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$ O 2 P *p Pnoe upon a time, many years before this story begins, a certain lady said, and indeed swore with an oath that Lord Mapledurham had promised to rarry her, and claimed ten thousand pounds as damages for the breach of that promise. Lord Mapledurham said his memory was treacherous about such things, and he never contradicted a and Lord Mapledurham said that his crossâ€"examination of the plaintiff was quite worth the money, _ Since then, lady on a question of fact: but the amount which his society was worth seemed fairly open to difference of opâ€" inion, and he asked a jury of his ecountrymen to value it. This cause celebre, for such it was in its day, did not improve Lord Mapledurham‘s reâ€" putation, but ,on the other hand, it made Mr. Blodwell‘s That gentleman reduced the damages to one thousand, the two had been friends, and Mr. Blodwell prided himself greatly on his intimacy with such an exclusive person as the Marquis. George enjoyed his surprise at the announcement that they would meet that evening at the dinnerâ€" party. "Why the dickens does he ask you ?" "Upon my honor, I don‘t know." "It will destroy the last of your reâ€" putation." "Oh, not if you are there, sir." When George arrived at Lord Mapleâ€" lurham‘s, be found nobody except his host and Mr. Blodwell. * "I have wasted opportunities, talents, -ubsmnceâ€"everi'thing: and enjoyed it confoundedly. am no use even as a warning." "Ask a parson," said Mr. Blodwell, dryly. ; "Iâ€" remember," the Marquis went on, dreamily, "an old ruffianâ€"another old mffianâ€"uyini just the same sort of thing one night. I was at Liverpool for the Cup. Well, in the evening, I got tired oF the other fellows, and went out for a turn; and down a back street, I found an old chap sitting on a doorâ€" step,â€"a dirty old fellow, but uncomâ€" monly picturesque, with a long grey beard. As I came by, he was just tryâ€" ing to get up, but he staggered and fell back again." "Drunk?" asked Mr. Blodwell, The Martinis nodded. â€" "I gave him a hand, and asked if I could do anyâ€" thing for him. ‘Yes, give me a drink,‘ says he. I told him he was drunk alâ€" ready, but he said that made no odds, so I helped him to the nearest ginâ€"paâ€" _"Behold this cynic‘s unacknovwledged kindnesses!" said Mr. Blodwell. “":T-tx_x':e‘;; good number," said Mr. Blodwell. "If they‘re three men. But two men and a woman, or two women and & manâ€"awfual !" "Well, we are men, though Georga is a young one." o "L~ don‘t feel very young," said George, smiling, as they sat down. . "L am fiftyâ€"iive," said the Marquis, "and I feel younger every aay,â€"not in body, you know, for I‘m chock{ul of ailâ€" ments; but in mind. 1 am growling out of all the responsibilities of this world." ® "And of the next ?" asked Blodwell. "in the next <verything is arranged for us, pleasantly or otherwise, _ As to this one, no one expects anything more of meâ€"no work, no good deeds, no carâ€" eer, no nothing. It‘s a delicious freeâ€" dom." "You never felt your bonds much." "No, but theg were there, and every now and then they dragged on my feet." "Your view of old age is comforting," said Georée. f "Only, George, if you want to realize it, fiou must not marry," said Mr. Blodâ€" well. ‘"No,no," said the Marquis. "By the wa'y, Blodwell, why did you never marâ€" sy®" "Too poor, till too late," said Mr. Blodwell, briefly. a The Marquis raised his glass, and seemed to drink a respectful toast to a dead romance. "And _ you, Lord _ Mapledurham?" George ventured to ask. "Ay, ask him!" said Mr. Blodwell. ‘Perhaps his reagon will be less sadly commonplace." ‘ "I don‘t know," said the Marquis, pondering. . ‘"Some of them expected it and that disgusied me,. And some of {hem didn‘t, and that disgusted me 0." ‘"You put the other sex into rather a difficult position," remarked George, laughing. 