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es of 1e "Ah! there are Sir Frederic and Miss Onslow," cried the whiteâ€"haired lady, standing up and wavin(f her hand. The next moment they had stopped, and a gentlieman, a fashionable, goodâ€"looking man, picturesquely got up in knickerâ€" bockers and a deerstalker‘s hat, was opening the door, and greeting the new aftivals with great warmth. an unmisâ€" takable look of pleasure in his sleepy blue eyes. A few minutes later the train slackâ€" ened speed, and came to a standstill, tickets were collected, and they were slowly prurlled into the little shedâ€"like station, which was the unworthy haltâ€" ing place for the ancient, learned and icturesque city of St. Cuthbertsâ€"the Komo of golfâ€"the seat of a university, the favorite bathing place of the neighâ€" boring county h-lli-. of Edinburgh lawyers, and even of successful Caledonâ€" ians, weary with the battle of life in distant London town. € L. The younger lady presently. lay down her paper, and seat in though with downcast _ eyes. _ Seen _ thus, there wase _ a pathetie look in her _ face, for which her sparkling, intelligent ex, pression, when speaking or smiling, did not prepare you. Their unwelcome comâ€" penion gazed at her as if lost in conâ€" templation; but there was nothing adâ€" miring or presumptuous in his eyes, and when she suddenly raised hers, he lookâ€" ed away immediately. His notice did not appear to disturb her. "I fancy we are almost at our jourâ€" ney‘s end. I see a few houses and a spire or two," she exclaimed, presently. "Well, so far, I don‘t see much beauâ€" ty!" cried the other lady. "I suppose that long, melancholy stretch of green, with the hillocks between it and the sea, are the links Sir Frederic told us of: There are some men in red coats standing about," and she began to fold up the papers and collect the books. "These Scotch lines are exceedingly illâ€" managed. The guards are most negligent and the insufficiency of porters most anâ€" noying. I have never found _ travelling more unpleasant than in Seotland." "I suppose the staff is seldom quite equal to the demands of the busy time, said the intruder, mechanically, as ho watched the newspaper behind which the young lad{elud again sheltered herse}f, as if on the qui vive for another glance at her face. "There is mismanagement somewhere," asserted the first speaker, with a "can you deny it?*" air, and then the two were silent for some time. "The trains are so crowded at this season. and there is so little time _ alâ€" lowed for changing, that one is glad to jump in anywhere," said the stranger, who did not seem in the least embarâ€" rassed by a eense of being unwelcome. And the whiteâ€"haired lady with some dignity, and much animation, exclaimed : mouth was still slightly parted, and a stray lock or two of ripe chestnutâ€"colâ€" ored hair curled, tendrilâ€"like, over the edge of a dark velvet toque, _ which matched an admirably fitting tweed traâ€" velling dress, artistic in its simplicity. Neverthelese, the lady was no regular beauty ; decidedly tipâ€"tilted nose, and a colorless, though clear, soft complexion, were drawbacks which some dear friends considered insuperable; while others, less sound in judgment, pronounced these deâ€" fects infinitely more charming _ than faultleaaness of feature. She was not very young either; that is, she had left her teens behind her, and might have been five or sixâ€"andâ€"twenty; there was the composure of some experience and an assured position in her quiet pose and «teady eyes. < As their eyes met, the smile died out of his, and was replaced by an expression of intense, displeased observation. Yet the face and form which attracted his notice were pleasant to the eye, and sugâ€" gestive to the imagination. A pair of velvety brown eyes gazed at him frankâ€" ly, wide opened and clear of their long laches, a delicate, but firm, redâ€"lipped it, "she said, smiling. "Twenty minutes will end our journey." She lay down her paper as she spoke, and looked with calm scrutiny at the offender. open _ the door with the inâ€" tention of retreating; but the lock was stiff, and while he attempted to turn the handle, a shrill whistle sounded and they were off. "I beg your pardon," said the intruâ€" der, with a glance at the rugs, books, baskets, sceentâ€"bottles, and newspapers which strewed the seats, indicating that the compartment had been for some time in possession of the occupante«. "I beg your pardon," and he tried to The speaker was a stout elderly lady, with a florid complexion, piercing black eyes, and very white hair. She was well é:ed in a travelling costume of black :er?e and had an air of importance and This carriage Pray do not trouble yourself about Cupid Tries Again "You had better," replied Mrs. Bayley, with a pleasant amile, but a sharp, warnâ€" ing look from her black eyes, of which he took little heed. After seeing her rooms, with which she declared herself delighted, and bidâ€" ding good evening to Miss Onslow and her uncle, who promised to see her next day, Mrs. Fane asked Sir Frederic Morâ€" ton to dine with Mrs. Bayley and herâ€" self. "fforrid nuisance! I can‘t," he reâ€" turned. "I am staying with a thirtyâ€" "And your help, most thoroughâ€"going of allies," he added. "If all gou right, you‘ll find I‘ll keep faith faithfully." "Oh, if you go into heroics, I‘ll have nothing to do with you. Common sense and fixed purpose are the only levers to lift you out of your difficulties." I can tell you time is nearly up with me. Your notion of a rendezvous at this quaint corner is first rate. It will go hard, but between us we will contrive some telling coup before we part. _ How deucedly well she‘ll looking!" with a nod in the direction of Mrs. Fane. "I don‘t know what it is in her, but I never lost my head in the same way about anyone else, and yet there are times when I hate her!" "I have been keeping within my enâ€" trenchments, though not retrenching, and "Then I am right royally provided," said Mrs. Fane, as she moved on beâ€" tween Miss Onslow and her uncle, folâ€" lowed by Mrs. Bayley and Sir Frederic Morton. "Well, and how have you been carrying on the war since we parted*" asked | the former, turning her keen black eyes on her companion. "Oh! here is your pnilosopher," â€" exâ€" claimed Sir Frederic, waving his hand towards Dr. Methvin. "In him you will find unfathomed depths of knowledge and wisdom. TIonly ask to be the humble but devoted friends." "Well, I am glad you are here. You must be our guide, philosopher and friend in this strange country." _ Were you?" elevating his eyebrows. "Well, I am rather surprised to tind myâ€" self here. It is some seven or eight years since I visited this scene. You know I am a Drumshire man; but alas! parted with all my interest in the county long agoâ€"threw the cargo overboard to keep the ship afloat in stress of weather, ch*" he laughed pleasantly. s "1 was greatly surprised to hear you had appeared in these remote regions," said Mrs. Fane to Sir Frederick, when she had courteously thanked the old professor for his attention. "Were you?" elevating his eyebrows. "Well. I am rather UirbPesX 12 She J l2le," piucat h6 w ce buls hi d ’ eagerâ€"looking girl, not pretty, but ladyâ€" like and pleasing. "I scarcely hoped you would grant my request." __"I was very glad to come," said Mrs. Fane, kissing her kindly, but glancing round to see what had become of their fellowâ€"travelier. "I fancy this is a nice old place to spend a week in." "It is. indeed. Let me introduce my dear uncle, Dr. Methvin, to you." She motioned to a thin, grayâ€"haired old gentleman, with a massive head and a kindly face, who bowed and raised his hat, greeting his niece‘s friend with oldâ€" fashioned but wellâ€"bred cordiality. "We have been fortunate in securing a pleasant suite of rooms for you, and as scon as we have inducted you we hsall leave you to the repose you no doubt need," he said. rielding to his friend‘s pressure, he walked briskly towards the new Royal Cresceut Hotel, which crowned an abrupt hill between the town and the station. Meanwhile, the ladies so warmly welâ€" comed, were chatting with their friends. "Dearest Mrs. Fane, how very good of you to come round all this way to see me!" cried Miss Onslow, a bright, maucy. o yk £00 L J der dinner; when I hs and had your advice, y where you like." "Very well! But wh you*" asked Dalrymple Yielding to his frien walked briskly towards _N~ever the other friend‘s. W While he spoke he assisted the ladies to alight. Tgeir companion was at the further side of the carriage from the platform, and when he got out he disâ€" covered his fellowâ€"travellers the centre of an animated group, while a smart lady‘s maid and a broadâ€"faced German courier proceeded to collect and remove the various properties which littered the carmmage. "You are quite half an hour behind time; it is past six! But that is nothâ€" ing new on this line. How do, Mrs. Bayâ€" ley? You are looking better than ever! It is quite reviving to see you both." ever mind, Dalrymple," returned other, slipping his arm through his d‘s, "I want to have a talk with before you introduce me to any Let us go and secure rooms and orâ€" dinner; when I have said my say had your advice, you may take me But what‘s wrong with |â€"bred cordiality. fortunate in securing a rooms for you, and as inducted you we hsall repose you no doubt Carrington made no reply. His eve: | total yearly receipts per mile are a }itâ€" were rifett«i on