. And for the first time during that intorvicw, it dawned across him that it was no girlish caprice he had to contend with, no idle whim, but the Settled resolve of a woman in whose heart love took a Eecondary place. _ _ Looking at her exquisite face, he asked himself, what if all this time he had been mistakenâ€"if he had given this boautiful woman credit for a nobe soul and â€" a tender _ heart, while she had neither? Such things had been ; men had made even greatâ€" er mistaeks than that. What if she were workily and selfish, false anmdl ploasureâ€"loving, even to the core of her heart? _ Conld any one so fair be so faise? Could an ignoble soul live in a beautiful body 2 IHe looked at ner; her most fair and lovely face was all stained with tears. Was such a contradiction porsib‘e as that she should wilfully give him up, yet weep because she kad lost himâ€"that she should separâ€" ate herself from him, refuse to marity him, yet weep because he waslost to her? He did not turn, as some nren wiould have done, and ask himâ€" sceif. "Who shall understand a woâ€" man?" He tried patiently to unâ€" derstarsd her. s , iacadoloo ulc d C dasned, "You cannot ; you must work h all your life, even for the moder means that you will have. Do talk any more about it. Felix, my solution is fixed, as are the st in heaven ; nothing can alter rothing can chango it. We have m a mistake." L F s P enc egtnsâ€"inhoadttth c c c 21 1+ 29 Vio‘st was the first to speak. She raised her lovely face, all wet with tears. "You do not understand, â€" Felix," gho said, quietly. "I do love youâ€" that makes my cowardice all the greater. I love you, but I can never marry you, because you cannot give me that which my soul loves best." "But what if I do give it to you, Viotetâ€"what then > he asked. "You cannot ; you must work hard all your life, even for the modecrate iubu e WWe g oo oC suds_ So they lay sobbing n ble heart she was bre: the wind wailed rounrd t strange, mournful sound. SFeLs k _ P anid .. 731 ° (°r moe my darling," be snid, gently. "Why, then, Vicolet, matters must come right in the end. This dark hour will pass, and happiâ€" Desg will dawn upon us." Bo they lay sobbing near the noâ€" blo heart she was breaking, while Th »HMT cuxscipl 3 °009 MECHAGP bsogus 2 C ECCERE SERC OW whole face brightened ag ho heard the wordg. "You still caro for m« y _ CAE I unti! you remember that to shed she were 'a;z;d‘."vl‘{.l; b‘righ/tened and changed "F in BC woeloe cce is them with a 199 the stars | Bofore T it, made not Felix Lonalale had tried his best ; he had done hard battle with his bcrrowâ€"the sorrow that had come to him while the summer moon was thining and the corn stood ripe in the fiekds. He had done hard, fierce, terrible battle with it. It stood there ever by his side;, no one had de.â€" tected it yotâ€"its presence was a So cho wont away the noxt day to London, trying to forget the past and to think of the future. She did not care to remember that that morning found her pil‘ow wet with tears, for she bad been dreaming of Felix. ¢ Who should dare say that on that white brow of hers was branded "liar ?" Felix would be dreadfuily disâ€" treses1 when he heard of hre marâ€" riage. â€" She knew that he would feel it wost keenly; but then after a time he would forget herâ€"no â€" one woukl bear animosity against the young and charming Lady Chevemx. When she came back again she and When che came back again, ghe and Felix would be frierds. She would make overâ€" tures of friendship to him, and he would not. decline them ; he had always been so found of herâ€"poor Felix ! 1 7 It was just as well,, she thought, that the interview had taken place; there must have been a scene some time or other. Now the matter was ali gettled, and sho could go to Lonâ€" don with a mind free from all anxâ€" loty. The grandeur awaiting her there must surely comfort her, for hor heart ached for Felixâ€"his burn« ing. stinging words launted her. She was not very angry with pretâ€" ty Jeonnie, but she warned her that hor interview with Mr. Lonslale must boe kept a secret. She believed that Folix had bribed the girlâ€"not that the girl had told Felix. "But my story," thought iolVet Viclet Haye, *is quite different from that. I look more like one born to b> Lady Cheneix than boruo to be bo the wife of a poor struggling