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Alt Daniel Gordon, the oidl _ blacksmith was just beginning to wonder what de tained Norine, when the girl put in af _‘For the first time in her life she did not enter with a gay laugh or a burst of ooqo-berlip,thou(hh-otiedtht she looked very happy in a thoughtful way. She came up to him and kissed him on the weatherâ€"beaten cheek, as she bad been wont to do ever since she had been x little child, but the _ red, laughing. girlish lips somewhat lacked their usual warmth and fervency. "NKorine is trying _ ber best to look happy," be thought, "but she is secretly worrying over the heavy cold poor Joe contracted on the night he brought her home, risking his own life to save Ilrers. He kept up until he beard my \'0':;1. uild ‘ & __.1. than he He kept up until he heard my voice, and | knew assistance was at hand ; then he knew no more until he opened his eyes and found himself safe in the warm litâ€" tie sittingâ€"room of our cottage. His first thought on returning to conscousâ€" ness was of Norine,. ‘Is she safe" he whispered, in awful terror. 1 shall never lur the joy that overspread his white, anxious _ face when I answered, ‘Yes, my lad, and she owes her life to you.‘" * Norine‘s usually voluble tongue WA# wilent for the first time as they walked along the snowy road homeward to gether. There was nothing to warn im that the girl by his side, whom he loved betâ€" ter by far than the apple of his eye, was knr'n( her first secret from him. Clifford Oarlisle bad exacted a prOmâ€" iso from her that she would not mention to her grandfather, or indeed any one else, that they bhad met that afternoon, or intended seeing each other the folâ€" lowing day. Norine was so much of a child, so unsophisticated in the ways of the world, that she quite believed _ it the jolly lark that he n?ment.ed it to be â€"to become well acquainted, and then spring that fact upon her old grandparâ€" ents, who _ always declared most emâ€" pluatically that she should never know «ny young man but Joe. C oi NP T o s Aetnnt k: $ g ol TR dedncs / Per d OAr K 0 "It would be the richest kind of l‘ joke," Carlisle _ declared, 'fiyly. and, looking at the matter in light in which he pictured it so laughingly to her, it was no wonder artless Mttle Norâ€" ine fell into the trap set so cunuing}y for ber thoughtless, unwary feet. Even the old grandmother noticed how prececupied Norine was during the fruâ€" gal evening meal. "Grandpa, what can be the matter with Norine*" she exolaimed, thoughtâ€" fully, as the old people sat by the kitâ€" chen fire long after the girl bad picked up her candle and . gone to her little room under the eaves. "She talked so womanly that I had to lay down my spectacles and look at her in wonder. The old blacksmith looked at his wife with a smile of amusement. "Norine in only a child," he murmured, softly, then after â€" looking _ meditatively into the glowing coals for a spell,kln asked -x: 1 LE Te _ Heile mel talle. i LE e on OP denly: "What was the lttle gal talkâ€" in‘ wbout that gave you that notion, Betsey * ° Sss q ho c uio ol ow o t Numve nv--; E "She wanted the tucks let out of her red dress, that it might come down to the floor, instead of to her shoe tops, as it does now; and I‘ve been wonderin‘ und wonderin‘ what could have put such « thought into Norine‘s head." ow & TE 6. Ahees U After knittin? a few moments s1ent) und energetically, she went on: "Norâ€" ins reminded me that she was quite sevâ€" enteen, so you see, grandpa, a%e is not so much of a child as you think, I was just Norine‘s age when I saw and fell in love with you, Daniel." "Why, bless my sou!, I believe you are right, Betsey. It was so very long ago I e‘enamost forgot about itâ€"we‘ve been growin‘ old together so long. Litâ€" tle Norine seventeen! I cannot comâ€" prehend it; she seems no more Nu:h: ueen Seumek one Mn C lR LE . Thaus . clse /xut tie Norine seventeen! I cannot comâ€" | How she wished Mr. Carlisle would prehend it; she seems no more than a | soon come to the house. She. was.more little tot of seven to her old grandad, | than anxious to hear what her grandâ€" Aye, it seems only yesterday that our mother would say of him. * only son put her into my arms as he | Norine had not dared question her lay dyin‘, askin‘ me to allus look after | grandfather as to his opinion xegud\ng the e‘ihl. andâ€"andâ€"â€"" The rest of | the handsome ttra.nger. He always ha W0% 1 kn s LR LEE Ges Vaker K *avaru "Dow‘t recall that scene, _ Danielâ€" don‘t," whispered Betay, huskily. "Let us talk of something else. Is there any news in the village* I don‘t hear any since Joe has been laid up at home with that heavy cold," she exclaimed, anxiâ€" ous to divert his mind quickly into anâ€" other channel. * k t“;; mune;â€";n;-drowned in a heavy "Â¥es," he answered, "there‘s a good bit of travel over the new stage line that runs from the Black Bear Mine through here to Spokane; it‘s crowded eevry night. There‘s some pretty rich capitalists going up to look at the new mine. Oh, yes, â€"and there‘s another bit of information. I saw the stranger who gave Norine the fiftyâ€"dollar bill for shoeâ€" Ing his horse, and I made him take it back and give an honest worker‘s price. The _ stranger _ that Norine has been speakin‘ so much about in her sleep." L SBCC reaimer 3o" me dpon. & /A â€"9 k $ P "He asked about Norine, and I gave him to understand that I wasn‘t yt-- ed at his inquirin‘ fer her. I don‘t like his face, nor his ways, nor his sneerin‘ tongue, fer that matter." "What is he like*" asked the good wife, carelessly. She was not in the least interested in the stranger, but it was better to lead him on to talk of, think of, anything else than their dead only boy. % PCmm ds ol _ M LA We s asly AEmap ue "Look _ like!" repeated . Daniel, thoughtfully; "that is just what I have been trying to settle in my own mind ever since I laid eyes on him toâ€"day, and, by gracious, itlJust comes to me now. He is dark and handsome, likeâ€" well, do you remember that nandsome villain that hbeld up the stagecoaches hereabouts and robbed ‘em so audaciousâ€" ly some twenty odd years ago? ‘They afterward caught the ckap and hung hm up to the limb of a tro>; that endâ€" ed Iis career. We beard the report afâ€" terward that he had left a little boy, and that the lad had been adoptel by come wellâ€"toâ€"do people, or something of that kind. Well, this chap has just those features. l‘ll never forget him as I saw him aâ€"hangin‘ to the old hickory in‘ along with the rest to invest in the mine. â€"All the interest I take in him is to keep him away from Norine." "What nonsense, Daniel, to imagine that he has given one thought to our Norine. Great gentiemen fall in love with their own kind." "Not allus, Betsy," he muttered, thoughtfully. "Not allus." s on Then their conversation drifted mog to Joe (as it always did after .N had left them for the night) #naâ€"the futureâ€"advising with each other as te when they should tell their darling of where is he stoppin‘*" asked DeLSC},. "I don‘t know, an‘ I don‘t _ care. More‘n likely he‘s some wealthy man goâ€" PEs Clwe o £ y‘d But â€" who Sweet Norine CHAPTER \! him aâ€"hangin best to look | " re is secretly old poor Jo¢ 4 brought her | * to save lers. ] t ny voice, and | * ind : then he 'E the young man‘s devoted, patient love for her, and the hope he had long since confided to them, that one day he hoped to make little Norine his bride, if he could win the treasure of her love, and they were willing that it should be so. Each had taken one ol the young man‘s hands and kissed it reverently, whispering to him that his desire was theirs as well, and that they could ;go down to the grave, which could not wait much