â€" Mrs. F:!:i;y. with t.hegt!e more than $23,000. same searching, questioning glance ':e' There are a thousand acres of eubâ€" had: first fixed upon her. She, was t1/kâ€" ; rsurine coal mines being worked around Ing and laughing easily with Sir Fredâ€" : Clape Breson. The character of the woil eric, and looking brighter and beiter ~overlaying these digginge enables them than the day before. Her drese was. yeiâ€" gto be worked without interference from haps, the simplest of the many t:il:itss | the water from above. domned to do bone+ t~ the dov x23 i m GgGewâ€"_â€"_â€" wore a costume of soft, pearly Tt is generally easier to tell what we woollen stuff, the drapery bqfleudm don‘t besl'ove than what we do. "By George! And that man in the dark knickerbocker suit, walking besice the lady in gray, is Sir Frederic Morian â€"no end of a scamp, unless he is hrriblf belied; as to the lady, you don‘t see suci style every day. She moves like a thorâ€" oughbred." "I am infiniteiy obliged to you," Carâ€" rington began. when he euddenly interâ€" rupted himselt, "Iook Dalrymple, do you ~seo those lsdies coming down the steps, from the club? They were my travelling companiors vexterday." "Come on," said Dalrymple, "I haven‘t ; much time to spare. If J can catch old | Leslie Morton he‘}l do all you want and i set you in the right way." I "I‘m sure my father will be delightei young Morton was beginning, when o er and more noisy sympathizers clail} his attention. _ "T am glad Colonel Carrington _b his first experience at golf _ 1 der «uch favorable cireu stancee. He has never had a chance MC seeing the game before" he said. tâ€" "I hope you will join our ranks," plied the yousg â€" man,. _ courteous P "There‘s more play in the game t you would think." "I see that." returned Carrington. "Where‘s your father, Kenneth?" er Dalrymple. le "He has jnst gone into the clubâ€"hou is "Come aiong, then, I want to in yS duce Carrington to him; he is qui stranger here, and I am obliged to le by the next train." Every one crowded _ to congratula the winner. who was a great favorit and as soon as Mr. Dalrymple had coi gratulated him on his success. and cla: ped him on the shoulder, he introduc{ his friend. _ It was a splendid. mellow, sunny Sep tember afternoon, the wide bay, blue a the Mediterrancan, the mountains oppg site a shade darker, with here and ther a fleeey cloud sleeping on their summity The wide space of the grasy Links, doe ted with gailyâ€"dressed groups of peopl stretched between gontly rising uplnn‘ly partially wooded, and a broad belt 4* golden sands. fringed by little curline caressing waves that ran in. murmuri lovingly. to kiss its edge and steal b&c“g agnin,. the air pure, balmy, and jus tinged with the delicious, briny fra rance of the _ sea. gave bloom to thP cheek and vigor to the step. 8 Mr. Dalrymple and his companion h been on the ground in the morning, a had returned in the aft ernoon, as th former was feverishly interested in t n play of young Mortonâ€"the son of hx friend, the captain of the club. A se ond time they walked round the courd~ and watched each drive, each skilf?" stroke in the more difffieult task putting. _ At length. amid loud cheeri young Kenneth Morton was declar the winner, having made the round i eightyâ€"three. an unusually low score. l' The first ball had been struck off a ten o‘clock, and the morning‘s play ha, sufficed to winnow the competitors, an" scatter the chaff of indifferent player Public interest was now concentrated 0 the trial between _ the two successfo players, who had scored equally, ans were to try their skill again after lunel eon | St. Cuthbert‘s great festival, the aut umn golf meeting, when the medal i played for, had never attracted large numbers or presonted a brighter aspec than on this memorable dayâ€"memord ble, at least, to some of our charag ters. __Soon Sir Frederie Morton‘s entranc broke in upon her meditations. Coffe« followed and then a long and lively con versation ensued. Mrs. Bayley slumber ed peacefully over a profound article or "The Feeling Intellect," and Mrs. Fan« was virtually alone with her guest. Nev er had he been more interesting, or talk ed so delightfully. From _ satirica sketches of the people he had met sinc« they parted in Paris, he passed gradually into a graver. soiter mood. He spoke o himself, and his past follies with manl regret, and betrayed aspirations afte better things which surprised his tolen ably experienced hearer, and almost per suaded her that a true, wise _ frien might pierce through the stones and rut bish which choked the outlets of his bet ter nature, and release the imprisone wellâ€"spring of higher things within hin especially if that friend were a woman. Unpacking, dressing, and dining filled up the _ time _ till it was almost nine o‘clock, and while Mrs. Bayley settled hersclf in the easiest chair she could find, with a cushion that supported her head nicely, _ took up a "fortnightly," which she did not read, Mrs. Fane stood in a wide, projecting window, and watchâ€" ed the moon rising over the sea. Mrs. Fane was not a widow, nor was she sepaarted from her husband. But, years before, she and her young lord partedâ€"why, no one knew. He went to India, where he was rarely heard of; she retained her fortune, and lived chiefly abroad. | "I will do my best. place is crammed with meeting, so I may not your incognito." P ols o. sns * U Mrs. Fane, laughing, too. "He distinguished in style, He has short, darkâ€"brown genrd and lo: tache and looks like a soldier, I mistake him. Do find out who | his voice is oddly familiar to least sometimes; but I cannot r to my memory," Mrs. Fane held up a warning finger, and went on: "I want to find out who he is. He came into our carriage at that tiresome Lorhty Junction, and Mrs. Bayley tried to turn him out. He is a very tall. gauntâ€"looking man, very dark â€"or sunburntâ€"with nearly black hair, and sombre, angry eyes. H chas rather a ghastly scar across the side of his brow and cheekâ€"bone, just missing his left eye." "What an appalling object!" exclaimed )!?l'\{on. 1aughing. third cousin, once removedâ€"old Leslic Morton, the captain of the golf club. He has a dinner toâ€"day in honor of the great golf gathering toâ€"morrow, and I must not absent myself; butâ€"may P have a cup of coffee with you at nine?" "Yes, certainly; and bring me all the St. Cuthberts news. By the way, did you notice our fellowâ€"traveller?" ]"fI saw no one and nothing but yourâ€" se ," self," "No; he " cae neid up a warning finger, mt on: "I want to find out who He came into our carriage at that e Lt'x'hty Junction, and Mrs. kut s 4 a in w0 not exact];j..ugjy,” said g, too. "He is rather style. He has a thick, n f‘»ard and long mousâ€" i. _A _\ hivse La mhar to meâ€"at cannot recall him succeed in seeing You know the strangers for the ier. You can‘t who he is, for . The average earnings of an English i train per mile is about $1.35, and the | total yearly mile are a litâ€" Mile more thank Roné®" i The total coal resources of the Southâ€" l etn States are estimated at 600,000,000,â€" ; 00 tons, or more than oneâ€"fourth the ; eaiinmated. coal reserve _ of the entire l country. Ar the prescent time France is trouâ€" bled with an overâ€"production of wine. ‘Tantalum, the new metal, which is beâ€" icc extensively made nse of at the preâ€" Went time, wias discovered _ about two years ago «by a Swedish chemist, and was =o named because of the tantalizing diffficulties he experienced in its develâ€" opment. ) .,. V to consider a bylkhw * [ For the purpoke of stopping up. sel ling and convefing a portion of th highway betweers Concessions two an? three. south of |the Durham Road» Glicnelg, described as follows ; & 1. A tract of la@d of irregular shape being part of roafl allowance betwee" Cncession two and Concession thre€ south of the Durhfpm Road, township ('l Glenelg, County $f Grey, being mor" particularly descriBed as followg; BH GINNING at a pgint on the southerl limit of eaid road allowance, which poir, Corporation of the Township of Glenelg. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN tha the Mugicipal council of the Townsbi‘! of Glenelg will, at a meeting to be hel at the township Ahall in the said townz ship, on Saturday, September 14, 1907 at the hour of lo fo‘clock in the forenootl to consider a bylkhw * For the purpoke of stopping up. sef ling and convefing a portion of th highway betweers Concessions two an? three. south of Ithe Durham Road» Our Furniture Sale is still on. _ We} known in Durbam up to the present and all marked in plain figures. . is two hundred safd seven feet easterl from the westerly hant of lot thirteer, couce:sion 8, south bf the Durham roa when measured along said soutperr limit of road allowapce ; thence nort ensterly on a straigllt line whose court, Lenahan is N. 61 degrees, 41‘ E. a distance of o hundred and eightyÂ¥eet to the nourth ly limit of said roadl allowance, the westerly along saidf northerly limit savul â€" road _ allowapos, a â€" dista 1 five hundred and efghty feet ; thete. sout westerly on a @piral curve to} , rgat a distance of fifty feet; th s>thwosterly on a durved line to}/;, tight having a radiag of twenty Slheo huamdred feet a distancb of one hund,,, and fiflty eight feet to the southerly it of said road allowardles; thence C ; <rly along said southeilly limit °f'Lil- road allowance a distahce of six dred and five feet to the\ point of bepq ning ; said tract of land pbontaining 'ng tenths (0.90) acres more @r less d Binder