3 LXmiPaxIR 06 sn MERKELL Lletudscs ssxetawae hwss "Sat him down in a chair, and ‘gave him liquor. "‘Do you enjoy getting drunk? I asked him, just as you asked me if I had anjoyed life. "His drink didn‘t interfere with his tongue, it only seemed to take him in the legs. He ;iut down his glass, and made me a little speech= . %, "I must apologize for having nobody to meet you, Mr. Neston ,except an old friend. I asked young Vaneâ€"whose inâ€" solence amuses me,â€"and. Fitzderham, but they couldn‘t come." "Notfirfi to what they‘ve put me inâ€" to. â€" Eh, Blodwell ?" _ , k "Now, tell me, Mapledurham," said Mr. Blodwell, who was in a _ serious mood toâ€"night. "On the whole, have you enjoyed your life!?!‘" |â€" °_ _ "‘Liquor,‘ says he, ‘has been my curse; it‘s broken up my home, spoilt my work, dest royed mf character, sent me and mine to gaol and shame. God bless liquor! say L.‘ j "I told him he was an old beast, much as you, Blodwell, told me I was, in a politer way. He only grinned,and said, ‘If you‘re a gentleman, you‘ll see me home, Lying in the gutter costs five shillings, next morning, and â€"I haven‘t got it‘ s #u%%sl; ~ 3 "‘All right,‘ said I; and after another glass we started out. He knew the way, and led me through a lot of filthy places to one of the meanest dens I ever saw. A redâ€"faced, redâ€"armed, redâ€"voicâ€" ed (you know what I mean) woman opâ€" ene(r the door, and let f'lly a cloud _ of Billingsgate at him. he old ; chap treated her with lofty courtesy. .. "‘Quite . true; Mrs. Bort,‘ says he; "y?z're always right: I bave ruined myâ€" self.‘ | "‘And yer darter!‘ shriecked the womâ€" an. "‘**And my daughter. â€" And I am g\mk now, and hope to be drunk toâ€" drrow.‘ " ' it #06 . * > ah **‘Ah!l you‘ old beast!‘ said sbe, just as I had, shaking her fist., ; s. "H@ tnrmedâ€"rounti t o and said, am obliged to y?, ,'4; lon‘t know your name," * ~_&, af hÂ¥ ie _« ":»4 4. 'f‘r:Y;iTv;"mxldn't be better off if you did,‘â€"%®iysa I. "You couldn‘t drink it.‘ FATES INSTRUMENTS | "They all want me to drop it," he \ mused. "Well, I will, unlessâ€"! _ But |\ toâ€"morrow T‘ll go to Liverpool." ] He was restless and excited. Home ‘and bed seemed unacceptable, and he ‘turned into the Themis Club, whence itha machinations of the enemy had not | yet ejected him. There, extended on a | sofa and smoking a cigar, he found Sidâ€" mouth Vane. esp‘t a ‘"George, my friend, do you think you‘re speaking the truth?" "I am speaking the truth." "Not a bit of it," responded Vane, calmly, "A couple of months ago you meant to ask her; and, what‘s more, she‘d have had you.". L on Georgie laughed. â€" "I dare say I should; but I never meant to expose myâ€" self to such a fate." George was â€" dimly conscious that. this might be so. ‘ "It isn‘t my moral," Vane went on.. "Your moral?" ; "No. I took it from the Bull‘sâ€"eye." George groaned. .‘"They announce the marriage â€" toâ€" night, and add that they have reason to believe© that the engagement has come about largely through the _§mt ;L;nterest of the parties in l‘affaire Nes on." "I should say they are unusually acâ€" curate." "Meaning thereby, to those who have eyes, that she‘s jilted you because of your %oings-on, and taken up with Tomâ€" my. In consequence, you are toâ€"night ‘pointing a moral and adorning a tale.