longer for them, ah! so hapâ€" Te C t race ~onthk > ut >see Norine "his whispering to him 17 theirs as well, and t down to the grave, wait much longer for They talked of Joe‘s prospects, and how hard he was striving to win a name and a position to offer their darling. "It is so hard that he has beea taken with this heavy cold, eeeping him to ‘his bed at this particular time," remarked the old blacksmith, anxiously. . "This is the week the great sum of money comes to his express office to pay off the minâ€" ers, and there is no one whom he could trust to take it over to the minesâ€"no one he would dare tell about it save vou and me, and Norine." uS . I Dy u.6 PY, wife and w nR P o eeprts "I did not know Norine knew about it," said Betsey. & > e se EOV RT "Yes, don‘t ;uu remember him sitting here the night before the storm aâ€"tellin‘ us about it? Norine was listening, to0, for she remarked: ‘Aren‘t you afraid to have so much money about you, Joe! and he answered, ‘I would be, if people knew I was to carry so much money over on the stage to the mines & week from toâ€"night, and, to tell the truth, I have such a strange presentiment about it, that I haven‘t been able to llee{) well nights since I was informed that it was to be shipped here and placed in my charge. 1t is such a great sumâ€"& great many thousand dollars.‘ "Joe is far from feeling well toâ€"night, but, Heaven bless the plucky lad, he is going to get up from his sickâ€"bed and take the stage over to the Great Bear mine toâ€"morrow night to deliver that ‘money in safety to the miners,. Ah, iBetoe*, if I wasn‘t so old and infirm a men, 1‘d volunteer to go in Joe‘s stead, | poor fellow." The fire was growing low in the kitâ€" chen grate, and, fini-h‘mti up his mug of home made cider, while the old wife took her cup of tea, they chatted a few moâ€" ments on the one subject so dear to themâ€"their beloved Norineâ€"then took up their tallow dip and sought their rest, pausing a moment at the girl‘s door as they passed it. uP a ME ELNKALECâ€"E winccmi Mr. Carlisle, the handsome stranger, had won from her the promise that she would not tell of their meeting, and that | she was to see him on the morrow; othâ€" l erwise, how glad she would have been to tell her grandmother all the delightful | things he had whisrred into her ear, | and how he had asked her if she had | ever had a lover, and if she would like | one. c un( 3 derishdcada 'l!lu-n: was not even the faintest sound from within, and the good old woman murmured: "Bless the child, she is deep in her beauty sleep, Daniel." But Norine was not asleep, though her eyes were closed tightly, carefulig' feignâ€" ing slumber in case they shoul enter, as they often did, and bend over her with their candle and kiss her. Sleep would not come to the girl‘s eyes; her conscience was troubled. She had never kept the slightest thoughtn? to this time from the dear old grandâ€" father and grandmother who she knew loved her with such a devoted love. F Even .as she recalled his words, and the thrilling ilance that accompanied them, her cheeks burned and her heart beat tumultuously in her bosom. How different ke was from Joeâ€"awkâ€" ward, ilain Joe Brainardâ€"and she wonâ€" dered how she could ever have thought Joe nice, and pleasant to talk toâ€"even missing him if he did not come to che cottage to talk to the old folks of a winter evening. How she wished Mr. Carlisle would Norine had not dared question . her grandfather as to his opinion regarding the handsome stranger. He always had something unpleasant to say of every young man except Joe, his favorite, Then her girlish thoughts drifted into a more pleasing channelâ€"the longing for the golden morrow and the delight that »awaited her in meeting sandsome Mr. Carlisle again. His last words had been: "I shall dream of your sweet face again, Norine. Will you try to so fix