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f urx J °* AACWIIS you en, now groping in anguish the'hottuu'r ago at the Cent most pits nf misery and despair. It is )doubt your marri a memory I am going to carry to Y | one grave. A F |_ ‘"With best wis "The past act with the regularity of happiness and pr & cinemnw{nph at ln{ reminder of yO4 | honor to be etc.,‘ even now, No wonder I ehunned socHty | â€" Migo Dunloy 1: then. No wonder my laugh had a “’”'with a smile. It ring. No wonder I failed to make y°" | dent in her life. merry, and Iu?h and bluster and talk know that behin. as others did. ou little knew that you mi'n.tion of a w never left me from the first moment 1 breaking moral re saw you. You never knew the thoughts <o I h‘ ‘â€"M the day-dnun.“l‘drn-i ; you | Too mucl;dbrTJ s never , never auspec worâ€" ‘ to make a w bl ommm,xddu{:n.-%yn. Where might is Teo sacred a thing to * talked of, you servant.â€"German. ever ent=ed my life. God forbid that any man should suffer in wrenching agâ€" ony I suffered because of you. _ And ou treated it lightly; you only got to {now of it by meeting my eyes hungry and devouring you at every turn. I worâ€" whipped the very air you breathed, your very name, your very presence. . The thoufi‘h of you or your proximity made the Morse symbols a meaningless series of dots and dashes, and when you apoke to me I stuttered incomprehensibly. Can any pe:.sktnu the chaos of my mind. Now tr hq the very heights of heayâ€" snon ‘"The men were kind to her and the Supervisor watched over her like a faâ€" ther, and I huted the Supervisor. The days passed, but my restlessness and my "And from the end of the lesson â€" Or rather from the first moment I saw herâ€"her image nover left me. By da 4 eagerly watched her _ movements, { treasured every word that fell from her lips. By n.ifht I thought of her and her only, and if perchance I had occasion to exchange with her the most commonâ€" rn- observations. I turned them over n my mind again and again, and the grey, creeping dawn found me sleepless and restless, convinced that I had spokâ€" en idiotically, that I was a fool. The next day was just the same, and _ the nextâ€"and so months passed. Everyone was her friend. She had a kind word for and a happy laugh with all, _ and her laugh was pleasant. She was a ray t -ul:iim in that building. A sort of irresponsibility and freshness cozed from her which was pleasant and appreciated in that place of responsibility, formalâ€" ity and red tape, _ "Precocious as I had been from my earliest years her entrance _ into my mind nnd’ thoughts only served to inten sify my brooding nature. "Yet much as 1 disliked the society of men and women I could talk intelligentâ€" ly on any subject with anyone when weccasion demanded. But when she came my natural condition was more apparâ€" ent, 1 was afraid, actually afraid of a girl, & child in a red blouse, and my finâ€" wers trembled nervou«ely on the cbonvy key. "I was not of a forward nature; I had | °4 20 £0ing to be r ; mnot even at the time learnt selfâ€"control; " Thisâ€"is the end of i and asked to initiate her into the mys. | , [ CA" "nderstand ; \ teries of an electric eurrent, I spoke to kor love, .1 laughed at her, my heart the while thumping at my now better now. very ribs. ten_E”eA.;;' ]' ;"’-‘l again "I was afflicted with an aw e ave felt of my own meanness, partly :lo‘il,.em tefiflhed & tl“’“i‘""’ ti partly exagergued. 1 was not like an orâ€" | God1 * Oh, Fileen: «dinary young‘ man of my ageâ€"to put "I h + the case mildly, I was backward. I was | ; ape you will par mot sociable thenâ€"I am not now. | ":8 in such a strain, bu: "I had been brought up in peculiar s'nlnd, and if I have o lsolation, and a certain isolution _ and "..'l‘m": ©1s. t reserve marked those early y 0 write dow teine at the Centesk __" * 4| which forced thomn not even and aske teries of . her, my h very ribs. ang on the ficor, dazed by the metallic elick of the sounders, wondering at the strangeness and the newness ofi it all. "I was interested in her. "I was not of a forward nature; I had not even at the time learnt selfâ€"control+ #°°° HTUIYCYor, violating the official la wa .cklo'%r.e‘dpt of your comâ€" munication direct d of through the usital channelâ€"your immediate superior. "Before 1 have finished you will underâ€" stund ‘Yen years ago I vorked in the Central Telegraph Depotâ€"where _ you are working now, One day, with a batch of learners, there came into the office a young girlâ€"a young girl in a red blouse. Bhe was just out of school, little more than a child barely fifteen years of age,. "A young girl with dark, questioning eyes, set in a asweet face, framed in a tangled wealth of mutinous hair, standâ€" 1 lrecai c en sn en Ceneet eeet ‘"hrees, and looked through the window into the luxuriant warmth, then flew away again faster and faster, a myriad whirling crystals into the night, At length the letter was finished, and the young man blotted the last lines «aretully and methodically. He was about thirtyâ€"two. His boyish, cleanâ€" shaven face bore an air of gravity and a seriousness strikingly attractive. The delicate contour of his features said he was sensitive, but the face was manly and frank and good withal. 3 His movements were quiet and methâ€" wdical, and in keeping with the atmosâ€" phere of the place and his surroundings, The litter of blue, buff and official enâ€" ’, velopes on the table betrayed his conâ€" | mection with the Civil Rervice. h But the letter which he had just conâ€" «luded ran thus: " "My Dear Miss Dunloy,â€"Toâ€"day, in t the ordinary course of official duties, f. there eam)o under my notice h"’“f'P‘P" a ‘respectfn}] nesting, in view o your, .”touhin: l:lirrug:? to tender your * vesignation in accordance with the reguâ€" | , lations of the department.