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l{. Ap i3 "You wish me to try, mamma?" cried Gertrude, a flush of shame rising to her fair cheek. "How can you think of such a thing?" "For s‘ sake, mamma," she euhimlntly, "don‘t look so wise, but do say what you have to say I‘m tired to death." "I think I can rest you, my dear." "Then I wish {ou would." "Were you not satisfied with the atâ€" tention of the earl?" "It would be a nice thing to be Countâ€" ess of Aubrey," said Lady Moreham, quietly. _ _ e P ormeut qpeve Wevie "Simply give him the op&rtunity to ask you to be his countess. not avoid him b{n keeping away from every place you think he may be." "Nomnsense! 1 have talked the matter over with your father, and he quite agrees with me. If Lord Aubrey had ever spoken to you in such a way as to com mit himself, it would be d{fferent, but {ou have told me more than once that e never did. I don‘t see why you should have any feeling. Sm'elir you would like to be Countess of Aubrey?" "That is sensibly said. This afternoon we shall meet the earl at Marly Towers, where the duke is giving a little enterâ€" tainment. You will fo Please bestow a great deal of attention on your toilet; and practice some of the songs the earl likes. I will contrive to have you sing." "My dear," whispered Lord Moreham to his wife that evening, as they were driving home from Marly, "the Earl of Aubrey has requested an interview toâ€" night. He will drive over after dinner." "CGertrude, why do you not make anâ€" other effort to win the Earl of Aubrey? Some one will have him, for I am told that be is determined to have a countess for Aubrey." "M{ dear," said Lady Moreham, coldâ€" ly, "I trust there is no nonsense here about love, and that sort of thing." Lady Gertrude flushed. "I did think I loved him, mamma; and you did not discourage it." > Lady Morsham leaned back amid the eushions and beamed mysteriously at Gertrude, who was as weary as if she had been through a hardâ€"fought engageâ€" ment. _ "After the way he has treated me, mamma?" said Gertrude. "So long as your sentiment helped our policy, mg“dear, it was wise to encourâ€" ago it. t it would be the height of folly to permit it to interfere. Lord Aubâ€" rey, rejected by Erna March, is just as desirable a guti as Lord Aubrey with virgin affections to bestow, if that is the idea." _ "But sometimes I almost hate him mamma,." "What would you have me do, mam ma*" asked Gertrude. An inscrutable expression passed over Lady Gertrude‘s face. It was not as easy for her to recover from the sting of Lr humiliation by Erna, as her moâ€" ther would have it. She still loved the earl enough to wish to marry him; but somehow she hated him, and would have made him suffer in some way if it had been in her power. n 3 The story told also how Erna had beâ€" come the affianced wife of the old marâ€" th. And for some time after that dy Gertrude continued to hear of Erna‘s social triumphs. One day her mother said to her: "He was polite to me. He praised my singing. He has done that a seore of times. Ugh! I could not look at him without remembering that Erna March could bring him to her side by a erook of her little finger.‘ ‘ She returned to Moreham Hall, believing she had forever lost the earl, and devouring hber soul with shame _ and _ mortification. ‘Then, somehow, the rumor came to her in a fow days that the earl had left Mel: rose, a rejected suitor for the hand of the beuni{ml Erna. e "That was rather a vulgar expression, ney uhume" s > ‘Su c 01 T Sreclal ae c "The earl," said Lady Moreham, #ith solemn emphasis, "has requested an inâ€" terview with your father this evening. What do you suppose that means?" "I felt vulgar, ‘said Lady Gertrude, iaboiitausty. * â€">=**~.08 C & s CHAPTER XXXVIL When Lady Gertrude left Melrose, it was with a deep feeling of hatred for Erna. She did indeed love Lord Auâ€" brey, and regretted losing him; but, after awll, the keenest feeling wus one of anger at Erma for winning bim from her. "You will not do it, Erna," she said, half pleadingly. "I shall. And you will go with me to save me." "I am an old foolâ€"" cried Lady Româ€" ley. "To think that I have rulod’ everyâ€" body all my life, to be at last led about by a wilful girl, who coquets with postâ€" tive ruin." gratefully. _ o "Yes, I will go; but I know I shall rue it to the day of my death." Lady Romley looked as miserable as a woman very well could. _ h8 "I tell you, Lady Romley," said Erna, earnestly, "that my errand is to save the very honor of those two people. I am not what I was. I seek no one‘s inâ€" jur{; but I do seek their good. You will come?" .lxo.'l "Then I shall go