your thoughts upon me as you drift off into dreamland, that you will dream of me ?" Norine did not know what the smile on his face meant when she answered "Yes." That night was the happiest that beautiful, hapless Norine was ever to know. I All the next morning Norine was so | ubsentâ€"minded that Grandma _ Gordon looked at her more than once, wonâ€" dering what had come over the girl, and what she could be thinking about. It was Tong after midnight ere Norâ€" ine fell uleff that night, and when she did drift bff into the mystic land of dreams, she dreamed of the handsome stranger, whose dark eyes had so thrillâ€" ed her heart, and whose dazzled smile had so bewildered her senses. if they could but _ Ah! how troubled she would have been had she but known. "-"l.‘o--fiorvi;e,fliilé hours never seemed to drag so slowly along as they did _ on this particular day. hes . . & yc cins c ul e e e _ They crept along leadenâ€"footed, Noon came at last; then slowly the red sunâ€" shine drifted athwart the western winâ€" dow I The girl turned away quickly, that the dear old eyes might not discern the sudden flush that arose to her face. Very quietly Norine donned her red hood and jacket, and fairly flew from the house. For the first time in her young life she had forgotten to kiss her dear old grandma goodâ€"bÂ¥#â€". . vas d .i scP c atalivs td uk /t with palpitating heart and winged feet Norine flew swiftly to the trysting place. As she turned the bend in the road she saw him pacing restlessly up and down under the leafless branches of the old sycamore tree. How handsome he looked in his freat seal overcoat and the seal cap resting so jauntily on his crisp, dark curling hair, No wonder little Norine‘s heart beat tumultuousâ€" ly as she beheld him. There were few girlish hearts that handsome Clifford Carlisle could not win if he chose to take the tm“:’ilgeh to do\w. He t t of Norine quite as soof f.“.{: saw him, and huté‘ao&_for-_ ward to meet her, holding out bis hands to her. Norine," exclaimed her grandmother, CHAPTER VII "How am I to ever thank you fot cnmini to keep the appointment, Norâ€" inc?" he said, "I had been fearing that you regretted promising to come, aud, ah!. I was so downâ€"hearted over it, for I could not bear the thought of never seeing you again.‘ I‘e pretended not to notice the girl‘s confusion or the blush that mantled her pretty cheek, talking on, and so gayly, that by degrees she gained her usual composure, and the power of voluâ€" ble speech. L opF ut t oi d Th o monin dE + Chin . WR SEHCCC3 He did not ask about her history, beâ€" lieving there was nothing to tel, and inâ€" deed there was not, for Norine knew nothing of her own strange story. Jt had not as yet been told to. her, _ to darken her youthful spirits and happiâ€" pended almost s that Norine was the old recluse stone house at t mVD ®D NCMY OCoSm ds sess "I don‘t want the child‘s hbead turned with hopes that she will inherit the Barâ€" rison wealth," her grandfather had told her, "for I know she will be cut _ ofi without a cent; she will not be disapâ€" Kointed if she is not expecting it, bless er poor little heart, and she will live her life through without knowing what she missed, and be the better and hapâ€" pier for having the truth withheld from her." Joe concurred in this view of the matâ€" ter Perhaps there was a fate in this, othâ€" erwise Norine might have confided the story to Clifford Carlisle as they talkâ€" ed together on this eventful afternoon, when she told him all that she believed there was to tell concerning her uneventâ€" ful life. &J uh "Are you happy here, little Norine*?" he asked .taking the girl‘s little hand in his and looking down into the depths of her blue eyes. "Do you never yearn for a brighter, gayer life?" ‘"Some times," she answered, looking thoughtfully away over the white, snow elad hills, "adding, "but what‘s« the nse? I ghall never leave Hadley, I supâ€" pose I shall live and die here." "What a dreadful future for one as young and joyous as yourself to look forward to," he murmured, _ compasâ€" sionately. _ "I â€" I cannot bear the thought. If 1 were you, I should be tempted to fly‘away. What do you say to marrying me, Norine, and going when T‘go."