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companies. On i the Gulf of rming . furiousâ€" raging on Vanâ€" West Kootenay, reatened wfi wenty Thovusand n Fares YORK. Wanted Those M y many < the long »mmit the ‘. Antonio He is 54 ner. Fredâ€" a furnace ived with en yeatrs, taly, and alousy is _ killing. ide coun. imbia 1% Lorraine made a istbound nd cabin rst class leading reduced 1 cabin unard‘s 1en, on id also is=. On ie Kaiâ€" n the ite to vater ht im nd the in the he toâ€" it wall before re reâ€" t No. 1 sth cre 1% ested rown about f the » Ply timâ€" n the f $30 ated 00â€" Â¥ n rtly ) agâ€" hey Wil 1% onâ€" sa Vs Irs Breâ€" abin lass 18 on ainâ€" iK@ h a a 1M +1 12 t to A M m of n tO ON rk 1@ N M ‘"That is more than I can tell you, old man, for he was closely envelopâ€" ed in kis mackintosh, with the collar up to his ears; besides, the place was so dimly lighted, it seemed like a tomb, anyt I could get only a very imperfect idea of his features. Belieyâ€" ing him to be you, of course, I was not suspicious. I would never have discovered my mistake if he had not resented I said about the girl, and shut me up with a clap om the shoulâ€" der that was like a blow from a sledgeâ€"hammer. Then, for a moment, you might have knocked me down with a straw. I had thought, from the bridegroom‘s first â€" appearance upon the scene, that you did not act like yourself ; but I laid it to the excitement of the moment, because you were :ute, and eager to get the matter over," the young man exâ€" plained. "vidn‘t ne speak ? Conldn‘t you deâ€" tect the difference in voices?" querâ€" led Leightos, sullealy. "Yes ; I spoke to him as he came isto sight, and he answered me ; but the rain and wind and thunder made suchk a nolsy racket, I couldn‘t have recognized my own father‘s voice. Then, I hurried tnto the chapel, and straight to the altar, for those girls were nearly frightered out of their senses, and just ready to back out and go home, and"â€"here the fellow shot a sly smile at his companionâ€" "I had no uotion of losing the snug little amount you had pledged me. See ?" & "Yesâ€"I see," bitterly retorted Leighton; "but, I must confess, I think you were very shortâ€"sighted to allow an utter stranger to play such an abominable trick upon you." "Well, i you hado‘t been so afraid to have light enough to see by, I might have detected the fraud ; but the sexton said you had given orders to have ooly one light, because the marrlage was to be private, and you did not wish to excite the curiosity of the villagers ; and, as I said before, the place was like a tomb. Thea fellow was about your height, too, though, perhapsâ€"now I think of itâ€"a trille perha broad proud did h wha t |§“' boen m _ "What makes you think that fellow did nt â€" know hber namo?" Leighton inquired, after a moment <x silence. "Recause he asked me who she was. 10 course, I rofused to ealighten him; consequently, he is as tauch in ‘*the dark regarding hber igentity as we are of his." â€" "Good for you, Ted ! but I1‘d give good deal to ferret him out." "He demanded the certificate of me, possibly| with the intention of tearning whom jhe had married. He would have bhad it, too, if I haan‘s dodged him, for I tell you he had & grip like irom," observed the " best man," as be recalled the clutch of that strong hand upon his shoulder. "By the way," ho added, drawing an envelope trom a pocket, and tossâ€" ing it upon the bed, "here is that Uocument now. It is all properly signâ€" ed,and you may as woel take care of itâ€"it may prove usoful to you, some time in the future." ‘The young man drew the paper forth, and studied it intently for a few minutes. "Was there ever such a devilish poce of luck?" he demanded, irrit« ably. "Had!" he adgaed, with a vioâ€" tenat start, "do you jmagine it posâ€" sible that old Seaver could have disâ€" covered our secret, and [cmlowed us, to stop the marriage, and when I failed to put in an appearance, poerâ€" sonated me to prevent a scene beâ€" fore the rector anad a scandal about Frorence *" "No, Seaver is a little shorter than you, and is a thickâ€"set man ; he newâ€" er couid have fooled us all like that." "Well, I only hope he is still in the dark, for Florence‘s sake, as well as my own, for I may be able to carry my point and marry ber yet. You say she seemed fuily recovered when you left