‘ i "Your resignation is accepted. There y i8 nothinLnnuaual in such a resignation. t But this letter will be unexpected, You w will doubtless be astonished to find me, | /; your Surveyor, violating the official la wa ncknowbdgh, receipt of your comâ€" | _ lay here and there where the mellow ight streamed from an cceasional winâ€" . Around the neighborhood an al Babbathâ€"like respectability continuâ€" ally settled like a pall. A dark sky was overhead, sprinkied with innumerâ€" awhie twinkling stars, and over and surâ€" rounding all the vast, brooding stillness Of the night, It was a ylorious nightâ€"such a night a*# it must have been 1900 years ago, whon a Babe was born in «n Eastern land. It seemed as if nature was waitâ€" ing, waiting, for something to happenâ€" but nothing happened. Inside the pen went scratch, scratch, setatch, and the writer‘s attention was «entred in the work on hand. Mlus Hhizedt Twhs Tusag sp nslc on t B . ) , 0 _A# pen went scratch, scratch, setatch, and the writer‘s attention was w«entred in the work on hand. If he raised his head it was only to abstractediy into the glowing, daneâ€" :.fln-u. Not to admire the handiâ€" luArh of God, nd utside it began to snow again, slowly the big white flakes descended. They came at first in ones and twos and threes, and looked through the window into the luxuriant warmth, then flew wway again faster and fustar a anovicd uy t e e t e oi e e es Te e "U$ YIper to play hayâ€" serateh, seratch, scratch of his pes. The | 0e with my dn.;z‘n-nu. I knew it from blinds were undrawn. The silent street | the first moment I saw you. It was reâ€" was covered with a layer of unbroken | Yealed to me then and there, and existâ€" and newly fallen snow. Yeliow patches | 0d in a vague intangible way as inexâ€" lay here and there where the mellow | Pressible as it was real, You were not ti'ht streamed from an cccasional winâ€" ! made for meâ€"that is what it meant It was Christmas Eve night. In a richly furnished room in a quiet suburb ’ of the city a man sat writing. Not a sound was heard save the monâ€" otomous tick, tick of the clock, and the | A RESIGNATION. es and my | dong, of the bells, and boyish inâ€" | jangle, _ ""Peaceâ€"Penca e apparâ€" aid of a 1 my finâ€" ie ebony 1 | i Rxtuccc on u0C °9 HAASOrt 'Ihe tore the letter into bits. Next | day Miss Dunloy received the followâ€" a) ing ! "I beg to acknowledge receipt of your application to resign. ‘"From the date mentioned a subâ€" stitute will be appointed to provide for your duty. * ’ ‘"The Surveyor directs me to in« form you that he had the pleasurs of knowing you alightly some years ago at the Central, and he has no doubt your marriage will be a happy one ‘"With best wishes for your future happiness and prosperity, I have the honor to be etc.," Miss Dunloy laid the letter aside with m ‘awestÂ¥e " lggic . o2 1amlp o resignation of a woman lay the heart. | ie kn‘ _ breaking moral resigmtiony of a man? Ebenezer," called out Airs. Jagway esns Â¥6ifeedieifie rcqmemcemmce from the fleor above, "have you been Too much red" paint at night is apt | drinking again?" "No, m‘ dear," anâ€" to make a fellow blue the next orning. | swered Mr. Jagway in the hallway beâ€" Where might is master, jt&l@ in Minw â€" «#Wii sacto wll,, [ & AMLWAY DG honor to be etc.," Miss Dunloy laid the lett with a smile. It was only dent in her life. How was know that behind the petty resignation of a woman lay th breaking moral resignation of pen. The | oe int street | th unbroken | Ye Â¥ patches ed e mellow | PT oaal winâ€".) M d an al. ' L9n m 2IITUE . *"Eileen, I feel again all I have vritten. All I have felt I feel again intensifiod a thousand simgs. /* . : If T have offended you, you will forâ€" | give me." he day ing CC oCpalc e reaery Huur. Then, returning to the table, he plecked up the letter, and his eyes lel! _on the'cl_osi_ng lines : {:nglo. ‘"Peaceâ€"Peace ar‘;t‘i * The lonely watcher stood wit ed arms impressed by the holy ofq_a holy and impressive hour 3 HNORY HHC 4 _ There was a crunch of footsteps underneath the window, the childish voices sang in chorus : ‘"See amid the winter‘s snow, Born for us on Earth below, See, the tender Lamb appears Promised from Eternal years. Hail! thou, ever glorious morn, Hail! Redemption‘s happy dawn." And up through the night and over the snowâ€"clad roofis cama ihma" in P 923 344 0052 25070 COUun(s less stars twinkled like fairly lamps th an inky darknees. Over and sur. rounding all was the vast brooding mysterious silence of the night. Ij seemed as if all Nature was waiting â€"waiting for something to happen. And something happened, Christmas Eve and Christmas Morning merged into one. And re peating the words 7 y O rpnestn ty Aaruiiy ces oc dliie 2213 1+ ules remained in meditation. Ther rising, he sauntered listlessly "to. wards the uncurtained window., It had ceased snowing almost as suddenly as it began. The gilent stroet was covered with a layer of unbroken whiteness, and reliow patâ€" ches gleamed here and tf)ere where the light streamed from an occasional window. Tlis atmosphere was elastic, clear, sharp, and invigorating. The man opened a window, and the cold fresh night air rushed in. The countâ€" less stars twinkled like fairly lamps th an inky darknees. Over and surâ€" rounding all was the vast brooding mysterious silence of the night. It seamai ns iP slr xr u0 C friend "I had to wr which forced ; pen. May God "I am, Miss "1 hope )'Oll w ing in such a str stand, and if I will forgive me, 3 Aeel s e tced The young man blotted the shing signature, and for a fe tes remained in meditation fuivem â€" Ius o _2 _ _i . AECAETE _oj 3. ", PRet, for in the greatest crowds my loneliness is most acute, "Your paper eoldly and unconsciously annihilates the least particle of hope I might have entertained. But the imagâ€" inary conversation I have held with a little girl in a red blouse and two big, wondering eyes will ever before me reâ€" main, L OR Y seumcls sn c 0 o00 AAHWUIIGCE; | with a salary I never dreamt of, ‘"Honestly I strove to forget you, but the dreams would come and the sleepâ€" ing viper would awake, * * * You were not made for me. Can you imagine the torture? Occasionally ‘your image would rise up before me, and I was for | th‘e‘\fimo numbed in mind and naralvzal _1 move my own pa my lonelin “\Vith yuur dignity of m; My riches are is greater. tha in . .. 