‘"‘ "‘The devil!" ‘*Yes,. not very goothifi, is it? But so it is. 1 looked in at Mrs Pocklingâ€" ton‘s and they were all talking about it." +â€"â€"~*The Pock]initons were?t" "Yes. And they asked meâ€"" ‘"Who asked you?" * "Oh, ‘Violet Fitzdjerham and Laura Pocklington,â€"if it was the fact that you were in love with IMiss Bourne." "And what did you sayt" "I said it wvas matter of notoriety." ~if*Confound your gossip! There‘s not a word of truth in it. ‘ "I didnt‘ say there was. I said it was a matter of â€" notorietys So â€" it look as if you‘d never heard of _ Miss Bourne." ‘"Bosh!" said George. ‘"‘Now, I always wonder why fellows do that. When I‘ve been refused by a girl, andâ€"â€"" e ons «2l "I beg your pardon," said George. "I haven‘t been refused by Miss Bourne." ‘"Well, you would have been, you know. It comes to the same thing." _ mmmus mR CC Cone Te L Balst w "I hope so. I shall know in a day or two." o ‘"To like to be right, Mr. Neston, 18 the last weakness of a wise man; to like to be thought right is the inveterate prejudice of fools." m s n o i i n o oo Hwdl ** _ "It really depends mostly on your inâ€" come," answered the Marquis,. "Goodâ€" night, Mr. Neston," _ _ $ ons time." ; "He‘s a queer old sinner," said Vane. "But have you heard the news?" ‘"No. Is there anyt" ‘‘Tommy Myles has got engaged." George started. He had a presentiâ€" ment of the name of the lady. "Pull yourselt together, my dear boy,"* continued Vane. "Bear it like a man." ‘"*Don‘t be an ass, Vane. I suppose it‘s Miss Bourne?" George said goodâ€"night, and walked off, shrugging his shoulders at _ the thought that even so acute a man as Lord Mapledurham seemed unable to appreciate his position. 4 [ t _ ‘"Why didn‘t you come _ to _ Lord Mapledurham‘s, Vane?" asked George. "Oh, have you been there? I was dining with my chief. I didn‘t know you knew Mapledurham.". To § 0s Vane nodded. "It would really be amusing," he said, ‘"if you‘d tell me honestly how you feel. But, of course, you won‘t. You‘ve begun already _to George. "Are you drunk too, Blodwell?" askâ€" 3d the Marquis. ‘"*No; butâ€"" "What was the woman‘s name?!" asked George, taking out a noteâ€"book "Bort. Going to tell me?" "Well, if you don‘t mindâ€"*" Â¥eay "Not a bit. Tell me later on, if it‘s amusing. There are so precious few amusing things." g ”Y'ou didn‘t see the daughter, did you »» N"Oh, of course it‘s the daughter! 0o." "Did you ever know a man named Witt ?" "Never; but, Mr. Neston, I have heard of a Mrs. Witt. Now, Blodwell, either out with it,or shut up and let‘s talk of something else." "Thae latter. nlease." said Mr. Blo4â€" And the Marquis, who had outâ€"grown the vanity of desiring to know everyâ€" thing, made no effort to recur to the subject. <(Only, as George took _ his leave, he received a piece of advice, toâ€" gather with a cordial invitation to come again. io n o ioi s ns s c _ _"Excuse me, Mr. Neston,‘ said the Marquis. "I fancy I have given yOU some involuntary assistance tpfnl_gkit;." _‘"The latter, please," said well, urbanely. C tm‘ } . _ ‘"That last is a hard saying, my lord," said George, with a laugh. d | Autv B8 1. lth i2202 drct in itb ic ns Siiniaat 7 5 t# "‘*You‘re right,‘ said he. ‘The liquâ€" or‘s beginning to lose its taste: And when that‘s gone, Luke Gale‘s gone! "Luke who?" burst from the two men. Lord _ Mapledurham looked _ UP. "What‘s the matiter? Gale, I think. I found out afterwards that the old an!â€" mal had painted waterâ€"coloursâ€"the only thing he had to do with wat.e_ar.L" + e "‘Will you give me a '°"r?i81?"s' .g; asked. ‘A week‘s joy, sirâ€"a week 8 J and life.‘ L it "‘Give it me,‘ said the woman, ‘then me and she‘ll get something to eat; keep us alive.‘ Mr “f'm a benevolent man at bottom, a * Neston, as Blodwell remarks. I said, , "‘Here‘s a sovereign for you and h°F ;]I supposed she meant the daughter) to elp in keeping you alive; and here‘s & sovereign for you, sir, to help in killing youâ€"and the sooner the better, say 1â€" CImn® HZ MeNL VC MSS MOCARTOCCCIC, "The Lord hath delivered ber into your hand," said Mr. Blodwell _ to ~*"*And did they believe it ?t" "Did. who believe it?" asked Vane, smiling slightly. _ ol skate **Yes, Miss Pocklington and the othâ€" er girl, I think,â€" believed it." ‘"What â€"did they say?t" ® ‘"‘The other girl said it served you right." 5 _ ‘"Oh, Miss Pocklington, andâ€"and the other"girl." ..~ C w mss ‘"And Miss Pocklington said it was time for some music.