* * h nbuldias (faw‘s sia es stulel x _ She looked â€"at him with great, start led eves.> o mot s "Idon‘t ask you to decide all at once Norine," he said, "Take plenty of time to think it over; but mind, as you value my loyeâ€"and wihes, do not mention on word of what I haye just said to any human being." "Would I have to decide â€"soon?" fal tered Norine, tremulously. "Â¥ou shall have a whole fortnight," he answered. "By that time you will have seen me so often that you will know whether you care that much for me or not. o ie se "As for me," he went on eagerly, "I know kow niuch I think of you mow. I loved you passionately, desperately, from the first moment my eyes rested upon your sweet fact. I felt in _ my heart then that I had met my fate, the one girl on earth for meâ€"that I must win you if I could, and if I failed, that there was one thing, and one only, for me to do." of _ "And what was that?" murmured No rine, anxiously, timorously, es "Shoot myself," he answered, dramaâ€" tically, with a wave of his white hand and a very well simulated deepâ€"drawn h. ll%oriue uttered a scream of fright. "Oh, would yeu do anything so horâ€" fible as that?" she gasped. ”".“V-f:-y not?" he 7re¢i)lie‘d, in a voice that squnded as though it was half a sob. "What has a man to live for if he fails to win the girl he loves?" "Do you care for me so very much?" cried Norine, wringing her little hands in anguish, "You have seen me only three times." c 4 "Love is born in an instant; it is not a palnt of slow growth," he answered. "You ought to know at this moment if you love me." J P C V be s uie us w2 * He waited a moment for the words to take effect; then he went on softly: "If your heart has gone out to me, you have thought of me constantly since last we met; you have dreamed of me by night; you have counted the hours â€"ay, the moments, until we should meet again. Haye you done that, Norâ€" ine ?" _ "Yes," faltered the girl, trembling like one of the dying: leaves above her head. ears _ He went on in words as eloquent as they were beautiful to her untutored "Then it is as it should be, Norine; our love is mutual. It is cruel to ask you to linger so long in the bitter cold talink to me, but no other opportunity is offered me. I fear if I should go to the cottage and ask to see you, that boon would be denied me. They might even go so far as to keep you at home, a prisoner, as it were, until I left the vicinity, that I might not spoil Joe‘s chance of winning you, my peerless Norâ€" ine." clared, earnestly. "Joe has no such thought. We are only friendsâ€"friends from childhood up." He laughed a little sinister laugh, "I wonder that you can really believe that," he said, slowly, adding:. "I am sure he would have been searching for you by this time, if he had not been confined to his bed by the severe cold vyou told me about." im "Joe is sick in bed, but l.lfi've been expecting to see him pass everyymoment, for he is obliged to go on a long journey toâ€"night, ill as he is." 2Y.,;2, i2# "It must be a very important matter that wouldâ€"cause him. to get out of a sick bed on such a night as this is desâ€" tined, by all appearances, to be," he deâ€" clared. /« ule%. } "It is important," replied Norine, and, scarcely knowing just how it had hapâ€" pened, she found herself unfolding to the handsome stranger the confidential mission that was to be kept such a vital secretâ€"that he was to have a large sum of money about him to take to the officers of the Great Bear Mine, to pay off the miners.. _ "Are they not afraid to trust this felâ€" low with so great a sum?" he queried, adding in the next breath: "How much did you say he was to take?" 