her last pight?" inâ€" quired Loighton, with some . anxâ€" tety % V € e n ks L s oo ie C as he brie{ly accounted for his nonâ€" appearance at Rosedale the previoug@ night. _ â€" He ontreated Florence to preserye their secret, be brave, and loyal to him, and he would follow her abroad by the next steamer. when he would o wvurld â€"see to it that nothing ‘V iâ€" impal ppointed ter 10 L¢ LD ac M Ted, ross h iy of c thunds won‘t stand!" reitâ€" r; "the very idea is be considered for a same, it is a develish & should interrupt a second attempt to make her his wife. e Hastily folding and adgressing his letter, be passed it to his friend, and charged him to deliver it into no hands but Florence‘s. 5o He was jist upon the point of fallâ€" ing into a doze, when his door openâ€" ed again, and his accomplice reapâ€" peared. ‘The young man hastened from the house, while the disappointed lover sank wearily back upon his pillows, for the interview had sadly taxed his strength. Ne â€""They are not going to sail toâ€" day," said his friend, "I met Seaver just at the head of the streetâ€"â€"" "Yes, I stopped him, and expressâ€" ed my surprise to find him in town, when he informed me that their trip had ‘been indefinitely postponed, oOwâ€" ing to the sudden illness of Miss Richardson." ".""..\‘F-!“"‘I:I.l.t.).t affair of last night was too much for her! Did he speak of her as being very ill?" 3e rv"“‘-Veil', what now ?" he excitedly deâ€" manded, nnd starting to a sitting posture, with a groan of pain. _ "You don‘t mean it ! Can anything have hbapponed ?" breathlessly quesâ€" thioned Leighton. _ 3 â€""He says she has taken a sudden and severe cold, has a high fever, and is detiriousâ€"â€"" hoi 4 An involantary sneer curled his companion‘s lips at this supremely selfish speech, which contained not one word of regret for the suf{ering of the lovely girl for whose condition be alone was respocsible. « "Delirious !" interposed Leighton, in alarm. "Zounds! ‘Ted, I hope she won‘t die: my dish would be dough if she should." + "However," Leightoa _ coitinued, "she is young, has a naturally strong ecosntitution, 1nd this enforeed postâ€" pouement of her trip may result in my favor. Your news has done me more gcool than mzsd‘cine, Tod, though I have some painful bruises that make me squirmg I wi#« I was sure that horse has not come to griel. Would you mind stepping around to Coxe‘s stable, tell him the scrape I got into last night, and get him to send someone in quest of whe animal and buggy ? _ Of course, Ill make it all rig t with him, whatever around to ( scrape I go him to send animal and make it all Forturately, the horse and buggy hbad already been retursaed to the ownerâ€"the man‘s name having been stamped upon the carriage robsâ€"and no somous damage had been done, agide from a few scratches to the vrohicle. Upon hearing this, Leighton declared that lbs siar was ajuill i1 the ascendant. Every day after that he managed to get a report Ifrom Florence, througs her maid, Anna ; and, as soon as he was able to get out, he called in person, and interviewed Mr. Seaver regarding her condition. Te following two weeks proved an anxious season jor him, for the young girl was vyery ill, and he lived in constant fear that she would die, and her fortugse, upon which he Ilu(l gers. t * As the weary days wore on, howâ€" ever, and he was unable to gain any clew to the mysterious stranger who had personated him at the altar, a new idea took form in his fertile brain, and he bogan to concuct & v.1â€" lainous schoeme, ; ( \ C He had in iis possossion the marâ€" riage certificate which seemed â€" to prove him the husband of the beautlâ€" ful heiress. It was properly signed by tne clergyman who had performed the ceremony, and who would doubtâ€" less attest to the fact. No one save his ftriead Ted, and, possibly, Aoua, suspected tue truth ; and they weuld swear to anything if well paid,, conâ€" sequently, if Florence should die, he beleved he could safely produce the document, claim the fortuae, and no one could preveit his gotiing it. T 5 POTETOT paca t ac ds dude on td d eA ie tiv td . 