*"* ‘‘TUpon my soul!, it‘s too badt" “M‘;odear fellow, you know fou were in loveâ€"with herâ€"in your fishlike kind of way. Only you‘ve forgotten it. One does fox;get it whenâ€"*" F «*"*Well?"»asked George. € ‘*When ‘one‘s in love ° with another girl. Ah, Georges you can‘t escape my eagl#eyet. I saw your game, and I did you a kindness." °_ 5 *George thought it no use trying to keep hls'sec_re't. ‘"That‘s your idea of a kindness, is it ?" met him yesterday for the first conscious that you and her‘ lanahter) ‘to Nevertheless, Sidmouth Vane had a knack of being correct in his informaâ€" tion, and he was correct in stating that Neaera had gone to Liverpool on business. It was, of course, merely a guess that bher errand might be conâ€" nected with George‘s, but it happened to be a right guess. Neaera knew well the weak spot in her armour. Hitherâ€" to she had been content to trust to her opponent not discovering it ; but, as the decisive moment came nearer, a nervous restlessness so far overcame ber natural insouciance as to deterâ€" mine her to an effort to complete her defences, in anticipation of any assault upon them. . She was in happy ignorâ€" ance of the chance that had directed George‘s forces against her vulnerable point, and imagined that she herself was, in all human probability, the only person in London to whom« the name of Mrs. Bort would be more than an unmeaning uneuphonious syllable. To ber the name was full of meanin%l; for, from her youth till the day of the happy intervention of that stout and elderly deus ex machina, the late Mr. Witt, Mrs. Bort had been to Neaera the imâ€" personation of virtue and morality, and the physical characteristics that had caught Lord Mapledurham‘s frivyolous attention bad been to her merely the frowning aspect . under which justice and rifhteou.sness are apt to present themselves. o uaks cotke » CHAPTER XI. To fit square pegs into round holes is one of the favorite pastimes of Nature. She does it roughly, violently, and with wanton disregard of_ the feelings of the square pegs. _ When, in her. reâ€" lentless sport, she has at last driven the poor peg in and made it fly, by dint of knocking off and abmdin%} all its corners, philosophers glorify her, callâ€" ing the process evolution, and plain men wonder why she did not begin at the other end, and .make the holes square to fit the pegs. j The square peg on which these trite reilections hang is poor Neaera Witt. Nature made her a careless, easeâ€"loving, Of)tlull§(i(? creature, only to drive her, of malice prepense, into an environment â€"that is to say, in unscientilic Â¥hrase. a holeâ€"where she had need of _ the equipment of a fullâ€"blooded conspiraâ€" _She resisted the operation ; she perâ€" sistently trusted to chance to extriâ€" cate her from the toils into which she not being a philosopher, thought chance ! had thrown her. If she saw a weapon | ready to her hand, she used it, as she | had ‘used the Bournemouth character, | but for the most part she trusted â€" to | luck. George Neston would fail, or he would relent ; or Gerald would be inâ€" | vincibly incredulous, or, she would add, i smiling at her face in the glass, inâ€" | vincibly in love. Somehow or other | matters would straighten themselves | out ; and, at the worst, ten days more would bring the marriage; and after | the marriageâ€"â€" But really, ten days ahead is as far as one can be expected | to look, especially when the ten days | include one‘Pwedding. * _ __ : . ol Neaera was a goodâ€"hearted girl, and Mrs. Bort now lived on a comfortable pension, but no love mingled with the sense of duty that inspired the gift. Mrs. Bort bad interpreted her quasiâ€" maternal _ authority with the widest latitude, and Neaera shuddered to reâ€" member how often Mrs. Bort‘s discipâ€" line had made ber smart, in a way, against which apathy of conscience was no shield or buckler. Recorder