11 _q‘ore me,. and I was for the time numbed in mind and paralyzed, "Now your application reopens my wound. After all these years of unâ€" utterable thought this is the end. "With your application before me the dignity of my position is a mockery, My riches are great, but my humiliation is @ranto» nago ol q2 o 0000 CSE NTE Of my friends, I applied for a transfer, and my application was acceded to without any unnecessary delay. I have been here ever since, "So well did T plunge myself into the work of the department that my promoâ€" tion was rapid. And I am nowâ€"or, shall I say 1 have beenâ€"your Burvegor appointed by a Minister of the Cabhina+t "The prospect of you was at its c« and I halted in the ‘“’gnl to my head "However, to t} "Then I ('-(;nceived the away, You are i made for meâ€"that is what it meant. __"Night after night I went home to my rooms disconsolate and lonely, and tried to think it out. My mind was a flowing sea of thoughts heaving, restâ€" less, and impatient, and before an oxer. whelming torrent of despair I was borne away. ‘ihere, with my head resting on my arms, I prayed to Godâ€"for what, or why, I don‘t know. I only knew that my heart was a heart of lead, and I was sick in body and mind, you were worthy of it all, yet I instine tively felt from the beginning you were not made for me. There was a somethizg underl{ing my thoughts, rising now a | again like a -h:ying viper to play havâ€" :og w‘ith my dayâ€"dreams. I knew it from 1e were more sacred than B ° feel again all I I have felt I feel thousand times, Oh, Eile@n! Eilaen F + vanembl ) } enn t L CHT C .0 aÂ¥0, Hk ‘Ueat, blue the next morning. ‘ swered Mr, Jagway in the hallwa; is master, justice is | low. "Not again. â€" Still."â€"Chicago 1. hirna _ write down the the ed themselves from God bless you. liss Dunloy, always William . Thaorndas In a woman now, E. will pardon me fo rain, but now you have offended vi W 1 biotted the flourâ€" and for a few min« _ meditation. Then red listlessly ‘to. ined window. snowing almost as 1 can tell. I felt as one world unreal, and which would with His almighty __ 20B SUNost as gan. The sgilent with a layer of and ]yollow patâ€" and there where om an occasional here was elastic, happy dawn." night and over came the ding nd thei‘r jingle, ‘nly an inci | Mrs. Dooleyâ€"Tell was she to | Sure an‘ he may no pet:_}/, formal | Life. ( ay the heartâ€" M s pnveainsin m of a man>| . "Ebenezer," called rl the surprise unge myself into the nent that my promoâ€" And 1 am nowâ€"or, beenâ€"your Burvegor ister of the Cabinet, marriedâ€"married ! 1t all, o es s why men go mad t the idea onceâ€"I an existence without neeption staggering, street, the hot blood of my own with Thorndale," to himselt cen! with foldâ€" holy calm I have writ o thoughts ll'Om my idea of going ileen, and for writ. u underâ€" you you life itself, and Good your U ul os nety > ue kin git twelye months off for good â€" havior. I Mrs. Dooleyâ€"Tell her to rest _ ai ;Sure an‘ he may not behave himself Tig. zod! of my A Word of Encouragement. Mrs. O‘Toolo:â€"She‘s takin ‘on aw Her husband got three yearsâ€"but kin oit twelve mumethl . af 3O o â€"MAHM 1ney came, conquered clansmen, and gillies and vassals, But warm was the handclasp they met at the door; And scatheless they drank to each other‘s tall castles, For Clumy repentant, his foes were no more. â€"William Henry Drummond, in the Christmas Canadian Magazin.,. y ie c mm Only one "BROMO o That is LAXATIVE BROMO C for the signature of E. W, Gh World over to Cure & Cold in They came, Hoich! agus Hoich ! 0, it‘s hearsin‘ The deeds we have done ‘ deeds we can do, But tonight let the fiery cro Pherson Blaze out on a mission all and new, Bummon the clans from the the Garry Carry the message to far ent Uiscebuae, wassail them, all carry, For the ditk of ManDhaâ€"., repintni@eiviintst". ndoacis ds A d i2 14 4 1 141 a lecture one evening, and afterwards was entertained at supper by Mr. C. E. McPherson, Goneral Passenger | Agent of the Canadian Pacific Railâ€" day. A number of prominent gentleâ€" | men, mostly of the Scotch persuasion, were present. The supper lasted un til the "wee, sma‘ hours," and must have been a most enjoyable occasion, because it inspired the poet to write on the flyâ€"leaf of a presantation copy of. "Johnnie Coarteau" the following Boem, which is addressed to Mr. Mcâ€" herson : Hoich! agus Hoich Galore! Ian Macâ€" Crimmon, Bon of the pipes! Let your war notes be hushed; Well do I know that we batitled with women When by Inverlochy the Campbells we crushed. Tell me no more how the race of Macâ€" Donald _ We gave to the foxes and birds of the skyâ€" Blood{2 the tartan we spun for Black aaald _‘ Betrayer of princes, foul Pickie the ] spy. c A thousands loug years the Camerons j fed us ‘ With cattle we reived from the herds | ; of Lochiel. f Littlelw; reckuoned the wild chase they t ed us, When Cluny‘s proud children craved : for a meal. Whetm the late William Henry Drummond was perhaps at the zenith of his powers as a poet, seven years ago, he visited Winnipeg for the purâ€" pose of attending the medical conâ€" vention there. During his stay in thc'a western metropolis he delivered it: â€""Shiloh‘s Cure will always cure my coughs and colds." 1 ‘00? PMyIng together cLulte near the ’line, like huge dogs, and how, being at the back of the train, he got in the first shot and killed one instantly. The guard and engine driver came hurrying along then, but before they arrived he had put in his second shot and bagged a second animal.