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Man, maid and moonlight make matrimony. _ _ % a EPVERDERMUIIY® Pessimists picture pleasures pernicâ€" ious plagues. Divers dark deeds drive directly to divorce decrees. Love lights the lamps that illume the line of life. Saints, unlike sinners, shun society to seek solitude. Alimony alievates the ailments atâ€" %ndant upon altered attachments.â€" ife. Do you trap or buy Furs? Iam Canada‘s largest dealer, l‘y&y highest prices. Your shipments solicited. I pay mail and oxâ€" press charges; remit grompt1Â¥. Also largest dealer in geeh:ldu. heepskins, etc. Quotations and shipping tag# i sent Iree â€"_TROUBLES OF THE ANCIENTsS. Penelope was bewailing the protracted absence of Ulysses. _ Ask for MINARD‘S and you will get â€""v‘i'â€"x'u-igi:". as well be the wife of a comâ€" mercial traveller," she said, "and be done ".gc.o.r'n-ing to avail herself of an easy divorce, she plunged deeper than ever inâ€" with ‘t‘;"t'il;‘}:gesr;("zfi; Ladies‘ Home Jourâ€" nal for consolation. JOHN HALLAM, TORONTO ‘?c-k-l‘yâ€";o-ps-cagâ€"hs.'cure"s colds, heals the throat and lungs. â€" + â€" 25 cents. no'f-a';x;:'i;é land, Dr. George P. Penningâ€" tom, of Missouri Point, III., will toâ€"day thresh his wheat crop. _ A f The threshing will take place in a strip of wooded land which Dr. Penâ€" nington owns. He expects to get about 250 bushels. The wheat floated down to his grove recently during the high water. It came so fast and from so many different diâ€" rection that Dr. Pennington could not notify the owners, so he decided to take advantage of the ill wind which blew him so much good. As soon as the stage of water permitted the hired man to untangle the &hpfitls from the shrubâ€" bery and lay it out "to ‘dry._ It proved to be excellent grain â€"St. Louis Reâ€" l;Althotpgh he is not a farmer and owns public. River Brought Him a Wheat Crop. BRITIBH FARMS it!" Alliterative Aphorisms, In SUNLIGHT Early Fuel Consumption. When steamers first came into use very little attention was bestowed upon the consumption of fuel. It was not until the Cunard steamers were started crossing the Atlantic in 1840 that yeliâ€" able records of fuel consumption began to be kept syswmatimll.\'. The Britanâ€" nia, one of the early Ounarders, used to make the run from Liverpool to New York in about 14 days on aA eoal conâ€" sumption of about 4.7 pounds per indiâ€" cated horseâ€"power an hour. The modâ€" ern steamers do the work on about 1 12 pounds of coal a horseâ€"power an hour. ba â€"â€" SOAP â€" Handling Chicago Rubbish. A disposal service for the handling of material excavated at building foundaâ€" tions, building rubbish, ashes from powâ€" er plants, etc., is being operated by the Chicago Subway Company, which owns a system of some 40 miles of small, deep level tunnels under the city of Chicago. Spurs are run to deep basements or to shafts where the materials are loaded into cars, which are hauled by electric locomotives to a disposal station on the west bank of the Chicago River near Madison street. Here there is a shaft, over which are the runways for _ two electric trolley hoists, each operated by a man riding on the machine. When & | gex. You can ©0 car is set at the bottom of the shaft, | & cost Of ©DD, the body is hoisted up and run out over “r:";n .rcqush a hump scow moored alongside the staâ€" l Mrs. M. Summer tion. The car body is lowered and the | prreg bottom released. discharging _ the conâ€" | Th tents into the scow. The empty _ body | "May 1 oifer is then run back and lowered upon the | lein Kate!" car frame at the hottom of the shaft. "Excuse me o ons 4 » wea. werl WiklP wareey inyey, | | from ment Red, Weak, Weary, Watery Eyes. Relieved By Murine Eye Remedy. _ ‘LrY Murine For Your lv:I'e Troubles. __ You WI‘‘@Like Murine. t Boothes. 