lawâ€" yer." â€"it was such an ugly word that â€" jilted him to marry a wealthy landâ€"owner. Her husband afterward turned out to be one of the most miserly and disagreeable men livâ€" ing. Thon, when she complained, people said it served her right ; she @hould not have broken a good man‘s heart. True, she remembered NMrs. Barâ€" don, who had been engaged for three or lour years to a young officer in the army, and who had jilted him As for what Felix had said about ber being branded, what nonsense it was! Girls did the same thing evâ€" lery day, and were thought none the worse for §so doing. Now she was free from all ties â€" free to marry Sir Owen â€"to enjoy wealth, fashion, diamonds, and evrâ€" erything else â€"free to become what Kir Owen promissd her â€"the queen of the counrty, the queen of fashâ€" lonâ€"free to trample on Lady Rolfe and those who had sneered at herâ€" free to go her own way. But it was done ; it was all over. She thought to herselt that with such a lover she had managed well, for what he had said was true â€" many a man had taken a woman‘s l‘m: for less provocation. "How cruel fate is," she said. "I love Felix. Why could Felix not have Kir Owen‘s fortune? I almost wish that I had never seen Sir Owen. I did rot think that I should _ care about Felix so much." . ; It was something new to the spoil= ed, petted beauty to â€"feel painâ€"to weep» without being comforted. She was unrjust enough to think that Feiâ€" ix should have stayed to comfort her â€"should~ not have Jeft her so wretched. Then she realized that he faithfal {omr, so tender, so true and so brave, «xl passed out of her life, and would boe notkhing to her for all time. She was impatient witk her own misery, Ler own sorrow. "If the. time were to come over again," _ she . said, L would not do it; I _ would marry) Felix, let him be poor as he might." "Your are indeed," he sald, graveâ€" ly. "Some women‘s weakness is hall divine; yours is â€"well, L will give it no nams ; I know none that desâ€" cribes anything one half so false." ‘"You aro very hard, Felix." He laughed aloud, and pleasureâ€"lovâ€" ing Viplet Haye wished never to hear such another laugh. "I have no place here now, Violet. I will say farewell. My dear love, my lost love, farewell ! Lay â€" your Isweet cruel hands in mine once lagainâ€"let me look into your eweet false face once more. Farewell, lit~ tle white hands â€"you will carâ€" ©SB me and stab me no more. Farewell, â€" sweet eyes â€" you will look no more into mine. Farewell, golden headâ€"yoiu will nevâ€" er lis on my breast again â€" never again. Farewell ! ‘Beauty such as woman never wore,‘ heart more false, love most ecruelâ€"farewell !" His voico died away in a low wail, ar«l the next moment ho was gone, and she stood there weeping â€" for that which she could never recall. lore me is a crime, and that in my Place you have the wealth you have chosen. Think of the long days wien you will miss me. Ah, Violet, mind, lest in breaking my heart you break your own ! I warn you that you canâ€" | not live without love. Heed my warnâ€" ing before it is too late," ’ She made no answer. He continued: _ _ "I can see further into the future than you, Vioiet, and with â€" clearor €yes. I prophesy to you that the time will come wien you will repent of what you aro doing now, And be willâ€" Ing to give your whole soul to undo . it. Will you Ihnoed my warning.?" Her heart went out to him in love and pity ; but thore was the picture before her of Garswoodâ€"the thought of the diamondsâ€"of. herself as Lady Chevenitx. # | "I cannot," she said. ‘ He stood quite still for a few moâ€" mentls, n ; "You Torsake nre, ‘then, for â€" a rich lover â€" you give up my love for gold ? Hay in plain words that you co so ; do not let there be a chance of mistake, Violet â€" do not let any false halo linger round your memory in the years to come. You give me up because I have not . money enough ?" I ‘"Yes," she replicd ; but the word came slowly and with great reluceâ€" tance. l "I shall not‘ regret you, Violet ; you ure not worth regret !" he said. | But she criod out : I "Do not be so hard, Felix ; Iâ€"I am weaker than a woman." j CHAPTER XXIv. : * e "oup y â€" . Biobbsâ€"He‘s not much of a chautfâ€" feur. Slobbsâ€"No; I was out with him the other day, and he actually slows up at the