Dawkâ€" ins would have groaned to know how even judicial terrors paled in Neaera‘s i‘;zc:tllection before the image of Mrs. ort. These childish fears are hard to shake off, and Neaera, as she sped luxuriously to Liverpool, acknowledged to herself that, in that dreadf{ful presence, . no adventitious glories of present wealth or future rank would avail her. The governing _ fact in the situation, the fact that Neaera did not see her way to meet, was that Mrs. Bort was an honest woman. Neaera knew her, and knew that a bribs would be worse than useless, even if she dared to offer it. "And I don‘t think," said Neaera, resting her pretty chin upon her pretty hand, ‘"‘that I should dare." _ Then she laughed ruefully. "I‘m not at all sure she wouldn‘t beat me; and if she did, what could I do?" ‘"The devil!" sai second time. f tor. "I must go and see them t0â€"MMOI"7"> No, I can’tggo toâ€"morrow ; I have to go out of town." "fi.h! whtire t" Husiness:" "Liverpool, on bus â€" "Liverpool, on business! . Deél‘; trnee' I‘ll tell you another odd thing, George, â€"a coincidence." ..%:fl!r'e going to Liverpool toâ€"!fi(;:-: Witt w businesLs: welgi ct)g-dgi'siness." itt t to Live i "Aeviti" cagtd George, for The That Is Used To Haich Out Microbes For q Experimental Purposes. A firm in Regent street, London, makes a pusiness of bhatching out artiâ€" ficially birds, chickens and the like, and the incubators adapted for their various purposes are lined up against the sides of the long room. They also take infants that are prematurely born and by keeping them in a certain unâ€" varying temperature, and giving them fll‘o;l)el‘ nourishment, develop them into ealthy and lusty babies. Perhaps the strangest of all their many . appliances for hatching living organisims is their biological incubator. Here are "cultivated" whole "colonies" of deadly microbes for purposes of bacâ€" This particular incubator is fastened by two ‘locks of the latest ~dedfgn and most intricate construction ;. â€" and, fhn view of the terrible resultsâ€" that might possibly follow from any unauthorized meddling with its grewsome contents, the precaution seems a wholly necessary one. feriological investigation and experiâ€" ment. The cholera bacillus, the scarlet Teâ€" ver micrococeus, tha lfiprosy and tubâ€" erculosis bacilli and dozens of other varieties of these postiferous little orâ€" ganisms propagate ibemselves in these loreing houses with marvelous rapidâ€" ity. ‘They are grown on small lozengeâ€" shaped pieces of gelatine, and a fragâ€" ment ihe size of a quarter suffices to maintain â€" a "colony‘" of 80,000,000 . of microbes. (To Be Continued.) AN INCUBATOR sdrt T7VCO_ know," said Vane, tolerâ€" ways a fool myself about ind see them toâ€"morrow. toâ€"morrow ; I have to go an average of one year out of three, and a real good stand was not securâ€" ed only about one year out of . two. When the seed is sown in the fall (about the first of September is the best time) on land properly prepared and the seed well covered, the cases of failure are rare. â€" Of course we have had falls when there was just rain enough afâ€" ter sowing to make the seed sprout and come up, and then the weather turned so dry as to kill it. I have had good success in sowing Timothy with rye when the rye was sown early in Sepâ€" tember, but when sown in October it was a failure. The Timothy came up, as even a pig will get sick if unwisely fed. _ The new food may be introduced by throwing in a few forksiul: daily for a week before the fiermanent change ‘is to be made," says N. Y. Farmer. "If there is then a small field of peas to be fed, the pigs may be turned in at ‘ once, or it may be wise to hurdle a plot which can be ‘hogged off‘ thorâ€" oughly without any waste. Along with ‘this, if sweet whey or skim milk forms ‘the drink, which should not be fed in a larger quantity than eight pounds (per day to a full grown hog, steady ‘and profitable growth may be expectâ€" ed. _ After the Pea. season has passed, Secondâ€"growih clover or corn will be on hand to form the bulk of the diet. | As finishing time approaches, a grain |ration composed of corn, peas, barley or shorts will be profitably fed in conâ€" | junction with the green fodder. _ Fed in this way, the land upon which pork | is produced. will have %uined fertility. |Hogs and hog products have been holdâ€" ing their own remarkably well this season. . As in days gone by, he is s;dtl the "gintleman t%mt pays the rint." but was so very fine and small that the winter freezing killed it. _A few years ago 1 sowed rye on a piece of black, mucky land which was & marsh reclaimed by tile drainage. L sowed on it, after the rye was drilled in, four quarts of Timothy seed and two quarts of Alsike clover seed to the acre and harrowed it over very lightly. This was thick seeding. It came up nicely, but was rather small when winter set in, Early in the spring L examined and found the clover dead. ‘1 sowed on anâ€" other two quarts to the acre of Alsike clover seed about the first of April. I had a splendid stand and for three years a very fins meadow. _ When I seed with clover 1 seed in the spring. If 1 wish to havye Timothy grow with it I usually wait until the fall after, then sow on from two to four quarts of seed to the acre and go over it with a harrow, so as to have it slightly covâ€" ered. _ Three different times I have sown clover in the fall with winter grain. â€" Twice it was a failure beâ€" cause the clover was so small when hard freezing came that it was killed. Once it was a success and 1. had a fine stand. _ As a result of this experâ€" ience 1 have decided to always sow cloâ€" ver in the spring. When L sow Timâ€" othy with grain I use a _ grass seed attachment with my grain drill for the purpose, sowing about four quarts to the acre and then harrowing it over lightly. _ FALL SEEDING OF TIMOTHY. No matter what time of year the Timâ€" othy is sown one cannot count with abâ€" solute certainty of having a good catch every time, writes C. P. Goodâ€" rich. _ If it is sown in the early spring it will be quite sure to come up good, but if the hot, dry weather comes beâ€" fore it has root enough to withstand it, the small, feeble . WTimothy dies. This I have found to be the case on When Timothy is sown by itselfl a wheelâ€"barrow grassâ€"seedâ€"sower is used which sows sixteen feet wide and does it very evenly. If one has a field that has been in small grain this year â€" and was not seeded, and which he wishes to get into WTimothy as soon as possiâ€" ble, this is the way he should proceed: Prepare the ground nicely the last of August by plowing and harrowing, or disc it up and then harrow. _ Sow on the Timothy seed, barrow lightly and roll so as to pack the ground and make it smooth. _ If the season is favorable a pretty fair cropâ€"say twoâ€"thirds of a full cropâ€"of hay may be expected next year; and the year after that it will be at its best, producing a full crop. It is not profitable on most lands to let a Timothy meadow run more _ than three years without plowing up. ‘The second or third year a top dressing of manure will help it wonderfully. _ The manure should be bhauled out right from the stable during the winter and spread eveniy over the surface. _ Early in the spring go over it with a harrow. This will make the manure fine; work up the ground a little around the rools of the grass and mix in manure to some extent. _ Timothy is an exhaustive crop on the soil and good crops cannot be raised on the same greund many years in succession without applying. . some fertilizer. » sUMMER FEEDING OF SWINE. "A series of green foods can be had in succession on most farims throughout the summer with very little preparaâ€" tion. _ The clover field supplies the first