â€"Gertrude Page in London Daily Mail. All through ‘the last day the scenery is again chiefly forest, and at one place tha spot is pointed out where the engineer recently alighted from his caboose and shot two lions while the train waited. e explains himself how ‘there were threa or four playing together quite near the gazed in surprise at the fine 'b,naf‘e. across the river, the longest bridge in Africa. the dirk of MacPherson is now laid away‘. going in a measure to a silent martyrâ€" dom, unless the man for whom she goes can be all things to her. hy co Nq Nee dstty uic Hermenigh . OOE MHV there where she is going there is no other woman, no doctor, within perhaps eighty miles, no other child for her child to play withâ€"nothing but days and weeks of monotony and the silence one can hear. We look at her with awe because we know she is a heroine. We know she is we get a longer stroll. We have now made friends with the one or two other travellers, and a little friendly gossip passes the time until a me It is so interesting to know why these other travellers are there, each in his way so different from the traveller at home, who excites neither interest nor surprise, Here is a Belgian going to the Comgo, manager, of course, of some big rubber plantation or mine, whase wife is brave enough to accompany her husband into the Back of Beyond. Here is a antive , commissioner for Northeastern Rhodssia taking his wife and child to some distant outpost only to be reached after perhaps ten or twenty days‘ trek. One looks at the woman with a sense of awe. She is ’ young, pretty and charming, and out 2 °""6) P‘Svy ind char Invocatio COluny Loquitur T ) In fifteen minutes you have the new experience of a dark African night, with its brilliant southern stars and the blazâ€" ing fires, each within its circle of laughâ€" ing, chattering natives, whose white teeth gleam in the firelight as they throw their heads back in huge enjoyâ€" ment of any joke. They are almost unâ€" canny, those gleaming white teeth! Everywhere just firelight and black, inâ€" distinguishable figures and rows _ of gleaming teeth! Yhe second evening we stop at 6 o‘clock, while it is 'tlll d‘_!]igl)t, and so A Stopping Place on the Cape to Cairo Railwayâ€"The Passengers. The dark comes down with African swiitness, and at 8 o‘clock ‘the train stops for the night at Choma. In an incredibly short time all the natives on the trainâ€"and they often number a hunâ€" dred, either going to or returning from the minesâ€"are busy making fires by the ride of the track upon which to cook their evening meal. Our own boy is busy with the rest, making a fire also and boiling water for tea. .IBROfi‘o,‘Q_L_B NINE" SOUTH AFRICAN NIGHT. PA BROMO QUININE, Look E. W. GhOVE. Used the & Cold in One Day. 25¢. bea. 20 have done and the , all they can , it‘s weary reâ€" cross of Macâ€" all bloodless St. Laurâ€" banks otf awful Repeat he h "‘roughout the world reveals the fact that the fire departments are completely under the direct control of the muniâ€" cipal government, more generally than the policc. In the United States and Great Britain, independent munioig:l diâ€" rection is the invariable rule.. In Krana. F £ o LoA " o Emt en ments in the large cities of the United States is 54 cents per capita, or even to learn that the next lowest figure is 74 centsâ€"treble the rate in Loadon, Paris and Berlin. In other instances, when the per capita cost rises, as it does in most cases, to $1 or somewhat over, it is possible to find the explenation in a larger force, higher local rate of wages or unusual equipment. A glance at the mode of operation throughout ‘the world reveals the fact that tgae SIDE Senarrmalks u.. dl ol in) PR The large force of men employed and the great amount of expensive machinery necessarily add very much to the cost of the American fire departments, The high rate of wages, and especially the wa.~. Paris has as many firemen in proporâ€" tion to its population as Philadelphia, but only 17 steam engines and 90 hand engines, to 46 fire engines in Philadelâ€" phia. When it is remembered that Philâ€" adelphia does not have by far the strongâ€" est fire department in the United States, it is clearly seen that American fire deâ€" partments far excell even those of Kuroâ€" })ean cities which have done most in this ield. While the greater danger of wideâ€" spread conflagration requires the Amerâ€" ican cities to be more thoroughly preâ€" pared, it would appear from recent exâ€" perience that European cities need to bring their fire l}igsdes nearer to the ‘ American standard. m noy l on P oi New York city, with 3,200 regulars, 1, 000 horses and 175 steam fire engines, has much the largest fire brigade of any city in the world; but the Boston deâ€" partment of 800 men, 350 horses and 45 fire engines is much larger in proportion to its population. Philadelphia, with double the population of Boston, has a fire brigade of no greater strength; but when compared with London, which has five times its population, the Philadelâ€" phia force is seen to have as large a numâ€" ber of firemen, twice the number of horses and nearly as many fire engines, although London has also about 100 of the old hand engines. Compared with Berlin, which has nearly double its popâ€" ulation, the Philadelphia brigade is again equal in nuunber of men, and has five times as many fire engines, while as a counterâ€"claim Berlin has but 18 hand engines, ( Comparing the fire brigades in the ropean capitals, the former are always larger and better equipped with steam engines, horses and men. _ Within the last few years the system of depending to a considerable degree upon call men has been given up by practically all the larger municipalitios, Nan â€" Franciseo and Jersey City are the only places with over 100,000 population which still have an api))reciable number of call men. Bosâ€" ton, Detroit and Providence have &A small number, but the regular firemen are much the larger part of the brigades. remmmne m mds v t tmb Brbdi * i i U. 8. Cities Efficiently Protected Against Flames. It is only a matter of recent history since volunteer fire companies have been replaced by drilled and disciplined forces constantly on duty. In fact, with the single exception of Paris, where the corps des sapeurs pompiers dates from 1747, the fire departments in the larger cities of the world have been organized since 1830. The London brigade was formed in 1833 by the fire insurance companies, but did not come under public control until 1866, Milan and Madrid organized fire brigades in 1838 and 1843 respectiveâ€" ly. _ The Berlin department was not founded until 1851, that in Brussels a year later, St. Petersburg‘s in 1880. large American cities with those of Euâ€" Vienna‘s in 1864 and New York‘s, the first American city‘s, in 1865. The earliest of these, however, cannot be classed with the modern fire departâ€" ment, whose present efficiency is due lurfely to the movable fire engines, which had not been constructed in a form for practical use until after the middle of the last century. _ The deâ€" velopment of efficient brigades was no less dependent upon the existence of an adequate and wellâ€"distributed water |. supply, and the construction of extensive | waterworks is also of recent date. A t You can get these dealer in medicine or by a box or six boxes for Dr. Williams‘ Medicine Ont. to 1 spent sleepless nights and seemed to lost all courage. I tried several doctors, but they failed to give me any relief. The last doctor I consulted told me frankly that he could not undertake my caso unless I would undergo an examâ€" ination. Jt was then that I decided to give Dr. Williams‘ Pink Pills a trial. After taking six boxes I was much imâ€" proved in health, but I continued to ’take the pills for a couple of months more when I felt like a new woman, and was enjoying such health as I had not experienced for ten years before. I have had no return of this trouble since, but I have used the Pills once since thatl time for the after effects of la grippe, and the result was was all I hoped for. These are plain facts from my own exâ€" perience, and 1 have always felt that I cannot too strongly recommend Dr. Williams‘ Pink Pills to the many woâ€" men who suffer as I did." is irregular she suffers from headaches, backaches, sideaches and other unspeakâ€" able distress which only women â€"know. Bome women have grown to expect this suffering at regular intervals and to bear it in hopeless silence. But women would escape much of this misery if they took a box or two of Dr. Williams‘ Pink Pills to help them over each critiâ€" cal period. These Pills actually make new blood. They help a woman just when nature makes the greatest demand upon hor blood supply. They have done this for thousands of women throughout Canada; why not for you? Mrs. Joseph Kinney, Gilbert‘s Cove, N. 8., says: "For ten years I suffered from nervousness and those troubles that make the lives of so many women one of almost constant misery. At times I would be confined to my bed for weeks. A _ woman needs a bisodâ€"building medicine regular‘y just because she is a woman. From maturity to middle life, the health and happiness of every woman depends upon her blood. its richâ€" ness and .its regularity. If her blood is poor and watery she is weak, languid, pale and nervous. If her blood supply is irreonlar tha anffare Fram us Aankak Can be Relieved by Kesping the Blood Supply Rich With Dr. Williams‘ Pink Pills. THE TORTURES WOMEN SUFFER FIRE FIGHTERS d Pils from any mail at 50 cents $2,50 from The (., Brockville, _ _ The adjutant had just lectured a squad _of recruits on company drill, battalion drill, and every other form of moveâ€" ment that he could think of, and at last threw in a little instruction of his own on personal behavior in the face of the enemy. "On the figld of battle a brave soldier will always be found where the bulleta are thickest, you understand. Private Jones, where would you be found, then, on the battlefield *" Private Jonesâ€" In wagon, sirâ€"Titâ€"Bits. A HELPFUL SUGGEsTIiON. Miss Cunningâ€"Why don‘t you proâ€" pose to her by telephone than? Mr. Hanleyâ€"Maybe she wouldn‘t know who I was. Miss Cunningâ€"Exactly ; that might help your chances. Repeat it:â€"" 8hnoh’.lâ€"au-o will alâ€" ways cure my coughs and colds." p C e t P P e+ The householder who keeps a barrel of good cider in the basement finds the case of the most refractory furâ€" nace it anticipated pleasure.â€"D. C. Shafer, in the Bohemian Magazine for December. E10 a0 onl m CAop nde. By placing centigrade thermometers in the various pipes you will be able, with practice, to distinguish between thgkho't: and cold air pipes. ’ When the grate will not shake or dump, and cannot be removed, let the ashes rccumulate under it for a week or two. When the base of tha furmace is full the grate will melt and rémove itself. The best times to do this is in the spring, because it is next to impossible to secure a new grate from the manufacturer, owing to the insane desire of all expressmen to brgak every stove grate they handle. MdIh 00 vihe D ul ciind TB . 