street crossings, ese companies and all the guaranty furds and investments are required to be iput in Japanese bonds of speciâ€" Tied issues: Having hadâ€"a free hand all along and alarge and increasing business, the foroign insurance agents strainâ€" ed every norve since the government order was issued last June to have the terms modified in some way. The officials remaining obdurate, all the companies are preparing to close up their affairs there. Existing policies will be continued and premiums on them co‘llected and settlements made at decrease, expiration, etc., but otherwise the American life insurance companilos have no fur‘her business in Japan.â€"Kansas City Star. The Japincs» government observed many things while its hands woere tied by the old treaties, and has been slow to reach out for the forâ€" cign insurance companies. It will let the alien concerns remain, but they they must virtually__begome Japanâ€" The German emporor did not proâ€" pose to iave the fatherland drainâ€" ed of mosey to profit the companies depositing and investing it in Amâ€" ica and enriching the New York money market, wherefore the mailed fist fell permanently unon those great financial concerns and they left Gerâ€" many. * The Japanese government stopped short ofi the extreme point of the German contention, but the obligaâ€" tion to deposit a guaranty fund of 100,000 yens ($50,000) before beginâ€" ming operations and, in the case of life insurance companies, to deposit a further sum equivalent to the anâ€" nual reserve set aside by each comâ€" pary, for the benefit and protection of policyholders, has seemed oncrous cnough. nsurance Companies Can Do No Business Under ths New Law. Following the example of Gerâ€" mary, the Japaimese government within the last year issued regulaâ€" tions for the forcign life insurance companies having agencies in Japan that threaten to drive all but the largest concerns away. The emperor of Germany was so cxacting in his demands that all the American comâ€" panies withdrew, after many months of fruitless negotiations. to bad blood and weak nerves. You can get these pills from any mediâ€" cino dealer or by mail at 50 cents a box or six boxes for $2.50, by writâ€" ing the Dr. Williams Mc<#â€"ine Co., Brockville, Ont. . Such cases as thoso prove the power of Dr. Williams‘ Pink Pils. They make new, rich red blood, and in 't.hlg_way cure all diseases due I fourd my health fully restored, and I have not sinese experienced any weakness. I am sure Dr. Wilâ€" liams‘ Pink Pills sived my l e." grew less rovere; my appetite imâ€" proved and my itrength bogan to neturn. I continued _ taking _ the pills for about two months, when | Good Blood Makes the Lungs Strong , and Expels Disease. * The time to cure consumption is not after the lungs are hopelessly liivolved and ti> doctor has given you up. Consumption preys upon weakaess. Btrongth is the only moeasâ€" ura of Raftety. Do not let the blood become thin and watery. That is an open invitation to disease to tak> possession 0: your system. Dr. Wuilliams‘ rink Pills aro the best tonic and strength bailder known to medical ecierce. The record oi this medicine proves conclusively that taken when thr «ympioms of conâ€" sumption: develop, it builds> up, strengthens and invigorates the atieat to a po.nt where the discase disappears. Here is a bit of positive proof. Miss Blanch> (Durand, â€" &t. Fdmond, Que., says: "While out‘ boating in Soptember, 1901, I goti my feet wet ard took cold. I treatâ€" ed theâ€" oold in the usual way, but the cough seemcd to cling to me. As several months passed by and I was rot gotting boetter, I went to a doctor in January, 1902, and he told me that my lungs were aifccted ajpil I wag in «onrumption. Returning | bome, a iriend in whom I hat much confidence, strongly urged me â€" to take Dr. Williams Pink Fils. I beâ€" pan taking tlrs p‘lis and soon found they were holping me. The cough| it came between him and the Wrichtnoss of the earth â€" between him and the merey of heaven. He was ‘stunned, dazed, and bewilderâ€" ed by it; still he did brave battle Cwith it. He looked at the invalid | father, at the kindly mother, at ‘ the ‘army‘ of little ones; there was work to do, and he must do it. The home must be kept up, busiâ€" ness attended to; money must be made, the home must not be