4 L But tms vile plot was not destined to boe carried out ; for, at the end of three weoeks, 11 rence was proncuncâ€" ed out of danger, and from that iime beran to coavalosce rap.Cly. began to coavalosco rap.cly. Lleglhton now became more attenâ€" tive than ever, sonding her daily ofâ€" ferings of fruit and fHowers, and many other tokess of his abiding atâ€" fection (D); also writing ber tender effusions, beggiag her to re spond to him, as soon as she should be strong enough to gu«le a pen. Te longâ€"wishedâ€"for miss‘ve came t» him at last, but, instead of being the foua and submissive response he had hoged and expected, it caused him the deepest chagrin and disapâ€" pointment. 1 Luoe 1 Semncrary ce ENTCE m mtiw CHAPFPER V. ; Tie jletter which Florence Richardâ€" son wrote to her lover had beeu penâ€" ned after much careful thought and consideration, and read as rollow§: . PP & Led sE L oo re eme EeCP CCC S IF" "Dear Walter,â€"This is the first day I bave felt able to write, and I make it my first duty to . answetr your many cotes to me, and to thank you for your numerougs â€" attentions. and kind remembrances during my | illness. You have begged me to allow you to come to me as soon as I am sufficiently convalescont to receive you. Eefore granting your request, I am going to tell you frankly that, during my #.ckness, my feelings have undergone a radcal change, and I know now that I never loved you well enough to become your wife. Forgive me if I pain you, but truth and candor are certainly best under the cireumstances. I tremble when I look back and realize what a narrow escape we both have had. But for your accident and detention on that memorable night, we should â€" have been irrevocably bound _ to each other, and doomed *%o pay the penalty of the greatest mistake of our lives, Yes, Walter, I am sure it would have been aA (fatal mistake and I hope you will look upon the matter in the same light ‘th&t I do. I can never be your wife, Walter, and I wonder how I could have been so long blind to the true state of my feelings, and, more than all, how I gould ever have consented e it all 1 happano ertainly, do for â€" rued :s at O1 ¢l4 man; anything I ou. T‘ll be glad to do," [re.¢ gooidâ€"naturedly, started out on his m.sâ€" vinx been robsâ€"and een done, to a clandestine marriage. It seems to me now, such a weak and foolish thing for any girl to do. If a woman truly loves a man well ernough to be strong enough to stand boldly up, in the face of all oppofition, and assert her pos.tion ; she shoul1 never burden herself with such a secret or consent to live a lle.g am greatly perplexed and trouble over that wretched faree in the Church of God ; over the irdentity of that mysteriâ€" ous stranger, and whother that ccreâ€" mony could, by any possibility, be regarded as legal. I devoutly hops hope not, for my whole roul revolts Against the thought of being irreâ€" rocably pledged to a man whom I have never seen, and who seems to have disappsared as mysteriously as he came. I trust, Walter, that woe may be good friends always, and that you will agree with me that it is botter we should live apart. I am sure that papa, were he living â€"even thouzh he s ppsared to so earnâ€" estly desire that I should marry the son of his best friendâ€"would, knowâ€" ing my present feelings, uphold me become his wife, and is assured that he is worthy of that love, she should in this step. I am not strong enough to see you yet, so I prefer to write rather than verbally disclose my changed sentiments. In a couple of weeks from toâ€"day, if you care to come to me, in a friendly waly, I shall be glad to see you; but please do not renew this subject, for my deâ€" cision is frrevocable. "Sincerely your friend, "Florence K. Richard:son." Walter Leighton‘s face was _ alâ€" most convulsed with wrath after reading this letter. Its tone was very different from the usually lightâ€"hearted, careâ€"free Florerce whom he had hitherto knownr. There was a calm seriousness, a dignified decision, apparent in its every line, which plainly told him that the girl was indeed changedâ€" that she had suddenly developed trom the thoughtless maiden into a gravely reasoning woman. s But he raved and swore and vowed that she should not es:ap» him like tlhus; that he would never allow the fortune, for which he had so long schemed, to slip throuzh his fingers without making a desperate effort to seeure it, and he hadl a bold plan in mind. At the end of the stipulated two woeeks ho mad> his sppsaranceo in the home of the Seavers and aiked to see Floreaco. Ho