3 T /. ceedingly E)roud of this year‘s brand, which smells ten per cent. worse than last year‘s. Good stove varnish can be identified by the length of time the odor of burned polish â€" lingers throughout the house. make stove polish and To remedy the smell of burned paint when the furnace is started, carefully scrape and sundpager all the parts before the fire is built. The manuâ€" facturers have worked a great many years compoundaig evil smells to 1 OB CA u. Arck s To work the various drafts, note the direction cast into the ircr, then manipulate the slides exactly oppoâ€" site the printed orders. The patternâ€" makers have to cut these instructions hu urside down and invariably they get them reversed. Where Bullets are TFickest F @prah viedniatWisiiarr S ies 4 s B 1020 } Pile the ashes on the floor to cool. The best place for them is just to the right of the furnace door, covering the shovel and shaker. A little hunt for these im{)lements when you need them will take your mind off your ofâ€" fice cares. The ash pile should not be allowed to get quite as high as the uQIper floor joists. he best way to sift ashes is to {:rocure an empty flour barrel, a small ox for the cinders and an ash sifter. When all is ready hire the neighbor‘s boy to siflt them for you.. \ Both labor and coal can be saved by leaving a wide rim of ashes about the firebox. This confines the fire to the centre of the grate. If it goes out you cai rebuild it by breakin up the potato barrel and the apple iox. ,,,‘Pilfi the ashes on the floor to cool. It will be taken for granted that the architect has already gocawd the coal bin as far from the furnace as posâ€" sible. Jn carrying the coal to tho furnace always use a long handled shovel, holding a poesible quart. RSome of the coal will drop off the shovel, but the lumps rolling about on the cement floor add the same dangerous zest to his trips back and forth as you experience in wading a rocky trout stream or learning _ to roller’ skate. to get along with mechanically ing. However, if the followin are carefully applied the hous will find himself on the best o wi‘th tvhe‘()nly Source of Heat The delicate mechanism, stubborn disposition and inherited contrariness of the common household _ furnace make it the hardest thing in the house HOW NOT TO DO it. q; . , 3. 5 __,__ ‘C PUMCIPANUEs, and the fire brigades are under the management of commissions, in which the central goyâ€" ernment as well as the various local auâ€" thorities are represented, The expenses of the fire brignades are shared by the government, the local municipalities and the insurance companies, i en se e t w 13 an integral part of the army, and is under the Minister of War a; regards its organization, discipline and control, but in service against fire it acts under the orders of the prefect of police, In other countries there is no such thorough system of central control as in France, but in some large cities the fire departmert is under the control of the central government. Thus, Berlin and Brunswick are like Paris in having their fire brigades as well as police managed directly by the central government, and this is also the case in Buenos Ayres, At Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide there are metropolitan fire districts, inâ€" cluding several municipalities, and the fire brigades are under the manazemen t sn usn s Aissa dc ntatiindt< d yAwenese the President of the Reuya’: on the Dodd*. !nom!nution of the prefects. ‘The memâ€" s Kidney Pills Cured Chas, bers are recruited for five years, and N. Cyr‘s Rheumatism. are organized into companies and battalâ€" Mbvbimmiimg ions, and subject to mili.ary .discipline. The municiptlji:;, however, is mpo:i‘ible Statement of a Man Who Suffered for for the maintenance of the local brigade, a Year From Diiferent Forms of and the expenses are regulated by the Kidney Disease and Found _ a Mayor in the same way as other muniâ€" Speedy Cure cipal expenses. In Paris theâ€"department j o iesns is an integral part of the army, and is | _ New Richmond Station, Que., Doc. 21. under the Minister of War as regards | â€"(SPecial.) ~In these cold fall days its organization, ,discipline and control, | When ml“ll}{mll*m- Nelatica, Backache but in service against fire it acts under | and other Kidney Diseases are working the orders of the prefect of police. iha\'oc in every corner of Canada, thouâ€" In other countries there is no such | S2nds will be interested in the sStatement thorough system of central control as in | of Mr. Chas. N. Cyr, the wellâ€"known barâ€" France, but in some large cities the fire | ber of this place, lepartment is under the control of the 1 , "I had beon a sufferer from Rheumaâ€" ‘entral government. Thus, Berlin and | tism and Backache for a year," Mr. Cyr Brunswick are like Paris in Ruvinn thalw TSEALLE > "Mu hank ams 120 id qi N# t l'et'ulong with mecha;lically speakâ€" . Puuie 1t eic Visv WRL T ities, the central government has charge of its organization,. ‘The corps of sapâ€" eurs pompiers is attached to the Minisâ€" try of the Interior; the organization for each town is determined by the prefects, and the chicf officers are appointed by C NT CORXE Gioiins raer L E How 1t Was. 4* fovernment. Thus, Berlin und’ swick are like Paris in having their | brigades as well as police managed | tly by the central government, and is also the case in Buenos Ayres, Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide are metropolitan fire districts, inâ€" Rales For Macaging the Furnace. lum.l invariably they d, smell of burned paint the ammunition if the _fO“l_'l\\"i’;lgrr‘l;;li;S _ the householder the best of terms they are exâ€" tion The origin of cards lies far back in the hidden nntiquit{ of Asia, no record so far having been found to unravel the source. It was from the distant Orient that cards, along with chees, were first introduced into Southern Europe, Spain and Italy, especially. _ The earliest of these cards have been lost, unfortunateâ€" Iy, and no record of them preserved. But in no way were they even a sufiution of our presentâ€"day cards, says the New York E}:'ening Sun. The Oriental card had to do with East Indian philosophy and Eastern lore; therefore, was mystic and symbolic. _ Later there came from Bohemia into Southern Europe cards bearing some resemblance to the Asiatic ones. Some of these are to be seen in the Imperial or National Library _ of France. Each card represents a different person or object. These Bohemians have been called Gypsies, from a corruption of Egyptians, and were the wandering fortuneâ€"tellers of the world. The quesâ€" tion arises, Whence came the Bolen ians? In Italy they were called Zingari; on the Danube Tsiganes, and in Germen Zigenner, It is historically true that in the fourâ€" teenth century â€" in France, when the weakâ€"minded King Charles VI reigned, a distinguished miniature painter named Ginganneur designed for the King‘s ‘:" e [ sonal amusement a set of cards which | ; he illuminated in the most exquisite manâ€" | } ner and according to his original ©0nâ€" | y ception. But in no way did even his “"d: h resemble those of our day. In the PSA P cards one may see the figure of a Vobt an Emperor, a hermit, a ct‘,"':’:’u Deen rer, a m :a,,':dl'. '; l:g:.riot, the moo;. 