negâ€" lected. Induigence in sorrow., was not a luxury f{for him. Within a week after his farewell to Violet the handsome face had grown so haggard that it was hardly â€" recognizable; the kindly eyes had a wild, weird expression, as though he were always sulfering mortal pain; the ring had gone from his voice, from â€" his laugh ; ho was An altered man. How he worked! Ho said to himself that work was the only thing> which woull keep him from going mad. n be Continued.) £ 4 4 TAKE NO RISKS IN JAPAN §7+4 Ho hardened himsel!, he hardoned his heart; he said that there was neither mercy nor kindness nor love in ‘the world. He could not see the kindly dook in Kate‘s tenâ€"‘ der eyes; he would not kiss the children‘s faces; when the Sabbath bells chimed he went miles away. Fate hbad beon cruel to him; he would harden himsel{; he would be proud and stern cold and unb,endâ€" ing; he would give back what he had received. So, hour by hour and day by day he hardened his heart, hardened his nature, and only heaven knew what he sufâ€" fered. gecret from evary one except himself. It stood by the table, and made the sight of all food loathsome to him ; it stood by his books and papers, and its dark shadow made them all llegible to himâ€"he read no words save those, that Violet was faiso to him; it stood by his pillow gnd would not let him sleep; CONSUMPTION CURABLE. ’ 1+ cummeor the «torms strik> Lake Baikal out 0° a sloar sky. The wind rushos down from the north lke a hurricane, without warning. When it strikes the â€"surrounding â€" hills, which rozo out into the laks in rogg>ed, preciritous promontori~, | the hurricane chanses to a cyclione . and the surfabe of th> deep sw is twisted into the most 2ppalling shapes. Resan bortm»n n ver atâ€" tempt to weathor Baikal storms if there is any hop> of reaching the | rea@wreset shore. I° the shore be astern mallors tz ebout and Clse I‘ it b» ahcad they flse. Balkal terrt‘les Rissian mnot only in summer but in winter I1 winter it is eq==lly as dc:ogerâ€" ONTARIO ARCHIVES ' TORONTO Thore is a conviet route #sround the lower portion of the lake, but lowar portion of the lake, but the grados are so stup:ndous that the co:t ol a rowd over this route has beon estimated to be over $250,000 & mile. Rouds in the Lnited! Stnios avorage about $40,000 a mils under difflicalties. The routs is 1.0 m les long. It is evidont why thâ€" Ru siin de.eds upon his boats in summer, wii h mak « tire round t ip we kâ€" and builds his railroad upon th> ice in winter, when it freezos to m dooth of twelve foet. Where the Russtan Troops Were Enâ€" gulfed in ley Waters. The drowning ol mveral hundrced Russian soldiers in Loke is ikal, in Ribsria, has been chronicl«t ia the despatches, but the report is deâ€" clarod erroncous. The lake is from 20 to 60 miles wide and 500 to 600 miles long. It lios botween 100 and 110 degrees east longitude and 50 and 56 degrees north latitude. Its aroa equals that of Lake Erie and Lake O.tario combuaned. Its dopth is & mile in plasces. Lake Suporior, the despest of American lakâ€"s, is 1,030 foot deep. ’ In aiming to have the choose fit the boxes without trimming, it is well to remember that a box, which meaâ€" sures twelve ichos deep when newly made, will shrink to eleven and a half inches as it dry out. The same box wilt expand again to nearly its original depth after it has been in a warehouse for a week or so, beâ€" cause its absorbs moisture from the ckeese. In fitting dry boxes to the cheese, it is necessar7, therefore, to have the cheese project at Jeast one quarter of an inch above the edge of the box. One would think it hardâ€" ly necessary to call attention to the importance of having the box of the proper diameter to fit the cheese snugly. No box will stand the handling that is not supported by the cheese on the inside. Yours very truly, W. A. Clemons, publication clerk. . . If boxes are not thoroughly dry when put on the cheose, the growth of mould is started. This is particuâ€" larly the case in cold weather, when the boxes dry slowly. t "When I began buying boxes for the gool curing rooms," said Mr. Rudâ€" dick, "I Ingisted on getting heavy, relected vercers. _ The~ boxâ€"makers tried to persuade me to accept the thin venéer, some Claiming that it would stand more rough usage than the thicker material. I have had to