was courteously, alâ€" thouch somewhat «olily, reccived. It was their usual attitude toâ€" ward {um. however, anli he paid no special heed to it. It proved to him that they had not a suspicion of the inciaent which had resulted in the iilness of their ward; for, had thoy learned of it, they surely would have reused him admiss.on to their have house Aiter chatting . : with them he was privato gitting roo H» found hor cha in the daintiest of wranvers. and, in 4 H» found in the dair wrappers, : nsuail pallo thou:h: he more boaut more boautiful. Shoe flushed as she arosgs> to greet lum, but fraskly extended hor alhnd to him, mseting his glance so calmâ€" ly anmd emiling so s>renly that his heart sank within him. Had ghe been shy â€" and selfâ€"conâ€" serous, or confused, he would have telt more confident of winning the suit which he had prepared (to pross. ki hP "Are you fully resovered ?" he inâ€" quired, reiaining ner hand in a linâ€" gering clasp and loking ioadly down upon her. 4 £ "Yes, I thin® I may say I am woll, although I have not _ wholly reâ€" gained my strength. I took my first drive toâ€"day and lelt l k >a new creaâ€" ture afterward," swhe roplied, as she reloased her hand and motioned him to a chair near her, "And you*?" whe added, resuming her own seat. "I sincerely hop» you are not still suffering from your accident." _ Again the man‘s heart sank, For eurcly, he reasoned, she never could have so calmly referred to the events ot ‘the night of their contemplated marriage unless all sontiment conâ€" nected with it had been entirely cradicated from her heart. ; "It was nothing,‘ ho said, making light of it; "I escaped with a few bruises, from which I have wholly recovered." "I am very glad," she quietly reâ€" turned, and then abruptly «hanged the subject, talking of cverything save the one object of his visit. _ Ho bore it as long as he could, and then â€" suddenly . and â€" passionately broke forth: K ¢ "Florence, I must «+p>ak. I cannot ondure this state oi things _ anâ€" other momentâ€"I caunot have the past so ignored. I love you stillâ€" 8 P L ho Oe s tell meâ€"tell me if you would not drive me wild, that I may hope in time to win back your alienated af~ {[ections.‘ y I carnotâ€"I will not give you up. I will not beliâ€"ve it poulble that ail your affectioa for me has vanished. o ie oR NOE ut Â¥ [ shall love you alwaysâ€"in spite of what you nave wiit.en to me~â€"an«d Florence had grown vyory pale and grave while he was speaking ; but when he paused, he ubserved with strange composure : ‘O M O RT ons wA hy‘ $ "I hoped, Walter, that you would wecept what I wrote you as my ulâ€" timatum. I awsure you I did not take such a stand without earnest and deliberate thought. But, perâ€" haps, now that you have broached the subject, we may as well settle the matter, face to face, once for all. As I told you in my letter, so Itell you again nowâ€"I can . never be your wife." P Arvrdi t on ies The young man assumed an exâ€" pression of astonishment. NT nengranenr vesqpeeer n s oue® ceCP 3 P Pn mem BC NCCC "You can never be my wife. What on earth do you mean, Florence? Your letter was full of just such inâ€" comprehensgible ramblings â€" about my nonâ€"appearance at Rosedaleâ€" the identity of _ a â€" mysterious stranger, etc., etc. Why, you are alveady my wife, Florence, and nothâ€" ing but death can ever part us at least from a legal standpoint." This was the bold scheme he had hawd in ming. Florence shot a startâ€" led look at him, amd [lushed a vivid crimson. § "What can you mean?" she wonâ€" deringly inquired, "you know, Walâ€" ter, that I am not your wifeâ€"that you did not meet me at Rosedale chapel, as you proposed, on that June eveningâ€"â€"" "I did not meet you?" he interâ€" posed with a mystified expression that was very cleverly assumed. "Why, no; you must know that you did not," returned the young girl with a note ol impatience in her tones; "you have already inâ€" formed me that you met with an accident and were detained. We waited long past the hour for you, ha« ig. a few moments was conducted to the room O‘ charmin n fpite oi 1 loss of nevor seen dai Florence. 