alone, and there will be a scandal which nothing can avert. Well, let it be so. I shall not fail now, be the cost to me what it may." "You de not understand, Lady Româ€" ley," she said, with a sad sort of graviâ€" ty. "I am not seeking him to wir him again. I have a duty to fulfill toward him. J must save Lady Gertrude from a terrible mistake. I must go myself. Will you not go with met l? you will go, no one need ever know. It will be thought that I have accompanied you to London. Where is he now ? Wili he not be at Moreham Hall ?" "Yes; but I shall never go with you, Erna. Do not ask it." "Merciful heaven! what are you talkâ€" ing of? Do you forget that you are the dowager Marchioness of Melroset Do you forget that you owe the man who is dead some consideration? Would you make your name a byâ€"word ?" It was seldom that Lady Romley reâ€" sorted to such energy of expression. But in truth she was terribly shocked. Aud Erna knew that a relation of the facts of the case would hardly make her feel differently, She would insist that some one else could do the errand as well. "Yes, 1 know," assented Erna, absentâ€" ly. "The world will ery out at me if it discovers that I have seen him at this time; but no one else will do. He must not marry Lady Gertrude; and no mes senger but myself will do." was sure you would go," said Erna, THE WOOING OF ERNA In fact, Lord Moreham had considerâ€" able curiosity to hear the story _ from the earl‘s own lips, The earl, however, had no notion of making Lord _ Moreâ€" ham his confessor. "I only wished to say," the early went on, "that in the first instance I merely tcok on my own shoulders the fault of another. It did not matter to me what was said of me; but I was foolish enâ€" then to look upon royalty as a sacred thing, to preserve which any sacrifice vas not too great." : ks "I have never seâ€"n fit to deny anyâ€" thing that has been said of me," he said quietly; "but now that I come to you on my present errand, I think it proâ€" per to tell you as much of the truth as need be." "Unnecessary, my dear earl; but, just as. you please." _ feg y "There are no children, for the separâ€" ation took place almost at once after the marriage. The woman went to Amâ€" erica, where she died about a year later. She was everything that was bad. I tell you of this because it seems the honorâ€" able part, since I come to you, now, £s a suitor for the hand of your daughter." Ah! that was it, then! The sting was that Erna had ceased to be the lofty, hi*h-soulell, if willful, creature he had believed her. He could have forgotten her harsh words and treatment; but rot her deliberate treachery. Poor felâ€" low! he was lost in the effort to adâ€" just a woman‘s feelings with her acâ€" tions. "Certainly, my lord. _ On what subâ€" jeet?" "(m the subject of your daughter." "Ah!" in a very nonâ€"committal manâ€" zer, as if that were a subject requiring a great reserve in treatment. "My dear earl!" exclaimed Lord Moreâ€" ham, deprecatingly. "Of course I have. I admit that framkly, as between two w.en of the world. Those stories belong to ancient history. We all of us must sow our wild oats." A look of supreme disgust passed over the earl‘s face; but he shrugged his shoulders and went on. "Ah, yes," said Lord Moreham, "I reâ€" member to have heard something of that." "As to the storiee which are told of my career abroad, I will only say that 1 kept sufficiently bad company, but never did a dishonorable thing. But I did contract a foolish marriage with an adventuress." "Ah!" Lord Moreham began to scent complications. K "Lord Moreham," he said, abruptly, as soon as he was seated, "I came over here for the purpose of having a frank talk with you, if you will permit me." demur; but I am disposed to treat you If he had given _ Lady Gertrude a cluim on him, be would redeem it by asking for her hand; but there should be no nonsense about loving. He did not love her. He loved nobody. Ah, well, ho was not so sure of that. But, at any rate, he would not have taken Erna March for his wife under any circumâ€" stances. Perhaps his iInfatuation was no less, perhaps his thouaghts of her were as agâ€" onizing as they might ever be; Kerhapa ho grew haggard and stern in his efâ€" forts to cast her out of his heart. "Very honorable, indeed. Your conâ€" duct does you great credit," said Lord Moreham, warmly ; thought in reality he thought Aubrey very foolish to make so much of the matter. The delicacy of the earl in telling him, he could not in the least appreciate. "And you wish to make our dear Gertrude your countess?" "Why," replied his lordship, "I suppose I should hem and haw, and make some Hle thought