'J"r .:::' aJ figures of Justice, Foree, Tempe Mc w th and Judgment. The pac ca Fortune, Dea The fool card was ined 78 cards. @ 4 a conta to zero in the game, which was | .. rot." W coyces [ MH o en ‘a eard game called "Naib" | f), was introduced into ltd‘{‘by the Saraâ€" | f,, ens. â€" It would seem t some rela | . tan may have existed between the | ... A mania for cardâ€"playing has existed and etill exists the world over, as we well know, Allâ€"powerful as the fascinaâ€" tion is, not many of the most inveterate players have any notion of the history that lies back of these colored bits of pasteboard. And such an interesting hisâ€" tory as it is, involving the royal houses of Europe, as well as the habits and customs of the several courts, courtiers and distinguished men and women of those periods. Their Origin Lies Far Back in the Hidden Antiquity of Asia, T,,j .00 had come, Te My wild eyes equirtin wughtnin struc) hbull town meetin‘ aumb! All natur‘ jest stooped over with a : wash of sounâ€" An nex‘ week the town of Pokumville sessed another pound! My arms ewung roun like 1 pletely filled the ph Wen they waved they ‘m the fartherest shores My elerkunce splashed on | powerin waves Demosthernes and Sisserc their graves, Afraid? Afraid of nothin‘! For I felt the whole maccine Of the infinite creation jest reyolvin roun Ezra Bean, A round tent was the sky mbove tamt reelod an swayed and beut, And I was the big centre pole that jesl held un tha tawe o af Pavaqi 2o ° "Cuun in the streets of Paradise; I knew the universe stratched out until the crack uy doom But I kept erying in my soul, ‘‘More room! more room! more room!‘ enal me q._12_" en 4HJ fastened up inside, But 1 managed to get slarted a began to flow Like molasses in cold weather, ¢ an awful slow; But the fire of speech grew h opened up my facy An & tide of gurglin esweetness overflow the place, An my voice greow sweet as my downward from the skies From the gangs of ungels fide streets . of Paradise : yq uy ‘ ~~ "antem . LCW AIF OMtle who persist in pokin round?" An 1 wished the pesky pound was bullt an me securely tied, With a brass ring through my nostrils an fastened um Anelan. The question was, ‘Shail struct another pound To put in breachy â€" cattle pokin round?" An 1 wished the Pesky no Dry My But I‘m frightened in a crowd can‘t speak for my life, (An somet‘mes in a crowd of t: of em‘s my wife, £o in town mestin Uother day w erator sald, ‘‘We‘ll lissen now to Ezra Bean that 1‘d drop dead! Wen I got up the hall epun rou ‘twould mover stop, With the roof ubon tha Lotes, . But 1 (8. W. Fos:, in the Yaukee Blade.) There is people on town mestin‘ days who thirk they make a show, W‘en they squirt their popgui wisdom, thiuk the sea will Overtlow ; Wile they‘re spoutin tired matur‘ has no other work to do, An‘ they think the majar »ystem jest stan‘s #till till they ure through . I‘m m thinker, but no speaker, I have got more brain than lung, An my intellect works #plendid, but 1 jest can‘t use my tongue; If the fire oft thought burns by brain in sich a wild commotion Could bust in flames of elerkunce it might ignite the occan, For Dodd‘s Kidney Pills alw sick or disordered Kidneys, your Kidneys are well you c khvumltism, Seiatica or Hacka ", [,° }u° be mierested in the statement of Mr, Chas. N. Cyr, the wellâ€"known barâ€" ber of this place, "I had been a sufferer from Rheumaâ€" tism and Backache for a year," Mr. Cyr states. â€" "My head also troubled me and it was hard to collec; m thoughts. 1 heard of cures made by {)odd'- Kidney Pills, and made up my mind to try them, The marvelious effcet of the first box on my system at onse raissd my hopes, and by continuing to take thein 1 am now a sound and well man. All my pains and aches are gone and I am abje to do my work without pain." Mr. Cyr is only one of thousands whom Dodd‘s Kidney Pills have curedJ of Rheumatiem, Sciatica and Backache my blessed audience thought €r doom had roma ABOUT PLAYING CARDS t HIS PAINS AND ACHES ALL GONF was the big d up the tent The Speech of Kzra Bean Sissero flepped over like w{qdmlm and com ! in & crowd of three or my life, a crowd of two w‘en ‘BhllL Pokumville con prace, made a vacuum on es of «pace; n the world in overâ€" with a music fiddlin in the music tumblip heated, an An thick at first struck the en the mod 1 thousands have cured d Backache, always cure . And if can‘t have my throat my words the day bangin in the 1 thought 1 thought wen one The bill collector may not be a k body, but. he goorally finds peogy, l A costermonger, while trundling bis apple laden cart down a London street was run into by a coaching party. The coster‘s cart got the woret of it, losing a wheel, nn{oi(. ruddy freight being seattered all over the street. The Griver of the coach came back to settle for the damage and expected to come in for a volley of choice cursing. But the coster looked at his c«it, lo:i:l at his spples, looked at the coach, u ,fl’m out: "Guy‘ner, dere eyen‘t _ mo word for it!"â€"Argonaut. Queen Alexandra‘s Favorite Roses. The Queen‘s favorite rose is one of the old time sorts known as Hermosa, u_ Jovely free flowering pink rose which yields a rich harvest of beauâ€" tiful fragrant blossoms. Bo fond is the Queen of this rose that she causes it to be grown by thousands in huge bo;'dors “'“l;.h her favorite dairy, as well as in the gardens surroundiny il’er home.