1y arrayed aty â€" white of her unâ€" [ flesh, he en hor look and finally the most mysterious thing â€" happenedâ€"a stranger apâ€" peared and personated you, and I only discovered the imposiiion after the ceremony was over, when I faintedâ€"â€"" "Floy, for Heaven‘s sake, what are you taiking about?" demanded her companion wonderingly, ani regardâ€" ing her with an appearance of anxiâ€" cty. "Iâ€"Iâ€"realiy am afraid that your illness has not left your mind quire right. Listen," he went on authoriâ€" tatively, "I own I was lateâ€"I was detained by an accident to a train, and on reaching home had to hurry to meet you; then my horse waAs frightened by the> storm, and bailked and that kept me still longer; but I arrived at last, when my friend, angry at the delay, dragged me to the altar without even giving me time to romove my ma«kintosh, and then the clorgyman burried through he ceremony, as if intensely eager to have it over. It was a terribly bungled affair, from first ‘to last, and when you fainted, I laid it to the excitoment and fear produced by the storm. My ace‘dent occurred on my way hon> from Rosedale," Florence had sat watching him with wide eyes and paling cheecks, during the asbove explanation, her heart burdened with a terrible fear. Could it be possible, she asked herâ€" solf, that she had really been dJdeâ€" ceived, after ali?â€"that the exciteâ€" ment, the confusion and suspense, together with the frightful storm, had so wrought upon her that she had been mistaken, and imagined that a stranger had appeared and personated Waliter during that cereâ€" mony ? + Could it be that, in spite of the recent revulsion in her feelings, she was really his wile and bound to him irrevocably ?â€"that she would have to live out her life with him, even though he had bscome positively reâ€" pulsive to her? t tor oil or other harsh griping _ purâ€". gatives. Above all things, don‘t give him poisonous, "soothing" stuff. . These things only make him worse. . Baby‘s Own Tablets are what your little one needs. They are a gentle laxative, and make baby sleep, because they make him well. They cool his hot little mouth, case his sour stomach,, and help his obâ€" stinate little teeth through painlessly. They are what every mother needs for her babyâ€"and the older choldren, too. Mrs. Routhicr, Greenwood, B. C., says: "I consider Baby‘s Own Tablets worth their weight in gold in every home where there are children. My only regret is that I did not learn their great worth saooner." These Tablets will help every child from the moment of birth onâ€" ward, and are guaranteed to contain no harmful drug. Sold by all medicine dealâ€" ers or sent by mail at 25 cents a box by writing The Dr. Williams‘ Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. Some Stories About Them that Are Hard to Believe. No classes of bereaved people have emotions which are the subject of so much speculation as widows and widâ€" owers, and while they will always reâ€" main to be the butt of cheap jokes and the objects of mystified admiration Alâ€" ternately, there are evidences that lead us to conclude that they nearly always find a second experiment worth while. Here are some bona fide ancedotes of Philadelphia widows and widowers colâ€" lected by an enthusiastic specialist on the subject : A wellâ€"known man recently decided to marry again. _ Mis second choice fell .upon a woman who had been a comâ€" panion and friend to his first wife. Inâ€" terested relatives and friends wondered how they adjusted the delicate complexâ€" ities of the situation. The complexities were mythical, for it is said that wife No. 2 and the quonaam widower talked of wife No. 1 constantly, and the happy man was heard to say: "Do you know \I think I‘ve had the best luck in wives } that any man ever had." (On one occasion they were seen going to the country loaded with immense bunches of cut flowers. It transpired afâ€" terward that they visited every Sunday the cemetery where the first wife was buried and placed blossoms on the grave. Certainiy the woman who thus showed herself superior to mortal feelings deâ€" served the high encomiums her husband heaped upon her. Another widower chose a rather difâ€" ferent way of impressing upon his wife the fact that a sainted woman had ocâ€" cupied her place before her. He sent out cards for an elaborate reception to celeâ€" brate the anniversary of his marriage to his first wife. _ But the second misâ€" tress of his heart was "game." All through this seemingly gruesome enterâ€" tainment she