neither of loving _ nor trusting. It was as clear now as ever that he must marry. Somehow it seemâ€" ed a duty to society to provide an heir ;or Aubrey, And that was all he cared or. Nevertheless, he condemned her for her heartlessness. It did not oceur to him that she might really love him, He did admit, freely and frankly, that he deserved socme punishment for his treatâ€" ment of her; but not a _ punishment which seemed to him to most degrade her who administered it. _ "You know something, no doubt, of the stories which have been in circulaâ€" tion about? And yet he could not disguise the fact that in intangible ways he _ had given her & claim on him. He was very cymical, again, now. It was inevitable that he should be so, It was his experiâ€" enee that he always met with treachâ€" ery from tbose he most trusted. "Yes. I feel that I should marry; and I have decided that Lady Gertrude would do honor to lty name and wealth, I speak of it in this businesslike way, my lord, because I wish it understood that there is no sentiment involved." "Very sensible, indeed. I can meet you halfâ€"way. Sentiment has no place in an affair of this sort. You wish a countess, and you go straight to the point." * that it was difficult for him to maintain his dignity. _ k) <2AA "You are not averse, thent" suggested the earl, coldly. _ _ _ â€". _ He went over all that had happened; and by and by seemed to see his duty clearly enough through the cloud that bad for a time obscured it. He had said nothing, done nothing to give Lady Gerâ€" trude any right to hoid him. That was true, He had taken this step from a sense of justice, What he had suffered after leaving Erna no words could depict; but little by little, he gained control of himself. He was nervous, though he hid his emâ€" otions under a conventional mask. Lord Aubrey was nervous too. That night the earl was ushered into the . library where Lord _ Moreham awaited him, with no little anxiety. It meant a great deal to Lord Moreâ€" ham to get such a sonâ€"inâ€"law as the rich Earl of Aubrey. Lady Gerâ€" trude and any possible happiness in her future did not enter into his calâ€" eultations. She was merely a valuable commodity which he had for sale. Hers was not a very large soul. But perhaps that was natural, considering the training it bad had since its advent into the world. Lady Gertrude‘s lips closed in a hard line. If he had spoken first to her, it would have been possible to forgive him. Of course she would accept him. It did not occur to her not to, but it would be a matter, first of all, of a good settleâ€" ment; and, after that, of repaying him for the humiliation he had cuused her. going to ask for my hand." â€" "Of course," was the triumphant exâ€" clamation of her mother. id you straight to the point." * Lord xfi:’rg@’, delight was so great suppose," she answered, "that he is But she was not happy at all. It was not so much that the love was lacking. She might have put up with that feaâ€" ture; but instead of having won her lord trinmphantly, by virtue of her beauty and accomplishments, she had only reâ€" ceived him at second hand _ from her most hated rival. She had had riva!ls in her dreams, but then _ she had always played Erna‘s part. In the early days she had laid but litâ€" tle stress on the part that love would play in her marriage. Then she had dreamed mostly of a coornet and a large settlement. Well, she was getting both. But she had dreamed of being imperiousâ€" ly happy, very much as a queen might be supposed to feel. _ Ah! how she hated Erna! there was no ill she would not have wished her. If she had felt more sure of the earl, it would have been different; but there alâ€" ways haunted _ her the uncasy feeling that Erna would need no more than to look at the earl to make him indifferent to his plighted troth, and bring him back to her feet. “My la.dy!” Her maid had entered the room, her face expressive of startling tidings. Gertrude stamped her foot angrily at the interruption. k Cale +5 tm Gertrude started up, _ but fell back again in her chair, After all, what did it matter? The wedding was to take place in g few hours. "Then she is the dowager marchioness. I suppose she made a good bargain?" "Really, Gertrude!" exclaimed her moâ€" ther, too shocked to restrain herself, "you do sometimes make the most vulâ€" gar remarks." "Did you not think the same thing?t" she calmly asked. She did not recover her serenity after her me‘>or left her, but sat near her window, ploomily tapping the floor with her daintily slippered little foot, _ She was not having at all such a weddingâ€" day as she had dreamed of. "Why do you come here with