pasture, and will last in good order unâ€" til the green peas are ready to feed. It is not well to make sudden changes, clipped wool. _ All to compare. the shr'u}lihEc‘ ovfmv:o.o“lI ped later in the season with tha a fleeces was weighed, each separately, and packed in a clean, dry box, just large enough to hold the wool conâ€" veniently, and a closeâ€"fitting _ cover nailed on. Another lot, containing eight fleeces, was weighed in the same manner, sacked and suspended from the ceiling. . Another of five fleeces _ was placed on a shelf and closely covered, so as to exclude all dust and revent disturbance. â€" Onâ€"June 24, ano&xer lot of six fleeces was secured from a farmâ€" er in the neighborhood, weighed, sackâ€" ed and placed under the same . condiâ€" tions as the other lot of sacked wool. This wool was clinnaga ay 1(2 32 w0 D C ael c 2 03°0 P0 eeENvE Cans > This wool was clipped about June and the ol)je(‘:-t in securing this lot R NiA mb ce utss t 4 BC . sSHRINKAGE OF woOoL. "It is often desirable to know the loss occasioned by shrinkage in handâ€" ling and storing of wool under varying conditions, and I think an account of an experiment jundertaken with this end in view may not be without interâ€" est," says a writer in Farm and Home. ‘"Twentyâ€"four fleeces, divided into four lots, were stored, by three different methods, and weighed periodically (genâ€" erally monthly) for a year. Three lots of the wool were from Shropshire sheep clipped between the 14th and 18th of April. One lot consisting of five PRACTICAL FARMING on with the earlyâ€" of the wool _ was 15th, . was clipâ€" Lumber, Shingles and Lath alway In Stock., Having Completed our New Factory we are now prepmy to FILL ALL ORDERS PROMPTLY. We keep in Stock a large quantity of Sash Doors, Mouldings, Flooring and the diffy. stored in che same place, a wellâ€"ventiâ€" lated barn, and eXf)oeed to a free cirâ€" culation of air. t was found _ that there was , practically no chanqg, of weight in the first three lots c ipped in April; in fact, the ncgregat,e weight of the three lots on June 15 was exactâ€" ly what it was when taken off in April of the previous year. Some variation ocâ€" curred in the meantime, a few of the changes being hard to account for, but the variation was not great at any time. The lateâ€"clipped wool, however, showâ€" ed a loss of about 6 per cent. of the original weight during the year, and, as the first weight was not taken unâ€" til a week after sbhearing, there may have been an additional loss that was not determined. The indications from this investigation are that: First, earâ€" Sash and Door Factoy wWHO OWNS THE EARTH The Emperor of Russia has one estate which covers over 100,000,000 of acres, and, which is, in fact, more than three times as large as England ; and he has another estate which is more than twice the size of Scotland. But an acre in London is better than 100,000,000 acres in the Russian stq)gcs. The Czar‘s bigâ€" gest estate brings him in only $380,000 a year. Land in London has been sold in recent years for as much as $5,000 & square yard. An acre at that price is worth $25,000,000, and the interest on that sum, at only 2 1â€"2 per cent. is $675,000. o ELECTRIC LIGHTS ON sUEZ CANAL. Official NE“‘ disclose the fact that of the 8,434 vessels which passed through the Suex Canal in 1895, 3,266, or over 95 per cent, used electric lights in order to be able to continue the trip through the canal during the night. lyâ€"clipped medium wool, from a well kept ([igck, free from dirt and stored in good quarters, will not shrink in weight to any appreciable extent withâ€" in a year from date of shearing. Secâ€" ond, late clipped wool, of substantially the same kind, will, under the same treatment, shrink about 6 per cent of its original weight within a year. It is qrohahle that heavy, greasy â€" wool will shrink considerably more than this. _ Wool dealers state that they can never handle this kind of wool, in the early part of the season without sustaining a heavy loss in weight. 