â€"From the Girls‘ om‘. aper. + * lt ME TVTEITOU a _ window, Uuoo{t'; which 'ihm pedestrian may pick his way 4n absolute freedom from accidents of this character, The invention consists of a circular e oi metal sewed into the centre of one of the panels of the umbrella, and this holds a sheet of celluloid, or other transparent material, through which the pedestrian can have a conâ€" wfihe Aeintsr viePorls Aetrsictcs tsacs ts s B : : c3 :d off the rain, that when two persons approach each other from opposite directions there is grave danger of collision when the umbrellas often sustain damage, if rome serious inâ€" jury is not sustained by one or the other of the pedestrians. To avoh;l such l(‘(i'idents it is necesâ€" on the part of persons carrying um‘ullu under these circumstances to rzuledly raise their weather shields so that they may be enabled to look under them and to look out for objects ahead. Pedestrians picking â€" their way through the rain are relieved of this bother and care by the use of the umâ€" bmlla,' which is provided ~ wii Frequent annoyance and inconvenâ€" ience arises to persons carrying umâ€" brellas, from the fact that when a strong wind is blowing the umbrellas are held in such a position to shield Clerkâ€"U floor. Miss Sweetâ€"I should hke;o see the merry widow hate. h Clerkâ€"IUmbtella department, third Repeat it:â€"*"Shiloh‘s always cure my coughs a wWINDOW in THE It is said that the bread made by this system is better than the article made by the old method. The mechanical bread kneader employed in France some twenty five years ago became very unâ€" popular, but upon investigation â€" the cause of the unpopularity was found to be in the poor quality of flour used. It is now considered beyond dispute that the mechanical bread kneader produces better bread; that it is healthier tham the bread made by the old methods. Cw CA UE ° [" QCIty, but all may be worker by hand or gas or petroleum engines. These machines will knead from 300 to 1,000 pounds of bread in an hour or in less time, and they will knead from une pound of bread up to 500 pounds, They are used in nearly every bakery in France, and the old style of kneading by hand is nearly out of use, The troughs in which the dough is kneaded in these machines are generally about four feet in diameter. When the work of kneading is in progress the trough turns round slowly, and the dough is turned over by a system of meâ€" tallie claws which lift it up, throw it over and give it a thorough tu as completely as could be done hy l-?-‘:‘ ue ZVCr and give it a thorough' 'luvrnh‘m" completely as could be done by hand. this system ever art of the dough thoroughly kneu{etr electricity, but hand or gas or These machit ‘o 1,000 pounds in less time as _ oo â€" s rail UY power, Three were German inventions others were French, The price; from 500 france 1$00.00) 10 4,00 (#772). Most of them are by & alrog t ons n I In Common Use in Franceâ€"1,000 Pounds Kneaded at a Time The _ Ametican Consul â€" ay Lyons, France, reports that duri septem ber there was an exhibition :!n«-hnm'ul bread kneaders in that city at which 38 mechanical devices were exhibited for knuding bread by power mimster. _ lHe refused to coj self, but later on, when she , positively if his eminence had money from him, he answer Trenteâ€"etâ€"quarente was then greatly in vogue among the man s# 400430 L men of fashion house of y j 2" ®uovessive courts of the house of Valois and Bourbon, When Louis X1V. was a youth, the regent, his mother, Anne of Austria, enâ€" couraged by her Minister, Mazarin, was known â€" to Play very heavily, Young Louis was aiso early educated to th; game by the great cardinal, in Whose salon he was wont to spend his eyen. ings. _ Mme. de la Porte relates that upon one occasion, after the yeang King had left the cardinal‘s reom and retirea, a message was brought to him inviting him to take part in a game of cards. MHis reply was that he had no money to play with. Mme, de la Porte tried her best to have him acknowledge that be had been playing cards with hi« minister. _ lHe refused to commit himâ€" self, but later on, when she asked him positively if his eminence had taken the manew fram aco 4 j _0 CNoocree YA Wl 4 Charles VIL succeeded, and the tume of the new King and his ¢ was ~selected for the costumes of new face cards. ‘The King‘s crown & fleurâ€"deâ€"lis, and upon each card a end was printed, Piquet was the game invented, and at once tool place as a royal pastime and bec the favorite for sugcensiv.. . OL ®* Beyond Words. eeus cOe ereee .i France was zealously multiplication of playir direction. â€" ‘This proved inceative she had to ori and a new game ho. TO KNEAD BRrEap #Nnd the old style of kneading : nearly out of use, ughs in which the dough is 1 these machines are generally r feot in diameter. When the kneading is in progress the rms round slowly, and the en e ct a M Th d reatscattiens Th.cs,.. to play very heavily, Young as aiso early educated 10 the y the great cardinal, in Whose ; Was wont to spend his eÂ¥enâ€" Mme. de la Porte relates tha; ° occasion, after the vouns K i. ~ in ‘teenth y s n the fifteenth century to be game, nd they will Lâ€"ne‘-;l“lro‘;n bread up to 300 pounds, in nearly every bakery ‘Dhiloh‘s Cure wil} coughs and colds." as well )6. _ The mechanical loyed in France some ago became very unâ€" I in\'utig.ljo. the rt of the dough is bread made by this n the article made UMBRELLA he ang;e-re-d-,'â€":-i';. as at court STOM@L n Whose d d his evenâ€" 'Or.(?nnl.(“ that t the young King room and retirea, t to him inviting i game ol cards, e had no .o.‘v le la Porte tried prices varied ) 4,000 france by steam or e worker by once took its and became the game Mblin‘ all the A# By Rew had Q(I O a 2 44 :