that idiotic air? If you have anything to say to me, say it like a rational being." Lady Moreham was of a lifferent mind. Erna March still existed, and every day there came new evidences of her social success. When the London season opened no one hesitated to say she would be the great card of the seaâ€" son. On the morning of the weddingâ€"day, Lady Moreham made her appearance in her daughter‘s boudoir, her eyes rather big with startling news. (Gertrude disâ€" missed her maid, and looked inquiringly at her mother. "Yes, my lady. I would not have trouâ€" bled you at all, only I was sure _ you would thank me for telling you." ' The earl had been in no especial haste to be married, and Ladg Gertrude was positively indifferent. She enjoyed all the eclat that came from her position as brideâ€"elect of Lord Aubrey; _ but she would not have done a thing to hasten or postpone the wedding. She was engaged to the Marquis of Melrose, it was true, but he was an old man, and might die at any moment; and, what was more, she was a capriâ€" clous creature, who might change her mind. Lady Moreham had seen something of her hold upon the hearts and minds of men, and she was not disposed to take the risk of having her meet with Aubrey again until the latter was safely wedded to her daughter. So it was due to her that the wedding was fixed for so early a date. _ She married the marquis on his death bed." § _ Gertrude smiled unpleasantly, _ her beautiful face marred by a sneer. "WeRt > "Miss Marchâ€"â€"" "Are you going to tell me that she is the Marchioness of Melrose?" cried Gerâ€" trude, in exasperation. "I didn‘t know she was, my lady. Parâ€" don me! Then it is all right, of course." "What is al right? Do tell me what is on your stupid mind." "I do not know, my lady; and I was surprised to see her here whenâ€"â€"*" "A princely settlement, my lord," said Lord Moreham. & Gertrude turned a little paler, _ but asked, indifferently: _‘ "Lord Aubrey changed his mind?" Lady Moreham was shocked at the levity; but within the last few weeks she bhad fallen into the habit of deferâ€" ring more than before to the future Countess of Aubrey. Gertrude‘s eyes snapped with exultaâ€" tion, but she said nothing. Her mother gave out the next piece of news. There was no need to prolong the inâ€" terview beyond the interchange of conâ€" ventional courtesies; and within a few minutes the earl was again closeted with Lord Moreham, So far as the latter was concerned, the most interesing portion of the conversaâ€" tion that followed was contained in these words of the earl: "Then, if the amount seems satisfacâ€" tory to you, I will settle fifteen thouâ€" sand a year on Lady Gertrude, and conâ€" vey to her the Westmoreland place which comes to me from my mother," "Gertrude, my dear! what do you suppose has happened?" _ _ _ «Yes, my lord," she answered, coldly, "it will give me pleasure to be the Countess of Aubrey." He felt the meaning of her manner; but he only bowed as if in acceptance of her answer. If she were offended with him, it was her right. Possibly he was a trifle disappointed, as if in his innermost heart he had thought she might refuse him. "My child! No, certainly not. Erna March has married the Marquis of Melâ€" rose." Not a word of love! No pretense of it. Lady Gertrude shut her lips tight. He might at least have made that little concession after having won her heart. She might have forgiven him then. _ as you treat meâ€"fran@y. Lord Aubrey, 'llxh‘all be pleased to accept you as a sonâ€" inâ€" w.]’ The earl smiled cynic-llg. "But Lady Gertrude? She may wish to say something in the matter." _ "You know why 1 am here, Lady Gorâ€" trude?" he said. "Your father has spokâ€" en to you?t" "Yes, my lord." "May I hope that you look with favor on my request?" he asked. 3 So the following day the earl rode over again, and was met in the drawingâ€"room by Lady Gertrude.. It was a painful meeting for both of them; for both were conscious in a measure of how the other was feeling. The earl bowed very low before her, as if he would convey an unâ€" spoken apology for any act of his which might have troubled her. Lord Moreham almost betrayed him self in his boisterous laugh. _ _ "Gertrude? 