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CURES GUARANTEED OR NO PAY.â€"CONFIDENTAL ONE CONDITION Are you a vietim? _ Have you lost hope? _ Are you contemplating mar â€"<alllike () qyezrym:â€" â€" G & J. McKECHNIE the eye to the dividin should measure from | to two and a half inc man should weigh tw« to every foot of his h cOoRRECT HUMAX P! Prof. Boofelt says th to correct proportion, seventh of the body. tween the eyes the le The distance from th Your friend Miss 5 of verse, you say. 1 Professorâ€"Do you . know there was a time when mc sets; but they found (hey ious to_b_ealtg._nnd soâ€" _ Mrs. Wrongrighterâ€"} gave them to their poor wives and daughters. _ Well, you wou heard her talking No. 148 SHELCY 5:. DETROIT, MICH. BRUTES OF M Syphilis, Emissions Varicocele, Cured. SHE‘Ss THE would think A BAAA * * *4 to her Scrible Is she icb ‘,’l:ur.czih Detroit, Mich 8, and 80 they weak, helple uen wore y were n rAGE ; so if y maid adank \Is h 14 2A y «t ance mad rccording be ont tance lt the eÂ¥e the °¥5 aingle o the 198 quartef sealed Or r One ound esale injon that $ pounds vION3 damé e cof* in ju® l L s L. f Gent ® road. ‘ The on ':'! It i v at _ Fred. F L A â€"@ied .z'on t The H: & y reil B a new Mr. Ja orer, livi attempte The 1 Fred. Farrar, a 160" |z a spider a fo om the poison The Hamilton Stre pny refuses to 000 a new arrangeme Mr. James Hayes, orer, living in the ©3 attempted suicide by wu,b;"wiu the merienced in the hilj rove«l &9 11ge®. Toront© mecdmd a1 ton band tion for â€" The tra the week gecured a Canadian prove gasoiine mote lages. Toronto bands _« seodrd and third pr ton band tourname tion for firstâ€"class The traffic receip! &n increase 0° /24 ponding period of i It is reported at 30 Le Roi mine has $25,000, making mine in a little ov Philip Abbott, t ad A Hamilton, Ont.. & g Allison was arres! charge of arsonâ€" Wm. Lockhead, of ] inted science mas minw Institute. E:.El;d while imour Louise, BXC. Hent Abbott of th gent Abbott ol Lus road. ‘ The London Cit Th "at a wownge 1e of a sew‘f?'f fa ra yerse wil vi .“Sp‘mmr &. It is reported a seamen belonging steamer Lanssown ed at North Sydney ast sea. They con the new cattie bDUL ; Fair have been © the Government 1ig i has been dama A man “.‘d wonan ‘Ketâ€"picking at Mai Mr According to winding up the partment of Tr revenue for th as compared w preceding year. _ Lord Mountster &mith, founders < Hospital at Mon! @upplemented the tional sum of $( the permanent e The Hamilton Eny has a claim overnment unds of the Pr'u'(y Co Toronto lRa !Wfl.\i pany‘s c aim is £ on steel rails. Andrew Harpe wORLD 0 NOHS N 1 Lawry, a Hamilt found dead on 4 ::lrloya"s stall. ned the bodj slon that death w m of a bi inquest will Mrs. George | Woodstock, was %roit while 1iz ng Items *Al u i Britain, the C Parts of the Glo! -M"M“ invoked Lord 5e ing for fresh c« gent COretans. â€" Quticens ofi Minneapo week ending Ju Edinburgh on cipal authoritie Liâ€"Huagzâ€"Char yard at Portsm and was enterl; Admiraity how m ma(ii;sl 8::0.'. Prize llenge Cup competition . gnl & Comis lasgow to n# of two ironcia The â€" Archbi wisit Ireland : visit Irel KReg 0 any ‘Trish On the 1 Lords, Th defeated the claus probable It is report« The Lo st the reqg ward Bial Bouth Lo: Judicial C cil. Thomas Reid i a Canadian shire, of fire was taic lish jur W id Com impris alive « The Bpar An el1O7 the Prince at the hea brating a! four hund covery of Bebastian Bristol. pecen It ai)pem‘ Hunghang Baee. n w would not ing a other di Lord \\'01 Sip W izes to U Eoebur,\'nel m «4M e 08 dian . al in the (‘uwl He koped ! follow=_Can! It was i1 irnmebt 0/ geal Feason zpur:mee ained strained. T Downing s s Wules CANAD of $102 Sp W About GREA )0 Cay tch ance h @Da An 14