stood beside him dispensâ€" ing hospitality and claret punch to the guests who had been friends of her husâ€" band‘s first choice. _ Mistory is unsatâ€" isfactorily nonâ€"committal as to the subâ€" sequent conduct of this amiable woman, but it is safe to assert that there was no repetition of that anniversary fesâ€" tival. ol Leie tm e “X;to widows : Mrs. Black, a peculiarâ€" ly eccentric woman, who adored her first husband, married again. Don‘t dose him with nauseous casâ€" "Will," she said, before the second marriage. "I want to ask a favor of you." "What is it, dear ?" he questioned. "Why," she said, "you know 1 loved my first husband, and I want to ask you if you would mind having his name put with yours on the wedding cards 1" The enraptured husbandâ€"toâ€"be sucâ€" cumbed, and when the wedding invitaâ€" tions went out they read: "Mr. J. Dudâ€" ley Black Indigo," and to this day Mr. Indigo is the proud possessor of a midâ€" dle name, which name belonged to his wife‘s first husband. Calling at a house whose mistress had been a widow before her recent marâ€" riage, a relative saw the new husband deep in the litter of a large packing box. "Gracious," she exclaimed, "what are you doing with that big box in the drawing room ?" A "Hush," cautioned the widow‘s husâ€" band, "I‘m planning a litle surprise for Marie. â€" She‘s had an awful fit of the blues since we came home from the wedâ€" ding trip. _I just know she‘s been grievâ€" ing about George, so I thought I would cheer her up. I‘ve sent to the storage house for his collection of curios. You know she thought an awful lot of them, because he collected them. It will do her a world of good to see them, She‘ll tumble right into them when she contes ONTARIO ARCHIVES TORONTO WHEN BABY IS SICK. W (To be continued.) The arrangements already made for the provincial fruit, flower and honey show, which will be held in Toronto durâ€" ing the second week in November, indiâ€" cate that it is likely to prove as imâ€" portant an event in its line as the big winter fair held yearly at Guelph. No effort is being spared to make each featâ€" ure of the show of the greatest of the kind that has ever been held in Canâ€" ada. â€" ‘The Ontario Fruit Growers‘ Asâ€" sociation has drawn up a liberal prize list and will pay the transportation charges one way on all exhibits of fruit sent to the skow. Special prizes will be offered for the best exhibit of fruit made by any agriâ€" cultural society. _ It is expected many of the societies in the province will send their total exhibits from their fall fairs to this show. â€" Arrangements have been completed to keep this fruit in cold storage. _ In this way, it is hoped to have representative exhibits of fruit from all parts of the province. Demonâ€" strations in packing fruit will be given and bulletins will be issued describing the special qualities of each variety of fruit, and stating whether it is best for cooking or eating purposes. In this way householders will be enabled to secure down to dinner." And, plunging deeper into the cavernous box, this phenomenal x;;;.‘r’l .;c‘)‘nan.l;éa his work of total self â€" abnegaston.â€"Phila. Record. California Variety, Though Small, the1 Most Dangerous of All. California has in her hills the uargest and most kindâ€"hearted of the great fight ers, the grizzly, and at the same time the smallest and most treacherous, the red lynx. Most hunters call them "wildeats," but they are not. _ The real wildcat has a long tail and lives only in Europeâ€"in fact, he‘s about extinct nowâ€"and old hunters dread the wailing midnight ery of a hungry lynx more than they do al the growls a grizzly ever let out. For when & lynx is maddened by hunâ€" ger he fears nceither man or beast, the most of the animals of the forest give him the road without waiting for him to ask it. In Canada and even in the northern row of states of this nation, the lynx grows to be imuch larger than they do in the warmer climate of the southwest. _ Save for those killed by an ocasional hunter the lynxes hold undisâ€" puted sway in the foothills. No matter how soundly they may be sleeping, you can never catch one "napâ€" ping," for at the slightest sound of your approach he will clear the ten or fiftcen feet between his nest and ground and In the hills the lynxs usually s1A Y i thick underbrush or in caves