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The pluck the flowers by the wayside whifie we waste our energies in mammon worâ€" ship. Winard‘s Liniment Relieves Neuralgla Minard‘s Liniment for sale everywhere The builders had hardly cleared away before a large furniture van arrived, together with a caterer‘s cart. The furniture van contained the owner‘s goods, and willing hands quickly transâ€" ferred them to their rightful places in the recordâ€"built home. In just under an hour the newlyâ€"married couple_ and their friencs, who had meanwhile come upon the scene, sat down to a sumptuâ€" ous dinner. Twelve hours previously, as already stated, not a brick or a stone was to have been seen at the site of the dwelling. Veteran Composer of Church Music. It is said that he has collected more than seventy books of church music, as well as directing more than 300 musical festivals and conventions. At his family party he sang "The Ivy Green" and anâ€" other song. Mr. Emerson belongs with W. B. Brngbury and the rest of that day, whose style of music is sure to recur in use after the popular religious jingles of the last thirty years are forgotten.â€" Springfield Republican. Dr. Hugo Munsterberg, professor of psychology at Harvard, in his recently rinted book, "On the Witness Stand," Sella very carefully with this phase of police work. "A prisoner," he says, ‘"nervous and tired, and eager to esâ€" cape the repeated questions after hours of interrogation, realizing _ that the only way of relief, though it be but temporary, is to say the thing which these mon desire, often says the thing regardless of its untruth, and this not infrequently leads to a conviction where in fact the selfâ€"convicted one is innocent. In the September Wide World Magaâ€" zine, Mr. Harold J. Shepstone describes a most remarkable building feat which was recently accomplished in St. Louis, viz., the complete erection and occupaâ€" tion of a house in a single day. It was the bride‘s ardently desired wish to have a home to go to that caused the builder to attempt it; and he succeeded. Twelve hours before the evening meal _ was served the plot of ground where the house was to stand showed not the slightest sign of human activity. Ragâ€" weed and golden rod ggreeted the sunâ€" rise, and the scene was absolutely inâ€" nocent of a stick of timber, a piece of stone, brick or other material, But when the 7 o‘clock whistles blew on the morning in question, however, there was a concerted _ movement . of men and wagons toward the lot. In the erection of the dwelling sevâ€" entyâ€"five, thousand nails were used, eleven thousand fvei of lumber cut and fitted, twelve thousand shingles put on the roof, six thousand laths used to make the waNs, three hundred and sevâ€" entyâ€"five yards of plaster spread, and several gallons of paint used. Twentyâ€"five carpenters were employâ€" ed on the job, of whom eightcen worked ten hours, and the remaining _ seven about eleven hours each. Twelve lathâ€" ers and twelve plasterers did the lathing and plastering in three hours. Two men built the chimney in four hours and fortyâ€"five minutes. Four men put the roof on in three hours, while two men did the plumbing and _ gasâ€" fitting in five hours. One manedid the electric wiring in one and a half hours, while four men did the necessary paintâ€" ing in five hours. (St. John Sun.) This ""third degree‘" business is by no means new. It was and is still the favorâ€" ite device of those who spernd _ their time in erforcing law in China. _ For centuries the plan there bas been to keep prisoners from sleeping until the desired confessions are made by them. Even in the United States the martyred women of Salem on trial for witchcraft were subjected to every form of cruelty that could be devised for the purpose of making them admit the crimes with which they were charged. Under modern police methods there is a refinement of torture against which prisoners inevitâ€" ably give way, long continued questionâ€" ing, suggestion, muscular fatigue, and in short every plan by which the subâ€" jeet may be made to suffer until the answers sought by the officers are utâ€" In nine cases out of ten these ansâ€" wers are untrue; they are given either through desire for relief from the inâ€" quisition, or are the result of suggestion to worn out brains. The veteran composer of church hymn music, Luther 0. Emerson, has just obâ€" served his 80th anniversary, and is yet able to walk about the region of Hyde Park, where he lives, and visit Boston. The French Minister of Agriculture, after a careful examination of the subâ€" ject, has established the legal status of the snail by issuing a circular in which smails are defined as animals injurious to vegetation, and therefore Iega,lly subâ€" ject to capture and destruction at all times and all seasons. This decision has created excitement ard dismay among the numerous persons who earn a liveliâ€" hood by collectinF snails for market. Snails are in high favor with French epiâ€" cures, and immense numbers of these mollusks are eaten in Paris. In the winâ€" ter of 1900 the consumption of snails in the French capital amounted to eight bundred tons. The consumption has gince diminished, but]liore ttnn eighty million snails are still received annually by the Halles Centrales, the great â€" ket of Paris.