50c At Your Druggists. Write For Eye Books. Free. Murine Eye Remedy Co., Toronto. Provision of Providence. Hubbyâ€"The old saying is true:; "It is only fools who get maried." Wifieâ€"That‘s how Providence takes care of them. Hubbyâ€"How ? Wifieâ€"By giving them wives to look after them.â€"Roseleaf. Minard‘s Liniment Cures Colds, A Man to Their Taste. "I ean‘t quite grasp your idea that the alderman in our ward was elected by Italian votes; he‘s Irish, isnh‘t he?" "Yes, but his name is MacArony." â€" Boston Courier. of household work is taken away when Sunlight Soap is brought into the home. F or thoroughly cleansing floors, â€" metalâ€"work, walls and â€" woodwork, Sunlight is the most economical both in time and money. soe FR E E This FINE AIM RIFLE, nickeled stee! barrel, peep sights, polished waluut stck. shooting BB shot or darts with sufficient force to kill birds, s uirrels, etc.. Boys, this is tha bost Air Rifle made, and we give it to you FREE for nllin{‘% boxes, only, of D)r. Matutiu s Famous Vegetable Pllh‘ at2%6, a box. ‘ These Pills are the best remedy known in all cases of weak and impure blood, indigestion, stomach troubles, constipation, nervous sipasee KBOZRA tism, etc. _ Just sond your name and address plainly written, and we will send y and 8 l'ln(i( Pins to give away, as a premium, with each box sold. Whe boxes, send us the money $2.00 and we will, immediately, send you this We do notask any money before the Pills are sold and wetake back PE T Genodon o immonsonite un â€" mcck KW Everybody The E. B. EDDY COMPANY, Limited, Hull, Canada HALE THE TOIL A Man to Their Taste. EDDV‘S BREAD WRAPPERS gost! Should avoid danger of im purities in del the home. Insist on your b aker wrapping We are the original manufacturers of bread wrappers . now used by leading bakers of Ottawa, Montreal, Toronto and other cities. â€"â€" TO BOYS Address: THE DR MATURIN MEDICINE CO., Dept. 156. TORONT THE DR MATURIN MEDICINE CO., Cept. 57. _ Toronto, Oct. Who Eats Bread II AMILTON ONTARIO 18 GarowInG FAST â€"buy suburban lots while they ar® low» Building lots # * 100 for $i56 and upward#. Termsâ€"$ down and $1 per week. Write for booklet Aâ€"Burke & Co., 204 King street east. 4__‘._â€"â€"-â€"â€"â€""â€"__-_., mm ce mm w ammeAiii Fon SELLING AT packages contain assorted £1288, WO P"/o conts W INK PENCIL Send 50 cents with and goods will be mailed at once. Mowat, 23 Scolt gt., Toranto INK PENCIL Dorset, Horn Sheep ‘The highest golf course in that at Maloja, in the Upper The course of nine holes, val 170 to 350 yards, is between I SPW uie L Gocnalfea U aD CE ‘The highest golf course in Europe 18 that at Maloja, in the Upper Engadine. The course of nine holes, varying from 170 to 350 yards, is between Maloja and the pass which leads from the Engadine to the Lake of Como and cammands lovely views of the Silser Sea and the snoweclad peaks; the hazards are chiefly depressions between the hills. The alti« tude of these links is about 6.200 feet above sea level. The «#mall course at St. Morits is about the same altitude, while that at Samaden, one of the finest links on the continent, is about 5,500 feet, the next highest being that of Montana, ahove the Rhone valley, about 5000 _ feet. Maloja is an ideal spot for those who wish to be quite off the tourist track, and in a country like Switzerland it is P & h4 Cuskine o â€"Afoantnt not easy nowadays to get the crowds of August. T station is ten miles away, at â€"The Queen. A WINDSOR LAOY‘S APPEAL To All Women: I will s0"" instructions, my . hbome tres postively . cures Leucorrhoea Displacements, Falling of the ful or Irregular periods, Uter ian Tumore Of Growths, also Nervousness, Melancholy, Pain Back or Bowels, Kiduey and BJ eSBevREaRee ie NE DROECC Back or Bowels, Kiduey and Bladder troubles, where caused by weakness peculiar to our sex. You can continue treatment at home mt .outotonuuconunwoek. My book, "Woman‘s Own Medical Adviser," aiso sent free on request. Write toâ€"day. Address, Mrs. M. Summers, Box H. 8, Windsor, Ont. Highest pos is _ "In that case I will accept, i hougns it was something valuable."