during the day, coming out to work havoc in the quail coveys by monlight. _ Then, if the night be bright, the hound hunter has real sport, rousing the roundâ€"eyed owls, with his shouts of encouragement to the dogs,which are not always ready to rush into the tecth of an angry cat. It is almost impossible to trap a cat, though a hungry lion may occasionally be caught in this manner. Now and then a cat can be run into a trap preâ€" viously set along a runway, and in this way the lumbermen of the Canadian pinâ€" eries take many of the cats that infost the great forests of the north. _ The further south you go the smaller the lynxs become, until the family winds up with the little pampas cat of the South American plains. â€" Our lynx, however, is the most savage of all, and the hardest for any dog, no matter how good he may be, to master. _ In a fight a cat has be off like a flash in the undergrowth. About the only way to get these fellows is with hounds, and then generally one or two of the dogs get pretty severely is with hounds, or two of the « chewed up. 5 42 Aik c d in cndadctsnito sc ctie es uns an immense advantage over a dog in that he can fight with all fours, and usually does so. _ There is little worse can beâ€" fall a gren pack of dogs than to shake an old lynx out of a tree in their midst. When a lynx fights he doesn‘t bite and let go like a wolf or dog, but bites and hangs on like a bulldog, while his claws keep up a sort of snareâ€"drum accompaniâ€" ment on the dog‘s ribs. It takes a pretâ€" ty good dog to do up a lynx and when a thoroughbred hunter gets such a dog it takes a mighty good price to The villagers were all gathered round the little store, talking about â€" Sam Jones‘ lost colt. It was a twoâ€"yearâ€"old, and had strayed out of the pasture lot the day before. Sam worried about it, the nei%‘hbors had all been out looking for it without success, and no one seemed to know where to look for it. Jim stood there, lookinE on and listenâ€" ing. Jim was & tall, lank young felloy, regarded as half witted by some persons and as foolish by others, _ Un ue ariing Ni. ce nc Tc 009 ; Sn buy h ud nin h 30000 ac d inednd it We votnt tA "I think I could find your horse," he said to Sam Jones. "Yo? Why, Jim, how do you think you could find him when we have had the best men in town out looking for him ?" "Well," said Jim, "I could try, couldn‘t I?” "Yes," answered the owner, "you can try, and if you find him I‘ll give you a dollar." "All right," said Jim, and walked away on his search. To the surprise of all he returned in less than half an hour leading the missing horse by a rope tied around his necg. "Well, well," said Jones, as he took the horse and Jmid Jim the dollar. "How in the world did you find him so quick?" Jim answered in his longâ€"drawnâ€"out words: "Why I thought: ‘Now if I was ES buplugh ty ic a a horse, where would I go*‘ And so 1 went there, and he had."â€"Youth‘s Comâ€" panion. Hoaxâ€"Dges the President of the United States have to learn a trade* Joaxâ€"Certainly not. Hoaxâ€" Why, I always thought he was a eabinetâ€" HUNGRY LYNX IS A TERROR. imi. Merely Used Horse Sense. the lynxs usually stay in the best varieties of fruits for theit purposes. _ On the last day of the exâ€" hibition, a big auction sale of fruit will take The money offered for flowers 18 over 100 per cent. more than has ever before been offered in Toronto. About $1,500 will be given in prizes in this seoâ€" tion alone. The arrangements are in charge of a floral committee of which Mr. Edward Tyrrel, president of the Toâ€" ronto Horticultural Society is chairâ€" man. _ The honey prize list is also & liberal one. _ Several prizes are offered for commercial packages. se Y Particulars regarding the show may be had by writing to the Secretary, Suâ€" perintendent H. B. Cowan, Parliament Buildings, Toronto. Amongst the impo;tant gatherings that will take place at the time of the show will be the annual mecting of the Ontario Fruit Growers‘ Association and the Ontario Bee Keepers‘ Association, while a meeting of delegates from the various horticultural societies of the province will also be held. The Ontario Government has made a grant of $1,000 to aid the exhibition, which has been supplemented by a grant of $200 from the City of Toronto. 