â€"Philadelphia lhewfn Dear Sirsâ€"While in the country last summer I was badly bitten by mosquiâ€" toes, so badly that I thought I would be disfigured for a couple of weeks. I was advised to try your Liniment to allay the irritation, and did so. The effect was more than I expected, a few appliâ€" cations completely curing the irritation, and preventing the bites from becoming sore. _ MINARD‘S LINTMENT is also a good article to keep off the mosquitoes. Yours truly. Minard‘s Liniment Co.. Limited THE THIRD DEGREE. A Mere Revival of the Toriure Chamber of the Middle Ages. A House Built in a Day Snail‘s Legal Status. Carterhall, Nild W. A. V. R At night the streets are filled with promenaders. The restaurants _ are crowded, and there is music in them. The theatres do the best business of the week. The people are using the city for their pleasure. Theirs is the freest Sabâ€" bath observance in the country, yet they are sedately gay, and at 11 o‘clock at night one might fire a Gatling gun up Grand avenue without hitting any one. â€"Collier‘s Weekly Practically all Canadian drugâ€" gists, grocers and general dealers sell Wilson‘s Fly Pads. If your storekeeper does not, ask him why. In Milwaukee Sunday is the great play day of the people, when picnics, trolley rides, excursions and fishing parties deâ€" light the weekâ€"day toiler. After church the Milwaukeean takes his family and their lunch basket and goes to a resort. On the lage front of Milwaukee the breakwater on a Sunday morning is black with fishermen. Young men sail canoes in the harbor. At the yacht club the members tinker on boats and enâ€" gines. From the jetties great excursion steamers emerge, loaded with holiday makers. Then there is a big swing with a ladâ€" der running up to the top that is much used for indulgence in acrobatic feats. And other features in the aprin:â€"tho vame of the hydrant under the old privâ€" et bush that supplies the plot with waâ€" ter. There is ample space for a small tennis court, croquet ad volley ball, so that the children have plenty of variety Minard‘s Liniment Cures Dandruff. Close by the house are a seeâ€"saw and slide and behind it is the mountain, as the youngsters call a high sodded bank with a flagged platform on top. i If you suffer from bleeding, itching, blind or protruding Piles, send me your address, and I will tell you how to cure yourself at home by the new absorption treatment; and will also send some of this home treatment free for trial, with references from your own locality if requested. Immediate relief and â€" perâ€" manent cure assured. Send no money, but tell others of this offer. Write toâ€" day to Mrs. M. Summers, Box P. 8, Windsor, Ont. Mr, Blossom purchased the plot from William A Read three years ago, but it was originally the Nesmith garden, in the rear of the family home on Henry street. It is to that ownership that the magnificent copper beech and other old trees, as well as the great clumps of privet, date. Aside from these trees and shrubs, says Brooklyn Life, the plot was barâ€" ren when Mr. Blossom converted it into a place for his children and their friends to romp in. The first important change was the installation of a Saginaw portâ€" able house with two rooms and a piazza, and here the life of the place centres. . in their pastime Three City Children With a Garden of Their Very Own. The children‘s garden, which Mr. and Mrs. Frederick W. Blossom of 281 Henry street, Brooklyn, have created for their two little girls and their still younger boy on Garden place, near their home, is a private application of the city playground idea. y ou,‘" A man and his wife are on;, and someâ€" times it is one too many. (Detroit Free Press.) "He‘s no gentleman," said the first suz_a,ugetu. hat‘s the matter now?" asked the second suffragette. "When I gave up my seat in the street car to him he mever even said ‘thank PILES CURED AT HOME BY NEW ABSORPTION METHOD (Cleveland Leader.) Dr. Edward Everett Hale was a foe to long sermons. He used to tell a story of a longâ€"winded preacher and the minor prophets. "This preacher," so Dr. Hale would beâ€" gin, "once preached over an hour on the four great prophets, and then, when his exhausted congregation thought he was through, he took a long breath, turned a fresh page and, leaning over the pulpit, said: "An irascible old gentleman in a back pew rosey took his hat and stick and said as he departed: "*Place him here, if you want to. I‘m goiug.! L __"‘We now come to the more complex question of the minor prophets. First let us assign to them their proper order. Where, brethren, shall we place Hosea‘" WHERE THE BLOSSOMS PLAY. SUNLIGHT â€"â€" SOAG ~~~ » ~JUST THINK! With haif the labor, and at half the cost of other soap, Sunlight~does ‘the whole washing in half the time, yet without injuring the most delicate fabric. WILL IT COME To THIS? MAKING ROOM FOR HIM Milwaukee‘s Sunday. Coming to the dam they leaped over it and fell into open silk umbrellas held by Mr. and Mrs. Jandreau. There seemâ€" ed to be no limit to the number to be caught in this manner, but only enough for present consumption were taken and now his family and their friends can always have fresh fish. The heiress who thinks of wedding a Count should wait and count the cosnt. It hurts crops then in the ground by reason of its crushing weight and the excess of injurious salts and acids. But these harmful elements were all highly soluble and have already volaâ€" tilized or washed away, while the reâ€" maining eiecta have added vast quantiâ€" ties of needed potash, phosphoric acid, and nitrogen. Far away Tasmania, whose shores are infested with sharks in apparently unâ€" countable numbers, has ceased to dread the monsters and is now getting rich by using them as fertilizer in its immense apple orchards. one packet of Wilson‘s Fly Pads has actually killed a bushel of house flies Fortunately no such quantity can ever be found in a well kept house, bui whether they be few or many Wilson‘s Fly Pads will kill them all. A novel method of catching mullet was practiced lately by John J. Janâ€" dreau, of Fort Pierce. While at the inlet last Monday, acâ€" companied by his wife and little girl, he noticed a considerable number of large mullet feeding in a small creek. He built a dam across the mouth of the creek and then little Miss Jandreau, barefooted, splashed about in the water ; the fish, becoming panicstricken, ran for deep water. "Bill, where ye goin‘ to spend the summer?" "I don‘t have to anywheres this summer. I got a f:b drivin‘ an jee wagon." Volcanoes and sharks are the latest drafted allies of "the man with the hoe." As a result of extended investigations into the results of the 1906 eruptions of Vesuvius, the Italian Experimental Staâ€" tion, reports that the fall of valcanic material caused a notable increase in the fertility of the soil. (Ottawa Free Press.) Those Englishmen who have been pluming themselves that in the event of trouble between Great Britain and Germany the sympathies of the United States would be with them have had their illusion dispelled by Medill Meâ€" Cormick, of the Chicago Tribune, who in a letter to the Daily Mail asserts Americans care a good deal more for Germany than for England. And yet Mr. McCormick, when he visits Canada, is very pleasant spoken! HAMILTON (Philadelphia Public Ledger.) "I see an American girl is to marry a Portuguese pretender," "She might as well stay at home and marry an American «pretender. 1 did." can be made by dropping the contents of package of Parke‘s Pickle Mixture Lifebuoy Soap is delightfully refreshing for Bath or Tollet in hot weather. For wuhh‘ und&"'clotmu it is unequalled. Cleanses an purifics, w in a gallon of vinegar, boil for fifteen minâ€" utes and pour over the pickles. ‘This mixture keeps the pickles -oll(r and nice the year round and imparts a most delicious flavor to the pickles. Sold at 25¢, by grocers or sent by mail, post paid, on receipt of 30c. PARKE & PARKE A Good General Servant who can do cooking. Smaill Family. A coal company of Dunemline in Bootâ€" land has proposed to provide bathing mccommodation for its employees which they can make use of after leaving the mines when their work is campletx A miner is apt in the pursuance of his labor to become more or less dirty, o the innovation of such baths on the part of the coal company ought to iAerit much appresiation as tending to bring its fimploym nearer to the quality of godâ€" ness. But no! There is doubt that the minâ€" ers will accept the concession, many of them baving already refused to bathe in the manner prescribed by their employâ€" ers. Only 250 out of l,l;JO miners have evinced t{elr willingness to take advanâ€" tage of the bathing accommodations.~â€" Van Norden‘s Magazine. MRS. JOHN M. EASTWOOD, Hamilton, Ont. HERE AMERICAXS CaNX COMPETE, It is an undisputed fact that ISSUE NO. 35, 1909 Catching Fish in an Umbrelia. BETTER THAX YACATION PREFERS GERMANY. Beneficient Vesuvius. AGENTS WANTED. Eddy‘s Matchos to the Call of the Tub. 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