Twine, And for establishing h high a lieu th{rcqf, the followit] nameu};/’ 2. A strip of land @ixty six feet "ip in lots thirteen, twelva apbd elevewn 3, south of the Dutham a, Townan of Glenelg, County of Grley, more ticu‘arly described as follows; CGiâ€" MENCING at a print on the nortlf"> linmit of said lot 13, which point is** hundred and seven feet easferly from"*" ' "It was the elderly one in black that tried to turn you out of the carriage. hey?" said Dalrymple. "Well, she looks a jolly dame." Still no answer from his companion, ; who turned, and looking after them, saw | that they were joined by a young lady, ,and the old clericalâ€"looking gentleman ! who had met them at the train. Colonel Carrington accepted readily, and after a little conversation, other 1=lmaad 4b a Mess to t + If you are interested in a; Give ns a cail : we have! Sereen Doors, Windo Fence Wire, Rubber H "I understand. Very happy to make your acquaintance; any friend of Dal‘s is welcome to me. Do me the pleasure of dining with us toâ€"nightâ€"we have a golf dinner and a ball on these grand ocâ€" casions." "Carrington was a great chum of mine in India," he said. "before my poor broâ€" ther‘s death called me back to be a laird. He has been staying with us up in the Highlands, and came on with me, to see the golf meeting. I am obliged to reâ€" turr toâ€"night; but he will stay a few days before he goes southâ€"soâ€"" s h d o se t e t ie Ne Ap ce hat turned up at one side with a tuft of short gn{ feathers fastened by a silver butterfly; under it was a thick naturallyâ€"curled fringe, neither crisp nor fluffy, the color of a chestnut; her eyes were turned to Sir Frederic â€" as they passedâ€"but Mrs. Bayley, on whose arm she leaned, and who was as gorgeous as a‘Erofusion of bugle trimming could make a black silk drees, and glittered like a cutglass chandelier, evidently drew her attention to Carringtonâ€"for _ she glanced in his direction, but made no sign of recogmition. «i We have a quantis] which we will sell at j We also carry a full supply of D Paris Green, _ Builders‘ Supplies er lines of silver braid, and a gray udnc t oi u tOus s Canadian Cordage Co. and FURNMVU Come and . you you w e The Fraternity Peril. No intelligent person who studies our educational system at the present time can doubt that the fraternity movement is another of the perils of modern eduâ€" cation. Boys like to be men. They like to become men as quickly as possible; and, unfortunately, it seems more natâ€" ural fo rthem to imitate the defects and vices than the sterling qualities _ of those whom they admire. Among the ilâ€" lustrations of this general truth is the rage for secret organization which has recently taken possession of our counâ€" try from ocean to ocean. Boards of education in cities have been compelied to take action. Superintendents _ of schools and principals of high schools, as well as high school teachers, almost without exception declare _ that these rrabponm ies + zlt LA ..s M s .. d round; a apen current flowe through the Straits winter as well as summer, but owing to flce drive this current of the Straite is closed to navigation after Novemiber, and is not open egain till Juneâ€"that is, there are always five months when the Straits can be navigated. sometimes six. ‘There was also discovered just inside the eastern entrance to the Straite a splendid landlocked harâ€" ibor, or haven of refugeâ€"Port Burwellâ€"she}â€" tered from ail winds but the south, __A. P. Low‘s expedition of 1903â€"04 made a etlll more importast contribution to the data on the Straite. From actual experience and from the testimony of old Hud«on Bay naviâ€" gators Mr. Low establiened the fact of two onen currents always flowing in the Straite; one along the north shore. inland westward, bearing the ice drift of Greenland. so that the ships entering can go with the ice drive; one along the south shore, outward eastward, bearing the raft ice of Hudson Bay, so that the shime going to sea can also go with the Joe drift; in both cares whips can navigate the Straits with the fae drift, ~not against it. In fact. the difficulties of the old naviâ€" kators seemed to have peen that they did pot know thase currents und attemped to sail against the drive. But wrecks or no wrecke, ‘ the Hudson Bay route is coming. If the ‘ Straits are not fit for navigation they vl“‘ be made fit. The Canadian Government has sent two epecial expeditione (in 1885 and 1897) to teat the navigation of the Straits, and one general expedition to navigate the northern waters (1908â€"4), but the question has become so terâ€" Pibly politicalâ€"so much a question of east versus westâ€"that the official reports on the expedition are more noteworthy for what they have unsaid than for what