6 w | Certain things have happened of laté which would seem to make it necessary, that some one, having the cause of re« ligion at heart, should spesk a few plain words to the ministers. § It is thoroughly realized that many, ministers do not need these words, but it is very evident, if reports are true, that there are clergymen who do need them, and need them badly. St. Paul, in his letter speaking of his calling said, "I magnify mine of said, "I magnify mine oifice. * If the half t{at we hear is to b lieved, there are certain preachers the land who, instead of magni their office, are doing their level to belittle and degrade it. For example, it is said that not ago a Newark clergyman invited men of his congregation to attent church services in their shirt sl assuring them that he himself shou into his pulpit and preach in the I There is an atmos%here of worship and with that atmosphere shirt sleeves | and tobacco smoke, bilboards and busiâ€" ness advertisements cannot be made to « harmonize. There is a place in this great b!{ world for the man who wants to si in his shirt sleeves and smoke, and a place there is, too, for the bulletin boards of trade; but that place is not the house of God. $ C into his pulp easy costume And there is the case of the other New Jersey pastor, who notified his flock that he intended to hold in his church, on Sunday mornings, du.n.nt the hot weather, special services . & which smoking was to be allowed during the sermon. ts Finally, we have the case of the Wisconsin minister who has made ar» rangements with the business men of his town whereby, in return for donaâ€" tions, they are to have advertising, privileges in his churchâ€"so much space on the walls of the church in return for so much cash. & e sh L If what is said of these ministers is true, it is quite apparent that they have a very inadequate conception } the value, dignity and sacredness their office. § jare If they are guilty of the alleged im discretions, the{' are manifestly out of Biace in the pulpit. At heart they may. a good men, but they don‘t know whab‘ it means to be a minister of the gos« pel. They have missed their.a.lEiLng_....k _ Of course, a man sitting in churoir in his shirt sleeves, with a pipe or cigar in his mouth, looking throufi clouds of tobacco smoke, now at t business ads. on the walls and now ab the coatless minister at the desk, can hear what the preacher may have to say as well as though he were differently attired and in the midst of a different environment. C «â€" But there are very few sensible people who, if questioned upon the subject,,; would not give it as their candid opinion; that the conditions referred to are not! those under which the gospel should be: preached or heard. io 6 _ Down at the bottom religion is am appeal to the hearer‘s reverence, and: the conditions that are the most favorâ€" able to the promotion of that senti«= ment are those above all others, which the minister is in duty bound to encour«, age. * If he lowers the standard of gerâ€", vice, if he permits any other idei\ than the one of reverence to dominate,, or even perceptibly to color the hour of; worship, he may as well shut up hig church. C * o The minister who imagines that he is going to make men better by lowerâ€" ing his ofifee to the level of their weaknesses is laboring under a tremenâ€" dous mistake. * s xi L For a clergyman who should atâ€" tempt to lure me into going to his church with the assurance that while in the sacred edifice I might sit in ;y“‘l‘hi;;“s»l;ev&â€"}nd smoke, I could have no particle of respect. _ 5 And the overwbelming majority of men would, I have no doubt, express themselves to the same Aef‘f?("t. A It is about time that this belittling and degrading of religion by its own ministers had ceased. It is about time that rightâ€"minded clergtymenâ€"and these are overwhelmâ€" ingly in the majorityâ€"put a quictus upon the type of minister I am speaking o?f-the minister who, sadly misunderâ€" standing the nature of his calling, is, in the name of religion, doing all he can to make religion the butt of ridicule and contempt. Back to St. Paul! And let the word of every minister be, "I magnify mine o. evel office." said that not long yman invited the tion to attend the their shirt sleeves, ie himself should go preach in the same to the Romans, as a preacher, achers _ 1N magnifying level best Barm TL #4 U