give iwo cents above tho regular prico for such boxes, but it paid to di> #o, for the reports on shipments from the curing rooms showed uuly one and two per cent. broken. Oof course, these s‘*spmrents were all carelfully loaded into the cars, and not Jeft standing four or five tiers high, to be thrown down and smashed by, the first shunt. Hundreds of boxes are broken in that way. I believe thore is almost enrough wasted in trimming boxos, cither in the cheese factory or at the warehouse, to make up fhis difference of two cents. Boxes fre now worth at least one cent per inch in depth, and that part which fs cut away is absolute waste." _ . Another fault in the veneer is that the log is often not boiled suffiâ€" ciently to soften the wood ; conseâ€" quently the veneor knife shatters it while cutting, and gives it a tendâ€" ency to split easily. Another rosult of insufficient boiling or steamiog is that the salts of the wood are not extracted ; consequently ;boxes made from such stock mould very readily. The increasing cost and scarcity of clm, and the demands of â€" cheese manulacturers for a cheap box, haye induced the vencer cutters to reduce the tinckness of the vencer, until much of that now, offered for sale is entirely too flimsy for the purpose. It should sever be cut less than full live to the inch. A great doal of it is six, or some even seven, to the inch. weight of our cheese, and at the same time reduced the streongth of the box by using thinner vencer and an inferior quality of elm. It is evident also that there are many box makere who have never properly learned their trade, as a large proâ€" portion of the boxes are only half put together. What aro the reasons for this unâ€" satisfactory stato of affairs? _ In the first place we have increased the a sound condilion. A groat many shipments of cheesoe are landed on the other side with twoeatyâ€"five per cent. of the boxes broken. Indecd bome reports from the inspectors show a larger percentage. _ This simply means that one quarter of the money paid for the boxee has been spent to no purpose. And that is not all, for the broken boxes in a ghipment, while detracting from the actual value of the cheese which they once contained, make the wholoe lot less attractive to the purchaser. GREAT LAKE OF SiBERIA. Strong and Wellâ€"Fitting Boxes Needed for the Trade. . Department of Agriculture, Commissioner‘s Dranch, At the dairy conmventions recently hold, Mr. J. A. Ruddick, Chisf of the Dairy Division, Oitawa, made â€"a strong appeal for better choese boxes. Loxes are, said he, necessary to protect the cheese from injury in transportation, toâ€" facilitate their handling, and to permit their being piles several tiors deep in a wareâ€" hougo without being crushed out of ghapo. . Without the boxes the cheose could not bo delivered in Great Britâ€" arin in a _ presentable condition. Now, if it desirable to have cheose in boxese at all, it is surely importâ€" ant that tho box whould be strong exough to reach its destination in CHEESE BOXES. ENEERE: s 02 In this day of lowâ€"priced newspapere virtually every family which can be inâ€" fluenced by advertising tokes a favorâ€" ite newspaper, which is read every day by all adult members of the houschold. The advertising especially is eagerly read by the persons to whom it is chiefâ€" ly addressed. There is no other way than through the favorite newspaper by which the family can be reached by _ From a woeather point of view, paâ€" tierce to a very large ecxtent has» been other than rewarded. The alâ€" most unprecedented downpour expeâ€" rienced during 1903, was patiently borse, in the full hops that the new; year and a lengthening of the daye» would herald an improved state of | things. ‘The increased duration of daylight has boen most appareat wince the advent of the New Yoar, but January has come and gone with a deluge of rain ; inducing the belief ; â€"if the weather record of the month is to be regarded as any guido to that to be expecteod during the re mainer of the yearâ€"that the dreary record of 1903 is likely to be beaton. Such inconveniences as these, howâ€" ever, are scarcely worthy of record as compared with the exporience of thos» whoe reside on the southwest corner of England, where a consldâ€" erable amount of damaze was done by a hugs tidal wave, which