â€"Fliegend Blaetter, mm mm t e e Minard‘s Liniment vures Garget in cows. A South Side man claims that the élni. tor of the flat building in which he lives is the meanest janitor on earth, "HWe never gives us half enough steam during ‘he day," said the complainant, "and at night the conditions are simply awful, > Why, 1 frequently wake up and hear my wife‘s teeth chattering on the bureau."~â€"â€"Chicago Recordâ€"Meradl. ISSUE NO. oL. __â€"â€"â€"-_____â€"_ aear ESTATE, all for fear we‘ll get found out. â€"New York Press. en n ue R SELLING At 10 CENTS E packages containing 6 packages ted sizes, will give FREE, A irxu®It,. _ Send 50 cents w onscience doth make cowards of us in delivery from the oven to apping his bread in and we will send you 8 boxes of our Pill» ich box sold. When you have sold the 8 ately, send you this handsome Air Rifle. 2 «ud watake back what you cannot sell, mesmmmmame e 2 2202000 4 MISCELLAN EoUsS. Golf Course in Europe That‘s Different. ifer you this little gift, Frauâ€" Bitter Cold I will send free with full home . treatment which Leucorrhoea, . Ulceration, ling of the Womb, Painâ€" eriods, Uterise and Ovarâ€" rowths, also Hot Flushes, nohsly. Pains in the Head, I never take presents 1 spot for those who off the tourist track, like Switzerland it is ys to get away from CV S Wds Who â€" mearest Breeding Ewes and Ewe Lombs for Sale A‘so Two Young Buits Forster Farm, Oakvilte, Ont will accept. I thought tude, while that at finest links on the 5,500 feet, the next of Montana, ahove about 5.000 feet. AND Polied Angus Cattle 51. 1909 BACH, 12 res Needies, A DOLLAR «+. Moritz for prices ugh steam omplainant, are simply ake up and ing on the n order of From the fron 1t her gl"el." "Ko" he #@) "He‘s an ogre," sald \ n little face at him m,y Elmendort the group from 3 ; open door «l earnestt face. . |} “ and the "You ought n he ‘!d ,ln.d I family dinners A wwive let the Tines Bown, while weye ; ’“ *_v‘d like ch â€"h quk-,k wn them redeemed mess, but the *t he said wa tentive faces. *Hear, hear," "No, I‘m not ; volce is to are out of wife ien‘t. â€" The Elmendo: as in the dark! through the |o: out on the cow the occupants spoi "You see," _ *Â¥ don‘t this to oriticise us Unoton. It .q ehildren to No, we hav after that ther "I ean‘t un r. as if the conversat i "What *" "You men m her voice was helpmates, and "Yes," he ag Then, as if h half apologized in the world." Christ But no answ seat, and again The snow can er, and the whi against the flan whut them into dorf said at 1a believed there v _*"Well, I wa Darlington‘s," was a wild id: from town in an Mt as this. Eugene jumj» and pr | thro "rheres a he see just a point In the how the door and k Fesbonse . Me to his wife, 'Q_o.ke' out into he said, and ) Bon‘t the doot« "io,-'-’_-Efvuu-Vn". in the smnow and But the man s eame ‘the moan « As Helena unt mas came t Bhe was ve her unbound per in stra; grey with red . "Oh," con Bhe was very \ her unbound hai per in stragglin grey with anxi« "JOh," come | don‘t know w what to do!" o her agony, the m;fl wo * md on he In a mome: to her plaint, to 40!" @t is words "I ean‘t make "I can‘t!" she in there, Euge: almo#t rough|y "Is that you the great r from un 'hyo‘i wi M w'v, Bhe stood child close. "Get me some hot wat she directed, "a: *For Heaven‘s "We troe 1 don‘t " Heler they a womer e hbaby la ng bundle, 0 e‘s dying!" t lena knelt , thrashing s, caught at " Helena‘s arn old 1 at midnig A few sn e erowd 0 the shelter valua 8&1 baby, babs Ar s wa ve ha +1 breat} SUA V must By a ko the