they say. The Gordon expedition of 1885 and the Wakeham of 1897 definitely established these facte : Hudson Bay is open all the vear Hudson Straits are really a deep gor‘e! which the ice of the Arctic world â€" the ice of the prehistoric agesâ€"4has cut and gronved‘ and torn forcibly out of the solid rock, findâ€" | ing egress from Fox Channel of the Arctioe ‘ to open water of the Atlantic. Into this | funnel of rock, 450 miles long, is jammed ; from the west and pounded and contracted | the area of an ice continent, and up _ this channel from the east runs a tiderip thirtyâ€" five feet high. When tiderip and jce meet there occurs what, the old navigators of the H\l»d-on Bay fur trade call "the furious overâ€" fall." _ Over against this advantage, let it be statâ€" 64 frankly, Churchill summer and winter ie eubject to just as furious gales as ever batâ€" tered the iron rocks of Newfoundland. One other danger peculiar to Churchill must be noted. Five miles out «e bay is open all the year round, but as the cold becomes inâ€" tonse what is known as "frost fog"‘ lies thick as wool ;)g the sea, obscuring everything. The enfrance between the two headlands is not a balf mile wide, againet the tremenâ€" dous current of river and eb btide; but the dous current of river snd ebb tide; but the harbor inside, a magnificent expanse of land locked water, with the fur post five miles up stream. But all railroad projects to Hudson Bay hinge not on Churchill Harbor but on the \straits. _ Can they be navigated? How long are they open ° Even !f they can be naviâ€" gated by slow oceangoem, will they be of any avail for a fast Atlantic route The harbor itself could not have boen betâ€" ter if it had been made to order. It is a | direct 850 mile plain, open, deep water sail from the west end of the straiteâ€"no shoals, | no reefs, deep enough for «ue deepest draught | keel that ever sailed the sea. Thisâ€"as capâ€" tains of the big warships knowâ€"is true of j neither Montreal nor New York. At New ‘ York deep @raught ships have to wait the | tide both for approach and departure; and . on the St. Lawrence ships are always taking | a mud bath on the sand bars. I As to the question of the practicability of the Churchill harbor, «ae writer quotes reâ€" cords showing that it bas always an open season of five months. In favorable seasons this is extended to seven months. Bays Premier Laurier, in answer to a reâ€" quest for & road from eaâ€"rremier Greenway, of Manitoba : ‘"I agree the time has come for the railroad to Hudson Bay." The statute books contain a standing offer of 12,000 acres of land a mile along the line of this railâ€" road, and If this is not eufficient encourageâ€" l;lentd ?or promoters other means must be ound.** Roughly speaking, Churchill, which will be the seaport of the Hudson Bay routes, is just 1,000 miles from the grain areas of Hill‘s roads. New York is 2,000 miles, Churchill is }M miles from Oregon, New York is nearâ€" y 3,000. en to the fact that each wants an extension of its boundaries across Keewatin for a seaâ€" port on lHiudeon Bay. . Then around Hudeon Bay is a vast unâ€" organized territoryâ€"Keewatin, about the size of Germany. ‘The western provinces of Manitoba and Saskatchewan suddenly awakâ€" Two other projects have been galvanized into lMfe by the schemes for a Hudson Bay route. For years Canada has talked of & deep water canal up the Ottawa from the 8t. Lawrence to the Great Lakes. suddenly surveyers are set to work estimating the cost of a canal that would connect Lake Superior with ocean traffic ‘The cost, it may be said, is estimated at $125,000,000 . 400 miles needed to conmnect Churchill with the railroads of the Saskatchewan the Macâ€" Kenzieâ€"Mann road has aiready eighty miles built, a railroad with trains running, not "just an iron tonic for the cows," as the funny papers have always described roads to Hudson Bay. The Hill charter plans to feed the freight of Dakote and Minnesota into the Sasketcheâ€" wan to Hudson Bay. Builders are at work on thp southern end of this project now. Another of these six Hudson Bay charters is owned by the new Canadian transcontinâ€" ental lineâ€"the MacKenzieâ€"Mann road. Of the One of these was obtained by Mr. Hill, who used to ridicule a Hudson Bay road as a venture that would be ‘"enowed up for ten :nonths of the year and iced up the other wo." Wihin the last six months, says the Reâ€" view of Reviews, eix different charters have been taken out for different railroad schemes connecting with Hudson Bay. _ _ _ _ ‘The utter blockade of eastbound freight on all the rallroad lines of the Northwestâ€" ern States and western Oanada has given great impetus to the mgitation for & short route to Europe by way of Hudson Bay. . To turope by Hudson