sewoept round the Seilly Isles and broke with tremendous force on the mainland. Immense camage was done by the wnoa to the fNower and potato garâ€" dene for which Scilly is famous At Budo the lockâ€"gaies which protect the canal wore swopt away ; at Apâ€" pledore, 60 feet of the sea wali was destroyed and the town floodead ; ang the train service from Weymouth to Portland was tomporarily suspended in consequence of the sea breakiog over the Ches. Deach. On the westâ€" ern portion ol the Wels\ Coast more or lees destruction was wrought, whilst many places on the opposite side of the English Channel also came in for a full share of the sea‘s fierse invasion. Aâ€"avh _ When your childâ€"whether it is a big child or a little babyâ€"sulfers from any of the minor ailments which come to children, or is nervâ€" ous or fidgety and doesn‘t sleep well, give it Beaby‘s Own Tablets. This medicine is the quickest and surest cure, and t‘ho safest, because it is apâ€" Golutely harmless. It will help the feeble, sewâ€"born babe as surely as the well grown child. Mrs. F. D. Kirk, The Barony, N. B., says: "J have used Baby‘s Own Tablets with most satislactory results, and do not fooel gafe without them in the house. I find that one dos> is usually suffiâ€" cient to cure the asmall allments of the stomach or bowels." _ I you do not find the Tshl ts at your mode‘ne dealers write direct to the Dr. Wil liams‘ Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont, and they will be gont post paid at 25 cents a box. Did Great Damage on the Southwest of England. l2g to the sound of the lonely wires which cross the vast expanses of hls country. He found it out long Ago, and the getentist laughed at him for his pains. j t ~f y( There is an opening for Dr. Laska, and there is q Turther opening for him if he can put the wires to use when Mr. Marconi has once for all proved that they are no longer necessary for the transmission of messages. And the rustic, instead of watching for colored sunsets, will then put his car to telegraph poles. Curiously enough, the heathen in his Hindoo blindnass already foretol‘s the arrival *f the rainy season by listenâ€" Whatevrer theory he formulates in this direction, it is to be hoped that it will be more reliable than the metâ€" eorological forecasts which have hithrrto been givon to the avorld. There issomething humiliating in the fact that the English woather defles the scientist. The meteorological ofâ€" fice, with all its facilities, seems to bo unable to give us more than a rougly idea in figures of the weather which we have enjoyedâ€"or otherwise â€"ard that is not very consoling. Mrnioy@r trat cau miloss. The suyfso~ 0 comes a v6‘eamo rp3 h | of ico srot wraward, | | poar i1 the wator t Cosoths© plase, cra hi n messages passing over the wn'e;. Most educated people know that this is a «ily theory, but they will bo eurâ€" prised to find that their own theory is about as ill founded. DPr. Laska, a Polis‘ meteorologist, declares that the nolw> is not given out by the wind a* all, but that it is caused by usgen terrestrial changes caused by ncteorological influences. He hopes by a close study of the sounds to be able to discover a means of foreseeâ€" in&_w}mt. the weather is to boe. When the Music is Pronounced. Everyone has noticed at timos that tho telegraph lines sirung along the streets and roadways are singularly musicel, emitting a humming sound that can be distinceily heard at a conâ€" s‘derahlo distance. When telegra wmy wae in its infancy the yokel used io think that the noiss was made by Meteorolegical Changes Are POTP EESOAT To MCVE AZO EY 10 mest. perhaps, a simjar fale. The «lirectors o‘ th> road have contemplat=d heiMing around the lowor erd 0‘ the Jake, ani posiby work has alrcady bsena begun But it will b>s two or tro> years boefore it is fixd hed, and sur Iy not in time to asslst in the transporting . of iroops to meet th» advance of (he Japaneg> or the Yalu. , ; * 197, mfo Aifi ranls anmi nos | is 2soldicrs, anrd comil taly cu commaameation urtl] aro ho or across ths> 1 ko+ coull b Irid @ 10 mest. perhaps, a simjlar fa‘e Aorâ€"radeatry * t & mmchkt wrok th t1 k his cars an HUMMING oFf THE wirgs, HELP YOUR CHILD. ONLY CNE wiay. A TIDAL WAVE. ed, and surdly not in time in the transporting . of meet the advance of (the )2 the Yalu. Denoied