Bay all the year Booth‘s Impressions of Japan. : General Booth, who has just returned . from the far cast, has given his impresâ€" | sions of Japan and its people to the â€" press. The general, in the course of an | interview, said> "I like them (the Japanâ€" ese) for their naturainess, thoughtfulâ€" ness, and preparedness to consider anyâ€" ; thing you may put before them. I like | them for their burning passionâ€"such as / ewept the Russians of{ the field of battle. It was not all skill that beat Russia. : But," he added, "in their ascendancy they are going too far in westernizing themâ€" selves. The west is to them a paradise. | They even have their suffragettes. But | drink and gambling are the two demons that are waiting to pounce upon them. | Japan has lessons to learn from us and we have lessons to learn from her. She z is full of contradictions. There the | children do not _g to schoo!l without : their breakfast. ere you will seenone without shoes and ltockln{-. You never see a child or a woman that is not deâ€" cently dressed. Everywhere the men struggling into civilization by means ‘3 trousers." With referonce to commercial , the general said: "There are o1 the works: out M. is conquerore work ; will do it by peaceful methods." and some another. Some attribute the blight to frost and some to the rayâ€" ages of the wire worm. But a gentle man who has made a close examination pays it is due to little insects ®r lice which . have settled on the leavres and which have sucked the moisture out of them, but that the stalke and roots are quite sound and healthy. He attributes the appearance of these insects to the warm, dry wearâ€" ther at a certain stage in the growth of the plant and says that the recent heavy rains will destroy them. If this theory is correct there need be no fears for the crop on this account, for so long as the stalk and root are healthy there will be an unimpaired crop.â€"Seaforth Expositor. An Insect Pest Attacks It in Hurom County. A good deal of uneasiness has been ocâ€" casioned among farmers and others on account of a blight which seems to have come on the oat crop. _ Many of the blades nave turnel brown and present ; a withered and dead appearance. This is general and is quite distinguishable from the road. Some ascribe one cause _ HMave you ever heard a cat get mixed up with a sheet of sticky fly paper? If not you have missed one of the real sights of this life. _ The terrified, JjJumping, spitting, mewing creature presents a most ludicrous spectacle to all onlookers and causes an immense amount of laughter and fun, but when the frantic and maddened pet becomes almost smothered by the sticky stuff and the damage to carpets, curtaine, etc., etc., begins to be realised, the housewife fails to reciate the funny side of the eplfle, and then and there decides that in future she will use only Wilson‘s Fly _ Pads, which are three hundred times more effectual and cannot damage carpets or furniture. _ All druggists and storeâ€" keepers sell Wilson‘s Fly Pads. Avold worthless imitations. Banded onyx is generally used for cameo work, because of its hardness and coloring, and it is this fact that has caused the mis. epprehension, the stone being used #o much In making cameos that it has now become better known as "camew‘ than by its right neme. ‘There fre emerald cameos, turquoise cam~ e0s, shell cameos; coral cameos; indeed, any substance that lends itself to carving in euch minute detail can be usea for cameo cutting, and nearly all precious stones, excenpt diaâ€" monds, have been so used. Diamonds have been used for intaglios but never for camâ€" eos. Emerald is the muet common precious stone from which cameos have been made, and there are some very fine emerald porâ€" trait cameos in existence, nm&l‘ those of Queen Elizabetb, in the Bri Museum . Shell cameos were first made in the fifteenth century but never became popular until reâ€" eentlv Auces the cameo. The .wal meaning of the word is unknown. its derivation having never been discovered, but correctly spoaking camâ€" eos are small sculptures executed in low reâ€" lief on some substance precious either for its ebauty, rarity or hardness. The true pature of a cameo is very much misunderstood by the public generally, Most people think it js the stone itee!f, when in Pnl!ty ‘the method _of cutting is what proâ€" ONTARIO ARCHIVES TORONTO None Are Being Madeâ€"Stomes Used by Cutters. ‘There is a great scarcity of cameos in Euâ€" rope and America now, owing to the gradual dying off of the old cameo cutters. No camâ€" eos are being made, and the old stock is dimâ€" inishing rapidly because of the present craze for old fashioned jewelry, and jeweler= say the only way they can replenish their stock is by buying old cameos from private owners. Of a dozen jewelry cetablishments in 8t. Louis vieited recently by a purchaser in search of cameos, saye the Globeâ€"Democrat, only one had unset cameos in stock, and only three had more than eight specimens of the_set gems. This scarcity of cameos makes thom very expensive, and those jewelers that are so fortunate as to have them in stock can get almost any price they choose to ask for them. It is unfortunate that the presidents and professors of colleges have seemed to be far less intelligent, or less careful in respect to this matter, than the high school men of our country. In muitiâ€" tudes of our colleges secret societies are permitted to do, without let or hindâ€" rance, what the boards of education and the faculties of high schools are seeking to prevent. The same snobbery, the same petty persecutions, the same tendâ€" encies toward emoking, drinking, gambâ€" HKng _ and licentiousness, which _ have caused the high schools to reject the fraternity, are clearly evidenced in the fraternity city of the colleges. Yet the governing boards of the latter seem to be ignora it, unwilling to do the thing which the situation requires.â€"From an article in The Home Herald. we can learn, the boards of oduufxl;: are hibiting these nizxtions, fut:rr:ities :r‘; a.ppedl.;: to the courts and the courts are sustuining the boards of education; and we imay hope that the movement _ alreadiy ckecked may be destroyed. But that tis fraterâ€" nity movement is a peril no one can doubt. yo people of the schools where they cre"gmnd. Everywhere that the subâ€" ject has been fairly developed, so fer as Sraternities are seriously injuring the WHY CAMEOS ARE SCARCE. HARD ON THE CAT. THE OAT CROP ®urvive the application of high voltage, or on the other hand may die if the conâ€" tacts are good on a comparatively low voltage." (Cases of fatal shock from a direct current of 220 to 240 volts are on record. Many cases of death from the shock of a street railway current of «500 to 600 volts have been reported, A safe rule is to meddle with no wires, nmltoncuuethatalluehm"lhe." NT ATOCCEY Uf Purron. forced through the body, and this in turn is dependent on the, yoltage and Â¥okistance in civewt, including the body, of which the resistâ€" ance is mainly at the contacts. HMence with poor contacts one may sometimes survive the application of high voltage, or on the other hand may die if the conâ€" tacks are nood on 2 anemaraÂ¥ineti 4. ... haps, over $150 trious and ambi few years of pe much to ease he sum costs her #20,00 people pay with com selfâ€"sacrifice, but th their earnings tolls s« #600,000 000 the . uquor tax, about _ $33,000,000; the customs revenve, $£18,000,000; the inâ€" come tax, $11,600,000; the "receipts from public undertakings and State property, £63,380,000; receipts from salt monopoly, 819000 0 + from â€" tohacen mananale loans â€" The internal loan « £500,000,000 is mostly at 5 the foreign war loan $107, 6 per cent.; $2928900,000 t cent., and $122,037,500 is at cent,, and $125,0357,500 is at 4 per cent. In 1880 Japan‘s revenue was $31,000,â€" 000; this year it is expected to reach $308,220,000. Among the items of revenue this year are: The land tax. $43.000.000. neaily $2,000,000 lose bicycle exports in 1% militates against the ger of accidents in a like roller skating, the become popular with ith On Teach vou t] 2.000 N00 The amount of the savings of tho age savings bank depositor in New State is $540. The total of depo« the State is nearly a billion and a Savings â€" bank deposits in Fran« about $890,000,000, but (he Frâ€": invest largely in nmationail secusitie foreign loans. In walking away out of the of the sheriff Bartels violated dian law, and now be will ex offence by a three months ter to produce electricity, poy available to carry all the of the city to tidewater we are wonderfully prodig coal and wood. lapan‘s NY if 1sbar 18.864 .000 n CURRENT COMMENT apita w he beh A 0A w a A New York Stientist estimates that the gases now ohing to waste at the )w m ed th $1 .10( roa n quite afive; nuenee is paracgount in Cor t be Gonored. wit 107 (« at pulation is given ofi Her revenue this y £308,220,000. The na 00,000. _ About half « f which was incurred nternal loan of more Enuporor und bla ier of ) Ith NC d with« his a Jpl lls sovere | the interest 2C.000.000 a ve H idren n I‘% { the roy nmendably patrictic he eum . taken from everely on a populaâ€" n . wealth is not, = ‘he nation is iur::- «, however, and a furnaces â€" were 1 Jon‘t run away "bike wded the n 81 tricity kills is stood, but the prof Onsider U fle ent usod to question of Sh le st ie 13,000 1 ars 414 v ook to rds. mr Mr ram n on 1J in 11 do dan than t. O I‘he the nÂ¥ rly nal his Oor nll)’ A apan . und it Mn n n t |